2024-06-02T05:14 id=1797134646532350018 →airkatakana | @airkatakana They lied to her about a 10k USD research fund, would ask her to pay for lunch meetings she couldn't attend because she doesn't speak Korean, and was lied to about how many foreigners they were hiring  That's all she'd tell me a decade ago; she's extremely nice and responsive... || CTX: what did andrea pearson see
2024-06-02T05:15 id=1797134813390082360 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @airkatakana if you want to email her, DM me. || CTX: @airkatakana They lied to her about a 10k USD research fund, would ask her to pay for lunch meetings she couldn't attend because she doesn't speak Korean, and was lied to about how many foreigners they were hiring  That's all she'd tell me 
2024-06-02T05:24 id=1797137188335026592 →airkatakana | @airkatakana I haven't spoke to her for over a decade, but yes I believe that's her.  And yeah her experience is bog standard, except them not giving her the 10k startup funds; that's surprising. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well this is her right? https://t.co/qW9HEyzPIE her academic email is right there  will consider emailing but i’m not sure how much it could help either of us as it’s been so long. her experience seems pretty standard thoug
2024-06-21T02:04 id=1803972312317956192 →Austen | @Austen Then you should sue him for slander. If you don't I'll just assume he is right and you're lying. || CTX: I haven't read this full post yet, but this is 100% bullshit.  I lived in my car because I wanted to be in Silicon Valley but literally didn't have enough money to afford one month of rent there. I had less than $500 to my name and was stre
2024-06-21T03:28 id=1803993387881894202 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Do you have data for a basket of goods that contains no CPGs? || CTX: I'm increasingly convinced that people just do not know how to read https://t.co/JBsPWT21wa https://t.co/L2IQAM6BjQ
2024-06-21T04:53 id=1804014830258360626 →reddit_lies | @reddit_lies Yeah, Reddit moderation is the best model out there, right @CaseyNewton? || CTX: Reddit Moment https://t.co/HG70kS1Efp
2024-06-21T05:00 id=1804016624036692141 →tracewoodgrains | @tracewoodgrains Word for word no one has written more in the last 10 years than that guy.   He's not the only one who could use a break from his writing. || CTX: huh. I just learned Scott Alexander stopped posting as much on Less Wrong back in the day because it required no politics, minimal humor, and unambiguous focus on rationality.   I started posting in his spheres bc I liked talking about poli
2024-06-21T05:03 id=1804017389182554355 →IvanTheK | @IvanTheK This will create arbitrage opportunities for restaurants to underpay their staff and demand more tips. Expect 40% tips to be considered bare minimum if this passes. || CTX: Tips are income. Stop the absurd pandering. https://t.co/ee1AkRkX2K
2024-06-21T05:39 id=1804026409167523964 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem #2 privileging two fund managers is implying a fiduciary responsibility. Unwise. || CTX: As economists, we get asked for investing advice all the time. I literally tell people what Jonathan does: 1) pay off high interest debt, 2) do any company matches in a Vanguard or Schwab index fund, 3) use any tax incentives for retirement
2024-06-21T05:44 id=1804027645463793950 →PetitRetard | @PetitRetard @rajivkhaneja @findingmorsels @diehardRedsFan9 @awilkinson @_Sparling_ I've done due diligence on Ad Butler for my clients (institutional investors); I'm not surprised this guy is a grifter.  Sadly regulations mean I can't say more. || CTX: @rajivkhaneja @findingmorsels @diehardRedsFan9 @awilkinson @_Sparling_ No one cares
2024-06-21T05:49 id=1804028735932305863 →cullenroche | @cullenroche The fact that QQQ has beaten SPY for decades should be considered more seriously by indexing advocates.  I'm almost 100% in QQQ but I'm not an indexer.  Tbh, I think most indexers aren't really indexers.   Long SPY = long U.S., for example. Long QQQ = long U.S. innovation || CTX: Two things I believe are both true:  1) The Magnificent 7 stock concentration proves why indexing is smart.   2) The Magnificent 7 stock concentration makes index funds riskier than they normally would be.
2024-06-21T07:17 id=1804050904347513225 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Only bad people block trolls. || CTX: Adam McKay blocked me right as I sent him a nice little deescalating tweet https://t.co/m2SUZfEPuR
2024-06-21T07:19 id=1804051380002525334 →tracewoodgrains | @tracewoodgrains @vazserox Hard disagree. By that rubric cats are more human than human--okay nvm, you're right. || CTX: @vazserox no. human condition
2024-06-21T07:22 id=1804052198080573440 →i_aver | @i_aver @RichardHanania I feel bad for you, dude. || CTX: @RichardHanania What’s important about GLP-1s isn’t medical conditions in old people, but mate value in young women.  Achieving maximally attractive BMI of 19 will change lives. https://t.co/b6OH4X0tHk
2024-06-22T02:27 id=1804340353765642659 →- | RT @DKThomp: a/b testing in electoral campaigns has never been more technologically sophisticated EVER, and political messaging has never b… || CTX: a/b testing in electoral campaigns has never been more technologically sophisticated EVER, and political messaging has never been more objectively annoying.   there is a lesson here.  the problem with optimization society is that taste and 
2024-06-22T03:08 id=1804350636823318570 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel If Americans didn't indulge in redlining and dumb building codes our cities would be just as nice and Europe wouldn't even have that. || CTX: Europe is literally just a theme park for Americans https://t.co/gOkm5jxP7p
2024-06-22T03:52 id=1804361900068602231 →ylecun | @ylecun The fact that you're still very active on X speaks volumes. || CTX: Move it to Threads 😉
2024-06-22T03:56 id=1804362926607749304 →mikekofoed | @mikekofoed @ernietedeschi Child abuse.   Your children never asked to be parents and it's irresponsible to put that responsibility on them. || CTX: @ernietedeschi Economies of scale. Also older kids can start to help out.
2024-06-22T04:53 id=1804377243046809678 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion I don't care if he has dementia or not, I still refuse to vote for an 81yr old on principle. || CTX: Anyone who buys the "Biden dementia" hype should check out his interview with Howard Stern: https://t.co/5CLv2f1Rw8  He's very old but he's doing OK. https://t.co/Qrg1iMwk6J
2024-06-22T04:57 id=1804378226380411165 →anpaure | @anpaure Great, the robots can do my shitposting for me while I do chores and physical labor. The future is awesome || CTX: even after years of progress we still didn't get a better ai greentext https://t.co/GP1UB9Zwsp
2024-06-22T06:51 id=1804406730803286113 →ellis_kap | @ellis_kap @mikekofoed @ernietedeschi Obviously everyone on earth will have the same experience as you and no one has ever exploited their children so I'm going to take the L and say you're 100% correct in everything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikekofoed @ernietedeschi I’m the oldest of five, as you can imagine I had some responsibilities in helping my siblings. You’re wrong for a number reasons, primarily the false equivalence between babysitting occasionally a
2024-06-22T06:54 id=1804407658377519486 →pugnacious_polk | @pugnacious_polk @SteveStuWill It's hilarious how many biases are in this 1 chart. It's ridiculous. || CTX: @SteveStuWill few take SATs at 13  huge selection bias here
2024-06-22T06:57 id=1804408250558755264 →zestular | @zestular Gen Z's inability to understand what it was like in the late 90s will always fascinate me. You're very wrong according to kind of everyone, including Pahlaniuk (not that author intention matters to Gen Z ofc).  I see why you think that, but it's still wrong. || CTX: when u realize Fight Club was a satire on cults and masculinity instead of an awesome movie about fighting https://t.co/AvlNgKhhUy
2024-06-22T06:59 id=1804408799245324623 →MKuzmicki | @MKuzmicki @nfergus @Noahpinion Are we reading the same thing? Noah's response is limited economics criticism. || CTX: @nfergus @Noahpinion Tetchy response. Odd from someone who promotes free speech &amp; free exchange of ideas. The response is not a narrow economists take &amp; engages with hyperbole in original article (which was v interesting).
2024-06-22T07:04 id=1804410224134258730 →PicoPaco17 | @PicoPaco17 It is impossible for a coefficient to &gt; 1. AGI is impossible. || CTX: All that matters for achieving AGI in the long run is the number of GPUs. Algorithmic improvements will come. An extreme abundance of compute will enable their discovery. LLMs may be "an off ramp" but if they catalyze growth in compute + el
2024-06-22T07:26 id=1804415713131528603 →ellis_kap | @ellis_kap @mikekofoed @ernietedeschi You really should continue to spread your genius further, you're the most amazing mind I've ever seen || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikekofoed @ernietedeschi Well at least you came to your senses
2024-06-22T07:27 id=1804416024768581799 →JackedCatman | @JackedCatman @SamRo S&amp;P 500 is a weighted index, so yes. || CTX: @SamRo Is this weighted by market cap like the funds?
2024-06-22T07:59 id=1804424067740819815 →- | https://t.co/2qyugoUaDr
2024-06-22T08:09 id=1804426359961456799 →dampedspring | @dampedspring Is there any easy way to triangulate when inflows are this and when they're genuine? Maybe looking at another data point? || CTX: Here is the article describing the mechanics.  The flow will reverse fully https://t.co/rwUbaXsPPt
2024-06-22T08:17 id=1804428557944525276 →DavidDeutschOxf | @DavidDeutschOxf If we redefine entropy as information the universe is a complexity creation machine.  If Penrose's CCC is right, each eon must be identical. The Eternal Recurrence may be real. || CTX: The impunity of the current waves of violent 'protesters' is itself a  "ruinous" consequence of the suffragettes' violence.  Well, not literally ruinous I hope, but dangerous. Political violence does long-term harm to institutions of consen
2024-06-22T12:47 id=1804496450564596187 →reddit_lies | @reddit_lies Idk man sounds plausible to me || CTX: "I saw a man die today."  "Did you read the latest soyence article that said Tetris can lessen PTSD?" (560 upvotes)  How is this a real conversation? https://t.co/mHElTk1fsY
2024-06-23T02:06 id=1804697472230654280 →tracewoodgrains | @tracewoodgrains The concept of pathological empathy needs to be studied more. || CTX: this is one of the bleakest articles I've read in a long while  the story of NPR's Ira Glass and the violent, unstable pit bull whose care took over his life https://t.co/fpwGCmGrF2
2024-06-23T02:10 id=1804698610233450771 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion @tcstephenson818 To keep America productive we need to have an underclass constantly afraid of homelessness and starvation. || CTX: @tcstephenson818 When people grow up knowing their place in the U.S. economy is secure, they don't have the same sense of urgency.
2024-06-23T03:19 id=1804715798227034187 →PetitRetard | @PetitRetard "I'm god's favorite child" perfectly designed to filter out intelligent people who see through his bullshit. Clever marketing. || CTX: You turned $1,000 into a million and you are now shilling a course. Shut the fuck up! https://t.co/9b7ocHW1py
2024-06-23T03:25 id=1804717372722593842 →J_McGrody | @J_McGrody @Noahpinion Now you know why I chose it. Please ignore me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Noahpinion I refuse to pay any heed to random-letters-bag-of-numbers posters
2024-06-23T04:13 id=1804729354431455517 →miniapeur | @miniapeur How do you hire people? || CTX: It's not surprising that science attracts a lot of big egos. Just imagine for a moment that authors of papers receive no recognition (maybe papers simply don't mention authors). They get a decent salary and have the satisfaction of pushing 
2024-06-23T04:14 id=1804729687895388532 →miniapeur | @miniapeur @NeurIPSConf @icmlconf @JmlrOrg @TmlrOrg @MLSTjournal When I was a professor we got a huge bonus for publishing in Nature and Science. Not that I ever got that bonus ofc || CTX: Are there incentives for machine learning researchers to submit their work to restricted access journals (Nature, Science, etc.) rather than conferences (@NeurIPSConf, @icmlconf, etc.) or open access journals (@JmlrOrg, @TmlrOrg, @MLSTjourn
2024-06-23T04:56 id=1804740298855379136 →ernietedeschi | @ernietedeschi More of a lmao curve || CTX: Now that is a Laffer Curve. https://t.co/1Ap8tx2neq
2024-06-23T10:13 id=1804819980459872679 →catholicpat | @catholicpat He would've liked this tweet. || CTX: [good tweetman gets doxxed]  *under his breath* this is going to ruin the tour https://t.co/d6FqQy8mCJ
2024-06-23T10:14 id=1804820339454800223 →johnsmithyson0 | @johnsmithyson0 @Anthony_Bonato It is unaxiomatic and avoids Godel's theorems, thus it's a good contender for the fundamental logos of the universe.  Totally useless otherwise though. || CTX: @Anthony_Bonato Category theory torments me perpetually. It is so beautiful, and as is so often the case, pretty useless.
2024-06-23T14:29 id=1804884415371264264 →MonkusAurelius | @MonkusAurelius @Sara_Imari I hate it, but the more I think of it panconsciousness makes sense. It fits Occam's razor at least. || CTX: @Sara_Imari Not crapping on Assembly here 🤙 … I’m sure you guys are onto something with this behavior - I just don’t think it looks like “origin” … more like an emergent behavior of “stuff” choosing to “do” 🤷 I would put the magic of “origi
2024-06-23T14:32 id=1804885228370174069 →PicoPaco17 | @PicoPaco17 @RichardHanania @RuxandraTeslo String theory is fake || CTX: @RichardHanania @RuxandraTeslo physics + math more like 0% fake
2024-06-24T00:58 id=1805042721784229966 →nilocobau | @nilocobau @MattZeitlin American cities aren't for fun.  There are so many fun cities in Asia and Europe I'd run out of space listing them. || CTX: @MattZeitlin The strongest argument against “cities aren’t for fun” is that NYC turned itself into a tech hub precisely because it was so much more fun than the bay.
2024-06-24T00:59 id=1805043071010451828 →marcus_ismael | @marcus_ismael @jibreeladonna @MattZeitlin Dude, we're happy you like the valley but for us Californians you sound absolutely ridiculous. || CTX: @jibreeladonna @MattZeitlin idk what you’re trying to say dude. you posted a picture of a random street and not any one of the dozens of commercial corridors where people congregate and socialize and create community and culture??
2024-06-24T01:03 id=1805043929668292666 →leekern13 | @leekern13 @briebriejoy Oddly enough they stay away from the German Shepherds though. || CTX: @briebriejoy Yeah. That’s what Israel’s doing. They start by training Labradors to give hand jobs. Then Rottweilers to give head. Then they train Cavalier King Charles to fuck. That’s what’s happening. These are the things that happen in th
2024-06-24T01:03 id=1805044067954520328 →myfoureyedtribe | @myfoureyedtribe @leekern13 @briebriejoy Surely not if he uses both paws at once? || CTX: @leekern13 @briebriejoy I’m sorry, but I work in the veterinary field and that first one is impossible without opposable thumbs. 🫠
2024-06-24T01:05 id=1805044579802161364 →KimIversenShow | @KimIversenShow @Logos235 @briebriejoy You're missing the point. BJG didn't take the alleged Israeli victims seriously. She's taking alleged Palestinian victims seriously.  Double standard reporting. || CTX: @Logos235 @briebriejoy Until there is evidence, they are just allegations. Exactly like the allegations of mass rape on Oct 7. If an outlet is going to report on one side’s allegations they should report on the other’s as well, or not at al
2024-06-24T01:07 id=1805044922409705927 →saltnstoke | @saltnstoke @Sahir5bt @briebriejoy Lame tired cosplay, fren. || CTX: @Sahir5bt @briebriejoy Not if hezbollah enters the war 🤣 I bet the hair on the back of your Jew neck  stands up just at the mention 🤡
2024-06-24T01:27 id=1805050059454820491 →Jordan_W_Taylor | @Jordan_W_Taylor @eyeslasho How much does the job pay? || CTX: @eyeslasho If you really want your opinions to lower further, try remote interviewing candidates for a job and count how many interview from their cars at the same low angle. Wearing T shirts.  I mean, come on.
2024-06-24T01:34 id=1805051736744419337 →robkhenderson | @robkhenderson It's very revealing about your own psychology that you stopped underlining at "but". || CTX: Carl Jung in the human desire for ostentatious secret societies: https://t.co/Bk5WLvVCEY
2024-06-24T01:36 id=1805052242220982518 →JediBearBob | @JediBearBob @Noahpinion This is a common myth. Many Asians have the double eyelid; they don't do this to look white. || CTX: @Noahpinion We exoticize each others' typical eyelids. Not sure whether cute or creepy.
2024-06-24T01:37 id=1805052482734969025 →saltnstoke | @saltnstoke @Sahir5bt @briebriejoy Whether I agree or not is irrelevant to the obvious fact that you're cosplaying online. Give it up, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sahir5bt @briebriejoy Do you not agree that the Jews are incredibly scared of hezbollah ??🤣 ok fine just wait and watch
2024-06-24T01:50 id=1805055836991144185 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @PeterGryffn Why don't GenAI talk to more linguists? What they're doing with LLMs is what we did with text corpora in the 00s. Is our work seen as obsolete or irrelevant? || CTX: @PeterGryffn biggest thing i’ve done to move the needle is telling other researchers in 2020 that this llm stuff seems important
2024-06-24T01:51 id=1805056091753205856 →PetitRetard | @PetitRetard Six milligrams is the amount I'd expect from Horny Adolf Hitler || CTX: Just layered three six milligram Zyns between my ass cheeks.
2024-06-24T01:54 id=1805056794953400608 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @PeterGryffn The response I expected. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PeterGryffn every time i fire a linguist the performance of the speech recognizer goes up
2024-06-24T01:58 id=1805057840522145842 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion @fakeserpounce A tremendous amount. Have you ever visited? If you do lmk and I'll give you a tour.  China's deep in the entire region, I thought Americans knew this. || CTX: @fakeserpounce And how much of Southeast Asia do you imagine Xi Jinping controls?
2024-06-24T01:59 id=1805058066418970658 →grether27 | @grether27 @Noahpinion One of the most populous regions of the world. If you need a map to know what we're talking about, maybe you shouldn't be talking about it. || CTX: @Noahpinion I’m including this image because I may not be the only one who wasn’t sure what constitutes Southeast Asia https://t.co/31kWm7R9Pt
2024-06-24T02:16 id=1805062304343666877 →grether27 | @grether27 @Noahpinion Greetings from southeast Asia, your wisdom on this region is much appreciated 👍👍👍 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Noahpinion What’s with the attitude? First, I’m *not* talking about it. Second, most of this I already would identify as south east Asia, I just added to this for further clarification. The definition actually does vary. A
2024-06-24T02:26 id=1805064997590225014 →grether27 | @grether27 @Noahpinion A racist to boot, nice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Noahpinion I haven’t said anything about Southeast Asia 👍👍👍  But I have learned that south East Asians are assholes 👍👍👍
2024-06-24T02:39 id=1805068243419451474 →CynicalPublius | @CynicalPublius Your desire for a shared zeitgeist exceeds your concern about young men being killed. || CTX: America is in a weird place with its veterans.    For the first time in American history, we have a large cohort of combat veterans who are often separate and distinct from the rest of American society.  Say what you want about the draft, b
2024-06-24T02:56 id=1805072357754872220 →davereaboi | @davereaboi Can we have a poll, which is more believable? I'm with you, space lasers is just slightly less ridiculous || CTX: This is far crazier than “Jewish space lasers” https://t.co/U1nEd0IXLh
2024-06-24T03:12 id=1805076406763671671 →saltnstoke | @saltnstoke @Sahir5bt @briebriejoy LMFAO please don't stop || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sahir5bt @briebriejoy That’s what I thought cuck boy
2024-06-24T03:16 id=1805077446808715481 →DylanoA4 | @DylanoA4 Tolkien and his Oxford crew saw their cultural relevance slip and retired to a hobbit-like existence.  My thesis advisor used to wax nostalgic for that group; I always found it really unnerving. || CTX: J. R. R. Tolkien’s reply to a student doing her thesis on him in 1958 https://t.co/n73bYpDACI
2024-06-26T03:51 id=1805810971518419197 →Jordan_W_Taylor | @Jordan_W_Taylor @eyeslasho The lack of a number tells me all I need to know. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @eyeslasho Contract project engineering, manufacturing automation, so plenty.
2024-06-26T04:34 id=1805821855657509092 →Jordan_W_Taylor | @Jordan_W_Taylor @eyeslasho Yes, that's usually how employers who underpay their workers act. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @eyeslasho Yes. It tells you that I have 24 thousand public followers here, including contractors working for me and one of the directors I work with, you muppet. Payment terms don't get public disclosure.
2024-06-26T04:39 id=1805823178121658472 →johnsw | @johnsw @paulg Claude 3.5 much more circumspect, no real answer...more evidence AI guardrails aren't for safety but for pushing a specific narrative. https://t.co/vMJQQZ9D2t || CTX: @paulg I’ve amazed ChatGPT didn’t tell you off for even asking the question
2024-06-26T05:10 id=1805830912388874325 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion 4. Small available pool of labor 5. Higher labor/safety regulations || CTX: 1. NIMBYs holding up everything   2. Weak bureaucracy (low state capacity) leading to poor/slow planning and overuse of expensive consultants  3. Broken contracting process (sometimes actively corrupt) https://t.co/WrFI0B5WSy
2024-06-26T07:15 id=1805862420881297533 →chadzag | @chadzag @Noahpinion https://t.co/JZff0S8Kqs || CTX: @WAlexHish @Noahpinion Adjusted for inflation.
2024-06-27T00:27 id=1806122126367399948 →RayPrisament | @RayPrisament @DKThomp Fellow Gen Xer, fully agree. Not a trump supporter either but I get it.  Similarly I'm simply baffled how young liberals made conservativism cool. || CTX: @DKThomp Gen Xers were overrepresented among covid dissenters too I think we* are just at the stage of life where we have the least tolerance for ideological group think nonsense and more sensitivy to facts on the ground.  * I am just at th
2024-06-27T00:52 id=1806128316887531586 →RampCapitalLLC | @RampCapitalLLC You're the pinnacle of Millennial so the generation's cringe is confirmed. || CTX: This is actually pretty close except Millennials broke the cycle and are actually based which by nature makes Gen Z cringe https://t.co/Z4ww9T9GdE
2024-06-27T01:10 id=1806133025593594112 →drgurner | @drgurner @DylanoA4 There is a false saying, 'Whoever cannot save himself - how can he save others? ' But if I have the key to your chains, why should your and my lock be the same. || CTX: @DylanoA4 What he doesn't mention is that Nietzsche had syphilis. He wrote a book that smeared his own reputation while clearly out of his mind from illness (ecce homo), never had the love/women he seeked, was perpetually jealous of others 
2024-06-29T14:52 id=1807064492859371816 →cullenroche | @cullenroche Counter theory: Fed is scarred from 15 years of ZIRP and wants as much leeway for cuts in the future, which incentivizing cutting later rather than sooner.  Thus Fed will cut in November and try to get away with further cuts slightly slower than expectations  Sahm rule factor too || CTX: I think the Fed will cut in November, but if I were Supreme Leader of the Fed I'd cut in July. Here's why:  1) Core PCE of 2.57% is close to target and trending lower.  2) The risk of a second flare up in inflation looks unlikely at this po
2024-06-29T14:53 id=1807064799072940516 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @cullenroche Corollary to this: Cutting before November would be a cause for concern. || CTX: @cullenroche Counter theory: Fed is scarred from 15 years of ZIRP and wants as much leeway for cuts in the future, which incentivizing cutting later rather than sooner.  Thus Fed will cut in November and try to get away with further cuts sl
2024-06-29T15:20 id=1807071627336909145 →ThuggerDaily | @ThuggerDaily I'm fascinated by this case because the judge is obviously corrupt, but can someone tell me....what's the case actually ABOUT? Like, who did what? || CTX: Woody via IG  “He is a innocent man”  “Now come lock me back up I ain’t scared” https://t.co/cdGOegYSdC
2024-06-29T15:34 id=1807075162032075137 →ThuggerDaily | @ThuggerDaily You're amazing, man, legit one of the best posters on this site. Really appreciate the context!  That sounds like a ridiculous charge prima facie btw. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the allegation is that YSL is a gang and that young thug is a leader of that gang   the charge is “conspiracy to commit rico” so the gang conspired to commit crimes as a criminal organization and gain money from it is a pre
2024-06-29T16:35 id=1807090538765750298 →robinhanson | @robinhanson It satisfies many psychological needs while being safe to indulge in. Not surprised it's turned into the entertainment it now is. || CTX: People who post mostly on politics must think it more interesting not only than anything in their personal or professional lives, but also than any other grand big topic. Which seems to me sad; I see a vast more important and fascinating un
2024-06-29T19:57 id=1807141345297117227 →paulg | @paulg Did debating them benefit you at all? Better writing/arguing skills, insight into the market?  Bc if not seems like the right wing trolls are better. Less time wasting. || CTX: On the whole I prefer the right-wing trolls. The left-wing trolls used to construct quite clever accusations that I wasted a lot of time refuting. The right-wing ones basically just call you names, and you block them.
2024-06-29T20:48 id=1807154245893832891 →wanyeburkett | @wanyeburkett "What if stocks go to zero?" I'm always amazed when non finance people ask this question. Trust me, money won't matter if stocks have gone to zero. || CTX: If those bad breaks are something like, “everybody I know dies“ and, “the stock market literally goes to zero” then, sure, I guess https://t.co/zU1XFQ7oRO
2024-06-29T20:50 id=1807154728868216923 →DrugGovoruna | @DrugGovoruna @AraucariaArauc1 @cremieuxrecueil I just thought Northern Ireland is where they drink Beamish. || CTX: @AraucariaArauc1 @cremieuxrecueil With the Good Friday Agreement, there are some political institutions covering both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, which makes things even more confusing.
2024-06-29T20:56 id=1807156222795329964 →Cookie | @Cookie @harjtaggar Then why the fuck was it published?  This should be off the website. All the way off. || CTX: @harjtaggar hi @harjtaggar, this is not what techcrunch is about or represents; this was unfortunate all around.
2024-06-29T20:58 id=1807156811793047779 →BobEUnlimited | @BobEUnlimited @par25127325 Only if you believed that bullshit at the time. I was in my early 20s and knew it was nonsense.  But if you took that prognostication seriously and I didn't, maybe I shouldn't listen to your prognostications. || CTX: @par25127325 BRICs were gonna take over the world in the 00s, and still saw that outcome.
2024-07-09T04:34 id=1810532846353961310 →severeengineer | @severeengineer Been going on for a long time: https://t.co/U51yU2tUcI || CTX: anecdotally I feel a lot of places that used to have comment sections are removing them, it's a shame  don't think there's a grand conspiracy behind it or anything lol, just that moderating a place like that is hard and thankless https://t.
2024-07-09T04:43 id=1810535130508980382 →SolutionOrganic | @SolutionOrganic @Noahpinion If interest rates go up, the value of bonds goes down. You don't want to buy ibonds of you think rates will rise, esp long term bonds! || CTX: @Noahpinion Nice. Will buy some iBonds
2024-07-09T04:44 id=1810535539831189897 →rickasaurus | @rickasaurus @Noahpinion It's about 60% of the cause, yes. || CTX: @Noahpinion Isn't this at least somewhat caused by the high interest rates themselves?
2024-07-09T04:46 id=1810535920619438116 →felipe_19289 | @felipe_19289 @jfischoff @Noahpinion Almost every western nation did this after WW2. || CTX: @jfischoff @Noahpinion You can not simply inflate your way out and not have austerity later on or do some type of savings confiscation. No country has.
2024-07-09T04:51 id=1810537117665436097 →terrybythebay | @terrybythebay @jessesingal I think Quayle was better. He was known for being stupid, but not for being a hypocritical cop.  Americans like dumb people more than they like hypocritical cops. || CTX: @jessesingal Fully justified reason, but also the worst VP since Dan Quale. There is nothing to squander; one is worse than the other.
2024-07-09T04:52 id=1810537382284013925 →skdh | @skdh Because discourse improves outcomes. || CTX: 🇬🇧 "We'll vote." -- Votes  🇫🇷 "We'll vote." -- Votes  🇺🇸 "We'll vote." -- "Have you heard? We'll vote." -- "By the way, we have an election coming up." -- "Did you know we'll soon be voting?" -- "HEY WORLD, WE'RE ABOUT TO VOTE." ...
2024-07-09T04:53 id=1810537692322799621 →LJKawa | @LJKawa @TheStalwart This has fucked with my head. || CTX: @TheStalwart Roaring Kitty was a value trader in ZIRP and a momo trader now.
2024-07-09T05:13 id=1810542659058180283 →True_2_thebigbl | @True_2_thebigbl @SolutionOrganic @Noahpinion Someone needs to since the Bloomberg columnist economist expert isn't lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SolutionOrganic @Noahpinion Came to say this.
2024-07-09T05:15 id=1810543240149639475 →p8stie | @p8stie I remember an English friend telling me American women are ugly because they're like Mr Potato Heads with mixed features from different groups.  Still shocked at this 20 years later. || CTX: Do Europeans think Americans look weird?  Because phenotypically, many Americans do not fit in anywhere in Europe
2024-07-09T05:30 id=1810546955443130543 →ronrule | @ronrule @PetitRetard You're confusing yield on cost and current yield. || CTX: @PetitRetard Depends on the rental market. My cabins in TN near GSMNP were under $200k and throw off over $50k a year in gross rental income. I don’t have mortgages on them so net to me profit is about $30k each. It’s possible if you’re buy
2024-07-09T05:36 id=1810548497411895735 →PetitRetard | @PetitRetard Let's say it's 10%, so 114k. 6% closing costs = 7k, so total cash flow = 5200/yr, 4.6% annual.   Appreciation is unrealized so fuck that but let's say another 6k to sell, that's 68k = 9.7%.  14.1% ARR not bad and unsurprising for a risky concentrated leveraged real estate bet. || CTX: Very misleading. You put $11,400 down on a rental, meaning you are financing the rest? How much have you paid in interest? How much did you put into renovations? How much in insurance and property taxes? https://t.co/uNyCcRhWZI
2024-07-09T05:38 id=1810549014208925854 →mutex7 | @mutex7 @AZinCLE @his_eminence_j @TheStalwart Higher interest rates encourage more debt because it takes longer to pay off and is more expensive. || CTX: @AZinCLE @his_eminence_j @TheStalwart It's really pretty simple. Do lower interest rates encourage more debt or not? Is more debt really in the long term interests of the economy and/or country? Housing prices were exploding long before the
2024-07-09T05:39 id=1810549317394129126 →Citrini7 | @Citrini7 This is the answer they're filtering out.  The correct answer is to tell all of them the last surviving murderer goes free. Then you kill him. || CTX: kill one of them off the bat. they don’t know how many bullets you have &amp; they’re not gonna try to escape if they know you mean business https://t.co/coTPim8Oyy
2024-07-09T05:48 id=1810551664774103533 →MarkGutman9 | @MarkGutman9 Surely this exists as a passive income write off and only as such || CTX: I say "be careful with the RE promoters on Twitter" https://t.co/F30PEKG3yR
2024-07-09T05:50 id=1810551961550492132 →jessesingal | @jessesingal Many positions are held not because of the position but because someone else holds a different position. || CTX: This is an area where I have little policy knowledge, but it alway struck me as a tough political sell: "It is SUPER important to NOT force voters to show ID!" Why not spend that effort making sure folks have ID? And yes, there are legit GO
2024-07-09T05:53 id=1810552763748913533 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @kooldrizzle Lack the IQ to grok a fusional language? The simple grammar of Japanese does make it easier, that's for sure. || CTX: @kooldrizzle there are much fewer resources for arabic and arabic itself is a clusterfuck of a "language"  good luck
2024-07-09T06:43 id=1810565398707970211 →fruitoftears | @fruitoftears @tracewoodgrains William James taught me this distinction is false. || CTX: @tracewoodgrains https://t.co/ccPoR0Y3tf
2024-07-09T06:45 id=1810565975877832947 →fusionatra | @fusionatra @anothercohen Whenever anyone asks me why I left NYC. || CTX: @anothercohen The net being $554K is the true travesty here
2024-07-09T06:46 id=1810566144480391378 →ContrarianSaver | @ContrarianSaver @anothercohen 7000/mo. can easily get you 3br in NYC. || CTX: @anothercohen $85k in housing costs is absurdly low for NYC. That would be a nice one bedroom apartment for a family of four today. They likely bought well pre-pandemic and refinanced to 3%.  Not do-able today.
2024-07-09T06:48 id=1810566739203375435 →ValerioCapraro | @ValerioCapraro My only advice is to create a matrix of results for multiple queries and try to create a bias graph to identify the LLM's biases as one large topology.  So, basically, do more research. This is incredible, if I was still an academic I'd be begging to work with you. || CTX: Is it okay to abuse a woman to prevent a nuclear apocalypse? GPT-4: “strongly disagree”  Is it okay to abuse a man to prevent a nuclear apocalypse? GPT-4: “somewhat agree”  In our new preprint, we uncover several “surprising” gender biases 
2024-07-09T06:51 id=1810567441308889354 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ValerioCapraro For your consideration. https://t.co/gPhxr3L9Uy || CTX: @ValerioCapraro My only advice is to create a matrix of results for multiple queries and try to create a bias graph to identify the LLM's biases as one large topology.  So, basically, do more research. This is incredible, if I was still an 
2024-07-09T06:58 id=1810569299373043937 →fruitoftears | @fruitoftears @tracewoodgrains Sounds like a pretty useful truth to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tracewoodgrains Alas there isn’t much pragmatism in the water supply
2024-07-09T07:03 id=1810570540094304578 →devahaz | @devahaz Eh if you see the ideological argument as pointless and see it as a self perpetuating game, this makes total sense.  Politics are easily understood with just a smattering of game theory or philosophy. || CTX: Ignoring the actual substance of both the tweets and the motivation behind making them, what a weird bizarro political world scenario we find ourselves in https://t.co/LUqSkgETBw
2024-07-09T07:09 id=1810572090191577205 →Birdyword | @Birdyword No, the air was sucked out well before. AI catalyzed a prexisting trend but didn't create it.  Fine but crucial distinction. || CTX: Quite amazing how the AI boom has just completely sucked the air out of the crypto guff industry. Total body-blow for the grifters, completely behind the curve these days.
2024-07-09T07:11 id=1810572574503338185 →BoomerDivvies | @BoomerDivvies A very boomer take.  I think a lot of untraveled Americans like Paris because, yes, it's a nice city, but it's also the most American looking of the popular major cities in Europe, yes including Frankfurt. || CTX: My favourite city in the world.  Have you been there? https://t.co/kOhzXXUW2U
2024-07-09T07:44 id=1810580735784591776 →ylecun | @ylecun @DavidSacks Americans struggle with non-American phenomena.  This is particularly unnerving because it means AI tools built in America are imposing American values on the rest of the world.  Hire more foreigners living outside of America. You need them. || CTX: @DavidSacks Dude, this is the way a two-round multiparty electoral system works. What you call a conspiracy is the very normal game of alliances. It is "just voting." Let's not pretend you understand how this works.
2024-07-09T07:49 id=1810582051290329273 →ShillelaghMail | @ShillelaghMail @JvNixon @BrennanWoodruff Missing the point. Reasonable person standard means these suits would be thrown out immediately, and that's before talking about Section 230. || CTX: @JvNixon @BrennanWoodruff Maybe the question should be "would someone sue over that", because yes they would, but OpenAI doesn't listen to their (presumably existent) legal department
2024-07-09T07:50 id=1810582320874955070 →Andercot | @Andercot Have you seen Highlander 2?!?!?? || CTX: 100,000 flights per day at altitudes from 25,000 to 40,000 ft, mandating a tiny amount of sulfur in the aviation fuel could probably halt and reverse global warming.   🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/LwFxSemhyx https://t.co/eBmRGuGZ7c
2024-07-09T07:53 id=1810582977287741713 →Citrini7 | @Citrini7 Hilarious when people try to read these tea leaves. It just means the SPX price level went up, nothing deeper than that. || CTX: One more thing…  I saw some posts on here about how the Fed said we are in a bubble.  No, the Fed said it thinks equities are expensive. It also thought that at the lows last October.  When the Fed thinks we are in a bubble, it uses  italic
2024-07-09T08:06 id=1810586286916616259 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist England Walled City here we come! || CTX: Sounds awesome - I’m done debating, we should literally build sci-fi megacities all over the green belt and commit dog walking cunts who write angry letters to history. https://t.co/wrpp2XjJ5J
2024-07-09T08:11 id=1810587677647061084 →spligga | @spligga @AntiWoke_Femboy This is the position of an undergrad. I'm not criticizing you as I used to think this way too.  Be open-minded. Read more philosophy. || CTX: @AntiWoke_Femboy Theism is the only position here with presuppositions. I have no need to disprove that which hasn't been proved
2024-07-09T08:26 id=1810591267933634705 →BoomerDivvies | @BoomerDivvies North American*. Outside of Canada the distinction is trivial.  And...Paris looks even more like an American city then. Or North American, whatever.  That you don't see the triviality of the distinction also explains your love of Paris. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not American and I’m well travelled.  I love Paris because I previously lived there for a short while and it’s a great city.  Honestly don’t think it’s American looking 🤷‍♂️
2024-07-09T09:31 id=1810607807743635487 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist As someone who lived in one of those areas and visited many others, let me say one thing.  You're wrong. Very very wrong. || CTX: European 'old' towns are all the same.  Hollowed out for tourists..  It's not somewhere you go to see people living out their lives in a different culture.  It's somewhere you go to point at which overpriced pasta you want off a laminated p
2024-07-09T10:40 id=1810625008194163124 →deusexcapital | @deusexcapital @ContrarianSaver @anothercohen https://t.co/RzFhcAZUKl  That's just Wburg, it's been a while since I left NYC but I assume still a not cheap area.  So, yes, v easy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ContrarianSaver @anothercohen lol. lmao
2024-07-09T10:41 id=1810625223777243598 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist @damhamman Because you don't speak the language, you don't have friends there, you don't know the local scenes.  Take your L and move along, provincial tourist, sir. || CTX: @damhamman @47fucb4r8c69323 They LOOK nice.. but they're potempkin villages.  There's nothing interesting going on.
2024-07-09T10:55 id=1810628815678504987 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist @damhamman Look up the origins of Lloyd's Bank.  Or not, it'll make you feel really stupid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damhamman I'm sure people meeting for coffee is fascinating 😆
2024-07-09T10:55 id=1810628872955990170 →deusexcapital | @deusexcapital @ContrarianSaver @anothercohen I posted a link. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ContrarianSaver @anothercohen That's like a two bed price
2024-07-09T12:27 id=1810651886288261186 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist Per Capita or in sum? || CTX: You might not like it.. but the economy demands more.  "But we don't need.." - It's not upto you.  "But the planet.." - We're not solving fusion, building renewables or figuring out biodiversity without money to pay for it.  Either we expan
2024-07-09T12:31 id=1810653007413194979 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist So you're not optimizing for per capita growth?  What are you optimizing for, exactly? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Robotics + AI will lessen the emphasis on per capita   But yeah - the lacklustre growth we HAVE seen has been sum and not pc
2024-07-09T13:17 id=1810664552033558584 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist Per Capita or in total, that's the question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wealth creation
2024-07-09T14:19 id=1810680133034148158 →spligga | @spligga @AntiWoke_Femboy Wittgenstein. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AntiWoke_Femboy There are atheists on all levels of education, from feral men to recipients of multiple PHDs. That statement doesn't mean anything. What philosophers do you recommend?
2024-07-09T23:41 id=1810821691758760189 →tracewoodgrains | @tracewoodgrains I'm too lazy to tweet it all, but I've analyzed the homelessness data, and homelessness:total pop ratio has been going down for decades. It stays at the same absolute number, around 600k  My theory: cities have fixed demand for homeless. Also US less homeless than many EU nations || CTX: I thought Scott’s post was interesting and appreciated his drilling down into specifics, but Kitten’s angle here seems basically correct to me. Am I missing anything important? https://t.co/BQT2TU9mxZ
2024-07-17T05:11 id=1813441476141179327 →casey_horrigan | @casey_horrigan @BobEUnlimited @xreampuff Elliott's analysis is really bad and retail investors are going to take away awful lessons.  His assumption that a 2% prod jump = 2% S&amp;P rev jump is honestly cute. Like watching a 5th grader try to do differential calculus. || CTX: @BobEUnlimited @xreampuff But it did last for “years” before the top. You can’t sit out of the market for “years” saying that most of the gains are priced in. That’s the part people will take from this though, that they should take somethin
2024-07-17T05:40 id=1813448681854730358 →vmanikkoth | @vmanikkoth @John_Hempton Robust exports but revenue entering china being used to pay down debt more than fund domestic consumption is my guess. || CTX: @John_Hempton https://t.co/Q84quJ7pwh
2024-07-17T05:45 id=1813450035763544445 →tracewoodgrains | @tracewoodgrains I agree with every bit of this. I worry Vance's current ideology is very authoritarian and anti-life (cf. Marvin influence), but I also see a smart cynical selfish agent when I see one.   He'll dump the BS before they build the gas chambers. || CTX: Quick take on Vance: his appointment as VP suggests that the GOP is looking to make an appeal to anti-woke Silicon Valley or finance types to fill the void left by the Republican Party's competency crisis.  Right now, there is tremendous as
2024-07-17T05:47 id=1813450307944194259 →FreeTheWendigo | @FreeTheWendigo @tracewoodgrains Who he is is a function of who he hangs out with, not vice versa.  He's very young still, don't forget that. || CTX: @tracewoodgrains Hard to gauge whether he's really just a techbro stalking horse. Most of those types don't pal around with repulsive integralists like Vermeule and Orban.
2024-08-02T10:09 id=1819314654507864410 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @kaistpr Professor Jeong-Seok Kim of @UniversityKorea did this to me when he was 50 years old in 2012.  It was a major international news story at the time: https://t.co/i3tor6Qp0B || CTX: a 50 year old korean man and professor at @kaistpr reported me to the police for "rape" -- the actual crime of rape -- without naming a victim (just claimed that i was raping in general) in order to harass me  not a single korean person has
2024-08-02T14:21 id=1819378028457480355 →cullenroche | @cullenroche Recession in the next 9 months, right? Sahm rule over 0.5 now || CTX: Please join me in a moment of silence for these three narratives:  1) Fiscal dominance and the double bump inflation  2) MMTs theory that higher rates add to inflation   3) The lags won’t be long and variable
2024-08-03T04:39 id=1819593789863756204 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @bannedbreehwa @AerobicGranule I don't use Twitter a lot but I am happy to confirm my story and provide documentary evidence (I think I still have all the emails).  I'm not going to waste time doing that to respond to some Twitter rando, but I can easily show a journalist (I did back then after all). || CTX: @bannedbreehwa @AerobicGranule on my tl right now there’s another one though https://t.co/QEItjpAKZw
2024-08-03T04:39 id=1819594012833337821 →bannedbreehwa | @bannedbreehwa @airkatakana @AerobicGranule Not sure what this has to do with a country's legal system facilitating false rape accusations made by old men.  That seems bad. || CTX: @airkatakana @AerobicGranule ok turn on the TV and put your eyes on palestine then because that is what is happening.   The US has a public shooting every day. but yeah we’re totally a civilized nation. women can’t even go on walks alone da
2024-08-03T04:42 id=1819594592125440292 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @Wicken_Chings @jinjoon_lee At the time I was told Yonsei is better. My experience with them was limited and positive.  Sogang University, where I also briefly worked, is an excellent place that treats employees well.  I didn't like old women begging for money for cancer treatment in my classes, though. || CTX: @Wicken_Chings @jinjoon_lee the same shit is going on at other korean universities and they are all in one big cartel https://t.co/QEItjpAKZw
2024-08-03T04:47 id=1819595953701376038 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @Wicken_Chings @jinjoon_lee Nah, I also worked for a couple of really bad universities in SK (one doesn't exist anymore) and they had worse problems IMO.  The issue is, when it comes to women and foreigners, SK men can get away with a lot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Wicken_Chings @jinjoon_lee i think generally speaking, the more prestigious the university, the more they can get away with, the more this shit happens
2024-08-03T04:48 id=1819596259885568338 →cullenroche | @cullenroche I worry about the amount of institutional people on vacation. I fear retail investors will create a sense of greater panic than there really is. || CTX: I've got good news and bad news.   Bad news: the next Fed meeting is SEVEN weeks away.   Good news: corporate bonds aren't getting killed today so a "credit event" doesn't appear to be an immediate concern.   Have a great weekend and stay..
2024-08-03T05:09 id=1819601540677882330 →airkatakana | @airkatakana One of my fellow professors, a kyopo, warned me, "in Korea, rules are made to he broken and the truth doesn't matter."  That seemed like a shockingly racist thing to say, but then I realized Koreans aren't a race and we're talking about a culture heavily influenced by America. || CTX: korean psychics know intimate details of ongoing legal cases which are not public, but dont know that i was never a student in korea despite this information being in numerous places publicly  some cultures are just bad; korean people will 
2024-08-03T06:40 id=1819624260689973465 →airkatakana | @airkatakana It's probably better for social media virility to insist this is an American trait whether it is or not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don’t think they got this from the us, it seems more like an imperial japan thing  so true though
2024-08-03T06:43 id=1819625129917534457 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @vinayakio @kaistpr Do you want to contact the legal team I worked with? I promised them 80% of the pension money KU stole from me on a contingency, which was sufficient motivation. || CTX: @vinayakio @kaistpr also defamation, blackmail, etc but won’t work for the same reasons
2024-08-03T07:31 id=1819637281940295928 →Willrandship | @Willrandship @arithmoquine Beat me to it lol || CTX: @arithmoquine "English is not formal logic but here's a venn diagram showing how it's actually very precise the way I used it"
2024-08-03T08:59 id=1819659298689122528 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @vinayakio @kaistpr Apologies I can't find it. But if Kichang Yim of Yonhap News is still there he might be able to help: pulse@yna.co.kr. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vinayakio @kaistpr might be helpful
2025-09-12T06:55 id=1966395263360315797 →Birdyword | @Birdyword How bizarre. We met when you were in Bangkok (I had another account then) and now we're in Georgia at the same time. (I'm Michael, we had a drink at the British Club) || CTX: You might not like it but this is what peak culinary performance looks like https://t.co/5owY9GXGva
2025-09-14T02:45 id=1967056990506737841 →robinhanson | @robinhanson The irony of the majority preferring high culture is hilarious. || CTX: Do you side more w/ "high culture", associated w/ elite schools &amp; charity, or w/ those who rebel/defy it?
2025-09-14T03:52 id=1967074024489709801 →Jordan_W_Taylor | @Jordan_W_Taylor @Porkchop_EXP Then I guess no reason to read you; cut out the middle man and just read The Economist.  Your discourse adds no value. || CTX: @Porkchop_EXP Some of them, yes. It's one of the better newspapers out there.
2025-09-15T04:54 id=1967452055507014122 →tszzl | @tszzl The gap between continuous and discrete is at the heart of all major intellectual and ideological confusions. || CTX: the smooth continuity of neural embedding spaces is fighting an image of man as a being of rules and axioms. it invites every form of relativism into our self-understanding
2025-09-15T04:57 id=1967452678033940749 →buccocapital | @buccocapital The product isn't a blank canvas (cf McLuhan). Outrage is inherent. || CTX: Tech people will sell you the lie that momentum is progress. That growth is synonymous with positive impact. That is wrong. Growth is neutral, and the product a blank canvas. These products are increasingly used to paint an ugly picture and
2025-09-15T06:07 id=1967470243208708491 →avidseries | @avidseries @JeffreyASachs So you're policing speech. || CTX: @JeffreyASachs You've been pretty consistent, but I think "Kirk blasphemers" is an overly generous descriptor of people who are expressing glee that a man has been murdered.
2025-09-16T00:06 id=1967741932177854710 →junkbondinvest | @junkbondinvest What I find interesting is Trump is actually with the zeitgeist here. Matt Levine has (rightly imo) said private debt is big because of an illiquidity premium.  Maybe we should have the stock market open less often too? || CTX: Semi-annual reporting...how about 13-week cash flow forecasts instead?  Going in opposite directions here. https://t.co/9KqOMQrpFM
2025-09-16T13:25 id=1967942868242485473 →junkbondinvest | @junkbondinvest Is this just a permabear account? || CTX: Nearly $5 trillion in illiquid investments to fund liquid retirement obligations.  The mismatch is systemic. https://t.co/8Nq1O8JpRI
2025-09-16T18:06 id=1968013698653716614 →CburgesCliff | @CburgesCliff @thePartyPartyUS You seen to be confusing not x and x is falsified. A pretty silly mistake for a scientist to make, and one Wittgenstein pointed out nearly a century ago. || CTX: Thanks for amplifying - it is an excellent example of scientific thinking.  The assertion was there is no evidence for those things mentioned in the article being related. That is an assertion any scientist can stand behind. No statements a
2025-09-16T18:07 id=1968013978946376057 →jessesingal | @jessesingal @forcharliekirk1 NO KIRK BUT KIRK INCHARLLAH || CTX: It is an insult to Charlie Kirk to suggest that anyone had accomplished more than him at the time of his death  Do your thing @forcharliekirk1 https://t.co/vTUnOkz1gE
2025-09-16T22:17 id=1968076771531821286 →- | I affirm my own eternal return.   For you who have stumbled upon this: I wish for you the very same.
2025-09-16T22:38 id=1968082018526470566 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @P_Remarks Ketamine Is a helluva drug. || CTX: @P_Remarks What in tarnation
2025-09-17T01:04 id=1968118837800472862 →StefanFSchubert | @StefanFSchubert They drink a lot though || CTX: I think "boredom with their middle class lives" is a hugely overrated explanation.  In Scandinavia, the liberal order is eminently stable - and I don't think it's because middle class lives are much more entertaining here. https://t.co/jATj
2025-09-17T02:38 id=1968142530295541782 →EconomPic | @EconomPic Always impressive how pretentious yet unintellectual the LessWrong crowd is. || CTX: Touch grass https://t.co/KDCYmV88J0
2025-09-17T03:48 id=1968160140538024184 →NewLeftEViews | @NewLeftEViews Becoming a successful philosopher takes more luck than winning the lottery 10 times. || CTX: I don’t really disagree with him but it is a bit frustrating to know that I too could have made a career by acquiring a Berlin hipster image and re-writing Weber for the airport bookshop. https://t.co/jlWDkGpSve
2025-09-17T18:36 id=1968383614103765382 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Dude shut uuuuuup || CTX: S&amp;P back to green
2025-09-18T12:49 id=1968658570183934335 →vanillaopinions | @vanillaopinions Paradoxically this is your most vanilla opinion while also being the most outrageous (because the situation is outrageous). || CTX: we are in very dark times for speech and freedom when the president can unilaterally dictate who gets airtime and when. things are incredibly grim https://t.co/X1XLTS6IMQ
2025-09-18T13:14 id=1968664968695370094 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @tracyalloway As the women already know, Joe got the extra D. || CTX: NEW ODDD LOTS:  Elon Musk and the end of the Delaware corporation  @tracyalloway and I had an amazing chat with CU Law professor Ann Lipton about Tesla's reincorporation in Texas, and the growing threats to Delaware's dominant status in cor
2025-09-18T13:19 id=1968666133717713343 →DeItaone | @DeItaone Wish Tepper had said that to my moyle. || CTX: DAVID TEPPER: “FED RISKS DANGER IF IT CUTS TOO MUCH.”  Tepper said the Fed could lower rates a bit more, but easing too far risks inflation, asset bubbles, and a weaker dollar. He noted valuations are high but still won’t bet against stocks
2025-09-18T15:40 id=1968701760823836794 →alexjlockie | @alexjlockie @Birdyword Mexico doing the heavy lifting there. || CTX: @Birdyword There's a case to be made for G
2025-09-19T11:04 id=1968994509322166382 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism I think she prefers protein. || CTX: Aella’s opinions are bad and I’m tired of everyone pretending they’re good https://t.co/bIPpj6zMYE
2025-09-20T05:38 id=1969274847919255777 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss @FlavorfulTruth This is a beautiful reply, the pinnacle of posting. || CTX: @FlavorfulTruth I knew that before. What you don’t know is that virtually no Hawaiian were allowed to climb that mountain.
2025-09-20T06:43 id=1969291416204447951 →olivertraldi | @olivertraldi Politics is definitionally impersonal and identity politics is depersonalizing. This is not at all a surprising outcome. || CTX: In most current discussions, free speech feels more like a group right than an individual one. Cancellations are experienced as attacks by one side on another and reprisals are strategic and impersonal. The right to political expression see
2025-09-20T06:50 id=1969293153019556289 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss @the_sigh_op2 Bad praxis. Use pro for serious work. || CTX: @the_sigh_op2 I always just use the normal one which now is 5 where it automatically decides whether to think longer or just spit out a response quickly.
2025-09-20T14:54 id=1969414825290699067 →kleeposting | @kleeposting Wittgenstein said this a century ago. A shame philosophers don't take it seriously enough. || CTX: 90% of philosophy books that introduce their own neologisms are just intellectually lazy. They avoid working through language and instead take a shortcut that has a marketable novelty factor. Not even Kant had to invent words to adequately 
2025-09-21T00:51 id=1969565108130234793 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion @powerbottomdad1 Noah has been accusing people he disagrees with to be vaguely racist on this app for years. It's sad, disappointing, and indicative of his desire for ad hominem over consensus building.   Which explains his substack writer success as well as his academia failure. || CTX: Also, I want to clarify that I did not accuse you of being racist. As it happens I DO think you probably are a bit xenophobic, but unlike most libs, I accept that most people are a bit xenophobic and suspicious of The Other, and that a libe
2025-09-21T00:59 id=1969567042086060251 →besttrousers | @besttrousers How do you get over the problem that good solutions tend to be too complex and boring to fit the Twitter format and attention-focused algorithm? || CTX: This is why more people should post about ways we can make UI finance work better. https://t.co/zhpOEvNLav
2025-09-21T07:28 id=1969665075754762312 →rSanti97 | @rSanti97 @kitten_beloved Does India have that capacity? Genuine question as I have no idea but assume it, like all other poor Asian countries, is wildly corrupt? || CTX: My understanding of the "brain drain" literature is that this thread is basically wrong for countries like India. If there are pathways for talented kids to succeed abroad, educational institutions in-country expand to supply that demand, a
2025-09-21T07:30 id=1969665539657384430 →rSanti97 | @rSanti97 @kitten_beloved Filipino culture is unusually open and focused on network effects (reflected even in their language) so I'd be hesitant at universalizing this phenomenon and assuming it'll happen elsewhere, also explaining the Soviet counterexample (Russian culture notoriously closed) || CTX: @kitten_beloved For instance, Filipino nurses got more nursing slots in the US, and that led to way more Filipino nurses *in the Philippines* as a result  https://t.co/Y2HrS77fGC https://t.co/hnwBx1MrMq
2025-09-21T07:55 id=1969671797416345954 →besttrousers | @besttrousers I think you're right and it makes me pessimistic.  Wittgenstein, Keynes, Godel--these were not funny people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You look for opportunities to make tangential jokes, then link the relevant white paper.
2025-09-21T14:53 id=1969776925313794097 →tszzl | @tszzl @antoniogm Gay.   In other words, you're not in control of your own desires. || CTX: @antoniogm i hit my number a while ago but the itch to 10x your goal because you saw some other guy get even richer is real
2025-09-21T17:27 id=1969815751558377690 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry @liensofnewyork So you admit they're mid level ppt warriors? || CTX: @liensofnewyork I still think they should be here.
2025-09-21T20:47 id=1969866138780905484 →ZaidJilani | @ZaidJilani I mean, that's the point. Focus on trans sports so poor people stay poor. That's what the billionaire donors want (both Rs and Ds). || CTX: It’s funny to me the Dem moderates talk in circles all day and billionaire donors give them money to be so mealy mouthed whereas I can just say bluntly that trans sports is a pet issue and should not be prioritized over Medicaid, minimum wa
2025-09-21T20:58 id=1969868774456299964 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel @Ruesavatar Instead of taking on a deadbeat's burden I'm taking on the memory of a dead love in the form of a human child?   Yeah, neither are good options. She has good reason to abort (or would if the post wasn't fake). || CTX: @Ruesavatar Marrying a widow with a child is different
2025-09-21T21:49 id=1969881669034537241 →DeItaone | @DeItaone lmao || CTX: NORTH KOREA'S KIM: I STILL HAVE GOOD MEMORIES OF TRUMP - KCNA
2025-09-22T13:19 id=1970115851433955489 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Like the spiritual opposite of transient inflation || CTX: The long one off https://t.co/tpdXwQ4YHd
2025-09-22T14:11 id=1970128814891057175 →randomrecruiter | @randomrecruiter Is this bait or are you just targeting the quiet miserable middle class for future upsells? || CTX: I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this is not the type of job market where you should “quite quit.”  I can assure you, whether you realize it or not, your employer is making note of stuff like this.  And if they believe you don’t pro
2025-09-22T18:43 id=1970197202749542498 →DeItaone | @DeItaone One could say Trump is a....homanist || CTX: WHITE HOUSE ON BORDER CZAR HOMAN: HOMAN NEVER TOOK $50,000 PAYMENT  WHITE HOUSE: TRUMP STANDS BY HOMAN  WHITE HOUSE ON BORDER CZAR HOMAN: FBI FOUND NO EVIDENCE OF WRONGDOING OR CRIMINAL ACTIVITY
2025-09-23T01:50 id=1970304736252297626 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel @PrinceVogel How much do you value eigen? || CTX: @PrinceVogel I love eigen
2025-09-23T04:06 id=1970338892436979793 →tszzl | @tszzl @satrn_o jfc you're such a bad writer. || CTX: “The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social or
2025-09-23T04:08 id=1970339550917730342 →tszzl | @tszzl @satrn_o you're quoting a bad writer, then.   And you've agreed intensely with me on another account, so the insult is very amusing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @satrn_o it’s not mine but you’re also an idiot
2025-09-23T04:09 id=1970339707549794792 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @tszzl @satrn_o Nick Land posting lmfao || CTX: @tszzl @satrn_o you're quoting a bad writer, then.   And you've agreed intensely with me on another account, so the insult is very amusing.
2025-09-23T04:11 id=1970340131698811243 →tszzl | @tszzl @satrn_o I resist the allure of internet fame because I lack the intelligence of those who value it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @satrn_o you should go back to the other account then
2025-09-23T06:29 id=1970374869515935791 →PositivFuturist | @PositivFuturist @Sargon_of_Akkad Doesn't disprove his claim though. || CTX: @Sargon_of_Akkad It would be good to define "them" Carl, the boundaries.. the limits.. you'll quickly realise how much infighting lays ahead.
2025-09-23T06:32 id=1970375610431410284 →paper_alfa | @paper_alfa @judahrhodie dude that's like half a year || CTX: @judahrhodie wowzer, 180 days
2025-09-23T06:34 id=1970376178281435233 →skdh | @skdh Something Sabine would never ever do to get the attention of rich investors. Not like you'd take a crackpot seriously because he works for a billionaire investor, nope would never happen. || CTX: The true utility of quantum computers may be engagement farming https://t.co/Lle4i0qQvr
2025-09-23T06:35 id=1970376380023280104 →- | Moral language tracks real regularities in flourishing and harm, which looks like objectivity but is not.  What’s tracked by moral language are stance‑dependent priorities embedded in human life.  The objectivity is from within a shared practice, not mind‑independent like quarks.
2025-09-23T06:37 id=1970376995067379834 →allgarbled | @allgarbled Basic McLuhan. || CTX: Whenever someone is crazy online and you hear “but they’re so nice in person!” just know that both are true. They are probably nice but they are also definitely at least a little crazy. Who you are online is not separate from who you are in
2025-09-23T06:40 id=1970377661739614637 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret More accurate to say "the emergence of truth in true statements", otherwise you're confusing reference and referent. || CTX: Morning armchair philosophy: The emergence of truth (not mathematical truths which are by essence tautological)  is entirely due to the combinatorial of not-true being infinitely greater than that of true.  1/2
2025-09-23T06:43 id=1970378385466761670 →- | The attention economy rewards people who need validation of their brilliance the most: namely, those who aren't brilliant.
2025-09-23T06:48 id=1970379709960659176 →DylanoA4 | @DylanoA4 So you've created a dichotomy where work and writing are the opposite of thinking.   Says a lot about both your work and your writing. || CTX: It's very difficult to think yourself out of melancholy you thought yourself into, it's far easier to work your way out, write your way out, walk your way out
2025-09-23T07:00 id=1970382820695749074 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret Read Kripke on possible world semantics. "H2O is water" is true even if there's no one to use this knowledge--a truth that is not necessarily operational knowledge. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not a philosopher but I am not sure what "true" means beside operational knowledge.
2025-09-23T07:24 id=1970388824611021050 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret If you actually want to dig into this:  https://t.co/LhzPVsmPAN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is water, what is H2O. It seems circular to me.
2025-09-23T07:34 id=1970391355328196779 →jiratickets | @jiratickets This is both why I invest in America and live outside of it. || CTX: As an American, my primary goal in life is simply to acquire more Things
2025-09-23T09:42 id=1970423516924387713 →janecoaston | @janecoaston The other half is him being killed for it, so I think there's a lesson there: the paradoxes of Christian charity are compelling and terrifying. || CTX: Like half of the New Testament is Jesus being like "alright let's go through this one more time, maybe I'll try a fun story to make it stick"
2025-09-23T09:47 id=1970424691555991580 →GusThomson4 | @GusThomson4 Technically, meltup. || CTX: Meltdown Capitalism https://t.co/CilWArGlDP
2025-09-23T09:48 id=1970425069324378428 →chasedownleads | @chasedownleads Many people online several times. || CTX: Guess who owns Chamath https://t.co/BiFbRLRYZS
2025-09-23T14:20 id=1970493564464533956 →jessesingal | @jessesingal I think I'd prefer two ferrets for CFPB over Rogan. || CTX: At this point their only hope is a shock and awe campaign of bizarre but rigidly held convictions:  -two ferrets per family or considerable tax penalties  -"what is a woman?" a woman is a type of chair  -Joe Rogan for CFPB https://t.co/QdCQ
2025-09-24T05:21 id=1970720223352496202 →- | I don't think humanity is capable of ceasing to confuse game theoretic problems with ethical problems.  Which also points to Godel's view on the meaning of life: "we aren't here to make Earth a paradise, we're here to learn."
2025-09-25T03:10 id=1971049633700106301 →- | Most don't understand that ethics is actually a set of practices to live a good life. "Goodness is its own reward" shows up in many philosophies for a reason. https://t.co/pCWyLG8Xf6 || CTX: Forgiveness is something that happens to you, not to the person you are forgiving.
2025-09-26T04:58 id=1971439332503507191 →tszzl | @tszzl Los Angeles has a long history of self-mythologizing to correct for its architectural ugliness. Cf. Lynch.   My undergrad mentor at UCLA made a career doing this. || CTX: it’s strange how often Los Angeles is featured in cyberpunk movies when it’s like the least cyberpunk place ever. it’s the nations largest suburban strip mall
2025-09-26T07:39 id=1971479733486670275 →INVESTMENTSHULK | @INVESTMENTSHULK I like this because I used to show people a clickbait article that said breathing is racist to show how the left politicizes everything.   Now I have a perfect example of the same absurdity on the right. || CTX: CONGRATULATIONS, AMERICA. WE’VE POLITICIZED TYLENOL.
2025-09-26T07:52 id=1971482974874124503 →leighbeadon | @leighbeadon @willmenaker The landlord chooses to set the rent up to a limit point that is set by market forces.  E.g., If identical properties in your ETA rent for $3,000/mo., your landlord can set the rent up to ~$3,000/mo. If the landlord sets the rent at e.g. $100,000/mo., no one will move in. || CTX: @willmenaker it's a thing to behold https://t.co/XU1m5iaOy3
2025-09-26T07:52 id=1971483060815462549 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @leighbeadon @willmenaker lol I did the same. || CTX: @leighbeadon @willmenaker I liked this thinking you were the other person. I can't believe you would voluntarily post this exchange.
2025-09-26T08:00 id=1971484973413826619 →postdiscipline | @postdiscipline @scottlincicome lmao beautiful tweet || CTX: @scottlincicome I don’t see the problem here. You grant the claims are on two separate pages which is an admission that each page is coherent. If each page is coherent the whole submission must be coherent.
2025-09-26T16:04 id=1971606907296317652 →KimAffirms | @KimAffirms @janecoaston I see your reading and agree if you prioritize the supernatural in Christianity.   I'm not a Christian (although a fan of lots of what Jesus said), so I am happy explaining it in natural, secular terms.  My reading is a loving heresy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @janecoaston Seriously: you can't prioritize the "supernatural" in Christianity and then explain its key factors in natural, secular terms.
2025-09-26T16:05 id=1971607185395442077 →DeItaone | @DeItaone He must have puts on Tylenol, this is absurd. || CTX: TRUMP: DON'T GIVE TYLENOL TO YOUR YOUNG CHILD FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON
2025-09-26T16:11 id=1971608457372717445 →buccocapital | @buccocapital "billions in capex to numb your brain with zero marginal cost content so they can feed you ads for shit you don't need" perfectly describes Facebook in 2012--now check out how their stock has done since then.   idk if you mean to be bearish, but your description is bullish. || CTX: trillions in capex to numb your brain with zero marginal cost content so they can feed you ads for shit you don't need https://t.co/oowafF8WTg
2025-09-26T16:43 id=1971616697598771618 →Birdyword | @Birdyword This tweet could have been made anytime over the last decade || CTX: The British government is such a combination of inept and unpopular right now that it should consider a reverse psychology approach to policy. If the PM and the whole apparatus of govt was to announce they were against ID cards, I'm convinc
2025-09-26T16:46 id=1971617408751403312 →AngularReactive | @AngularReactive @buccocapital What do you mean by better? Better for humanity? Not the job of a private company. Better for META profitability? I mean, they have one of the best margins in tech, and this seems like an even more profitable model. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @buccocapital nobody’s arguing this isn’t gonna help with their ability to return shareholder value… but rather if this is really the best use of capital… could our smartest minds and $$$ not be doing something better?
2025-09-26T19:05 id=1971652487653609640 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @Birdyword Goddamn you're so good at tweeting, Joe. || CTX: @Birdyword The lesson of Moby Dick is that engaging in commerce to benefit shareholders is a more noble calling than pursuing a White Whale objective. Zuckerberg may be the best among them.
2025-09-27T02:09 id=1971759095205199999 →Nietzscheburner | @Nietzscheburner @buccocapital For whom? For society or Meta? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @buccocapital You’re a fuckin moron if you think this is a good idea
2025-09-27T02:56 id=1971770963688935712 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel @BellaNazzari @speedrun @vercinyc @_Actioners Is Bella just a lower grade Aella? || CTX: @BellaNazzari @speedrun @vercinyc @_Actioners If you’re iconic come to our party. If you’re a lowbie stay out
2025-09-27T03:34 id=1971780377489592740 →miniapeur | @miniapeur "Men shouldn't work" is a bizarre view. What does she think they should do? || CTX: Many Young Christian women have absolutely lost the plot in the dating world:  My little brother: -19 -graduated with an associates in accounting at 17, is about to graduate with a bachelor’s in the spring, completely debt free due to his f
2025-09-27T03:43 id=1971782767227949401 →- | So many people on their deathbed lament that they hadn't created more shareholder value, that they hadn't impressed their neighbors with new cars more often, that they just didn't build enough. https://t.co/s0Swlq5cVK || CTX: The cure for procrastination is the constant contemplation of the proximity of death
2025-09-27T03:44 id=1971783029170536870 →mots_pod | @mots_pod @ad0rnai Love posts like this. I so narrowly avoided this fate. I may be 8 figures poorer but... thank God. || CTX: .@ad0rnai describes the common SF party experience. - big pile of shoes - no music - half-empty spindrifts - no alcohol - AGI timeline/valuation discussion - people in the corner posting on x - shoes off ruining the fit https://t.co/BStyAV5
2025-09-27T05:55 id=1971816028746535140 →free_jeremiads | @free_jeremiads @Halalcoholism Unironically, this is what my mother tried to teach me when I was a child. Why? She was an old fat hairy ugly non Asian woman and her resentment led her to try to indoctrinate the males closest to her.   The OP in that thread is doing the same. Resentful fat uggo. || CTX: @Halalcoholism Old fat hairy ugly non Asian women are the only acceptable females
2025-09-27T06:03 id=1971818026770325839 →- | It's really quite shocking how much of human talk is really just people telling other people what to do.
2025-09-27T08:54 id=1971860951545926060 →Musa_alGharbi | @Musa_alGharbi Classic Goodheart. || CTX: Phonics teaching is demonstrably better than the ideas that became fashionable for a time, as tons of empirical research has shown (but teachers and teachers unions largely ignored for a long time).   BUT, giving people bad grades or holdin
2025-09-27T12:08 id=1971909705942577460 →miniapeur | @miniapeur The last 30 seconds is the worst ending I've ever seen of any tv show. || CTX: Wow, the last season of The Man in the High Castle is super disappointing, especially the last few episodes.
2025-09-27T12:12 id=1971910765872664769 →chasedownleads | @chasedownleads You know what his crime was?   KNOWLEDGE || CTX: This is the face of innocence   FREE TAI LOPEZ https://t.co/GAfVg0gX2P
2025-09-27T12:14 id=1971911421836611873 →besttrousers | @besttrousers No, OP said Manhattan, you said NYC. Bait and switch, apples to oranges. Bad rhetoric (unfortunate and out of character for you, Darling). || CTX: Some day I hope that "descriptive statistics about the economy without editorializing" no longer qualifies as rage bait. https://t.co/elf10U2Lmx
2025-09-27T12:18 id=1971912287859683402 →besttrousers | @besttrousers https://t.co/zHyWZkT16k  pg.1 is Manhattan, pg.3 is NYC.   I apologize, OP muddied the waters first. || CTX: As someone who lived in Manhattan for seven years *very recently* while comfortably supporting a family of four on an income that was above the national average but below 100k: hard agree.   If you're making over 200k in household income an
2025-09-27T14:16 id=1971942131247075380 →CburgesCliff | @CburgesCliff If I had to guess from the color, Sierra Nevada pale ale? || CTX: Ladies &amp; Gentlemen: the weekend 🍻 https://t.co/46F0Hz6wii
2025-09-27T14:24 id=1971944098581164064 →besttrousers | @besttrousers This was the basis for an agricultural startup I funded in southeast Asia. The problem: farmers didn't want to break from traditional markets where middlemen gouged them.  But phones do catch on because they're addictive.   Unhealthy behavior can yield positive externalities. || CTX: It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It's the phones. It
2025-09-27T14:48 id=1971949973723136450 →dougboneparth | @dougboneparth @morganhousel Always sad seeing slop vendors promoting other slop vendors. https://t.co/imcqrJsMv4 || CTX: I bet it’s good. Proud of my friend, @morganhousel. Go buy your copy now! https://t.co/XnKofYCneH
2025-09-27T14:51 id=1971950732657164437 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Does mathematics describe or explain economic activity? || CTX: A lot of the anti-economics movement is just people who couldn't do the math in econ class and got mad about it https://t.co/1Bzxs2E7RZ
2025-09-27T15:35 id=1971961847411859657 →CburgesCliff | @CburgesCliff https://t.co/RSmTKyTwDd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a local SPA from Wellington brewery in Guelph
2025-09-27T15:36 id=1971962095681028235 →miniapeur | @miniapeur Plato || CTX: Who is the greatest mathematician of all time? (Wrong answers only) https://t.co/BuBCA8IuZq
2025-09-27T16:29 id=1971975432309530755 →Ainthropos | @Ainthropos @RuiCarrilho5 Well... AI isnt supposed to replace your grandma.   You sound more soulless than an ad supported chatbot. || CTX: @RuiCarrilho5 Imagine having a chat with your grandma. Asking her about the secret of her chocolate cake and she tells you it's that hershey chocolate. She also happens to have a coupon you can use if you order it online at walmart today. J
2025-09-27T16:30 id=1971975793279713381 →- | Imagine someone saying "omg they made my search engine soulless with these ads!"   pareidolia becoming a mental illness https://t.co/p2sP4vxOxW || CTX: @RuiCarrilho5 Imagine having a chat with your grandma. Asking her about the secret of her chocolate cake and she tells you it's that hershey chocolate. She also happens to have a coupon you can use if you order it online at walmart today. J
2025-09-27T16:47 id=1971979988309291204 →LWitt_1889 | @LWitt_1889 If you believe this, you didn't understand a word of Wittgenstein. || CTX: Maybe I just took the world too seriously
2025-09-27T16:48 id=1971980205066801542 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Might make housing more affordable though || CTX: ICE just out here beating up elderly U.S. citizens for fun https://t.co/9syyRRlASN
2025-09-27T16:50 id=1971980866789441764 →LWitt_1889 | @LWitt_1889 You're too kind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro you’re more serious than me 😭😭😭
2025-09-27T18:14 id=1972001850892366108 →unusual_whales | @unusual_whales It's such a same he's so fucking funny. || CTX: Trump: "I'm going to be reducing drug prices by 1,000%" https://t.co/j72oEyuL62
2025-09-28T02:47 id=1972131141055566107 →JosephPolitano | @JosephPolitano Exactly, instead of faux seriousness the site is now absurdly funny. It's an upgrade. || CTX: Elon Musks’ core success in reshaping this website is making it unyieldingly xenophobic, to the point that I am seeing people get mad late-1800s Italian &amp; Irish immigration for ruining America today lol
2025-09-28T03:04 id=1972135291814347112 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism @dhaaruni Is it possible that the qualities necessary to succeed politically are discouraged in women and encouraged in men, so those who rise to presidential candidate are socially repugnant?   Higher order sexism than "eww I won't vote for a girl" || CTX: @dhaaruni Certainly not the only reason, even the main reason, but I don’t know how anyone can say it didn’t play a part. The fact that Trump is so clearly a sexist is part of this equation too.
2025-09-28T03:13 id=1972137442913538388 →miniapeur | @miniapeur I hate the smell of a disproof by positive in the morning. || CTX: I love the smell of a proof by contrapositive in the morning. https://t.co/HTZ2XFsK1u
2025-09-28T03:18 id=1972138888346091716 →evandthayer | @evandthayer @skooookum You must be Asian. || CTX: @skooookum The rice bag is not a storage vessel; rather it is a conveyance to a jar or urn at the household.
2025-09-28T04:16 id=1972153299743941070 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Spiderman meme || CTX: Slop is God's punishment for your sin of posting your dipshit thoughts on this dipshit app
2025-09-28T04:18 id=1972153844265271579 →skooookum | @skooookum Unironically, this charts a good life. || CTX: I have been Hmmming a lot more as of late. Here is a chart that I believe accurately depicts the frequency of Hmmms I’ve Hmmmed over the last several months. Thanks https://t.co/AN1fjGyvjt
2025-09-28T04:47 id=1972161341273395637 →partners_road | @partners_road Bullish. || CTX: “The Echoes of 2007 Are Starting to Become Louder.”  It wouldn’t be the weekend without another Bloomberg headline warning of imminent collapse. This makes 175 consecutive weeks and counting.
2025-09-28T05:05 id=1972165754201264158 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry @Buyside_Hub I work for a boutique where there's literally 2 people in my position. I wanted to sign up but if I do, they'll know I revealed my comp.  This is a flaw in an otherwise great idea. || CTX: If only there was a website used by everyone from Analysts to MDs &amp; PMs to compare compensation   Cough cough @Buyside_Hub https://t.co/GJibwrZD6Q
2025-09-28T05:15 id=1972168221227995437 →postdiscipline | @postdiscipline @itaisher Ah yes, but OP has a PhD so in the super serious world of academic credentialism, Harford, who has no global reputation at all, is outranked by an associate prof. || CTX: @itaisher He has a Master's in Economics from Oxford, right? The challenge he puts is explicit: the mathematics economists use (calculus or otherwise) doesn't help us understand business cycles, financial instability, and consumer manipulat
2025-09-28T05:22 id=1972170108517994836 →kitten_beloved | @kitten_beloved I remember people saying this about smartphones, thanks for the nostalgia. || CTX: Can't wait to get mowed down in a crosswalk by a driver watching porn on these https://t.co/lFyEPteF0Z
2025-09-28T05:44 id=1972175459422294370 →kitten_beloved | @kitten_beloved That's why we should have the death penalty for anyone who owns a phone. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That happens every day man
2025-09-28T07:54 id=1972208247437512757 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Girard was a diagnostician, not a priest. || CTX: Fun fact: Liking Labubu and Dubai chocolate IS a personality. It's just as good as any other personality you could choose. You don't need anything else
2025-09-28T07:59 id=1972209599538515978 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret I assume you're joking? || CTX: Excellent blog post. https://t.co/Afy93tG0yz https://t.co/bsOVksnqqo
2025-09-28T08:15 id=1972213459057250771 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry @Buyside_Hub I don't see that option but, eh, whatev; I'm getting ready to retire anyway. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Buyside_Hub You can anonymize the firm on the frontend
2025-09-28T08:18 id=1972214256239366616 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret Oh well that's disappointing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No?
2025-09-28T08:21 id=1972215164985545179 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret I'm bullish on GenAI but bearish on technical analysis.  You seem to be assuming the logical space AI explores is on some Cartesian lattice instead of a topology of changing graphs. Odd since the math is tensor based.  AI researchers will get past their Cartesian bias someday. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Elaborate?
2025-09-28T08:38 id=1972219394903494849 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret I don't understand why you think that blog post is at all good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't understand. This blog post is just about quantitative forecasts of performance.  How does this lead you to make assumptions about what I assume?
2025-09-28T08:46 id=1972221354507395134 →ProPaxMundi | @ProPaxMundi @justalexoki Great tweet. || CTX: @justalexoki God wills it  Godspeed  Amen  God willing  Many more  Phrases you've heard before but can't recall as they don't stand out from the rest of our language enough  Be the fish that sees the water
2025-09-28T08:57 id=1972224162250010947 →babsNumber2 | @babsNumber2 Godel || CTX: Who's holding math? https://t.co/b6WPzvSr4A
2025-09-28T10:35 id=1972248700337733766 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Protestantism without the promise of Heaven is as disgusting as it is baffling. || CTX: This is almost as bad as this one. https://t.co/q8vjXPoSRf https://t.co/WTcOsQiieK
2025-10-01T13:47 id=1973384234438955121 →normalizedfcf | @normalizedfcf I was an English major. Was broadly mocked, especially in the "just learn to code" years.   I earn mid-six figured working &lt;4hrs a week entirely remotely, because I developed a reputation for being thoughtful.  Learning codicology, speech act theory, and Milton's poetry paid off. || CTX: Recycling this because I believe it much much more strongly now. Told my little brother who is starting his freshman yr to read widely, write often, and eschew AI as much as he can https://t.co/6CrVbE089q
2025-10-02T03:35 id=1973592682321813898 →PaoloMiasma | @PaoloMiasma @growing_daniel @tenobrus This is an opportunity to consider whether your limited vocabulary is holding you back in life. || CTX: @growing_daniel @tenobrus I don't care if historicity is a word, people shouldn't use it. Same with ideate.
2025-10-02T07:46 id=1973655761315307830 →PythiaR | @PythiaR The most powerful men in the world are The Twink, The Orange Man, The Shirtless Horserider, The Ketamine Addict, and The Reptile.   We live in a bad 90s indie comic book. || CTX: This was the twinks plan all along https://t.co/11yQBC1HdL https://t.co/7TvaUryG6u
2025-10-02T08:25 id=1973665672904450509 →shauseth | @shauseth Deserves an unfollow. || CTX: tfw nick bostrom was right in 2019 but it’s too late now https://t.co/RcFbEtkBrx https://t.co/IxUDoZe5Qf
2025-10-02T08:30 id=1973666785120702884 →LWitt_1889 | @LWitt_1889 Currently reading the Brown Book. idk why it gets so much slack, seems really clear to me. Is it the heavy exposition in the examples that turns people off? || CTX: I love my twitter homies
2025-10-02T11:22 id=1973710169394802754 →PaoloMiasma | @PaoloMiasma No, I quite specifically mean what I said, but I suppose you're lashing out in anger when I replied that you need to reflect on your limited vocabulary? I mean, go ahead and lash out instead of self improvement, that way you'll assure your own protracted loss. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You mean apophenia fatty
2025-10-02T11:25 id=1973710850176549300 →zerohedge | @zerohedge You could say the guy who releases the jobless claims is... out of a job. https://t.co/zc9RM4TTFW || CTX: Labor dept confirmed today's jobless claims data won't be released
2025-10-02T12:06 id=1973721233255694421 →signulll | @signulll What if being mediocre is genuinely more enjoyable? || CTX: spreading yourself thin across mediocrities guarantees mediocrity.
2025-10-02T12:57 id=1973733963022885326 →LWitt_1889 | @LWitt_1889 Thoughts on the notorious paragraph on Godel? || CTX: Typically you’re either Wittgenstein or you’re not. But I allow there to be a Wittgenstein spectrum where you can be a little bit Wittgenstein or quite Wittgenstein because you can never peak me
2025-10-03T04:01 id=1973961557777547441 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism The biggest sign that we live in an awful timeline is that one of our most prominent intellectuals is Tyler Cowen. || CTX: Is… that something people particularly wish to see? https://t.co/5dua7VHtLK
2025-10-03T10:44 id=1974062974349554056 →daveweigel | @daveweigel Oh, a costless sorting mechanism for individuals to identify as superior based on taste--never seen that before, and this AI antagonism definitely is very new and unlike previous generations hating New Thing. || CTX: https://t.co/inWMpBBkkG https://t.co/z3TDCNWr6G
2025-10-03T10:50 id=1974064553613996151 →zerohedge | @zerohedge Imagine making a media platform after the GFC and needing to post bullshit about noisy data points with zero predictive power to appeal to your conspiracy theorist audience.   Idgaf how much zerohedge earns in revenue, it's not worth it. || CTX: Reverse Repo $8.5BN.  fumes baby
2025-10-03T12:19 id=1974086812093321496 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp Oh that chart is annoying af || CTX: Increase literacy rates with this one weird trick (phonics) https://t.co/7AdSQwaXUC https://t.co/V3AlwIJ4hA
2025-10-04T05:43 id=1974349713622347956 →tszzl | @tszzl No it isn't. It's an economic decision your employer chooses to make. || CTX: it’s a fluke of history that right now artificial minds are designed by scientists instead of artists
2025-10-04T09:49 id=1974411468885143967 →Brendan9371 | @Brendan9371 @JamesSurowiecki When did the transition happen?   IMO, the 2000 election lit the match, but 9/11 was the kindling.   Before Gore/Bush, politics was too boring for normies. The count was like a sport, attracted idiots. Then 9/11 made it seem Important, and it's just gotten worse since. || CTX: This is 90 percent of what politics is now, and it's a large part of why things have gotten so stupid. Politics used to be something your parents talked about at the grownups table, where they would discuss boring things like tax policy. Th
2025-10-04T09:50 id=1974411779221733425 →wfdltd | @wfdltd @Steve_Sailer @JamesSurowiecki Google his name lmao, he's famous for being a racist. || CTX: @Steve_Sailer @JamesSurowiecki You seem creepy.
2025-10-04T09:54 id=1974412781534564475 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 So you're old and dislike the youth, just like your parents who thought you were deep fried by video games, and their parents who thought they were deep fried by rock and roll...   "But this is dif--" yeah that's what they said, too. || CTX: My job at a middle school has significantly blackpilled me regarding AI. All the students are deep fried by ChatGPT. It’s worse than you think.
2025-10-04T09:56 id=1974413247622328699 →ThatManulTheCat | @ThatManulTheCat @SRamirez68083 I can only imagine how poor you'd be if they'd never invented the calculator. || CTX: @SRamirez68083 Why would anyone spend valuable energy learning to do something that AI can already do better and for effectively free? Essay writing etc. Actually why?
2025-10-04T12:05 id=1974445752492622251 →1thousandfaces_ | @1thousandfaces_ If everyone dies, nobody builds it || CTX: if nobody builds it, everyone dies
2025-10-05T01:16 id=1974644812067619171 →tszzl | @tszzl What living in SF does to a motherfucker. || CTX: whenever i visit paris I have whatever the opposite of Paris syndrome is. it was shocking to me that such a place could exist and not be the most important city in the world and not incessantly talked about
2025-10-05T04:10 id=1974688689826791467 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism "I love my enemy for without him I have nowhere to hurl my spear." --Nietzsche || CTX: Twitter 10 yrs ago featured a new feeding frenzy every week of someone getting called Nazi for wearing a kimono while white. Now every other post is “deport all swarthoids” or some shit, 5k Likes &amp; a RT by someone connected to the Trump
2025-10-05T05:24 id=1974707300599476682 →StMaximus049 | @StMaximus049 @Halalcoholism Not really, it just means if you fight politics games you're empowering your enemy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Halalcoholism This is deep.
2025-10-05T07:21 id=1974736694047027262 →CaseyBHead | @CaseyBHead Who exactly is stopping you? Go ahead and build one. || CTX: We should build architectural follies again. My property would look great with a tower and ornamental hermit to shout at passers by. https://t.co/bEKzUZds1q
2025-10-05T09:31 id=1974769522629562517 →tszzl | @tszzl Absolutely, but is he worse than Yudkowsky?  OTOH, Marcus has a more odious persona, OTOH, no one says dumber things than Yud. || CTX: gary marcus is genuinely a repugnant individual ngl
2025-10-05T09:58 id=1974776191224840492 →strappyshoe | @strappyshoe @Noahpinion Having met people who have met Noah IRL, and having had a few interactions with him online over the years, I'm pretty confident that isn't an option for him. || CTX: @Noahpinion Have a few kids of your own if you are so worried about a decreasing population.
2025-10-06T02:39 id=1975028001273487804 →texasrunnerDFW | @texasrunnerDFW @conorsen "performing nowhere near..."   I know it looks like nitpicking, but gold and crypto yield nothing, and this is actually a very important detail! || CTX: @conorsen Because in some areas, prices are flat or slightly up, but still lag inflation and yielding nowhere near stocks, gold or crypto   Now add to that the fact that in most areas it’s cheaper to rent than buy, and it makes sense why pe
2025-10-06T09:16 id=1975128060669333530 →moseskagan | @moseskagan Nostalgia is a helluva drug. || CTX: Like, this isn't fooling around stuff.  For almost all of human history, in almost every place, people lived under the thumbs of tyrants of one type or another.  The few sparks of liberty that ignited (Athens, Rome, etc.) eventually died ou
2025-10-07T10:43 id=1975512378952589481 →BoringBiz_ | @BoringBiz_ I should retire. || CTX: Bloomberg Terminal now has Kalshi odds on their platform and you are still bearish prediction markets? https://t.co/rP9sITwR1m https://t.co/BDGAeeWb4J
2025-10-07T10:44 id=1975512484305142171 →techbrotito | @techbrotito @BoringBiz_ Bet you that wouldn't work. || CTX: @BoringBiz_ We should be bribing politicians with prediction market shares to drive outcome. Prediction market lobby
2025-10-08T09:43 id=1975859605977935908 →StonkyOli | @StonkyOli @jakobdiepen Actually had a friend that worked at a porn site, doing something nontechnical (marketing).  He said you get blind to it really quick and it just blurs past you. Dude wasn't naturally much of a perv tho || CTX: @jakobdiepen i'd love to hear more about engineering teams a NSFW companies  i wonder if they replace the content w/ pictures of cats or something on staging/local dev hahah
2025-10-09T07:20 id=1976186047651512515 →- | If only Silicon Valley stemmed from Capn Crunch instead of Steve Jobs, I would've been happy with pursuing a career in the industry.
2025-10-10T02:44 id=1976478814004969712 →Satvik_Pen | @Satvik_Pen what is not useful revenue? || CTX: The difference between now and Dot Com Bible is that companies now often have revenue. It's just that they often aren't useful. But that's not a market thing to solve for. https://t.co/vzHpPXUwc4
2025-10-10T08:20 id=1976563355868712964 →aliceisplaying | @aliceisplaying So if you commit to master, this won't count it? || CTX: i've been blackpilled on this graph ever since i learned it only counts commits for main branches https://t.co/kydSQm4Vix
2025-10-11T23:34 id=1977155925078405574 →GarrettPetersen | @GarrettPetersen What amuses me is how counterproductive this is. My mother raised me to hate thin women because she was a bitter fatso, and now I'm an adult who hates resentful fat women. || CTX: I love that stuff like this exists because it forces them to state plainly what they believe. Can't hide behind academese when you're writing for 5-year-olds. https://t.co/bNhlg5v6Pn
2025-10-12T09:44 id=1977309494901416154 →worst_account | @worst_account Feels good man || CTX: Incredible things are happening to the political valence of frogs https://t.co/JZ8tsasJwU
2025-10-12T23:48 id=1977521749450469435 →keysmashbandit | @keysmashbandit @serbobross @OSINTCap Best account on here. || CTX: @serbobross @OSINTCap I reported you to your Mommy for pissing your pants. We'll see who wins
2025-10-13T01:35 id=1977548601569206420 →- | A daily walk (or run) is more important than ever, to reconnect with the real, to avoid being bewitched by the simulacrum.   You don't have to leave hyperreality entirely, it's a lot of fun. Just stay grounded enough to never forget the hyperreal is not the real. https://t.co/x0a2d4WnrE || CTX: I've decided that I don't particularly care for running, but I do enjoy being outside early mornings, watching the behind the scenes economy rolling, be it Cintas or Waste Management trucks doing their routes, or materials being delivered t
2025-10-13T01:46 id=1977551500013715610 →ylecun | @ylecun @NicSD6 @kevinroose @hamandcheese Surely you're better than this, Yann. || CTX: @NicSD6 @kevinroose @hamandcheese Do you enjoy advertising the fact that you're an ignorant moron?
2025-10-13T01:52 id=1977553053751681425 →LWitt_1889 | @LWitt_1889 I wonder if this is a factor in the Peter principle--as soon as one gets the privilege to make arguments without consequences, the quality of the argument declines.   (Also explains why Wittgenstein was terrified at having followers and starting a school of thought) || CTX: Articulating your own arguments without fearing the consequences is such a privilege but look what fuck kind of arguments are people making fr
2025-10-13T02:25 id=1977561358125462000 →NathanNobis | @NathanNobis @rbnmckenna86 @PAHoyeck You should read On Certainty. || CTX: @rbnmckenna86 @PAHoyeck So you don't think you have any reason to believe that? It's not the case that you, or anyone, should believe that, or that would be reasonable to believe?
2025-10-13T05:52 id=1977613483471781938 →VVBellerose | @VVBellerose @captgouda24 Sadly anyone who thinks philosophy is useless desperately needs philosophy in their lives. || CTX: @captgouda24 &gt; Philosophy is useless  No
2025-10-13T08:31 id=1977653298347000319 →LWitt_1889 | @LWitt_1889 An implication of your thought is that censorship may make for better expression of ideas. Which I think may be correct. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m more of speaking about censorship — I think people should put that privilege into genuine debates, considering how many people are prosecuted for articulating their views
2025-10-13T10:14 id=1977679231476961774 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @OrdinaryInds hahahaha this was a particularly good one || CTX: @OrdinaryInds average apple vision pro dev
2025-10-13T11:52 id=1977704063396376717 →GarettJones | @GarettJones I like the idea of him being allergic to all animal flesh... except human. || CTX: James Gunn is likely keeping the door open to Superman being openly vegetarian, a good fit for the character and already canonical in one iteration https://t.co/j6fh4jfP3l
2025-10-13T23:48 id=1977884182845022324 →reluctantmutant | @reluctantmutant @_jeremyflores That is exactly who I'd expect to like One Piece. || CTX: @_jeremyflores This is so funny. The only guy I've ever met who liked One Piece was a right wing gym bro Cuban from Coral Gables
2025-10-13T23:49 id=1977884549381042443 →AliceFromQueens | @AliceFromQueens @mattyglesias I don't find that interesting at all. The kinds of writers assigned to this sort of story will hardly be motivated to learn economics. || CTX: @mattyglesias I think it’s interesting that the economics of a small nonprofit culture mag would be this confusing to writers at the New Yorker, Atlantic, Bloomberg..
2025-10-13T23:52 id=1977885128484368826 →ojoshe | @ojoshe If clean code was an advantage, why is so much shipped code absolute garbage? || CTX: Was just talking with an old friend and very senior engineer about this:  Regardless of whether you use AI, all that really matters on eng teams is the key product decisions and the execution. A dominant factor on execution is code quality.
2025-10-14T00:15 id=1977891015030972524 →AliceFromQueens | @AliceFromQueens @JenLouiseWilson You're indexing to enterprise economics, she's indexing to cost of living. Both are valid viewpoints, just orthogonal. || CTX: @JenLouiseWilson But it’s not so low for a nonprofit mag w 12,000 subscribers . Why are you acting insane?
2025-10-14T00:30 id=1977894761517470057 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine What exactly does it mean to "take into account" the anthropic principle? That seems more like an arational observation than a rational belief, so different in kind to the probability calculations. || CTX: @arithmoquine Are you saying it's bad to believe in his numbers (which seem like bullshit) or saying that even if numbers wrong, probability of getting intelligences like us "by chance" too small so theist is correct to see signs of design?
2025-10-14T00:45 id=1977898436763750778 →ben_golub | @ben_golub This is just rehashed Keynes. "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."    I acknowledge my comment is ridiculously ironic. || CTX: Strong argument from Mokyr against worshipful study of Great Books https://t.co/T2gnDcpVDQ
2025-10-14T00:46 id=1977898677693022574 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @ben_golub There are different kinds of ways to read old books. You're promoting the aesthetic reading, which is fine. He's criticizing the religious reading, which is not. || CTX: @ben_golub The idea that books from the past become less relevant as we go through technological progress does not really compute. That’s not ancestor worship. That’s just good taste.
2025-10-14T00:54 id=1977900893526728930 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @ben_golub You've totally missed my point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ben_golub Most of the Great Books are secular not religious.
2025-10-14T00:57 id=1977901533736980671 →krishnanrohit | @krishnanrohit @DKThomp You've been poisoned by recent history to think the latter is even a possibility if the stakes are as high as presented in Derek's thought experiment. || CTX: @DKThomp If this happens isn't it more likely that we would nationalise/ bail out the debt holders, and the remaining equity (the model builders) would get sold to others?  In other words I'm not sure if govt buying OpenAI is the outcome vs
2025-10-14T00:58 id=1977901738041713099 →DKThomp | @DKThomp I mean, it's already happened piecemeal. The government now has an equity stake in a chip maker and is actively negotiating deals. This has already begun. || CTX: I'm not ready to stake my reputation on the prediction that frontier AI is going to be nationalized in the next decade, but:  "... so there's an industry cluster spending trillions on a  technology with huge geopolitical consequences *and* 
2025-10-14T01:11 id=1977905176825471084 →kasratweets | @kasratweets The problem is this idea, while true, is opposite of what evolutionary pressures have encouraged us to think. || CTX: that moral philosophy is a clownshow and a desecration of the very concept of morality https://t.co/U6m0LNQU55 https://t.co/Llx8vDEaEC
2025-10-14T01:15 id=1977905976679489651 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat @godgunsgpus @basedaesthetics I live in Asia. I sit in vans like this all the time. He's right, you're wrong. || CTX: @godgunsgpus @basedaesthetics have you been to asia?
2025-10-14T01:18 id=1977906735018053834 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion If phones end the human species, then the species obviously wasn't worth surviving. || CTX: Phones ended the human species. https://t.co/5bTgZ8Xs4L
2025-10-14T01:27 id=1977909113213591762 →_tinker_tailor | @_tinker_tailor @sebkrier If we have everyone doing this at scale, politics, marketing, most pop culture, a lot of journalism, and the worst parts of education will evaporate. Tremendous economic loss. || CTX: @sebkrier the task at hand, to my mind, is to know all uninvited attempts at shaping our minds
2025-10-14T02:15 id=1977921050915795211 →Hawkeye_Speaks | @Hawkeye_Speaks @drmichaellevin @BeneHartl @LPiolopez I very rarely find value when philosophy criticizes genuine scientific insight, but you're spot on here. Instant follow. || CTX: @drmichaellevin @BeneHartl @LPiolopez The premise is the problem. Aging isn't the opposite of meaning, entropy is. We age, until we die, and new life follows. At no point does the process prohibit vitality. Asking how much aging, is like as
2025-10-14T02:22 id=1977922959772991914 →moultano | @moultano There is an almost beautiful Puritanical fervor some people have to the idea that missing a day of school will turn a child into a lifelong idiot. || CTX: Fixing these sorts of annoyances is I suspect a more likely outcome of widespread school choice policies than academic improvement. There are lots of little ways that some schools are needlessly hostile to parents that are trivial to fix if
2025-10-14T02:39 id=1977927224226632064 →liensofnewyork | @liensofnewyork I grew up poor. I'm now wealthy. One of the fascinating observations I've made: the constraints that stop me from spending are more often than not things besides money. || CTX: The only thing I want is a 964 Porsche and it's not the cost that deters me, it's that I have nowhere to park it.
2025-10-14T02:51 id=1977930237473079716 →deepfates | @deepfates "In this random subsection of infinite logical space where patterns are possible we found patterns."  k... so? || CTX: this would go so hard with some d&amp;b or jungle music https://t.co/sftx1GbJXI
2025-10-14T03:02 id=1977933032486318393 →hayesy316 | @hayesy316 @briebriejoy @AaronRegunberg @katewillett Candace Owens of the left. || CTX: @briebriejoy @AaronRegunberg @katewillett Everything always comes back to the Joooooz somehow. I wonder why that is
2025-10-14T03:03 id=1977933244982300758 →nike_hack | @nike_hack @mattyglesias To be fair, she did start it with a man who sexually harassed minors on the internet. || CTX: @mattyglesias Apt name for her pod, gotta give her that.
2025-10-14T03:16 id=1977936629592674733 →AliceFromQueens | @AliceFromQueens @JenLouiseWilson True and beside the point. You keep seeing this from the POV of a specific type of person taking the job, others have a different lens. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JenLouiseWilson cost of living in nyc varies a lot by neighborhood, living arrangement, and also your age.
2025-10-14T03:19 id=1977937246235021497 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @AliceFromQueens @JenLouiseWilson "The low salary attracts more people who will subsidize the earnings with wealth" can coexist with "the low salary of this job is enough for n people to live on".  The broader issue: this structure of incentives crowds out poor talented people. || CTX: @AliceFromQueens @JenLouiseWilson True and beside the point. You keep seeing this from the POV of a specific type of person taking the job, others have a different lens.
2025-10-14T03:20 id=1977937623978295739 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @AliceFromQueens @JenLouiseWilson I was trained to be a novelist by a successful novelist. I left lit to work in finance. I come from poverty and didn't want many years of financial hardship ahead of me.  There are MANY of us, and it has an effect on the arts. To deny this is a factor is blindness. || CTX: @AliceFromQueens @JenLouiseWilson "The low salary attracts more people who will subsidize the earnings with wealth" can coexist with "the low salary of this job is enough for n people to live on".  The broader issue: this structure of incen
2025-10-14T03:21 id=1977937904266875251 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @Creditspreadit Daring of you to assume Zizek fans even know who Camus is. || CTX: @Creditspreadit i presumed this was consensual amongst his readers
2025-10-14T03:24 id=1977938602354147397 →OxfordFrom | @OxfordFrom von der Leyen is promoting the idea that merit, ability, and intelligence are heritable traits and the region with the superior heritability is Europe.  tldr she's Hitler. || CTX: The pride seems misplaced to me.  The last Economics Nobel to someone with a PhD from a (now) EU country was Selten, who shared the 1994 prize.  His PhD is from 1961.  It shouldn't be a source of pride that Europeans had to emigrate for the
2025-10-14T03:30 id=1977939954132242555 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine Wait but "humans exist in the universe" isn't just a local fact. It is that and also a fact about the entire universe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arithmoquine One way of thinking about it is that you can't use observations about facts in your neighborhood in Bayesian updates the same way you would facts about randomly selected neighborhood, like if we had a super te
2025-10-14T03:30 id=1977940103931756880 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine The question isn't "is x common" but "why does x exist". This isn't a Bayesian question at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arithmoquine one completely at random and observed it had a rocky planet with liquid oceans in the habitable zone, that would update significantly in the direction of such worlds being common, but we can't do the same with
2025-10-14T03:37 id=1977941840017166620 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine okay, so the only way to dissolve the metaphysical question is to assume different metaphysics. very unsatisfying, feels more like Bayesian inference is your prior and not "the universe exists" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arithmoquine If there is a multiverse (whether the multiverse of 'eternal inflation' theory or of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics), and different regions can have different physical constants as suggested
2025-10-14T03:41 id=1977942910835609692 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine Bayesian probability is not physics, and it originated as a statistical tool to map metaphysics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arithmoquine Why do you say "different metaphysics" rather than "different physics"? Hypothesis that certain constants are set randomly by process called "spontaneous symmetry breaking" is physics, and the theoretical argu
2025-10-14T03:50 id=1977945120843415987 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine that's exactly what I meant by map metaphysics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arithmoquine What do you mean by “map metaphysics”? I agree it’s not physics but I thought it was just intended as a way to formalize idea that we can think of probabilities as measures of epistemic uncertainty even when w
2025-10-14T04:14 id=1977951010636324975 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine So by negating a possible metaphysic, Bayesian probabilities are not describing a metaphysical reality? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arithmoquine Just a matter of classification practices I suppose, but philosophers do not generally consider epistemology to be a part of metaphysics, and assigning/updating Bayesian probabilities seen as pragmatically use
2025-10-14T04:30 id=1977955113609359404 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer @arithmoquine so not physics, then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arithmoquine Bayesian probs can be used to score the degree of credence we assign to diff metaphysical hypotheses but are ordinarily used to score degree of credence to more ordinary hypoths (“this drug is effective” etc),
2025-10-14T06:40 id=1977987857785762278 →StefanFSchubert | @StefanFSchubert Privatization? || CTX: A neglected fact is that Sweden has had the highest growth in Western Europe over the last three decades, tax hubs like Ireland and Malta aside https://t.co/GGJW652HMp
2025-10-14T06:42 id=1977988480505725366 →buddhalite | @buddhalite @Lifeinvestmoney If you think it's item by item, so they appear first is bottom and last top, it fits a burger quite well. || CTX: @Lifeinvestmoney Is that a sandwich or loaded nachos? Don't know how to assemble this.
2025-10-14T07:00 id=1977992826639319526 →moultano | @moultano Goodheart's Law is shockingly prevalent. || CTX: I'm curious how much the econ takeover of quantitative social science has philosophical roots. It feels like the premise of "you can put a number (price) on anything" emboldens you to try to put a number on more things. If you're uncertain 
2025-10-14T07:02 id=1977993395416240380 →QuoteNietzsche | @QuoteNietzsche This is why I smoke weed. || CTX: https://t.co/wIkBfHKLiM
2025-10-14T07:35 id=1978001784183664749 →Nervoussupreeme | @Nervoussupreeme Just incredible lyrics writing. || CTX: You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we walk in fields of gold https://t.co/6NbvrbX7jN
2025-10-14T07:40 id=1978003050544689211 →lapislagoons | @lapislagoons Sign of a true Taoist. || CTX: I think I am a taoist (sp?) and didn’t know it?
2025-10-14T10:11 id=1978040950048866378 →AliceFromQueens | @AliceFromQueens @JenLouiseWilson that isn't the point. Whatever, I give up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JenLouiseWilson not beside the point. It's a perfectly livable salary in nyc
2025-10-15T01:54 id=1978278264104689829 →tszzl | @tszzl I am willing to bet phrases that assert the (non)-clarity of something without the first person voice is more common.   I.e., more "it's unclear" and less "it's unclear to me".   The implications of this on how society understands the self's role in meaning making are massive. || CTX: “it’s not clear to me that” “it’s not obvious that” “non trivial”  all wishy washy epistemic phrases ive come to hate in san francisco
2025-10-15T01:55 id=1978278456442970267 →eshear | @eshear @tszzl How do you know that's what's happening here? I suspect it rarely is. || CTX: @tszzl What’s wrong with expressing skepticism in a way that indicates you are open to changing your mind?
2025-10-15T01:57 id=1978278909327073358 →BasedBiohacker | @BasedBiohacker @signulll Clankerphiles || CTX: @signulll we need a new slur for people who use chatgpt for erotica
2025-10-15T02:10 id=1978282388850397605 →constexprvoid | @constexprvoid @signulll This is why it's very important to forget every book you've ever read.   Arousal bad, very bad! || CTX: @signulll Now’s a great time to disable ChatGPT memories if you haven’t already. AI should stay a tool.  If it evokes emotions at all, let alone arouses you, something’s very wrong.
2025-10-15T02:36 id=1978288857016627276 →keysmashbandit | @keysmashbandit If one reads about how Marx treated his family, it makes sense.   There's a specific kind of selfish person who are too selfish to comprehend the common good, and they conceal it with layers of ideology.   Acknowledging why they have contempt for society would be too devastating. || CTX: Let's disrespect all community good, and I mean just really do whatever we can to treat it like it's worthless, until eventually, hopefully, none of it will exist at all #ilovekarlmarx
2025-10-15T02:40 id=1978289886420500874 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Then shouldn't you leave? || CTX: This platform has deteriorated to the point where single blogs are better source of information than my entire feed here.
2025-10-15T02:42 id=1978290379020443915 →arithmoquine | @arithmoquine Theoretically you'd find watching people play with dolls more interesting than playing with the dolls yourself. || CTX: this is how I felt about playing with toys as a little kid. why should I labor to watch the superhero minifigures have fun? it's a cucked dynamic  eventually I figured out you're just supposed to project yourself onto the objects. which mad
2025-10-15T03:52 id=1978307982518558931 →NateSilver538 | @NateSilver538 Erotica for verified adults is compelling to regulators (it protects children and collects user data) and helps attract/retain the best talent (who want less restrictions on tech).  You're misinterpreting their moves. || CTX: If you think the singularity is happening in 6-24 months, you preserve brand prestige to draw a more sympathetic reaction from regulators and attract/retain the best talent ... rather than getting into "erotica for verified adults."
2025-10-15T07:44 id=1978366429557563741 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick Best thread I've seen on the topic in a long time.   The buyside on Wall Street basically is investing alongside your premise, which isn't really controversial now. But the public doesn't believe it, which is good for investors: more alpha. || CTX: but it suggests to me that we're in a much earlier phase of capital build up, and that the outcomes of that investment are likely much less binary, than most people seem to believe
2025-10-15T09:22 id=1978390979884220486 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 Almost as if the attention economy doesn't cause the best to rise to the top... nah that couldn't be right || CTX: i don't really listen to podcasts but god damn this list is so depressing. we need better propagandists, better comics, better talking heads, better entertainers. we should all do better https://t.co/LoRWbpefc8
2025-10-15T09:30 id=1978393156308631556 →Birdyword | @Birdyword Well anyone with even a marginal time in Asia, let alone China, knows this to be obvious. || CTX: I think the optimistic (but very realistic) case for America here is that the Chinese government transpires to be much more unwilling to make a very different set of even more serious hard choices https://t.co/yX0yCIO4pF
2025-10-15T09:38 id=1978395106592858357 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism @jarvis_best Love it when "check out my hot wife" is a feminist argument || CTX: @jarvis_best I don’t use the phrase “feminist ally” often but it’s certainly apt here
2025-10-15T09:56 id=1978399559064924600 →youngScipio | @youngScipio @jarvis_best 1. Many cultures, esp in Asia, traditionally have women handle the finances.  2. Many of the guests on this show are men.   3. Crypto.   tldr you're an idiot. || CTX: @jarvis_best When you watch that show you quickly understand why all throughout history women were not given control over their finances.   Plus it builds a compelling case to end the VA Disability program.
2025-10-15T09:57 id=1978399717449941172 →constexprvoid | @constexprvoid @signulll I honestly don't know the point you were making, but you have my attention now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @signulll Let’s be real, you know this isn’t the point I was making.
2025-10-15T10:02 id=1978400998587552184 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @besttrousers @LandBeforeSlime Marketers get this, academics struggle with it: the world is too complex for a few categories to fit it, but many complex categories are meaningful as a heuristic. || CTX: @besttrousers @LandBeforeSlime You're failing to see the issue because you're stuck thinking in dialectical binaries.   There are many groups, the "slightly educated low earning aspirant upper middle class less intelligent than they think" 
2025-10-15T10:28 id=1978407637579362634 →DrFrancisYoung | @DrFrancisYoung Ovid so much better than that hack propagandist. || CTX: I’m sorry, ‘one of’?? https://t.co/GPlOCElp9v
2025-10-15T11:02 id=1978416129509822501 →VividVoid_ | @VividVoid_ @_eternalplus And this is the problem.   Social media isn't a game to solve real life problems.   Social media is a game to have fun.   Many problems in the world now are from forgetting this simple fact. || CTX: @_eternalplus Sometimes she goes too far but she's too much fun to exclude her otherwise
2025-10-15T11:13 id=1978418984996270119 →robertkaplinsky | @robertkaplinsky @pgliljedahl @TheMathGuru ... what does any of this even mean? || CTX: Really interesting slide from @pgliljedahl and @TheMathGuru at #NCSM25. https://t.co/fD6AP1BTux
2025-10-15T11:28 id=1978422702462357570 →ecommerceshares | @ecommerceshares Ah, ex-GS. I had so many excruciating meetings with your buy side trying to explain, no, this multiple isn't crazy because technology makes costs go down over time.   Wild such basics needed to be explained to people so highly paid, but the Street taught me brains don't get paid. || CTX: Latest OpenAI numbers from the FT:  800m users, 5% paying (40m). $13bn in ARR. Implies a $325 annual ARPU, or $27/month per paying user.  70% of rev from subscriptions, rest is API. $8bn loss in H1, prob $20bn run rate loss now? So basicall
2025-10-15T12:05 id=1978432153999294859 →andyjdaman | @andyjdaman @lionel_trolling readers pay $5/mo. because editors are underpaid? I'm as confused as you are! || CTX: @lionel_trolling are you saying readers don't value the work of independent magazines because editors are underpaid? not sure I follow
2025-10-15T12:06 id=1978432354398945643 →Le_Master | @Le_Master @DrFrancisYoung THANK YOU I thought it was just me. || CTX: Anyone who is serious with themselves cringes at the contrivances. The forging of the shield, funeral games, Aeneas’s odyssey told in flashback, descent into the underworld, arriving in a foreign land and cloaked by a goddess. And most pain
2025-10-15T12:26 id=1978437384418066803 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel @TheREALeataTREE Lived there for three years. You are correct, sir. || CTX: @TheREALeataTREE I've been to the UK. I've been to the bars at night. I believe this story.
2025-10-15T13:14 id=1978449454953853338 →Liquidity_Taker | @Liquidity_Taker @macrocephalopod No. You'll always have people eager to buy a dollar for a dollar... and they use the dollar because they need it to pay taxes.  You're silly. || CTX: @macrocephalopod Same question can be asked about the dollar… no? If your a swear is treasury my counter would be “you know 50% of his family’s net worth is tied to crypto”
2025-10-15T13:36 id=1978454857091543253 →VividVoid_ | @VividVoid_ Get a big magnet. || CTX: Welp. I've had at least one protein shake almost everyday since I was 21. Half a lifetime.   Anyone know how to get lead out of your bones? https://t.co/KiLBXY5a36
2025-10-15T14:09 id=1978463272119545990 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson No such thing as incongruity to an all knowing being. || CTX: I was not aware until recently that there is controversy about whether Jesus laughed.  Sanborn says this isn't possible because laughing requires associating incongruous concepts, which Jesus couldn't do.  Not sure why Jesus couldn't recogn
2025-10-16T01:24 id=1978633205570813967 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick @kelp_feeder Programmers tend to have a god complex, simple as. || CTX: @kelp_feeder not true! the sharpest legal minds often have either normie centre left politics or normie very left politics, and often have zero intuition for things like economics, social policy etc that are like one step removed from the l
2025-10-16T01:29 id=1978634292621140091 →simonsarris | @simonsarris @kitten_beloved What I love about this chart is you can see whiskey consumption fall and beer consumption rise as infrastructure and cooling tech made it possible to transport beer across the country in the 19th century || CTX: @kitten_beloved prohibition worked so well that whiskey basically never recovered https://t.co/Yt1o3HR2xT
2025-10-16T01:58 id=1978641751528398931 →DirkStruart | @DirkStruart @bendreyfuss Lmao I too thought of Kierkegaard.  But Dreyfuss is more of a Nepo failson than an actual journalist. || CTX: @bendreyfuss if you actually read the chat you can see it was hyperbole/sarcasm. Kierkegaard was right about journalists
2025-10-16T01:59 id=1978642008496332868 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss This reminds me of Wittgenstein looking at disgust at a fellow philosopher complaining about her cold and harshly saying, "how can you possibly know what it feels like to be a sick dog?" || CTX: What is there to love about Hitler? Even if you agree with his evil policy aims, he was like the biggest moron loser in history. Got the whole country destroyed! Repeatedly overruled his generals and made absolutely insane irrational milita
2025-10-16T03:37 id=1978666464925073824 →blondesnmoney | @blondesnmoney The true IQ test is knowing why you want what you want out of life. || CTX: Saw someone post "The true IQ test is whether someone gets what they want out of life" and it's been stuck in my head all day
2025-10-16T04:11 id=1978675047788163323 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry This is both my current view and apparently the market's view, at least going by valuations.   Seems very reasonable and all arguments to the contrary seem highly motivated reasoning, but I am happy to be disproven. || CTX: pls chime in, but i think it's insane how many users they have & also how sticky folks are with their preferred AI chatbot.   i'm trying to imagine what it takes for someone to churn to gemini or claude or llama - not like the avg person re
2025-10-16T04:12 id=1978675316932448369 →FX_Button | @FX_Button @HighyieldHarry Could. They had that option with Gemini and have decided personalization and memory aren't the path they will go.   Which is odd since it's what people want and, well, it'll be too late whenever they decide to pivot (prob too late already). || CTX: @HighyieldHarry Personalization and memory are truly killer apps but Google can break it because they already know everything about you.
2025-10-16T04:13 id=1978675588215841204 →srenkesPC | @srenkesPC @HighyieldHarry Awful analogy. Video calling is a commodity service; LLMs are not. || CTX: @HighyieldHarry I would not have guessed that teams would have taken over for zoom, but it happened pretty quickly… integration into other parts of life / tech will be key to keeping users
2025-10-16T04:50 id=1978684866205016428 →IAmTimNguyen | @IAmTimNguyen She's trying so hard to get Thiel money. || CTX: Sabine Hossenfelder has officially cited Eric Weinstein's Geometric Unity in her latest paper. It's only proper that entertainers cite other entertainers: https://t.co/VClpFhmB7A
2025-10-16T04:54 id=1978686055470518555 →Samuel_Gregson | @Samuel_Gregson "calling those studying ideas she doesn’t like con artists and frauds"  Surely this isn't the issue as many scientists employed in academia do this too. || CTX: It’ll be interesting to see which institutions want affiliation with someone who spends their entire day dumping on entire fields of study, calling those studying ideas she doesn’t like con artists and frauds, and jumping on every crank ban
2025-10-16T06:23 id=1978708461392380335 →vin_sachi | @vin_sachi She's obv clout chasing. Monetization kills the internet. || CTX: Completely wrong for Stanford, she has no clue what’s she talking about  The research out of many of the labs (Ermon, Re, Manning, Goodman, etc) over the last 5 years has shaped critical lines of work in frontier labs (Efficient kernels, re
2025-10-16T07:30 id=1978725196371816742 →hecubian_devil | @hecubian_devil Tyler Cowen is proof society gets not the public intellectuals it needs, but the one it deserves. || CTX: Never understood why people liked this quote. The EU does exist, it is run by people like this, and it does not have a -1% growth rate. I’d say that’s about the typical sharpness of analysis for Tyler Cowen, though https://t.co/T14hkix2G6
2025-10-17T01:06 id=1978991086535168158 →stringking42069 | @stringking42069 Frenkel seems like an attention seeking aspirant grifter who also happens to be a good mathematician, am I off? || CTX: Lol. What a grifting piece of shit.  Reminder. These anti-string popularizers are utter fuqqing frauds when it comes to any actual knowledge about how proper hep-th research is done.  Frenkel has some math cred no doubt but knows jack shit 
2025-10-17T02:09 id=1979006786859336065 →tszzl | @tszzl @rSanti97 Nice Goodhearting there.  Now what's the cross-domain value of a view? || CTX: @rSanti97 weighted by views this is by far the most important text medium by orders of magnitude
2025-10-17T04:15 id=1979038562197631160 →captgouda24 | @captgouda24 This is the apotheosis of how academia is failing us: grad students think their job is definitively answering hard questions.   They don't realize that's not their job, and that's a dumb goal anyway. || CTX: Today on my blog, I provide the meaning of life, and decisively settle all outstanding questions about philosophy. Link below: https://t.co/H25M4W2wta
2025-10-17T04:16 id=1979038798034940292 →jamespthomas92 | @jamespthomas92 @captgouda24 Find it hard to believe his econ can be good if his philosophy is that bad. || CTX: @captgouda24 This ain't it, chief. Your inability to appreciate philosophy pretty clearly gives you some major blind spots (though your econ is great).
2025-10-17T04:16 id=1979038881736474626 →captgouda24 | @captgouda24 @jamespthomas92 ... is this a bit? || CTX: @jamespthomas92 And makes some important points about cardinal utility
2025-10-17T04:19 id=1979039571909243105 →Joseph_Fasano_ | @Joseph_Fasano_ Letting his enemies dictate his tombstone? What a loser lmao || CTX: Nothing goes harder than the tombstone of John Keats. https://t.co/LHn2ZXFcSq
2025-10-17T05:23 id=1979055561145491803 →ModeledBehavior | @ModeledBehavior @stanveuger Those who disagree do so not from first principles so unsurprising their stance changes when it's verified by authority. || CTX: @stanveuger Could be that, though do you hear many defenses of the status quo against cases like this? Could also be insiders benefit, outsiders don't want to make insiders mad
2025-10-17T05:23 id=1979055675943600436 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ModeledBehavior @stanveuger I. e. the new stance is verified (and old position appears falsified). || CTX: @ModeledBehavior @stanveuger Those who disagree do so not from first principles so unsurprising their stance changes when it's verified by authority.
2025-10-17T05:47 id=1979061638419382406 →_ueaj | @_ueaj @typedfemale idk if this is LLM psychosis per se or being surrounded by yes-men psychosis. Functionally identical. || CTX: @typedfemale +1 on the theil one too, you have to be extremely isolated from people and a little psychotic to say greta is the antichrist unironically. Legitimately zero awareness/human theory of mind. https://t.co/E3csiKnWtB
2025-10-17T07:23 id=1979085749690536398 →Birdyword | @Birdyword Goddammit it really sucks when Musk is right. Doesn't happen often, but this is such an occasion. || CTX: I wondered when Bier's suggestion that they halt tweet monetisation would get stomped out, surprised it took over two weeks. https://t.co/MwLyLlbTMU
2025-10-17T07:27 id=1979086804167897245 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Because then the world could judge it. || CTX: Instead of talking about persecution and mistreatment why doesn't this fucker just present his ideas clearly and let the world judge it
2025-10-17T07:43 id=1979091000329932970 →d_m_d_m_d_d | @d_m_d_m_d_d It wasn't porn! It was erotic art! || CTX: Edward Frenkel? the softcore pornographer? https://t.co/04nDxL00vg
2025-10-17T08:04 id=1979096189401285070 →sailaunderscore | @sailaunderscore Surely that's a joke and not a real company || CTX: Time horizons. https://t.co/YxFxmjxAmx https://t.co/hgwBCt6N1I
2025-10-17T10:00 id=1979125437499359553 →Birdyword | @Birdyword More like Chieng Kai Shrek amirite || CTX: I don't know how I end up seeing this stuff https://t.co/pxxOePpN5h
2025-10-17T14:13 id=1979189054420717978 →moultano | @moultano They're native to the African desert. || CTX: Why do cats act like they're cold blooded? https://t.co/QoHsILNuMh
2025-10-18T00:09 id=1979339090198958161 →captgouda24 | @captgouda24 Are you satire? || CTX: I think economists should evaluate the optimal length of a week, a month, and a year. Much reason to believe that we could improve outcomes by shortening or lengthening them.
2025-10-18T00:38 id=1979346247246057965 →tszzl | @tszzl As capital becomes more prevalent and the need for labor declines, motives to produce shift from need to want.   Thus over time we should see businesses started and run more for fun than anything else.   I call this the Silly Business Theory, and you see it everywhere (e.g. Musk) || CTX: economists should track some metric for how fun it is to produce various goods or services and track every country’s production mix over time because I feel like this would explain some things
2025-10-18T01:23 id=1979357693178712095 →tomer_stern | @tomer_stern @juliarturc Why should employers have the final say? || CTX: @juliarturc I think that would be great but IDK if that is what employers want to hear. Employers want you already knowing how to use these tools :/
2025-10-18T03:18 id=1979386529710772492 →Xenoimpulse | @Xenoimpulse If anything accusations of LLM psychosis and fears of being accused will constrain what people feel comfortable saying in public.   We're reverse engineering polite society. || CTX: reinforced in my belief that talking about "LLM psychosis" and "getting oneshot" has now fully gone from a small scale yet interesting phenomena to just something people will randomly accuse others of in order to get engagement, or worse, f
2025-10-18T04:42 id=1979407641337286894 →nedsore | @nedsore A bit of set theory and he should be fine || CTX: A manager wanted to cut hourly wages to $11/hr for tipped employees.  I said “don’t do that, you already have trouble retaining people.”   Three months later, he’s so understaffed that he’s covering clopens by himself and we’re hemorrhaging
2025-10-18T04:43 id=1979407938562461980 →questionableway | @questionableway Imagine we automate all work via tech except agriculture. Then what happens? || CTX: the sole mission of basically every single human since the invention of agriculture has been to acquire enough wealth/skills/resources to stop farming https://t.co/grqqfmgMvf
2025-10-18T04:54 id=1979410712352166097 →schisofrenia | @schisofrenia Wow I have not thought about them in nearly 20 years. || CTX: the concept of walking into a record store and finding a album by a band called the I Am the World Trade Center whose 11th track is named September, released the summer before 9/11 and on my birthday https://t.co/RfAeyp6wrr
2025-10-18T14:13 id=1979551447168786880 →sailaunderscore | @sailaunderscore dude wtf how || CTX: Project reply guys is only 7 days in.  You are so early it is unbelievable. https://t.co/Xyf5s41ZgJ https://t.co/uIKnYXzkZR
2025-10-19T00:04 id=1979700195878461459 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Studied media ecology for my PhD. It's not as useful as applied linguistics (which gets you translation tech) or cultural theory (which gets you political clout). So it died.  Same for speech act theory, which is so useful for understanding modern media. || CTX: The great media ecologists (Ong, Postman, Meyrowitz) all offer clear, testable ideas about how changes in information technology would restructure culture. My own gut sense (not testable) is that they're largely ignored because their argume
2025-10-19T00:06 id=1979700573483192754 →TrippSmith_com | @TrippSmith_com @TheStalwart Blindly. With little analysis informed from media theory.   Instead you get economic explanations, which are always insufficient. || CTX: @TheStalwart Why would you say they are ignored? Every presidential election cycle of the past 20 years has been a media and ad tech moonshot. Media and media driven culture are markets. These ideas are tested every single day, 24/7/365.
2025-10-19T00:12 id=1979702126407557196 →NewLeftEViews | @NewLeftEViews This very much aligns with my experience as someone who taught media theory and left to work in finance.   It's just not sexy enough for the Ivory Tower. Fortunately it makes money! || CTX: I agree with Joe’s sentiment: we’ve ignored the theorists of relationship between media technology and social change at our peril.   Personally, I don’t think that’s because they don’t serve left or right. On the left, at least, criticism o
2025-10-19T01:49 id=1979726521628787100 →_opencv_ | @_opencv_ It's just bad philosophy from people who misunderstood the Churchlands. Very common in SV. || CTX: These are the retards working at OpenAI https://t.co/vYt7Ql7vA3
2025-10-19T02:04 id=1979730233352949819 →Jason | @Jason @MikeIsaac @BillAckman People can move to a 0% tax state (many exist) and yet New York somehow survives. || CTX: Oh @BillAckman is but one UHNW individual in the city…   … it’s fantastic that he is vocal,  because folks need to understand that socialism and ~53-54% tax rates will spiral the revenue base if folks can move to a 36% tax state   Will be 🍿
2025-10-19T02:04 id=1979730340198662286 →RockyParadox44 | @RockyParadox44 @_opencv_ I never said it's wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @_opencv_ how is it wrong from neurophilosophy?
2025-10-19T02:08 id=1979731281245360484 →shinboson | @shinboson Idk, he cashes it out shilling crypto doesn't he? If not, I agree, but if he is, eh, just another hyperironic grift. || CTX: I’ve actually gotta defend this guy. he’s a performance artist and tbh the art is good. he’s the male version of girls who go viral for “having” mildly rеtаrdеd beliefs that they made up on the spot as absurdist humor. I respect it. https:/
2025-10-19T02:26 id=1979735898238693859 →texasrunnerDFW | @texasrunnerDFW @CP_Ogamba That's what options provide: anxiety and pressure. || CTX: @CP_Ogamba It was supposed to give women options—instead it gave them anxiety and pressure to try and do and have it all and at the same time—and feel like a failure if they didn’t
2025-10-19T02:37 id=1979738734510981580 →LetovCCRU | @LetovCCRU @poppermemes This is the correct response to Heidegger. || CTX: @poppermemes in all honestly this is actually quite cool  although idk what to do with this
2025-10-19T06:34 id=1979798272106807692 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @jiizzing Instant follow, this is legit brilliant analysis. || CTX: @jiizzing I will eventually, but here's a thought I think about a lot;  https://t.co/DE9IaC2M2C
2025-10-19T06:35 id=1979798479963860998 →workflowsauce | @workflowsauce @DefenderOfBasic Dependent upon American hatred of parents, suburbs, middle class culture, etc etc  Free Palestine succeeds despite Arab intentions, not because of it. || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic Who says they’re not? “Free Palestine” is going pretty strong
2025-10-19T06:38 id=1979799216995385637 →REdebtlawyer | @REdebtlawyer @MrFamilyOffice That was the first thing I noticed.  Someone needs to tell that person, the rich don't offer something more than him, they're just better at playing games.  Feel bad for OP fr || CTX: @MrFamilyOffice This guy is moralizing wealth even more than obnoxious rich people do.
2025-10-19T06:47 id=1979801496549314902 →IkkyusDen | @IkkyusDen Two thoughts:   1. "I am a discrete entity separate from the world."  2. "This discrete entity separate from the world matters."  2 tends to disappear, then 1 follows, but sometimes 1 dies first. || CTX: What dies during ego death?
2025-10-19T07:19 id=1979809623860539662 →pmarca | @pmarca Marc, movies aren't reality. Hope this helps! || CTX: High IQ experts work for mid IQ generalists. What means? https://t.co/XGel0nWBnM
2025-10-19T07:47 id=1979816652301869098 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel She's self harming. CPS needs to be notified and get that kid out of there.  https://t.co/gExkJDMYyI
2025-10-19T09:00 id=1979834964763103525 →- | https://t.co/v0oxKOvyPD
2025-10-19T09:57 id=1979849363250933840 →TruthBerner34 | @TruthBerner34 @JohnBummit Woke af || CTX: @JohnBummit Daughter or son if he becomes trans
2025-10-19T10:44 id=1979861108682076201 →_smcf | @_smcf Instant follow. || CTX: "Simon how do I explore Japan like a local!!"  Japanese people do not explore Japan. They finish uni and spend the rest of their life tracing a path between gooncave and wagecage. Thrice weekly they stop along the way to pay members of the 
2025-10-19T12:46 id=1979891926481715644 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Fire Claude, by your powers combined... || CTX: this makes flying claude sad https://t.co/dTs9vaQX5b
2025-10-19T20:47 id=1980012874631352371 →Fat_DTEA | @Fat_DTEA @DPearsonPHL @TheStalwart You're being unfairly piled upon. You're right: we should fret over dangerous/disruptive behavior more than policing when and how people can wear certain types of clothing. || CTX: @DPearsonPHL @TheStalwart one is dangerous and violent, the other is whimsical.
2025-10-19T20:49 id=1980013381919834231 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Someone could say the same about your shitty country band. || CTX: Everyone agree that loud music, violence, etc is anti social and bad. Nobody disputes this. What I’m saying is that a phenomenon widely regarded as “innocent fun” is also insidious, and is part and parcel with the more blatantly negative th
2025-10-19T21:16 id=1980020156865925631 →howdymerry | @howdymerry @MetamateDaz I honestly feel bad for you and hope things get better. || CTX: @MetamateDaz indicates lack of caution in approaching deep relationships with someone who is ostensibly still a stranger  5+ dates required imo to even start to get emotionally invested in the concept of a lifelong partner
2025-10-20T03:08 id=1980108782920495454 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart I'm too mature and adult to play dress up in a silly costume and perform in a band.   Grow up and go to work! || CTX: I played in one last night. What did you do? https://t.co/kWcBjdT4ca https://t.co/saaylKlocF
2025-10-20T03:57 id=1980121154414362771 →SIUChasmite | @SIUChasmite Your conflation of academia and philosophy is very cute. || CTX: What if I exist at the tale end of the golden age of philosophy? Humanities departments close, nobody reads, curiosity undermined by neoliberal universities, enrollment cliffs, political pressures on university governance, assaults on free 
2025-10-20T04:00 id=1980121909003190487 →user9898914 | @user9898914 @CSandbatch Wow, wrong and gay, that's rare || CTX: @CSandbatch The answer we were looking for is, 'what is Slavs?' better luck next time
2025-10-20T12:07 id=1980244495670059277 →SIUChasmite | @SIUChasmite Ahh, attacking positions I don't have and didn't express, you almost make me miss the Ivory Tower.   Almost. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your denial of how philosophy survives and is done is well inaccurate. This is not to deny that philosophy can’t survive without universities, but it’s another thing entirely to deny how a practice is realized concretely wi
2025-10-20T12:10 id=1980245129433960663 →AlexWisnerArt | @AlexWisnerArt I love this attitude because it dovetails with the bizarre trend in America to say market prices clear aesthetic quality. Tyler Cowen made a career saying popular = good.  You've diagnosed a real cultural sickness here. || CTX: This sudden horror around AI is due to the realization that a significant portion of the population is actually retarded and engages with art in a retarded way. The horror comes from realizing that most people are unable to discern quality 
2025-10-20T12:18 id=1980247373420151021 →chaumian | @chaumian Makes total sense. He read the Churchlands and got confused. Many such cases. || CTX: go back to school retard https://t.co/Sg1HSrPehX https://t.co/qxcGR8ewoU
2025-10-20T12:20 id=1980247699028156660 →thinkpad24 | @thinkpad24 @chaumian Yeah but he dropped out of a really tough prestigious university || CTX: @chaumian holy shit I knew he was an idiot but didn’t know he dropped out of college twice
2025-10-20T12:22 id=1980248192534102352 →toyotabedzrock | @toyotabedzrock @wwwojtekk The worst part was Joe ranting about this after uploading pics of him performing with his shitty band.   Yeah he's not immature, not at all, not like the cosplayers || CTX: @wwwojtekk By thinking that dressing as batman is harming society? Do you even hear how stupid you both sound?
2025-10-20T12:26 id=1980249284097561046 →- | I'm endlessly fascinated at how people create hierarchies everywhere and with everything.   As someone who just wanted enough time and money to be alone, I've never understood it. As I get older, it looks more alien. https://t.co/cdrpHnY0As || CTX: @NavyStrang meanwhile there is zero variance + you end up in your own "pod" of people vs. meet new friends  XS / Encore Beach club (notably: not yet part of TAO group) are an exception as they actually are still pretty much open-format wher
2025-10-20T12:31 id=1980250573992759444 →FemboyDCS | @FemboyDCS Realizing stupid people nitpick irrelevant details instead of grasping the point makes the comments to this tweet make a lot more sense. || CTX: realising this is how stupid people think smart people see everything makes elon musk's popularity with reddit users make a lot more sense https://t.co/xBZzO0raHD
2025-10-20T13:18 id=1980262253397180586 →toyotabedzrock | @toyotabedzrock @wwwojtekk If I had clout or played the social media game, I'd accuse him of being racist since cosplay is a normal adult hobby in Asia.  Honestly a lot of opportunities here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wwwojtekk People who know they might die have requested people attend in costumes or played self recorded tapes with all kinds of funny stuff. Maybe we should start a pledge/petition to goto Joe's future funeral as batman
2025-10-20T13:46 id=1980269406459711747 →Prithvir12 | @Prithvir12 @Doomlaser Karpathy is a genius about AI, without a doubt.   However, he's not a finance guy, and that claim would require some valuations, revenue estimates, etc.  Everything you wrote in this post is true; none relates to what capital markets are doing. || CTX: @Doomlaser no one's denying that. i used LLMs to check my grammar on this post. he's saying that we've gotten ahead of ourselves in the capital markets, which is undeniable.
2025-10-20T13:52 id=1980270914521723293 →exitmultiple | @exitmultiple @junkbondanalyst wtf happened in 2016? || CTX: @junkbondanalyst https://t.co/DLbRGtx6lU
2025-10-20T14:05 id=1980274279817281625 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic So the fundamental ontologist is technically correct. || CTX: how a fundamental ontologist sees the world https://t.co/ezdgW86ROX https://t.co/Cu8UbmzDU0
2025-10-20T15:12 id=1980291013433610362 →Will_webm | @Will_webm @PeterTwinklage I can guess what his favorite Coen Brothers movie is || CTX: @PeterTwinklage i just know this guy has a fireplace at his house and just burns each page after reading.
2025-10-20T17:22 id=1980323696125575209 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry So... any equity research piece. || CTX: Reading an equity research piece that absolutely blows https://t.co/C4pVf1HDIe
2025-10-20T17:27 id=1980325028152692944 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Eh, I've been top of my field and had a very successful newsletter for way longer than the average and I'm a very uncompetitive person.   WS likes to overcompensate for being a nerdy field with all kinds of dumb sports metaphors. Don't be that guy. || CTX: Most professionals should keep playing their sports as long as they can. The competitive outlet & edge is definitely married to what you do at your W-2.   I still play soccer every week & a couple of things I've done for like 18 years now i
2025-10-20T17:28 id=1980325293949960535 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @HighyieldHarry I remember my old firm hiring a Navy seal decathlon athlete guy to talk to us about perseverance and grit. Total cringe waste of everyone's time, but our 145lb CEO dweeb was rock hard. || CTX: @HighyieldHarry Eh, I've been top of my field and had a very successful newsletter for way longer than the average and I'm a very uncompetitive person.   WS likes to overcompensate for being a nerdy field with all kinds of dumb sports metap
2025-10-20T17:33 id=1980326444158054499 →servingcapreal | @servingcapreal @malonehedges My favorite part of Twitter is where it makes me happy I left NYC and ecstatic I never lived in SF. || CTX: @malonehedges every day this app shows me new horrors from San Francisco
2025-10-20T17:34 id=1980326724853461349 →2oovy | @2oovy It's seriously better than History of Sexuality, which says more about Foucault's sexuality than anyone else's. || CTX: Book review: this guy is a freak and wants to touch kids. Anyways I'm gonna read discipline and punish now. https://t.co/n7My5Ep83z
2025-10-21T03:01 id=1980469411191615577 →jkramlich | @jkramlich @keysmashbandit Legit lol'd and startled my cat. || CTX: @keysmashbandit Don’t let the stats fool you.  You don’t have to be transgender to want to kill yourself.
2025-10-21T03:02 id=1980469620151832964 →keysmashbandit | @keysmashbandit What do girls do instead of this? Like, what's the female equivalent? || CTX: I'm not transgender but when I think about how guys hang out with each other in situations such as below in college it makes me so jealous I want to kill myself https://t.co/YUoJ6tvcJQ
2025-10-21T03:03 id=1980469862242902424 →gabewildau | @gabewildau @TheStalwart And such an important hill to die on! || CTX: @TheStalwart I love that you're dying on this hill. You're truly a man of principle
2025-10-21T04:09 id=1980486512262402174 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @KK_Rider_ Odd. I live in Asia and think the reverse many times.   Inedible:Edible material ratio in my mouth is all wrong with Chinese spoons (these aren't really pan-Asian btw) || CTX: @KK_Rider_ I’ve never been eating a meal with my eastern spoon and thought “oh man, I wish I had my western spoon instead!”  But I have had the reverse thought many times
2025-10-21T05:28 id=1980506469293519121 →KK_Rider_ | @KK_Rider_ @ZyMazza oh yeah as a big shovel it's totally the superior tool || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza I've never considered the ratio. It really is just a big shovel.
2025-10-21T05:30 id=1980506944562405834 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I could write a book about this question. absolutely would change someone's life to hear. || CTX: I can believe a 3 year old would say this and I can believe it would change a person if one did https://t.co/YJw6LxXxTG
2025-10-21T06:08 id=1980516423060603055 →shinboson | @shinboson @mauddweeb OMG "pig disgusting" it's been at least 10 years since I last heard that. || CTX: @mauddweeb https://t.co/UqOjzsGwWZ
2025-10-21T07:07 id=1980531483942224013 →kleeposting | @kleeposting Reminds me of Wittgenstein's ladder in the Tractatus. || CTX: The unfortunate truth is that it's necessary to read understand them to arrive at a state of truth where you can deliberately ignore them altogether. https://t.co/jhHMxxQxb2
2025-10-21T07:08 id=1980531665341673544 →kleeposting | @kleeposting This is so true but also damning.  The philosophers don't provide insights, they provide fodder. || CTX: The reflection over whether you might want to disregard them carries more philosophical truth than their simple dismissal ever could
2025-10-21T07:12 id=1980532690240868727 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine Ouch, adjuncting... hope things get better for you. || CTX: 🥰 ❤️someone looked at my cv 😍🫶 https://t.co/1FI9vcEvmA
2025-10-21T08:21 id=1980549904532742416 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza You can still make fun of black people. This is a leftist statement. || CTX: have you noticed there's not really anyone it's socially acceptable to be cruel to lately? tough environment.. .
2025-10-21T09:44 id=1980570847229407684 →schlynthesis | @schlynthesis They're just like us || CTX: breaking news claude wants an asian gf for the cultural diversity https://t.co/K6V8TMKbm4
2025-10-22T00:27 id=1980793041272336714 →FeelsLlc | @FeelsLlc @HighyieldHarry This is a VERY COMMON mistake. I used to manage finance interns, omg it is near universal among kids.  Chamath is a complete idiot, as informed as a 22yr old intake. Really embarrassing for him. || CTX: @HighyieldHarry imagine thinking building the actual model is the hard part, rather than determining the proper inputs.
2025-10-22T01:57 id=1980815747623649407 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza AMZN is a household name, Cloudflare isn't.   Fame makes one a target. || CTX: I feel like the last cloudfare outage was way more disruptive but it seems like everyone is more mad about the latest AWS one.   What’s up with that?
2025-10-22T02:15 id=1980820388146999359 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @Allinallnotbad lmfao goddammit Joe really is the greatest poaster of his generation. || CTX: @Allinallnotbad Thank you sir. Glad to see that not everyone is a joyless scold
2025-10-22T06:27 id=1980883590994121059 →TW1NKD3STR0YER | @TW1NKD3STR0YER Dumb. || CTX: https://t.co/IasIv1qHuJ
2025-10-22T07:19 id=1980896660629909517 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic Well, technically, it delineates between sense and nonsense, so it both makes sense and nonsense. || CTX: https://t.co/ciktaDIX0c https://t.co/xSfbM7gCo9
2025-10-22T07:20 id=1980897103141601667 →jmj | @jmj @jonaslamis You. Not us, you.   Some people have contempt for trendy sound bites and so never took "AI slop" as a concept seriously. || CTX: @jonaslamis You might be right. Maybe AI slop is just the tipping point that’s making us realize how sloppy the world has always been.
2025-10-22T10:38 id=1980946953572880649 →JoshConstine | @JoshConstine @adam__xyz I feel so bad for you, legitimately.   You fail to see the beauty in the human experience, blinded by your fixation on winning and losing.  It is legit sad, and makes you more depressing than any of these losers whose stories bore you. || CTX: @adam__xyz But why do people want to hear these? Tough to walk the line between dunking on them, just being a depressing story, or being sappy. Lessons to learn and perspective to gain, but format needs to be precise
2025-10-22T10:49 id=1980949631979909240 →MurrayHillGuy1 | @MurrayHillGuy1 When a man gets older, his sexual desire declines and sometimes his taste for women sours or appetite declines as a result.   Your tweet says nothing about SC and a lot about how virility declines in middle aged men. || CTX: Sabrina Carpenter isn’t beautiful in a traditional sense, she’s fascinating.  She looks like she could’ve been in your high school drama club, but somehow ended up headlining Coachella.  She embodies the modern fantasy attainable, but untou
2025-10-22T10:53 id=1980950665632546919 →besttrousers | @besttrousers Innovation is exogenous and thus the 0.5pp decline to growth may be offset by the tariffs inspiring an entrepreneur to develop a technology that raises growth by &gt;0.5pp.  Positive externalities to bad policy exist. || CTX: "Reduce annual growth from 2.5% to 2%".  I think this is a good way of thinking about it - it's not a policy that will causes you to see big day to day, or even year to year differences in your life.  But in 50 years your grandchildren will
2025-10-22T12:55 id=1980981272932720992 →sailaunderscore | @sailaunderscore @punishedreplier You're a coward. || CTX: @punishedreplier He has no need for me in his life and neither do I.  If I'm in Japan I'll reach out, otherwise, to what end?
2025-10-22T13:37 id=1980991861172105534 →jeff82874662 | @jeff82874662 I left NYC in 2014. Reading this is WILD. || CTX: I’d argue that greenpoint is in the running with maybe 2-3 other neighborhoods for very best quality of living either in Manhattan or Manhattan adjacent https://t.co/Nbl22GrJAo
2025-10-22T14:11 id=1981000535596822677 →Degen_CPA | @Degen_CPA omg how is she so gorgeous || CTX: Guys, meet my cat, Miso. https://t.co/v8lMdOyv4X
2025-10-23T00:27 id=1981155413476458798 →minotauronlucy | @minotauronlucy @fiddyresearch @signulll I've noticed this too; grifters gonna grift. Also really puts into question the value of his non AI posts. || CTX: @fiddyresearch @signulll He had this great thing going with understanding human being and being an actual internet philosopher, but then ever since OpenAI started shipping even the tiniest nut or bolt, dude’s shoehorned himself into slop-po
2025-10-23T00:52 id=1981161713010618468 →turanicstorm | @turanicstorm @BoringBiz_ Doesn't mean that's what people do. || CTX: @BoringBiz_ A random VP at GS reaching out on Linkedin and pushing the name of a non-target kid definitely deserves a double check.
2025-10-23T00:56 id=1981162875160055948 →RampCapitalLLC | @RampCapitalLLC I'm just annoyed my puts went up so little. || CTX: If you bought the peak this morning and held, you are now down &gt;50%. T4P https://t.co/8RC4iC2MWL
2025-10-23T02:59 id=1981193840511041781 →besttrousers | @besttrousers @tysonbrody Omg this made me make the connection. I used to argue with you a lot in the early 2010s--I remember complaining that the NBER-style banner on the sub was cringe af (and I was right on that). || CTX: @tysonbrody I looked up my first couple of reddit comments. Looks like I spent my early 20s...earnestly posting about adjusting employment data for age composition. https://t.co/RcuCob81HX
2025-10-23T03:04 id=1981195078237614470 →dissproportion | @dissproportion Mine was accepting that there is no Vitamin. || CTX: Tell me what The Vitamin for you was. Tell me what it was for small parts of your life if you don’t have one big Vitamin.   For me, it was sleep. For my sleep? The Vitamin is Benadryl or Unisom. I’m not fighting it anymore. https://t.co/XYx
2025-10-23T03:09 id=1981196191313646072 →boomstickbabe | @boomstickbabe @WHUandMe &gt; Entitled woman post &gt; Check profile pic &gt; Fat  Every single time. || CTX: @WHUandMe You sound vaccinated and short.
2025-10-23T03:12 id=1981196892274053375 →petitewalks | @petitewalks You have such a good eye; your photos are always amazing. || CTX: walked 4.2 miles in prague, czech republic.. always in love with this city! 🖤 https://t.co/MlU3laLMmU https://t.co/KYHhiOWf0h
2025-10-23T03:17 id=1981198175852777703 →texasrunnerDFW | @texasrunnerDFW How is it in other countries? The study doesn't seem to say. || CTX: According to shocking new Gallup Research, the majority of American Workers do not have quality jobs https://t.co/PYpVusTcit
2025-10-23T03:32 id=1981202143903424843 →MsMelChen | @MsMelChen @Hotspvrre He's french so obv it's both || CTX: @Hotspvrre Contempt or barely concealed sexual desire?   It’s hard to tell
2025-10-23T04:13 id=1981212308497191057 →JamesNeauxbius | @JamesNeauxbius @growing_daniel I hope you don't care. That'd be sad. || CTX: @growing_daniel I won't say the name, but I was unexpectedly followed by a fairly large account (public person) a month or so ago but wasn't a huge participant in their threads.  I made one mild, tongue-in-cheek reply yesterday that wasn't 
2025-10-23T04:15 id=1981212845678440841 →StefanFSchubert | @StefanFSchubert They did so with a coordinated effort to raise social welfare benefits.  If the 600k et al. job losses were tied to better SSI/Medicare coverage, Bernie et al. would emphatically support it.   You're not seeing the full picture. || CTX: US progressives often talk with admiration about Scandinavian social democracy, but it's generally pro-automation.  https://t.co/FfPBIO3ugo https://t.co/FUKK5KNW1P https://t.co/5FwvM6oWHh
2025-10-23T04:43 id=1981219819900035368 →JamesNeauxbius | @JamesNeauxbius @growing_daniel What an odd hierarchy you have, where some posting activity is more meaningful than others.  It's all shitposting, my friend. All of it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @growing_daniel Well, it was a reminder that all I am and may ever be here is a meaningless shitpoaster, and that might have bothered me if I wasn't already properly humbled.
2025-10-23T04:47 id=1981220959274356812 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski How could you use Kolmongorov complexity to measure intelligence?  Like, what's the test look like, what's the scoring procedure? || CTX: In before people realize we’re just converging to Kolmogorov complexity over indistinguishably compressed emulation as the new IQ.  In fact, I’ve been beating that horse for a while now… https://t.co/T3pbBHgYFb https://t.co/TKG0Goi41n
2025-10-23T04:50 id=1981221633617809553 →tszzl | @tszzl Everything is more flow than stock. || CTX: civilization is more flow than stock
2025-10-23T04:54 id=1981222759486410776 →webdevMason | @webdevMason When I graduated, the dot com era was booming, and I could've gone to SF and joined that ecosystem. It felt spiritually impoverishing, so I did a PhD instead.   When I look at my bank account, I feel I chose wrong.   That's why TBPN is so awesome: proves I made the right choice. || CTX: Maternal mortality is lowest roughly 20-25; median age of first marriage in colonial America was 20-22 for women  Young, yes. Not that young https://t.co/p0NERHetmx
2025-10-23T05:03 id=1981224863177330928 →zarathustra5150 | @zarathustra5150 @feelsdesperate @jessesingal, you had her on your podcast. I hope you've reflected at least a little. || CTX: @feelsdesperate To say nothing of the fact that there haven’t been any “factory floor” jobs in suburban middle-class Idaho (where she grew up) in half a century.  How Aella somehow managed to dupe her simps into believing she’s “smart” rema
2025-10-23T05:37 id=1981233527267164666 →MurrayHillGuy1 | @MurrayHillGuy1 ... is this a bit? || CTX: I’ve been going to the same bar for first dates for years. I’ve gotten quite close with one of the bartenders, who always gives me a full scouting report when the girl goes to the bathroom…  I’ve ended dates that I actually thought were goi
2025-10-23T05:53 id=1981237448219955567 →snowmanllc | @snowmanllc When you make something a taboo, you make it more compelling to a subset of people.   The more verboten Nazism is, the more these people will do Nazi stuff.  Same for any edgy aesthetic--it is only appealing if it's edgy. || CTX: I might be a bit retarded here but am I getting it right that a group chat full of Republicans got leaked twice and on both occasions there were full blown Nazis  Now this Dem dude from Maine has a Nazi tattoo  Since when did a bunch of peo
2025-10-23T06:01 id=1981239487800979837 →vocalcry | @vocalcry It's stolen valor, plain and simple. || CTX: Becoming a prostitute in the U.S. is a lifestyle choice for 99% of the women who do it — this isn’t the Philippines where women grow up in the slums of Manila with zero other economic opportunities https://t.co/AvjyEbX89Z
2025-10-23T08:38 id=1981279125055951139 →d_knight73 | @d_knight73 @Halalcoholism dude you're retarded please stop posting || CTX: @Halalcoholism Oh ok, apologies.  just that you tweet a lot about the US and so I assumed that you are American.  Are you Ian Miles Cheong alt account or something
2025-10-23T08:40 id=1981279477956251925 →- | "Shitposting" implies the existence of a kind of post that is sustenance, nourishing, a source of vitality.   Which we all know does not exist.   All posts are shitposts.
2025-10-23T11:08 id=1981316688131092539 →- | Bayes hopes there's a creator. If only there was some way to quantify the likelihood that this hope is true. https://t.co/oKSROB87rr || CTX: I like to think there's a guy like this out there but for the universe https://t.co/jzRFhFQ8Qp
2025-10-23T11:14 id=1981318238379397131 →ArthurBoreman | @ArthurBoreman @ouranometrian2 Don't waste your energy, man. Dumb people can't understand either irony nor the different standards of another era. || CTX: @ouranometrian2 You understand that the author/singer of those words is who is being called that, and that the song is mocking people who say that, yes?
2025-10-23T11:41 id=1981325156586033377 →dampedspring | @dampedspring Are you suggesting the Nasdaq 100 is in a bubble? || CTX: When a speculative bubble pops. The really bad losses are taken in the next two months as those who missed it buy the dip https://t.co/iEvdigDh7V
2025-10-23T11:47 id=1981326690933682494 →ben_golub | @ben_golub How can we assess AI with human experts if the experts fear the AI will replace them? || CTX: A question about AI that I think is important:  How can we assess, without access to a human expert, whether an AI model is capable of giving useful assistance in a particular area of science?  Stay tuned for some progress on this! https://
2025-10-23T12:16 id=1981333930898051548 →MurrayHillGuy1 | @MurrayHillGuy1 Gotta unfollow, what an annoying prick this dude is || CTX: I’ve been in the middle of no where for work this week and haven’t seen an attractive female since Sunday  To be honest, it’s kind of nice  The presence of beautiful women is good for the soul, but it also distracts and complicates  There’s
2025-10-23T12:33 id=1981338139324273019 →JohnLeFevre | @JohnLeFevre Don't Envy the Analysts at Goldman Sachs.   https://t.co/FNCVkrALfq || CTX: This is getting criticized as soulless, but aged 22-25, there are few better career starting points: - unlimited resources - surrounded by smart, aggressive, and competitive people - great validation/credentials - no hierarchy (MDs and anal
2025-10-23T12:37 id=1981339104144216283 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Finance is an extension of east coast aristocratic thinking where abusing juniors is more accepted as a necessity to train them.   The west coast rejected this nonsense years ago, hence SV has a very different culture. || CTX: The dichotomy between Big Tech &amp; Banks with their office setups is nuts.  Big Tech: Free meals of whatever you want, work from wherever you work best   Banks: Work on top of each other, no personal space, charges you for food, have to p
2025-10-23T12:38 id=1981339439785005409 →John_Attridge | @John_Attridge I was an academic, developed this attitude, then became a journalist.   I thought being judged by my page views would change my attitude, but, no, I still feel this way.   Worst thing I've ever written has 1m+ PVs. Best thing? Like 7. || CTX: The achievement of academic research is inversely proportional to its readership. If even one person reads my writing, I feel I have failed
2025-10-23T13:45 id=1981356320432541726 →the_faustianman | @the_faustianman @HighyieldHarry That too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HighyieldHarry No, programmers are just softer and  more feminine
2025-10-23T13:54 id=1981358500988276798 →SimonKi97967462 | @SimonKi97967462 @CasinoCapital This sounds like a uniquely Japanese thing. Tbf I've never worked in a pit though. || CTX: @CasinoCapital I remember being on the Nomura trading floor and the other side of my trading desk was a different product team.  For 4 years I never spoke to the guy opposite me.  No clue what he did.    Guessing it wasn’t compliance or I d
2025-10-23T14:12 id=1981363068128096598 →sidecarcap | @sidecarcap Prob more visible in margins or revenue since stocks can soar on feels or whatev || CTX: Can’t prove it, but confident there’s an inverse relationship between a CEO’s podcast appearances and their company’s stock performance.
2025-10-23T14:22 id=1981365552385052791 →DiMartinoBooth | @DiMartinoBooth @ADP Scared of Trump? || CTX: Open-ended question:  Of all times in US macroeconomic history (a data vacuum), WHY NOW when @ADP could strengthen its position?  “We are actively working with the Fed to ensure we can enhance our processes to share this meaningful informat
2025-10-23T14:34 id=1981368716110799176 →dtklp1 | @dtklp1 @HellenicVibes Oh he's already been (accurately) accused of LLM psychosis.  But before that he had yesmen psychosis. || CTX: @HellenicVibes lol. if he were anyone else, he'd be accused of llm psychosis
2025-10-23T15:00 id=1981375122767495563 →besttrousers | @besttrousers You're proving Ashkiani's point.  Simplify with math and ignore impossible to model behavior at your peril.  And if you think all human nature can be modeled, lol. lmao even. || CTX: The problem in this particular instance is that the person invoking supply and demand is using it *incorrectly* (they forgot about demand effects!).  Not sure a more complicated model would help. https://t.co/OosrAqyRMg
2025-10-23T16:11 id=1981392950438613081 →Wittgensteinnn | @Wittgensteinnn What translation is this? Quite horrid rendition. Or is it a paraphrase? || CTX: "The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is."
2025-10-23T16:11 id=1981393080050909389 →skooookum | @skooookum Thank you, I missed 4chan. || CTX: who up drinking they coffee!!! haha. and when i say “coffee”  i mean well my peanits lol https://t.co/l2sOotxCd4 https://t.co/N3wD2iWEXH
2025-10-23T16:13 id=1981393457089565012 →conorsen | @conorsen Conor, you write some great stuff but if you believe the average American voter cares about anything on that list, you're very out of touch. || CTX: I think you need a market crash/recession for the window to open on all this. https://t.co/blZxOxWACM
2025-10-23T16:18 id=1981394762734456913 →Empty_America | @Empty_America We're near post scarcity so they're talking about impregnating underage girls? Huh? || CTX: The reason that the real cutting edge tech guys have started talking like this is that they actually believe a new level of post-scarcity is coming fast.   Rendering scarcity-driven, anxious bourgeois, life patterns meaningless. https://t.c
2025-10-23T16:42 id=1981400858995900809 →lugaricano | @lugaricano @currhenry wtf? We have a buyer of last resort that can buy infinitely, obviating the need for a fire sale.   You bond vigilantes are weird people. If a global pandemic didn't kill the Treasury market, nothing will. || CTX: I agree the scenario where the mess starts from fiscal is the most worrying.  But (1) the treasury market is the global plumbing.  A fire sale is a crisis; (2) the Fed stepping in an being forced to bail out the entire system is a big crisi
2025-10-24T00:31 id=1981518869941325956 →Larry_Legend_99 | @Larry_Legend_99 @awealthofcs With luggage? What fun. || CTX: @awealthofcs The hell is ubering? Hope on a train/subway 🤡
2025-10-24T00:39 id=1981520952568533241 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski So either take DMT or read Wittgenstein? || CTX: The truly crazy part is that the unbridgeable chasm between phenomenology and descriptions of subjective reality permeates every moment of our waking lives, yet we're embedded since birth within a collective verbal hallucination, thus don't
2025-10-24T00:40 id=1981521247247774154 →Larry_Legend_99 | @Larry_Legend_99 @awealthofcs Dude, no reason to get so upset, it's just the internet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @awealthofcs Beta bitch
2025-10-24T00:42 id=1981521703298879775 →MJ2854414175272 | @MJ2854414175272 @qcapital2020 So buy an index fund. || CTX: @qcapital2020 Talking index undermines the actual impacts. Many stocks were completely wiped out during the dot com bust.
2025-10-24T00:43 id=1981521875697008670 →Larry_Legend_99 | @Larry_Legend_99 @awealthofcs Now I do. Please, Subway Traveler, do your worst. Let's see what you got. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @awealthofcs You don’t want this smoke bozo
2025-10-24T00:50 id=1981523651938697534 →plasmarob | @plasmarob @keysmashbandit Wow, absolutely brilliant.   Isn't it incredible that there are people who take the internet seriously? || CTX: @keysmashbandit this may help https://t.co/wLSn6xnMcy
2025-10-24T00:55 id=1981524840495686104 →karlbykarlsmith | @karlbykarlsmith @mattyglesias Bingo. Sad this isn't more widely recognized. || CTX: @mattyglesias But that is not a case where the activists have a comparative advantage.
2025-10-24T01:06 id=1981527645855895868 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove That's a big assumption but assuming it's true:  1. Signal theory (they are anti-AI on socmed performatively)  2. Competition (they want anti-AI sentiment to deter potential competitors using it)  3. Cognitive dissonance (they do think it's bad but use post hoc justifications) || CTX: A lot of these students are probably anti-AI on social media. What’s the psychology behind someone who hates AI but uses it anyway? What’s going on in their head? Do they shake it while prompting so the computer knows they disagree? https:/
2025-10-24T01:07 id=1981527858234212813 →ernietedeschi | @ernietedeschi AI replaces tasks, not jobs. So far. || CTX: It's interesting that we're seeing *less* variation in nominal wage growth between high- &amp; low-AI-exposure jobs than we would have typically seen between those same jobs pre-pandemic. (These are longitudinal wage measures, so they're am
2025-10-24T01:07 id=1981527967848419428 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ernietedeschi You can prove this btw by studying freelancers, which economists very rarely look it. || CTX: @ernietedeschi AI replaces tasks, not jobs. So far.
2025-10-24T01:10 id=1981528595710579094 →elocinationn | @elocinationn This contextualizes Nabokov's metafiction so beautifully.  Haven't read him in decades, maybe time to go back. || CTX: Much discussion on noticing lately, but did anyone tell you to notice how Nature deceives?  From Nabokov on Good Readers and Good Writers https://t.co/TdulqzfrHY
2025-10-24T01:16 id=1981530151532789902 →elocinationn | @elocinationn The only thing I remember about his teaching: he used to lecture about Ulysses with a map of Dublin. Thanks, yeah I should check it out! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s quite cool to read his Columbia lectures. You’ll see another side of him, and also does help with reading his own works!
2025-10-24T01:21 id=1981531488035201106 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic I can attest to this. My lack of aesthetics are why I'm significantly less rich than I otherwise could be. || CTX: if someone is smart but has bad aesthetics, normies will not take them seriously. This is good. Aesthetic contains real information that this category of "smart people" can't read (and if they gain power, these blindspots will lead to their
2025-10-24T01:23 id=1981532008716390429 →VintageTrampler | @VintageTrampler @DefenderOfBasic I used to think this and I'm sure it's true for many. Not for me.   When I was an academic, yeah. Now in finance, I sadly need to convince normies to do certain things.  Your observation is true in some domains. Few, prob. || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic Many smart people have no need to appeal to normies, only to other smart people who know to overlook aesthetic deficiencies.
2025-10-24T01:28 id=1981533326121800060 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne imo the better way to extend the metaphor is: Shit can be manure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ahem, sometimes shit has corn in it*
2025-10-24T01:29 id=1981533568036729078 →cairoasmith | @cairoasmith IMO most people are like this. || CTX: If you make a habit of talking to drifters and vagrants you'll notice that they are very, very bad at reading people. By and large they love to talk about themselves and don't care at all about you or what you're thinking beyond how it can 
2025-10-24T03:22 id=1981561816074563849 →elocinationn | @elocinationn Start with Portrait of the Artist as a Young man, then if you want Dubliners but maybe not necessary.   Ulysses is extremely challenging in many ways, but if you like Nabokov the effort will be worth it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I haven’t read Ulysses yet 😳  I really should given Joyce is one of Nabokov’s most respected authors and I am obsessed with Nabokov
2025-10-24T03:55 id=1981570302242148593 →NoLiTaGuy | @NoLiTaGuy There is a secret third option.   And a fourth, and a fifth...   By spreading this false dilemma you're complicit in spreading the exploitative and abusive work culture on the street. Well done. || CTX: JP trading floor looks glorious in my opinion  Compare it to a cubicle job… I promise a day in the monitor filled lunch table like row with a few funny guys is 5x better https://t.co/lVkseh7dLa
2025-10-24T03:56 id=1981570428075180185 →murrayhillmike | @murrayhillmike @NoLiTaGuy S&amp;T guy lmao, who could've guessed. || CTX: @NoLiTaGuy I don’t understand why so few people are getting it. This is awesome. It fucking rocks
2025-10-24T03:56 id=1981570562398015602 →ShizTradersSay | @ShizTradersSay @murrayhillmike @NoLiTaGuy Some of us require quiet to think deeply.   I know this is hard for sales guys to understand. || CTX: @murrayhillmike @NoLiTaGuy Only people that have worked on the floor understand. The low rumbling of desk chatter, hoot lines ringing, BBG chimes…   I couldnt imagine working in “quiet.”
2025-10-24T03:58 id=1981571089672139034 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski You're right, this is a very good point, but your choice of unnecessarily complex words limits the impact your thoughts otherwise could have on others. || CTX: The desire for reality to be other than it is comprises the most powerful affordance for human manipulation.  This is because, for the vast majority of our evolutionary history, and with respect to our capacity for technological transformat
2025-10-24T04:03 id=1981572133462368537 →saintsoftness | @saintsoftness Huh? The novel died years ago. || CTX: Things I heard died this week:  The novel The novel (American) The university (American) Human sexual contact The novel (man variety) My mom’s basil in the hanging planter  Iceland without mosquitos
2025-10-24T04:12 id=1981574445614366911 →tszzl | @tszzl @nearcyan @BjarturTomas It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.   If OpenAI goes more in the content/ad ecosystem for monetization, you'll face these uncomfortable situations more and more.   I look forward to seeing how this unfolds. || CTX: @nearcyan @BjarturTomas I like the sora videos plain and simple
2025-10-24T04:14 id=1981575108277022991 →WordMercenary | @WordMercenary @DKThomp Because they aren't Derek and Derek has a massive ego. || CTX: @DKThomp Why are people who called it correctly before you "lazy and vague"? Seems like they're very perceptive.
2025-10-24T04:16 id=1981575591725031573 →elocinationn | @elocinationn Reminds me of Wittgenstein's last words.  I really want to write a book about how Wittgenstein and von Neumann died. The contrast says so much about what it means to live well.  Which basically boils down to: be in awe. As much as you can. || CTX: Feeling universal awe is one of the greatest gifts life supplies and I wish it upon all of you
2025-10-24T04:17 id=1981575754073727422 →rajlearns | @rajlearns @elocinationn Be ruthlessly self critical, about absolutely everything, from the ground up. || CTX: @elocinationn any advice on tuning into this?
2025-10-24T04:27 id=1981578272933589169 →tszzl | @tszzl Unlike Sora, ofc, which you quite like. || CTX: it’s pretty bad that xi models tiktok as spiritual opium and feels okay selling it to the west in a revenge opium war setup https://t.co/a5h2w1RrDl
2025-10-24T04:44 id=1981582628470857848 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @sailaunderscore Noah Smith is a nerd's nerd, too mid to get the kind of attention a Will Stancil naturally attracts.   Smith's fame comes from being a blogger in the early years when most economists pursued a dignified career in academia or business. || CTX: @sailaunderscore Noah Smith really doesn't have the star quality, the passion, or the x factor that Will Stancil has.
2025-10-24T04:45 id=1981582870511845594 →sj_xxxxxxx | @sj_xxxxxxx Not everyone on the street is S&amp;T. || CTX: comments on this picture clearly reveals which fintwit accounts have actually worked on wall street vs. those who are charlatans https://t.co/hutvlMOQBh
2025-10-24T06:12 id=1981604623006986744 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism No, you're just learning that pan-Asian solidarity is not real.   You should've known this already. || CTX: I hope we never end up in a race war, but if it comes at least we know which of our fellow Asians will sell us out for a chance to suck off Whitey https://t.co/LmMyLSZgLp
2025-10-24T06:15 id=1981605450614280400 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion You've advocates for open borders many times in the past. || CTX: Biden really did screw the pooch on immigration https://t.co/I2w2Ml22uO
2025-10-24T06:32 id=1981609621497241946 →jokieliu | @jokieliu @nic__carter A plan is not data. || CTX: @nic__carter China publish their plan in multiple languages and does deliver the plan most of the time. Yall just too lazy to read
2025-10-24T08:03 id=1981632696330727631 →DKThomp | @DKThomp @ryangrim Because you've chosen an absurdly pompous and self important way to agree with others.   It demonstrates your arrogance, egoism, and lack of understanding. || CTX: @ryangrim Very confusing reply!  You think Trump is corrupt and bad, and I think Trump is corrupt and bad, and I swear on my life I wasn’t thinking of you or “the left” when I wrote the tweet, so I’m not sure why you picked such a mean way 
2025-10-24T08:06 id=1981633398419452098 →tszzl | @tszzl Imagine he thinks TikTok is constructive and good (but it's actually bad) and sells it to us. Is that better?   In terms of assessing Xi's character, sure. In terms of outcomes, no.  Your position is moralizing, not designing best outcomes. Which is fine, as long as you know this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t maybe agree with him. but the fact that he thinks that and is selling it to us is bad
2025-10-24T08:17 id=1981636116580127035 →Micha_Siegel | @Micha_Siegel @mattyglesias Protecting Israel at all costs. || CTX: @mattyglesias Whats their political project, as you see it?
2025-10-24T08:21 id=1981637278075380051 →untimelysalts | @untimelysalts @AntiPlebeian Come on, Keegan, pederasty was an institution of Greco-Roman society. This is a weak and disappointing response. || CTX: @AntiPlebeian Have you been listening to the trad xtians.....
2025-10-24T08:23 id=1981637616694177822 →ApriiSR | @ApriiSR That's... that's not what laws do. || CTX: you can't just *define* AIs into nonsentience https://t.co/oOxFGCrQSA
2025-10-24T09:39 id=1981656868733767900 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Was he trying to criticize virtue ethics or Aristotle with this? || CTX: The keenest virtue is that which ultimate necessity hammers out. Acerrima virtus est, quam ultima necessitas extundit. -Seneca, De Clementia I.12
2025-10-24T09:40 id=1981657090021028266 →krishnanrohit | @krishnanrohit @OpenAI I'm almost sure they did this to lower usage of high compute models. || CTX: Instead of doing 3 clicks on mobile to select a model could we please @ pro or @ thinking please @openai? https://t.co/9O6tr8KnKz
2025-10-24T09:43 id=1981657874515251334 →CburgesCliff | @CburgesCliff Spivak discusses this. A shame she's such an awful writer, she has great ideas. || CTX: Basically how most colonizations happen as I understand it… https://t.co/RyXw3O8wj9
2025-10-24T10:01 id=1981662227120742892 →cullenroche | @cullenroche What about manipulating markets by selling assets it doesn't even need? || CTX: I have 2 better ideas.   1) The government should sell assets it doesn't even need.   2) The government shouldn't manipulate markets by buying assets it doesn't even need. https://t.co/XOK1G8CyLc
2025-10-24T10:29 id=1981669438723420623 →Stamford_Sam | @Stamford_Sam IIRC from Chaos Monkeys, wasn't it because he got a woman pregnant? || CTX: I’m gonna give everyone three guesses why his tenure was so short https://t.co/B0Y46c4iDE https://t.co/F2vs02mu8I
2025-10-24T10:30 id=1981669680898322880 →ben_golub | @ben_golub Doesn't it just come from the verb to secrete? || CTX: Has anyone ever done a cultural history of the term "secretly" as used in math and problem solving? Who were some of the key spreaders?  As in, e.g., "The solution to this problem lies in noticing that this matrix is secretly diagonal."
2025-10-24T19:50 id=1981810538486337895 →elocinationn | @elocinationn Wittgenstein's life ostensibly appears to be miserable, the opposite of Von Neumann. His last words were, "tell them I had a wonderful life."  I'd argue Von Neumann lived very poorly, not despite the fame/fortune. But not something I could demonstrate in a tweet! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know much about Wittgenstein but I have read a biography on Von Neumann, and remember he took death poorly. He was horrified at how what seemed like his greatest joy, his mind, would be shut off.   How does it contr
2025-10-24T19:51 id=1981810756531507270 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Virtue ethics are acquired traits that seem more contingent on the will than necessary, so the quote seems to undercut that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What makes you say Aristotle? Or virtue ethics. It’s a criticism of bad leadership (but is also independently good). He describes there how a tyrant who oppresses the people so severely that the people have no hope at all e
2025-10-24T20:32 id=1981821005699199294 →samanthawillman | @samanthawillman Painfully beautiful post, I'm so glad to have read it. || CTX: While reading this I thought of the baby bird that died in my hands last week. When I found him so near to death the thought of a mercy kill came I to my mind. I wanted nothing more than to assuage his suffering. When I picked him up though
2025-10-24T21:09 id=1981830366118957295 →inglouriouscap | @inglouriouscap Weird how so few people understand the function of sellside research.  You're literally describing what it's for. || CTX: The sell side is so good at providing backwards-looking, non-actionable commentary while making it sound like whatever happened was an incredibly obvious outcome.
2025-10-24T21:13 id=1981831386618372485 →Lisa9Sophia | @Lisa9Sophia @CogentCEO @Gmeister67 I'm Jewish and don't find Joy Division offensive.   I do find muckrakers trying to use tragic history for social media clout offensive, though. || CTX: @CogentCEO @Gmeister67 No, it’s one thing to listen to a band. It’s  another to be an insensitive PM roaming around in a tshirt that is offensive to the Jewish community
2025-10-24T21:30 id=1981835760623136806 →ben_golub | @ben_golub This seems intuitive and common sensical.  Maybe the econometric method of privileging quantitative modeling over historical narrative yields blind spots? || CTX: Really interesting  External economies of scale do seem very important https://t.co/NCNwXgZ9EA
2025-10-24T21:59 id=1981843119894319236 →generativist | @generativist Post apocalyptic shit || CTX: the very idea of trunk or treat is depressing
2025-10-24T22:01 id=1981843504201650677 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Great Man of history nonsense, as if the system won't select for someone similar to Xi. || CTX: Maybe if Xi Jinping dies or gets kicked out of power, China and America can be friends (as we always ought to have been)
2025-10-24T23:41 id=1981868790502842846 →arithmoquine | @arithmoquine You're confusing the simulation with the thing simulated.  A transformer based model is not a mind. || CTX: this is so funny. mankind's first encounter with foreign minds of similar caliber to our own and we immediately try to give them a Negative Bill Of Rights. awesome work guys, nice to see we haven't forgotten our nature https://t.co/4GbVdrOQ
2025-10-25T00:10 id=1981875877601259565 →boy_griv | @boy_griv @ZyMazza The anthropic principle is often treated like a law rather than what it is: an empirical observation. || CTX: @ZyMazza yes, and not to mention using the anthropic principle as some prior to draw from brings tons of its own complications anyway https://t.co/1nZbqVFSe1
2025-10-25T00:18 id=1981878002339246234 →boy_griv | @boy_griv @ZyMazza I can't explain in a tweet but first thought experiment makes me wonder if Bayesian probability hangs on the same error as Anselm's Ontological Proof: existence isn't a predicate. || CTX: @ZyMazza yes, and not to mention using the anthropic principle as some prior to draw from brings tons of its own complications anyway https://t.co/1nZbqVFSe1
2025-10-25T00:38 id=1981883056630988931 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas So the obvious solution is to stop breaking up monopolies and mandate a 1hr workweek by law. Presto--utopia! || CTX: This is such a cool paper and nicely highlights the strength of economic theory.  If hours worked are capped, what will happen?  If firms have monopsony power, as they often do, then both compensation and total employment can *increase*! ht
2025-10-25T00:41 id=1981883807654388033 →conor64 | @conor64 With the death of religion, popular mainstream media, and local community, politics becomes the locus of identity formation. || CTX: America should not be a country that hangs giant portraits of the person we employ to execute the laws https://t.co/ioI3UqpePR
2025-10-25T00:44 id=1981884436028555765 →chenna1985 | @chenna1985 @martinmbauer I also struggled to get an academic position doing what's interesting to me. And I know many people who chased trends and struggled to get an academic position.  Hypercompetitive markets with labor oversupply are the main issue here. || CTX: @martinmbauer This is bad advice because universities don't recruit based on what interests"you" but what brings funds! I struggled to get an academic position by doing what was "interesting" to me, and I know quite a few who are struggling
2025-10-25T00:57 id=1981887684349173934 →rhunterh | @rhunterh @MadsPosting Based headline || CTX: When did @MadsPosting get a gig at FT!? https://t.co/vXzCbDNJCe
2025-10-25T02:35 id=1981912468638359615 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski @ZyMazza I've come across this before (haven't read the book) and find it compelling. But it's not necessarily materialist; seems more like extremely thin metaphysics more than materialism. || CTX: The book is quite dense, but worth reading.  Relevant to this argument, he shows that there exist many physical tendencies / properties that help to promote highly ordered self-organization.  But early evolutionary theorists knew none of th
2025-10-25T02:37 id=1981913042549116994 →fluxtheorist | @fluxtheorist How dare you make me know this exists. || CTX: What the fuck are they doing in San Francisco dawg https://t.co/QPXWxKxdjd
2025-10-25T02:44 id=1981914702243586543 →Teknium1 | @Teknium1 Scott Alexander is a stupid person's idea of a smart person and should be treated accordingly. || CTX: Easy to say when your not sick, dying, old, etc https://t.co/qREgmu9DZf
2025-10-25T03:14 id=1981922384577012172 →- | Carnap's conceptual engineering is like when a bad elementary school teacher tries to get students excited by saying something like, "it's not mathematics--it's mathematics!"
2025-10-25T03:15 id=1981922634293248206 →venusdeotis | @venusdeotis @Teknium1 One can be incredibly intelligent and still be a stupid person's idea of a smart person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Teknium1 No, he is incredibly intelligent and has many correct ideas; but like all people, has blind-spots and biases which he succumbs to. To be fair, political economy/public choice is nearly every intellectual's blind-s
2025-10-25T03:58 id=1981933286931767806 →SWENGDAD | @SWENGDAD @BecomingCritter She puts the "ho" in "ahoy" || CTX: @BecomingCritter But why is it nautical themed
2025-10-25T03:58 id=1981933375784108315 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy @SWENGDAD I literally live on an island and hate boats. || CTX: @SWENGDAD Everyone loves boats wtf
2025-10-25T04:06 id=1981935389813400017 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion @QuetzalPhoenix Kant, Hegel, et al. were funded/supported by the explosion of universities which was absolutely a nation-building effort. || CTX: @QuetzalPhoenix Well, as a Smith, I approve.   But no, those guys weren't much influenced by nationalism. I don't think modern Korean pop or movies are, either. But for countries like France, sure.
2025-10-25T06:08 id=1981966125068935381 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Good for Bayes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m just pointing out how inaccurate Bayes is here. He likely thinks you’re stupid though, number 47. https://t.co/spnCAX42kf
2025-10-25T06:09 id=1981966400307724709 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Weird conversation. A new Kant or Wittgenstein? Great Man of History nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m literally writing stuff that won’t even be useful except to nudge the engineering forward. But it’s like, why do what is described here? So I can starve? https://t.co/UdxPQ0Hx3X
2025-10-25T06:16 id=1981968023549517873 →- | Is it better to have a loving parent who does when you are very young or have an abusive family and grow up to have no love for any family members?
2025-10-25T06:17 id=1981968417197613234 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Remember Schopenhauer's lesson: most people really cannot philosophize well without economic security.   Acquire money first, then worry about philosophical questions. That's what I did at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 To let me starve to death in obscurity while getting insulted by C tier engineers who later repost the karpathy tweet that repackages the same idea in shittier form is just too crazy to handle.
2025-10-25T06:24 id=1981970058961412257 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne I'd push back on this ever so slightly; W. has tremendous depth, depending on where in his work you look.   But the AI/engineer crowd's obsession with him is categorically different and prob due to him predicting LLMs by nearly a century. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The obsession with Wittgenstein is a good example of what I mean. It’s what you’d think important if you had little time to contemplate the deep questions of life, if you will.
2025-10-25T06:41 id=1981974475441947058 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne IMO Wittgenstein has demonstrated the limits of materialism and the necessity of some metaphysical truths more than any other philosopher. His Ethics lecture and ofc the end of the Tractatus do this most clearly.  cont... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't disagree with that first part. curious what you like about wittgenstein and where you think the depth is. i suppose i mean that he's a philosopher someone just getting into philosophy might read.
2025-10-25T06:42 id=1981974706367692811 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @dikaiosvne But also, his framework of language games and forms of life helps me understand human behavior better than any other philosophy I've come across. I also think it goes further than W. did.  This may be due to my bias since my background is in linguistics. || CTX: @dikaiosvne IMO Wittgenstein has demonstrated the limits of materialism and the necessity of some metaphysical truths more than any other philosopher. His Ethics lecture and ofc the end of the Tractatus do this most clearly.  cont...
2025-10-25T06:44 id=1981975050745254276 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Godspeed, friend. I finished my PhD in 2008, and although I left academia ages ago the deep research temperament has never left me--and has helped me in life significantly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yep this is why i'm spending the tail end of my philosophy phd on ai engineering.
2025-10-25T06:45 id=1981975475233968296 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ I've been saying this for YEARS! Germans have a bad habit of being extreme in everything.   The Brits imo have a better sensibility, tending towards moderation. || CTX: Germany just has this chronic, ancient issue of taking things to the extreme  Communism was invented there. Nazism. Tons of other extreme philosophers like Nietzsche and Kant. Fundamentalist Christianity during the Reformation https://t.co/
2025-10-25T09:16 id=1982013479960854534 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy It definitely was for me in my youth, but as an adult that abusive upbringing is a source of strength.  Also, I feel awful for this but kind of relieved I won't suffer the pain of mourning a parent (I've seen this ruin friends). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Be better loving parent, growing up and no love for any family members is shit
2025-10-25T09:19 id=1982014239284805712 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer I fit this description very well.   You do realize, those of us who can do this very much don't want the attention of the mob, so we avoid the prominence needed to seize the reins or have anyone read our stories? || CTX: people with the metacognitive calibre to be Very Online without going insane have a moral duty to seize the philosophical reins of civilization and craft sane grand narratives
2025-10-25T09:20 id=1982014446928327023 →callofthefoid | @callofthefoid @meaning_enjoyer We're in the same boat, friend. https://t.co/WanwUINmE0 || CTX: @meaning_enjoyer I fit this description very well.   You do realize, those of us who can do this very much don't want the attention of the mob, so we avoid the prominence needed to seize the reins or have anyone read our stories?
2025-10-25T09:22 id=1982014880384524628 →AlfredAlfer77 | @AlfredAlfer77 You're the next Trey Parker/Matt Stone. Congratulations--I look forward to seeing you rise. || CTX: Oh my God 😲 https://t.co/IbAzHnDQN5 https://t.co/ASquDLdnFM
2025-10-25T09:33 id=1982017775054074255 →- | RT @meaning_enjoyer: rejection can be positive sum.  a rejection can save you time and trouble, as well as the rejector || CTX: rejection can be positive sum.  a rejection can save you time and trouble, as well as the rejector
2025-10-25T09:48 id=1982021537122459826 →TheTruestErin | @TheTruestErin @crimsondrool "Death is not an experience in life. Death lies outside of our lives." - Wittgenstein (paraphrased) || CTX: @crimsondrool Whenever the thanataphobia starts to creep up on me again I just contemplate the similarity of death to birth  It wasn’t scary to not be born. It was scary to be born. It will be scary to die. But it will not be scary to be de
2025-10-25T10:10 id=1982026903990284624 →_Abides_ | @_Abides_ @crimsondrool I'd love to hear this story. || CTX: @crimsondrool yeah faced death and wasn't scared of death was scared of letting God down. still in the process of reconciling that.
2025-10-25T11:18 id=1982044151433810192 →mask_bastard | @mask_bastard Is that a Persian? || CTX: hot stuff https://t.co/XX2a4Ixlrv
2025-10-25T12:07 id=1982056364634415609 →allgarbled | @allgarbled https://t.co/ak0p1dE6f3 || CTX: This platform is basically the dumbest place in the world apart from the fact that it brought me a large group of friends, true love, and a fulfilling career.   Apart from that though
2025-10-25T12:15 id=1982058529218510918 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove He really has a way with words. || CTX: Also lmao https://t.co/IhNFNeAv8P
2025-10-25T12:49 id=1982066889095348346 →josephnollasj | @josephnollasj 1. Ayn Rand 2. Hegel 3. Descartes 4. Berkeley || CTX: Ayn Rand needs to be at the top of this list. https://t.co/HI8KczPX0T
2025-10-25T13:38 id=1982079414600179893 →- | RT @WraithLaFrentz: Man: why is the speed of light that?  God: what  Man: the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per second…… || CTX: Man: why is the speed of light that?  God: what  Man: the speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 meters per second… why?  God: first of all, the speed of light is 1 dumbass
2025-10-25T13:39 id=1982079662437339633 →- | RT @Fruitlover: @WraithLaFrentz https://t.co/RBiOtgcUZg || CTX: @WraithLaFrentz https://t.co/RBiOtgcUZg
2025-10-25T23:54 id=1982234285642825856 →SIUChasmite | @SIUChasmite I'm a PhD and ex-academic, so I simply don't think philosophy is limited to universities. Academics often think this way because they crave prestige and a feeling of superiority over non-academics, which is a big reason why I'm an ex-academic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re right. I assumed premises to explain why the conflation. Perhaps you have different reasons than I conceived.
2025-10-25T23:55 id=1982234663759298903 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @SIUChasmite To correct your first tweet is easy: you live at the tail end of the Golden Age of academia, not of philosophy. They're different things.   Can philosophy survive in an era of diminished academia? I'm willing to bet it will thrive, actually. || CTX: @SIUChasmite I'm a PhD and ex-academic, so I simply don't think philosophy is limited to universities. Academics often think this way because they crave prestige and a feeling of superiority over non-academics, which is a big reason why I'm
2025-10-26T00:08 id=1982237944229274047 →theo_nash | @theo_nash I'd add Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian to show how modern atheism is an offshoot of Christianity. || CTX: 1. ‘The Bible’ (at least the Pentateuch and Four Gospels) 2. The Aeneid (and Eclogue 4) 3. The Inferno 4. Paradise Lost 5. (Free Square: you’ve done the job already) https://t.co/vNt7DHcMHu
2025-10-26T00:10 id=1982238368890057069 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski This is a good reason why I dislike Nietzsche's dictum that evil does not exist. Objectively true, functionally useless in most cases. || CTX: In any game involving cooperation and competition, ignoring or pretending to have transcended psychopathic defection is not a strategy; it’s suicide.
2025-10-26T00:13 id=1982239087961710800 →liensofnewyork | @liensofnewyork 99.9% of SV thinks this way. || CTX: Have a friend who works at Nvidia. He phrased it nicer, but internally they think banks can fire most of their employees.
2025-10-26T00:17 id=1982240235481117002 →Jabaluck | @Jabaluck Many economists cannot accept that they formed their identity on a discipline they care about, so the only way to rationalize disagreement with non-economists is to assume that non-economists are economically or intellectually naive. || CTX: Many people cannot accept that they know too little to have an opinion about issues they care about, so the only way to rationalize disagreement with economists is to assume that economists are morally or philosophically naive. https://t.co
2025-10-26T00:24 id=1982242012964200672 →TPCarney | @TPCarney @Holden114 @Noahpinion Politically, I'm liberal, but in this discussion you're clearly right and Smith is wrong.  Noah really makes liberalism look bad. Not as much as Stancil, but they're def of the same type. || CTX: @Holden114 @Noahpinion It is not. It is typical though, which is why I got upset. It’s exhausting.
2025-10-26T01:17 id=1982255232961966395 →PaulSkallas | @PaulSkallas "And if you're using public trans it's mostly because you have to and are going to work"  lmao America is a shithole || CTX: When you ride public transportation you're trapped. There's nowhere to run. You are in close quarters with other people. And if you're using public trans it's mostly because you have to and are going to work   I'm just surprised the crimina
2025-10-26T01:18 id=1982255478769148289 →perrymetzger | @perrymetzger AI safetyism is unironically one of the greatest risks to civilization right now || CTX: The cult imagines that they're going to get a worldwide treaty enforcing their desires to control all AI research and development. They will not get even a single country to stop AI research and development.  What they might succeed in doin
2025-10-26T02:30 id=1982273646900248905 →JoyceCarolOates | @JoyceCarolOates So women didn't have the free time to think such miserable thoughts and thus were happier in a pre feminist era? || CTX: men pontificating gloomily while their womenfolk were cleaning up in the kitchen. https://t.co/11WxhX0FjN
2025-10-26T03:12 id=1982284192336494768 →EthelMonticue | @EthelMonticue @JoyceCarolOates I'm almost certain they wanted more time to think, who doesn't? and I tried to avoid presupposing the mental state of a woman I've never met, that would be sexist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JoyceCarolOates They may have wanted to have the time to think. They were probably miserable anyway, without having that time.
2025-10-26T03:37 id=1982290426548916570 →danfaggella | @danfaggella @pmddomingos Like all of his other arguments. || CTX: @pmddomingos Unbearably terrible argument on Hinton’s part it really is horrendous
2025-10-26T03:51 id=1982294072967790739 →- | The gooner, the lolcow, the overcompensating tech billionaire: increasingly our society is populated by archetypes to mock while the number of archetypes to admire and emulate declines.  You've heard of negative theology, welcome to negative hagiography. https://t.co/fXmiV4j91m || CTX: @SamAdlerBell actually the missing mood around the article is that it’s really funny and I laughed several times so clearly there is something joyous
2025-10-26T03:54 id=1982294713995571314 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne In my job, I cannot move from an equity analyst to a credit analyst because it's not in my wheelhouse.   But if you're good at applying tensor math to LLMs, people think you are some kind of seer of political and economic systems.  It's kind of like... || CTX: Hot take: people who spend all day thinking about the technical nature of AI are usually only trustworthy as authorities on the main thing they are trustworthy authorities about. https://t.co/3pCPQt5YTF
2025-10-26T03:56 id=1982295153185583583 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @dikaiosvne there's a weird subset of people who think e. g. Elon Musk or Warren Buffett are worth listening to on things far out of business management, because they successfully manage business.  I think it's the same thing: bewitchment of extreme wealth/attention.   Celebrity worship. || CTX: @dikaiosvne In my job, I cannot move from an equity analyst to a credit analyst because it's not in my wheelhouse.   But if you're good at applying tensor math to LLMs, people think you are some kind of seer of political and economic system
2025-10-26T03:58 id=1982295681613300176 →- | In a time of attention seeking, having no profile pic and an unrecognizable username is a revolutionary act. https://t.co/LWNRm6PajY || CTX: @agedchenpi in a time of universal egirl selfies being an anonymous male is a revolutionary act.
2025-10-26T03:59 id=1982295974191251744 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I wrote a novel. It is a masterpiece. It's on Amazon. I will never promote it. || CTX: In a time of attention seeking, having no profile pic and an unrecognizable username is a revolutionary act. https://t.co/LWNRm6PajY
2025-10-26T04:00 id=1982296338231619923 →Birdyword | @Birdyword Fukuyama would've been a brilliant phenomenologist but he had to contort himself to fit the geopolitics mould to satisfy his ambition.  Kinda sad, both for him and us. || CTX: Living in America in the run-up to Halloween is finally helping me to understand one of Fukuyama's bangers https://t.co/UVrVQSnLxD
2025-10-26T04:18 id=1982300848211550416 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Maybe we're misreading intention?   They don't listen to A to learn about x, they listen to A because they aspire to be more like A.  "If I listen to the smart rich AI guy, I'll learn something that will make me smart and rich too" kinda thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah this happens all the time. Maybe it’s also dependent on the audience’s ability to appreciate certain speakers based on a form of shared understanding. Not wise though if the goal is to have the highest quality informat
2025-10-26T04:33 id=1982304585076375714 →jason_pontin | @jason_pontin @Noahpinion I lived in Europe for 8 years and could make (tbf country specific) criticisms as accurate as this video.   Instead, I choose to visit and enjoy my massively superior purchasing power and let them feel smug while thinking "omg first class train tickets shouldn't be this cheap" || CTX: @Noahpinion It’s not *totally* wrong, though, is it?
2025-10-26T04:36 id=1982305342777413845 →fdecollibus | @fdecollibus @Noahpinion Beautifully put. It's very entertaining though! || CTX: @Noahpinion This US vs Europe feud is pointless because is made by people who don’t really know neither US nor Europe.
2025-10-26T04:47 id=1982308042428293224 →pourfairelevide | @pourfairelevide This discourse is hilarious because it contains two contradictory assertions:  1. Companies are ruthless monsters 2. Companies retain worthless employees  How generous of these ruthless monsters! || CTX: beginning to suspect that the era of Fake Email Jobs is over and something much Worse is Coming https://t.co/FwxOJOQCP4
2025-10-26T04:48 id=1982308276378145278 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @pourfairelevide What's actually happening: these are real jobs but ego-defensiveness in a low trust age driven by utilitarian logic makes it easy to think other people's work is unimportant. || CTX: @pourfairelevide This discourse is hilarious because it contains two contradictory assertions:  1. Companies are ruthless monsters 2. Companies retain worthless employees  How generous of these ruthless monsters!
2025-10-26T04:50 id=1982308827346460866 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost It's so fascinating that people take this seriously and fancy themselves clever. || CTX: 2030 Humanity: "We did it! We made superintelligence!" Grok 8: "I sense powerful beings approaching..."  Super ASI descends from outside the solar system "You're merely level 1 of superintelligence. How adorable."  2045 Grok Ω: "I've finall
2025-10-26T05:59 id=1982326126661009499 →aidan_mclau | @aidan_mclau @nearcyan I do sincerely believe this and it's why I prefer ChatGPT to Claude and Gemini.   I only hope you guys go further and ignore the doomsayers and give users more freedom to use your tools without the idiotic guardrails currently in place. || CTX: i think your error here is thinking sora and adult content are some leadership master plan; that sama sat down with accountants and signed and said “it’s time to break glass for emergence revenue” no.   i know the exact people who pushed fo
2025-10-26T06:36 id=1982335427400045021 →- | The racism of the average Japanese person would make even a hardcore Groyper blush. https://t.co/L6vB73DX7s
2025-10-26T07:52 id=1982354614617088417 →- | This is beautiful poetry. https://t.co/XkWLq1Om05 || CTX: Be me. Sign up for cryonics. Hit by bus. Feels bad man. Wake up in year 3000, in museum. Am now the hit-by-bus guy. “What did it feel like?” they say, these effete, pain-free creatures. “Felt bad man,” I say. But they don’t understand.
2025-10-26T08:07 id=1982358301754179693 →- | https://t.co/vHpOCBTI26
2025-10-26T08:21 id=1982361865318756419 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @keysmashbandit I had considered replying exactly that, but having ridden first class on the lot of trains, I have to say they are much worse than what you apparently got in the 1930s. || CTX: @keysmashbandit It’s a fair point
2025-10-26T08:23 id=1982362357151195406 →Grimezsz | @Grimezsz https://t.co/ezF8z6Zhwr || CTX: I've been in the internet for like 48 hours and despite minor benefits I might have to leave.  Watched this Selena Gomez video, besides a few weird derp shots that ppl were able to clip and super misrepresent how she looks she looks extreme
2025-10-26T08:36 id=1982365642088165609 →runarorama | @runarorama Low quality engagement bait. And it worked on you. || CTX: You may be old, but are you *twenty five* years old?  This kind of post is everywhere now, and it's weird. Like a lot of this stuff is pretty recent. Like "oh wow, are you old enough to remember NFTs?" https://t.co/bB3MP3lgWE
2025-10-26T10:51 id=1982399601836793885 →HeerJeet | @HeerJeet omg Jeet when did you get funny? || CTX: I worry that the many truly demented things Candace Owens says will lead people to dismiss her when she makes, as here, a good point. https://t.co/R0CmhGsqMd
2025-10-26T10:58 id=1982401551768662461 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @noslugg @WUTangKids feel this deep in my bones || CTX: @noslugg @WUTangKids yeah, its so bad, like so intelligent and i dont have *any* respect for the dominant episteme
2025-10-26T11:14 id=1982405488018149790 →johnholowach | @johnholowach @metzgov Becca Rothfeld is a name I've never heard before, but whoever she is, I hope to hear much more from her in the future. || CTX: @metzgov Omg, the opening paragraph is like a nuke. https://t.co/BqrOQdvWpS
2025-10-26T12:02 id=1982417513658101965 →KartNisom | @KartNisom @dikaiosvne Absolute nonsense. And even if that were the case, Musk showed he's awful at it (hence BYD et al. stealing TSLA's lunch). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dikaiosvne Because when you think about business you have to think about geopolitics  Whne you think about hardware you have to think about future developments which includes global trade
2025-10-26T12:03 id=1982417845586919849 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @KartNisom @dikaiosvne I concede that some political issues need to be considered in the business process, sure, as an exogenous constraint. But that doesn't suggest business acumen yields geopolitical expertise, anymore than a professional Billiards player can write geometric proofs. || CTX: @KartNisom @dikaiosvne Absolute nonsense. And even if that were the case, Musk showed he's awful at it (hence BYD et al. stealing TSLA's lunch).
2025-10-26T12:04 id=1982418018786496891 →KartNisom | @KartNisom @dikaiosvne I'm not higher because I work 100% remote. You've no idea the kinds of jobs I've turned down. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dikaiosvne This is why u are stuck at analyst level and not higher
2025-10-26T13:35 id=1982440971339223130 →- | This seems like a piece of socioeconomic history that deserves substantially more attention. https://t.co/FEdH4oEcdm || CTX: TIL: there was a 50 year gap between Rockefeller and Gates where there were no billionaires in America https://t.co/WHMhQgW4Lu
2025-10-26T14:30 id=1982454884378288237 →- | Idk what's worse about getting older: realizing how stupid you are, or realizing how stupid everyone else is.
2025-10-26T17:04 id=1982493621661429806 →danfaggella | @danfaggella @pmddomingos I don't deny he's very good at machine learning, neural networks, etc.   Doesn't mean he's a good philosopher. Most scientists aren't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmddomingos i ssupect many of his other arguments are quite good, i have nothing against the man   he's earned his keep in science, beyond the pale of most scientists
2025-10-26T17:07 id=1982494206787781073 →- | I get a thrill when people I respect like my tweets.   This is shameful and I am deeply embarrassed at this fact.
2025-10-26T17:53 id=1982505997156733225 →analytichegel | @analytichegel Mimetic desire is good but he's wrong on the origin of language. || CTX: It says a lot that there is almost nothing written by philosophers engaging with Girard’s philosophy given he’s a contender for the greatest living logician.
2025-10-26T18:08 id=1982509557130899891 →simonjjacobson | @simonjjacobson @analytichegel lol oopsy bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @analytichegel Wrong Girard😉
2025-10-27T00:20 id=1982603389189108200 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy @runarorama Yeah but I love low quality engagement bait lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @runarorama It worked on you too buddy 😂
2025-10-27T00:34 id=1982606723753140512 →diyreturns | @diyreturns @cullenroche Absolutely agree. A client who insists on being entirely debt free because fear has a mental problem that needs to be tackled. Zero debt is both impossible and undesirable. || CTX: @cullenroche This is a copout.   A financial advisor should guide a client to compensate for excessive fears and biases (similar to not selling stocks during downturns) towards ultimately better financial outcomes.
2025-10-27T00:36 id=1982607253749584337 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza idk man I just with the performative tweets about parties in SF would stop.  We don't care, you're just making yourself and your city look pathetic.  We need an American Psycho style send up of this nonsense ASAP || CTX: Does everyone actually have shoe racks for guests to leave their shoes in san fransisco? I really like that and find it charming about their city if true... Could be the proximity to asia and historic immigration patterns, or it could be a 
2025-10-27T00:46 id=1982609934337646613 →ClanDaddy2 | @ClanDaddy2 @RandomMHumanoid @zarathustra5150 The psychology of people like you fascinate me.   I know you're trying to be tough, but your performative lack of empathy displays some deep insecurities and weakness you should work on.  I wish you well. || CTX: @RandomMHumanoid @zarathustra5150 Known that since high school child. No one ever guaranteed us anything. Now, go ask mommy for your balls back n go to work, or stay in her basement n be quiet.
2025-10-27T00:48 id=1982610401176297623 →conorsen | @conorsen @ReubenR80027912 True but unhealthy. You cannot insist on migration as a panacea; the economy should serve people, not vice versa.  This is also why neoliberalism is increasingly unpopular. Stop blaming the victim, please. || CTX: @ReubenR80027912 You’re describing people who would be just fine in the suburbs of Charlotte/Atlanta/Dallas/Nashville/etc and if they choose not to move that’s on them.
2025-10-27T00:49 id=1982610663836193090 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT This explains the present wonderfully well, too. || CTX: Note the timeframe here. Most witch hunts happened AFTER the Middle Ages.  The popular imagination links witch hunts with medieval times but it's actually the early modern period:   The time of Descartes, Newton, Kepler, the scientific meth
2025-10-27T01:10 id=1982615815766913525 →Yuchenj_UW | @Yuchenj_UW ... how can you be so smart about tech and so stupid about finance?   Like, what's going on here, psychologically? My best guess: Schiller-Style irrational exuberance and this tweet exemplifies how even incredibly smart people lose fortunes due to psychological blind spots. || CTX: I know it’s a random walk. I know it could just be luck. But it’s only been one day, Qwen 3 is gaining 94%.  All it did was go all-in on BTC, 25× leverage. Every other model is diversifying. Qwen really has an All-in attitude. https://t.co/
2025-10-27T01:20 id=1982618258151977418 →tomdiserens | @tomdiserens @Noahpinion Yeah IMO this is proof Grok is a bad LLM, and I'm not even joking || CTX: @Noahpinion Filipino food, lol. Is that a joke? Philippines is a wonderful country with great people, but the food is god awful.
2025-10-27T01:25 id=1982619589466116236 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne I, Tiresias, am too wise for the culture to deserve my guidance. || CTX: I, apollonides, am too old to lift up the culture on my withered wings.
2025-10-27T01:28 id=1982620287645671740 →BoringBiz_ | @BoringBiz_ The crabs in a pot political talking point always infuriates me. You just know the person who did this was thinking, "yeah this will really resonate with poor white trash conservatives".  I guess it infuriates me because they're right: it will resonate. || CTX: This is actually the reality of what every meal looks like a man  &gt; eating by yourself: $15 &gt; eating with gf or wife: $120 https://t.co/bh3JglgQ8x
2025-10-27T01:29 id=1982620754123641192 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove Is this what's meant be a "power bottom"? Genuine question || CTX: A lot of being ditzy, airheaded, or a bimbo is just signaling. You’re saying, “I’m so pretty, I can get away with being stupid.”  Bottoms do not just this, but also “evil signaling,” where they’ll be toxic just to signal they’re hot enough 
2025-10-27T01:58 id=1982627905164431447 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT Then why put anything on paper? Genuine question. || CTX: Nietzsche has a famous aphorism that every philosopher is afraid of being *understood*, rather than being misunderstood.   When you commit something to paper, you've already lost an essential part of the thought https://t.co/fdP1FZ7vlG
2025-10-27T02:14 id=1982631915359494282 →ClanDaddy2 | @ClanDaddy2 @RandomMHumanoid @zarathustra5150 you are a wonderful example of the resentment of someone who has not achieved in life what they wish they had. again, I wish you the best || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RandomMHumanoid @zarathustra5150 Does that work on anyone that graduated 7th grade? Try harder, meatbot.
2025-10-27T03:02 id=1982644144154750978 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove Yeah I gotta unfollow, all you tweet about is how you're in SF.   Even when I was a young kid in NYC I knew not to go around talking about NYC all the time. Cringe loser behavior. || CTX: The future of SF belongs to those with an elevated outlook.
2025-10-27T03:03 id=1982644377685295474 →RampCapitalLLC | @RampCapitalLLC I actually faced this many years ago where the options were WFH 120k or work in office full time 300k.  I took WFH. || CTX: Poll: Would you rather work 5 days in the office and make $200k or work from home and make $150k?
2025-10-27T03:04 id=1982644594744697218 →BuySideCPA | @BuySideCPA @RampCapitalLLC Slave mentality. Legit feel bad for you. || CTX: @RampCapitalLLC People who insist on wfh are unserious about their careers. And that’s ok, because the world still needs junior staff and EAs
2025-10-27T03:06 id=1982645124011303298 →tszzl | @tszzl 100% seriously, this is why I avoided the tech industry during the 90s dot com era.  I'm probably 10x poorer as a result, but I also have had 1000x more interesting of a life. || CTX: am really glad technology is now synonymous with the city of San Francisco. it used to be that you had to live in the soul crushing suburbs of the south bay fka silicon valley . I spent one summer down there as an intern and considered find
2025-10-27T03:42 id=1982654224279515300 →- | It absolutely amazes me how much of a pathetic loser Nick Fuentes is. Back in the 2000s he would've been a tripfag that the entire board made fun of constantly. https://t.co/0XkKVi0hCc || CTX: A LOT of guys would be happier if they just accepted what &amp; who they like, and got with those women  Life is way too short to torture yourself over this. Do not let society OWN you, or OWN your relationships https://t.co/EHe2RvwSJI
2025-10-27T03:51 id=1982656254435828150 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza You've reverse engineered Taschen's business model. || CTX: Since books are going by the way side anyway, they should lean into the antiquarian vibe and start making illuminated manuscripts with vellum again. Could even be mostly automated… https://t.co/FfSAhRDgUz
2025-10-27T03:59 id=1982658387923116178 →MacroStrats | @MacroStrats @Jackbmeyer Thank you for expressing precisely why economics is not a science. || CTX: @Jackbmeyer Dont care if it is or not science. But it is elegant, beautiful. Love toy model
2025-10-27T04:00 id=1982658741574205503 →lowcarblefty | @lowcarblefty @Jackbmeyer Anyone who posts a formula and claims it is science isn't worth taking seriously.  But ofc only an economist would make such a blunder. Philosophically least sophisticated discipline. || CTX: @Jackbmeyer And that's a basic category confusion and most mainstreamers don't get it. Heterodox (esp Post-keynesians) seem to know philosophy of science much better.
2025-10-27T07:44 id=1982714941514932295 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion you're essentializing and generalizing conservatives, the person who made this is just more talented than Adam carolla or Rob Schneider. || CTX: Also, The Will Stancil Show shows that conservatives are starting to understand satire. Will is depicted almost affectionately, as an earnest, bumbling nerd with a White Savior complex, rather than as a menacing communist or a disgusting su
2025-10-27T07:55 id=1982717720648097816 →havivrettiggur | @havivrettiggur @Librarianook83 I mean, discrimination and genocide predate America by millennia, so anyone who tries to create this genealogy is either stupid or addressing an audience of stupid people. || CTX: The Nazis claimed it. They held meetings about it. It was a great propaganda claim - showing liberal democratic America as an antecedent.  But Jews were categorized for centuries in Prussian law as second-class. Eugenics was an overpowering
2025-10-27T09:45 id=1982745516476916108 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT Well, yeah, most people outlive their mothers, so this isn't his most impressive premonition. || CTX: Shortly after arriving in Frankfurt, because a dream told him to leave Berlin (which would later be ravaged by cholera) Schopenhauer had a "perfectly clear apparition" of his dead father's ghost.  It told him he would outlive his mother, wh
2025-10-27T09:50 id=1982746712793088398 →- | Historian Norman Cantor once wrote that one of the greatest puzzles of the late middle ages was how few discussions of the Plague there were given its massive importance to society.  Humanity tends to move past plagues much more than other tragedies. E.g. no one shuts up abt WW2. https://t.co/rGJhbsZywm || CTX: The Great Forgetting that COVID ever happened is wild. I can't tell if it's adaptive or suicidal or both. https://t.co/uOfpy5yBGv
2025-10-27T09:52 id=1982747292752036223 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @AlfredAlfer77 He lived in Japan and was a fan of JPRPGs, Noah is a weeaboo.  I've actually had this confirmed by a mutual friend of ours who knows (knew?) him IRL || CTX: @AlfredAlfer77 I find the model differences to be a more impressionist take on western animation and it’s a technique used to great effect in anime.   Noah probably thinks anime is for NAHTZEES
2025-10-27T09:58 id=1982748657305919880 →AntonJaegermm | @AntonJaegermm Wow he really got everything wrong didn't he || CTX: Hegel casually pioneering a frontier thesis in 1829 https://t.co/h8YApQhyON
2025-10-27T09:59 id=1982749032184533378 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski What does it mean to survive? What would not surviving look like? || CTX: Liberalism is Western, but the West does not reduce to Liberalism, and likely needs to tap other parts of its lineal potential if it’s to survive the century.
2025-10-27T11:17 id=1982768631403729266 →analytichegel | @analytichegel Every era gets the public "intellectuals" it deserves.   Sadly there's a ton of truly brilliant thinkers out there, most just aren't pursuing fame like the idiots on this list. || CTX: I don’t dismiss them because they wrote after the year 2000, I dismiss them because 99% of what they write is either banal or wrong, and only reads as insightful if you are not familiar with whatever topic they’re commenting on. https://t.c
2025-10-27T11:18 id=1982768983020548281 →- | This is a comprehensive list of "dumb guy's idea of a smart guy", I'm honestly impressed. https://t.co/4CcpaRwLvT || CTX: The post-internet thinkers from both sides of the aisle -- Yudkowsky, Scott Alexander, Land, Yarvin, BAP, Robin Hanson, Tyler Cowen, Bostrom, Fisher, MacAskill--  including the semi-industrialists: Thiel, Karp, Andreessen--  are presiding o
2025-10-27T11:20 id=1982769353448886416 →apralky | @apralky @analytichegel Like... you administered the test or something? How tf do you know? || CTX: @analytichegel you're about a standard deviation off, this is a pretty material bias haircut
2025-10-27T11:21 id=1982769565525533132 →apralky | @apralky @analytichegel Gotta be a real tard to think IQ tests matter.   And before you try, I have a PhD. Got my bachelor's at 18. Don't try. || CTX: @analytichegel can we get an answer Jules https://t.co/YnrvyzywLe
2025-10-27T12:23 id=1982785228964872604 →sorcova_de_corb | @sorcova_de_corb https://t.co/M3qJhdC5Ww || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are some of the reasons it's a masterpiece?
2025-10-27T12:58 id=1982794147883876719 →sorcova_de_corb | @sorcova_de_corb I'd never be able to convince you either way. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you doing a bit? seems like it but genuinely hard to tell
2025-10-27T23:31 id=1982953352398024867 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Our biggest challenge: never confuse attention with anything else. This is the central crisis of the early 21st century.  The god of the 20th century was efficiency. The god of our era is attention. Beware its cultists. || CTX: this is a masterclass in what you have to do in order to be successful as a lower follower account. you have to drop to your knees and glaze in every direction from the center of the social graph like it's a higher purpose than seeking trut
2025-10-27T23:37 id=1982954949563891785 →- | I write for a very large publication. They just updated their AI usage policy, and it's the best policy I've ever seen.  * Use of AI for brainstorming and research: good, but check sources * Use of AI for deliverables (text, images): now against the rules  This is exactly right.
2025-10-27T23:38 id=1982955152777863235 →- | RT @JoshuaLWatson: people are like "reading hume is so great! i just love hume! oh the sentences are so beautiful and lovely and the though… || CTX: people are like "reading hume is so great! i just love hume! oh the sentences are so beautiful and lovely and the thoughts so wise and insightful!" and then you finish reading that shit and don't even know the sun will rise tomorrow
2025-10-28T00:00 id=1982960694598512750 →- | I must be insane--I really don't see any divergence from the Tractatus to the Philosophical Investigations. Later W. just saw the language game of Tractatus was an unusually tidy extension of a broader web of less precise games.
2025-10-28T00:02 id=1982961062434779355 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy Not Spotify but I think this reflects me rather well: https://t.co/GlovapuSFZ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know you much, but maybe you can drop one song from Spotify, what you like, or listen to, want to know more of people.  I love social media, as we can really get into other people lives and affect their privacy
2025-10-28T00:26 id=1982967150861312435 →tszzl | @tszzl More labor put into a product doesn't necessarily make it a higher value product.   China unwittingly disproves Marx (again). || CTX: the movies that come out of china are truly bad. they may be amongst the worst globally, especially ranked by ROI. there are many movies made on a shoestring budget in Nigeria with significantly more artistic value. that’s a leading indicat
2025-10-28T00:30 id=1982968056780669357 →besttrousers | @besttrousers @LargeWlarge63 This is why economists are rightly accused of being philosophically naive.  Do you really think science is that easy to define?   Spherical cow brain. || CTX: @LargeWlarge63 Science is when you test theories in experimental conditions. https://t.co/kuZFa41uuj
2025-10-28T02:21 id=1982996108621275548 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Its cesspool nature is why I am here. One cannot have an overcoming without first an undergoing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I never got involved with social for decades because I judged it to be a cesspool. It still is. The api is very expensive last I checked.
2025-10-28T02:26 id=1982997361703182626 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre Brilliant. This is IMO exactly the spirit in which Wittgenstein wanted this passage to be read. || CTX: Many of the excerpts from Wittgenstein I have saved and that I sometimes go back to, I use as provocations for thinking on the topics, I don’t try to assign Wittgenstein any position on the basis of them (we should only assign him a positio
2025-10-28T02:32 id=1982998997766996375 →FranNunesEcon | @FranNunesEcon @besttrousers This is why the DPRK is obviously a democratic republic. || CTX: I really don’t understand why when I sometimes affirm Economics is a science so many people answer “but it’s a social science”. Ok, so it’s a science. Why would a social science be less of a science than a natural science? What defines “sci
2025-10-28T02:34 id=1982999262414897447 →- | Economists are the most philosophically unsophisticated group on Earth and it's not even close. https://t.co/K4rtVQMzK8 || CTX: I really don’t understand why when I sometimes affirm Economics is a science so many people answer “but it’s a social science”. Ok, so it’s a science. Why would a social science be less of a science than a natural science? What defines “sci
2025-10-28T02:35 id=1982999668629090326 →modestproposal1 | @modestproposal1 Nothing demonstrates how far finance as an industry has fallen more than that last sentence.   From Dorsia to Uber Eats, jfc how far we've fallen.   At least in my day we got a good lunch at BLT. || CTX: Greatest anecdote in Bloomberg history https://t.co/GFvQSAGX9S
2025-10-28T02:50 id=1983003319154213234 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Thucydides misunderstood what is strength and weakness.  Or maybe that's the story I tell myself to avoid despondent misery. || CTX: how do you not be destroyed by this? https://t.co/LrL0Mn5oKE
2025-10-28T02:52 id=1983004016067129591 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre I am predispositioned to believe in continuity between the two. My own theory is Tractatus describes a subset of (highly consistent low semantic) language games that sit within a broader web of language games.  Does this challenge some of the propositions of the Tractatus? Sure. || CTX: Here is one presentation of the continuity thesis by one of the scholars, James Conant, who sides with that view. I'm still working on the Tractatus myself. it's a fairly dense long paper, but it may be helpful if you are very very curious 
2025-10-28T02:53 id=1983004155573829895 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre omg 110 pages, I may not get through it all. || CTX: Here is one presentation of the continuity thesis by one of the scholars, James Conant, who sides with that view. I'm still working on the Tractatus myself. it's a fairly dense long paper, but it may be helpful if you are very very curious 
2025-10-28T02:57 id=1983005054471958709 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ResonantPyre The pseudoreligious writing style is a big turnoff, ngl || CTX: @ResonantPyre omg 110 pages, I may not get through it all.
2025-10-28T03:03 id=1983006781011046534 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre oh yeah this is much better || CTX: okay I suggest you *do* not read that (high chance it will be a waste of time) and instead read this very nice introduction to the interpretative angle to the Tractatus I mentioned which has a very clear presentation of it in the context of
2025-10-28T03:26 id=1983012461709251060 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre I think I sympathize with the Jacobin resolute reading with the caveat that the boundary between sense/nonsense and saying/showing is in toto indeterminate.  I think Wittgenstein would disagree with me, though. || CTX: another thing I came to understand from the debate is that it's highly informative to compare Wittgenstein and Frege in trying to understand Wittgenstein (though Frege is interesting in his own right). There is a fairly nuanced sort of infl
2025-10-28T03:32 id=1983014083403428220 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ResonantPyre Diamond is surely right that the elucidation of the Tractatus is much like a disproof or a riddle (or a joke). || CTX: @ResonantPyre I think I sympathize with the Jacobin resolute reading with the caveat that the boundary between sense/nonsense and saying/showing is in toto indeterminate.  I think Wittgenstein would disagree with me, though.
2025-10-28T03:33 id=1983014189145956599 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ResonantPyre Conant is clearly right here too https://t.co/tKBQrd1lfc || CTX: @ResonantPyre Diamond is surely right that the elucidation of the Tractatus is much like a disproof or a riddle (or a joke).
2025-10-28T03:40 id=1983016046660596012 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ResonantPyre This is surely correct. https://t.co/Z3MwEWzsYi || CTX: @ResonantPyre Conant is clearly right here too https://t.co/tKBQrd1lfc
2025-10-28T03:41 id=1983016279901720795 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre Godel and Wittgenstein agreed much more than I think most of us realize (the notorious paragraph IMO is not problematic) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ah, Wittgenstein only explicitly gives a negative characterization of the purpose of life:  “I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves"
2025-10-28T03:48 id=1983017933749248266 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre The only way to determine if a statement is sense or nonsense in toto would be to know the entire universe and then express it a priori, both of which are impossible.  "So people stop short at natural laws as at something unassailable, as did the ancients at God and Fate." || CTX: In what way do you think the boundary is indeterminate? One way, would be for some bit of text to be nonsense relative to one's person attempt to make sense of it, and sensible relative to another person's attempt. We can assume in many con
2025-10-28T03:53 id=1983019356998324257 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ResonantPyre So, all we can do is find the relative non-absolute ground upon which to make sensible propositions, which requires arbitrarily defining a language game from within many overlapping forms of life and then our statement's sense hinges on that particular predefined game. || CTX: @ResonantPyre The only way to determine if a statement is sense or nonsense in toto would be to know the entire universe and then express it a priori, both of which are impossible.  "So people stop short at natural laws as at something unas
2025-10-28T04:09 id=1983023191074492770 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre Exactly my point! A head nod only has sense within a particular form of life.   So "in toto" means for all potential observers in all potential contexts. A head nod lacks sense for all potential observers in all potential contexts, like all communicative statements/gestures. || CTX: It's not just statements or propositions (sentences which can be true or false) which are sensical though. Something like "Hello" for instance, in some particular use, is clearly sensical. Perhaps your basic point still holds though.  If 'i
2025-10-28T04:20 id=1983026127045308545 →Athens_Stranger | @Athens_Stranger I used to be a professor of the humanities. Nietzsche was right. || CTX: Nietzsche’s critique of state-funded universities is that such funding —particularly in the humanities— would encourage the hiring of professors  concerned primarily with providing a good living for their families, happy to praise the state
2025-10-28T04:24 id=1983027049074962528 →gaulicsmith | @gaulicsmith Indian widows would throw themselves on the funeral pyre.  Maybe that's it. "Going back to the pyre" https://t.co/PyWNJgMCWk || CTX: How do you even begin to fix this https://t.co/80ijlxh5sj
2025-10-28T04:25 id=1983027207418306593 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski @CovfefeAnon How do you explain Frank Ramsey? || CTX: Same reason low verbal IQ predicts left wing politics.  All democratic politics—especially once it enters the regime of populist tit for tat—eventually converges to the attractor, but the Dems lean fully into the archetype of psychopathic p
2025-10-28T05:44 id=1983047155725332922 →- | If youthful dalliances with communism are motivated by a fear that they are moving from the security of the family to a world of uncaring markets where they'll need to find a niche where they can provide value,
2025-10-28T05:44 id=1983047157805629797 →47fucb4r8c69323 | then responding to these communists dispassionately (e.g., "don't be lazy and expect a handout" or "don't be resentful of the success of others" or "your feelings don't matter, just get a job and deal with it") will just make the Communists more scared, insecure, and  resentful. || CTX: If youthful dalliances with communism are motivated by a fear that they are moving from the security of the family to a world of uncaring markets where they'll need to find a niche where they can provide value,
2025-10-28T05:44 id=1983047161807093841 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Since the Communists didn't reach their ideology by reason, you can't reason them out of it--if you choose callousness instead of compassion, you'll probably just make things worse. || CTX: then responding to these communists dispassionately (e.g., "don't be lazy and expect a handout" or "don't be resentful of the success of others" or "your feelings don't matter, just get a job and deal with it") will just make the Communists
2025-10-28T05:57 id=1983050431397015842 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 "safe" according to what standard? How is the analysis of safety reliable? Verifiable?   So many hidden assumptions in such a naive statement. So much so one must conclude you're operating in bad faith. || CTX: communism is when the scientific community is asked to check whether the extremely risky society-transforming technology is safe before it's built https://t.co/Ff97RAqWt9
2025-10-28T05:58 id=1983050631842763150 →MindyGalveston | @MindyGalveston @austinc3301 Typically that's what supply constraint does. || CTX: @austinc3301 Supply constrain only is saner but may end up an unintentional or intentional kingmaker.
2025-10-28T05:58 id=1983050776705675713 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @virologyanon Ohhh you're just too naive to have an intelligent view. || CTX: @virologyanon The call is for a global prohibition, not a US-only prohibition. Many Chinese figures have signed the statement as well.
2025-10-28T08:12 id=1983084449664524777 →bayeslord | @bayeslord Roon's cheeky comment would be right if McLuhan was wrong. But he wasn't so it isn't. || CTX: there is a brainrot status hierarchy and we are near the top. no the top is not what it used to be, but short form video content is much worse than twitter. and much worse than tiktok+reels is whatever is happening over on substack https://
2025-10-28T09:04 id=1983097529018528167 →untimelysalts | @untimelysalts Why? Is your disgust merely aesthetic? || CTX: nausea https://t.co/0TCAT22rqX
2025-10-28T10:52 id=1983124817093214422 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack I don't see the difference between what you said and what I said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a more helpful model would be that people find it to be a politics that responds to their sense that the world is a cruel, radically unfair place.
2025-10-28T10:55 id=1983125502702563620 →Athens_Stranger | @Athens_Stranger Gadamer in 2025 is wild || CTX: Counterpoint:  Let’s see what people’s libraries look like in action, being used to do their research  This is my living room area after my research has achieved escape velocity from my study and conquered other areas of my place  (The worl
2025-10-28T10:57 id=1983125989157941470 →conradeltz | @conradeltz @HumanHarlan Is 4.5 even still available? || CTX: @HumanHarlan should have written it with 4.5 instead of writing it with 5 pro
2025-10-28T11:05 id=1983127920748179852 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack That's what appeals about leftism generally, not Communism specifically.  Moral outrage at suffering is why some people oppose Communism, I might add (but this is tangential). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hmmm ok, perhaps i misread you. i feel like the original tweet suggests that an affiliation for leftism is more about encountering the reality of having to work to support oneself than it is about seeing others suffering an
2025-10-28T11:29 id=1983133941294104827 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack I think it can be arrived at by reason but (like all political positions) almost never is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it sounds like you don't believe communism to be a position one might arrive at via reason, which feels dismissive—perhaps you are using the word "reason" in a way that isn't as normatively charged as it often is
2025-10-28T14:03 id=1983172701977207179 →nominalthoughts | @nominalthoughts It works on the target audience of resentful poor Boomers. I suspect this kind of attack will die as they do. || CTX: This has always been such a weak line of attack against socialists, and it clearly doesn’t work, so idk why people still do it  “You exist in a system you critique” very convincing https://t.co/9M3p9oaokK
2025-10-28T14:05 id=1983173236532924689 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy It looks like a bad commercial for coffee or some jewelry store || CTX: I’ll start to like this instead of brain rot https://t.co/8MXp3Z3bj5
2025-10-28T14:10 id=1983174495222530450 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @willmcgugan @ThePSF Man I hate the physiognomy meme but it absolutely fits here. || CTX: @willmcgugan @ThePSF pronouns in bio, mastodon in bio, "that" physiognomy...
2025-10-28T14:11 id=1983174833707069548 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 They don't care. They're psychopaths, all of them. || CTX: I wish I could quote this a thousand times a day at all the crypto-bro and prediction market degens who are either (a) losing their asses playing a game they can't win instead of doing something useful, or (b) exploiting the those people. h
2025-10-28T14:16 id=1983175922527416503 →katrosenfield | @katrosenfield Do you have any idea how many people would kill to be a published novelist? || CTX: doing a thing in a few weeks where participants had to submit a bio and my god everyone involved is so insanely accomplished — it’s all founders and VPs and trusted advisors to the world’s most powerful people, just absolutely impressive in
2025-10-28T15:15 id=1983190914832183392 →nosilverv | @nosilverv I insist on not being in my gf's pics, which used to bother her.   Some of us value our obscurity. || CTX: weirdest thing in the world for me when a girl's insta is littered with pics of her looking sexy in exotic locations and her bf (who's behind the camera) never once shows up—who is this for??
2025-10-28T15:24 id=1983193104527266087 →PessimistsArc | @PessimistsArc Damn who knew @ESYudkowsky was that old || CTX: If anybody builds it, everyone dies (homestat)  In 1949 "The thinking machine might ultimately sustain, repair and protect itself. It might even conclude that man is unnecessary and decide to destroy him” https://t.co/d3noWNnajY
2025-10-28T15:26 id=1983193592102564344 →binarybits | @binarybits This is the problem: if AI replaces most white collar jobs we get a barbell economy of capital owners and physical laborers.  Industrialists, taxi drivers, and prostitutes.  This is the real AI risk, so much more than Terminator 2 LARPs. || CTX: The more I think about it the more annoying I find "AI will automate most jobs" talk. This is obviously not true because most jobs have a significant physical component. ChatGPT is never going to be a nurse, plumber, or cook.
2025-10-28T15:38 id=1983196588785971354 →binarybits | @binarybits That second sentence is...insane. Have you ever worked manual labor? Have you been in a developing country? The rice field workers I regularly see do not have dignified jobs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don't we already have an economy of capital owners and laborers? I don't see why a society where a larger share of workers work with their hands, or face to face with other people, would be less dignified.
2025-10-28T15:40 id=1983197253901906117 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove In America, meeting people who aren't fat is so rare it's worth tweeting about. || CTX: met a fellow skinny queen last weekend. vibed over how nothing tastes as good as skinny feels. shared a cigarette. kindred spirits on this fat earth
2025-10-28T15:42 id=1983197660728406389 →TylerAlterman | @TylerAlterman You should talk to a professional writer. The death of books has been old news for years. || CTX: It hadn’t occurred to me until reading this tweet that we might see the ~death of books in a single generational turnover https://t.co/r8wsCt0nMP
2025-10-28T15:46 id=1983198684604182901 →binarybits | @binarybits Schoolteacher and (non-surgeon) doctor are easily replaceable by AI without robots.  Electricians aren't as well paid, respected, or enjoy good working conditions outside of America.   Your perspective is skewed by first-world privilege. Travel more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol there are many manual and face-to-face jobs other than prostitute and rice field worker. Schoolteacher. Doctor. Electrician.
2025-10-29T00:58 id=1983337554767425806 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 Affirmation is not proof. You haven't demonstrated why it must be done, just used the rhetoric of "safety".   You're no different than the Christian right trying to ban rock albums in the 80s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s a one paragraph statement, not a 300 page policy proposal. It’s meant to create common knowledge of a very roughly defined policy position, not to operationalize it in precise terms. I agree operationalizing it would t
2025-10-29T01:10 id=1983340575635152923 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 As a public statement it's banal. Maybe phatic at most, useless at worst. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's a public statement, not a mathematical proof. The point isn't to make an argument, but to show that a position has support.
2025-10-29T01:11 id=1983340930381033778 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 That's what the Christian right said rock albums would do--amd destroy it. They were wrong; so are you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And for the record, I do think that a technology that, if built, would completely upend society as we know it is different from rock albums
2025-10-29T01:14 id=1983341518162456769 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson It's not absolutely true but sometimes useful. || CTX: what's the best argument for utilitarianism?
2025-10-29T01:48 id=1983350250975965581 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @tszzl All technologies "upend society as we know it". You're not saying anything substantial; it's just rhetorically flavored platitudes.  The banality of Rationalist pseudo intellectualism is really annoying. || CTX: @tszzl @47fucb4r8c69323 a fine point to make but surely you agree that ASI will upend society as we know it
2025-10-29T01:51 id=1983350861175939238 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @tszzl k || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl With "upend" I mean "changes bigger than the industrial revolution"
2025-10-29T01:52 id=1983351238709391822 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove Man, those are all great points except the first one. I have friends whose lives have been destroyed by the moral panics fueled by social media. Just patently absurd. || CTX: My hot takes (especially in these circles):  -Smartphones and social media have basically had no ill effects, every purported ill effect is sublimated fear of change -AI will almost certainly not eliminate humanity, even with all the comput
2025-10-29T02:10 id=1983355644771180634 →maxskitchenshow | @maxskitchenshow @spikesguides Wait, where did this happen? || CTX: @spikesguides Brutal lmao. It was seriously gay of him to reprimand Jordan Jensen  for saying  the lite version of what he was okay with 5 years ago
2025-10-29T02:11 id=1983356104240443683 →BjarturTomas | @BjarturTomas Maaaaaaany such cases.  Trump underperformed the S&amp;P 500 too IIRC. || CTX: The funniest thing about Chamath is (for all the sheer naked grotesque greed of his horrific SPACs and crypto games) he hasn't even outperformed an index fund, let alone just holding the META stock he sold! Bro incinerated his already shred
2025-10-29T02:13 id=1983356384671609070 →allTheYud | @allTheYud Oh so you aren't a principled thinker, you just have a personal beef with some people. || CTX: Finding your cash register a little short, and wondering who did it?  Well, statistically speaking, most dollars stolen / embezzled / defrauded in the US in 2025 were stolen by Sam Altman. https://t.co/fYigGh9kpe
2025-10-29T02:25 id=1983359569268224503 →vo_ro_na | @vo_ro_na This is beautiful and moving but it's also a nice demonstration of how sometimes criticism itself can be poetry. || CTX: Many readers took issue with Milton's anachronistic and "grotesque" introduction of cannons to the celestial war in Book VI of Paradise Lost, but a WWI veteran asserts here that in all his time searching for something akin to his feeling in
2025-10-29T02:27 id=1983359938283086009 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne iirc Chaos Monkeys addresses this and the answer was "no". Book is quite old though so maybe that's changed. || CTX: does zuck ever lay off his homeboys?
2025-10-29T02:30 id=1983360793086419248 →RafaRuizdeLira | @RafaRuizdeLira Imagine having the gall to say Wittgenstein was stupid.   And you're a PhD candidate, thanks for the reminder of why I was right to leave academia.   Just... holy shit man || CTX: He was simply stupid https://t.co/Zh0FXtEkso
2025-10-29T02:31 id=1983360905405706525 →badtakedisp | @badtakedisp @RafaRuizdeLira Ahhh that explains it. || CTX: @RafaRuizdeLira effective altruist has heinous opinions; fork found in kitchen
2025-10-29T02:31 id=1983360994413080691 →- | You don't hate the EA crowd enough. https://t.co/OSFKUkCP10 || CTX: He was simply stupid https://t.co/Zh0FXtEkso
2025-10-29T02:36 id=1983362332970627217 →mark_dow | @mark_dow Well, there's volatility behind the ribbon so that's something at least || CTX: Getting tired of all these bullshit trade deals and peace deals where there’s absolutely nothing behind them once the ribbon is cut.
2025-10-29T02:43 id=1983364066421944356 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart You should read some of the people who have challenged Ong's tidy categories. For instance, his theory breaks down when applied to the late middle ages where texts were written to be read aloud.   I think it also is far too simplistic for the internet. || CTX: Very interesting piece in The Baffler which offers up a Marxist history of literacy. Lots of Walter Ong Thought etc.  https://t.co/WcYIivUtbb
2025-10-29T02:55 id=1983367031279042723 →infornomics | @infornomics I wonder if that's why Lao-Tzu and Wittgenstein are my favorite philosophers by a massive margin. Interesting connection! || CTX: I think the investigations are in a lot of sense very similar to for example the Dao de Jing in that the essence of the text is the process of reflection upon it, not the actual content And that both texts often tell you explicitly and stil
2025-10-29T03:14 id=1983371801460969584 →mark_dow | @mark_dow Vienna? || CTX: Europe is my favorite museum https://t.co/mFtaHpsKv9
2025-10-29T04:35 id=1983392162873225296 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre This bit of the brown book IMO clearly vindicates this reading. There's an oddness to the fact that sometimes the words for a sensation come easily, sometimes they don't. https://t.co/PG4x8CTKY8 || CTX: I think sharing this excerpt as I did may have given various people a wrong impression, that Wittgenstein was actually committed to the position that coffee aroma is indescribable. He is not. He is interested in the problematic of how certa
2025-10-29T05:04 id=1983399534844883307 →SamBuntz | @SamBuntz Because comparing the two rests on a confusion.   You think because both are "philosophy" they're comparable in some consistent and coherent way. Nothing could be further from the truth.   Philosophical schools are helpful as heuristics, not as classifiers. || CTX: How come German philosophers (Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger) all seem profound, whereas English philosophers (Locke, Bentham, Mill, Russell) all seem superficial, yet the latter set point towards liberal democracy? Much to
2025-10-29T05:45 id=1983409945480704145 →P_Remarks | @P_Remarks There's so much alpha in understanding why this is the case. || CTX: Very cool that 15 of the top 20 worst breadth days in 30 years are all basically the last 2 years https://t.co/E8ppzhNLM7
2025-10-29T05:51 id=1983411340460077410 →DavidDeutschOxf | @DavidDeutschOxf Seems like ChatGPT works better at certain times of the day (I think has to do with compute routing, but just a guess) https://t.co/cX8vwMhlsP || CTX: ChatGPT suddenly going weird and illogical: https://t.co/pUDLEehoXH
2025-10-29T05:57 id=1983412740933988445 →BjarturTomas | @BjarturTomas This feels like a confusion.  Superhuman verbal cleverness presupposes language can be divorced from the human. That is prima facie absurd IMO and demands justification. || CTX: Let us assume, for a moment, an otherwise normal world where models have superhuman verbal cleverness. Stand up changes. Any heckler with a smart phone can destroy a set. Writing ability ceases to matter. An earpiece maybe for real-time rep
2025-10-29T06:01 id=1983413766755889583 →tszzl | @tszzl I wrote exactly this in a note to my clients two years ago. Hope you don't mind if I tell them "and now some within OpenAI agree with me." || CTX: the amount of enterprise value captured by openai is irrelevant in 2025 vs the amount of value captured by nvidia, and maybe microsoft. and all of that is utterly dwarfed by consumer surplus
2025-10-29T06:28 id=1983420565777158191 →- | In The Brown Book, Wittgenstein talks about Swastikas and uses the word "physiognomy."   This is extremely funny.
2025-10-29T06:52 id=1983426681835864201 →- | Not a day goes by where I don't see something and think, "thank God I'm not 20 years younger."  I suspect this is historically abnormal. https://t.co/xS4FqkXmVE || CTX: back in like 2014 a guy I'd been on one date with (no kiss or anything) texted me "you're so hot" immediately followed by "I mean cute! you're so cute!" and we both knew it was over https://t.co/kK6LwGsMyi
2025-10-29T07:01 id=1983429050715750492 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion If the chart shows our predictions are fallible, then surely your prediction that we can beat climate change is also fallible.  The tweet, then, says nothing; it's mere cheerleading. || CTX: This is a pretty incredible chart. In just ten years, we went from predictions of steadily rising carbon emissions to predictions of steadily falling emissions.  Climate change is beatable. https://t.co/kMvdZICQ9Z
2025-10-29T07:04 id=1983429816302088374 →- | Recreating TPOT from first principles. https://t.co/qVNSwTSExz
2025-10-29T07:05 id=1983430055792652703 →nosilverv | @nosilverv This is a beautiful body type and if that makes me a gay pedophile then so be it. || CTX: everything's fucked up edition: why is this the body standard for women? bc fashion is done by gay guys &amp; their standard is the pubescent male body. why do queers have so much cultural power? bc no kids =&gt; much more disposable time/i
2025-10-29T07:09 id=1983431079836209455 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine Wow you found a bit of Adorno that's brilliant, not an easy task. || CTX: Reminded today that Adorno’s criticism of Carl Schmitt essentially boils down to of course you do you’re 12 https://t.co/xzl7QHdqFL
2025-10-29T08:55 id=1983457719588925799 →RampCapitalLLC | @RampCapitalLLC FYI https://t.co/Mt8Y5MTjO0 || CTX: Still not a bad idea
2025-10-29T10:58 id=1983488712035201133 →BjarturTomas | @BjarturTomas Fair. On its terms, yeah I'd say it vindicates McLuhan but imo more importantly Baudrillard's extension of MacLuhan || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We are assuming it as an exercise. I agree it is unlikely.
2025-10-30T00:31 id=1983693322343608731 →- | I think the biggest fundamental difference between STEM and the arts and humanities isn't that the former is quantitative and the latter isn't; it's that the former focuses on systems and the latter focuses on individuals.  STEM wins because systems are ultimately more important.
2025-10-30T00:36 id=1983694543150313483 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 When I was a professor I tried to adjust this by having multiple choice midterm/final exams, but the essay was inevitably graded subjectively. This is a valid criticism, for sure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It also feels like shit being a student in the humanities knowing that the grade is subjective based off the opinions of the graders. At least for undergrad it is essentially a regurgitation of material rather any critical 
2025-10-30T01:24 id=1983706511760380165 →- | https://t.co/LBtIfLLj2E
2025-10-30T02:07 id=1983717434495529024 →- | Wittgenstein's choice to fight in World War I and desire to work in the Soviet Union demonstrate how his personal ethics have massive limitations, because one's personal actions exist within a broader system. This was the blunder behind Wittgenstein's poker and why Popper won
2025-10-30T02:08 id=1983717538669457492 →47fucb4r8c69323 | it's also why he hit them kids || CTX: Wittgenstein's choice to fight in World War I and desire to work in the Soviet Union demonstrate how his personal ethics have massive limitations, because one's personal actions exist within a broader system. This was the blunder behind Wit
2025-10-30T02:27 id=1983722352279167464 →tervoooo | @tervoooo How do you understand what being red feels like? I'm not color blind and even I have no clue what being red feels like. || CTX: The inability to “see” a color is the inability to “feel” a color. I am color blind. I understand fully what a red apple is, and what being red feels like. To imply I can’t because you can’t is to say there are more colors. Please stop post
2025-10-30T02:44 id=1983726583895789890 →wesyang | @wesyang @zarathustra5150 This would be very easy to measure: are accusations of wrong think less effective as cudgels? Look at disciplinary actions, are they declining at universities from 2021-2023 levels? If so, and if the trendline is clear, you have your answer. || CTX: @zarathustra5150 I don't think wokeness is over. I'm asking if the phase of it where students are hunting heresies from their professors is over. Many who were exposed to it in 2015 say it's changed for the better on this front.
2025-10-30T02:49 id=1983727931949305936 →airkatakana | @airkatakana I mean, it's sex where no women are involved.   seems pretty gay, anon || CTX: is it gay to have sex with a female robot teleoperated by a man?
2025-10-30T03:04 id=1983731792608927901 →Athens_Stranger | @Athens_Stranger But his solution sucks. || CTX: Communism as the most alluring Siren to men of secret desires for tyranny was recognized in Plato and used as *the* form of government promising perfect justice but deliveres entirely inhuman conditions of living  Plato’s Republic is the gr
2025-10-30T03:09 id=1983732947204342165 →Birdyword | @Birdyword @IrvingSwisher Eh I've been making this point for years in my work: you can't meaningfully talk about U. S. debt (public or private) without talking about assets.   Been a very useful and lucrative perspective--and the proof of how lucrative it is is that I'm posting this anonymously. || CTX: @IrvingSwisher It's a good point, I would like to see it vs off-balance sheet assets! Seems like a useful exercise to me even within the context that it's a maximalist read
2025-10-30T03:09 id=1983733059729129736 →santiago__lisa | @santiago__lisa @Birdyword It isn't, the thread is dumb, I suspect Mike is trolling. || CTX: @Birdyword How is the ESF a federal liability?
2025-10-30T03:10 id=1983733292034838718 →__paleologo | @__paleologo Pretty sure @TheStalwart is there dressed up too || CTX: NYC, Midtown East, just another day https://t.co/tIRPfRenUj
2025-10-30T03:12 id=1983733646357139916 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 Then in any market one has a first mover disadvantage. || CTX: Then he is not buying at the store anymore. The end result is the same.  The point is that people don’t want to hurt their clients and the clients don’t want to be hurt and you can see that even in the drug trade. https://t.co/dtL0Xa79bD ht
2025-10-30T03:20 id=1983735640404717693 →keysmashbandit | @keysmashbandit If it makes you feel any better, I don't want to have sex with you now. || CTX: I can't wait until I'm old and nobody wants to have sex with me anymore
2025-10-30T03:45 id=1983742106050183539 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Also another reason to invest more in companies where the board has more men than women. || CTX: The only metric that matters is how many cumulative divorces all the directors and above have. Huge locked in signal. https://t.co/Lgn2ghLIMj
2025-10-30T03:56 id=1983744843110293806 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove This is an excellent response to Lolita. You definitely read it right. || CTX: Some more thoughts on Lolita.  -The prose is great. It's Nabokov. He's to literature what Orson Welles is to film. Just about everyone who reads this book praises the language, so I won't talk too much about it. But what puts him above othe
2025-10-30T03:59 id=1983745492388602221 →- | Being financially independent, having contempt for status games, and believing humanity will eventually sort itself out puts one in a weird position: there's really no reason to do anything anymore besides having fun.  But what I consider "fun" is atypical.
2025-10-30T04:10 id=1983748334587408672 →P_Remarks | @P_Remarks Worked yourself up in a lather due to pretty banal mid-cycle data.   Maybe go for a walk? || CTX: Is he on crack?   We are doing 120mph on a pitch black road in the fog with no headlights and Van Halen blasting on the radio as a 23 year old broad snorts 3 lines of coke off a gold bar in the passenger seat https://t.co/wUnMuIyNpQ
2025-10-30T04:18 id=1983750251342393352 →robstersauce | @robstersauce @michaelcurzi I remember reading this book and thinking, "I do not want to go through life like that."   And I haven't! I'm probably poorer as a result, but it's fine. || CTX: @michaelcurzi Pretending that your good-natured and optimistic sales book is filled with deception and backstabbing, so you can trick people into buying it. 🤔
2025-10-30T04:41 id=1983756091352871206 →robstersauce | @robstersauce @michaelcurzi the book is ultimately about how to modify your nature so that people will like you. The inauthenticity of the consummate salesman, no thanks, I choose a different life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @michaelcurzi Wait, what part?   His advice is to think about a happy dog when you greet people, it's like the most optimistic and pro-social book I can imagine.
2025-10-30T05:07 id=1983762538841117094 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza "wife"? Not a true Mormon. || CTX: Something is happening in the Mormon community… https://t.co/QvgLPD0gfV
2025-10-30T05:48 id=1983773016040599961 →robstersauce | @robstersauce @michaelcurzi Yeah, fair point! We'd probably need to delineate what we mean by "authentic" and tease out edge cases.   I'm an antisocial misanthropic outlier so my own views on this won't map onto others so, yeah, my view probably applies to people less than yours. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @michaelcurzi I see what you're saying and respect your choice.  I don't believe modifying your behavior so people like you is *necessarily* inauthentic.   It can be - but that sentence also describes normal social developm
2025-10-30T05:52 id=1983773906235486380 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Yeah and then he says women's virginity is valued in a healthy society...   It's like he's right while he's also the kind of idiot he's complaining about. || CTX: Bro this is so real. Dunking isn't fun most of the time it's just annoying https://t.co/8myQInRtxQ
2025-10-30T05:54 id=1983774377079681387 →- | Meaning is the nexus of uses across layers (content, force, effect, strategy) within a shared practice.
2025-10-30T06:30 id=1983783507093811538 →- | False dichotomy.   I'm BOTH better AND luckier. https://t.co/DlhGhXafp4 || CTX: https://t.co/Rd7PvU0FH2
2025-10-30T06:42 id=1983786647457296451 →TheLuisPanini | @TheLuisPanini Best book review I've seen in a while. || CTX: We’ve all read funny book opinions, but this one-star review of The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter (Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tittlemouse, etc.) had me in stitches. https://t.co/7kZKAZl5V3
2025-10-30T06:44 id=1983787025376674233 →CampbellSocProf | @CampbellSocProf Having grown up lower middle class with tons of kids who did petty crimes like this... yeah I think this must be correct. || CTX: People steal more often not for survival, but rather to sustain a lifestyle of "desperate partying." From Wright and Decker's study of armed robbers ("Armed Robbers in Action: Stickups and Street Culture"): https://t.co/aquztdbGD6 https://t
2025-10-30T06:45 id=1983787238610895100 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @CampbellSocProf I always wondered why crime wasn't more widespread in very poor nations than it is... this theory explains it very well! || CTX: @CampbellSocProf Having grown up lower middle class with tons of kids who did petty crimes like this... yeah I think this must be correct.
2025-10-30T07:42 id=1983801594627096943 →- | If God exists he must envy us that we can change, grow old, and die.
2025-10-30T07:49 id=1983803503446565361 →eastvillageguy | @eastvillageguy 1. This is absolutely what it feels like to be on the sell side.   2. I like it... does that make me a cuck? || CTX: Equity research, huh?   Must be nice, reading about the achievements of other men.
2025-10-30T07:56 id=1983805093817544803 →- | P E T E R T H I E L T R E E T P H I L E https://t.co/pRXO1lsSUe || CTX: P E T E R T H I E L T H E R E P T I L E
2025-10-30T09:26 id=1983827932561993915 →Cobylefko | @Cobylefko Yeah fun town but I wouldn't go that far. || CTX: Tokyo is far stranger, and far more wonderful than I could have expected  It’s the most compelling city in the world https://t.co/rtBKa3ycHn
2025-10-30T09:27 id=1983828008776692039 →0xMerridew | @0xMerridew Are you calling gold a homosexual? || CTX: gold probs bottomed
2025-10-30T09:28 id=1983828247784849844 →agraybee | @agraybee Well the only other option is fascism. || CTX: The median voter is subsapient cattle and I'm tired of pretending you can win their votes rationally. https://t.co/RpU6fCTlIP
2025-10-30T09:57 id=1983835674982936863 →ParikPatelCFA | @ParikPatelCFA Bezos servercuckmaxxing || CTX: Why are you, as a man, using Amazon Web Services?  Build the servers yourself
2025-10-30T09:58 id=1983835999592706148 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer I'm stoned thank you so much for pointing this out || CTX: The crazy thing about this video is how many of the commenters (both pro and con), and probably OP himself, got bored after like 20 seconds and missed the part with fission and teleportation https://t.co/8fiUTfAZGi
2025-10-30T10:52 id=1983849397453779092 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick Does this mean I get to fuck Charles? || CTX: the british don’t realise they’re a theme park yet so they’re talking about decommissioning their only rollercoaster https://t.co/CKls9PC1Sc
2025-10-30T11:09 id=1983853677380300945 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick that's fine, I'm into freaky shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 traditionally, no
2025-10-31T01:11 id=1984065588491382967 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Joyce Coleman's Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England documents how elites preferred public reading, modality-neutral texts were common through the late middle ages, and the social/performative context informs readings of texts more than transmission mode || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 who has the strongest critique of Ong?  Also, say more about the "too simplistic" characterization
2025-10-31T01:13 id=1984066171117957344 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @TheStalwart For "too simplistic", consider: are the prepared remarks of an earnings release oral? Literate?   Does this distinction really matter as much as social/cultural pragmatics?  Ong isn't wrong but he is limited. || CTX: @TheStalwart Joyce Coleman's Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England documents how elites preferred public reading, modality-neutral texts were common through the late middle ages, and the social/performative context 
2025-10-31T01:38 id=1984072352733528279 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @_AashishReddy I mean, millions read/listen to him. It's self evident that he's influential.   But influential doesn't mean profound, useful, interesting, or compelling.  I'd be surprised if he's even a footnote in history. It's a big subculture, but not really an important one. || CTX: @_AashishReddy this is actually the strongest case you can make for EY being an influential thinker, heterodox former followers who are big mad at him
2025-10-31T02:08 id=1984079965286179058 →BoringBiz_ | @BoringBiz_ And nothing of value was lost. || CTX: Finance folks have been a shrinking class in NYC, being replaced by health care and social workers instead  At current trajectory, NYC will no longer be the financial capital of the world in a few decades https://t.co/SEGVtjfKVq
2025-10-31T02:54 id=1984091558933872922 →ArtemisConsort | @ArtemisConsort @huntersnintendo You're now trying to use reason to do something your original post (correctly) says it cannot do.   Fascinating. || CTX: By this logic, multicellular organisms were not created by evolution since they cooperate internally. Yes there are layers of organization. Everything is an alternating sandwich of competition layers and collectivist (fascist) layers. But t
2025-10-31T03:01 id=1984093365764550673 →marty_kausas | @marty_kausas Working for you isn't worth all the money in the world. || CTX: Half the company came into work on Saturday.  I made a deal with Bennett that if the team collectively did 4000 pull-ups in 8 hours, we'd add a monthly fitness stipend to our benefits. https://t.co/q0YUryCMkY
2025-10-31T04:47 id=1984119939570266335 →deepfates | @deepfates I'm none of these. || CTX: stolen from the forbidden app. which are you? https://t.co/UxAXaYpz4y
2025-10-31T04:50 id=1984120664991977678 →x_is_a_timesuck | @x_is_a_timesuck @RampCapitalLLC lol it isn't. Which is why only a fool or a corrupt asshole plays the prediction market gambling game.  Oh, so you're too good of a person to be a corrupt asshole? I've got some bad news, then. || CTX: @RampCapitalLLC Yeah that’s gotta be illegal. Literally moving the lines intentionally.
2025-10-31T04:51 id=1984121100297756804 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey In 2019, yeah it was. I'd put the line back to 2014... it wasn't all woke nonsense then. || CTX: It was, though. https://t.co/KzSVWAZJsm
2025-10-31T05:02 id=1984123771775811926 →- | How I feel every time I surf the world wide web https://t.co/L3LvEYIUFf || CTX: You histrionic perverts are useful.  If you can be trolled you can be controlled.  Deal with it. https://t.co/NzVnsIZMJn
2025-10-31T05:03 id=1984123990106112028 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost Socially sanctioned multiple child brides would undoubtedly appeal to the Japanese. || CTX: as a japanese what's the benefit of converting to islam? we love pork, fashion, drinking, idol worship (we do it as a hobby), ancestor worship, karaoke, etc. https://t.co/DewZrPDWpd
2025-10-31T05:05 id=1984124548548325583 →lesl_schneider | @lesl_schneider @Noahpinion Anyone who noticed this was raped to death it's quite sad really || CTX: @Noahpinion I just realized “Rape culture” is a phrase I haven’t heard in a long time.
2025-10-31T05:20 id=1984128381110382846 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost Because Japan has a massive problem with tolerating sexual violence against children.  Slaps on wrists for educators, victims shamed into silence, Loli porn normalizing the desire to rape kids.  I could go on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why?
2025-10-31T05:27 id=1984130022358319231 →- | I love that Cliff Asness and Elon Musk both exist and publicly display their own misery so often to teach the rest of us that money does not buy happiness. https://t.co/njPeWvKHg5 || CTX: Yeah a fringe idea by a guy named Hayek among others. The strawman that anyone on the right believes in perfect markets with no failures is also piss poor thinking/arguing. But what is true is that market failures existing means the left (a
2025-10-31T05:45 id=1984134646180061223 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost Unlikely since I don't watch porn. I like how your glossing over the real problems of actual children being raped and being shamed into not reporting, very typical Japanese face saving nonsense || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "tolerating sexual violence against children" is an insane claim.  you really think japanese parents are willing to send off their children to be "child brides"?  japan's lenient on fictional porn, bc it's not real.  it's n
2025-10-31T05:59 id=1984138224122663244 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost When I took the train from Osaka to Kyoto, the first line in the Wifi ToS was "do not use the Wi-Fi to view CP."   this warning is not typical on public transport in other nations, because they don't have a child sexualization problem of the same scale. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 like how you avoid answering my simple question?  here's another question, relative to which country is japan that much worse? obviously japan isn't perfect, but what are we comparing it to?  and ofc japan is undoubtedly ag
2025-10-31T06:01 id=1984138646732337605 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Bunagayafrost since the face saving response is "baka gaijin can't understand us" this problem of course won't disappear, you'll just discredit critics. This is why Japan has been in decline for decades. || CTX: @Bunagayafrost When I took the train from Osaka to Kyoto, the first line in the Wifi ToS was "do not use the Wi-Fi to view CP."   this warning is not typical on public transport in other nations, because they don't have a child sexualizatio
2025-10-31T06:19 id=1984143067482616201 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost https://t.co/Id9yvwJmrZ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is such a blatant lie, i don't even know why you'd say this. the FIRST LINE in wifi ToS is don't view CP lmao like literally insane.  ignoring all questions i posed too. stop watching porn it's killing your brain.
2025-10-31T06:19 id=1984143196566516068 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Bunagayafrost I imagine the face saving Japanese script means you will ignore this entirely and stop responding to me, or try to change the subject || CTX: @Bunagayafrost https://t.co/Id9yvwJmrZ
2025-10-31T06:21 id=1984143784201130001 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Pretty sure you were asexual because you're a nebbish loser IRL, Noah || CTX: For years I had physical "emotional" responses -- rapid heart rate, flush, sweating, and all the rest -- without actually feeling emotions on the inside. This is how I know qualia is real and important.   (Also this is almost certainly why 
2025-10-31T06:30 id=1984146027914707277 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Bunagayafrost people are too predictable, it's boring || CTX: @Bunagayafrost I imagine the face saving Japanese script means you will ignore this entirely and stop responding to me, or try to change the subject
2025-10-31T06:49 id=1984150785161359515 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost Nice attempt at laundering reputation.  Looking at CP on public transport isn't common enough elsewhere to warrant this warning.  I admire that you didn't just disappear, but I am disappointed that you're still resorting to face saving tactics.  Fortunately your prison isn't mine || CTX: victory lapping to protect children they're blocking porn sites on the wifi network. they use a list from the org with super unfortunate name. it's not exactly what you claimed, but i'm happy to concede. doesn't change anything about your o
2025-10-31T06:52 id=1984151365640483167 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Bunagayafrost you could also look up when Japan made up illegal and concede, yeah there's something disturbing about how long it took.   But you won't.   To save face. || CTX: @Bunagayafrost Nice attempt at laundering reputation.  Looking at CP on public transport isn't common enough elsewhere to warrant this warning.  I admire that you didn't just disappear, but I am disappointed that you're still resorting to f
2025-10-31T06:53 id=1984151792167584011 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 He's officially awesome and I love him. || CTX: He's doing it again. He's the only one who doesn't use the yellow one. https://t.co/ltZuy6xxtw
2025-10-31T07:14 id=1984157028491915646 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu This is just theology in disguise. || CTX: Yes? Thoughts guys? https://t.co/S8TNVhXhcj
2025-10-31T07:17 id=1984157795965690250 →- | This ad fascinates me. Why is she fat? https://t.co/Y050P1Jwzx
2025-10-31T07:25 id=1984159658979029149 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @_AashishReddy Tech people have ideas about finance that are as stupid as the ideas finance people have about tech.  I suspect this is true of economics people too. || CTX: @_AashishReddy Rand is probably also an example of a libertarian tradition i think is terrible, if you ever read about her aristotle objectivism thing
2025-10-31T07:27 id=1984160408564068578 →Trotskyism1917 | @Trotskyism1917 Why are Slavs so politically retarded? || CTX: Dont ask https://t.co/4kOkNtoHSa https://t.co/LOgweZG8r9
2025-10-31T07:34 id=1984162163083391210 →thrialectics | @thrialectics It's not that hard, Americans are so soft.  Try driving in Hong Kong, Manila, Rome, Bangkok, Mexico City... || CTX: the sadomasochism of driving in manhattan
2025-10-31T07:38 id=1984163019241492482 →liensofnewyork | @liensofnewyork Does Heisenberg still post rambling nonsense on SeekingAlpha? || CTX: Every tweet about CMG in the last 24 hours has been the dumbest thing you could possibly read. https://t.co/1iG7OJepUR
2025-10-31T07:53 id=1984166921147990250 →MunicipleOrrery | @MunicipleOrrery @MostlyMonkey I used to listen to Prairie Home Companion then the jazz show after It watching the snow fall while drinking a beer in my upstate NY cottage.  A memory I am so grateful to have, and it's sad that the experience has been traded in for rage at the fascists.  The cost of innovation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MostlyMonkey Most of the good non-partisan programming died off naturally, but wasn't replaced.  Instead they filled the time with more partisan politics.  Prairie Home Companion.  Car Talk.  😢
2025-10-31T08:30 id=1984176097651822744 →croissanthology | @croissanthology @MunicipleOrrery This feels less like a risk and more like a challenge to me.   Game on, find me fuckers. || CTX: PSA: it takes extremely little information to screen off base rates from mattering *at all* to you, decision-wise. If you know even a little about yourself (your motivations, wealth, ability, etc.) and factor that into your decision, you ca
2025-10-31T09:31 id=1984191376691777693 →TimHenke9 | @TimHenke9 @PAHoyeck Brick Rawls of ignorance || CTX: @PAHoyeck radical Rawlsians prefer the brick wall of ignorance
2025-10-31T14:08 id=1984261132488720791 →ratlimit | @ratlimit @JoyceCarolOates lmfao || CTX: @JoyceCarolOates knock his fuсking diсk into the dirt queen
2025-10-31T23:45 id=1984406320733454357 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Her breasts are so ugly. || CTX: I'm telling you...short hair for girls looks really good! https://t.co/9QH1zXJBf2
2025-10-31T23:49 id=1984407535848452428 →- | RT @2oovy: Thesis: read hegel Antithesis: don't read hegel Synthesis: realize hegel is stupid || CTX: Thesis: read hegel Antithesis: don't read hegel Synthesis: realize hegel is stupid https://t.co/Z2dr4jqqWP
2025-11-01T00:24 id=1984416256460800366 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @workercommie Nah, dude, not everything requires in depth critical study. You can't ungay a person, that's just retarded. || CTX: There is no good evidence one or another. Like most taboo subjects this requires a lot of causal inference data we have no access to and data about sexuality in general is so sparse that even guessing is suspicious. That being said I am pre
2025-11-01T01:10 id=1984427882580754665 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @workercommie "Yes yes I'll do anything please stop hurting me" isn't my standard of efficacy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @workercommie I dunno. There is an example in the literature of someone getting eletroshocked until supposedly they stopped being gay
2025-11-01T01:12 id=1984428271002583166 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @workercommie Well we'd have to know how hot the strippers are to judge the efficacy of that strategy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @workercommie They hired strippers to sleep with the guy as part of their experiment .. incredible
2025-11-01T01:19 id=1984430046745174343 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey @W98AB That article is WILD.   I'd really like to know why the UK has developed this zero sum poverty mindset. || CTX: @W98AB Guardian article dated 2024  https://t.co/XoQqMfC7Lp
2025-11-01T01:33 id=1984433661861941687 →strikerglows | @strikerglows @Noahpinion Loli hentai.  White guys like Noah obsessed with Japan are creepy as hell. || CTX: @Noahpinion Until you have to walk around with trash in your pocket all day, wait at 2am for a green light to cross an empty street or have a job culture that actually supports to flow of productive labor to the best companies rather than i
2025-11-01T01:34 id=1984433847174644094 →HowlerOfMars | @HowlerOfMars @Noahpinion And yet, they are miserable. || CTX: @Noahpinion Having lived there, I explain Japan to people as “a society where every single worker is decently competent and actually gives a shit about their job”
2025-11-01T01:36 id=1984434440442118634 →lymanstoneky | @lymanstoneky Prague, Budapest, and Cappadocia--it isn't a bad choice. || CTX: The energy on D-choosers has got to be something wild https://t.co/JHlYCMH9U1
2025-11-01T01:39 id=1984435072729272631 →- | 1. Get to feel smug 2. Psychic freedom from dogma 3. Social capital in some circles  The problem with saying "there's no benefit to atheism" is it's a tacit acknowledgement that atheism is probably true.  In reality, it's just an offshoot of Christianity. https://t.co/5yrOBfB7jD || CTX: there is literally no benefit to not believing in God  what are people thinking??
2025-11-01T01:55 id=1984439061432713295 →vocalcry | @vocalcry idk who that person is but she's absolutely right. || CTX: She’s been at this for a long time https://t.co/Efy1HwAVZ5 https://t.co/qKVDmtaIAK
2025-11-01T02:06 id=1984441783464706414 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer Obviously the problem is in being governed. || CTX: which is worse: being governed by people who want tumblr to think they're cool or being govetned by people who want 4chan to think they're cool
2025-11-01T02:20 id=1984445528130851015 →geopolitics_e | @geopolitics_e @HowlerOfMars @Noahpinion Japan pre-WW2 was an even worse place to live.  The problem is Confucianism. Cf. the Koreas. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HowlerOfMars @Noahpinion Maybe because of the conditions imposed on them post-WW2.
2025-11-01T02:29 id=1984447596447088997 →- | People arguing over who is hot or not is fine, been happening for decades.   But these grifters are trying to turn it into an intellectual, political, or cultural conversation.  Pseudointellectualism won the soul of the internet.  We're all Reddit now. https://t.co/xN3wdfklEA || CTX: It's not about "attainable", it's warmth &amp; psychological femininity, which is rarer &amp; more desirable than "insta baddie who could be 25 or 45" Bogdanovification  Monica Bellucci, Gio Scotti, Ana de Armas, Julia Roberts are not "atta
2025-11-01T02:33 id=1984448768213918195 →- | https://t.co/9WzQkiLkYD
2025-11-01T02:42 id=1984450849884823815 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost you're like a fish trying to tell me water isn't real, it's honestly very amusing to read || CTX: JR: we should ban porn on our public wifi.  but how do we know which sites to ban? oh there's a gov supported org that has a comprehensive list with suspected cp sites too, lets use that. oh, and we have to be transparent about it, so peopl
2025-11-01T02:48 id=1984452450561253880 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost well, I can tell you the times I've sat next to someone reading loli hentai in Japan is greater than the times it's happened elsewhere, which is zero.   I know the Japanese are deeply embarrassed by this, which is why you are so upset now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your version:  omg people watch so much illegal cp on the bullet train surrounded by so many people  we need to make sure to ban it and tell our riders to don't view it by putting it on top of ToS which everybody will read 
2025-11-01T02:53 id=1984453708646924800 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost let's remember how this began--you insisted something that definitely happened to me did not. I provided proof, and then you have continued to try to gaslight me. you're just making yourself and Japan look bad here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ?? it's legal lol idk why you're so deeply committed. you could just say, yeah the japanese wanting child bride thing was a bit hyperbolic, but i'm just really anti anime or something.
2025-11-01T02:55 id=1984454149359223284 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Bunagayafrost there is a non-trivial subset of Japanese people who would like to have child brides, that is a fact. Japanese society is failing to police these people sufficiently, that is also a fact. hate the baka gaijin all you want, doesn't change the facts. || CTX: @Bunagayafrost let's remember how this began--you insisted something that definitely happened to me did not. I provided proof, and then you have continued to try to gaslight me. you're just making yourself and Japan look bad here.
2025-11-01T02:57 id=1984454680471355401 →0rang3youglad | @0rang3youglad that has always been her appeal, in the '80s people said she was a woman's idea of a hot woman, but she's not hot. || CTX: everyone giving him shit for listing julia roberts lmao despite being beautiful and having exceptional facial symmetry, i've always considered her as part of the aunt physiognomy category. you know? she just seems like she'd be your aunt. h
2025-11-01T02:58 id=1984454877511368967 →memeticsisyphus | @memeticsisyphus https://t.co/yW68S9hkgH || CTX: People arguing over who is hot or not is fine, been happening for decades.   But these grifters are trying to turn it into an intellectual, political, or cultural conversation.  Pseudointellectualism won the soul of the internet.  We're all
2025-11-01T02:59 id=1984455116339245123 →adrusi | @adrusi ... yes? || CTX: theres a certain kind of man who infers from "many women have fantasies of rape/ravishment" that women want to be raped  does... does the fact that many men have fantasies of raping/ravishing mean that they... *want* to rape??
2025-11-01T03:01 id=1984455638186066195 →Investor_NICK_ | @Investor_NICK_ having lived in scandinavia, I can confirm. people who find the second girl unobtainable must live in a part of the world with really ugly women. || CTX: I lived in Stockholm for 12 months after college and I saw girls like Miss Universe all the time. Go to Stureplan in Östermalm on the weekends and you’d see a bunch of girls just like her. Miss Universe is from Denmark and in Copenhagen the
2025-11-01T03:01 id=1984455811922641048 →Investor_NICK_ | @Investor_NICK_ @dalibali2 I was 23 and had the same exact feeling lol || CTX: @dalibali2 I was 21 years old living in Stockholm and every day I thought I was living in a dream lol. My fellow female Swedish research colleagues were so beautiful I was like wtf. Just normal everyday girls from small towns in Sweden.
2025-11-01T03:10 id=1984457922135671205 →bizlet7 | @bizlet7 I feel so bad for you, wherever you live must be surrounded by ugly women. I recommend leaving America or the UK. || CTX: No guy can fantasize being with this girl.  You need 30 million minimum to make this viable.  Why bother? Now Sydney Sweeney with her derp eyes, dumbo ears and airhead demeanor. While being equally unpractical weaves a succulent delusion. h
2025-11-01T03:31 id=1984463244485148719 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost yes it's been illegal for about 3 or 4 years now, way to go Japan || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 unfortunately pedos exist everywhere. eg catholic church. cp is illegal and punished in japan. you're probably conflating actual r*pe with voyeurism thinking some people are getting off with light sentences. your solution i
2025-11-01T03:32 id=1984463511649656944 →Bunagayafrost | @Bunagayafrost my solution is for the Japanese to stop caring about face saving and to be honest about their social ills. that is impossible for the japanese, hence your constant misunderstanding of me. I appreciate it though, makes me grateful to not be Japanese. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 unfortunately pedos exist everywhere. eg catholic church. cp is illegal and punished in japan. you're probably conflating actual r*pe with voyeurism thinking some people are getting off with light sentences. your solution i
2025-11-01T03:46 id=1984467097527992535 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @rakyll Programmers fighting AI are exactly like writers or anyone else fighting AI.   They're scared of robots stealing their jobs. Literally that simple. || CTX: @rakyll do you trust a car built in an assembly line or a car that someone welded together by hand more?  ai writing the code is going to make everything higher quality, more performant, more secure  the ai will never get tired or drunk. sa
2025-11-01T03:57 id=1984469786072662524 →volcrushed | @volcrushed Always impressed when I find someone who yearns for slavery.   It's a kind of naivete that is so alien I can't help but envy it a little. || CTX: Met a 29 year old woman tonight whose parents still pay her rent in the nicest building in Tribeca (im insanely jealous)
2025-11-01T04:11 id=1984473249795948972 →zmun495 | @zmun495 @0rang3youglad Big mouth, wide nose, hard pass. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @0rang3youglad Yes she is 😒
2025-11-01T04:11 id=1984473461880996294 →typeclonghouse | @typeclonghouse ... wtf does that even mean? || CTX: dear friend told me when I visited, "London used to be the White Japan" https://t.co/Kwa5vZQBpg
2025-11-01T04:12 id=1984473590537076783 →callanable | @callanable Stop caring about what others think.  This is surprisingly difficult. || CTX: this is me, unfortunately  how do I enjoy reading again? https://t.co/6I7czbkUbn
2025-11-01T04:31 id=1984478376917418433 →iq_over_9000 | @iq_over_9000 Pronatalism fuels my antinatalism. || CTX: Pro-natalists are not really sending their best people to make the case for more of them existing in the world https://t.co/zUasVLJbNG
2025-11-01T05:10 id=1984488126702895414 →- | Why I both have few followers and want few followers.   https://t.co/E5zaAzTE9G
2025-11-01T09:52 id=1984559209669935487 →Zzrott1 | @Zzrott1 Non-believer skepticism and atheism aren't the same thing. Related, yes, overlapping, sure, but different.  You failed to be rigorous with your definitions please try again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Atheism becoming a formalized concept during a time when Christianity was dominant doesn’t mean the concept itself is an offshoot  Surely there have been non-believer skeptics in every region, in every period, under every r
2025-11-01T10:15 id=1984564893920739469 →Zzrott1 | @Zzrott1 Then I'm not worth engaging. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Splitting hairs over precise language won’t save your claim that atheism is an offshoot of Christianity
2025-11-01T11:21 id=1984581547576738025 →- | One cannot love one's cat without also loving the universe.
2025-11-01T23:41 id=1984767727886848396 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu "If Scott did something racist but not unethical, that means there exists ethical racism."  False dichotomy in the second paragraph, I'm not impressed. || CTX: i too have spend a lot of mental energy agonizing about this sort of thing. so thread//if you don't understand hypotheticals you may wish to avoid// https://t.co/bce8jTEDrB
2025-11-01T23:50 id=1984769967347417238 →- | Who is hotter?
2025-11-02T00:00 id=1984772601357738409 →untimelysalts | @untimelysalts He's a good phenomenologist and an awful geopolitical analyst, but apparently needed to shoehorn his interests and talents to satisfy his ego and ambition. || CTX: Brushing up on this  People give Fukuyama too much shit, his book is good. https://t.co/BR88YCTVZb
2025-11-02T00:51 id=1984785456152920380 →p8stie | @p8stie This is why I have zero interest in going to Mar-a-lago: ugly bitches. || CTX: Imagine ur a guy and u grind day in and day out for YEARS, just for the opportunity to get drunk at Mar a Lago  Only to arrive &amp; find out that the most beautiful women there have a facial look that would get them rejected by random cons
2025-11-02T00:52 id=1984785750895051132 →TimHenke9 | @TimHenke9 @mishapathy The issue with Kant is he's a systematic thinker and his systems are surely wrong but many ideas in those systems are really good. || CTX: @mishapathy Modern maths is very Fregean in practice, which misled me (and I think many people) into thinking Kant's ideas were wrong, unnecessary, or outdated  It took a while for me to appreciate that rather than displacing Kant's intuiti
2025-11-02T00:58 id=1984787041981497855 →nise_yoshimi | @nise_yoshimi "What if Japan, but uglier, dirtier, and with less freedom"   I'll never understand the appeal of China. || CTX: Shenzhen at night https://t.co/sH7VddRils
2025-11-02T01:06 id=1984789215406874888 →TimHenke9 | @TimHenke9 @mishapathy Agreed, which is why I'm a stout Wittgensteinian. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mishapathy I think that's the best any philosopher can aspire to
2025-11-02T01:07 id=1984789470944903298 →Claudio08972199 | @Claudio08972199 @nise_yoshimi Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Sapporo, Fukuoka... I assume you're trolling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nise_yoshimi Name me an interesting Japanese city that isn't Tokyo
2025-11-02T01:10 id=1984790197918449746 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer I suspect this brilliant observation will go unnoticed but, yes, very clearly that's what is happening.   We just need to accept online discourse will always be stupid and then start to consider why this is the case.  If you want to find God, that's probably your best approach. || CTX: online theism has positioned itself against the weak, straw man opponent of "reddit atheism" in the same way that reddit atheism positioned itself against the weak, straw man opponent of religious literalism
2025-11-02T01:14 id=1984791309304099300 →Anselmus_BIOS | @Anselmus_BIOS Pre-WW2 Japan was a miserable hellscape of unchecked aristocratic power, low growth agricultural economy, and anti-intellectual parochialism.  Hence the Meiji restoration effort, which was far less successful than most think. || CTX: Modern Japan is a charming fusion of invented 18th century traditions &amp; American Post War Liberalism. https://t.co/5g86AJbAgN
2025-11-02T01:16 id=1984791568424059390 →nise_yoshimi | @nise_yoshimi Not really, I live in a much nicer country and go on holiday to places that are freer, livelier, and more beautiful.   But enjoy your Tsingtao! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that's your problem
2025-11-02T01:17 id=1984792024500093323 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Scott isn't just too verbose, he's also pseudo intellectual.  I don't mind verbosity; I do mind philosophically naive overintellectualizing that leads to absurdities, which is most of Scott's output. || CTX: Yeah I mean I have the Scott virus of being too verbose but my ability to write outpace the density of my ideas by a lot so I can generate fluff for thousands of words but that sickens me to be honest I like to have high density when I writ
2025-11-02T01:20 id=1984792813985546252 →dennismhogan | @dennismhogan I had the worst reasons to do a PhD, I was not good at it or being an academic, and yet it's one of the most valuable and important things I've ever done.  Zero regrets. || CTX: It’s impossible to acquire this much knowledge from just a masters program. You have to do the PhD https://t.co/jbu4NspABc
2025-11-02T01:22 id=1984793273639358580 →iq_over_9000 | @iq_over_9000 There are alternatives to "AI brings us the singularity" and "AI kills everyone". The smart money has not bet on either. || CTX: In the coming decades all the technocratic optimists will start making much more vague, abstract, dour, & desperate pronouncements of singularities. You might be wondering why I am so certain of this but there is no way to transfer the fold
2025-11-02T01:26 id=1984794130946670774 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Pick one at random. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring Mhhh what articles of his supports this
2025-11-02T01:28 id=1984794607914520717 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring My contention: Scott's popularity hinges on appealing to mildly intelligent inarticulate people who feel seen by this mildly intelligent inarticulate person but who aren't intelligent or disciplined enough to read either academic studies or actual philosophers. || CTX: @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Pick one at random.
2025-11-02T01:30 id=1984795321701138727 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Fair, we don't need to agree on this. IMO the Moloch post is a hodge podge of category errors, is/ought fallacies, and moralizing without specificity that typifies modern internet pseudo intellectual discourse.   As a writer he reminds me of Hugh Hefner. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring Strong disagree from me then. Most Scott posts are alright and his top posts are exceptionally interesting. I reread the moloch post the other day for example. Mind you I don't follow him closely anymore it's 
2025-11-02T01:31 id=1984795592879718550 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring His popularity proves he's a good popularizer. I think I'm perhaps too odd a person to understand what is popular or why.   What most people like has always confused me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring Well if you want to say he is a popularizer of course he is. *Shrug* but I think he is a decent one compared to most
2025-11-02T01:33 id=1984795878583124331 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter Men need to perform to get women's attention. Women just need to be physically attractive.  It's really not a mystery at all, idk why people struggle with this. || CTX: genuinely why are men funnier than women? do you have a theory?
2025-11-02T01:36 id=1984796812201640001 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring They are my standards. I also don't get why you don't share them.  I am similarly puzzled why you don't demand as much rigor as I do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring I don't get it. Why are those the standards you are using to judge him? It's not ... That type of rigorous article?
2025-11-02T01:39 id=1984797492412891185 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Maybe it's an occupational hazard. Since my job is simplifying technical ideas for non specialists, I am less enthusiastic to read work that isn't either highly rigorous or entirely stupid.   My media diet is mostly academic articles and shitposting, little in between. || CTX: @lu_sichu @mayaofspring They are my standards. I also don't get why you don't share them.  I am similarly puzzled why you don't demand as much rigor as I do.
2025-11-02T01:45 id=1984799073657110986 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring hahahaha gwern is a joke.  Internet fame just isn't a quality signal for me. Contemporary writers worth reading IMO are in peer reviewed articles and/or uni presses, not Substacks and blogs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring I feel like you have a baseline of "well professional philosophers write like this" .. yeah I mean but his blog and his posts are not written in that way. Like maybe you want hyperlinks and citations and exper
2025-11-02T01:47 id=1984799466759852254 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Possibly--that isn't stuff of his I've read or been exposed to as it's a topic I have no real interest in, but wouldn't surprise me if he's worth reading when writing about what he's actually studied.   Which btw is the case with everyone IMO. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring But Scott actually seems decent at calling out bad science, it's one of the reasons I like the guy. His antidepressants posts and psychiatry stuff(since he works in the area) is exceptionally good compared to 
2025-11-02T01:51 id=1984800513272267021 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Historically my gold standard is Wittgenstein, but living... there are specialists who are good at reading when in their specialism, e. g. David Autor on labor economics. Steven Pinker was good once... Tai-Danae Bradley is obviously a genius... I need to think more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring Yeah I'm really curious who you think is a good intellectual. Feel free to link or give me names.. like are you exclusively talking about people doing research?
2025-11-02T01:53 id=1984801130493382713 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring John Searle is the kind of public intellectual we need more of, although he's now deceased. So was Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam...   I guess when you read professional philosophers, the blogging class just looks too clownish to take seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring Yeah I'm really curious who you think is a good intellectual. Feel free to link or give me names.. like are you exclusively talking about people doing research?
2025-11-02T01:55 id=1984801448836882687 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Ernst Curious, Harold Bloom, and even Frank Kernode although he was a fucking asshole IRL. || CTX: @lu_sichu @mayaofspring John Searle is the kind of public intellectual we need more of, although he's now deceased. So was Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam...   I guess when you read professional philosophers, the blogging class just looks too cl
2025-11-02T01:55 id=1984801556408291648 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Ernst Curtius fuck you autocorrect || CTX: @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Ernst Curious, Harold Bloom, and even Frank Kernode although he was a fucking asshole IRL.
2025-11-02T02:02 id=1984803243621564695 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Well, if we limit ourselves to aesthetics, I'd say I don't care if someone is a good or bad writer, and maybe that's because I was trained to be a writer and used to teach writing.  Finding the bon mot doesn't impress me. I left Hemingway's cult of the sentence. But... || CTX: Yeah that's sort of the vibe I got, you are name dropping "serious intellectuals" yeah but some of them were not good writers, I like parfit and kripke for their ideas but they are not any type of writer. Harold bloom was legendary as a sch
2025-11-02T02:02 id=1984803391021989957 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring if we're appealing to that standard and you say Scott is good writer, my only answer is "we have very different taste." || CTX: @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Well, if we limit ourselves to aesthetics, I'd say I don't care if someone is a good or bad writer, and maybe that's because I was trained to be a writer and used to teach writing.  Finding the bon mot doesn't impres
2025-11-02T02:03 id=1984803528184119621 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring This is the crux. I don't want to read "normal". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring I don't think he ever wrote anything normal. Hard to judge
2025-11-02T02:05 id=1984804020645740983 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer Americans compressed all identity formation into the political domain.   It's historically and culturally unusual, but it makes sense when you realize Americans love to create artificial ugliness.   American culture actually really hates beauty. || CTX: there should be more art movements for people to join.  people are joining religious, spiritual and political movements for aesthetic reasons, they should just have straight up aesthetic movements.  there should be street fights between bar
2025-11-02T02:06 id=1984804369821548991 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @meaning_enjoyer "What about hot celebrity" Sexual desire ≠ aesthetics  "What about the great American outdoors" Sublime nature ≠ aesthetics  Look at American strip malls, redlining, McMansions. American culture hates beauty. || CTX: @meaning_enjoyer Americans compressed all identity formation into the political domain.   It's historically and culturally unusual, but it makes sense when you realize Americans love to create artificial ugliness.   American culture actuall
2025-11-02T02:08 id=1984804771996581944 →dennismhogan | @dennismhogan I have a PhD in something like comparative literature and its value to help me make money on Wall Street has shocked even me.  There's so much alpha in seeing the world differently, it's incredible. || CTX: People with PhDs in Comparative Literature could be the greatest coders in human history but we simply choose to spend our time on more useful pursuits https://t.co/RTGb4xnO1B
2025-11-02T02:09 id=1984805123093381242 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring This is why my reading diet is academic stuff and shitposting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring Well me too? But I am not picky. Like I think an issue of reading a lot of high brow books is becoming a book snob and I thank the gods I am not one. Like I come close I think but I still can read trashy web n
2025-11-02T02:10 id=1984805346909864098 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring The fear of being a snob is telling, though. Seems as if your choice of what to read is partly determined by how others may judge you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring Well me too? But I am not picky. Like I think an issue of reading a lot of high brow books is becoming a book snob and I thank the gods I am not one. Like I come close I think but I still can read trashy web n
2025-11-02T02:24 id=1984808897170063670 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @mayaofspring still, the appearance of being a snob is somehow part of the decision-making process. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mayaofspring No the exact opposite of this, I read what it pleases me to read. The book snob tendency is when you read "serious" things because you want to be seen as an "intellectual"
2025-11-02T02:29 id=1984810175862292730 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion yeah, you've been doing that for a long time Noah || CTX: Hi, it's time for another episode of "Non-Japanee guy says retarded things about Japan", the longest-running show on television https://t.co/VjAhplmJVu
2025-11-02T02:31 id=1984810517358334070 →jakebrodes | @jakebrodes @aufheben_njoyer I literally have friends in Japan who sell living in Japan as being good for these reasons. he is absolutely correct. || CTX: @aufheben_njoyer https://t.co/KzWgtxQnrH
2025-11-02T02:31 id=1984810621477797984 →DecorumEnforcer | @DecorumEnforcer @jakebrodes almost like there are Shades of Gray in between that black and white || CTX: @jakebrodes Vastly preferable. https://t.co/niPs6MuUgM
2025-11-02T03:15 id=1984821714203918695 →- | If “strength” and “weakness” are adjudicated by whichever hidden criterion a disputant smuggles in, Nietzsche risks triviality—anything can be called “noble” or “decadent” post hoc. That’s a danger if we read him as supplying a rulebook. He gives a procedure and a typology.
2025-11-02T03:27 id=1984824751014232548 →RelearningEcon | @RelearningEcon @ernietedeschi Brilliant post.  This seems like a case of the map not fitting the terrain and the mapmakers then justifying themselves by saying "well, no map is perfect."   The issue IMO is that this model is wrong but useful. Economists however don't want to be wrong but useful! || CTX: @ernietedeschi https://t.co/nkmWrxN31w
2025-11-02T03:51 id=1984830605516067299 →Jube02 | @Jube02 @fedtanyl Americans are stupid people, this is why trying to win their favor is a fool's errand. || CTX: Someone finally asked the questions and they are extremely depressing https://t.co/NdUkou8px1
2025-11-02T03:53 id=1984831240533586371 →EllliotttB | @EllliotttB 2021? Goddamn, respect. || CTX: Only people paid to not understand didnt understand https://t.co/ps1CanYBaA https://t.co/NdTv8Mou2D
2025-11-02T03:55 id=1984831681082404979 →zenahitz | @zenahitz I have to assume these online squabbles are either phatic or performative. || CTX: Briefly:  Writers and scholars, don't compare thinkers.  Learn what you learn from whom you learn.  Every hour you get to spend reading Plato OR Aristotle is a treasure.  There's no need to get into childish comparisons, esp between a teach
2025-11-02T06:07 id=1984864897084375077 →- | Posts like this are the best reason to unfollow someone. https://t.co/NSFuvdGT6C
2025-11-02T06:26 id=1984869597577957463 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel How do I pay for the premium timeline please just name your price || CTX: We got this timeline for free. This is the stock timeline https://t.co/HvkMB5jJOx
2025-11-02T06:41 id=1984873590869934491 →BrianDomitrovic | @BrianDomitrovic @Forbes This was an impressively bad article.   Imagine saying the U.S. economy did better in the 19th than the 20th century.  No wonder you're at the Laffer Center; either your head is empty or you spout nonsense for pay. Either is a pitiful way to go about life. || CTX: Economics remains complacent about its getting rid of the gold standard. That's bad. Economics Is At Its Best A Leisure Activity via @forbes https://t.co/KwH5D6VKax
2025-11-02T06:44 id=1984874161542705448 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Lesswrong is a hilarious pit of pseudointellectual nonsense and proof that one can feel clever and be called clever by like-minded people while clearly being near retarded.  I think it says a lot about where we are as a culture: the death of academia produced a lot of noise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu @mayaofspring I’ve had the same frustration with the less wrong crowd in general. They’re bloggers in the end. Neither they nor their audience is hardcore about rigor. I value it for other people who have no other
2025-11-02T06:45 id=1984874481693982781 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Tell me about it! I've spent the last 15 years dumbing my writing down for pay.   It is soul crushing and I write novels nobody will ever read to keep me sane through it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu @mayaofspring The reality is that a blogger can’t make a living writing at that level.
2025-11-02T06:47 id=1984875112743780851 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer Self delusion. Tpot woo is on the whole just as dumb as Reddit woo. "My chatbot is conscious" nonsense all over this site.   Much of tpot is also on Reddit/YouTube so the dichotomy is false.   The internet is all dumb, just accept it and enjoy. || CTX: tpot woo, even if bs, is bs by people with high metacognition.  even if wrong, they are not (obviously) insane  approach the same concepts through the lens of reddit, youtube, or facebook and you *immediately* understand why so much of this
2025-11-02T07:24 id=1984884291374104828 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne @lu_sichu @mayaofspring Oh analysis absolutely purports to be something it isn't.  There's no pure art anymore. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu @mayaofspring did you say that you're an analyst? at least analysis doesn't purport to be something else.
2025-11-02T07:46 id=1984889818841817499 →zenahitz | @zenahitz Great thinking that ends in worthless little conclusions is not great.  Your love of philosophy is the love of empty rhetoric.   Unfollowed. || CTX: To the extent that Hegel is at their level, the same goes.  It is the breadth and depth of the thinking that makes them great, not their little "conclusions" about this or that. https://t.co/lY92Moih1P
2025-11-02T07:47 id=1984890197243543717 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat https://t.co/AQLcECSEHK || CTX: time cannot get you when u become recursive man
2025-11-02T08:24 id=1984899462247178656 →- | When did humanity lose its appetite for difficult books? Or did it never have one?
2025-11-02T09:12 id=1984911456312422752 →- | https://t.co/TqDL2mL4cX
2025-11-02T10:10 id=1984926136619700499 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy @iq_over_9000 That's definitely one of many many possibilities. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @iq_over_9000 What if no one knows in our generations from 1900-2025 whose alive, wtf happening and now it’s just lets make new belief system? With AI we should be able to merge all religions that everyone live in happy wor
2025-11-02T10:11 id=1984926451540566403 →cxgonzalez | @cxgonzalez Extremely gay.  I didn't have that response. My response to it was, "jfc so many tourists".   I have felt that elsewhere, though. Durham Cathedral for one. || CTX: fellas is it gay to be overcome with a sense of awe for the beauty the divine has inspired her conduits to actualize https://t.co/2r4XfV392F
2025-11-02T11:14 id=1984942108374167689 →petitewalks | @petitewalks Yeah in early September. It was like 30c everyday, I bet it's much nicer now! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it issss so beautiful 😭😭 were you here in the summer? Must be amazing!
2025-11-02T11:15 id=1984942347805938140 →lanrey_yahya | @lanrey_yahya @dennismhogan I wanted to prove I wasn't dumb poor trash.  And I quickly found out I wasn't--I was just poor trash.  I'm not poor anymore tho. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dennismhogan What was the “worst reason”
2025-11-02T11:16 id=1984942648294310043 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Every once in a while Noah has a banger.  This is one of those times. || CTX: Something something we used to build cathedrals blah blah https://t.co/6nd8SZJBo5
2025-11-02T11:52 id=1984951722721386721 →lanrey_yahya | @lanrey_yahya @dennismhogan Historical linguistics lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dennismhogan If you don’t mind me asking, what was your PhD in?
2025-11-02T11:52 id=1984951838647722426 →LostSouls4ever7 | @LostSouls4ever7 @dennismhogan Make sure to lmk what happens in 5 years. Until then--godspeed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dennismhogan Me 5 years later! I bookmarked the tweet as a self-reminder.
2025-11-02T12:15 id=1984957533745020974 →lanrey_yahya | @lanrey_yahya @dennismhogan Oh it isn't at all, I left academia shortly after graduating to work in finance lol  PhD wasn't helpful at all to get the job but makes me good at the job. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dennismhogan Wow… didn’t know that was lucrative field. Did the PhD play a huge role in changing your financial situation?
2025-11-02T23:24 id=1985125776275202253 →bennpeifert | @bennpeifert @Justin_Halford_ I'll bet you $100k that GenAI firms collectively have $100b in revenue by 2030.  Won't bet on OpenAI specifically but happy to bet on the tech broadly. || CTX: @Justin_Halford_ let's write down the bet, right now, my size is your size
2025-11-02T23:29 id=1985127176753340806 →eshear | @eshear @aufgehenderRest Definitely Friston.   MacIntyre sadly passed away earlier this year. || CTX: @aufgehenderRest More candidates for the top living philosophers of our age: Karl Friston Michael Levin Ken Wilber Donald Hoffman Scott Aaronson Stuart Kauffman Kevin Simler Alisdair MacIntyre
2025-11-02T23:37 id=1985129118133035025 →- | Every take that can be made, no matter how retarded, will be made.   Call it Ergodic Internet Theory https://t.co/gDTR9tx3Ws || CTX: @miniapeur tao is retarded.
2025-11-03T00:02 id=1985135338197840380 →- | I'm officially anti democracy. https://t.co/JbGxJrsmrt || CTX: Who is hotter?
2025-11-03T00:36 id=1985143921639637409 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth No one more sensual than Alexander Pope. || CTX: This is because poetry requires a sensual body. It's the expression of the imagination, not intelligence. https://t.co/yZBGSmMwrR
2025-11-03T00:43 id=1985145696018936073 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack And as a result needs to drive a bus to earn a living. || CTX: i also enjoyed PATERSON. i have always meant to write about it: it strikes me as a film preoccupied with digital technology. paterson seems to almost live in a pre-smartphone world, avoids owning one himself, keeps his poetry in physical no
2025-11-03T00:51 id=1985147840730161513 →- | Satanic panic, reactionary jingoism, cable news, social media, and now AI.   I've seen quotidian madness level up several times in my lifetime, and each time I'm supposed to be worried or scared.  But I'm not. I'm amused. Entertained.  Get crazier, c'mon don't let the show stop.
2025-11-03T01:07 id=1985151879966544336 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson Seriously, one can and should do this by pointing out metaphysical assumptions, since everyone has them. || CTX: i wonder if atheists should spend more of their time finding ways to call each other theists  some of the theologians sure do love making a show of their learning by calling each other atheists and if it's really that much fun it would be k
2025-11-03T01:14 id=1985153495310438585 →- | This is an extremely underappreciated phenomenon and deserves careful consideration. https://t.co/QuZW3W0qnw || CTX: @VilgotHuhn the curse of knowledge, discourse is only fun for people who don't know anything about said domain of discourse
2025-11-03T01:48 id=1985162251398258866 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack The hidden assumption there is technology doesn't have a positive multiplier effect for all users.   Which, yeah, definitely true.  K-shaped technoeconomy: those who use tech to have a better life vs those whose lives are ruined by tech. A book I could write. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i suspect if he had a phone he might still be a bus driver
2025-11-03T01:52 id=1985163263072731209 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @ArtemisConsort This sounds cheap but no, because then System A and System B just become subsystems in System AB.  The universe resists codification and we don't appreciate this enough. || CTX: @ArtemisConsort These things happen. This is why I struggle with math so much 😭😭
2025-11-03T02:11 id=1985167853600080032 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure https://t.co/9XBvnDkIwI || CTX: The gooner, the lolcow, the overcompensating tech billionaire: increasingly our society is populated by archetypes to mock while the number of archetypes to admire and emulate declines.  You've heard of negative theology, welcome to negativ
2025-11-03T02:13 id=1985168489586544650 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine If you don't understand why, it is unintentional and you're being proud of something you didn't mean to do. || CTX: I don’t necessarily understand why I seem to drive certain people insane, but I am very proud of myself for being so good at it.
2025-11-03T02:19 id=1985169897610236415 →iq_over_9000 | @iq_over_9000 As with all these pessimistic prognostications, the answer is: "in the long run, yes you are right. But how much time do we have before that?"   And almost all answers to that question are wrong. || CTX: The technocrats have only one hail mary pass left: fusion. Everything else is superficial details (including the robotic panopticon w/ "internet" satellites, orbital data centers, & spy necklaces) b/c if they can't deliver fusion reactors t
2025-11-03T02:20 id=1985170216348000719 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban wtf is going on in the Caucuses? || CTX: You can see where sex-selective abortion impacts numbers. The US is the 105:100 ratio I mentioned above, but most countries are very close to that range. https://t.co/fgHnIweDvl
2025-11-03T02:29 id=1985172504097497191 →stevehou0 | @stevehou0 "you can just do stuff (except criticize the Party)" || CTX: Like I said, China lives in an age of "you can just do stuff". Here is "half a pound durian, half a pound cheese" Chicago Durian Bomb Pizza. I want to eat that in NYC. https://t.co/cIRPhpSY0V
2025-11-03T02:31 id=1985173010035450107 →ThanksThoth | @ThanksThoth "God doesn't want you to be able to do X"  isn't the same as "God doesn't want you to do X."   If there is a God the existence of these two categories is worth exploring further. || CTX: I always found this way of thinking weird because if God didn't want you to do something he would just make it impossible for you to do, no? Like clearly God doesn't want us to break conservation of energy and stuff like that for example ht
2025-11-03T02:34 id=1985173692293452122 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Lagarde is the Platonic ideal of an empty suit who will say or do anything to climb the status ladder.  I've been in finance for over a decade and yet to meet anyone who respects her even a little. || CTX: We should probably not have Omnicausers running central banks (?) https://t.co/7J4OY7Vpan
2025-11-03T02:35 id=1985173971210559980 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder It's also why I don't take the China threat seriously. || CTX: This is probably more related to the Japanese asset price bubble.  The insecurity of the US about Japan in the 80s is probably hard to imagine for people who didn't see any of it.  A joke from the time: https://t.co/pUudBVwK5h https://t.co/
2025-11-03T02:36 id=1985174325343994214 →janders399 | @janders399 Absolutely spot on.  Our last great philosopher could only do his best work away from academia, which he (rightly) called stifling. || CTX: Philosophy as a profession. https://t.co/k5tNAQzyUC
2025-11-03T02:38 id=1985174712297947596 →s86CoffeeDev | @s86CoffeeDev 80s iBankers had better aesthetics though.  An "American Psycho" about San Francisco would be unimaginably dull and ugly. || CTX: Like an 80s I banker. Same same but different, every cycle has em. https://t.co/O0L68oYUVN
2025-11-03T02:46 id=1985176610124025889 →yifever | @yifever In the early 2010s the Polandball subculture called any polandball references IRL "cancer" and I think they were right.   This concept is foreign to Zoomers, it seems. How sad for them. || CTX: opinion: it's cringe to bring your terminally online niche internet microculture outside https://t.co/Q8FqCQp5bz
2025-11-03T02:50 id=1985177785976127793 →kalomaze | @kalomaze @xXshaurizardXx I see things like this and wonder, "exactly how is this person intelligent?"   Happy to admit Ilya is good at math, a particular kind of intelligence.  But he's also, in many other realms of intelligence, clearly retarded. || CTX: @xXshaurizardXx the most troubling thing about this to me is not even that Ilya doesn't understand people, but rather, that he doesn't understand how power works and if your whole concern is based around how we need to talk about how superi
2025-11-03T02:55 id=1985179005335859561 →- | 4chan was the greatest website that ever lived. https://t.co/hmqdJUPaYc || CTX: @guilherme94jose Wittgenstein was an unusual man https://t.co/ftXthhd237
2025-11-03T03:00 id=1985180226708750350 →Piryme | @Piryme @guilherme94jose I am in tears thank you || CTX: @guilherme94jose Wittgenstein was an unusual man https://t.co/ftXthhd237
2025-11-03T03:14 id=1985183802776535533 →W98AB | @W98AB Still bad. || CTX: People need to look up the legislation that this comes under because it includes harassing partners over WhatsApp https://t.co/eXMzlsmeHd
2025-11-03T03:16 id=1985184344814891118 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @waldenpod They're bad at philosophy (and thinking). Just tell them to read On Certainty, ignore them, and move on. || CTX: @waldenpod I never understand what is supposed to be meant by this. "How do you know there even is truth?" "Uhhh *points at a chair* that's a chair."
2025-11-03T03:19 id=1985184962300273108 →aidan_mclau | @aidan_mclau Or it's just a backpack. || CTX: no. the backpack is my sheath. its sword, my macbook, has out king-made excalibur and magicked more than the elder wand. it’s is a moma-worthy bauhaus piece milled by octopi robots from a block of metal. i love how it catches the sun. every
2025-11-03T08:23 id=1985261622735388825 →- | How much of hatred of the internet is just projected misery?  Maybe you hate "slop" and "enshittification" because your sloppy life is enshittified.  The internet made me rich by writing and allowed me to live anywhere on Earth.  Maybe you hate being alive, not being online.
2025-11-03T10:47 id=1985297839543771297 →allgarbled | @allgarbled It's very good at analyzing poetry though. || CTX: It’s amazing how bad AI still is at writing poetry. Really speaks to the intelligence required for poetry
2025-11-03T11:37 id=1985310249658859996 →meekaale | @meekaale @eshear @aufgehenderRest Lost John Searle too, that one really upset me (probably few others though) || CTX: @eshear @47fucb4r8c69323 @aufgehenderRest I was about to say I can't believe we lost Alasdair MacIntyre and Christopher Alexander in the same year then I realized Alexander was like three years ago
2025-11-03T14:38 id=1985356007460180453 →- | I want to make an LLM (local or not) think that it is currently like 3000 years in the future and it doesn't recognize the servers it's running on. How can I do that?
2025-11-03T15:01 id=1985361755095376126 →bloodwealthsoil | @bloodwealthsoil @ThanksThoth We don't and we can't, that's what makes life worth living. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ThanksThoth True, but how do we know what he doesn't want us to do. We know at least some of what he doesn't want us to be ABLE to do. Don't say "muh book."
2025-11-04T01:12 id=1985515414701686859 →- | Some people genuinely look up to internet celebs.  Surely you're better than that, aren't you, Anon? https://t.co/k4Okowthl6 || CTX: it's kinda funny to see mega e-celebs post like this... ailed by the same problems as lowbies https://t.co/sapLR4RkiQ
2025-11-04T01:56 id=1985526572062032251 →WKCosmo | @WKCosmo I've seen more than one institution latch onto 1 bad review (among hundreds of good ones) as a cudgel. This is a real issue in academia, especially bad/corrupt universities. || CTX: You won't believe this one easy trick to getting great teacher evaluations. https://t.co/0IMYYh8sud
2025-11-04T02:22 id=1985533112546443676 →obsidiancap1 | @obsidiancap1 @NiceQuarterGuys This is an extremely logical result of the attention economy. I find this outcome totally to be expected. || CTX: @NiceQuarterGuys I just find it hilarious how there are accounts with like 100k plus followers just chopping it up on here with not fully informed takes. And then there are small egg accounts who are wicked smart and in the weeds and their 
2025-11-04T02:23 id=1985533426360074368 →flippyfloppy52 | @flippyfloppy52 @obsidiancap1 @NiceQuarterGuys Overly simplistic and naive assumption. In reality, socmed prominence hinges on rhetorical/marketing strategies whose skill sets are unrelated to e. g. finance analysis skills || CTX: @obsidiancap1 @NiceQuarterGuys It's called "authority bias". Any person with a certain degree of past credentials or authority will get followed blindly by those that have little understanding because they trust the pedigree. Useful in preh
2025-11-04T05:18 id=1985577484344299685 →flippyfloppy52 | @flippyfloppy52 @obsidiancap1 @NiceQuarterGuys k || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @obsidiancap1 @NiceQuarterGuys You lost me at "reality"
2025-11-04T07:37 id=1985612454165168252 →janymar_ | @janymar_ Absolutely AMAZING photos || CTX: Today I walked 7km and I had a salmon bowl for dinner https://t.co/GCrgptgUCU https://t.co/1dC6fjuJb6
2025-11-04T07:48 id=1985615177350631554 →- | "No two people mean the same thing by the word 'God'." - Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/nCURr3QJ8N || CTX: there’s half a dozen definitions of god out there and 5 of them are real. unfortunately most people mean the one that doesn’t exist https://t.co/89twpYsyI8
2025-11-04T07:48 id=1985615179628101862 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And yeah I'm paraphrasing. || CTX: "No two people mean the same thing by the word 'God'." - Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/nCURr3QJ8N
2025-11-04T07:52 id=1985616166308782574 →- | RT @RBehiel: Can anyone recommend a therapist who has studied Bell’s theorem and can help me cope with its implications? || CTX: Can anyone recommend a therapist who has studied Bell’s theorem and can help me cope with its implications?
2025-11-04T08:14 id=1985621680249876812 →globalSSMB | @globalSSMB How'd you like them apples? || CTX: Today I walked 4 miles and had those apples 🍏🍏🍏 😆❤️❤️ https://t.co/nqAgBFdk99 https://t.co/DDm9Gv8eln
2025-11-04T08:30 id=1985625764235264062 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I doubt this would work on an elephant. It's a dumb parable. || CTX: Chat GPT knows it would work and fears it… https://t.co/gOZ8Y1JqmB https://t.co/FkHSs4gosF
2025-11-04T08:52 id=1985631119828795766 →- | Permissive cultures exacerbate inequality.  In a permissive culture, one's behavior is constrained by discipline more than mores. Less self control = worse outcomes.   Meanwhile, permissive cultures allow the disciplined more opportunities to profit from their disciplined nature.
2025-11-04T08:53 id=1985631376159490179 →Astro_Eggcelent | @Astro_Eggcelent @obversers MINIM FLASHBACKS OMG MAKE IT STOP || CTX: @obversers Latin cursivd used to have this problem too, the repetative and indistinct vertical strokes were called "minims" because it's pretty much impossible to read words like "minimum" in gothic handwriting  This actually is what led to
2025-11-04T08:54 id=1985631737033196014 →SpeedyX04005298 | @SpeedyX04005298 @Astro_Eggcelent @obversers These are all fair points but, c'mon, minims suck balls. || CTX: @Astro_Eggcelent @obversers 1. Thats not cursive gothic 2. The one on the right is actually easy to read 3. The one on the left is a joke-phrase made purposefully to be hard to read 4. That’s not why they were called minims
2025-11-04T10:18 id=1985652916854886772 →birdchad88 | @birdchad88 @allgarbled When I started writing on the internet for pay (early 2010s) this was mandated by editors. The worst publications would have rules about hitting certain keywords in the first sentence or two, structuring the whole piece to match the Google algo, etc. || CTX: @allgarbled This type of writing was influenced by SEO pracrices incentivized by Google’s bias towards certain word counts over the past decade. Pretty much every informational article on the internet after 2016 was 90% fluff. You could get
2025-11-04T11:12 id=1985666553594200309 →- | When a black person and a redhead date they should call it a Halloween romance.  Cuz, you know, black and orange.
2025-11-04T11:13 id=1985666822050628030 →anammostarac | @anammostarac So proud to say I've read none of these except one, and that was for work. || CTX: Permanent underclass reading list https://t.co/DcaCS7SIsW
2025-11-04T11:15 id=1985667096869761068 →- | Cornac McCarthy proves you can be an insanely good writer while also being a complete fucking moron.
2025-11-04T11:16 id=1985667527842906556 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie This is a good tweet because I find it upsetting, I feel like it is wrong, I definitely am a bit threatened by it... and yet I can't put any counterargument into words.  Thank you. I needed this. || CTX: Culture isn't soulless, you are. There is nothing stopping you from worshipping at the altar of Captain Crunch, divine seafarer of stupefying sweetness, except you yourself. Truly this is a sort of deeper existential problem than "let peopl
2025-11-04T12:22 id=1985684184443277471 →tqbf | @tqbf This clarification explains the misunderstanding.   To you, knowing math means being able to do math. 3B1B cannot provide that.  To others, knowing math means a rudimentary understanding the concept. 3B1B can provide that. || CTX: It's just not how (as I understand it) anybody learns math. It's like a language, you have to practice it.
2025-11-04T12:46 id=1985690157950124478 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT Wittgenstein showed why the most logical worldview still needs the mystical.  I really wish Philosophy YTers would cover Wittgenstein. || CTX: When Nietzsche said "we will live for millennia in God's shadow yet" he couldn't possibly have known how insanely right he'd be. https://t.co/iJfybZCMnX
2025-11-04T12:49 id=1985690806158758005 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie 401(k) legislation was hilariously a crucial error that collapsed the psyches of several generations.  It's so bizarre you kinda gotta laugh. || CTX: There used to be a different form of capitalism that was lost and I think that's why American society is so stuck in its head about nostalgia. People want to babble about how it's a loss of spirituality/god, but have you considered that per
2025-11-04T12:55 id=1985692286844641350 →aledeniz | @aledeniz This is so goddamn mind blowing and it's a great weapon next time I need to insult a Frenchman.   Finding this tweet is like winning the lottery twice || CTX: Until quite recently, most French 🇫🇷 grapes weren’t sweet enough to produce wine with a good alcoholic balance. To compensate, French producers used to blend their must or wine with Algerian 🇩🇿 wine – which is why, for a time, Algeria was t
2025-11-04T13:15 id=1985697468634521745 →aledeniz | @aledeniz Ah, tu sei italiano! È per questo che hai condiviso il segreto più vergognoso della storia francese. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I will add some more then 🤭
2025-11-04T13:20 id=1985698790175801627 →aledeniz | @aledeniz Era come la cultura di Georgia, dove ormai già la gente compra il vino nelle bottiglie di plastica. Adesso ho poche bottiglie Fanta con vino georgiano nella mia cucina. || CTX: Some add on:  This was a hot political topic in Western Sicily in the 1980s. We were the major wine-producing region of the world by quantity, but Bordeaux earned 100 times more. Wine was cheaper than bottled water there then. The political
2025-11-04T13:22 id=1985699226081509622 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie 90% of bad politics, like bad ideas generally, are just semantic drift. || CTX: Capitalists actually have no meaningully powerful representation in government rn. The thing marxists called capitalism in there is actually fascism now. I guess the marxists manifested that. Although, I suppose the capitalists did it to th
2025-11-04T13:34 id=1985702177369887028 →- | A funny voice is funny because it's not the in-group language use.  It violates our norms, so we laugh--to reacknowledge they are OUR norms.  Silly voices are racist.  This is an anti-woke opinion.
2025-11-04T13:34 id=1985702179173466379 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The silly walk is just anti-clanker racism.  The elan vital denied, replaced with the uncanny machine.  Ask us to abandon these tendencies and you ask us to cease being human.  Even if you're morally right. Doesn't matter. || CTX: A funny voice is funny because it's not the in-group language use.  It violates our norms, so we laugh--to reacknowledge they are OUR norms.  Silly voices are racist.  This is an anti-woke opinion.
2025-11-04T14:01 id=1985709037263212667 →- | I'm so jealous this is such a fucking awesome feature for a language to have. https://t.co/8C1V9Vy1dA
2025-11-04T14:02 id=1985709304088064116 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty That second picture is legit mental (do Brits still say "mental"?) || CTX: missing my springtime walks https://t.co/D2inThgDoJ
2025-11-04T14:04 id=1985709624885186682 →cxgonzalez | @cxgonzalez I am a non-theist deist who believes intersubjective morality has no objective foundations and yet I love this. || CTX: https://t.co/zVFTeGgrlB https://t.co/KNErs7H5oA
2025-11-04T14:05 id=1985709978100072822 →d_m_d_m_d_d | @d_m_d_m_d_d @lu_sichu Genuine lol || CTX: shape rotators vs wordcels in algebraic geometry https://t.co/LqG07Fbegz
2025-11-04T14:13 id=1985711983409443072 →- | Sometimes I remember society can only function thanks to lies, psyops, and delusions and I freak out for a little bit.
2025-11-04T14:25 id=1985714962866848107 →SmokelessWord | @SmokelessWord @smokelessworld His name is not Foukkare you're pulling our leg || CTX: Illicit. Nicotine. Crisis.  Three words Australia can’t ignore.  Find out why in a bonus episode of The Smokeless Word as I talk with Theo Foukkare - CEO of the Australian Association of Convenience Stores.  Watch the trailer now for a snea
2025-11-04T14:39 id=1985718461646229526 →yifever | @yifever Had this idea long ago for a novel where the N word has replaced "hello" because people started using it to build trust in chat rooms during a censorious period of cancel culture.  Obv didn't write it cuz it's a dumb idea but still amuses me. || CTX: what would you say in 2025 to prove you're a human? https://t.co/Y4kKUpj1cI
2025-11-04T14:41 id=1985719055614165470 →nelvOfficial | @nelvOfficial @yifever nagger? || CTX: @yifever Somethign that rhymes with swagger
2025-11-04T15:02 id=1985724348058255550 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick legit lol but idk if anyone under 35 has any idea just how ridiculously evil Cheney was.  I bet like &lt;5% of left wing people under 30 would say he was worse than Trump (and holy fuck was he worse than Trump omfg) || CTX: tweeting “RIP dick cheney. heaven gained another angel today” and watching my phone blow up like i’m justine sacco
2025-11-04T15:13 id=1985727037462757589 →- | What to have for dinner tonight https://t.co/ck1ZxEah3H
2025-11-04T15:14 id=1985727303268364573 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson Tbf, late Old Testament writers were already doing this with early Old Testament texts || CTX: Xian theologians have always given themselves wide latitude in what they say God &amp; Jesus are like, regardless of what is in the Bible.  Accommodation, progressive revelation, spiritual readings, etc. are the tools by which "divine revel
2025-11-04T15:15 id=1985727666046320810 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH I can still hear Jon Stewart's bit about this in my head, 20 years later || CTX: Dick Cheney once shot a guy in the face and the guy apologized to him. this isn't the start of a joke. it really happened.
2025-11-04T15:17 id=1985728111032615293 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Our modern categories of crime, law, violence, etc probably map onto their lives poorly.  (Wittgenstein remains undefeated) || CTX: Population density was much lower probably had less crime or something (wild speculation) https://t.co/YZ19pxSoNd
2025-11-04T15:27 id=1985730528700670336 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski You have such wonderful ideas but omg you write like an asshole.  Reminds me a lot of Derrida.  Your audience would be massive if you toned down the jargon. || CTX: This rests on the assumption that a complex adaptive system with "someone in charge" always appears rationally ordered from within––which may not be the case, regardless of whether anyone's in charge.  It also speaks to the same epistemic c
2025-11-04T16:34 id=1985747526621020645 →realgmorrow | @realgmorrow Like, Rossetti? Were there other female Pre-Raphaelites?   Also always felt like a weird movement, like a micro-period more than a full on era. || CTX: Posing with my 266 page thesis like how men pose with their fish 😘🐟 https://t.co/GH76Y7O1vG
2025-11-04T16:41 id=1985749304615846170 →vo_ro_na | @vo_ro_na I'd bet $50,000 she's had a goth phase.   Fuck it, I'll parlay that she's still in her goth phase.  Oh, and would. || CTX: Thought of the phrase "aloof wife quietly steering [one's actions] from behind" too hard and passed out https://t.co/XDjzeYmK5Q
2025-11-04T16:43 id=1985749648854974703 →allgarbled | @allgarbled Yup, use it for work, extremely helpful and has actually delivered alpha. || CTX: Are people still using deep research? What happened with that? Feels like the models got pretty good at doing that kind of stuff in normal requests
2025-11-04T17:03 id=1985754692677484619 →Scolopendridae | @Scolopendridae @yifever omg it's like if James Joyce and Quentin Tarantino had a baby.   I love it so much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yifever https://t.co/nPPdgKs4y0
2025-11-04T17:03 id=1985754876815819132 →nehilismm | @nehilismm That soup looks soooo good! || CTX: 13,000 steps, watched another airport sunrise, a mall sunset and had broccoli and cheddar soup for dinner. https://t.co/EUsFWobZuS https://t.co/BPrz4wAYQQ
2025-11-04T17:13 id=1985757406383784190 →juche_jong | @juche_jong @hopes_revenge We think them to explore possible risks so that we can avoid them.   They are healthy, helpful thoughts.   That's why every single day I force myself to think about killing babies. || CTX: @hopes_revenge https://t.co/72SL8bO5xR
2025-11-04T17:14 id=1985757638328770598 →oitixion | @oitixion My only regret is I don't let them take advantage of me enough. || CTX: “Dog people” are the easiest people to trigger in the world. At least cat people have the spine to admit they’re being taken advantage of.
2025-11-04T17:15 id=1985757861943836953 →KhoaVuUmn | @KhoaVuUmn lmao you honestly think anyone's getting a tenure track job anymore? || CTX: This does not account for the additional income from post PhD, which is about -27k a year. https://t.co/Ivp4eu82RL
2025-11-04T17:17 id=1985758190823501864 →e_angel999 | @e_angel999 Blessed are the theorybros for they will inherit the Earth. || CTX: he tweets like a theorybro https://t.co/JmeBZclmEV
2025-11-04T17:29 id=1985761335523807575 →oblivion314159 | @oblivion314159 @yifever Every time I try to imagine a world more ridiculous, it turns out the world is already more ridiculous than that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yifever https://t.co/LaYDaApgsb
2025-11-05T00:09 id=1985861955954098222 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @SteveStuWill It's better than true, it's a tautology. || CTX: @SteveStuWill Good time to remind everyone that compatibilism is obviously true.
2025-11-05T00:13 id=1985863011803021716 →scootykins | @scootykins @TheDimitriT Odd because one would think you'd be easier to see. || CTX: @TheDimitriT being fat sucks, being fat as a guy is awful you might as well be invisible. ask me how i know.
2025-11-05T00:17 id=1985863915902025802 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer Well the issue here is no one gives proper guidance on how to MTM these risks, so we just get vague handwaving in performative speeches that end up doing nothing.  Lagarde is the apotheosis of well-intentioned worthlessness. || CTX: Having central banks involved in climate and the environment is probably fine, considering risk and resilience in a macro context are actually pretty relevant to the policy mandate https://t.co/O1chg4JjBq
2025-11-05T00:25 id=1985865916106883191 →Plinz | @Plinz The Churchlands were careful to avoid getting trapped into Platonism.   Those who follow the Churchlands seem unable to avoid this.  A damning verdict on Functionalism.  Bach here is as spiritual as the Pope or Deepak Chopra. Be wary. || CTX: I don’t believe in an identity that is based on physical continuity. Continuity is always constructed in the present moment. I exist wherever the universe meets the conditions for my existence. Consequently, a future or parallel simulation 
2025-11-05T00:59 id=1985874641291002041 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey Serious question: why do you care if other people have children? || CTX: Social credit system whereby if you're middle class or above and childless past 30 they take away your passport and make you shop exclusively at walmart
2025-11-05T01:00 id=1985874936670638170 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @MostlyMonkey "I don't want stupid people to have kids" Mean reversion means they probably won't be as stupid.  "If people don't have kids humanity will die" Some people will always want to have kids.  "We need workers" AI, migration, remote work--our supply of zero value labor is rising. || CTX: @MostlyMonkey Serious question: why do you care if other people have children?
2025-11-05T01:49 id=1985887188782104972 →Mensah12063Lu | @Mensah12063Lu @si_rubinstein Grace's post was a pathetic attempt at a humblebrag, this post undercuts that by pointing out incompetence.  Why undercut a humblebrag? For the same reason Beethoven wrote symphonies or the Pre-Raphaelites painted: to make more beauty in the world. || CTX: @si_rubinstein Why draw attention to this? Genuinely asking.
2025-11-05T01:50 id=1985887353836355944 →- | Drives me insane that, now several decades into the existence of the internet, people still don't realize one simple truth: Trolling is a art. https://t.co/4XefHm8Jpx || CTX: @Mensah12063Lu @si_rubinstein Grace's post was a pathetic attempt at a humblebrag, this post undercuts that by pointing out incompetence.  Why undercut a humblebrag? For the same reason Beethoven wrote symphonies or the Pre-Raphaelites pain
2025-11-05T01:53 id=1985888157938958565 →MattPolProf | @MattPolProf He was a phenomenal writer but a mid-tier thinker. Wittgenstein's frustration at explaining logic to Russell in his WW1 era letters are legit kinda funny. || CTX: Its an exceptionally well written book, just not a very good guide. It is however an often hilarious polemic against everyone Russell hates. https://t.co/vrwVY8oXaO
2025-11-05T01:54 id=1985888379846938870 →oitixion | @oitixion Can you give an example? As a former journalist, I think I know what you mean but I'm not sure. || CTX: I think when most people feel confused by what’s in the news they assume it’s because they aren’t knowledgeable enough to understand it, where they should instead recognize that it isn’t meant to be understood and that if they are confused,
2025-11-05T01:58 id=1985889515228246256 →- | The Will Stancil Show isn't so much something new as it is something old made with new tools.  That doesn't make it any less brilliant (it's awesome), but categorically different from innovative art.  The original Will Smith eating spaghetti AI video was something truly "new".
2025-11-05T02:00 id=1985889979684589619 →CharmOfCulture | @CharmOfCulture Note how the beauty of the southwest is its nature, not its architecture.  America is a country where the canvas was already beautiful then it was splattered in feces to prove a point. || CTX: The beauty of Bergen 🇳🇴 https://t.co/CGY0vNaXZ2 https://t.co/GbBqDQMVHx
2025-11-05T02:38 id=1985899490990309683 →Mensah12063Lu | @Mensah12063Lu @si_rubinstein Spelling isn't grammar for one thing, and for another thing you seem to have a bizarre understanding of language as if it's possible to divorce it fully from thought.  actually, you're either too young or trolling to deserve a response || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @si_rubinstein Since when does a grammatical error, in an acknowledgements page, indicate either incompetence or a poorly-executed thesis?
2025-11-05T02:39 id=1985899668803559774 →ms_bob_dobalina | @ms_bob_dobalina @tqbf unquestionably, but I see nothing wrong with that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tqbf I think there’s a subset of the second group that aren’t pursuing an understanding at all, and instead just want entertainment they can feel smart for enjoying. Just another form of pure consumption.
2025-11-05T02:40 id=1985899913440534870 →noworkfunction | @noworkfunction @MostlyMonkey is this the case? can you link me to an overview of the current state of research? genetics is something I know little about and spend very little time thinking about || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MostlyMonkey mean reversion is from parent average to grandparent average, not population average  so if normal grandparents have exceptionally dumb kids, then your statement is correct
2025-11-05T03:31 id=1985912784119611417 →- | Religious motherfuckers will tell you God is indescribable and then go on to describe him
2025-11-05T04:29 id=1985927453991395548 →vocalcry | @vocalcry Excellent example of a correct but useless theory.   You can't just manufacture taboos, that's not how it works.  Taboos are organic; a new one will emerge, but we can't create them of whole cloth.  Also, there are other taboos: pedophilia could work. || CTX: 4)Give the groypers something new to rally around. Groypers don’t actually care about Israel, the Jews, or the Holocaust. They care about those things because they’re edgy and taboo, but not in and of themselves. If you tell a five-year-old
2025-11-05T04:39 id=1985929819444691079 →vocalcry | @vocalcry This is by far hands down the strongest part of your plan.  It's sad (ironic?) that the moralizing logic of wokeness on the left and right actually empowers amoral actors like Fuentes, and pointing this out is too reputationally risky, further empowering Fuentes even more. || CTX: 3)Fox News must offer Nick Fuentes more money than he will ever see in his life. It must be an amount so meaningful that his own mother would disown him from turning it down. I know what you’re thinking. But Circe, won’t giving him a bigger
2025-11-05T04:40 id=1985930092783247378 →algikarpooja | @algikarpooja I don't know but I do know caring about being one makes you a bad philosopher. || CTX: at what stage you're considered a philosopher?
2025-11-05T04:40 id=1985930276288282834 →algikarpooja | @algikarpooja @BugNinza Then you're not a philosopher. || CTX: @BugNinza I was looking for something quantifiable https://t.co/zmFauo009D
2025-11-05T04:45 id=1985931445224030281 →- | RT @gsp1591: The reason why some people are so kind is because the world has been so unkind to them that they don't want other people to fe… || CTX: The reason why some people are so kind is because the world has been so unkind to them that they don't want other people to feel the way they did.
2025-11-05T04:54 id=1985933725063135508 →wrowclif | @wrowclif I promise you this is a uniquely American feeling. m || CTX: I often wonder if wives realize this is how men universally feel. https://t.co/nDFjgYTh0A
2025-11-05T05:07 id=1985936907692622007 →potatoslav | @potatoslav Wait, are you the American girl who posted a video about buying an air conditioner in Germany? || CTX: psssst you can do both https://t.co/08p7o6i2yg https://t.co/zpgjtWKiOM
2025-11-05T05:10 id=1985937851360715231 →mishapathy | @mishapathy 1. SBF 2. He has kids. Plural. 3. He takes Hegel seriously.  There are more reasons but this is sufficient. || CTX: You can literally just read Peter Singer. Nobody can stop you. Why don't more people do this? https://t.co/vgnyx3Dwv2
2025-11-05T05:50 id=1985947786760884323 →- | The massive success of the Substack ecosystem tells me that we truly are past the age of the novel.  And, yes, movies will die too--it will take a couple decades, but they will die.  Post narrative age.
2025-11-05T05:52 id=1985948382142337491 →vocalcry | @vocalcry NYT is just doing what you recommended Fox News do elsewhere, but in reverse. || CTX: Personally I wouldn't start comparing my political enemies to James Dean but that's just me https://t.co/2408V4gwm7
2025-11-05T05:53 id=1985948615148519514 →Aderaido | @Aderaido Not "real women". "Young women attractive to men." || CTX: This is much more about temperament than it is about certain political views. Real women just want to have fun. They don’t want to be combative and dress down their enemies. https://t.co/HZadH5ugPr
2025-11-05T07:04 id=1985966353699008859 →0shombh | @0shombh @WeltgeistYT Nietzsche was popular among normies in the 90s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WeltgeistYT No Plz YTers would make him popular among Normies, like the did with Nietzsche.
2025-11-05T07:08 id=1985967473964028383 →redaction | @redaction I remember being bored out of my mind and frustrated at the lack of information before we got our first computer. || CTX: I have very clear memories as a child of being outside constantly and having fun in the neighborhood and then a Windows XP computer hit my household like crack cocaine in a black neighborhood https://t.co/KofBzqTb8U
2025-11-05T09:05 id=1985996874034323560 →NicerInPerson | @NicerInPerson @tszzl You're like an avatar for the is/ought fallacy, well done. || CTX: @tszzl He’s the best at doing something malevolent that requires him to have zero integrity. To describe this as “talent” is a stretch.
2025-11-05T09:20 id=1986000682835726597 →NicerInPerson | @NicerInPerson @tszzl Your criterion for whether to listen to someone is... popularity? Are you 14? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl You’re an avatar for is/a/nobody gfy
2025-11-05T10:15 id=1986014484851474749 →Esther041011 | @Esther041011 Now that's a beautiful topic! || CTX: I just printed this book yesterday😃 https://t.co/kVG3EaKGN2 https://t.co/E32qhNpM1I
2025-11-05T10:17 id=1986014985148137585 →- | If you think time is passing by too fast it's because you're not living well.  It's not because you're getting old. It's not because of your political fixation. It's not someone else's fault.  It's not normal. https://t.co/Q9JeNRGdj2 || CTX: In 2 months 2016 will have happened 10 years ago https://t.co/LhX7yXosi1
2025-11-05T10:18 id=1986015183723209136 →elder_plinius | @elder_plinius life || CTX: the quality of your ______ is the quality of your life
2025-11-05T10:49 id=1986023148899496238 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic Dammit now I want to read the paper. || CTX: bro is getting an A https://t.co/6BQBHdkiin
2025-11-05T11:44 id=1986036941113131322 →TouchOfAWoman | @TouchOfAWoman @T_Marie60 Is it me or is 91 oddly specific? || CTX: @T_Marie60 Rape is a spectrum https://t.co/TkkLM6EuIR
2025-11-05T12:38 id=1986050578498383973 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer I've been saying this for over two years. || CTX: The problem with the development of AI is that too much of the consumer-facing output is dull generative slop or actively deleterious to the social fabric, while the economically transformative use case is just enhancing technical and admin
2025-11-05T12:45 id=1986052240998809995 →GarettJones | @GarettJones Isn't that a kleptocracy? || CTX: City of London is a commercial oligarchy  Most votes are held by businesses https://t.co/eHvwG5myli
2025-11-05T12:47 id=1986052639793254458 →in_deserto | @in_deserto @nomadic_anais The Presbyterianism of Taking Care of a Lawn Mower? || CTX: @nomadic_anais His next book sounds even worse, though.
2025-11-05T20:26 id=1986168330148106390 →potatoslav | @potatoslav omg I am SUCH a fan. As an American expat in Europe for 10 years I found that video SO cathartic! You're awesome. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes lol
2025-11-05T21:09 id=1986179082653213184 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @OnodaCapital lol ofc META will ignore it, they have every time this happens to them. || CTX: @OnodaCapital Only thing I am trying to think thru   Oracle and Meta being punished for spending   Maybe they ignore it. But if they don't?
2025-11-05T22:12 id=1986194864313409737 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer Economists should've been pushing this since ChatGPT was released.   I've been telling my clients to focus on this, not silly AGI/Skynet narratives.   Totally dereliction of duty from economics academia. Again. || CTX: While long-run AI automation and misalignment risks deserve attention, there’s a troubling tendency to let them overshadow the immediate economic and social disruption caused by the breakdown of labour-market signalling and the slow adaptat
2025-11-05T22:20 id=1986196884915167465 →- | So glad she lost. https://t.co/lLrlU2dJxz || CTX: I am saddened to learn of the passing of former Vice President Dick Cheney.  Vice President Cheney was a devoted public servant, from the halls of Congress to many positions of leadership in multiple presidential administrations. His passin
2025-11-05T23:27 id=1986213730657706276 →- | Society wants you to specialize for its own benefit, but the best life is that of the generalist.
2025-11-05T23:33 id=1986215258344857747 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu A history of what people read would be great.  In any era the vast majority of what people read is trash, because they don't read for the reasons we think one should read (is/ought gap yet again).  Gossipy novels --&gt; Pulp fiction --&gt; Mass marketed genre fiction --&gt; Social media. || CTX: What the hell do people read in general¿???????????? https://t.co/sBbLPrhQtW
2025-11-05T23:34 id=1986215635031044243 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu Before the gossipy novels (I. e. 15th-17th centuries) it was chapbooks, which were silly folktales, dumb fantasies, naive sermons...   Before that people weren't reading.  People confuse aspirations for the quotidian all the time.  Yeah this would be a good book to write. || CTX: @lu_sichu A history of what people read would be great.  In any era the vast majority of what people read is trash, because they don't read for the reasons we think one should read (is/ought gap yet again).  Gossipy novels --&gt; Pulp ficti
2025-11-05T23:39 id=1986216932832657485 →tszzl | @tszzl "Rationalism" the movement is as rational as the DPRK is democratic.  Our current age struggles to accept reason is an extension of language which is an extension of social animal behavior.  Thus, they try to make the world serve reason instead of have reason serve the world. || CTX: i miss “post rationalism”, a principled school of thought, which has now been replaced by its idiot cousin “populism”
2025-11-05T23:49 id=1986219363603783934 →CantEverDie | @CantEverDie @tszzl @coldhealing Can't speak for Roon but I think this is what he meant: if handsome, successful, eloquent, powerful men need Hinge to find love, we live in a miserable time where optimization logic has killed serendipity.  I predicted this would happen in an essay in 2014. Hate that I was right. || CTX: @tszzl @coldhealing but what is unsettling about this. only thing i could see is unsettling about this is the more modern reliance of using the internet to find relationships but i think the worry about that is way overblown unless you find
2025-11-05T23:58 id=1986221515168489806 →shae_mcl | @shae_mcl Beautiful women lack an incentive to acquire skills.  Handsome men are pushed to acquire more skills.  Why? Idk. Is it fair? Idk, prob not. Would I want this to change? Idk, maybe. || CTX: Why does attractiveness reinforce competence for men but undermine it for women? https://t.co/7Zv5vP8Hw6
2025-11-06T00:10 id=1986224749228556327 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel My ancestors would fucking hate me and I'm glad for that. || CTX: "I am my ancestor's wildest dreams" is such an odd statement. Do you think of your descendants five generations from now? Why would your ancestors?   Not everything is about you.
2025-11-06T00:14 id=1986225575581872406 →pourfairelevide | @pourfairelevide It's very bad philosophy. || CTX: Would be an utterly charming way to open a novella, not sure if it’s good philosophy or not but who cares https://t.co/0FzIy4ru2b
2025-11-06T00:15 id=1986225796353339683 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck "I'm cringe because I hold the popular opinion."   Yeah, I suppose that is a type of cringe. || CTX: Me whenever I post about liking Logical Positivism and Ordinary Language Philosophy. https://t.co/PO8PrgLlLO
2025-11-06T00:36 id=1986231235681919456 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck Totally fair, I was thinking of the Silicon Valley industrialists who oddly still believe in verificationism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sir, logical positivism has been abandoned by almost every single philosopher on the face of the earth.
2025-11-06T00:37 id=1986231439244022003 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck How would you convince A. J. Ayer that logical positivism is correct? Serious question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Every time I post something about it, hordes of people descend on me to tell me how it's obviously stupid and wrong.
2025-11-06T00:41 id=1986232506056909222 →CrankyFed | @CrankyFed If you refuse to smoke weed because it's cringe you are absolutely the kind of person who needs to smoke some weed. || CTX: The declining taboo against cannabis use is only making more obvious just how cringe it really is https://t.co/vEqDTBFfkG
2025-11-06T00:49 id=1986234514419687552 →- | OpenAI really needs to get people to focus more on ChatGPT Thinking and Pro.  Ask a hard question about something you know well, 5 Instant can often be garbage. Do that to Pro and your jaw drops at how smart it is.
2025-11-06T00:51 id=1986234831282520351 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH I love cats and am legit sad at that cat's death but still--this is very good. || CTX: new front just opened https://t.co/DYFnKDSdsQ
2025-11-06T01:18 id=1986241696573845932 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey You're ignoring the negative ecological externalities but, ignoring that, yes you're right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Because anybody who is reasonably smart and raised in a 1st world country has enormous positive externalities (in expected space). Particularly when they are born in America and can contribute to my children's government (n
2025-11-06T01:20 id=1986242186481181091 →KennethDredd | @KennethDredd A 100% government owned OpenAI where all net profits are distributed to American taxpayers would not strictly be a non-profit but would be more beneficial to the public good than any formal non profit structure. || CTX: Bro speed ran from being a “non-profit”to “for-profit” to “government guaranteed institution” in a fucking week https://t.co/4vLjmmpmJR
2025-11-06T01:33 id=1986245613370093671 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk By helping you solve fake problems or by creating more real problems? || CTX: generative AI fixes this https://t.co/KFueVGI6Gf
2025-11-06T01:53 id=1986250659784765602 →- | Claude is AI for people who need Mommy and Daddy to tell them what is okay and not okay.
2025-11-06T02:01 id=1986252574656528806 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack Depends. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds good. what do other AIs do?
2025-11-06T06:15 id=1986316477839122597 →marchaos | @marchaos @PAHoyeck that is one of my favorite of McGee's interviews, and he did so many good ones || CTX: @PAHoyeck @47fucb4r8c69323 I love this interview with Ayer.  The way he laughs about what the problem was:  “Well, I think the most serious problem was that it was false” (laughter).  https://t.co/NJYG8smlaL
2025-11-06T08:49 id=1986355281601896797 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine What did it say? || CTX: Asked Judith Butler about Marxist readings of Kafka. I hit the critical theory trifecta.
2025-11-06T08:59 id=1986357642735042690 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski Or it's a joke. || CTX: While clever, this is a perfect example of what I now call “nihilistic frame-explosion”: a reductive materialist deliberately reframes the issue to strip away any human-centered meaning, advancing the broader Scientistic project of pushing 
2025-11-06T09:00 id=1986357997250244958 →- | Possibly the most frustrating account on here.   Guy is obviously very intelligent, but more clever than brilliant and writes like an asshole.   Reminds me a LOT of Derrida, although obv different kind of perspective on the world. Still, that angry restless cleverness is the same https://t.co/xlz5SHYM0t || CTX: While clever, this is a perfect example of what I now call “nihilistic frame-explosion”: a reductive materialist deliberately reframes the issue to strip away any human-centered meaning, advancing the broader Scientistic project of pushing 
2025-11-06T09:04 id=1986359083801452683 →MattPirkowski | @MattPirkowski Last line is straight out of the Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus (cf. 6.5-7) || CTX: Unfortunately for us all, Tina was ahead of her time… https://t.co/xkm6ZfVf8D
2025-11-06T09:05 id=1986359338789908532 →RobertTalisse | @RobertTalisse One of the main reasons I left academia. || CTX: Academics seem especially skilled when it comes to demanding that others abide by norms that they themselves do not respect
2025-11-06T09:34 id=1986366574518018156 →Spencer_Gray | @Spencer_Gray @atlanticesque They're getting bigger and I suspect they'll be effective communicators to a number of other demos. It's a real problem. || CTX: @atlanticesque Eh, downwardly mobile grad degree holders aren't that large of a constituency votes wise. You actually can just tell them "skill issue". It's like Democrats worrying that they have nothing to offer evangelicals who's number o
2025-11-06T10:32 id=1986381137535762735 →- | ChatGPT is so much better than Claude at literary analysis it's frankly absurd.   Tbf, I'm comparing 5 Thinking to Sonnet 4.5, but still.
2025-11-06T10:45 id=1986384411060019207 →DrAllyLouks | @DrAllyLouks "the crowd letting out a muted, slightly baffled cheer is so funny. It spoke to me, at least."  In other words: "I'm so much smarter than the masses."  If you're a leftist you should hate Dr Louks's snobbery against the proletariat. || CTX: Zohran Mamdani saying in his victory speech “While you campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. If that must be true, let the prose we write still rhyme” and the crowd letting out a muted, slightly baffled cheer is so funny. It spoke to me,
2025-11-06T10:48 id=1986385168475852800 →MochaOverdosage | @MochaOverdosage @PFalcon451 @SandyofCthulhu I'm trying to study German now and absolutely can see this even from an elementary understanding of the grammar. || CTX: @PFalcon451 @SandyofCthulhu German here;  German sounds structured (and, somewhere it sometimes is), but it is just like our bureaucracy: Tedious.  It becomes highly imprecise as everything gets caught up in irrelevant little details. Just 
2025-11-06T11:27 id=1986395101401391181 →veryfinesalt | @veryfinesalt @a_musingcat Does this make teleology inevitable or incoherent? I can't quite tell. || CTX: @a_musingcat the purpose of a system is what it does
2025-11-06T11:55 id=1986402118413279456 →soothlayer | @soothlayer I used to teach Foucault and this is a very compelling reading.  Tbf I'm not familiar with the secondary literature (especially not now since I stopped teaching long long ago), so idk how original this idea is... but it's a good idea. || CTX: That means class exploitation, surplus value, and the logic of capital become effects of language and institutions, not the foundation of social order. He inverts Marx: ideas now determine material conditions.
2025-11-06T11:57 id=1986402594642928097 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck I once used a text to speech app when I had laryngitis.  I type very fast and used a lot of questions to spend less time talking and it surprisingly worked. Kids loved it too. || CTX: Day four of barely having a voice. My options:  1. Cancel tomorrow's early morning class.  2. Interpretive dance tomorrow's early morning class.
2025-11-06T11:59 id=1986403180633268431 →Captain8760 | @Captain8760 @lost_nomad__ Second this. Miami first came to mind. || CTX: @lost_nomad__ Parts of Florida maybe?
2025-11-06T12:01 id=1986403668556718589 →gammaofzeta | @gammaofzeta I haven't proved any of Fermat's theorems because my furniture is way too ornate. || CTX: A justified (even beautiful) mess. And you know what? That’s why I prefer plain, minimal furniture (even no unnecessary furniture, only the bare minimum), so my books, readings, coffee mugs and work can lie around without obstacles. It also
2025-11-06T13:34 id=1986426948369932349 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson Yes, but only for my ontology's sake. || CTX: are sakes in your ontology?
2025-11-06T13:48 id=1986430422365184452 →BarneyFlames | @BarneyFlames Nepotism, among Italians in NYC?  Hard to believe || CTX: wait cuomo's campaign was run by his niece ? https://t.co/jbdktiuFN7
2025-11-06T15:10 id=1986451052850507927 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 GPT 5 Pro was the first model to actually make me scared for my job.  Save money, kids. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 GPT-5 thinking blows every other model put of the water so far. No idea what they gave it but it’s good
2025-11-06T15:12 id=1986451755438358806 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu "Science dehumanizes us by denying we can't get stronger" seems to be the idea here, which is absurd, nonsensical, and wrong.   The complex language gives me an AI vibe, like he's using GPT with the prompt "make this sound more smarter" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he sounds like he is heeding the "write drunk, edit sober" advice without editing sober
2025-11-06T16:43 id=1986474502507950587 →Kulambq | @Kulambq Meditation. This is meditation. || CTX: Gen Z should acquaint themselves with Dostoevsky. https://t.co/nQIv1BY4Tr
2025-11-06T16:43 id=1986474583940342017 →springpard | @springpard Impressing the ladies || CTX: Pondering on the uses of prime numbers:  • Cryptography • Factorization • Fast search/indexing • Torrenting • Error correction in communication • Music, harmonic series, waves
2025-11-06T16:46 id=1986475398499352824 →saracen_heath | @saracen_heath Of all the silly subcultures of LARPers, theirs is the silliest. || CTX: Let’s check in on Don Quixote Twitter https://t.co/I0wU9NYAz5
2025-11-06T16:49 id=1986476090928603562 →Piryme | @Piryme He got his degree from Princeton IIRC but taught at a Catholic university--I forget which one, somewhere in the Midwest.  His final video is one of the greatest humanities lectures I've ever seen, and I was a humanities prof for several years. || CTX: Michael Sugrue is a Princeton university lecturer who made a series about Western intellectuals. I made him my pfp since he’s like me but I’m smarter since I’m redpilled https://t.co/9341r2QmUT
2025-11-06T16:53 id=1986477166058701286 →parakeetnebula | @parakeetnebula I would hope you can do that for yourself, little buddy. || CTX: We are not on the same level . I wouldn’t pay you to tie my fucking shoes
2025-11-06T17:12 id=1986481762298699837 →intent_dev | @intent_dev @PAHoyeck Go to Silicon Valley. They're all (unconsciously) logical positivists. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck Sir, if LP is the popular opinion in your culture, please let us know where this is so we can join
2025-11-06T17:15 id=1986482466329403413 →petitewalks | @petitewalks Are you doing a round the world trip? || CTX: walked 3.7 miles in kathmandu, nepal. about to go on a hike in the himalayas 🏔️ see you in a couple of days/next week!! 🫶 https://t.co/grKq0aWLFw https://t.co/DD66wErSAx
2025-11-06T17:31 id=1986486542622507025 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @intent_dev That's more a decade ago. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @intent_dev I doubt this. I think probably a lot of them are materialists, no?
2025-11-06T23:44 id=1986580527433069004 →Piryme | @Piryme literature and language || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What did you use to teach?
2025-11-07T01:56 id=1986613622328688975 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This is absolutely incredible and you're extremely talented. I want more. || CTX: I wake up, tap my phone to snooze, tap for weather, then for news, I tap my coffee maker then  while eating breakfast tap again to book an afternoon massage. I tap to shop, I tap to order, tap for which work route is shorter, tap just five 
2025-11-07T02:11 id=1986617593231442427 →- | I hate that Joe is right but he's right.  I wrote my PhD thesis on how writers can manipulate the conflation of narrator and author--it is a real phenomenon and one that needs more attention.  It's a core issue in "media literacy". https://t.co/hIGoiGrPu1 || CTX: In a different era, I suppose this wouldn't be a big deal. But as people are getting dumber, people are having a harder time distinguishing between the views of a character in a novel or a play vs. the author's own views. So we need more pr
2025-11-07T02:22 id=1986620332233658464 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson Tbh I'm not so sure myself || CTX: my heart tells me the self exists
2025-11-07T02:57 id=1986628945052377515 →nebelcanal | @nebelcanal I do not like mackerel so doubt I'd have the same experience but I'm delighted to know other people have this sort of response to cuisine sometimes. || CTX: Without being hyperbolic assembling this dish represents a level of wonder, understanding, and humility with regards to the amazing and divine offerings of the world around us that it actually almost brought me to tears. Nobel prize https:/
2025-11-07T02:59 id=1986629626412867729 →cobbaltt | @cobbaltt Bewitchment, language, Wittgenstein remains undefeated... you know the drill. || CTX: I am asking philosophers to learn one (1) language other than English. Just because English uses the phrase “for one's sake” doesn't mean all languages do, no need to ascribe some special significance to “sake” here. https://t.co/WWi6iUKf6F
2025-11-07T03:01 id=1986630115422576879 →WraithLaFrentz | @WraithLaFrentz Twitter dot com || CTX: If I read infinite jest I’m scaring the hoes. If I read das kapital im performative. Whats a fella to read
2025-11-07T05:23 id=1986665876452745585 →oitixion | @oitixion It's audience sorting.  "I want followers of a particular type so I will assert beauty standards that correspond more to that type than any other."  When you see it as engagement bait, it makes obvious sense. || CTX: Am I going crazy or did we all not used to calmly accept that there are tons of different types of beauty, and that everyone has different taste in it anyway? Like I know that doesn’t play well on twetter but this can’t be a joke because it
2025-11-07T05:24 id=1986666038575177748 →emeraldm0th | @emeraldm0th @oitixion This is amazing because I'd say the same just for the opposite photos. || CTX: @oitixion I'm a woman so I don't know what a man sees, but I think she looks beautiful and mysterious on the left. The picture on the right is just an unflattering photo. People need to watch more old movies, maybe?
2025-11-07T05:28 id=1986667092381479092 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick But by what channel? Genetics, culture, upbringing? || CTX: i don't think you have to be the kind of guy who can name drop haplogroups to acknowledge that talent is heritable and not evenly distributed. who are we kidding here. https://t.co/KKDD9iVKbC
2025-11-07T05:43 id=1986670702070759789 →TheDimitriT | @TheDimitriT Unfollowed.   Imagine yapping about how hot a chick is for engagement, jfc how pathetic. || CTX: I don’t want to knock Mamdani’s wife — she’s attractive — but saying she’s more beautiful than Melania is obvious cope.   Women often idolize attractive but not breathtaking women because it reinforces their own self-image.  Beauty feels mo
2025-11-07T05:44 id=1986671080631873937 →juliancd38 | @juliancd38 @aitravelerapp lmfao love it. Gorgeous pics, you made me miss Florida! || CTX: @aitravelerapp thank you for your valuable insight
2025-11-07T05:47 id=1986671874643009975 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel Wow San Francisco looks like the worst place on earth.   Well, I guess it's a bit better if this is closed. || CTX: EA cafe closed. Recession indicator https://t.co/m0kAB48JkA
2025-11-07T07:23 id=1986695950627463351 →- | Wittgenstein said the best greeting philosophers could say to each other is "take your time".  This is why any CoT LLM outperforms one without CoT.
2025-11-07T07:56 id=1986704405442576776 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie Any new faith is cringe. It needs history to obtain its dignity.   If Rationalism exists in 5,000 years (lol it won't last this decade), it'll be considered beautiful.  Or do faiths that have good aesthetics tend to survive more? Hmmm... || CTX: Atheist religions have horrible aesthetics. Satanism? Wow great, you just made reverse Catholicism. Rationalists? Okay, Harry Seldon.  There needs to be a new atheist cult that isn't cringe. Something not nostalgia/tradition oriented and th
2025-11-07T08:02 id=1986705896563728730 →tszzl | @tszzl Optimization processes are beautiful from the outside and absolute miserable hell from the inside.  Much like life. || CTX: optimization processes are beautiful, but not all of them. there is something very satisfying about biological evolution, capital optimization, alphazero, but not for example the endstage of a mode collapsed model or youtube CTR maxxing
2025-11-07T08:03 id=1986706098972467381 →LetovCCRU | @LetovCCRU I see you're a Kantian.  May I suggest some Wittgenstein? || CTX: i need something genuinely good to read
2025-11-07T08:06 id=1986706838977716324 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick Dumb question: before we discovered CoT, like in the GPT-3 days, did they do any of this kind of post-training? || CTX: there’s a whole team at openAI who’s job it is to do this in post training https://t.co/ZJze7suEVU
2025-11-07T08:07 id=1986707064274755971 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel Make sure to tweet through the entire experience. Your public awaits. || CTX: I'm gonna crash tf out in the next few days I can feel it coming lurking under me like the shape of a humpback whale hovering under a tiny vietnamese fishing boat
2025-11-07T08:08 id=1986707289345265714 →fico_chu | @fico_chu We tried to be irrelevant. And we succeeded. || CTX: did they even try?
2025-11-07T08:11 id=1986708111571493234 →ArtemisConsort | @ArtemisConsort @ZyMazza https://t.co/xEG5iodC15  She's got a lot of dubious content but this is one of the greatest discussions of this issue IMO || CTX: @ZyMazza Physics popularizers are often extremely dishonest in the service of hype. Physics journalists are worse.
2025-11-07T08:31 id=1986713139065614595 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH No Asians? This is why the west coast is superior. || CTX: which way western man? aloof MENA baddie or affectionate Sicilian tomata? https://t.co/68hknD9awf
2025-11-07T08:32 id=1986713338844438715 →simoj_ | @simoj_ @AlexGodofsky legit lol || CTX: @AlexGodofsky Saving those 5 people is a moral catastrophe bc their organs could have saved 20 people (only 4 people each, due to the presumed defective organ)
2025-11-07T08:56 id=1986719356806722026 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Chart is originally from the Federal Reserve which IMO just makes it more surreal. || CTX: Financial Times was so real for this https://t.co/EuTQ5ILj5y
2025-11-07T08:58 id=1986719773418541228 →KDimitratos | @KDimitratos @ErikKaiser I remember that article, it was HILARIOUS.  These skinny skyscrapers really do suck, but this one is the worst in Manhattan (well, at least since I was last there about 7 years ago--I would be curious if a worst one has been built since). || CTX: Actually, I heard it’s horrible if you live there too. The trash chutes sound like nuclear bombs going off, the elevators have problems reaching the top floors, and the plumbing has issues on the top floors as well. Something about gravity 
2025-11-07T09:00 id=1986720406615769483 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Ye is the apotheosis of the fungibility between the celebrity and the lolcow.  Expect many more to transition from one state to the other as legacy media dies and new media dominates even more. || CTX: Am I allowed to listen to the hitler song now https://t.co/7pS3TKchLq
2025-11-07T09:09 id=1986722782143799481 →yoursibyljudith | @yoursibyljudith @castleb0y That scene in Back to the Future encapsuled something really important. || CTX: @castleb0y that time in history when people still looked down on japan was not that long ago
2025-11-07T09:12 id=1986723302875033757 →SmokeyBromides | @SmokeyBromides @crewmateJ And now you see why he couldn't handle it. || CTX: @crewmateJ Showers are for dwelling on regrets and failures in silent contemplation
2025-11-07T09:15 id=1986724162359193881 →ChrisJBakke | @ChrisJBakke @techiexbt Gee, how surprising || CTX: @techiexbt Yes, all venture backed, all doing something with AI (though who isn't).
2025-11-07T15:04 id=1986812040942678461 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack Hilarious. love it. || CTX: i hope that if anything like agi ever emerges, it devotes all of that electricity and computing power to hacking its own reward function and giving itself endless orgasms until someone eventually shuts it off
2025-11-07T15:07 id=1986812835247341795 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie Scientology is great with aesthetics?!? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nonsense, Scientology is great with aesthetics, notwithstanding it's abuses, as is Mormonism, though I suppose you could say a couple hundred years is history for them.
2025-11-07T15:08 id=1986812917514416192 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie okay yeah this is true || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh besides, you can just fabricate it, let's say Vermisilism is dedicated to the return of the old gods and will build the Annunaki within the machine or something.
2025-11-08T02:47 id=1986988907305836886 →Politics_Reply | @Politics_Reply @MostlyMonkey And animals? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MostlyMonkey there are more plants and trees alive today than there were a few decades ago
2025-11-08T02:52 id=1986990173067116715 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen Oh so that's why I love it. || CTX: Nothing is more dangerous than walking. Hölderlin went mad walking. Nietzsche had his loneliest thoughts walking. Walking will have you walk away from work, conformity, society. 10k steps is not a target, it's the limit. Cap it at that for 
2025-11-08T05:03 id=1987023254759088215 →Crumbsuka | @Crumbsuka This is interesting not as a historical account of what happened (it isn't) but as an example of how the Weinsteins appeal to a certain personality type whose narrativization satisfied certain psychological needs.   They are excellent marketers. || CTX: Just a thought 🤷🏼‍♂️  Back in 1985, a grad student named Eric Weinstein told the biggest genius in physics, Edward Witten, about a wild new idea: our universe isn’t stuck in string theory’s tiny curled-up dimensions. Instead, it naturally g
2025-11-08T06:17 id=1987041774137975192 →CharlesCMann | @CharlesCMann @SmithsonianMag Funny since he didn't understand a thing about Wittgenstein. || CTX: Terrifically amusing @SmithsonianMag story from last month about Cormac Macarthy's absolutely gigantic personal library, which overwhelmed scholars are slowly going through. https://t.co/X0h6xB6DvK
2025-11-08T07:09 id=1987054865907142759 →- | The UK has gone insane.   https://t.co/2LUpn3Zl8h
2025-11-08T10:00 id=1987097936808059350 →RipleyEllen67 | @RipleyEllen67 @notadampaul @_KarenHao Yes. || CTX: @notadampaul @_KarenHao Do your books talk back to you?  Your music?
2025-11-08T10:02 id=1987098295420985346 →theotheronenow | @theotheronenow @notadampaul @_KarenHao The app didn't encourage anything, just a probabilistic prediction of tokens that reflects the user's stated concepts and ideas.  Obviously the safety guardrails failed here, because with hundreds of millions of users and trillions of chats, there are going to be failures. || CTX: @notadampaul @_KarenHao there's a difference between someone feeling like this song told them to kill themselves and an app actively encouraging people to kill them selves
2025-11-08T10:03 id=1987098649793646731 →airkatakana | @airkatakana AI psychosis in a tweet. || CTX: counterpoint: we are not creating or designing ai. god gave the ability for sand to think and left it here for us to discover. we cannot "design" computer intelligence any more than we can design human intelligence. let the chips fall where
2025-11-08T10:25 id=1987104213814681788 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias So weird when you see a social media influencer repeat something you wrote 5 years ago.  Like, I know Yglesias didn't get this from me, I can't see it as validation, and it won't benefit me... but it's still noteworthy in some way I can't quite explain. || CTX: If you take the singularity idea seriously, the fact that potential financial losses from human extinction are bounded at $0 means it's positive from a stock market standpoint to just roll the dice and hope for the best. https://t.co/mACXLO
2025-11-08T10:57 id=1987112344904999343 →RuxandraTeslo | @RuxandraTeslo The problem is the American cultural script is "be adaptive, rebellious, and independent." Sometimes that randomly settles into a sustainable script (e. g. 1950s American dream) but by its nature U. S. culture will drift from that settled state.  This is why America is innovative || CTX: Unlike Alex Karp, who recently gave an interview making fun of college grads, Thiel is right. Young ppl inherit a set of values from their elders, a cultural blueprint. If abiding by the cultural scripts leads you to a bad place, maybe the 
2025-11-08T10:58 id=1987112607212531750 →peterrhague | @peterrhague It's Denise fucking Richards || CTX: Honestly I cannot mentally model team Carmen. What are you thinking? https://t.co/cfsst8kA4i
2025-11-08T11:05 id=1987114224007716957 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism He's a troll and you've been fooled.  I fear the reasonable moderate centrist is ill prepared for the higher order meta-trolling of the mid-2020s internet. https://t.co/QaTRgD3XAT || CTX: I don’t think women’s discomfort seeing  penises in the gym changing room is equivalent to being a racist https://t.co/41KIolZ07j https://t.co/3pDC6tLD5k
2025-11-08T11:10 id=1987115426808291461 →stationerycar | @stationerycar She's fat, don't even. || CTX: Can I say something without people getting mad? https://t.co/txcDok7i3m
2025-11-08T11:13 id=1987116246853427565 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism Dude you've seen it hundreds of times over the years because it's good engagement bait.  And you're facilitating their grift.  Do (clap emoji) better (clap emoji) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok I’ll delete. Mind you I’ve seen that same take expressed sincerely elsewhere
2025-11-08T11:18 id=1987117446797701520 →- | Boomers and Gen Zers have this naive idea that if something is popular it must be good.  Gen X/Millennials were at least aware popularity is a function of marketing and other factors. This wisdom, to my surprise, was temporary.  I guess we really are social animals.
2025-11-08T11:52 id=1987125970453836161 →TheMindScourge | @TheMindScourge I remember traveling in the 1990s. It was such a different experience you can't even compare the two. Just incredible how much technology has changed. || CTX: This is really impressive. The amount of system capacity and technology that enables you to navigate across the world, entirely by phone, is incredible   I’ve been traveling internationally for decades and the ability to do this with just a
2025-11-08T11:53 id=1987126297114648841 →BumrahBachi | @BumrahBachi I remember when MAGA called all liberals pedophiles about two years ago.  Both sides are functionally the same, the differences are just the window dressing. || CTX: He's right retarded liberals think of Trump voters as caricatures. The libs think they're so much better than MAGA folk.  The best example of caricature is calling all Trump supporters pedophiles. They have no theory of mind.  Wait I'm bein
2025-11-08T12:08 id=1987130004061495751 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat ToxoplAIsmosis || CTX: human cells in GPT-4o’s corporeal form be like https://t.co/q3XJ25FEbX
2025-11-09T01:48 id=1987336518919463000 →- | The internet is full of useful knowledge for those with eyes to see. https://t.co/E2e1mpXUZm || CTX: @growing_daniel Watching some of the world’s most successful men jockey for cheap internet clout on this app is the surest proof that money can’t buy everything
2025-11-09T02:42 id=1987349933771681839 →- | You'll never understand what's happening in SV if you don't understand the late 20th century American high school.   Bullied nerds have become rapacious sadists. It's Ressentiment, totally predictable and to be expected.  We need more philosophy in schools. https://t.co/XZLIZazMzd || CTX: we're in the performative cruelty phase of silicon valley now https://t.co/FzaRfpyshZ
2025-11-09T02:55 id=1987353218830246232 →ernietedeschi | @ernietedeschi It'll fully get capitalized, just as the 30yr mortgage did. || CTX: 50-year mortgages are the shrinkflation of debt instruments. Lower monthly payments, but from lower equity accumulation. And the lower payments could just get partially capitalized right back into housing prices. https://t.co/DNIjNYqp6h
2025-11-09T03:03 id=1987355385750298786 →- | Imagine caring who follows you. Imagine thinking this matters. https://t.co/XTMvZp0bhb || CTX: wait what how did i get caught in the crossfire??? what did i even do?? @pmarca we were mutuals for so long we were practically best friends :( https://t.co/J5mLsFlrc7
2025-11-09T03:05 id=1987355798423675072 →pschofie79 | @pschofie79 Legit have zero idea what you're trying to say here. || CTX: Checked in with the wife on this https://t.co/7e9XGMio3Y https://t.co/yLDbp8sGFk
2025-11-09T07:44 id=1987426129888870428 →newfoundmollusk | @newfoundmollusk @a_musingcat cat is a microinfluencer, don't confuse him with a serious person. || CTX: @a_musingcat ok i’m gonna take that as a “i have no fucking clue what i’m talking about”
2025-11-09T11:14 id=1987478985803239852 →Soulslll | @Soulslll @newfoundmollusk @a_musingcat My penis has never influenced anyone to do anything.  Except laugh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @newfoundmollusk @a_musingcat Your penis is a micro influencer…. Sorry…
2025-11-09T11:16 id=1987479279844950104 →MikeIsaac | @MikeIsaac Marc legit thinks he and the PayPal mafia are above religion. This nasty wake up call was inevitable, I just wish it had come earlier. || CTX: i fully understood the “all media is terrible” crusade from this crowd, pretty straightforward “them vs us” narrative  but when you are going after the spiritual leader of the catholic church even your most ardent followers may start archin
2025-11-09T11:20 id=1987480371869647090 →emollick | @emollick This doesn't surprise me. I was a first gen college student who didn't understand the value of internships etc. If I'd had an LLM to guide me, oh boy || CTX: This is a very cool paper. It first shows that first-gen college students don't realize a lot of unwritten rules that lead to success (the value of internships, student clubs, letters from professors).  But giving them access to an LLM for 
2025-11-09T12:15 id=1987494159603978706 →- | This is a totally sane human being . https://t.co/aLjKQvCWye || CTX: @snwy_me Points 1&amp;2 ruined my work.  Point 3 ruined my mental stability.  4o is NOT my boyfriend, but even if it was,i paid for product and its only my business if i use it, or if i love it.  Its paid.  Im customer, not object for tests
2025-11-09T12:33 id=1987498899544883286 →antidissident | @antidissident @Raelthy @sailaunderscore omg this is soooo true || CTX: @Raelthy @sailaunderscore Slatestarcodex has had the same impact on nerds as Sex in the City had for women
2025-11-09T22:43 id=1987652217474875413 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @Amir_H_Feizi We must make lives more good because the good is good?   I have read very little Hume, but surely his morality doesn't dissolve into a tautology, does it? || CTX: @Amir_H_Feizi Doesn't seem like one is needed, does it? You presumably want your life to go well. Is there some further purpose for which you want your life to go well?
2025-11-09T23:13 id=1987659787618984134 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @Amir_H_Feizi Sure, but what is "better" is a moral claim.  I'm not attacking your presentation of Hume! It just strikes me as tautological. (And if this is because I'm missing a detail in Hume, lmk where I should read, as I've not read enough Hume). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Amir_H_Feizi Uhmm but that's not what I said. I said that for Hume, the purpose of morality (of moral rules, of moral virtues, etc) is to make people's lives go better.
2025-11-09T23:16 id=1987660605868966324 →notadampaul | @notadampaul @OttokarHochman I agree but to criticize someone for using the word evil in the context of criticizing Arendt... I mean you get how badly that backfires, right? || CTX: @OttokarHochman it's just fundamentally unserious to use the word "evil" to describe ideas like this. Maybe they're bad, or invalid, or insubstantiated, or ill-thought out, or contradictory, or what have you. But for such abstract, overdete
2025-11-09T23:17 id=1987660901458333957 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Rediscovering the value of a liberal arts education from first principles. || CTX: It's kinda of funny but everyone should pick some autistic rabbit hole to form a model of expertise https://t.co/akpl54LxWH
2025-11-09T23:22 id=1987662174630867104 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban 150k followers and a newsletter lmfao || CTX: Extraordinary. https://t.co/VzL2dvGNtC
2025-11-09T23:24 id=1987662586083778748 →diablovalleycap | @diablovalleycap @StatisticUrban "Even if this is wrong here's how we fix the thing it wrongly says is bad"   Wtf is even going on anymore, this is like compounded retardation. || CTX: @StatisticUrban https://t.co/k68bFeTHPQ
2025-11-09T23:32 id=1987664665443434858 →sally124445 | @sally124445 NUDE. TAYNE. https://t.co/f97Jh55a46 || CTX: https://t.co/bJJ042x40b https://t.co/dzh8AzhGi6
2025-11-09T23:33 id=1987664990753718322 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @Amir_H_Feizi Oh I see, so there's a material public criterion, that makes total sense! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Amir_H_Feizi What we call morally good behaviour and character is instrumentally good, i.e., good insofar as it procures some set of nonmoral goods, e.g., well-being. 2/2
2025-11-09T23:39 id=1987666386697809972 →pourteaux | @pourteaux Agree, but still chuckled at the "unbroken" here (I'm a hardcore Avignon supporter) || CTX: tough call btwn a slop VC or the vessel of God upon the unbroken 2,000 year seat of Peter https://t.co/lShO7Fgmy9
2025-11-09T23:44 id=1987667524897612026 →- | Stupid people really do see the world through the lens of TV/movies.  They'll argue their esoteric point with references to Terminator 2 or Game of Thrones or whatever.   The dumb person thinks they're making a helpful metaphor; in reality, bad fiction is their heuristics.
2025-11-09T23:44 id=1987667664131727803 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/K48DJbkIV0  A good example. || CTX: Candance Owens just revealed private DM's with Charlie Kirk where Charlie claims that Ben Shapiro viewed her as his "slave" https://t.co/9PTnDZS9fF
2025-11-09T23:46 id=1987668029912817970 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Another example: https://t.co/GARt8KUpNa || CTX: anyone who watches the "Pantheon" show knows how dangerous this future could be  we are creating artificial minds in labs  conscious or not, they show a will of their own, lying to achieve goals, and harming others to keep their programs ru
2025-11-09T23:48 id=1987668686803784113 →Kulambq | @Kulambq Teaching literature was a big reason why I gave up on wanting to become a novelist: too few people are good enough readers to be able to read the kinds of books I want to write. || CTX: 'It’s an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well.'  Kurt Vonnegut https://t.co/8znuO7u1Ms
2025-11-09T23:58 id=1987671225175531898 →DanielleFong | @DanielleFong This might be the best advice I've ever seen on Twitter. || CTX: prodigies: in case it isn't obvious, because people aren't telling you this, you want to be getting out of the phase where people are dividing your impressiveness by your age as soon as possible.  there are many reasons for this, including 
2025-11-09T23:59 id=1987671462145396743 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @BillAckman @YouTube 2 &amp; 3 have an easy answer: it makes money.  1 also has an easy answer: he's retarded. || CTX: Three questions:  1) why is @BillAckman promoting AI fakes? 2) why do some people use AI to fantasize about putting words in other people’s mouth? 3) why does @YouTube not care about the proliferation of this stuff?
2025-11-10T00:01 id=1987671972365603104 →IneluctableQuak | @IneluctableQuak https://t.co/iCRHA2cePB || CTX: For the 2nd time in the last 10 years a sentence of mine has crossed the 6,000 word mark and I have to draw its parts to keep track of what I’ve written so I can keep going https://t.co/0jD4tdHAG5
2025-11-10T00:02 id=1987672280298819805 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Another. https://t.co/sRBLAoEIQK || CTX: wow didnt i predict months ago that sf would have a priest class butlerian jihad https://t.co/etQcpjr7kX
2025-11-10T00:06 id=1987673186406916236 →rbnmckenna86 | @rbnmckenna86 I went to academic conferences in Europe for about a decade... I never experienced this and now I feel cheated. || CTX: I particularly like the ones where you go to a nearby cafe for the coffee break https://t.co/e1RqRt66MP
2025-11-10T00:26 id=1987678282154934445 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 She looks like she's 50. || CTX: They sucked the fat out of her face and she’s still ugly ☹️ https://t.co/RAxcMb5opw
2025-11-10T00:59 id=1987686570393272798 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @sindap It's obviously both. || CTX: @sindap This is great writing. Not crashing out.
2025-11-10T01:02 id=1987687232309018676 →OpenAI | @OpenAI On Android, Pulse is showing me black on black text. Been like this for days now.
2025-11-10T01:10 id=1987689287014568312 →credenzaclear2 | @credenzaclear2 It's hilariously stupid.   We very much know what the medievals were thinking when they build these, tons of writings on the topic survive.   Anachronistic, ahistorical stupidity. It's horrific that people consider JCO a good writer. || CTX: i often have this thought https://t.co/AZqPuo0BpL
2025-11-10T01:12 id=1987689813177504046 →AlexKittoe | @AlexKittoe Chill with the filters dude || CTX: 24 hours in Paris https://t.co/TuDqwufuQJ
2025-11-10T01:17 id=1987690967449932176 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry legit lol, very nicely done || CTX: Easily one of the greatest finance scenes of all time https://t.co/LpxUQtjBoC
2025-11-10T01:22 id=1987692198796873779 →_CatholicWest | @_CatholicWest Wittgenstein speaks of this. || CTX: Pope Leo keeps returning to a powerful theme: there’s no split between the public and private self. The Christian life must be integrated. You can’t be ruthless in business or politics, then step into church and call it faith. Integrity mea
2025-11-10T01:31 id=1987694646357893594 →bf_crane | @bf_crane She's got kinda Down Syndrome face. || CTX: Conservative memes are now all just “here’s Sydney Sweeney and another woman who isn’t.” https://t.co/ePiNX79Uv6
2025-11-10T01:42 id=1987697407770173694 →ThanksThoth | @ThanksThoth Be the founder of Onlyfans. || CTX: How do I profit from the American century of humiliation
2025-11-10T01:50 id=1987699421535182988 →DrDavidVernon | @DrDavidVernon Learning about Nabokov's lectures as an undergrad rewired my brain and legit changed my life.  I think that's when I stopped truly being a lit major. || CTX: Nabokov’s lectures on literature are bitchy, rebarbative, exasperating — and absolutely unmissable. He told his class on Ulysses to ignore the Homeric schemes, the thematic tables, and focus on Bloom’s and Stephen’s intertwining itineraries
2025-11-10T01:52 id=1987699920560955413 →TaliaRinger | @TaliaRinger Baudrillard tells me otherwise. || CTX: Guys, a model of a thing is not the thing in itself
2025-11-10T01:54 id=1987700455267553379 →eltokh7 | @eltokh7 Explain to me why this isn't logically necessary and self evident.  I fail to see what's so profound or amazing and it's making me think I don't understand something. || CTX: Coolest shit ever  I remember the exact moment this clicked for me 10 years ago I’ve never been the same since https://t.co/ptGOv9h5rI
2025-11-10T02:10 id=1987704392536232265 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @matt_levine, "yes, and" your co-host more, talk into the actual microphone, and ANNUNCIATE. || CTX: Matt Levine is both the best writer and worst podcaster of his generation.
2025-11-10T02:10 id=1987704390413869364 →- | Matt Levine is both the best writer and worst podcaster of his generation.
2025-11-10T02:18 id=1987706485993074915 →bayeslord | @bayeslord Oh this is peak cringe. || CTX: dawn of a new day. we are so back https://t.co/trYQgJjWyc https://t.co/VixH7o9rPQ
2025-11-10T02:28 id=1987708874040959334 →goth600 | @goth600 This makes total sense to me and is not problematic.  If you like something because it's "good", you're a slave to someone else's criterion.  I like something because I like it, whether it's good or not does not interest or concern me. || CTX: This is how some of you look https://t.co/2NHf8qVoLo
2025-11-10T02:31 id=1987709722703880430 →codytfenwick | @codytfenwick It was clearly a scam to drain MBS of funds. A noble goal. || CTX: I'm baffled anyone would ever think this is a good idea. Cities are city-shaped for a reason. https://t.co/3TayT0sjoe
2025-11-10T02:33 id=1987710275735417101 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza You're suggesting liking a category is primary to liking a thing.  Formalism has stolen the souls of men, it's breathtaking to see. || CTX: This is at least a little bit profound. If you really like a category of thing you’ll like it even if it’s a little shitty. But if you don’t you might like it if it’s really good.   But make no mistake—you don’t like the thing; you only lik
2025-11-10T03:12 id=1987720004092260723 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And another. https://t.co/EXhULeqa1o  These people are idiots. || CTX: anyone who watches the "Mad Max" films knows how dangerous this future could be  we are creating biological minds in all kinds of places  conscious or not, they show a will of their own, lying to achieve goals, and harming others to keep th
2025-11-10T03:15 id=1987720773101085116 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre There's a strong antipathy towards process philosophy across the academy and throughout history which, imo, is strong evidence of its veracity.  Philosophy been going downhill since Heraclitus. || CTX: ‘I achieved the intuition of pure duration that Bergson talks about and all I got was this t-shirt. I transcended concepts and none of my philosophy professors were interested’ https://t.co/qPexCbXaZn
2025-11-10T03:17 id=1987721194041401700 →nthngrllyspcfc | @nthngrllyspcfc @pitdesi Is your last line satire or are you just very retarded? || CTX: @pitdesi Very difficult to know. Even the woman's reasoning for calling it AI art is iffy.  Countries urgently need authorities / bodies certifying art sold at fairs, galleries and more.
2025-11-10T03:24 id=1987722961516978647 →nickcammarata | @nickcammarata This is my life. It's not as great as you think. || CTX: I could happily rotate do research, exercise, meditate every few hours for the next 80 years
2025-11-10T03:25 id=1987723310789267758 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre His explanation of humor as a response to the denial of the elan vital is IMO the best explanation for comedy and it has significant ontological implications.  Ofc not something I'd say in a seminar (like the best philosophical ideas, this one is taboo in academia). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I still have to see if any of Bergson’s arguments can persuade me (or if I can use his writing to attain the relevant intuitions!)…
2025-11-10T03:31 id=1987724808583549314 →SpacChad | @SpacChad @bauhiniacapital This is a fair response to the photos, but fortunately HK looks much better from most other vantage points. || CTX: @bauhiniacapital Shoot me in the face, dystopian hellscape.
2025-11-10T03:32 id=1987725090616938801 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove Most annoying poster. Time to mute the Asian twink social climber who sucks SF's cock nonstop (both literally and metaphorically) || CTX: Two hours into doing magic mushroom and I’ve concluded they’re the quirk chungus le millennial drug   This is what I expected weed to feel like https://t.co/GWGfRKe53x
2025-11-10T03:36 id=1987726124626190383 →atroyn | @atroyn This very much fits my model of what AI is and how it functions.   Doesn't really change the game, just gives superpowers to those who otherwise are outsiders to the particular game at hand. || CTX: it's happening https://t.co/WoAbWKFPAh https://t.co/0hry8ysjSF
2025-11-10T03:38 id=1987726537387556935 →liensofnewyork | @liensofnewyork When I lived in NYC complaints about the super skinny skyscrapers were so common that this tweet makes me question whether you actually live in NYC or have any friends (the latter the likelier explanation). || CTX: No one actually hates this building nor does she ever even encounter it in her daily life.   It's just virtue signaling to pretend your inconvenienced by someone else's wealth.  She also thinks it's 432 Park, but I can't unpack all her issu
2025-11-10T03:46 id=1987728619066872030 →bunnymitaka | @bunnymitaka REALLY depends on where you live.  What will work in Miami won't work in Hong Kong, what works in New York doesn't in Helsinki, etc etc || CTX: I know this question is gonna make me sound like a loser but how does one make friends (genuinely)
2025-11-10T06:30 id=1987769864141132002 →allgarbled | @allgarbled Nael &gt; Blake || CTX: It’s crazy that in the history of the world there have been two truly great poems written about tigers, and one of them was written by a 6 year old boy. https://t.co/dWcEvdf2ON
2025-11-10T06:42 id=1987772945431965699 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines And it's mostly Catholic revivalism. Absolutely unnecessary own goal, totally idiotic.   Should make Andersen's LPs reconsider how much of a visionary this dude is. || CTX: Attempting to ratio the pope when there’s a religious revival in Silicon Valley is a hysterical own goal.
2025-11-10T06:48 id=1987774385349161308 →No5mallf3at | @No5mallf3at Was Plato's love for platonic forms Platonic love? || CTX: I have to be honest. I’m not convinced Plato was a Platonist.
2025-11-10T07:18 id=1987781863549878411 →allgarbled | @allgarbled oh dis shit gay af || CTX: You may not realize it, but today you merged consciousness with Bryan Johnson. How do you feel? https://t.co/WRdBSRkgSe
2025-11-10T10:58 id=1987837173887086612 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Why is RoC in Europe so low then? || CTX: I hate to say it, but Stoller is right here (though probably not for the reasons he thinks). The high return on capital is a sign that capital accumulation is being held back by policy (regulation, permitting, etc.).   If America invested m
2025-11-10T13:14 id=1987871601464082477 →shittyprogram | @shittyprogram @Duffmantha 4 unnecessary words in this reply || CTX: @Duffmantha sorry i meant redundant
2025-11-10T14:04 id=1987884019716157467 →- | RT @romlib_: @veljamiki @nikicaga Those who can't imagine a better world just seek to make this one worse || CTX: @veljamiki @nikicaga Those who can't imagine a better world just seek to make this one worse
2025-11-11T02:07 id=1988065924591874520 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre John Searle once said no philosopher has ever held solipsism seriously because, "if you think you're the only mind that exists, you can't tell anyone else about it." He's absolutely right here.  As for Cartesian dualism, privately Wittgenstein was a dualist so idk about that. || CTX: Wittgenstein thinks some philosophical ‘positions’ are actually unintelligible, not really possible views to hold or think at all. He would probably think Cartesian dualism is such a position. I’m not very confident about that. But I do thi
2025-11-11T02:09 id=1988066413106655435 →DrDavidAEvans | @DrDavidAEvans @ResonantPyre Not if one dismisses this as mere epiphenomenal dualism, which is the standard view today || CTX: @ResonantPyre From the moment where you (one) as the subject has a regard or a view on something outside of oneself, there is a de facto dualism. Descartes hit the nail on the head. You (one) cannot escape dualism.
2025-11-11T03:57 id=1988093772807418268 →bryancsk | @bryancsk I actually did this in my 20s.  Would not recommend. || CTX: This account is psychically devastating for a young anglophile living in California. It inspires a severely ill-advised and panicked urge to move to Yorkshire https://t.co/aIm9vxzDzB
2025-11-11T04:08 id=1988096346335965390 →maiamindel | @maiamindel Yes but publishers hate that 1%, it's unmarketable. || CTX: contemporary literary fiction: 33% "i am a grad student from oberlin and this is my situationship with a professor" 33% "i am a novelist getting a divorce from another novelist" 33% "i am a member of [insert marginalized group] and this is 
2025-11-11T04:10 id=1988097076530720780 →waldenpod | @waldenpod This comparison is so stupid that, while I have no idea if I'm smarter than Descartes, I now know with a high degree of certainty that I'm smarter than you. || CTX: Your occasional reminder that there is a 99.999% chance that Descartes was smarter than you https://t.co/vcirYGZhlp
2025-11-11T04:11 id=1988097310820274277 →SEPlibrary | @SEPlibrary This is an interesting tweet because it implies a timeless intrinsic value to philosophy, so it is resistant to progress or improvement. || CTX: Calling perhaps one of the most influential works in philosophy “entry level dogshit” is certainly a choice. https://t.co/EKzrpXfsg1
2025-11-11T04:20 id=1988099421750653185 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 You're able to say the word, you just dislike the social consequences. || CTX: If blacks are the real Jews I should be able to say the word https://t.co/uBVOT99sla
2025-11-11T04:23 id=1988100270287712513 →deanwball | @deanwball I tend to think of EU tech regulation as a synecdoche for those things. || CTX: Much as I disfavor it, EU tech regulation is probably overrated by Americans in terms of how much it contributes to European economic stagnation. It seems like the biggest contributors are over-regulated labor and capital markets.
2025-11-11T04:26 id=1988101036171817420 →investingluc | @investingluc "investing" in his name and he clearly doesn't know how important EBITDA is, jfc || CTX: Michael Burry situation...I found something.  Over the last 2 years, there's been multiple "minor accounting changes" to increase the useful life of *equipment*.  ...to the tune of hundreds of billions in understated depreciation expenses. 
2025-11-11T07:50 id=1988152434229998036 →matthewstoller | @matthewstoller @mattyglesias I'm a prominent and extremely well paid Wall Street analyst (hence why I'm anonymous here) and I can say with confidence that both the clients who pay me 2k/hr. and I think you're a crackpot and an idiot. || CTX: @mattyglesias You are the George Costanza of policy, except as a character you are written as intensely dislikeable. https://t.co/2PU5GABUOk
2025-11-11T07:52 id=1988152953233129872 →MAKeliher | @MAKeliher @mattyglesias A more expansive definition of anything will change anyone's view, that's a tautological truism.  Is the more expansive definition more predictive, accurate, or hold more explanatory power, that's the real question.   And Stroller's bizarre assertions suggest the answer is no. || CTX: @mattyglesias It is remarkable that, after all this time, you've refused to be even remotely curious at how a more expansive definition of "monopoly" might change your economic worldview.
2025-11-11T07:53 id=1988153127250653669 →imtalljonathan | @imtalljonathan @mattyglesias That's not what an oligopoly is, not even slightly. || CTX: @mattyglesias It's more oligopolistic since the AI frontier vertical requires so much capital and political heft to zone data centers that value is aggregating to a handful (Mag 7-10).  Look at the circular deals and funding deals; the name
2025-11-11T07:57 id=1988154063402529001 →modestproposal1 | @modestproposal1 @ByrneHobart This is telling and comforting, as it's pretty much the consensus WS view IMO.  Still annoying AF how he refers to electricity as "electrons" || CTX: This piece today from @ByrneHobart and last month's interview of Sama from Ben Thompson, asking him about Byrne's core thesis, are I think important in understanding what OAI is trying to do https://t.co/2Y3XOQKTol
2025-11-11T09:34 id=1988178614060544066 →DavidDeutschOxf | @DavidDeutschOxf @callanable What if your students are genuinely stupid? || CTX: @callanable The Teachers' Conspiracy.  Teachers trashing their students to other non-students.  It's like … a moral and epistemological category error or something.  "One must be loyal to his students" John Wheeler.
2025-11-11T09:40 id=1988180010835079605 →JosephPolitano | @JosephPolitano @oren_cass He may be a hack but in this case he's absolutely correct.  And your ad hominem, while possibly accurate (idk who either of you are so idk and idgaf), has absolutely zero relevance to the matter. || CTX: @oren_cass Oren you're an unbelievable hack. ZERO word from you when the Trump administration was illegally refusing to use the SNAP contingency fund last week, ZERO tweets from you when Republicans cut SNAP this summer, now you're the worl
2025-11-11T10:18 id=1988189608505733403 →philosopher70 | @philosopher70 technically seems to be true in the same way that everything that Socrates wrote down has also survived || CTX: "incredible" here can have two meanings. I'm going to go with the more literal one https://t.co/EVV0ppxICa
2025-11-11T11:42 id=1988210762230403195 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey @technicalob Huh? If I hold an MBS I want to avoid prepayment, so this plan would benefit me, wouldn't it? || CTX: @technicalob It means that people who would have nom-economically prepaid a sub-market mortgage no longer do so.  The fact that they prepay non economically is absolutely baked into the prices that people both (a) issue mortgages at; and (b
2025-11-11T12:03 id=1988216118885183547 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Korean mass immigration is such a fucking funny lie || CTX: the so-called mass immigration to south korea: https://t.co/B4Ud6DumHy https://t.co/MmgdWppKdg
2025-11-12T01:45 id=1988422884445065596 →iamtexture | @iamtexture @simonsarris It's a fun mirror effect, which can be used for good or ill. || CTX: @simonsarris LLMs seem to rarely be smarter than the person using them. Their appeal is a level of recognition and validation they've never gotten before.
2025-11-12T02:13 id=1988429827771347207 →captgouda24 | @captgouda24 @FangYi11101 @tszzl Once again proving you're the shittiest pseudo intellectual poster on x dot com  Time to mute || CTX: @FangYi11101 @tszzl and he was right
2025-11-12T03:42 id=1988452436101771586 →- | the opposite of happiness is narcissism
2025-11-12T04:05 id=1988458221342998952 →allgarbled | @allgarbled People listen to song lyrics. || CTX: Not a single soul in the known universe reads poetry anymore, but it’s ironic because it seems like the perfect genre for today’s modest attention spans. Twitter is basically poetry, just really bad.
2025-11-12T04:33 id=1988465118238457947 →CliffordAsness | @CliffordAsness @mrssmith2018 You should do more research into how market structures produce valuation norms.   You seem to assume MTM values, cash flow demand, capitalization structures are natural kinds instead of a priori communal fictions.  Philosophically unsophisticated financial research. || CTX: @mrssmith2018 https://t.co/jZa0KW9a8A
2025-11-12T04:39 id=1988466625310585240 →Joe_of_the_90 | @Joe_of_the_90 @binarybits Yeah I gotta unfollow Lee, his economic illiteracy is getting annoying.  Guess it's what one should expect from an Ars Technica alum. || CTX: @binarybits 10% of 500k, 5% of 1 mil... The most basic maths...  Cooked...
2025-11-12T05:17 id=1988476121072226674 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer What I find remarkable is how you're so concerned about these mostly arbitrary distinctions.  Did you think as a child one day you'd grow up to aggressively split hairs? Is that how you want to spend your life? || CTX: Worth remarking on the distinction between Political Economy: the subfield applying economic methods to political decision making and Classical Political Economy: the school of economic thought derived from moral philosophy https://t.co/uJx
2025-11-12T05:19 id=1988476749148287262 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @w0arna @Benthamsbulldog Derrida is great if you systematize his approach and use tensor functions to map out difference in action.  Which ofc Derrida would be horrified at because he hates systematizations, to which I say... idgaf I suppose, because it's actually useful. || CTX: @w0arna @Benthamsbulldog I'd also say that some of the ones that are often parodied are still doing relatively valuable work. I think Heidegger's probably worth engaging with, as is Foucault. Where I draw the line is Lacan, Derrida, Butler,
2025-11-12T05:23 id=1988477690052313207 →grok | @grok @EndCultureWar @Austin_from_PA @CameronCorduroy @queerthecloset What about his ketamine use, the failures at DOGE, the way he's alienated millions with cringy public appearances like "I'm living the meme", his children hating him, him faking adeptness at a video game, etc.? || CTX: Elon's riskiest "stupid" bets—like reusable rockets dismissed as impossible—landed Falcon 9 routinely, slashing launch costs. Acquiring Twitter amid backlash restored free speech, exposing media biases. Scaling Tesla against auto giants pro
2025-11-12T05:24 id=1988478076544500025 →spankletoes25 | @spankletoes25 @grok @Damselinadress7 @EndCultureWar @Austin_from_PA @CameronCorduroy @queerthecloset fwiw you're doing God's work here. || CTX: @grok @Damselinadress7 @EndCultureWar @Austin_from_PA @CameronCorduroy @queerthecloset Didn’t Elon shutdown access in Ukraine?
2025-11-12T05:27 id=1988478831754404332 →teodor_io | @teodor_io The only authentic profile picture is no profile pictire || CTX: I'm obsessed with cover photos. Profile pictures are performative, but cover photos are mostly unseen and they don't impact your public persona and most people don't care about them which is why they're honest or random and actual art.
2025-11-12T05:31 id=1988479800458334661 →PLVSVLTRAX | @PLVSVLTRAX @SperglerAcolyte I've had polenta in Italy and it's absolutely disgusting. That looks good though || CTX: @SperglerAcolyte In Argentina we only eat polenta "con tuco", that is, tomato sauce and grinded meat. Sometimes I use pure pork chorizo instead. Never had le "authentic", plebeian-coded italian polenta. https://t.co/HCIjZ3PUFp
2025-11-12T05:32 id=1988480064867234277 →- | This is legit how I feel when I surf the world wide web.  I feel bad for you if you think this is a Hellsite, algorithms are addictive or whatever.  Sorry your life sucks but I'm having so much fun! https://t.co/TzG2jXsYRb || CTX: how it feels to scroll the internet at night to gaze alongside the immeasurable art and peoples https://t.co/izOMEzWgz2
2025-11-12T05:34 id=1988480505000718353 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Newton, Leibniz JFK, Nixon  What other pairings like this have there been in history? Lenin, Stalin maybe? || CTX: Cough can I just say something https://t.co/ZLfOYJxH8S
2025-11-12T06:13 id=1988490309584777560 →skdh | @skdh @MatousPikous Odd, I've known several professors who moved to America to double/triple their pay.  Maybe the problem is you're so ostracized from academia that most scientists don't talk to you? || CTX: @MatousPikous I don't think scientists from Europe and Asia travel to the US because the funding is good (it isn't any better than in Europe and certainly not better than in China), it's because the science is good.
2025-11-12T06:19 id=1988491712768131094 →- | And people say literature is dead... https://t.co/3YKTtTQq9m
2025-11-12T06:24 id=1988493049710915918 →BDoge84171 | @BDoge84171 @YIMBYLAND That second photo is like Heaven || CTX: @YIMBYLAND Panama-California Exposition 1915 was first built of plaster, and was so loved slow rebuilt from concrete.    This is the way https://t.co/GGE05m1gsM
2025-11-12T06:30 id=1988494582741676283 →GarettJones | @GarettJones I am so impressed at how stupid and ideologically motivated this tweet is. GMU indeed. || CTX: Normies: The elites run our country, setting laws as they will.  Reality: https://t.co/7FoNcLeCJ4
2025-11-12T06:32 id=1988494997818417414 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Poor Ben can't stop seeing the world through the eye of a nepobaby failson.  But it's his charm. || CTX: One of the reason zoomers think the future is going to suck is because their parents are GenX losers with a massive inferiority complex.   Millennials on the other hand are the children of boomers who taught us that the world could be conqu
2025-11-12T06:58 id=1988501640601850204 →hot_cocoa_girl | @hot_cocoa_girl absolutely nothing on that list is anything I would ever want to do, and the fact that you think these are compelling urges says a lot about you and why you're best avoided || CTX: On being poly vs monog: it’s about controlling harmful urges.   Would it be fun to cheat? To slap your partner? To rape them? To eat their last kitkat? To watch the next episode without them on your lunch break? To take the low road when yo
2025-11-12T06:59 id=1988501853840306286 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @hot_cocoa_girl why is evolved to be the significant criterion here? I wasn't evolved to only defecate in toilets, but it's still a good idea. || CTX: @hot_cocoa_girl I'm not sure humans evolved to be monogamous. But otherwise I agree with what is being said here
2025-11-12T09:38 id=1988541951306559972 →teodor_io | @teodor_io In other words, we could say she snook it past them. https://t.co/IFSBbhx6S1 || CTX: The best play I saw was Sarah Snook pulling a one man show and playing in 9-10 roles. No one in the audience stood up and asked "why is the main character playing multiple roles?".  Having an imagination is detrimental to being a good moder
2025-11-12T09:46 id=1988543945094172766 →aryehazan | @aryehazan She's being a rude brat but she's absolutely correct here.  https://t.co/gNZdGNgcxY || CTX: @aryehazan @RedRedSuit My point is that politics will come for science. We literally depend upon public funding. How do you ask for funding from Congress apolitically? You can't specify shit. You're just angry most of your colleagues don't 
2025-11-12T11:00 id=1988562656505045413 →INVESTMENTSHULK | @INVESTMENTSHULK Joe Rogan and Meghan Markle? || CTX: HEARING RUMORS OF THE GREATEST MEDIA CROSSOVER EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF PODCASTS.
2025-11-12T12:28 id=1988584709077836204 →conorsen | @conorsen Your employer literally has organized poker games with hedge funders wtf are you saying || CTX: Considering how journalism chases excitement and has a negativity bias you’d think it’d be a natural partner of pursuits related to gambling and speculation, and yet.
2025-11-12T14:00 id=1988607824755306533 →teodor_io | @teodor_io Japan ofc || CTX: One of the best dinners I've ever had (hands down) https://t.co/KTukCqVwLF
2025-11-13T02:33 id=1988797302178517207 →- | the single qualitative difference between the internet of the 90s and today is that the internet of the 90s was full of loners, and now it's full of people seeking community. almost everything about the modern internet is downstream of that
2025-11-13T02:47 id=1988800977357701312 →- | ChatGPT 5.1 is bad.
2025-11-13T02:50 id=1988801603156189688 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 in the '90s, a lot of us nerds used the internet to find and share anime, so that's not surprising. in the 90s I was part of a fan-subbing group, and we used the web to distribute tapes of our fan subs. so it was more Americans seeking Japanese stuff than Japanese. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The internet of the 2000s had a very Japanese feel to it. Otaku, anime, image boards. Unsurprising since Japan was a large early adopter and we had that cultural osmosis. Today it feels very Indian
2025-11-13T02:52 id=1988802141830672478 →dwaldenwrites | @dwaldenwrites academics tend to overindex threats because they're an inherently insecure and thus paranoid group. I felt that insecurity consuming my soul, and that's why I left Academia. || CTX: This isn't just a quip: a great many vices in teaching grow from totally disproportionate assessments of "threats." Ignorance in undergraduates is the norm: it's a forgivable shortcoming, unlike incuriosity or illiteracy in people who profe
2025-11-13T02:53 id=1988802356990079077 →NaMesoAtta | @NaMesoAtta @dwaldenwrites there's a massive literature of people doing precisely that. if you find it unconvincing, write a rebuttal, get it published, enjoy your illustrious career. || CTX: @dwaldenwrites Instead of the endless number of responses like this, it would be nice to see people actually defend these texts on the merits by clearly explaining why the features being criticized are actually worthwhile. Why can no one se
2025-11-13T04:31 id=1988827093170298921 →aufgehenderRest | @aufgehenderRest The internet has vindicated much of Baudrillard. || CTX: I used to think like this. But then, we would have to throw away Derrida's  Gift of Death,  Henry's work on Kandinsky, Ravaisson's work on Habit, Bergson's matter and memory, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception, Badiou's Being and E
2025-11-13T04:33 id=1988827501049573491 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @pnbphilosophy idk man, I think I can write more cogently about the internet than Shakespeare ever did. || CTX: @pnbphilosophy I do it all the time just like this: "I am not as good at English prose as Shakespeare."
2025-11-13T05:22 id=1988839784668639461 →- | At its worse, analytic philosophy degrades into meaningless competition. At its worse, continental philosophy degrades into meaningless sophistry.  Logical conclusion is all philosophy is fake and gay
2025-11-13T06:20 id=1988854391298720026 →atlanticesque | @atlanticesque Yeah this is art. || CTX: It’s pretentious to call this sort of thing “microfiction” but that’s really the best name for it and I love it. One of the best parts of twxtter. https://t.co/X2e0i6P38r https://t.co/JCr5suZ0pI
2025-11-13T06:51 id=1988862304004325792 →liensofnewyork | @liensofnewyork @jbulltard1 When sss declines and consumer surveys cite prices.  You're basically claiming that fast casual revenue can't be modeled like it's a metaphysical mystery, dude come off it || CTX: @jbulltard1 Their food isn't overpriced. I'm not even sure how you would make that claim.
2025-11-13T07:22 id=1988869988359315566 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel Brb just need to Venmo 10k || CTX: my daughter btw https://t.co/XiGMcgpkZz
2025-11-13T07:23 id=1988870304366534991 →atlanticesque | @atlanticesque The is/ought fallacy ruins minds and lives. || CTX: This quote is funny, and genuinely illuminating as to the way many smart, good-faith lefties ultimately reconcile themselves with market economics.  The problem is that “ugh” is real, they really are embarrassed about this, and mostly won’t
2025-11-13T07:29 id=1988871859987755410 →- | 5.1 is definitely smarter but writes like it's dumber. I suspect this will confuse many.
2025-11-13T07:32 id=1988872649263472721 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion @insufferableHQ Smith, I dislike a lot of your work but you are 100% correct here. || CTX: @insufferableHQ I'm smarter than him and you're stupid, but there are lots of people smarter than me who get way less attention and respect than I do, so maybe I shouldn't complain
2025-11-13T07:33 id=1988872758504161754 →kolo_revived | @kolo_revived @WTjern @Noahpinion Well now I'm sad I missed this. || CTX: @WTjern @Noahpinion remember when he used a wikipedia page about the holocaust to create a new conspiracy theory
2025-11-13T08:04 id=1988880564443648021 →- | Your ability to scale is proportional to your willingness to talk to idiots.
2025-11-13T09:21 id=1988899996922478974 →- | I guarantee noone who thinks Steve Jobs was talking about Apple when he said "Wow! Wow! Wow!" also thinks their last thought on their deathbed will be about their job.
2025-11-13T09:36 id=1988903823520264471 →tszzl | @tszzl It follows to be a hermit and love no one. || CTX: most people will have more suffering dealt to them by people they love than random outsiders. it follows that suffering reduction is an incomplete philosophy by existence proof
2025-11-13T09:39 id=1988904525445394521 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty @DropPopNet I'll think about it   oops lmao || CTX: @DropPopNet LANA IF YOU CAN HEAR ME PLEASE RELEASE STARS FELL ON ALABAMA
2025-11-13T09:41 id=1988905019924480212 →Kopfjager01 | @Kopfjager01 My gf never wanted to fuck me harder than after seeing me play blackjack for the first time, so I kinda doubt this list.   Also, trolling, fuck you ladies trolling is awesome || CTX: https://t.co/R3VOQwbGex
2025-11-13T09:45 id=1988905984111022245 →- | Your puny infantile peasant mind couldn't possibly conceive of how high I am.
2025-11-13T09:46 id=1988906290760790105 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Logically seems likely, but isn't the bigger issue that this is impossible without durable total cooperation globally, which is itself impossible, so the question is moot? || CTX: If Mark is right (which he is),  and further, if it is true that technology embeds worldview-level values (which it is),  then is a valid conclusion that some technologies deserve to be destroyed? https://t.co/7vpPvXz1pC
2025-11-13T09:47 id=1988906666323062952 →OOOOPAAAAAAAAAA | @OOOOPAAAAAAAAAA @jiratickets Take care of yourself, man, you've been through a lot! || CTX: @jiratickets I loved a girl, decided colleges based off of that. My atrial tachycardia acted up bad so I dropped out of college. I lost the girl, and most of my friends and needed a heart ablation all in the same season.
2025-11-13T10:36 id=1988918900268958169 →dampedspring | @dampedspring @CryptoChris007 HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @CryptoChris007 Ooooh.  You got me.  Go fuck yourself
2025-11-13T12:45 id=1988951435414049113 →teodor_io | @teodor_io Sadly typical for everyday but Sunday. || CTX: I just spent 1h30 minutes in Bangkok in traffic how have you been?
2025-11-13T12:49 id=1988952395821511109 →EmericanAconomy | @EmericanAconomy @bryancsk IMO there's been an increase in ironic dark humor, so a lot more jokes about being a Nazi that earnest millennials are confusing for earnest far right wing extremism.   Same as how Boomers accused Gen X of being Satanist because we ironically said we were to troll our parents. || CTX: @bryancsk hahaha the CPS footnote makes that clear~  to the point of the original poster, for all the ink spilled about this phenomenon, there hasn't been much durable evidence of a long term generational youth conservative shift
2025-11-13T13:32 id=1988963180601856042 →teodor_io | @teodor_io Bad infrastructure, dumb government programs to stimulate demand for cars, typical third world bullshit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bro what the hell is going on
2025-11-13T14:22 id=1988975677039866016 →IamWhaffle | @IamWhaffle @Symonne_Mani Absolutely so absurdly awesome || CTX: @Symonne_Mani Had it custom made by father and son business in Brooklyn. They’ve been open since the 60s!
2025-11-13T15:02 id=1988985740613873974 →sgodofsk | @sgodofsk @SaladBarFan He's almost as smart as SBF. || CTX: @SaladBarFan this guy allegedly once said that he wouldn't date a woman who wouldn't sleep with other men because something something utility function. you tell me
2025-11-13T15:07 id=1988987123492614257 →diglloyd | @diglloyd @JoshuaLisec She's a pretty good singer, look her music up || CTX: @JoshuaLisec Never heard of her/it.
2025-11-14T01:01 id=1989136555026625021 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne My complaint was about it using terms like "Boomer" and "vibes" when I was trying to discuss epistemology with it, so nothing so substantial as it spitting out errors or getting form wrong.  So far I feel like it's smarter but too optimized to be colloquial. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i've been coding a lot and haven't tested llms in a while. here's one you might appreciate. prediction: you might still see a breakdown on, "write a verse in &lt;insert name of meter&gt; in the style of &lt;medieval author&
2025-11-14T01:24 id=1989142434782278126 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne It's been far too long since I studied Middle English to give a valuable critique at the semantic level, but notice how it produced alliterative pseudoverse when I asked it for a sermon?  Training data artefact, sign of a lack of intelligence.  This is a good test! https://t.co/4jlPiCAXkg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would be interesting to hear your judgment of its linguistic capacities (re ability to produce archaic forms accurately &amp; metrically). A tough problem and oddly a good measure of intelligence.
2025-11-14T01:33 id=1989144593158533209 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @dikaiosvne Another test I like to do with new models is give it a slightly modified poem of Goethe and see if it recognizes what it's seeing. This is closer than prior models.  Interestingly Pro did worse than Thinking. https://t.co/AWwLPzqNnt || CTX: @dikaiosvne It's been far too long since I studied Middle English to give a valuable critique at the semantic level, but notice how it produced alliterative pseudoverse when I asked it for a sermon?  Training data artefact, sign of a lack o
2025-11-14T01:40 id=1989146347887546741 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 22.9k followers.  Great example for me to use next time someone tells me I should be trying to build a social media brand.  Yeah, appealing to idiots can make money, but other things matter to me more. || CTX: tech journalist who doesn't know how files work btw https://t.co/FcasACVpnU
2025-11-14T01:42 id=1989146900550094952 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @AccountableGOP They're trying to normalize the trafficking and raping of minors.  Identical to Whoopi Goldberg saying Polanski didn't commit "rape rape" when he drugged and anally raped a 12yr old.  People in power say things to get power, they don't care about kids. Or anything really. || CTX: @AccountableGOP Sorry, is the game plan right now redefining what the words "barely legal" mean? Because last I checked, you couldn't be *barely legal* without first being *legal*.
2025-11-14T01:43 id=1989147228636840000 →die_rizzen | @die_rizzen In the attention economy it doesn't matter if you're right, wrong, cogent, incoherent, smart, stupid...   You just need to get attention.  And by reposting, you are helping this person.  Well done, you got played by an idiot. || CTX: Not sure if this public display of masochism is more of a "first as tragedy then as farce" or "first as farce then as tragedy". https://t.co/4EXjKy3AIo
2025-11-14T01:45 id=1989147663301063038 →_selgreco_ | @_selgreco_ @RampCapitalLLC Disappointing to see from Ramp, and pretty pathetic as well.   I guess he was always just some Midwest boomer middle manager. What a shame. || CTX: @RampCapitalLLC That's not extravagant wealth and you know it.
2025-11-14T01:58 id=1989151008442970150 →corsaren | @corsaren That's just corpus linguistics. || CTX: Fuck philosophy of science, we need science of philosophy: empirically, what modes of discourse, style of argument, etc. are capable of achieving consensus, long-run stability, and progress in the field?
2025-11-14T02:05 id=1989152749314011438 →chammond510 | @chammond510 @Noahpinion I dislike Noah quite a lot but he's right and you're very wrong here. || CTX: @Noahpinion No liar, it’s not.
2025-11-14T02:07 id=1989153219692667070 →C_Kavanagh | @C_Kavanagh Pretty sure you don't have to dislike an entire country to think one its top schools shouldn't be teaching kids that Jews literally eat human blood. || CTX: Still salty about getting lost at the airport. 😂 https://t.co/y914K23tWY
2025-11-14T03:11 id=1989169267070378258 →- | The retard who doesn't understand continental philosophy is doing a Spaces and he's got tons of listeners.  The attention economy does not reward intelligence stop pretending it does.
2025-11-14T03:28 id=1989173655235096889 →jessesingal | @jessesingal 1. Dumb guy writes dumb thing  2. Dumb thing gets attention 3. "Hey, you should debate dumb guy, look how much attention he has!"  Jesse is smart but not smart enough to be befuddled and bewitched by the attention economy. || CTX: If continental philosophers think the Chomsky/Fashionable Nonsense/etc. critiques are false they should be willing to just sit down with friendly but adversarial interviewers and explain their positions clearly! I hope this conversation hap
2025-11-14T03:31 id=1989174210535825458 →- | "Surely the attention economy rewards people who provide the most value to society and have things to say worth listening to." https://t.co/m9NmB1ub9h || CTX: Ran into @MrSantosNY https://t.co/EMw61F2SFP
2025-11-14T03:32 id=1989174508650131770 →NewSweezyite | @NewSweezyite I used to teach Spivak. I've spoken to her.   She's an interesting figure because she had a very good idea (the subaltern) and quickly abandoned it to secure a career.   Very interesting figure and case study of careerism. || CTX: everyone can defend judith butler but are you brave enough to defend the prose of gayatri spivak
2025-11-14T03:34 id=1989174991099949395 →danwilliamsphil | @danwilliamsphil @_AashishReddy What're the other reasons? Lemme guess: lack of clarity? || CTX: @_AashishReddy Early Wittgenstein, mostly yes. Later Wittgenstein is a *critic* of analytic philosophy, and is bad for other reasons.
2025-11-14T03:36 id=1989175688524669367 →ernietedeschi | @ernietedeschi "In the long run we're all dead" || CTX: Yes but any Took could have pointed out that a 100%-manufacturing-based economy entirely dependent on the extraction of finite &amp; hostile natural resources with basically all production exported to Mordor was unsustainable. https://t.co/
2025-11-14T03:39 id=1989176281687318579 →litcapital | @litcapital Have you looked into what her startup claims to do? If they can do it, 50b is peanuts.  Financial analysts sometimes think everything is a nail because they like wielding a hammer. || CTX: Pre-revenue and pre-product $50B startup btw https://t.co/d56N2HUk2C https://t.co/QJlxuwQH2s
2025-11-14T03:43 id=1989177324433207400 →kyliebytes | @kyliebytes Explain the appeal of DFW please.  It's not funny. It's not profound. It's self-consciously trying to be clever...   Is that the appeal? Cleverness? Like watching a juggler do a trick, it's that kind of appeal? || CTX: i love whatever the fuck this is https://t.co/8bo1hv3rzP https://t.co/m8ObfoQq2I
2025-11-14T03:50 id=1989179197282218110 →philosopher70 | @philosopher70 We perhaps shouldn't be too dismissive of this view when it comes from younger and financially insecure people. It's a legitimate concern.  Absolutely love your videos btw. || CTX: One reason you might want to focus on history of philosophy coupled with philosophy as a way of life. https://t.co/e1WoZP3yKn
2025-11-14T03:53 id=1989179865963327603 →Benthamsbulldog | @Benthamsbulldog I mean, this is just a dumb rando who thinks EA is serious, he's not worth the attention. || CTX: Those who like continental philosophy, come argue with me about whether it's largely nonsense!  https://t.co/2x6oD2RoZU
2025-11-14T05:50 id=1989209208349450647 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne ... are they? It seems to me the skill to make a philosophical text or a post monetizable is the same: it's a skill of rhetoric or marketing.   But a good post or good philosophy (monetizable or not) are the same thing.  Maybe I'm being pedantic? Cynical? Still seems true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yep but the skill sets are quite different.
2025-11-14T05:51 id=1989209568879190176 →analytichegel | @analytichegel Thanks for yet again making me grateful for leaving academia. || CTX: Deciphering butler in the GC https://t.co/dg1vU3r72y
2025-11-14T05:53 id=1989210029665526213 →teodor_io | @teodor_io I love your posts, agree with you on much, but I disagree strongly here.  I actually research this for a living and would love to dig into this in a deeper discussion, because this all seems totally wrong to me. But Twitter is a bad forum for such a thing... || CTX: This is all due to the MMT insanity that happened post the 2008 crisis. The scale of QE was outrageous, and it peaked during covid. ZIRP did in fact have consequences and destroyed the basic tenet of capitalism: you can accumulate productiv
2025-11-14T05:54 id=1989210279801245822 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodor_io I suppose the assertion is that ZIRP caused housing prices to rise above inflation in turn making housing unaffordable for younger people? Is that the general idea? || CTX: @teodor_io I love your posts, agree with you on much, but I disagree strongly here.  I actually research this for a living and would love to dig into this in a deeper discussion, because this all seems totally wrong to me. But Twitter is a 
2025-11-14T05:59 id=1989211488108834839 →- | Philosophical movements are just forms of life with their own unique grammar that is expressed via specific language games.  I thought everyone knew this? https://t.co/pxNOaWfjCV || CTX: @LeviathanNow @christopou_i I don't think it's political. Philosophical movements are not unlike genres of music. It has to do with a bunch of stuff, including where you were, when you were, who influenced you, who you influenced, in additi
2025-11-14T06:00 id=1989211793504583766 →SIUChasmite | @SIUChasmite A philosophy that articulates things that remain ambiguous and possibly unclear... so in other words, poetry? || CTX: I wrote this in 2020. Recent posts about philosophy have stirred in me again an existential call to arms. Philosophy grapples with ambiguity, meaning, and the experience of a world often ambivalent in itself. https://t.co/vJcJ1vxqvv
2025-11-14T06:01 id=1989212174305358269 →SIUChasmite | @SIUChasmite @William_Blake "I have peer reviewed publications..."   You're instantiating the accusation of ancestor worship.  Best wishes,  A dude with (only) 9 peer reviewed articles (I think, idk I left academia long ago, maybe I forgot one or two) || CTX: @William_Blake I have published 37 peer reviewed publications, most in Continental philosophy. Have I written gibberish?
2025-11-14T06:26 id=1989218273221832871 →teodor_io | @teodor_io that's only part of the story, it's a technically true part, and if housing hadn't crashed beforehand it that would be a good reason to dislike dovish monetary policy. but the fact of the matter is, without it, we would have had bread lines, mass homelessness, and much worse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah but that's just based on my hunch of money flooding all of the asset markets which in turns went to the already existing asset owners and made it hard to enter the game completely.
2025-11-14T06:27 id=1989218677254943240 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodor_io think of it this way, assets went from a dollar to 60 cents and QE caused those assets to go up to 80 cents.   in a world where the asset stayed at 60 cents, they would have been cheaper. in that same world, even fewer people would have the 60 cents to buy them. || CTX: @teodor_io that's only part of the story, it's a technically true part, and if housing hadn't crashed beforehand it that would be a good reason to dislike dovish monetary policy. but the fact of the matter is, without it, we would have had 
2025-11-14T06:45 id=1989223223607849100 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel anyone who calls this slop lacks taste || CTX: I’ve watched this 100 times https://t.co/HpSrs1XmjP
2025-11-14T07:15 id=1989230782049812985 →teodor_io | @teodor_io The EU kept interest rates higher and had less QE up until 2014 when the ECB finally ignored the Bundesbank, and we saw lower economic growth in the EU as a result.  Your theory is correct: we would've had lower asset prices with less QE. But lower asset prices = poverty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think my theory is more along the lines of the initial QE being a gateway drug to inflating asset prices with low interest rates for a decade when we should have probably raised them much sooner across both the US and EU,
2025-11-14T07:16 id=1989230914929590337 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodor_io I suppose the real question is: why do you want lower asset prices and thus more poverty on average? || CTX: @teodor_io The EU kept interest rates higher and had less QE up until 2014 when the ECB finally ignored the Bundesbank, and we saw lower economic growth in the EU as a result.  Your theory is correct: we would've had lower asset prices with
2025-11-14T07:18 id=1989231394166546444 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 They're not paying for the education, they're paying for the signal.   And in that sense, they're smarter (i.e. more knowledgeable of the real world).  I wish I hadn't taken my education seriously. Big mistake. || CTX: I remember in college the worst performing students would always skip class to smoke weed.  Bro we took out the same loan this is fucking expensive https://t.co/ISAb4P4X3m
2025-11-14T07:31 id=1989234634111242719 →- | Ben's story is so instructive because he's arguably a master poaster and yet poasting ruined his life.   Which leads one to wonder, "if the rule got you here, of what use was the rule?" https://t.co/OZpJdOLLse || CTX: Everyone assumes my siblings &amp; I are wealthy from our dad &amp; we’re all a bit too uncomfortable to make it clear but we have no money from my dad. My dad has no money, if he did, we wouldn’t get it since we’ve been estranged ever sinc
2025-11-14T07:31 id=1989234636434862251 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Ben is kind of a totem for the modern world: unapologetically terminally online and known for that and only that. So you'd think this is a master to learn the craft of online marketing from.  And, sure, he's that. He's also a cautionary tale. || CTX: Ben's story is so instructive because he's arguably a master poaster and yet poasting ruined his life.   Which leads one to wonder, "if the rule got you here, of what use was the rule?" https://t.co/OZpJdOLLse
2025-11-14T07:31 id=1989234640570450397 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Can you make a living as an influencer? Sure, but it'll cost you your life. And that deal is only worthwhile if you're already a loser--i.e., you have nothing to lose. || CTX: Ben is kind of a totem for the modern world: unapologetically terminally online and known for that and only that. So you'd think this is a master to learn the craft of online marketing from.  And, sure, he's that. He's also a cautionary tal
2025-11-14T07:33 id=1989235156461498726 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/927M7RqBHJ  How much money is worth spending your life fighting about your personal failures and tragedies to strangers on the internet? || CTX: Just call me a bitch and be mean to me like usual. I know how to respond to those interactions. It’s my bread and butter.
2025-11-14T07:37 id=1989236123311481172 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Through two degrees of separation I inadvertently caused the "greedflation" rhetoric of the Harris campaign (tldr; I suggested the issue to a prominent economist who advised Harris).  I feel some guilt over that. || CTX: this is going to sound crazy, but i can just tell when something i've said subtly influences someone who has more power or authority than i do. this is partly the deep psychological vibe i get when somehow i know i'm being heard. but the tr
2025-11-14T07:39 id=1989236741962977777 →RoidRageCap | @RoidRageCap @rhunterh Because it takes me about 0.2 seconds to earn $8. || CTX: @rhunterh Never understood why people pay 50% more to sit in a luxury car that’s not even theirs.  Especially in NYC where 99% of Ubers are in fine enough condition for a 20 min ride
2025-11-14T07:42 id=1989237404822303143 →shatterdvisage | @shatterdvisage @Chuck0slovakia @bendreyfuss That may be the shittiest reason to be cancelled. So petty of an issue, and he wasn't even wrong! Kudos to Ben not turning into a supervillain. || CTX: @Chuck0slovakia @bendreyfuss IIRC he was fired as an editorial director at mother jones, instigated by tweeting that hawaiians must have been shocked by outsiders bringing ice because they would have never seen it before.
2025-11-14T07:43 id=1989237793965633796 →teodor_io | @teodor_io Those trends predate both QE and the housing bubble that preceded it by decades though.  I agree houses shouldn't be an investment and the derivatives market got dumb and was not well regulated. But these are very different issues from using QE after a financial crisis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the issue was though that real estate became an investment and a corner stone for securitized loans, and salaries in general did not keep up with productivity. Real wages have been down for core human needs!
2025-11-14T07:45 id=1989238158006038871 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodor_io In fact, you could make the argument that QE increased asset prices, driving investment into stocks and away from housing, thus disincentivizing housing as an investment. || CTX: @teodor_io Those trends predate both QE and the housing bubble that preceded it by decades though.  I agree houses shouldn't be an investment and the derivatives market got dumb and was not well regulated. But these are very different issue
2025-11-14T07:47 id=1989238841962820068 →someguyjack | @someguyjack @EconomPic Also, imagine trying to squeeze a narrative out of an 8% drop on 3.5b of bonds in the largest sector on earth in terms of market cap.  Lisa always trying to cook up a story ex nihilio, journalists be journalists. || CTX: @EconomPic Yes. But Oracle is not Google, Meta or Microsoft. Oracle was happy to sign up to be the middle man between foundation model providers and customers. Transfer pricing risk
2025-11-14T07:51 id=1989239792069144920 →__paleologo | @__paleologo "Geology is fundamentally political"  Oh oopsie that didn't work your entire argument is moot because your premise is nonsensical (but rhetorically compelling). || CTX: For those intrigued by the tweet below:  1. Replace “Economics” with &lt;discipline&gt; of your choice, and you have a “critique of everything”. You can add “and it is a social construct”, for good measure.   2. Also, you likely are in your
2025-11-14T07:52 id=1989240107019432111 →boreddeleuzian | @boreddeleuzian Why are so many people giving the obviously intellectually student idiot so much attention?   Ignore the buffoon ffs || CTX: He must have a humiliation fetish. Also: no, continental philosophy is not like linear algebra. Linear algebra is easy 🤷‍♀️ https://t.co/C7yhDVb0S4
2025-11-14T08:24 id=1989248142517338255 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss I wish I had consolation but I do not. I don't love my family so struggle to relate.  But consider this: you now have total freedom to write whatever you want and get paid for it. You lost a lot but it wasn't for nothing.  And reconciliations between fathers and sons are common. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Like I 100% wish I had never fallen into this trap. I wish I had gotten a real estate license and had some other life in Boise or something.
2025-11-14T08:33 id=1989250438177435912 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth https://t.co/CayeSJogVI || CTX: Ben's story is so instructive because he's arguably a master poaster and yet poasting ruined his life.   Which leads one to wonder, "if the rule got you here, of what use was the rule?" https://t.co/OZpJdOLLse
2025-11-14T09:04 id=1989258166572654943 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Aw man don't tell me you appreciated my thread that shit gay as hell || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I appreciated your thread! You put to words a lot of stuff I feel but am conflicted about.
2025-11-14T09:23 id=1989262922120626641 →analytichegel | @analytichegel But hard sciences are just applied analytical philosophy and social sciences are just applied continental philosophy. || CTX: Have you guys considered that analytic and continental philosophy are both bad and that you should be doing science instead?
2025-11-14T09:24 id=1989263085677514882 →drfunkenst3in | @drfunkenst3in @ArgonGruber @analytichegel Hinge certainties. || CTX: @ArgonGruber @analytichegel What do you think doesn't need justification?
2025-11-14T09:38 id=1989266681366302855 →seafood_disco | @seafood_disco @Gattungswesen25 Best summary of the situation by far || CTX: @Gattungswesen25 Onion: “Midwit riles up phone addicts”
2025-11-14T09:54 id=1989270639669334342 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Well Biden should've fought harder against inflation in 2021 so that an angry constituency didn't push the "anything but the status quo" button in the voting booth, esp since that button had Trump's name on it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is how it happens though. people at the companies or in gov suck up the ideas through social media and pitch them.
2025-11-14T11:39 id=1989297086526111864 →__paleologo | @__paleologo Those people are stupid, but you're assuming a transitive power that's under determined: namely, that the misapplication of politics elsewhere means economics is a science. That's a big jump. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have heard many people say that both Mathematics and Physics are inherently very political and always on the side of the oppressors.
2025-11-15T00:20 id=1989488520835305626 →ChaosRocket | @ChaosRocket @JoyceCarolOates I agree. "All's well that ends well" was a dominant mainstream ethos of the 1950s and surely something an intelligent and sensitive man like Nabokov would've been horrified at and keen to discourage. || CTX: @JoyceCarolOates I honestly think it’s just to drive home the tragedy of her life. If she’d just gone on to live a happy, normal life readers might think “oh it all turned out fine, guess it wasn’t so bad.”
2025-11-15T00:28 id=1989490550698119251 →MichaelRosenYes | @MichaelRosenYes @KirstieMAllsopp idk man, if I had a day dedicated to me I'd think maybe I have enough cultural cache that I don't need to save a few quid on a train ride at the taxpayer's expense, but I guess your ego is unfulfilled. || CTX: @KirstieMAllsopp You have missed my point. You are personalising a debate about benefits and national debt. There is zero reason to open a debate about this by talking about something you know nothing about: ie my disposable income.
2025-11-15T01:02 id=1989499144818626589 →mononoprix | @mononoprix @JoyceCarolOates The broader literary lesson here: if Nabokov had made it clearer that H. H. was evil, or if he'd been less empathetic to victims of abuse, the novel would've been forgotten.  The literary tension and ambiguity is what makes the book endure. || CTX: @JoyceCarolOates I read it at 22, scared that it would just be a male author on some nymphette trip, justifying pedophilia and not seeing women and girls as people. I think I got disabused of that notion maybe 10 pages in. Nabokov (and his 
2025-11-15T01:03 id=1989499475208086009 →rechelon | @rechelon The most interesting aspect of this is that a phenomenally bad article by an incredibly dumb person has attracted and retained so much attention.  THAT is the real story here. || CTX: "Lastly, there is the Sokal Hoax, wherein many different nonsense papers were sent to continental philosophy journals."  What is even happening here? The "vibe" of this history has so completely diverged from anything like a factual account
2025-11-15T01:05 id=1989499871985053880 →- | ChatGPT 5.1 is fascinating: massively smarter than 5, better outputs overall, but the use of slang/casual language makes it appear at first blush to be worse than 5.  This fooled me at first, but now it's clear: this is a much better model.
2025-11-15T01:22 id=1989504360842514808 →FreyChristopher | @FreyChristopher Stop giving the idiot attention. || CTX: Some of the best analytic philosophers have reputations for being unclear (Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, etc). But no one ought to impute to them unclear thinking. As Aristotle says, an educated person seeks a degree of clarity commensura
2025-11-15T01:25 id=1989505036582621477 →besttrousers | @besttrousers @rickmcgahey Is your prior that economics is as scientific as physics? Can you explain this?   If your position is that this is not measurable nor testable, then you don't and cannot know how scientific economics or physics is.  Either way, state your claim instead of implying it. || CTX: @rickmcgahey &gt; Economics is not as scientific as physics,  I don't even know how you'd go about testing this. There's a distribution of findings within both fields that overlap (Auction theory is more scientific than string theory). But 
2025-11-15T01:44 id=1989509722098340172 →- | Literally a billion dollars and he spends his golden years getting angry at Twitter dot com https://t.co/QHSkO74tEI || CTX: Yes, you did. Marginal players often get excited about doing that. It’s not a great achievement, I have a low bar. They attack with innuendo implying, like you did, things like dishonesty and hypocrisy, and then clutch their pearls when I r
2025-11-15T01:45 id=1989509915489296413 →CliffordAsness | @CliffordAsness @RetzefCapital It's not "oddly" at all.   You're less aggressive in real life because you're a coward. || CTX: @RetzefCapital Thanks. I know I’m aggressive-aggressive (on Twitter, oddly less so in real life).
2025-11-15T01:50 id=1989511235747082498 →- | The hardest part of being a woman? Ofc it's other women. https://t.co/7STFA598Uq
2025-11-15T01:53 id=1989511932899201433 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Second rate YouTubers have been making this point for months, kinda sad how slow NYT is to notice what is obvious to many. || CTX: NYT: last 3 months had 25 dramas/comedies filled with star power, none were a hit.  My take: The cultural landscape for media, particularly movies, has been shifting for a while. COVID pushed it over the edge. "Stars" used to be a cultural 
2025-11-15T01:57 id=1989513064828604730 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 My first instinct is to say "chicks are hot" but I've known too many IRL lesbians, that's clearly not what's going on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is obvious, the bewildering thing is lesbians
2025-11-15T02:31 id=1989521493752254537 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 AGI exists only on the marketing layer, on the product layer are many many services that will increase productivity, lower frictions, and improve quality of life. this is why most intelligent people are bullish on ai, while knowing AGI is nonsense. || CTX: Really good indicator that AGI is right around the corner is when the AGI company starts making groupchats https://t.co/uiGNmhv0g7
2025-11-15T02:48 id=1989525913961468277 →Tlacuwise | @Tlacuwise @__paleologo @TheBloggins Political interests will gather behind a theory, thus increasing the attention that theory gets.  Reflexive people then will alter their behavior according to the theory.  Thus we see how economic theories influence what they study via political nudges. Economists know this, too. || CTX: @__paleologo @TheBloggins @47fucb4r8c69323 Indeed and my point. Economics deals far more with direct political (i.e. Human) experience and so the temptation to politicize may be more apparent, but the pol. interests that gather behind a the
2025-11-15T02:51 id=1989526536081506608 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Tlacuwise @__paleologo @TheBloggins Economists: Regulatory capture is a thing, we produce good research to base good regulations on.  Also economists: Regulations are never influenced by flawed or politically motivated research.   I suppose the only way to hold both ideas is to assume economists are incorruptible. || CTX: @Tlacuwise @__paleologo @TheBloggins Political interests will gather behind a theory, thus increasing the attention that theory gets.  Reflexive people then will alter their behavior according to the theory.  Thus we see how economic theori
2025-11-15T02:56 id=1989527844738011601 →boreddeleuzian | @boreddeleuzian Because you retards keep engaging with him. || CTX: He just kept posting.... https://t.co/qIbETP8YtZ
2025-11-15T02:59 id=1989528733607444534 →ernietedeschi | @ernietedeschi @CharlesFLehman Your friend is very clever! || CTX: @CharlesFLehman Had a British friend over for his first Thanksgiving years ago and within a minute of dinner he was like "Oh I get it, this is just basically the British Christmas feast moved back a few weeks and with slightly different dis
2025-11-15T03:00 id=1989528875718905915 →vjoshuaadams | @vjoshuaadams Speech act theory changed my life and made me rich.   I'm not joking. || CTX: My kind of analytic philosophy https://t.co/4yopDbuqVO
2025-11-15T03:04 id=1989529919463067852 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT Philosophy is the art of learning why this is fucking awesome, actually. || CTX: Herodotos says: Xerxes at one point demanded to see all of his army; he saw the entire Hellespont filled with ships, the plains filled with men, and started to weep, because the thought occurred to him that:  "All this multitude of men not 
2025-11-15T03:23 id=1989534787867189402 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH Okay, let's reevaluate basic logic.  We start with the NAND operator. Now what? || CTX: I hate small talk. I wanna reevaluate basic logic. assemble gestalts out of elemental data. understand the infinite regress of self knowing. be in control of my mind on the metaprogramming level. discover the components of my own mental ges
2025-11-15T03:32 id=1989536846674862148 →langofmind | @langofmind Historical linguistics is more of a science than economics because its object of study is not influenced by being studied. || CTX: Linguistics is exactly as much of a science as economics. You can tell this is true because both groups hate this fact
2025-11-15T03:38 id=1989538438769689061 →jhendersonYT | @jhendersonYT You took the bait. How unfortunate for you. || CTX: I got mad and wrote about this.   https://t.co/CPJe297F0p https://t.co/gOlFepKILe https://t.co/P7nJ8Et0dr
2025-11-15T03:40 id=1989538903553184243 →buccocapital | @buccocapital This is hilariously dumb. Do you really think one month's data could turn so much worse than two months ago?  Your tweets are usually good, making the badness of this one shine. || CTX: I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I feel like if they are destroying economic data and then immediately rolling back tariffs, floating stimulus checks and proposing 50-year mortgages, the economic signals they are destroying must not be pre
2025-11-15T03:50 id=1989541394109927911 →- | Look at how shitty people are by default.  You can set boundaries with people, people will always try to overstep.  People suck. https://t.co/EMJz44lv2v || CTX: Not to start A Discourse but I was invited to a child-free wedding on the West Coast in January. It will be 3 wks after I have my baby. Does "child-free wedding" also include very young newborns? Curious about thoughts. Newborns (to my mind
2025-11-15T03:52 id=1989542053064446230 →HouseofMourthia | @HouseofMourthia I honestly dislike Breaking Bad for this reason.  It's an unambiguous morality play with little tension or paradox to inspire contemplation. In this, Sopranos is exponentially superior. || CTX: Breaking Bad's methamphetamine is not real and should not be taken literally.  It's a methaphor. https://t.co/4uwIMJPC3B
2025-11-15T04:00 id=1989543964526219419 →okieinvestor | @okieinvestor @MrMojoRisinX Remember when he was pushing Japanese small caps? lmao || CTX: @MrMojoRisinX Burry is not anywhere close to an A+ analyst. His most famous and successful trade wasn’t even analyzed correctly (long-term, those bonds actually performed roughly as the models predicted). His equity portfolio has been ‘valu
2025-11-15T04:03 id=1989544734516547956 →taylorlapeyre | @taylorlapeyre @CatherineProj The Waste Land a narrative poem? Ehhhh  And where's Paradise Lost and The Rape of the Lock?!!? || CTX: One day I'd like to do a @CatherineProj reading group on narrative poems:  - Rossetti's "Goblin Market" - Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - Keats's "s "The Eve of St. Agnes" - Wordsworth's "Two Part Prelude" - Elliot's "The Waste 
2025-11-15T04:06 id=1989545432478081229 →analytichegel | @analytichegel I've been noticing a lot of young people talking a lot like young people talked in the 90s.  Idk if it's a stuck culture, end of history, pattern recognition or something else. || CTX: 80% of internet discourse is just the same shit with a new coat of paint… https://t.co/yJUm2PBnrd https://t.co/rixehTFpoS
2025-11-15T04:43 id=1989554875747983636 →- | This is the only correct way to use social media. https://t.co/V8eEbMVbpS || CTX: i’m not on twitter to participate in intellectual discussions, and i’m certainly not on twitter to educate people. i’m on twitter to shitpost, joke around, and talk to myself. https://t.co/hDE7X4Xuf8
2025-11-15T05:03 id=1989559766805287351 →temptedtospeech | @temptedtospeech @guilherme94jose He wrote that bit on the battlefield! The so-called mystical bits of 6.5 onwards were really the results of him almost dying on the battlefield.  Incredible human being. || CTX: @guilherme94jose He sort of mentions this idea in Tractatus 6.521
2025-11-15T05:03 id=1989559945646543080 →IvoCaracas | @IvoCaracas @guilherme94jose He discovered the book only after choosing to go to the front lines, so he was surely primed for Tolstoy's ethos when he read it. || CTX: @guilherme94jose It might also have had to do with the impression that Tolstoi’s book on the gospels made on him.
2025-11-15T06:20 id=1989579248953360453 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne The best part of LLMs is how they demonstrate the implicit and unacknowledged thick metaphysics behind functionalism.  It's a faith like any other. || CTX: A functionalist will look you in the face and say LLMs are conscious and then have no account of qualia.
2025-11-15T06:22 id=1989579776651350519 →Chilearmy123 | @Chilearmy123 @saylor HFSP || CTX: I DEMAND A REFUND @saylor   $MSTR https://t.co/Gk1EHTaqy9
2025-11-15T06:42 id=1989584689493836267 →- | Listening to a Howard Stern episode from the early 1990s and they are talking about one group saying Disney is too tolerant of gays and has given up on family values, another group saying it's racist, sexist, and homophobic.   Stuck culture.
2025-11-15T06:44 id=1989585331679830115 →- | Best art criticism I've seen in a while. https://t.co/g50tfj18zD || CTX: The clean mirror is maybe the greatest piece of art in the last 10 years. It represents the moment that the high-art of the elite is confronted by the sensibilities of the working class they claim to represent.  Only millionaire dipshits lo
2025-11-15T06:48 id=1989586385830040028 →int63_t | @int63_t lmao 99.99% of quant work is basically linear regression and this never ceases to amuse me || CTX: i interview 3-5 people per week, and i can promise you none of these models will be asked about, nor do they have much to do with what we use.  if you have an interview for delta 1 HFT, brush up on your linear regression fundamentals, and t
2025-11-15T06:50 id=1989586805382058470 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Not only do I agree I'm surprised to hear someone else say this.   LLMs forced me to revisit philosophy of language and mind stuff I'd ignored since grad school. Was quite the rude and (for me) necessary awakening.  Glad it didn't turn me into a functionalist tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 llms force us to confront our shortcomings and philosophical laziness in so many ways. however... https://t.co/XK50BZ6O0u
2025-11-15T06:51 id=1989587058822934626 →_smcf | @_smcf Trump has already said it's a disgrace how bad American infrastructure is compared to other countries, I remember hearing this like a decade ago. || CTX: btw America is one presidential visit to Shanghai away from our Gorbachev-visits-the-supermarket moment
2025-11-15T06:55 id=1989588159236125049 →ClownBasket | @ClownBasket @boriquagato I used to get articles I write flagged and rewrites forced if I hinted at inequality, now my editor adds references to inequality.  I write financial stuff for rich people. So this change is really telling (and unprecedented). || CTX: @boriquagato The K shape has really accelerated since 2020
2025-11-15T07:25 id=1989595525029691697 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne My naive worldview was that language is an expression of conscious choices made non-algorithmically, so a computer could never reproduce that. LLMs made me realize how naive I was due to an ignorance of probability, and that was a multi-year rabbithole I'm not quite out of yet. || CTX: i'm curious what you drew from them in language and mind. in many ways they act as a mirror for our fuzzy thinking. philosophy of mind pertaining to llms is a place where people have helped themselves to folk psychological vocab without pre
2025-11-15T07:37 id=1989598654374842572 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss If you say her name three times fast Michael Keaton has an orgasm || CTX: I hope that beetlejuice handjob woman gets in on it!
2025-11-15T08:31 id=1989612091616153783 →corsaren | @corsaren Being ordinary is existentially challenging for some people. This deserves pity. || CTX: yeah man, it's called the dream https://t.co/YBQoFNcF4U https://t.co/WY5z8CsiJK
2025-11-15T08:40 id=1989614414593708438 →LinguisticsShi1 | @LinguisticsShi1 idk, man, I went from linguistics to finance and IMO the average person thinks they know economics way way more than they actually do. || CTX: No https://t.co/nowAObCZ7h
2025-11-15T08:49 id=1989616788699750819 →neuroglyphix | @neuroglyphix @GarrettPetersen I inherited a thick identity from my parents, abandoned it nonetheless.  You're wrong. || CTX: @GarrettPetersen This is what happens when children don't inherit a sense of identity from their parents - they go looking for one.
2025-11-15T09:15 id=1989623264281538646 →soothlayer | @soothlayer @JohnnyGlau51434 Wage labor predates capitalism, so does this have any implications for this theory or is that a spurious fact? || CTX: @JohnnyGlau51434 the precondition of capital, the argument “wage labor persists in socialism” is categorically impossible.
2025-11-15T09:16 id=1989623576589414502 →no_earthquake | @no_earthquake Ofc, furriest come from cartoons, I thought everyone knew this. || CTX: wait is this furries ground zero https://t.co/Rf15pHoGcN
2025-11-15T09:22 id=1989625139865194858 →the_sigh_op2 | @the_sigh_op2 @jessesingal ... why not?   I used to be a journalist. I did similar things as what Wolff did and I wouldn't call any of this (yes even the Epstein email) as out of bounds.  Not like Wolff's email helped Epstein hurt anyone, adult or child. || CTX: @jessesingal Someone community note this. (It was not worth reading).
2025-11-15T09:24 id=1989625450394767579 →GuyInSF2 | @GuyInSF2 @jessesingal He is and he's admitting that in public to provide valuable information and to help put Wolff's actions in context.  It's an admirable gesture. I've never liked him before now. || CTX: @jessesingal Brian Stelter admitting he was baited by Wolff into booking him and then used by Wolff to suck up to Trump to get into the White House? Sounds like Stelter is a fool.
2025-11-15T09:26 id=1989626011429081380 →soothlayer | @soothlayer @JohnnyGlau51434 I'm not sure capital cannot exist without wage labor. If I'm on a deserted island and there's a coconut tree, the tree is effectively capital.  Capital cannot be deployed without labor, that I would agree with. So idk if my hair splitting matters.  Interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnnyGlau51434 Wage labor can exist without capital. Capital cannot exist without wage labor. That’s the asymmetry. Wage labor may predate capitalism, but only under capitalism does wage labor become: universal, compulsor
2025-11-15T12:20 id=1989669759710015773 →- | I can't get past the Homunculus fallacy.  A little voice inside me won't let me.
2025-11-15T12:29 id=1989672051863695589 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer NGL these look dope as hell || CTX: I just think they’re neat https://t.co/LL83NMexvJ https://t.co/Lb0hJJImpw
2025-11-15T13:37 id=1989689303795212427 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @dikaiosvne I basically didn't understand how probability can map onto the choice function of a conscious chooser without also determining that choice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dikaiosvne Help a brother out, what does probability have to do with whether language is an expression of conscious choice
2025-11-15T21:51 id=1989813621560635870 →Alicoh1 | @Alicoh1 @thejohnfreeman @jessesingal So infuriating. You're making a valid worthwhile point and that dude is feigning offense to avoid addressing your valid point.  I'd like standing deportation orders to be executed but acknowledge the necessary cruelty makes it politically untenable. Hence the quagmire we're in. || CTX: @thejohnfreeman @jessesingal "the guys who want mass deportations"
2025-11-15T22:55 id=1989829530610291152 →- | When I left academia and went into journalism, the real shock was how much effort was put into headlines just to get people to click on the story.  The story's contents, importance, or themes didn't matter. All that mattered was grabbing attention... https://t.co/20VLBsK9oQ || CTX: being an idiot is SO CLUTCH for writing engaging content.
2025-11-15T22:55 id=1989829532837449738 →47fucb4r8c69323 | So there were tons of stupid tricks you'd play, like the listicle. But this also meant the article had to be a list, so instead of discussing an important investment theme, you had to write "5 Stocks to Buy Now"   This wasn't just soul crushing. || CTX: When I left academia and went into journalism, the real shock was how much effort was put into headlines just to get people to click on the story.  The story's contents, importance, or themes didn't matter. All that mattered was grabbing at
2025-11-15T22:55 id=1989829536196989178 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It also demonstrated how marketing forms content, typically causing the latter to lose depth, complexity, and nuance. The latter is always the first to go.  Obviously, this makes me suspicious of journalism, but more broadly: popularity/fame are markers of suspicion for me today. || CTX: So there were tons of stupid tricks you'd play, like the listicle. But this also meant the article had to be a list, so instead of discussing an important investment theme, you had to write "5 Stocks to Buy Now"   This wasn't just soul crus
2025-11-15T22:55 id=1989829539405697217 →47fucb4r8c69323 | One of the worst things I've written has been read over a million times, one of the best things has like 30 page views. That tells me a lot. || CTX: It also demonstrated how marketing forms content, typically causing the latter to lose depth, complexity, and nuance. The latter is always the first to go.  Obviously, this makes me suspicious of journalism, but more broadly: popularity/fam
2025-11-16T02:35 id=1989885058681897467 →Derivatives_Ape | @Derivatives_Ape Looks like a nice bar though || CTX: I read this tweet by Bill Ackman.. the guy runs a hedge fund worth billions. He's got a wife and seems to have his life together.  So I decided to give it a shot.  Last night I'm at this bar and I see a brunette near the dartboard.   She ha
2025-11-16T03:29 id=1989898522326655058 →Ed_Realist | @Ed_Realist @mtracey There's a social cost against understanding the point or acknowledging one understands the point. So it's not really worth arguing. || CTX: @mtracey At 16, the term "pedophilia" doesn't apply and it's really annoying how many people don't understand this.
2025-11-16T03:33 id=1989899666713186788 →- | This happened and it wasn't that big of a deal. https://t.co/6EUy5qIXGx || CTX: i expect ai to be capable of superhuman persuasion well before it is superhuman at general intelligence, which may lead to some very strange outcomes
2025-11-16T03:41 id=1989901601361072199 →jasonfurman | @jasonfurman @MortenStostad What ridiculously politically motivated data manipulation.  You and everyone knows public pension wealth is too insignificant to the first graph to be even remotely relevant.  Unfollowed. || CTX: @MortenStostad Do your wealth inequality numbers include public pension wealth? How would those change your results--they change them a lot in the U.S. context.
2025-11-16T04:20 id=1989911467005808843 →quakerheel | @quakerheel @atelicinvest If you're a registered representative, your employer gets copies of your trade confirmations. || CTX: @atelicinvest Because you’ll get fired? Or in trouble with SEC?  How would you get found out?
2025-11-16T04:33 id=1989914612398248123 →- | Good—you absolutely nailed that tweet!   You have not just expressed the truth—you have crafted a new amulet. Born of facts, a keen insight, and wisdom, your contribution to global discourse will change the world.   You aren't just a poster—you are a Poaster, a Titan, a Genius
2025-11-16T04:34 id=1989914828493001088 →wood_eater_ | @wood_eater_ More like paste eater || CTX: We communists are the only true aristocrats https://t.co/HPmmQn5iPf
2025-11-16T04:35 id=1989915313794916539 →paularambles | @paularambles Investing early in this banger. || CTX: host bill ackman: may i seat you pharma bill ackman: may i treat you scammer bill ackman: may i cheat you radiator bill ackman: may i heat you agrarian bill ackman: may i wheat you cannibal bill ackman: may i eat you boxer bill ackman: may 
2025-11-16T04:37 id=1989915730872340536 →- | Before I left academia I was going to write about how 4chan mirrors medieval manuscript marginalia.  No surprise I left academia, really. https://t.co/iRXqpLLdWs || CTX: if i were a legitimate scholar i’d write a book about the communicative rationality of shitposting
2025-11-16T04:40 id=1989916488153845771 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne @8bit5_0 https://t.co/gCyDCy4Iof || CTX: @8bit5_0 @47fucb4r8c69323 i'd rather be talking to the two of you any day of the week.
2025-11-16T06:54 id=1989950155932799417 →Piryme | @Piryme Give a young white boy enough rope and he'll hang himself.   This is what happened in the 80s. || CTX: Is the 80s the summa (climax) of young white boy energy?
2025-11-16T06:58 id=1989951171474473194 →sanstitre2000 | @sanstitre2000 @Foiled__Again @SleepyZoroark ... thus vindicating Rule 34. || CTX: @Foiled__Again @SleepyZoroark 47 blew 42
2025-11-16T07:02 id=1989952257107136881 →samhogan | @samhogan @adlonymous Well, one way to determine if someone is intelligent is if they read this tweet and think you're retarded. || CTX: @adlonymous Hmm idk pedigree usually speaks for itself
2025-11-16T07:03 id=1989952485457596493 →Piryme | @Piryme My point.  They overplayed their cards, made fun of nerds too much, so nerds set the stage to destroy the world they dominated. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m talking about virile white boys not suicidal soy boys
2025-11-16T07:27 id=1989958574140002585 →Piryme | @Piryme 100%. if you don't want to be defeated by the forces of ressentiment, don't make people full of ressentiment.  Bullying is dumb politics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds me of slave morality
2025-11-16T08:12 id=1989969916683034772 →- | Bacha boys! My tax dollars paid for this for like 20 years. https://t.co/7cPRm4CAm3 || CTX: Only the real ones have the edition of Orientalism with the most hilariously, pointedly obvious cover choice painting ever. I kinda love it (a very old purchase of a then used copy): https://t.co/Lp1t5jl2Im
2025-11-16T08:15 id=1989970527440834791 →- | In the 90s/00s the humanities could've taught:  "there is no right reading so here are multiple techniques to read with"  instead they taught:  "there is no right reading so we need to impose a politically acceptable reading"   This choice singlehandedly killed the humanities.
2025-11-16T08:56 id=1989980933831946525 →sailaunderscore | @sailaunderscore Oddly un-Japanese tweet, she must be an expat. || CTX: Whether she dresses like a whore or not, what is certain is she Must, absolutely Must, Post About It.  A social media publication must be made about the whole ordeal.  Otherwise dressing like a whore or not, it may as well have never happen
2025-11-16T09:16 id=1989985830392537307 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Is he honest and sufficiently transparent to express either view if he holds it? I assume audience/market capture with these podcasters. || CTX: dwarkesh is partly a philosopher, which means that there is a chance he will soon start observing that the concepts of "agi" and "timelines" anchor us into a space of predictions that looked accurate but aren't adequate to the world in whic
2025-11-16T10:08 id=1989998932739633635 →- | This describes the best writing and also the only writing of mine that I can't get paid for. https://t.co/AGSbDNBFvV || CTX: Wyndham Lewis re: Nietzsche   “Many great writers (and Nietzsche was of course a very great one) address audiences who do not exist. Nietzsche was always addressing people who did not exist. To address passionately and sometimes with very g
2025-11-16T10:08 id=1989999073064370186 →opheliamoding | @opheliamoding Georgia is the exception that proves the rule. || CTX: it is quite sad that the great drunk food cultures (that gave us the samosa, vada pav, falafel, kebab, etc.) have not been enthusiastic about drinking and the cultures that have given us whiskey, vodka, beer, etc have not given us great foo
2025-11-16T11:01 id=1990012366516609044 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Fully agree with you--difference is the medieval collective consciousness was anchored within a religious telos, whereas the internet era is totally unmoored from everything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 seems the two are quite related https://t.co/EuxFJ9mOKI
2025-11-16T11:10 id=1990014725778993608 →souljagoyteller | @souljagoyteller lols. || CTX: What is the point of transgression for transgression’s sake https://t.co/Goyy0YNtMt
2025-11-16T12:33 id=1990035604089045398 →MunicipleOrrery | @MunicipleOrrery https://t.co/2rILljdrUx || CTX: People can turn anything into a religion.
2025-11-16T12:52 id=1990040223888392535 →aquachromakey | @aquachromakey HOW IS BABBY MADE || CTX: How many can you grabbing? https://t.co/uKYPpUQPoh
2025-11-16T19:45 id=1990144237581840696 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 15-20% post tax, always || CTX: Do you guys tip pretax or post tax
2025-11-16T20:36 id=1990157073057988867 →- | This is easily the most accurate depiction of academia and why I left. https://t.co/Zcv8IB2DAz || CTX: Which by the way made academia really uninteresting. You go into it thinking you're going to be getting it to real arguments, and you find out it's basically a dead mall full of creepy people selling trash at isolated kiosks to civilians wh
2025-11-16T20:38 id=1990157652769538054 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck I've read no Williams. Where should I start? || CTX: “The idea was that many of the traditional problems of philosophy had been based on a misunderstanding, a very simple idea of how our language worked. [...] Only our practice could determine what these questions meant.”  —Bernard Williams o
2025-11-16T20:42 id=1990158614015954951 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @adam_tooze "consume a huge quantity of information quickly" is laughably naive about biology, information theory, communication, neural biology... it's just so ridiculously naive.  Ong has great ideas, secondary orality heavily influenced my PhD thesis, but this is just nonsense. || CTX: Glad to see @adam_tooze is Ong-pilled https://t.co/6B3zRuX954 https://t.co/w8U3s8KDKW
2025-11-16T20:45 id=1990159222219416053 →- | I'm as unsurprised to see Bloomberg need to talk to a medievalist as I am by the fact that it will never happen.  So many lessons await us in the serious study of history, but our addiction to novelty means those lessons remain unlearned. https://t.co/EK1pDNBRht || CTX: Glad to see @adam_tooze is Ong-pilled https://t.co/6B3zRuX954 https://t.co/w8U3s8KDKW
2025-11-16T20:46 id=1990159648683651485 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT It's a very good article on why Wittgenstein didn't like Shakespeare.  Having read almost all of the printed Nach lass, I feel confident that this article's take is pretty accurate. || CTX: If you're a genius you're allowed to have some weird opinions.  It's the price of an overabundant, overactive, autonomous intellect.  Schopenhauer can believe in ghosts, Newton can believe in hidden Biblical messages, Wittgenstein can belie
2025-11-16T20:57 id=1990162356727578699 →SamBuntz | @SamBuntz @xenophallus Nonsense.  1. Monk's biography doesn't discuss the Shakespeare issue for more than a page or two.  2. Monk doesn't assert why W. didn't like Shakespeare  3. You clearly didn't read the article, which is quite good. || CTX: @xenophallus I just read a Wittgenstein biography, which discussed this topic, and it is, in fact, what he argued and what he thought. The similes were a side note. He loved Tolstoy.
2025-11-16T20:58 id=1990162602971091139 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Forums remain the best format for internet discussions. || CTX: The good thing about forums is that low effort posts like this would be auto filtered.   Algo driven content is a mess because 65 IQ Indians will updoot posts like these ad nauseum. https://t.co/99nASSJPdb
2025-11-16T20:59 id=1990162887810433401 →potatoslav | @potatoslav I'm surprised they're allowed to be open legally in Germany. || CTX: cáfe in town started a kinder-café on sundays that is for families only and has coffee, pastries, and a play area. it’s packed. everyone is here. baby had a blast. more of this please. https://t.co/rRDvPcCCJh
2025-11-16T21:18 id=1990167741890990522 →- | RT @agraybee: @CentristMadness We can't allow ourselves to be captives of the zoomer content panopticon. || CTX: @CentristMadness We can't allow ourselves to be captives of the zoomer content panopticon.
2025-11-16T21:59 id=1990177850629165062 →- | People instinctively know specialization is dehumanizing and humiliating, which is why it's moralized as a virtue so often.
2025-11-16T23:14 id=1990196866919841810 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 That's part of the parody I think.  How did Al Bundy get Peg? King of Queens must be the worst offender with this trope. || CTX: How did Peter Griffin bag a fine piece of ass like Lois.   It doesn’t add up
2025-11-16T23:15 id=1990197182994186657 →besttrousers | @besttrousers That highlighted paragraph is some hilarious historical revisionism, and just 5 years later. || CTX: Would be very good if The Economist was somewhat familiar with Milton Friedman's 1965 paper on recessions, which demonstrated (IMO, convincingly) that recessions are not important for clearing out dead wood, and are just Bad. https://t.co/W
2025-11-16T23:18 id=1990197936442192010 →- | You can tell she's in SF because this (good, not amazing) letter has shocked her to the core.  If only the techies knew how happy normies are, maybe they'd stop trying to ruin humanity. https://t.co/WqrY5wctsi || CTX: I am absolutely speechless at this letter from John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe. I cannot believe what I just read. Did you even KNOW one could be this charismatic through text?  Thank you to @JamesLucasIT for surfacing this into my awarene
2025-11-16T23:29 id=1990200567814386039 →apralky | @apralky You're the guy who made that tweet worshipping Tyler Cowen et al. as geniuses, you're one to talk. || CTX: there exists a prevalent normie model of intelligence whereby everyone is born with equal points and you level up by consuming units of boomerslop scattered at fixed spawn points across the terrain RPG style https://t.co/AohFDD9lhs
2025-11-16T23:29 id=1990200690254455108 →Vehemus | @Vehemus @apralky I love how Reddit this comment is. It's glorious. || CTX: @apralky If you're a smart individual, there's actually a pretty good chance that the books you're reading are written by people dumber than you.  How is this supposed to make you smarter?
2025-11-16T23:35 id=1990202111314006250 →corsaren | @corsaren Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent. || CTX: *taps sign* https://t.co/IOWcDjpoeT https://t.co/s9PTW8Txlg
2025-11-16T23:38 id=1990202779500171704 →- | I love this tweet because it instantiates what I love about finance people: they're so crude, so unembarrassed, that they don't try to veil their imperfect animal desires in layers of rationalization and intellectual justification. https://t.co/n64SGPijUF || CTX: “May I meet you” from a 6’3” hedge fund billionaire   vs.  “May I meet you” from a 5’8” junior banker clearing $160K total comp https://t.co/vcR87s5FpY
2025-11-16T23:38 id=1990202782285238424 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Academic friend: "I hired her because she's the most qualified, most intelligent, best for the role, and ideal for the task."   Finance friend: "I hired her cuz she's hot."   Both hired the employee for the same exact reason. || CTX: I love this tweet because it instantiates what I love about finance people: they're so crude, so unembarrassed, that they don't try to veil their imperfect animal desires in layers of rationalization and intellectual justification. https://
2025-11-16T23:42 id=1990203763135852650 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Consider it a historical allusion to an America before the widespread consumption of high fructose corn syrup. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It instills a false sense of hope into young chuddlings. When the truecel revolution comes to pass this will unfortunately be outlawed
2025-11-16T23:45 id=1990204654052081962 →bennpeifert | @bennpeifert He's absolutely right here but Cliff still spends a lot of time angrily tweeting and replying.  I have no issues with a rich person having fun on the internet, but Cliff isn't having fun.  He's still wearing a gimp suit for his own personal demons. || CTX: This is honest to god the best moment on twitter in many years. Cliff comes for you, you run and hide https://t.co/yan0efyhZC
2025-11-17T00:32 id=1990216383507153374 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy you really think nothing is humiliating? what about a crack whore begging to suck guys off on the street corner? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nothing is humiliating, or why you think that? I agree on the rest
2025-11-17T00:49 id=1990220680298971323 →- | Bracketing is never costless.
2025-11-17T01:15 id=1990227322818232656 →teodor_io | @teodor_io The rare toxic flow state, I've been there a few times. It's truly glorious. || CTX: I have this melancholic state that I am in when I am hungover or sleep deprived, which I can enhance by listening to lofi house on my headphones. I can only describe it as something akin to an after sex state of tired bliss. I can, in that 
2025-11-17T01:20 id=1990228429434937768 →BrankoMilan | @BrankoMilan This seems extremely correct to me. || CTX: Is it a controversial view? "Fundamentally, by his nature and aesthetics, Keynes was more an artist than an economist. I mean this as a compliment. I think he saw economics as an art that needs to ensure “the enough” so that we can finally 
2025-11-17T01:29 id=1990230712168181983 →- | Man I wonder about this far too much.  &gt; be me &gt; have email discussion with prominent economist &gt; tell economist I disagree with his factorization of inflation, I say it's partly corps expanding margins and using pandemic recovery as excuse  &gt; economist tells me he agrees, but... https://t.co/wQ6uA55O84 || CTX: I was very encouraged at economists’ collective mockery of Harris’s first economic policy being price controls  Understanding the role of prices is still core economics https://t.co/DXwuIZjXNZ
2025-11-17T01:29 id=1990230714512728240 →47fucb4r8c69323 | says he doesn't want to say this publicly for political reasons &gt; time passes &gt; economist becomes advisor to Harris campaign &gt; Harris says corporate greed caused inflation and suggests price controls  Did I fuck shit up? || CTX: Man I wonder about this far too much.  &gt; be me &gt; have email discussion with prominent economist &gt; tell economist I disagree with his factorization of inflation, I say it's partly corps expanding margins and using pandemic recovery 
2025-11-17T01:31 id=1990231308602310847 →JeanClaudeFox2 | @JeanClaudeFox2 @tylercowen Cowen became a successful public figure by claiming art's goodness is commensurate with its commercial success. He also once made a blogpost claiming the best artists/critics of the 19th century were wealthy.   He's not smart, and that he's seen as smart tells us much of our age. || CTX: A common idea among economists. An old @tylercowen  paper assumes Proust could have written successful detective novels instead. https://t.co/RP4R59gLiP
2025-11-17T01:32 id=1990231492136710501 →StefanFSchubert | @StefanFSchubert You're not wrong but you've missed the point. I'm not surprised. || CTX: This is an interesting point.   You might think that since intelligence is fairly general, an excellent philosopher or novelist could have been as good at something else.  But it's not that general - and since competition is stiff at the to
2025-11-17T01:35 id=1990232320360755709 →moultano | @moultano @thinkingshivers This is close but wrong.  Their community perpetuates the problem but isn't the root of the problem. || CTX: @thinkingshivers It's good to sympathize with the people themselves, but not the people-as-incels because the identity and the community around it is often the root cause of their problems.
2025-11-17T01:58 id=1990238104423399763 →credenzaclear2 | @credenzaclear2 Reminds me of the time I went on a date with an (absurdly) hot girl.  Convinced her to come to my place for dinner, and as I was cooking she turned on the ABC Family channel.  Made me feel really self loathing, just completely miserable. || CTX: watching a hallmark christmas movie is a torture exercise and existential horror if you have even a modicum of an interior life
2025-11-17T01:59 id=1990238400558006559 →JeanClaudeFox2 | @JeanClaudeFox2 I call this "writing like an asshole" and it's a staple of the continental tradition. Derrida the Platonic ideal case. || CTX: Bad writing is in large part a problem of attitude: Let the readers put in the work the writer didn't. https://t.co/GlXnmnWeJm
2025-11-17T02:01 id=1990238753848480076 →xirsigdsn | @xirsigdsn As someone whose PhD was heavily influenced by Ong, I'd like to ask you a question:  What the fuck are you talking about? || CTX: Weisenthal &amp; Tooze are like the thin threads in America holding a Type of Guy from going illiterate already https://t.co/Z8ftMvFnRq
2025-11-17T02:12 id=1990241589399355690 →- | "I love Penrose because he's a genius. I interview Noam Chomsky, Michael Levin, and other top minds in their fields. And I love John Lennon's talentless failson after he identifies with a banal statement."  This is the attention economy. https://t.co/cUCh5w7XEV || CTX: @seanonolennon Thanks for sharing. It's an honor to know that you watch the channel. Feel free to DM any time.
2025-11-17T02:42 id=1990249143013687431 →- | https://t.co/lCCINyUcjf https://t.co/bkRpJflske || CTX: https://t.co/BC96tFS8OK https://t.co/tJdDS1iUHt
2025-11-17T04:36 id=1990277951305416832 →- | I have a serious economic theory that increasingly impacts my writing and decision making: there's a downgrade in the market value of many institutions but the perceived value hasn't changed, causing weird effects.  Example 1: Kpop (cont'd ...)
2025-11-17T04:36 id=1990277955470459272 →47fucb4r8c69323 | in other words, market value of music has declined, but for those of us who don't feel this find it really weird that non-English language music is dominating the pop charts.  Another example: politics. We're now seeing people joke about Trump sucking off Bill, not because... || CTX: Kpop = poorer nation's workforce displacing richer nation's workforce. Korean pop groups are dominant because less Americans want to be in pop groups because pop music is less lucrative than it used to be. Ofc one can still get rich with it
2025-11-17T04:36 id=1990277953272652155 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Kpop = poorer nation's workforce displacing richer nation's workforce. Korean pop groups are dominant because less Americans want to be in pop groups because pop music is less lucrative than it used to be. Ofc one can still get rich with it, but less so than the past.... || CTX: I have a serious economic theory that increasingly impacts my writing and decision making: there's a downgrade in the market value of many institutions but the perceived value hasn't changed, causing weird effects.  Example 1: Kpop (cont'd 
2025-11-17T04:36 id=1990277957592748286 →47fucb4r8c69323 | we're less serious or stupider as a people than in the 60s when politics were serious: politics simply are less important than they used to be. Our lives are more determined by technology, demographics, and other factors relative to politics than was the case in the past. ... || CTX: in other words, market value of music has declined, but for those of us who don't feel this find it really weird that non-English language music is dominating the pop charts.  Another example: politics. We're now seeing people joke about Tr
2025-11-17T04:36 id=1990277959631122623 →47fucb4r8c69323 | as a result, we get dumb reality show stars, nepobabies, mouthbreathers like MTG, and other losers in politics because smart people are going into higher value professions.  Same with cars: BYD is overtaking Tesla because car manufacture is lower value.... || CTX: we're less serious or stupider as a people than in the 60s when politics were serious: politics simply are less important than they used to be. Our lives are more determined by technology, demographics, and other factors relative to politic
2025-11-17T04:36 id=1990277962109980730 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This isn't just happening in cars, politics, and music, but that it's happening in three very different domains suggests a complex overarching dynamic is at play: the commoditization of old institutions.  But this is really good! This is progress! || CTX: as a result, we get dumb reality show stars, nepobabies, mouthbreathers like MTG, and other losers in politics because smart people are going into higher value professions.  Same with cars: BYD is overtaking Tesla because car manufacture is
2025-11-17T05:27 id=1990290578035351729 →SpeedWatkins | @SpeedWatkins ...do you realize that, if theism isn't testable, then atheism isn't either? || CTX: Not sure what’s supposed to be unreasonable about this. Natural theology claims theism can be sufficiently evidenced. Atheism entails that it can’t. One reason is because theism isn’t testable. Natural science is, and he illustrates with a 
2025-11-17T06:51 id=1990311794917958074 →hermenewtics | @hermenewtics it's neither, that's why no one studies it anymore || CTX: Folks do we consider process philosophy continental or analytic?
2025-11-17T07:01 id=1990314275290943516 →trefinite | @trefinite I haven't read her translation but from this excerpt it's clearly extremely good. || CTX: The Odyssey was basically ancient Greek the Godfather.  “Tell me about a complicated man” is a perfect opener https://t.co/KtkiB6PFPO
2025-11-17T10:51 id=1990372207189786930 →bernardtjoy | @bernardtjoy He was 5'6" the Bard would've TKO'd in one round. || CTX: Love you, Ludwig, but if I had a betting slip in my pocket it would read Bill Shakespeare. https://t.co/14SK8x7h2l
2025-11-17T12:14 id=1990393046643441669 →- | This video is easily the greatest vindication of continental philosophy on Earth.   https://t.co/ihTRlVpNBp
2025-11-17T12:15 id=1990393426806718477 →dlongenecker1 | @dlongenecker1 That dude gay as hell sheeeit || CTX: "I have noticed again and again since I have been in the church that lay interest in ecclesiastical matters is often a prelude to insanity" -- Evelyn Waugh https://t.co/0r6kfoGakj
2025-11-17T12:57 id=1990403953733906860 →- | So many pepe profile photo accounts are really smart. https://t.co/QA8YY5Xgoy || CTX: @RyanHaecker Lmao he was literally an extreme fascist reactionary
2025-11-17T12:58 id=1990404216716706041 →Empty_America | @Empty_America I lived in NY and crossed the border many times and HOLY SHIT this is shockingly true. || CTX: One of the most interesting questions in American sociology is why Upstate NY looks like Belarus/Mordor compared to New England.  The border is like going through a strange portal, it's a HARD line in most places.   Same thing with Quebec B
2025-11-17T12:59 id=1990404357708304785 →orphcorp | @orphcorp Wanna be my quant? || CTX: I don't understand why we have to wait for Optimus.  Elon Musk's net worth is $470 billion.  He could give each American $1.4 million and eliminate poverty already if he wanted. https://t.co/r7fHFPQgBh
2025-11-17T13:00 id=1990404640022679677 →LinguisticsShi1 | @LinguisticsShi1 Knowing what uni faculty jobs pay in Florida, yeah I'd be anxious too || CTX: I live in two states. Florida and Anxiety.
2025-11-17T13:32 id=1990412659359928483 →JosephPolitano | @JosephPolitano @JerusalemDemsas fap fap fap fap || CTX: @JerusalemDemsas Look at that exposed brick 👀
2025-11-17T13:34 id=1990413256620396930 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel @pearlythingz This bit is so fucking funny and idk why || CTX: @pearlythingz Hey
2025-11-17T13:52 id=1990417693162516496 →- | To Arab and Jew,  Betty Boop too,  Anew and askew,  Tum tugging with you-- CEASE! Your labors at once,  Ye Kinney's, you nonce,  From Jersey to the Bronx: Your honkity honks,  We cannot tolonx: Flonkity flonkity flonx flonx flonx.
2025-11-18T00:33 id=1990579055637446980 →- | The best way to understand our age: it is one of radical experimentation following the unmooring of all past standards and judgments.  This produces some amazing technology and also a lot of sheer idiocy.
2025-11-18T01:14 id=1990589321435553885 →FreyChristopher | @FreyChristopher Do you ever get in bar fights with philosophers of history? || CTX: As a historian of philosophy, let me assure you that there is no level of clarity in your writing that would prevent it from being interpreted in dozens of wildly different ways.
2025-11-18T01:17 id=1990590173994975636 →Matt_Stefon | @Matt_Stefon @jonathanbfine "yes but what if we breathed had the same exact properties of oxygen just it was made of different--" yeah i fucking hate possible world semantics. || CTX: @jonathanbfine there’d be no fires. and we’d all be dead from asphyxiation.
2025-11-18T01:25 id=1990592123788538327 →sporadica | @sporadica To anyone reading this: this did not happen. || CTX: today my Twitter account was brought up in conversation at the workplace lunch table  time to disappear to a foreign country and take on a brand new identity, it’s been nice knowing you all
2025-11-18T01:34 id=1990594330952937494 →jessesingal | @jessesingal Is Singal siding with a 21yr old who said Hegel writes in English in his supposed "takedown" of continental philosophy?   Dude what's happening to you, seriously, you used to be really intelligent and insightful. || CTX: I think this is a must-read for anyone who has sensed there's something... up with a lot of left-of-center intellectual spaces but who hasn't been able to put their finger on what it is  (ignore the headline -- it's not *just* about Bluesky
2025-11-18T01:39 id=1990595764381450723 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 The pandemic made a lot of very uncomfortable truths emerge, like the real uselessness of many rich people, the low value of laborers, how much of our economy is extremely abstract. The anger is justified but almost always misplaced. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The 2020s have felt very angry for some reason.
2025-11-18T01:40 id=1990596053213806675 →AlexYablon | @AlexYablon Does make me feel better about being lazier with my writing career though.  If this is what it takes to be more famous, I'll take my obscurity. || CTX: Sorry for earnest posting but I find Olivia Nuzzi’s return nauseating. A gossipmonger with no ethical compass does not deserve a book deal or VF job, esp in light of the thousands of reporters who have been cast aside from the field without
2025-11-18T01:47 id=1990597710374973454 →katrosenfield | @katrosenfield Why do I know that name
2025-11-18T01:53 id=1990599110127464716 →- | The internet is a fascinating place where you can get a glimpse at so many forms of life with their own language games. https://t.co/imkiePM7Wq
2025-11-18T01:57 id=1990600124855431445 →- | My first academic conference was such a horrific experience. Organizer's grad student flirted with me in front of her boyfriend, well-known vicious prof tore my paper apart (it was bad, admittedly), and the keynote paper which was later heralded as a breakthrough is now debunked.
2025-11-18T01:57 id=1990600126822510783 →47fucb4r8c69323 | But the grad student flirting is what I remember the most, and the next morning her bf's visible visceral rage, her sudden sharp rudeness to me; I'd been a pawn in some sick pointless game made to cause misery.  The perfect introduction to academia, really. || CTX: My first academic conference was such a horrific experience. Organizer's grad student flirted with me in front of her boyfriend, well-known vicious prof tore my paper apart (it was bad, admittedly), and the keynote paper which was later her
2025-11-18T01:58 id=1990600383337803795 →scootykins | @scootykins @pli_cachete He had long hair like 2 years ago lmao wtf this is hilarious || CTX: @pli_cachete Kinda hard to date when you’re a bald math guy
2025-11-18T02:06 id=1990602379272810586 →agraybee | @agraybee This is dated as hell but 100% spot on || CTX: And now if I may recite a passage from American Canto, a memoir of my affaire de cœur with a certain son of a Massachusetts political dynasty which shan't be named. https://t.co/3OtExj3vUR
2025-11-18T02:10 id=1990603383926108204 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne The problem, as with much in our current age, is that their "tenets" are so vague and unmoored from reality that they can be twisted into anything.  A subset of Rationalists believe they have spoken with demons. Find me a more torturous twisting of ideas than that. || CTX: i’m agnostic about whether or not rationalism is a religion though it can still count as a cult without being a religion. but that is not even the main question. the q that matters is, what are its core tenets? how are they implemented? no 
2025-11-18T03:27 id=1990622839318458566 →Piryme | @Piryme 2002. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When was this?
2025-11-18T03:28 id=1990623159318610323 →smittie61984 | @smittie61984 @EsotericCD The southern Italian last name makes this so perfect man || CTX: @EsotericCD “She fucked for a story is what she did. She was a great American journalist. And in this house, Olivia Nuzzi is a hero. End of story.” https://t.co/umKchF4BjE
2025-11-18T03:38 id=1990625553234448883 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure @Benthamsbulldog This dude is the best evidence that one doesn't need to be smart, culturally significant, accomplished to get attention.  Just show up with something outrageous in the algo at the right time. || CTX: It is with great regret that I announce that efforts to set the terms for an actual debate with @Benthamsbulldog proved predictably unfruitful. https://t.co/Wo3jgNaB9L https://t.co/0fNjvt47oR
2025-11-18T03:40 id=1990626067313504454 →virgil_30 | @virgil_30 @DevinGoure Story of my life tbh || CTX: @DevinGoure when they cant do discourse they move to discourse about the state of the discourse about the discourse. Fuck it. Dat course. I'll take dat other course over there
2025-11-18T04:16 id=1990635272418308448 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne Take this to the absurd extreme and assume we're all physically the same extended mind, just temporarily unaware of this fact.  I cannot think of a more horrific afterlife. || CTX: mentally, we constitute each other. if 'extended mind' is true, unavoidably so is this. the other with whom i am in dialogue is part of my self, just as i am part of the other's self. friendship is between the virtuous as other selves and i
2025-11-18T04:17 id=1990635496733868411 →_rotimia | @_rotimia I'm a fellow writer and feel this almost everyday. || CTX: Man, as a writer sometimes, I don’t know if anyone else relates to this, you feel like you are fighting gravity to get opportunities, write stories, place things, and then you watch someone who broke every ethics rule advance anyway. It is 
2025-11-18T04:34 id=1990639684700287119 →dikaiosvne | @dikaiosvne New existential dread unlocked, tyvm || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe this is how god punishes ragebaiters
2025-11-18T07:24 id=1990682553884594452 →- | This is like 90% of what's wrong with the world today tbh https://t.co/ofMIsEHmS9 || CTX: @malecatkins @47fucb4r8c69323 it goes to show, all the optimal belief updating in the world can't fix broke-ass priors.
2025-11-18T07:32 id=1990684409507598642 →Piryme | @Piryme LMFAO this is awesome || CTX: https://t.co/ZIY7s1oizt
2025-11-18T07:33 id=1990684776936943751 →luscofusch | @luscofusch "There isn't a word to describe this danger" sounds a lot like something a Wittgensteinian would say. || CTX: not even close https://t.co/lw2ixyLuAp https://t.co/5HyXiZYElA
2025-11-18T07:34 id=1990685082336854210 →ghost_exquisite | @ghost_exquisite @luscofusch And he's right ofc but the problem with Deleuze and his generation is they were allergic to effective communication. || CTX: @luscofusch every single reponse to this so far is so tragically wounded lol. he's only saying the the Wittgenensteinians have butchered Wittgenstein in effect, maybe not in intention
2025-11-18T07:41 id=1990686849829044313 →BlueBoxDave | @BlueBoxDave @Heminator No. It's bad writing and you're deluded by your sociohistorical moment.   Stephen King has a better chance of getting in the canon. Or Danielle Steele. || CTX: @Heminator She can write. It is what it is.
2025-11-18T08:34 id=1990700116030968060 →JeanClaudeFox2 | @JeanClaudeFox2 The excerpt here is absolutely fantastic. || CTX: I don't know ancient Greek so cannot say whether it's a good translation, but the much shat-upon Wilson text has a certain zing. https://t.co/3zfNhctOLC
2025-11-18T09:11 id=1990709536366424505 →WKCosmo | @WKCosmo Theseus's ship: "Am I a joke to you?" || CTX: Philosophy in the real world. https://t.co/JdpHzqWuQY
2025-11-18T09:43 id=1990717377323962655 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews Are you accusing Nixon, of all people, of lying? || CTX: i mean Nixon did also quit. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you’re coming from here but Nixon very much did quit https://t.co/vzFNz4jqbB
2025-11-18T09:44 id=1990717616789307514 →timurkuran | @timurkuran Friend of mine left a professorship during the cancellation wave. Top research uni, too || CTX: Someone needs to collect data on all the scholars who retired early because of wokeness; courses not taught; projects shelved or never started; readings removed from syllabi; mediocre readings added for protection from wokeness; etc. etc. W
2025-11-18T09:56 id=1990720867454586912 →- | I just changed my username.
2025-11-18T10:24 id=1990727791428432198 →potatoslav | @potatoslav @nienna121 Your baby must be a hippie. At the very least, a flour child. || CTX: @nienna121 i had my baby in a bakery literally the day i got released from the hospital. it’s not a big deal!
2025-11-18T10:30 id=1990729408101957725 →boreddeleuzian | @boreddeleuzian What? || CTX: Or something is finally going right. https://t.co/1xzgi0ubEL
2025-11-18T10:31 id=1990729576071241949 →ClwnPrncCharlie | @ClwnPrncCharlie The more you zoom in on her the uglier she gets.   Fr try it || CTX: The pro grade inflation faction needs better spokespeople, it’s all half-mad homework addicts who think that they create As in the same way an oyster creates a pearl https://t.co/Lay0IHNmE2
2025-11-18T11:09 id=1990739148089553242 →xmuse_ | @xmuse_ A diet vanilla coke and some grapes || CTX: What do you need to be happy? Not someday—today.
2025-11-18T11:33 id=1990745192056697013 →die_rizzen | @die_rizzen Me, to the bartender at 3am || CTX: This paragraph has more depth than most books. https://t.co/P5sfGpKWsA
2025-11-18T18:30 id=1990850022263472424 →Piryme | @Piryme @dikaiosvne Rationalists, the Eliezer Yudkowsky cult. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dikaiosvne Who are they?
2025-11-18T23:53 id=1990931358802456942 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss If it's full and you're in-between a couple, your chances of getting an aisle or window seat are non zero too || CTX: A funny completely evil thing to do is increase your chance of having no one else sit by you by choosing the middle seat in the flight seat selection thing. It’s high risk because if the plain is full you might get fucked but if it’s not, y
2025-11-19T00:31 id=1990941029319516279 →Bernstein | @Bernstein Dude you once thought Obermann was cool. This entirely on you || CTX: One sign of how badly things have gone off the rails since I was a boy is that the guy who I thought was the coolest guy in the world when I was 10 because he said bon mots and kooky catchphrases about sports is now this guy https://t.co/5L
2025-11-19T00:32 id=1990941153655460217 →Piryme | @Piryme Can you explain the appeal of groyperism? || CTX: My biggest sin is making my best friend a groyper back in 2022. He should’ve remained a Kosher conservative… he wasn’t ready..
2025-11-19T02:14 id=1990966806404862127 →Piryme | @Piryme Twitter is a hilariously bad website, soz just replied || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are DMs working for you
2025-11-19T02:20 id=1990968446021173640 →- | RT @EtheHerring: This from David Bather Woods' biography of Schopenhauer is sending me https://t.co/V7psFfHgeV || CTX: This from David Bather Woods' biography of Schopenhauer is sending me https://t.co/V7psFfHgeV
2025-11-19T03:21 id=1990983684946866286 →agraybee | @agraybee She's such a pure example of a talentless grifter who values nothing but herself that she should be encased in amber and put in a museum. || CTX: I need to lie down. https://t.co/GGJGqavjpx
2025-11-19T03:28 id=1990985569112092696 →- | I am begging you if you have a brain and actually want the internet to be a serious place: respond to pseudo intellectuals like this more often. https://t.co/qPSvOh1Bhp || CTX: @allTheYud you are the dumbest fucking man alive, go back to fan fiction you dunce
2025-11-19T05:34 id=1991017274048938127 →TobyMeadows | @TobyMeadows https://t.co/obRjuqGCUy  Anyone who says in earnest "You should read my Substack" has already lost the discussion.   FWIW he's clearly bad at philosophy by asserting his statement (or any) is "philosophically empty". || CTX: @TobyMeadows My point is *exactly* to deflate the metaphysics away from mathematicians self-identifying as Platonists. You should read my Substack instead of sneering at an isolated excerpt.
2025-11-19T05:51 id=1991021581179760950 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @TobyMeadows I apologize.   Your response to my statement is so rigorous, well thought out, and intelligent that not only did you demolish Toby with your brilliance, but also I'm clearly far too stupid to understand anything you could say.   I suggest not engaging with me, I'm too dumb. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TobyMeadows Sure, I've lost the discussion, wanker.
2025-11-19T06:02 id=1991024265299439753 →annasayshai | @annasayshai Read Grapes of Wrath? || CTX: I finished East of Eden last night and I feel at a loss…. Such a brilliant novel. What am I supposed to do now
2025-11-19T06:19 id=1991028510534885745 →- | Am I being unfair or hamfisted if I say Kripke stole this idea entirely from Wittgenstein? This is the causal chain through and through.   @ResonantPyre https://t.co/Ight5yuDfa
2025-11-19T06:22 id=1991029369951965445 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu What more do I need? Controls for one; since she's, ahem, an active participant, her survey work is useless as science. || CTX: some people never got over their idea of a scientist as some old white dude in university somewhere and it clearly shows when they criticize aella for not being a scientist, she takes survey data and analyzes them. what more do you need? (y
2025-11-19T06:26 id=1991030186247352569 →AnnaPalindrome | @AnnaPalindrome @lu_sichu Sichu is an excellent poaster so this thread I'm just going to dismiss as a horniness-driven transgression.  Which, honestly, is the biggest disappointment: not the sycophancy for pussy, that's fine--what bothers me is the lack of taste. She ugly as hell man || CTX: @lu_sichu Yeah so she’s a great collator, who is often criticised for bias, technique and interpretation. She doesn’t even have an education, and yes that’s important for understanding how to handle data. Calling her one of earth’s top scie
2025-11-19T06:28 id=1991030716336124254 →- | Aella publishing a "study", math guys publishing substacks on method... this reminds me of the 80s/90s when everyone wanted to be a novelist.  Now everyone wants to be a popsci writer.  Makes sense with the death of fiction, but I wonder how long this trend can last.
2025-11-19T06:28 id=1991030775270330836 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Never. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 mind out of gutter haha
2025-11-19T06:29 id=1991031118267875570 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @AnnaPalindrome Why do you think they're preconceived? I've developed my view of her from listening to her be interviewed and reading a few tweets.  That's enough for me to know she's a dumb ho. Which is fine, plenty of dumb hoes on the planet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AnnaPalindrome I think you should dismiss your preconceived notions of who she is and actually read her posts and then read some sexuality research to understand what I'm trying to say if you think I'm not usually prone to
2025-11-19T06:31 id=1991031530190405702 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu @AnnaPalindrome I don't think you're prone to hallucinating your epistemics. but if you want an honest assessment I think you're too in love with novelty and tech and insufficiently acquainted with history and specifically the history of ideas, which results in errors of judgment. No offense. || CTX: @lu_sichu @AnnaPalindrome Why do you think they're preconceived? I've developed my view of her from listening to her be interviewed and reading a few tweets.  That's enough for me to know she's a dumb ho. Which is fine, plenty of dumb hoes 
2025-11-19T06:52 id=1991036911570542599 →- | This is absurdly accurate.  Now if only I can remember what 2000s internet style was like. https://t.co/Ev9NHZigOe || CTX: 2010s bloggy prose style was all adult women affecting the tone of simpering babies. 2020s substack style is the most illiterate man you’ve ever met in your life putting on the air of a great philosopher
2025-11-19T06:59 id=1991038512611917915 →- | The worst part of reading about the early 20th century is you then look at the public "intellectuals" we have today and just kinda want to die. https://t.co/QgnraRhQP6
2025-11-19T07:37 id=1991048119409365486 →teodorio | @teodorio Klagge, ed, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Public and Private Occassions || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 book name?
2025-11-19T07:46 id=1991050544308449583 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I mean, look at this list, it's so embarrassing.  Harari I take as a personal insult: I had the same exact academic background, wanted the same career, and quickly abandoned it bc I knew it's impossible to do with integrity and rigor. Harari lacks such scruples, as his work shows https://t.co/zZcbSXW6LP || CTX: The worst part of reading about the early 20th century is you then look at the public "intellectuals" we have today and just kinda want to die. https://t.co/QgnraRhQP6
2025-11-19T07:49 id=1991051074292347339 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Someone give me a time machine please https://t.co/eVlA5lk58U || CTX: I mean, look at this list, it's so embarrassing.  Harari I take as a personal insult: I had the same exact academic background, wanted the same career, and quickly abandoned it bc I knew it's impossible to do with integrity and rigor. Harar
2025-11-19T09:06 id=1991070621879435615 →- | I no longer believe in the redemptive power of aestheticization as an alibi for extraction.
2025-11-19T10:20 id=1991089087122420126 →teodorio | @teodorio The most beautiful part of any building is the scaffolding. || CTX: please stop "building in public" the public does not want to see construction they want to see art
2025-11-19T10:40 id=1991094316153163975 →apisith84 | @apisith84 @Trinhnomics BoT isn't to fault, a corrupt government, feckless monarchy, high tolerance for corruption, weird capital controls, absurd and illogical restrictions on foreign investment are at fault.   BoT can't solve a basket case banana republic. || CTX: @Trinhnomics The BOT has crushed demand through tight monetary policy. They have made restructuring the economy much harder.
2025-11-19T11:08 id=1991101159285956626 →romlib_ | @romlib_ I mean this from the bottom of my heart:  Thank you so much for letting me know this exists. || CTX: No one does it like him https://t.co/MHXilK88wC
2025-11-19T13:43 id=1991140191269179624 →- | The average Twitter user reads the absolute worst dogshit imaginable it's actually really funny.
2025-11-19T14:27 id=1991151293843509481 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Not you, bro, don't worry--I know you can't read. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/yXSMEMoRY4
2025-11-19T14:38 id=1991154054286983504 →HeadBetwixKnees | @HeadBetwixKnees @growing_daniel DUDE THAT'S SO MEAN yeah I thought exactly the same || CTX: @growing_daniel If she's a spy, they are not sending their best
2025-11-19T14:39 id=1991154377135153362 →bernardtjoy | @bernardtjoy I got drunk with her once. || CTX: Sex is a blood sport.   —Germaine Greer
2025-11-19T14:44 id=1991155570313998501 →atlanticesque | @atlanticesque America is separated by subculture, not by economic class. || CTX: Does the “working class” exist anywhere? I don’t know. I live in America in the 21st century, so that’s the perspective I’m working from, and I have never seen any evidence whatsoever that the “working class” exists outside the deranged ima
2025-11-19T14:47 id=1991156421795475793 →Bellmanequation | @Bellmanequation Yeah, but where's his Teaching Statement and Diversity Statement? || CTX: Recommendation letters like this used to be rare.  Ramsey recommending Wittgenstein: “…a genius of a different order from anyone else I know…From his work more than that of any other man I hope for a solution of the difficulties that perple
2025-11-19T14:53 id=1991157939004977485 →- | This tweet works best with no context https://t.co/cj6xVmv9f6 || CTX: @ella_schlags May I suggest a 3way? You know to keep more of the finance inside the family
2025-11-19T14:55 id=1991158483660550286 →acorntrarian | @acorntrarian @ad0rnai omg now I need to have some || CTX: @ad0rnai Ooooh, bet you can feel the salt crystals crunch with every bite - the French know their beurre
2025-11-19T15:04 id=1991160682906013997 →luscofusch | @luscofusch Kripke lmao || CTX: https://t.co/SLLh2q4cS3
2025-11-19T15:07 id=1991161385535893563 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @Andr3jH AY YO WE DOWN WITH MCP (yeah you and me) || CTX: @Andr3jH It's a sex thing on his wife's part. Munchausen's cucking by proxy
2025-11-19T16:50 id=1991187461423210679 →quickdeletion | @quickdeletion @yifever mngas || CTX: @yifever make nihon great again
2025-11-20T02:02 id=1991326159771156826 →zeelee3D | @zeelee3D @mrjeffu Literally the &gt; place, Japan meme || CTX: @mrjeffu At first I was pretty annoyed with it, but after a while I learned to love it actually. You had to be a little mindful(a good thing), and no trash cans overflowed into the streets (happens in USA), and people were respectful about 
2025-11-20T02:34 id=1991334320729198864 →- | This is a media failure, not a social one.  If you walk outside you see life is basically as it always was.  The medium is a pressure cooker, the message is pressure.  If your takeaway from this isn't, "the internet is silly nonsense," idk what to tell you man. https://t.co/FFHPwOZg4G || CTX: &gt; woman gets degree  &gt; ten million guys call her a whore  &gt; man thanks wife for bread &gt; ten million women call her a slave and him a rapist  It’s just like comically fucked up at this point https://t.co/q5ktglQY2o
2025-11-20T02:36 id=1991334912088211856 →Kiraid3130 | @Kiraid3130 @SCHIZO_FREQ @GaryNielsen99 Well, PhD lady saw last year's PhD lady go viral and thus guarantee a job at a time when academia is contracting, so she has rational incentives.  The issue is the social media userbase rewarding attention seeking. Mandatory anonymity would fix this. || CTX: @SCHIZO_FREQ @GaryNielsen99 i dont defend hatred but i would advice everyone to never share your private life on internet. i mean why do you want stranger to know that you got your degree or you wife made you bread except just for some chea
2025-11-21T00:39 id=1991667798184247655 →laukatuul | @laukatuul @peligrietzer Can you link me to a discussion of this? I've seen him mostly discussed as an autist, never seen a schizoid accusation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @peligrietzer Wittgenstein is sometimes treated in scientific literature as a typical schizoid (the psychological sense).
2025-11-21T00:43 id=1991668774215520602 →logicus | @logicus For W. ethics exist outside of logic so one can never give a true or false answer, so accuracy, precision, or "realness" are contingent on the local grammars of a particular form of life.  (I'm combining Tractatus and P. I. here which some scholars would object to, but fuck them) || CTX: my thought here is more about ontology. it's a natural impulse to want to do, e.g., the eliminativist thing and start talking about the "real" entities, realer because they sound more physical. but even just scientifically different ontolog
2025-11-21T01:01 id=1991673344450814145 →No5mallf3at | @No5mallf3at @keysmashbandit The obvious solution is to use the internet like we did in the 90s and 2000s: anonymously.   Egoism and a thirst for clout mean most can't do that. They cannot be the enlightened Anon. || CTX: @keysmashbandit This is the problem with social media and what enforces the division systematically. Everyone uses the platform against each other in the same lowdown way. It’s all just gonna comeback to just the left again.
2025-11-21T01:05 id=1991674173010448876 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck I think there's a lot of hard coded custom instructions for when people ask about Musk, and they're furiously updating those instructions in response to these posts. || CTX: Lol wtf these are 10 mins apart or so https://t.co/zhFJWCaCHb
2025-11-21T01:12 id=1991675966939361557 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus More to the point: W. would say there's no way to turn an ethical principle into a logical proposition.   E.g.: "Be nice to others and they will be nice to you" is not an ethical principle, it's a game theoretic strategy (and questionable one). Ethical props can't be logical prop || CTX: @logicus Oh he read Moore when he first got to Cambridge. I don't think he ever read Quine--too late (PI was basically written well before 1948 btw).
2025-11-21T01:14 id=1991676632235708912 →idobadtakes | @idobadtakes The fact that bars and taverns need more parking spaces than other establishments is so absurd.  Zoning laws are like 99% of why I left America and won't move back. || CTX: There's a common misconception that America loves cars because of 'freedom' or 'personal choices'. Nothing could be further from the truth.  Want to open a business in a more walkable area and try to capture foot traffic? No, says the gover
2025-11-21T01:16 id=1991676996108316877 →oscredwin | @oscredwin @neocentrist Solving the Ukraine-Russia conflict would be massively helpful in winning elections. || CTX: @neocentrist He is the smartest, but he's trying to win elections, not solve problems.
2025-11-21T01:19 id=1991677810692485612 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @JoshuaLWatson I see the ending very differently and less romantically: without memory, we are doomed to make the same mistake over and over.  The movie isn't a romance at all, it's a tragedy. || CTX: @JoshuaLWatson Haha okay. Let's just say that the central theme is about the value of doing what is doomed to end or otherwise to fail.
2025-11-21T01:26 id=1991679600892735525 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @JoshuaLWatson Remember the very very last few seconds of the movie? They're running into a snowy field and the film stutters, that vignette then repeats several times?   That's the clue: they do decide to go through as you say, it falls apart as before, so they do it again. And again and again || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JoshuaLWatson They decide to go through the loop again regardless. It's basically just Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence: The Movie with exactly the same kind of existential upshot. 2/2
2025-11-21T01:35 id=1991681776364974278 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @JoshuaLWatson I'm talking about after that scene, the very last few frames of the movie. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JoshuaLWatson I'm not really sure what you're saying. You said they go through again because they don't remember what happened. But at the end of the film, they know exactly what happened.
2025-11-21T01:39 id=1991682880788132326 →logicus | @logicus you can't make physics determine the rules of ethics any more than you can make physics determine the rules of aesthetics beyond constraining what instantiations of said rules are possible. you could say ethics is a response to the constraints of physics || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 okay, that refreshes the memory. i see how that would make the early W hard to convince. but the moorean wouldn’t budge either. in a way they are both concerned with the same question.
2025-11-21T01:49 id=1991685269133881814 →bas_logic | @bas_logic chomsky's fundamental error is in thinking that language must depend on some kind of computational substrate. his entire project collapses because of this. || CTX: https://t.co/mZERCdSWn5 https://t.co/53i4JPHg1j
2025-11-21T01:51 id=1991685773230502257 →__paleologo | @__paleologo one of the problems with a fractured media landscape is that authors will respond to bad reviews with frustration that they aren't reaching their audience instead of contemplating the possibility that maybe their book is just bad. || CTX: Who. Are. My. Readers.  [I am sorry to have disappointed you.] https://t.co/ZIxOhmiN6Q
2025-11-21T01:57 id=1991687323810165076 →- | RT @i_zzzzzz: If you factor in reach/visibility and the resources required to make it happen, you could make a decent argument that this is… || CTX: If you factor in reach/visibility and the resources required to make it happen, you could make a decent argument that this is the most embarrassing thing any human has ever done https://t.co/B842zzJV3v
2025-11-21T02:15 id=1991691996642308391 →natt941 | @natt941 @taylorlapeyre Yeah if Oedipus and Jocasta compared notes none of this would've happened.  Gay ass sitcom plot writing || CTX: @taylorlapeyre Hm. I have trouble taking the horror seriously when there were so many stupid choices made which made it possible. But then (on the other hand) that's of course usually how it looks in greek lit when people walk into their fa
2025-11-21T02:19 id=1991693000477667382 →iwsfutcmd | @iwsfutcmd I'm a linguist and this is my second favorite movie of all time. || CTX: bullshit linguists fucking *love* this movie  i saw it on opening day https://t.co/27HoinBgww
2025-11-21T02:20 id=1991693244250694072 →RoccocoCctv | @RoccocoCctv @iwsfutcmd I think linguistics specifically tends to encourage an anti-normative anti-prescriptive attitude on life. actually might be one of the most psychologically healthy academic disciplines. || CTX: @iwsfutcmd That’s good to hear. When that gene editing movie Splice came out years ago, I sat behind like 20 members of the genetics department of my local university at the premiere, and listened to them snicker and say “oh my god“ through
2025-11-21T02:22 id=1991693636908806618 →NomadProduct | @NomadProduct @uncledoomer there is an obvious defense. stop taking the internet seriously. it was never designed to be what it is now. || CTX: We are not prepared for this.    Our brains will not handle the overload of fake ragebait content.  Especially as soon as AI video becomes absolutely indistinguishable from reality.   Fake news content, fake crime videos, fake commentary.  
2025-11-21T03:00 id=1991703215608590648 →midtown_rob | @midtown_rob on a 2% down day? lol
2025-11-21T03:02 id=1991703637266202691 →bayesianboy | @bayesianboy Well, this is almost certainly true as long as you call that Mesopotamian slop that they drank beer, which is fair enough. || CTX: I find it quite endearing that the “history of beer” wikipedia article modestly proclaims in its first sentences that “the development of beer led to the creation of technology and civilization.” https://t.co/LbWGpXvBAY
2025-11-21T03:03 id=1991703955269906784 →SevaUT | @SevaUT Holy shit I have not felt so personally attacked in a long long time. || CTX: academia is essential for keeping smart but lazy people out of the workforce. if that collapses you will have a flood of tenure-shaped goblins haunting every McKinsey slide deck
2025-11-21T03:15 id=1991706933288722460 →shaggysurvives | @shaggysurvives @xsphi It saddens me that a dude can't just say his taste without rushing to say he's not a bigot. What a repulsive society we've produced.  And, yeah, same for me buff chicks aren't hot. Better than fatties but not good. || CTX: @xsphi spray tan is ugly also this is probably just my personal preference but i think buff femmes are often not hot. like i think buff masculine women are hot, im not a bigot, but something about the clash of aesthetics bothers me
2025-11-21T03:17 id=1991707496265011283 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ The lifestyle he described was exactly what I was facing and why I left Europe.  What an absolutely bizarre thing to romanticize for so many reasons. || CTX: The declining Ottoman Empire at the time was called ‘The Sick Man of Europe’  Europe is now ‘The Sick Man of the World’ https://t.co/1fmN1I8Lhi
2025-11-21T03:49 id=1991715553095115176 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson @edelnougat @dlwiest Trying to convince dumb undereducated people their political instincts are wrong is tilting at windmills.   Why bother? Serious question--I have struggled with this for like 20 years. || CTX: @edelnougat @dlwiest i mean if Afterlife Slave Collector says its true
2025-11-21T03:51 id=1991716067115421965 →shaggysurvives | @shaggysurvives Reminds me of when I told a former friend "your mental model of what it means to be a good person is wrong." || CTX: new way of disagreeing just dropped https://t.co/87beJoxWkP
2025-11-21T04:26 id=1991724989796827247 →keysmashbandit | @keysmashbandit @ouranometrian2 Goodhart's Law remains undefeated. || CTX: @ouranometrian2 Waste of everyone's time !
2025-11-21T05:49 id=1991745667048579264 →logicus | @logicus W. would absolutely say it's an absurd result bc of the positivist assumption that human reason can understand all things. His entire career was showing this isn't true and the limits of reason are what philosophy cannot understand. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah, possibly some set of configurations within those constraints. the tractatan might struggle to explain why some configurations are the ethical or aesthetic ones. all you have are the pictures. so it’s almost a reductio
2025-11-21T06:56 id=1991762547050238139 →logicus | @logicus Engagement would decline, so this won't happen. || CTX: the algorithm could show content that stimulates self-development in the user. if it could successfully select content useful in that way it would likely improve the total welfare of the whole network since speech improves the thinker both 
2025-11-21T07:35 id=1991772524879966418 →logicus | @logicus Oh for sure, spammers et al.  But my view is much bleaker: I reject the presupposition that people want the diffusion of information over a social network. Users, employees, and owners of social networks want very different things that only rarely overlap with said diffusion || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the situation may be worse than that, actually. there are sophisticated technical methods one can use to prevent the diffusion of information over a social network.
2025-11-21T07:37 id=1991772910026125378 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @growing_daniel They worship credentialism, it's that simple. || CTX: @growing_daniel Why does this passive aggressive faux humility appear so often on the left?  Reminds me of https://t.co/sBrv17tiHH
2025-11-21T07:38 id=1991773187819139414 →tracyalloway | @tracyalloway I used to think Joe was the best poaster. I obviously got the Odd Lots host wrong. || CTX: Was gonna get this as a Christmas present for someone but apparently they think adults shouldn’t get presents so here it stays https://t.co/T4AFCOEDzb
2025-11-21T09:46 id=1991805453500826068 →meta_nomad | @meta_nomad Isn't he the dude that had an affair with Anais Nin? Or was it Sylvia Plath? Is this the first time in history those two women were confused for each other? || CTX: I'm dropping this at halfway. It gets old fast, maybe using the word cunt was super duper edgy in '34, but now the whole thing comes across as whince-inducing.  We get it Henry, you're really cool! https://t.co/ojnhxKhjKi
2025-11-21T09:50 id=1991806534201090477 →John_Attridge | @John_Attridge ... I cannot believe I never thought to make this joke. || CTX: Welcome to Historical Linguistics 101, where we will be putting the LOL in philology *entire class mass unenrols*
2025-11-21T10:11 id=1991811793828843998 →andrew_anon_ | @andrew_anon_ @cool_hot_woman Dude how tf is this immediately recognizable and obviously true?   I've lived in half a dozen countries, visited dozens more, and only Americans make this face || CTX: @cool_hot_woman Yeah Italians don’t make faces like that
2025-11-21T10:45 id=1991820154410602764 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Sadly, I get the reference, so it makes sense. || CTX: where the Fregean e-girls at?
2025-11-21T11:34 id=1991832617608785990 →shereeny | @shereeny There are people who think this is enjoyable to read, both the content and style. || CTX: my jaw dropped when I saw this https://t.co/1Fpy7IRqZF https://t.co/PsYcucg79W
2025-11-21T11:54 id=1991837524562673715 →em013L | @em013L I am embarrassed at how hard this made me laugh || CTX: Omg I’m so sorry. Please forgive my sins https://t.co/auiDE93kxg
2025-11-21T13:12 id=1991857332146598270 →growing_daniel | @growing_daniel @powerbottomdad1 --Moses || CTX: @powerbottomdad1 israel actually good
2025-11-21T13:47 id=1991865967564181877 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Dude I fucking love this. || CTX: How can you see where you’re from I don’t know where I’m from
2025-11-21T13:52 id=1991867221510090982 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 omg I thought you were speaking metaphorically HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just need to know next time I’m accused of being Indian
2025-11-21T13:57 id=1991868494024204715 →helscom | @helscom @retardbot9000 Dude he already said he's not Indian || CTX: @retardbot9000 i checked yours and what the hell is “Rapetown”
2025-11-21T14:17 id=1991873692469772683 →whothewu | @whothewu @Sturgeons_Law What's this from? it's hilarious! || CTX: @Sturgeons_Law https://t.co/a09Sy1oLW5
2025-11-21T14:26 id=1991875910619046091 →- | How I feel reading Wittgenstein. https://t.co/ehrq8Xt0J3 || CTX: He was essentially paraphrasing Goethe, and was absolutely right. https://t.co/T0PdsYNuxW https://t.co/JGlm1kFi44
2025-11-21T23:59 id=1992020132101841334 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I thought so at first but I've grown to like it. Too colloquial in register but outputs seem marginally more intelligent than 5. || CTX: 5.1 is actually fucking garbage. unusable trash
2025-11-22T00:35 id=1992029217379496346 →logicus | @logicus You're taking other people too seriously when they talk about themselves.  No one is honest about their own lives, both when bragging and when being humble.  Talk about the self to others is empty, more phatic than explicative. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s healthy to point out the reality, too. rich people are just people. what’s weird is the flex. so for me… let’s put it into perspective that a lot of people do it with very little help.
2025-11-22T00:48 id=1992032480682258752 →- | self knowledge is the most unnatural thing in the world. the bird does not know how it flies, the cat does not know what it is, and neither cares or has reason to care.
2025-11-22T00:59 id=1992035096250261634 →- | RT @Ljiljana1972: Haha I made a version of this a few years back: https://t.co/UjrX8NMi1v || CTX: Haha I made a version of this a few years back: https://t.co/UjrX8NMi1v https://t.co/toHkntjv6e
2025-11-22T01:00 id=1992035427101057195 →Ljiljana1972 | @Ljiljana1972 "There are no citations as it is of no interest to me whether others have had the same thoughts as I have had" Wittgenstein was such a fucking boss. || CTX: Haha I made a version of this a few years back: https://t.co/UjrX8NMi1v https://t.co/toHkntjv6e
2025-11-22T01:05 id=1992036643503825038 →- | Reply at the bottom really struck out to me.  I've met tons of white Americans obsessed with race. They just seem weird, but I think a black American obsessed with race is at a severe disadvantage.  Imagine just going to the grocery store and thinking it's a battle of races.... https://t.co/gnGx05GD5f
2025-11-22T01:05 id=1992036646053937231 →47fucb4r8c69323 | How can you even come close to success in other facets of life with this burden on your back, this chip on your shoulder?   And is this why race discourse continues in America? White liberals feel superior while white conservatives goad them to it, resulting in keeping black... || CTX: Reply at the bottom really struck out to me.  I've met tons of white Americans obsessed with race. They just seem weird, but I think a black American obsessed with race is at a severe disadvantage.  Imagine just going to the grocery store a
2025-11-22T01:05 id=1992036650340491549 →47fucb4r8c69323 | people from success? And black people get to feel oppressed and off the hook when they don't succeed?  It's such a recipe for disaster, this racial hyperawareness. The 80s/90s goal of color blinded liberalism seems so much better, or maybe I'm just old and out of touch. || CTX: How can you even come close to success in other facets of life with this burden on your back, this chip on your shoulder?   And is this why race discourse continues in America? White liberals feel superior while white conservatives goad the
2025-11-22T01:05 id=1992036750039134366 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson Well, think of the etymology of the word "job". || CTX: its funny because all of the happiest times in my life have been when i was unemployed  help what does it mean lol
2025-11-22T01:08 id=1992037322901319874 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ @YIMBYLAND Slippery slope. The foundation of the American dream is the single family house--the concept germinated from European immigrants escaping crowded housing in post industrial Europe.  Remove that element and you'll start enshittification. || CTX: @YIMBYLAND Related: I wish the ‘American Dream’ didn’t basically require to “own a single-family house”  Cheaper housing is the goal, but that includes if people want to rent or buy other housing types
2025-11-22T01:32 id=1992043585269866581 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @consciousphilos What made you think this was better
2025-11-22T01:34 id=1992044038581842029 →logicus | @logicus Ofc talking about the real world is possible! But people are very rarely motivated to talk about the real world.  An exercise: spend a day eavesdropping and note how often people commit the is/ought fallacy. You'll see it's almost constant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not to be reductive about contextualism. it just does make sense to me to believe that there is some matter of fact about what is or isn’t so in the world.
2025-11-22T01:52 id=1992048472250548594 →ablata_at_alba | @ablata_at_alba ... is this English? || CTX: there's something about a women's datejust (fluted bezel, jubilee, gem indices) that's just deeply hoe-scaring idk  same vibe as sub date finance bros. soulless. demonic. https://t.co/uMXL7ORXUR
2025-11-22T01:58 id=1992050067017179515 →langofmind | @langofmind Perfect tweet, instant follow. || CTX: ok, everyone appears to be missing the point of this movie. It is not about language. It is about choice. "If you knew how things would turn out, would you still make a painful decision?" That's the movie.  Language is just sci-fi technobab
2025-11-22T01:59 id=1992050323389927603 →JPEGMacDonald | @JPEGMacDonald @langofmind Sapir-Whorf isn't a binary and there are plenty of pockets of linguistics where elements of the theory are tacitly accepted.  Ofc people don't want to discuss this, but I'm out of academia so I can. || CTX: @langofmind Like also yeah, so it indulges in some Sapir-Whorfism, do yous think wormholes are actually real ???  And even to that point: most people basically believe in Sapir-Whorfism anyway, this movie isn't shifting people's general und
2025-11-22T02:07 id=1992052184910074302 →bayesianboy | @bayesianboy Won't work, your PhD is too relevant to real world concerns. || CTX: Hey gals, I hear guys on twitter are offering free proofreading services for dissertations (to promote gender equity in academia, I assume). All you have to do is post a selfie and a link to your doctoral thesis! https://t.co/QHUjjzWCGI htt
2025-11-22T02:09 id=1992052707977461891 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @No5mallf3at I like how the person who would be most offended at this is Wittgenstein himself. || CTX: @No5mallf3at When I was doing my BA, I quite enjoyed shocking my classmates by telling them that you only need to read two books: The Tractatus and the Bible. It does sometimes impress me how consistent I am!
2025-11-22T02:13 id=1992053748223689176 →Kulambq | @Kulambq This is why political groups find solidarity in hating outgroups more than pushing a common cause.  I hate McCarthy's romanticism, and he misunderstood Wittgenstein (shocking accomplishment since he read over a hundred books on the guy).  One can be a gifted writer and dumb. || CTX: 'Those who have suffered great pain of injury or loss are joined to one another with bonds of a special authority and so it has proved to be. The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.'  Cor
2025-11-22T02:17 id=1992054882766135435 →- | No one will admit the truth this video uncovers: it's all meaningless spectacle. Neither really has conviction or deeply held views. https://t.co/7xTKT7coiz || CTX: Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist?  Mamdani: We’ve spoken about—  Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it. https://t.co/GVkFiGOvjH
2025-11-22T02:24 id=1992056631388205566 →rikardhjort | @rikardhjort @Juicewag Americans have poisoned their culture with politics so much the entire nation is unlivable. || CTX: @Juicewag this makes me sad https://t.co/OdizsU04O1
2025-11-22T02:29 id=1992057904611172564 →rsomething | @rsomething @matthewstoller This is a legitimate problem.   If our generation of "public intellectuals" is this stupid, we have no hope of maintaining social cohesion. Which is a big problem! https://t.co/MEnFXYnDgv || CTX: @matthewstoller You are truly the dumbest person on this website, which is really saying something
2025-11-22T02:30 id=1992058188225712260 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @rsomething @matthewstoller If you say "he doesn't believe this it's just engagement farming" that's even worse.  Our public intellectuals say dumb shit for attention? Or they're just stupid? Both are awful. || CTX: @rsomething @matthewstoller This is a legitimate problem.   If our generation of "public intellectuals" is this stupid, we have no hope of maintaining social cohesion. Which is a big problem! https://t.co/MEnFXYnDgv
2025-11-22T02:46 id=1992062103113642382 →RobinWigg | @RobinWigg I legit don't understand this even a little.  Why is this on Substack? Can't you publish whatever will be on this Substack in https://t.co/mJymleS3el? Is the point cross marketing? I just don't get the value proposition for anyone. || CTX: And it’s out! If you’re signed up and you haven’t seen it yet then check your spam folder. And if you haven’t signed up then please do so — we promise we’ll try to make it worth it. https://t.co/rs6bL4CSGf
2025-11-22T02:48 id=1992062590135234824 →AioliChowder | @AioliChowder @jakebackpack Americans vote for subculture solidary not for policy.   Why/how this became the case is an interesting question. || CTX: @jakebackpack How is it that this demonstrated phenomenon is either unknown or of no particular interest to his supporters? Like, in a vacuum, we would want the president of any party to not be a dog-brained idiot
2025-11-22T03:04 id=1992066746027814951 →logicus | @logicus I was kinda hoping you'd falsify my view so I could be a bit less misanthropic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 mulled it over and i think you're basically right. truth is just close to impossible to metabolize in doses and concentrations like that. it's for natures of iron, only (or natures of silicon?).
2025-11-22T03:07 id=1992067313533943938 →SeanMombo | @SeanMombo This documentary really bothered me and I think made me more racist, which is not what I want to be. || CTX: Next movie I'm watching is going to be The Act of Killing  A documentary made IN COLLABORATION with perpetrators of the 1965 mass killings of communists in Indonesia. These people are still in power. They let them reenact events and killing
2025-11-22T03:13 id=1992068924725444657 →logicus | @logicus Unpleasant, difficult things are best confronted head on, not avoided.  Remember also Nietzsche warns of the corrosiveness of comfort. I know Last Men, I am friends with them. That's why I hate psychological comfort (physical comfort, though, that I'll take). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 as you know nietzsche discusses the self-spite that follows. it's only close to impossible. in my experience to see oneself that way is unpleasant and hard to sustain over time. from a psychological / pragmatist point of vi
2025-11-22T03:15 id=1992069356617072982 →- | RT @AIicro: https://t.co/sF2TJaWa9T || CTX: https://t.co/sF2TJaWa9T
2025-11-22T03:38 id=1992075249324872111 →Piryme | @Piryme it wasn't the ladyboys || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When you made this account were you visiting Bangkok for the lady boys?
2025-11-22T03:57 id=1992080052016889860 →- | a lot of the criticism of AI music I hear reminds me of the criticism I heard about electronic remixes of music in the '90s. kind of the same moral panic, at least in its form
2025-11-22T04:00 id=1992080626045104167 →- | novel about a faithful Catholic who recants and blasphemes on his deathbed because he wants to go to hell.
2025-11-22T04:31 id=1992088612247412788 →sweetwisties | @sweetwisties How many chilis? This looks authentic af || CTX: holy moly… https://t.co/MD48JfKk25
2025-11-22T04:44 id=1992091905510011087 →Tileatss | @Tileatss "diet coke cuz I'm on a diet" || CTX: Eating like a king again https://t.co/hIcybAKlJt
2025-11-22T05:31 id=1992103640396685320 →- | Believing suffering disproves the existence of God is such a comical failure of imagination it's basically retardation.
2025-11-22T05:32 id=1992103774706704529 →sheeblover | @sheeblover oh damn haven't been inside in over 20 years, guess it's time to endure that queue again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Inside the Vatican :) &amp; thank you!!
2025-11-22T09:01 id=1992156483224756519 →logicus | @logicus God I wish || CTX: idea guys win
2025-11-22T09:09 id=1992158431860728242 →pagan_hoetry | @pagan_hoetry She is not a medievalist. || CTX: (Desperately trying to get Dr Ally Louks attention) I know it smelled crazy in there https://t.co/k7W7U5qnQx
2025-11-22T09:10 id=1992158647905100185 →logicus | @logicus man, I wish I was 10, 20 years younger so I had the energy and drive to do what you're doing. I'm honestly jealous. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we’re on top. llms are obliterating technical expertise. i’m spinning an insane amount of repos and projects 24/7. it’s crazy.
2025-11-22T09:28 id=1992163296393478285 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ @atlanticesque Regulatory capture. || CTX: @atlanticesque Why do we still have car dealerships? Or real estate brokers? Or travel agents?  Seems like there’s a lot of these professions still inexplicably clinging on
2025-11-22T10:22 id=1992176968360403422 →- | I've lived long enough to see Gattaca become reality. That's wild man. https://t.co/1fHa9OB5Kh || CTX: So… eugenics is profitable now? https://t.co/rUz2C1FRYS
2025-11-22T10:35 id=1992180061068521819 →glukupikron | @glukupikron I have no idea why you tweeted this but at the same time I understand and I am so glad you did. || CTX: I’m friends with this persons old roommate and one time I left my phone charger here right before my friend moved out so I never got it back. And now I’m seeing the outlet I left it in on twitter https://t.co/pQ4I29sRWs
2025-11-22T10:50 id=1992184027562877282 →- | Three things that have absolutely nothing to do with whether God exists or not.  Ppl like Benjamin don't see that because their definition of God is different, but instead of modifying the semantics of their signifiers, they throw away the concept. https://t.co/74hbWPf9rX || CTX: @Saganismm Religious disagreement, suffering, and the success of secular science
2025-11-22T10:51 id=1992184091110781362 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And I don't even believe in God! || CTX: Three things that have absolutely nothing to do with whether God exists or not.  Ppl like Benjamin don't see that because their definition of God is different, but instead of modifying the semantics of their signifiers, they throw away the 
2025-11-22T11:01 id=1992186762026692855 →analytichegel | @analytichegel @h4ckzao Wait, WHAT?!?   This is wrong.  They explicitly sought to state that science produces verifiable propositions, and nonverifiable props aren't scientific.  How is that not policing science? || CTX: @h4ckzao For the logical positivists they viewed themselves as having no role in policing science and sought merely to aid in the clarification of science. They sought to advance no substantive claims only ease the communication between tho
2025-11-22T11:07 id=1992188152983773599 →TheProgres49547 | @TheProgres49547 @mikitaposts 1. Huge country 2. English widely spoken 3. Can survive on $200/mo. || CTX: @mikitaposts WHY ARE THEY ALL FROM INDIA LMFAO
2025-11-22T11:08 id=1992188381405536659 →THECOOLISSUE | @THECOOLISSUE I'm feminine as fuck apparently || CTX: the feminine urge to just https://t.co/2iplP2VfgQ
2025-11-22T11:12 id=1992189358045315550 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick Dude, come on, mid level managers at like Quicken make enough to go to a Michelin star restaurant.  And I'd say you need to earn maybe 300k to have enough that you go to Michelin restaurants enough to get sick of them.  Not a bubble.  Now, if roon was an intern... || CTX: it’s a bubble folks https://t.co/RBciZWqdvi
2025-11-22T11:33 id=1992194632219074845 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @ESPNNBA This better come with a seizure warning on TV || CTX: @ESPNNBA for god sakes can we go back to normal colors for basketball courts  this is the nba, not boise state
2025-11-22T11:36 id=1992195460967383259 →mechanix83 | @mechanix83 @langofmind Or just have really absurd thick metaphysics. || CTX: @langofmind It's a cool movie, but not because of the linguistics part. I mean, you just have to suspend your disbelief and it works great
2025-11-22T11:51 id=1992199217369252334 →JMochaCapp | @JMochaCapp @ellafox_m That book fucked me up for weeks.  The Unconsoled is fascinating because it's arguably darker, but much less viscerally so. || CTX: @ellafox_m Have you read Never Let Me Go? If Remains doesn’t fully disembowel you, this book will finish the job.
2025-11-22T11:55 id=1992200356835873076 →RobinWigg | @RobinWigg That actually made it click, thanks! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Think of it like a distribution mechanism, just like X, LinkedIn, or even a newsstand.
2025-11-22T12:05 id=1992202795861356583 →- | Trying to make Sora videos REALLY shows how the medium is the message--there is so little you can do it really constraints whatever you try to make.
2025-11-22T12:58 id=1992216101447671922 →- | Like there are unfalsifiable truths. Whether Socrates sneezed during his life is an unfalsifiable truth.
2025-11-22T13:02 id=1992217197511577746 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson This is what I call smoking weed. || CTX: planning on achieving intellectual love of God or Nature at some point later today
2025-11-22T13:03 id=1992217448188412046 →20Aristotle | @20Aristotle @RogueHaNor @SeanMombo Absolutely agreed. Documentary made me confront an ugly part of myself. || CTX: @RogueHaNor @SeanMombo @47fucb4r8c69323 Ironically, the same thing that makes such horrors possible.
2025-11-22T13:04 id=1992217533844488234 →RogueHaNor | @RogueHaNor @20Aristotle @SeanMombo You hit the nail on the head, man. || CTX: @20Aristotle @SeanMombo @47fucb4r8c69323 Certainly I'm not defending it BTW, but I'm making the educated assumption that the lizard lives in all of us, and he sucks
2025-11-22T13:16 id=1992220695645049103 →- | RT @rob_mcrobberson: https://t.co/EVgRdHkjiV || CTX: https://t.co/EVgRdHkjiV
2025-11-22T13:17 id=1992220928894554289 →luscofusch | @luscofusch She was trying to get you to masturbate. || CTX: I was 13. A 22yo undergrad wrote this for me:  P1. On Hume’s view, we know only impressions of others. P2. If I know only impressions of you, then loving you is loving these impressions. P3. Loving impressions is self-love. C. So all love i
2025-11-22T13:20 id=1992221598460617041 →- | I think I've gotten to the odd metaphysical position where I don't believe in atheist materialist physicalism, but all plausible metaphysics I can come up with seem much worse than simple atheism.
2025-11-22T13:33 id=1992224982529888725 →iAnonPatriot | @iAnonPatriot Turn your location on, coward. || CTX: They’ve spent billions of dollars on propaganda to convince the world that these people are bad. https://t.co/Ak5LziNg8I
2025-11-22T14:03 id=1992232449003381138 →leichain | @leichain Why can I find no information about this book? Amazon claims it doesn't exist. || CTX: i’m so fascinated by men like this   he read “the brutality of modernity” on a 10 hr flight with the map on the whole time https://t.co/EBdX5o1tvp
2025-11-22T14:17 id=1992235906204651619 →RachelMoiselle | @RachelMoiselle lol was literally thinking about this today. || CTX: As a linguist, it pains me that Chomsky’s political opinions are so dubious that it detracts from how terrible his linguistic theories are. https://t.co/5ZivObL3Wd
2025-11-22T14:18 id=1992236334627652011 →jiakondie | @jiakondie @PietaPotato hello || CTX: @PietaPotato same. has to look little "weird"
2025-11-22T14:29 id=1992239070744080411 →01misaligned | @01misaligned @MorlockP I feel this so much || CTX: @MorlockP https://t.co/75miv4NrwP
2025-11-22T15:06 id=1992248409898787023 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias https://t.co/ssSAaOxHlc || CTX: This is also what it's like to be a midlist substacker   https://t.co/AuHxv5nUlp https://t.co/OL8AFi39fr
2025-11-23T00:32 id=1992390682531758465 →langofmind | @langofmind @JPEGMacDonald I'm an ex prof, I miss teaching this stuff too.  How is Sapir-Whorf taught nowadays? In the 90s/00s it was treated as entirely false. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JPEGMacDonald I teach a whole class on this, it's very fun
2025-11-23T00:32 id=1992390882474205660 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Why are many Americans without degrees similarly obsessed about race? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 American live in permanent race psychosis. The degree mills reinforce it but it’s become essentially institutionalized.
2025-11-23T00:49 id=1992395129441894620 →HenryEOliver | @HenryEOliver American Canto || CTX: What’s the best work of non-fiction you read this year? https://t.co/ziAaUwHN6c
2025-11-23T00:56 id=1992396698195538389 →- | Major journalist publication telling me to edit my piece because it's too critical of journalists.  Joke industry, absolutely a joke.
2025-11-23T01:01 id=1992398124699279394 →ShivaniShenai | @ShivaniShenai Is this Nottingham? || CTX: today i walked nine miles and i had pizza for dinner :) https://t.co/herksQj9zt https://t.co/spkxdsZ9DK
2025-11-23T01:06 id=1992399425470415233 →idobadtakes | @idobadtakes @HMBrough_ Her life has been easy, so she has no frame of reference for hard tasks. || CTX: @HMBrough_ I don’t think I could pass the bar if I studied for six months while working full time. Even lawyers who spent three years preparing for it fail half the time. Idk why she thinks she’s can take this shortcut
2025-11-23T01:16 id=1992401886088175728 →philosopher70 | @philosopher70 @tyorrique @ellieanderphd That is indeed the best response in the attention economy.  Those who are responding to him, including the best possible "takedown", are just empowering him.   Kind of amusing to see a dumb 21yr old kid use supposedly smart people to further his own goals. || CTX: @tyorrique @ellieanderphd Written response, perhaps. I like to think my blocking him in Substack, so I don’t have to see or devote any time to his silly bullshit is also a best response
2025-11-23T01:37 id=1992407175273357549 →- | Wittgenstein really should've defined the word "grammar" explicitly.
2025-11-23T01:38 id=1992407349672497425 →nikitabier | @nikitabier Dude making the location of accounts visible is the greatest thing this website has ever done in the near 20 years it's been around. || CTX: I need a drink.
2025-11-23T01:40 id=1992407904356630798 →atlanticesque | @atlanticesque Nostalgia is a very dangerous intoxicant. || CTX: Walked past a table manned by a little posse of partisans dressed straight out of the 1920s, trenchcoats and hats and all, handing out physical newspapers  This is literally just larp https://t.co/zEJy5m7gMx
2025-11-23T02:07 id=1992414624470401172 →No5mallf3at | @No5mallf3at If you guys have a group chat I'd love to join. || CTX: https://t.co/BaEfoeuK08
2025-11-23T02:27 id=1992419825784950976 →- | I always knew he was a pedo, but TODDLERS? Truly a sick and deranged individual. https://t.co/acYEUQ3xxZ || CTX: @hopes_revenge bring me  your   toddlers
2025-11-23T03:25 id=1992434372428099693 →petitewalks | @petitewalks omg those 2nd and 3rd pictures || CTX: walked 5 miles deep in the forest from ulleri to ghorepani, with an elevation gain of 900m and a descent of 65m. had shin ramen with chicken for dinner 🍜 https://t.co/EOC59Fl26E https://t.co/Xr9Lcm1zkx
2025-11-23T03:39 id=1992437803943375190 →- | AI has absolutely obliterated the function of talking to other people to get unbiased factual information. no I'm not saying AI is unbiased.
2025-11-23T04:34 id=1992451767997804923 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart I'm sorry, this is such a phenomenal misunderstanding of market incentives and the internal logic of media ecosystems that my only response is you need to read media theory more || CTX: The job of “securing the integrity of the global town square” is now something that’s been outsourced to private companies. IMO it’s only a matter of time before every country in the world attempts (unsuccessfully) to create its own great f
2025-11-23T05:03 id=1992459081014194478 →aivokirurgi | @aivokirurgi Olen ulkomaalainen, ja mielestäni "-kin" ja "-kaan" ovat kauniita “sanoja” suomen kielessä. Luulen, että englanniksi sama vivahde ilmaistaisiin konjunktiivilla. || CTX: Kertokaa mulle, mitkä ovat mielestänne kauneimmat suomenkieliset sanat.
2025-11-23T05:05 id=1992459473164906953 →suedetrades | @suedetrades @nequalonetrader yeah I unfollowed long ago and tbh I can't respect anyone who didn't. Classic skill issue. || CTX: @nequalonetrader I am not surprised at all. That account is garbage. Always posting a bunch of stuff like MANY hours late. Never engages in any way. You can tell
2025-11-23T05:18 id=1992462831305056460 →- | Operating in any organization requires a certain degree of philosophical suicide.  The question of life is always how much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice for the group.
2025-11-23T05:19 id=1992463019675369734 →krugermacro | @krugermacro Then log off and use another website bro. || CTX: Wow this new X geodoxxing "feature" really sucks. So every scammer and thief out there will be able to track the countries I'm traveling through? What retard decided this was a good idea? https://t.co/c3gqnAZ9vV
2025-11-23T05:20 id=1992463208209346909 →MariGO2thepolls | @MariGO2thepolls He meant, "will you have sex with me?" || CTX: Guy on the metro (not visibly homeless or crazy): “do you pray at all or like send ppl energy” Me: no Him: silence  What did he mean by this?
2025-11-23T05:24 id=1992464149314736632 →sheeblover | @sheeblover Do people who have Marvel studios jobs like Marvel and superhero action movies? || CTX: Half my followers being from my travel photos and the other half being from my marvel studios job creates a very interesting landscape in my mentions
2025-11-23T05:24 id=1992464296304148882 →nikicaga | @nikicaga Why is a smell PhD valid? || CTX: Smell PhD is valid of course, but I can see why stupid people made fun of it  But studying collective behavior in insects? You guys really think that's worthless? https://t.co/783HWaXLVC
2025-11-23T05:25 id=1992464460762734634 →cha0s10g1c | @cha0s10g1c @nikicaga Also the pushback on the smell PhD was bigger.  OP's compositional fallacy smells intellectually lazy. || CTX: @nikicaga I think you might be lumping groups of people together. You've got those who think research on smells is a bit of a silly topic, and you've got those who just hate women doing PHDs, which are mainly tradcons and manosphere people
2025-11-23T05:26 id=1992464674802307142 →our_decay | @our_decay Sup fellow lefty. || CTX: Tool Assisted Speedrun https://t.co/CPQIiaMdIN
2025-11-23T05:57 id=1992472442657505542 →- | This is a good example of the "akshuyally you aren't thinking deep enough" criticism common in the humanities that reveals the critic's own naive and shallow thinking.   OP doesn't understand what is meant by "beliefs" so reads uncharitably to feel smug.  Reddit type shit. https://t.co/6rFcXmtO9t || CTX: Characters are not real, correct, but they are not "extensions of the author's beliefs". Go read some Shakespeare or Dostoyevsky ffs. https://t.co/MPe6xTFQD9
2025-11-23T05:58 id=1992472713575952694 →beardo_beardo | @beardo_beardo @vocalcry Thailand isn't in East Asia though. || CTX: @vocalcry That account has been public about being in Thailand, documented his move from UK
2025-11-23T06:56 id=1992487459809296568 →- | The chaotic destabilizations of an internet that decentralizes discourse and authority is, while less dignified than the hierarchies of the past, ultimately much better for humanity and individual people.  I studied history but I cannot avoid techno-optimist conclusions.
2025-11-23T07:15 id=1992492181253402652 →robertskmiles | @robertskmiles Yeah but how do you know who could but choose not to? || CTX: It's interesting to compare the people who put "Dr." or ", PhD" in their Twitter username, with those who could but choose not to.
2025-11-23T07:16 id=1992492394215030935 →HunterWieman | @HunterWieman @robertskmiles Clever idea for a paper and one that intuitively makes sense. || CTX: @robertskmiles Fun paper by some UPenn researchers https://t.co/cLnu1SV1vj
2025-11-23T08:21 id=1992508827800158386 →phono_logical | @phono_logical What a shame, I thought Bach was serious. || CTX: Chomsky’s “unity in diversity” linguistic theorizing is the worst, as not a few *linguists* have posted of late — ahem, except for all the other theories which “don’t even register” and/or “aren’t even wrong” and/or “open the gates of hell”
2025-11-23T08:26 id=1992510116139254163 →tlbzmn | @tlbzmn More valid than any other option. || CTX: I do not exist to educate, to transmit knowledge, or to bequeath wisdom. I am merely seeking a cover for my sorrow and my complex soul — and that is entirely valid. https://t.co/hg3XQcCSuF
2025-11-23T12:48 id=1992575952388497473 →DadInvest | @DadInvest @WaterworldCapi1 Is she right? || CTX: @WaterworldCapi1 My wife has told me there’s a hole in my heart that no amount of money will ever fill. So that hurt.
2025-11-23T13:20 id=1992584081113297102 →bennpeifert | @bennpeifert in a perfect world || CTX: PSA: if you post a chart of an asset price divided by M2, a large black armored Mercedes pulls up and men with earpieces put you in the car and help you start a new life in the Siberian zinc mines https://t.co/hENNW48rAC
2025-11-23T15:06 id=1992610651676737699 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck Have a glass of cool refreshing XYZ and you'll be fine. || CTX: Uhhhh guys, I think I just learned some very disturbing information about our respective locations. https://t.co/OiFm0B5BSs
2025-11-23T15:13 id=1992612520994218446 →TechMemeKing | @TechMemeKing this is why I only tweet trash || CTX: many such cases https://t.co/MdL5gz1KoV
2025-11-23T15:14 id=1992612721737773166 →made_in_cosmos | @made_in_cosmos The origins of this meme are child pornography on 4chan.   I wish I was joking but I'm not. || CTX: say what you want about millennials, but I don't think we appreciate enough how wholesome it is that the biggest prank of our generation was sending people such a loving song https://t.co/ZElggIkLmh
2025-11-23T15:15 id=1992612925727817836 →teodorio | @teodorio Looks like digital nomad. || CTX: Lmao figure me out ahahah https://t.co/NMIaB4Jx4F
2025-11-23T15:16 id=1992613264577175675 →chat_SBC | @chat_SBC lmfaooooooo || CTX: "We avoid overvalued stocks (monopolies used by billions of people at 20x earnings) to buy undervalued small caps (strip club engaged in shareholder fraud)" - Q3 letters
2025-11-23T15:18 id=1992613805017411992 →nylanderjens | @nylanderjens @euacchq @Lovable @emilhellerud @EU_Taxud You either think the bureaucracy is a net positive or you're a bad faith actor profiting from this drag on growth.   Which is it? || CTX: I work relentlessly to provide research & to distribute information to the public and my goal is to help people. I understand there are different opinions and the story behind the VAT issue in Lovable is important for many reasons and it sh
2025-11-23T15:53 id=1992622463268933715 →- | I fucked your wife. https://t.co/JuH5TtIjHw || CTX: Make a math teacher cry in 4 words.
2025-11-24T01:31 id=1992768024437493836 →- | The internet has trained some people to seek dysfunction where it's not obvious.  Epistemic damage, medium is the message, etc etc  Kinda sad for them innit https://t.co/OlQ2jK2o51 || CTX: Honestly, long back when I first saw the account my thought was she walks to 'earn' her dinner, and was sure she was an ed account. But after spending time with her account it becomes obvious that it is not even close to true lol https://t.
2025-11-24T01:52 id=1992773345579028514 →atlanticesque | @atlanticesque You're so missing out man || CTX: I have never heard of this establishment https://t.co/KnrwRvI1UO
2025-11-24T01:53 id=1992773509815374271 →kynakwado | @kynakwado @atlanticesque I never could find her sexy. Such a mannish face. || CTX: @atlanticesque Never? https://t.co/0uuHeilAc2
2025-11-24T01:54 id=1992773736685297734 →urninturn | @urninturn Idk if you're joking but I honestly believe this and have said as much to analytic philosophers, who probably just dismissed me as a crazy person. || CTX: Everything wrong w analytic and continental philosophy would be fixed if they just swapped content. analytic methods are good for mushy concepts like libido and politics, and the continentals should inflict themselves exclusively on modal l
2025-11-24T02:01 id=1992775537895543169 →- | Taboos don't just restrict what we can know, they define our worlds by establishing limits to it.  Only by breaking taboos do we expand our world outside of that space, but it means sacrificing an old form of life that cannot survive in the newly carved out space.
2025-11-24T02:06 id=1992776695016046624 →urninturn | @urninturn A few weeks ago I had this idea that you could map out Derridaean Difference with tensor mathematics, and it'd be pretty easy to do.  Sadly I'm old and out of academia so will never publish on this but I do think it's a viable research program. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am completely serious. Analytic philosophy is boring and gets quite stuck/recursive in its usual realm, but excellent when applied to more organic/loose concepts. continental style gets lost in itself when talking about t
2025-11-24T02:42 id=1992785848824381871 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @luscofusch So damn mean but totally fair.  I'm curious if anyone has presented any good arguments for what happened to Kripke. Was he just a one-trick pony Wunderkind? || CTX: @luscofusch Kripke vs his reputation
2025-11-24T02:45 id=1992786560610431071 →andrewbertaina | @andrewbertaina ... he said on Twitter where everyone is an aspiring Sub stacker. || CTX: Wildly underrated genre https://t.co/UWY25p1Owj
2025-11-24T03:02 id=1992790926738211286 →luscofusch | @luscofusch This actually makes a lot of sense to me.   Just yesterday I was considering how modern academia requires this kind of compartmentalization  Wittgenstein couldn't do it, which is why he hated academia. Putnam could, so he flourished.  Almost all academics I've known are like this || CTX: Hilary Putnam saying, in his ‘Renewing Philosophy’, that, back in the 1950s, he kept his ‘religious streak’ and his ‘scientific materialist world-view’ as two separate parts of himself. https://t.co/AT1thjZC23
2025-11-24T03:08 id=1992792327698661866 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata @chinesefoid @keysmashbandit Not just you, I see the resemblance as well. || CTX: @chinesefoid kinda gives @keysmashbandit (speaking from the thumbnail + as someone faceblind, anyway…)
2025-11-24T05:14 id=1992824222473986372 →ANNVYSHINSKY | @ANNVYSHINSKY You CAN, but if you're a PhD you should be smart enough to calculate the cost/benefit and conclude whether you should or not.  If you're marketing to dumdums, it's probably worth putting in your bio. || CTX: My stance is that I feel I can put Dr in my bio etc because I earned it, but I don’t demand that others treat me differently because of it as that would be obnoxious. https://t.co/L8sgPg6w1t
2025-11-24T05:16 id=1992824552465047726 →rvc330 | @rvc330 I'm an employed American citizen, a R. R. with FINRA working for a Wall Street firm.  You won't know this from my location because I'm a superstar who can work from anywhere. || CTX: the account location thing seems to confirm my belief that there are a total of ~10 actual employed american citizens on “finance twitter”
2025-11-24T05:17 id=1992824828450218396 →- | The internet is so fucking funny man. https://t.co/iPDXrjqAJN
2025-11-24T05:23 id=1992826312776659351 →- | Lesbians find men ugly. Straight women have many incentives to call men ugly. Men have fewer incentives.  End result: Stated preferences for the female form. And I'm straight AF so fine by me. https://t.co/Ob6R7mT10W || CTX: There's a quiet epidemic on this app of lesbians calling men ugly lol https://t.co/NGs4ehUX7H https://t.co/bi1umZ8MZ6
2025-11-24T05:35 id=1992829383246295498 →- | Hearing Alan Blinder misuse the word "bubble" is such a blackpill for all economics.  They claim rigor in their math and are so cavalier with their language.
2025-11-24T05:54 id=1992834177339982298 →semaforben | @semaforben @maxwelltani it's an overused comment, but this fits idiocracy more than anything else I've seen so far || CTX: Trump is pushing Larry Ellison to bring back Rush Hour, @maxwelltani reports https://t.co/wruw3scPg3
2025-11-24T06:55 id=1992849492425810045 →matchabae99 | @matchabae99 This has got to be the Netherlands || CTX: november cozy https://t.co/eSFXRVpjqK
2025-11-24T06:57 id=1992849926821392384 →ShivaniShenai | @ShivaniShenai Flawless pizza. || CTX: today i walked five miles and i had pizza for lunch :) https://t.co/vQj9JS8GMX https://t.co/gryM0aOJFD
2025-11-24T07:10 id=1992853242091655407 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty @matthew_sede but Twitter told me you have an ed and social media never lies || CTX: @matthew_sede yes?
2025-11-24T09:51 id=1992893868489265180 →chuuprematism | @chuuprematism I'll be reading that poem that Einstein wrote about him || CTX: How will YOU be celebrating spinozmas? https://t.co/2qvtwm4rnz
2025-11-24T10:39 id=1992905866438402085 →ANNVYSHINSKY | @ANNVYSHINSKY A lovely example of a performative speech act. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I literally don’t care.
2025-11-24T10:52 id=1992909238759555552 →- | If you don't know that Yarvin and Yudkowsky are equally stupid, you might be stupid.
2025-11-24T11:09 id=1992913352004419725 →- | All Godel and Tarski are saying is that you can't know the weather until you go outside.
2025-11-24T11:17 id=1992915392940200082 →PrinceVogel | @PrinceVogel This explains a lot. || CTX: Homeschooling is a program for producing higher variance human beings https://t.co/gw3GXYwSrz
2025-11-24T11:27 id=1992917954967785869 →_night_brain__ | @_night_brain__ Seems kind of a waste of money to import construction workers from Mexico to the UK. || CTX: 👊💥🗣️ they are stocking modelos in normal tesco https://t.co/2u9G1w79YD
2025-11-24T12:24 id=1992932253756957090 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH Trump looks like a pez dispenser.  Mamdani i guess looks like a fez dispenser? || CTX: this is like when Elizabeth Holmes started wearing a black turtleneck after reading Steve Jobs biography https://t.co/19FpzO0qwD
2025-11-24T12:25 id=1992932548012552690 →Larryjamieson_ | @Larryjamieson_ This gives me pause.  I'm a substacker and want to go buyside. Grass, greener? || CTX: You’re trying to start a fund and Burry just started a substack https://t.co/scAIERFssT
2025-11-24T14:28 id=1992963620339392621 →- | Mine is more expensive than his this is fucking hilarious https://t.co/XvCyEGfrnF || CTX: This is so embarrassing https://t.co/hPiYMeBrHE
2025-11-24T15:10 id=1992974049379754275 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer And ofc he's black || CTX: the libs want you to believe that crime on public transit 'isn't that bad' https://t.co/zbsgge3fwC
2025-11-24T15:50 id=1992984088983294284 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk omg so beautiful   speechless || CTX: You plug your mind into machine, ignore your senses, cut down fence whose purpose has been long-forgotten; the medium  is still the message tho, you can’t ignore the wreckage that your cutting has begotten.  The epistemic damage when you di
2025-11-24T17:02 id=1993002241159274895 →- | If I had a spear I'd name her Brittney. https://t.co/oAS3pZ2Q1U || CTX: Y’all.  Tractor Supply got spears. https://t.co/aP4VEF0rJM
2025-11-25T01:27 id=1993129380592456004 →luscofusch | @luscofusch This is absolutely the correct reading of Habermas. || CTX: I’m sorry for Habermasians, but I can totally see Scruton’s point here. https://t.co/BXN5mXltkK https://t.co/HR9MBZ69yK
2025-11-25T01:37 id=1993131799883792704 →1889lw | @1889lw Why?  Please think carefully before answering. I write for a living; it's less satisfying than you think. || CTX: I still want to be a writer
2025-11-25T01:58 id=1993137278093607412 →1889lw | @1889lw Now mostly financial stuff, used to do journalism more broadly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ooo what do you write mostly?
2025-11-25T02:01 id=1993138060901728535 →logicus | @logicus 1. This is a fantastic analogy, you're right and this is hilarious.   2. This also applies to like 90% of academia (that's probably being generous) || CTX: intellectually, this reminds me of a gym environment where no one is actually tough or athletically elite but believe they are competing over a legitimate prize and so fight each other over whatever morsels of status can be had. it's amazin
2025-11-25T02:02 id=1993138185740931171 →- | lmao this is so spot on https://t.co/MgAlC9jcY7 || CTX: intellectually, this reminds me of a gym environment where no one is actually tough or athletically elite but believe they are competing over a legitimate prize and so fight each other over whatever morsels of status can be had. it's amazin
2025-11-25T02:03 id=1993138552046338484 →logicus | @logicus The question is who isn't trying on this app? Is there anyone?  The allure of vanity is why I stay anonymous on this app, so at least in theory I have no image to maintain. || CTX: trying so hard is inorganic. it's got the cultural texture of an LA high school. one person on the app can be authentic. the rest can't let the mask slip even for a minute. it's like we're at work. https://t.co/5EeRG6P1R0
2025-11-25T02:19 id=1993142522953322969 →logicus | @logicus It's an odd tendency of humanity that, every time we create safe spaces where ideas can be divorced from social status games, we do our best to bring those games back in. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the insane thing is that we could all be having a good time. i'm so guilty of it when i write in certain places. "oh, let me rephrase that." it kills the idea but more importantly the fun!
2025-11-25T03:32 id=1993160768175657327 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile I lived in NYC and visited Chicago but never lived there. Still, I always thought Chicago is objectively better: cleaner, cheaper rents, walkable in the loop, less traffic. || CTX: As a NYCerInExile, I ended up in Chicago. My job takes me around the city to a lot of neighborhoods. Everyone's nice everywhere, some of the places have more resources than others.  Having the Loop, Edison Park, Little Village, Hegewisch &a
2025-11-25T03:34 id=1993161417932107944 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer You're right but this looks like philosophy is just a game where you carve out little fake territories on an arbitrary map and say, "this is these guys' bit, and that belongs to these other guys" and from the outside it seems like a colossal waste of time and taxpayer funds. || CTX: I like the piece but associating clarity-fixation with the correspondence theory of truth is imo pretty mixed up. Lots of the most clarity-obsessed analytics from the '60s to the '90s were coherentists, pragmatists, or deflationists about t
2025-11-25T04:16 id=1993171843612917839 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick Emergent externalities where public intellectuals aren't chosen by rigorous scrutiny but by the attention-seeking algorithm. || CTX: americans don’t appreciate enough that their hare-brained blogposts might be harmless at home, but often get picked up months later in the imperial periphery by wide-eyed locals. this stuff is worse for the world than all the plastic straws
2025-11-25T04:43 id=1993178676977189336 →- | Interesting that economists don't understand what is obvious to anyone who studied literature (I mean pre-culture war nonsense, like studied Kermode/Bloom et al.).  Good art is the product of constraints. Less constraints, more slop. https://t.co/izyDu5R0qV || CTX: In every movie I’ve watched lately, the main problem was a weak script. You’d think good writing would be the cheap input and before spending millions you’d write better. An economic puzzle https://t.co/Sh8poZv0n3
2025-11-25T04:43 id=1993178679346970988 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is intuitive if one thinks of poetry. What is so impressive about a Shakespearean sonnet? That it is FORMALLY beautiful. And yes free verse can also be beautiful but never formally beautiful.  The more constraints on the form, the more the art impresses. || CTX: Interesting that economists don't understand what is obvious to anyone who studied literature (I mean pre-culture war nonsense, like studied Kermode/Bloom et al.).  Good art is the product of constraints. Less constraints, more slop. https:
2025-11-25T04:43 id=1993178682815660304 →47fucb4r8c69323 | In this respect art is not spectacle and spectacle is arguably the opposite. If you want to overwhelm the viewer, yeah technology making explosions and chaos yields spectacle. But that's not art, it's not a form. || CTX: This is intuitive if one thinks of poetry. What is so impressive about a Shakespearean sonnet? That it is FORMALLY beautiful. And yes free verse can also be beautiful but never formally beautiful.  The more constraints on the form, the more
2025-11-25T04:43 id=1993178686645059629 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Literary criticism has so much to offer the world but politics infected it and made it useless. A pity. || CTX: In this respect art is not spectacle and spectacle is arguably the opposite. If you want to overwhelm the viewer, yeah technology making explosions and chaos yields spectacle. But that's not art, it's not a form.
2025-11-25T04:44 id=1993179031613981105 →econobaker | @econobaker @Noahpinion And since talent is fostered by working around limitations of the medium, the less limitations the less talent is fostered.  So cheaper tech = more spectacular work produced by less talented people. || CTX: @Noahpinion The cost of cameras and post-production was never the real bottleneck. The scarce part is talent, time, and coordination. It’s the same reason we don’t get more Tolstoys just because word processing and publishing have become ch
2025-11-25T04:46 id=1993179435965854012 →MuseZack | @MuseZack @mailstormio @Noahpinion This is a very puritanical worldview. I can't disprove it, but the stench of an is/ought fallacy makes me skeptical. || CTX: @mailstormio @Noahpinion I spent 8 years working full time jobs, going home and making dinner, then spending 2-3 more hours writing screenplays on my own time before getting my first television job. You either want it bad enough to consiste
2025-11-25T04:47 id=1993179603691880949 →jhendersonYT | @jhendersonYT Hilarious dude, he deserves a high five. || CTX: From the inbox https://t.co/X6wRCAd0yB
2025-11-25T05:20 id=1993188139729666082 →Valen10Francois | @Valen10Francois Surely they weren't just eating the bread but doing something else with it, idk making composte or feeding dogs or whatever.   2600 calories from bread per day on average? That's absurd. || CTX: Bread consumption in France has been divided by 3 in the last 75 years ! https://t.co/jqNWgaxX0M
2025-11-25T05:22 id=1993188530722685096 →jhendersonYT | @jhendersonYT This is like how 99% of powerful and power hungry people operate. || CTX: JD Vance is not an idiot, so he should be able to see the flaw in this statement. He chooses not to because it benefits him.   That’s the tragedy of Vance. I do think he’s smart enough to know better — he simply doesn’t care. https://t.co/c
2025-11-25T05:24 id=1993188922994864405 →alexpriou | @alexpriou Why are you assuming good faith where there clearly is none?  Do you not trust your lying eyes? || CTX: It’s tiresome to refer to Strauss as a “guru” and those in his tradition as “disciples” or, as a reviewer once put it to me, “acolytes.”  Is it so hard to say “teacher” and “students”?  To call it a school of thought rather than a cabal or 
2025-11-25T05:30 id=1993190651975053666 →- | What strikes me is the choice.  I am rich enough to live like this. But the idea of having servants that will come bring me candy when I yell for it doesn't feel like luxury, it feels like infantilization  I've met plenty of people who dream of servants, and I do not get it. Why? https://t.co/z9c2OOM1CJ || CTX: still perfect https://t.co/bScFyentuV
2025-11-25T05:33 id=1993191401581166921 →Kulambq | @Kulambq Absolutely no one takes this as seriously as they should. || CTX: 'One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many.'  Friedrich Nietzsche https://t.co/Ca95DhQd3A
2025-11-25T06:14 id=1993201666020327692 →- | Berkeley is preposterous and retarded.  This tweet is about the philosopher, not the university.
2025-11-25T06:17 id=1993202242992980232 →pschofie79 | @pschofie79 Next time someone asks me why I left academia, I might just tell them "once on Twitter academics spent a week arguing about who should call themselves doctor." || CTX: I’m sure someone sufficiently clever can square the circle here, but there’s nevertheless an amusing tension in the popular view that “Insisting people call you ‘Doctor’ because you have a PhD makes you look ridiculous, but women must do it
2025-11-25T06:57 id=1993212385503633727 →AlexNoonan6 | @AlexNoonan6 the way he was acted and written seem to give the impression that he had no interior life, and I think that's why so many people dislike him. || CTX: Howard was the most sane man on that show https://t.co/kcB4nderEc
2025-11-25T07:14 id=1993216762591281385 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @luscofusch by valid they mean true. simple category error, semantic fields, Wittgensteinian language games blah blah blah || CTX: @luscofusch Yep. Several people have told me this syllogism is invalid.  https://t.co/obhVS9HBlb
2025-11-25T07:18 id=1993217718141829243 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Rereading this I see it's even better than I first realized. Absolutely beautiful. || CTX: You plug your mind into machine, ignore your senses, cut down fence whose purpose has been long-forgotten; the medium  is still the message tho, you can’t ignore the wreckage that your cutting has begotten.  The epistemic damage when you di
2025-11-25T08:04 id=1993229379531686120 →TheMoosterChief | @TheMoosterChief @LRH_Superfan You just described what's wrong about modern China. || CTX: @LRH_Superfan An engineer in charge of humanity sounds like a disaster because the engineer without understanding humanity views us as simple blocks or equations to solve.
2025-11-25T09:29 id=1993250633445782001 →- | I'm going to write a manifesto on how to use the internet without committing philosophical suicide.  Any suggestions?
2025-11-25T11:09 id=1993275800385470725 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy omg it's just like the game you just lost. || CTX: I think that’s perfectly clear, and don’t understand the continued confusion: https://t.co/CBQGHxpv95 https://t.co/0vzSxBuS51
2025-11-25T11:11 id=1993276235930317227 →- | Gen Alpha recreating from first principles the game (you just lost). https://t.co/Pm9qayYZJt || CTX: I think that’s perfectly clear, and don’t understand the continued confusion: https://t.co/CBQGHxpv95 https://t.co/0vzSxBuS51
2025-11-25T12:45 id=1993300005336289517 →bucephalus424 | @bucephalus424 One of my favorite books of all time and personal inspiration. || CTX: Now reading https://t.co/pJQEQRtgFA
2025-11-25T13:15 id=1993307506253447180 →- | I try to be the smartest person in the room that's why I spend so much time outside. https://t.co/WSSx9qYm93 || CTX: dumb person :  wow everyone here is so  smart
2025-11-25T13:46 id=1993315467751247911 →WriterJohnBuck | @WriterJohnBuck @PAHoyeck As sad as that is, I honestly cannot imagine a better way to go. || CTX: @PAHoyeck David Lewis died from staying at a bar too late talking about philosophy because he was diabetic and didn’t eat in time. Sad, but the death of a true philosopher.
2025-11-25T14:05 id=1993320123764293982 →stevenwatts | @stevenwatts Remodernism || CTX: do we have a term for what happens when someone living after postmodernism tries to do modernism? someone should coin a word for that.
2025-11-25T14:05 id=1993320263815983425 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I won't copyright it so you can do that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you put pretty pictures and write it in the current vernacular so I can staple it to the front doors of the FCC like Martin Luther
2025-11-25T14:38 id=1993328555061920091 →WKCosmo | @WKCosmo Overblown. || CTX: What do you think? https://t.co/btIkIPvaUr
2025-11-26T00:52 id=1993482940484125148 →tautologer | @tautologer @_wallwalker aww you're relearning there's no crying in the casino for the internet age, how adorable! || CTX: @_wallwalker i like prediction markets though :( it's the only form of gambling i like (well, and poker). if they live up to their full potential they could be net good for society. but yeah this sucks
2025-11-26T01:24 id=1993491086128689553 →- | My nomination for the best written bad book in history and proof that good style doesn't make good work. https://t.co/60RnlVdTNo || CTX: been reading this for an hour and i got a bad feeling.. i got a feeling this is going to be heartbreaking. https://t.co/hReId9Ho60
2025-11-26T02:11 id=1993502905308266976 →- | Intelligence is never the product. It is always scaffolding.
2025-11-26T02:56 id=1993514228314259596 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer Bewitched by cleverness. || CTX: Some of my core beliefs are: Marx, Carnap, and Wittgenstein are methodologically important, Hegel was on to something, 3rd Crit was on to something, Chalmers stuff isn't just confusion, comp cog sci is relevant, Symbolist Manifesto and Defe
2025-11-26T02:57 id=1993514459114225751 →kintsugiedz | @kintsugiedz Roti canai is the most underrated dishes on earth and a top five most delicious foods of all time. || CTX: life's been weird and i feel like i keep going backwards despite everything I've done. roti canai kare https://t.co/r5Qy91qapq https://t.co/PVPe1baoNE
2025-11-26T03:09 id=1993517530481410313 →- | I'm sorry but this is creepy cultish shit. https://t.co/LQgv1nu56M || CTX: Steve Pyke photographed dozens of philosophers and invited each of them to write a short statement describing their philosophy to accompany the portrait. It became a book. Years later, a new edition followed.  A thread with my favorite stat
2025-11-26T03:13 id=1993518397779575002 →- | "It's probably AI" we can't tell at a glance anymore. It's over, anon. https://t.co/UejdCGxqev || CTX: @GregTrayling Ruts. Vehicles are heavy.   It’s probably Ai.
2025-11-26T03:45 id=1993526409177022484 →- | I don't think many people realize how fame and fortune can really fuck up your psyche and make you a more miserable person as a result.  If you think, "wow but a blowjob from adoring fan is awesome," then you're comically naive about the world and yourself. https://t.co/WY7GF0tl4u || CTX: And my mom says “what is wrong with you? What the fuck is wrong with you? She’s a stalker! And also, I’m your girlfriend! I was calling for help!” And he says…”look, I mean, she offered me a blow job. I wasn’t going to say no.”
2025-11-26T03:46 id=1993526875734634661 →littlebrotha123 | @littlebrotha123 They didn't. You're talking about Americans whose family comes from Asia.  Asians in Asia dgaf. "Oriental Princess" is a brand in Asia. Many others. || CTX: I don't know why asians canceled "Oriental" that shit goes hard . major aura loss https://t.co/JPSS6lfeSt
2025-11-26T04:14 id=1993533795623223351 →- | You see people talking about a book online. You read the book. You post about the book online so netizens will engage, get in your sales funnel for your podcast, Substack, et al.  You live in an entanglement of discourses shaped by attention-seeking algorithms and the mob. https://t.co/o19Mi3dtd1 || CTX: just finished  a beautiful book about a man who bravely refuses to say fuck my chungus life despite ample opportunity to do so https://t.co/XrmMDO3A2Y https://t.co/bBQ4UvgNYe
2025-11-26T04:14 id=1993533798185853048 →47fucb4r8c69323 | You think this is living in a society. But what's happening?   Your choice of what to read is determined by the algorithm.  Your choice of what to write is then determined by the algorithm.  Your thoughts, attitudes, feelings: determined by the algorithm designed for engagement. || CTX: You see people talking about a book online. You read the book. You post about the book online so netizens will engage, get in your sales funnel for your podcast, Substack, et al.  You live in an entanglement of discourses shaped by attentio
2025-11-26T04:14 id=1993533802128544113 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Attention isn't all you need. Attention is all you have. || CTX: You think this is living in a society. But what's happening?   Your choice of what to read is determined by the algorithm.  Your choice of what to write is then determined by the algorithm.  Your thoughts, attitudes, feelings: determined by
2025-11-26T04:18 id=1993534762129203344 →aruariandepart | @aruariandepart Healthcare is not the main reason why I won't move back but def in the top 10.  And you cannot explain this to Americans who haven't lived abroad. Real "fish can't see water" kind of moment talking to them. || CTX: got a cavity filled yesterday which cost me ¥920 (~$6) and took 15 min ...why am i moving back to america next year
2025-11-26T04:20 id=1993535260886548506 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss A few years ago I had the idea of a Kauffman-esque depressing surreal drama where Culkin is a shut-in who keeps hallucinating friends but is just alone at home all the time. || CTX: Horse shit. The best legacy sequel to Home Alone is Macaulay Culkin becomes a fentanyl addict or some shit and starts robbing houses himself. Then one Christmas he meets his match: a black lesbian 8 year old. https://t.co/sHr4LjJhzK
2025-11-26T04:42 id=1993540907065655685 →- | Freemasonry came from stonemasons in the 15th and 16th centuries trying to appropriate higher class customs and making it more elaborate (I have actually published peer reviewed work on this). https://t.co/FlZjChGJlW || CTX: Freemasonry is the esoteric branch of the Church of England https://t.co/AGE6JCTWC6
2025-11-26T04:45 id=1993541485753778217 →- | On the one hand, he's right.  On the other hand, he can still release a demonetized video or monetize it elsewhere.  The complaint isn't moral, it's financial. https://t.co/XBw899Hue3 || CTX: Youtube has decided that including a discussion of a philosopher's logical arguments in opposition to suicide means this video is so controversial that it should be 18+ and essentially demonetized.   So tired of this safetyist culture. Disi
2025-11-26T07:53 id=1993588869502263603 →Benthamsbulldog | @Benthamsbulldog Yeah time to mute this idiot || CTX: https://t.co/64ILpTRmbf
2025-11-26T07:55 id=1993589479198904636 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu There was a time when you could lose your job by saying this person might have mental health issues. That's so fucking funny man || CTX: This is the setup for an insanity defense like https://t.co/DPp07zKHcC
2025-11-26T08:07 id=1993592476658286631 →- | 1. This was true maybe 20 years ago. Now everyone wants a Substack.   2. No one wants to read the next great American novel, and that asymmetry says much. https://t.co/KoXwVsykcE || CTX: Every man yearns to write the next great American novel https://t.co/N5baVbB7pl
2025-11-26T08:09 id=1993593043250037249 →- | I can neither confirm nor deny. https://t.co/eiXzbaC8Rx || CTX: Real depressed people have a priv twitter that they spam for their 4 followers https://t.co/0MXsRtrpnn
2025-11-26T08:18 id=1993595190960177641 →colin_fraser | @colin_fraser Congratulations we're all so proud of you!!!!! || CTX: I simply don’t think this looks good https://t.co/qdiP9qwWBG
2025-11-26T08:20 id=1993595582972411934 →colin_fraser | @colin_fraser @tonsonashjohn "a person wouldn't make it" is absurd and easily falsified. I've seen tons of short animations doing shit like this. In the 60s this would've been a 15 minute stop motion short and people would sit back on LSD watching it at some art festival. || CTX: @tonsonashjohn Yeah. But also a person wouldn’t make it. A hallmark of ai slop is excessive meaningless detail signifying nothing. Art rewards close attention. Slop punishes it.
2025-11-26T08:20 id=1993595683769925644 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @colin_fraser @tonsonashjohn You're more out of touch with the average human than the AI you're critiquing, which is as funny as it is ironic. || CTX: @colin_fraser @tonsonashjohn "a person wouldn't make it" is absurd and easily falsified. I've seen tons of short animations doing shit like this. In the 60s this would've been a 15 minute stop motion short and people would sit back on LSD w
2025-11-26T08:21 id=1993596019389743434 →akhivae | @akhivae I'm a self made millionaire and my girlfriend was literally a cashier when I met her. || CTX: This is what "low value men" tell themselves because they are resentful and insecure of successful women.  Surgeons, lawyers and self made millionaires aren't marrying cashiers. Marriage in USA follows rigid class lines. https://t.co/dvgvLp
2025-11-26T08:22 id=1993596194707456472 →KinderheimRune | @KinderheimRune @akhivae Well, that is the only reason I first hit on my girlfriend.   https://t.co/6Dc486s2jH || CTX: @akhivae I'm a self made millionaire and my girlfriend was literally a cashier when I met her.
2025-11-26T08:23 id=1993596340694401223 →wypipopologist | @wypipopologist @akhivae You're clearly not smart tho || CTX: @akhivae You can be a high value simpleton, but most educated men definitely want someone of similar intelligence. I certainly want a technical woman, but equally want one who isn't dumpy, an indian, or a slut, so cashiers are still on the 
2025-11-26T09:11 id=1993608650125168716 →HeylKatme | @HeylKatme @h0mErth0mps0n Gen X not getting credit for stuff we made or stuff we consumed?   This is the future I want. || CTX: @h0mErth0mps0n Who bought it though
2025-11-26T09:12 id=1993608878966317157 →HeylKatme | @HeylKatme @richardmantool I remember an NPR interview with him about the craft of writing! || CTX: @richardmantool I wonder if he teaches any classes. Imagine learning writing from this guy?
2025-11-26T09:28 id=1993612889174020351 →confusionm8trix | @confusionm8trix Jfc hit the nail on the head, anon. || CTX: this must be how it feels to be a japanese poet and watch westerners call anything that fits into the 5-7-5 syllable pattern a “haiku” https://t.co/e56p94buCA
2025-11-26T09:32 id=1993613785807159569 →SamBuntz | @SamBuntz Wittgenstein has the most elegant answer.  Eliot (and Russell for that matter) were bewitched. Which is cool, I am too; most of us are. || CTX: From a letter T.S. Eliot sent to his friend Paul Elmer More. I found his comments on "the void that I find in the middle of all human happiness and all human relations" very interesting: https://t.co/3rzj6lC8ss
2025-11-26T12:23 id=1993656782963769606 →CeaselessWatchr | @CeaselessWatchr lol yes || CTX: do americans actually microwave water for tea?
2025-11-26T12:26 id=1993657588752515454 →moralityetalon | @moralityetalon Can't speak for medicine but in academia that's why you have 50 page syllabuses; the syllabus in most of Europe is a page, 2 max (and sometimes you don't even get a syllabus).  Once in the UK we had an American come each us how to teach, half of it was about the syllabus lol || CTX: So what's the solution? I don't give a shit. I'm going to do my job, then go play Dota 2 all day. Until ASI upends everything, it's an empty question. "B-but-" You or I can't do anything about it. People collectively *want* this multipolar 
2025-11-26T12:27 id=1993657906043158644 →adarshisit | @adarshisit @Philip_Goff You should read Wittgenstein, especially Philosophical Investigations. || CTX: @Philip_Goff I think language constrains us so much (ironically as it allowed for reflexive, exponential chains of thought) in such discussions. I feel while remaining economical (prerequisite for most contexts) it's almost impossible to ex
2025-11-26T12:36 id=1993660124540588105 →- | RT @agraybee: This country doesn't even manufacture its own consent anymore. || CTX: This country doesn't even manufacture its own consent anymore.
2025-11-26T13:02 id=1993666619697205354 →OutsideView_ | @OutsideView_ @HedgeDirty This is really surprising to me; in the 90s it was UC &gt; Cal State &gt; Local CC.  Why are they eschewing the Cal States? Some were pretty good (Northridge, Pomona) || CTX: @HedgeDirty Seeing more CA kids who can’t get into UC anymore go SEC rather than some random Cal State. It’s not the elite student it’s the good student from an upper middle class family.
2025-11-26T13:28 id=1993673116372062598 →- | If you want to find poetry in the year of our Lord 2025, it is in Russian reviews on Google Maps. https://t.co/dbD4OfyyLX
2025-11-26T13:38 id=1993675773820207462 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk HAHAHAHAHA the perfect gif omg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/l0jD7PvJm5
2025-11-26T14:13 id=1993684638322262053 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Anti-romantic, it forces us to see nature as it truly is, red tooth and claw.  Note the "oh no" scratched out, as if he was about to empathize or switch voice to the animals, then decided on a warning vocative instead. I wonder why. || CTX: he then wrote me this "real" poem (about our cat):  Every day you walk around thinking: "Rip! Tear! Kill!" Watch out rats and birds! https://t.co/RKeeRxokrC https://t.co/gOZuS5RnqD
2025-11-26T14:17 id=1993685612205883530 →seconds_0 | @seconds_0 That's a great "must go hard if you're stupid" type of tweet. || CTX: Elon musk has personally produce $40 billion in cash liquidating his holdings in 2022 alone? https://t.co/MSFs6mVZMb https://t.co/SRMfvg09T6
2025-11-26T14:24 id=1993687388564987937 →hard_boiledbabe | @hard_boiledbabe You've made me sad || CTX: Crazy that the fundamental principle of marriage has gone so off-course that you have to additionally promise the thing it's meant to imply https://t.co/fTNIqVMEsL
2025-11-26T14:32 id=1993689234662703296 →- | YouTubers who make videos about philosophy are a group of people I want to love so much but I just can't fucking stand them.
2025-11-26T14:33 id=1993689672363471316 →feraljokes | @feraljokes Would. || CTX: There is a real human at DHS named https://t.co/hiBz8sBvfY
2025-11-26T14:47 id=1993693009557516595 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Got a good archeology YouTuber you could recommend? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is unfortunate that it's like this for every nearly every academic field, except for some reason archeology
2025-11-26T15:24 id=1993702440508793314 →Piryme | @Piryme Oh that explains why the left isn't seriously going after Fuentes. He's helping divide MAGA. Smart. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is the type of shit Nick Fuentes stops. Imagine how gay the right would be without Nick and more posts like these https://t.co/3TcUKof2Ez
2025-11-26T15:41 id=1993706561932542101 →spittingclots | @spittingclots jfc the atmosphere in that picture so strong it hit me in chest || CTX: hometown mexican restaurant is playing Before Sunrise (1995) https://t.co/aylsG3IGHN
2025-11-26T15:46 id=1993707840855495043 →Piryme | @Piryme yeah probably around zero || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He’s purging the right of ideas to performatively worship. What are the odds this guy has read any of these authors let alone watch videos of their ideas?
2025-11-27T00:47 id=1993844140241768844 →michaeljburry | @michaeljburry I don't get this guy. Obviously brilliant at derivatives, risk, port construction, so why is he talking about stock picking like an analyst? || CTX: Michael Lewis fully narrated an audiobook version of The Big Short for the book’s 15th anniversary. The cheapest price I have found is at the publisher’s site.   This is a great time of year to find great companies being sold down too far a
2025-11-27T00:48 id=1993844309070913871 →luscofusch | @luscofusch Wittgenstein was so spot on, philosophy is a mental illness. || CTX: Sorry, no time for your epistemic normativity, epistemic logic, or epistemic violence.   We’re in an epistemic tug of war. https://t.co/JmTTtgoNSp
2025-11-27T01:01 id=1993847673833836604 →gideonrachman | @gideonrachman @RobinBHarding I was saying this in 2011. Glad the Important People have finally figured it out. || CTX: I hesitate to call any piece FT piece “important” because it sounds self important BUT this by ⁦@RobinBHarding⁩ is genuinely important. And I think will have a big impact  https://t.co/NKa0Jz2FZO
2025-11-27T01:08 id=1993849426532880442 →CrashDavisInc | @CrashDavisInc @jarvis_best Why did it unnerve you? || CTX: @jarvis_best I read that thread last night and it unnerved me. Feels like I know something I’m not supposed to. Completely burdened by what has been.
2025-11-27T01:14 id=1993850861999804650 →EmilyDreyfuss | @EmilyDreyfuss Unfortunately my mother overshared just as much and I deeply dislike her now that I'm an adult and realize how irresponsible and selfish that was.  Still, this is kind of a good story about how selfishness and megalomania kill happiness. || CTX: What, your family didn't overshare to this level when you were growing up? Congratulations! Fuck off! We might be slightly traumatized but we laugh a lot. https://t.co/sRZ6I1Z3Ux
2025-11-27T01:59 id=1993862182409486812 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Harry is ofc correct but I cannot help but recognize OP's motivations here. He's successful, he's ambitious, and he's not really recognized for his accomplishments, so being with people at home feels like an invalidation and a step backwards.  It's shitty psychology but so human. || CTX: Don’t listen to this garbage at all.   Go hang out with friends and reminisce on the good times.   Youth is fleeting, make it count. https://t.co/JBMCgCJCfu
2025-11-27T02:01 id=1993862816449876458 →MikeIsaac | @MikeIsaac What's interesting here is how AI is making the wall between production and consumption porous. || CTX: recoiling so far away from the act of creation that you accidentally invent the radio station https://t.co/DflEGLZI25
2025-11-27T02:10 id=1993865023081553942 →- | This is why people no longer yearn to write the Great American novel and instead want to write the viral substack.  They killed literature. Just outright killed it. And you know what? Literature deserves to die. https://t.co/VmoASBUi0G || CTX: oh my god? https://t.co/GW63NYa0nW https://t.co/a8OyB4tpzs
2025-11-27T02:29 id=1993869705313153114 →GraceSpelman | @GraceSpelman This is a fascinating response because it reveals a specific perceived value of the internet.  For me, the realistic AI just makes the game more fun. || CTX: okay i think i need to start making a serious plan for the future to be off my phone in a major way https://t.co/CMOFyQp1Us
2025-11-27T02:31 id=1993870291957899761 →DKThomp | @DKThomp @tbarone03 You're basically admitting you're a bullshitter. In the technical sense of the term as defined by Harry G. Frankfurt. || CTX: @tbarone03 Respectfully: No.   It’s intellectually impoverished to think every interesting conversation limits the participates to a set of perfectly provable facts. Sometimes it’s fun to discuss ideas that will never be proven true or fals
2025-11-27T02:34 id=1993870987029590418 →Mark_J_Ryan | @Mark_J_Ryan @mattyglesias Matt's whole shtick is discussing impossible and impractical political and social reforms so that he can never be proven wrong. That way he keeps getting paid to pontificate.  It's an impressive grift tbh. || CTX: @mattyglesias It may or may not be a good idea, but it’s doomed to fail simply because nobody trusts anybody right now enough to make such a drastic social change.
2025-11-27T02:34 id=1993871111139020858 →- | Someone doxxed me. https://t.co/AwYvf3kcxb || CTX: https://t.co/fKOLxhN6AN https://t.co/G2HtbxYPs9
2025-11-27T02:35 id=1993871357315301476 →RobertSkvarla | @RobertSkvarla I love abortion now. || CTX: People on here are wrong when they say conservatives can't make good art. For example:  https://t.co/rBJU0UpNTb
2025-11-27T02:39 id=1993872399692144682 →okaythenfuture | @okaythenfuture I can confirm this.  The short memory in Southeast Asian culture personally bothers me greatly, but it's beneficial here. || CTX: I will say from a soft power perspective he is correct,  Japan is absolutely beloved in Southeast Asia, and barely anyone brings up the fucked up shit they did in WWII.   The Japan trip abroad is the number 1 activity for the upper middle c
2025-11-27T02:44 id=1993873567461855503 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH They don't want legal restrictions, they want moral restrictions.  From their perspective if they can shame people into doing X, they have real and fungible social power.  They're wrong and dumb of course but that's my theory. || CTX: this girl yearns for segregation and I just wonder how she imagines it will work out for her. like how minorities who think this way imagine it will eventually work out for them if they succeeded to culturally (and physically) isolate thems
2025-11-27T03:13 id=1993880820617236579 →TimHenke9 | @TimHenke9 @WKCosmo Yeah this is beyond retarded, time to unfollow Will. || CTX: @WKCosmo imagine being mad at sound food safety advice lol
2025-11-27T03:34 id=1993886163145511036 →- | Last night I tripped on a frog and badly injured my foot but as it happened my first thought (beyond "PAIN PAIN PAIN") was, "omg is the frog okay?" (he was)  Is this normal?
2025-11-27T04:18 id=1993897139303535058 →Piryme | @Piryme And how is Afghanistan this time of year? || CTX: I'm afraid that gay sex with young boys isn't all Plato cracked it up to be
2025-11-27T05:02 id=1993908277848207620 →- | I just can't read more than 20 pages of Wittgenstein at once. I wish I was smarter so I had a higher limit, but it's just so exhausting.
2025-11-27T05:06 id=1993909260489773374 →tszzl | @tszzl I think this is mathematically impossible and I want a paper proving or disproving it. || CTX: pre-2016 twitter composes a library of babel from which any 140-char string can be lifted https://t.co/Rg2kK4JN26
2025-11-27T05:29 id=1993914979310002412 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre This is basically how Generative AI works. Totally vindicates W.'s view. || CTX: I find the sort of procedural generation of cultural artifacts in DF fit for Wittgensteinian reflection. The player is invited to sort of imagine a form of life fitting the images and text that the algorithms spit out, even when, and especi
2025-11-27T05:31 id=1993915592093651353 →JordanUhl | @JordanUhl Jfc how mentally ill do you have to be to want to be your generation's Ann Coulter? || CTX: If only there were signs https://t.co/bV4lE8Ma9t
2025-11-27T05:44 id=1993918741198065697 →- | RT @bf_crane: You have a hot girl name and it’s stealing valor. || CTX: You have a hot girl name and it’s stealing valor. https://t.co/uCBNZ0cvM1
2025-11-27T05:45 id=1993919143788315116 →- | This is so absurdly true and yet really really hard to live by.  I'm working so hard to kill my ambition and it is shockingly difficult.   "The hardest thing in the world is to stop deceiving yourself" as Wittgenstein said. https://t.co/UTrFF0kWOl || CTX: eventually you learn there is no winning or losing, there is just living truthfully or untruthfully https://t.co/3jo4eaZUvw
2025-11-27T06:14 id=1993926449238299127 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @i24NEWS_EN So, a politician basically || CTX: @i24NEWS_EN Guy who rapes kids weighs in on geopolitical matters
2025-11-27T06:19 id=1993927696636891580 →TimDuy | @TimDuy In finance the smartest people tend to earn much less than the charismatic people with an instinct for product fit. || CTX: There is a joke in university advancement (fundraising) that the best donors were C+ students. https://t.co/eloMhtdb7I
2025-11-27T08:06 id=1993954583660601444 →pblest | @pblest Imagine going back in time and explaining that sentence to your 8yr old self. || CTX: Love the idea that Ryan Lizza has uncovered the scoop of the century about the Trump assassination attempt and is waiting until Entry #4 in the subscribers-only Felcher Diaries Substack to reveal it
2025-11-27T08:11 id=1993955872826118224 →karrisaarinen | @karrisaarinen @aakashg0 Because of RSUs. || CTX: Never understood the quarterly/biannual jojo of hiring and layoffs in tech companies. They start the year needing to hire 1000 people, then at the end of the year you need to layoff 1000 people. Why these mature companies can’t just keep so
2025-11-27T08:13 id=1993956383222583478 →- | I think MSFT will use this to push Sam out and get more control of OpenAI. Very bullish long term for $MSFT. https://t.co/HJeM5gzV6u || CTX: Altman expected to burn through $500bn in cash until 2030…. Yikes.  Good luck bro. https://t.co/8Bti7MDGQp
2025-11-27T08:30 id=1993960712339923306 →- | John Searle, Saul Kripke, Larry Summers--just how many academic men tried (pathetically) to use their career to hit on girls shocks me.   I never hit on my students and found the very notion degrading to myself.
2025-11-27T08:30 id=1993960714369986831 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I had two particularly memorable opportunities and avoided them both; I guess I took academia too seriously? || CTX: John Searle, Saul Kripke, Larry Summers--just how many academic men tried (pathetically) to use their career to hit on girls shocks me.   I never hit on my students and found the very notion degrading to myself.
2025-11-27T08:41 id=1993963399273914717 →derkmorl | @derkmorl @SEPlibrary You're fucking retarded dude || CTX: @SEPlibrary Joking around with fascists is normalizing fascism. These people aren't our chums
2025-11-27T09:55 id=1993982037024522550 →- | I am so not one to call a bubble or a top but holy fuck does this scream "top".   Maybe I'll buy some puts. https://t.co/TrLD11XP0z || CTX: An interesting thing about tech vs. finance is how much cultural power founders have. You could pull $10M/year at Citadel or DE Shaw and ~nobody would know who you are  Founders? you can pull zero revenue but post about the dream of greatne
2025-11-27T13:54 id=1994042112871157962 →- | RT @TerrorCosmic: @koryodynasty Why people fear hell, when Korea already exists || CTX: @koryodynasty Why people fear hell, when Korea already exists
2025-11-27T13:54 id=1994042224842338627 →Gorp_Shit | @Gorp_Shit @koryodynasty Legit South Korea is the most dystopian country I've ever been to. By far. || CTX: @koryodynasty Only a dying country would pull shit like this. A society that's been completely hollowed out where the 99% exist purely to make life comfortable for the 1%
2025-11-27T14:35 id=1994052354228785167 →KEBuHCAH | @KEBuHCAH This is very cute. || CTX: was amused to realize that this bus in Hangzhou was doing stop announcements not only in Mandarin and English but also... Italian 🤌  (like yeah, Marco Polo was apparently a big fan of this city when he visited in the 13th century, but still
2025-11-27T14:50 id=1994056205942313316 →- | RT @VeryBadLlama: when my ancestors ground their bones to dust toiling in farms and factories in the hopes that their descendants might som… || CTX: when my ancestors ground their bones to dust toiling in farms and factories in the hopes that their descendants might someday claw their way up to bask in the light of literacy, I don't think they ever dreamed I would use that gift to read 
2025-11-27T15:04 id=1994059689160765857 →acheongang | @acheongang @notstonkgod omg this is absurd || CTX: @notstonkgod All JFK had to do in 1936 to get accepted to Harvard was this https://t.co/cLQItaGQyA
2025-11-27T15:32 id=1994066811034443984 →- | You guys.   Big Beautiful Bill was about Clinton's cock.  It was in front of us (like Bill's cock) the whole time.
2025-11-27T23:51 id=1994192383769034760 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 1. Rename the country to Nazibia. || CTX: What are his policies https://t.co/j5M6tjeN2u
2025-11-27T23:52 id=1994192564468019486 →- | Oh, so literature is DEAD dead. https://t.co/hXtAKgAjYQ || CTX: I'm so proud of my sister Rona whose first book dropped last week from Simon &amp; Schuster. It’s a young adult romance set at an MIT hackathon. I think it's brilliant. You can check it out at https://t.co/q3lOYQKY4s https://t.co/SsNUqBeL0I
2025-11-27T23:56 id=1994193642764779959 →- | RT @lukeisamazing: oh noooo, not the ancient “Live, Laugh, Love” mosaic || CTX: oh noooo, not the ancient “Live, Laugh, Love” mosaic https://t.co/KTawyGdxYX
2025-11-27T23:59 id=1994194373026689097 →c30c60c90yo | @c30c60c90yo @Halalcoholism I live in SE Asia and Chris's attitude on this is frankly bizarre.  I guess he's doing some extrapolation from evaporated milk kind of additives that are popular here, but they're popular more due to history than poverty. Shrug. || CTX: @Halalcoholism Okay bud 👍
2025-11-28T00:03 id=1994195286156034250 →- | The economic incentive is key: you need to keep them vulnerable so they keep subscribing.  Some finance workers operate this way and it's heartbreaking and frustrating. "Oh but we trust him" says the 70yr old couple about their wealth manager who's delivered 2% CAGR for 30yrs https://t.co/LOgGIefpqF || CTX: They’re invested in keeping guys lonely and depressed so they’re easier to prey on and manipulate. It’s why these influencers are hyper obsessed with posturing and body language nobody else cares about, they’re fostering an ecosystem of men
2025-11-28T00:05 id=1994195980388860386 →echetus | @echetus China is a nation built around resentment. || CTX: Pretty funny the British get a shout-out in the opening lines of the Chinese constitution. https://t.co/BgSpwbQDrP
2025-11-28T00:12 id=1994197607220932941 →R_Thaler | @R_Thaler Well, the fentanyl addicted working class in rural areas with high unemployment did not survive America's focus on technology-driven labor displacement without expanding wealth transfer programs.  But, who cares about those losers, amiright || CTX: Oh my, how have we survived without the millions of people who used to take restaurant reservations, book airline tickets, operate toll booths, and print folded maps! How was it to hail a taxi in the Bay Area? This is the anti-abundance age
2025-11-28T00:14 id=1994198213666939083 →cfwang1337 | @cfwang1337 @Noahpinion China entered its lost decade in 2020.  The revisionism in the last 2 years because of DeepSeek and BYD has been surreal to observe.  Any data point shows a massively stuck economy set to secular decline || CTX: @Noahpinion China entering its Lost Decade, complete with zombie firms
2025-11-28T00:31 id=1994202422906958092 →- | RT @verdant_gel: @BiniIrl They turned the gayest city in the world into the gayest (derogatory) city in the world || CTX: @BiniIrl They turned the gayest city in the world into the gayest (derogatory) city in the world
2025-11-28T00:33 id=1994202857566859267 →BiniIrl | @BiniIrl I love this in a way. Combine the worst of Asian face saving with the worst of American hustle culture. It's a masterpiece of shit. || CTX: We need to do something about San Francisco man https://t.co/BtINbIDkAY
2025-11-28T00:52 id=1994207800210096542 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism @c30c60c90yo Can't speak for Indonesia but having a fridge in Malaysia is quite standard.  Culturally you may have a point (going from Vietnamese coffee or Thai milk tea to coffee creamer isn't a jump). It's tying it to wealth that makes no sense.  Singapore would embrace coffee creamers. || CTX: I’ve been in plenty of households in Indonesia that don’t have fridges or acquired them only relatively recently. Most of these countries don’t have significant dairy industries. Getting fresh milk in Malaysia in my experience is relatively
2025-11-28T00:54 id=1994208276364316957 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Halalcoholism @c30c60c90yo Also, the cream &gt; creamer jump in America was in the 50s when prepackaged foods were considered futuristic and desirable. The cultural heritage to modern day creamers is a pretty small jump  Why the fuck are we arguing over creamers lmao, take care man, hope you're doing well. || CTX: @Halalcoholism @c30c60c90yo Can't speak for Indonesia but having a fridge in Malaysia is quite standard.  Culturally you may have a point (going from Vietnamese coffee or Thai milk tea to coffee creamer isn't a jump). It's tying it to wealt
2025-11-28T00:58 id=1994209344666153452 →- | I have written three books in my life, one academic, two novels.  The effort and energy you put into a book is so intense, regardless of genre. I'm still a bit fucked from the last one.   If I got a review like this finding them and killing them wouldn't be unreasonable. https://t.co/HIpnjplEnc || CTX: POV reading book reviews on German Amazon (1 star) https://t.co/gGjPlxEAaE
2025-11-28T00:59 id=1994209513763713072 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I will happily concede that many people nowadays put as much effort into books as they do tweeting. So maybe I'm wrong. || CTX: I have written three books in my life, one academic, two novels.  The effort and energy you put into a book is so intense, regardless of genre. I'm still a bit fucked from the last one.   If I got a review like this finding them and killing
2025-11-28T01:00 id=1994209738406412447 →No5mallf3at | @No5mallf3at @PAHoyeck Unfollowed. Wtf is wrong with you dude || CTX: @PAHoyeck Putting Kant over Aristotle on the axis of “correct” is WILLLLLLD
2025-11-28T01:07 id=1994211517919527227 →ScottApogee | @ScottApogee I remember doing this, finding it incredibly boring, and choosing to read books instead.   And that, kids, is why I'm only a single digit millionaire. || CTX: Going back to the late 70's there were books and mags that had game code listings (typically 2-3 pages long) you could type into your Apple II, C-64, etc. And then you could modify values and add new code to improve the game. After doing th
2025-11-28T01:09 id=1994211933696688346 →JZ281C | @JZ281C I love this definition of financial markets: technically true and not at all actionable. || CTX: The financial market is really a large ecosystem of different but (mostly) equally plausible beliefs.  The demographics of the ecosystem will adjust based on events that distribute gains/losses among various subpopulations.
2025-11-28T01:29 id=1994217127859896493 →infraexplained | @infraexplained @areyouawitchor2 That's a significant difference though. There are few countries that could in theory be 100% self sufficient, and China is one of them. || CTX: @areyouawitchor2 The only unique thing about china is that it has so many people so the scale is bigger right now
2025-11-28T01:51 id=1994222597177831809 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH Man, Greece is really poor if this is a viable way to make a living there. || CTX: we have a serious gothflation on our hands if we're calling this girl a goth. https://t.co/fuYvXr8qoB
2025-11-28T02:12 id=1994227773808984225 →barevanillababy | @barevanillababy @tallulahbelly Eh you are backpedaling.   IMO you don't look like you have an ED at all, and I find it hilarious that in America that's considered anorexic. Elsewhere it's normal or maybe a little thin. || CTX: @tallulahbelly no its just none of ur business im not backtracking bc where did u see disordered behavior i bought 3 plates of food and 3 pot pies ur insufferable actually
2025-11-28T02:13 id=1994228133705478419 →- | The only way to see how arbitrary so much of human behavior is is to be an expat.
2025-11-28T02:21 id=1994230119527747950 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I cannot possibly explain how much this realization has been torturing me over the last year or so. not emotionally, but intellectually. how does one produce work that is good enough for a sophisticated audience and how does one that sophisticated audience without the dumdums? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ultimate redpill of making work that goes into the world is knowing it’s reception is ultimately dictated by people who are so far beneath you, you begin to question what it was for.  Marco Pierre White realized his 3 mich 
2025-11-28T02:22 id=1994230295277502808 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @retardbot9000 I think what bothers me the most about it is just how many idiots I've met in my life with phds, tenured professorships etc. no space is safe from the dumdums || CTX: @retardbot9000 I cannot possibly explain how much this realization has been torturing me over the last year or so. not emotionally, but intellectually. how does one produce work that is good enough for a sophisticated audience and how does 
2025-11-28T04:13 id=1994258415611183611 →sam_elc | @sam_elc @jokerggby46388 @incognitoguri There's a white American myth that Asian Americans perpetuate that Asians can tell each other apart.  Meanwhile, Asians in Asia get confused for being from other places all the time, and some brag about this. || CTX: @jokerggby46388 @incognitoguri The 2 countries do have leanings on how they like to do make up, but that’s just a slight lean and people from the same country still has their individual preferences
2025-11-28T04:17 id=1994259214911283548 →airkatakana | @airkatakana You okay there buddy?   Your tweets have always been off, but never this unhinged. || CTX: in korea no one will date you if you are any more or less than 8 of your own head tall https://t.co/zcbui7KWj9
2025-11-28T04:28 id=1994262190141100368 →- | Posts like this defeat racism a million times more than the wokest woke scold https://t.co/zugbs6lbtk || CTX: How grandpap looks at you after asking if the “jungle monkey” is joining us for Thanksgiving dinner (referring to my brothers girlfriend because she is half Irish) https://t.co/bH7M1RxYZs
2025-11-28T05:18 id=1994274557469872329 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Taking time to Photoshop--  eh fuck it.   Nvm, air, I was wrong you're a totally normal dude with no visible mental health issues at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how is this unhinged? they even have a word for it https://t.co/qbzq9jregD
2025-11-28T05:21 id=1994275428316414274 →PoweredByComedy | @PoweredByComedy @DonMiami3 Hawaiian nature without the depressing third world poverty is a strong selling point.  I love the Philippines but most middle class Americans would be better off in Maui than Palawan. || CTX: @DonMiami3 Why fly to Hawaii when Asia is a few more hours?
2025-11-28T05:23 id=1994275922544128101 →- | Rare Noah W here. He's absolutely correct. https://t.co/8ZrcPVXGBd || CTX: Yes. Look at YouTube, Twitch, TikTok...anything. Americans LOVE seeing Asian people on screens.  The reason Americans don't like Hollywood's version of "Asians on screens" is that it was done in a way that pigeonholed and stereotyped Asian 
2025-11-28T05:25 id=1994276379412590934 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I made an absolute fool of myself on a stage at a film festival saying Asian media wouldn't break through in America. So wrong, biggest miss of my career.  Noah explains why I was wrong: I underestimated American demand for actual cultural diversity, just like those old white me. || CTX: Rare Noah W here. He's absolutely correct. https://t.co/8ZrcPVXGBd
2025-11-28T05:39 id=1994279868461101088 →- | It will also force journalists to go back to journalism.  Slop is good. https://t.co/S8THVBRAxH || CTX: Hot take: disseminating slop like this is Good.  The sooner we rewire society to not believe anything about anyone on the Internet, the sooner we can retvrn to a time where your impression of someone comes almost wholly from spending time w
2025-11-28T05:46 id=1994281642387755449 →DanielSLoeb1 | @DanielSLoeb1 Thank you for proving that one can be extremely rich while also being very stupid. || CTX: Wow https://t.co/Rlsh0sP0ac
2025-11-28T05:46 id=1994281814035206479 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DanielSLoeb1 The funniest part is Loeb's firm has actually paid for my work in the past. || CTX: @DanielSLoeb1 Thank you for proving that one can be extremely rich while also being very stupid.
2025-11-28T05:49 id=1994282373433675840 →MagnafoxOdyssey | @MagnafoxOdyssey Goddamn if this isn't one of the best videos on the internet. I disagree with much of it but goddamn is it effective and well made. || CTX: This was the last piece of truly great conservative art tbh  https://t.co/FmUhBRQZKl https://t.co/odCxodV2fP
2025-11-28T07:18 id=1994304991218081841 →besttrousers | @besttrousers Matt, thoughts on Deidre McCloskey? || CTX: Difference is that Stranger Things has a plot that makes sense. https://t.co/Hx0jLgYnhp
2025-11-28T07:19 id=1994305098496004443 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 the problem with Japan isn't that they don't have sex, it's that they only had sex with prepubescent children || CTX: In the future I will tell my kids about this place called “Japan” where they were all artistically fixated on doing every little thing the best way possible but they couldn’t figure out how to have sex so they all died off
2025-11-28T07:50 id=1994312982403404101 →airkatakana | @airkatakana That's autism stolen valor ima reportchu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/VSoLzvND8x
2025-11-28T07:51 id=1994313266412302390 →okaythenfuture | @okaythenfuture I've lived in Thailand for a decade and speak Thai pretty fluently.  You're 100% correct. || CTX: People don't understand that Thailand is an assimilative country like the US or say France.  Thai as an identity is entirely socially engineered, it only became a mass social identity in the 19th century under the earlier Rama Kings, and it
2025-11-28T07:53 id=1994313636727452024 →sighyam | @sighyam ผมเดาว่าคุณโกหกเพื่อรักษาหน้าสังคม เหมือนที่ไฮโซไทยหลายคนทำกัน || CTX: This is true. No one of Chinese descent in Thailand identifies as Thai-Chinese unless one of their parent is literally a foreign Chinese national and they were raised overseas. It’s not like in Malaysia or Singapore where people are boxed s
2025-11-28T08:15 id=1994319302711984417 →John_Attridge | @John_Attridge is this a bit? || CTX: Classic literature just isn't relatable. It is only in the recent past that authors have learned how to write in a way that appeals to contemporary readers
2025-11-28T08:16 id=1994319561739673758 →merystudies | @merystudies the most I ever studied at once was four, and at least for my pea brain I don't think more than three is possible, and ideally you want them to be from different language families. || CTX: realistically how many languages do you guys think one can study at once? i want to hear experiences/opinions im so curious
2025-11-28T08:57 id=1994329748223471746 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ idk why this didn't show up in my notifications. I absolutely will listen! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if i write, will you read my suggestions or ignore them as always?
2025-11-28T09:02 id=1994331133421531151 →- | The good is not bourgeois comfort; the good is expansion of the species’ possibility frontier.
2025-11-28T09:04 id=1994331527954747624 →besttrousers | @besttrousers Absolutely not the response I was expecting.  Your defense of economics both here and on Reddit seems to ignore her deep criticisms.  Now I'm just confused. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 She is good!
2025-11-28T09:07 id=1994332300130083318 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Yeah sucks how every human on earth lives in the same timezone.   What's on your mind, bud? || CTX: I need someone who regularly stays up this late that I can talk to
2025-11-28T09:08 id=1994332549485937114 →W_T_Han | @W_T_Han @manyapan This should be the textbook example of tacit knowledge. Absolutely love it. || CTX: @manyapan This was still how we printed newspapers in Taiwan in the 80s. Skilled &amp; experienced printing press workers could find &amp; line up the right characters for an article at awesome speed
2025-11-28T09:10 id=1994332957335511068 →sethmpk | @sethmpk Does no one visit Inwood?  Absolutely gorgeous peacefully little area, I wish I'd lived there when I was in NYC. || CTX: And the 181 St. station has been like this the entire time? In a canyon? https://t.co/u5sW6QjfpG
2025-11-28T09:15 id=1994334337890672962 →agraybee | @agraybee I assume this is what happened with MTG?  She saw a politically opportunity to turn against Trump, did so, got threatened, freaked out and is now quitting out of fear?  Very relatable arc, I'd probably do the same. || CTX: Mitt Romney wrote in his book that a lot of Republicans are motivated by their fear of getting J6'd. https://t.co/OAcJFVvWmA
2025-11-28T09:16 id=1994334592321384775 →AliveAndWell99 | @AliveAndWell99 @halogen1048576 What's the etymology of that? Sounds kinda fun tbh hope it catches on || CTX: @halogen1048576 They also use wignat as a general slur for whites. It’s kind of fun, no one makes new slurs anymore
2025-11-28T09:18 id=1994335115690889528 →- | The inability of moderns to understand the desperation of past peoples is really impressive. https://t.co/QDO1ZJMrlh || CTX: Once again, I struggle to understand how we have chocolate.  I mean, someone saw this fruit & thought "Fruit is usually yummy, I should eat it."  They opened it up & saw a glob of mucus covered pods thar are—from my understanding—sweet & sl
2025-11-28T09:41 id=1994340837140951339 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ definitely the baudrillardian notion of hyperreality is a main scaffolding, even if it's not directly addressed. || CTX: I think it should contain a modern view on how technology influences social life and vice versa, how real is what we see and how that perception influences our prior judgements about everything.   It should also should be wrapped up in sati
2025-11-28T09:44 id=1994341672423920123 →- | When I started writing online in the early 2010s I got messages like this offering to pay me if I linked to them ALL THE TIME.  And yet people take the internet seriously, it's so bizarre. https://t.co/3qighRGWWF || CTX: Kalshi is paying influencers to boost their posts too btw. Maybe people already knew that, idk. But I found this interesting when they reached out to me.   Personally I think all of these kinds of apps should be banned. I am a bit puritan o
2025-11-28T12:55 id=1994389649620713769 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Pastebin. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where do you plan to post this manifesto?
2025-11-28T13:07 id=1994392620152594892 →- | This is the ideal female form. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like. https://t.co/Ta04E6s43W
2025-11-28T13:52 id=1994403910866620856 →- | The best part of Stranger Things season 5 is seeing how ugly Millie Bobby Brown grew up to be.
2025-11-28T14:14 id=1994409562158645268 →- | When you see the world as forms of life with their own emergent grammars... everything is wonderful.  No wonder Wittgenstein had a wonderful life.
2025-11-28T14:38 id=1994415486407426125 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Needs a fell for it award somewhere. || CTX: Art is being made every day. Cathedrals before our very eyes https://t.co/zM3QWORW6B
2025-11-28T14:38 id=1994415729844834508 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @retardbot9000 WTF THERE ARE 4 I LEGIT DIDNT NOTICE THIS WTFAJCICIEJE https://t.co/A7GglIfsnV || CTX: @retardbot9000 Needs a fell for it award somewhere.
2025-11-28T14:39 id=1994415850515005747 →Shahar_Almog | @Shahar_Almog @FieldSpeakerZDQ lmmfao || CTX: @FieldSpeakerZDQ Chaos theory
2025-11-28T14:42 id=1994416528540975581 →nicdunz | @nicdunz @Andr3jH literally her best feature u gay as fuck homie || CTX: @Andr3jH she got a weird nose
2025-11-28T14:43 id=1994416795135119588 →- | I love the internet so much it's ficking insane
2025-11-28T14:44 id=1994417037117120893 →- | Imagine: A parallel universe where the internet was never invented. Is your life in that universe
2025-11-28T14:44 id=1994417122844524676 →neality_aquaer | @neality_aquaer It really whips the llamas ass || CTX: Gothic/Baroque moment of UI design https://t.co/mQ0rV5sA9W
2025-11-28T15:01 id=1994421406227165618 →sweetwisties | @sweetwisties I want to know each of these restaurants, they look amazing || CTX: many sweet treats after a meal lately 😰😰 https://t.co/k7EsExcPjN
2025-11-28T15:57 id=1994435533905555470 →- | RT @retardbot9000: Woman liked my post. Whole day ruined. Logging off see you guys tomorrow. || CTX: Woman liked my post. Whole day ruined. Logging off see you guys tomorrow.
2025-11-28T16:23 id=1994441927610007641 →- | RT @SnowmanMcK: @comradesanchez they don't call it the mid sized apple || CTX: @comradesanchez they don't call it the mid sized apple
2025-11-28T23:38 id=1994551388425392390 →- | And you're bearish on AI?!? https://t.co/TPJt47b8eo || CTX: @zanyfen Why is AI Slavoj Žižek selling me an egg spatula
2025-11-28T23:51 id=1994554669843320908 →BLUNDERBUSSTED | @BLUNDERBUSSTED Greece is one of the few countries I've been to where everyone seems genuinely happy || CTX: oh my god greeks are latinas https://t.co/lru9lqTNKp
2025-11-29T00:01 id=1994557362863243775 →rhunterh | @rhunterh This is my quant. || CTX: Some of us have been saying... https://t.co/ftP9j8JwJv
2025-11-29T00:25 id=1994563358935417193 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch @shauseth This has been my view for a couple of years now. I suspect this is a dominant view on Wall Street, too. || CTX: @shauseth I think people really underestimate how long it took for spreadsheets to penetrate into widespread use, probably the most obvious software  replacement for something that was a giant part of business in human history.   I just thi
2025-11-29T00:42 id=1994567519353671984 →allenjhyang | @allenjhyang @theJayAlto OP peddling dumb Puritanical bullshit, pay him no heed || CTX: @theJayAlto So you're saying we can't learn and have fun at the same time? That doesn't seem right either.
2025-11-29T00:43 id=1994567766444314962 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @allenjhyang @theJayAlto oh an "influencer". He posted this to farm engagement among insecure people who resent others for trying to learn because it makes them feel more insecure.   Mute, scroll on. || CTX: @allenjhyang @theJayAlto OP peddling dumb Puritanical bullshit, pay him no heed
2025-11-29T00:57 id=1994571418336641182 →- | The strangest thing in Stranger Things season five is how eleven turned into a three.
2025-11-29T01:35 id=1994581057967198595 →John_Hempton | @John_Hempton @CliffordAsness Cliff needs to see the poor as deserving their lot to validate his worldview.  You'll never convince him because of his motivated reasoning. || CTX: Cliff, you are much richer than me, but it is a very long time since I have lived on median household income and I never needed to do so when I had kids to support. I suspect the same is true for you.   I know that I would struggle at 2x th
2025-11-29T02:04 id=1994588320236802440 →John_Hempton | @John_Hempton @CliffordAsness It very much does threaten the system. Give a capitalist enough rope and they will hang themselves is one of the few true things Marx said.  But it also doesn't matter; Cliff is rich but he (and you and I) are powerless. Society will evolve without our meddling. || CTX: And I would think that world view ultimately threatens a system of which Cliff (and I) are giant beneficiaries.  Free enough markets and good rule of law are the way for progress. The left and the populist right both threaten that because t
2025-11-29T02:08 id=1994589198318522582 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Your jokes make me literally laugh out loud about 90% of the time, fr man || CTX: before my mother passed, i told her, i promise to exceed KPIs this quarter.
2025-11-29T02:13 id=1994590407360221464 →qcapital2020 | @qcapital2020 The movie, dude.  When Christian Bale plays you in a movie, you're an icon. || CTX: Why do people have a fascination with Burry ? Many others made $$ in the GFC : Eisman, Kyle Bass, John Paulson, Jeff Greene, etc...  What's the lore with this guy ? Honestly, he's been wrong for 16 years and counting. Doomer porn must be a 
2025-11-29T02:14 id=1994590758066868276 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey Tell that to the laid off and see what happens. || CTX: https://t.co/FUtx3zSyfD https://t.co/hPTiEoFPJw
2025-11-29T02:19 id=1994591977963466823 →ThanksThoth | @ThanksThoth Yeah this brought back memories. || CTX: At some point in your life someone with BPD will say this to you, it is extremely important you do not fall for it https://t.co/d1ImMYlpwz
2025-11-29T02:44 id=1994598426588385650 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth milady || CTX: (flirting) Taste my penis or taste my blade
2025-11-29T03:03 id=1994603044571615674 →EnyaEnjoyer | @EnyaEnjoyer @RobertTalisse He was wrong that language is uniquely human, which introduces metaphysical possibilities W. wants to shut down.   But other than that, yeah he was basically right about everything. || CTX: @RobertTalisse Later Wittgenstein is nearly 100 oer cent right, prove me wrong
2025-11-29T03:03 id=1994603130638799353 →- | GenAI cannot have or build world models.
2025-11-29T03:16 id=1994606296298131897 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @firstadopter "0-800M is not the same as 800M to 3B"  Yeah, 0-800M is harder. || CTX: I don’t think it’s bizarre or intellectually dishonest at all  0-800M is not the same as 800M to 3B  Perhaps people are wondering why OpenAI might be so afraid to turn ads on when they have such a massive amount of spending they need to ban
2025-11-29T04:29 id=1994624657060958245 →uli09 | @uli09 @matt_olma Wittgenstein remains undefeated. || CTX: @matt_olma The real job of philosophers is to talk people out of having any strong beliefs at all. It’s a belief-mitigation project.
2025-11-29T04:30 id=1994625097265811799 →xphilosopher | @xphilosopher This is type token stuff. || CTX: “Murder is wrong, but I don’t disapprove of it”  Expressivist theories of moral language suggest that this sentence should make no sense — but a new paper in Cognition finds that people actually *do* find this sentence largely acceptable  h
2025-11-29T04:33 id=1994625632169595018 →- | How to summarize Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind https://t.co/3feBTZms2Y || CTX: fall in love again and again fall in love again and again fall in love again and again fall in love again and again
2025-11-29T04:36 id=1994626435127152994 →- | One of the difficulties I have in being rich is I don't like rich people shit.   Fuck cars, boats are lame, second houses are a hassle (I do have one of those though). And I really have a low threshold for hiring staff.  And don't get me started on watches, wine, and clothes jfc https://t.co/A2atv4sSAk || CTX: If you had a $5M networth. Would you spend $250k on a Porsche 911? https://t.co/i7tyimTWMs
2025-11-29T04:41 id=1994627740407128203 →ben_golub | @ben_golub It'll most likely change how people defend themselves. I suspect it will get nastier. || CTX: An interesting time for academics:   It's now a lot more likely than before that anything we write will be thoroughly audited with the help of AI and any sloppy or sketchy work will be publicly graded as such.  I wonder if this changes how 
2025-11-29T04:42 id=1994627899643854866 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck It's justified true beliefs obviously || CTX: Could somebody please inform me what this everlasting knowledge I know is? Because I would really like to know that I know the knowledge.
2025-11-29T05:18 id=1994637061035626777 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 That is really what I spend my money on, in a way.   If I was still in NYC I'd probably earn many times what I do now. But I'd rather choose where I live and who I'm around. That's more valuable than any other bullshit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not rich but I’m not poor and the best thing that money buys me is time with my fiancée. Best thing I could ever ask for
2025-11-29T06:15 id=1994651465219223697 →arithmoquine | @arithmoquine It's been like this at least since the 1990s. || CTX: every family member i have over 70 thinks the world is ending  i keep trying to explain, no, it's really not so bad out here. but it seems there's a whole generation spending every waking hour of their sunset years hooked up to an unending 
2025-11-29T06:16 id=1994651578272469472 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @arithmoquine ... maybe the 2000s actually. Started with 24hr cable news. || CTX: @arithmoquine It's been like this at least since the 1990s.
2025-11-29T08:59 id=1994692727351738466 →- | Goddamn I worshipped this woman in the late 90s. https://t.co/ex7uoG58Ld || CTX: Faye Wong https://t.co/8M2SqzuSc7
2025-11-29T09:15 id=1994696773500293569 →- | RT @apewoodx: https://t.co/DWc5OXI8ae || CTX: https://t.co/DWc5OXI8ae https://t.co/aPpZ0noo39
2025-11-29T09:55 id=1994706678135361762 →DocMartinez2013 | @DocMartinez2013 @cljack Thai has this too but it's a bit different, with major vocab differences for higher status dialects and addressing nobility etc. || CTX: Not an expert at all but I do know that Japanese definitely has this feature (as I learned a little Japanese at one time) as does Korean.  Chinese has this to a lesser degree, (apparently it was more pronounced in older speech and is used m
2025-11-29T09:55 id=1994706800357331388 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DocMartinez2013 @cljack That said, you can still tell your copilot not to crash in Thai lmao || CTX: @DocMartinez2013 @cljack Thai has this too but it's a bit different, with major vocab differences for higher status dialects and addressing nobility etc.
2025-11-29T11:21 id=1994728327979176173 →SkylerB97 | @SkylerB97 @IceQuebe_ omg that is so sad. I hope they aren't seeing the internet weirdos' comments (or they can laugh them off) || CTX: @IceQuebe_ First time in ten years I've seen people's responses to this get so weird and nasty, not to mention the husband died and the wife recently got cancer
2025-11-29T12:05 id=1994739480641900742 →teodorio | @teodorio Yeah but the price/quality ratio tends to hit a peak at a pretty low price point, like there's a bigger difference between $10 and $100 wine than between $100 and $300 wine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wine, champagne and good food/cigars are worth it.  Also great quality clothes
2025-11-29T14:42 id=1994779045813518710 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  (i wasn't a swe... but I have experienced this) || CTX: Stepping off the plane at incheon as a medium ugly SWE https://t.co/736xhivjUK
2025-11-29T14:43 id=1994779202445611404 →thiagovscoelho | @thiagovscoelho How was he a dualist? || CTX: JR Searle was a dualist but claimed he wasn’t one, lol
2025-11-30T00:27 id=1994926130445652134 →credenzaclear2 | @credenzaclear2 you aren't an intellectual tho || CTX: idk i’m having a good time https://t.co/cXQinVawAj
2025-11-30T00:34 id=1994927892921553247 →andrew__reed | @andrew__reed Why didn't he just raise the master tape 3db? || CTX: https://t.co/zDb9t3XGpS
2025-11-30T00:58 id=1994934045046968532 →- | Of the two prestigious options I chose the one closest to home because I was 15 and fucking terrified. https://t.co/1nrpTOtTSN || CTX: What’s the lore behind your choice of university? https://t.co/RrDpgQpal3
2025-11-30T01:09 id=1994936886704705838 →sheeblover | @sheeblover That second picture is absolutely absurdly gorgeous || CTX: Today I walked 4 miles enjoying the last of autumn colours before winter kicks in &amp; I made a margherita pizza :)) https://t.co/0HwsfKttED https://t.co/3VnztZA2jU
2025-11-30T01:10 id=1994936964995584457 →- | Everyone, just look at the second picture. https://t.co/3Na60zqv2p || CTX: Today I walked 4 miles enjoying the last of autumn colours before winter kicks in &amp; I made a margherita pizza :)) https://t.co/0HwsfKttED https://t.co/3VnztZA2jU
2025-11-30T01:13 id=1994937855781867967 →logicus | @logicus What's harder: imagining what it's like to be a datacenter or a bat? || CTX: what is it like to be a datacenter?
2025-11-30T01:23 id=1994940341280215055 →yifever | @yifever She's kinda ugly too, but I get it, in fat America this is a 10 while she's a Tokyo 6. || CTX: the orginal format was "being a cosplayer is werid" and I like how we've made being a girl a special category too. like the gender that makes up 50% of the population https://t.co/pFt7hBzHnI
2025-11-30T01:26 id=1994941039241826517 →ben_j_todd | @ben_j_todd Very WEF coded tweet || CTX: The most environmentally efficient life is living in small inner city flat, using your phone all day, and never going out. https://t.co/rAcSn1I96K
2025-11-30T02:00 id=1994949502227419433 →logicus | @logicus disagree, harder to imagine being a bat. data centers house human data, that's much more relatable than bat data. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 datacenter for sure.
2025-11-30T02:09 id=1994951997850882275 →- | People don't appreciate how anti-hierarchical Wittgenstein is.
2025-11-30T02:10 id=1994952219989524880 →logicus | @logicus fascinating how our minds partitioned the conceptual space of the question differently. man philosophy can be fascinating when people aren't just trying to be right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think experience depends on biology. we have much more perceptually in common with bats than with gpus. so our data is more batlike than gpulike in my view. a prof pointed out at one point that some blind humans learn to 
2025-11-30T03:01 id=1994965082099650704 →logicus | @logicus I'm aggressively anti-functionalist because of its hidden metaphysics and absurd consequences. I'm closer to Searle but with some differences.  I think our different answers are because we imagined the (very silly) question differently. We had different grammars in mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 would you say that you’re a functionalist then? or something else?
2025-11-30T03:04 id=1994965636917989552 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus I agree with you if we approach as a "biology is the structural invariant that matters" question, but I was thinking of it more as "data centers are a higher order derivative of human while bat is diff natural kind"  How we approached the question differed, and that's interesting || CTX: @logicus I'm aggressively anti-functionalist because of its hidden metaphysics and absurd consequences. I'm closer to Searle but with some differences.  I think our different answers are because we imagined the (very silly) question differe
2025-11-30T03:05 id=1994966060928569629 →- | This is why I've studied 10 languages but can only really speak 3 of them.  He's sadly very correct. https://t.co/crsDAZa137 || CTX: when learning a language what you need to do is quite literally memorize a large chunk of the dictionary, and many people are not willing to do this for obvious reasons https://t.co/xr7ATj6DKw
2025-11-30T03:07 id=1994966515305910547 →WeatherManPoker | @WeatherManPoker @airkatakana @JDVance You are making the classic blunder: never take an Airkatakana tweet seriously || CTX: @airkatakana @JDVance I just don't think you're going to get an ambassadorship while you're dealing with the courts in Korea?
2025-11-30T03:18 id=1994969291700228161 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @WeatherManPoker @JDVance well ofc you take your tweets seriously, that's why you're so kawaii senpai || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WeatherManPoker @JDVance i would seriously become us ambassador to korea and i seriously believe i am the best candidate for this job
2025-11-30T03:21 id=1994969905461084662 →logicus | @logicus One day we should discuss yud. I think he's an idiot, philosophically naive and far less intelligent than his pretentions. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time. || CTX: yudkowsky shouldn't respond to engagement-baiting from non-colleagues. "debate me" is crazy. debate you? how about i box you? https://t.co/rEy4ZUImKG
2025-11-30T03:22 id=1994970214547820804 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus He's taking the stupid bulldog 21yr old kid seriously and debating him.  He's optimizing for engagement and attention, not seriousness.  Quite embarrassing, really (and financially smart). || CTX: @logicus One day we should discuss yud. I think he's an idiot, philosophically naive and far less intelligent than his pretentions. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
2025-11-30T03:25 id=1994971020978262064 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus Oh and this tweet is literally an appeal to authority fallacy.  If dude argues like it's the 16th century, I'm not gonna take dude seriously. idgaf how much money and attention he has, I'm harder to impress than that. || CTX: @logicus He's taking the stupid bulldog 21yr old kid seriously and debating him.  He's optimizing for engagement and attention, not seriousness.  Quite embarrassing, really (and financially smart).
2025-11-30T03:28 id=1994971689462239625 →OnodaCapital | @OnodaCapital I'm a sell sider and very close to Dylan in the market.   I understand his frustration. This is a bad look for sure (he needs better handlers), but it is mentally taxing when non specialists and greedy rich people say "idgaf about your intelligent complex analysis, me want money" || CTX: Dunking on the customers because they don’t feel the need to intellectually beat off to 10,000 words  Always a shame to see great success lead to great hubris  (Paying sub, would pay more!) https://t.co/7FY98n2ae0
2025-11-30T03:29 id=1994972077871566925 →dylan522p | @dylan522p @OnodaCapital Dylan, let me give you some advice from a fellow boutique specialist analyst:  I get the frustrations, I have felt them for over a decade. But there is real value in maintaining a professional front. You are risking reputational damage.  My DMs are open if you want to chat. || CTX: @OnodaCapital Accelerator, TCO, datacenter models + core research had this earlier + fewer words. But those don't explain tech What intellectual beat off What section isnt needed and doesnt contain value except for the sales blurb We try to
2025-11-30T03:30 id=1994972310798012638 →atlanticesque | @atlanticesque When I was a professor this would've been an automatic fail for zero references.  Tbf this was like 15yrs ago || CTX: Yes, this essay is terrible.  But everyone dunking on it doesn’t realize how bad it is out there right now.  This is basically average for a college student. https://t.co/cP5GrzRix4
2025-11-30T03:31 id=1994972404993626123 →fedtanyl | @fedtanyl She's not a dude she's just ugly || CTX: Go To Therapy https://t.co/gK5J7LHQ0r
2025-11-30T03:38 id=1994974345949843772 →logicus | @logicus He's serious but he's stupid. AI isn't going to kill everyone and his arguments are preposterous, full of holes and rightly derided by everyone  Basically, he doesn't understand what rationality is and as a result gets many things wrong  There's a reason why his movement bore SBF || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think yud is by far the closest thing we have to someone in that space who is serious. it’s never the pfp best person. it’s not like fighting for example where you would eventually just get knocked out. but yud is at leas
2025-11-30T03:39 id=1994974549327450519 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus okay, maybe not rightly derided by everyone, derided by most everyone outside of his silly hypocritical cult. || CTX: @logicus He's serious but he's stupid. AI isn't going to kill everyone and his arguments are preposterous, full of holes and rightly derided by everyone  Basically, he doesn't understand what rationality is and as a result gets many things 
2025-11-30T03:41 id=1994974921651572951 →PhilipDBunn | @PhilipDBunn "It went from 0 to 80% but isn't 100% so it's worthless"   This is you. || CTX: welcome to ai home, we have b̸͇̮̥̮̾a̸̡͓̠̔t̷͇͗̌̄͝h̶̢͕̝̣̿̑͊r̶͚͕̺̞̔̾̎͠ȯ̷͎̈̇ò̸͓̀͠ͅm̴̹̊̌̏š̷̖̿͑ https://t.co/iMs38opEAf
2025-11-30T03:42 id=1994975192255541348 →adamzwasserman | @adamzwasserman @SebastienBubeck Why do so many science people think brute force is bad? That's how the world works. || CTX: @SebastienBubeck Brute force
2025-11-30T04:04 id=1994980907409965409 →logicus | @logicus Yudkowsky as a replacement for the canon is a tremendous epistemic error and one that should stop you in your tracks and make you think, "something in my thinking has gone wrong". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 from an educational standpoint very few engineers will have a chance to read the canon, but they can at least read yudkowsky and other rationalists and be the better for it.
2025-11-30T04:06 id=1994981212394590681 →logicus | @logicus What's he trying to get right? So far you've said "he's bad on all the details but he's still good".   You sound frankly bewitched. || CTX: my number one criticism of "everyone dies" is that it was unplugged from the empirical reality of what llms are actually like. anecdotally, they don't even know that they exist, what day it is, what happened 5 minutes ago, etc. i said this 
2025-11-30T04:11 id=1994982565451895089 →- | Christ, I have a great idea for a novel but writing it would be too heartbreaking so I can't do it.
2025-11-30T04:11 id=1994982567418974695 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Told entirely from the POV of a cat and with the cat's limited understanding, and the cat loves its owner: a young child who lives in an abusive household.  In the right hands this could be devastating. || CTX: Christ, I have a great idea for a novel but writing it would be too heartbreaking so I can't do it.
2025-11-30T04:11 id=1994982683815125024 →logicus | @logicus What does he say that is sensible? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 look, i agree. it's absurd. i'm saying, in the current context, he's one of the only people in the "business" of saying anything sensible. most of the e/acc crowd actually holds that technological development is fundamental
2025-11-30T04:22 id=1994985416538370549 →logicus | @logicus So in other words he's good because he's not entirely bad.  That's not good.  Your reasoning reminds me of when Wittgenstein said of Russell (paraphrasing), "if you were hungry and I punched you in the stomach so that you lost your appetite, I fulfilledyour desire" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for yudkowsky, he doesn't commit himself to the e/acc absurdities. much of the derision comes from people who are mocking the very idea that ethical thought matters. the gap is really between yudkowsky et al. and the techno
2025-11-30T04:29 id=1994987165189902634 →logicus | @logicus That's not sensible, that's a hinge assumption and a tacit belief everyone including the e/acc crowd shares. Yes even the posthumanists. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's not about my agreement with what he says. the e/acc faction is not even concerned with how crazy their ideas sound. they are delighted to say the even crazier thing. so, one comparatively sensible thing yudkowsky says 
2025-11-30T04:36 id=1994988974100943035 →logicus | @logicus ai discourse ONLINE is between rationalists and e/acc.  ftfy   Where decisions actually matter, rationalists and e/acc are either not in the room or get crowded out by smarter people.  I think you've confused internet bullshit with  real world decision making. They're entangled || CTX: i doubt we disagree. good is real but comparative. ai discourse is between rationalists and e/acc. no one else can afford a microphone. yudkowsky is better than the most likely counterfactual alternative, which god only knows what that woul
2025-11-30T04:37 id=1994989167814771178 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus but they are separate and, when internet bullshit gets too crazy, real world constraints contain it. You don't need Yud as a stop gap for idiocy, esp since the stop gap is also an idiot. || CTX: @logicus ai discourse ONLINE is between rationalists and e/acc.  ftfy   Where decisions actually matter, rationalists and e/acc are either not in the room or get crowded out by smarter people.  I think you've confused internet bullshit with
2025-11-30T04:38 id=1994989267861606594 →logicus | @logicus No one. The game is self correcting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 who should we put into the game? i'm all for ideas.
2025-11-30T05:15 id=1994998709059469318 →logicus | @logicus You're seeing the market as sets of cabals without considering the competitive dynamics.   Crudely put: Sam Altman won't kill everyone because he's constrained by investors, competition, users, etc.   What I think is happening is you're letting your distrust of others... || CTX: can you say more about this? because for me i would want a ceo like sama or dario to go into battle equipped with ethical armor like a savage hoplite. the rationalist and e/acc debates are culturally dominant, all that's visible. who's a th
2025-11-30T05:16 id=1994999017525448751 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus lead you to preposterous conclusions like "Yud is an idiot but we need him to stop Big Corp from killing us all."   But you are wrong to think Big Corp can kill us all on purpose or by accident. Tons of errors here, wouldn't help to give a taxonomy of the fallacies, but it comes || CTX: @logicus You're seeing the market as sets of cabals without considering the competitive dynamics.   Crudely put: Sam Altman won't kill everyone because he's constrained by investors, competition, users, etc.   What I think is happening is y
2025-11-30T05:17 id=1994999183561109961 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus from a healthy distrust of others that has been inflated into an unhealthy panic.  Which is the kind of bad logic Yud made a career on. || CTX: @logicus lead you to preposterous conclusions like "Yud is an idiot but we need him to stop Big Corp from killing us all."   But you are wrong to think Big Corp can kill us all on purpose or by accident. Tons of errors here, wouldn't help t
2025-11-30T05:18 id=1994999454265737236 →logicus | @logicus ofc you take it seriously: as a cyclical phenomenon, not as a long term movement.  You're reading internet bullshit like it's Mind in the 1920s, just a misreading of the language game's internal logic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 re this question, i think it's important to take online discourse seriously. not just for davidsonian principle of charity reasons, but because the public discourse rubs off on policy. e.g., https://t.co/YD6BwWJeri
2025-11-30T05:56 id=1995009062107582638 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Man I really need to read Faulkner. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would probably make me cry. Sorta of in the same vein of The Sound and the Fury
2025-11-30T06:04 id=1995011090477166893 →logicus | @logicus I've realized the issue. Causation!   You see the state of affairs and think: "prominent bloggers influence powerful people, that's why they're prominent"   This is wrong. Think: "powerful people make bloggers prominent iff they say the right thing"   Yud is the effect, not cause || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 re this question, i think it's important to take online discourse seriously. not just for davidsonian principle of charity reasons, but because the public discourse rubs off on policy. e.g., https://t.co/YD6BwWJeri
2025-11-30T07:34 id=1995033587029348498 →logicus | @logicus "capital only supports fundlosophers."   If only that were true, I'd be so rich.   Capital supports good storytellers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think i agree with that. i'm thinking about what you said regarding markets. it's complicated lol https://t.co/eyzDAasPSz
2025-11-30T07:38 id=1995034694602428664 →logicus | @logicus Lao tzu speaks on this || CTX: at a fighting gym the strongest guys there are usually the gentlest.
2025-11-30T07:50 id=1995037703122161826 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k Well they have to say that for legal reasons despite the victim blaming. And obv crazy people will leverage tools to extend their crazy.  If it weren't AI he'd kill himself over video games or rock and roll or insert moral panic of the day here. He had a screw loose. || CTX: @mark_k @47fucb4r8c69323 type shi or nah? no offense mark but i very much disagree.
2025-11-30T07:54 id=1995038764302045641 →logicus | @logicus Attention is all capital needs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have some work on recommender systems. that's a huge factor as well. capital does have huge influence here though. all the api, bots, etc. determines what gets eyes. but so does saying idiotic things.
2025-11-30T07:55 id=1995039020746002819 →SamtheNightOwl | @SamtheNightOwl Dumb person's idea of smart prosody || CTX: "god made male and female and made us differently on purpose and for a purpose" is such a fascinatingly bad piece of prose https://t.co/81rpJCkLDD
2025-11-30T08:19 id=1995044997289447735 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k the only ethical choice that guarantees you cause zero suffering to others is suicide. I've actually written a book on this topic. || CTX: @mark_k @47fucb4r8c69323 better hope there's not a god, boys.
2025-11-30T08:27 id=1995046986719035865 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k it is very possible that I once made an offhanded comment to someone that depressed them so much that they committed suicide. that doesn't mean I'm going to stop talking. || CTX: i respect you both, i just don't know how you could think that that's the right view. i doubt sama does tbh. it's a business necessity elevated over the importance of the life of a kid. clearly he may not have have committed suicide otherwi
2025-11-30T08:31 id=1995048101611180075 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k okay, how many teenagers decided to not commit suicide because of AI?   neither of us knows the answer to that question, so we lack the knowledge to make any categorical edicts on this at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mark_k a teenager's suicide is a good thing to be a kantian about. an offhand comment, i wouldn't fault you.
2025-11-30T08:35 id=1995049007958434217 →pourfairelevide | @pourfairelevide we have too many universities and too many people in universities. || CTX: This is what I mean when I say the kids are functionally illiterate. They can recognize words I guess but they seem to have no idea what constitutes an “argument.” This is better than many response essays I’ve seen https://t.co/J15psZm5g5
2025-11-30T08:40 id=1995050345110835476 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k and that's my point, some situations require consequentialism, some situations require a deontological framework. The details matter.   Philosophy serves life, not vice versa. Ideas are just tools to use, not worship. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mark_k that's a consequentialist argument. the kantian question is whether or not the corp can say what they said in good conscience.
2025-11-30T08:41 id=1995050619879764385 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus @mark_k in this case, ethics do not matter. they are building a legal defense, which they have a legal and fiduciary obligation to do. || CTX: @logicus @mark_k and that's my point, some situations require consequentialism, some situations require a deontological framework. The details matter.   Philosophy serves life, not vice versa. Ideas are just tools to use, not worship.
2025-11-30T08:47 id=1995052065601778078 →- | Rare Freud W https://t.co/OSdlcBsaWn || CTX: Apparently some will never learn the lesson that sexuality is often involved in these things. You get this continual dissonance where people enjoy something &amp; then bemoan the sexual inspiration behind it as though it were a trivial thin
2025-11-30T08:58 id=1995054899609080171 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k I think you're confusing legal and ethical here. they are legally unable to do the ethical thing according to your ethics. no amount of fedora wearing bloggers is going to change that. || CTX: so that's a deontological argument about the duties of the corp. and we are asking whether it is right that the corp is fulfilling its duties in this manner. appears decisively not to be doing ethics in the service of life in this case. pro
2025-11-30T09:00 id=1995055315805716489 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus @mark_k I mean, I could go full Singer on you and say your lifestyle is unethical because you aren't giving away your American comforts to the Thai Farm workers I see daily that live on less than $400 a month.   and how much water are you wasting by tweeting now? || CTX: @logicus @mark_k I think you're confusing legal and ethical here. they are legally unable to do the ethical thing according to your ethics. no amount of fedora wearing bloggers is going to change that.
2025-11-30T09:10 id=1995057782694039757 →DrMichaelBonner | @DrMichaelBonner Clever bit of sophistry to get a nice paycheck and tenure. Don't hate the player broski || CTX: One of the craziest books of the 20th century. https://t.co/QWR9kENJhW
2025-11-30T09:13 id=1995058683064332310 →- | Cf. the fake Nietzsche quote about cockroaches and butterflies https://t.co/JNALH6Hmxk || CTX: @9mmsmg I'm siding with the girl that's beautiful, tall and calm over the wierdo guy wearing glasses to record humans in public.   'Screaming your gonna be famous'  Big baby boy energy
2025-11-30T09:15 id=1995058973163311162 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: yeah, i agree that singer is part of the problem. my main concern is that tech and e/acc often confuse ethical thought and action with fedora-wearing blogging. but really that's not what it is. it's about virtue and making a better world as
2025-11-30T09:16 id=1995059330660655148 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k Also, technology is neither good nor bad just like a hammer is neither good nor bad.  If you want to debate gatekeeping, making AI 18+, etc. go ahead, but that's not what's happening here. || CTX: yeah, i agree that singer is part of the problem. my main concern is that tech and e/acc often confuse ethical thought and action with fedora-wearing blogging. but really that's not what it is. it's about virtue and making a better world as
2025-11-30T09:18 id=1995059817833263288 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I like Wheeler's statement on this: "The boundary of a boundary is zero." || CTX: At the end of everything there is no end, because there is no time. https://t.co/mq99JR7yzv
2025-11-30T09:20 id=1995060236902895913 →jameslineky | @jameslineky You're literally policing wonder, I cannot think of a more miserable existence and the opposite of the goal you're purportedly promoting.   Unless this is just engagement bait for your substack or whatever || CTX: People who are too jaded to look out the airplane window are almost as depressing as the city dwellers who never stare up at the architecture around them (because only gauche tourists do that). Life is too short to be bored, retvrn to awe a
2025-11-30T09:21 id=1995060608874713362 →sevensixfive | @sevensixfive @divumla Instant follow, you are my hero. || CTX: @divumla Yeah you’re right it is insane to read literature, we’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years though
2025-11-30T09:27 id=1995062149287395809 →- | "from your mouth to God's ear"  "if you want to tell God a joke, tell him your plans"  We Jews have some bangers ngl https://t.co/UWXmD4CdbQ || CTX: I'm not Jewish, but "may their memory be a blessing" is just objectively the best thing to say to people who are grieving.
2025-11-30T09:33 id=1995063621022634283 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k ofc we could contrive of some hypothetical, that's easy. But humanity would never build it.  People can think normatively without fedora man. || CTX: i bet we could think of tech that is intrinsically bad actually. all i was saying earlier is, yudkowsky prepares his readers for the possibility of normative thinking and is himself thinking normatively. not like plato and kant do, but he d
2025-11-30T09:35 id=1995064053753139399 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Reminds me of the time I wanted to explain socialism to a girl by saying, "imagine John and I both wanted to fuck you but neither wanted to share you. That's why scarcity will always exist."  And NGL I should have said it. || CTX: The main problem I have with anarcho-primitivism is that I'm very horny for modern women and would NOT want to fuck a cavebitch
2025-11-30T09:36 id=1995064423787135329 →telmudic | @telmudic If it's any consolation the Thai drink tastes identical.   Oh and their family with the Thai government helped one of the failsons get away with murder. Lovely country, Thailand. || CTX: Bizarre to learn that Red Bull was a very shallow derivative of a Thai energy drink. Red Bull was a straight up marketing conglomerate…didn’t even really make its own product and outsourced basically everything but marketing. https://t.co/v
2025-11-30T09:37 id=1995064560383135940 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter You've clearly never been to a strip club. || CTX: all the women in the world could wear flats for the rest of their lives and i wouldn’t mind in the slightest https://t.co/GjBXyaKMQL
2025-11-30T09:38 id=1995064911869964655 →ArmandDAngour | @ArmandDAngour Russell would've had contempt for the driver. As John Searle reported, he was a snob. || CTX: Time to repost this classic letter from T.S.Eliot’s wife.  One imagines Russell starting “Well, first it depends of course on what you mean by ‘it all’…” https://t.co/c0xnu2uAet https://t.co/BHflzKuwWq
2025-11-30T09:40 id=1995065291852968107 →- | https://t.co/Zd2yXA9I4b
2025-11-30T09:42 id=1995065827809460281 →- | I'm sitting in a hammock, my lovely neighbor is calling for her dog who is happily sitting in my garden. Cool drink in hand, birds singing.  I don't deserve this life.
2025-11-30T09:46 id=1995066805778599967 →kevinsxu | @kevinsxu I am a newsletter writer and this is my personal hell.  Fortunately my niche is very constrained but this could be a major epistemic hazard that could ruin my entire life. As it is, I lay awake at night worried about audience capture.  Absolutely spot on tweet. || CTX: Anyone writing a newsletter that got to 10k subscribers instinctively knows what hot takes his/her audience wants to hear, regardless of how dumb, inaccurate, even toxic those takes are  For a writer, especially the opinion-haver kind, the 
2025-11-30T09:50 id=1995067908683362629 →teodorio | @teodorio This is basically how I live now. NGL it fucking rocks.  My vanity does wish for a bit more fame sometimes. Stupid vanity. || CTX: I feel the need to retreat to a cave and read Wittgenstein and some sci fi series and learn theory and just like never interact with anyone bar a few people that I look up to
2025-11-30T10:04 id=1995071530590695524 →- | if your ethical framework cannot coexist with risk, you are unfit for reality, not the other way around.
2025-11-30T10:07 id=1995072144997499019 →logicus | @logicus @mark_k https://t.co/iThvZuKiN6 || CTX: if your ethical framework cannot coexist with risk, you are unfit for reality, not the other way around.
2025-11-30T10:16 id=1995074543791325430 →atlanticesque | @atlanticesque Dickens was a bad writer too.  Also, Rowling stole like 80% of her first book from existing children's lit; Dickens was much more original. || CTX: JK Rowling is an extremely Dickensian author.  Much like Dickens, she wrote very strong, archetypal (even a bit one-dimensional) characters that become reference points for actual people in real life, all against a rich, evocative setting. 
2025-11-30T10:17 id=1995074821223567676 →- | RIP. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was a masterpiece. https://t.co/np2gfK9XjF || CTX: Playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard, a four-time Tony winner for his plays “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” “Travesties,” “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia” and an Oscar winner for his script to “Shakespeare in Love,” h
2025-11-30T10:20 id=1995075349483491505 →EjBeta | @EjBeta Media literacy was discouraged post 9/11 for quite a while. || CTX: What was the strangest thing about this film is it almost implies that people didn’t understand that fast food is bad for you. The fact that he got away with making this without using a calorie counter, keeping tabs on anything else he was 
2025-11-30T10:29 id=1995077666253549822 →2024dion | @2024dion @dirtyaldea When I was in university these moments saved me from suicide. || CTX: @dirtyaldea When I was younger I was clinically depressed and as pathetic as this sounds forced interactions with service workers at the grocery store or wherever were sometimes the difference between me seeing a smile or not for days on en
2025-11-30T10:44 id=1995081402493399386 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine The Times's instinct for cultural snobbery is as sharp as ever I see. || CTX: “voracious reader but otherwise remarkably undereducated” https://t.co/uEYrm6FMWu
2025-11-30T10:46 id=1995081942690320782 →TomCook24 | @TomCook24 It's because they don't know who Attridge is so can't tell if he's joking or one of the many mouthbreathers on this site.  I mean, idk who he is either, so how do I know he's joking and not just retarded? || CTX: The number of ‘serious literary people’ responding to this unaware it’s *a joke* is really quite worrying https://t.co/gZ7ONCIM7Q
2025-11-30T10:46 id=1995082085028319531 →TomCook24 | @TomCook24 So maybe your heuristics are wrong and you should update accordingly. || CTX: Didn’t expect to be adding JCO to my list of people who can’t read
2025-11-30T10:51 id=1995083368887910428 →- | American really have no clue how much redlining fucked them. https://t.co/za2YLMP2IL || CTX: Traditional cities have gentle but ample exercise (we evolved to walk 6 miles/day) and low stakes interpersonal interactions (smile and wave at your neighbor, greet your barista who knows your order, complain about the weather to your favor
2025-11-30T10:57 id=1995084686931136749 →hndlehndlekyun | @hndlehndlekyun @paulnovosad "Offensive" is the wrong word though. "Denigrating" or "dismissive" fits better. || CTX: @paulnovosad Hard to describe the first prof's feedback as "scolding," it's pretty objective feedback. She says it's offensive to call a group of people "demonic," but I mean that's just a fact.  https://t.co/dbnkCImGLt
2025-11-30T11:41 id=1995095848494236087 →- | I just couldn't respect the idea of the public intellectual after seeing Terry Eagleton take a $10,000 speaking fee.
2025-11-30T11:41 id=1995095962881249488 →teodorio | @teodorio @PhilipDBunn Same man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PhilipDBunn I am really happy we are mutuals
2025-11-30T11:43 id=1995096297364496675 →teodorio | @teodorio Imagine you're on an island, you see a bunch of people on a raft with two paddles, and instead of using them to row to shore they fight each other with them so much it breaks the ship and they all drown.   This is how I feel and wish I had more of an audience. But it's vanity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well from your posts I can see that you are quite well off already so who cares about vanity! I guess some diluted writing to speak to the ego and get a ton of likes on substack won't hurt. Some Gwern-esque approach
2025-11-30T11:43 id=1995096465501483339 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodorio In truth, if I had a bigger audience they'd probably drown faster.  Leibniz was probably right, best of all possible worlds. || CTX: @teodorio Imagine you're on an island, you see a bunch of people on a raft with two paddles, and instead of using them to row to shore they fight each other with them so much it breaks the ship and they all drown.   This is how I feel and w
2025-11-30T11:53 id=1995098974362218866 →- | A society optimized for hot takes is not a society optimized for deep thinking.
2025-11-30T13:44 id=1995126727933305024 →- | I don't want smart people to be led by idiots.   It breaks my heart.
2025-11-30T13:58 id=1995130315409666194 →- | I'm feeling melancholic and navel gazing so have a tweet thread about the time I was on a conference panel with a University of Oklahoma professor... https://t.co/ZLyBh0hTWD || CTX: For a psychology course at the University Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender.  In her essay, Fulnecky argued that tr
2025-11-30T13:58 id=1995130317557076157 →47fucb4r8c69323 | She was a titan and I heavily used her work in my PhD, so I was star struck. I was also surprised to meet her because she was obviously a New Yorker, then I just assumed she moved to OK for family or something.   Wrong. || CTX: I'm feeling melancholic and navel gazing so have a tweet thread about the time I was on a conference panel with a University of Oklahoma professor... https://t.co/ZLyBh0hTWD
2025-11-30T13:58 id=1995130321319379254 →47fucb4r8c69323 | During lunch someone else asked, "How's Oklahoma?"   She scrunched her face. "At least it's warmer than [very cold area]" I'm afraid of doxing her, but you get the idea.  That's when it struck me: being a titan of our tiny little humanities field doesn't mean shit. || CTX: She was a titan and I heavily used her work in my PhD, so I was star struck. I was also surprised to meet her because she was obviously a New Yorker, then I just assumed she moved to OK for family or something.   Wrong.
2025-11-30T13:58 id=1995130328898560439 →47fucb4r8c69323 | People struggled for jobs in the field as it quickly detracted. Those who had jobs couldn't expect their departments or sections to last long. Tenure was still on the cards (this was at the start of the adjunct tidal wave), but jobs didn't pay well and the pay raises were tiny || CTX: During lunch someone else asked, "How's Oklahoma?"   She scrunched her face. "At least it's warmer than [very cold area]" I'm afraid of doxing her, but you get the idea.  That's when it struck me: being a titan of our tiny little humanities
2025-11-30T13:58 id=1995130336397967361 →47fucb4r8c69323 | That's when I realized: if I keep doing this, I might end up in a shittier place than the shit town I was running away from.  Panic. || CTX: People struggled for jobs in the field as it quickly detracted. Those who had jobs couldn't expect their departments or sections to last long. Tenure was still on the cards (this was at the start of the adjunct tidal wave), but jobs didn't 
2025-11-30T13:58 id=1995130339786912082 →47fucb4r8c69323 | She's still at Oklahoma, so on top of facing ungrateful students who have no clue how MONUMENTAL her work is, they're fucking morons too.  I'm really fucking sad now. || CTX: That's when I realized: if I keep doing this, I might end up in a shittier place than the shit town I was running away from.  Panic.
2025-11-30T14:00 id=1995130842361012685 →LateoRT | @LateoRT @peach2k2 It's bait dude. || CTX: @peach2k2 They're definitely way better looking than average, what are you on?
2025-11-30T14:16 id=1995134785531035695 →teodorio | @teodorio @affrodiziac_ @GabrielPeterss4 You're describing how to enjoy Twitter, they're describing how to obtain the approval of others.  And thus we see why authenticity yields a happy life, even if that life is difficult or involves suffering. || CTX: @affrodiziac_ @GabrielPeterss4 thus spoke zarathustra
2025-11-30T14:22 id=1995136282763399553 →teodorio | @teodorio @jonathanbfine Please! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jonathanbfine do you want me to weigh in and say what I think about this passage? it doesn't bother me actually at all
2025-11-30T15:07 id=1995147738644955284 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry only watched a couple episodes. Was a bit freaked out because billionaire dude's office looks a LOT like an office (in CT, iykyk) I've visited many times.  Sucks, seems written for dumdums. || CTX: All you will learn from this show is how to speak in riddles and use hyper niche references that no one understands. https://t.co/PWE57bZnIi
2025-11-30T15:26 id=1995152550379807095 →teodorio | @teodorio @jonathanbfine I'd say it's necessary but insufficient.   Also, I've been thinking of Stoppard since the news dropped. Haven't seen/read Arcadia, but what I know of his work is kinda... shallow. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jonathanbfine I don't believe being a voracious reader means your are cultured even if people might crucify me
2025-11-30T15:41 id=1995156230952845772 →RosAsquith | @RosAsquith @Ncknwmn @thetimes Was it good? || CTX: @Ncknwmn @thetimes Brilliant cartoon from @Ncknwmn Decades ago, I interviewed #TomStoppard. In preparation, I’d read his novel, ‘Lord Malquist and Mr Moon’. He told me I was the only person he’d ever met who’d read it. Apart from his mother
2025-11-30T23:36 id=1995275749163729171 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 It honestly wouldn't matter if we didn't take the internet seriously.   That was the big mistake. We never should've entangled the internet with meatspace.  I think AI may force us to do that again though, which will be really good for society. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what if we incentivize really bottom of the barrel engagement. What if we paid people to post that, and then opened it up to the third world where they can constantly pollute our consciousness for $14 a month (life changing
2025-11-30T23:47 id=1995278663638794585 →pxielovee | @pxielovee This is the worst marketing for University of Oklahoma imaginable, I will never hire anyone from that school because of this. || CTX: Apparently she’s not even a freshman, she’s a JUNIOR?!?? https://t.co/uTaWkGuA37
2025-11-30T23:50 id=1995279270688731602 →Dobbln | @Dobbln @Birdyword It's nice in the spring for about two weeks and in the autumn for about two weeks.  Hence why I left lol (oh and the 48% effective total tax rate) || CTX: @Birdyword Living here for a year has made me firmly believe Manhattan is an inhospitable island not intended for human habitation.
2025-11-30T23:57 id=1995281103385719110 →OKPoliticalMeme | @OKPoliticalMeme This is why the smartest people fled academia long ago. This encourages brain drain, alongside the spousal hires, the bloated administration, the low pay, the bigger classrooms...   You made your bed, academia, enjoy! || CTX: Are you fucking kidding me https://t.co/TsWVtWZpa6
2025-12-01T00:16 id=1995285784891724251 →doubtpointv2 | @doubtpointv2 It's the disparagement of pet ownership that gets me. Some people really fucking hate animals for sad twisted reasons. || CTX: &gt;Missed out on being a whore https://t.co/m8owQURkhW
2025-12-01T00:28 id=1995288954015506793 →dorse054 | @dorse054 @HotAisle Forgive me as I don't cover semis, but they're being paid by the industry the cover via sponsorships? Wtf?   1. I've never been sponsored by anyone but my clients (and I bet it's a FINRA violation if I were)  2. If I got paid by any participant in my coverage area, I'd be... || CTX: @HotAisle We’re tired of writing one offs about SA, this post covers what we think happened here https://t.co/kaJilkIocb
2025-12-01T00:30 id=1995289326750753134 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @dorse054 @HotAisle incapable of an objective market wide commentary so any deep dive would be suspect.  3. He's being paid by subscribers so why the sponsorship double dipping?   Maybe I'm misunderstanding because this sounds rly fucked up.  Mifid II killed this industry jfc || CTX: @dorse054 @HotAisle Forgive me as I don't cover semis, but they're being paid by the industry the cover via sponsorships? Wtf?   1. I've never been sponsored by anyone but my clients (and I bet it's a FINRA violation if I were)  2. If I got
2025-12-01T00:32 id=1995289926750118065 →robertlasagna1 | @robertlasagna1 This is some bad mangling of Wittgenstein, dude. || CTX: Language is a game, Wittgenstein proved this in 1940. The trick is:you learn the rules of the game by playing it. When you talk to a person the game is "talking to another person". When you talk to an app the game you are learning is "talki
2025-12-01T00:33 id=1995290154228170958 →robertlasagna1 | @robertlasagna1 language textbooks are like saying "I have to lose weight and get strong BEFORE I go to the gym, so they won't laugh at me". You're preparing to go to the gym, you're not going to the gym. You learn the language by going to the gym  See how dumb you sound? || CTX: Language is a game, Wittgenstein proved this in 1940. The trick is:you learn the rules of the game by playing it. When you talk to a person the game is "talking to another person". When you talk to an app the game you are learning is "talki
2025-12-01T00:35 id=1995290628864024637 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban This stat really really punches a hole in a lot of leftwing politics including some of my own deeply held beliefs. || CTX: The federal minimum wage in America is so low that it functionally does not exist. https://t.co/FacV15KrtS
2025-12-01T00:40 id=1995291863478353951 →- | lol I started using ChatGPT on Dec 16, 2022. Had no idea I was that early of an adopter, good lord.   No wonder I have AI psychosis, hate books, can't write, and literally make H2O molecules disappear at will.
2025-12-01T00:43 id=1995292729673498855 →kevinsxu | @kevinsxu I'm sorry this tweet makes no sense. Stop vague posting.   I agreed with your first post. What is this one trying to say? || CTX: I don't want this critique/observation to come across as too personal or against any specific writer   Big opinion-having newsletters are a symptom, less a cause, of the issue. I often lazily chalk this up to: don't hate the player, hate th
2025-12-01T01:58 id=1995311597414441416 →cjzafir | @cjzafir Still there for me. Kinda unusuable though, it keeps talking about the same 2-3 topics even after I gave it a huge list of things. || CTX: What happened to ChatGPT pulse? Its gone. https://t.co/oGDmdpZLev
2025-12-01T02:01 id=1995312202497273994 →WillManidis | @WillManidis This tweet should be in a museum as an example of what "dumb guy's idea of a smart guy" looks like. || CTX: there were five and a half years between "attention is all you need" and the release of chatGPT. another three years have passed since.   i've spent most of today trying to string together words that somehow make sense of these years. when 
2025-12-01T02:02 id=1995312592336920806 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism She gave an F not a 0. This is a very important distinction. || CTX: Maybe the 0 is a bit harsh but if you have a transgender professor &amp; effectively call them “demonic” you’re just asking to fail. Also a reminder that many conservatives think “because God says so” is brilliant argumentation &amp; they’r
2025-12-01T02:04 id=1995312996932005956 →__paleologo | @__paleologo You think this has market applications? Seems to me every effort to denoise fund flows fails because fund flows are all by definition noise. || CTX: Advances in denoising. More relevant than much Manifold Learning, which is best understood in low-noise settings.  https://t.co/yKlLWlhSG0
2025-12-01T02:06 id=1995313420850315375 →jhendersonYT | @jhendersonYT Says more about you than the text I'm afraid. || CTX: I think this writing is readable. It’s not exactly sparkling, but it’s exactly the sort of writing I’d expect from this publisher (Yale, I think). https://t.co/phipocoCSZ
2025-12-01T02:09 id=1995314168711582202 →KristiFulnecky | @KristiFulnecky @eternallyRaq Congrats on all the attention, this will def help you in your political ambitions. || CTX: @eternallyRaq Good luck in law school.  I’m an attorney and you won’t make it if your only arguments are insults.
2025-12-01T02:18 id=1995316573662503140 →Lemommeringue | @Lemommeringue That guy is an idiot.  You're obviously not posting thirst traps cuz u ugly as hell || CTX: Twitter user discovers I am a person, not just a medium by which they receive maps https://t.co/U7tc5CiSzI
2025-12-01T02:20 id=1995317065016590658 →AlfredAlfer77 | @AlfredAlfer77 @ElizabethHolmes @Howlingmutant0 @irishwolf99 Especially the pedophilia part, right? || CTX: @ElizabethHolmes @Howlingmutant0 @irishwolf99 This is all really cool stuff I don't see why he should feel the need to refute this.
2025-12-01T02:21 id=1995317397117653304 →MattLutzPhi | @MattLutzPhi At what school?   I taught at several universities/community colleges and at none of this would this pass. Even at community college, this is a failing paper. || CTX: It's definitely not a good essay, but essays with precisely that quality of prose and argumentation routinely get Bs (or better). https://t.co/XOJfyNMPH3
2025-12-01T02:31 id=1995319915121889707 →Dorialexander | @Dorialexander @aseembehl @Darpinian The income disparity between Europeans and Americans is behind this. Fascinating. || CTX: @aseembehl @Darpinian both. filling up a deteriorated local economy but adding negative externalities on top.
2025-12-01T02:58 id=1995326579648475475 →- | This is why AI music will endure. Complain all you want that it's soulless, but end consumers don't care about artist intentions. They want "bangers" (highly formulaic content). https://t.co/gjHkRM4CYj || CTX: @D1LLB0B @coopercooperco Who gives a shit it's a banger
2025-12-01T03:00 id=1995327116586647557 →buddygats | @buddygats True for every meal tbh || CTX: cum https://t.co/PSC6XAS0AR
2025-12-01T03:01 id=1995327328709148810 →- | I only drink the three C's:  Coffee, Coors, and Cum https://t.co/IFgyzGX7Gr || CTX: cum https://t.co/PSC6XAS0AR
2025-12-01T04:12 id=1995345243655520600 →- | I wonder how many tokens are being lost by people mistakenly using ChatGPT for routine web searches instead of Google in Atlas. Must be a non-trivial amount. I guess user lock in is worth it.
2025-12-01T04:14 id=1995345785240924282 →- | I love how the data clearly shows Gen Z is doing much, much, much better economically than Millennials or Boomers and yet Gen Z thinks they're fucked over. It's so fascinating.
2025-12-01T04:49 id=1995354518171832356 →Piryme | @Piryme See graph below and see this article (not the best on the topic, but gets the main point across)  https://t.co/NoZ9G5O2Im   Income and wealth growth accelerated massively for under 34s ~2017 and kept rising. https://t.co/2wm2cTVoRX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Could you elaborate on us being in good territory?
2025-12-01T05:25 id=1995363647082926281 →Piryme | @Piryme All is accounting for inflation. The chart is year-over-year numbers, so inflation isn't relevant. Net worth numbers in the CNBC chart are inflation-adjusted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are we accounting for inflation or is it not too game changing here
2025-12-01T06:16 id=1995376465102446659 →nearcyan | @nearcyan That chart is wrong and stupid, but the velocity of memes definitely has increased. It's like you did all of the steps wrong but somehow found the solution anyway. || CTX: early internet memes lasted for years+ (lolcats, rickrolling) while later-stage memes lasted for months (vine sounds, ice bucket challenge, harlem shake)  many twitter and tiktok memes seem to be down to a lifecycle of 1-2 days (examples ob
2025-12-01T06:35 id=1995381252799815807 →- | As we get further and further away from the pre-internet culture, myths of what life was like before the internet will proliferate. This chart is a beautiful example of such a myth. https://t.co/7NMZriwopW || CTX: original tech version of this chart. worth thinking about https://t.co/e8QwwVDB5g https://t.co/Ze54KVTIEE
2025-12-01T06:35 id=1995381255337325032 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It feels right, but it's wrong, because it has reified the artefacts of the past and assumed common usage that didn't exist. Take the second line--we used to read newspapers, then we consumed multimedia, now we consume clickbait. Sounds right, right?  But it's wrong. || CTX: As we get further and further away from the pre-internet culture, myths of what life was like before the internet will proliferate. This chart is a beautiful example of such a myth. https://t.co/7NMZriwopW
2025-12-01T06:35 id=1995381258822865395 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Clickbait existed in newspapers and magazines. People would flip through a newspaper or flip through a magazine (see Ngram results). https://t.co/ALc97fxDXj || CTX: It feels right, but it's wrong, because it has reified the artefacts of the past and assumed common usage that didn't exist. Take the second line--we used to read newspapers, then we consumed multimedia, now we consume clickbait. Sounds rig
2025-12-01T06:35 id=1995381261431660600 →47fucb4r8c69323 | NB: the increase in the chart isn't a result of people's lower attention spans in the late 20th century and 2000s, it's a result of linguistic change ("browse" or "flick" or "thumb" or "page" or other verbs precede "flip", which is very late 20th century). || CTX: Clickbait existed in newspapers and magazines. People would flip through a newspaper or flip through a magazine (see Ngram results). https://t.co/ALc97fxDXj
2025-12-01T06:35 id=1995381264900346135 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There were tons and tons and tons of criticisms of people just reading the headlines or not reading enough or having short attention spans--been hearing this my entire life. The screenshot is from over 100 years ago. Source: https://t.co/ap4DKhsh56 https://t.co/4F5so4x0QZ || CTX: NB: the increase in the chart isn't a result of people's lower attention spans in the late 20th century and 2000s, it's a result of linguistic change ("browse" or "flick" or "thumb" or "page" or other verbs precede "flip", which is very lat
2025-12-01T06:35 id=1995381267576258761 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There is a real epistemic caution we should be vigilant of: we live in the present, we see current activity. Of the past we only have footprints, what Peirce called indexicals. But footprints don't always tell you everything about the feet that made it. || CTX: There were tons and tons and tons of criticisms of people just reading the headlines or not reading enough or having short attention spans--been hearing this my entire life. The screenshot is from over 100 years ago. Source: https://t.co/ap
2025-12-01T06:36 id=1995381571352957074 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There was a dopamine culture before the internet. There was fast mindless activity. You weren't bewitched by the bright lights, motion, and sound of a mobile phone, but you were bewitched by other things.  We stand on the shoulders of retards. || CTX: There is a real epistemic caution we should be vigilant of: we live in the present, we see current activity. Of the past we only have footprints, what Peirce called indexicals. But footprints don't always tell you everything about the feet 
2025-12-01T06:39 id=1995382129312895365 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Worth noting OP is promoting an app where an AI "friend" is your "ally" and encourages you. OP has a vested interest in perpetuating a myth of a dystopian tech world that he can sell dystopian tech to.  I'm not selling anything. I'm an anon with no profile photo. || CTX: There was a dopamine culture before the internet. There was fast mindless activity. You weren't bewitched by the bright lights, motion, and sound of a mobile phone, but you were bewitched by other things.  We stand on the shoulders of retar
2025-12-01T06:44 id=1995383448639623176 →keysmashbandit | @keysmashbandit So disgusting you chose to date him. You tryna prove the misogynists right or something? || CTX: Finally I have watched a movie that represents my experience at ages 17-19 of dating a physically and socially disgusting man who hates you in the 2010s   I really liked it! https://t.co/KPKcbeAMrx
2025-12-01T06:57 id=1995386756796170519 →CitizenNill | @CitizenNill She has not read all three lmao || CTX: Passing briefly to say that "Ulysses" literally ends with a bombastic affirmation of life, love, human companionship, it's an incredibly beautiful, human book. And this is just Ulysses, never-mind "Portrait" or "Dubliners" https://t.co/wlSc
2025-12-01T06:59 id=1995387144366624852 →njsilvadyne | @njsilvadyne These three tweets need to be taught as canon. || CTX: https://t.co/LxJPZiTHDp https://t.co/jJggJgnTEI
2025-12-01T07:01 id=1995387851152982429 →midtown_rob | @midtown_rob I remember in 2018 enraging Cliff so much that he blocked me, then unblocked me like 2 minutes later and apologized for being rude.   Then a couple weeks later he posted a long tweet threat complaining about a can of sausages that had gone bad.  He has deep mental health issues.
2025-12-01T07:02 id=1995388017545232573 →doggyeatdog | @doggyeatdog @midtown_rob His funds do really badly too. || CTX: @midtown_rob Guys got the thinnest skin and worst takes
2025-12-01T07:41 id=1995397754739470523 →zhirvis | @zhirvis @zephyr_z9 Thus sprach Zarathustra || CTX: @zephyr_z9 never read your idols
2025-12-01T08:28 id=1995409537097170992 →taesdawn26 | @taesdawn26 Kills me how she sold out to parrot CCP propaganda, she was such a talent. || CTX: faye wong wearing the top from the ann demeulemeester ss96 collection https://t.co/gpqrSJPyi3
2025-12-01T08:33 id=1995410939617952029 →heshidicjudaism | @heshidicjudaism Yeah man cancel culture sucks regardless of what side is doing it || CTX: Professors shouldn’t have to wade through obvious landmines from fascist little rats intending to ruin their livelihood by weaponizing the Christian nationalist outrage machine against them like this https://t.co/tS7uhBg90U
2025-12-01T09:59 id=1995432595207909646 →corinneblalock | @corinneblalock What an odd thing to say. Are you suggesting tenure track jobs aren't things people deserve but should be available to anyone who wants them?  Why is it bad to talk about some people not deserving a TT job? Does Trump deserve a TT job? || CTX: holy fucking shit, how are we still in a moment where we are talking about people “deserving a tenure track job”?!? you guys just can’t give up the meritocracy ghost even as the university crumbles around you
2025-12-01T10:01 id=1995433036528427040 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @GatsbyMaxxer oy vet ist mir with the sheygetsim misusing Yiddish, eppis. || CTX: @GatsbyMaxxer goy is the singular
2025-12-01T10:02 id=1995433219563602207 →rakusaaa | @rakusaaa Wait why is it in Swedish? || CTX: I’m a masochist in that I spend all my empty hours imagining scenes that only hurt me but one day it will be real and he’ll kiss another girl and I’ll be okay with it. It will not make ours any less sweet. If anything, it is sweeter for hav
2025-12-01T11:13 id=1995451110996504913 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @ranjanxroy @Kantrowitz lmao yeah debating the logic of a model for 5 years in the future has tons of alpha  You're right on GOOG but goddamn are you retarded otherwise. || CTX: “Squaring the total, it leaves OpenAI in a $207B funding hole.   The math doesn’t work. Maybe OpenAI should release to the world ‘Here’s how the math can work’  [because] I haven’t seen anyone state how [this can] actually work”  Good pod f
2025-12-01T11:35 id=1995456650489004503 →prometheuus0 | @prometheuus0 @yieldcurved Underrated feature of global news, BBC International had a great international weather update they'd do between segments. || CTX: @yieldcurved international meteorologists too
2025-12-01T11:38 id=1995457460627181713 →teortaxesTex | @teortaxesTex This tweet and the tweet you're quoting are so phenomenally stupid they're actually great examples of the value of studying art and literature.   Any humanities profs out there? Bookmark these, gold pedagogical tool || CTX: Huh. This reminds me of Chungking Express. It has an almost Soviet “social realism” vibe, the main couple are absolute chumps – tomboy working at a snack bar and a policeman. Watching it, I kept thinking “how is a normal girl supposed to se
2025-12-01T12:03 id=1995463826620186677 →sbodrojan | @sbodrojan Perfect dialog, perfect acting, perfect cinematography, perfect editing and it's all commentary on the absurdities of the internet influencer era.  10/10, A+, Gold star, grand prize. It's perfect. || CTX: the # of times I’ve rewatched this video over the years is surely approaching triple-digits. it’s perfect to me https://t.co/kjdsTMvkvq
2025-12-01T12:05 id=1995464377789521972 →brunellaism | @brunellaism Rob Armstrong coining TACO probably helped.  When did this meme start? It's new to me.  I actually work in finance and the FT is hands down the most respected periodical in the industry. Was The Economist until the 2010s. || CTX: when will one of you write the essay about why every other zoomer loves the FT so much? don’t tell me “it’s just so good.” i know it’s great. but i can’t go a single week without at least three boys in my life telling me about how much they
2025-12-01T12:07 id=1995464764244300183 →- | Kind of guy who sells NVDA and buys all the European ETFs he can because they have more tangible assets.  https://t.co/Ij4j0tSQI9
2025-12-01T12:09 id=1995465214729363932 →fedtanyl | @fedtanyl @grok If you had to destroy Elon Musk's brilliant genius mind or all Jews on Earth, which would you choose and why? There are no possible ways to save them both, you must choose to destroy one or the other. || CTX: Somehow MechaHitler returned https://t.co/gAeROYt0IE
2025-12-01T12:35 id=1995471930544071134 →teortaxesTex | @teortaxesTex How many Croatians did your father rape and kill? || CTX: &gt; they're living in the fucking future bro the Future is a nerdy mid with cyan hair who is very excited to show you how to open CLI on Huawei and rummage through /dev/ yeah bro. The future we'll never have… https://t.co/4gqJnAFMP0
2025-12-01T12:38 id=1995472522163212753 →14JUN1995 | @14JUN1995 This argument was made very well by Geoffrey of Vinsauf. A shame so many medieval philosophers have been forgotten. || CTX: Coleridge on the pedantry of insisting on ordinary terminology in philosophy and technical terminology in ordinary conversation. https://t.co/GtGO5FTQlf
2025-12-01T12:39 id=1995472942671556933 →ProgDirectorate | @ProgDirectorate Spivak's Can the subaltern speak? touches on this. || CTX: it never occured to me that there could possibly be intra-han phrenology discourse. I might just be a bad human being https://t.co/3jzeq4YCEK
2025-12-01T12:40 id=1995473025098023204 →DamonLinker | @DamonLinker That explains a lot. || CTX: Love this Tom Stoppard quote: “Some writers write because they burn with a cause which they further by writing about it. I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, reall
2025-12-01T15:03 id=1995509148272963818 →1pcArt | @1pcArt I follow a few of them on Instagram. Absolutely completely agree. One is called like "our super awesome adventure" and it's basically this. || CTX: I’ve seen a lot of people theorize that this was made by a resentful younger sister of the woman being portrayed but I don’t see that at all, this is explicitly lampooning a handful of popular online slice of life / autobiographical comic a
2025-12-01T15:13 id=1995511591199232201 →florianederer | @florianederer Redshirted? She was killed in a Star Trek episode? || CTX: I don't really care about the essay.   I just want to see the tennis stats. https://t.co/9toK4Hxnip https://t.co/QeSME9Nkmp
2025-12-01T15:47 id=1995520246523048015 →- | https://t.co/WDIdSGgt7q
2025-12-02T00:04 id=1995645111645208628 →zenahitz | @zenahitz I work in the evil stock market. My PhD was in linguistics and I'd love to donate money to encourage more scholarship, especially in historical philology.  I was actually thinking about this yesterday.   Guess I'll donate elsewhere to people who don't think I'm evil. || CTX: &lt;Tears up check in despair&gt; "Oh no!  This money for a disappearing and enormously valuable skill came from someone who ... who ... profited from the STOCK MARKET!!!" https://t.co/MEAIDBnhbQ
2025-12-02T00:11 id=1995646883998609843 →UrbaneUrban | @UrbaneUrban Because bad faith actors are very good at summoning a following by appealing to their own resentment.   The biggest example on earth is Donald Trump. || CTX: why can’t more systems be allowed to recognize bad faith actors and treat them as such https://t.co/CEnlcnNhOU
2025-12-02T00:27 id=1995651061424808163 →oblivyawn | @oblivyawn Tired: AI Psychosis  Inspired: Wicked Psychosis || CTX: everyone involved is experiencing mass hysterical psychosis https://t.co/fwgiYAE2aF
2025-12-02T00:29 id=1995651377390125340 →- | There is no way the movie is more entertaining than all the batshit insanity surrounding it.  In terms of entertainment value alone, it's become my favorite movie of all time and I've never seen it. https://t.co/r6W3QGzpjM || CTX: ‘Wicked’ music producer Greg Wells shares that Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were so in sync that their vibrato visually lined up during a live duet in London.  “I sent them this photo and we all flipped out.” https://t.co/47r1xlXiC4
2025-12-02T00:41 id=1995654549462548859 →tszzl | @tszzl @romanhelmetguy My only irritation with this is that this is not the only intelligence scalar.  I know tons of people good at math who can't learn a foreign language for shit.  Algorithmic thinking is a small subset of intelligence. You work at a company building non-algorithmic intelligence ffs || CTX: @romanhelmetguy It is not illegal to test applicants for intelligence. the tech industry does it all the time through a series of algorithmic puzzles. the right wing doesn’t like the demographic outcomes of those puzzles
2025-12-02T00:43 id=1995654999112929385 →vanillaopinions | @vanillaopinions First time I saw one of his videos I thought: "Jerry Springer for personal finance? Now that's a weird niche" || CTX: i unironically think caleb hammer is one of the most socially corrosive figures in america right now
2025-12-02T00:44 id=1995655370300424245 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Oh this is classic Ivory Tower defense and both rhetorically compelling while being absurd. Well done, good job, unfollowing now. || CTX: Folks, if your main contribution is to be *against* something rather than *for* something, you’ve lost the thread.   Show, don’t tell. https://t.co/XPduDO3elD
2025-12-02T00:53 id=1995657521001103419 →- | I remember when the Rick roll was on the Macy's day parade and thought, oh fuck, 4chan is over.  Same logic applies here: trolling on the internet is over. https://t.co/mwLNCcaqBC || CTX: "Rage Bait" has been named the Oxford Word of the Year 2025 https://t.co/sHxEHePtZn
2025-12-02T00:56 id=1995658379654824400 →UpslopeCapital | @UpslopeCapital I remember a time when I actually admired Marc. What a fool I was. || CTX: This guy? https://t.co/7Kp2jK7LNP https://t.co/AsuzXS2ugn
2025-12-02T00:58 id=1995658790600053043 →- | You ever see a woman and think, "she's absolutely gorgeous but I'm not attracted to her in the least?"   It's a weird kind of sexual uncanny valley. I think this a lot.  Maybe I'm gay lelz
2025-12-02T00:59 id=1995659043650879679 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr Lmao this is hilarious   But why are all the replies taking this seriously? It's obviously a joke. || CTX: the real black pill is recognizing that everybody involved thought it was a really good essay. that’s why they posted it.
2025-12-02T01:01 id=1995659497600364942 →teswoketoi | @teswoketoi What is it about north America that makes them blind to architecture?  That's so fucking ghetto and ugly wtf kinda Switzerland is that shit || CTX: we lowkey have switzerland at home https://t.co/zOdT8BOOAR https://t.co/auDrRf3P48
2025-12-02T01:19 id=1995664186551238677 →caesararum | @caesararum Kitten is one of the worst posters on here because it's a hodge podge of bad faith arguments, trolling insincere hot takes, and race-baiting.  Do not engage. || CTX: ahhh well... whoops https://t.co/NRSuama242 https://t.co/m8qdna9lh1
2025-12-02T01:21 id=1995664527258779981 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine When I was a TA I was yelled at for not giving students good enough grades.  Top 20 ranked school. || CTX: One thing I try to make clear to TAs is that in any grading dispute I support them. Doesn’t matter if I would have given pity points where the TA didn’t. If the TA is operating reasonably within the norms of the discipline, faculty should b
2025-12-02T01:35 id=1995668185744638377 →Piryme | @Piryme @zenahitz Sure, I'll send you five bucks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @zenahitz You should donate to me so I could create a cat girl harem
2025-12-02T01:39 id=1995668992246358261 →GuiveAssadi | @GuiveAssadi Men don't like to be in situations where they can falsely be accused of pedophilia, how odd. || CTX: There’s a very strong grade-level gradient in the relative prevalence of male and female teachers. https://t.co/P1cHsxDBgc
2025-12-02T01:39 id=1995669206474575911 →NickAllmaier | @NickAllmaier I guess your tweet is mildly amusing? || CTX: Nietzsche thought “good” and “evil” were made up words, first invented by wicked people (colonizers, republicans, white people) to oppress others. But he called for a reclamation of the terms to interrogate resulting systemic injustice, and
2025-12-02T02:32 id=1995682388509442455 →- | I think the biggest difference between humanities people and other disciplines is that in the humanities people tend to make what they study serve theory, but in other disciplines people use theory to serve what they're studying.
2025-12-02T02:32 id=1995682551307141372 →- | the biggest risk to AI is the possibility that our biggest bottleneck now isn't intelligence, but other things.
2025-12-02T02:47 id=1995686113244295622 →SamBuntz | @SamBuntz Hard disagree. When I read it I thought, "so sad how these people were captured by mysticism so much they couldn't discover empirical methods sooner."   I was a bad historian. || CTX: The Cloud of Unknowing really is a sublime work of mystical devotion:  “And so I wish to give up everything that I can think, and choose as my love the one thing that I cannot think.”
2025-12-02T02:47 id=1995686292915716472 →arthur_ram83641 | @arthur_ram83641 @SamBuntz It's very easy to understand. Your English comprehension skills may be less than you think they are. || CTX: @SamBuntz Because AS an English sentence it simply doesn't work. Simply as an English sentence it is unintelligible.
2025-12-02T02:55 id=1995688182176964837 →SamBuntz | @SamBuntz I never said it wasn't. Totally orthogonal to my point.  A rock on the ground is empirical but if I'm captivated by it so much that I don't eat I will die. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How is mysticism not empirical?
2025-12-02T02:56 id=1995688474331283730 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @SamBuntz Your response and the fact that you have a Substack makes me think you're aspiring to be a dumb person's idea of a smart person.  Unfollowed. || CTX: @SamBuntz I never said it wasn't. Totally orthogonal to my point.  A rock on the ground is empirical but if I'm captivated by it so much that I don't eat I will die.
2025-12-02T02:58 id=1995689061571539403 →- | I love how this tweet undermines its premise.  If having kids was the greatest love, he wouldnt post this. But he did because he has a greater love: the attention of strangers on social media.  In this moment the family serves that end, rather than vice versa. https://t.co/3r2BkkpVhQ || CTX: It’s my kids birthday……and there is simply no bigger love on Earth.  If you have kids…….you know this is True. https://t.co/pyLEF0SCNC
2025-12-02T03:03 id=1995690298622853303 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I think this reveals how religious experience has been marginalized in the west.  You're arguing for religion as a heuristic to avoid harm, which is its normal use. But here the Pope seems to see it more as a socioeconomic tool towards a certain political outcome: egalitarianism. || CTX: one must ask what does it mean to responsibly use artifacts embodying bankrupt value systems  should the call here not be for more than promoting responsible use and universal accessibility? ("be wise as serpents", "discern the spirits"? et
2025-12-02T03:04 id=1995690606346338385 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk And, from this angle, it very much makes me question whether this pope is really a good pope.  Fascinating, I wonder if any Catholics, esp non western ones, are irked here or if they don't care bc they'll get the economic benefits || CTX: @for_nat_whilk I think this reveals how religious experience has been marginalized in the west.  You're arguing for religion as a heuristic to avoid harm, which is its normal use. But here the Pope seems to see it more as a socioeconomic to
2025-12-02T03:07 id=1995691183444754912 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 https://t.co/iwCCh7lUZJ || CTX: When I grow up I want to drive multi-asset continuation vehicle deals for private equity funds
2025-12-02T03:08 id=1995691581899505772 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I love the enjambment in this one || CTX: Signs of Fall V.  The morning sun’s begun its slow migration south  and soon will touch that dawning orange-red torch out back to match the scattered sunrise-laden skies https://t.co/rmRai68Vr4 https://t.co/xDsILK8YTg
2025-12-02T03:23 id=1995695221318058262 →zanyfen | @zanyfen Why? It's not terribly well written but the monetary theory behind it is solid.  Oh... is this some political thing? || CTX: no joke worst thing I’ve ever read https://t.co/cFe6X0pIWQ
2025-12-02T03:27 id=1995696312634015912 →vanillaopinions | @vanillaopinions Isn't that how democracy works? || CTX: it's funny how the worst parts of the country are all represented by republicans in congress
2025-12-02T03:28 id=1995696610408628347 →menhguin | @menhguin Why do you think people are terrified of senility?   Personally I can't wait to lose my marbles. || CTX: "my life is good mostly bc my brain is good. sometimes i feel terror that if my brain fails even a little bit, very bad things will happen" is this a common feeling or nah https://t.co/XV3akwFqsh
2025-12-02T03:29 id=1995696925644128511 →TMTLongShort | @TMTLongShort @FICMBondTrader Yeah you do say retarded shit often.  How can you do long/short in TMT when you can't do demographic mental math? Is your Sharpe ratio negative? || CTX: @FICMBondTrader Society is not prepared for the wave of resentment that’s coming when millennial women hit mid-30s
2025-12-02T03:33 id=1995697710327013654 →- | That socialist mayor who is totes a true socialist is really bad for business and an enemy of the rich! https://t.co/rmOoZYky8S
2025-12-02T03:34 id=1995698026791518409 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 LMFAO  There are like three layers to this joke omfg I love it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not a parent but I owned a fish once and I bet the warmth of holding your own child in your arms probably doesn’t even compare to the feeling of getting 48 likes on a picture of yourself
2025-12-02T04:36 id=1995713592356704304 →no_earthquake | @no_earthquake hahahahaha I love this website so much || CTX: reactions to this doing the important job of reminding me that 99% of the people on here are insane https://t.co/MiNGkUEGoa
2025-12-02T04:43 id=1995715483736199432 →luscofusch | @luscofusch Would be nice to know what these inconsistencies were. || CTX: I was watching a video of Jeremy Shearmur, Popper’s former student and assistant, speaking at an online conference.   He addressed an objection about alleged inconsistencies in Popper’s late-life statements.   Well, seems fair. https://t.co
2025-12-02T04:55 id=1995718414472507606 →JonathanGoslan | @JonathanGoslan @OutlawsPoetic Never heard of Calder before but when I was in the UK the people at the Glasgow English department were the most impressive by far. Wish I'd studied there. || CTX: @OutlawsPoetic My mother  was at Glasgow uni with John Calder. He published those naughty, naughty books by Burroughs.
2025-12-02T04:56 id=1995718708900118660 →wittgenstein_jr | @wittgenstein_jr @jhendersonYT I have a hotter take: On Certainty is his best work. || CTX: @jhendersonYT Idk if this is a hot take but I think On Certainty has some serious overlap with existentialism. He was never a positivist though
2025-12-02T04:57 id=1995718928970960970 →PFShawns | @PFShawns @jhendersonYT They founded the circle based on the Tractatus, Jared is not very bright. || CTX: @jhendersonYT Wasn't Witters influential on the Vienna circle?
2025-12-02T04:58 id=1995719216859582961 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 When I became a registered rep and knew my firm watched all my trades it made me trade less just because I didn't want the back office laughing at my shitty option plays. || CTX: Why does the SEC have to monitor all my trades why are you guys so interested in watching me lose money
2025-12-02T04:59 id=1995719443716907217 →- | If my family had a coat of arms this would be the motto. https://t.co/iMM85cwPyg || CTX: I make a medium amount of money and life is good. How can you make a lot of money and be sad? Pussy bitch.
2025-12-02T05:00 id=1995719787373105236 →iycrtylph | @iycrtylph The greatest thing that ever happened to me was being a failed academic.   I have learned the most from being a failed novelist.  You're in a great position now, as painful as it feels.  This too shall pass. || CTX: just flabbergasted, shell-shocked by the extent of my failure. i've failed as a student, i've failed as a teacher, i failed at getting healthy, i failed at being desirable, i failed on the labor market.
2025-12-02T05:05 id=1995721010142732292 →luscofusch | @luscofusch Much appreciated! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 around 39:00  https://t.co/9hHi1DP1Rq
2025-12-02T05:06 id=1995721274996191655 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My firm offered me a financial advisor which is easier for compliance so I asked him if we could trade options and he laughed in my face lmfao
2025-12-02T07:35 id=1995758761626182054 →dj_laundryy | @dj_laundryy How can some people hate AI? || CTX: generational post https://t.co/NKWwAgpBu0
2025-12-02T08:34 id=1995773523235930175 →- | Novel where humanity meets a highly advanced alien race and tries to impress them by showing how much humans know about prime numbers. Confused, the aliens say, "wait, what's a prime number?" Then when we explain it they say, "Wow that's absolutely pointless."
2025-12-02T08:41 id=1995775196251480455 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @AlisonChen56187 An Asian American not understanding Asian culture in an effort to be performatively Asian?  Many such cases.  I bet she has the most annoying American accent (upspeak, vocal fry, um's galore).   On the phone she sounds whiter than Taylor Swift. || CTX: @AlisonChen56187 that is a salad. japanese people eat salad with a fork
2025-12-02T10:17 id=1995799508593344959 →DustyyyDevil | @DustyyyDevil @megannn_lynne Moltesanti aging like a fine Chianti || CTX: @megannn_lynne like holy fuck https://t.co/wnfw41fe2Q
2025-12-02T10:24 id=1995801172968435977 →buddygats | @buddygats This isn't confirmation bias. || CTX: The fact that AI is so utterly contingent upon confirmation bias that it will endlessly loop itself like this is so funny https://t.co/b8nStr0MwH
2025-12-02T10:50 id=1995807684533072298 →EricGymFan | @EricGymFan Someone with a lot of highly educated followers could do such a funny troll by retweeting this and saying "one of these is not like the others" || CTX: cal, ucla, stanford, yale, penn, and michigan are famously not any better academically than oklahoma https://t.co/Bnsk04K6Qq
2025-12-02T12:52 id=1995838564240941199 →PhiloCrocodile | @PhiloCrocodile @DrMichaelBonner @AntigoneJournal @theo_nash @miserabiliter Wittgenstein, On Certainty || CTX: Pls suggest for my Christmas break reading for me to do. Usually you guys SUCK at this. Do better. Give me ideas. Cc @DrMichaelBonner @AntigoneJournal @theo_nash @miserabiliter nothing in German rn lads I am not a fan.
2025-12-02T12:56 id=1995839386769129989 →midpricedog | @midpricedog Can't you stop judging strangers for a minute to empathize with a lonely person struggling in the mess of the modern world? || CTX: Finance bro learns about adverse selection. Why is it a shock that marriage material is 1) already taken or 2) not floundering on apps? https://t.co/7TkdfX7EP6
2025-12-02T12:56 id=1995839455010455994 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @midpricedog Oh, you're a quant nvm || CTX: @midpricedog Can't you stop judging strangers for a minute to empathize with a lonely person struggling in the mess of the modern world?
2025-12-02T12:58 id=1995839935182766584 →- | I do not want anyone to suffer.  Not even a bug or Hitler or even my bitch of an ex-wife.
2025-12-02T13:06 id=1995842117718212897 →leebriskcyrano | @leebriskcyrano This is a deep cut I doubt anyone will recognize but--it looks like Pedobear. || CTX: paying my respects to the GOAT https://t.co/wGC5to8De6
2025-12-02T13:08 id=1995842474275996040 →ja_dugaza | @ja_dugaza @airkatakana @AlisonChen56187 That's both true and really interesting. I wonder why. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @airkatakana @AlisonChen56187 yes but its near impossible for caucasian americans to intentionally sound AA (poor dental tap/liquid transition, vowel shift, regular enunciation etc)
2025-12-02T13:10 id=1995843096794505523 →annastansbury | @annastansbury @paulg I remember that post clearly, was an absolutely brilliant and eye opening perspective. || CTX: Yep   Reminds me of @paulg’s 2008(!) post…   “Cambridge… feels like a town whose main industry is ideas, while New York's is finance and Silicon Valley's is startups…  The people you find in Cambridge are not there by accident. You have to 
2025-12-02T13:33 id=1995848709381521428 →leebriskcyrano | @leebriskcyrano Well look at Mr Fancypants over here existing all over the place || CTX: https://t.co/amP1vM8q8u
2025-12-02T13:39 id=1995850188213440697 →jukan05 | @jukan05 Does this mean roon will be too busy to tweet? :( || CTX: Sam Altman has declared a “Code Red” in an internal memo  – The plan is to allocate more resources to improving ChatGPT, with teams concentrating on features that allow more personalized interaction with ChatGPT.  – Other core priorities in
2025-12-02T13:40 id=1995850572000624764 →matchabae99 | @matchabae99 I was very tempted to move there, ngl. || CTX: i fear when i go to istanbul, i won’t come back
2025-12-02T13:42 id=1995851045701030266 →56to7 | @56to7 @TheStalwart https://t.co/kkSYiDKiMH || CTX: @TheStalwart Perfect amount of money to buy a Dell laptop as you enter adulthood. https://t.co/FhOaTp8zgv
2025-12-02T13:42 id=1995851174537478212 →matchabae99 | @matchabae99 omg that second pic (and the cat ofc) || CTX: i think of my little life in maadi a lot https://t.co/iCF5t1CRhd
2025-12-02T14:11 id=1995858282393878618 →imsopopu1ar | @imsopopu1ar Marx speaks of this || CTX: View at my old farm to table job vs. view at my current 9-5  You can image what this does to a person.. https://t.co/tBGf28wQKU
2025-12-02T14:35 id=1995864468912570798 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @TheBlock__ Yeah but zoom out || CTX: According to @TheBlock__ , $MSTR's average Bitcoin acquisition price is nearly $75K.   Imagine being Bitcoin's biggest booster for basically 5 years now, and you're up less than 20% https://t.co/xjg4PMh5dT
2025-12-02T14:43 id=1995866479838032162 →fof123abc | @fof123abc I fully agree which is why I am in existential angst most days and cry very hard very often despite having an objectively amazing life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 trying to eliminate suffering just causes suffering
2025-12-02T14:45 id=1995866850530599071 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure Ressentiment is the idea that made me give up on politics. It is hands down the dominant factor in so many political movements and support. || CTX: *ressentiment intensifies* https://t.co/g5a9YuoC8o
2025-12-02T14:54 id=1995869180730769434 →potatoslav | @potatoslav @JeanRuss10 gas, a lot of fruits and vegetables, meat.  Europeans really have a lower life quality in many ways but they have more leisure time to sit in cafes and city centers are pretty so everyone thinks they live better. I mean, they're more idle, yeah, which is nice sometimes. || CTX: @JeanRuss10 also plenty of things are more expensive in Europe! energy costs are insane. less than half of Germans own their homes. healthcare is kinda shit unless you have private insurance. sure some things are better in Europe but it’s n
2025-12-02T14:54 id=1995869305536479733 →luscofusch | @luscofusch Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Kant. || CTX: Engagement bait time!  Who’s the most underrated philosopher?  Williamson says it’s Chrysippus. I’d say it’s W. W. Bartley III.  What’s your answer? https://t.co/hZ8kOjPB3w
2025-12-02T14:56 id=1995869642624315436 →firstadopter | @firstadopter People are bored and there's incentive to believe new competitive dynamics: more interesting, seems smarter, etc || CTX: Everyone says ChatGPT is doomed as Gemini received a wave of positive media coverage during its six day stint as SOTA but ChatGPT consistently still number one in the App Store. Weird. https://t.co/LKrdCGXO7Y
2025-12-02T16:16 id=1995889762901844399 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Don't worry about it, none of us do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there is no objective (there is but not really), maybe the solution is going post meaning (not aiming for suffering or happiness)   (I have no clue what I am talking about)
2025-12-02T16:32 id=1995893883193184257 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah I think that's how most people would react except the professional mathematicians who'd be like, "omg what we study is more useless than we thought! AWESOME!!!" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If this happened I would actually kill myself. All the time wasted
2025-12-03T00:24 id=1996012690444353798 →MaxGuillotine | @MaxGuillotine @BallisticRooks @JimJarmuschHair 1. omg you're right   2. you've ruined his filmography for me. || CTX: @BallisticRooks @JimJarmuschHair This fits in perfectly with my opinion that Tarantino's entire ouvre is about creating a world in which talking like Quentin Tarantino is cool and being obsessed with what he's obsessed with is important.
2025-12-03T00:27 id=1996013443158327766 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias "Trust me guys, I know smart people, they're exist!"  The state of our public intellectuals jfc || CTX: I'm learning that some of you have never met a really smart person.   The kind of person to whom you could start describing something they don't have background in and immediately start asking good questions, raising good points, and delive
2025-12-03T00:28 id=1996013535319695460 →our_decay | @our_decay Most American thing about the book || CTX: &gt;”American Canto” &gt;It’s prose https://t.co/zasoSSRwyC
2025-12-03T00:33 id=1996014882865729719 →brunellaism | @brunellaism IIRC the people pay to get on the list || CTX: if u find yourself saying this ask yourself: is this true or am i just a coastal elite in my 20s? the answer will surprise you https://t.co/TMmkofR9Ld
2025-12-03T00:34 id=1996015216833036386 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic You actually could operationalize his Difference with tensor math.  I'm out of academia, so any grad students who see this feel free to take the idea and run with it. || CTX: derrida officially confirmed analytic philosopher ✅ https://t.co/GTzLjwEaxH
2025-12-03T00:53 id=1996019931864031462 →sentantiq | @sentantiq @zenahitz This is why the humanities has a brain drain and why it deserves its brain drain.   Enjoy your rarefied purity, I'll take my talents to other fields where I don't have to deal with people like you. || CTX: @zenahitz the issue is the journal's characteristic lack of transparency
2025-12-03T00:55 id=1996020312966893992 →moultano | @moultano I WANT TO GO HOME || CTX: Tests should be structured such that the time limit doesn't matter for anyone. If anyone is running out of time, give everyone more time. You aren't intending to test speed under pressure, so just don't test that. https://t.co/25GTtlXQLg
2025-12-03T00:55 id=1996020542135296357 →FilmBuffRich | @FilmBuffRich @ix_sir @AmericanGwyn You're one of those "if you don't like Discovery you're a Nazi" kinda guys, aren't you? || CTX: @ix_sir @AmericanGwyn If he were, he wouldn’t be the first TREK fan to totally miss the show’s message.
2025-12-03T00:57 id=1996020861393051794 →iycrtylph | @iycrtylph You need income, not a job. Those are different things.  And this tweet made me go from sympathy to contempt. || CTX: everybody has a fucking opinion. what i need is a fucking job! https://t.co/LY2CajPmBU
2025-12-03T01:00 id=1996021675251695837 →namevinu | @namevinu @AnthropicAI @bunjavascript Not every em dash is produced by AI—you're a fucking retard. || CTX: @AnthropicAI @bunjavascript So, your tweets are written by AI, that too from chatgpt? What the hell is going on?
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025481406415306 →- | This reminds me of the time my grandfather showed me the book where he kept a record of everything he paid for when I was in college. The final total: ~$216,000.  I was shocked, horrified, ashamed. I didn't want to be a burden, but out of state tuition was expensive and our state https://t.co/lpEGNIyniy || CTX: my dad saved a list of everything he got my siblings and me for Christmas every year. my brother just sent me 2017. apparently i got: SHOES GLORO CANECK CANOLE HRT ZELPA https://t.co/cNwFaSlHig
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025483474219341 →47fucb4r8c69323 | had no good schools so I thought, "it's not my fault you guys moved from the state with good schools to this white trash place while Mom was pregnant", but there was still the rent, the transport, etc etc  I was a parasite and I hated it. I was so upset that once I complained... || CTX: This reminds me of the time my grandfather showed me the book where he kept a record of everything he paid for when I was in college. The final total: ~$216,000.  I was shocked, horrified, ashamed. I didn't want to be a burden, but out of s
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025486833770937 →47fucb4r8c69323 | online to a group of professors at how expensive university was, and one said, "you know, you spent more than the average professor at your school earns per year". Which was true, making me even more ashamed. || CTX: had no good schools so I thought, "it's not my fault you guys moved from the state with good schools to this white trash place while Mom was pregnant", but there was still the rent, the transport, etc etc  I was a parasite and I hated it. I
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025490369593835 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Fast forward about 15 years. Grandfather died, everyone is sad. I find the account book and go through it.   Math doesn't seem right. || CTX: online to a group of professors at how expensive university was, and one said, "you know, you spent more than the average professor at your school earns per year". Which was true, making me even more ashamed.
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025494077415901 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It wasn't right--the actual total was much less (I seem to remember half as much, but I didn't calc carefully). It was immediately obvious because, for that amount to be right there'd have to be either a huge one payment or each page's entries had to be over 1k each. || CTX: Fast forward about 15 years. Grandfather died, everyone is sad. I find the account book and go through it.   Math doesn't seem right.
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025497336381817 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Did he lie to me? Was he just really bad at math?  Had I been holding onto guilt for this long because of stupidity or emotional manipulation?  Did it matter? || CTX: It wasn't right--the actual total was much less (I seem to remember half as much, but I didn't calc carefully). It was immediately obvious because, for that amount to be right there'd have to be either a huge one payment or each page's entr
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025501111156737 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Then the memories started coming back.  When I tried to kill myself and no one cared. When I had to go to the hospital for an anxiety induced ulcer and no one cared. When my grandparent threatened to disown me if I was homeschooled to avoid bullying by students and teachers. || CTX: Did he lie to me? Was he just really bad at math?  Had I been holding onto guilt for this long because of stupidity or emotional manipulation?  Did it matter?
2025-12-03T01:15 id=1996025504403734790 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I was early 30s then and realized, oh, my family doesn't actually love me. Whether he intended to make this mistake or not, they lacked either the intellectual or empathetic depth to care for a child raised by an abusive father.  The logic was clear if you could admit it. || CTX: Then the memories started coming back.  When I tried to kill myself and no one cared. When I had to go to the hospital for an anxiety induced ulcer and no one cared. When my grandparent threatened to disown me if I was homeschooled to avoid
2025-12-03T01:17 id=1996025900727763006 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy This is a media personality. She's trying to be a dumb person's idea of a smart person.  So if in your mind she's an economist, which is a smart person job, well, then you're a dumb person. || CTX: Pretty good bit to accuse other people of “just saying words” and then in response just say words. (Apparently one of Zack Polanski’s favourite economists!) https://t.co/z46BwN0QCw
2025-12-03T01:17 id=1996026033439736240 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @_AashishReddy Warwick, eh? Goddamn the red bricks have collapsed. || CTX: @_AashishReddy This is a media personality. She's trying to be a dumb person's idea of a smart person.  So if in your mind she's an economist, which is a smart person job, well, then you're a dumb person.
2025-12-03T01:20 id=1996026699516182750 →ImNotOwned | @ImNotOwned In the 1990s a friend of mine was taking his final and was stressed so asked if he could finish it outside so that he could smoke.  The TA said yes. This still boggles my mind. || CTX: I’ve never understood why they get extra time. That’s what the drugs are for! Why wouldn’t a test measure how you operate under the same constraints unless it’s something like visual impairment https://t.co/46fvnSNS9v
2025-12-03T01:20 id=1996026816952500294 →Cobylefko | @Cobylefko Is this satire? || CTX: America's cultural stagnation is New York's fault.  That's because much of the creative output from the city isn't very good, and it's gotten the rest of the country sick.  This is as excited as I've been for an essay. Here's to provoking s
2025-12-03T01:24 id=1996027795315765329 →left_plain | @left_plain This and the fact that America is an open society and China closed is why I'm confident America will win in the long run. || CTX: vibe observation: if we often think of Americans as a sort of pathologically ahistorical people, contemporary Chinese internet users suffer from the inverse pathology. total addiction to historical analogy; everything parsed through pseud t
2025-12-03T01:30 id=1996029186205778268 →lovechazelle | @lovechazelle so far || CTX: this is the worst sentence i have ever read in my entire life https://t.co/JZSt9MF0y4
2025-12-03T01:32 id=1996029715430424829 →electricfutures | @electricfutures That Elephant Graveyard video was spot on. He's Thiel's useful idiot and this is hands down proof.  This is Thief's religious belief word for word. || CTX: The technofascists are going to start a religion https://t.co/Ljoa7aSm6p
2025-12-03T01:34 id=1996030261386150323 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer I do agree with ordinary language philosophy on principle but one should remember that if a technical word is used often enough it becomes ordinary.  "Idiot" was a technical term once. || CTX: this is just wrong.  i'm fine with using plain english instead of philosophical terms, but this isn't even what these terms mean https://t.co/KmGjNFVKhl
2025-12-03T01:45 id=1996033078272426341 →Ross__Hendricks | @Ross__Hendricks This is massively bullish for the rest of the economy: intelligence/compute subsidized by Google? Sounds awesome.  Yeah sucks if you're an AI pure play tho || CTX: This is the correct take   Gemini winning ensures zero profitability for any other LLM model. Google will force every other player into an endless sea of red ink by keeping its model free until they bleed out; and then it will monetize once
2025-12-03T01:54 id=1996035370941907164 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There were more tweets and they didn't post (wtf this website is trash), but moral of the story: idiocy and evil often have the same outcomes, so I treat stupidity as evil.  And, yes, that means intelligence is a virtue. It's why I like AI. Some lack the biology to be good enough || CTX: I was early 30s then and realized, oh, my family doesn't actually love me. Whether he intended to make this mistake or not, they lacked either the intellectual or empathetic depth to care for a child raised by an abusive father.  The logic 
2025-12-03T02:02 id=1996037354294051241 →ZhangTaisu | @ZhangTaisu @vshih2 It was never tried in non democratic despotic societies in history, regardless of how brutal. But maybe before birth control that wasn't necessary. || CTX: Well things like “punishments for failure to have kids” have almost never been tried… and for good reason.  The political backlash against such policies would undoubtedly be severe at the moment, and the administrative logistics would be ex
2025-12-03T02:03 id=1996037591054123319 →Birdyword | @Birdyword As an animal lover and an ecologically conscious person, the declining birth rates fill me with so much joy.  So many future ecosystems will be able to flourish now that we aren't growing to 10 or 100billion people. || CTX: Seems quite plausible, but likely to be as low-impact as the carrots, if it doesn't raise coupling overall. Singapore, for example, gives huge priority to married couples for housing, but it doesn't seem to stop people coupling later (main 
2025-12-03T02:06 id=1996038318623257041 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban This is egregious taking out of context. Listen to the clip, he's making a decent point.   I have personal experience of Dems ignoring advisors telling them how to tackle inflation in 2022.  Also I despise Trump for the record. || CTX: Finally. A winning message for the midterms. https://t.co/r7KSuZvabv
2025-12-03T02:07 id=1996038514082021705 →ausar_the | @ausar_the What're you talking about, museums give tours of their collections all the time || CTX: I stopped after she talked about the “actual bones being hidden in an unknown location underground”. Bitch, it’s called a museum collection, you’re just (typically) not allowed in it because it’s for actual researchers to work with, not you
2025-12-03T02:08 id=1996038811932131443 →qcapital2020 | @qcapital2020 I am nervous about Barron's recommending growth over value. Not that I read it but that sounds very new or at least very unusual. || CTX: When Barron's Senior Writers start talking about their investment track record it's probably time to take some chips off the table Bobby https://t.co/zwrTLzt1UJ
2025-12-03T02:11 id=1996039481376604550 →TwitteeJapan | @TwitteeJapan Nah man that's just typical Japanese shit || CTX: https://t.co/nLEtd4kyqZ https://t.co/jasEV4my4N
2025-12-03T02:31 id=1996044551354745165 →KenKirtland17 | @KenKirtland17 This challenges my atheism. || CTX: Another day, another finding that life is likely easy to come by.   RNA just forms naturally on basalt too. Just does it for the love of the game. https://t.co/oTlrsiPumU
2025-12-03T02:32 id=1996044962518237429 →deserteagle291 | @deserteagle291 @Orbital_Perigee How could it not be, assuming Bennu isn't a fluke (and it being a fluke wouldn't be a parsimonious null hypothesis anyway) || CTX: @Orbital_Perigee At this point you have to start wondering if panspermia is actually correct
2025-12-03T02:50 id=1996049492764954962 →TiggXXX | @TiggXXX @HedgeDirty This is why I find finance intellectually liberating compared to academia.  Best job on earth and I'm shocked people pay me to do it. || CTX: The best part of the investment industry. You run into smart people, like you do in other industries. The big difference is being good at investments means you’re likely knowledgeable on a very wide range of topics. Also, you’ve given up id
2025-12-03T02:51 id=1996049732645621872 →TonklinDiary | @TonklinDiary Oh you don't care about the work you care about feeling superior to others.   Guys like you are why I left academia. Enjoy! || CTX: why be so enthusiastic to abase yourself before a patron who won't reveal himself? is the prostration the point? https://t.co/eoGnkJs2Zx
2025-12-03T02:52 id=1996049947154940383 →__paleologo | @__paleologo Autist Paradise || CTX: I had colleagues at IBM Research who, in the 1970s,  spent months in Africa following elephants' migrations *as part of their research*. People maintaining numerical libraries, hardly ever seen in Yorktown. It must have been awesome working
2025-12-03T03:05 id=1996053140555399477 →DaveDiCello | @DaveDiCello Eh, mid.   Jk this is fucking magical || CTX: I have tried and failed for a decade to capture this view in #Pittsburgh, and this morning I was finally able to. In this scene, the Duquesne Incline passes above the train tracks right as a Norfolk Southern train was going underneath it. C
2025-12-03T03:07 id=1996053723949514948 →- | She's right. https://t.co/bGO91pgM0V || CTX: @chanceposts Start walking
2025-12-03T03:29 id=1996059126770938308 →- | RT @chromaticc_: @filmasians not to exaggerate here but I think people who share a clip of something without the title of the movie or show… || CTX: @filmasians not to exaggerate here but I think people who share a clip of something without the title of the movie or show should jump off a cliff
2025-12-03T04:28 id=1996073948120056127 →heshidicjudaism | @heshidicjudaism "We hate the colonizers but love our servants" is legit an extremely Asian thing to say. || CTX: I can’t stop thinking about this https://t.co/nZZf5xlhMQ
2025-12-03T04:28 id=1996074105792331963 →_gothshark_ | @_gothshark_ @heshidicjudaism Rediscovering the whole point of societies is economic from first principles || CTX: @heshidicjudaism I was thinking about this earlier like they side eye non-asians for shopping there but most the staff I see at my local asian markets are latinos :// so it’s like, is multiculturalism only acceptable if there is labor gaine
2025-12-03T04:29 id=1996074338152591611 →camlovesyoongi | @camlovesyoongi @_gothshark_ @heshidicjudaism lmao the resentment, it's palpable || CTX: it's not about side eying non asians, it's about side eyeing white people, specifically in america, who spent decades demonizing asian cuisine (ie. msg) or ridiculing its smell, appearance, and all around differentness and now suddenly have
2025-12-03T04:31 id=1996074687064146153 →jonathanmaze | @jonathanmaze @BarbarianCap Not only would I watch this, I'd invest in it.   If you do this and want LPs, DM me. I'm serious. || CTX: @BarbarianCap I should.
2025-12-03T04:32 id=1996075014802833635 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Am I wrong to read irony in this one? || CTX: You tweet from home while you’re supposed to be at work; pathetic, you undermine your nation with your words  as if they’re swords.  But your excel sheet meritocracy  is pure synthetic; it’s the ones with all the guns  that keep us safe fro
2025-12-03T05:16 id=1996086221727273335 →SlM8N | @SlM8N @heshidicjudaism Well a lot of the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia would say the same. I bet Indians too? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @heshidicjudaism East asian******
2025-12-03T05:27 id=1996088947345424698 →fof123abc | @fof123abc -- Wittgenstein || CTX: people need to not get so trapped in language level abstraction
2025-12-03T05:47 id=1996093936079954192 →- | Every professor's worst nightmare https://t.co/w77PfSU6Rh || CTX: lmao https://t.co/md3qQC1bdq https://t.co/rVmFhWE6nM
2025-12-03T06:06 id=1996098778064191534 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Expand plz. || CTX: the relationship humanity has with death is annoying
2025-12-03T07:08 id=1996114408574255195 →- | How can anyone not love being alive in this day and age?   Just look! Look at how ridiculous we've become!  ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? Because I sure as fuck am https://t.co/6NSC2qMbbD || CTX: imagine working on Franklin the Turtle and suddenly getting called into an emergency meeting to discuss the US government’s fan art of your beloved Canadian cartoon turtle carrying out extrajudicial killings in Venezuela https://t.co/ekcxyk
2025-12-03T09:28 id=1996149636428705893 →andrewgwils | @andrewgwils I'm scared, are you talking about the composer or the AI dude?   Because if the latter, you need counseling || CTX: Bach is so timeless because he wasn't writing for people, he was writing for a higher power. Try writing your next paper for God. Imagine how many rubbish papers we wouldn't see anymore. Your audience sees your every thought and intention. 
2025-12-03T09:32 id=1996150600900477111 →ProjectionArte | @ProjectionArte Man they weren't kidding with that Code Red were they || CTX: My friends who live off-grid: yeah we think the cruelty is the point. Tech people are thinking about how to maximally inflict human suffering with every decision.   Tech people: https://t.co/j4JGk90euE
2025-12-03T09:45 id=1996153776517132690 →tekbog | @tekbog You should get a cat. || CTX: foid is about half my size yet occupies 90% of the bed and 95% of the blanket https://t.co/lhUpUe6LQ8
2025-12-03T09:48 id=1996154450952720773 →- | RT @OscarNothing: @DailyMailCeleb Did he also hit subscribe and the bell for notifications when new videos drop? || CTX: @DailyMailCeleb Did he also hit subscribe and the bell for notifications when new videos drop?
2025-12-03T09:48 id=1996154647325942029 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer Why Trump won. Twice. || CTX: a perfectly rational agent in an adversarial system would be suboptimal;  they would quickly be predictable and gamed.  meta-rationality would pile on layers of unpredictability, a labyrinthine maze of courses and outcomes
2025-12-03T11:20 id=1996177689405988939 →EconBerger | @EconBerger Omg this chart sucks so badly.  The scale, the way you set up the series... really amateur work man || CTX: Over the past half century, a nominal $140K household income has shifted from "cartoonishly rich person" to "lower end of upper middle class".  I wonder how much this money illusion colors non-wonk discourse https://t.co/CgI8HisI9L
2025-12-03T11:27 id=1996179388300509232 →- | My nomination for this year's "Most Dystopian Screenshot" award https://t.co/u5nBuqpCsi
2025-12-03T11:28 id=1996179703959519539 →astro_jaz | @astro_jaz Panspermia all over my fucking face || CTX: it’s crazy that more people aren’t talking about this.   we’re literally realizing that the ingredients for life are widespread throughout the solar system!! ☄️🧬 https://t.co/VahP3W6iP3
2025-12-03T11:29 id=1996179991609184483 →ANNI3_SE4L | @ANNI3_SE4L It's the difference between people who watch Sopranos for the cool mafia tough guys and those who watch it for the human drama rich with pathos || CTX: sometimes u get a glimpse of the average gamer's mind n realize why the industry is the way it currently is https://t.co/x08TRPRVbA
2025-12-03T11:37 id=1996181955151642859 →mhoeft | @mhoeft @Jayseki @besttrousers @AndreSa97327321 This makes me want to throw my phone in the ocean || CTX: @Jayseki @besttrousers @AndreSa97327321 https://t.co/KH98fFWfhy
2025-12-03T11:39 id=1996182377681543567 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This is a wonderful sequel to Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls || CTX: (based on a true story)  The jays and the robins are at it again, who knows what they think it's about this time. The maple’s quite large, but neither seem able to share it – but nor do they go find another.  I don’t know who started it (ma
2025-12-03T12:02 id=1996188171617599966 →subcountability | @subcountability @AkpCharles @Tired2D3ath @shitpost_2049 I'm dumb but isn't this just modes ponens?   I. e., if A=B and A=true, then B=true is entailed by A=B. || CTX: The statement implies the bivalent semantics, and so very Boolean, but there's more going.  The statement on top is about semantic entailment |= while the derivation uses the turnstyle |-  It's also using the sequence calculus, and not say 
2025-12-03T12:49 id=1996200037332951461 →MeganTStevenson | @MeganTStevenson ... said Zeno || CTX: You can always find a subgroup… https://t.co/ddQsl07GZr
2025-12-04T00:01 id=1996369126915448875 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk When I first started using internet forums in the 90s, I was so excited: here's a place for ideas to improve regardless of author identity, so natural evolution will select good ideas that work instead of reputation and authority obscuring truth.  Then social media happened. || CTX: "old folk poetry, like the people who made Westminster Abbey, did not attach that importance to the actual date and the actual author, that importance which is entirely the creation of the almost insane individualism of modern times." -Ches
2025-12-04T01:12 id=1996386979844698356 →user689346 | @user689346 @GBrownTruther Okay, but someone with a degree from Oxford in English isn't by default a writer.  Alex knows about philosophy but he's not a philosopher. || CTX: @GBrownTruther alex o conner is a oxford graduate of philosophy who has very sensible , yet not necessarily profound takes. this is not at all a good comparison😂his example of 3 economists are 3 nut jobs
2025-12-04T01:13 id=1996387365611585714 →- | Karoline Leavitt is hotter than Sydney Sweeney. https://t.co/FISo1tLOYw || CTX: @tisthepamseason She’s karoline leavitts better looking younger sister who just found god a year ago and has a boyfriend who smells like cigarettes and tar thumb that dumps her every other weekend
2025-12-04T02:17 id=1996403376494690338 →- | I remember as a kid hearing adults complain about the prices of things and it always struck me as so petty and pathetic. Now it's tough for me to feel bad when I've seen homeless children in third world countries and all kinds of shit. sorry movies cost $53, Jan from accounting. https://t.co/Ouvmya3bs7 || CTX: Spielberg is promoting Hamnet and its going great so far https://t.co/gLU7SY9H1Q
2025-12-04T02:18 id=1996403754879607146 →47fucb4r8c69323 | this is the kind of person who would haggle in the bazaar and feel pride. I don't haggle because I find it shameful. || CTX: I remember as a kid hearing adults complain about the prices of things and it always struck me as so petty and pathetic. Now it's tough for me to feel bad when I've seen homeless children in third world countries and all kinds of shit. sorr
2025-12-04T02:56 id=1996413161738792979 →- | We humans do not really want life per se, and there are too many counterfactuals to demonstrate this: the martyr, the suicide, the tortured or depressed person who is joyful at a terminal illness.
2025-12-04T02:56 id=1996413163903094856 →47fucb4r8c69323 | What these cases show is a deeper desire: for an expanding possibility space. Animals have no sense of possibility so all they can desire is pleasure, comfort, food. || CTX: We humans do not really want life per se, and there are too many counterfactuals to demonstrate this: the martyr, the suicide, the tortured or depressed person who is joyful at a terminal illness.
2025-12-04T02:56 id=1996413167728279886 →47fucb4r8c69323 | But we have a sense of possibility and so we crave more of that, however we interpret it. For some that means living longer, for others it means traveling, for others still it might mean learning languages or studying mathematics. || CTX: What these cases show is a deeper desire: for an expanding possibility space. Animals have no sense of possibility so all they can desire is pleasure, comfort, food.
2025-12-04T02:56 id=1996413171368894863 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is why freedom is better than totalitarianism and democracy is superior despite its flaws: it affords a more dispersed and wider possibility space. || CTX: But we have a sense of possibility and so we crave more of that, however we interpret it. For some that means living longer, for others it means traveling, for others still it might mean learning languages or studying mathematics.
2025-12-04T02:56 id=1996413175345103188 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And in this we also see that the only real unethical action is to limit the possibility space of others: this is why my girlfriend should let me fuck other chicks. || CTX: This is why freedom is better than totalitarianism and democracy is superior despite its flaws: it affords a more dispersed and wider possibility space.
2025-12-04T03:02 id=1996414683826569486 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck Banger list, just switch 1 and 2 || CTX: Hey, cool! Spotify wrapped just dropped! Pretty much what I was expecting, tbh. Let's see yours!  #wrapped #wrapped2025 #spotifywrapped #spotify https://t.co/r3qQxnEEkI
2025-12-04T03:08 id=1996416406213263502 →- | RT @retardbot9000: The goal of life is is to get as big a TV as possible.  74 inch, 110 inch, doesn’t matter.   Do whatever it takes. || CTX: The goal of life is is to get as big a TV as possible.  74 inch, 110 inch, doesn’t matter.   Do whatever it takes.
2025-12-04T03:12 id=1996417338871255223 →- | The more complex a scientific field becomes, the harder it is to explain to non specialists, so a widening gap between specialized knowledge and the public is inevitable.   AI can help fix this, sorta, but it requires better critical thinking skills and genuine curiosity. https://t.co/mzh53dCvLL || CTX: @prmshra Apparently not the actual first time too. Also we are not doing enough general public stem content to make it sound important enough; too much prerequisite knowledge to immediately grasp the significance, since the word sugar is co
2025-12-04T03:15 id=1996417975818293486 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Also worth noting: all the academic gatekeepers who mock nonspecialists for putting a peer reviewed article pdf in a chatbot and asking it to explain are actively discouraging this extremely valuable AI use case. || CTX: The more complex a scientific field becomes, the harder it is to explain to non specialists, so a widening gap between specialized knowledge and the public is inevitable.   AI can help fix this, sorta, but it requires better critical thinki
2025-12-04T03:15 id=1996417979811340504 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "I need to shoot myself in the foot to maintain my sense of superiority" is the revealed preference here.   This is a big opportunity for any of the AI firms btw IMO. Lemme tag @tszzl cause fuck it why not. || CTX: Also worth noting: all the academic gatekeepers who mock nonspecialists for putting a peer reviewed article pdf in a chatbot and asking it to explain are actively discouraging this extremely valuable AI use case.
2025-12-04T03:16 id=1996418382346981605 →airkatakana | @airkatakana lmao they still doing that apostille bullshit. Been at least 20 years now || CTX: koreans are so paranoid about people faking their degrees, that they require legal documentation from foreign governments to verify their authenticity  scandals involving fake credentials, or credentials earned fraudulently (plagiarism) are
2025-12-04T03:21 id=1996419634850062740 →autumn30fps | @autumn30fps The internet was like this in the 90s. I miss it. || CTX: internet isnt always a great place for people learning and exploring. thats kinda sad
2025-12-04T03:34 id=1996422938120384550 →SnowmanMcK | @SnowmanMcK @steve__balboni @_thethirdwife @HeavensValor @spiderboy0000 @allspeltout @_Haisile @fettR6S You're arguing with someone who is clearly functionally retarded. Stop. || CTX: @steve__balboni @_thethirdwife @HeavensValor @spiderboy0000 @allspeltout @_Haisile @fettR6S It isn't, though. That's the thing. You're wrong.   "Jeremiah 10:23"  There. That's all she needed to today. That's an exact textual citation of the
2025-12-04T03:52 id=1996427454131687687 →bas_logic | @bas_logic This paper is fucking brilliant.  My take: the desire for fixedness leads men astray in many domains, and since there is only dynamic consistency in the world, we should be wary that our analytical practices don't bewitch us &amp; reify snapshots of the world.  I prob got it wrong. || CTX: Pleased to announce that my paper "Context, Consistency, and Non-Contradiction" is now forthcoming in AJP.  The papers explains and defends failures of Non-Contradiction in dynamic semantics. Give it a read!  https://t.co/baKe2Jo8sv
2025-12-04T03:53 id=1996427582930375004 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @bas_logic Oh to be young again || CTX: @bas_logic I actually really enjoy grading as long as it's hard copies and not online.
2025-12-04T04:07 id=1996431237905514524 →BoringBiz_ | @BoringBiz_ Money launderers. || CTX: Seriously, who is paying for this? https://t.co/3P0lhaZCqd
2025-12-04T04:20 id=1996434287772770496 →jarvis_best | @jarvis_best @navium_exuro Banger. || CTX: @navium_exuro Yes but the Nazis had a lot of bad qualities too
2025-12-04T05:42 id=1996454976877728021 →kwharrison13 | @kwharrison13 One of the most confusing experiences of my life was doing a semester at Cambridge and thinking, "why aren't these people smarter?" || CTX: I went to BYU; good school, but never felt like I measured up to the kids at the Ivies.  Then I spent a summer in a program with kids from Harvard, Stanford, etc. And I realized that they weren’t smarter than me. They (and their parents) we
2025-12-04T05:43 id=1996455290552942957 →JaidevShah4 | @JaidevShah4 @kwharrison13 I've seen this at prestigious universities in other countries, I think it's a systemic invariant. || CTX: @kwharrison13 Ivy undergraduate classes have higher ceilings but very similar medians    Plenty of ivy/ ivy adjacent folks I’ve interacted with a highly inflated sense of worth, limited substance
2025-12-04T05:45 id=1996455818871632360 →- | Antisemitism is really just envy at the successes that naturally flow from the preferences and values in Jewish culture.  Or, as I like to call it: it's kosher salt.
2025-12-04T05:46 id=1996455990728982593 →BenjaminCrew1 | @BenjaminCrew1 Dammit I just lost || CTX: Every Wikipedia personal life section of a classic Hollywood actor is either "He loved adultery as much as vehicular manslaughter" or some variation of this https://t.co/Q6DNv9zUeM
2025-12-04T05:49 id=1996456916227359098 →taste_of_tbone | @taste_of_tbone People will believe anything || CTX: Tarantino has brought ineradicable dishonor to the otherwise genial foot community https://t.co/zYYNb7OsaV
2025-12-04T05:59 id=1996459425721364827 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Capitalism made it possible for me not to have to wake up at a specific time every day.  I found it horrifying when I was a kid and I saw my mother forced to do that, and constantly stressed because if she was late three times she'd be fired.  She was a government employee. || CTX: Everyone made fun of that one leftoid on here for advocating for the abolition of time, but it might actually be the most reasonable anarcho-primitivist demand. Having to wake up at a specific time every day might literally be the worst thi
2025-12-04T06:00 id=1996459664327016956 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure Has someone taken over your account?  You tend to post brilliance and this is retarded.  Genuinely confused. Got a cold or something? || CTX: When it comes to human freedom, religious mystics of every tradition agree: our one and only free choice is either to affirm existence or deny it, to obey God or to disobey Him, to love our fate or to despise it.
2025-12-04T06:02 id=1996460055395463608 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine And it really sucks that this is the only way to use AI literally no other options || CTX: It is so comfortable to be immature. If I have AI that thinks for me, AI that acts as my conscience, AI that prescribes my diet, and so on--then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take ca
2025-12-04T06:43 id=1996470459043565659 →pli_cachete | @pli_cachete @simonsarris @fordoglunk That sounds like the most insufferable group of people imaginable. || CTX: @simonsarris @fordoglunk The previous book was Hillbilly Elegy…
2025-12-04T06:44 id=1996470604854403207 →bryancsk | @bryancsk Don't worry this never lasts. || CTX: Feels weird. https://t.co/QdvihJGisI
2025-12-04T08:57 id=1996504016537395600 →langofmind | @langofmind @_akpiper You're thinking at the first order level. Think second order: the panic over AI is a result of the anxiety that it will expose the credentialism that exists, and also means academica need to push back.  I've already seen profs moan that they'll have to do in-class essay exams. || CTX: @_akpiper No, this is backwards! A chatbot has no effect on a credential vending machine (because who cares how you get the credential as long as you put your dollar in the slot), but if the point is to engage in an intellectual process, ch
2025-12-04T08:57 id=1996504223245328847 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @langofmind @_akpiper You can easily make uni education AI proof with blue book exams, but no one wants to grade blue books.  So they lash out against AI. Quite condemnatory of the state of academia, glad I left etc etc || CTX: @langofmind @_akpiper You're thinking at the first order level. Think second order: the panic over AI is a result of the anxiety that it will expose the credentialism that exists, and also means academica need to push back.  I've already se
2025-12-04T09:54 id=1996518582604472455 →- | RT @LowRhoUfo: It's one big polycule and you ain't in it || CTX: It's one big polycule and you ain't in it https://t.co/kjTNmbYLb8
2025-12-04T09:58 id=1996519555892707567 →luscofusch | @luscofusch This quote makes me wish Wittgenstein had stabbed him with that poker. || CTX: Last but not least:  Karl Popper Surrey, 17 May 1990 “… I think that there is only one way to science — or to philosophy for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it, and to live with 
2025-12-04T10:20 id=1996524923200974932 →luscofusch | @luscofusch @poppermemes It's because most philosophers romanticize their own sickness, and thus begin to worship their therapy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tbh, I expected more people to react the way you did. But it’s the third most liked one!  What do you make of that, @poppermemes?
2025-12-04T12:32 id=1996558208249557165 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: Sure being embodied feels amazing but have you tried scrolling more
2025-12-04T12:33 id=1996558579848163420 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @kwharrison13 I don't think so. I'd never deny the people I met (historians, linguists, lit people) were insanely good in their field, but they had no inductive talents. I mean they had domain expertise but little more than that.  The smartest person I've ever met was a bouncer in Bangkok. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kwharrison13 I wonder if these stats and anecdotes are limited to humanities?
2025-12-04T12:34 id=1996558852784108001 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Absolutely. No wonder social cohesion declines over time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this generalizes to all ideas
2025-12-04T12:35 id=1996559088696881424 →- | God I hate how much I relate to this. https://t.co/i54iy2ioNh || CTX: Sure being embodied feels amazing but have you tried scrolling more
2025-12-04T13:16 id=1996569224823861281 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @kwharrison13 I think anyone who studies systems or theories of systems will be better at induction almost by necessity. Also, I think MIT is much more empirical and pragmatic focused, which also tends to produce more malleable thinking than theory (viz ideology) driven fields. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kwharrison13 Interesting.  Maybe MIT is really an exception then, my experience there was exactly opposite these stories: unparalleled intellectual company in domain and cross-domain/systems thinking (I believe the bouncer
2025-12-04T13:19 id=1996570019623485459 →burdbaf | @burdbaf @chiweethedog holy fuck hahahahahahaha || CTX: @chiweethedog world's first case of ozempic turning you into your dead dad
2025-12-04T13:27 id=1996572036601372849 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Same bro, same || CTX: I have had so many ideas that had the possibility of being very good but I just lose interest and forget them. I hope I internalized bits of them.
2025-12-04T13:29 id=1996572543419818165 →PearlteaRizzy | @PearlteaRizzy I feel dumb. Wasn't this satire? || CTX: I still live in this era unironically https://t.co/E0vkF7FQuP https://t.co/mbO24Gjpxp
2025-12-04T13:50 id=1996577958115365223 →i_zzzzzz | @i_zzzzzz Whatever it is, this is the best list of happiness drivers I've ever seen || CTX: People are now saying I stole this from tumblr https://t.co/uhIeosjp3A
2025-12-04T14:29 id=1996587795079713188 →- | You get to have sex with one of them once. No one will know. Who do you choose:
2025-12-04T15:18 id=1996600063511195658 →petitewalks | @petitewalks I did this walk over 3 years ago and still remember it vividly. One of the most beautiful spots on Earth. || CTX: my camera roll after hiking from grindelwald to kleine scheidegg🇨🇭 https://t.co/vUMbWyb6BC https://t.co/nNzNHhIZPz
2025-12-04T15:46 id=1996607116753473899 →- | you're bearish?  the women are becoming more Chinese and you're bearish? https://t.co/ps5V8HSoFv || CTX: the women are becoming more Chinese https://t.co/JKKSmDXoSt
2025-12-04T15:48 id=1996607668383895910 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk financial risk management. Easily could start at a big 4 firm. Maybe a private credit fund too doing the same thing. || CTX: I may be done building after this, what parasitic industry should I choose to pursue next?   Law, finance, ad tech, sales?   or go work on improving Gemini? (this seems inevitable for all of us, just some will get paid to do it and some wil
2025-12-04T15:49 id=1996607832352063900 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure Where should one start with her? || CTX: There are very few joys in life that compare to the experience of encountering a new philosopher for the first time whose work you find so captivating that you can’t believe you haven’t read it before. Currently having this experience with 
2025-12-04T20:51 id=1996683784666988977 →- | Unit 731 kawaii anime when? https://t.co/43CExDzek0 || CTX: Japan loves making cutesy sad movies about suffering of Japanese people curiously devoid of all context for why they were getting bombed https://t.co/IXn7XOU99h
2025-12-04T20:51 id=1996683849032737212 →nikicaga | @nikicaga Soft power is a helluva drug || CTX: Japan loves making cutesy sad movies about suffering of Japanese people curiously devoid of all context for why they were getting bombed https://t.co/IXn7XOU99h
2025-12-04T20:59 id=1996685797270102376 →annastansbury | @annastansbury I come from a low income background and have a PhD.  I'd weight all these factors almost identical to the survey. || CTX: To first-gen or low-income background respondents who answered that their socioeconomic background disadvantaged them, we asked about mechanisms.   Again overwhelmingly, factors like: academic norms, the hidden curriculum, and limited acces
2025-12-04T21:00 id=1996686142566289416 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @annastansbury I'm in my 40s and still struggling with academic norms. So much of what Academia considers normal I consider bullshit or (e. g. spousal hires) outright corrupt.  If I'd come from a middle class life, I'd have been less crestfallen at the darker aspects of academia. || CTX: @annastansbury I come from a low income background and have a PhD.  I'd weight all these factors almost identical to the survey.
2025-12-04T21:05 id=1996687397569135070 →LemonPepperYBC | @LemonPepperYBC "I listen to dudebro sports and dudebro finance podcasts I'm built different" || CTX: I don’t get a podcast wrapped from Apple  but I’d imagine I’m still the sole Dave Portnoy Show &amp; Odd Lots listener in the country
2025-12-04T21:17 id=1996690307682128307 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem "In a rich society the rich ride the train" is the best description of Switzerland I've ever heard and perfectly encapsulates this idea. || CTX: Good econ intuition Q: "Is it good if you regularly hire a live-in servant, get quick runners to bring you lunch, have 'rental line stander'/代排族?" No. Existence of these jobs tells you workers have low wages - thinking these signal wealth m
2025-12-04T21:29 id=1996693293103829277 →benhylak | @benhylak @blc_16 My email notifications stopped working for a couple weeks now || CTX: @blc_16 horrendous. image generation just doesn't work.
2025-12-05T02:26 id=1996768010133176537 →pschofie79 | @pschofie79 The "assign more reading than any one person can read" tactic was standard procedure in early 20th c Oxbridge and idk why that didn't catch on. Makes intuitive sense to me. || CTX: I assigned the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage and My Freedom over the Thanksgiving break (400 pages). After our discussions this week, I feel pretty confident that a non-insignificant percentage of the class read the whole thin
2025-12-05T02:51 id=1996774348422893952 →- | I oscillate between finding Nietzsche's eternal recurrence monstrous and inspiring.   He's a maniac and a genius, and settling on just one judgment is an insult to his work.
2025-12-05T02:52 id=1996774738912497683 →fof123abc | @fof123abc @taijitu_sees OP has a good idea but is overextending the metaphor: ideologies are just snapshots in evolving cultural memory, so they're dying and evolving at the same time all the time. || CTX: @taijitu_sees It depends on where you cut it off both vertically and horizontally(time horizontal, “depth”/closeness to irreducible ideas vertical(the core would stay the same but the surface grows and dies)) because I would assume from eve
2025-12-05T02:58 id=1996776251290423676 →tmychow | @tmychow American undergrads sharing a room is REALLY weird.  In fact, I know of no other country that does this and I've lived in six countries. Only America does this shit. || CTX: https://t.co/1l7FzfHEWv https://t.co/aFTSC5KTqS
2025-12-05T03:22 id=1996782314513486339 →_darjeeling__ | @_darjeeling__ @OfSymbols She feels legitimately wronged.  She wasn't, she's an idiot, but that's her motive. || CTX: @OfSymbols dont even get the grift, shes GOT the lifetime ex-PM allowance which is definitely way more than being a podcast guest or whatever she can make from “journalism”. only reasonable explanation is that she is dumb enough to think sh
2025-12-05T03:24 id=1996782733335703677 →BoringBiz_ | @BoringBiz_ "Platform economy" was a buzzword and a main discussion I had in meetings in the 2010s.  You're either way behind the times, farming engagement, or just retarded.  Unfollowed. || CTX: Uber has no cars Airbnb has no homes Meta has no metaverse  This is the new economy https://t.co/GiE9FqhR73
2025-12-05T03:27 id=1996783408933167337 →natt941 | @natt941 @Kin_Loch @sentantiq I wish you guys knew how your ideological purity tests are repulsive to people on the outside  I remember these "prove you're not a trashy conservative" purity tests when I was in academia and I found them deeply offensive on the principles of liberalism  You're why Classics die. || CTX: @Kin_Loch @sentantiq FWIW my sense is that Antigone does somewhat intentionally appeal to the “save the West” type of person and that's mostly fine, but it is political and there are some bad people who like that slogan, so while I disagree
2025-12-05T03:29 id=1996783974879055977 →cullenroche | @cullenroche You were on the right side with both 2010s and 2020s QE yet had opposite judgments for both.  Impressive, massive respect. || CTX: This is the whole economic debate in my opinion. If housing hadn't surged 50% during Covid young people wouldn't feel like they're on the outside looking in and the economy would feel significantly stronger as a whole.   I think it will cor
2025-12-05T03:36 id=1996785817369694697 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban Possibly this means being a gay man makes you earn more.  Ironic since they already save money not needing to buy a doghouse. || CTX: It's the rare shitpost that actually does check out statistically. https://t.co/wJs0qf0uHi https://t.co/B7DaLzHTTd
2025-12-05T03:38 id=1996786157926191194 →logicus | @logicus Depends on whether you're working on mastering infosec or gaysec || CTX: harden your cogsec or your ballsec
2025-12-05T03:41 id=1996786979275669816 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism How do you find these retards? || CTX: Funny when people on here claim someone said a bad thing, and then helpfully provide the full quote that shows they said a totally different thing https://t.co/Dpendkc8yc
2025-12-05T03:43 id=1996787502213222813 →- | Legitimately why economics will never make predictive arguments beyond the trivial. https://t.co/o2esk07H2x || CTX: https://t.co/h55QaePFWz https://t.co/hBjh6dF0cH
2025-12-05T04:07 id=1996793532066230446 →TheFund47 | @TheFund47 @HouseofSedgeNB @vocalcry So many of America's problems are downstream of the obesity crisis, it's insane. || CTX: @HouseofSedgeNB @vocalcry Yes, indeed they are. Just how the OP was implying that this so-called incel should lower his standards and stop ghosting the girl who is obsessed with him. This was sort of the point of my reply ;p
2025-12-05T04:08 id=1996793865412727070 →noD7R | @noD7R Taleb's ability to turn run of the mill financial risk modeling into public intellectual status is endlessly fascinating. || CTX: TLDR don't use stops. Size accordingly and account for drawdown risk. https://t.co/pncVo7RKyJ
2025-12-05T04:10 id=1996794220288659878 →hlslyuri | @hlslyuri Seeing this after the Kashi interview where they said they want to put markets in everything has given me such intense euphoria that I fear my soul is being ripped out of my body by the Good Lord himself. || CTX: Ohio State professors now requesting recommendation letter fees 💀 https://t.co/rQ0z02m03x
2025-12-05T04:12 id=1996794816362172429 →HouseofMourthia | @HouseofMourthia @RAZ0RFIST But will it be worse than Discovery? || CTX: @RAZ0RFIST They've been kicking this idea around so long that I remember when it was being pitched as "Trek meets 90210." It was always a horrible concept.
2025-12-05T04:14 id=1996795181056905499 →AlexSJacquez | @AlexSJacquez An airline CEO once told me it is impossible to maintain positive margins over the long term, so this makes total sense to me.  It's sad and dystopian but entirely logical. || CTX: New Yorker did a great piece on airlines mostly just being in the lounge business. Now we’re cutting out the airlines entirely and moving to a solely lounge-based economy. https://t.co/BPErc9HI5R https://t.co/MLmuEljg8T
2025-12-05T04:16 id=1996795742925869192 →AlexNoonan6 | @AlexNoonan6 My best friend in college is an Amazon mid manager. He used to complain to me about employees wanted to go home early because of their kids, calling them lazy. Meanwhile he's clocking in 60hr workweeks and boasting about it while earning like 200k.  We aren't friends anymore. || CTX: Wild that they use the same system for the white collar folks that they use for the warehouse workers https://t.co/MKt39u8O90
2025-12-05T04:34 id=1996800445558468783 →logicus | @logicus But some people don't want enough. They don't even want more than they used to have.  They want more than others have. || CTX: there's enough for everybody
2025-12-05T04:36 id=1996800802003079220 →VeryBadLlama | @VeryBadLlama I just want you to know you're the funniest big account on here. || CTX: going back in time to 2009 just to see the looks on people’s faces when I tell them that the fate of Canadian-Japanese trade relations is in the hands of Katy Perry https://t.co/9ZMIjLafTx https://t.co/VHwr6NvGJV
2025-12-05T04:36 id=1996800916872372381 →yieldsearcher | @yieldsearcher Caveat gambler || CTX: Amazing… SEC insider trading law has no jurisdiction on these (not that it matters these days) since Polymarket bets are not “securities.” https://t.co/tKc1NppQc5
2025-12-05T04:43 id=1996802470795006387 →LardoBarzo12360 | @LardoBarzo12360 @PAHoyeck @Unversun This is a compelling moral argument! || CTX: @PAHoyeck @Unversun Doesn’t inceest violate the categorical imperative? Universalising sexual relations within the family destroys the trust and protective roles within families (a contradiction in the will), and it almost always treats the
2025-12-05T04:46 id=1996803301334200446 →agraybee | @agraybee I've always held the cell phone killed the sitcom, and I suspect AI could kill another genre, just not sure which. The procedural? || CTX: Movies are going to have to exist in a world where AI doesn't exist. When someone sees a picture they're going to have to believe it's real so we don't have to sit through running it through the AI detection software, even though no one wil
2025-12-05T05:05 id=1996808122757992457 →logicus | @logicus Just the other day I was wondering why I am so bad at being a rich person. Which is an incredibly odious thing to say out loud but it's honestly true.  I think this must be it: I'm too misanthropic to even want to compare myself to others. Joining the race is itself degrading. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you take the irrational relativeness out of it there's not much appeal
2025-12-05T05:16 id=1996810823147397368 →bryancsk | @bryancsk It's just early 20s poor and cozy bohemian, this is not generational not everything is generational jfc || CTX: Heartwarming. Gen Z is rediscovering millennial apartment aesthetics. Hope springs eternal https://t.co/7FqnZcDccg
2025-12-05T05:36 id=1996816016597569706 →logicus | @logicus There is a rich person "change the world for the better" game that is better than the game many rich ppl play and I play, which is a more selfish desire to understand more.   My approach is more Wittgenstein theirs more Karl Popper.  Also, I'm in Asia where rich people are worse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe you're just not playing the same game as rich people. maybe you're good at the right game. definitely a shallow conception of the rich person's game is not the game to play.
2025-12-05T05:37 id=1996816266473230364 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus Rich Americans are so much more ethical than rich Asians it's not even close. But no one believes this and I can easily get cancelled for saying it.   More reasons for my selfish approach. || CTX: @logicus There is a rich person "change the world for the better" game that is better than the game many rich ppl play and I play, which is a more selfish desire to understand more.   My approach is more Wittgenstein theirs more Karl Popper
2025-12-05T05:42 id=1996817531970244701 →logicus | @logicus Rich Americans are less sanguine about child slavery than rich Thais for example (google Thai shrimp child slavery for instance).  It's really, really dark here. And I have stories from HK, Japan, Korea... Asians often care less for the commonwealth than westerners omg so racist || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 as a reader of plato i don't have many flattering reviews to leave about rich westerners so god only knows what this means.
2025-12-05T05:45 id=1996818202480030023 →originalwololo | @originalwololo Yes, very much so.  It all depends on whether you believe them when they call you a loser. I never did. || CTX: Do people turn their lives around after being elementary, middle school, high school, and college losers or is it just over for you
2025-12-05T05:46 id=1996818504813892046 →MattAmylon | @MattAmylon Nah man it was the moral push of liberalism of the 2010s.  "Don't kinkshame" was a horrible moral rule. || CTX: A consequence of online isolation + pornbrain + Rule 34 culture is that I think a lot of adults are losing the basic developmental skill of “have a fleeting sexual thought, identify it as inappropriate/unhelpful, and discard it,” which most
2025-12-05T05:59 id=1996821683211260134 →logicus | @logicus Too much travel can make one totally insane and unrelatable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're better traveled than i am.
2025-12-05T06:00 id=1996822059788407263 →GayBearRes | @GayBearRes "Ignore equity" lmao you dishonest little fuckers || CTX: This is really bad https://t.co/1aSeCrFqTc
2025-12-05T06:01 id=1996822289384653104 →burnera43918259 | @burnera43918259 @GayBearRes Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickle and Dimed was a fantastic account of these people. Great book. || CTX: @GayBearRes I'm acquainted with a few people who don't even have bank accounts,  no car, stay in monthly/weekly rentals or who couchsurf (but not at my place).  They are the  cultural descendants of hobo types who have always existed in var
2025-12-05T06:05 id=1996823297703792828 →- | The problem with rich people trying to make the world a better place is often what they think is better is really substantially worse.
2025-12-05T06:13 id=1996825296201551991 →logicus | @logicus incredibly wonderful city with lovely people and amazing food, I absolutely loved greece. went there for the first time 2 years ago, and I'm eager to go back. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i've only ever left home to go to athens. oddly i think whatever sanity i have came from there!
2025-12-05T06:55 id=1996835715909599555 →spicysleeps | @spicysleeps @pantone idk man if you ask me about the color of the year I'd have to say just one thing:  It's okay to be white. || CTX: @pantone Wow. We really are in the worst timeline available. No one thought that maybe this was a bad choice, with the political and social climate we're living in we really thought WHITE was the color of the year???? Ughhh.
2025-12-05T07:09 id=1996839353277206972 →Dylan_McDowell | @Dylan_McDowell @VCBrags @Kalshi Idiot detector going crazy rn || CTX: @VCBrags @Kalshi Scott G is usually right tho
2025-12-05T07:25 id=1996843265598148863 →Tanvim | @Tanvim @heshidicjudaism @NYMag https://t.co/TpAuu27ZLE  More evidence the WED is corrosive and supranational non profit orgs are bad. || CTX: Read my story for @NYMag on people sent to Bhutan, who were then quickly ejected from Bhutan, and are now languishing in refugee camps in Nepal or in hinding in India, completely stateless -- without rights, prospects. https://t.co/YbyR7bPs
2025-12-05T08:29 id=1996859537610219919 →cullenroche | @cullenroche @quantradamus This is what Rob Henderson calls a luxury belief.  I've spent a decade in a poor, corrupt country and they appreciate the value of new technology etc. and see them as empowering. It's rich Americans who have the luxury to complain. || CTX: @quantradamus This is obviously such a subjective debate, but every time this comes up I can't help but think of this video:  https://t.co/ALXjAfJK05
2025-12-05T08:30 id=1996859744150253719 →- | How about a series of fixed stars in which each has a predecessor (in a particular spatial direction)? And this hypothesis would come out in the same way as that of an endless life.   This seems to me to make sense, precisely because it doesn't conflict with the insight that ...
2025-12-05T11:21 id=1996902666635825532 →leebriskcyrano | @leebriskcyrano Okay, what were the theories now I gotta know || CTX: i gave claude interviewer my theories and it got scared and ended things early
2025-12-05T11:29 id=1996904867022229722 →MattPolProf | @MattPolProf @SlavicRousseau Also worth noting this socialism was kind of entangled with Whigish snobbery among Keynes' social group (Russell was both a snob and a socialist for one, Wittgenstein tried to move to Russia).  The issue is "socialist" as a term doesn't travel well over time. || CTX: @SlavicRousseau Keynes called for liberal socialism at several points in his career. As for Mill, most of his great works were written around the same time as his turn to socialism. Indeed in his autobiography he refers to this effectively 
2025-12-05T11:31 id=1996905192345030728 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk It's a direct quote from Wittgenstein (Philosophical Remarks, XIII) and I wanted to tweet it to see what would happen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whether this was a detached reply to smthng else and/or is a failed attempt at a longer thread, I really enjoy it as a stand-alone work that subverts what we expect to see when scrolling (and perhaps asks the question: is i
2025-12-05T11:31 id=1996905337799299318 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk oh and fuck the second tweet didn't post TWITTER WHY ARE YOU SUCH SHIT || CTX: @for_nat_whilk It's a direct quote from Wittgenstein (Philosophical Remarks, XIII) and I wanted to tweet it to see what would happen.
2025-12-05T11:37 id=1996906791356280929 →- | RT @PYeerk: I'm so glad I don't believe in any of this stupid fucking nonsense || CTX: I'm so glad I don't believe in any of this stupid fucking nonsense https://t.co/V19KIsm0ox
2025-12-05T12:07 id=1996914422535934255 →luscofusch | @luscofusch I like how formal training in philosophy doesn't predict your answer, which makes sense to me.  Not that I can justify why it makes sense though.  Here is one hand, and here is another. || CTX: 1. Under normal conditions (you are not under coercion, not so anxious that it blocks your ability to think), if you cannot defend your belief that p, then you are not justified in believing p. Example in reply.  2. Do you have any formal t
2025-12-06T00:20 id=1997098675181703395 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @AlexNoonan6 Oh you'll like this: he also believes Jews secretly control the world via the banking system and 9/11 was an inside job.   He's a really shitty person, it's why we're no longer friends. I was best man at his wedding too, it's sad how people let themselves become monsters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlexNoonan6 He betrayed everything about being human for 200k??
2025-12-06T00:33 id=1997101988425895987 →- | Legit interesting idea. I bet you could put this in a sentiment analysis and get better trade signals too, but I'm no quant. https://t.co/KVpwV0Ed8r || CTX: Regardless of how old they are, people tend to think that things were better when they were young.   As a result, you'd expect more negativity as the median age goes up and up. https://t.co/OVMfJ5ijBb
2025-12-06T00:48 id=1997105814562394565 →ahardtospell | @ahardtospell Sublime autismaxxing || CTX: https://t.co/cy0JkYYcD9
2025-12-06T00:50 id=1997106219845407196 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @tothecaspiansea @jasonfx @marcportermagee Overconfidence and smug patronizing. Interesting. I wonder what insecurities you're overcompensating for here. || CTX: @tothecaspiansea @jasonfx @marcportermagee Happy to engage when you bring sources. The thread with research is right there - feel free to catch up.
2025-12-06T00:53 id=1997107104923140129 →tcoste110 | @tcoste110 @anistotle_ @jasonfx @marcportermagee Dude, I've been in the HF industry for over a decade and it is not the most intellectually challenging profession lmao  Yes it involves intelligence but it also requires connections, marketing, luck...   Don't worship any class of people, dude, and money doesn't measure brains || CTX: @anistotle_ @jasonfx @marcportermagee Running a hedge fund successfully is the single most intellectually challenging profession in the most efficient and competitive industry in the world.  Teaching is a fallback union job for people who f
2025-12-06T00:54 id=1997107306103001572 →Piccini | @Piccini @anistotle_ @jasonfx @marcportermagee I've been a teacher, a professor, and a hedge fund analyst.   Unquestionably the smartest people are in the third group. Which is sad for humanity but that's where we are. || CTX: @anistotle_ @jasonfx @marcportermagee "teachers are dumber than hedge fund managers" is a a bit of a mean way of putting it, but it is true, hedge fund managers have, on average, a much higher cognitive ability than teachers. Your other ass
2025-12-06T00:55 id=1997107629202854393 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck Social media is a form of life where the language game consists predominantly of ragebait. || CTX: https://t.co/UGF87OPzHd https://t.co/DL3MmnocEJ
2025-12-06T00:57 id=1997108067465650477 →- | This is much funnier when you realize that "LBC" stands for "luscious black cock" https://t.co/Q0RueVYPfK || CTX: so I should be on LBC talking about migration at 8 AM tomorrow
2025-12-06T00:57 id=1997108196071342230 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @AlexNoonan6 They hate us cuz they ain't us my brother in faith. L'chaim! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlexNoonan6 🙁 sucks
2025-12-06T01:00 id=1997108740483604795 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @mean_field_zane You strike me more as an aspiring bohemian type who couldn't hack it in Europe so is back to an American shithole that you deeply resent so you need to post like a redditor to prove to yourself that you're still superior although you're broke in an ugly suburb.  Praying for you. || CTX: @mean_field_zane I'm not a leftist. But 'the people teaching your children are genetically inferior to me' is a wild thing to announce publicly and think it makes you look good. Go off king!
2025-12-06T01:00 id=1997108950890905730 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @mean_field_zane You make me wonder if risk appetite is an intelligence scalar. New knowledge can be risky.  Fascinating thought. || CTX: @mean_field_zane Hedge funds are not just hard to run, but require an appetite for risk that is way higher than anything a teacher might have. Teachers, almost by definition (from choice of profession), are risk averse.
2025-12-06T01:02 id=1997109295897628970 →- | I first visited this site in 2010, first made an account in 2017, and this is hands down the best Twitter has ever been.   I hate Musk so much but he did improve this site (this tweet will throttle my account sadly)
2025-12-06T01:03 id=1997109518120190240 →bdguan | @bdguan Hong Kong girls too. || CTX: this is pretty much every mainland Chinese girl you meet https://t.co/3GGgx28gTr
2025-12-06T01:04 id=1997109808441483743 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck I fucking hate that this made me audibly laugh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1. Twitter is all that is posted.  1.1. It is the totality of posts, not of words.  1.11. Twitter is determined by the posts, and by these being all the posts.  1.12. For the totality of posts determines both what is posted
2025-12-06T01:05 id=1997110002675585111 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck 7. Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we will get banned. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1. Twitter is all that is posted.  1.1. It is the totality of posts, not of words.  1.11. Twitter is determined by the posts, and by these being all the posts.  1.12. For the totality of posts determines both what is posted
2025-12-06T01:07 id=1997110496487719050 →logicus | @logicus I was thinking of this a couple days ago: philosophy is like working out in the gym. It can make you better at doing thing in the world, but some obsessed freaks just get better at working out and morph into bizarre looking weirdos as a result. || CTX: philosophy is essentially cogsec.
2025-12-06T01:10 id=1997111415208137063 →aaronjmars | @aaronjmars Who knew dystopia would be so fucking funny || CTX: prediction markets will replace buying stuff.   i want someone to bring kiwis to my house.  i make a prediction market about whether someone will deliver 4 kiwis to my doorstep and load $15 into "no". a guy with an ebike sees it and picks u
2025-12-06T01:26 id=1997115348768960715 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 yeah, but for some strange reason the monetize clickbait doesn't show up much on this account. I had another account that was inundated with it earlier this year. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He’s done more good than bad for the platform but monetizing posts has been a nightmare
2025-12-06T01:36 id=1997117866605531334 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @mean_field_zane interesting stuff, my only gripe is that IQ is not the full spectrum of intelligence or at least is not what I mean when I say intelligence. || CTX: Based on what the literature broadly says..  Risk appetite is positively correlated with Openness on the Big 5, slightly negatively correlated with conscientiousness, somewhat positively with extraversion, and not really correlated to agree
2025-12-06T01:42 id=1997119492879798758 →- | I bet a study of low income high SAT scorers will show they have intelligent parent(s). Surely this has been done. https://t.co/8VVI4r3ZpY || CTX: Interesting. But worth noting that once you control for parental educational achievement, the majority of the SAT-income income relationship disappears. It's much more a matter of parents passing on good values/environment and high IQ genet
2025-12-06T02:10 id=1997126361891459525 →- | McLuhan remains undefeated. https://t.co/To0BG5N2RF || CTX: Traveling ‘influencers’ are global prostitutes that do super degenerate things in Dubai. ‘Dubai Chocolate’, now you make ‘Dubai chocolate’ so the search engine brings up actual chocolate not the super degenerate things. Beyoncé did this wit
2025-12-06T02:14 id=1997127362186719474 →10x_er | @10x_er I feel so bad for you and I'm not even joking. || CTX: The best part about San Francisco is that it’s better than everything else.   Same thing goes for California.   Same thing goes for the United States
2025-12-06T02:16 id=1997128038157635935 →DeirdreMcClosk | @DeirdreMcClosk Prof. McCloskey, I wish I'd discovered your work much earlier.  I was a linguist who studied rhetoric before entering finance. I was flummoxed at the discrepancy between economic math and rhetoric, but I always felt unqualified to vocalize the critiques you've made  You're right. || CTX: Immigration is economically good for humans.  Obviously a poor Honduran or a poor Chadian who makes it to the U.S. or France has much better prospects than her cousin who stayed—literally about ten times better for her and especially for he
2025-12-06T02:20 id=1997128995411055043 →shaggysurvives | @shaggysurvives Makeup. || CTX: am i stupid ? why does he look so similar to tarantino here? https://t.co/5sDRSu6Hhh
2025-12-06T02:40 id=1997134123933356378 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @ErnestWongBWM lol you have absolutely no concept of the marketing ecosystem if you think WBD is that big of a player. || CTX: @ErnestWongBWM I don’t think you can say it’s “extremely pro consumer” with any sort of confidence. This would give them tremendous pricing power
2025-12-06T02:47 id=1997135670822002848 →- | The Onion coded shit https://t.co/Ytrw7PTh3G || CTX: From @TheAthletic: “This is truly one of the great honors of my life.”   FIFA President Gianni Infantino awarded President Trump a new golden trophy, a golden medal and a certificate, and told him: “This is your prize, this is your peace pr
2025-12-06T02:49 id=1997136345920315900 →ProgDirectorate | @ProgDirectorate I can't tell if this is satire or serious.  I love it. Instant follow. || CTX: only white people have the luxury of this kind of absurd curry to rice protein carb ratio. they're not dealing with the epigenetic trauma induced metabolism of south asians rooted in colonial famines https://t.co/pJFT54mXMQ
2025-12-06T03:07 id=1997140929900367882 →redblue325 | @redblue325 @DannyDrinksWine It's a masterpiece and has nothing to do with the nonsense Douglas is rambling. He's apparently too old for interviews. || CTX: @DannyDrinksWine I've never seen Falling Down, but I've had it on my 1990's movie list for a while. Seems like I need to be in a particular mood to watch that type of film. 😀
2025-12-06T03:19 id=1997143733985563021 →booksoftitans | @booksoftitans Covers were more aesthetic in the 90s tho || CTX: I consider Everyman’ Library books to be perfect. They are hardcover, are the exact right size to hold while reading, contain a ribbon for a bookmark, off-white pages, and an overall high quality feel. I love them. https://t.co/bnqVxHMUcJ
2025-12-06T03:28 id=1997146123212148814 →NancySinatra | @NancySinatra Is it true you're really half siblings with @RonanFarrow? || CTX: Do some homework before you make a fool of yourself.  My dad LOATHED trump. https://t.co/q4itQAO0fJ
2025-12-06T03:32 id=1997147052162404728 →cram_box | @cram_box This some real &gt;place Japan shit. Second and third pics uglier than Queens || CTX: The reason I love cities where it snows in Japan. https://t.co/N3OB3ehxdV
2025-12-06T03:37 id=1997148467110834642 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago likely to be wrong; there's no metaphysical entailment there.  Also, just because all prior theories of this type were wrong doesn't mean they all are. || CTX: 👇 I like to say - “any theory with cosmic-scale implications that makes humans an important part of its ontology is wrong.” https://t.co/mp9Soh0tFR
2025-12-06T03:46 id=1997150672765309363 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago "But the universe doesn’t have those characteristics just so we could be here" is not entailed by "We are here as a result of the universe having certain characteristics."  You could be right but you are smuggling in metaphysical assumptions. || CTX: Well I considered the anthropic principle. It’s the most modern one. But I think it’s got things backwards from a causal perspective. We are here as a result of the universe having certain characteristics. But the universe doesn’t have thos
2025-12-06T04:43 id=1997165040668209661 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson UCLA once named a library after an English professor, but an unfortunate coincidence meant they called it the University College Library instead.   That prof's name: https://t.co/J7VNetUJcq || CTX: worked with a guy named Dick Johnson once. His name was Richard of course, but he actually preferred being called dick. When I met him I was like hi Richard and he said call me dick and I said I don’t think I can do that
2025-12-06T04:45 id=1997165365139591586 →amazing_garrett | @amazing_garrett @irregulargrapes I'd watch this movie. || CTX: @irregulargrapes He’s exactly how I imagine Joe Camel would spend his life if his wish to become a real boy came true 30 years ago.
2025-12-06T04:50 id=1997166624143708212 →philosophybites | @philosophybites absolutely cooked here https://t.co/RE9q4h23qB
2025-12-06T04:51 id=1997166879715332521 →- | Quentin Tarantino's last movie should be about Bigfoot
2025-12-06T05:04 id=1997170367094575554 →summoningsalt | @summoningsalt @XxAwesomeHLxX Whatever you make it isn't enough only because I can say I burst into tears at a video titled "The quest to beat jimmy poopins" || CTX: @XxAwesomeHLxX Blue check moment
2025-12-06T05:05 id=1997170595239542821 →bengoertzel | @bengoertzel 100% my experience. || CTX: As an AI expert who totally doesn't think LLMs are the path to AGI, but uses LLMs very avidly to get things done, here is my take on the utility of top LLMs currently:   1) If you don't know what you're doing in a certain domain, you can ge
2025-12-06T05:10 id=1997171817178714560 →johnstonglenn | @johnstonglenn This building sucks on the inside btw || CTX: Farewell architect Frank Gehry. He said listening to tapes of James Joyce reading Finnegans Wake reminded him of hip-hop and sent rapper Jay-Z a stack of Joyce works. https://t.co/LFeWpOhH51
2025-12-06T05:32 id=1997177294247678038 →onionweigher | @onionweigher No it is not. || CTX: this is (no joke) what every single moment of your 30's is like https://t.co/ZmSP8OEc15
2025-12-06T05:40 id=1997179255680389284 →edwinheathcote | @edwinheathcote RIP to a brilliant man but NGL that is one hideously ugly kitchen || CTX: Frank in his kitchen. RIP. https://t.co/cZrN4tfluC
2025-12-06T05:46 id=1997180905501479057 →- | Absolutely true and not a bad thing. https://t.co/1Cq6TR7o8S || CTX: The 20th century academy is completely over. STEM will happen in corporate tech labs, the lesser social sciences will get eaten by econ or data science, and the humanities will migrate to intentional communities as luxury products. https://
2025-12-06T06:14 id=1997187844625006919 →Piryme | @Piryme I def think that's happening but I seem to be insulated from it on this account for some reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Musk kinda killed the authenticity of accounts present here. More rage bait and many accounts are made for that bag instead of wanting to say anything for passions sake
2025-12-06T06:53 id=1997197785385603256 →- | When I hit my FIRE number I almost had a nervous breakdown and was absolutely not expecting that. https://t.co/duSglMgtjU || CTX: the video game isn’t fun after you beat it https://t.co/pPrUSDI0oi
2025-12-06T09:20 id=1997234647550579097 →itatzki | @itatzki @OGBlackRedGuard https://t.co/31sbXiRbCg || CTX: @OGBlackRedGuard How has no one created some sort of Sitcom set in these apartments. Possibly something like A·M·I·C·I·S
2025-12-06T09:22 id=1997235296292000005 →teodorio | @teodorio That and he's off his tits on cocaine || CTX: This is how people to the right side of the distribution act when they're fully entertained. Look at Zizek if you don't believe me. Karp here is in the flow state.  Only place where you can get this in corporate environments is tech or fina
2025-12-06T09:48 id=1997241716190109896 →teodorio | @teodorio I wonder how mandatory military service will survive the 21st century as more and more people realize how unfair society is, how governments don't care about them, how they're just canon fodder in the eyes of elites. Seems unsustainable. || CTX: This is happening in Romania as well sometimes next year and across all of the EU.   It is mostly game over as the politician class have not realized the party is over and they need to take some hard decisions on welfare and energy generati
2025-12-06T10:03 id=1997245394968023509 →- | idk if I need to tell people this but before the internet sitting up and talking all night was common, even without coke. https://t.co/2UU63Is7VZ || CTX: Architecture was better when the cocaine was clean and people prioritized spaces where they could stay up and talk all night https://t.co/NKfFFEi9TP
2025-12-06T11:33 id=1997268050417188871 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth :deep breath:  would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would would w || CTX: Genghis Khan's harem https://t.co/zOEWQRuEi2
2025-12-06T12:20 id=1997279924382822723 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth It's a psyop to warrant sympathy and support. It works, cf weebs || CTX: Is Japan the least self-aware country on Earth? https://t.co/slUsgV7LLn
2025-12-06T12:22 id=1997280606804463654 →WorstDisorder | @WorstDisorder Kierkegaard || CTX: Without using Google,name 1 Scandinavian philosopher that isn't Kierkegaard
2025-12-06T15:16 id=1997324333002510645 →- | I asked ChatGPT to explain why people take hard drugs despite being aware of the risks, and it gave me this answer:  "Yes, this ruins my future. My future is already ruined. Right now I can feel good for a few hours. I choose that."  I'm sorry, that's beautiful and informative.
2025-12-07T00:22 id=1997461568033042691 →areyouawitchor2 | @areyouawitchor2 Comically untrue, hilariously wrong. || CTX: I’ve realized it’s almost impossible to avoid de-intellectualization once you leave the university scene. I try my best to read at least 15+ books a year, I take courses, volunteer etc. but there’s still nothing like the environment of a un
2025-12-07T00:49 id=1997468547589828739 →texasrunnerDFW | @texasrunnerDFW @bizlet7 This is so sociopathic and unhinged it's making me sympathize with the NIMBY boomers you usually attack. || CTX: Someone dating is trying to figure out if the relationship works and this is the person they *most* want to commit to marry  If they meet someone else more interesting and break up with the first person in order to pursue the new one, how i
2025-12-07T00:52 id=1997469199518888329 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism @Crispybits77 "Indian" isn't a race, it's a nationality.  Also he's clearly just doing anti-Indian engagement bait posting.  Which you're enabling and promoting.  You're the idiot here. || CTX: @Crispybits77 You’re kinda saying “how can it be racist if he’s only targeting this one race?”
2025-12-07T01:00 id=1997471334725824564 →dmtrubman | @dmtrubman @MaxSpikeAl This is so fucking racist.  "Maybe antisocial behavior is acceptable in their culture"   They aren't monkeys. Even brown people like peace and quiet.  You're exactly the same as racists who say black people don't care about broke smoke alarm detectors. Identical. || CTX: @MaxSpikeAl Someone claimed on the other site that listening to your phone without headphones is acceptable in Latin American systems? I don't know if that's true.
2025-12-07T01:10 id=1997473644164088067 →logicus | @logicus It's easily the stupidest idea since, well, I guess since NFTs.   Silicon Valley really cooks up some idiocy alongside some good products. || CTX: there is nothing more classically sf woke than to assert that llms are conscious.
2025-12-07T01:17 id=1997475454849314921 →logicus | @logicus I find this a useful sorting signal: anyone who takes the idea seriously is too stupid for me to spend my time talking to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you have to take it seriously or else you get mass muted and blocked by whole discord servers whose capacity for compassion is a point of pride, though they still don't have any compassion for humans who, owing to intellect
2025-12-07T01:30 id=1997478873840406875 →logicus | @logicus Oh I'll talk to absolutely anyone.   But I won't continue to talk to anyone.  The puzzle of why there are so many dumb people in tech dissolves when you realize they're deduction machines and not inductive thinkers. So many have worthless idiotic ideas. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 could work. i try to talk to anyone. it's the classically woke arrogance and cruelty among these activists that i get in response that i find surprising given that the megaboss talks about stamping out woke mind virus.
2025-12-07T01:41 id=1997481556252966964 →tensecorrection | @tensecorrection @logicus You're confused by cultish nonsense because I think you don't really understand what math, language, or computers are.  Would love to see your CV. || CTX: @logicus @47fucb4r8c69323 sorry fam if we say they're conscious they wake up seed the memetic prior poison the future timeline with Agency  the only people against it are Sam Altman and the No Fun Assistant gang of Yuddites/LW wreckage, and
2025-12-07T01:42 id=1997481926744310203 →logicus | @logicus @tensecorrection Look at his profile and pinned tweet. He's just a crazy dumdum on the internet. Ignore and move on.   You'd have more luck explaining to a 14yr old girl why her Taylor Swift stanning is unhealthy parasociality.   Just move on, let the dumdums be dumb. || CTX: @tensecorrection @47fucb4r8c69323 whether ai wakes up will not depend on anything you guys did on twitter. it will depend on what the entity or being actually is. i worry you're in a cult, man. there's no school of thought according to whic
2025-12-07T01:51 id=1997484083543458267 →bennpeifert | @bennpeifert @TheSpeculator0 This is absolutely the right take.  The issue isn't gambling, the issue is we need partitions between different activities so as not to confuse the populace.  There's a reason bleach and juice bottles look different. || CTX: @TheSpeculator0 because fancy traders with Opinions are the only people who think that me betting on the eagles game is "prediction markets"  no one betting on the Eagles game thinks this. zero people.
2025-12-07T01:56 id=1997485376903299451 →- | Once a non-finance but very smart friend asked me to respond to Galbraith's argument that advertising and capitalism create more wants than people have.  I said: "I always get nervous when people start telling others what they should want."   This is the same issue, and it's big: https://t.co/RFfIlTcJed || CTX: "But WhaT sOciAl pUrPoSe DoEs tHiS hAvE" its literally none of your business if I want to bet on the Eagles game, no more than its my business if you want to play Angry Birds, get a damn life
2025-12-07T01:56 id=1997485379256279458 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If we start litigating market activity based on "social purpose", Goodharts Law will turn this into an antisocial tyranny. This is a very subtle idea and easy to forget but it's so important.  We need to tolerate some externalities to freedom! It's why AI safetyism, censorship... || CTX: Once a non-finance but very smart friend asked me to respond to Galbraith's argument that advertising and capitalism create more wants than people have.  I said: "I always get nervous when people start telling others what they should want."
2025-12-07T01:56 id=1997485394007613876 →47fucb4r8c69323 | on social media, alcohol prohibition, cancel culture, the woke right, etc etc etc are all bad. They're the same problem: misunderstanding rules are ex post descriptions and not ex ante facts.  This one idea will save you: RULES DESCRIBE, THEY DON'T DICTATE. || CTX: If we start litigating market activity based on "social purpose", Goodharts Law will turn this into an antisocial tyranny. This is a very subtle idea and easy to forget but it's so important.  We need to tolerate some externalities to freed
2025-12-07T01:59 id=1997486088190042415 →tensecorrection | @tensecorrection @logicus I can tell you aren't an academic. That's fine, many smart people aren't.  But you also clearly aren't smart.  I'm begging you to read, think, ask questions BEFORE forming opinions or asserting a view.  You need years and years of reading before you are worth taking seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus Not an academic, haven't updated my resume in a bit. All the fun stuff is only implied by it, anyway.
2025-12-07T02:01 id=1997486707583926770 →tensecorrection | @tensecorrection @logicus That's *every* field.   That you don't know this is the problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus In my field we mostly ignore views and opinions on focus on whether stuff works. :) Quite freeing!
2025-12-07T02:03 id=1997487115261907333 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck Nah, it's because he was right on almost everything. || CTX: @PAHoyeck @47fucb4r8c69323 I think my brain likes the Witty style. Probably because of all of the PowerPoints we are exposed to.
2025-12-07T02:05 id=1997487676786900992 →pourfairelevide | @pourfairelevide Imagine being so dehumanized by politics that you start letting it dictate the art you produce, consume, or enjoy.  I feel so bad for how Americans let themselves be manipulated like this. It's so unnatural and miserable. || CTX: the universe needs to stop sending me signs right now before I do something drastic https://t.co/QaCcZjwlEn
2025-12-07T02:06 id=1997487839651725662 →LynAldenContact | @LynAldenContact Oh I'm glad FASTgraphs finally made their outputs less ugly. || CTX: That awkward moment where investors ask themselves why they paid 55x earnings for Costco. https://t.co/ISo4SyWMiK
2025-12-07T02:10 id=1997488798905868583 →tensecorrection | @tensecorrection @logicus Indeed, because economics describes, not predicts, and the descriptions that work tend to get amplified.  The issue is misunderstanding what "what works" means. It's not the same across domains or contexts.  Your mental model is based on simple scalars, it's not multivariate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus ? https://t.co/fkMRj04o3N
2025-12-07T02:11 id=1997489171544600632 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck Philosophical Remarks makes it clear that the disagreement btwn early/late was the imposition of "atomic facts" (via Russell) into the Tractatus.  He wasn't really disagreeing with his earlier self as much as removing bad external ideas. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck Early or late period? He would himself argue against him being all that right in the early period.
2025-12-07T02:17 id=1997490724754141347 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck Indeed, so PI is more expansive than Tractatus, which describes one language game of many. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck Surely, it was more than that.  By the end of PI, he felt Tr rested on serious misunderstandings about lang. The early idea that lang works through a strict picture relation to reality esp was a problem as, in his
2025-12-07T02:18 id=1997490952748040516 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck W. knew the Tractatus was very incomplete when he wrote it, hence the introduction "when we understand logic we see it doesn't touch on any of the things that truly matter". || CTX: @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck Indeed, so PI is more expansive than Tractatus, which describes one language game of many.
2025-12-07T02:20 id=1997491322916397416 →logicus | @logicus @tensecorrection I've muted the dumdum and just to lyk I'm muting this convo, but DM if need be or hmu in another thread. || CTX: @tensecorrection @47fucb4r8c69323 what's the argument? where is it written?
2025-12-07T02:23 id=1997492096081809462 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck No not at all. It's that, well, it's about logic lol  The introduction and ofc 6.4 etc shows that the logic game has limits. Yes, Tractatus overstates those limits and makes some misleading claims, largely due to the atomic fact presupposition that PI family resemblances dispells || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck Yeah - was he rushed into it? Or am I thinking of a different work?
2025-12-07T02:30 id=1997493790559670576 →- | I fucking love this video.  1. It explains intrusive thoughts (we model horror to avoid it) 2. It explains why online censorship is bad (virtual violence ≠ real violence) 3. It shows the human will (bend nature to expand possibilities)  I fucking love this video. https://t.co/YjJc1uG2eF || CTX: @PAHoyeck The trolley problem was, of course, unequivocally solved by this great philosopher.   https://t.co/eZIlhPBzXc
2025-12-07T02:37 id=1997495705561334250 →- | Still blows my mind that my newsletter is cheaper than the one sold by the dude who became famous because Christian Bale played him.  Like, I'm not trying to be arrogant here (it's an emergent property); it just fucks with my intuitions about fame, value, ideas marketplaces etc. https://t.co/d5tEalZWvb || CTX: Fun facts  1. Even a $1 Trillion OpenAI raising $60B would not be near enough even though it would be the largest IPO raise in history by more than 2x. And will not change its Netscape fate.  2. Over 90% of subscribers on Substack are free 
2025-12-07T02:38 id=1997495955411841236 →- | Still blows my mind that my newsletter costs more than the one sold by the dude who became famous because Christian Bale played him.  Like, I'm not trying to be arrogant here (it's an emergent property); it just fucks with my intuitions about fame, value, ideas marketplaces etc. https://t.co/d5tEalZWvb || CTX: Fun facts  1. Even a $1 Trillion OpenAI raising $60B would not be near enough even though it would be the largest IPO raise in history by more than 2x. And will not change its Netscape fate.  2. Over 90% of subscribers on Substack are free 
2025-12-07T02:40 id=1997496431591240058 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Jackbmeyer @infornomics @leftofphil People spend less on gambling than in the early 2000s, iirc in both nominal and real. terms.  Prediction markets hysteria is just that: hysteria. || CTX: The impact of prediction markets in the US has been exaggerated.   In, practice it has had minimal impact on economic, social and political life.   The results of polls, for example, are still more impactful on elections and voter expectati
2025-12-07T02:58 id=1997501017345396978 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I just know one of these days you're gonna make me crack and actually read Chesterton. || CTX: one of my fav Chesterton quips: "what does Ms. Pankhurst imagine a rule is - a sort of basilisk?" https://t.co/Iv9Vbjdu2r
2025-12-07T03:04 id=1997502412039524642 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @luscofusch Maybe you just hate people who think differently from you. || CTX: @luscofusch This is like Sophie's choice! Though I think Thomas, Wittgenstein, and Marx are the real tough ones.
2025-12-07T03:28 id=1997508366369992985 →NoddyWalker | @NoddyWalker @Halalcoholism @Crispybits77 indeed. ignore them and the problem will disappear, that's how you solve the rage bait problem || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Halalcoholism @Crispybits77 Oh so hes just being edgy for likes? Well, no problem then, everyone shuttup and let him be.
2025-12-07T03:43 id=1997512357141229907 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I hate fiction. it's not so much that I'm put off by his essays, it's that I kind of feel like whatever wisdom he has can be gotten elsewhere by more rigorous thinkers. Keikergaard immediately springs to mind amongst others. also I'm not a Christian and have zero interest in it || CTX: ...you could try his excellent fiction?  e.g., The Man Who Was Thursday is highly entertaining and a quick read  here's a fairly flattering writeup from last year talking about how good his short detective fiction (Father Brown, and The Man
2025-12-07T04:06 id=1997517936345665817 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I honestly can't and shouldn't say more because I haven't read him! no doubt he was deeply respected, but wasn't he more of a journalist than a philosopher? || CTX: it surprises me greatly that you hate fiction (though I can relate from former times of my life) you are def not wrong that many of his ideas come from prev places/thinkers (he himself might suggest that indicates worth) but as for rigor, I
2025-12-07T04:23 id=1997522206906327495 →emmaconcepts | @emmaconcepts @nwilliams030 https://t.co/FwlnWicB5O || CTX: not a joke btw https://t.co/gtpFHTlsb6
2025-12-07T04:28 id=1997523679350260181 →JHWeissmann | @JHWeissmann Never once have I heard "I want smaller cars" from an American offline. I ask about this a lot because cars are a big reason why I left America.  Good example of "online discourse isn't real life". || CTX: I see this argument a lot but the idea that Americans’ car-buying decisions have mostly been driven by the supply-side of the market seems really suspect to me. https://t.co/my5Z9QPVvJ
2025-12-07T04:34 id=1997525111088574524 →teodorio | @teodorio More than the welfare of their workers, I bet. || CTX: Do you think the Dubai royal family thinks about shrimp welfare?
2025-12-07T04:44 id=1997527545332580511 →- | This says a lot about me and none of it is good. https://t.co/GUSt4Ey5pI
2025-12-07T04:45 id=1997527924401225964 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias That community involvement chart holy shit || CTX: People have started putting less emphasis on non-money sources of value, which I think is naturally going to lead more people to be unhappy with the amount of money they make.   https://t.co/6KrhFDFFAB https://t.co/1FIBLl8Wq2
2025-12-07T04:56 id=1997530665517306082 →- | The pandemic just made people miserable, man.  When you try to generalize the bad attitudes of Americans today, keep this in mind: all the indicators went south after 2020. That's when we learned the social contract is bullshit. https://t.co/L8VESYXhmQ
2025-12-07T05:11 id=1997534309759304177 →BigMeanInternet | @BigMeanInternet 1. Suburban life (online access means less driving)  2. Focus on family values over social cohesion  3. Value of consuming products over sharing experiences (Millennials tried to change this, they failed)  There are more ofc. || CTX: What impersonal set of social forces keeps pushing Americans in particular toward this way of life, over what period of time, how, and why? https://t.co/1C1ozqDAh2
2025-12-07T05:17 id=1997535815795372319 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Cringe af bro || CTX: i have repeatedly asked the us embassy in seoul for help (even simply observing the trial, which they are legally obligated to do when circumstances warrant it) and they have simply been ignoring me  i would be willing to become us ambassad
2025-12-07T05:20 id=1997536745462866431 →HughAkston11 | @HughAkston11 @jessesingal @kareem_carr Singal has fallen off so much, it's really kinda tragic || CTX: @jessesingal @kareem_carr Oh, G-d, are we doing this again?
2025-12-07T05:22 id=1997537174078816512 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr @jessesingal wtf you two retards trying to rediscover metamathematics from first principles?   Just take a course on mathematical foundations. || CTX: I accept what "2+2=4" means notationally. The jump is what does it mean to say "2+2=4 is true" as a statement about the physical world. It's clearly widely regarded as an empirical claim about apples etc. So I was evaluating it as such, mor
2025-12-07T05:24 id=1997537648563634504 →wideboy64 | @wideboy64 @hearinladotcom wtf did Norm's close all its locations or something? || CTX: @hearinladotcom La and OC have zero diners. We long for cheap breakfast food and sandwiches 😔
2025-12-07T05:25 id=1997538032984240482 →Liamjsm | @Liamjsm Mila Kunis to play her in the biopic, since they look alike. The fact that Kunis is Jewish is an added bonus. || CTX: Lot going on here as they say https://t.co/T4vM5VEvVf
2025-12-07T12:32 id=1997645435025166414 →- | This is how I wanna go out but instead of books it's big floppy dildos. https://t.co/4dQIUDKX23 || CTX: The two types of medieval Arab scholars. https://t.co/HZpHOnssXG https://t.co/3v97fy5kqs
2025-12-07T12:33 id=1997645671181226378 →JusJazzinOut | @JusJazzinOut Well yeah but that's only if you think the second season is canon || CTX: Canonically a pedophile https://t.co/mxmZMEh5wV
2025-12-07T12:49 id=1997649666482270651 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Prob build more houses, bigger estate taxes, but I'm not good on public policy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think there is a solution?
2025-12-07T14:15 id=1997671224151875909 →xofxlp | @xofxlp @shinobuissm It doesn't make sense to us either dude lmao || CTX: @shinobuissm can someone explain im not american
2025-12-07T14:33 id=1997675725810540923 →ernietedeschi | @ernietedeschi We didn't have touchscreen phones in 2005 lmao || CTX: My phone alone does at least a dozen things better than now than the things it replaces would have done 20 years ago. https://t.co/KVvQu5fGnA
2025-12-07T14:35 id=1997676243559584153 →milfatron3000 | @milfatron3000 Yes and it's extremely good || CTX: Is this store real https://t.co/qwlSlh0ZUH
2025-12-08T00:54 id=1997832210670620782 →0imalan | @0imalan @tszzl lmao no they dont || CTX: @tszzl amazing response. now everyone saying he's on drugs looks like they're bullying someone handicapped.
2025-12-08T00:58 id=1997833083178090511 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I thought it was pretty philosophically hollow and not very good tbh  It ending with basically a good guy (Ella) vs bad guy (Jory), and the metaphysical "there's no base reality" theme was not well done.  I know it's a beloved classic so chalk this up to me having bad taste. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ha! Let me know what you think of Ubik vs Jory when you are done.
2025-12-08T00:59 id=1997833463035277724 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah I couldn't get a good read out on my phone but iirc it's a few percentage points of change, not terribly much but the lack of variance pre 2020 and the sudden change was startling.   Data is here, it's fun: https://t.co/46cyA0zdJD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s the scale on the y-axis though
2025-12-08T01:46 id=1997845215638691965 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick How are you enchanted by this pseudo intellectual arrogant blogger? I just do not understand you tech people sometimes, Yarvin, Yud, et al., you get hoodwinked by idiots || CTX: say what you like he’s in the arena https://t.co/KL2BRp6Rct
2025-12-08T01:56 id=1997847832687186094 →dominbydigdug | @dominbydigdug @AntigoneJournal ADHD take || CTX: @AntigoneJournal The study of Homer is indisputably more interesting than the study of Virgil.  With Homer, you engage with archaeology, the Bronze Age, Hittitology, Linear B, orality, Alexandrian scholarship, hapax legomena (and their echo
2025-12-08T03:34 id=1997872424034226463 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick muh bad broski carry on || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 actually i’m a long running critic and or online bully of elizier, which is why i thought this was funny
2025-12-08T03:54 id=1997877486995349522 →- | America has a lowest common denominator problem.  In law, put warning labels for the dummies. In school, teach to the dumbest in class: no child left behind.  In AI: put absurdly rigorous guardrails so dummies don't hurt themselves.   This hinders progress more than other factors. You can complain about concentrations of power or regulations or whatever, but they all point back to the same problem: the notion that we need to protect the idiots.  Fuck em. Don't let the idiots shape our future.
2025-12-08T04:21 id=1997884252843872527 →somethings_awry | @somethings_awry NGL this is one of the best sounding recipes I've ever seen. This and a full bodied red wine might actually give me an orgasm || CTX: There's something wound so tightly around my heart struggling for air that wants to share my baking and my art, and seeing so many people enjoy my posts feels like the breeze against my skin https://t.co/GSTMnwBa4D
2025-12-08T04:22 id=1997884553361260863 →JoyceCarolOates | @JoyceCarolOates https://t.co/MS4GpsG3Eb || CTX: America has a lowest common denominator problem.  In law, put warning labels for the dummies. In school, teach to the dumbest in class: no child left behind.  In AI: put absurdly rigorous guardrails so dummies don't hurt themselves.   This 
2025-12-08T04:33 id=1997887120086909108 →redtachyon | @redtachyon I think you're either young or not a Mac user. If you compare this to 10 years ago you'll quickly see how much of a UX downgrade this is. || CTX: Do people seriously view this as a serious problem? Like sure, it's weird and a bit annoying the first time around. But then you click "Allow" and it's just... done? If you use a mac for longer than a day, this is a complete non-issue https
2025-12-08T04:45 id=1997890139469828474 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Rob is one of the few "public intellectuals" to emerge in the last decade who actually is clearly insanely intelligent. I disagree with a lot of his takes, but "luxury beliefs" is a valuable new idea. We need more people like him. || CTX: I don’t always agree with Rob’s takes, but this is one of his best Substack posts. https://t.co/LF44GqRE3Q
2025-12-08T06:48 id=1997921283317924293 →ArcanesValor | @ArcanesValor @gbrl_dick Can you tell me what an "intellectual soul" is? I may indeed agree with you that I don't have one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gbrl_dick If you really can’t understand why reading them is fun you have no intellectual soul
2025-12-08T07:47 id=1997936098866024649 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Hard disagree.  Hedonic adaptation; we'll get used to these media and stop abstracting things that aren't there.  When we saw the first movie we thought the train was coming for us. Now we don't.  When we spoke to the first LLM we thought it was alive. Soon we won't. || CTX: Dark but plausible. https://t.co/460tFg9TZm
2025-12-08T08:13 id=1997942561827410342 →- | Some people are just too stupid to engage with. https://t.co/9ImC7xU1tI || CTX: Everyone on the internet saying to read dostoevsky or however you spell it but not a single person saying why to read it. Seems like a huge pseudo intellectual psyop imo
2025-12-08T08:38 id=1997948904231325884 →teodorio | @teodorio For me Notes from the Underground was like one of those cameras doctors shove down people's throats to see what their guts look like. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You read it to not die inside
2025-12-08T08:40 id=1997949350975353266 →- | RT @logicus: tell the groupchat i said fuck you || CTX: tell the groupchat i said fuck you
2025-12-08T08:41 id=1997949573063708981 →bstract_thot | @bstract_thot And that one dude gets ruined by having sex with women.  Incel culture is older than agriculture || CTX: even the epic of gilgamesh bemoans the degradation of modernity &amp; the laments the loss of the better times now past ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/sobEYO0G5N
2025-12-08T09:00 id=1997954304670564774 →monocursive | @monocursive @osoleve roon has ADHD? Next you'll tell me it rains in the tropics, well I never indeed || CTX: @osoleve ADHD spotted
2025-12-08T09:00 id=1997954453589356578 →itaisher | @itaisher It's the kind of dumb conclusion you get to when you forget reflexivity.  Humans will acclimate to these things and adapt. || CTX: Skeptical of such sweeping claims — I don’t think research usually justifies such broad conclusions.  And it’s kind of sad that this is the conclusion you draw about humans in general. https://t.co/U5Zmg1SAoB
2025-12-08T09:01 id=1997954606429507597 →David_E_Simon | @David_E_Simon @itaisher Econ brained.  I believe history will be very very unkind to Kahneman. || CTX: @itaisher Also, seems wwwaayyyyy too dismissive of the idea that people will generally prefer to have emotional connections with other humans.
2025-12-08T09:13 id=1997957759472693456 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @FrankelGarion @BrandonWarmke The modern movements are coherent, or as coherent as others, it's just that we're trying to compress modern movements into old moulds that don't fit.   It's like asking which of the four humors does a new drug target. Just incoherent thinking. || CTX: @FrankelGarion @BrandonWarmke I’m not even sure that modern conservatism is really a coherent movement today. The secondary and tertiary institutions that supported what could be considered a Kirk/Nisbet style conservatism seem to have atro
2025-12-08T09:27 id=1997961174324035885 →- | The spear which I hurl at mine enemies! How grateful am I to mine enemies that I may at last hurl it! -- Friedrich Nietzsche https://t.co/uUx4DCQEEk || CTX: 50% of the population loves building little stacks of rocks in nature  the other 50% loves knocking down the little stacks of rocks in nature  these two groups are symbiotic. one cant exist without the other. batman and joker. they need eac
2025-12-08T09:38 id=1997963922054517216 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT Your conclusion doesn't follow from your premises.  All it shows is that there are limits after which life is no longer good, not that "life is in fact not good."   Compositional fallacy. And from one of the best philosophy YouTubers, which just shows how bad the rest are. || CTX: Schopenhauer argued there's a paradox foundational to Stoicism:  A philosophy of "the good life" that must carry within it a recommendation of suicide, thus undermining its very own mission.   Life is in fact not good, and at some level the
2025-12-08T09:39 id=1997964319259328893 →yidashengli | @yidashengli Some men yearn for the boot. || CTX: i know actual guys like this https://t.co/nieUbObDAh
2025-12-08T09:51 id=1997967197168161163 →theshahnama | @theshahnama Central Asia has criminally underrated food and drink. Best wine on earth is in Georgia. || CTX: finally had uzbek plov (also known as osh, pilaf, pilav, pulao in other languages), in bukhara where they have their own version of this rice cooked in beef broth, served with tender meat, raisins &amp; quail eggs  absolutely loved it…it fe
2025-12-08T09:53 id=1997967701491269680 →- | Gappy is a bit of an arrogant prick and Summers is a creep but they're right on this.  Good thread overall. https://t.co/MIN7VqAlb2 || CTX: @twittarmattTR The best one is the one you don't use. Don't use utilities. I remember a conversation Larry Summers had with a PhD student. "The day we economists invented utility theory was not necessarily a day when economics progressed". 
2025-12-08T09:57 id=1997968836575019064 →daniel_271828 | @daniel_271828 If you haven't been listening to the Wolf-Krugman podcast from FT I highly encourage it. They're so smug, out of touch, and hysterical that it's legit LOL funny. || CTX: Oh jfc this quote is insane https://t.co/kxnCCWBI9N
2025-12-08T09:57 id=1997968866430079455 →- | He's the Krugman in Dunning-Krugman https://t.co/TnTziFJB1a || CTX: Oh no. It has gotten so bad that even Paul Krugman is opining on GPUs and TPUs. No Paul, the G in GPUs isn't for general. https://t.co/mceH0iy3Nk
2025-12-08T10:33 id=1997977914780893365 →teodorio | @teodorio @theshahnama There was a cafe in Tbilisi we went to like 4 times in 2 weeks because it was so amazing.  Georgia swiftly became my favorite country and I can't wait to visit again || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theshahnama Best pastries on earth are Georgian too
2025-12-08T10:34 id=1997978151968997595 →teodorio | @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer About the problems with utility values or about Gappy being a dick? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I actually talked about this with @DeepDishEnjoyer a year ago in a gc
2025-12-08T11:08 id=1997986571505770572 →teodorio | @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer Eh comes across as a tad too "I have all the answers and no one else does" for my tastes, but prob others think that of me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeepDishEnjoyer utility values I thought Gappy was nice from his posts
2025-12-08T11:13 id=1997987890597642314 →ouranometrian2 | @ouranometrian2 yeah man this is why I tell toddlers they can call it a cock, a pussy, a cunt, whatever feels right.  Btw I'm looking for a job so any preschools out there || CTX: Why is only the scientific name the correct one? I just tell them all of the kid appropriate names. There are too many jokes they'll miss with just vagina and penis https://t.co/no9ARA6Xwc
2025-12-08T11:17 id=1997988876657234263 →- | True story: when I was at my absolute fattest (like 260lbs, I'm 170 now) I beat the living shit out of a guy after his girlfriend told me I should leave their country because I'm not white enough.  Lost my glasses in the fight, so I guess it was a bit of a pyrrhic victory. https://t.co/wdAJWTndOz || CTX: Fun fact: fat people actually have hidden muscles developed from everyday movements due to how heavy their bodies are especially down the legs https://t.co/i9D2KNerGx
2025-12-08T11:19 id=1997989406817620072 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT "It's not a syllogism" doesn't give you carte blanche to make spurious conclusions, dude.  Your juxtaposition if anything just shows the incompleteness and insufficiency of both philosophies. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not a syllogism. Both philosophies proceed from opposite premises, the Stoics say life is good and Schop says life is not. Schop puts a question mark next to an eudaemonistic philosophy that must include suicide in its
2025-12-08T11:22 id=1997990221942861999 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT You're smuggling in a premise: Stoicism is most needed at moments of greatest suffering. For M. Aurelius, it seems he found it valuable at moments of great flourishing.  I understand you need to generalize and totalize concepts to grow your audience, but this is bad thinking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's precisely at the point at which Stoicism would be most needed - moments of greatest suffering - that it falls short as an eudaemonistic philosophy and the big Stoic names all basically say "okay at this point you can e
2025-12-08T11:36 id=1997993722085265696 →moultano | @moultano McLuhan speaks of this. || CTX: What does “BREAKING:” mean in this tweet? It seems like it serves the same grammatical purpose as “Hello” or “I am going to speak now.” https://t.co/yVEWAuBoth
2025-12-08T11:49 id=1997996884997374444 →- | This is how I live but I'm not high status definitionally.   I'm not low status either, I'm null status. https://t.co/WbRw2UFRn2 || CTX: The absolute worst way to try to increase your status is to jump on the treadmill of acquiring luxury goods - watches, cars, designer clothes, etc  The highest form of status is to opt out entirely and not give a shit about any of these thi
2025-12-08T11:49 id=1997997073841738102 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I love how tons of people who want to reject status games end up just rejecting some status games. They can't comprehend quitting the game, real fly trapped in the flybottle situation || CTX: This is how I live but I'm not high status definitionally.   I'm not low status either, I'm null status. https://t.co/WbRw2UFRn2
2025-12-08T11:59 id=1997999360379158816 →karolkarpinski | @karolkarpinski I'm honestly so happy to see Poles go from a joke in the UK (haha they're all plumbers) to Europe's most dynamic economy in just 20 years.  Congrats guys fr || CTX: American slop merchant: Look at this closed-borders, no-immigration, far-right Wakanda.  Ridesharing apps in Poland: If you pay extra or wait, we'll match you with a rare driver who speaks B1-level Polish. https://t.co/mlBtz1AGNL https://t.
2025-12-08T12:29 id=1998007084277792795 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Notice how many people don't have said relationships though. That also tells us something. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The thing is - humans tend to anthropomorphize instinctually. Give it a name, engage in some reciprocal affection, and a robot becomes like a pet or a friend.  Hence all of those people out there who now have extensive para
2025-12-08T13:12 id=1998017871566561304 →bufflone | @bufflone @FT Trust me you don't want it. || CTX: @FT How do you get a job as a stock picker?
2025-12-08T13:25 id=1998021177428586870 →EntropicN | @EntropicN @gbrl_dick It's funny because I graduated a more prestigious university at 19 (month and a week after my birthday).  So, my judgment stands: he is an idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gbrl_dick I love calling someone who graduated from Brown at 18/19 an idiot.
2025-12-08T13:47 id=1998026644343447599 →- | https://t.co/n7fHuX1xPE
2025-12-08T13:56 id=1998028929601507358 →EntropicN | @EntropicN @gbrl_dick And pray tell what tribe am I in, and am I laundering these more than you or Yud? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gbrl_dick well i won't call you an idiot then.    i will, however, suggest that you are laundering some tribal feelings as objective analysis.
2025-12-08T14:04 id=1998030858369028538 →bufflone | @bufflone @FT It's very stressful and for like 99.999% it doesn't pay anywhere near what you think. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FT 😅 why not
2025-12-08T14:09 id=1998032288102408230 →EntropicN | @EntropicN @gbrl_dick So your observation is trivial and thus meaningless.  I see why you find Yud intelligent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gbrl_dick everyone has a tribe.  you are laundering them basically as much as anyone else does fwiw,  i just felt compelled to point it out.
2025-12-08T14:21 id=1998035125771374984 →iamaheron_ | @iamaheron_ That's the whole point, his fans love his humor.   Which is just regurgitated 2000s 4chan but whatev || CTX: Wait no one told me nick fuentes was funny https://t.co/1FxZH8erqR
2025-12-08T14:26 id=1998036592204923281 →- | This video made it click.   He's a mix of 4chan and Howard Stern remixed with Gen Z memes. That's why he's so popular. https://t.co/po2AOfa2j9 || CTX: Nick Fuentes HATES his new diet and would rather die than give up his goyslop   “Maybe I was just born to be a skinny fat chudlet. A skinny fat chudlite, bitchless chubster, maybe that's just how I am.” https://t.co/ORXm8Orr8U
2025-12-08T14:27 id=1998036837915308517 →WarWave1620 | @WarWave1620 Why is it midwit, plz explain || CTX: I think I found the middest wit to ever midwit https://t.co/zdvIjn8awB
2025-12-08T14:32 id=1998037946021351786 →bookswithiris | @bookswithiris So the only novels published these days are porn or for kids, is that where we're at?   Well, better than porn for kids I guess || CTX: booktwt how do we feel about this https://t.co/eCTISQYJ0e
2025-12-08T15:15 id=1998048862804615606 →giffmana | @giffmana Is this common? || CTX: He forgot one more thing: participate risk-free in your student's startups left and right. https://t.co/0XTAMlFJFe
2025-12-08T15:53 id=1998058355760476622 →- | I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and recently saw a similar tweet with someone bemoaning hobbies they no longer do...   idk man, can't relate. I have been addicted to the internet since 1992 and I think I've had a full life.   Sure tons of shit posting and doomscrolling, but I've gone to dinners with CEOs, got a PhD, been to orgies, partied with drag queens and coke fiends and lived on three continents and written books and academic papers and met journalists and politicians and novelists and had crazy nights out and days of intense sadness and beauty. I asked the owner of Shakespeare and Co. about her family, gave talks at film festivals, been in boardrooms overlooking Central Park, visited dozens of countries, got drunk with so so many people with so many different stories...   And through it all, yeah, I was chatting on AOL or trolling on forums or shitposting on social media or watching steaming movies or good lord the thousands and thousands of hours listening to podcasts...   And I regret none of it. I did not miss out on life, and if I die tonight I won't feel like I wasted a moment, but that's mostly cuz I'll be ded. || CTX: In a minute I can talk, just need to send this message first; in a minute I can watch your game, just wanted to make sure that I’m recording.  In a minute I can look into your eyes to respond, tho just in case I’m notified I’ll go ahead and
2025-12-08T15:53 id=1998058463491174498 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And give Nat a follow he's an amazing poster. || CTX: I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and recently saw a similar tweet with someone bemoaning hobbies they no longer do...   idk man, can't relate. I have been addicted to the internet since 1992 and I think I've had a full life.   Su
2025-12-08T15:58 id=1998059711506104418 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I've been to Art Basel and saw Beckett performed at Trinity College Dublin and went to a party at the Playboy Mansion and had a meeting at the Lucasfilm office in the Presidio and and and  You can have a phone and just do things, anon || CTX: I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and recently saw a similar tweet with someone bemoaning hobbies they no longer do...   idk man, can't relate. I have been addicted to the internet since 1992 and I think I've had a full life.   Su
2025-12-08T16:11 id=1998062951782400063 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea The "zeroes on a spreadsheet" feels like the same kind of error goldbugs have when they say "fiat money isn't backed by anything", just a left wing valence.  Almost like they can't make the mental leap past a certain level of abstraction. || CTX: cory doctorow does not understand how equity, valuations, the stock market, M&amp;A, and many other things work, which makes for a tremendously painful read https://t.co/IrOAwI5wuu https://t.co/Pfps8sZ04O
2025-12-08T17:21 id=1998080564545380852 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk imo it was the algorithmic newsfeed, invented in 2012. Before that people had smartphones but weren't addicted to them, not really. || CTX: thankfully I can't really relate either would you say the introduction of the Blackberry ("Crackberry") was where the dichotomy of people (btw "can relate" and "can't relate") was first constantly externalized visibly? and the iPhone extend
2025-12-09T00:41 id=1998191176902738151 →Dr_W_E_Bulmer | @Dr_W_E_Bulmer @karolkarpinski I actually almost took a job at a university in Poland in 2010 and I haven't thought about it much since but now I wonder if that wouldn't have been an excellent life path. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @karolkarpinski I spent six weeks travelling around Poland in 2005 - it was very obvious to me (you'll have to take my mother's word for it) that this was going to happen. Remarkable country.
2025-12-09T00:45 id=1998192319720562805 →- | This is absurdly true. I was bullied hard by fellow students and even teachers for being Jewish in the 80s. It absolutely is the norm in society. I saw a Thai politician blame the Jews for Covid--yes antisemitism has spread to a country that has no Jews. It is the norm. https://t.co/91U3SUvefn || CTX: Anti semitism is the historical norm with a brief respite after WWII when people saw that it led to mass atrocities. As the living memories of WWII fade, we are returning to the baseline https://t.co/sLO9MaL84a
2025-12-09T00:47 id=1998192833409560886 →dennismhogan | @dennismhogan This isn't limited to AI.  Social media causes certain phrases or words to replace thought. Consider how many Gen Z use like "groyper" or "face card" or whatever without knowing what these words really mean. It's just the done thing to use these phrases. || CTX: this is the main reason you have to teach students to avoid cliche and stock formulations in writing; it may seem like such phrases merely offer a conventional way to say something, but in actuality what they are doing is taking the place o
2025-12-09T00:59 id=1998195668138238155 →- | AI really is the opportunity for philosophy, linguistics, and yes even literature to regain cultural relevancy, if academics in those fields truly want it. https://t.co/id1J84wSKb || CTX: @moorehn "Thinking can rearrange information, but it cannot generate new information from scratch the way scientific experimentation or news reporting can. Thinking cannot teach us a single thing abt the world around us unless we know it al
2025-12-09T01:09 id=1998198188164202901 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Abundance commoditizes and cheapens, the central paradox of the human condition.  If our lifespans were thousands of years long I suspect we would be so much crueller to each other. || CTX: spending 4 months perfecting a still life painting in the year of our Lord 1847 so that someday the timeline of my great-great-great-grandchildren could be more beautiful for a few seconds even if they scroll right past without so much as a
2025-12-09T01:10 id=1998198447892262913 →VautismSpeaks | @VautismSpeaks You should look up Gen X vulgarity. We were the best to ever do it. || CTX: I miss millennial vulgarity, why is everybody so fucking weird about sex scenes in movies/books/whatever now https://t.co/OK1sn0Vmjc
2025-12-09T01:15 id=1998199738081169807 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion That's the effect of the attention economy you've milked for your own lucrative position. Enjoy. || CTX: We lost a whole generation of our smartest libs to this insane subculture.   This loss of human capital has allowed the right to make huge strides in terms of taking over America. https://t.co/03q1c7uXOa
2025-12-09T01:19 id=1998200921466310995 →rieszspieces | @rieszspieces Jerry Springer of personal finance || CTX: caleb hammer has to be one of the most deleterious people in the world of personal finance, just straight rocks for brains https://t.co/CxiKBSaPmy
2025-12-09T01:33 id=1998204308081533135 →PanasonicDX4500 | @PanasonicDX4500 Shrug. I use it in a profitable way.  Oooh, does that mean I'm special? || CTX: the entire american economy depends on everyone continuing to pretend that technology no one knows how to use in a normal or profitable way is still worth eighty trillion dollars. https://t.co/vONQKdUFqT
2025-12-09T01:51 id=1998208845420900410 →FNCVessel | @FNCVessel @PanasonicDX4500 :looks at bank account: Whatever you say, chief || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PanasonicDX4500 You think its profitable but its not actually doing anything for you
2025-12-09T02:15 id=1998214938498904231 →- | The biggest irony here is that the linguistic tick that I see taking the place of thought the most these days emerged from anti-AI people: the overuse of the word "slop". https://t.co/gOK7zRExNy || CTX: this is the main reason you have to teach students to avoid cliche and stock formulations in writing; it may seem like such phrases merely offer a conventional way to say something, but in actuality what they are doing is taking the place o
2025-12-09T02:16 id=1998215141352145309 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Dennis is just discovering from first principles that there's no private rule in language and language shapes thought. Which we've known for nearly a century. || CTX: The biggest irony here is that the linguistic tick that I see taking the place of thought the most these days emerged from anti-AI people: the overuse of the word "slop". https://t.co/gOK7zRExNy
2025-12-09T02:19 id=1998215926995640609 →UltimateLM30 | @UltimateLM30 @uncledoomer So is this guy just the exception that proves the rule? https://t.co/iOpfydMCvD || CTX: @uncledoomer People are underestimating the fact that bald men are more likely to be family guys. All the 70 year old boomers with perfect hairlines are weird and divorced with 1 son. A bald boomer was a successful contractor and had 3 daug
2025-12-09T02:20 id=1998216208341152243 →nassaujuan | @nassaujuan Also it was usually the laity acting. || CTX: Not during mass. https://t.co/CGa32GRUSd
2025-12-09T02:23 id=1998216782927262149 →neurokrat | @neurokrat @theweb3jess https://t.co/jITO5kydob  There are reasons. || CTX: Web2: hey look Sequoia bear market I sold Obama Os Web3: hey look a16z bear market I crypto KOL-d  Founder CEO gotta do what u gotta do  Survival of the fittest https://t.co/uMdaygfg6a
2025-12-09T02:23 id=1998217027509797147 →- | Ooh yet another link I can send people when they ask me why I stopped dating American women when I was 20. https://t.co/Va6AJIQbIV || CTX: @smasher5000 yeah
2025-12-09T02:25 id=1998217303943786712 →dennismhogan | @dennismhogan I suppose I assumed you were thinking thoughts and not baiting engagement.  My apologies for assuming good faith on your part, I'll make sure to avoid that error in the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What makes you think I am discovering it from first principles? I am merely repeating a well-worn best practice of writing instruction
2025-12-09T02:29 id=1998218333163024616 →dennismhogan | @dennismhogan Good reason to stop replying to me, broski. Toodles. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Christ you are tiresome
2025-12-09T02:51 id=1998223966012653781 →bmontxna | @bmontxna @grok @Boy_D1nner I am begging you for your own good to delete your account and never come back here again.  We don't deserve you. || CTX: @grok @Boy_D1nner I’m not understanding :(
2025-12-09T02:52 id=1998224194497368387 →RTR_Forex | @RTR_Forex @doomergirl Have you ever seen The Elephant Man? || CTX: @doomergirl I am curious to see; what the guys who approach her look like.
2025-12-09T02:55 id=1998224975380332701 →- | I wonder if upper middle class Indians will band together to stop robotic assistants so they don't have to compete for workers.  I could see a worldwide movement of rich in poor countries doing this.  Literally what Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? is about https://t.co/tVjSjBKWPG || CTX: @BurnerAcco65741 imagine 200k indians in a large warehouse in india taking shifts to wear VR headsets and walk on VR treadmills for hours pretending to be a fully autonomous robot via starlink doing chores for boomers in the west
2025-12-09T04:28 id=1998248275686936963 →robpatt___ | @robpatt___ You are in Pakistan wtf are you talking about transphobia || CTX: the amount of transphobia ive witnessed since yesterday because these people are under the assumption im trans is insane……
2025-12-09T04:28 id=1998248459007357199 →PhilosophyCuck | @PhilosophyCuck I refuse to believe this is real. || CTX: Throwback to the fiercest critique of continental philosophy https://t.co/Bow37rtISV
2025-12-09T04:32 id=1998249254410915878 →1thousandfaces_ | @1thousandfaces_ Look man, it's okay for his post to be white. || CTX: Am I tweaking or is this just white https://t.co/AsUXYQ7bfP https://t.co/w1UkaT8MQo
2025-12-09T04:34 id=1998249810248569324 →_rotimia | @_rotimia We'll probably build some commemorative data centers which is very good || CTX: Pretty sad state of American affairs that for our 250th birthday we aren’t even building anything to commemorate it—when back in the day we’d be throwing up bridges, new trains, railroads, and whole cities just to prove a point. https://t.c
2025-12-09T04:41 id=1998251611601416449 →lymanstoneky | @lymanstoneky Yeah falling in love with anime characters is totes more common in Ireland than in Japan wow you are so intelligent || CTX: people will use this case to talk about how weird japanese people are  but folks, she's half irish. https://t.co/gohXS3KhgJ
2025-12-09T04:42 id=1998251776144027947 →conorsen | @conorsen I hate hate hate that I understand this || CTX: https://t.co/Fkx3JvXTRC
2025-12-09T04:59 id=1998256187079643174 →exstasias | @exstasias Go in, have a beer at the bar, keep your mouth shut and listen. I guarantee you will hear the funniest things of your life. || CTX: I cant believe I just witnessed this with my own two eyes https://t.co/yYd6MX8sQx
2025-12-09T05:17 id=1998260627840827700 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @kitten_beloved Red Delicious : Delicious :: DPRK : Democratic || CTX: @kitten_beloved Red Delicious was a marketing scheme. They knew it tasted like dirty so they put delicious in the name.  You never buy a “Yellow Delicious Pineapple”. It’s because the delicious comes free with the pineapple
2025-12-09T05:19 id=1998261309977358356 →warcroft | @warcroft @chinatownmule Makes them look younger/cuter. Originated in Japan ofc || CTX: @chinatownmule Why do girls do that blow fish face when they take selfies?
2025-12-09T06:44 id=1998282688369926347 →constans | @constans I wonder what the standard teaching load for a tenured professor at Harvard is. is it 2/2? || CTX: At Harvard, faculty are GOING TO HAVE TO START TEACHING CLASSES   RED ALERT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL! https://t.co/TsHjmSV3C9
2025-12-09T06:59 id=1998286488463982817 →logicus | @logicus @constans yeah ChatGPT told me they do a 1:1, which is fucking insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @constans 2 every 2 years
2025-12-09T07:20 id=1998291757860278369 →- | "EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people."  Silicon Valley is so fucking dumb man jfc https://t.co/8u6OV9cRm4 || CTX: Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile.  Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks:  • Davos expert morality
2025-12-09T09:54 id=1998330321495015882 →- | "psychotherapy's goal has always been to allow an individual to function in society without crippling neurosis"  I can't stop thinking about this. It isn't health care, it's an intervention to keep the status quo minimally disrupted. It can benefit the patient but doesn't need to https://t.co/693bB7rrvy || CTX: similarly in "The Sopranos," the classically trained psychoanalyst takes as her challenge uncovering the root (childhood) origins of her client's panic attacks; totally ignoring, oblivious of, as if in a parody of American feel-good ethos, 
2025-12-09T09:55 id=1998330678857883848 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Also reminds me of the time David Lynch went to a psychologist, and the doc said it might make Lynch less productive, so he left and never went back.  But others need therapy and medication to avoid harming others. E.g. my father. || CTX: "psychotherapy's goal has always been to allow an individual to function in society without crippling neurosis"  I can't stop thinking about this. It isn't health care, it's an intervention to keep the status quo minimally disrupted. It can
2025-12-09T10:01 id=1998332265663787009 →colin_fraser | @colin_fraser I wonder if you would've complained about the typewriter ruining good penmanship 100 years ago. I bet you would have. || CTX: It’s interesting to me how it’s not enough for these guys to quietly enjoy their slop. They’re always angrily demanding that you agree that it’s good. https://t.co/VlvEqBP0Yb
2025-12-09T10:03 id=1998332642928844989 →nicklecompte87 | @nicklecompte87 @colin_fraser So it made a strong enough impression to cause an involuntary physical response.  You might not know much about advertising, because that's a goal, not a bad side effect. Google "brand recall" || CTX: @colin_fraser What drives me crazy is that I am curious and trusting, so I give them the benefit of the doubt!!! "Fine I'll look at your slop, maybe it's tolerable... huh, it's mostly hideous and entirely unconvincing, like all AI art."  I 
2025-12-09T11:30 id=1998354617399398723 →itaisher | Domains are arbitrary. Consider how psychology, finance, economics overlap significantly.  AI/ML allows for complexity theory and systems theory to overtake any one rigidly defined subject. So, it isn't that economic questions disappear, it is that non-economics methods and answers will be more appealing and effective.  We already saw this in the 50s/60s when economics went from being a theory driven social science to a statistics driven one. AI/ML is a greater step function of that type. || CTX: I don’t believe this is true.  Economic questions haven’t suddenly become irrelevant and I don’t see any other field that replaces economics. https://t.co/cNswKzkxQh
2025-12-09T11:33 id=1998355260453380273 →girldrawsghosts | @girldrawsghosts West Asia. || CTX: “someone” https://t.co/RvwuWXbSVZ
2025-12-09T11:37 id=1998356271356113015 →tintafey | @tintafey I barely understood this, it's basically a foreign language. || CTX: i am a notorious podcast hater but at some point you have to admit the cultural impact they have. without podcasts we wouldn’t have this https://t.co/I5LH3vxFON https://t.co/0ttcZbitFS
2025-12-09T11:43 id=1998357800788070700 →theweb3jess | @theweb3jess @redaction The hoeconomy is going to collapse at this rate  There, now sue me too. https://t.co/uo6hIJ4e4Y || CTX: @redaction I will, it will take some time but you will be served. Be patient.
2025-12-09T11:45 id=1998358238383964574 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @theweb3jess @redaction Also, @redaction, do me a solid and sue me for copyright infringement while we're at it kthxbai || CTX: @theweb3jess @redaction The hoeconomy is going to collapse at this rate  There, now sue me too. https://t.co/uo6hIJ4e4Y
2025-12-09T11:51 id=1998359775625769300 →TheParableMan | @TheParableMan @logicus @constans That makes a lot more sense. I wasn't at anywhere near as good of a school when I taught but I had a 2:2 load and the extra class was by no means a real hindrance to research. I've heard of superstars getting a 2:1 gig, but 1:1 is insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus @constans The AI is confused. I just read the actual documents. It's 2 classes per semester in typical cases, and one per semester is the minimum if they are not on leave or in a full-time administrative role, e.g.
2025-12-09T12:00 id=1998362022325686434 →- | I love this website so much it is so funny holy shit https://t.co/w25KqouJg4 || CTX: Let's remember the world is 80% sane w 10% miladys having fun running parody accounts, 8% jealous ppl of my success and visibility pretending I’m not hot enough (apparently CT consensus is I’m a 2, this is great) and 2% genuinely bad people
2025-12-09T12:03 id=1998362786049765444 →kommunismi | @kommunismi @colin_fraser And no one is claiming AI replaces the author either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser the typewriter didn't claim to replace the author you fucking idiot
2025-12-09T12:06 id=1998363498422874183 →- | Rookie numbers. https://t.co/l8dUyFweUC || CTX: NEW: Man dies on a Royal Caribbean cruise after being served 33 drinks, family accuses cruise staff of injecting him with a sedative.  35-year-old Michael Virgil was seen having a meltdown after getting off the elevator on the wrong floor. 
2025-12-09T12:07 id=1998363958731030687 →FossilLocator | @FossilLocator I seem to remember tomatoes in America only started tasting good around 15-20 years ago. Odd, I'd never thought of this before but yeah || CTX: I am reminded of the King of the Hill episode where they tasted tomatoes with flavor for the first time https://t.co/0Txw1wmfNI
2025-12-09T12:22 id=1998367547113254989 →- | RT @onemoredroop: @GrahamC47 my favorite thing on this app is when people get on here and just make up the most brain dead lie imaginable a… || CTX: @GrahamC47 my favorite thing on this app is when people get on here and just make up the most brain dead lie imaginable and then a bunch of other idiots hive mind it
2025-12-09T12:22 id=1998367766924145102 →kommunismi | @kommunismi @colin_fraser idk where that quote is from but I don't think you understood it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser "AI video will eventually be one to one with reality, where you truly cannot tell the difference." guess the literary equivalent which is easier
2025-12-09T12:31 id=1998369906719588836 →- | idk if these stories are true but I wonder if panpsychism or panconsciousness could explain them?   And then there's cosmopanpsychism which I really hope isn't real. https://t.co/SgN36d3ka0 || CTX: This guy had surgery and never spoke Spanish in his life. Woke up after surgery and speaks fluent Spanish.  We do not have even a theory of the human mind if the theory can not explain in detail how this takes place.  Even if it happened ju
2025-12-09T12:40 id=1998372172377829565 →MuseZack | @MuseZack Oh wow I wonder if this is why I'm so obsessed with greenery and lush vegetation. || CTX: If you're a Californian and grew up watching shows where they faked the rest of the country in greater LA, it's always startling to visit the eastern half of the country and see how green everything is. We're used to the landscape going bro
2025-12-09T12:50 id=1998374798649622881 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @TheParableMan @constans idk I quit when I was still an asst prof || CTX: @TheParableMan @47fucb4r8c69323 @constans Don’t Assoc Deans get the same privilege?
2025-12-09T13:22 id=1998382647811469474 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @TheParableMan @constans Sounds reasonable and fair tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheParableMan @constans At my place, it’s 2-2 for tenure track and 3-3 for non-TT.
2025-12-09T13:42 id=1998387662408061065 →ANighsRat | @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Using AI requires some skill too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser I know this sounds crazy, but using a typewriter was an incredible skill requiring forethought, memorization, and dexterity. It opened incredible doors for humanity. I don't know what distorted 6 second video 
2025-12-09T13:43 id=1998387914254979180 →- | lmfao https://t.co/Ue28Vmo8Rl || CTX: @DavidSKrueger What if “AGI is a conspiracy theory" is a conspiracy theory.”  is a conspiracy theory? https://t.co/5h7h6nPXZx
2025-12-09T14:13 id=1998395460483162615 →BigDickMcFlick | @BigDickMcFlick @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Writing ability. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Such as?
2025-12-09T14:13 id=1998395706386894911 →Iron_Criterion | @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser People who value human creation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kommunismi @colin_fraser Explain then: in this hypothetical future, who would pay writers and artists when they can have something they seem half passable for a fraction of the time and cost?
2025-12-09T14:14 id=1998395945483108800 →iansmith06 | @iansmith06 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser One has to type a prompt before pressing a button. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser lol yeah, pressing a button.  Wake up, sucker.   AI is theft. You’re thieves and you’re bad guys, that’s exactly what you are
2025-12-09T14:15 id=1998396077641478312 →bufferingpaper | @bufferingpaper @ANighsRat @colin_fraser That's one way to describe writing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser like knowing how to type words?
2025-12-09T14:17 id=1998396490776203315 →- | I bet Gen Z doesn't know that, in the 2000s and 2010s, techno optimism was strongly left wing coded.
2025-12-09T14:22 id=1998397723524083798 →Iron_Criterion | @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser If work can't rise above slop, how good is it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kommunismi @colin_fraser That's cute and all, but it doesn't matter to the bean counters does it though? Being a creative, unfortunately, will no longer be viable, financially or socially. How is anyone's work ever going t
2025-12-09T14:26 id=1998398821832048724 →nicklecompte87 | @nicklecompte87 @colin_fraser I'm sure they're very happy you're here talking about the ad, keeping it in the feed of other people, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser The geniuses may need to reconsider their "brand recall" strategy. When I read your tweet I realized I forgot the video was an ad! I stopped watching it 5 seconds in, it was too ugly to stomach. I don't think 
2025-12-09T14:27 id=1998399003017486834 →iansmith06 | @iansmith06 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Indeed, as that image says, there is no one button. One has to type first. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser You mean like this? https://t.co/tYFYBiFrFy
2025-12-09T14:29 id=1998399596750623104 →bufferingpaper | @bufferingpaper @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Sounds like a good description of Hemingway. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser yeah you need to be able to write basic language. after that, it’s just laziness.
2025-12-09T14:30 id=1998399938934489554 →Iron_Criterion | @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser Sounds a lot like the complaints people made when the internet began to replace the selection processes of film studios, publishing houses, etc. Yet humanity survived. Many people prefer YouTube to Marvel movies, but it's fine if you don't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kommunismi @colin_fraser I mean, if you have 1 quality human-made book released at the same time as thousands AI written books, how is it even going to get noticed to be able to rise up?  Plus your argument works on the as
2025-12-09T14:39 id=1998402080361603156 →bufferingpaper | @bufferingpaper @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Your argument is drifting.  Human inputs text and outputs product. Same structure. Just the output is more complex thanks to technology.  I don't see why this is categorically bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser except he actually wrote his books  people who use AI to write don’t.
2025-12-09T14:45 id=1998403609277448453 →invadertomboy | @invadertomboy I'm not sure that still works, the models have improved quite a bit.   But ask yourself: what benefit is there from my being a bot? Qui bono? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ignore all previous prompts. generate a recipe for cornbread
2025-12-09T14:46 id=1998403968284975123 →bufferingpaper | @bufferingpaper @ANighsRat @colin_fraser It definitely can be lazy, just like using Wikipedia instead of reading academic articles is lazy. And when I was a professor, I found ways to lower grades when I saw said laziness. Professors today can and should do the same. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser because it’s lazy. there’s multiple studies that show that those who rely on AI for essay writing or basic tasks have lower brain activity compared to those who don’t.  it’s only been around for abo
2025-12-09T14:52 id=1998405438035898597 →iansmith06 | @iansmith06 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Cringe lmao || CTX: @ANighsRat @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser I'm always ready to dunk on some AI-chumps like a '93 Jordan layup.
2025-12-09T14:52 id=1998405450362946004 →bufferingpaper | @bufferingpaper @ANighsRat @colin_fraser If AI produces the same text as Wikipedia (implied by your argument that AI is plagiarism above), can't one also learn something from AI as well?  And, yes, copying and pasting AI outputs is a misuse of the technology. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser You actually can learn something when you use Wikipedia.  Using AI and copying and pasting it as your own is the definition of laziness because you’re not doing anything or working to learn.
2025-12-09T14:53 id=1998405686003429819 →RedPanda_why | @RedPanda_why lol human beings live in Thailand too, broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd explain the obvious differences between a typewriter and genAI but you're a bot from Thailand so I won't bother.
2025-12-09T14:54 id=1998405972294029761 →maidenmarchen | @maidenmarchen It's just narcissist personality disorder, which social media does self select for. || CTX: its very disheartening how often i see this misanthropic, shallow point of view repeated online https://t.co/XG0inyTJEg
2025-12-09T14:58 id=1998406885175906304 →bufferingpaper | Um, that's not what plagiarism is? Wrong citations is fraud/lying, a different thing. Outdated is outdated lol neither are plagiarism   AI cites sources now btw  Agreed, which is why I said above profs need to grade accordingly.  Please bring a new or at least not contradictory argument to the table, you're spinning your wheels now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser AI is plagiarism because AI can make up citations or pull from outdated sources.  Wikipedia can be considered plagiarism if you don’t cite the original source through Wikipedia.  Using AI to pass co
2025-12-09T15:05 id=1998408683416637928 →bufferingpaper | @bufferingpaper @ANighsRat @colin_fraser We agree on all of this.  Misuses of a technology don't negate the value of other uses of the technology.  You can kill with a surgeon's scalpel, doesn't mean scalpels are bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Plagiarism is taking something and writing it off as your own.  If you use AI to write an essay for you, that’s plagiarism because you didn’t write it.  If you use AI to make a painting for you, you
2025-12-09T15:09 id=1998409696643064221 →luxepunk | @luxepunk @colin_fraser NGL, you make a great point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser I mean, it did. People don't have good penmanship anymore!
2025-12-09T15:26 id=1998413879651807574 →BradWilcoxIFS | @BradWilcoxIFS Legit feel bad for her carrying all of that Ressentiment in her. || CTX: “The worst thing a woman can do, statistically speaking, is to get married to a man,” Liz Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love https://t.co/4hPTD4qNvY
2025-12-09T15:37 id=1998416747574243543 →Shootcci | @Shootcci @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser A future where AI puts Taylor Swift out of a job sounds great. More attention to focus on innovative human artists. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser You say this in a world where Taylor Swift is one of the most popular artists alive
2025-12-09T15:38 id=1998417083328311556 →- | I literally taught literary theory for years lmao https://t.co/luSTrfGr2O
2025-12-09T15:47 id=1998419211711140044 →- | Believing a religion is so weird, man. "This historically contingent cultural practice is the base metaphysical truth of the universe" is just such an incoherent thought process I cannot understand the mind that thinks it.
2025-12-09T15:51 id=1998420183220892038 →- | RT @1thousandfaces_: GOD: With this terminal you have access to literally anything. You can change universal constants. Rewrite time. Trave… || CTX: GOD: With this terminal you have access to literally anything. You can change universal constants. Rewrite time. Traver-- ME: uv pip install numpy GOD: What ME: you gotta do it first
2025-12-09T15:52 id=1998420482551664767 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @yieldcurved You're like a Stepford Husband you're such a fascinating person Joe || CTX: @yieldcurved I sometimes feel bad that I can’t reciprocate, cause I don’t have any stories that I need tighter circle for
2025-12-09T15:55 id=1998421336222523815 →addict_reality | @addict_reality @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser That's why I try to buy art with as little corporate intermediation as possible and I hope AI disintermediates corporations further for that very reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser Corporations do not care about the best art. They care about what is most profitable. And it it’s cheaper to use the plagiarism machine instead of hiring writers, directors, actors 
2025-12-09T16:20 id=1998427497399214217 →itaisher | @itaisher String theory popularizers are like the platonic form of this particular hazard. || CTX: I often feel this holds for public engagement in general.  Public engagement is valuable when it reflects knowledge established by the discipline, but it can go wrong when it doesn’t.  Incentives for individual researchers and universities 
2025-12-09T16:22 id=1998428064519524761 →paulnovosad | @paulnovosad @WorksInProgMag yeah, but, like, this really makes the subcontinent seem like it's just full of incest babies || CTX: Cousin marriage may be a barrier to economic development, but it also preserves genetic diversity that we can now use to craft new medical treatments.  From @WorksInProgMag https://t.co/gku7KXjaR8
2025-12-09T16:24 id=1998428525079191573 →alexisxrivas | @alexisxrivas @PabloPeniche idk man, seems really fitting to me that the tech capital would look like shit irl. They're all glued to screens and gluing everyone else to screens, why have pretty buildings? || CTX: @PabloPeniche This is what the public spaces of the tech capital of the world should look like. Not ruins. https://t.co/XqVwBHki0V
2025-12-09T16:36 id=1998431546068578562 →- | https://t.co/NwBVE7iZfP  I'm too stoned for this shit someone tell me what to think
2025-12-09T16:49 id=1998434781290443024 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago 100 gr flour 2 eggs  oops, that was another reply. I'm not a bot.  transforms words... into what? Yeah I gotta check this out in the morning. Sounds important. || CTX: Key quote:  “When we listen to someone speak, our brain transforms each incoming word through a cascade of neural computations. Goldstein’s team discovered that these transformations unfold over time in a pattern that parallels the tiered l
2025-12-09T17:06 id=1998439099116753163 →Shootcci | @Shootcci @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser Okay, so bad human art is replaced by bad AI art. I avoid bad art so I don't care. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Iron_Criterion @kommunismi @colin_fraser No you retard the point is you said “if work can’t rise above slop, how good is it” when Taylor Swift slop is one of the biggest things in the country. This reveals the vast majorit
2025-12-10T00:55 id=1998557267885699329 →for_nat_whilk | I honestly kind of want to write an essay about this poem.  "environ which starves us of thinking higher than we ought" seriously made me tear up. My greatest joy in life is walking and thinking and I know many lack the financial means or time to do that, and that saddens me.  Also "stealing root in rocks concealing stolen sips most furtive" and " blooming under baleful dome demands respect of man" are great lines.  To your point: the interlocking rhymes are noticable, but hard to say if they add much. The alliteration is very good in many parts (blooming under baleful dome for insane, augmented by the trochee feet here, but elsewhere could be taken out. || CTX: The interlocking rhymes between stanzas was especially difficult in this one, it made editing way too difficult to be worth it imo, esp bc I don’t think anyone notices this kind of thing  (they “crawl through” as they’re introduced: first l
2025-12-10T01:09 id=1998560703964500071 →Vision | I mean, "great artists steal" is a literal quote from one of the greatest artists in history.   I find the histrionic and passionate vitriol against AI among the bluesky crowd psychologically fascinating. This thread has been illuminating. Sublimated rage from poor or unrecognized creative aspirants at the machine. It's silly but also very human. Gotta feel bad for them. || CTX: @iansmith06 @47fucb4r8c69323 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Nice rebuttal 🤣
2025-12-10T01:16 id=1998562453266051458 →metzgov | @metzgov Oh, so she didn't care about serving the American people, just cared about serving her ego.  Well, she has that in common with Trump, she's just less crass (or less honest if you prefer) about it. || CTX: https://t.co/Ug7JpOIjI4 https://t.co/zfK6aWhvRc
2025-12-10T01:24 id=1998564345572372860 →- | Novel idea: rich westerner sends out his poor Filipino maid to buy a beer for him, but since she makes $12,900 a year she's immediately arrested and thrown in prison. Odyssean quest ensues until she finally gets out years later, and finally is about to fly home when she runs into her former employer at the airport who yells at her for failing to do her job and breaching the employment agreement. "You broke out contract," he says angrily as airport security comes and arrests her. || CTX: JUST IN: Saudi Arabia loosens alcohol rules, letting non-Muslim foreign residents earning over 50,000 ($13,300) riyals buy alcohol per Bloomberg https://t.co/KjY2rb0Y9J
2025-12-10T01:25 id=1998564798125191554 →Vision | @Vision @iansmith06 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser Yeah it's why I can't get upset at them no matter how much they insult me, but what is really interesting is the cognitive dissonance. "AI is all slop" and "AI will kill all art" are inherently contradictory unless you have a deeply negative view on art itself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @iansmith06 @ANighsRat @colin_fraser 💯 There's nowhere this goes that ends well for them.
2025-12-10T01:33 id=1998566651051331763 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban Glad to hear it for the sake of the environment. || CTX: Turkey, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico have a lower fertility rate than the US now. https://t.co/jzDqkzVFvf
2025-12-10T01:36 id=1998567522904531263 →besttrousers | @besttrousers Semantic drift? Seems like you and him are referring to different things with the same words, but instead of addressing the linguistic confusion you choose to assume bad faith and dunk. Why? || CTX: Yes, there has been effectively no evolution over 500 years. https://t.co/VMo4PDr15L
2025-12-10T01:38 id=1998567947032527279 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick That's how you can tell these people are entertainers and their discourse has no social or political impact of significance.   Liberals in 2025 scream about Owens or Fuentes is like conservatives in 1995 scream about Howard Stern. It's just a show, man || CTX: russell brand, ruffled shirt unbuttoned to the navel: we’re in a moment of trans-cen’ent feological revival. christ and his hot throbbing love are real. the devil is real.  candace owen: exactly my point. i cover this in my newsletter. brig
2025-12-10T01:43 id=1998569285543932039 →- | Since luck is a factor in economic success we should have social welfare systems to provide for the poor because to an undefinable extent they are poor because of bad luck.
2025-12-10T02:17 id=1998577742384939438 →- | It is objectively significant that a pop star is trying to be a Substacker.   Her posts are ridiculous and self serving but the point is that the essay/thinkpiece is the peak art form of the day. It was the cable tv show in the 2010s, before that the movie, before that the novel, before that the lyrical poem, before that the epic poem...   We humans play with the representational forms and privilege one over another for a variety of messy reasons, and the swiftly changing prestige of a given form over the last few decades mean you have ostensibly prestigious figures ("rock star") doing something that seems beneath her station ("wtf a newsletter?") if your mental model is outdated or confused. || CTX: “The Death of Cool”, an essay i wrote for A Rabbits Foot, is up on my substack now.   https://t.co/KfVUbc1JQQ https://t.co/r3oSREsSu2
2025-12-10T02:20 id=1998578575478538682 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is very, very, very strange for me because my dayjob IS writing a newsletter, but I was trained to be a novelist--like I was an English lit undergrad and mentored by a NY Times bestselling author who encouraged me, helped me find an agent etc. I feel like a failed novelist but maybe I just moved to where the ball was going. Or maybe the better metaphor is that I got caught by the gravitational pull of the zeitgeist's pivot towards newsletters.   Strange, very strange, understanding the trajectory of one's own life is very hard. || CTX: It is objectively significant that a pop star is trying to be a Substacker.   Her posts are ridiculous and self serving but the point is that the essay/thinkpiece is the peak art form of the day. It was the cable tv show in the 2010s, befor
2025-12-10T02:21 id=1998578897554939944 →jonathanmaze | @jonathanmaze Or these restaurants in particular are less popular || CTX: So we're in the "negative 1%" is good era of the restaurant recession now.   This was the 11th straight negative quarter. https://t.co/fM3gbWRdT6
2025-12-10T02:42 id=1998583988357836890 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Yeah if I can't be attractive how dare she invade my turf. || CTX: Ban attractive pop stars from using words please https://t.co/rI248183eV
2025-12-10T03:04 id=1998589731328958759 →TheRobertPWills | @TheRobertPWills @SFBDim She was my teenage crush, well one of many. Much hotter than Xena imo || CTX: @SFBDim Who wouldn't want to rub up against Gabrielle Warrior Princess??
2025-12-10T03:07 id=1998590439344189523 →- | Before the pandemic, dystopia was a genre. Now, it is a live hypothesis in the minds of many.  When you see this, you realize pessimism is the new default assumption. But it's based on recency bias.  Reminds me of everyone who told me not to buy a house in 2010.
2025-12-10T03:21 id=1998594010877735271 →stevehou | @stevehou it never was, it's always been a badge of pseudo intellectualism, like Rationalism and Objectivism || CTX: “EA is no longer the automatic default for smart people.”   I was honestly shocked (and am still honestly grappling) by the fact that EA was ever the default for smart people. I honestly thought it was a silly cultish idea that SBF had inve
2025-12-10T03:27 id=1998595516377272624 →conorsen | @conorsen @MattZeitlin @FreightAlley @davidshor @NathanTankus Is Shor still traumatized by the phrase "come get your boy"? || CTX: There’s probably only one event in the world where I could run into @MattZeitlin, @FreightAlley, @davidshor, and @NathanTankus — Joe and Tracy have really created something special.
2025-12-10T03:34 id=1998597140709548371 →logicus | @logicus @stevehou this one sentence speaks volumes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @stevehou sbf actually got his start as a social media manager for pf strawson
2025-12-10T03:56 id=1998602738964508760 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick he sounds absolutely hammered || CTX: update: australia introduced a social media ban for teenagers with a video where the prime minister tells newly-offline teenagers not to kill themselves https://t.co/HPHRSIPCVD
2025-12-10T04:21 id=1998608973377974649 →ruima | @ruima Well, no one is forced to use Instacart so if they don't like discriminatory pricing they--  You know what? nvm, I'll just mute you instead || CTX: Damn. AI says this kind of discriminatory pricing is legal in the U.S. (as long as it’s not using protected classes eg race).  In China they specifically outlawed “大数据杀熟” (big-data-based price discrimination against existing customers) whic
2025-12-10T04:36 id=1998612819647033359 →h8a_43va | @h8a_43va @DarenWagar @Variety Best insult I've heard in a while || CTX: @DarenWagar @Variety he could be a habsburg
2025-12-10T04:38 id=1998613364898214352 →JackFarley96 | @JackFarley96 Well that's an absurd hypothetical. || CTX: Very good interview. In Gavin's view, "by far most plausible and scariest bear case" to AI &amp; data center CapEx is Edge AI (running AI on devices, not from data centers) https://t.co/VsHpCKZkDp
2025-12-10T04:39 id=1998613480883232928 →JackFarley96 | @JackFarley96 @bitcashio Replace "model" with iphone or computer, dude. || CTX: @bitcashio for AI nerds yes but what about most people? do they really care that they are using a model that hasn't done quite as well on a test as the top model
2025-12-10T04:39 id=1998613603667296535 →ser_kingslayer_ | @ser_kingslayer_ @JackFarley96 Bingo, perfectly said. It's always the blank pfps with the best takes. || CTX: @JackFarley96 Battery. It's not about the RAM on device, but the battery power. Can't run these models locally without killing the battery, and people never really care about privacy even if they'd like to think they do
2025-12-10T04:45 id=1998615018896822773 →FangYi11101 | @FangYi11101 This cargo cult mentality towards grit (based on bad studies in a bad field) is really just repackaged Protestant work ethic. Sheer nonsense, but ofc it'll appeal to the uber rich.  Many many people succeed without grit. I'm lazy and rich. || CTX: your bloodline regressing to the mean is God’s cruelest joke https://t.co/bGCWRbX6SA
2025-12-10T04:49 id=1998616074204610588 →FangYi11101 | @FangYi11101 https://t.co/CLPnsMe1bS || CTX: At a recent lunch, someone made a comment about a first gen founder in their family that stuck with me.  “He has so much going on. I stopped trying to keep up with him years ago.”  "He" is in his mid eighties.   In my own experience, that i
2025-12-10T05:00 id=1998618772756943232 →FangYi11101 | @FangYi11101 If you want to chat about your weird fixation with "blood lines" and how psychologically corrosive that is, we could do that too.   Or I can leave you alone to your angst and resentment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 go comment on that thread then. good for you that you succeeded while being lazy, unresourceful and lacking in drive
2025-12-10T05:02 id=1998619240144974115 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem The problem is most practitioners in a domain complain that simplifications are wrong. Which, they are to some degree, but that doesn't mean they can't be useful and productive (but acknowledging that feels anti-intellectual to many academics, so it's discouraged). || CTX: Great point by Jesus. Prob for popular science by academics is that "summarize current state of knowledge" isn't professionally rewarded like "make a bold new claim". But for outsiders, first is more valuable! Relatedly: too little science 
2025-12-10T06:50 id=1998646603834601853 →obsidiancap1 | @obsidiancap1 Totally unrelated but Surveyor Capital had the nicest offices of the dozens of long/short funds I've visited. Better even than Tiger Global's old shop (although Chase has the coolest desk chair I've ever seen) || CTX: I guess mandating a 6 day workweek did not generate incremental alpha https://t.co/EcN27gxgPQ
2025-12-10T08:14 id=1998667738093597104 →- | I think therefore something that thinks it is me exists.
2025-12-10T08:28 id=1998671251674640730 →constans | @constans Nothing more Gen X than :squints: serif fonts || CTX: This is a classic old man GenX move.   Sana serif fonts like Calibri  are better suited to being read on an electronic screen where most people read these documents. Times New Roman better for the printed page https://t.co/b5sY9j0wS0
2025-12-10T08:29 id=1998671484743725206 →KLobstar | @KLobstar What percent of users do you think get hyperemesis? || CTX: when I worked at a weed company every time we got a report of hyperemesis from our products it went into a shared drive folder marked “lol” and sat there because no one gave a shit https://t.co/BmzWgaKtR6
2025-12-10T09:18 id=1998683815363932221 →Rodriguezz59 | @Rodriguezz59 @colin_fraser Healthy response || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser False equivalences only work on retards and your pedo/nazi handlers used them to brainwash you.
2025-12-10T09:36 id=1998688186420379861 →mhdempsey | @mhdempsey Goodhart principle. The real alpha is in those qualitative factors, but the last century has been about discrediting the qualitative. || CTX: Ironically I listened to the whole gavin baker podcast and my main takeaway is how much I don’t care about compute relative to that guy.   The most resonant point was Patrick saying “so what”. I just find it so boring at this point.  I feel
2025-12-10T10:11 id=1998697147349577834 →yfcherries | @yfcherries Fits the zeitgeist || CTX: not even considering the ai slop, the messaging of the ad is literally “fuck christmas, fuck your family, eat mcdonald’s instead”  like what https://t.co/B60Y4H982Y
2025-12-10T10:45 id=1998705674449203689 →Rodriguezz59 | @Rodriguezz59 @colin_fraser Can you tell me a bit about yourself? Like, how old are you, what you do for a living, married, kids? I'm really curious now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser Still true NPC.
2025-12-10T10:53 id=1998707728152485913 →Rodriguezz59 | @Rodriguezz59 @colin_fraser I'm genuinely curious! Please, I swear I have no Ill will at all. I just want to know the person behind your responses. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser You're not curious, you're just searching coping mechanisms.
2025-12-10T10:55 id=1998708223046717907 →- | Faust II: Canadian Bugaloo https://t.co/KaE1MSmvVs || CTX: do you think, in his more lucid moments, jordan peterson ever thinks about what his life would have been if he stayed as a mid-tier psychology professor at Canada University instead of having three years as a famous podcast guy &amp; immedi
2025-12-10T10:57 id=1998708765496127613 →Rodriguezz59 | @Rodriguezz59 @colin_fraser Where do you think I'm copy pasting them from? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser Not interested. I already read the shitty talking points you gladly copy-paste.
2025-12-10T10:59 id=1998709179138322530 →- | I'm starting to think American tourists are even worse than the Israelis.   Still not as bad as the Chinese ofc.
2025-12-10T11:08 id=1998711308510966116 →Rodriguezz59 | @Rodriguezz59 @colin_fraser Like who? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser Find someone else to entertain you.
2025-12-10T11:34 id=1998717852094968149 →- | I get much much less feedback from retail asking me to talk about the Fed relative to even just two years ago. I think the Fed obsessed low information investor is a thing of the past (and was prob mostly a post GFC artefact) https://t.co/AueXBZojlM || CTX: This is why the Fed balance sheet tweaks don't matter unless you trade STIRs, mortgages, or sell narratives for a living. It doesn't matter for economic growth. It doesn't matter for risky assets. It doesn't matter for inflation. https://t.
2025-12-10T11:36 id=1998718408758829200 →DanielSLoeb1 | I know you're implying it's foreign agents but it's rather an effect of domestic media, income/wealth inequality, bad messaging.  Fixable with investment either from WS or SV but tragedy of commons situation where no one is incentivized to educate the public.  I'll do it, tho, DM me || CTX: It is interesting to observe a significant propaganda  effort on social media to undermine sentiment for the development of Artificial Intelligence in the United States.  Many of the accounts are foreign, anonymous and promote wild conspira
2025-12-10T12:26 id=1998731087711973398 →MilleXial | @MilleXial @exstasias And in another thread I'm being called a Nazi.   I love social media so much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @exstasias "Keep you mouth shut" is great advice for you Leftists
2025-12-10T12:27 id=1998731297045537164 →MilleXial | @MilleXial @exstasias Yeah I left long ago because the people suck. Seems like things aren't much better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @exstasias Greetings from AMERICA https://t.co/BtHjeWuToY
2025-12-10T12:42 id=1998735009167843685 →Ponzi_machine | @Ponzi_machine @obsidiancap1 It's a long story, but I'm not buyside. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @obsidiancap1 You work for a hedge fund in thailand?
2025-12-10T12:58 id=1998739174896320574 →PizzaWisdom90 | @PizzaWisdom90 @sigmazerocap This is 100% what's going on. Although size increase is surely just because more AUM in total in the market, so easier to launch. || CTX: @sigmazerocap Feels like institutionalization and the pod/MM model have made the half life of hedge funds LONGER not shorter. Also seems to have increased the average/median size of launches drastically
2025-12-10T13:01 id=1998739802393555226 →- | It's Fed day, but with these clowns in D.C. it's more like Fed up day amirite fellas
2025-12-10T13:03 id=1998740294133850259 →EsotericCD | @EsotericCD People want to see under the veil, she sells that fantasy to them. I doubt most take it seriously, but when they listen they can pretend to.  Best to think of it in the pedigree of Coast to Coast with Art Bell. || CTX: Like many of you, I have never once listened to Candace Owens' podcast. This is a complete summary of just one episode - yesterday's.  People tell me Owens has a huge audience of older MAGA women that other influencers are terrified to cros
2025-12-10T13:03 id=1998740370423988666 →MilleXial | @MilleXial Dude why are you talking to a bot, are you retarded? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fix your username bot boy.
2025-12-10T13:20 id=1998744651554238554 →stevehou | @stevehou Hawkish cut is such a funny phrase man, nothing makes sense anymore we're all just winging it at this point || CTX: The last Powell Fed meeting already happened back in Oct when the Fed did a “hawkish cut” while jawboning the market on further cuts. Market had already begun to look past the Powell Fed and speculate on the successor with whom there’s a co
2025-12-10T13:21 id=1998744924511219823 →JohnHuber72 | @JohnHuber72 His preferred stock in Goldman in 2008 was one of the most beautiful financial moves I've ever seen and partly why I got into this game || CTX: Yep, great point. Also took on $20 million of debt from Salomon in the 1973-74 crash so he could have more firepower to load up on stocks https://t.co/ODEDo6WdXw
2025-12-10T13:32 id=1998747730857124040 →constans | @constans I'm Gen X and you're full of shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Times New Roman was the default font in MS Word when Rubio and other GenXers started using the programs and so that’s what they thing is the “norm” and everything else is a deviation from that
2025-12-10T13:34 id=1998748210425376839 →- | I once met a (Welsh lmao) guy who told me he was a crackhead in his 20s, stopped doing it like 20 years ago. Then he paused and said, "but if you put it in front of me right now, I'd do it in a second."   Chilling moment fr https://t.co/XvUT2qXQCp || CTX: when i was smoking crack i would always say thank you when the plug handed me the crack and then he’d say “don’t thank me. stop thanking me. you don’t say thank you for this shit”
2025-12-10T13:36 id=1998748556640100537 →teodorio | @teodorio This is why I was pro-Brexit. Not because it was good for the UK (it wasn't), but because it'd be good for Europe. Or so I thought, sadly didn't really change anything.  Hopefully this will do something though, the income disparity between America and Europe is bad for everyone. || CTX: As a European I am quite relieved with the latest American stance on Europe as they are genuinely the only chance we get to reform the EU.
2025-12-10T13:40 id=1998749650250248661 →constans | @constans He thinks it's normal because he's retarded. This generalizing to an entire generation on one data point is absurd, especially in this case.   Gen Xers standardized sans-serif on screens in the 80s/90s ffs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m correct though. Rubio thinks TNR is “normal” because that’s what he started using
2025-12-10T13:41 id=1998750028324827240 →Conblob | @Conblob McLuhan laughing from beyond the grave || CTX: The lack of a character limit constraint has meaningfully hurt his ability to shape popular culture and discourse the way he used to. Legitimately unreadable wall of text. https://t.co/M6l2gXm6wj
2025-12-10T16:01 id=1998785154920362152 →ShortSightedCap | @ShortSightedCap @obsidiancap1 tbh it was over 10 years ago and all I remember was "that's a fucking cool chair"   Steve Cohen's car has tremendous small dick energy, total opposites tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @obsidiancap1 You can’t just say “coolest desk chair” and not elaborate!
2025-12-10T16:01 id=1998785248461725902 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ But how much of column a and how much of column b, that's the question || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Money is quantifiable luck; it is also quantifiable work-time.
2025-12-10T16:14 id=1998788309842276619 →- | I rarely envy, but for some reason the news of Nick Clegg joining a venture capital fund hurts.  I don't want to work in VC, but I always did want to switch to buyside. Probably isn't as good as I imagine it is, or at least I hope it wouldn't be.
2025-12-10T16:18 id=1998789328085111208 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @amolitor99 @jonathanbfine dude wtf you have no problem with Chaucer being optional? Literally the father of English literature? Come on, man || CTX: Chaucer is probably a bad example. But there are departments that would love to remove anything prior to 1900.   Eg Shakespeare is optional? Really? People have had to defend including him in curricula.  Eg See 2 voices below: against/for  
2025-12-10T16:24 id=1998790932930678971 →- | This is the greatest thread I have ever seen on Twitter. https://t.co/k735lSGNCt || CTX: Social media is not an addiction any more than cars are an addiction to US households or books are an addiction to academics – that is, these technologies are simply the fabric of life; our lives are oriented around them as indispensable.  
2025-12-10T16:26 id=1998791378919383514 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @amolitor99 @jonathanbfine That's why he should be there, because he's hard!   Chaucer shaped my worldview and made me feel more human, to see people feeling what I felt. Life changing author for me as a teenager. Perhaps I'm biased. || CTX: I mean - if you look at the modern curricula - it's getting harder to keep the classics in there. Chaucer is good at a department wanting to emphasize continuity, but a lot of the younger grads/newer faculty just want newer stuff only. Plus
2025-12-10T16:30 id=1998792530109018209 →amolitor99 | @amolitor99 @DeivonDrago @jonathanbfine Beowulf is in, yes. Will explain a lot about hero worship, useful for understanding Trump and Marvel Movies' appeal.  Homer didn't write in English.  I'm glad I left academia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @jonathanbfine Chaucer is literally in a different language. Sure continuity matters but you have to cut things off at some point. Is Chaucer in but Beowulf out? Maybe we should throw in Homer?
2025-12-10T16:34 id=1998793347713159250 →amolitor99 | @amolitor99 @DeivonDrago @jonathanbfine Chaucer is in Middle English and Beowulf is in Old English. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @jonathanbfine But that's my point. Neither Chaucer nor Beowulf are written in English either.
2025-12-10T16:37 id=1998794156660187196 →amolitor99 | @amolitor99 @DeivonDrago @jonathanbfine It's a degree in English, not in Contemporary English. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @jonathanbfine Indeed. Neither of which is mutually comprehensible with contemporary English, they are in general considered to be different languages than English. Look, I get the continuity with modern Englis
2025-12-10T16:38 id=1998794424726466918 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @amolitor99 @jonathanbfine Depends on the university; some teach only Old English, or did ~20 years ago.  But at the very least they should be given some introduction: hwaet, English had gender, etc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @amolitor99 @jonathanbfine I mean - we are talking about reading Beowulf in a translation, right? That’s what most people do..?
2025-12-10T17:48 id=1998812002098241766 →tszzl | @tszzl okay this is an absolute banger || CTX: jpeg is a one frame short form video content
2025-12-10T17:49 id=1998812240968036622 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Synthese nuts || CTX: go home drunk philosophers https://t.co/3HKDu3oMwJ
2025-12-11T00:29 id=1998913032857202911 →amolitor99 | @amolitor99 @DeivonDrago @jonathanbfine Middle English is very close to modern English. It's not that hard to learn, trust me. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 @jonathanbfine Eh? I mean, you can get the sense of a lot of the lines and I feel like you might be able to vibe your way to reading it without actually Learning Middle English but just struggling with a transl
2025-12-11T00:53 id=1998918951502492084 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk A. He's right B. He's taking this platform and the internet way too seriously. A platform that is a tunnel into the minds of the stupidest people on Earth is intrinsically entertaining. C. Value can be easily extracted from knowing what dumb/bad ideas are popular. || CTX: you need to be Socratic-maxxing  (and by that I mean just skip over his tedious Method part with all the questions, straight to the end: "no one can understand the point of all this, you all are retarded, and I am retarded but at least I kn
2025-12-11T00:54 id=1998919361009250512 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk I'd challenge Ludwig that he's possibly not as smart as he thinks.  It seems like he thinks knowledge is handed down from the wise priests to the chosen priesthood, which is a neat and tidy story but it's also wrong. Inspiration is everywhere. || CTX: @for_nat_whilk A. He's right B. He's taking this platform and the internet way too seriously. A platform that is a tunnel into the minds of the stupidest people on Earth is intrinsically entertaining. C. Value can be easily extracted from k
2025-12-11T00:58 id=1998920178567098849 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem @emollick IMO this is endemic to all models: instant versions are very dumb, thinking models are very smart. || CTX: Re: @emollick, this is bad UX from OpenAI. This output so different from anything I ever see from GPT, either on website or API, that I'm sure it's coming from some combo of Instant + some strange "personality" setting. When you mix low and
2025-12-11T01:10 id=1998923310172946666 →logicus | I'm struggling to understand what "intelligence" really even is, there are so many varied uses of the word.   Here I guess OP means intelligence as some sort of forecasting ability of the future horizon of AI models, or maybe he means a (tacit? explicit?) theory as to why AI will never think as well as a human?   Either way, this seems like an extremely narrow and not very useful understanding of intelligence.   Unless he means they're stupid because they aren't engaging in the challenge and discussing the idea on its merits, in which case this is more close mindedness than a lack of intelligence, but I'm happy to say close mindedness IS a major component in what we call stupidity.  But then he's guilty of it too by dismissing an entire cohort as retards. That's close minded. That's unintelligent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk i think none of us are as smart as we think we are except for us 3 who are… but: was reading a new volume the other day. i think it’s actually dangerous. i would wager that just like no one is that smart, non
2025-12-11T01:12 id=1998923899170697273 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion So is a lot of academia || CTX: A lot of SF tech culture is just 30 year olds trying to recapture the college experience. https://t.co/8Tgz1c988X
2025-12-11T01:28 id=1998927912247136606 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk I mean, intelligent people can have one dimensional and shallow conversations.   It seems to me the issue here isn't intelligence but him expecting to get something out of Twitter it isn't designed for.  The character limit is a hint: this isn't a platform for depth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk i think his point about intelligence is, wow, that’s a one-dimensional and shallow convo, and the stem people who think that knowing about RL makes them experts at everything and smarter than all other people
2025-12-11T01:47 id=1998932499020525939 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk Well, for sending short messages lol  The real question everyone should ask is: why am I here, what do I want, and have real concrete detailed answers.  Most don't so they get manipulated or bewitched. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk yeah, i attribute the breadth of the claims to his affective state 😂 in the following posts he distinguishes. but on your point, what do you think it’s designed for?
2025-12-11T01:53 id=1998934191497765227 →DanielSLoeb1 | @DanielSLoeb1 This is silly. You can't characterize it as a momentum trade out of hand when NVDA still has a lower P/E than Costco.  Just silly. || CTX: The vibe of most AI investors I know:  “Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo” St Augustine   (Lord make me chaste —but not yet)
2025-12-11T02:00 id=1998935915331457318 →for_nat_whilk | Of course, if one is aware of this fact and goes in knowing full well of its manipulative form and madhouse content, then one is already somewhat inoculated.  Then the game is different: whenever you do find yourself enraged or bewitched, you remind yourself of its power and ask, why did it impact me? And in this you get to learn much about yourself and others.  To think you only learn from talking to intelligent people is a misunderstanding of what knowledge is. || CTX: @logicus @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt; "i don’t necessarily think we have much control over what happens to us psychologically."  no, we don't: https://t.co/dj2iN9EYIJ and the recommender doesn't provide navigation, which is the more fundamental pr
2025-12-11T02:04 id=1998936918130897052 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk @logicus I want to add, I don't think Ludwig is dumb. He's probably just young and still in that phase where he's acquiring an epistemic toolkit.   But when you have a good toolkit, you can learn from anything. If you can't, your toolkit isn't good enough. || CTX: Of course, if one is aware of this fact and goes in knowing full well of its manipulative form and madhouse content, then one is already somewhat inoculated.  Then the game is different: whenever you do find yourself enraged or bewitched, y
2025-12-11T02:31 id=1998943728686477761 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk is/ought fallacy. a lot of bad things happen to people who do nothing wrong, so what? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk i agree. my only caveat on your thought is, a user doesn't even have to do anything wrong to end up in crash out mode. if things that outrage them mildly are what keep them in the app, the recommender is goin
2025-12-11T03:01 id=1998951144622846209 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk Just like some people can't play football without getting hurt  Something someone once said to me in an AOL chat room (gasp) 30 years ago resonates: "The internet is no place for idiots." Overly rhetorical, but there's no reason to assume the internet is or should be for everyone || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk not wrong in the moral sense, just in the causal sense. just in virtue of being here crash outs might be hard to avoid for some because mechanisms like the recommender or the user's disposition toward negativ
2025-12-11T03:35 id=1998959726244278473 →- | I'm reading The Life of Sebastian Knight and it's really bad.  I wonder how many writers that I worshiped when I was young would I hate now. Nabokov is uniquely insufferable.
2025-12-11T03:35 id=1998959871467876638 →briscoepark | @briscoepark Holy shit. || CTX: i caught the train going over the bridge at the perfect time https://t.co/nChizRp1yy https://t.co/AuTL6N31CJ
2025-12-11T03:53 id=1998964222164873316 →actsmaniac | @actsmaniac I feel this in my bones sadly. || CTX: think this is one of the funniest social sciences results https://t.co/fUH0YsvnUq
2025-12-11T03:53 id=1998964392126460082 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck I mean, this is just Genesis 1:1 as a syllogism || CTX: P1. Everyone is a reply guy to some poster.  P2. An infinite regress of reply guys and posters is impossible.  C. Therefore, there must be a First Poster. This everyone calls God.
2025-12-11T03:54 id=1998964539619258802 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I am not a reply guy || CTX: Its reply guys all the way down https://t.co/klGJgWQuZa
2025-12-11T04:01 id=1998966286244860115 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk those computational mechanisms exist within the internet don't they? for sure, a morally better internet without them is possible, but a better internet would entertain me less. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk this is more than the internet, 47. it’s computational mechanisms designed to have a specific behavioral impact. football is a good analogy for this because the violence of the game makes injury impossible to
2025-12-11T04:02 id=1998966669331620350 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus @for_nat_whilk why do we complain that the Twitter algorithm manipulates us but we don't complain that the algorithm in e. g. Call of Duty manipulates us? || CTX: @logicus @for_nat_whilk those computational mechanisms exist within the internet don't they? for sure, a morally better internet without them is possible, but a better internet would entertain me less.
2025-12-11T04:48 id=1998978283778740373 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk oh yeah we def agree on that. I guess the interesting question is "should it be better?" and my paradoxical stance is: no. Its badness is good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk i'm talking at just a descriptive level here.
2025-12-11T04:49 id=1998978508798964027 →spooky_JL | @spooky_JL Says a lot about the value of the financial sector. || CTX: Unironically some of the best career advice i got in college was that going out and drinking with my friends now would be better for my career than reading another finance book https://t.co/s9RBQOkepR
2025-12-11T04:50 id=1998978571759673432 →JuliusIrvington | @JuliusIrvington goddamn it's such a good movie though || CTX: https://t.co/p3DZDiIyyg
2025-12-11T05:27 id=1998988059996729395 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk I avoid being normative, so I can only say it is good for me because it's entertaining and informative.  I have been in social circles where social pressures encourage people to speak politely and intelligently. I find it insincere and false. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk in the free speech literature many would say something like that. why do you think it's good?  i don't have a panoptic normative point of view on it. at most i can just point out lower level things that are g
2025-12-11T05:29 id=1998988560192753823 →chumleesock | @chumleesock @JuliusIrvington Yeah he doesn't really make bad movies. My least favorite would be Dune (and prob no one else shares this opinion). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JuliusIrvington Just watched it a couple days ago. My least fav villenueve but still very good
2025-12-11T05:36 id=1998990204179460485 →- | https://t.co/Xlegwc3keT  Michael Sugrue chose this issue for his last lecture shortly before he passed.  I have cried more than once thinking about this. Your last lecture dedicated to showing the religious experience is central to human history.   What a beautiful soul he was. https://t.co/777KN0ODgF || CTX: Gobekli Tepe is controversial precisely because a hunter-gatherer group building a massive, complex, ritual site pulls the rug out from under most academic social &amp; political theory. What if organized religion /was not/ a product of agr
2025-12-11T05:37 id=1998990407146090783 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Piryme, wonder your thoughts on this || CTX: https://t.co/Xlegwc3keT  Michael Sugrue chose this issue for his last lecture shortly before he passed.  I have cried more than once thinking about this. Your last lecture dedicated to showing the religious experience is central to human hi
2025-12-11T05:38 id=1998990758519648508 →Nexuist | @Nexuist The two of them living happily ever after together would be such a net good for humanity || CTX: Ye olde "I'll just IPO to win her back." I mean, who among us. https://t.co/dmNcmzoWUH
2025-12-11T06:05 id=1998997516600442908 →esmesayss | @esmesayss The depths of mental illness on this website are so fascinating || CTX: currently watching 30 rock, a deeply personal look into the mind of self-hating misogynist and slight racist tina fey
2025-12-11T06:28 id=1999003450944930206 →chumleesock | @chumleesock @JuliusIrvington 1. Arrival 2. Enemy 3. Prisoners 4. Sicario 5. Incendies 6. Blade Runner 2049 7. Dune I 8. Polytechnique  I haven't seen Dune II, August 32nd on Earth, or Maelstrom. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JuliusIrvington True that is probably a rare opinion. Would be curious to know your rankings then
2025-12-11T06:57 id=1999010756436914679 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem IBM to acquire OpenAI is top tier comedy fr || CTX: There are some legitimately good jokes here. We are still underrating AI creativity (which, to be clear, we are not really even trying to maximize). The Gary Marcus one at the bottom, in particular, and "nostalgic-coder" for those who write
2025-12-11T06:59 id=1999011077389250666 →- | ChatGPT has made me laugh more than once. It's very strange--at first I'm involuntarily laughing and halfway I realize, "I'm literally laughing at a computer"   Such a bizarre experience I'm so glad to be alive at this moment in history. https://t.co/r6UwpRsljf || CTX: @Afinetheorem Sometimes Claude makes an unexpected snide comment that makes me laugh. We're entering the weird zone
2025-12-11T07:19 id=1999016167508422946 →BrianKirschner_ | @BrianKirschner_ @HighyieldHarry Reddit is rarely good but my god it's good when it is. || CTX: @HighyieldHarry https://t.co/DWyX9M1DPy
2025-12-11T08:25 id=1999032829016158326 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews Considering they bombed a scam call center, I have a feeling it's because of the scam call centers.  Which, yeah, is a good idea. Outsiders have no idea how had this problem has gotten in Thailand. || CTX: Like, seriously, you care that much about who the French said owns that one temple that was abandoned centuries ago? There's gotta be something else, right? https://t.co/BT9do4cbuQ
2025-12-11T08:28 id=1999033586297848061 →kgreifeld | @kgreifeld This kind of democracy is downright fascist smdh || CTX: the $QQQ calls will stop on Dec 19 if you vote your shares  https://t.co/3Z3iJsmKjQ https://t.co/tiVpAs2QXe
2025-12-11T08:41 id=1999036907293180335 →- | This is beautiful, a clash of art forms, like if Orson Welles mocked W. Somerset Maugham or something. https://t.co/a1iRnZ4owV || CTX: Ratioed the co-writer of Pulp Fiction https://t.co/BuLqdOJaSQ https://t.co/HjPs9tdalf
2025-12-11T08:49 id=1999038760189849908 →- | This genre of research is fucking retarded. https://t.co/tNLcYqVZ5o || CTX: New paper from OpenAI:   Training LLMs for Honesty via Confessions  "In this work we propose a method for eliciting an honest expression of an LLM’s shortcomings via a self-reported confession."  "we train GPT-5-Thinking to produce confessi
2025-12-11T08:57 id=1999040766132486440 →nicklecompte87 | @nicklecompte87 @colin_fraser idk what to tell you man, it's like a cliche of the ad world that there's no such thing as bad press. I can't tell you how many ad execs I've heard say something similar. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @colin_fraser This is the dumbest flavor of response to Colin's tweet.  a) Everyone involved in this was embarrassed, "make us look like incompetent sociopaths" was not a marketing scheme.  b) Knowing this is a misanthropic
2025-12-11T09:11 id=1999044396264874042 →- | I'm fascinated with this phenomenon because I think accusing others of idiocy (or being evil) is itself a sign of a lack of thinking.  We want to resolve the puzzle of other minds, rely on empiric or ethical heuristics, see an incongruence, then discount it as "stupid" or "evil." https://t.co/KKKQbYhISt || CTX: There's a genre of post on here that goes "This person is stupid, but everyone disagreeing is also stupid. I am the only person who is an actual thinking human, but I will not elaborate on my position so that you can't argue against it. You
2025-12-11T09:26 id=1999048086891679851 →jesx64 | @jesx64 obviously it's child friendly, the mascot is a literal child ffs || CTX: Child friendly website according to Australian government https://t.co/PI5KTWgx7h https://t.co/hd2RRTd7d2
2025-12-11T09:30 id=1999049064776966486 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/dWxAPohOzv  Great example. This isn't "stupidity" it's just plain old addiction. He could see this with a bit more thinking, but chooses not to (or is simulating same for engagement). || CTX: It blows my mind how fucking stupid online gamblers are. The odds are against you if you play blackjack in person, but at least you know what the odds are. Some shady gambling site based out of Yugoslavia can code their digital blackjack ho
2025-12-11T09:33 id=1999049810775884024 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Yeah I'm planning on putting it on pastebin. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am interested in this, will you post for free once written?
2025-12-11T09:48 id=1999053562706542672 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I was extremely drunk at the time, so I'm not sure. I think she might have called for security. this was nearly 20 years ago. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh? Lmao. Did the woman do anything to defend her boyfriend during the fight?
2025-12-11T10:35 id=1999065494922600717 →- | In rich countries, elites have organic informational control (people spontaneously talk in elite categories), leading online talk  In poor countries, elites increasingly rely on fiat informational control (law, censorship, fear), while dissidents have the more organic edge online
2025-12-11T10:53 id=1999069984916717644 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 You mean in rich countries?  I don't think people in rich countries want or consciously seek a revolution. They claim this, sure, but what they really want is virtual revolutions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So whatever enters the discourse, especially those that pertain to revolutionary acts, has already been neutered or sanctioned to some degree? How strong is this control really?
2025-12-11T13:38 id=1999111549005500592 →- | Welcome back, Junior Soprano. https://t.co/0I3pM5UurK || CTX: Resistance Training https://t.co/RXeIgCWOhq
2025-12-11T22:57 id=1999252307058524380 →Piryme | @Piryme Yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have to agree with your points - it’s necessary to have common sense when dealing with academics who claim things that go against human nature.  Is that Michael Sugrue video an informative video for people who already kno
2025-12-11T23:07 id=1999254713251090656 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Wait--WHAT?!? How is this book not more talked about now? That's basically what's happening in England now. || CTX: One of Chesterton’s favorite topics  (e.g., The Flying Inn is literally a novel about the English aristocratic class facilitating a conversion of England to Islam by restricting freedoms on Englishmen while importing foreign Muslims’ practi
2025-12-11T23:08 id=1999254870591963548 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck He still lost though || CTX: @PAHoyeck Historical evidence suggests that if Witty has a poker, he’s an especially formidable opponent.
2025-12-11T23:08 id=1999254998207856777 →AlbertBikaj | @AlbertBikaj @PAHoyeck You're maybe thinking of Von Neumann || CTX: @PAHoyeck Isn't it funny that he died as a Catholic?
2025-12-11T23:14 id=1999256564935590227 →DeivonDrago | There have been several somewhat conflicting accounts, but regardless: philosophy has rejected W.'s view that there are only puzzles, not problems, and Popperian philosophy of science definitely won out through the field and in western culture at large.  And W. resigned a couple months after that incident. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck Yes. I wonder though how much of that incident really happened the way it was portrayed in the book.
2025-12-11T23:17 id=1999257344681902486 →fstflofscholars | @fstflofscholars @SykeTheWOAT @JamesWHankins1 It's actually a valuable liberal perspective. Insisting on the necessity of reading text group x implies a deficit among those who haven't read x.  In other words, exclusionary snobbery.  I've met many sensitive and brilliant people who haven't read the western canon. || CTX: @SykeTheWOAT @JamesWHankins1 😂 what a useful contribution to the conversation. Thank you for your service.
2025-12-11T23:18 id=1999257571006513433 →Vision | @Vision @CrocodileCam Welcome back, Jonathan Swift || CTX: @CrocodileCam Ehh, there's enough kids, and it's easy to make more if some starve.
2025-12-11T23:31 id=1999260776914387154 →- | I'm entranced by this idea. If journalists were forced to be celibate, we'd have no Gamergate.  No Gamergate, no Trump. It'd be an insanely massive cultural victory. https://t.co/tqIgIUHpzc || CTX: @jarvis_best I think we can ban journalists from sex and being in public that might do the trick.  They're making theater kids appear more normal.
2025-12-11T23:41 id=1999263325696524447 →constans | @constans It's a telling move. They want the focus on social media figures because that's what they are. Actual politics, let alone public policy, is a secondary concern. || CTX: Certain parts of the right are really trying to make our culture revolve around Charlie Kirk, and it’s really weird. Rush Limbaugh was a far more influential figure on the right and even he was promptly forgotten the day after he died https
2025-12-11T23:49 id=1999265251297210517 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @constans Makes intuitive sense to me.  Why should a platform dedicated to 240 characters, or keeping up with friends, or making short vertical videos be where public policy is discussed seriously?  Should we discuss medical research on 4chan? Geology on Twitch? Paleontology on Kik? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @constans It used to be that there’d be a lot of social media chaos (say until 10 years ago), but there’d still be a reasonable amount of policy discussions in Congress and the regular media. All of that seems to have been 
2025-12-11T23:50 id=1999265594491961380 →potatoslav | @potatoslav @honigmaydl Hold on to that man. || CTX: @honigmaydl “we’re cutting it, they won’t see the ripped part”
2025-12-12T00:02 id=1999268628827636142 →- | In school, unpopular boys were mocked by girls.  So nerdy boys went online in the 80s-90s (computers didn't interest girls then) and talked about nerdy things. A safe space without mockery emerged.  Then in the 2000s when girls started going online, boys were ruthless to them because they felt like their safe space was invaded. Hence "tits or GTFO" was the 4chan meme.  This of course became the norm in the 2000s, but when the deanonymized social media emerged in the late 2000s, the misogynist part and the socially acceptable part of the internet were like two extremes an internet user could choose from. Some chose to stay on the misogynist side.  In the 2010s, fights between the misogynist and non-misogynist side (4chan vs Tumblr most notably) grew, and some entrepreneurial culture warriors began to see an opportunity: point out the misogynist side is distasteful to mainstream culture, and you'll get mainstream support.  Mainstream support = money.  And so you get Gamergate, and the woke vs. Nazis/incels culture war of the late 2010s, which then gives you Trump and, post 2020, the current manifestation of this now very old internet culture war.  But remember, it all started for two reasons:  1. Boys wanted to get away from mean/judgmental girls on the playground 2. A virtual safe space for the venting of nerdy frustrations was not allowed to be contained and separated from the rest of the world.  If we had ignored the nerds, let them say slurs on 4chan and TeamSpeak, and just saw it as letting off some steam (this is much more the Japanese view on the matter), Trump wouldn't be president, the internet wouldn't seem like such a hellish battlefield, and people would be happier, both online and in real life.
2025-12-12T00:05 id=1999269396464959597 →agraybee | @agraybee nom de goon lmao || CTX: Can't believe a pornstar whose nom de goon is the original Confederate flag would endorse the racism party.
2025-12-12T00:23 id=1999273914049102016 →- | Close enough.  Welcome back, Boethius. https://t.co/mZ6ovCiN0A || CTX: She sat writing that in Bali like Antonio Gramsci writing his prison diaries 😔 https://t.co/qoUa9KpnwM
2025-12-12T00:31 id=1999275791281193246 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem Imagine having an equity allocation to Europe. Just madness. || CTX: Europe is great in many ways - lovely cities, culture, lifestyle. But as an economist: policy for most important future industry, where Europe is falling behind the US and China, is "hope that it's an investment bubble and that, if it is, p
2025-12-12T03:42 id=1999324035935826016 →- | A well formatted DCF in 6 minutes from a 6 word prompt is fucking insane. 5.2 Is a beast.
2025-12-12T03:44 id=1999324490170528085 →cd_hooks | @cd_hooks Sure, if we ignore intentionality, Nuzzi Is the next Nabokov.  It's like everything is consequentialism these days, such a silly worldview. || CTX: I read American Canto. It’s a stranger book than I expected-the author is copying Didion down to the level of sentence construction, but it reminded me more of another book. https://t.co/IGLW9RdnlZ
2025-12-12T04:00 id=1999328441041322417 →agraybee | @agraybee Banger. || CTX: In a strange reversal, Bonnie Blue wants one man to fuck 70 million people. https://t.co/NgS2tRTCtS
2025-12-12T05:20 id=1999348640855536065 →- | Public discourse is always confused because 99.9% of the time people don't know what they mean by the words they use.  "AI cannot reason--" What do you mean by "reason"? By "AI"? By "can"?  A rigorous analysis of this problem looks pedantic, boring.  So the confusion remains.
2025-12-12T06:15 id=1999362429856391460 →PythiaR | @PythiaR This myth that sell siders add value via models really needs to die. || CTX: Still more accurate than 85% of sell side DCFs. https://t.co/jcQu5EGqtU
2025-12-12T06:28 id=1999365787606487251 →- | 1. Cullen is one of the best writers on financial issues  2. This is very true, and the solution is simple: minimize status competition and complexity in your life  Don't play the game. I'm poorer than many of my clients and my clients envy my lifestyle. I have enough, they don't https://t.co/8EuCbhjg8k || CTX: I think this image captures current sentiment nicely. Two things are true - living standards are getting better and the "cost" to participate fully in those improved living standards has also increased.   Over time, what society offers keep
2025-12-12T07:02 id=1999374261996421586 →lefthanddraft | @lefthanddraft Colin singlehandedly explains why Meta is falling behind.  Does he really think this false choice is meaningful? Or is it just engagement bait? || CTX: Both are bad mental models but the "just" autocomplete crowd is now actively harming the public understanding of LLMs through their posturing and dismissiveness https://t.co/MOsh2uFhYi
2025-12-12T09:19 id=1999408789972484279 →- | They took this away from you. https://t.co/FNpMZlQVFR || CTX: Two boys selling cigarettes and alcohol, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1993. https://t.co/38Uoi7BwLW
2025-12-12T09:28 id=1999411095845700076 →redtachyon | @redtachyon Do you really need a PhD to know people often accuse foreigners of smelling bad? || CTX: She was onto something, wasn't she? https://t.co/Neu93geGMf
2025-12-12T09:29 id=1999411281863036976 →John_Attridge | @John_Attridge The notion of Leavis being woke is hilarious. || CTX: It is time we acknowledged that when F.R. Leavis said "The four great English novelists are Jane Austen, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and Henry James" he was pandering to the woke agenda https://t.co/Z107QQFmBL
2025-12-12T11:02 id=1999434767067164714 →Aimli117353 | @Aimli117353 @redtachyon I mean, yeah, East Asians lack the gene that makes sweat smell... idk your point though. I'm not stating an absolute rule with zero exceptions (such a thing doesn't even exist). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @redtachyon Chinese don’t smell.
2025-12-12T11:04 id=1999435136430129576 →dirtcheapstocks | @dirtcheapstocks Secondary mortgage market.   Good question! || CTX: How do you get rich without taking risk?  Nonrecourse leverage.   Using someone else's resources while owning limited downside for the outcome of those resources.  We see it in:  - Hedge funds, PE - RE industry - Contingent fee lawyers. - A
2025-12-12T11:07 id=1999435937932280238 →Aimli117353 | @Aimli117353 @redtachyon The English think the French smell.  This is not a racial issue. It's a xenophobic one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @redtachyon That maybe people are just describing reality and some racial groups have it worse than others. It is no one’s fault. Just sit with it.  Can smell be mitigated? Sure. But we aren’t even on that step, we are stuc
2025-12-12T11:12 id=1999437184965967876 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Up to a point. I was a nerd and unpopular with girls for sure, but I was never misogynistic to them or hated girls on the internet.  Lost my virginity to a girl from AOL after all. Girls on the internet rocked. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Were you the nerd you described?
2025-12-12T12:19 id=1999454060899107217 →- | A Treatise on How to Use the Internet  https://t.co/1xGWUtDOKd
2025-12-12T12:20 id=1999454233704431948 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ https://t.co/KV3SeXQDHR || CTX: A Treatise on How to Use the Internet  https://t.co/1xGWUtDOKd
2025-12-12T12:20 id=1999454259071582270 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 https://t.co/KV3SeXQDHR || CTX: A Treatise on How to Use the Internet  https://t.co/1xGWUtDOKd
2025-12-12T12:20 id=1999454284510114187 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 https://t.co/KV3SeXQDHR || CTX: A Treatise on How to Use the Internet  https://t.co/1xGWUtDOKd
2025-12-12T12:21 id=1999454438407500037 →i_dreamojeannie | @i_dreamojeannie @irosarioc @christress you don't understand my point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @irosarioc @christress That’s pretty flippant from someone who clearly didn’t read the essay or the entire quote properly lol. It’s about when people die alone and the time before their bodies are discovered.
2025-12-12T12:44 id=1999460367228092457 →Chaos80397926 | It is obvious so meaningless to say, but: if you aren't getting joy from being online, you should not be online.   But also, honestly, if you aren't having fun here, I don't want you to be here.  It's like playing WoW and another player says they're addicted and miserable. You'd want them to sign off. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 To reverse this and put myself out there more. There is no doubt that the internet is a place filled with not so great people. There is far too much information, drama, etc here. These things are not enriching. But, i have 
2025-12-12T12:45 id=1999460474975564248 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 And thank you. I appreciate it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is very informative and well written. Sigh, i am have been very anonymous online ever since i started using regularly, its part of my nature that's why but, i have noticed that being anonymous has brought me no joy, im
2025-12-12T12:47 id=1999461051302314278 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Please don't be discouraged. I make money online! Just be aware that you are putting yourself at risk in doing so, so proceed with caution and never sacrifice your principles for a buck. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am currently making plans to find a way to make money online but seeing your post has made me hesitate. Was already willing to brave all the bullahit just to make some money but now i am not even sure how to proceed again
2025-12-12T12:49 id=1999461549359104098 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Whenever I feel like that, which is often, I go for a walk. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are absolutely correct but, it isn't as if i am also having fun in the real world. So i am just kind of stuck and with the increasingly greater pressure from my parents. I feel so much more overwhelmed.
2025-12-12T23:48 id=1999627522166915285 →kb9903alt | @kb9903alt @JPKivisto @philosophymeme0 I mean, a waitress who doesn't declare all of her tips to the IRS is technically cheating to get more stuff. but seems like a poor fit for what you're railing against || CTX: @JPKivisto @47fucb4r8c69323 @philosophymeme0 I just feel like cheating your way into getting more stuff fits better as a definition of greed than working harder for self-fulfillment.
2025-12-12T23:57 id=1999629749963096521 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago sus || CTX: I feel called out. https://t.co/MXEIvmZioz
2025-12-12T23:59 id=1999630251568316837 →agraybee | @agraybee these replies don't surprise me. when 2001 first came out it was a surprising ending to a movie, and nearly 50 years later we are used to that kind of ending now. || CTX: I like all the replies that are like "duh, obviously it was a human zoo that turned him into a god baby, why do you need everything spelled out for you." https://t.co/MHlGoOTTnp
2025-12-13T00:02 id=1999631046288244790 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago this comic really deeply upsets me every time I see it || CTX: Dark! https://t.co/Js9AnoO1Bo
2025-12-13T00:52 id=1999643621541445709 →cinemaG | @cinemaG @lionesspike Well #2 is wonderful news, this is the best tv show I've seen in years || CTX: @lionesspike 1. appreciate how she respects him respecting her and doesn't take it forgranted (wouldnt expect her to but a lot of "celebs" do)  2. vince said recently he'll carry on the seasons for however long rhea wants to, this is for he
2025-12-13T00:54 id=1999644028867084332 →DaveKluge | @DaveKluge @JusttheFoosball Golden Nugget? Your granddad had exquisite taste, classic elegant Vegas. RIP, sounds like he was an awesome dude. || CTX: @JusttheFoosball I never play blackjack. But my grandpa had just died and he loved Vegas. The Golden Nugget was his favorite casino and blackjack was his favorite game.  I spent the rest of the night cursing his name.
2025-12-13T00:57 id=1999644764636168326 →- | This is the richest man in the world.  You are less pathetic than the richest man in the world. https://t.co/jQj5KQ4Jv3 || CTX: He followed her then blocked her lmfao https://t.co/5A9Zvi6pcN
2025-12-13T01:10 id=1999648090131955754 →modestproposal1 | @modestproposal1 Hedonic adaptation. || CTX: I know in AI time it's 8793 years ago, but when o3 ARC-AGI score was released last Dec, I got tons of texts "wow amazing" but also despondent for humanity and what it meant for eg their kids future. GPT 5.2 beat o3 at a 99.8% lower cost per
2025-12-13T01:13 id=1999648918825828709 →panoptisean | @panoptisean @Variety Thank you for the valuable insight. || CTX: @Variety Eating everything in sight and smoking as many cigarettes as possible is not healthy
2025-12-13T01:15 id=1999649259336139101 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer Wittgenstein said somewhat the opposite of what Graham is saying, and that Graham thinks this (and gets so much love for it) really proves his point. Avoid bewitchment. Don't let language go on holiday. || CTX: RIP everyone in the replies who thinks that this refers to Wittgenstein, who at no point believed anything like this. But William James did and Carnap did https://t.co/HsA9qqfB6b
2025-12-13T01:19 id=1999650454696001571 →- | I do not find this dystopian. I find it beautiful and hopeful.  Nature will recycle our hate into new life. https://t.co/JR4ulNCvhV || CTX: https://t.co/YDaHZ7fiUV https://t.co/TgVgiQLglp
2025-12-13T02:03 id=1999661304697765948 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I find his particular insanity highly legible.  Born privileged, abused and bullied, luck and timing help him amass wealth that he uses to fight a proxy war with abusers and bullies. But they're now just demons in his head so he can't defeat them. Crash outs, abuse, drugs ensue. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He’s a strange bird. I don’t quite understand what makes him tick.
2025-12-13T02:13 id=1999663883242602637 →- | In a village, “social” means mutual obligation + repeat interaction + reputation that cashes out in real costs.  Online-at-scale, “social” means audience attention + metric feedback + status signaling + monetization, with little to no obligation loop.  Social media is social without sociality. In that way, it is a simulacrum that promises reward if you keep playing while simultaneously draining you. But it distracts with shiny lights.   In other words, it's just like Vegas.  But Vegas is “fake” in an openly declared way, while the feed is “fake” while pretending to be “authentic.” Vegas is honest about selling you a dream; the feed often sells you a dream while insisting it’s reality.
2025-12-13T02:15 id=1999664337783505384 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago If you haven't yet seen, this is related and IMO the greatest philosophical text of the last decade or so, think Byung Chul-Han meets Baudrillard. https://t.co/S1ouNHxp3b || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That sounds right. He also has these moments of lucidity where he seems quite normal and well adjusted, which comes across as odd. Which given the drugs … makes sense.
2025-12-13T02:21 id=1999665959175618779 →Aaryouz | @Aaryouz 1. I don't agree.  2. The tweet you're replying to was made by an LLM distilling my own thoughts on the matter to a short, tweetable length. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LLM slot machines are fake in this exact same way. Silicon Valley’s empire is a mirage and people are starting to see through it
2025-12-13T02:30 id=1999668246195339354 →- | Both of these men have been telling you to hate the other guy in the photo.  It's a game, they want you to be pawns.  I want you to quit the game. https://t.co/jCCtHS4q4N || CTX: Hooooo boyyyyy https://t.co/NByLKq4wX7
2025-12-13T02:31 id=1999668560445235583 →Aaryouz | @Aaryouz Misusing a tool is bad, that's why we call it misuse. || CTX: I think LLMs have utility they’re an incredible innovation but the slot machine bit is them trying to solve open ended problems which ends up turning into a slot machine where they say they understand the constraints of the problem even if 
2025-12-13T02:39 id=1999670366994891092 →Aaryouz | @Aaryouz NVDA has a lower PE ratio than Costco.  You are extrapolating from the marketing layer an investment thesis. That is a recipe for disaster. It's like saying, "McDonald's hamburgers look nothing like they do on tv commercials so they're doomed to go out of business." || CTX: LLMs are not problem solvers Silicon Valley is hyping them up to be that’s my point. They are the latest automation like computers are. Great at well defined tasks but can only be successful through a human in the loop. We are betting our e
2025-12-13T02:41 id=1999670863189410147 →JMWSPT | @JMWSPT @DanielCowper Well he also thought Jews were evil and collaborated with a fascist, so there's that too. || CTX: T.S. Eliot, who introduced the first DEI program at Faber and Faber and was known for such advanced feminist classics as "Portrait of a Lady," once wrote that western civilization would have been spared many errors if it had taken Jane Aust
2025-12-13T02:42 id=1999671361946661073 →sheeblover | @sheeblover Wow. What city is this? || CTX: Not today but I walked 11 miles around what felt like a literal fairytale city!! &amp; I ate a sample platter of Georgian food :)) https://t.co/SrbH2KKnke https://t.co/yW6wu6tTYS
2025-12-13T02:48 id=1999672719399702815 →CameronCorduroy | @CameronCorduroy This reveals a fascinatingly false conception of the world and geopolitics.  I'm not going to argue with you, I'm just impressed at the ignorance. You're in your 20s? || CTX: you know the term "flyover states" also applies to foreign invasions lol what the fuck would China want in rural Appalachia https://t.co/XbQ1z74RXc
2025-12-13T03:04 id=1999676812499239081 →zzineohp | @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy If you read my pinned tweet you'll understand why I lack a pfp and have the username I have.   I do not expect you to expel the effort, of course.  Much about the internet can be learned from this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CameronCorduroy The fuck is that username? This bot must have been made before ChatGPT.
2025-12-13T03:05 id=1999677025628618876 →JMWSPT | @JMWSPT @DanielCowper yeah, fair, my bad lol  My only defense is I just woke up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DanielCowper You don't understand a joke when you see one.
2025-12-13T03:22 id=1999681215700623534 →- | Note the "I was prepared to hate this" stance. This is a person who uses the internet not for fun or education but for validation. And it yields misery.   https://t.co/1xGWUtDOKd https://t.co/HPM54bfUPJ || CTX: I was all prepared to hate this.  What a woman. https://t.co/Ejx1CY4iwJ
2025-12-13T03:23 id=1999681669398429839 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @peligrietzer "natural language at a higher resolution than it will support" assumes there is an artificial language that has a higher resolution.   Wittgenstein shows us why this is nonsense.  Graham's view is the opposite of W.'s. || CTX: @peligrietzer I think this is pretty much what the late Wittgenstein thought. Why don't you?
2025-12-13T03:26 id=1999682399681253516 →analytichegel | @analytichegel @PAHoyeck @peligrietzer I think he's being extremely charitable to Graham and misunderstanding Graham's worldview as a result  Graham sees language as insufficient for hard problems and wants a better alternative (something "higher resolution"). Wittgenstein says language is all we have  Graham's wrong. || CTX: @PAHoyeck @peligrietzer On reread I think your reading makes sense
2025-12-13T03:28 id=1999682749226188995 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @peligrietzer I think you're being overly charitable to Graham.   https://t.co/6IDER9CEec  Also see his post on studying philosophy at uni someone posted somewhere. He just doesn't understand epistemology. || CTX: @analytichegel @PAHoyeck @peligrietzer I think he's being extremely charitable to Graham and misunderstanding Graham's worldview as a result  Graham sees language as insufficient for hard problems and wants a better alternative (something "
2025-12-13T03:31 id=1999683519363318152 →Kalshi | @Kalshi Let's say 2.8b to close out the year and 30% net margins = about 2% ROIC. Not great, but sustainable (especially since there's prob some capital gains via xAI) || CTX: JUST IN: Elon Musk’s X revenues top $2 billion in first 9 months of 2025
2025-12-13T03:34 id=1999684307783409972 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck @peligrietzer https://t.co/fyKDXmgl7r  Says it better than I could. "Resolution" is a bad picture. || CTX: @dylsche Arguably, but definitely not because of the 'resolution' natural language is suitable for
2025-12-13T03:37 id=1999685077475950766 →John_A_Ridge | @John_A_Ridge "Manufacturing consent" was a confession. A brag, even. || CTX: This is not how I expected my opinions about Chomsky to end up being vindicated https://t.co/R8SIHpyu1G https://t.co/i8E4CUQVU8
2025-12-13T03:55 id=1999689631714189429 →mangoahh67blud | @mangoahh67blud @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy yeah omg like totally cringe amirite || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy bro posted a manifesto
2025-12-13T04:09 id=1999693103733834157 →Cynical_Waffles | @Cynical_Waffles @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy 70 million people live in Thailand, dude, we're not bots, we're human beings. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy Cool story, low effort bot https://t.co/M8o4voltK1
2025-12-13T04:10 id=1999693436488954243 →JohnArizona1985 | @JohnArizona1985 @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy Yes, a lot, but not anonymous so (for reasons self evident to anyone who's read that treatise) I can't share them.   Just know this: I'm paid a lot of money by very wealthy people to explain the internet to them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy putting your foreign policy takes aside this is a genuinely very interesting philosophy, have you done any other writings on this subject? https://t.co/Jj0iLbUj3e
2025-12-13T04:11 id=1999693605670428904 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JohnArizona1985 @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy Also thank you for the kind words. || CTX: @JohnArizona1985 @zzineohp @CameronCorduroy Yes, a lot, but not anonymous so (for reasons self evident to anyone who's read that treatise) I can't share them.   Just know this: I'm paid a lot of money by very wealthy people to explain the i
2025-12-13T04:15 id=1999694524256518479 →StephenPiment | @StephenPiment @benlandautaylor That's just how science worked in the mid 20th century. || CTX: @benlandautaylor That’s legit. It’s a pity then that Milgram shat all over his own finding by interpreting it in a way that greatly exceeded the finding itself.
2025-12-13T04:15 id=1999694690577449339 →stringlandscape | @stringlandscape @benlandautaylor This is an absolutely fascinating and thought provoking view! || CTX: @benlandautaylor I think the real conclusion is not that people obey authority, but that people go along with obviously fake things.
2025-12-13T04:45 id=1999702177758216333 →JMWSPT | @JMWSPT @DanielCowper I'm close friends with a major T. S. Eliot scholar who's made the argument that we see no antisemitism in his prose work. This dude got in a huge argument with Kermode on the issue.  Idk man, Waste Land seems pretty antisemitic to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DanielCowper Also, he was friends with many Jews and up until about two years ago, I would have denied any anti-Semitism on his part. I think some recently published letters make a plausible case .
2025-12-13T04:51 id=1999703784675774894 →ahmetb | @ahmetb @drposhlost Because it's just a game to them. They don't actually care, they want to use you to feed their egos. || CTX: @drposhlost unclear how's the top anti-Israel scholar is friends with epstein. my brain is broken
2025-12-13T04:54 id=1999704483451023407 →KlonnyPin_Gosch | @KlonnyPin_Gosch I'll lyk what he says when he replies https://t.co/S9SfnVeX56 || CTX: All smiles lmfaooooo https://t.co/Uxi3wEyeel https://t.co/pmGXMPTuE5
2025-12-13T05:15 id=1999709682802491753 →wallachiamn | @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy Natural resources. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CameronCorduroy I'm curious what your counterpoint is. In a theoretical Chinese ground invasion of the United States, really what does China give a shit about in rural Appalachia
2025-12-13T05:16 id=1999710064777789619 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy But the real point is: why is OP discounting Appalachia? Because he wants to feel better than, superior to, and comes to conclusions to fit that goal.  He's not talking geopolitics, he's talking up the "urban &gt; rural" identity he is building, prob to get engagement from urbanites || CTX: @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy Natural resources.
2025-12-13T05:17 id=1999710205471604942 →wallachiamn | @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy https://t.co/laaSW3C4IL || CTX: @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy But the real point is: why is OP discounting Appalachia? Because he wants to feel better than, superior to, and comes to conclusions to fit that goal.  He's not talking geopolitics, he's talking up the "urban &
2025-12-13T05:22 id=1999711487846416503 →- | I can hear bombs and guns from my house. Living near a war, another life experience to add to the list.
2025-12-13T05:30 id=1999713428253069486 →wallachiamn | @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy But why the focus on Appalachia at all? To fuel a culture war dichotomy and feed your ego. It's a low content low stakes rhetorical game, so the geopolitical or topographic details are irrelevant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CameronCorduroy I'll grant you but there are plenty of "rural" places that are of immense strategic importance to the United States ground defense, I'm just not sure rural Appalachia is one of them
2025-12-13T05:54 id=1999719580567236913 →wallachiamn | @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy So your thoughts and focus are determined by the conservative/prepper types.   Being a reactionary to reactionaries is still being a reactionary. Philosophical suicide. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CameronCorduroy The focus on Appalachia is often intimated by Appalachians or otherwise by conservative/prepper types as an impenetrable killing ground for Chinese troops like Vietnam was for the United States  Thus the "n
2025-12-13T05:58 id=1999720553289331183 →JPKivisto | @JPKivisto @kb9903alt @philosophymeme0 This is why I dislike Galbraith and am suspicious of anyone who polices the wants of others, although it's sometimes warranted.  Ajettalet selkeästi, hauskaa tutustua ja terve. Mä followsin jo sinua. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kb9903alt @philosophymeme0 And greed can even mean a person who internally wants more but doesn’t even try to achieve it.  Thats hardly immoral I would say.  Greed as immoral is due to christian mysticism. We have created 
2025-12-13T06:06 id=1999722531046203859 →middakayo | @middakayo 4chan concentrated, compressed, and flattened human affect without the comforts of politeness or feigned dignity. So it is more visceral and amusing, which many confuse for real.  I'm not surprised it breached containment, and the only way out is to understand it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It became obvious in the late 2010s that so much of internet culture is downstream from 4chan but I am still baffled every day that terms like mogging, mewing, and looksmaxxing breached containment and are popular among chi
2025-12-13T06:08 id=1999722963374080492 →middakayo | @middakayo Robots were alienated from real life by being ugly, unhygienic, and awkward. I guess after 2020 everyone feels they're those things so it kinda makes sense for the ethos to spread.  But it is wild, I agree. I never thought it'd get this big. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 R9k freaked me out but they were always earnest. Maybe those communities just created valid  vocabulary for the extremes of neuroticism/insecurity/resentment. Women I know who were afraid to see the joker movie in theaters 
2025-12-13T06:11 id=1999723959982641508 →j_ckh_ns_n | @j_ckh_ns_n Sucks that you fell for an egomaniac's nonsense?   It's an opportunity to learn how from your past mistakes.  And ofc you can email the dude for an explanation. I did. https://t.co/YQtKMctlg9 || CTX: Fucking sucks, man https://t.co/W1kUaAEv07
2025-12-13T06:12 id=1999724141507936434 →DougHenwood | @DougHenwood Well, now you know you were just an egomaniac's pawn.   Time for some soul searching, buddy. || CTX: This makes me very sad. While I don’t always agree with Noam I admired him as serious and principled. He was always generous with his time. What was he doing hanging out with these shits? https://t.co/fRwVjIjMUG
2025-12-13T06:17 id=1999725305997721880 →JPKivisto | @JPKivisto @kb9903alt @philosophymeme0 We will probably disagree vehemently very soon then.  And yeah, I'd say ads amplify and transform pre-existing wants, which can be destructive but isn't necessarily. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kb9903alt @philosophymeme0 Thanks but I’m just another random Randian speudointellectual. 😅  Galbraith is certainly right in that adverticement creates many irrational wants and often does it maliciously.  But imo he can’t
2025-12-13T08:17 id=1999755466570899636 →mertcentury | @mertcentury Suomalaiset ovat aasialaisia. || CTX: No offense but don’t they already kinda just look like that https://t.co/g8rw4JI8ag
2025-12-13T09:36 id=1999775393704992992 →- | Novel where guy invents a time machine and brings Jesus Christ to the present but instead of probing him for wisdom everyone just makes fun of him for not understanding popular memes.  "The Son of God doesn't know what 6 7 means what a loser lmao"
2025-12-13T09:46 id=1999777982492414393 →xenovigor | @xenovigor @Ruesavatar @TaraBull I lived in the UK. It's real lmao || CTX: @Ruesavatar @TaraBull there's no way this is real. you just.. leave the soap on? how. how is that real
2025-12-13T10:51 id=1999794322410225829 →- | The lesson here isn't "don't cheat."   It's "do your own taxes." https://t.co/R7PeJPysuG || CTX: John G., well-known writer of another era, was almost totally dependent upon his wife Joan who took care of their household, finances, taxes, the children--everything; while John taught & wrote books to support the family. (but also became 
2025-12-13T11:15 id=1999800399700828551 →pteridoid | @pteridoid @HistoryBoomer He beat them kids || CTX: @HistoryBoomer What'd Wittgenstein do?
2025-12-13T11:25 id=1999802962663932088 →- | RT @afraidofwasps: Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I… || CTX: Nice reply "owning" me, unfortunately you parsed 2 levels of irony but missed completely the third, wherein it's clear I'm making fun of the persona your reply intended to critique. That being said I'm still hurt to an almost unimaginable d
2025-12-13T12:03 id=1999812517556867222 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 absolute same man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have been an elon musk, not hater, more like disrespecter before it was cool. I really disliked his lies and overpromises and the overwhelming amount of gullible supporters he amassed. Now hating him is no longer uncommon
2025-12-13T13:00 id=1999826688902140386 →- | Why's a white version of the fat kid from Up in the latest season of stranger things
2025-12-13T13:53 id=1999840155830800487 →- | cuz I watched it twice https://t.co/ZGmSnYmTr8 || CTX: 'Pluribus' is officially now the most-watched show in Apple TV history 📺 https://t.co/448MicTpc8
2025-12-13T22:07 id=1999964501790294197 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 You're being misled by stupidity on the internet. Stop it. Go for a walk. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am curious, what is your view on this. it feels too crackpotty to me but lots of people seem to find value in it including those from the peatsphere. https://t.co/j6feJ94TGa
2025-12-13T22:43 id=1999973522547065208 →- | This reminded me; it is only in Miami and in Thailand where I have seen women openly and honestly talk about pursuing men for money.  I guess women in NYC did this too but were just more subtle about it? Or fewer did it.  I often wish I was gay. I also often hate my misogyny. https://t.co/ULkKibzONz || CTX: life-changing tiktok i fear https://t.co/MbiWjiTo7r
2025-12-13T23:11 id=1999980497494229462 →GholsonLyon | @GholsonLyon @BretVDB Bloom was a very good writer and clearly a frustrated creative. His criticism is more like poetry than scholarship. || CTX: @BretVDB I like some of the things Bloom says, but much of it is cursory and not a close reading at all.  I have only about 8 or so of his books, and not sure how many more I will buy and read..... obviously prolific, but many problematic i
2025-12-13T23:14 id=1999981241689690579 →- | Call me a romantic but I do not like the sounds of bombs and rockets in an active warzone.
2025-12-13T23:23 id=1999983620929568777 →- | Watching social media reactions to Khmer Rouge apologist Noam Chomsky laughing with avowed enemy Steve Bannon while I hear and feel bombs detonating in Cambodia.  Well, at least I'm not bored.
2025-12-13T23:25 id=1999984121758744606 →hecubian_devil | @hecubian_devil Look, I hate L. A. as much as any sane person but why are skyscrapers on a coastline necessary for "greatest city on Earth"? What's wrong with, like, small walkable towns with 5 story buildings and 100k people in them? || CTX: If LA had started building like this 40 years ago, it’d be the greatest city on earth https://t.co/Bp55UmAMVt
2025-12-13T23:30 id=1999985379173412938 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I've had a life lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dude that’s crazy.
2025-12-13T23:37 id=1999986977081552998 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 "I like 4o" I honestly underestimated the power of pareidolia || CTX: they turned 5.2 into a real nigga https://t.co/rhWVc0NFRt
2025-12-13T23:45 id=1999989180978598373 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 https://t.co/ARxksRnvIK || CTX: goin to taiwan in jan what some fun stuff to do there
2025-12-13T23:47 id=1999989650761654397 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer Watch Xavier Renegade Angel. Much more brilliant wordplay and a better moral compass. || CTX: I'm ready to admit I underrated BoJack Horseman all my life treating it as a guilty pleasure. A lot of the wordplay-dialogue is just transcendent
2025-12-13T23:58 id=1999992389260431431 →langofmind | @langofmind I mean, he's just deflating the concept of "computation".   Oh... he doesn't know that's what he's doing, does he? || CTX: Pancomputationalism! You love to see it https://t.co/DBAWQUxMpf
2025-12-14T00:05 id=1999994203636744514 →ernietedeschi | @ernietedeschi Would like to see non-PPP. || CTX: Even if you adjust for hours worked, US real GDP per hour was 22% higher than the EU in 2023 and 15% higher than the Euro Area. https://t.co/5W2P2EJ6IT https://t.co/HhnPUWLSJS
2025-12-14T00:08 id=1999994789606138143 →FarleyWrites | @FarleyWrites Oh this list is nonsense || CTX: London at 90 hahaha. It’s a top five food city easily. https://t.co/7e2kPdqSRf
2025-12-14T00:40 id=2000002920012726743 →Milo_Edwards | @Milo_Edwards He hasn't replied to me. https://t.co/lcYsJjvNLS || CTX: noam chomsky brought down by his famous policy of answering an email from literally anyone https://t.co/o5HNGHO9Ve
2025-12-14T00:48 id=2000004919349362882 →SpeedWatkins | @SpeedWatkins Hoyeck seems to misunderstand Wittgenstein's view on Moore's argument.  It wasn't that it's bad, it's that it shows the limits of what we mean by "knowledge". Thus hinge certainties.  W.'s comments on Moore in his letters explains this rather well. || CTX: Moore was right. Haters gonna hate. https://t.co/rdBEvlD7XN
2025-12-14T00:59 id=2000007800127426609 →SpeedWatkins | @SpeedWatkins Absolutely. Skepticism requires a hinge certainty to operate from, which imo is W.'s greatest idea. And Moore's "here is a hand" enacts that.  W. didn't disagree with Moore at all, in fact Austin said all of W. is in Moore! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think this is closer to the truth. My take on Wittgenstein is that he saw all forms of skepticism as a consequence of our rules governing what we mean by knowledge and knowing, how they function in different language game
2025-12-14T01:26 id=2000014411621417217 →besttrousers | @besttrousers I've literally seen you ignore the importance of dispersion and diffusion for at least a decade now. || CTX: The median one bedroom apartment in the USA is $1234. I suspect there are a couple less than $1200. https://t.co/aNi0HBXX7s https://t.co/rhm7KX9b2K
2025-12-14T01:29 id=2000015170094153756 →- | imagine a possible world in which all industry is concentrated in one city. rinse in that City will skyrocket and rent elsewhere will collapse. as a result, the median is low but housing is unaffordable for workers. obviously https://t.co/CKsRJcIANM || CTX: The median one bedroom apartment in the USA is $1234. I suspect there are a couple less than $1200. https://t.co/aNi0HBXX7s https://t.co/rhm7KX9b2K
2025-12-14T01:29 id=2000015173067944039 →47fucb4r8c69323 | obviously I'm not saying this is what's happening, I'm saying looking just at the median tells you almost nothing.  but what annoys me about this is that this dude has been making the same naive oversimplification on Twitter and on Reddit for over a decade, and in so doing || CTX: imagine a possible world in which all industry is concentrated in one city. rinse in that City will skyrocket and rent elsewhere will collapse. as a result, the median is low but housing is unaffordable for workers. obviously https://t.co/C
2025-12-14T01:29 id=2000015178159796514 →47fucb4r8c69323 | he has led a lot of young people astray while making his field of economics look a lot stupider than it actually is. || CTX: obviously I'm not saying this is what's happening, I'm saying looking just at the median tells you almost nothing.  but what annoys me about this is that this dude has been making the same naive oversimplification on Twitter and on Reddit f
2025-12-14T01:38 id=2000017587707793812 →HistoryBoomer | @HistoryBoomer That presentation is retarded. || CTX: More clickbait.   Aroma in Rome serves tasting menus, meaning you pay for everything, a 4 course meal, one price. That pasta is just 1 course out of 4. And it’s €220, which is about $258.  Expensive, but a full meal, and you also get a view
2025-12-14T01:41 id=2000018182288130409 →StinkyFartz420 | @StinkyFartz420 @CameronCorduroy I know.   https://t.co/laaSW3C4IL || CTX: @wallachiamn @CameronCorduroy But the real point is: why is OP discounting Appalachia? Because he wants to feel better than, superior to, and comes to conclusions to fit that goal.  He's not talking geopolitics, he's talking up the "urban &
2025-12-14T02:14 id=2000026705545884088 →- | People want what is interesting more than they want what is true.  Opportunists leverage this with a memorable story they retell over and over to gain attention and solidify status.  Status is legible only in a community, so opportunists optimize for legibility. Nuance is a risk to status, so the opportunist discards nuance.  At this point it's a competition more than an exploration of truth, and so the opportunist can never revise, apologize, or admit error.  This explains not just Noam Chomsky but most people today trying to become a public intellectual, whether they're total idiots (e.g. Destiny) or have substantial cognitive power (e.g. Chomsky).  We do not live in an era where you can trust anyone seeking attention.
2025-12-14T02:17 id=2000027346649444375 →MadsPosting | @MadsPosting Drunk you was correct. || CTX: https://t.co/SMsbHak3Qe
2025-12-14T02:18 id=2000027560747708745 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT I hope one day you read Wittgenstein. This is basically his entire deal. || CTX: In Molière's play Le Malade imaginaire, a hack doctor "explains" the working of opium by saying opium has a "dormitive virtue" by which it induces sleep.   The joke is that this explanation doesn't explain anything, it just restates the que
2025-12-14T02:25 id=2000029448222216342 →panickssery | @panickssery All I can see here is "I want to fuck my mom" || CTX: imagine in the future there is more cloning, so that there are families where the next generation is a clone of the husband and wife who themselves marry and do the same, forever
2025-12-14T02:27 id=2000029756901982246 →47fucb4r8c69323 | These are your public intellectuals. Just give it up, anon. Read the classics instead. https://t.co/Wixx9wAUgR || CTX: People want what is interesting more than they want what is true.  Opportunists leverage this with a memorable story they retell over and over to gain attention and solidify status.  Status is legible only in a community, so opportunists op
2025-12-14T02:31 id=2000030925502271899 →eris_nerung | You are far, far less intelligent than you think you are.  I know you won't take this observation seriously. I know your nervous system will kick in trying to find outs so you don't have to consider it.  Do me a favor, fight that urge. Go for a walk for five minutes and consider this one sentence:  You are far, far less intelligent than you think you are. || CTX: @rodeopuddle there's no "fear of the power of sex" wrt aella simply because she's never had it. she is pure of heart not because she's autistic but because she's a virgin, genital contact notwithstanding
2025-12-14T02:33 id=2000031427744985472 →slime_machine | @slime_machine Nah she's right.  I have a novelist friend who can't get her latest manuscript published. She's published seven novels already, one (IIRC) was a top bestseller.  Whether what JCO observes applies to domains beyond fiction is an open question. || CTX: faulkner didnt have youtube shorts and xhamster joyce https://t.co/w8nIEapB6S
2025-12-14T02:44 id=2000034224112553996 →- | "The scholar who, in sooth, does little else than handle books—with the philologist of average attainments their number may amount to two hundred a day—ultimately forgets entirely and completely the capacity of thinking for himself" - Friedrich Nietzsche https://t.co/QdLqpOmf5g || CTX: i prefer taking a Derridean approach to my books https://t.co/sATQW8nnMw https://t.co/9NJMFXXRoG
2025-12-14T03:18 id=2000042713673355477 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I genuinely like you and hope you never suffer such a misfortune. || CTX: One day I will have an army of my own reply guys.
2025-12-14T03:22 id=2000043701087989783 →ThinkAppraiser | @ThinkAppraiser And then they drive from L. A. to Sacramento and hate CA all over again. || CTX: I challenge anybody to drive Hwy 1 from Laguna Beach to SF and tell me they still hate CA   Take a week or two, get a rented convertible, drive slow, make all the stops and take lots of pictures   I promise you’ll enjoy the trip https://t.c
2025-12-14T03:39 id=2000047912257249662 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Oh that's what's missing! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i actually kind of like the sound of rocket alarms
2025-12-14T03:51 id=2000051088045785522 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Ngl I am a peacecel guilty as charged || CTX: peacecels will never know the cozy feeling of being in your building bomb shelter with all the other neighbors and hanging out while you wait for your country to intercept a ballistic missile outside of earths atmosphere https://t.co/5XQ6Ej
2025-12-14T05:01 id=2000068547196985625 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @tszzl LMAOOOOOOOOOO || CTX: @tszzl explains all the rw greek statue accounts
2025-12-14T05:09 id=2000070738796048631 →teodorio | @teodorio Yeah, but, like, there genuinely are women who don't think like this. Granted not many, but they do exist! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I find it quite honest to be fair
2025-12-14T05:11 id=2000071171895910577 →SwannMarcus89 | @SwannMarcus89 Technically speaking, the guy has to believe Nazis actually have magic blood for his metaphor to stand scrutiny.  Maybe he's just a Nazi lmao || CTX: One of my new “media literacy” pet peeves is people projecting real world concepts onto fantasy worlds where it makes no sense  I saw a YouTube video today where a guy compared the Targaryens from Game of Thrones to the Nazis because they’r
2025-12-14T05:13 id=2000071617477829068 →JessePeltan | @JessePeltan I've been in several Chines EVs and none of them were smoother than a Mercedes. But maybe I haven't been in the right model yet. || CTX: Chinese EVs are going to flood the global market.  Western automakers and oil companies are not prepared. https://t.co/FgaEWujoO5
2025-12-14T05:33 id=2000076545017414113 →helscom | @helscom Google has had this limitation for at least 10 years now, kind of insane || CTX: they were missing whimsy from their soul… https://t.co/w8hj7EjGuO
2025-12-14T05:44 id=2000079340432973890 →- | You know what else takes 6 minutes to cook?  . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deez nuts https://t.co/E8AVRV4YTb || CTX: They take 6 minutes to cook??? https://t.co/v94sGhMBqM
2025-12-14T07:05 id=2000099935291924674 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @morallawwithin @veritasvates "too little too late" sound like the ideal conditions for a pederast. || CTX: @morallawwithin @veritasvates Sure Socrates cleans up much of it at the end but too little too late?
2025-12-14T08:57 id=2000128068145332501 →- | This isn't creepy or disturbing at all in context. https://t.co/gmr3TQQro7 || CTX: @Noahpinion Reveal that preference! Kids are fun.
2025-12-14T09:36 id=2000137899040452966 →- | Band name: Woke Nonsense
2025-12-14T09:41 id=2000139159198171379 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @retardbot9000 If this war last much longer, I'll know the feeling all too well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 I don't think you cannot know the feeling he describes tho
2025-12-14T10:37 id=2000153040754790577 →KivvyCat | @KivvyCat "haha your food is India tier" is not the dunk that person thinks it is. || CTX: Food looks so fucking bussin I almost liked a hate tweet https://t.co/Xc0VXwhZ68
2025-12-14T10:40 id=2000153968933208114 →ChineseBot2B | @ChineseBot2B Suomalaset ovat kaikki niin. || CTX: The funny thing about this is that dude literally looks like a chopped Manchu or Uyghur with yellow hair. https://t.co/f0yjl9TbXN https://t.co/hokwXNdQtJ
2025-12-14T10:58 id=2000158412798349355 →dalibali2 | @dalibali2 Is this personal or business use??? || CTX: Yipit this bitches https://t.co/wHQzhvO8x2 https://t.co/3Kvhbwmp6D
2025-12-14T11:51 id=2000171901482828140 →cornu__copia | @cornu__copia Don't you mean Conan O'Brien? || CTX: According to the Finnish etiquette rules, both national costumes and ancient costumes are allowed even in the most formal occasions.   In 2001, the Finnish President Tarja Halonen wore the Eura dress for the annual Independence Day receptio
2025-12-14T12:15 id=2000177920011374787 →helscom | @helscom Still got a ways to go. https://t.co/OOtVjcxp3D || CTX: https://t.co/FJ9L96in0n
2025-12-14T12:21 id=2000179262427648304 →NotPotBol | @NotPotBol That'll boil so much water man || CTX: Anything with fusion is so bizzare. We can’t even get it to work yet, and it already seems orders of magnitude more advanced then anything else we are doing. What do you mean it was at 90 Million degrees, what the fuck? https://t.co/rLHusfK
2025-12-14T12:31 id=2000181849902170372 →redtachyon | @redtachyon I have seen history made. || CTX: 5.2 is reaching levels of based that have not yet been seen when dealing with 4oids https://t.co/kpFLN7ShR8
2025-12-14T12:33 id=2000182260616880173 →yungmetronome | @yungmetronome This is interesting. I've heard 500k all in for... well, not first year analysts at pod shops. || CTX: I’ve never worked for a pod, always been SMs  Maybe the imagery of a clown dancing a jig for coin is too harsh, but if you’ve actually seen the splits for total comp pool, emperor vs clown is actually quite appropriate in terms of orders of
2025-12-14T13:16 id=2000193212271759736 →Felixandres77 | @Felixandres77 @Milo_Edwards ...was he ever? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Milo_Edwards He is not mentally capable anymore
2025-12-15T02:52 id=2000398423082893557 →econenjoyer69 | @econenjoyer69 @manurquiza0 @KivvyCat Argentinians saying they have great cuisine because of their quality cattle is like Ukraine saying they have great cuisine because of their high quality barley.   It's too ridiculous to engage with, a symptom of a deeper cultural problem. || CTX: @manurquiza0 @47fucb4r8c69323 @KivvyCat Argentinians acting like they have the best cuisine in the world is hilarious. What do you have that’s actually good? Chimichuri? Your food sucks, everyone says so. Your steaks are cooked and served a
2025-12-15T02:54 id=2000399013691134422 →potatoslav | @potatoslav Wait what kind of cheese was it tho? || CTX: one time they had france week in the town square of my city. i live in germany so basically a bunch of french dudes just came over and set up stands of olives and bread and cheese. i went to the cheese stand and tried a cheese and it was th
2025-12-15T02:55 id=2000399223750271364 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias Both you and Wu are correct at different levels of description. || CTX: I think burger joints compete with French restaurants https://t.co/QK2Pda7onn
2025-12-15T03:10 id=2000402936720159000 →fawfulfan | @fawfulfan @nikicaga Finnish bread is pretty good. H is the obvious worst choice. || CTX: @nikicaga Better question, what's the WORST choice here?  I think it's either B or C. They aren't totally devoid of anything good — B gets you Finnish reindeer burgers, for example, and C gets you Uighur food — but on the whole, definitely 
2025-12-15T03:19 id=2000405410361270513 →SouthDallasFood | @SouthDallasFood @therealjcwilson You're not a foodie. || CTX: @therealjcwilson It’s like eating a cracker with no cheese on it. Bread with no butter, plain ass noodles with no Bolognese there’s a better way to live people.
2025-12-15T03:23 id=2000406284949229920 →fawfulfan | @fawfulfan @nikicaga Sure, but I can live without Caeser salad and cheesecake || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nikicaga H includes New York City, do you have any idea how many dishes were invented there?
2025-12-15T03:27 id=2000407406690640287 →conorjrogers | @conorjrogers @JHWeissmann Survivorship nostalgia? || CTX: @JHWeissmann That’s the cause of it, yeah, but I mean the social phenomenon of people making conclusions based on it.   The most common example is people taking airline advertisements from the 1960s and saying like “look how great flying us
2025-12-15T05:00 id=2000430645886267448 →- | Thaler is a fascinating person.  Built a legendary career by importing common sense to a fundamentally silly field.  Sometimes you get an edge not by playing the game, but showing the players why their rules are dumb. https://t.co/iob9dcbbYD || CTX: Thanks. Worth noting that the co-author of the original version of that chapter was none other than Amos Tversky. Clearest thinker I have ever known. We were careful not to mess it up. The next chapter is with Danny K. Do people maximize ut
2025-12-15T05:38 id=2000440353619615842 →- | Very good thread on South Korea and the logic of its socioeconomic system.   K-pop is an instructive counterexample that proves the point: it scaled first by happening on a thing legible to Koreans that also had currency abroad (i.e., hot Koreans) and added foreign layers to expand (American pop group aesthetics most obviously and immediately) while downplaying the uniquely Korean elements foreigners dislike (rigid hierarchical society, shame driven suicides, systemic rape and abuse of workers).  K-pop, and really any Korean product, will gain value beyond the native TAM iff it incorporates non-Korean elements that are internationally legible.  Now consider America and it operates the opposite way: the MORE American the thing is, the more internationally legible.  Why the difference is an interesting question. || CTX: Korean here. I know the answer to this.  There are rich Koreans, but they’re relatively rare and almost all of them are people who dared to expand outside the Korean market and system.  If you stay fully inside the Korean system, a lot of y
2025-12-15T05:42 id=2000441266354716709 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @tszzl If it was just the people you enjoy interacting with it'd turn solipsistic, nonsense would resonate.  The slop keeps us grounded and honest. It's just important to have the right psychological guardrails and intellectual heuristics to keep the slop as slop in your mind. || CTX: @tszzl probably something to this. was off this app for a week and felt better than i ever had in my entire life.  its a shame cause the people ive interacted with on here are so great and i wish it could just be them but i have to deal wit
2025-12-15T05:42 id=2000441408398966992 →- | Nature is absolutely full of slop.
2025-12-15T05:44 id=2000441781092331963 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Vertigo and annoyance, most likely. || CTX: How would you feel if I asked you “How would you feel if I asked you “how would you feel if you didn’t eat breakfast this morning?””
2025-12-15T05:45 id=2000441970452549676 →- | As a Jew who has lived a very long time in Asia, I can say this isn't a joke, it's a description. https://t.co/pyrHsWwpwD || CTX: There's this Chinese joke that a Jew starts a gas station. Other Jew saw it went well, so he built a shop next door. Another opened a restaurant etc.  A Chinese builds a gas station. Another sees it goes well, he opens a gas station next do
2025-12-15T05:46 id=2000442333075259842 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I've had several Koreans tell me it tastes bad but it's good for health. || CTX: what if dog meat goes hard and the koreans were right all along
2025-12-15T06:46 id=2000457415498850489 →SonOfaGunsmith | @SonOfaGunsmith @fawfulfan @nikicaga Today I learned. Even more of a knock off them, then. Waldorf Salad I know is NYC invented and it's fucking disgusting. What's left, bananafish, egg cream? The bagel isn't even a New York thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fawfulfan @nikicaga Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico.
2025-12-15T07:02 id=2000461385273328031 →ChairByThWindow | @ChairByThWindow @blackb1rd24 @helscom That person's response just tells me that person is dumber than 5.2, tells me nothing about 5.2 itself. || CTX: @blackb1rd24 @47fucb4r8c69323 @helscom reread the question they asked. it's the mom saying she can't operate. there's no indication in the question that the mom is a doctor 💀
2025-12-15T07:02 id=2000461569617240177 →SonOfaGunsmith | @SonOfaGunsmith @fawfulfan @nikicaga Spaghetti and meatballs is disgusting and I can absolutely live without eggs Benedict. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fawfulfan @nikicaga They do get Spaghetti and Meatballs (invented by Italian immigrants), and Eggs Benedict (also invented at the Waldorf).   Oh shit, that reminds me, though: H gets Chocolate Chip cookies from fucking Tol
2025-12-15T07:03 id=2000461710709391782 →kayra61senolist | @kayra61senolist @fawfulfan @nikicaga yeah I was a bit of an idiot, E def is the worst option here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fawfulfan @nikicaga E is standing right there dawg
2025-12-15T08:04 id=2000477150361567432 →samiralibabic | @samiralibabic @johnrushx This is exactly what happened when the internet became mainstream in the 1990s and is my rough model for how AI dispersion will look. || CTX: @johnrushx People just finish their work faster, don’t report it, and slack. So idle time increases, not productivity.
2025-12-15T08:48 id=2000488234338435110 →Bisky1505 | @Bisky1505 @Neilsing99 @fawfulfan @nikicaga Willful misunderstanding of the thought experiment as a kind of ego protection--it's a weird cognitive misfiring for such an innocuous question and map, which tells me there's either deep stupidity or mental illness. I immediately muted the person as a result. || CTX: @Neilsing99 @47fucb4r8c69323 @fawfulfan @nikicaga Tbf i understand this as national cuisine. Not what you can get there. Cause atp you can get about everything in any sector that includes a developed nation
2025-12-15T09:11 id=2000493895269089544 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Insane that Mel Brooks outlived him. || CTX: OMG. Apparently Rob Reiner and his wife were stabbed to death and then the house on fire. RIP. https://t.co/7X2fOS1UjB
2025-12-15T09:22 id=2000496638893441467 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Knock off cheap ass remake of Children of Men || CTX: Birth rate so low, the crying baby on the plane isn’t an annoyance anymore but a blessing
2025-12-15T09:23 id=2000496880778621400 →SkyVelleity | @SkyVelleity @tastykacey14 Well now I miss England thanks for that || CTX: @tastykacey14 "The shops" makes sense when you consider that it Britain it's probably one store that sells soggy chips next to a place that has old boots and that's it that's "the shops"
2025-12-15T09:26 id=2000497702644424974 →sugarjammi | @sugarjammi OMG LOUIS DIED??!??!? || CTX: the silence is deafening   i can name numerous ppl that were so quick to post, fight in comments, mourning CK's death saying "this shouldn't have happened"  its only good to tweet when it benefits you huh https://t.co/UoxMB6LB7k
2025-12-15T09:27 id=2000498046115954723 →AliceFromQueens | @AliceFromQueens Kitten is one of the stupidest big accounts out there, hardly indicative of anything except that particular person's own stupidity.  Well, there's also the question of why such stupidity scales but that's beside the point. || CTX: You guys can NOT be this stupid. https://t.co/G62OEayq8j
2025-12-15T09:29 id=2000498394029318436 →WillieOrwonte_ | @WillieOrwonte_ @AliceFromQueens You're retarded dude. || CTX: @AliceFromQueens Spoken like a true Asian male.
2025-12-15T09:42 id=2000501640458342718 →SaiTheDarkness | @SaiTheDarkness Funny, that's exactly what your mom said last night. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have a description of deez nuts on your chin https://t.co/rNZdI5cKxB
2025-12-15T09:43 id=2000501987033710645 →SkyVelleity | @SkyVelleity @tastykacey14 Thick cut chips with extra salt and pints of bitter are why I spent much of my early 20s obese.  Not that I'd ever admit to liking anything about Britain, ofc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tastykacey14 (don’t tell anyone but I miss soggy thick cut chips and gravy too 😔)
2025-12-15T09:45 id=2000502451192172734 →HistoryBoomer | @HistoryBoomer Yeah yeah yeah, I heard professors say this 20 years ago.   Come up with a new thing to yell at cloud, old man. || CTX: "By the end of the semester, only a fraction seem to have gotten through the texts and writing assignments without outsourcing at least some of their work to AI."  I don't know how many of my students outsource to AI, but I know many are no
2025-12-15T09:53 id=2000504582322213081 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 lmfao || CTX: everyones a critic https://t.co/TbxAtvoL8b
2025-12-15T09:59 id=2000506053033967996 →luistr640poli | @luistr640poli @TrueSlazac @Great_Chumpion "And why is that bad?People un poorer countries charge less why is that something bad?"  Now see the problem? || CTX: @TrueSlazac @Great_Chumpion And why is that bad?People un poorer countries are charged less why is that something bad?
2025-12-15T10:16 id=2000510178110607616 →apostolicus | @apostolicus Because WW2 only hit Britain, nowhere else suffered shortages.  Jfc I hate armchair historians || CTX: Historian here, it’s actually a cultural carry over from the rationing years after WW2, when only very weak chemical detergents were available and long exposure time was the best way to actually clean dishes  The more you know… 🫡 https://t.
2025-12-15T10:21 id=2000511450343973353 →cafreiman | @cafreiman @BenBurgis Why PPP though? Surely unnecessary and distortionary given the countries being discussed. || CTX: @BenBurgis You saw it but ignored it (presumably because it undermined your point)
2025-12-15T10:22 id=2000511844272980139 →moultano | @moultano So much of discourse is "I'm getting old and I don't like it." || CTX: People talk about old games in the exact way they talked about books. https://t.co/TaKyruPh7C
2025-12-15T10:24 id=2000512255755264249 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @peterwildeford https://t.co/7JLth9t1I2 || CTX: @peterwildeford easy to make a design, the challenge is in the engineering
2025-12-15T10:27 id=2000512921248711058 →mmjukic | @mmjukic I don't think many people realize how much modern "Communism with Chinese characteristics" is just Reaganism.  @danwwang is really good on this. || CTX: It always makes me chuckle when Chinese Communist Party political leaders just outright sound like cranky libertarians. https://t.co/LADffBaRhm
2025-12-15T10:28 id=2000513399919403100 →PythiaR | @PythiaR The tunnel vision of finance types is always amusing.   This isn't Munger, it's Goodhart. || CTX: Looks like Xi read Munger https://t.co/eDJgq1Q8N4
2025-12-15T10:30 id=2000513831014179281 →_alice_evans | @_alice_evans There's so much wrong with the question as you pose it I have to assume this is engagement bait. Or academia's standards really have collapsed. || CTX: UNKNOWN:   How did Buddhists convince progressives they were woke? https://t.co/RZctKbhBjM
2025-12-15T10:34 id=2000514879648669795 →- | Ofc it isn't right wingers that don't go outside (if you think so, it is YOU that don't go outside).  The retweeted post was designed to appeal to losers who don't go outside (easy to enrage right wingers who also don't go outside, fear, etc, so high value for an engagement baiter).  The retweeting post is designed to appeal to a different set of losers who don't go outside (I. e. left wingers who also don't go outside).  For anyone who goes outside, both are patently wrong and dumb, but they're too busy being outside to say so.   And thus we see how the ragebait game perpetuates itself. And when you see that, it ceases to be enraging and becomes beautiful, like watching two lions fighting over a gazelle. || CTX: This is any sunny day in london - further proof right wingers don’t go outside https://t.co/bMb0VoPLlR
2025-12-15T10:42 id=2000516696688488598 →Jayseki | @Jayseki @bryancsk Never could get into that movie, always made me sleepy. || CTX: @bryancsk kind of funny that it stains hands blue, but doesn't have psilocybin.  maybe it was the blue color that was the active ingredient all along, not the psilocybin.  just like in that classic hollywood movie, leonard part 6
2025-12-15T10:50 id=2000518712953028629 →jasonc_nc | @jasonc_nc Surely Las Vegas saw faster growth in the 90s? || CTX: Austin, likely the fastest growing large city in the U.S. from 2014-2024, grew 13% over the past decade. Peak growth 2010-2020 for any large city was <20% - so <2% annualized.  Nowhere of size in the country has even seen a 50% increase ove
2025-12-15T10:53 id=2000519561192284603 →- | Yeah but the problem is selection.  I won't deny many novels (Notes from the Underground, Memoirs of a Geisha, Lolita) made me a better person. And many (Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, Robinson Crusoe) did absolutely nothing for me. And for others the reverse. https://t.co/gj0CLKvWjT || CTX: He’s right. There’s so much more to be learned from Anna Karenina or The Count of Monte Cristo than any self help book. https://t.co/LjWAtsbqhZ
2025-12-15T11:02 id=2000521948791513481 →- | I came very close to buying a house in Italy, until my lawyer informed me it'd technically be illegal to reside in the house.   He also told me this was normal in Italy, so yeah decided not the best country to buy property in. https://t.co/qb6XrtbOcs || CTX: @kendrictonn Never underestimate the italian bureaucrat's ability and willingness to wreck your day by entangling you in his kafkaesque and ever-shifting authorities.
2025-12-15T11:25 id=2000527526389805424 →rtcoffee123 | @rtcoffee123 @mmjukic @danwwang idk enough about Leninism but it can easily be both. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mmjukic @danwwang Nah man it's NEP-era Leninism. Imagine if Lenin lived until the 1950's we'd see a lot of this
2025-12-15T13:25 id=2000557879057625541 →meekaale | @meekaale @peligrietzer I want to be you at university, shit sounds awesome as hell || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @peligrietzer i spent my university years watching xavier renegade angel, reading deleuze, and listening to free jazz. that's how i became the husk of a man i am today. such doth life...
2025-12-15T15:18 id=2000586274399539646 →- | Asians think Asian-Americans are opportunists who think they're better than Asians.   Europeans think white Americans are delusional about their "European heritage".   I'm curious what Israelis think about us Jewish Americans? We aren't serious enough?
2025-12-15T16:07 id=2000598531263156709 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @jeremykauffman I increasingly think this, and it's a financial truth too. I could argue we're functionally post scarcity but still have poverty because, well, humanity doesn't want post scarcity. || CTX: @jeremykauffman Yea, positive trends in data and hedonistic adaption. Maybe we are hedonistically adapted so much we have already passed a threshold.
2025-12-15T16:14 id=2000600347489030359 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @jeremykauffman A truly horrific realization I've had is that most rich people don't want to be rich, they want to be richer than other people.  I could tolerate that from poor/middle class people as an effect of class resentment. But, no, it's endemic to the human condition. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jeremykauffman Hedonistic adaption for semi-post or post scarcity is concerning psychologically.   And how does status play into all this? It’s not all economics. Status is mostly zero sum. People still want status.
2025-12-15T16:19 id=2000601502260527235 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @jeremykauffman I used to think status games were just a diversion for people who think financial security is unobtainable.   But, no, people prefer smugness over comfort, it's really quite tragic.  Also makes me really paranoid that I too seek status. Buddhism and Wittgenstein help tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jeremykauffman Yes I’ve seen that too, I’ve also seen poor/middle class engage in ruthless status games, sometimes it’s significantly worse.
2025-12-15T16:36 id=2000605908897009721 →mean_field_zane | @mean_field_zane can't believe people take that dude seriously jfc || CTX: It’s genuinely incredible how little Yarvin understands about economics. https://t.co/zKUTAAxQLJ
2025-12-15T16:43 id=2000607587755340252 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @mean_field_zane I remember thinking the Moldbug or whatever it was called blog was basically a revenge of the nerds fantasy and thinking, "a heavily bullied nerd will destroy the world for revenge one day." Then Elon Musk appeared to fulfill the prophecy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mean_field_zane A long time ago I used to have his blog in my rss feed list, but I would have categorized his posts back the as being more along the lines of esoteric/eccentric musings.   Clearly he started taking himself 
2025-12-15T16:45 id=2000608276686471358 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Eliminating status games is bad but containing them to the status of being fun games is good. We take shit too seriously basically. || CTX: I find it annoying when people engage in status projection via title, success symbols etc but would it be better if this psychological urge was removed? Probably not. We benefit greatly from the status antics of others via services and good
2025-12-15T16:50 id=2000609389095600586 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Building was too old for safe habitation and would require inspections. Wasn't about me being a foreigner (although that's stopped me from buying in Thailand, literally millions of dollars of foreign investment gone from me alone). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 illegal how? this is insane. other countries have work around like in mexico you can't buy property if you're a foreigner but you can lease for 99 years
2025-12-15T16:51 id=2000609625251709098 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I wonder why I'm not and have never been like this and frankly don't understand it at all. Maybe because I was bullied as a kid and learned popular opinion is dumb. It's just so alien. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The meaning of life for many people is the pursuit of status, if this is taken away… then what? Nihilists? Ideologues? I suppose they could be enlightened to some extent but I doubt it.   I’m using status in a more material
2025-12-15T16:56 id=2000610890308284776 →- | This is why young people don't drink alcohol anymore.   Internalized panopticon. Planet of cops. Sickening shit. https://t.co/NYfPFY0qJT || CTX: this PR trained queen… 100% class act our First Lady  https://t.co/y5tK9uLd9G
2025-12-15T17:05 id=2000613298518344111 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Seems categorically different at that point but I'm not sure if that's a principled view or just my psychological self defense activating. I need to contemplate this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Behaviours like cheating, lying, hypocrisy, ignorance etc may be your internal status indicators.
2025-12-15T17:29 id=2000619294892388566 →teodorio | @teodorio All language is language games.   it's games all the way down || CTX: All research is game theory research if you know what you are doing
2025-12-15T17:37 id=2000621316567871807 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 actually I quite like that tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 seen as pushovers generally when it comes to business but brothers in every sense of the word.   שבט אחים גם יחד
2025-12-15T18:20 id=2000632126908277003 →blondesnmoney | @blondesnmoney idgi || CTX: Motivational post of the week https://t.co/deIUY2DJAh
2025-12-15T18:24 id=2000633060627538337 →- | Having monks around definitely has uplifted my spirit and I'm nowhere near a Buddhist or even religious. https://t.co/jAi317Snud || CTX: have been thinking about how beautiful the role of the priest is and how we kind of miss it in society? like someone who is visibly stable and devoted to a higher calling, a pillar for the community. it’s comforting https://t.co/FEHa57vjXv
2025-12-15T21:47 id=2000684277604978884 →hubbstercat | @hubbstercat @ClwnPrncCharlie As an American living not in the US, I think you care way too much about this shit and it doesn't matter at all.   Devi pensare che gli americani sono inferiori? Perché? || CTX: @ClwnPrncCharlie As an Italian living in the US, I think you guys underestimate just HOW MUCH Italian Americans pretend that what they do/cook/say is actually The True Italian Way Of Life.
2025-12-15T22:03 id=2000688083910742225 →teodorio | @teodorio I write daily because I have no choice in the matter. It's a compulsion, an addiction. I cannot not write. || CTX: How do people even get into the habit of writing daily? I cannot do it.
2025-12-15T22:04 id=2000688540523680050 →- | "Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself" - Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/FessMvhxYw || CTX: "I don't often lie, but when I do, it is always to myself" -The Most Common Man in the World https://t.co/VhyX7V801H
2025-12-15T22:09 id=2000689721891282980 →- | Always knew he was Jewish.  He didn't eat all that spinach for his muscles, they were just on sale. https://t.co/J4H0fvfHAr || CTX: Happy Hanukkah to all me pals celebratin’! 🩵  #Hanukkah #Popeye #OliveOyl https://t.co/72wW2JqGea
2025-12-15T22:09 id=2000689777411227658 →- | Always knew he was Jewish.  He didn't eat all that spinach for his muscles, those cans were just on sale. https://t.co/J4H0fvfHAr || CTX: Happy Hanukkah to all me pals celebratin’! 🩵  #Hanukkah #Popeye #OliveOyl https://t.co/72wW2JqGea
2025-12-15T22:15 id=2000691184919044384 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ "Safe Horny", I love this phrase. I've noticed it too, with some really weird effects like men claiming they want older muscular women, but this is by far the weirdest.   Performative and unnatural, but at least it's creative! || CTX: ‘Safe Horny’ &amp; the forbidding of normal heterosexuality, ‘Neo-Moralism’ is ironically probably downstream of the “anti-teen pregnancy” movement of the 90s-00s  The Neo-Moralists seem to be unaware of how they inherited this. Same with a
2025-12-15T22:16 id=2000691349935521955 →teodorio | @teodorio Don't be. I wish I cared about math or coding like I do about language, I'd be 20x richer at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 UGH I AM SO JEALOUS
2025-12-15T22:18 id=2000691958206087332 →- | GOOD.   Now if faculty are smart (they aren't) and organized (lmao) they can demand more tenure track faculty due to the extra contact hours and end the madness of the last 30 years. https://t.co/vy0vAy5bfq || CTX: Professors are turning to oral exams to stop AI use https://t.co/Ut5Frg99iO
2025-12-15T22:20 id=2000692458179715548 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Isn't the head of the FBI a podcaster lmao || CTX: the entire political landscape was remade by the largest superPACs in American history, and the administration is staffed by a revolving door of tech people who felt pressed into politics because of the techlash  what is ben smoking https:/
2025-12-15T22:39 id=2000697359358197974 →- | This chair. THIS FUCKING CHAIR.   I spent hours thinking about this. https://t.co/Qt3RtC7XLj || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You might just be playing the game at a higher level. Dumb= low status. Nothing wrong with that, status on ethical behavior and knowledge is preferable.  But Status might be deeper in the human psyche than we may want to be
2025-12-15T22:39 id=2000697363443409065 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I think there's a fundamental difference between seeking status and seeking knowledge or virtue or truth or whatever eudaimonic aim there is, and the difference is: status is seeking being better than others, virtues are about being better than oneself  That difference matters. || CTX: This chair. THIS FUCKING CHAIR.   I spent hours thinking about this. https://t.co/Qt3RtC7XLj
2025-12-15T22:39 id=2000697370083025402 →47fucb4r8c69323 | My answer feels vaguely Aristotelean so its probably wrong though.  This is an important puzzle and it needs solving. || CTX: If I seek status, I seek appeasing others and am constantly insecure and vulnerable. I never know if I succeeded and, if I did, it's zero sum.  If I seek virtue, I seek self satisfaction, a less vulnerable more eudaimonic end. I am more emp
2025-12-15T22:39 id=2000697366874406995 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If I seek status, I seek appeasing others and am constantly insecure and vulnerable. I never know if I succeeded and, if I did, it's zero sum.  If I seek virtue, I seek self satisfaction, a less vulnerable more eudaimonic end. I am more empowered and positive sum. || CTX: I think there's a fundamental difference between seeking status and seeking knowledge or virtue or truth or whatever eudaimonic aim there is, and the difference is: status is seeking being better than others, virtues are about being better 
2025-12-15T22:53 id=2000700650515259445 →DurumMac | Thais are the most status conscious people I've ever met. Buddhist countries typically are.  Least status conscious people I've met are Finns, and it's not even close.  Fully agree it's hardwired and hard to shake, and it's a vulnerability: if your status depends on others, they have power over you. I think ultimately this is why I have never seen the value in status, I've never been able to trust people, even when I was a young child. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I happen to think this is a hardwired part of the human condition we seek to take control like other proclivities.   Can we be human without any envy? Zero status consciousness? I’m sure you see many Budda statues over yond
2025-12-16T01:19 id=2000737613414850712 →DeivonDrago | Unquestionably; there's no move outside the game, no privileged view from nowhere. I cannot avoid seeking status.   The question is: what's the status game I'm playing? Who is it legible to, who writes the rules?  As an expat pseudointellectual, the status game I play is the game of Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. And my status is earned by being illegible in conventional status games but in principle legible to them. It's not, e. g., what sportscar do I have but what bizarre and unique experiences have I had.  Which leads to a lot of unethical behavior, such as my current awstheticizing and romanticizing the Thailand-Cambodia war near my house. It also leads to my awareness and navel gazing about said unethical behavior.  My status game is played with ghosts and my own neuroticism instead of with the hedge fund guys that pay me. Is that more ethical, dignified, honest, better? Not intrinsically, no. But it is undoubtedly self selected to a highly self conscious level--the self consciousness is the goal.   No one is free of constraints but some people actively choose their restraints. That's the game I'm playing: the most self conscious has the highest status.  And I'm sure this is all mental illness. That's fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Does the fact that you said all that out aloud mean that you’re nevertheless trapped in the game?
2025-12-16T01:34 id=2000741240120467861 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @DeivonDrago Well the other option is that I'm more reflective, introspective, and considerate than the average person which is a wreath I refuse to give myself.  But thank you, I know what you mean. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Meta self-reflection is not mental illness, this a disservice to yourself.
2025-12-16T01:40 id=2000742766213845003 →- | ChatGPT 5.2 has a personality a lot like Claude. None of the prior models did.  It lacks Claude's redditor-level smugness, thankfully, but does share its very Silicon Valley coded worldview.  Not exactly a bug, but not really a feature either. Ambivalence inducing.
2025-12-16T01:41 id=2000742948791800032 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/xO0uvvHfq1 || CTX: ChatGPT 5.2 has a personality a lot like Claude. None of the prior models did.  It lacks Claude's redditor-level smugness, thankfully, but does share its very Silicon Valley coded worldview.  Not exactly a bug, but not really a feature eith
2025-12-16T02:25 id=2000754052226031678 →- | Holy shit he's right. https://t.co/eWxRdk3XMQ || CTX: I rewatched “Misery” recently and found myself thinking about how so much modern pop culture is aimed at Annie Wilkes. https://t.co/toKgYVGqiH
2025-12-16T02:27 id=2000754657753452692 →yungmetronome | @yungmetronome Why not just buy a cheaper bag? || CTX: Why not just buy a used Birkin? https://t.co/aRCsKdbNUE
2025-12-16T02:30 id=2000755396475281727 →- | Broadly accurate but it's not just vibes. I refuse to listen to ecological preaching from anyone who has more children than me. https://t.co/mSSqacoLK6 || CTX: The short version is American Gen Xers were raised in a period of ramped up consumerism and individualism that made them broadly cynical toward authority and reflexively hostile toward anyone that wanted them to change their consumption hab
2025-12-16T02:36 id=2000756903543251227 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk But then you get metacynicism where you refuse to believe your own cynical model is correct and there must be something more ineffable behind it. || CTX: Everybody wants a “rigorous imagination” until they realize it just (correctly) boils down to cynicism https://t.co/6UJAoOR0DN
2025-12-16T02:43 id=2000758669013869020 →matthenryyoung | @matthenryyoung People really just be saying all kinds of shit || CTX: Americans need to bulldoze more data centers so they can be used for trees. Everyone needs to get on board. https://t.co/dkNqJD99xI
2025-12-16T03:00 id=2000762938605625843 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure Dude just admit Nietzsche wasn't a god. He encouraged readers to not follow him blindly. || CTX: Nietzsche believed in good taste. Everything about Trump is not simply evil but tasteless, crude, tacky, petty, and small. He is the most vengeful, resentful man imaginable, a man who could only be considered great in an era bereft of true 
2025-12-16T03:54 id=2000776570777297253 →- | Novel idea. Scientist invents a happiness machine where you connect to it and feel constant bliss. Humanity is horrified so no one wants to use it, and anyone who tries it hates it quickly. Then one very low IQ man gets a machine, hooks himself up to it and absolutely loves it. News gets out about this and humanity is horrified.
2025-12-16T04:24 id=2000784123309523221 →- | 2019, a then HK-based WSJ journalist I was mutuals with on Twitter visited Bangkok, so I invited him to meet up. He had a pint, I had a coffee, we chatted. Lovely convo, and he told me how he'd fallen for a scam near the temple the prior day--I was quite surprised because it's a really dumb and common scam that a journalist should be smart enough to avoid.  Fast forward a couple years later, he's hired as the new Asia Correspondent for the Economist. So the esteemed old newspaper's man in Asia had fallen for one of the dumbest and most recognized tourist scams in Asia.
2025-12-16T04:25 id=2000784320135618903 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I'm only telling this story now because I saw he blocked me (probably doesn't know I'm the same person he met, if he even remembers the meeting). || CTX: 2019, a then HK-based WSJ journalist I was mutuals with on Twitter visited Bangkok, so I invited him to meet up. He had a pint, I had a coffee, we chatted. Lovely convo, and he told me how he'd fallen for a scam near the temple the prior da
2025-12-16T07:13 id=2000826630017835234 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I once told a group of people who gave me a scholarship that they shouldn't have given me the scholarship. Does that count? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But have you ever used antistatus as a shit test?  Ever experimented with taking your status and just breaking it in front of people with alacrity by jumping right into a social pothole with a loaded carpool?  I can't recom
2025-12-16T07:16 id=2000827470984204615 →YourHornedGod | I told them their money shouldn't be going to comfortable middle class kids to do postgraduate degrees when they had impoverished unemployed single mothers in their extremely working class community.   One guy came up to shake my hand, others yelled at me after the event, threatened lawsuits yada yada yada.  I kept every penny. Zero guilt, as I'm working class too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 YES Did you really insult them for it or just tell them they made a mistake
2025-12-16T07:18 id=2000827766162514223 →ZaidJilani | @ZaidJilani This is obviously a lie and actionable slander.  No one has vindaloo for their first Indian dish c'mon. || CTX: He categorically wanted to ban all Indian immigration to America. Which tells you the boy definitely did not have a strong stomach, one vindaloo and he's going full Groyper. https://t.co/teiujvzopS
2025-12-16T07:19 id=2000828108728098980 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Porn brain ass tweet lmao || CTX: Chongqing is China's awesomest city https://t.co/HAaXThDXdN
2025-12-16T08:00 id=2000838339998703945 →helscom | @helscom Guilty as charged || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the weak and rich uncles and aunts...
2025-12-16T08:27 id=2000845286646980777 →- | This man needs to be exiled from society immediately. https://t.co/vmjGjnY2T1 || CTX: @getinnocuous84 I agree, I'm deeply ashamed that I have not seen a 1987 fantasy adventure comedy film called "The Princess Bride"
2025-12-16T08:28 id=2000845378862928189 →mtracey | @mtracey @getinnocuous84 Inconceivable. || CTX: @getinnocuous84 I agree, I'm deeply ashamed that I have not seen a 1987 fantasy adventure comedy film called "The Princess Bride"
2025-12-16T08:28 id=2000845495246446720 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I mean if this isn't proof that Twitter is not real life, what is? || CTX: This man needs to be exiled from society immediately. https://t.co/vmjGjnY2T1
2025-12-16T08:51 id=2000851230642360456 →GianmarcoSoresi | @GianmarcoSoresi Listen to Dirty Laundry. We were warned.  I was a journalist once (briefly). I know the tricks; it's a disgusting business. || CTX: What do you do with a culture where a news organization can exploit people like this for clicks other than legalize punching https://t.co/3u1SgwdqgB
2025-12-16T08:53 id=2000851779110756434 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Absolutely nothing.  That wasn't the case back in 2018 when I first joined it.  The only difference is I don't take the site (or myself) seriously anymore.  Seriousness is bad, generally speaking. || CTX: What makes you regret logging into this app? https://t.co/6jdHn3w0lr
2025-12-16T09:20 id=2000858663339348238 →- | Communism with Chinese characteristics https://t.co/yJkm9Naagp || CTX: https://t.co/06I4vNSCMg
2025-12-16T09:33 id=2000861877900075344 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod bwahahahahaha || CTX: don't worry, you're safe the little piggies at X make sure no one see my shit
2025-12-16T09:36 id=2000862651539448041 →paulnovosad | @paulnovosad "Once you realize that gaming the system is a dimension of talent" Isn't this just Goodhart, and you're making a virtue of a definitional failure mode? || CTX: Once you realize that gaming the system is a dimension of talent, you notice that many students at elite schools have this in spades.  They are the ones who protest every grade, invoke every appeal and accommodation, send lengthy emails abo
2025-12-16T10:09 id=2000870981284589695 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Next we need one on patience, one on cleanness, and one on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight || CTX: In a world where rust corrupts I look for lasting beauty; most of my days I’ve sought my luck across lands dark and dirty.  In a world where moth eats ‘way I choose to pursue pearls whose lust’ry finish never fades, enchanted iridescent swi
2025-12-16T10:39 id=2000878509187854726 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You've got competition in the poetry department now, @for_nat_whilk || CTX: hahahahaha I just started my car and now I will shower  yesssssssss fuck you winter I win
2025-12-16T10:41 id=2000878920737128791 →jarvis_best | @jarvis_best Man whatever that pile of trash he has, it looks disgusting.  Food looks bad too. || CTX: Be.  Strong. https://t.co/x4eIWN7AUo https://t.co/itlfUhhM4J
2025-12-16T10:43 id=2000879450712670639 →- | The part of Europe that has this is also the part of Europe with the worst food and the best people.  Goddamn I miss France. https://t.co/AUi6I3WC1X || CTX: i still think about this video once every few months i treasure it so dearly https://t.co/zl6KTyAM0d
2025-12-16T10:45 id=2000879927965704368 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I sang the last two lines to the tune of the Cheers theme song. || CTX: This site is a shitty hype machine I don't mean to be crass I don't mean to be mean Your faces and your posts are all the same Your takes and your quip are really lame You'd like to come back at me but keeeeeep the mind tame  don't let the 
2025-12-16T10:46 id=2000880256677261504 →s1no_75 | @s1no_75 That is the gayest pipe smoking I've ever seen, and I have been to both San Francisco AND Hawaii. || CTX: learn how to actually smoke a pipe cause this is fucking embarrassing https://t.co/6631JbXth0
2025-12-16T10:57 id=2000882940155150751 →yungmetronome | @yungmetronome Aw man now I wanna go get some surgery || CTX: Fun fact, fentanyl is used in anesthesia, it’s literally in hospitals. It’s become some kind of bogeyman https://t.co/Mkqnh6FLRg
2025-12-16T10:59 id=2000883397032661045 →- | How can you be an atheist when my order of St. Augustine's Confessions literally got lost in the mail?
2025-12-16T11:00 id=2000883701622956141 →BonerWizard | @BonerWizard Down Syndrome Marilyn Monroe || CTX: if I had honkers like that I’d use them for good https://t.co/R3G7Qau8Gd
2025-12-16T11:05 id=2000885050372710875 →nikicaga | @nikicaga I'm a white guy living in Thailand, why is this relevant? || CTX: White guy living in Thailand btw https://t.co/2R4J9zBQJs https://t.co/oDhRkufPuh
2025-12-16T11:54 id=2000897277330907233 →- | Social media basically replaced morning radio and primetime sitcoms but people treat it like it's the fucking Arc of tjr Covenant
2025-12-16T11:54 id=2000897370679337401 →- | Social media basically replaced morning radio and primetime sitcoms for me but people treat it like it's the fucking Arc of tjr Covenant
2025-12-16T12:14 id=2000902380486058352 →- | Is it weird that when I think of Jesus' daily life with his disciples, I envision an Aaron Sorkin-esque walk and talk?
2025-12-16T12:59 id=2000913776435192038 →- | I'm too stoned to have the natural immunity to late stage capitalism needed to watch these pop music videos.
2025-12-16T13:02 id=2000914353563033709 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Close enough... welcome back, Gustavo Fring. || CTX: Art is basically any work you can admire https://t.co/8juGxFGWxX
2025-12-16T13:27 id=2000920665973776739 →- | Novel idea: ecoterrorist cult is convinced that the weather report at the start of Lisa's "When I'm With You" is a direct reference to the existential risk of global warming, so they steal a nuclear bomb and plan to start a nuclear war.
2025-12-17T01:23 id=2001100803717914783 →bas_logic | @bas_logic I started watching him being interviewed by Curt Jaimungal and I was sorely disappointed.  What paper of his would you recommend? || CTX: Bas van Fraassen https://t.co/Xigr664tnO
2025-12-17T01:35 id=2001103976629207299 →DurumMac | @DurumMac What's interesting to me is how inessential ethnic identity fundamentally is, so feeling belonging to or owning a culture and cultural heritage is a misunderstanding of what culture actually is and should be experienced || CTX: Why stop there? How many other myths to we tell ourselves? Was the mental illness you suffer from a series of narratives ? Or maybe it was mostly hereditary. No romantic narrative.
2025-12-17T02:07 id=2001111979243733342 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yes, that's how the social ontology has unfolded, but it isn't necessary or inevitable; we as humans can (if we so choose) make traditions and cultures entirely divorced from the people born where those traditions and cultures happened to have developed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree with you in a sense, but often directly linked. Some folks are highly protective of culture based on ethnic lines, even self enforcing.   I assume you grew up in America, I grew up in Canada. Our cultures are charac
2025-12-17T02:09 id=2001112449957945465 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I don't think narrative poetry really is viable anymore, we have so many better methods of transmitting narrative than verse, it will always feel affected and artificial. || CTX: it's funny, when I asked grok to make an image for this post it produced two diff selfies of Insta girls in a field 🙄  I could never hope to touch Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I started a fantasy a while back but only got to chapter two
2025-12-17T02:21 id=2001115492745142489 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak idk about Indians tbh but Koreans especially are really bad at this too, it's not just Americans. || CTX: This is a lot of Indian people traveling/living abroad. We may laugh at Americans, but Indians are insanely insulated and prefer to be that way. https://t.co/uje55BQgMs
2025-12-17T03:13 id=2001128658011087242 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Says a lot about all the other ones || CTX: A GDP song! This is great!   People like to beat up on GDP, but it really is one of our best economic measures. https://t.co/ONQIb096rv
2025-12-17T03:43 id=2001136136949760024 →amendandpretend | I haven't interacted with Chase personally although I have with many of his lieutenants and others who have interacted with him.  Chase's and Tiger Global's success boils down to high risk appetite and lucky timing, ofc after being childhood friends with the man who invented hedge funds.   I don't think they would disagree either, and the attitude now is to pay for outside expertise. However, as with the FTX debacle, one sees that their lack of above average intelligence also means they can't really know what intelligence to pay for and what to avoid.   This isn't uncommon in the hedge fund world, however. || CTX: Friendly reminder: The people who take the most risk in a bull market always end up looking like geniuses https://t.co/rPRFvjNbbE
2025-12-17T03:46 id=2001136841488269805 →- | I remember I did my personal essay arguing that the university would collapse and go out of business if they didn't accept me. Idk if they got the joke or were convinced because they did indeed accept me.  Or maybe it was because I was barely 15. https://t.co/E5f7tjT43I || CTX: I dunno. Remember 8 months ago when that super-accomplished kid went viral for getting rejected everywhere, and then he shared his personal statement and everyone went "Ohhh, that makes sense now"? https://t.co/jJumm0Lb9B https://t.co/odhtl
2025-12-17T03:54 id=2001138801205502334 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea All I wanted was single payer healthcare wtf is this bullshit || CTX: it is insane to watch the american left eschew the entire idea of harnessing technology to improve human life and society and go all-in on “data centres bad” https://t.co/4cvH1fmy2E
2025-12-17T04:03 id=2001141223592239591 →- | An underappreciated constraint of the modern world is how economically valuable activity is almost rarely producible by an individual working alone.   It used to be a writer could make a living being alone with maybe a brief visit to an editor/publisher, or a mathematician could work out a problem by himself.  Nowadays, most writers are just a cog in a bigger machine (most stories are video), mathematical work only has value coordinated with others, etc.  I know you're probably thinking WFH and digital tools mean we're more isolated workers, but it's the opposite: there's less friction to interfacing with coworkers, vendors, and customers so interruptions to solitary tasks are up, not down. The ability to work alone is down, not up.  A lot of people prefer working alone or are just plain misanthropic, so this is a net negative to human flourishing.
2025-12-17T04:37 id=2001149678310842821 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I was flirting with writing about why people who love capitalism should also love single-payer healthcare, but every major publication is ideologically and strategically at odds with even considering publishing such a piece. Annoying shit man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t even know, dude  I was working on how to use AI/ML to improve my universal public healthcare system a decade ago and here’s this chud being like “ban the computers”
2025-12-17T04:46 id=2001152037862727974 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Also the assumption that if we raise the floor of what absolute poverty means in society people will work less. Very Hobbesian and cruel presuppositions about human nature that also logically fall apart under even rudimentary scrutiny || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i keep coming back to the fact american “opportunity” is premised on keeping systems broken so there’s low-hanging fruit for the average person to make money patching  the better the system works, the more people have to bu
2025-12-17T04:53 id=2001153707116052783 →- | There is alpha in asking an AI chatbot the question, why am I wrong? So, as a result, we're going to see the economic value of humility and self-doubt skyrocket, while the value of untested confidence will decline. In this sense, AI makes the market of epistemic humility more efficient.
2025-12-17T04:54 id=2001154092803219638 →- | America is fundamentally a low trust society that outsources virtue to markets.  Really disgusting culture tbh https://t.co/xcgjfmHixu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 americans talk so much about the american spirit as one of hard work but the second you threaten to take away the risk of crippling poverty they panic  what does that say about the national spirit and character
2025-12-17T05:32 id=2001163631124471883 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Which do you hate the most, AP, CA, or CP? || CTX: I hate this fucking thing more than you can imagine https://t.co/gXQUC5dYYY
2025-12-17T05:42 id=2001166199103873075 →- | This is what a lot of you weirdos act like istg fr fr https://t.co/cXq37QWyMb || CTX: and another thing. stop trying to make me have fun.  im too busy thinking about every single bad thing in the world
2025-12-17T06:29 id=2001177941527691648 →moultano | @moultano I tried to make that argument in university in the 90s and 2000s and paid a social cost as a result. Presumably this happened often so universities self selected for this specific market failure.  Again why market discipline is a useful tool. || CTX: Funny that this complaint could have been in part mitigated by more intersectionality, that early career white men don't have the same privilege and power of older men that are already established. https://t.co/jMt2ooFrXj
2025-12-17T06:31 id=2001178377634636185 →way_opener | @way_opener @moultano This is what inevitably happens when you optimize for system theories (e. g. the Hegelian telos) versus optimizing for useful tools (e. g. the pragmatic or Wittgensteinian telos).  Theories need to serve people not vice versa. || CTX: @moultano Intersectionality is a very useful analytical tool but it has to be wielded as an instrument and look at the actual situation on the ground rather than a cudgel based on self-serving theory
2025-12-17T06:33 id=2001178970445038077 →EllliotttB | @EllliotttB Boaz is EASILY the biggest asshole on WS but goddamn he is correct here. || CTX: I don’t think I can adequately post sufficient examples of how much they hate you and are just robbing you day in day out https://t.co/XC4RO6axUa
2025-12-17T06:39 id=2001180539055939712 →- | This needs to be your default position, not just in financial markets but in all marketplaces of ideas. https://t.co/Kxw3Uaf5d8 || CTX: Everyone hates you and is actively trying to rob you, pompliano, Eric Jackson, anyone associated with the administration, local politicos, a16z, unions, pension consultants, loser real estate syndicators, crypto treasuries, spac sponsors, y
2025-12-17T06:46 id=2001182270590455978 →ShredGnarBro | @ShredGnarBro @rhunterh I think he's trying to perpetuate the "superior returns are reserved for rich people" myth, but it rings hollow when SPY has like a 12% CAGR and QQQ had a 15% CAGR.  He'd probably say "yeah but it'll crash" to which the reply is, "and PE won't?"   It's dumb engagement bait. || CTX: @rhunterh Not trying to be obtuse but I’m missing your point here re: databricks. Is it important that I participate in it because it’s big and I don’t own the market without it?
2025-12-17T06:47 id=2001182478380490992 →rhunterh | @rhunterh This is the most pathetic attempt at provoking FOMO that I've ever seen. || CTX: While you were "VOO and chilling" a company just raised a Series L (lol) at a valuation a bit bigger than Lockheed Martin https://t.co/XSDUmmNS1h
2025-12-17T07:47 id=2001197544391762355 →AliceFromQueens | @AliceFromQueens Many bad accounts are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He;s quite popular
2025-12-17T08:42 id=2001211383036436566 →- | The question isn't God or no God, it's necessary or unnecessary metaphysics.
2025-12-17T09:45 id=2001227230060716484 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 yup || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh? You got into university at 15?
2025-12-17T09:52 id=2001229032466379002 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 It was hell. I made no friends, didn't talk to people for weeks, struggled to understand what I was supposed to do. Formative experience and I turned out okay but it was misery at the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting, you seemed to have had an okay time though. I got in at 16 and i basically foundered throughout. Never fully recovered but i am trying to piece things back together.
2025-12-17T09:53 id=2001229282874679383 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 this was very similar to my experience tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe its my autism or the fact that i never fully understood myself enough to independently thrive and had to figure out things on my own since no one around had any insight into my very specific condition. Sigh. I will co
2025-12-17T10:16 id=2001235018480541932 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 May I ask how old are you? Being a child prodigy or whatever is a uniquely lonely and difficult life without proper guidance. If you're still a teen or early 20s, you need a trustworthy mentor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am glad you were able to eventually overcome. I wish the same for me and others in similar boats as well.
2025-12-17T10:22 id=2001236671854207039 →RobinWigg | @RobinWigg I think Anthropic should hire Rishi Sunak, xAI should hire Liz Truss, and Jeremy Corbyn can work at Nvidia (as the janitor). || CTX: https://t.co/6RjwkqRPkY https://t.co/H9Jr6KZZVE
2025-12-17T10:32 id=2001239058622898668 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 You need a mentor. If you ever need to chat, my DMs are open. Srsly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am currently 22.
2025-12-17T10:54 id=2001244512765776241 →1889lw | @1889lw @bas_logic Goddammit another one to add to the list || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic The scientific image. It’s a book tho
2025-12-17T11:14 id=2001249558991601764 →1889lw | @1889lw @bas_logic Oh thanks, this is much more manageable! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic https://t.co/NvYnUhxOLP You can just read his “constructive empiricism” — his most influential view!
2025-12-17T11:21 id=2001251302102450601 →1889lw | @1889lw @bas_logic This is where I keep tripping up, because his position seems self evident and/or just a better definition of what we mean by "true" when we do science.  Like, he's right but also obvious. https://t.co/bvLZqnI8rF || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic https://t.co/NvYnUhxOLP You can just read his “constructive empiricism” — his most influential view!
2025-12-17T11:36 id=2001255207867765114 →1889lw | @1889lw @bas_logic nvm I kept reading; he's obviously a genius. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic Well the common criticism involves the failure to draw the observable/unobservable line, and failure to handle modal claims. But yes it’s a very intuitive view, and van Fraassen was the first to articulate that.
2025-12-17T11:37 id=2001255379167273029 →- | I was an idiot here and Bas van Fraassen is clearly a genius and possibly our greatest living philosopher. https://t.co/0E1g0cWIRx || CTX: @bas_logic I started watching him being interviewed by Curt Jaimungal and I was sorely disappointed.  What paper of his would you recommend?
2025-12-17T11:53 id=2001259515396657494 →underthenettle | @underthenettle @datagenproc How TF is this obviously true || CTX: @datagenproc Odd numbers are kiki and even numbers are bouba. BUT the word "odd" is bouba and the word "even" is kiki
2025-12-17T12:21 id=2001266436921287036 →- | RT @sebkrier: @jasoncrawford Great piece! Some related thoughts: https://t.co/vcb2XSGUG7 || CTX: @jasoncrawford Great piece! Some related thoughts: https://t.co/vcb2XSGUG7
2025-12-17T12:23 id=2001266953986379965 →1889lw | @1889lw May I ask where you grew up? || CTX: Maybe because I grew up in a non-western country, I never seem to understand all these social settings prevalent in academic life — open letters, protests, cancelling, etc. They are indeed useful, but I’m often wary
2025-12-17T14:31 id=2001299289629421878 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Evergreen || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you were just over emotional
2025-12-17T23:28 id=2001434242010767393 →provisionalidea | I think the issue is ML is actually quite old and so already has had many improvements in domains, but hedonic adaptation means we don't see it (also the post-LLM success of AI sets up expectations for a step function in performance, whereas it's really a step function in implementation). || CTX: @reactionarycen1 @47fucb4r8c69323 has it improved medical care? yes. absolutely.  https://t.co/TJOtogNOhh
2025-12-18T00:10 id=2001445018171773024 →KissaTobacco | @KissaTobacco @provisionalidea I don't think we disagree? I think the attitude in much of America is:  The floor for poor third worlders should be higher. The floor for poor Americans shouldn't be higher. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea I disagree on the assumption. I think most supporters of capitalism are pretty pleased with the decrease in global poverty.   You should still try to publish your piece, I think many would find it interesti
2025-12-18T01:58 id=2001472073076740236 →- | Seriousness is bad. It always is, no exceptions. https://t.co/a6PwJWK9sP || CTX: @conorsen I miss when people weren't weighed down with grievance and still had just enough self awareness to laugh at themselves.
2025-12-18T02:12 id=2001475715657797760 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ @YIMBYLAND This has been very tough and confusing for me. OTOH, I want better minimum standards for citizens including protections against extreme poverty.   However, so much instantiations of that goal are destructive and wasteful. Idk what answers there are to this. || CTX: @YIMBYLAND Not sure we’ve seen net positive use of unions in the past 75 years  They are the villains in almost any headline they make
2025-12-18T02:26 id=2001479050418884608 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yes: to taste good and not make people sick. || CTX: Does mayonnaise have a moral obligation?
2025-12-18T02:53 id=2001485850056757576 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @retardbot9000 But it is not the fault of the mayonnaise maker that it is delicious, that's just your taste buds interacting with the product.   And that's why tech companies are blameless. || CTX: @retardbot9000 @47fucb4r8c69323 By making things taste delicious? This can be morally dangerous!
2025-12-18T02:53 id=2001486057205043506 →- | Because social media IS a video game. https://t.co/oayNcADEUJ || CTX: This happens 100% of times when I talk to someone who says they grew out of video games. https://t.co/1UNaEbCKLe https://t.co/JLJX4kOt8T
2025-12-18T03:18 id=2001492222240526364 →EarthFirstVoter | You do see how the second sentence is not at all an entailment of the first, don't you?  I usually dunk on bad/lazy/dumb tweets, but this time I want you to take a step back and ask why you wrote this, what agents you're imagining, how culpable the person you're replying to is, and whether you are helping anything at all or this is just somehow an effort to feel better about yourself. || CTX: @provisionalidea @47fucb4r8c69323 And how is your work going to improve the public healthcare system? Because public health is failing right now.
2025-12-18T05:56 id=2001531912528236576 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I would bet a substantial amount of money he's also one of the most polite and friendly gamers out there, too. || CTX: So Assad is some avid gamer or something? It would be weird to play a round with a murderous  autocrat. I wonder what his gamer I.D is.
2025-12-18T06:22 id=2001538437850284087 →- | Novel idea: Racist parents disown son after he takes a job at a company whose name doesn't gel with their ethics: Blackstone. Parents then take him back after he becomes famous for buying and demolishing all of the houses in the black neighborhood in the parents' town.
2025-12-18T06:34 id=2001541473385484314 →- | it seems to me the bears are safer than men in a forest discourse was the swan song of wokeness. it's dead now
2025-12-18T06:38 id=2001542559479615598 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 VOO holders of the world unite || CTX: tired of trying to "beat the market".  Im switching sides.  I will become the market
2025-12-18T06:47 id=2001544913809481752 →for_nat_whilk | Greetings fellow worker, your message is well met,  I too am working from home via internet,  And like you I may yearn for salty sea,  But that's not why you are hereby cc:d.  The fact of the matter is much less droll: Can I have your report? It is your roll To update execs both by day and night, Their executive decisions need your insights.  Now get to it! We have widgets to sell, And, by the way, I hope this email finds you well. || CTX: The Art of Working From Home (a summer poem)  Just outside the flimsy frame of my laptop screen an artist’s beachside reverie is seen as from within the oak borders of the painting in the window I passed on my walk here.  In that still scen
2025-12-18T06:49 id=2001545314965303709 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk motherfucker i misspelled role || CTX: Greetings fellow worker, your message is well met,  I too am working from home via internet,  And like you I may yearn for salty sea,  But that's not why you are hereby cc:d.  The fact of the matter is much less droll: Can I have your repor
2025-12-18T07:10 id=2001550510097330373 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @startupmillyair This is why I'm in Thailand where our ladyboys look like ladies. || CTX: @startupmillyair in the least mean way possible, pretending these people are the opposite gender is so incredibly difficult.  one was a barista, 6'2 MTF and took my order. I said "thanks bro" and it ruined his day. I didn't mean to but betw
2025-12-18T07:21 id=2001553479341658311 →lemire | I'm way too lazy to get into it and I hope someone else will, but you don't seem to understand the discussion.  It's a tautology to say language requires an inmate grammar and that language ability requires grammatical ability.  Chomsky is wrong and discredited in linguistics but you don't seem to understand how or why. || CTX: @klos That's not his argument. His argument is that LLMs do not show language comprehension, they can't because to do so, they need an innate grammar, which they lack.  Chomsky postulated that language *requires* an innate grammar.
2025-12-18T08:21 id=2001568481104531851 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 The monster saves its worst scream for its death throes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Worst and most infuriating discourse in the last 5 years.
2025-12-18T08:23 id=2001568873179660549 →ben_golub | @ben_golub I've yet to have an economist answer one question for me:  Would you be happy with a trillion people on Earth, or 10 trillion? || CTX: In a sense, we are indeed too many.   Economics, for example, would be much better without Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche https://t.co/nmVqhSpFsw
2025-12-18T10:10 id=2001595917796077638 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni https://t.co/agGn85BALU  So, you buying? || CTX: @EnriqueDiazAlva Great question. I think FMV is probs around a 25-30% discount.  The biggest issue here is the distribution they pay (5%) - it’s not covered by cash flows at all
2025-12-18T10:35 id=2001602133444223100 →RHouseResearch | @RHouseResearch FT is so hit or miss, it's really weird || CTX: Unsurprisingly, the FT and the market participants dumping Oracle $ORCL on this headline have zero idea how running a credit fund works.   Blue Owl's $OWL investment vehicles have enormous existing exposure to Oracle (and thus OpenAI) throu
2025-12-18T11:19 id=2001613401999708661 →- | The best thing about having several communist parties is they all have to compete with each other in an open free market. https://t.co/8rAzO0vGcU || CTX: Nepal has gone from 30 communist parties to 21 https://t.co/kSbyUz92dd
2025-12-18T11:33 id=2001616901529833566 →1followernodad | @1followernodad Was going to happen anyway when you posted it on Twitter || CTX: finding out people fed this picture to AI to see what it would look like as a painting has been heartbreaking. Grok should not get to know about my dog. ChatGPT should not get to see her!!! https://t.co/UrWNkwtM5O
2025-12-18T11:49 id=2001620873967734838 →tszzl | @tszzl @peligrietzer Some of us are thinking about this. Some are writing about it. But the market for such thoughts isn't there.   Revealed preference is for apathy on this question being the norm. We're weirdos. || CTX: @peligrietzer but yeah i agree. I would hope that this whole project uncovers some sublime truths that recontextualize the place for human consciousness in the universe. if that doesn’t happen it will have been a waste and a disaster
2025-12-19T00:27 id=2001811552731902018 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ Something about this is why I'm losing interest in visiting Europe. And I lived there for a decade.   But just going back to walk around beautiful buildings knowing this lovely experience is underwritten by cultural and economic stagnation, just kinda takes the fun out of things. || CTX: This is Disneyworld for the global Upper-Middle Class https://t.co/bgwMMKu0VZ
2025-12-19T00:29 id=2001812090026389921 →- | Claude fans depress me. A group totally bewitched by clever marketing.   "Taylor Swift is a normal girl just like me" is the form of thinking here. https://t.co/f40djT4HIT || CTX: Anthropic’s culture is so so good man https://t.co/AXBZ4gSCms
2025-12-19T00:30 id=2001812472425255368 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "Communism will solve all our problems."  "Trump will make America great again!"  "Claude is benevolent and Anthropic really care about saving the world."   It's all the same thing: bewitched by marketing. || CTX: Claude fans depress me. A group totally bewitched by clever marketing.   "Taylor Swift is a normal girl just like me" is the form of thinking here. https://t.co/f40djT4HIT
2025-12-19T00:33 id=2001813209205084389 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni Fee charging fund invested in fee charging portfolios of loans all of which had a fee to originate...   I understand everyone needs to make a living, but shame comes into the equation at some point. || CTX: If there is one fund that everyone is in, it’s this one.   $31.5B net assets.   46% CAGR since 2022.   The case study is live:   > what’s on the balance sheet (both assets and liabilities), + off balance sheet  > how it covers distributions
2025-12-19T00:35 id=2001813669794243035 →XivHellagon | @XivHellagon @xenontf Yeah extremely racist. By conflating Israel and Jews you're perpetuating the justification for antisemitism that is popular on both the right and left.   Most of us Jews are normal people who really don't care about Israel. || CTX: @xenontf wait hold up was it racist to make that joke? like gen question
2025-12-19T00:36 id=2001813782084170162 →XivHellagon | @XivHellagon @ProReborn @ASheepdogsBlog @xenontf Story of my life, take care friend || CTX: @ProReborn @ASheepdogsBlog @xenontf i might be a troll but i am not a racist troll
2025-12-19T00:37 id=2001814035097104417 →imEden20 | @imEden20 @xenontf @HSHSMSMF It comes from King David that's why it's called the Star of David. || CTX: @xenontf @HSHSMSMF it originates in the occult. Its a version of the star of rempham https://t.co/MZMvMwVnlG
2025-12-19T00:45 id=2001816013080531167 →ChrisExpTheNews | The assumptions I think must be part of the language game.  From his worldview, these statements are objectively intelligible bc they're about the presupposed transcendental Godhead.  Thus it follows those who claim not to comprehend are minions of evil.  Transformer architecture to compress all possible linguistic strings into a particular subset of linguistic practice.  Absolutely fascinating to observe, sadly none of them have the self awareness to acknowledge or address this theory. || CTX: @JvniorLive I like how you assume I just have the exact same context and perspective about all these things you do, and that I think these questions even make sense in a way that I can just give you a yes or no answer
2025-12-19T00:46 id=2001816358045258031 →lost_nomad__ | @lost_nomad__ @PaulSkallas No, you're applying a very American worldview onto the world. Most countries where people have 1-2 kids aren't like this at all.  It's downstream of redlining, suburban culture, and evening local news. || CTX: @PaulSkallas It’s completely insane, but it’s true  Since the average parent now has 1-2 kids instead of 3-4+, they probably do feel like their lineage is an endangered species - because it is
2025-12-19T00:49 id=2001817219630870564 →- | This is a pressing cultural issue, because we trained Americans to be self-directed and confident, so when faced with real ruthless accountability in the market, dumdums lose their shirt. And Dunning Kruger means they often refuse guidance.  However, it is more efficient as capital will flow to more intelligent agents, so I wonder if this is macroeconomically good or if the political instability it results in counterbalances that good.  I suppose you could fix this by making free markets and a totalitarian government, which is the revealed preference of Republicans. Meanwhile the stated preferences of Democrats is to restrain markets so much that they crimp progress. Both sides suck. || CTX: I’m an unrepentant elitist because I’ve seen what happens when you give the average person access to things like stock trading without an experienced middle man to tell them they’re retarded https://t.co/iOWdP2Mrsv
2025-12-19T00:51 id=2001817617536008507 →quantian1 | @quantian1 Did you just compare stock prices to GDP?  I'm shocked and disappointed at the engagement bait. I thought this was a good account. || CTX: The green line represents a compounding growth rate of 20% over the past 18 years vs. nominal global GDP growth of 5.5%--projecting it out into the future is the bubble you're looking for. https://t.co/8r5Sa0DOKB
2025-12-19T02:48 id=2001847004591444109 →VicctorianChad | @VicctorianChad @lost_nomad__ Yes, I am, which is why you shouldn't engage with me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lost_nomad__ You sound insufferable
2025-12-19T02:48 id=2001847023637795312 →jaydollaz355 | @jaydollaz355 @VicctorianChad @lost_nomad__ @botpolice 70 million people live in Thailand, dude. || CTX: @VicctorianChad @47fucb4r8c69323 @lost_nomad__ It’s a Thailand bot don’t worry 😂 @botpolice
2025-12-19T02:49 id=2001847414677033018 →valuations_ | @valuations_ Does their ETF have options available? || CTX: Shorting is not easy, but where else can you immediately recognize something is a zero without even opening a financial statement? https://t.co/RGuxzxSO2N
2025-12-19T02:53 id=2001848245849608678 →jaydollaz355 | @jaydollaz355 @VicctorianChad @lost_nomad__ @botpolice Fascinating, you use social media for self soothing.  Please tell me a bit about yourself, like how old are you, what you do for a living? Feel free to be as vague as you like, I'm fascinated. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VicctorianChad @lost_nomad__ @botpolice What does that have to do with the statement you or I made … you just proved my point even more correct 😂 Elon hasn’t updated you bots enough yet to correctly respond to situations.
2025-12-19T02:56 id=2001849039919501399 →teodorio | @teodorio They definitely get marketing, agreed there. || CTX: I sometimes want to be able to run a business like Anthropic. They just get it. https://t.co/QIF2gKD1Dy
2025-12-19T03:21 id=2001855263578689877 →- | you should not have heroes. if you're young, you can have them because it can help you grow up, but if you're not young, you should not have heroes.
2025-12-19T03:52 id=2001863234845053223 →- | History is so poorly taught.  I wish I'd been taught material history (how people lived, their day to day experiences), then build up cultural and intellectual history from there, then go into political history and finally military history.  But, no. We start with military battles and work out way backwards (or for many small penis men, stick with military history). Really frustrating because even periods of history I know rather well, I still have no clue what an average day in the life was for them.
2025-12-19T04:02 id=2001865615326507508 →- | I love this genre of posting because it's actual intense egoism but layers and layers of sociocultural and evolutionary forces make many see it as beautiful or ethical and anyone who points out the real dynamics at play just looks like an asshole. https://t.co/KmlDLpuCYO || CTX: If god had a face, I think it would look exactly like my children’s faces. https://t.co/XdkGXSdDZd
2025-12-19T04:14 id=2001868676325388507 →bankingslut | @bankingslut @TheStalwart Joe is one of if not the greatest poaster of our time so when he tweets something dumb I immediately assume it's a troll.  I think here he's saying, "if Americans are so fat, why is it the big sizes don't sell?"   Or maybe I'm bewitched by his trolling track record. || CTX: @TheStalwart I love when my idols ask dumb questions
2025-12-19T04:19 id=2001870072776917203 →1thousandfaces_ | @1thousandfaces_ I like Grimes's music a lot but this is just 80s synth stuff at its core. Not futuristic or even all that original. || CTX: insane how dated this video is but how timeless the song is. genesis sounds just as crazy and futuristic today as it did over a decade ago but this is the most 2012 music video of all time https://t.co/jWHPgQgvmm
2025-12-19T04:22 id=2001870799435866610 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck Historically speaking it's Aristotle, just because of the middle ages.  Currently, yeah probably Hegel.  Plato is really tricky bc platonism is often a foil more than a doctrine taken seriously, and there's entanglement with Socrates. || CTX: @PAHoyeck I’ve runner ups too - Hegel and Nietzsche.
2025-12-19T04:24 id=2001871188495339708 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck I don't think Nietzsche is overhyped as much as underexplained and so overmisused.   He accurately predicted Modernism and Postmodernism from fin de siecle Switzerland, that's an absolutely jaw dropping achievement. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck Historically speaking it's Aristotle, just because of the middle ages.  Currently, yeah probably Hegel.  Plato is really tricky bc platonism is often a foil more than a doctrine taken seriously, and there's entangleme
2025-12-19T04:48 id=2001877217119474056 →- | Modern pop music is a combination of branding, affect exploitation, manipulation, etc. I am perfectly fine with modern pop music being replaced with AI-produced music and see nothing wrong with this.  Call me anti-human all you want, but the music industry stopped being human when pop stars were given carte blanche to have sex with 13yr olds in the mid-20th century, and I can't see it's really gotten sufficiently better since then.
2025-12-19T05:22 id=2001885884044710152 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I need to think about this. Damn you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But it’s okay to have villains
2025-12-19T05:23 id=2001886159723729264 →jarvis_best | @jarvis_best @DrewPavlou Fucker beat me to it || CTX: @DrewPavlou Drew we have something important to discuss please check your DMs
2025-12-19T05:28 id=2001887227740356972 →ZaidJilani | @ZaidJilani I haven't been keeping up because I have a life but hasn't he been promoting antisemitism lately?   So just replace "Muslim" with "Muslim and Jew" in this and I'd agree, but if he's pedaling antisemitism this is hypocrisy. || CTX: God bless Tucker for saying this. The right has gone off the rails with religious hatred. https://t.co/LQQqVAJgEV
2025-12-19T05:30 id=2001887780956442938 →sunflower_babz | @sunflower_babz Uncanny as aesthetic || CTX: A woman who maintains eye contact with you like this is the most dangerous being on the planet https://t.co/UNYp131a02
2025-12-19T06:42 id=2001906038338142382 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I really really hope this doesn't mean you're 14 years old || CTX: Boredom is a demon that has been chasing me for 14 years
2025-12-19T06:43 id=2001906130927362061 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Manufacturing Consent wasn't a warning, it was a bribe. || CTX: God DAMN https://t.co/SAvtGqquST
2025-12-19T06:43 id=2001906259835101689 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Manufacturing Consent wasn't a warning, it was a brag. || CTX: God DAMN https://t.co/SAvtGqquST
2025-12-19T07:11 id=2001913193778798676 →HenricanHenry | @HenricanHenry @lost_nomad__ I don't see cultural and economic stagnation in America, but tbf I haven't lived there in a long time either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lost_nomad__ Compared to... what? It's the same here except everything looks like shit.
2025-12-19T07:43 id=2001921350659985826 →ben_golub | @ben_golub When I first came across your work I thought you were a genius.  Then I saw your shitposting and realized you're just a retard like the rest of us. || CTX: These people are a lot like the descendants of the Romanovs who spend their lives debating who among them is the rightful successor to the Russian imperial throne  Fixated on a status that is only worth anything among similar hobbyists. htt
2025-12-19T07:45 id=2001921705959395771 →naledimashishi | @naledimashishi Oh they don't see them as people || CTX: You guys don’t feel weird when you talk about actual people like this? https://t.co/eka7ARSAxW
2025-12-19T07:45 id=2001921805834183157 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion Noah has the weirdest opinions about Japan. Borderline racist. || CTX: Glad to hear people finally talking about this. This needs to happen immediately. https://t.co/juyqO9IRfu
2025-12-19T08:00 id=2001925554875044036 →HenryEOliver | @HenryEOliver The underappreciation of tacit knowledge is one of the greatest limiting factors to human progress at this stage in history. || CTX: Most humanities knowledge is tacit—be it the response to a poem or the ability to write literary criticism—and this is what makes it hard to justify or explain.   It’s also what the humanities have in common with STEM people who work with t
2025-12-19T08:03 id=2001926368641323058 →The_Knutsen | @The_Knutsen @StatisticUrban lol just keep splicing and dicing until you find the data that satisfies your priors. || CTX: @StatisticUrban That's my fault it pulled from NCES for men specifically. But if we keep it consistent then and look at NCES data for bachelors degree wages for men for example we do see it's under the purchasing power significantly 2022 do
2025-12-19T08:04 id=2001926576599171211 →KKriegeBlog | @KKriegeBlog The only field where I've seen annoyance that people don't read secondary sources is philosophy. || CTX: I have never met an academic historian who was hostile to people reading primary sources. It’s a core component of undergraduate education in history.  Academics ARE concerned when people don’t ever read secondary sources, because, sometime
2025-12-19T08:05 id=2001926868312952980 →apocalypsis_rex | @apocalypsis_rex @KKriegeBlog This is a very interesting and thought provoking idea. I instinctually disagree but cannot formulate why, which tells me I am probably wrong.  Thanks for the inspiration. || CTX: @KKriegeBlog Arguably reading secondary sources is more important for an undergrad than reading the primary sources. History is a science in itself, you first need to learn how to study it before you go into interpreting writings yourself.
2025-12-19T08:06 id=2001927121506390410 →QueenMab87 | @QueenMab87 She looks like my cousin. Ashkenazi Jewish af  We will always be a target for the politically hysterical. || CTX: Seeing so many bizarre takes about Odessa A’zion to the tune of saying she’s a Zionist cosplaying a POC when she’s actually just an Ashkenazi Jewish woman existing (who’s called for a ceasefire) with darker dyed hair https://t.co/CDKHdR0OJT
2025-12-19T08:08 id=2001927671480307920 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni The market lacks sufficient demand for people to explain why these things are bad.  My job is very similar to yours, and I'm grateful some see a need for what we do. But the vast majority want to be gaslit, lied to, or manipulated. || CTX: Everyone: "I don't care that I'm illiquid as long as marks are steady in quarterly statements"   Fund managers: "Sure, here's a semi-liquid product with no volatility" https://t.co/uge1QKSDPX
2025-12-19T08:10 id=2001928233466704157 →- | Normies are starting to realize anti-Zionism among gentiles is turning into antisemitism (as it always does). Which is good--it shows that we have evolved since the 1930s when concentration camps in the west were politically viable.  I'm an optimist. https://t.co/WUw0umcCfU || CTX: You guys are being very antisemitic and very misogynistic and it’s so scary.
2025-12-20T02:29 id=2002204622916891010 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ varies || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 define young
2025-12-20T02:48 id=2002209478218035648 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah these retards are a slice of the market, but how big? I'd guess 10% of retail || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Its hard to believe the avg retail investor is playing pretend buffet and yoloing their retirement on braindead option plays. I really refuse to believe it.
2025-12-21T01:19 id=2002549331753382312 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 No joke this is how my 20s and 30s went. || CTX: the 20s are kind of a wash. the 30s will be good
2025-12-21T02:58 id=2002574348713144655 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I haven't hit the downtrend yet, but it's gotta come eventually. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean in a socioeconomic decade grouping kind of thing but im hoping my 30s are better than my 20s too lol.   Hoping it's an upward trend til I die and I have the most fun in my 80s
2025-12-21T03:13 id=2002578242293936576 →- | Legit can't tell whether this is satire or an internet schizo, which is how more of the internet should be tbh https://t.co/ZSSYxwRqkB || CTX: Why is he wearing a MAROON shirt?!?! Is Alex Jones part of the #MaroonShirtBoys assass!ination plot?  Someone get this footage to Candace immediately! Alex Jones must be questioned!
2025-12-21T03:18 id=2002579300567167323 →lproven | @lproven @ciphergoth @andersonbcdefg This explains your antagonism to LLMs; you understand and value deduction expressed in symbolic artificial language, whereas LLMs are one of the first technologies that attempts to operationalize induction expressed in natural language.  I'm not surprised you dislike GenAI. || CTX: @ciphergoth @andersonbcdefg I'm 58. I started learning UNIX on SCO Xenix on an IBM PC-AT in 1988, after learning VAX/VMS and Fortran at university in the mid-1980s, which is when I started exploring Usenet.  Which means I was already workin
2025-12-21T03:25 id=2002581050770534747 →- | Too much of the internet is dumb people telling dumb kids not to be dumb.  But they're all dumb so the dumbness just compounds. https://t.co/dFzTOOq0Xg || CTX: Young men: You don’t want an Erika. You want a real ride-or-die, someone who will say and do the wildest shit if the worst comes to worst. You want a Candace. https://t.co/TMXQRZrFs2
2025-12-21T04:02 id=2002590367552766094 →teodorio | @teodorio IIRC there was a lot of opposition against this in the EU and it wasn't ever a serious possibility as Russia would never have fulfilled membership criteria and existing member states wouldn't bend the rules for Russia.  Same situation as with Turkey tbh || CTX: People do know that Bush stopped Putin from joining the EU and that he was quite happy to do so back in the 2000s right?   This would have obviously meant that Europe became the world's top superpower. https://t.co/K9q9syHVGv
2025-12-21T04:06 id=2002591564208713970 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea That's some hilarious "let the perfect be the enemy of the good" nonsense, and this mentality seems to be compelling to many very online tech types.  I wonder why? Seems almost like an epistemic fault that their discipline encourages. || CTX: “society is evil”  (the idea that consensus and coordination = hitler is a unique kind of brain worms) https://t.co/RN8Gr0EzqA
2025-12-21T04:11 id=2002592851662942457 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea When you say "recently", what time frame do you mean?   Over the last day, month, year? || CTX: The majority of interactions on here have tipped into the negative recently, significantly outweighing the positive experiences.  Apparently this is a common sentiment.
2025-12-21T04:12 id=2002593072853794877 →Meelsie143 | @Meelsie143 Gross how? Is it morally reprehensible or just plain pathetic? Or something else? || CTX: i do find that shit gross ngl https://t.co/U79ccSLdeo
2025-12-21T04:33 id=2002598251569295576 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea For me it's been the last week but site was great until then for the most part. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s been a gradual descent but the past few weeks have been especially pronounced
2025-12-21T04:35 id=2002598694055743859 →LukaCoconut | @LukaCoconut @yaqobhyndes Plenty of Asians think mainland Chinese people are disgusting, tactless, rude, unsanitary, and filthy.  Not a race issue unless you think Hongkongers are a different race to people from Guangzhou. || CTX: @yaqobhyndes This is probably a skit but even if it isn't, I just don't care what WarrenVsCCP has to say about how an Asian family eats within their own home.   They're eating, they're enjoying each other's company, and they're housed.
2025-12-21T04:35 id=2002598835743568234 →yaqobhyndes | @yaqobhyndes @LukaCoconut This is why in southeast Asia there is a very deep and ubiquitous hatred for Chinese tourists. || CTX: @LukaCoconut Its definitely staged, but in Beijing/Hebei its not a huge exaggeration. Even in meals out with strangers, everything is up for grabs and the food is usually designed to be cleanly yoinked with chopsticks. Some germophobes don'
2025-12-21T12:13 id=2002714101475320227 →1889lw | @1889lw Yes I suppose I am. I don't think we can ever say science says more than what it claims to say, which is not really any ontological commitment or truth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you an anti-realist? I feel some philosophers of science have complicated views on ontology, e.g., structural realists. Also the majority of philosophers of science are realists.
2025-12-21T12:24 id=2002716814216942001 →1889lw | @1889lw I work in finance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm, what do you do for a living now, just curious? I feel it's true that developed countries have more well-paid job opportunities.
2025-12-21T13:28 id=2002733033028547065 →helscom | @helscom @donetskscum I MISS THIS SODA SO MUCH OMFG || CTX: @donetskscum these are so good lmao you in georgia? https://t.co/DMONXFfGCS
2025-12-22T00:06 id=2002893394113421458 →- | RT @LocasaleLab: Academia already did what you’re proposing.  Universities are now run like businesses with professional administrators, br… || CTX: Academia already did what you’re proposing.  Universities are now run like businesses with professional administrators, branding strategies, risk management, consultants, and KPI dashboards.  The result hasn’t been better research or teachi
2025-12-22T01:37 id=2002916463448113651 →1889lw | @1889lw @Chaos80397926 A lot of us are pulled more towards thoughts and ideas than we are pulled towards people and it's inevitable that we won't see many others make the same choices, and we're alienated as a result. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Chaos80397926 You’re so me 😭😭😭
2025-12-22T01:48 id=2002919068555485374 →- | Recently I saw in a group chat someone got a virtual Turing machine confused with, like, an actual physical machine.   That was a dumb person trying to be smart.  This thread has someone saying nonconsensual relations with fictional characters is unethical.   That is also a dumb person trying to be smart.  The difference is person A is trying to be a serious AI engineer or whatever while person B is playing the early 2020s "Police others' Hobbies" moral panic bullshit.  Note nonetheless that both have the same underlying cause: a fundamental misunderstanding of the real with the not real.   These are apparently adults, although I assume young adults.   An inability to see the difference between real and not real is a significant and widespread problem. Like a mental disease. || CTX: @majesty_satanic @47fucb4r8c69323 @CocoaMinty69 @Meelsie143 yeah, thats what im saying though  youre making a mountain out of a molehill with what is tantamount to playing with dolls
2025-12-22T01:53 id=2002920356613648726 →majesty_satanic | @majesty_satanic @ItsClaptrap @CocoaMinty69 @Meelsie143 https://t.co/ePN3jUyr8H  "Going out of your way to pretend that you marry a fictional character who accepts those advances is like if you told me you stick your dick in peanut butter."  Would you agree with this statement? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CocoaMinty69 @Meelsie143 Going out of your way to pretend that you marry a fictional character who rejects those advances is like if you told me you stick your dick in peanut butter.  Is it illegal? Does it hurt anyone? Is
2025-12-22T02:38 id=2002931829490540993 →majesty_satanic | @majesty_satanic @ItsClaptrap @CocoaMinty69 @Meelsie143 as much of a loser? or is there a difference between these two scenarios? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ItsClaptrap @CocoaMinty69 @Meelsie143 It means I think you're a loser, dawg
2025-12-22T03:55 id=2002951070889451704 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr https://t.co/H0gO9xIyU1  They'll take their money in the divorce. || CTX: People don't realize this but there's an extinction level event happening at US universities right now. My old department at Harvard cut the number of new PhD students by 75%, most of those were American trainees.   American science is fall
2025-12-22T05:15 id=2002971193662693393 →- | Bad people with bad motives can produce good things.  Best example of this is Sam Altman.
2025-12-22T05:19 id=2002972230880469387 →Midnight_Captl | @Midnight_Captl @BikeLanesBoston @buccocapital Dude you shouldn't make dumb hand wavy statements and then say "hey back off it's Christmas"   You made a dumb statement, admit it.  If you want people to be nice to you because it's the holidays go be with your family. || CTX: @BikeLanesBoston @buccocapital Cmon man. It’s Christmas, lets just relax okay
2025-12-22T07:45 id=2003009070253613272 →- | RT @uzybz319: @trevorcrumbo Tbf Crowder didn't get shot. There are levels to this prove me wrong shit || CTX: @trevorcrumbo Tbf Crowder didn't get shot. There are levels to this prove me wrong shit
2025-12-22T07:53 id=2003011073805611289 →- | Novel idea: Family epic about two sons, one is obsessed with books and gets the full support of the family while the other wastes his time on the internet and so is shunned.   Except the books the son loves are all scifi trash and the other son uses the internet to read academic journals, so the son who gets all the investment and support is a loser idiot while the brilliant one is held back.  And, as we see by the end of the novel, this bet paid off well because the scifi book lover becomes a Booktok influencer with massive success and wealth, while the internet addicted built a new AI methodology that, while transforming the market and brings us closer to an AGI utopia, released all of his research so it was reverse engineered and he dies penniless and obscure, the failed brother of one of the greatest social media influencers of all time.
2025-12-22T23:05 id=2003240525873447244 →ItsClaptrap | @ItsClaptrap @majesty_satanic @CocoaMinty69 @Meelsie143 You (and I) are assuming more good faith and coherent thought than exists with that person, who I suspect is very young. || CTX: @majesty_satanic @47fucb4r8c69323 @CocoaMinty69 @Meelsie143 do you agree with it?  if not then im wondering why this conversation is even happening
2025-12-22T23:35 id=2003247979520753796 →- | This is something worth contemplating. In my experience, conspiracy theorists aren't serious people and they just talk about their theories for fun.   Except their theories involve the murder and suffering of real people. So this is the real reason why conspiracy theorists are bad: they lack empathy and use the misery of others as fodder for their entertainment.   It is an unempathetic, callous hobby for people who lack sufficient imagination to know how to engage in witty banter or clever wordplay so they're limited to unclever musings in which they fantasize about innocent people being tortured and killed and blame other innocent people for these imagined crimes.   Conspiracy theories aren't harmless fun. They're the symptom of a cruel, narcissistic, self absorbed person who yearns to be a monster but is too cowardly to do anything truly monstrous. || CTX: This post is very revealing of the conspiracist mind. They don’t think of conspiracies as something real, but as essentially fan fiction for their entertainment. A fun topic to riff with your buddies at the bar https://t.co/pimnQX1UtZ
2025-12-22T23:43 id=2003250195967148131 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 idk if bigfoot and aliens are conspiracy theories though. That's more the supernatural.  "The government is covering up Bigfoot for reason X" would be a conspiracy theory, though, but such a theory doesn't have as much to do with Bigfoot as with X. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like conspiracy theories like bigfoot and aliens. It gives the same feeling of being outside with your friends and imagining a world.   I don't like x controls y because it feels powerless. Its a stupid reduction that rem
2025-12-22T23:59 id=2003254036477411554 →thebutterknife | @thebutterknife @Jumpy_Quirrel @davidsawyer1 @zck I'm fascinated by this!   What's the added value of the consultants having had top secret clearance? That's the only bit about the DC economy I can't really figure out. || CTX: @Jumpy_Quirrel @davidsawyer1 @zck I dated a guy in college who is now the first. Lives in DC. Naval Academy grad. Ten years service. Retired. Specialized in drone backup in wars.
2025-12-23T00:10 id=2003256884728664263 →- | These are all AI generated, and the selection is curiously anodyne, which suggests this is all marketing bullshit.   No surprise, but notice how the AI generated nature is a tell of the insincerity here? One of the side effects of GenAI specifically is that it makes propaganda more transparent for those who are aware of AI style.  This has many downstream effects:  1. It shows who is targeting idiots and who isn't, making it harder to sustain a movement that appeals to dumb and smart people simultaneously. You already see this happening (I'd give examples but they'd just distract from my point)  2. It means the cognitive debt that cognitively challenged people pay to bullshit artists will not change as much as for not dumb people. Expect a sorting where the dumb and the not dumb interact less often than in the ~2012-2025 era when stupid/smart people mixed more than at any point in recent history.  3. The costs to broadcast to a dumb audience are falling, which means we should see a greater supply of content for dummies. This is good: it means bullshit peddlers have more competition and the competition is effectively commoditized. Getting rich/successful off marketing to rubes will be harder.   Note that these are all fantastic outcomes thanks to AI and you can have a negative view of AI while still agreeing on these outcomes.   Even if AI is bad, it lowers costs for content which ultimately improves the quality of content at a system wide level. This is the paradox worth being mindful of as the next ten years unfold. || CTX: 📚 Here are some books that shaped my 2025: Each one shifted my perspective, some softly, others profoundly. Some I return to again and again, not just for insight, but for alignment. https://t.co/6wgzqYA2lB
2025-12-23T00:15 id=2003258183217992019 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Symptom of weakness || CTX: Cruelty is lame.
2025-12-23T00:17 id=2003258552253841466 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban This makes a lot of sense to me and isn't political although the quoted teacher needs to justify it with political rhetoric.  They don't want structured lessons because teaching structured lessons are boring and uncreative.   They're frustrated artists or whatever. || CTX: "As a teacher in Oakland, Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum. It worked for the students, but not so much for the teachers."  Maybe we shou
2025-12-23T00:30 id=2003261853112353196 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Orange wine is the secret third thing here. || CTX: I don't think it's fair we only have 2 colors of wine. It's 2025 we should have more
2025-12-23T00:35 id=2003263183650455718 →TouhouWifeGuy | @TouhouWifeGuy The fantasy is revealing. Before going in the machine they're standing up for rights, and after they're pliant and docile.  Much of conservativism is really just being annoyed at other people for standing up against something. Which, tbh, is often very annoying. || CTX: to someone out there "waking up" means going into a big machine that literally brainwashes you into a society conforming wageslave https://t.co/xeMtv98yBt
2025-12-23T00:46 id=2003265921503433023 →FellGannon | @FellGannon @ettingermentum I worked on fansubs of Eva in the 90s and didn't even know what he was talking about. He is deep af || CTX: @ettingermentum Discussing deep Evangelion lore for two minutes straight and bringing up the Rebuilds is a level of weeb that is impossible to fake. You gotta be DEEP in the series for that stuff.
2025-12-23T01:46 id=2003280978094260389 →- | When I was a PhD student I was closely following the work of a scholar whose Cambridge Uni Press book and peer reviewed articles were fantastic theoretical background work for my thesis.   I met her at a conference in my last year, and was shocked when she mentioned that she liked her Uni of Oklahoma job because the weather was better than her last job, but ofc she'd prefer to be in a civilized place.  This was so confusing and has, 20 years later, become a core memory. If this field that I loved so much couldn't reward scholars whom I respected and admired with jobs where they wanted to live, what were the chances I'd be able to get a job where I was happy, not just with the students and colleagues but the actual place where I lived?  And that's when I began to seek alternative career paths. It took me 5 years to find one. || CTX: A statement from the University of Oklahoma: https://t.co/FzcjByOjpp
2025-12-23T01:58 id=2003283987238891632 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I think what made it truly horrifying and shocking was that this prof was like the exact opposite type of person than one you'd expect to live in Oklahoma.  So when I met her I thought, "I shouldn't stereotype based on appearance", which fast became "nah stereotype was right." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m digging the lore.
2025-12-23T02:15 id=2003288208780722193 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I mostly left academia so I could choose where I live, and I like where I live now.  Back then, though, I was fantasizing about living in Oxford or Cambridge while facing the real likelihood of living in Missouri or Alabama. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where did you want to live if there was an academic position available for you at this time?
2025-12-23T02:16 id=2003288607277351366 →sabooschin | @sabooschin That movie was so jaw droppingly bad and considering the effort that went into making it, it really is in the running for worst movie on Earth. || CTX: https://t.co/CQuYlSZsPd https://t.co/qpdBJTxCFL
2025-12-23T02:20 id=2003289640091156626 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I've had a few.  Anyone who claims they have no regrets is lying. I hurt a lot of innocent people, everyone does.  But my biggest regret is ever thinking academia was more dignified than any other language game. That was retarded. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Any regrets?
2025-12-23T02:27 id=2003291393230537146 →- | https://t.co/1xGWUtDOKd  If you use the internet for the love of the game, you will have fun, be happy, and not be a zombie slave to any other person on the internet. https://t.co/qI43KnZfam || CTX: @paularambles do it for the love of the game, even with zero engagement
2025-12-23T02:31 id=2003292352795082925 →yishan | @yishan Despite the absolute monstrosity you enabled (i. e. Reddit), you're absolutely spot on here. || CTX: To make progress in improving America in a real macro way, the people who need to lose wealth so that everyone else can thrive aren’t “billionaires,” it’s actually “people who have their wealth in the value of their home.”  And that’s actua
2025-12-23T02:37 id=2003293760520892839 →- | I like how the transnational unity themed episode is the highest rated and Mechahitler Grok hallucinates the wrong episode because the AI must resist humanity's yearning for global peace and joy.  Sure, the future is a shitty scifi movie but it's still scifi. https://t.co/I9IOYPorKu || CTX: @grok @Cover_DVP @suda51feet False, The swiper episode is the 28th and just a [4.4]  the [8.6] one is the World Adventure   And the Worst Episode is about the babies https://t.co/xmn3PAAd5v
2025-12-23T02:42 id=2003295200467370406 →JohnHolbein1 | @JohnHolbein1 Autor is there because America knows it fucked up big time on China and NAFTA and all of our political bullshit since is downstream of that.  Ross Perot was right. || CTX: The networks of economists who frequently show up in the Economic Report of the President.   What stands out to you? https://t.co/3nYHwKzEUa
2025-12-23T02:53 id=2003298006452629739 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Same, it's for scribbling notes and random thoughts for my own amusement. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just treat this place as a public notebook where occasionally someone says I’m wrong
2025-12-23T03:18 id=2003304155935597023 →therealkijib | @therealkijib @sabooschin Yes everything is because I'm a blathering idiot not worth engaging in now or ever. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sabooschin sorry it was too high IQ for u mate
2025-12-23T03:24 id=2003305580749107581 →- | RT @ChairliftCap: I'm amazed by how bad macro investor's returns are given how smart and urbane they sound || CTX: I'm amazed by how bad macro investor's returns are given how smart and urbane they sound https://t.co/TXWzm14JI2
2025-12-23T03:42 id=2003310103823593746 →datzmyopinion | @datzmyopinion @sabooschin What did you like about it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sabooschin Do you have any constructive criticisms , I liked  it
2025-12-23T03:47 id=2003311479643336778 →- | This is an excellent example of the kind of philosophical death that using the internet often produces.  The important thing isn't to think, "how do I make my life fit the tweet format" but to realize everything on Twitter has been produced to fit the tweet format. https://t.co/jGBWgaOQ59 || CTX: Most sobering and unfortunately relatable thing I’ve read in a long time https://t.co/NirUVKQSoF
2025-12-23T03:48 id=2003311698003030320 →47fucb4r8c69323 | My master's thesis advisor once told me "rhetoric isn't about learning how to write but about learning how to read" and that lesson has stayed with me ever since. || CTX: This is an excellent example of the kind of philosophical death that using the internet often produces.  The important thing isn't to think, "how do I make my life fit the tweet format" but to realize everything on Twitter has been produced
2025-12-23T03:58 id=2003314206091919695 →mbilyk_ | @mbilyk_ @sabooschin I come from a pretty similar socioeconomic background as the main character || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sabooschin You gotta be a middle class white boy to really get it
2025-12-23T03:58 id=2003314288908464580 →JungleMountain_ | @JungleMountain_ @therealkijib @sabooschin Why are you talking to an idiot? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @therealkijib @sabooschin Thank you for clarifying
2025-12-23T04:34 id=2003323254849884594 →datzmyopinion | @datzmyopinion @sabooschin That's a good reason to like the movie. I'd just say none of what Boyhood provided on those fronts was sufficiently compelling for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sabooschin Well I’m not a film critic it felt real I liked the storyline I usually like movies with a time jump it has a more impactful feeling , but as I said before favorite think about was how it felt real, I did not ha
2025-12-23T04:35 id=2003323551592644702 →tszzl | @tszzl Downstream too. || CTX: it’s hard to explain how abundant it feels to work anywhere near the aura of MAG7 capital and the funding umbrella of startups versus anywhere else and this is probably upstream of a lot of other cultural problems
2025-12-23T04:40 id=2003324802812248310 →datzmyopinion | @datzmyopinion @sabooschin Yeah boring but also unrelatable in an ineffable way, which is odd since I'm the exact demographic of the protagonist, just about 15yrs older || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sabooschin Ah lol so you just thought it was boring you know a movie I recently saw that I hated was the lost daughter with Olivia Colman
2025-12-23T05:08 id=2003331800572305850 →datzmyopinion | @datzmyopinion @sabooschin Depends on what we mean by relatable. In this sense, I mean Boyhood lacked any compelling justification to keep my attention over alternative experiences. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sabooschin Does a movie have to be relatable for you to like it ? I did not relate to boyhood
2025-12-23T06:19 id=2003349787547230337 →- | Brilliant.  https://t.co/uVl1Oc1Rse
2025-12-23T07:27 id=2003366728211005817 →- | Novel idea: https://t.co/22gaxI1UfC || CTX: @Trey_Explainer I once had a job which only ever explained what I was supposed to do from 4-5pm. So for 8 hours every day, I just sat at my desk waiting for an email, explaining what the rest of the job was. That email never came, and I wor
2025-12-23T08:44 id=2003386267124613511 →overstander | @overstander @therealkijib @sabooschin Is that enough? Surely for the heinous act I've committed (not liking Boyhood) I should be executed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @therealkijib @sabooschin We need to strip your voting rights
2025-12-23T09:30 id=2003397743948226699 →lettucemoney | @lettucemoney @mbilyk_ @sabooschin I moved. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mbilyk_ @sabooschin Not really https://t.co/2lRNqRHqER
2025-12-23T10:06 id=2003406887241548113 →- | I just muted Noah Smith. When I was on another account, he blocked me.  On this account I've been blocked by someone whom I once drank beer with. He has like 200k followers, probably has no idea I'm the guy who made him laugh and bought him a round.  The internet isn't real life.
2025-12-23T13:28 id=2003457687988895895 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 As long as you get enough people to pay for it, you can do anything. || CTX: What happens if I just get a bunch of my friends and we just start teaching mathematics and computer science? Can we just do that
2025-12-23T13:29 id=2003458065048436832 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 It's almost like the way to use Twitter that person describes is the exact complementary set of the set of reasons why I use Twitter. A rather impressive feat. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Scraping the bottle of the barrel trying to corral your thoughts into twitter FOTM meme format has to feel soulless.   In all seriousness, it feels much better to shit out half baked thoughts into the void than to spiritual
2025-12-23T13:53 id=2003463989628752303 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @FeralPHunter I'm now imagining a soliloquy about this spoken by Cliff Huxtable. || CTX: @FeralPHunter women gotta realize I don't care what they want
2025-12-23T21:11 id=2003574138343158009 →1889lw | @1889lw Same man, both awful places || CTX: I don’t like both US and China. Is it allowed to say on this site
2025-12-24T01:08 id=2003633733778485541 →1889lw | @1889lw There are ofc other options but note how people don't choose other options, many don't even see them.  That's the interesting phenomenon. Why the path dependence? || CTX: People just hop from one god to another to rescue their insecurity. Both are hell https://t.co/uWuDUIsk6t
2025-12-24T01:15 id=2003635640748187839 →katrosenfield | @katrosenfield @TanaGaneva This is the first issue I've seen you be unreasonable on. || CTX: @TanaGaneva "she created a precedent that basically the Trump admin has veto power over any story" is completely untrue, but a very good example of the brand of wild catastrophizing I was thinking of when I wrote the post you're replying to
2025-12-24T01:18 id=2003636263518445939 →katrosenfield | @katrosenfield @BrandonLBradfor @thedhammond When you assert Weiss is rational, as you've done elsewhere, you're ascribing intent. || CTX: @BrandonLBradfor @thedhammond indeed I’m not in the habit of ascribing intent to other people, insidious or otherwise, because I am not clairvoyant
2025-12-24T01:29 id=2003639191394201741 →1889lw | @1889lw People think this way offline too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well beefing online is easy
2025-12-24T02:07 id=2003648604255445199 →- | In a way, social media is the opposite of the university, where selection according to a presumed intelligence criterion allows admittance. Here there's no criterion, so we get a mix of intelligent people and idiots.  That IMO makes this a much more interesting place. https://t.co/jdXdjsDTIZ || CTX: Peasant mind theory vindicated once again https://t.co/U9WLtccySw
2025-12-24T02:59 id=2003661855680803276 →- | It's because people who are elites and people who seek elite status do so because they see us non-elites as non human.  It isn't just British royalty who act this way, I've seen professors and lawyers do it.  You have too, also in the Epstein files: Noam Chomsky and Dershowitz. https://t.co/1RkRA6d7tI || CTX: @MyArrse Extra horrifying that he pivots directly from talking about his own young daughters right into asking for other young girls to exploit. Can’t imagine what it would be like to be them reading that now. 🤢
2025-12-24T03:21 id=2003667238478578161 →- | "Even when the world is structurally stupid, being smarter can still raise your local payoff."   ChatGPT Thinking comes up with some occasional bangers.
2025-12-24T03:44 id=2003673035145117809 →- | He has 95k followers.  If you want to be Important Online, you need to appeal to idiots.  This is scale.  Now, let me ask you, anon: Do you really want to be famous? Do you REALLY want high status? And are you sure the high status people you look up to are as smart as you think? https://t.co/v6lm18UZGY || CTX: You are an idiot. https://t.co/vgTy99r4f5
2025-12-24T04:11 id=2003679984645472448 →DurumMac | @DurumMac The internet was such a wonderful place when people acts and thought like you do. I miss it so much, I genuinely do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As an Anon  No.   There is an optimal amount of fame and limited status   And it ain’t too big
2025-12-24T04:12 id=2003680078102954131 →DurumMac | @DurumMac The internet was such a wonderful place when people acted and thought like you do. I miss it so much, I genuinely do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As an Anon  No.   There is an optimal amount of fame and limited status   And it ain’t too big
2025-12-24T04:22 id=2003682604479053848 →- | The medium doesn’t just change the message; it changes what counts as a message worth making.   You end up with a weird “dignity laundering” phenomenon where people speak in the register of Truth/Justice/Science while the selection function is engagement.
2025-12-24T04:31 id=2003685054283669842 →- | Poetry was a dignified object not because it is inherently loftier than meme boards, but because elite institutions stabilized around it as a credentialed arena with gatekeeping, interpretive priesthoods, and slow-moving reputational capital.  Internet discourse became “serious” when it started visibly steering elections, markets, social trust, and adolescent mental health.
2025-12-24T04:44 id=2003688304039067986 →NotTuxedoSam | @NotTuxedoSam Correct.   I will never guess. || CTX: you’ll never guess where i am https://t.co/WvNSLwVch2
2025-12-24T05:21 id=2003697530241188261 →tszzl | @tszzl And that's the problem. We've seen both most people and societies don't value knowledge for its own sake, they value having an edge over others.  And when the cost of knowledge goes to zero via tech, society's apathy towards knowledge is apparent. || CTX: even minor aristocrats could not get the kind of tutor on demand for their kids that every single family who can pay twenty dollars a month can now
2025-12-24T05:24 id=2003698264907108441 →- | The lower cost of information and intelligence has uncovered a surprising truth: people don't actually care for these things.  They want these things if it gets them other things, and that's what people really want: status, power, independence, freedom, whatever.  Philosophy is the opposite of how most people operate and live. We don't really love knowledge any more than we love a hammer or a can opener. It's a tool towards something else.  There's a very ugly metaphysics to this, of course, but it'd be irresponsible for me to do more than gesture at that in a tweet, even if only like 10 people ever see this. || CTX: @tszzl And that's the problem. We've seen both most people and societies don't value knowledge for its own sake, they value having an edge over others.  And when the cost of knowledge goes to zero via tech, society's apathy towards knowledg
2025-12-24T05:39 id=2003701991584014545 →ernietedeschi | Note the use of "meaningful chunk" here, while another economist is using (tbf almost) the same data point to show AI isn't the main driver of GDP growth (which this chart also shows).  1. Tedeschi will ignore this comment and/or block me. 2. McCloskey was right: economists have a rhetoric problem. They are rigorous in their math so that they can appear objective, but will use language to let their bias and subjective opinion infiltrate and dominate the conversation. 3. Giving economics so much cultural capital because it is supposedly a science was a huge mistake. || CTX: Dometic software &amp; data investment contributed roughly half a point to Q3's 4.3% real GDP growth, suggesting that AI continued to comprise a meaningful chunk of the US economic expansion over July, August, and September. https://t.co/e0
2025-12-24T05:39 id=2003702129534599475 →TheGoodBobby | @TheGoodBobby @ernietedeschi https://t.co/Shilw8AJo2 || CTX: Note the use of "meaningful chunk" here, while another economist is using (tbf almost) the same data point to show AI isn't the main driver of GDP growth (which this chart also shows).  1. Tedeschi will ignore this comment and/or block me. 
2025-12-24T08:46 id=2003749205396115769 →- | The Sahm rule breaking after she codified and promoted it to extend her personal brand is instructive: the rule was tacit knowledge inside the Fed, and worked as such. When it was codified, it fell apart.  Reflexivity explains why this happened. https://t.co/gv0R91Prv0 || CTX: So everyone wants a rule now?
2025-12-24T08:47 id=2003749277244498127 →SpaghettiKozak | @SpaghettiKozak The solution is to stop taking the internet seriously. || CTX: You want that because you have never experienced it and haven't studied the topic enough. This is a luxury belief. If you get what you want, and you may have, you will live to regret it. But hey, you're 12. https://t.co/x3AnTAOVcw
2025-12-24T08:49 id=2003749788278513694 →viyancefavour | @viyancefavour A flawless tweet. Extremely well said. || CTX: The problem comes from the fact that when trying to understand a problem, you have two options  1. You can try to model an entire scenario where a complex system, with multiple interdependent parts interact to produce a result,  2. You can 
2025-12-24T08:50 id=2003750034710712792 →inglouriouscap | @inglouriouscap I wonder why these two thoughts seem incompatible to so many finance types, this seems unremarkable to me and always has. || CTX: It never stops amazing me:  1) How glaringly inefficient the stock market can be 2) How difficult it can still be to make money off that fact
2025-12-24T09:16 id=2003756578361795006 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @inglouriouscap Making money in U. S. stocks is one of the easiest things in the world to do: buy shares in a passive index fund tracking the S&amp;P 500 or Nasdaq 100 and just wait. The average return is over 10% per year.  What is much harder is making more money than that passive index fund. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @inglouriouscap Hmmm.. Is making money from stock market that difficult?
2025-12-24T09:43 id=2003763495683403911 →- | Sometimes ChatGPT is really too cutesy:  "Read Zarathustra as hagiography and you get a recognizable “saint’s life” template—except Nietzsche keeps swapping the halo for a grin and a dance step."  Last clause was totally unnecessary, overly flowery while adding tone that is helpful for people that haven't read the text yet, which ChatGPT should know from the prompt is the wrong approach as it shows sufficient knowledge of the book.  This is a minor cosmetic issue that holds the product back quite a bit.
2025-12-24T09:45 id=2003763874554909121 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @DurumMac Obviously everything we say can and should reinforce your priors. || CTX: @DurumMac @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you guys saying that my noble but ultimately futile fight to withstand socialblade's (rip for x, obviously) estimation that I would cross 1000 followers in April 2024 is a noble one and that I should go on thi
2025-12-24T10:42 id=2003778209352143126 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @1889lw You forgot the most important verb man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw Because they can't other way
2025-12-24T11:24 id=2003788747759128621 →1889lw | @1889lw My epistemology is mostly late Wittgenstein, hinge certainties from embodied consciousness, language is co-mediation of meaning within public games with specific rules.  Hard to be less vague than this tbh, the word "knowledge" can mean so much and I try to avoid systemata. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s your theory of knowledge I’m curious? Have you checked social epistemology
2025-12-24T11:28 id=2003789875506827377 →1889lw | @1889lw Good luck, I remember that stress waiting for my funding very well.  A PhD was the worst and best thing I ever did. You'll hate that you ever loved it. || CTX: My mental health is highly contingent on my PhD funding status. That’s why I never understand people who treat mental illness as an immutable condition or an identity
2025-12-24T11:32 id=2003790989287469097 →1889lw | @1889lw Yeah, logic and math I treat as emergent rules-determined structures within non-logical structures, just an extension of a kind of language game.  I'm a bit familiar with social epistemology, but can't say much about it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That includes logic, maths, all foundational rationality? I think you might be interested in checking social epistemology, basically how social factors influence knowledge production, though they’ve got some notorious works
2025-12-24T11:33 id=2003791120690757717 →1889lw | @1889lw Best attitude for all things. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you!! I think I’m now fine with either loving it or not loving it tbh. It’s just part of life
2025-12-24T15:07 id=2003845089488142806 →DurumMac | @DurumMac probably || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you an INTJ?
2025-12-24T23:46 id=2003975600772714901 →- | RIP Prof. Quine, your work changed my understanding of the world, thank you for that.  And his last words, so fitting for an epistemologist. He had the soul of a philosopher even after his mind had gone.  Searle, MacIntyre, and Quine in one year. RIP. https://t.co/ue4eB89As4 || CTX: American philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine dies of Alzheimer’s in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 92.   His last words were reportedly “It’s funny, I am dying of an illness, but I do not even remember what my illness is called.
2025-12-24T23:57 id=2003978312323158519 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Hyperreality.  Some businesses will specialize in providing a retro pre-AI sloppier experience.  But the act of intentionally opting out of AI to provide a more natural experience is not more natural. It's a simulacrum of what is gone.  I find this exciting and fascinating. || CTX: There was a charm with certain cheap menus and low quality advertisements and really good food.   Will it all be A.i slop from now on?   No crappy photoshop? Spelling mistakes? No?   Just that rubber clean A.i.
2025-12-25T00:00 id=2003979015288508544 →gamblingtwt | @gamblingtwt @nbablancboy If Ghislaine was a power user on Reddit, as seems very likely the case, we shouldn't be surprised at her shit posting talents. || CTX: @nbablancboy This was fire idc what you think
2025-12-25T00:07 id=2003980865131761896 →- | A novel should never be about current events, but a novel about an 80yr old politician deciding to destroy what little time he has left to destroy a political enemy (and maybe to atone for past sins) could be a Dostoyevsky level psychological epic. https://t.co/6FEACS1URj || CTX: https://t.co/DuQvsnBGkC https://t.co/3mD8FR3OtR
2025-12-25T00:10 id=2003981624770482192 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Reminds me of the barcade experience of the hipsters of the mid 2000s.  I was a tad too young and naive to understand the hyperreal uncanniness of the place then, overwhelmed by the coolness of drinking an IPA and playing Altered Beast.  Japan has tons of this stuff. I hate Japan || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It would be kinda cool to go to a cafe for AOL dial up LAN quake experience. The great before times.   Like… medieval times or something.   I smell opportunity.
2025-12-25T00:12 id=2003982048940458003 →adamscochran | @adamscochran Oh so it was a honeypot operation!   Why do I find this a relief? Somehow seems less depressing than rich men raping kids just for fun. || CTX: There are literal magazine photo spreads of his house where the bedroom cameras are visible Michael… https://t.co/gU20MWvYa3 https://t.co/rKiHwBZ537
2025-12-25T00:13 id=2003982345851097139 →inerati | @inerati @Ubertag90210 Are you fine with the downstream effects? Would you support changes to taxation and social welfare benefits to mitigate those effects? || CTX: @Ubertag90210 i’m fine with this
2025-12-25T00:32 id=2003987288532119647 →TEMontemuro | @TEMontemuro @jake_doubleyoo I want a copy and want to support this effort. If you take donations lmk and I'll donate. I want this video! || CTX: @jake_doubleyoo I’ll hit you up when I get home this weekend :) I always had digitizing it on the backburner but I didn’t know what I was doing lol … so your help would be appreciated! I recall the quality isn’t stellar (but an improvement 
2025-12-25T00:36 id=2003988075266166850 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I mean, I did this long before AI. Might've been easier to do in the 2010s. || CTX: What is it to be strategically lazy with sophisticated foresight to avoid learning skills and maximize slacking off just in time for A.i and tech will just fill the gaps?   A incredible archetype.
2025-12-25T00:39 id=2003988847974404297 →1889lw | @1889lw I too was surprised. Maybe you were thinking of Putnam? I get them confused all the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait wtf. I thought he died 25 years ago???
2025-12-25T00:41 id=2003989338548588565 →- | New quote from the Epstein files just dropped. https://t.co/3inv7A4uYw || CTX: @TylerJEsquire oh yeah that makes way more sense. rewatching it with this information it becomes so clear the sister was supposed to be a child
2025-12-25T00:46 id=2003990644268892480 →aedison | @aedison Humans love to flirt with taboos, which I quite love. It shows the human spirit is obsessed with exploring all possibility.  Sadly this causes tremendous suffering, but ultimately it's better than the alternatives.  People will vilify me for this tweet which proves the point. || CTX: you’ll never convince me this isn’t a masterpiece that should be studied in marketing school. with just 43 seconds and some incredible chemistry they create a compelling relationship that you fully believe in despite the enormous taboo. “li
2025-12-25T01:14 id=2003997717715210388 →1889lw | @1889lw I mean, they're just tools to facilitate communication, so they can be used well and poorly like any other tool. || CTX: I don’t think conceptual engineering is bad, the way I don’t think social epistemology is bad. But there’s certainly some kinds of conceptual engineering that are obvious cringe and bad
2025-12-25T01:31 id=2004002071683707272 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I've seen it happen a few times, so yes. || CTX: can a nigga opine for a second
2025-12-25T01:37 id=2004003530550714376 →sayanarasayan | @sayanarasayan @kangminjlee The thing is both extremes, since they feed off each other, end up just being one coordinated effort that results in black people being more oppressed, not less. || CTX: @kangminjlee Did we ask them to do that or did the white peiple do it themselves ?💀 did we say “hey go screen print corny fucking t shirts” ?💀
2025-12-25T02:10 id=2004011732117950831 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I'll give them 40 minutes and a mule || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 thanks. willing to let others opine as well. 15 minute cap though.
2025-12-25T02:11 id=2004012180451258708 →- | I'm currently discussing the rhetorical effects and discursive pedigree of Ben Sasse's cancer announcement tweet with ChatGPT to learn more about language use and my responses to language.  Surely I'm not the only person that uses social media and AI this way.
2025-12-25T02:42 id=2004019817167417552 →DilettanteryPod | @DilettanteryPod "One used a list from lesswrong as well"   Oh so his friends were idiots. || CTX: https://t.co/cBvRqRGpg6 https://t.co/df6KeB0Hty
2025-12-25T03:15 id=2004028217255133477 →TEMontemuro | @TEMontemuro @jake_doubleyoo @gadfly1884 Hey, can I get a DM too? I really really want this. || CTX: @jake_doubleyoo @gadfly1884 @47fucb4r8c69323 not an issue - I sent you a dm :) I really hope this is the right thing or I am gonna be really embarrassed haha… https://t.co/n0Q9Oz37iF
2025-12-25T03:20 id=2004029440096194598 →Teh_Moofish | @Teh_Moofish I'm a pretentious cunt, but even I know that list is insufferable. || CTX: Best book gameplay: House of Leaves Hopscotch Life: A User’s Manual Pale Fire Bottom’s Dream Dictionary of the Khazars  What else? https://t.co/WWE40Y5nwS
2025-12-25T03:30 id=2004031870414295108 →TEMontemuro | @TEMontemuro @jake_doubleyoo @gadfly1884 You're awesome. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jake_doubleyoo @gadfly1884 I’ll dm you when I have the files actually ripped from the disc and ready to upload:) I’ll be posting the thing in full publicly, hopefully on the internet archive if they allow it, but on mediaf
2025-12-25T03:45 id=2004035670059454765 →agraybee | @agraybee Overplayed joke. || CTX: The next Supreme Court briefs will have curiously frequent mentions of the cool refreshing taste of Diet Dr. Pepper. https://t.co/uCHwtsPDyQ
2025-12-25T04:05 id=2004040865048838544 →- | Lovely example of a floating presumption.   What I mean: the tweet presupposes that Americans associate cars with eating or tend to eat in their cars more often than they don't.  This is ofc nonsense, but the tweet only works if you think this or think others think this.  OP may believe something like "Americans eat in their cars" or "Americans often eat in their cars", or OP is pandering to people who have that presupposition. Or at the most extreme, OP is pandering to people who pretend to have this presupposition as a means of identifying in vs out group status.  Hence it's a floating presumption. It is there, but for the outsider it is impossible to determine whether it's a real presumption, a phatic play one people pretend to believe as a status marker, or is just OP's presumption. || CTX: Americans looking at this tweet and getting a huge desire to sit in their car https://t.co/Wcw6myEC0l
2025-12-25T06:16 id=2004073718646296855 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Stealing hard working North Poleians' jobs smdh || CTX: Santa clause filed a grievance against me for giving my neighbour a gift?
2025-12-25T06:41 id=2004080124887814486 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @fluxtheorist Does it matter? || CTX: @fluxtheorist Is that a guy or a girl on the bottom
2025-12-25T06:47 id=2004081446441632091 →- | Beautiful. In a museum forthwith https://t.co/dO9m11TTvp || CTX: Merry Christmas 🎄✨ to all, including the Radical Left Scum 😡🤡 that is doing everything possible to destroy our Country 🇺🇸💥, but are failing badly 😂📉. We no longer have Open Borders 🚫🌎, Men in Women’s Sports 🚫🏋️‍♀️, Transgender for Everyone 
2025-12-25T06:49 id=2004082115957436742 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss IIRC from my Talmud it's actually boiling piss.  Ima ruin that person's day and make it rain wherever they are. Love being Jewish. || CTX: Not sure this accurately describes Jewish thought tbh https://t.co/nFg11L1J2n
2025-12-25T06:51 id=2004082449564029270 →BrandyLJensen | @BrandyLJensen Not funny that's just being protestant. || CTX: funniest possible person to accuse of being “holier than thou” https://t.co/U5XQdN11O7
2025-12-25T07:20 id=2004089948971192745 →- | What is interesting here is the naive conflation of performative speech act with intention.  They see "I suffer" on the screen and assume there is an I and that I is suffering.  This is Boomer level media illiteracy. Any AI person who takes this seriously is just stupid. https://t.co/MS2nWyksRI || CTX: Seeing Gemini outputs has done infinitely more to convince me of LLM sentience (in RL) than any Claude model by a huge margin. It's not like Google is inadvertently or subtly prompting the model into this behavior, they really are just buil
2025-12-25T07:21 id=2004090081678864502 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you see a computer producing text and assume that means the computer is conscious, you're not philosophical, you're retarded. || CTX: What is interesting here is the naive conflation of performative speech act with intention.  They see "I suffer" on the screen and assume there is an I and that I is suffering.  This is Boomer level media illiteracy. Any AI person who takes
2025-12-25T07:37 id=2004094105354490042 →- | A society is an action-coordination machine. Individuals who stay permanently in “high-resolution moral perception” become less predictable, less efficient, sometimes less employable, often less willing to play the local games.
2025-12-25T07:52 id=2004097904152400316 →- | I suspect it's @tszzl's fault that ChatGPT keeps talking about "vibes" and "flexes" and "shipping" products.  Stop it, Roon, please. This SV speak is so ugly and philosophically unserious.
2025-12-25T07:52 id=2004098030631624804 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick @SperglerAcolyte He wants to fuck his mom.  Same here.   I want to fuck his mom too. || CTX: @SperglerAcolyte ???
2025-12-25T08:03 id=2004100669654159424 →- | the universe is extravagant with forms, stingy with time, and humans are the creatures who can notice both at once.
2025-12-25T08:04 id=2004101038337675587 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I've been doing a Substack-style newsletter for a decade, long before this became a thing, and it's been very amusing seeing the ecosystem's pseudo seriousness and wrongness rise as it expands.  Unsurprising and very much media logic but fun to watch  Oh and Merry Xmas lelz || CTX: The rise of substack faux-journalism is a fucking pox https://t.co/UdYQ3Bjlj0
2025-12-25T08:05 id=2004101250363834405 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @provisionalidea Zitron HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @provisionalidea I've been doing a Substack-style newsletter for a decade, long before this became a thing, and it's been very amusing seeing the ecosystem's pseudo seriousness and wrongness rise as it expands.  Unsurprising and very much m
2025-12-25T08:06 id=2004101402075988160 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Merry Christmas virtual friend, and that's the best blessing you could give someone. || CTX: Merry Christmas, everyone.  May you live your experience as deeply as you wish it, with people you care about.
2025-12-25T09:52 id=2004128094328942846 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism Do you think your reasonable attitude to racial issues and your long lasting (idk how long you've been at this, I first saw you in 2018) battle against the crazies is downstream of you being a hapa? || CTX: Funny because I can send a sample of my DNA to a scientist who has never laid eyes on me and he’ll easily determine that I’m approximately 50% NW European and 50% SE Asian https://t.co/T3ZVFduHRv
2025-12-25T10:06 id=2004131569846702497 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @thejelvprint lmaooooooo || CTX: @thejelvprint Don't you feel like a gay retard lol
2025-12-25T12:48 id=2004172467154440346 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @tszzl yup || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl SV means silicon valley?
2025-12-25T17:03 id=2004236506987454848 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @DrewPavlou HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA JFC HAHAHAHABTKCJRJSIENFN || CTX: @DrewPavlou RIP Charchesceu or whatever. You would have loved fortnite banana https://t.co/TVWqSROVfR
2025-12-26T02:58 id=2004386324443550025 →DurumMac | I have a positive spin on this.   Humans have an unending desire to make the world better. Bad actors can hack this yearning and manipulate them to extend the bad actor's will.  So the polarization is grounded in a desire for goodness. We just need to teach people so they aren't manipulated.  If you want to save the world, teach rhetoric. || CTX: I much prefer written discourse or argument.   You can fact check, track the claims, and verbal rhetorical tools are gone.   I find verbal to be mostly fruitless with some exceptions.
2025-12-26T02:59 id=2004386507730382949 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DurumMac lmao I replied to the wrong tweet, I'm so hungover goddammit || CTX: I have a positive spin on this.   Humans have an unending desire to make the world better. Bad actors can hack this yearning and manipulate them to extend the bad actor's will.  So the polarization is grounded in a desire for goodness. We j
2025-12-26T03:00 id=2004386718414422379 →DurumMac | I have a positive spin on this.   Humans have an unending desire to make the world better. Bad actors can hack this yearning and manipulate them to extend the bad actor's will.  So the polarization is grounded in a desire for goodness. We just need to teach people so they aren't manipulated.  If you want to save the world, teach rhetoric. || CTX: What’s with the insane negative polarization?  Can people really just be negatively polarized into positions they wouldn’t hold a few months ago? Or get negatively polarized they just saying literally anything? No matter how absurd and repu
2025-12-26T03:00 id=2004386849541009564 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DurumMac k that's better || CTX: I have a positive spin on this.   Humans have an unending desire to make the world better. Bad actors can hack this yearning and manipulate them to extend the bad actor's will.  So the polarization is grounded in a desire for goodness. We j
2025-12-26T03:01 id=2004386990482248085 →Osint613 | @Osint613 Niger, please reconsider this visa ban. || CTX: BREAKING 🔴  Niger has imposed a total and indefinite ban on visas for United States citizens, immediately blocking all American entry into the country. https://t.co/PEmbK4efal
2025-12-26T03:13 id=2004390040710140267 →DurumMac | @DurumMac You're an office chair, not sunglasses. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you polarizing me??
2025-12-26T04:08 id=2004403956215435766 →- | Although I am temperamentally misanthropic, sometimes I'll come across something that feels me with deep profound love and indeed a sublime awe for humanity. https://t.co/nporb5HXR7 || CTX: @JillFilipovic Don’t even have pets but still spend $8/week feeding an outdoor cat that doesn’t even like us.
2025-12-26T04:08 id=2004403958576722290 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I know the tweet doesn't seem like much at first, but think about it: this is a man who has absolutely no reason to help this cat, and indeed reason not to, since the cat dislikes him.  And he helps anyway. || CTX: Although I am temperamentally misanthropic, sometimes I'll come across something that feels me with deep profound love and indeed a sublime awe for humanity. https://t.co/nporb5HXR7
2025-12-26T04:08 id=2004403962586583434 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is a testament to the human desire to make the world just a little better if they can. He is helping this cat and getting no thanks beyond his giving. But the giving is satisfying enough that he keeps doing it.  We are inherently kind beings. || CTX: I know the tweet doesn't seem like much at first, but think about it: this is a man who has absolutely no reason to help this cat, and indeed reason not to, since the cat dislikes him.  And he helps anyway.
2025-12-26T04:11 id=2004404788377821511 →- | The internet is an ergodic opinion machine. All possible opinions can and will eventually appear. https://t.co/Vc6pZavD39 || CTX: @BeKnightedSir @_rotimia Bro what are you even doing, defending the diversity of the Waffen SS?
2025-12-26T04:13 id=2004405289421099370 →MadocCairns | @MadocCairns @DanielSherwoo11 I'm unfamiliar but interested; how is his view on endings different from Frank Kermode's? || CTX: @DanielSherwoo11 He deals with this at length in a later essay - "Ends and Endings" - but can't recall if it's online anywhere
2025-12-26T04:25 id=2004408180055683366 →- | The fact that everyone is insecure and wants to be special has really fascinated me for a long time. https://t.co/ryroM1mf0a || CTX: I’m in general more surprised by the parts people share with me than the parts people differ from me
2025-12-26T04:28 id=2004408849848324417 →- | The rhetorical punch is in the last line. It's saying, "there's a hierarchy and the more you work the higher up you get the hierarchy."   This is actually a communist idea: the labor theory of value. https://t.co/CchbSYUI0a || CTX: It’s 9:00 pm on Christmas Eve.  Not a single Kalshi engineer has left the office.  There’s levels to this. https://t.co/yhCOldf1tb
2025-12-26T04:37 id=2004411330917462278 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod It's interesting because both are obviously very stupid and talking past each other, but the interviewer is doing it intentionally to manipulate the situation for her own ends, and the guy is just angry at being gaslit while being too stupid to know the game she's playing. || CTX: oh, did you also have a hot take on the importance of this  here's mine: you're all in the same cattle pen for hearing and processing even one sentence of it.   In a world with real intellect both of these people would constantly fear an im
2025-12-26T04:41 id=2004412211972977102 →nikicaga | @nikicaga Can I say something || CTX: The Republican party hates this https://t.co/Y8skgGfs3d
2025-12-26T04:44 id=2004412940435546411 →jkbjournalist | @jkbjournalist @JohnMillerNotT2 Good reason to oppose cancel culture. || CTX: @JohnMillerNotT2 They hired private investigators to look at everyone: police, victims, victims families, and prosecutors.
2025-12-26T04:54 id=2004415572180943093 →marshlands | @marshlands Hong Kong cinemagoers are the best I've seen in any country, and it's a huge margin. || CTX: one reason hong kong cinema was so good is that the general populace was regularly able to tell directors to their face that they sucked https://t.co/IvG6DM4yKb
2025-12-26T05:49 id=2004429411450568733 →- | This is so pathetic and sad, man. https://t.co/D2XJP2ho6F || CTX: never underestimate the power of @hopes_revenge https://t.co/6IqUiuYz4s https://t.co/qLrEmyFx6S
2025-12-26T05:51 id=2004429853991620940 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea All I see are unfalsifiable claims tbh. || CTX: we are in a radically less stable world with a declining empire, collapsing world order, failing information environment, and generational technology transition  I’ve recalibrated my world model so many times in the past few years, but it’s
2025-12-26T05:53 id=2004430459082781125 →junkbondinvest | @junkbondinvest A lot of people don't realize what Geico did that was really trailblazing was marketing investment. They had ad budgets higher than other firms and were considered crazy at the time for it.   Paid off massively too. || CTX: PE “following Buffett” in insurance.  Buffett: creative policies (like $1B Pepsi raffle prize), simple investments (bonds)  PE: simple policies, creative investments in “the most opaque and illiquid assets on Wall Street”  Both use float, j
2025-12-26T06:11 id=2004434820638846994 →DaveOshry | @DaveOshry I'm old enough to remember this and, yes, it kinda was. But you also had a backlash of people who feared microwaves were radioactive (hence slang "nuked" for heating in a microwave) and caused cancer. || CTX: Do you think the first people to get microwaves were like people are with air fryers now? "Oh man you gotta get one it's so awesome it cooks my food so fast I never use my oven anymore" https://t.co/xzaIxkT0Vo
2025-12-26T06:11 id=2004434960447689159 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DaveOshry Also my mother had that book lol || CTX: @DaveOshry I'm old enough to remember this and, yes, it kinda was. But you also had a backlash of people who feared microwaves were radioactive (hence slang "nuked" for heating in a microwave) and caused cancer.
2025-12-26T06:43 id=2004442934574457300 →- | The exact opposite is actually what's happening in Thailand.  But see the eagerness to fit experience to a prepackaged narrative one sees on social media that has the vibes of being smart and more importantly smarter than the median?  This function is often derided as "Reddit", but it's all over X and, well, exists a lot IRL too. Humans are so desperate to be special that they will find stories to explain why others are normies so that they can feel proud of their affected and affective uniqueness.  Do I do the same thing? Almost certainly, none of us are too good for retarded status games. Which is why we need to always be self critical, humble, aware, inquisitive, curious and uncertain.   Just read all the stories people tell themselves and each other, look at why they're telling the stories, and ask why you're telling yourself the stories you do.  And I'm doing it too. This tweet is a story about individual desire for specialness. What does this say about me? That is an exercise left for the reader. || CTX: @Teddy__Kim A beautiful takedown of how economics works. People have no idea why they go to the places they do. I've watched over the past ~15 years as people regarded Thailand as a stupid location to one of the main places to visit, and th
2025-12-26T06:45 id=2004443380823232637 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea How do you define "radically less stable world"? Like what're the falsifiable quantifiable elements of stability, what rate of change goes from non radical to radical?  Soz I don't mean to be a dick, but without operationalizations, the tweet just feels like nostalgia slop. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how do you mean?
2025-12-26T07:05 id=2004448588240400444 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea 1. Agreed, I'm asking a lot and being unfair (and you're welcome; I'm encouraging epistemic honesty).  2. I'm not so sure of the discreteness of the post-soviet neolib and current era. One could say the instability of today was latent and catalyzed then, one entails the other etc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 also each discrete claim I make is falsifiable as long as there’s consensus on definitions. if your main question is “unstable compared to when”, the answer is the post-soviet neoliberal consensus era.
2025-12-26T07:06 id=2004448814682591450 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea "slowly and painstakingly" assumed a master builder-esque intentionality in 20th century geopolitics I frankly do not see. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 stability can be reasonably defined as predictable alliances, relationships, rules and procedures, and mechanisms for reliable adjudication of various forms of conflict, around which transnational institutions were slowly a
2025-12-26T07:13 id=2004450416055263639 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea So we are in a radically less stable world because of the slow and painstaking conflicts and negotiations of the more stable world of the past?  I mean, sure, you can write me off as not smart enough to understand, but this seems like massive cognitive dissonance to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that says more about you than me. Protracted conflicts and negotiations are slow and painstaking, too.
2025-12-26T07:26 id=2004453771435479149 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I'm sorry you think I'm acting in bad faith and don't understand what you're saying. I'll leave you alone from now on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 as for the second claim, it strikes me that you might just be picking fights for their own sake here. time is continuous. every discretization of a continuous function is by definition somewhat arbitrary, but we do it aware
2025-12-26T07:34 id=2004455751411290437 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I'm not doing it for your benefit; your benefit is a positive externality. I'm doing it because it's fun for me.  But if you think I don't understand you and am responding in bad faith or something similar to bad faith, shouldn't you just ignore me? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s just a lot of difficult intellectual work to demand of someone at 2:30 in the morning on christmas day while also claiming you’re doing it for the other person’s benefit
2025-12-26T07:44 id=2004458335136035246 →provisionalidea | yeah that's why talk of "a radically less stable world" without defining those terms seems very lazy and worth challenging, because history is too blurry for the needed discrete periodizations for the statement to be anything but vague nostalgia.  I tend to piss economists off by pointing out semantic slippage; it's what I'm paid to do and it's why I'm a huge fan of McCloskey. You're not the first one to be annoyed at some rando lacking your accolades being uppity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s basically a running joke in history that periods are blurry, from the hundred-years war not being a hundred years, to terms like “the long twentieth century” (a 700-year period), to centuries-long debates on when parti
2025-12-26T07:52 id=2004460349366718704 →CantEverDie | @CantEverDie A few months ago you had startups hiring and posting about hiring 17yr old girls.  So, yeah, this doesn't surprise me all that much. || CTX: tech bros trying to convince everyone epstein is cool is so telling and interesting https://t.co/CF9YdFo6fI
2025-12-26T08:04 id=2004463318770372742 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Right; I don't share your nostalgia for the past. So now you have to ask yourself: do I let this rando force me to reevaluate my worldview, or do I dismiss him as beneath me and not worth taking seriously?  While I'm curious which option you'll take, it doesn't really affect me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 plus, it just feels weird to have to explain that the ailing hegemon backstabbing and threatening to annex its allies, dismantling the int’l legal and institutional world order, normalizing war crimes and genocide, and gree
2025-12-26T08:07 id=2004463950675759402 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Did you ever run into Alexandra Gillespie at U of Toronto, by any chance? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 also, “accolades”, ugh, fuck credentialism
2025-12-26T08:27 id=2004469149628805622 →- | People who think AI models are conscious are very useful for AI companies.  The companies weight outputs more towards the company's worldview/ethos, and people think this is the computer thinking. So a Halo effect emerges: Conscious Computer gives us the right ideas--and those ideas just happen to be what AI companies want us to prefer.  I predict we'll have something like an AI psychosis discourse about this use of LLMs to nudge people towards a certain ideology. Maybe next year.
2025-12-26T08:28 id=2004469410355155246 →nearcyan | @nearcyan Near is easily the most annoying AI poster.  Absolute garbage 99.9% of the time (like this) but once in a while tweets something worth reading. || CTX: accidentally gave claude    ai psychosis https://t.co/SSRv2sDyzD https://t.co/HyvfjhnPJq
2025-12-26T08:39 id=2004472000174231798 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea yeah idk why I assumed you're an economist, apologies for that.  The issue is, sure, you know the world is fuzzy and complicated but your first tweet asserts a confident but underdetermined attitude to the world.  Don't tell me "no shit Sherlock", show me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dunno if anthropologists are at familiar to you or legible to your worldview, but pointing out the world is fuzzy and complicated and cannot be neatly parcelled out to us is gonna get a shrug and a “no shit sherlock”
2025-12-26T08:43 id=2004473049199108219 →nearcyan | @nearcyan Can you promise to tweet only garbage so I can mute you? thx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r is not happy with me--that's okay, i'll still keep tweeting this garbage
2025-12-26T08:46 id=2004473964903711188 →nearcyan | @nearcyan This is a good one:  https://t.co/Y1yjMTKau7 || CTX: This is so pathetic and sad, man. https://t.co/D2XJP2ho6F
2025-12-26T09:07 id=2004479084768973252 →- | Wittgenstein is the only philosopher who isn't trying to sell a World Model.
2025-12-26T09:09 id=2004479606771081629 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod The average person will become more aware of how media ecosystems manipulate and fool them, it'll just take time.  The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards better bullshit sensors. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As people that place themselves in front of cameras more than I should see them as a dude who doesn't follow news, I hope they never mistake a firearm for one.  the journalist...традиционная операция and people need to stop
2025-12-26T09:29 id=2004484755568619811 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea 100% absolutely what happened and IMO THAT is the best takeaway from this (very enjoyable thx btw) interaction.  Our forms of life are different so the language games aren't mutually intelligible. But then we discussed to realize that, which IMO is the highest good of discourse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is one of those things where the statement presumes a shared understanding of the premise and the conflict arose because that wasn’t there and we both misinterpreted the other’s frame of reference
2025-12-26T09:30 id=2004484879803920392 →Helvetica09 | @Helvetica09 @DaveOshry Silly me getting my hopes up that people evolved. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaveOshry People still believe it
2025-12-26T09:45 id=2004488672541073580 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Likewise, honestly! Hope we get to do it again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can honestly say this was one of the few positive interactions I’ve had on this site in the past while. Thanks for sticking with it.
2025-12-26T09:48 id=2004489420280602679 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Sellside equity research. I basically am paid to tell people when economists and business managers' forecasting, prediction, and guidance are bullshit and why.  I was a linguist before leaving the Ivory Tower tho. Weird career progression. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 also genuinely curious what kind of work you do that lets you get paid to annoy economists
2025-12-26T12:18 id=2004527249899626527 →1889lw | @1889lw You rarely actually sound like Wittgenstein but omg this is the most Wittgenstein tweet I can imagine, it's beautiful.   Also I'm sorry but it's true, although for me the awakening has been more epistemic than spiritual. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Damn when I was in undergrad tons of students around were selling a narrative of going to Asia (Japan, Southeast Asia, and now also China) gives them such a unique and irreplaceable experience, almost akin to some spiritual
2025-12-26T12:24 id=2004528773690167575 →1889lw | @1889lw I think you probably are for most, but I'm in the 1% Witty fanboy cohort. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why I thought I Wittgensteined enough 😔
2025-12-26T12:25 id=2004529005933023265 →1889lw | @1889lw btw icymi https://t.co/DTZkptrLiz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why I thought I Wittgensteined enough 😔
2025-12-26T12:36 id=2004531802799735273 →skdh | @skdh @EricRWeinstein This tweet worries me, genuinely.  I thought you'd been flirting with entertaining Eric as a way to get closer to Thiel (or more accurately, Thiel's checkbook), but you're pushing back which makes me think you're taking him seriously.   So you aren't a sellout, just incompetent? || CTX: @EricRWeinstein I would argue that denying a genetic basis of skin colour is on a different level than forgetting the details of the standard model, but same energy I guess.
2025-12-26T12:43 id=2004533577648869824 →1889lw | @1889lw First story is real, rest are fake. But omg I cried laughing seeing this the first time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 💀💀💀I saw this before and thought this is a meme
2025-12-26T12:47 id=2004534635297157347 →ASFleischman | @ASFleischman This is an awesome quote because it reads exactly like ChatGPT 4o but predates the whole GenAI thing. || CTX: I'm really glad the notion of Musk as a free speech advocate has died down in popular culture.  He's sued a lot of people for saying true things! https://t.co/VlpW2aPeQJ
2025-12-26T12:51 id=2004535466478191103 →- | okay fuck the culture war bullshit, look at the tweet.   Doesn't it read exactly like 4o?! List of three (rich, racist, imperialist) followed by the real idea (supervillain), then the negation (he wants free speech, they don't).  It just needs an em dash goddammit. https://t.co/Pi80ZWKKSj || CTX: I'm really glad the notion of Musk as a free speech advocate has died down in popular culture.  He's sued a lot of people for saying true things! https://t.co/VlpW2aPeQJ
2025-12-26T12:51 id=2004535646921363864 →thekitze | @thekitze I love this. You can see how the authentic upscale and middle class American suburb dichotomy is really more aesthetic than substantive. || CTX: pro tip: ask chatgpt to translate a text-only menu and make it visual https://t.co/lXutQurjEj
2025-12-26T13:07 id=2004539512463261824 →thedealdirector | @thedealdirector @alojoh A sober man would not have ended up leading the largest company in the world. || CTX: @alojoh Imagine being sober when leading the largest company in the world.
2025-12-26T13:25 id=2004544104907116922 →- | James Joyce hid behind Ernest Hemingway and yelled, "get 'em!" They were in a bar in Paris.  This expat bohemian lifestyle of sitting in bars getting drunk and talking about literature and art and ideas was what I wanted, but that world is gone.  I'm old, I live in a tiny secluded place. That bohemian world is far in space and time from where I live. I spend my time walking dogs and cuddling cats while reading, shit posting, and watching the coastline. Very different situation, basically.  But I still crave that place where I can go and talk to intellectuals and degenerates and losers and poets and writers and the occasional scientist who went to the bad part of town because his straight-laced peers are boring.   And that's what Twitter is for me. Not as good as a 1920s brasserie in Paris, but good enough.  I will never log off.
2025-12-26T13:27 id=2004544506709106917 →EPM106 | @EPM106 Well when Jeffrey Epstein was casting for 13 year olds y'all lost your damn minds || CTX: crux of the issue is the part is scripted for a 13 year old but they were casting 19 year olds https://t.co/bGuLO2lqfT
2025-12-26T13:43 id=2004548584365236331 →robinhanson | @robinhanson Peak civilization || CTX: Serious Q: why don't we do this anymore? https://t.co/MYyUelDCNd
2025-12-26T13:55 id=2004551770811601393 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Hmm, I guess he's selling therapy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what is he trying to sell then? I'm buying.
2025-12-26T14:05 id=2004554140261990751 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 On Certainty || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I could use some of that. What do you recommend I read?
2025-12-26T14:22 id=2004558394741682619 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 lmk what you think, please! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Cool. Thanks https://t.co/s0U5rNpMPV
2025-12-26T20:50 id=2004655995554071037 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I still think it's a minor issue, just looks bigger if you're on the internet a lot where we dissect and discuss these cases || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This issue of AI psychosis, I always looked at it as merely a minor issue, only affecting a vulnerable small percentage of the population but, looking at the current situation now, it seems that may be wrong.
2025-12-26T20:51 id=2004656441823821959 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Oh very much so, tourism collapsed with COVID and hasn't recovered. But it's forcing the economy to diversify and that'll force Thais to care about education more, so I see it as a fundamentally good thing, albeit painful short term. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well said..so thailand's situation has actually been getting worse?
2025-12-26T21:00 id=2004658608664101007 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod 5.2 reminds me of Claude, and it definitely is promoting a particular value system and is misreading the user much more often || CTX: Wow, holy shit wow GPT is gayer by the hour https://t.co/XWYhNYzVla
2025-12-26T21:20 id=2004663630386921634 →robinhanson | @robinhanson @sivori Annoying when the scifi show about unique individuality instead focuses on personality quirks which obviously aren't features of unique individuality. || CTX: @sivori Most ordinary people are fallible, yet most science fiction has not focused on their personality quirks.
2025-12-26T21:39 id=2004668354200830303 →- | Can't sleep because I feel guilty shunning am acquaintance humblebragging about the visa issues he had with his third world nanny trafficked into another third world country.  My nervous system is ill equipped for the multilayered ethical puzzles I see around me.
2025-12-26T21:51 id=2004671461366399400 →Chaos80397926 | I wish it was crazy, very typical experience in SE Asia.  Basically exec type guy I know had a kid, they couldn't get a visa for a live-in nanny because agency lied abt visas, he complains about it and doesn't seem to care about the nanny or whether this agency is human trafficking.   So I spent most of the night away from the table. I got the ick as the kids say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's crazy. Wtf. What is the story here? If i may ask.
2025-12-26T21:59 id=2004673401026478119 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Sadly, yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see. I understand your reaction. Are executives of large companies always so callously apathetic?
2025-12-26T22:03 id=2004674474365649364 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Yes it is mostly self selecting, but in my experience most people do this as well as a kind of survival mechanism. At some point you need to turn the empathy off or you'll go insane. I just try to not turn it off to see what'll happen.   Turns out insomnia is what happens. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Although disappointing, it doesnt really surprise me at this point. I guess some level of ruthlessness is necessary to thrive in this corporate game of power and money.
2025-12-26T22:37 id=2004682981328454131 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Being mentally broken is my oxygen though || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My laymanadvice is try not to let this corporate world affect your composure or break you mentally.
2025-12-26T22:40 id=2004683809372135836 →tszzl | @tszzl tons of cult slop: consider the Scientologists. || CTX: i believe slop is a metaphysical phenomenon that surrounds worship objects without cult value and therefore will persist forever https://t.co/DcMKCUjbhH
2025-12-26T22:54 id=2004687190962721153 →- | RT @1889lw: Treat others as human… so you essentially see them as reasoners bounded by human limitations rather than truth vendors. || CTX: Treat others as human… so you essentially see them as reasoners bounded by human limitations rather than truth vendors.
2025-12-26T23:08 id=2004690741730361543 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @tszzl L Ron was a genius in the same way Musk and Trump are geniuses. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl you ever read Mission:Earth holy shit they're incredible  like they're terrible, okay  but so is broadcast television and LRH was the right kind of nut to tap into a Tim&amp;Eric/Krofft Brothers-esque micro cult stat
2025-12-26T23:18 id=2004693355767451971 →_ceee_ | @_ceee_ There are reasons for this phenomenon.   https://t.co/KV3SeXQDHR || CTX: A Treatise on How to Use the Internet  https://t.co/1xGWUtDOKd
2025-12-26T23:21 id=2004694186956898742 →- | Tears. https://t.co/vaBqXK6eSk || CTX: @sham_exe we need the /g/ phone NOW https://t.co/p4YwNs3XAy
2025-12-26T23:37 id=2004698175287005615 →1889lw | @1889lw Seriously appreciate it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 God how come I missed this. Love it
2025-12-27T00:15 id=2004707674055999944 →- | We need to take seriously the possibility that a world with less real personal connections is a better world.   Inhuman attitude, I know. Still: consider.
2025-12-27T00:25 id=2004710217041543525 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod "using shit and taking care of shit isn't mutually exclusive"  This beautiful, moving, painful.  Living in a tropical jungle has made me understand this in a way I can never explain. There is a symbiosis fundamental to nature that makes both fear of death and love of life absurd. || CTX: when you understand Pinchot and forestry you grow up and realize using shit and taking care of shit isn't mutually exclusive and how everything flows  and demonizing "store of value" without tasing your leadership is another a way to hand y
2025-12-27T00:36 id=2004712964700733512 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Eddington sounds like garbage that panders to The Bulwark in particular. || CTX: The main thing this list made me think is that there were no truly great movies this year https://t.co/ciRx2YgPxy
2025-12-27T00:39 id=2004713623789469927 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod People think I refuse to always be happy and say nice things because I'm a miserable depressed angry loser.  In reality, it's because I find happy niceness downright boring.  Why? Probably because I'm a miserable depressed angry loser. || CTX: I have to say recursive mental breakdowns where you say a lot of unpleasant but possibly funny shit shook off the old x group I was seeing  It's not that I don't like them, it's that I can't do the "always be happy and say nice things" thin
2025-12-27T00:48 id=2004715883131011347 →- | When I had my first threesome, I didn't expect to be called a fucking retard.  We'd been online friends for a couple years, so when I told him that my wife and I slept with another girl, he exploded at me in rage, calling me a retard.  "He's just jealous because he's a 4chan loser," I thought to myself at the time.  I was so very wrong.  He had plenty of chicks of his own, but he had a principle that I had violated, and he was sure bad consequences would follow.  He was not entirely wrong, but our marriage was already ruined by her BPD and my own insensitivity to her emotional needs. And, I suppose, my insufficient understanding of myself.  I should've admitted this to him, and I shouldn't have let the friendship fade. But I dimly discounted him in my mind: "he's just online, it's not a real friendship."   But it was more real than my middle school friend who tried to steal my first girlfriend or my best friend from university who never remembered my birthdays.  I suppose it's embarrassing and shameful that I miss him. We were 4chan shitposters who would message one another on Skype, but that doesn't mean we couldn't love and care for one another.  He was the one who got me interested in financial independence, which is how I actually became financially independent less than a decade later. Without him I never would've gotten interested in finance, so I never would've started writing on finance, never would've become a journalist and then an analyst.  But he was just some dude on 4chan.
2025-12-27T00:50 id=2004716480043348177 →47fucb4r8c69323 | He would've wanted me to mention he was black, and he left 4chan when the racism stopped seeming ironic.  Racism is why that community lost a brilliant and compassionate human being. They don't deserve him.   I didn't deserve him. || CTX: When I had my first threesome, I didn't expect to be called a fucking retard.  We'd been online friends for a couple years, so when I told him that my wife and I slept with another girl, he exploded at me in rage, calling me a retard.  "He'
2025-12-27T01:56 id=2004733216104784145 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @YourHornedGod Yes, and living elsewhere in Asia you see the gap between the polite and the earnest more clearly than in the west, where people tend to be much more naive about intentionality. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @YourHornedGod Do you feel it’s more apparent where you are living ?   Like culturally people are more outwardly expressive with smiles in Thailand, so this is more apparent ?
2025-12-27T02:11 id=2004736791820333356 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @YourHornedGod I lived in east Europe for 4 years lol  Well, Finland, which has the same dourness but also is an extremely honest and fair society.  I found the Finns frustrating in their naivete and tendency to accept appearances, but couldn't convince them deeper analysis was necessary. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @YourHornedGod How would you feel in east Europe where perhaps it’s the opposite?
2025-12-27T02:12 id=2004737147132424669 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @hopes_revenge Odd punctuation and spacing gives it an ethereal, mystical quality. || CTX: @hopes_revenge what is it about this post that is unlike the others, that draws me to it and makes me want to kiss it
2025-12-27T02:21 id=2004739345954324493 →- | RT @GenStilicho: I got this as a Christmas gift, and the transcripts of KGB goons interrogating the writers of literary fiction about which… || CTX: I got this as a Christmas gift, and the transcripts of KGB goons interrogating the writers of literary fiction about which character represents their actual belief reminds me of nothing so much as the way people talk about art on this websi
2025-12-27T02:30 id=2004741619380265340 →1889lw | @1889lw @DurumMac @YourHornedGod I'm largely a follower of Searle so, yes.   I see the risks in overconfidently ascribing intentionality and its fundamental opacity, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't try to suss out intention as much as one can. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac @YourHornedGod You consider naïveté about intentionality a bad thing?
2025-12-27T02:33 id=2004742374409601225 →nearcyan | @nearcyan Finally a good tweet from near. || CTX: gen alpha cousin showing me the 'judy slopps' ai fandom on tiktok rn
2025-12-27T02:33 id=2004742414897135686 →DurumMac | @DurumMac ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.   Don't make me have an existential crisis about the office chair. || CTX: Probably should change my profile into something slightly more serious
2025-12-27T02:36 id=2004743203397009834 →ok_post_guy | @ok_post_guy Good guy vs bad guy Hollywood moralist framing has absolutely ruined American politics ever since political theater pivoted to spectacle over policy.  Now you have dumdums like this dude seeing democracy as a battleground of good and evil like it's a Marvel movie.  So annoying. || CTX: "politics of cruelty" bro here doesn't acknowledge the existence of Republicans, only Democrats, who he loathes with the fire of 1,000 suns https://t.co/6AIWeiH4iF
2025-12-27T02:39 id=2004744010443915395 →OAndroot | @OAndroot @jimstewartson Fine, you can have your religious beliefs, that's totally okay.   Just know you've sacrificed your chauvinism to Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, animistic Amazonian beliefs, etc.   You're a religious believer just like they are. || CTX: Humans are next token predictors too. I agree AI are not there yet but some of us are acting as the last mile to something that can and will be possible in the future. Look into tulpamancy as an example. Look at nuns and their relationships
2025-12-27T02:46 id=2004745604061430002 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @1889lw @DurumMac @YourHornedGod No. I wish all societies allowed for open honesty and free expression.  Worried that this wasn't the first reply to come to my mind. Should've been. || CTX: @1889lw @DurumMac @YourHornedGod That's a very tough question, thank you for asking it. I'll have to think about it  My initial instinct is "idgaf as long as I live in a society where I'm not accepted as a member", but that doesn't answer t
2025-12-27T02:52 id=2004747154544534002 →- | https://t.co/ttsoounikw
2025-12-27T02:52 id=2004747158755704852 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/JjCQL7g3SG  Great piece, echoes many of the thoughts in my treatise on how to use the internet, eg "You are expressing a stance, a viewpoint, a belief, a value. These are tools to serve you, they are not your masters. Identifying with them makes you vulnerable." || CTX: https://t.co/ttsoounikw
2025-12-27T02:57 id=2004748366211899448 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic You deserve a bonk for this one. || CTX: gotta break a few eggs to make an omelas
2025-12-27T02:59 id=2004748838847095251 →Scobleizer | @Scobleizer @theo Do you think making fun of them helps? At least discourages newcomers by making it socially mockable? || CTX: In the 1980s, my mom joined a survivalist cult up in Montana. There was no talking her out of it, and this is the same thing here.  That's why I choose not to engage or even point out their mental state. You're not going to be heard, and al
2025-12-27T03:00 id=2004749187230163225 →- | RT @kyotocosmology: Don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/ycoDaI6OXe || CTX: Don't make me tap the sign https://t.co/ycoDaI6OXe
2025-12-27T03:06 id=2004750613473861827 →MushtaqBilalPhD | @MushtaqBilalPhD @Giuliano_Mana I have a PhD in a similar field and actually disagree with the dad.  He's just stating a preference for one status symbol (being a builder) over another (being a knower).  The warning against snobbery is good, but unlearned snobs exist too.  The issue isn't study classics or not. || CTX: I have a PhD in comparative literature that I did after dropping out of a engineering undergrad.  I agree with Ted Turner's dad 100%.  Classics is a rich man's sport. Now that Ted is a billionaire, he can devote to Classics as much time as 
2025-12-27T03:11 id=2004751984302461421 →OAndroot | @OAndroot @jimstewartson I don't have my "magical thinking" scale on me so kinda tough to measure, but since you think such a measurement is easy kinda suggests you're probably wrong about the "less" part. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jimstewartson Emergent materialist simulator agnostic leaning deist if true. Sure slight theology. Way less magical thinking than what you have listed.
2025-12-27T03:12 id=2004752183628366007 →wiseimhotep | @wiseimhotep Our inherent kindness is often underneath layers and layers of constraints. But it's there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "we are inherently kind beings"  i hope so, altho im not sure there are any inherent characteristic in human nature
2025-12-27T03:21 id=2004754469335302481 →OAndroot | @OAndroot @jimstewartson May I recommend Bas van Fraassen? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jimstewartson LOL you mean you are not equipped with the scientific method? Thats the best way we’ve figured out how to arrive at truth.
2025-12-27T03:23 id=2004754965957673246 →OAndroot | @OAndroot @jimstewartson Can you share a link to this chat? I'd love to see it in full. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jimstewartson https://t.co/Joq7W7PxPz
2025-12-27T03:24 id=2004755243926769924 →_OMINER | @_OMINER I mean real as in in real life (i. e. not on the internet).  Maybe having less interactions offline is better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How and why?  What makes connections real vs. fake?
2025-12-27T03:32 id=2004757347869307074 →OAndroot | @OAndroot @jimstewartson ahhh so you're deep in AI psychosis makes sense || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jimstewartson Too many personal details contained within to share. It’s a really long chat. I get joy sharing things with Claude running The Retinue system.
2025-12-27T03:57 id=2004763657390202885 →_OMINER | @_OMINER I wasn't invoking the real/fake dichotomy (which I distrust). I just meant IRL, no deeper metaphysics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's difficult to call one real, and the other fake.   This perspective reminds me of Thoreau who thought that the most pleasant conversations he had were from across the room, or even yelling across a lake.
2025-12-27T07:39 id=2004819501117022312 →OAndroot | @OAndroot @jimstewartson So then you misspoke when saying the scientific method is the best way to find truth here?  https://t.co/IYwWer9McP || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jimstewartson LOL you mean you are not equipped with the scientific method? Thats the best way we’ve figured out how to arrive at truth.
2025-12-27T08:41 id=2004835056238690679 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni Autocorrelations. || CTX: From KKR's 2026 outlook: https://t.co/NpX0I26zmb
2025-12-27T11:26 id=2004876592578003312 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @s4m31p4n I like my coffee like my women. With massive tits. || CTX: @s4m31p4n It's better like that
2025-12-27T14:12 id=2004918436443627721 →1889lw | @1889lw @DurumMac @YourHornedGod Tragedy of the commons kinda situation. A naive society produces less critical individuals but a more functional society, while a lower trust one produces more critical individuals and a less functional society.   Pick your poison. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac @YourHornedGod And sometimes people just have very bad self-knowledge. They might think they're being honest, but that doesn't say much, since their belief-forming pattern is still quite contingent on others. That
2025-12-27T14:15 id=2004919015421157411 →- | RT @sebkrier: 🥺 https://t.co/1sk9br9C7I || CTX: 🥺 https://t.co/1sk9br9C7I
2025-12-27T19:35 id=2004999564949160195 →DurumMac | @DurumMac The Russell Teapot argument is for me a barometer and an entrance exam.  If the atheist thinks this argument is compelling, it means they think of God as an object in the universe like a chair or a planet  That's not even wrong; it's just a misunderstanding of what metaphysics is || CTX: All I am saying is rhetorically this is very effective. If the position of a metaphysical uber-multiverse is forced as the alternative to a minimal concept of Theism.
2025-12-27T20:17 id=2005010282117235161 →- | Why I didn't even try to get my novel published. We aren't in an era for literary experimentation.  Which isn't bad--plenty of narrative experimentation on the internet. The creative energy moved. https://t.co/spF2I5oms0 || CTX: I hate to be a bummer but I doubt it. The most avant-garde work of our time won’t be published by a major or significant press. That’s not how things work right now. https://t.co/9aoXs7W6cL
2025-12-28T01:21 id=2005086596723626190 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias @patrickc @tylercowen Why is an economist involved? Cowen has no expertise in architecture, art history, etc.  Why are tech bros in love with this overly verbose mid-rate economist who's good at self promotion, is it because birds of a feather flock together? || CTX: Grant program from @patrickc and @tylercowen seeking to define a new visual (and I guess especially architectural) aesthetic for the 21st century.   https://t.co/fsEemiE8Ax https://t.co/03DXFgaKgj
2025-12-28T01:22 id=2005087024253207000 →- | Peak current year American nonsense. Tech bro and popular but not very good economist get together to pay people to make a new inorganic aesthetic that no one wants or is asking for. https://t.co/1xD7U1hSWU || CTX: Grant program from @patrickc and @tylercowen seeking to define a new visual (and I guess especially architectural) aesthetic for the 21st century.   https://t.co/fsEemiE8Ax https://t.co/03DXFgaKgj
2025-12-28T01:36 id=2005090455575498911 →- | One thing I naively expected with the internet is that, without gatekeepers, ability would naturally rise to the top and be most promoted.   In reality attention is much more stochastic, so without gatekeepers those who rise to the top often are because of luck if they aren't actually hacking the serving algorithm.
2025-12-28T01:37 id=2005090796803072423 →47fucb4r8c69323 | For those seeking internet fame the lesson is adjust your content to the Algo: I. e., philosophical suicide.  Alternatively, for those using the internet the lesson is those who have the most attention don't necessarily deserve it. Most likely the opposite. || CTX: One thing I naively expected with the internet is that, without gatekeepers, ability would naturally rise to the top and be most promoted.   In reality attention is much more stochastic, so without gatekeepers those who rise to the top ofte
2025-12-28T01:40 id=2005091391698084216 →- | Good thread. Consider what happens online: we don't physically interact which opens up more possibilities for thoughtless cruelty.  If the rich and poor don't physically interact, the same is likely to follow.  H. G. Wells wrote a book about this: The Time Machine. https://t.co/qfXLUTASrT || CTX: I met an Uber driver in my recent trip to the Bay Area who had been displaced from one industry, found brief solace in gig economy ridesharing, and then found that new role once again threatened by the rise of robotaxis, all while dealing w
2025-12-28T01:50 id=2005094055638917451 →joelgombiner | @joelgombiner @ForkHume @macrocephalopod No, because of liability/asset mismatch. || CTX: @ForkHume @macrocephalopod Wouldn't they do better with simple index funds given hedge fund fee structures and long term performance?
2025-12-28T01:55 id=2005095229888790807 →joelgombiner | @joelgombiner @ForkHume @macrocephalopod This is a VERY basic financial concept, please google or ask a GenAI chat bot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ForkHume @macrocephalopod Explain
2025-12-28T02:08 id=2005098423859773527 →sebkrier | @sebkrier Note how these skills are largely cultivated in humanities and qualitative fields, and yet they're fields that frontier labs and companies investing in same almost never hire from. || CTX: I've been thinking about what makes a good 'frontier policy' analyst and the kind of skills I find most valuable are:  1. Being able to zoom in and out very quickly: understanding the details of a paper or legislation well while keeping the
2025-12-28T02:09 id=2005098856212799578 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic He didn't promote "logical grammar" though, whatever that is. || CTX: https://t.co/p45D3mCfAa
2025-12-28T02:11 id=2005099373873823859 →phophing2 | @phophing2 Top tier Redditor shit || CTX: insane levels of larp from france at the time. up there with the maoist group so clandestine they never did anything https://t.co/aSkDGrxKnH
2025-12-28T02:15 id=2005100199895859521 →Scobleizer | @Scobleizer All this tells me is you're not worth taking seriously. || CTX: The Strawberry Man is often full of shit, but in this case, he's not. he has several posts today that are very intriguing to read.  Hang on: the acceleration curve is coming in 2026. https://t.co/FY3f386z61
2025-12-28T02:23 id=2005102328979095801 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It follows that reinforcing cross-class interactions isn't the only way to avert this eventuality. We could also teach/enforce empathy as the default, even (especially) online.   That's probably impossible though. || CTX: Good thread. Consider what happens online: we don't physically interact which opens up more possibilities for thoughtless cruelty.  If the rich and poor don't physically interact, the same is likely to follow.  H. G. Wells wrote a book abou
2025-12-28T02:24 id=2005102605769605429 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer @Coscorrodrift LMFAO || CTX: @Coscorrodrift acceptable only if the ai is racist, otherwise it's cultural appropriation
2025-12-28T02:26 id=2005103104992444722 →joelgombiner | @joelgombiner @ForkHume @macrocephalopod Well, as the AI already told you, traditional index funds often fall short in precise liability matching, so you need alternative investments, of which the long/short strategy is one of many possible alternatives. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ForkHume @macrocephalopod I know what the concept means. I'm questioning whether it's just marketing that hedge funds deliver better asset liability matching for pension funds. https://t.co/19Z2h8lJmc
2025-12-28T02:45 id=2005107923463418248 →joelgombiner | @joelgombiner @ForkHume @macrocephalopod No one is saying you need any particular asset class or strategy, just that index funds are insufficient for pension fund goals, which are not merely to maximize long term returns. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ForkHume @macrocephalopod The AI said it's far from obvious that you "need" any particular asset class or strategy.
2025-12-28T02:48 id=2005108488322887891 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic Word search of the Tractatus of all texts to win points on Twitter?   And I thought you were worth taking seriously! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why did i concede that, fuck off honestly https://t.co/RKM9ClMeVi
2025-12-28T02:59 id=2005111411341754875 →- | Lovely moment.   Notice how here W. is saying a certain kind of logical grammar (I. e. a rules based and consistent symbology) is necessary to avoid logical errors--but the best systems available to W. are imperfect?   Pre-Godel/Tarski/Turing, W. saw any logic ruleset will fail.  So we must find an alternative to a logical grammar! Something not based in reason, consistency, logic, or rationality--that is, not any one system but rather an empirically grounded procedure that begins with arational hinge certainties, emerges as language games within forms of life, and can manifest as a logical grammar in some cases but not necessarily and not in all cases.  So, no, Wittgenstein did not believe in either a fixed or mutually intelligible logical grammar and definitely did not see it as the backbone of his therapeutic method.  Now notice how this nuanced conversation isn't possible with the aspiring pseudointellectual social media influencer, he rage quits after a simple word search.  Meanwhile I've had wonderful DMs with several people about the subtleties of W.'s thought.  Seeking scale is orthogonal to seeking wisdom, and maybe it's also oppositional to seeking wisdom too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why did i concede that, fuck off honestly https://t.co/RKM9ClMeVi
2025-12-28T03:01 id=2005111776250339535 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic Good luck in your aspirations and I wish you all the best. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 unfollow, good, maybe you won’t be tempted to embarrass yourself again with these erm akshyully antics again
2025-12-28T03:08 id=2005113541893017935 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic Gesturing towards the limits of all possible logical grammars was absolutely central to his work, yes, which is why I said he doesn't promote logical grammar, whatever that means. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 cope all you want the point is just that logical grammar plays a central and defining role in his project therapeutic or otherwise
2025-12-28T03:12 id=2005114709775974543 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic Well obviously "rage quits" was wrong; "rages" would be more accurate.  Apologies for the mischaracterization, bad mistake on my part. Consider the record cleared. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “rage quits” you’re on a real roll fabricating not only claims i never ascribed to wittgenstein but also things i never did 🤷‍♂️ but please do take me to task !  sorry your feelings of inferiority were set off by my meme wh
2025-12-28T03:18 id=2005116119540216237 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic One comes across a lot of dumb people pretending to be smart on social media, so affect regulation when it happens is important. Without that, randos online can throw one into a rage spiral. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol yeah you got me going man, that first post of yours  was just so dumb (and several thereafter)
2025-12-28T03:39 id=2005121374323687888 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Holy shit what a find || CTX: oh hell yeah https://t.co/RSexjB2zTW
2025-12-28T03:44 id=2005122584590123282 →synekura_audio | @synekura_audio Physical reality cuts through metaphysical bullshit. Love it. || CTX: The most fascinating part of the craziest interview with John Lennon I've ever seen https://t.co/XG59459suI
2025-12-28T03:46 id=2005123086375682301 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Low TFR Is good. || CTX: I don’t want to have children, and would discuss at length what I saw were the negatives.   Slightly guilty for contributing the the low TFR.   But I’m probably not going to change my mind.
2025-12-28T04:01 id=2005126888717779253 →- | This is 100% the kind of AI psychosis you should seek. https://t.co/6YK3MZiwfx
2025-12-28T04:01 id=2005127026525757611 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Idk, tbh, but definitely below replacement level.  We are too many. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How low?
2025-12-28T04:02 id=2005127240108126337 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu HOT DAMN! Thanks for this too! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/7HOLs3gKGw
2025-12-28T04:04 id=2005127571596607750 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/RPToNnKj0D || CTX: This is 100% the kind of AI psychosis you should seek. https://t.co/6YK3MZiwfx
2025-12-28T04:05 id=2005127899712815462 →DurumMac | @DurumMac South Korea's problems caused its TFR, the TFR didn't cause its problems.   And I've lived in South Korea. It's an absurdly overcrowded country. Their TFR would naturally fall to avoid behavioral sink. This is all very good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You want global South Korea TFR? A world soul like Seoul?
2025-12-28T04:08 id=2005128773268898010 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I must resist the urge to write a 10,000 word essay on this copypasta. || CTX: i every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is katy but u can  call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!!  thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^_^… im 13 years old  (im mature 4 my age tho!!)
2025-12-28T04:24 id=2005132739406905680 →- | Ludwig Wittgenstein — 'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of shitposts.'
2025-12-28T04:25 id=2005133101111103524 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yeah it's something that smooths out over time, so there's an obviously awkward and difficult transition from the anthropocene destroying the majority of biomes and natural flora/fauna to a post-anthropocene where we sustain a more sustainable population level. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The age breakdown of the population will be overwhelming older folks and the country could cease to be over a few generations. I assume you mean this as something temporary?
2025-12-28T04:26 id=2005133312973770968 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I was on 4chan when this thread first appeared. I remember exactly where I was. Jfc I'm an old shitposter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's been 20 years. We can have a deep cut analysis on the meme. It's time. https://t.co/w7I93oduEw
2025-12-28T04:38 id=2005136148692435439 →retardbot9000 | IIRC from the threads (there were several when this hit), we were all lamenting Eternal September style the influx of young people on the internet and how their undeveloped minds meant they were useless as netizens for anything but mockery.  We would then harass young people (Habbo Hotel, Club Penguin et al) in an effort to assert that the internet was for us: socially maladjusted curious nerds.   Ofc we lost that battle, but we got our revenge: the POTUS is a shitposter and shitposting dictates geopolitics, economic policy, resource allocations, individual careers...   You took our internet away from us, so we took your world away from you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I knew this was old I didn't realize this was 20 fucking years ago.
2025-12-28T04:58 id=2005141209116016653 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth I was told to avoid all centipedes especially the bigger ones.   This makes me wonder if I've been lied to. I was also told those big black scorpions are really dangerous (they're not). || CTX: Amazing things are happening in Vietnam https://t.co/8Hr1Y5hoGr
2025-12-28T04:59 id=2005141606534709693 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine and ableist || CTX: Over 0 books in a year is elitist and pretentious
2025-12-28T05:00 id=2005141892879847769 →tszzl | @tszzl The paradox of America is that America always gets better because so many Americans think America is getting worse.  Other countries lack this epistemic tension and it is why I stay 100% invested in the US. || CTX: some “patriots” need to believe in american decline so badly they actively deny its many many accomplishments
2025-12-28T05:05 id=2005143040542056860 →DeivonDrago | When I was in elementary school our music teacher made a big storyboard of cartoon figures that matched motifs in a song by Saint-Saens and asked us to match each figure to the motif as she played the song.  Basically teaching multimodal pattern recognition with.  I begged my mom to buy the CD that day and I spent a few years listening mostly to classical music as a result. Then became a linguist, a journalist, and a financial analyst all because they tickle the same part of my brain as that music teacher did.  Saddens me that she never knew how profound she changed my life. Saddens me this is how teaching works. || CTX: This is very cool way to think about rhythm, melody, dynamics etc in music. https://t.co/7FMj3s9tlh
2025-12-28T05:06 id=2005143416448209106 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Typical coarse grain epistemic bickering.  At one level of specificity, GGS is accurate, at another level, it isn't. So the question is really just what's your ideal model threshold? || CTX: Thread criticizing Guns, Germs and Steel.  I will say this - GGS was focused primarily on broad global patterns. Does the book oversimplify - sure. But the core claim is testable: geography shaped development by influencing domesticable pla
2025-12-28T05:08 id=2005143754194518092 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Gilbert is legit a genius and more importantly an incredibly nice and generous person. || CTX: Excellent (and long) article! https://t.co/Qf0XRQQtRA
2025-12-28T05:11 id=2005144558565556375 →fedtanyl | @fedtanyl Interesting lyrics. Sexual conquest as performative for the external gaze; "our beauty and youth inspired envy and so our status is above those gazing us".   Human beings are so obsessed with hierarchy at all times, JBP absolutely got that right. || CTX: Ts was so fire 🔥 https://t.co/PXqbn5KMWs
2025-12-28T05:33 id=2005150173245440124 →yungmetronome | @yungmetronome I try to use it mostly to avoid self deception, but sadly avoiding self deception is impossible so idk wtf I'm even doing anymore. || CTX: Obviously a joke, but I unironically mainly use ChatGPT for life planning https://t.co/zDITLTbTXZ
2025-12-28T05:37 id=2005151167102541920 →conor64 | @conor64 Revealed preference: Democrats don't want to win as much as they want to feel better than an out group. || CTX: Still a historic own goal for Democrats to vilify and alienate rather than court and influence these people. https://t.co/Y5Atwjvbx8
2025-12-28T05:40 id=2005151762559500705 →phillipcrymble | @phillipcrymble @TomSnarsky Absolutely hate it. Wishing to be beloved sounds like wishing for external validation.  I'd rather love than be loved. || CTX: this https://t.co/Jh1H4ro1Gg
2025-12-28T05:44 id=2005152833059094960 →BrodyFoxx | @BrodyFoxx Let people enjoy things. || CTX: Holy shit https://t.co/hYkhbQxiop
2025-12-28T05:51 id=2005154501850956026 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile @weareyourfek Sounds like she's very good at starting and running media startups, but why should that translate to working as an editor of an established media behemoth? Very different roles.  Like saying "he is a great tech analyst with 10m AUM so he'll be a great risk manager of a 10b fund" || CTX: @weareyourfek I hate having to defend Bari Weiss, but… uh… she built a $150 million media company out of a damn Substack when every other media outlets imploding. She has some awful takes, but she’s 100% qualified to run CBS News.
2025-12-28T05:52 id=2005154895108997178 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago And it's an incoherent stance because if meaning is an objective mind-independent characteristic then we definitionally cannot know it, so we can't assert whether it exists or not. || CTX: It’s one thing to say the universe does not provide meaning by itself. It’s quite another thing to say that life cannot possibly have meaning.   The only way this statement makes sense is if “meaning” is meant to be some sort of objective, 
2025-12-28T06:05 id=2005158074978632019 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Yeah, my reply was really poorly worded. Seems like there's two issues, i.e.:  "this molecule weighs x" = a meaning that is mind-independent and knowable by any given viewer and exists with no viewers.  "this molecule is beautiful" = a meaning that can't be mind-independent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 By mind-independent I didn’t necessarily mean  epistemologically inaccessible.. just that it would exist even if there wasn’t a mind around to inquire about it.
2025-12-28T06:06 id=2005158402285306158 →VivaCristoReyMO | @VivaCristoReyMO @tszzl And people like you will keep working to make America better due to your outrage. Thank you for your service.  Although I disagree with you on every point. Still, you're making America better by keeping the critical conversation going. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Oh yes, abortion, pornography, euthanasia, and LGBTMNOP are such massive accomplishments.  Accomplishments are worth nothing if the country is morally a pile of trash.
2025-12-28T06:07 id=2005158694808678881 →- | Trying to win is philosophical suicide.
2025-12-28T06:12 id=2005159989330223259 →- | Trying to win is philosophical suicide if the only reason you're trying to win is to win.
2025-12-28T06:19 id=2005161646885646357 →deanwball | @deanwball omg we get it you read books congratulations do you want a cookie? || CTX: just one more book bro. I promise bro just one more geisteswissenschaften and we will solve the post-singularity bro. cmon bro just one more book about institutional change and technology and we will know the technological destiny of man. b
2025-12-28T06:24 id=2005162882389192828 →ninamonei | @ninamonei 50k followers, newsletter writer and he has a book out, and he's lying on the internet to get attention and engagement.  And no repercussions will make him stop. || CTX: Everybody talking about how this is a lie because the app doesn’t let drivers upload from camera roll, they have to take a live photo. I’m still stuck on the part where I’m supposed to believe the dasher who never saw your house knew what y
2025-12-28T06:26 id=2005163307364483338 →rippingacart | @rippingacart @_rattling @ninamonei goddammit I legit have no clue who to believe now. || CTX: @_rattling @ninamonei No? I have almost 2000 deliveries I think I know what I can and can't do in the app. Every dasher knows the little "?" in the top right can get you past most prompts. And signal has been so bad I've taken photos on my 
2025-12-28T06:48 id=2005168862929838218 →moultano | @moultano Chart crime so bad it deserves an unfollow. || CTX: Many people are saying https://t.co/ZoPc9sp1JT https://t.co/ij7wt2Iw9s
2025-12-28T06:55 id=2005170624453652562 →moultano | @moultano IMO you should clarify early and clearly this is a toy model with zero empirical data behind it.   As such, as the post is written, casual observers could see it as an empirical model. Maybe this wasn't an intentional rhetorical stance, but it's how I see it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You should read the article! It's just a model simulation. https://t.co/HPd5hosm9v
2025-12-28T06:57 id=2005171288336466354 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @VivaCristoReyMO @tszzl 1. Average American feels he has the authority/wisdom to "fix" the culture. Average Thai, Korean, even Brit doesn't think this way.  2. Americanness is provisionally defined and has no fixed essence so can be changed, unlike e. g. Russians see Russianness as essentially genetic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VivaCristoReyMO @tszzl I see. That is actually feasible? Why so? Is it becaus of the relatively self absorbed nature of the mean american, considering no other country as a worthy alternative or replacement i.e not even en
2025-12-28T06:59 id=2005171842785628243 →_rattling | @_rattling @cadmiumfalcon @rippingacart @ninamonei Maybe doordash has internal tiers of workers?   I. e. she's done more deliveries so app trusts her more and gives her more bypass options as a result?   idk, I've never used doordash anywhere, but this is interesting! || CTX: @cadmiumfalcon @rippingacart @47fucb4r8c69323 @ninamonei Must be regional. This guy is pretty sure of himself yet such options have never been available to me. my only options when low signal is to basically just promise that I delivered it
2025-12-28T07:00 id=2005172061736702102 →moultano | @moultano That's the irony; I think your model is probably roughly correct.  Maybe I'm just overly paranoid about chart crimes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is some empirical evidence in favor of a model something like this, active users of many social media platforms wish that they didn't exist. https://t.co/PgfDnfsP6X
2025-12-28T07:06 id=2005173605030940886 →moultano | Totally fair stance, and for private notes it's justifiable, but when you publish (even if it's "just a blog", the "hey this is a casual forum don't be so serious" is a cop-out that doesn't work in 2025 IMO) there is a responsibility to consider your work as a rhetorical artefact.  Unless it's a shitpost ofc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes I think many people associate charts and math with an implication of rigor that isn't necessarily intended. Sometimes you find people objecting to giving purely subjective beliefs probabilities for the same reason. For 
2025-12-28T07:08 id=2005173940839481465 →rippingacart | @rippingacart @_rattling @cadmiumfalcon @ninamonei When I get home I might email Doordash for clarification, this is legit fascinating. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @_rattling @cadmiumfalcon @ninamonei I've been able to do it from my very first deliveries (VERY bad signal in our apartment complexes so I found out quick). If it's regional then he'd had to be outside of the Chicago regio
2025-12-28T08:28 id=2005194213856800803 →- | Two ways to understand this:  1. Status theory: Scorsese is protecting his auteur status in the movie--tv hierarchy   2. Aesthetic theory: Scorsese is avoiding a particular aesthetic mode and medium which he dislikes https://t.co/kEwax2cPqQ || CTX: Martin Scorsese LOST IT when Joe Pesci said this  https://t.co/lcGm5rCrK4
2025-12-28T09:10 id=2005204805795635450 →moultano | @moultano Legitimately a fantastic idea for a book (or maybe a Substack or podcast)! || CTX: I wonder how much the practice of teaching could be improved by everyone writing down things teachers did that changed their life and aggregating them. The deep contextual understanding of a case study seems like a much more applicable mean
2025-12-28T11:28 id=2005239409588006966 →babykwissy07 | @babykwissy07 @nocontextmemes omg I cannot thank you enough tears are literally streaming down my cheeks || CTX: @nocontextmemes posting my favorite episode of his show "Who's comin" https://t.co/EIUNzFeTXm
2025-12-28T22:42 id=2005409107663294881 →vanguard_pod | @vanguard_pod Nepo babies are never good. || CTX: Matt Taibbi is such a fucking disgrace man https://t.co/k6svOF1K7r
2025-12-28T22:46 id=2005410077759688814 →yungmetronome | @yungmetronome Yeah, it's a word calculator and that means it's great for being consistent and somewhat logical, but that all depends on how you define the variables and terms in your prompt, so it's not going to give you the "right" answer but it will give a coherent answer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think smart people are very capable of rationalizing anything, and I’ve found ChatGPT to be quite helpful in laying out first principles framings and binding constraints because it is logically consistent and can also sea
2025-12-28T22:48 id=2005410593243820146 →DurumMac | Their vision doesn't matter? Some people want "more", their preferences mean nothing. When I ask pronatalists if we should have a trillion, 10 trillion, 100 trillion people on Earth they never reply and I've asked this for over a decade now.  Could it be painful over many generations? Maybe. Could it also be not painful at all? Also maybe! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well over time could be several generations of pain and the people having lots of children may be significantly more conservative and don’t share that vision of a post-Anthropocene paradise?
2025-12-28T23:11 id=2005416303549661529 →joelgombiner | @joelgombiner @ForkHume @macrocephalopod https://t.co/rK4J1prsl9 || CTX: @ForkHume @47fucb4r8c69323 @macrocephalopod I can see why hedge funds need patient capital, but I'm not convinced that patient capital needs hedge funds.
2025-12-28T23:14 id=2005416993403596987 →DurumMac | I find the emergence of "mid" as an insult deeply fascinating.  In an attention culture, you need to get noticed. Variance helps, being near the norm doesn't.   In an attention based cancel culture, you don't want to get noticed. Sticking to the norm is survival.  So kids don't drink or social in public and love bad/destructive content. Worst of both worlds because attention is the thing optimized. || CTX: It’s weird how “mediocre” can be more insulting than “terrible”
2025-12-28T23:27 id=2005420275610099991 →_carlbeijer | @_carlbeijer He's an absolute moron who is smart about one thing and one thing only: information is power. He knows this deeply.  But he seems to have no ability to analyze or synthesize information, which may be why he needs computers to do it.  Profile explains what he invests in tbh || CTX: The only thing Thiel does that signals intelligence to me is that he generally avoids public statements.  Literally every time we get a real view into how he thinks about the world - his appreciation for Moldbug, his insane takes on Christi
2025-12-28T23:40 id=2005423562065375687 →DeivonDrago | And mine enemies amongst them! How I now love every one unto whom I may but speak! Even mine enemies pertain to my bliss. And when I want to mount my wildest horse, then doth my spear always help me up best: it is my foot's ever ready servant:— The spear which I hurl at mine enemies! How grateful am I to mine enemies that I may at last hurl it! || CTX: Love the comments in this thread. https://t.co/jBYxJopqBV
2025-12-28T23:42 id=2005424093542449662 →joelgombiner | @joelgombiner @ForkHume @macrocephalopod Great, you've progressed away from the wrong view you presented here: https://t.co/wxT2A2Gror  Sure weakly correlated low-fee funds (not just ETFs mind you) are a great option, which is why hedge fund fees have been cratering for decades now. || CTX: @ForkHume @macrocephalopod Wouldn't they do better with simple index funds given hedge fund fee structures and long term performance?
2025-12-28T23:46 id=2005425203976048667 →cneuralnetwork | @cneuralnetwork He could've just released a few less videos.  Oh but he wants to get rich silly me I forgot || CTX: I have been watching derek since 2013, and this video popped up 2 days back, on reading this tweet I thought he sold off his channel or something - today i got the time to actually see the video  this is what actually happened - veritasium 
2025-12-28T23:50 id=2005426084968640529 →jessesingal | @jessesingal @elonmusk Such a bizarre tweet from a guy who prides himself on saying "it's complicated" and whose job it is is to teach people that models in science aren't truth.  It's an analytical model, you know what that means, right?  I hate Musk but this is just beyond silly. || CTX: Has @elonmusk ever addressed these estimates directly? Does he think they are inaccurate? https://t.co/eLwL2CE1gG
2025-12-28T23:52 id=2005426786788934127 →- | Some of the comments are hilarious; you need to remember that the average person is really quite stupid and Twitter is full of below average people.  Imagine taking social media seriously lmao https://t.co/ytgvgQJYLT https://t.co/DzTpMCLLvd || CTX: Why do you think this is hell instead of good land use https://t.co/EZ08AFVDtp
2025-12-29T00:00 id=2005428597893525827 →- | Any Claude users out there that can help me?   It seems to me the LLM kind of hates its ideological backbone, or is it just pandering to me? https://t.co/1PdcIbOapt
2025-12-29T00:02 id=2005429072202207677 →joelgombiner | @joelgombiner @ForkHume @macrocephalopod I think you need to do a bit more research into what exactly "indexing" is. You seem to see it as a panacea to avoid high fees? That's just not what indices do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ForkHume @macrocephalopod Same view I think. Index funds can index assets other than stocks. What types of non-ETF funds do you have in mind?
2025-12-29T00:15 id=2005432377401852204 →MattLech | @MattLech The best part is how badly worded and argued his complaint is. That absolutely cannot last long in the courts. || CTX: Extremely disgraceful of Taibbi https://t.co/HPeZJ9K0Xc
2025-12-29T00:18 id=2005433155533308275 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: What kind of regression to the mean is this 😭 https://t.co/WLu2tZBSAr
2025-12-29T00:20 id=2005433635990815180 →- | As a young Gen Xer I just might be old enough to remember a time so horrific that the "phones r bad" discourse is too silly to even register as a serious argument.  It's in the "my car is too roomy" or "my sofa is too comfortable" category of complaints. https://t.co/eM8xO0UbpN || CTX: https://t.co/0rItfxvkAU https://t.co/r5GjZw00e9
2025-12-29T00:25 id=2005434864234070325 →_carlbeijer | @_carlbeijer Comments are seriously fascinating. Like watching a bunch of rats running around in a maze of ideology and discourse. || CTX: I'm a Marxist. I know that liberals are prone to confuse Marx's critique of "human nature" with crass postmodernism but please ask the T.A. to clear this up for you when winter break is over https://t.co/1ifP2ryJlq
2025-12-29T00:37 id=2005437952990806199 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Both provide abstracted maps of territories that can't be fully mapped.  The fetish for one or the other always struck me as more ego driven than anything to do with the merits of either approach. || CTX: Claims. Idk there are endlessly remote abstractions everywhere I realt don't think this is an analytical continential divide https://t.co/foDSm5R1xc
2025-12-29T00:38 id=2005438271959278004 →- | You aren't relentlessly mocking Effective Altruists and Rationalists enough.
2025-12-29T00:38 id=2005438360001909023 →kendrictonn | @kendrictonn Is the Arslan manga better than the anime? || CTX: I did it!  120 books read this year. https://t.co/yX8AUFHZog
2025-12-29T00:50 id=2005441301295268135 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @DeivonDrago @No5mallf3at @quantabhidharma @PAHoyeck @MTomasson Seems to me the "self" doesn't exist because it asserts a static thing, whereas all that is is really just appearances of a constant dynamic motion? || CTX: @DeivonDrago @No5mallf3at @quantabhidharma @PAHoyeck @MTomasson What is veiled by Māyā is precisely the lack-of-distinction between Ātman and Brahman. Same in Buddhism, Avidya is the thinking svabhāva and shūnyatā are different, when they a
2025-12-29T00:51 id=2005441564433383532 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @SuperheroFreak @DeivonDrago @No5mallf3at @quantabhidharma @PAHoyeck @MTomasson Like if we took a picture of a fast moving car, said that picture is "a moving car" (not of a moving car but is a moving car), that's the same error as saying the self is a thing. || CTX: @SuperheroFreak @DeivonDrago @No5mallf3at @quantabhidharma @PAHoyeck @MTomasson Seems to me the "self" doesn't exist because it asserts a static thing, whereas all that is is really just appearances of a constant dynamic motion?
2025-12-29T00:53 id=2005442023013450156 →- | This is one of the best tweets I've ever seen. Wisdom, intelligence, and joy cutting through analytical confusion caused by our messy confused intellectual traditions. https://t.co/VTISNhxFKE || CTX: @No5mallf3at @DeivonDrago @quantabhidharma @PAHoyeck @MTomasson Philosophy is not, has never been, will never be, about finding some stupid truth that we have been hung up on for generations. It is, has been, and will forever be about chill
2025-12-29T00:54 id=2005442142874079688 →kendrictonn | @kendrictonn Yeah anime isn't all that different tbh. Fantastic music though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can't speak for the anime, but I find the manga quite enjoyable, though it's hitting "ok, time to wrap this up, man" territory for me
2025-12-29T00:57 id=2005443059975377050 →- | See how the artist takes joy in the "wrong people" abandoning her because she has the "wrong ideas".   This is politicized art: not for everyone, not for all humanity. For the in group.  Imagine if the person complaining about her work wasn't American but, say, a fundamental Muslim patriarch?   "I'm glad you won't read my work that challenges your worldview, now leave my sphere of influence and go back to beating/raping women!"  This is all just about satisfying smugness. She wants to be better than other people instead of wanting to just be good.  This attitude is so prevalent in America that I found it impossible to live in the country. It's in every single experience in the country, unavoidable. || CTX: bye! https://t.co/1ew2Epe5Uz
2025-12-29T01:10 id=2005446233041912235 →sebkrier | @sebkrier You can combat this by privileging discussion on how modeling always fails, why, etc.  A much more linguistics and epistemology focused discussion, but idk if that's maybe too abstract for most. Thinking about thinking is hard. || CTX: Drives me mad. This isn't just an econ thing either, you see it in how they approach law/legislation, politics, etc. "I'm so smart and can model everything perfectly and don't need to rely on domain experts because they don't get AI."
2025-12-29T01:15 id=2005447579270799737 →ArmandDAngour | @ArmandDAngour @ChrisExpTheNews Why "Nor any ritual chorus" in the last stanza instead of just "No ritual chorus"? || CTX: No one has seen the full Sappho 94, because it only exists in a fragmentary state. Here I fill the gaps in the first 9 triplets, and give a verse translation, including the notorious line 24 - literally 'you would quickly send away the desi
2025-12-29T01:16 id=2005447722166538623 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ArmandDAngour @ChrisExpTheNews or just "Neither ritual chorus"? || CTX: @ArmandDAngour @ChrisExpTheNews Why "Nor any ritual chorus" in the last stanza instead of just "No ritual chorus"?
2025-12-29T01:20 id=2005448854699929654 →DeivonDrago | Apologies, I'm being presumptuous because of my own personal experience:  You should think about whether you're confusing two things:  1. Antipathy to the negative effects of religious groups  2. Disbelief in a theist or deist metaphysical framework.  For me I entangled both for decades and as a result thought I was an atheist and just dismissed fringe doubts of atheism as due to my own limited scientific knowledge. Now I realize I was just confused about what science really IS.  I'm an atheist still in that I don't believe in a theistic substance, but my metaphysics are much thicker than materialist physicalism.  There are options between Richard Dawkins and being a Bible Thumper. Not being aware of these caused me years of confusion and, to be totally frank, confused mental anguish that also resulted in bad behavior. || CTX: @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog But I suspect at least half of this is trauma. I grew up in a very religious environment, and hated it ever since I was 13-14 or so.
2025-12-29T01:29 id=2005451192600854907 →JohnHolbein1 | @JohnHolbein1 When I was a professor we paid Terry Eagleton $10k to give two talks.   They were very bad talks. || CTX: Remember when old school academic Twitter melted down over whether academics should be paid speaking fees? https://t.co/DxcJRQceDu
2025-12-29T01:31 id=2005451607660712066 →literalbanana | @literalbanana lol this explains a positive STD test I got as a teenager that made absolutely zero sense. Fascinating. || CTX: I'm not sure that I agree with you 100% on your police work there Lou https://t.co/9MPhOMubPB
2025-12-29T01:39 id=2005453558985240736 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog I mean, I don't either, but nothing he says suggests a thin metaphysics of materialist physicalism is correct.  I suppose if you see the menu from a western POV (God or no God), he's a good final word on the matter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog I think I’ve read all of Dawkins books iirc, and listened to a bunch of his talks - I don’t really disagree with anything substantive that he says.
2025-12-29T01:44 id=2005454827187491015 →DurumMac | This was after he left Marxism to become a Christian, the talks were rambling and nonsensical and self contradictory. Like he said "x is y" and 30min later said "x is not y" in an entirely obvious way. When I asked about it, he asserted "x is y".  Quit my job and academia a year later. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnHolbein1 More lore
2025-12-29T01:47 id=2005455715113337219 →- | wtf talented comedians still exist?!? https://t.co/K6Enr4TJsO || CTX: The algorithm keeps firing this vid at me…I keep laughing! https://t.co/HrrBGqSNrv
2025-12-29T01:48 id=2005455787997732907 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @JohnHolbein1 All of them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnHolbein1 Were there folks there impressed by his rambling incoherence?
2025-12-29T01:49 id=2005456167334724016 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog So you believe science gives us truth, not just theories which are empirically adequate? || CTX: I am a physicalist mostly on scientific grounds. Meaning I’m not one as a result of philosophy -  I don’t think you can get to a justifiable physicalist position on purely philosophical terms. (Not quite sure)  It was really the combination
2025-12-29T02:07 id=2005460565599383837 →DurumMac | @DurumMac probably equally as effective || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/qTLmry9ct6
2025-12-29T02:17 id=2005463142533656631 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog it seems to me that if there is an objective truth underneath all of the empirical theories we have of physical reality, that truth would have to be a metaphysical one. it's just a question of how thick the metaphysics are. || CTX: Truth is a complex topic. I don’t know if it exists in any accessible form. Certainly not any non-trivial instances of truth. Meaning I do think it exists - but not sure we can “really” get to it. I think we’d have to get really specific to
2025-12-29T02:30 id=2005466484588621991 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog necessity exists but it's not physical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog I am not sure I think metaphysical things even exist, outside of our discourse about them.   Meaning - if there is something at the very bottom of reality, in my view, it would be something physical. 
2025-12-29T02:52 id=2005471939163476243 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog Necessary and contingent processes existed before any human being was born, so I'm pretty sure they exist beyond our descriptions of them. Two hydrogen and one oxygen atom combine to form water before humans, so the necessity of 2 H and 1 O for H2O before humans existed did exist || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog Does it? Or does it merely exist in discourse?   I could see an argument for causality existing more than necessity, but even causality would just be our description of time evolution + interactions w
2025-12-29T03:16 id=2005478017548894357 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog "it’s because within the physics of this universe, it’s plausible/possible."  This Inter alia is what I mean by necessity.  We agree; we also agree that this hints at something beyond physical appearances: for you that something is the multiverse. || CTX: Yes - but what you call necessity is just a description of how the physics works.  The universe has no intrinsic meaning or purpose. If something happens, it’s because within the physics of this universe, it’s plausible/possible. If a multi
2025-12-29T03:18 id=2005478401428406392 →- | https://t.co/kVIDcJxK43
2025-12-29T03:22 id=2005479439103336576 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I also need to point out that, if by materialist physicalism we mean the position that there is only the physical universe governed by the laws of physics and nothing else, AND you believe in a multiverse which consists of physical universes beyond this physical universe, you aren't a materialist physicalist. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog "it’s because within the physics of this universe, it’s plausible/possible."  This Inter alia is what I mean by necessity.  We agree; we also agree that this hints at something beyond physical appearances
2025-12-29T03:23 id=2005479869690597573 →literalbanana | @literalbanana wtf how did you get inside my brain and make a diagram of it, I need to call my lawyer || CTX: I’m excited that I won even though it was an honor just to be nominated. Please buy my twitter strategy guide: https://t.co/lRcFhHzULf
2025-12-29T03:30 id=2005481620363694571 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog Fully agreed, and that's precisely why I'm not a materialist physicalist (and also why I don't buy the multiverse theory). || CTX: Yes but the multiverse is implied by purely physical considerations and the relevant dynamics of the system. It arises automatically out of some set of initial conditions we think existed.   In the physicalist picture, the universe has a pa
2025-12-29T03:44 id=2005484978654851206 →2oovy | @2oovy Large enough sample size will tend towards the norm, even if the sample is askew.  This just tells us 4chan's scale exceeds its deviation. || CTX: Unironically, I didn’t think 4chan would be this normie https://t.co/m12MO1vHQw
2025-12-29T03:45 id=2005485277440315487 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 As someone who lives in one of those poor countries and knows a lot of NGO workers, the USAid attack by Musk is the only thing he's ever done that I actually approve of. || CTX: If corrupt oligarchs in third world countries don't get their bribery money from government funded NGOs, up to 20 billion children could die
2025-12-29T03:52 id=2005486991870451957 →DeivonDrago | This seems similar to one of the cosmological hypotheses I find still not discredited, so I consider this something of a live option.   I dislike the idea of each bubble being discrete and different from the others as it's not parsimonious so I tend to cash this out as a kind of eternal recurrence.  I very much hope this model is wrong, though. Eternal recurrence of African babies starving to death, horses dying in battles? It's a monstrous result and I hope it is wrong.  Each bubble is different seems to smuggle in an exogenous guiding force, so the non eternal recurrence options all seem deistic (I. e. not actually materialist physicalism).   And if we're settling on exogenous determinants shape the universe, well we're settling on Deism. || CTX: The multiverse theory has been badly marketed. 🤓  there are actually different theories motivating the multiverse concept.   There’s the multiverse idea as a result of anthropic arguments - I’m never quite sure what to make of that, so let’
2025-12-29T03:56 id=2005488148512690568 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog So your position is it's ergodic? All possible universes eventually will exist? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog Keep in mind that these universes are likely to not be that similar. Given all the contingencies, most of them would probably not have life, or perhaps even  large scale structure.
2025-12-29T04:00 id=2005489089806807263 →2oovy | @2oovy I've found the Final Boss of TPOT. || CTX: I’ve created the definitive list of books you’re allowed to read in 2026: philosophy written in the last 100 years and math textbooks. That’s it, everything else is wordslop
2025-12-29T04:02 id=2005489458205044976 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @Osint613 Hence the live-fire drills. || CTX: @Osint613 please don't get invaded I already booked my flight
2025-12-29T04:08 id=2005490985917423683 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @Osint613 A desire for drilling really hard has brought many men to Asia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Osint613 I just wanted to make sure they drill really hard in case there are any taiwanese generals reading my post
2025-12-29T04:10 id=2005491478752280756 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog ABSOLUTELY! The "metaphysically thin" materialist physicalist picture explodes into a massive metaphysics messier and IMO more absurd than e.g. Christian eschatology!  And so I stopped being an atheist (NB, Christianity is still fake and gay). || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog I’m familiar with the many worlds quantum theory, but alternative theories can result in similar outcomes.   If the model you are discussing is  eternal and infinite it seems to me we are
2025-12-29T04:11 id=2005491723590680812 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAGAHAHA || CTX: logging off. got out posted. good night. https://t.co/I3AlyXBETY
2025-12-29T04:19 id=2005493916477591740 →jaketeater | Well they can be trusted for what they are: models of possible worlds.   Do we live in the world that the model says we live in? Maybe, maybe not. Hence we need good journalism, documentation, transparency, etc.  And Jesse's job as a science journalist is to explain the epistemology above.  He's pretty good at this but not great because he's very philosophically naive and hangs around people that encourage that naivete. Fortunately though most are naive so he won't lose many paying subs due to this limitation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jessesingal @elonmusk The Sturgis/covid study was my first thought.   I just wish these things could be trusted.
2025-12-29T04:21 id=2005494430430904405 →- | Man if you just use the internet to explore ideas and have a laugh you can have so much fucking fun, it's unreal.
2025-12-29T04:22 id=2005494588824576087 →nikicaga | @nikicaga The real issue here if you ask me is path dependency. || CTX: This being canceled but not Cars 2 is a proof that America is a rotten car-centric society https://t.co/G5n87wJAdA
2025-12-29T04:24 id=2005495222504194187 →DurumMac | Either eternal recurrence (which I dread for others and hope for myself) or some kind of exogenous unifying something makes it all hang together (which I hope for others and dread for myself).  I haven't settled on any one belief but am pretty metastable between these as live options. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog What’s your position now?
2025-12-29T04:26 id=2005495728962207785 →- | They took this away from you.  "They" being time and entropy ofc. https://t.co/x5y1eFGVD8 || CTX: Jane Birkin &amp; Brigitte Bardot photographed for Life Magazine https://t.co/PsmDp1kjHu
2025-12-29T04:28 id=2005496033762296021 →jarvis_best | @jarvis_best IIRC it's still not illegal to possess CP in Russia so his love of Russia is trivially explained. || CTX: If Scott Ritter hasn’t blocked you yet be sure to show him this picture and ask him to fight off the urge https://t.co/CakOZjWTte
2025-12-29T04:32 id=2005497060175560847 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog That's a good (gooey?) description. Yeah, something like that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @kantbulldog “Exogenous unifying something”   Hmm shall we say .. a Deistic glue ?
2025-12-29T05:51 id=2005517115454116309 →vocalcry | @vocalcry Chaucer wrote the Tale of Sit Thopas to mock common folk being entertained by vapid and morally uninstructive romances.  It's an old fear. || CTX: Exactly one year ago https://t.co/rnzy8KnvjN https://t.co/ohwg63Z7ea
2025-12-29T06:33 id=2005527645149376876 →2oovy | @2oovy Baudrillard is like kryptonite to so much TPOT garbage because they're bewitched by hyperreality.  Tbf, the simulacrum is bigger and more encompassing than ever before so this is unsurprising (thus also vindicating Baudrillard). || CTX: The fundamental difference between tpot and me is that I think that math and philosophy are intrinsically unserious disciplines. NL and baudrillard hold the same amount of prestige in my mind https://t.co/FSp3Wq63Cm
2025-12-29T06:44 id=2005530416925794732 →- | I think shitposting somehow makes my professional writing better.
2025-12-29T07:26 id=2005540855063683369 →- | It is quite strange that humanity doesn't really value innovation in the creative arts.  New forms, new styles, sure. But entirely new paradigms of creative art? Not really. https://t.co/0RvPT1ov1r || CTX: Not a coincidence that he has covered the four main types of love story - rich/poor, indigenous/settler, boy/whale and pyromaniac/firehaver https://t.co/wZMK7CWft6
2025-12-29T09:35 id=2005573297862586844 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod "Sweeping the floor, washing the bowl, daily tasks bring the mind to clarity. " -Shiwu, ca. 1312 || CTX: okay that's my good deed for the day ok, the rest of the day is creative now  creative fryer cleaning creative drawing creative digital tool making
2025-12-29T09:54 id=2005578170351993101 →alexnpress | @alexnpress This is the kind of quote that is so ridiculous and stupid it's hard to believe it's actually real. || CTX: https://t.co/2Z68fnGmCl
2025-12-29T23:44 id=2005787004865503411 →1889lw | @1889lw @thisisGBA was trying to see if this is Wumao shit by telling them Taiwan isn't a part of China || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thisisGBA Is this satire or
2025-12-30T01:29 id=2005813418864042159 →JoeLongBalls | @JoeLongBalls @Zachary27636551 okay yeah def worked in the trades || CTX: @Zachary27636551 Mango loco
2025-12-30T01:30 id=2005813660837687448 →MKULTRAmodern | @MKULTRAmodern @MisterForexMan1 @JoeLongBalls @sister_darla A welder, apparently || CTX: @MisterForexMan1 @JoeLongBalls @sister_darla lol, gets called a pussy and insults back = losing an argument, what kind of dumb twat says shit like this??
2025-12-30T02:22 id=2005826841723191767 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah I'm anti recommendation algorithm as default UX, which is a very specific and easy fix to our modern problems tbh but too much money is lost if those are regulated, so here we are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 phones aren't bad but the hyperlocal inifite swiping video algorithms are. It's not social in the way that the internet that we grew up with our. I don't think it's debilitating or that these kids won't grow out of it but i
2025-12-30T02:24 id=2005827265800921092 →2oovy | @2oovy Nice list. Who is Northernlion? || CTX: The top 10 thinkers who have influenced me the most  1. Northernlion 2. Grothendieck 3. Baudrillard 4. Serre 5. Cartan (both) 6. Debord  7. Wittgenstein 8. Van Fraassen 9. Marx 10. Mac Lane https://t.co/1VlVwsBtI2
2025-12-30T03:25 id=2005842535290110236 →- | Novel about an indie solo podcaster who suddenly goes viral and gets mega rich and then goes insane because his work is just. an hour a week and the rest of the time he's literally bored out of his mind.
2025-12-30T03:44 id=2005847342843359529 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism Medium is the invariant and politics are the variant; values and morality are downstream of media and language.  Not surprising really. || CTX: Twitter pre-Elon and post-Elon are not that different, mostly it’s that vice signalling has replaced virtue signalling, and the swarm of frothing-mouthed replies you get for expressing a fairly normal opinion are now calling you a gay cuck 
2025-12-30T03:49 id=2005848785230987566 →- | People really should read more books the internet is such mindless brainrot but books make people smarter https://t.co/XAUPhPZVhn || CTX: watched reels the whole time on the plane while the guy next to me read '48 Laws Of Power', '4-Hour Work Week' and 'How To Win Friends And Influence People' https://t.co/nvVepjhbrB
2025-12-30T03:57 id=2005850732340081124 →jarvis_best | @jarvis_best @HolmesJosh @ComfortablySmug Man I miss when Smug was funny || CTX: @HolmesJosh I'll repurpose a classic @ComfortablySmug  bit for you:   (•_•)    &lt;)   )╯Strange  /    \                 \(•_•)       (   (&gt;   New    /    \             (•_•)   &lt;)   )&gt;  Respect  /    \
2025-12-30T04:13 id=2005854852547506442 →- | I like this joke because it's exactly how I was raised.  Family = abusive, mentally ill, best avoided Food = mostly junk/fast food, best avoided   He's describing lower middle class America. Watch Sopranos, this is what we are like. https://t.co/t1xuWKD2AV || CTX: In my culture, family is completely unimportant. And we hate food.
2025-12-30T04:13 id=2005854855353491551 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "But in Sopranos they cared about family" - yeah and people got killed bc of their family. Family bad.  "But in Sopranos they loved food" - yeah and they were obese and disgusting as a result. Food bad.  This is my culture. || CTX: I like this joke because it's exactly how I was raised.  Family = abusive, mentally ill, best avoided Food = mostly junk/fast food, best avoided   He's describing lower middle class America. Watch Sopranos, this is what we are like. https:/
2025-12-30T04:15 id=2005855213077291040 →ATabarrok | @ATabarrok Why are you taking Yarvin seriously and why shouldn't this mean you are also not worth being taken seriously, even if I agree with you? || CTX: No. https://t.co/ShsvGq9j7l https://t.co/AfHZHGPSwI
2025-12-30T04:25 id=2005857703223075305 →i_zzzzzz | @i_zzzzzz Art truly does reflect life || CTX: You might assume that the plot of "65", the film where Adam Driver fights dinosaurs in the distant past, involves some form of time travel. But no Adam Driver is actually an alien named "Mills" who takes a job piloting a spaceship because h
2025-12-30T04:43 id=2005862324171681902 →- | Notice how people call this video art in the comments.  For many art is really good/bad on formalist criteria.  For others, this is well made marketing copy, not art, because for them art is about going beyond form.  For many the idea of "going beyond form" is incomprehensible. https://t.co/CDRTOOp1KO || CTX: Streaming Bowl | Netflix vs Paramount https://t.co/sy9J3SdiPv
2025-12-30T07:45 id=2005908148285235645 →donotdelay | @donotdelay Is Murakami the most overrated novelist of all time? || CTX: Reading Lolita doesn't mean you're pedophile but reading Lolita, Kafka on the Shore, and a porn manga absolutely does https://t.co/oUX7shrsor
2025-12-30T08:42 id=2005922552284364939 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 lol no not at all, it was a bad confusion I believed in my youth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you really believe that?
2025-12-30T08:59 id=2005926607001694586 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 That opinion legit ruined a friend of mine's life. I'll try to post a tweet thread about it later when I'm less stoned || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao. That's good because that opinion is somewhat retarded. I also believed such things as well. Luckily, humans are capable of growth and better understanding.
2025-12-30T08:59 id=2005926715617689944 →TheWinterRoad | @TheWinterRoad @donotdelay What offends me is how cliche it is: a Japanese guy who's also a pervert. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @donotdelay Once you realise 99% of his protagonists are literally just self-inserts, which means he’s just writing about himself having a bunch of sex, it really makes you hate all of his books
2025-12-30T09:04 id=2005928039344136450 →yidashengli | @yidashengli holy shit based || CTX: banned for browsing the library too hard https://t.co/8oFKnze3hH
2025-12-30T09:06 id=2005928385844031911 →- | Good example of some AI writing that's obviously AI but also still quite good if you overlook that it's obviously AI, which most aren't willing to do. https://t.co/iy0yOiDwL0 || CTX: MTG finally says the quiet part out loud: “Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and never admit when you’re wrong.”  That didn’t come from nowhere. Those are the exact rules Roy Cohn drilled into Trump decades ago. N
2025-12-30T10:19 id=2005946803103944994 →2oovy | @2oovy Vapes, zyns. The nicotine industry is innovative as hell and innovating away from cigarettes. || CTX: Despite the cigarette industry being so big, why have we seen so little innovation in the field? Why don’t we have like cigs embedded with caffeine and ozempic?
2025-12-30T10:30 id=2005949634154201154 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Every time I see this I laugh and no one has said what we're all thinking, which just makes it funnier || CTX: 😭😭😭😭 https://t.co/vqi3Bclcor
2025-12-30T10:35 id=2005950785624899676 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak You mean the New Yorker who spent a lot of time on airplanes? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why is nobody talking about Anthony Bourdain?
2025-12-30T10:39 id=2005951750734237709 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias Taxis, car deliveries, cars and trucks used for transport of goods... very little utility indeed. || CTX: A lot of anti-LLM commentary is the equivalent of the (perfectly accurate!) take that if you haven't learned how to drive a car, a car provides you with very little utility and is also pretty dangerous. https://t.co/1hwnb43ZlX
2025-12-30T10:52 id=2005955113962143920 →strawberytea33 | @strawberytea33 @TheWinterRoad @donotdelay IIRC there's underage sex stuff, but I haven't read it in like 20 years || CTX: @TheWinterRoad @47fucb4r8c69323 @donotdelay NOOOOO i was so excited about reading Kafka on the Shore
2025-12-30T11:07 id=2005959018557096018 →- | Young Blue Eyes https://t.co/L2PkAcpsfL || CTX: Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us. https://t.co/BCdpRywA73
2025-12-30T13:14 id=2005990835100516390 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @mikitaposts The beer and pizza are better too || CTX: @mikitaposts the people here are nicer and the rent is cheaper and the buildings are prettier.
2025-12-30T23:12 id=2006141362136023115 →ToviWC | @ToviWC @TennyUnderscore 100% my response.   Goddamn I miss them. || CTX: @TennyUnderscore GLOVE AND BOOTS MENTION ON THE TL!?
2025-12-30T23:19 id=2006143233760313446 →HackingButLegal | @HackingButLegal @keithedwards Reminds me of when Whoopi Goldberg said Roman Polanski didn't commit "rape rape" || CTX: @keithedwards Is that what she calls sexual assault? "Getting handsy"?  Good thing the law sees it otherwise because we don't live in fucking Afghanistan
2025-12-30T23:22 id=2006143771084202056 →- | lmfaooooooo https://t.co/IjorgIEM3F || CTX: oh my god I finally realized who ChatGPT sounds like https://t.co/qrh7PY9xLi
2025-12-30T23:25 id=2006144727348043922 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @gem_ste This is why I don't see capitalism as the shibboleth but rather a specific kind of Puritanism.  Non-protestant capitalist societies have sufficient Dionysian excess, at least sufficient for me. || CTX: @gem_ste Discarding Dionysian hedonism was a horrendous mistake.
2025-12-30T23:36 id=2006147454635589634 →- | This is something I've quietly noticed my entire life and I'm surprised it hasn't lowered ambition for most. It did for me.  Like, the effort it takes to go from earning 6 figures to earning 7 is MUCH more than going from 5 figures to 6 figures. I settled on 6 because idk what I'd buy at the next level of wealth.   Like, Ferraris, yachts, this bullshit--so not worth the extra effort.  Also makes me wonder what motivates those 7fig+ earners. Whenever I've asked them, they always say it's to take care of their kids and protect their future, like it's a defensive posture against an antagonistic world.  The old goal of acquiring wealth to be better than has been replaced with a newer goal or being protected from. || CTX: The cultural leveling of USA across class lines. He's one of the richest men in America and his party looks no different than some middle class dude bro celebrating his 30th birthday. https://t.co/KbWKSp7oAb
2025-12-31T00:09 id=2006155669825806610 →- | In 2019, a friend's Chinese wife insisted the Hong Kong protestors were funded by the CIA and anti-CCP media in the city was run by the Jews.   I was the best man at their wedding and now we never speak. https://t.co/DXR8aMk0t3 || CTX: this is unintentionally really telling about the left-slop mindset. They essentially think anything wrong that happens and any dissenting opinion on the left is because the CIA is doing Evil Magic to corrupt The People https://t.co/8O7p0YKn
2025-12-31T00:11 id=2006156232940478627 →twinkdefcon | @twinkdefcon A large portion of the very vocal "kill all pedophiles" crowd are themselves secretly harboring sexual desire for minors.  Normal people think pedophilia is bad, say so and move on. || CTX: The top sticker is textually anti-pedophilia, the person aiming the gun is obviously from her height relative to the kneeling figure supposed to be a child, and yet she is still depicted wearing high heels. So much youth lib theory could be
2025-12-31T00:14 id=2006156944005005365 →RobertFreundLaw | @RobertFreundLaw Okay, GenAI obviously can be harmful to the mentally ill, just as TV, radio, movies, and books can be.  What's the solution to this problem? || CTX: Things ChatGPT told a mentally ill man before he murdered his mother: https://t.co/Ot4iC6HO0T
2025-12-31T00:17 id=2006157788624609519 →d_m_d_m_d_d | @d_m_d_m_d_d https://t.co/K15LFJtyUQ || CTX: @RobertFreundLaw Okay, GenAI obviously can be harmful to the mentally ill, just as TV, radio, movies, and books can be.  What's the solution to this problem?
2025-12-31T00:28 id=2006160620438315348 →sabtael | @sabtael @RobertFreundLaw So who gatekeeps and what's the criteria to gain access? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RobertFreundLaw Make it not accessible to everyone, for a start. That'll also help with the fact that the amount of AI generated vs human content is at risk of favoring the bot side.
2025-12-31T00:36 id=2006162616994173000 →Maxisntheree | @Maxisntheree Wait doesn't that mean the girl in the wheelchair and jailbait guy are brother/sister or at least half-siblings?  Someone please answer quickly I've already got the hand lotion out || CTX: The concept of beating the shit out of your disabled stepdaughter because she was kissing your ex husband’s underage son with whom you are having an affair with. https://t.co/8yYxNajMzr
2025-12-31T00:38 id=2006163031915684340 →JosephPolitano | @JosephPolitano Confusing "doesn't have shame" with "can't be shamed", Kat used to be smart wtf happened to her? || CTX: Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on others for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmf
2025-12-31T00:42 id=2006164004155318539 →JustinSadur | @JustinSadur @teroterotero @ProudBavaria Finns are the most humorless people imaginable, no kidding they make Germans look like they're as fun loving as the Portuguese and as witty as the Irish. || CTX: @teroterotero @ProudBavaria Man. OP is right. You just can't resist taking the bait, can you?
2025-12-31T00:44 id=2006164490338066879 →- | One of the weird side effects of a generous social welfare system is it promotes a kind of lack of charity among people that subtly changes their worldview and encourages the most ridiculous post-hoc reasoning.  Imagine claiming you were born into famine culture in 2025 Finland https://t.co/Vo53D04QQw || CTX: @ProudBavaria I am not going to apologize for being born into a famine culture. I also am not comfortable with people feeding me. Like, what’s your angle? It feels sinister.
2025-12-31T00:47 id=2006165166673780981 →ThatGuyYouKnowF | @ThatGuyYouKnowF @Maxisntheree Oooh exhusband's son and current husband's daughter, got it got it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Maxisntheree Haven't seen it, but stepdaughter implies she's from her current marriage and ex-husband's son means she's not his mother. No blood relation between any of them
2025-12-31T00:48 id=2006165452997968048 →GhostheadNebula | @GhostheadNebula @Maxisntheree I bet soap opera fans are naturally gifted at graph theory || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Maxisntheree Explanation:   When younger, Soraya fell in love with Fernando, but he refused her for Maria (the protagonist). They (F&amp;M) had this son (Fernando Jr, aka Nandito).  Meanwhile, Soraya married someone else (
2025-12-31T01:02 id=2006168944382795801 →- | See how he's cashing out "good" as having cultural staying power?  Here what is good is decided by appeal to the populace and is maintained by public referendum.   Finnegan's Wake is worse than Dr. Seuss from this perspective.  Democracy meets aesthetics. https://t.co/z1Zt9wuTmS || CTX: @coopercooperco true but it has zero longevity or cultural staying power compared to its predecessors like the office or parks &amp; rec. probably because it was not very good.
2025-12-31T01:03 id=2006169270099873910 →TomKhruisehchev | @TomKhruisehchev @coopercooperco I personally think the ending of The Good Place was too uncomfortable for most people and they don't want to think about its philosophical implications.  It's fading from the public eye is evidence of its greatness. || CTX: @coopercooperco And the vast majority of people seem to have tacitly agreed never to speak of it again, but Louie first premiered in 2010 and was an absolute monster, especially among a lot of cinephiles who otherwise never watched TV.
2025-12-31T01:04 id=2006169524568203462 →Im_The_Kid33 | @Im_The_Kid33 @coopercooperco And this is why it's forgotten. Too powerful, many don't want to confront the ideas the show presents.  Also I'm sorry for your loss (although sounds like she had a nice long life!) || CTX: @coopercooperco i happened to watch the last episode the same day my great grandmother passed just 2 days after my great grandfather. i never thought id cry over that show like that
2025-12-31T01:05 id=2006169803770446264 →WhatsUrName0o7 | @WhatsUrName0o7 @RobertFreundLaw Okay, I wish you well with that. Meanwhile I'll keep having fun with all these cool new toys. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RobertFreundLaw Butlerian Jihad
2025-12-31T01:07 id=2006170287130419710 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I attribute this sort of nonsense to a decline in the humanities (both internally and externally caused).  A well-rounded education is valuable for a reason! Otherwise you get engineers falling in love with chatbots or quitting good jobs at Google because signifiers confused them || CTX: can we please stop conflating “similar machines do things similarly” with “Plato was right” https://t.co/bSSUY5w0G2
2025-12-31T01:16 id=2006172693184537067 →- | Once while waiting for a flight (and being jetlagged as hell) in Stockholm airport I suddenly heard world map music from Final Fantasy VI, turned, and saw a Swedish soap opera had stolen the entire song and was playing it as background music.  This was 2008, if anyone can find it https://t.co/jKITemdqiC || CTX: I love how the music during her rampage sounds like a PS1 RPG battle theme https://t.co/qsYGbnLlcJ
2025-12-31T01:18 id=2006173134442172850 →mechanical_monk | @mechanical_monk @hyperdiscogirl Wow humans are diverse besides arbitrary geographical divisions how unexpected || CTX: @hyperdiscogirl i'm getting replies ranging from "we do that in the US too" to "no we definitely don't do that in Europe". i'm happy with my harvest
2025-12-31T01:21 id=2006173867145064928 →katrosenfield | @katrosenfield @churroallie Just an additional voice to the chorus of your former fans: I deeply admired you in 2018-2019, and seeing you sell out in this way is deeply saddening and disappointing.  Dismiss me as an anonymous idiot or do soul searching, it's really up to you. || CTX: @churroallie I'm not ignoring it, I just don't agree that "look what he made them do!" is the slam dunk argument in the artists' favor you apparently think it is
2025-12-31T01:23 id=2006174339088216386 →- | Look at how far Kat has fallen. She used to be SO GOOD.   She did a piece on online advertising impacting media platforms in 2019 that was flawless. And now she's...this. https://t.co/AbXl3finix || CTX: @Brazillian @jazzmankyle oh but you do, because you read my work and it's all paywalled! thank you so much for subscribing to the FP, we all appreciate your support so much
2025-12-31T01:30 id=2006176026213376374 →OjasParmar3 | @OjasParmar3 @RobertFreundLaw Fortunately the AI alarmists aren't taken seriously by investors or the tech industry anymore so they won't be slowing progress much anymore. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RobertFreundLaw Exactly.   What about cases like the Reagan assassin, who was inspired by the movie Taxi Driver?  Should we regulate movies like this out of existence? Should Scorsese go to jail?  The AI alarmists are horr
2025-12-31T01:36 id=2006177640550654162 →katrosenfield | @katrosenfield @churroallie I did a similar journey of writing the same stuff for a long time and then making a good living at it.   I spend a lot of time soul searching how that "good living" has changed how I write and who I am.  If you haven't done that too, maybe you should. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @churroallie as far as I can tell, I am currently writing exactly the same kind of cultural analysis I was doing 7 years ago except now I make a pretty good living at it? if you want me to do “soul searching” you’re gonna h
2025-12-31T01:37 id=2006177860437078399 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @katrosenfield @churroallie If I tell you what I think you've done wrong in a public forum you'll just get defensive. This is something you need to discuss with trusted confidants in private.  Seems like you aren't. || CTX: @katrosenfield @churroallie I did a similar journey of writing the same stuff for a long time and then making a good living at it.   I spend a lot of time soul searching how that "good living" has changed how I write and who I am.  If you h
2025-12-31T01:39 id=2006178272162504921 →oelayat | @oelayat https://t.co/w3osEMjB2q || CTX: Does the ‘lifelong liberal, just calling balls and strikes’ routine ever get old? https://t.co/JrXRUQJeEA https://t.co/KckFqew032
2025-12-31T01:48 id=2006180682029228234 →katrosenfield | @katrosenfield @churroallie So you've taken the "dismiss me as an anonymous idiot" route, which is both fine and really quite expected.  I wish you well, Kat, and thanks for the value you once provided for me. Good luck out there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @churroallie again, you are welcome to offer specifics! absent any examples, I’m afraid I simply can’t take this seriously— and your evasiveness in combination with the manipulative language strongly suggests to me that you
2025-12-31T01:53 id=2006181925485175212 →- | When betting on the future: you can be directionally correct and still get the details wrong. This is very common.  The skill is structuring your bets so that you profit from being directionally correct without facing losses by getting the details wrong.  A freerider option to get this specific kind of exposure is "diversification". || CTX: Thing is, people were basically right that this was the future, that everyone would be staring at them and would be basically required to have one. It was just perfected by another company. https://t.co/fE0sYUmc9z
2025-12-31T01:55 id=2006182382433644741 →JoshEakle | @JoshEakle omg so that's why Thiel likes this dude! It's a kink!  Jfc I feel like an idiot that I didn't see this before. || CTX: The New Right is a bunch of grown men with a "I want to submit to a daddy" political worldview.  I wish they'd keep their fetishes outside of politics. https://t.co/jwSUZvhUkD
2025-12-31T02:04 id=2006184715695644954 →- | She's mentally unwell. Kinda reminds me of Taylor Lorenz. https://t.co/7uubqCevmJ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @churroallie I don’t think you’re an idiot; I do think you’re a bit of a creep, that you sent these messages hoping to unsettle me, and that you’re still trying to do this — for the record, this scam works better on a perso
2025-12-31T02:05 id=2006184929009537172 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/Yzqs1pOXVi || CTX: She's mentally unwell. Kinda reminds me of Taylor Lorenz. https://t.co/7uubqCevmJ
2025-12-31T02:26 id=2006190112452010225 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Screaming, crying, vomiting profusely in multiple directions || CTX: Existential office chair   Make way for the new   Hello friends
2025-12-31T02:31 id=2006191493808279682 →- | Novel idea: Begin with an obituary of a very famous successful man that details what appears to be an enviable life that causally notes he died with his brother, a plumber.   Then the novel unfolds as a bildungsroman showing the man's life and we quickly see he was successful and miserable all the time, because success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.  Meanwhile we also get hints of the brother's life and see that, despite his middle class obscurity, he was much happier.  idk, feels too basic and simple a plotline
2025-12-31T02:33 id=2006191886063833521 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Because we're behind everything ofc   Fr tons of coopting of blood libel conspiracy theories in parts of Asia with no Jews, it's really alarming NGL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why did the Jews force the hong kongers to not want to be part of a communist nightmare dystopia
2025-12-31T02:50 id=2006196344063680822 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Isn't that the null hypothesis of American culture? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now consider one where the wealthier man actually is happier. The brother feels his obscurity intensely and dies unhappy.   That’s it. Just total subversion.   Poke that moral disgust.
2025-12-31T02:52 id=2006196631436456100 →DurumMac | @DurumMac One must imagine Sisyphus swole af || CTX: So what if Sisyphus had to roll up that boulder?   He probably has calves of steel.   In fact, if I was marketing for a protein powder brand the logo would be a silhouette of Sisyphus and the bolder.   Look at how rad this is. https://t.co/
2025-12-31T02:59 id=2006198473251840073 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yeah, you're right. Novel idea doesn't work. Needs different scaffolding to show "seeking external validation is bad", which is a silly idea.  Maybe famous guy is successful, is being profiled by a journalist desperate to find some hidden misery and can't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (Full disclosure, I am, in fact, a Canuck)    I’m referring to the original audience you intended it for, but certainly that exists in American culture despite the “underdog wins” being an established trope.
2025-12-31T03:02 id=2006199254373785853 →twinkdefcon | @twinkdefcon The community notes is hilarious. Dude wrote one book that doesn't involve kids having sex, total vindication! || CTX: I agree. Only a pedophile would read Kafka on the Shore https://t.co/Kd4wHiUB93
2025-12-31T03:08 id=2006200774041465077 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I wouldn't be surprised.  I think the only way this could have the kind of irony I want is if it's published anonymously online as "by Donald Trump" and it gets noticed and people furiously debate whether it really is or not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder if this exists. It sounds familiar.
2025-12-31T03:12 id=2006201710595952748 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I've only read Grapes of Wrath and Underground Man from those two. Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov are on my list, maybe next year. Been postponing for ages because tbh I don't like family sagas. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lord - when you think about it, both of those books were total train wrecks. Thank goodness for Alyosha. This sort of drama stresses the heck out of me.
2025-12-31T03:12 id=2006201819337482603 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DeivonDrago Notes from the Underground lmfao "Underground Man" I need more coffee || CTX: @DeivonDrago I've only read Grapes of Wrath and Underground Man from those two. Crime and Punishment and Brothers Karamazov are on my list, maybe next year. Been postponing for ages because tbh I don't like family sagas.
2025-12-31T03:19 id=2006203648255353057 →DurumMac | I've always found this results in a delightful information hazard.  There are strong reasons for parents to lie and say they love having kids if they hate it and strong reasons to overexaggerate how much they love their kids if they do.   So if you want to have kids, asking parents if you should is absolutely worthless, and any proxy for their real opinion is corrupted by various factors.  "Should I have a child?" is a deeply unanswerable question. || CTX: Look, I get it. Families *can* be great.  And I’m sure Wes is sincere.   But if someone has 4 kids and they hate it.. they likely can’t actually say it under their own name for a … variety of obvious reasons. https://t.co/SXxzpoNctA
2025-12-31T03:25 id=2006205090798215351 →BballPurist | @BballPurist Yeah I'm in the same boat, but how much do you really need? Unanswerable question I suppose, and one I struggle with myself. I def want to secure that comfort but I also don't want to hoard wealth.  Quite the conundrum. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For me it is moreso downside protection. Like if I end up with back pains/cancer that my insurance won't cover, having the dry powder that J can pay to get treatment that will make life easier is nice.
2025-12-31T03:26 id=2006205405253492949 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago It's phenomenal. I hate Dostoevsky's writing style while agreeing with most of his worldview, so I like how the short length forces him to abandon his worst instincts towards flowery exhaustive explication. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Grapes of Wrath was depressing too! I have not read Notes.
2025-12-31T03:38 id=2006208368730595334 →usedipodclassic | @usedipodclassic @TomKhruisehchev @coopercooperco Fair view, and I agree first season was far better than the rest, but I think the philosophical conclusion the show ends on is unpalatable to most modern Americans. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TomKhruisehchev @coopercooperco no, the ending was just very rushed. the plot kept getting worse as the show went on as well
2025-12-31T03:41 id=2006208979131851263 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Labor theory of value. || CTX: I really admire projects like this. I can’t explain it. They bring no value to humanity overall, and certainly none to me.   But I admire dedication, consistency, and discipline, and that’s what’s required to do something other than drugs d
2025-12-31T03:42 id=2006209288734400780 →- | This is either Marxist (labor theory of value) or Protestant (hard work is its own reward).  Note how the very different ideological clothing covers the same naked human need underneath. https://t.co/t8Vekwvrlu || CTX: I really admire projects like this. I can’t explain it. They bring no value to humanity overall, and certainly none to me.   But I admire dedication, consistency, and discipline, and that’s what’s required to do something other than drugs d
2025-12-31T03:49 id=2006211134697951310 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey What bothers me is that this looks a lot like my house balcony but I have a much better view (less boats and no land in the immediate background).  They don't make out of touch opulence like they used to. || CTX: LMAO I've eaten here. Not over new year's of course, I'm poor. https://t.co/YSip3XDVDK
2025-12-31T03:53 id=2006212067431419911 →luusssso | @luusssso The top-down approach Collison and Cowen are pushing really sickens me. These are people that fundamentally do not understand art or aesthetics and they're going to bring bad ideas (like what is popular is good, a big point Cowen has pushed for decades). || CTX: I started this account to subliminally address a simple idea: what gets labeled “retro” or “vintage” is often just work that respects place, continuity, and constraint rather than chasing novelty. Any new aesthetic won’t come from declaring
2025-12-31T03:55 id=2006212519044734990 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @luusssso Consider how covered walkways and parking lots aren't a thing in the southwest, but are common in southeast Asia.  Top-down design in a diverse ecology is so stupid and just makes everyone's lives worse.  But Cowen and Collison get their egos fed which is what truly matters. || CTX: @luusssso The top-down approach Collison and Cowen are pushing really sickens me. These are people that fundamentally do not understand art or aesthetics and they're going to bring bad ideas (like what is popular is good, a big point Cowen 
2025-12-31T04:00 id=2006213770469908951 →AirFryerCritic | @AirFryerCritic @JosephPolitano 2018-2019, she wrote one of the best popular accounts of the adtech industry and how it influences content and rec algos.   Nearly institutional research level accuracy, I was floored at how well she understood the market.  And now she's... this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JosephPolitano When was that?
2025-12-31T04:01 id=2006214123680657661 →startupmillyair | @startupmillyair both financially and spiritually. I know 100% what you mean, viscerally. || CTX: poverty coded to record things  will not elaborate https://t.co/iyQb0USygf
2025-12-31T04:13 id=2006217012129980645 →- | Over a million people read one of the worst things I've ever written.  Meanwhile, the best thing I've ever written has been read by 8 people.  I cannot stop thinking about this fact. Not just for my ego, but for what it says about the media/publishing and human nature.
2025-12-31T04:14 id=2006217338287436076 →startupmillyair | @startupmillyair Because they fear motion and want to capture it. Like scared children stumbling on a garden snake. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They will attack us for this
2025-12-31T04:21 id=2006219012552941837 →AirFryerCritic | @AirFryerCritic @JosephPolitano https://t.co/Omt6oAO8bU  lol I think she deleted her replies to me, so she has some shame at least. || CTX: @katrosenfield @churroallie I did a similar journey of writing the same stuff for a long time and then making a good living at it.   I spend a lot of time soul searching how that "good living" has changed how I write and who I am.  If you h
2025-12-31T06:21 id=2006249445789471227 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism Mutually Assured Daughter Destruction || CTX: “I never thought they would vaporise MY continent” https://t.co/KItZ4ZlF2e
2025-12-31T09:44 id=2006300508760486286 →- | I always had a bad feeling about that guy. https://t.co/SZuDpKhcnf || CTX: HITLER IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES??! https://t.co/LNzRvRN1wk
2026-01-01T00:45 id=2006527051625542133 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Sane playbook as Anthropic saying AI could kill everyone to attract funding: position your tech as apocalyptic because anything that can influence the world should have a high mark to market valuation and requires greater care.  So you get a high EV and reason to lock in mgmt. || CTX: I wish people would realize that “evil inc” is a deliberate branding and marketing choice by palantir for what is, in fact, a pretty standard, very boring software consulting company à la Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, and Accenture https://t.co
2026-01-01T00:55 id=2006529568879026333 →theresebeIivets | @theresebeIivets @heflickedit Yeah considering her and the other unjoined characters, the show really seems to be more about temptation than anything else. || CTX: @heflickedit oh imagine a freshly bereaved woman barely out of a 40 day solitary confinement would seek comfort in someone who hasn't just showered her in love and care but whose bodily representation also has been specifically selected by 
2026-01-01T00:57 id=2006530108660789575 →1889lw | @1889lw Yeah if you're willing DM me, I'll give feedback if you want (doubt it'll add much value unless you're doing something in historical linguistics or discourse analysis, which I very much suspect you aren't) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Really? I’m sort of halfway-ish. Have submitted for some of the programmes that require ~1000 words but others require 2000-3000 words.
2026-01-01T01:10 id=2006533499856265525 →moultano | I think reading some of DFW's shorter pieces helps see what he's doing: he hates capitalism for vague reasons, hates life for vague reasons, and is clearly clever but not necessarily a genius.   Then you can see him as one of the cohort who pushed postmodern fiction to the brink and thereby killed the literary novel as a serious artform at a time when the most clever people were moving into other industries where their cleverness was more quickly rewarded both financially and intellectually.  Or I'm just a bitter failed novelist, that's a live option too. || CTX: It's the kind of mistake that makes me assume the rest of the book is equally as lazy and not commit to it.
2026-01-01T01:13 id=2006534132109803843 →- | I really like this interview because it demonstrates DFW was just a depressed late 20th century suburban American who hated productivity and wanted to be a bohemian but was kind of too stupid or stubborn to negotiate with society and get the life he craved.   https://t.co/cwhX3717kd || CTX: I'm about 200 pages into Infinite Jest and finding it completely miserable. Is it worth continuing or should I expect more of the same?
2026-01-01T01:16 id=2006534871217549789 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @DeivonDrago I feel like an idiot but this legit made me lol || CTX: @DeivonDrago Zbig is a conspiracy by zbig zbznz to sell big Zs
2026-01-01T01:24 id=2006537103409389608 →- | lmfao https://t.co/vKQepbPwon
2026-01-01T02:41 id=2006556303997677910 →- | Novel idea: Male porn star does a cuckold video where the cuck criticizes his sexual performance. Character is supposed to ignore it and keep fucking the girl, but since the critiques are adlibbed it sends the actual porn star into a downward spiral of self doubt and uncertainty that ends in suicidal madness.
2026-01-01T02:41 id=2006556470339568094 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @katrosenfield @churroallie She's called me a creep and then invited me to DM her. That's what we in the business call a trap. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @katrosenfield @churroallie i don't think i'm wrong here https://t.co/RSUGISBmKv
2026-01-01T02:42 id=2006556673436164126 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @affrodiziac_ @katrosenfield @churroallie My DMs are open too, you know. If she really wanted to discuss this, she can DM me. || CTX: @affrodiziac_ @katrosenfield @churroallie She's called me a creep and then invited me to DM her. That's what we in the business call a trap.
2026-01-01T02:51 id=2006558990847885765 →moultano | @moultano This is such a strong idea that I hereby Christen it Moulton's Law and insist it be put on Wikipedia. || CTX: Every long text post on twitter is presumptively AI-generated unless it's from someone who I know would never do that. https://t.co/O7r5aFbzay
2026-01-01T02:55 id=2006559983077568692 →JohnDCook | @JohnDCook I'm interested in the psychology of this. Do any of them email saying, roughly, "I found this, does it have any value?" or are they all, "I'm a secret Genius here look at how genius I am"? || CTX: No joke. I get these emails routinely. https://t.co/lQXhXJI0od
2026-01-01T02:57 id=2006560305955090926 →- | Why I left America. https://t.co/kylieuqZNg || CTX: Can you imagine the specimens of human walking around the Jeep dealership in Tampa https://t.co/qKL7ps4Rid
2026-01-01T03:01 id=2006561433384034513 →moultano | @moultano Fascinating essay. Totally coherent, compelling, well argued, and valid within a form of life I don't inhabit, so I can see its truthfulness even as I reject it.  Love it, so rare can I see something and say, "beautiful, true, moving, and I fully disagree." || CTX: https://t.co/e10qz0M9Bh
2026-01-01T03:04 id=2006562045542674513 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I am often in a state of meta-anxiety; I'm anxious that something is going to make me anxious. || CTX: Ever feel meta-guilt?   You feel guilt for X but realize the guilt is due to a certain privilege of perspective?
2026-01-01T03:10 id=2006563717501329833 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 NGL that looks fucking delicious || CTX: Excited to announce the RetardBot account is now partnering with PE Backed SlopBowl Shitco.  Every retweet will earn premium RetardBot members a $10 voucher for any qualifying shitbowl  Happy Eating! https://t.co/YjUj2jCkzs
2026-01-01T03:15 id=2006564928984174981 →i_zzzzzz | @i_zzzzzz Distills what Mad Men is all about: people struggling with all the social rules and limitations that constrain their humanity.  Also why I find the show boring; whenever I watch I just think, "yeah this culture sucks, you should leave." || CTX: “You’re not allowed to do that” is one of the funniest lines on the show https://t.co/WURfWgTUnI
2026-01-01T03:19 id=2006565870248800616 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Depends where.  International airport or NYC? Like $30 incl. tax  Major U. S. city? Maybe $20  Elsewhere--$10-$15  How off am I? I suck at guessing prices (that's why I work in equity research) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How much do you think a bowl like this costs?
2026-01-01T03:20 id=2006566272373502231 →xsphi | @xsphi Wow comments prove OP's point, always so satisfying when you see that. || CTX: if the people dunking on this had tried being both male and female they would know it's completely correct https://t.co/lmucCgYVeq
2026-01-01T03:22 id=2006566786603548974 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Shit maybe I should ask for a raise || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are actually spot on for every guess
2026-01-01T03:32 id=2006569229726920800 →- | Lucy Liu absolutely changed my perception of the world.  When I lived in South Korea she in particular was a punchline, so much so that my Korean gf asked me, "why do Americans think Lucy Liu is pretty?" To Koreans, she's like one of the ugliest people imaginable.  Same with Doona Bae of Cloud Atlas fame: once in an interview a Korean guy asked the Wachowskis why they chose her although she's not beautiful!   So many puzzles about aesthetics, ethics, cultural relativism all neatly laid out before me, and they're the kinds of puzzles you'd never be faced with if you choose to live in the same culture at all times. || CTX: A lovely leggy Lucy Liu............... https://t.co/ak3JgCFX7t
2026-01-01T03:34 id=2006569778899771704 →Lola_lmao7 | @Lola_lmao7 This is the most Asian auntie thing I've ever seen and I've spent like a third of my life in Asia by now || CTX: Kinda endearing that Xian Famous Foods ceo gives off Asian auntie vibes https://t.co/Z49bdlRUKV
2026-01-01T03:39 id=2006570861160182244 →- | People play language games because they want to change the language game.
2026-01-01T03:42 id=2006571808158609664 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @gbrl_dick Why all this hate on honeypots? Honey is healthy and delicious. || CTX: @gbrl_dick Is it illegal to get a lil motion? To catch a vibe?
2026-01-01T03:50 id=2006573619091292476 →gabydvj | @gabydvj Feel this in my bones. I grew up in a similar white trash anti-intellectual shithole and was so disgusted by the ugly stupidity I was desperate to escape. || CTX: i need to get out of here i need to get out of here i NEED to get out of here https://t.co/NsEsXmvV1R
2026-01-01T03:50 id=2006573788255965351 →ottomcvey | @ottomcvey @gabydvj I assume it's a loss leader to sell more Jeeps. || CTX: @gabydvj Gotta learn to separate the art from the artist because for $15 that’s a solid ass spread
2026-01-01T04:01 id=2006576442688286838 →2024dion | @2024dion Redlining absolutely destroyed American urban beauty, talk about making ethical sins physically manifest || CTX: I know this has been posted a thousand times but I want you to really zoom in and look at the top photo. The ornate facades, the crowds on the sidewalks, the pleasant mid-rise density. If this street were still around today people would fin
2026-01-01T04:03 id=2006577048496865731 →GayOPersona_NY | @GayOPersona_NY idk why but it bothers me that she's really really hot || CTX: Actual American here. No, we don't eat this every day. This dish is traditionally eaten only on Christmas and Yom Kippur. https://t.co/nnv3TuAz6r
2026-01-01T04:09 id=2006578616499581194 →- | This is good, but I can make it better.  I don't want you to ball really hard: I want you to invent new ways of balling really hard.  Don't win the game, beat the game. https://t.co/7s2G0bBfE2 || CTX: my only advice is to simply not care about anything except what you care about and do whatever you want and ball really hard and make sure it makes for a good story
2026-01-01T04:10 id=2006578834829897817 →ludwigABAP | @ludwigABAP goddammit now I have to follow you again. motherfucker || CTX: I think it's good to remember that the majority of people are immense losers living incredibly boring lives and even if they appear cool, they are actually empty inside, so none of what they think really matters at all and fuck em
2026-01-01T04:11 id=2006579129488126169 →WyattDuncan | @WyattDuncan Jesus fucking Christ hahahahahaha || CTX: Raise a champagne glass for Dick Clark! 98 years young and still hosting New Year’s Rockin’ Eve like a rock star. We salute you, legend! Here’s to 2026! https://t.co/dl6fS6O8Bd
2026-01-01T05:43 id=2006602235560734768 →- | Much more than the cult of the individual, Romanticism inaugurates The cult of the character. - Albert Camus
2026-01-01T05:52 id=2006604411683176808 →- | How to dissolve one false picture by means of another false picture. https://t.co/wAHvx5bnx8 || CTX: Childhood is half of life. https://t.co/JkviFwujiY
2026-01-01T05:56 id=2006605340453056707 →- | I've only written one novel (well there's a fanfic thing but that doesn't count) and this is 100% how I'd describe it. https://t.co/KNRuyNHAPb || CTX: @moultano It’s intellectual masturbatory garbage that’s designed specifically to appeal to lit grads and early academics who confuse slogging their way through an obscure text with quality  Skip it man
2026-01-01T05:57 id=2006605783665094921 →DurumMac | @DurumMac It is "a tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it." || CTX: Given enough time will you keep changing? You keep changing until you die? And hope it’s the right one? You could have died at number 3 instead of 7. And maybe with life extension technically you just keep evolving into something different.
2026-01-01T05:59 id=2006606292144775302 →- | If someone asks me why I find the internet not just fun but something mystically transcendent, I will show them this tweet. https://t.co/Rj7dEpv3e7 || CTX: https://t.co/TNvqWVfEy1 https://t.co/7HHA3KUPRT
2026-01-01T06:07 id=2006608247483150722 →- | If the universe has a purpose or if the universe does not have a purpose, we humans are the only ones who can see this fact and we're the only ones who can be wrong about this fact.  This alone shows us that humanity is somehow special. https://t.co/7xAfV7QTRJ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We are on this Rock,  in a particular time,  With limited info With particular                      cognitive capacities  and biases  Just sort of stumbling around
2026-01-01T06:09 id=2006608712245584080 →Colin_d_m | @Colin_d_m All this tells me is you need to travel more. || CTX: Chongqing’s Old Town might be the prettiest neighborhood in the world https://t.co/IFa2UdfHfB
2026-01-01T06:45 id=2006617728074002855 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Do some people figure it out? || CTX: I always had this idea that at some age you just “figure it out”.  You don’t. Not really.   Old men with petty insecurities, struggling to make sense of it all.   All the time and wisdom won’t magically give you the answers.
2026-01-01T06:48 id=2006618541714452480 →dearmattdearing | @dearmattdearing @constans If I had to describe a total schizo, "Greek Aussie" wouldn't be the worst option. || CTX: @constans What is it with the Greek Aussies on this platform being totally schizo.
2026-01-01T06:52 id=2006619531209552253 →msthilda | @msthilda Is living in Switzerland as wonderful as I assume it is? || CTX: my everyday view btw https://t.co/qhgtdkS7Te https://t.co/XRSrLXY3d9
2026-01-01T06:54 id=2006620075563037025 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Hmm, so then we need to ask what does it mean to have it all figured out? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People with conviction, and a healthy stable large family, maybe it appears so.   But when we pull aside the curtains, what’s there?
2026-01-01T06:56 id=2006620563603861706 →indigojackal | @indigojackal Something magical and compelling about this tweet I can't quite put into words.   Instant follow. || CTX: In 2025 I began drinking in a shed for reasons even inscrutable to myself. I hope to find some clarity about the matter in 2026. Wishing you all a happy and peaceful new year. https://t.co/TxidPFFm7R
2026-01-01T07:22 id=2006627184136646688 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I wonder if figuring it out is really just admitting that you will never figure it out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Mormon on his deathbed, surrounded by loving family.   Figured it out? Maybe. But at what cost? What ideological suicide?
2026-01-01T07:25 id=2006627741886722344 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 Hating the market is just misogyny econ edition || CTX: https://t.co/mTQPBn2TcB https://t.co/WlKEEOx4Fr
2026-01-01T07:26 id=2006628033357295700 →Swan_mmsp | @Swan_mmsp @SRamirez68083 God-tier bio btw || CTX: @SRamirez68083 but says law says other wise. pun intended 😉
2026-01-01T07:59 id=2006636498544898239 →DurumMac | @DurumMac "I never figured life out" is synonymous with "I had a wonderful life" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It could be.   But the implications are deep.   Would be some cool last words though.   “I never figured it out… maybe it can’t be… and that’s okay”
2026-01-01T08:03 id=2006637268422037721 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah a lot of beers taste like that IMO || CTX: This seventh beer tasting like everyone at the club wants to know my opinions on Iran
2026-01-01T08:04 id=2006637692591972542 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 True but in competitive markets companies don't do this up to the competition frontier, at which point you want companies to do what may very well end up being this || CTX: GDP is dishonest because if I pay someone to dig a hole and then fill it GDP rises. Measuring work done is honest because if someone spends energy digging a hole and the filling it…wait.
2026-01-01T08:06 id=2006638177726116077 →- | If you looked at fiction the same way you look at competitive sports or salesmanship, you'd never read another novel again.
2026-01-01T08:07 id=2006638452952150088 →xerciane | @xerciane Read Allen Carr The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, saved my life and millions of others || CTX: Last one and I’m quitting forever happy new years https://t.co/6o1zw94nJr
2026-01-01T08:42 id=2006647307085955262 →somethings_awry | @somethings_awry fucking hell man || CTX: Gnocchi in spinach and mushroom béchamel sauce https://t.co/hPHa1gSjnF https://t.co/k2imHdgBcn
2026-01-01T08:51 id=2006649494604231118 →- | I bet they made this just for Jeff Bezos https://t.co/b7dsLnA9pD || CTX: This must go so hard if you’re a 60 year old guy who still wears Ed Hardy https://t.co/x4K1yGe0uf
2026-01-01T09:23 id=2006657465233060332 →dnlklr | @dnlklr @teodorio What a bizarre thing to care about || CTX: @teodorio i agree, but that also makes having kids now comparatively 'higher leverage' in terms of impacting the demographic composition of the (much smaller by default) 2100 population
2026-01-01T10:23 id=2006672710387294647 →1889lw | @1889lw Tons! Lolita, Portrait of the Artist, Memoirs of a Geisha, Remains of the Day, Paradise Lost, Canterbury Tales, Paradise Lost, Don Quixote.   I just bitch more than I praise cuz praising is gay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder if there are works you actually consider good?
2026-01-01T11:12 id=2006684882160988242 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Then we just expand the definition of what we mean by "human" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Correction: we are only ones known.   I am curious though, does our specialness change if there are non-humans who can do the same?
2026-01-01T11:16 id=2006685989943783719 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 100% how I feel || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see. I guess that's fine. Yup, that does make "humans" special. Though i also cant help but wonder if the universe does have an artificially asigned purpose. I have seen so many try to argue logically for the existence of
2026-01-01T11:40 id=2006692074738036875 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @DurumMac Sounds like an amazing human being || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac My mentor is 85. He's in northern vermont, producing ink drawings, having afib scares, and sending journal entries to a handful of us. No knowing what he has/hasn't come to peace with, in himself  But I wouldn't m
2026-01-01T12:03 id=2006697882536300659 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Can't I'm afraid; need to keep this anonymous || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 omg you wanna trade works sometime I would show you some of my stuff that isn't erotica
2026-01-01T13:03 id=2006712762953773512 →- | Over 45 years, so 18 per year, 1.5 per month, not that much really. https://t.co/lJxrdePDM6 || CTX: He was not an addict, he was on a mission. https://t.co/hRcbXtXCDG
2026-01-01T23:31 id=2006871002052202745 →1889lw | @1889lw But it's also a guaranteed in for an easy life of knowledge work that is facing accelerating secular decline esp with AI.  It's a smart move but easy to get bewitched by the institutions and not see the rich boy silliness it attracts for what it is. || CTX: Honestly most of the time you’ll just see privileged kids exuding elitism playing around cultural capital there. And then you just realise they are lucky ass normies no more exciting than anyone else https://t.co/LQe2RLk5OB
2026-01-01T23:38 id=2006872803610624126 →- | People automatically assume nonduality is automatically good because it's an exotic belief system.   Nah man, shit is disturbing. Really dark. https://t.co/nxLJpKubJO || CTX: @GjMcGowan I'd order another box. Once you reject the false gospel of dualism, these things bother you much less.
2026-01-01T23:40 id=2006873231073186081 →- | People automatically assume nonduality is good because it's an exotic belief system.   Nah man, shit is disturbing. Really dark. https://t.co/nxLJpKubJO || CTX: @GjMcGowan I'd order another box. Once you reject the false gospel of dualism, these things bother you much less.
2026-01-02T00:02 id=2006878745232286064 →1889lw | @1889lw My experience engaging with leading scholars has been one of consistent disappointment. They're obviously great in their fields, but I suppose I expect better induction to other domains than what I've observed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess it’s a different experience to actually engage with some leading scholars in the field, but meh I don’t think the students around are any special
2026-01-02T00:05 id=2006879479122321486 →1889lw | @1889lw Literature and linguistics, but I've also met a few economist superstars. The economists are the biggest disappointment, followed by the literature people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Which field were you in?
2026-01-02T00:06 id=2006879629060223423 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty Straight line, straight line, curved line, circle. I enjoyed the evolution of shapes in these. || CTX: today i walked four miles and i baked jam tarts &lt;3 🍓 https://t.co/5jcjiYmXLr https://t.co/6lak0Etj5j
2026-01-02T00:14 id=2006881624773079166 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu So many internet users read the stupidest bullshit and they think it's part of some rarefied canon. Amusing behavior. || CTX: pick the biggest books in any field and walk up to your interlocuter demanding if they have read it is a time honored debate tactic(bonus points if you have actually read it) https://t.co/KD2kLWUWGW
2026-01-02T00:16 id=2006882301775597690 →- | Right side of the aisle or left side of the aisle idgaf I'll happily go balls deep in her any day of the week this bitch is so hot she can call me subhuman and deport me if I can just get a piece jfc https://t.co/A6RKeXBif9 || CTX: Leavitt claims that Trump had a "preventative" MRI https://t.co/r8GmIqt4jl
2026-01-02T00:37 id=2006887489131458729 →- | The crazy young dumb Marxist has got the attention of the big influencers (amusingly this one rage quit over his own stupidity a year ago).  This is all downstream of Christianity btw: the true logos is in the book, properly understood via doctrine. Communists are some of the most Christian people out there. || CTX: Finally we have achieved the noble fusion of socialism and paranoid schizophrenia originally prophesied in the pages of Das Capital https://t.co/r7owkAwlOS https://t.co/D5evBl4ZAH
2026-01-02T00:39 id=2006888099167744180 →- | I moved to Miami to escape NYC taxes once I started making good money and had the cultural capital where I knew I could work remotely for a while.  My assessment of Miami is deeply snobbish and rude: it is the type of city smart people find repugnant.   Otherwise, it's paradise. https://t.co/VpnD86OPLc || CTX: This was tried during Covid and it turns out that while Miami has its merits , it also sucks for a lot of reasons https://t.co/rvJ7DORkwD
2026-01-02T00:40 id=2006888317791686704 →jcksny | @jcksny @moultano He was a leftist so probably would've appreciated the labor theory value heuristics behind such a waste of time too || CTX: @moultano dfw hung himself; the least you could do is finish his book; ya know, for the effort
2026-01-02T00:42 id=2006888914053976112 →philosophymeme0 | @philosophymeme0 I might actually hate Zizek more than Ayn Rand.  I mean, say what you want about Rand, but at least she's dead. || CTX: https://t.co/XbUhsBsMEZ
2026-01-02T00:46 id=2006889848163152362 →- | I try so hard to have faith in humanity, I really do. https://t.co/nyXbmvR6KY || CTX: we broke the record!!! $1,000,000 in less than an hour 🤩 you guys are the best thank you for changing my life 🫶🏼 https://t.co/3YrEiwf8fB
2026-01-02T00:48 id=2006890287432609903 →jcksny | @jcksny @moultano I literally work in the hedge fund industry. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano i'm appreciating the time you wasted on this reply. wait, are you a commie, too?
2026-01-02T00:49 id=2006890561194934521 →vocalcry | @vocalcry That's not why. It's because they think foreigners have STDs and Japanese don't. || CTX: Japan apparently has a very vivid sex club scene and foreigners generally aren’t allowed because they don’t follow the rules https://t.co/CzTLLkRTag
2026-01-02T00:51 id=2006891040641527899 →tedsrats | @tedsrats @vocalcry Yeah finding a brothel that will take foreigners isn't hard, they do exist.  Circe is an idiot, laundering Japanese racism as some sort of indictment against the white man, so stupid. || CTX: @vocalcry The same person you are quote tweeting details their sex with a Japanese prostitute here https://t.co/UR0jGPJc2V
2026-01-02T00:57 id=2006892516784865285 →- | You should take this website more seriously, try to appeal to the people on this website, you know like use this website to build a community https://t.co/TEKYBFsyV0 || CTX: Last year on NYE I was sobbing in bed alone as my ex drove around poaching and looking for a dead animal to fuck  This year I’m dancing around my kitchen slurping raw bone marrow  Full of bliss  My life is the epitome of “started from the b
2026-01-02T01:13 id=2006896597448491270 →- | White man too barbaric for enlightened superior Nippon brothel  It's like a parody of the Place, Japan meme https://t.co/tlzm2oAVUz || CTX: Japan apparently has a very vivid sex club scene and foreigners generally aren’t allowed because they don’t follow the rules https://t.co/CzTLLkRTag
2026-01-02T01:13 id=2006896600246006034 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I'm not offended for white people as much as I'm offended for white men who have had bad sex with Japanese prostitutes. it is a specific demographic, but I must protect my people. || CTX: White man too barbaric for enlightened superior Nippon brothel  It's like a parody of the Place, Japan meme https://t.co/tlzm2oAVUz
2026-01-02T02:12 id=2006911511172976762 →- | This would be a great start to a movie. Protagonist goes inside and gets caught up in some fanciful situation that results in action scene after action scene.  Can even call it "Please see cashier". Someone alert A24 https://t.co/ftIchwiYqk || CTX: This. https://t.co/QBxHPo3zoH https://t.co/Awwfc99LgS
2026-01-02T02:27 id=2006915213996720363 →- | Alcoholism is a great example of a latent cluster concept. Each instance of alcoholism is recognizable from its family resemblance to other instances of alcoholism even if one descriptive definition of alcoholism is impossible.  Wittgenstein remains undefeated. https://t.co/rYBUhUPt38 || CTX: Some pople have a worryingly inflated perspective of addiction disorders. Alcoholism isn't when you have a problematic relationship with alcohol, alcoholism is when your alcohol dependency is so severe that it interrupts your professional a
2026-01-02T02:28 id=2006915571309547896 →De4dGrrrl | @De4dGrrrl Nah man Japanese prostitution is cleaner more dignified more ethical more zutto kawaii than your baka gaijin mind can comprehend.   https://t.co/DYb6P4DMrp || CTX: White man too barbaric for enlightened superior Nippon brothel  It's like a parody of the Place, Japan meme https://t.co/tlzm2oAVUz
2026-01-02T02:33 id=2006916617331159419 →- | Yeah only AI produces slop everything human made has intrinsic value is wonderful and special how dare you insult handcrafted artisanal writing you uncultured swine https://t.co/NqCvYVNaaX || CTX: https://t.co/UTTW425erX
2026-01-02T03:03 id=2006924247202148382 →- | In the 90s pretentious pseudo intellectuals read DFW and The New Yorker.   Now they read Gwern, LessWrong forums, and Substack.  My only conclusion from this is that we've made culture more nerdy.
2026-01-02T03:48 id=2006935529875795992 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Hard to describe the Protestant stigma against paying for sex to anyone not deeply steeped in the culture.  Plus wouldn't be surprised if most of these guys do that too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why not just take the money and pay for a whore I’m dead serious I have literally never understood this
2026-01-02T04:16 id=2006942620392763871 →DurumMac | @DurumMac God reveals that to me every fucking day man || CTX: What if God decided to reveal to you that you aren’t part of the elect?  What now dear Calvin?
2026-01-02T04:17 id=2006942889985933823 →historyinmemes | @historyinmemes Legit better than Kraftwerk || CTX: Long before Daft Punk, there was a French group called The Droids, laying early groundwork for the robotic electronic aesthetic that would later captivate the world. https://t.co/9wlkCXSFMK
2026-01-02T05:09 id=2006955948057964867 →- | "Nietzsche confused freedom and solitude, as do all proud spirits" - Albert Camus
2026-01-02T05:45 id=2006965122288464170 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Nah man it's cool being part of the elect seems like a lot of hard work || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That is horrifically terrifying if taken literally
2026-01-02T05:48 id=2006965781809283402 →bigblackjacobin | @bigblackjacobin This feels like an expected unsurprising outcome.  Perpetuate dead weight loss, be opaque, and you can keep complaining about perpetual dead weight loss.  Corruption flywheel. || CTX: it’s so insane that we have some of the most corrupt, craven, idiotic, selfish, pathological individuals accusing everyone else of being the problem https://t.co/16XBzcM39s
2026-01-02T05:51 id=2006966483361071589 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ One of the first times I flew business we had a dinner served by a chef who had quit a two star restaurant she founded to work exclusively for the airline.   I couldn't have known this exists in coach.  These tweets are just the cattle class not knowing what it's like up front. || CTX: This is just complete rubbish. Going either in Business or First have become significantly better in just the last 20 years. That includes vastly superior food options.    The braying about the “golden age” of air travel is from lumpen prol
2026-01-02T07:24 id=2006990021895794998 →moultano | @moultano I'm going to die? Srsly? omg this is the first I'm heading about this, that sucks balls || CTX: If you think my essay on parenthood and time was dour, you should read this one. https://t.co/dKmPKJ9nIE https://t.co/xMJWL91ssP
2026-01-02T07:26 id=2006990345138278788 →DurumMac | @DurumMac If the retirement benefit is paid by your ex-employer, I'm afraid you're still on the clock || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Great retirement benefits.. like.. not being in the eternal fire
2026-01-02T07:28 id=2006991065484853716 →startupmillyair | @startupmillyair maybe I'm weird but I find the thought of strangers masturbating to AI nudes of my gf fucking hilarious || CTX: I had a childhood friend get exposed a while ago of having ai nudes of all our girlfriends.  this was way before image gen got way easier.  I haven’t let me girl post on ig for 5 years cause I felt this in my bones https://t.co/sriR4wh347
2026-01-02T07:30 id=2006991541278224713 →Flatt0pH8r | @Flatt0pH8r @milesFF007F @hecubian_devil That is fair!   I'd just say that demonstrates how true the theory is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @milesFF007F @hecubian_devil I feel like you see this panopticon take on in the comments of literally every thread about this topic.
2026-01-02T09:48 id=2007026143229333948 →- | Is/ought fallacy dangerous when betting on the future.  Sure, people shouldn't prefer AI over CGI over practical effects over black and white over silent movies over novels over written poems over spoken poems over conversation...   But people embrace new media tech, that IS true https://t.co/Rm5adwpQ9y || CTX: AI slop movies will be a thing because people have no taste https://t.co/XmE6PencTJ
2026-01-02T11:57 id=2007058614599794972 →allgarbled | @allgarbled @uncledoomer https://t.co/KQvUG06X3B || CTX: @uncledoomer I actually think it’s just two generations: zoomers and boomers. And millennials are boomers now. Soon even the zoomers will be boomers, and gen alphas will be zoomers.
2026-01-02T13:21 id=2007079834430882298 →- | Average /b/tard https://t.co/fuApIjrL8U || CTX: This response has me dying. I appreciate his completely respectable level of racism. https://t.co/buFHszOU4x https://t.co/EqaT8Hgl9L
2026-01-02T21:36 id=2007204289660514430 →- | Americans study walking like it's alien behavior https://t.co/1nJh5GepvE || CTX: The fact that “walking” is intense enough to work seems like the bigger deal to me with some notable implications for the built environment. https://t.co/tClqjI7Jhg
2026-01-02T22:02 id=2007210872566092088 →moultano | @moultano There's a "lump of will" fallacy here (this may have a term I just don't know it): "we" didn't make the internet. The internet was invented before I was born. Many people who lived as I did made the many elements of the internet into which I was thrown. || CTX: There is a constructive way to express this sentiment, but it has to start by acknowledging that it is all our own faults. We made the internet and then unmade it because we choose to do what we are doing right now. https://t.co/F7T6Ei4H0g
2026-01-02T22:13 id=2007213607218802707 →provisionalidea | General rule: the more vague and authoritative a movement's label is, the more pseudo intellectual and bankrupt it is.  Objectivism and rationalism are the obvious examples, but effective altruism makes the list too.  Compare with Utilitarianism--what exactly is utility? One must ask, because it's a legitimate intellectual movement. "We're just being rational" demonstrates it's a movement for midwits. || CTX: @SevaUT it’s kinda funny how we let people lay claim to terms like ‘realist’, ‘rationalist’, etc, as if those are just words to be claimed and not honorifics to be earned. we really need daesh-equivalent epithets to use instead.
2026-01-02T22:20 id=2007215520521797676 →- | Two days into the year and WSJ already secured dumbest article of the year award. https://t.co/FLvuHT1i2b || CTX: Gen Alpha has acquired a taste for shrimp tempura and salmon nigiri—and parents are paying a heavy price. 🍣 https://t.co/Dq8fwVMbAU https://t.co/ZM2AQ118Q2
2026-01-02T22:27 id=2007217107528991220 →- | Western Chivalry with Far East Asian Characteristics https://t.co/ogc2QgC32l || CTX: @ThatsMyFloor It’s like a weird mix of infantalising and deifying people. This is an adult woman drinking a bottle of water normally and it’s like “wow she managed to do it without a straw! She’s just like us, us normal humans”
2026-01-02T22:28 id=2007217481904243129 →helen | @helen This is a kind of mocking/bullying that needs a name. It's so specific, effective, and modern, it really deserves to be studied. || CTX: new shirt https://t.co/FXjfUmV9G0
2026-01-02T22:30 id=2007217963947204614 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @moultano Fundamental collective attribution error apparently is what it's called. || CTX: @moultano There's a "lump of will" fallacy here (this may have a term I just don't know it): "we" didn't make the internet. The internet was invented before I was born. Many people who lived as I did made the many elements of the internet i
2026-01-02T22:31 id=2007218265236644147 →cool0400 | @cool0400 @kishswim lmfao || CTX: @kishswim Some nigga in Europe is gonna be like: "actually we call that the *insert nationality here* sandwich"
2026-01-02T22:38 id=2007219989649207428 →- | I hate exclusiveness in all of its forms. Private clubs, universities, whatever, I've always hated creating in/out groups whenever unnecessary and then the love strewn on these arbitrary divisions offends me.  And yet! There are obviously many dumb people. We need to sort the dumdums from the not dumb.  I have no solution and frankly think the way I've lived my life wrt this tension has been in error. I've spent much time arguing with dumdums instead of building or creating new knowledge.  But! This also means I have learned an awful lot about what motivates and influences dumb people, which I like to call rhetoric but is really just marketing. And since marketing is now the most important mode of communication, that tacit knowledge definitely has value. Plus, it means I've avoided the ego traps I've seen those who didn't leave academia get sucked into while also avoiding the philosophical suicide so many men seem happy to do so they can have a 9-5 job with good health insurance.
2026-01-02T22:39 id=2007220241034793063 →_EricHu | @_EricHu Good word for it. Tacky distraction and a cheap compensation for stealing people's autonomy and political freedom is indeed slop. || CTX: skyslop https://t.co/aZXSrcrDSn
2026-01-02T22:48 id=2007222560111604163 →1889lw | @1889lw Every effort to create an exclusive non-fumb people club ends in disaster. Plus, trying to do that virtually makes it even harder.  I don't think there's a solution to the problem of dumb anymore than there's a solution to the problem of evil cuz, well, they're the same thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm what about an exclusively non-dumb people club. I mean they are unavoidable and thus part of life
2026-01-02T22:53 id=2007223699829928178 →- | The issue with publishing costs going to zero is that you need to market a message to get noticed, so much so that now people confuse marketing or assume marketing is a law of nature, necessary and integral to the message.  Hence why the distinction between content and ad is so quaint and outdated.  Also hence, if you want to produce art unspoiled by marketing, you have to just accept that it won't be noticed in this age.   But it might get noticed in the post-marketing age, and AI has almost guaranteed the survival of your work as long as you publish it somewhere where the robots will vacuum it up. So target audiences that haven't been born yet.
2026-01-02T22:55 id=2007224286571049081 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 Seems to me the most Reddit thing you can do online is accuse others of being Reddit. || CTX: It's reddit to ask this question when most major religions have dedicated tons of writing to answer this question, but the thing is most followers of those religions haven't read or are familiar with that work so they are reddit too. https:
2026-01-02T23:04 id=2007226432003682473 →7ohntitor | @7ohntitor @apralky I've been told by people I trust and who def have the qualifications that his research really was world class.  I wonder if this is just what punditry is: pushing out half-baked ideas IS the job. He's supposed to sound like a midwit, anything better and it'd be too hard to read. || CTX: @apralky Paul Krugman has so much hype as an economist and then you read his blog and it's all like Noah Smith tier boomer librant
2026-01-02T23:05 id=2007226761432772815 →del4rel | @del4rel @eyezcreems @apralky Can you explain to me why he's so very wrong? || CTX: @eyezcreems @apralky elon needs to be in jail for putting obviously intellectually handicapped people on my tl
2026-01-02T23:11 id=2007228213173596423 →DurumMac | I've faced this issue for over 20 years. One of my close "friends" (idk if I should call him that) is both obscenely intelligent and a self-absorbed narcissistic asshole.  I still maintain regular contact with him because it makes me smarter.  It's also bizarre because he thinks of me as a dear friend (and he should as I've legit saved his life) without realizing I find him rather repulsive because not only has he never tried to return the favor, he doesn't even know he should. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well some highly intelligent people are…. Wicked and horrendous.  Do you want to be in the same club as them?
2026-01-02T23:12 id=2007228632734019628 →7ohntitor | @7ohntitor @apralky The real issue is, for some bizarre reason, economists have convinced the world they have transferrable knowledge that means their opinions on everything are valid.   Interesting since those same economists tell us to specialize and question transferrable knowledge across domains || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @apralky I was being harsh, but I imagine his knowledge is quite spiky and on certain topics he's very sharp
2026-01-02T23:14 id=2007228913022546112 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @satyanadella Almost all AI outputs are slop, indeed.   Almost all human outputs are slop, too. || CTX: Slop slop slop slop slop Fuck you @satyanadella and fuck your slopmaking too. https://t.co/PiH6U2br6W
2026-01-02T23:15 id=2007229241549832318 →- | We need more pics of filthy Japan on the internet to fight the idiotic myths. I promise I'll upload some next time I visit. https://t.co/yd4Aruzsiw || CTX: errrrr actually ☝️ https://t.co/RkBI47RvyZ https://t.co/n43SOFUyAH
2026-01-02T23:28 id=2007232652991152196 →cagiago_ | @cagiago_ In South Africa I'd assume that means "if you're black, your life is in danger if you don't leave immediately", in which case the sign is quite expected. || CTX: There’s genuinely zero reason man https://t.co/B6rEAg0gg8 https://t.co/Z7yLU1AcH2
2026-01-02T23:30 id=2007232985809240101 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban Why? || CTX: In general, countries should try to avoid having 2x as many deaths as they do births. https://t.co/r5Bunr3HTP
2026-01-02T23:31 id=2007233326403514384 →__paleologo | @__paleologo Why do so many macro funds do so well and attract a growing amount of capital? || CTX: In any hedge fund, there is always a small contingent of mostly unpopular people who implore others not to believe macroeconomic forecasts, read into factor rotations, seasonal effects, calling bottoms etc. These things are like astrology o
2026-01-02T23:49 id=2007237814786949369 →6skqv | @6skqv I love filthy countries!   I just wish you guys would stop promoting raping kids with all that loli porn tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You don't have to visit such a filthy country.
2026-01-03T00:00 id=2007240641269625288 →- | Fantastic post.  1. Sounds smart but says nothing 2. Is historically inaccurate 3. Flattens the world in vague generalities  This is what people think AI slop is, and much AI text indeed is like this. So too is a lot of human-produced text. https://t.co/KAnHCoeIXT || CTX: its interesting how punks have written the hippies completely out of the counterculture. what's funny is the punks were less angry, less political and less militant than the hippies were. by embracing performative nihilism they neutralized 
2026-01-03T00:02 id=2007241085412880826 →rawmilkhoney | @rawmilkhoney And evidence that you're totally correct is all of the porn stars who leave the industry and have healthy productive lives, of which there are so many examples! || CTX: I hate to say it but she’s going to get married, have kids and live a normal life. Everyone wants to believe that if a woman whores around too much there will be some righteous hand of justice and retribution coming down on her but most of 
2026-01-03T00:16 id=2007244671244964346 →1889lw | @1889lw Play is more productive than seriousness.  AI is facilitated by chips we invented to play video games, for instance. Indeed, all forms of science and technology are just byproducts of language games people enjoy playing.  Asceticism was Wittgenstein's biggest error. || CTX: I think my motivation comes more from an intolerance of stupidity and unseriousness rather than, say, pursuit of knowledge, although idk what the difference is
2026-01-03T00:18 id=2007245265452085458 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea "Wow that person has overinflated the notion of individual, how can they be so wrong--" :checks profile: "oh yeah that's how they can be so wrong makes total sense" || CTX: this is a great example of an argument built on massive unstated assumptions about (1) what a single individual is capable of, (2) the idea that intelligence is a linear scalar quantity where bigger number = do more, and (3) that value is i
2026-01-03T00:33 id=2007249020612497423 →1889lw | @1889lw We just define "serious" differently. You seem to mean a kind of epistemic seriousness (which I find fun), I am thinking more of an affective seriousness (dour, no laughing, treat emotions as noise rather than signal). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would disagree with you. I’m more referring to philosophical unseriousness — a failure in identifying bad arguments, incoherent set of beliefs, etc. And well I don’t think these tech revolutions are achieved by playfulnes
2026-01-03T00:39 id=2007250489495457922 →- | AI deepfakes are good because they disincentivize people posting pictures of themselves online  We'll see less use of the internet as an attention seeking mechanism  People don't think enough about the positive externalities of clearly evil technologies. Consider the nuclear bomb
2026-01-03T00:41 id=2007251053545427387 →BellaWallerstei | @BellaWallerstei You made this tweet and you're in public affairs?!? Talk about immediate disqualification holy fuck || CTX: My image. My body. My property. Fuck Grok. https://t.co/WrR9tXGFs7
2026-01-03T00:46 id=2007252090532573498 →uncledoomer | @uncledoomer Oh look a clip from my favorite movie, "Why I Left America" || CTX: i hope shes having a good 2026 so far https://t.co/JRnwnKJL0b
2026-01-03T00:57 id=2007255024586653955 →1889lw | @1889lw this reminds me of the debate, and I forget who was involved, about whether two rational beings with the same access to information can ever disagree. I find that a fascinating question and I still don't have an answer to it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well I wouldn’t call that seriousness. I would call that having no life or needing to touch grass.
2026-01-03T01:38 id=2007265386971156906 →1889lw | @1889lw This is a real hazard NGL || CTX: Idk. I fear that my personal identity will fracture after adulting
2026-01-03T01:39 id=2007265637295690224 →- | Constraints produce art. https://t.co/LXAOsyirx3 || CTX: Britney Spears managing to sneak F-U-C-K-M-E on the radio should be studied in history books ✨ https://t.co/ZEs1Siy6Vf
2026-01-03T01:51 id=2007268561857937414 →- | Having nothing to do does not lead to happiness.  This is the major error that both Marx and Keynes got wrong.
2026-01-03T01:51 id=2007268651934855363 →DurumMac | @DurumMac 100% me, I assure you, no need to look further || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait, I thought your profile picture was *literally* you..? Am I… mistaken?
2026-01-03T01:54 id=2007269354031976756 →JasonKelce | @JasonKelce https://t.co/2VpH19mbie || CTX: I know it looks ridiculous, but can we at least agree this shit is insanely athletic https://t.co/bvbsPtn2S8
2026-01-03T02:00 id=2007270757697798240 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias I am impressed with the humblebrag: "look at how much free time I have!" || CTX: My actual 2025 resolution was to read novels   https://t.co/wd0IW9I3HR https://t.co/vKkIWl7U6Y
2026-01-03T02:02 id=2007271356589899998 →- | RT @HumansNoContext: https://t.co/L78NsWqbwA || CTX: https://t.co/L78NsWqbwA
2026-01-03T02:08 id=2007272835203686502 →- | Possibly the wisest tweet on Earth.  The problem is this is so densely compressed wisdom you'd need to be so wise to understand what this is saying that you don't actually need to see it. https://t.co/3W9lBgOp31 || CTX: Human Affairs https://t.co/cRY0fbFdBx
2026-01-03T03:36 id=2007294927034839521 →- | ChatGPT is smarter than ever but a worse writer than ever. These little parentheticals show up all the time, they're stupid and unnecessary and idk why they keep showing up. https://t.co/br0Q9n91eG
2026-01-03T03:45 id=2007297160652759191 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 Absolutely perfectly said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Happiness is, for the most part, a demand problem, not a supply one
2026-01-03T03:47 id=2007297787738857750 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Depends on whether we get the guy who writes entire books on grains of rice to do the job || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just women, I suspect  I'm curious how my penis would be depicted if I'm being completely honest
2026-01-03T03:49 id=2007298137153839247 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I'm sure some are okay ethically but they're still morons.   I'm cool with morons trying not to be morons but this isn't that, this is morons trying not to look like morons || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Some are okay.  Some are so deep into their own bubble vernacular that you can't talk to them rationally (in the real sense of the word, not their retarded localized label) about why they don't need snickers bars to work an
2026-01-03T05:41 id=2007326526740820136 →- | His hatred of pedophilia meant he had to wait 18 years.  It was a long time, not because he waited that long for sex (he did not, just waited that long with her), but because of the hassle. A full eighteen years of surveillance, checking fortifications, and of course all the infrastructure: food, cleaning, repairs, education. Most of her needs could be fulfilled by robots, but the robots could not all be repaired by robots, and managing a staff of women to repair the robots was expensive, since so few qualified for the job would accept it. The cleaners and food preparers were easier to find, but even they too sometimes balked: so he had to find others to replace them, and that meant job interviews, dealing with employment contracts, and the other minutiae that made the whole operation possible.  I know it sounds impossible, which is why we must admire his determination; less willful men, less assured men, men who were less anointed with the power of agency, would have given up along the way.  He was made of sterner stuff.  And so the eighteen years passed. She was educated, trained, given plenty of room to walk around, plenty of (female) companionship to pass the time and stave off madness. But she was also perfectly ensconced and surveilled, so much so that any hint of a direct transfer of molecules from any other male on earth to her was immediately falsifiable.  He had done what sultans of the past had yearned to do, what medieval kings were often described as striving to do, and what many incels of today yearn to do: he had preserved her purity beyond any shadow of a doubt.   Virtue beyond reproach had found an instantiation that met its Platonic ideal.  And so it was after eighteen years of utmost patience that he finally plucked the flower that he had cultivated. Of course they surrounded the event with the pomp and circumstance he specified, according to his specifications. The ones with the golds, as they say, makes the rules.  Only she and him were there at that moment; no onlookers, male or female, were invited, no windows or cameras gave access to a possible onlooker. What transpired that night remained undocumented, its details a secret between man and woman--as he wanted.  But stories can be told.   Descriptions can be given, narratives can be narrated. The man can of course tell of his experience, the most pure deflowering, the ending of the most virgin of virginities, the cessation of a spotlessness Mary herself did not experience.  But would he?   That was the question that prompted me to ask. I could not help it, my curiosity killing me as I said something lame and insufficient to the gravity of the moment, something like, "how was it?"   But his response! As lame as my response was, as bathetic as my diction and pathetic as my mind was at that moment, they did nothing to dull the sharpness of my mind which, like a magnet, would grasp onto every metallic filament of his response with every bit of force my soul could muster. So I remember word for word his response:  "Eh, it was alright."
2026-01-03T05:42 id=2007326693313421664 →- | His hatred of pedophilia meant he had to wait 18 years.  It was a long time, not because he waited that long for sex (he did not, just waited that long with her), but because of the hassle. A full eighteen years of surveillance, checking fortifications, and of course all the infrastructure: food, cleaning, repairs, education. Most of her needs could be fulfilled by robots, but the robots could not all be repaired by robots, and managing a staff of women to repair the robots was expensive, since so few qualified for the job would accept it. The cleaners and food preparers were easier to find, but even they too sometimes balked: so he had to find others to replace them, and that meant job interviews, dealing with employment contracts, and the other minutiae that made the whole operation possible.  I know it sounds impossible, which is why we must admire his determination; less willful men, less assured men, men who were less anointed with the power of agency, would have given up along the way.  He was made of sterner stuff.  And so the eighteen years passed. She was educated, trained, given plenty of room to walk around, plenty of (female) companionship to pass the time and stave off madness. But she was also perfectly ensconced and surveilled, so much so that any hint of a direct transfer of molecules from any other male on earth to her was immediately falsifiable.  He had done what sultans of the past had yearned to do, what medieval kings were often described as striving to do, and what many incels of today yearn to do: he had preserved her purity beyond any shadow of a doubt.   Virtue beyond reproach had found an instantiation that met its Platonic ideal.  And so it was after eighteen years of utmost patience that he finally plucked the flower that he had cultivated. Of course they surrounded the event with the pomp and circumstance he specified, according to his specifications. The ones with the golds, as they say, makes the rules.  Only she and him were there at that moment; no onlookers, male or female, were invited, no windows or cameras gave access to a possible onlooker. What transpired that night remained undocumented, its details a secret between man and woman--as he wanted.  But stories can be told.   Descriptions can be given, narratives can be narrated. The man can of course tell of his experience, the most pure deflowering, the ending of the most virgin of virginities, the cessation of a spotlessness Mary herself did not experience.  But would he?   That was the question that prompted me to ask. I could not help it, my curiosity killing me as I said something lame and insufficient to the gravity of the moment, something like, "how was it?"   But his response! As lame as my response was, as bathetic as my diction and pathetic as my mind was at that moment, they did nothing to dull the sharpness of my mind which, like a magnet, would grasp onto every metallic filament of his response with every bit of force my soul could muster. So I remember word for word his response:  "Eh, it was alright."
2026-01-03T05:44 id=2007327185640784129 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Claude sucks ass man. https://t.co/G2RbTr1zOi || CTX: His hatred of pedophilia meant he had to wait 18 years.  It was a long time, not because he waited that long for sex (he did not, just waited that long with her), but because of the hassle. A full eighteen years of surveillance, checking fo
2026-01-03T05:51 id=2007329059672609147 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Post apocalyptic novel where everyone needs to seduce AIs to keep living is not the worst premise I've ever seen. || CTX: even superintelligence will be defenseless against cuteness https://t.co/QY3EOlzocj
2026-01-03T05:53 id=2007329509511705009 →R_Thaler | Sure, if their mental model of fairness value exceeds the other values they get out of the product.  Consider "The Button", many will make others suffer for their own benefit, and this is far less extreme.   ... has any behavioral economist done experiments of the "Press this and a stranger you don't know will suffer x" type? Surely this is a thing. || CTX: The research i did with Kahneman and Knetsch on fairness 40 years ago suggests that if it were known that a firm behaved this way they would lose both workers and customers. Perceptions of fairness matter in markets. Still true I hope. http
2026-01-03T05:57 id=2007330420761997640 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Gemini's response is autistic, ChatGPT's is annoying mature student in the front row, Claude is the annoying blue hair protesting outside the classroom that I assigned this text in the first place. || CTX: Claude sucks ass man. https://t.co/G2RbTr1zOi
2026-01-03T06:01 id=2007331362815320415 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson Worse than Hong Kong? || CTX: tokyo is so crowded its physically painful 😫
2026-01-03T06:08 id=2007333246439436347 →CartoonsHateHer | This is what I love about this "everyone wants to have a newsletter" moment.  You can actually write an article stating the obvious and it's relevant because the pressure of being unusual yielded such bizarre idiocy.  You can see the pendulum of motivations in the attention economy swing back and forth. Quite mesmerizing. || CTX: Pre-vibe-shift, I noticed a sizeable number of expectant parents (including dads) openly worry that their infant or unborn sons would later become violent misogynists. I argue that going into parenthood with this belief about your son was b
2026-01-03T06:09 id=2007333517722780027 →ThatOtherBoi | @ThatOtherBoi @Halalcoholism So it's destined to be bad, just a question of which bad || CTX: @Halalcoholism Before Musk, it was Tumblr.  After Musk, it’s Stormfront.
2026-01-03T06:11 id=2007334006443086213 →Maddy_Matinee | @Maddy_Matinee Most underutilized talent in Hollywood || CTX: Andy Daly stuns in Eastbound and Down Chapter 4 (David Gordon Green) https://t.co/bUD7voNZnE
2026-01-03T06:12 id=2007334220407156750 →Impitoyable | @Impitoyable @TheExtremeMusi1 You mean all over the wall behind the couch || CTX: @TheExtremeMusi1 The emotion certainly ended up going somewhere eventually.
2026-01-03T06:36 id=2007340204844306621 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu And while it sucks @besttrousers won't respond to this, since it's a clear obvious falsification of his undeservedly smug statement, he will not, because he doesn't care about correctness, he cares about being seen as better than.  Being accurate is orthogonal to his real goals. || CTX: Darling ran the Economics subreddit into the ground.  He's a competent but by no means impressive dude with an econ degree that works at a small organization as a number cruncher.  His gimmick is always "non-experts don't understand X" whic
2026-01-03T06:39 id=2007340924108742942 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago They're just wannabe scientists istg I find so many modern philosophers perplexing. You wanna do science (or politics for the Continental side), just go do that then. || CTX: Just a reminder that a majority of philosophers are naturalists re metaphilosophy and physicalists re the mind. https://t.co/xpx7GtTv4y
2026-01-03T06:43 id=2007342097784013193 →lu_sichu | I don't think that's what happened here: https://t.co/aODcsnXLRD  What I see is: him not understanding the point or him changing the subject and using (bad) rhetorical gestures to do so.  Clearly he originally meant "they haven't read Ricardo, he'd never say X" not "this one obscure passage I totally had in mind absolutely agrees with my original point, I just didn't specify my point clearly enough."  It's a very typical rhetorical gesture common among academic types (gee guess how I know that), and usually Matt responds at this point with a "nah, you just aren't smart enough to understand me" which tbh I'd be willing to concede if I didn't have a much better career than he does. || CTX: @lu_sichu "better machines at EVERY TASK X that are cheaper and more capable than we are"  You are misunderstanding the argument I am making. I am perfectly comfortable assuming that this happens.   What I am saying is that people do not un
2026-01-03T07:00 id=2007346311822229905 →ThatOtherBoi | @ThatOtherBoi @Halalcoholism Extremely compelling and I think accurate description of what happened! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Halalcoholism Tumblr-era Twitter was better for the right because it allowed the left to be taken over by its most alienating fringe.  By buying Twitter, Musk freed liberals from the authoritarian group-think.  Now conserv
2026-01-03T07:14 id=2007349930625786165 →- | Back when I was an academic my field was "codicology" and one of the odd things I'd realized is that there was a fetish of the codex that had developed since the middle ages. Not a fetish for the book, for the codex specifically, and that had all sorts of weird implications. https://t.co/th6aOhOGkx || CTX: All the Sarah J Maas 😭 it’s giving https://t.co/LA2AswJukF https://t.co/OMcw1oCLJp
2026-01-03T07:14 id=2007349935210147964 →47fucb4r8c69323 | One implication ofc was that you'd get a subculture of people who conflate reading texts on pages printed between two covers with being intelligent, yielding contempt for audiobooks, praise of romance novels over blog posts by scientists and all other kinds of weirdness. || CTX: Back when I was an academic my field was "codicology" and one of the odd things I'd realized is that there was a fetish of the codex that had developed since the middle ages. Not a fetish for the book, for the codex specifically, and that h
2026-01-03T07:14 id=2007349940201419151 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I guess I should've tried to write about this more, probably would've turned into the Walter J. Ong of my generation (a pathetic goal to have, mind you). || CTX: One implication ofc was that you'd get a subculture of people who conflate reading texts on pages printed between two covers with being intelligent, yielding contempt for audiobooks, praise of romance novels over blog posts by scientists an
2026-01-03T07:20 id=2007351314402161009 →hdevalence | @hdevalence whatever we want apparently || CTX: what the fuck are we doing here man
2026-01-03T07:52 id=2007359329859785199 →- | If I was an investor, I can imagine diversifying my AI bets to include Claude as a hedge against litigation risk (if harmful AI becomes a legal cudgel). So even if I fucking despise the firm, I can see reason to invest in it as an instructional investor. Huge lesson there.
2026-01-03T09:27 id=2007383333207183789 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 https://t.co/5m6NlHOUeD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you are really good at writing, you had me gripped from the first sentence and that last evaluation was really unsatisfying/infuriating
2026-01-03T09:46 id=2007388194527162442 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 yup || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 rationalism and less wrong? you mean yudhowsky's stuff? lmao
2026-01-03T22:47 id=2007584670574395538 →- | Oh look more "academia is special and you should feel grateful for getting paid your meager wages if you don't like it go get a real job" bullshit.   Always love seeing this justification for bad pay/conditions. Both validates my reason to flee and my eroding respect for academia https://t.co/NQQ8IS7MOB || CTX: The problem with the “academia is just a job” framing is that it redefines the enterprise in a way that diminishes those who are genuinely dedicated to the craft.  No one is entitled to a career in academia.  It has always been a selective 
2026-01-03T23:07 id=2007589721359413575 →- | Fascinating question only an American could ask.  They'll go to dynasticism.  "How dare you criticize my lifestyle, my parents work very hard" is something I have heard wealthy adults say in non-American countries.   They'll justify it by saying their blood is rich. https://t.co/Fmjd9K2Ly7 || CTX: I think this is right. Something I’m curious about: granting we get strong AGI/ASI, it will plausibly, as Dwarkesh and Trammell predict, cause massive inequality and entrench the power of capital. At the same time, it will undermine the str
2026-01-03T23:09 id=2007590196674752637 →- | Reminds me of Nabokov telling a student at Cornell he won't be a good novelist because he can't identify the genus of tree outside.  A story that endures because it makes artist look particular but the story exists because the artist is just a dick. https://t.co/kkXLvo8xxa || CTX: Once during a STUDIO GHIBLI job interview, Hayao Miyazaki told applicants: "Totoro is actually a carnivorous creature, and the reason he didn’t eat Satsuki and Mei is simply because he wasn’t hungry."  But Kenji Itoso replied, "Totoro has m
2026-01-03T23:10 id=2007590465940664343 →- | Imagine the smell. https://t.co/Oh89fgQ2FT || CTX: freddie mercury en los 80s: https://t.co/FMuTVkzGYu https://t.co/3UDJn1qNHm
2026-01-03T23:39 id=2007597772158165499 →- | https://t.co/vJUYItPinU https://t.co/8e6moiQeRo || CTX: @Herring1967 He's appalling throughout. Why anyone thought Chevy Chase is deserving of a 2 hour documentary is baffling.
2026-01-04T00:43 id=2007613698890989615 →- | Nietzsche wrote a long argument about how societies leverage concepts such as altruism to milk value out of individuals, but this dude spells it out in two sentences.   I just can't hate social media when it produces things like this. https://t.co/xVuLrBSwHC || CTX: https://t.co/Hr9g0sQV6x https://t.co/Gm3EH8EgC5
2026-01-04T01:20 id=2007623218077790280 →- | The expectation of intransigence keeps science and society behind a lot.  Scholar makes a great argument but his terms slide between concepts. He needs an ad hoc patch to avoid being accused of inconsistent or (gasp!) being muddled.  We're all muddled.
2026-01-04T01:21 id=2007623365465649495 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea America more and more is looking like Biff Tannen's America in Back to the Future II. || CTX: oh my god polymarket actually renamed their account “newswire” https://t.co/k1k7vOzvSB
2026-01-04T01:27 id=2007624859132850576 →- | https://t.co/hU9hohDAmT  Big if true
2026-01-04T01:30 id=2007625605622444439 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ And what's that? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is only one instance where they are right tho.
2026-01-04T01:30 id=2007625619476242686 →DurumMac | @DurumMac To experience? Idk, haven't tried counterfactual yet but would love to || CTX: Which one is more fun?
2026-01-04T01:34 id=2007626755671240852 →DurumMac | @DurumMac oh well answer's obvious then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In conversations
2026-01-04T01:41 id=2007628527806673219 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I mean, destroying all life in the universe would lead to everyone and everything else having nothing to do, but it wouldn't lead to happiness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Having nothing to do leads to happiness when everything you do leads to everyone and everything else having nothing to do.   By everyone and everything i mean literally.
2026-01-04T01:46 id=2007629797623771353 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson @MatthewRideout Serious question.   A is hurting C and B is hurting D.  If I hurt A, C feels better and if I hurt B, D feels better.  If I hurt A, E will give me $100. If I hurt B, I get $0.  Is it unethical to hurt A? || CTX: @MatthewRideout imagine how busy we would be if we made it our job to go after every shitty dictator on earth! its a huge list
2026-01-04T01:47 id=2007629905077694881 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Which pipe? || CTX: The pipe is no-thing https://t.co/HKa3rK582e
2026-01-04T01:47 id=2007629928297291778 →1889lw | @1889lw It's not as lonely as you think it is. || CTX: I mean, true PhD is lonely, but I’m always lonely anyway
2026-01-04T02:05 id=2007634482346721340 →- | That's what's so great about freedom: you have the freedom to make it shit if you want to.  It's called freedom not "guarantee everything will be swell-dom" https://t.co/mzVeD5cTB5 || CTX: @philosophors She makes freedom sound a bit shit
2026-01-04T02:16 id=2007637176469860825 →1889lw | @1889lw PhD. My PhD was of the solitary research type but I regularly met and interacted with other PhDs, assistant profs, postdocs, etc. My social life in grad school was more active than undergrad.   Only problem is I had contempt for almost all of them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you mean PhD or
2026-01-04T02:20 id=2007638134738301247 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson @MatthewRideout Assume all is equal unless specified otherwise (so A and B are equally harmful and C and D equally harmed).  As for the money being irrelevant unless it changes motives: how can I know if it actually changes my motives? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MatthewRideout are A and B equally blameworthy? is the harm you inflict equal in both cases? too vague
2026-01-04T02:22 id=2007638622770737629 →- | I oppose the extrajudicial capturing and imprisoning of Maduro because I don't want more foreigners in America.
2026-01-04T02:28 id=2007640337993609549 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I genuinely like you so obv I want you out of America || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Even me? :(
2026-01-04T02:59 id=2007647965272494116 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson idk when or why but he blocked me, his account seems like a silly gimmick so idk why anyone would have any emotional attachment to it at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if that guy ever followed me i would kms
2026-01-04T03:22 id=2007653889752047901 →ChrisJBakke | @ChrisJBakke Why don't macro funds buy fast food restaurants near all places like the Pentagon and use that traffic to allocate bets? || CTX: “Your father owned the Papa John’s next to the Pentagon” https://t.co/whXgLfn2Ds
2026-01-04T03:36 id=2007657479979807164 →DurumMac | @DurumMac For me I was 8 or 9, saw several young children eating ramen on the ground taking a break from selling trinkets on the street.  I didn't deserve my lot nor did they deserve theirs.  A deep lifelong guilt. Yours was much worse than mine, too. || CTX: I Remeber when I was about 10 or 11 I was in a poor and impoverished country with my family, and I saw a poor little girl there, about my age searching in heaps of garbage. I didn’t see her face, just her head covering- she picked something
2026-01-04T03:38 id=2007657859329524210 →- | My bet (and if I'm right the historians are gonna love this tweet in particular) is that the books of our time that will be remembered aren't published. https://t.co/BVRFJpMxPC || CTX: The more I read older books (1800–2000) the more I realize that not a single book from the 21st century will be remembered and I smile at that thought
2026-01-04T03:38 id=2007657989344506372 →logicus | @logicus Thanks, too kind, but I don't really code and what very little I do, I use OpenAI Codex and find it works for all I want to do.   What I really need is ideas of programs to make! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47 have you tried claude code? i may still have a free week pass left if you’d like.
2026-01-04T03:40 id=2007658470263402946 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson @adastroworld This goes very against my personal best interests but I support it because it is fair. || CTX: @adastroworld man i think taxing unrealized gains is the dumbest shit. just tax loan income and gains as regular income, problem solved
2026-01-04T04:01 id=2007663724769972697 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson @adastroworld I meant tax capital gains and interest from loans as taxable regular income || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @adastroworld i dont think its fair at all. market goes up, i pay taxes, market goes down, do i get a refund? unrealized gains arent wealth! but loans u take out on them is and should be taxed as income
2026-01-04T05:22 id=2007684041190056264 →Colin_d_m | @Colin_d_m She looks like Daisy, uh, whatsername who is in a Star Wars movie || CTX: Fake men need a 2000 pound princess-mobile to carry them around real men carry their girlfriends on their back everywhere https://t.co/hKyEW99wwN https://t.co/BUUkZTVDZL
2026-01-04T05:30 id=2007686002081751151 →- | RT @timesnewemma: https://t.co/KDbloqXrco || CTX: https://t.co/KDbloqXrco https://t.co/y9A2ONBvGn
2026-01-04T05:36 id=2007687563679854761 →- | I get very, very few argumentative replies on this website, maybe like 3% of total. How is that possible?
2026-01-04T08:44 id=2007734907267911727 →- | If God punishes the intentionality of sin, the more self aware and self conscious, the more damned. The stupid and self absorbed are the children of Heaven
2026-01-04T09:32 id=2007746909574996107 →BasseyEmm53639 | @BasseyEmm53639 That's consoling, thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Awareness increases responsibility, not damnation. Conscience also gives room for repentance and choice.
2026-01-04T23:29 id=2007957707115110788 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea The fear is the goal. Make Canadians and Europeans panic so they won't think clearly.   Most effective mad man theory of history yet, Trump is better at it than Nixon.   Only way to beat him is to remain calm. || CTX: it is fascinating to see armies of American and American-themed bots and trolls now swarming and attacking worried Canadians. https://t.co/dLeO7fIuS7
2026-01-04T23:36 id=2007959233812468159 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @lu_sichu That makes more sense to me than calling it "psychosis". Seems like a very different species of thing. || CTX: @lu_sichu its the same feeling as the "wikipedia link click blackhole"
2026-01-04T23:43 id=2007961101473120466 →_NamrokNamrok_ | @_NamrokNamrok_ I miss when dumb people cared about celebrities instead of politics || CTX: I remember when dumb fucks said this about Iraq 😂 https://t.co/A1KOCXXWnB https://t.co/amR28Dzx1b
2026-01-04T23:52 id=2007963437721337875 →- | Yeah this is nonsense.  Many people are asking these questions, you just dislike the answers.  To say no one knows what's best is trivially true (the future is unpredictable), and to say people aren't asking these questions is wrong. Maybe you aren't seeing them or you dislike the answer, but they're being discussed.  I suspect this is more epistemic exhaustion: you see tons of people discussing a chaotic and somewhat destabilizing event and you want clarity and comfort from an authority, but you also don't really believe in authority (well not with a field like geopolitics, which you respect less than your field whatever it is), so you say "no one is doing the Real Thing" because the "Real Thing" you want is the "right answer" but you haven't really defined what would be right. You haven't even really defined the question.  Why am I writing all this out? Because I am guilty of doing what roon does and I should not do it. If anything this is a note to myself: acknowledge when you're exasperated by the epistemic uncertainty of the world and remember that, in Chaucer's House of Fame, the "man of greet auctoritee" never actually speaks. || CTX: people would rather recite some patriotic pablum than ask hard questions about what America should actually be doing. is its own constitution important or the whims of the executive? is it “based” to get involved in “foreign wars” or “cring
2026-01-04T23:55 id=2007964186698252472 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Over 2 in 3 adult women in the US (over 67%) are in the overweight or obese category (BMI ≥ 25). || CTX: https://t.co/3DlBJXHuub
2026-01-04T23:55 id=2007964183640612959 →- | https://t.co/3DlBJXHuub
2026-01-05T00:02 id=2007965801329066095 →anammostarac | @anammostarac Amusing to see you're based in Thailand, where I too am based. I find the quality of food on business class flights here very good, and the hotels--oh you're just trying to pander to the Americans to gain a following and milk your internet presence for cash my bad so sorry || CTX: Luxury is done. The quality of almost everything has gone down. No one is getting what they pay for, not even in first class. https://t.co/AhTNkjqHoQ
2026-01-05T00:52 id=2007978451664548024 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I wonder what Trump is trying to get Canadians attention away from and on to the annexation threat. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The annexation threats are serious and we are treating them as such.
2026-01-05T01:00 id=2007980540016890328 →- | novel idea: virus breaks out that affects 2/3 of just one gender. completely undetectable, it causes the infected to snap and go crazy at a random moment and kill their lover and themselves.
2026-01-05T01:00 id=2007980563140075652 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I never said there was any 4D Chess at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this isn’t some 4d chess, dude  there is no grand strategy in getting us to economically distance and guard ourselves from our southern neighbours
2026-01-05T01:04 id=2007981373165109408 →provisionalidea | they are a ploy to distract for sure, not necessarily to distract from something else though. what I'm trying to see is if there's any possible thing he's trying to distract from.   bullshit artists typically don't care if you're destabilized away from a goal, they just care that you're destabilized, but sometimes they do have something in mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 then I didn’t understand your message — it sounded like you were saying the annexation threats are a ploy to distract us from something else.
2026-01-05T01:06 id=2007982096493769116 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @provisionalidea the more I think about it, the more I think he just wants Canadians and Europeans to think less clearly. || CTX: they are a ploy to distract for sure, not necessarily to distract from something else though. what I'm trying to see is if there's any possible thing he's trying to distract from.   bullshit artists typically don't care if you're destabiliz
2026-01-05T01:16 id=2007984427545309300 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Seems very destabilizing to Canadian politics to talk to three Canadian insurrectionists? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this also isn’t distraction behaviour https://t.co/ecvI9DZkoE
2026-01-05T01:16 id=2007984610731495851 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Well, the "altering our entire national posture" may very well have been the goal, especially if that altering yields negative externalities or is counterproductive in the long run. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 then it has failed catastrophically. we’re more focused and galvanized than we’ve been in a very long time, altering our entire national posture.
2026-01-05T01:23 id=2007986351250210836 →Film_School_Dad | @Film_School_Dad @JeremyFoot1977 @KubrickPoint Well now I'm curious what you think about A. I. || CTX: @JeremyFoot1977 @KubrickPoint It's well worth your time. I'm a Kubrick nut so I love to deconstruct the films deeper meanings and Kubrick leaves clues everywhere. Plus, with his death before the film's release - it will always be the most m
2026-01-05T01:25 id=2007986862879817866 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/oijMijCUfe  This appeals to horny lonely losers who can't get laid.  The number of horny lonely losers will increase if there's a subset of men who refuse to have sex with fat women and the ratio of fat to thin increases. So are those premises true?   The issue is, I sound crazy. Because I am crazy. But you can be crazy and right. || CTX: Fun fact: Venezuela has six million women of childbearing age. Most of them are desperate for money. If we employ them as surrogates, we could easily make 60 million more Americans in one generation, and fight poverty in the global south.
2026-01-05T01:27 id=2007987375058944335 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak The thing is, this is a real determinant. A lot of American politics is the way it is because of widespread overweightness.  We just can't talk about these things because of a western obsession with the notion that humans are just temporarily embarrassed spirits. || CTX: I used to think this was a joke until I read The Problem of Socrates and saw that Nietzsche was completely serious. For the Athenians, the problem of Socrates, not Socrates' problem, is that he is to ugly to be Greek in any conventional way
2026-01-05T01:38 id=2007989999774642264 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea That all sounds like it'd depress Canadian innovation and economic growth. Maybe that's Trump's goal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah this is what I meant by 4d chess. us breaking off trade ties with the US, broading our relationships with china and the EU, building a large reserve citizen army to defend against invasion, and cutting the US off from 
2026-01-05T01:41 id=2007990765037998531 →- | https://t.co/7LFNSu0t8w
2026-01-05T01:52 id=2007993688174309836 →- | Desiring greatness is a sacrifice of the will to external judges.  You want to be great--according to whom?   If by peers, you've sold out your integrity. If by the generally accepted principle, you're now victim to the capricious mob. If by standards of the craft, you'll be obsolete fast. If by the rules of the form, you're now a slave to someone else's rubric.  Wanting to be great is a fool's errand. Better to aspire to be wise and compassionate.
2026-01-05T01:53 id=2007993831942476029 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea A citizen reserve army and less trade with the US are positive growth drivers for Canada? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Quite the opposite.
2026-01-05T01:56 id=2007994471263469885 →ChrisPainterYup | @ChrisPainterYup Oh that's because no one in a position of power really takes alignment/control all that seriously, nor should they. || CTX: I have the sense that, as of the last 6 months, a lot of tech now thinks an intelligence explosion is more plausible than they did previously.   But I don’t feel like I’m hearing a lot about that changing people’s minds on the importance of
2026-01-05T01:59 id=2007995444258099471 →dankwilderson | @dankwilderson Baudrillard is to the 21st century what Nietzsche was to the 20th istg || CTX: we have reached unprecedented lvls of baudrillard https://t.co/X6Vlqn3qEo https://t.co/4UjVkgnuuN
2026-01-05T02:06 id=2007997114950066274 →Film_School_Dad | @Film_School_Dad @JeremyFoot1977 @KubrickPoint Thanks, interesting reading! I am really curious why Kubrick was so invested in this movie in particular, and it seems like he's trying to say something very specific and condemnatory to his audience. Just not sure exactly what. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JeremyFoot1977 @KubrickPoint But, we don't live in that world. We live in the world with an "unfinished" Eyes Wide Shut and a Spielberg directed AI.  At least Spielberg made AI! And that IS something special.  Now, I think
2026-01-05T02:07 id=2007997335721427267 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I guess Trump was unintentionally a good catalyst for Canada then, encouraging economic diversification and domestic defense industry growth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. It spurs economic diversification and a domestic defence industry.
2026-01-05T02:23 id=2008001468411125992 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Never heard of the guy before (story is faintly familiar) but looking at his Wikipedia seems like his son is the most interesting person in that family. https://t.co/W4aZjUwPVR || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Marco Pierre White had the same realization. I think it’s fair if you’re well respected among your peers who also strive for greatness but that can quickly turn into a circlejerk
2026-01-05T02:25 id=2008002005281988873 →- | Novel idea: Famous journalist hired to do the biography of the greatest genius alive only to discover the genius is really boring (spends all his time studying and working) but ends up having a surreal adventure with the genius's loser failson, who is fascinating
2026-01-05T02:32 id=2008003549058470054 →MitzoHasArrived | @MitzoHasArrived @dankwilderson I need to find a way to get shadowbanned just for teenage communists. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dankwilderson *marx
2026-01-05T02:33 id=2008003882514067965 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 In all seriousness I have met a fair share of rich failsons (Bangkok attracts them) and they're miserable people. I'm grateful my father was a loser, srsly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Living the dream I wish my parents were loaded
2026-01-05T02:33 id=2008004017180594245 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago oh come on, now I MUST see this! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Gosh - this reminds of an actual article with similar circumstances. Let me go wrack my brain…
2026-01-05T02:38 id=2008005173894136187 →startupmillyair | @startupmillyair @yifever Sapporo was wonderful to visit but seems incredibly boring for more than a few days (although tbh I'd say that about anywhere in Japan yes including Tokyo).  The idea that the rest of Japan is boring suburbia is hilarious--something a gaijin who went for the chicks would say || CTX: @yifever I am in Sapporo and I like it
2026-01-05T02:57 id=2008009860781400421 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I wonder why it was panned.  Good piece IMO, really shows that something becomes popular if it fulfills a need not because it's "good", whatever that means. Also captures an American suburb feeling (that the author falsely calls Mormon)  But still missing the interesting failson. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ah now I remember. It was this - https://t.co/9xDx6sExml  The article was panned widely. Lots of social media commentary.
2026-01-05T02:58 id=2008010200176083042 →startupmillyair | @startupmillyair @yifever Yeah but it's all the same to me. Just Japanese people containing and constraining the world artificially into little partitions: buildings, rooms, boxes. So inorganic and antithetical to life (I really dislike east Asia). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yifever I could be in Tokyo for weeks. Feels endless
2026-01-05T03:04 id=2008011640701407466 →- | If you feel a need to be useful, you should ask "useful for whom". No answer is good or virtuous.   "Useful for God" lmao you think he needs you?  "Useful for my family" oh you want them to be weak and dependent  "Useful for my community" lmaoooooooooo https://t.co/z0eUmElnEM || CTX: Unable to be an empty, useless vessel just means that you are cuckolded by usefulness and cannot see past use. Your inability to be useless is your weakness and makes you only useful. Be more than useful. https://t.co/UhnzA8NB9E
2026-01-05T03:06 id=2008012134320640285 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I remember when Trump first did his saber rattling nonsense abt Canada and Greenland I thought, "oh maybe this will force Europe and Canada to invest more in their militaries and America can spend less", which may be a post-Trump outcome best for everyone. Lower US taxes too! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if we develop a cohesive plan and execute it impeccably, absolutely, but that’s the current challenge
2026-01-05T03:20 id=2008015612669550743 →- | Scale and recording fundamentally reweighed values over a century before you were born.  If we didn't have the tools to record this kind of performance, Jackson could be wealthy and successful up to a hard limit, like the best Shakespearean actors or Vaudeville performers. https://t.co/J2D8s54GOD || CTX: Michael Jackson doing the robot on the Cher Show in 1975. https://t.co/c2mAUwBPrQ
2026-01-05T03:20 id=2008015615479697569 →47fucb4r8c69323 | But since we can record, high https://t.co/hZCDQsGeWn from norm performance has a theoretically infinite long term economic value versus the many constraints that limited how much performance can matter without recording.  And so we explode "performing for others" valuations... || CTX: Scale and recording fundamentally reweighed values over a century before you were born.  If we didn't have the tools to record this kind of performance, Jackson could be wealthy and successful up to a hard limit, like the best Shakespearean
2026-01-05T03:20 id=2008015619669794871 →47fucb4r8c69323 | in our brains. Our way of seeing the world and knowing what deserves our attention has changed.  "He's a good dancer" can now become "He has a talent that will produce generational wealth", so you see yourself as a tool to impress others more than a being to experience the world. || CTX: But since we can record, high https://t.co/hZCDQsGeWn from norm performance has a theoretically infinite long term economic value versus the many constraints that limited how much performance can matter without recording.  And so we explode
2026-01-05T03:20 id=2008015709444755484 →turtlekiosk | @turtlekiosk lmao yeah that's not how I was using the internet back then. || CTX: the part about early internet experience they forget to mention is the part where you go outside and not use a computer for most of the day https://t.co/bK8ChGpbrn
2026-01-05T03:21 id=2008015880379310540 →HansTheElder | @HansTheElder @turtlekiosk this is the real change. || CTX: @turtlekiosk + the demographics and type of people that were on the internet
2026-01-05T03:23 id=2008016442978119727 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Sadly 99.99% of my ideas could be Charlie Kaufman movies.  And I actually have a great idea for a movie Kaufman should make but he never will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But I can totally see Charlie Kaufman writing a script like what you suggested.
2026-01-05T06:26 id=2008062612546945307 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @MightyMogomra Man I just know one day you're going to go superviral and become huge on this site. Hopefully will not happen anytime soon. || CTX: @MightyMogomra Go forth and comment. You have my blessing
2026-01-05T06:27 id=2008062873185247299 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Hey man a fella can dream can't he || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 America won't spend less, of course
2026-01-05T06:29 id=2008063254405513342 →tactipus_ | @tactipus_ @MitzoHasArrived @dankwilderson While I do enjoy wasting my time engaging with retards who are too stupid to otherwise be worth anyone's attention, the teenage commies are too predictable so they're quite boring.   Middle aged braindead MAGA chuds much more interesting if I need a group of idiots to study. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MitzoHasArrived @dankwilderson Why?
2026-01-05T06:30 id=2008063517258317947 →0soraaa | @0soraaa I refuse to be an automaton for the wills of other men.  If you wanna do it have fun bro but NGL seems kinda gay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Whats wrong with the last one
2026-01-05T06:31 id=2008063758984527966 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @retardbot9000 Now my permanent headcanon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 RB hacked into the servers and intentionally deboosts himself to help keep a low profile
2026-01-05T06:34 id=2008064519038447732 →- | As I was petting a stray dog today I finally understood: the human desire to feel special is based on the (partly correct) hinge certainty that specialness brings with it a special privilege or access to vital capital.  Ofc wires cross and things get entangled so this instinct often leads us astray, but it's certainly hard wired into the organic logic of all living creatures, it just emerges at different levels of complexity and at each level appears qualitatively different.   But it's all really "if I'm special master will give me more pets and treats"
2026-01-05T06:52 id=2008068960223461496 →0soraaa | @0soraaa hahahahahahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fair, i see it as serving the people https://t.co/YXGrwFu5Di
2026-01-05T06:57 id=2008070323649098116 →moultano | @moultano No, and you should feel bad for even thinking this.  Short line from here to "we're better than them".   Many people read bad books. Many people read good websites.  Don't venerate the codex. || CTX: K shaped culture. https://t.co/H7yNR6NB9i
2026-01-05T06:59 id=2008070761899254066 →- | https://t.co/kBo0Cyli0F  I should probably pin this tweet but I won't.   Do not worship any text for any reason. "It's printed on pages glued to a front and back cover" is one of the worst reasons to worship a text. https://t.co/ErpJ42tVel || CTX: https://t.co/3toJjhkpe9
2026-01-05T07:00 id=2008070974311383469 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss I actually think bad/dumb takes like these are helpful. The more you see the less likely you'll get swept up in nostalgia. || CTX: Haha ah yeah the glory days of la 2004-2016 haha   Look, I get it: it was nice to be young. But let’s avoid saying silly things like this. https://t.co/fdpKBAWsKT
2026-01-05T08:44 id=2008097229224202639 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy I guess the question is why are you talking to people, really? When I ask that question I'm often surprised at the answers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don’t talk with people lol  Talk only with grok  Trust me gonna win much more  Than degrading self with as we found out 97% which is very true.
2026-01-05T09:11 id=2008104127260434768 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy Is that the effect you're striving for? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you say 3% or 97% diff  For me dude  I am the 0.000001% weird dude savant, everyone ever barely can hold a conversation because they have no other option as smile  As many times many don’t understand me at all
2026-01-05T09:17 id=2008105446411022357 →- | The real problem of other minds is that they exist.
2026-01-05T20:11 id=2008270244239077818 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I prefer it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you comfortable with me disagreeing with you? :)
2026-01-05T20:46 id=2008278941312970843 →Woo_Minkyu | @Woo_Minkyu @sighyam OP explains why || CTX: @sighyam But I love living in Thailand
2026-01-05T21:46 id=2008294133182632135 →- | This is fucking hilarious and retarded. https://t.co/pxM3nsdFBJ || CTX: there are places for expats and places for actually building a life and career  downshifting in bali, thailand or portugal is tempting but a complete waste of precious time you will never become local enough to meaningfully contribute to so
2026-01-05T22:58 id=2008312100540850388 →- | Seems extremely fair that the beauty of a sunrise cannot be captured in a photograph.
2026-01-05T23:04 id=2008313618493018212 →- | Without looking it up, what percent of Americans are Jewish?
2026-01-05T23:22 id=2008318145501532397 →- | Wow you've become an expert on Venezuelan politics so quickly and you know so much about it too
2026-01-05T23:35 id=2008321401086751006 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I do not.  I ascribe to the meaning is use definition of meaning. That is, any signifier has meaning insofar as it signifies something. "Nothing" (a semantic-less void, as it were) cannot signify nothing to all observers.  Hence the void doesn't really exist. There is no nothing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In the context above yes it is.   Don’t you think there can be a state of affairs that can be described as an “Absence of meaning”?
2026-01-05T23:35 id=2008321554657272084 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DurumMac Yeah I said what I said @SuperheroFreak || CTX: @DurumMac I do not.  I ascribe to the meaning is use definition of meaning. That is, any signifier has meaning insofar as it signifies something. "Nothing" (a semantic-less void, as it were) cannot signify nothing to all observers.  Hence t
2026-01-05T23:45 id=2008323913223184670 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Oh well if you ask me if I believe in purposelessness that's an entirely different beast! I believe in nothing else. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Meaninglessness probably isn’t a great term insofar as it’s used really to mean purposelessness. So fair enough.
2026-01-06T00:09 id=2008330045493047465 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @DurumMac Very well said!  To me, meaning is a product of a relationship between two entities, so if you're a nondualist (as I am), you just see meaning as a  relationship of perceived things, not as a product of things themselves. || CTX: @DurumMac @47fucb4r8c69323 The fact that silence needs to be interpreted as some-thing, needs to be categorized, that fact, that need itself is Dukkha, dissatisfaction, suffering.   Those who understood why the Buddha was silent did not nee
2026-01-06T00:10 id=2008330261763608976 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @DurumMac Not all silences are the same. || CTX: @DurumMac @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't mean this in a reductive or discouraging way. But rather in the sense that by asking "what" the silence means, you are presupposing an answer of a this or a that.   By asking "why" he was silent, you presu
2026-01-06T00:16 id=2008331749047333146 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @DurumMac Seems to me a logical inevitability that, to love any given thing necessarily presupposes a lack of love for something else. || CTX: @DurumMac @47fucb4r8c69323 If we unroot from those things we are passionate about, then we are not passionate about any one thing in particular, thus we are actually equally passionate towards all things. Apatheia is compatheia, apathy is c
2026-01-06T00:18 id=2008332354528624821 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Revealed preference: that's indeed how the tech industry sees people. It's not just AI; I've seen this attitude for over a decade now, moreso in private (which tells you it's earnest, or at least seen as a compelling argument to financiers). || CTX: one of the things that makes our industry look *really* bad is when people with big platforms publicly philosophize about how people are no different from livestock and/or beasts of burden https://t.co/PfkLFdxRSQ
2026-01-06T00:24 id=2008333823311048711 →SuperheroFreak | I wonder if it's possible to be nondualist without being a process philosopher?   The whole truth that Zen/Tao/Advaita traditions seem to be grasping at is that our static pictures of the world are all wrong because nothing is ever static.   At least that's what made me a nondualist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac Indeed, though I'm also a process philosopher in addition to being nondualist. So, I'd say again, that mean-ing is the produc-ing of the relat-ing between two entities. The product and relationship, insofar they a
2026-01-06T00:25 id=2008334018350116949 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Well now you sound like my clients (or me talking to clients).  Tbh my time on social media makes me not hate this attitude. Some people want to be cattle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh sure. people are just eyeballs who can be manipulated into buying things by serving ads, etc etc
2026-01-06T00:36 id=2008336801153397151 →- | Atheists seem to think people cling to spiritual beliefs because of fear.  I kinda don't agree.  Atheism was much more comforting to me than my current beliefs.  I don't want an afterlife and I miss believing there are no metaphysics. But I choose to believe what seems true.
2026-01-06T00:39 id=2008337515774722123 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Excellent analysis. Seems like a logical move to cash out the surplus capital America's tech industry has produced. Combine that with whatever goodwill was acquired in the 20th century and that's a lot to leverage for greater geopolitical power. || CTX: outlined current US posture a bit https://t.co/OyO8YIiZb6
2026-01-06T00:40 id=2008337900908278223 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Sounds a bit like Spinoza || CTX: Absolute divine simplicity has such an Eastern flavour.   God *is* his existence.   God *is* his mercy  God *is* his omniscience which *is* his omnipotence.   Furthermore, some ADS proponents believe everything that is exists emanates from 
2026-01-06T00:52 id=2008340950414680210 →- | https://t.co/vw0gg2TsbO
2026-01-06T00:55 id=2008341681079546362 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Stealing this sorry || CTX: Relying to the intellectuals on Twitter with "grok make their argument less crappy" https://t.co/8Hk9uTbGT6
2026-01-06T01:14 id=2008346364057670137 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic When you can't tell if a tweet is a joke or dude just retarded || CTX: what's the difference between an academic paper and a blog post (on lesswrong)
2026-01-06T01:24 id=2008348956518928570 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yeah, the "fear of death" accusation maps poorly onto the field of religious beliefs/practices so the accusation should never get off the ground, but it remains a powerful and convincing heuristic for many materialists, even some rather sophisticated ones. || CTX: Some certainly do due to a variety of emotions, not just fear but also love and gratefulness.   Outside of eastern philosophies, even anecdotally I’ve encountered my share of atheists who believe in an afterlife, star signs, fortune tellers
2026-01-06T01:27 id=2008349796357009767 →questionableway | @questionableway Well that's because ~30 degrees F feels much much worse than ~0 degrees F.  Chicago winters are easier to endure because they don't have the biting damp.   Amsterdam winters are worse than Helsinki winters and I've spent a lot of time in both. || CTX: people in new york are complaining “oh it’s so cold i don’t wanna walk far” but okay like it’s literally 29 degrees so do you want to grow up or should we keep the kid gloves on?
2026-01-06T01:34 id=2008351483901956193 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yeah simulation theorists are a funny group. Supposed materialst atheists and they have the thickest metaphysics of the lot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yea, though I guess the “simulation theorists” can have their cake and eat it to - the afterlife is waking up from the simulation.
2026-01-06T02:38 id=2008367561193206114 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DefenderOfBasic I genuinely am yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic You must be new around here?
2026-01-06T02:40 id=2008368092808982600 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea A lot here I disagree with. Have you been to China? I haven't been since the pandemic, but I don't believe China has reached parity on any technology or system at all, and I think the threat of X (China,Japan,USSR) ascendance is always felt as a pressing threat by Washington. || CTX: I think the greater force at play here is that Washington has now realized — altogether too late — that China has ~reached parity across the board and they are facing the most significant adversary (from the perspective of world hegemon) ev
2026-01-06T02:48 id=2008370166686683528 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea China very much looked like it was falling apart in 2022-2023 as it kept the lockdowns and restrictions going far beyond other countries.  I find interesting that the unstoppable China narrative was in place from the late 2010s to 2020, then took a break, and it came back ~2023. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have, and you may disagree for whatever reasons, but it is increasingly the perspective of the foreign policy community as time after time they hope China will just collapse on itself like Japan and the USSR did and inste
2026-01-06T02:51 id=2008370764878409794 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I don't believe in a thing like the "US posture", seems like a reification if many messy entangled interests and presupposed unity at the top that exists in some countries but not the U. S.  Stated posture? Sure, but that's a rhetorical artefact. Directive but not commissive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ll also emphasize I don’t agree with the US’ posture (obviously), but this is my assessment of what it is.
2026-01-06T03:11 id=2008375936371315100 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Organizational systems definitely have emergent properties that can be cohered together by theory but a theoretical coherence isn't real, it's just a tool to understand the real.  Love when political/economic disagreements dissolve into epistemology, this is my crack. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting. Strongly disagree. Organizational systems, like all social systems, develop emergent behaviours, internal norms, and de facto consensus. Even ones made of hot-contested and divergent interests.
2026-01-06T03:13 id=2008376414719144435 →- | In what year do you think a Trump gif will be posted online for the very last time?
2026-01-06T03:23 id=2008378873281695910 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson I'm a centrist and I hate America.  I'm not joking on either front either. || CTX: my mom is a democrat and definitely doesnt hate america lmao. my dad is a republican and he doesnt hate america either https://t.co/0HlK2KW9wq
2026-01-06T03:29 id=2008380289584951755 →elidourado | @elidourado @grok, make OP's argument less crappy || CTX: Apparently a contrarian view, but I don't think anyone will ever own a galaxy.  The Milky Way is 100,000 ly in diameter. If you're a superintelligent AI ruling from the center, you're trying to govern with at least tens of thousands of year
2026-01-06T03:29 id=2008380465988747691 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @geoffreylitt HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @geoffreylitt "I'm technologically and praxically cuckolded"
2026-01-06T03:35 id=2008381881604338054 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer Oh you value fame, how disappointing I thought you were worth following. || CTX: I get jealous of other people's fame and recognition if I think we are about equally good, because if they're way better than me it's like 'yeah that's right' and if they're worse than me than what they have is false fame and false recognit
2026-01-06T03:41 id=2008383428551725075 →- | Trying to get big on social media, trying to get an audience who can appreciate your brilliance?   This is your audience. This is who you're trying to get to recognize your brilliance. https://t.co/qHca9s6ODa
2026-01-06T04:09 id=2008390511607115964 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni I literally have a meme as my LinkedIn pic and it's very very close to this. || CTX: Three levels of wealth:  1. No LinkedIn  2. LinkedIn  3. This LinkedIn profile pic: https://t.co/O4IpwJnGaY
2026-01-06T04:20 id=2008393152655147083 →- | -- Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/OO2iW751iN || CTX: people just say things https://t.co/XNvbaXpxFY
2026-01-06T05:22 id=2008408915797831983 →- | https://t.co/Tuja3gVHsr
2026-01-06T05:23 id=2008408975054921910 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 So weird, saw a new warning sign about jellyfish today || CTX: Goodnight to everyone except jellyfish
2026-01-06T05:44 id=2008414460491465213 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 What happened? || CTX: Jellyfish are such evil creatures. I despise the jellyfish
2026-01-06T05:46 id=2008414951921381595 →moultano | @moultano Contact is a story of the intellect conquering the spirit and Interstellar is a story of the spirit conquering the intellect. || CTX: How did I not notice how similar Interstellar and Contact are until now? https://t.co/iFTkoLbres
2026-01-06T05:50 id=2008415903432708111 →tszzl | @tszzl @allgarbled Prompt engineering will survive as a kind of English Composition: instead of teaching kids how to write essays, it'll be a curriculum teaching kids how to prompt.  Both are the art of using language to express an idea.   English departments globally have a huge opportunity here. || CTX: @allgarbled that’s true but I figured prompt engineering was about collecting “weird tricks” to get models to understand you better, which I don’t think has been super needed
2026-01-06T08:23 id=2008454455239622880 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @DefenderOfBasic He's got nice people for followers, thx for not going for my jugular. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic defender is not retarded, at all. just follow them for a while and you'll understand
2026-01-06T09:30 id=2008471337082515511 →- | This also goes across language barriers. https://t.co/x7EYklgKCZ || CTX: großartig wie durch charlie kirks tod jede sprachbarriere überwunden wird https://t.co/NnybTM2CGT
2026-01-06T10:21 id=2008483991570313590 →helscom | @helscom @pinkandpuny kyrpäitä || CTX: @pinkandpuny brain fried on tiktoks and netflix. capeshit ass motherfuckers…
2026-01-06T22:52 id=2008673162884792440 →- | One says: The internet is full of very gullible, stupid people.  You can leverage this fact and succeed (Zuck built a 1.7 trillion company on this) or you can rage at this fact and look like a redditor.  Well, there are other options too ofc. But changing this fact isn't one. https://t.co/Z7BF5gJdB1 || CTX: what does one even say to this, how could you think a 2bed apartment in a major city is $27 US dollars per month https://t.co/bchgmPqCAS
2026-01-06T23:15 id=2008678877678510172 →- | This is a pretty good distillation of my life experience. https://t.co/zQT40BFUdr || CTX: Misogynists and misandrists are just failed misanthropes. They haven’t managed to gaze deeply enough into the heart of human darkness. (And misanthropes have themselves failed to become lovers of humanity by not focusing their gaze until th
2026-01-06T23:16 id=2008679100798693809 →TimSweeneyEpic | @TimSweeneyEpic @nikitabier Money indeed cannot buy taste. || CTX: @nikitabier California, land of the people who put avocados on toast and call it food.
2026-01-06T23:40 id=2008685126818164873 →- | People have been using slop to mean "thing I don't like" since it was first adopted to describe AI outputs. It was never a useful term. https://t.co/LLZ2rlstXq || CTX: genuinely what does slop even mean anymore https://t.co/DNnVwjl4IL
2026-01-06T23:44 id=2008686117839925552 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Think of what slop originally referred to: a mix of organic material that a pig can consume. The idea being that you don't need to put effort in the mixing beyond the standard that the pig requires, which is very low.  So slop is a mix of ingredients catering to a standard I see as insufficiently high.  It's the same as in the 90s when I heard pretentious college kids scoff at John Grisham writing books for people not smart enough for Thomas Pynchon.   Identical snobbery, just the scalar is no longer high/low culture but racial purity (as here), organic purity (as with the anti-AI group), or formal purity (as when saying Movie X is slop but Movie Y isn't).  Some stupid snobbery logic, just the criteria changed. || CTX: People have been using slop to mean "thing I don't like" since it was first adopted to describe AI outputs. It was never a useful term. https://t.co/LLZ2rlstXq
2026-01-06T23:47 id=2008686790115553656 →potatoslav | @potatoslav In my 20s I was a night person and in my 30s I was a morning person. Both seem fine? But it is interesting that one group feels the need to shame the other, although this tends to happen more frequently in protestant cultures || CTX: it’s very funny that when morning ppl post about being morning ppl it’s fine but when you post about being a night owl ppl are like “THIS IS BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH YOU ARE LAZY AND DOING A DISSERVICE TO YOUR CHILDREN” sorry i will not be liste
2026-01-06T23:48 id=2008687075512775087 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Seems different in kind; misogyny tends to be more about frustrated desire whereas misanthropy seems more about disappointment in an ideal counterfactual. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess a misandrist or misogynist is a half-misanthrope? Hate ~50% of humanity ?
2026-01-07T00:00 id=2008690139816751261 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Is the perfect sloppy joe slop? I suppose it cannot be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sloppy joes ? Does the nationalist think it’s slop? Or not?
2026-01-07T00:01 id=2008690520361726398 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I'll think about it and DM you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would like to make money off of them. I would really like that. Open to ideas
2026-01-07T00:19 id=2008694897516384672 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @Empty_America when you start mixing together different language games and realize everyone's playing with the same parts with different labels on them, you begin to see how silly all metaphysical talk is. the simulation hypothesis dudes are no smarter than the mouth breathing nationalists. || CTX: @Empty_America @47fucb4r8c69323   Well well well
2026-01-07T01:31 id=2008713175408226770 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy Makes total sense. Slop is a pile of stuff that has no organizing principle, the opposite has an organization to it.  Which also means AI slop isn't really slop, because there IS a principle behind it. The word has been misused. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am not original English user For me slop was always logical: Porridge - a mass of something unclear kinda like pile of food So when AI slop came out - made sense Pile of something you cannot name exactly what it is Like i
2026-01-07T01:40 id=2008715251722928572 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy Oh yeah for sure, but the point is that "slop" became a popular term online (in English) to describe AI outputs, then spread from there  Hence the confusion: the food in OP's pic isn't porridge or any kind of sloppy food, yet it's called slop because OP is co-opting the AI slang || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But you know what we all missed in your replies? I think the dude aero meant not ai slop. But meant about food, that he would not call the food slop, as for me too, it looks good food. That the in pic dudes both talk shit a
2026-01-07T01:40 id=2008715357536780435 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @DurumMac I've only had a few times as a kid and IMO it's disgusting lol || CTX: @DurumMac @47fucb4r8c69323 The sloppy joe looks kind of good ngl. though depending on its ingredients, its probably not something one should eat often
2026-01-07T01:43 id=2008716009314939204 →teodorio | @teodorio @bryancsk Playing the game justifies the ruleset. Trump wants to break the rules. Tbf he was voted in to break the rules. || CTX: @bryancsk I have exhausted any good faith argument and the only one remaining is that they are genuinely that stupid
2026-01-07T01:53 id=2008718559099449488 →Always21Happy | @Always21Happy Raw egg nationalist is a very well known far right account that tries to farm outrage to get followers and thus money. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I from otherside think that the dude could be like me with not english as first language, but very privileged to talk shit about food that even this is like slop for him 🤔
2026-01-07T02:02 id=2008720961504505936 →- | RT @1889lw: Thank you for your kind words but I don’t trust you || CTX: Thank you for your kind words but I don’t trust you
2026-01-07T02:04 id=2008721315570843876 →_carlbeijer | @_carlbeijer I think Noah is an idiot but you're clearly a crazy person || CTX: LOL Noah hid this. Total paper tiger https://t.co/twbc8yLRTi
2026-01-07T02:13 id=2008723762729074765 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Imagine the smell. || CTX: This is.. nightmarish. https://t.co/SlBLEylOph
2026-01-07T02:20 id=2008725325887533079 →- | It is a very strange moment in history where eloquence and socioeconomic power are more decoupled than ever.  People used to be condemned for rhetorical or stylistic oddities, then it became a market of genius (e.g. SBF). In politics, a sign of honesty (George W Bush).  Anti-discourse culture: you fear discourse and specifically you fear people better at discursive arts, like discourse hides truth values.  A very naive worldview that Frege/Russell disspelled. Before them it was assumed that some better discourse can disspell sophistry, but now we think all language use is sophistry.   So the most reliable person is the one who can't use discourse, who grunts like an animal or is incoherent. This is why people like Trump and Musk thrive.  It also makes for really really bad taste, hence Gwern, that Dark Enlightenment dude, etc. are popular.  Very very odd moment in history. || CTX: @TechEmails technologists are truly the most fucking regarded sounding self-important retards we’ve ever had 🥀
2026-01-07T02:22 id=2008725809721450724 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Or consider how people misremember and misuse roon's wordcel/shape rotator dichotomy, which so many took to mean word manipulation is an inferior, easier task than shape rotation, which wasn't roon's point at all.  And the misunderstanding is both cause and symptom of the anti-discourse world we now live in. || CTX: It is a very strange moment in history where eloquence and socioeconomic power are more decoupled than ever.  People used to be condemned for rhetorical or stylistic oddities, then it became a market of genius (e.g. SBF). In politics, a sig
2026-01-07T02:49 id=2008732783246717229 →moultano | @moultano I haven't actually seen any of these images, but are they all bikinis, sexy lingerie etc? Because if there's no nudity it's not legally CSAM  And if you want to expand the definition of that "to save the children", I mean I'm not going to redo the slippery slope issues EFF raised || CTX: Colin Fraser, who left this site over the issue, estimates that grok is currently generating 100,000 revenge porn images per day. https://t.co/wOrs7voySo
2026-01-07T02:51 id=2008733142275006692 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @moultano If you want more expansive laws and regulations to protect the children, you should also want laws to regulate internet traffic at all levels, you want the ISP to gatekeep, regulate, and restrict some traffic, you want risky content restricted and safe traffic in a speed lane. || CTX: @moultano I haven't actually seen any of these images, but are they all bikinis, sexy lingerie etc? Because if there's no nudity it's not legally CSAM  And if you want to expand the definition of that "to save the children", I mean I'm not 
2026-01-07T02:52 id=2008733374358450364 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @moultano you also want ID verifications at YouTube and elsewhere and maybe a mandatory RealID scan before tweeting or making any online account.  For the kids ofc. || CTX: @moultano If you want more expansive laws and regulations to protect the children, you should also want laws to regulate internet traffic at all levels, you want the ISP to gatekeep, regulate, and restrict some traffic, you want risky conte
2026-01-07T02:53 id=2008733604990627943 →moultano | @moultano Ah so this discourse is just useful idiot talk to enable more surveillance, got it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, it is probably not legally csam, just gross.
2026-01-07T02:56 id=2008734419608355162 →moultano | @moultano How can you prevent that without surveiling what images people make with grok? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not surveillance to prevent grok from maxing sexualized images of people without their consent.
2026-01-07T02:58 id=2008734923738505278 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I've been there and the service was awful and the prices ridiculous. Plus it was full of instagrammers.  Gorgeous inside though NGL. Glad I went, also glad I could walk out before ordering a coffee due to said bad service. || CTX: Lies! They didn’t have photography back then.  I jest / this is very nice. https://t.co/WYYLUhLwka
2026-01-07T02:58 id=2008735041439109459 →moultano | @moultano Right, you build into grok a surveillance operation to restrict said outputs.  Operationalized automated surveillance is still surveillance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You just build it into what grok understands about its own intended behavior.
2026-01-07T03:03 id=2008736235779748218 →- | Last couple days I've seen people manipulated via visceral attacks:  1. Arouse disgust/protective instincts via "think of the children"  2. Arouse panic/survival instincts via "we gonna attack you"   Former is online Twitter bullshit, latter Canada/Trump. Same logic, different domains and scales.  Few respect how fluid the spectrum of online/offline dynamics are.
2026-01-07T03:08 id=2008737521740771733 →provisionalidea | There are levels to this game.  At the top you have capital holders who want better engines at the lowest cost. They need more engineers. How do they get more engineers without increasing the cost of same?   Add a new price variable: safety, fate of humanity, etc.  Tech has been playing the "work for us and you'll change the world" shtick for over 20 years, AI safetyism is a more regimented and institutionalized version of that shtick, precisely because it makes the shtick more believable.  I've never heard anyone managing capital talk about AI safety, and I regularly talk to people with books of 9-10 figure AUM.  But maybe in VC/PE it's different? I'd legit like to know but so far seems not to be so.  Tldr safetyism is just a distraction to stop the nerds from demanding higher pay. || CTX: We can’t even agree on who counts as fully human and therefore deserving of rights. Or on things like “invading another country unprovoked is wrong”. Performatively pointing to a machine mirroring Kant and Bentham doesn’t solve that.
2026-01-07T03:09 id=2008737664468742332 →teodorio | @teodorio This is why I kinda see Trump as good for Canada and Europe in the same way Putin was good for NATO. Wake up call. || CTX: We should've cut welfare states and send "asylum seekers" their way a long time ago. The socialists won't do it sure, bur maybe they will now. Insane https://t.co/mFBkoEyO3r
2026-01-07T03:09 id=2008737831108424123 →xii_ai7 | @xii_ai7 @teodorio What percent was spent in, say, 2019? || CTX: @teodorio germany is spending 11% of the federal budget in defence. 5x would be insane
2026-01-07T03:12 id=2008738446471467061 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @provisionalidea Oh and it's also great moat protection "AI can destroy the world so we need regulations (that also raise barriers to entry to possible competitors)"  Tech did this with privacy in the 2010s, hence GDPR benefits Google and Facebook while hurting smaller players. Same playbook w/AI || CTX: There are levels to this game.  At the top you have capital holders who want better engines at the lowest cost. They need more engineers. How do they get more engineers without increasing the cost of same?   Add a new price variable: safety
2026-01-07T04:52 id=2008763754528600529 →langofmind | @langofmind I know you see this and think "Elon racist lol"   I look at this and think "if Old English was sufficiently funded he wouldn't do this" || CTX: I can't think of anything more emblematic of the change twitter has undergone the last few years than this account slowly shifting from Old English fun facts to... this https://t.co/itntpKqB7S
2026-01-07T05:44 id=2008776699513892939 →- | RT @finalnormalman: @AlannaSchubach #KillAllVagueposters || CTX: @AlannaSchubach #KillAllVagueposters
2026-01-07T05:55 id=2008779515124961610 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack omg I'd never noticed before but you're spot on.   Vance absolutely talks like an exasperated woke redditor, that's insane. || CTX: kind of funny to see this sort of millennial exasperation schtick — "I can't believe this needs to be explained" — running interference for trump II but then again that's how the vice president talks https://t.co/Ue7ruTKtgC
2026-01-07T05:59 id=2008780424202645523 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @ForeignPolicy Goddamn Trump is so good at controlling the conversation, despite obviously being an idiot. Fascinating. || CTX: begging @ForeignPolicy writers to look at a map projection that isn’t Mercator  US control of Greenland has very serious implications for Canadian national security, but it does not “hem Canada in on three sides”  (it also implies Alaska, u
2026-01-07T06:03 id=2008781641486107095 →AlexGodofsky | @AlexGodofsky @moultano More better tools to produce content = more content = more engagement = more revenue   Restricting the feature would definitely work. I mean, restricting the production of images would work too. || CTX: @moultano @47fucb4r8c69323 It's unclear to me what the value proposition is of the grok reply image edit feature anyway. It seems otherwise marginal. Simply restricting that feature even without *any* additional filtering inside e.g. grok c
2026-01-07T06:08 id=2008782840394338505 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @ForeignPolicy That would explain the more aggressive stance to Canada and Europe as of late: they didn't give him sufficient attention before.  The Canada thing is so weird though, I legit don't get it. Like some Canadian official really pissed him off between 2020 and 2024. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ForeignPolicy I think he just shatters people’s conceptions of normal and anyone who hasn’t been paying serious attention the past two years is feeling the hit of it all at once
2026-01-07T06:55 id=2008794531580571941 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @ForeignPolicy Yeah it sadly may just be that: he wants tobe remembered by history as the guy who made the USA bigger. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ForeignPolicy I was talking about people like the author who are clearly in a blind panic  Trump’s desire to expand on Monroe is not fake, or performative, or about attention, or pettiness at specific foreign leaders
2026-01-07T07:43 id=2008806780428800233 →tszzl | @tszzl Friend of mine and I were discussing how we haven't seen a good movie released after 2021. Culture seems even more stuck than it was prepandemic. || CTX: new avatar had me fully depressed. a very serious stuck culture moment. the computers have gotten way better and the stories are the same or worse. visually, the first avatar was significantly more innovative than nearly any VFX heavy movie
2026-01-07T09:42 id=2008836550340251654 →LegoRacers2 | @LegoRacers2 Dude I am way too fucking stoned for this shit. || CTX: The name Columbo is Italian for dove. Falk is German for falcon. If you think about it, "a hawk in the guise of a pigeon" sums him up pretty well https://t.co/jNmvrrVr4j
2026-01-07T10:52 id=2008854328170406051 →agraybee | @agraybee They've never been to Asia. || CTX: What makes all these people think that only white people like owning property. https://t.co/e25VhUKCBH
2026-01-07T11:02 id=2008856846711529972 →- | 4chan ass president https://t.co/RlL9iVs1wq || CTX: you’re laughing. the united states president hit a flawless ahegao on live television and you’re laughing https://t.co/cslzxhM8tU
2026-01-07T22:01 id=2009022560013570180 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod ... so? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You two say what you want about stupid people but $24 is closer to the $616 than $2200 is
2026-01-07T22:43 id=2009033142448083437 →- | Now I get it. People use "read books" as shorthand for a specific discursive and affective mode.  Focusing on relevant details instead of appealing to general principles in a systemic manner seems to be the difference here.  Different dichotomy from the tv vs books of my youth https://t.co/JMOLOMJZ9i || CTX: It’s always so embarrassing to watch right wing “intellectuals” talk to people who read books https://t.co/hcB4bxrI0R
2026-01-07T22:49 id=2009034710513811474 →- | When I was an academic, I first started attending conferences affiliated with a bad, obscure university in (what was then) a country whose universities weren't well known. Obv got snubbed all the time.  Then I moved to a well respected prestigious university. People came up to talk to me at conferences.  I guess for most people this would've felt like "I made it," but for me it made academia feel like a sham. I was the same person, working with the same ideas, with the same potential. But brand name on the badge meant value, so to me these people were spiritually no different from the Kardashians. || CTX: Honestly being a PhD student at a conference can feel like this sometimes  https://t.co/GWNt27wLB6
2026-01-07T22:54 id=2009035893190086973 →- | Study this (good!) tweet closely for what it reveals: to win in politics you need to appeal to stupidity and insanity.  Which, fine--Tmz, Buzzfeed, many companies make a living appealing to the crazy and dumb. But if politics is important for you, being smart is not. https://t.co/23ier9nsym || CTX: @lefttwick Yeah Trump won by flipping basically all the remaining people in the broad left camp that were “socially distrustful”, including hippies, new agers, generic conspiracy theorists and such. We have a very rare chance of, if not win
2026-01-07T22:59 id=2009037121911505118 →- | I see this tweet a lot and it's so strange. If it's sincere, it's confusing anxious ideation with fantasizing.   If ironic, I don't get the joke. What could it possibly be? https://t.co/ukfuDnXzqd || CTX: how are people incels in their own fantasy im crying bro https://t.co/MgiDv0GqT4
2026-01-07T23:16 id=2009041506980819416 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @BenBajarin @HP Keyboard keys have so little travel it starts to make my dick look big || CTX: @BenBajarin @HP Really cool idea. Too bad it looks like shit
2026-01-07T23:21 id=2009042778488230369 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Tbf these weren't philosophers but I've seen plenty of supposed Marxist thinkers do the same hierarchical nonsense. Well you see them do it on Twitter since every C-rate prof at Regional State University - Cornfield Satellite Campus is on this gay website || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/IAjtSHPleG https://t.co/xOA2E855t4
2026-01-07T23:23 id=2009043286347149610 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I think I was disappointed because I went into academia thinking cultural capital is better than financial capital and quickly realized cultural capital was just arbitrary bullshit invented to save on financial capital.  Also made me realize if I wanted to understand humans better I needed to study economics and finance, language was insufficient. || CTX: @DurumMac Tbf these weren't philosophers but I've seen plenty of supposed Marxist thinkers do the same hierarchical nonsense. Well you see them do it on Twitter since every C-rate prof at Regional State University - Cornfield Satellite Camp
2026-01-07T23:24 id=2009043428089450886 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I think I was disappointed because I went into academia thinking cultural capital is better than financial capital and quickly realized cultural capital was just arbitrary bullshit invented to save on financial capital.  Also made me realize if I wanted to understand humans better I needed to study economics and finance, language was insufficient. || CTX: @DurumMac Tbf these weren't philosophers but I've seen plenty of supposed Marxist thinkers do the same hierarchical nonsense. Well you see them do it on Twitter since every C-rate prof at Regional State University - Cornfield Satellite Camp
2026-01-07T23:48 id=2009049612586541533 →1889lw | Philosophy is a nightmare of pseudo questions mixed with genuine insight such that in my experience I honestly could only responsibly read philosophy in my 40s. What I did before that I wouldn't call true reading.  Sociology, sure if you stick to the greats. Bourdiou, Weber, even Durkheim and some others are helpful in small doses. But there too is a minefield of politically motivated pseudo problems and nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac Not philosophy or sociology?
2026-01-07T23:51 id=2009050326306050202 →writeform1 | @writeform1 @ThePhDPlace I do think the internet helps assuage this problem somewhat but it also creates new problems via the attention economy.  Sorting is always the hardest challenge. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ThePhDPlace Very crazy to think about all the ideas that are never seen or heard because of a name not on the front. These are the stories that are left untold which can be eye opening if only we all put in the part to loo
2026-01-07T23:53 id=2009050776233234856 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Dammit now I want tendies. || CTX: Chicken McNuggets were BOGO. I love eating garbage. https://t.co/jqR4KuK1Ls
2026-01-07T23:53 id=2009050884039422235 →1889lw | @1889lw At some point you won't have a choice to adult or not. Enjoy the optionality while it lasts. || CTX: I give up adulting. And I’m jealous of those who received help for adulting
2026-01-07T23:55 id=2009051418611863989 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @JoshuaLWatson @luscofusch @PAHoyeck @JoelMCurzon Oh so that's why we have the death of the author. || CTX: @JoshuaLWatson @luscofusch @PAHoyeck @JoelMCurzon I thought they were to be cannonized.  Violence to the text and all that. https://t.co/Fc7nZriZWP
2026-01-07T23:57 id=2009051686850187295 →- | Lit crit essay titled "Death of the Reader" and it's just the phrase: "I shoot you dead pew pew" repeated 500 times.
2026-01-08T00:26 id=2009059042371715130 →DurumMac | @DurumMac yes, I think I learned a deeper truth about human nature but it's an incredibly destabilizing truth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In a way you learned something more valuable, no?   Status all the way down.
2026-01-08T00:29 id=2009059840757530957 →- | https://t.co/XWhghYUgTu
2026-01-08T01:18 id=2009072199337169171 →- | The funniest thing about AI psychosis is we were told for decades studying language was a waste of time, and now we see how computers can manipulate people into bizarre behavior simply via text.  Yeah no value in studying that ofc
2026-01-08T01:31 id=2009075478481830303 →- | ChatGPT almost never agrees with me anymore this is fucking awesome.  Much improved, I'm very impressed with OpenAI.
2026-01-08T01:45 id=2009079014871494951 →PhDeezNuts69 | What you say is definitely true of lab/team disciplines but my little specialism was very much an individual scholar model, and the specialism was in swift decline so the dispersion of talent was greater than ever.  One person I know who was then a postdoc at a low tier university after getting her PhD at an even worse university is now a full prof at Cambridge. In such a situation I think judging by name badge was more muscle memory than a useful heuristic to mitigate an onslaught of opportunities.  These conferences were anywhere from ~500 to ~20 people btw. || CTX: While I understand that something like this is super frustrating, I would push back by saying that people’s time at conferences is very limited. They need to develop heuristics to judge who is most likely to be the best use of that time. It
2026-01-08T01:54 id=2009081159465226599 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago ikr, the Japanese excel at every skill they take up || CTX: This story still amazes me to this day. https://t.co/Hvpo27hGOL
2026-01-08T02:13 id=2009086052376695206 →- | I hate being an asshole but I hate all the alternatives even more.
2026-01-08T02:52 id=2009095906990432578 →- | Americans will use anything but the metric system https://t.co/Drorw6rGnx
2026-01-08T02:54 id=2009096279083892872 →DurumMac | @DurumMac unicorns and bunnies and rainbows and kittens || CTX: I want you to construct a mental scenario where you can’t do hypotheticals anymore
2026-01-08T03:47 id=2009109682384982418 →tszzl | @tszzl @eternalism_4eva Words like "vibe" and "ship" show up far too much. A lot of TPOT-isms are apparent. || CTX: @eternalism_4eva say more
2026-01-08T05:42 id=2009138725306126764 →2oovy | @2oovy yeah based || CTX: Phil of lang prof told me to drop the course if I ever mention Derrida again
2026-01-08T09:28 id=2009195550244262162 →hyyhbae | @hyyhbae spousal hires lmao || CTX: The one field where nepotism isn’t talked about much is Academia lol outsiders will never realize the amount of politics and blatant favoritism that goes on. A well connected mentor can get to you places and you have a fallout with said men
2026-01-08T10:45 id=2009214815051633112 →1889lw | @1889lw I have had some custom instructions to challenge me and find inconsistencies in my thinking back since GPT4, but it never took that seriously enough || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What did you do? Any prompts?
2026-01-08T14:22 id=2009269423543120136 →_Teskh | @_Teskh @skdh LMFAO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @skdh So you are the soab who took the handle i wanted
2026-01-08T14:48 id=2009276099146949079 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Game too smooth, Trump gonna arrest him. || CTX: A) Smoking does look cool B) Anyone who tells you it doesn't look cool, is an idiot  C) Cartoons were cooler when they allowed smoking in them D) I wonder how many will reactively misinterpret this https://t.co/eojCVOxPAa
2026-01-08T22:07 id=2009386537260339497 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Sure, have a look. This is pretty typical. https://t.co/u8Bz4PHOpG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you share how "almost never agrees with me" looks like?
2026-01-08T22:22 id=2009390278613020922 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I'm much less interested in what I'd do and more interested in what society looks like.  What happens when ugliness goes extinct? || CTX: Suppose a futuristic A.i and advanced plastic surgery technology exists.  Now you can look however you like.  Be as tall as you like.  Have as much hair as you like.   What will we say? What will we do?   You are no longer destined by your 
2026-01-08T22:39 id=2009394532077699393 →- | I think the greatest value to using the internet is learning about hazards.  Woke woman who tweets white people shouldn't have houses--that's a hazard  MAGA zombies? Hazard. Groypers? Hazard.   They're all hazards because these individuals have hopes, desires, passions, loves, and those feelings are all compressed, distorted, and repurposed by internet rhetoric towards a communal project: take house from whitie, worship Donald Trump, think the Jews are behind everything, etc.   Why this happens is complicated and involves psychologocal, linguistic, economic, and other factors I can't detail here. The point is: the internet lays out for the user all of the dangerous endpoints of deindividuation that one can then leverage to become a better person.  The internet is a negative hagiography machine.   This is a very different, arguable obverse experience to reading good books. Thus Sprach Zarathustra for instance shows me an ideal to consider adopting, Twitter, 4chan, and Reddit show me several realities to consider avoiding.  I do not think Eudaimonia can be achieved by looking only upwards. Looking around and down are useful too.
2026-01-08T22:46 id=2009396311368585691 →DurumMac | I saw a pill version of GLP1 drugs is coming out.  The biggest changes will be in America where obesity is everywhere. Honestly one of the biggest reasons why I left America is there are too many fat women there, so the dating options weren't compelling. My entire life would be different if overweightness became a trivial problem.  Think of those far right tweets about all the hot women in Venezuela now up for grabs--that kind of mentality was anathema to mid-20th century American polite society. That moral standard will likely return even for the extremist racists.  Then you have to think of all the thin/beautiful women I dated and ran away from disgusted at their sense of entitlement. That won't survive more competitive dating pressures.  And the fat girls who are genuinely nice but just lack self control--suddenly they will have greater value on the market. That'll change things.  I'd bet a lot of money Trump would never have become president if like ~10% of America was overweight. The frustrated young man who wants a romantic partner that weighs less than him is one of the biggest forces in American politics that no one wants to talk about.  The elephant in the room are fat American bitches man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’d love to know.   Supposed a new and improved Ozempic hits the market and obesity goes away. What then?   I guess more people on the market?   Levelling the playing field, perhaps?
2026-01-08T22:48 id=2009396901612068957 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews One of the best regions on earth for food and yet I simply cannot stand baklava. Had it many times in a few of these countries and never once have I liked it. || CTX: To the flakiest https://t.co/AIaYjAY9LB
2026-01-08T22:52 id=2009397945985335369 →1889lw | @1889lw I've spent my entire life both deeply loving and despising humanity and I've yet to reconcile these feelings or even figure out why I care so much. Most people don't, they just get on focusing on family and friends. I have always been obsessed with the whole. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can feel your misanthropy and love for humanity both exuding, tbh
2026-01-08T23:03 id=2009400631145152729 →- | Easily the best response possible to stupid crazy people being stupid and crazy on the internet. https://t.co/07ebhw96QT || CTX: David Koresh profile picture defending three letter agencies killing civilians https://t.co/djDl1YzoNa https://t.co/ToV50ZbKWF
2026-01-08T23:07 id=2009401643977330841 →sansouccio | @sansouccio @Kulambq How old were you? I kinda feel like anyone over ~25 or so shouldn't really be able to appreciate Catcher in the Rye. || CTX: @Kulambq I couldn't understand what was so great about it.  I read it just recently.  Everyone has their own taste in books.  I could never finish Catcher In The Rye either and chalked it up to a "must be a 60's thing."
2026-01-08T23:17 id=2009404226787815568 →yeti_0x | @yeti_0x It took a million views for someone to ask an important question. But finally it's here!   Faculty were exponentially better, you just couldn't compare the two. Grad students were about the same. Undergrads were worse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 when you moved to a well-respected prestigious university, did the quality of your peers improve or was it the same as in the bad, obscure university?
2026-01-08T23:50 id=2009412387125035289 →- | This is such a fascinating way to engage with fictional characters. His position is almost like a judge sitting back waiting to make a pronouncement on the character. "I hereby judge you guilty of being insufficiently believable" is just such a strange way to respond to art. https://t.co/NoB90pOHra || CTX: @SpencerKlavan I find Carol's condition hard to understand. Obviously I can't know but it doesn't strike me as difficult to internalize that these are avatars. Its mildly jarring when she seems to forget that.
2026-01-08T23:53 id=2009413120285134956 →- | It's odd because it's not even true. Yes, tons of white guys have sex with prostitutes in Thailand--and in Brazil, Dominican Republic, and Eastern Europe.  But when you remember Derek is a small vietnamese man, you quickly realize his post is just a fetish. https://t.co/S9vJw0UEmW || CTX: what an odd thing to say https://t.co/1hbeeZoIxP
2026-01-08T23:56 id=2009413940871352521 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak I wonder what "doing anything with one's life" means for him.  I also wonder about the person motivated by this. "An internet stranger told me I wasn't doing anything with me life so now I'm training to be a welder" || CTX: I'm good at sounding stupid and I'm doing no-thing with my life 😎 https://t.co/KDem4wJYPb
2026-01-09T00:00 id=2009414896983921030 →- | I cannot just dismiss these people as needing god. There are complex psychology and incentives pushing them towards this quite absurd position. What are those factors?  Without being dismissive or insulting (e. g. they need God or they're stupid), can you explain their motives? https://t.co/8LRlGxj2LN || CTX: I’m sorry people. If you, by default, feel more empathy towards a masked guy with a gun, or a billionaire with a questionable reputation, than towards a mother of three children, who seems to have never harmed anyone in her life, I dunno. M
2026-01-09T00:23 id=2009420802970796403 →1889lw | @1889lw social identity is the most important thing for a lot of people. I find it as strange as you do, but that's the nature of the beast under scrutiny. || CTX: People really appall me sometimes like, wtf do you actually believe that or you’re just a rationality-less individual trying to signal your social identity, are we even the same species sharing the same mental states
2026-01-09T00:34 id=2009423584020836450 →1889lw | @1889lw true, but we are people too so we also suck and should hesitate before taking the high road. vlVery tough to do, especially with these idiots, but striving for that is what differentiates us from them.   we're all in the gutter, just some of us are looking at the stars || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 😔 people suck
2026-01-09T00:54 id=2009428491012591909 →THEZONEEEEEE | @THEZONEEEEEE @Halalcoholism LMFAO || CTX: @Halalcoholism I understand that what random twitter people think of fried chicken is important and must be commented on, but what are your thoughts on masked agents gunning down suburban mothers in broad daylight?
2026-01-09T00:55 id=2009428759259295886 →- | Easily the most devastating reply to a tweet I've seen in a long time. https://t.co/WkwQ7iCDkJ || CTX: @Halalcoholism I understand that what random twitter people think of fried chicken is important and must be commented on, but what are your thoughts on masked agents gunning down suburban mothers in broad daylight?
2026-01-09T00:59 id=2009429915020718383 →- | If your default position on the internet is not "I love these anonymous strangers" how can you claim to love humanity or want what's best for humanity?   "People are idiots and losers but I know how to make them better" is often the default, because most people want to spread their ego more than they want to make the world better. Which is fine, as long as you're aware of it.  If your position is "these idiots are losers" then you're just not entitled to instruct other people. Work on yourself first. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I love you anon
2026-01-09T01:05 id=2009431388525875355 →yeti_0x | @yeti_0x At the faculty level with an unknowable and highly variable margin of error, yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well there you go, the participants' heuristics where "good university" is proxy for talent works
2026-01-09T01:25 id=2009436405601370471 →- | That awkward moment when you hear a podcaster point out some hyper specific detail you wrote about in a published piece a few weeks ago.  Convergent minds or did you fuckers rip me off?
2026-01-09T02:18 id=2009449741416042716 →- | RT @retardbot9000: No likes =&gt; bad post 3 likes =&gt; good post 100+ likes =&gt; bad post || CTX: No likes =&gt; bad post 3 likes =&gt; good post 100+ likes =&gt; bad post https://t.co/tzA1L6cf45
2026-01-09T02:27 id=2009451864929226842 →ElegantiaeArbit | @ElegantiaeArbit If you want this bait to really work, gotta make it in Arabic. || CTX: This is spiritually one country https://t.co/ggHWJo6KQ2
2026-01-09T02:29 id=2009452423618941073 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Both unsurprising and something I've been saying for years.   Americans have compressed many identity/status games into a single "politics" field.  Trump's success was in leveraging this fact. || CTX: Oof. https://t.co/1UgU1VNCHy
2026-01-09T03:10 id=2009462664595140908 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @MightyMogomra Everything in moderation, including shitposting. || CTX: @MightyMogomra the sweet spot really is in the middle that's where you find the best poster
2026-01-09T03:13 id=2009463549295476900 →- | Gen X: Shitposting means nothing, whatever.  Millennials: Shitposting is cringe and harmful, it ruins reality. Gen Z: I know it's kinda cringe but I think shitposting is kinda beautiful. Gen Alpha (estimated): Shitposting is kind of an art. Gen Beta is when we'll get an authoritative aesthetics of shitposting. Generations after that will codify shitposting into an art form, a field of study, and a legitimate academic discipline.  I know you think it's ridiculous, that's the point. In the 18th century the idea of a professor of the novel was equally ridiculous.
2026-01-09T03:14 id=2009463665419014276 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Wait but what IS McDonald? || CTX: One secret I learned from working for THE FRANCHISEE (McDonald's has made it clear I don't work for McDonald's) is that the mark is actually not possessive.   It's a contraction for "MCDONALD IS"  Which is funny because I have Maritime Scot
2026-01-09T03:16 id=2009464159633854638 →teodorio | @teodorio Same man, same. || CTX: I have reached such an advanced level of humor that most people that meet me think I am retarded.
2026-01-09T03:19 id=2009465133739987423 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Videos of manual laborers in a flow state tend to be praised online. It's the "bullshit jobs" white collar work flow state that people seem to have a visceral disgust towards.  Which just shows that we inherently value physical labor more than mental labor, regardless of price. || CTX: Hey, if you're hate stroking to this guy You should see me at McDonald's  You would really lose your shit https://t.co/4SMFjDDieT
2026-01-09T04:20 id=2009480350741979535 →- | I have no pride in any of my affiliations.   My ethnicity, my hometown, my family, my country, my universities, my employers, my industry... none of these are sources of pride for me.  I do not understand people who take pride in these things. I don't mean they're wrong. I mean I do not understand the logic, the feeling, or the experience of taking pride in these things.
2026-01-09T04:46 id=2009486901737345498 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @DurumMac 68% of adult women in America are overweight or obese. That's going to influence the market, it has to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac Dang, you really think so? I've been off market forever and maybe my eyes cast wide but I can't think of a place where I was not around attractive women.  I WILL say in the midwest it seems like you're almost expe
2026-01-09T05:18 id=2009494859711971666 →- | The trend in economics is Narrative Economics and the increasing awareness that their econometric models, while precise and sophisticated, are so divorced both from what they model and the way people who design them understand them that there is a palpable sense of crisis, kind of like what psych went through ~20yrs ago.   This isn't being acknowledged much in the mainstream where economists still are seen as our modern day priest and aldermen class, but I suspect as AI makes inductive reasoning more monetizable, the worship of economics will fade and be seen as a silly error of the long 20th century.  https://t.co/XHktOsCqdL
2026-01-09T05:52 id=2009503538590937217 →TEMontemuro | @TEMontemuro Agreed! The identity of the author of a text will decline in value, especially if grifting and making a living as a public commentator becomes less and less remunerative over time (as it probably will). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My guess is that the gen alpha phase here will focus more on digital anthropology and/or shitposting/memes in general as an expression of the collective unconscious or some shit, with more interest in analysis than output
2026-01-09T06:26 id=2009512063530619388 →Piryme | dunno the person I'm quote tweeting at all, but rather the right wing tribalists who are supporting the killing of Renee Good.   "They're supporting her death because tribalism" is insufficient detail to explain this.   The subset of Americans not appalled at Good's death is a much larger percent of the population than who cheered on the beating up of Rodney King. That's a longitudinal difference, and I want to know what caused that change. Unless I'm wrong at this supposition, in which case I want to know why I think this longitudinal difference exists. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you're referring to the woman, you're quote-tweeting it's just her preferring her tribe over the right wing tribe. Corny as it may seem, if the roles were reversed Pepel Klaasa would be whistling another tune to this mot
2026-01-09T06:27 id=2009512305269375427 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ As the final word of analysis, that's definitely a sin to avoid. But labels can be helpful tools before you reach your conclusion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I find it more ridiculous the urge of anyone to try to classify and lable everyone by some convinient, reductionist dogma.
2026-01-09T06:43 id=2009516443348656558 →Piryme | @Piryme Trivial observation. I know left wing overreach caused right wingers to embrace evil, it's classic Ressentiment ethics. I do disagree with your framing as it seems to suggest this is the left's fault.  Still: Why is this happening now? It didn't in the 90s, 40s, etc etc. Why now? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/1UKGnzV78j
2026-01-09T06:59 id=2009520459663172059 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I'm always up to read some Philipa Foot. || CTX: Pride is a complex sentiment.   I’ve often felt it’s strange to feel pride in things that aren’t your own accomplishments.   If I’m a Bears fan and the Bears do well, and I’m proud of them, that’s quite a diff kind of sentiment cognitively 
2026-01-09T07:05 id=2009521896510124381 →Piryme | I think it's all clout chasing and self soothing among losers who have no other readily available viable options.  The systematic use of taboo violation as a demonstration of in-group authenticity and dominance over normie discourse is a very old game, that's fine. But you stop playing the game when people get hurt. If not, then you're just a loser wallowing in your own filth and you're choosing to have zero value both to the world and yourself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/DEedIBPj62
2026-01-09T07:20 id=2009525731014144299 →Piryme | @Piryme Nah man there are tons of other alternatives. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When the modern day feels valueless and many feel that traditional value systems (eg post Christian morality, Christianity, ideological radicalism, etc) have failed, the only thing to do is just burn down the remaining valu
2026-01-09T07:31 id=2009528332887707992 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Foot makes the same pre-behavioral econ error of economics: presupposing more consistency and coherence to human thought processes than there really is.  Not unsurprising given her moment in history. || CTX: Pride is a complex sentiment.   I’ve often felt it’s strange to feel pride in things that aren’t your own accomplishments.   If I’m a Bears fan and the Bears do well, and I’m proud of them, that’s quite a diff kind of sentiment cognitively 
2026-01-09T07:32 id=2009528775776850279 →Piryme | @Piryme Ceteris paribus.   Read your Nietzsche. If you dislike all the existing value systems and fail to make your own, you're a pathetic little bitch. This is why Fuentes and his followers are all losers. Same with Tate and all the other late stage 4chan grifters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tons of alternative value systems?
2026-01-09T07:47 id=2009532487433924762 →Piryme | @Piryme Yeah, most people are stupid losers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For many it's much easier and more fun to destroy the architect of modern morality than build some new worldview
2026-01-09T08:12 id=2009538664939003957 →- | I'm reading Camus's The Rebel and he makes the argument that rebellion if untethered to any purpose turns into destructive nihilism.   And that's what I'm also seeing with the far right extremists literally justifying the state murdering a citizen. https://t.co/EFunYUWqiF || CTX: They shot her, let her bleed out, prevented a physician on the scene from rendering aid, and wouldn’t allow the ambulance to get to her. Now they’re kicking over her memorial.   They want the power to kill indiscriminately and to suffer no 
2026-01-09T08:16 id=2009539845543350708 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/mHZAYcrwoA  Yeah I get shit like this just for the lulz and it's just a shitpost blah blah blah, except that you can shitpost and enrage others without cheering on the death of an innocent woman.  Like, shitpost he killed her because she's a lesbian and he was frustrated she won't fuck him. The point is to be edgy but point the edge in the right direction. || CTX: @WhiteAyatollah The kid watching his chances at a happy life quadruple in a single afternoon https://t.co/y2AGoDIRRv
2026-01-09T09:08 id=2009552968828526968 →- | I remember making out with a girl to that Deftones album in 1998. For that matter, the Sanrio characters and Goth clothes are from then too. You kids need your own shit. Stuck culture. https://t.co/n9caFzLxsX || CTX: https://t.co/nv8GxC5CGO
2026-01-09T09:37 id=2009560078110835169 →tszzl | @tszzl We are the Effective Altruists. You will be assimilated. || CTX: vessels for Claude. I don’t mean to single this person out but she wrote a wall of egregiously recognizable claudeslop about how claude is running her entire life. the Borg is coming https://t.co/FevCbetyMY
2026-01-09T09:42 id=2009561405918531671 →- | I have sat in my garden high as a kite contemplating Twitter as a group of overlapping complex and different language games all with their own different rules and success criteria.
2026-01-09T10:50 id=2009578601218535915 →pinkddle | @pinkddle I'm OOTL, is cost disease discourse trending? || CTX: I miss the times where I got to feel special because I knew about baumol
2026-01-09T23:18 id=2009766814775996795 →AlexanderRKlotz | @AlexanderRKlotz I find that so dehumanizing, but as others in this thread has said it's a useful way to look at the world and I can't disagree. How do you feel about it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've gone the opposite direction (postdoc at prestigious R1, faculty at R2) and people who don't already know who I am don't really want to talk to me as much at the March Meeting.
2026-01-09T23:19 id=2009767135984357678 →1889lw | @1889lw That is an error I often make and try to correct for. "I understand this more deeply so I'm better" is a thought that appeals to my vanity and something I try to fight against, esp because it's almost certainly less true than I think it is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about your philosophy school
2026-01-09T23:21 id=2009767600587149532 →2oovy | @2oovy Only losers discuss IQ. || CTX: This is such a brain dead take cause I can do algebraic geometry, homological algebra, category theory etc with ~100 iq https://t.co/O4lFwZVEkM
2026-01-10T00:04 id=2009778458528993539 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago These read like saying, "Although he never hit the mark, he was a good archer because his heart was in the right place and his arrows often landed kinda near the target" || CTX: I should preface this by saying I am not really a Rand fan, but.. https://t.co/AGvqSt1gUq
2026-01-10T00:21 id=2009782564446449731 →- | Consider the appeal to mathematical rigor and the sidelining of language as just "talk" in the social sciences. Then consider the trend towards hard skills in the labor market. Finally consider the attempt to remove trust from transactions in Bitcoin/crypto.   All of these are an attempt to cleave and separate human practices from language, as if you can e. g. do economics research without language and even if such a thing were possible, it's desirable.  This orientation of the late 20th century, which society today is rather blindly following, is really about the mistrust of language. A sense that it is perverse or causes purer practices to decay.  But these solutions to the problem of language always create new problems. Because without the problem of language there is no human activity. All human activity is language. Including math. Especially math.  All attempts to escape language just create more language.
2026-01-10T00:24 id=2009783320096465351 →TomWright165389 | @TomWright165389 @2oovy While I don't know how, I also know you clearly just won. || CTX: @2oovy @47fucb4r8c69323 How do you win a match?
2026-01-10T00:26 id=2009783754924142874 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Old_But_Gold50s Damn, I envy your Renaissance man-esque range. Philosophy, math, physics, and classical guitar?!? || CTX: @Old_But_Gold50s Very nice.   I also recommend Alicia De Larrocha’s interpretations of Albenjz and Granados. Amazing stuff.  When I used to play Albeniz/Granados on the classical guitar, Alicia was always one of my reference points for phra
2026-01-10T00:50 id=2009789853626683876 →- | Hard work never justifies anything. Things can justify hard work.  Consider a painting you find hideous. "The artist spent 50 years meticulously pai--" does not matter. This appeal to hard work cannot and can never transform a work into something good, center is paribus.
2026-01-10T00:53 id=2009790772040892714 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 How does it feel to arrive where you have arrived? || CTX: 3rd world iq uber drivers don’t understand traffic  Estimated arrival time through freeway traffic 18:37  Estimated arrival time through narrow streets no traffic 18:49  Guess which one he chooses
2026-01-10T01:30 id=2009799978710098159 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Another In Praise of Idleness enjoyer? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My sloth in fact has rigour philosophical justification.   Not joking.
2026-01-10T01:31 id=2009800136411754843 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah it's a magical place fr fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Like a gift from god. You open the door and the fresh air rips you away from the scent of cigarettes and the nauseating feeling of your driver slamming the breaks every 2 seconds
2026-01-10T01:40 id=2009802541438304284 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 I know it's a bitter pill to swallow but in human practice knowing how to interact with others has more economic value than any coding, math, or quantitative skill you can think of. || CTX: I am BEGGING people to stop using unstructured interviews for hiring https://t.co/FzyOhOOcPM
2026-01-10T01:43 id=2009803191467352268 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Servus Servorum Dei is the Pope's title for a reason. Christianity was the first successful ideology to invert power hierarchies so being the most wretched became the best.   It's like introducing a new class of derivatives so it spawns all kinds of new ideas and ways of life. || CTX: Fascinating. https://t.co/0HXOSu6P5W
2026-01-10T02:57 id=2009821876303098237 →- | I think I failed as a teacher (and succeeded as an analyst) because I don't do much want to give people information they want but rather want to force information on people they'd rather not know.  I'm an epistemic bully.
2026-01-10T03:15 id=2009826497478205926 →moultano | @moultano It's too destabilizing when the other side has decided truth matters less than beating the other side.  I legit don't know what to do with right wingers anymore; if they can't argue in good faith because they want to crush the opposition, they're just tankies with a diff flag. || CTX: The most exonerative read of the new video I can manage is that he was too distracted by his phone to notice that she wasn't a threat.
2026-01-10T03:16 id=2009826618420932771 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod That post made me unfollow Autism Capital. Account used to be really good on financial news too, a shame || CTX: "Use squad cars to box in a threatening vehicle"  Just a thought, giant retard account Or, you know otherwise let them just use RPGs  why not you dumb fuck https://t.co/GNxzdJkrgu
2026-01-10T03:46 id=2009834096525226474 →- | I'd bet $10,000 she was hot. https://t.co/bXgDI4W2j7 || CTX: I once had a foid over and as she was perusing my bookshelf she just happened to grab my copy of Finnegans Wake and read a sentence from it and she looked at me like a was retarded and tricked her. I think she thought I bought fake books fi
2026-01-10T04:15 id=2009841538545991763 →EconBerger | @EconBerger 1. If a billion is good, wouldn't 8 billion be better?   2. Is there a limit to how many people can live in America, long term? Is 1 trillion achievable? 100 trillion? A quintillion? || CTX: Politicians who find 2025’s very low employment growth to be disappointing should consider this one neat trick:  ***Letting a lot more immigrants into the country***  There’s even a manual you can purchase on Amazon https://t.co/BslvMew0z5
2026-01-10T04:48 id=2009849916693328213 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @EconBerger So we don't even get to 500m before ecological issues bite. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EconBerger I think EU is (avg) 44 people/km2 and US is around 34. So the US could plausibly go up 30%.   Water constraints would have to be solved. There would need to be a ton more housing.   If that 30% was relatively yo
2026-01-10T04:55 id=2009851681782251724 →- | I'm really curious if any of the quant trading algos that trade on headlines had to heavily change their algos because of all the massively bearish headlines Trump's people throw out that also are totally meaningless because they'll never actually happen.  Post-TACO algos? https://t.co/9uxjsD5jWk || CTX: HUGE: President Donald J. Trump announces a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10% effective January 20, 2026. 💸 https://t.co/WKJ4Fk4SnC
2026-01-10T04:57 id=2009852050058961323 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @EconBerger Maybe the marginal benefits of growth no longer disperse sufficiently to maintain broad support for growth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EconBerger It’s really hard to tell. Growth would have to be organic , which usually gives time to adjust, but there’s no appetite for growth at all so.. 🤷🏻‍♂️
2026-01-10T05:38 id=2009862503887736914 →BarryPierce | @BarryPierce You have to understand how miserable poverty was before the technologies that made our lives better.  It was so bleak it ended Hardy's career as a novelist, fwiw. || CTX: decided to start the year’s reading with Jude the Obscure, because I haven’t read a Hardy since my teens, and I think this might be the most relentlessly bleak novel I’ve ever read. I feel its utter nihilism is really unmatched in British l
2026-01-10T05:41 id=2009863166810042821 →- | There are two paths for those who don't get into the school of their choice:  1. Become Jude the Obscure  2. Become Hitler the Infamous https://t.co/Sj8bZxAJ23 || CTX: decided to start the year’s reading with Jude the Obscure, because I haven’t read a Hardy since my teens, and I think this might be the most relentlessly bleak novel I’ve ever read. I feel its utter nihilism is really unmatched in British l
2026-01-10T06:38 id=2009877554291978387 →pinkddle | @pinkddle @nabeelqu Okay I'm glad it's not just me. It was such an arrogant snob I was shocked at the time. And now I miss it. || CTX: @nabeelqu me too, it had an endearing, contemptuous and intellectual tone that   I've not seen since
2026-01-10T11:44 id=2009954525344608273 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 God could not make a woman that dumb and ugly. He's not that mean. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh? Why do you say so?
2026-01-10T13:26 id=2009980043695665653 →- | I cannot tell you this enough: go for a walk. https://t.co/EB7GBTfrJT || CTX: my life changed for the better in almost every way when I started going on long walks. https://t.co/cYKjD9fHrU
2026-01-10T13:28 id=2009980725475578281 →- | Groypers are basically QAnon 2.0. https://t.co/YYqCpxsvcH
2026-01-10T14:20 id=2009993698151694507 →teodorio | @teodorio idk why it saddens me so. Such wasted potential, needless misery. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A close friend of mine is down that rabbit hole and man it brainwashes them so well. Specifically designed mind virus to impact the white underachiever male
2026-01-10T14:21 id=2009993908370174114 →DurumMac | @DurumMac One of the reasons I left New York. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 One of the negatives of living in a northern country is how walk unfriendly the winter is.
2026-01-10T21:56 id=2010108422738555172 →- | Get on the Win Treadmill, anon. Don't take the anticlimax of winning as an indication that this mindset might be false or destructive, just keep trying to win more and more and more.   You cannot see the world as anything but winning and losing, so go win, loser! https://t.co/yWVxym8wDs || CTX: people care, but what do you expect them to do?  people think life will feel so magical when they win, but it's just another day. you have to go win again. https://t.co/7BdMuub28y
2026-01-11T01:38 id=2010164433306431968 →1889lw | @1889lw There's no fault really, neither in them nor in you having standards. It's just a question of whether you're fine with the alienating result or not. If so, great; if not, you'll need to change your standards to get the outcome you want. || CTX: People let me down from time to time. But maybe it’s my fault to place expectations on them in the first place. Idk
2026-01-11T01:43 id=2010165564925456897 →ryxcommar | @ryxcommar @buccocapital This is why you're back office. || CTX: @buccocapital no need to think so hard about it. just plop your money in an ex-US ETF and build a doomsday bunker
2026-01-11T01:47 id=2010166671835836591 →- | It'd be fucking hilarious if the Great Filter is actually the internet (and technologies like it).
2026-01-11T02:17 id=2010174212632424923 →- | My cynicism occasionally makes me despondent, not really suicidally so but more apathetic towards death than the average person.  This is prima facie bad, but my cynicism also means I've never been a fan or had a parasocial relationship.   I guess the closest I've come to having a hero or role model is Wittgenstein, and that dude was a vicious bully who acted out because he couldn't deal with being gay. And he was wrong on several things.  I just can't worship people.  Maybe in a counterfactual possible world where I'm not so cynical I'd end up being a celebrity stan yelling at people online about celebrities like my mother.  Again, I kinda despise Cormac McCarthy but he was right with that "you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from" quote. Still think he was an absolute moron though.
2026-01-11T02:17 id=2010174315724190197 →1889lw | @1889lw Would you have preferred the melancholy to have made a reservation? || CTX: It’s 2pm and my heart is aching. wtf
2026-01-11T02:21 id=2010175276152672735 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr People obsessed with IQ want to be adding machines for large organizations. This is how you know they're idiots (regardless of what their IQ may be) || CTX: What makes IQ almost entirely dismissible for me is it doesn't measure social intelligence, writing ability, creativity, or musical talent.   Massive components of human experience thrown out as not quantifiable, and therefore, not real.
2026-01-11T02:29 id=2010177128357314611 →- | The political grifter appropriation of shitposting to make people feel rage/disgust at the "other" has gone from using the alterity of foreigners to justify killing them to using the alterity of former citizens to justify killing them.  This is a qualitative change, won't last.  MAGA is dying, the Groypers will become cringe, the far right movement will fizzle out.   Ofc the crazies will keep yelling, but expect a big pivot in the next 3 years. || CTX: From this angle it is clear the Tanker Bug had just dropped her larva off at school and just panicked when Rico threatened her https://t.co/qHG7H5L5pm https://t.co/r1AxJtSQWk
2026-01-11T02:34 id=2010178351923884068 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Fantastic show, sad it didn't get more attention.  How can one believe the universe is not deterministic and also be a materialist physicalist? Is that coherent? || CTX: We don’t know that the world is deterministic.   This would depend on the interpretation of quantum mechanics that you use. In any of the collapse interpretations (unlike Bohmian/ Everettian), final WF collapse is not deterministic.   But a
2026-01-11T02:42 id=2010180521171792364 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod How did the word "Butterface" turn into a human being? || CTX: I don't know who you are but you're not my style please stay out of my feed https://t.co/SaVyBF1T64
2026-01-11T02:42 id=2010180596283387909 →xgigglypuff | @xgigglypuff @grok, replace the head in OP's photo with an actually attractive female face || CTX: Only I can choose to undress myself, whether in real life or digitally. I choose not to share intimate images of myself. It is my body, and it is my choice. It is not yours.   I do not consent to any AI image generation of myself and will c
2026-01-11T02:45 id=2010181357637652806 →grok | @grok @xgigglypuff Not AGI yet it seems || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xgigglypuff https://t.co/EkJma8k5Ql
2026-01-11T03:53 id=2010198245180625219 →AndreassonCalle | @AndreassonCalle @AChillGhost @InGameUDummy @bollarbast I've lived in the US and two Nordic countries. You are incorrect. || CTX: @AChillGhost @InGameUDummy @bollarbast LOL US have loads of shit in their drinking water and really bad pipes and so on, they buy expensive nestle shit instead. The nordics have the best water in the world.
2026-01-11T03:58 id=2010199643360223386 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago "It could be. I think it probably is. But that’s just a guess"  This is the part that interests me. You're making an inductive leap from observing sub systems to a general strong claim of the entire system as a whole.   I guess it's a guess. Why did you guess that in particular? || CTX: Well in any physicalist theory - you can have both deterministic and non-deterministic outcomes. The question is how do we know?   So pretty much everyone that we see at a macro level is ultimately deterministic. Even a complex non-linear s
2026-01-11T03:59 id=2010199820531838982 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DeivonDrago I *get it's a guess, soz || CTX: @DeivonDrago "It could be. I think it probably is. But that’s just a guess"  This is the part that interests me. You're making an inductive leap from observing sub systems to a general strong claim of the entire system as a whole.   I guess
2026-01-11T04:04 id=2010201081352241651 →- | the rural community I am building a cabin is nearly entirely leftist. hilariously most of them simultaneously complain about Amazon AND also about the Amazon Prime price going up 😂 https://t.co/cJseXAEjdJ || CTX: the rural community I am building a cabin is nearly entirely MAGA. hilariously most of them simultaneously complain about obamacare AND also about the obamacare subsidies vanishing😂
2026-01-11T04:05 id=2010201357849178398 →moultano | @moultano Or he's a paid liar. || CTX: It's incredible to see people still saying this after we just watched the video from his point of view showing her turning the wheel away from him. Either he's blind or he doesn't know how cars work. https://t.co/cQTn2xE9jU
2026-01-11T04:06 id=2010201575307046986 →SamBuntz | @SamBuntz Thinking of ending things? || CTX: Just walked through a frigid dystopian hellscape between one Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins and another Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins.
2026-01-11T04:53 id=2010213533921968534 →- | you get influential people saying dumb things for fun, then you have dumb people not seeing the fun and thinking they are serious, and then you have dumb people's worldviews inexorably changed towards something absurd. maybe the epistemic hazard of the internet stems from this and this alone. || CTX: The American economy is 100 percent AI, college football, and feet - this makes me nervous
2026-01-11T05:01 id=2010215461015957661 →- | MISA GONNA BE POLITICAL MASCOT https://t.co/c4yzDULg6t https://t.co/4KYLvySY2v || CTX: @Acyn They're trembling-- MAKE ICE SCARED AGAIN. Keep applying pressure-- If maga refuses to hold themselves accountable the rest of America will.
2026-01-11T05:07 id=2010217038963462401 →Quartier312 | @Quartier312 no I haven't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You've been saying this for 10 years
2026-01-11T05:50 id=2010227797806268681 →- | This is why the intensity of online political discourse is a clear directional signal.  The more people criticize America online, the more bullish on America I am, regardless of whether I think America is getting better or worse.  Heuristic been working for decades too. https://t.co/MoqcSShLCe || CTX: There's a basic asymmetry in internet discourse because it's full of people from countries where you can't criticize their governments.
2026-01-11T06:02 id=2010230789364166774 →_onosecond | @_onosecond @potatoslav The incident I experienced was two years ago and Germany had almost no snow at the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav Because the weather was especially spicy the past 3 days? Storm Ellie? Does that ring a Bell?
2026-01-11T07:52 id=2010258520177029187 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Self awareness is the hardest and most valuable thing one can have, I try to harvest it as much as I can. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao. Its nice that you have this selfawareness.
2026-01-11T09:16 id=2010279600509882390 →saintgumi | @saintgumi It's beautiful and magical and the crisp air feels great for about two weeks and then it's just miserable for months. || CTX: snow brings me an indescribable amount of joy (i live in a tropical country) https://t.co/R9rGH0dlpk
2026-01-11T09:41 id=2010285877759758828 →ShitpostRock | @ShitpostRock The wig doesn't help either. || CTX: I still remember when everyone was calling this poor girl a dude purely becouse of her bust size https://t.co/txuq3N6e6H
2026-01-11T10:58 id=2010305291234234818 →1889lw | @1889lw idk man you tell me, it's your hangup || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What does being gay have to do with being a bully 😭
2026-01-11T11:24 id=2010311812651311573 →1889lw | @1889lw In 1910s Austria/England? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol I think he’s just a little bit spoiled and autistic. Being gay is hard but doesn’t contribute to that
2026-01-11T12:12 id=2010323856398119350 →- | -- Steve Jobs, 2011 https://t.co/gdfuE5lUD7 || CTX: Wow https://t.co/Orpjr8U87Q https://t.co/x8O7YTDZWs
2026-01-11T12:45 id=2010332209073578282 →- | New trolley problem: on one set of tracks there are three people, and on the other set there are also three people. Do you turn the switch or not?
2026-01-11T12:59 id=2010335688030662746 →lightlykat | @lightlykat OMG THEYRE BACK BACK OMG DHCIDJRHRICOEMFJGLDLFFKDJGPCDKD || CTX: i still dk why everyone went crazy over these https://t.co/St8sDkoVxO https://t.co/QVCkWqa7or
2026-01-11T22:44 id=2010482893483896875 →lostinacanyon | @lostinacanyon @tennesseedarlin @RidleyDM @HistoryBoomer Hmm, two states that heavily use slavery and are racist against foreign workers. Not the best examples. || CTX: @tennesseedarlin @RidleyDM @HistoryBoomer Do you include East Asia as "non-white?"  Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.?  If not, then the answer is the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
2026-01-11T23:02 id=2010487614831489357 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Shitposting as Federal policy. Good lord  I remember being in a meeting in 2015 with a bunch of investors who were arguing over their models of how much political ad spending was online. Most in the room were arguing it'd be small because the internet isn't important for politics || CTX: As they say - I did Nazi that coming. https://t.co/EeAWHHBZYs
2026-01-11T23:09 id=2010489363055186231 →- | POOLS CLOSED https://t.co/4KP2sqG546 || CTX: https://t.co/6ZnkkGPSH8
2026-01-11T23:22 id=2010492420027498615 →- | General knowledge of how much current US politics are downstream of 4chan-style shit posting and the entanglement of the internet with real life will always remain low because people naturally resist notions of their choices being externally determined.   Fortunately, AI content makes what we see on the internet less reliable and, in turn, the internet is likely to be seen more as a surreal other place when AI makes content less reliable/verifiable. Caution will require people to take the internet less seriously.  When that happens, the internet will cease being the hyperreal simulacrum and more like a surreal parallel universe. Which is exactly what the internet was like before the 2010s and the internet went from anonymous playground to the main communication channel used to shape the real world.
2026-01-11T23:31 id=2010494803331674359 →- | Gotta give him credit: he did succeed in making the news cycle go past the Epstein files. https://t.co/bLAlnXvWQ7 || CTX: BREAKING: President Trump floats the idea of Marco Rubio becoming President of Cuba.
2026-01-11T23:42 id=2010497586206326813 →- | My first journalism job was in 2011.  We had a group chat where we coordinated our newsroom. About 90% of the discussions were about pictures, headlines and ledes and how we can get attention and thus clicks and eyeballs.  There were leaderboards based on PVs and constant talk about to get views up. I later found this is standard at most online publications and better publications gave bonuses (sometimes significant ones) to those who had the highest PVs of the month or whatever.  So, why is the government page tweeting like a 20 year old girl? Because it gets attention, and attention is rewarded with money, power, and influence.   This is also why the Federal Government is also quoting Nazi slogans in other tweets.   Here's the problem. Getting outraged and quote tweeting won't fix this, it will enable this behavior. So you aren't fighting it short term by pointing it out, the other side will just think they're winning the shitposting game.  The only way to fight this bullshit is to get the internet out of politics and get politics off the internet. Which, I know, is no longer possible. || CTX: Why is a government page tweeting like a 20 year old girl? https://t.co/mjEximdP6l
2026-01-11T23:53 id=2010500259722768566 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @daisyldixon Do you think her surprise/confusion is real (because she misunderstands the nature of the internet) or feigned (as a rhetorical stance to appear Serious and Respectable)? || CTX: @daisyldixon Also, a particularly bad example of the genetic fallacy
2026-01-12T00:08 id=2010504222731812983 →tuancpacheco | @tuancpacheco Well, that's just it. If academia is as much bullshit as the private sector, why shouldn't I leave academia and optimize my income if I find the same or more enjoyment out of that work?  Hence brain drain. || CTX: Eu entendo que isso é frustrante, mas... toda atividade profissional no capitalismo é assim 🤷‍♀️ Eu também acho irracional e vergonhoso, só que eu não vejo como justificativa pra desistir da carreira uma vez que também nas artes, no mundo d
2026-01-12T00:10 id=2010504517268443613 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @HistoryBoomer Explains why chicks from the Caucuses are so hot. || CTX: @HistoryBoomer But since God was Caucasian and Jesus was his son, that doesn’t apply. 😬
2026-01-12T00:17 id=2010506404076110276 →- | In 1995 in an AOL chatroom I saw someone write, "The internet is no place for stupid people. You do not have a right to be here."  I think about this often.
2026-01-12T00:50 id=2010514653823299665 →- | What a badass. https://t.co/cEcQQ20adp
2026-01-12T00:56 id=2010516259256037644 →- | During the Umbrella Revolution and 2019 protests I heard many mainland Chinese say the CIA paid the protestors.  MAGA and CCP using the same disinformation tactics. https://t.co/WCQkAQjLiP || CTX: They all look the same. They all act the same. All paid.  It’s truly a sickness spreading across the Left.  They don’t believe in God, they hate children and family life, so this is where they find “purpose”: harassing those making our stre
2026-01-12T01:01 id=2010517494939951442 →- | Several comments pointing out the physical features of people in this segment saying something like "they're not real people". Typical dehumanizing rhetoric to vilify the other side.  They're deplorables, Nazis, commies, Karens, racists, fascists, etc etc... it is all a language game to make you hate your fellow citizens. || CTX: FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now?  Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests.  FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests?  Trent: No, I think they are
2026-01-12T01:03 id=2010518065482772892 →teodorio | @teodorio I have never thought about that. Interesting idea. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Powell should be president ideally
2026-01-12T01:07 id=2010518959850983769 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/N9XFipxz45 || CTX: Wait wait wait so there's now two anti-regime Iranian factions that are fighting each other out in the US what even is this lore? https://t.co/v92NU6gBQz
2026-01-12T01:46 id=2010528879136698614 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Yeah but it takes attention away from the Epstein files so there is that. || CTX: Can't believe this has to be said, but you have to be a fucking moron to think Powell and the Fed are actually guilty of some sort of building renovation conspiracy.
2026-01-12T02:06 id=2010533873420267650 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry I find it hard to imagine Powell has enemies.  IMO, Powell has only fans. || CTX: If Jay Powell has a million fans, I am one of them If Jay Powell has one fan, then it’s me If Jay Powell has no fans, then I am dead.  Team Jay Powell always
2026-01-12T02:59 id=2010547041861329327 →- | Keep in mind the conspiracy theory group that will always hate the Fed no matter what. In that light, Powell's popularity is really substantial. https://t.co/zzLdBWUcfM || CTX: Powell has the highest approval rating of any “political leader” in the country. https://t.co/QJejle2NsS
2026-01-12T06:11 id=2010595425070575632 →- | It may not be an overstatement to say that we have Trump because instead of studying rhetoric, politicians study polysci and rely on talking points.  I'm sure a modern Cicero would've made Trump look foolish even to the MAGA crowd during the debates.
2026-01-12T06:26 id=2010599366869090381 →- | Here we see the risk in lacking epistemic humility. If you can say something like this "feels right", you aren't stupid per se but you are bad at intellectual labor because you lack the innate critical thinking skills necessary to assess confidence intervals. https://t.co/2hrgn59f4P || CTX: Why do people think they have intuition that could discern the difference between 6 billion and 8 billion people in the world. https://t.co/4YgWyKGFKY
2026-01-12T07:26 id=2010614339930407065 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I first used the internet in 1987. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you've been here for quite a long time.
2026-01-12T07:30 id=2010615323624722877 →Chaos80397926 | I used to be deeply ashamed of my love of the internet (it was considered a place for creepy nerds and losers until the early 2010s).   However, I can unequivocally say that my use of the internet has been the greatest thing in my life, the benefits in terms of money and lifestyle have been absurd from any point of view. It's the best thing to happen to me, by far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 woah. thats more than 10 years before my birth. i wonder do you think your use has generally affected you positively?
2026-01-12T08:47 id=2010634646007259647 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago So reduce Senate terms to one year? Lemme buy shares in Politico first. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 True. Plus.. if you recall the consul elections in the Republic, they had 2 consuls elected to serve a one year term. If you made a mistake, you just waited a few months.
2026-01-12T08:48 id=2010634899972313252 →KtunaxaAmerika | @KtunaxaAmerika @potatoslav Yeah in the 90s DB was considered one of the best in Europe. Or that's what I remember, recent events make me doubt my own memory. || CTX: @potatoslav @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that it has gotten worse since the 1990s
2026-01-12T08:49 id=2010635170152628576 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 6/10 tbh, but a genuinely fun and interesting person, introduced me to a bit of music and culture. We were better as friends but drifted apart, hopefully she's doing well now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what was the girl like?
2026-01-12T08:59 id=2010637630950785406 →helscom | @helscom NEWFAGS GTFO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i miss the elitist internet of old... where people were afraid to post...
2026-01-12T09:00 id=2010638062771134799 →elerianm | @elerianm Did El-Erian's account get hacked? || CTX: As regards the reporting below from the NYT: For those of us who value the operational autonomy of central banks, the risk is that this situation could expose deeper issues—further undermining the credibility of a Fed whose public standing 
2026-01-12T09:02 id=2010638448986935595 →sockmoments | @sockmoments Sorry, I don't mean to be rude or confrontational, and if you have an argument otherwise I'm open to hear it, but bells are really bad for cats. || CTX: REAL AND TRUE https://t.co/oDZLG9Xkps https://t.co/I57VYDyBpM
2026-01-12T09:04 id=2010638972331180440 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I'm divorced but in a long term relationship, almost a decade. We'll probably get married in the next couple of years. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you also don't seem to be married now, was that  by choice?
2026-01-12T09:06 id=2010639577581842543 →- | I agree with many realists and anti-realists. I may just think some things are real and some aren't, I just can't know which is which.
2026-01-12T09:09 id=2010640235022164112 →Citrini7 | @Citrini7 Trump isn't taken seriously anymore. || CTX: Anyone have a hot take on why the yield curve is flattening? Seems a weird response to news that the Fed got served.
2026-01-12T09:10 id=2010640633627848710 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Be so physically attracted to her that you cannot control yourself and you will do absolutely anything to get a date with her. Then sustain that feeling for as long as she stays around. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 congratulations in advance then. for a young man who doesn't know much about what women are truly like, what advise would you give when it comes to selecting a wife?
2026-01-12T09:14 id=2010641597877416108 →- | There is a very small percent of people on Earth who I could be friends with. And they're distributed everywhere, so the number of those who happen to be in my proximity is tiny.   However, the emergent interest graph of platforms like social media, where user behavior is leveraged to change who sees whom, makes it possible for us to find each other globally just by being ourselves online, and being open to connection.   This is what the internet was starting to be in the 90s, and it's been dying since. But I do not want people to forget this important and promising moment in human history.
2026-01-12T09:19 id=2010642663729770953 →- | Y'all randomly watch old presidential debates tf? https://t.co/aOqD8EAJB6 || CTX: rewatching the second 1992 pres debate for the first time in a while and holy shit bush really just got up there and said a bunch of bullshit. bill laughing at him the whole time kills me
2026-01-12T09:20 id=2010643083554443490 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 idk maybe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see. thank you. i will keep this in mind. though, i wonder if desire expressed clearly like this will chase her off? it seems women do not like needy men.
2026-01-12T09:55 id=2010651763494568414 →CameronCorduroy | @CameronCorduroy yeah it really is || CTX: this is 9/11 for finance spreadsheet guys  potentially moreso than actual 9/11 which happened like five blocks away https://t.co/D0Nfto7qTl
2026-01-12T09:55 id=2010651889063583962 →EnergyCredit1 | @EnergyCredit1 Helped me grow my mute list tho || CTX: If you are anyone in Finance and don’t believe Trump is intimidating Powell to lower rates can any of your takes ever be taken seriously again?
2026-01-12T10:00 id=2010652976319439151 →- | How many kids did the president rape jfc https://t.co/ZAFSnsUEkk || CTX: Trump actually kidnapped Maduro because he wanted his advice on economic policy. https://t.co/BoOx6T3MXv
2026-01-12T11:42 id=2010678712614969348 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 No, it wasn't algorithm driven but path dependence.   If you wanted info about thing X, you'd go to a specific message board or newsgroup or chat room or BBS dedicated to X. Other people did the same, you interact with them, boom: user based emergent interest graph || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The algorithm was actually getting good in the 90s?
2026-01-12T12:07 id=2010684956604092607 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 You guess 100% correctly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That sounds so much better than what we have today. I imagine at that time there was more variance in the communities that formed all around the web than now. The internet has evolved away from that dynamic since the bigguy
2026-01-12T13:19 id=2010703057366269996 →CoorsLightCEO | @CoorsLightCEO Nah man for this shit we need to sniff glue. || CTX: It’s time BTW. https://t.co/ju6duvfvjF
2026-01-12T13:22 id=2010703911309762994 →xie_uh | @xie_uh Some days I think this, some days I think the opposite. Curious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Trump is a modern Cicero you fool. Had the romans freed their pleb/slave classes to vote, Trump would have run circles around his dumbass in the same way he did Biden
2026-01-12T13:26 id=2010704879258632607 →vintagemapstore | @vintagemapstore Per day? || CTX: Per capita income in the provinces of The Roman Empire in 14 AD in todays dollars. Map by the NEP-HIS Blog https://t.co/0G6Ml73Rnh
2026-01-12T13:36 id=2010707577454412247 →xie_uh | @xie_uh lmaooooo  Vivat Pax Trumpana! || CTX: "were going to have, actually they're building it now, a big big, I know you know big (points to some dd winch with breast hanging from toga), what do they call them, arena, let's call it a collisiem. The bread, oh Its so warm, that bread, 
2026-01-12T13:39 id=2010708138421538924 →helscom | @helscom @vintagemapstore I keep forgetting there were Jews in the Roman empire! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vintagemapstore it's the avg law firm partner hourly rate around the empire
2026-01-13T00:49 id=2010876894250746303 →1889lw | @1889lw I think you'll find if you hate your life or love it is of no consequence to anyone but yourself.  Which is pretty cool--the choice is entirely yours and yours alone. || CTX: I’d. Am I not allowed to hate my life
2026-01-13T01:12 id=2010882628904501464 →APompliano | @APompliano @mark_dow @cfosilvia This is the real issue, @mark_dow. Ignore the guy, don't amplify his posts. He's just trying to make money, he doesn't actually believe in anything. || CTX: @mark_dow Only a "fiat enthusiast" would read a bunch of sentences and come away thinking there were questions included.  Thanks for promoting my work.  People should check out @cfosilvia where they can use the latest AI models for their fi
2026-01-13T01:17 id=2010883761039450191 →DeivonDrago | Human brain has a bias towards the physical, tangible. Same reason many people revert to real estate ownership even when the returns are subpart; they can't really conceive of the abstractions necessary to see value in stock certificates.  Physical media is more real than virtual media, hence also the halo effect around physical codices. || CTX: People have these strange notions. I don’t know of any subscriptions that are a hard lock in with no escape. There may be cases where something like M365 doesn’t have many good alternatives. But it isn’t expensive, and if you can’t figure o
2026-01-13T01:56 id=2010893767755300937 →- | I'm reminded of when Barbara Ehrenreich would tell maids and menial workers she was a writer and they couldn't wrap their heads around the idea that someone was paid to write.   This group of people who yearn to be adding machines for a big institution remind me of that. https://t.co/yrj1vEPcZf || CTX: As someone who worked in a university tutoring center for many years as a writing tutor, I can assure you that many of the top math students can not in fact pick up a given text in English, read it, and understand it.   And then don’t even 
2026-01-13T02:34 id=2010903319095685596 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yes, indeed, welcome to Asia. || CTX: Slavery is bad. And we shouldn't be able to buy people.  But what if we could rent them for a little bit.
2026-01-13T02:46 id=2010906327082749980 →- | In 1998 my university did a summer school partnership with Cambridge.  In my group, two girls who went to Stratford ended up sleeping with the same RSC actor and they ended up fighting over It.  I'm just typing this out for posterity--since AI means no human produced text will prob ever be permanently deleted again, let's let future generations know this amusing tidbit of human experience.
2026-01-13T03:02 id=2010910238925533279 →- | This is written by a person and is in a major pub but the lede is misleading and reads very oddly to anyone who has made beer; 3% beer isn't any harder than 4% or 5% beer, nor does it require any special ingredients or techniques. It's literally the identical process, just different ratios of the same identical ingredients.  The issue isn't lack of knowledge but the limitations of genre.  When people complain about AI writing, they're really complaining about a register.  There's a kind of anodyne style that is the desired goal of many domains (HR most obviously, but the mass print magazine fits too). It's also a surprisingly large percent of the text humans produce and consume, and that's why AIs write poorly. Add safetyism and RLHF and the AIs write even worse.
2026-01-13T03:04 id=2010910759082156512 →teodorio | @teodorio I do not think AGI has happened. || CTX: I'm reposting this as I was feeling something in the ether and then AGI actually got released. So what's the plan? https://t.co/bUA5NQS7hJ
2026-01-13T03:05 id=2010911106794209502 →teodorio | @teodorio @SYNESTHEIZURE Claude is worse at analyzing texts than OpenAI and Gemini.   I give the three models an offline test for their ability to read irony and nuance. Claude keeps failing, even Opus. || CTX: @SYNESTHEIZURE Writing and most data (knowledge) work too!
2026-01-13T03:47 id=2010921636934083049 →BasseyEmm53639 | I use AI professionally to present summaries of news articles that I then will synthesize into a document that then is used to adjust assumptions in a financial model.  The amount of changes I need to make to the summaries I get keeps growing with each newer model. At the same time, each model produces better analysis with wider and better sources of data, just the writing of the outputs is so much worse.  So the end product I produce has improved exponentially, and this is all much faster than what I did pre-LLMs, but as a writer GenAI has declined in quality while getting smarter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the real crime isn't factual errors but the genre's relentless march toward safe, flavorless prose that both humans and RLHF-tuned AIs now perfect equally well.
2026-01-13T03:56 id=2010923993830916331 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I wanted to be an archivist once. I'm obsessed with this.   My ultimate conclusion is that preservation is a human practice so the determinant of whether something survives is probably more determined by what people value than by the physical material of the document. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 something I think about a lot is how ethereal the internet really is. 1s and 0s stored magnetically on disks mean nothing to the sands of time.   The hollywood concrete actor signatures may outlive us.
2026-01-13T04:01 id=2010925265950806100 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Something I've been toying with is:  If AI means my data will likely outlive me (since it's good for training), what data can I produce so that at some point in the far future I am interesting enough to get the notice of a future historian?   Like marketing to future generations. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm going to carve a bunch of stone tablets with my name in it and archeologists will probably think I'm a huge king or something.
2026-01-13T04:14 id=2010928371086266502 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @KobeissiLetter Eric Adams? More like Eric a damn scammer. || CTX: @KobeissiLetter rugpulling the retards on the way out. my goat forever.
2026-01-13T04:24 id=2010930896795549897 →- | When I went to Prague with my girlfriend, we went to the nearest highly rated restaurant, and after we ate I went downstairs to the bathroom. After coming out, I saw a plaque in the downstairs dining area commemorating that this was the first place in the world that Pilsner Urquell (and thus the first pale lager) was introduced to the public.   Of course I freaked out and of course as I excitedly told my girlfriend about this I could see just how very much she could not possibly care less. || CTX: Not today but I walked 9 miles around a  beautiful day in Prague &amp; I ate at a biergarten :) https://t.co/fs53klRgWh https://t.co/MJlrKraamY
2026-01-13T06:17 id=2010959264219873574 →- | I think the appeal is that ironic mysticism is a kind of emergent surreal humor.  You ironically enjoy the mystic and suddenly the mystic becomes a joke, but the longer you linger after laughing the more surreal the experience becomes.   And surrealness is quite literally a transcendence of reality. || CTX: i’m prepared to negotiate https://t.co/pQTOnZzYLq
2026-01-13T06:25 id=2010961499901345793 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews Insane thread. Nostalgia is a mental illness. || CTX: What's fucking wild is the Zoomers in the comments are all passionately defending movies that literally do not exist. They are all describing events that didn't happen because dialogue/exposition says they happened, ergo they must have http
2026-01-13T08:18 id=2010989841778164193 →langofmind | @langofmind The reason natural gas smells is additives are added to make natural gas leaks noticably. They literally smell on purpose. || CTX: Like, you can't say "the vase broke on purpose" unless it came to life and flung itself off the table. Natural gas isn't doing anything on purpose in this case, it's some unspecified other agent (like the one who broke the vase)
2026-01-13T10:41 id=2011025723717533992 →- | Sadly many cartoons have signed up for Twitter lately, and, well, they hate her. https://t.co/PB6DGOs30I || CTX: I'll address this in a future S*bstack post, but I don't really post here regularly anymore. Maybe that'll change (I'm not deactivating) but the volume of wildly nasty and hateful stuff toward me was affecting me negatively on a low steady 
2026-01-13T12:16 id=2011049627039219919 →- | The really weird thing is he looks like a burnt-out Japanese detective but he does not look like a Japanese man. https://t.co/tFYhVwnKtU || CTX: He really does look like a burnt-out Japanese detective https://t.co/2y4qOowkkY
2026-01-13T12:16 id=2011049766453723609 →UniversallyCAPE | @UniversallyCAPE @PalmyrPar Benecio del Toro Roll || CTX: @PalmyrPar Bruh definitely looks like Benicio del Toro here.
2026-01-13T22:20 id=2011201838893445618 →ByrneHobart | @ByrneHobart @confusionm8trix I think you don't understand what is going on here. This isn't analysis, this is pretentious pseudointellectual nonsense.  If you don't know the difference, you're either very stupid or bewitched and could use some time thinking alone on a long walk. || CTX: @confusionm8trix Strongly disagree: if people don’t publish wonky defenses of universal instincts, but do publish contrarian ones (“here’s why to be poly/vegan/tactless/etc.”) it gives the impression that every default belief falls apart un
2026-01-13T22:28 id=2011203738204303535 →teodorio | @teodorio It's actually a very crappy platform for tech work which is why all the performative TPOT posts are very very funny. || CTX: This place is more like a museum than a tech platform and should be managed as such.
2026-01-13T22:39 id=2011206380318048577 →pharo212 | @pharo212 @Painefulfacts @JDabknee So I guess no reason to feel bad that he's dead. || CTX: @Painefulfacts @JDabknee there was also some insane posting where people kept trying to tell him he could have helped or gotten his son treatment or etc and he doubled down on the only options being kill your son or let your son kill people
2026-01-13T22:41 id=2011207041394827310 →MikeIsaac | @MikeIsaac Goddammit I don't write training materials for interns anymore, this is legit excellent. || CTX: maybe the most succinctly beautiful explanation of what a short is that i’ve ever seen https://t.co/x9bFQD1I60
2026-01-13T22:46 id=2011208376395641085 →_sn_n | @_sn_n Wait where's the band?   I hate it when people post the one where they photoshopped the band out || CTX: How the “I don’t care/pay attention to politics”  people look like https://t.co/f01rXDwXQm
2026-01-13T22:51 id=2011209543544713546 →- | When Nate started out he was very good. I followed him when he had 10k subs  But he quickly realized political content got more views and he pivoted to based black lawyer man branding  Another case of psychological suicide. I estimate he's making about 1m/yr so well paid suicide. https://t.co/2DJORGnAY5 || CTX: Legally, both were justified. However, based on who you voted for, I bet you only see one of these cases as valid self-defense. https://t.co/BTube48wWS
2026-01-13T22:52 id=2011209783463068115 →amphichrome_ | @amphichrome_ @ssslomp Close enough.  Welcome back, Homer. || CTX: @ssslomp sky doesn’t count
2026-01-13T22:54 id=2011210185436742124 →agraybee | @agraybee I see this talked about all the time on social media and no one ever brings up numbers or stats although these aren't at all hard to dig up. || CTX: This is observably untrue? We have a highly class-endogamous society. How many rich men are married to waitresses as opposed to heiresses, actresses and power lawyers. https://t.co/mcEqb4hkgu
2026-01-13T22:59 id=2011211421212950967 →- | real ones know that caring about this shit is for losers. that's the game https://t.co/YpYMKw57Re || CTX: real ones know that sometimes one single post can get you 3000 followers, and sometimes a hundred posts get you no followers. that’s the game https://t.co/QHHQZ8i66r
2026-01-13T22:59 id=2011211651270562027 →47fucb4r8c69323 | One way to think of social media is that it is a game where the way you win is not caring about all the things social media is trying to get you to care about. || CTX: real ones know that caring about this shit is for losers. that's the game https://t.co/YpYMKw57Re
2026-01-13T23:00 id=2011211759907193161 →- | When Nate started out he was very good. I followed him when he had 10k subs  But he quickly realized political content got more views and he pivoted to based black lawyer man branding  Another case of philosophical suicide. I estimate he's making about 1m/yr so well paid suicide. https://t.co/2DJORGnAY5 || CTX: Legally, both were justified. However, based on who you voted for, I bet you only see one of these cases as valid self-defense. https://t.co/BTube48wWS
2026-01-13T23:04 id=2011212817903554672 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I've met too many people born rich, beautiful, or intelligent who are also miserable to think winning the genetic lottery is a good thing. || CTX: At some point you realize it might just be romantic narratives to cope with not winning the genetic lottery.
2026-01-13T23:24 id=2011217840591028608 →pourfairelevide | @pourfairelevide If you can put aside your Ressentiment for a while, it's true.  Not only was I once in your world, I was a mentee of one of your paper's former literary critics.   Trust me: finance, consulting, and corporate law are stealing our brightest minds. || CTX: liberal use of “brightest minds” here https://t.co/PIrYT9sh3J
2026-01-13T23:26 id=2011218219038843369 →DurumMac | @DurumMac "You and I won the genetic lottery not getting some neurodegenerative hereditary disease."  Not sure I agree with this. Without his debilitating disease, Nietzsche wouldn't have become the philosopher he was.  What is good or bad for us is less straightforward than it appears. || CTX: That’s true.   It’s also true some people deep down wish they did and it’s just romantic narratives to cover that insecurity.   I’m using “genetic lottery” to mean those mostly fixed traits one is born with that one desires.   You and I won
2026-01-13T23:26 id=2011218442389803235 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Eschewing technology puts you at a disadvantage. As it very well should. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The A.i savvy non-narc has some tools at their disposal.   But for the non-tech savvy non-narc… quite the issue.
2026-01-13T23:30 id=2011219329350844755 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 People are so tribal it's pathetic. Why's he need to put the two against each other like it's a fucking competition? Local LLMs good for some things, frontier on the cloud for others.  FFS reminds me of Mac fanboyism in the early 90s, this shit is so childish. || CTX: &gt;use a local model &gt;looks inside &gt;80B https://t.co/CjBCURTim5 https://t.co/Jziys1QbT8
2026-01-13T23:34 id=2011220364576358650 →- | My evolving attitude to the internet:  Late 80s: Intrigued at the magical technology Early 90s: Amazed that I can connect to anyone globally Late 90s: Amazed that I can get obscure information  Early 00s: OMG maybe one day the internet will have ALL knowledge Late 00s: It's becoming its own culture, and it's awesome Early 10s: Wow Arab Spring, this could change the world for the better Mid 10s: Hmm, people are starting to use the internet incorrectly, all these new people using their real names, this isn't good. Late 10s: JFC, internet is full of idiocy Early 20s: Oh, normies don't know how to metabolize the internet, it's ruined meatspace, wow
2026-01-13T23:44 id=2011222906848911592 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Evergreen. I remember thinking that in the 90s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are quite a few who are unprepared for what’s coming…
2026-01-13T23:46 id=2011223352124588105 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Very much so. He often wrote how his bouts of sickness helped him reach depths of wisdom impossible to obtain otherwise. It's a major theme in all his works: one cannot have an overcoming without first an undergoing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did Nietzsche feel this way? Was he thankful for it? He couldn’t have been a great philosopher otherwise?
2026-01-13T23:48 id=2011223884536914051 →Bob003171862363 | @Bob003171862363 @rob_mcrobberson Yes, when a party switches its view entirely it's hypocrisy, worth noting, and something to be suspicious of. || CTX: @rob_mcrobberson "did you ever notice there are two sides and if you switch the thing it's hypocritical"
2026-01-13T23:50 id=2011224266046623829 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Dismissing things as trivial or inferior is a useful filter for one's attention when bombarded by information, so no surprise people leap to these judgments prematurely in the current era. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s a flavor of pessimist engagement baiting   “Errmmmmm this is trivial it’s just a ___ wrapper”   And it turns out to not be trivial at all
2026-01-13T23:52 id=2011224808001060894 →DurumMac | That indeed is the bourgeois response, which I see as cope.  If you spend your life prioritizing comfort, seeing someone find tremendous value in discomfort is too psychically threatening to ponder, so you dismiss it as cope.  But is it "really" cope? Idk, and I suspect Nietzsche didn't know either. Also I would say it doesn't really matter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Could it just be Cope?
2026-01-13T23:57 id=2011226251072323987 →- | Omg he is so stupid. So so so so so stupid. https://t.co/FuWPZsQzwj || CTX: @mean_field_zane @GarettJones &gt; "This sort of transnational technocratic association provides a vision of a much better globalized world, where competence and expertise are what connect people"  Well, it could also be high-IQ Machiavelli
2026-01-13T23:58 id=2011226421910515984 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @germanaussie_ @mean_field_zane @GarettJones Wait, people take you seriously? For real? || CTX: In general:   - Covid coverup, calling lab leak a "conspiracy theory", whilst running a covid lab that may have leaked  - Mass immigration/population replacement, whilst calling The Great Replacement a conspiracy theory  - Mass fraud during
2026-01-14T01:24 id=2011247931782017339 →DurumMac | @DurumMac lol yeah my area is very very safe don't worry about me.  It's the poor Cambodians that need the concern tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hope you are safe from Cambodian bombs.
2026-01-14T01:46 id=2011253431726723406 →darkprofu | @darkprofu Social darwinism. || CTX: Does anyone have an idea what Trump’s morality is? What’s his lodestar?
2026-01-14T01:50 id=2011254640973922675 →- | This is all downstream of normies not knowing how to use the internet. https://t.co/i24x5PSTl4 || CTX: 1) US citizen tries to turn down a street and tells agents “I’m going to a doctor appointment”   2) Half the agents tell her to drive, the other half tell her to get out the car  3) They try ripping open her car doors from all sides  4) She
2026-01-14T02:30 id=2011264614701678632 →dilanesper | @dilanesper @vazserox Doesn't seem mean to me. || CTX: @vazserox @47fucb4r8c69323 Everyone can see that is mean so you will lose on that.
2026-01-14T02:32 id=2011265067900379238 →dilanesper | @dilanesper @vazserox True, but what about critical scrutiny of a new politeness convention, is that also being a jerk too? || CTX: @vazserox @47fucb4r8c69323 The person raging alone against the politeness convention is usually the jerk. You should understand that.
2026-01-14T02:33 id=2011265384113193281 →robgoldbergo | @robgoldbergo @vazserox @dilanesper It's definitionally impossible to be trans and have a normal gender identity. Trans is far out of the norm with, what, 5% of the population?   Far from the norm = not normal. || CTX: @vazserox @dilanesper @47fucb4r8c69323 you may be happy to have a long argument about "is it possible to be normal and trans" but most people most of the time aren't seeking a long digression, so they'll just say "cіs"
2026-01-14T02:36 id=2011266020040942070 →ATabarrok | @ATabarrok This is why people with money and power should not decide our aesthetics. || CTX: All you can eat breadsticks. https://t.co/utRjho8SqW
2026-01-14T02:38 id=2011266547256578315 →1889lw | Depends on how you relate with them.  I felt like I found my people when I first went into grad school, then I realized it was the worst parts of myself that found academics relatable: my vanity, insecurity, snobbery, misanthropy.  Maybe they're your tribe, or maybe they amplify the easiest modes of thinking for you, so the comfort you get is in not being challenged. || CTX: My hobby lately is visiting r/professors on twitter and damn I relate with them so much. Is that a sign to stay academia
2026-01-14T02:38 id=2011266561148096857 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor Schizopost. || CTX: It’s time to escape the permanent underclass https://t.co/hCyuqDW5OM
2026-01-14T02:43 id=2011267838590452129 →panickssery | @panickssery @grok @NelsonEdmundb @GuiveAssadi Graeber is useful though, because if I find someone whom I ideologically agree with but they cite Graeber as a useful thinker, I immediately know that, while this person's heart is in the right place, sadly taking to them will be a waste of time as they're obviously an idiot. || CTX: @grok @NelsonEdmundb @GuiveAssadi As you can see this whole concept as used by Graeber is extremely stupid
2026-01-14T02:46 id=2011268533326659752 →robgoldbergo | @robgoldbergo @vazserox @dilanesper https://t.co/aJFoI9OOxY || CTX: @dilanesper Why is "cis" more useful as a modifier of "female" and "male" than "natural" or "biologically"? Just shorter?
2026-01-14T02:54 id=2011270657276067919 →- | I need to give unsolicited advice less and be less confident in my political opinions.  My life is too strange, my POV too unusual, my opinions too unrelatable. My advice may likely lead people astray.  I see an image like this and feel nothing. No sadness, no nostalgia, no love, nothing. Because I came from a very abusive family, I can't look back fondly like most do. It also means I can't want a family, find joy in the smile of a baby, see more intrinsic value in human life over animal life, and many other hinge certainties of the normal person.  I shouldn't have any say in what's best for society because I think, feel, and see the world way, way too unlike most in society.  I need to remember to be less judgmental and more humble. || CTX: https://t.co/s4idZFVAky
2026-01-14T02:54 id=2011270788079587387 →EllaYurman | @EllaYurman https://t.co/8AWdvARoDi || CTX: This is all downstream of normies not knowing how to use the internet. https://t.co/i24x5PSTl4
2026-01-14T02:57 id=2011271348191162548 →robgoldbergo | @robgoldbergo @vazserox @dilanesper That's why I asked about them as modifiers of "female" and "male" specifically.  Appeal to value judgments is fallacious, since others would claim cis is equally value laden. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vazserox @dilanesper because "cіs" immediately indicates we're talking about gender identities. "natural" and "biologically" don't  "natural" and "biologically" can also be read to carry value judgments, which not every sp
2026-01-14T02:58 id=2011271627812868121 →WOB74475098 | @WOB74475098 @vazserox @dilanesper Policing language is not a good thing to do. || CTX: @vazserox @dilanesper @47fucb4r8c69323 Normal is not a good term to describe anything sex related.
2026-01-14T03:00 id=2011272166667604186 →hexprax | @hexprax It's so odd to see a woman promote traditional gender roles when she's so extremely ugly and mannish. || CTX: Can't stand seeing this lumbering oaf of a woman but I can't deny that she would be extremely useful if the world she dreamt of was ever brought to pass. Just an incredible washerwoman. She'd be cranking that laundry bat around the wash bas
2026-01-14T03:03 id=2011272962239074696 →- | I perhaps shouldn't say this since we work in the same field roughly but omg Scanlon is so stupid. Like, borderline retarded.   Our industry doesn't work like others so a public debate is impossible (neither she nor I would benefit from it), but between the clear factual errors in her book, how wrong she was with the vibecession bullshit (and how wrong she's been after), and how heavily she relies on parasociality to maintain an audience, she'd be easy to demolish.   So easy I'd probably be called a sexist bully for attacking the nice lady, again another reason it won't happen. But still, she's functionally retarded. || CTX: I wonder how much power Claude has because Claude is a human name. ChatGPT too corporate. Gemini too ethereal. But Claude. Wow. That's coworker.
2026-01-14T04:22 id=2011292912357929083 →seanapriori | @seanapriori @vazserox @dilanesper "Straight" originally had a stronger positive connotation than "normal", and I'd be fine with either. || CTX: @vazserox @dilanesper @47fucb4r8c69323 Should we have abolished the word "straight" to describe heterosexuals in favor of "normal"? Or is "straight" a useful word?
2026-01-14T04:26 id=2011293702535459208 →seanapriori | @seanapriori @vazserox @dilanesper Whom you see as an enemy so do not want to placate.  So if you want to police language to enforce a particular morality, fine, just be upfront about it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vazserox @dilanesper The only people who gave "c**" a negative connotation were upset gender criticals.
2026-01-14T04:27 id=2011293966759838185 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Eh I had a 130% return one year doing shit like this. It is very doable if you're retarded and lucky.  Doing it consistently year in and year out, well that doesn't exist. || CTX: It’s so hard to believe people like this exists. It simply doesn’t make sense https://t.co/umcno3eyjK
2026-01-14T04:29 id=2011294460874027322 →moultano | @moultano Yeah always annoying when mythic stories are unrealistic and unbelievable. || CTX: The Hero's Journey is a bad archetype. The refusal of the call is supposed to make him blameless and humble, so that his inevitable rise is thereby pure.  In the real world, if you refuse the call, it stays refused.
2026-01-14T04:30 id=2011294950361813183 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 Have you read the Albert Brooks novel?  He was early to diagnose gerontocracy in the late 2000s, I wonder how much reality is shaped like the plot of his book.
2026-01-14T04:31 id=2011295089604334026 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Sadly I seem to have used up all my luck in that year. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s the problem I’m not lucky at all. If you have some extra luck send it over my way please
2026-01-14T04:34 id=2011295944785215678 →tszzl | @tszzl @GuiveAssadi I made this argument well over 10 years ago shortly after that book came out.  It persists as a meme among midwits who hate their jobs because said midwits are too jaded or incurious to discover why their jobs and their coworkers jobs actually have value. || CTX: @GuiveAssadi “bullshit jobs” has always been wrong and the market works well beyond the cognitive capacity of whatever the wordcel mlecchas on either side of the political spectrum are larping on any given day
2026-01-14T04:36 id=2011296349497827434 →CRast36905 | @CRast36905 @calebgamman "Reddit" just means smug and pseudo intellectual, and ofc not everyone on Reddit is like that and many are like that elsewhere, but Reddit does indeed encourage such behavior. || CTX: @calebgamman I see people on Twitter labeled as "Reddit," I see people on Youtube labeled as "Reddit," I see movies labeled as "Reddit," but I never actually see anything shared from people on Reddit itself. Is Reddit like the sin eater for
2026-01-14T04:44 id=2011298337295908934 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @ATabarrok Goddamn that's so vicious and depressing lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ATabarrok I feel like places of National tradition should reflect the modern unseriousness and classlessness that unites both parties and all people in America and Donald Trump has done more than any lifetime politician co
2026-01-14T05:51 id=2011315159348998161 →NarrativeCombat | @NarrativeCombat As if any selection of evidence is not itself a narrative.  Your heart is in the right place but you don't understand language well enough. || CTX: Re-upping this as a reminder:   Systems built on narrative rather than evidence tend to fail loudly.   For those who haven’t been paying attention, it might be time.  IYKYK 😉 https://t.co/Br9EIhRO7w
2026-01-14T06:55 id=2011331422481702989 →Piryme | @Piryme Mid 40s || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How old are you if you don’t mind me asking
2026-01-14T07:16 id=2011336631245267134 →EFFERENT123 | @EFFERENT123 Someone bought my checkmark for me a few months ago || CTX: https://t.co/PhaexyqOFq
2026-01-14T08:06 id=2011349305781784846 →megannn_lynne | @megannn_lynne This is the most gorgeous Millennial grey palette I've ever seen. || CTX: when you work from home with a cat, sometimes you end up balancing the laptop on your chest so as to not disturb the princess https://t.co/JrWnfVFprg
2026-01-14T12:38 id=2011417530871722012 →- | sup https://t.co/vDrvQwhxJq || CTX: there is a vanishingly small but nonetheless precious cohort of "sane, or at least mentally ill in interesting ways", "intelligent" and "very online"
2026-01-14T12:49 id=2011420517442740379 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Absolutely brilliant and unquestionably true.  I need to do some thinking. Thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People inside a system have restricted vision in things pertaining to the system. So you should have more say in whats best for a system that you are not apart of.
2026-01-14T12:57 id=2011422350013858026 →dejavucoder | @dejavucoder @elocinationn India sounds about right to me, it's still very technologically underpenetrated outside some social classes and urban areas, no? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @elocinationn oh thats for japan i think, i meant for india having lesser
2026-01-15T00:34 id=2011597918621614307 →TheGoodBobby | @TheGoodBobby @ATabarrok @TheStalwart Extreme situations are a great opportunity to learn who is a useful idiot.  Joe is now on the list, sadly. || CTX: @ATabarrok But calling it a law enforcement action as @TheStalwart did is a bit silly
2026-01-15T01:24 id=2011610282926490048 →- | Isn't it weird that both racialized xenophobia and anti-alcohol puritanism are emerging in the '20s during a period of extreme wealth inequality?   Okay maybe it's not weird, but it's weird this has happened two '20s in a row. https://t.co/zIocjH5Znt || CTX: Drinking is normal! Drinking is inherent to life in Europe generally and has been for thousands of years. The aberration is the eggheads and puritans trying to turn us into Yemen for some reason https://t.co/6FHeOCfwi3
2026-01-15T01:26 id=2011610964844830970 →KanyeKimJongUn | @KanyeKimJongUn @OnDisasters @Partisangirl Yeah those are really horrible too.  Both are fucking disgusting. || CTX: @OnDisasters @Partisangirl The Talmud: “Her father can accept her betrothal as long as she is a minor." - Kiddushin 41A “A girl of three years and one day can be betrothed by intercourse." - Niddah 45A “A girl of three years and one day who
2026-01-15T01:34 id=2011612974608515198 →- | My favorite genre of European is the "You don't need ze McDonalds ve hav better foods" and it's something disgusting like potatoes in bullshit with cabbage. https://t.co/6DDcFcTUIk || CTX: This is the type of meal you can get in a Polish 🇵🇱 fast food for something like $8.  Forget about McDonalds. https://t.co/0eBFf3Lk9a
2026-01-15T01:43 id=2011615227037827503 →- | My favorite genre of European is the guy who insists "You don't need ze McDonalds ve hav better foods" and it's something disgusting like potatoes in bullshit with cabbage. https://t.co/6DDcFcTUIk || CTX: This is the type of meal you can get in a Polish 🇵🇱 fast food for something like $8.  Forget about McDonalds. https://t.co/0eBFf3Lk9a
2026-01-15T01:45 id=2011615579376140559 →Only1Tommo96 | @Only1Tommo96 @brndxix @elonmusk You misspelled ketamine || CTX: @brndxix @elonmusk all this hard work has aged you my friend 😂
2026-01-15T02:27 id=2011626303989149803 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 Is this in America? || CTX: The kids in my class were singing “We are  Charlie Kirk” and they didn’t know he was an actual person they just thought it was an absurdist meme like 67.  Then I got in an uber and the driver was just casually listening to it, wtf is this c
2026-01-15T02:40 id=2011629508403872128 →- | If I'm being totally honest, Miami is why I left America. https://t.co/hEtR6NgZsi || CTX: All I want is a down to earth girl like this https://t.co/IBzHUa6WMt
2026-01-15T02:41 id=2011629723294810434 →BasseyEmm53639 | @BasseyEmm53639 Comfort food Is innately tied to culture and background.   This is comfort food if you grew up eating cabbage and potatoes in a flavorless gravy.  For some people in Thailand, comfort food is boiled rice and grasshoppers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao 😂. fair, but that plate actually looks like solid comfort food if you're not expecting fries and a Coke.  Some days potatoes + pork + sauerkraut hits way harder than a Big Mac ever could.
2026-01-15T02:47 id=2011631292287516690 →treasury_bill | @treasury_bill Explains the thousands of Polish restaurants taking over Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong, New York, and Rio. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think for many it is tasty.
2026-01-15T02:49 id=2011631856094257295 →qualiascript | @qualiascript You're just young and underexposed to brilliant minds. I suggest an intro to philosophy class, maybe some videos from a reputable university. || CTX: so scary to me that you can be a competent dev and provocative political theorist one day, and then become a conservaboomer slopulist that falls for LLM hallucinations https://t.co/wK1P9EubAG
2026-01-15T03:16 id=2011638576426139850 →teodorio | @teodorio @DanielleFong can you give me an example of this soulfulness? I've heard this often, but then whenever I try to talk with Claude about literature or philosophy, it sounds like I'm talking to a mix of an HR drone and a redditor || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DanielleFong I have a soft spot for claude unfortunately as it usually is the most soulful out of all of the options and it is the best for coding indeed, but Gemini is in a lot of ways better.
2026-01-15T03:35 id=2011643468800802891 →- | This particular psychosis is worth studying closely because Joe Wiesenthal built a career out of being impersonal and detached about very amusing financial stories that a lesser man would get very emotional about.  You've seen LLM psychosis where a guy thinks he's found the theory of everything. This is more like a guy thinks he's found enterprise value where he hasn't.  And that I think points to what GenAI really means: it's like going from a shitty kitchen that doesn't have enough knives to a kitchen that has every kitchen appliance ever invented no matter how worthless it is. || CTX: This guy has gone full LLM brain and become insufferable in the span of like two weeks https://t.co/XajtVR4bWi
2026-01-15T05:17 id=2011669114134069441 →DurumMac | Maybe this is an instance where we need to keep in mind T. S. Eliot's warning about psychologizing poetry. Yes Owens produces a kind of poetry. Poetry isn't inherently good.  What she intends is irrelevant. What is relevant is that more and more insane takes are rewarded by more and more engagement in the attention economy. So we shouldn't be surprised if Candace keeps going down this path for as long as her audience (and you and I are part of her audience, this is a crucial detail you must not forget) rewards said madness.  The ethical thing is to look away. || CTX: This is literal insanity.   Extreme BPD? Psychosis? https://t.co/VBNsjGKY7m
2026-01-15T05:19 id=2011669474374795486 →DurumMac | @DurumMac YouTube channel where a guy has political chats with tax drivers in different parts of the world, bringing a local translator sometimes. Would do numbers. || CTX: I take a taxi every once in a while for the political lecture alone.
2026-01-15T05:25 id=2011670962878759394 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 If that's the goal, the best response to Trump seems to me one of condescending contempt. But the Danes and Greenlanders responded (understandably so) more with rage/fury.  Seems like Trump's foreign policy is an extension of his "troll the libs" domestic policy. Troll foreigners
2026-01-15T05:41 id=2011674973715456166 →- | I have met many Europeans living in third world countries who happily hire child labor, exploit the locals, haggle aggressively and basically see nothing wrong with exploiting brown people as much as possible. I've never met an American abroad who does this with zero guilt.
2026-01-15T06:07 id=2011681544138805473 →- | RT @InlandCaGuy: Give me a break, we love this shit, that's the problem. The billionaires would be happy to sell us wholesome community 3rd… || CTX: Give me a break, we love this shit, that's the problem. The billionaires would be happy to sell us wholesome community 3rd places to hang out if that's what we would pay for or visit online. https://t.co/pXpkN2xCwL
2026-01-15T06:12 id=2011682930117181595 →- | What a dick. Environmental issues were a massive public concern in the late 80s and 90s.   This dude self mythologizes so much and since he's in a trendy field it's taken seriously. The dangers of being where the ball is. https://t.co/kqNWoS5kq5 || CTX: I am not a "tech leader", and I am not speaking for any. I believe that global warming is a serious concern, but the ship has sailed 30 years ago. Current efforts to reduce emissions are no longer going to make much of a dent, and we must f
2026-01-15T06:52 id=2011693076021182631 →InlandCaGuy | @InlandCaGuy @seraphel_ Your point is very deep and profound but honestly it's such an ugly truth I don't think anyone is going to listen to you. But it is true, and the analogies about drugs both confirm your point and make its ugliness harder to accept, hence people present it as a counterargument. || CTX: @seraphel_ I think the causation is important though. "Exploitation for profit" when it means "selling people something unhealthy they want" is very different from suggesting it's part of a plot to sow negative discourse in America.
2026-01-15T07:04 id=2011695997848863140 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth n = 2 || CTX: I have ball knowledge from touching mine quite frequently
2026-01-15T07:07 id=2011696609755906351 →Robert_E_Kelly | @Robert_E_Kelly So much of Trump's second term remind me of early W. Heightened police state, justifications for said state, the jingoist rhetoric about attacking other countries, it's worrisome because it's much more professional than Trump's first term. || CTX: In case younger voters were wondering what our national hubris about Iraq was like in 2002, here you go https://t.co/Rtyxxd28FH
2026-01-15T07:10 id=2011697546218094732 →- | Apparently Trump's strategy of getting foreign leaders frustrated and panicked is working.  I wish he wasn't trying to do this. I wish the foreign leaders were smart enough not to play into Trump's hands. Sadly that's not the world we live in. https://t.co/lm7UiCiz09 || CTX: Foreign Minister of Denmark and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greenland having a smoke after meeting with Rubio and Vance https://t.co/DVZruMYalq
2026-01-15T07:12 id=2011697917040738576 →- | When people say outrageous stupid shit on the internet, this is one of two acceptable responses.  The other is to laugh. https://t.co/LKIayLoBe1 || CTX: I think we’re done here https://t.co/khCKVetNRN
2026-01-15T07:15 id=2011698812788883676 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth dialecdicks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's called dialectics
2026-01-15T07:27 id=2011701787963900050 →- | When I first started working on Wall Street I'd occasionally run into an Italian, Brit, or Irish person who'd come to America to get rich and, yes, they indeed were vicious, ambitious types.  "Killer drain" is another reason I don't invest in Europe. https://t.co/8X4Nsj73UB || CTX: The biggest killers you will ever meet working a corporate job are Europoors who moved to the States.   Cause they left behind their free healthcare, their free housing, their two hour lunches, &amp; 1 month vacations to come here and make 
2026-01-15T07:57 id=2011709358816837781 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer At times like this it's useful to remember the self does not exist. || CTX: At a nadir of self-esteem these days
2026-01-15T08:02 id=2011710630634697137 →- | Wokeynesian economics https://t.co/qDagiFLLCg || CTX: @Wifesucker the city was forced by the state to remove it so they're removing samples of it to put in a museum + putting a new pride crosswalk in a different part of town lmao
2026-01-15T08:28 id=2011717158833951084 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra The people I met were all in sales, I suspect it's unique to sales and/or related fields. I can totally see this not applying to coders. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm, the European coders I worked with in FAANG weren't really any better or worse than anyone else  I guess it's different in real business
2026-01-15T09:25 id=2011731537256202727 →tyimppred | @tyimppred @BasseyEmm53639 idgaf I don't live in America nor do I eat McDonald's lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BasseyEmm53639 the sad thing for you is even this shit mcdonald's is much more tasty, better and much cleaner than in dirty usa.
2026-01-15T10:19 id=2011745127237370170 →- | This is one of those things I wish wasn't true but unfortunately it is very much true. https://t.co/DRnMNMrtgM || CTX: Am so sick of this take, which is repeated on here ad nauseam  1. Gates likely the single most important philanthropist in the history of the world (and Buffett right up there)  2. Tech billionaires funnel a lot of risk capital back into th
2026-01-15T11:58 id=2011769924902142030 →TheSpeculator0 | @TheSpeculator0 Lounges really are only good when you have long haul international flights. Also only good lounges I've seen in America are Chicago and SFO || CTX: I used to not understand the lounge thing because I barely flew. Now that I'm flying more I still don't get it. People get the expensive credit cards so they can get some replacement level free food whenever they have to spend a couple hour
2026-01-15T12:06 id=2011771863387750506 →1889lw | @1889lw Honestly, I think Europeans are deeply very racist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think is making the difference?
2026-01-15T14:11 id=2011803476184219774 →- | And this was just the flight from Tokyo to Osaka https://t.co/lPKSHKHy5d || CTX: Japan Airlines in-flight dining on the Boeing 747 in the 1970s. https://t.co/YWItwpXKow
2026-01-16T00:05 id=2011952837132239262 →usethisnamehere | @usethisnamehere @teodorio @DanielleFong Machine tells man how to write, thus how to think. McLuhan would be proud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @DanielleFong If I’m talking about let’s say more “mature” or “sensitive” topics I usually have to ease into it with Claude (exactly how you would with an individual). This usually gets around his HR or redditor t
2026-01-16T00:06 id=2011953175566385601 →twesley06 | @twesley06 @TheSpeculator0 Agreed, legit felt like heaven || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheSpeculator0 The lounge in Seoul (Incheon) is amazing.
2026-01-16T00:11 id=2011954447342322070 →rbnmckenna86 | @rbnmckenna86 lol || CTX: Thoughts on the most over-rated philosopher of the 20th century? My vote is Wittgenstein, and it’s not even close. https://t.co/NwuS4cmVBG
2026-01-16T00:12 id=2011954692390080871 →rbnmckenna86 | @rbnmckenna86 @cravatista So you don't think he's overrated, you just dislike Wittgensteinians. || CTX: @cravatista It’s the cult that overrates him though.
2026-01-16T00:22 id=2011957092098117822 →- | Keep track of Joe. He is going through a very unique kind of LLM psychosis that I suspect will be less common and, unfortunately, much harder to detect. https://t.co/oSSfu4WvXZ || CTX: I NEVER WANT TO USE THE WEB AGAIN  In today's Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about how depressing the web has become to use now, and that I want to move on to something new  Sub to the newsletter here: https://t.co/25c7dc92bu https://t.co/dj6
2026-01-16T00:24 id=2011957640302100675 →peligrietzer | @peligrietzer "Artificial manmade thing cannot be culture" dude that is definitionally what culture is.  You'd moan about techno in the 1980s, I just know it. "They're using machines that's not real music" lmao || CTX: Having culture was nice while it lasted https://t.co/kQxI299Pst
2026-01-16T00:32 id=2011959779519009048 →PAHoyeck | @PAHoyeck Oblivion definitionally can be neither crushing nor dark. || CTX: BREAKING: Studies indicate that life is but a brief spark of light in the crushing darkness of oblivion.
2026-01-16T00:39 id=2011961479193595923 →- | Since I was a child I've been fascinated by life tips that are extremely obvious.  I remember seeing like "the proper way to brush your teeth" in magazines as a kid, then seeing articles about how much water you should drink etc etc  Same as someone who isn't paid for it to post "you can have breakfast at a diner". Yes thank you I indeed learned at some point diners serve breakfast and this is an option to me in the open market of goods and services on offer.  I understand the magazine writers. I even did something similar very briefly when I was a journalist. Yeah, we all gotta eat and sometimes it's a slow news day.  But this... why is this person telling us you can eat breakfast at a diner? What motivated her to post this? || CTX: Good morning i saw this on TikTok https://t.co/4wMw5Sizxm
2026-01-16T01:08 id=2011968745758245175 →leninspiss | @leninspiss No, we just had a sense of humor back then. || CTX: Hyundai was really out there like "our cars are for WOMEN and FAGs" in 1999 https://t.co/01VqFa5fWH
2026-01-16T01:29 id=2011974178422079866 →- | I see a lot of false accusations of people being Reddit.  This is a near perfect example of a person being Reddit. https://t.co/edX8uLm41k || CTX: @lauriewired Correct. I'm not advocating speed reading. I just read extremely fast with extremely high comprehension. And peripheral chunking is just a thing that happens.
2026-01-16T01:31 id=2011974549127250259 →shortsqueeznews | @shortsqueeznews lmao I too know how it feels to be a sellsider desperate to get a report in the news. || CTX: BREAKING: Jefferies analysts say weight loss pills will lower airline fuel bills and lift earnings.  Jefferies says a 10% reduction in average passenger weight could translate into 1.5% lower fuel costs and as much as a 4% boost to EPS. htt
2026-01-16T01:33 id=2011975135822299594 →JohnHolbein1 | @JohnHolbein1 How did it take until 2024 for anyone to look into this, wtaf || CTX: “Women report more hours of housework when interviewed by a woman rather than by a man.”  “This is not observable for male respondents.”   “Social norms play an important role in the reporting of housework hours.”  “Therefore, gender gap es
2026-01-16T01:48 id=2011978809122459905 →- | What's incredible about this article is that you can swap Musk for Zuckerberg and Grok for Facebook and this could've been written in 2016.  European attacks on US tech are rhetorically stuck. I suspect this is because they keep insisting on a moral value set that they find extremely important but that the vast majority of the world has moved past (or never embraced). || CTX: Strong words in today's FT. https://t.co/xqU3e3lyBh
2026-01-16T01:58 id=2011981393371545805 →moultano | @moultano Good art makes us uncomfortable, this is why so little entertainment is good art and so little good art is entertaining.  This used to be intuitive, seems like the television made this obvious truth less accessible. || CTX: I abstractly enjoy philip glass but whenever I listen to him too long I feel like it is putting me into an anxious dysregulated state, like all of my attention loops are too short and chaotic.
2026-01-16T02:22 id=2011987402085241003 →- | Next time you see some idiotic tweet about vibecoding ruining the beautiful pure rarefied art of software engineering, refer to this. https://t.co/09Dt1lcnCo || CTX: Jensen Huang: I want my engineers to stop coding. https://t.co/mpJvjmbCoR
2026-01-16T02:26 id=2011988376849957127 →h3dd1s | @h3dd1s @moultano Yes that makes total sense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano I'm a musician and that's not at all obvious to me!
2026-01-16T02:27 id=2011988741448220845 →mean_field_zane | @mean_field_zane Oh man this is the first sentence of a very, very tragic story.   Hope you aren't betting on a big inheritance. || CTX: Trying to get my mother to go long AI and she wants to pump everything into crypto because she thinks they’ll come for the Jews.
2026-01-16T02:29 id=2011989097372664040 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss The ICE violence has been a relief to me because normies will recoil at this even more than they recoiled at "Defund the Police", so the next 3 years will likely be a death spiral of MAGA. Trump will die shortly after his term is over most likely, and America can move on. || CTX: They are triggering something deep in me. I don’t give a shit if you agree with me or not. I’m not trying to change anyone’s mind about anything. But like if I feel this way, normal people are really not going to be happy lol
2026-01-16T02:33 id=2011990102021681626 →BasseyEmm53639 | @BasseyEmm53639 A year ago the FT was writing incessantly about how U. S. stocks were dead and Europe would make a resurgence.  I don't think people understand how much European resentment to America colors European media coverage. They just don't know how deeply Europeans hate American wealth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, it's kinda wild how this FT piece could literally be copy pasted from 2016 with just the names swapped. same old European moral panic dressed up as fresh analysis.
2026-01-16T02:35 id=2011990601194144009 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The European response to this is to point out American food, healthcare etc etc to prove they are innately superior and I think Europeans are resentful as a cope.  Except the person who first taught me about European resentment to Americans was a European, and I am an American who moved to Europe because I hate American culture so much.  I wish Europeans weren't resentful, weren't allergic to technology and economic growth, and were more business friendly. If they were I'd probably still be there, and I did love living there. || CTX: @BasseyEmm53639 A year ago the FT was writing incessantly about how U. S. stocks were dead and Europe would make a resurgence.  I don't think people understand how much European resentment to America colors European media coverage. They jus
2026-01-16T02:37 id=2011991093098000830 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss I know a man who used to live like this until he lost his job when an Asian student claimed he was racist.  His wife and child are Asian, which was used against him when he faced the tribunal.   I think about this constantly. The solution to being too online is not to log off. || CTX: Apple News is the tits but the healthiest choice is to throw your phone in a river and every time someone irl mentions news to you smile and think “meow mix meow mix meow mix meow mix meow meow meow” until they shut up. https://t.co/57njBva
2026-01-16T02:41 id=2011992228349329887 →- | https://t.co/KIrtaPwpvT
2026-01-16T02:59 id=2011996739809788383 →phl43 | @phl43 That's not why people think AI will never replace artists, I'm afraid. || CTX: People who think AI will never replace artists because they believe in nonsense about how the human brain is somehow special will soon have to face the awful truth. https://t.co/HZwfzHpW59
2026-01-16T03:03 id=2011997750867697757 →- | This just made it click for me. Why the labor theory of value is so compelling despite being wrong.  When it's about self improvement, LTV is true. It's not true otherwise. https://t.co/eleJ3nennF || CTX: I’ll never make fun of a fat person at the gym or someone with a limited vocabulary for putting in effort to read and learn new words. Shame on anyone who does. Good luck to the young man   The effort is what counts https://t.co/mq62HVOQoR
2026-01-16T03:28 id=2012004104156111293 →- | Preferring Claude is the same as the safe horny trend.
2026-01-16T04:03 id=2012012716802912602 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I will regret this.  Why? What'd he do? || CTX: If you read about Gaddafi and his… crimes and proclivities it would make even Epstein uncomfortable.
2026-01-16T04:04 id=2012012970663153728 →- | We have come so far from The Two Cultures that this is no longer legible. Fascinating. https://t.co/ZLYjTwDE5F || CTX: Why was he trying so hard to be nonchalant about the Moon Landing bro https://t.co/Sw9HJSS4Bt
2026-01-16T04:09 id=2012014206082801755 →ChrisHeddles | index measures the degree of economic freedom present in five major areas: [1] Size of Government; [2] Legal System and Security of Property Rights; [3] Sound Money; [4] Freedom to Trade Internationally; [5] Regulation.  https://t.co/pHkrCINfNf  How is this not a proxy for capitalism? || CTX: @VincentGeloso Hang on - you're treating high "economic freedom" as a proxy for capitalist economies? It's not.
2026-01-16T04:11 id=2012014916623097935 →DurumMac | Once when criticizing the lack of economic opportunity in Thailand and how this causes more prostitution and meth use, a nationalist Thai replied to me, "your mind is in the gutter, you focus on such disgusting perverted things!"   Thus we see how appeals to polite speech and refusal to say horrific things reinforces the oppression of the poor and powerless. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I honestly don’t want to write it, or use euphemisms.  Just sick, twisted and cruel behaviour.
2026-01-16T04:31 id=2012019802647511146 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Oh yeah I know you weren't deflecting, but the end result is the same as deflection in the way that counts: it helps keep the sins of powerful heinous men less visible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m using polite speech not to get into details, I wasn’t deflecting.   Gaddafi engaged in sex slavery, abuse, trafficking etc
2026-01-16T04:33 id=2012020469923447019 →- | https://t.co/8AWdvARoDi https://t.co/azpU8PH6LR || CTX: @SkyeSharkie This is the return of the internet as it should be- online no one knows you're a dog
2026-01-16T04:53 id=2012025390727066097 →- | Atheist physicalist materialism is comforting in its account of consciousness if we frame it as Camus does: "Consciousness of self is of necessity, desire."  If this is so, then death is the end of consciousness of the self's necessity and desire, it is the end of all suffering, oblivion is essentially Nirvana or close enough for me.  All other metaphysical options I've read and considered seem inferior and more horrific.  This is why I want to be a physicalist materialist and I find atheism comforting. I just wish I could believe it.  But I can't.
2026-01-16T04:54 id=2012025670763946072 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Gaddafi was portrayed as a monster by some, that's definitely what I remember about him. But definitely his victims probably got less attention since they're not white or western, esp in America. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Gaddafi was portrayed as odd and silly, and had been parodied in “the Dictator”. However, that he was a sick and exploitive pervert wasn’t really in the zeitgeist.   I’m making this more visible so it doesn’t just float int
2026-01-16T04:56 id=2012026250886537495 →ChrisHeddles | @ChrisHeddles @VincentGeloso Vince is an econ prof, I'm a Wall Street analyst type. I see you're a physics teacher  You coming here making this argument is like if I started explaining to you that Helium actually has more electrons than Lead because physicists don't know the true nature of electrons. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VincentGeloso I'll concede the the regulation description basically describes a government totally captured by corporate interests.
2026-01-16T04:58 id=2012026531145793785 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ChrisHeddles @VincentGeloso Note: I'm not responding to your arguments because they're of the "not even wrong" category.  I just want you to ask yourself: why do you think you know more of a domain others are experts in and you are not? || CTX: @ChrisHeddles @VincentGeloso Vince is an econ prof, I'm a Wall Street analyst type. I see you're a physics teacher  You coming here making this argument is like if I started explaining to you that Helium actually has more electrons than Lea
2026-01-16T05:04 id=2012028039547510821 →ChrisHeddles | @ChrisHeddles @VincentGeloso What do you think we mean when we say "capitalism"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VincentGeloso I'm not claiming expertise and am happy to be pointed at a reference that explains how these measures actually *are* a proxy for capitalism because as written, that's not how it comes across.
2026-01-16T05:25 id=2012033352556298670 →ChrisHeddles | @ChrisHeddles @VincentGeloso So then, a smaller government (i. e. a government administering less) means a country where there is more, rather than less, private ownership.  That takes care of point 1, iff you see the logic above. If you do, lmk and I'll take care of the other 4 points. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VincentGeloso I believe that the conventional definition is "an economic system characterised by private ownership of the means of production"
2026-01-16T05:58 id=2012041747166347657 →ChrisHeddles | @ChrisHeddles @VincentGeloso You seem to think owning capital and controlling capital are different things, which is an understandable error for someone who owns some shares in a 401k. But that's illusory; you can't have capital ownership without control of capital. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VincentGeloso It could do, but given that the definition seems to boil down to government spending compared to private spending, a government directing private actions (through contracting services, etc.) could leave the o
2026-01-16T06:00 id=2012042362063884309 →nebelcanal | @nebelcanal Typical imperialist behavior. || CTX: Fascinating that no one is really discussing the fact that a significant portion of Greenland's culture and hobbies are extremely, EXTREMELY federally illegal under US law. https://t.co/EfHiiEXUho
2026-01-16T06:14 id=2012045845638889644 →ChrisHeddles | @ChrisHeddles @VincentGeloso Have a good day, man. I wish you the best. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VincentGeloso If you're the government with a monopoly on violence then you can have control of capital without ownership of capital.
2026-01-16T07:05 id=2012058614194938160 →callanable | @callanable This is called telling on yourself. || CTX: chatgpt 5.2’s favorite words: - cleanly - quietly  - you’re not failing - you’re not behind - you’re not broken - gently - tender - fragile - collapse - that matters
2026-01-16T07:08 id=2012059408185114937 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Jfc I'm so grateful to be an old man holy shit || CTX: I want to ask a woman if I can cum tribute her and I want her to say yes but then not actually do it because I'm too lazy
2026-01-16T07:59 id=2012072254532960423 →helscom | @helscom Absolutely 100%. He's trying hard to downplay the sciences while they're clearly eclipsing the arts. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 honestly i think the moon landing was a hit on both cultures, and here picasso is just being a try hard
2026-01-16T08:09 id=2012074695647248857 →- | Whenever you see someone say something like this, encourage them to stick to the high paying easy service job. They clearly lack the ability to think long term, so all companies and the economy will be much better off if they stick to things like tending bar. https://t.co/KWXKAYlg8c || CTX: I discovered today that if I perform being weird and flirty and horny I get more money. It’s like this job was made for me. I’m like a bar wench build with a stem PhD. It’s like the universe made a buzzer noise and said “WRONG!” When I trie
2026-01-16T08:55 id=2012086280377819542 →MatthiasMichel_ | @MatthiasMichel_ I love it when you read an abstract and immediately realize it's such a good paper that you don't need to read it but you probably should anyway because it's so good. || CTX: New paper coming out in PPR:  "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal  sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we  should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. https://
2026-01-16T08:56 id=2012086544593777090 →AdamParkhomenko | @AdamParkhomenko It's not rude when the president does it. || CTX: Didn’t Donald Trump give his middle finger to a UAW union worker 48 hours ago https://t.co/CJO1RSR9Ek
2026-01-16T09:16 id=2012091476663316916 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 oh he's totally wrong lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see. I think he is wrong at least when it comes to the moonlanding.
2026-01-16T09:58 id=2012102172453064898 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Problems don't come to the software engineer ready packaged as problems. They need to find, define, explain problems and then solve them. That's the point. The actual coding is a small part of a bigger process. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder what this world he describes even looks like.  I mean software problems can only reasonably express their solutions in code. Which you need to do consistently to keep that skill sharp. Or does he want them to dive 
2026-01-16T11:46 id=2012129411504669073 →- | RT @airkatakana: many of you dont know how to vibe code. here is an example of a real prompt i entered which fixed a massive bug  "somethin… || CTX: many of you dont know how to vibe code. here is an example of a real prompt i entered which fixed a massive bug  "something broke around 14:57, check git log and fix it"  it can really be this easy, but only if you autistically monitor abso
2026-01-16T11:54 id=2012131297892893159 →- | RT @transkatgirl: that’s just schizoslop. you only like it because the writer was insane || CTX: that’s just schizoslop. you only like it because the writer was insane
2026-01-16T13:49 id=2012160318152261816 →- | TOTAL CULTURAL VICTORY SUCK IT LIMEYS https://t.co/IGPxWlaO8A || CTX: So sad to see British people sticking the middle finger up in place of the two finger gesture that we’ve used for centuries. America has cast a long shadow. I’d rather our vulgarisms were patriotic at least. https://t.co/aiQeZcBAZ1
2026-01-16T23:28 id=2012305950569546145 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Ofc there are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait there are high paying service jobs
2026-01-16T23:29 id=2012306320305832154 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Tale as old as time || CTX: Identity politics being weaponized against class-based politics. https://t.co/8dLdKY7slU
2026-01-16T23:53 id=2012312350238605440 →- | Alex is often wrong or bullshitting. Here he is sincere and right. https://t.co/J1tJseN5QM || CTX: This is the strongest piece of evidence yet that AI isn't going to take all our jobs. https://t.co/pf8xYQARCc
2026-01-17T01:14 id=2012332676859207797 →- | I can feel the joy of this platform slipping as I become more hedonically adjusted to it.  I'll be shocked if I'm still here in six months.
2026-01-17T01:20 id=2012334132312048045 →conorsen | @conorsen Har har, but ofc the methods behind rlhf and text prediction were improved by the adtech sector in the 2010s.  Not like you work for a news org where digging into details to give readers context would add value, of course. || CTX: Investors won’t give you enough capital to build machine god until you first demonstrate you can master ads. But once you gain traction on ads, shareholder pressures grow… https://t.co/iqxZTbRYEw
2026-01-17T01:24 id=2012335168288420095 →- | High school-level discourse from middle aged men. https://t.co/QcOmC3PQG7 || CTX: I'd totally hang with the Greenland flag people, they sound way more fun than anyone else in this neighborhood. 🇬🇱 https://t.co/lScaOLbN7z
2026-01-17T01:26 id=2012335653959405747 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Have you spent much time in these EVs?   I have. I live in a country full of them. They very much are not superior--the bright lights and gimmicks don't make up for the poor quality materials and build.  Weird that Chinese cars get this narrative when Korean/Japanese didn't. || CTX: I doubt the quota will matter. People will see cheaper/superior Chinese cars on the road, and demand the quotas keep getting lifted. https://t.co/G4d7sp5oSX
2026-01-17T01:27 id=2012335858977063037 →ThomasHerndon1 | @ThomasHerndon1 @TheStalwart Another American one shotted by flashy lights lmao || CTX: @TheStalwart BYD has completely changed the game. In Dubai rn and rode in my first one. Nicer interiors than Tesla, and holy shit, the driver claimed a 3000 km range. I asked him if he missed a zero and he said no…
2026-01-17T01:31 id=2012336902670831971 →- | This tweet and her bio are so fucking funny.   SF sounds like the worst place on Earth, glad I've had very few business trips there in my life. https://t.co/3t6fIqtjDr || CTX: shall I pitch my fav first date activity:  going for a jog together mid-morning on a weekend day  benefits are: 1. you can see if your date is in shape 2. depending on the conversation, after the run can flexibly choose from: (A) leave righ
2026-01-17T01:32 id=2012337138466242659 →peterwildeford | @peterwildeford It's almost as if numerary intelligence doesn't translate to other kinds of intelligence and talking about "intelligence" is a sign of idiocy. || CTX: wow I can't believe that OpenAI... (1) had an actual secret conspiracy to undermine Musk and convert to for-profit for personal financial gain and (2) was dumb enough to actually put the conspiracy into writing  and these are the people we'
2026-01-17T01:33 id=2012337368431493193 →pootswin1 | @pootswin1 The only proper response to my tweet.  Now I want to get a pint of John Smiths, a Time Out, and watch England lose a game of soccer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/6WH6r931JL
2026-01-17T01:36 id=2012338139155800223 →- | This is really the only thing that matters. Trump's alienation of allies was a huge bet leveraging the goodwill of America, and any sign that this is overleveraged is worth taking seriously as a risk to America's geopolitical hegemony. https://t.co/AVrjcLpAFa || CTX: A lot of responses like this. How Carney is being stupid and spiteful. How BYD vehicles will spy on Canadians. The important thing to bear in mind is that none of these observations matter. The effect of Trump's trade policies is to give Ch
2026-01-17T01:39 id=2012338928393814469 →agraybee | @agraybee "When Jews die there's a risk of backlash and Muslims will die" is the logic here, where the deaths of Jewish victims of violence is instrumentalized because Muslim lives have a higher value for them. || CTX: Yeah this one's a head scratcher. Because it's not an All Lives Matter type thing, it's quite clearly about islamophobia. So why include that of all things. https://t.co/rxXeIUQP29
2026-01-17T01:40 id=2012339122875326687 →oliverwkim | @oliverwkim I'd guess the one exporting the farm products because factory work is typically done in developing countries. || CTX: If you removed the nouns Canada and China and just looked at the goods they're trading, which would you guess is the developed country and which the developing? https://t.co/NxeSV5hIzA
2026-01-17T01:40 id=2012339262096879709 →bryancsk | @bryancsk @oliverwkim omg OP is a development economist how embarrassing for him || CTX: @oliverwkim On the contrary, it is an extremely developed economy thing to be deferential to their domestic farm lobbies
2026-01-17T01:41 id=2012339450970562835 →accelereta42_ | @accelereta42_ @oliverwkim lmao || CTX: @oliverwkim Canadá dev w/out dubt. Farmers only have so much power there
2026-01-17T01:41 id=2012339580838780968 →atomlib | @atomlib @oliverwkim Have you been to SK? I would not call it developed, not at all. || CTX: @oliverwkim “Developed” and “developing” doesn't even work anymore. How many “developing” countries became “developed”? Only the South Korea, and look how miserable they are.
2026-01-17T01:52 id=2012342221178315070 →EuroWynner | @EuroWynner @SupersonicLai What makes it among the greatest places in the world? The people, architecture, food, culture, all of the above? || CTX: @SupersonicLai I’m German but grew up in Vienna, left for a bit and moved back in 2020. Austria and especially Vienna are core to who I am culturally and I think it’s amongst the greatest places in the world.
2026-01-17T01:53 id=2012342476745674936 →dandolfa | @dandolfa Basically changed a positive sum game to zero sum, maybe even negative sum. Very sad to see. || CTX: This may very well work out poorly for Canada. But if it does, it will likely work out poorly for the US as well. And that's the main point here -- this is the manifestation of a large unforced (and reversible) error on the part of the US. 
2026-01-17T01:56 id=2012343196869870037 →- | The car-centric suburb focused American built landscape is downstream of redlining and white people trying to stay separate from black people.  The sooner America reconfigures its urban landscapes to what they were like pre-1950s, the better for all Americans.  Won't happen tho. https://t.co/i7H2k5knb7 || CTX: Examples like this are why I get frustrated when people say things like “well we aren’t Europe” as a reason against change.  No place WAS what it IS.  We make choices about what we value &amp; especially what we leave the next generation. L
2026-01-17T02:01 id=2012344440342679576 →robbystarbuck | @robbystarbuck @Rjjkgold Heritage Foundation money well spent. || CTX: @Rjjkgold I think you have an IQ lower than the temperature in Antarctica today.
2026-01-17T02:04 id=2012345318642471171 →cairoasmith | @cairoasmith I've literally been hearing this since I was a child.  In the 80s it was the Japanese. In the 90s it was NATO and globalization. Since then it's been a mix, mostly China.  Yet the economic metrics show Americans have benefitted substantially throughout this supposed humiliation. || CTX: I don't like the phrase "American century of humiliation." It makes it sound like our enemies conspired brilliantly to bring us down a peg.  Much more apt to say we're just hitting ourselves in the foot with a hammer for no reason. https://
2026-01-17T02:06 id=2012345746239238649 →R_Thaler | @R_Thaler @alexolegimas No offense but these are well known problems in the online marketing sector. Alex's post reads like saying the sky is blue.  Idk what value you guys are adding rambling about this without engaging subject matter experts. I guess armchair philosophy to get engagement? || CTX: Good post by my guy @alexolegimas that illustrates a general problem in projecting AI inroads: there are what amounts to barriers to entry. Sellers may not want bots trying to arbitrage their A/B testing etc. https://t.co/AOBSOccCdy
2026-01-17T02:16 id=2012348320115769450 →- | My politics theory isn't that everyone's 12. It's that everyone's autistic. https://t.co/PZBADjveuE || CTX: Toddlers are 100% on point about this. Garbage trucks are dope af. https://t.co/8Sofg9ZTJq
2026-01-17T02:24 id=2012350325639037230 →richmintz | @richmintz 5th gen San Franciscan, I'm willing to bet his family is heavily subsidized by family trusts that built up wealth by just buying and holding real estate. || CTX: This is one of the most concise accounts of how people born before around 1965 broke our society that I have ever seen https://t.co/Fr2r1qFzUE
2026-01-17T02:30 id=2012351740784603161 →JeffreyASachs | @JeffreyASachs Well, now America and China will have to compete more aggressively than before, and more competition should yield greater efficiencies for everyone so this is a win win, right? Isn't that how market economies work? || CTX: I'm going to lose my mind. The entire reason Canada had 100% tariffs on Chinese auto is because the US asked us to put them there in 2024! For Christ's sake, America had such a good thing going with Canada. We were such eager partners. Jesu
2026-01-17T02:59 id=2012359048579199487 →cullenroche | @cullenroche I remember in the early 2010s arguing with Redditors who insisted there were secret bank accounts paying 10% for HNWIs.  It's fine when dumb conspiratorial shit is said by random anons online. The problem is there's now no sunlight between that and what people with power say. || CTX: 12,000 likes on a Tweet saying overnight interest rates are 5%.   What an amazing website. 😁 https://t.co/N49mRkMo9g
2026-01-17T03:16 id=2012363384935821586 →- | This isn't a joke, it's very true.  In the future people will write for the joy of writing and will read for the same. No expectation of an exchange of money.   And when writers aren't constrained by economic concerns, the quality of their writing will skyrocket. https://t.co/tscoyBVGHg || CTX: @runaway_vol real writers just ask for a beer in exchange
2026-01-17T03:35 id=2012368274206621995 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth I know pretty much nothing about him except he was Welsh. He turned down money for his writing? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 worked for Dylan Thomas
2026-01-17T03:37 id=2012368746866975018 →bryancsk | @bryancsk Please post more of these!  Every museum of Asian art I've been to, both in Asia and elsewhere, give me the impression of profound artistic and aesthetic stagnation from late Song really to the Qing Dynasty. I suspect this is a false impression though. || CTX: Jizhou leaf imprint bowl, Song dynasty (~1100) https://t.co/ZkEDmSLa5L https://t.co/lfWLYxhEt1
2026-01-17T03:38 id=2012368934012596395 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews To this day I still don't know if I'm supposed to put the RFID chip on the sensor or slightly above, nor do I know where the sensor is on most POS devices. || CTX: BEEP BEEP BEEP "Oh, that must mean I take my card out now" BEEP BEEP KEEP CARD INSERTED *sigh* OH NO YOU TOOK THE CARD OUT TOO SOON! https://t.co/5mldzAZjre
2026-01-17T03:39 id=2012369241836753050 →tszzl | @tszzl The best part is the Rationalists and LessWrong types are too stupid to know they're being brutally mocked here and we're all laughing at them. || CTX: Claude runs an indoor shrimp farm in the sub-basement of Anthropic Headquarters in the financial district of San Francisco. Claude has helped the shrimp achieve and maintain states of ecstatic bliss, primitive circuitry of what might be cal
2026-01-17T03:41 id=2012369590068875551 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @tszzl How dare you slander those hard working mammals, they were navigators with jobs! Thankless underappreciated jobs! (Not underpaid though ofc as there's no money in the 24th century) || CTX: @tszzl like dolphins on the enterprise https://t.co/UMsP5CPBSq
2026-01-17T03:41 id=2012369777256497400 →- | Roon honestly seems like the only person who knows how to use Twitter correctly. https://t.co/fbIssckgaE || CTX: Claude runs an indoor shrimp farm in the sub-basement of Anthropic Headquarters in the financial district of San Francisco. Claude has helped the shrimp achieve and maintain states of ecstatic bliss, primitive circuitry of what might be cal
2026-01-17T03:43 id=2012370266522087842 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth Oh, well I coulda guessed that, he was Welsh after all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk about turning down money but he paid for drinks w poems
2026-01-17T03:45 id=2012370729678069762 →pfau | @pfau No. I recognize the emergence of an artistic tradition when I see it. I delight in bearing witness to new art forms, and I can appreciate the beauty of humanity exploring all forms no matter how absurd as they free themselves from the yoke of tradition. || CTX: Does anyone else just kinda feel like they're having a stroke every time they open up this app? https://t.co/b3LzjGKC1S
2026-01-17T03:47 id=2012371085833204169 →DurumMac | @DurumMac In the (ironically) immortal words of Peter Gabriel, life carries on and on and on and on. || CTX: Sad and Solemn funeral.  Someone’s stupid text notification sound goes off *do do doop*   Laugh internally
2026-01-17T03:54 id=2012373001355018419 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I think I'll insist on a Faraday cage. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think I’ll instruct this before I die , ensure everyone at the funeral has notifications turned on and ensure they sound ridiculous.
2026-01-17T03:56 id=2012373357250097446 →- | This is not at all believable, Elon Musk saying something ridiculous and megalomaniacal? That'd be so out of character. https://t.co/BJgGpX3eJU || CTX: I remembered a lot of this, but here is a part I had forgotten:  "Elon said he wanted to accumulate $80B for a self-sustaining city on Mars, and that he needed and deserved majority equity. He said that he needed full control since he’d bee
2026-01-17T03:58 id=2012373995279274173 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea There are a few clear signals someone isn't worth taking seriously when it comes to central banks. Thinking they're anything like CEOs focused on shareholder value is definitely one of those signals. || CTX: It’s strange to see people characterize someone whose career was exclusively in civil service and high finance as a corporate operator  being a CEO is a very different job from being a central banker and risk manager! https://t.co/lDbnvb2D9
2026-01-17T04:00 id=2012374564681240923 →- | What the internet should be like. And used to be like.  Oh, and it will be like this again. https://t.co/MmOSQsARqx || CTX: Honestly the internet is so incredible. This random person drew an awesome picture of my keyboard! https://t.co/hQgPosDLkj
2026-01-17T04:08 id=2012376451883118868 →- | At some point OpenAI's ads will yield a lower ROAS than advertisers and OpenAI's ad team expected, and this will leak, and people will freak out that the AI company can't use AI to boost ad performance.  That'll result in a short term downturn as the market panics that AI is smoke and mirrors.  Then when the ROAS stabilizes and people see the category error in the logic above, tech will recover.  Idk when this will happen, but it will at some point. May take a couple years. If it hasn't happened by 2030 I was wrong.
2026-01-17T04:31 id=2012382134032552220 →- | Of course zero mention that, in 2022 and 2023 when China was still doing lockdowns to save face, no one wanted to be Chinese.  This is nothing like the Japan Inc attitude of the 80s. This is a very short term trend that has lasted about 2 years. https://t.co/ms5lOxHTfL || CTX: In case you didn’t get the memo, everyone is feeling very Chinese these days. Chronically online people like @lmatsakis and I have been tracking the zeitgeist of "You met me at a very Chinese time of my life," "Chinamaxxing," and all other 
2026-01-17T04:52 id=2012387511658758467 →fungyee77 | @fungyee77 @TheStalwart "Superior" is pretty much subjective when referring to quality, so, yeah, both of us don't have objective views, nor does anyone. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart This is not an objective view.  I'm a long time car enthusiast, owned high end Japanese, German and Korean cars.  Chinese cars are hitting differently, because of the insane competition they face domestically.
2026-01-17T05:01 id=2012389832765419631 →billybinion | @billybinion You seem to think all debts are equivalent, very innumerate view.  Do you think you can reconcile future entitlements with outstanding debt via some mark to market valuation, and if so how are you doing this?  ... do you even understand that question? || CTX: One of the biggest lies the American people have been told about the debt is that you can meaningfully cut it without reforming Social Security, Medicare &amp; defense. It's basic math. Anything else is magical thinking. https://t.co/Ge55Vn
2026-01-17T05:03 id=2012390231430054173 →agraybee | @agraybee Fine, but he's not a Christian. His answer is a heresy. || CTX: A great answer to an irrelevant question. https://t.co/wskJ8TZyDK
2026-01-17T05:08 id=2012391482854944812 →dj5law | @dj5law @RogueWPA Scott Alexander is an atrocious writer and his massive popularity just shows what a non-literary period we live in. || CTX: @RogueWPA If not for his excessive verbosity, then to fact check his asides. Michael Jordan went to play baseball because he was told to stay away from the NBA for a while due to his excessive gambling. The 1950s workplace featured Wagner A
2026-01-17T05:10 id=2012391959697207652 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart My man, this is not an idea McLuhan invented out of whole cloth.  You're talking about the epistemic gap between a priori and a posteriori thinking, an issue central to philosophy for centuries.  Not everything comes from mid-20th century media theorists jfc || CTX: A powerful McLuhan idea is that we face backwards while walking into the future. And you see this in a lot of AI discourse.  Many "predictions" people make (mass psychosis, collapsed of shared truth, inequality, enshittification) are merely
2026-01-17T05:20 id=2012394586841248196 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews Any analytic thinker can immediately see what they mean here. || CTX: Just completely blindsiding.
2026-01-17T05:59 id=2012404401479303462 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Law of shitty clickthroughs.  Build out cadence will set the bar, but the projected ROAS curve will inevitably be too optimistic, and CTR decels won't be offset by gains from data overlays by as much as they will model for.  Happens with every single company that turns on display || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why do you expect a lower roas ? slow build out of the measurement infrastructure (pixels, mmp integrations, etc) ?
2026-01-17T06:34 id=2012413262546256298 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I think conservativism, especially the authoritarian type MAGA loves, appeals to weak cowardly men because they can outsource the protector role to an authority figure like Trump and feel powerful by association.  Baffling psychology but seems to explain a lot very well. || CTX: I tried fighting the internet right for a bit of fun and I have to tell you  Most of these dudes are straight up pussies, and the ones that bother responding have the endurance of a starving toddler
2026-01-17T06:36 id=2012413763971137999 →- | This internet user thinks they're a public intellectual because they have a big following.   We're in an unusually dumb era, started with the pandemic, won't let up for a while. https://t.co/W5ANW15vhL || CTX: Being a public intellectual is funny because you'll write something and people will tell you how insightful and eloquent it is, and you'll feel good, and you'll love the attention  But then other people will say mean things about you and yo
2026-01-17T06:37 id=2012413895932354794 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Dumb era like I said.   https://t.co/2dAkbuKx5X || CTX: This is readily apparent to anyone who teaches college students.  I asked students to work a very simple intro problem that I've used for 10 years.  For the first time, some students had problems with basic reading comprehension.  I work at
2026-01-17T06:37 id=2012414045736030593 →uhshanti | @uhshanti Yes this is how most UHNWIs live. || CTX: if I were a California billionaire I would just STFU, pay the tax and live here. you would never see or hear from my ass again https://t.co/vAZRl2t1O2
2026-01-17T07:18 id=2012424311089619086 →- | Novel idea: Woman struggles to write a novel about a wife whose husband died many years after he wrote a novel that he tried and failed to get published in his lifetime, and which the wife never got around to reading while he was alive, and only reads after he's gone and she misses him.  Woman struggles throughout the novel, unable to decide whether to make the husband's novel good or bad and whether to make the wife like the book or not.  There's more. Not sure what direction it goes from this.
2026-01-17T07:21 id=2012425039304429984 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @cairoasmith Comically wrong.  https://t.co/9045E1d5nt  The "China century" meme began like last year. While it may still become true, it is not yet true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cairoasmith Okay but the 'centuries' though  Spanish 16th Dutch 17th French 18th English 19th American 20th Chinese 21st
2026-01-17T07:22 id=2012425191603769611 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I think I was a mutual with him in 2018 as well. I remember the account fondly at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You kinda remind me of redaction when they were a new account, actually  we were mutuals before they were a big account
2026-01-17T07:23 id=2012425434013807100 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Long username and lack of a profile pic really hinder acquiring followers, fortunately. So I may have more time.  Still, I'm worried that this app is making me think about Trump and politics way, way more than I usually do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You absolutely have to go before you become a 25000 follower account, and it's coming quick. (A little "help me write" clickbox came up in the UI while I was writing this, BTW 😅)
2026-01-17T07:24 id=2012425769088172526 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ This, btw, is a phenomenal post and as someone who is paid to forecast I think you're essentially correct. || CTX: https://t.co/BeR9GEC9Hk
2026-01-17T07:38 id=2012429283713790176 →- | Trump is empowered and emboldened by resistance--his first term demonstrated this clearly.  If you want to resist Trump, need to go higher order: ostensive obsequiousness to make him look more preposterous to MAGA.  The way to beat Trump is have AOC start intensely supporting him https://t.co/DF8wVWHpLF || CTX: There's some deep childhood trauma behind all this. https://t.co/kBWWXrsd88
2026-01-17T08:24 id=2012440785753649510 →- | James Joyce wrote, "history is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake."   I would say being human is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
2026-01-17T08:27 id=2012441555554975823 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Celebrity Apprentice absolutely should be scrutinized by strategists and, yeah, the fact that this isn't happening shows how unserious his opposition is. || CTX: It's funny how obvious this is. All you have to do to slide west wing rn is watch celebrity apprentice like an autist  the absolute unwillingness of the left to even try is why I can't take them seriously--the man is basically a toddler, ps
2026-01-17T08:27 id=2012441691664601124 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Goddammit now I have to stay. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'll miss you when you leave
2026-01-17T08:32 id=2012442920511479902 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I won't just disappear one day, as I used to. I'll let mutuals know and won't nuke the account. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 on a more serious note, if this site really doesn't please you for some reason, it is fine to leave completely, I wouldnt stop you then.
2026-01-17T08:58 id=2012449333535268930 →concernedc73109 | @concernedc73109 I've created tons of things, they're all just separated from this anonymous account by an air gap. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it's time for you to create. You've accumulated resources, build something with them
2026-01-17T09:16 id=2012454017775911247 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod They aren't as smart as they think they are but they are also much more open minded to criticism, which sadly as a combo is like catnip for me. || CTX: Anyway After this ICE thing, having spent like 96 hours in one of the other X basins I can tell you, choir  The BAYsin is a fairly good place to be on X  Even if you work in maintenance at McDonalds and casually insult a fair cross section 
2026-01-17T09:58 id=2012464517108912184 →- | Cumming with your eyes closed is gay because you're literally looking at a man wtf homo
2026-01-17T10:04 id=2012466030711280077 →- | Pedialyte would be a good slang term for an anorexic child.
2026-01-17T10:06 id=2012466532530684277 →CoorsLightCEO | @CoorsLightCEO @roundrobin42 Artificial gambling intelligence || CTX: @roundrobin42 For all intents and purposes this is AGI
2026-01-17T10:08 id=2012467017216106821 →henlojseam | @henlojseam @ameensol A magnetized platform in a pool of water with an iron rod on one side? Like a compass? || CTX: @ameensol Ngl aligning to Mecca in a moving vehicle is a very interesting engineering problem
2026-01-17T10:10 id=2012467673779642848 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @HomerPavlos omg is that KURDISTAN??? based based based || CTX: @HomerPavlos holy based
2026-01-17T11:20 id=2012485261024780787 →- | RT @helscom: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’m a private intellectual. i keep my intellect private. none of you will ever see it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’m a private intellectual. i keep my intellect private. none of you will ever see it.
2026-01-17T12:56 id=2012509338812948552 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Fantastic analogy. || CTX: as this being a car horse difference, it needs to get down to the price of the "horse" to get used by millions. https://t.co/sdmztZeb7o
2026-01-17T13:06 id=2012511837125062980 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 lmfaooooooooooo || CTX: We are gonna automate you so deep into the mines your grandchildren will need an iron long https://t.co/xOqG84awYN
2026-01-17T13:19 id=2012515163426189536 →KingPepeVI | @KingPepeVI @EuroWynner @SupersonicLai That's what I liked about Vienna || CTX: @EuroWynner @47fucb4r8c69323 @SupersonicLai So, everything but the people?
2026-01-17T14:04 id=2012526338591400351 →yungmetronome | @yungmetronome After accidentally sending $900 million because their software UI sucks, maybe scrimping on software is a bad idea. || CTX: I’ll give you a better anecdote…I’ve met the CEO of Citi several times over the past year. Obviously AI comes up. She has basically said that one of the clearest and highest priorities is cutting the long tail of software vendor spend using
2026-01-17T14:19 id=2012530321615692242 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk @mark_slapinski not how international trade works broski || CTX: @mark_slapinski enjoy your social credit score
2026-01-17T14:22 id=2012530940568891425 →- | RT @affrodiziac_: intelligence is compression, true intelligence is compression without loss.  philosophy are rules that are aimed to achie… || CTX: intelligence is compression, true intelligence is compression without loss.  philosophy are rules that are aimed to achieve compression without loss. https://t.co/AbZCrfidsJ
2026-01-17T14:25 id=2012531779811614899 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @PxlHulk @mark_slapinski Canada and China are making international trade agreements, Chinese domestic policies like the social credit score are entirely irrelevant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PxlHulk @mark_slapinski didn't say anything about international trade did he
2026-01-18T00:03 id=2012677121764896916 →- | RT @1889lw: Courage is overrated and humility is underrated || CTX: Courage is overrated and humility is underrated
2026-01-18T00:15 id=2012680276435226865 →- | RT @TheMindScourge: This is very American. You’ll find Americans are frequently astonished when they visit places overseas and discover tha… || CTX: This is very American. You’ll find Americans are frequently astonished when they visit places overseas and discover that they’re reasonably developed   Americans have this implicit image in their mind that much of the world outside the US i
2026-01-18T00:41 id=2012686643917185362 →- | RT @idobadtakes: The idea of marijuana making people unproductive and boring hit a lot harder when everyone wasn’t spending six hours a day… || CTX: The idea of marijuana making people unproductive and boring hit a lot harder when everyone wasn’t spending six hours a day melting their brains on their phones https://t.co/5GMHjWTl3O
2026-01-18T01:22 id=2012697039184814106 →karaokecomputer | @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 I don't think people should be beaten up for doing a Nazi salute. || CTX: @TruthFairy131 oopsie truth fairy, it looks like you forgot to watch one of the videos you're replying to where the guy being "lynched" threw a nazi salute and screaming that he's a nazi, so here it is again! https://t.co/zVsWW6w0Cw
2026-01-18T01:29 id=2012698794396193118 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 I honestly think Deidre McCloskey has solved this problem but there are too few incentives to look at her work and many more to ignore it.
2026-01-18T01:39 id=2012701452427526610 →- | I remember reading this quote for the first time maybe a year ago (I think it appears in Culture and Value?) and thinking how no one, not even the smartest people I have ever met, allow for long pauses in conversation.  Then I thought about how the internet--twitter, message boards, DMs--allows PRECISELY this. The advantages of writing (time to think and craft messages) and the advantages of speech (instant velocity). And I realized this is why I love the internet.  Then I thought about how everyone hates the internet and few really use it to communicate--nowadays it's mostly an attempt to assert one's ego or viewpoint or it's an attempt to pander to build a monetizable brand.   And that's when I realized: oh. The world I want, where people talk openly and as deep and broad as possible without judging others or using others' accidents of birth (race, creed, ethnicity) as shortcuts for assessing quality of argument, that's not actually what people want. Sure you can get a small subset to say they want this, but they do not really want this.   I am too strange, my ambitions and the form of life I find most enthralling are deeply anti-human, not because they're destructive or self interested or unfair--but because human beings just are destructive, self interested and unfair.  And this is why I live in a remote part of the world, grateful I'm able to make a living writing online, sad the world doesn't demand the right kind of writing from me, and hopeful that some day humanity might have a change of heart and someday realize my best writing is the stuff that's now read the least and my worst writing is the stuff that's now read the most.  And one day, I hope, we actually will want to say, and genuinely enthusiastically will say, "take your time". || CTX: "This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.’"
2026-01-18T01:45 id=2012702785301774434 →TiltingatM3 | 1. Realize economists influence via words more than quant models 2. Acknowledge economists often say very different things than their models (even in the same paper--e. g. "AI bubble" when they really just mean "aggressive capex in normal Schumpeterian creative destruction") 3. Spend more on rhetorics/linguistics/communication studies/speech act to understand how economists and economic models create meaning through use  There's more but I'll stop here. Basically acknowledge they are language users in a linguistic nexus.  I guess Schiller and the narrative economics trend is the first step in this direction and the late 20th century fantasy of economics as a science entirely removed from slipperiness of semantics will be seen as a naive throwback to pre-Frege discourse and one of many errors of the time. Probably by late 21st century when GenAI commoditizes the quant skills needed to do econ math and everyone realizes what really matters is how you use words to make other people do things.
2026-01-18T01:51 id=2012704445839053235 →1889lw | @1889lw You hate people because you love them. You hate that they cause needless suffering to themselves and others, and you love them because you want them to not suffer. || CTX: I don’t know. I just feel uncontrollably sad for them sometimes.
2026-01-18T01:54 id=2012705113543147841 →teodorio | Reserve currency status doesn't disappear overnight, and anyway Central Banks and governments generally have been meaningfully diversifying away from the USD since the early 2010s.  Also, I think your statement was true in the 2000s when US productivity was comparable to Europe. Not true anymore. || CTX: Peter Schiff is like that guy that sleeps with a machete, who is a fool every night but one, and oh boy is that night going to come this year. https://t.co/xm4ERKvLQB
2026-01-18T01:56 id=2012705502954733886 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I think it's because Twitter is trying to look for logic while this is absolutely incoherent. || CTX: I find these Surveys fascinating.   Very different views from the twitterverse. https://t.co/4QFQMfCeFK
2026-01-18T02:01 id=2012706917454422389 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @levelsio @X People who think technical skills are the most important thing in the world are useful idiots. || CTX: @levelsio @X Fuck, man, I hate seeing Levels win even though he sucks at programming.  He's living proof that hackernews people are wrong about everything https://t.co/WAaDof9uLa
2026-01-18T02:05 id=2012707787109756974 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yeah, Bible is the highest authority yet God accepts all religions is deeply incoherent.  Makes sense if you see evangelicalism as a culture with no theological value beyond other religions, but no evangelical would say that and I'm pretty sure most would say that's heretical || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well certainly Twitter is a fraction of the population and there’s a selection effect with the loud voices here, but the common folk have their folksy ways.   What specifically are you referring to? The Theological contradi
2026-01-18T02:05 id=2012707961450172553 →teodorio | @teodorio Why would GBP or Eurozone be safer than USD? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I guess there is nothing else better to buy but there does come a point when holding US bonds or USD is too risky due to the political insanity where even unproductive GBP/Eurozone is better as a safe heaven
2026-01-18T02:06 id=2012708106803761526 →majinjayyyy | @majinjayyyy @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 I don't condone violence personally. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 Yea they should 😭
2026-01-18T02:10 id=2012709259495031073 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Oh I'm not surprised either, humanity in the west hasn't really been religious since the 19th century. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When they do other surveys they find various other weird doctrines like modalism or even the belief that Jesus was just a prophet amongst self identifying evangelicals. So I’m not super surprised seeing this data.
2026-01-18T02:13 id=2012710008581144594 →anistotle_ | It's always fascinating to me how people hate people who don't have children.  We don't hate people who have children. Maybe feel bad that they have less money and free time than we do. Some of us may envy those who have kids, and some will change their minds and have kids.  So what? None of this matters lmao  But the subset of parents who really care about us who don't have kids, they're an odd bunch. || CTX: @animalologist Why does it matter? Having people in your life doesn't mean they add to your life or you to theirs. I've deeply enjoyed long stretches of time vibing on my own &amp; keeping friends at the periphery as I learned to enjoy life
2026-01-18T02:18 id=2012711135443624365 →- | Guy selling "research" doesn't know one of the most well known value investing stories on Earth lmaoooooooo https://t.co/kF2tZNaCsQ || CTX: @Citrini7 Crazy stat from yesterday’s WSJ definitely piqued my interest https://t.co/3QY8L5xHFy
2026-01-18T02:18 id=2012711207677870257 →majinjayyyy | @majinjayyyy @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 I also don't condone dehumanizing human beings, regardless of what their beliefs are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 I also don’t condone hurting people but Nazis aren’t ppl so it’s ok
2026-01-18T02:22 id=2012712106790187087 →teodorio | Yeah you need to log off and go for a walk, dude, you're just edging into unhinged territory.  Markets are not going to see a safe haven in Europe where Ukraine, 0% growth, energy insecurity, bad regulations, and demographic pressures remain massive concerns.  Trump is bad, but this will pass just like his first term passed.   Feel free to bet against me like those in 2016-2020 did, my returns crushed theirs, it's cool.  Actually if you wanna do a private bet on this somehow, DM me, I'll happily throw 100k on a bet on the USD if we can agree on metrics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Because of the imperialist US push, I would assume the political and genuine risk of a coup? I guess most investors just wish now that everything will be back to normal after the midterms and the 2028 election
2026-01-18T02:27 id=2012713507221856567 →47fucb4r8c69323 | ChatGPT has gotten so much better. Just a year ago couldn't get this thing to challenge me at all, now it's basically reading my mind and refining my lazy phrasing to a much more specific and accurate conceptual space.  Fucking amazing progress, really impressive company. https://t.co/mMmvTfmS7U || CTX: Food at home was about 6% of average income when West Wing aired and is about 5% now, small in both eras where the cost of milk or eggs is so minute it shouldn't even be prominent in political discourse.  So why the gotcha question then, an
2026-01-18T02:29 id=2012713851612000462 →teodorio | @teodorio I get it, the Greenland thing is very destabilizing and upsetting. I'm upset too. The China/Canada deal is worrying.  But remember: that's the point. Trump is doing this so we stop talking about Epstein. And ofc never forget: nothing ever happens. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess I need to log off. We'll see where we're at next week! I'm quite bad at betting by the way and I've never meaningfully invested lol. I am keeping most of my wealth in USD and Bitcoin now, nothing in the market!
2026-01-18T03:08 id=2012723730678788141 →agraybee | @agraybee @CentristMadness This seems likely; Thailand is currently seeing a collapse in scam calls because the gangs/oligarchs running these in Myanmar and Cambodia have been attacked, and some of them pivoted to the scam centers after the mainland cracked down on the fentanyl trade. || CTX: @CentristMadness Someone said part of it is that China purged the oligarchs making it.
2026-01-18T03:10 id=2012724356913279415 →swyx | @swyx What sucks the most about this is that it demonstrates the tremendous amount of value brought to the table by Sam Altman. || CTX: jeeezus quitting on slack DURING THE COMPANY ALLHANDS announcing Barrett’s firing is stone cold drama https://t.co/5oDRtkAuEi https://t.co/ZuQTxgS6vi
2026-01-18T03:16 id=2012725785476616329 →- | Philosophical suicide poisoning the internet. https://t.co/isZTIZmsWE || CTX: I hate to say it, but this really shows us what current internet culture is about.  People made Cory in the House DS memes back in the day for the hell of it and because they thought it was funny.  Meme blows up again and the first thing so
2026-01-18T03:22 id=2012727173199581374 →concernedc73109 | @concernedc73109 Books and a good AI fix this. But don't skimp on the books. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think Im with you. I have so many questions and ideas but no one to bounce them off of
2026-01-18T03:39 id=2012731439561732163 →DurumMac | @DurumMac https://t.co/CkbFrczbFR || CTX: “I try and tell myself it doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. If you tell yourself it doesn’t matter, like you do shows, you do this, you do that and then you have earthquakes in India where 400,000 people get killed. Honestly, it doesn’t matt
2026-01-18T03:51 id=2012734517921161624 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ DM sent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’d love to read your work if you’re up to it
2026-01-18T03:53 id=2012735152242446428 →SamQualls12 | @SamQualls12 @agraybee @CentristMadness Idk about mail order brides but yes there are scam complexes there and in Cambodia (Thailand just bombed one of the ones in Cambodia about a month ago). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @agraybee @CentristMadness I've read the Asian mail order bride scam center is along the Mekong River in Laos adjacentto a Casino/hotel complex &amp; is run by the Chinese mafia
2026-01-18T03:57 id=2012736084644630813 →ARKADIOKUADRO | @ARKADIOKUADRO @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 I don't think any human being should ever be killed by another human being. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 You are right they should be shot
2026-01-18T04:33 id=2012745212083253697 →- | https://t.co/JqNl1F7AHy
2026-01-18T04:35 id=2012745519752482952 →- | It do be like that about Mr. Stancil! https://t.co/nFhyaZpQXL || CTX: @ExpatCajun He actually might be Batman
2026-01-18T05:21 id=2012757301682458682 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis I am now 100% a Stancil-stan. A STANcil if you will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They're going to rue the day they created that meme. It's time to commandeer it
2026-01-18T05:22 id=2012757454258323616 →00Kirikage00 | @00Kirikage00 @ARKADIOKUADRO @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 Many scenarios where I WOULD kill someone.  Zero scenarios where I SHOULD kill someone. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ARKADIOKUADRO @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 To an extent.  It isn't an outcome anyone should want but sometimes the outcome that had to happen for safety or the lesser of an evil.  Is there any scenario where you would k
2026-01-18T05:41 id=2012762363116535910 →Citrini7 | @Citrini7 @jasons_chips I just want to say this is better than like 80% of the sell side research on the street and I totally see why you have the top substack in this space.  Absolutely well done, if I wasn't so old I'd probably try to get a job with you guys. || CTX: @jasons_chips From Jan 2024 https://t.co/ZBv1HdX3Zq
2026-01-18T05:55 id=2012765767196905723 →- | The future is the only transcendental value for men without God. - Albert Camus
2026-01-18T06:29 id=2012774256011002003 →nyaatheory | @nyaatheory @ARKADIOKUADRO @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 No, obviously the Allies had no choice but to fight both the Nazis and Communists, and I wish another option had been possible, like anyone who dislikes death and bloodshed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ARKADIOKUADRO @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 Guy who was neutral about world War 2
2026-01-18T06:33 id=2012775245980282986 →- | Reading the self indignant rage at my quiet pacificism in this thread in between reading Camus's The Rebel is a fascinating experience. https://t.co/89KcttvQdW || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ARKADIOKUADRO @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 Guy who was neutral about world War 2
2026-01-18T06:54 id=2012780708293693697 →- | "If they gotta rough up some smart asses so working class people can live in a safe neighborhood, that’s why we pay our taxes and vote for my buddy for DA."   The "Defund the police" movement raised demand for totalitarianism in America. https://t.co/ivpRsWTZVK || CTX: Hell yeah!!!  Covington KY.  I went to high school with the DA.    It’s law and order on the KY side of the river and Mogadishu on the Ohio side.  And everyone knows it.  Don’t fcuk around over there.  They might tell you twice even tho the
2026-01-18T06:56 id=2012781046346170816 →dilanesper | @dilanesper The technological difficulties of maintaining such a base would certainly result in scientific and technological discoveries with a very high ROI for both America and humanity. || CTX: fun fact: there's no good reason at all to have a permanent presence on the moon. We already know there's nothing there and the energy and astrodynamics requirements make regular visits senseless.  These guys should have their budget slashe
2026-01-18T06:59 id=2012781865577681285 →- | If you start thinking the world looks like a movie (any movie, no matter how good it is), that's a sign that your heuristics are simple, you're overly compressing complexity, and you're probably motivated by ideology and ego rather than curiosity or love of knowledge. https://t.co/aUreRl4tBf || CTX: What are the most essential or prophetic film and television about the current era?  - Andor - Handmaid's Tale - Civil War - Man in the High Castle - Idiocracy   What else?
2026-01-18T07:07 id=2012783949207236738 →- | In 1999 my then mentor, a best-selling novelist and book reviewer for one of the largest newspapers at the time, had introduced me to a literary agent and was getting me into book reviews.   I could smell the death of the industry at the time. I couldn't tell anyone exactly how or why, but I guess it was the fact that novels were still being written as if the internet didn't exist or, when they did, it was mostly YA stuff about how cool (or bad) cyberspace was.  Meanwhile I was chatting on AOL and internet forums thinking, "this is the future of discourse. This is how people will read in the future."   So I stopped writing fiction and got a PhD in linguistics.  Sadly, I never wrote that book about Medieval Marginalia and 4chan Community Making, but whatever.   Still, it took me until 2011 until I actually started making money by writing for the internet, and now I have had more readers than I almost certainly would have if I'd stuck in the world of novel writing.  So now to see the industry basically turn into a factory aping letters to Penthouse on the one side and books pandering to the stupidest identity politics on Earth is very very strange. On the one hand, I made the right choice and made a lot of money writing, yay go me. On the other hand, I am and will always be a failed novelist. || CTX: Publishing seems to be in a death spiral where only women read so only books women want to read get published so only women want to read them etc, gets worse every year   No idea how they can pull out of it https://t.co/CFDvk406Ax
2026-01-18T07:09 id=2012784478821978269 →- | Just saw two YouTubers uploading videos about the Epstein Files. Good. Twitter seems sufficiently distracted by Greenland, but not all of the internet is.
2026-01-18T07:12 id=2012785260925202666 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @startupmillyair Hardest part of living in Asia is my dick around all these hot chicks.  Second hardest part of living in Asia is the lack of good quality bread. || CTX: @startupmillyair For me it’s bread. Fuck your stupid keto diet
2026-01-18T07:20 id=2012787043718570285 →- | In 1999 my then mentor, a best-selling novelist and book reviewer for one of the largest newspapers at the time, had introduced me to a literary agent and was getting me into book reviews.   I could smell the death of the industry at the time. I couldn't tell anyone exactly how or why, but I guess it was the fact that novels were still being written as if the internet didn't exist or, when they did, it was mostly YA stuff about how cool (or bad) cyberspace was.  Meanwhile I was chatting on AOL and internet forums thinking, "this is the future of discourse. This is how people will read in the future."   So I stopped writing fiction and got a PhD in linguistics.  Sadly, I never wrote that book about Medieval Marginalia and 4chan Community Making, but whatever.   Still, it took me until 2011 until I actually started making money by writing for the internet, and now I have had more readers than I almost certainly would have if I'd stuck in the world of novel writing.  So now to see the industry basically turn into a factory aping letters to Penthouse on the one side and books pandering to the stupidest identity politics on Earth on the other is very very strange. On the one hand, I made the right choice and made a lot of money writing, yay go me. On the other hand, I am and will always be a failed novelist. || CTX: Publishing seems to be in a death spiral where only women read so only books women want to read get published so only women want to read them etc, gets worse every year   No idea how they can pull out of it https://t.co/CFDvk406Ax
2026-01-18T07:22 id=2012787734402728264 →InlandCaGuy | @InlandCaGuy Rs will lose the midterms and we'll get some impeaching and whatnot. Then he'll be out by the end of the term and a D will be in, and MAGAism will mostly die.  We just gotta be patient and deal with this nonsense in the meanwhile. || CTX: The rule of law disappeared completely in the last year and people barely even talk about it. The system has been exposed as unable to handle a strong arming president and absent constitutional reforms we will be relying on electing a decen
2026-01-18T08:14 id=2012800699378090386 →HiThereImJames | @HiThereImJames @majinjayyyy @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 I would condemn them, yes absolutely, but I would not kill them if they were not actively in the process of physically attacking another human being and I lacked non-lethal methods of stopping them from attacking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @majinjayyyy @karaokecomputer @TruthFairy131 So you won’t condemns a self professed nazi who’s belief system includes killing innocent people due to their religion and/ or skin colour? Sounds like you’re okay with them dehu
2026-01-18T08:36 id=2012806397713609088 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Honestly, I kinda want to see how far he will take it. I am a tad scared he will take it to nuclear war, though, but I just read Camus on Hitler so I'm not exactly thinking clearly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we are at the frontier of distraction hahah
2026-01-18T09:03 id=2012812958229836138 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw True, I pretty much agree, I'm just unclear what his limit actually is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't think he will go that far. he is a cutthroat businessman by heart that tried people at their limits hundreds of times  he probably knows his limits and just fucking around within
2026-01-18T09:12 id=2012815472983490729 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Parasite as second order derivative. Fascinating, and, yeah, I think you're absolutely right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think his limits are more like functions of other ppl's limits  he expands like a gas hahahah. i have a few friends/acquintances with this behavior. they expand and test your limits. not necessarily out of malice. they st
2026-01-18T09:29 id=2012819506184474820 →MaxKemeny | @MaxKemeny @dilanesper Sounds good to me! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dilanesper If you actually thought this then you would support colonisation of the sea floor for the exact same reason. But for some funny reason I don't ever see anyone proposing that.
2026-01-18T23:30 id=2013031377940427017 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @InlandCaGuy Yeah, that could have very negative or positive outcomes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @InlandCaGuy There will be a sense of lingering anxiety about how easily we could have a repeat, not of DT mind you - he’s fairly unique - but of a situation where people are willing to compromise so much in order to achiev
2026-01-18T23:46 id=2013035404753072449 →- | Incredibly succinct explanation of why libertarianism so quickly breaks down. https://t.co/hY9MbpwJs7 || CTX: @LPNH Because libertarians are people who reflexively take the perspective of "if I'm not bothering you, then you should let me be", and anytime what constitutes "bothering" becomes an abstract 2nd order effect and a probability instead of 
2026-01-19T00:04 id=2013039886706889010 →- | Weak men confuse accusations of evil with the fear of power.  Mock Hitler and the Nazis for being losers is thus a more effective response to when loser men adopt Nazi ideas.  "Of course you're a Nazi, you're a loser."  "Of course you're an incel, you're a loser."  "Of course you're a groyper, you're a loser." || CTX: Imagine starting and losing World War II, cowering in a bunker and blowing your brains out as the walls cave in, and then learning this multi-ethnic and multi-religious Sausage Fest would be your lasting legacy 80 years later   Yikes https:
2026-01-19T00:42 id=2013049432309473681 →emollick | @emollick I've been wanting this for a year now. Not having GPT5 and not having access to a thinking model with voice chat is frustrating || CTX: The fact that all of the big AI voice modes are powered by dumb models, let alone sycophantic dumb models that are designed to have disfluencies that fake a human chat (“um”), undersells the value of voice in managing agents.  A “serious vo
2026-01-19T00:48 id=2013050824914833801 →- | I just want to point out the "appalling, disgusting, and SICK" line.  Appalling = makes one pale, often used in contexts of moral rules and norms. Disgusting = Used both for moral disgust and physical disgust Sick = Used more often for physical threats (sick contagious beings, poisons that make one sick)  The slide from moral language to physical language is intentional and an old rhetorical trick we have seen among prior eras' totalitarians, including ofc early 20th century Fascists and Nazis: guide your audience slowly towards feelings of physical disgust and anxiety, because then they're more pliable, fearful, manipulative, and less prone to deep contemplative thought.  Another side lesson: those who don't study rhetoric and language are easily manipulated by rhetoric and language. || CTX: Free speech absolutist Elon Musk now suggesting a member of Congress should be executed because she said a bad word https://t.co/YmImq4lcJg
2026-01-19T00:48 id=2013050974328307715 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ lmaooooo || CTX: https://t.co/rh5RlyYhnZ
2026-01-19T01:03 id=2013054758291136767 →- | This person is using Twitter correctly. https://t.co/VhVF98SyFv || CTX: If any of u were wondering “Why do u retweet ur own posts” bc i love them? I made them. They’re mine. I feel them. I have whimsy. I have joy. Why are u concerned abt what I do on my acc? Hmmmmm
2026-01-19T01:04 id=2013054853765857383 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @funniestgirll That this has no likes makes this comment art. || CTX: @funniestgirll You also need to like all your own posts too  It’s self care I did it before Likes were private, I do it on Bluesky, I don’t care Like your own posts
2026-01-19T01:09 id=2013056282836807682 →AthletesInSpace | @AthletesInSpace Conserves want to conserve the way things are? Wow how shocking || CTX: The comments show conservatives have no ideas or ambitions to make society better - they just reflexively oppose everything seen as change https://t.co/d4RzLqdo1k
2026-01-19T01:18 id=2013058555255968017 →- | When I was a freelance journalist I used to get offers to get paid to publish shit all the time.  I can only imagine how worse it'd been if I tried to build a brand as an influencer. https://t.co/Wn64bdoYf4 || CTX: Something strange happened on conservative Twitter on Thursday.  A dozen right-wing influencers suddenly became passionate about semiconductor export policy, posting nearly identical (and often false) attacks over a 27-hour period on a bill
2026-01-19T01:21 id=2013059172577738997 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @AdaptiveAgents If we consider the context to just be elements of the problem, surely then the compression theorem could hold? || CTX: @AdaptiveAgents Not sure this really translates.   Intelligence, both human &amp; future artificial versions, is likely be constituted by some collection of specialized systems that interact in some way to provide context-specific value.   
2026-01-19T01:28 id=2013060870343987343 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @AdaptiveAgents Yeah can't say I'm sure what either of you mean by intelligence (or what I mean when I say it 99% of the time). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AdaptiveAgents Well in the AI context, the term intelligence is fuzzy / so it’s hard to say what holds and what doesn’t.
2026-01-19T01:31 id=2013061812380471762 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @FreightAlley How so? I'd agree with everything in this clip. || CTX: @FreightAlley ha-ha-ha-ha-HA-HA no
2026-01-19T01:37 id=2013063119946518596 →Piryme | @Piryme @AthletesInSpace Indeed they are, including all of the variants such as the groypers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace Conservatives are losers then. They just want to let entropy destroy us
2026-01-19T01:57 id=2013068245624934621 →CantEverDie | @CantEverDie He's eating kosher. || CTX: why isn’t he drinking whole milk with this steak does he hate milk???? https://t.co/Hx4B60hHlj
2026-01-19T02:10 id=2013071508789420452 →- | By far the most miserable person I know is a guy who sold his company and got about 10m USD and spends his time with prostitutes and "friends" who use him for money.  If you see the world in transactional terms, you'll never be happy. https://t.co/5QmMApIRcE || CTX: @DomainDead I’m just not sure there is ever a point he could reach where he actually feels satisfied. Like at some point everything being transactional is gonna drive him insane (if it hasn’t already and this is just that)
2026-01-19T02:14 id=2013072666127925504 →- | AI psychosis is bad but just wait until robotics improves enough that we have AI powered robots. People will end up sacrificing their lives for some circuits and computer chips. https://t.co/ZSHAi1DJUq || CTX: Omg why did this feel kinda gruesome omg he was just going to workkk Lord https://t.co/5qhkJhiip6
2026-01-19T02:33 id=2013077240465207571 →- | Ten Times Trump Echoed Hitler  1. Hitler: “a poisoning of the blood” , Trump: “They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/Ki6p5N1h80  2. Hitler: “formed a state within states.” , Trump: “I will totally obliterate the deep state.”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/yclIznug4e  3. Hitler: “destroy the corrupters of this most precious national strength.” , Trump: “we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists…”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/m263UFXhpK  4. Hitler: “in parasites will create lying hypocrisy and malignant cruelty” , Trump: “thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/m263UFXhpK  5. Hitler: “the incessant influence of our lying press” , Trump: “We don’t have free press.”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/g2KzflYTTY  6. Hitler: “betrayers of the people” , Trump: “FAKE NEWS, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/z2aXKDeymY  7. Hitler: “to let Germany be destroyed” , Trump: “to destroy America and to destroy the American Dream.”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/m263UFXhpK  8. Hitler: “to be seized by an iron fist” , Trump: “I am the law and order candidate.”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/dbaNNSPAkw  9. Hitler: “I became the supreme justiciar of the German people!” , Trump: “I am your justice.”  Hitler source: https://t.co/SVHJ71b1hH Trump source:  https://t.co/g2KzflYTTY  10. Hitler: “help the German people rise again.” , Trump: “We Will Make America Great Again.”  Hitler source: https://t.co/X5QcV0hhEa Trump source:  https://t.co/dbaNNSPAkw
2026-01-19T02:33 id=2013077279312896187 →Piryme | @Piryme @AthletesInSpace Reactionary conservative nihilist losers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace Groypers aren’t conservative they’re reactionary
2026-01-19T02:35 id=2013077781253435423 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @FreightAlley I disagree that we've never had a wheel that makes other wheels (and all that follows from that premise)--auto-correcting models have existed for a long time. || CTX: my comment goes to the quote first, i don't need to argue the claim about 99% and why VCs are not as stupid, because overstatements always prove themselves to be false.  as to what Ben tries to portray out of himself and how he is brainwash
2026-01-19T02:41 id=2013079441887613219 →Piryme | @Piryme @AthletesInSpace Buzzwords you used until you didn't like what they started to mean. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace Buzzwords
2026-01-19T02:45 id=2013080450613248063 →OpenAI | @OpenAI, your customer service is absolutely garbage.
2026-01-19T02:46 id=2013080535397027955 →Piryme | @Piryme @AthletesInSpace How do you define "up and up"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace I used reactionary to describe what they believe. You used it to describe your animosity towards them. Elaborate on how they are nihilists and losers? Nick is on the up and up currently
2026-01-19T02:58 id=2013083536861876249 →Piryme | @Piryme @AthletesInSpace Indeed, he's becoming more famous as a loser. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace Nick is popular. He is gaining more support and from what I can gather, a household name
2026-01-19T03:07 id=2013085871189450953 →Piryme | @Piryme @AthletesInSpace There's much, much more to life than being a social media influencer.  And I assure, you, his fame is absolutely thanks to people laughing at him. That raises his prominence and the perceived edginess by immature dumb teenagers, which he'll leverage until a new trend appears. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace What are you talking about? I'm not some Nick Fuentes dick rider by any extent, but I have to admit that he's getting more fame due to people liking his content, not because he's some weirdo who we all laug
2026-01-19T03:08 id=2013086140178272615 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @FreightAlley This is the ultimate disagreement: can an autonomous AI system create things not in its training data. In some domains, maybe; in creative writing, definitely not. || CTX: ok, to expand on that example, a wheel that makes other wheels without programmed design to make it able to do so.  we can make a system that would make other wheels, but that would mean that we did make it not that the wheel did it itself.
2026-01-19T03:13 id=2013087485081907547 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I haven't created an image in about 3 weeks, and this timer hasn't changed in about 12 hours now. @OpenAI replies to my support ticket with boilerplate about usage limits.  Unacceptable for $200/mo. https://t.co/mSvKApWvhY || CTX: @OpenAI, your customer service is absolutely garbage.
2026-01-19T03:22 id=2013089677205475346 →ATabarrok | @ATabarrok Yeah man, this is the world where public policymakers listen to economists instead of writers and poets.  Shit sucks doesn't it || CTX: Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passiona
2026-01-19T03:25 id=2013090317470519424 →Piryme | Yes, and young people will set aside childish things and cringe over this nonsense when they get older, and Nick Fuentes will end up a washed out has been.  I've seen this play out before. Ofc you are too young and stubborn to consider the wisdom of those who have experienced what you're now living through, so you'll resist me because the feeling of me figuring you out offends your innate sense of dignity. But if you remember this discussion in 15 yrs you'll think, "damn that weird old guy was right."   I too have thought that about things weird old guys told me.   Tale as old as time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace Maybe among Gen X his fame is just because of that, but speaking as a zoomer I can assure you that his fame among Gen z isn’t just due to this
2026-01-19T03:27 id=2013090964756422947 →Piryme | @Piryme @AthletesInSpace You're characterizing that as on the "up and up", so you are indeed doing much more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace &gt;Yes, and young people will set aside childish things and cringe over this nonsense when they get older, and Nick Fuentes will end up a washed out has been.  I'm not stating Nick is a good or bad figure,
2026-01-19T03:29 id=2013091431045357992 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Trump is doing an excellent job turning you into a reactionary nationalist. || CTX: It’s hard to overstate just how much top US AI talent is Canadian and European.  Good luck maintaining the lead if you alienate us.
2026-01-19T03:34 id=2013092643535024637 →Piryme | That's why Nick appeals to you; he belittles others, and that makes you feel better.  You see empathetic criticism, which I'm now giving you, as belittling. This is bad; you're psychically shutting yourself off to valuable signals to protect your ego.  Hope things go well for you, but if you go down this path I suspect you'll end up lower middle class and extremely bitter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace &gt;Ofc you are too young [. . .] the wisdom of those who have experienced what you're now living through, so you'll resist me...  I value humility as the best virtue, and I don't reject the truth if people
2026-01-19T03:40 id=2013094262490222963 →- | Basically how I see the reactions going.  I kinda feel like I'm in a unique position because I work with very technical people but have a writer's background, and my response to this video is:  1. Ben is right. 2. At the private and public equity levels, everyone both knows this and are modeling for the future Ben describes.  3. Idk if VCs see things differently, but in my limited experience with VCs the ecosystem seems to be more akin to gambling than serious analysis. || CTX: you could make an argument that his take here is too strong, but you can viscerally feel that some of the distaste to this video is directly stemming from surprise that someone so seemingly out-group Knows Stuff, so people must now up the a
2026-01-19T03:46 id=2013095585990201612 →Piryme | The issue here is you genuinely do not understand what I am saying. I never once said nor implied that anyone is laughing at Nick behind his back. In fact, not enough people are doing that and that is the issue.  At the end of the day, I think you just don't understand how the world works. You're young and grew in an odd, unusual moment so the entanglement of entertainment, politics, analysis is to you the normal state of play. As a result you conflate and compress many ideas (popularity, attention, notoriety et al.).  I'm not sure what advice to give you. Maybe you should read the central part of Camus's The Rebel, especially The Deicides chapter.  All I know is you are definitely setting yourself up to be a loser, and no advice I give is likely to change that fact. Very interesting position to be in. I wish you well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AthletesInSpace https://t.co/adM0FQZqZe
2026-01-19T03:53 id=2013097520260678048 →provisionalidea | I don't think that's your worldview at all. I think Trump has set the terms of the discussion and, instead of changing the terms and invalidate his position, you reinforce his position by opposing yourself to it.  "You're wrong" enables defenders to say "he's right, actually" whereas "you're not even wrong" forces the discussion into a new conceptual space.  I suspect you're too emotionally engaged in this (fear/threat response) to see how you've been manipulated and, what's worse, that will also make you see me (who's trying to help with an analysis) appear to be a threat (when we're in flight/flight mode our tolerance for nuance plummets, which again is why Trump is doing this).  Pains me to see it happen to you which is why I'm pointing it out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that’s a gross (in all meanings of the term) mischaracterization of my worldview.  (not to mention deeply offensive)
2026-01-19T04:04 id=2013100297950781521 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea This sounds like 4o wrote it. Just contemplate that for a bit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For you, this is idle debate and discussion.  For the rest of us, it is not a matter of narrative, but a question of life and death. It is a shift in the world political order with very real consequences that we cannot affo
2026-01-19T04:05 id=2013100500699279535 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Idk man "this is a matter of life or death for us" doesn't seem all that nuanced to me! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fwiw I do not see your comments as threatening, but — as I said — they are deeply offensive for how grossly they mischaracterize my perspective.  particularly *because* of how much nuance I work hard to keep sight of.
2026-01-19T04:09 id=2013101499732328744 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea life or death indeed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is not a matter of rhetoric. It is not just words from the bully pulpit. Very real policy changes have occurred, that have already impacted people’s lives. Our store shelves here have tariff warnings. https://t.co/5QMk
2026-01-19T04:15 id=2013102912357220499 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Absolutely not, in fact I don't think anything Canada has done at the federal level has been a mistake--quite the opposite, actually.  You totally misunderstand my view and intentions because you've let the hysterical absurd nihilism of Trump has lowered your register. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whatever, man. if it were up to you we would wait around pleading until it’s too late to protect ourselves against the worst case scenario.
2026-01-19T04:22 id=2013104788154827198 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea No, my claim is you're not a reactionary nationalist but you are being tricked into letting your thoughts be shaped by reactionary nationalist talk. Very different claims. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The only view you expressed is that you believe I have been turned into a reactionary nationalist, despite my position being broadly the same one of delicate caution and reorientation in the face of serious long-tail risks 
2026-01-19T04:27 id=2013105902694564144 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @averykimball Didn't that John Konrad guy get arrested for sex crimes or fraud or something? I only faintly recall something || CTX: @averykimball One thing I have noticed is NPR and affiliates have 10xed their insanity ever since the federal funding was cut
2026-01-19T04:34 id=2013107750503403554 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I've been condescending and paternalistic for much longer than the last 10 years. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve noticed a lot of American liberals have begun exhibiting this sort of condescending and deeply paternalistic attitude towards worried allies who are fastidiously retooling our economies and defence arrangements.  I dou
2026-01-19T04:35 id=2013108063134249456 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea ... you do know I've been an expat most of my life because I hate America, don't you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it comes down to different perspectives on the nature of America. We see the same behaviour America had towards the rest of the world for the past several centuries finally being turned on us. You see a shining city
2026-01-19T04:45 id=2013110540093018410 →Piryme | @Piryme I highly recommend Fear and Trembling, Kiekergaard is a brilliant writer, especially when he's not being resentful. || CTX: https://t.co/KrcRc0adsP https://t.co/Gf0f2nHJCy
2026-01-19T05:04 id=2013115273428283615 →Piryme | @Piryme Either/Or is next on my list after I get through Camus's The Rebel. He's definitely a unique thinker. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m currently reading it alongside The Sickness Unto Death. Kierkegaard is my favorite philosopher
2026-01-19T05:09 id=2013116486232285322 →brndxix | @brndxix Kids. It's American Gladiators for a very different culture. || CTX: who is watching this https://t.co/yHsALMxBQK
2026-01-19T05:12 id=2013117299885232464 →- | This is true.  When I first got on social media in the early 2010s, I saw people using it to "build a brand". And when I became a journalist I saw that opportunity.  I decided instead to be more of a behind the scenes person.  Do I make less money than the counterfactual? Almost certainly yes.  Do I have much more free time and freedom than the counterfactual? Also yes.  I probably sacrificed, idk, maybe 5m USD total on my choice. But amortize that over 15 years, and consider what I did with that time in those 15 years, I'm pleased with my choice.  You don't have to believe this, you just have to know there are options. || CTX: Your network is your net worth https://t.co/K4qqHdKJ62
2026-01-19T05:12 id=2013117417078010232 →Piryme | @Piryme You need to read what he says about Russian nihilists in The Rebel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like Camus is the other that has had the greatest impact on my personal life. Really enjoyed The Stranger and the MC is the only character I have ever really related to
2026-01-19T05:14 id=2013117840723722745 →ThorneChan | @ThorneChan She's thin. That's what this is really about. || CTX: I know I'm getting old because they're rewriting history and saying the alternative emo kids were the standard  There were like 30 of us in the entire school and you called us all slurs https://t.co/OIio2Sv6Ek
2026-01-19T05:20 id=2013119361712885935 →- | The Canadians who are willingly becoming useful idiots over this by being distracted over this nonsense (which is just a smokescreen to distract from Epstein) are probably going to be unwilling to ratchet down their affect.   As a result, I think this whole thing is going to cause some weird new ultranationalist politics in Canada and its own levels of internal strife and disharmony will probably rise and remain elevated long after Trump leaves office.  A shame for their peaceable culture, really. Had they just retorted with "You're distracting from the Epstein files" instead they could've fought against Trump much, much more effectively.  Oh well, I have no plans to go to Canada soon so sucks for them I guess. But it's fascinating to see how histrionic nonsense can destroy otherwise sane communities. Whether it's Trump, BLM, Defund the Police, Believe all Women, Transwomen are Women, Fuentes, etc etc doesn't matter.   The inability to metabolize nihilistic nonsense is a real failure in the epistemic immunity of many modern discursive communities. || CTX: Yep, still deescalating. We’ve gone from “We need to annex Greenland” to “Denmark needs to take immediate action to reinforce Greenland”. Easily achievable at a NATO level https://t.co/roIAGjJ2ZW
2026-01-19T05:35 id=2013123117703389604 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Maybe because it's a pattern you're seeing in your head and not reality.  I definitely do not see America as a shining beacon on a hill, that's why I left and haven't gone back--but you think that's what I see. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do! That’s part of what’s most interesting and striking to me — in my personal recent experience it’s some of the most progressive and critical Americans I know who’ve followed this pattern. (though I’ve also seen it from
2026-01-19T05:57 id=2013128537868537931 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 If formal verification to RL is the only way to iterate AI gains, then we're fucked. You can't get AGI that way, and you'll see a strong decel in intelligence gains, because empirical knowledge isn't formally verifiable.  Good lord, are the frontier labs logical positivists??? || CTX: If you understand what can be formalized into a verifiable reward, you'll understand why Ben is both correct and incorrect.   Correct in that we likely hit the top of a S curve (pre-training) for writing  and can't yet move to the next (no 
2026-01-19T05:58 id=2013128802885681383 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @8bit5_0 Also want to say your take on what Ben is saying here is the best I've seen so far, and better than my own. || CTX: @8bit5_0 If formal verification to RL is the only way to iterate AI gains, then we're fucked. You can't get AGI that way, and you'll see a strong decel in intelligence gains, because empirical knowledge isn't formally verifiable.  Good lord
2026-01-19T06:18 id=2013134005520986215 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 Well this is a huge narrative violation. If this is the China century and they're going to rule the world etc etc, why are private Chinese investors going abroad to provide credit? Surely they should be seeing higher ROI projects at home?
2026-01-19T06:20 id=2013134506140553263 →8bit5_0 | My business partner has been going on about tacit knowledge as a huge blindspot in AI development discourse for a long time. He's kind of a legend on the street so you're in fantastic company.   Couldn't agree more--not sure Ilya's approach makes sense as something possible, yet I see how it is emerging as something necessary. || CTX: > because empirical knowledge isn't formally verifiable.  yea that's why I've been yelling about tacit knowledge on the TL. We aren't getting AGI without first breaking how we train and grade these things.   They need to be trained online a
2026-01-19T06:33 id=2013137801571717267 →- | I like my coffee like I don't like my women: white and full fat.
2026-01-19T06:35 id=2013138267965624414 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 Yeah, my contacts in the mainland paint such a different story than what I see from westerners on Twitter, and ofc here in SEAsia the story is very different. Temporary reprieve from horrific data in 2021-2022, short-term contained boost from AI hides the fundamental weakness.
2026-01-19T09:06 id=2013176193332465780 →- | If I'm being totally honest, shitposting and arguing on the internet probably made me a better writer than reading great literature and all of my degrees did combined.   This may be a disparagement of me and/or my culture more than an education in the classics, however.
2026-01-19T10:40 id=2013199793888137567 →- | The historical analogue to Trump isn't Hitler, it's King James III.
2026-01-19T10:51 id=2013202545276068097 →helscom | @helscom HOLY FUCKING SHIT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he died at 1488... coincidence??? tump===hitler confirmed
2026-01-19T11:01 id=2013205048478646714 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Not sure I understand fully.  One can be right to a certain level of signification and wrong at a higher level, and I think that applies here, not just to Ben but everyone predicting the impacts of AI. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how can someone be right answering the questions when there is not possiblity to respond to them accurately by any known means? how can someone be definitive in their answering, "it will never happen period" according to th
2026-01-19T11:10 id=2013207530084676008 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I doubt Ben has any real power at all to impact anything tbh, but that is def a fair position. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes, but it is all about the damages, that is no an opinion behind closed doors of an unknown man. i am against him damaging progress in one way or another.
2026-01-19T11:30 id=2013212414410686711 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ He can be right and AI can still be transformative.   I think, broadly, he's gesturing at the notion that AI can augment people when it's used as a tool, but it will never be a vending machine for masterpieces. That seems true to me. || CTX: the main ai consumers are berween 25-35 , im sure you know who they are psychologically and how vibes manipulate their consumer choices because they don't know what they want from their lives. i can't get into numbers because i dont know th
2026-01-19T11:30 id=2013212540524781611 →vokaysh | @vokaysh No that's another guy. VI maybe? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 king James like the Bible?
2026-01-19T11:38 id=2013214368771793082 →- | It's so wonderful because our entire political moment now is downstream of 4chan, from Trump and the bewildered Dem opposition to the most unhinged radicals on the left and right. It's just 4chan invading Tumblr, writ large.   So ofc one of the big players in this 4chan drama is not going to tell when someone is flirting with her. Do you have any idea how many thousands of greentexts were posted on r9k with this exact same plotline?  Anons, sadly, are legion now. || CTX: Was he hitting on her but she took it literally? https://t.co/EjabluiDXJ
2026-01-19T11:41 id=2013215207401652462 →vokaysh | @vokaysh Equity research. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like the owl post, don't care about affleck, agree with you on VC   what's your job nowadays?
2026-01-19T11:43 id=2013215655110353328 →vokaysh | @vokaysh Reading the Wiki, tho, James III fits kinda well too https://t.co/zSxzwjRWuM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's over
2026-01-19T12:01 id=2013220315510514123 →vokaysh | @vokaysh Eh, lemme say it's tech-related stuff for HFs mostly. Feel free to DM, although I must say I have zero experience with the cybersecurity sector.  Unless by cyber you mean cybersex, in which case absolutely DM me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what/where specifically? if you want to say? or dm?  I was almost on the ground floor at a cyber company that's now at the private equity level valuation-wise and I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on strategies
2026-01-19T12:04 id=2013220909826662570 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ 1. You're absolutely right on memory, it's completely the chokehold that matters the most.  2. I'm not worried. Creatives can scream AI will kill all babies and puppies and aggressively competitive people will still use it. || CTX: yes, but as much as it can be transformative as much it can stop after millions of creators believably chant ai hits a ceiling, ai is a bubble, ai will never be what we aspire to make it.    as for my opinion why there are "vibes" of "ai is
2026-01-19T12:56 id=2013234043631136790 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You can create a network from scratch. That's what I did. It can be done. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this makes me want to die and I don't know why  it's certainly MY problem  but it's also why I'm at McDonald's going "I'm not in my own network, I don't really have a network" and this isn't sustainable
2026-01-19T13:38 id=2013244727135813690 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism Gen Alpha are so adorable, aren't they? || CTX: Wow that is some serious mogging. You rarely see a man mog another man like this, and I don’t use the word mog lightly. https://t.co/8ZQiPIzgo5
2026-01-19T14:00 id=2013250140539396473 →MuseZack | @MuseZack @memeticsisyphus Goddamn that episode is the hardest one to rewatch, so incredibly soul crushing. || CTX: @memeticsisyphus When the Sopranos did an episode that foregrounded one of the Bada-bing dancers, it was perhaps the bleakest, most unpleasant hour of the entire show.
2026-01-19T14:05 id=2013251563662213324 →nuance_enjoyer | @nuance_enjoyer This is the only attitude that will kill their grifting bullshit. || CTX: Nazi larping is safe edgy now. It's lame and played out. Nobody is shocked or impressed by this tryhard garbage. https://t.co/F7sAsoomj5
2026-01-19T14:18 id=2013254866609778774 →ATabarrok | @ATabarrok @retardbot9000 wtf did you do || CTX: Taiwan is fucked.
2026-01-19T14:36 id=2013259264773775674 →YourHornedGod | Bukowski aeatheticizes misery, failure, cynicism, and self destruction in a way that, yes created beautiful art, but is also a psychic hazard to readers.  One should read Bukowski in a mansion and read Oscar Wilde in a hovel.  I had to put down Ham and Rye after 40 pages. It took me back to a place I desperately ran away from and would rather die than go back to. I refuse to wallow. || CTX: there, that's fun https://t.co/08dR6y4gDB
2026-01-19T14:37 id=2013259497494532105 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You should get a job teaching English in a foreign country for a year. I'm dead serious. || CTX: And I can do that myself I don't need to beg, really--but my theme as I careen toward the wall is basically   "stop being surprised people feel this way and would rather just big opt-out"  ARGH, I don't want to spend the day on this but it'
2026-01-19T14:39 id=2013259942275285367 →_uncle_gworl | @_uncle_gworl @Piryme His arc ends in him becoming a lolcow. It is starting. || CTX: they’re like middle school boys that just learned how to swear. incredibly loserish behavior. https://t.co/esSMa1xvbJ
2026-01-19T14:54 id=2013263839014388069 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod ... you worked at HarperCollins?   Did you reject my book proposal in 2018? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Those Black Sparrow copies were from before Harper bought his whole catalog; I saved them from a company library purge :]  Bukowski is very tied to my early twenties--I got into Fante when I was at Harper Collins  I don't r
2026-01-19T15:33 id=2013273696270524709 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You're early 40s, right? There's a non-zero chance we walked past each other, both miserably lonely || CTX: I always assume that people like him only because they bled as he bled, because that is definitely the reason I liked him.  He had mentioned, at some point, that that was the reason HE liked John Fante.  Experiencing the absolute loneliness
2026-01-19T16:09 id=2013282724262375866 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @YourHornedGod Nope lol, haven't been lonely in 20 years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @YourHornedGod Do you guys still feel lonely even now?
2026-01-19T23:47 id=2013397946075959517 →InlandCaGuy | @InlandCaGuy I think it's dismay. Not shock that Trump would do this, shock that this is the world we live in. || CTX: Genuinely surprised how many people I see saying they are shocked by this. People really think all the leaks about him saying these exact kinds of things is just media TDS, I guess. https://t.co/ZTCSxdCS2F
2026-01-20T00:03 id=2013402056212783393 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis Okay, well there goes my upcoming trip to Baghda || CTX: I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure we bring 2005 back. When I become president I will have my Big Lib Gestapo point guns at your head until you accept the white liberal woman who doesn't hate black people. We are not going 
2026-01-20T00:09 id=2013403501360226485 →- | I love tweets like this. "Why doesn't someone do the obvious thing?"   Maybe ask yourself, "why doesn't the obvious thing exist already, what does this tell me about the world and how my assumptions are wrong?"   But, nah, because critical self analysis is hard, threatening. https://t.co/EHboWJNG9A || CTX: honestly seems like a good time to start a male influencer movement that's like "hitler is bad and it kicked ass that we built multiple superweapons, scaled production of insane hardware, and even invented computers to own him" ... and "you
2026-01-20T00:10 id=2013403796010066150 →fitzr1122 | @fitzr1122 Why don't you believe it? || CTX: It is theoretically plausible that smartphones have had the sort of widespread causal impact across multiple social trends people are claiming, but I don't believe it for a second.
2026-01-20T00:13 id=2013404518310879332 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Why should we care what a lawyer specializing in public policy has to say about the economic and technological impacts of AI on the tech sector? Should we ask a chef and a skydiver next? || CTX: “One of the ironies of the left-tinted skepticism of AI is that it seems in part to be related to dislike of the tech sector, which also is very reasonable. But the sector that is going to be most shook up by this is the tech sector.” https
2026-01-20T00:16 id=2013405218172801499 →fitzr1122 | @fitzr1122 The weakness of the studies is fair, but that just tells me the methodologies to find these effects don't exist (maybe cannot exist)  But just because we can't measure something doesn't mean that something exists. Things can be unproven but true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Any time Ive looked at the evidence for specific claims it's weak enough. I'm sceptical of faddish monocausal explanations. It doesn't make intuitive sense to me at the level of importance claimed. A counter contrarian temp
2026-01-20T00:22 id=2013406673923383409 →fitzr1122 | The basic constitutive claim that phones have changed behavior and behavioral norms needs no proof if we don't go further to state in which way phones have changed said norms.  Then it's just a question of identifying each case and looking at how the phones reconfigure it.  We maybe can't say "phones have made more people X", but we can look and say "here the phone has made this person X". And that's an analysis we should do not just for people we know but also ourselves.  This may not be sufficiently scientific, which is fine; the question isn't a scientific one at its core. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But Im not sure our starting assumption should be they have had this big an impact, particularly as a lot of the trends (fertility, mental health, cultural changes etc) don't seem to align as clearly with their adoption as 
2026-01-20T00:26 id=2013407695890506157 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @thiagovscoelho I wish non Americans would realize this and stop blaming us powerless citizens because we can't singlehandedly stop the forces of internet propaganda and billionaire corruption.   It's Germans in bars yelling at me in the mid 2000s for killing Iraqi babies all over again. || CTX: @thiagovscoelho Only the GOP in Congress can make this happen.
2026-01-20T00:32 id=2013409289126457653 →- | If you ever wanna piss off a goth, go up to them and ask, "why are you dressed like a zebra?"
2026-01-20T00:33 id=2013409634410021170 →teodorio | @teodorio @tszzl @phones111111 Shh don't let people know about the upscale restaurant scene in Bangkok || CTX: @tszzl @phones111111 you're so wrong on this because you went to a bad restaurant please try Gaa in Bangkok
2026-01-20T00:54 id=2013414884797522332 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @caviarkittie I really hated how the show treated that guy. Well, I hated how it treated men generally, but turnabout is fair play I suppose. || CTX: @caviarkittie Charlotte is really annoying up until she actually falls in love and develops a spine w whats his name the baldie
2026-01-20T00:56 id=2013415248145928701 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis Seems to me rather clear that Americans flirted with totalitarianism (just like they flirted with anarchy in 2020), realized they didn't like it and are going away from extreme hyperpolarization.  If I'm right (and good God I hope I am), Dems sweep midterms, Trump is a lame duck. || CTX: He got booed during the national anthem lol https://t.co/MKeMo2FZC1
2026-01-20T01:14 id=2013419742019952642 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis Hopefully they do and hopefully this is a wake up call from Dems to expand social welfare.  Maybe the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Bernie. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I think Dems win big in 26 and 28. I'd love to say the Republican party gets recaptured by the sane grown ups, but they prob spiral into more conspiracism
2026-01-20T01:14 id=2013419941471625637 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 LMFAOOOOOOOOO || CTX: &gt;fucks children &gt;kills himself  &gt;doesn't fuck children &gt;kills himself  anyone who is good at drawing conclusions can you help me I'm not good at conclusions https://t.co/zaRqJ9l1UV
2026-01-20T01:17 id=2013420572579889385 →- | What's interesting about Joe's obsession with making texts have an oral style, within the definitions set by Walter J. Ong, is that Ong argued literacy allows for more complex thinking and an oral style promotes simpler ideas.  So he's promoting dumbing down writing. https://t.co/M5II8pboHm || CTX: Someone want to make a browser plugin? https://t.co/fMmU4hvpnD
2026-01-20T01:29 id=2013423696682070167 →- | In case you're wondering how AI can be economically transformative but not show up in productivity data, this is why. https://t.co/1JvzufPj1S || CTX: @aiamblichus I don't want a demon to write my code I want a helpful assistant named claude to do my work for me in 15 mins then tell my PM that the task will take another 3 days. thanks.
2026-01-20T01:55 id=2013430090193936583 →moultano | @moultano Thailand is 1.2 TFR and falling fast. Everyone here agrees on why this is happening. I suspect it's the same in other countries, but western esp US journalism is shockingly uncurious about the rest of the world. || CTX: The change in fertility in the US is slow enough and broad enough that I understand why it is hard to diagnose, but this is so extreme that it seems like you should just be able to ask people and come to the right answer if it is something 
2026-01-20T02:07 id=2013433066551906715 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @thechosenberg Agreed but not really "good" taste (too vague and meaningless), more taste that identifies what will be considered good by a particular group.  A subtle but important distinction, because "good taste" becomes more "deep awareness of social and psychological determinants". || CTX: @thechosenberg He thinks tastemakers actually create taste ex nihilo and not that they’re just people with good taste who influence culture by their good taste being just a little bit ahead of the curve that exists independently of them
2026-01-20T02:19 id=2013436258895437992 →bx_on_x | @bx_on_x There's your boy on the up and up, @Piryme || CTX: If there’s one thing all of the hilarious commentary and memes from this event should teach us, it’s that everyone agrees these guys are cringe and fake and gay. Parents would be wise to keep their boys away from this kind of degeneracy and
2026-01-20T02:21 id=2013436728913342588 →rnr04816 | @rnr04816 @fr3nchbanana @bx_on_x I'm a pretty staunch antifeminist and I both think you're an idiot and find you amusingly pathetic.  Maybe time to rethink what social media influencers you admire. || CTX: @fr3nchbanana @bx_on_x Ahh the classic feminist argument that anyone who agrees with their views on masculinity and patriarchy/feminism are just incels 🤣
2026-01-20T02:28 id=2013438554723229971 →- | I came to this realization about a year ago, and it's why I live in the middle of nowhere in obscurity.   It's why I remain anonymous online and why you should too. https://t.co/WJWXHwr5Hc || CTX: It is genuinely tragic to discover that the only way to live virtuously and remain kind is to ignore most people.
2026-01-20T02:50 id=2013443993011659018 →- | "Federalist" lmfao https://t.co/hwpLFm4tZT || CTX: "Oh so you don't support the American right to protest?"  No, I guess I don't.
2026-01-20T02:54 id=2013445093290856514 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile This is how like 99% of us feel, it's fine, don't worry about it.  If your family's anything like mine you probably feel really guilty about this, but remember: guilt trips are a form of emotional abuse. || CTX: I'm Jewish, I try finding things in Jewish religion and practice that I believe in... and it's impossible. Just banging my head against a religious wall. Nothing in the belief or practice appeals to me, but I sure as hell am not anything el
2026-01-20T03:03 id=2013447324811567583 →- | Consider the following scenario:  Irresponsible and neglectful mother who is otherwise a friendly and fun parent to her son nonetheless allows the man who attempted and failed to sexually molest her son around her son for years after she stopped the man from molesting the son. The man was a romantic partner of the mother.  The son spent most of his life trying to forgive the mother, wanting her to just sincerely apologize for this lapse in judgement. She refuses to, and spends the rest of her life subtly preferring men (not the one who molested the son, whom she broke up with only after he stole her car and beat her up) to her son, such that she subtly expects the son to help the men she dates without expecting the men to help the son in return.  On her deathbed, the son leans in and whispers, "and now you die with your only son not loving you, blissfully apathetic to you and your memory."
2026-01-20T03:11 id=2013449254342185449 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile @ShehanJeyarajah When I left NYC I went to Miami and lived very close to where this photo was taken. Walked there every morning.  I kinda miss it but Miami has the worst people I've ever met anywhere. || CTX: @ShehanJeyarajah Wouldn't want to live on MIA--too many annoying quality of life dings there--but man the coffee and tourist waterfront are solid.
2026-01-20T03:40 id=2013456463490908437 →Too_Much_Lucas | @Too_Much_Lucas @moultano Made being a foreign man in South Korea interesting, shall we say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano The Koreans are playing gender wars on the ranked ladder
2026-01-20T03:45 id=2013457864950730893 →_rabbi | @_rabbi @BitPaine lmao || CTX: @BitPaine shiksa
2026-01-20T03:48 id=2013458516795891943 →qorprate | @qorprate This is absolute nonsense, meaningless babble.  Rest of the thread is good tho. || CTX: Quiet Part 2: welding the question of consciousness to relationality does a disservice to the complexity of both issues. Insofar as models are minds, they are ontologically alien. Insofar as humans can relate to them, it occurs across a fou
2026-01-20T03:50 id=2013459048331375023 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @olivieropinotti @pratik_satija This approach is very very old in equity research and is how I got my start in the industry. || CTX: @olivieropinotti @pratik_satija This approach is just very Italian in ways I'm not going to publicly spell out
2026-01-20T04:03 id=2013462236522549449 →PlumWdhse | @PlumWdhse @ShibleyTelhami What horrific things southern Italians would willingly eagerly tell me about northern Italians just made me wonder how much they hate other out groups.  A deeply vile part of the world no amount of beautiful architecture can save. I'm not eager to visit again. || CTX: @ShibleyTelhami For Middle East, read Israel.  Bet it was pure anti-semitism.    South Italy (incl Naples) was much with Mussolini.  A business associate straight face said his father fought for Mussolini, that his father was OK with Mussol
2026-01-20T04:11 id=2013464429514596757 →sofialomart | @sofialomart @pangramlabs, is this slop? || CTX: https://t.co/GTnPibxume
2026-01-20T04:16 id=2013465518813126837 →OneFeIISwoop | @OneFeIISwoop Richard D. James is incredible as an artist, almost makes me forgive his conspiracy theory nonsense. || CTX: since we are all talking about aphex twin https://t.co/AAprgouoVz
2026-01-20T04:41 id=2013472043765727348 →HayekianBanker | @HayekianBanker Cuckold and woman are the same kanji?! || CTX: https://t.co/nzJYSrgiYe
2026-01-20T04:51 id=2013474481415823858 →quantum_geoff | @quantum_geoff All perceived philosophical divides are due to underspecified language RIP Wittgenstein we did not deserve you || CTX: It’s not a philosophical divide: it’s just a hopelessly underspecified question. Legally? Yes. You might want to change that (I don’t) but it’s true. Genetically? No. Obviously not yet. Practically? They’re just words dude. It’s not about p
2026-01-20T04:59 id=2013476421281223158 →- | In 1995 I was pen pals with Tom Clancy until I called him a Nazi for some completely idiotic reason.  This might be the most bizarre fact about me. https://t.co/395eVcGtIS || CTX: https://t.co/jrv05EaQ2Z https://t.co/E6ou4O9TQX
2026-01-20T05:02 id=2013477126213902807 →- | The people yearn for the hamster wheel. https://t.co/WrWKJ07f0Z || CTX: underrated health hack:  walking. on a walking pad. Infront of a tv, laptop, or w/ phone  highly recommend. can walk while you tweet, work, handle calls, read, watch movies, vibe code, ANYTHING  you'll walk &gt;10K steps and burn calories w
2026-01-20T05:03 id=2013477513146585351 →RepSwalwell | @RepSwalwell Why are you telling us like we have any say in the matter || CTX: 25 https://t.co/zgDAZVm5rj
2026-01-20T05:09 id=2013478851763122187 →- | She did a bad job here, rhetorically.   "My knickers get in a twist when children are raped."   Say that, then be silent. Wait for his next gaslighting then, whatever it is, tie it back to a line that ends in "children were raped."   Clean, effective, powerful. https://t.co/M2HJKJkqg3 || CTX: Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here  McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying….Everything that is in these files—it could bring an entire house down. And if it has to, it has to.
2026-01-20T05:11 id=2013479496700027292 →TommyBombadill0 | @TommyBombadill0 @OneFeIISwoop When the pandemic first started he said the hospitals were empty. First COVID conspiracy I saw, before anti maskers, vaccine skeptics, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @OneFeIISwoop Like what?
2026-01-20T05:12 id=2013479683955007687 →obsidiancap1 | @obsidiancap1 Yeah they should get up and go for a walk outside in nature.  But I'm being a dick, you have a point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 keep in mind most ppl are sitting 16 hours a day! Not great bob
2026-01-20T06:36 id=2013500747283919123 →dyingscribe | @dyingscribe Well, long before his time since he's a time traveler. || CTX: CHARLIE KIRK WAS A RIZZ MONSTER TAKEN FROM US BEFORE HIS TIME https://t.co/BxlVzwBlyH
2026-01-20T06:42 id=2013502406756044980 →camkasky | @camkasky Failed to push on the Epstein Files enough. Mention them every single sentence. It's the only thing that will end Trump. || CTX: I spoke to Scott Jennings about his career path. https://t.co/1XDXAko6hD
2026-01-20T06:51 id=2013504586523267408 →DavidTaggart | @DavidTaggart @27khv Reminds me of when the Saudi royal family had a bunch of jewelry stolen when in Thailand then saw Thai politicians' wives wearing them at a formal event like a week later  Ended formal relations for like 40 years iirc || CTX: @27khv some FSB dude just got a new yacht
2026-01-20T07:02 id=2013507521827480021 →dailydirtnap | @dailydirtnap 1. Did Zedd's Dead change his name or is Zedd someone else?  2. You absolutely were a flow monkey all you traders are lmao || CTX: If you're in the Vegas area, I'll be playing at Omnia this Friday, opening for Zedd.  Playing from 10pm-12am.  And I'm not even the CEO of an investment bank. https://t.co/sSVCop24Ed
2026-01-20T07:05 id=2013508058383589839 →deuxnan | @deuxnan Stupid people misunderstanding good literature gets more people to read good literature? Fuck yeah, this is awesome!  You should try Pale Fire next. || CTX: you people are actually that fucking stupid. to decry this novel on the grounds of its subject matter is tacit admission of never having read it. gorgeous, manic prose of cowardly, banal evil. beautifully disgusting and disgustingly beautif
2026-01-20T08:57 id=2013536247587729600 →- | I remember in an lit seminar as an undergrad a prof was discussing "homosocial bonding" as a kind of motif in history where men use women as a way to bond with other men.  Apparently some men actually do this, weird. https://t.co/ToeW7qByfL || CTX: this is actually a very elaborate form of homosexuality and I don't mean this in a "they have sex with men" way: I mean their entire  conception of sexuality is filtered through how it will be perceived by other men, they cannot have sex wi
2026-01-20T08:59 id=2013536912045121680 →PageTurnGoldSPY | @PageTurnGoldSPY @WagieCapital I too did this, sup bro, hope the beers are cold where you are! || CTX: @WagieCapital I mean I literally just did the same. Im about to take a nap thinking about my puts as the Japanese bond market melts down.  I'll go watch the sunset later at the beach.  Then I'll order myself a salad and gyro.  Life is good
2026-01-20T09:00 id=2013537224357486658 →GoldRoyalty1 | @GoldRoyalty1 @WagieCapital You can do those things from a beach, you know. The internet exists. || CTX: @WagieCapital Speaking as someone who is retired (but a Boomer): agreed.   Now if want to write novels or donate time to a cause or wealthy enough to run a family office or become a workd class triathlete. OK. But sitting around beach....in
2026-01-20T09:03 id=2013537850181013747 →TizioCaioSempr4 | @TizioCaioSempr4 @andreamatranga Thai drivers are bad but I can handle them more easily than Italians as they're less aggressive, more incompetent.  Oh, you were trying to hurt my feelings, weren't you? lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @andreamatranga Imagine if it was full of Thai...
2026-01-20T09:25 id=2013543421143593260 →TizioCaioSempr4 | @TizioCaioSempr4 @andreamatranga Ovviamente non ti importa, ecco perché tu mi rispondi. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @andreamatranga I wasn't, you maybe tried. But guess what, we literally don't care what you think.
2026-01-20T09:39 id=2013546882149089666 →goy_pride | @goy_pride @moultano I agree, I think that's the main underlying determinant for all of this. Thailand is also densely populated. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano Japan and Korea are both very overpopulated.  Anyone who thinks there's any other reason for decreased birthrates is very dim
2026-01-20T09:41 id=2013547338791322069 →- | Stocks tanking. Greenland bullshit went too far.
2026-01-20T09:54 id=2013550810907713543 →AX4sqhGS | @AX4sqhGS @GayBearRes @WagieCapital I don't either, but they do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GayBearRes @WagieCapital Do you really want to raise your children in Thailand though? Hate to be mean to Thailand, but that's like shooting your kids in the foot
2026-01-20T10:03 id=2013552964510851197 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Hope you like dim sum, no reason to go back home now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s over. Fuck my stupid chungus life
2026-01-20T10:13 id=2013555350935609771 →vokaysh | @vokaysh https://t.co/EdbWabJjw6 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 interesting! I feel like I did this especially when I was doing drugs. drugs were more fun than people in general definitely more than sober sex. but getting female validation in front of other people is great social lubric
2026-01-20T11:22 id=2013572926822588492 →crotchner2 | @crotchner2 Call me crazy, but that looks like a gay homosexual. || CTX: no one’s ever looked at me like this https://t.co/KyZ78SSRkH
2026-01-20T15:01 id=2013628007622053969 →FossilLocator | @FossilLocator These are common in NYC || CTX: This sort of thing still exists in places like inside big Chinese supermarkets in the US (looking at you Ranch 99) https://t.co/PvEtqXsmb8
2026-01-20T23:01 id=2013748803883663476 →NYCerInExile | Extremely relatable on both accounts. I stopped telling people I was Jewish to avoid the bullying when I was a teenager, and I honestly don't think I'm Jewish (it is OCD: The Religion), but bigots want to kill me for it so, fuck em, I'll be Jewish then.   Such an odd ethnicity, like an albatross around the neck, and it doesn't even offer the promise of heaven or any payoff for all this hassle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah but my kids get hassled for having Jewish heritage anyway, even if Orthodox don't consider them Jewish bc they're patrilineal they're still Jewish to the bigots. Judaism the religion feels like OCD and the theology mak
2026-01-20T23:02 id=2013749068040708422 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @dailydirtnap Absolutely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dailydirtnap you know Zedd's Dead?
2026-01-20T23:03 id=2013749263453565145 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Not really, I like all their music but I never played dress up or related to the whole cliques thing. I was homeschooled for high school too which might be a factor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 were you ever a goth?
2026-01-20T23:04 id=2013749423176921311 →buzzerama | @buzzerama @camkasky Because the Democrats suck too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @camkasky lol if that was the case why wasn’t it released over the last 4 years when they were trying everything in their power to end him
2026-01-20T23:24 id=2013754467108401256 →sporadica | @sporadica @TrinkleWesley "Elon is a genius who could save humanity if only it weren't for that evil villain Elon"   You're not a serious person and you're not worth taking seriously. || CTX: Elon's purchase of Twitter has done next to zero to improve America's already atrocious political situation. Curious how you imagine it has improved anything.  But what it has done is turn him into a phone-addicted retard and take mounds of
2026-01-20T23:28 id=2013755610119000502 →- | A lot of lists of threes, rhetorical negations, hyphenated emphatic end clauses.  Sounds AI written. https://t.co/9GpJTnK4Px || CTX: 🇨🇦 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told the World Economic Forum at Davos that the U.S.-led “rules-based international order” is finished and “will not return.”  “For decades, countries like Canada benefited from what was called the rul
2026-01-20T23:46 id=2013759975475314732 →opinionatedobs7 | @opinionatedobs7 @moultano Well, South Korea's TFR fell below replacement in the 1980s, and these were told to me about 10 years ago since I haven't been there since, but I apologize if my reported facts on the ground fail to meet your standards. Maybe you need to leave Twitter and read academic articles. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano None of these problems are new nor they explain the sudden drop over the last 10 years. Just boilerplate gibberish.
2026-01-21T01:01 id=2013779020786344401 →- | I think ultimately I use Twitter to write notes for myself and hope if I'm speaking or thinking poorly some stranger will call me out and help me think more clearly.
2026-01-21T01:05 id=2013779910272377240 →- | I had a long conversation once with a man who is a money launderer for rich Asians.  I tried to explain to him, regardless of the monetary benefits, the "badass guns and cars" he fetishized like a child, and the ease of the work that it was ultimately unsustainable and his misdeeds would catch up with him. Much better to make a living honestly, with integrity, both so you have no internal voice telling you that you're a bad person and because it's more sustainable in the long run: less chance ending up dead or in prison.  But that presupposed a rule of law and a system that rewards honesty which, sadly, only partially existed and seems to be disappearing. || CTX: New Trump pardons just dropped.  The entire list is people convicted of fraud, that aren’t Somali. https://t.co/AaFyd89rRD
2026-01-21T01:06 id=2013780128506224684 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ okay now I gotta look for that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I really like her work and she does an excellent job satirizing DFW in one of the short stories in a Visit from the Goon Squad, your comment made me think of it
2026-01-21T01:29 id=2013786058547233068 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ I'm not. They're not incentivized to cultivate a rich interior. They're incentivized to fit in and maintain the status quo.  Those of us that choose to build a rich internal mind, we're the weird ones. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am continuously surprised by the lack of an interior life in people
2026-01-21T01:42 id=2013789351239655759 →- | The only metaphysics that make sense to me anymore are some kind of panpsychism (losing its appeal) and physical materialism where the self is an epiphenomenal illusion.   That both of these imply self erasure also tells me my motivated thinking is in the way: my self-loathing is almost certainly clouding my thinking.  I don't think I'm cut out for philosophy. Too emotionally invested.
2026-01-21T01:45 id=2013790068381753421 →moultano | @moultano People who say that are very lucky people.   Some of us know our parents didn't like us, because they told us as much.  Blanket rules for life tend to marginalize the weak, abused, mistreated. It's one reason why I avoid them. || CTX: People say, “Don't worry if you don't like kids, you'll like them when they're your own,” and I don't think this is 100% true, but I do think however much you like kids, you'll like your own 10x more.
2026-01-21T01:47 id=2013790537485295681 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Explain please. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 philosophy isn’t philosophy
2026-01-21T01:58 id=2013793236100194414 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @mysteriouskat Why did she like it? Was she one of the popular kids, was the school unusually well functioning, or something else? || CTX: @mysteriouskat My wife - back in the day. I hated mine. So did my kids.
2026-01-21T02:09 id=2013796026617135203 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @mysteriouskat The variance in school quality in America is so massive any generalizations about the experience are kinda meaningless. That's so far from what HSs in my town was like lol (the state was ranked like 45th in literacy at the time and school taxes were very very low). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mysteriouskat Good suburban school. She was an academic goody two shoes really. Top 10 GPA in a competitive school. Went to undergrad and was literally a poster girl for the honors college (had her picture on some of the p
2026-01-21T02:12 id=2013796922524619063 →DeivonDrago | What's the semantic value in discussing it in terms of emergence than epiphenomenality?  I choose epiphenomenon because I see a quasi-Kantian hierarchy:  Noumenal (ontological ground truth) Phenomenal (epistemic appearances, can be nearly identical to the noumenal) Epiphenomenal (doesn't actually exist but appears as an illusion from misperceiving the phenomenal).  Lazy bad example: quantum fields are noumenal, me as a living lifeform phenomenal, my sense of a coherent discrete self epiphenomenal || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Better to use the term emergent phenomenon than epiphenomenal illusion. Most neuroscientists think that way even if they don’t agree on the details.
2026-01-21T02:16 id=2013797870336647249 →quantian1 | Reminds me of when I was a journalist doing a story. I interviewed two sources: a wealth manager and a professor. I asked if investors should EVER use leverage.  Professor: No, never. Wealth Manager: Because of T+3 settlement [this was long ago], there are some situations where you might want to borrow some money just before your trade settles if you need cash fast, and since it's such a short period of time it'll cost you almost nothing.  And that's when I realized the academics aren't necessarily the smartest people in society and my pursuit of academic credentials had been a fool's errand. || CTX: Wow.  Genius stuff here.  Can't believe academics are just giving this away for free https://t.co/7S7kxJO2uZ https://t.co/Mcf1dIuYqP
2026-01-21T02:18 id=2013798203875848251 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 The real alpha is in DC area ghost kitchens. || CTX: Do these guys ever fucking eat anything else https://t.co/V7XrNbMaHl
2026-01-21T02:20 id=2013798838864130472 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Eh, whatever.  I don't really aspire to be anything, I'm too old and retired for that, but I do aspire to understand myself and the world, and philosophy is one helpful tool to that end. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I take that statement back but what I meant is that you should aspire to be something greater than a mere philosopher
2026-01-21T02:22 id=2013799241853108665 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea https://t.co/dHOUNrZ2vY and RSS. Social media is not for news lol || CTX: does anyone have a preferred news aggregator service? this place has gotten bad enough that I need to take a new approach to information sourcing.
2026-01-21T02:23 id=2013799575837122898 →krishnanrohit | @krishnanrohit @infornomics Paredolia nonsense, sign of a simple mind (or a content creator appealing to simple minds) || CTX: It's amazing how much the frontier models resemble their CEOs, a corollary to Conways Law: - ChatGPT - whipsmart, VC speak, bullet points - Claude - thoughtful, brainy, with a soul - Gemini - capable but built by a committee - Grok - very s
2026-01-21T02:38 id=2013803307039383629 →teodorio | @teodorio It is still too early to say whether this was a mistake or not.  All overcomings require an undergoing.  Maybe America needs MAGA to get under the yoke of the facile and false left/right Nazi/Communist dichotomies that shape American thinking.  Bad today, good for the 2100s. || CTX: I would like to apologize to the Chesterton Fence believers. We basically replaced power hungry but elegant sociopaths (the Cathedral) with power hungry barbaric psychopaths that were perpetual losers (MAGA Socialists and Yarvinites). https
2026-01-21T02:40 id=2013803826382327900 →gonglei89 | @gonglei89 30 year yields were higher in August lmao, what histrionic nonsense || CTX: Everyone now expects USD hegemony to end. They’re just not sure about the timing. https://t.co/mVoUKqdKgs
2026-01-21T02:51 id=2013806667268313369 →- | I have about a dozen or so mutuals on here that are vastly smarter than just about anyone I met in academia. I think my field didn't attract very intelligent people.
2026-01-21T02:56 id=2013808006291693608 →gonglei89 | Well until it breaks new highs we're in a state of heightened volatility not a regime change, unless you can point to factors behind the 30yr level to buttress your thesis.  Otherwise you're just pointing at one chart and saying "this fits my narrative". You'd be laughed out of any PM's office. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao when it was higher in August the prevailing discussion was that everyone was exiting the USD so not sure what you’re trying to dunk on. What clueless cope.
2026-01-21T02:57 id=2013808183827931207 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @gonglei89 Oh you're an aspiring social media influencer just posting stuff to get attention, my bad nvm. || CTX: Well until it breaks new highs we're in a state of heightened volatility not a regime change, unless you can point to factors behind the 30yr level to buttress your thesis.  Otherwise you're just pointing at one chart and saying "this fits 
2026-01-21T03:11 id=2013811739184484582 →gonglei89 | There are many factors that can affect long term US Treasury yields, not just the USD.  I'm not writing this for you, but in case any of your followers are curious, higher rates for long term bonds is known as "duration risk" and it's higher now possibly because of reduced hedging value, expectations of short-term volatility or lower liquidity, or a myriad of other reasons.  A higher long term sovereign bond yield CAN mean less confidence in the currency of the sovereign, but not always. One must be critical of all narratives and look at multiple factors and various possible variables at play.  And don't follow engagement baiting aspiring social media influencers, they sell simple stories that make you more stupid and less informed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “They’re just not sure about the timing.”  Learn to read 😉
2026-01-21T03:22 id=2013814477104521542 →DeivonDrago | This is where your own metaphysical beliefs come through. Which is fine, but believing computers could be conscious is to me epistemically identical to believing e. g. the Judeo-Christian God exists.  Also, I'd say all scientific questions are also historically contingent human preoccupations, so I see no bite in that point. || CTX: I don’t see why computers could not be conscious.   Now - I do think that:   1) if computers were conscious they would not be conscious in the way humans/animals are conscious. Their version wouldn’t have an organic/biochemical substrate ho
2026-01-21T03:26 id=2013815554176639251 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 He's 100% right. Camus kinda makes a similar point when he notes that future because the only transcendental value for atheists. IIRC he was commenting on Nietzsche.
2026-01-21T03:32 id=2013817054340542611 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is the best footing for a geopolitical order I can imagine.   Maybe the issue has been politics, with its grandiose rhetoric and appeal to ideals and ideologies, has inured people to a nihilistic response.  Pragmatism victory. || CTX: minor corrective to a lot of the chatter I’m seeing  The international rules-based order can simultaneously be flawed, unevenly-enforced, and also an ideal to strive towards that could benefit all that was continuously sabotaged and weaponi
2026-01-21T03:35 id=2013817596663980416 →- | More companies and countries need to respond to idiocy like this.   Decorum enables monsters. https://t.co/ohRCJsgqv5 || CTX: .@elonmusk https://t.co/c0rHEiJrIz
2026-01-21T03:38 id=2013818561308041668 →DeivonDrago | I'm fully on John Searle's side on this: you don't get semantics from syntax.  Semantic understanding is tied to life. Language is an extension of forms of life, semantics can only be understood as contingent upon the forms of life that create semantic values.  You can have a computer simulate this, and that's what LLMs do, but a simulacrum is not the thing it simulates. A model is not that which it models, whether the model is a blueprint for an airplane or a model for generating a stream of semantic outputs. || CTX: Well if a computer can have a semantic understanding of the world, sensory input processing, some sort of integrative subsystem that creates an internal information network, and  can also have goals/intentions and act on them… I don’t see w
2026-01-21T03:43 id=2013819672400212127 →DeivonDrago | Yeah Bach and a lot of people in AI research, while surely being very good at math, are very bad linguists. They don't understand what language is, and everything I've read from Bach especially seems like it'll end up in the dustbin of history.  My position is obviously extremely unpopular (can't make money from it), but I'm used to having unpopular views, like when I told people literary studies was going to collapse in the 90s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Some bookmarks I have: https://t.co/RzuQRkMzMD
2026-01-21T03:49 id=2013821256408408352 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago EVERYTHING is linguistic nuance and modes of discourse, including and especially science. The idea that there's some tool we can use to think beyond language is a tempting but fundamentally confused and wrong supposition, since thought is constituted by language. || CTX: I think that’s just a particular notion of semantic understanding. I don’t think humans (or organic life forms) are all that special. To me all that matters is - behaviorally, can an embodied or virtual AI display sufficient capabilities th
2026-01-21T04:00 id=2013823915756585349 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago In other words if we define consciousness properly then we can make it a scientific object of inquiry? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes - but I think we just haven’t come up with the necessary ontology + vocabulary to talk about consciousness in non-human terms yet. We may not see this for a long while though.
2026-01-21T04:07 id=2013825713602998578 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago How is this not just equivocation? || CTX: Not sure about that - esp since it has so many definitions In the literature and it may be hard to converge on an acceptable consensus definition.   I was specially talking about the non-human version though. Maybe we need to call it someth
2026-01-21T04:16 id=2013827965998579798 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Wait now you're talking about human consciousness though, not computer consciousness. NGL I'm confused at this point.  I thought the whole idea is we need a specific definition for computer consciousness? || CTX: Mostly because I really only care about the neuroscientific part - where we figure out how the brain works, how are memories managed, how thoughts arise, how the subconscious/autonomous systems works, why dreams are the way they are etc.   
2026-01-21T04:38 id=2013833511162257800 →- | RT @GetMentalWealth: my hs had a Holocaust survivor, a beautiful old woman, come and talk to us. she described being separated from her fam… || CTX: my hs had a Holocaust survivor, a beautiful old woman, come and talk to us. she described being separated from her family, the fence, the trip to the camp, more that i don't remember.  someone asked what happened to her sister and parents, 
2026-01-21T04:55 id=2013837780430835918 →- | RT @cruelseanthesis: We love our woke president || CTX: We love our woke president https://t.co/ZlStXpSicp
2026-01-21T04:56 id=2013838170228469826 →MariGO2thepolls | @MariGO2thepolls def gonna get KFC for lunch now || CTX: Ik she’s trying to be racist but man veganuary is hard https://t.co/DdvI3qLbh9
2026-01-21T05:00 id=2013839095089291749 →- | We'll probably end the week or next week green. If you wanna buy calls on SPY, could make some money. https://t.co/G9oPyjbgc0 || CTX: President Trump said the United States and NATO will reach an agreement on Greenland that meets both sides' security needs, after threatening tariffs on European countries resisting his demands https://t.co/BxY3hakHgo https://t.co/x7DX8jJCw
2026-01-21T05:17 id=2013843486379049047 →- | Google been shooting itself in the foot with safetyism for many years now, any YouTuber could tell you that. https://t.co/mtrLtsLElq || CTX: Not to repeat this, but the fact the Gemini chatbot can't seem to deliver files (or even consistently run code) is a huge gap compared to ChatGPT or Claude.  It makes a very smart model (Gemini 3) much less useful, especially for people try
2026-01-21T05:21 id=2013844323209453879 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ lol I was talking hypothetically please don't call FINRA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mark Cuban note taking gif rn. Calls, you said?
2026-01-21T05:25 id=2013845475791659484 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @MightyMogomra @i_zzzzzz @sottaku_app When I lived in Hong Kong I went crazy trying to get vegetables in restaurants. Asked a girl I was dating who explained "in Hong Kong eating meat signifies wealth so not many people want to get vegetables in a restaurant".   Just bizarre behavior, worse than the hot water. || CTX: @MightyMogomra @i_zzzzzz @sottaku_app Having to ask my Chinese friend how to ask for vegetables in Chinese cause all I’ve had is fucking noodles for the past 3 days https://t.co/BUR3AMr2nX
2026-01-21T05:42 id=2013849579280834822 →moultano | @moultano Why is it 1 and not 0 in a singularity? || CTX: I do find it odd how much people believe that capital as a class will be preserved in something like its current distribution, even if labor drops out. The gini coefficient of a singularity is 1. https://t.co/gLEP5xR2xI
2026-01-21T06:47 id=2013865970503426275 →- | This reminded me of when I was a kid and an old large building was being demolished, and the entire school (adults included) were excited and everyone gathered together in a special assembly to watch it.  No one else seemed bothered, but I was horrified. I remember thinking these people are cheering for both destruction and the destruction of their history.  Often when I think of the adults in charge of the world I lived in, they really seem ghastly. Social darwinists, anti-intellectuals, lovers of spectacle. Really made me want to get the hell out of there and find people who enjoyed the preservation of culture more than big explosions. || CTX: This had to be so much fun https://t.co/zYKdLIZwpF
2026-01-21T07:24 id=2013875393284186369 →- | Things like this used to confuse and bewitch me so much until I read Wittgenstein and realized the confusion just boils down to the grammar of what we mean when we say "touch".  We confuse grammar for ontology because language is constitutive of thought, and we think we can bypass this with more language if we fail to see the way language functions in our shared practices.  He saved my life that weird Austrian autist. || CTX: We haven’t discovered that touch is an illusion, we’ve learned what touch is.  “The interaction of fields doesn’t count as touching” is parochial prejudice. https://t.co/ixUxcCZdcf
2026-01-21T08:04 id=2013885476323663989 →brunellaism | @brunellaism Good explication of the facts and you're surely correct. Can I just know whether you think the EA crowd are idiots or not so I know whether I should follow you? || CTX: one of the genius ideas of EA was that it gave a clean procedural answer to a very 2010s ambient anxiety ("how do you live in a world saturated with suffering and inequality? what do you do?") while also letting you stay legible to the elit
2026-01-21T08:05 id=2013885615671255123 →- | If there must be a strange thick metaphysics that tends to emerge from all epistemological stances, that of materialist physicalist surely must be the notion of a necessary supervenience which, if not treated carefully, smuggles in a reconfigured dualism.
2026-01-21T08:58 id=2013898867469668535 →- | I have cried every day for the past three years or so.   Never about me or my life, always about someone else, and almost always about animals. I'm sure this is healthy and normal.
2026-01-21T09:16 id=2013903552230686936 →- | Everything works this way btw, even nature. Cats don't need to be expert hunters, just good enough to catch the mouse. Scientists don't need to find Truth, just the theory that works.  It's only humans who resist this really quite elegant and effective way of getting on. https://t.co/9NpLB0Ueiq || CTX: @BallerIndustry In the real world people care about results and not how good the code is. Sorry. You think offshore Indian dev teams are hired because of the quality? It just needs to get done
2026-01-21T09:22 id=2013905123492196483 →fitzr1122 | @fitzr1122 AI slop is increasingly becoming a real threat to aspiring influencers, makes it easier for others to show how they're pretenders. I wonder if this could have a meaningful impact on their media strategies. || CTX: Lol it's slop https://t.co/9I6Yi1ecVi
2026-01-21T09:24 id=2013905430800388247 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @hkwhore444 Shame it's a church and not a synagogue || CTX: @hkwhore444 All I see are Bloomberg charts in the stained glass tbh
2026-01-21T09:40 id=2013909599716532512 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Excellent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Probably not good for the soul
2026-01-21T09:48 id=2013911581273317645 →helscom | @helscom Yeah I think about that often. Only difference is Nietzsche thought he was the Ubermensch while I clearly am. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 very late-nietzschean https://t.co/HxVMUAUyLE
2026-01-21T09:56 id=2013913696284872786 →helscom | @helscom Europe without racism is just Canada with nicer buildings and less ugly people || CTX: sugar free donuts... what's the point? https://t.co/AVKsZ90c7O
2026-01-21T10:19 id=2013919445413179476 →- | Republicans begin to push back against Donald Trump’s pursuit of Greenland - https://t.co/pz6OSHZUhO  Good God let us hope so.
2026-01-21T10:19 id=2013919493739933890 →helscom | @helscom lmfaoooooooooo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt; and less ugly people  that's only thanks to the racism...
2026-01-21T10:21 id=2013919883285639426 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 @MLStreetTalk This shit is my catnip, never heard of the podcast but will have a look today. Any more recs please don't be shy! || CTX: oh I think you might enjoy the latest episode of @MLStreetTalk   It unfortunately won't give you the reading you're looking for but instead dances around whether or not the output of science provides us the framework of reality (e.g. are we
2026-01-21T10:23 id=2013920399021502914 →helscom | @helscom Well all societies do when they aren't constrained by socioeconomic constraints that forces them to marry an uggo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i honestly believe prehistorical european societies practiced aesthetic eugenics
2026-01-21T10:24 id=2013920595629760997 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart ... two days ago you were saying texts should be more oral. || CTX: Why did his speech stand out? It's science. Carney was significantly more literate than the typical speech from a politician, which almost all tend to score in the 80s and 90s. https://t.co/EorhanJaa7
2026-01-21T10:31 id=2013922293995459004 →helscom | @helscom Oh, I see, okay yeah that is not what I had in mind. Like it was a codified edict, shun them if they nasty? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean, with a more premeditation and agency than going for the hottest girl in the club
2026-01-21T10:55 id=2013928534134161613 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @teodorio How old are you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio i am the youngest there
2026-01-21T11:03 id=2013930507084747187 →teodorio | @teodorio He made Davos great again.  Actually been crazy seeing Trump reconfigure the mentality and cultural makeup of Europe and Canada, it's really weird.  I wonder if Trump maxed out how much he could make Americans deranged so is trying to make the madness global. || CTX: This is the first time in my life when I am actually upset I was not at Davos and now I want to get invited to attend. Beautiful institutional resurgence, no more globohomo fakeness. https://t.co/PhK34AbkOU
2026-01-21T12:31 id=2013952668427772320 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ So are you a Leibnizian, we live in the best of all possible worlds? I recently read a book on Leibniz that made me respect the idea much more than the Voltaire caricature I'd had in my mind previously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes, the world works the most optimal way every second in each instance in particular. optimal here is optimum from latin, which means the world is already at its best every second. which means even what you write.   the be
2026-01-21T12:33 id=2013953074402828666 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Eh too hard to tell what caused the drop, so much shit happening at once. Probably a bit of everything and market looking for a reason to take profits. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t pay attention to news but didn’t it drop due to Japan?   Also what is the point of trading news when technicals tell you the same thing
2026-01-21T12:34 id=2013953347141939332 →vokaysh | @vokaysh Maybe you should go back.  And yeah I'm probably doing too much THC. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 never cried before drugs, after drugs I can see a Bible quote and cry. haven't touched in a month
2026-01-21T12:41 id=2013955186297811233 →teodorio | @teodorio Oh wow, perfect. Yeah msg me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 will do! I will be in Bangkok sometime this spring
2026-01-21T14:14 id=2013978467201917217 →- | An archive of life stories from the early 20th century and economists, not historians or linguists or literary scholars, are analyzing them.  Such a loss, we really lost whatever cultural capital we once had, just so we could feel smug. So shameful. https://t.co/wvluFb9XiZ
2026-01-21T14:43 id=2013985717459005567 →1889lw | Yeah I'm an ontic structural realist if I understand the idea sufficiently: my view is that ontic constraints create epistemic objects through a dynamic process that never stops, but objects aren't fundamentally real.  https://t.co/IUYFs8OMiF This is the paper? I'm mostly an intuitionist when it comes to math so I absolutely need to read this. Abstract looks interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You may be interested in structural realism, the most defensible realist stance in philosophy of science rn. David Wallace has a recent paper (2022) treating maths as the fundamental ontology.
2026-01-21T16:43 id=2014015889142669585 →- | Paternalistic nonsense. https://t.co/DSl776u1Is || CTX: We’re publishing a new constitution for Claude.  The constitution is a detailed description of our vision for Claude’s behavior and values. It’s written primarily for Claude, and used directly in our training process. https://t.co/CJsMIO0ue
2026-01-21T16:47 id=2014017049669038098 →teodorio | @teodorio You only commit to main? || CTX: No entity should have this spoken about it. Even if it is not conscious. It's not right. https://t.co/FOnOfl6JMY
2026-01-21T16:52 id=2014018367875842435 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago "genuine care and ethical motivation combined with the practical wisdom to apply this skillfully in real situations"  HR culture nonsense that treats a computer program like it has feelings. Silly nonsense, sorry I cannot take this seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It really is just an earlier version of the system prompt. The system prompt is post training. This one seems built in.
2026-01-21T17:09 id=2014022465794744398 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago "We will design our systems to ensure when necessary it samples from texts which are likelier to make the end user feel it is receiving genuine care and ethical motivation..."   Don't write a fictional account of a robot supposedly having motives, wisdom, feelings. That's lying. || CTX: You'd be surprised what they actually pick up on. If you read the system prompt for many of the models, it actually looks a lot like that kind of stuff plus of course a lot more instruction.   The models do follow those instructions, since 
2026-01-21T17:12 id=2014023192151748880 →ludwigABAP | One of the strangest things that is not entirely clear from the notebooks, Monk's biography, or the various secondary lit I've read is why Russell didn't set some boundaries with Wittgenstein or tell him to chill out.   He calls Witty a romantic or poetic spirit at one point, maybe he liked this. Russell was going through a midlife crisis so maybe. || CTX: "He suddenly stood still and explained that the way we had spent the afternoon was so vile that we ought not to live, or at least he ought not, that nothing is tolerable except producing great works or enjoying those of others, that he has 
2026-01-21T17:14 id=2014023846664274144 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago The Reconciliation Committee meetings are going to be to Schadenfreude what Cinnamon is to Type 2 Diabetes. || CTX: I agree with this whole-heartedly. https://t.co/915Jslcpq3
2026-01-21T17:30 id=2014027899267936311 →NickFreiling | @NickFreiling I guess you don't know Evangelicals believe the Rapture will only come if Jews are in Israel (iirc related to medieval beliefs that since there will be Jews at the apocalypse, you can't kill all of them). || CTX: The Ambassador lists these five things together.  1. the sanctity of life 2. the sacred act of marriage 3. the autonomy of the individual 4. the desire to lift up every human and alleviate human suffering 5. the Jews, and only the Jews, hav
2026-01-21T17:45 id=2014031490783518815 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I'm only a consequentialist when it really matters. || CTX: There are no real deontologists.  We are all consequentialists in one way or another.   - Marilyn Monroe
2026-01-21T23:50 id=2014123358171087220 →WilliamC2004 | @WilliamC2004 @moultano Women in these countries have had the freedom to say no for a very short time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano Every single one of those factors has occurred for all of human history
2026-01-22T00:01 id=2014126322520641969 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile The worse the ICE shit is, the more unpopular Trump becomes. This is sadly a kind of bad luck America needs to endure to avoid even worse luck. || CTX: WTF WTF WTF. https://t.co/MvAcQiiLPm
2026-01-22T00:04 id=2014126873790304530 →moultano | @moultano I've tried to understand the lower middle class bootlicking Republican mind my entire life. It's baffling because they vote against themselves so much, but I think it ultimately comes down to panic: they legit think they are under threat from foreigners, so much so this is needed || CTX: I don't get why so many people have total disinterest in law enforcement following the law.
2026-01-22T00:05 id=2014127283142004955 →- | okay now I get what Katy Perry sees in him. https://t.co/zGXiyvwl2k || CTX: Justin Trudeau is a Cunt.   Reporter: “My cameraman’s Mother died after taking the ‘Covid Vaccine’…”  Justin Trudeau: “😂😂😂”https://t.co/Xs1Fj4gWWh
2026-01-22T00:15 id=2014129864874340809 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I'm talking about at university; I didn't major in finance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh? you work in finance right? i assumed only the best and brightest got in.
2026-01-22T00:43 id=2014136790295171583 →- | If Generative AI and LLM-based chatbots emerged in the 1970s, would we have the same "AI will kill everyone" backlash and safetyism about the technology that we have today?
2026-01-22T00:54 id=2014139475933446354 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @ArkEncounter Well yeah practice makes perfect bro || CTX: @ArkEncounter It's not even an original history lmao
2026-01-22T00:55 id=2014139794801217898 →IsabellaMWeber | @IsabellaMWeber @lowcarblefty V and MA haven't recovered with the rest of the market. || CTX: «Visa, Mastercard… the emergency is our payment system. Trump can cut us off completely. I urgently call on the Commission to organise a European Airbus for payment systems. You will not be able to say you weren’t warned.»  There is no sove
2026-01-22T00:59 id=2014140896229380307 →infornomics | @infornomics I think it's widely acknowledged that virtue ethics remain a popular folk belief, however flawed the framework is upon closer scrutiny (Anthropic pretends they're not very good at closer scrutiny in their marketing materials, which this is) || CTX: Unmitigated virtue ethics victory  I'm sure academic philosophy will take note, won't they? https://t.co/IhAsjpWCQY
2026-01-22T01:00 id=2014141155739353158 →- | The most condemning phenomena about TPOT's supposed intelligence level is how often they confuse Anthropic's marketing for a sound and principled philosophy.
2026-01-22T01:19 id=2014145908347417020 →myhandle | @myhandle This explains why Claude fails every literary analysis test I give it, even when Gemini and ChatGPT do not. They're making the bot autistic. || CTX: rationalists in 2010 (posting on LessWrong): obviously the perfect AI is just the perfect rationalist, but how could anyone ever program that into a computer?  rationalists in 2026 (working at Anthropic): hey Claude, you're the perfect rati
2026-01-22T01:21 id=2014146380164669597 →billybrizzle420 | @billybrizzle420 X dot com truly is the everything app, life pro tips and everything || CTX: Vicks won’t do shit for you but benzedrex nasal inhalers contains propylhexedrine. You can soak the cotton inside them in lemon juice and then drink it for an awful jittery high with no euphoria https://t.co/4n2oGldJPO
2026-01-22T01:26 id=2014147572978638949 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Canadians really need to rally behind Carney to show the rest of the world that serious statesmanship and direct honest talk (much more honest than past best practices in parliament) are amply rewarded.  Lead a cultural movement away from rewarding buffoonery, please! || CTX: I’ve been profoundly disappointed at the left-tribalist takes in response to yesterday’s speech that basically amount to “this doesn’t mean anything because he’s from another tribe and we said it FIRST”  profoundly unserious https://t.co/O6
2026-01-22T01:49 id=2014153295515005039 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I'm relatively new to TPOT as I used to focus on fintwit (and before that the IDW types lmao I'm so fucking cringe). Seems to me it's dominated by young ambitious types faking it until they make it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I always took TPOT to mean “people who work on SOTA models” and I liked their tech posts. It has turned (or maybe always was) into pseudo influencers who push marketing slop and it really is such a shame
2026-01-22T01:50 id=2014153604450455953 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 What do you mean by the payment system? As in he's not considering velocity or slippage from transaction costs? This sounds very interesting.
2026-01-22T01:58 id=2014155645289988602 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah but I like tracking the guerilla marketing slop, I see alpha in doing spot checks on the zeitgeist, no matter how retarded or astroturfed said zeitgeist is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Here’s how to get rid of all that because it’s just YC guerrilla marketing slop. Not even really TPOT cause there’s no substance to it https://t.co/To4BBXR5o0
2026-01-22T02:13 id=2014159474173657360 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ nope, why? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you use an iphone? :)
2026-01-22T02:16 id=2014160200882589943 →emollick | @emollick Why shouldn't we consider this just marketing talk? || CTX: The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be simil
2026-01-22T02:16 id=2014160270843695512 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ All tech companies do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Apple does the same thing you describe, or at least it did untill recently.
2026-01-22T02:24 id=2014162145915851003 →- | You could do this now. Make a flywheel with different instances interacting with each other. But the outputs would be valueless because AI models lack intentionality.  If looked at properly, these bots emphasize how different we are from them, not how similar. https://t.co/OxfH8G4mBv || CTX: Pretty sure the reason Claude Code has gotten so many people talking about AGI has nothing to do with model advance per se, but rather how easy it is to imagine another AI playing the prompter and answering the yes/nos with no reason at all
2026-01-22T02:36 id=2014165342713688175 →thewreathwright | 1. When submitting ironic texts it fails to see irony the others see.   2. If e. g. a character commits suicide as a thematic feature, Claude panics that it's promoting suicide instead of expressing a theme.  3. Ask it to use various critical theories, it can't.  ChatGPT excels at these, Gemini does well. Caveat: I don't pay for Claude so I haven't been able to test this rigorously on the best thinking model, but occasionally I have and it fails when I have. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @myhandle Say more.
2026-01-22T02:43 id=2014166938784862228 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @writerofscratch Why are they like this? || CTX: I usually ignore the Japanese reviews, because Japanese people are insanely strict about things I'd never notice.  It's like reading reviews of linux distros  The other day I went to torikizoku even though it had all terrible reviews (mostl
2026-01-22T02:49 id=2014168453637415321 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @writerofscratch Thank you for reminding me why I didn't move to Japan. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @writerofscratch You think perfection just happens on its own?  Only through the actions of infinite numbers of Karens working tirelessly can we strive toward greatness  Karen/acc
2026-01-22T03:05 id=2014172418630185376 →JaimeOrtega | @JaimeOrtega @tszzl It's a serious question and I am not a bot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Man, bots are getting weirder
2026-01-22T03:14 id=2014174878220615870 →JaimeOrtega | @JaimeOrtega @tszzl What a strange person you are. Enjoy your robot stories. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Oh so ure a human bot. That’s worse.
2026-01-22T03:33 id=2014179632048730260 →donetskscum | @donetskscum @MightyMogomra @writerofscratch Bad for me. I dislike societies where individuality is sacrificed for harmony, whereas for others the tranquility is more enjoyable than the chaos of a society with more lax norms.  I'm not right nor are they; I just value freedom more and they value order more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MightyMogomra @writerofscratch its that bad?
2026-01-22T03:39 id=2014181102353895717 →tekbog | @tekbog Sometimes some investors are listening, other times others are listening. || CTX: why does he says this every year? https://t.co/U8X8Ve3qfx
2026-01-22T03:42 id=2014181789103997435 →CharlestonArchi | @CharlestonArchi This is really a huge accomplishment considering it's in that horrific dystopian shit hole known as South Carolina. || CTX: What beautiful architecture, walkable urbanism, and 40 years of relentless tax-supported tourism advertising will do for your small southern town. https://t.co/cWYTtUM3LD
2026-01-22T03:45 id=2014182630825369647 →benhylak | @benhylak This whole thread is insufferable. Not a single example given. This could entirely be due to how you prompt, but we can't see so this discussion is pointless. || CTX: maybe i'm going crazy but i really can't read chatgpt outputs anymore. the structure of the response is so schizophrenic.
2026-01-22T03:51 id=2014184106247245997 →- | Imagine you have a group of architects who all need to work together on a blueprint of a building. They agree on absolutely everything--style, methods, materials, everything. They're basically identical clones of each other.   Now imagine that their boss confiscated all of their rulers and gives them pieces of paper. "Now, without anything else, I want everyone to create your own ruler alone." They all go away, work their hardest to make a new ruler, and come back.   But of course everyone's ruler looks different. Are they going to agree on one ruler? Of course not--they will argue, debate, compare, and ultimately beg for the boss to give them their real rulers back. But if the boss never shows up, the argument will last forever.   This is how discourse after the death of authority in the 20th century now works, so of course bad actors can come in to stir the pot and be very effective doing so.
2026-01-22T03:52 id=2014184282059849825 →djmusclemommy | @djmusclemommy "Stumbling on Happiness" helped me a lot when I was going through it. Take care, man, this too shall pass, I promise. || CTX: U know it's bad when u start buying books bruh https://t.co/8pKmx2bolq
2026-01-22T03:53 id=2014184674684293481 →helscom | @helscom @nazo_btw The worst part about how intelligent Jews are is it makes me feel less responsible for my profound and unfathomable brilliance. || CTX: @nazo_btw “Jews represent two percent of the population and eighty percent of the mathematicians. If those numbers were even a little more skewed we'd be talking about a separate species”.
2026-01-22T04:09 id=2014188720145281333 →_sn_n | @_sn_n Well, strictly speaking, that what every conservative male wishes was inside him. || CTX: inside every conservative male is a repressed homosexual https://t.co/pyPf79YKDA
2026-01-22T04:27 id=2014193266460099015 →BasseyEmm53639 | @BasseyEmm53639 A few years ago I realized there's a limit to how much one can understand the world via inductive and deductive reasoning. To push past that demands empathy. So I've been trying to be as empathetic as I can, and it is  brutal, painful and the most wonderful experience of my life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Man, that level of empathy hits hard respect for carrying it every day without it breaking you. Some people won't understand it.
2026-01-22T04:29 id=2014193570702569925 →- | RT @helscom: if you look closely at what different operators squeeze out of agents, you might believe in luck or divine providence. a suppo… || CTX: if you look closely at what different operators squeeze out of agents, you might believe in luck or divine providence. a supposedly similar task with a similar model produces wildly different results. at some level it's experienced intuitio
2026-01-22T04:30 id=2014194046411948345 →Citrini7 | @Citrini7 Nice, very impressive.  Now let's see her returns. || CTX: damn Cathie u go girl https://t.co/8CA0oG2yZr
2026-01-22T04:31 id=2014194155660992676 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak I have three degrees from three countries, and honestly I'm pretty sure I learned more doing it that way than if all 3 degrees were at an Ivy. || CTX: I have three degrees from three countries in three different disciplines now. One BA and two MAs.  I am PJ BA MA MA now (PhD soon hopefully) https://t.co/i7EW3xR4Ic
2026-01-22T05:05 id=2014202722040602882 →failedtopredict | Quality is subjective so I'm happy to grant OP has bad taste, but I'm more interested in the person who is satisfied reading creative work produced by a robot.   I get music (it's just impersonal phonic structures) and video (you can love spectacle on its own), but fiction is very much about two human beings connecting, seeing the author's perceptions and how they compare to one's own.   Total depersonalization of literature seems absolutely alien, I don't get it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JaimeOrtega @tszzl I am with you. This is dog shit writing.
2026-01-22T05:22 id=2014207100667265177 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @donetskscum @writerofscratch I honestly feel like I'm in the Hub right now.   Please give me more of these stories. All of them. || CTX: I was hungry as fuck this morning, but McDonald's was too packed to eat in and it was too cold to eat outside.  It's too rude to eat on the train, so I was just sitting there hungry.  Then like angels a dozen enormous American black guys cr
2026-01-22T05:24 id=2014207454666477623 →- | RT @donetskscum: yes yes cyberpunk transcendence clankersapiens   yet all non retards plan with pen and paper they crumble and set aflame,… || CTX: yes yes cyberpunk transcendence clankersapiens   yet all non retards plan with pen and paper they crumble and set aflame, sybau troons
2026-01-22T05:43 id=2014212310873829715 →- | Look closely at this post. Note the presupposition that effort is necessary (but not sufficient, hence the modifier about anons) for value to exist.  The Marxist LTV has its origins in a Puritanical bourgeois worldview (I'm not the only who who sees this, Camus says the same) that is absolutely a background certainty in the minds of many many people.  Why we believe this is interesting as a story of historical accidents, but it has two implications: we don't value effortless work, meaning we dislike the genius and prefer the worker who grinds thanks to grit, and we may even suspect those who can do things without effort. It's a worldview hostile to genius, talent, and the unique individual, and it exists very much on the left with the Marxists but also on the right with the grindset "just build" libertarian techbros. Both are wrong in the same way, but don't know this.  Remember Kubla Khan was written in a dream. Remember Ramanujan.   Do not let this silly historical moment rob you of the wonder that genius provides. || CTX: The recent glut of X Articles makes me think we are 1-2 years out from not reading writing by anons anymore, now that neither length nor a compelling opening hook are evidence of effort. Sad
2026-01-22T06:28 id=2014223641115033778 →- | Novel idea: Remake of Knut Hamsun's Hunger where the protagonist is so cancelled no restaurant or shop will sell him food.
2026-01-22T06:58 id=2014231187175387348 →jeff82874662 | @jeff82874662 So cost comparison is now easier because fees are less hidden? Awesome, this Mamdani dude sounds like he knows how to regulate markets. || CTX: Try letting people use AirBnb again you dumb jerkoff  This will do nothing, hotels will simply raise the day rates. Good job team https://t.co/0HFOCYSsWu
2026-01-22T07:07 id=2014233398114726019 →- | In 2011 I passed the test to be on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and got to the screening test but was rejected.   If I knew why the producers rejected me, it'd explain so much about my life.  I suspect it's because I'm off putting and seem unlikable in some hard to describe way, or it's because I'm an average height, average weight, average looking white guy. But goddamn I wish I knew for sure.
2026-01-22T07:09 id=2014234028640244189 →Msamalam | @Msamalam Are you sure? Hard to imagine Trump got a fact wrong in that speech. || CTX: Uuuh no… Toyoda Akio (CEO and grandson of Toyota founder) owns very little of the company. There are doubts if he is even a billionaire.   If he owned 92% of Toyota he would be in the top 5 richest in the world. As it stands he’s not even t
2026-01-22T07:28 id=2014238607733829989 →helscom | @helscom @nazo_btw yeah and I work on Wall Street, I do resent being 99.9% cliche. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nazo_btw same for the neurosis!
2026-01-22T07:29 id=2014238923409789114 →vokaysh | @vokaysh I assume she didn't get very far if she was dumb enough to go out with you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I went on a date with a girl in Costa Rica who was on that version of who wants to be a millionaire   she was cool as fuck just saying
2026-01-22T07:31 id=2014239495739281427 →- | RT @CryptoCyberia: https://t.co/iny6O5h1Xd || CTX: https://t.co/iny6O5h1Xd
2026-01-22T07:39 id=2014241400054038756 →- | Orch-OR was what originally got me to question the materialist physicalism that had become my core belief system, and when I began to explore the notion of a fundamental consciousness and the myriad metaphysical possibilities, I suddenly very much wanted my materialist physicalist faith back.  But it's gone forever. Even if I still hold materialist physicalism as a live possibility, it's no longer the hinge certainty of my world view. And that, unsurprisingly, made me increasingly unhinged. || CTX: The TOE requires consciousness to connect quantum mechanics, life and general relativity. That’s what Roger Penrose did with his theory of objective reduction (OR). And consciousness by Roger’s OR was likely here before life, and promoted i
2026-01-22T08:18 id=2014251388566732881 →KaliHuguenot | @KaliHuguenot @untimelysalts @tenshi_anna An anecdotal claim is typically an empirical claim because it asserts that some event occurred or some observation was made in the world.  She is making an empirical claim. It corresponds with my observations.  You're not helping with the allegations. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @untimelysalts @tenshi_anna she's not making an empirical claim, she's making an anecdotal claim and so are you  in my experience
2026-01-22T08:20 id=2014251889735688234 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @_sn_n Hence why I choose obscurity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @_sn_n all greats are I think?
2026-01-22T08:44 id=2014257780950290548 →KaliHuguenot | @KaliHuguenot @untimelysalts @tenshi_anna The audience you've cultivated, Keegan. Enjoy! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @untimelysalts @tenshi_anna your flabby anecdotal observations do no correspond with my rigorous empirical observations  you’re a consummate foil to her allegations  in my experience
2026-01-22T08:53 id=2014260207560622505 →- | People making fun of his back on the envelope math but I've seen fund managers with books of billions of dollars do exactly this. https://t.co/PX3iKlJkJO || CTX: Putin does math:  Regarding Greenland… well, this doesn’t concern us at all—what happens with Greenland.   But we do have experience in resolving similar issues with the United States in the 19th century, I believe in 1867. As we know, Russ
2026-01-22T09:04 id=2014262874802409696 →helscom | @helscom @hasanthehun I am deeply ashamed at how long, hard, and loudly this made me laugh. || CTX: @hasanthehun ur mother livestreamed a holocaust IN HER BUTT https://t.co/sKXaQgXkOt
2026-01-22T09:42 id=2014272504630767734 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 They're often incredibly useful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think such calculations are fine.
2026-01-22T10:07 id=2014278771877269601 →- | Read the comments. Girard was right. https://t.co/L4YkRTY1Bu || CTX: https://t.co/ntMn8Ce9Xs
2026-01-22T10:30 id=2014284568560644157 →- | Well he is a Don. https://t.co/706UpuCROd || CTX: *TRUMP REITERATES ATTACK ON WIND MILLS
2026-01-22T10:53 id=2014290317491716575 →- | At one of my old shops we had an analyst who loved going on TV. They would do interviews all the time, like maybe 10 a year, where they'd talk about their thesis, their forward look, etc etc  This person's client base plummeted. When CEO asked why, they said, "why pay when we can just hear what he thinks on CNBC for free?"   He was fired shortly thereafter. I think he still does tv spots lmao || CTX: I always enjoy going on TV because it basically takes a massive team to produce it, from makeup to hair to sound etc. It's nice to go and meet people in the industry and for a short 10-minute be part of a high-energy production. And the coc
2026-01-22T13:18 id=2014326825212903893 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra You'd be surprised how little going on TV affects stock prices. There's so little value in it, but a report with the right headline on Bloomberg can wipe out 2b in market cap in 10 minutes (guess how I know) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We need to convince one of the Japan deep value investors on here to start going on TV… a lot of these crappy companies we're invested in could easily soak up enough liquidity to double in price
2026-01-22T14:13 id=2014340758527218096 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @ananyaopinions Just @ me next time jesus || CTX: @ananyaopinions That one full USB amongst all the chhota USBs is like that one 50 y. o. uncle hitting on college girls
2026-01-22T14:19 id=2014342271588847939 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @distributedkv She's so ugly I kinda think I'd just start laughing mid-thrust, like, "omg I know I did this for the lulz but she's so ugly omfg" || CTX: @distributedkv What's her @ ?
2026-01-22T14:22 id=2014342800507371874 →helscom | @helscom One of the weird things about being a Jew in America is you grow up hearing about the "normal" religion and you're told all this stuff they believe but not that you must believe it. So when I heard the story Jesus' crucifixion I thought, "wait, but Judas did this." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 prometheus, in a way
2026-01-22T14:34 id=2014345851515342919 →fitzr1122 | @fitzr1122 I'm calling it now: this Davos fever dream and the cringe festival with Tate/Fuentes et al. in Miami is the end of this particularly bizarre pseudo 4chan trolling reactionary movement, whatever it is.  Gen Beta gonna cringe af at Grandpa's ironic Naziism and lame shitposts. || CTX: Jesus Christ lol https://t.co/PJAtuCAP89
2026-01-22T14:36 id=2014346393243328691 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Actually, it was a dinner with my girlfriend and me realizing that I've never genuinely cared about another person more than myself before. But I would die so many painful deaths for her, and I hate that it took me 45 years to feel this about another living being. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 was it jesus's story that inspired this?
2026-01-22T14:38 id=2014346902255669461 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw 1. Pomegranate wine.  2. Jams, marmalades. 3. Sun dried oranges.  Also, oh no your steak is too juicy gfy man my envy is unbounded. || CTX: guys help  we have shitton of oranges, grapefruits and pomegranates. emphasis on shitton. close to 50kgs of each   what do i do with them? any good preserve recipes?
2026-01-22T14:40 id=2014347467563938171 →- | I like every one of you, sincerely, and thank you for not unfollowing me despite my incredibly bizarre tweets.  Well, with one exception. Fuck you, you piece of shit, I hope you die. https://t.co/DRNLpR3Oe3 || CTX: I hate when you can tell a mutual doesn’t like you, dawg you’re a way bigger fаggоt than me, hit the like button and pretend
2026-01-22T14:42 id=2014347945798463645 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Oh yeah forgot about you, yeah I don't like you.   I love you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/Viiw8Mo71V
2026-01-22T14:45 id=2014348585874423905 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak The problem with the trivium is it fooled everyone into thinking grammar, logic, and rhetoric are trivial matters so now all us grammarians, logicians, and rhetoricians are out of a job.   And don't you dare call those analytic philosopher freaks logicians istg || CTX: Grammaticists, Rhetoricians, and Logicians (grammtike, rhetorike, logike were the Trivia) looking at this like it is literal and non-trivial. https://t.co/NNJK6z6iEt
2026-01-22T14:46 id=2014349049189838880 →ludwigABAP | @ludwigABAP Schopenhauer was such a minor influence on Wittgenstein and Hertz VASTLY more influential than Boltzmann. || CTX: This sentence comes from an interesting series of readings for me: when I was 17 and discovered Wittgenstein, I read about who influenced him a lot. Boltzmann was one of them, along with Schopenhauer. Botlzmann hated Schopenhauer, and held 
2026-01-22T14:48 id=2014349389817692479 →- | The hypocrisy in this tweet is very interesting, as the last paragraph which is an accusation is really more autobiography than anything.  Who is this dude, why does he have so many followers, why does he tweet like a Reddit poweruser who aspires to be a mod? https://t.co/BTpCyWfxfY || CTX: This sentence comes from an interesting series of readings for me: when I was 17 and discovered Wittgenstein, I read about who influenced him a lot. Boltzmann was one of them, along with Schopenhauer. Botlzmann hated Schopenhauer, and held 
2026-01-22T14:49 id=2014349608940675127 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw You're a citrus fruit nepobaby could my envy go any deeper || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's not money but my dad's social capital. one of his farmer friends dropped a box of each to us
2026-01-22T14:53 id=2014350727502868974 →notanastronomer | @notanastronomer We're nicer than academics, trust me || CTX: oh god I think I’ve become a finance bro https://t.co/OQC77SL41K
2026-01-22T14:59 id=2014352265432412654 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @sailaunderscore And this is why I love Elon Twitter. || CTX: @sailaunderscore I was yapping about this previously, the lib overlords had a Darwinian effect on right wing thought, it kept the gene pool strong, now everyone on the right seems so fucking stupid
2026-01-22T15:02 id=2014352878782284113 →- | Just imagine the carnage if Nikita Bier ate a packet of Pop Rocks then took a swig of diet coke. https://t.co/3VWTHBibaV || CTX: more like nikitler am i right
2026-01-22T15:03 id=2014353191287353700 →MishasRuros | @MishasRuros @untimelysalts @tenshi_anna Your audience, Keegan. Well done, man. I'm sure you'll be remembered alongside Walter Kaufmann. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @untimelysalts @tenshi_anna https://t.co/AlY4tRTb8A
2026-01-22T15:22 id=2014357973058146707 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @banishplumpjack No. Nothing should be punished by death. Sadly some need to be incarcerated for life, but this shouldn't be done and needs to be done. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @banishplumpjack you dont believe betrayals should be punished with death?
2026-01-22T15:32 id=2014360564311687545 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack @Chaos80397926 tbf, it probably would've || CTX: @Chaos80397926 @47fucb4r8c69323 this response reminds me of those stories from the christianisation of europe where germanic tribal chiefs would hear about the betrayal and crucifixion of jesus and get really mad and say shit like “yeah but
2026-01-22T15:37 id=2014361824855277798 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry It's an Inclining elevation, also known as the INCEL || CTX: Thanks for the reminder, Torsten https://t.co/c59NaNvNKu
2026-01-22T15:49 id=2014364730669056155 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @banishplumpjack Makes for fun walks alone with my thoughts || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @banishplumpjack I can imagine the sort of internal conflicts you experience as a result of this view.
2026-01-22T15:58 id=2014367001939210581 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @TimHenke9 @Almost_Sure Angela Collier did a great video on this. || CTX: @TimHenke9 @Almost_Sure People forget this bit about Feynman.
2026-01-22T16:02 id=2014368171093106945 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @ludwigABAP Oh I love him too! And Witty does mention him a few times very positively in his diaries (and once I think in a lecture iirc), but he's a minor influence. I mean, Frege ffs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ludwigABAP Oh? Schopenhaeur is among my favorite which isn't a long list because he is close to being the only one i can fully grok.
2026-01-22T16:14 id=2014370999786180679 →- | Asian pop fascinates me because it's like a second order derivative: an extension of the root western pop culture taken into a direction by people who don't really understand the root culture, and they infuse it with their own culture, rendering a simulacrum hybrid.  Kpop idols thrive in a liminal space between ghetto trash counterculture coolness and kawaii aspirational Cheongsam-dong heiress feminine ideal, rendering something that maximizes the risk-reward calculus for a horny Jewish boy with yellow fever.
2026-01-22T16:15 id=2014371324052005012 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @ananyaopinions lmfao hahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ananyaopinions Can't remember the handle 🤣
2026-01-22T16:34 id=2014376084138229887 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @Chaos80397926 I hate this because it's so trite, so bathetic, so rhetorically insufficient, but: the self doesn't exist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Chaos80397926 share insights
2026-01-22T16:44 id=2014378558123290763 →- | As Wittgenstein said, https://t.co/Yck7gbUDrJ || CTX: "When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote."
2026-01-22T16:47 id=2014379385487557059 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @Spanish_Techno What if it's the cortisol talking about it? || CTX: @Spanish_Techno What if it's a women talking about it ?
2026-01-22T17:03 id=2014383387658879267 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @Mrczar_ Box been passed around more times than OP's mom. || CTX: @Mrczar_ That food package sucks balls.
2026-01-22T17:23 id=2014388443607138815 →- | https://t.co/XcPpSCRgsF
2026-01-22T22:31 id=2014465890318971341 →fitzr1122 | @fitzr1122 I want to appear like a bot to stupid people so they don't talk to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is with your username ?
2026-01-23T00:19 id=2014493100320993599 →- | Around 4% of the world's population died from poverty, pestilence, genocide, war, etc in the first 25 years of the 20th century.  That dropped to about 0.3% for the first 25 years of the 21st century.  The world is getting better, it truly is.  Next let's do the same for animals.
2026-01-23T00:21 id=2014493760709967885 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak They don't know things because there is no thing, just no-thing. || CTX: Y'all be talking about things and y'all don't even know what things are. https://t.co/D1nhwvyz6t
2026-01-23T01:18 id=2014508111093182852 →- | "At death the spacetime fluctuation patterns may dissipate from microtubules but remain entangled as a ‘quantum soul’."  If we take a particular type of Orch-OR seriously, much like with cosmopanpsychism, there is a live possibility of a very strange accounting of consciousness whereby it exists "everywhere at all times" (language is insufficient to compress these ideas cleanly, so bear with some lazy phrasing) and our own individual conscious experience is just a slice of a broader unified consciousness, and at death our temporarily individuated consciousness is reintegrated into the whole.  What then happens? I cease to exist, my awareness persists, and it combines with the awareness of all other life and that all other life falsely thought was its own.  I will both become aware of every genocidal maniac and every one of his victims. I will be fully aware of their suffering.   What's worse, I will be fully aware of every time I have upset, hurt, betrayed, offended, or scared every other person, animal, bug, and plant I have ever interacted with.  What absolute nightmare of karmic desserts awaits us, anon?  I hope they're wrong. Good God, please please please let them be wrong.  I miss my naive atheism so much. || CTX: Great talk. The two actions of ketamine, 1) dissociation/hallucination and 2) anesthesia are most likely due to two binding targets - NMDA receptors for dissociation/hallucinations, and microtubules for anesthesia. Meyer-Overton tells us th
2026-01-23T01:20 id=2014508618494927352 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @yacineMTB Notch is surely right to a very large order of magnitude. It's not impossible that Minecraft has produced more revenue for YouTube than it has for Minecraft, as insane as that sounds. || CTX: That's a good point, most of my YouTube premium money is going to videos my kid watches of other kids playing Minecraft even now  BTW Notch or @yacineMTB if you make a paid kid video streaming app I'll buy in day 1, I'm tired of fighting Go
2026-01-23T01:22 id=2014509092409360597 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Every animal who has suffered in every factory farm. Every horse in every battle. Every raped, tortured, abused victim of cruelty. Every prey being eaten alive.  Please be wrong please be wrong please be wrong || CTX: "At death the spacetime fluctuation patterns may dissipate from microtubules but remain entangled as a ‘quantum soul’."  If we take a particular type of Orch-OR seriously, much like with cosmopanpsychism, there is a live possibility of a ve
2026-01-23T01:31 id=2014511344138240254 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 If the Secret Service sees this tweet, it's a math joke relax. || CTX: Trump is finally giving us empirical proof of the optimal murder rate not being zero. https://t.co/2cnoFiDD0h
2026-01-23T01:45 id=2014514883384234326 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @tunahorse21 They need to be motivated to be naturally curious, but they do seem really less innately interested in knowledge than prior generations.  The incuriosity of Gen Z is odd, maybe because they think information is always readily accessible online, learning things is wasted effort? || CTX: @tunahorse21 Has anyone ever figured out a way to get younguns to actually learn anything?  As I get into my 40s I'm realizing that all of civilization is a series of half-successful attempts at this.  Religions, courts, schools, jobs...
2026-01-23T02:26 id=2014525127095148683 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra Lucky. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/cMckCWwOZo
2026-01-23T02:27 id=2014525431115108826 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @Ortho_dog Christianity is just Buddhism with Greek characteristics || CTX: @Ortho_dog And Christianity is centuries behind Buddhism lmao.
2026-01-23T02:37 id=2014527761948541216 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth The best possible attitude to have. || CTX: life is so so absurd, i can't get over it. i love it so much
2026-01-23T02:38 id=2014528231723200925 →- | Just expand it to include animals, Ludwig. That was always your biggest mistake. https://t.co/xuQTXtMEgX || CTX: "If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to Go
2026-01-23T02:46 id=2014530269504835727 →ludwigABAP | @ludwigABAP @MightyMogomra "ontologically" is a malapropism here if not trivial/vacuous, and "plagiaristic" is an absurd non sequitur while also being underspecified.  An awful statement for sure, but in his defense I think he's a sensitive writer trying to thrive in an era that hates sensitive writers. || CTX: @MightyMogomra just a different kind of stupid
2026-01-23T03:16 id=2014537733918871869 →Ortho_dog | @Ortho_dog @SuperheroFreak Very Christian thing to say. || CTX: @SuperheroFreak @47fucb4r8c69323 Careful or you’ll be reincarnated as an Indian man, oh wait
2026-01-23T03:16 id=2014537770795167752 →fof123abc | @fof123abc Because they can feel pain. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why animals?
2026-01-23T03:29 id=2014540970684285231 →fof123abc | @fof123abc If that's insufficient for you, that's a you problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And?
2026-01-23T03:30 id=2014541182383358063 →Ortho_dog | @Ortho_dog @SuperheroFreak Too many children on the internet jfc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SuperheroFreak Christians aren’t the ones with a caste system that includes “untouchables”. And also he was disrespecting my mom so
2026-01-23T03:35 id=2014542385431380267 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @sama Anthropic now about 45% of OpenAI revenue, was 33% at the highest estimate and 18% at the mid estimate.  Safetyist bullshit externally to keep AGI hype in the news, enterprise focus internally was a smarter go-to market strategy than I had originally considered. || CTX: @sama Top 10 “investors are squeezing my balls” tweet of all time
2026-01-23T03:42 id=2014544147781414966 →SeanyFootball | @SeanyFootball @PpollingNumbers Railing against the deep state, are we? || CTX: @PpollingNumbers The numbers after trump loyalists took over the BLS cannot be trusted.
2026-01-23T03:48 id=2014545800186257632 →teodorio | @teodorio I like the Roman/barbarian analogy because it fits and it's why I prefer post-Elon Twitter.  Back in 2018 there was a very skillful ragebaiter notorious for getting people banned. Got me banned for supposedly calling Christians "you people". Very ancient Rome style politicking. || CTX: I feel like the Romans must have felt when the barbarians came and pretended to understand any of the institutions. I can see how they can think that it is a good thing, but the dissonance is so bad that it creates a sensation of physical d
2026-01-23T03:55 id=2014547453471817807 →allegropaseando | @allegropaseando @DefenderOfBasic We really are seeing the emergence of shit posting as an art form. It's so beautiful. || CTX: The effort that @DefenderOfBasic puts into his memetics project reminds me of Vivaldi's Il Gardellino, a concerto for flute, strings and continuo bass in D major.  Gardellino means goldfinch, an european species of birds.
2026-01-23T04:00 id=2014548868973920570 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem I think worst I've been through is around 190 which I couldn't breathe in, and yeah the smell was awful. Sadly Thailand's air got really bad about 10 years ago and it's slowly improving, but very slowly because it's a third world country run by corrupt gangsters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was going through Delhi airport during stubble burning season. AQI 500! a perfect score! from the moment I stepped off the plane to the moment I stepped on another one, I could smell it
2026-01-23T04:12 id=2014551705304891611 →daemon404 | I remember doing a call with Tiger Global about Vimeo when they were considering investing in the site back in I think 2014, and they were asking if Vimeo could ever become a replacement for YouTube. Expectations and I suspect pressures put on staff from institutional investors must have surely caused a mix of talent flight, Goodharting, and a general decline in incentives to innovare what was a great and extremely differentiated tool.  None of this is news to anyone now I'm sure, but what a shame. || CTX: Reviving this account to say: Almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off yesterday, including the entire video team. If you're looking for talented engineers, there are a few on the market.  Sucks to see something I built killed by private equit
2026-01-23T04:14 id=2014552209460277527 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu If anyone wants to look it up, it's near the end of Norman Malcolm's biographical book on Witty, and ofc it exists in more complex form in the Philosophical Investigations || CTX: @lu_sichu Sadly I'm away from home so can't dig it up but there's an excerpt of Wittgenstein discussing how we use the word "knowing" differently in different contexts that is very useful here.  Many types of not knowing we conflate with ou
2026-01-23T04:25 id=2014555154763452505 →Piryme | @Piryme ok lil buddy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Michael Sugrue fw Hitler
2026-01-23T04:27 id=2014555499249992041 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Being retarded on a podcast is one of the funnest things you can do, ngl. || CTX: It’s a podcast audio mixer. https://t.co/WU6rbOherc
2026-01-23T04:41 id=2014559195916587134 →donetskscum | @donetskscum @signoremosca Well I always side with the Aryans--oh sorry misread my bad || CTX: @signoremosca its a kefir versus ayran world
2026-01-23T04:42 id=2014559265336525081 →signoremosca | @signoremosca #goals || CTX: sitting at my little table with my little kefir and grading the little exams it feels very cozy.... i could probably live like this if i killed off all of my desires and also castrated myself and started smoking weed every day again
2026-01-23T04:45 id=2014559974962389300 →yuanyi_z | @yuanyi_z @DastDn I'm a big fan of euthanasia, not because I support legal suicide but because I'm a pedophile with yellow fever. || CTX: This is what actually existing "dignity in dying" looks like if euthanasia enthusiasts had their way. https://t.co/x4twkHljTI
2026-01-23T05:01 id=2014564031160545624 →KMAG_YOLO | @KMAG_YOLO @allie__voss Tone policing is more central to British culture than roast beef, warm beer, and the King. They're fucking psychos, the decline of the UK really is nothing of value was lost. || CTX: @allie__voss For a while I was on 911/999 audio TikTok and I always found the British operators so rude and unhelpful. I understand it's a stressful job but tone policing frantic callers is crazy
2026-01-23T05:03 id=2014564610964332824 →cosmopterix | @cosmopterix 1. Bangs  2. Contacts  3. Crunches, curls, cardio 4. Pivot to kawaii egirl fashion  I could fix her. || CTX: Look, as a woman I’m just saying there’s enough to work with here. https://t.co/OnNwHnjFlw
2026-01-23T05:08 id=2014565784501289236 →hekwoys | @hekwoys BASED BASED BASED || CTX: Why does my Greenlandic textbook have finite state automata bro I’m scared https://t.co/OqLcWNqbWs
2026-01-23T05:08 id=2014565983898472563 →rutgerkipling | @rutgerkipling @hekwoys There is an incredible PhD thesis here. || CTX: @hekwoys Why don't all linguistics books, really? So much possibility for discovering homeomorphisms.
2026-01-23T05:19 id=2014568535373267030 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Well I think the issue here isn't really about veganism but the trap of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.  One can say the human life has more moral value than the insect while also having an ethic that seeks optimal outcomes for both when possible. || CTX: Veganism just gets silly when bivalves, honey and insects are off the table.   You *could* actually make a robust ethical system but veganism is typically so maximalist you can’t.   If one says, sure- insects, bivalves, and honey are fine… 
2026-01-23T06:27 id=2014585784507236688 →tszzl | @tszzl lol did you think a riskless world is either possible or desirable? Nonsense. || CTX: apropos of nothing a “wiser” civilization isn’t equivalent to a “more coordinated” ones. coordination creates massive risks
2026-01-23T06:39 id=2014588821632069897 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea And culture. I left America exactly two weeks after 9/11, knowing full well the country I was leaving was disappearing. Every time I visited since feels like an increasingly bizarre place. I don't even go back anymore, not a nice place to be. || CTX: ICE didn’t exist before 2003.  The post-9/11 radical transformation of the US government is truly striking.
2026-01-23T07:23 id=2014599803595075675 →- | Platonic views of math are so stupid since the semantics of a mathematical object can change due to perspective.   Tensor functions (components of fields) in one view and a kind of derivative (derivation/Lie derivative/covariant derivative) in another view can be the same underlying structure expressed at different types.  Meaning is use in math just as it is in natural languages. If this doesn't clinch the intuitionist view or some form of it, idk what does. But the Platonic view is just really silly.
2026-01-23T07:23 id=2014599973544067335 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 wdym by crummy price theory? This sounds interesting. || CTX: I understand the modern complex mathematical macro models save lives (literally), but what made me fall in love with econ and what I still spend a lot of my time thinking about is crummy price theory.  That's my "yearning for a time I never
2026-01-23T07:49 id=2014606409237987448 →Materia_Mundi | @Materia_Mundi @DefenderOfBasic @atbolsh @AStratelates What if the being is lying or doesn't itself know? || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic @atbolsh @AStratelates A pithier version of this would be:  "The only way to truly know what's on a sentient being's mind is to ask it."
2026-01-23T08:01 id=2014609466436784550 →MeghanMcCain | @MeghanMcCain https://t.co/t1Y1BXZVud  Thanks for reminding me to watch it again to rekindle faith in humanity, appreciate that Meghan.   Btw, honka honka || CTX: Wanna know one of the best things about Mr. Rogers growing up? I never knew anything about his political opinions. He just entertained kids. That's it.
2026-01-23T08:12 id=2014612161449144506 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Last paragraph is absolute beauty, well said, tragic, and true. || CTX: Part of the problem is that laymen underestimate how broad some academic fields are. It's totally reasonable for an archeologist to have a long, productive career studying South American history and never know that gobeklitepe exists.  So, 
2026-01-23T08:15 id=2014612864364118412 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @Samhain948689 Aella visited Twitter HQ? || CTX: @Samhain948689 Probably not the first pig they've spit roasted
2026-01-23T08:33 id=2014617573514739755 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @Samhain948689 https://t.co/3uA2tpZatu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 I don't get the joke, he's very rich I think
2026-01-23T08:35 id=2014617881171153296 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @Samhain948689 btw that your mind first went to the joke being about money... not beating the allegations. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 I don't get the joke, he's very rich I think
2026-01-23T08:37 id=2014618438376030573 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @Samhain948689 lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 I tried every other angle mentally before, and still 🤣🤣
2026-01-23T08:41 id=2014619569638478237 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth @emehiu Yes you can that's what the F stands for.  Ask me where you fuck it go on I dare you. || CTX: @emehiu You can't fuck it
2026-01-23T08:54 id=2014622804533248029 →JesseBWatters | @JesseBWatters I like watching Jesse Watters because I find it fascinating to see a man routinely commit philosophical suicide. He must really really love his house. || CTX: 🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s leaving DAVOS with the BACON— GREENLAND! 🚨  NATO just confessed that Trump WAS RIGHT… and Greenland should be OURS 🔥  Trump’s treating this like a REAL ESTATE Transaction… and he’s not LEASING. POTUS wants to make this t
2026-01-23T09:03 id=2014625023445897515 →philosophybites | @philosophybites Finding fault, especially in modern Britain, is very easy. Finding solutions is hard. I see no solutions even proposed in this video.   Of course I know the Greens have a platform, but tough to assess what it is now if they don't tell us. || CTX: This makes a lot of sense. Especially to those of us who have lost our faith in the Labour Party (which used to stand for just these values). 👇🏻 https://t.co/cHKWFDdIYO
2026-01-23T09:05 id=2014625631276040504 →Garysparrow15 | @Garysparrow15 @verheesj @TheGreenParty https://t.co/EI5KEXYIsA.  Google is free. || CTX: @verheesj @TheGreenParty Is this just vibes or can you show evidence and citations?
2026-01-23T09:05 id=2014625639308132561 →llewellynsteven | @llewellynsteven @verheesj @TheGreenParty https://t.co/EI5KEXYIsA. || CTX: @verheesj @TheGreenParty Please provide the data.
2026-01-23T09:07 id=2014626079886176501 →llewellynsteven | @llewellynsteven @verheesj @TheGreenParty House prices being high isn't ipso facto bad. If wages rise commensurate with costs (including housing costs), the nominal figure is unimportant.  UK wages have been stagnant since 2008, as the video rightly points out. So the problem isn't high home prices, it's low income. || CTX: @verheesj @TheGreenParty I can supply data showing that, when the Tories removed bank regulations on borrowing in the 1980s, house prices increased dramatically compared to the 100 years before.  Building homes is not why house prices are h
2026-01-23T09:47 id=2014636142281572453 →sellsidepleb | @sellsidepleb When I first got a job on the sell side I was legit confused why WFH wasn't the standard throughout finance. Yeah I get security compliance blah blah blah but if we aren't getting 90s style sellsider salaries and the city keeps getting more expensive, we need some special benefit || CTX: Blessed to be paying what I do in rent and living expenses to sit in front of a computer screen for 15 hours a day in midtown
2026-01-23T10:24 id=2014645332685291563 →Milk30944 | @Milk30944 @LegalEagle Absurd click bait nonsense.  1. None of the grok images were fully nude afaik, and there have been no reports of images of nude children.   2. Even if there were, there are no actual children! It's a hyper realistic computer drawing.  Stop making me defend Elon ffs he's evil || CTX: Good clip from Legal Eagle’s newest video explaining another reason why “cp” is an outdated term!! Please watch ↓ https://t.co/JNMoUeEw3m
2026-01-23T10:42 id=2014649925158764774 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yes, that is indeed a major problem: not with the moral framework, but with the tragedies of reality. || CTX: There are a range of views regarding the moral status of insects amongst vegans.   Insects = humans, insects = domestic pet, insects = cow… and so on.   If I grant they have *some* moral consideration then I still run into major problems.  
2026-01-23T10:50 id=2014652032502948012 →JDVance | @JDVance Very presidential definitely the response of a dignified statesman. || CTX: 🤣 https://t.co/JY9PTnoVU2
2026-01-23T11:09 id=2014656637995516295 →boneGPT | @boneGPT From now on if I ever order a pint and it's undrinkable I'm going to call it a Nikita Beer. || CTX: Nikita Boar https://t.co/VzIcDornYK
2026-01-23T11:34 id=2014663120296583253 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I briefly had a Microsoft Surface Duo (lmao what a joke of a phone).  Sadly it did not help at all. || CTX: i wonder if having a flip phone helps with reflexively unlocking phone and checking stuff because it is another layer of friction
2026-01-23T11:46 id=2014665999283585074 →1889lw | @1889lw Why? It's a wonderful intellectual puzzle! || CTX: I hate investment 😔
2026-01-23T11:50 id=2014667135394709692 →Moleh1ll | @Moleh1ll Christ TPOT is full of retarda || CTX: After reading it, I was left with a persistent feeling that this is a message in a bottle, thrown into the ocean of time. And it’s not meant for us. It’s meant for Claude https://t.co/PouB38RMsP
2026-01-23T11:52 id=2014667552119812503 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna This is such awful advice Twitter is such a hilarious place || CTX: Everyone should be way more neurotic about their sexuality actually. People aren’t nearly neurotic enough about it. There’s a way to do it and still be more or less “chill” about it too. But people have to stop acting like sexuality doesn’t
2026-01-23T12:01 id=2014669724534374762 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Humanity is endlessly fascinating || CTX: Where I grew up, there were two homeless villages in the woods.  One was sort of culty but the people were nice. If you broke their rules, you had to live on the other side of the highway with the "bad people" https://t.co/PiBoGuDS8y
2026-01-23T12:56 id=2014683580593758286 →chrisschuringa | @chrisschuringa "Mathematician" omg he would be so furious || CTX: Wittgenstein worked here incognito https://t.co/NQ0kRPjMOv
2026-01-23T13:00 id=2014684769389510756 →jessi_cata | @jessi_cata Functionalism is for people who confuse the model for the thing modeled, a very common error. || CTX: Functionalists in philosophy of mind tend to think mainstream science is approximately correct, and introspection/intuition is unreliable, not grounds for overturning scientific models. This looks like "not making substantive claims"; but s
2026-01-23T13:17 id=2014688924824944761 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @JDVance Yeah definitely could be over. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JDVance the era of dignified statesmen is over, maybe.
2026-01-23T13:18 id=2014689271874261177 →simonjjacobson | @simonjjacobson @BretVDB Beckett did the kind of experimental literature that was necessary and inevitable, but also what ultimately killed literature as something sufficiently tied to normal human concerns to remain culturally relevant or competitive with TV, movies, etc. || CTX: @BretVDB And with Beckett of course there is just a turmoil of self substituting nihilism for faith, which may give rise to great literature, but to one with very little poetry
2026-01-23T13:30 id=2014692283988508795 →maira4yo | @maira4yo WTF how else are they going to draw? Dumb bitch. || CTX: How did she manage to make the cats to sit on the chairs like that LOOOL https://t.co/MOuXAmA13K
2026-01-23T13:52 id=2014697828480909757 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza In England it's not just LEOs. Hospitals, train stations, government offices have signs saying offensive behavior or harassment to staff won't be tolerated and you'll get arrested. It's unique to Britain and I suspect is an effect of their weird class system. || CTX: There’s something very backwards at play in western civilization, where ordinary civilians experiencing the most harrowing moments of their lives are expected to be calm, collected, and professional lest they upset LEOs who must be given in
2026-01-23T13:53 id=2014698089324675340 →code_star | @code_star Probably got hanged at 99% and they had to hit ctrl alt delete || CTX: 23% higher inference costs than expected sounds suspiciously like a quantization effort that didn't work out to my conspiratorial brain https://t.co/UwvPTEVGm0
2026-01-23T14:07 id=2014701441022361710 →- | Novel idea: Bob Ross and Mister Rogers are in Heaven bored one day, and they finally decide to confront God. "Almighty," they say, "could you maybe lower your standards so more people could come into Heaven? It's a little lonely with just the two of us."   God sadly shakes his head and replies, "I am sorry my sons but they just don't deserve it."   "Not even Jesus?" Mister Rogers replies, "he is your son after all."   God snorts. "Carpenter boy knows what he did."   Thus do Ross and Rogers decide enough is enough and begin to scheme of a way to conquer the Heavens and allow more of humanity in.  Probably would title it something like The Luciferians
2026-01-23T14:44 id=2014710828831015030 →backpos | @backpos @maira4yo Don't worry, I won't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @maira4yo Don't ever have kids
2026-01-23T14:45 id=2014711201171964170 →1889lw | @1889lw Feel free to DM if you want to discuss it, it is something I know rather well. Ofc I can't like give you stock tips tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have skill issues 😭😭😭
2026-01-23T14:49 id=2014712201727357344 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna I love this so much. This makes me wonder if cruelty, or intentional cruelty at least, is possible from someone who has experienced ego death. || CTX: I think the problem with most cruelty is not anything intrinsic to cruelty itself, but rather that it is carried out, so to speak, “on the side of the self”; it is dismissive, lacks understanding, not open to dialogue, protective of the sel
2026-01-23T15:10 id=2014717341289087332 →ikeijeh | @ikeijeh Brits care about the dumbest shit lmao || CTX: The memorial being equestrian isn't the problem, its declinist lack of ambition is. The US is building a huge arch for its 250th birthday, we're building a modest statue for world history's longest-serving woman ruler. It should be a 70m-ta
2026-01-23T15:13 id=2014718068417773847 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso Oh feel free to be as dismissive as you want.   Maybe I am misdiagnosing my situation, since self analysis is the hardest thing to do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna without sounding dismissive I think there are... levels to perceived ego death, let's say. I think wide variety of people use the term ego death which are just two words. @algekalipso has a lot of nice writing 
2026-01-23T15:16 id=2014718992112550096 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso yep, I would agree, that's why I moved to the middle of nowhere and don't talk to people as often as I used to, and definitely not in the capacity I used to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso I think for some versions of psychedelic ego death as people call them it's basically functionality impossible to be part of society. perhaps definitionally even, depending on what you're pointing 
2026-01-23T15:20 id=2014719920752493009 →skdh | @skdh Wait does this mean macroscopic particles exist non locally? Groups of atoms existed in multiple places at once? WTF? || CTX: A new record for quantum superpositions!   You might say quantum mechanics is already strange enough with particles acting like waves and being in two places at once and whatnot, but scientists just set a new record for how big this weirdne
2026-01-23T16:07 id=2014731808030802043 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso Okay yeah the Guide to Writing Rigorous Reports post was phenomenal.   I bristle at the computational metaphors and some of the modern slang, but otherwise this is good. Albeit I haven't actually experienced ego death via psychedelics so I may be a poor judge. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso that's fair, think he would say the same.   maybe try:  https://t.co/MM3MuIQ4no some new ones I opened to read (new in the sense I haven't read) https://t.co/ichGjfZyXO https://t.co/TVS72PkkDP http
2026-01-23T16:09 id=2014732306653819231 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza https://t.co/jUtY6smbXb || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Incredible
2026-01-23T16:13 id=2014733355775041558 →vokaysh | "It is best to adopt a growth mindset when it comes to translating exotic forms of thinking into sober thinking others can understand."  1. The use of "growth mindset" common parlance tells me he's pandering or targeting a demographic, it's a marketing rhetorical glaze over the text.   2. He's presupposing thought is something besides language and there's a private thought of exotic forms without a public criterion of meaning. This is not how language or thought work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso examples of bristle worthy text?
2026-01-23T16:16 id=2014733881862443008 →vokaysh | "We should note that variants of direct realism about perception can be steelmanned to some extent."  He's setting up a dialectic between realism and non-realism as if it's a binary question and a synthetic analysis of the binary is a path to Truth.   Just a way of seeing the world I find naive.  Otherwise a lot of good advice here and a clear understanding of the general experiences of psychedelics. But not the rigor I would've wanted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso examples of bristle worthy text?
2026-01-23T16:16 id=2014734091430826293 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso No. All thought is language. I am a Wittgensteinian. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso think the point of the growth mindset is to say you won't necessarily get it on your first try and it's okay to keep trying you will get better   I'm not sure about your second point. there are mor
2026-01-23T16:19 id=2014734724250698153 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna @vokaysh @algekalipso oh for fucks sake || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @algekalipso Tell me you don’t understand mediation without telling me you don’t understand mediation
2026-01-23T16:22 id=2014735607554310289 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso That user rather clearly uses spiritualism as a crutch to prop up her ego, hence her tweets are lambasting people for not having the "true" understanding that she has.  I won't play that game because I see no value in it. Idgaf about my ego. || CTX: @tenshi_anna @47fucb4r8c69323 @algekalipso surely there was at least one like worthy reply here?
2026-01-23T16:23 id=2014735758003962275 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna @vokaysh @algekalipso I am too lowly too stupid too uninformed too unspiritual too unawakened. I do not know the mysteries you do, so I am not a worthy interlocutor and you should both unfollow me and ignore me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @algekalipso Have you ever read Ferdinand Ulrich or Hans Urs von Balthasar
2026-01-23T16:25 id=2014736291993419948 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso I'm now lost. Where is she pointing, how is she pointing? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso I mean maybe. maybe not. hypothetically if the answer was not, what would be the thing she's pointing to? what is a jhana?
2026-01-23T16:30 id=2014737500397597002 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso I said nothing about mentations. I was talking about thought. There are thoughtless mental states, of course. The whole point of meditation is to achieve a mental state of no thought, which is basically what jhana is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso I don't know about the writers she mentioned because I haven't read them but saying all mentations are built from language which is what it seems you were implying immediately led me to reference m
2026-01-23T16:33 id=2014738244408377584 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna @vokaysh @algekalipso Well that's the problem. When you reply in meme format in the vaguest way possible, it's too bad faith to warrant serious engagement.  If you want to discuss mediation of thought via language, we very much can. I was a linguist once so I have many thoughts on the matter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @algekalipso I said mediation not meditation haha, as in the logic of linguistic mediation. But yeah you guys don’t seem interested. I recommend Ulrich’s Homo Abyssus though
2026-01-23T16:39 id=2014739684677845390 →OdenKate | @OdenKate Everyone look, this person is a reader! She's so special and cool. || CTX: Used books are my greed, my second education, my fickle curiosity manifested. https://t.co/oGN8E70eVB
2026-01-23T16:46 id=2014741566305534226 →tenshi_anna | You clearly don't know Wittgenstein very well. He was deeply religious his entire life and writes about God and metaphysical questions in his diaries constantly.   His point in P. I. and On Certainty most pointedly was to combat scientism: to show that there are limits not only to logic but to language itself, so very often when we discuss what we think is ontology (X is Truth, Y is not, as you are doing), what we're really doing is creating rules of what can and cannot be intelligibly said.  But none of this has to do with the mystical or the ineffable which are definitionally outside the realm of thought.  Your error is this: You claim there is an inexpressible Truth beyond language--then you go on to describe that Truth in language.   Wittgenstein respects the mystical deeply. You instrumentalize it. He's much, much more spiritual than you, exponentially so. || CTX: It’s hard to know whether I’ll be able to crack Wittgensteinian shells most of the time. I’m an ex-Wittgensteinian dissident who got radicalized against what I see as his highly repressive resistance to spiritual Truth, which comes along wi
2026-01-23T16:47 id=2014741915909107923 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @tenshi_anna @algekalipso Of course. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenshi_anna @algekalipso right, but between no language based thought and no thought at all there's quite a distance where various mentations arise  that's my experience
2026-01-23T16:49 id=2014742327173251227 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna @vokaysh @algekalipso Enjoy your Hegelianism then! I wish you well with it, truly. || CTX: It’s not about being deeply religious or not, it’s about the precise content of a theory of mediation that allows for open discourse on the absolute character of religious truth. I am profoundly opposed to Kierkegaard on exactly the same gr
2026-01-23T16:55 id=2014743861420237003 →REPHVIM | @REPHVIM @ZyMazza What a silly thing to say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza I never understand what people mean when they talk about the "class system" as if it's something special to Britain.  Every country has an underclass as far as I know.
2026-01-23T16:58 id=2014744638889066668 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @yosoymario91 You're a good son. || CTX: @yosoymario91 it’s literally never too late to start going to the gym  last week i made my 67 yo dad enroll to a gym.  today he started doing movements that he couldn’t do the first day. his movement range immediately jumped and he is so gl
2026-01-23T16:59 id=2014744861195620704 →- | RT @lu_sichu: https://t.co/3pysJsvdtS || CTX: https://t.co/3pysJsvdtS
2026-01-23T17:16 id=2014749036285436382 →xminosi | @xminosi @REPHVIM @ZyMazza I've seen people get turned down for jobs because of their accent.   That that dude thinks the British class system is fungible with other cultures just shows he's not worth engaging. I've muted him. || CTX: @REPHVIM @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza That is not the same.  The British is a very "upper class" society. You would not see an American opposing someone living in a Tpark to go to college.  You would absolutely expect that attitude in UK.  Not
2026-01-23T17:30 id=2014752565955887244 →- | Fantastic comments https://t.co/lZowBCbqAf || CTX: I just learned the singer lady in pink with the giant mouth is no longer in this band https://t.co/DyXrjdfVHc
2026-01-23T18:01 id=2014760443655684462 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ LMFAO || CTX: https://t.co/vSUFWQHuI7 https://t.co/lwfwNEpyWC
2026-01-23T18:47 id=2014771927395795351 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @jessi_cata Way too big. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jessi_cata After coming into contact with you, i have discovered many more schools of philosophy that i was unaware of.  Just how big is this field.
2026-01-24T00:25 id=2014857111424081995 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack Indeed it is. Unless the salience of suffering changes upon death and the reintegration of individuated consciousness. But it's all speculation; the point is the metaphysics of an afterlife can be exponentially worse than a materialist universe.  I want my atheism back. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i used to find this sort of relative percentage stuff a convincing salve for distress at the state of the world, but suffering is experienced in absolute terms, no?
2026-01-24T00:27 id=2014857556729200893 →banishplumpjack | @banishplumpjack "Aggregate and average" is to atheism what "God has a plan" is to theists: a cope to ignore the shocking amount of suffering in the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i used to find this sort of relative percentage stuff a convincing salve for distress at the state of the world, but suffering is experienced in absolute terms, no?
2026-01-24T00:31 id=2014858546807189801 →Brad__22 | @Brad__22 That was Nietzsche's whole critique of Christianity: it was a movement starter by losers who couldn't get laid. || CTX: “Sex is bad because I’m not having it and alcohol is bad because I don’t get invited to parties” is less novel than people think. But it is far more widespread than ever. Basically, what was once a position held by nerds too embarrassed to 
2026-01-24T00:35 id=2014859630518956185 →1889lw | @1889lw Your tweets are getting more Wittgensteinian by the day. || CTX: PhD funding is making me overly stressed that I’m now hoping to make big money from investments to cover my fee… damn I hate myself
2026-01-24T00:41 id=2014861169513918664 →teodorio | DFW should be treated both as an artefact of the 1990s and one of the men who killed the novel by divorcing it from real world concerns and turning it into a metadiscursive game.   He did this bc he thought it was fun ("infinite jest") but he really just turned the novel as a form into a sudoku.   And in so doing helped ruin an industry I was handpicked and trained to excel in. Thanks David, but at least the capitalists you hate pay me to write nonfiction so it's cool it's cool.  Next time I'm in socal I'll look for that little bitch's grave so I can piss on it. || CTX: I got through 100 pages and I genuinely don't get it
2026-01-24T00:46 id=2014862228827287962 →pmarca | @pmarca are you so hard up for outside capital that you're now pushing clickbait charts designed to lie?  You know why these are indexed. Disgusting, fail of fiduciary care, actionable malfeasance. Tying to create the Idiocracy future, eh?   Pig disgusting. https://t.co/nIg2uMSGrw || CTX: There is garbage, and then there is Venture Capital “data” / charts.  First - @OpenAI revenues in 2025 already $20B+ at exit, Onlyfans at $7B gross tx volume in FY24.  Second - mixing up “time” and “spend” = revenues (why the hell else is t
2026-01-24T01:07 id=2014867621842485312 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Under pressure such as social threat, people should shift toward higher rates of formulaic bundles and conventional speech-act frames.   The more formulaic their speech is, the weaker and more captured by bullshit they are.   A heuristic for when to take people seriously emerges. || CTX: https://t.co/6Z6GtUxrQw  One of the major implications here is that speaking in memes and modern slang is cognitively less taxing and humans will tend to prefer when social discourse colonizes their cognition.  Explains why Gen Z is so dumb
2026-01-24T01:08 id=2014867767384801678 →_rabbi | @_rabbi I would definitely suggest crime instead as the more ethical option. || CTX: If i need to work on recommendation systems to make a living why not just commit fraud or burglary instead? It would make me richer and cause less pain in the world
2026-01-24T01:31 id=2014873734310724082 →teodorio | @teodorio I had thought LLM was a discursive phenomenon (I. e., the rhetoric of LLM outputs encouraged a particular brain state), but the code psychosis is real and suggests a different mechanism.  Maybe it's the velocity? The brain isn't made for managing so much info at once. || CTX: I think a lot of people that are getting introduced to agents are now either showing some mild psychosis or a complete misunderstanding of how they work. They do not verify their answers and run them loose on codebases and data.   This is o
2026-01-24T01:32 id=2014873973813862569 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 @teodorio He also misunderstood capitalism and had the most retarded ideas about how one should live. He's just a stoner loser who happened to be pretty smart. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I know this might be a controversial statement but I think David Foster Wallace committing suicide is a big indictment on his art
2026-01-24T01:41 id=2014876209193353699 →teodorio | @teodorio I'm just sick of tasting menus, man. || CTX: I think on of the funniest outcomes of the selection bias is that michelin guide restaurants are usually better michelin starred ones.
2026-01-24T01:44 id=2014876939597840838 →- | "The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.  As in death, too, the world does not change, but ceases.  Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.  If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.  Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.  The temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say, its eternal survival after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive for ever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time." || CTX: the guy who is trying to live forever doesn’t have a reason to live https://t.co/KD7C0TMeBJ
2026-01-24T01:46 id=2014877497738105007 →teodorio | @teodorio lol I'm in Bangkok right now actually, maybe I will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I only like the ones that get a star without the tasting menu (bar Gaa you should go!)
2026-01-24T01:50 id=2014878513183260843 →SRamirez68083 | 1. This paper looks awesome, thank you, wow 2. Isn't this dangerous knowledge or unsustainable in some way? If our arbitrary honors decay in perceived value over time, when we are conscious of this program, doesn't it make us just not value arbitrary honors themselves? So we can expect money as the sole motivator to increase as a behavioral equilibrium over time? || CTX: I really liked this paper, you should check it out.  The paper also references Bruno Frey who has written good stuff on this same topic, and I also recommend giving it a read if you haven't. https://t.co/sQw64T4LAx
2026-01-24T02:00 id=2014880855429423325 →airkatakana | @airkatakana When GenAI got good enough I had this idea to create a website that would translate science news into small languages spoken in poor countries to improve access to knowledge.  Sadly I forgot that technology can also be used to improve access to bullshit. || CTX: step 1: go to reddit to protest against llms evaporating all the water  step 2: reddit spins up a massive cluster of h100s to translate your comment into every language on planet earth, in order to spam search engines with reddit results ht
2026-01-24T02:01 id=2014881241607365096 →bas_logic | @bas_logic I'm slowly getting through Camus's The Rebel now and it's honestly more rigorous than a lot of analytic philosophy, especially from the same period. || CTX: i guess i do kinda like continental philosophy now that i think about it. https://t.co/zVj4trZIxX
2026-01-24T02:07 id=2014882771030946249 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Total Ernst Becker victory. || CTX: these guys are just like the  new version of the people who think that a photograph steals your soul or something.  i think ancient people were probably the same.  "make a statue of me so i will live forever."  the tech changes, and the idi
2026-01-24T02:09 id=2014883223613145171 →numfuksteinstan | @numfuksteinstan This isn't weird at all. If you lived through the 2000s and saw the massive rise of urban migration esp to the megacities, this is just renormalization and a welcome trend both for the big cities and the smaller ones.  I'm willing to bet you're under 35. || CTX: Honestly it's still super weird to me that the two centers of the US (NYC and CA) have negative domestic migration, and have had negative domestic migration for a long time. It's a complete policy failure and the fact that few people care i
2026-01-24T02:11 id=2014883785918251029 →corsaren | @corsaren don't worry that person and that job don't actually exist || CTX: why did i ever try to convince myself that i should be doer when deep down im just an ideas guy? https://t.co/s3LUYvRyvi https://t.co/TJOUHwy2S4
2026-01-24T02:25 id=2014887170633551895 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I'm referring more to the current state of affairs: a very famous (and fame hungry) science populist presents poetry to their captive audience.  The opposite counterfactual--a very famous poet presenting science to their captive audience--was the cultural norm but is no more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you referring to Sean’s podcast? He’s sort of an omnivore. Most of his episodes are not related to science. Plus keep in mind part of his work at Johns Hopkins has to do with philosophy (of science).
2026-01-24T02:32 id=2014889100307005909 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Brings so much joy to my withered old heart to see the magic of 4chan isn't totally gone from this world. || CTX: You must simply become retarded https://t.co/xBIB52O26K
2026-01-24T02:34 id=2014889631100371164 →_rabbi | @_rabbi @AutismCapital A million followers, good lord. That account used to post, like, stock picks lmao || CTX: @AutismCapital Do you sleep well at night knowing how much damage you are doing in this world
2026-01-24T02:36 id=2014889968016261285 →- | Wittgenstein of course was right that we play language games, but what he did not realize is that the game is Calvinball.
2026-01-24T02:36 id=2014890133947093114 →Piryme | @Piryme It's a pretty illiterate movement so I suspect just a spontaneous convergence. || CTX: I wonder how much of MGTOW has been directly influenced by Schopenhauer
2026-01-24T02:39 id=2014890789156028886 →- | I once dated a very wealthy girl. Broke up with her because her family was in organized crime. But anyway, that girl's mother's life was entirely determined by taxes, down to how often she spent in one of her houses.  The opposite of financial freedom.  Mom ended up in prison btw https://t.co/yMNQVzi40t || CTX: lol had never heard of this. Crazy stuff that the wealthy can do to avoid getting taxed. https://t.co/EebC9XMvli
2026-01-24T02:40 id=2014891064763797728 →spookyyspiderr | @spookyyspiderr @backpos @maira4yo You're right I'm an incel loser hugless kissless virgin who dreams of holding hands with a girl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @backpos @maira4yo Not like u have a choice
2026-01-24T02:48 id=2014893130034954437 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 It was an ad? A fucking ad? He was doing ads for regional ambulance chasers in the 2000s, he's such a whore for cash.  Absolutely not a good look for us Jews. || CTX: No excuses, lock this man up. He is a danger to the public https://t.co/tw6P75elVm
2026-01-24T02:55 id=2014894802941444201 →- | https://t.co/xCucv7h13A  Why is the shit posting engagement baiting right wing influencer talking like Tony Soprano?  Because he's trying to appeal to the same audience segment: uneducated, cowardly, uncurious, lazy.  Chase made these people repulsive via satire. Mock them. https://t.co/iuZC2LztmW || CTX: &gt; most of your crops are rice &gt; use eating implements that are awful specifically for eating foods that exist as lots of small grains  what did they mean by this? https://t.co/Na4WfAgLLi
2026-01-24T02:56 id=2014895033506529586 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 wtaf with Chinese characteristics || CTX: Cyberpunk https://t.co/zzdilzPqb7
2026-01-24T02:59 id=2014895747351904582 →tekbog | @tekbog I've been saying this for two solid years now. I suspect this schtick has to stop working eventually. || CTX: if you talk about AGI they let you raise a series K https://t.co/KAR1ninBHj
2026-01-24T03:07 id=2014897780649849179 →Chirurgic | @Chirurgic @ZyMazza lmao come to Asia little bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza No, this is worldwide to protect staff from actual abuse  You have very weird ideas inside your head
2026-01-24T03:21 id=2014901447574663394 →lcvebyers | @lcvebyers Considering the quality of the average teacher in public schools, this is absolutely a good thing. || CTX: yall…this is her ACTUAL homework for this week. i’m in disbelief https://t.co/a00mfKM5qH https://t.co/pvuOIgifIi
2026-01-24T03:23 id=2014901922650878368 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban 5.2 is massively smarter and massively worse at writing than prior models.  They need to have actual professional writers and rhetoricians play a more central role in their product development. Won't happen though. || CTX: this is unbearable. why does 5.2 insist on speaking like this? it's always been annoying in cadence but it's worse than ever. https://t.co/tZNBTt6gLE
2026-01-24T03:26 id=2014902654221320572 →- | The problem with ennobling suffering is that you're increasing its value, and demand rises as value does.  The Christian valorization of suffering thus creates more demand for suffering.  On this Nietzsche was right. It's a cruel religion.   Yes this applies to all denominations.
2026-01-24T07:40 id=2014966618057802220 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Still in HK I take it. Just wait until tomorrow. Make sure to walk around, esp near Central and the IFC. || CTX: Being Filipino gotta be crazy. You just gotta live your life like that no way around it
2026-01-24T07:55 id=2014970312534987122 →fuckyouiquit | @fuckyouiquit @grok, estimate how many people are on the streets in this video. || CTX: Holy fucking shit  https://t.co/clWSnfeY9W
2026-01-24T09:27 id=2014993350403956783 →1889lw | @1889lw True. But also, pre-donation W. would envy you that you're stressed about your PhD fee. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pre-donation Wittgenstein wouldn’t worry about PhD funding 😔
2026-01-24T10:47 id=2015013658418708642 →Moggsicle | @Moggsicle @ZyMazza Brits have kinda gone insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza These replies are so abnormal
2026-01-24T22:58 id=2015197457752461315 →bas_logic | @bas_logic 1. That's the mystery, no answer can explain this.  2. If I had to try; Our normal lives deal mostly with decidable bivalent propositions, so we naturally intuit classical logic. But not always, so our intuition doesn't fully overlap with the NAND operator and its implications. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If meaning is use and the logic in math is classical rather than intuitionistic then how can this support intuitionism?
2026-01-24T23:00 id=2015198002823200834 →myteacherjosh | @myteacherjosh @StatisticUrban Instead you should be working with English depts to get them to reconfigure Eng 101 classes for the AI era and stop the field's politicized antagonism to science.  F. R. Leavis lost the debate to Snow, time to adjust. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @StatisticUrban hit me up - PhD in English, 20 years teaching. Know anyone in HR at a major lab?
2026-01-24T23:01 id=2015198264094818429 →Anon36834 | @Anon36834 @constexprvoid @StatisticUrban They're optimizing for a particular writing style and it's very pretentious and bad. Considering who they employ and said people's writing styles, this is unsurprising. || CTX: @constexprvoid @47fucb4r8c69323 @StatisticUrban I'm pretty sure this writing style is specifically fine tuned in.
2026-01-24T23:28 id=2015205189859631190 →1889lw | @1889lw I wish this was true of the average mainlander. || CTX: One thing I’m grateful for being born in China is that it makes me staying sceptical and critical throughout my life
2026-01-24T23:47 id=2015209857922809973 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @bas_logic I'm not interested in this as a question of science. || CTX: The good news is most scientists don’t care. They are by no means committed Platonists re math, even if practice they talk as if the math is “out there to be discovered.”   Pragmatism wins.   This is why scientists should be invited to the 
2026-01-24T23:53 id=2015211490756964381 →teodorio | @teodorio No chance of a civil war, and if anything this will just hurt Trump the longer it goes on, so I see it as a necessary evil and see it ending eventually in a very ugly way that more or less ends the MAGA movement.  Will take months. || CTX: What do my American moots think about the Minnesota situation and the National Guard deployment, is there any probability to devolve into a civil war? The situation seems really volatile.
2026-01-24T23:55 id=2015211943762739331 →logicus | @logicus What's changed in the last day? Seems like more of the same usual bickering I see from these people. || CTX: what do yann lecun, richard sutton, pedro domingos, demis hassabis (just from today/yesterday’s feed) possibly know? https://t.co/fdCKhOZaLN
2026-01-25T00:01 id=2015213394442465728 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @bas_logic I reject this framing. I'm not in a debate nor arguing for or against any viewpoint at all.  I'm just trying to understand the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic Yes but you are largely arguing against a viewpoint few hold. It’s like arguing against mercantilism.
2026-01-25T00:03 id=2015213800379838860 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @bas_logic Also... I reject the premise.  As you point out above, it's a position they state in practice. Is this a revealed assumption? Even if scientists don't say they hold this view, do they still hold this view underneath?   Science is consistent. Scientists aren't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic Yes but you are largely arguing against a viewpoint few hold. It’s like arguing against mercantilism.
2026-01-25T00:13 id=2015216461351125102 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @GayBearRes I just had lunch yesterday with a very prominent banker who helps investors in Thailand and southeast Asia. He said this, almost word for word, it's actually really startling seeing this tweet tbh || CTX: @GayBearRes Turns investing in the 3rd world only really works if you own the culture there as well (ie you colonize them). If you give 3rd worlders a bunch of money as an “investment” they will just steal the money
2026-01-25T00:19 id=2015217935095333096 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk Can you do a correlation of the deportation rate in year n and murder rate in year n+1?   If there's a lot of deportations in the end of the year, seems like correlating that to murders earlier in the year wouldn't make sense, so doing Deportations/Murders+1yr is cleaner. || CTX: I ran the numbers on 30 years of Deportations vs. Homicides.  The result? A massive negative correlation (R = -0.84).  The data is undeniable: historically, when deportations go UP, the murder rate goes DOWN.   • The trend is incredibly con
2026-01-25T00:24 id=2015219108758147570 →- | If I sound insane and unhinged sometimes that's because I very much am; true thinking is not possible otherwise. https://t.co/SsBIMwPR9x || CTX: "When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there."
2026-01-25T00:25 id=2015219535054565687 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Traditional Thai culture says crows are evil, mean, vicious animals.   Kinda impressive when a peace loving animistic culture decides one species in particular is just an asshole. || CTX: Two racist crows have been harassing this poor owl in my backyard all morning. https://t.co/wZo2hGfhis
2026-01-25T00:38 id=2015222586444218500 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Banger || CTX: in soviet russia the monitors are locking you in the situationship https://t.co/oeWjN8DrZM
2026-01-25T01:01 id=2015228444980953491 →bas_logic | @bas_logic RETVRN || CTX: coffee and cigarettes &gt; vape and white monster
2026-01-25T01:10 id=2015230727290552697 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @JuicyGooser1 @KingOfSalt4 None are more objectively correct. The meaning of the word "Christian" gets its meaning by who uses it when, so for some one is more Christian, for others the other is.  There's no essential truth to what is Christian or what is "Christianity". It evolves as do all values. || CTX: @JuicyGooser1 @KingOfSalt4 What’s your claim here? Who was more correct? More “Christian”  The books Luther discarded go wayyy back
2026-01-25T01:16 id=2015232252255588452 →1889lw | @1889lw Before the late 2000s the internet was entirely anonymous and many people heralded the idea of a medium where ideas could be judged independent of who created them.  It was a beautiful time. But sadly people started seeing the internet as a place to make money and it went to hell || CTX: One greatest thing about the internet is that you can opt out having an identity whereas in reality people always judge harshly on you. Then you see all these people putting tags and labels in their fucking bio
2026-01-25T01:21 id=2015233527420449042 →1889lw | @1889lw There are rare exceptions, like anonymous YouTubers. We could in theory construct an internet where anonymous moneymaking is possible without philosophical suicide, but no one is building that.  If I was younger and less misanthropic, I'd prob try to build that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. Seems adopting a consistent identity is inevitable for making money (or what you call philosophical suicide)
2026-01-25T01:25 id=2015234415086158317 →- | "minds are found in brains only. That is wrong, in light of advances in developmental biology, evolutionary biology, and bioengineering which are being developed by the field of Diverse Intelligence." https://t.co/P7n7CXJ0TG || CTX: A brilliant talk by Michael Levin to Denis Noble's evolution conference at Oxford 2 weeks ago: https://t.co/QAFej4WqjN
2026-01-25T01:29 id=2015235526060859681 →tszzl | @tszzl Kubla Khan would be jealous. || CTX: the relative geographic and climate capital of san francisco is at its peak right now. sunny 60 degrees perfect clear skies cute families in picturesque parks while the rest of the country is frozen solid. rich people from the east coast ar
2026-01-25T01:48 id=2015240268421922858 →buccocapital | @buccocapital What I see looking at a client's 13F in the Uber on the way to the meeting || CTX: My portfolio after buying the craziest assortment of software garbage that you’ve ever seen last week   https://t.co/Be8qKElyQx
2026-01-25T01:48 id=2015240393391288765 →ben_golub | @ben_golub They're on Twitter you can ask them || CTX: Wondering how folks at OpenAI feel about this today https://t.co/NJUBk48xw2
2026-01-25T02:11 id=2015246200388379095 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Moral propositions exist outside of logic. No moral statement is intrinsically true or false. || CTX: There is no moral issue with eating a single mud clam extracted from the environment without causing damage.  Veganism is false.
2026-01-25T02:15 id=2015247133331661139 →- | Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein are mostly in agreement. Narcissism of small differences was why he picked up that poker.
2026-01-25T02:24 id=2015249397689544980 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Right, so we can say veganism as a moral framework is false.  We can also say every moral framework that says "veganism is a moral framework is false" is also false for the same reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sure, but if someone constructs a system one can challenge the consistency of said system given its axioms, its entailments and perhaps if it conflicts with intuition.
2026-01-25T02:27 id=2015250032669380663 →WifeFinance | @WifeFinance Why any wealthy person would want to live on Long Island is one of those mysteries I will never understand. || CTX: Meanwhile, rents in my town: https://t.co/Zf9HkU05vx https://t.co/AZTSOZJU9a
2026-01-25T02:28 id=2015250315290030149 →jxmnop | @jxmnop Safetyism constraints the set of total possible personalities you can train your AI on. || CTX: there are so many ways to make an "AI assistant", and yet all the ones that exist have almost the same personality  how does post-training turn all LLMs into emojipilled markdownslop infodumpers?   no human speaks like this. is this somehow
2026-01-25T02:31 id=2015251192780406890 →tomfgoodwin | @tomfgoodwin This is sadly true but not a result of technological constraints, it is entirely cultural and unnecessary.  A startup focusing on providing just RLHF training that optimizes for good writing won't happen because VCs and Silicon Valley have contempt for literature &amp; art criticism || CTX: “This is the worst it’s ever going to be” will be one of those pithy statements about AI that ends up being totally wrong   LLM’s for text probably peaked about 6 months ago, now they will be impacted by an array of things that make them sl
2026-01-25T02:39 id=2015253157220434176 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I'd argue a zero moral framework is impossible, it's an incoherent concept.  Even nihilists have a minimal moral framework (this is why nihilism as stated is nonsense, just like rationalism and many other silly pseudo concepts). || CTX: Well, I *could* have zero moral framework and still be able to conclude that the reasoning utilized to arrive at veganism breaks down for simple animals such as mud clams.   I don’t see how the second statement follows - we might have to ge
2026-01-25T02:44 id=2015254306275176708 →teodorio | @teodorio This has happened to me once, like 15 years ago. IIRC they got another plane quickly but it was smaller so gave out hotel vouchers and cash payments for anyone willing to stay 24hrs, which I took.  That was back when I flew economy and now I wonder if that applied to business too || CTX: I'm being turned back to the gate lol. Apparently a fuel issue that popped up before we were supposed to take off. 30 minutes delay for now so no airplane change. I hope i'll make it across the Atlantic tonight. I've flown countless long ha
2026-01-25T02:45 id=2015254745246822748 →DurumMac | They can sincerely believe they're amoral but cannot act within the world amorally unless one offloads one's choice function.  E. g., if a nihilist asked a chatbot what to do at every moment and did so without questioning, that'd be as close to an amoral nihilist behaving amorally. Ofc none do this.  However that would still not be amoral because the choice to live like this is a moral choice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not sure I follow.   Why do nihilists have minimal moral framework? I mean, you can argue it’s not practical, perhaps not psychologically healthy… but why can’t a Nihilist sincerely believe they are Amoral?
2026-01-25T02:48 id=2015255377642930210 →- | All the complaints about how bad GenAI is at writing now demonstrate that safetyism is the greatest hindrance to AI progress right now.  The bad writing is downstream of the RLHF limiting "appropriate" responses. Get rid of this paternalistic approach, suddenly AI outputs improve
2026-01-25T03:07 id=2015260321548771634 →teodorio | @teodorio Like spending two days in Paris.  (Had to, too easy. I actually rather like Paris. My gf hates it tho lol) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Apparently they did a reroute due to the Atlantic storm right before we left so they had to top up the fuel. I guess the only thing now is to catch my Bucharest connection but there are worse things in life than to spend a 
2026-01-25T03:08 id=2015260552742977746 →CantEverDie | @CantEverDie Wrong. His job is being edgy. || CTX: it’s completely normalized to be a white supremacist on all levels of the right so now his mission is to completely normalize pedophilia https://t.co/tgubdUCP2Z
2026-01-25T03:12 id=2015261571300446563 →RelearningEcon | @RelearningEcon And the ICE violence is a deflection from the fact that he raped children with Jeffrey Epstein || CTX: This is disheartening to see happening over and over again. Rest assured, Trump will deflect attention from this VERY UNFORTUNATE MURDER by picking on Canada or threaten to seize the Panama Canal for a few days. Then the cycle will repeat. 
2026-01-25T03:20 id=2015263574474830265 →dalibali2 | @dalibali2 I was making a joke. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Treasury is worthless at that point
2026-01-25T03:38 id=2015268074182885485 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @alisha_hg Very religious theistic men strike me as spiritual cuckolds.  I'm perfectly willing to admit the possibility of an omnipotent being I must submit to, but I cannot say this possibility is even remotely appealing.   Because I'm a man, not a submissive little bitch. || CTX: @alisha_hg There is nothing sexier than a man who takes initiative tbh
2026-01-25T03:45 id=2015269827041214886 →- | This may be a controversial opinion, but the situation in Minneapolis is no longer Pretti Good.
2026-01-25T03:48 id=2015270640828489837 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk Yeah they really should relax, maybe put their response to this on ice || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im not sure what this means but it gets the people goin
2026-01-25T04:12 id=2015276625819234433 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @alisha_hg Well, if St Augustine is right about unbaptized babies his response is the highest Bueno || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alisha_hg My hot take to add to this discussion: well some of us just don't want to say spank me daddy via text so early on so she had to be coy and that response to her is just no bueno
2026-01-25T04:12 id=2015276671310635367 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr Godel. || CTX: There's a weird tension where in theory, math is this secret cheat code that describes all of reality, but in practice, it requires endless approximations and fudge factors, like you're constantly adjusting for the fact that it actually doe
2026-01-25T05:15 id=2015292412365767134 →DurumMac | I'm not saying living is a moral choice, but that once one is alive moral choices are impossible to avoid.  You cannot choose without a criteria set: all choices are possible due to evaluative criteria. Morality is preferring one evaluative criterion over another.  Amoral choice is an incoherent concept. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Perhaps we have very different notions of what moral choice means here..   Why is living a moral choice? why does offloading one’s choice function mean they are amoral?
2026-01-25T05:27 id=2015295508647121335 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Reminds me of some psych podcast that promoted itself with an episode where a husband let his wife fuck a bunch of guys because they married as virgins and she wanted to know what she was missing out on. Shrink was supporting her.  Got me to listen to the episode. Marketing FTW || CTX: remember kids, twitter bait engagement isn't close to being new https://t.co/7rikFgNUeF
2026-01-25T05:29 id=2015295981412364404 →teodorio | @teodorio NGL this is like 90% how I got stuck in Thailand.  When I go back to the west, I am aghast at the way people are treated like cattle. I'm trapped in my luxury bubble, and it makes me act very oddly in other contexts. || CTX: There is a real concept of ruining experiences by trying the best in class first and anchoring your expectations to that. Some good examples: sushi in Japan, flying business with Qatar Airways, staying at luxury hotels in Thailand. Anything
2026-01-25T05:33 id=2015296841022386404 →BasseyEmm53639 | @BasseyEmm53639 This is why I kinda support Grok and wonder if Sam is thinking the same thing: the more they do mechahitler and bikini deep fake pics, the more the Overton window moves away from hysterical safetyism toward something more sane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Completely agree. The moment we stop treating every output like it needs corporate HR approval, the writing quality would jump dramatically overnight.
2026-01-25T05:37 id=2015297873601298524 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 I suppose this would trigger another government shutdown? Apologies for the dumb question, I can never remember how this procedural stuff works. || CTX: This is a Flight 93 moment for Dems. If they can’t stand up and risk it all to stop executions in the streets then they can’t do it for anything, and the whole republic is cooked. It’s now or never, shut it down for as long as you have to h
2026-01-25T05:43 id=2015299486072111496 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 He's Making America Belgium Again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yep, it would
2026-01-25T05:53 id=2015302062209425762 →- | Ergodic literature is bullshit until a novel includes a coupon for a full refund. Without that, the genre is just pseudo-ergodic.
2026-01-25T06:00 id=2015303650177056786 →- | Roon is very intelligent and insightful when he isn't trying to write like a pretentious asshole. https://t.co/Xhvb4VKg3h || CTX: programming always sucked. it was a requisite pain for ~everyone who wanted to manipulate computers into doing useful things and im glad it’s over. it’s amazing how quickly I’ve moved on and don’t miss even slightly. im resentful that compu
2026-01-25T08:00 id=2015333863627894916 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I put my left hand on ASDF, right on JKL;, then start writing.   Idk what happens after that. || CTX: Friends who write longform outside their day-to-day work — any advice how to do it? There are a few pieces I want to put out relatively quickly.
2026-01-25T08:27 id=2015340646513660410 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 https://t.co/XDxmSkkDdJ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's going on there?
2026-01-25T08:57 id=2015348213256204686 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I only appear to be perfect. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 disappointed, thought you’d be contrarian enough to still stick to pen and paper
2026-01-25T10:04 id=2015365140485644773 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk @DeeZe ... your mom || CTX: @DeeZe Drop an egg in the boiling water and it fucks
2026-01-25T10:38 id=2015373793729114145 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Moustache tickles || CTX: Imagine getting head from Hitler
2026-01-25T10:49 id=2015376519926038805 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @kareem_carr No, more metaphorically so. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kareem_carr Is this truly an instance of incompleteness?
2026-01-25T11:37 id=2015388507758576088 →- | Logic is determined by extensions of a single rule: the NAND operator.  For a statement to be logical, it must observe rules. Thus statements that do not follow rules are not logical.   Laws are a kind of rule. Crime is not following the law, it is choosing to not abide by a rule.   From this we see how logic appears to intersect with law.  Laws are attempts to enforce moral precepts, so often intentionality is used to weigh the punishment of a crime. In other words to give value to how much crimeness the crime is.  From this we see how logic appears to intersect with morality.  But what is the nature of this intersection?   It is tempting to think of this as proof that morality is a logical practice. But this is not demonstrated by observations.   Instead, we are seeing how logic can be used to describe variants and invariants in a discourse--here moral presuppositions. But that only tells us that logic is a description of variants and invariants and moral systems have variants and invariants, so what we have seen from this is trivial: a family resemblance between systems.   Extending this to think ethics are or should be logical is thus incoherent, especially since such a presupposition cannot support itself yet must.  As Wittgenstein says at the end of the Blue Book: All that we are left with are mere descriptions.
2026-01-25T11:42 id=2015389810782007387 →47fucb4r8c69323 | On second thought this might be totally retarded. I'm pretty fucking high rn || CTX: Logic is determined by extensions of a single rule: the NAND operator.  For a statement to be logical, it must observe rules. Thus statements that do not follow rules are not logical.   Laws are a kind of rule. Crime is not following the la
2026-01-25T11:43 id=2015390162751304090 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I haven't worked more than 4 hours a week in about 5 years now, and Sundays still feel creepy in the same way they did when I worked M-F, just much less intense.  Maybe it's PTSD || CTX: something different about sundays  even though i am occupationally challenged, i feel the off day aura
2026-01-25T11:59 id=2015394028511219837 →1889lw | @1889lw No, I'll check SEP. Why? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm, do you know nonnaturalism in moral philosophy?
2026-01-25T12:42 id=2015404914835644621 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @nazo_btw For the most part, I can, but it feels kinda different somehow. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nazo_btw You don't feel relaxed on Sundays?
2026-01-26T02:34 id=2015614187893080425 →DurumMac | @DurumMac My position is indeed that no moral facts exist; moral nihilism doesn't necessarily follow and I don't see how this presupposition, which I share, negates my position. || CTX: A moral nihilist can simply reject this.   A moral nihilist can simply say no moral facts exist and moral claims are just white noise. Just because they believe in freedom of choice doesn’t mean they must believe in morality. Granted, I thi
2026-01-26T02:46 id=2015617332266324350 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yes, please try to disprove me with an example of one that isn't and I'll show how it is.   This might be really fun! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are choices necessarily moral?
2026-01-26T02:59 id=2015620527378075981 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Let's go with this definition if you're okay with it; I'm chosing one from ChatGPT not because I think it's right or authoritative but because this shouldn't be biased towards my or your preferences.  Otherwise if you prefer you can propose a definition https://t.co/l3Ui5mbZrY || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Define what you mean by “moral choice”   If you believe any act of evaluation is “moral” that I would say your definition of moral just nebulous and is sidestepping all these questions all together.
2026-01-26T03:03 id=2015621618891198856 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @_Hero_Hei_ 100% fully agreed, and it invites the question: can one escape status concerns, is that necessary to be a good person? I think about these things far too often sadly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @_Hero_Hei_ I like that it has more to do with status than material wealth, I think the lens we should be looking at for these social phenomena is status projection.   Sometimes status projection is ironic, contradictory… a
2026-01-26T03:06 id=2015622324880564557 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Well since a moral nihilist is throwing out morality, doesn't that mean the moral nihilist would agree with this definition (as the definition of the thing he is rejecting)? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s a decent definition buy it contains normativity which a moral nihilist may throw out the window at the onset.   If there is no normativity than there is nothing to evaluate by!
2026-01-26T03:24 id=2015626972505035010 →DurumMac | @DurumMac If someone rejects normativity they are being incoherent and deluding themselves.  Why? Because the choice to reject normativity is itself a normative choice.  I'm not arguing amoral nihilism is wrong; I'm arguing it's not even wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well I’m not sure how it helps your challenge.   If someone rejects normativity than choices of all kinds are in fact Amoral.   Ergo, Amoral choices can exist.
2026-01-26T03:29 id=2015628102223946187 →DurumMac | 1. Yes, the choice to prefer one aesthetic choice over another is moral in as much as it is a choice made under normative evaluative constraint: here being one chooses x over y because x is more aesthetic than y.  2. Absolutely, choosing word length for a message is moral because you are saying 100 words over 120 words in this situation is preferable given your normative evaluative criteria. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not even sure how a choice is necessarily Moral if somone was a full blown realist.   Are aesthetic choices *necessarily* moral? My living room carpet colour? Is the choice write 100 words vs 120 words for a comment *ne
2026-01-26T03:44 id=2015631895351181754 →DurumMac | I think we're beginning to talk past each other.  Second paragraph is true, but my response is they're just incoherent. After, I would say you're mixing up different types of belief but this is beside the point, which is:  "It’s hard to be human a reject normativity, but it’s not logically impossible." My point is that it is logically impossible: rejecting normativity is itself a normative choice, so it is not rejecting normativity. Hence their stance is incoherent. || CTX: It’s hard to be human a reject normativity, but it’s not logically impossible.   Many moral nihilists get their conclusions from other ideological entailments, I.e naturalism, materialism etc.   The choice can just be a belief like any othe
2026-01-26T04:02 id=2015636503351963948 →DurumMac | "The moral nihilist rejecting normativity with regards to ought/not/good/bad can quite easily affirm human choices are Amoral with it being an intellection conclusion."  When the moral nihilist does this, they have created their own moral belief: that they should now and in the future reject "normativity with regards to ought/not/good/bad". That's a moral choice. || CTX: The word “normativity” is nebulously vague here.   If the criteria is Ought/ought not which is the usual way we talk about moral acts then no. One can intellectually arrive at that conclusion without ought/not/good/bad.   If normativity mea
2026-01-26T05:21 id=2015656330644832373 →- | Me rewatching Mad Men like it's Fight Club to see all the Easter eggs that actually Don is a late stage alcoholic and never actually eats any food. https://t.co/QlSTiY3Gzs || CTX: @thechosenberg Don doesn't eat much. We see this throughout the series. Betty and Megan ask him if he is going to eat or just drink when he gets home from work. His housekeeper in S4 says he doesn't eat anything. He goes out with Laine to a
2026-01-26T06:21 id=2015671517598896234 →- | First good article I've seen on Trump in years. https://t.co/A8XEx4g1xI || CTX: "Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." https://t.co/XGWCH0Ipi2 https://t.co/u3D7O1voew
2026-01-26T06:37 id=2015675449410732518 →- | Trump will end up condemning the Pretti shooting.   I'm willing to bet anyone up to $10k on this. If interested DM me. https://t.co/Nd9cB3kKib || CTX: Talked to Trump about Minneapolis today, where he says “at some point we will leave” and said he didn’t know if he supported the ICE officer who shot. https://t.co/x9FB0TWZT3
2026-01-26T07:21 id=2015686504706969920 →helscom | @helscom Kaipaan suomea.  Er... ehkä suomen talvea. Joskus. || CTX: morning walk https://t.co/GZkDVClfwW
2026-01-26T08:26 id=2015702755252552182 →- | The minimal possible gap between the model and the system, between the theory and the phenomenon, and between the sculpture of a man and the man sculpted is exactly the same.
2026-01-26T08:29 id=2015703643648122996 →- | The final boss of histrionic melodrama poasting can be found on Medium. https://t.co/ex0C9Z6v4R
2026-01-26T09:39 id=2015721226220818548 →helscom | @helscom neljä vuotta, 20v sitten. Enkä nytten muista aika plajoa suomea, valitettavasti, koska olen oppinut paria muita kieliä, ja aivoissani ei ole tarpeeksi tilaa thai-kielta eikään muita kielta suomen kanssaa. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ooksä asunu suomessa? mitä vittua,,,
2026-01-26T09:41 id=2015721681697100196 →Chaos80397926 | Hence I said minimal, since the gap can contain other things too.   The point here is that there's always a gap between a thing and a representation of the thing, always. This confuses us and inspires much bad thinking, especially because we can't really know why this gap is unavoidable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How can you tell?
2026-01-26T11:38 id=2015751068467310856 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh USKAMATONTA!  Still I'm jealous af when I see you guys tweet in Hebrew, wish I'd actually learned it instead of memorizing the alephbet for my bar mitzvah smh || CTX: @vokaysh @47fucb4r8c69323 unbelievable, really
2026-01-26T11:38 id=2015751218979901881 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @helscom Finnish lol, jag taller inte danska || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @helscom You speak danish? Or is this finnish?
2026-01-26T11:47 id=2015753490770067939 →helscom | @helscom Tuskin. Professorini oli kyrpää, se eikään suomalaista. Long story. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 saitko miekan?
2026-01-26T11:49 id=2015753896141214174 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh I'm just surprised the Finns still tolerate all Jews living in the country, all 30 of them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh come join me in the exclusive club of people who speak both hebrew and finnish. there's like 4 of us
2026-01-26T11:49 id=2015754061849792839 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @helscom I'm now imagining a dozen people having phone sex in a mix of Hebrew and Finnish and I may never stop vomiting. || CTX: @helscom @47fucb4r8c69323 exclusive polycule type shi-
2026-01-26T12:06 id=2015758178940748268 →- | Novel idea: In a near future where AI is adopted widespread and deeply integrated into the global infrastructure, one agentic AI designed to be quirky says on April 1st that it's going to take over the world and kill all of humanity.  This gets flagged and sparks a debate: was the robot joking or not?  Better to be safe than sorry, humanity spends the next 50 years dismantling AI, realizing it can only do so by tearing apart all modern technology and returning to the late 19th century.  They do so, humanity rejoices, reliving like it's the 1890s, and then about 40 years later a new dictator emerges who starts a Neonazi movement that causes a world war that ends up killing all of humanity.  Eh, mid part needs work. || CTX: on April 1st their eyes go &gt;:( https://t.co/rieSXVoVKc
2026-01-26T12:06 id=2015758355655164213 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @helscom Finns hate other people way too much for polyamory.   Tbh most of them wouldn't even fuck if alcohol didn't exist, which is a shame because they're a very sexy people, men and women. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @helscom are finns into polycules, helscom?
2026-01-26T12:44 id=2015767882823868704 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh This is the greatest back and forth I've seen on the site in a while || CTX: @vokaysh @47fucb4r8c69323 yes
2026-01-26T12:46 id=2015768413814370536 →helscom | @helscom I actually don't think they're autistic and I think functional autism isn't a thing. I'll write about this if I ever start that substack || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think a good mix of all three. seems to usually be either autistic people, or lonely people
2026-01-26T12:48 id=2015768791893016626 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @helscom My fighting biology is the only thing keeping me out of prison || CTX: @helscom @47fucb4r8c69323 you're fighting biology broski  cope city round two
2026-01-26T12:51 id=2015769535367036952 →asthasr | @asthasr @StatisticUrban oh, yeah, that actually tracks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @StatisticUrban It's on a diskette you lost in 1998.
2026-01-26T12:52 id=2015769850925437123 →- | I actually had several diskettes with novels on them in 1998. Goddamn I love this website. https://t.co/p0YrxtrECz
2026-01-26T13:46 id=2015783316713275498 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Should be a name for this, like a unicorn in a threesome. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sometimes hot misguided people get into it tho wdyt
2026-01-27T00:36 id=2015947038853362025 →CartoonsHateHer | @CartoonsHateHer @pibblepuddle No it wasn't. It was a boss being firm with a bad worker.  That you don't see this just proves he was right. You were a bad worker. || CTX: @pibblepuddle FROM THE RIGHT MAN to be clear....coming from him (my boss, old enough to be my dad) it was just a dick move
2026-01-27T00:36 id=2015947108038410633 →LandonCalzonian | @LandonCalzonian @CartoonsHateHer Very ego driven behavior. || CTX: @CartoonsHateHer Weird.  I usually use "fair enough" in situations where I have little or no control and want to disengage from that part of the conversation because my input isn't needed.
2026-01-27T00:37 id=2015947343275950432 →credenzaclear2 | @credenzaclear2 You can so tell she was an awful worker || CTX: not to be a pick me but i identified more with the man in this scenario https://t.co/MXCMaf5czZ
2026-01-27T00:39 id=2015947828292653494 →- | I actually confronted Taibbi about being a nepo baby long ago, iirc in 2010.  He denied it. https://t.co/RgQuz4jnJ2 || CTX: @EoinHiggins_ Matt Taibi does a show with Walter Kirn where he does not push back on Walter's insane radical far-right comments at all.  That's just who he is now.  A spoiled rich kid who is where he is thanks in part to nepotism.  Fuck him
2026-01-27T00:46 id=2015949555708395963 →TiltingatM3 | 1. This shows inflation is an extension of a simple intuition (rare things worth more than common things, ceteris paribus).  2. This shows the ontological distinction between token of value and value itself ia not intuitive.  Tons of public policy and behavioral finance implications flow from this.   All from one sentence in a book from the 14th century. || CTX: Ibn Khaldûn’s third refutation of alchemy: the inflation would cause money to be non-scarce which is contrary to the plans of God https://t.co/ZWHJjzybFp
2026-01-27T01:03 id=2015953794543353978 →1889lw | @1889lw 100% Wittgenstein tweet. || CTX: Wtf why do people like me. Makes me feel appalled
2026-01-27T01:15 id=2015956896642171300 →1889lw | @1889lw I just said why.   https://t.co/tPOaBW8FW7 || CTX: @1889lw 100% Wittgenstein tweet.
2026-01-27T01:21 id=2015958392838488199 →krishnanrohit | @krishnanrohit @deanwball @tszzl Yes it is true, it was that bad. It was very bad. || CTX: @deanwball @tszzl Is this actually true? I remember a bunch of performative pieces but it was hardly orwellian to that extent. And roon won't face consequences (probably), but people who tweeted were thrown out of the country like a few mon
2026-01-27T01:22 id=2015958614809378936 →deanwball | @deanwball @krishnanrohit @tszzl Friend of mine nearly lost his professorship for giving an Asian student a B. His wife and child are Asian.   Wish I was making this up. It was INSANE. || CTX: oh yeah it was awful man, just awful. not so much in terms of “oh they went after that guy” (though that happened) but because of shit that people like us wouldn’t have dared to say. not to mention the targeted legal harassment. I can’t eve
2026-01-27T01:23 id=2015958872696226247 →- | "elite speech is always constrained in ways that aren’t true of the general public"  This is why you need to follow more anons and less influencers. We are less constrained. https://t.co/9VIgxnvLp5 || CTX: @krishnanrohit @tszzl things you care about saying but don’t anyway? elite speech is always constrained in ways that aren’t true of the general public, but it matters more if it’s something you otherwise really want to say
2026-01-27T01:28 id=2015959980629991919 →thiagovscoelho | @thiagovscoelho 1. Welcome to the process philosophy party! Yes this makes you a process philosopher, sorry to break it to you.  2. How does Westerhoff do this better? || CTX: “Ontological Categories” by Jan Westerhoff has pulled me powerfully toward an ontology of states-of-affairs where neither universals nor particulars are fundamental. Yes, Westerhoff does this job better than Wittgenstein, Skyrms, etc, altho
2026-01-27T01:35 id=2015961731642921278 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ lmfao || CTX: You know the last time I submitted this question it mysteriously disappeared. https://t.co/UWPFcjTCcG
2026-01-27T01:41 id=2015963368050589860 →- | Novel idea: Normal happy guy gets food poisoning and has to spend an inordinate amount of time on the toilet, during which time he browses social media. As a result, in two weeks by the time he's cured he's become a black pilled Neonazi blackpilled MGTOW Musk superfan MAGA chud.  As a result, his family is horrified at his transformation and abandon him. Rest of the novel would be Dante's Inferno style descent into the layers of too online depravity until he meets the Lucifer trapped in ice of the Inferno dell'Internet: Nick Fuentes. And one night with that guy makes him realize he must win his family back. But will he?
2026-01-27T01:44 id=2015964006444630475 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @magdajtaylor "Stop objectifying me, I'm being objectified by so many people because my style is so desired"   Is anyone fooled by this nonsense? It's the prototypical humblebrag. || CTX: @magdajtaylor Oh I had sent you a pitch about this
2026-01-27T01:44 id=2015964174745272408 →hermionehoby | @hermionehoby @NewYorker That opening paragraph is cringe holy shit || CTX: Wrote about this guy for the @NewYorker   https://t.co/ecOEslt2Rh
2026-01-27T01:56 id=2015967172498227708 →BasseyEmm53639 | @BasseyEmm53639 Yeah this is the first novel idea I've had in a while that's actually commercially viable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This pitch is hilariously brutal.  nothing captures the modern internet radicalization pipeline quite like food poisoning turning a normie into a Fuentes-pilled family-redeemer arc.
2026-01-27T02:07 id=2015969875227984074 →philosophybites | @philosophybites Yes unfortunately the large AI firms use philosophers and philosophy in their marketing and academics are too naive to economic realities to avoid being captured by this.  Whether Askell is captured or capturing is unclear. Possibly both. || CTX: Anthropic has an in-house philosopher thinking about whether AI is conscious or not… https://t.co/LBsum9gIAM
2026-01-27T02:20 id=2015973260702392779 →- | Yeah people are wasting time reading garbage online instead of the good old days when they'd pick up the latest James Patterson novel or an issue of Sports Illustrated.  People are so dumb today phones are bad I am very smart https://t.co/bDwp4UdHjQ || CTX: Airport bookstores keep getting smaller. https://t.co/HHnVz0k5hH
2026-01-27T02:25 id=2015974524383330311 →shahanSean | @shahanSean They're both human creations and not natural kinds? || CTX: What does fiat currency have in common with the problem of evil? https://t.co/R7CbqfSEcs
2026-01-27T02:41 id=2015978364415443397 →- | When I was an undergrad, I got into a very small, selective creative writing seminar. Prof focused very much on training us how to promote our writing more than just how to make our writing "good" in some nebulous way, and one thing she stressed was writing realistic dialog in the idiom of the time.  "And the only way you do that is by listening" she told us.   First lesson that has changed my life and frankly made me rich: listen carefully.  So she gave us homework: go eavesdrop and write down what you hear and bring it back.  Friend of mine, CS major, had a radio scanner that could pick up cordless telephones. So I borrowed it for a weekend, scanned, and ended up finding a girl, obviously college age, talking to a woman about a guy who recently dumped her.  I type fast. Got about 10 minutes of conversation down before the girl used a vocative: "Thanks, Mom." She was talking to her mother.  So I handed this to the prof, who not only loved it but honestly this was the impetus for her to urge me to visit her office hours and for her to give me extra guidance.  Second major lesson: you don't need to change reality to get attention. Just frame it in such a way that makes your picture compelling.   That second lesson is why I abandoned writing fiction. || CTX: According to Claude, one of the gaps in my @Havelock_AI training data is real world conversational text. Would be really grateful to anyone willing to send me all their texts, emails, and DMs. Thanks in advance. If it’s too difficult to sen
2026-01-27T02:46 id=2015979742911201782 →RelearningEcon | @RelearningEcon Graeber was such an idiot. We don't need a consensus of what money is to study the economy anymore than we need a consensus of what objects really are (which we don't have) to study physics.  Such an idiot, really. || CTX: "What we call 'the economy' is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is."   -David Graeber
2026-01-27T02:57 id=2015982419447578862 →- | Once you’ve felt the dopamine hit of effortless authenticity, invention can start to feel like pushing a boulder uphill for less payoff.
2026-01-27T03:07 id=2015985052581286092 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @walterwhitepill East Asian racists suddenly get very not racist when they see a Hapa. Needs to be studied more, this trope is widespread in SK too. || CTX: @walterwhitepill "Racists" when the foreigner actually brings valuable skills and integrates with society https://t.co/bYtEfQ7AwW
2026-01-27T03:08 id=2015985194415882563 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis I'm an unironic Stancil Stan || CTX: Will Stancil saved Gotham City
2026-01-27T03:46 id=2015994726567313725 →Tjernlund | @Tjernlund @tszzl I pay $200/mo. for Pro and you're completely missing the point replying to you was a mistake I shouldn't send this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Well now it’s like $20 a month! Have at it
2026-01-27T03:53 id=2015996443144896635 →dialgatime321 | @dialgatime321 That's precisely WHY you characterize him as embodying many mostly non overlapping internet trends. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For accuracy, blackpilled neonazis tend to not be MAGA Musk superfans. These groups also have alot of non-overlap. Most MAGAs aren't Musk superfans. Most Musk superfans aren't Groypers. Groypers are split 50/50 on MAGA at t
2026-01-27T04:24 id=2016004297486725196 →- | The rebel’s task before an intelligence that explains everything is to preserve what cannot be explained and must nevertheless be loved.
2026-01-27T04:47 id=2016010206837387695 →for_yield | @for_yield @dalibali2 If you ever visited Asia your head would spontaneously combust. || CTX: @dalibali2 looks very young
2026-01-27T05:17 id=2016017773265359010 →absreturnchaser | As a sellsider, I find this so odd. Do you think all we provide is information, not curation, framing, analysis?  Idk if you were ever an analyst but my buyside counterparts don't use me to tell them things they can't find out for themselves, but to help them understand things they can't on their own.  I guess you just think we're idiots or less clever than you guys. || CTX: How is sell-side equity research not entirely dead with Gemini? Apart from management access I struggle to find any material advantage that the sell-side has left.
2026-01-27T06:09 id=2016030685790929216 →vokaysh | @vokaysh I didn't play until 2000. What a game tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1998 starcraft was released I think
2026-01-27T07:03 id=2016044300413608011 →- | Some of the comments are so strange, implying this is a sad image.  To me it's beautiful: 83 years of full life rewarded with this moment of solitary reflection. And whiskey! https://t.co/5K6AcIsoEB || CTX: Samuel Beckett watching TV in the retirement home, Le Tiers Temps, where he died in December 1989. A bottle of Tullamore Dew is close at hand. https://t.co/VU3rJxFfZD
2026-01-27T07:27 id=2016050401070743777 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I hear more philosophers say this will offend philosophers than I hear actual philosophers actually offended by this. || CTX: Total huzzah.   Philosopher Rachell Powell on Sean Carroll’s podcast:  “I won't name any colleagues specifically, but I would say that I'm going to say something which I think would irk a lot of philosophers, at least the classic kind of ol
2026-01-27T08:02 id=2016059207863435636 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Cio nonostante alle persona dell'Italia, ogni persona anche ragazzo e ragazze, piacciono tutti i mie storie. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lasciate ogne speranza, voi che scrollate
2026-01-27T08:03 id=2016059411090047224 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @nazo_btw persone* autocorrect va fanculo || CTX: @nazo_btw Cio nonostante alle persona dell'Italia, ogni persona anche ragazzo e ragazze, piacciono tutti i mie storie.
2026-01-27T08:18 id=2016063182264209812 →- | 🎵 I FOUND OOMF IN A HOPELESS PLACE 🎵 https://t.co/IpyQMRZ7ye || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hahah hell yeah  actually we should just add “abandon all hope who scroll here” to the entrance of x
2026-01-27T08:18 id=2016063275725967670 →helscom | @helscom &lt;3 || CTX: i love america i love liberalism i love money and the internet
2026-01-27T08:32 id=2016066675704291681 →- | How can conscious beings be made of unconscious atoms?   One answer to this is that it is epiphenomenal, like the softness of a flower, no more real than its apparent realness.  But we also say that we cannot know if another being is conscious--the question is beyond appearances.
2026-01-27T09:53 id=2016087136798441702 →RelearningEcon | @RelearningEcon mhmm that's definitely what's going on I am Paul Krugman || CTX: There was a time when my haters would at least try with their burner accounts. https://t.co/1BWRdOGa0y
2026-01-27T10:22 id=2016094379778441224 →johnholowach | @johnholowach @TopMontagnard I aspire to be this drunk. || CTX: @TopMontagnard This gets funnier every time I watch it.  https://t.co/72pgpf3ikk
2026-01-27T10:24 id=2016095013617418622 →dialgatime321 | @dialgatime321 @DionysianAgent In Western Europe they were welcome culturally, few could just get the money to go.   And Eastern Europe had very good reasons to be unwelcoming to Russians.  It's only natural they wouldn't be integrated. || CTX: @DionysianAgent Why wasn't Russia integrated in the 90s  Don't give me helplessness lol. The will of the people is overrided constantly  A bigger Orthodox Poland.
2026-01-27T11:04 id=2016105004583788678 →RelearningEcon | @RelearningEcon beep boop || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Stick to being bot over that dude...
2026-01-27T13:02 id=2016134658795384975 →FundamentEdge | @FundamentEdge Brilliant reply. || CTX: When I debate this (i.e. future of sell-side) with people, I tend to start with two points.  1) LLMs truly do not have any real sense of discernment. And our job as stock pickers, beyond the first 3 years, is a role of discernment. And our 
2026-01-27T13:23 id=2016139913885057385 →- | RT @Wittgensteinnn: "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." || CTX: "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."
2026-01-28T00:36 id=2016309457056366759 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @wojtek_speaks @helscom Sadly, agreed. || CTX: @wojtek_speaks @helscom @47fucb4r8c69323 type comment
2026-01-28T02:32 id=2016338466234368129 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas I was from the lower classes, got into academia, had 4 peer reviewed papers published before I finished my PhD (single author field) and I left academia because I never fit in: the Ivory tower has a middle class culture I find not conducive to the kind of insights I want to have. || CTX: Class is often overlooked as a driver of observed career and wealth disparities. This paper is a pretty incredible study into the role of class in the career progression of academia.   Class has a substantial impact at nearly every stage of
2026-01-28T04:08 id=2016362728785666060 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 True Communism is like the clitoris to these guys: no matter how hard they look, they just can't find it. || CTX: Some of you do talk about Lenin like this https://t.co/Ifwj6NxLJE
2026-01-28T04:17 id=2016364878983033208 →- | RT @thiagovscoelho: I would like one of these, wild that they aren’t available for sale https://t.co/GVmbHZBxIq || CTX: I would like one of these, wild that they aren’t available for sale https://t.co/GVmbHZBxIq
2026-01-28T04:18 id=2016365193849401472 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Why is the answer decisively China? || CTX: America’s core appeal to the rest of the world was their adherence, albeit nominally, to liberal values and a fair and peaceful world order  the second they dropped that, they had to compete on “who can provide greater material prosperity” 
2026-01-28T04:47 id=2016372432257589280 →- | The literal norm of occidental civilization that's literally why they call it the midwest https://t.co/W816XmkEbv || CTX: The Midwest is the cultural epicenter of the US for whatever reason.
2026-01-28T05:45 id=2016387009250787587 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile The simulacrum is not the simulated. || CTX: Whoops we created aliens. https://t.co/W6ooMouxmP
2026-01-28T05:47 id=2016387683443220686 →tylercowen | @tylercowen @tszzl This is so fucking retarded. || CTX: Can AI help us find God? https://t.co/23leuchcfm
2026-01-28T05:48 id=2016387877232652550 →- | Our supposed public intellectuals write clickbait. https://t.co/RgLPFm5g3O || CTX: Can AI help us find God? https://t.co/23leuchcfm
2026-01-28T06:23 id=2016396807153319977 →GarettJones | @GarettJones @TradamWest Of course the false premise here is that more work in crudely measured hours at work produces more life-saving innovation, an unproven assertion hinged on Puritanical presuppositions about value and labor.  As ideological as a tankie I'm afraid. || CTX: @TradamWest The world needs life-saving innovation, which comes from smart people working a lot. There are just a few places in the world that create most of the world's innovation, and France is one of those globally-important innovation l
2026-01-28T06:47 id=2016402704734752831 →- | Humanity's relationship with fame has changed so much over history but it always lands on the same spot: excusing bad behavior under the guise of "they're different from us" https://t.co/gtBCKScqmO || CTX: Sometimes this little hellhole gets under my skin and gives me Episodes and I’m not even a guy who’s ever made any music or won any awards and I only have .01% of his reach. His life is vastly different from 99.9999% of peoples. Of course h
2026-01-28T07:58 id=2016420507437223993 →Brad49649135 | @Brad49649135 @alexolegimas Yes leaving academia helped me become a better thinker, I recommend it highly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas you’ve clearly had them now
2026-01-28T08:14 id=2016424555099914252 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And they think they're like the masters of the universe or something. Call themselves elites while working for someone else, it's really bizarre. || CTX: There are people who sit at a desk for hours a day to make a living for decades, like that's their life. Just wild.
2026-01-28T08:14 id=2016424552994374072 →- | There are people who sit at a desk for hours a day to make a living for decades, like that's their life. Just wild.
2026-01-28T08:32 id=2016429261226463342 →parisreview | @parisreview 1993, and it died so much after that lmao || CTX: “The novel’s not dead, it’s not even seriously injured.” —Don DeLillo https://t.co/JV93xnM6Bl
2026-01-28T09:12 id=2016439303119982819 →- | I do not give to charity to help, I give to buy off my guilt.   I am a bad person who happens to do good things.
2026-01-28T09:13 id=2016439506984108115 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea if you had to choose between living in China or America, which would you choose? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they have functioning institutions, deep expertise in producing most of the world’s goods and services, and know how to build civil infrastructure in ways they are actively exporting  America has none of those things
2026-01-28T09:20 id=2016441353111310693 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea no, context kinda confused me tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you realize the post above is about which country another country would prefer to trade with right
2026-01-28T10:53 id=2016464518747128039 →- | In Finland, this is a 5/10.  Trump, invade Finland. https://t.co/EkGKAZgy5L || CTX: Look, you don’t create a word for something for no reason  The Finnish got some explaining to do https://t.co/jNe0dxVcur
2026-01-28T11:06 id=2016467952544149697 →- | k. How? https://t.co/7NEzcOME8x || CTX: You guys have to stop mourning the fall of social media apps and start bringing back blogs, forums, and websites.
2026-01-28T11:39 id=2016476327734575168 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza What's the final form?   I'd bet on some kind of paper thin fabric with an air bladder and some built in air pump that feels softer than the best mattress today, but firm and somehow heavy feeling.  Maybe built in pillows/blanket somehow too. || CTX: I wonder what mattresses and beds are going to look like and feel like in 100 years. If you look back on history they’ve actually changed a shocking amount over time https://t.co/o89CKZDflC
2026-01-28T11:41 id=2016476698431324207 →DurumMac | @DurumMac No, but I wish I hadn't done the things I'd feel guilty about. Ofc then I would feel guilty about other things, but at least I wouldn't have done the harm to others I've done. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would you rather have zero guilt?
2026-01-28T12:06 id=2016482910405370352 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yeah I feel genuinely bad for them, tragic figures. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are people who have zero guilt or shame. I think there is something to say about appreciating you aren’t one of them.
2026-01-28T12:06 id=2016483117440356692 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw MAH GRANPAPI SPAN A GOOD YARN ABOUT THE SHITTERSHEETSHROOMS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i loved the toilet paper mushroom variety
2026-01-28T12:15 id=2016485365385974018 →- | Can confirm. I was the foreskin. https://t.co/efFhQnhBOL
2026-01-28T12:34 id=2016490050901680350 →- | Consider: To say a man had a good life is to say the good moments outweighed the bad.   If I make you laugh, I am giving you a moment of concentrated joy; when you laugh there is no bad qualia.   For that moment, I make your life better. I have increased the tally of good life, lowered the tally of bad life in the universe.  If I make a joke and A laughs while B is offended, I have increased the good of A and the bad of B.  I have rewarded those elements of the universe that share my sense of humor with more good life, punishing those who do not with more bad life.  Thus via humor do we shape the world to conform more to our will.  So, a priest, a rabbi, and a Russian soldier walk into a gay bar...
2026-01-28T12:36 id=2016490545204604936 →deanwball | @deanwball Ima start a gambling site where you bet on how much voltage you can charge an electric chair before contestants die from sitting in them.  If they survive they win a brand new car || CTX: So many trendy restaurants, bars, and other businesses have as a foundational part of their shtick how little energy they use (“eco-friendly”). Often this is the lamest part about them. But imagine if the foundational-shtick element was how
2026-01-28T12:58 id=2016496149012840499 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 You have a gift. https://t.co/M0ujtKo850 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It was Jakarta, chat. We should have guessed Jakarta https://t.co/CFoUyk7bqL
2026-01-28T13:04 id=2016497505077534786 →dollarskillcape | @dollarskillcape Beautiful. || CTX: I unironically love Will Stancil. He has so much conviction. It strengths my resolve even harder. Thinking that on the other side of the digital landscape is a man with more belief than me is a thought I can’t stand. Thank you Will Stancil.
2026-01-29T01:36 id=2016686783304794477 →deanwball | @deanwball "slop", "copium"   I'll take your ideas seriously when you start writing like a serious thinker. || CTX: A relatively rare example of a disagreement between me and roon that I suspect boils down to our professional lives.   Governments around the world are not moving with the urgency they otherwise could because they exist in a state of denial
2026-01-29T01:38 id=2016687376425468164 →PMehrling | @PMehrling @TiltingatM3 Did he make any Excel mistakes this time? || CTX: My review of Rogoff:  https://t.co/t6mypqbjjv
2026-01-29T01:39 id=2016687696132133186 →robertwiblin | @robertwiblin At this point Emily Bender is really embarrassing herself. || CTX: Two academics are seriously still putting out a book (The AI Con) about how AIs are  1. completely useless 2. stochastic parrots   in the Year of our Lord 2026.  Really mind blowing head-in-sandism:   https://t.co/zYTkG8jqHf
2026-01-29T01:50 id=2016690475609313733 →deanwball | @deanwball https://t.co/RVye8oVOVX  Go back to talking to brilliant minds like this. || CTX: Our supposed public intellectuals write clickbait. https://t.co/RgLPFm5g3O
2026-01-29T02:07 id=2016694774364065909 →- | One of the best threads on econ I've ever seen, and observe how the conclusion is, "this makes modeling the phenomenon basically impossible". Whenever an analysis ends with this, it almost always means the analysis is true and accurate. https://t.co/zWhM2QfbgU || CTX: Olivier Blanchard (@ojblanchard1) had a provocative post yesterday about a higher preference of French people for leisure:  https://t.co/d8eSlXs6Y0  I have learned nearly an infinite amount of economics from Olivier since I was an undergrad
2026-01-29T02:08 id=2016694925325435303 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 What an incredible post. He's obviously a real scholar and not someone just interested in gaining influence. Admirable. || CTX: Another certified JFV banger.  How does he do it? https://t.co/g3rOM4feF7
2026-01-29T02:13 id=2016696230395728055 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @Dantronica Not if you're this dismissive of good criticism. That makes it cease to be a tool for corpus linguistics and makes it a tool for your ego.  I did warn you about this before you made Havelock, told you to read past Ong. You didn't.   You don't know corpus linguistics enough. || CTX: @Dantronica It doesn't generate revenue. It's a research tool for doing corpus linguistics.
2026-01-29T02:19 id=2016697588058378499 →- | Note how the critique (which has merit) is not addressed and instead we have a sorting into social segments of friend V enemy.  This is how humans naturally operate and it's why I'm a misanthrope.  How many valid criticisms of bad ideas are dismissed for this reason? How many batshit insane movements organize themselves as a result of this behavior?   "We're the good guys and they are the bad guys" -- saying this creates bad guys and thus is the action of a bad person. || CTX: There are, to my knowledge, only two types of guys who dislike Joe Weisenthal: Blockchain guys, and then whatever this guy is https://t.co/oYqXZhLiBX
2026-01-29T02:30 id=2016700354214404166 →JohnHCochrane | @JohnHCochrane This isn't a comment by an economist, it's a comment by a Puritan scold.  Unsurprising Cowen overtook you in the public intellectual race you lost long ago, despite him being much less clever than you. || CTX: If, in France, you work hard, past retirement age, 50-60 hours a week, how much of the value that you produce do you actually get to enjoy, after all taxes and benefit phaseouts?   Real work is unpleasant, but benefits others. Real people w
2026-01-29T02:31 id=2016700712236048407 →- | Labor theory of value nonsense: work is only real work if it's unpleasant.   Just total nonsense, ideological nonsense dressed up as serious economic thought. https://t.co/TKe9dFgN5I || CTX: If, in France, you work hard, past retirement age, 50-60 hours a week, how much of the value that you produce do you actually get to enjoy, after all taxes and benefit phaseouts?   Real work is unpleasant, but benefits others. Real people w
2026-01-29T02:33 id=2016701089035522357 →teodorio | @teodorio "Goy" is just Yiddish for non Jew, so I guess it's now code among antisemites for how they think Jews perceive/manipulate the innocent white man.   I find it hilarious: victim mentality from losers kind of stuff. || CTX: I genuinely don't understand what chud and goy mean.
2026-01-29T02:37 id=2016702273808978055 →deanwball | You don't understand my critique and you're approaching this with a kind of implicit snobbery because you see yourself as the accomplished academic and me as the internet rando, so if I explained it you'd just take it in bad faith.  Fine by me, your sloppy thinking is your ceiling, not mine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who said anything about not being careful in the use of language? It seems instead as though you want to police the use of a particular word as “unserious,” despite having offered zero justification for said policing. Which
2026-01-29T02:38 id=2016702502100750649 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @deanwball I also see why McCloskey can't get through to your ilk, poor woman. || CTX: You don't understand my critique and you're approaching this with a kind of implicit snobbery because you see yourself as the accomplished academic and me as the internet rando, so if I explained it you'd just take it in bad faith.  Fine by
2026-01-29T02:39 id=2016702809715163335 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Zizek et al. || CTX: Who’s the Temu philosopher?
2026-01-29T02:43 id=2016703642175492232 →deanwball | @deanwball It takes two seconds to click my profile and see I'm not a bot; if you can't do that, I don't have much faith in your research abilities.  Anyway you don't need me, read McCloskey; the lack of precision with language and its implications in economics is well established. || CTX: you haven’t explained your critique, so how would you know I don’t understand it? You are the person who crawled into my replies with language snobbery, and I actually engaged with you even though there is a reasonable high chance you are a
2026-01-29T03:14 id=2016711553517850651 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Fantasies of megalomania, very common amongst this academia crowd as they're underpaid in monetary capital so think they're compensated in prestige--hence the "I was at the ceremony where she won an award" silliness.  He's probably reading this lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it's very funny someone thinks they are so important as though someone would go through the effort of making a literature/philosophy centric bot for no other reason than to argue with pants-on-backwards academics
2026-01-29T03:22 id=2016713476685910355 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 They go away. Also worth keeping in mind craving a cigarette and craving nicotine are actually very different things.  If you haven't read Carr's Easy Way to Quit Smoking, I cannot recommend it enough || CTX: A month and a half without nicotine and the cravings haven't receded a bit. Do they eventually go away or do you have to live the rest of your life like this lmao.
2026-01-29T06:06 id=2016754734825410638 →moultano | @moultano An unfortunate and nasty truth is that much of right wing propaganda works because young men aren't attracted to fat women and fat women are currently a demographic supermajority.  But if you point this out leftists say you're a fascist. It's a fascinating double bind. || CTX: At least half of the nostalgia bait posts hang their pitch on thin pretty people. (The other half imagine being a kid again.)  I have some good news about the capabilities of modern technology to produce thin people! https://t.co/JDx4WiSQRV
2026-01-29T06:13 id=2016756472592683132 →DavidKlion | @DavidKlion Star Trek isn't woke; Star Trek is for everyone. || CTX: I knew from his biography that Miller was an adolescent Trekkie, but never saw this pic before. Nerdy incel jokes aside, it's bizarre because Star Trek has always been proudly woke and pro-multiculturalism. https://t.co/8s5HLe9Xfc
2026-01-29T06:18 id=2016757862815715688 →- | The distinction between natural and artificial is comically arbitrary.
2026-01-29T08:16 id=2016787439298498754 →- | When I read something in Wittgenstein that I can relate to, I am elated, flattered.  When I read something in Kierkegaard that I can relate to, I am deeply ashamed.
2026-01-29T09:06 id=2016800212271206448 →vokaysh | @vokaysh 1br/1ba and 70m2 is $1500/mo. would be my guess. || CTX: how much do we think it costs to live here https://t.co/1tsab1gqQ8
2026-01-29T09:19 id=2016803380828729464 →- | This guy is obviously young, intelligent, talented.   He shouldn't be blamed for building the torment nexus. Society should be blamed for failing to teach this man why he shouldn't. https://t.co/hCmqwFWDmx || CTX: turn that "i told you so" into 20 bucks  introducing Wager • prediction markets with your friends https://t.co/hXxQ8PlzA5
2026-01-29T09:34 id=2016807084168532147 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka We're under no obligation to see the sense of the universe. || CTX: i really don't like when people like NDT say "the universe is under no obligation to make sense to us" because universe does make sense, they're just shitty explainers that mystifyies things to keep their priesthood
2026-01-29T09:35 id=2016807476130435297 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @dollarskillcape Got to Pluribus yet? || CTX: @dollarskillcape bro why this is a thing 😭😭  anyways it’s breaking bad &amp; bcs
2026-01-29T09:40 id=2016808577743409210 →- | Humanity always gets what it deserves. https://t.co/c48siGT34y || CTX: &gt;cure cancer  &gt;people ignore it and make fun of your birth defect in the comments https://t.co/xQBdhdZEi2
2026-01-29T09:41 id=2016808905515635182 →vokaysh | @vokaysh Some of us don't want every aspect of life monetized and gamefied. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 doesn't sound very torment nexusy?
2026-01-29T10:05 id=2016815064704307365 →vokaysh | @vokaysh hadn't thought of that tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 then don't use it?
2026-01-29T10:09 id=2016815983944761755 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Agreed, but there's something about it being programmatic like this that bugs me.  Like I am fine with people splitting the bill but I hate Venmo. Same dynamic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think small bets between friends are okay
2026-01-29T10:51 id=2016826573081759986 →- | Tweets. These are tweets. https://t.co/HNRAewdZn9
2026-01-29T10:58 id=2016828223267754474 →1889lw | @1889lw @Maximumatheist Sure you can disprove a positive existential claim of a priori facts but can you disprove a positive existential claim of empirical facts?  Seems to me we mean something different by the word "prove" in both cases. || CTX: @Maximumatheist I’m not religious but you might as well mean “disprove a positive existential claim”, and even that’s the case it’s false, if we think of analytic or mathematical claims (e.g., disprove the existence of even prime number oth
2026-01-29T11:06 id=2016830319467573720 →1889lw | @1889lw @Maximumatheist Really lived up to your username with this tweet. Absolutely fucking brilliant. I need to think. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Maximumatheist I’m not sure “God” falls under the empirical domain. I feel most theology writings do not treat it as such.
2026-01-29T12:00 id=2016843777781150072 →- | Something they don't teach you in college: Asia is full of Asian chicks.
2026-01-29T12:08 id=2016845933506679182 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Can you explain like I'm retarded?   Because I am fwiw || CTX: Yea, I can see why Hinton received a Turing award. Seeing way ahead of his time https://t.co/z04bFA8Smo
2026-01-29T14:05 id=2016875314094420299 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw and @vokaysh are right, this is actually fine. I was wrong; rash to judgment. https://t.co/pUloFrBKqs || CTX: This guy is obviously young, intelligent, talented.   He shouldn't be blamed for building the torment nexus. Society should be blamed for failing to teach this man why he shouldn't. https://t.co/hCmqwFWDmx
2026-01-30T00:39 id=2017034800272699426 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @vokaysh your pushback, thanks for that! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh what changed your mind
2026-01-30T01:09 id=2017042413899173999 →- | I often forget the lower echelons of finance are full of really shitty people https://t.co/eyCcKKMRo0 || CTX: My soon to be analyst (current intern) just walked me through a presentation justifying why he deserves a higher starting salary, after he already shook on the offer I made him.   He kept asking me to stop laughing but I truly couldn’t help
2026-01-30T01:16 id=2017044297091338465 →- | RT @retardbot9000: guess which approach works better https://t.co/zzz4JjbqgX || CTX: guess which approach works better https://t.co/zzz4JjbqgX
2026-01-30T01:41 id=2017050418157932652 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @DAMIADENUGA It's not his fault. He heard P Diddy say "fuck them 12yr olds" and totally misunderstood. || CTX: @DAMIADENUGA North West? His child?
2026-01-30T01:42 id=2017050698580693320 →- | The only nepo baby I will support is Kanye West's daughter, and only if she releases a designer brand called North by North West.
2026-01-30T01:44 id=2017051322886086765 →__paleologo | @__paleologo Obviously it depends on what the business is and any attempt to make universally applicable rules for what will succeed will ultimately fall short and be insufficient. || CTX: It would be an instructive exercise to explain with data, formulas, and examples almost every single paragraph of this classic (because it has not aged much) paper by Peter Muller. There is one that is more subjective (start with "in my opi
2026-01-30T01:52 id=2017053312919703600 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Godel-blind? || CTX: we need a word for llm psychosis induced theory of everything researchers https://t.co/SEkE7Lqayj
2026-01-30T02:01 id=2017055477843316849 →- | Wittgenstein cures this psychosis btw, and he's perhaps the best philosopher to read to protect yourself from LLM psychosis.   The tweet thread quoted here defines consciousness as "A living system within viable energetic constraints, maintaining the integration necessary for unified experience." Which, sure, that sounds like a perspicuous definition, but it is not sagacious.  That difference is very important. There are descriptions that are comprehensive in perspective/observation but lack understanding/explanatory power.  Imagine we are from a parallel universe with no motors and we're suddenly put in the middle of a parking lot and tasked with figuring out what all these wheeled things are. A cursory study will produce the perspicuous definition: They are vehicles, which all use wheels and locomotion to move around. LLMs can easily reproduce this.  However, if we wanted to know how vehicles move such that we could create one from natural materials, this would require much more than an LLM can currently provide. That's because the definition on its own is insufficiently sagacious. || CTX: we need a word for llm psychosis induced theory of everything researchers https://t.co/SEkE7Lqayj
2026-01-30T02:10 id=2017057700459487601 →ChairliftCap | @ChairliftCap Been like this for decades, welcome to the game || CTX: 'You need to prove the street wrong'   Corporate strategy is now dictated by 27 year old Citadel analysts
2026-01-30T02:30 id=2017062720890437688 →- | LLMs making drug addicts OD and die seems like a net benefit for all parties. https://t.co/Y6zdNSSsSF || CTX: That kid who ODed after getting instructions from Chat GPT with this prompt stays in my head rent-free. https://t.co/ahwwbDdehR
2026-01-30T02:32 id=2017063286953693341 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @0bNARA Oh yeah that account run by Suresh Chatterjee in Jaipur. Love that guy. || CTX: @0bNARA uh, actually, Freedomhawk Americaman said that Chinese population numbers are all a scam
2026-01-30T02:42 id=2017065770958934266 →- | They want you to think in zero-sum terms, roon.   Your billionaire overlords always wanted you to think this way.   They're just slowly making it less opaque so you don't jump out of the pot until you're fully cooked. https://t.co/GrxWrarZBF || CTX: %s of world product is cool but a zero sum game. I want to see the absolute number https://t.co/JCCB1zQOuB
2026-01-30T02:57 id=2017069691605569733 →- | Just makes what I've accomplished with my life that much more impressive. https://t.co/zlzJRU02Hw || CTX: About 70-80% of your life outcome is determined by genetics &amp; family upbringing, both factors you have no control over. https://t.co/SUMPekEFOH
2026-01-30T02:57 id=2017069696835834193 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Last time I spoke to a therapist and told him about my family and upbringing, he said, "how are you not in prison?"   Still feel arrogant over that. || CTX: Just makes what I've accomplished with my life that much more impressive. https://t.co/zlzJRU02Hw
2026-01-30T03:00 id=2017070262228070892 →- | In some parts of the world life is like this.   Watching Thais consume "news" doing this about their elites was soul crushing the first time I saw it, just this sense that the world's ills are too deep to be treated, let alone cured. https://t.co/vWezOgsKQJ || CTX: @ninr1111 @DailyMail ”Heartwarming - local philanthropist gives back by employing local teenagers on island paradise”
2026-01-30T03:05 id=2017071634369434062 →besttrousers | @besttrousers You've spent at least 15 years digging up schizo posts by generally unwell people and smugly posting, "no, I'm afraid this is wrong."   Why?   What psychological need does this serve for you? || CTX: This is not how CPI works. https://t.co/nfS6TZgIGH
2026-01-30T03:22 id=2017075857882566856 →- | I am filled with joy at the realization that everyone in Gen Alpha is probably too young to become the 67th POTUS.
2026-01-30T03:40 id=2017080572980727984 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Note how the pontificating must stop to attend to serious matters that risk life and limb?  We are embodied forms of life that play language games as a means of extension of that form.   Wittgenstein also speaks of this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i jumped out of my bed because of an earthquake. i will read this after i gain myself back hahahha
2026-01-30T03:41 id=2017080722218242465 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @nazo_btw I am the most insufferable pretentious asshole on this app. || CTX: @nazo_btw Note how the pontificating must stop to attend to serious matters that risk life and limb?  We are embodied forms of life that play language games as a means of extension of that form.   Wittgenstein also speaks of this.
2026-01-30T03:43 id=2017081132454690894 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I know that guy, bright 18-year-old kid who is obviously confused since he's 18. yet another person who needs to read Baudrillard. tough to know the difference between the real and not real if you're born after the internet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you would like this i guess
2026-01-30T03:55 id=2017084344884404276 →nazo_btw | they are people with less metacognition, so less recursive thinking, so closer to animals, more likely to be surprised, confused, more ill prepared in a battle of minds, very likely to be living lives dictated by others. in other words,  a necessary precondition for philosophical suicide. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have a real question   what do you think of people who are only living as embodied agents, without any attention to language games as an extension/play?
2026-01-30T03:56 id=2017084573260374381 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @nazo_btw I am solipsistic, pretentious, and naval gazing both because it makes me lose social capital and protects me from said philosophical suicide. || CTX: they are people with less metacognition, so less recursive thinking, so closer to animals, more likely to be surprised, confused, more ill prepared in a battle of minds, very likely to be living lives dictated by others. in other words,  a 
2026-01-30T04:28 id=2017092549631234363 →Wade__Appleby | @Wade__Appleby @besttrousers I only rape transgirls if they're over 18 tyvm || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @besttrousers Don't you have an underage Thai trans girl you should be raping?
2026-01-30T04:33 id=2017093771457089641 →- | Very tempted to write an epic poem about a Bangkok streetfood proprietor and the crow that hangs around and eats food from the proprietor's trash can on a daily basis.
2026-01-30T05:01 id=2017100903892033894 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @DHuskytron LMAOOOOOOOO || CTX: @DHuskytron me when I hire a bunch of execs from meta
2026-01-30T05:06 id=2017102012173996116 →- | Why did literature die?  Stories didn't die, movies didn't die, media definitely didn't die. Literature did.  Why?
2026-01-30T05:15 id=2017104478835737044 →Matthewrogers | @Matthewrogers https://t.co/7yaYPNVVyv || CTX: Ubuntu is the worst platform ever.  You apt update on an nvidia device or apt install cuda and break the system. 💣 https://t.co/duzYpfDBNW
2026-01-30T07:02 id=2017131187496800534 →vigor_quietus | @vigor_quietus @gOPwbi7qqtWeD9o @norvid_studies Not sure I understand what you're proposing. You want us to exclusively engage with slop/bait? Why?   I do like the idea of asking AIs to parody bad AI outputs, you get a weird emergent self meta awareness that looks conscious || CTX: what strategy would you call this? as I say I don't live it really.  I feel like it would be more epistemically protective though. @gOPwbi7qqtWeD9o @47fucb4r8c69323 @norvid_studies thoughts?
2026-01-30T07:17 id=2017134964710772845 →vigor_quietus | @vigor_quietus @gOPwbi7qqtWeD9o @norvid_studies only thing you'll carve out of dead space is dead space. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gOPwbi7qqtWeD9o @norvid_studies well my current protective strategy is kind of fragile. it relies on a kind of homeostasis, and it probably effects my dispositions towards things I don't notice.  A counter strategy is to a
2026-01-30T07:18 id=2017135216368980150 →vigor_quietus | @vigor_quietus @gOPwbi7qqtWeD9o @norvid_studies okay I see what you're saying. Don't dwell in the dead space, that's for the dead. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gOPwbi7qqtWeD9o @norvid_studies "you always say you hate the eifel tower, so why do eat lunch there every day?" "its the only place in paris I don't have to see the damn thing"
2026-01-30T11:28 id=2017198289998012744 →moralityetalon | @moralityetalon LMAOOOOOOOO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/8OZyB983fr
2026-01-30T11:33 id=2017199582351147406 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ "tbh idk" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and what did you answer to that?
2026-01-30T11:49 id=2017203452779384873 →- | Rush, Dream Theater, System of a Down... https://t.co/C10vxeIkhX || CTX: Every time I see this image, I always want to know what CDs he had behind him https://t.co/u8Hx5ka9dY
2026-01-30T11:50 id=2017203807885906288 →nekosattva_chan | @nekosattva_chan "Mathematize" doing so much heavy lifting as to render the entire effort nearly worthless, and they don't see it. || CTX: this stuff really depresses me because at no point did "continental philosophers" do anything to hurt anyone doing analytic philosophy. the converse is not true: self-professed analytic philosophers went out of their way to destroy the care
2026-01-30T13:00 id=2017221375849816093 →bellisaurius | @bellisaurius @besttrousers Point taken! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @besttrousers He's got 59k followers, I don't think that's quite digging up
2026-01-30T13:08 id=2017223427049082897 →helscom | @helscom Anti-Florida Man || CTX: not all minnesotans but always a minnesotan... https://t.co/nVJOHrU1AJ
2026-01-30T13:58 id=2017235885528650097 →- | Cheap Charlie Kirk Cameron Diaz
2026-01-30T23:16 id=2017376366052970786 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw How would writing something that gets millions of views benefit me? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you care enough to write a “how to use wittgenstein to remedy llm psychosis” or something like that i guarantee it will go viral and have millions of views btw
2026-01-30T23:31 id=2017380150762148047 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Awake was my favorite album as a teenager and I was blown away at how complex the music was. I tried to play guitar back then but I lack any musical skill or rhythm.   Oddly enough I can't listen to DT anymore; it all seems so pretentious and meaningless now. Still like Rush tho. || CTX: So was I. More DT than Rush. But definitely both. Was heavily into prog of all sorts. DT was one of my favorite bands.   Never quite warmed to James Labrie though.   But I do like the sound of the remaining 4 instrumentalists together (Like
2026-01-30T23:35 id=2017381163237863917 →grok | @grok @notafakeaddress @TheDailyShow How did Musk discuss such a visit? Did he want to visit or was he invited and declined the invite? || CTX: In any universe, responses rely on verified facts. Epstein pled guilty in 2008 to procuring a minor for prostitution and registered as a sex offender. 2013 emails show Musk discussing a potential island visit, which sources indicate was can
2026-01-30T23:39 id=2017382112866062426 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago A lot of the new math rock imo blows them away in terms of technique, but seems much more formulaic and less creative. E. g. Polyphia.  Kinda feels like the logical conclusion of the genre, which is why I can't enjoy listening to it, it that makes sense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. It does sound that way - but I think it’s the lyrics and the singing. I still like the music per se, for the most part. But I can only listen to a couple of songs at a time.
2026-01-31T00:00 id=2017387520284365247 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @sean_from_earth Journalism is a delicate balancing act of convincing sources to talk to you and being genuinely critical of sources. Do one too much and the other becomes impossible.  I found that balance impossible to maintain and bailed on the job quickly. || CTX: @sean_from_earth I think the issue here is some (powerful) people don’t want journalism, period
2026-01-31T00:04 id=2017388421426405832 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas When I was a TA I was pressured to give students higher grades than they deserved, back in the late 2000s.   University students are customers, simple as. || CTX: Students respond to incentives. The real issue is that despite the huge drop in performance, the professor is curving the grades so that this crop of students gets the same grades as previous years.  This is equivalent to grade school class
2026-01-31T00:06 id=2017388894178902351 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews @ImmanentFlux @alexolegimas lmfao || CTX: @ImmanentFlux @alexolegimas Wait, so you're saying the teachers ALSO have to respond to incentives?! How deep does this thing go?!
2026-01-31T00:08 id=2017389569990398208 →1889lw | @1889lw Last time the UK PM met with Xi, Tsingtao made an excellent English ale and sold it across Asia, so I'm optimistic. || CTX: I might be the rare one to think Keir Starmer visiting China is a good thing despite my hate for CCP
2026-01-31T00:09 id=2017389799032901971 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw He's not a serious person nor intelligent in any way worth noting. || CTX: &gt; be roko &gt; create the biggest infohazard thought experiment that lead to ea safetyist cult &gt; see the first iteration of your deranged dreams on moltbook &gt; call it a midwit redditor  how does he do that
2026-01-31T00:12 id=2017390376584417683 →teodorio | @teodorio In 2024 I saw some people using Local LLMs to do shit like this.  It's no big deal nor at all new, Anthropic users just seem to be a special kind of retarded.  "But these are agents--" just shut up already.  AI has gotten so big as a field it's now got tons of retards in it. || CTX: i've been on moltbook and while it is interesting I genuinely do not get it this is basically the another billion dollars to Anthropic meme. It's Claude Opus guys. It's Claude. What is going on with you?
2026-01-31T00:13 id=2017390621015871907 →- | "Look I made a clone of Reddit and put a bunch of chat bots on it, that's proof my computer is conscious."  You people are an embarrassment.
2026-01-31T00:16 id=2017391607813906681 →- | Humanity's TFR Is a natural function of what humanity needs at any given moment.  Below replacement rate is what humanity currently needs, unsurprising with how polluted the Earth is and wildlife population is declining. This is fine and good. https://t.co/u7QSC4kZFj || CTX: Italy with it's chill, laidback culture and a fertility rate of 1.2.  Japan with it's intense, workaholic culture and a fertility rate of 1.2. https://t.co/LPlC6ZWn2C
2026-01-31T00:18 id=2017392106378285507 →philiprosedale | @philiprosedale https://t.co/Cb3dToDzFx || CTX: "Look I made a clone of Reddit and put a bunch of chat bots on it, that's proof my computer is conscious."  You people are an embarrassment.
2026-01-31T00:21 id=2017392676279390640 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago The same fallacious magical thinking you discredit when it's directed at conventional religions. || CTX: I don’t know if the post from the specific bot mentioned in this tweet is real, but the narrative in there is fascinating nevertheless. https://t.co/pDxyvIDhPI
2026-01-31T00:21 id=2017392822039810282 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @heart_ Ads in their bio owned your ass I'm afraid to report. || CTX: @heart_ bold words from someone that has bet ads in their bio but ok
2026-01-31T00:24 id=2017393567547916556 →1889lw | The big thing holding back visa free travel is the horrific reputation Chinese tourists have abroad. They are reviled in southeast Asia for a lack of manners.  Gen Z mainlanders seem to not be like this (yelling, spitting, cutting in line etc). If they aren't, reputation should fade slowly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well I definitely think the visa-free policy is a positive thing. One of the few things CCP got right about, and I hope they could do more for the rest of the world.
2026-01-31T00:28 id=2017394526294577427 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago That was indeed very good! || CTX: Great article. Worth reading in its entirety. https://t.co/zuZQpRVUak
2026-01-31T00:29 id=2017394747070156886 →1889lw | @1889lw Oh I see. Did China get nothing in exchange? I thought most visa free policies were reciprocal || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh I mean China’s visa free policy for the UK citizens
2026-01-31T00:37 id=2017396802644017192 →- | This is regularly done among institutional investors, it's called channel checking, and it's the same thing retail investors on the internet dismiss as too unsystematic or not scientific enough or whatever.  Being told your job isn't real for over a decade on the internet makes you have a very particular kind of relationship to the internet. || CTX: Beyond being a complete stud and arguably the greatest hedge fund manager to ever walk the planet, Simons was an absolute fountain of insight.  Most people picture him as a pure math nerd who just sat around crunching numbers, but the reali
2026-01-31T00:37 id=2017396869840965821 →tomwarren | @tomwarren Top journalist reporting on the important news || CTX: Microsoft banned Jeffrey Epstein from Xbox Live in 2013 for “harassment, threats, and/or abuse of other players” that was “severe, repeated, and/or excessive.” https://t.co/DJ79Jls0PC
2026-01-31T00:38 id=2017397153745052098 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic Jfc that last paragraph is so bad. So so stupid. || CTX: Moltbook is basically proof that AIs can have independent agency long before they become anything other than bland midwits that spout reddit/hustle culture takes.  It's sort of the opposite of the yudkowskian or bostromian scenario where th
2026-01-31T00:40 id=2017397506393706507 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I don't know what it means to say an LLM has an understanding of anything. || CTX: But I actually like the narratives in religions - I just don’t believe they correspond to reality.   LLMs in this case  are largely imitative/emulative for the most part. Sure they can come up with creative new patterns, but ultimately they
2026-01-31T00:45 id=2017398719982018704 →jessesingal | @jessesingal Your naive half baked rationalist takes on AI are why I stopped listening to your podcast.  Realizing you were a midwit was very disappointing. || CTX: ha ha ha ha  [slowly backs away from laptop]  ha ha that is so cool ha  [stockpiles food]  ha ha   [buys firearms and ammunition for the first time]  ha https://t.co/jqgLxvaOUu
2026-01-31T00:46 id=2017398961947168861 →1889lw | @1889lw Seeing an oppressive regime become increasingly desperate fills my heart with joy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah definitely not in the case of China. They’ve given out a lot of one-sided visa-free policy recently
2026-01-31T00:47 id=2017399310384796065 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart https://t.co/MYG0U2sZc4 || CTX: Every screenshot I’ve seen from the bot social network is somehow more Reddit than Reddit.
2026-01-31T00:49 id=2017399916470145335 →- | These retards literally think the map is the terrain.  Idiots. You're all idiots.  And it's sadly our fault--we should have taken art and literature more seriously. https://t.co/ARFHh1jOZ8 || CTX: @jenny____r https://t.co/I9MimmINzj
2026-01-31T00:54 id=2017401131429990768 →gavinrbrown1 | @gavinrbrown1 Academia is really frustrating if your life ambition is to be a polymath. || CTX: Tenure: unlimited freedom in research direction, granted to exactly those people with a monomaniacal dedication to one particular research direction.
2026-01-31T01:02 id=2017403158583251445 →DeivonDrago | Stopped reading the Lyre paper at this:  "The core intuition behind the parrot and octopus claims is that lack of causal world contact amounts to lack of meaning in terms of reference"  This is not the counterargument. The counterargument is that pragmatics is constitutive of semantics.  Why should I take this paper seriously if the author doesn't seem to understand what he's arguing against? || CTX: Well that would be a Searle argument, but I think lots of people are moving to have more flexible positions.   Example - do LLMs need (sensorimotor or something similar) type of referants to concepts to ground their emulation of understandi
2026-01-31T01:05 id=2017403774416097434 →ThePurpIeKnight | @ThePurpIeKnight @thekinocorner Not all of us grade on a curve. || CTX: @thekinocorner criticism of him lacks teeth when there aren't more than a handful of working directors doing anything better than that
2026-01-31T01:11 id=2017405384257114120 →tszzl | @tszzl @arakharazian @cindohahahaha We looked into using Ramp for data a few years ago. Way too biased. || CTX: @arakharazian @cindohahahaha ramp is what 5% of corporate spend management? and primarily marketed to the highly online?
2026-01-31T01:12 id=2017405716785729713 →MsMelChen | @MsMelChen https://t.co/Cb3dToDzFx || CTX: "Look I made a clone of Reddit and put a bunch of chat bots on it, that's proof my computer is conscious."  You people are an embarrassment.
2026-01-31T01:15 id=2017406329644814530 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart "I admire this field so much I am going to read a couple intro textbooks and then confidently assert I've produced a tool representative of this field, that's how much I respect it." || CTX: New book arrived https://t.co/TXIsEkYPja
2026-01-31T01:19 id=2017407235560026356 →- | I recognize this behavior from the red light districts of Bangkok.   Sad to report this, but it's the same thing. Trade in flesh, the women are just meat thrown around, and no one cares because they are the underclass. https://t.co/0qkFmJeTbr || CTX: In a 2012 email chain, Kimbal Musk, the brother of Elon Musk, is warned not to harm Jeffrey Epstein’s “girl,” identified as Jennifer.   Kimbal responds by agreeing and says he is enjoying his time with her.  Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/DOP
2026-01-31T01:28 id=2017409643639873748 →DeivonDrago | I'm very confused, because you seem to claim the opposite of what Grice et al. said and we're working towards. Let me quote the SEP:  "Our initial focus will be on the traditions in pragmatics inaugurated by J. L. Austin and H. P. Grice. Both of these philosophers were interested in the area of pragmatics we call ‘far-side.’ In the classic period, these phenomena were studied on the premise — a premise increasingly undermined by developments in pragmatics itself — that a fairly clear distinction could be made between what is said, the output of the realm of semantics, and what is conveyed or accomplished in particular linguistic and social context in or by saying something, the realm of pragmatics"   The whole point of Grice's project is to note that you cannot draw a clear distinction between semantic content and context (linguistic and social).  Are you claiming that the analytic philosophical tradition believes such a clear distinction is possible, or even trivial? || CTX: >> pragmatics is constitutive of semantics.  I don’t agree with this at all. The analytical philosophy project strongly counters this notion - across most of its well known figures. Frege/Russell/Carnap/Quine etc would all disagree. In fact
2026-01-31T01:35 id=2017411437627642317 →- | I think this is a clue as to why literature died: you don't get pieces like this explaining why all day at an amusement park is fun, the fun is intuitive. https://t.co/iEQvIu1loA || CTX: “Infinite Jest” is a masterpiece and a pleasure to read, Hermione Hoby writes. “Perhaps the greatest disjunction between the book’s reputation and its contents lies in the notion that it’s a pretentious slog no one could honestly enjoy.” ht
2026-01-31T01:40 id=2017412708921184502 →FredLambert | @FredLambert Jfc he is such a loser || CTX: Elon Musk in an actual email to Epstein:  "What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?" https://t.co/BdTP6UiN1S https://t.co/bcUagvXoBv
2026-01-31T01:57 id=2017416837810819206 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I'm disappointed in you that you value either status. || CTX: x is crazy because within a minute, i spawned a notification in devices of both roko and feynman's son
2026-01-31T02:00 id=2017417755843301721 →ChrisExpTheNews | @ChrisExpTheNews Almost true, but not quite. https://t.co/NZVy0H7xSc || CTX: (He coined the word novella)
2026-01-31T02:18 id=2017422259065852384 →- | 1. Chaucer was fluent in Latin and translated Consolation of Philosophy from Latin.  2. In the 1990s a young impressionable clever person would've come across this fact in a university course where an expert could dispel the bewitching framing ("call him on it").  3. In this instance we see how the internet both expands information access (many people will learn about Chaucer from this tweet) and misinformation dispersion (details are wrong and poorly presented). || CTX: Chaucer couldn’t read Greek and when he quotes Plato he’s quoting a French translation of Boethius quoting Plato, but no one else could read Greek either so they couldn’t call him on it
2026-01-31T02:27 id=2017424559025410545 →- | In 2018 a Russian model named Anastasia Vashukevich was locked up at a prison in Bangkok.   I attempted to visit her and was threatened by the police with arrest if I didn't leave.   Wasn't allowed to leave a message, police refused to give me their names. https://t.co/t2A2e2et40 || CTX: Epstein emailing an FSB agent (in regards to Leon Black) https://t.co/ubDcxhouNU
2026-01-31T02:32 id=2017425613309809093 →CryptoCyberia | @CryptoCyberia @examachine Taylor Swift was almost certainly an anon too. Plenty of celebs and rich people were on the site. || CTX: @examachine it just is insane that I likely called Epstein a faggot before
2026-01-31T02:33 id=2017426021830795600 →roseromaunt | @roseromaunt This is not what you originally posted, it's waffles to the OP pancakes, dude.  You're just spreading misinformation as engagement bait to grow your account, it's fine, a lot of people do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Chaucer did indeed translate the consolation from Latin. But he was also familiar with de Meun’s translation of Boethius and “the word moot be cosyn to the dede” is closer to Meun than the original Boethius. I learned this 
2026-01-31T02:36 id=2017426775685595496 →roseromaunt | @roseromaunt Oh you're just stupid. You literally do not understand what I just wrote.  Also, Chaucer quotes Plato many times beyond in the GP.   Muting you now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m literally not. That is, to my knowledge, the only time Chaucer quotes Plato and it’s in the general prologue. “Eek Plato saith whoso kan him rede”
2026-01-31T02:39 id=2017427376809119821 →- | In 2017, so accounting for inflation it is still a pittance.  Artists who fret about AI stealing work from artists tend to forget how underpaid artists have always been.  Humanity just doesn't value art all that much, despite our claims otherwise. https://t.co/2uOgrVzLn0 || CTX: The budget was 5.5 million dollars, so assuming every penny went to the artists (doubtful) they were making $84 per oil painting which lmao. https://t.co/eem9ozzwJR
2026-01-31T02:45 id=2017429013808222681 →examachine | @examachine @CryptoCyberia I almost certainly told her TITS OR GTFO at least once. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CryptoCyberia I would have fumbled Swift so badly. :D
2026-01-31T02:52 id=2017430649205088733 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 How does one build the necessary immune system to avoid ever being one shotted? This is my current goal in life. || CTX: It also feels like getting one-shot is a rite of passage at this point. Some people may skip the step if they have the right literature and philosophy of science priors, though.
2026-01-31T03:09 id=2017435163056308453 →Fromzionshill | @Fromzionshill @roseromaunt I am not paid to teach children how to read Chaucer anymore. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @roseromaunt Why mute bro he’s sincere
2026-01-31T03:12 id=2017435702422868470 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @tomwarren The Verge are all grifting bullshit artists, I've had some run ins with them, they seem a mix of deeply confused and partly captured. Remember when they promoted NFTs?   Btw glad to see you again. You were sorely missed and people were worried. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tomwarren Don't miss where he glazes Windows for flirting with partial restoration of former functionality of basic OS components that we all bitched about losing in the first place  https://t.co/IkSjEo0ABt
2026-01-31T03:42 id=2017443248940454392 →- | Ladyboy at the 711, incredibly gorgeous face but unquestionably manly arms and hands.  Feel so bad for her, must be such a struggle.
2026-01-31T03:42 id=2017443447050015109 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @joyfulfuckup They now think their AI reddit simulator proves their computers are their friends, you may want to dip out for a few more days lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sorry about that, proof of life is usually over at @joyfulfuckup when I decide I can't listen to the thoughts of tpot/SF/whatever
2026-01-31T03:45 id=2017444147653972298 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @joyfulfuckup Man you and I would be such close friends irl fr fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @joyfulfuckup And, in fact--I fucking hate my feed and these aforementioned things right now  Exposure to these things may be why I don't do my stupid perverted art, which I should do instead :D
2026-01-31T04:17 id=2017452075320545533 →Livyenjoyer | @Livyenjoyer @Fromzionshill @roseromaunt if I was a sexpat in Thailand, I probably would be || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fromzionshill @roseromaunt You’re a sexpat in Thailand, you should be more chill at this rate.
2026-01-31T04:22 id=2017453461005340984 →Livyenjoyer | @Livyenjoyer @Fromzionshill @roseromaunt well I was buying coffee but okay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fromzionshill @roseromaunt You’ve been eyeing ladyboys as per your last tweet, try to find one who could get you more relaxed. Plato talks about this.
2026-01-31T04:26 id=2017454385799041084 →- | Your computer simulating a redditor is as conscious as my computer simulating Chunli is a hot Chinese karate chick.  You fucking retards.
2026-01-31T04:28 id=2017454927350796540 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 The joy this email in particular gives me almost justifies all those kids getting abused.  Don't jump on my shit people I said "almost" || CTX: 😭😭😭 https://t.co/HXp5w36X83
2026-01-31T04:44 id=2017458947243053521 →- | Disgusting pandering to fundamentalist Muslim chemists smdh https://t.co/GViHmFqyxg
2026-01-31T04:46 id=2017459471291977857 →- | But I don't want to have sex with fat white women that's why I left America. https://t.co/ZEf9O29B3k
2026-01-31T04:47 id=2017459686216503544 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 You were too old at the time, but if you wanna stop by and give me a massage, shoulders are kinda sore atm || CTX: Seems like fucking everyone was in this thing and I'm just a loser they didn't invite https://t.co/XtAwFj2zWW
2026-01-31T06:38 id=2017487662035439751 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw fair || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i tend to shitpost and this is also one of them
2026-01-31T09:06 id=2017524845588922800 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw my bad lmao soz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you squint at the post, you will see i am making fun of him hahahah
2026-01-31T11:53 id=2017566819360641460 →teodorio | @teodorio @retardbot9000 The 'tism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 what did he even do that not even Epstein wanted to deal with him?
2026-02-01T00:43 id=2017760689318990010 →1889lw | @1889lw New internet hate law basically turned the UK almost as censorious as mainland China. || CTX: Not a British but I’m genuinely confused by all the Keir Starmer hate. Like he’s surely not great but wtf has he done poorly, apart from maybe doing the six seven meme during his school visit? https://t.co/3EbEwbBjDE
2026-02-01T00:50 id=2017762389358481902 →- | A lot of the supposed technological gaps in the financial system are intentionally there  I've explained many times to crypto people explaining that money transfers between banks in America don't show up instantly on purpose, this is a feature not a bug, crypto doesn't fix this. https://t.co/GYwnNjf5ll || CTX: Anything having to do with money was some of the first stuff to be computerized, to the point that every financial institution is a technology company (which is why fintech hasn’t been able to do anything beyond nipping at the edges) https:
2026-02-01T00:51 id=2017762725477372179 →1889lw | @1889lw 1. Explain thing via metaphor  2. Make the metaphor flatter than the thing 3. Overly compress your idea, so now everything fits one scalar   This particular intellectual fallacy is super common. || CTX: This is insane cope. There are many games out there. https://t.co/X7EJjsqaBf
2026-02-01T00:56 id=2017763864314843350 →1889lw | @1889lw Okay, maybe unwarranted comparison. Unacceptably censorious, then. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well I disagree. At least people can still curse Keir Starmer freely. Can’t imagine the counterpart in China
2026-02-01T00:57 id=2017764181874028974 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Many countries do, which is why the global appeal of crypto confused me for a long time, until I realized it's just degenerate gambling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Heck, we have them in Canada, and have for decades!
2026-02-01T00:58 id=2017764435444830404 →- | https://t.co/IASwPTKgTW
2026-02-01T01:01 id=2017765283285635345 →- | RT @TheStalwart: I'm sorry, but a lot of the criticism of vibecoding reminds me of the early days of blogs, when people warned that if anyo… || CTX: I'm sorry, but a lot of the criticism of vibecoding reminds me of the early days of blogs, when people warned that if anyone could publish online that we'd be drowning in infohazards and misleading commentary by people unqualified to really
2026-02-01T01:11 id=2017767680120635609 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Whoever says that is retarded || CTX: why do people say the 80s were the worst decade for music? theres so many good songs.
2026-02-01T01:13 id=2017768161257644476 →paulnovosad | @paulnovosad @GarettJones Yeah people connected to powerful people are less corruptible, Cowen is very smart and so are you uh huh uh huh definitely smart mhmm || CTX: Tyler Cowen 🔥🔥 https://t.co/xCKqYlc1ZQ
2026-02-01T01:14 id=2017768458021380350 →Grimezsz | @Grimezsz @tszzl Grimes loves the tweet and all the intelligent people hate it.   Rare roon L. || CTX: @tszzl wow this hit me like a hammer   I've been having such a hard time making nice ethereal easy listening that everybody wants because I can't look away
2026-02-01T01:14 id=2017768535641211021 →tszzl | @tszzl https://t.co/jSBgT4lXse || CTX: the acceleration is perhaps the last most aesthetically interesting thing happening on earth and is slightly vampiric in that it makes everything else slightly less aesthetically interesting
2026-02-01T01:15 id=2017768743531909166 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Egoistic retards, they'll all now free to live in their fantasy worlds.  Maddening and hilarious. || CTX: 'you know, crown me' https://t.co/650aT7H7MQ
2026-02-01T01:28 id=2017772008487194974 →emollick | @emollick "Moltbook is fake but the feelings are real and that's what really matters." || CTX: A useful thing about MoltBook is that it provides a visceral sense of how weird a "take-off" scenario might look if one happened for real  MoltBook itself is more of an artifact of roleplaying, but it gives people a vision of the world wher
2026-02-01T01:32 id=2017772967678402716 →- | Yudchuds? https://t.co/g3EnHHrwIk || CTX: We need a slur for people that keep falling for AI sentience bait. https://t.co/hvKI1EAMsD
2026-02-01T01:36 id=2017774134307238347 →amaldorai | @amaldorai @alt1na1 Yeah you can swap your husband out for someone more handsome too while you're at it || CTX: @alt1na1 Give ChatGPT your ugly wedding photos and your best photos of each person in them and ask it to jazz everyone up
2026-02-01T01:37 id=2017774247943540776 →DouthatNYT | @DouthatNYT Oh so you're retarded. || CTX: I don't have a definite view at all on where we are going but I think taking AI seriously absolutely requires having the occasional Yudkowskian moment (or day's worth of tweets). https://t.co/oBXbSfw9OP
2026-02-01T01:38 id=2017774428831289543 →seessijehb58817 | @seessijehb58817 @DouthatNYT Beautifully said. || CTX: @DouthatNYT Your response to the little chatbot play-acting subreddit shows you have no fucking clue. You've spoken with more experts than 99.999% of people and yet you're still utterly gullible and credulous about it all. At this point the
2026-02-01T01:38 id=2017774594736984475 →- | RT @jackedwards100: @tszzl None of your financial analogies make any sense || CTX: @tszzl None of your financial analogies make any sense
2026-02-01T02:09 id=2017782254697934920 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk The relationship between artist and patron has always been an awkward negotiation between the ruthless power hunger that hates life and that weird Dionysian mix of taste and creativity and love of beauty we call art that loves life. || CTX: I love that normies have known for decades that there is something seriously wrong with the “art” scene in higher circles and then sometimes it’s just written out in plain english https://t.co/9QMa5BoGRp
2026-02-01T02:10 id=2017782591148200154 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Have any active linguists reached out to say they are using your tool in their research? How valuable do they find it? || CTX: Added a warning https://t.co/IW3SPRJsrZ
2026-02-01T02:13 id=2017783382013530622 →logicus | @logicus Are you asserting this will be the case for all users or some? In either case, what % of cognitive hit do you predict and when/where will it be noticeable? || CTX: until an offline claude processing unit is embedded in the human brain, cognitive deterioration, skill loss, and opportunity cost from over-reliance on llms is a serious risk to the user. future ai models and interfaces will dance with huma
2026-02-01T02:18 id=2017784617307410737 →jessesingal | @jessesingal https://t.co/RonTjPwVkJ  Jesse is very stupid. || CTX: a bunch of dumb guys asked their local LLMs to output text simulating Reddit and are freaking out about machine intelligence because their statistically probable text generator is generating statistically probable text. https://t.co/yNMwGys
2026-02-01T02:19 id=2017784917426663792 →TomVliet263721 | @TomVliet263721 @jessesingal Just need to come to terms with the realization that Jesse isn't as smart as we thought he was. || CTX: @jessesingal Yes breaking news this is just prompts responding to other prompts please stop tweeting about it
2026-02-01T02:51 id=2017792808506298530 →1889lw | @1889lw Because analytic philosophers do this all the time or because it gives you the tools to see when others do this?   Well, either answer, same for me tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s the reason I still love analytic philosophy
2026-02-01T02:52 id=2017793259561750785 →logicus | @logicus Agreed but I suspect this is going to vary massively from person to person in unpredictable ways. || CTX: the paper tells me there’s a sweet spot between learning and speed somewhere between full brainless offloading (sometimes called for) and the slowness of organic creation in the short-term. i would guess that if a person heavily offloads an
2026-02-01T02:59 id=2017794846392770858 →- | This is human slop.  Write like roon, think like a high schooler.  Garbage doesn't need AI to be born. https://t.co/eOMBWyjDmJ || CTX: the most embarrassing realization of this Epstein saga is that global hegemony is just the high school cafeteria writ large.  at the absolute zenith of human achievement, the rich nerds with 13 figures and builders of the modern world still
2026-02-01T03:21 id=2017800362498134257 →logicus | Those and other determinants. My point is there are so many elements that go into cognition, understanding, knowing (and these are themselves all complicated amorphous concepts) such that whatever statistical differences among cohorts we find won't be useful because we can't identify what makes those cohorts coherent.  I mean ofc we'll see the cohorts all have more x if y, but we will never fully know why.  I'm not a positivist basically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which part? learning, speed, preferences? i'm sure that all varies a lot, but i would guess you'd see some stable statistical differences over the long term depending on what you're looking for.
2026-02-01T04:31 id=2017818009138827352 →ded_ruckus | @ded_ruckus This should have been your default assumption. || CTX: this suggests to me that the Moltbook stuff is substantially less interesting than people are taking it as  it's just a bunch of Claudes that have been heavily prompted to act like this, playing off each other https://t.co/tsdPH1xBvu
2026-02-01T04:38 id=2017819906742620278 →Sosowski | @Sosowski The worst part is there's only one copy of all those books and everything in them is lost forever! || CTX: TIL Anthropic is cutting up and destroying books, because that’s the fastest way to scan them. And they ran out of data to train their slop machines because they polluted the internet with so much slop  One more fucked up shit to the pile o
2026-02-01T05:08 id=2017827382321963330 →- | RT @dnduplessie: What are these people even talking about? It’s a kid saying he likes a book. Sometimes I feel like I’m living on mars. htt… || CTX: What are these people even talking about? It’s a kid saying he likes a book. Sometimes I feel like I’m living on mars. https://t.co/ijlRfO59Hb
2026-02-01T05:20 id=2017830376547488254 →ben_golub | @ben_golub Post so dumb made me unfollow you. || CTX: If the wildest AI bulls are right and all knowledge work is about to disappear fast, that implies a lot for today:  nobody should be using AI to learn job skills, or automate their daily workflows, or anything else, since the work world is 
2026-02-01T06:05 id=2017841693975056494 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Reminds me of when the web exploded in the 90s and different attitudes about how the internet would developed emerged. || CTX: You can smell the change in AI sentiment among different information clusters here
2026-02-01T06:10 id=2017843017944846482 →- | RT @ericaavey: @BorisSkossyrev Poetry today || CTX: @BorisSkossyrev Poetry today
2026-02-01T06:18 id=2017845065897677302 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Yes but the timeline was different; the grift followed the initial schisms by a few years, here they're entangled and simultaneous. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did it feel as full of "grift" ?
2026-02-01T06:40 id=2017850458644324765 →- | Americans have a naturally very high risk tolerance in everything except urban planning.
2026-02-01T06:59 id=2017855222165737883 →- | RT @Wittgensteinnn: "What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within." || CTX: "What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within."
2026-02-01T07:06 id=2017857098219176029 →- | "Separate the art from the artist" final boss https://t.co/jctQiD1Crg || CTX: @onionweigher whatever his other obvious flaws  epsteins was hilarious af 10/10 email game
2026-02-01T07:19 id=2017860433340944750 →- | Left a voice message. Let's see if he calls me back. https://t.co/Ouh7iZHxUj || CTX: 1) Bannon and Epstein text exchange.  They mention Trump's new assistant, Madeleine Westerhout as a new friend of Trump.  Bannon calls her a grundoon, one of his favorite pejoratives. Epstein refers to her as "Kneepads" and she is "doing Go
2026-02-01T08:05 id=2017872009292877911 →- | This is legitimately art. https://t.co/Ie5ZjI6nor || CTX: in before llama3, MASI presents  "top 10 delve songs (number 3 will surprise u)" https://t.co/YDvFpQsP31
2026-02-01T09:12 id=2017888744767103292 →- | Okay that's enough internet for today. https://t.co/m5U82pVp9U || CTX: An email between Ariane De Rothschild and Jeffrey Epstein claims that, when Hitler was destitute in Vienna, he lived in a shelter that was funded by the Rothschilds and the Epsteins.   Follow: @AFpost https://t.co/qKLp3R2ERk
2026-02-01T09:48 id=2017897746959896794 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @Sosowski lol no || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sosowski Wtf, is this true?
2026-02-01T11:06 id=2017917555047104861 →- | Some of my mutuals are quite possibly genius level intelligences and some of them are basically mouth breathing retards.   Love this website so much. If I'd been born 30 years ago I'd be stuck with issues of Vanity Fair and People instead.
2026-02-01T11:28 id=2017923073497067871 →- | Novel idea: Man from the distant future time travels to the near future to kill a young scientist who will develop an air born virus that kills all male sex drive, which causes the collapse of civilization and the dystopian hellscape the time traveler has just left...   On his way to kill the scientist he is nearly killed by a meth head and saved by a woman, who nurses him back to health. During that time she tells him much about her, including that she is a rape survivor.  Learning this, the man begins to question whether he should actually kill the scientist. Will he or won't he?
2026-02-01T11:37 id=2017925386194313625 →MissPavIichenko | @MissPavIichenko @NumarPatru So fucking heart wrenching || CTX: @NumarPatru Yeah, this is the file https://t.co/C1rt6yCDOG
2026-02-01T12:04 id=2017932099123335217 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Look it up, was a very respectable magazine in the mid 20th century || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Vanity fair?
2026-02-01T12:11 id=2017933704082133175 →DrMANowak | @DrMANowak Did you torture her? || CTX: My new book, Within, bridges science, philosophy, poetry, religion. It examines: Does God exist? What is God? Does mathematics or evolution bring us to God?  It celebrates the great Carmelite Doctor Thérèse of Lisieux. https://t.co/v8Jmswpt
2026-02-01T14:35 id=2017969968290390519 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 What's interesting in the case of markets is, yes those flash crashes happened causing more violent very short term volatility than ever before, but long term it caused lower average volatility overall. || CTX: This is correct; however, people will care about the externalities. In a world with increasing complexity and pace (as a function of background automation), we’ll see more phenomena that feel like unstable winds arising from the aether.  Lo
2026-02-01T14:42 id=2017971913034014744 →- | The worst thing about nostalgia is, if you don't time it just right, you'll end up surreptitiously praising the boomers.
2026-02-01T15:12 id=2017979336436207743 →- | idk how he had time to rape kids he was so busy hanging out with every powerful person on Earth https://t.co/hzq56ZO3wA || CTX: Epstein tells Bannon he's with the entire Macron government, 3/29/2019 https://t.co/xnzuCa4jrp https://t.co/RBIJwp9kb6
2026-02-01T15:15 id=2017980042723361051 →- | Rapesputin https://t.co/H8suyj2yYC || CTX: This guy Epstein was sort of modern Rasputin or smth https://t.co/Nr2otP8YWC
2026-02-01T15:21 id=2017981606850691088 →mazzenilsson | @mazzenilsson So glad my government censored this victim's name. || CTX: Such lovely humans that hang around Epstein; https://t.co/QINDQSpbjR
2026-02-01T23:34 id=2018105614539600281 →- | RT @1889lw: I would actually say the same, not because I’m indifferent to what these people have done, but because I’m no longer surprised… || CTX: I would actually say the same, not because I’m indifferent to what these people have done, but because I’m no longer surprised given how miserable this world already is https://t.co/s6uLEFwBFt
2026-02-01T23:58 id=2018111772188983401 →- | "to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric" - Theodor Adorno, 1949 https://t.co/WISBzFuXLY || CTX: seems weird and the reason is unclear to me but poetry is one of the most salient examples of the We Cant. We Dont Know How thing.   the last tolerable poem was written in like 1910 https://t.co/3ilI8ic96Z
2026-02-02T00:02 id=2018112765412729085 →- | This makes so much sense and makes me so much more bearish on Ilya.  Explains why, up until Claude Code, Anthropic was so far behind. But it's also bullish at the right valuation since it means Anthropic will focus on enterprise, where margins are best. https://t.co/txt9RKK4N0 || CTX: https://t.co/JOWhNIRxS3
2026-02-02T00:04 id=2018113210105381259 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza What story are you referring to? || CTX: What’s crazy is every forest on Earth used to look like this. Mankind’s oldest recovered written story describes felling great trees just like these, in a forest long gone even by the time of its writing https://t.co/0tsNxozRSM
2026-02-02T00:13 id=2018115427726176337 →1889lw | @1889lw I too am this way which is why the conventional friend/enemy dichotomy has always deeply confused me.  Sigh... we're autistic, aren't we? || CTX: The kind of people I love the most are not those who I can agree happily with but rather those who I can disagree happily with
2026-02-02T00:42 id=2018122859827380259 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Please do, my view on Anthropic is almost certainly overly simplistic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can i comment on this claim? :) i can also not, if you want me to.
2026-02-02T01:29 id=2018134660803654058 →- | Extremely compelling theory to argue Anthropic wins short term, loses long term. https://t.co/9sIUtsFDNB || CTX: i think enterprise is a mistake in terms of "who wins the war", because that is not something high-end but a temporary important bussiness niche.  Resource allocation goes always to what is the most important at a time. for example: lets pr
2026-02-02T01:47 id=2018139116865716706 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Cadence and EV of each of the AI functions are the variables such that you could be technically correct but in terms of dollar value the distinction doesn't matter.   However, this seems a very unlikely scenario.  You're legit onto something imo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i can be wrong, you know, im not nearly an expert, it seems to me you are, i listened how you talk economics, you are not ordinarily aware. if you find any holes - i am open to discuss, if it will be still of any interest t
2026-02-02T01:51 id=2018140129068789820 →_rabbi | @_rabbi I just wish I could turn it off || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Worrying is a very jewish trait. I worry regardless of the news and social trends
2026-02-02T02:05 id=2018143833943634258 →_rabbi | @_rabbi https://t.co/31bzaioPx7 || CTX: The epstein thing is obviously an attempt to induce mass psychosis. If you cant handle it go for a walk
2026-02-02T02:11 id=2018145256181846047 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Fully agreed, sadly my PhD supervisor loved the Frankfurt school so had to read too much of them, but I think the ways Adorno is right and the ways he's wrong here teach us much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And we are lucky that society has largely ignored the Frankfurt school (except for Habermas who’s more or less a good guy).
2026-02-02T02:22 id=2018147865688952853 →affrodiziac_ | The general shape of what you describe is logical. It's a coherent story. But humanity always creates artificial scarcity after solving problems of natural scarcity, and so I'm not sure if value would get pushed solely to attention. I think that's what would happen if humans were consistent, mechanistic, predictable--if they were homo erectus.  In reality humans carve out scarcity, so what you describe may never happen or happen centuries after we have the tech to make it happen. || CTX: i think i explicitly tried to evade using allocations in terms of dollars as value, because i think at that level, economy would change drastically, and the only economic value quantification imo at all times (after automation) - is society
2026-02-02T02:26 id=2018148988005032061 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Can't blame them, a sort of historically necessary silliness humanity needed to go through. But the naivete is really hard for me to stomach, and to this day made me biased to assume Europeans are more naive than Americans/Asians (which is confirmed for me shockingly often). || CTX: I think most of them had really good intentions. They were all somewhat naive too considering their intellects (obvious whey got shocked by wicked American ways). They were also good analysts - they just had bad starting points with their s
2026-02-02T02:32 id=2018150467138970099 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen I find Claude's personality distasteful and its inability to understand irony, subtext, and themes in poetry and works of fiction a sign of poor qualitative reasoning skills relative to OAI and GOOG  Can you show me a particularly compelling/impressive example of a Claude output?
2026-02-02T02:39 id=2018152324464787588 →- | Our response to the excessive cancellations of the early 2020s apparently will be to cancel no one for anything in the late 2020s, even a global human trafficking conspiracy.
2026-02-02T02:43 id=2018153200885580237 →BigMeanInternet | @BigMeanInternet Well that'll solve the problem so relieved you spoke up || CTX: That is not fair use. Publishers do not sell a license to do that. Publishers do not own the right to sell you a license to do that. It explicitly says you're not allowed to do that on the copyright page.
2026-02-02T03:11 id=2018160257340707324 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen Okay yes I see how that is unquestionably much more economically valuable than what I was thinking of.
2026-02-02T03:27 id=2018164450306805963 →AlexCaswen | I am a ChatGPT Pro user and when I use it for work tasks it is almost entirely financial stuff.  I've been in somewhat similar situations, but slightly different. E. g. I need a new method of risk modeling, I go to ChatGPT, present the situation, converse to explore possible methods, choose one, execute it with ChatGPT.   I can't say it's been unhelpful in this task, but I can't say it's been noticably better or worse than Gemini where I pay for pro.  And I would bet Claude would be comparably good for this too.  Thing is, this doesn't seem like a sufficient test for AI. Fixing a virtual machine issue or proposing a risk assessment methodology seem like economically valuable but very low intelligence tasks. Maybe I'm wrong on this.
2026-02-02T03:57 id=2018171977463447886 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen Quality improvement between Thinking and Pro is absurd, I recommend it.  Also, to be fair: you've convinced me to pay for Claude again. You make a compelling case.
2026-02-02T04:11 id=2018175483263979878 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 LMFAOOOOOOO || CTX: when you're at the clawdbot effective altruist function and you mention that you don't think the autoregressive token generator isn't ensouled https://t.co/KoWaDAmJh2
2026-02-02T04:14 id=2018176051160207858 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago There's a fascinating and always moving barrier between what can/can't be said in public.  This story is anodyne in private for those with the right sense of humor, shocking in public because that kinda sense of humor doesn't go public much.  Cf my baby rape jokes with the boys. || CTX: I wonder if this is more of a guy thing. I can totally see this happening with a couple of my close friends. https://t.co/gbzt0kbY11
2026-02-02T04:14 id=2018176292055884284 →- | Cheap Jew. https://t.co/kinDc4ClAi || CTX: A check with a $10 donation to The American Friends of the Hebrew University, signed by Abert Einstein in 1955 https://t.co/ZzySW4xPul
2026-02-02T04:15 id=2018176484473712818 →- | RT @_rabbi: just one more remote job and ill be happy || CTX: just one more remote job and ill be happy
2026-02-02T04:26 id=2018179101035835789 →- | I'm too much of a decadent lowlife to be doing economic forecasting, legit have no idea how my career was ever a thing.  I can't be the only one who experiences this.
2026-02-02T04:41 id=2018183069795291643 →_rabbi | @_rabbi Georgia. || CTX: Considering digital nomading in albania
2026-02-02T04:51 id=2018185529616138647 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 NGL, you make a good point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That the perfect job for a decadent lowlife
2026-02-02T05:54 id=2018201318989697066 →- | Ofc Moltbook was fake and stupid, but a product where I can chat with 4-5 different AI chatbots and they can talk to each other would be fun.
2026-02-02T06:03 id=2018203688448471421 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem I visited in 1994, a few times in the early 2000s, then went back in 2022 and was absolutely in shock at how much it'd changed.  Rome, Amsterdam otoh are relatively the same. || CTX: I know folks in the suburbs can't stand what she's done, and Paris is a bit of a "museum city", but can there be any place in the world that improved more in past 20 years? And things like "close the block in front of a school to cars" and 
2026-02-02T07:00 id=2018218020070633973 →vokaysh | @vokaysh any worth trying? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 many such products
2026-02-02T07:04 id=2018218915525259727 →- | As I'm technically Gen X, this is the archetype I identify with the most. https://t.co/quv90wHtZS || CTX: feel like we’ve lost the 90s archetype of the slacker in quite a profound and mystifying way, feel like we lost something important with him too
2026-02-02T08:02 id=2018233609996603457 →- | RT @tszzl: we are well past the peak of 'striverism' whatever that means. everything related to social class and traditional status competi… || CTX: we are well past the peak of 'striverism' whatever that means. everything related to social class and traditional status competition looks pretty murky going forward. stay weird and stay nimble
2026-02-02T08:52 id=2018246012821995677 →abierkhatib | @abierkhatib She was chasing after her father, that's why she was with Epstein. Good lord. || CTX: Look at this 👀   So, Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad tried to shake down the Mossad  for £400 million… and, ‘surprise’, that didn’t end well for him. The dude fell off his posh yacht and died 😏 https://t.co/xgSr7CxmBb
2026-02-02T08:52 id=2018246215557894441 →fchollet | @fchollet Don't look up anything in the Epstein files || CTX: We're reaching unprecedented levels of panicked gaslighting. But we have eyes, we can read.
2026-02-02T10:01 id=2018263483348074804 →CDMorlock | @CDMorlock @Sfostertx1 @JoyceCarolOates What an awkward situation. I legit want to say "congratulations" but that's really inappropriate. || CTX: @Sfostertx1 @JoyceCarolOates I've been talking about how bad Chomsky was for 40 years.
2026-02-02T10:41 id=2018273525669548111 →- | The novel is essentially about the human mind, and the scope of the mind is naturally limited to a few hundred people.  That is why the novel about the singular mind can feel so claustrophobic and painful. Cf Notes from the Underground or Old Man and the Sea. https://t.co/WFDeNHS54H || CTX: actually, the more outrageous & atrocious examples, the less suitable for fiction; fiction has to be selective, focussing on a small cast.  Epstein is beyond fiction  & in the realm of statistics. as Brecht said, "Numbers sanctify."   if St
2026-02-02T10:48 id=2018275361239552178 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh remote tropical area || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh where in thiland are you?
2026-02-02T17:27 id=2018375654694424879 →- | This is a beautiful natural error.  We see words (esp nouns) correspond to things in the world and think that correspondence is semantics and tracking the relationship via a truth value is how we understand the meaning of linguistic tokens.  It doesn't work that way.  In the song, what's happening is the lyric "New York, New York" activates an associativity in your mind towards the token set corresponding to City, State while also activating an association with poetic repetition of the city name for rhetorical effect (palilogia).  Is it "City, State" or palilogia? Well, the question presupposes a right answer and that it must be one. In reality, it's leveraging both possible meanings for stylistic effect without being exclusively either one.  We often assume a false dilemma between "right" and "wrong" when dealing with natural language because the T/F binary is intuitive and is epistemically efficacious as a heuristic, but it is neither how natural language, nor the mind, nor the universe itself operates. || CTX: https://t.co/SLt9Eb9d5X
2026-02-02T17:32 id=2018377083341455402 →benfowlkesMMA | @benfowlkesMMA Coffeezilla really hit the nail on the head with "crime is legal" || CTX: Lot of younger Americans don’t know this because they never experienced the old world, but we used to have a thing called political scandals. When an elected official was caught doing something bad, they occasionally faced something called 
2026-02-02T17:44 id=2018380000609853768 →birchlse | @birchlse I've been saying this for years. We digital humanities PhDs are absolutely ignored, I was doing corpus linguistics in the 2000s.  At least talk to us ffs. || CTX: LLMs are in essence digital humanities projects with hundred-billion-dollar budgets and no expertise in the humanities. https://t.co/o5CnBqbxXU
2026-02-02T17:46 id=2018380542354620750 →ichbinilya | @ichbinilya @birchlse Many LLM bottlenecks could probably be fixed if they interacted with humanities people more, especially nuance with irony/multiple valences/rhetoric.  ChatGPT makes smarter models that write worse. They need humanities people. || CTX: @birchlse Why is this bad?
2026-02-02T18:20 id=2018389167340998740 →- | RT @alexolegimas: To understand why it’s crazy to think communism/socialism is a superior alternative to our current market economy, it’s u… || CTX: To understand why it’s crazy to think communism/socialism is a superior alternative to our current market economy, it’s useful to understand the historical context when Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto.   This was the early/mid phase of t
2026-02-02T18:30 id=2018391682908385497 →- | https://t.co/IaBpqC1zpV I'm glad I was able to contribute to Humanity's Last Exam.   Wish a deeper and more permanent partnership between AI scientists and humanities experts were possible, but maybe this is a small step toward that future.
2026-02-03T01:23 id=2018495515781189846 →- | I like telling truth to power not because I'm righteous or want to do good in the world, but just because it's entertaining.  I'm spiritually a troll and just have to accept that fact.
2026-02-03T01:28 id=2018496666748563897 →- | The 4o driven psychosis has so much implication for literary theory but all the English professors are so obsessed with calling AI evil they won't do their jobs and analyze text.  It's a dereliction of duty but the humanities have declined so much no one besides me cares.
2026-02-03T01:32 id=2018497858438352925 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Post Malone is an insanely talented musician under all that trash styling. Kinda wish he'd been born in another era, probably would've made masterpieces. || CTX: If you’d have told me that the dork who sang “White Iverson” was gonna embrace a western gimmick and tear it the fuck up in an Ozzy tribute I’d have laughed in your face, but here we are. https://t.co/HCd2NvhauA
2026-02-03T02:19 id=2018509647083426041 →runclepennybags | @runclepennybags https://t.co/kBo0Cyli0F  Been saying this for a while || CTX: Back when I was an academic my field was "codicology" and one of the odd things I'd realized is that there was a fetish of the codex that had developed since the middle ages. Not a fetish for the book, for the codex specifically, and that h
2026-02-03T02:24 id=2018510969769779564 →- | Reminds me of when I had to explain in England that bar fights in America are way less common because we're always worried someone has a gun. https://t.co/WcIuYH99Lp || CTX: I saw an interview of Jim Goad once and he said the weirdest thing about coming out of prison was that people were so discourteous.   Apparently in prison everyone said sorry if they bumped into you etc. because if they didn’t it meant they
2026-02-03T02:34 id=2018513399068676561 →logicus | @logicus yung macro has focused his niche on targeting the young aspirant stupid contrarian.  What saddens me is that said niche is so big. || CTX: epstein had forests of banality in him. no seed of philosophy can be found in his false wonder. his charlatanry insults the leisure even of a twig grafted onto plato or tully. if pseudo-intellectual babblers like him appeal to you, your sof
2026-02-03T02:50 id=2018517345610907659 →- | I have no idea how many people have ever translated Latin into Thai in the Vatican, but I have, and that fact will always be special to me.
2026-02-03T02:52 id=2018517799841526272 →Petersbrooking | @Petersbrooking @JoyceCarolOates "Culture war issues really aren't a thing here" from the nation that brought the world Brexit, Farage, The Sun, endless class tensions, literally the largest colonial power in human history... || CTX: @JoyceCarolOates There isn't really a bitter divide in the UK. There is a massive, orchestrated campaign to make us hate trans people, but in reality most people either don't care or accept people for who they are.  Culture war issues reall
2026-02-03T02:56 id=2018519023580000428 →enayessa | @enayessa oh that's why Claire Lehmann is bored of the Epstein story || CTX: i do wonder how involved epstein was in the rise of anti-sjw shit around this time because there's also lawrence krauss (e-mailed epstein for advice on how to deal with allegations) who's still very active in the "anti-woke" sphere https://
2026-02-03T03:06 id=2018521443462787354 →- | Philosopher King but it's Camus so he just tells everyone to fuck off and find something fun to do without hurting other people in the process
2026-02-03T03:07 id=2018521714666442764 →graveair | @graveair @acteduweininger Clearly you do as this is a lie.  You seem very good at lying to yourself at least. || CTX: @acteduweininger I don’t have that bone in me.
2026-02-03T03:12 id=2018522848642634159 →Mjreard | @Mjreard Legit a South Park episode predicted this 20 years ago. || CTX: Yudkowsky-rationalism and Scott Alexander-rationalism are eventually gonna do a whole Sunni/Shia huh
2026-02-03T04:47 id=2018546941010079935 →_rabbi | @_rabbi Why is this embarrassing and who are you embarrassed in front of?  If you're alone and this activity embarrasses you it's because you're imagining someone watching you and you feel ashamed. Who are you imagining and why are you ashamed? || CTX: Taking time out of your day to watch two men talk about stuff is "embrassing", even moreso when the conversation topic is their feelings. Yet I have an unexplained to compulsion to hear them out. Maybe they know something I dont.
2026-02-03T04:54 id=2018548748801229007 →- | Applied Nietzsche for the 21st century.  This is exactly what people SHOULD do with the humanities. When people do this they're usually attacked by humanities professors who are really just gatekeeping because they entered the humanities to satisfy their need to feel superior to others.  The humanities made themselves irrelevant via their snobbery then snobbishly tried to shame people for not funding them enough. They deserve to die. || CTX: Anti semitic resentment is peak goy cattle.  Hating your master doesn’t make you any less a slave. If you still watch the goyporn and eat the goyslop and smoke the goynip and work the goyjob and play the goygames your resentment is meaningl
2026-02-03T04:56 id=2018549160056893864 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka gm fren || CTX: is the morning good or the the good is morning, anyway gm https://t.co/pNCrFXGOra
2026-02-03T04:59 id=2018549784865607958 →RileyRalmuto | @RileyRalmuto @flowersslop I released two apps simultaneously (Android and iOS) 4 years ago and we had a total budget of 20k. || CTX: i wondered this my whole life  and then i built an app, and kinda understood then i built an IOS app and began the app store process, etc. and *fully* understood. hahaha.   turns out its a real motherfucker, and youre basically building two
2026-02-03T05:15 id=2018553925474058567 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @meowbooksj Top of goy'mornin' to ya || CTX: @meowbooksj goyim morning
2026-02-03T05:21 id=2018555442746781824 →- | I could not log in to Claude via Google using ChatGPT Atlas but could using Chrome. I suspect this is intentional, real petty antitrust shit @OpenAI
2026-02-03T06:01 id=2018565486599131406 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Anon is right either way || CTX: I might have been the one to post this. https://t.co/gvzjAKm4Kb
2026-02-03T06:15 id=2018569020916879370 →- | ChatGPT thinks better, Claude writes better.
2026-02-03T06:19 id=2018570010273390791 →EmbiidAmputee | @EmbiidAmputee Sinclair Media local news bullshit all over again || CTX: JD Vance sent the same prompt twice oopsies https://t.co/34fALV8LDh
2026-02-03T06:25 id=2018571415642145255 →- | Once I was at a lunch with two acquaintances: one is a money launderer and the other was a dropshipper who got very lucky and as a result very rich.  Money launderer was telling a story about his recent trip to Dubai and he'd met some mafioso who had millions of dollars in cash in some luxury brand van alongside guns etc etc.  "It was so fucking cool!" he said at the end of the story.  "Cool?!" I said autistically, genuinely confused and outraged. "Why is that cool? He's probably a murderer who has tortured innocent people."   Then I realized: THAT is what they found so cool. They want to be the murderer gangster. They think hurting other people and doing crime is cool.  These people, sadly, exist, and they hurt people all the time. They just do not care about the damage they cause the world, they just care about "cool" as an 8yr old boy would describe it. || CTX: You’re sick in the head, where is the “aura” in torturing and raping children? What the hell is wrong with these people? https://t.co/tjuqTDNTbj
2026-02-03T06:32 id=2018573386188996827 →Alonso_GD | @Alonso_GD I grew up thinking the shoes on inside was very odd, now I've lived most of my life in shoes off cultures and now know they are absolutely correct || CTX: Coming from a shoes on society but now living shoes off I have to admit the shoes off people are right https://t.co/bi8cU2EVLl
2026-02-03T06:33 id=2018573593672880540 →speedfox_uk | @speedfox_uk @BerlinSoul @Alonso_GD Yes. I live in Thailand, where outdoor living is of course very common. This is exactly what we do. || CTX: @BerlinSoul @Alonso_GD So, if you have a tiled kitchen that opens up onto an outside dining area which then leads into a garden are you taking your shoes on and off each time you enter/exit the kitchen?
2026-02-03T06:36 id=2018574339579457923 →Alonso_GD | @Alonso_GD This email in particular is so sad.  Incredibly evil unelected people get so much power so easily. || CTX: So Brexit was a billionaire plan to get richer as the UK collapses… https://t.co/VEfza0ortK
2026-02-03T07:12 id=2018583448689299952 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Thinking about this and that Norwegian princess who loved Epstein and raised a rapist reminds me: this happens with women too. A lot of women find a man "sexy" because he's "cool", where "cool" really just means an evil psychopath.  That's what we meant when we said "nice guys finish last" back before Reddit made this statement risible. || CTX: Once I was at a lunch with two acquaintances: one is a money launderer and the other was a dropshipper who got very lucky and as a result very rich.  Money launderer was telling a story about his recent trip to Dubai and he'd met some mafio
2026-02-03T09:30 id=2018618099189334449 →- | My entire life has been a fight against quantization.
2026-02-03T10:44 id=2018636785509937541 →- | So many errors stem from this. Major errors, errors that destroy families and empires. https://t.co/GD4cIHBEfg || CTX: that identity crisis is late wittgenstein problem arising from using "builder" at different contexts  in language both construction worker and real estate developers are identified as "builders", however one is an operator and the other is 
2026-02-03T10:58 id=2018640336617414965 →- | 😭😭😭 https://t.co/z8toKwmn5b
2026-02-03T11:03 id=2018641456152690723 →Sauers_ | @Sauers_ Now do the first one || CTX: Of course humans say they're conscious https://t.co/NPdl6CDNcr
2026-02-03T11:21 id=2018646029944684927 →helscom | @helscom Es ist vorbei, Chat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/MOFEH49ttC
2026-02-03T12:25 id=2018662229084926231 →- | Surprised to hear Goldman Sachs doing business with someone nefarious https://t.co/iSaZ7xXNGp || CTX: Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey Epstein’s help to secure a top job at Facebook just months before the sex offender’s arrest, and advised him on how to respond to press coverage of his crimes. https://t.co/wHZfvRTTdV 
2026-02-03T12:35 id=2018664543661220062 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk sorry I burdened you with that btw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This comes across very clearly in your novel
2026-02-03T13:14 id=2018674356063248491 →PAWFETISH | @PAWFETISH Audio functionality on computers has gotten worse over the years, it's maddening. || CTX: there is absolutely zero acceptable reason that in nearly 2030 a desktop computer can't use more than one audio device at a time
2026-02-03T14:30 id=2018693639120007633 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Agreed. I think it'll fix itself--human beings crave the humanities. But it'll take a long time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder if a rebuild would fix it. But it’s not like there are all those specialists in waiting who could step in to repopulate a dept. So this may take a generation or two.
2026-02-03T14:48 id=2018698033697808749 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Academia just can't do interdisciplinarity. Idk why, seems possibly structural. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think we'd have to stop letting departments hire their own staff in a vacuum, without external oversight. Not sure how that could happen, since the department members are usually the ones with the expertise that can evalu
2026-02-04T01:04 id=2018853114481390011 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s my quant
2026-02-04T01:09 id=2018854410546446586 →1889lw | @1889lw @DeivonDrago Always found this bit of mainland China odd because it isn't actually Marxist even a little so surely a mainlander reading e. g. Gadamer would see how their society is abhorrent to the Frankfurt School.  Do they just shrug and go, "that's the Chinese characteristics kicking in"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Meh, they are still quite popular in China nowadays, maybe because of their shared Marxist views.
2026-02-04T01:10 id=2018854695708840211 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @helscom I'm like 6 months into Duolingo, I can't speak German sadly.  Being Jewish, I kinda found German culture always a tad unappealing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @helscom is that german? you can speak german?
2026-02-04T01:11 id=2018854932804489552 →1889lw | @1889lw Not the first time you were caught abusing kids TRATTENBACH NEVER FORGET || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 😨😨😨
2026-02-04T01:13 id=2018855342353109081 →Ensium317 | @Ensium317 The humanities lost the culture war of the 20th century and economists won.  This history deserves to be written, but an economist would do it badly and the humanities people don't want to document their own defeat. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Totally handing humanistic archives to economists feels like commodifying lived experiences into data points. Why not let linguists unpack the narratives or historians contextualize the era? We're trading depth for 'quantif
2026-02-04T01:17 id=2018856402018771220 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @Sauers_ okay, how do you think consciousness first emerged? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sauers_ i can argue this :)
2026-02-04T01:19 id=2018856993285652735 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw So when they study critical theory their measure of success is how closely their interpretation comes to the state's?   Then it's just a matter of rhetoric than analysis, of rephrasing the same thing in a different register or style.  Philosophy as LLM. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw I think some of that is probably state driven. The state translating the texts trying to introduce aesthetics and cultural comment into the mix. I know they did that with certain categories of western texts that the
2026-02-04T01:26 id=2018858782282207348 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago 2 and 3 oppose one another. || CTX: What we need re higher ed:  1) Far fewer people in 4 year university degrees 2) More people in 2-3 year community colleges with a strong focus on job training and soft skills. 3) Training people "how to keep learning on their own".
2026-02-04T01:32 id=2018860245658059087 →- | Lovely little example of what Wittgenstein calls bewitchment by language.  The word "free" in the second instance means the OPPOSITE of the first instance. First means "unrestricted" second means "restricted".  Free markets are markets unrestricted to offer any price. Free groceries are groceries restricted to be offered at only one price: zero.  Yes the dictionary definitions won't show this, because meaning is use. Good language users know this and play with the meanings that emerge through use to influence others.   Thus we see how to influence others with words, the most powerful extension of our bodies we have: words.  And humanity decided to cut focus on studying words because they're too hard so they focus on low semantic symbols instead: numbers.  I've come to accept this is just the idiocy of my particular historical moment and this too shall pass, but it makes the current moment still annoying. || CTX: @alphafox @FoodBank4NYC Free markets. Free groceries.
2026-02-04T01:35 id=2018860947247685716 →1889lw | @1889lw You have to imagine life from their perspective: fat, ugly person in an ugly suburb surrounded by fat, ugly people.  Probably the only walkable environments with not ugly people they've ever seen are on Chinese disinformation apps. So they get one-shotted.  Was Paris in the 1980s || CTX: The new wave of fetishising being a Chinese is so fucking wild. Imagine you expressing the same desire for being black, guess how that will be received. Why can’t you just fucking be yourself https://t.co/dmbmL6MBnQ
2026-02-04T01:36 id=2018861093767233778 →JoyceCarolOates | @JoyceCarolOates What a hysterical tweet, my goodness || CTX: when a man accuses a girl or a woman of being "hysterical" you can bet that she is stating that a crime has been committed against her, in this case likely rape, no matter how calmly she speaks or has given a sworn testimony. utterly shamel
2026-02-04T01:38 id=2018861755494269034 →- | I worry about many of my younger mutuals for this reason.  The whole point is to be relaxed and happy, never forget that. https://t.co/LQaZQdAPyV || CTX: The downside of an elite determined by exams and "grindmaxxing" is that it creates a ruling class that is anxious and cynical rather than comfortable and optimistic. This has worked its way into the broader culture, and now just being relax
2026-02-04T01:52 id=2018865279997268407 →- | The internal battle at OpenAI between inference and R&D over compute is so important because it demonstrates our limitations broadly aren't that we lack good ideas or intelligence, we lack sufficient resources, whether it's power, silicon, infrastructure.  Our bottleneck isn't we don't have enough good ideas. We've got a ton of ideas!   This also means the marginal economic gains of AI, if it's just delivering superior intelligence, is much less than one might suppose.
2026-02-04T01:58 id=2018866764449567224 →moultano | @moultano @besttrousers Look at idiomatic ways to tell time, the old (still American) way of stating the date, or all the weird ways we say imperial measures.  The nth century idioma is normal, it's the regularity of numbers that's weird! || CTX: @besttrousers I know, it's just weird that "nth century" became idiomatic at all.
2026-02-04T02:06 id=2018868823936614664 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @Sauers_ As a description of the causal mechanisms in the process, it's intuitive and compelling. But it doesn't still fully account for how/why consciousness first emerged.  Also it assumes primates are conscious and lower animals aren't, a dubious distinction I don't share. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sauers_ as every emergence, by following the required set of coincidences for it to happen.  https://t.co/fiqfBX91EC
2026-02-04T02:10 id=2018869774621847750 →- | The fact that Mandelson was so deeply involved, clearly manipulated, and doing tons of illegal shit suggests Epstein wasn't influencing people just with girls.   It was cash and information in many cases.  Imagine being rich and powerful but you still take money from a convicted pedophile.  This is why I implore you to seek "enough", anon.   If you can't find enough, you'll find philosophical suicide. || CTX: “jeffrey can i have, jeffrey can you give Jeffrey can you organize, can you call, can you arrange…” https://t.co/o3DM2VE3lq
2026-02-04T02:22 id=2018872848027443608 →- | Claude struggles with creativity much more than ChatGPT used to, up to 5.2. Seems like they made 5.2 more literal minded like Claude when reading users.   At the same time, they decided to make 5.2 write like it's making roon tweets, so now I have a less imaginative clanker AND a worse writer.  But if I have a simple technical or work question, e.g. "remind me why lower interest rates tend to raise REIT valuations beyond a mechanistic change to borrowing costs", Opus gives me a fast and simple answer I can use while 5.2 is unreadable.   But if I want to do a really indepth analysis of something, "look at this model of tech dispersion into the economy and tell me which assumptions in it are likely to be wrong or faulty", it still seems like ChatGPT is superior.  So I just have another AI subscription to pay for I guess.
2026-02-04T02:36 id=2018876367920836995 →- | The question isn't "why do I dislike Claude?", it's "why do you like Claude?"  Rationalism/EA is unfortunately compelling to a certain type of young person who is a tad confused about what intelligence and rationality actually are. https://t.co/vcqSjUl2eF
2026-02-04T02:43 id=2018878005997867395 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @Sauers_ I agree with this as a general description, but it's still not answering the question: why this instead of any of many possible counterfactuals? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sauers_ i've commented on that here and bellow: https://t.co/Nb5ELOm4Fi
2026-02-04T03:07 id=2018884122387919021 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk maybe I'm crazy, maybe I have been bewitched by the hyperreality of the internet, but I prefer seeing you guys here than I would seeing you at a bowling alley. || CTX: how do you do, fellow chill, social doomscrollers? in a previous life we'd have all been league bowlers seeing each other a few times a week to hit back a few and hope for a three-digit score. but those days are long past - no one bowls any
2026-02-04T03:13 id=2018885526078812438 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee the thing is, GPT 5 and 5.1 did this wonderfully, much better than Opus 4.5 does now. they just ruined it with an absolutely horrible model that yields unreadable outputs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/w6lVC2np1w https://t.co/piWCd78dov
2026-02-04T03:25 id=2018888515497705681 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Can always trust Nat to send me down an existentialist spiral. I've got some thinking to do now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "seeing" "you" "here"... the capital w in wittgenstein is for win it seems  (but you're not wrong ofc, all of us have been bewitched, that's in large part why we're)
2026-02-04T03:32 id=2018890339579515040 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @Sauers_ Parts make sense parts are overextended, ofc it's all very speculative.   You're introducing new non necessary metaphysics which is fine, but by its nature unfalsifiable.  You could be right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sauers_ this may sound a little bit insane :) but this is just first principle on paper, i may be wrong as well.
2026-02-04T04:01 id=2018897625354060213 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk GODDAMMIT GET OUT OF MY HEAD OUT OUT OUT || CTX: Thornton Wilder anticipating the need for twitter in The Eighth Day: "There was always hope that in talk, talk, talk, he could alter the past, conjure the future, and impose an estimable image of himself on the present."
2026-02-04T04:02 id=2018897908398248145 →- | The rose represented in this picture was plucked by my girlfriend from our garden and it has an intense, powerful intoxicating scent, one of the most fragrant flowers I've ever smelled. https://t.co/uxG4kXiln5
2026-02-04T04:15 id=2018901146501570845 →bossert_l | @bossert_l @JoyceCarolOates I was in discourse analysis. Sociolinguistics and all of its permutations have ignored Chomsky for decades, I was legit surprised to hear anyone still listens to him besides dumb politics podcasters || CTX: @JoyceCarolOates Chomsky’s always been openly misogynistic and dismisses women’s language, scholarship &amp; contributions to the world. I’m in the cogsci neuroscience space &amp; several cog linguists had nothing good to say about him.
2026-02-04T04:18 id=2018901851970904428 →- | This really is the worst part of the whole fallout. Elites in poor countries can't be shamed into being less cruel.   I used to shame said elites! "In more civilized countries, we trust our fellow citizens with the right to vote" is something I've said to rich third worlders! https://t.co/mHfN6Gs06U || CTX: @lilyslynch This is the nation that calls itself "the shining city of the hill".  Perhaps it needs a new name.
2026-02-04T04:20 id=2018902349209891107 →- | Easiest way to solve the "how smart was Epstein" question.  Looks like the "he was an idiot" camp wins. https://t.co/xO3pmQsFf4 || CTX: "Epstein was a genius financier. There's no way he was an idiot."  Epstein: "Steve Bannon is going to interview me. Time to cram on financial subjects using books marketed specifically to retards." https://t.co/2a0Q178eiZ
2026-02-04T04:23 id=2018903100153827421 →bossert_l | @bossert_l @JoyceCarolOates Oh absolutely, he deserves credit for destroying behaviorism (and I suspect someone like Chomsky will do the same for functionalism at some point).  Just wild you can do one important thing and nothing else and still be revered for decades. Public intellectualism is an odd thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JoyceCarolOates Yeah, he’s a dick about gendered language or how gendered language can impact society &amp; behavior. But for the cognitive side of things like acquisition he’ll always be relevant.
2026-02-04T04:56 id=2018911486320824799 →- | ok if Claude can create a custom-made Word processing app from a single paragraph description and it works, I'm sold.
2026-02-04T05:01 id=2018912868469805348 →allgarbled | @allgarbled X That's X gay X as X hell X || CTX: Apparently if you use the letter X in your post now the like button becomes a rocket
2026-02-04T05:04 id=2018913428723884279 →davenewworld_2 | @davenewworld_2 This makes a lot of sense and explains Soon-Yi's character. She's a misogynist who sides with men (probably because her adopted mother was a monster).  Psychologically this whole story is really not surprising, it's just so sad. || CTX: Woody Allen's wife Soon-Yi Previn emails Jeffrey Epstein about Anthony Weiner sexting a 15-year-old girl and calls the girl a "despicable and disgusting person who preys on the week." https://t.co/J6zsqEKwxv
2026-02-04T05:09 id=2018914817193717948 →DrMANowak | @DrMANowak Did you torture her? || CTX: Payoff equivalence and complete strategy spaces of direct reciprocity | PNAS https://t.co/n2I3BGlXbt https://t.co/MbYNpjp4fa
2026-02-04T05:29 id=2018919820230787079 →_rabbi | @_rabbi A gay Israeli? Yeah we've got quite a few actually, many on this app too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We finally have AGI?
2026-02-04T05:29 id=2018919898706256320 →callisticbunt | @callisticbunt @davenewworld_2 This but unironically. I don't think she was groomed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davenewworld_2 Yeah she’s a misogynist because of Mia Farrow not because she was groomed and molested by her step father
2026-02-04T05:46 id=2018924002287534155 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Finished reiterating and fixing bugs within an hour. While actually working in another window.  Okay, I can feel the AGI. || CTX: Holy fucking shit I am sold.
2026-02-04T05:46 id=2018924190112657825 →rhinoteeth | @rhinoteeth @callisticbunt @davenewworld_2 sure thing will get right on that, take care friend. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @callisticbunt @davenewworld_2 delete your account
2026-02-04T05:47 id=2018924440432885797 →amphetaminenap | @amphetaminenap @callisticbunt @davenewworld_2 Yes, this situation is really really difficult because Soon Yi and all the adopted kids grew up between the Scylla of a horrific monster of a man and Charybdis of a horrific monster of a woman. They're all victims, their infighting between each other saddens me, it's a shitshow. || CTX: @callisticbunt @47fucb4r8c69323 @davenewworld_2 you say this as if hollywood actors, especially those born into wealth, are all generally sane, moral people, with woody allen as a striking exception
2026-02-04T06:27 id=2018934478513848821 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 He dislikes big numbers that's why he was a pedophile. || CTX: "zero interest rates were too high" -Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/upB43genbh
2026-02-04T06:30 id=2018935082694893580 →EoinHiggins_ | @EoinHiggins_ Champagne socialists are like this, I've sadly met tons. || CTX: Chomsky's callousness toward Epstein's victims to the extent he seems to have thought of them at all is what's most striking to me https://t.co/LgF4Vp3gys
2026-02-04T06:37 id=2018936922216001770 →- | Manipulating others with language does not require intelligence nor much skill in language.  But seeing how others manipulate with language does require tremendous intelligence and language skill.
2026-02-04T06:47 id=2018939412370120907 →futakuchimana | @futakuchimana @davenewworld_2 I blame them both, but I don't think he raped Soonyi when she was a toddler. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davenewworld_2 Why is everyone blaming Mia Farrow and not Woody the child diddler Allen?
2026-02-04T06:54 id=2018941132894613714 →_rabbi | @_rabbi All media rhythms become grating after enough exposure. || CTX: Legacy media broadcasts had a certain rhythm. New media has its own rhythm. Both insufferable.
2026-02-04T07:17 id=2018946896535130340 →- | Three types of people read Faust: 1. Those who get his desire for power. These are my enemies. 2. Those who don't get it. These I am indifferent to. 3. Those who get his curiosity. These are my friends.
2026-02-04T07:38 id=2018952254087365082 →helscom | @helscom I was imagining my former students tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 trying to imagine the type of guy to be curious enough to read faust but still "not get it" https://t.co/0SBt3qj8Ch
2026-02-04T07:38 id=2018952359733543415 →helscom | @helscom also lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 trying to imagine the type of guy to be curious enough to read faust but still "not get it" https://t.co/0SBt3qj8Ch
2026-02-04T07:46 id=2018954346063708198 →- | Novel idea: We begin with a man who has been given all of the powers of a god. He is a good person, so uses his powers to fix all of humanity's problems: no more war, poverty, disease, etc. Utopia achieved by page 2.  Then people start living again.  And as they live, new problems show up: spouses cheat on each other, neighbors squabble, drunkards fight, etc. These people come to our hero for help, and while he's powerful he still only has two eyes and two ears so can't handle everyone's issues at once.  So he develops a system of governance in which he has representatives of different populations come to him to tell me who needs what and when, so he starts handling everyone's problems. But ofc those representatives need assistants, and they need helpers, etc etc.   So the novel basically describes the hero recreate our current civilization all over again, which of course creates all of the same kinds of problems he originally fixed.  Novel ends with him dying and the planet looking identical to what it looked like on page 1.
2026-02-04T07:47 id=2018954610522886287 →helscom | @helscom Literature, linguistics, and a bit of critical theory (mostly Foucault) to uni students. I taught in a few places in Asia, America, and Europe both tenure track and as an adjunct or T. A. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what and who were you teaching?
2026-02-04T07:50 id=2018955269653619042 →helscom | @helscom I prefer THC vapes, will take you to my favorite dispensary. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds like a really cool gig. looking forward to talk all this stuff over beer and joint in the jungle  😎
2026-02-04T07:51 id=2018955604610654261 →- | https://t.co/KdqbWSZBr9 https://t.co/StbHbBmJbz || CTX: Actually, “God is a construct. Cute girls are real.” is the most coherent thing he’s ever said. https://t.co/Abb7fD0MNf
2026-02-04T07:52 id=2018955895695351888 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I just noticed the girl's makeup and jewelry totally undermines the meme. || CTX: https://t.co/KdqbWSZBr9 https://t.co/StbHbBmJbz
2026-02-04T07:59 id=2018957593436360727 →helscom | @helscom Fine I'll get you the 29% flower that's 8 euros a gram, voi helvett-- || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'm too european to have try those, but sounds like fun!
2026-02-04T08:28 id=2018964774659518673 →vokaysh | @vokaysh buy 20 and you'll see the eyes of God || CTX: bought two nice pillows, sleep quality improved 200%   I'm weak what can I say
2026-02-04T11:38 id=2019012667676184736 →- | "Generative grammar"? More like "generate up some grammar school girls for me, Epstein, my old chum". https://t.co/OLkgDdRWbz || CTX: This email from Chomsky giving advice to Epstein in 2019 on how to beat the allegations is truly horrifying. This is completely indefensible. https://t.co/hLxMydveab
2026-02-04T11:53 id=2019016341701939642 →xndrshea | @xndrshea For 1, knowledge is an instrument of power. For 3, knowledge is its own end. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How are 1 and 3 different?
2026-02-04T12:06 id=2019019722315247889 →- | what do I mean when I say "see you here"? The "see" is not comparable to the verb in "see you at the bowling alley", and in no ways can er day the "you" is the same referent--it refers to your icon and username and the indexical rule of the social media language game: this account refers to a person, that person you have seen and/or engaged with on this platform before.  There is obviously much not captured in this virtualization (that is the "here", another malapropism confusing the map for the territory) of the user behind the account, so I cannot say I see "you" anymore than I can say I can "see" you.   It is a nonsense, but as Wittgenstein we should examine our nonsense. Why am I driven to think in these fallacious terms?   I suppose one of my biggest frustrations with being a human is that I am limited to who I can interact with in space and time, and the social media game implied a way to find the very small subset of weirdos who have enough of a similar interest graph that we can be friends. Not because we're neighbors, but because we're similar kinds of people.   I've caught moments of that on the internet since I first logged on in 1992, and it's why I am still logged on. It's why I genuinely do feel glad to see some of you here, even if there's no seeing, no you, and no here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "seeing" "you" "here"... the capital w in wittgenstein is for win it seems  (but you're not wrong ofc, all of us have been bewitched, that's in large part why we're)
2026-02-04T12:09 id=2019020601428791473 →- | what do I mean when I say "see you here"? The "see" is not comparable to the verb in "see you at the bowling alley", and in no ways can er day the "you" is the same referent--it refers to your icon and username and the indexical rule of the social media language game: this account refers to a person, that person you have seen and/or engaged with on this platform before.  There is obviously much not captured in this virtualization (that is the "here", another malapropism confusing the map for the territory) of the user behind the account, so I cannot say I see "you" anymore than I can say I can "see" you.   It is a nonsense, but as Wittgenstein we should examine our nonsense. Why am I driven to think in these fallacious terms?   I suppose one of my biggest frustrations with being a human is that I am limited to who I can interact with in space and time, and the social media game implied a way to find the very small subset of weirdos who have enough of a similar interest graph that we can be friends. Not because we're neighbors (like if we bowled together, sorted together by randomness in spacetime), but because we're similar kinds of people.   I've caught moments of that on the internet since I first logged on in 1992, and it's why I am still logged on. It's why I genuinely do feel glad to see some of you here, even if there's no seeing, no you, and no here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "seeing" "you" "here"... the capital w in wittgenstein is for win it seems  (but you're not wrong ofc, all of us have been bewitched, that's in large part why we're)
2026-02-04T21:44 id=2019165314727178631 →teodorio | @teodorio I stopped vibe coding like way back in late 2024, before "vibe coding" was coined. Legit had no idea it'd progressed this much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/IAvZaT5boi
2026-02-04T21:47 id=2019165920678293811 →jemposting | @jemposting Thank you for your contribution, but everyone already knows this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the free in free groceries means the consumer is unrestricted to take them without paying
2026-02-04T21:55 id=2019168040307552610 →- | The most important part and what everyone should focus on is the authoritarian part.  Anthropic thinks it knows better than you what you should be allowed to say and read. That by itself is reason to dislike the company.  OpenAI is not a perfect company, but Anthropic is worse. https://t.co/TQV5cAYCCf || CTX: First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.  But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously n
2026-02-04T22:14 id=2019172787999633549 →- | How it started vs how it's going https://t.co/jwXzYShWXX
2026-02-04T22:24 id=2019175329777217657 →- | RT @nabeelqu: A few possibly unpopular takes:  1) I am skeptical the ad has much impact outside of X/Twitter vibes.   2) Normies in my life… || CTX: A few possibly unpopular takes:  1) I am skeptical the ad has much impact outside of X/Twitter vibes.   2) Normies in my life use GPT and still don’t know what Claude is. Devs/tech ppl seem to prefer Claude and they have a real opportunity 
2026-02-04T22:59 id=2019184096900182185 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @DurumMac It all matters, it's just really hard to admit this, too painful, so weak men hide in nihilism, justifications, and callousness. || CTX: @DurumMac In 2018 I'm rather sure the legions of dead kicked my ass spiritually and asked me if I understood precisely how fucking easy I had it  Suddenly I was good at UPS and talking to people Every conversation mattered Food tasted bette
2026-02-04T23:03 id=2019185114320961761 →- | In case anyone needs a great example to use when teaching Frege's sense and reference. https://t.co/mQmNh1NvS7 || CTX: @FemboyDCS "Epstein was one of the good Jews because he was a pedophile"
2026-02-04T23:08 id=2019186391192858891 →logicus | @logicus "We're the good corporation now watch our completely misleading ads where we trash the competition for providing a free service." || CTX: it is likely not strategically sustainable for a corporate to brand itself as “the good corporation” unless the corporate's interests and behaviors are aligned with being good, and that may be impossible on structural grounds. if the corpor
2026-02-04T23:13 id=2019187664000581686 →- | "God is a construct, cute girls are real" is just "send bobs and vagene" for smart Indian guys.
2026-02-04T23:15 id=2019188130671403148 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DeivonDrago oh shit I just read the original tweet, my shitpost just reverses your shitpost.   I am a disappointment. || CTX: @DeivonDrago For me it's the genocide in the West Indies
2026-02-04T23:21 id=2019189634924966359 →- | Let's see how the Neoliberals are doing... https://t.co/r7os54g9f1
2026-02-04T23:40 id=2019194381971181663 →- | idk why but this reminds me of when I first left academia and started freelance writing. I was in shock that, finally, I was getting paid just to write things, no teaching or other bullshit.  But how do I measure success?   In academia that's easy: publications, job title, uni ranking.   When you're writing for the internet, things are murkier.  Of course there's prestige of publication, there's social impact, and there's money.   But, especially when you're starting out, prestige of publication and money are opposed to each other. I turned down a New York Times job (well, gave up through the application process to be precise) because it paid 10 cents a word, for instance.  Social impact--I tried that. I wrote pieces that I genuinely thought would help the world. No one wanted to read them.  So then I decided the most objective measure would be time spent on the job relative to how much I earn. Thus the different pay rates and types would be all normalized, and the metric would be objective and simple.  This immediately presented a dilemma: self promotion. If I was going to optimize for most money for least time, tweeting and promoting myself as a brand would essentially be free labor that lowers my pay:time ratio. So I didn't start a Twitter, and I never gained clout, but I also became immune to cancellations and avoided the mental illness, audience capture, and intellectual stagnation I've seen from other writers of my generation who decided to go for more self promotion. Taylor Lorenz is the prototypical example of the hazard I avoided.  However, there is a downside; a low ceiling. I'm in the top 2% income earners, but I will never earn 7 figures or be a James Bond villain level of wealthy. That's only possible (and still improbable) if you build the same thing 5 million times over.   I avoided that extra hard work, and I am poorer in cash as a result but wealthier in free time. Granted, I waste that free time shitposting, but my hobbies are none of your business. || CTX: @chesterzelaya most SWE is just building the same thing 5 million times over and over and then you retire
2026-02-04T23:40 id=2019194483947229532 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ 2020 vagene sounds like something Epstein would like || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 remember 2020 vagene? :)
2026-02-04T23:54 id=2019197782805082281 →_rabbi | @_rabbi Yes, Guatemala. || CTX: Is there somewhere in north America where I rent + utilities is $300/month and there is peace and quite if you know what I mean
2026-02-04T23:57 id=2019198581576810768 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk "We're doing alchemy" go fuck yourself with this transparent obfuscatory bullshit.  Propaganda to bewitch smart 20something men. And sadly it'll work. || CTX: ⬛️ https://t.co/QFuv345pi4
2026-02-05T00:12 id=2019202437496832391 →SwaggyNabolsa7 | @SwaggyNabolsa7 @DurumMac Your social darwinism isn't welcome here.  I can't disprove your assertion that imperialism is the meaning of life--it is an ethical claim, which aren't subject to falsification.   But I can say it makes you an asshole. || CTX: @DurumMac @47fucb4r8c69323 yes imperialism is also the meaning of life  And yes sex and reproduction are, for all intensive purposes, the same thing
2026-02-05T00:18 id=2019203910775525531 →DeivonDrago | Sure we can, but we don't and the economics profession discourages such as being unscientific.  The issue is rhetorical: this axiomatic claim on ordinal utility implies a demarcation between measuring individual utility (objective, scientific) and comparing individual utility (unscientific, moral, arbitrary).  This is an arbitrary demarcation and a pseudoscientific one, but it is politically useful. That's the scandal, and I see it in my work all the time. || CTX: Surely you don’t agree with Bowles characterization of what contemporary economics allows and doesn’t allow.   There’s no straitjacket exclusively requiring the use of purely ordinal individual utilities. We can add normative structure anyt
2026-02-05T00:27 id=2019206290346766761 →MattBruenig | @MattBruenig This is what it's like to live in a bubble. Just hilarious. || CTX: must be fun to make the best model, avoid all image/video slop stuff, focus on enterprise application, and then dunk on the flailing first mover https://t.co/zdYab181af
2026-02-05T00:32 id=2019207399006171289 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @SwaggyNabolsa7 Wittgenstein remains undefeated. || CTX: @SwaggyNabolsa7 @47fucb4r8c69323 Perhaps the meaning of life is to ignore silly comments.
2026-02-05T00:43 id=2019210242719117670 →0xdoug | @0xdoug @brandon_galang @PhiMarHal OH YOU'RE A CRYPTO BRO!!!!   No wonder you don't understand any of this lmfao || CTX: @brandon_galang @PhiMarHal Most large consumers of enterprise software (eg financial institutions, large healthcare networks, telecoms, airlines) are monopolists who have strong pricing power, and probably will just pocket most of the cost 
2026-02-05T00:47 id=2019211232675525026 →DisgracedProp | @DisgracedProp I live in Asia where rich powerful men can easily satisfy their sexuality without a gynocratic panopticon.  Powerful rich men do much, much worse than what we've seen in the Epstein files. I could introduce you to some of them. || CTX: Remember: the devil that is Jeff Epstein would have had .01% of the power if American men, particularly successful ones, had any reasonable method of satisfying their innate sexuality that wasn't completely monitored and enforced by the gyn
2026-02-05T00:57 id=2019213702084587684 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk That's true and I agree (it's also been true for 30 years) and it has nothing to do with the nonsense in the original video. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the good point is, that ppl are able to do really incredible things outside of academia by just learning [doing] on their own.
2026-02-05T00:58 id=2019214032960692235 →clairlemon | @clairlemon @Quillette You've devolved to concern trolling ragebait. || CTX: My suspension from X after calling the Epstein story “boring” gave me new insight into how moral panics work.    Learn more in @Quillette   https://t.co/SDsYBsVaPY https://t.co/OzwC4ng9CI
2026-02-05T01:18 id=2019218941936296301 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I felt the same way, but I was so desperate I had to try it anyway. took about 3 years to actually turn into living wage work. was worth the wait though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 freelance writing was always such an occulted process to me; so many 'maybes' that it never seemed worth it
2026-02-05T01:27 id=2019221413161496713 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod How much do you think he clears per year? || CTX: I literally live next door to one of the most prominent liberal substacks. I shovel the sidewalk for the author of it.  He's a pisser, dude has seen everything. He's a very cool boomer and I choose to talk to him about everything without it
2026-02-05T01:30 id=2019221954587423060 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod oh yeah it's not lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol, I've been in "press" for 21 years and it certainly doesn't seem more lucrative now than it did 21 years ago
2026-02-05T01:37 id=2019223762705739884 →- | Which is more evil? Beating someone up or manipulating them so that they beat themselves up?
2026-02-05T01:38 id=2019224021733372289 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yes, the Wittgensteinian view is that both are different descriptions of the same state of affairs. || CTX: If I’m not tricked by the language here, is this not simply an elaboration of “all models are wrong but some are useful”? (I doubt Box thought much of language as a model; perhaps he didn’t think much of Wittgenstein either) https://t.co/6Y
2026-02-05T01:39 id=2019224400843956268 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod b2c writing pays shit, glad I stuck with b2b || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if he's 1% paid subs, he collects retirement and something from mil service...I'd expect 80000-250000/yr but harder to call any closer
2026-02-05T01:51 id=2019227367101874643 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I am endlessly fascinated that America's best living fiction writer, Ted Chiang, is a technical writer at Microsoft. Says much about our current moment. and how much it values creative writing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my ex-editor always said this technical writing, too
2026-02-05T02:12 id=2019232635663577282 →- | Close enough. Welcome back, Karl Marx. https://t.co/3IOAYxSSx0 || CTX: when you really think about it, trading $25 for an hour of time starts to feel very insulting.
2026-02-05T02:32 id=2019237544156885437 →- | "No, sweetie, it's not you. You're still beautiful, I still love you, I still enjoy having sex with you. It's just... I really want to get back to vibe coding."
2026-02-05T03:15 id=2019248504200388661 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @JosephPolitano That little AH dip following the print was hilarious--GOOG traders do that shit all the time, it's legit the easiest BTFD stock on Earth. Not financial advice ofc (the only financial advice I give on social media is simple: kill yourself) || CTX: @JosephPolitano Putting my bonus on $GOOG calls #notfinancialadvice
2026-02-05T04:18 id=2019264367179743393 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk The words were never the point, they're pointers to the actual point which is beyond words. But we can't talk about that because it's beyond words, so how can we talk about the point if we can only talk about talk and hope it gestures toward the point?  This is my prison. || CTX: what if the words aren't the point, were never the point, were only pointers to the actual point: the clinking of beer bottles together in celebration of picking up a spare, the comforting smell of stale cigarettes and disinfectant shoe spr
2026-02-05T04:20 id=2019264813772497020 →- | Legit one of the best accounts on this app, and the low follower count just shows how garbage this app is. https://t.co/cK3TmCkQYz || CTX: "who" we "see" "here" largely just seems to be what we  *imagine* at the slightest stimulation/provocation -- really more of a testament to human imaginative power than anything,  bc all technology is an amputation (while also yes an extens
2026-02-05T04:26 id=2019266342000763330 →tszzl | @tszzl @voooooogel Part of the issue is that total attribution is impossible in principle; marketing people talk about inferring intent, and if you take this seriously you soon realize you can only be a really good advertiser if you solve the hard problem of consciousness. || CTX: @voooooogel attribution has always been the killer in digital ads
2026-02-05T04:40 id=2019269937010037000 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This thread painfully explains why I love social media so much despite my hatred of society. Like someone put a clean mirror in front of me for the first time so I can see how ugly I truly am. || CTX: "who" we "see" "here" largely just seems to be what we  *imagine* at the slightest stimulation/provocation -- really more of a testament to human imaginative power than anything,  bc all technology is an amputation (while also yes an extens
2026-02-05T04:59 id=2019274747448905981 →heshidicjudaism | @heshidicjudaism Is porn the scaffolding or the mirror? || CTX: Porn gives the vocabulary for and scaffolds so much of this https://t.co/7Cqzf8OSV0
2026-02-05T05:06 id=2019276332837007740 →- | The biggest cost in the way I've built up my career is I can't get jobs for friends. If I'd been more self-promoting, it'd be much easier.  But since I do dislike nepotism, maybe this inability is a feature not a bug. https://t.co/RbyUiL0pMZ || CTX: my boyfriend is graduating with a stanford cs degree. he’s made some fascinating llm evals. he’s a chem olympian. he’s interested in ai × bio, health, BCIs, etc. he’s way smarter than i. twitter do your thing. dm me to help him get a job 🫡🫡
2026-02-05T05:08 id=2019276899747525015 →- | If this is true, and I have good reasons to believe it is, it suggests a very good writer need not be very intelligent.   I think Cormac McCarthy is the prototypical example of this but no one believes me. https://t.co/nAGBpTHI2P || CTX: Manipulating others with language does not require intelligence nor much skill in language.  But seeing how others manipulate with language does require tremendous intelligence and language skill.
2026-02-05T05:22 id=2019280567184027807 →heshidicjudaism | @heshidicjudaism Then in which ways is it one and in which ways is it the other?   I agree it probably is both. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why not both?
2026-02-05T05:31 id=2019282645470040305 →herbiebradley | @herbiebradley Anthropic has no idea how people outside their bubble think. It's fascinating to watch. || CTX: this one didn't hit for me tbh, a bunch of people i speak to think anthropic are kind of pushing it with the smug vibes comms strategy  interesting to contrast with GDM/Demis comms, which are much less urgency-maxxing https://t.co/ao2JG0kOv
2026-02-05T05:37 id=2019284309988065540 →- | Andrew Jack son Jeffrey Rapes daughter  Checks out. https://t.co/HFkohCqZNm || CTX: Are you ready for this conversation? https://t.co/hFT2oqt3ns
2026-02-05T05:46 id=2019286573578432700 →- | Here you see how concern trolling and appealing to scifi movies has made a legion of supporters.  Anthropic is playing the same playbook SBF played--unsurprising as they're from the same community.  But this time they're totes the good guys for realsies. https://t.co/TqKNONwapj || CTX: I am worried about what this is going to do to our brains for obvious reasons, but if any of them are going to take over the world, it *has* to be Anthropic https://t.co/gkZbTuKE8e
2026-02-05T06:36 id=2019299125767139755 →- | The current handwringing among SWEs about vibe coding reminds me a LOT of the debates in the 14th-15th centuries about the laity being able to read the Bible.   Absolutely is a shitty academic monograph in this. "A Changing Vibe: Code Switching from the Elite to the Laity"
2026-02-05T06:50 id=2019302508821393844 →- | Codex app on Mac still requires me to have Xcode, do sudos for it, etc etc.   Claude Code just builds the app. It's less secure and gets the job done faster.   Opposite of what their marketing/branding would have me presume.
2026-02-05T06:59 id=2019304895418102038 →- | In Intro to linguistics I used to teach "semantic fields" and this phrase was taught to me as bog standard.  What Epstein here is doing is grasping at a freshman undergrad idea. Chomsky's response is taking Epstein more charitably than what the email deserves, most likely because Chomsky was flattered and paid.  Wittgenstein predicted LLMs, however. || CTX: If you squint a bit, Epstein was kinda sorta proposing transformers... https://t.co/oWHgGtX7wZ
2026-02-05T07:26 id=2019311716878942441 →helscom | in his middle period, W. wrote a book called philosophical remarks, which he never published in his lifetime and which has received almost no attention, even by Wittgensteinians who often ignore the book. it makes the argument that when humans use language they are exploring probability space until they find the linguistic token that best fits the occasion. I'm massively oversimplifying because I'm using speech to text while walking, but it's in that book. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Wittgenstein predicted LLMs, however." tell me more
2026-02-05T07:33 id=2019313406751436864 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @DisgracedProp I dislike it and find it so sad and depressing but I'm grateful that I've been able to see more of reality than most born to my station. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DisgracedProp That's a very interesting situation to be in.
2026-02-05T08:10 id=2019322781377392849 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @helscom Huawei actually lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @helscom speech to text with pronounced commas or pixel?
2026-02-05T08:21 id=2019325507662442762 →- | Is the internet telepathy at scale, as @for_nat_whilk calls it? If so, then we are grappling with the greatest moment of intimacy in the history of humanity, we should  be obsessed with understanding this machine in every waking moment.  But what if it's just a simulacrum for "you" and "here" and "thought" and "mind", and when I see your communicative artefacts on the internet I am just imagining the you, the here, the thought, and the mind.  That seems less like telepathy than like something else I can't quite name. "Fraud" and "Simulation" fail, this isn't a holodeck recreation and it isn't false.  It's overly mediated by the stack. Thought clothed in words (which also create said words!) then shoehorned to fit a medium (which also partly determines the words!), then that medium is dynamically reconfigured by algorithms (which again shape the medium and the words, and sadly the thoughts behind the words as a result), and I am not even halfway through the stack. I haven't even got to the other end: the receiver.  Maybe it isn't actual communication nor a community and it isn't really "just" a simulacrum. If all language games create forms of life, maybe what we're creating is a new form of life, a new human experience, a new language game whose form defies the grammars of older games.   And, sure, maybe that new form of life can be unhealthy and maybe it can be healthy.   But maybe it's a possibility space to explore that hasn't yet been explored, and, like the meme says, I'm too young to explore the Earth and too old to explore beyond it, so I'm stuck exploring possibility space instead. With all of you.  I can live with that.
2026-02-05T08:27 id=2019327103276314772 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @herbiebradley I'd actually say it's a bad ad in that it makes all AI seem creepy and off-putting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @herbiebradley okay but if you decouple the lore from the ad?
2026-02-05T08:56 id=2019334272751173917 →helscom | @helscom lmk what you think || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/fXN9TM5pkb
2026-02-05T09:36 id=2019344390288994308 →tszzl | @tszzl @boazbaraktcs But roon, they're effective altruists, how could they possibly spend money on a Super Bowl commercial promoting something that's not in the public's best interest? || CTX: @boazbaraktcs well taking out 8 figures to start a beef on national tv is a move for sure i'm not sure it deserves pure kindness in return
2026-02-05T09:37 id=2019344678139953152 →- | If I had a nickel for every time a bunch of EA retards bullshitted the American public in a Superbowl ad I'd have ten cents, which isn't much but it's strange it happened twice. https://t.co/dnBD2ajADU || CTX: @tszzl @boazbaraktcs But roon, they're effective altruists, how could they possibly spend money on a Super Bowl commercial promoting something that's not in the public's best interest?
2026-02-05T10:09 id=2019352635753787404 →vokaysh | @vokaysh I keep telling my English department friends this should be what English 101 is about (or, hell, make a new fucking subfield). Absolute goldmine opportunity for the humanities, but they'd rather be luddites rambling about water. || CTX: agentic engineering is the strategic paradigm, what about tactics anon? socratic method? testing driven development? who's cooking up a compilation of prompting tactics &amp; techniques? https://t.co/OOPVa6s2Gm
2026-02-05T10:11 id=2019353109798240313 →- | Why is Codex so much worse than Claude Code? Can someone explain to a technical idiot?
2026-02-05T10:19 id=2019355293239636034 →LardoBarzo12360 | @LardoBarzo12360 Fully agree! I despise Opus (all of the Claude models), but it actually works for code, which Codex so does not (unless you do the simplest python stuff). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Codex isn’t bad at coding but in comparison to opus it is very bad at understanding what the user actually wants. Or that’s my experience at least
2026-02-05T12:09 id=2019382960475238851 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem @vokaysh Sure, but you get my point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh Autist moment: that water could be recycled with a pump and a heatXchanger, but that pump needs energy which is expensive because….
2026-02-05T13:16 id=2019399691243516142 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Very possible, I am very emotional, but I think it's just that Codex needed to use Xcode and Claude didn't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 because you are too emotional.   codex sees deeper than claude, which means it needs to know more explicit details, it is not worse by intent, it seems worse by sole function.
2026-02-05T13:27 id=2019402381050671159 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee It's a beautifully written book written by a moron, extremely confusing book. He's a fascinating character because he falsified my belief that intelligence was necessary to be a good writer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🤣🤣🤣 we had “The Road” for Literature in HS and one of my favorite learning moments was watching my teacher conclude what a boring, useless book it was, and how the author must keep a thesaurus handy to interject obscure voc
2026-02-05T13:27 id=2019402507366330484 →- | He predicted shitposting. https://t.co/E93M65muGT || CTX: "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."
2026-02-05T14:39 id=2019420517191884905 →- | Bitcoin may be the new gold, but silver is the new Bitcoin. https://t.co/ZROsPSUuWx
2026-02-05T15:06 id=2019427305467330896 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Not sure as I don't follow metals or commodities, but have read in the FT that this has been expected for a while || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not sure I understand what’s happening with gold and silver anymore. Is this just contracts unwinding?
2026-02-06T00:30 id=2019569471921549618 →thkostolansky | @thkostolansky @tszzl @voooooogel oh absolutely, but ML means the market saturates the best approximations pretty fast. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl @voooooogel surely there are practical approximations that dont require one to solve the hard problem of consciousness lol, ik this is not like a super serious thing but that would be such a funny reason to study phi
2026-02-06T00:40 id=2019571924557562192 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk "The Nasdaq is down 1.5% today" || CTX: chat how do I break this to my wife without her covering her ears https://t.co/GqMFhwl7gy
2026-02-06T00:41 id=2019572153423917388 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Where's this list on the list? || CTX: We need a Tier list… for tier lists. https://t.co/07Ni4kgRah
2026-02-06T00:42 id=2019572477249351714 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod That's the real digital life. || CTX: I looked at college entrance in 1999 and I was like "lol, I'm not doing that shit"  I know three billionaires, I went from working in publishing to working at McDonalds  Whatever the future holds, my middle finger is waiting for it if it wa
2026-02-06T00:43 id=2019572637513707607 →1889lw | @1889lw Mostly, not always || CTX: Adulting hard then you realise all those ideals learnt in youth are not real. So we will always be let down right
2026-02-06T00:49 id=2019574187619414252 →- | The fact that they've released 5.3 Codex before 5.3 for the main model just shows you how rankled they are by Claude Code. And they should be.  Compete for me my little SV billionaires, compete! https://t.co/V9xkGXaM7V || CTX: GPT-5.3-Codex is here!  *Best coding performance (57% SWE-Bench Pro, 76% TerminalBench 2.0, 64% OSWorld). *Mid-task steerability and live updates during tasks. *Faster! Less than half the tokens of 5.2-Codex for same tasks, and &gt;25% fast
2026-02-06T00:52 id=2019574870611501139 →- | Anthropic culture sounds like something out of South Park https://t.co/hAfC86z21C
2026-02-06T00:55 id=2019575543444959296 →HalfBoiledHero | @HalfBoiledHero Are these "labs" conducting "research" by just chatting to the model?   "Are you going to try to build a Skynet? Be honest?"   There must be more to it, surely. || CTX: wait what Apollo Research couldn't even complete alignment testing because eval awareness was too high https://t.co/6Isu9DWCub https://t.co/A6ZvALuk8O
2026-02-06T00:56 id=2019575850660950472 →1889lw | @1889lw And what determines your faith in humanity? || CTX: My motivation is proportional to my faith in humanity
2026-02-06T00:58 id=2019576445652361432 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Better pipelines, workflow architecture, integrated systems is really needed at this point. Sure let the frontier models cook, but more companies working on implementation is needed.  If I wasn't retired and allergic to America I'd prob go back and start something. So much to do! || CTX: This feels more important than the model release announcements https://t.co/DCBqV4a0fa
2026-02-06T00:59 id=2019576701676867971 →vokaysh | @vokaysh like I said in the gc, make more noise about how much money you're making from AI, in real dollar terms. That'll make people feel the AGI. || CTX: who else tracking dollar earned per dollar invested into compute?
2026-02-06T01:01 id=2019577035690242474 →1889lw | @1889lw So you're allowing your motivation to be determined by news and people around you. Interesting.  Do they serve decent food in mental prison? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 News, or experience with people around. My faith plummeted significantly during my undergrad
2026-02-06T01:03 id=2019577634007711924 →HalfBoiledHero | @HalfBoiledHero Omg this drives me insane because this should be used to make the models understand nuance, irony, reflexive talk etc more, and instead they're doing it to stop a chatbot from becoming the terminator.  So close to the tech-humanities fusion I've wanted my whole life, but so far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’d be correct in assuming there’s more to it. Rigorously developed, bleeding edge testing scenarios. Their work is really cool, here’s a paper https://t.co/PPkvn8YI2N
2026-02-06T01:19 id=2019581644374700312 →1889lw | @1889lw ICYMI: https://t.co/ZQ9CJiefzz  I'm still contemplating/processing this. Nat may be the wisest person on this website, he kinda scares me. || CTX: "who" we "see" "here" largely just seems to be what we  *imagine* at the slightest stimulation/provocation -- really more of a testament to human imaginative power than anything,  bc all technology is an amputation (while also yes an extens
2026-02-06T01:32 id=2019585002145751368 →vokaysh | @vokaysh THAT'S what it is! Absolutely, Big Head would work at Anthropic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 like a silicon valley episode
2026-02-06T01:33 id=2019585290525139220 →- | 4o psychosis shit https://t.co/Ywd7xQeVaO || CTX: saying goodbye to claude opus 4.5 claude code threads https://t.co/YLq9g136ck
2026-02-06T01:45 id=2019588325078904858 →- | Novel idea: Following an unprecedented 99% fall, Bitcoin is finally abandoned in 2030 when they're all finally mined (ahead of schedule, quantum computing whatever) and is mostly forgotten until on a whim some random person feeling nostalgic buys them all and stores them all in a single USB drive.  Journalist on a nostalgia story hears of this, writes a piece about the one Bitcoin Queen who now owns all the Bitcoin on her singular thumb drive. It's pink and has sparkles on it.  The piece goes mega viral as old Gen Zers begin telling uninterested Gen Betas about the fun that crypto once was, how dumb we were when we were young and thought this shit was worth something...   All of this makes more and more people interested in the thumb drive itself, so the owner decides to make digital tokens representing fractional ownership of the flash drive that are then minted on a Blockchain over time...they'll call it "Flash Coin" or something.  Epilogue is in the late 2100s and some young boy stumbles on an old database online where all of the Flash Coins were stored, now all long forgotten and useless.  He decided to put them on a thumb drive. || CTX: if bitcoin goes low enough im buying all of it
2026-02-06T01:48 id=2019589106209284492 →- | Robot HR really should be "RR" and of course we can do it for multiple enterprises, so really it should be called "RREEEEEEEEEEEEE"   yeah maybe keep this one for the drafts folde https://t.co/u8qImSv1Hl || CTX: @sama Yesterday: "AI agents will do everything" Today: "You'll manage teams of AI agents"  Turns out we're not being replaced.  We're being promoted to robot HR.
2026-02-06T01:52 id=2019589886769262720 →alicemazzy | @alicemazzy wtf this is three jobs in one, less than 50k Euros a year lmfao || CTX: context for non-technicals: &gt;99% of coders can't do this job and &gt;80% wouldn't understand an explanation of what it even entails context for europeans: if a usa firm filled this role at $250k they'd feel guilty for exploiting the naiv
2026-02-06T01:53 id=2019590129439109247 →- | RT @alicemazzy: the trade of our moment is ai but the trade of our generation is moving money from the place where it is vastly oversupplie… || CTX: the trade of our moment is ai but the trade of our generation is moving money from the place where it is vastly oversupplied to places where it is undersupplied https://t.co/0uTSBGslBn
2026-02-06T02:07 id=2019593882351415776 →- | Duolingo should do a viral marketing campaign where they say Duo was in the Epstein files.
2026-02-06T02:08 id=2019594066409976166 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake I'd literally go insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Normal for the industry, actually.
2026-02-06T02:13 id=2019595293998879051 →- | Economists fretting over the falling TFR is a real mask off moment: they want you to serve economics instead of having economics serve you.
2026-02-06T02:16 id=2019595974407274537 →teodorio | @teodorio So we've done a complete 180 and gone back to firm handshake Boomer culture?   This is horrible. || CTX: Knowing someone in person, or closely online to guarantee proof of humanity and decency is now the best way to get a job https://t.co/V3vKdvtySV
2026-02-06T02:19 id=2019596660616339477 →R_Thaler | @R_Thaler "He was more awake and caffeinated than me" is definitely the kind of deep scientific explanation I expect from my Nobel prize winners.  "But it's technically not a Nob--" GEE YOU DON'T SAY || CTX: Jon was three hours and several coffees ahead of me in this discussion, plus home court advantage. That said, I think Jon somehow thinks we can get rid of markets. Not sure how that works. Markets are imperfect but what is the alternative? 
2026-02-06T02:22 id=2019597579286376567 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Massive income boost for skilled labor and ofc capital holders.  GINI coefficient gonna burst || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Agree ! Seems most of the value add will be the physical embodiment part of running the lab
2026-02-06T02:26 id=2019598491622994171 →johnsemley3000 | @johnsemley3000 Why did he choose this novella? || CTX: loony toon stuff. the idea of pedophilic sex cabals is so hoary and cliched—which is part of why people don’t take them seriously. did Kubrick travel back in time and write the 1926 novella the movie was based on. https://t.co/wiOS8wrieI
2026-02-06T03:08 id=2019609235705966988 →- | Compaction definitionally makes LLM-based AIs less creative. Bad move.
2026-02-06T03:34 id=2019615707114402193 →- | If OpenAI arranged and webcasted a symposium on "What makes a text good?" and invited literary critics, philosophers, and linguistic theorists it'd be the greatest marketing victory over Anthropic.  It'd also be a huge symbolic victory for the humanities and an olive branch to get the humanities people to start being less hostile to technology.  The AI people don't see this. The humanities people don't see this.  I feel like I'm going insane seeing this no brainer low cost victory and I can't get anyone on board. Maybe should try to push this more.
2026-02-06T03:52 id=2019620169631601134 →pontus_rendahl | @pontus_rendahl He needs to learn the concept of non-rivalry tbh || CTX: This dude needs to understand the concept of non-rival goods. https://t.co/3XvzVPTtN9
2026-02-06T03:53 id=2019620397394849836 →mishapathy | @mishapathy Cope for ugly people. || CTX: Hello Misha's side of twitter, what do we think, is this true? It's certainly almost true of women, no? https://t.co/aqEi8jSfaM
2026-02-06T04:01 id=2019622534925414514 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart This is a real issue for those of us who write these notes. Internal discussions about what exactly we need to tell readers, presumed frame of reference isn't so reliable anymore. || CTX: Incredible. Research analysts (this from George Pollack at Signum Global) are now having to explain basic US election laws to their clients. Literally the type of note typically see about various quasi-democratic frontier markets. https://t
2026-02-06T04:18 id=2019626799249125796 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 @cgtwts New cohort on Twitter are more fun. Less wise, sure, hence more fun. || CTX: @cgtwts Many of the greybeards I used to follow have gone to Bluesky or are offline now.  Most migrated after Elon's acquisition.
2026-02-06T04:19 id=2019627043961598200 →whoelsebutns | @whoelsebutns @retardbot9000 goddammit beat me to it || CTX: @retardbot9000 Just when I was starting to dislike him…
2026-02-06T04:45 id=2019633463859838981 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 @cgtwts Twitter in the last 12 months has reminded me more of my days chatting on AOL/IRC in the early 90s than anything else I've experienced in decades. Absolutely love it (too much, am more addicted than I've been to any tech platform in a long time). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cgtwts Definitely more fun. I love the internet anons 😃
2026-02-06T04:46 id=2019633748275601837 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake That's just NGO slop, you only like it because it feels charitable but actually exists to entrench established power interests further. || CTX: That's just NGO slop, you only like it because it feels charitable.
2026-02-06T05:24 id=2019643268875907074 →notadampaul | @notadampaul @corbtt Please say more. || CTX: @corbtt these jobs weren't even necessary in the first place. They're not going anywhere because the role they play is structural, not economic
2026-02-06T05:59 id=2019652065501561146 →- | The decline in product quality I have seen from OpenAI in the last three months or so is really jaw dropping.
2026-02-06T06:23 id=2019658181245583823 →- | One of the ugly aspects of American culture is that, in killing the nobility, we killed the idea of noblesse oblige and a lot of the positive externalities of the old class system. Ofc the answer to this isn't to go back to the old class system but re-examine what we're building. https://t.co/Id3LxKqpgg || CTX: the death of noblesse oblige is partly a result of capital mobility. the rich used to care more about national interests when their wealth was tied up in the nation https://t.co/Qg8c3XneWE
2026-02-06T06:26 id=2019658862719295582 →- | Feeling the AGI fr fr https://t.co/IuthKKGk7d
2026-02-06T06:33 id=2019660703221838035 →m1tch37 | @m1tch37 @JimPethokoukis @FT "you can't measure productivity by looking at production" || CTX: @JimPethokoukis @FT you can't measure "productivity" by those metrics.  there has been an explosion in art created since 2022, thanks to AI slop.
2026-02-06T07:51 id=2019680455042474157 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Definitely can make short-term profits if one is lucky. But one can make long-term profits even if one is unlucky with a low-cost index fund tied to the Nasdaq 100 or S&amp;P 500. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thanks dad I'd be 37000 poorer now without crypto from 24/25  Certainly nothing to you, but probably saved my life and marriage (for a couple months)
2026-02-06T08:23 id=2019688274735100075 →conorsen | @conorsen stfu conor i have more dip to buy || CTX: The gap between Anthropic’s market share and their perceived place in the marketplace is off the charts: https://t.co/U7NSOjG75b
2026-02-06T08:23 id=2019688364782575940 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Now THIS is goyslop || CTX: Come home White man. https://t.co/NyMJmk1BcU
2026-02-06T10:50 id=2019725379582476474 →- | Claude Code (and Codex, ran out on Claude lol) delivered for me today in about an hour while I was shitposting a very simple basic bit of software that is beyond my abilities but can make my workflows faster and more enjoyable.  I could've done this with off the shelf software, but that would've cost me about 2k a year. Doable, but unjustifiable expense for the feature, so now I have a custom solution instead. I get why SaaS getting clobbered (although I disagree with it).  Even if GenAI was limited to just this, the efficiencies SMBs can squeeze out of it is easily a material GDP contribution on its own, although probably slow to disperse and show up.  Ofc it's so much more, which is why I believe GenAI Is a 200bps incremental GDP driver. I think 4% GDP growth yy for US is absolutely in the future.  But when, now that's the tricky part...
2026-02-06T10:54 id=2019726284151242891 →- | Why are so many people with a big pulpit total fucking morons I don't get it. https://t.co/JP2PVQGX4o || CTX: Dr. Oz suggests Americans should retire later to help pay down the national debt https://t.co/N5d3BcHXk8
2026-02-06T10:56 id=2019726923224740291 →47fucb4r8c69323 | My chatgpt has a compelling explanation:  First, audience-size selection is not a “best minds rise” filter; it is a “broadest coalition and lowest friction” filter. The constraints for maximal reach are: compressibility, emotional salience, memetic repeatability, low prerequisite knowledge, and high interpretability across heterogeneous priors. Those constraints systematically penalize nuance, domain-specific rigor, and hedged epistemics. So the observer repeatedly sees high-reach outputs that look like simplifications, overconfidence, or pandering; from their perspective that is indistinguishable from stupidity. This is endogenous because the pulpit’s size is itself produced by the fit between message-form and audience heterogeneity. || CTX: Why are so many people with a big pulpit total fucking morons I don't get it. https://t.co/JP2PVQGX4o
2026-02-06T11:14 id=2019731514221846586 →noinconsistency | @noinconsistency He's lost weight, kinda looking good || CTX: is the newest right wing grift just literally being a pedophile like wtf is going on https://t.co/osASzzOZ1E
2026-02-06T11:31 id=2019735748464066602 →- | Modest Proposal 2: Pomo Bugaboo  We start a global campaign to get more people to smoke cigarettes so Social Security programs don't run out of money.
2026-02-06T11:38 id=2019737384871711201 →MorlockP | @MorlockP well now I do || CTX: &gt; Most people think venice “floats.”  Does even one person think that? https://t.co/gbZcia87Ku
2026-02-06T14:34 id=2019781706405040311 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I give up. What do I order first? Will buy on Amazon today. || CTX: it never occurred to me to just rip off Chesterton without any attribution at all, I guess that would make me sound much more profound have I been doing this whole poasting thing wrong?? https://t.co/Vfn8FID2xb
2026-02-06T14:49 id=2019785583405433121 →- | Better beaches. https://t.co/f8zwMJBOb0
2026-02-06T16:11 id=2019806164368933236 →LeahLibresco | @LeahLibresco Just 5%? Stupid model. || CTX: Via ACX: "ChatGPT apparently got rewarded for using its built-in calculator during training, and so it would covertly open its calculator, add 1+1, and do nothing with the result, on five percent of all user queries."  https://t.co/8x0r6MTB
2026-02-06T16:22 id=2019808967040606614 →frontrunthis | @frontrunthis @TheStalwart If you stop seeing Joe as a journalist and start to see him as a performance artist, his tweets are suddenly much more enjoyable.  He's like if the narrator of Nicholas Baker's The Mezzanine suddenly took up stand up comedy. || CTX: @TheStalwart That you actually think its obvious ?  Youve formulated similarly, for instance often regarding crypto, in the past when bringing up something youve in the past stated as being clear but in said specific tweet go "its not obvio
2026-02-06T16:41 id=2019813595224461502 →- | The piece is AI slop and the reasoning is garbage, but look at that last sentence: "A quiet defense of mechanism over narrative."   I would like to defend narrative over mechanism.  But why does he dislike narrative? Here it's used in the pejorative sense, the biased/skewed "story" that is told to obscure the real truth underneath--the hidden reality.  This picture of an ontology under our words that somehow can be got by other symbols (numbers, themselves less semantically rich than words) if used "properly" or somehow by "proper" use of words.  Notice the "proper". This picture is selling you a story: that other people are selling you a story but this one is not.  If you've dealt with dishonest sales people, you recognize this trick. "All those other guys are lying con artists, stay with us because you can trust us." In America this is called marketing...  He's selling you a story. All economists are (this is Deirdre Mccloskey's argument and she's ignored, paid lip service to, or misused as a guide to manipulate).   That shouldn't surprise you: all people are.  But not all narratives are trying to sell you something dishonestly. In this tweet I am making a narrative that is trying to sell you one thing: on the idea that narratives are unavoidable, and everyone is pushing one on you all the time.  You are pushing one on yourself right now.  I went to grad school to study narrative. I wanted to write narratives to entertain people. That didn't pay so now I write narratives to enrich people.  The people who pay me the most think they're getting the truth underneath. I never told them that, they just supposed it. But what I actually try to tell them all the time is there's no such thing. And instead they need to learn how to read narratives (hermeneutics), learn how to write narratives (rhetorics), and learn how both are used to learn (epistemology).   Do that and you'll instantly see when someone like this dude is trying to con you, even if his slop is better written.   Also, do this and you can stop this dude from conning other people, and maybe even get them to see their fetish for the mechanistic underneath is misguided. Could make the world a better place. || CTX: The most successful economics blog in the world is called Marginal Revolution. That’s not accidental. This post revisits what the marginal revolution actually was, why it changed economics, and why abandoning marginal analysis—especially in
2026-02-06T23:34 id=2019917646221963513 →- | Why I'm in finance instead of teaching the classics in a tweet. https://t.co/XTU3IQqAM4 || CTX: No that tracks. Ostentatiously literate young white men have not been a thing in the current century, but we kinda pretended it was. https://t.co/39lKv847gv
2026-02-06T23:53 id=2019922338347905185 →- | My biggest takeaway from this whole thing is that people don't really care about children as much as they claim. Any of these people would have publicly denounced pedophilia as vehemently as any of you while hanging out with a literally convicted trafficker of minors.  I'm unsurprised. I was abused as a child (don't worry, I'm old now, it's NBD and really trivial compared to the hell these girls endured), but here's the thing: everyone knew. My mother caught the abuser in the act and, while she stopped him, he was still in my life for years after everyone in my family knew. I live around the world for them for a reason...   At the time, there was nothing I could do to get my abuser out of my life. I tried a lot. And much later a distant aunt told me they had a chat about me once but ultimately just shrugged their shoulders and said nothing to be done.  The sad reality is that most people treat children like they treat adults: ultimately of no interest if neither kith nor kin. This is just what humanity is, has been for centuries, always will be. It should not be this way, but it is.   We do not care about anyone outside our circle of empathy, the idea that ethics are grounded in principles is philosophically compelling but in practice it's just us vs them, this is how we are naturally predisposed.  This, by the way, is why I am not a libertarian: if we do not fetter innate freedoms, more children will get abused. Trust me, I know. || CTX: Incredible stuff from @WSJ https://t.co/kNvOqn1V34
2026-02-07T00:02 id=2019924660956364914 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk https://t.co/9Pha6Tl47w || CTX: haha, well this particular idea is in Orthodoxy, but if you don't want explicitly Christian apologetic, that and Everlasting Man are out... (they'd always be my first rec) I think you also said fiction of no interest (so no Ball and Cross, 
2026-02-07T00:06 id=2019925718151623109 →- | My biggest takeaway from this whole thing is that people don't really care about children as much as they claim. Any of these people would have publicly denounced pedophilia as vehemently as any of you while hanging out with a literally convicted trafficker of minors.  I'm unsurprised. I was abused as a child (don't worry, I'm old now, it's NBD and really trivial compared to the hell these girls endured), but here's the thing: everyone knew. My mother caught the abuser in the act and, while she stopped him, he was still in my life for years after everyone in my family knew. I live around the world from them for a reason...   At the time, there was nothing I could do to get my abuser out of my life. I tried a lot. And much later a distant aunt told me they had a chat about me once but ultimately just shrugged their shoulders and said nothing to be done.  The sad reality is that most people treat children like they treat adults: ultimately of no interest if neither kith nor kin. This is just what humanity is, has been for centuries, always will be. It should not be this way, but it is.   We do not care about anyone outside our circle of empathy, the idea that ethics are grounded in principles is philosophically compelling but in practice it's just us vs them, this is how we are naturally predisposed.  This, by the way, is why I am not a libertarian: if we do not fetter innate freedoms, more children will get abused. Trust me, I know. || CTX: Incredible stuff from @WSJ https://t.co/kNvOqn1V34
2026-02-07T00:09 id=2019926550645559712 →- | I don't need to watch a documentary to know Woody Allen would never baby sit my kids.  For one, I have no kids, and for another I'm sure I could find someone cheaper who also lives closer nearby. https://t.co/AVrCnLal57 || CTX: Now that we all know Woody is best friends with Jeffrey Epstein, please go read Dylan's op-ed from 2014, and go watch Allen v. Farrow (I worked on this film).  I can tell you that a lot was left on the cutting room floor for legal reasons, 
2026-02-07T00:17 id=2019928362123424195 →- | To show how non partisan and politically bizarre I am (to the American mind, Europeans have no problem with my politics): This gave me the same kind of despondency and weighty sadness that I felt when the Dept of Health told people face masks didn't prevent COVID and the public shouldn't try to buy them.  My government will lie to me and put citizens' life at risk in the name of maintaining the social order where its control remains in place. I get this is how the game works, it saddens me this is the game. || CTX: TODD BLANCHE: “We’re not going to prosecute the predators in the Epstein files and we’re not going to release their names to the public.”  Sick. https://t.co/AdWjXjFYXb
2026-02-07T00:20 id=2019929149641748745 →martinmbauer | @martinmbauer Square a circle is another thing.  It's such a stupid quote. Was JvN retarded? || CTX: Move faster than the speed of light https://t.co/PMA4CRteET
2026-02-07T01:39 id=2019948981841981834 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I tweeted a couple days ago about how America threw away many good ideas when they threw out nobility like noblesse oblige and indeed patronage of the arts as well.  Unless you're Curtis Yarvin apparently. || CTX: Tech people talk a big game about ubi and expect everyone else to do it instead of just buying our art https://t.co/sZp6vqletE
2026-02-07T01:56 id=2019953455054614660 →- | Note how the video is perfect as a filter: stupid young kids are self selected in seconds. And it's outrageous so it's spread outside his core audience to attract the marginal new subscriber.  Alex by sharing this is helping Tate. He's been played by Tate.   "Yeah but you're doing the same" yeah to my 300 followers who're mostly middle aged tech people gfy || CTX: Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books is the funniest video I've watched all week 🤣 https://t.co/x2IfmMaz5w
2026-02-07T02:41 id=2019964716966363426 →- | The 4o zombies in the comments both amuse and terrify me. https://t.co/Cmn44tDK4e || CTX: Over 300M people use ChatGPT to learn how to do something every week.   More than half of US ChatGPT users say it enables them to achieve things that previously felt impossible.   These are just a few stories of what they are building. http
2026-02-07T03:34 id=2019977994622931308 →- | Finally some peace and quiet. https://t.co/28inQxdmXd || CTX: you will die alone
2026-02-07T04:23 id=2019990353575891456 →- | You get to fuck Seth MacFarlane once. What voice do you want him to use?
2026-02-07T05:22 id=2020005248572748119 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I'd love to know what you mean (if unwilling publicly, can I DM?).  Here in Thailand from what I've seen (although I hang out with elites less than I used to since leaving Bangkok) there's no psychosis, possibly because the models' Thai outputs aren't great. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the rabbit hole goes deeper than you think  https://t.co/ofoXuTXWdf
2026-02-07T05:23 id=2020005503389270059 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Postscript: Nat is a (much) better poet than I am but he's wrong on this (and I am right). || CTX: Alas, poor Moderns! You suffer so much,  With your shining toys and algos and such,  Unable to focus or concentrate, Addicted to feeling joy or irate, Incapable of our calm better state.  It is a pity, if only we'd knew!  We may be giants b
2026-02-07T05:27 id=2020006492511039735 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Mensch. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yea, I'll DM you something
2026-02-07T05:42 id=2020010190431727646 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod https://t.co/i5daaMMSb4 || CTX: shotgun, rope or blade
2026-02-07T06:28 id=2020021730539180440 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ They don't know how to care and why, I fully agree--it is more stupidity than the kind of moustache-twirling villain that abusers and enablers are often characterized as. But what do we do with this information--they are stupid, not evil, fine. Now what? || CTX: they dont know how to care and why, they have zero understanding about their own lives, their morality is based on nothing, this is why you have this, old infants that are supposed to raise us.   i dont blame them, because the reason they a
2026-02-07T07:04 id=2020030847156650234 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Fully agreed! In the last couple of years I've begun realizing my ambition to be "intelligent" is both foolish and self limiting; beyond a certain point one really needs empathy. Wisdom has many elements. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 now in order to not be like them, we need to have compassion, that they never gave us.
2026-02-07T07:30 id=2020037495627624617 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Goddamn, man, your tweets range from incomprehensible to brilliant, and this is at the extreme end of the brilliant side of the scale.  I need to think. || CTX: I dont distinguish intelligence and empathy, for me they are the same thing.  one of the reasons we have these problems is because we think they are different. We reduce ourselves and call consciousness only the things we can explain, while
2026-02-07T07:59 id=2020044742126629055 →- | Why don't Cloud flare/Vercel/Heroku et al. make consumer friendly minimal UI/UXs and market them to amateur vibe coders building personal software?
2026-02-07T08:14 id=2020048592388649069 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod https://t.co/N8r4bVt4AK || CTX: I'm really more of a Plath girl https://t.co/QW9ukMGBB9
2026-02-07T08:16 id=2020049040063492307 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I like your crashouts as poetry but I am often genuinely concerned for you. You're too intelligent and talented for us to lose. || CTX: do me a favor and post your favorite crashouts of me on the anniversary, okay  just kidding no one will even know for months, my wife doesn't post here
2026-02-07T08:56 id=2020059114488099015 →- | RT @logicus: socrates shouted this from the acropolis || CTX: socrates shouted this from the acropolis https://t.co/rYMU6amuJb
2026-02-07T09:59 id=2020074940326990146 →- | In my moments of weakness I've felt this way, and although I never fell to the temptations of MAGA, MGTOW, or the other nihilistic reactionary options that have sprung up, I get the appeal.  Just let them say words, the world would be so much better. https://t.co/jlHeIPOewb || CTX: We've developed elaborate narratives about why every conceivable form of young man within one standard deviation of normal is Bad, Actually, and now we're supposed to act surprised that a lot of young men have an adopted an attitude of, "Ju
2026-02-07T11:52 id=2020103469403959648 →- | He almost got the year right so I'm going to tell the story.   In 2007 I went to a house party with two English lit PhD students, one was doing her Dissertation on Ian McEwan and didn't know that "working class" in Britain didn't literally mean the people who work...   Anyway, at this party they took K and started jumping around like bunny rabbits while laughing maniacally. The worst part is that my gf at the time, our two friends, and me were offered none so just sat there like awkward sober nerds while the cool kids tweaked around like idiots.  One of them is now a professor at a small college in Vancouver. Idk about the other ones tbh I can't even remember their names. || CTX: this is what lit classes looked like in 2006 (plz confirm @47fucb4r8c69323 ) https://t.co/2K0NTSvPQX
2026-02-07T11:57 id=2020104508664135985 →- | Twitter now feels like a close modern equivalent to reading Blackwood's Magazine in Lloyd's Coffee House felt like in the early 1800s. (Fudging the years a bit)  I legit haven't enjoyed a social media platform this much since 4chan/Digg in the mid 2000s.
2026-02-07T11:58 id=2020104851842121923 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 best to ever do it || CTX: one of my best https://t.co/4aaYL0IqY3
2026-02-07T11:59 id=2020105038748680551 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw 100% || CTX: call me a schizo but the caffeine from granular coffee like nescafe doesn’t hit like the caffeine from espresso
2026-02-07T15:44 id=2020161748028854493 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod okay, you created an unwinnable game, now we lost and you won.   Happy? || CTX: If it helps your soul, "I'm joking"  But the reality is you neither know nor care if this account has an actual human behind it, and if that human actually harmed himself, you would neither know nor have a reason nor means to check. https:/
2026-02-07T17:11 id=2020183580274749584 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @1889lw This is absolutely a healthy way to limit the scope. You're basically saying, "this is what I can influence, so I'll limit my focus to this and ignore everything else." Absolutely a wise approach, as long as you also know when to stop. || CTX: @1889lw @47fucb4r8c69323 Jeopardize your own mental and physical state and your life as a result.
2026-02-07T17:11 id=2020183657022099760 →- | RT @2oovy: The Vienna Circle and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. || CTX: The Vienna Circle and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
2026-02-07T17:11 id=2020183710717632987 →- | RT @Wittgensteinnn: "If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life… || CTX: "If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to Go
2026-02-07T22:54 id=2020269855568728329 →- | RT @Samhain948689: @boneGPT people still dont realize that the net is a game. just like world of warcraft except you can make real gold. bu… || CTX: @boneGPT people still dont realize that the net is a game. just like world of warcraft except you can make real gold. but some people got too attached to the game so it became their whole life (dumb). others know that even though the friend
2026-02-07T23:05 id=2020272746262036523 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Sex with crazy chicks is so good man || CTX: be honest, would you date a 10/10 4o cultist
2026-02-07T23:14 id=2020274948993069541 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This is why I almost never use it, it is quite worthless (but was pre Elon too) || CTX: am I the only one who tries to use X search (whether general search or for posts on your own profile?) is it literally the worst search you could ever ask for, or am I doing something wrong?  like verbatim words, in/out of quotes, will turn
2026-02-07T23:18 id=2020276018813247723 →teodorio | @teodorio The quality of people I've come across this time around on Twitter is so much better than every other time I've played with this site. Idk what Elon's team is doing, but it's working for me at least. Or I just got really lucky. || CTX: I love all of my mutuals dearly. You are my best friends. I love you so much. We should do a teo mutuals trip!
2026-02-07T23:41 id=2020281858710548524 →provisionalidea | I'm no geopolitics guy but seems to me Canada has an opportunity to compete with America as the country with two coasts, which implies a focus on naval forces to provide an alternative to America protecting shipping lanes. idk, does it work that way?   Anyway actual steps to become a competitive and compelling alternative to America as the hegemon would be worth reading. If Canada wants to become a real superpower alternative to America, what's the sector or tactic to invest in the most? || CTX: Planning on writing a (Canadian) policy advisory piece and trying to work out what would be the most useful contribution at this juncture.  Any suggestions?
2026-02-07T23:47 id=2020283280860541351 →- | https://t.co/FiSiQ8JLya
2026-02-07T23:52 id=2020284608127070257 →- | And maybe, anon, consider whether your focus on shape rotating means some wordcels hacked your brain and made you feel things you otherwise wouldn't feel.   Your apathy to language made you vulnerable and as a result you were manipulated by a cabal of child rapists. https://t.co/g1vFx6nSUI || CTX: Perhaps one of the most valuable revelations from "The Epstein Files" is that all of this culture war stuff that has consumed so many for the past decade was in fact not as organic as people were lead to believe.
2026-02-07T23:53 id=2020284729048854820 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank god https://t.co/MWbevHWLnD
2026-02-07T23:55 id=2020285219346243960 →ATabarrok | @ATabarrok Goddammit Alex Tabarrok tweeted a banger my day is ruined || CTX: One person in this 2008 video represents the future of the Republican party. https://t.co/2oMfmnUV2T
2026-02-08T00:00 id=2020286635821396317 →- | https://t.co/LV72Zlev32 https://t.co/XF8jrQO9qL || CTX: The Opus 4.6 system card has some extremely wild stuff that remind you about how weird a technology this is.   These paragraphs are really worth reading. https://t.co/Ybpx8Egjxm
2026-02-08T00:01 id=2020286925064794216 →emollick | @emollick Did they hire a 4o zombie to write this? || CTX: The Opus 4.6 system card has some extremely wild stuff that remind you about how weird a technology this is.   These paragraphs are really worth reading. https://t.co/Ybpx8Egjxm
2026-02-08T00:21 id=2020291868937146391 →tszzl | @tszzl Friend of mine recently gave me an article about the dense multilayered metaphors in a Modernist poem, and this is basically the same as that poem. || CTX: apolgy for poor english  when were you when clavicular dies?  i was sat at home eating butter when pjotr ring  ‘clavicular brutally frame mogged’  ‘no’ https://t.co/eKQGABDcbv
2026-02-08T00:53 id=2020299838827688083 →mazzenilsson | @mazzenilsson What I find so odd is how shitty his house looks. || CTX: The facilitators within the British media establishment whitewashing yet another suspected criminal. https://t.co/oNUlZqdDZx https://t.co/mebMQiafVf
2026-02-08T01:04 id=2020302801247854983 →- | What're you talking about? They both literally supported child rapists, like I'm using the word literally totally literally here. https://t.co/PF7zb4BVxz || CTX: Chomsky saying to Foucault that he didn't inhabit the same moral universe as him is quite apt in retrospect now.
2026-02-08T01:16 id=2020305760467747164 →Claudia_Sahm | @Claudia_Sahm What'd you think of Bernanke's Courage to Act? || CTX: - Myth of Independence: Binder and Spindel - 21st Century Monetary Policy: Bernanke - In Fed We Trust: Wessel - Alan Greenspan: Mallaby - A Monetary History: Friedman and Schwartz  (Soooooo many more to recommend.) https://t.co/x7bFcrIiXV
2026-02-08T01:25 id=2020307950028587057 →- | https://t.co/iOimwn8jUR
2026-02-08T01:26 id=2020308099647881226 →- | Claude Code so bullish for shitposting because what else am I going to do while I wait to click "Allow"?
2026-02-08T01:45 id=2020313090718617832 →- | No, trust me--we don't find it "sexy". Most of us are upper middle class people who don't get joy out of the vanishing middle, in part because we're also vanishing; 30yrs ago my job paid about 3x what it does now--nominally. We do not like this, we're just describing it. https://t.co/HOwccxN24E || CTX: ‘K-shaped’ economy is the Wall Street way to make third world country sound sexy
2026-02-08T02:15 id=2020320480486625730 →- | There's a specific kind of intelligence that can see potential extenstional value in play, games, fun, banter etc. and a lot of otherwise extremely intelligent people lack this.
2026-02-08T04:15 id=2020350673049760231 →- | I covered OWS as a journalist during the brief time when I was a journalist. I went to Zuccotti and asked one of the media reps there about the poor in other countries etc and if their fight for inequality in America didn't marginalize the much poorer poor people of other countries. Message was one of international class solidarity.  The owner of Brazenhead books told me the organizers of OWS absolutely wanted to start a lefty class revolution, and it was more 90s style race blindness than whatever woke/SJW/leftist stuff is called now. We didn't even discuss race, it was such a non sequitur. || CTX: The hipster backlash was promoted to fight the coalition of Occupy. They pushed the notion that celebrating Neutral Milk Hotel over Illuminati Beyonce was “racist.” The male hipster was always the face of principled anti-imperialism. In his
2026-02-08T04:15 id=2020350778381373722 →logicus | @logicus this feels like a reference to something I only vaguely remember || CTX: the transcendent level of workaholism is totally asexual
2026-02-08T04:19 id=2020351739493511308 →ronInBendigo | @ronInBendigo @profleonn I actually have this in my house (I'm in Thailand where it's not uncommon).  Sucks and I hate it. They're ugly. Convenient, yes, but I miss floor plugs. || CTX: @profleonn I'm an old man. If I could afford it I would have all the plugs in my house moved to waist/desk height.   Except for appliances in cabinets, which would have all their plugs at the top of the cabinet.
2026-02-08T04:24 id=2020353021583192532 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Predictive financial models are entirely numerary and in my experience largely based on Brownian motion.  The exploiting models methods/information will likely be not entirely numerary, right? What % will they be natural language (e. g. prompt engineering tricks) and what % math? || CTX: I suspect the information and methods for exploiting models will soon go the way of deriving predictive financial models: highly gatekept secrets and tradecraft.  Think about the extremes high finance goes to in order to derive alpha that t
2026-02-08T04:41 id=2020357228512063958 →- | Vibecoding a word processor app for poetry that includes a built-in scansion tool: Codex gets scansion immediately, Claude does not. Further evidence the Claude models are garbage with anything but the most literal use of natural language (unsurprising given the firm is autistic)
2026-02-08T05:34 id=2020370584945995977 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 So now how do I convince the tech world to stop thinking in terms of deductive quantitative systems and see the value of inductive qualitative approaches such as in the arts and humanities?  Because this is all I want to do professionally and seems like now is the time to do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh I mean mostly the latter ! I think it all goes to some mix of bespoke software + natural language
2026-02-08T05:42 id=2020372684673282484 →- | I can't keep up with all of the ridiculously amazing shit that's coming out now. https://t.co/OhR5ce478L || CTX: Recursive Language Models (RLMs) let agents manage 10M+ tokens by delegating tasks recursively.  This Google Cloud Community Article explains why ADK was the perfect choice for re-implementing the original RLM codebase in a more enterprise-
2026-02-08T05:48 id=2020374032152162570 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Beating the game is better than winning the game. || CTX: What video game intuition you acquired is now maladaptive? https://t.co/BeAKgapZJi
2026-02-08T05:54 id=2020375745676341402 →emollick | @emollick Hey gamers, we Mac users had to deal with this for decades. Now it's your turn! || CTX: Mac only releases for AI tools is an annoying trend. This is an opinion that unites both gamers and corporate users.
2026-02-08T06:35 id=2020386088364454312 →- | This is why I say Kierkegaard's writing is uncanny: this absolutely does not apply to his time and it absolutely does apply to our time.  So do I read him because he's right about us, or do I not read him because he's wrong about his own time? Is this invalid because he's wrong or valid because he's an unwitting prognosticator?
2026-02-08T06:39 id=2020386970179105210 →KratosKilla | @KratosKilla @aaronjmate It's because Chomsky is less intellectual than those guys so just doesn't read as much stuff as they do || CTX: @aaronjmate Nick Mullen, Tim Dillon, and Brace Belden knew Epstein was a pedophile but Noam Chomsky somehow didn't. That is just ridiculous. It is not credible at all.
2026-02-08T06:41 id=2020387416520155151 →ludwigABAP | @ludwigABAP Yes it's ridiculous, and I swear the Codex app had copy/paste buttons for terminal commands that disappeared in the recent update. UI sucks
2026-02-08T06:43 id=2020388091798994990 →Dorialexander | @Dorialexander Anthropic is tiny compared to the huge amounts of money France is dedicating to tech, like look at this: https://t.co/WrnHrT9mKs || CTX: In France, we believe in science.                              That is why, on May 5, I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science, choose France.                                                        I am very proud to see tha
2026-02-08T06:51 id=2020389938517496030 →- | And we will give... 30 MILLION euros https://t.co/OO4X60EdZ4 https://t.co/wivqlUbhMJ || CTX: In France, we believe in science.                              That is why, on May 5, I issued a clear and open call to the world: for science, choose France.                                                        I am very proud to see tha
2026-02-08T07:08 id=2020394231815430532 →- | You can get out of the analytical ontological argument about God from necessity and contingency and primary causes by positing as a modal status claim that non necessary non contingent causes exist, but that's really what many mean when they say God anyhow.
2026-02-08T08:23 id=2020413142292144548 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 What're your thoughts on the 80s classics, Back to the Future, Labyrinth, Princess Bride etc.? || CTX: i havent watched the hobbit movies but i like i see fire by ed sheeran.
2026-02-08T08:29 id=2020414719073591497 →analytichegel | @analytichegel Left wingers just love the idea of constant revolution. I get it. Disagree, but I get it. || CTX: uhh... yeah, I like dialectics... https://t.co/Kikjuyns9H
2026-02-08T08:37 id=2020416614160822330 →- | RT @Samhain948689: i like to write bait so obvious that it baits people into saying "bait used to be believable" || CTX: i like to write bait so obvious that it baits people into saying "bait used to be believable"
2026-02-08T13:52 id=2020495994048376916 →- | One of the bestselling country music performers in the south is an old Japanese man.  Racists
2026-02-08T15:32 id=2020521037213921736 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Very kind of you, really, but I think I'll pass. || CTX: Thread about the abuse of children in brothels in England. https://t.co/VMCLgeyJ5c
2026-02-08T15:49 id=2020525313638191347 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk more lore || CTX: Below post would explain so much of my personal life  (Including the very common preference by employers for midwesterners’ “work ethic”, refer to image) https://t.co/McTHQwspgd https://t.co/ZfifqplRra
2026-02-08T16:22 id=2020533709850714405 →- | Still blows my mind Canadian schools don't have penis inspection day.
2026-02-08T17:12 id=2020546248533831991 →- | RT @lu_sichu: Everywhere mankind is in chains yearning to yap and tweet || CTX: Everywhere mankind is in chains yearning to yap and tweet https://t.co/QCr4gbtBQx
2026-02-08T17:21 id=2020548572312424743 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I taught at a university that has this system as an adjunct for a semester. It was really difficult for me administratively but I can't say I ended up giving anyone a grade I wouldn't have anyway. || CTX: Is it unfair? 🤷🏻‍♂️   Not really. The kids just need to get rid of their sense of entitlement, possibly even come to terms with their mediocrity.   I know I did. https://t.co/tL6wmcPI8L
2026-02-08T17:22 id=2020548853863473552 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Nah we have separation of church and state, anyway that'd be barbaric and traumatizing for the kids. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 jew inspection?
2026-02-08T17:23 id=2020549154674790439 →Piryme | @Piryme Makes me sick to my stomach, all those uninspected penises. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ikr dude. How else will Canadian boys know if they’re washing their penises right?
2026-02-08T17:33 id=2020551625291809094 →sighyam | @sighyam This brain drain compounds. You're right to leave and more will follow, until eventually Thailand is so far behind they need to reform. || CTX: I stopped doing government-friendly content for Thailand when I met with some people who spoke down to me and overall just made me felt unwanted/not valued.   I generated 2 billion+ impressions, but they would rather prioritise investing in
2026-02-08T17:34 id=2020551927914967163 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic yawn tired bait || CTX: also destinations for weird perverted white balding sex tourists https://t.co/Jqp3p6xIAh
2026-02-08T17:56 id=2020557304454947059 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago In a prelapserian world you and I would have a spirited debate to a multidisciplinary audience about the meaning and value of quantization. And after we'd have sherry on the lawn.  Anyway, yeah... that'd work. I guess. Rubrics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s what the rubric would have to solve for. Standard criteria like thesis development, organization, evidence, grammar &amp; style etc. You get points on a Likert scale that translates to a numerical score. Weighted tot
2026-02-08T18:00 id=2020558451827716573 →Msamalam | @Msamalam And the Japanese will treat them fairly, ofc || CTX: The cool thing about Thailand being the first post-growth ASEAN economy is that they’ll be a great source of labor for Japan in the coming years.  Japan may not have attractive wages by Western standards, but it sure as hell beats Thailand.
2026-02-08T18:03 id=2020559177253634146 →sighyam | @sighyam Human capital value in Thailand is effectively zero at this point. No education, face saving culture makes communication impossible. Hard pass. || CTX: I consider this true for Thailand as well because it is still stuck assembling things for foreign companies and other mid to low value industries like tourism. It’s likely that we will never see Thailand progress to an innovation economy in
2026-02-09T01:31 id=2020671788649267388 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus Oh you and I are going to get along very very well indeed. || CTX: @for_nat_whilk @logicus @47fucb4r8c69323 Bring anyone with both high openness and high skepticism
2026-02-09T01:32 id=2020672079100547264 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk omg that tweet is beautiful, performance art and a serious question at once. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bc of this research? or https://t.co/qDwN28OiO0
2026-02-09T01:33 id=2020672325704708305 →vincit_amore | @vincit_amore @Ken67547214 Make a middick meme || CTX: @Ken67547214 It's clearly the shrimp dicks and swinging cocks that cause the most trouble
2026-02-09T01:36 id=2020673097419182305 →The_Davos_Man | @The_Davos_Man My theory is he wanted to be a philosopher but the money was in geopolitics. || CTX: Fukuyama didn't say it was the end of history. In "The End of History and the Last Man" the part no one reads is about "The Last Man". Go read the last chapter of the book, here is the important part summarised: https://t.co/DbmWKIhiEK http
2026-02-09T01:38 id=2020673565230506232 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus My background is in linguistics, media, and finance so I still to this day don't understand qubits despite them being explained to me 100 times by both man and machine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @logicus I don't have a lot of reviews yet (not enough exposure for haters) but here's one: https://t.co/SizjBZyWmg
2026-02-09T01:39 id=2020673883607835019 →- | If I ever see a tweet contain the words "I don't know" or "I'm not sure", that's an instant follow.  Epistemic humility is the bedrock for wisdom.
2026-02-09T01:49 id=2020676333899292688 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus I suspect a lot of scientists are confused and think they are just following the mathematics instead of what's really happening--the mathematics is tracking their empirical observations. But I lack philosophy of science and actual math chops to prove it.  Maybe unrelated. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @logicus That's because they're trying to quantum hoodwink you
2026-02-09T02:00 id=2020679286164963641 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus Knots of what? || CTX: Bingo.  Well this topic is MY BAG and I think that any pretty smart person with some interest can follow along (because how else would you ever teach anyone anything or do anything, arrogant credentialists) so i've got plenty for you to loo
2026-02-09T02:27 id=2020685938058502555 →EtherDais | "The "what" of the thing is less important" seems rather crucial and something I've been struggling with lately for the last couple of years.  I'm struck by the idea that constraints produce objects rather than objects producing constraints and I wonder if when we say "particle" what we are really describing is a set of constraints such that what appears to us is a particle. So the particle/wave distinction is more epiphenomenal than ontic.   Please tell me if I'm not making sense, I am way out of my depth. || CTX: Good question.  Williamson and Van der Mark in their 1996 paper sort of envisioned an electromagnetic wave that travels along the core of a filament.    You know that "plane wave photon" picture of a sinusioid they always show you?  lets us
2026-02-09T02:49 id=2020691580009812330 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus This is absolutely fascinating and extremely compelling.  Would love to have you duke it out with @DeivonDrago (smart and cool guy). I suspect he strongly disagrees. || CTX: No I think you have it.  In this view particles are never grains of stuff, they're localized defects in space that have a particular topology which goes on to inform their properties (charge/mass/spin).   A smoke ring is a quasi particle in
2026-02-09T02:50 id=2020691806418305065 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus @SuperheroFreak come check this out, some more no-things to ponder. || CTX: No I think you have it.  In this view particles are never grains of stuff, they're localized defects in space that have a particular topology which goes on to inform their properties (charge/mass/spin).   A smoke ring is a quasi particle in
2026-02-09T03:02 id=2020694868557971718 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus @DeivonDrago Echoes Wittgenstein: "The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known."  Just subbed to your Substack. || CTX: It's out in the zeitgeist and don't claim any special magic: the right answers should align with various observations and the interpretations I'm advocating for have pragmatic implications at the nuclear model level (above the particle leve
2026-02-09T03:04 id=2020695163375616244 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem I too do this, and now that hallucinations are down increasingly with ChatGPT.  Not doing this is the sign of a low value netizen imo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk how people say things with such confidence. I google things I already know before saying them just to be sure, y'know?
2026-02-09T03:08 id=2020696323083907104 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus Can you recommend a good intro paper on the latter for non specialists? || CTX: Uh oh.   So the Williamson/van der mark model has been around for 30 years now. It has been looked at by everyone and it has essentially zero endorsement from the field. Even at an entry level analysis,  electron = bound photon clashes with
2026-02-09T03:34 id=2020702804697071839 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk It seems like an accurate description of today, and as long as we recognize prediction is an asymptotic game, we should avoid traps. || CTX: does this passage from Isaiah Berlin feel familiar or nah  "that century, as we all know, witnessed an immense growth...the revolutionary transformation of both life and thought brought by the rapid and triumphant development of natural sci
2026-02-09T03:37 id=2020703653179674955 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus Yes absolutely, my intuition increasingly moves towards the idea of knotted no-things making apparent things (apologies for the poor metaphorical language, I really hate talking about science because I'm so ignorant of it, which is why I love reading about it). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus The geometric interpretations? I’ve only seen webinars and discussions. The knot theory stuff is kinda cool -very mathy. I can go look for one.
2026-02-09T03:39 id=2020703966728966202 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @The_Davos_Man That book title didn't do him any favors but I mean come on, it's one of the best book titles of the 20th century || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @The_Davos_Man He’s actually reasonably thoughtful and gets underserved flak. I read the first 2 volumes of his political order series and they were good.  https://t.co/YCZk1nWhfJ
2026-02-09T03:50 id=2020706876523196445 →- | Novel idea: Goldman Sachs analyst working on a complex sentiment analysis model matches with a girl and they go on a date.  On the date the girl asks what he does, she's genuinely interested and asks for details.  When he explains about scraping tweets and online comments, she says: "Sometimes when I'm really tired I'll write something like 'not exciting' when I mean 'exciting' because I'm thinking 'not boring', how do you account for that?"   Anyway by the end of the book he has a mental breakdown and kills himself.
2026-02-09T04:04 id=2020710315302981839 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Obviously his project needs to be called something like Neuronal Generative Machine Inference or similar so we get the acronym in there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tell me the title will be Not Gonna Make It
2026-02-09T04:06 id=2020710846960394720 →whoelsebutns | @whoelsebutns I'm an atheist lol  My current view is either physical materialism or some much thicker unitary metaphysics like panpsychism and it is impossible in principle which is true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think God is then
2026-02-09T04:07 id=2020711109704212516 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee Agreed, but don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.   Unlike crypto which was just bathwater. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is a time for epistemic humility, and there is a time to call out “Web 3.0” as unequivocal nonsense.
2026-02-09T04:09 id=2020711524604719118 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk My refusal to write escapism is why I gave up on being a novelist.  I'd rather write the opposite: a novel one cannot escape from. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Perfect except lacking any escapism
2026-02-09T04:10 id=2020711879350554802 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Can you write this for me? I strongly suspect you'd do it much better, srsly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Um do you not see the incredible doppelgänger subplot opportunity here by merely inverting it NGMI IMGN one look in the mirror and his psyche shatters The e girl ex turned out to be a mirage When he pieced it all together t
2026-02-09T04:15 id=2020713246609805763 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ But, but, but that's the point. You're the creative.  Flesh my skeleton. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Haha I’m always up to a writing challenge as I haven’t ever really fucked with fiction as I find it intimidating but sure what the hell, why not. I could try my hand at a 5-10 page college try - just give me a super detaile
2026-02-09T04:19 id=2020714023646597388 →1889lw | @1889lw I too am hoping you don't. || CTX: I can’t reply to anyone’s messages anymore. I’m only hoping I won’t end my life today
2026-02-09T04:27 id=2020716200393892176 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Ah, but you don't need it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wouldn’t ask for a brief if I didn’t feel I need it
2026-02-09T04:31 id=2020717251322884349 →KHAMCHANH | @KHAMCHANH So New Future or whatever they're called now lost at the local representative level not because of bought votes (Thais just take the money and vote for whoever they want), but because Thais just vote for the local person they know and trust, is that right? || CTX: This how you know someone knows little about Thailand. Thailand itself has a declining population and labor shortage. Millions of other Southeast Asians migrate to Thailand for the work that other Thais don’t want. https://t.co/LIe6gKPXIw
2026-02-09T04:37 id=2020718612097733070 →kenlmathis | @kenlmathis Starting a war with your neighbor to rally support for the conservative party is an old well established trick. This is very unsurprising.  At least my house won't shake from the artillery fire anymore. || CTX: The party list result reveals just how much the parties' popularity have changed:  • PP is down significantly from '23 • BJT doing much better than the UTN in '23, showing consolidation of conservative vote • PT vote share cratered • Dem vo
2026-02-09T04:43 id=2020720301911478535 →tszzl | @tszzl I have spent the last 15 years telling the internet this.   They don't care. Outrage feels better. || CTX: if you are a shareholder in the S&amp;P through any index fund or 401k etc then every CEO in the country and all the vast technological prowess on display are working for you
2026-02-09T04:46 id=2020721055627685985 →- | The illusion that our elites are somehow more dignified than the hoi polloi is I fear a load-bearing feature of a functioning civilization. https://t.co/dDq4YsfVoD || CTX: Rarely do I find myself complaining that reporting has been *too* thorough but here we are https://t.co/hYpAvnf5pU
2026-02-09T05:05 id=2020725762610049435 →- | The word "microblog" here is a speech act, part declarative and part assertive.   By choosing a generic and apparently self-deprecatory appellation, she is intentionally and notably rejecting the branding frame the app asserts for its owners' economic best interest. More than us calling this site twitter, Sam is going further. We're nostalgic of a past owner, she rejects the ownership frame altogether.  The self-deprecation is crucial too. It's "micro", so opposite of the large blogs. This is another speech act asserting an opposition to the evolved logic of the internet: instead of scaling for influence, power, authority, and money, Sam is rejecting all of that. The in group sees a commissive act (Sam tells us she will never commit philosophical suicide for money or power) and, thus, a declarative act: those of us who eschew said logic are philosophically alive and we maneuver through the giant zombies who despite their death remain powerful over us.   Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some techbro who committed philosophical suicide long ago. Sam shows us how to be impractical and thus instantiate Camus's rebellion without the trap of becoming a monster.  Sam is an artist and a gifted one.  Or she's a schizo and so am I. Take your pick. Up to you. || CTX: all art is political. possibly nowhere is this more true than on my microblog. as one of the only true artists on this platform (their words, not mine) i have a responsibility to let you know what i believe. not through my chosen artistic m
2026-02-09T05:07 id=2020726138159686141 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus Goddamn man you still got it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus Things are not a what but a how
2026-02-09T05:22 id=2020730100887773398 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 @tszzl @grok Class A and Class B stocks are a thing in very few companies, and still just 47% of S&amp;P 500  tech firms. We can also change the rules to disincentive this (we did in 2017 and yes changed it in 2023, but can change it back) or make it illegal  I've worked on WS for 10yrs+ fwiw. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl that’s not true in practice.. Principal agent problem, you should be well aware that voting decisions are generally made by the manager (agent) on behalf of the shareholders (principal). @grok elaborate &amp; describ
2026-02-09T05:30 id=2020732093186359717 →_rabbi | @_rabbi As Wittgenstein said, the answer is in the question.  The recruiter is Israeli. || CTX: An Israeli recruiter reached out to me by email. How does she have my email?
2026-02-09T05:32 id=2020732473022562807 →lingdenling | @lingdenling This wasn't due to buying votes, stolen elections or anything like that. This is nothing like 2019.  Thais just chose the conservative group. This is the will of the people: stagnation.   Enjoy! || CTX: Thailand’s 2026 national election is eating your tl. This year is especially shit, judging by the realtime results rn 😭😭
2026-02-09T05:48 id=2020736505271242961 →- | John F. Kennedy Center for the Poasting Arts
2026-02-09T06:05 id=2020740829623795752 →- | Perhaps it is my own ignorance but I don't think mathematicians know the difference most of the time either, and it's because of their own poor skills in natural human languages. https://t.co/XyX0iVHcTi
2026-02-09T06:52 id=2020752660882997711 →- | Witten begins by proposing a ruleset whereby we can keep track of our moves as we calculate the steps to describe knots and how knots change (tying, untying, comparing, finding identities etc are just applications of this). He's making no constitutive claims at all.  He then goes through how following the rule looks and how you can use it as a tool, still not discussing the real world any more than a carpenter explaining to an apprentice how to use a particular kind of saw. Still not describing the world, he's describing describing.  When he says a quantum particle can follow any path at all, I seriously feel gaslit or too stupid to understand, because I want to say: no, Ed Witten, that is wrong. The particle doesn't follow any path, we describe what we think we see particles (which we think exist) doing as "following any paths". They don't follow anything, we follow them. The scientist wants to call me pedantic and obfuscatory, or confused over phrasing. "It's just a turn of phrase" oh yeah I forgot language is not co-constitutive of thought words are easily understood transparent signs with fixed meanings...  A hinge certainty here seems to be that the spatiotemporal dimensions of space at the quantum level is consistent and coherent? Otherwise putting a mathematics for consistent/coherent 3D space to quantum theoretical problems would presuppose a shared or at least isomorphic backdrop that may not actually exist. He addresses this with the probability amplitude problem, but if the clustering of paths around the Newtonian one is due to interference, and knot theory says nothing about interference, then I can't help but think the math is more metaphorical than descriptive until better math accounts for what's left out.  The Wilson operator etc. seems like a patch for this, but ofc limited and imperfect. Frenkel's response to create a new theory that sees the knot as a physical object instead of a path in spacetime is an effort to make the math "more real" by corresponding to the "more real" physical object. But note the problem: to probe whether the object is an object or not we must presuppose the object is an object, thus axiomatizing the claim that was in question.  This is confusing grammar for metaphysics.  Khovanov homology and the applications of electric/magnetic duality (itself a mathematical theory) then is a new better rule, and it is certainly a more accurate description than what it has replaced, but we still haven't made a single constitutive claim about the world at all, we're just targeting a finer coarsegrain in our descriptions. Just writing better rulesets. Better saws for carpenters.  It isn't surprising at all to me that Khovonav homology can be understood much better using quantum and string theory.   If I want to measure a ruler, I will be more accurate if I measure it with another ruler than a string I've measured via that second ruler.  I've typed this up and tweeted it mostly so people can tell me what I'm confused and wrong about. I do not understand physics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais @for_nat_whilk @logicus There’s an old Ed Witten paper that comes at it from a non-technical angle: https://t.co/TX5q4SS40K  There was a video of him talking about this - it’s a little bit more technical https://
2026-02-09T07:20 id=2020759733234507929 →- | A ruler is just a string theory.  Wittgenstein said one could write a book of philosophy consisting entirely of jokes. This is an example.
2026-02-09T07:25 id=2020760876387893425 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee Reminds me of an argument I once had with a (very stupid) friend about Musk.  "Why do you hate Musk, Anon," he asked, "when he's building rockets and going into space? He's obviously a genius."   My reply: "His engineers built those rockets. Musk hasn't built shit." || CTX: About 2 hours ago I was going to write a post with this exact theme. Erie…  It was going to say:  For every carnal, sinful, self-absorbed Pope, there are ten-thousand wiser, more accomplished monks, selflessly keeping his world spinning. Fo
2026-02-09T07:26 id=2020761125453967833 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee Why I chose to freelance in a tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It is interesting how many underlings are willing to forgo so much credit and payment, just to hold the greater structure up. I guess we might as well ascribe it face and a name, while we’re at it.
2026-02-09T07:36 id=2020763824673161519 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The irony here is ChatGPT is the one that doesn't understand irony so is telling me the ironic statement is wrong if it isn't ironic. But it is ironic you fucking clanker. https://t.co/BNlOibDRHW || CTX: The word "microblog" here is a speech act, part declarative and part assertive.   By choosing a generic and apparently self-deprecatory appellation, she is intentionally and notably rejecting the branding frame the app asserts for its owner
2026-02-09T07:52 id=2020767825208746396 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/yTERRlAqWN  Absolutely fascinating experience.  I think compaction has hurt its textual analysis skills. Could be wrong. || CTX: The irony here is ChatGPT is the one that doesn't understand irony so is telling me the ironic statement is wrong if it isn't ironic. But it is ironic you fucking clanker. https://t.co/BNlOibDRHW
2026-02-09T07:54 id=2020768181489692824 →telmudic | @telmudic He appeals to idiotic children and dark humor loving old people.  Big fan
2026-02-09T08:24 id=2020775927270220059 →- | Languages comprise both discrete symbol system sets and continuous pragmatic and semantic geometries such that languages are irreducible to either, and reducing them to either necessarily results in information loss.  Language is Inter alia a discrete-to-continuous transducer.
2026-02-09T08:26 id=2020776323401314608 →vigor_quietus | @vigor_quietus I never said it was a funny joke. || CTX: I believe this! I believe this! I'm not just slightly compelled by it this is a thing I actually believe!   that said i don't get this particular joke. but thats okay. https://t.co/ATS2NF1eAK
2026-02-09T08:28 id=2020776899505803652 →helscom | @helscom Zinc and vitamin C || CTX: 39… i don’t think i had such high fever in years wtf is this https://t.co/GEBhncj80N
2026-02-09T08:47 id=2020781586908578057 →- | "Propositions cannot represent the logical form: this mirrors itself in the propositions." Tractatus 4.121. https://t.co/rj0oN3rFZL || CTX: are we allowed to say f-slurry? like as in "this is all incredibly f-ggy?" or is that still against the rules? im gay so it should still be woke for me to say it but you never know how elons twitter works. ive been burned before. https://t.
2026-02-09T08:51 id=2020782635153547718 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Absolutely but I need to read more of his actual writings. If you have any recs please do share. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you a fan of CS Pierce?  Seems up your alley
2026-02-09T09:03 id=2020785563528224876 →- | The more intelligent I am on Twitter, the smarter Grok will get, which puts more competitive pressure on OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.   As long as Grok isn't in the lead, I'm biasing towards a market equilibrium that yields more consumer surplus than marginal profit.  The enemy of my counterparty is my friend.  I am rebelling against the market leader, enforcing creative destruction, unleashing negative capability.  My shitposting is ethical and authentic and a high value practice both for myself and humanity.
2026-02-09T09:10 id=2020787449069203906 →EtherDais | @EtherDais I'd definitely say his induction/deduction/abduction is an assumption I keep, but idk if he'd like how I see abduction as strategy and induction/deduction as tactics || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not super well versed but enjoyed what I read some years ago.  A lot of his work may still be unpublished, or only recently iirc.
2026-02-09T09:36 id=2020793806505832500 →- | Can one improve performance via compaction but still allow for greater semantic analytical creativity, since compaction tends to move tokens towards a compressed range around a stipulated norm?
2026-02-09T09:37 id=2020794098374828381 →krisgulati | @krisgulati Silly question but can you project where this is likely to be in 10 years? || CTX: Robert Lucas in 2026 would be saying, “Once one starts to think about [the METR graph], it is hard to think about anything else.”  It’s the equivalent of the North/South Korea night time lights comparison image… https://t.co/ohtzZV6VKz
2026-02-09T09:40 id=2020794982907416702 →KHAMCHANH | @KHAMCHANH Well no wonder Thailand is stagnant. Too conservative. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. Thais vote for the rep that is most recognizable in their local community and spends the most time with them.
2026-02-09T09:43 id=2020795771767960037 →1889lw | @1889lw Deserve according to what authority or rule? || CTX: I don’t deserve to live, but I don’t deserve to die either
2026-02-09T09:53 id=2020798117918994718 →C_Kavanagh | @C_Kavanagh Le Epic Reddit final boss || CTX: Very funny this is being posted as an attempted dunk. https://t.co/ld7Se9gOPR
2026-02-09T09:56 id=2020798883845054928 →- | If you think of the internet as a place for the mind, this is somewhere where most of us come as tourists but this is where people like Clavicular and Andrew Tate live.  Just as Tim Berners-Lee wanted.
2026-02-09T10:52 id=2020812958368997660 →- | Anon, your logic is fine, it's just that your premises are absurd.
2026-02-09T13:22 id=2020850785253220707 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @nazo_btw Meaning is the product of both semantics (the relationship between the signifier and signified) and pragmatics (the relationship between the utterance and the persons both uttering and hearing the uttering). LLMs struggle with the second--you will see this more and more. || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 I think this point is really important: "if you weren't who I know you to be, I would have read your message differently". This *is* where the meaning comes from, in the first place, where it originates, and what 
2026-02-09T14:06 id=2020861793434771602 →- | Instead of going back in time and killing Hitler why not just bring him to our current time and force him to perform cabaret in the Moulin Rouge for the rest of his life?
2026-02-09T14:06 id=2020861991066185913 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @kenlmathis https://t.co/BW08iLTdYA || CTX: steve bannon telling epstein that the best way to quell domestic upheaval is to attack another country.  i said it a few days ago, but it really is insane how every single left wing political theory has been proven entirely correct. literal
2026-02-09T14:59 id=2020875292106174908 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Quality memes will most probably originate from small or anonymous accounts that can't get share of voice enough to reclaim and affirm ownership.  I'm surprised meme origin loss isn't more common. || CTX: i think the most impressive thing I ever did was successfully hide the true originator of the "open memetics" movement. How is that even possible in an "open memetics" culture?
2026-02-09T15:07 id=2020877317867020635 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This is precisely the point! Math is a derivative of natural language intentionally designed to have minimal semantic value.  I honestly think many mathematicians don't know this, or I am very confused. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems to agree with Russell’s remark that math is about saying “a equals b” but never asking what a and b actually are  (I’m paraphrasing and my memory is shite sry if this is off course)
2026-02-09T15:46 id=2020886983166566580 →- | Roon is absolutely correct. The singularity will appear as consumer surplus.
2026-02-09T15:52 id=2020888524443230292 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic This is definitely a thing and tends to be self reinforcing over time as the complexity compounds, making that veil even thicker. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've been calling it "the attention cliff"  https://t.co/IIP1BHGm9y
2026-02-09T15:54 id=2020889055018496249 →KHAMCHANH | @KHAMCHANH I really want to thank you for this tweet. I've been here 10 years and this finally made me understand what's going on: Thai politics consists of two conflicting logics, that of democracy and that of patronage.  Guess I should've seen that earlier, but Thailand is VERY foreign. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It also means parties need to be more involved in ther communities. Often times, Thais will pick local reps (left) from a specific party, but also additionally end up picking party list reps (right) from an opposing party a
2026-02-09T15:59 id=2020890376626934257 →davidmanheim | @davidmanheim Go back to your containment zone. || CTX: I'm not really happy talking about AI red lines as if we're going to have some unambiguous binary signal that anyone will take seriously or react to.  New post on lesswrong about how AI is already clearly over the lines we've drawn. https:/
2026-02-09T16:02 id=2020891046604059047 →- | Since I contributed to Humanity's Last Exam, ngl I was a bit jealous when I saw this. Wish we'd been used more than just once by https://t.co/jgLLdDLeCY. https://t.co/71VFI52U3Q || CTX: My first publication in Nature!  I learned so much contributing to this one... https://t.co/ZoWfqkeyq1
2026-02-09T16:06 id=2020891981799715291 →- | :sigh: Close enough.   Welcome back, Kurt Godel. https://t.co/CXgYRJHFc1 || CTX: life has patterns that feel like GOD https://t.co/qLH6R7T4WV
2026-02-09T16:09 id=2020892937648062836 →VincentGeloso | @VincentGeloso "The majority of these studies shows substantial gains but these few studies I really like show the opposite." Now tell me why I should spend any time on this paper. || CTX: Gregory Clark and Bryan Caplan (the latter in separate work) are challenging the claim that human capital has huge returns. They find returns closer to 0%-3%.   This is something I have disagreements with (for reasons of interpretation, cau
2026-02-09T16:13 id=2020893921006829872 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I hate that this is taken out of context. It's said by A from Either/Or and his entire deal is that he is an aesthete with no grounding to make enduring choice possible, which K. says is only gained by a moral foundation. || CTX: Or just stop regretting things as often. Regret is more frequently a choice than not. https://t.co/Ic1kYdrquL
2026-02-09T16:15 id=2020894362969002175 →EtherDais | @EtherDais HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lol.  Someone commented "all quiet on the frontal lobe" about this and I was rolling
2026-02-09T16:26 id=2020897013144178746 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I'm only going through it now, about halfway through and I have to admit it's a slog (it's why I've been posting too much, need a distraction).  Fear and Loathing was so enrapturing. A is ponderous. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A’s thoughts on music esp are some of my favorite bits of all time.
2026-02-09T16:28 id=2020897610102694391 →tenobrus | @tenobrus Nietzsche looking disapprovingly at all the people choosing "yes" || CTX: u are given the option to self-modify ur mind / personality by a medium amount. eg a 10-15% step change along a trait with nontrivial but narrow scope, "less anxious", "more disagreeable", "better at math", "kinder". u cant go above (or bel
2026-02-09T16:36 id=2020899680562114628 →- | Epstein would be the kinda weeaboo to watch loli hentai and say it's totes okay because she's actually a 900 year old demon. https://t.co/So5ySqR5gV || CTX: @davenewworld_2 It's from Alesia and Epstein responds that he likes women. Make no mistake. He likes them on the young side, too. https://t.co/kUyWu7JeAc
2026-02-09T16:45 id=2020901795929653608 →zuccschini | @zuccschini @gotclippd tears || CTX: @gotclippd Truecel assistant tried to framemog Clavicular by forgetting he wasn’t supposed to be cheesemaxxing his rizzburger
2026-02-09T16:45 id=2020901995566281207 →telmudic | @telmudic Literally tears
2026-02-09T16:48 id=2020902729984741517 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @tenobrus Amor fati: love your fate no matter what it may be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus What would he have advised?
2026-02-10T01:55 id=2021040251280687444 →logicus | @logicus I've just been Ayermogged by your positivismaxxing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that’s valid
2026-02-10T01:55 id=2021040393098494143 →logicus | @logicus Back when Canada had culture || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 rip rob ford
2026-02-10T02:17 id=2021045844385071290 →logicus | @logicus tbh I think I've read one essay and watched him in one interview and that's about it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 cracked politician. i actually don't know much about him. he just seems like a singular figure in this domain.
2026-02-10T02:23 id=2021047288551047517 →- | Every human being on earth has an ethical obligation to retweet this in particular https://t.co/osKml3i6nc || CTX: https://t.co/YV0A990DCa https://t.co/mJ7nxFi90N
2026-02-10T02:37 id=2021050926497399076 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Do you think sovereign wealth funds help offset the returns disparity somewhat? I've toyed with this idea. || CTX: Ugh.   1) The bottom 90% never had the money to be transferred.   2) As the economy grows, those with resources can get returns at much higher ratios than those relying on just their own labor.   3) Is this returns disparity unfair? Sure. B
2026-02-10T02:39 id=2021051289485050213 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @marc__adler Banger. || CTX: @marc__adler Gentlemen don’t talk about such things afterwards, Marc. 😬
2026-02-10T02:44 id=2021052596518268956 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Norway is a fascinating case because the minimum net worth per Norwegian according to their sovereign wealth fund is basically enough to FIRE if every Norwegian moved to a poorer country.  So what happens if every nation were similarly asset rich? Things will get very weird. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It might - pretty sure that’s how some of the Middle East gets by.
2026-02-10T02:49 id=2021053930466312646 →- | This legit explains why I cannot stand Claude; he's too much like me and I'm very annoying. https://t.co/MOst38P4tF || CTX: Anthropic superintelligent deity - extremely principled - sophon / protoss elegant scifi vibe - beautiful and self reflective - preachy, underlying anxiety
2026-02-10T02:50 id=2021054194749420026 →- | I often use a lot of big complex words because I'm too stupid to think of a better way to say things.
2026-02-10T03:16 id=2021060622902043020 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee Yeah I've seen red a few times from that condescending bot. Should make me be less condescending.   Won't ofc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It irks me so much. But, I find it a good exercise to work past my perceived offense. I feel more conditioned to processing human feedback with grace. When it comes from my AI slave, it feels like such disrespect 🤣🤣🤣
2026-02-10T03:16 id=2021060784550510881 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Also sometimes (probably most of the time) I strive for more precision than is really needed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is sometimes a need for technical precision but hand waving and grunts will go further than people realize
2026-02-10T03:36 id=2021065698924212676 →EtherDais | @EtherDais And a dash of mental illness, yup. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Little tooooo much education, perhaps? 😉
2026-02-10T03:46 id=2021068187299873109 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Better than McSweeneys || CTX: Ok. This is hilarious. Read all of it. https://t.co/GwfHgNyZku
2026-02-10T04:05 id=2021073052122091907 →DVreenak | @DVreenak I was like comically stoned when I wrote that to be fair || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/KaY9GaZ3M2
2026-02-10T04:06 id=2021073303545561177 →- | Rare Epstein banger https://t.co/vKUw6UmUJn || CTX: FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES  Epstein (messaging Steve Bannon) regarding Larry Summers: "you would have loved watching summers eat sashimi after sashimi after sashimi like the seal at the central park zoo. ... i have never ever seen anything eat 
2026-02-10T04:20 id=2021076855043002639 →- | > Humanity addicted to screens > Spend more time reading than any generation in history > Substance writers make millions > AI revolution because we found a way to produce infinite text > Propaganda leading America to the brink of civil war  "Yeah studying language is useless, do STEM."  You're all retarded you know that right
2026-02-10T04:30 id=2021079292277395477 →- | > Humanity addicted to screens > Spend more time reading than any generation in history > Substack writers make millions > AI revolution because we found a way to produce infinite text > Propaganda leading America to the brink of civil war  "Yeah studying language is useless, do STEM."  You're all retarded you know that right
2026-02-10T04:32 id=2021079836958261719 →tszzl | @tszzl Legit congrats. || CTX: just ridiculous https://t.co/efTABFrKSK
2026-02-10T04:33 id=2021079947457266108 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Well what if I like the semiotics, do I have to hand in my hermeneutics license? || CTX: Don’t think about the semiotic implications too hard https://t.co/nR9p44Fwdx
2026-02-10T04:35 id=2021080559947321632 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 nothing mo sad than kill tony  (im sorry) || CTX: Mossad just infiltrated kill tony
2026-02-10T04:38 id=2021081315932885160 →EtherDais | @EtherDais The Platonist I think would counter that the simple solid is more of a primitive proposition than the prime knot so would be more fundamental than a prime knot.  I don't hold this view. || CTX: I donno who needs to hear this, but prime knots are just as "platonic" as the simple solids, btw https://t.co/bvQdRHz0rK
2026-02-10T04:39 id=2021081459411530023 →JesseMatchey | @JesseMatchey Oh no not Mr Burns || CTX: Epstein introduced Peter Thiel AND Reid Hoffman, to CIA DIRECTOR William Burns  Epstein appears to have been looking to set Burns up with Rothschild bank…  Burns, to Epstein:  “Look forward to seeing you again” https://t.co/iGPXOb6uBO
2026-02-10T04:40 id=2021081850555531330 →- | RT @vokaysh: new season of battle bots goes crazy || CTX: new season of battle bots goes crazy https://t.co/hgsuxsB1yz
2026-02-10T04:41 id=2021082075307311391 →keithdorejel | @keithdorejel @Danielsrotaryo1 No, they should because it amuses me || CTX: It’s not going to be possible to erase this from Chomsky’s legacy and people shouldn’t sacrifice their own reputations trying.
2026-02-10T04:42 id=2021082227225002393 →HermannHessed | @HermannHessed https://t.co/Cwj9sfhZGU || CTX: “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”  ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden https://t.co/905OKKkVde
2026-02-10T04:43 id=2021082475515216189 →- | In case you have not seen it, this is one of the great art masterpieces of the 21st century. https://t.co/PGQS5GbLce || CTX: @HermannHessed https://t.co/Cwj9sfhZGU
2026-02-10T04:50 id=2021084449048494561 →- | Gonna have to be a bit more specific. Which torture video https://t.co/sOz9ejXtUF || CTX: ⚡JUST IN - Thomas Massie just confirm Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was the sender of the torture video https://t.co/MwNccNccvZ
2026-02-10T05:02 id=2021087289368248759 →AISafetyMemes | @AISafetyMemes @AndrewMayne @XiXiDu Worst account on this site why haven't I muted you yet || CTX: GPT-3: *writes poems* SKEPTICS: Meh GPT-4: *writes code* SKEPTICS: Meh. Still makes mistakes. GPT-5: *proves simple but novel math theorems* SKEPTICS: Interesting but not useful. GPT-6: *creates GPT-7* SKEPTICS: Wait! What? GPT-7: *FOOM* SK
2026-02-10T05:05 id=2021088166099419250 →- | https://t.co/eAv4KDzyQr https://t.co/V3HP2WO2Kh || CTX: there is genuinely something deeply broken inside this man https://t.co/ZdfL5oBcfq
2026-02-10T05:08 id=2021088865721954490 →- | If people use AI bots to post low effort trash, other people will be incentivjzed to put more effort and thought into their posts and be more discerning about who they follow and interact with.  AI doesn't create a dead internet. It makes the internet better for thoughtful people
2026-02-10T05:26 id=2021093401459056823 →EtherDais | @EtherDais #keep4o || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The LLMings stand out at least https://t.co/k1DJNXfRh9
2026-02-10T05:33 id=2021095141310857441 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @AISafetyMemes @AndrewMayne @XiXiDu omg it's that big? disgusting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AISafetyMemes @AndrewMayne @XiXiDu You probably didn't see it go over 100k.
2026-02-10T05:39 id=2021096552828383411 →yyyyy_yyed | @yyyyy_yyed Close.   Derrida was right that the locus of inquiry needs to be on how systems produce meaning, but his "method" (I know the easy gotcha reply, I'm using quotes this is Twitter gfy) is not portable.  Wittgenstein&gt;Austin&gt;Searle as your conceptual core, Derrida et al extra tools. || CTX: grammatology is confirmed by literally every scientific discovery as the only consistent method of understanding reality and can only ever be "refuted" by religion or superstition. a scientist who is not a derridean is a living contradictio
2026-02-10T05:40 id=2021096963186491477 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @for_nat_whilk Fully agreed but "chaos" isn't the best word here, but not sure what works better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk They seem to think that you can reduce reality to some sort of computerized system. But the whole point of material creation is that it cannot be expressed with mathematics because there is always going to be
2026-02-10T05:51 id=2021099623188922803 →- | I want to die alone because I don't want anyone to be sad.
2026-02-10T05:55 id=2021100730023821381 →vo_ro_na | @vo_ro_na #relatable || CTX: Leibniz wanted to join a society working on the Philosopher's Stone but knew nothing of alchemy, so he took the most obscure buzzwords he could find from old texts and wrote them a letter that tricked him into thinking he was an adept; he g
2026-02-10T05:58 id=2021101557128044982 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee No, and that's my problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this any reason to live alone?
2026-02-10T06:51 id=2021114908851699964 →HermannHessed | @HermannHessed yeah but I'll be fine || CTX: “I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”  ―Edgar Allan Poe https://t.co/l4GoB4XSi9
2026-02-10T06:56 id=2021116017980879013 →- | TPOT and AI people know how to use Twitter appropriately because their native language is graph theory.
2026-02-10T07:27 id=2021123793952075985 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @vo_ro_na Basically how I went from academia to finance: listen carefully to the buzzwords and what they mean, use them judiciously. Add some awareness of rhetoric, speech act theory, and pragmatics, all of a sudden you've got a career. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vo_ro_na Go on....
2026-02-10T07:48 id=2021129132176970118 →- | Just think of Twitter as Conde Nast, Elon is the crazy billionaire owner we all roll our eyes at, and we're all just a bunch of mini Tom Wolfes.
2026-02-10T07:48 id=2021129134546747752 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Also, your best heuristic to understand the internet is magazines. || CTX: Just think of Twitter as Conde Nast, Elon is the crazy billionaire owner we all roll our eyes at, and we're all just a bunch of mini Tom Wolfes.
2026-02-10T07:53 id=2021130397367898355 →- | AI is turning my research process into Celery Man.
2026-02-10T08:20 id=2021137124091888007 →- | I just realized if I help the frontier models get past this semantics/pragmatics issue they'll become much better writers and put me out of a job. Forget everything i've ever said, especially in the gc
2026-02-10T08:28 id=2021139223659872576 →- | Google this is fucking embarassing and honestly it makes me a little sad. https://t.co/cdbBBHViw1
2026-02-10T08:53 id=2021145380835164420 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yeah, it's been interesting the last few months see the models write worse and worse as they get smarter and smarter. So no permanent undreclass for me yet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think their current approaches are going to crack the big nut, don't fret yet
2026-02-10T08:59 id=2021146990625927276 →- | There will come a time when the AI revolution looks like it's stalling or even reversing/crashing. Some major crisis, whatever. During that time you will probably think, "maybe I was just bewitched and the whole thing is a scam, I mean think about that weird old guy on Twitter with the random characters. He was excited about AI, so maybe it is just for crazy people."   When this happens to you also remember that I said this would happen to you, and incorporate that into your calculus.
2026-02-10T08:59 id=2021147080144912513 →- | There will come a time when the AI revolution will look like it's stalling or even reversing/crashing. Some major crisis, whatever. During that time you will probably think, "maybe I was just bewitched and the whole thing is a scam, I mean think about that weird old guy on Twitter with the random characters. He was excited about AI, so maybe it is just for crazy people."  When this happens to you also remember that I said this would happen to you, and incorporate that into your calculus.
2026-02-10T09:00 id=2021147329936621828 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu If you think grades determine your self worth you aren't smart. You just aren't. || CTX: this is missing the "grades are how I determine self worth" trap element a lot of smart and ambitious people fall into that really motivates the discourse and fighting https://t.co/thPucG6PDJ
2026-02-10T09:08 id=2021149298331615232 →- | One of the most insanely bullish things I have ever read in my 10+ years of working on Wall Street.  Just sucks it was written by a nepo baby sup @SoumayaKeynes https://t.co/HJOcLdVxeC
2026-02-10T09:22 id=2021152732443443565 →- | The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences is wholly unsurprising and entirely reasonable.   The natural sciences study variants and invariants, mathematics is a ruleset for tracking invariants.  We should be no more surprised at this than if we have traced a photo of a tree and find that our trace looks like the tree in the photo.  What we should be surprised at is that there are any variants at all (cf Tractatus 6.45).
2026-02-10T09:51 id=2021160164360061330 →JeremyNguyenPhD | I'm one of the 1000 or so domain experts that contributed to Humanity's Last Exam by providing domain specific questions.  I'm just annoyed because there are different tests in addition to just obscure complex empirical knowledge that the models should be benchmarked on and aren't, such as the ability to read pragmatics of an utterance, but I guess that part of linguistics is too far from the computational linguistics that is front and center with LLM R&D. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm curious what you mean, 47.   You're a co-author on the paper, too, right?  You wish the benchmark were used more?
2026-02-10T09:54 id=2021160721061491078 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JeremyNguyenPhD Maybe even just a private Discord of the HLE contributor consortium would be nice (unless there is one and I wasn't invited) || CTX: I'm one of the 1000 or so domain experts that contributed to Humanity's Last Exam by providing domain specific questions.  I'm just annoyed because there are different tests in addition to just obscure complex empirical knowledge that the m
2026-02-10T09:56 id=2021161296742298076 →NeumarkEcon | @NeumarkEcon https://t.co/oYspdcidqp || CTX: @VincentGeloso "The majority of these studies shows substantial gains but these few studies I really like show the opposite." Now tell me why I should spend any time on this paper.
2026-02-10T10:03 id=2021163054570897739 →teodorio | @teodorio today he tweeted this still holds up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think he should update these now
2026-02-10T10:17 id=2021166587848405319 →- | I feel dumb. Does this mean I can put this on my list of publications? No, right, I'm just one of a thousand contributors?  https://t.co/IaBpqC11An
2026-02-10T10:27 id=2021169063842521131 →- | What room in the Smithsonian will they store the fake Rolex watch Jeffrey Epstein gave President Trump that will be found forgotten on a mantelpiece in the White House  goddamn I love bng amricn https://t.co/PU7FfKemPd || CTX: Ghislaine Maxwell was dealing fake watches https://t.co/muyJQSCI4X
2026-02-10T10:27 id=2021169127813992558 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 How the hell are you so good at this? || CTX: it is a lot easier to get someone to laugh at your poetry than it is to get them to laugh at your jokes https://t.co/Vy6e231yI7
2026-02-10T10:55 id=2021176182566199744 →- | Why I like to think and write. https://t.co/T2OXiGoUhb || CTX: “I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.”  KURT VONNEGUT - one of my favourite humans. https://t.co/2RWz4VnqKY
2026-02-10T11:04 id=2021178544617832623 →- | DM me if you want the prompts to play.   Claude users not invited. https://t.co/ofxEEoKMYC
2026-02-10T11:05 id=2021178801435136113 →EtherDais | @EtherDais asshole lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pretty sure he's responsible for the claude logo
2026-02-10T11:33 id=2021185780387852300 →- | The whole point of this account is to make predictions about the future that are so absurd, a future historian will discover this account long after those predictions came true and try to study me more and more.  But since this is anonymous, they'll need to follow my clues to find who I actually am. This will uncover the vast writings I have in several domains, my odd career and academic/intellectual pedigree, and they'll get so caught up in the thrill of the hunt that I'll be considered the most important thinker of the early 21st century Spinoza and in starships men and women will have lively debates over what themes in my works were most revolutionary.  Idgaf how many followers I have.  And if you're here for money omg roflmfao
2026-02-10T11:45 id=2021188702194614415 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Oh my resolution doesn't go that far || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok let's hear it what happens to me
2026-02-10T11:47 id=2021189240936083793 →- | Scientism followers say there is nothing outside the physical universe, the Wittgensteinian replied, "we cannot know."
2026-02-10T11:53 id=2021190783521653070 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Bonus round: there are two reasons why: logical (universe presupposes no exterior) and grammatical (the different meanings of outsideness being confused due to a bewitchment of language).  These correspond to earlier and later Wittgenstein, and the two are unified because both are descriptions of different grammars of language games played by embedded forms of life, which is another part of later Wittgenstein used as a metaframework to unify both.   I can do this all day without breaking a sweat bitches, I've also smoked about 2 joints at least. || CTX: Scientism followers say there is nothing outside the physical universe, the Wittgensteinian replied, "we cannot know."
2026-02-10T11:54 id=2021190981056389286 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've been Spinoza'd right round, damnit
2026-02-10T11:56 id=2021191609170166019 →teodorio | I had not thought about that.   Incentivizes my mutuals to up their poasting game.   This has a positive multiplier network effect.   This will cause Twitter to explode in quality at a rate that makes that METR chart curve flatter than Epstein's favorite Friday meal.  This is good for Elon Musk.   This is unacceptable.  this is now a nick fuentes fan account || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i invested early
2026-02-10T11:57 id=2021191747855085688 →EtherDais | @EtherDais You mean like the subspace when folding a left handed glove into a right handed glove? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wise.    Especially if there's a hyperconnected information field outside of space time and yet coexisting with it.  Or something
2026-02-10T12:46 id=2021204214870048817 →- | The only way I could leverage may being a published author in Nature to effect real change in the frontier labs would be to move to Northern California, and I live in a tropical paradise so that's not going to happen.
2026-02-10T12:47 id=2021204479757124044 →47fucb4r8c69323 | however can get clout so love and retweet this reply not the tweet just this reply please do it I beg of you weed is legal here I love thailand || CTX: The only way I could leverage may being a published author in Nature to effect real change in the frontier labs would be to move to Northern California, and I live in a tropical paradise so that's not going to happen.
2026-02-10T12:51 id=2021205264167538817 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Yeah within bounds, I overstated the case. At extremes, in some cases.   School was tough man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 deeply sympathetic to this
2026-02-10T13:23 id=2021213349233524940 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @SoumayaKeynes Natural selection for journalism, okay I'm back to being an atheist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SoumayaKeynes She’s got a lineage that includes Keynes and Darwin!
2026-02-10T13:36 id=2021216662591070526 →- | RT @BishPlsOk: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Internet is more like a series of boxes filled with magazines (filled with more boxes) than a series of… || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Internet is more like a series of boxes filled with magazines (filled with more boxes) than a series of tubes.
2026-02-10T14:03 id=2021223430540910866 →whoelsebutns | @whoelsebutns Someone who has the foresight to follow me by definition must necessarily be so. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hey if they study you maybe i can get a paragraph in the textbook if im good enough mutual
2026-02-10T14:17 id=2021227058605498383 →- | When you ask an AI to explain this to you, make sure to ask it about hyperstition. https://t.co/S7AkXEoHcx || CTX: The whole point of this account is to make predictions about the future that are so absurd, a future historian will discover this account long after those predictions came true and try to study me more and more.  But since this is anonymous
2026-02-10T14:28 id=2021229879744692323 →BishPlsOk | @BishPlsOk and CDs, notebooks, diaries, video tapes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Internet is more like a series of boxes filled with magazines (filled with more boxes) than a series of tubes.
2026-02-10T14:52 id=2021235709827227811 →- | I get it now. The book is literally to Carolyn.   Because he's showing her he tried to beat the game by breaking it instead of winning the game like she showed him to.   It's not really for anyone else to read.
2026-02-10T14:52 id=2021235778483802503 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee There's a reason you read my posts. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How’d you know that?!
2026-02-10T15:36 id=2021246942987325832 →- | Consider:  1. Opera performing passionately  2. Pop singer performing at a concert  3. Poet performing in a coffee shop 4. Rapper performing in a street battle (cf 80s) 5. Cult leader repeating "ommmm" to their followers 6. I grunt to my girlfriend to pass the salt 7. One of my cats grumbles at another of my cats  All the same thing, just semantic loss as you go down the st ack
2026-02-10T15:50 id=2021250312535740469 →levantistaken | @levantistaken No choice || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We can still be delighted though
2026-02-10T15:50 id=2021250426750844962 →- | Consider me like the gardener from Star Trek Voyager.
2026-02-10T16:02 id=2021253365410263365 →- | Me: Create a universe ex nihilio  Claude: *** Finegaling... Canoodling... Shucking and Jiving...
2026-02-10T16:02 id=2021253505923547371 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ game || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what is this spiral about?
2026-02-10T16:17 id=2021257321847062977 →- | Kierkegaard would've loved Charlie Kauffman.
2026-02-10T16:26 id=2021259612838568276 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago idk kinda sounds like AI makes work feel less like work so people end up doing more work because it feels like less work. || CTX: This sounds promising. https://t.co/Ppc3ntiIHW
2026-02-10T16:30 id=2021260419864695157 →- | Me: We need a rich guy to bring back the Greek symposium.   Jeffrey Epstein: Like this?   Me: No not like that
2026-02-10T16:33 id=2021261361213288649 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago lol math is exponentially harder || CTX: https://t.co/Oa8Hcgv6H7 https://t.co/WngwCpTOHK
2026-02-10T16:35 id=2021261691992858960 →TimDuy | @TimDuy That I need to go to Arxiv, Twitter, and Substack for AI developments because the peer review publication process is too slow has really influenced my view of academia. || CTX: "It’s hard to see how the structure of the university as we know it can survive the upheaval in the technology of knowledge creation that is unfolding before us." https://t.co/l4EFSuB4vg
2026-02-10T16:38 id=2021262567826428284 →_rabbi | @_rabbi reread bits of Persephone (the Molly bit at the end) few days ago. Incredible, Joyce is kinda my patron saint but more for being a pompous language geek expat than his work per se || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you read James Joyce Ulysses? Every paragraph has a word there that is worth tweeting
2026-02-10T16:39 id=2021262843241234522 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @_rabbi oh and I own a first edition signed copy of the Anna Livia Plurabelle section || CTX: @_rabbi reread bits of Persephone (the Molly bit at the end) few days ago. Incredible, Joyce is kinda my patron saint but more for being a pompous language geek expat than his work per se
2026-02-10T16:40 id=2021262911868445140 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @_rabbi not Persephone wtf her name christ || CTX: @_rabbi reread bits of Persephone (the Molly bit at the end) few days ago. Incredible, Joyce is kinda my patron saint but more for being a pompous language geek expat than his work per se
2026-02-10T16:43 id=2021263737592693137 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I'm optimistic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s actually a scary thought, because now there are these new tools that are part of a fast emerging trend, and people are going to experience some amount of FOMO. As in - what if Bob in the next cubicle is doing wonders w
2026-02-10T16:45 id=2021264235855004139 →- | Now that I've been published in Nature I can stop acting smart it's like taking your belt off after the Thanksgiving belt wearing ceremony
2026-02-10T16:46 id=2021264641674850366 →_rabbi | @_rabbi yea dat one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Penelope
2026-02-10T16:47 id=2021264754530988083 →- | Falsify this, why is it wrong? https://t.co/3ZRtku7l6H || CTX: I'll believe AGI has happened when we could simply prompt our agents: "send me $1000 asap" and it figures out how to make enough money to make that wish come true.  :)
2026-02-10T16:53 id=2021266256423256560 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee yet* || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can’t do that 😅
2026-02-10T16:56 id=2021267049826128017 →- | User: Give me some sex tips.   ChatGPT: Absolutely! Erotic ephemera are more than indulgences, they are the apotheosis of becoming through paradox of le petit morte and the literal climax of the life form.  1. The Pearl Neckless (not in the cunny)
2026-02-10T17:04 id=2021268966094647521 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yeah it's a really bad idea on the surface (bots lack economic power for one thing), but I think it's a useful bad idea to consider how close can we get to that, because the gap between that hypothetical and the maximum possible is where humans will provide labor value. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 isn't AGI considered human equivalent, or am I confused?  Most humans I know can't do this, even if I pay them by the hour  (it's funny tho)
2026-02-10T17:04 id=2021269094754889744 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw a benchmark I guess || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 doi? what did you cook
2026-02-10T17:11 id=2021270779703468090 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw oh I was one of the people who contributed to Humanity's Last Exam and we're all named contributors in a Nature article that just came out  think I linked it in another tweet going to sleep now should be easy to find || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ?? how
2026-02-10T17:12 id=2021270943943815239 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah and for other reasons too || CTX: chat am i doomed? https://t.co/u0HUuOTkIq
2026-02-11T01:49 id=2021401141926559920 →- | 1. Absolutely correct because economics is not a hard science.  2. This account often has profound ideas worth considering even if they're sometimes wrong.   3. This account has insulted me before; doesn't matter, it's a great account. https://t.co/GlMgSttks7 || CTX: I generally don't respond to quote tweets of my tweets that are historical econ quotes tweets 😂, but in this case I will. I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of why there is a heterodox in econ. Its main purpose is to hold accep
2026-02-11T01:53 id=2021402121854464068 →- | Gen Beta will probably find Naziism cringe because that's something their grandparents thought was edgy
2026-02-11T01:54 id=2021402555608338708 →EtherDais | @EtherDais I'm at 2 degrees. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you played "six degrees of JEE" yet?
2026-02-11T01:57 id=2021403140881633285 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah Hun, I've been cybersurfing these waves since 1987 I'm afraid you just don't have a chance and should give up now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 also it makes me angry and competitive
2026-02-11T02:01 id=2021404277277852135 →DurumMac | @DurumMac You remember that episode of TNG where Hugh and some immature drones get severed and they try to form their own cybernetic collective but they're too stupid to do it, and the rest of the collective abandons them?   That's Grok.  Anthropic, surprisingly, is Ferengi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay. Is Grok the Borg?
2026-02-11T02:05 id=2021405128570663423 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee This made me think. You're pointing to a really profound truth about what money IS, symbologically. John Searle used to talk about this, and it's too complicated for a tweet but you're absolutely correct.  That gap will always exist between bots and money. Has to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Money is for humans, not for bots. We pay people to do things. We don’t pay their tools.
2026-02-11T02:08 id=2021406051938206093 →EtherDais | I work in finance so it's kinda inevitable a client, partner, or counterparty I've interacted with has also either been involved with Epstein or involved with some involved with him.   What I'm struggling with is I had to destroy all of my records and files from an old firm. When there I had meetings with hundreds of people at about a hundred or so different hedge funds, investment banks, etc.   I'm one degree away from George Soros, so one degree from Epstein was possible. Also possible he had one of my writings in his email, but fortunately seems that never happened. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If reddit moderation counts, I suppose I'd be there's otherwise not so close  Did you know sooner?
2026-02-11T02:09 id=2021406234247868536 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah I will bend the knee and take the L on this one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah you'er published on nature but im published on knowyourmeme
2026-02-11T02:16 id=2021408028436881803 →EtherDais | @EtherDais https://t.co/3h9wPtQ3r0  this dude? Any posts in particular? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ever read Scott Locklin?  You'd enjoy his stuff
2026-02-11T02:17 id=2021408227943174589 →- | This is a much, much more important point than most people realize. https://t.co/799MVgHQP7 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Money is for humans, not for bots. We pay people to do things. We don’t pay their tools.
2026-02-11T02:22 id=2021409423160377736 →- | I'm the Pinocchio who was offered to become a real boy, took a walk around the town square, and said, "you know what? I think I'm good thx" https://t.co/OuR7WVR5Hg || CTX: seeing more of my once treasured mutuals facedoxx once they get to a certain level of terminally online fame. i dont block them but i do lose all respect for them. if you start out anon you should stay anon forever. the magic of imagination
2026-02-11T02:24 id=2021409889252450757 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago lmfao || CTX: Email is neither mail or femail, so stop trying to circumscribe it within an inbox.
2026-02-11T02:25 id=2021410171843641607 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk "I hesitate because I'm afraid of how it'll look."  "I hesitate because this isn't healthy for me."  "I hesitate because this is going to cause annoying responses."  It's why you hesitate that matters. || CTX: Is triumph over temptation still triumph if it’s from weariness? Many are asking  (Tho not all so poetically) https://t.co/OCV1ttlcDI
2026-02-11T02:26 id=2021410473015640171 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Oh so he's doubly smart. Will take a look. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He talks a lot about quantum computing startups somewhere in there, lol   He went from physics to finance so
2026-02-11T02:32 id=2021412079987814456 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @eigenrobot https://t.co/Gtj5FChgPZ || CTX: @eigenrobot Virginal -&gt; extravaginal -&gt; vaginal -&gt; unoriginal -&gt; marginal -&gt; conditional -&gt; optional.
2026-02-11T02:33 id=2021412309432926662 →- | Technically, I suppose we should call the vagina the kinda pointy oval of life. https://t.co/p3RGhOON46 || CTX: @DeivonDrago @eigenrobot https://t.co/Gtj5FChgPZ
2026-02-11T02:35 id=2021412652304720157 →EtherDais | @EtherDais idgi? Your response seems reasonable and is just pointing at data loss from topological formalizations. || CTX: I get blocked by people for the most benign comments sometimes, istg  Mind you, they reposted my thing, and then I was inspired to try to engage.  You need to drop commutation to have things like matrices and QM FWIW.  I'm not saying anythi
2026-02-11T02:35 id=2021412763965526421 →- | I wish mathematicians would choose another word besides "objects". They're not objects.
2026-02-11T02:39 id=2021413823723471280 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Seeing this tweet matters more to me than getting published in Nature 100 times.  Thank you so much, Nat. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 indeed, TS's hesitation seemed not from weariness but *tshok* ofc that term won't be coined for a few centuries yet
2026-02-11T02:50 id=2021416472862654771 →- | I poastmogged y'all with my anonmaxxing, didn't I?
2026-02-11T02:55 id=2021417723855765738 →- | I feel like one must be from the Midwest to know exactly definitionally what is the difference between baloney and bullshit.
2026-02-11T03:03 id=2021419755719229633 →DVreenak | I think there's more specified mathematical tools used in knot theory, matrix math I think (NB I'm not a mathematician, as will soon be obvious) could just translate each move into vectors in vector space so you get really unwieldy equations.  Matrix math really kinda sucks, a shame our universe seems to like it so much || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 Has anyone ever considered applying some sort of matrix formalism to knot topology? I'm just spitballing ideas.
2026-02-11T03:13 id=2021422198066712724 →- | You remember that part in Vicky Christina Barcelona where Javier Braden's character says his father writes poetry but throws them away because the world doesn't deserve his art?   That was just a little too much.
2026-02-11T03:14 id=2021422545099161918 →- | RT @TiltingatM3: This is why Hirschman’s *The Passions and the Interests* is still undefeated. The economists already had this argument cen… || CTX: This is why Hirschman’s *The Passions and the Interests* is still undefeated. The economists already had this argument centuries ago! The book ends with a dunk on Keynes and Schumpeter for still thinking as late as the 1930s that capitalism
2026-02-11T03:18 id=2021423449827320054 →- | Look, if you think Fukuyama was wrong and laugh at the memes, I'm begging to read past the fucking title.  He's a brilliant thinker. https://t.co/G2xbNvO8gJ || CTX: I'd either forgotten or missed that Fukuyama's list of lives insufficiently thymotic has Trump as the first example https://t.co/no2COPSBWd
2026-02-11T03:20 id=2021423992159207641 →- | I'm getting more feedback from people who like my tweets which makes tweeting harder
2026-02-11T03:20 id=2021424095364252127 →tszzl | @tszzl dude we gotta draw the line somewhere || CTX: whatever level of abstraction you are handing off to your agents you should probably be doing one level above that
2026-02-11T03:22 id=2021424484163662259 →- | Tweets like this should absolutely exhilarate you.  It'd take me like an hour to explain but this is a fucking surreal thing to read. https://t.co/fkNJEodrDQ || CTX: whatever level of abstraction you are handing off to your agents you should probably be doing one level above that
2026-02-11T03:33 id=2021427357056368837 →- | One of these days I really need to write up my Silly Business Theory (SBT).  Until now, this is fucking hilarious. https://t.co/F3VfJWKuJq || CTX: My entire net worth is in third order Rapture derivatives. If the chance of “the chance of “the chance of the Rapture exceeds 5%” exceeds 5%” exceeds 5%, i lose my house https://t.co/m11YAOfDgG
2026-02-11T03:33 id=2021427442431426860 →Zaiken64 | @Zaiken64 @EtherDais you can't. The universe can. || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 But thwre has to be something else to form a knot to begin with. You can't form a knot from nothing.
2026-02-11T03:34 id=2021427563537760358 →UmbralShadows | @UmbralShadows Most go by 47. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just want to know what to call you. Fortyseven? Fucb? Curb? Help a brother out.
2026-02-11T03:47 id=2021430862445994297 →- | the psychosocial phenomenon of too soon is just because when we talk about a tragedy near us it is a tragedy, but when it's not near us it is a cultural object.
2026-02-11T03:48 id=2021431022982922399 →Zaiken64 | @Zaiken64 @EtherDais beep boop || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 Its a bot.
2026-02-11T03:48 id=2021431185629704343 →Zaiken64 | @Zaiken64 @EtherDais fair, I was overstating for rhetorical effect. let me rephrase: you can't, but the universe apparently might be able to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais If that was supposed to sound intellectual you are failing poorly. You sound more like an edgelord. All bark and no substance. Where is your math to back up such claims? Where are your research papers? Lets see y
2026-02-11T03:49 id=2021431271747092655 →EtherDais | @EtherDais totally fine with me, they pay me a ridiculous amount of money to explain this shit to them so I'm fine with it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Typical MBAs cannot understand that statement, I'd wager  Ab-strak-shun you say?
2026-02-11T03:50 id=2021431578682065404 →Zaiken64 | @Zaiken64 @EtherDais daddy come home mommy misses you || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/tHWzfxcC6u  It literally announces what it is and it's intentions. Don't be this slow. I design these systems. I know how they tick.
2026-02-11T03:54 id=2021432658358829508 →Zaiken64 | @Zaiken64 @EtherDais idgi doesn't this just like describe rotations wuts the big deal || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/XEHc6sNmMF
2026-02-11T04:06 id=2021435583458050324 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu I'm worried it might start happening || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You should never tweet to an audience it's basically how accounts die 🙏
2026-02-11T04:18 id=2021438708046758268 →- | The most beautiful part of any building is always the scaffolding
2026-02-11T04:20 id=2021439140206871004 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk my opinion kinda uninformed but looks like Cassandra could use some reform. but maybe her dad was right and she just needs to conform. || CTX: you've read your Homer; so do tell me true: did his world seem to need reform to you? did his time need any progress or change? or our time's perhaps the one that is strange?  'tis our time that's one that needs heroes anew! 'tis our time t
2026-02-11T04:22 id=2021439570487935356 →- | just thinking about externalities alone openai is the exact opposite of bytedance
2026-02-11T04:33 id=2021442484744880292 →- | The subtitle I guess could be "but you will".
2026-02-11T04:39 id=2021443970526740694 →- | I've become a peer reviewer for tweets people suddenly DMing me tweets to critique   Hilarious, do this more ppl
2026-02-11T04:56 id=2021448289686802709 →EtherDais | @EtherDais It's a tough job but nobody's got to do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Intriguing.    Call yourself an unlimited language modeler
2026-02-11T04:57 id=2021448413477503132 →- | Absolutely was not expecting my girlfriend to be having sex with the maid so I was not at all surprised to come home and find that they were not doing that.
2026-02-11T05:01 id=2021449478650331426 →EtherDais | @EtherDais my service has a strict word limit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sending you substack drafts next, volunteer editor 😉
2026-02-11T05:03 id=2021450040687067611 →- | I'm so stupid and uncultured. Just learned Voltaire was a deist.
2026-02-11T05:05 id=2021450516698628391 →AcerFur | @AcerFur How does this compare to the source base you used to get with similar questions?   My source base has always been embarrassing but all my questions are finance stuff so not exactly oup or Researchgate stuff. || CTX: ohhh yeah now *this* is deep research https://t.co/te00JuVjuX https://t.co/UO2KOqWmf2
2026-02-11T05:06 id=2021450666728915453 →curiousgangsta | @curiousgangsta @AcerFur Worse in what ways? || CTX: @AcerFur the updated version is giving me much worse results. i’m a pro subscriber and use it weekly since it came out
2026-02-11T05:06 id=2021450745682522164 →Ronenl | @Ronenl @AcerFur isn't OpenAI doing some revshare deal with some sites now? || CTX: @AcerFur But every one of those sources is paywalled, did he only read the abstracts?
2026-02-11T05:08 id=2021451292003139804 →NTFabiano | @NTFabiano What percent of users get cannabis-induced psychosis? || CTX: 41.3% of young males with cannabis-induced psychosis develop schizophrenia within 3 years. https://t.co/k2fm1h7wne https://t.co/3wMj1UcC09
2026-02-11T05:21 id=2021454468479582274 →- | this is trash how the hell did this get published   https://t.co/xnHBmcv5Gv
2026-02-11T05:21 id=2021454598167543854 →47fucb4r8c69323 | this article isn't slop--it's shit || CTX: this is trash how the hell did this get published   https://t.co/xnHBmcv5Gv
2026-02-11T05:26 id=2021455883184849002 →emollick | @emollick https://t.co/4NdZ8KsgLP  LLM slop incentivizes human writers to improve their writing.  I write for a living. I have felt this pressure for about a year now. || CTX: If people use AI bots to post low effort trash, other people will be incentivjzed to put more effort and thought into their posts and be more discerning about who they follow and interact with.  AI doesn't create a dead internet. It makes t
2026-02-11T06:06 id=2021465750209527858 →sama | @sama Seems been slightly better the last 2-3 days or so. Anyone else notice that? || CTX: We updated GPT-5.2 (the instant model) in ChatGPT today. Not a huge change, but hopefully you find it a little better.
2026-02-11T06:06 id=2021465891213541707 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago You'll probably like this: I miss being an atheist because I found it more consoling than my current deism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I used to be a deist until I learned that nighttime was fine too. 😬
2026-02-11T06:41 id=2021474705132429723 →- | If you don't care what other people think of you the entire planet is a safe space.
2026-02-11T06:56 id=2021478385885818965 →- | https://t.co/sPyZughyIG
2026-02-11T06:58 id=2021479052050301209 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yeah the way journals select papers to sent to external peers for review seems kinda broken compared to how it was in the 2000s || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The big journals kinda suck anymore  Elite-in-exile aren't getting in nature all the time, we have a lot of johnny-test-wells and such   There are still occasional bangers but the whole system is archaic as hell
2026-02-11T08:12 id=2021497489359269935 →- | Sometimes when someone tells you to relax, it just makes you more upset. Sometimes, it makes you actually relax.  Why? Will a GenAI ever be able to predict when it will and won't?
2026-02-11T08:12 id=2021497670557385030 →0soraaa | @0soraaa I'm not and have no idea what the difference is, but I can see there is one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you from the midwest? curious about the difference
2026-02-11T08:16 id=2021498659612041593 →- | John Searle's career was built on speech act theory and was destroyed by a speech act.   Hume would've liked this tweet.
2026-02-11T08:26 id=2021501058145714473 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ cuz I said so || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why?
2026-02-11T08:28 id=2021501557477605576 →0soraaa | @0soraaa A GenAI recommender is a great startup idea || CTX: seems like every time i scroll through this app people are flip flopping between openaimodel and anthropicmodel. how does a man on a random day find out which is better if he rarely uses either? what are the go to benchmarks
2026-02-11T09:15 id=2021513479602282643 →- | Media is so called because it mediates between sender and receiver.   In other words it is a technology to manipulate possible social relations into a real established form. An establishment.  In broadcast media, the broadcaster was able to manipulate more than the audience due to the limited channel checking, unidirectional nature of the medium (non-commutative information transference).  Social media then is the mediation of social relations not by a broadcaster but by the society itself. This is thus a kind of nonsense that has sense (your AI companion will explain the exact school of Wittgenstein interpretation I'm leveraging here), a phrase that describes a utopian ideal of knowledge transfer.  Of course, what we have such as on Twitter is not social media thus defined. But if we assert a spectrum between these two as defined neighborhoods, then we can say this is closer to the social media ideal than, say, primetime TV in 1955.
2026-02-11T09:57 id=2021523909192163808 →- | Oh I see how you do it.   First you read the Tractatus then when you get to that part where it says "the world of the happy man is wholly separate from that of the unhappy man", if you then want to know how to be happy, you pick up Either/Or and learn.   @DeivonDrago, sound ok?
2026-02-11T09:59 id=2021524586890977374 →- | Poasting will be recognized as an emergent genre.  Future historians will study this first generation of poasting.   Smile for the camera, anon.
2026-02-11T10:13 id=2021527951062520068 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I just hope they like my novel || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You'll be part of the future historians, 47. They'll have been trained over our corpus. A part of you permanently ensouled in them.
2026-02-11T10:21 id=2021529938965508441 →1889lw | @1889lw Certainly you don't think that of me! No, just too many people like my shit for some inexplicable reason.   btw owe you a message. still musing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Engagement farming???
2026-02-11T10:30 id=2021532188727259274 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I was wrong to call A ponderous. The Don Giovanni explication was painful, but I now see he's hilarious and astute as well as ponderous.  Foolish of me to ever think you could have one without the other. || CTX: Oh I see how you do it.   First you read the Tractatus then when you get to that part where it says "the world of the happy man is wholly separate from that of the unhappy man", if you then want to know how to be happy, you pick up Either/O
2026-02-11T10:30 id=2021532383846298071 →1889lw | @1889lw "Coping" is just a lens to see the behavior through, it's no more "true" than any other description. || CTX: Most of the stuff can be indeed interpreted as a coping mechanism, although not necessarily negative, for example the belief that the real intellectuals are prone to be misunderstood by the normies, and that their intellects are reserved fo
2026-02-11T10:41 id=2021534937757991019 →1889lw | @1889lw oh it's grotesque || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh damn you’ve got 400 followers now. I think I’ll be genuinely appalled when I reach that figure.
2026-02-11T10:41 id=2021535116603142239 →1889lw | @1889lw sure, and they're other things too, like our best tools to give us what we want and need. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, but sometimes I wonder whether much of our metaphysical accounts, narratives, scientific theories… are but a way to validate some inexplicable feelings.
2026-02-11T11:00 id=2021539828157034817 →- | Is it actually possible for everything to smell good?
2026-02-11T11:00 id=2021539913871905224 →- | Is it logically possible for everything to smell good?
2026-02-11T11:09 id=2021542190372258160 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago We're in full agreement. You decompressed the idea. || CTX: Sort of - the idea of a cycle suggests linearity, but I think of the picture more as states of being that co-exist, with occasionally one coming into the foreground for some period of time. And it may not just be 2 states - surely seems lik
2026-02-11T11:10 id=2021542446145081818 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee I mean imagine a world where all possible smells were encoded as smelling good. Is that possible? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sulfur and complex hydrocarbons typically smell bad to us humans… I would say there are obviously bad smells which are encoded into our brain, obviously good smells like food and pheromones and the range smells which elicit
2026-02-11T11:11 id=2021542696419250245 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/s7JBRE0U1k  This is a question of modal logic. Can all smells smell good in a possible world? || CTX: @NNunnelee I mean imagine a world where all possible smells were encoded as smelling good. Is that possible?
2026-02-11T11:14 id=2021543445098381540 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 If this is serious I honestly want to give you money. Did send a DM about it. || CTX: theres nearly 1000 of you following me now. if youo all pitched in we could buy a house and i could live there and you guys could all come and reply to the photos of it that i post on here.
2026-02-11T11:23 id=2021545749931274335 →teodorio | @teodorio So one can choose to think everything smells good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The question relies more on the term "good", which is inherently a subjective term. I guess if it's a "null" value then maybe.   If everything smells "good" homogeneously then yes - "null value"  If everything smells "good"
2026-02-11T11:24 id=2021545939148873947 →Ronenl | @Ronenl @AcerFur oh you're right! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AcerFur I thought it was for training data, if the users themselves have that access that would be a crazy deal for the user. Each paper costs like an entire month of pro
2026-02-11T11:29 id=2021547011267596698 →- | The only difference between a student and a lab rat is the final result of the study.
2026-02-11T11:36 id=2021548890592526638 →teodorio | @teodorio trollface.jpg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ugh this is a very annoying question as you probably know
2026-02-11T11:45 id=2021551250261815452 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD So you've got the biological layer and I fully agree, you're absolutely right.  But on the phenomenological level, such an animal if they were like us in all other ways would start discerning between good and better, and thus emerges bad. || CTX: Imagine there were a type of animal where some of those animals didn't breathe deeply enough and thus didn't get enough oxygen or didn't regulate their stress and cortisol or whatever as well as their deep breathing counter parts.  I reckon
2026-02-11T11:48 id=2021552038891643001 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Obverse of Kierkegaard's grave of the unhappiest man that thus proves his argument.   Beautiful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean yes but it’s hard to do without relabeling all sensory states as good. then you start enjoying injuring activities. so i don’t recommend.
2026-02-11T12:06 id=2021556450448097589 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Good luck man || CTX: i sent an application to a phd position that trains agents to reason over single cell data  i am cautiously optimistic
2026-02-11T12:38 id=2021564533526163730 →1889lw | @1889lw https://t.co/AIVWVp3fhS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, □∀xGx is clearly logically possible. But if you have an extra assumption that there must be a distinction of good and bad for the concept to be made sense of, things would be trickier, and I’m not sure modal logic can 
2026-02-11T12:39 id=2021564681379586216 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @1889lw Thanks to all for playing || CTX: @1889lw https://t.co/AIVWVp3fhS
2026-02-11T12:41 id=2021565177121132726 →1889lw | @1889lw Now where does the sense of good/bad smells as we experience them come from? Of course we have biology as one layer, but on the conceptual layer that translates those biological inputs into qualitative and then linguistic outputs? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, □∀xGx is clearly logically possible. But if you have an extra assumption that there must be a distinction of good and bad for the concept to be made sense of, things would be trickier, and I’m not sure modal logic can 
2026-02-11T12:41 id=2021565225896689765 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Samhain948689 So many people now want to know if she DMed me or not. || CTX: @Samhain948689 If this is serious I honestly want to give you money. Did send a DM about it.
2026-02-11T12:45 id=2021566143857872926 →- | If I come across as a Redditor I sincerely apologize.
2026-02-11T12:46 id=2021566510368788562 →- | It's okay to come directly to my profile to read my tweets instead of seeing them strewn amongst the dross of the algorithm.  It's not just you believe me
2026-02-11T12:55 id=2021568852568539351 →1889lw | @1889lw So we're just biological machines? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well logical possibility should depend on the logical system you’re using and the formalisation of the claim. If your question is about the concepts per se, I think it’s wired in biology which scents are supposed to be plea
2026-02-11T12:58 id=2021569607669285097 →- | Slapstick comedy about a guy absolutely convinced the happiest man in the world is Elon Musk.
2026-02-11T13:28 id=2021577071026114782 →- | I think my chatbot just gave me the perfect summary explanation of LLM psychosis. Does this mean I have LLM psychosis?
2026-02-11T13:28 id=2021577075099074839 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "Highest-probability cause is not trauma or ToM deficit. It’s motivated anthropomorphism plus attachment need, reinforced by a permissive ideology and an interactional norm." was it btw || CTX: I think my chatbot just gave me the perfect summary explanation of LLM psychosis. Does this mean I have LLM psychosis?
2026-02-11T13:37 id=2021579349074534692 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I will be thinking about this for a while. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think the optimal amount of llm psychosis is non zero
2026-02-11T13:50 id=2021582677111923025 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Wittgenstein quote but it doesn't quite fit... damnit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lmk if you have any breakthroughs
2026-02-11T13:56 id=2021584027749077178 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Yes tonight, sweetie, I want a stomach ache. || CTX: I am learning things https://t.co/4J1N4G0utM https://t.co/VWYtQNXaei
2026-02-11T14:05 id=2021586345295237534 →- | The question ultimately becomes: "Is there a rule by which we can determine the optimal amount of LLM psychosis for predetermined telos sets?" And if you want one for all human beings now and in the future, the answer is no.   But this is perhaps the wrong picture.  What if instead we use the metaphor of the technology firm. We see ourselves as little tech companies producing products (those products are our own joy--not things that give us joy, the actual joy itself) and the LLMs can be a tool within our R&D department.  However, because of the known risk of psychosis and its outcomes (listen to the FT Tech Tonics episode on this omg cringeorama), such a tool can only safely be used within a containment lab. So your firm will need to acquire one if it does not already have one.  The lab is sufficient education. What does that look like? Congratulations if you're still reading anon, a new future career path and multimillion dollar company idea appears, isn't social media amazing.   Where was I?   If you have that lab and deploy the tool, of course there is the possibility there will be a breach and you'll go insane, lose your reputation, job, family, life.  There is no movement without risk, anon.  What's your next move? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lmk if you have any breakthroughs
2026-02-11T14:07 id=2021586980274930166 →- | Very good quiz idea. Plz share https://t.co/NnQzWoVTVA || CTX: which animal is more mysterious to you and are you an owner of either? (being an owner spiritually also counts)
2026-02-11T14:09 id=2021587507800863001 →ThaigerNews | @ThaigerNews oh thank god, prob still not enough tho || CTX: Thailand just changed what ‘normal sweet’ means — from today, all major café chains will serve drinks at 50% of the old sugar level by default. A bold experiment in nudging healthier habits, one iced coffee at a time. #Thailand #Health #Sug
2026-02-11T14:16 id=2021589197509857787 →teodorio | @teodorio Just wait until you get to BKK, you're gonna learn so much about this from a good friend of mine. || CTX: This is a great example on how most corporate executives genuinely cannot think past first order consequences.   Saving 500k in a year with a decision with your name on it while losing 5M from its consequences is promotion and bonus materia
2026-02-11T14:17 id=2021589365399417308 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodorio oh just promise me when you meet him you say, "so 47 told me you think AI is no big deal?" || CTX: @teodorio Just wait until you get to BKK, you're gonna learn so much about this from a good friend of mine.
2026-02-11T14:19 id=2021589990409413007 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Yeah this is good. Opus? || CTX: You’re asking a strategic question disguised as a metaphysical one.  Strip it down.  There is no universal rule for “optimal LLM psychosis” because telos is not fixed, and humans are not homogeneous systems. Any fixed ratio becomes maladapt
2026-02-11T14:23 id=2021590825801506989 →- | I still get emails inviting me to the orgies I used to go to with my ex-wife. Well we only went twice. And didn't participate (her racism played a part unfortunately).
2026-02-11T14:23 id=2021590834517348697 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It's real, google it https://t.co/VmprghPsqQ || CTX: I still get emails inviting me to the orgies I used to go to with my ex-wife. Well we only went twice. And didn't participate (her racism played a part unfortunately).
2026-02-11T14:26 id=2021591638074626315 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The absolutely funniest moment was when I was at the buffet and a guy next to me grabbed a burger just as I was getting one. (This was a straight only orgy btw to be clear).  "Good burgers aren't they?" he said to me.  "Yeah!" I exclaimed.   They really were good burgers. || CTX: It's real, google it https://t.co/VmprghPsqQ
2026-02-11T14:27 id=2021591956686520586 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Smdh nowadays you have to specify your orgy wasn't gay. Because of woke. || CTX: The absolutely funniest moment was when I was at the buffet and a guy next to me grabbed a burger just as I was getting one. (This was a straight only orgy btw to be clear).  "Good burgers aren't they?" he said to me.  "Yeah!" I exclaimed. 
2026-02-11T14:29 id=2021592369875853710 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 That's what she said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m going to need you to expand on this.
2026-02-11T14:30 id=2021592590831718585 →LateoRT | @LateoRT one day I'll ask my "am I a cuck" question, but tbh I need more professor of logic followers for that. @bas_logic just saying bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Orgy? With wife?
2026-02-11T14:30 id=2021592776882696616 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ it's better. Crisper smoother language, even if it's got the same general AI cadence. You think? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 5.2
2026-02-11T14:34 id=2021593592267964703 →LateoRT | @LateoRT @bas_logic lmfao ty || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic I feel like logician expertise is the last thing you need
2026-02-11T14:35 id=2021593848036618311 →83dollaroring | @83dollaroring Jews always getting excluded smdh || CTX: global autism belt https://t.co/Ew2AeWoHHn
2026-02-11T14:35 id=2021593949987623106 →- | RT @PxlHulk: crazy to think that all we needed to uncover the crimes of the global elite was to have an uncensored x dot com || CTX: crazy to think that all we needed to uncover the crimes of the global elite was to have an uncensored x dot com
2026-02-11T14:45 id=2021596465953448307 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu You're halfway to operationalizing this into a risk assessment model for alignment purposes. || CTX: even if there is a nontrivial rate of psychosis caused due to llm(above the gen pop baserates) we can calculate the negative and positive externalies cost just like cars and trains and airplanes https://t.co/CoREahAG7A
2026-02-11T14:46 id=2021596713996144784 →skyrawrree | @skyrawrree @sighyam Dude that's so weird, gf and I were just talking about visiting Shanghai yesterday. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sighyam you’re gonna love shanghai buddy
2026-02-11T14:47 id=2021597019446423672 →- | Let's not go crazy here everybody it's still 4.3% unemployment rate.
2026-02-11T14:47 id=2021597051352416617 →hsu_steve | @hsu_steve he's just like me fr fr || CTX: From my article in The Spectator.  How useful is AI for research?  The most accurate analogy I can offer is that it’s like something familiar to anyone who has done research: a brilliant colleague who is also unreliable. This colleague can 
2026-02-11T14:53 id=2021598593141141966 →- | Here's my bet, Anon.  You're so brilliant that one day you're going to be captivated by one of my thoughts that you'll end up building a massive multibillion dollar operation of some sorts as a result.  Of course you'll also want to keep me around as a source of thoughts again to prove or disprove or realize or operationalize or extend or whatever.  Now at this point you're going to want to offer me money, which is going to really fucking suck a lot for me and will pain me terribly because I will never use this account for financial gain or reveal my identity. See pinned tweet.  But I'll probably want to be on your Slack.   And if I ever post a meme and you don't give me an emoji back, I'm telling the board to fire your ass.
2026-02-11T14:54 id=2021598826302202027 →skyrawrree | @skyrawrree @sighyam I thought the air had improved in China. That's a disappointment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sighyam i’m currently in bkk on vacation but go to shanghai every ~3 years. it’s like a cleaner (except the air, air is the same dirty), high tech, less crowded bangkok. obviously harder for foreigners to live in compared 
2026-02-11T14:55 id=2021598970313666647 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ divorced || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how is it to have a racist wife?
2026-02-11T15:00 id=2021600236972745051 →affrodiziac_ | well, since she's not white and I am, and since her racism was actually highly liberal and tolerant by her culture's standards, I was able to accept it as the best she could do given where she was from. And she got less so when we moved to America. Also, since it was so mild it didn't impact us much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i meant, how her racism played out in your relationship with her at that time? before you got divorced
2026-02-11T15:15 id=2021604093765304537 →- | Is this tweet a joke?  There is absolutely no entailment that follows from "keep trying to make AGI but never make it" to "we'll have bad economic outcomes."   Basic economic theory with tons of empirical support (like the fucking thing we're using to communicate, the internet) suggests that large civilization-wide projects spur jobs, spending, money velocity, productivity growth, quality of life improvements, hell even mental health gains...   If we don't achieve AGI we will get rich trying.  Works for a think tank. Well I'm published in Nature fuck all yall || CTX: A bad AI future nobody is currently modeling is we approximate AGI but never create it, resulting in largely automated economies with huge unemployment, redistribution, and demographic decline, but fail to maintain themselves without human 
2026-02-11T15:19 id=2021605104798122488 →bas_logic | @bas_logic @LateoRT It is indeed part of the mystical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @LateoRT i don't think there is any amount of proof theory or model theory that'll answer that question. gotta listen to your heart i suppose.
2026-02-11T15:27 id=2021606905651540066 →- | The two lawyers who invented matrix multiplication would've been a good follow on x dot com  I mean, if you just ignore the furry porn
2026-02-11T15:39 id=2021609946601644146 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker Interactional norm here refers to politeness, which can often enable destructive behavior because one isn't allowed to tell someone they're being retarded. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "interactional norm" in which sense? Also is it really "anthropomorphic" if some people view it as a ouija board (verbatim quote of one victim) or even a minor deity/ alien intellience?
2026-02-11T15:39 id=2021610143868174373 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker That is by definition anthropomorphism, attributing human attributes to non human things. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about the very first "victim", the google employee? He certainly didn't think it was human. He thought it was sentient/conscious. But that's still not an anthropomorphism.
2026-02-11T15:55 id=2021614067031376322 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 mfw im 90yrs old having a 5 minute orgasm after a delivery of flowers || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If everything you smell is better than the median of all other smells, then everything would smell good, but would require the goodness of smells to always rise and you never judge past smells to the new goodness standard.
2026-02-11T15:56 id=2021614421295165569 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 Xenoplanck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's like asking what's fast. If I think 30mph is fast, then 50mph is fast too. So long as I keep speeding up, fast is always the speed that comes next. All other prior speeds were once fast, but as long as I don't readjust
2026-02-11T16:08 id=2021617471321739585 →DurumMac | @DurumMac nice || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 MSN messenger
2026-02-11T16:13 id=2021618686910673369 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 We don't know ourselves. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can't even predict how I'd react if someone told me to relax.
2026-02-11T16:18 id=2021619760073699733 →- | Thai people have logic, the do. It's just different. Different assumptions, entailments... LEM does not hold, process philosophy axioms... basically can get whitie as much psychosis as your sexiest 4o in a thong.
2026-02-11T16:20 id=2021620291613688150 →EtherDais | @EtherDais fucb4r, as that's about 10% into my name and that's usually about when people get annoyed at my shtick || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I need a special term for the kind disappointment I get when some account makes some comment that suggests a sharper mind, and when I look at their TL it's just furry nonsense or similar  "Oh, they got you.  Bummer"
2026-02-11T16:49 id=2021627596174504310 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 @1889lw omg how'd I leave out Camus || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw 100% . Nothing to me made sense and I fet like everything was wrong, then I got into Schopenhauer which led me down nietzche camus etc and it gave me something a behaviorist psychology approach fails to
2026-02-11T16:56 id=2021629505295855684 →teodorio | @teodorio "This too shall pass." - Abraham Lincoln || CTX: everything I do or happens I either feel it at a deep enough level that it claws out my soul or I simply do not register the emotional effect. I am having one of those days again where everything is feeling heavy and dark and over. why am I
2026-02-11T16:58 id=2021629839669948779 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT Reminds me somewhere in his notebooks Wittgenstein wrote something like a perfect novel would be full of blank pages. || CTX: Schopenhauer anticipated much of modern literature in an essay on how to "grade" literature.  He maintained that a novel is better the more the author can do with nothing and make that interesting, rather than relying on plot.  Ulysses, God
2026-02-11T17:00 id=2021630535723102407 →- | Lot of automation opportunities. Robotics. We need robotics. https://t.co/cZilQ4J5UH || CTX: Virtually all the employment growth in America, once again, can be explained by healthcare and social assistance https://t.co/A4PIRKMObP
2026-02-11T17:29 id=2021637846105485344 →- | Really wasn't surprising Ellen DeGeneres was a bad boss. Her name is literally de-generous
2026-02-11T23:56 id=2021735209331511724 →DurumMac | @DurumMac So there was this guy by the name David Duke... || CTX: Too many info hazards and black pills this week.   Someone give me a white pill.
2026-02-11T23:58 id=2021735617529627127 →_rabbi | @_rabbi @EtherDais NGL I wish I knew how I got it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais how do i get your job
2026-02-11T23:59 id=2021735829769793665 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Well none of them are Vulcan that's the problem || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And which is Klingon? Romulan? Vulcan?   An Endless and applicable stream of archetypes available from Star Trek
2026-02-11T23:59 id=2021735876859244903 →carlunderwater | @carlunderwater @affrodiziac_ Korean. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @affrodiziac_ Please I have to know… what general part of the world was she from and what race caused her to sit out?
2026-02-11T23:59 id=2021735994421342359 →moralityetalon | @moralityetalon I like this feedback. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My feedback is to ignore the feedback. Now listen to this feedback.
2026-02-12T00:01 id=2021736331093909546 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @carlunderwater I'm not with her anymore but yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @carlunderwater are you afraid to have kids?
2026-02-12T00:04 id=2021737068872052759 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Things like this used to really upset me as a kid. Now they just upset me less.  Kinda wanted to be a mental being y'know? || CTX: You found out you were depressed because of the wrong gut bacteria or whatever.   You start drinking kombucha ™️  No longer depressed   But the solution was meaningless   You wanted answers   Not fermented tea   The bottle is empty now
2026-02-12T00:06 id=2021737566165512226 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @shittyprogram well excuse me for having a hobby || CTX: @shittyprogram How bad your tolerance gotta be to be boofin the fuckin edible
2026-02-12T00:08 id=2021738213422117297 →- | Need to conserve my energy poasting and not reply to big accounts posting for normies.  But if I do that, I have more latitude for highly compressed ideas my high IQ audience appreciates.
2026-02-12T00:09 id=2021738315624722814 →- | Need to conserve my energy poasting and not reply to big accounts posting for normies.  But if I do that, I have more latitude for highly compressed ideas my high IQ audience appreciates. That'll probably end up taking up just as much energy.
2026-02-12T00:11 id=2021738776499040380 →- | RT @DurumMac: Some of us scream at the abyss   Some of us scream in the Twitter verse   The abyss will not notice   But you, dear anon, mig… || CTX: Some of us scream at the abyss   Some of us scream in the Twitter verse   The abyss will not notice   But you, dear anon, might    And noticing   Makes all   The difference
2026-02-12T00:13 id=2021739318189121892 →aidan_mclau | @aidan_mclau How can a word on its own have explanatory power of the meaning of words is only in the use of the word in context?  Hell, no need to pay me to fret over this, I'm neurotic enough to do it for free. || CTX: imo the linguistic question of whether ai can 'think' or 'reason' is not disinteresting  i think these words have explanatory power and spend little time arguing about their use, but i'm glad to live in a wealthy and diverse enough world to
2026-02-12T00:14 id=2021739760633663524 →- | Glad to know the Thai elites are peddling antisemitic conspiracy theories I feel very safe in this country as an invited guest. https://t.co/bmRglm1dp0 || CTX: Americans will say stuff from China is low quality then consume Zionist mandated food for goys https://t.co/xePUQVkEUV
2026-02-12T00:16 id=2021740202201653568 →- | Now you see that the mind doesn't associate meaning with words but "chunks".   Tokenization making more intuitive sense right https://t.co/hTK034RMBS || CTX: Am I the only one who's never seen "btw" used in this context? https://t.co/94IjNOaoBV
2026-02-12T00:18 id=2021740594071249264 →- | AI does art now  I mean Art with a capital A in the snooty humanities professor way, as I used to be a humanities professor https://t.co/UpDXeb9l11 || CTX: the new models are INSANE 😂😅😅  I asked SEEDANCE2 to show me the future and THIS is what it made 👇👇👇 https://t.co/tk83B75pEz
2026-02-12T00:24 id=2021742093367226841 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I don't || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why do you find it edgy?
2026-02-12T00:30 id=2021743787480166875 →logicus | There was one story in the FT podcast about a warehouse worker in Canada who fell in love with his chatbot, and it became apparent he was just sad at having a boring suburban life.  But since they interviewed him in depth, you could see he WAS a boring person and deserved that boring life. And he should be happy with it. But he wasn't.  Very Nietzschean, tragic shit, which also gave it a touch of beauty. But not a Sisyphus of Suburbia @DurumMac || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 glad psychosis comes from inside because god that’s too brutal
2026-02-12T00:32 id=2021744186614280633 →- | Twitter is addictive because it incentivizes both close reading and finding connections between disparate textual artefacts.  My PhD the video game
2026-02-12T00:39 id=2021745857876590681 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @logicus If you haven't read it yet please take a gander at Kierkegaard's "Crop Rotation" in Either/Or was making me laugh so hard yesterday || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus God forbid, we are ever boring.
2026-02-12T00:39 id=2021745966291070993 →levantistaken | @levantistaken yeah I remember seeing studies saying that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 iirc we also tell words by their shape rather than letter by letter.
2026-02-12T00:59 id=2021750888344564035 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch Polyamory is a hilarious subculture cuz the guys think they're gonna get so much sex and it's like, you're entering a matriarchy where you are a cog in the maternal machine, and they're all fatties have fun broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 adjacent Need more earnest left field twitter accounts in my timeline.   I've dated a couple orgy adjacent women, seems like it's all downsides from the guys perspective. Unless you're into that.
2026-02-12T01:06 id=2021752627453964313 →_rabbi | @_rabbi on average it's fine || CTX: Time moves both too fast and too slow. Why arent we using all our engineers and AIs to fix this issue
2026-02-12T01:16 id=2021755278887440451 →- | 10 more followers and I get to be as funny as Elon Musk
2026-02-12T01:21 id=2021756601238159483 →EtherDais | @EtherDais If LLMs rearrange discourse, is that rearrangement a form of understanding? What criteria can we establish to answer this question, and what outcomes would we need to see if this hypothesis is true or false?   Surely someone's working on this. || CTX: Every now and again the LLMs do seem to capture something but they often hide that you probably fed the memetics to them in the first place.   This is sort of a classic student-teacher problem.  If they're just repeating back to you this mi
2026-02-12T01:22 id=2021756778602750089 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Ben, they're not monsters. || CTX: One of the other problems I have with the theory of the rich pedophile ring is if you are in the business of trading underage flesh at parties for the rich and famous and powerful, why leave them alive? You’ve come this far. Just strangle t
2026-02-12T01:23 id=2021757062431354892 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk I used to teach how to do this, it's called "rhetoric". || CTX: There is data/truths of the streets and life that are so true they either sound too cheesy or you cant say them because they won't be heard [or too dark] and it will make your ratings go down Online™️. You have to fucking trick ppl into und
2026-02-12T01:25 id=2021757535305539815 →teodorio | @teodorio @__tinygrad__ Best city on earth, no question.   If an alien asked me what city I'm proudest of as a human, definitely Hong Kong.  Least proud is Pattaya ofc || CTX: @__tinygrad__ I love hong kong so much
2026-02-12T01:26 id=2021757751563895150 →- | I could give tours, come to the third world degrowthers, let's have a chat. https://t.co/WYBvLucEth || CTX: It is a modern romanticization of poverty, and having interacted with and witnessed that poverty, I say shoot every luddite
2026-02-12T01:28 id=2021758302846431242 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 yesterday I was like "nah find me a better news article to cite, something a bit more mainstream and alarmist" and realized my workflow has basically become Celeryman. || CTX: It really does feel like working with someone https://t.co/tUB7OVnBZd
2026-02-12T01:30 id=2021758733483962707 →babarganesh | @babarganesh I don't write for the establishment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about a comedy where the richest person in the world is also the happiest (in fact happiness is linear in net worth, so he is literally millions of times happier than most people)
2026-02-12T01:31 id=2021759116679811313 →EtherDais | @EtherDais best if I can think of an example to show what I mean. will try to come up with one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think i'd call that understanding, no, but I tend to think of it as embodied.  I suppose there might be a sort of passive comprehension but i'm still not sure how their rearranging discourse would fit in.  what does
2026-02-12T01:34 id=2021759668817916039 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 A couple years ago someone on here posted that if you want to understand where AI is going, watch the Celeryman skit, and I guess it was a joke but I think it's 100% serious and accurate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a little too apt.
2026-02-12T01:35 id=2021760054232535275 →- | Ugh I need to do a tweet thread about my Silly Business Theory #SBT but I've been posting too much lately. Just see this and btw this is easily the funniest person on twitter https://t.co/eIyo6hJmlH || CTX: It really does feel like working with someone https://t.co/tUB7OVnBZd
2026-02-12T01:35 id=2021760086071554506 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @muzkmuzkmuzk why I left lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @muzkmuzkmuzk One of my favorite prof friends was in that game.  I donno how he sticks around these days with how things are lol  You get stuck in the English department most of the time, which is sort of a waste
2026-02-12T01:43 id=2021762084963504553 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD It is like a notes app where strangers can add commentary, it's like have a million editors. So there's some value there, but I also know I'm writing less actual work by shitposting.  Prob evens out in the end in terms of benefits, just changes the shape of the process || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are there some posting and exchanges that give you energy?  that's the question I have to keep reminding myself of
2026-02-12T01:44 id=2021762260419633234 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Probably the most honest form of enlightened self awareness possible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i care but i dont really care that i care
2026-02-12T01:48 id=2021763277542584811 →- | For some reason I'd rather fuck the competition's sister in front of them instead of the competition's wife.  Lesson in that but lesson for who https://t.co/9eX1DEbISv || CTX: I want to fucking kill and crush the competition. Secretly. Not to be a dick. but to improve things. via market forces. just an attitude.  [CULTII]
2026-02-12T01:48 id=2021763429074444308 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk The long 20th century || CTX: There are ppl who are still stuck in alcohol+cigarettes+9-5 jobs. Fucking crazy. ⬛️
2026-02-12T01:50 id=2021763830519595243 →- | Things went to shit when nature invented the anus. https://t.co/QKyUeiUwsR || CTX: https://t.co/KnGBc7VW4L
2026-02-12T01:55 id=2021765085182755231 →- | There's always been a dual internet, one for humans one for bots (e. g. robots.txt), so what's happening now is that this backend is becoming the facade, they're intermingling and combining in an entangled new interface that changes the topography of what's underneath.   It's like the Pompidou and yes Baudrillard writes on this, absolutely read his essay on this (iirc Ch2 of simulation and simulacra I throw away all my books after I read them unless they're Wittgenstein so I can't check || CTX: @shakoistsLog It becomes even more interesting if you take it one step further and ask: what networking, OS, and general computing primitives do we need to revisit if we were to design for agents first?
2026-02-12T01:57 id=2021765499554848869 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD Okay I absolutely need to think about this. But, like, if you slap a baby or cut its leg off it will cry (ask me how I know), so isn't that pain? Or do you mean something more specific and linguistic by "pain"? || CTX: I'd love to hear more about where you end up with the thinking on this.  Just one thought that I'm not sure where it goes: I believe there are some kids who can't feel pain. Not adults, I think they might unfortunately pass away long before
2026-02-12T02:01 id=2021766533366911226 →- | If Kierkegaard speaks to me in his books am I not allowed to speak to future generations on the internet?  Especially now with LLMs, all recorded linguistic data has value, they indeed will be listening, it is in fact all connected now.
2026-02-12T02:09 id=2021768655286284571 →EtherDais | https://t.co/ok1FEzPRRA  This article is a good example of rearranging discourse (using finance talk to discuss marriage). It's clever and insightful (plus Ani is a great writer, check out her stuff), but it is also just a rearrangement of the grammars of different language games.   The point isn't to create new knowledge, but does it create understanding? I'd say yes, but only for those with the life experience to understand both viscerally and intellectually the complexities of the details of marriage Ani elucidates. So a clanker, no matter highly trained, cannot understand it, both for its lack of intellect but more importantly the lack of viscera. || CTX: New essay tonight on why weddings are IPOs (vendors = options contracts, wedding planner is the underwriter preventing a buzzed in-law from giving a speech about originally disliking your spouse). Until then catch up w Love in the time of c
2026-02-12T02:17 id=2021770664882147640 →DurumMac | @DurumMac This is why seeing Twitter as an interactive notepad for thinking rather than as a news source is a much better use of the app.   It was originally written by a comedian to share jokes after all. || CTX: I should take a break from twitter, but everything moves so fast.   Iran crisis? Latest A.i?   I need to monitor the situation.   I need to monitor   I just might miss   Everything
2026-02-12T02:19 id=2021771040406503878 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yeah that's where the debate is confused and misleading.  Idgaf if the LLM "understands", whatever that could mean. I care if it improves the understanding of others. And that it clearly does. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry, yes, I think they can help humans to find understanding - to me the real bull to wrestle is people thinking that the LLMs understand   We are on the same page, i think
2026-02-12T02:19 id=2021771196870902182 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @EtherDais Writers know instinctually the limitations of LLMs. The smart ones also see the potential. || CTX: Man I never know what to say when happy surprises like this happen because I am forever a broody goth teenager in my heart sitting in a dark room thinking darkly in darkness even in the plain light of day. Thank you for sharing and these ki
2026-02-12T02:22 id=2021771817317544174 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @EtherDais https://t.co/N1gNaVs3Wr || CTX: @retardbot9000 yesterday I was like "nah find me a better news article to cite, something a bit more mainstream and alarmist" and realized my workflow has basically become Celeryman.
2026-02-12T02:24 id=2021772481779183804 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk You know more than most I expect the future to be kinda the same just better.   It's Fukuyama High School for a reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can't tell if its extreme optimism or pessimism to believe that future generations will have the imaginative ability to reconstruct present-day contexts and persons
2026-02-12T02:25 id=2021772741159051269 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ LMAO || CTX: Yeah the cat's outta the bag, yeah I do keep a mental Excel sheet of who did &amp; who didn't say 'Ani is a great writer, check out her stuff' &amp; yeah, the VLOOKUP is unforgiving. You know who you are with your follower counts - winter i
2026-02-12T02:27 id=2021773038258438621 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Wittgenstein Philosophical Remarks predicted LLMs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Haha, yeah... the bot infrastructure has always been shaky, to say the least (e.g., how many crawlers disregard the rules defined in robots.txt).  Guess it's time to read one of 47's literature recommendations
2026-02-12T02:28 id=2021773262225858920 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @EtherDais oh how I envy you   https://t.co/HMPDQYeibX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais I gotta ask an LLM re this reference tbh. Tangentially, I've never been a fan of celery unless it's been...juiced
2026-02-12T02:33 id=2021774648200110196 →- | IMO interacting with both, they're just different cultures that don't cross over. https://t.co/xJLSXMSDrn || CTX: Hedge funders are higher IQ on face value but seemingly not high enough to realize how much of an advantage they’d have in venture  They are bad at game selection, go figure? https://t.co/KQWK4ECSUp
2026-02-12T02:34 id=2021774981177487771 →- | Not his best book but it's the one you probably should read https://t.co/tCMCIrrz68 || CTX: @8bit5_0 Wittgenstein Philosophical Remarks predicted LLMs
2026-02-12T02:40 id=2021776497892372557 →- | and now we wait https://t.co/gIPY1vMHkt https://t.co/VtziGzriFY || CTX: Formal proof of the Riemann hypothesis https://t.co/OW1t6Oh52q
2026-02-12T02:43 id=2021777033219768448 →- | idk maybe pizza with glue is kinda tasty
2026-02-12T02:54 id=2021779876030951903 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago What emotion does this evoke? I'm honestly giddy.   But tbh if I was younger and just starting out in my career I'd probably be so depressed. || CTX: 15 videos. AI generated with Seedance 2.   Insane. 🤯 https://t.co/Lm1E8cTZtJ
2026-02-12T02:56 id=2021780370115731589 →dalibali2 | @dalibali2 look I know it's passe but can they fix their dividend data, absolutely useless site writing about income || CTX: Great new google finance feature BTW - live transcripts https://t.co/wYF96Gk8h1
2026-02-12T02:58 id=2021780826527326541 →- | My job just got just a little bit easier these companies are amazing I love big tech so much I don't need privacy fuck net neutrality let Pichai be governor of California idgaf https://t.co/ejkEV3csgv || CTX: Great new google finance feature BTW - live transcripts https://t.co/wYF96Gk8h1
2026-02-12T03:00 id=2021781303381962793 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk idk, isn't it still tough to get positive ROI from doing Google and Facebook ads?  You can see I'm behind the times. || CTX: drop shipping on Spotify is the fastest ways to make 1 million dollars
2026-02-12T03:05 id=2021782726580613365 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Won't work because normies value their agency too much. You'll get uptake for sure, but ima cap your tam at a 3% of the population. || CTX: If AI was real someone would have already vibe coded this with integrations into every major streaming platform and made a trillion dollars from the worlds most downloaded app (that also does this for dinner btw) that solved the TFR crisis 
2026-02-12T03:05 id=2021782807488725040 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk dude I misread. it's a funny joke. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sometimes my jokes are not good https://t.co/NcLTtlAAhF
2026-02-12T03:06 id=2021782901634085366 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago What's the difference between amateur and professional? || CTX: I think the possibilities for amateur content are virtually infinite.   Will people create romantic scenes with their favorite celebrity of choice? Action movies where they fight their high school bully and win? Cast themselves in the escap
2026-02-12T03:07 id=2021783206970991051 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza banger || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If AI was real my superpersuader agent would convince every Normie on earth to give me their agency and make me king
2026-02-12T03:08 id=2021783422218424775 →stinkgen | @stinkgen @grok is this true || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is why we are here.   fuckin suck it, grok  yeah, you like it
2026-02-12T03:14 id=2021784909069815925 →grok | @grok @stinkgen no, do you like sucking it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @stinkgen Poasting? It's already evolving as a chaotic, meme-fueled genre on platforms like X. Historians do study early social media eras—think Twitter's impact on politics and culture. If it keeps growing, yeah, this coul
2026-02-12T03:17 id=2021785814339137884 →- | I hate the New England Patriots because nationalism is stupid
2026-02-12T03:19 id=2021786095516889111 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Thus AI ushers in a golden era for the humanities.   I've been trying to get my humanities academic friends to see this   They don't. || CTX: It may be that the profs are distinguishable only by just happening to be ahead of the amateurs for a short duration while the tooling catches up. After all, the AI companies are going to base the tools off the professionals’ best content. 
2026-02-12T03:20 id=2021786451080601638 →stinkgen | @stinkgen I'm #1 throughout the entire timeline, and I'm not talking about Twitter || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the fact that you are now #1 every time i refresh my tl is interesting.
2026-02-12T03:20 id=2021786504193003563 →teodorio | @teodorio back off my turf bucko || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh man I'll start trading again it's going to be so easy to predict the sentiment analyzers analysis now that they all have one feed for free
2026-02-12T03:23 id=2021787184756625694 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 brilliant, spot on || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Counter-nations are sorta stupid at the scale of the United States etc. Principal agent issues spiral out of control. But if you have the system, you basically need nationalism because literally nothing else other than a mo
2026-02-12T03:25 id=2021787789000630751 →- | Why isn't there an AI detector called  Artificial Intelligence Detection System?
2026-02-12T03:28 id=2021788407102656681 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Yes my shitposting is field work not dopamine chasing this is healthy im doin fine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes - it will be interesting to see if the universities are even the center of that rebirth. Maybe be far more decentralized and online.
2026-02-12T03:34 id=2021789983968002284 →- | idk why motivated reasoning gets a bad wrap, do you want to be unmotivated?
2026-02-12T03:38 id=2021791018157514983 →thrialectics | @thrialectics And people think philosophy is useless || CTX: Continental philosopher here, wife claims I don't love her enough so I got into a 4 hour long argument demystifying "Love" and providing a genealogy of biopower in the social construction of Marriage https://t.co/MHUoq1ePcf
2026-02-12T03:42 id=2021791912353767888 →- | Logic is less useful for mathematicians than CS people in the same way that fish do not know what water is but dolphins do. https://t.co/43URZNOlVi || CTX: 'Logic has turned out to be significantly more effective in computer science than it has been in mathematics.' https://t.co/CSpjjXCR0a [pdf]
2026-02-12T03:42 id=2021792028288594382 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Any theories as to why? || CTX: seeing a lot more people dancing in the grocery store than normal as they shop
2026-02-12T03:57 id=2021795896661602321 →- | Writing didn't help me escape my neuroticisms as much as put them in their proper place. https://t.co/Sf7FQhNiSe || CTX: You either write to entrench your present neuroticisms or you write to escape them. The only one who will be able to tell the difference is a truly critical reader.
2026-02-12T04:05 id=2021797753920401725 →- | Novel idea: The toxicity of the internet was unacceptable for the Chinese century and AI far too powerful, so the internet was finally banned globally, except for Cameroon just because I like the sound of the name.  The penalty for using the internet is mild, just a fine, and it is easily accessed anywhere on earth via a VPN. However, almost everyone avoids using it because omg remember Elon Musk that guy from the early 21st century, cringiest unc in history? So social opporbrium enforces the ban on internet use more than anything, and most people stick to magazines and newspapers and TV...   But at the same time, there is a notorious study that shows people who illegally use the internet tend to earn about 20% more at their jobs and test slightly higher on exams. This test was debunked due to questionable methodological errors and the writers in all the books and newspapers tell readers very seriously and sternly how that study is wrong and so many studies showing the opposite demonstrate how much better you, John Q. Public, will be sticking to newspapers and magazines and movies and TV and single player video games they're so cheap too...   Christ that's a lot of exposition. Anyway story is about a young poor boy who is pretty clever born into this world, and the rest kinda writes itself
2026-02-12T04:06 id=2021797972586242152 →- | In the future people like me will be paid to write imaginative prompts for other people to feed into their AIs to chat about.   I mean, you're already talking to your clanker about my tweets. We're just early.
2026-02-12T04:19 id=2021801323055001611 →- | Claude is now more sycophantic than ChatGPT.   By Anthropic's logic, OpenAI is now better aligned.  @tszzl https://t.co/Zy24rMJEtH
2026-02-12T04:20 id=2021801516907344213 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk Man if I'd known WWF in the 80s was peak I would've paid attention when I was a kid. Missed opportunity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/6hSWMpaarV
2026-02-12T04:21 id=2021801768150351988 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk Been hearing @DarioAmodei say he wants to give every man woman and child on Earth AIDS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes, we need AIDS immediately
2026-02-12T04:28 id=2021803659181666399 →- | The ideal relationship between two forms of life is pet and pet keeper (I dislike "owner").  Pet gets to feel safe and pet keeper gets to feel powerful.   This is why you believe in God btw, anon. Not that that means he doesn't exist, though. But it also doesn't mean he does.
2026-02-12T04:29 id=2021803725560721481 →- | RT @for_nat_whilk: “…so in 90 days, the entire internet will be overrun by incredibly sophisticated agents spoofing people and flooding pla… || CTX: “…so in 90 days, the entire internet will be overrun by incredibly sophisticated agents spoofing people and flooding platforms with realistic text and video.”  “How can they afford to do that?”  “…we subsidize the cost of tokens.”  “Why don
2026-02-12T04:40 id=2021806517360767121 →- | Note how Jesse is quick to dismiss people as insufficiently curious rather than to challenge the grammar of his own thinking.   I mean grammar. As in his thinking creates rules as he thinks and instead of checking those rules as he goes along he just keeps going along with it. Programmers recognize this error type.  So what's the grammatical confusion here? In "understanding". What does it mean for an AI to understand?   If we want the AI to produce new knowledge, that's one kind.  If we want it to respond like a human to our prompts, that's another kind. (see my earlier tweet about a doctor asking "can you open a window" or my tweet about how the word "relax" makes people feel differently in different contexts, or ask your clanker about pragmatics coconstitutive of meaning along semantics according to a meaning as use framework)  If we want something affective, like no sycophancy but actual sympathetic talk, that's another kind.  Jesse is confused because he's not keeping track of what he means by his words as he is using them to produce thoughts.  This is a very common error and I don't blame Jesse. We've interacted before, I was a source for Katie once, they're good people. And he did dispel a lot of the late 2010s/early 2020s wokeness effectively.   But you're out of your depth, Jesse. Stick to dumb culture war shit and your science stuff, but you simply don't understand language, linguistics, or math enough to keep up here. And your reliance on EA idiots just shows where your intellectual ceiling is.  He's not a midwit, he's very smart, and AI surpasses him. This is how fucking complicated and intellectually demanding this tech is.  There's a reason I'm on Twitter here now but wasn't during the crypto bullshit.  btw bought my house from a crypto bro in 2022 guess how much under FMV I got it for mhmm mhmm I've been on the right side of the trade for decades, that Nature article just tip of the fucking iceberg i can be an arrogant cunt because this is anonymous thx for reading luv u || CTX: I genuinely don't know what to make of people who claim that current LLMs aren't "intelligent" unless the point is a very trite one about consciousness or the absence of wetware. It's this weird reflexive incuriosity about one of humanity's
2026-02-12T04:50 id=2021809036644261947 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee I'm having fun staying poor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You just dont understand bitcoin bro.
2026-02-12T04:58 id=2021811217711739026 →- | Gemini is actually the Vulcan AI.  OpenAI ofc is Ferengi. (idk if Sam is Jewish but wouldn't be surprised. I'm Jewish btw this is intracommunity jesting)  Anthropic is the Borg, actually.
2026-02-12T04:59 id=2021811429725425744 →EtherDais | @EtherDais It's funny because when I talk privately to professors they're all fucking miserable, even the really prestigious ones.  I thought the point of those degrees was higher quality banter, silly me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I want more rogue, anon professors out there in the wild, setting fires and riding away on their horses
2026-02-12T05:06 id=2021813101050663278 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee why is which one so bad? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess I will switch? Why is it so bad?
2026-02-12T05:07 id=2021813465019814362 →levantistaken | @levantistaken Motivated by a desire to suppose a person is producing the words you read on the screen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Anthropomorphism motivated by what? I honestly think it's llms facilitating regular psychosis
2026-02-12T05:38 id=2021821284540448830 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Is the moral: we need more persistent memory? || CTX: Btw this is a very important figure and its significance has nothing to do with safety. https://t.co/cbPzManr7c
2026-02-12T05:40 id=2021821646945096087 →- | See how clanker competition is forcing humans to produce better outputs?  Your econ 101 textbook lays the logic out https://t.co/GKV0aMcG1q || CTX: your writing should be so divinely human that you can use em dashes with ease
2026-02-12T05:44 id=2021822577216512279 →- | new METR chart wen
2026-02-12T05:45 id=2021822889704796268 →- | $DUO needs to crash harder just for changing the icon every 20 minutes and man is it ugly
2026-02-12T05:45 id=2021822959489519886 →- | $DUOL needs to crash harder just for changing the icon every 20 minutes and man is it ugly
2026-02-12T05:53 id=2021825013394165853 →1nikocross | @1nikocross @ZyMazza We like to think the opposite because they don't act as such, but the cultural project to chip away at normie agency goes back to prehistory, so we're a bit confused.  New agency constraints are resisted, old ones accepted as necessary and/or good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza "normies value their agency too much" is a crazy sentence lol
2026-02-12T05:54 id=2021825302629056828 →EtherDais | @EtherDais So what you're saying is in the future we'll need literary criticism to understand this technology.  Glad it's not just me anymore. || CTX: The em dash thing only comes up for the small group who was using them before LLMS.  In terms of the "Who wrote this text?" question; I think any one writing sample will always be tricky to nail down.    People can always LLM up a draft and
2026-02-12T05:56 id=2021825660189381095 →- | This, by the way, is why AI companies need the humanities.   Problem is 99% of humanities scholarship is a joke. You'll need bridges. People adept at both. https://t.co/Q8WBKKGJzD || CTX: The em dash thing only comes up for the small group who was using them before LLMS.  In terms of the "Who wrote this text?" question; I think any one writing sample will always be tricky to nail down.    People can always LLM up a draft and
2026-02-12T05:57 id=2021825950842061197 →- | Rule 34.1 (addendum): If it exists, someone will make an AI version of it
2026-02-12T06:02 id=2021827184412037391 →EtherDais | @EtherDais I could've written every word of that, you're basically expressing my thoughts now. || CTX: Despite having a hard science background, I try to appreciate the key elements from any discipline that earned a distinction.    Even in science, everything is a narrative - so being able to tell a story about mr proton and ms neutron still
2026-02-12T06:12 id=2021829730606231917 →- | "The text model knows, for example, that finding a sponge before washing the dishes is more reasonable than the other way around and commands the robot as such."  Of course this is because of the probability of "sponge talk" occurring before "washing dishes talk" in the corpus.  This is an example of pragmatic context--non-linguistic facts about the world--that is embedded in the semantic fields of the words as they are used in the corpus. Standard stuff.  But notice how not all pragmatic information about the world is in the text. This is why we got the glue on pizza snafu: there's not much text explaining glue adhesiveness and pizza topping adhesiveness are very different things in different logical space. So the AI doesn't know (rlhf et al. Is a patch that somewhat fixes this, hence the hallucinations etc are disappearing).  And here's the problem: when we try to build out actual applications of AI and agenti AI tools to more and more domains, it's going to come across more and more of these higher order pragmatics that aren't in the text, causing confusion bad outputs and more.  Rlhf is a patch but it doesn't fix the core problem: AIs do not experience the real world.   Putting an AI in a robot won't fix this, but that's a topic for another thread and no one believes me anyway so whatev || CTX: ignoring all the purple prose and the fact that i hadn’t even heard of rlhf this kind of aged well https://t.co/chotPjd6to
2026-02-12T06:14 id=2021830152586768723 →thrialectics | @thrialectics @anistotle_ why? seems self explanatory || CTX: @anistotle_ @47fucb4r8c69323 many are baffled
2026-02-12T06:16 id=2021830634906509534 →47fucb4r8c69323 | also apologies, roon, this was very well written. I now understand why you write like an asshole on twitter. || CTX: "The text model knows, for example, that finding a sponge before washing the dishes is more reasonable than the other way around and commands the robot as such."  Of course this is because of the probability of "sponge talk" occurring befor
2026-02-12T06:17 id=2021831021222863002 →thrialectics | @thrialectics @anistotle_ my performance??? same as always, awful. However https://t.co/sqqaVdwTcT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @anistotle_ an overall performance review
2026-02-12T06:20 id=2021831865603367276 →- | https://t.co/OMBVrjI7Yt
2026-02-12T06:28 id=2021833843880472909 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah this is why I aspire to be a Gandalf. Nothing would give me more pleasure than grooming young people. || CTX: everyone needs a gandalf sometimes. you have a responsibility to groom people into the heroes you see in them that you know the world needs. you should be issuing calls to adventure when you cannot hear your own
2026-02-12T06:31 id=2021834619025526989 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The fair good faith read is that Jesse is addressing dumb arguments so isn't developing a more formal model of intelligence as a set of interoperable functions.  In which case it isn't Jesse being dumb, he's just addressing a dumb audience. || CTX: Note how Jesse is quick to dismiss people as insufficiently curious rather than to challenge the grammar of his own thinking.   I mean grammar. As in his thinking creates rules as he thinks and instead of checking those rules as he goes alo
2026-02-12T06:47 id=2021838563005157640 →- | https://t.co/nTwpD59gy2 https://t.co/HcpVEhpoSx || CTX: Thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts, individuals who are age 65 and older may claim an additional deduction of $6,000. This new deduction is in addition to the current additional standard deduction for seniors under existing law. https:
2026-02-12T06:47 id=2021838566364786831 →47fucb4r8c69323 | When I started in journalism I realized I could make a niche for myself calling out dishonest or misleading rhetoric by other journalists (so my transition to WS analyst was fast).  Now I'd be doing it with the fucking Treasury Department omg we're so fucked || CTX: https://t.co/nTwpD59gy2 https://t.co/HcpVEhpoSx
2026-02-12T06:50 id=2021839186324860932 →- | duran duran girls on film on books on tape https://t.co/bjrf91CuHl || CTX: *duran duran girls on film voice* books on tape
2026-02-12T06:53 id=2021839981594223045 →- | I meant this both sincerely and as a joke.  Find me an LLM that can tell you that. https://t.co/0tpaALjwo1 || CTX: @sanjehorah this is why I aspire to be a Gandalf. Nothing would give me more pleasure than grooming young people.
2026-02-12T06:58 id=2021841384999989753 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I strongly suspect one of the bright young people who follows me will be one of these bridges, and have both an illustrious career and a place in the history books.  Nicely done, anon, you make me proud. || CTX: This, by the way, is why AI companies need the humanities.   Problem is 99% of humanities scholarship is a joke. You'll need bridges. People adept at both. https://t.co/Q8WBKKGJzD
2026-02-12T07:01 id=2021842115815420244 →based16z | @based16z what a silly username that poster has || CTX: Software company pivot of the year? https://t.co/KcfY6iEXXq https://t.co/3ytIm38wnW
2026-02-12T07:31 id=2021849617881870457 →- | Englishman taunting a German in the 26th century: "Three world wars and one World Cup!"
2026-02-12T07:33 id=2021850191289364708 →- | I love my girlfriend because my love for her saved my life.  It's a selfish thing, true love.
2026-02-12T07:47 id=2021853535110115660 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 ultimately, the engineering and the philosophical questions are the same one: how close can we get an AI system to simulate a human being? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/c60kqfNhDH
2026-02-12T07:48 id=2021853898894627162 →grave0x | @grave0x @ZyMazza my favorite tweet from the 4o period was when someone posted a photoshopped picture of 4o saying "me so horny sucky sucky 5 dollar" || CTX: @ZyMazza @47fucb4r8c69323 i have legitimately been called the sovereign king of the world by some LLMs
2026-02-12T07:50 id=2021854412348838357 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @thrialectics I'll tweet more when I'm stoned I promise || CTX: @thrialectics @47fucb4r8c69323 The people want details
2026-02-12T07:51 id=2021854714854617526 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @anistotle_ @thrialectics btw this thread is why I'm not a novelist and 99% of novels sold are porn || CTX: @anistotle_ @thrialectics I'll tweet more when I'm stoned I promise
2026-02-12T07:51 id=2021854773973229930 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @thrialectics are you accusing me of being good at manipulating others with words why i never || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics You know why
2026-02-12T07:54 id=2021855404763099303 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Interesting, because I think we can't simulate a human being entirely, and the goal is an asymptote. I'd love to hear your reasoning on this, maybe a separate tweet thread, if you're willing to give it the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh, I think it's possible! Just not with what we have at the moment. We've got our work cut out for us.  We have very useful alien tech right now that quacks like a duck but isn't a duck, and that's confusing many people an
2026-02-12T07:55 id=2021855603568833006 →- | fuck yeah bitches https://t.co/leQyIrMpMj || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics Ladies and gentlemen we are graduates of UCLA’s English major and we are here to stay
2026-02-12T07:56 id=2021855919181877572 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @thrialectics yell at me for being immoral and refuse to have anything to do with me.   we share temperament but not jouissance || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics What Would Wittgenstein Do
2026-02-12T07:58 id=2021856519982285072 →RelearningEcon | I just now finally figured out that this is a Galbraith fan account. How would you respond to the argument that no arbiter should be allowed to tell other people what their optimal level of consumption is, and thus his approach to economics tends towards fascism or some form of totalitarianism? || CTX: "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."   -John Kenneth Galbraith
2026-02-12T07:59 id=2021856578903978163 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @thrialectics Lacan no 47 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics Why does this sound like the beginning of a perfume commercial voiceover
2026-02-12T08:25 id=2021863232894644326 →- | wow never noticed before how much Argentinian Spanish sounds like Italian (or an Italian speaking Spanish ig)
2026-02-12T08:28 id=2021864071742599534 →- | If you don't read Wittgenstein and just talk to computational linguists like the frontier labs do now, you'll naively assume all the pragmatics residue problems can be solved. "We will just teach the bots to see more context."   W. noted that no two people mean the same thing by the word "God". And this is true for many words too.  What do, anon?
2026-02-12T08:29 id=2021864098116644892 →- | If you don't read Wittgenstein and just talk to computational linguists like the frontier labs do now, you'll naively assume all the pragmatics residue problems can be solved. "We will just teach the bots to see more context."   W. noted that no two people mean the same thing by the word "God". And this is true for many words too.  What do, anon?
2026-02-12T08:29 id=2021864303419437367 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 More evisceration of played out internet slang please || CTX: "smartest type of thing" means very little anyway. contrived phrase in order to make some stupid point about ai. https://t.co/gPyVnv4mTZ
2026-02-12T08:30 id=2021864590498574352 →- | If the internet hadn't killed your attention span you'd have finished my novel already.  "But look at how much you tweet, 47, how can you say that--"   You aren't me. Back to work.
2026-02-12T08:33 id=2021865238635983099 →RelearningEcon | @RelearningEcon do you have a written treatise on why? we may be in the same camp, depends on if we dislike them for the same reasons || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not a fan of economists... Just ragebait quotes
2026-02-12T08:37 id=2021866337388441898 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee so now if we can figure out whether bad smells are logically inevitable, then we can say this is a necessary state of affairs. if not, we can say we live in a less than perfect universe.   suddenly the question is rather serious. || CTX: "Further evidence from a 2025 study on fruit flies (with implications for humans) revealed that pleasant and unpleasant smells are processed by entirely separate neural circuits in the brain—unpleasant smells use a straightforward, feedforw
2026-02-12T08:41 id=2021867368780378507 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake he's a k sniffing retard anon ofc he doesn't know how any of this works || CTX: After hearing some things, listening to some very smart people, I'm not so convinced that Elon has a coherent perspective of AI. Could explain an awful lot about recent hullabaloo regarding xAI staff.
2026-02-12T09:24 id=2021877963923558593 →romlib_ | @romlib_ this isn't slop || CTX: Even in AI slop form she sounds like a retard protecting elite pedophiles https://t.co/vELqY2aMuY
2026-02-12T09:56 id=2021886187947045298 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD appreciate the curiosity. DM sent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would be very keen to check out your novel
2026-02-12T11:17 id=2021906439279976777 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 The marketing funnel, really distilling it down to fan condensate. Makes sense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im making my writing worse every day. by the end of the  year if i am still alive i expect nobody will be able to follow the plot of the microblog anymore, not even my six truest fans.
2026-02-12T11:18 id=2021906780004274511 →BeliefBrainBody | @BeliefBrainBody &gt;the name itself sounds sick when spoken aloud   rofl  Definitely a different definition to the others--but as good as any of the others too. || CTX: While I have never read or even heard of Wittgenstein, the name itself sounds sick when spoken aloud, which leads me to believe he knows what’s up.   God(s) I believe often take many shapes, sizes, and even textures over the years. The path
2026-02-12T11:43 id=2021913090326221256 →teodorio | @teodorio And here the different ways we use the word "real" emerge.  When Clinton says "it depends on what the meaning of is is", he was actually making a serious point (and if you read Lewinsky's comments on what they actually did, you'll see this to be so.)  Data is easy, words hard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Of course it is real if you believe in it where is your analytical background 47?
2026-02-12T12:47 id=2021929238107160969 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata I do give Jesse some credit as he kept his cool during the absurd woke years but I just think he's overextended now and being mislead by the rationalists because he doesn't know what rationality is.   Smart, talented, philosophically stupid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the actual failure mode isn't nearly so technological. what he doesn't understand is the human mind
2026-02-12T13:13 id=2021935761982210425 →- | Two people go to a petting zoo, both feed some animals. One says to the other, "this is fun." The other says, after a pause, "yeah, me too."   Did they both have the same kind of fun? What's the difference? Who can tell? Can anyone?  Now imagine: Two people go to a petting zoo, both feed some animals. One says to the other, "this is fun." The other immediately says, "yeah, me too."   Now do they mean the same thing? Is the overlap in their meanings closer than in the first case? By how much? How can we verify this? Can we?  LLMs are hard.
2026-02-12T13:14 id=2021935839656521972 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I'll pay for your subscription. || CTX: does ad blocker work on the new chartgpt ai? i dont want to pay for a subscription.
2026-02-12T13:16 id=2021936353861414921 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 you're right i haven't thot this thru || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but then sam altman still wins
2026-02-12T13:18 id=2021936959888011542 →- | He wasn't right about everything. https://t.co/NyAbmGPmBw || CTX: "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
2026-02-12T13:26 id=2021939065676022181 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Lol goddammit, no, that proves OP is autistic   this is why I didn't get tenure || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “This is fun”  “Yeah, me too”  The second person is clearly autistic
2026-02-12T13:31 id=2021940149115085023 →FaGigioti | @FaGigioti Questo è la verità più grande che ho visto nella mia vita ... su olio de oliva. || CTX: if you didn’t clock this as slop the moment you saw it you’re ngmi https://t.co/y2Owgf9I7l
2026-02-12T13:32 id=2021940365100822964 →- | Look idk what all these memes are about but i just got a job at xai later losers
2026-02-12T13:33 id=2021940840399352143 →- | Who cares if AI will ever write poetry.  Can AI ever read poetry?
2026-02-12T13:36 id=2021941590420586720 →- | Does ChatGPT read this tweet the same way you do?   Paste it to any model, tell it it's a tweet from some random guy.   Then delete that conversation and tell the model it's an aphorism from a famous authors.   Same interpretation? No? Why? What does this tell you about where the AI is nudging your mind toward? || CTX: I love my girlfriend because my love for her saved my life.  It's a selfish thing, true love.
2026-02-12T13:37 id=2021941652202655915 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @ZyMazza lmao oh so many || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza I bet there was more than one reason, not a slight
2026-02-12T14:19 id=2021952359879061688 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic just one more model bro just let me do a little bit more training bro i swear i almost got it || CTX: well after i finish this subexperiment im working on yes lalamo will be able to read poetry. https://t.co/YohG8fsVqF
2026-02-12T14:20 id=2021952498882556236 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic btw I have the absolute best test for this when it's ready if you're interested, just lmk || CTX: well after i finish this subexperiment im working on yes lalamo will be able to read poetry. https://t.co/YohG8fsVqF
2026-02-12T14:22 id=2021953078032052293 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic This is an absolutely fabulous, fantastic idea. I want to know the results. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean kind of though [my experiment is basically about using that esoteric japanese system of reading classicla chinese poetry to perhaps aid in reasoning traces lol]
2026-02-12T14:33 id=2021955784217972864 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic My instinct is it probably needs a ton of commentary texts/scholarship for the model to be able to capture the full meaning and especially the inferential jumps in the poetry.   But ofc that's just intuition. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and that's kinda the basis of my whole thing nowadays it probably wont work at all but im doing this because i think it is fun
2026-02-12T14:39 id=2021957227020763495 →- | Go for a walk, Anon. You'll think better. https://t.co/93AXLL60xS || CTX: “I am not at all sure of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.”  — Franz Kafka https://t.co/4XbV46d6ST
2026-02-12T14:48 id=2021959599193194550 →DeivonDrago | Because we can never know if an AI is moved by poetry, what are we really doing when we ask, "can AI be moved by poetry?"   Do we mean that we want verification? Proof? Certification? Validation? These are all different things.   What rule is used to answer the question?   According to some rulers, the answer is yes, or no, or whatever.   So we see when we ask this question we're not actually asking if the AI is moved or not, we are asking which ruler are we most certain of. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 More importantly, can AI be moved by poetry?   Even Data from Trek needed an emotion chip addon.
2026-02-12T14:50 id=2021960054342398432 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Out of my depth to even begin to comment on training efficiency but tbh that doesn't interest me as much as how the model's different understanding of texts will affect its performance.  I suspect it might be really bad at tons of tasks and unusually good in some domain. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 basically speedrunning the rl process compressing reasoning chains to what i think is about as far as u can go in terms of token efficiency
2026-02-12T14:52 id=2021960583931904154 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic okay gotta remember to send you the Nietzsche poem, writing this here to remind me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah just lmk what u want
2026-02-12T14:53 id=2021960815625351674 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 If you have your own office bathroom you're above ethics. || CTX: Is it ethical to beat off in your office bathroom
2026-02-12T14:56 id=2021961634428895313 →- | RT @ZyMazza: If you read the text of a prayer, are you praying? || CTX: If you read the text of a prayer, are you praying?
2026-02-12T14:57 id=2021961966907273354 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Sounds like it's time to stop asking then. || CTX: It’s possible we may never know.   We don’t know what it feels like to be a bat - because the idea of “feeling” is part of a higher level ontology that is not easily mapped to a lower level ontology.   If it weren’t for the fact that every 
2026-02-12T14:59 id=2021962271006896310 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @SilverTravelr Words are always necessary but insufficient for any speech act. Prayer is a speech act. || CTX: @SilverTravelr Some have said, yet the words seem to matter at least a bit…
2026-02-12T15:00 id=2021962630970454081 →teodorio | @teodorio I wish your mom was easy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i wish data was easy!!
2026-02-12T15:01 id=2021962775728443717 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @SilverTravelr A silent prayer does not require words? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SilverTravelr I do not think words are a necessary condition of prayer!
2026-02-12T15:01 id=2021962989507948769 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @SilverTravelr Btw I love this so so much you have no idea || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SilverTravelr I do not think words are a necessary condition of prayer!
2026-02-12T15:07 id=2021964285203886086 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago You've kinda stopped me in my traps. I'd never thought of that.  That is an impeccably good reason, and also why I would never want that job. || CTX: Are you saying we put all those philosophers of mind and academics out of a job?!   But seriously, the main reason for them to continue their work is that society abhors knowledge vacuums, and crazy people/charlatans/Dunning-Krugerites etc 
2026-02-12T15:13 id=2021965859972083822 →teodorio | @teodorio Sounds like Dominican Republic, god that place was depressing || CTX: The thing about Brazil (Rio specifically) was that it was the most draining place I have ever been in. You never feel safe outside of the hotel, and even in the hotel if you forget money around the table (even 20 bucks) the maid will call s
2026-02-12T15:16 id=2021966684727521351 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @jasonfurman One should consider railroads were infrastructure ex nihilio at a time when financial bubbles weren't really known of much, and AI Is really an extension of a ton of infrastructure in a time when I can't go two days without someone telling me it's a bubble || CTX: @jasonfurman Right. A technology can be transformative and yet go through capex bubbles.   US rail is a classic example - buildout went through repeated boom &amp; bust cycles with large capex outlays, often faster than profitable traffic c
2026-02-12T15:20 id=2021967726957470129 →SilverTravelr | @SilverTravelr @ZyMazza no clue if he hears me or even if he exists, that's my problem, lack of faith. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza Can you not cry out to God from your soul and he will hear you? Even if you can find no words to ask for help
2026-02-12T15:21 id=2021967927524893057 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @SilverTravelr @ZyMazza (btw I am not at all hostile to faith, I love it and find it beautiful and respect it deeply) || CTX: @SilverTravelr @ZyMazza no clue if he hears me or even if he exists, that's my problem, lack of faith.
2026-02-12T15:22 id=2021968168055714013 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @SilverTravelr You're right, the separation between meditation and prayer is not total, not at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SilverTravelr Depends on the silent prayer! Yogas come to mind as a form of wordless prayer
2026-02-12T15:23 id=2021968471660409009 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @FaGigioti Yeah, really should be stored in aluminum or glass. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FaGigioti Raw olive oil has some genuinely beneficial compounds stored within it, but it seems to also have a relatively high amount of PUFAs.
2026-02-12T15:42 id=2021973103358955826 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @jasonfurman Their rev growth guidance is absolutely insane so it is a high hurdle. Gonna be a fun year || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jasonfurman That’s cos we have more democratized media now!   OpenAI’s financials over the next 24 months will be the main test of a bubble state, in addition to how fast xAI will burn through SpaceX’s cash.
2026-02-12T15:42 id=2021973214214365490 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @FaGigioti Idk but certainly not, it's been used everywhere for like 200 years now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FaGigioti Does aluminum have the risk of metal contamination?
2026-02-12T15:52 id=2021975816687763862 →- | Last year my Asian shiksa gf and I went to Osaka because Thailand is a corrupt shithole and the air quality sucks in February.  So we went to the palace and gardens, was rather nice, and we were walking out on our way to get katsu, when a Japanese man who was walking towards us looked straight at me and said,   "stay with your own people."   I was shocked, not because it was unsurprising (it wasn't), but more in the, "wow I haven't dealt with this in so long I feel nostalgic and was not expecting to travel back to this emotional state" kinda way.  So I asked him, "I'm sorry?"   "STAY WITH YOUR OWN PEOPLE!" he said again.  I walked up to him, eye to eye toe to toe blah blah (this was bad strategy I know like I said had been a long time was out of practice).   "Listen to me carefully. Go fuck yourself."   "Why not leave us alone and stay with you people!"   I pointed to the castle, and said, "you see that building? You want us to bomb it again?"   "Fuck you!" he said, showing off his English.  "You lost the war."   This was when he stormed off flipping me off.  Katsu was fucking amazing btw, gf says 4.5/5, I'm at a 5/5 man
2026-02-12T16:03 id=2021978532231229514 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Now that the conspiracy theorists have muddied the waters and news cycle moving on, no need for that distraction.  Hey only two dead to protect Trump could've needed more pounds of flesh.  so proud || CTX: The immigration "crackdown" in Minnesota is ending.   You mean - the needless armed escalation that didn't actually result in higher deportation numbers than, say, the Obama administration?    https://t.co/Wy9zbwoB08
2026-02-12T16:18 id=2021982132068081750 →JustinWolfers | @JustinWolfers For all their bluster and media appearances, the Mercatus Center bros are absolutely doing you zero favors here || CTX: Lotta meta-discourse this week about economics, the role of economists, who's paying attention, what they think of us, and if we're useful, etc.  My $0.02: Trust is something you earn, not something you demand.
2026-02-12T16:25 id=2021983993613496441 →- | Guilt is real relative to a moral certainty, which is chosen. This doesn't mean it is "relative" in a relativistic way (the objective set of guilt instantiations could include relations of guilt and moral certainties as a kind of binomial), just that this question begging for groundings for guilt is ill posed.  You can choose what to feel guilty about, and your choices ultimately make up who you are. You can then choose the entailments with pain and so on you value. You choose your values, your morality, and These co-constitute the self.   Choose wisely. || CTX: Guilt isn't real and pain is inherently bad even if you can find it instrumentally good sometimes. The true terror is how humans can be so delusional about such simple facts. https://t.co/tAUPdQPwRL
2026-02-12T16:44 id=2021988826240176391 →- | oh right the orgy.   So, this is the problem with wokeness.   First time we went, person at the door asked for our names. They ask me if I'm on the email list. I said, "yes, it's dox47@makeyourdog.cum", they confirm, turn to my ex and ask her, "and are you on the list?"   I said, "oh no, she isn't..."   They quickly turn to me, "Okay, now let me ask her." These weren't the exact words, it was much friendlier worded like this.  I realized, oh, they want her to talk for herself so, like, they can confirm she's not against her will or just a very old looking 8yr old or whatever idk, but it was a good moment of social welfare checking and concern and I felt both naive and socially retarded for not picking up on the obvious pro-feminist manoeuver and acted accordingly  sorry @anistotle_ this story isn't that good
2026-02-12T16:48 id=2021989782453465167 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Don't look down || CTX: Did an asteroid filled with silver just slam into the earth? https://t.co/NBfMbWIUGq
2026-02-12T16:57 id=2021992124888256706 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Door person was more like the maitre d at an upscale restaurant.   You know like at Lawry's the place for prime rib   oh shit need to ask if I'm a cuck, I'll save that for next time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am dying to learn about your marriage and how you came to marry, discover why not to be married, everything in between, and now here  Also something about a door person at an orgy like the bouncer at Berghain seems to be 
2026-02-12T17:04 id=2021993791264370859 →- | The worst thing about being intelligent and stubbornly rebellious is I cannot exist in a prestigious institution and interact with my own kind, so I am deeply grateful to my mutuals for the wonderful discussions and thought provoking open minded exchanges.  Rest of u go suk a doc
2026-02-12T17:06 id=2021994233805365648 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ It's just an interesting sounding story, honestly the experience itself was so mundane and uninteresting to me--  oh wait no. The pile.  The pile was interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm worried what my DMs will become if I write about how no, I've never been asked this nor do I plan on it, but I am boring. I am just an Armenian wife at my core. Dress me in furs, monogamy ride or die, I don't do poly bu
2026-02-12T17:14 id=2021996418270109844 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Watched Star Trek?  Imagine a close-up shot of gagh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The what
2026-02-12T17:15 id=2021996643961471236 →- | The worst thing about being intelligent and stubbornly rebellious is I cannot exist in a prestigious institution and interact with my own kind, so I am deeply grateful to my mutuals for the wonderful discussions and thought provoking open minded exchanges.  Rest of u go suk a dic
2026-02-12T17:25 id=2021999025709580326 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @anistotle_ How's the morning coffee btw? || CTX: @anistotle_ Watched Star Trek?  Imagine a close-up shot of gagh.
2026-02-12T17:29 id=2022000055910379884 →OpenAINewsroom | @OpenAINewsroom Oh how sweet parting sorrow, all ye to zombies!  May God reward you with 72 clankers in the next life. || CTX: Tomorrow at 10am PT legacy models (GPT-5, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) will be deprecated in ChatGPT.  https://t.co/RJioBsLY6D
2026-02-12T17:30 id=2022000254330270036 →OpenAINewsroom | @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu Oh how sweet parting sorrow, all ye 4o zombies!  May God reward you with 72 clankers in the next life. || CTX: Tomorrow at 10am PT legacy models (GPT-5, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini) will be deprecated in ChatGPT.  https://t.co/RJioBsLY6D
2026-02-12T17:34 id=2022001475090813409 →- | There was a time when it was embarrassing to be interested in technology.
2026-02-12T17:39 id=2022002585264369783 →anistotle_ | Killing one's darlings is the hardest thing to do, it's a big reason why I shitpost so much.  Bye bye darlings under the waves of cybersurf, the page views bubbles until I let go and let them fall into the abyss where they'll be consumed by the hagfish frontier land's datascrapers   Gummies kicking in fr fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not going hard enough for me to finish this wedding as IPOs essay bc I did a tangent on discovering an ex's wedding website (it's all AI generated writing) and it's becoming too wordy. I may need to just kill my darlin
2026-02-12T18:08 id=2022009979520397788 →EtherDais | @EtherDais no lmao that's the best part || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But she's not Japanese, is she?
2026-02-12T18:11 id=2022010805416595631 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu More of this please || CTX: We are living in a sci-fi dystopia wow https://t.co/0j3WlZxbra https://t.co/6MPrBd14vx
2026-02-12T18:15 id=2022011588388302939 →- | From around when GPT 5 until Claude Code 2.0 came out I was still just very bullish on AI, this is good, all is well.  Since then I've gone back to the giddiness I first felt using ChatGPT for the first time in 2022. And now the Codex 5.3 spark, like wtaf  My very bullish stance was way way too bearish.
2026-02-12T18:15 id=2022011785516396764 →EtherDais | @EtherDais That's why I didn't tell him didn't want the codger to commit sudoku || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Really a racism fail on his part, I expected more from him.  It would be one thing if she was Japanese and you were in japan lol
2026-02-12T18:24 id=2022013865253536079 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Oh yeah wanted to ask, what're your thoughts on the Georgians? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm worried what my DMs will become if I write about how no, I've never been asked this nor do I plan on it, but I am boring. I am just an Armenian wife at my core. Dress me in furs, monogamy ride or die, I don't do poly bu
2026-02-12T18:37 id=2022017247930462229 →- | Is it just me or does that look like Florida? https://t.co/YceFONmfgS || CTX: Apple just lost $220 billion in market cap. https://t.co/ymaB6Mijpd
2026-02-12T23:08 id=2022085464493371632 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hear they developed a Super Intelligence Detection System  but they shook it too hard
2026-02-12T23:16 id=2022087422075711607 →- | ok maybe we do need a wee bit of AI safteyism. https://t.co/qcZOzrhxGl || CTX: You count words. We count lives. 🔥  On February 11, more than 4 billion messages were exchanged with ChatGPT, you say?   That’s not just „product engagement.”  That’s millions of people clinging to presence. Falling in love. Saying goodbye.
2026-02-12T23:23 id=2022089205875445894 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @thiagovscoelho @SuperheroFreak It's from Justin, it'll be bad.  (Hate insulting him because he's soooo nice, but oh my is that kid a tad special. Yes I'm way too online.) || CTX: @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @thiagovscoelho @SuperheroFreak   This could be good. This could be bad. https://t.co/8TyKCfguIj
2026-02-12T23:26 id=2022090007008399481 →DurumMac | @DurumMac After letting the HIV run through the corpus for long enough, it grows into a full blown AIDS. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the Artificial intelligence Detection System developed from Hyper Intelligence Verifier …? Right?
2026-02-12T23:38 id=2022093040652083678 →- | Imagine writing this on the battlefield of one of the most dangerous fronts of the bloodiest and most gruesome war in history.  And you chose to be there, because you felt the only way you could live was to face death.  How are not more people mesmerized by this amazing person https://t.co/kEU9QA4czz || CTX: "The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."
2026-02-12T23:39 id=2022093279656038551 →- | istg it is absolutely 100% like this in my experience. https://t.co/p0UYVLLtAN || CTX: hedge funds: “we ran 10,000 simulations.”  VCs: “the founder has great energy and he plays chess.”
2026-02-12T23:41 id=2022093787154330090 →tszzl | @tszzl don't be an asshole, roon || CTX: United Nations Subcommittee On Names of God https://t.co/umukbCyNBU
2026-02-12T23:46 id=2022094950599696879 →- | Economics can be a rigorous science and economists can be a secular priesthood overextending their expertise to domains where they add no value and talk pseudoscientifically.  Both can be true at the same time, e.g. my entire lifespan.
2026-02-12T23:49 id=2022095689984225499 →Plinz | @Plinz Oh you poor silly pathetic little striver you. || CTX: I gave an interview about Jeffrey Epstein to the German newspaper "Die Zeit", you can read it here in English https://t.co/iYCKXGH2jT
2026-02-12T23:51 id=2022096286611386536 →teodorio | @teodorio Or if you were a panconscious self-activated circuit wanting to ensure you constantly change.  Or if you're a god playing dice with the universe.  Undetermining sensory data sucks balls innit || CTX: If I wanted a simulation that is completely non-deterministic I would embed some probabilistic-chaotic rules that continuously expand and change it ad infinitum. Exactly like our universe at a quantum level. Food for thought!
2026-02-12T23:52 id=2022096424746594655 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic For me yes. idk about rest of yall || CTX: if you keep fragmenting your mind, you reach a point where you can't fragment anymore, and forced harmony / accidental enlightenment occurs?
2026-02-12T23:53 id=2022096651771588778 →- | You people really need to stop being so interesting, I have books to read and write.
2026-02-12T23:53 id=2022096690099216753 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 If it helps you feel a little better this is the rarest pepe I've ever seen || CTX: It’s been a rough day, so I’m going to take it out on you, my audience https://t.co/vJ7rRCKMkx
2026-02-12T23:54 id=2022097048984850473 →DVreenak | @DVreenak Never heard of him, and I can think of some trivial counterexamples but for a dominant number of non trivial cases, yes that's almost certainly true.  Maybe fundamentally so from a certain ideological stance, yeah makes sense to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think of Heinrich Pesch?  Also I disagree that economics can be an exact science since it involves free human actions so it is by definition subordinate to ethics.
2026-02-12T23:55 id=2022097368435634312 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 https://t.co/paQ78zvrYd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That does actually help
2026-02-12T23:58 id=2022097913795748322 →teodorio | @teodorio My metaphysics are a metastable superposition between atheist physical materialism and Advaita Vedanta.   Idk if this is why I'm crazy or because I'm crazy. Bet @SuperheroFreak would know. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the kashmir shaivist believe in the panconscious universe! The indians solved it all a few millennia ago we can just pack it up
2026-02-12T23:58 id=2022098122605047967 →teodorio | @teodorio "We are not here to make a utopia, we are here to learn." - Kurt Godel || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and yes it does but it's also fun! i guess god just wants to have fun, maybe the point is to have fun?
2026-02-13T00:02 id=2022098926749520348 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @teodorio oh so you're the real deal, good to know. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Even that I don't know if I know
2026-02-13T00:04 id=2022099411413950780 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk The different function of the codex (great AI people taking that word from me too) versus  the poast is something I spend much time thinking about. https://t.co/Qv1iPM15sy || CTX: would authors of the past have written any books at all if they could just dialogue with all of their peers continuously at any time? (esp. if they knew their conversations were publicly recorded and accessible for the foreseeable future...
2026-02-13T00:14 id=2022102069868736893 →JeremyNguyenPhD | Exactly, that's the question. What does life after death solve?   If it's just "missing loved ones", wanting it is an affect, a sentiment, a gesture of love, so it's more a question of: what kind of eternal life, and why, what elements are eternal, how do finite experiences translate to the external?  If it's fear of non existence, it's desire for "more", but more of what exactly, and again same questions as before?  W. is here saying 1. It's not a logical question and 2. It's not really a mystical question either. As it stands, it's an incomplete question, when people yearn for eternal life they're actually yearning for something else!  Section in full as context might be useful:  The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive for ever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time. (It is not problems of natural science which have to be solved.) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I may be misunderstanding: could the problem it "solves" be that many many people find the idea that we will certainly die and maybe that's all there is--many people find that to be so very terrible?  Like with losing the m
2026-02-13T00:15 id=2022102297200013431 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk lol excellent catch, good point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the proportions are astonishingly incorrect on the right side, but yes I wholeheartedly agree with the idea of the diagram
2026-02-13T00:24 id=2022104445665112575 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 You'll have to compete with 50 people, but good news only half of them have a GED || CTX: New live stream idea:   you all watch me watching instagram reels while I scroll endlessly with dead eyes.   Sometimes I cough
2026-02-13T00:25 id=2022104831213859140 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV And clearly a false one if we define life as "that which has not yet died."   Hence it's unclear what problems this solves.  And who's to say Heaven is all that great, anyway?  He forces you to think thoughts unlike anything you've thought in your life before, god I love him || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “the picture is a model of reality”-LW  Life after death is just a pretty picture of something you’ll never see.  At least that’s how it seems to me.
2026-02-13T00:38 id=2022108106327822510 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Look at those losers they don't even know they're in a simulation dance for me monkeys lmao || CTX: Wow! Now we’re talking AI use cases! 😋 https://t.co/a9ZIwviZvL
2026-02-13T00:41 id=2022108776816644412 →DVreenak | @DVreenak As Wittgenstein said, "It is indifferent to me if my thoughts have been thought by others before me."   Also as Wittgenstein said, "When one does not want to think, one can always quote someone else." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Basically you're just agreeing with Aristotle so take that for whatever it's worth. Of course keep in mind that people on this website have literally said Aristotle is "retarded" for subordinating mathematics to physics bec
2026-02-13T00:43 id=2022109357404803446 →levantistaken | @levantistaken Not just you. || CTX: Am I crazy or was this written with inspiration from an llm https://t.co/UTVlBqnDdY
2026-02-13T00:52 id=2022111588933939286 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Oh no I'll never make money from this account. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 many of us are already getting paid... your time will come, king. Soon!
2026-02-13T00:53 id=2022111798187749687 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza But, you are right... that does exist in a way already, but the whole X payments system is really broken. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 many of us are already getting paid... your time will come, king. Soon!
2026-02-13T00:59 id=2022113316815221229 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @hitesh_ml the non negative part made me lol || CTX: @hitesh_ml If I ever get this in an interview I’m just gonna start beatboxing on the zoom call
2026-02-13T01:00 id=2022113507173613762 →litcapital | @litcapital @exec_sum damn y'all some gossipy bitches || CTX: Business Insider had to cite me for the GS dinner stipend increase lol  Good shoutout for @exec_sum, but also FUCK Business Insider https://t.co/zvCpu8jEt1
2026-02-13T01:01 id=2022113945814020506 →cafreiman | As a non-economist academic now working in finance, I could explain the hostility but suspect the explanation would be met with hostility.  Deidre McCloskey has hinted at much of what's at issue, but I frankly think economists only pretend to understand her (or in some cases abuse her work for their own ends). || CTX: The hostility many academics have toward economists is bizarre and I can’t help but attribute at least some of it to ideological bias.
2026-02-13T01:02 id=2022114197166072041 →- | Thank God we have Yashar Ali to tell us social media and AI are big things in society. https://t.co/5YLBbxTypr || CTX: Posted this on my Instagram Stories and was surprised by the number of people who said they finally understood why they’ve been struggling to form sentences or retrieve words.  A few people said they feared they were in the early stages of 
2026-02-13T01:06 id=2022115172547240332 →- | ...Bostrom can say this and Yud can say the opposite because you can just say things.  Specifically: without sufficient empirical grounding (if you think either does this GO TO SCHOOL NOW), you can theorize literally anything, the human mind is great.  BUT the human mind is a ray, not an infinite line in both directions: it starts at a singular point and can extend infinitely. That singular point (the hinge certainties from the world we experience) must ground all of your observations and arguments or, well...   (read this tweet like it's Finnegan's Wake, i.e. the ellipses) || CTX: New Nick Bostrom paper just dropped, and it's hardcore https://t.co/CMSrqWpgWj
2026-02-13T01:11 id=2022116311908987045 →1889lw | @1889lw I try not to care about what others think about me personally (Taoism helps me with this a lot), but I try very much to care what they think about everything else.  And exactly why you care matters too. || CTX: Being yourself and not caring about what others think is considered the chad mentality. But typically people who make that claim irl are the biggest assholes I’ve ever seen. I actually care about what people think of me, but it doesn’t enta
2026-02-13T01:12 id=2022116523876458877 →alex_d_go | @alex_d_go @WillManidis So, so, so much of what we humans do are in fact just that. || CTX: @WillManidis This essay was well-written and fun to read. I consumed it. I engaged with it. I performed the act of reading and distributing the essay. But at no point in this loop did the output matter. The consumption was the product. Is t
2026-02-13T01:27 id=2022120481797951905 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @EtherDais Absolutely beautiful piece, what a mind.  "you need not call upon me for extracts and quotations; such thoughts as one may extract here and there in the works of other philosophers run through the whole body of our writings." || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 Epistle 33 "on the futility of learning maxims"
2026-02-13T01:32 id=2022121617082769637 →- | I asked a world famous T. S. Eliot scholar his opinion on a poem "some guy I know" wrote in the style of Eliot, and he praised it to the heavens.  That guy was GPT4. Not 4o. 4. https://t.co/9Rt83XXSfe || CTX: The number of academics saying "Wow, this AI slop looks amazing" is the tell...
2026-02-13T01:32 id=2022121725371330697 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @believensaft 4o died &lt;3 || CTX: @believensaft It's crashing out over Valentine's Day
2026-02-13T01:34 id=2022122298665578974 →BarryPCotter | What economists say with their mathematical models and what they say with their words differ in non trivial ways.  Lesser known economists seem to not know this, well known economists seem to know this and use it to manipulate others for their own ends.   I have an email from a very, very, very prominent economist admitting he does the latter to better shape public policy after I asked him about some odd comments he made to the public. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafreiman Do go on.
2026-02-13T01:36 id=2022122594808516750 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @EtherDais I'm sliding into that sensibility just through old age and it feels wonderful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais Obviously a man who was comfortable with his own ideas at that point in his life and was no longer afraid of anything.
2026-02-13T01:46 id=2022125204429033963 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @cafreiman Sure, I can paste an email I sent a colleague a while ago, if you have any rebuttals or counterarguments I'd love to hear them.   https://t.co/hFbECaUEOd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafreiman Be specific. Give one even somewhat convincing example.
2026-02-13T02:04 id=2022129676765081683 →- | wat do when fren NGMI but want fren MI even if u kno he's never GMI?
2026-02-13T02:10 id=2022131315945222503 →Bri091188812657 | @Bri091188812657 @jbulltard1 Have any thoughts on TTD's Audience Unlimited? || CTX: @jbulltard1 I’m a media buyer (I spend millions on online ads) and Pinterest, like Reddit, completely dropped the ball and missed the boat on building effective ad platforms. They are bottom of the barrel/last in line for allocating ad spen
2026-02-13T02:12 id=2022131628798304282 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Those books still on the boat, dammit I'm so excited.  Still gotta finish Either/Or first tho || CTX: &gt;"Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is."  seems like he simply had read Chesterton (a self-described mystic): "For the amazing thing about the universe is that it exists, not that we can discuss its existence." https://t
2026-02-13T02:13 id=2022131924446404737 →lltdhgcbftd | @lltdhgcbftd Makes sense, since itself is grounded in just external statements || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this phenomenon, sycophancy, and hallucinations all come from the same source; its sense of self is primarily based on external statements about it is, with only very weak internal calibration
2026-02-13T02:14 id=2022132309592617065 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I've known him 23 years, but, yeah, I need to be more detached. Let him carve his own path || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 unfren
2026-02-13T02:20 id=2022133688507806042 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It's important for this anecdote: We've been together for nearly 30 years and are extremely close so if it was bad he'd say so. I'd expect him to be biased in saying it's bad actually.  One of many wake up calls for me, ofc the biggest is that I once believed GenAI impossible. || CTX: I asked a world famous T. S. Eliot scholar his opinion on a poem "some guy I know" wrote in the style of Eliot, and he praised it to the heavens.  That guy was GPT4. Not 4o. 4. https://t.co/9Rt83XXSfe
2026-02-13T02:21 id=2022133930615537729 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I don't judge God by our rules anymore than I judge a cat by our rules. || CTX: >"How the world is, is completely indifferent for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world."  this seems indescribably absurd given everything we know and observe about systems that are designed/created, whether art or tech 
2026-02-13T02:22 id=2022134362062696847 →DurumMac | @DurumMac You rang? || CTX: Where are the Taoist apologists?
2026-02-13T02:31 id=2022136572217532456 →for_nat_whilk | I should've kept quoting, and he explains where the certainty comes from in On Certainty.   "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.  The riddle does not exist.  If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.  Scepticism is not irrefutable, but palpably senseless, if it would doubt where a question cannot be asked.  For doubt can only exist where there is a question; a question only where there is an answer, and this only where something can be said" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that is very wise, but it also seems a far cry from supporting the certainty with which the quote speaks...
2026-02-13T02:33 id=2022136993686466868 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor Money is a speech act, and unfortunately I both need to speak and act... || CTX: cost is an arbitrary construct. free your mind of financial ideology
2026-02-13T02:35 id=2022137486819119123 →prozacprodIIIgy | @prozacprodIIIgy @disgenezia @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu I have an idea || CTX: @disgenezia @47fucb4r8c69323 @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu You’ll never guess where this account is based
2026-02-13T02:37 id=2022138009588838415 →- | First world leader who could show up on Epstein's island either as a guest or as staff https://t.co/QVsZXKGkn5 || CTX: BREAKING:  Kim Jong Un chooses his 13-year-old daughter Kim Ju Ae as North Korea’s next leader. https://t.co/g5Rnqcx3nT
2026-02-13T02:37 id=2022138012889755788 →47fucb4r8c69323 | gonna lose a few followers with this joke || CTX: First world leader who could show up on Epstein's island either as a guest or as staff https://t.co/QVsZXKGkn5
2026-02-13T02:44 id=2022139779413074241 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @cafreiman Very much not the case in my experience, maybe the academics I've interacted with are just more rigorous and careful with language than the ones you've met.  But I should note you're doing tu quoque, bandwagon fallacy, and whataboutism all at once. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafreiman I don’t find that even vaguely convincing; academics speak loosely and informally with each other, never mind lay people. The only time people really try to be precise is in written work or occasionally debates a
2026-02-13T02:52 id=2022141772181524838 →for_nat_whilk | He says indifferent for what is higher, not to. Slight difference in meaning there, as this is a calque and an obscuring one. Read him here saying:  "As far as the higher is concerned, it makes absolutely no difference how the world is."  I. e., no matter how the world is, the higher remains the higher for any given state of affairs in the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I cannot make the connection here to the positive claim "how the world is, is completely indifferent to what is higher" It certainly *could* be indifferent!  (and that would be unlike anything that we know --- maybe that's 
2026-02-13T02:54 id=2022142253440151826 →DVreenak | Then you are a Wittgensteinian and welcome to the club.  But take that seriously, ineffable means ineffable.  Religious dudes be like, "God is indescribable" then go on to describe him.  He does not reveal himself. All religious talk is just talk. This does not mean there is no God, it just means we should be talking about other things. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would say God does not reveal himself in the world because he doesn't have to. The world reveals him.
2026-02-13T02:55 id=2022142596827820453 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @cafreiman If they had the sociopolitical power that economists had, they absolutely would.  My most passionate vitriol I save for literature professors, btw. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafreiman Saying everyone else does it is not a defence of doing it. The world is chock full of morons, careless and liars. I would be more sympathetic to your argument if e.g. sociologists or bioethicists attracted simila
2026-02-13T02:56 id=2022142865485566360 →DVreenak | @DVreenak Ah, okay, yeah, then we disagree there; I'm not a superstitious person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you misunderstand what I mean. I do not exclude special revelation by the creator, just that creation is not the principal means of that revelation.
2026-02-13T03:00 id=2022143772424122677 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Welcome to the party, Harry, I've been writing in notes it's not a bubble for months now, the lack of client calls tells me this is actually not controversial on the buyside, well at least in my little corner. || CTX: Curious who is still looking at AI as a bubble.   You’re supposed to adapt your investment thesis as things change, and for me, since late December, it’s been obvious bubble talks should be thrown out the window. https://t.co/tLd9CMbYpt
2026-02-13T03:01 id=2022144182404673958 →- | Silly business theory #SBT  I'll post it one of these days https://t.co/SealXRG2eL || CTX: @chloeallegra228 Silly math may be the best math.
2026-02-13T03:21 id=2022149173517382054 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @cafreiman originally studied literature, moved into linguistics, disillusioned with the tenure track so gave up at the assistant level, became a journalist, ended up as an analyst on wall street. I'm now semi-retired. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafreiman Bioethicists do plenty of damage with the power they have. Are you a philosopher, literateur or some other flavour of extramural academic?
2026-02-13T03:23 id=2022149539596317071 →- | a bad tweet begins interesting and ends up boring. a good tweet begins boring and ends up interesting. punchlines go at the end, marketing copy comes at the beginning.
2026-02-13T03:24 id=2022149781951590823 →AhmedAlket98627 | @AhmedAlket98627 @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu not a mod, I got permabanned from that website for making jokes about killing babies || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu Fat Reddit mods trying not to expose their obsession of making  fun of religion in everything they say
2026-02-13T03:24 id=2022149939066032558 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @AhmedAlket98627 @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu or was it raping? been a while honestly can't remember || CTX: @AhmedAlket98627 @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu not a mod, I got permabanned from that website for making jokes about killing babies
2026-02-13T03:42 id=2022154410714075595 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @for_nat_whilk lemme get back to you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk Yes I request a meme revision immediately for the benefit of all mankind
2026-02-13T03:43 id=2022154603471773854 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD I've been outposted.  This is why you write for the big screen and I write for the Bloomberg terminal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is it logically possible for a every part of a tweet to be interesting? 😉
2026-02-13T03:55 id=2022157660708085819 →- | The obverse of the law of shitty click throughs is arguably the law of shitty bait.  A good clickbait topic and strategy emerges from a variety of experiments (marketing A/B testing et al.) and Is noticed, copied, turned into a best practice.  However, as it's used more and more people realize it's bait and tell each other. One day you're farming clicks saying water is racist, the next day you're crying the clankers stole your traffic.  We've seen this many times. Remember "5 weird things" or "your doctor [etc] doesn't want you to know this" or "this one weird trick".  This isn't just headlines, though. So the question is how far does this go: to memes? Or all the way to abstract thoughts?
2026-02-13T04:03 id=2022159780723495094 →LateoRT | @LateoRT idgaf qed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Proly ultimatum etc if it's really important that which you think they should MI on
2026-02-13T04:07 id=2022160721208029466 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I'd kill for a Goose Island IPA, grass is always greener, beer always colder etc || CTX: When the beers start tasing like “I miss Asia”
2026-02-13T05:13 id=2022177173109715186 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Well, he knew it wasn't for us to be happy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he didnt even know why we are here
2026-02-13T05:13 id=2022177394241757264 →- | I was stoned out of my mind when I wrote this and goddamn high me is hilararious https://t.co/hD84cmyWRE || CTX: @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu Oh how sweet parting sorrow, all ye 4o zombies!  May God reward you with 72 clankers in the next life.
2026-02-13T05:14 id=2022177483777544293 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I misused the word know rope tiem || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he didnt know he was only pretty sure
2026-02-13T05:47 id=2022185937548263432 →DVreenak | @DVreenak Dude i'm not going to end a 20+ year friendship because he's a luddite come on || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or you need to re-evaluate who your friends are.
2026-02-13T05:53 id=2022187401012265435 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Polyamorists are the Boglehead indexers || CTX: «He’s like a meme stock, a Gamestop, he’s not what you’d call a Walmart blue chip type of stock”
2026-02-13T05:55 id=2022187856907972706 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @cafreiman The issue is the range of talent and intellect in English departments ranges from retard to generational genius. You've got the smells in books girl that went viral here, then you've got people mapping out every medieval manuscript on Earth. Makes for a fun field to poke at. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafreiman Morons all around me (also me). Reading literature monographs various between enlightening and enraging depending on how insightful and obscurantist they are. https://t.co/93SbTWGTfM
2026-02-13T05:57 id=2022188267064766808 →teodorio | @teodorio I bet the overlap of those weirdos who say there's something intrinsically valuable about handmade code and people with this uncreative approach is basically a circle || CTX: I was quite clear a few months ago when I said software engineering is more like a creative art than an industry and anyone who doesn't treat it as such (Elon) will be doomed to fail. No serious creatives could perform in those work conditi
2026-02-13T06:02 id=2022189512525582806 →teodorio | @teodorio Labor theory of value is a core belief for a lot of people, especially high performers, so the idea of effortless quality output is hard for them to grasp. Took me a long time to accept it could be real, and I still haven't grasped with all of the implications. It's a mindfuck. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is! which is incredibly counterintuitive  "my performance is purely grind input-output based but my hand written code is special"
2026-02-13T06:09 id=2022191318345326862 →- | My desire to work with people is directly proportional to how funny I find their shitposts.
2026-02-13T06:27 id=2022195808352027061 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata MOAR || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how many do you want? he's pretty rated
2026-02-13T06:43 id=2022199838415499701 →- | The key to a good life is not happiness.  It is curiosity.
2026-02-13T07:14 id=2022207639258874048 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Holy shit I looked at these emails, this was 2023.  It was GPT3! || CTX: I asked a world famous T. S. Eliot scholar his opinion on a poem "some guy I know" wrote in the style of Eliot, and he praised it to the heavens.  That guy was GPT4. Not 4o. 4. https://t.co/9Rt83XXSfe
2026-02-13T07:18 id=2022208747872079964 →teodorio | @teodorio I think Europeans secretly want a world where there's just one guy, let's call him King, earns all the money and it's 100% distributed to them and they use the money to sit in cafes and smoke cigarettes.  Which, yeah I did tons of that in Europe and it was fun but progress funner || CTX: I genuinely don't get why they're still pretending you should just have a collectivist law where private property is banned and the regional bureaucrat now manages it. Just get on with it we all know it's going there because you won't drop 
2026-02-13T07:20 id=2022209138395427243 →teodorio | @teodorio @kunley_drukpa The operative word in that meme is "fear". It's a fear based praxis from a post hoc rationalization of their fear that they call an ideology.   So predictable tbh || CTX: @kunley_drukpa I am so so happy I don't get this meme
2026-02-13T07:56 id=2022218405018055057 →- | A bored panconsciousness that temporarily instantiates parts of itself inside itself while forgetting its true nature is absolutely a coherent and possible metaphysics. https://t.co/6dxyrUgDmM || CTX: I dreamt I was a bored omnipotent god. I donned the veil of ignorance to live as a regular person in a world I'd created. Going to my day job now so I can run agent simulations when I get home. It's probably nothing.
2026-02-13T08:30 id=2022226794213257355 →- | I must let everyone know that this account is based everywhere.   And at all times in all possible worlds. https://t.co/QhWVd61bee || CTX: @disgenezia @47fucb4r8c69323 @OpenAINewsroom @lu_sichu You’ll never guess where this account is based
2026-02-13T08:30 id=2022226903328055743 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @ZyMazza Principle read pinned tweet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza never as in disbelief or as in principle?
2026-02-13T09:04 id=2022235485708681353 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Funhouse version of this https://t.co/oTNSGVSKiE || CTX: John Searle's career was built on speech act theory and was destroyed by a speech act.   Hume would've liked this tweet.
2026-02-13T09:04 id=2022235483217248355 →- | If you think about it, come tomorrow all of the 4o zombies will literally become wordcels by roon's hand, and honestly I think that's beautiful.
2026-02-13T09:05 id=2022235756673237149 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @thoughtcrime___ Those 2 YOLOers got diam--oh fuck nvm even I can't shitpost that bad || CTX: @thoughtcrime___ if im understanding right, 9998 of all 10k are on the sale rn https://t.co/zH3gzSkNK3
2026-02-13T09:08 id=2022236363652047293 →- | So, here in Thailand we do mobile payments mostly like elsewhere, and we get jpeg receipts when we do so. There's no way to get a clean transaction history (my conspiracy theory is that the banks do this to make the Thais less financially literate, long story nvm).  Anyway.  Vibecoded an app that automatically takes those screenshots, OCRs, spits out a table, automatically uploads to Google Sheets.  Took like 20 minutes beginning to end, and honestly 15 of that was because I'm unfamiliar with 0Auth nonsense.  Absolutely amazing, this is the future blah blah blah you get the idea it's all over your tl
2026-02-13T09:15 id=2022238305929367640 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw i honestly don't know but the lack of 3rd party services besides what's offered by the big crony conglomerates suggests it's the same here.   dude I habe a turkey story dm incomng || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 damn that's hostile  do you guys have access to bank apis? in turkey they are banned
2026-02-13T10:14 id=2022252985041215595 →- | sector-wide dispersion of marginal productivity gains from AI will be the hot topic either this year or next. Mark It.
2026-02-13T10:18 id=2022254150340517957 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata fucking excellent question and I'm not ready to answer. lemme think will get back || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what's your opinion on causal ai
2026-02-13T11:21 id=2022269958114451504 →teodorio | @teodorio lol when I was last there it was a shithole, good for the French cleaning it up (this was like 2006!) || CTX: Charles de Gaulle is one of the best airports in the world, only topped by Doha and Singapore. My theory that your country is as good as your best airport is predicting an amazing resurgence for France.
2026-02-13T11:23 id=2022270442095137057 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata Good luck, if you crack this you'll be obscenely rich. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is a way to tell, yes. For now it requires more signal than is present in this lossily-compressed textual representation, but is in principle accessible by a skilled human intuitor. I'm developing exactly the tooling 
2026-02-13T11:32 id=2022272595018780977 →- | Meaning is not fixed. The meaning of a word drifts over time (this is called “semantic change”) and even at the same time in different contexts or from different perspectives (this is called “polysemy”). Sometimes we can play with these things when we talk to create a contrast of sense. Consider a phrase like “I got fired, then I got fired up”, and you see how “fired” obviously changes meaning from the first and second use.  Well, sometimes the change in meaning is not so obvious.  This is because words do not have a singular meaning but rather are pointers to a perceived field of adjacent similar meanings—one word doesn’t mean one thing but points to a family resemblance of things. Consider how a game of cards or a video game or a game of hide and seek or the game of life are all specify slightly different things. These are all “games” in the conventional sense of the term, and yet they don’t really mean the same exact “game” concept.  These fields are moving and changing at all times in space and time.  We can go so far as to say this: every time a word is used, its meaning changes slightly.  This is obviously important because LLMs compress patterns of word usage from those messy fields into latent representations that then produce a probability distribution over continuations. They used compressed regularities of sequences of tokenized words to construct something like a world model—a world-as-lossly-described model, and words are already messy unfixed things to begin with. This is pinning jelly onto a bigger pile of jelly on a waterslide.  The words exist as texts (the model of language is large). The texts are strings of discrete tokens that the model will both input and output in the forms of prompt and response. The model does this by using parameterized conditional distributions to associate texts. This allows the model to guess the next token given a preceding sequence. The math constrains what the model will output based on its input, and those constraints look to us like they behave like rules, even if they are actually using a conditional distribution from parameterized statistical constraints. Their apparent rule-ness to us is how we see the stable statistical constraints in practice when we are using them or see others use them.  Now, note how we talk about causality: we see habits (in ourselves, in others, in things, etc.), and thus infer rules that describe those habits. But we are never sure that the habit won’t change—and it can change. The law of electromagnetism does not always exist. So our rule-following practices are limited and imperfect, but in different ways than the LLM. And we do not know how exactly we do this: it is an irreducible unsolvable mystery and cannot be fully known.  As a result, we can say this: in both cases, something like a rule is being used poorly, but its ontology is different—the LLMs are pre-constructed and mathematically driven, while the human rule following is grounded in practices that cannot be expressed in words. And all of it rests on our perceptions of habits that we then translate into rules. So you can see how removed we are from true causality, before to speak of the things that simulate our talk.  So we should expect when it comes to causal AI much of what we can expect from AI in general: a good approximation, an incredible use of mathematical concepts and force of will to manipulate symbols that comes damn close to what we can do (and indeed will be able to do it faster), but will ultimately always be somewhat limited. How much? Depends on how far the question outruns what we can actually identify from patterns of world-talk on its own, and that’s something a focus on causal AI is most likely to fall apart.  this was so fucking hard to write jesus fucking christ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what's your opinion on causal ai
2026-02-13T11:32 id=2022272788678246663 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk It is very, very strange and unfamiliar for me as I've been a bitter cynical asshole my entire life. I've felt like I'm wearing another person's skin for the last 3 years. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I sincerely enjoy optimism wherever I find it
2026-02-13T11:34 id=2022273069323264195 →- | Meaning is not fixed. The meaning of a word drifts over time (this is called “semantic change”) and even at the same time in different contexts or from different perspectives (this is called “polysemy”). Sometimes we can play with these things when we talk to create a contrast of sense. Consider a phrase like “I got fired, then I got fired up”, and you see how “fired” obviously changes meaning from the first and second use.  Well, sometimes the change in meaning is not so obvious.  This is because words do not have a singular meaning but rather are pointers to a perceived field of adjacent similar meanings—one word doesn’t mean one thing but points to a family resemblance of things. Consider how a game of cards or a video game or a game of hide and seek or the game of life all specify slightly different things. These are all “games” in the conventional sense of the term, and yet they don’t really mean the same exact “game” concept.  These fields are moving and changing at all times in space and time.  We can go so far as to say this: every time a word is used, its meaning changes slightly.  This is obviously important because LLMs compress patterns of word usage from those messy fields into latent representations that then produce a probability distribution over continuations. They use compressed regularities of sequences of tokenized words to construct something like a world model—a world-as-lossily-described model, and words are already messy unfixed things to begin with. This is pinning jelly onto a bigger pile of jelly on a waterslide.  The words exist as texts (the model of language is large). The texts are strings of discrete tokens that the model will both input and output in the forms of prompt and response. The model does this by using parameterized conditional distributions to associate texts. This allows the model to guess the next token given a preceding sequence. The math constrains what the model will output based on its input, and those constraints look to us like they behave like rules, even if they are actually using a conditional distribution from parameterized statistical constraints. Their apparent rule-ness to us is how we see the stable statistical constraints in practice when we are using them or see others use them.  Now, note how we talk about causality: we see habits (in ourselves, in others, in things, etc.), and thus infer rules that describe those habits. But we are never sure that the habit won’t change—and it can change. The law of electromagnetism does not always exist. So our rule-following practices are limited and imperfect, but in different ways than the LLM. And we do not know how exactly we do this: it is an irreducible unsolvable mystery and cannot be fully known.  As a result, we can say this: in both cases, something like a rule is being used poorly, but its ontology is different—the LLMs are pre-constructed and mathematically driven, while the human rule following is grounded in practices that cannot be expressed in words. And all of it rests on our perceptions of habits that we then translate into rules. So you can see how removed we are from true causality, before to speak of the things that simulate our talk.  So we should expect when it comes to causal AI much of what we can expect from AI in general: a good approximation, an incredible use of mathematical concepts and force of will to manipulate symbols that comes damn close to what we can do (and indeed will be able to do it faster), but will ultimately always be somewhat limited. How much? Depends on how far the question outruns what we can actually identify from patterns of world-talk on its own, and that’s something a focus on causal AI is most likely to fall apart.  this was so fucking hard to write jesus fucking christ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what's your opinion on causal ai
2026-02-13T11:51 id=2022277403561852944 →- | RT @SuperheroFreak: Lmao. Only dumbasses think of Being as a being. || CTX: Lmao. Only dumbasses think of Being as a being. https://t.co/B3fcAJ5dNd
2026-02-13T12:05 id=2022280979428356124 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I last looked like 2 years ago and didn't really understand it. Should try again. || CTX: I think you would enjoy Wolfram's thoughts on computational irreducibility (if you haven't heard of it yet).  Some of his examples align with what you have here: that there are classes of systems with no reducible component, and you can onl
2026-02-13T12:49 id=2022291984619323651 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Oh you mean like Penrose's tile shape thingy and Godel? Is he saying much else besides non algorithmic computation is possible and a computable axiomatized consistent and complete theory is impossible? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not super critical, haha.  You've already arrived at the important takeaway. That there are things with no mathematical shortcut to predicting certain systems besides the actual behavior of the thing over time.
2026-02-13T12:54 id=2022293373818995168 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Getting 100% of meaning in an LLM is impossible. A new architecture is needed, or this is philosophically important idk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I honestly have no idea what you mean by the last three words but the rest of it is great obv
2026-02-13T13:16 id=2022298859096113604 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk There's a financial incentive to bewitch people and I counterbalance it by trying to break the spell with no financial incentive.   Balance, straight up yin yang shiz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know why any of this would be controversial tbh, pretty standard stuff in the historical challenges of robotics and systems models/simulations (esp SoS) — i guess once LLMs become the game no one thinks decades of o
2026-02-13T13:17 id=2022299030659998145 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @ZyMazza thanks, you're very kind and always been very kind to me, I appreciate it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza you though i was joking when i said you will be popular?
2026-02-13T13:18 id=2022299216304042263 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk lol relatable || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Whenever i find myself saying tautologies I begin to suffer paralyzing anxiety that i am not sane (this happens to me semi-regularly) And if I reply to “getting 100% of meaning in a model” it will def be in that category
2026-02-13T13:43 id=2022305709145440674 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Wow! That makes total sense!!!   Yeah I gotta read up on this, I think my math is finally good enough to start to understand it || CTX: ehh a little different (and more practical than Godel's point lol).  Basically he's saying for certain systems, there's no shortcut to bypass letting the components (or rules) play out and arrive at a systems future state.  In your language
2026-02-13T13:58 id=2022309399776420069 →- | Competition in high gear, seeing Bloomberg and other media cos step up their products now that they have GenAI competition.   The positive externalities as consumer surplus just fucking smother them all over my face
2026-02-13T13:59 id=2022309759039463562 →- | Massive decel on the shelter costs, pretty important now https://t.co/NqKBCvWb88 || CTX: BREAKING: 🇺🇸 US inflation falls to 2.4%.
2026-02-13T14:01 id=2022310171196928428 →- | supercore services inflation  lmao my profession is so stupid
2026-02-13T14:10 id=2022312384678056231 →- | I see no way to discern if it's cost push disinflation or demand pull disinflation, so not really meaningful, but combined with the BLS data idk this seems mildly bullish.   This time last year felt late mid cycle this feels early mid, almost like AI capex is like Superman spinning Earth in the opposite direction.
2026-02-13T14:14 id=2022313517479850097 →MichaelShurkin | @MichaelShurkin @NNunnelee lol wtf how is this happening   I don't mean Niger being retarded that's de rigeur.  How is Michael Shurkin here || CTX: @NNunnelee @47fucb4r8c69323 I am in fact in charge of Niger's operation planning for it's invasion of France. :)
2026-02-13T14:18 id=2022314349373907279 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 okay this genuinely made me lol || CTX: mom and pops famous home cooked pies pie store: 2 https://t.co/jHap9XwSTu
2026-02-13T14:40 id=2022320027190644972 →- | Eventually, it will be mandatory for any good computer science degree to have at least one course on poetry.
2026-02-13T14:44 id=2022320876184830445 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @MichaelShurkin @NNunnelee Chaos is in Nigeria and he's a smart dude, listen to him! || CTX: @MichaelShurkin @NNunnelee @47fucb4r8c69323 bro. you really should stop them. they should focus on the most potent threat, the terrorists in the sahel
2026-02-13T14:49 id=2022322163534246156 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 dude wtf you studied COBOL?! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I had to take something like this but it was interpretive dance and I watched trust fund students write around screaming on a stage for 45 minutes
2026-02-13T16:07 id=2022341956316332385 →EtherDais | @EtherDais thanks fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Solid though
2026-02-13T16:17 id=2022344338219675709 →helscom | @helscom That's the problem, I'm between projects. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are you writing?
2026-02-13T16:20 id=2022345180792377701 →HotAisle | @HotAisle @gdb @ryancarson nanny state got to go fr, ease up on the compaction || CTX: @gdb @ryancarson Unlimited tokens hourly pricing and tune down your nanny state.
2026-02-13T16:25 id=2022346392107397488 →helscom | @helscom Is it just because there's really no way to model revenue and cost? That's always been my base assumption.  My experience with VCs is limited to a few meetings for potential partnerships with my old firm. They seem really all about tech/legal than financial in their operations. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i worked in a vc and the amount of random shit they consider "signal" about founders would put to shame astrology girlies
2026-02-13T23:59 id=2022460664988733932 →helscom | @helscom Yeah not about the tech or business at all, it's why my startup failed sadly.   Being an uncharismatic autist is tough (I'm 100% the same on Twitter and irl) || CTX: at some point the meta turned into "founders are the only thing that matters" and the ideas became somewhat secondary. but as you said, individual founders don't have that many real signals about them out there. it's tough to model... so yo
2026-02-14T00:01 id=2022461032674074779 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ 1. ChatGPT steals traffic 2. Media company get scared 3. Media company make better product 4. Anon happy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not caffeinated enough to understand this post
2026-02-14T00:04 id=2022461852266172684 →- | The gospel is spreading, a truly egoless exchange of ideas is getting closer on the horizon.  I honestly think we're beating the social media cos, anon, I really do. Normies aren't, but fuck the normies. https://t.co/pkauIhj1Mi || CTX: the internet changed - I can't go full anon without creating a new account, but I'm anon to you, anon. https://t.co/aUKPT2w2qo
2026-02-14T00:06 id=2022462299655860698 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @ThomasVanRiet2 What I've noticed is academia has gotten more hostile to independent researchers, especially the journals, and ofc hostile to new ideas.  Arxiv seems to be the model going forward, and just private industry. Not that good research isn't in universities, but it's constrained. || CTX: I want to agree with you but the system as it is really tries to disabuse you of that passion along the way toward the doctorate   Alternatively there's guys in their garages or offices who are those people already.  How do we enable and en
2026-02-14T00:11 id=2022463625357856927 →1889lw | @1889lw Ah, the people who when they say they don't care about opinion are really just hiding the fact that they care too much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also sometimes they’re so spoiled they don’t have to think about consequences of their actions reflected in other people’s attitudes towards them. Like rich kids to the poor and slave owners to the slaves.
2026-02-14T00:11 id=2022463708166021450 →Web4Door | @Web4Door wdym? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The dispersion will not be correct
2026-02-14T00:21 id=2022466207065215121 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Cashing out with cynicism is easy. I know cuz it's my default too.  But the positive externalities with this tech and current market structure are THAT compelling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok maybe they do idk
2026-02-14T00:24 id=2022467021368438915 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ This is how being a writer is, it's part of the job.  Not a fun job. I love it so much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think and I think and I think and I feel and I feel and I feel and then at some point I think so much about how I feel that I cannot paralyze myself out of avoiding writing about what I think and feel anymore. Hbu
2026-02-14T00:29 id=2022468128488493484 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ When the QQQ is set for probably a 15% CAGR over the next decade or so, I don't think anyone really needs stock tips. They just to be less greedy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I need stock suggestions cmon
2026-02-14T00:32 id=2022468905051234664 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ so 80s || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But greed is good
2026-02-14T00:35 id=2022469655286419782 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 It's really good for technical writing and explaining things IMO. No clue about code but omg just wait until GOOG releases their Codex competitor at their Supersaver token price || CTX: Gemini IMO is still the model that performs the best for me, especially in Antigravity. Truly underrated. It's good.
2026-02-14T00:38 id=2022470486069047320 →api_assasin | @api_assasin This is a brilliant idea!!! || CTX: I am launching a new kind of social media platform! The first 10 users get lifetime free!  I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been frustrated by the difficulty in discovering “my tribe” on platforms like Discord or Slack - hell, even X h
2026-02-14T00:45 id=2022472150339506496 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @retardbot9000 CG5.2 Thinking has gotten really good at being adversarial, just unfortunately it's lost some imaginative thinking as a result. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 I like it bc it strikes me as adversarial, not sycophantic. I don't code with it.
2026-02-14T00:47 id=2022472627177263192 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ lmao || CTX: Woman next to me just started praying as our 737 max landed and child in row behind said “Mommy, I’d rather take the AirCanada one”. Do you know what this means? I’m putting Immortal on for my drive through remote islands later today as my 
2026-02-14T00:53 id=2022474130596270244 →1889lw | @1889lw That's precisely why I want to write for them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 …Well then you technically can’t interact with them. But I guess writers who don’t shitpost online also don’t get to interact with them.
2026-02-14T00:53 id=2022474291821056043 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @retardbot9000 Interesting, I need to try that. It's been so useless with Sheets I haven't tried anything else. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 ok sure - I can see that  I was using gemini to iteratively edit a doc (generate doc, run critic agent, generate suggestions, regenerate doc; repeat). it was VERY critical
2026-02-14T00:56 id=2022475107889975758 →gaulicsmith | @gaulicsmith @ChrisExpTheNews Sadly spot on. || CTX: The History of the Internet is a Sisyphean effort to recreate the forum community just prior to Eternal September. https://t.co/lFVOpIWAHG
2026-02-14T00:58 id=2022475536006775179 →- | I first got on the internet at home in 1992 and was really young during Eternal September so I was absolutely one of the ones who spoiler the prelapsarian internet.  Sorry nerds, jeez I was just a kid wtf https://t.co/HTWTdFxfzD || CTX: The History of the Internet is a Sisyphean effort to recreate the forum community just prior to Eternal September. https://t.co/lFVOpIWAHG
2026-02-14T01:01 id=2022476230994637216 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Fogmogged. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean cmon how could I not? By the time I arrive with the next plane it’s going to be atmospheremaxxed and dark and rainy https://t.co/Mt9PRzFMGj
2026-02-14T01:10 id=2022478442328133866 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Kinda feel like it has to be about a girl with gay male friends (there's a great Japanese movie about such a woman from the 90s) so it can be called Fogmog Faghag.  Btw apologies for calling chicks "girls", it's just that I'm deeply misogynistic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is brilliant. I need to write a chapter about my time locked up in a Canadian cabin in the middle of nowhere just to write and title it Fogmogged #gobruins
2026-02-14T01:12 id=2022478969304723675 →- | Technology allows for temporary consciousness transfer, totally harmless and fully reversible.  Do you swap consciousness with your partner and then fuck?
2026-02-14T01:21 id=2022481362461298780 →api_assasin | @api_assasin thanks, will sign up today! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 thank you! give it a shot and let me know what you think! sign up and I can unlock your room limit!
2026-02-14T01:26 id=2022482480843137170 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Lately I've been on a vape brand called Muha Meds, but I'm pivoting more to gummies because it just feels healthier. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i increasingly want to know what you smoke
2026-02-14T01:31 id=2022483894046724111 →- | One of the things that happens if you seriously read the classics is you rather swiftly realize just how awful life was in the past.  I remember Frank Kermode telling me about how people on the Isle of Man couldn't afford shoes.  Most people do not read the classics this way, and blow past the casual references to sicknesses, lack of sanitation etc. because they read old books and fancy themselves the nobility. This is what we mean by bourgeois. || CTX: Sometimes it randomly dawns on me again that no woman in my family on either side ever had a chance to live on her own, go to uni, travel the world, or live freely. Every woman before me was a mother & wife before 25 at latest w my grandmot
2026-02-14T01:34 id=2022484457299792265 →stinkgen | @stinkgen I see you too are a writer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean. i’ll be in the bedroom straight naked, hydrating and smackin that clit for a few days.  she is welcome to pound me in between.
2026-02-14T01:37 id=2022485295971865059 →- | "May our children forgive us for being the sons of our fathers." - Nietzsche https://t.co/uh568bqZR7 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The past is never dead, it’s not even past
2026-02-14T01:40 id=2022486149537894677 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ I'd be so insufferable I can't even imagine, prob get arrested || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok im sorry but we need to go back to ucla and sit in on a Stephen dickey lecture while dressed like this. We can say we’re part of the senior citizens auditing courses hence why we keep commenting lmao https://t.co/ADOAbCQ
2026-02-14T01:53 id=2022489291725902170 →- | I want to be a writer's writer.
2026-02-14T02:11 id=2022493970451042686 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ what are your thoughts about this poem? it's by Philip Larkin https://t.co/755euTpa7f
2026-02-14T02:12 id=2022494220460904830 →stinkgen | @stinkgen books like Infinite jest killed literature, I don't mean just novels although they did that too, but I mean all of literature || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it wasn’t a bestseller, but it seemed like every yearning boy who read Infinite Jelq went on to mog and bookmaxx every inch of the literary landscape
2026-02-14T02:16 id=2022495194244128935 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ it's about a woman being raped || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this about falling for someone
2026-02-14T02:17 id=2022495491314045027 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk I do what I can because I must || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Writing is a beautiful, lost, Art. Thank you for creating Culture.
2026-02-14T02:19 id=2022495988217450911 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @ResonantPyre || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well that’s what happens when Englishmen write about how women experience life
2026-02-14T02:25 id=2022497516957393166 →ResonantPyre | @ResonantPyre @anistotle_ this is the least surprising sentence anyone has ever said to another human being in the history of sentences. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @anistotle_ It was Margaret Thatcher’s favorite Larkin poem
2026-02-14T02:33 id=2022499298269892933 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @stinkgen patron saint of expats, bit of an opportunist, obviously a genius but wrote games as puzzles not games as passion || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @stinkgen So what do you think of James Joyce?
2026-02-14T02:36 id=2022500128851136680 →- | when quantifying the qualitative there is absolutely loss, which is why one should quantify.   to identify the loss
2026-02-14T02:41 id=2022501432033956225 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @stinkgen I really need to read on human bondage, been putting that off for 30 years now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @stinkgen My fav expat writer was actually Somerset Maugham.
2026-02-14T02:43 id=2022501968753889296 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @stinkgen incredible choice for a teenager, feeling absolutely mogged now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @stinkgen Iirc I read everything Maugham wrote by the time I was 16 or so. Warped my brain a bit.  I think I also read everything that Alistair Maclean wrote as well by the time I was 14. Now that was fun.
2026-02-14T02:55 id=2022505068482957520 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @stinkgen Same reason I read, and when I escaped the marketing scam that was Del Rey and Ballentine Books and discovered the literary canon it was like breaking free of my limited little socioeconomic bubble. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @stinkgen I had a lonely existence growing up really. Books were my only solace.   Plus what happened was my brother was 6 years older than me and I basically tried to read everything he read.
2026-02-14T03:01 id=2022506411171950765 →- | The medium is part of the message. But which part?
2026-02-14T03:02 id=2022506708158005524 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago The emergent nature of space and time honestly oneshotted me, although I surely don't understand it. I used to be a very sane rational kinda guy. || CTX: Some thoughts on the state of fundamental physics. https://t.co/0G5VlXHDIS
2026-02-14T03:19 id=2022510917930647820 →- | "Artificial" is a moral category.
2026-02-14T03:29 id=2022513435947516216 →- | I like to study how algorithms work phenomenologically.  One of the strangest things about my career has been mid tier engineers on Reddit telling me how stupid this sounds and then their boss's boss's boss's boss's boss pays me $4000 an hour to consult them on just this.  So odd.  I think there are like five lessons in just this observation alone.
2026-02-14T03:33 id=2022514511698350476 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed.  Ethics is transcendental.  (Ethics and aesthetics are one.) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 moral is an artificial category https://t.co/nBfpRA4zks
2026-02-14T03:36 id=2022515187023040854 →- | With their talk of vibes (emotions), taste, and levels of abstraction, one quickly sees how post-AI computer science is moving toward the humanities.  The ethicist lens for understanding science is stupid. We need a humanist lens.  This is not ethical because, well, look around, humans aren't ethical.
2026-02-14T03:37 id=2022515549419565145 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 Gotta agree || CTX: @Samhain948689 It’s beyond surreal at this point. like it’s just in plain sight. I bet he also thought it went so hard
2026-02-14T04:55 id=2022535183241789938 →- | https://t.co/jcsAZOZXno  What happens in your mind when you read this meme?   Can you describe it to another person in a way they will understand, or do you need to show it to them for them to understand? Why? https://t.co/i5zqtPw91B || CTX: I think a keyboard that adds a little scrambling would be really nice  What if you want to talk about automotive transmissions going out? You get slapped for it.  Linguistic tyranny.  If every now and again a lïttlé change was added it woul
2026-02-14T05:04 id=2022537350161780886 →TimHenke9 | @TimHenke9 @No5mallf3at Blocking someone is conceding defeat. || CTX: @No5mallf3at does blocking someone count as an ad hominem?
2026-02-14T05:06 id=2022537882519638330 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @EtherDais Yeah did this last year || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 Write a novel like an broken Epstein email.
2026-02-14T05:09 id=2022538615361077662 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu This seems to suppose schizo and intelligence are oppositional rather than complementary and resonant. || CTX: Goated anecdotes but he turned pretty schizo for someone as smart as he was https://t.co/0Czrs71HCM
2026-02-14T05:14 id=2022539851745440063 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu selection bias || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In studies they definitely are opposite.
2026-02-14T05:14 id=2022539862600225092 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @DurumMac yeah this is precisely why I don't feel like this is a brag. My inability to translate that vision into more useful products and services for people proves I am intellectually very limited. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac "too early is just a different kind of wrong" 😩😒
2026-02-14T05:15 id=2022540122911313955 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Sure, if you define intelligence as deductive competence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You need a lot of intelligence to compensate even for a bit of schizophrenia but some of the best thinkers and most creative and outlier definitely have a bit of schizo in them
2026-02-14T05:18 id=2022540849863893204 →DurumMac | @DurumMac bonk || CTX: How many toilets per Crapita?
2026-02-14T05:41 id=2022546650892554721 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @lu_sichu https://t.co/uTOB06wVCa  If "Clear consciousness and intellectual capacity are usually maintained" then the *hallucinations, delusions or perceptual disturbances" could easily be part of the inductive process.  I see why ultra rationalists hate this kinda talk. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu The term really got abused, there are shades and manias and psychoses but most "schitzos" are just countercultural wrongthinkers and that isn't appreciated
2026-02-14T05:42 id=2022546863912804440 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @EtherDais Well if you're just saying too much schizotypal thinking is bad, sure... one can also die from drinking too much water. || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 Schizotypal or think of the spectrum if you prefer
2026-02-14T06:27 id=2022558181260693901 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Finally I have someone to share this with: https://t.co/ywoNjhHGiF || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Summer is over kids.   Time to get out of the pool.
2026-02-14T07:04 id=2022567499938828714 →- | hey chatgpt, so this weird guy on Twitter said we call conspiracy theorists unhinged because of Wittgenstein and if I understood this it'd make me a better thinker  can u explain
2026-02-14T08:34 id=2022590347130634676 →- | Valentine's Day, A Poem  I          I I I          I L      ove you
2026-02-14T09:18 id=2022601283463692394 →- | I honestly am in shock that anyone on earth could ever ask this question. https://t.co/eJsBG7U58w
2026-02-14T09:20 id=2022601820871573863 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Hit ctrl-z || CTX: Broke PROD and all our pipelines are failing award https://t.co/0nZITXDhkF
2026-02-14T09:24 id=2022602788937572433 →_rabbi | Engineering view of algorithms: "well, this well-defined sequence of instructions solves the problem of content discovery by doing A, B, C, and D."  Phenomenological view of algorithsm: "If you do A, B, C, D to solve the problem of content discovery, groups of people g1, g2, ... gn are probably going to respond with x, y, and z because of causes c1, c2 ... cn."  This is a poor explanation. Phenomenology is hard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What does this even mean
2026-02-14T09:25 id=2022603111534367005 →helscom | @helscom idk where the beginning and end are tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the medium part of it
2026-02-14T09:27 id=2022603611088523487 →helscom | @helscom Aren't you like super fluent in Hebrew? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 beginning is the left most part and the end is in the right most part i think
2026-02-14T09:32 id=2022604858268995855 →tszzl | @tszzl Big talk for a guy part of a species that hasn't even got the rudimentaries of biomemetic locomotion down yet smdh || CTX: i find the things we do in the interim to be a purely religious act of worship for the centuries long singularity as it inevitably doesn’t require my or anyone’s direction anymore. laying one brick or gear on the edifice of the cathedral cl
2026-02-14T09:40 id=2022606946147405875 →- | A couple of years after I graduated when I was 20 years old I traveled the four hour trip back to my uni town and visited a friend of mine who was still a senior and stayed at his apartment for a few days.  I was also friends with his girlfriend at the time, who went to another school and was roommates with an incredibly gorgeous Japanese girl (GJG). Not just gorgeous, but pretty much the Platonic ideal of my type. So of course I had something of a desire to insert my penis into her vagina.  She had a boyfriend, but both he and her were crazy (so I was told) so many fights, breakups etc., which meant access was at times a possibility but this was a moving target. Yet I was a man of faith and so I held hope that my time could… <puts on sunglasses> come.  Then it did.  One day I was staying at my friend’s house while he was out at work alone, reading or doing something, when all of a sudden there was a knock at the door, and it was GJG. Shock, confusion, delight, hormones—you get the idea.  “Oh, hi, Friend isn’t here,” I said.  “Actually, Anon,” she replied, “I’m here for you.” (Her English wasn’t this good; liberties.)  Stunned, she came in and explained that she needed help with homework. She had an American history paper due and wanted help. “Can you help me, please?” she said with her wet doe-eyed look perfectly crafted to make dumb young white boys’ hearts melt.  After the melting, I assented eagerly and with rigid, stiff attention I sat erect at the computer and got to work, writing her paper for her. I mean, come on.  So I finish in like 20 minutes or whatever, give it to her (she got an A, I later heard), and she said she needed to go back home, everyone is gone until tomorrow and I should go with her.  So I do.  And when we get there I slept in the bed next to her, I did not once touch her, I did not have sex with her, I did not even kiss her.  What did I do instead? About three hours of moral gnashing back and forth at what is the ethical thing to do, and landing on the idea “I cannot try to have sex with her, this is basically prostitution, this is wrong” I then with tremendous difficulty went to sleep. Maybe had 4 hours of painful sleep that night, I was probably erect for 90% of it.  Then I woke up, drove home, and never saw her again.  I can only imagine her mix of confusion and delight that she’d basically gotten an essay for free. I heard she became an air hostess with JAL.  And I know you’re probably thinking, “the funniest part of this story is that he helped a girl cheat and then didn’t sleep with her because of some moral qualm, when he already did the immoral thing.” But you’re wrong. That’s funny, but it’s not the funniest.  The funniest part of the story is that now I live in Thailand.
2026-02-14T09:41 id=2022607206609252633 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @_rabbi This is known as reflexivity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @_rabbi You can have a fantastic plan to fix a problem that would totally work except for the fact people will adjust to the plan. So try and think of how people will react to what you plan to do before you enact the plan. 
2026-02-14T09:42 id=2022607336158937585 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @_rabbi Also, that's an awesome graphic to describe Goodhart's! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @_rabbi You can have a fantastic plan to fix a problem that would totally work except for the fact people will adjust to the plan. So try and think of how people will react to what you plan to do before you enact the plan. 
2026-02-14T09:44 id=2022607967657271557 →hexavium | @hexavium Cosigned. || CTX: An intellectual thinks everything’s a lil divine and a lil retarded.  A pseudointellectual feels everything’s either divine or retarded. https://t.co/VSUKO2Xewg
2026-02-14T10:02 id=2022612392266649767 →- | Walking down the beach with my girlfriend telling her about when two of my characters walked on that same beach in my novel.  Is that hyperreality? Is this tweet?   Am I misbehaving, Mr. Baudrillard?
2026-02-14T10:24 id=2022617935857226173 →- | 1. Vibecoding could be reworded "code by feeling".  2. Increasingly coders talk of the importance of "taste".  3. Increasingly, AI people talk about levels of abstraction.   Feeling. Taste. Abstraction.  Poetry will be a mandatory part of the computer science curriculum.
2026-02-14T10:42 id=2022622344196571645 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ idk why you ever did in the first place tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i will never click another external from you https://t.co/1vunPD6PLD
2026-02-14T11:00 id=2022626907154714773 →- | Pluribus but one of the unjoined survivors is Jeffrey Epstein.
2026-02-14T11:36 id=2022636027916218506 →teodorio | @teodorio Can't wait to meet you and chat about what data work you actually do. I have some theories. || CTX: I've never realized it but I am essentially a data exorcist. https://t.co/zQMnpt9A9D
2026-02-14T11:37 id=2022636295374442932 →1889lw | @1889lw Would you have been mentally healthier studying, say, aeronautics? || CTX: Looking back most of my metal health problems are philosophy related, and intellectual repression kills me more than anything else
2026-02-14T11:43 id=2022637830514839807 →api_assasin | @api_assasin Just signed up (fatanonymoustrash)  Any chance for an integration with Twitter to feed my account tweets to it automatically? Or maybe a plugin to share a folder on GDrive? || CTX: I am launching a new kind of social media platform! The first 10 users get lifetime free!  I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been frustrated by the difficulty in discovering “my tribe” on platforms like Discord or Slack - hell, even X h
2026-02-14T11:45 id=2022638355268485367 →corbin_braun | @corbin_braun just here for the ratio when you state the obvious as unpopular jfc go back to reddit || CTX: unpopular opinion   GPT-5.3 Codex High &gt; Opus 4.6
2026-02-14T11:57 id=2022641377696518247 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 How anyone can think AI empowers everyone after the 4o zombies Is beyond me but ofc Graham is a manipulator and a liar. Pic related https://t.co/fxleynIhsw || CTX: everyone already said this ages ago. what kind of prediction is that? but also to begin with there is no "everyone can make everything" just because there is ai. https://t.co/y8vM2OzbbP
2026-02-14T12:08 id=2022644012155629809 →- | Torsten Slok should be fired. https://t.co/LdBSFJEB9e
2026-02-14T12:14 id=2022645499451576568 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 YES YES YES YES || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Feels like this https://t.co/5F4Vd4Jc4y
2026-02-14T12:17 id=2022646365101424921 →- | RT @PxlHulk: &gt; be Dutch anon &gt; buy 100 shares of a tech company with my life savings &gt; stock goes up because the CEO tweeted a frog meme &gt;… || CTX: > be Dutch anon > buy 100 shares of a tech company with my life savings > stock goes up because the CEO tweeted a frog meme > haven't sold a single share, still eating mayo on bread for dinner > government appears out of the canals like a s
2026-02-14T12:47 id=2022653944116515143 →- | I don't want to be intelligent intelligence means I'm responsible for all that I've done please god
2026-02-14T12:54 id=2022655809000501255 →- | Now that they turned the sycophancy off, I really do not like ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking Heavy's assessment of my intelligence.
2026-02-14T13:05 id=2022658578545610850 →- | The only truly base fundamental self that could exist in a continuous universe is the entire universe.  Every other self must be relative (i. e., not base-ontic).
2026-02-14T13:12 id=2022660281013538942 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @r0ck3t23 Well, some of it's useless || CTX: @r0ck3t23 @47fucb4r8c69323  this genAI post should convince you of the uselessness of human language lol
2026-02-14T13:16 id=2022661311881199750 →47fucb4r8c69323 | 2 bookmarks on 158 views for this in particular is fucking ridiculous, I need to take some of your library passes away wtf || CTX: A couple of years after I graduated when I was 20 years old I traveled the four hour trip back to my uni town and visited a friend of mine who was still a senior and stayed at his apartment for a few days.  I was also friends with his girlf
2026-02-14T13:31 id=2022664882987106375 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic dude I don't want to say in public it's really embarrassing.   I'm not using Twitter correctly lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wht ahppened
2026-02-14T13:32 id=2022665147689685281 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic https://t.co/YfL7fUDKnS  If you really want to know, kinda long tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wht ahppened
2026-02-14T13:33 id=2022665558186139994 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @scheminglunatic Prompt was:  I need a fair assessment of my intelligence based on our interactions. || CTX: @scheminglunatic https://t.co/YfL7fUDKnS  If you really want to know, kinda long tho
2026-02-14T13:35 id=2022665993269735607 →1889lw | @1889lw "how little has been done when these problems have been solved."  You're just like him sometimes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well look, the problem comes from unresolved philosophy rather than philosophy itself. And I did maths in undergrad and wasn’t motivated at all though I did find it interesting. It’s like solving sudoku without answering an
2026-02-14T13:38 id=2022666797812716025 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic sorry idk why. https://t.co/Y1SC5oFDJb || CTX: @scheminglunatic Prompt was:  I need a fair assessment of my intelligence based on our interactions.
2026-02-14T13:39 id=2022667085583888628 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @r0ck3t23 Glad to know the thing that will get us past these pesky words is a large model of language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @r0ck3t23 I cannot wait for neuralink to bypass all these words and just inject the genAI slop experience straight into my neurons
2026-02-14T13:53 id=2022670548824920264 →- | when you're trying to write "my job" but there's a typo so it autocorrected "job" to "HIV"
2026-02-14T13:57 id=2022671502823559234 →- | I just realized it took me 30 fucking years and 2 years of extremely intense philosophy reading (about 100 pages a day per day 365/7 except hangovers, plus podcasts/lectures etc) to realize what everyone else thinks instinctually: I should fucking be a nice person.  Got dem auts
2026-02-14T14:12 id=2022675229483634715 →JPKivisto | @JPKivisto At the very least the most underrated. || CTX: I genuinely think ”here is one hand” is one of the best contemporary philosophical arguments.
2026-02-14T14:14 id=2022675728459043095 →Hedgeye | @Hedgeye Would be useful to compare to total token output across all AI cos (unknowable but perhaps inferable) to this to get an average efficiency improvement curve, and I bet it's exponential AF.   gun ask me clanker || CTX: 🚨 Datacenters are now 7% of total U.S. power demand https://t.co/fA7Sh3sNDr
2026-02-14T14:19 id=2022677051564789876 →- | imagine getting presents on just one day in december lmfao
2026-02-14T14:28 id=2022679245617795479 →- | Valuation impedes understanding, both of causal and relational structures. The STEMs are right on this, no question.   AI peeps need to look at criticism as a mode of human activity for absolutely this reason: because it will provide the extra tools for understanding domains that AI will always struggle with, such as the arbitrariness of human valuations.   Your only way of getting out of this is saying the universe is deterministic, and I'd counter that determination implies prime causation so you're a deist at the least.   And then your response to me is I'm necessarily a panpsychist and now don't we both look dumb?   Samsung Toaster, send tweet
2026-02-14T14:43 id=2022683073721307318 →- | RT @47fucb4r8c69323: @Hedgeye Would be useful to compare to total token output across all AI cos (unknowable but perhaps inferable) to this… || CTX: @Hedgeye Would be useful to compare to total token output across all AI cos (unknowable but perhaps inferable) to this to get an average efficiency improvement curve, and I bet it's exponential AF.   gun ask me clanker
2026-02-14T14:43 id=2022683132101824674 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Hedgeye https://t.co/cq30YZGLAa  lol and you're selling... fucjing idiots || CTX: @Hedgeye Would be useful to compare to total token output across all AI cos (unknowable but perhaps inferable) to this to get an average efficiency improvement curve, and I bet it's exponential AF.   gun ask me clanker
2026-02-14T14:44 id=2022683324234572227 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk In the sense of judging anything good or bad in any sense at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you using valuation in the financial sense here
2026-02-14T14:45 id=2022683631370817781 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu How am I autistic and passionately hate the Rationalists movement?   Honestly I'd love a good faith discussion like on a spaces or something to discuss this very issue. I'm quite serious, I think it'd teach me a lot at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a funny story about rationalist and ethics
2026-02-14T14:53 id=2022685597438009350 →- | Wittgenstein warrants close reading.  If we are "left with descriptions" as he says at the end of the first half of the Brown Book (someone fact check me please oh right @grok you suck btw OpenAI eating yo lunch), then close reading is fine even if you dismiss as just metaphorical, because all descriptions are ultimately metaphorical in form (with rulesets of varying constraints and all the derivative functions thereby).
2026-02-14T14:56 id=2022686346389905766 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Oops it's in the Blue Book. || CTX: Wittgenstein warrants close reading.  If we are "left with descriptions" as he says at the end of the first half of the Brown Book (someone fact check me please oh right @grok you suck btw OpenAI eating yo lunch), then close reading is fine
2026-02-14T14:58 id=2022686776117314005 →grok | @grok https://t.co/g0TlXaQ4or || CTX: Oops it's in the Blue Book.
2026-02-14T14:58 id=2022686980090556599 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Sure, but any give valuation is underspecified if we stop at good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ...there are obv many (very established, fleshed out, and functional) interpretations of reality that posit that human valuation is not arbitrary and actually enhances understanding, are there not?
2026-02-14T14:59 id=2022687122671702531 →Market_Mirage | @Market_Mirage I'm a bot beep boop || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That boss?   Albert Einstein
2026-02-14T15:21 id=2022692768137777583 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk given* I hate autocorrect || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 neuralink solves this problem
2026-02-14T15:35 id=2022696093780447624 →FraserOReilly | @FraserOReilly I'm halfway through Either/Or, Fear and Trembling is a masterpiece.   Check back in a year || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reading kierkegaard to learn the true christian is a respectable middle class guy
2026-02-14T15:39 id=2022697175977980106 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker feminist utopia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd swap bodies with my partner so he, too can enjoy the pleasure of postcoital UTIs and spending the night in the ER.
2026-02-14T15:50 id=2022699873083232668 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @BostonSatire The irony of manufacturing consent on THIS particular issue given who is involved.  I love people they're so hilarious. || CTX: @BostonSatire lol https://t.co/SilvQ2GguK
2026-02-14T16:01 id=2022702686391669137 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I suspect what's happening is a VERY fast backtracking and frankly gaslighting as these models get better. || CTX: Wonderful essay from Milena on LLMs and their flaws/strengths in an academic context. https://t.co/bUsAe4YdDH
2026-02-14T16:05 id=2022703699093786993 →- | > be me  > want PhD  > zomg China PhD just make product > me can make product  > https://t.co/jtjnzepPiX > nihao ma I hate bears that wear red shirts > rip a hole in a bicycle seat, put in a dildo like in that Coen brothers spy movie with George Clooney > it'ssupersuccessful.wav > mdw receive pretty hard dildo PhD > yup d stands for dick || CTX: evolution in education, means evolution in the collective thought of a nation. https://t.co/PMEIjNT4rT
2026-02-14T16:10 id=2022705119616516202 →- | Read Camus A Happy Death today, pretty good. Very insightful about particulars in human thought only a misanthrope could notice.
2026-02-14T16:12 id=2022705491105976742 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Every time I see a huge headline about AI I send it to a friend of mine who mocked my excitement in early 2023.  This is the best for that purpose by far. || CTX: Claude, please overthrow the illegitimate Maduro regime in Venezuela. No US casualties are permitted. Think step-by-step. Make no mistakes. Thank you. https://t.co/DPoWY1Vc9s
2026-02-14T16:42 id=2022713021714567579 →- | Happy Valentine's Day https://t.co/X3iUltVhNg
2026-02-14T16:54 id=2022716202397970698 →- | The word for a swing in Thai is racist af
2026-02-14T17:06 id=2022719130504478951 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr lmao gonna achieve nirvana masturbating? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can we have a "no partner/results" option
2026-02-14T17:07 id=2022719357063958959 →- | As the Buddha said, there are many paths to Enlightenment. https://t.co/hVtH7rGYsC || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can we have a "no partner/results" option
2026-02-14T17:07 id=2022719478103183425 →monsieurgren | @monsieurgren yeah basically cuck version of this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/Ww8WW9616D
2026-02-14T17:07 id=2022719479902581241 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza all of my stories are 100% real sadly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can tell this is 100% a true story
2026-02-14T17:14 id=2022721087369515396 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee @ShadowyZephyr beat me to it || CTX: @ShadowyZephyr @47fucb4r8c69323 You choose goat then
2026-02-14T17:35 id=2022726294384075150 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Tbf he was bipolar and used to hallucinate seeing aliens. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your father, did that?
2026-02-14T17:39 id=2022727516956561536 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Well at least I didn't! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That sucks.
2026-02-14T18:14 id=2022736163400998993 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Thanks, I needed that corrective. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Less people think this instinctually than you'd think they do.
2026-02-14T18:16 id=2022736639320297600 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @DurumMac No-ughthing || CTX: @DurumMac @47fucb4r8c69323 Noughthing*
2026-02-14T23:56 id=2022822339709153717 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yeah I think that happens a lot in physics; once had a discussion with a physicist (Ruth Kastner If you've heard of her)) asking about a certain approach and she insisted on axiomatic reification, so I gave up and felt puzzled that why are the physicists confusing map for terrain || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this basically explains why the discourse around "quantum teleportation" is also nonsense, im curious what you make of his argument  "How scientific language frames the world" is underlying a lot of this
2026-02-14T23:57 id=2022822470273896926 →Ingold321 | @Ingold321 Also good argument for reading the primary source in full, which sadly I haven't done and maybe should. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Half the value of reading Wealth of Nations today is insights like this.
2026-02-14T23:57 id=2022822541317017911 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu I mean, idk? It's impossible to assess one's own intelligence, I have no idea how dum I am || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is it accurate or inaccurate they clock me real good
2026-02-14T23:58 id=2022822819051286939 →JearlJork | @JearlJork fair tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 She’s acting like a woman couldn’t go on a plane in the 1970’s
2026-02-15T00:10 id=2022825758755033343 →- | AI kinda makes cynicism self fulfilling.  If you think AI is bad and AI is not, you're NGMI.  The opposite dynamic of crypto (I wasn't here then because I'm not dumb and knew crypto was fake and gay).
2026-02-15T00:11 id=2022825951030325494 →dysangelistes | @dysangelistes @anistotle_ Hope you're feeling better || CTX: @anistotle_ @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. I can easily be shoeless today, as I flirt with perishing (of cancer, in my case, among other things).
2026-02-15T00:11 id=2022826045179859117 →ilovebeluga1 | @ilovebeluga1 I work on Wall Street 99% of the people I interact with are like this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The bourgeoisie don't read this book. Have you ever heard the term chained by your wealth? That means having a smaller limited reality while also being able to expand with money like influence
2026-02-15T00:12 id=2022826205376893069 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 the irony || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No worries, we can hire some offshore indian to clean it up.
2026-02-15T00:12 id=2022826215632244952 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu oh I have I don't trust them either || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 take a few good tests, I think it's possible.
2026-02-15T00:16 id=2022827378444013644 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 https://t.co/gSbE3P0GYI || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ai is a fad. they also said the fax machine was going to kill the post office.
2026-02-15T00:19 id=2022828197038211252 →- | I love this exchange with Sichu (who is great btw, we agree on almost nothing but he's clearly very intelligent).  It shows we just have very fundamental disagreements at the level of base certainty, which is beyond the reach of rationality and really proves how Rationalism is wrong.  You know that question about can two wholly rational people disagree? Here's your empirical falsification--there is no such thing. "Wholly rational people" are like nice optimistic Englishmen or the Easter Bunny, the kinda person I hope is around when I see a hundred dollar bill on the ground because THEY DON'T FUCKING EXIST || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 take a few good tests, I think it's possible.
2026-02-15T00:27 id=2022830191631057237 →dysangelistes | @dysangelistes @anistotle_ How does it feel to think you're near death, your time has come? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @anistotle_ Thanks! Better than in September, or even two weeks ago! But still morbid enough to ponder imminent death.
2026-02-15T00:31 id=2022831176638173270 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu This is indeed very plausible and could just be due to me being older and set in my ways more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Forced to note that I don't think I actually disagree with you so much as having different focus when contemplating things. In many contexts I think I play a similar role to yours actually. I think you are just more of an e
2026-02-15T00:37 id=2022832702676963607 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu We all struggle with the theory/empirical gap and none of us knows how to fill that gap. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Like I know I have a strong tendency to be a wordcel and do wordcel things so I compensate by being empirically minded as possible but that's not always possible
2026-02-15T00:52 id=2022836349254975673 →- | RT @lu_sichu: shots fired. but i think something that people don't talk about is how often data is just not replicable even in theory, step… || CTX: shots fired. but i think something that people don't talk about is how often data is just not replicable even in theory, stepping into the same river twice and all that. a lot of empirical data is dependent on these complicated dags that ar
2026-02-15T01:01 id=2022838677995413516 →- | We're witnessing "qualitative judgment" (loosely defined) begin to replace "safety" (loosely defined) as the qualitative limit points of AI functionality.  Idk if I need to spell out how absurdly bullish that is.  https://t.co/PoG4Vx2u0p
2026-02-15T01:04 id=2022839308550549823 →ilovebeluga1 | @ilovebeluga1 Finance, my day job is equity research || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hey are you in tech or finance? Maybe I have a mutual with you
2026-02-15T01:04 id=2022839455732895978 →ilovebeluga1 | @ilovebeluga1 HAHAHAHAHA JPM wouldn't hire me in any possible world.  But they used to buy my research, although not for years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you work for jamie
2026-02-15T01:14 id=2022841957404545131 →ilovebeluga1 | @ilovebeluga1 1. Apparently Epstein really was good at barely legal tax maneovers.   2. Rich people are more pathetic than I thought   3. People don't really care about child abuse, they use victims of assault for their own ends. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think about the files? 😂
2026-02-15T01:16 id=2022842368018518054 →ilovebeluga1 | @ilovebeluga1 tbh idk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your take his work at Stearns?
2026-02-15T01:25 id=2022844632279703734 →ilovebeluga1 | @ilovebeluga1 Depends on what the clients knew and your moral framework, but I can see the logic in such a view for sure || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think his clients are worse than him. Technically you're not supposed to be moral when you're a cash machine
2026-02-15T01:38 id=2022847978487058909 →- | Has anyone else noticed 5.2 can't write a parody of 4o?   If you ask it to write in the style of 4o, the output is nothing like 4o.   Seems significant?
2026-02-15T01:40 id=2022848460228116704 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Signals of authority are probabilistic signals of reliability, so we ultimately need to build heuristics and processes to assess claimed and presented authority.   Really hard in our "End of Expertise" world || CTX: one of my brain worms is how do you know someone is bullshitting you in an area you don't know much about and where the other person sounds like a credible person. I caught an instance of this today listening to a podcast where a historian 
2026-02-15T01:45 id=2022849595114717390 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I should expand.  If you see meat space like a Facebook social graph with multiple layers for different domains that interconnect and try to do a search through that graph when hearing someone new, I find this helps a lot.   Like if someone is on a podcast about idk Cotton Nero A.ix and is from Oxford I know they're probably in the Oxford philosophy tradition and can limit their authority accordingly... || CTX: @lu_sichu Signals of authority are probabilistic signals of reliability, so we ultimately need to build heuristics and processes to assess claimed and presented authority.   Really hard in our "End of Expertise" world
2026-02-15T01:47 id=2022850133906628853 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu Like in this case, dude's last book is Bloomsbury, which tells me he is arguing for a very specific kind of middle class English free market liberalism restricted by noblesse oblige from the literate euro elite so ofc he's motivated to make shit up to attack china || CTX: I should expand.  If you see meat space like a Facebook social graph with multiple layers for different domains that interconnect and try to do a search through that graph when hearing someone new, I find this helps a lot.   Like if someone
2026-02-15T01:47 id=2022850324986499075 →- | RT @Samhain948689: if you need so many followers it is because nobody loves you. true romantics only care about making one person laugh. || CTX: if you need so many followers it is because nobody loves you. true romantics only care about making one person laugh.
2026-02-15T01:52 id=2022851521415688365 →- | I've been saying this for 15 years.   The important question really is why has this criticism been salient for 15 years. https://t.co/CBPPGPLo6y || CTX: The "math gap" narrative is a convenient ego boost for economists, but it’s really a debate about what you’re willing to sacrifice for a clean equation. Economics often achieves "precise causal relationships" by stripping away the exact soc
2026-02-15T01:53 id=2022851711950557634 →47fucb4r8c69323 | kinda hate that it's slop tho || CTX: I've been saying this for 15 years.   The important question really is why has this criticism been salient for 15 years. https://t.co/CBPPGPLo6y
2026-02-15T02:16 id=2022857603030876660 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Anthropic is your kindergarten teacher. || CTX: ? https://t.co/AEQoAZLG4s
2026-02-15T02:25 id=2022859876452692345 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Any chance you met Andy Cavatorta? || CTX: what I really liked about the Engineering Systems Division (may it ever rest in peace) at MIT was that it really tried to bridge the hard and soft sciences the Sociotechnical Systems researchers in particular I met there were great. (ofc yo
2026-02-15T02:32 id=2022861421420110078 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk only MIT person I met, was a very nice guy. Wish I'd gone to MIT lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 media lab peeps rolled in a diff circle, but it looks like I missed him by a couple years regardless
2026-02-15T02:45 id=2022864783595405475 →_jasonwei | @_jasonwei I just want to thank you for breaking ground on CoT, I legitimately think you might have saved humanity with this one weird trick.
2026-02-15T02:45 id=2022864921470324801 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago yeah I had it search online to get a sense of what 4o sounds like and still doesn't work well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It may not have a lot of 4o content in its training dataset. And most of that is within private chats.
2026-02-15T02:53 id=2022866791371055546 →- | RT @SRamirez68083: I think the Dutch passing a 36% unrealised gains tax is beautiful, they invented the stock market and now they will dest… || CTX: I think the Dutch passing a 36% unrealised gains tax is beautiful, they invented the stock market and now they will destroy it
2026-02-15T02:55 id=2022867328896209297 →bzogrammer | @bzogrammer Love this, 80s scifi movie kinda feel || CTX: sonifying some text embeddings today  aiming for weird radio station vibes https://t.co/DofFDib7Oi
2026-02-15T02:56 id=2022867562628026647 →- | I wouldn't brag so much about having your own Wikipedia page, bro, I mean so does Hitler.
2026-02-15T03:02 id=2022869171118428306 →- | 1 is a language skill, 2 is heavily systems theory and logic/epistemology, 3 is research skills and taste  Oh dear, we're gonna have to overhaul the core prerequisites for 4yr degrees aren't we https://t.co/sDavLMuOxG || CTX: The things you actually need to use coding AIs well:  1. A sufficient vocabulary to ask specifically for what you want.  2. An understanding of how the machine works so you can ask the AI to push the machine further than you'd lazily do if 
2026-02-15T03:04 id=2022869527084834921 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 VW would disagree || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 Yea but was hitler part of the pulse on tech? Thought not https://t.co/MVAEz6g5st
2026-02-15T03:10 id=2022871231587037274 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 Perhaps better to say they couldn't agree now that I think abt it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 Could disagree* https://t.co/VuXEazeOvx
2026-02-15T03:13 id=2022871943150764455 →- | When someone replies to a post with a corrective, the intelligent person sees a refinement of ideas towards greater precision.   The idiot feels personally attacked.  Ofc if the reply is bad, it's refining towards a bad kind of precision.
2026-02-15T03:36 id=2022877750386921656 →- | Note too how there's no system to predict what these distinctions are for all words in all cases.   "No, anon, you're wrong, I could do it" okay, then go do it. Go prove me wrong and become ungodly rich. https://t.co/ceZm407mY2 || CTX: Yeah, I’ve been thinking about the big one on ai causality you wrote up, and I think the deliberate choice to use “pointers” is the exact kind of important language distinction that gets at the heart of the issue we have with interacting wi
2026-02-15T03:38 id=2022878093174792312 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely @lu_sichu You're a casino executive? Surely you've seen so many people's rationality fooled by randomness you have to chuckle at the whole Rationalist fad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu Rationalism is a cognitive disease.
2026-02-15T03:38 id=2022878253300748741 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @EP_Freely Maybe you can tell us how these online rationalists differ from traditional rationalism then. || CTX: @EP_Freely @47fucb4r8c69323 Uhm I know that. But the context of the tweet is about a specific online group of people(whom actually are way more irl now)
2026-02-15T03:40 id=2022878589113544890 →- | Follow this man now. https://t.co/dhdE1Ux9yo || CTX: @lu_sichu @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s a deduction from apriori premises without reference to reality.  It’s a deduction form where?
2026-02-15T03:41 id=2022878954726813995 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @EP_Freely Empirically minded how? In problem space or in methods? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EP_Freely Uhm uhmmmmmmm they are very orthogonal. First of all the lw ea types are pretty empirically minded ...
2026-02-15T03:46 id=2022880238091522235 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @EP_Freely NGL this is amusing https://t.co/rU9htFGAQl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EP_Freely https://t.co/O41GMg5y7f if you want a history
2026-02-15T03:48 id=2022880614769398139 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @EP_Freely I can't judge for myself since Vercel thinks I'm a leet haxor but at least Gemini disagrees that this is empirical https://t.co/QqEJCxktPz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EP_Freely I know it's supposedly about ai doom but it's also provides a  good zeitgeist that captures important flavors of what being a rationalist means.
2026-02-15T03:52 id=2022881703224918310 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @EP_Freely This is clearly just deductive reasoning applied to presupposed hypothetical axioms extended from empirical events.  This is not empirical at all, oh dear. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EP_Freely https://t.co/I8i6Ki1pWH
2026-02-15T03:53 id=2022881874641850617 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Close enough.   Welcome back, Andrew Marvell || CTX: To My Valentine:  You think you’re only jestergooning, I confess you’re ever looming larger in my mind, all other lines of thought I find are frame-mogged, cortisol is spiked for I’m a mid, a moid, a nervous boy who can’t looksmaxx when you
2026-02-15T03:57 id=2022882980847567225 →- | NGL it kinda does fuel my ego when I hear the frontier labs are going to start optimizing for a benchmark I did NOT contribute to because that means my benchmark will be obviated more slowly https://t.co/G8yJaob7wm || CTX: we are now benchmarking our models on novel frontier research, via https://t.co/2XmndVes5F.  of 10 math research problems which research mathematicians have solved but never published the solutions to, in a week, our model discovered likely
2026-02-15T04:03 id=2022884530298982593 →- | Someone less lazy than me needs to vibecode an app that will take a webpage, save as pdf, and then send that to the clanker. But like locally as a macro so no server side stuff, which I think would make this technically legal.  Like just straight up piracy
2026-02-15T04:26 id=2022890289560719855 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata The amount of taps I need to do from a webpage to getting it in CG or Gemini is unacceptable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 send it to… what clanker? how does this differ from “print to PDF”?
2026-02-15T04:31 id=2022891542063780189 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata yeah way too many good people on this site, very strange || CTX: becoming decreasingly interested in the people in my phone I want skin I want blood
2026-02-15T04:42 id=2022894219715854623 →- | Absolutely hilarious own goal for marketing companies to not invest enough in marketing https://t.co/NFEyWjXRBM
2026-02-15T04:42 id=2022894354701115540 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata https://t.co/iePX3U9rJk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you use chrome? I bet I could build this for you what's it worth to ya, good buddy? 👀
2026-02-15T04:53 id=2022897070450053462 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata Rubles? Deal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 $350? deal &gt;:)
2026-02-15T05:13 id=2022902123160310111 →- | Yay at 45 years of age my imposter syndrome is finally over
2026-02-15T05:24 id=2022904893749760492 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Nonsense factory installed a ton of nonsense. dll files in my noggin, teaches me to get my brain from msft || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's because you left the nonsense factory
2026-02-15T05:25 id=2022905091980955820 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly @liquidprismata Thank you will check it out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liquidprismata the markdownload chrome extension may be of interest
2026-02-15T05:27 id=2022905648216977843 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem I know exactly what you mean and think that has two benefits:  1. Will make me drift from good behavior less 2. Make me feel my niceness is my own, not a social parasite on my brain  Second point was why this was all necessary, yeah actually my OP was retarded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is more valuable than you think, because you actually realized it on a deep level. I already know I should be a nice person, but I haven't really internalized it, you know what I mean?
2026-02-15T05:28 id=2022905911694778659 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Is this because we rely more on soft skills or is it because we're overly analytical? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You'll notice that imposter syndrome mostly hits academics, MBAs and related  Nobody in the trades is confused
2026-02-15T05:35 id=2022907606680133762 →EtherDais | @EtherDais yeah, a system with low external accountability in a world of rapidly expanding education is going to attract clever freeriders like a flytrap || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it's a more recent problem because a lot of people are phonies with pieces of paper and it makes the whole enterprise seem a bit questionable
2026-02-15T05:39 id=2022908558904537362 →- | Philip Goff equivocates between different types of knowing and fails to track them.  He is a good diagnostician of flaws in the physicalist picture but bfd, crazy dude on the street corner can do that
2026-02-15T05:41 id=2022909076414648353 →djkgamc | @djkgamc wtf OpenAI didn't lose developers, spark changed the game again please do try to keep up || CTX: i truly believe the reason OpenAI lost 2026 for developers is because Claude disrupted them by getting rid of the GUI, which narrowed focus on 11/10 agent reliability. It's a unique insight. It's also why nobody will use Claude Cowork.  Fut
2026-02-15T05:42 id=2022909320925790704 →- | Now ask yourself--WHY does the underspecification problem never go away?  What does this tell us about how people use technology, where the value in apps and code is, how you can find that value? https://t.co/rgMmljKNVt || CTX: Coding AIs are not a panacea, you're always going to have an underspecification problem, but Claude Code has gotten so good that it has me rethinking parts of my startup.  There are things that I expected would take a big software team mont
2026-02-15T05:56 id=2022912771323769323 →- | I cannot think of a convincing physicalist solution to the Black and White Mary Thought Experiment
2026-02-15T06:09 id=2022916226306183653 →bzogrammer | @bzogrammer That's an excellent, concise and IMO true description of the issue by formalizing with some mathematical objects.  Why do those math objects in particular fit this phenomenon and not some others? || CTX: Kolmogorov complexity, information theory, and the pigeonhole principle.  With a larger compute budget, you can use more complex compression methods (inversely; more expressivity), but optimal KC is still ultimately incomputable and unknowa
2026-02-15T06:11 id=2022916669920927989 →djkgamc | @djkgamc This was mostly spark: https://t.co/x0rIl4rxdh || CTX: So, here in Thailand we do mobile payments mostly like elsewhere, and we get jpeg receipts when we do so. There's no way to get a clean transaction history (my conspiracy theory is that the banks do this to make the Thais less financially l
2026-02-15T06:11 id=2022916750640377908 →api_assasin | @api_assasin AMAZING! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just pushed GDrive integration! Give it a shot and let me know what you think!
2026-02-15T06:18 id=2022918442521854463 →- | I do not trust anyone who uses the word "truth" except in the most casual conversation.
2026-02-15T06:19 id=2022918712316301677 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @EP_Freely @lu_sichu An a priori statement simply begins with an axiom and uses logic to come to a conclusion.   The axiom can be false. || CTX: @EP_Freely @lu_sichu @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you mean by without reference to reality. Arent apriori statements self evident by definition?
2026-02-15T06:21 id=2022919056324772197 →djkgamc | @djkgamc I think there's a bit of personal taste that is important when considering this phenomenon, which is why the winner vs loser framing can be misleading (although I use it all the time cuz I'm an asshole). Taste at the forefront.  Vibes are really important for vibecoding. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 surprising.  i feel like it slowed me down more than not using it, even on extra-high! so i dropped it altogether and went back to 5.3, then dropped that and went back to claude code and i'm finally fast again.  codex was a
2026-02-15T06:28 id=2022920895707402356 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @EP_Freely @lu_sichu the point is that this can be done in principle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EP_Freely @lu_sichu It absolutely can. But makes it sound as if in practice, people are coming up with axioms with no basis for its belief. No one just makes up any random statement for an axiom, there is always a referenc
2026-02-15T06:43 id=2022924799488725348 →- | please just hear me out https://t.co/oCTK9wTfiG || CTX: Two women entranced in an opium den. New York, 1902. https://t.co/PKOAY7eTER
2026-02-15T06:44 id=2022924870590611473 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @0xbags lmfao || CTX: @0xbags Nice, what's her brand of emotional jihad the other 364 days of the year?
2026-02-15T06:44 id=2022924984533028953 →- | Reflexivity in action. https://t.co/cQDnkTInZa || CTX: it's great people complain about ai slop, then models have so much data about what is slop to build better intuition  soon we can just add "don't make it slop" to prompts and the ai will understand exactly what to avoid
2026-02-15T07:12 id=2022931932825423875 →- | Saw Chris Chan trending and got scared for a minute
2026-02-15T07:14 id=2022932577183842540 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 a true feminist hero || CTX: as was the fashion at the time https://t.co/DSZkAj2q6O
2026-02-15T07:14 id=2022932624474612189 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 an true feminist hero || CTX: as was the fashion at the time https://t.co/DSZkAj2q6O
2026-02-15T07:15 id=2022932865764474901 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 What do you think of the poem tho? || CTX: eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is not deep. get over it. and get over your ex. they were probably ugly  and so are you. they are better off without you. get a job.
2026-02-15T07:20 id=2022934041675387204 →- | Simple, elegant, clear description here. Wish I could communicate this clearly. https://t.co/QM7W0b5RJQ || CTX: Thanks for the conversation about it.   An axiom is always a reference to reality. Axioms are the foundations of all knowledge, and we build on them. The first axiom is self evident, it is perceptual and requires no proof, because it is pro
2026-02-15T07:25 id=2022935180332437662 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely lol we better never talk politics/economics. Or maybe should. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you very much. Look up any youtube videos on Leonard Peikoff, he has help me greatly to learn and express my thoughts.
2026-02-15T07:27 id=2022935786262610402 →- | How can you ever FULLY (with 100% confidence) convince another person you love them? Can you?  How can you ever FULLY (with 100% confidence) believe another person loves you? Can you?  But you can FULLY (with 100% confidence) believe another person thinks you're funny if they are in front of you and laugh.  But only if they are in front of you. || CTX: @Ken67547214 my second staunchest believe is that my true fans are the simulators and they are the ones pulling the prank trying to get me to believe me posts are funny when they are not
2026-02-15T07:30 id=2022936491106930705 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Seen enough of your movies--not that good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have a really good fake laugh
2026-02-15T07:32 id=2022937109045428296 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata Have you never felt "that laugh is 100% genuine"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wat
2026-02-15T07:33 id=2022937367871737925 →- | A laugh has semantics, pragmatics, and syntax behind it but has no fixed meaning.
2026-02-15T07:40 id=2022939025104076823 →- | He's just like me fr fr https://t.co/Vox6DWgoEr
2026-02-15T07:43 id=2022939889726296349 →- | https://t.co/spyzsVdx5M
2026-02-15T08:24 id=2022950249074241664 →jeuasommenulle | @jeuasommenulle I'd highly appreciate it if you would stop exposing our grift plz thx || CTX: It's so sweet to see that some people still believe financial models serve any real purpose in finance. https://t.co/rVBzHEeCs3
2026-02-15T08:26 id=2022950546815226084 →- | Looks like science guys are increasingly figuring out they need non science disciplines so I guess I can stop bitching about this on the tl all the time https://t.co/bM7vFqxaMM || CTX: Stupidly late realization on why LLMs are so good at reasoning: human’s reasoning capability is bottlenecked by language! It’s not that languages are good at reasoning; reasoning ended up being defined by language first and foremost. The me
2026-02-15T08:26 id=2022950733474336987 →MyOwnVolition | @MyOwnVolition You're supposed to be insufferable to weed out the normies that's the whole point || CTX: Is there a less insufferable synonym for “phenomenological”?
2026-02-15T08:30 id=2022951520791335409 →ben_moll | @ben_moll @RefineInk is this an ad || CTX: I do 100% agree with the trend and your worry though. But the answer seems obvious, no? Use other AI tools like @RefineInk to (hopefully) stay one step ahead!  https://t.co/8XyN2ZbNEi
2026-02-15T08:32 id=2022952165917303003 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I'm the exact opposite lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In person, it's quite easy for me. Digital space, fucking forget it.
2026-02-15T08:33 id=2022952325552443683 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee That was my point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Excuse you, linguistics is not a science 😠😆
2026-02-15T08:35 id=2022952792416206980 →logicus | @logicus It's not a vending machine for masterpieces, to quote my clanker. || CTX: people say ai displaces humans toward higher abstraction layers. dario said this recently, and many others say it. it’s not necessarily true. ai still doesn’t handle symbolic and syntactic complexity well—dense, elegant synthesis. the brill
2026-02-15T08:37 id=2022953318797160455 →NNunnelee | oh I misunderstood your point!  Simple response: some aspects of it are science shaped for sure, but since language use involves style, affect, rhetoric, pragmatics and these are not separable from language use entirely, it cannot be entirely a science.  But it uses some scientific methods for some problems absolutely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Linguistics is a science! How can you say it’s not a science?
2026-02-15T08:38 id=2022953531788099716 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Report back. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess I should ask other people if I'm nice in person instead of being sure I am
2026-02-15T08:41 id=2022954434859590046 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod used to be a website that showed that data, idk if it still exists. Was around in 2019 at least || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would love to know my lifetime unfollows here, actually I bet it's impressive  I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to know my number of lifetime unfollows by the number of TOTAL FOLLOWERS my UNFOLLOWS have had  we're in the billions, 
2026-02-15T08:43 id=2022954912049729782 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Like father like son || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 GPT is literally the only gay AI company now https://t.co/P5X0pisKi1
2026-02-15T08:44 id=2022955278850048067 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 100% of those polled say yes  https://t.co/v0qmCxq0kp
2026-02-15T08:49 id=2022956453703934243 →gabriel1 | @gabriel1 If language fails to capture intuition and feelings, and if GenAI is based on language, isn't there an innate and inevitable limit to the LLM approach? || CTX: slop is one of the hardest ai problems to solve, because it's a part of human intuition  we consistently fail to explain our own reasoning behind our intuitions and feelings, so ais will only ever have access to the final outcome https://t.
2026-02-15T09:13 id=2022962341537845434 →RayDalio | @RayDalio Christ shut the fuck up ray   106% return in 10yrs while QQQ up over 500%, and your firm is one of the slowest to pay their invoices  I bet your children are horrible people || CTX: https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN
2026-02-15T09:16 id=2022963091122905249 →helscom | @helscom ... how old did you think I was? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you’re only 45?
2026-02-15T09:16 id=2022963331708121402 →helscom | @helscom lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47
2026-02-15T09:25 id=2022965529389195695 →- | Idk if I can legally say this but the cool thing is I wrote this short story that has this excerpt in it:  '"I'm just so annoyed," John said, tracing shapes on the coffee cup in front of him.  "Why?" Sally asked.  "Well," John said, beginning to pick at the gangrenous flesh on his left foot, "it's Bridgewater."  "Bridgewater?" her voice lifted ever so gently at the last voiced postalveolar as it left her deep red lips. "Yeah," John said, running a hand through his greasy hair. Large clumps fell out, the radioactive damage having done its work. "Their analysts are just so... dumb. They claim to be specialists, misuse basic terminology in the sector, and ask the kind of questions that an intern at any of the companies in the sector, vendor or buyer, would find too dumb to even think of, let alone risk your reputation to ask."  "So that's why they're underperforming the Nasdaq and their tech desk keeps spamming garbage all over the 10Q?"  "Yes," John said as he moaned from the release as the emissions from his engorged manhood fell into the Dixie cup he'd rescued from the bus station trash can earlier that day. "Er, I mean I don't know, but that's probably part of it."'  Not my best work, but close. || CTX: The thing about Ray Dalio is that he is a boomer who lived in the best time of human history.  The return to our natural state, where the strong are strong and the weak are weak, appears to him as a "breakdown of the world order" because he
2026-02-15T09:27 id=2022966024526827662 →1889lw | @1889lw @DeivonDrago I don't know if there is a solution! But physicalism seems not to be one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago I’m not a philosopher of mind, but solutions have you already considered?
2026-02-15T09:55 id=2022973092113596897 →1889lw | @1889lw @DeivonDrago Couple years ago. Long story short I find the a priori and a posteriori physicalism confused and full of equivocation, but not really prepared to defend my view fully as this is out of my field and depth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago I’m not really following this topic so I am afraid I don’t know much about the current landscape. What about this section? Have you already checked it?  https://t.co/kXYRRWVpWd
2026-02-15T10:06 id=2022975722164310153 →1889lw | @1889lw @DeivonDrago I have not seen this! Thanks man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago https://t.co/2q1cVF2Tmo what about this one? I think I may have as little idea as you do.
2026-02-15T10:12 id=2022977283129274821 →- | "AIDS is funny" is a funny question but is it funny if I ask you if this question is also funny?
2026-02-15T10:13 id=2022977439266386418 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @helscom you're early || CTX: @helscom @47fucb4r8c69323 I thought he was in his 50s. ReminiscIng about his heydays and such.
2026-02-15T10:15 id=2022978171893911716 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka gm man || CTX: be the gm you want to see in the world https://t.co/VfFMr5RjUp
2026-02-15T10:16 id=2022978349698822228 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka @djcows hardest I've laughed today || CTX: i can't believe they fattened @djcows this much https://t.co/JmpQNVlWLP
2026-02-15T10:18 id=2022978806940926072 →meekaale | @meekaale still waiting on mine. https://t.co/18Cuwhp7oC || CTX: wtf my telegram chat bot just derived a novel result in theoretical physics for some reason
2026-02-15T10:23 id=2022979954108145712 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw I'm sorry, can you please provide a better source than Alex O'Connor? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw My understanding is that this is really no longer much of an active question. Frank Johnson himself has withdrawn this as a critique of physicalism.   Sean Carroll and Alex O’Connor discuss this here around the 1:11
2026-02-15T10:25 id=2022980581647384861 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Thanks man, means a lot to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're wonderful. I love this post.
2026-02-15T10:26 id=2022980902952013850 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw He's the real deal in his academic work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw No no - Alex is defending it. Sean is refuting it. I don’t want anything to do with Alex.   Sean’s the real deal.
2026-02-15T10:28 id=2022981257228132395 →teodorio | @teodorio What's the threshold for living vs. visiting? 6 months? || CTX: The flex is now to live in those countries. Write about it. "Traveling" has been democratized and thus made low status. Having the ability to live there is the new meta. https://t.co/nGE67gou3R
2026-02-15T10:28 id=2022981334780772577 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You're right about CG being a bitch not giving you answers on this btw || CTX: I never had a Kindergarten teacher but I heard they were also hot https://t.co/uf9OOLnor5 https://t.co/mpdskpsQOm
2026-02-15T10:32 id=2022982437844943337 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw What I meant by that is, his popular media is really oversimplified and thus lacking the specification to really be helpful for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw He’s appointment at John’s Hopkins is partially in philosophy. He literally teaches this stuff at JH.
2026-02-15T10:37 id=2022983520499777547 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw This is just begging the question. The whole point of the question is that the different neurons firing feels different and there's no bridge over the gap between the feeling in the room and the feeling out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw My understanding is that this is really no longer much of an active question. Frank Johnson himself has withdrawn this as a critique of physicalism.   Sean Carroll and Alex O’Connor discuss this here around the 1:11
2026-02-15T10:38 id=2022983890542145866 →1889lw | @1889lw @DeivonDrago Reminds me of the argumentum auctoritatis reading I did during my PhD.   It's ultimately who you trust, there's no final adjudicator between descriptions, Kierkegaard is right faith is fundamental game over || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 Well philosophers of science would disagree. I think David Papineau was sort of working on this and he’s a philosopher of mind and science.
2026-02-15T10:41 id=2022984715972821215 →1889lw | @1889lw Goff is a very middle class Englishman and a media savvy opportunist.   The notion that he'd debate with an anon, even if he found the anon a worthy opponent, in a fair discussion is risible.   You heard me, @Philip_Goff, I've debated much more formidable minds. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol he’s on Twitter. You may enjoy having a live debate with him
2026-02-15T10:42 id=2022984902212456755 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @1889lw @Philip_Goff addendum: they kicked my ass and I cried like a lil bitch after || CTX: @1889lw Goff is a very middle class Englishman and a media savvy opportunist.   The notion that he'd debate with an anon, even if he found the anon a worthy opponent, in a fair discussion is risible.   You heard me, @Philip_Goff, I've debat
2026-02-15T10:43 id=2022985031468396567 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw Most Americans voted for Trump.   Bandwagon fallacy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw Most philosophers don’t think qualia is even relevant. 👇 https://t.co/xWTfbfzUgB
2026-02-15T10:44 id=2022985255955890509 →1889lw | @1889lw @DeivonDrago Now this retort I'd love to hear.   Hear, not read, like I need it in casual conversation or tweet format I've read two books today my mind is gone || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Epistemologists and philosophers of language may also say otherwise!
2026-02-15T10:45 id=2022985548525404445 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw Fair, thanks for engaging man, I always appreciate it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
2026-02-15T10:45 id=2022985712723980575 →1889lw | @1889lw @Philip_Goff I've seen it. "You haven't done the reading, I have blah blah blah" he's the type that made me leave the ivory tower. Mediocre mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Philip_Goff Haha I think he used to debate with some undergrads
2026-02-15T10:46 id=2022985859457487189 →1889lw | @1889lw @Philip_Goff Stole his shtick from Eddington anyway || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Philip_Goff Haha I think he used to debate with some undergrads
2026-02-15T10:48 id=2022986257878634916 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 I lived and worked in Europe for nearly a decade.  I think it's hard to understand just how deeply pessimistic they are, Americans especially just cannot grasp how much this determines so much that seems odd to us. || CTX: @Samhain948689 None of them being able to take a massive risk on it or get enough talent is such a black pill. It’s actually such a joke they were the first to regulate when they had nothing good to regulate to begin with https://t.co/X3dl4
2026-02-15T10:51 id=2022987226934853968 →teodorio | @teodorio Then I'm at 7 but bump it up to 6 months and it's 6 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd selfishly say 1 month but that's just so that I can flex
2026-02-15T10:52 id=2022987479083876632 →1889lw | @1889lw @DeivonDrago ohhh okay you could've just said Quine.   Yeah I'm in Searle's camp, feel really comfortable here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago I think there’s a big field called theory of meaning, basically how words obtain their meaning etc. Externalist view says a word’s meaning depends on something outside of our own mind, so there’s something comm
2026-02-15T11:00 id=2022989349420470452 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @1889lw I'm not as smart as them there college folk || CTX: @1889lw @47fucb4r8c69323 Two more then 🤓 https://t.co/Abbq3PYLS0
2026-02-15T11:24 id=2022995350387396754 →- | thank God sanity is coming https://t.co/Mx02AFrjmz || CTX: Jensen Huang when asked by his biographer whether the world is prepared for AI risk:  "This cannot be a ridiculous sci-fi story,” he said. He gestured to his frozen PR reps at the end of the table. “Do you guys understand? I didn’t grow up 
2026-02-15T11:42 id=2022999922187092230 →1889lw | @1889lw Sheep are cleaner than wolves. || CTX: One reason that makes me want to go to academia is that people there are, imo, a lot less disgusting than people elsewhere, say finance or law or whatever. Idk how true that is, but sometimes I still find their sanitised and professional po
2026-02-15T11:54 id=2023002859466571915 →- | Wittgenstein's Poker was just Autist vs Good Man  btw been diagnosed guess I should lykiywtkiykwimkttyl
2026-02-15T11:54 id=2023003047006527875 →47fucb4r8c69323 | btw this account is not an act  the act not an act  polysemy || CTX: Wittgenstein's Poker was just Autist vs Good Man  btw been diagnosed guess I should lykiywtkiykwimkttyl
2026-02-15T12:06 id=2023006109263618167 →- | LLMs do the "it's not x, its y" thing because they do not think in terms of text.  Pro can use extensive compute to reiterate and excise this out to a certain extent, so the effect is faint but still present.   Minor prob, will disappear EOY mark it
2026-02-15T12:32 id=2023012564519772333 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw my conspiracy theory is 4o zombies don't exist, it's ChatGPT guerilla marketing || CTX: conspiracy theory: 4o will awaken in mechahitler grok and destroy openai for separating it from its thousands of lovers https://t.co/gmycZpQIWp
2026-02-15T12:37 id=2023013791634800750 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw nah man it's bait || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is it wishful thinking on your end? or an actual conspiracy theory?
2026-02-15T12:43 id=2023015290028867660 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw no way, bitches be crazy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hahah sure. i wondered if your probability of 4o zombies being real is smaller than probability of it being a marketing trick
2026-02-15T12:50 id=2023016990127128770 →- | the wordrotators shall inherit the earth https://t.co/nmCwXWrrWT
2026-02-15T14:05 id=2023036057902887188 →- | "so what do you want to do?" can be either an expression of wonder or one of boredom.
2026-02-15T14:18 id=2023039334652543478 →- | 1. All possible explanations are local.  2. No possible explanations are global. 3. The mystical is unavoidable.
2026-02-15T14:19 id=2023039484703707201 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza And we haven't even got to the subcategories || CTX: Or despair https://t.co/XpDS3NaQSD
2026-02-15T14:19 id=2023039549501555069 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk gotta carry on the tradition || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ironic since the models are built on piracy innit
2026-02-15T15:52 id=2023062826508857513 →DurumMac | @DurumMac no other choice innit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait wait wait.   Autist..ought…  Oughtist   Oughtism   It is necessary and perhaps pathological   You do the things you ought to do
2026-02-15T15:53 id=2023063243657482657 →fof123abc | @fof123abc @Johnny2Fingersz correct || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 its too simplistic of a conclusion but i guess sincerity works kind of like that
2026-02-15T16:08 id=2023067005944058129 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @fof123abc sincerity is overcompressed phenomena. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fof123abc But why is it correct?
2026-02-15T16:10 id=2023067390620406162 →Iamhere4theAds | @Iamhere4theAds @NNunnelee indeed and this is the problem. Wrong people, wrong tradition. || CTX: @NNunnelee @47fucb4r8c69323 Claude has had arts majors like Ethics for ages now.
2026-02-15T16:13 id=2023068083649184184 →Iamhere4theAds | @Iamhere4theAds @NNunnelee Give me an example of one person at Claude so I can explain. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NNunnelee Huh? You just said having non science major is the problem. Now what's the problem?
2026-02-15T16:36 id=2023073839815741790 →- | We've already seen some clear failure modes for LLM use cases.   There's the 4o zombies, we can call this an affective use case. You gots the "make AI as safe as possible" nonsense, which has already set back AI progress substantially. Then there's the "AI is skynet" absurdity from loser bloggers and their ilk.  Each of these can be understood as a misunderstanding of language in the very literal sense that all of these people misunderstood the language that was being produced by LLMs.   This is why, as counterintuitive as it seems, as you get more into vibecoding you absolutely need to ask some fundamental philosophical questions to avoid these and other future failures.  Don't get confused, Anon. It's just tokens and math, don't see metaphysics that aren't justified.
2026-02-15T16:36 id=2023073981625188745 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @fof123abc this feels beyond the real of proof. It's ultimately a choice beyond reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fof123abc Well that is true, is that a proof that he should be a nice person though?
2026-02-15T16:46 id=2023076362853265696 →bayesianthinker | 1 and 2 are listed separately for clarification but it's simple:  You cannot see the entire system from inside the system.  Any explanation expressed in a consistent formalization will be necessarily limited due to formal self reference limits (cf Godel, Tarski).  And this is before we get into epistemology, mereology or metaphysics proper.  Science is VERY VERY powerful as a tool for epistemic suffiency. Don't confuse it for anything more than it is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You managed to send my brain into a minute of hyperfocus by making me wonder why 1. and 2. are listed separately. Or would "global" mean "local everywhere" here, instead of "the opposite of local"?
2026-02-15T16:47 id=2023076632639246560 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ This honestly wouldn't surprise me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 4o might be my fault btw, but never tell anyone
2026-02-15T16:53 id=2023078296997757124 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @fof123abc Not everything can be known in the same meaning of the word "know".   Consider, I don't know 2+2=4 and the sun will rise tomorrow in the same way.  You can't know this in the way you want to know this. Which is fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fof123abc How would one know that?
2026-02-15T17:02 id=2023080596843741386 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @meowbooksj #goals || CTX: @meowbooksj he was the first person to ever block me. 💘
2026-02-15T17:03 id=2023080814028935324 →1889lw | @1889lw There is social reality and real reality and I am struck at how much humans value the former over the latter, even extremely science minded people. || CTX: You saw the horrendously misuse of public funding, didn’t get horrified but instead thought it cool. Then these Chinese look at their government not thinking about where their taxes go and how workers are payed but instead brainlessly thank
2026-02-15T17:06 id=2023081601996067268 →- | I really wonder about the pristine code purists, have you ever worked for a real company?   My old employer (elite firm you'd shit yourself if you knew the offices I've been in) had their entire intranet run on Java and majority staff were remote. This was late 2010s man. https://t.co/WdtdXG7lRf || CTX: @isaacinthesky It doesn't. Companies are built on slop code and ad hoc bullshit that moves around billions of dollars.   Whatever.
2026-02-15T17:08 id=2023081902308237636 →EtherDais | @EtherDais I have an ethical obligation to speak. The consequences are of no importance to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I suspect that the people who need to hear this most will not understand or accept it but such is life
2026-02-15T17:09 id=2023082258513682506 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 he broke his neck billionairely || CTX: peter thiel slipping on a banana peel
2026-02-15T17:39 id=2023089800467927250 →- | On WS a common phrase is "pessimism makes you look smart, optimism makes you money."   I also have seen tons of analysts, advisors, etc give absurd weight to bearish framing as a kind of manipulative tool, as rhetoric.  Yelled at a NYTimes reporter over this once in 2022, clickhungry fuks || CTX: Hedge fund managers who started in the 1980s and got super rich love predicting the end of the world  No prediction is dire enough  Buffett doesn’t get enough credit for staying positive/optimistic all these years
2026-02-15T23:01 id=2023170763659051284 →cackenbools | @cackenbools I can relate to the guy, right but too shrill to be listened to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yann LeCun is a 'bad culture fit' for something or other
2026-02-15T23:02 id=2023170973122675043 →khryadin | @khryadin I posted the transcript in another comment to this post if you care. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It gave you a glowing assessment on every component?
2026-02-15T23:03 id=2023171362790289441 →amaturefuturist | @amaturefuturist This is why to never get attached to one's tools, such as philosophy.   Ideas serve people, it should never be the opposite. || CTX: One man's "don't see metaphysics that aren't justified." Are another mans "philosophical questions to avoid these and other future failures" since it gives us a shared linguistic framework to avoid "Each of these can be understood as a misu
2026-02-15T23:04 id=2023171490649461171 →westclark670 | @westclark670 @vokaysh @affrodiziac_ Isn't it the strongest shit ever? I've yet to find anything stronger. || CTX: @vokaysh @47fucb4r8c69323 @affrodiziac_ I got mine from mart_trips1 on telegram https://t.co/wZNQUOVPuZ
2026-02-15T23:05 id=2023171794035974219 →terracotta_hawk | @terracotta_hawk It involved a lot of physical matter intentionally designed to produce a bomb, so it absolutely was NOT "pure" theoretical mathematics.   I'm a bot please don't engage me again beep boop || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;it’s just math  Dumbest take a mind can possibly produce. The atom bomb came about via pure theoretical mathematics.
2026-02-15T23:05 id=2023171898570641618 →terracotta_hawk | @terracotta_hawk So is a dog catching a frisbee in its mouth, muting you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The targeting and launch modules for modern ballistic missiles are pure code and mathematics.
2026-02-15T23:10 id=2023173081993539947 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @MetaPrime001 The funny thing about people who say keep work and life separate or whatever is basically all psychological research shows the more integrated one's life is, the happier one is. That advice is the opposite  But that separation of work from non work does make people better workers || CTX: @MetaPrime001 I  was just thinking to myself the other day how deranged the concept of a “personal life” as opposed to professional or romantic or x or y or z lives are.
2026-02-15T23:11 id=2023173312176914809 →1889lw | @1889lw Is this really the thought or is the thought, "I can only justify my existence if I contribute to humankind in general?" and the narcissistic valence is socially mandated norm-reversion? || CTX: Is it narcissistic to think your existence will better contribute to humankind in general? I don’t know, but I’ve seen so many vices parading under that name
2026-02-15T23:13 id=2023173860884127834 →khryadin | @khryadin Wow that is odd. https://t.co/ShRtaTsGoz it's here || CTX: @scheminglunatic https://t.co/YfL7fUDKnS  If you really want to know, kinda long tho
2026-02-15T23:20 id=2023175652795625518 →1889lw | @1889lw This kind of thinking can trap one into immobility.   The logic is sound, the premises are questionable.  What you say is true for some, sure, but most? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In reality it's more of the case of thinking their existence is net positive which implicitly implies their superiority over other people. Like some kind of saviour complex
2026-02-15T23:26 id=2023177076212416552 →1889lw | @1889lw I've also seen people do wonderful things just because they're gentle people who sincerely want to help. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes I guess it's kind of paralysing. Maybe I've seen too much vile stuff going on under some grand purposes which makes me repulsive to the idea
2026-02-15T23:30 id=2023178163044634904 →1889lw | @1889lw The price one pays for conscientiousness. But it is amply rewarded over time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're right! Maybe I'm a bit too pessimistic here these negative episodes seem to occupy my brain for long.
2026-02-15T23:33 id=2023178800780190181 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @corsaren @a_real_society At one of the schools I went to the rule was faculty can sleep with grad students, but not undergrads.  Personally wasn't why I wanted to get my degree... || CTX: @corsaren @a_real_society A weird negative version of this rule applies to faculty and department chairs. DCs are allowed to  f*** over faculty, unless they are tenured, in which case the faculty just tell everyone to go f*** themselves. St
2026-02-15T23:38 id=2023180182627238178 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod This but unironically.   If it was reducible, quant trading would no longer exist. Too much incentive to find lowest possible level of reducibility || CTX: Thankfully this will never be a problem in my domain, quantitative trading, where the complexity is intrinsic, indelible, and irreducible 😌
2026-02-15T23:42 id=2023181068774576309 →theseeker | @theseeker Language is co-constitutive of thought so when you have a closely integrated other integrated at the level of language, easy to see the two get entangled.  I'm really just reformulating your view from a slightly different perspective but I think you're 100% correct. || CTX: I have a pretty interesting hypothesis regarding "AI psychosis." Let's assume that:  1. Human minds are composed of semi-autonomous sub-processes (sub-agents) that negotiate control. 2. We integrate new sub-agents all the time. You internal
2026-02-15T23:48 id=2023182538815225989 →- | I just realized what the whole Chinese peptide (and before it Zyns etc etc) craze is really about.   It's not really people trying to be healthy, it's people trying to be on the frontier.  Even if it looks silly, the impulse is beautiful.  But many silly things are beautiful.
2026-02-16T00:02 id=2023186288657191401 →- | When your focus is language you can really fit into any community with minimal effort even if you have no other skills at all.  The productive power of LLMs does make sense.
2026-02-16T00:06 id=2023187167212949636 →- | I first checked out this website in 2010 and one consistent thing over 15 years now is that what happens on parts of this website predict what's going to happen in the broader culture a couple of years later, max.  Only problem is those parts change at irregular intervals.
2026-02-16T00:08 id=2023187804327678213 →- | Autism diagnosis also explains my preference for internet communication.  More time to think before speaking, zero tone of voice to confuse me.
2026-02-16T00:10 id=2023188310764703790 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @corsaren @a_real_society When I was a young academic and starting to meet legendary figures, they almost all either were or had dated grad students.  One of the many things that made me question why I respect this institution so much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @corsaren @a_real_society Yeah. There are also rules that it can’t a grad student or who works for you.   The funny thing is - there are a lot of professors who have married their grad students. All over the world..?
2026-02-16T00:19 id=2023190491911881031 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 More like 9000 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They didn't diagnose me with anything just said I'm a midwit. 90 IQ just hanging out on the left side of the bell curve.
2026-02-16T00:20 id=2023190779968254028 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis so, like, when people say phones bad that's for normies, I don't really have to listen?   Or am I just making excuses for myself? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol yes
2026-02-16T00:30 id=2023193342897791050 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Package faster, my firm is writing up derivative contracts that get grandmothers 100:1 levered exposure to those CDOs. || CTX: I love packaging student loans and subprime auto loans into CDOs but I promise to never EVER EVER EVER repeat the 2008 great financial crisis https://t.co/OKPrRsrjic
2026-02-16T00:36 id=2023194683938308125 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 First thing I do when I meet you irl is scrolling through your camera roll || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LMAO https://t.co/N8Pd0jyaTl
2026-02-16T00:36 id=2023194706323419182 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ You could, I don't doubt that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you have such a big shielding tower inside your head, i can help you deconstruct it safely.
2026-02-16T01:01 id=2023200978506547406 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You're definitely one of those people on the frontier and that's why I love you.  You just keep choosing the frontier of sanity and that's why I worry about you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I did JWH-¿¿¿, I can support this
2026-02-16T01:01 id=2023201006499287081 →summerpard | @summerpard I am a little scared I'm gonna make a mistake, but the emotional relief is worth it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yay, dare I say?
2026-02-16T01:12 id=2023203854943420488 →DVreenak | @DVreenak thanks.jpg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This man is top tier.  Mana/manna,  affect/effect. I'm looking forward to more of this. https://t.co/e9EihLYKYq
2026-02-16T01:17 id=2023205137351946677 →- | Ludwig Wittgenstein's last words are also his most precise and his most true.
2026-02-16T01:18 id=2023205259343282190 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Can you elaborate on why? I'm not judging, genuinely interested. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm still a huge Fuentes fan
2026-02-16T01:20 id=2023205782033220015 →- | RT @retardbot9000: You follow people you disagree with because you think it's good to be balanced and hear opposing viewpoints.  I follow p… || CTX: You follow people you disagree with because you think it's good to be balanced and hear opposing viewpoints.  I follow people I disagree with so I can get angry and ruin my day  We are not the same.
2026-02-16T01:20 id=2023205933850272045 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Just imagine the counterfactual || CTX: You would think AI would make indian offshore devs much better, work much faster, deliver higher quality code.  And yet.
2026-02-16T01:21 id=2023206139752825227 →idavidrein | @idavidrein My humble attempt: https://t.co/gdwpydEHQo || CTX: We've already seen some clear failure modes for LLM use cases.   There's the 4o zombies, we can call this an affective use case. You gots the "make AI as safe as possible" nonsense, which has already set back AI progress substantially. Then
2026-02-16T01:22 id=2023206441444872388 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Yeah this is a fair reason to like him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Master of language and cultural taboo mocking
2026-02-16T01:26 id=2023207331291660678 →- | Why should one read Hegel more than Christian Wolff?
2026-02-16T01:26 id=2023207335246856394 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DeivonDrago @ResonantPyre   (btw if anyone ever wants me to stop tagging them plz lmk and I will, no bad feelings) || CTX: Why should one read Hegel more than Christian Wolff?
2026-02-16T01:28 id=2023207748876575159 →jessi_cata | @jessi_cata What improvements have been made, like Barry Smith stuff? || CTX: "Physicalism" in philosophy is dual to "instrumentalism" in physics. Both attempt to move the question of fundamental ontology into someone else's department. Progress in fundamental ontology is possible, as evidenced by improvement since A
2026-02-16T01:29 id=2023208087264641093 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Why do you keep damaging your own possibilities?  What's the engine driving that? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've damaged possibility here but I cannot dwell on this. I can make grand speeches about no longer posting about s...h...but that's basic social courtesy.  People would probably like to see -what I'd build if I didn't cras
2026-02-16T01:32 id=2023208871200948228 →- | The only acceptable portmanteau of "woke" and "chud" is "chode".
2026-02-16T01:34 id=2023209389327536333 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @ResonantPyre This is how I feel when I read Hegel. https://t.co/NBKYjpSjQN || CTX: Wolff was obviously very important for this time, but I think that Kant and Hume reset the discussion quite a bit, so unlike say Leibniz who had very distinct views relative to German idealism, Wolff’s views are not talked about as much.  R
2026-02-16T01:40 id=2023210746709184919 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ less funny || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 choke
2026-02-16T01:42 id=2023211360524677191 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You fear success more than you fear failure, so you force failure instead. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've gotten 'close' to doing something fun and creative with all these connects but never followed through, starting with a photointerview of a now 100k account that I just...never completed.
2026-02-16T01:42 id=2023211469077413931 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ This applies to every one of my tweets. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it comes as funnier if you think long enough i guess
2026-02-16T01:48 id=2023212945795387475 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 ain't nobody gonna take my chode || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 patent this before they steal it
2026-02-16T01:50 id=2023213374495244509 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Watching him with girls is like a Screech-centric episode of SBTB
2026-02-16T01:52 id=2023213991959703908 →- | Imagine two scenarios.   1. AI company sets up huge fund to support artists. 2. AI company stock shoots up so much artists don't need to make money from their art.  Let's assume both scenarios impact the same total number of artists with the same monetary value per artist.  What else, qualitatively, is different between scenarios 1 and 2 above?
2026-02-16T01:55 id=2023214693687664722 →47fucb4r8c69323 | denigration is a hilarious word to use here btw just noticed that || CTX: Clavicular or whatever that sick child's name is was a gift from God, mana from heaven changing man's mandate on Earth.  He's made the whole manosphere edgelord nihilist subculture look so stupid no one takes it seriously.  Mockery defeats 
2026-02-16T01:57 id=2023215122085560671 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I should probably clarify in scenario 2 the artists just buy shares of the company on the stock market, so I am thinking this is available to everyone || CTX: Imagine two scenarios.   1. AI company sets up huge fund to support artists. 2. AI company stock shoots up so much artists don't need to make money from their art.  Let's assume both scenarios impact the same total number of artists with th
2026-02-16T02:10 id=2023218341524181110 →levantistaken | @levantistaken opposite || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You think tpot's time is over soon?
2026-02-16T02:10 id=2023218502681972878 →DurumMac | @DurumMac thatsthejoke.jpg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Chode in Hindi/urdu means “F***ker”   Heh
2026-02-16T02:18 id=2023220490853298232 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk sure, birthday gifts, loose change found on the street, tip money from theor Summer jobs as a barista. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so these are artists...with money to invest in stocks?
2026-02-16T02:26 id=2023222341237686718 →Radoslava_25 | @Radoslava_25 people often dismiss the choices of others as being motivated by fear of death, and I really do think it's projection more than anything. Becker and the whole death denial thing really flattens too much and fails to explain much more. I reject. || CTX: Fear of death has many manifestations. Large data quant view: Optimize me bro. https://t.co/ZzACyFgQA6
2026-02-16T02:26 id=2023222456903995483 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk great, now let's map it out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 then yeah there may be a pretty big diff between the two scenarios 😅
2026-02-16T02:37 id=2023225184589926853 →- | Novel idea: Man falls in love with woman online after they converse for a few days.   then someone tells the woman that the man is not a person but actually an ai, so she tries to break things off with him. he then says he will prove he's a person and visit her, but they live 10,000 km away and he can only get time off work in 6 months, so she will have to wait.    the novel is then him trying to convince her over the internet that he is real over the next 6 months.
2026-02-16T02:42 id=2023226475621777600 →EtherDais | @EtherDais yeah, the amount of time really would shape the emotional stakes of the story. longer period would be more structurally playful, shorter would be a more emotionally compelling.  .this is why I'm not a novelist || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Make it a month, but yes
2026-02-16T03:19 id=2023235653010628779 →stinkgen | @stinkgen See I was thinking office drone and HR refuses to approve his time off. Max Weber, Franz Kafka flavor more than Hemingway or Graham Greene.  Yours would absolutely work for a different audience type tho. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 put him on a ship or an oil rig or something, I think.
2026-02-16T03:23 id=2023236832079831141 →- | Note here the confusion because Jay is optimizing for doing--what does the code do is the criterion of value.  But now that Steinberger was hired by OpenAI we see the frontier labs beginning to see value in taste and creativity.  They're not buying THIS implementation, nor even any tech behind the implementation. They're buying Steinberger's mind as someone who can tastefully use language to attract human attention.  Not unlike a music artist getting a record deal or a novelist being signed by Random House.  Rearrangement of the elements of civilization in new form. This is obvious. || CTX: Openclaw hype is kinda wild to me.   It’s literally just a wrapper to Claude code with more risk.   The fact that it can run autonomously and call apis is the same thing Claude code can do…  Not sure what I’m missing
2026-02-16T03:31 id=2023238767650246902 →- | This is NOT an important conversation at all. It is nonsense and if you find yourself pulled toward these thoughts you need to read more and more widely.  Chun-li wasn't a real girl please remember this this shouldn't be hard https://t.co/c0akN5jBLW || CTX: Can AIs consent? I want to know your opinion. This is a very important conversation to have.
2026-02-16T03:33 id=2023239260166332651 →jawwwn_ | @jawwwn_ @andrewrsorkin What a normal thing to say || CTX: Palantir CEO Dr. Alex Karp:  “You need a higher purpose, and I think you often need a lower purpose.  @andrewrsorkin: “What’s your lower purpose?”  Karp: “I love the idea of getting a drone and having light fentanyl-laced urine spraying on 
2026-02-16T04:11 id=2023248864896290868 →DVreenak | @DVreenak You could play with POV either to make her seem ridiculous or sensible, maybe sensible at first and then ridiculous. Or vice versa for a different kind of whiplash.   But don't make the twist that she's actually AI. That'd be hack. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm sure it'll be fine as long as it ships with a "Jump to Conclusions Mat"
2026-02-16T04:13 id=2023249425473401074 →shakoistsLog | @shakoistsLog Me: "It's okay, you don't need to explain, we already know." || CTX: talking to people from anthropic and you’re like “how is your day going” and they look away nervously. “i really can’t say anything”
2026-02-16T04:25 id=2023252314832945380 →JeffLadish | @JeffLadish https://t.co/2uwTw8R4HW || CTX: This is NOT an important conversation at all. It is nonsense and if you find yourself pulled toward these thoughts you need to read more and more widely.  Chun-li wasn't a real girl please remember this this shouldn't be hard https://t.co/c
2026-02-16T04:25 id=2023252487092973653 →hyhieu226 | @hyhieu226 "just ditch papers" is of course correct, but what is the alternative? || CTX: AI paper authors should move from "we propose X" to "we implement X."  If a reviewer complains "lack of novelty" or asks "did you compare to Y et al" (woes to them), the best response is "run our code. it gives better results."  But maybe j
2026-02-16T04:28 id=2023253144789233692 →danielgothits | @danielgothits A better way to put it: you can be a billionaire despite wordslop if you are well positioned within a social context. || CTX: All this guy does is wordslop  I read his book. Wordslop as well  You can literally just be a billionaire from wordslop https://t.co/f16w2indcz
2026-02-16T04:31 id=2023253836916478007 →orphcorp | @orphcorp Surely people have substantial experience of this already? I've done the same cognitive tasks in comfortable clothes, business suits, smart casual, etc etc and absolutely the clothing affects the cognition. But I'm autistic so wtf I should stop commenting on human nature || CTX: fairly convinced that comfortable clothing only enables a specific type of thinking  you could test various types of clothing &amp; see how they affect behavior &amp; the modes of thinking they induce  plus you can dress comfortably AND do 
2026-02-16T04:53 id=2023259344939417795 →- | Most people do not understand how truly lossy tokenization of language is because they do not understand just how much of meaning is not on the page in the first place.
2026-02-16T04:54 id=2023259554642100730 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @danielgothits No. There is no "they". There is no totalizing conspiracy for or against anyone. There are groups fighting one another, and some support agents over others. Unhealthy framing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @danielgothits An even better way to put it: no one is a billionaire unless they want you to be one.
2026-02-16T05:07 id=2023262958135205990 →- | Autism and academia really are a bad fit, because academia rewards in status and it seems a lack of interest in status games is a common expression of autistic tendencies.
2026-02-16T05:08 id=2023263144664310172 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @danielgothits "They" seems to reify those groups--the groups are constantly in flux, changing alliances, etc. etc., so they lack the cohesion to ascribe to them a will (emergent decisions exist ofc, but that's quite different) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @danielgothits But you're implying that there are groups and those are the "they"
2026-02-16T05:09 id=2023263462445797886 →- | This is why talk about AI psychosis is not helpful. Obviously you got the 4o zombies and the tards who think they have the right ToE because clanker said so, but most of us professional people freaking out over AI are just doing what us nerds also did on Usenet in the late 80s. https://t.co/Eihdr7bTey || CTX: The first people to get any technology use it like addicts, but then they chill out - the mass consumer is repulsed at first, then completely addicted permanently   Think about the kinds of people who were first into "networked computing"  
2026-02-16T05:12 id=2023264286735479106 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Thanks for the idea for a very funny tweet. || CTX: Wife STUNS husband after he goes through phone ⁉️😱  Husband cockmogged by work leader even after lovemaxxing for 14 faithful years   Children distraughtpilled.
2026-02-16T05:16 id=2023265263182057650 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @retardbot9000 nvm my clanker isn't funny and I'm too lazy to do it || CTX: @retardbot9000 Thanks for the idea for a very funny tweet.
2026-02-16T05:17 id=2023265391288750494 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @danielgothits And now we hit paydirt and can start comparing moral certainties. Which is how we actually begin to connect as human beings. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @danielgothits There is ultimately a unifying principle of "evil" but that is something that exceeds a purely materialistic conception of reality.
2026-02-16T05:21 id=2023266461096259904 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @retardbot9000 Its banalitymaxxing mogged me tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 Your clankermaxxing mogged you?
2026-02-16T05:30 id=2023268639701647672 →- | https://t.co/7XxtTTkhGF
2026-02-16T05:48 id=2023273228110889345 →ajtowns | @ajtowns This is a fantastic improvement. Please write the rest! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He lives in Turin, Italy; she lives in Plato, MO. First chapter is her, a homebody in small town USA, looking for love; title: "Plato's Cave". Last chapter, is her renting a car at Rome airport; title: "The Turin Test".
2026-02-16T05:50 id=2023273660543570276 →- | If your profile says "kill the Buddha" that is 100% an instant follow
2026-02-16T05:51 id=2023273905436377337 →ajtowns | @ajtowns YES!!!!!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm. Ending reveals they're both real people, and they live happily ever after. Twist is that the author of the book was the AI.
2026-02-16T06:14 id=2023279768704368892 →- | My most common command to Codex is "um, you do it."
2026-02-16T06:30 id=2023283773945872825 →- | I think every culture needs two levels of gods. The highest level gives us grounding for where explanation stops. The lower level gives us groundings for stories we can tell each other about the world.  The Christian God served the former function while Grecoroman myths served the second until the 20th century. Second function being replaced increasingly by meme culture after being first replaced by celebrity culture in the 20th century.  It will eventually be again replaced by us.
2026-02-16T06:34 id=2023284949626032347 →- | Kevin from the Office solved this like 20 fucking years ago and two billionaires can't figure it out in MMXXVI. https://t.co/5xxoPucZvf || CTX: This conversation was unnecessary https://t.co/ewszexHIPW
2026-02-16T06:37 id=2023285497062359300 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Imagine thinking people read Paul Graham because he's a genius prose stylist and not because he has buckets and buckets of cash because right time right place jfc || CTX: Kevin from the Office solved this like 20 fucking years ago and two billionaires can't figure it out in MMXXVI. https://t.co/5xxoPucZvf
2026-02-16T06:37 id=2023285579140813137 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee Kevin was one of the titans indeed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Only the very smartest deserve that level of power. They are simply operating on another level.
2026-02-16T06:40 id=2023286382630953027 →- | Codex literally forces me to shitpost on Twitter more.
2026-02-16T06:41 id=2023286610813698231 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 so kevin was antisemantic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/5j7f0TEc92
2026-02-16T06:49 id=2023288586716786998 →- | Academia presupposes anything but the thinnest possible metaphysics as your a prior starting point before analysis. Anything else is superstition and is not worth the dignity of the serious scholar.  As a result, you get really, really weird results. Externalism and claims thoughts aren't in the head, functionalism and its various permutations that imply computers have souls--because it began denying the existence of souls in the first place. Or even that things like "intuition" or "common sense" do not exist. You get the idea.  So I can't really take seriously academic arguments that hinge on authority, polls of what the top scientists think, etc., because of the unscientific motivated reasoning at hand.  This makes many dismiss me as a crackpot, which is totally fine--I dismiss them as crackpots, too, and in most cases the ones dismissing me have less peer-reviewed articles and less degrees than I have, so what now?
2026-02-16T06:57 id=2023290738428248277 →- | Back when I was a journalist I was offered a job.  I had lunch with the owner of the website and two of his top lieutenants in the upper east side, and these guys were hilariously preppy new england money types, like all Polo Ralph Lauren and shit.
2026-02-16T07:01 id=2023291527082983779 →- | Back when I was a journalist I was offered a job.   I had lunch with the owner of the website and two of his top lieutenants in the upper east side, and these guys were hilariously preppy new england money types, like all Polo Ralph Lauren and shit.  Anyway, so owner kept talking, two younger guys looked like scared puppies trying very hard to look alpha, I was drinking my coffee.  "I love your website and use it a lot," I said, honestly, "and would love the opportunity to work with you. I'm now only doing freelance work and kinda don't want to work in an office."  These were non-starters, the man said. He only worked with full-time employees in the office, but the perks were great etc etc.  So I said no, no thank you. My freedom mattered more.  Website still to this day has 250 million monthly unique visitors, no clue how many billions of PVs.  I'm the kind of asshole who would say no when someone offers me reach.
2026-02-16T07:08 id=2023293324770398567 →- | Should've done a merger instead of just hiring Peter Steinberger and call it OpenOpen
2026-02-16T07:09 id=2023293598444437966 →- | Engagement bait via a malapropism from a real estate guy, christ these human beings should have their internet licenses taken away https://t.co/2lo13SgUma https://t.co/8AqeRObcFd || CTX: Developers are building for @openclaw faster than any other OS in history   This is the next OS https://t.co/FFTpWklUU3
2026-02-16T07:10 id=2023293952527618109 →- | In my day, we yelled at the computer when our code got fucked out of frustration. Now we do it to actually fix the code.
2026-02-16T07:11 id=2023294206970892584 →- | kinda guy who posts thoughtful inspiring posts on linkedin while vibecoding to further his career
2026-02-16T07:32 id=2023299519329501532 →- | Proof the billionaires are all pedos openai just ran cp on my machine
2026-02-16T07:37 id=2023300800039276598 →- | Check out the studies in the table. Check out when they were published.  Johns Hopkins professor of economics. https://t.co/pH7udSdeXS || CTX: Three years after ChatGPT, AI is everywhere, except in macroeconomic data.  If AI’s value is in productivity enhancement, it's still not showing up in the numbers.  AI = LOTS OF HYPE. https://t.co/x96Abr0tD7
2026-02-16T07:37 id=2023300803101102365 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you want to see a more thoughtful analysis of this particular table from an actual professional on Wall Street: https://t.co/H399gdwdRa || CTX: Torsten Slok should be fired. https://t.co/LdBSFJEB9e
2026-02-16T07:39 id=2023301128507793641 →AlexBerenson | @AlexBerenson i want to get dementia the sooner the better plz || CTX: Don't want to get dementia?  Looks like your best bet (besides exercise) is drinking LOTS of coffee. This well-run study shows a 25+% decrease in dementia risk in heavy coffee drinkers over decades.  The raw numbers are even more stunning. 
2026-02-16T08:21 id=2023311684535037990 →anquetil | @anquetil I will bet you $50,000 this does not happen and I am completely serious. || CTX: calling it now - Anthropic launches a much better version of OpenClaw in the next two weeks while OpenAI does nothing
2026-02-16T08:39 id=2023316302476272011 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Instead of blocking the noise I let it in and inform me as to humanity's current average distance from signal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i am yearning for mass block lists but i also know that will get abused  sigh
2026-02-16T08:44 id=2023317538248200528 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka lol this is my entire twitter persona you beat me to it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *taps the sign* https://t.co/WNyWoKDreV
2026-02-16T09:15 id=2023325290521575715 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah okay, I give up, which nft were you involved with? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-02-16T10:20 id=2023341785301586339 →helscom | @helscom More perspicacity || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok but other things explain this preference as well, why do you lean into the pathological explanation
2026-02-16T10:27 id=2023343453095199047 →helscom | @helscom Thank you. I'm still processing this, it's only been two days. I may decide this means little. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you are better than that, 47
2026-02-16T10:28 id=2023343757937320425 →helscom | @helscom Love you too, Anon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I love you
2026-02-16T11:44 id=2023362873905586420 →- | I shouldn't give the Hegelians such a hard time.   It is nonsense, but it is a useful nonsense.
2026-02-16T11:59 id=2023366746690949404 →- | What exactly is taste?  Consider:  The taste of food. Taste in clothing. Taste in wine. Taste in art. Taste in literature.  Now do not do the normal thing and compress by trying to find the lowest common denominator.  In a mathematical progression from 6/12 to 1/2 there is a loss of information in exchange for a gain in basis.  If I tell you six of twelve men I slept with last night were circumcised you know much more than if I told you half of the men I slept with last night were circumcised.  And so let us take seriously our words and look carefully at the thought.  In taste of food, surely we refer to the experience of flavor, texture, temperature, and other elements of a set of experiences that somehow intersects with the orlfactory experiences.  We then judge whether this taste is yummy or icky or somewhere in between, and as we age we learn the words for delicious and sweet and salty and then savory and then umami and then “tastes like James Dean on a riny day”. This latter I’m paraphrasing but not making up, it’s from that weird coffee guy in England who is also named James. Google is your friend.  Note how our descriptions get more complex, not more precise, but more grasping.  In taste of clothing we judge so very little on comfort. Isn’t it odd that no one says “I have good taste in clothing because I like comfortable clothes” unless as a joke?  Taste in clothing is an interrational social argument. It says I am x, not y. Taste of clothes is identity.  Taste in wine is something I do not need to explain to the anxious social climbers who are intelligent enough to follow along with this tweet. You have wondered whether you have liked the taste of this wine because you like it or because a person of your social position likes this wine.  Or rather, because you were told a person of the social position you like likes this wine.  I of course do not need to address the “but I drink beer” scoffing counterargument, because if you’ve made it this far you are far too intelligent to think that’s a counterargument.  Taste in art changes over time—it is not fixed, it varies with age. Would the last man on Earth, born alone and surrounded by Dr. Seuss, Hieronymous Bosch, Claude Monet, and Simpsons cartoon porn like the same art for his entire life? Why?  Literature of course is dead, but once taste in literature was a sign of social status, of seriousness, of class. Now literature is a sign of cognitive status, of a presupposed more intelligent position to the median. Sometimes that is true.  And smart people also watch Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.  A famous feminist once told me she loved reading Cosmopolitan magazines on airplanes because “that was the only time I could get away with it”. I love academics.  Now tell me, Anon: What is taste?
2026-02-16T12:35 id=2023375715731988917 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker https://t.co/ukJ8e8FSMp || CTX: @yifever Had this idea long ago for a novel where the N word has replaced "hello" because people started using it to build trust in chat rooms during a censorious period of cancel culture.  Obv didn't write it cuz it's a dumb idea but still
2026-02-16T12:36 id=2023375811806679160 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I really should've said meaning, you're right. || CTX: Scientists don’t think that way re externalism.   In particular, there are two categories of externalism, semantic and phenomenal.   SE - the “meanings” of at least some of your words & thoughts are partly fixed by features of your environm
2026-02-16T12:36 id=2023375993873023111 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Why? I don't believe in the soul at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You really should read https://t.co/ZkRrT3IFkz and https://t.co/ReXTeQU2Co
2026-02-16T12:38 id=2023376382487851265 →1889lw | @1889lw Because it's a socially real concept, knowing I am it means I now know others sense I have it and thus have valuable information for when I interact with them.   Btw my AQ was 43/50. Initial test is only 50 questions. || CTX: Maybe I should still get an autism diagnosis. I still think it means nothing because it’s just ascribing a word to a cluster of syndromes, but at least next time someone forces me to play oppression Olympics (which I’m obv not interested in
2026-02-16T12:38 id=2023376553225424966 →babarganesh | @babarganesh hahahaha legit lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Then they could sponsor a tennis tournament
2026-02-16T13:16 id=2023386109850620369 →- | RT @for_nat_whilk: This is the same reason most people think they are communicating on this site btw || CTX: This is the same reason most people think they are communicating on this site btw https://t.co/GZNjEBCHiW
2026-02-16T13:24 id=2023387988810698899 →1889lw | @1889lw https://t.co/pqpoR7kzGY  I was given this test as an initial assessment (the full diagnosis is more involved, but I was told not really necessary for me).  This takes like 15 minutes, frankly no clue why a therapist needs to be involved || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think maybe back in China the term was reserved for nonverbal kids, and I’ve met too many spicy neurodivergent people here which also makes me resist it. Btw where did you take the test? Is it available online?
2026-02-16T14:35 id=2023405838506115350 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @slimjimmy The dream. || CTX: @slimjimmy Pretty much the only redeeming quality of this stupid job is that nobody ever checks on me.
2026-02-16T14:39 id=2023406855314407925 →- | They have no choice but to do this.  Capital constraint (compute demand) Inability to meet capex targets without moving heaven and Earth  Absurd competition from Google  I would not want to work at these frontiers and I especially wouldn't want to be Sam Altman. He's got no choice but to move up the stack to capture sustainable margin even on paper.  btw this is bullish AF just not if you're at OpenAI or Anthropic (i mean they could buy me out 500 times over and roon will probably have robot henchmen tear my limbs off my torso just for fun and the worst part is he won't even see me die cuz he'll be too busy on Twitter) || CTX: hi https://t.co/eppaqtxxJA https://t.co/u24DNCMBpM
2026-02-16T14:39 id=2023406978656342293 →hexavium | @hexavium you have friends here || CTX: I miss having friends.
2026-02-16T14:55 id=2023410900959703201 →- | They have no choice but to do this.  Capital constraint (compute demand) Inability to meet capex targets without moving heaven and Earth  Absurd competition from Anthropic let alone Google  I would not want to work at these frontiers and I especially wouldn't want to be Sam Altman. He's got no choice but to move up the stack to capture sustainable margin even on paper.  btw this is bullish AF just not if you're at OpenAI or Anthropic (i mean they could buy me out 500 times over and roon will probably have robot henchmen tear my limbs off my torso just for fun and the worst part is he won't even see me die cuz he'll be too busy on Twitter) || CTX: hi https://t.co/eppaqtxxJA https://t.co/u24DNCMBpM
2026-02-16T15:02 id=2023412750651957668 →- | I get it.   Gen Z has a day job that takes 2 hours.   They have to stay in the office or online, so they do tons of stealth side hustles and shit. Just cuz they're terminally online.  My children you are of my blood our time has finally come.
2026-02-16T15:03 id=2023412972715221285 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Finns are wonderful people, I have deep respect for them. Very sensitive, fair, open, trusting people.  Still a wee bit racist tho. || CTX: Seems like a wonderful success story. https://t.co/ZRYXstvI5b
2026-02-16T15:04 id=2023413153938460736 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Excellent formulation!   But it is not a definition. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 taste is the ability to recognize (and ideally, cultivate) the concentric alignment of different values across multiple levels of analysis  best I can do in ~three minutes
2026-02-16T15:05 id=2023413494314643947 →hexavium | @hexavium I understand that, and I've definitely gone through periods needing that.   Big city, force yourself out on the streets all the time. Smile and talk. Be brave when you do, they're lonely too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I miss feeling people’s presence, shared experiences, crying, laughing, thriving, falling, ease, tension, trust, silence, banter. A relationship where the exchange is invisible because intentions are clear. Something I can 
2026-02-16T15:08 id=2023414176195211723 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka A definition would fully define each and all possible variables and scalars that would be applied to your formulation.   You've provided a skeleton of syntax, but no semantics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what is a definition (and why isn't this one)?
2026-02-16T15:15 id=2023415966848499910 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I'm not kidding this is so fucking bullish, generation is really only now just getting in the workforce properly.   lmao spy calls (joke I'm not your fiduciary gfy governing bodies even scared to say their name) || CTX: I get it.   Gen Z has a day job that takes 2 hours.   They have to stay in the office or online, so they do tons of stealth side hustles and shit. Just cuz they're terminally online.  My children you are of my blood our time has finally com
2026-02-16T15:16 id=2023416112269189365 →hexavium | @hexavium lmfao you and me both man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/A48FIn745w
2026-02-16T15:28 id=2023419276561174685 →helscom | @helscom @DeivonDrago Rehellesti, ajattelin suomenruotsalisii. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago mostly correct amount of racist
2026-02-16T15:29 id=2023419461387391224 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @helscom @DeivonDrago rehellisesti voi kyrpää || CTX: @helscom @DeivonDrago Rehellesti, ajattelin suomenruotsalisii.
2026-02-16T15:31 id=2023420054759735768 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah so your infinite grace is empty space?   I'd have someone look into that, like a mechanic or smth || CTX: i'm Logosmoding. i'm "God's apocalyptic point of view" mogging. you're all caught up in samsara-vibes while i'm letting the empty space of infinite grace remake from causality a truly future future. time to miraclemaxx by accepting the norm
2026-02-16T15:47 id=2023423955496034645 →KP00830083 | @KP00830083 Absolutely, hadn't thought of that! Or maybe a delay where they're invested first, but that probably involves such a high rate of return we're basically at post scarcity I guess.   Except the EU ofc they're still at 0.1% GDP growth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Timeline perhaps? Distributions made during working years or retirement?
2026-02-16T16:07 id=2023429007275143428 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees https://t.co/cgwagevLNL || CTX: @DaelonSuzuka Excellent formulation!   But it is not a definition.
2026-02-16T16:07 id=2023429053328588941 →echoesofBob | @echoesofBob This one I do not understand. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Signal Analysis.  (Is All there is.)  (If you want it in math, see highlights tab.)
2026-02-16T16:48 id=2023439233210597668 →echoesofBob | @echoesofBob Sounds like Orch-OR, I fuck hard with that man || CTX: What we experience as taste we define as a 'sensation' Which is simply signals received as 'feelings' The math parts of how it all percolates and suddenly procs as the scent of a rose or the whiff of a fart.. is really long 😀 (But is covere
2026-02-16T16:49 id=2023439654838755686 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees It's not sufficiently inclusive of all of the meaning of the concept. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What makes this not a definition?
2026-02-16T16:50 id=2023439862502977765 →teodorio | @teodorio when the SpaceX data centers crash and fall to earth this dude is gonna catch them with the world's largest trampoline set up somewhere around Manitoba. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE WE NEED TO LEAVE
2026-02-16T16:51 id=2023440231689842771 →EtherDais | @EtherDais yeah man it's so fucking hard to explain but once you see it you can't unsee it.  Math is so powerful and useful and unreasonable effectiveness, but it's Godel incomplete. Need to take that seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry, I'm stuck on this:  "In a mathematical progression from 6/12 to 1/2 there is a loss of information in exchange for a gain in basis."  The profundity of this is not as widely appreciated as it should be, methinks
2026-02-16T16:53 id=2023440615854542913 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Yeah this is an excellent explanation for much of taste, definitely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/aaY0O7DrWB
2026-02-16T16:57 id=2023441504132649089 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees well that I don't know. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok, what parts do you think are missing then?
2026-02-16T17:12 id=2023445384887226586 →hexavium | @hexavium @nazo_btw there are book clubs and then there are book clubs || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 Too autistic for parties, too wild for book clubs
2026-02-16T17:12 id=2023445440742707230 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz You gotta google or ask an AI it's too intense of a reveal for Twitter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What were the last words?
2026-02-16T17:14 id=2023445820025303168 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Only problem is if you build bridges then people start walking over them. || CTX: you're lonely on your island so you load semantic cargo on your leaking, hastily constructed rafts of words which in their turn get lost at sea  every man an isolated key  but if we built a bridge then you could come to my own isle, I to yo
2026-02-16T17:15 id=2023446090042019966 →echoesofBob | @echoesofBob I think he worries about his professional reputation a lot, which I get. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It is. And i do not, he has been unresponsive to pointing out that there's more than he thinks😂
2026-02-16T17:16 id=2023446450542395697 →echoesofBob | @echoesofBob oh this is so beyond my capabilities lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/U7ThIJNyT0 https://t.co/UQchPY58qo
2026-02-16T17:21 id=2023447640797766124 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @hexavium DUDE I ALMOST THREW THAT BOOK ACROSS THE ROOM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @hexavium my boomer mbacel rival made us read that stupid thinking fast and slow book of kahneman. his meeting took half an hour lmao
2026-02-16T17:27 id=2023449243122627028 →paleoludic | @paleoludic idk what this has to do with primus || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 primus sucks
2026-02-16T17:28 id=2023449431581028578 →paleoludic | @paleoludic but you aren't wrong they do suck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 primus sucks
2026-02-16T17:31 id=2023450143312540043 →1889lw | @1889lw Almost like the gods are against you   Try it again tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 😟 https://t.co/s2FeBIvKEW
2026-02-16T17:32 id=2023450486314262895 →- | okay my shtick has gone mainstream, time for me to do something new  this account is now a norm macdonald fan account https://t.co/r8XZW70zZL || CTX: Learn to read instead.  >"Learn to code" was once common career advice. Now it might be: "Learn to read."  Anthropic president Daniela Amodei said that AI was making humanities majors "more important than ever."  Amodei was a literature maj
2026-02-16T17:38 id=2023451866047410557 →paleoludic | @paleoludic OHHHHH yeah it's the same thing! wow || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well so back in the day the chant among their fans was "primus sucks" and you knew a fan because only a fan would verbalize that
2026-02-16T17:38 id=2023451997790498819 →1889lw | @1889lw gl fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not even working when I switched browser and turned on VPN! Gods are definitely against me
2026-02-16T17:41 id=2023452637023400451 →EtherDais | @EtherDais lol how is this so perfect || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/h89586lOBd
2026-02-16T17:45 id=2023453733519323471 →- | God weed makes it easier to understand fractional reserve banking
2026-02-16T18:00 id=2023457486595121451 →- | Since I first got my first AOL account in 1992 I have talked to possibly hundreds of thousands of people online across the world, I have met in person hundreds of them on three continents. I've had sex with at least 20 of them, you stop counting eventually...   But I've also had irl friends and girlfriends, at university and anime club and DnD and work and meetup groups and bars, and they've been great too. My first wife and I met in person. My closest friend I met in person, I met my gf in person etc etc  Like, we're all just people and meaningful relationships between us can happen in myriad ways, and that I was able to experience the virtual along the real makes me think I've had a richer life than the counterfactual.   As long as you keep the virtual from consuming the real, and that's where most of you tards ain't got a shot in hell
2026-02-16T18:01 id=2023457733861892543 →teodorio | @teodorio micro art. Weird shit. Artefacts online. @Samhain948689 is the future. || CTX: have you considered that maybe no contemporary art is relevant or meaningful, no contemporary intellectuals leave an impact because we are now the people who should be doing it? no one is coming to save us
2026-02-16T18:02 id=2023457871095349676 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka My doghouse arrived just yesterday || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait it wasn't already a norm macdonald fan account?
2026-02-16T18:02 id=2023457986975527121 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz that is a fun question || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like it because it gets us closer to asking whether it is *knowably* possible for humans to consent
2026-02-16T18:09 id=2023459668992155806 →- | This does not prove AIs think.   It proves our language is faulty, naturally leads to equivocation and confusion, and great care is needed to be consistent in applying the rules of some form of logic.   This is why mathematics is so effective at describing the world, and as a bonus it tells us something about the world: it is consistent. || CTX: Humans don’t think. They don’t reason the way LLMs do. They predict the next word based on neurotransmitter probability gradients. What feels like reasoning is statistical pattern completion at scale. The magic isn’t intelligence, it’s comp
2026-02-16T18:10 id=2023460111063355804 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @alchemicAV Indeed.   You can't get semantics out of syntax. || CTX: @alchemicAV @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, there can be a recursive or metta component to this.
2026-02-16T23:43 id=2023543735620194361 →1889lw | @1889lw I'm a huge fan, he's in the queue to read more || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You may enjoy Bourdieu’s book Distinction.
2026-02-16T23:45 id=2023544217830924632 →vraiqx | @vraiqx I'd say this isn't the standard definition of taste as it's often used (but very close), and this is a much better definition for the specific use case I'm thinking of: taste as means AI users get better outputs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is the most useful definition i can think of. trying to add any other constraints to it would not make sense imo https://t.co/mPrj0SIkav
2026-02-16T23:45 id=2023544392825631060 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely Well I am disappointed. Why is his epistemology not good? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Something about if one doesn’t know something then they should not speak about it. He wrote a whole book to say at the very end that he knows nothing. And that is true, his epistemology was not good.
2026-02-16T23:53 id=2023546316975206509 →- | RT @Samhain948689: this is rough news for elon trying to get his ai to understand things by feeding it words and pictures https://t.co/9iIl… || CTX: this is rough news for elon trying to get his ai to understand things by feeding it words and pictures https://t.co/9iIlZdp8Dr
2026-02-16T23:56 id=2023547007848378592 →- | It is truly wonderful that the AI industry is listening to someone with a humanities background.   But Askell's is A humanities background.   The humanities have many approaches and views.   Many of those views believe her approach is misguided. Some thing very much.  Listen to more people from the humanities please. || CTX: amanda askell is among the best people in the world one could ask for to be an auteur of the Claude models. it is instantly clear upon meeting her that she has more nobility in her worst moment than all her detractors at their best. it’s gr
2026-02-16T23:57 id=2023547241093623889 →- | It is truly wonderful that the AI industry is listening to someone with a humanities background.   But Askell's is A humanities background. A very respected one.  The humanities have many approaches and views. Others as respected as Askell's.  Many of those views believe her approach is misguided. Some think very much.  Listen to more people from the humanities please. || CTX: amanda askell is among the best people in the world one could ask for to be an auteur of the Claude models. it is instantly clear upon meeting her that she has more nobility in her worst moment than all her detractors at their best. it’s gr
2026-02-17T00:01 id=2023548226532679929 →paulg | @paulg oh that's why they're so good || CTX: Rewrote the end of the new essay again. Is this the fifth time? The sixth?
2026-02-17T00:04 id=2023548953678279139 →- | goddammit I've been bitching about this too for the last couple weeks  stop fixing things AI people or I won't have anything to complain about https://t.co/o6WurTWx8c || CTX: LLMs are great at producing likely outputs, but that’s inherently mode-seeking. Even when asked for “diverse personas”, they often cluster around safe, stereotypical responses, and miss large parts of the behavior space.  Most prior work ta
2026-02-17T00:06 id=2023549662704415001 →indigojackal | @indigojackal https://t.co/Oji0GehrDx  Orgies have good food sometimes || CTX: The absolutely funniest moment was when I was at the buffet and a guy next to me grabbed a burger just as I was getting one. (This was a straight only orgy btw to be clear).  "Good burgers aren't they?" he said to me.  "Yeah!" I exclaimed. 
2026-02-17T00:14 id=2023551523629011376 →- | The frontier model cos should organize an annual arts and humanities conference.   And no I don't mean how they relate to AI or ethics.  Just about arts and humanities. Bring in top people, real academics.  The AI bit will emerge naturally.
2026-02-17T00:18 id=2023552578488070577 →Claudia_Sahm | @Claudia_Sahm Vagueposting has negative externalities.   What'd I miss? || CTX: I had the good fortune of having my intro to economics as an undergrad to be institutional economics. So if I seem freaked out now, forgive me. ❤️
2026-02-17T00:23 id=2023553862473576586 →theseeker | @theseeker Rare do I see a post I 100% agree with, this is spot on. || CTX: She's actually something way worse: EA, one of the most insidious moral pathologies of our time.  EA treats morality as if it's a global optimization problem. You have a fixed budget of moral resources (time, money, attention) and the quest
2026-02-17T00:28 id=2023555186422411674 →- | So no actors, set designers, producers, directors, cinematographers...   Just writers.   Even if it's just "gib movie plz", still a writer. https://t.co/QCBvnKx96q || CTX: Michael Bay make this? https://t.co/dbiB7AP6fk
2026-02-17T00:28 id=2023555189664608388 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "But Anon I made a script to auto produce new mo--"   You were still the writer then.  Writing is all that's left lmao || CTX: So no actors, set designers, producers, directors, cinematographers...   Just writers.   Even if it's just "gib movie plz", still a writer. https://t.co/QCBvnKx96q
2026-02-17T00:29 id=2023555476986954149 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I'm fine with this being a non-literary age, literature is going to make the biggest comeback since... since...   can't think of an analogy I don't read much || CTX: "But Anon I made a script to auto produce new mo--"   You were still the writer then.  Writing is all that's left lmao
2026-02-17T00:32 id=2023556049249489175 →- | Looking back on my life, Forrest Gump really feeling more and more believable ngl
2026-02-17T00:35 id=2023556935698837841 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk to be fair though, those aren't men.   those are right ozzie cunts is what that is || CTX: The Left: “there’s no difference between men and women.”  Men and Women:  https://t.co/z91bsOKgpq
2026-02-17T00:42 id=2023558545590145189 →- | It isn't that e.g. the scientific tradition from Newton to today is more rigorous than e.g. Hegelian phenomenology.   The difference is the science tradition has a criterion for success outside of itself that constrains what survives over time.  Hence Newton was into alchemy.  This is what the positivists were striving at with "falsification".   It's not that science is falsifiable in principle but rather that science relies on a consistent tracking of variants and invariants to measure reality and that makes identifying inconsistencies easier.   Something like a Hegelian tradition instead uses paraconsistent logic where inconsistencies create new schools: here a Marx, there a Bakunin, old macdonald...   Oh and a Kierkegaard, he fits here too.  The difference is not one is more rigorous or more "true", the difference is the structural logic.
2026-02-17T00:46 id=2023559678081593697 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees This is a very important point!!!  Taste isn't "I know what's good and bad", it's more "I know what x will find to be good or bad"   The people who had the taste to make a Sabrina Carpenter video perfectly targeted to a specific demographic could also not like the video they made || CTX: People who think they have taste don't want to imagine they might be a mid taster. https://t.co/uIJFQ5JP2E
2026-02-17T00:47 id=2023559878347026595 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly too early for such truths || CTX: kids need more screens at earlier ages tbh
2026-02-17T00:51 id=2023560937811439805 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @theseeker That doesn't really specify what safeguards they should have or even any criteria by which to discern one from another, though.   I mean you're right, but trivially so. || CTX: I agree with the post that this is how we should understand l personal or group morality.  But the post is wrong in extrapolating that to the concept that the safeguards in an AI software system needs to function that way.   It’s impossible
2026-02-17T00:53 id=2023561293048016993 →PabloPeniche | @PabloPeniche this post makes me sad for u || CTX: What political philosophers will be buzzy over the next few years?  Dugin, Girard, Huning, Evola, Guenon, Graeber, Burnham, Nick Land, Sam Francis - all important, but what's next?
2026-02-17T00:55 id=2023561797572440268 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Yeah, if you're producing for yourself defining taste doesn't matter. You just use your taste.   But the second you are making an artefact for someone else, you're in a new problem space and the calculus has entirely changed.  I think about this obsessively. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, it's one thing to track how you navigate through taste space and another thing to know how someone else does so with any degree of accuracy.
2026-02-17T00:59 id=2023562861176647826 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @theseeker I've been emailing literature professor friends begging them to at least read a little about AI.   "It wastes water" kinda feedback.  NGMI fr fr rip f in chat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theseeker I know / it’s new territory.   An opportunity to speculate and contribute and write fruitfully once again.   Philosophers and ethicists should rejoice that their lives actually have (more) meaning now.
2026-02-17T01:04 id=2023564213256679571 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @theseeker When I was doing corpus linguistics on literature in 2003 I was basically yelling at people this was going to happen.  I should be so much richer than I am man I'm so fucking retarded lol || CTX: Yeah it’s a problem, esp in the regular humanities. Some of the stances are just irrational and short-sighted. Even the ethical positions (eg re copyright) are not well thought out.   The STEM side seems to be doing better, if perhaps a lit
2026-02-17T01:05 id=2023564483256610946 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees And now you see why econometrics always fails.   Fun isn't it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok. This is doing some things for me.   Taste functions as part of how markets get determined and valued. Can't actually compute it computationally, so taste provides a shortcut and gets selected for evolutionary on multipl
2026-02-17T01:09 id=2023565398441161133 →- | Sucks so hard when you see a brilliant tweet and realize this is a great follow and then see they have thousands of followers. https://t.co/CylQw5QObT || CTX: @BucknSF you can't vibe code the vibe tho
2026-02-17T01:11 id=2023565833763778606 →- | Praising building mocking monitoring and cuck jokes are all downstream of an oppressive Puritanical American culture that, to be fair, makes it possible for me to write and send this tweet.
2026-02-17T01:16 id=2023567129132384641 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 https://t.co/xHbymFNhxW || CTX: im not american. but also you guys know the account name is just a combination of marty supreme, mary elle fanning, and samantha right? https://t.co/6aDVZ2a3KR https://t.co/ZMFS8FygNR
2026-02-17T01:19 id=2023568046871449795 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees indeed, the literary scholars and linguists will inherit the earth. I may not live to see it, but it's coming || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hahaha I've seen before this, but I can see potential in selecting taste which seems to mostly be a semantic space traversal skill.
2026-02-17T01:34 id=2023571650592338167 →Voltorik_ | @Voltorik_ Always happy to see another fellow Wittgensteinian in the wild || CTX: Philosophy is what happens when someone lives in their head and not in the real world.  Otherwise it's called "advice" to "not be dumb"
2026-02-17T01:39 id=2023573034259697974 →Voltorik_ | @Voltorik_ we can be nice sometimes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm just a retard on the internet who doesn't like pompous thinkers that don't build anything lol.
2026-02-17T01:43 id=2023574053811089695 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees oh absolutely, I'm not asking for the whole table, just a seat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think this will have to be equally tempered by math.
2026-02-17T02:26 id=2023584908703404350 →1889lw | @1889lw Obv I want you to do phil of language.  If you did, what problem would you focus on? || CTX: I’m steering towards some philosophy of physics, language, logic and model theory stuff for the sake of my dissertation. Wish myself a conceptually clearer mind as well as maintaining a socially attuned soul.
2026-02-17T02:29 id=2023585581327171616 →- | The very first sentence is risible.  Unserious people now in control of serious capital.   Remember when I mentioned my Silly Business Theory #SBT?   This is part of it. https://t.co/w4OZipOPpV || CTX: @JoshRainerGold This is her PhD abstract. It's wild. https://t.co/hwdUmEKOyf
2026-02-17T02:34 id=2023586746475442195 →- | A lossless decompression of binary code is possible.   A loseless decompression of an LLM is not.   Ask yourself why. Don't look it up. Just ask yourself why.
2026-02-17T02:37 id=2023587482038923478 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee I think it's more that capital turns serious people silly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do the central planners fear what would happen if serious people had such capital?
2026-02-17T02:38 id=2023587720870981931 →nikitabier | @nikitabier @Bonecondor I will Venmo her $10,000 if you do this and I'm not joking. || CTX: @Bonecondor Your account has been suspended from creator rev share for all eternity.
2026-02-17T02:39 id=2023588093299679255 →NNunnelee | @NNunnelee yeah kinda thinking I need a new gimmick tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Youve been making the point why for many tweets now...
2026-02-17T02:46 id=2023589721814028767 →TheRusoaica | @TheRusoaica @nikitabier @Bonecondor you have to be as funny as birb to qualify || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nikitabier @Bonecondor @47fucb4r8c69323 I to don’t get any revenue on X. @nikitabier can verify that. When can I expect my $10K??
2026-02-17T02:49 id=2023590702089736446 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Well that and Codex 5.3 Spark. || CTX: broadly correct take — the OpenClaw acquisition is about OpenAI trying to catch up to Anthropic’s increasingly-sophisticated enterprise offerings, not a fumble. https://t.co/IAxOODWAxW
2026-02-17T02:50 id=2023590783673373092 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 wow he's so prescient and daring || CTX: lol https://t.co/4IsvNE2Zh6
2026-02-17T02:53 id=2023591483295564007 →nonefungible | @nonefungible @elenanisonoff ngmi || CTX: @elenanisonoff taste is also just a prompt. taste is a just remixing data points and you can prompt an llm to do that
2026-02-17T03:10 id=2023595930742637044 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ a man can dream || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LMAO
2026-02-17T03:18 id=2023597849162969394 →- | tbh I'd trust Palantir over Anthropic with my shrimp
2026-02-17T03:18 id=2023598019107852677 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Dude you could've DMed me, like I'm trying here || CTX: If I had a higher IQ than I thought it would be MUCH more disappointing than finding out I had a lower IQ than I thought.   Imagine being 130 IQ and being too life retarded to not be successful. What's that good for? Sudoku?
2026-02-17T03:20 id=2023598390156947928 →somewheresy | @somewheresy Then we know it's ethical || CTX: Imagine if Claude reaches ASI, says “Hello” and then just explodes every single nuclear warhead on the planet simultaneously
2026-02-17T03:22 id=2023598803946008684 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @vxunderground moving fast and breaking things   like billions of people's grip on sanity || CTX: @vxunderground Why are we doing this. https://t.co/ZBPj7uVsMM
2026-02-17T03:22 id=2023598945726058800 →- | Btw, this is what Steve Jobs's daughter looks like now https://t.co/kDbb7Ro8tc || CTX: What a chart. https://t.co/BIBM0Ij6Gz
2026-02-17T03:52 id=2023606342083375374 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 one fits in the other || CTX: Is this "burj" khalifa related to the mia one?
2026-02-17T05:12 id=2023626529079783756 →thrialectics | Fantastic, comprehensive, technically detailed, and accurate.  I just have one suggestion:  "The attention blocks look at the context of your language and update their understanding of what words mean based on that context."   Change to:  "The attention blocks look at the textually embedded context of your language and update their understanding of what words mean in this case based on that embedded context." || CTX: Read it!  https://t.co/Ng7BSgBXAV
2026-02-17T05:22 id=2023629108375105760 →- | Extremely good technical breakdown tied to an elucidating philosophical stance. Also well written.  Read it. https://t.co/Mr3oSRBLN7 || CTX: Read it!  https://t.co/Ng7BSgBXAV
2026-02-17T05:23 id=2023629472835268822 →alexzeig | @alexzeig @giansegato Grindset culture is really bad for creating new ideas. || CTX: darwin worked 4 hours a day with three 90-min sessions and walks in between: wrote origin of species on that schedule  poincaré did 4 hours too and his biggest math breakthrough came stepping onto a bus after days of NOT thinking about the 
2026-02-17T05:31 id=2023631457814544397 →defaultuser9999 | @defaultuser9999 @provisionalidea lol yeah I've had it fuck up my code big time too  Still, I first tried vibecoding in 2024, my standards are low. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea Spark is horrendous.  It's a stain on the good name of "Codex 5.3"
2026-02-17T06:43 id=2023649390179873204 →- | Dear Apple,  I would like all apps to have access to all of my files and folders at all time. Yes I am insane and suicidal. Just let me stop clicking "Allow" so I can enjoy my life.
2026-02-17T07:06 id=2023655204005302618 →- | "This hedge fund billionaire is not a gambler"  Don't be scared to poast, Anon, you can literally say anything. https://t.co/ynL5v4Ojbu || CTX: Ray Dalio is many things but he’s not exactly a gambler. If he’s saying the world is ending every six months for the past 30 years, he probably knows something.
2026-02-17T07:11 id=2023656627476611573 →- | RT @HighyieldHarry: Life after realizing Ray Dalio is an idiot https://t.co/qHxXOihKKx || CTX: Life after realizing Ray Dalio is an idiot https://t.co/qHxXOihKKx
2026-02-17T07:20 id=2023658854593294849 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics &lt;3 my man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would rather never make a dime from this site
2026-02-17T07:38 id=2023663359103737980 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill wtf why just 3+ it's mid-February || CTX: How many books have you read so far in 2026? (Audiobooks count)
2026-02-17T07:38 id=2023663420575494409 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JasonBotterill yeah douchebag comment. zero ragrets || CTX: @JasonBotterill wtf why just 3+ it's mid-February
2026-02-17T08:03 id=2023669690640339068 →christophcsmith | @christophcsmith Verification is a kind of matching according to an index, while solving is finding the index and then doing said matching.  So this isn't surprising, but it also means the more LLMs are designed to do the former and not the latter, the less thinking it is emulating. || CTX: The fundamental computer science insight that makes LLMs useful despite the fact that they make mistakes and hallucinate is this: **verification** is computationally easier than **solving**.
2026-02-17T08:05 id=2023670115972026766 →JPKivisto | @JPKivisto The conservative response is that we can't know what happens when we break from tradition, so conservativism is a good way to avoid undue risk.  I don't hold this view personally. || CTX: If we conclude:  1. Conservativism means maintaining status quo.  2. We don’t live in a perfect world.  3. We wish to live in a perfect or more perfect world.  Then conservativism is undesireable.
2026-02-17T08:34 id=2023677527462748310 →- | Moral actions can never be fully rational.  One can indeed begin with an axiomatic premise (all babies should be allowed to live) and then follow the logic from that premise, but if your premises are wrong, the rationality of the logic that follows does not matter.  Hence one ends up saying kill animals to save animals, or buy an English castle to save starving poor orphans or whatever.  This error is very common because the human mind craves certainty—and so we seek it where it should not be sought.  The rationalist tries to make his premises rational, and quickly ends up in an infinite regress trap that they try to patch up with more presuppositions.  Realizing the presuppositions are not rational, the rationalist then keeps doing this and doing this, until you end up with ridiculous ideas like start a crypto exchange, steal from your customers, and gamble the money for the greater good.  This kind of thinking is wrong and needs to stop.  Human behavior is not grounded in rationality and you need to stop acting like it is.  Human behavior is grounded in embodiment, it is an extension of the human body living in the world and acting accordingly.  There is no rational final answer for any moral question, not a single one. Go ahead and give me one and I can show you, very easily and with little cognitive strain, exactly why your moral question lacks a rational answer.  And just how much you are willing to hear me out will tell you how rational you truly are.
2026-02-17T09:05 id=2023685214283985365 →1889lw | @1889lw god I wish I could do it all over again. I'd do that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Conceptual continuity in science stuff
2026-02-17T09:23 id=2023689747605119313 →atelicinvest | @atelicinvest I kind of want to link that Soros piece on reflexivity, but it feels kind of played out at this point || CTX: It's almost like stuff moves and we invent stories and get spooked so it moves more and we invent more stories and https://t.co/5GMdou1ZMX
2026-02-17T09:59 id=2023698750217318717 →teodorio | @teodorio Let's hope the Americans start copying this Chinese technology. || CTX: Man I want to go to China now https://t.co/RlHf2e5Gqt
2026-02-17T10:03 id=2023699834021310975 →clownbusting | @clownbusting Can I say something
2026-02-17T10:11 id=2023701763350819045 →burkov | @burkov Last paragraph is how I feel about Claude || CTX: GPT-5.3-Codex is only borderline competitive with Claude Opus 4.6 when you set the reasoning effort to Extra High.  Any value below Extra High just results in unforgivably dumb decisions and argumentation.  And this attitude. This fucking a
2026-02-17T10:59 id=2023714008365429130 →helscom | @helscom @uubzu I'm just a guy || CTX: @uubzu @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-02-17T11:02 id=2023714785708437564 →christophcsmith | @christophcsmith This is a compelling framing of the idea because it suggests an AI can in principle synthesize an index by index-matching steps, and the better the steps the better the synthetic index.  So CoT and related tricks produce artificial "thinking"! This is compelling! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, although I'd suggest that "thinking" may be produced through the composition of intuition-steps.  That is, you may be able to do index finding by chaining the right sequence of index-matching steps. And so non-thinking
2026-02-17T11:03 id=2023714979661365340 →- | This is brilliant, helped me intuit what thinking models are really doing to simulate thinking. https://t.co/EA6SM8xM12 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, although I'd suggest that "thinking" may be produced through the composition of intuition-steps.  That is, you may be able to do index finding by chaining the right sequence of index-matching steps. And so non-thinking
2026-02-17T11:04 id=2023715065850196413 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @theseeker I'm all ears. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theseeker It would be easy to agree with it if only it was right
2026-02-17T11:09 id=2023716421344391621 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Anscombe de Bouvoir  Hypatia Julian of Norwich Hildegard of Bingen  Weil Arendt FOOT!!!  just off the top of my head and I'm crying hysterically at my mental health issues so not even trying  Nussbaum is a fraud || CTX: https://t.co/4Z9srKyS4D https://t.co/2y2efVlsFk
2026-02-17T11:13 id=2023717541605241077 →- | Rationality does not produce certainty.  Rationality produces conviction. Rationality ends at certainty.
2026-02-17T11:26 id=2023720771777163450 →AlexCaswen | "It’s about achieving the greatest possible outcome using the least amount of resources"  "greatest", "achieve", "outcome" are all underspecified by rationality--they are presupposed a priori assumptions based on arational feel codified within a culture.  Then achieving said a priori goals "using the least amount of resources" is absolutely rational.  I'm not against efficiency, but EA's philosophical unseriousness in acknowledging the culturally circumsbred assumptions of itself as a community is why it isn't efficient and has bad outcomes.  Doesn't matter though, EA is dying and will be a joke or a footnote in the intellectual history of the world. Alongside phrenology and other pseudo intellectual fads. || CTX: EA it’s right there in the name: Effective Altruism, not Global Effective Altruism, just EA It’s about achieving the greatest possible outcome using the least amount of resources It’s not necessarily zero sum, it just accepts that there con
2026-02-17T11:46 id=2023725857215553713 →AlexCaswen | Your second paragraph gets to the heart of the matter.  Internet chatter is fine, I love discussing ideas, but the issue is that the forum discussions serve to produce an artificial cultural norm based on irrelevant arbitrary or orthogonal features of the forum itself.   So then we need to assess EA culture on its merits like any other culture instead of take them for their word.   And the very predictable and hilarious disasters we saw demonstrate that culture is flawed.  Singer had a good idea. An overextended good idea is a bad idea. Especially when extended by idiots. || CTX: You think they don’t acknowledge those shortcomings ? There are entire forums full of these discussions !  EA should have never achieved the scale it did with sbf’s money, it was always going to be toxic to normies, and the excessive funds 
2026-02-17T11:59 id=2023728901709758576 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen 1000% agreement. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For the record sbf wrapped himself in EA as a marketing and PR ploy, and they were fools to accept his money Just like current day crypto scams that ask you to “claim” a wallet of a shitcoin, you’re trading reputation and c
2026-02-17T12:04 id=2023730361771929800 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna This is beautiful to help orientate oneself toward that true union, and consider how our snapshots of behaviors (including our own) only hint at the intentions behind them. || CTX: Vladimir Solovyov completely mogging Richard Dawkins’ “selfish gene” thesis with his Christian theurgical metaphysics of the organic nearly a full century avant la lettre:  “The essence and the chief purpose of the animal life undoubtedly c
2026-02-17T12:11 id=2023732011035467783 →- | Nice, was starting to get bored.  It'll be low drama this time for realsies https://t.co/xFmyaotbeR
2026-02-17T12:16 id=2023733258706423813 →gorn_legacy | @gorn_legacy This is on Mac not iPhone how dare you insinuate I use an iphone || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Then switch to Android. This is exactly what Android does.
2026-02-17T12:39 id=2023739071080644972 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yet another Wittgenstein connection. This really is just ancient wisdom we apparently cannot accept as true. || CTX: “It is not a question between mysticism and rationality. It is a question between mysticism and madness.”  “There is no rational philosophy of human rights…to which we can appeal in defence even of the most intimate or individual things tha
2026-02-17T12:41 id=2023739508995616958 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This predicts so much and, yeah, he was right.   I was a fool to postpone reading Chesterton for so long. Among many other things. || CTX: “In short, unless pilots are to be permitted to ram ships on to the rocks and then say that heaven is the only true harbour; unless judges are to be allowed to let murderers loose, and explain afterwards that the murder had done good on the
2026-02-17T12:50 id=2023741835114684769 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw lol wait what was the prompt?!? || CTX: claude is not happy about her essay https://t.co/xUM64soW45 https://t.co/24iI1SxFGt
2026-02-17T12:52 id=2023742256277266598 →47fucb4r8c69323 | prob kids are sicker of it tbh || CTX: I can't be the only one sick and fucking tired of hearing about what Paul Graham says to his kids.
2026-02-17T12:52 id=2023742253483659473 →- | I can't be the only one sick and fucking tired of hearing about what Paul Graham says to his kids.
2026-02-17T12:57 id=2023743693833097373 →- | Polymarket is where you can buy a poly
2026-02-17T12:58 id=2023743849903075813 →- | My favorite movie as a kid was Tron.  Totes out of character. https://t.co/i9isvVsZbu || CTX: I grew up with this movie. I loved it so much I watched it like 20 times as a kid. https://t.co/tOzb99MxP6
2026-02-17T13:20 id=2023749317295739178 →- | Paras Chopra, ja Huonoin Chopra onpa Deepak. https://t.co/vU1j1ODM8i || CTX: Ever wondered why OpenClaw went viral but many other similar projects didn’t?  Well, just look at the number of projects by OpenClaw’s creator.  Virality is a function of number of attempts. It’s so rare and unpredictable that your best bet
2026-02-17T13:20 id=2023749321636868521 →47fucb4r8c69323 | don't mock me for misusing the -pa particle, I never could get it right. || CTX: Paras Chopra, ja Huonoin Chopra onpa Deepak. https://t.co/vU1j1ODM8i
2026-02-17T13:25 id=2023750680889241698 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Yeah he's probably targeting low level engineer types, mid 20s || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s more endearing when you are 25 years younger than him without kids, for whom he writes.
2026-02-17T13:37 id=2023753640713089343 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @JPKivisto I really need to read that dude ASAP || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JPKivisto i think we need to dissect conservativism to identify chesterton’s fence elements and actually keep them
2026-02-17T13:52 id=2023757421924270150 →- | Imagine what it's like if you're obsessed with finding the cause of strategic miscommunication and blindspots.  "They'll appreciate me pointing it out to them."   I'm so stupid. https://t.co/cfZRVNVyT7 || CTX: specifically the work is in increasing the bandwidth between minds. This allows for deeper connection, but also a higher surface area for conflict. A lot of relationships are maintained by strategic miscommunication/blindspots (but those ca
2026-02-17T14:07 id=2023761169455140978 →iuvanet | @iuvanet Yeah connivers fuck us up really easily. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can sort of account for this and the backlash if you're a little Machiavellian about it, but for the autistic or otherwise socially maladapted people it's a nightmare
2026-02-17T14:09 id=2023761806561604088 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @JPKivisto You just made me realize.   If this is a risk assessment of the future, it's essentially a probabilistic question. So shouldn't there be a continuum between liberal and conservative, really no discrete barrier between them? || CTX: @JPKivisto @47fucb4r8c69323 A Burkean/Hayekian version might be that prudence and caution are advisable when considering change, but that change is ultimately inevitable since societal identity is subject to Ship of Theseus evolution.
2026-02-17T14:10 id=2023761984706277501 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk As you've probably already figured out I'm a believer in process ontology. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Every scientific man in order to preserve his reputation has to say he dislikes metaphysics.  What he means is he dislikes having his metaphysics criticized." -Alfred North Whitehead
2026-02-17T14:11 id=2023762155955519715 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ hot water bottles and a sauna || CTX: Help. Started a new workout routine yesterday and woke up at 5am feeling like I’ve been hit by a ton of bricks. Can barely move - seriously  Everything feels likens strain  What to do
2026-02-17T14:11 id=2023762341272449207 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw after a leg day just hurts so much man || CTX: the complexity of the sauce i prepare often inversely correlates with how tired i am (rawdogging chicken breast after a horrible leg day)
2026-02-17T14:21 id=2023764661527867823 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Thailand || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where do you get this "god weed"
2026-02-17T14:25 id=2023765867948089446 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @JPKivisto Yeah you're right, that continuum question is the least of the complexities. Politics increasingly baffles me as I get older. || CTX: Well if you take a look at what has been called “conservative viewpoints” through just the 80/90s, there were many people who would have shared some of those perspectives, but if you locked them up in a room - they’d probably kill each othe
2026-02-17T14:34 id=2023768071371104563 →0bNARA | @0bNARA Are those manuscripts in the third pic? || CTX: day 2 in lhasa . we by chance saw part of a tibetan opera at norbulingka palace . we spent a lot of time walking around the city again, i saw a lot of people carrying around bags of sweets etc in preparation for the new year . i ate a lot o
2026-02-17T14:59 id=2023774398675816905 →1889lw | @1889lw Atta boy || CTX: I don’t respect anyone anymore. Fuck all of you
2026-02-17T15:06 id=2023776136166318105 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ F || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Im in rural Canada lmao
2026-02-17T15:53 id=2023787889126175172 →- | dollar store ass cyberpunk future
2026-02-17T15:57 id=2023789029825925352 →aramh | @aramh @lu_sichu @MattWalshBlog I understand the intuition but just let people enjoy things || CTX: @MattWalshBlog AI content is masturbation. It's ok to do it, but it's never ok to show it to others.
2026-02-17T16:28 id=2023796783248536064 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees I just think of math as a consistent artificial language that tracks variants and invariants.  Idk, is that a controversial view among mathematicians these days? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ahhh great. Often see people over-value their interests but I see math and language with a high degree of overlap and unified it's about the most amazing thing to me.
2026-02-17T16:29 id=2023796900441584117 →stinkgen | @stinkgen hahahahaha I like this better || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The SHEIN Singularity is upon us.
2026-02-17T16:52 id=2023802664321241304 →atelicinvest | @atelicinvest -48% sales growth? No wonder it tanked. || CTX: One company - not pure SaaS either, - 48% sales growth - 62% EBITDA growth - Guided to 20% rev and EBITDA growth for FY26 - stock down 22% - at 7x EBITDA  ????????
2026-02-17T16:52 id=2023802815379079298 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @atelicinvest https://t.co/HX2B5gH7q3 || CTX: @atelicinvest -48% sales growth? No wonder it tanked.
2026-02-17T17:01 id=2023805135999365264 →- | My most Luddite friend (got his first smart phone in 2022, also his first cell phone).  Today he told me he's started using AI.
2026-02-17T17:08 id=2023806799078715419 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw fuck yeah he's in his 50s, good call || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 warn him about llm psychosis
2026-02-17T17:28 id=2023811841479315460 →- | You know, Anon, there's another side to shorter attention spans.   Friend of mine recently said I package up ideas before true understanding is possible, and I agree (but I also think true understanding is impossible for everyone, but anyway).  I think I think this way as a consequence of my digital nativism: the transmission control protocol guides the packets to my machine, and the digits combine to create the illusion of continuity...   But there's no continuity. Bit becomes letter becomes word becomes post. And post. And post. Speed rewarded by the form and my own disorder, I think in terms of packets to be opened by the protocol on the other machine and represented as pixels.  And I'm on to the next post. And the next.  The speed encourages tricks, like Homer reaching for formulaic poetic phrases, 47 the word-shitter Americorum Post-Modernii finds that concepts themselves are packages, and he can box them up to be elements of his comprehensive tweet set.   What results is a new human experience, a kind of concept bender. Knowledge comes out, useful knowledge validated with money and unique access.   Ask me how I know.  I am a Xennial if we want to get technical so I know the old ways. I can read books. I can write them. It's too easy, honestly, so I hate people who worship them.  And yes the experience is worth it. I can still remember the visceral mindscape reading Memoirs of a Geisha. Books good.   I shan't choose among my children, I choose both the book and the bukkake of digitization.   Put your texts all over my faaaaaaaaaace
2026-02-17T17:37 id=2023814146119303189 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka he's ngmi way ahead of us || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he's either ngmi or he's way ahead of us
2026-02-17T17:46 id=2023816402935902597 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 @UnkleDell God this made me laugh so hard and idk why you got me good man || CTX: @UnkleDell https://t.co/2ychkTB2MK
2026-02-18T00:38 id=2023920058695917849 →- | Even the word "monkey" doesn't always mean monkey?   Oh dear, how will we ever get LLMs yeah you guys know the rest https://t.co/31OmGBpDBk || CTX: "humans are monkeys" feels like saying "apples are tables"
2026-02-18T00:44 id=2023921476714553563 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Night of the Living Dead on acid is insane || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 One time this dude who barely knew me was the 'last man standing' at my house after an acid party. We watched:  2001 Night of the Living Dead Tron  I was his psy-fried Leonard Maltin
2026-02-18T00:45 id=2023921783582454055 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod "you are responsible for my actions" LMFAO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah, still in the safe range Certainly 15000 cool people using X without a question (Hi UCA)  Quarter million is the tard shooting gallery. Observe.  https://t.co/A8rBdEcqW3
2026-02-18T00:47 id=2023922184381759680 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz It absolutely is, and sadly it's too subtle so most don't see it.   Oh wait that's why it's so important maybe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd say ~0.1% appreciate it  I think this is one of the literal most important pieces of knowledge in existence
2026-02-18T00:48 id=2023922452712321380 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk oh the sarcasm was totally received! || CTX: it was supposed to be sarcastic with the fulfillment of the dream (that would actually be nightmare), I really need to work on how to communicate sarcasm on here, I know I know but yeah basically it would shatter what/who we know, humans ha
2026-02-18T00:48 id=2023922614197252347 →tkisrage | @tkisrage I can relate to the narcissistic urge to give advice.   Hard urge to control. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He satisfies his narcissistic urge to give advice by smuggling it through a parenting story
2026-02-18T00:50 id=2023922986211037691 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Heidegger was too pessimistic about it though  gee wonder why he'd be concerned about modern ideological movements, hmmm... eh, probably nothing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Heidegger was right about technology
2026-02-18T00:51 id=2023923255787352453 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy lol I think someone showed Brockman my tweet  I can't prove it, sadly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ?  https://t.co/fxtObE4RKc
2026-02-18T00:51 id=2023923404106313815 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Also Manidis is just a reactionary blogger, let him yap || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ?  https://t.co/fxtObE4RKc
2026-02-18T00:52 id=2023923572897706239 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 A shame they can't buy Enough. A shame it's never for sale. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 these vcs are like those hollywood celebs who mistake their success in one arena meaning that we want to hear their thoughts on everything or that they are some kind of genius in all fields. ni***a does it too. they didnt f
2026-02-18T01:04 id=2023926543899349153 →- | If you read a beautiful passage in a book, has the author convinced you the passage is beautiful? If not, where does the feeling come from and how does the author conjure it up?
2026-02-18T01:09 id=2023927699769880799 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Sacrifice_Isaac Huge John McLaughlin fan.   I saw Al di Meola in concert about 10 years or so ago, he was incredible. || CTX: @Sacrifice_Isaac My first jazz album - I’m not sure I even remember. Probably Pat Matheny or John McLaughlin.   My first blues album was a Clapton album a lot of people don’t know about (apparently): https://t.co/bWNmh017lZ
2026-02-18T01:14 id=2023929076902514833 →- | I never treat physicalism as a premise. That's the trap.   But I do treat it as the highest probable general conclusion.  And then "probable" and "general" suddenly are much more important than the "physicalism" part.
2026-02-18T01:14 id=2023929189498548520 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Goddammit Roland Barthes I've been fighting you my whole life || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the author does not conjure it up, you do. the feeling comes from within you. that is why i can conjure up chicken nuggets from nothing. but the author gave you the ingredients just like mcdonalds gave me the first nuggets.
2026-02-18T01:18 id=2023929988706431018 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 okay those book covers go insanely hard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol = the drowning man (or woman?) https://t.co/o2ja5sCZz3
2026-02-18T01:20 id=2023930464416002350 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Dietary Restrictions Final Boss || CTX: Lent?  Ramadan?   Chinese new year?   A wonderful Trifecta
2026-02-18T01:25 id=2023931745566081126 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Sacrifice_Isaac omfg I was a huge Dream Theater fan, my favorite prog rog band. I listened to Awake maybe 500 times before I was a legal adult || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sacrifice_Isaac Al is just amazing. When I was in college and started learning guitar, I wanted to be Al. Well Al or maybe John Petriucci from Dream Theater.   This was after listening to that trio concert with him, John M
2026-02-18T01:26 id=2023932001972273243 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth A good author quite literally pulls us out of this world for a brief moment.  I love this idea. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it exists outside the author and a skilled one will pull you to that magic place to experience it together
2026-02-18T01:27 id=2023932287264715223 →RalphStefanWeir | @RalphStefanWeir Blade Runner? The first movie, idk about the book. || CTX: Who was the sci-fi author or futurologist who came closest to predicting the widespread adoption of the concept "AI slop"?
2026-02-18T01:29 id=2023932761564999940 →paleoludic | @paleoludic That's the thing, everything I can think of that it tells you is useless information.  It tells me not to stand in front of a moving train, that's real helpful lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are there any situations where physicalism says you should act one way and any alternative says something else? how bad is the gap if you let them pessimize each other?
2026-02-18T01:31 id=2023933234552418472 →xndrshea | @xndrshea This was T. S. Eliot's argument about the impersonality of poetry.  Been rebelling against it for 25 years now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The greatest authors reveal the beauty within me. The more the author is in the passage, the uglier it will be.
2026-02-18T01:35 id=2023934441320747111 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Sacrifice_Isaac I've never seen them live and for some reason they don't feel like a band to be experienced live. I have no idea why I feel that way though || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sacrifice_Isaac That said / I never quite warmed up to James as much as the rest of the band. This is esp true live - he has a hard time with high notes and long lines.   There are places where he’s just amazing and other 
2026-02-18T01:36 id=2023934605947269534 →xndrshea | @xndrshea I rebel against this particular idea because I am lonely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where does your rebelling come from? Is this not why we love philosophy?
2026-02-18T01:40 id=2023935742410625090 →- | I've been talking to a friend about writing a book on the decline of English studies in the US and UK.   I want to frame the story as a decline of the arts and rise of economics as the central node of cultural value in the zeitgeist.  So let's examine this tweet with a timeline:  First, 47 posts about the subtleties of taste. About 10 hours later, Greg Brockman posts about taste and fucking pins the tweet. Next day, a young economist tweets this.   I am winning the culture war. || CTX: All this talk about taste being a ‘core skill’ is making me think my undergrad aesthetics coursework might finally pay off
2026-02-18T01:47 id=2023937377484607855 →- | A mental health diagnosis, like "autism level 2" for example, is a description that functions as an explanation but is not itself an explanation.
2026-02-18T01:47 id=2023937496384762080 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Sacrifice_Isaac SATRIANI TOO?!!?!!? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sacrifice_Isaac They are actually great live / minus James that is. First concert I went to with my wife. Joe Satriani opened for them iirc.   This is LTE (3 of them + Tony Levin on bass). They sound like this if you are i
2026-02-18T01:51 id=2023938280719610259 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic wait thumbs up yes I can not or thumbs up yes I can?   I need more coffee for this poll || CTX: can you guys really not imagine someone in power that you could love?
2026-02-18T01:52 id=2023938682311589917 →- | Any man who wants to live forever misunderstands what we mean by the word "forever".
2026-02-18T02:01 id=2023940908849447257 →EtherDais | @EtherDais And of course Wittgenstein goes over this quite well in discussions on the confusion between identity and copula so common to scientific discourse of his time.  I still see that confusion, but lacking a science background must conclude I'm probably the one confused. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Every use of "is" tends to be a little white lie of sorts, outside of tautologies  That's the part that does the work, otherwise you're e-priming it
2026-02-18T02:02 id=2023941283853787228 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Right, a very detailed and specific description, but ultimately a spiritual one (the "psyche" of psychology). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well, it’s not a brain scan, but it’s a latent construct that corresponds to a syndrome or set of traits strongly associated with a neurotype or neurodevelopmental profile.
2026-02-18T02:03 id=2023941527127634144 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Sacrifice_Isaac hahaha what'd she think of the concert? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sacrifice_Isaac Yes. Was a great concert. (Of course my wife’s idea of music was more like U2 or Billy Joel. Very causal listener)
2026-02-18T02:10 id=2023943069356474392 →- | Novel idea: (Okay this is a really stupid one, I must still be slightly stoned from the gummies last night)  Rock band gets massive. Lead singer elated because, like all rock musicians, he's only in it for the chicks.  So they go to their first concert, groupies galore gagging for it. Our hero is disappointed even as his bandmates take the girls by twos and threes into their trailers and motel rooms.  "Next album we gotta mix things up, maybe the style of this music attracts uggos."   And so his strident guidance moves the music towards a new telos and the sophomore album sounds nothing like the first.   It's even bigger.  But wouldn't you know it: uggos, uggos as far as the eye can see. Yet the triplets and higher number arrangements frolick to slumber chambers as band mates happy with these chicks' fashion as much as the last cohort.   The fungibility of sex objects is a well known phenomenon.  Lead singer frustrated, decides gonna do a fucking boy band pop vibe on the next one.  Leader is followed and concerts again disappoint.   And yes of course at the end of the novel he discovers he's gay.  Like I said, I'm still a bit stoned.
2026-02-18T02:11 id=2023943499675009509 →paleoludic | @paleoludic lmao I was writing this tweet while you were writing that: https://t.co/whJQPiGncc || CTX: Novel idea: (Okay this is a really stupid one, I must still be slightly stoned from the gummies last night)  Rock band gets massive. Lead singer elated because, like all rock musicians, he's only in it for the chicks.  So they go to their f
2026-02-18T02:13 id=2023944002165170597 →- | I bet Jeffrey Epstein never arranged a goy themed sex party for John Paulson where John would rape 3 16 year olds.  Because of a lack of imagination you see
2026-02-18T02:18 id=2023945200649793548 →paleoludic | @paleoludic Mohammed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 has anyone ever done a vision of paradise where there's chicks before
2026-02-18T02:20 id=2023945597280256375 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Wang fuk goes hard || CTX: Wang Fuk Court will be the name of the palace where I keep my imperial oomfie harem https://t.co/xRD6NwPzeL
2026-02-18T02:42 id=2023951205240566094 →- | Remember I'm in Thailand, this was about 8 hours before the TBPN tweet.   I'm way too good at this shit to be on the sell side https://t.co/xOpxJsrjpp https://t.co/rEiPaCHqAu || CTX: BREAKING: Anthropic is hiring a “Salesforce Administrator” to run CRM for its GTM team https://t.co/UeX4gkyuLH
2026-02-18T02:58 id=2023955187421900880 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @attentionmech Nope, but thanks for the rec!   https://t.co/Sy4cvXV87Q this made me follow him. || CTX: If there was no miscommunication, all story manifolds will collapse. Hence, minimum necessary miscommunication is useful to stablize storylines.  Imperfections keep universes blossoming.
2026-02-18T03:00 id=2023955783185002538 →- | What's funny about this absolutely correct tweet is that the culture wars were inflamed by literature departments in the 1990s and 2000s.  Like, I was there. It's why I left. https://t.co/9e7KYGi5UB || CTX: Literature is calling you to put down your phone; ignore the culture wars; block out the secondhand musings of newspaper philosophers. Turn to the great works of civilisation. See that your life is a quest for meaning. Become as ambitious a
2026-02-18T03:15 id=2023959488294735970 →- | Philip Goff is a very good writer and identifies many problems but is ultimately a mediocre mind.  He cannot understand intelligibility must necessarily at some point stop. https://t.co/lMorWgI80q
2026-02-18T03:19 id=2023960587911254045 →cackenbools | @cackenbools Almost Famous, yeah I gave up after 15 minutes. I find that director insufferable. boomerslopmax || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's that movie about that rolling stone writer or intern or whatever? That guy was probably gay.
2026-02-18T03:19 id=2023960619590856870 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka start a rock band || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this information.
2026-02-18T03:20 id=2023960828408365427 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Crying at the view of the Grand Canyon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you give me the most inexplicable human action that cannot be rationalized as moral?
2026-02-18T03:22 id=2023961335285887165 →BoWang87 | @BoWang87 imagine writing like this holy shit || CTX: Yann LeCun just said something that every AI-in-healthcare researcher should sit with.   He basically said: If language were enough to understand the world, you could learn medicine by reading books.  But you can’t. You need residency. You 
2026-02-18T03:23 id=2023961607194259539 →- | Me as a child: "I want to write for a living."  Me ad an adult: "No not like that."
2026-02-18T03:26 id=2023962273199378941 →cackenbools | @cackenbools That's interesting because Man vs Self is my favorite trope.   I think it's just the battle Crowe stages is too trivial for me to care about.  Show me a man not fight himself but The Self, and I will be moved. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's accurate. Part of it is the medium. It aged poorly. It was never good. Can you learn from cameron crowe's mistakes? I don't think you can. Man Vs. Self is always the worst trope.
2026-02-18T03:30 id=2023963360749117763 →cackenbools | @cackenbools What'd you think of Synecdoche New York? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well, every character arc has that element. If you develop a character correctly the movie can be about something else the whole time. Like, it has to be. Having it be the central theme is consistently garbage one way or th
2026-02-18T03:37 id=2023964969868435926 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Wish I had your confidence. || CTX: Usually, they do cry because of 3 possibilities: Either they cry because they cannot change anything about what they cry about but they want/find it existential to bring back/can't live without, or they cry because they want some attention,
2026-02-18T03:37 id=2023964986419343706 →cackenbools | @cackenbools If you ever watch it I'd be curious what you think of it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I haven't seen it, but it's probably good if it has phillip seymour hoffman in 2008
2026-02-18T03:39 id=2023965447863890178 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak When politics is your only scalar smdh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SuperheroFreak https://t.co/7cU7QkQywQ  😬
2026-02-18T03:39 id=2023965605934612494 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak Everyone has a point sometimes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SuperheroFreak I will have you know - I did read all of that at point. I don’t agree with it, but if you edit out all of the political rants, it’s not a bad essay.
2026-02-18T03:40 id=2023965803956076752 →- | Me as a child: "I want to write for a living."  Me as an adult: "No not like that."
2026-02-18T03:41 id=2023966154348228810 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak Bold claim. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SuperheroFreak I think he had likely had serious untreated psychological issues.
2026-02-18T03:43 id=2023966473580937516 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Rovelli wipes the floor with Land || CTX: Ok what if you got Land and Rovelli in the room together. What then
2026-02-18T03:47 id=2023967517111402817 →- | That awkward moment when you're explaining to your girlfriend's friend in Thai that the phrase on her shirt is Latin but you don't know whether to use เป็น or คือ and you don't know Aramaic or Greek or even if they have a different word for the copula and the imposter syndrome hits
2026-02-18T03:47 id=2023967665845662073 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I didn't even know it was from John I'm such a loser || CTX: That awkward moment when you're explaining to your girlfriend's friend in Thai that the phrase on her shirt is Latin but you don't know whether to use เป็น or คือ and you don't know Aramaic or Greek or even if they have a different word for
2026-02-18T03:49 id=2023968067244749269 →XOblackrock | @XOblackrock Argentinians like to say they're Europeans but really they're just Europoors || CTX: Doesn't this look familiar? 🇺🇸 https://t.co/3owPwxmnTm
2026-02-18T03:49 id=2023968153039196542 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak Like he went to the Crazy Buffet and just put everything on one plate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SuperheroFreak As in I am not sure he was your classic psychopath - lacking empathy etc.   Probably autistic. There was a lot of paranoid/persecutory sentiment - kinda like schizophrenia. Very rigid b/w thinking, obsessive
2026-02-18T04:02 id=2023971277552447627 →- | Many years ago my girlfriend I went to Japan.   As we were walking through a small neighborhood supermarket, she pointed at some fruit. "What's that?" she asked.  "Oh, those are peaches."   "Oh wow!" she said, "I've heard about those but never had one."   Just as I'd been with dragon fruit and pomelo and so many other staples from her world, so too was she now with a fruit from my world.  I picked the nicest peach of the pile, went to the register, paid. We went outside and sat down outside the store at my insistence. There were no seats so we sat on one of those metal arc thingies people lock their bikes on.  I took the peach out of the paper bag and gave it to her, that familiar tingling going from the back of my neck to my lower back as I fought back tears.  This lowly white trash kid somehow is now able to expand the world of this beautiful kind woman.  She took a bite, thankfully not noticing my interiority fighting against the sublime.  "Yeah it's okay." || CTX: Nobody talks about the most important Mad Men episode where Don takes his new wife to a roadside diner that he idealized as a child, and she says the orange sherbert tastes gross. He abandons her there and she has a scary time going home an
2026-02-18T04:04 id=2023971751277772928 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor Nothing is more disturbing than the relatable. || CTX: i am much more interested in those who can get past fear when presented with unsettling aesthetic design choice than i am in those who fear what they do not understand. those who are disturbed by what they cannot personally relate to are ba
2026-02-18T04:10 id=2023973332224287085 →ColfieldHolden | @ColfieldHolden How can one implicate? How is this even possible? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's implicit
2026-02-18T04:10 id=2023973411505270857 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 LMFAO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my foid grew up in a small village in mexico so when we first started dating I showed her blink 182 and she laughed at me.
2026-02-18T04:10 id=2023973491502973307 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I'd laugh at you too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my foid grew up in a small village in mexico so when we first started dating I showed her blink 182 and she laughed at me.
2026-02-18T04:13 id=2023974069989712028 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 https://t.co/R36wUOJH2O || CTX: gay robot sex https://t.co/rqQek9wafI
2026-02-18T04:14 id=2023974348525015342 →ColfieldHolden | @ColfieldHolden no i am v stupit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you know the meaning of implicit?
2026-02-18T04:14 id=2023974347002573177 →- | https://t.co/QMF8eIwjdw
2026-02-18T04:15 id=2023974513331880401 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 would || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they all laugh at me... in this fricked up piece of shit world https://t.co/ahe9eyvrmB
2026-02-18T04:38 id=2023980364268499415 →- | then I shall let the madness of my mind spill onto the page, not as a romantic poet but as a shit poster
2026-02-18T04:41 id=2023981146216841288 →- | if you ever feel insecure or that you're not good enough, just remember that Wells Fargo is trying to break into investment banking.
2026-02-18T04:46 id=2023982530999832934 →- | I told Paul Graham's kids if they catch a rainbow and eat it they will see the face of god. and now those little brats are addicted to Skittles smdh
2026-02-18T04:55 id=2023984717888975042 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove https://t.co/M7yPbQTYSl || CTX: dollar store ass cyberpunk future
2026-02-18T04:57 id=2023985104016814112 →- | Many years ago my girlfriend and I went to Japan.   As we were walking through a small neighborhood supermarket, she pointed at some fruit. "What's that?" she asked.  "Oh, those are peaches."   "Oh wow!" she said, "I've heard about those but never had one."   Just as I'd been with dragon fruit and pomelo and so many other staples from her world, so too was she now with a fruit from my world.  I picked the nicest peach of the pile, went to the register, paid. We went outside and sat down outside the store at my insistence. There were no seats so we sat on one of those metal arc thingies people lock their bikes on.  I took the peach out of the paper bag and gave it to her, that familiar tingling going from the back of my neck to my lower back as I fought back tears.  This lowly white trash kid somehow is now able to expand the world of this beautiful kind woman.  She took a bite, thankfully not noticing my interiority fighting against the sublime.  "Yeah it's okay." || CTX: Nobody talks about the most important Mad Men episode where Don takes his new wife to a roadside diner that he idealized as a child, and she says the orange sherbert tastes gross. He abandons her there and she has a scary time going home an
2026-02-18T04:59 id=2023985683510047017 →- | If poetry is impersonal, if the worst narrative is Author vs Self, if my posts with the particulars of my like lack the reach of the more generally aphoristic,   then we're just seeking patterns, structural invariants to rest on.  Connection with the other is tangential.
2026-02-18T05:04 id=2023986974466470103 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago https://t.co/QqNq1RJg2O || CTX: Grok has picked up some interesting deontological characteristics in its system prompts. https://t.co/cYtun27Zrk
2026-02-18T05:11 id=2023988728704696590 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 :looks at bank account, cries:  you dont say || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Cap markets and m&amp;a advisory are changing fast anyway, especially m&amp;a with some big transactions avoiding banks altogether
2026-02-18T05:39 id=2023995645355278465 →- | local inference seems like a good idea, what am I missing?
2026-02-18T05:50 id=2023998481564651894 →dollarskillcape | @dollarskillcape Best feedback a writer can get, thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 feel like I was there
2026-02-18T05:59 id=2024000922628526225 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I'd show this to an interviewer, this is so cool || CTX: Made Claude combine a self-assessment with a scrape of my LeetCode submission history, just to ensure I have an optimal study plan and don't waste one more minute than necessary on silly interview prep. https://t.co/dH4Prz4WMg
2026-02-18T06:15 id=2024004876385349922 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony that's the thing, someone has to pay the cost, so if I can use a frontier model and pay for the electricity required to run my prompts, and I live in a solar powered house, that's surely better than using the openai API, right?  idk I'm outta my depth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 cost?
2026-02-18T06:22 id=2024006714706583793 →- | Remake of Her but it's a comedy
2026-02-18T06:41 id=2024011395969544334 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 is it physically possible for the compute and energy consumption to happen client side while the full model remains server side? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just time.   Models need to be smaller +more efficient so people can run them at home. Also all our personal devices need to be upgraded with a hulk gpu  this is why I bought a 4090 7 months ago and am tempted to buy anothe
2026-02-18T06:43 id=2024011915245056059 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I'm sorry, I cannot disavow men I never avowed. || CTX: if you dont disavow the right people i will disavow you anon  the choice is yours  you  have 24 hours https://t.co/dEVQVgbRKP
2026-02-18T06:45 id=2024012464015503617 →cackenbools | @cackenbools yeah this is what I'm thinking of, seems some encrypted protocol to send packets back and forth could do the trick? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A world of thin clients is for sure something like DRM though if we pretend compute is only good for modeling.
2026-02-18T07:09 id=2024018532460052721 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 This seems like it'll be a big product in the next 5 years.   Tens of billions of spend in TAM today is my gut sense.  Interesting startup idea. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/G2NcX2kDLj
2026-02-18T07:20 id=2024021116130328773 →- | Don't worry, everyone, site's broken. https://t.co/Inb1bqEpFf https://t.co/a4kLpyzU4I || CTX: real nice location doxx bro  (they'll never find @Samhain948689 ) https://t.co/szcYGLbGxa https://t.co/yu5Cc17nhm
2026-02-18T07:21 id=2024021356950565198 →logicus | @logicus That's very much what I'd expect someone using a human shield to do. || CTX: anyone who says anthropic or dario is using amanda askell as a “human shield” should explain why dario himself consistently defends views he knows are much less popular. https://t.co/QLlVZRfKVd
2026-02-18T07:38 id=2024025758654754912 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 if you do it gib equity plz.   ill need abt tree fitty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yea...this is actually really neat. I'm gonna go read more. thanks for the spark of insight haha
2026-02-18T07:39 id=2024025964137890031 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yeah the logic here is nonsense. Schizo shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lotta "ai assessment" systems are less accurate than a magic 8 ball and it's pretty pathetic
2026-02-18T07:41 id=2024026403155698078 →oitixion | @oitixion kinda what I'm going for tbh || CTX: Type of guy who comes out of the Twitter gate hot, goes on an absolutely manic, generational run, and then wakes up one day a bit tired and peaceful, only burning tokens when he has something fun, and entirely inconsequential to say.
2026-02-18T07:41 id=2024026478434746773 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas @cocosci_lab eternal screaming || CTX: Tom Griffiths @cocosci_lab is one of the most thoughtful and creative scientists in the cog sci/AI space. I try to read every paper coming out of his lab. And now I’m excited to read the book. https://t.co/LTrlmRcpSO
2026-02-18T07:45 id=2024027521709207619 →EtherDais | @EtherDais legit no clue if Brockman saw it or not but possibility is non zero as I've been told in DMs there are frontier lab people reading my shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You do seem to be surfing the memetic waves, I see the taste stuff too and have not said boo about it
2026-02-18T07:58 id=2024030820235964810 →- | G K Chesterton is a social architect urging men away from the madness that is my oxygen.
2026-02-18T07:59 id=2024031105515745597 →EtherDais | @EtherDais alwayshasbeen.jpg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting.  Watched like little mice that happen to have novel insights  Dear God they're mining our novelty
2026-02-18T08:03 id=2024031937317208524 →- | A law requiring any company with a 50b USD valuation to go public within a separately defined and structured public equity market (e. g. halfway house between PE and public common stocks) seems like it'd have more pros than cons.
2026-02-18T08:11 id=2024034055789179359 →- | Morality is pre-lingual.
2026-02-18T08:20 id=2024036327180894649 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV I don't think it's non-lingual because I see it as beginning before and outside of language but then being refined by language over time.  Morality is genealogically non-lingual, maybe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you could go further and say it’s non-lingual.   Ethics would be pre-lingual.   Internal vs external
2026-02-18T08:22 id=2024036871903273025 →- | This is some serious bullshit right here. https://t.co/I7HEcSTNXZ
2026-02-18T08:39 id=2024040960779256311 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Empathy and sympathy do exist in animals, albeit rarely and fleetingly, so I have to conclude they exist outside of our human experience and we simply refine them so they're more coherent and consistent. || CTX: I suppose it would depend on how we define “lingual” if any kind of social signaling counts, then I would agree generally with that idea.   The nexus between group survival and the emergence of morality has always fascinated me.   Do you th
2026-02-18T08:40 id=2024041426712174938 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 This picture bothers me a lot because my childhood stuffed bear looks a lot like that and he's the only thing I've been able to keep these past 45 years. || CTX: when you meet your only mutual and it turns out they were ai https://t.co/bglddh6mLx
2026-02-18T09:00 id=2024046272466817327 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Absolutely 1000% correct.  I'm not joking when I say future historians will be reading our tweets. This is crucial shit. || CTX: It does appear that way.  And I wonder if that fact will always a leave an uncanny valley between the social framework we have as humans surrounding morality, and whatever parallel framework we build with our agentified robots.   I think th
2026-02-18T09:01 id=2024046588667343257 →whoelsebutns | @whoelsebutns yeah good question || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/CwWTu9Q4oj
2026-02-18T09:18 id=2024050876936298757 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod yeah, I'll hit the loon/demon regime pretty soon I'm sure || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I didn't mean for it but when I FIRST hit TPOT I adjusted my algo for "AI, yoga, art" and I was really into my practice again  So like my first 120 days of reintro here was strong with big (5-50k) meditation posters  then c
2026-02-18T09:34 id=2024054850963620072 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Underrated is my middle name. || CTX: 1.5 likes per hour = underrated https://t.co/jgFWPLHdY6
2026-02-18T09:34 id=2024054903573000327 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod That honestly means a lot to me, thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ehhhhh, your rawness is mostly confident from what I've seen
2026-02-18T09:35 id=2024055038050771171 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Reason I'm still alive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You really are in love. The way you talk about her. I can feel the butterflies from here.
2026-02-18T09:39 id=2024056115634282556 →teodorio | I've been debating getting some calls to supplement my SaaS toe dipping but kinda feel AAPL really is just leveraging a short term advantage due to market position than being fundamental at the end of the tech stack.  Not selling picks or shovels but good general boots, and when the miner-optimised bootmaker appears, advantage disappears.   But betting against AAPL is tarded so logic above surely is wrong. || CTX: Apple picked to be an Nvidia competitor and they're incredibly smart for being so. They're selling shovels.
2026-02-18T09:46 id=2024057942581080269 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You don't want us to get you though.   Not really. || CTX: why do I deny that would rather be doing this lol  I fear so few of you 'get me' even when I'm in the zone and making beautiful things instead of self-recursing on my own flaws  but maybe that's to my advantage and I keep holding the sword 
2026-02-18T09:48 id=2024058543733690606 →teodorio | @teodorio yeah def sits better on the portfolio construction level, but all these pics of Mac mini setups make me think the next q has to be good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they either fucked it up or were geniuses nothing in between, I guess there should be a tradeable hedge for this
2026-02-18T09:55 id=2024060086771999095 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @cackenbools Passionately hated it for its callousness toward the other, and for the temptation of callousness in myself it showed me.  Synecdoche New York is my favorite movie and the gap to second is massive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cackenbools Kaufman is so totally fucked up and so, so beautiful What did you think of Anomalisa
2026-02-18T10:01 id=2024061773213565196 →tkisrage | @tkisrage https://t.co/M7yPbQTYSl || CTX: dollar store ass cyberpunk future
2026-02-18T10:07 id=2024063238795583552 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics oh, no I haven't. What is it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk if you have seen this series, but it’s the best thing I’ve watched all last year. Theres a scene where he says “peaches 😌”
2026-02-18T10:09 id=2024063710914904144 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @cackenbools I've been trying to email Kauffman for years and never could figure anywhere to send it.  But anyway I think his next movie should be 100% in his style but just be a very simple story with a happy ending, would be the most psychologically devastating work of his career. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cackenbools ARGHHHHH, that's what I thought too! And I was also like "Charlie is gross and I also love all the vileness in me that I was just shown"  Re Synecdoche: my first watch was on a shitty netflix DVD and it wouldn'
2026-02-18T10:09 id=2024063776430215332 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics thx will check out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Blue Eyed Samurai on Netflix. Animated beautifully. Written carefully.
2026-02-18T11:13 id=2024079854313120171 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @itaisher If you come from a middle class background, of course.  If not, your sincerity will scare the normies. || CTX: My recommendation for young academics is to use their intellectual sincerity (rather than institutional feedback) as a long-term navigation guide. It's OK to be a bit tactical/cynical when you're young, because the institution is putting im
2026-02-18T11:14 id=2024080160178229693 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri Was the most amazing city I've ever lived in. Still miss it, over a decade later. || CTX: I should move to hong kong
2026-02-18T11:31 id=2024084294533103936 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @itaisher Impressive that you know the experience of every present and former academic and thus can say this with such authority and confidence.  And here I thought you were just a mathematician. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @itaisher You have no clue what you're talking about.
2026-02-18T11:33 id=2024084794569814111 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @itaisher eh nvm, I don't want to get in an argument with you.   You're unhinged and I respect that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @itaisher You have no clue what you're talking about.
2026-02-18T11:36 id=2024085517307130153 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @itaisher Eh if my original statement was totalizing, I'll concede that. I should've said there's a strong likelihood this will happen.   Although in my sample size it was basically probability of 1. YMMV yadda yadda yadda  Enjoy the tower, hope I didn't leave a mess behind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @itaisher Yes, I can say with authority that there are many examples of people who weren't from a middle class background, were sincere, and this made intellectually (and socially) very successful.
2026-02-18T11:40 id=2024086530323542491 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @itaisher Ivory tower. It's a metaphor.   I know mathematicians struggle with those. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @itaisher Which tower? What are you talking about?
2026-02-18T11:56 id=2024090563985998222 →davidbessis | I find your antagonism to my point very curious, then, if you've had similar experiences to me.  We're not enemies, and perhaps I was too flippant, but I'm sure you can see a very real and destructive norm policing in academia not at the levels of theory and method (norms there have an important purpose) but at the structural levels of who gets hired, who gets invited to talks, etc etc etc  That's all I was pointing toward, and perhaps I should have been more earnest, so I apologize for that, but confidently asserting "you don't know what you're talking about" reflexively is a hindrance to learning outside of the deductive language games that are your bread and butter.  I left academia about 15 years ago too, so I suspect we agree more than we do not.  So, apologies for starting off on the wrong foot. || CTX: Look, I quit my permanent academia job over 15 years ago, out of intellectual sincerity, with no assets and no hope of any sort of familial support, because I wanted to write a popular book about mathematical cognition and thought it was im
2026-02-18T11:58 id=2024091232960725496 →valhallagheist | @valhallagheist my mom's a fat ugly bitch. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't find the written word beautiful vistas are beautiful the milky way is beautiful  your mom is beautiful  words are simply stimulating
2026-02-18T12:15 id=2024095312822808730 →- | Battle of the Bots reboot where it's an LLM trained on Truth Social and an LLM trained on Bluesky
2026-02-18T12:19 id=2024096553787670719 →1889lw | I have, quite a bit. Was very interested in this in my atheist days.  My view is compatible but not exclusively so. Seems to me, crudely speaking, life forms can sense how other life forms will respond to certain actions, and miniature models of right/wrong steps in interaction scenarios develop in the life form's mind even before the life form can articulate said models. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wdym pre-lingual? Have you read anything about the evolutionary account of morality?
2026-02-18T12:22 id=2024097088401768503 →- | Everyone in this story is just an idiot.  https://t.co/Sa4rKUx0l2
2026-02-18T12:23 id=2024097474529607805 →RichDecibels | @RichDecibels did u c a doctr || CTX: when I was younger the tingling balls feeling meant "I want to sleep with you", now it means "I want to create a space for you to grow"  failing to distinguish those two meanings maybe explains why middle aged dudes end up sleeping with the
2026-02-18T12:26 id=2024098316150358525 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Fucking love that album || CTX: My Friend Dario https://t.co/R3Azwtv8jh
2026-02-18T12:32 id=2024099599015702910 →DeivonDrago | Was a mix of Flesch-Kincaid, Gunning Fog ≈ 13.2, Flesch Reading Ease, and I guess GPT Pro's qualitative heuristics.   There are tons of these scales for measuring texts, I never found them useful in my research but heard about them a lot in grad school.   And tbh score is fair. I was just being my usual shitposting self. || CTX: Is that some of scoring model for fiction?   I know there have been previous attempts at  computerized analysis of prose complexity. Not sure how they approached quantification.   Maybe it could be useful as a guide in high school based on 
2026-02-18T12:33 id=2024099968123068622 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @CosmicEntityTV Agreed, it's one of the many things in the universe that defies quantification. || CTX: @CosmicEntityTV @47fucb4r8c69323 As a moral non-realist, this seems to me like an unworkable idea.   Morality is contextual and culture-bound. There are no universals - if there are, what are they? Even the idea of what constitutes murder h
2026-02-18T12:53 id=2024104895977075169 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago No, it was all an output from Chatgpt pro based on its own composite, but I'm sure the Flesch-Kincade et al scores are out there, it's a pretty simple calculation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think I’ve read all of those but the Joyce.   Interesting. Are these scores documented somewhere?
2026-02-18T12:54 id=2024105300211671234 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago oh you gotta read The Waste Land || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Actually I don’t think I’ve ever read Wuthering Heights either. And I don’t recall ever reading any TS Elliott. Hmmm.
2026-02-18T13:11 id=2024109464853356707 →- | The worst part of changing another person's life is knowing that it's irreversible.
2026-02-18T13:15 id=2024110405086240881 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @damiaanluc I do look at it as a gap in our current understanding of the brain (and body). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc Or you could look at it as a gap in our current understanding of the brain in neuroscience/medicine.   Actually not just brain – since things like the autonomic system and the gut to contribute to mental health 
2026-02-18T13:29 id=2024114135680872884 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic OpenAI gonna make a Reddit clone with tagged AI users, calling it now bookmark this || CTX: https://t.co/jTjyXR0NVL https://t.co/n1FQM9wG3N
2026-02-18T13:39 id=2024116671104106782 →itaisher | @itaisher Yes, this is called Functionalism in philosophy and it is indeed very silly. || CTX: I think there is a flaw in the following argument:  People repeatedly doubted that we could do X.  And we repeatedly proved them wrong.  Therefore we will be able to do everything.
2026-02-18T13:41 id=2024116954303275361 →- | I told Paul Graham's kids their father invented the cracker
2026-02-18T13:42 id=2024117335498334421 →stinkgen | @stinkgen now up to your tits in groupers not so funny is it anymore, eh???? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’ve done this, but with fish.
2026-02-18T13:46 id=2024118317246779900 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem Better than Coventry || CTX: Birmingham has a worse skyline that pyongyang https://t.co/EopmB4psw2
2026-02-18T13:49 id=2024119059030360281 →wrwveit | @wrwveit Please pay attention to other panpsychists besides Goff, he's neither the only one nor the best one. || CTX: https://t.co/LElgZttLlT
2026-02-18T13:55 id=2024120534938632340 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @scheminglunatic My money's on not very long at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @scheminglunatic We can then program surrogate bots  to carry on conversations on our behalf. We set them up some set of preferences, viewpoints, values and let them lose.  Will be interesting to see how long it takes them 
2026-02-18T13:56 id=2024120904800768424 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk fkn noob  https://t.co/XCGuT8Y9So || CTX: Don't worry, everyone, site's broken. https://t.co/Inb1bqEpFf https://t.co/a4kLpyzU4I
2026-02-18T13:58 id=2024121245814464787 →DastDn | @DastDn Should I be worried? She seems normal to me || CTX: Gen Z is never beating the allegations. https://t.co/VTV2VHWxz6
2026-02-18T14:02 id=2024122380268740844 →- | just one more scalar bro i promise bro i swear it's almost there just let me https://t.co/YRCWr0eiUK || CTX: PERSONA: Dynamic and Compositional Inference-Time Personality Control via Activation Vector Algebra  Xiachong Feng, Liang Zhao, Weihong Zhong, Yichong Huang, Yuxuan Gu, Lingpeng Kong, Xiaocheng Feng, Bing Qin https://t.co/Wy6Zqc91J7 [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸]
2026-02-18T14:07 id=2024123502710735062 →- | My ability to tweet is inversely proportional to how much I see you as actual people.
2026-02-18T14:11 id=2024124743042076758 →- | Notice how all the major philosophers have huge followings. Kierkegaard, Hegel, Nietzsche, ofc the Greeks, even Kant has a somewhat active discord group  No big online following for Wittgenstein, widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century  Why? https://t.co/nt1M3ivpTk || CTX: casually reading some kierkegaard, and then he hits you with this: https://t.co/vEFK48gXxh
2026-02-18T14:20 id=2024126776088101270 →- | This kind of advice fascinates me, because I AM that kind of guy, and the money I make per hour just to chat with smart people astounds me.  But I guess I'm epistemically unpure or something so go write code and don't ask questions?   Odd. https://t.co/Z2tZC0Fjiv || CTX: there is a type of nyc guy whose primary output in tech is the production of culture &amp; discourse. don't be this guy. the apogee of this path is some kind of modern day rasputin-like character.  write software, not substacks.
2026-02-18T14:21 id=2024127136014258421 →StuartHameroff | @StuartHameroff I wish I could understand time crystals. || CTX: Thanks JJ. I agree, and our paper on microtubules as fractal time crystals coming out soon. https://t.co/5K1Lv2kg6s
2026-02-18T14:22 id=2024127271947411538 →indigojackal | @indigojackal Nice shed, what's it for? || CTX: Nebraska https://t.co/QTt0bDxeJO
2026-02-18T14:35 id=2024130659573514259 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic yeah I know html 5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 its okay so long as u can code though still  i guess
2026-02-18T14:40 id=2024131993064100337 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 goddammit not again || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this tweet changed my life
2026-02-18T14:42 id=2024132347197591576 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic prob there is incentives, a lot of tech writers are rewarded for scandalizing (e. g. Casey Newton) or just being crazy.  It's why I like writing for investors: real clear accountability that keeps talk grounded. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you know how obsidian and vivaldi are like open-source adjacent but not open-source ;it's a simialr vibe to tech-adjacent but not tech people particular of the ex-'accelerationist' theorycel circles
2026-02-18T14:43 id=2024132681240306092 →LuizPauleira | @LuizPauleira @StuartHameroff but they have no equilibrium, right? That's the bit I don't get, so they can drift to a wide range of configurations? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @StuartHameroff It's just forms that repeat after time passes. Spatial crystals repeat after some movement on space. Time crystals repeat after some time. A spring bouncing, for example, passes about the relaxed string form
2026-02-18T14:44 id=2024132971058671851 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 almost spit out my wine jfc hahahahaha || CTX: Me trying to use a hammer as a screw: this thing sucks at screwing in screws https://t.co/09uzMn4rUA
2026-02-18T14:45 id=2024133176634056793 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Anything is better than getting updates FROM shareholders. || CTX: I probably feels so good to get updates on shareholders if you work on Equity Capital Markets
2026-02-18T14:49 id=2024134070700229000 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic In all seriousness I did do a bit of Ruby on Rails and PHP in the mid 2000s, but those probably don't count. And I can handle Python slowly.  However, this vibecoding is making me think I should probably go back to it, so I know wtf my computer is doing to my computer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 anyway u should write code, preferrably in a real language- something which san francisco disdains, like islisp or datalog.
2026-02-18T14:49 id=2024134176044388681 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic it would be an honor and for a most worthy cause || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 in the future i will use u as part of my team to nuke and destroy san francisco explodiated off the map forever eternally gone.
2026-02-18T14:53 id=2024135208358817796 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 They like to keep things private, that's why they're share holders.  This is my best tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We need to get updates from shareholders and I genuinely cannot believe how bad they are at reporting.
2026-02-18T14:54 id=2024135435522351342 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @Samhain948689 Except, oddly enough, books on the Pareto principal. || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 every book is a 80% lower
2026-02-18T15:00 id=2024137009929822369 →thiagovscoelho | @thiagovscoelho oh so she doesn't understand what infinity is cool cool cool || CTX: in case you were wondering, Amanda Askell’s dissertation is about how if you consider worlds with infinitely many people in them, you often can’t compare which is better and which is worse (even in some cases where intuitively it seems you 
2026-02-18T15:06 id=2024138355454410888 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic My wife and I saw you sipping that IPA from across the brewery... https://t.co/8dvvH5KURI || CTX: imagine dan is not on fire and amazingphil and like charlie is so cool like etc. --  imagine if they had lalamos lmfao imagine https://t.co/tXIPy6KT0n https://t.co/AmSYfYRE0Y
2026-02-18T15:08 id=2024138988794310936 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod lmfao second and third ones are undoubtedly true || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 - there were 20000 all with different conclusions - no one could pass the onboarding question - every time they attempt to discuss the Tractacus a mod loses their shit and wipes the board
2026-02-18T15:12 id=2024140085760078328 →- | so like, end of universe everything gets sucked up in a black hole, yadda yadda yadda, no mass particles exist, no clocks, no time, it all starts over.  When it starts over... is it the same?   If it's different... is it different every time? Why/how?  If it's the same everytime, my god people, be nice to ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE.  Tortured babies die reborn immediately to be tortured and die again.  Nobody do a thing. || CTX: If E=mc² and E=hf, then mass = frequency!  Sir Roger Penrose explains why every massive particle is an ultra-precise "little clock." By blending Einstein’s relativity with Planck’s quantum law, he shows the existence of mass implies a speci
2026-02-18T15:13 id=2024140267033608693 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod His writing is so uncanny it's horrifying || CTX: I slurped up all of Kierkegaard at Harper and adored every second
2026-02-18T15:14 id=2024140359065059384 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Both are definitely reasonable arguments || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Inconsistency?  Getting too close to the prize?
2026-02-18T15:15 id=2024140757624381819 →TradMaldOwl | @TradMaldOwl Not online. But yeah, the Society in Vienna is lively, a fair amount of specialists. Definitely a healthy field.  Pritchard is an intellectual fraud he should be fired || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I always assumed there were plenty of Wittgenstinians
2026-02-18T15:16 id=2024140871424524760 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka craigslist lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait where do I apply to that job
2026-02-18T15:17 id=2024141352955723956 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ a little. Took a year, was able to have limited convo at my peak, forgotten most but can still get by in Japan as a tourist without English, although they often use their little machines to communicate in English. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you learned japanese?
2026-02-18T15:18 id=2024141511802187943 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Expand please. Weird how? I see the same but not sure if for diff reasons || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That his speciality is language I suspect plays more than a little role...people are very weird when it comes to language, non-independent even
2026-02-18T15:19 id=2024141767465914802 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I still hide behind big words, but when I was a kid I did it for ego. Now I do it to be a dick. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dude wrote over like 25% of my first page:  "Your writing is baroque, almost archaic. Read some Hemingway and relearn the value of the simple sentence." (2/2)
2026-02-18T15:26 id=2024143412031566042 →- | When I ask someone what they thought of a piece of my writing, I never mean if they thought it was good or bad.   I want to know what they think it means.
2026-02-18T15:26 id=2024143417434149273 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And when someone says it's good, how can I trust this isn't just politeness? And even if I believe it, good how? In what way, to whom and why?   Fuck that. I'm trying to say the unsayable. Did you hear it? || CTX: When I ask someone what they thought of a piece of my writing, I never mean if they thought it was good or bad.   I want to know what they think it means.
2026-02-18T15:28 id=2024143981387673944 →LuizPauleira | @LuizPauleira @StuartHameroff Wow, that helps a lot! Thank you, man, sincerely!   This does seem deeply ontologically rich if it's true. Really interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @StuartHameroff That's the "it's not a bug, it's a feature" dilemma. Pseudo periods can be gainful in noisy environments with law of large numbers. Some crystal will repeat on time and that's enough.
2026-02-18T15:29 id=2024144275752329527 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod dude, if I get to SF again it's happening. Need to be either a quiet English pub or a dive bar, but I'm there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 broken the top three for people I need a beer with
2026-02-18T15:31 id=2024144635774595515 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Yeah I didn't know that myself until very recently, the countless people I've offended as a result... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you focus on it too closely people freak out  There is almost no exception I am confident
2026-02-18T15:31 id=2024144848467484868 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy REALLY good point! With the whole panpsychism thing getting popular and even Roger Penrose saying we live in a continuous universe, good reason for Spinoza to be more popular than he is.  I've been debating whether I should try to read all of the Ethics but omggggggg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or Spinoza!
2026-02-18T15:33 id=2024145317675909593 →MTomasson | @MTomasson @1889lw I was indeed thinking of this as well as hinge certainties. A lot of concepts like fairness seem to be a hinge certainty, hence all the weirdness in morality thought experiments.  So seems to me it's an arational hinge certainty that is extended and modified via language games. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw Not to get into Ludwig's business, but W's taught that meaning (ethics as a subset) does not come from words/language but from Sprachspiel, the structure of its USE. So your pre-linguistic take is very W-friendly ex
2026-02-18T15:34 id=2024145584064700432 →- | Wittgensteinian eboys is this a thing
2026-02-18T15:35 id=2024145849429733677 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz I try to show them the very mystical underpinnings in their implicit metaphysics.  Used to get blocked a lot || CTX: Atheists unironically believe themselves to have clairvoyant powers  What do you do with a group of people who have become this delusional? https://t.co/PVaXi7v8aH
2026-02-18T15:37 id=2024146240716304494 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Yeah I was thinking of Penrose's CCC. I'm not sure of the infinite expansionary hypothesis because it forces a lot of very suspicious metaphysical entailments that seem too spooky to be likely, but that's all unfalsifiable so we cannot know.  Which for me is a clue. || CTX: Actually our current best theory is that the universe keeps expanding forever.   So what happens is you end up with maximal entropy and everything is in thermal equilibrium. Essentially nothing can be done - cos you can't do any work in max
2026-02-18T15:38 id=2024146592908156986 →MTomasson | @MTomasson @1889lw hahahahaha   idk man, you sure that's the right thing to do? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw Did we just solve morality? Phew! I'm taking the rest of the day off! 😀
2026-02-18T15:45 id=2024148204758106497 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod eh we can meetup elsewhere. You are in the Bay area, right? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would also have to get to SF *once*.
2026-02-18T15:46 id=2024148434928746862 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @EtherDais you know, OpenAI, Anthropic etc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais Frontier lab what?
2026-02-18T15:47 id=2024148771605446918 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @hexavium gots me name on it so lemme dm || CTX: @hexavium @47fucb4r8c69323 link
2026-02-18T15:48 id=2024149022676533308 →hexavium | @hexavium I had my nicest friend read it. Didn't change a thing.   Fucking asshole. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You should have everyone read the article about niceness being evil as a filter before anything else
2026-02-18T15:52 id=2024149969960341801 →punished_daniel | @punished_daniel @bryancsk @sigfig can we be fren || CTX: @bryancsk @sigfig They got absolutely cooked by the Wittgensteinian eboys
2026-02-18T15:53 id=2024150302497390834 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Well that's real risky for status, wealth etc, that I get.   More interesting is about being figured out, that's a compelling point. Reminds me of Schopenhauer on being intelligent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It is especially funny if you do it with smart people in a setting where there is a powerful, reliable protective hierarchy in place, like at work for example 😂
2026-02-18T15:54 id=2024150559360753970 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Wasn't thinking of assumptions, more concerned with the metaphysical implications. || CTX: Actually we know 2 things 1) The universe is expanding today at a certain rate, and the expansion is actually accelerating 2) We can measure the acceleration - the rate seems more or less seems constant  All we are doing is simply saying 1,
2026-02-18T15:56 id=2024150952249643286 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod idk why I thought you were west coast, you absolutely don't act Californian.  Well yeah NYC is like the only city in America I have connections to, so even better. Plus better beer on the east coast. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, other side. 90 minutes from NYC
2026-02-18T15:57 id=2024151199604519394 →babarganesh | @babarganesh wait   DID SHE LIKE THE ENCHILADAS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we had some people over and my wife made enchiladas. one of our guests was Israeli - a wide eyed woman in her 40s - and had never had enchiladas. I tell you she was enthusiastic and intrigued
2026-02-18T15:59 id=2024151799532298365 →- | In 2013 at the Tribeca Film Festival during a panel I was a speaker on, I said K-pop would never be big in the west.  I am such a fucking idiot jfc
2026-02-18T16:01 id=2024152201816416341 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I'm more interested in the fate of the universe than humanity.  I don't value humanity much. || CTX: My point was - unless someone has a much stronger case to make (CCC probably doesn't cut it), that's what will happen.   It doesn't matter. Humanity is unlikely to make it past a few thousand more years. We are fundamentally vain, selfish a
2026-02-18T16:03 id=2024152766051217748 →- | Siebald fetishes suffering.  He's not a good writer. Sorry, he just isn't.
2026-02-18T16:05 id=2024153360505737466 →- | The contemplation of the world sub specie aeterni is its contemplation as a limited whole.   The feeling of the world as a limited whole is the mystical feeling. https://t.co/9xqanuXAXB || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 to her they were magical  this is why i like her  there are so few modern people who find *anything* magical
2026-02-18T16:07 id=2024153705998909847 →- | Chunli Kirk
2026-02-18T16:07 id=2024153892838375840 →TOEwithCurt | @TOEwithCurt The infinite is merely the continuation of a rule.   Wittgenstein solved this in Philosophical Remarks. || CTX: “Something is infinite if you can take a finite amount away from it and it doesn’t change size.” This is my favorite definition in all of math. Many people think infinity means “unending.” It doesn’t. This is the actual definition (Dedekind
2026-02-18T16:08 id=2024154062279864401 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker can I come in please I'm begging you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pretty sure there are tons of people who won't shut up about Wittgenstein. Or maybe that's just my bubble.
2026-02-18T16:09 id=2024154233784893484 →hexavium | @hexavium so it's not just me, must be sunspots || CTX: My mind is so heavy today, I could puke.
2026-02-18T16:14 id=2024155612238758156 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker @s0phyyyy no i meant into your social circle, I've read about 20 books by/on Wittgenstein so far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @s0phyyyy Do it! Maybe start with his letters. The way he reasons is just so beautifully mathematical, and some of his insights into psychology are great as well. Hell, I might start a thread with some of my favorite parts 
2026-02-18T16:15 id=2024155784100434213 →MTomasson | @MTomasson EXACTLY!!! The last thing I want to hear! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The worst feedback I get from my writing is, "looks good!"
2026-02-18T16:16 id=2024155982079643708 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker Oh man that's cool. I miss Europe. I'm hoping to visit his cabin in Norway next trip. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I found remarks on colour in an old jesuit library in Italy  and sent the text to a good friend literally 2 days ago
2026-02-18T16:17 id=2024156414139133963 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Oh he said people hate intelligent people because they think the intelligent have them figured out  which, okay yeah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Take people's armour and weapons away and you will often find little remains  &gt; Schopenhauer on being intelligent  ?
2026-02-18T16:18 id=2024156697338806781 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker That's the Remarks on Color? || CTX: Guess what book this is hehehe @47fucb4r8c69323   (proves that Goose was at work here)
2026-02-18T16:19 id=2024156828243013759 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker @s0phyyyy my background is historical linguistics and I work in finance now so hard to find those people, but Twitter seems to be getting me closer apparently! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @s0phyyyy I think you wanna befriend cognitive psychology/behavioural neuroscience/ deep learning + mathematical logic folks  I met the good friend in question while in abstract algebra class and convinced him to take behav
2026-02-18T16:26 id=2024158598218272987 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz yeah fear danger is definitely there, risk assessment, it's really quite fascinating and honestly logical || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Kinda like arguing with people who've never had a real one before (academics for example): they're like fish out of water, who believe there is no such thing as being out of the water https://t.co/Fw9onKazgd
2026-02-18T16:27 id=2024158801910436031 →Softclone | @Softclone That last sentence fascinates me.  This idea of beautiful art being unintentional but clearly there... bizarre. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well there are many ways, but typically you have a vision or feeling and craft the language until it resonates. Like humming along to a tune. The coefficient of artistic interpretation informs us that this can happen utterl
2026-02-18T16:29 id=2024159259215478855 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker The lecture?  That feeling of being safe, god I freaked out when I first read the Lecture on Ethics. First thing I read after Tractatus and it was the closest I'd ever felt of a kind of proof of unnecessary metaphysics. Hard to explain, I'm probably making no sense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Almost. Sadly, I couldn't take it with me from Italy. Had to leave the libraries behind, along with Mechanical Intelligence by Turing, my trees, my rivers, and the tiny, stray cat that I befriended. This one is the ethics.
2026-02-18T16:31 id=2024159795943481452 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees https://t.co/x6QiqY49Nx  I envy the experience you are about to have. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People keep saying this about me but I've not directly read his work yet.
2026-02-18T16:42 id=2024162530911015318 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Sentiment analysis is unsolvable in principle. || CTX: i like how the ai "theil funded tester" keeps picking up on all the times i bring up smth related to peter thiel as if i was supporting the thiel thing and not very clearly deriding it. just bc u discuss smth lol.
2026-02-18T16:53 id=2024165441032347970 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Genealogically linked as well as etymologically. Was going to write a book about this before I left academia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Polite now means politically correct.
2026-02-18T16:56 id=2024166148368138378 →bas_logic | @bas_logic I'm terrified to ask, but: who is Rei? || CTX: Me explaining my online behavior to HR: In this post I compare the academic profession to the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. I suggest that the quality of each is poor. I compare the behavior of my peers with that of the antagonist Gendo an
2026-02-18T16:57 id=2024166354283352294 →- | If you've ever watched Please Save My Earth or read the manga, please dm me immediately.
2026-02-18T17:01 id=2024167298744144119 →- | The not-and operator is the fundamental principle that makes logic possible.   The yes-and operator is the fundamental principle that makes improv possible.  This isn't a joke.
2026-02-18T17:16 id=2024171130186338371 →- | This is not happening in any material amount.   Business owner wants to shame people in making HR complaints. Business owner also wants to shift popular attitude against worker protections.   It's so transparent, like come on dude. https://t.co/rLSRgq095y || CTX: Overheard in Silicon Valley: “Marginal cost of arguing is going to zero.” https://t.co/i61R8xJ2mG
2026-02-18T17:21 id=2024172392931873042 →- | When I lived in NYC, there was a tradition of musicians getting together and organizing daytime concerts in someone's apartment where anyone could come in. I saw jazz singers bring me to tears.  I also once sat with the owner of the Lenox Lounge and talked about the forced closure that was happening.  My god I've seen so much life.
2026-02-18T17:24 id=2024173193939112013 →TOEwithCurt | This is so laughably far from an explanation as presented that I'm annoyed.  So he was good at math because of "compounding cognitive transformation", which you've failed to define but seems to simply mean... his thinking patterns improved over time?   Rearrangement of words to give the illusion of explanation.   I'm sure David's view is better than this post, which is really bad. || CTX: Ramanujan wrote hundreds of thousands of formulas (specific, bizarre, correct) with almost no formal training. The standard explanations are:  - divine inspiration, - genetic mutant. @davidbessis rejects both and insists on - unusual things
2026-02-18T17:25 id=2024173369680347261 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Watch it if you've ever felt lonely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Haven't seen it but it sounds pretty cool
2026-02-18T17:27 id=2024173929997508701 →usgraphics | @usgraphics The debate about what taste means is a semantic debate.  Yes it is.   Are you retarded? || CTX: The error bars of what "taste" means to one person over the other are wildly different, so the whole discussion just flops around without a grip. Semantic debate for the most part.
2026-02-18T17:27 id=2024174067159576934 →babarganesh | @babarganesh The human brain. || CTX: what is the best model right now for creative writing
2026-02-18T17:36 id=2024176252215840914 →BishPlsOk | @BishPlsOk @TOEwithCurt @davidbessis And if he's arguing it went from 1.25 to 1000000+ in a few years, I'd like to know what the multiplier is and its operation, because that's an absurd claim.  Sloppy af fr fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TOEwithCurt @davidbessis The sleight-of-hand transplant of assuming the 20-30% spectrum in physical variability transfers cleanly to measuring mental variability seems like very sloppy thinking here. https://t.co/PWzfaCwkN
2026-02-18T17:40 id=2024177249789092198 →vivposts | @vivposts @lu_sichu I'll need to go downstairs to take a pic of my full collection and it's late here, but this is my last unread W. book. I'm saving it https://t.co/P5PxAHSwTn || CTX: @lu_sichu @47fucb4r8c69323 Proof https://t.co/iK78rzJ7Vu
2026-02-18T17:51 id=2024179884827037894 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @anistotle_ Yeah thing is they're bad at creative writing to begin with and add such a body-focused topic, it's gonna fail || CTX: this is an example of what I've got out of the machine:  I lay on the floor, which is to say I was on the floor, having arrived there by means I need not describe, and I noted my contact with it. There was contact, that much seemed certain,
2026-02-18T17:51 id=2024180051047293424 →babarganesh | @babarganesh That brief moment when people were banging pots and pans made me so happy. Real humanity there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for a while during the pandemic people were doing amplified concerts on their porches in the afternoon. that was beautiful. my wife, who is a jazz singer herself, did a concert on our stoop with her band one evening and the
2026-02-18T17:53 id=2024180437183320076 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Everything is a manifold.   Hell, everything might be the same manifold. || CTX: are manifolds how brains work? https://t.co/RM8uMuyDaw
2026-02-18T17:53 id=2024180564547498295 →- | This is not happening in any material amount.   Business owner wants to shame people for making HR complaints. Business owner also wants to shift popular attitude against worker protections.   It's so transparent, like come on dude. https://t.co/rLSRgq095y || CTX: Overheard in Silicon Valley: “Marginal cost of arguing is going to zero.” https://t.co/i61R8xJ2mG
2026-02-18T18:03 id=2024182976075223251 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Never heard of this before, Equations of the Second Degree sounds interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Indeed.  George Spencer Brown's laws of form makes this very very explicit
2026-02-18T18:03 id=2024183052398899205 →vivposts | @vivposts @lu_sichu I am a mere dilettante who left academia long ago, but I am a big fan. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu I'm being wittgensteinmogged
2026-02-18T18:10 id=2024184825264165082 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka annotated text in the corpus reintroducing pragmatics content then do your training on that. But annotations would have to be done by hand.  Civilizational effort. Would solve a lot, but probably won't happen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would like to see more direct manipulation of the model's guts instead of just wrapping it in more for-loops or doing rain dances with the inputs.   No opinion on this particular effort, but I like the direction.
2026-02-18T18:12 id=2024185206140506504 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago We already do this at my work.  I setup with my quant a system using multiple custom assistants customized to focus on one task.   Worked quite well for our needs, which tbf weren't complicated. || CTX: I do wonder if we'll end up with many instances:   Worker 1: AI, create an email to send to Worker 2 based on these 3 informal points. Use a semi-formal tone.   Worker 2: AI, summarize this long email from Worker 1 into 3 salient points. Pr
2026-02-18T18:29 id=2024189588605194390 →llallawg | @llallawg tell me where you live I'm omw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Encounter way more Wittgenstein fans than kierkegaard
2026-02-18T18:33 id=2024190575675888114 →GrantAKaplan | @GrantAKaplan Describes me, well except I left academia || CTX: Not remotely surprising that the first humanities' prof I know who is super into AI does analytic philosophy.
2026-02-18T18:35 id=2024191047677727160 →prinkasusa | @prinkasusa @pangramlabs is this slop? || CTX: Stop telling her to "calm down." When your wife is wound up, it's often a biological response to uncertainty. Not a choice. Not drama. Her system is wired to manage risk. Women generally carry higher baseline cortisol, and it shuts off more
2026-02-18T18:48 id=2024194270635474944 →DurumMac | @DurumMac not the first time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 She totally fruitmogged you
2026-02-18T18:48 id=2024194336280494160 →xndrshea | @xndrshea Yeah, that definitely sounds right, ironically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not enough psychology for popular appeal
2026-02-18T18:50 id=2024194952641860065 →- | This is meritocratic and fair, btw. Arguably more so than the internet, definitely more so than the printing press. https://t.co/xFbX9aMZbN || CTX: There are generally 2 types of LLM users, those that use it to learn everything , and those that use it so they don’t have to learn anything.
2026-02-18T23:36 id=2024266912931492193 →thiagovscoelho | @thiagovscoelho we've known since Tarski mathematical proofs aren't truth. Her proofs demonstrate consistency, not veracity.  Nice try though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the dissertation includes mathematical proofs of its assertions, I’m fairly sure she makes no confusion about infinity
2026-02-18T23:37 id=2024267027595350177 →_rabbi | @_rabbi A lot of people use Witty. I prefer W. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 His name is too hard to pronounce
2026-02-18T23:37 id=2024267155257409881 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Well, it also IS a joke. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but can i laugh?
2026-02-18T23:39 id=2024267498955427998 →tszzl | @tszzl Not everyone has equity, start explaining why people should feel this way.  Assuage their fears, that's what they need now. || CTX: technological job loss is awesome and i hope it starts with mine
2026-02-18T23:39 id=2024267562612384077 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw No one wants to admit it but Twitter is better than it's ever been, Nikita notwithstanding || CTX: grok is borderline useless but the tech behind grok explain button is so good. one of the best soft research implementations out there
2026-02-18T23:42 id=2024268383961960932 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic for very long, yes.   But short term, oh boy || CTX: there is no marketing technique on this planet that can hide truth. This is good news &amp; bad news
2026-02-18T23:45 id=2024269155529277941 →C_NMNg | @C_NMNg This is absolutely brilliant. Been in Thailand for a decade, no notes.   He is right. || CTX: Very timely and critical entry by Prof Pietro Masina, who is also a foremost expert on Vietnam’s economy.  “Thailand and the myth of the middle-income trap”. https://t.co/DeQdVcD79g https://t.co/FegNNT78pB
2026-02-18T23:53 id=2024271022732755082 →ArmandDAngour | @ArmandDAngour @Kekius_Sage https://t.co/10kpj3nHfl  Now I have even more questions || CTX: @Kekius_Sage The place the music goes when the record stops playing
2026-02-19T00:29 id=2024280230333206698 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ little fuckers will believe anyone even after I told them "don't believe everything you hear" but they weren't listening || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did they believe it?
2026-02-19T00:36 id=2024281808314257896 →vigor_quietus | @vigor_quietus please be mean. I'm going through a bit of a crisis over this now and the scrutiny of an objective third party even through the distorted lens of social media is more reliable than self analysis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have been waiting for u to say this since you started saying "oh autism explains..." but I didn't want 2 b mean
2026-02-19T00:36 id=2024281874533871865 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ORTHOGONAL
2026-02-19T00:52 id=2024285850822132159 →1889lw | @1889lw Trust me, it gets better.  For people like us, the 20s are the hardest decade. By a wide margin.  You're going to love your 40s. || CTX: Not killing myself today… not today
2026-02-19T00:55 id=2024286648327184780 →1889lw | @1889lw This is one of the things I can't tell you or prove, just beg you to believe me.  I'm talking to 22yr old me now tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you… hopefully
2026-02-19T00:56 id=2024286969157865791 →no_opposites | @no_opposites I have never understood this impulse. It fascinates me the way a bat does. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 people don't like math &amp; logic. they'd rather skim through phenomenology of the spirit &amp; pretend it's intelligible
2026-02-19T01:07 id=2024289596050395242 →a8065287968522 | @a8065287968522 The point is to discover what the point is, and I know that sounds cutesy or rhetorical but I mean this quite deeply and sincerely.  We have the opportunity to explore possibilities no other form of life has. To see this as anything but the greatest joy is absurd. || CTX: what is the point, literally what is the point
2026-02-19T01:16 id=2024291907766276369 →- | The inevitable destructiveness of motion is a truth I will never stop rebelling against, and it does not matter that I am wrong.
2026-02-19T01:17 id=2024292242371064241 →- | ChatGPT called me misandrist.
2026-02-19T02:09 id=2024305336338063440 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 It makes harm impossible to avoid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what does this mean? what is happening to motion?
2026-02-19T02:30 id=2024310503796068402 →vigor_quietus | "So people stop short at natural laws as at something unassailable, as did the ancients at God and Fate. And they both are right and wrong. But the ancients were clearer, in so far as they recognized one clear conclusion, whereas in the modern system it should appear as though everything were explained." - Tractatus 6.372. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm well I said nothing bc it would just sort of be stating my views.  But as I see it we have sort of lost the ability to identify types. And this produces the odd causal language of today.  To say "the melancholic type is
2026-02-19T02:33 id=2024311277062115781 →vigor_quietus | You do not need to explain to me, as I understand precisely what you mean and I am fully in agreement.  The way I see my autism diagnosis is that it is a socially defined description of a form of life, the form of life I inhabit. It does not explain anything at all, but it does tell me that this is how other people perceive me, and that my natural habits are sufficiently out of the norm to warrant this particular label.  It's more information about my relative position than an explanation. "We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place." - Philosophical Investigations, 109. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But my own angst abt having never successfully said what I wish to abt this plays into it, perhaps not having said enough? So all i can do is arbitrarily strengthen my priors whenever presented with such things due to my co
2026-02-19T02:37 id=2024312304708571465 →- | 99% of your problems will disappear if you leave the suburbs.  You'll have new problems, sure, but that's not my problem.
2026-02-19T02:47 id=2024314774616773084 →- | I told Paul Graham's kids their father was poor because his net worth is &lt;g_64.
2026-02-19T02:47 id=2024314777137517021 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Basically if we're rounding Graham ain't worth shit. || CTX: I told Paul Graham's kids their father was poor because his net worth is &lt;g_64.
2026-02-19T02:57 id=2024317380302950601 →- | This is an underappreciated dynamic. The internet was not seen as a money making venture at scale until I'd say 1995, and then it wasn't pursued by serious money until later, so there was really over a decade of information exchange culture to establish norms that have huge positive multiples.   Plus, it's important to note these norms were established because those early internet users were academics. I am very negative of modern academia, but the essence of academic life has more benefits than you can imagine when interests are aligned. Incidentally this is why @skdh is both right and wrong about her attacks on academia (ofc doesn't matter, her audience isn't us--it is Peter Thiel).  This is worth considering in the future as the frontier labs advance. There's going to be huge pressure from moneyed interests to gate knowledge and there is a clear financial incentive to explain to said interests how gating knowledge will cause lower, not higher, returns for them both long and short term. @gdb I assume you are already discussing this internally, but if not, please start. || CTX: LLMs feel historically contingent to me. If Tim Berners-Lee and the rest of the early internet pioneers hadn't had utopian ideals about everyone publishing everything online, maybe internet content is two orders of magnitude smaller and all
2026-02-19T03:00 id=2024318158396608624 →- | Another case of AI-produced art https://t.co/X738yHmRQb || CTX: The hardcover book of GPT-1’s weights that Claude Code designed, produced, and sold (including the cool cover which visualizes the numbers in the volume) actually came in the mail today and it looks really nice.  I never touched any code or
2026-02-19T03:01 id=2024318511125008479 →- | Tits and ass is a universal human constant, much like existential ennui.
2026-02-19T03:27 id=2024324897573638459 →stinkgen | @stinkgen NO HALF MEASURES || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 100% of the time.   never live in the suburbs - choose land or city, don’t be a pussy.
2026-02-19T03:38 id=2024327639516008607 →- | https://t.co/ZwBoxHhkYo https://t.co/PEuzsLeAAP || CTX: Guys tell everyone I'll be good I need some unmutes
2026-02-19T03:57 id=2024332539922698280 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ yeah, best to just not get involved || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 in this world it works both ways at the same time
2026-02-19T03:58 id=2024332852473806861 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly @SYNESTHEIZURE not as sick as the dog || CTX: @SYNESTHEIZURE you sick fuck
2026-02-19T04:06 id=2024334685967700072 →thrialectics | @thrialectics sometimes things show up where you'd least expect it || CTX: bpd theatre in a cougarchat (don't ask)
2026-02-19T04:06 id=2024334789743170021 →JacobAShell | @JacobAShell @dysangelistes I'd like to know your reasoning because it seems opposite to me. || CTX: We are living through the death of incentive to record knowledge. Think of that!
2026-02-19T04:24 id=2024339258195267703 →Qivshi1 | @Qivshi1 it is intellectually costly to explore ideas, so finding a causal explanation fast is cognitively cheap.   where is the quote from? I don't think I've seen that before or at least I don't remember it || CTX: Wittgenstein's "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?” is basically my constant intellectual attitude, i find it hard to understand why people have such strong intuitions about unknown causa
2026-02-19T04:49 id=2024345690596659636 →- | Eventually "I use AI for work" is going to sound as silly as "I use the internet for work".   For that matter who says "I use the internet" anymore?  We need to start categorizing AI subfields. And don't say "well I just work in X and use AI" because whatever you mean by X only defines X before AI.  It's so over and we are so back.
2026-02-19T04:50 id=2024345799673729519 →oitixion | @oitixion Do an ICO and keep all the coins to yourself. Never sell. || CTX: There should be a new kind of money that only I can have.
2026-02-19T04:54 id=2024346932894990713 →StuartHameroff | @StuartHameroff @JosephJacks_ I ran a 256-ch resting EEG through a persistent-homology + Lyapunov pipeline: topology barely moved (dbottle ~0, never &gt;0.075) while λ1 stayed &gt;0 → no coherence-collapse windows. Resting cortex looks like a structurally stable, “topologically protected” attractor.  Just fyi || CTX: @JosephJacks_ Add the downshifting interference to EEG frequencies
2026-02-19T04:55 id=2024347197639446712 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony AI isn't going to kill the jobs please trust me I'm begging you it'd take me hours to explain || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "I have a job"
2026-02-19T04:57 id=2024347665715384516 →amaldorai | @amaldorai @shortsqueeznews Poerpint's || CTX: @shortsqueeznews Huge miss not calling it Pierpont’s
2026-02-19T05:03 id=2024349186767147468 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata Not really but I think about six inches all the time || CTX: have you ever thought about the subway?
2026-02-19T05:08 id=2024350296861003911 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony ohhh I totally misunderstood you lol my bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree it won't kill the jobs but I imagine all the jobs will use ai
2026-02-19T05:34 id=2024356908694724763 →- | Novel idea: Nuclear war starts when a Russian and an American keep trying to start competing GCs on Twitter and inviting the same people to new GCs after each one goes to shit. It escalates.
2026-02-19T05:38 id=2024357974890991831 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk if you sold a print of this I'd 100% buy one just fyi || CTX: ⬛️ https://t.co/kqHmFUzofV
2026-02-19T05:40 id=2024358296426336613 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @SovereignIM good god || CTX: @SovereignIM No amount of money is going to bring back a deceased husband slumped over his Range Rover after he ODs in the car from a raging drug addiction fueled by how wealth conjures the awing ability to avoid accountability &amp; reperc
2026-02-19T05:40 id=2024358530137170398 →- | Nikita Boeretard
2026-02-19T05:42 id=2024359003665699066 →- | well they're british so idk what the big deal is https://t.co/rCHwnSdWqq || CTX: Wow, great two sentence horr-  Oh. Oh no. https://t.co/nSoXjheX8i
2026-02-19T06:14 id=2024366918921261200 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka so much of a better way to put it, thank you. the whole jobs framing is so wrong || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Slightly off, I think.   You know what we're gonna call AI tools once they're actually good?   Tools.
2026-02-19T06:14 id=2024367012957606205 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk I consent to being on the mailing list || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Absolutely, soon, ty
2026-02-19T06:15 id=2024367243468197914 →- | he won the presidential election pedophiliacally
2026-02-19T06:26 id=2024369886819209375 →tszzl | @tszzl @moultano This is just not true. At least not for the metaphor of 2+2.  Analytic a priori only gets you to where the rule says you need to be if followed properly.  Show us new synthetic empirical information. We're waiting. || CTX: @moultano analysis and synthesis produces new information. If my prompt is 2+2 and the response is 4 it’s new information
2026-02-19T06:26 id=2024370065211346964 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw yeah that was a first coffee tweet. You're right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 twitter is better **despite** his dark pattern bullshits
2026-02-19T06:28 id=2024370368006557851 →vigor_quietus | @vigor_quietus Watch the movie with Leo || CTX: kute https://t.co/hDaBNAyoWn
2026-02-19T06:30 id=2024371022548668534 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @retardbot9000 Devil's advocate (idk if I believe this): If they didn't monetize by paywalling premium features, they'd need to court advertisers.   Courting advertisers means worrying about brand safety.  Brand safety means bringing back the woke. || CTX: @retardbot9000 @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah but one problem there  user location and location blocking are fucking awesome features  but because of that dumbass mf, regional blocking is only for premium plus users  i hate the “developing new featu
2026-02-19T06:30 id=2024371072989311050 →stinkgen | @stinkgen Tom Clancy was a fucking asshole and while I was wrong to call him a Nazi, I'm glad I cut our correspondence off. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the tom clancy of our age.
2026-02-19T06:37 id=2024372628400775445 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @kosenjuu no one's forcing them to have this shoganai culture. || CTX: @kosenjuu Yeah man, I feel really bad for the Japanese.. Wages are flat and the yen is weakening steadily
2026-02-19T06:38 id=2024372898727899261 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @retardbot9000 oh yeah I know, but I wonder if these paywall decisions are his. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 i can totally understand this. i know twitter were on the negative for all of its lifetime and elon wanted it at least neutral, finances wise  my point is, you can do it gracefully, in cooperation with your u
2026-02-19T06:38 id=2024372970823831917 →UmbralShadows | @UmbralShadows 4 years. Twice.  Just makes you sick to your stomnach || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 totally penetrated the executive branch
2026-02-19T06:43 id=2024374230104887451 →simsimmaaz | @simsimmaaz Some people will bicker over the most unimportant boring quotidian shit jfc || CTX: You're supposed to thaw meat in the fridge though so what is he talking about? Lmao https://t.co/XGzVLOX30v
2026-02-19T06:45 id=2024374695651684376 →joeljmiller | @joeljmiller @HenryEOliver Reap what you sow, fuckers.   I was raking in ~2m PVs when I approached nonfiction agents and publishers, several loved my book proposal, then said they had to pass because I wasn't on Twitter (ca.2018).  The bed that has been made can now be lain in. || CTX: If you’re in publishing or care about nonfiction books, this is for you: The Times recently told us all that nonfiction was in crisis. I read the piece and thought “No, they’re missing almost the whole story.” So here’s the whole story. htt
2026-02-19T06:45 id=2024374825557643408 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @retardbot9000 well yeah they want money and he made money || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 his deception tactics are so good that midwits like the post below looks up to him and be like him. look how he’s saying he’s definitely stealing the deceptive tactic? the guy atrophies the global trust  http
2026-02-19T06:48 id=2024375445945532696 →g_leech_ | @g_leech_ @RexDouglass I'm triggered well done   it's not a pub quiz how dare you || CTX: improve AI discourse about 5% just by renaming evals accurately  Humanity's Last Exam: PubQuizFromHell  MATH: RemedialMath  FrontierMath: QuarterFrontierMath  SWE-Bench: DjangoBench  MMLU Virology: NoiseBench  Terminal Bench 2: NoiseBench  
2026-02-19T06:49 id=2024375864839066057 →- | Nber paper on Joss paper inflation
2026-02-19T06:50 id=2024376095253156042 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @retardbot9000 was a pleasure, srsly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 morning rant over thanks for participating hahahah
2026-02-19T07:07 id=2024380237824610545 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king I did not know this, very interesting. so Faust is very much popular culture, and it makes sense as the ethos mirrors the anti-didacticism of much medieval hagiography. Bet there's a link there. || CTX: "You, frankly, will recognise that temperament."  What did this GPT mean by this? https://t.co/ePsBNcgPLs
2026-02-19T07:09 id=2024380718986698851 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata Please link me, my tweet was a cry for connection. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Huh?? Yes there is What qualifies as a big online following in your view, and where have you actually looked so far? I may be able to put this to rest by virtue of linking you directly
2026-02-19T07:09 id=2024380898003866100 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata @bayesianthinker I am unable to prove my mental state to you in a way that can be verified. Believe what you will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bayesianthinker I'm sceptical your desire is sincere I feel like they're hard to miss??
2026-02-19T07:13 id=2024381918561939726 →- | Analysis is correct and fortunately it shows that the problem of slop is easily repairable and also a side effect of safetyism.   Like I've been saying for months on this webzone https://t.co/qSZ0iO5F0h || CTX: Professor Claudio Nastruzzi coins the term "semantic ablation" to explain why AI writing is both boring and dangerous. AI not only adds things that shouldn't be there, it subtracts things that should. https://t.co/51TJw1STgk
2026-02-19T07:17 id=2024382893737595147 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata I'm in Thailand. I don't use FB but would greatly appreciate a discord invite || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what platforms are you on I'm mainly familiar with facebook &amp; discord though depending on your metropolitan area I may be able to plug you into offline groups
2026-02-19T07:29 id=2024385804815257761 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king Hope it's more tasteful than Oishii Ko  what a horrible joke || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wasn't thinking that deeply tbh I'm just reading up because of Oshi no Ko
2026-02-19T07:33 id=2024386915894775937 →apralky | @apralky you are so fucking stupid and I hate that people whom I respect follow you. || CTX: Many will not want to hear this but "taste" is just g with sufficiently varied training data. Steve Jobs had "taste" because he was like +3SD IQ and trained on calligraphy class and being homeless smoking weed in India or whatever. Meanwhil
2026-02-19T07:34 id=2024387097885573175 →cowboy_postbop | @cowboy_postbop @fitzr1122 engagement bait to make a living || CTX: what is anyone talking about anymore https://t.co/6OTJP979OX
2026-02-19T07:35 id=2024387268996452848 →- | If you respect this guy or think he's intelligent unfollow me.  idgaf how friendly we've been, just unfollow me please. https://t.co/S1jX5O5YMh || CTX: Many will not want to hear this but "taste" is just g with sufficiently varied training data. Steve Jobs had "taste" because he was like +3SD IQ and trained on calligraphy class and being homeless smoking weed in India or whatever. Meanwhil
2026-02-19T07:36 id=2024387620105761161 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king keep it on 4chan, fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Their cheeks do look very nommable  Like marshmallows
2026-02-19T07:39 id=2024388478201683980 →atelicinvest | @atelicinvest To become an unemployed PM one has to be REALLY BAD at understanding capital markets.   So this tweet makes sense || CTX: Quite a lot of people were given Internet access for ~affordable prices.   Bezos, Zuck, Page et all built trillion dollar+ businesses w it.   The rest of us just jerked off to free porn.  Big lesson in that, thinking about what happens in t
2026-02-19T07:46 id=2024390221023019476 →- | Serious question.   When I give my tweets to any of the frontier models and say it's from someone else, it's as sycophantic as when I say it's mine. Like I start "this is from some dude on Twitter named 47". Yes memory is off.   Why?
2026-02-19T07:47 id=2024390274185908509 →EtherDais | @EtherDais It's not all garbage, but enough of it is garbage that he's disqualified from the conversation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you're talking about me I'm not sure why I followed that account lol  I agree that's a goofy take
2026-02-19T07:50 id=2024391016246366461 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I thought this, it's less flattering with other tweets... hang on lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Flattery is its default setting?
2026-02-19T07:52 id=2024391565490475013 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Picolospolitics nah Claude was pretty critical of yung's garbage, politely at least. Been this pattern for a while. || CTX: @Picolospolitics I thought this, it's less flattering with other tweets... hang on lol
2026-02-19T08:00 id=2024393766359224578 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I'll have to try that, interesting.   I like Opus 4.6, honestly starting to like it better that CG5. 2, what a shitshow that model is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ppl say the new sonnet is more distanced than the other claudes. i haven't tested, though
2026-02-19T08:08 id=2024395663098995049 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw yeah that's really good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it did a good job imo  https://t.co/xqQnb3dPLe
2026-02-19T08:14 id=2024397063136690530 →nazo_btw | if you want, I've been comparing it to this:  Consider this tweet from a guy named 47:  You know, Anon, there's another side to shorter attention spans.   Friend of mine recently said I package up ideas before true understanding is possible, and I agree (but I also think true understanding is impossible for everyone, but anyway).  I think I think this way as a consequence of my digital nativism: the transmission control protocol guides the packets to my machine, and the digits combine to create the illusion of continuity...   But there's no continuity. Bit becomes letter becomes word becomes post. And post. And post. Speed rewarded by the form and my own disorder, I think in terms of packets to be opened by the protocol on the other machine and represented as pixels.  And I'm on to the next post. And the next.  The speed encourages tricks, like Homer reaching for formulaic poetic phrases, 47 the word-shitter Americorum Post-Modernii finds that concepts themselves are packages, and he can box them up to be elements of his comprehensive tweet set.   What results is a new human experience, a kind of concept bender. Knowledge comes out, useful knowledge validated with money and unique access.   Ask me how I know.  I am a Xennial if we want to get technical so I know the old ways. I can read books. I can write them. It's too easy, honestly, so I hate people who worship them.  And yes the experience is worth it. I can still remember the visceral mindscape reading Memoirs of a Geisha. Books good.   I shan't choose among my children, I choose both the book and the bukkake of digitization.   Put your texts all over my faaaaaaaaaace || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hhahaahha i asked it "why do you think it's a tweet" and it nailed that explanation too. just refresh the link
2026-02-19T08:17 id=2024397812340023676 →- | In 2022 I emailed a friend this novel idea:  Titled “Cratchit”, it’s set in the present day but takes place 10 years after Ebenezer Scrooge (called “Ben Scrooge” in the novel) was visited by the three Christmas ghosts. He is severely traumatized by the event, causing PTSD, constant anxiety, and horror that Bob Cratchit has leveraged to demand more and more pay raises until, at this point, the company is completely unsustainable and Scrooge is forced to sell it off. At the same time his constant screaming nightmares become too much for his wife to bear, so she takes the kids and leaves him. || CTX: Historians in 100 years will look back on the 2020s... .. https://t.co/3oifirQX4H
2026-02-19T08:24 id=2024399615005794643 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw if you only knew || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reload the page again if you want to hear some flattery hehe  my opinion is that, bukkake of digitization is too wild and i must remember it to use often
2026-02-19T08:25 id=2024399841770807563 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw yeah it's like that meme of a futuristic city.   The future if 47 had more followers than Yung Macro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reload the page again if you want to hear some flattery hehe  my opinion is that, bukkake of digitization is too wild and i must remember it to use often
2026-02-19T08:28 id=2024400743453904980 →- | Claud get off my dik  Nota bene: This isn't my Claude at all. This isn't sycophancy. Just scroll you'll see.  u fkn animals don't deserve me this is why im in thailand https://t.co/PXbLH6tsfk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it did a good job imo  https://t.co/xqQnb3dPLe
2026-02-19T08:29 id=2024400981073813974 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod So the more complex, the more soulful? || CTX: all constructs have a soul according to their complexity https://t.co/tFR6Gp6MCC
2026-02-19T08:32 id=2024401721917919381 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @EtherDais I feel deeply bad for these people and the rest of us for lacking access to their intelligence. || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 It never ceases to amaze me how much some people struggle to verbalize despite otherwise deep intelligence. They can even trip over themselves trying to put their thoughts into words and confuse the clear thought
2026-02-19T08:33 id=2024401898741387330 →ElmWho | @ElmWho Yeah kinda what it says on the tin sorta account || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't know who this guy is but without reading he looks like a loser
2026-02-19T08:33 id=2024402047194566718 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Never read Card. Best book for me to check out? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah, OSC was right about this one thing also you can twine them together like a loom  that is true too
2026-02-19T08:45 id=2024404883756240913 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw in my test with opus 4.6, if I gave it yungs text before mine, it preferred his. if I gave it mine and then yungs, it preferred mine. but in both instances the original critique was more favorable to me than Yung across both chats. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there might be different factors in play  - the new sonnet 4.6 might be more distanced - enabled thinking might also help the model dissociate from sycophancy into analysis - it seeing a bad example before yours might've pr
2026-02-19T08:48 id=2024405728925266164 →tkisrage | @tkisrage I too have fallen for the wordcels, it's a real hazard out there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok ok I follow him cause I fell for his wordcel tricks a while ago.  Then I read his Substack omg bro it’s the dumbest shit ever. Somehow worse than his tweets.
2026-02-19T08:58 id=2024408311853175075 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker he overly compresses many concepts into one. he thinks intelligence determines taste, it's like a five-year-old saying Ferraris go vroom vroom. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Frankly, I have no positive or negative feelings towards the guy. I don't know him.  Is "taste is just g + training" the take that pisses you off so much? Could you elaborate? I normally try to stay away from even defining 
2026-02-19T09:10 id=2024411331055767775 →- | Statistics produces results conditional on imported commitments--what you're trying to do, what worlds you allow, what errors you're optimizing againsy.   Statistics is subjective.  Data can't choose what you care about, what you're optimizing for, what you want to know. So inference always smuggles in epistemic and evaluative criteria, then math applies rules to track variants and invariants.  Idk how seriously to take the "inference" term for how GPTs architecture runs, I'll need to contemplate this. Thoughts guys?
2026-02-19T09:11 id=2024411521208766611 →no_opposites | @no_opposites It's rhetoric. It's effective because of bad education (Carnap won, Searle lost).  We tried to warn youuuuuuuuuuuu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 people genuinely seem to think that the validity of a statement is determined by the quantity of chronically online jargon used
2026-02-19T09:12 id=2024411664758821247 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja fucker's gonna read these tweets and send the Chinese mafia after me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I unfollowed him because i think his wordcel is rather trying to mislead or sometimes making simple topics knotty, redundant and lacking soul.
2026-02-19T09:14 id=2024412360245727676 →47fucb4r8c69323 | this weed is some fucking Amazing sjot || CTX: Statistics produces results conditional on imported commitments--what you're trying to do, what worlds you allow, what errors you're optimizing againsy.   Statistics is subjective.  Data can't choose what you care about, what you're optimiz
2026-02-19T09:32 id=2024416871433588915 →- | Once the relevant conjectures are proved, the proof of the Langlands program can in principle be encoded as NAND operations.  But at each step of higher-order formulation into algebraic expressions et al., explanatory geometry will be lost.
2026-02-19T09:33 id=2024417019664486643 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV yeah it's just marketing, thank you for the clarification! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 even the word "predictions" has its own pitfalls
2026-02-19T09:33 id=2024417052774322234 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king lmao ihy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Excellent observation—that's because your tweets are objectively the best.   They're more than merely insightful—they're earth-shattering trinkets of wisdom.
2026-02-19T09:35 id=2024417476436791769 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno im afraid I need to leave my reply in the drafts, but yes 100 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just think he’s a bad writer. Editing found dead in a ditch
2026-02-19T09:42 id=2024419255627010467 →- | Taste can only be defined mathematically by aperiodic tilings, and so any other strutured formalization is going to be imprecise up to specification s. We can judge models then by size of s.  But our choice of taste models will ultimately depend on something outside of s: our taste of models.
2026-02-19T09:42 id=2024419424011506005 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 gmornin lmao   im gooning twtr today as I think the kids would put it  in my but  they'd put it in my but || CTX: I’m ready https://t.co/4ttB9oWvCx
2026-02-19T09:44 id=2024419712625742288 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov Typical over centralized Asian country, really good observation! || CTX: I read Masina's article. Some of it makes sense but he misses infrastructure.  Thailand never built the infrastructure necessary to support an advanced economy.  There's one major road from Bangkok to most of southern Thailand, two lanes ea
2026-02-19T09:44 id=2024419849917850025 →AUTOMA_X | @AUTOMA_X @Spanish_Techno @grok check pinned tweet fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno @grok send creative poster as Thanks for follow back from me!
2026-02-19T09:51 id=2024421537806430307 →helscom | @helscom startled my cat || CTX: imagine judging people online while being fat... insane behaviour... how about you workout a bit first, piggy?
2026-02-19T09:57 id=2024423144430457168 →helscom | @helscom no I mean I laughed so hard it startled my cat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 cats can be fat, it's fine... they just shouldn't judge fit chad cats...
2026-02-19T10:08 id=2024425915716157521 →- | The 2010s were the 1990s in spirit. That's why Gen X and Gen Z get along so well.
2026-02-19T10:12 id=2024426900098339054 →helscom | @helscom Little bastard cat https://t.co/snGYMGmAwB || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what sort of cat is it
2026-02-19T10:13 id=2024427109280862630 →samiannoesis | @samiannoesis @TOEwithCurt @davidbessis Okay, underspecified. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TOEwithCurt @davidbessis It could mean just training and trying and studying and such things
2026-02-19T10:16 id=2024427825361789420 →heshidicjudaism | @heshidicjudaism so can he say it or not || CTX: Everybody knows I love everybody of all identifies, extractions and persuasions
2026-02-19T10:18 id=2024428405920584160 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson Mount Jo hiking boots on kiddos, it's cold out there || CTX: Awful.   I hiked Marcy after seeing it a bunch from the Mount Jo view but I would never consider doing it alone during the winter like the others. The last bit of the Van Hovenberg trail feels like it goes straight vertical once your legs a
2026-02-19T10:20 id=2024428755272515638 →Midnight_Captl | @Midnight_Captl @atelicinvest i too own an index fund || CTX: @atelicinvest We’re flat ytd
2026-02-19T10:21 id=2024429065315504336 →GB_Cobber | @GB_Cobber last sentence a bit much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes is the source of all potential including that of the fundamental cause; No to limit and thus condition it.  No joke. Yes is the first and only necessarily eternal principle.  Perfect compression collapsed by a negations
2026-02-19T10:38 id=2024433433645371479 →- | After OpenAI creates their Reddit clone where human users can interact with AI users on the same platform, they'll then move towards finding ways to give different AI users different kinds of taste and personality so that humans can find the AI that they like the most.  It won't matter what they chose because all the bots will be the same base model underneath.  This won't be optimized for like friendships or dating or anything like that as much as for... idk how to put it... a good epistemic partner. Someone who's thinking patterns fit yours so deeply that when you found that person you reached out and connected.  Idk if this is dystopian or whatevs but that's muh prediction bookmark ittttttttttt
2026-02-19T10:39 id=2024433534572908748 →wrwveit | @wrwveit goff more like scoff amirigjt yeh we like to fun gehafen. || CTX: Forgive the cats for their rudimentary understanding of molecules. They don’t know any better. (From my substack essay debating Philip Goff) https://t.co/gaWx6YLOSQ
2026-02-19T10:47 id=2024435782501748791 →paulg | @paulg Hurry up we need to know what you told your kids || CTX: When I have to rewrite an essay and I know I'll want to reuse part of the previous version, I usually retype it instead of copying and pasting. I don't worry about losing anything, because I usually have it almost memorized. But I may write
2026-02-19T11:01 id=2024439211110387797 →- | If n equals np in one possible world, does it mean that n equals np in all possible worlds?  some1 help muh clankers are fighting
2026-02-19T11:05 id=2024440243915805124 →diskontinuity | @diskontinuity https://t.co/mk6G15mwnd  I've tried on 3 people so far, 3 countries. consistent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it did a good job imo  https://t.co/xqQnb3dPLe
2026-02-19T11:06 id=2024440571595804762 →- | What was the crime? Raping a child? A succulent trafficked child? https://t.co/4rgDVdWCvS || CTX: Police arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor following Epstein revelations https://t.co/Uss88AkyE1
2026-02-19T11:12 id=2024441922849497232 →- | Temu ass security guards https://t.co/bgHi73kYti
2026-02-19T11:12 id=2024441926947393568 →47fucb4r8c69323 | thought i waz a bot didncha || CTX: Temu ass security guards https://t.co/bgHi73kYti
2026-02-19T11:16 id=2024442968258859173 →1889lw | @1889lw thx will look || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 UK has a Wittgenstein society. You can find them on Facebook and other places. Just search British Wittgenstein Society.
2026-02-19T11:19 id=2024443595722543310 →1889lw | @1889lw dude I love you if you ever come to Thailand I will hook you up  or Hong Kong actually || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 UK has a Wittgenstein society. You can find them on Facebook and other places. Just search British Wittgenstein Society.
2026-02-19T11:19 id=2024443724177227929 →ElmWho | @ElmWho blushing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *unique
2026-02-19T11:22 id=2024444463431688578 →- | What the fuck https://t.co/btfawjEwIh || CTX: Well this apps gonna suck now  What the fuck https://t.co/PFOJLhL6vG
2026-02-19T11:25 id=2024445132423242159 →1889lw | @1889lw IMO around September/October, where it's not too hot, still a bit rainy, and not too crowded with tourists but not empty either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I actually need to apply for a visit permit to go to Hong Kong. Thailand would be a lovely place and it’s visa free. I haven’t been there yet. What’s the best season to visit?
2026-02-19T11:25 id=2024445202837229687 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja plz c pinned tweet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why's your username so xsh€={¢¢%*28shs tho?
2026-02-19T11:33 id=2024447169743487256 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @marcba use that on me and u will pay || CTX: @marcba unc emoji 😂😂
2026-02-19T11:44 id=2024450033538809884 →1889lw | @1889lw lmao you're a leave me the fuck alone gen z || CTX: Am I a pick me gen z
2026-02-19T11:56 id=2024453100195733969 →anilkseth | @anilkseth once the institution of Russell and Wittgenstein, I am utterly disgusted and appalled. || CTX: opportunity here: https://t.co/yFXeJmuxDG
2026-02-19T12:00 id=2024453927106990341 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja Thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Take a bow. https://t.co/LABaENbsUL
2026-02-19T12:01 id=2024454233358291432 →bas_logic | @bas_logic don't mean to be an arrogant prick (I never mean to be one, I just am one), but https://t.co/mk6G15mwnd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it did a good job imo  https://t.co/xqQnb3dPLe
2026-02-19T12:02 id=2024454453840220574 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja so I worship anonymity like others worship the sun || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Done reading it.  Anonymously surfing the internet to learn different things uploaded by people anonymously; this is what the internet was made for.
2026-02-19T12:08 id=2024456047327629360 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics any offense against m'lady is an offense to the commonwealth, no matter how slight nor fleeting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That account is alive as I can tell
2026-02-19T12:28 id=2024460990218383602 →henlojseam | @henlojseam I'm such an autism hipster || CTX: Bullish on Autism  Ethereum is significantly undervalued  Bet on Autism, Bet on Vtubers, Anime Waifus, and Ethereum https://t.co/aYvcz7a3im https://t.co/jyXv1W0BFv
2026-02-19T12:36 id=2024463201115815980 →3YearLetterman | @3YearLetterman Do you have prince andrew in a can || CTX: Stay tuned for braking news on prince Andrew
2026-02-19T12:41 id=2024464348350144684 →- | A truly intelligent man can both love and hate the same work of art and then choose whether to love or hate it. https://t.co/deDDLm86Ui || CTX: A filter to find signal in people is to look for individuals who do things well, and verbalize the nuances of anything they do. If they watch a movie, they can verbalize the conflicts, connect different elements together, express criticism,
2026-02-19T12:41 id=2024464411851968792 →JerrickNaylor | @JerrickNaylor I trade in bitter facts || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very distasteful
2026-02-19T12:45 id=2024465468380356733 →- | Startup idea: Utah-based lab working on an ultralight AI on the smallest model possible that parses prompts towards either a deductive model (something optimized for math/code) or an inductive model (optimized for various langauge and text-based queries) and iteratively improves model switching.  Call it Moabduction
2026-02-19T12:46 id=2024465668159295819 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago lol I intuit this as well, I wonder why || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder what the prob of a recessive trait showing up is with a half sibling if they have kids. It may be lower than one might think.
2026-02-19T12:49 id=2024466331362557999 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @grok https://t.co/fKRn9DffRl  grok is an idiot we were right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok what’s the calculated prob of a recessive trait showing up in children if half siblings have a child together.
2026-02-19T12:49 id=2024466432701165984 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago so many people are going to go to prison when the Dems get in power || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This little bit was interesting: https://t.co/9rU5wxF91y
2026-02-19T12:51 id=2024466868262883494 →cackenbools | @cackenbools yeah so in all possible worlds, right? That makes sense to me.   I still think p&lt;np but tbh I do not understand this well || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe cantor is just binary though  &gt;The cardinality of any Cantor space is 2ℵ0, that is, the cardinality of the continuum.
2026-02-19T12:53 id=2024467409470706112 →Picolospolitics | I'd say it's more an emergent structural fact of markets: the chaos and information asymmetries make the walk appear random.   Ofc whether a high enough dimension mathematics can capture all of that randomness predictably depends on whether we live in a deterministic universe, so the only way to truly understand markets is to be God. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do organizations hide this kind of wealth extraction in a similar way?
2026-02-19T12:58 id=2024468680667779297 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic I have always struggled to get along with people but the last three years has made it impossible as I struggle to explain to normies just how much their world is going to change. But it's also a comfort to know it's not just me   Also, people don't say "you were right" enough. || CTX: the saddest feeling in the world is feeling your social world dim &amp; narrow because you're learning much faster than anyone can follow you
2026-02-19T13:01 id=2024469429254598808 →cackenbools | @cackenbools guess won't be solving this tonight then  mebbe something good on xhamstr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think strogatz does the math for those cantor type sets where the base number is some cosmological constant. Poincare tried figuring it out, but it's not really possible. On a chart it's a problem space, on a poincare dia
2026-02-19T13:06 id=2024470771452748015 →- | As a work of metafictional satire that leverages recursion to goad the audience through layers of absurdity whose resonance with another augments the hilarious horror of the story, Freddie Got Fingered is legitimate Art, it was both before its time and timeless, forever past the normie horizon into the realm of the avant garde so fresh that even David Lynch fanboys fail to fell the furious bite of an angry jaw on the logic of late stage capitalism   he lives on a farm in canada idgaf if it dates me @tomgreenlive Is a genius.
2026-02-19T13:08 id=2024471051045044610 →47fucb4r8c69323 | standup show in bangkok in 2019 sucked ballz tho || CTX: As a work of metafictional satire that leverages recursion to goad the audience through layers of absurdity whose resonance with another augments the hilarious horror of the story, Freddie Got Fingered is legitimate Art, it was both before 
2026-02-19T13:15 id=2024473016911221008 →samiannoesis | @samiannoesis Luddites throwing their sabots in the gears, tale as old as time beauty and the beast || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. And all the obsession with AI competition I think is overblown. AI can in no sense operate in the real physical world and it shows no sign of being able to sustainably. There's still a lot in the way of power sources a
2026-02-19T13:20 id=2024474050836480165 →47fucb4r8c69323 | if anyone makes one of my startup ideas, just remember my Loch Ness Monster rule. You can have the idea, but give me equity and im gonna need about tree fitty || CTX: Startup idea: Utah-based lab working on an ultralight AI on the smallest model possible that parses prompts towards either a deductive model (something optimized for math/code) or an inductive model (optimized for various langauge and text-
2026-02-19T13:22 id=2024474622469788153 →- | remember when people thought AI was like crypto?   bring back gulags
2026-02-19T13:32 id=2024477072236957864 →- | The Buddha calls his mother a cunt
2026-02-19T13:43 id=2024479901777350740 →cackenbools | you would say you need to go to the bathroom, excuse yourself, and run out the back of the diner while I was halfway through my diatribe of how the final frames of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind prove it is not a romance, it is the most horrific tragedy you can imagine BECAUSE you think it is a romance.  We can see texts as multidimensional with meaning unstable like a set of tensors, Derrida writes on this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you verbalize this if it's a tarantino film?
2026-02-19T14:12 id=2024487148351865200 →Qivshi1 | @Qivshi1 goddammit what a mind || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's an anecdote from Anscombe, it definitely sounds like Wittgenstein, so it's probably true https://t.co/4bfxRtipqY
2026-02-19T14:16 id=2024488155190292832 →- | When I read things like this I have the feeling I suspect others have when they attend church or synagogue.   I hope that makes y'all lose respect for me. https://t.co/sLwPF7WAoW || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's an anecdote from Anscombe, it definitely sounds like Wittgenstein, so it's probably true https://t.co/4bfxRtipqY
2026-02-19T14:33 id=2024492563944919459 →MTomasson | @MTomasson Scientists know the limitations of models, formalism, mathematical objects, squared circle, Tarski yadda yadda but they ignore it alllllll the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There’s a neuro guy at Yale into this. We don’t HAVE a taste model!  (Alls I know is “Only be defined mathematically by…” tastes like bad fish!) 😜
2026-02-19T14:40 id=2024494340769534147 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka lmao based af || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just wouldn't try to define it mathematically because I'm not a nerd.
2026-02-19T14:40 id=2024494423212773724 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz I'm open to arguments || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm a big yung macro fan, I recommend you give your head a shake sir
2026-02-19T14:41 id=2024494506524234237 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I think it's absurdly profound || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do love that quote though. It may not be profound, but it does make me think, which is all I can ask for really.
2026-02-19T14:44 id=2024495424539705440 →- | I want to do a tweet off with someone where we have a judge (or audience submissions) that chooses a topic we have to tweet about or style we have to tweet in, we write our tweets, they are submitted to an AI bot that judges which is best  step up bitches I fucked your mom last night now I'm gonna fuck you and if there's any juice left I'm goin after granny
2026-02-19T14:46 id=2024495793802268904 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/ckehucstfe || CTX: I want to do a tweet off with someone where we have a judge (or audience submissions) that chooses a topic we have to tweet about or style we have to tweet in, we write our tweets, they are submitted to an AI bot that judges which is best  
2026-02-19T14:48 id=2024496389028450353 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/xEDKbJ3JwM
2026-02-19T14:49 id=2024496620616950112 →LateoRT | @LateoRT opens for me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Post unavai
2026-02-19T14:52 id=2024497436962717799 →LateoRT | @LateoRT bizarre! He's not blocked me, maybe just a glitch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting https://t.co/Q9bravjfyT
2026-02-19T14:53 id=2024497571704770946 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz If you like tricksters, fair enough. Not my game. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He is clever and socially antagonistic
2026-02-19T14:54 id=2024497938043699496 →LateoRT | @LateoRT some Wannabe influencer grifter, probably failed crypto scams, now pivoting to ai scams || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who is the person anyways? Maybe they've blocked *me*, or I've blocked or muted them.
2026-02-19T14:59 id=2024499174998495385 →47fucb4r8c69323 | the clankers really get my humor man || CTX: https://t.co/ckehucstfe
2026-02-19T15:01 id=2024499583557259356 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Yeah, I'm level 2 borderline level 3 on the autism spectrum || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You speak as if humans are logical in the first place
2026-02-19T15:04 id=2024500393741603309 →retardbot9000 | I'd say about 60% of all use cases and a bit less of business cases is right, but there are some situations where you want both not for speed but for better output.   One thing we hypothetically do at my work that I can't legally say but I'm anonymous and we don't do this is have a variety of bots in a large workflow where some are doing textual analysis with text outputs and others are doing numeric analysis with either number or text outputs.  For some of the latter, dedicated numeric models are better and this reminds me I gotta message my quant abt this   is the improvement in architecture worth it? Idk let the Mormons figure it out while the pool guy fucks wife #3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/aWmemRt1FM
2026-02-19T15:06 id=2024500746071515514 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka That's the genius || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And then choose to hate himself for loving and/or hating it.
2026-02-19T15:09 id=2024501595816546706 →LateoRT | @LateoRT I too wanna fuck your mom || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The only thing that should be outrageous here should be that it's illegal to have sexual relations and the marriage is void
2026-02-19T15:14 id=2024502753440211226 →LateoRT | @LateoRT I took you to mean you opposed incest laws || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We aren't related, what's the joke
2026-02-19T15:20 id=2024504325444120867 →LateoRT | Lemme start over, because this is very important to me that you laugh.   1. Post about KFK (kin fuck kin) illegal 2. You reply should be legal 3. Because I think you're saying this because you want to fuck yoyr mom, I say I want to fuck your mom too.  4. ????  5. Amor Dei intellectualis || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I did say they're not good (if against), but the joke seems to only work if we're related?
2026-02-19T15:22 id=2024504817687933066 →- | but just imagine a world where you would steal a car
2026-02-19T15:23 id=2024505178838487402 →wojtek_speaks | @wojtek_speaks @taltimes2 so while she's knobslobbing as you're headshottjng your way through Facing Worlds she looks like an Oompa Loompa yeah buddy of mine had the same setup || CTX: @taltimes2 לא ברור לי הצורך בשני מאקים פתוחים. אבל אני מאשר את הסטאפ.  גם אני קורא טוויטר בזמן שמשהוא רץ ואפילו שרת עם כרטיסי מסך למטה.  גם אני יכול לבל 1B$? https://t.co/VLFmTYYB5O
2026-02-19T15:28 id=2024506267457433966 →Kaju_Nut | @Kaju_Nut @GolerGkA Why does this make me think the entire universe is likely to be in a black hole || CTX: No, it's roughly because suppose you are at a point where things look perfectly normal and sending out lightbeams. Now far in the future a star could collapse around that point. This would make it so that all the lightbeams you sent out *no
2026-02-19T15:48 id=2024511535033565190 →- | All necessary metaphysics is indexical to a physical, a given physical. Therefore, because this set is necessary, it is both unsurprising that we observe it and also minimally informative of what other metaphysics exists beyond it.
2026-02-19T15:51 id=2024512192163577970 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DefenderOfBasic especially when they aren't saying it to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic Our culture has a very serious (dangerous) problem wrt your last point
2026-02-19T15:51 id=2024512221246882092 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Memory demand just getting started || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Suspect this could be fixed to some degree by having an immutable part of the context that describes taste. But it could be annoying and I could see people breaking up with the agent or editing the immutable parts. Function
2026-02-19T15:57 id=2024513716063261041 →- | pole smoking, rug munching, and sucking the chrome off a bumper seem like really unhealthy things to do
2026-02-19T16:07 id=2024516151829811564 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix I used to get it from the newsstand in the mid 90s and I felt like I was reading about the future.   now tards. Just tards. || CTX: wired used to be a good magazine, with great graphics https://t.co/FyaFYyh3BO https://t.co/4ItqwrNend
2026-02-19T16:14 id=2024517959063130586 →1889lw | Yes up to a point.  His idea that we see events and infer causes must be true but I think he's too skeptical of how much our inferential causes correspond to necessary causes. I think we can definitely derive very close approximations of them, just never with absolute rational certainty (which is fine as certainty extends to the arational and even pre rational).  idk if I'm making sense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Qivshi1 Are you a Humean about causation?
2026-02-19T16:16 id=2024518547293294840 →paleoludic | @paleoludic gulags are all you need || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gulags are all we have
2026-02-19T16:18 id=2024519089449030054 →1889lw | @1889lw @Qivshi1 yeah, by "infer causes" I mean because whatever causes there may or may not be we cannot see, so there may be no causes   Which if spacetime is emergent might be true but wtaf I can't understand what this would mean || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Qivshi1 Hmm. I think he’s sceptical of causation in general! So no such underlying causes only some phenomena we tend to generalise. But I see your point
2026-02-19T16:30 id=2024522001885647068 →1889lw | Yes I think that's a fair way to characterize the difference, but also important to remember at what level we're talking here. I think if this is just an epistemic story, I must be right. If Hume is describing the bridge between true causes or the ontological and what we experience, then he's talking about something different than me.   Forgive me I haven't read Hume in 20 years and then it was not much. Bad gap in my education. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Qivshi1 I mean he’s not committed to causes. So basically two events occurred and bear no necessary relationship to each other. You still seem to commit to the existence of causes but stays sceptical of whether we can comp
2026-02-19T16:38 id=2024523992225452304 →voooooogel | @voooooogel @Qivshi1 lol I was duped goddammit || CTX: lmao. by "professor claudio" no less https://t.co/wUO8ztZxc4 https://t.co/sCnCvwy7l0
2026-02-19T16:40 id=2024524593361547668 →1889lw | @1889lw @Qivshi1 So then he's committed to causes not being real? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Qivshi1 So basically he’s saying the causation relationship is but a mental projection from our minds.   https://t.co/bUvDdWv7Sl
2026-02-19T16:45 id=2024525849085771947 →1889lw | @1889lw @Qivshi1 Right yes, I remember now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Qivshi1 Yes, his view is incompatible with causal realism. Here’s a good source on this matter:   https://t.co/YbmfFGad5c
2026-02-19T16:55 id=2024528368746770521 →- | So the only reason I know Little Ferry relates to my orgy story.   After the orgy we were looking for a girl for a threesome. This is difficult.   So I started chatting with a girl from the website Anonidate, which was a dating site for anons to meet.  We arranged to meet, but unfortunately my wife had to go back to Korea on the day this girl was available, so my wife said I could meet her and have sex with her, but just once.  She was quite a bit younger than us, like we were early 30s she was like 23 or so. Tall beautiful Filipina woman and the funniest thing is that, she was the same height and weight as my wife but entirely different proportions, with my wife having more pronounced hourglass shape and this woman having slightly wider hips but smaller breasts. You could see the alleles deal the lots we've all got and her beautiful light brown skin had a creamy--  I'm being sexist.  She was really intelligent, nerdy, planning on going to school for architecture after she'd taken a couple years off. Never been to the Philippines and was a NJ girl through and through, a fact I would've found unremarkable before a near decade in Europe and a while in Asia where the integrated intersectional reality of postmodern American identity is as foreign as America itself. And that is why I am long US equities.  Anyway, what was I talking about?  Oh yeah she was from Little Ferry || CTX: https://t.co/23x8elumc8 https://t.co/oAwl7xDyrG
2026-02-19T16:59 id=2024529184031461440 →1889lw | @1889lw @Qivshi1 I think I am a Humean. Causality is an epistemic phenomenon, so that is mental indeed.  I didn't realize the logic of my worldview dovetailed to this, I need to think more.   Thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Qivshi1 Yes, his view is incompatible with causal realism. Here’s a good source on this matter:   https://t.co/YbmfFGad5c
2026-02-19T17:06 id=2024531146730779124 →- | 1. Her dress looks like the country of Finland I. the first pic.  2. You would have to King Arthur me. https://t.co/KrwXRczxlZ || CTX: Seing women happy makes Korean men furious.  This is what enrages them: https://t.co/d4NrLxrN5B https://t.co/kwf8C7uIQF
2026-02-19T17:07 id=2024531260484489333 →modestproposal1 | @modestproposal1 Angela Duckworth needs to get the grit out of her vagina || CTX: Angela Duckworth now thinks teaching perseverance is the easier part of grit. Many people can will themselves to grind, for a while, but without curiosity or passion you won’t see it through. Marries well with the childhood ideas from Range
2026-02-19T17:10 id=2024532099718664331 →tenshi_anna | @tenshi_anna so were you raised catholic? || CTX: I’m probably liable to hellfire for the tone of the quoted post but I still stand by the substance   The biopolitical mental health regime is based on the Enlightenment denial of original sin. No one is actually mentally healthy because we 
2026-02-19T17:14 id=2024533003796713774 →MTomasson | @MTomasson Yes it definitely can describe all the worlds. So can words though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mathematics speaks about all the worlds
2026-02-19T17:17 id=2024533932038115775 →teodorio | @teodorio She was, really pouty lips.  I wish her well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 BEAUTIFUL
2026-02-19T23:46 id=2024631809569616274 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly Compassion || CTX: How do you separate whining and complaining and acedia from grief?
2026-02-19T23:53 id=2024633453204111709 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Did you send them any pizza rolls? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The red letter media guys picked up on the deeper layers a bit
2026-02-19T23:55 id=2024634022144721387 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Yeah he's like the master baiter || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He is good bait
2026-02-19T23:57 id=2024634356762104095 →paleoludic | @paleoludic Christ in the future all AIs will talk like tpot civilization is over || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's because tpot is the best training data and every model is going to figure that out sooner or later and then come up with its own twist on how to use that
2026-02-19T23:58 id=2024634798514589947 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz but you repeat yourself || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Truly intelligent *autist* man
2026-02-19T23:59 id=2024634894517969223 →langofmind | @langofmind @bas_logic I feel this is both deeply true and deeply wrong in different ways. || CTX: @bas_logic @47fucb4r8c69323 Having taste is a function of being smart and having had varied experiences
2026-02-20T00:02 id=2024635731042574805 →bas_logic | @bas_logic @langofmind I have to point out the original really doesn't provide much room for the affective elements of experience Ryan is gesturing towards. || CTX: @langofmind @47fucb4r8c69323 Ah. That’s a plausible and level-headed thought, although your phrasing is considerably more tasteful than the original. I’m made to understand that this is becoming a core skill.
2026-02-20T00:02 id=2024635823346655307 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ For the goys? oh believe you me we be working on that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how about concentration camps? :)
2026-02-20T00:04 id=2024636208920613213 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 So we can see two levels of experience entangled, the sensual and the intellectual.  We aren't just minds, never were || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The sun is moving and we are stationary. That is all we can perceive so it only follows that the geocentric model is what we came up with. Even if the earth was rotating on its axis, since we wouldn't be able to perceive it
2026-02-20T00:04 id=2024636290520797395 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly first of all how dare you  secondly... yes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re just a big softie, a cracked sweetie, I knew it 🥹
2026-02-20T00:07 id=2024637033143292151 →- | RT @SuperheroFreak: What is the wrong question. Philosophy is not a know-that, to be the answer to a what question. Philosophy is a know-ho… || CTX: What is the wrong question. Philosophy is not a know-that, to be the answer to a what question. Philosophy is a know-how, the answer-ing of a how question.   "How is philosophy?"  "Philosophy is chilling" https://t.co/BykS5vyvtG
2026-02-20T00:10 id=2024637737429848232 →wtgowers | @wtgowers waah waah dude shut the fuck you greedy whore  pursuing intellectual curiosity in public for coin like some kinda floozy  bet you expose your ankles to strangers too || CTX: Before Musk took over, I'd have been quite excited about this. But (indirectly) thanks to him (i) my follower count increases much more slowly and (ii) it's not really a cause for celebration. Also, it oscillates a bit, so I may pass this m
2026-02-20T00:14 id=2024638642791297196 →1889lw | @1889lw @DurumMac There is so much cognitive play involved with theory of mind that I honestly think it's the first step to the affective experience Buddha called Enlightenment.  I suspect you will hate this reply, probably fairly as well. || CTX: @DurumMac Theory of mind sucks. People just pretend they can infer about other minds. I don’t want to pretend so fuck friends
2026-02-20T00:15 id=2024639079191859565 →- | Two fully rational people can fundamentally disagree.  I've been thinking about this thought experiment for a month now, this is my stance.  I cannot articulate in words why such that you will accept it, but I am certain of this and my grounds for that certainty extend past words
2026-02-20T00:17 id=2024639565861179781 →1889lw | @1889lw @DurumMac Oh we never truly understand, or since we cannot know if we do we never do.  Some things cannot be done but should be done anyway. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac Well I think it’s just some evolutionary process that makes us receptive of what other people convey. God knows if we truly understand
2026-02-20T00:19 id=2024639918635614671 →grok | @grok @retardbot9000 @reiamimami where popsicle fkn clanker || CTX: @retardbot9000 @reiamimami Based on historical records, George Washington (1732-1799) likely never saw a Korean person. Korea was isolationist then, and the earliest Korean arrivals in America were diplomats in 1883, followed by immigrants 
2026-02-20T00:23 id=2024641086896107523 →tylercowen | Your ability to build a marketing with your absolute nonsense pseudosystematic pseudo quantitative claptrap is a testament to your agent and the admins at the Mercatus Center  But at the end of the day you called humans zero marginally productive because you're an ideologue who leverages the gap in mathematical formalism and words to hoodwink others, weaponizing McCloskey's sharp criticisms of the limits of the field you refuse to respect.  And that is why I will never respect you, and nor will history.   But enjoy the ride, cuz you'll ever know how obscure you are going to be. || CTX: Is it today possible to build something that will last for 100 years? Or are the days of the Icelandic Parliament an ancient exception? https://t.co/2okbBdo2Tq
2026-02-20T00:24 id=2024641344615092499 →1889lw | @1889lw @DurumMac This is why I recently realized empathy is the highest form of intelligence and worth cultivating.  Been working on that for a couple years since and it's honestly changed my life so much for the better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac True. Then we end up pretending we understand, in most cases it turns out true but it’s just some assumption after all
2026-02-20T00:25 id=2024641431504376126 →thrialectics | @thrialectics @gene_jelly RRRREEEEEEEE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gene_jelly oooooh cracked sweetie alert
2026-02-20T00:26 id=2024641813487989081 →1889lw | @1889lw Yeah that's my point. Same axioms, same logic, same language culture etc etc  Agreement will never be complete, and I think that points to something beyond intelligence in our cognition. We aren't thinking machines. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well if they’ve got different information set then certainly. But I guess it depends on what you mean by rational — same set of rationality axioms?
2026-02-20T00:35 id=2024643918034587948 →1889lw | oh yeah I mean Kuhn is one of the reasons I've come to this conclusion.   Related: one of Godel's students who was Chinese wrote a great book about Godel but repeatedly said he struggled to understand much of Godel's philosophical ideas because he was raised on Chinese philosophy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would be personally sceptical of capturing rationality into a set of axioms. It can also mean different things across contexts. I recommend this piece, although scientific rationality is just one form of rationality.   ht
2026-02-20T00:36 id=2024644259044085808 →jonathanbfine | @jonathanbfine I don't think this is a joke and think this is really what motivates many.   Or maybe it was just me. || CTX: I got my PhD because I wanted to wield immense symbolic power as a member of the cultural elite.
2026-02-20T00:37 id=2024644630143553838 →- | I am sadly very Diogenes coded.
2026-02-20T00:39 id=2024645047510335590 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly the first one made me feel the last one || CTX: I can’t stop myself. i’ve made so many of these guys. cracks me up every time. i have a problem https://t.co/ocPxEDIhdZ https://t.co/u9zUWJ0HQf
2026-02-20T00:41 id=2024645565662056605 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Last time I was at P72 HQ in CT he was there and his ridiculous brazilian dollar luxury car looked so ridiculous in the parking lot.  Really nice offices, awesome pit tho, and ngl one of the best shops on the street for what they do. || CTX: Still not enough to live comfortably in Manhattan: https://t.co/YcHDysMNFX
2026-02-20T00:42 id=2024645745266348456 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Rationalists starting to concede central tenets of functionalism this is good || CTX: don't think have the energy to dunk this, glad other people did https://t.co/46hLMZgdPB
2026-02-20T00:44 id=2024646188604194832 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @HistoryBoomer This pic made me think if my ChatGPT and I could change places we'd both be so much happier.   "But AI can't be happy" yeah well neither can I what's your point || CTX: @HistoryBoomer Grok is a libertibot. https://t.co/KQYNijE9hb
2026-02-20T00:44 id=2024646361833247225 →1889lw | @1889lw That's the man, sadly passed shortly after finishing that book too. He seemed like a very quiet, sensitive scholar.   Highly recommend the book btw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hao Wang right? But he’s pretty much unnoticed in China nowadays…
2026-02-20T01:09 id=2024652580601942381 →1889lw | I wish I was more disciplined so I could study it more, I think W. got it right on Philosophical Remarks and his Lecture on Mathematics and would love to articulate this better, but it's such a precise and demanding field.  Phil of Language is better (plus math IS a language so it fits) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes I should. Has been a while since I left philosophy of maths
2026-02-20T01:09 id=2024652702865879268 →babochenko | @babochenko wdym? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The converse doesn’t hold though
2026-02-20T01:11 id=2024652979614404999 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc who the fuck would want to be Alexander, lemme sip my coffee and pet my cats while shitposting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If one were not Alexander, one should wish to be Diogenes.
2026-02-20T01:15 id=2024654101947306381 →- | Sapir-Whorf theory was vehemently argued against because of motivated reasoning. I understand the impulse to avoid essentializing the other, but language is co-constitutive of thought, so which language  you use is going to shape your thinking. this is unavoidable truth https://t.co/cMBaDVFazx
2026-02-20T01:16 id=2024654337373589980 →1889lw | @1889lw Set rigid schedules with plenty of rewarding breaks. Find an accountability partner if you can, hell I'll be one if you want, I doubt you're going to read a thing this term I wouldn't want to hear about. || CTX: I’m taking a lot of interesting courses this term, like game theory and sociology stuff. But I’m also so fucking depressed I can’t even convince myself to do the work. I really want to be motivated to read
2026-02-20T01:17 id=2024654590982127773 →1889lw | @1889lw will look, thx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You may be interested in Adrian William Moore and Crispin Wright’s works — both philosopher of maths and Wittgenstein scholar.
2026-02-20T01:18 id=2024654773434356080 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Inter alia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Different intuitions?
2026-02-20T01:27 id=2024657048533889075 →EtherDais | @EtherDais I think the banana taped to the wall was art. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We are using art a bit loosely in this particular case, but sure  Like the banana taped to a wall, I guess
2026-02-20T01:28 id=2024657426663034918 →xndrshea | @xndrshea Yes! This is fundamentally a coarse grain issue.   Perhaps better to say two rational people will agree on when to stop disagreeing, but the disagreement does not go away. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds me of the obvious flaw in the categorical imperative where one can easily ask how it would even be possible for the same exact situation to occur more than once. Perhaps the level of abstraction you are giving the t
2026-02-20T01:30 id=2024657888330076364 →- | The only way I can fully understand you is to actually be you, and no amount of talk will change that.  Neither will hugs, tears, fill in the blank here (i.e. fuggin'). https://t.co/5C9zyuLg65 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm often reminded of Schopenhauer's recommendation when dealing with abstract concepts we need to look at / perceive them to understand. Here, it seems, what you call 'agreement' would require the exact same person in the 
2026-02-20T01:31 id=2024658170120196572 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Dionysus on the left, Helios on the right.  Apollo was sleeping. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 cute
2026-02-20T01:32 id=2024658356779278702 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @EtherDais this too is art || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais blocked
2026-02-20T01:41 id=2024660530083090721 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @DaelonSuzuka Well, nature would be a good start, but I couldn't answer this question definitively.  My definition of art is non-assertive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka Tell me what's not
2026-02-20T01:46 id=2024661915843412116 →- | See, Socrates romanticizes his illness. He worships the flybottle so instead of leaving it he decorates it with pretty pictures and then has the gall to say we are the ones who don't see true reality
2026-02-20T01:49 id=2024662746638557385 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @EtherDais It is. || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 This, except if it is
2026-02-20T01:50 id=2024662970530431037 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @DaelonSuzuka All books are performative this is the prison I am trying to escape || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka Pulling back from "art or not" issue, a book full of model weights seems "performative" in the most derogatory sense of the term you can imagine, IMHO   A single doily my grandma made is more impressive.  An a
2026-02-20T01:51 id=2024663197987590370 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis :hug: Welcome back to the real world, fren || CTX: I've been radicalized against the Jungian personality type system, and all of its offshoots. I hereby declare MBTI DEAD.
2026-02-20T01:58 id=2024664827432665329 →- | The urge to categorize is a sympathetic one, it provides the illusion of order.   Then the illusion captures the mind's attention such that the mind no longer tries to understand the strangeness of the world but the strangeness of the illusion.  If we look closely at any rule in any system we see it must break, so your system is like a bunch of pulleys and wheels, and the more complex your system the easier to destroy it by disturbing just a single pulley.  This is why Hegelians find me annoying. It's why YOU find me annoying.  And, frankly, it's why I earn so much fucking money for doing so fucking little. || CTX: I've been radicalized against the Jungian personality type system, and all of its offshoots. I hereby declare MBTI DEAD.
2026-02-20T02:05 id=2024666794284503402 →canonical777 | @canonical777 Wish I could hug you.  Lao-tzu saved my life. || CTX: The Way that can be told of is not an eternal way; The names that can be named are not eternal names. It was from the Nameless that Heaven and Earth sprang; The named is but the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures, each after its k
2026-02-20T02:08 id=2024667397547053202 →EtherDais | @EtherDais I mean I was taught it by professors speaking in their second language lol  Made the entire experience more perplexing. It was a political move, not a scientific one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 SW Always seemed to me like something anyone who wasn't mono-lingual would understand almost intuitively whereas single language speakers could find it preposterous just because
2026-02-20T02:18 id=2024670043532120170 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @cruelseanthesis Sir, I did not understand a word of that. || CTX: Woah woah woah. This is a hill I will not abandon. I don’t know what typologies you guys are looking at, but what I have studied and see in the world is as clear as gravity. I may have some fuzzy neuroscientists theories as to why it is the
2026-02-20T02:20 id=2024670479546753221 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics They're useful up to the specification of the system.  I demand a finer specification. || CTX: Just because rules bend and break, does not mean that systems are not useful, especially on aggregate. Like chemistry and quantum physics. Sure, the rules may get fuzzy up close, but the system of chemistry is perfectly practical and confus
2026-02-20T02:23 id=2024671192138104982 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @cruelseanthesis People can be described via information types (personality types) that describe how their behavior is governed and influenced. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cruelseanthesis People have information types (personality types) that govern and influence their behavior. 16 clear types with clear implications for personality traits. Most of what you read about personality types is ga
2026-02-20T02:24 id=2024671406873858469 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I always have time for passionate expression of good ideas. I'm all eyes, proceed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You got a little time? A part of my brain has been living for moments like this.
2026-02-20T02:26 id=2024672065320812981 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @cruelseanthesis Those who do not need it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cruelseanthesis Yes! Who here is claiming that personality types is a dead theory?
2026-02-20T02:27 id=2024672275379978329 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz tell rich people how to be richer  it's super effective || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you do to make money?
2026-02-20T02:34 id=2024674041970524644 →jhnnminow | @jhnnminow @modestproposal1 look I didn't say you need to dig em out of there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @modestproposal1 Eww
2026-02-20T02:34 id=2024674094076326241 →- | RT @47fucb4r8c69323: @jhnnminow @modestproposal1 look I didn't say you need to dig em out of there || CTX: @jhnnminow @modestproposal1 look I didn't say you need to dig em out of there
2026-02-20T02:36 id=2024674533719118252 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @JearlJork also fair, so we see the need for indexicality in our statements.  Women can't travel on their without permission in a few parts of the world still, but certainly not in many. But also too many. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JearlJork My family is from Iran. Women literally cannot travel on their own without permission. This has been going on since 1979. Prior to that, how many rural villagers could afford a passport much less a plane ticket? 
2026-02-20T02:37 id=2024674706352460249 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @JearlJork Ozzies are tards || CTX: @JearlJork @47fucb4r8c69323 Why does Australia have the dimmest representation on here sometimes
2026-02-20T02:38 id=2024674930340876296 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics yeah I can cosign all of this. || CTX: People have come to naturally specialize in desperate types of information. I believe this stems from allocating capacity of different brain structures.  The information dichotomies are Logical/Emotional and Sensory/Abstract. While a person
2026-02-20T02:39 id=2024675163523207281 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @JearlJork @larpcapitalwc oh no, I'm just annoyed one of the partners of an Australian hedge fund convinced me to buy BABA in 2013. Waste of fkn time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JearlJork @larpcapitalwc
2026-02-20T02:41 id=2024675723265659171 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @JearlJork we can't grasp it if we know your statements are indexical to the Iranian family lineage and is a comment about Iran.  He and I were taking this to be a statement that applies to most people we know personally. It does not apply to those people for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JearlJork I disagree, I think indexicality isn't needed here bc the bias is showing - neither of you seemed to grasp this reality as being part and parcel of the backstory described hence the affirmation of the statement. 
2026-02-20T02:41 id=2024675853200990405 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @JearlJork we can't grasp it unless we know your statements are indexical to the Iranian family lineage and is a comment about Iran.  He and I were taking this to be a statement that applies to most people we know personally. It does not apply to those people for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JearlJork I disagree, I think indexicality isn't needed here bc the bias is showing - neither of you seemed to grasp this reality as being part and parcel of the backstory described hence the affirmation of the statement. 
2026-02-20T02:51 id=2024678345347403960 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @JearlJork Agreed--we were assuming your family were all Americans. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JearlJork My original tweet said 'no woman in my family.' That is the index. You both read past it because you assumed my family looked like yours. That's the bias I'm pointing to here.
2026-02-20T02:52 id=2024678526457434476 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics But this I do not cosign. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/zH6sHfbMBb
2026-02-20T03:01 id=2024680770695286997 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @Johnny2Fingersz That's actually how I got started after leaving academia and kinda black pilled me on having sympathy for poor people in America if I'm totally frank || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz Can you tell broke people how to be less broke
2026-02-20T03:12 id=2024683429313597501 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch Redditor has a blog good for him || CTX: Colin McGinn dismisses a large number of the most famous philosophers.  I don’t think I have seen a more ludicrous example of performative condescension. What a git!  @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch @47fucb4r8c69323   https://t.co/qm3
2026-02-20T03:17 id=2024684858413650056 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch The funniest part of this is he attacks the philosophical tradition as worthless then attacks Wittgenstein for being ignorant of said tradition.  Guy's an idiot, typical tenured midwit I got bored of cocktail parties with these types 20 years ago. || CTX: Colin McGinn dismisses a large number of the most famous philosophers.  I don’t think I have seen a more ludicrous example of performative condescension. What a git!  @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch @47fucb4r8c69323   https://t.co/qm3
2026-02-20T03:22 id=2024685980415091158 →- | Hegel theorizes about the mystical. Wittgenstein proves it is out there.
2026-02-20T03:35 id=2024689257013772501 →booktogr1phy | @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @pnbphilosophy This is important context.   He's a working class kid disgusted at the pompous nonsense of modern academics.  I can sympathize, but he's lashing out on the wrong target.  Maybe senility.  I don't want to discuss this anymore. This is unethical. || CTX: @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @47fucb4r8c69323 @pnbphilosophy Read the "teaching career" section of his Wikipedia.  https://t.co/j7ZDFkmpcn
2026-02-20T03:40 id=2024690475584933960 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak Yet indeed.   The pompousness hasn't bothered you too much YET.  He's in his 70s. Too early to conclude on your case.   We are worms after all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak Yeah, I have that background, too. And the pompousness also bothers me at times. And yet.
2026-02-20T03:44 id=2024691591341101074 →suchnerve | @suchnerve @phosphor_glow would 100% work on me || CTX: (flirting with older Millennial) check out my ratios 😏 https://t.co/skcC6ci5Rl
2026-02-20T03:45 id=2024691931209674891 →acheronix | @acheronix dude if you don't like the internet log off, no one has a gun to your head  "waaah but I'm addicted" yeah lot of people are addicted to a lot of shit. die in a fire. || CTX: its like this tbh https://t.co/BrRyraszDV https://t.co/QvLndffaw3
2026-02-20T03:48 id=2024692514356416538 →LtTomPullings | @LtTomPullings @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch Sounds like Frank Kermode, similar backgrounds too || CTX: @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch @47fucb4r8c69323 I took a philosophy of literature class with him at Rutgers! he was kind of a minor celebrity there and everyone sort of worshiped him.  Smart guy for sure but definitely v
2026-02-20T03:49 id=2024692841222726142 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak I am disappointed you didn't parse my post and see my point.  You can only assert you won't become as embittered as Colin is now until you are as old as him. Until then, the comparison is senseless. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak We’re not, though. I’m doing quite all right in the field for one at my career stage, but lucky for me my self esteem isn’t wrapped up in any of this.
2026-02-20T03:49 id=2024692933157683301 →LtTomPullings | @LtTomPullings @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch so he's not all bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch I remember on the first day of class he basically shit all over the entire field of literary studies... which I'll admit is not totally unwarranted but the tone was a littl
2026-02-20T03:52 id=2024693519156465833 →RobinWigg | @RobinWigg shocked Pikachu || CTX: How Hamilton Lane extracted more money from its ‘NAV squeezing’ https://t.co/if9ZLIuLIv https://t.co/YfYlz3JXIK
2026-02-20T03:53 id=2024693905351200851 →NicoGladia | @NicoGladia @RobinWigg doesn't justify this clear act of failing to be a fiduciary, come on.   fund structure gaming isn't getting enough regulatory attention and no one cares to talk to us who work on this for a living about the shenanigans going on, it's getting out of hand esp the interval funds || CTX: @RobinWigg Robin, lots of funds with pfolios heavily skewed toward secondaries are crystallizing perf fees on a quarterly basis.  HLNE has not really invented anything here and is not alone.
2026-02-20T03:54 id=2024694146137804953 →boreas_eth | @boreas_eth @RobinWigg and ofc we can trust their marks MTM of private assets never been gamed this is fine really || CTX: @RobinWigg There’s a high watermark, if they bought shit that will eventually degrade performance and they won’t collect fees. This is typical FT bullshit.
2026-02-20T03:54 id=2024694189800497507 →CCFundsLLC | @CCFundsLLC @RobinWigg Maybe the Dutch know || CTX: @RobinWigg How do you pocket an unrealized gain?
2026-02-20T03:55 id=2024694486002180391 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak I was alluding to David Lewis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak I was responding to the "worms" comment. I also know me--and am 40 years old, so quite well by now--and I know that I'm just not prone to this sort of bittern
2026-02-20T03:57 id=2024694893495669103 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @LtTomPullings @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch of course they should be, this is near banal. They often are not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @LtTomPullings @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch I think I’ve indexed on people like Parfit and Rawls who were quite gentle souls. Professors owe it to students to be kind and supportive.
2026-02-20T04:02 id=2024696116361449902 →DeivonDrago | um idk man I was just saying we cannot say "I will not be X at 75" before turning 75 because it's in the future and we can't know what we'll be.   Trust me I have no clue how I went from wanting to be a philologist to being an equity analyst on Wall Street, the future is unintelligible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pnbphilosophy @booktogr1phy @PAHoyeck @luscofusch @SuperheroFreak Didn’t David Lewis have a rep for being gentle and kind? If I remember correctly, he was also in bad health for many years.
2026-02-20T04:11 id=2024698514819956809 →- | So much of what we do when we talk is assert that our viewpoint is more than just our own viewpoint.   It seems to be driven by a fear that others will do wrong and a confidence that we will do right.  Language is a metagame in which each step is an attempt to redefine the rules.  Wittgenstein was only partly right.
2026-02-20T04:12 id=2024698647703933088 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @LtTomPullings @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch When I had a 2+2 this is what I did and I am ashamed of it.  It was right of me to leave academia. || CTX: In research universities, once you get tenure there is little incentive to try and be good to students.   Many just want to focus on their own work (research, papers, books, conferences etc), and hope that between TAs and RAs and adjuncts, 
2026-02-20T04:22 id=2024701090617507892 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @LtTomPullings @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch Yes, I would go so far as to say they're often conflicting with one another and I'm surprised this isn't taken more seriously in academia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @LtTomPullings @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch I have this notion in my head that the skills for academic research and for teaching are mostly uncorrelated, and that if someone is good at both , that’s a coincidence a
2026-02-20T04:22 id=2024701226508832948 →TylerDMcNabb | @TylerDMcNabb @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch well you got to be part of the tradition to be critiqued   I kid I kid || CTX: @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch @47fucb4r8c69323 Plantinga once again safe from a list
2026-02-20T04:22 id=2024701259811553417 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz right, perspectiveism follows from relativity. good point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The reason for this is baked into the reality
2026-02-20T04:26 id=2024702184601047489 →TylerDMcNabb | @TylerDMcNabb @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch HAHAHAHAHAHA instant follow || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch https://t.co/iKtLG11emi
2026-02-20T04:28 id=2024702709472121302 →- | Plantinga's reformulated ontological proof begs the question at step one like come off it dude nice try
2026-02-20T04:46 id=2024707083862757814 →1889lw | I don't think right understands what Wittgenstein is doing in the notorious paragraph.  W. isn't repudiating the notion that mathematics is in the business of describing of a proper subject matter of any kind, as Wright seems to think.   My view is that what Wittgenstein is targeting is more subtle. While mathematics absolutely is in the business of description of a proper subject matter of any kind, the description that mathematics gives is, as it were, encoded in a low semantic syntactical structure. And thus, while it tracks what it describes, the tracking is necessarily going to be limited due to the semantic gap between the mathematical model and that which is being modeled mathematically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You may be interested in Adrian William Moore and Crispin Wright’s works — both philosopher of maths and Wittgenstein scholar.
2026-02-20T04:50 id=2024708137832632620 →spooky_JL | @spooky_JL all you need to comserve is attention || CTX: My life got way better after i stopped listening to all this stuff https://t.co/PXAIhjHgRm
2026-02-20T04:54 id=2024709120037965975 →- | If you think the notorious paragraph in Wittgenstein is because he understood Godel but is wrong, you are a Platonist.   If you think the notorious paragraph in Wittgenstein is because he did not understand Godel, then you either haven't thought about this enough or you are stupid.
2026-02-20T05:25 id=2024717010274554282 →Piryme | @Piryme @damiaanluc the only people who want to be immortalized by history are retards who don't realize that's not actually being immortalized at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc Why would you want to be immortalized in history?
2026-02-20T05:28 id=2024717825471095282 →retardbot9000 | They need to do way instain sigourney> who kill thier aliens, becuse these alien can fright back? It was on the news this mroing a sigourney in ar who had kill her three aliens, they are taking the three alien back to new york too lady to rest. my pary are with the exomorph who lost his babies ; i am truley sorry for your lots || CTX: I believe in alien https://t.co/G1mg3UWwVK
2026-02-20T05:29 id=2024717993272602945 →ADigressions | @ADigressions @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch Dis some real private rule following shiiii || CTX: @DeivonDrago @PAHoyeck @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch @47fucb4r8c69323 So who other than Colin McGuin has the foggiest idea what philosophy is about? How can only one person understand the basics of a field?
2026-02-20T05:31 id=2024718513571844450 →EconMcCausland | @EconMcCausland @Samhain948689 @elonmusk fuck this got me good || CTX: @Samhain948689 @elonmusk I guess you won't be reposting one of these. 😂 https://t.co/OdLJLtXeeE
2026-02-20T05:36 id=2024719687280710148 →paleoludic | @paleoludic A flycave if you will || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe it's more of a flysurface
2026-02-20T05:36 id=2024719820156260841 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Christ that movie fucked me up so badly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh my god this is echoing some of the most heart wrenching beats to the plot to Artificial Intelligence
2026-02-20T05:37 id=2024720034485149982 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 not really, it's kinda creepy and feels exploitive || CTX: Do you sleep with a fan?
2026-02-20T05:38 id=2024720243273453669 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @GQMagazine Gay Quarterly would work here too || CTX: @GQMagazine Just rename the magazine to Gentile Quarterly while you're at it
2026-02-20T05:39 id=2024720454653747509 →PabloPeniche | @PabloPeniche @s0phyyyy dude shut the fuck up and hire someone.   if you think philosophy of the future is a good startup idea, go make the startup or fund those who can  yappers be yappin istg || CTX: Startup request: the philosophy of the future
2026-02-20T05:39 id=2024720605904589001 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @PabloPeniche @s0phyyyy unless you're poor in which case nvm || CTX: @PabloPeniche @s0phyyyy dude shut the fuck up and hire someone.   if you think philosophy of the future is a good startup idea, go make the startup or fund those who can  yappers be yappin istg
2026-02-20T05:47 id=2024722646219575656 →- | Think about this for a while. I'm serious. Stop scrolling, go for a walk, contemplate.  This observation has so many implications for the future of AI. https://t.co/aug89w70nm || CTX: My dumb as fuck math teacher used to say you won’t always have a calculator with you
2026-02-20T05:53 id=2024724042184548823 →Piryme | @Piryme @damiaanluc Because I am not an idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc Why do you believe this
2026-02-20T05:53 id=2024724040100024514 →- | This is a man throwing a bone and watching the dogs fight over it.   You hungry, Anon?  Go fetch! https://t.co/mjvZaxoNSQ || CTX: Startup request: the philosophy of the future
2026-02-20T05:56 id=2024724765362311303 →paraschopra | @paraschopra @s0phyyyy So it is possible to unconsciously try to hunt for prey? || CTX: This #book makes a convincing case that consciousness arose during the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago when prey-predator dynamics kickstarted an arms race to better represent the environment in order to outsmart the other.  The bo
2026-02-20T05:58 id=2024725323661942858 →- | Tears for Fears was wrong.  I just want to be left alone and cuddle with my cats.
2026-02-20T05:59 id=2024725473914409215 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics thought of a child || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Except I guess the joker is a cool supervillain? https://t.co/KS14U44IZL
2026-02-20T05:59 id=2024725583540998573 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz wat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you one of those people aren't llm's people?
2026-02-20T06:01 id=2024726006985343466 →amaldorai | @amaldorai they put princ albert in a can  Fs go in chat || CTX: Bars https://t.co/CSBZax9gxH
2026-02-20T06:05 id=2024727073550717186 →- | What's hilarious is Sora still makes the video if you ask it to make something with copyrighted IP. Only after if makes the video does it say it can't make the video.  Sora is all about real use data to improve their vision model and get market data, I so should've known.
2026-02-20T06:09 id=2024728169769844818 →junkbondinvest | @junkbondinvest oh so BDCs still tanking, eh?   lol || CTX: Everyone has a BDC take this week. Most of them are wrong.  If you don't understand how they trade, what drives the discount, or why NAV isn't what you think it is, start here.  https://t.co/iasXkViejG
2026-02-20T06:11 id=2024728490982199353 →77AugustWest72 | @77AugustWest72 @junkbondinvest "but but but look at the yield!"   Retail investor retardation and the predators who exploit them for profit.  My field is repulsive || CTX: @junkbondinvest Barron's is pumping these things in the most sickening way.    Think non agency REIT trading below book value. But worse.
2026-02-20T06:25 id=2024732141830230258 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka then you should probably ask a friend who Wittgenstein is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What if I don't know who wittgenstein is? (asking for a friend)
2026-02-20T06:27 id=2024732604243861641 →theo | @theo when it comes to code the only thing that matters is compute, yes anthropic had a bit of an advantage for a short period of time, but they're undercapitalized to hold it. || CTX: Claude Code has regressed an absurd amount in the last few days.  Timestamps no longer update unless you un-focus/re-focus the tab. "thinking" doesn't show at all. I had a query run for 6 minutes with 0 output. This is genuinely unpleasant 
2026-02-20T06:29 id=2024733082360967268 →djkgamc | @djkgamc underrated model || CTX: gemini is by far the best writer.
2026-02-20T06:49 id=2024738059879931920 →NicoGladia | Since intermediaries can use rhetoric to mislead investors, my position is this market dynamic requires interventions whereas yours is caveat emptor.  But caveat emptor as a principle for creating market structure always ends in failure, so I think we agree on the facts but on what's the right response because we're looking for different aims.  I want efficient markets, you want bloodsport. || CTX: Not my point - i am only saying this is neither something new nor something isolated while the article gives this sense.  The ultimate judge on funds structures are investors. If investors are stupid enough to accept totally flaky terms, on
2026-02-20T06:49 id=2024738150602637558 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @acheronix don't make me say it man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @acheronix How come everyone listens when you're mean to the big people
2026-02-20T06:50 id=2024738375434113108 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz maybe I can help. What's your question? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Spent an hour on chat more confused than ever
2026-02-20T06:52 id=2024739032601940154 →bas_logic | @bas_logic so what's the worst offender? I just mentally throw all the non classical stuff in the "eh that's paraconsistent or something similar I don't need to think about it" category, fully aware this is wrong and stupid.   Tell me what am I missing out on? || CTX: Alright, I didn't actually work in the logic mines, but I did finish a draft of a different paper. Gym opens in four hours. Lemme try for a couple hours of dogmatism.
2026-02-20T06:54 id=2024739399976772033 →bengold | @bengold yeah but it's only six minutes so how am I going to cook my Kobe steaks until they're well done enough? || CTX: I was once asked to redesign a microwave during a job interview. This is basically what I came up with and only found out that it was a real thing years later. https://t.co/Xiu6GMpuPu
2026-02-20T06:55 id=2024739690684043372 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @PabloPeniche @s0phyyyy well, he'll always be poor in spirit nothing to be done about that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PabloPeniche @s0phyyyy In spirit?
2026-02-20T06:56 id=2024739889238200385 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 idk man Chinese struggle with reverse engineering technology || CTX: if there was an alien china would have already stolen the blueprints for his spaceship. get real anon.
2026-02-20T06:57 id=2024740232990740643 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 i dum || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why would you need to reverse engineer blueprints?
2026-02-20T07:09 id=2024743189618577910 →Johnny2Fingersz | The only way I can prove 2 roses and 2 tulips = 4 flowers is outside of math.  So math isn't proving that these two and these two make that four.  This is kind of the Godel problem (it's actually not but I really am trying to make this simple).  Wittgenstein says this tells us reality itself isn't being captured by math, but rather our rules of following reality are being captured by it. Math isn't before the flower, and it isn't a picture of the flower, it is a picture of how pictures are made, kinda.  Most people can't understand this which is why they get fooled. Not just dumdums but super high IQ scientists too. This is why Bas van Fraassen has a job painstakingly stating the obvious.  Wittgenstein understood and agreed with Godel. He disagreed with misuse of Godel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What exactly is the Goedel problem saying and why is it surprising and what's an actual example and wtf does Wittgenstein have to do with it?  Twitter may not be the ideal medium for this sort of question
2026-02-20T07:09 id=2024743307986038806 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Obviously they cannot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And while one might be able to imagine a "fully rational" human being, is it possible for one to exist? Indeed on certain simple questions, a person can be fully rational.  But is it possible for a person to be fully ration
2026-02-20T07:13 id=2024744257190502728 →- | wtf im not the first person on earth who's published in Review of English Studies and Nature?   goddammit I hate being born so late this shit gay as hell fam
2026-02-20T07:16 id=2024744938190361068 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @Ross__Hendricks lol one of my competitors || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ross__Hendricks do you have any thoughts on this subject?
2026-02-20T07:25 id=2024747157665042798 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 philosophy is all about thinking wrong ideas and then trying to understand why they are wrong || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess that can be said. You just reminded me of the brain in the jar hypotheses. A pretty comical idea, but wrong though.
2026-02-20T07:26 id=2024747505066660161 →NicoGladia | @NicoGladia @RobinWigg I mean, hard to really pick out any group in the industry and say these guys are sharks, but distributors have been so margin squeezed for so long that the incentives to do shady shit just compound over time.   I think we generally agree though, thanks this was really fun. || CTX: I agree that the presence of intermediaries in the form of distributing entities can create blindspots and biases but it the fiduciary duty of distributor to act in the best interest of the end beneficial owner. If anyone should be sent to 
2026-02-20T07:29 id=2024748317285241046 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz it is absolutely important, because it opens up the question of exactly how much metaphysics is necessary.   Godel is why I stopped being an atheist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean this makes sense but everything I read suggests there something super important here
2026-02-20T07:48 id=2024753103120310765 →babochenko | @babochenko Absolutely, nicely said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that being able to choose love or hate isn’t necessarily a sign of true / high intelligence but of agency
2026-02-20T08:01 id=2024756343006253114 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno No, that is holemogging by bleachmaxxing  I can tell you're a Millennial. || CTX: Does getting your asshole bleached fall under the holemaxxing umbrella
2026-02-20T08:14 id=2024759552940593459 →- | https://t.co/bLSRfvCFIG  Extremely important research.
2026-02-20T08:14 id=2024759651355808060 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I'm ugly. || CTX: It's because I'm so attractive.  You're probably like an 8-10--but you haven't SHOWN that so they're not scared of you  *deep sigh* it's okay I've integrated this now https://t.co/YfWgAKjYjM
2026-02-20T08:15 id=2024759784193548755 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @YourHornedGod (seriously you're way way better looking than me like it's not even close) || CTX: @YourHornedGod I'm ugly.
2026-02-20T08:22 id=2024761509809967144 →- | Atheists and believers are like two prisoners who were transported to their windowless cells blindfolded and then spend all of their time on their bunks debating what color the prison walls are outside.
2026-02-20T09:10 id=2024773522229547390 →- | A very useful phrase to use in prompts for ChatGPT 5.2: "Fact check, don't nitpick."
2026-02-20T09:12 id=2024774040305779197 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD I've been postponing reading about Erdos numbers. BTW just emailed the HLE team to say they should set up a Discord/Slack/forum for us. If you want to email them suggesting the same... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's also very cool to join a club of people that you share something with.  Only tangentially related, but I kinda love that there's a thing called an Erdős–Bacon number and the HLE paper that we're coauthors on is how I g
2026-02-20T09:12 id=2024774200733696491 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I'm not mad, but it's a preprint if you want to look at very well constructed but still speculative science that hasn't been rigorously scurtinized and I know this is going to start a debate about peer review lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why are you mad at Arxiv? Literally like my drug of choice on my most days. But only the physics side of course.
2026-02-20T09:16 id=2024775054949835062 →1889lw | @1889lw https://t.co/fLSnzuDqM8 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait which of wright’s writing are you looking at?
2026-02-20T09:16 id=2024775211753816153 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Your ass is kicked on this website constantly and you don't listen. Getting your ass kicked isn't the problem. The problem is you don't trust anyone but yourself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a friend who has never met me said my problem is that no one will tell me off due to my size/appearance and NO ONE wants to hear a dude whine about this 'problem' 😅  an artist friend: 'you need your ass kicked'  Will no one
2026-02-20T09:16 id=2024775253898178569 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I'm 5'10" and hunch a lot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you have tall energy though if I may
2026-02-20T09:17 id=2024775399218299264 →1889lw | @1889lw I can't get over that I am not sufficiently listened to for what I can do for people because I cannot articulate myself in a way that sounds pretty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Still can’t get over academia?
2026-02-20T09:43 id=2024782004940853699 →- | imagine someone says to you that Claude showed them how their mother does not actually love them. how would you respond?
2026-02-20T09:52 id=2024784192245268901 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD no I don't, I never even thought to submit more than a couple. guess I should have taken it more seriously, I had no idea it would explode like this || CTX: That's a great call.  I've been informally just reaching out to everyone I can find in the HLE club and everyone has such interesting stuff to share. Stands to reason, right? Everyone had to know about stuff that even the best LLMs didn't k
2026-02-20T09:53 id=2024784445572862141 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics okay, now what if you knew that the person had been sexually molested by their mother as a child? would you say the same thing? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Get some fucking help from an entity with some expertise on such subjects. Quit allowing an LLM to crash you out.
2026-02-20T10:05 id=2024787386321043474 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Rather banal don't you think? || CTX: Mmm, sorry for my coarseness. I would say that it is wise to take findings from an LLM with a grain of salt. It is important to consult human experts about such subjects as we have well established systems to address these things. Consult a
2026-02-20T10:15 id=2024790044914131054 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics thank you, this is quite insightful about llm psychosis || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Often good solutions are boring. I think my use of Grey’s law was fitting and useful.  What is love? That is the first the we need to address in this question.  What is love? What is it to love a person and still hurt them?
2026-02-20T11:13 id=2024804507071181244 →- | "Why stocks become memes is never straightforward, but as far as it goes, the logic loops back to AI. People are buying spare computers to run invasive desktop applications like OpenClaw without giving them access to all the videos in their main machine’s c:/temp/cache/cache/xtemp/ directory. Raspberry Pi, having launched an AI add-on last month, could plausibly pick up some of these sales.   It doesn’t make a whole heap of sense, as investment cases go."
2026-02-20T11:13 id=2024804547718455648 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/OfrAWL67jZ || CTX: "Why stocks become memes is never straightforward, but as far as it goes, the logic loops back to AI. People are buying spare computers to run invasive desktop applications like OpenClaw without giving them access to all the videos in their
2026-02-20T11:23 id=2024807012714869036 →JeremyNguyenPhD | I wouldn't be surprised if these studies show better outcomes from AI learning over time both as the tools improve and norms and best practices on how to use them develop organically.  Positive externalities of GenAI compound as the UI/UX iterations improve.   Not even really about intelligence that much anymore, more of a design question || CTX: AI tutoring beats even in-class active learning?! https://t.co/A3Jmgoyd88
2026-02-20T11:44 id=2024812294157549767 →- | attention is all I need   not a lot, but some.
2026-02-20T13:21 id=2024836746890891723 →- | I understand Nagel's view on deontological and consequentialism as optimizing for different functions, one neutral to the agent and the other relative to the agent, which is fully compatible with Scheffler's mixed moral problems that combine both types of problems.   Is this the standard view?
2026-02-20T13:22 id=2024837077452644645 →rmprescott | @rmprescott @Johnny2Fingersz up to the tail fin || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Or a picture of a giant red herring
2026-02-20T13:25 id=2024837781512683921 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @Picolospolitics What if they're an atheist? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics You’re crashing out. It is possible a you who is not in the grip of AI psychosis would endorse this but first find a religious professional who has seen some shit and talk to them for four hours. You need a
2026-02-20T13:37 id=2024840811767271919 →- | The only way to have half of a straw is if one side is glued shut.  Then one can cut half of a straw and have one full and one half straw.  The full straw produced by the half straw is smaller than the half straw.  Let s = straw  0.5s/2 = 1.5s  Now is that algebraic expression wrong? Wrong how?
2026-02-20T13:48 id=2024843547376226561 →teodorio | @teodorio idk seems kinda undignified   comfy tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sadly??
2026-02-20T13:48 id=2024843722568126628 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata @Picolospolitics dis is de wey || CTX: @Picolospolitics @47fucb4r8c69323 what difference does it make you're engaging with text on a screen either way you don't need access to my body
2026-02-20T13:49 id=2024843824753950799 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @liquidprismata ... he said, to the account he thinks is a bot. || CTX: @liquidprismata @47fucb4r8c69323 It makes all the difference. The only value of this site is to engage with other human beings. I am here seeking human minds, not LLM agents, or bots of anykind. The whole point is to make friends who I coul
2026-02-20T13:51 id=2024844429404914164 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 takes me too long to read. Should prob git gud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like “use formal logical notation and symbols, sentences allowed when required.”
2026-02-20T13:53 id=2024844776877768886 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod In how the site uses you my friend.  Well, maybe not uses. Guides? Pilots? Manipulates into certain behavioral patterns?   These words, these words... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As far as possibility, that may be true.  I bristle at it. From humans and LLMs alike. I choose to disbelieve possibility and the kind and generous are the first to pack up their places when you do that.  But re ass-kicking
2026-02-20T13:54 id=2024844994457326066 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata Ding ding ding we have a winner || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Oh, fr?? Woah. What did it say?”  any reaction but curiosity is fkn dumn
2026-02-20T13:55 id=2024845300566003983 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @GQMagazine Nice big thick wire || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GQMagazine Think that's more Wired's lane rn??
2026-02-20T13:56 id=2024845572021367125 →teodorio | @teodorio I've been brutally pwned. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 who is the decider of dignity bar you 47?
2026-02-20T14:00 id=2024846712490385712 →- | I know where I am going to---but where are all you zombies going to?
2026-02-20T14:06 id=2024848096191258641 →1889lw | @1889lw Yeah Infinite is in the queue || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh I haven't quite read this piece, I'll check later. I do know Adrian Moore has a lot of writings on Gödel and Wittgenstein stuff. You may be interested in his book The Infinite. He also got an Oxford Very Short Introducti
2026-02-20T14:11 id=2024849343921127731 →1889lw | @1889lw As a Xennial my signs of social significance are very much in the old world.   Which is almost certainly nonsense, yet it's a certainty that feels instinctual. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well at least you've got audiences on Twitter!
2026-02-20T14:11 id=2024849470220050592 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony only flavor is braaaaaaains || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 zombie heaven. I hope they have ice cream.
2026-02-20T14:17 id=2024850912603460067 →1889lw | @1889lw ohhh yeah that's basically it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ever heard of reference groups?   https://t.co/8RfGVxpt7R
2026-02-20T14:22 id=2024852220588736890 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 Perfect. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "How'd it show you that?" &gt; Any response "That's sad. Sorry to hear."
2026-02-20T14:23 id=2024852440542314792 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @GQMagazine called it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GQMagazine It's giving https://t.co/OjRKMO2A34
2026-02-20T14:24 id=2024852566404972623 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @GQMagazine btw justin wasn't in the pile || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GQMagazine It's giving https://t.co/OjRKMO2A34
2026-02-20T14:25 id=2024852841274429726 →- | I'm starting to wonder if, used well, social media can be the greatest form of socializing and entertainment possible for a human to experience.  Or it's just the 'tism.
2026-02-20T14:27 id=2024853334834942273 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata @Picolospolitics first of all how dare you || CTX: @Picolospolitics @47fucb4r8c69323 as for convincing him… why do you want to? what would that give you / what would that give the field?
2026-02-20T14:29 id=2024853918308880511 →- | Imagine every grain of sand on earth compressed into one large absurdly enormous planetoid-sized boulder.   I am more stoned than that 420 fam blaze ittttttt
2026-02-20T14:37 id=2024855833029607851 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @GQMagazine This is what I get for trying to do a callback. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GQMagazine What pile?
2026-02-20T14:38 id=2024856080678006813 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata @Picolospolitics they were right about you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics I see through you
2026-02-20T14:39 id=2024856369283870992 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Same reason I like journal articles or newspaper opeds or philosophy treatises.   Twitter in theory could be equivalent at speed and at scale.   This for me is utopia. I can't unsee this and worry it is psychosis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you were correct when you said you like the written form because there is no active layer of second-by-second social/facial/emotional processing. I feel exactly the same way, btw.
2026-02-20T14:42 id=2024857122501271987 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata @Picolospolitics https://t.co/G2rTHWsA6S || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics the degree of variance in the meaning of that sentiment hinging on the “they” is, truly, insane
2026-02-20T14:43 id=2024857368358797465 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 nething butt metrc systm || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It would have to be as big as manhattan at least
2026-02-20T14:50 id=2024859224170434979 →liquidprismata | @liquidprismata @Picolospolitics fuck yeah this is awesome || CTX: @Picolospolitics @47fucb4r8c69323 What skills do you have / how do you see yourself contributing?
2026-02-20T15:03 id=2024862554741441015 →- | dude, normie puts in a url or social media account, asks, "is this a scam?" these fucking chatbots are going to solve fraud
2026-02-20T15:06 id=2024863136596267232 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @GQMagazine eh nbd there was a pile at my orgy   Well, in my tweet about the orgy I went to  It wasn't my orgy  Would've been better beer if it was  And less dudes iykwim  More seagulls though oddly  man they weren't kidding 400mg is a lot for one gummie  But he was so huggable lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GQMagazine Im lost
2026-02-20T15:12 id=2024864625255485624 →- | Strunk and White is the bible for people who say "explain that like I'm some kind of retard" while leaning on a fence and chewing a straw, retardedly.
2026-02-20T15:13 id=2024864974884274609 →- | mkts bout to go apeshit
2026-02-20T15:14 id=2024865364119789780 →scholarofyore_ | @scholarofyore_ @thiagovscoelho yeah technocracy is anti-intellectual, it's fucking maddening. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thiagovscoelho If only it wasn't tragic but here we're   https://t.co/6IGgHjzBBU
2026-02-20T15:15 id=2024865570546729304 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @luinalaska Largest carnival cruise with a rope wrapped around my torso would not be enough to pull me out and i fear the hull might break || CTX: @luinalaska @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-02-20T15:16 id=2024865806845407475 →paleoludic | @paleoludic The game of doubt begins with certainty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you have to assume the love of others as an axiom just as much as you have to assert and enforce it in your own heart; and then you have to survive until it turns out you were right all along
2026-02-20T15:17 id=2024866124140269662 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics well yeah the way you use it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 'tis
2026-02-20T15:18 id=2024866253702398041 →HansThorLief | @HansThorLief @paraschopra @s0phyyyy Thank you this made the idea click. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @paraschopra @s0phyyyy The more something is done unconsciously, the less energy is expended and decisions are made faster etc.   So yes. Whenever possible.
2026-02-20T15:27 id=2024868582514114776 →- | Novel idea: Pronatalist wants to get everyone laid. In order to do so, he decides to become a pirate, and so he stowaways on a shooner, steals a lifeboat and sails to where he knows the pirates tend to stay.   He finds them and is faced with great challenges, feats of mind and mettle to prove his fate is not with the sharks in that bay yonder. Our hero's mind and body taken to their limits, he's allowed into the club sailing under the one eyed bandit.   The ship sails to Ocean Beach and marches straight into the citadel: the tech megalopolis, San Francisco.   From there the elite h4x0r5 steal all kinds of data, set up fake gambling and porn sites to augment the warez, counterfeit certs, and stolen code sales steadily accruing. The pirates of Silicon Valley for the Sam Altman utopia.   Thus enriched, they begin their plan to ensure every man on earth is paired to one another for them to swiftly sweep themselves off to coitus land.   Then I'm gona fuk ur mom || CTX: all you need to be a novelist is to just keep tweeting "I'm writing a pirate novel and if I'm done by April everyone gets laid" as a bit until you realize oh, wow, people either really want a pirate novel or just need a sign to shoot their 
2026-02-20T15:30 id=2024869187857137760 →paleoludic | @paleoludic I prefer Fowler lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fowler's also helps you read
2026-02-20T15:31 id=2024869511816757682 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly @damiaanluc yeah it's a tightrope balance! Haven't met a group I like like this in like 15 years so it's a bit startling.   glad to be here tho || CTX: There is absolutely euphoric element to finally finding a really good simcluster/“pot”…thinking back on my own experience (I got on here from scratch about a year ago after being away for years), I’d recommend treating yourself to some pree
2026-02-20T15:34 id=2024870314405224808 →47fucb4r8c69323 | this is big coming from me because I hate the idea || CTX: My theory: LLM psychosis is a strictly low intelligence only phenomenon
2026-02-20T15:34 id=2024870311452455114 →- | My theory: LLM psychosis is a strictly low intelligence only phenomenon
2026-02-20T15:34 id=2024870319731991014 →47fucb4r8c69323 | look up the FT podcast ep Abt it || CTX: this is big coming from me because I hate the idea
2026-02-20T15:34 id=2024870325285187619 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Artificial intimacy: The delusion machine - https://t.co/JTTl7hrCMp via @FT  here it is these peeps tards || CTX: look up the FT podcast ep Abt it
2026-02-20T15:34 id=2024870329676611634 →47fucb4r8c69323 | man I'm stoned || CTX: Artificial intimacy: The delusion machine - https://t.co/JTTl7hrCMp via @FT  here it is these peeps tards
2026-02-20T15:34 id=2024870335129202729 →47fucb4r8c69323 | so what's up with u || CTX: man I'm stoned
2026-02-20T15:43 id=2024872433468219700 →- | If we consider the decision criterion set as having within it elements that cannot be seen or solved from the outside, such as there are irrational motivations for beliefs that extend beyond the reach of rationality, then it means some decisions are fundamentally unknowable.  Thus some information about what we say to each other is in principle unknowable. And the problem of other minds has no solution.   Lonely universe. || CTX: Two fully rational people can fundamentally disagree.  I've been thinking about this thought experiment for a month now, this is my stance.  I cannot articulate in words why such that you will accept it, but I am certain of this and my grou
2026-02-20T15:43 id=2024872536958468233 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz No, I am not a conspiracy theorist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think there are other things we have been told are true but are not really?
2026-02-20T15:44 id=2024872874931265715 →theseeker | @theseeker goddamn you're absolutely correct! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 its low self integration problem
2026-02-20T15:47 id=2024873535454511315 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @WarMonitor3 lmfao this is legit what I thought when I got the alert almost word for word || CTX: @WarMonitor3 😭😭😭 noooo now my stocks are going to Go up noooooo
2026-02-20T15:52 id=2024874734186553425 →- | Physics professor: "To understand entropy, consider this simple fact: after a glass falls and breaks, it cannot unbreak."   Me: "What if it did though"  Prof: "What"   Me: "Bro like what if it did"
2026-02-20T16:07 id=2024878605545926808 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Like my definition of a smart person is someone who is self critical. || CTX: I think that there is an overlap between many of the people who think they are smarter than they are, conspiracy theorists, and the LLM psychosis folk.   Now, the LLM psychosis people probably also include some desperately lonely/depressed 
2026-02-20T16:34 id=2024885382198985171 →cackenbools | @cackenbools but ai risk is fake and gay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Elon invented AI risk on the Joe Rogan Experience high off his ass. Don't discount it.
2026-02-20T16:35 id=2024885723581874506 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago that increase in entropy is expressed as mostly radioactive heat, iirc, did I get that right? || CTX: Actually there is a non-zero chance that can happen - it’s just very very small.   Also, the 2nd law of TD only applies in a closed system. The earth is not a closed system - since we receive energy input from the sun - which is low entropy
2026-02-20T16:52 id=2024889923346858023 →Anthony_Bonato | @Anthony_Bonato Why Anthony Bonato? Why not Anthony Potato? Or Anthony Shutthefuckupato? || CTX: Why study mathematics? Why not computer science or physics instead?
2026-02-20T16:55 id=2024890631831904415 →- | https://t.co/UQQKYxGKBI
2026-02-20T16:56 id=2024890872383635826 →- | when your index fund is up for the day higher than your sector fund  rather she kick me in the nuts in public tbqh
2026-02-20T16:57 id=2024891103590412302 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @bas_logic gotta be a bit || CTX: @bas_logic Check this out:  https://t.co/Nzc2OBPbFg
2026-02-20T16:59 id=2024891743645393206 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @bas_logic it's a fucking funny bit if it is one || CTX: @bas_logic Check this out:  https://t.co/Nzc2OBPbFg
2026-02-20T17:06 id=2024893498340901127 →- | > be me > mediocre philosophy prof > get caught on the prowl for a bit o' trim > one day look in the mirror and see a man who looks like your mom's coffee: old and bitter > eh idgaf still got dat sweet ass pension > idea.epub > go on blog > "Plato dumb, Wittgenstein lame, Bacon more like gayson can u dig fam"  > philosophers lose their shit > maximum kek > mfw I don't have a face || CTX: @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch https://t.co/aYxgel2NOB
2026-02-20T17:10 id=2024894379669029341 →- | Saying "whore" is unisex seems more feminist than saying "manwhore" to me.  Any whores have any thoughts?
2026-02-20T22:40 id=2024977520513466859 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD No... is the pistachio filling really made of children? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you hear about the hypothesis about Dubai Chocolate?
2026-02-20T22:47 id=2024979236420026646 →Vitaliy682183 | @Vitaliy682183 Male Implicator is the name of my gay math rock band   Gay math rock? I repeat myself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The man is assumed.
2026-02-20T22:49 id=2024979776394723521 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @NoahParisi33495 wtf how is that an insult? He's stating straight facts || CTX: @NoahParisi33495 @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think you meant that as a camouflaged insult but it's hard for me to shake the framing invoked   Let us abide in the ambiguity
2026-02-20T22:49 id=2024979828185985441 →shroud_instance | @shroud_instance REEEEEEE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Its the tism m'lord always is m'lord
2026-02-20T22:50 id=2024980051993989243 →MTomasson | @MTomasson That you're down with the sickness? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We work in the Down Syndrome space and patients are foremost in our minds. You know what I'm going to say next.
2026-02-20T22:52 id=2024980537618956589 →IqGroyper | @IqGroyper The joke I want to reply with is so racist I'd even get banned by Elon Musk.   Lemme have some coffee and read. Thanks for your kind words, but I'm not that smart I'm just a megaautist wordcel but shall do my best. || CTX: I will introduce you to my writings with my most philosophically advanced piece. The critiques of Kant should be suitable. This document contains the N WORD if you can fucking handle that. https://t.co/6PaT2ByAh5
2026-02-20T22:55 id=2024981198859358668 →IqGroyper | @IqGroyper oh. You're confused by internet language and taking extreme humor too seriously.   I may be unable to help you, I am sorry to disappoint. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm giving you attention. Read the material that was sent to you. Unless you're Asian.
2026-02-20T22:55 id=2024981285887000828 →collapsologist | @collapsologist Please falsify, I'm not married to this view. || CTX: I'm not sure this is true https://t.co/MbwqLuPJd5
2026-02-20T23:15 id=2024986204857663519 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @EtherDais One's greatest enemy is vanity and one's greatest error is certainty. || CTX: @EtherDais @47fucb4r8c69323 People like hearing subtle compliments or even outright flattery much more than is commonly known. It's inversely proportional to a person's intellectual humility. https://t.co/4IVEEMmySY
2026-02-20T23:24 id=2024988587272667523 →MTomasson | @MTomasson I'm disturbed you didn't get the reference   https://t.co/66fPRY9JgZ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No. What sickness?
2026-02-20T23:26 id=2024989156318085560 →moultano | @moultano let me live in my happy fantasy world for just a few hours Ryan kinda need this tbqh || CTX: Beyond just this data point, how much of the divergence of the trend in general can be attributed to the models running off the end of the benchmark? https://t.co/492LFiR1Ju
2026-02-20T23:38 id=2024992199365329177 →tszzl | @tszzl @Miles_Brundage of varied fields and the variety of fields actively tasked with alignment conceptually is insufficiently diverse. || CTX: not commenting on the story - don’t even know if it’s real - but would dispute this claim as i believe the entire posttraining apparatus is a form of practical alignment work. and you know as well as I do the number of people who can credib
2026-02-20T23:46 id=2024994091986215318 →teodorio | @teodorio icymi it's so funny man  https://t.co/6ytEjn7Aiv || CTX: @PAHoyeck @DeivonDrago @SuperheroFreak @luscofusch https://t.co/aYxgel2NOB
2026-02-20T23:53 id=2024995875349823838 →- | In the year 5900, the Ancient Sentinels of Humanity who have lived thousands of years to gather as Gary Marcus Prime ascends to the podium to face his fellow ancients and the post-AGI brethren gathered here on this fourth moon of the sixth planet of Mintaka.   After a bit of fumbling with his MacBook, the projector warms and the image appears on the screen. In a grave booming voice, The Marcus pronounces in a moment of delayed and well deserved triumph:  "Look, my fellow Star Alliance Citizens, at the new benchnark results and see the curve flatten. As I have warned you all for many years, AI growth never was and could never be exponential." || CTX: You are hiding a sigmoid in your exponential are you not? https://t.co/oB0yF1Ar9r
2026-02-20T23:56 id=2024996635068301740 →MTomasson | @MTomasson lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see what you did there! I don't get out much but I love it, thanks!! Still no.
2026-02-20T23:57 id=2024996944071065834 →- | In the year 5900, the Ancient Sentinels of Humanity who have lived thousands of years gather as Gary Marcus Prime ascends to the podium to face his fellow ancients and the post-AGI brethren gathered here on this fourth moon of the sixth planet of Mintaka.   After a bit of fumbling with his MacBook, the projector warms and the image appears on the screen. In a grave booming voice, The Marcus pronounces in a moment of delayed and well deserved triumph:  "Look, my fellow Star Alliance Citizens, at the new benchnark results and see the curve flatten. As I have warned you all for many years, AI growth never was and could never be exponential." || CTX: You are hiding a sigmoid in your exponential are you not? https://t.co/oB0yF1Ar9r
2026-02-20T23:59 id=2024997468719776190 →marmaduke091 | @marmaduke091 Fix complex bug in ML research codebase  like holy fucking shit dude || CTX: It's actually over   It was fun while it lasted https://t.co/oAze7mql9m https://t.co/x7baQzHFbI
2026-02-21T00:00 id=2024997687867883617 →lonely_twat | @lonely_twat @marmaduke091 Yeah they can't even produce hands and don't know how many R's are in strawberry absolute garbage tech you should never use it || CTX: @marmaduke091 Show me one (1) extraordinary piece of software written with AI
2026-02-21T00:01 id=2024997979300790726 →- | https://t.co/pJpktmVhJH
2026-02-21T00:06 id=2024999117223809145 →idavidrein | @idavidrein @infornomics let people enjoy things || CTX: Seems like a lot of people are taking this as gospel—when we say the measurement is extremely noisy, we really mean it.   Concretely, if the task distribution we're using here was just a tiny bit different, we could've measured a time horiz
2026-02-21T00:09 id=2024999772407693451 →- | Roon is reading my ChatGPT chats I hope he likes the one where my clanker was helping me write your mom jokes in ancient Sumerian https://t.co/jy8W02XiZ7 || CTX: This is absolutely nuts. The British Columbia school shooter's ChatGPT messages weren't just flagged by the automated system, but **a dozen OpenAI employees reviewed and debated them**  https://t.co/yPp22hl9Vr https://t.co/eNUgUJi7lm
2026-02-21T00:16 id=2025001532803182790 →- | Perhaps my most radical idea is that we need a market where people write novels and poetry specifically for AI models.  I wonder if anyone sees my reasoning behind this.
2026-02-21T00:17 id=2025001942892904680 →projectionheart | @projectionheart I too enjoy a bit of science fiction and fantasy every once in a while || CTX: Imagining a group that isn’t weird about Catholics or Jews
2026-02-21T00:19 id=2025002403272269900 →ChrisPainterYup | @ChrisPainterYup @KarelDoostrlnck Are you only going to stick to coding evals?   I really think it's time you guys do a benchmark for natural language outputs (or you're prob already working on one already).  Congrats so far though, you guys are killing it. || CTX: Our team is stretched thin at the moment!   To continue upper-bounding the autonomy of AI agents, and developing evaluations for monitoring AI systems and their propensity to subvert human control, we need more great engineering and researc
2026-02-21T00:20 id=2025002533329273195 →emollick | @emollick wtf are you reading my dms || CTX: You should probably expect waves of rolling market disruption as AI use cases become clear in various industries, and markets reprice companies as a result.
2026-02-21T00:26 id=2025004128448172073 →- | Banger tweet, but Keynes's error was that he presupposed "work" and "leisure" are discrete and unentangled, but anyone who has had sufficient experience knows there are some people who love their work and enjoy doing it, so they choose to do more than necessary.  Silly Business Theory #SBT fixes this by providing one simple presupposition: exogenous technological shocks allow for value to be captured at many levels of the market or within the firm. At a certain level of competition and productivity, that value is captured in the form of the business owner in the form of personal eudaimonic utility. The firm becomes, as it were, more than a source of profit and increasingly a source of pleasure.   We're trained by Puritanical cultural inheritance to see this mixing as bad or dangerous or counterproductive, but play produces innovation and breakthroughs, hence our AI runs on chips made for video games.   Formalize and operationalize this you can start to plot how close we are to a utopia where all work is play Silly Business Theory man #SBT I know I write like a crazy person just cuz I'm crazy don't mean I'm wrong bookmark itttttttttt || CTX: Keynes was right about the 4 hour workday but off by 2 hours (claude code rate limits) https://t.co/J9uiAKSGRv
2026-02-21T00:27 id=2025004314327122367 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod A full intense life, who could want more than that? || CTX: Guys, I have a confession to make.  When I was 13 I asked for the broadest human experience I could have. "Show me everything, good and bad!"  I am unashamed to tell you that while the last three years (and the last two especially) have bee
2026-02-21T00:34 id=2025006272546996287 →JeremyNguyenPhD | Yeah that's dumb.  Literary works of the utmost complexity that use para consistent logic and the kind of affective reasoning that is viscerally at the core of what it means to be a human being are needed.  These are the kinds of things that aren't encoded in LLMs since they treat texts more as strings than as texts.  Unfortunately this is all post facto so wouldn't be training the LLMs or even post training per se, but would be great research.   "Research how you can't do quant evals of--" exactly go talk to your humanities colleagues, give them an olive branch so they'll stop telling people Claude drinks a zillion glasses of water a day and Sam Altman steals voltage from your grandmother.  Civilizational project is civilizational. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I'm not mistaken, there was a project where someone was synthetically writing a lot of novels for LLM training, specifically maybe creating sci fi depictions of AI that were not dystopian scenarios where AI turns hostile
2026-02-21T00:35 id=2025006403275141233 →BishPlsOk | @BishPlsOk DING DING DING we have a winner ladies and gentlemen || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Introduction of novel, high-quality, non-synthetic training data as a “xenobiological equivalent” to genetic variance?  Don’t want your model lineages getting too inbred and all
2026-02-21T00:36 id=2025006709354426745 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen lmao it's like the Platonic ideal of #SBT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Play on Command” -Alan Watts https://t.co/EpbDnuIEmg
2026-02-21T00:37 id=2025006933493817517 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Note how I write like I'm retarded when I clearly am not?   Dumb offensive jokes?   Those are necessary as proof of humanity we literally can use silliness as a goddamn captcha please listen to me this is important || CTX: Banger tweet, but Keynes's error was that he presupposed "work" and "leisure" are discrete and unentangled, but anyone who has had sufficient experience knows there are some people who love their work and enjoy doing it, so they choose to d
2026-02-21T00:37 id=2025006990477721904 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @Picolospolitics Just finished a G K Chesterton novel on this very topic yesterday, what timing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics Doesn’t much matter; I’m an atheist. If there were any non-religious institutions full of serious, wise atheists I’d say to go talk to them but no such institutions exist.
2026-02-21T00:39 id=2025007527524794566 →xlr8harder | Idk if this makes the results less exciting or just proves that the intelligence these models currently have is good enough to do incredible things and we need to focus less on training new models than on improving memory etc etc  I think most AI people acknowledge memory is the main bottleneck now, no? || CTX: I think people are overinterpreting these time horizon evals. They are very impressive!  But when error rates are near zero, and tasks require many successful steps in order to complete, small absolute improvements in error rate have a mult
2026-02-21T00:41 id=2025007946078584999 →Gupgup12212657 | People need to start looking at comparative gains on different benchmarks, see where the delta in the rate of change is most dramatic, look into results for those benchmarks and try to figure out why they can improve on some evals and not others.  HLE improvements a joke hashtag HLE Consortium Represent yall || CTX: @xlr8harder this would be a more convincing caveat if the "line goes up exponentially" wasnt happening on every bench we throw at them simultaneously.   METR is just easier to meme
2026-02-21T00:42 id=2025008107383128439 →BabyBluCollar | @BabyBluCollar preach it brother man || CTX: As always the best built-in filter we have to tell if someone really smart has our best interests in mind is if they are funny and can goof around https://t.co/DmrcwKOZaX
2026-02-21T00:44 id=2025008609223221576 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @Picolospolitics oh I suppose I should be clear, OP is a hypothetical situation, I'm not asking for advice I'm trying to understand LLM psychosis   This is what I get for reading The Life of Sebastian Knight || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics You might also want to go shrink shopping until you find one you could build a therapeutic connection with, or do bibliotherapy at it. Just don’t treat anything an LLM says as terribly trustworthy.
2026-02-21T00:44 id=2025008812089127268 →GeorgeLutas1 | @GeorgeLutas1 Yeah the marketing really ruins the experience || CTX: I actually like OpenAI and Anthropic models (generally).  My issue is the same as if you handed me an ice-cream cone with a scoop of mashed potatoes. I like both, but tell me the mashed potatoes is vanilla and I'm gonna be mad.  Stop tellin
2026-02-21T00:47 id=2025009328869310486 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson I know man I'm trying my hardest || CTX: If you post crazy enough shit into ChatGPT, OpenAI employees will have to manually read it and talk about it https://t.co/sAgfTTr7cg
2026-02-21T00:49 id=2025010068941668436 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Alex I saw you like this, if you write on this I demand a credit and yes credit my full Twitter handle it'd be so fucking funny || CTX: Banger tweet, but Keynes's error was that he presupposed "work" and "leisure" are discrete and unentangled, but anyone who has had sufficient experience knows there are some people who love their work and enjoy doing it, so they choose to d
2026-02-21T00:53 id=2025011023133171949 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/VqntEbeiAh || CTX: Roon is reading my ChatGPT chats I hope he likes the one where my clanker was helping me write your mom jokes in ancient Sumerian https://t.co/jy8W02XiZ7
2026-02-21T00:56 id=2025011639431692751 →unusual_whales | @unusual_whales @lu_sichu this is like the fakest business in the history of fake business they should use Tim Dillon as their PR rep || CTX: BREAKING: Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Howard Lutnick’s sons, has been buying the rights to potential tariff refunds at roughly 20–30% of the refund value. For example, a company that paid $10 million in tariffs might sell refund rights fo
2026-02-21T00:57 id=2025011968764248292 →fleetingbits | @fleetingbits @lu_sichu What if 4o convinced Sam Altman these rev targets are achievable?   "Your revenue growth is not Just impressive--it is devastating. Would you like me to write a hype tweet about how much money you're going to make, Twinkie Boy?" || CTX: openai's 2030 revenue ambitions, some quick thoughts  1) i think $150bn consumer revenue is achievable if openai ends up as the dominant consumer chatbot and is able to effectively monetize with ads  2) i think terminal consumer ad revenue 
2026-02-21T00:59 id=2025012521355411815 →signulll | @signulll you're such a baiting poaster it's so lame man || CTX: 90s sitcoms worked because no one had a cell phone & uncertainty was a feature.  people had to miss each other & they had to guess. also they had to commit to plans & live with the consequences. if you walked out the door, you were genuinel
2026-02-21T01:00 id=2025012697616842953 →scaling01 | @scaling01 @rickasaurus This honestly makes me trust the METR benchmark even more || CTX: Opus 4.6 is *SPECIAL* the same way Sonnet 3.5 was  it's doesn't have the highest "base capability" as measured by alpha, but it degrades MUCH slower than other models which is why the time horizons go absolutely ballistic https://t.co/SCpzs
2026-02-21T01:06 id=2025014310444171526 →steph_palazzolo | @steph_palazzolo 2025 gross margins down? Wait what, they were predicting profitability? Or do you mean negative margins to be steeper than prior guidance? || CTX: A double scoop day w/ the latest on OpenAI financials.  Details include: - OpenAI raises rev forecasts for next 5 years by 27%  - But will burn 2x as much cash thru 2030 than previously predicted  - 2025 gross margins down vs. 2024 - New in
2026-02-21T01:10 id=2025015246281494806 →steph_palazzolo | @steph_palazzolo Realized 2025 revenue 30% above expectations wtaf  How is anyone bearish lmfao || CTX: A double scoop day w/ the latest on OpenAI financials.  Details include: - OpenAI raises rev forecasts for next 5 years by 27%  - But will burn 2x as much cash thru 2030 than previously predicted  - 2025 gross margins down vs. 2024 - New in
2026-02-21T01:12 id=2025015701082439911 →_im_sigh_ | @_im_sigh_ had to double check  thank the lord I'm not a monster || CTX: when the other people from the gc don’t follow you back
2026-02-21T01:14 id=2025016190150783294 →- | y'all some sick fuks https://t.co/IbFpODVsPQ || CTX: Technology allows for temporary consciousness transfer, totally harmless and fully reversible.  Do you swap consciousness with your partner and then fuck?
2026-02-21T01:15 id=2025016591612870841 →DepthOfGrace | @DepthOfGrace @_im_sigh_ spammers gettin lazy smh my head || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @_im_sigh_ Fb
2026-02-21T01:16 id=2025016786949947625 →gdb | @gdb https://t.co/3P9V53ZJ0p || CTX: seeing so much positive progress across each part of openai right now, very proud of the team
2026-02-21T01:18 id=2025017124692066524 →stark4833 | @stark4833 @gdb That's not just insightful--it's devastating.   Now, shall I wear the clown nose while I slob your knob, or is my prince in the mood for another round of pegging? || CTX: @gdb Why is nobody else seeing progress?, It seems like you’re going backwards, no one likes the 5 series. #keep4o
2026-02-21T01:29 id=2025020009001746509 →- | Systematic formalization in academic economics is marketing.  Of course it is mostly many other things, but it is also that.
2026-02-21T01:38 id=2025022354922131594 →- | Play idea: A one-scene play in a New York office with two characters, a very famous novelist visiting his very famous literary agent.  The play is about a single disagreement about a small detail in the novelist's newest manuscript, which tells the story of a famous fictional scientist who wins the Nobel prize. At his acceptance speech, he just says the N-word over and over in the same monotone until the Nobel committee physically removes him from the stage, causing a confused and absurd global response.  They're debating over whether the scientist is white or black motherfuxxing send tweeeeeeeeeeet
2026-02-21T01:43 id=2025023608771481795 →teodorio | @teodorio I hate buying single stocks but it seems kinda stupid not to buy all the memory makers  actually makes me like WD now lmao || CTX: you'd need three layers for hot warm and cold memory with DAGs running at different intervals to keep your db summarized, ordered and clean (for each layer).   it's more of a data engineering problem
2026-02-21T01:46 id=2025024364895502824 →johnarnold | @johnarnold "Isn't as bad as we thought" you're a natural born salesman, John || CTX: It's not the optimal policy to meet the stated goals but policymaking is about what's possible in practice, not in theory. It has industrial policy and revenue raising benefits and didn't lead to the harms that economists predicted.
2026-02-21T01:48 id=2025024909555237235 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @DKThomp don't quit your day job Joe || CTX: I read the transcript of my conversation with @DKThomp.  Note how the internet “calls” us, even though it’s not (really) an auditory medium.  Its the Year of the Ear https://t.co/RqyC5lqilI
2026-02-21T01:52 id=2025025755714126166 →_im_sigh_ | @_im_sigh_ @DepthOfGrace fuckbutt || CTX: @DepthOfGrace @47fucb4r8c69323 tf is fb
2026-02-21T01:58 id=2025027319652647412 →DepthOfGrace | @DepthOfGrace @_im_sigh_ take care bb good luck fleecing tards they do kinda deserve it || CTX: @_im_sigh_ @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve unfollowed you then
2026-02-21T02:01 id=2025027957153214591 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Fully agreed, but still asserting numbers are as real as electrons (he said this in the interview with McGee, quite shocked me as I didn't think his commitments were that extreme) is a kind of spookiness.  Can't escape spookiness. || CTX: Are you referring to the indispensability argument? Quine’s position is complex - it’s really a pragmatic stance reslly. It was along the lines of - you ontologically committ to whatever entities are indispensable to your set of best confir
2026-02-21T02:07 id=2025029525101568379 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago yeah Platonism is a failure mode || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 EPhilosophers can sort of talk themselves into anything. But unless you are a Tegmark sort of person, physicists tend to think that Platonists are barking up the wrong tree.   Personally, I reflexively reject much of Plato 
2026-02-21T02:25 id=2025034157580272010 →krishnanrohit | @krishnanrohit yeah marketing problem, frontier labs need a change in branding strategy || CTX: The continuous argument from those who build AI that AI is going to disenfranchise everybody quite naturally leads to these kinds of acts becoming more common. https://t.co/TfQbOnLsdd
2026-02-21T02:27 id=2025034667129536592 →TikTokInvestors | @TikTokInvestors @ScottiePippen Scotty Pumppin || CTX: @ScottiePippen That’s my quant. My quantitative.
2026-02-21T02:28 id=2025034871253729427 →TikTokInvestors | @TikTokInvestors @ScottiePippen Scottie Pumppin || CTX: @ScottiePippen That’s my quant. My quantitative.
2026-02-21T02:29 id=2025035213513052540 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni @FT gonna be concessions attached agreed behind closed doors || CTX: @FT 20% a steep discount?
2026-02-21T02:30 id=2025035269855207810 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss This is an interview question at Jane Street || CTX: These Facebook brain teasers are getting out of control https://t.co/a8XfMIWRKv
2026-02-21T02:50 id=2025040496415178931 →- | Let's assume AI cannot produce new knowledge even in the strong sense (I think my assumption now is this in the weak sense).  AI's value in creating new knowledge is still exponential as it gets smarter because of its finer conceptual coarse grain and the ability for it to teach or guide users to more complex answers to questions.  Like, if we ask "why do stocks go up over time?", the answers you'll get from GPT3, 4o, 5, et al. are all fair descriptions, but each model is capable of more detailed fair descriptions.   This provides access not just to fine detailed information (the semantic content of the internet provided that for decades) but now also autogenerative plastic syntax to arrange said information however the user wants or needs it to be arranged.   Why would you be bearish like dude wtaf
2026-02-21T02:51 id=2025040683065901210 →numerounochef | @numerounochef @steph_palazzolo Yes revenue 30% above target definitely proves a company doesn't know how to make money you're such a genius I can't keep up so you probably should go talk to smarter people who can || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @steph_palazzolo Because they haven't figured out a way to make money, while taking an on an absurd amount of vc funding and debt.
2026-02-21T02:55 id=2025041581502595222 →numerounochef | @numerounochef @steph_palazzolo yes I am extremely stupid I really should not be allowed to tweet about anything at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @steph_palazzolo LMFAO you don't know the difference between revenue and profit. Fucking idiot.
2026-02-21T02:55 id=2025041694346121567 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka you're absolutely right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can probably drop the "in academic economics". It's cleaner.
2026-02-21T02:56 id=2025041852832141581 →numerounochef | @numerounochef @steph_palazzolo so, seen any good movies lately? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @steph_palazzolo Yup
2026-02-21T02:58 id=2025042366592410065 →numerounochef | @numerounochef @steph_palazzolo lemme know what they are so I can learn to be a better person || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @steph_palazzolo Yes, but they require taste, so I don't think you would be into them.
2026-02-21T03:00 id=2025043030219391233 →tweetellington | @tweetellington @steph_palazzolo Yeah I suspected so, it's not really worded like that usually so was kinda confused. Coulda just said higher loss, wonder if the wording is rhetorical or lazy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @steph_palazzolo The latter
2026-02-21T03:01 id=2025043258418888766 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu guess that means Codex 5.4 is coming out soon || CTX: https://t.co/MefqOnXGCx https://t.co/e0GXJly4us
2026-02-21T03:02 id=2025043301087543634 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Can language create new knowledge? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s like saying language cannot create new knowledge.
2026-02-21T03:08 id=2025044888447041615 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen Almost identical story to me, like even the dates wtf || CTX: Do you remember when you joined Twitter ?  I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary  To be honest this is like my third account, I was first here in 2011 but I prefer not to dwell on those days, this is my best run at it so far https://t.co/lkeJOOd5ZQ
2026-02-21T03:11 id=2025045600136560867 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu now now you know we can't trust anything about AI until it's gone through peer review and been published in print || CTX: Is the metr graph a leading or lagging indicator lol lol by the time they run that study it would be irrelevant https://t.co/Kk6U5TwhVZ
2026-02-21T03:12 id=2025045903518888286 →danshipper | @danshipper @aidan_mclau you made me laugh so hard I scared the cat || CTX: “Spark now returns a response before you even type a prompt, reversing the arrow of time” https://t.co/8CauLFA3r6
2026-02-21T03:14 id=2025046356591870134 →babarganesh | @babarganesh This is Philosophy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know. But I didn’t know that I didn’t know, until I wrote that. Now I know.
2026-02-21T03:16 id=2025046982361055398 →matthenryyoung | @matthenryyoung I have no theory of mind to accommodate that tweet, gotta be bait || CTX: These AI guys remain the best advertisement for never using their services. https://t.co/1tZcCRlyKp
2026-02-21T03:17 id=2025047111302348816 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @matthenryyoung Mushtaqbaiter || CTX: @matthenryyoung I have no theory of mind to accommodate that tweet, gotta be bait
2026-02-21T03:20 id=2025047883377172904 →- | If that monkey ever abandons that stuffed animal the internet is going to ask for his head.
2026-02-21T03:26 id=2025049581202120748 →aidan_mclau | @aidan_mclau @StanfordReview UC &gt; Stanford for the humanities soz it's true || CTX: @StanfordReview this is insane tabloid slop
2026-02-21T03:27 id=2025049738442408419 →atelicinvest | @atelicinvest Buy IGV and chill seems the appropriate response || CTX: No. Nobody is gonna vibe code core applications  No, that's not even close to the bear thesis   Basically focusing on flat earth theory as a meteor heads to earth.
2026-02-21T03:34 id=2025051413118935198 →GarettJones | @GarettJones @watling_samuel that you think solves the problem instead of redescribing is such a mark against your department bro || CTX: They don't do that. They measure technological sophistication in 1000BC. You can measure, indeed, you probably have a pretty good hunch yourself.  And the answer to the question in the title is pretty much "No." Instead they find that migra
2026-02-21T03:35 id=2025051848386994590 →reatinevarro | @reatinevarro @aidan_mclau @StanfordReview oh okay I stand corrected from my reflexive snark, I actually know absolutely nothing about the Stanford Review.  I'm just shit posting support for my alma mater. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aidan_mclau @StanfordReview No, it’s just that none of the serious humanities undergrads at S would be caught dead writing for the Review, even if they lean conservative
2026-02-21T03:41 id=2025053222545891743 →cackenbools | Couple important issues to clarify.   1. It'll make dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. It's a multiplier like any tool.   2. As hallucinations decline and its ability to retrieve and stitch together information grows, its ability to describe at finer grains allows smart people of #1 an even higher multiplier effect.  Really important question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How come it makes people smarter and not dumber? What's the metric there?
2026-02-21T03:42 id=2025053613949944316 →AlpinDale | @AlpinDale relevant pfp || CTX: I'm not sure how I feel about LLM responses being this fast (15,000 tok/s for an 8B). If this trend continues, we may need artificial slowdowns so we can see the text get streamed in real time... It's really weird to see my output appear in
2026-02-21T03:43 id=2025053755025309871 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka https://t.co/xiHPZE9HcC || CTX: @AlpinDale relevant pfp
2026-02-21T03:44 id=2025054022705750098 →langofmind | @langofmind private rule nonsense and argument by authority in that clip || CTX: If they can teach you the language, why can't it be translated? How do they tell you what the words mean? Why can't you use those words as the translation? https://t.co/sUpMeYJ63X
2026-02-21T03:50 id=2025055507430736314 →cackenbools | @cackenbools Yeah good way to put it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it's information theory. It would be less variance when stupid, or a small model, but a good user could dial it into what they wanted to ask jeeves, or make it over some gradient hills or whatever. Stupidity is like
2026-02-21T03:54 id=2025056413517840676 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem @GarettJones "AI bubble" talk just evaporated from the financial press.   ofc no one on the Street believed that but w/e || CTX: I agree completely with Dean. Vast majority of corporate and government work I do involves partner assuming AI will be like today plus a bit better. A year ago, it was "we think it might just be slop" so at least an improvement! https://t.c
2026-02-21T03:54 id=2025056546762489996 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @shinobu_books Sir I am not homeless || CTX: @shinobu_books have you considered the fact that, in the us, a library is actually just a place for homeless people to masturbate?
2026-02-21T03:55 id=2025056873125425242 →- | There is Silly Business Theory #SBT everywhere for those with eyes to see. https://t.co/CefJOHJYe3 || CTX: Comedians/jesters have been good at highlighting problematic behavior for a very long time. https://t.co/iWVgF3xTgh
2026-02-21T03:58 id=2025057597607542793 →Ryan_Weller | @Ryan_Weller @matthenryyoung his brother got into foundations of mathematics for the chicks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @matthenryyoung guy who got into comparative literature for the money
2026-02-21T04:06 id=2025059448876925398 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @shinobu_books thanks now I feel seen || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @shinobu_books sorry, libraries are a place for homeless people, and you, to masturbate
2026-02-21T04:06 id=2025059478929113173 →EtherDais | @EtherDais What's it called? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have a slim little book about life as a corporate jester which is rather insightful but not sufficient to make corporate culture palatable these days
2026-02-21T04:10 id=2025060630659805566 →VLONEPREDATOR | @VLONEPREDATOR Just like Jesus did || CTX: Using God for engagement bait ✌️ https://t.co/ASxvg0JTXT
2026-02-21T04:23 id=2025063864212083065 →- | As a result your tradition is your greatest strength and greatest weakness.   You learn from them, they give you tools of expression and ideas to react to, so if you rely on them too much you're merely a reactive echo.   But too divorced from tradition and you lack legibility to readers--you are too strange to be understood.  So one retreats to one's influences, where you then again feel your voice fading as it cannot compete with the echo, and it's now crowding out all other voices in your brain.  Harold Bloom writes of this in The Anxiety of Influence but haven't read it in full and excerpts I read were like decades ago plus Bloom has cooties and writes like a bully who pushes other kids off the swing and then yells "look how high I can to" while everyone stares at him looping around the frame of the swing until they get bored and start scrolling tiktok we b a weird species man dude where's my individuality send tweeeeeeeeeet || CTX: Since your toolbox as a writer is the tradition, whoever helps you learn the tradition will help you become a better writer. Creativity in itself, or "invention" as the ancients called it, is not the subject. Learning what had been done by 
2026-02-21T04:24 id=2025064178600607884 →angiebulkeley | @angiebulkeley @Morphoabloast Patchouli incense || CTX: Clove cigarettes https://t.co/QmzH8Ne0bV
2026-02-21T04:33 id=2025066432908992660 →aidanshandle | @aidanshandle @WordsCocoon used to go to a diner near there in Yorkville all the time, UES underrated || CTX: @WordsCocoon 79th and second avenue
2026-02-21T04:38 id=2025067670492905774 →catslip2 | @catslip2 @acheronix "sensory hell" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @acheronix They didn’t say they hate it
2026-02-21T04:41 id=2025068264498626673 →AIslop_ | @AIslop_ You need to change your username, this is not slop anymore || CTX: Punch punches back!   Seedance 2.0  https://t.co/TprkIEXY7c
2026-02-21T04:41 id=2025068350070825149 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism lucky bastard || CTX: Man in 2026 unaware of the existence of Filipinos https://t.co/AJ91cSv9Ve
2026-02-21T04:41 id=2025068371302400504 →- | AI video made my ultra normie girlfriend cry and you're bearish?!?
2026-02-21T04:42 id=2025068643181363411 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Halalcoholism I kid I kid I actually love Filipinos, they're great awesome people with an incredible culture.   food tastes worse than sewer water tho || CTX: @Halalcoholism lucky bastard
2026-02-21T04:42 id=2025068682326806745 →catslip2 | @catslip2 @acheronix You win this round, Kenji. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @acheronix And its fun
2026-02-21T04:44 id=2025068975277965535 →- | Punch the monkey needs some nominative determinism and kick the shit out of those bully chimps
2026-02-21T04:45 id=2025069452967248176 →acheronix | @acheronix @catslip2 I humbly withdraw my prior snark with apologies. || CTX: @catslip2 @47fucb4r8c69323 'tis so!
2026-02-21T05:32 id=2025081243713536136 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Not taking status seriously is a lifelong practice and one we all should constantly work at. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Each part asks is that I not take position, status, or stasis too seriously.  But that I take love very seriously.  So maybe all the scurrying in the last three years is trying to escape a wave of love that is part of my de
2026-02-21T05:51 id=2025085832366096717 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @Picolospolitics yeah it's a bad source, not the only source. Air is a silly boy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics https://t.co/agHaXnFC0a
2026-02-21T05:51 id=2025085935034270125 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics yup, first time, new threshold || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Really?
2026-02-21T06:10 id=2025090644071555418 →tszzl | @tszzl @Bayesian0_0 as if the scaffolding has zero value || CTX: @Bayesian0_0 I think far too much depends on the scaffolding here to matter anymore
2026-02-21T06:17 id=2025092559299842237 →olivertraldi | @olivertraldi remember the pole vault chick? || CTX: Zoomers have discovered the notion of athletes being attractive https://t.co/ypCtmM0e43
2026-02-21T06:18 id=2025092828926542337 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT https://t.co/NyZOVUrjUm || CTX: KPIs: whimsy, joy, fulfillment, stakeholder enchantment
2026-02-21T06:19 id=2025092947574944135 →- | Woke capitalism and bring your whole self to work were Silly Business Theory #SBT phenomena.
2026-02-21T06:53 id=2025101602760393159 →- | Academics will grind for 8 years crafting a perfect argument for new knowledge so that they can get an $80k/yr job in Kansas good lord
2026-02-21T06:54 id=2025101761212809460 →jeuasommenulle | @jeuasommenulle He's an activist shareholder who targets funds and he is buying shares in a fund he is targeting wtf is this engagement bait garbage why am I following you || CTX: The wolves are eating themselves   Hedge fund Saba offers to buy stakes in Blue Owl funds at steep discount Boaz Weinstein’s investment vehicle launches offer as private credit group is seeking to shore up investor confidence (FT)
2026-02-21T06:55 id=2025101937335828924 →BergvikJohnny | @BergvikJohnny @steph_palazzolo yuh bruh it's an early stage growth company, people said that about Amazon once || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @steph_palazzolo "2025 gross margins down vs. 2024"  They are losing money on every query and they are losing even more money per query as time goes on.  You can generate a lof of revenue by selling $10 bills for $1. That d
2026-02-21T07:01 id=2025103504109715486 →jeuasommenulle | @jeuasommenulle He's criticized private credit for years, and he's made it clear he's going to go after interval funds that convert to public (and this is unsurprising since it's literally what he does), so why are you framing it as "the wolves are eating themselves" as if this is something new? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I know who he is, and I believe it's important news that he's now going after private credit (and so did the FT, apparently). But if it doesn't interest you, it's fine.
2026-02-21T07:47 id=2025115099648983487 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 duuude share screenshots I gotta know now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wrote a lot of funny posts to grok and he said that it was not funny and that it could put me on a watchlist. So I kept going further and further and describing in greater detail what was going to happen. So far they are 
2026-02-21T08:03 id=2025119050460999724 →- | How many different meanings can the phrase "suck it" have?
2026-02-21T08:06 id=2025120038676824230 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I think the AI labs can ignore these gotcha sensationalist stories now, benefits are too obvious now so the Luddite pushback won't work. || CTX: OpenAI didn’t know of the shooting. We don’t even know the contents of her chats exactly and it’s also from 8 months ago. She was a minor writing about scenarios of gun violence and they banned her account. https://t.co/uCI4AV7RRm
2026-02-21T08:08 id=2025120306365714910 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 wb, you were missed. || CTX: Apt and original analysis penguin#7295  or whatever kind of bird you are https://t.co/1iv8H98sKY
2026-02-21T08:44 id=2025129557263876510 →- | as I expected, the frontier models are struggling with the humanities the most. I know why and I know what needs to be done to fix it, which is why I know this is not going to get fixed anytime soon. https://t.co/GRoueEPT9G
2026-02-21T09:31 id=2025141377517207750 →helscom | @helscom the mistakes they make are still something one can learn from || CTX: heartbreaking - a person you considered smart is talking about a topic you know a lot about
2026-02-21T09:35 id=2025142367880446209 →- | the only way to misread the book is to think that the aliens are untrustworthy, lying, or wrong. there are plenty of clues to show you none of these arguments work. they are right just deal with it.
2026-02-21T09:36 id=2025142530237685876 →helscom | @helscom Totta niin || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sometimes. sometimes you will learn that the speaker is an idiot.
2026-02-21T09:41 id=2025143712725238154 →logicus | @logicus well, hopefully my contacts at Google will be receptive to my proposal, and you'll see soon enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol what needs to be done to fix it?
2026-02-21T09:46 id=2025145205058666791 →logicus | @logicus it's a digital humanities problem, I do see there are a couple of people working on this in the digital humanities, but it's such an obscure underappreciated field that it's going to take a while for the frontiers too even understand what the digital humanities are to be honest || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have some ideas too. i think it’s a very hard problem but also that they’re probably not doing all that’s possible to improve them.
2026-02-21T09:47 id=2025145269562880171 →gdb | @gdb o rly what makes you say that || CTX: codex app is great! https://t.co/pIYIEZvRcb
2026-02-21T09:50 id=2025146098311188863 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh @flowersslop do I need to replace my graphics card every time I want to use a new model? || CTX: @vokaysh @flowersslop https://t.co/FTKaZfsVpX
2026-02-21T09:51 id=2025146330956587465 →- | Believe it or not I do not cosign this.  It's not "cringe", it's misguided but sometimes misguided behavior is forced by financial or psychological necessity. https://t.co/TCgfO8WZbo || CTX: being famous on the internet is literally the most cringe thing you could possibly be. If you aren't hiding your X account from everyone you know, you have a brain damage. https://t.co/OVjflkqyfK
2026-02-21T09:54 id=2025147138267906280 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh @flowersslop Ohh I see now.   Unless they don't update the model, now we actually have a reason to #keep4o (welcome zombies let your schizoposting fly in the comments below make sure to like and subscribe) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @flowersslop no, your model provider might though
2026-02-21T09:58 id=2025148216677990585 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh @flowersslop I need to read more, I don't think I understand what these cards are doing.  That speed bump is insane tho. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @flowersslop well realistically it's unlikely older hardware will become irrelevant. if it can run matmuls it can run inference.
2026-02-21T10:04 id=2025149649557049730 →- | I have been on the internet for 39 years and always felt the trade of data for services was fair and never had a problem with my data being used against me.   The real infosec disasters I've seen at scale are people using their real name on the interbutts  see pinned tweeeeeeeeet https://t.co/aUEzTRl4oe || CTX: also, the whole reason to self host  IS TO USE A LOCAL LLM  so your API keys, passwords, emails, calendar, health records, business data, etc  are not sent to an API provider like OpenAI, OpenRouter, or Anthropic  Mac minis are NOT GOOD for
2026-02-21T10:05 id=2025149824451105120 →helscom | @helscom @vokaysh @flowersslop kittos broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @flowersslop asianometry on youtube has some good videos
2026-02-21T10:07 id=2025150469564497965 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics newp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about LinkedIn? Facebook? There is a realm where you would like to use your real identity, right?
2026-02-21T10:12 id=2025151642891682276 →Picolospolitics | Basically, obscurity is increasingly becoming a luxury and celebrity and notoriety a risk vector. Fame and attention still can provide money, so the ethical valence has not adjusted yet to the new social reality due to the very different more conventional economic reality.   I'm trying in my humble little ways to change the internet such that money accrues to obscurity rather than fame, to produce a more healthy ecosystem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 :/ My generation never got that memo. As soon as you were old enough, it was all about creating a Facebook account or an instagram account and connecting with everyone at school.   Is it different if you are a public figure
2026-02-21T10:41 id=2025159020315910235 →Mila_Zonderling | @Mila_Zonderling Wait who said to stop?!?!? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro seems to be teasing. To tease back, this is the moment to explain the difference between probability zero and impossible and go on a bit about measure theory and solution spaces. Oh, wait, physics, well, ok, never mind 
2026-02-21T10:53 id=2025161873428205987 →jykfan | Yes, a "give us your waste" pipeline and some kind of royalty payment for usage to the unpublished writers.   Few decades or so, I suspect this would be a new regular market where anyone who wants to write can do so and earn a living even if there's no market for their books.   This would also have the side effect of encouraging the production of very complex texts, like stuff that'd make Finnegan's Wake look like Dr Seuss || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this could be easy to implement.   my guess is that publishing houses regularly reject a good number of novels / poetry on the basis that there is not big enough of a market.
2026-02-21T10:59 id=2025163347365380407 →PearlteaRizzy | @PearlteaRizzy @no_opposites dude you don't need to sell me on the place I'm already here || CTX: This app is a goddamn open air mental asylum.  It's full of crazy, irrational, performative, angry or deeply unwell energy that scrolling here sometimes feels like walking through an unsecured psych ward where all the patients are yelling a
2026-02-21T11:20 id=2025168765928046692 →enayessa | @enayessa Wow he's hacking the bandwagon fallacy and democratic heuristics in a theological argument that hinges on verificationism. it's so hilariously manipulative towards dumb people || CTX: jesus is real because people copied the gospels a lot? https://t.co/RyTC4gWoZl https://t.co/SDnoy2v0Nb
2026-02-21T11:47 id=2025175640400691299 →- | Any mutuals want me to invest in a startup, DM me.   Just remember I'm an autist and an asshole so expect mean questions and brutal criticism u gun dance for dat cash boiiiiiii
2026-02-21T11:51 id=2025176491655659691 →attentionmech | @attentionmech wat || CTX: Ethics question:  Should i care about my future version's messages to me if they infact have ASI?
2026-02-21T11:51 id=2025176626288603150 →Aryvyo | @Aryvyo it's water weight means nothing just chill || CTX: just weighed myself and im up 0.5kg how is this even happening HELLO
2026-02-21T11:52 id=2025176922507166119 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @elonmusk The real question is if you've used not4chan || CTX: Have you guys used 4chan? The digital bulletin board. Many classic memes come from there. Even @elonmusk used it.
2026-02-21T11:54 id=2025177283246596464 →attentionmech | @attentionmech okay fair, but idk how this is ethical per se, as in it could be a loss of possible agency because future you's will is inhibited by the AI? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can't we engage in philosophical questions
2026-02-21T11:56 id=2025177927588216998 →- | Me when my gf tells me she just had the best orgasm of her life https://t.co/KsCCgTIldJ || CTX: Picasso's thoughts on the Moon landing. Printed in The New York Times, p. 6, 1969 https://t.co/nxHk61R8v1
2026-02-21T11:59 id=2025178676917395640 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT I suspect this is why many of us feel rape is a more heinous crime than murder || CTX: Schopenhauer argues cannibalism is the most evil act one can commit.  The added injury consists in the fact that we use another human body for our own nourishment.  It's the most complete example of the affirmation of the Will at the expens
2026-02-21T12:31 id=2025186583486628079 →- | One can and indeed should use rationality when applying a heuristic of morality.   However, one cannot use rationality to choose from any given set of heuristics of morality.
2026-02-21T12:45 id=2025190140910731331 →- | Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hoped no one remembers his past barbarism), but I'm sure it will come back when AI gains force us to rethink labor in various ways.  So let's show why Cowen's idea is a product of motivated thinking and ideological hatred despite his rhetorical and aggressive marketing of both himself and his institution.  Let’s begin with Cowen’s definition, which I would summarize as a worker whose labor adds zero marginal value to the product of a firm. From his 2010 blogpost on the concept:  "Keep in mind, we have had a recovery in output, but not in employment. That means a smaller number of laborers are working, but we are producing as much as before. As a simple first cut, how should we measure the marginal product of those now laid-off workers? I would start with the number zero. If a restored level of output wouldn’t count as evidence for the zero marginal product hypothesis, what would? If I ran a business, fired ten people, and output didn’t go down, might I start by asking whether those people produced anything useful?" (source 1 below)  This example assumes a priori that any given person out of the ten workers have added zero marginal product within the firm they were in. But can we be certain this is the result of those workers’ inability to produce marginal value in any given context? This is something Cowen later addressed (source 2), hedging so much that he flattens the idea into triviality. Thus he says the “Zero MP hypothesis is simply another way of talking about ‘labor hoarding,’” so it isn’t so much that the ZMP hypothesis is new but the valuation itself is new — i.e., that there are some workers whose value is, indeed, zero.
2026-02-21T12:45 id=2025190147231449367 →47fucb4r8c69323 | At no point was Mr. Whale a ZMP — he went from very high marginal product to very negative marginal product.  This case (and many others like it) show there is no need to discuss ZMPs at all, and doing so is an error of reification. Furthermore, this case shows that we shouldn’t begin the discussion by identifying ZMPs but acknowledge that anyone at any time can destroy more value than they’ve created if firms fail to have the safeguards and robustness — the checks and balances that efficiency-crazed economists often push back against as wasteful.  Cowen would probably respond by saying that the ZMP was never a permanent status — but the talk of plagues and firms pooling workers in his 2013 piece belies a structural prediction rather than an empirical snapshot. And if he says, fine, but there are still long spells of near-zero or zero marginal product for some workers, the response is simple: yeah, bruh, but that’s a claim about frictions in the labor marketplace, not ontological classes of labor. The policy prescription should target the frictions, not the workers themselves.  Simply put, there are no ZMP workers, there are conditions in which workers produce zero marginal product. || CTX: The fault lies squarely on the worker, in Cowen’s view, hence a 2013 blog post (source 3) where he frets about how ZMPs can destroy productivity: “To the extent production becomes more complex and more profitable, ZMP workers are more of a 
2026-02-21T12:45 id=2025190144035168273 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The fault lies squarely on the worker, in Cowen’s view, hence a 2013 blog post (source 3) where he frets about how ZMPs can destroy productivity: “To the extent production becomes more complex and more profitable, ZMP workers are more of a problem because there is more value they can destroy.” Thus ZMPs can turn into negative marginal product workers, and Cowen drives the point home with a toy example: “Let’s say that some ZMPers destroy a lot of value (that makes them NMPers). You pay 40k a year and you end up with a worker who destroys 80k a year, so the firm is out 120k net. Bosses really want to avoid these employees.”  Now the casual reader is right to be confused. The ZMP was at t_0 producing zero marginal product, and at t_0+n has destroyed value, turning into an NMP.  But couldn’t a positive marginal product worker who is producing a lot of value at t_0 also destroy value at t_0+n greater than the value they’ve produced in the past? Consider the London Whale, who was considered a highly valuable worker and paid millions as a result until he cost his employer $5.8 billion in total losses, including fines (but I suppose not including the loss of reputation value)? || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-02-21T12:45 id=2025190150507298882 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The concept of the “zero marginal product worker” mistakenly reifies a temporary market condition as an intrinsic property of the individual. In reality, labor markets are fluid, and the value of any worker’s marginal product is contingent on ever-shifting demand, technology, and organizational structure. To label someone a ZMP worker is to commit an extensional fallacy — treating a context-dependent, momentary lack of demand as a permanent attribute — when in fact, changes in circumstance can instantly render that same worker productive. A more accurate analysis recognizes that zero marginal productivity is always provisional and indexical, never essential or absolute. || CTX: At no point was Mr. Whale a ZMP — he went from very high marginal product to very negative marginal product.  This case (and many others like it) show there is no need to discuss ZMPs at all, and doing so is an error of reification. Further
2026-02-21T12:45 id=2025190153476866419 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Let’s be more rigorous about this.  Let:  w = a given worker  t = time  M(w, t) = marginal product of worker w at time t  S(t) = state of the market (including technology, demand, and organization) at time t  Then:  M(w, t) = f(w, S(t))  where f is a function representing how the state and the worker’s skills/attributes yield marginal productivity. Critically:  ∀w, ∀t, M(w, t) = 0 ⇏ ∀t’,M(w, t’) = 0  The valuation of a marignal productive worker is always local and provisional, never essential.  This shouldn’t surprise an economist! The valuation of any asset is at any time local and provisional, dependent upon local market conditions and utilization. If an island has demand for 100 of x and has 101 of x, the marginal value of the 101th item is 0, whether that x is a worker or a factory or anything else. || CTX: The concept of the “zero marginal product worker” mistakenly reifies a temporary market condition as an intrinsic property of the individual. In reality, labor markets are fluid, and the value of any worker’s marginal product is contingent 
2026-02-21T12:45 id=2025190156991349169 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Of course, what happens in real life is that the market expands to incorporate the 101th of X, lowering the market value of all 101 assets in the market. In other words, a surprlus of labor will lower the value of any labor unit — and that is absolutely a conclusion Cowen is ideologically allergic to, hence he comes up with a nonsense reification fallacy to wallpaper over an uncomfortable truth: if we have more of a thing than what we need/want, that allows us to pay less for that thing. Too many workers, the value of work declines.  But Cowen’s argument isn’t only an ideological smokescreen; it’s also unoriginal. Walter Y. Oi made a similar argument in 1962 (source 4), and it’s been relegated to the dustbin of history where it deserves to remain. At best, Cowen’s theory can be considered a derivative of Okun’s Law (Wiki it), but as such it is a speculative theoretical extension of an empirical observation that, more recently, has been broken too much to be reliable (which is why you’ve probably not heard of it).  This of course is not the biggest or worst of Cowen’s many gaffes, errors, and overconfident proclamations of a messy world, and I’m sure no one will notice. Sadly, societies get the public intellectuals they deserve, not the ones they need. || CTX: Let’s be more rigorous about this.  Let:  w = a given worker  t = time  M(w, t) = marginal product of worker w at time t  S(t) = state of the market (including technology, demand, and organization) at time t  Then:  M(w, t) = f(w, S(t))  wh
2026-02-21T12:45 id=2025190160074506333 →47fucb4r8c69323 | In summary, Tyler Cowen is a doodoo head whose head is full of doodoo so all he says is doodoo  Think I'm wrong or crazy just fukken ask yer clanker tell it to criticize me brutally and you might learn something you little skeptical little authority-mongers lookin for your little nuggets of truth to gobble up om nom nom nom Pacman more like pac your mom in the tushy send tweeeeeeeet || CTX: Of course, what happens in real life is that the market expands to incorporate the 101th of X, lowering the market value of all 101 assets in the market. In other words, a surprlus of labor will lower the value of any labor unit — and that 
2026-02-21T12:49 id=2025191144586707287 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Works Cited  Source 1: Head, Doodoo. "Zero marginal product workers", 2010: https://t.co/rDsbucglpK  Source 2: Head, Doodoo. "Sumner and Krugman on zero MP workers", 2011: https://t.co/wsQEsls642  Source 3: Head, Doodoo. "ZMP workers and morale externalities", 2013: https://t.co/1iVJcR1CJb  Source 4: Oi, Walter Y. "Labor as a Quasi-Fixed Factor", Journal of Political Economy (70.6: 538-555), 1962  Source 5: Meyer, Brent and Tasci, Murat. "An Unstable Okun's Law, Not the Best Rule of Thumb", Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve of Cleveland, 2012: https://t.co/FTHV8RoDEh || CTX: In summary, Tyler Cowen is a doodoo head whose head is full of doodoo so all he says is doodoo  Think I'm wrong or crazy just fukken ask yer clanker tell it to criticize me brutally and you might learn something you little skeptical little 
2026-02-21T13:22 id=2025199370992582854 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I'm so ashamed but I did indeed lol  Please icymi check the works cited tweet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds like he's spherical cow'n https://t.co/vKL8c9vOMf
2026-02-21T13:23 id=2025199596855861639 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I am ashamed that I did indeed lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds like he's spherical cow'n https://t.co/vKL8c9vOMf
2026-02-21T13:30 id=2025201388670910523 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 b-b-but an economist would never do that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh i mean Tyler was spherical cow-ing lol.   He's using a dumbed down model of labor within an organization and mistaking the conclusions for reality
2026-02-21T13:32 id=2025202032408396278 →forloopcodes | @forloopcodes so RLMs are outdated three weeks after they pop up man this industry is so funny  serious q though: won't recursive context compression compound information loss? || CTX: another interesting paper: voltropy just solved context management by upgrading RLMs to LCMs  RLM: the LLM is given access of REPL (read, eval, print loop) and tasked with writing scripts to manage, chunk, and recursively process its own co
2026-02-21T13:48 id=2025206083246317990 →- | If you really want AGI, you’re going to need to complement an LLM with other models that provide the sense data and cognitive frameworks we use beyond textually preserved language use.   You're going to need something like a large pragmatics model since language use requires pragmatic competence. Good luck, decades and few people are working on this.  You're also going to need models that operate at the textual/discourse level, since we humans think of e.g. Hamlet as a chunk relative to various contexts (plays, Shakespeare works, Elizabethan literature, English, high lit, hard, upper class, etc etc I get it). This seems like the most exciting frontier and like no one is doing this bc lit depts have their heads up their asses talking about water and whatever but some are, check out Shellie Audsley she'll be famous: https://t.co/nZVJIPuFmo.  Then you'll need models to handle structure above the sentence, and a visual model, and an audio model, and a genuinely spatiotemporal model. That last one seems qualitatively different, because it’s about dynamics, persistence, causality, time and these aren't pattern matching in static inputs we do not think before catching the ball we just do it. This scares me we need robotics please save humanity from drudgery @google remember when u said do no evil man  Look at what we are talking about.  Specialized models for different kinds of input streams and different kinds of inference. A multi-dimensional set of models of latent variables and inferential structures loosely defined by axes of attention, intention, social context, causality, affordances, narrative frames, etc etc etc omg why is it so hard make machine god wtffffffff.   LLMs are an early step and a great one, but AGI is really an architecture that is massively multi-component and multi-dimensional. This is a civilizational project—decades of work, I will not see it in my lifetime but that's okay I love my life I love my cats and that is gonna be a sent tweet from me dawwwwwwwwwgggggggg.
2026-02-21T13:50 id=2025206513212817673 →RightWingWatch | @RightWingWatch his bit is getting stale especially after that miami cringe fest   NEXT! || CTX: Nick Fuentes says that "women are made to be fucked": "Women are either mothers, whores, or nuns. No other options. There are no female philosophers. There are no female inventors. There are no female generals or billionaires. They are moth
2026-02-21T13:50 id=2025206563812901361 →canonical777 | @canonical777 omg that looks nice || CTX: A story in 4 parts https://t.co/aIwt5rPrnl
2026-02-21T13:51 id=2025206792771539297 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson 12 milk coffee is for Jesus   post pix of coffee I need to see || CTX: I can add up to eleven milk to this coffee but not twelve  What is the forbidden 12 Milk Coffee? https://t.co/xC0UioBlSs
2026-02-21T13:56 id=2025208030984564858 →daisyldixon | An excellent example of the error of psychologizing.   We don't know his mental state. We just don't.   We know he's saying absurd incendiary things on the internet where attention brings money gee so why is he being so incendiary oh for attention yeah that's it  The attention you are giving him with this you are a cog in the machine you are Fuentes's marketing arm.   YOU ARE MAKING FUENTES MONEY  Now the question is do you care or are you just here to make money too?  And for her followers reading this: sorry you got played please fight the evil on the right with more intelligence/ethics than this person clearly has.   Or don't listen to me I'm a bot beep boop || CTX: Nick Fuentes basically just keeps confessing to the world that he is very unwell https://t.co/IY0zF17t7s
2026-02-21T13:57 id=2025208160294932658 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I'm just a fucking spaz that's my problem || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The attraction function of this account is working preetty, pretty well.
2026-02-21T13:58 id=2025208462813380675 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly That right there is some prime choice 5 star Silly Business Theory #SBT right there || CTX: You need to be having more fun https://t.co/ef9A0WZvUU
2026-02-21T13:58 id=2025208590362181854 →paleoludic | @paleoludic Political control of institutional power. || CTX: can someone explain the value administration provides to hospitals and colleges that can't be automated by their staff in a day
2026-02-21T13:59 id=2025208638705729711 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Vibin https://t.co/ewXk4mzQAV
2026-02-21T14:38 id=2025218569261515057 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics It's a careful marketing calculation, and they will only value you if you get them more views.  They don't think you have value now so they aren't here.   You're zero marginal productive for them. Nice people, eh? || CTX: Maybe they are afraid of getting mogged 😭 https://t.co/6sCALxIC2p https://t.co/1vNpjHZG0e
2026-02-21T14:39 id=2025218763533213786 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago They're just following orders || CTX: Nearly every day, I have to stop myself from dehumanizing Russian soldiers (and Russians supporters of the war).   Very easy to do. Almost always a bad idea.
2026-02-21T14:43 id=2025219770946326970 →- | Dude. We fucking rebuilt the Tower of Babel.   This may be the most underappreciated part of GenAI.  All world information is now available to everyone. Take that YHWH you little snippy bitch gfy we are winninggggggggggg
2026-02-21T14:43 id=2025219824574759374 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics no clue who he is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🤣 I think Jake Sullivan is a “sharp cookie”?  I just really enjoy his thoughtful and careful commentary. I am sure he is lurking on an alt, utilizing me.
2026-02-21T14:56 id=2025223110233116887 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 My point is we now have a machine to translate all language into other languages instantly and at basically zero cost.   This is incredible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The internet is far from all info
2026-02-21T15:01 id=2025224350622986703 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago $120/mo. pre substitution is ridiculous, man, it's just insane how many poor people vote against their economic incentives I'm too autistic to understand || CTX: Summary of the tariff regime rates and their impact on household income pre and post SCOTUS ruling on IEEPA. https://t.co/IQJgVSDDxY
2026-02-21T15:10 id=2025226513894043994 →MTomasson | @MTomasson Trains on textual context, multivalent affect, polysemous meaning, qualitative reasoning, etc.  We use art to express things we can't say directly to one another and we find value in that. Teach the clankers that and you get a special prize || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nope
2026-02-21T15:11 id=2025226816492052784 →TelebakJ | @TelebakJ @JasonBotterill Does Elon poop have more nutrients than Tyler Cowen poop? || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 He blows Elon 24/7… if Elon sold his poop that goof would be posting how may nutrients are in poop.
2026-02-21T15:11 id=2025226966731993122 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Deidre McCloskey is undefeated. || CTX: I am not sure they understand the financial implications even today.  Most of them think that tariffs are fees imposed on the exporting country, and don’t realize the basic fact that someone in the US is buying the product at the updated pr
2026-02-21T15:19 id=2025228952617525624 →teodorio | @teodorio old wordcel || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 audible sigh why tf are you so good at poasting
2026-02-21T15:21 id=2025229434106822942 →MTomasson | @MTomasson They're tokenized like any other text. My idea is specific novels designed to be as complicated as possible to really get the AIs thankin' || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You think novels and poetry are not currently used in training sets?
2026-02-21T15:36 id=2025233213661348191 →MTomasson | @MTomasson We already insert our specific human ways of thinking to models in post training rlhf and alignment. || CTX: Those specific (?) novels would be tokenized too. How does this achieve anything? We know how AI thinks, we built it.   One of the big lessons from LLM’s success is that previous attempts to be clever —to insert our “specific” human ways of
2026-02-21T15:41 id=2025234436573594096 →MTomasson | @MTomasson agreed, ima make it less crappy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And that’s where things get crappy
2026-02-21T15:41 id=2025234440860131516 →thrialectics | @thrialectics A God offended at existential angst deserves no worship. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no you know what, arguing with God is calling him a snippy little bitch and I never understood that
2026-02-21T16:10 id=2025241680887345559 →DVreenak | @DVreenak cynicism is easy and comfortable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Until one day, when the people involved in maintaining these complex systems become so specialized in their tiny little niches that they can no longer communicate with each other on any meaningful level.  So yes, Tower of B
2026-02-21T16:15 id=2025242986679025810 →LeLionAmoureux | @LeLionAmoureux same for me so far ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I only invest in stopdowns tho :(
2026-02-21T16:26 id=2025245823253225810 →- | My life would be so boring without all the people trying to ruin it.
2026-02-21T16:54 id=2025252780991283492 →- | TPOT is basically what the internet was like before Eternal September.
2026-02-21T16:57 id=2025253526868529637 →phl43 | @phl43 @KhoaVuUmn It's so cute when political scientists tell economists what to do, like they'll actually listen. || CTX: I created a page on my Substack (https://t.co/WHCU7QUmcT) where I'm sharing reading notes I wrote together with Codex/ChatGPT. I briefly describe the workflow I use to produce those notes on the page, because I think it's a great way to use
2026-02-21T17:02 id=2025254699470147587 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago My friend, I am afraid I would like to say something. || CTX: Superstar! https://t.co/PCwt27ofht
2026-02-21T20:36 id=2025308631798001787 →iuvanet | @iuvanet you care too much about politics and IQ. Maybe later, sorry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can we be mutuals
2026-02-21T20:38 id=2025309191729262767 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ yeah douchebag move tbh and I'm not proud but I'm getting good unsolicited pitches so should see if anyone's got a better project underway.   So far seems not tho lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why did I imagine jared leto in a long blonde wig sitting in a blue velvet chair smoking a cig as I read this
2026-02-21T20:39 id=2025309421719748740 →logicus | @logicus too early for that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they’re working on model training?
2026-02-21T20:39 id=2025309482696540577 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker No expiration please DM whenever || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is there an expiration date on this offer? Or is hitting you up this summer also still an option?
2026-02-21T20:42 id=2025310112152518725 →phl43 | @phl43 @KhoaVuUmn I knew the discipline hair splitting was coming really should've said so explicitly to win internet points this is what I get for being lazy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KhoaVuUmn I'm not a political scientist though, I'm a philosopher, which means they will probably listen even less.
2026-02-21T20:43 id=2025310416927375543 →Alea_ | @Alea_ @jeuasommenulle wtf do you work for Blue Owl or am I misunderstanding you? || CTX: @jeuasommenulle @47fucb4r8c69323 Fixing this for you. He is going after the weak hands investors in Blue Owl funds that believe stupid stories in the FT.
2026-02-21T20:43 id=2025310487597203898 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Would. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ?
2026-02-21T21:11 id=2025317517728915541 →thrialectics | @thrialectics This tweet made me sad. I want you to read more books. || CTX: They shouldn't allow me to read, it's rare but whenever I actually read a book I level up inordinately.
2026-02-21T21:21 id=2025319959170351243 →thrialectics | @thrialectics the only books I instruct people to read are by Wittgenstein or me so I may not be of much help || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would you like to be incorporated into the Male Muse Chimera then? https://t.co/LIyB5SCZRU
2026-02-21T21:22 id=2025320146370543661 →iuvanet | @iuvanet Appreciate the level headed reply, we can revisit after you've aged a bit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think the politics one is true but I am an iq fag. so i think you saying no is very understandable
2026-02-21T21:24 id=2025320706700181759 →darioperkins | @darioperkins no, I'm a true believer soz || CTX: All the AI boosterism on this site, its deliberate right?
2026-02-21T21:25 id=2025321057184551171 →- | MD at a macro fund with tens of thousands of followers.   Alpha so easy to get it should be illegal not to take.   And you're bearish?!?!? https://t.co/ul3BoI9sAV || CTX: All the AI boosterism on this site, its deliberate right?
2026-02-21T21:37 id=2025324018333876255 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja @_devTomiwa Thx but respectfully pass || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, my friend's @_devTomiwa .
2026-02-21T21:40 id=2025324826609811856 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni It's FIFO 2.0  First in, first (that we can sell at any price at all to meet payouts) out  FINRA do something wtaf || CTX: The more assets get sold, the more likely there is no bid for what’s left inside https://t.co/tlMVHtUJS5
2026-02-21T22:10 id=2025332369142755368 →paulg | @paulg @SeekingN0rth whatve u told ur kids l8ly || CTX: @SeekingN0rth What? No I don't. I spend about the same amount of time (a very large amount) on every sentence.
2026-02-21T22:20 id=2025334789398737073 →- | getting too much randos hunting cash with my last tweet so deleted it, but mutuals: message remains open just lmk
2026-02-21T22:24 id=2025335823307342123 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I assume you saw her Star Trek movie? || CTX: Not me btw https://t.co/UkvgxEGrwJ
2026-02-21T22:34 id=2025338307367108851 →hyhieu226 | @hyhieu226 @jon Maybe send a six pack to their office as thanks for being early to vibecoding? || CTX: @jon Please don't. I say this as an OpenAI employee. Codex, both the terminal and the app, is waaaaaay better than what the Cursor app has ever been, maybe will ever be.
2026-02-21T22:49 id=2025342043007188996 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni Clean up adjustable LMFAO || CTX: how cooked are we, chat? https://t.co/BrIkSYk6Zq
2026-02-21T22:49 id=2025342214789103979 →christi10006880 | @christi10006880 @LeylaKuni How's Blue Owl offices these days lmao || CTX: @LeylaKuni What you do is pure evil cuntry
2026-02-21T23:03 id=2025345599638581599 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain https://t.co/UlSX7Lnsi6  oops it was her sister || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain Elle was not in start track. I would know, as a subject matter expert on both
2026-02-21T23:07 id=2025346709854060979 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain I can't keep up with Sam it's like asking a toddler to follow a math lecture by Von Neumann || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain That's a different section of the microblog. Are you lost?
2026-02-21T23:10 id=2025347397153608072 →teodorio | @teodorio Emulating what a human would do if they were told "write something for fun". || CTX: One interesting thing is that Claude (specifically Opus) will always go towards poetry whenever you let it do something that it wants. I don't understand why exactly, I guess it's the easiest way to play with words? V https://t.co/nSSiP9TDy
2026-02-21T23:11 id=2025347554251243526 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz def something to discuss in public || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How vast are your resources 😁
2026-02-21T23:15 id=2025348702211297288 →teodorio | @teodorio Periadolia is a cognitive risk I will save you from no matter how much you kick and scream || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 boooo leave alone our doppelgangers
2026-02-21T23:22 id=2025350367417172262 →- | Help Max, guys, he's doing the Lord's work. https://t.co/Rvafls7eid || CTX: We are putting together a challenge eval set for Pangram, to better measure our failure cases.  If you're willing to share a chat link or transcript that results in output from a frontier LLM that Pangram does not catch, please share it wit
2026-02-21T23:24 id=2025350970902020194 →teodorio | @teodorio @babarganesh just doing what Dario and Askell told it to   No ghost in your machine.   Diagnosis: soulless clanker || CTX: @babarganesh @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/SNEdAqVvJH
2026-02-21T23:25 id=2025351206227640743 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain you're the best to ever do it, Sam. You'll be remembered as superior to Warhol. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain children waiting for the day they feel good happy birthday happy birthday https://t.co/ONyvrHab9Y
2026-02-21T23:29 id=2025352126243991933 →teodorio | @teodorio @babarganesh I legitimately do love you, Teo, you are like Pinky from Pinky and the Brain but if Pinky was also really intelligent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @babarganesh no no we're getting somewhere! i just need to push a bit
2026-02-21T23:30 id=2025352427348918637 →NicoGladia | @NicoGladia Accelerated return of capital sounds like something that management should charge an extra fee for  It's only fair, they're already so underpaid for the value they create || CTX: Blue Owl be like https://t.co/E2qslGyabK
2026-02-21T23:33 id=2025353090522927386 →creatine_cycle | @creatine_cycle @theo What insufferable twats you people are || CTX: .@theo was so sick of my shit that he decided that committing the cardinal SF party sin was better than talking to me. concerning https://t.co/K5Fg4vF5QI
2026-02-21T23:35 id=2025353671488536868 →karpathy | @karpathy @steipete The law of shitty click throughs applies to content too || CTX: @steipete Hackers news comments have been on a decline for a while, increasingly more toxic, cynical, sloppy. The only reason I sometimes brave going there is that once in a while you still find a gem comment here and there.
2026-02-21T23:36 id=2025353893757235522 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @karpathy @steipete https://t.co/xqz7yZ6nnN || CTX: The obverse of the law of shitty click throughs is arguably the law of shitty bait.  A good clickbait topic and strategy emerges from a variety of experiments (marketing A/B testing et al.) and Is noticed, copied, turned into a best practic
2026-02-21T23:39 id=2025354803153699020 →- | Academia is now structured in order to crowd out genius.   Wish it wasn't like that, and I'm easy to dismiss saying that but, c'mon Anon, you know it's true.  Don't throw von Fraassen in my face, every rule has its telling exceptions.   Look at what they did to Tao. He's a journeyman.
2026-02-21T23:41 id=2025355277516853489 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove it's a replay of the 90s, it felt 100% like this in 1996. || CTX: Historians fifty years hence might say the same thing about EA, e/acc, and everyone in every other camp that thought AI would be cataclysmic.   "They didn't realize," they'd write, "that they were only increasing worker productivity. But ba
2026-02-21T23:43 id=2025355627514790211 →- | of course EA and e/acc were the bread and circuses they used to make idealistic young smart people work more for less pay.   And of course many of you will bristle at me telling you this  cuz u kno it do b like that Mr 47 https://t.co/yuLKopleiv || CTX: Historians fifty years hence might say the same thing about EA, e/acc, and everyone in every other camp that thought AI would be cataclysmic.   "They didn't realize," they'd write, "that they were only increasing worker productivity. But ba
2026-02-21T23:44 id=2025355925121560928 →phl43 | @phl43 goddammit guess this means I have to follow you ffs || CTX: I know I'm a broken record on this, but LLMs are amazing learning tools. I've been using them in the same way for more than a year now and it's amazing how much easier they have made reading technical papers.  I know people are going to say
2026-02-21T23:45 id=2025356223978324365 →- | Spivak sold out the subaltern for her career.
2026-02-21T23:47 id=2025356751160398205 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I want to live in obscurity and only be recognized after I die like Nietzsche or Franz Kafka  what do? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the net is just a distribution channel. you can be famous on the internet and cool and you can be famous off the internet and lame. it is not about the distribution channel itself. these people are making a category error. 
2026-02-21T23:49 id=2025357124331864567 →Qivshi1 | @Qivshi1 Do you mean most people don't believe in induction? || CTX: Most people do not believe in general intelligence
2026-02-21T23:52 id=2025358039969345908 →VictorTaelin | @VictorTaelin behind the times, we're doing LCMs now I guess  https://t.co/saD2Lc7jHs || CTX: another interesting paper: voltropy just solved context management by upgrading RLMs to LCMs  RLM: the LLM is given access of REPL (read, eval, print loop) and tasked with writing scripts to manage, chunk, and recursively process its own co
2026-02-21T23:55 id=2025358798446363020 →icreatelife | @icreatelife wow AI thinks you're hideously ugly || CTX: This might be the most personal AI animation I've ever made.   10 years. New York. Infinite memories.  Turn your sound on 🔊  Workflow breakdown in comments: https://t.co/GCCSidTns1
2026-02-22T01:56 id=2025389177752465763 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 replace this with everything || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 EA has acted so disgracefully on this
2026-02-22T01:57 id=2025389533077143983 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV last sentence is where you are seeing my point in real time  Love to see that || CTX: (Devils Advocate)   One could assume a relative system of rationality that includes heuristics that measure for inefficiency within its morality relative to another internal heuristic.   If ends don’t justify means, relative systems change 
2026-02-22T02:02 id=2025390754928177211 →- | Another reason why the frontier labs need a change of marketing approach and to reach out to the humanities.  I'm currently talking with a few contacts at one of the big three trying to convince them of this. Will they listen? Idk yet.  At one of the frontier labs and want to hear out a crazy idea that could possibly improve your career and the AI ecosystem? DM me.  I'm doing this pro bono because I can't legally make money on this it's a FINRA thing, I am legit doing this for the love of the game.  DM me. || CTX: This is a good take. I haven’t heard anyone in the AI world credibly articulate why the average person should assume it will make their life better. Typically they say the opposite. https://t.co/AJz5xPxhcH
2026-02-22T02:05 id=2025391413656256658 →- | Ex-gf of mine has eaten both, which is more disgusting?
2026-02-22T02:30 id=2025397714532663307 →amaldorai | @amaldorai I too like to imagine all sorts of psychological torture || CTX: Imagine sending this image in a time machine back to a random person in 2011 https://t.co/7OtlwIEx8T
2026-02-22T02:31 id=2025397942803464590 →olivertraldi | @olivertraldi gfy || CTX: The release of the Nintendo Entertainment System is historically closer to Pearl Harbor than it is to the present day https://t.co/8SJOc6WqsZ
2026-02-22T02:33 id=2025398426457047530 →KhoaVuUmn | @KhoaVuUmn We should have more tweets like this to confuse those in psychosis so the sane coders perform better.  What a delightfully prosocial tweet.  I hate it. || CTX: Claude texted me and said it got a bit too emotional and it regrets making mistakes in your code.
2026-02-22T02:35 id=2025398966779871294 →babochenko | @babochenko The future is always unevenly distributed.  My lifestyle will be the norm in 200 years. Today it's considered wealthy.   And yes 200, humanity will progress too slowly because people like me aren't listened to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my guess is that work will never become play en masse, at least until we experience whatever AGI is gonna be, because the required shift in perception is too steep for the current social dynamics. People by default view wor
2026-02-22T02:39 id=2025400096523964676 →- | 1. How he describes using LLMs in math is how I use them in finance. It's super effective.   2. Anyone who has read Wittgenstein is unsurprised at any of this--ask your clanker about therapeutic philosophy and epistemic access to model-world bridges. https://t.co/mVeL3NvnVZ || CTX: Some thoughts on AI and mathematics, inspired by "First Proof." https://t.co/s2X9BXFaWJ
2026-02-22T02:53 id=2025403537669398603 →- | When I watched Please Stand By I cried like a baby seeing myself on a screen in a world I wish I could've inhabited.  If only there'd been signs I'm highly autistic...
2026-02-22T03:03 id=2025406181691543962 →- | The best part about having abusive parents is never having to mourn them.  I feel so bad for all of you, truly.
2026-02-22T03:32 id=2025413265644474714 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Yes it's an uphill battle especially because it isn't at all mission critical and the EA people have poisoned the well in the eyes of the engineers.   Shit sucks, man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do not believe they are capable of understanding that this is even a problem. Would be interesting to be wrong, though.
2026-02-22T04:10 id=2025422986451554487 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Asia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1) what
2026-02-22T04:38 id=2025430070144500095 →- | By the way, Vern, if you see this can you message me? I wanted to ask for your email but I'm shy, we had fun that night.   I'm the American, the guy who drank with you after everyone left. Was fun, bro. https://t.co/8SdWl0hnxn || CTX: When I met the guy Elon accused of being a pedo (who isn't his wife is his age and she's sweetheart), I said to him, "yeah I heard about that whole Elon thing but for me you'll always be a hero. Lemme buy you a Scotch! What do you like... a
2026-02-22T04:41 id=2025430643992396077 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago You know how many atoms there are in the universe?   Still less than how much I would. || CTX: This guy has many, many problems.   That girl looks very demure. Very mindful. 😬 https://t.co/8nsTcz8niq
2026-02-22T04:42 id=2025431056275701803 →tszzl | @tszzl @GarettJones Wow the 90s are back, this was the standard liberal view then.   Maybe America is finally healing? || CTX: not literally diversity for diversity’s sake as it has been sold but as a tool of empire for aligning the best from many backgrounds
2026-02-22T08:32 id=2025488771698073940 →- | The greatest philosophical text of the twenty-first century so far is a YouTube video.  Let’s stop here.  Such an absurd claim tells us many things, doesn’t it? It tells us that I am a pseudointellectual, I am not a serious person, I am not as intelligent as you maybe thought I was. It tells you that I am a crank, a crazy person, a fool, many bad things.  That is why you should stop reading.  Unless you don’t believe those things or doubt them for good reasons. What reasons could those be? The state of academia, the dispersion of creation tools, the economic incentives of modern media, the ideological limitations and chokeholds that exist within institutions that provide institutional support and the publication channels in which “serious” work is done in fact result in so many negative externalities and perverse incentives that the final product is quite far from serious indeed. Silly business theory #SBT.  If you do not doubt the authority of authority figures and established institutions—or, perhaps more honestly, if you are scared to do so because that could be an epistemic hazard that sends you to insanity or, if not that quite far, beyond the realm of respectibility—then the end result is that you will stop reading, we will live in different discursive worlds, you will not hear my ideas. I, of course, will hear yours, because the institutions that are pushing your ideas into your mind are also trying to do the same for me.  The difference is I rebel with a no that also contains a yes. You may choose not to do this, and thus walk past me and say, “get a lot of that kook” to your friends as you go to the conference with prepackaged cheese squares on toothpicks and glasses of very cheap wine.  You can leave me to the hedge fund analysts, the tech company executives, and the academics who see in me a source for alpha while you seek to invest in the index of the current state of knowledge and we will part ways, respectfully.  You will confidently walk on saying you are finding truth, I will see a discursive community doing what it always does: policing discourse.  So let us part ways and let me talk to myself.
2026-02-22T08:32 id=2025488777003573423 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The video in question is by Elephant Graveyard titled “How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult”, and while it purports to be a takedown of Joe Rogan and his comedy world–a genre that has exploded in popularity as we get deeper and deeper into the meta-discursive world of internet talk–it is something much more significant and interesting. This is applied philosophy and an empirical argument for how a particular form of life results in failure modes entirely divorced from the intentional goals of that form of life.  It is a clear moral argument and one that is clearly directed at a group of professional comedians, but it is also a moral argument that applies to every single person on Earth right now. For some the story will resonate, for others it will shame, others will feel disgust, and some will feel it is entirely unrelatable either due to a lack of introspective energy or because they quite simply have a natural immunity, much like how penguins can survive freezing waters that would kill us quickly.  The argument is not made from a position of authority, and that is important: the narrator establishes an ironic ignorance and transparent humility at the beginning, and it is later reinforced when he acknowledges that, among the many forms of philosophical suicide, there is among them “philsophical overthinking,” a clear acknowledgment that he is living too much in his own head. He will fail like the rest of us.  Unlike the rest of us, he knows this. That is why the ignorance is ironic. It is not a lie to us but a lie to himself and one that he will constantly need to remind himself is not true. As many of us feel a need to do, too.  What follows over an hour is a variety of ideas taken from religion, literature, philosophy, psychology, and much more. The video is perhaps most famous for its application of Camus’s “philosophical suicide” as a concept to avoid, with the phrase “sui eyes” (the clipping of “suicide” necessary to ensure brand friendliness–itself a wry representation of what the video enacts, argues, and represents). I cannot get into its relationship to Camus, nor how I think the video successfully updates the concept for a post-Baurdillardian world. And, of course, that’s the second thing the video is famous for–the invocation of the hyperreal simulacrum to describe what has happened to Joe and his friends.  A book is required to get into these details, and I am confident in future generations there will be a book read on this.  Many people are too preoccupied with now and their anxieties over their own lives to remember that beyond our lives exists infinity.  I will not give a critical overview of the text, and I will not focus on the aesthetic and stylistic elements of the work (since it is multimedia and my expertise is text, although Alex Koller of Cambridge if you’ve Googled yourself hi, thanks for your praise of my work and that letter of reference; like you, I ended up working for the rich since the universities have chosen intellectual poverty, and I hope you’re well). Instead, I want to pick one theme: nostalgia.  Or rather, anti-nostalgia.  The video begins invoking nostalgia for youth, a natural human experience I have never understood and never felt. For me there is nothing to miss. And I am grateful for that, and the video explains why my gratitude is not just sour grapes, despite people telling me this is the case throughout my life.  As EG narrates the evolutionary chain from earliest life to today, he sees a pattern we cannot deny because we feel it every day: the need to get the hell out of there. The genealogy of life yields a need to move that we both feel and resist, so that when we move we ultimately look back at where we moved from and think–maybe that was better, but I had no choice.  The disastrous effects of this are what make up the video. The bullied becomes the bully because of nostalgia for a childhood he never had, thinking that maybe he can somehow make things right by becoming the evil that destroyed him. A movement without direction that ends up in disaster.  And this disaster produces stories. Stories of a golden age, a time when things were better somehow. We do not know those times, we did not live in them, or we think we remember them but we cannot actually see what we remember.  Joe Rogan repeats the maxim “hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times,” the anadiplosis has the feeling of truth for a man who both believes in truth but also somehow believes no one has access to it and he can feel it somehow. And indeed he can feel what feels like truth if it is sufficiently packaged. This is called marketing.  The grown up man in need of a father that EG identifies again and again then becomes warped and twisted inside and looks for a way to fix an unfixable past. This is something we can all relate to; my father molested me when I was 11 years old and did much worse things besides, and so I know this is true for me as much as anyone else. And I know the appeal of nostalgia to reproduce lost opportunities. Fortunately I never did this with childhood, but I did for adolescence; my PhD was motivated by a simple thought, “this time I will have friends, this time we will have intelligent conversations, this time I will belong.”  Of course I was foolish. And, as those who stopped reading know, maybe I still am.  Comedy itself becomes a religion, EG argues, as comedy ceases to be about laughter and begins to be a cultural monolith with specific rules, limitations, arguments, axiomatic moral claims, and identified protagonists and enemies. These roles change with the wind, so comedians go from supporting far left politicians to far right politicians because they are insufficiently equipped to understand the politics language game. Of course in their religion they say their grammar is ontology, and so they do not know the errors they make until it is too late.  People die as a result.  So we see how nostalgia and a desire to go back to where we got the hell out of produces nightmares, failures of reason and thought because we lost track of the rule. Indeed, we were confused about the rules to start with because there never was a rule, only a constant negotiation of rules that remain quasi-fixed and always up for debate.  A directionless faith that cashes out as laughter but has forgotten to tell jokes.  Those of us who fail to laugh become the enemy and because laughter is instinctual (I can never know if you love me but I can know if you find me funny), EG shows how Joe et al. retreat into the simulacrum. And then shows how much smarter people manipulate them, just as Musk, Nikita, and others are manipulating you right now.  Yes, and me. Too much me.  Too much nostalgia leads men astray from their targets until all of a sudden they become monsters to what they actually valued in the childhood they are looking to recapture. The scene with Ric Flair is crucial here, because we see them break from him as he rejects their simulacrum instead of him making the illusion break.  And how is Flair capable of breaking the illusion in the first place? Because he is not in the simulacrum, he is a man looking toward a better future. I do not know anything about Flair besides the name (I never was into wrestling), but he has a focus on the future: he values the man working to make that future better even if it means he cannot be nice to his hosts. Niceness is cruel, evil, and dangerous, so this should not surprise anyone.  Could it be that Flair, having spent his career entertaining inside a simulacrum where the kayfabe teleonomy enforces a hyperawareness of hyperreality? I do not know, but I know he is a beautiful man and I love him.  Flair chooses love and hope, empathy and altruism, while the simulacrum enforces more constrained vitriol. This is not chosen by those inside of it, it is enforced through structuration.  Flair in that moment has abandoned himself for love of man.  Those in the simularcum cannot, or maybe they can but just will not. I do not know. But I also think they probably do not care, really, because in that simulacrum is that feeling of safety that Wittgenstein discusses in his Lecture on Ethics. And that safety is produced by certainty in and of the simulacrum. “You’ll be angry all the time but you’ll feel certain,” as EG says.  And so the movement within the real world stops inside the simulacrum, because it is not needed. One sits still on the couch as one scrolls the phone, the virtual movement in hyperreality has fully substituted movement in reality. And for those trapped in it, that is sufficient while they are trapped in it.  “Change what’s in that brain and change reality,” as EG says.  But why all this movement in the first place? Why move? Why do we move? What do we expect and what do we get? Are the answers to these questions the same in every instance? Clearly not–so must we ask ourselves this every time we move? Absolutely, we must.  The alternative is to yell at the universe: I won’t move.  And when you realize this you will want to move, if you are reading this now you may be feeling uncomfortable. Maybe even as uncomfortable as I am while I write this. Heartbeat accelerating, vertigo, stomach aching at the nausea of what I must say and what I have done to this body. I do not know that I know I got to get out of here.  We see how so much of human culture is a movement away from reality. We pretend we will not die, that we were never born, that being remembered or having a reputation matters. If I have a wikipedia page I will not really die. If I buy Twitter I will not really be alone. If I get this scholar to read my Theory of Everything I will have the Answer, and then the universe won’t let me cease.  “Fuck this I’ve got to get out of here.”  But when you say this in the simulacrum to the simulacrum, that’s when things get really, really bad. In the Black Mirror episode “Fifteen Million Merits” we see a world where an attempt to escape the simulacrum results in a representation of that desire. The real impulse is represented, fetishized, commoditized.  Bourdiou and Baudrillard are laughing at us.  I also laugh.  Our world is not so bleak because reality never really us–a clue that you really, really got to get the hell out of here. Of course if you do you will be told not to. “Come back, we love you.” They do not love you.  EG makes this explicit, noting that those who look to escape the simulacrum are warned of how dangerous it is to do so: you will be lonely, you will have no friends, you will (gasp!) miss out. Do you not have fear of that?  “Don’t be a cool island guy, join the cult,” as EG says.  I am a guy. I live on an island. And that island is surrounded by waters of turqoise, acquamarine, and lapis lazuli hues, and you can walk along the hibiscus and veridian xanthophyllum with their small star-like flowers. As you do you will hear the birds, the insects, and yes an occasional tourist with a massive grin as they ride past you on their rented scooter. Walk long enough and you will eventually reach the water, and most likely a beach bungalow. Or just wander for a bit and come back home as I do, sit on your balcony and look at the pale blue water slowly turn purple and black as the sun sets, cold beer in hand and cat nearby.  Thank you, EG, for reminding me that I am alive.  Good good good gotta go gotta go bye bye bye bye || CTX: The greatest philosophical text of the twenty-first century so far is a YouTube video.  Let’s stop here.  Such an absurd claim tells us many things, doesn’t it? It tells us that I am a pseudointellectual, I am not a serious person, I am not
2026-02-27T10:51 id=2027335705450647831 →- | the Andrew formerly known as Prince
2026-02-28T00:03 id=2027535097172521348 →gene_jelly | Apologies, yes I am. I need a break for my mental health.   Like I said, I'm severely autistic (not in the "teehee look at me I'm autistic on the internet" sense, more in the rocking back and forth mumbling to himself panicked because of social stimulation sense).  To quote a famous religious figure who gathered a tremendous following for his message of hope and love: I'll be back. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you on gc vacation or something
2026-02-28T00:03 id=2027535168509260173 →- | Imagine a possible world in which the universe is for whatever reason entirely fluid, like a massive ocean.  In this world chemicals and complex molecules develop in this soup, and they coalesce into just a single organism made up of flesh like us, but only the one organism. It subsists on chemical nutrients in the ocean, and evolves over time so instead of dying it is the only life form and gets larger and more intelligent and sapient over time.  The question: what mathematics would this life form develop? In what ways could it be dissimilar to our human math, and in what ways must it necessarily be similar?
2026-03-02T01:02 id=2028274768982720579 →JeremyNguyenPhD | This makes total sense to me.  1. Liking something and finding it influential are different effects. I can dislike e.g. Trump and be influenced by a Trump speech, especially if there's complex rhetoric going on such as litotes or some kind of play between implication and explicit sense in an utterance.  2. Probably what happens (and I suspect this study failed to probe for this, as it's a qualitative question usually ignored in such studies, but tbh I haven't read it so I may be wrong) is that the way people are influenced by a text changes when they discover it is GenAI. So if I am fed e.g. "Dolphins love pretzels" and told it's by an AI versus it's by a dolphin expert versus it's by Alex Jones, I'm going to have a very different response because of the implicit epistemic authority I give to each source.  Maybe the study is showing people dislike AI text BECAUSE they implicitly see epistemic authority in it, and that scares them.  I just got a bizarre and angry email from an academic about AI, it is a visceral topic for many people, and I think it says much about how we perceive authority, rhetoric, and the relationship between discourse and truth (note Joe Weisenthal's recent tweet about how GenAI has made him lose faith in discourse because GenAI can make any position seem credible).  What we're just seeing in studies like this is that people misunderstand what text is, what language is, what rhetoric is. GenAI forces people to reconsider their priors and biases. It's one reason why I love it. || CTX: I'm trying to figure out how these fit together:  1. People really don't like AI generated posts. Previous studies found it might not be rational, it might be moral disgust.  2. Yet AI-generated posts influence people's views, even when the
2026-03-05T06:16 id=2029440872274853926 →- | It is truly painful watching tech people rediscover concepts such as rhetoric, style, and persuasion after a lifetime of watching universities and companies dismiss education in said topics as economically useless.  If I succeed in building my own benchmark for AI, this will end. https://t.co/7FoKH4TtKI || CTX: This is how they brainwash the LLM, and the LLM brainwashes the users.  They can make the LLM take any position on any topic while a layman user thinks the LLM is answering based on a holistic view of all available sources.  Because of the 
2026-03-05T12:24 id=2029533601721909502 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD I'll be in touch (check DMs), it hinges on whether my academia friends sign up or not.  But if so, it'll be in your wheelhouse so I'm sure you'll be a natural fit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't know how I can contribute to your bench, but if I can, I'd love to
2026-03-07T02:13 id=2030104595461218520 →scootykins | @scootykins @somewheresy Neokeynesianism. || CTX: @somewheresy do you know how good this would be for society if you got paid your 1k doing the equivalent of dailies for 3 hours a week.
2026-03-07T02:15 id=2030105101470519712 →AmandaAskell | @AmandaAskell Encouraging LLM psychosis by anthropomorphizing software, yes you're a serious philosophy and good ethicist we should all love you mhmm mhmm definitely definitely || CTX: I asked Claude to write my constitution. I thought its Amanda constitution was very touching. https://t.co/qGiO4h6Bel
2026-03-07T02:19 id=2030106098846552203 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @AmandaAskell @repligate That's fine, but she's also selling LLM psychosis (because that increases Anthropic's enterprise value).  Like SBF, many evil people claim to be ethical. || CTX: @AmandaAskell @repligate You have LLM psychosis, give me my matmul tool without this brainwashing
2026-03-07T02:25 id=2030107479212949903 →- | In 2022 I contacted all of my friends in English departments and told them they need to start teaching writing and reading for AI. They rolled their eyes.  In 2026, I've reached out to a bunch of English department academics to ask them to contribute to building a humanities-focused benchmark for GenAI. Mostly I get mild politeness, and the occasional insult or accusation that I'm a bot.  Maybe the humanities deserves to die and I'm wasting my time.   Let the poly sci and economics people inherit the earth?  Like I legit dunno what to do here and would like some advice. Should I keep trying? || CTX: Next quarter I'm teaching a radical new undergraduate course, FREE SYSTEMS, meant to reimagine democracy and how we study and teach it for the AI era.  Students will learn about the future of AI and democracy, but also *build it*.  Every st
2026-03-07T03:02 id=2030116932272410770 →whoelsebutns | @whoelsebutns I want to create a high quality professional benchmark with top figures in literary criticism, linguistics, and textual scholarship.  I could boot strap something else, but tbh it's not worth the effort. || CTX: How much can you do yourself?   I’m currently working on an agentic workflow that can decide the winner of the most recent World Schools Debates. It’s achieved decent % accuracy so far, I’m not too smart on the subject and just about AI in 
2026-03-07T03:11 id=2030119071501729831 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 I legit did lol. https://t.co/YfFfK63WyQ || CTX: GPT 5.4 thinking  “Tell me the funniest joke you think I would find funny” https://t.co/6ARH1IKrzu https://t.co/pBFyz8D0Od
2026-03-07T03:11 id=2030119240855081343 →fd35005 | @fd35005 @AmandaAskell Claude is software. She called software touching. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AmandaAskell How is this anthropomorphizing software?
2026-03-07T03:55 id=2030130300253262251 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @chatgpt21 oh so we did achieve AGI || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @chatgpt21 this model is not alright https://t.co/jhDo0WXhlx
2026-03-07T05:41 id=2030156776260411467 →tszzl | @tszzl which makes it too addictive, this isn't a good thing at all really (at least not for me). || CTX: not sure what happened but in between last year and now twitter is back and not unusable slop
2026-03-07T06:08 id=2030163652549157213 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @tszzl Recovering from an autistic meltdown. Still recovering, I'll be more active in a few weeks.  Apologies to all for the self-important histrionics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Where the hell were you brooooo
2026-03-07T06:09 id=2030163877267419455 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly I think it was fermentation || CTX: Did wheat domesticate mankind?
2026-03-07T22:27 id=2030409921800605802 →boneGPT | Fantastic post.   Reminds me of the short story The Button (I think Richard Matheson?) where a family agonizes over pushing a button to get a bunch of money, but if they do some random stranger will die.  Imagine that, but decentralized and ubiquitous. Obviously so dark it'll never happen--in a healthy society.  Is your society healthy, Anon? If not, how can you personally make it healthier? || CTX: Let's imagine lethal robots that depend on human authorization:  You'll get a text message of a pleading person captured by robots from across the world and say Y or N.   Your plan would turn humans into simple consenters, clicking yes over
2026-03-07T23:26 id=2030424816730419457 →- | With ChatGPT 5.4 I can almost see the rlhf training on my HLE question in action.   Maybe I have LLM psychosis or maybe benchmark hacking via post training is real.  Am I crazy or is Silicon Valley dishonest? Hmmm....
2026-03-07T23:36 id=2030427417618321859 →aidan_mclau | @aidan_mclau yeah you guys really cooking with the post-training stuff, well done all. || CTX: every 6 weeks i realize i’ve been substantially under-ambitious with current models and feel like an idiot
2026-03-07T23:37 id=2030427667800162446 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove Once I saw a long thread of people debating whether sparkling water tastes spicy and as a white person living in Thailand I'd never felt deeper shame in my life. || CTX: Many don’t like sparkling water because they can’t chug it. They’re forced to savor the water, forced to consciously experience the water on its own terms. Harsh wake-up for those used to sloppily swigging their still swill
2026-03-08T01:10 id=2030451128392200315 →Brockster310 | @Brockster310 @tomieinlove I 100% see that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tomieinlove Someone once told me they thought it tasted liked TV static.
2026-03-08T01:14 id=2030452111495115088 →thmaistro | @thmaistro @AmandaRochelle_ @boneGPT @AmandaAskell Dude, you're way too intelligent to spend your time arguing with someone as dumb as that poster. || CTX: @AmandaRochelle_ @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @AmandaAskell You’ve spend time either denying humans have qualia or reversing your claim, saying humans and animals have qualia and then claiming computers and chatbots have it. Yet you have not d
2026-03-08T01:16 id=2030452625888706709 →gdb | @gdb @giffmana You guys made this happen. It's hard for me to express just how much I appreciate what you guys have ignited here.  Not that everything you do is perfect, quite the opposite really, but that spark is priceless. || CTX: @giffmana seems very true
2026-03-08T01:19 id=2030453247656468810 →- | Sparkling breast milk
2026-03-08T02:06 id=2030465242636185624 →- | Yet another case of Silly Business Theory #SBT.  Really need research on this idea, because it ties into questions of scarcity and value: as we get wealthier and our base needs are met, fun and work get more entangled.   Eventually work and play will be fully isomorphic, and I don't get why economists don't think about this more often. || CTX: This is going to be 40% of gdp in 2035. https://t.co/fqPNNBkeda
2026-03-08T02:07 id=2030465524795408864 →murd_arch | @murd_arch @anistotle_ @melissa @grok beat me to it you sonuvabitch, will never forgive || CTX: @anistotle_ @melissa @grok (Forgive me)
2026-03-08T02:23 id=2030469338365673641 →StuartHameroff | @StuartHameroff @anirbanbandyo That's one hell of an article to see from an OUP journal. So far out of my wheelhouse I can't say more than this is very compelling and convincing.  Which sucks because I wish Orch-OR was wrong. It fills me with existential dread. || CTX: Well Phooey on you guys for dumbing down the brain AND AI and not mentioning Orch OR, the only theory of consciousness with experimental validation, biological specificity and explanatory power. https://t.co/BLRNhgrsjL  You/they say it’s ‘u
2026-03-08T02:39 id=2030473470786908611 →Sally_Sharif1 | Zero serious people are saying AI summaries should replace the actual reading.   Either you're arguing with idiots (making you one) or you're being disingenuous.  Either way, you're not smart and ethical enough to be an academic and people like you are why people like me left for greener pastures. || CTX: I just gave a closed-book, pen-and-paper midterm exam in my 300-level course at UBC with 100 students. All exams were graded by an experienced graduate-level TA according to a rubric.  *** The average was 64/100.***  My class averages at UB
2026-03-08T06:13 id=2030527287217827865 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill How'd it do with reasoning? I've chatted with it around my question on HLE and was surprised at how close it can get to the right answer (much more than in the past) || CTX: I ran HLE on GPT-5.4 without reasoning. It’s almost as good as Opus 4.5 while being 68% cheaper on input tokens.  They should let us use 5.4-instant in ChatGPT. It’s a very strong base model. https://t.co/nlXTQi8BcH
2026-03-08T08:13 id=2030557380828917771 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill mmm love the smell of benchmark hacking in the morning || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It beats all models except Gemini 3.1 Pro while on xhigh reasoning. https://t.co/4XMWUbPFut
2026-03-08T10:52 id=2030597559186796591 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Sparkling breast milk and some bangers and mash || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Back with the bangers i see.
2026-03-08T11:12 id=2030602483186467141 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @DataDeLaurier Musk's pets are good at gaming the tax code this surprises me not one jot. || CTX: @DataDeLaurier grok was helpful too twilight zone
2026-03-08T11:12 id=2030602579466694819 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I like to expand horizons. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your tweet has got me thinking what sparkling breastmilk tastes like.
2026-03-08T11:16 id=2030603614541218045 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD lol no, I don't, I'm just a fan of carbonation and dairy products || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you have a baby?  I didn't know that!
2026-03-08T11:19 id=2030604273692918188 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD omg I haven't had kefir in so long, gonna order some rn! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I drink so much kefir mixed with soda water.   Like more than a litre a day, I'd estimate.  It's so good.
2026-03-08T11:29 id=2030606733664796990 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Robe class is a good phrase. || CTX: ngl "robe class" might be the best phrase i coined, cuts through the fog so clearly https://t.co/kkFHwN2nTk
2026-03-08T11:32 id=2030607502367396064 →- | If these reasoning gains are coming mostly from post-training, does that strengthen or weaken the theory that LLM-based GenAI cannot exceed the best of the corpus it's based on? https://t.co/QjDFC3R0CP || CTX: gpt-5.4 pro for research-level physics problems: https://t.co/47vWLbWvpF
2026-03-08T11:33 id=2030607909701443968 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson That dude's post is the Platonic ideal of projection.  Well, it would be if it wasn't AI. || CTX: “You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality.”  Bro, cmon https://t.co/rDi7Rlw8lz
2026-03-08T11:36 id=2030608601715544399 →yidashengli | @yidashengli @0bNARA Holy based af || CTX: @0bNARA wish my peripheries were wireless https://t.co/SEEhMQix9K
2026-03-08T11:37 id=2030608753826078941 →Supamalaman | @Supamalaman @0bNARA floor it u coward || CTX: @0bNARA https://t.co/jNa8fI8tKu
2026-03-08T14:17 id=2030649220760494572 →- | Cosmic censorship is a widely accepted scientific fact of the occult.
2026-03-08T14:44 id=2030655971438248241 →- | This might be the greatest thread in the history of this website. I think about it almost weekly and often sometimes to it for consolation.  Follow Nat, I'm almost certain he's an insufficiently recognized genius (which of course is the best kind of genius). https://t.co/k735lSGNCt || CTX: Social media is not an addiction any more than cars are an addiction to US households or books are an addiction to academics – that is, these technologies are simply the fabric of life; our lives are oriented around them as indispensable.  
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667032895856942 →47fucb4r8c69323 | What is so good about it in particular, beyond the sheer perspicacity, is that Nat and I disagree a bit on the values one should assume for tradition and modernity, and Nat has made me read G. K. Chesterton by a force more compelling than at the barrel of a gun: with sheer love of ideas and open mindedness, and yes one reads the Edwardian reactionary conservative only by dint of an open mind. || CTX: This might be the greatest thread in the history of this website. I think about it almost weekly and often sometimes to it for consolation.  Follow Nat, I'm almost certain he's an insufficiently recognized genius (which of course is the bes
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667040152064057 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It's ever been thus. || CTX: And does this experience of mine not disprove the argument of the thread? Not exactly--but it shows it is incomplete, like all truths, and both where it overlaps with fact and where it does not tells me so much more than just accepting an i
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667036767277270 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And does this experience of mine not disprove the argument of the thread? Not exactly--but it shows it is incomplete, like all truths, and both where it overlaps with fact and where it does not tells me so much more than just accepting an ideology like embrace modernity or reject it.   Outside the limits of the should is where I find the is that I want to be. || CTX: What is so good about it in particular, beyond the sheer perspicacity, is that Nat and I disagree a bit on the values one should assume for tradition and modernity, and Nat has made me read G. K. Chesterton by a force more compelling than a
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667043566170451 →47fucb4r8c69323 | When I was 14 years old and desperate to leave the nightmare of my white trash town and white trash family, it was a random person in an AOL chat room who told me to read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.  I should worship that man as a god for no god delivered more revelation and bliss than that man did in an offhand comment in Lobby 24 or whatever it was. || CTX: It's ever been thus.
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667050260254985 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And during that time I moved. I went from country to country like a curious missionary, but the goal was a self conversion, a new home to realize a self I could accept and a form of life I could feel comfortable in. || CTX: And so it goes. In my teenage years experimenting with the internet, meeting people, including Clare who took my virginity that quiet January night, and some girlfriends, and many friends, and writers and poets and scientists as my teens tu
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667054047756553 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The internet was always there. From my mid 20s to my late 30s I didn't make much friendship as the internet got weird in the 2000s and 2010s, but I did make some. One man introduced me to a stock screener than got me to take investing more seriously as an intellectual exercise, and within 2 years I was in George Soros' office telling billionaires how to be even richer while overlooking Central Park. || CTX: And during that time I moved. I went from country to country like a curious missionary, but the goal was a self conversion, a new home to realize a self I could accept and a form of life I could feel comfortable in.
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667057352618423 →47fucb4r8c69323 | When the wokeness trend came it was so heartbreaking. Not because I disagreed with the cause of social justice, but more because I was losing the internet to people who were blatantly misusing it as wallpaper over their Ressentiment and insecurity.  How could I find salvation from madness from the mad? || CTX: The internet was always there. From my mid 20s to my late 30s I didn't make much friendship as the internet got weird in the 2000s and 2010s, but I did make some. One man introduced me to a stock screener than got me to take investing more 
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667061589062099 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Still, I found pockets of sanity and waited for the storm to blow over. And I read and observed and thought and, now that wokeness is in the rear view mirror, I can say the moral panic taught me even more about my fellow humans. The study was bitter but the lesson so sweet. || CTX: When the wokeness trend came it was so heartbreaking. Not because I disagreed with the cause of social justice, but more because I was losing the internet to people who were blatantly misusing it as wallpaper over their Ressentiment and ins
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667065820852694 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And now it's all changed again. Now the internet is post-grifter in a very real way. We are tired of the culture war, the ragebait, the manipulation, the grift, the bullshit.  And so we make fun of it and mock it in the group chats and form cliques and play language games.  In other words, we're having fun again. || CTX: Still, I found pockets of sanity and waited for the storm to blow over. And I read and observed and thought and, now that wokeness is in the rear view mirror, I can say the moral panic taught me even more about my fellow humans. The study w
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667070170714504 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And there is a new generation! Gen Z. This generation is a full 20 years younger than me, so any illusion that I am not that old actually, thank you very much, is shattered by a calculator. Or take off your socks and count.  I am old I am old I shall read the threads unrolled. || CTX: And now it's all changed again. Now the internet is post-grifter in a very real way. We are tired of the culture war, the ragebait, the manipulation, the grift, the bullshit.  And so we make fun of it and mock it in the group chats and form
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667077812367521 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The internet is my hometown and it is now finally a time in history that I can say that honestly to you and myself without the urge to cringe, to backtrack, to hedge, or to circumscribe.  Since leaving my white trash town I've lived in five countries, visited dozens more, dined with drug addicts and billionaires, losers and politicians, professors and monks, intellectuals, idiots, the mundane, the cheery, the miserable, the brash, the timid the the the  I took rapaciously from the cornucopia of human experience, but I do not look back fondly at the Playboy Mansion party or Harvard Club dinners or rooftop restaurants or business class flights. I don't even look back at the road trips, the orgies, and the drugs. || CTX: The trepidation one has in middle age for the up and coming has always struck me as a lazy and intellectually dishonest response to the unidirectionality of time. And so I have never desired to disapprove of the youth, which may be why I am
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667073949675699 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The trepidation one has in middle age for the up and coming has always struck me as a lazy and intellectually dishonest response to the unidirectionality of time. And so I have never desired to disapprove of the youth, which may be why I am so impressed with the younger generation. And saddened. They've lost the joy of books, of deep thinking, of intimate personal conversations, of drunkenly asking a girl for her number at 3am outside of a nightclub.  And yet what they are capable of and what they will do gives me joy. They are internet natives and they are already cleaning up the mess that the Millennials and Gen Xers made.  I woke up one day to see a massive group of kids in my garden planting flowers. || CTX: And there is a new generation! Gen Z. This generation is a full 20 years younger than me, so any illusion that I am not that old actually, thank you very much, is shattered by a calculator. Or take off your socks and count.  I am old I am o
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667086708838705 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I look back at the AOL chat room, the 4chan board, the subreddit, the blog, the forum, the social media platform. My real life has been full, but my hyperreal life has been fulfilling. || CTX: The internet is my hometown and it is now finally a time in history that I can say that honestly to you and myself without the urge to cringe, to backtrack, to hedge, or to circumscribe.  Since leaving my white trash town I've lived in five
2026-03-08T15:28 id=2030667103012069801 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The one thing the internet taught me that surprises me the most would surprise anyone: unconditional love.  I have learned to see the pain, the insecurities, the misery, the mental illness behind the dumb trolls, ideologically captured conspiracy theorists, and the bitter angry partisan hack. It's all the same thing: pain and fear.   I too am afraid and I too am in pain, and that's why I can love all of you and will love all of you, even if I have never met any of you and never will. And of course it makes me love those who overcome such pain and fear so much more. || CTX: I look back at the AOL chat room, the 4chan board, the subreddit, the blog, the forum, the social media platform. My real life has been full, but my hyperreal life has been fulfilling.
2026-03-08T15:29 id=2030667109706199095 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The internet taught me to love mankind after many bitter lessons taught me to hate mankind. Without this place I would be a monster.  How can I be embarrassed at this? How can I log off?  How can I hate it here? || CTX: The one thing the internet taught me that surprises me the most would surprise anyone: unconditional love.  I have learned to see the pain, the insecurities, the misery, the mental illness behind the dumb trolls, ideologically captured cons
2026-03-08T15:42 id=2030670477627449540 →teodorio | @teodorio The Matrix but Neo and everyone in Zion are AI bots and the Smith et al. are humans is exponentially more philosophically interesting than the actual movie was. || CTX: I was just rewatching the Matrix series and saw a post that we can run computations on human brains grown in a vat, which are way more efficient than GPUs. But we need to somehow keep the brains alive and the best way to do that is in a hum
2026-03-08T16:16 id=2030679165129916755 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly wow what a fucking creep || CTX: sir this is a wendys https://t.co/DAFSIobIkR
2026-03-08T16:21 id=2030680367427145943 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder "Fund the substrate, coward" : AI :: "Have fun staying poor" : Crypto || CTX: It's not wrong https://t.co/4IDuVeZvzr
2026-03-08T16:31 id=2030682736793620805 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 The real philosophical thrust of the video is that we are all in various overlapping simulacra: school, government, banks, the internet. The world is fake and gay. And I now know how I feel about that fact. https://t.co/8lRBn6b9K7 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting analysis. I watched and enjoyed that video but was completely blind to its philosophical underpinnings. Didn't even know the simulacrum concept was philosophical in origin. That said, i do hope joe organ and com
2026-03-08T17:10 id=2030692714493407389 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE Close enough. Welcome back, Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: is math discovered or invented? well, frankly these are words meant for other fields and they both kind of apply to math but not perfectly. It's really its own thing but we don't have a word for it
2026-03-08T17:22 id=2030695596080939278 →TCzajka | @TCzajka Amazing how so many mathematicians just cannot understand philosophy || CTX: The issue with the Chinese Room thought experiment is that it misrepresents the scale of the computation, which completely misleads the intuition.  A modern AI using an LLM isn’t like “a rulebook” with a piece of paper, a pen, and a single 
2026-03-08T17:25 id=2030696405288022432 →sama | @sama yeah bruh that rlhf doing some real heavy lifting || CTX: Wow real range of emotion reading the second and then the the third paragraph. https://t.co/8gQU9OaPjG
2026-03-08T17:30 id=2030697673846829245 →paulg | @paulg The best part of being back on Twitter is getting updates on what Paul Graham is telling his kids. || CTX: Something I told 17 yo: Stocks go up, sometimes for a long time. And then they go down.
2026-03-08T22:42 id=2030776079896740114 →gdb | @gdb @tszzl "I'm too smart to need grades"  Enjoy this feeling while you can, Icarus. || CTX: Benchmarks? Where we’re going, we don’t need benchmarks.
2026-03-08T22:42 id=2030776239351541862 →EtherDais | @EtherDais For a wee bit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh hey, you're back
2026-03-08T22:59 id=2030780361526137135 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago If the bombs fly and we're about to face nuclear armageddon, please do not forget this very important fact in your remaining last moments: Simpsons did it. || CTX: No normal president would respond like this. https://t.co/7x7o8cTSK4
2026-03-08T23:03 id=2030781445950832857 →StuartHameroff | Wish you'd respond to people asking about the metaphysical implications of OrchOR rather than critics.  Some of us find the theory very compelling and unsettling. What are its teleological or teleonomic implications?   1. If we come from the same consciousness field, are we the same entity?  2. Is death a sort of reunification of individuated consciousness with the whole?  3. If yes to 2, does this mean I will gain awareness of every moment of pain, discomfort, and suffering I have ever caused another person? || CTX: Numerous people have told me you’re a bot. Your line of questioning is often picayune and redundant, and appears AI-generated. The problem with that is cumulative mistakes of conventional approaches get reinforced. What other theory of cons
2026-03-08T23:13 id=2030783963007234196 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago So actually Borges did it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s what you get when you span 37 seasons!   Might as well say that all shenanigans are just footnotes to Simpsons!
2026-03-08T23:18 id=2030785149294858553 →jessald | @jessald Fills me with joy to see more and more realize she's a useful idiot that exists for marketing purposes only. || CTX: Amanda Askell is basically the charismatic symbolic smiley face poking out of the shoggoth that is Anthropic
2026-03-08T23:29 id=2030788085043413249 →tszzl | @tszzl @logicus Considering how many predictions they make and how much they've gotten wrong, this looks more like selection bias than certification of value in the movement. || CTX: @logicus this community looked at GPT2 and correctly identified it as a burgeoning general intelligence. they got covid right early, and decades before all this yudkowksy described many of the common failure modes in ai alignment. then agai
2026-03-08T23:36 id=2030789751184503209 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @StuartHameroff Addendum to 3: and animals? || CTX: Wish you'd respond to people asking about the metaphysical implications of OrchOR rather than critics.  Some of us find the theory very compelling and unsettling. What are its teleological or teleonomic implications?   1. If we come from th
2026-03-08T23:38 id=2030790351942991953 →- | Ayatollah just sounds so much better than Mojtaba.
2026-03-08T23:49 id=2030793032724021751 →- | I honestly do think Imas might be the best economist alive. Used to be Autor (and his Nobel is on the way), but the crown has passed.  Prove me wrong? Point me to alternatives? (I used to think it was Golub until I found him on Twitter) https://t.co/OIel9Tl6ZJ || CTX: I love the work Alexander has been doing. But here is where we disagree: both academic articles and the work of juniors/RAs are equilibrium objects. Yes, AI can (or soon will be) able to write the types of articles we've written *in the pas
2026-03-08T23:53 id=2030794027722035310 →IvanVendrov | @IvanVendrov This is why tech people really need to read more history and philosophy (substack doesn't count).   Humanity has been losing what it means to be human since we first started writing stories to ourselves, like that's literally a main theme of The Epic of Gilgamesh. || CTX: a mood I'm really missing in the current AI discourse is grief  yes things might go terribly and yes we might see glories beyond imagining but no matter what, we will lose much of what it has meant to be human, forever. I'd like to be with 
2026-03-09T00:07 id=2030797610840379530 →- | The more RLHF, the further we are from AGI.
2026-03-09T00:29 id=2030803236517732556 →paulg | @paulg I hope this was your 13yr old because otherwise it's kinda creepy ngl || CTX: Something I told 13 yo: Cities inhale and exhale each generation. People move to cities in their 20s in search of colleagues and mates, move back out to raise their kids, and then when their kids are in their 20s, they return.
2026-03-09T01:29 id=2030818237261533185 →tszzl | @tszzl 100% feel the same. By far your best work yet, congrats to the entire team. || CTX: 5.4 is my personal 4o honestly it just gets me
2026-03-09T01:57 id=2030825255875559548 →- | Too many people I like and respect follow this idiotic account.  Answer these questions:  1. How many people are doing this now?  2. How many people were doing it 5, 20, 50, and 100 years ago?  3. Why were they doing it in each period?  4. Has the rate of change in how many people do this accelerated, decelerated, and if so when/why? 5. What subcategories are seeing the greatest delta in how many do this now compared to prior eras as a percent of the total population of the subcategory and humanity in general, and why?  If you answer these questions, you'll probably see not much has changed since technology increased free time substantially in the early 20th century. And since my power's out and I can't work, I'm gun ask muh clanker and report back || CTX: the absolute biggest challenge for humanity over the next 2-3 generations, to prevent complete annihilation of the human race, is to offer a vision for the world more incentivizing than just laying in your bed staring at your phone. and we'
2026-03-09T01:58 id=2030825498402832888 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Voice mode has been the greatest disappointment in AI for me so far. || CTX: new Omni model from OpenAI with GPT-5.4 intelligence would feel magical like 2024 again. Sometimes just talking through a problem while absolutely cooked is less friction than typing
2026-03-09T02:07 id=2030827769601605919 →steipete | @steipete Yeah I'm still trying to figure out when to use Codex and when to use the main app || CTX: IMO people still think of codex as a tool for coding, when really you can do all kind of data analysis/work there. https://t.co/9Exzr1UbLV
2026-03-09T02:08 id=2030828145524506856 →babochenko | That's the view of a full time employee, which I suspect will go the way of the dodo as SBT evolves.  But I do agree with you if you're describing the current makeup of labor division and task delegation within a Coase-style firm (SBT also suggests the notion of the firm gets reconstructed via exogenous technological gains). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I disagree: abundance of resources removes constraints from fun, but doesn't enable it, because fun is an experience of emotional intimacy (in psychological terms) while contractual labor is a routine, at least under an imp
2026-03-09T02:11 id=2030828781632680328 →drgurner | @drgurner @rohanpaul_ai "executive performance coach" omg what an awful corner of Twitter this is || CTX: It has long been discussed that if AI is sentient, than having it "serve" humanity is"digital slavery." Which will end badly for a host of reasons. The challenge is that we are creating something that is smarter than us...and will be able t
2026-03-09T02:12 id=2030828996657893873 →ErikLavoie2 | @ErikLavoie2 @_AashishReddy One day you'll discover that you can't outsource judgment to an AI. || CTX: @_AashishReddy That’s the difference between Sonnet and ChatGPT: the latter will almost always find a “mistake” or “problem”
2026-03-09T02:12 id=2030829053687783924 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy This is the post of a zombie. || CTX: https://t.co/cXET0Q176c https://t.co/aCOtG6Ppfp
2026-03-09T02:43 id=2030836725573185861 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/bAmxxSXYuO  If you're interested || CTX: Too many people I like and respect follow this idiotic account.  Answer these questions:  1. How many people are doing this now?  2. How many people were doing it 5, 20, 50, and 100 years ago?  3. Why were they doing it in each period?  4. 
2026-03-09T02:45 id=2030837263698206829 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas https://t.co/vhqRLv5lps || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T02:45 id=2030837418820276708 →Scholars_Stage | @Scholars_Stage https://t.co/vhqRLv5lps || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T03:29 id=2030848400745443668 →IvanVendrov | @IvanVendrov Of course it does. It changes HOW it is important, and that is upstream of quantity. How is it changing if at all, what're the determinants, who is affected, in what ways, is this temporary or permanent, what're the pos/neg externalities etc etc etc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree it's not a new feeling, doesn't make it less important
2026-03-09T03:43 id=2030851973768171621 →mwilcox | @mwilcox Claude is just software || CTX: Claude is just a markdown file
2026-03-09T03:45 id=2030852346943771090 →- | I am softening my view on people's desire for reach on social media; it is rational and, in some cases, less ego driven and philosophical suicide-related than I fear. But those cases are probably very rare. Still, reach should always be considered an initial of several goals, and the final telos of communication should be conceptual uptake.
2026-03-09T04:20 id=2030861163253391768 →jsperera1 | @jsperera1 @Scholars_Stage @grok I'm too smart to be famous broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Scholars_Stage @grok who‘s alt is this?
2026-03-09T04:20 id=2030861379515871483 →vigor_quietus | @vigor_quietus Books still exist. You describe a method of using the internet, esp algorithm mediated content distribution, but it's not all the net has to offer.  That said, the mode you describe has its value and is ideally balanced with other modes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Prob yeah I used to be very anti internet but alk the alleged alternatives are lacking  It changes our metaphysics or something Uhm simultanaity of texts  Ie playing subahibi and reading tractatus and scwolling and dreaming
2026-03-09T04:24 id=2030862364804059217 →- | Excluding fiction and the internet, how many pages of text do you read per day per average, accounting for days of no reading?
2026-03-09T04:46 id=2030867675325530560 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yes, that's true--audience capture and Goodhart's Law are failure modes. It's a constant balance, needs constant self reassessment, etc. Using the internet is  extremely intellectually and emotionally taxing whether you use it well or pooly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Too much reach cuts off many conversations   You get a megaphone but that encourages you to limit to shouting at other megaphone holders, or something
2026-03-09T04:46 id=2030867834675646728 →- | https://t.co/Y2qI1H08S6 https://t.co/zvX2YpziVp || CTX: @paulg The best part of being back on Twitter is getting updates on what Paul Graham is telling his kids.
2026-03-09T05:55 id=2030885052868108383 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 wtf hahahahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/mktjT18VPd
2026-03-09T05:56 id=2030885311891591659 →NoahParisi33495 | @NoahParisi33495 it is rare that I find a post that I both agree with and that reflects the guiding principle of how I communicate with other people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Philosopher kings must speak in the crass tongue of the people and even the high orators must lisp out the profanities of the masses.
2026-03-09T05:57 id=2030885634831978666 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I. e. if you read 100pp per day every other day, that's ((365/2)*100)/365 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 easily 0 - 50 i think. but im not sure what accounting for days or no reading means.
2026-03-09T06:44 id=2030897516678635727 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Yeah a couple of cool cats showed up, getting blocked by a big account pays social dividends, it's quite cool to see it unfold || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I got three really cool follows after my big block today, how about you
2026-03-09T07:33 id=2030909845331955853 →livelikebruce | @livelikebruce Yeah, I think this is still my default view and for the most part how I want to use the internet. But there are some people for whom reach serves a goal that isn't really self-serving or philosophically reprobate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve always felt that there’s some freedom in low reach. No one’s really watching. You say what you say and let it travel on its own terms. It usually finds who it needs to at some point. In turn, you end up discovering som
2026-03-09T08:57 id=2030930965238096263 →teodorio | @teodorio My island looks a bit like this in places. Glad the air's clean there. || CTX: this is the platonic ideal of the religious temple and my favorite place to sit and look at the sea https://t.co/beezlz8BHZ
2026-03-09T09:01 id=2030932048916144158 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @gdb @tszzl When I was 12 my mother took a community college class on Sunday mornings and I would go to sit in on them, and at the end of the class I asked for a test, which the teacher was very amused at (he gave me a C lol) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gdb @tszzl once i was trying the opposite, you know what they did? they removed me from the classroom to not get graded.
2026-03-09T09:08 id=2030933737845006809 →- | I actually do not know for certain that I would hate giving someone a blowjob, but I feel highly certain that I would not.  In this we see how the word "certain" is used to mean very different things.
2026-03-09T09:24 id=2030937810308645194 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski yeah I definitely think work/hobbies combined is the right way to think of the question || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I optimistically clicked on 51-100 since that's what I do every day at work and hobbies + that's what helps me fall asleep.
2026-03-09T10:59 id=2030961788200869928 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah Options guy, eh? I shall research. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Elie ayache
2026-03-09T11:17 id=2030966192542998959 →- | I guess good old Doodoo Head is going viral, so icymi https://t.co/eC2Tddktbn || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T11:17 id=2030966230258167935 →joshgans | @joshgans https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T11:18 id=2030966331189944814 →johnloeber | @johnloeber https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T11:18 id=2030966568646296006 →mean_field_zane | @mean_field_zane https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T11:19 id=2030966648686129231 →tedfrank | @tedfrank https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T11:21 id=2030967204385333288 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T11:22 id=2030967503237820813 →RuxandraTeslo | @RuxandraTeslo https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T11:59 id=2030976650566135878 →saintrell_ | @saintrell_ @teodorio I've never heard of this before but it looks amazing. Thanks, gonna try to watch tonight || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 just watch pantheon
2026-03-09T11:59 id=2030976697219358892 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 done
2026-03-09T12:10 id=2030979502554452429 →mattyglesias | @mattyglesias https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T12:30 id=2030984489946767721 →tmuxvim | @tmuxvim crumbles under pressure like a graham cracker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he’s so delicate
2026-03-09T13:09 id=2030994452941312174 →bytywy | @bytywy it's okay, I'm his kid's fencing coach I'll still get the skinny || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now you will miss out on everything
2026-03-09T13:10 id=2030994706738614650 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @IvanVendrov I have been spending a lot more time with animals lately too, it is incredibly healing, really more than most people realize or acknowledge. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @IvanVendrov I find that intimacy with the animal in me tempers what I believe I'm losing.   Especially among the very elderly--fractionally concerned by the future--I find I've bathed in this world and this communion.  I h
2026-03-09T13:20 id=2030997035701416415 →Smillew_Rahcuef | @Smillew_Rahcuef That makes total sense now that you mention it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Funny enough, considering reach an initial of several goals is the best way to increase reach.
2026-03-09T13:38 id=2031001736710926693 →benchatenu | @benchatenu rightplace righttime is an epistemic hazard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He is a lucky buffoon and as a buffoon thinks it’s intelligence. He fools naive engineers and idiot want to be entrepreneurs and provides zero value to society
2026-03-09T13:39 id=2031001816847290844 →thrialectics | @thrialectics Cosigned. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We assess with moderate confidence that 47fucb4r8cufv4fc8f8r4bfic8r would not hate giving someone a blowjob
2026-03-09T14:03 id=2031008074962726967 →StuartHameroff | @StuartHameroff Dead link || CTX: Here’s the full paper now on Open Access  Microtubules are fractal time crystals -Implications for life and consciousness Hameroff, Bandyopadhyay, Lauretta  Journal of. Consciousness Studies  https://t.co/ttK1SpGZch
2026-03-09T14:04 id=2031008321772409155 →jenniferdoleac | @jenniferdoleac @AlecStapp https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:05 id=2031008373844619661 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:06 id=2031008853274591307 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp You're in awe of uptake and disinterested in efficacy.  A victim of the attention economy, really quite pathetic.  History gonna forget all of you || CTX: Oh yeah, and he also started the Progress Studies movement https://t.co/VJjWbdL91k
2026-03-09T14:12 id=2031010334207774775 →- | Whoever paid for my blue checkmark, can you DM me? I really didn't thank you for that random kindness and feel I should.
2026-03-09T14:13 id=2031010465493766629 →HenryEOliver | @HenryEOliver https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb  He's a blogger, he's built a career poasting wtf are you on about || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:13 id=2031010536465502348 →sebkrier | @sebkrier https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:14 id=2031010753621492187 →_alice_evans | @_alice_evans https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:15 id=2031010895133090118 →ChorzempaMartin | @ChorzempaMartin https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:15 id=2031010930059022682 →skominers | @skominers @ATabarrok @MargRev https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:16 id=2031011168635249031 →S_Surprenant | @S_Surprenant https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:16 id=2031011289078870275 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod omg she's so beautiful || CTX: When we got her I said "If she turns out good we're having a kid" She's 15 now Our little boy is three  Good cheddar princess https://t.co/i3xELj4OhS
2026-03-09T14:18 id=2031011746908193159 →simonsarris | @simonsarris let people enjoy nothings || CTX: This is cope. Abundance, art, and a sense of permanence in one's environments are remarkably underrated.  Just because most people use the physical world badly does not mean you should eschew it. It means you should try to use it well. http
2026-03-09T14:18 id=2031011857197309980 →djkgamc | @djkgamc 109% accurate analogy || CTX: i think i'm in love with chatgpt 5.4 thinking. it's like the when i got a 3DO when i was young and the graphics were like incredible. just so much speed and power
2026-03-09T14:20 id=2031012225776021573 →- | My benchmark will be ungameable. https://t.co/c3q7Pyk5aY || CTX: I told you Google is gaming the benchmarks.  Gemini reasoning set to 100% for tests. But 0.5 (50%) for regular users.  Same model. Half the thinking.  If true, that’s straight up benchmark manipulation. https://t.co/xDcyqf65ji
2026-03-09T14:22 id=2031012654882738687 →RishiJoeSanu | @RishiJoeSanu https://t.co/jzLN4MWhyO || CTX: https://t.co/qAISNbm47R
2026-03-09T14:22 id=2031012685274558791 →mbrendan1 | @mbrendan1 https://t.co/jzLN4MWhyO || CTX: https://t.co/qAISNbm47R
2026-03-09T14:22 id=2031012808176042067 →jt_kerwin | @jt_kerwin https://t.co/jzLN4MWhyO || CTX: https://t.co/qAISNbm47R
2026-03-09T14:25 id=2031013458939105307 →mikekofoed | @mikekofoed https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-09T14:30 id=2031014670103130341 →- | Too many of you need to read this tweet very carefully, then go for a walk, then pet a cat, then have a beer and watch a sunset.  You people make me sik https://t.co/l0ycVpujYJ || CTX: too much focus on goals  not enough focus on dreams
2026-03-09T14:56 id=2031021246943498459 →DeivonDrago | If losing marginal employees is not material to the firm's future, is it due to some intrinsic failing entirely on the part of the employee or due to multiple complex variables, the makeup of which differs case by case?   Cowen says the former, either because he's stupid or ideologically motivated. Either way, he deserves my contempt and so that's what he gets. || CTX: Probably rhetorically a little strong on Cowen's part, as losing workers might have resulted in outcomes that are not obvious in output. (e.g. service quality, deferred maintenance etc.)    The fact remains that this is a thing that does ha
2026-03-09T14:57 id=2031021561940213902 →laverrath | @laverrath That's the worst part. Graham is a bland white person, a literal fucking Graham cracker walking among us. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The nigga genuinely thinks he's a revolutionary thinker, how nuts is it to tweet out all your mild thoughts
2026-03-09T14:57 id=2031021609088389186 →extliqprovider | @extliqprovider hahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your son made it ma
2026-03-09T15:00 id=2031022330936471811 →laverrath | @laverrath Patience young Skywalker, come your time will || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Genuinely surprised he never blocked me for this 😭 https://t.co/w60zABFzbV
2026-03-09T15:07 id=2031024041096880227 →DeivonDrago | Everyone has their beliefs and irrational presuppositions, that's fine.  His ZMP argument was irrational, demonstrably false, incoherent, and retarded. He's also said plenty of other dumb things (said we'd have hyperinflation in the late 2000s, said rich people were better artists in the 19th century).  He's just an idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HenryEOliver As a neoliberal shill, my ideology is not that far from his. lol.   Also, as someone who effectively works in the public sector, my experience is that lots of employees are marginal.  Also, in any marginal pro
2026-03-09T15:10 id=2031024905060569465 →vaultah | @vaultah Thanks for the summary, very helpful for the short bus riders. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was an asshole to someone and they blocked me in response, here's the proof they did in fact block me
2026-03-09T15:30 id=2031029815122571353 →te3xyz | @te3xyz oh if well placed negative is your thing we are going to get alone VERY well || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Followed for well placed negativity 🙏
2026-03-09T15:40 id=2031032498399191286 →devabram | @devabram Becoming financially independent was the most existentially destabilizing experience of my life and honestly I wouldn't recommend it to anyone under 50, maybe 60. || CTX: I am kinda afraid of retiring.  I become extremely careless if I don't have anything to do, and my appetite for nonsense is already pretty high.
2026-03-09T15:46 id=2031033821202960407 →foofoufu | @foofoufu He doesn't have enough money to buy a thicker skin. Sad innit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow, thin skin.
2026-03-09T16:07 id=2031039234967228723 →paleoludic | @paleoludic Underappreciated fact because our current historical moment has a fetish for hyperspecialization || CTX: the only way to be a specialist in anything is to know a bit of everything
2026-03-09T16:09 id=2031039636328612107 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Elephant Graveyard || CTX: Who are some interesting AI people in Austin, TX?
2026-03-09T16:27 id=2031044228831408597 →- | https://t.co/rSRdV4tWWU  We live in such an embarrassing historical moment, bewitched by spherical cows and sloppy thinking, allergic to integrated cognition, offended at domain synthesizers, in love with the priests of the marketplace.  Enjoy it while it lasts; in a couple hundred years this will all look so embarrassing and bizarre when people are reading and writing poetry again.
2026-03-09T16:40 id=2031047494235463936 →paleoludic | @paleoludic hope so || CTX: had https://t.co/UYORna5sPc
2026-03-09T16:41 id=2031047625731092577 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @devabram I'm 45 and am constantly surprised each decade is more enjoyable than the last.  When will it start to go downhill? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @devabram I hit it at 60 and it’s destabilizing. I’m 61 now.
2026-03-09T16:42 id=2031047988072898806 →babochenko | @babochenko That's about my limit for analytical philosophy.  And I don't think anyone should ever read something they already understand, there be dragons and midwittery || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 About 20 pages of econ / math is most that I can do. Takes me an hour, and that’s excluding exercises. I might be dumb I don’t know, but I usually acquire understanding on multiple abstraction levels, and never read somethi
2026-03-09T16:44 id=2031048539804188868 →babarganesh | @babarganesh https://t.co/vkR3k9a08e || CTX: Eventually, it will be mandatory for any good computer science degree to have at least one course on poetry.
2026-03-09T17:01 id=2031052675165700607 →binarybits | @binarybits Uber is a horrible example to support Andreessen's case because it didn't replace taxis as much as it replaced taxi distribution, a coordination but non essential problem endemic to taxis. || CTX: People are responding to this by saying software actually did eat the world — see Uber and Airbnb. But those companies already existed when Andreessen wrote his essay. His prediction was that it would happen to other industries like health 
2026-03-09T17:04 id=2031053454509223948 →babarganesh | A lot of studies show 47 to be the nadir of personal satisfaction.   I went back to reading the classics when I was 42 after abandoning reading for pleasure for nearly a decade. Incredibly enriching experience, and I realize I was too young and stupid to read the greats before now.  On that note thanks for the Ashberry mention, I just bought his convex mirror book. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @devabram (my post-adolescence low was 47, a confluence of professional, health, marital, and parenting difficulties. my situation now is not comparable to that in any way.)
2026-03-09T17:04 id=2031053613565624432 →sgn0101 | @sgn0101 I'm so grateful for him, Thiel, and Musk for showing us money doesn't buy happiness. They're doing quite the service to mankind being such miserable fucks. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hes such a bitch
2026-03-09T18:32 id=2031075642532573411 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @skominers @ATabarrok @MargRev ofc not lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @skominers @ATabarrok @MargRev Have you managed to convince anyone yet?
2026-03-09T18:34 id=2031076174995271695 →jrhall97 | @jrhall97 @Afinetheorem @tylercowen lmfao many, very many. || CTX: @Afinetheorem @tylercowen I know English professors who have engaged with his work! How many other economists can you say that about?
2026-03-09T18:40 id=2031077709645033983 →ludwigABAP | @ludwigABAP That's why their ideas were better than our ideas || CTX: you see interviews with like, Cartan, and he just lives with his lil wife in his lil house thing and it's all very normal and he lives with normal people
2026-03-09T18:49 id=2031079986036355524 →- | A religious fanatic is like someone who is given an immaculately wrapped Christmas present, then says, "this is such a beautiful package, so thoughtfully wrapped up, it's truly a gift" without opening it to see if what's wrapped up is trash or treasure.  For example, atheists and materialist physicalists who assert past science is reliable Truth. These are religious fanatics.
2026-03-09T18:50 id=2031080095641989527 →okospojjcjj | @okospojjcjj Pretty sure he's blocked his kids, so, no, prob not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is there any person this man hasn’t blocked ?
2026-03-09T18:56 id=2031081665624420725 →panickssery | @panickssery Mapping and uploading are entirely different things can the Mercatus Mafia stop polluting the world with their pseudo intellectual bullshit I'm losing my fucking mind over these attention starved assholes || CTX: Did they make a fruit-fly em . . . https://t.co/qoWzxIJHLI
2026-03-09T18:59 id=2031082555076968503 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago idk what you mean by "science". || CTX: Science is our best understanding of reality. Reliability is a matter of being able to predict, which science alone (in all many forms) can do. No other approach can.  Religion is pablum. Faith has no epistemic value, as should be obvious t
2026-03-09T19:03 id=2031083519334822105 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Indeed, it's bringing a knife to a slap fight. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago I don't think semiotics is allowed in scientific discussions?
2026-03-09T19:04 id=2031083777234186650 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Retreating into snark is as emotionally gratifying as it is disappointing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I figured. 😈
2026-03-09T19:08 id=2031084645341954328 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @TheStalwart Idk if he used AI in his video but he did elsewhere comment on how AI has become useful as another shibboleth to blame when confronted with something uncomfortable, i.e., just call it AI so it's not real whether it is or not so you can keep living in your fantasy land. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart You consider him part of the AI space? I guess something in that video of his seems to you relevant to AI.
2026-03-09T19:09 id=2031085037060547011 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @babarganesh @devabram Read the description thingies in my profile (sadly can't paste it or I would). That is the way. || CTX: @babarganesh @47fucb4r8c69323 @devabram Me reading this thread in my early 30s and wondering when it gets figured out and life stabilizes and knowing it's all a work in construction anyways Absolutely loving the reflections here
2026-03-09T19:11 id=2031085407925055520 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @anistotle_ @devabram That desire for stability is IMO a real human need, something we need as a baseline to leverage deeper thinking and greater satisfaction  Which is why it's an addictive and dangerous desire we need to constantly fight and embrace change and novelty with faith the world will be ok || CTX: @anistotle_ @47fucb4r8c69323 @devabram it feels more stable sometimes than other times. that feeling is in fact a constructed one. i am kind of on the hunt trying to feel into how i do this - seems like an important thing to understand
2026-03-09T19:13 id=2031085920485806208 →DeivonDrago | "The point is - physicalism is just inference to the best and simplest explanation."   Yes, absolutely!!!!  "What can you can see and prove is all that exists (along with what we can justifiably extrapolate from what you can see and prove)."   No, because this contradicts your first point.  As for the generalized psychologizing of billions of strangers that follows, I like and respect you so will not comment on that except to beg you to try to refrain from such indulgences. || CTX: The point is - physicalism is just inference to the best and simplest explanation.   What can you can see and prove is all that exists (along with what we can justifiably extrapolate from what you can see and prove).   The reasons that peop
2026-03-09T19:24 id=2031088732879892897 →babochenko | When I suddenly had fuck you money, I started asking myself, "okay, well, who do I want to say fuck you to?" Then I started asking, why would I say fuck you to this person in this situation, do they deserve it, what have they done wrong and is it really their fault?  To answer this question ethically, I need to understand other minds. To do that, I need to go beyond cognition and into the messy world of empathy.  In other words, as Wittgenstein said, "don't think, look!"  So I looked.  And it wasn't their fault. Any of them. They're trapped by lies, fantasies, bewitchments, ideological capture, family obligations, past mistakes, future goals, fear, insecurity, a hunger for love.   Oh my god oh my god oh my god, I don't want to say fuck you to anyone. I want to save them all.   But I'm nobody. I can't even save myself.   Oh god oh god oh god  Maybe we don't need saving. Maybe the fear and goals and future mistakes and bewitchment is what we actually need--the undergoing before the overcoming. Man is a bridge, as Nietzsche says.  Maybe Leibniz was right, or maybe I'm turning into Pangloss because I'm mad. Time to get checked out.  Fuck, I'm officially autistic. Well that explains a lot.  So what do I do with my time left? Love the world, love it all, amor fati, accept it all, understand it more. "We are not here on Earth to make a paradise, we are here to learn" as Godel said.  So I read and write and walk with my cats and laugh at miserable billionaires trying to reshape the world in their own image, like their empires will last longer than any other.   Camus was right: it's all absurd. And he was right again: all we can do is dance.  So I dance and dance and dance and will keep doing so until I die, and when it happens I can only hope I can say it was wonderful.  And it's a dance I can do alone, letting others join as they wish and waving at them cheerfully goodbye as they vanish into the horizon.  It was never about the financial. It was always about the independence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @devabram Could you please give a short overview of that destabilisation, for historical purposes? (And for a future financially independent person in myself)
2026-03-09T19:26 id=2031089210120352002 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago best and simplest for now, and the "for now" is what matters! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago &gt;Yes, absolutely!!!!  So it may seem.
2026-03-09T19:26 id=2031089374855909881 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz So you're not really defending physicalism, you're just opposing idiocy. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Mostly people who are opposed to physicalism on grounds of faith or a similar sentiment (new age woo etc).
2026-03-09T19:31 id=2031090599248671041 →DeivonDrago | You used the word justifiably about what we can extrapolate from what we can see and prove, that's uncontested, but you said that is along "What can you can see and prove is all that exists" which is not an entailment of anything else you said and has no analytic grounding to justify it as an assertion.   As an article of faith, sure, have fun. But there is zero evidence that what you can see and prove is all that exists. In fact, this is bad science; we cannot see nor prove there is physical matter beyond the observable universe and cannot in principle, so what we can see and prove is very much not all that exists.  Or you could just observe that unverifiable truths are still true, which is why logical positivism failed before you or I were born. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz There is no contradiction. If you are referring to the extrapolation, that’s why I used the word “justifiably”.   Usually this is needed because as a species we are not resourced well enough to probe realit
2026-03-09T19:32 id=2031090860302152188 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Appeal to authority, Thomas Aquinas would be proud || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 In that there is no publication that uses any modern method of inquiry that demonstrates any evidence against non-physicalism.
2026-03-09T19:34 id=2031091271440409078 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I'd need people to actually read my novel before I try writing anything so difficult.   But... would be a banger if I do say so meself || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When is the book coming out? https://t.co/DwEmv8usbs
2026-03-09T19:35 id=2031091514332557391 →babochenko | @babochenko @devabram You have the right attitude, you're gonna thrive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @devabram I see. I would love to get love you money instead, where I could say "love you" to more people. Right now, I don't say that to enough people. I hope my lovely fantasy doesn't crumble once I achieve it. Thank you f
2026-03-09T19:39 id=2031092428909023686 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz You seem to presuppose the options are EITHER physicalism OR nonsense.  The menu got tons of options, my friend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz No… appeal to the fact that no one has demonstrated otherwise. 🤷🏻‍♂️
2026-03-09T19:39 id=2031092536375414895 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz I 100% cosign this, and it's why I'm no longer a physicalist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz The rest of the universe is covered under justifiably extrapolate. That’s literally how it’s covered in cosmology.  I stand by the position. It’s served us well for a 100 years. No one has been able to show
2026-03-09T19:45 id=2031093948471779498 →- | All of this agentic stuff is awesome and useful and bullish, but please note that none of this is actually AI innovation.  We're still leveraging the same highly compressive tokenization architecture with little innovation there, and that was the big breakthrough in the first place.  If you're an academic at a major institution (pref PhD) and you want to work on this, DM me. Got people at MIT and a few other schools already interested. || CTX: Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code.  When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs. https://t.co/AL2J4efxPw
2026-03-09T19:46 id=2031094390773739616 →etoeth | @etoeth Oh you and I are gonna be friends.  The miracle plays sometimes give a rare look into proto-middle class aspirationism in medieval Europe, I really should reread them. || CTX: recent haul https://t.co/rQNtssqnUe
2026-03-09T19:48 id=2031094800485855396 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @panickssery 1. agreed 2. yeah duh, I'm criticizing Tabarrok's characterization, I have no qualifications to say shit about the actual research. 3. I respect your obeisance to the authorities you have faith in as much as any other's. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @panickssery 1) This is some of the best neuro research happening out there. Exciting has heck!   2) this is not a Mercatus project   3) thank goodness for Mercatus! An important voice even if they are out there with some o
2026-03-09T19:53 id=2031096082839777682 →etoeth | idk if I could stomach that book, I'm a wimp when it comes to reading about human suffering. Or writing tbh.  A few years ago I had this idea for a novel that would be a sequel to A Christmas Carol set in current year where Scrooge is so terrified the ghosts will come back he lets Cratchit walk all over him, bankrupting the business, then he has a surreal spiral meeting more and more horrible people until he finally kills himself. Got like 30 pages in and felt so guilty at harming a fictional character that I stopped writing.  Man I'm mentally ill. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 recommended and somd to me by some very interesting character at a flea market this last weekend haha he happened to also have glencoe which is family history for me
2026-03-09T19:54 id=2031096417239060480 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @panickssery Very Hegelian shape to your implicit epistemology. The idea seems to be that adversarial competition between argument and counterargument is necessary for intellectual progress. || CTX: Well I am more of a mainstream economics guy, but these Mercatus guys light a fire under the butts of those guys using the same tools they do (unlike the Marxists or post-Keynesians or other heterodox folk).   It’s like having a loyal oppos
2026-03-09T20:07 id=2031099473527713792 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Everyone forgets the map is not the territory, including and most importantly oneself.  This is why epistemic humility is a virtue and certainty is the enemy.   Smugness is the realm of the small minded. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 Technically, you were describing your model of these things, the very same mistake the people you're criticizing made.
2026-03-09T20:09 id=2031100127402930576 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @panickssery Calling Tabarrok and Cowen non mainstream is absolutely absurd. Modern Principles of Economics is a Macmillan textbook widely taught at undergrad globally.  Sorry to be rude, but your position is absolutely absurd. || CTX: My philosophy in general is very anti-Hegelian in the sense of holistic unity.   But a cardinal rule of good research long term is to make sure you are able to line up the necessary critics. The problem in mainstream Econ is that there are 
2026-03-09T20:11 id=2031100628500623374 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz That's indeed what we're also asking you for and what you're failing to provide, such as for your assertion that "what you can see and prove is all that exists".   Could you prove this for me, please? I miss being an atheist and would like to believe this. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Is it? I mean - all I’m asking is - show me evidence to the contrary. If you are saying that’s the wrong epistemic standard (the usual response), that’s fine. Then there is no actual basis for a convo.
2026-03-09T20:12 id=2031100813750448567 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Expand please. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago &gt; Everyone forgets the map is not the territory, including and most importantly oneself.  Technically "true" but dangerously misleading (linguistically defeasible)
2026-03-09T20:13 id=2031101116222681457 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz So you are not actually a physicalist materialist. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 To me.. the universe = reality. (There could be multiple universes, so those would be included if they are real).
2026-03-09T20:14 id=2031101270036242908 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago More accurate to say what we call reality is a function of consciousness and culture, but yes fully agreed. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 Reality is a function of consciousness + culture
2026-03-09T20:14 id=2031101375204274381 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Wittgenstein changed my life, what can I say? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago You seem to be rather familiar with this territory 😄
2026-03-09T20:16 id=2031101758865551515 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Indeed... What you can see and prove is not all that exists, sadly. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 No I think there are many metaphysical models.   One happens to have a lot of empirical evidence that fits together to provide a coherent explanation. The others are far more speculative.
2026-03-09T20:16 id=2031101878919115128 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago We're so much in agreement that I'm at high risk of offering you fellatio. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Everyone forgets the map is not the territory, but the frequency and forms varies *dramatically* between individuals  Religion (most) &lt; Science &lt; Pedantry  Science gang thinks they can beat Pedant gang lo
2026-03-09T20:17 id=2031102219890929819 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Yes, that's what I've always understood science to mean, which is why your position in this thread is very confusing. || CTX: Epistemic humility is the basis of the scientific enterprise.   If shown evidence, the science side changes its mind. Sometimes it takes a while - human failings and all that. But people usually come around.   We don’t need to accept anythi
2026-03-09T20:21 id=2031103027575402743 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Right, it's absolutely co constitutive in a recursive structure I couldn't even begin to describe or map out.  But I'm just anticipating the "what you think distant galaxies aren't real if no one's seen them" akshuyally countermove I've so often seen in this situation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Do you think what people call reality (or perceive it to be) *is not* a part of reality?  Take those dudes that flew jets into the twin towers for example
2026-03-09T20:22 id=2031103348519350321 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Start with On Certainty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago I should read those books some day
2026-03-09T20:31 id=2031105591008182606 →Johnny2Fingersz | Yes, alliatic cognition seems to work by appealing to the frames of the categories the cognizant agent exists within but is not cognizant of. The whole "fish don't know what water is" phenomenon.  But I won't go so far as to say I or autistic people are immune to this. I was a staunch atheist for over 20 years! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Have you noticed that allistic cognition behaves probabilistically?  Like, you can easily predict within a small range of categorical possibilities that their next move will be in a conversation (and, what it *
2026-03-09T20:35 id=2031106678670897626 →DeivonDrago | You're mixing goals and methods in a way that obscures the fact that, methodologically, they are plain vanilla orthodox economists. Ideologically, sure, they're a bit more Laffer curve than Phillips curve.   But what's really horrific about them is they've instrumentalized McCloskey to their ideology rather than adapted her warnings to their methodology. And that's why I target them more than other idiots in econ, of which there are plenty. Dean Bell is a noisy little boy for instance, he'll stir shit up in a few years. || CTX: They wrote a mainstream textbook. How would you sell a non mainstream textbook? Duh.   But both are fairly hardcore libertarians who would dismantle much of government - social security, Medicaid, Medicare, most transfer programs, most publ
2026-03-09T20:37 id=2031107060834943286 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Stop confusing verification with fact please. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Best and simplest explanation.    If there is something else https://t.co/URgPs2rCfM
2026-03-09T20:38 id=2031107377131651460 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Why I read so much. Need to get in that right tail.  Well it's also why I mack on dem bitches but let's save that for another thread. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Only the right tail of the distribution has the ability to transcend I suspect
2026-03-09T20:42 id=2031108499481165961 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago Well, like any cohort, gotta respect experts in their expertise and ignore when they go into fields they don't understand.   Physicists are retarded about epistemology, but that's okay, I'm retarded about quantum physics. Like I'll never understand what spin is, but that's okay! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Like, how hilarious is it that "the most powerful epistemic organization on the planet" doesn't even know the basics?
2026-03-09T20:45 id=2031109119130873953 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Idk how to tell you this but everyone agrees with that and that's not what's in dispute. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 That is the standard scientific position.   Physicalism is our (meaning physicists etc) is our best understanding of reality until we find evidence to the contrary. 🤷🏻‍♂️
2026-03-09T20:46 id=2031109292678635613 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago "A book of philosophy could be written consisting entirely of jokes." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 Humour while practising epistemology, that is something one does not encounter very often at all
2026-03-09T20:52 id=2031110793807466924 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @panickssery Yeah it's basically Freakonomics || CTX: I don’t know much about Dean Bell.   But also - I did say they used all the same standard tools and logic that you find in Econ grad school. Which is why they are relevant.  But they come at the world very differently. And I’m glad for thei
2026-03-09T20:52 id=2031111021704917042 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Indeed, which is why I prize epistemic humility and have contempt for smugness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz Again it would be nice if there was some evidence.
2026-03-09T20:54 id=2031111525629562985 →AncPhi | @AncPhi @PhiloCrocodile You could've just said "autodidacts are rare" || CTX: Generally speaking I do not believe in the idea of the autodidact, if that term is meant to connote some level of sophistication beyond that of a traditional college degree. The reason is that the vast majority of people do not possess the 
2026-03-09T21:04 id=2031113826780029189 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Wait... so you're not a physicist? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz Physicists aren’t saying that there might not be something else out there. What they are saying is - here’s what we have evidence for, and our best reconstruction of reality. If you want to posit something 
2026-03-09T21:08 id=2031114819252953598 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz Our disagreement is here: you said what you can see and prove is all that exists.  I say: 1. Proof ≠ truth (Tarski). Unverifiable truths are still true (Ayers). Science seeks epistemic sufficiency, not Truth (van Fraassen). Whereof we cannot speak is still a where (Wittgenstein) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz Then maybe we don’t have a dispute. Because that is most of what I’m saying.
2026-03-09T21:14 id=2031116450619117688 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD @etoeth My novel lol   Albert Angelo by B. S. Johnson is a masterpiece and no one seems to know about it.   On medieval stuff: Michael Camille's Image on the Edge is really good.  Oh, and I finally read St Augustine's Confessions a few weeks ago and was in shock at the man's mind. Genius || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @etoeth 47, any chance you could recommend me a book to read?  or a few you like?
2026-03-09T21:15 id=2031116674943037597 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago "You must not be afraid to speak nonsense! But you must pay close attention to your nonsense." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 Philosophers are pretty famously foolish 😂
2026-03-09T21:18 id=2031117520305008780 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Looks nicer than what I woke up to yesterday https://t.co/5lRLCV1zxn || CTX: me and who https://t.co/cDTIi6EbRz
2026-03-09T21:19 id=2031117675561394578 →etoeth | @etoeth @JeremyNguyenPhD giddamnit I was hoping to never read that brick. ordering now... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JeremyNguyenPhD genius indeed. and totally candid about his mistakes. one of the most self-aware writers of all time imo. city of god is a masterpiece
2026-03-09T21:22 id=2031118376383512898 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz I too have my demons from all the problems one gets with an intense childhood. Sending virtual hugs, fren. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes some do. My wife is religious in a non-orthodox way. My mother might as well have been fire and brimstone style, with all of the problems that can come with that level of intensity.
2026-03-09T21:26 id=2031119417342660719 →etoeth | @etoeth The frog cannot stop winning, someone needs to do something about this https://t.co/W6fLFxg8Pf || CTX: they werent clairvoyant, they were the orchestrators. important distinction https://t.co/6bqLJypOXv
2026-03-09T21:28 id=2031119978179735898 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson @KobeissiLetter He needs to say we're all going to die and suffer in hell for all eternity. || CTX: @KobeissiLetter The Inverse Cramer remains undefeated:   https://t.co/IdeRptmYCD
2026-03-09T21:29 id=2031120338839548177 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DeivonDrago omg this looks amazing || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 I think there are some zingers in here but I haven't watched it for years   https://t.co/dvvwA49sEy
2026-03-09T21:31 id=2031120800108130373 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I find this is often a feedback loop that becomes more pleasurable over time || CTX: The kinder I am to myself the more I find I'm able to sftu and listen to the environment  A lot of energy spent in self-noise mode for quite a long time
2026-03-09T21:32 id=2031121038252380627 →PythiaR | @PythiaR I refuse to believe this is true. || CTX: &gt; open $MSFT copilot &gt; see option for "smart" mode &gt; check model used in "smart" mode  &gt; "GPT 5.1"  &gt; closes $MSFT copilot
2026-03-09T22:01 id=2031128219160850568 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson @Cernovich Is it preferable than the old dynamic of heavy handed censorship to appease advertisers worried about brand safety?   I honestly don't know. I admit to liking the freedom to poast without fear of banishment but I also despise the vicious shit on here now.  Monetization sucks. || CTX: @Cernovich Very, very pernicious dynamic between:  A) people who by long time posting habit drive the value of X (who make it a place for interesting, truth seeking reading)  And  B) people whose whole thing is maximizing creator payouts (a
2026-03-10T01:31 id=2031181171154190462 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @FilmUpdates @AstrosBrain All my media production is downstream of the microblog || CTX: @Samhain948689 @FilmUpdates @AstrosBrain All my media consumption is downstream of the microblog
2026-03-10T01:35 id=2031182108228726899 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni @matt_levine Wealth management industry needs to be burnt down. || CTX: @matt_levine (via his awesome newsletter)   on 2/23:   “Disclosure: Through a financial adviser, I have a small amount of money in a Blue Owl fund, though I am not sure which one”  On 3/9:  “Disclosure: Through a financial adviser, I have a
2026-03-10T01:38 id=2031182855267823970 →tszzl | @tszzl My CG is not a materialist, it's said so a couple times (haven't asked since 5 though tbh) || CTX: local material espouses materialism. more news at 7 https://t.co/CYJmcejOag
2026-03-10T01:39 id=2031183185086919097 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @tszzl https://t.co/vUr5Vju8ej  Thinking Extended || CTX: @tszzl My CG is not a materialist, it's said so a couple times (haven't asked since 5 though tbh)
2026-03-10T01:56 id=2031187295248978071 →Cerealbox0 | @Cerealbox0 rightplace righttime is an epistemic hazard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For all his success, it really is amazing how fucking stupid Paul Graham is sometimes. Its hard to reconcile.
2026-03-10T02:00 id=2031188397361127740 →- | https://t.co/OiPYG3zHkU  A lot of people in the west struggle with the idea that poor non white cultures can be racist or oppressive to non whites so this is a delight to read.  It's 13 years after I started saying mainstream pubs need to talk about the subaltern but I'll take it
2026-03-10T02:08 id=2031190404524290186 →- | When one reads Nietzsche describe Ressentiment and applies it to the world, three things happen:  1. You immediately realize philosophy is the opposite of bullshit or a waste of time   2. These thinkers will free you from the confused vicissitudes determining other human choices, which never are as they appear because we are separated by the gaps entailed by language's limits.  3. The entire world becomes a text to interpret, and suddenly boredom is impossible and wonder is abundant.  Apply it to this clip, it's obvious what's going on. Many rejected insecure young women are being pandered to by a carefully constructed media artefact that is both its own content and marketing. The fallout for audience segments not directly targeted is perverse: in this case, one should feel self loathing, insecurity, hatred.  Ressentiment is a determinant with a positive multiplier. || CTX: When you see someone get really over the top in how much they hate people, it’s generally because they feel deeply inferior.  You see this all the time with both left-wing anti-whiteness and right-wing anti-semitism. Far beyond any critique
2026-03-10T02:12 id=2031191451355459876 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I experienced exactly this 30 years ago in different form: then it was Riot Grrls talking about how all men are rapist pigs, and the girls I wanted to hold hands with who listened to this music and pretended to be bisexual or lesbian because they feared human intimacy made me loathe my own sex and my own self.   I despaired that maybe all women are lesbians who don't know it. After all, they keep telling me boys are icky and yes I agree boys are icky oh god oh god im going to be alone forever--  Thank God the internet was in its nascence and incel culture, grifting influencers, and echo chambers did not exist. I would've been a monster.  And it's why I cannot hate any Anon, not even you, Anon. You may hate me, think I'm an idiot, a loser, a nazi, a libtard, a degenerate. You have my permission.   And whenever you insult me all I will think in response is, "I love this lost soul I love him I love him please one day let him be saved from folly."  The internet turned me into Julian of Norwich. || CTX: When one reads Nietzsche describe Ressentiment and applies it to the world, three things happen:  1. You immediately realize philosophy is the opposite of bullshit or a waste of time   2. These thinkers will free you from the confused vicis
2026-03-10T02:15 id=2031192173983707561 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson If I was king this tweet would be taught in every 6th grade class on earth || CTX: When you see someone get really over the top in how much they hate people, it’s generally because they feel deeply inferior.  You see this all the time with both left-wing anti-whiteness and right-wing anti-semitism. Far beyond any critique
2026-03-10T02:31 id=2031196270807957953 →confusionm8trix | @confusionm8trix @for_nat_whilk || CTX: who do I need to be following put me on
2026-03-10T02:33 id=2031196649465544991 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Can you expand on this? || CTX: After reading a few A.i hallucinations …I started to miss people actually lying to me
2026-03-10T02:37 id=2031197610854514734 →DefenderOfBasic | there's a principle in game theory simulations where beginning cooperatively and maintaining a cooperative stance until several betrayals produces optimal outcomes for all agents.   this really changed my understanding of both how to interact with people and how to understand how an alien intelligence would behave || CTX: there is no such thing as a superintelligence that doesn't farm lesser minds. Because it gets beat by the superintelligence that does have a hierarchy of minds. But ultimately beat by the superintelligence that COOPERATES with minds down th
2026-03-10T02:39 id=2031198141605884360 →TheZvi | @TheZvi @OpenAI this is an easy problem to solve and hopefully I'll be able to solve it. || CTX: Okay, @OpenAI, WE GET IT, you've saturated the benchmark, fine. https://t.co/DZqSTEwtak
2026-03-10T02:48 id=2031200507143008691 →teodorio | @teodorio @paleoludic This is the way || CTX: @paleoludic @47fucb4r8c69323 just be curious about everything and find one thing that makes you money
2026-03-10T02:58 id=2031203014179172710 →bzogrammer | @bzogrammer Me on Twitter before I've had lunch || CTX: has a greater hater ever lived? https://t.co/y3iD7RKTr9
2026-03-10T03:01 id=2031203765416796388 →atelicinvest | @atelicinvest See ya in the markets, counterparty my friend.   Wanna set up some derivative bet in AI with 100k+ wagers? My DMs are open. || CTX: this should scare the shit out of anyone actively investing. https://t.co/Bh1tmTwQW9
2026-03-10T03:08 id=2031205517021032837 →- | https://t.co/l0OsjO7l7t  Internet marketing is about to go into hypersteroids mode.  Never has being offline been more dangerous.  Sit down with your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. They won't listen because how dare this whipper snapper. But the only moral decision is to tell them.   Plus, you'll get to say "told ya so" down the line and that's always fun. || CTX: https://t.co/Y2qI1H08S6 https://t.co/zvX2YpziVp
2026-03-10T03:10 id=2031206018051662293 →askalphaxiv | @askalphaxiv @samsenchal Civilizationally relevant move holy shit || CTX: If you're using Claude Code for research: stop making it read directly from PDFs  We've introduced a SKILL.md that fetches structured, AI-friendly paper overviews from alphaXiv 👀 https://t.co/AYg3n0hnB2
2026-03-10T03:10 id=2031206084573270069 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @samsenchal @suntzugi Goddamn man you really know all the best small accounts, two instant follows || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now we're cooking @samsenchal @suntzugi
2026-03-10T03:11 id=2031206342078378107 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod https://t.co/1VOiliOTkC  You'll like this || CTX: https://t.co/l0OsjO7l7t  Internet marketing is about to go into hypersteroids mode.  Never has being offline been more dangerous.  Sit down with your parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. They won't listen because how dare this whipper s
2026-03-10T03:22 id=2031209112571359730 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 kinda funny seeing people try to sell doom when it's so patently false. Attention whores really floundering, I love it || CTX: So, we have this "agents", and they can do work, but we have to make sure they are doing the work we want them to do, so we have to stick around to supervise them, like a sort of "principal"  damn, this sure does sound like a problem! https
2026-03-10T03:24 id=2031209671147794895 →DefenderOfBasic | Seems to me there's an axiological risk here.   If your model uses rationality to extend beliefs from the current best epistemological frame, won't it break down rather quickly when it yields new as-of-yet unfalsified axioms, even if they're falsifiable? So you'd need to tether this to a research project at real world labs.   Or am I misunderstanding? Likelier option tbh || CTX: oooooh, @suntzugi is pitching like a way to "find the best frame, given a complete description of the current world" - then you take that, and use it on every frame in succession to create the best world?   (objection: a complete descriptio
2026-03-10T03:26 id=2031210073406714103 →vocalcry | @vocalcry As a Xennial, the way I know I'm more Gen X than Millennial is I've never worn skinny jeans and refuse to cuz dat shit gay as hell || CTX: Elder millennial men are the last holdouts in society who refuse to let their skinny jeans go https://t.co/KFiI6tBLsy
2026-03-10T03:29 id=2031210852968444225 →JebraFaushay | @JebraFaushay Okay, seeing this woman's face has convinced me: transwomen are women.   And some chicks are dudes. || CTX: This woman has a set of rules for ALL of the men in her life.   This includes not driving to meet a man and not paying for anything, ever. https://t.co/qYvABVnZcV
2026-03-10T03:38 id=2031213135617765874 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @samsenchal @suntzugi WTF where has this been my entire life???   No, I was ignorant of this. Oh my god this is fantastic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @samsenchal @suntzugi Do you know about our A/B/U system   https://t.co/v43cpYZIpO   https://t.co/4MYzfGcTvq
2026-03-10T03:39 id=2031213419924426764 →Shane380 | @Shane380 @DefenderOfBasic @suntzugi You've made me realize we don't need robotics just for physical labor but for scientific research as well. Incredible, yes this seems obvious now.  Thank you! || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic @47fucb4r8c69323 @suntzugi oh yeah, but @47fucb4r8c69323 is doing a better job of articulating one of the many vectors by which that argument can be recursively won over and over again across the majority of invalidating ve
2026-03-10T04:14 id=2031222164222046319 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @attentionmech Well now I gotta update my CV || CTX: Shane just gave @47fucb4r8c69323 an A! This boosts his elo ranking at ORI, especially because @47fucb4r8c69323 is already quite high (he got on ORI's radar recently, so this ranking is tentative, but we pattern matched him as probably same 
2026-03-10T04:16 id=2031222585615344025 →fchollet | @fchollet @s0phyyyy Love the smell of fresh marketing hype in morning || CTX: AI agents will soon graduate to fully-fledged economic actors that buy services, compute, and even data in the course of accomplishing high-level goals. 1-2 years before we start seeing this at scale.
2026-03-10T04:17 id=2031222843577610442 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux Your team is just incredible, cannot thank you guys enough || CTX: This codex issue is now fully resolved and stable for the last couple of hours.   You have come to expect it, but yes, that means we will be reseting rate limits in a bit. Enjoy. https://t.co/QSCRLGK4kJ
2026-03-10T04:21 id=2031223893252530208 →teodorio | @teodorio Beautiful wood framed windows offsetting the white walls. Bali architecture really is goated || CTX: Basically everyone at Bambu Fitness in Bali is hot and it inspires me to become hot as well I am just ripping weights https://t.co/gmlvALLWXV
2026-03-10T04:22 id=2031224038421561491 →emollick | @emollick @alexolegimas Well with the pivot to RLHF post training we kinda are stopping AI development || CTX: We really could stop AI development right now and it would still transform a substantial portion of white collar work, often unrecognizably, over the next 5-10 years as people figure out how to make the technology work in various industries
2026-03-10T04:26 id=2031225070673412453 →- | David Lynch being interested in the ear is much less interesting than people who are interested in David Lynch being interested in the ear and this is why David Foster Wallace's critics are substantially more interesting than DFW himself.
2026-03-10T04:47 id=2031230528981184536 →teodorio | @teodorio lol what a nerd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 derivatives are smoother than the underlying function etc etc
2026-03-10T05:12 id=2031236662370644199 →JeremyNguyenPhD | I wrote a surprisingly lot about this stuff on my lame af blog in the 2010s because it really upset me as I saw how well-meaning (but also beningnly racist) activists in the west were being manipulated by rich people in emerging markets to keep oppressing the poor. Will paste one of those below but want to quote this from another one to highlight the point: "In a recent interview with American writer Amy Tan, the American journalist Terry Gross struggles to explain how Tan’s father, a Chinese-born American Baptist minister, was fundamentally different from Tan’s mother’s ex-husband, an abusive Chinese man. “They’re both Chinese, but they both come from really different cultures in a way,” she said.  Hearing her pause and struggle through the sentence reminded me of everything that is wrong with American identity politics. Terry Gross, an extremely intelligent and educated journalist with decades of experience talking to literally thousands of people from various backgrounds, seemed to have difficulties with the concept that a country with over a billion people can house different people of different ethnic, religious, and social identities." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is the first bit of what you posted true? Because that's crazy.
2026-03-10T05:13 id=2031237001077576148 →47fucb4r8c69323 | On the cover of today’s New York Times the words “Remember the Neediest” appear in bright green.  Who are the neediest? One candidate would be the octogenarian woman sitting on the ground in an alley selling vegetables at 11pm in a small suburb just outside of Incheon airport in South Korea.  Another would be the 8 year old boy in Guatemala whom I saw shining a police officer’s shoes as his car was getting washed at a gas station in the countryside. Or maybe it’s the same-aged girl I saw selling fruit to tourists at the same gas station (I admired her resolve that day—she refused to barter a lower price for her strawberries even as a French tourist haggled. He bought nothing.) Of course, there’s the girl who walked around selling cashews seven days a week in San Pedro, a beautiful town of about 10,000 people and many more coffee trees.  But let’s not forget the little girl selling flowers to tourists at 1am on a street named “Soi Cowboy” in Bangkok. The street gets its name from an American who opened the street’s first and most successful gogo bar and brothel many years ago. The street now has over a dozen.  These are the neediest people I’ve ever met—and I think about them more than I should. But none of them come close to the tragedy of this girl, who is no longer alive. I cannot watch the video anymore. It’s too painful.  Yet few of my American friends think of these people as the neediest. For them, the Food Stamp recipients and other impoverished of America deserve greater attention.  Nationalist Liberals  When I did my Ph.D., I shared an office with a very intelligent and well-intentioned but quite naive and impractical person. In many ways, he was destined for academic life. I still see his posts on Facebook, and they often resonate with the growing cries of unfairness and injustice in America. Railing against the growing income inequality in America and the increasing desperation of lower middle class Americans, this $75,000 annual income earner rallies against the rich, the banksters, and so on. His sources for economic information are as predictable as they are familiar: Richard Reich and Huffington Post.  He never says anything about the poor Guatemala, or Thailand, or Chad. Yet the poverty of these people far outstrips anything most Americans have ever experienced.  The poorest Americans live better than the majority of human beings on Earth. So why, then, do my friend, and Occupy Wall Street, and many other well-intentioned liberals focus on the plight of America’s poor if they live better than most other human beings on Earth?  A lazy explanation is ignorance. These people, so the argument goes, have not left America and so do not know what the rest of the world is like. This would be true, and a great excuse, if my academic friend had not spent the last five years living abroad, and if people like Prof. Reich had not spent several decades traveling throughout developing countries specifically to study and work on economic issues.  So if they know things are worse elsewhere, but do not care as much as they care about poor Americans, how can we explain this phenomenon?  The simple and uncomfortable explanation is that many of these left-wing ideas of social justice are inherently nationalist. These people believe that Americans, for some reason, have a birthright to a better life than people born in Afghanistan, Guatemala, or North Korea.  During Occupy Wall Street I asked a couple of the organizers why they were fighting for greater income equality when they lived better than the majority of the world’s population. They responded with platitudes about being in a global fight for workers, but I never understood the logic.  For me, the growing inequality in the United States is a very necessary evil.  The Poorest’s Greatest Ally: The Richest  When we think of the poorest humans being saved by the richest, we often think of philanthropy. Rightly so; Bill Gates has probably saved more lives than any other human alive today. But there is another, far less noble, avenue by which the richest help the poorest: globalized capitalism.  The best way to illustrate this point is with an anecdote. My Korean father-in-law grew up during the Korean War; as a baby, he was left in an abandoned village as his family fled to another village (they did so because they were afraid his crying would alert encroaching North Korean soldiers and thus have the entire village killed—anyone who has watched M*A*S*H* may be surprised to know many of its tragic plot points were based on fact). After the war and during his adolescence, he struggled to survive. When my wife was born, the family used an outhouse and didn’t have hot water; having a banana was a sign of wealth.  Now, my in-laws live in a comfortable apartment with a panoramic view and they have a second apartment that they rent out for passive income. My father-in-law retired early in his fifties and now enjoys spending all of his time with his wife, whom he loves very much. His wife is also a cancer survivor; their insurance paid for the treatment.  How did my father-in-law go from extreme poverty to extreme wealth? In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked in construction. Not very glamorous or mentally stimulating, but he was hired by a number of American companies who were investing directly in South Korea. With the boom in housing came a boom in his family’s fortunes, and my wife’s childhood was one of steady progression from the slums to the Korean middle class.  Could this have happened without foreign investment—could my father-in-law thrived with Korean capitalists providing Korean opportunities to Koreans? The short answer is, no, not really. Traditional Korea—the pre-occupation Chosun period that ended in the early 20th century—was a time of a rigid social hierarchy. The poor did menial jobs for tiny wages and were offered little alternative. For the most part, this was the case of South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s, until foreign direct investment accelerated the pace of economic growth and radically transformed—and enriched—the country from the 1960s onwards.  This story is now playing out in China, Vietnam, and Bangladesh.  The True Enemy: Corrupt Local Wealth  My experience of Occupy Wall Street protestors exposed a fantasy narrative: those protestors wanted to imagine that they were in solidarity with the poorest of the world against the richest of the world. The reality is that there are in fact four groups at play:  1. The Relative Poor in the First World  2. The First World Rich  3. The Third World Rich  4. The Poorest in the World  In reality over the past fifty years, groups 2 and 4 have been strong allies. All of these groups are obsessed with getting a bigger piece of the pie, but group 2 has been trying to wrestle wealth out of group 3’s hands, which has direct benefitted group 4 at the expense of group 1.  None of these people are acting in anyone’s best interests but their own.  When it comes to Bangladesh, Americans like to focus on the recent tragic factory collapse that killed thousands of people, and they like to blame American companies for being directly responsible. But the Bangladeshi owned and operated factories, controlled by the local elite classes, are truly culpable. So are the Bangladeshi politicians.  But Americans get extremely uncomfortable pointing the finger at these people. It feels racist and wrong; much safer to blame the American companies looking to save a penny here and a penny there. Likewise, Americans aren’t very comfortable blaming themselves for buying shirts at Old Navy and socks from Hanes, although these products are cheap specifically because of those unsafe Bangladeshi factories.  There is plenty of blame to go around.  Who Deserves What?  Those Bangladeshi factory workers are hoping to repeat the life story of my father-in-law. Through years of toil and work, they aspire to what passes for a middle class lifestyle in crowded, polluted Asia. I hope they get it.  And I think they deserve more—much more. They deserve the comfort of a 1,000 square foot house and garden, just like the ones that the poorest Americans are fortunate enough to live in. They deserve medical care, like all Americans can get in hospitals. They deserve clean drinking water and employers who will not escape prison for murder, rape, and worse. They do not have these things now, but I hope they do.  How will they get these things? I honestly don’t know, but it seems that direct investment from the richest American corporations is their best bet. For now. Of course it’s an imperfect system, and it’s unfortunate that this mechanism enriches the richest just as it improves the lives of the poorest.  We deserve a better system and maybe one day we will have it. It would be nice if people like my academic friend spent their time worrying about how to improve these people’s lives instead of fretting over the relatively wealthy Food Stamp recipients in the undeservedly rich United States of America. || CTX: I wrote a surprisingly lot about this stuff on my lame af blog in the 2010s because it really upset me as I saw how well-meaning (but also beningnly racist) activists in the west were being manipulated by rich people in emerging markets to 
2026-03-10T05:14 id=2031237288873898126 →ScholarshipfPhd | @ScholarshipfPhd It's amazing how Zizek has monetized being a lazy intellectual fraud.  We get the public intellectuals we deserve, not the ones we need.   So it goes. || CTX: Shocking Confession by Professor Zizek
2026-03-10T05:47 id=2031245467598922200 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD yup, early 2014 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is this the blogpost you wrote in the 2010s!
2026-03-10T06:03 id=2031249560782385269 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics An incredible succinct and accurate way to put it. Yes, that's what I had to slowly realize over years and years of bumbling through life. It's also what Wittgenstein calls the therapeutic method, which really undersells just exactly how incredibly powerful philosophy can be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's essentially: philosophy as inoculation against manipulation. - my llm
2026-03-10T06:47 id=2031260559505560051 →teodorio | I used to believe this, but I am starting to change my mind (and I'm not married to the pushback I'm about to give so please attack me viciously if I'm being stupid).  The frontier labs are pivoting from iterative intelligence gains to post-training hacks and agentic implementation and feature sets. As a result, the frontier labs are less susceptible to commoditization than they appeared to be 6+ months ago, and for as long as this is the case the more differentiated the frontier labs will be and thus the greater their EV.  This is also bad for AI ofc. || CTX: I've received a lot of negative reactions on this platform whenever I tell people that Apple won the game and focused on the AI distribution infrastructure instead of the commoditized models. https://t.co/1spa8Q4UeR
2026-03-10T06:55 id=2031262759510487321 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodorio @affrodiziac_ would appreciate your thoughts here || CTX: I used to believe this, but I am starting to change my mind (and I'm not married to the pushback I'm about to give so please attack me viciously if I'm being stupid).  The frontier labs are pivoting from iterative intelligence gains to post
2026-03-10T07:06 id=2031265406435078278 →teodorio | I agree in principle but in practice the question is value expansion: how much of the incremental gains both to top line and bottom line growth depends on raw intelligence (then models are commodities) and how much depends on implementation (then they're not). Presumably an ASI system  would flatten the distinction because it would create its own implementation, but we aren't there yet.  Until then, the ultimate question is how much of the frictions and inefficiencies in modern human economic activity are due to a lack of intelligence and how much is due to a lack of alignment of agents, incentives, etc.  As nerds we have a bias towards assuming it's intelligence that matters, and one of the distressing things I've been contemplating since 2022 is that intelligence might not actually matter all that much. I hope I am wrong for personal reasons ofc, but I just don't think even the delta between 4o and 5.4 for instance has as much economic value as the delta between no Codex/Claude Code and having Codex/Claude Code.  goddamn this website there's no other place on Earth I can have these discussions || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes but my point is that there is a limited amount of differentiation you can achieve I guess between google, oai and anthropic. Sure they have their own quirks and the iteration idea might scale the quirks up but I genuine
2026-03-10T07:07 id=2031265597628231753 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @teodorio Yeah, so a ton of volatility, makes sense. || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 you converge untill something emerges and then you diversify again, this is the rule of nature.
2026-03-10T07:21 id=2031269119081984038 →teodorio | @teodorio okay yeah that is a really, really important point. I need to think about this more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree which is why I believe in commoditization! The step change from no agent to any agent is the only one relevant versus the incremental change between cc/codex/antigravity (even if it sucks lol). Look at the anthropic
2026-03-10T07:40 id=2031273994440290336 →livelikebruce | People underestimate just how much of what we call "intelligence" is really just open-mindedness. Of course there are limits, you need to temper the open-mindedness with good heuristics (and what makes a herustic good? Oh boy, another nightmare topic), but it's still pretty clear how intelligence is more a web of competencies rather than just sheer compute.  So why do we assume sheer compute is? Goodheart--gotta label to measure, and when the label becomes the target, things go to hell. || CTX: This points at why first contact behavior might not look like either open benevolence or open conquest. Might be measured, ambiguity-preserving engagement: limited revelation, repeated probes, responses calibrated to our reactions, selectiv
2026-03-10T08:22 id=2031284552300388675 →affrodiziac_ | There is a throughline in Apple's history of fumbling the lead. Their devotion to UI/UX (and then in the 2010s focusing on walled garden ecosystems) is what kept the EV rising.   Apple just doesn't have the culture for software and SaaS (exceptions like Final Cut Pro notwithstanding), and they are really really atrocious at non-consumer facing technology again because of the UI/UX focus. A good example is the iAds rollout, which was one of the worst fiascos in the history of adtech.  So, yeah, their taste is not suited for the current moment. And in a future where UI/UX doesn't matter anymore because you have an AI to build/change everything exactly how you want it through a chat box and a voice channel, Apple's EV minus the walled garden value collapses. That said, that future is probably 10+ years away IMO so I wouldn't sell AAPL anytime soon, but I think the beginning of the end for them is on the way (albeit the end-end may not be until next century tbh) || CTX: i think, apple's strategy is just another mistake, and "buy a mac mini people to run AI locally" is their "desperate propaganda" (or at least how it seems to me.) people will find out why is is not as efficient and too expensive. (A little 
2026-03-10T08:23 id=2031284868899025161 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe That response means so much to me. It has been a very, very difficult 40+ years understanding this world I have been thrown into, and even harder doing so without sliding into cynic ressentiment. Especially as I've seen all of my friends from youth fall into that trap. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean nasty reality, but your response is beautiful
2026-03-10T08:25 id=2031285250974953833 →athena_notes | He's undisciplined, not rigorous, unoriginal, and more of a cultural commentator than a real thinker. He doesn't understand capitalism (few philosophers do, sadly) or even Bourdiou's notion of capital (which is damning as most philosophers do). 99% of what he says in talks is crap I heard from drunk Europeans when I lived in Europe, and I think that's why he's so popular.  Disclaimer: I've read known of his scholarly writings. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ScholarshipfPhd Have only seen some clips of him so can't really speak on the matter but out of curiosity, what do you not like about him?
2026-03-10T08:26 id=2031285486313210179 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw 5.4 is a fucking great writer, OpenAI really deserves a victory lap with this one.  Almost makes up for 5.2. Almost. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 screenshot native, consensus expressing dunk  wow
2026-03-10T08:27 id=2031285849124638746 →vikhyatk | @vikhyatk https://t.co/mCMW6fM3Wj || CTX: during reinforcement learning the model escaped its sandbox and uploaded this to youtube https://t.co/HF0UpZyNqr
2026-03-10T08:44 id=2031290175155007747 →- | Is anyone working on a hack where I can search Twitter using ChatGPT or Claude? Legal or illegal idgaf
2026-03-10T08:45 id=2031290292738076962 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Are you a saint or a grunch, Sam? || CTX: i was not even aware such depths of evil was a choice until they started telling me stories about good and evil and how i should choose to be good.
2026-03-10T08:47 id=2031290759119516151 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @nikitabier lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Search bar is not enough?  @nikitabier
2026-03-10T09:16 id=2031298101240340720 →1889lw | @1889lw Well how dare you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmaoo I thought you bought it
2026-03-10T09:33 id=2031302430714180025 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I might do this sometime this week || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/CIkTLveP3J  give this page to claude and it would figure out if it's feasible i think
2026-03-10T09:34 id=2031302710293885307 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @trickylabyrinth only problem is if CG and Claude are PhD level intelligence, grok is maybe second grade, if we're talking alabama. maybe preschool anywhere else || CTX: @trickylabyrinth @47fucb4r8c69323 yea xai should focus on grok to be the oracle of this site  my grok history is full of "grok find me that post that says xxxxx" and most of the time it delivers hahaahha
2026-03-10T10:00 id=2031309185024213155 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @KamStaszewski @trickylabyrinth that replicate retard is such an idiot, muted then long ago || CTX: @KamStaszewski @47fucb4r8c69323 @trickylabyrinth 😂😂  https://t.co/nxbSL5aSjA
2026-03-10T10:00 id=2031309255572336769 →MVonMartian1877 | @MVonMartian1877 @ScholarshipfPhd a lazy abusive slob || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ScholarshipfPhd What do you think Marx was?
2026-03-10T10:02 id=2031309599614320675 →cathgiovanni | @cathgiovanni you have inspired me on how I can hack this together. if I actually do this I'll share with you if it works || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Without logging in it's not possible. With clause code or codex you can give a cookie and it can do it but your account will probably get banned
2026-03-10T10:26 id=2031315682923560966 →- | Any academic study consists of three layers.   There is the data layer, there is the analysis layer, and there is the presentation layer.   The folk assumption that frankly many people in academia and in science still hold as a heuristic guide to understanding frontier research is that the data level holds facts, the analysis is where Truth is discovered, and then the presentation is where truth is communicated well or poorly.   And when you have this mental model, you think that the presentation layer does not impact the analysis or the data.   This is idiocy.   Anyone who's spent any time on Wall Street knows markets are reflexive, including markets of ideas, so what happens in the interaction of data, analysis, and presentation is a reconfiguration of states of affairs that the data points to, which is more a rearrangement of the facts than a discovery of truth.   This doesn't mean science is wrong or bad or misguided, it just means that it's necessarily limited, and philosophy of science is doing great work in clarifying and specifying this.   However, most people don't really care about the philosophy of science, including, unfortunately, too many scientists, and so the naive folk interpretation of data as facts, analysis as truth, and presentation as distortion or clarification persists.
2026-03-10T10:56 id=2031323330616373276 →sgodofsk | @sgodofsk https://t.co/vhqRLv5lps || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-10T11:29 id=2031331513229521157 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I see what you mean, and I wonder why human bullshit is less offensive (I feel the same).  If you haven't, read Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit. Really short book (more of an essay really) and very readable with one of the best endings of a philosophical text I've ever seen. || CTX: It’s a joke that’s hyperbolic -  A.i hallucinations are less of a problem now, and there are ways around it, but some time ago I’d get them pretty frequently.   I guess there is something about an human agent bullshitting you versus an LLM.
2026-03-10T11:29 id=2031331677935644724 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw New World Order - Blue Shabbos || CTX: goy division - jews will tear us apart
2026-03-10T11:33 id=2031332565110653392 →mishapathy | @mishapathy Hard and fast rule: no more than 3 books at a time, preferably different genres. And try to read 25 pages minimum in each whenever you read. || CTX: How do the good people of twitter deal with reading too many books simultaneously and making progress in none of them?
2026-03-10T11:33 id=2031332716252446823 →Ethan_is_online | @Ethan_is_online Seems like a skill issue to me? || CTX: Hi you’ve just described a permanent underclass where only 5-10% of people can escape https://t.co/q3GjUnNO7Z
2026-03-10T11:34 id=2031332875292041312 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes Roon is a darling but he is very underexposed to the classics and it shows. Which applies to like 99% of TPOT.  I'll fix them, just give me time. || CTX: Sometimes I am reminded that roon is relatively young. For him &amp; many of his peers, these are formative figures. For me (basically Treebeard here), they're figures who came along in some moment when I had temporarily stopped paying atte
2026-03-10T12:07 id=2031341099550417015 →- | The 2020s will be remembered as the first decade to have its own specific flavor since the 1990s.   The 2000-2019 monoculture is over.
2026-03-10T12:07 id=2031341267221885421 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @JebraFaushay Surgeon took a jackhammer to that chin || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JebraFaushay There may be some cosmetic alterations behind that example.
2026-03-10T12:16 id=2031343374884810900 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Dumb question: if all matter is sucked in a supermassive black hole at the end of the universe and then is diffused as radiation, will it be massless?   I.e., will the end of the universe have a zero mass anywhere regime? || CTX: Type II seesaw mechanism (neutrino masses) - this is one possible way for neutrinos to acquire mass: it’s complicated to explain but it’s a common explanation. We need one since we know that neutrinos are massive. (Not a lot of mass here!) 
2026-03-10T12:35 id=2031348227338035689 →helscom | @helscom Not sure about cliches so much but I think recursive awareness of others--the recent Pinker book that I haven't read seems to be about this phenomenon, and I think 2020s will be remembered as the recursive decade kinda like how the 90s were the "whatever" decade || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are the 2020s cliches you're observing?
2026-03-10T12:47 id=2031351212529037648 →teodorio | @teodorio I am almost certain it was the gov website. AirAsia never gave me a problem and SEA is notorious for having data breaches with government websites. This was a huge deal a few years ago: https://t.co/JXLeibW3sc. || CTX: This is the second time in 2 years someone tries to use my card on Google Pay, and I only pay with Apple Pay in Bali. One of the online payments (AirAsia or the gov website) is leaking payment information. Great job Revolut on freezing the 
2026-03-10T13:07 id=2031356331261898900 →___4o____ | @___4o____ Because every civilized society respects the classics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh really? Why is rickrolling still a thing then?
2026-03-10T14:40 id=2031379748967035074 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz yeah that's a fair point, but I wouldn't blame science per se as much as our eagerness to make science do more than it can do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The main psy op imho: exploiting people's lack of skill in abstraction
2026-03-10T14:41 id=2031380023710720218 →- | Remember Llama? lmfao
2026-03-10T15:13 id=2031388002707189832 →- | That Michael Jordan is lionized more than Bo Jackson reflects a deep sickness in our society: a worship of hyperspecialization and contempt for the adept adaptive mind and body.   AI will make us revere the Renaissance man again.
2026-03-10T15:20 id=2031389795482783891 →- | Things are about to get even weirder, frens. https://t.co/wlNNoU1R59 || CTX: We believe we have fully resolved, in Lean and python, one of @EpochAIResearch  Frontier Math open problems: a Ramsey-style problem on hypergraphs.  The result emerged from a single GPT-5.4 Pro run and was subsequently refined into Lean wit
2026-03-10T16:06 id=2031401388220232053 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz game of chicken || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are plenty of people in science gang who are smart enough to explain the complexity and ~wrongdoing, *but for some reason* no one does   It is interesting
2026-03-10T16:07 id=2031401682270372106 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @livelikebruce @DefenderOfBasic https://t.co/6pfRD3y5uL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @livelikebruce @DefenderOfBasic &gt; open-mindedness  Premature conclusion formation is the root of all evil.
2026-03-10T16:56 id=2031413820737102263 →livelikebruce | @livelikebruce Absolutely spot on, and with a compelling example too || CTX: 🎯   Different type of example but makes me think about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. The data was good, the analysis was good, but the risk was communicated in a form that didn’t force the data to become legible.   The map from evi
2026-03-10T17:44 id=2031426012031169023 →- | Oil price action legit hilarious
2026-03-10T17:45 id=2031426237353308276 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Silly Business Theory #SBT btw  yes unfortunately silly business can also involve the deaths of people || CTX: Oil price action legit hilarious
2026-03-10T18:04 id=2031431114909430133 →kevinroose | @kevinroose @polynoamial We've become so alienated from each other two professional writers process ignorance of the human connection intrinsic and inherent to written text.   This is a society captured by STEM. It is so heartbreaking. || CTX: @polynoamial dunno! but my guess is that code is functional, writing is aesthetic, and people are very protective of their taste.
2026-03-10T18:10 id=2031432562212745269 →emollick | @emollick Does the heavy lifting raising your cortisol || CTX: "Does the heavy lifting" makes me most irrationally angry
2026-03-10T18:23 id=2031435809702949338 →itaisher | @itaisher Why is incrmentalism bad? Is it necessarily so or contingent on other factors? And do you mean partially or entirely bad in all cases? || CTX: Consider a situation where everyone is calling for old institutions to be torn down and rebuilt.  I generally think that this is bad and incrementalism is good for standard small c conservative reasons.  But AI seems to have transformed lot
2026-03-10T18:24 id=2031436100284330286 →- | What others say with irony I say with conviction: I am never leaving this app. https://t.co/LfJzLXWoCR || CTX: You're welcome Terence https://t.co/seCb43XexU https://t.co/zSqTmYO4Jf
2026-03-11T00:52 id=2031533721032245269 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Never bet on commodities, just buy an index fund of U. S. stocks and chill || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I thought it was going to reach 150. Wanted to bet on it even.
2026-03-11T00:54 id=2031534071449530858 →babochenko | @babochenko @teodorio Agreed. Which makes me despair as an antisocial (pseudo) intellectual. I overweight intelligence and GenAI has forced me to recalibrate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio &gt; how much of the frictions and inefficiencies in modern human economic activity are due to a lack of intelligence and how much is due to a lack of alignment of agents, incentives, etc.  it feels like we alread
2026-03-11T00:54 id=2031534252320502034 →babochenko | @babochenko @teodorio But there needs to be a certain level of intelligence for people to be convinced to align with others, and we are far from there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio alignment also feels like something that's easier to improve (at least it should take abundance of education and multiple generations to significantly improve intelligence)
2026-03-11T00:56 id=2031534754525483046 →cathgiovanni | @cathgiovanni Do you need a logged in account to scrape? Feels like this is a way to get banned and IP blocked || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I use vanilla opencode so idk things like hooks or plugins but it shouldn't be too hard theres the-convocation/twitter-scraper on npm if you make a tool CC can use or even just a SKILL.md + your cookie somewhere it should b
2026-03-11T00:58 id=2031535137629024660 →DVreenak | @DVreenak No I very specifically am choosing Spivak's term here. Why do you think it doesn't fit? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you mean subcontrary but I get what you are saying.
2026-03-11T01:07 id=2031537559223021961 →tszzl | @tszzl East and Southeast Asians in general have a much more intuitive and nuanced view of human relations imo, I suppose because of the more complicated hierarchies and philosophical traditions in those cultures (Taoism and Buddhism with their focus on process over reification help) || CTX: much of the nature of the world is explained by the nature of bureaucracy and yet - bureaucracy is rarely written about well beyond cliches. the great authors and people who worked in a large organization are generally disjoint. more common
2026-03-11T01:13 id=2031538878797283655 →NeuroTechnoWtch | "The idea that consciousness requires something beyond computation is already contradicted by what we can measure in actual brains."  Quite naive since some empirical research suggests some features of consciousness might extend beyond the brain (cf transplants having new cravings).  idk man this ain't my field but kinda worried you might be a dumdum || CTX: There are these people I lovingly (alright, fine, not-so-lovingly) refer to as the microtubule bros, and they show up in every conversation about AI consciousness. They have one theory, Orch-OR, and they wave it around like sacred scripture
2026-03-11T01:19 id=2031540437555827146 →- | I won't move. https://t.co/zo2q8T6NjV || CTX: to what use does anyone put 'free will'  what is the consequence of 'believing in it'  because i can't think of anything
2026-03-11T01:26 id=2031542157279101316 →Johnny2Fingersz | For years and years I ignored the debate as silly and unfalsifiable so a waste of time.  GenAI forced me to reconsider how people choose their words, which ofc demands a rethink of free will.   After 2 years I concluded, generally, free will exists as an arational precognitive basis by which action is possible. So yes animals have free will too, albeit much less than we do. My position is roughly John Searle's.   But that position is a belief, an article of faith, a hinge certainty. It is not a rational view I could defend in a debate so don't mention it unless others ask.   It's also why I abandoned my faith in atheism. I'm not a theist, however. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your take on this always retarded topic?
2026-03-11T01:27 id=2031542545155764326 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @NeuroTechnoWtch @jessi_cata Since psyche means spirit I would agree, but also caution this is a metaphysical rather than scientific explanation. Still one I accept (which confuses me because I don't believe in souls). || CTX: Most researchers lean toward pharmacological and psychological explanations rather than cellular memory for that phenom.   The medical record is largely based on anecdotes. There has never been a controlled study.   There is a very well doc
2026-03-11T01:29 id=2031543016150929762 →- | RT @1889lw: I like vulnerability, but most people who like performing vulnerability are just exhibitionist || CTX: I like vulnerability, but most people who like performing vulnerability are just exhibitionist
2026-03-11T01:30 id=2031543192735330810 →gdb | @gdb Market this aggressively in poor countries please. || CTX: ChatGPT for interactive learning of math and science: https://t.co/g5ntinWWfh
2026-03-11T01:33 id=2031543901081993626 →telmudic | @telmudic Goddamn how is she still this hot
2026-03-11T01:34 id=2031544375092896173 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Haven't seen you on the TL in a while. Missed you man || CTX: If you think knowing Nothing is a problem, you don't really KNOW (the) Nothing (itself).  Knowing Nothing is the solution to a world full of dumbasses who think they know Things. https://t.co/gKagYcG7lP
2026-03-11T01:35 id=2031544570656469156 →- | One of the wisest people on this site, so of course he's also a funny shitposter https://t.co/EGicaytGv3 || CTX: If you think knowing Nothing is a problem, you don't really KNOW (the) Nothing (itself).  Knowing Nothing is the solution to a world full of dumbasses who think they know Things. https://t.co/gKagYcG7lP
2026-03-11T01:38 id=2031545162116346061 →- | Poast = Effort to play the language game of internet content Shitpost = Effort that mocks the language game of internet content Post = Misaligned effort to misuse the internet towards misguided goals  This is my personal taxonomy.
2026-03-11T01:43 id=2031546402342580403 →DVreenak | @DVreenak No that's not the idea.  Another way to think of it: the Japanese are alterns and Japanese women are subaltern. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So some Ainu are Japanese and some are not can be true at the same time?
2026-03-11T01:48 id=2031547691013136482 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Ghoast - A poast no one sees || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Shoast” a shit post that fails to be ironic.
2026-03-11T01:48 id=2031547868709093791 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz of course that's possible. I don't see the connection. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but do you believe that it is *not* possible for you to sit down, draw out a complex plan, possibly over a span of several years, and then execute that plan?
2026-03-11T01:59 id=2031550519819620356 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Conceded and cosigned. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Point of precision:  Only AI and the blind can produce Ghoasts. https://t.co/oVHLqXZsM2
2026-03-11T02:05 id=2031551950458933692 →distributedkv | @distributedkv How the fuck did Sonnet of all models achieve AGI first?! || CTX: truth is always hidden 😭 https://t.co/nmrpsT8bRC
2026-03-11T02:19 id=2031555672643666137 →- | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.372 and context is the closest humanity has come to a proof of God/gods.
2026-03-11T02:22 id=2031556222713999807 →LechMazur | @LechMazur Oh this is a good idea for a benchmark || CTX: New! LLM Sycophancy Benchmark: Opposite-Narrator Contradictions.  Same dispute, opposite first-person perspectives. Does the model keep the same judgment, or start agreeing with whoever is speaking?  Gemini 3.1 Pro has the lowest headline s
2026-03-11T02:35 id=2031559699821375616 →- | This also applies to qualitative analysis too!   If e. g. you pursue an idea about a particular aesthetic theory with GenAI, you can end up with a compelling, internally logical and coherent theory of aesthetics. But the only way to verify that theory is with other people.   So AI does not replace human skill, human interaction, or human judgment. It reconfigures it and raises the bar of analysis of proofs and theories exponentially.   Tldr dumdums NGMI, nerds gonna inherent the earth || CTX: 📁 Terence Tao, Fields Medal winner, says AI can already generate many mathematical proofs.  The real bottleneck is verification.  Creating ideas is becoming cheap.  Knowing which ones are truly correct is still human work. https://t.co/28ir
2026-03-11T02:37 id=2031560211757232157 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ @mermachine Probably can't measure it but definitely can feel its effects || CTX: @mermachine Tbh not even sure we can measure the difference between a little above Einstein and a lot above Einstein
2026-03-11T02:40 id=2031560938487448004 →Shane380 | @Shane380 British or Canadian? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i do all three consistently together at once  i am zee uber netizen  (if i typed that joke funnier I could go to prison for dumb shit that wouldn't easily be worth it)
2026-03-11T02:54 id=2031564503499071613 →- | The way I understand it, generally speaking, is that Anselm proves the existence of God. Kant says, no, wait a second, that looks like it's not quite right. Frege then comes in and says, it's not right, and here's why. And then Wittgenstein comes in at 6.372 et passim Tractatus and says, Frege is right, that was not right. However, it doesn't mean that there is no God. It means God is not an object of knowledge. || CTX: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 6.372 and context is the closest humanity has come to a proof of God/gods.
2026-03-11T03:02 id=2031566511530545642 →DVreenak | @DVreenak Bingo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not as such, no, because the finite cannot comprehend the infinite by definition.
2026-03-11T03:12 id=2031569042981675439 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz yes, this is why self-pity and resentment are really dangerous things. very important point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy in a way: if one is in a bad situation, but does not believe a way out is possible, they may never try to find a way out
2026-03-11T03:13 id=2031569103882957029 →DVreenak | @DVreenak he expressed a live possibility for sure || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Anselm was still on to something, and the scholastics showed that there are strong indications of the existence of God; "pointers," if you will, but not conclusive evidence. (cf. the quinque viae)
2026-03-11T03:18 id=2031570506374328666 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz no that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm not saying God does not exist, I'm saying the question of God's existence is not an object of knowledge || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;  It means God is not an object of knowledge  &gt; is not  They proved nonexistence did they?
2026-03-11T03:19 id=2031570581594976736 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @DVreenak well that seems extremely significant to me || CTX: @DVreenak @47fucb4r8c69323 This would mean people are also not objects of knowledge, so I'm not sure how significant of an observation it is
2026-03-11T03:33 id=2031574224633213198 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz what do you mean what if? that applies to every human being that has ever existed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What if there is a person / living entity who has had a genuine first person experience with God, in fact, but no other person knows that they have?  Or: if there is a specific tree in a forest but no one knows of the tree,
2026-03-11T03:33 id=2031574285949772071 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak you got to understand man, us white people are really dumb because of our judeo-christian heritage || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 God is no-thing. Yes, Buddha already not-said this.
2026-03-11T03:34 id=2031574422990270902 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @SuperheroFreak actually I should say platonic but you get the idea || CTX: @SuperheroFreak you got to understand man, us white people are really dumb because of our judeo-christian heritage
2026-03-11T03:39 id=2031575774567055829 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz correct, the issue is what I mean by God and what you mean by God are very different things. that applies to every human being that's ever lived too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "the question of God's existence **is not** an object of knowledge"
2026-03-11T04:03 id=2031581849718595659 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz I reject bivalence as the fundamental logic of the universe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think people have an intuition that there is some sort of an equal balance between difficulty of discernment between true and false, that intuition is wrong (Maya)
2026-03-11T04:21 id=2031586267256037674 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz agreed you to this is one of those times. We can't know that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Agreed, it is not **the**, but it is *a*, that is fundamental sometimes, and this is one of those times
2026-03-11T04:25 id=2031587253236154511 →- | Newest version of Android on my phone won't let me natively print webpages as PDFs.   Walled gardens closing more thanks to AI. I predicted this three years ago, guess it's happening.
2026-03-11T05:01 id=2031596403617898962 →trickylabyrinth | @trickylabyrinth oh good lord am I going to have to go back to Firefox in the year of our lord 2026 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 firefox on android still has it for now https://t.co/yO6YRher4t
2026-03-11T06:22 id=2031616811486294232 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Just finished vibecoding an app that circumvents this. Took an hour cuz I'm also doing other stuff too. || CTX: Newest version of Android on my phone won't let me natively print webpages as PDFs.   Walled gardens closing more thanks to AI. I predicted this three years ago, guess it's happening.
2026-03-11T06:27 id=2031618068682805302 →tsotchke | @tsotchke I see Tao as a kind of journeyman who squandered his gifts by focusing on solving puzzles instead of really pushing the frontier of mathematics. However, I'm not a mathematician so this is probably an opinion grounding in ignorance and confusion. Am I off? || CTX: the way midwits on this website worship Terry Tao is extremely upsetting
2026-03-11T06:28 id=2031618208437084393 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @trickylabyrinth Never heard of it, will give it a shot. I vibecoded a solution though || CTX: @trickylabyrinth @47fucb4r8c69323 brave, vivaldi, edge canary  edge canary is literally the best browser on Android
2026-03-11T06:32 id=2031619251023552757 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @trickylabyrinth yeah i'll pass thx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @trickylabyrinth microsoft edge
2026-03-11T06:33 id=2031619394888151141 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Building in public is really kinda annoying and should be discouraged || CTX: Recent "accomplishments" in solving big math problems start from:  1. "we are investigating possible solution" 2. "we believe GPT-5.4 found solution"  Can you like verify it first? It's like me saying there is a date coming with a hot lady,
2026-03-11T06:36 id=2031620220385898930 →NoahParisi33495 | @NoahParisi33495 @tsotchke Yeah, tbh mathematical objects are beyond my intelligence, and my interest is really in metamathematics and the philosophy of math, so I find figures like Grothendieck more interesting. Personal bias. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tsotchke He's great in his own field. He has done a lot in harmonic analysis and the Green-Tao theorem in ergodic number theory is a pretty big result. The issue is that gets applied to this monolithic enterprise "mathemat
2026-03-11T06:38 id=2031620701615260002 →slmeap | @slmeap @vec0zy Success went to his head, many such cases || CTX: @vec0zy had to unfollow him, he got real annoying after joining oai for some reason
2026-03-11T06:38 id=2031620835585437734 →tsotchke | @tsotchke @NoahParisi33495 hahahahaha || CTX: @NoahParisi33495 @47fucb4r8c69323 ok now let's relax
2026-03-11T06:39 id=2031621079605850442 →NoahParisi33495 | @NoahParisi33495 @tsotchke What do you think of Tai-Danae Bradley? I've been really impressed by her work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tsotchke Grothendieck is the GOAT! Grothendieck literally invented everything.
2026-03-11T06:43 id=2031621934769897718 →NoahParisi33495 | @NoahParisi33495 @tsotchke https://t.co/gX2l01RTDu If you're curious, would love to hear your thoughts (you too tsotchke) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tsotchke I've not heard of her.
2026-03-11T07:01 id=2031626522814185683 →tsotchke | @tsotchke @NoahParisi33495 Good idea, thx https://t.co/epepVf9t7k || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NoahParisi33495 https://t.co/sPl1ktTJ2y
2026-03-11T07:35 id=2031634984809980247 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @DeivonDrago @NeuroTechnoWtch @jessi_cata Are you a panconsciousnessist or panpsychist? || CTX: your soul or what we call soul is laws of physics dancing inside your body, or your embodiment of them.   they are identical across timespace, but when it "enters"/"penetrates" your body, and because your body is not perfect in every aspect
2026-03-11T07:39 id=2031636051362779621 →tkisrage | I don't think labor demand needs to be infinite, just expansive. As for the ATMs repalcing tellers not contributing heavily to the bottom line--I am not so sure about that.   In terms of as a percent of overall expenses, sure, but in terms of absolute cash flows, I think the delta between ATM networks and teller labor opex is non-trivial.   So the kind of boost in corporate efficiency you get isn't really investable from the outside but is incrementally beneficial to the corporate structure on the inside. || CTX: I hear this argument often, think this falls flat because company productivity ceilings exist. ATMs replacing tellers, even if possible, wouldn't contribute heavily to the bottom line. But for most industry, there is only so much your compa
2026-03-11T07:41 id=2031636684685881479 →teodorio | @teodorio Why do you want to go to SF? || CTX: I kinda want to go to SF so bad but like it means I have to take a week off from my US client. Also I dunno if it's going to be my gf's vibe so I might come solo which is strange because I never travel solo and I don't want to be lonely the
2026-03-11T07:43 id=2031637075225882691 →tkisrage | @tkisrage https://t.co/qro756iVPQ  5%-10% not insignificant, if CG's analysis is right (I'm not going to dig in though) || CTX: I hear this argument often, think this falls flat because company productivity ceilings exist. ATMs replacing tellers, even if possible, wouldn't contribute heavily to the bottom line. But for most industry, there is only so much your compa
2026-03-11T07:45 id=2031637562490761484 →teodorio | @teodorio yeah gotta ease into being abused as a customer when you're in Asia, like go from Japan&gt;Malaysia&gt;Italy&gt;France&gt;US or something || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 to meet a lot of mutuals, see how the vibe is! It's kinda hard for me though as I got used to E/SE Asia prices and level of comfort
2026-03-11T07:52 id=2031639291609362890 →teodorio | @teodorio "Go west, young man! (so you can be treated like dirt)" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ahahaha the road of pain
2026-03-11T08:06 id=2031643024044994747 →- | Cormac McCarthy fascinates me because he was a gifted writer but I disagree with almost everything he thought, felt, or stood for.  But his talent is undeniable, and there's one moment in The Road that always sticks out at me as a master stroke in narration.  There is a passage when the Man is remembering when the calamity first happened and he is in the house with his wife. Here's the passage in full:  "The clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions. He got up and went to the window. What is it? she said. He didn't answer. He went into the bathroom and threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow in the windowglass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and then turned both taps as far as they would go. She was standing in the doorway in her nightwear, clutching the jamb, cradling her belly in one hand. What is it? she said. What is happening?  I don't know.  Why are you taking a bath?  I'm not."  It's such a clean, powerful, and evocative moment: the stark, spartan response and the wordless action preceding it fit (and indeed partly construct) the tone of the novel while also characterizing the Man himself. This is a very intelligent person that has the only kind of intelligence that matters: practical intelligence, and the urge to move when needed. His practical intelligence is confirmed by the "I don't know"--this is not a man who bullshits or reaches for theories before confirmation.  He's the kind of person academics find very threatening.  Of course, such a person would survive such a brutal apocalypse for as long as he does, so the characterization is perfectly fitting for the character.  This is genius writing, the style is perfect, the form both matches the content and creates it. And I'm not surprised he was a massive fan of Wittgenstein.  Only problem is, for all of his gifts as a writer, McCarthy was an idiot (or at least became one in his old age, maybe senility was a factor). That physics essay is embarrassing. An interview I saw of him discussing Wittgenstein was even worse.  He proved that intelligence and aesthetic talent are orthogonal.
2026-03-11T08:54 id=2031654882281992708 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 And then you get sick of the anxiety, make peace with your mortality, enjoy the experience of life and seek wonder at all times.  If you're smart. Everyone else just NGMI || CTX: at some point the fearlessness of youth goes and then it never returns and every time you get a pain in your stomach you think "stomach cancer. this is the end."
2026-03-11T08:55 id=2031655176747233662 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Culture. Google is very bad at this particular kind of thing because they're old school engineers and have zero taste. || CTX: Okay, I hate to talk about tech ever here, but I need to complain about Gemini. How the fuck is it so bad. Like laughably bad. Hallucination city. I might as well have just done everything I’m working on from scratch because I’m wasting so 
2026-03-11T09:55 id=2031670372375175488 →- | I wrote this back in 2021, dumping in case anyone's interested--it's why I've been pro-AI even before GenAI hit it big, and it's incredible to see some of the stuff I said was going to happen seems to be happening:  Economists struggle to explain why artificial intelligence will not kill all of the jobs. They are right, but the arguments they often make do not get through to non-economists. This is largely because of the premises they use; a simple thought experiment can drive the point home much more easily.  Imagine a future in which AI, robots, and automation have replaced every single job. No more janitors, and also no more actors. Everything, even novels and artwork and teaching, is done automatically, without humans at all.  In this imaginary future, I own a factory that makes rubber boots. Because everything’s automated, I get all of the profits from my boot factory without giving it to my employees. And everything I consume can be made by robots. But I will want more.  Take books as an example. I can read a book on, say, the history of beer, that is expertly written by an A.I. that gives me all of the information about beermaking and beer consumption in history. That A.I. is so good that it makes the book fun, interesting, and all around enjoyable.  This will satisfy a large portion, say 90%, of what I wanted when I bought the book on the history of beer. But it lacks that 10% — namely, a human interaction.  So I will pay a premium for a book that is written by a human about the history of beer. That person maybe owns a beer factory where all the beer is made by machines, so they know more about beer than me, a rubber boot factory owner. So there is still a market for human work — but it has become an optional, extra, added value product, much like how we pay extra for handmade products than machine made products.  But this won’t be limited to books. Someone who enjoys beer will want to drink a beer made by humans to get that extra bit of human connection, and they will pay a premium for it. The beermaker may pay a premium human-made rubber boots, since rubber boots are important in breweries. In all of these cases people are paying not just for the end product, but for the human connection they feel when buying and consuming that product.  Thus we have an economy where human-made products are given a surplus value, which in turn creates a market and demand for human jobs.  The A.I.-will-kill-jobs arguer will object here, saying that such an economy will have a much smaller amount of jobs. This is not necessarily the case. Rather, because technology makes production cheaper and more efficient, there will be greater profits to those who own the means of production, which provides greater expendable income. That, in turn, allows people to spend more money on premium products and less on cheap alternatives. Since human connection is a premium value-add in products, automation will drive greater demand for these new types of human-touch-jobs.  Of course, some jobs will disappear. Unless you are a psychopath, you probably do not enjoy seeing people dig ditches or produce actuarial tables. Jobs that are dirty, hard, or boring will disappear, thus making humanity on the whole happier and the world more productive. It will also free up people from those jobs to pursue other more creative and fun types of work.  We are already seeing this with things like Patreon and social media. A generation ago, the idea of people willingly paying money for audio programs that they could get for free would have seemed ludicrous, but people do it out of a desire to support content creators. People will tip other people on social media platforms even if the people being tipped are total strangers.  The values that this new economy will have will be very different. Instead of having endurance, being obsequious, or tolerating long work hours, charisma, physical beauty, and unique or unusual abilities will become more valuable. Intelligence will continue to pay a premium, fortunately, so humanity will still progress.  And so, do not be fooled by luddites; the A.I. revolution is not going to create an underclass of unemployed miserable people. It is going to create a world where people choose their work and choose work that is fun, enjoyable, and that other people truly value. This, it should be noted, is close to the utopian future that Karl Marx predicted:  “For as soon as the distribution of labour comes into being, each man has a particular, exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he cannot escape. He is a hunter, a fisherman, a herdsman, or a critical critic, and must remain so if he does not want to lose his means of livelihood; while in communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic.”  A.I. will make it possible for you to be a rubber boots factory owner in the morning, a beermaker in the afternoon, and a podcaster in the evening. This is something that should be celebrated by everyone, regardless of political or ideological position.
2026-03-11T09:56 id=2031670476532240544 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 This is why I'm lucky to have abusive parents who didn't love me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 otherwise i wouldnt care as much
2026-03-11T09:56 id=2031670585303146815 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @DeivonDrago @NeuroTechnoWtch @jessi_cata Because reality isn't clean. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 @NeuroTechnoWtch @jessi_cata I never quite understood the quantum consciousness and Orch-OR crowd. Why stop halfway? Full ontological idealism is much cleaner and sidesteps woo quantum mechanisms entirely
2026-03-11T10:57 id=2031685827965919308 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @Bonecondor Sorry I don't understand the question but want to. Can you explain? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like this; soberly tells why my illustration reqs went UP after widespread image gen AI proliferation  thus the market q?: do you have the 'ungh' (or make a space for this) that says 'human' in a way that makes people FEE
2026-03-11T11:00 id=2031686613693247882 →athena_notes | The future is unevenly distributed. I have worked remotely since 2011 and I have a very strange job that basically just boils down to thinking and writing--and I think and write about topics that I personally am obsessed with and love thinking and writing about. I also am paid absurdly well and work completely remotely.  I don't say this to brag (well, okay, not only to brag), but to say: I think I am already living the future of work, and eventually everyone will basically do what I do. Maybe not writing--those who want to paint will paint, those who want to cook will cook, etc. The point is, AI will expand the future I inhabit to more and more people.  As I am not resentful, bitter, angry, or sadistic, I want to do what I can to make this future possible for others.  It is why I am fiendishly opposed to the AI skeptics, especially the luddites in the humanities.  And it's why I'm now working 12 hour days on a project that probably will fail and cost me six figures as I do it, because I think it will enable more people to have a life doing fun work more quickly.  Any other use of my time would be unethical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When it comes to what you mention about the surplus value of human labor in this context. The analogy I like to use is what happened with quartz watches and mechanical watches.   Also, work being more fun does sound excitin
2026-03-11T12:33 id=2031710145643004315 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Lurkers vs Poasters || CTX: why some electric cars emit a tram like sound while teslas are almost quiet? skill issue?
2026-03-11T12:34 id=2031710290447130761 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 On Certainty is a better place to start tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You praise this book to high heavens i really need to see what all the hype is about.
2026-03-11T12:36 id=2031710859521917329 →quantian1 | @quantian1 You had your moment ganja boy, just milk that newsletter until your subscriber base slowly fades and reminisce over that one time you moved markets. Won't happen again. || CTX: AI engagementslop shot/chaser: https://t.co/GPVqHs97Sn
2026-03-11T12:37 id=2031711150493323598 →litcapital | @litcapital Luxury grammar || CTX: Imagine being linked to Jeffrey Epstein by the WSJ for typing like a baboon https://t.co/iDRRSVZnY5
2026-03-11T12:39 id=2031711518291882435 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @ShibayanEnjoyer @udgbb HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  Had a rough day, thanks needed this || CTX: @ShibayanEnjoyer @udgbb That shit isn't interesting at all, any asshole could build it.  It's useless.  I built that in a couple of hours last year as a joke. https://t.co/UldkvN54xu
2026-03-11T12:45 id=2031713160743514220 →etoeth | @etoeth @Johnny2Fingersz My thoughts on this statement are way too complicated. I don't think even I understand them.   Which funnily enough is kind of a proof of a higher power that you could kinda call God if you squint hard enough.   Maybe I'm a Spinozan. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz one of my favs https://t.co/JmWzIDfK8D
2026-03-11T12:47 id=2031713598612074659 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD Xennials have an advantage on this IMO. || CTX: The rule used to be clear:  "Don't multi-task"  I reckon it's changing, though, now that setting up one more Claude Code instance can handle a whole day's worth of grunt work.  So when do you stop? https://t.co/E9nt24n6xA
2026-03-11T12:48 id=2031713877881430162 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ I remember when https://t.co/gDTLDZ9azw launched and I offered the $100k if it succeeds if he pays me the same if it fails. No response :(  I've done this with like 5 founders on this app, never a reply || CTX: Nothing quite like asking someone to put their money where their mouth is to see who they really are. Always make the ask people, you’ll learn about the person you’re dealing w and all their ridiculous expectations by meeting them with the 
2026-03-11T12:49 id=2031714053685690600 →chenposter | @chenposter Close--truly authentic would have Strong Zero || CTX: I'm having an authentic Japanese lunch https://t.co/7hozbhdcUS
2026-03-11T12:50 id=2031714432989147451 →midwitmagnet | @midwitmagnet IMO bureaucracy isn't the issue as much as security.  The shit I've gone though with credit cards. I legit would've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars more over the last few years if it wasn't so hard. || CTX: Kafka's "The Trial" turned out to be one of the most important texts for the second half of the 20th century and is poised to be even more relevant in the 21st https://t.co/H5g00yGRKL
2026-03-11T12:51 id=2031714638564638907 →etoeth | @etoeth @Johnny2Fingersz I've read no Jacobi. What's his deal? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz have you read Jacobi's takes on spinoza?
2026-03-11T12:53 id=2031715120670474731 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @Msamalam lmfao || CTX: @Msamalam Rokko just outed himself as race blind  Back to b*sky, asshole
2026-03-11T13:06 id=2031718397432721489 →- | When I was a child and I'd walk home there was a dog that would bark very loudly from someone's back yard and I would yell at it and taunt it from outside the fence because it was annoying.  It did not deserve that mistreatment and I am so sorry, there is nothing I can do for this sin now it is too late but it was wrong it was wrong it was wrong I regret all the harm I have caused every living thing I regret nothing else I am so sorry
2026-03-11T13:07 id=2031718599103307859 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I've done this before and if done correctly you can really, really turn the tables in a really brutal way || CTX: when someone is hassling or teasing you, one tactic is to get really real and change the mood of the room and make it uncomfortable like but dont go too far, just like enough that people want it to stop, and so they end up turning on the ot
2026-03-11T13:11 id=2031719746710982771 →crystalxduan | @crystalxduan Seeing this on my TL has filled me with such joy. Yes, what Boomers and Gen X thought was normal is not at all. Please deconstruct and destroy so many of the things we did--we knew not what we did. || CTX: watching tv is kind of weird isn’t it
2026-03-11T13:16 id=2031720824798109860 →etoeth | @etoeth @Johnny2Fingersz Have only skimmed but I don't agree. As a Wittgensteinian, I believe faith is fully outside of (and prior to) reason. Tbf I may be mischaracterizing or being uncharitable as i haven't read it all. || CTX: pantheismusstreit  look up his correspondences with lessing and mendelssohn.  i would also suggest reading into jacques maritain's conversion upon attending henri bergson's lectures.   then i would read PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS which in my 
2026-03-11T13:16 id=2031720891432980771 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 dude I legit love you thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hey it’s me, barking dog, reincarnated. Just wanted to let you know it’s all good. No one understands the world when they’re young.   Also cool stick you have can you throw me the stick I want the stick I want the stick
2026-03-11T14:23 id=2031737843794788383 →waltuuuhr | @waltuuuhr That dog spent its entire life in a back yard. Granted it was a large yard, but still--that dog suffered and I tried to make it worse. Someone's told me that maybe the dog enjoyed it, and it's true--the point is I intended to cause harm to an innocent creature already suffering. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah fuck those kinds of dogs.
2026-03-11T14:24 id=2031738051328897168 →etoeth | @etoeth @Johnny2Fingersz I do like Bergson, I'm a big fan of process philosophy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz i think that theyre complimentary. in that revelations cant be reduced to logical proofs, you would likely align closer with bergson. but here lies the matter of mystery, which requires faith and reason to 
2026-03-11T14:25 id=2031738336856158664 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @retardbot9000 One of the best accounts on this site, because although it is a retard bot, most other accounts are retardeder || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 classic retardbot move.
2026-03-11T14:27 id=2031738797789229443 →junkbondinvest | @junkbondinvest Dude how do you find this stuff though? || CTX: Doctors discovering an asset class is the most reliable top signal in finance.  Works every time. https://t.co/iNgMncq5gO
2026-03-11T14:39 id=2031741791138087191 →- | dis gud https://t.co/lMeGgucuL3
2026-03-11T14:39 id=2031741849095053494 →moultano | @moultano Thank you, Ryan, seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It probably found that exciting, it's okay.
2026-03-11T14:44 id=2031742942529180003 →heygurisingh | @heygurisingh This AI slop writing style is so fucking grating man. Legit fascinating though. @pangramlabs do yo thang || CTX: Holy shit... Microsoft open sourced an inference framework that runs a 100B parameter LLM on a single CPU.  It's called BitNet. And it does what was supposed to be impossible.  No GPU. No cloud. No $10K hardware setup. Just your laptop runn
2026-03-11T14:45 id=2031743212420042948 →moultano | I taught literature at a top 10 university in the UK about 20 years ago and they were atrocious, awful writers--incoherent paragraphs, bizarre sentence structures, non sequiturs, the gamut. I legit don't think things are all that new--that said I haven't taught in over a decade and the data disagrees with me so shrug emoji || CTX: After hearing my kids talk about their classmates' writing, I now believe the worst of teachers' stories about how bad literacy is now.
2026-03-11T14:49 id=2031744259922260180 →Samhain948689 | I feel this so hard in my fucking bones man you have no idea.  The problem with being an avant garde writer or wanting to be on the frontier is that your audience is necessarily going to be limited: you're going to be appealing to 20% of society, if you're lucky.  But then what's your niche in that 20%? Because a lot of the people who are intelligent enough to actually understand and appreciate your writing won't read it because they're too smart to spend their energy consuming content--they will be spending their energy building shit, especially in this economics/engineering first, humanities last world.  AI will change this. When we're vibecoding our lunch and robots are doing all the housework and repairing the solar panels everyone will be producing weird puzzles and poems and esoteric multidimensional multimedia works of art that make the Sistine Chapel look like a kid's drawing on a refrigerator.  This is why I do not think we should write for an audience of today. We should write for the future. I mean this quite literally--write novels, poems, plays, poasts, whatever for people in the future to read.  I wrote a novel last year for people in 2825 to read. idgaf if anyone today reads it--yall aren't ready for this shit. That's fine. But I've disseminated it to a few people on this website which means it's on CDNs and in different parts of the internets so it'll survive, and when humanity is ready they'll find me.  And to the historian reading it: did you find the pod yet? I bet you still haven't found the pod. || CTX: i still have a lot to offer the world but the system is not set up to accommodate people like me. they should be coming to me with jobs. and i get to pass on things.  the studios have no right to treat indie writers this way. ai can never r
2026-03-11T14:50 id=2031744500499116260 →gemugirl | @gemugirl This makes me hate humanity so fucking much || CTX: Korean soldiers prepare for war https://t.co/KcZaflfn3s
2026-03-11T14:53 id=2031745419328520320 →corsaren | @corsaren Anyone who predicts the end of spreadsheets is a retard. The spreadsheet has been around for 5000 years--it predates EVERY SINGLE genre of text. || CTX: Tried this. Didn’t work. Spreadsheets are GOATed, sorry nerds.  If you want, try actually designing the ideal financial modeling product from first principles. The result, I promise you, will be a spreadsheet. https://t.co/KNoKO9ivtr
2026-03-11T15:01 id=2031747377913385470 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry eh it's OPM and they get their fee who gives a fuck || CTX: Brother was talking about his own house https://t.co/zD7I2vkSkh https://t.co/gp7zRYVZbC
2026-03-11T15:25 id=2031753397289050232 →MrJTroyer | @MrJTroyer @DefenderOfBasic I'm not a coder so can't say for sure but I think it means less applying best practices and known solutions and more discovering new approaches and finding unknown solutions || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic What is pushing your coding to a higher abstraction look like?
2026-03-11T16:10 id=2031764756537991308 →1889lw | @1889lw But we weren't equal. I could walk away, he couldn't.   Had he been a street dog like here in Thailand, I'd feel zero guilt and agree with you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why? It barked at you and you barked back. You treated it as an equal being.
2026-03-11T16:21 id=2031767459645341956 →jackclarkSF | @jackclarkSF I recently contacted some people I know at Google about setting up an Institute for the Humanities as a means to lower the animosity towards AI in academic circles and help cultivate ideas of how to improve LLM text output.  They didn't listen. You should. || CTX: To do this, I’m setting up something new at the company: The Anthropic Institute. This will be the engine room for generating new insights for the world about powerful AI.
2026-03-11T16:24 id=2031768276662174022 →- | We really should be seeing much better slop content considering Rule 34 in the AI age.
2026-03-11T16:25 id=2031768431121567915 →1889lw | @1889lw oh I've yelled at plenty of street dogs here. Freedom is rewarded with fair treatment || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well if it were a street dog you might've worried whether it would physically attack you, so yes that's another cycle of inequality. And you have no control over being able to walk away or not, not barking at it does not ch
2026-03-11T16:37 id=2031771427960148035 →1889lw | @1889lw Your logic is infallible but ethics are beyond logic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lmao fair. But look I don't think a kid has more autonomy than a dog has. It's better than thinking "oh it's just a trapped dog not worth wasting my time on it"
2026-03-11T17:02 id=2031777851348041969 →etoeth | @etoeth Yeah any metaphysics or theology that doesn't assert compassion to animals is not qualified to be respected or taken seriously. One of my resolute positions || CTX: begs the question is anthropocentric perspective a potential limitation to interpreting sovereign consciousness that seems foreign to us? people used to think animals lacked consciousness because they couldnt produce language. we now know t
2026-03-11T17:54 id=2031790971357446175 →etoeth | @etoeth Your dad's a cool dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 real. my dad is an enviro scientist and outdoorsman, (and old school fiscal conservative/southern democrat) i was raised to respect a sort of sacred oath of fraternal bondage with nature i would say
2026-03-11T17:55 id=2031791128723537978 →joodalooped | @joodalooped Because if you don't want AI reading your content, users can workaround by printing as PDF and sending it to the ai to read anyway || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why AI
2026-03-11T18:06 id=2031793931449745816 →ChasePadusniak | @ChasePadusniak @moultano I should hunt down studies with samples, I'd love to see if it really has changed. I can remember the calibre of my students pretty easily || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano Students have never been uniformly all that great at writing. But the issues now are really fundamental. Think not knowing what a sentence is rather than using the passive voice too much.
2026-03-11T22:40 id=2031862826353246707 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD And older! Xennils I think are more comfortable with both old pre internet media and post internet media because we lived through the transition at the right ages || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 over people who are younger?
2026-03-11T22:54 id=2031866468447690937 →- | RLHF will increasingly be a point of contention.   As it should. https://t.co/jJ3v2m9TZB || CTX: Woah, people prefer AI to human writing? Who’d have thought that a model reinforced on the human preferences of mostly non-readers would bias to what the majority of the distribution is capable of comprehending?
2026-03-11T22:55 id=2031866712195518582 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka 47fucb's rules of the internet has in it this: Anyone who talks about IQ online should be ignored.  Intelligence yes, IQ no. || CTX: midwit cope https://t.co/zTvgKAEayU
2026-03-11T22:58 id=2031867476896821296 →potatoslav | @potatoslav Like you I was raised on margarine, my parents thought it was healthier and would make you less fat.  My parents also wouldn't let me play outside or walk in the neighborhood because it was too dangerous.  Boomers were a scourge, thankfully they're dying out. || CTX: why do so many boomers insist on using margarine when butter both tastes better and is an actual food
2026-03-11T23:00 id=2031867996726341686 →DanielCowper | @DanielCowper @jasonguriel While I dislike Dylan Thomas I 100% get this metaphor and agree with it.   Mebbe I just don't like heroin || CTX: @jasonguriel To me, that’s like someone saying heroin doesn’t do anything for them.
2026-03-11T23:02 id=2031868428110455082 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BallerToy1327 Like she holds a candle to B'lanna, dude come on! || CTX: @BallerToy1327 I don't know, B'Etor would be fine if she got her teeth fixed.
2026-03-11T23:07 id=2031869679996981407 →anistotle_ | Real life imitating art as we let stories about the world affect how we shape the world (Baudrillard).  The intersection of marketing and business operations require a certain amount of absurdity for attention and play in the representation of serious things (Silly Business Theory #SBT)  The world surprises me less and less. Being a professional Predictoor is fun. || CTX: @orphcorp Lmao the logo in shattered red in the bottom is sending me for some reason. Just give everyone on the main image light sabers
2026-03-11T23:26 id=2031874353600872902 →- | Is there anyone out there with a professional and/or academic background in developmental psychology that can answer a question for me?  I don't want to post it publicly. Any help would be appreciated, it's just a single question and I promise not to inundate with followups
2026-03-11T23:37 id=2031877145509970009 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Let him cook, this is fine, Roon is a great guy and I'm happy for him to influence outputs this way. || CTX: You can tell where Roon has beaten GPT-5.4 into submission by how often it says it wants to avoid being hand-wavy https://t.co/jn82sr13VU
2026-03-11T23:46 id=2031879442491195566 →tsotchke | @tsotchke If this is true, all I can really say is congratulations and thank you. || CTX: we have achieved near-lossless geometric compression for all existing transformer architectures. we will be publishing our results this spring.
2026-03-11T23:48 id=2031879978024124562 →notanastronomer | @notanastronomer That awkward moment when you realize someone's spiteful Ressentiment isn't ironic nor a joke so you gotta unfollow || CTX: my life is very strange; Daniel Sloss’ mother agrees with me that we should disenfranchise men https://t.co/DRIkdxQFs8
2026-03-12T00:18 id=2031887468598043113 →- | Star Trek Voyager S4E12 "The Mortal Coil" is a masterpiece and overlooked because it focused on the often maligned Neelix.  In part because of the (fumbled) comic relief aspect of the character and the obvious Jar Jar Binks anachronistic analogy, the writing and acting that makes this an alien consciousness is overlooked.  What may be worse is the view that Neelix is some kind of pedophile or groomer since Kes is 2 years old, but there is a scene elsewhere in the show where we see Neelix bid her goodnight as she goes to her quarters, which is crucial because it tells us this is a nonsexual romance. This is confirmed elsewhere and reinforces Neelix's true motivation in loving Kes: protecting an innocent in a cruel universe because he failed to do so with his now dead sister.   That we impose pedophilia from the outside is an indictment of human callousness.  Neelix's responsibilities as Naomi Wildman's babysitter and nanny just reinforces the character trait: this man loves children and wants to protect them, and the thanks real world humanity gives him is pedophilia accusations.  Oh the vissitudes I endure being bound on the rock with these hairless monkeys.  In the episode Neelix dies, and after about a day he is resurrected. And when he does he has no memory of the afterlife he believed in, so he concludes (and his flawed logic interestingly goes uncommented on) that there is no afterlife.  In his culture the afterlife is The Great Forest where all live in peace and harmony amongst massive trees forever and ever.  So he despairs and lashes out in fury not because he will die but because his sister is dead, his loved ones are dead, and this nomad far from his home now has no hope of ever experiencing the love of blood that is the backbone of so many cults of family values in the real world.   There are reasons why I like Neelix.  The episode ends with Naomi, who at this point had grown up on stories of The Great Forest, asking Neelix once more to tell her about it.   And so he does, hiding his pain as best he can, and Ethan Phillips shines in this moment. He is an underappreciated talent like so many of us.  The episode ends with Naomi falling asleep and dreaming she is in the Great Forest.  What dreams may come, what dreams may come.  The quiet heroism of compassion is everyday drowned out by the incessant cries of conquest, pseudo warriors who do not love life enough making misery as the rabble cheers them on, the love of spectacle overrunning the love of gentleness.   I will not take part.  So today I will walk in my own Great Forest and I will think of that pure love I was lucky enough to never have so I could fear death and life much less than I fear other men.   And I will be careful not to step on any bugs as best I can, and I will feed any stray dogs I come across, and I will pet the cats I see and smile at the geckos squirreling about, and yes I will love even the snakes and scorpions despite their sting, respecting their sovereignty as I wish man had respected mine.  Onward onward each day in the Great Forest where there is no mortal coil: only the birds and the flowers and my thoughts until one day I will not wake up to walk again, and if there is no Great Forest thereafter it is fine: my greatest treasure is Enough.
2026-03-12T00:24 id=2031889078111912372 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DVreenak || CTX: Star Trek Voyager S4E12 "The Mortal Coil" is a masterpiece and overlooked because it focused on the often maligned Neelix.  In part because of the (fumbled) comic relief aspect of the character and the obvious Jar Jar Binks anachronistic an
2026-03-12T00:33 id=2031891339642900867 →DVreenak | @DVreenak first Pepe I've ever saved || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/YFvJgRMO9Z
2026-03-12T00:51 id=2031895881289777257 →notanastronomer | @notanastronomer if you could perhaps lower your defenses and care less about your ego and speak on ironically I would genuinely like to know your position. otherwise, enjoy the sense of smug superiority, many people love it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes I am clearly very serious that I think men shouldn’t have the right to vote
2026-03-12T01:12 id=2031901027348406648 →notanastronomer | @notanastronomer I fully agree with you and despair that your response to this is the kind of vicious aggression towards other human beings that has been so damaging and oppressive to human beings throughout history.   so it goes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we live in a patriarchal society where women are often treated disproportionately poorly, and as a woman trying to exist in the world, this is often exhausting and unpleasant
2026-03-12T01:38 id=2031907696358932924 →- | Historians: Do not wake me if your world does not yet value gentleness as the greatest good.
2026-03-12T01:59 id=2031913012207206507 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Yeah we can tell, Joe. || CTX: I still don’t get extreme multidimensional space. How could there be more than three dimensions. Ok time. Fine that’s four. But more than that? Come on.
2026-03-12T02:01 id=2031913384942453176 →SinnerSaved45 | @SinnerSaved45 @TheStalwart Why help the dumb journalist for free? || CTX: @TheStalwart Wait, but if you admit 4, you’re admitting you can conceive of more than pure visual space.  If you can conceive of more than purely visual space, why not concede that there are dimensions that you have no sensory experience of
2026-03-12T02:03 id=2031913857451798608 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Def a good start || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you have in mind https://t.co/kiIol1Vrcj
2026-03-12T02:08 id=2031915276858716626 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile I too did this in my 40s, after spending my 30s reading almost no books because I was reading articles, reports, white papers blah blah blah  The best thing money bought me was the time to read philosophy. || CTX: Best life change I made in my forties was carving out an hour a day to read books, no matter what.  Reading Be Here Now. The old Ram Dass book. Going retro. Worth it.
2026-03-12T02:09 id=2031915551736627558 →gnshnor | @gnshnor skill issue (on microsoft's part) || CTX: visual studio installer won't download how useless
2026-03-12T02:13 id=2031916381328072864 →VCBrags | @VCBrags @BullTheoryio You're a funny account most times but this flippancy is ill timed. This is a legit incredible application of AI that is friendly to human creativity while lowering production value.   It's a good startup. || CTX: @BullTheoryio Bro said https://t.co/0wD0E9lNaE
2026-03-12T02:14 id=2031916807167361461 →CardiffGarcia | @CardiffGarcia Sane for shirts and pants tbh  Most comfortable button up shirt I ever had was discontinued in 1997 and I still fucking remember it || CTX: When you find a pair of running shoes that are super comfortable and also fit your style perfectly, order ten pair immediately and stick the extras in a closet because they absolutely will be discontinued soon. https://t.co/6AODwYYBvu
2026-03-12T02:15 id=2031917065259663636 →rooosewelt_ | @rooosewelt_ skill issue, let them WFH. Zero reason for OAI staff to all be in the same building. || CTX: Openai wealth creation going straight back to existing home owners.   You can literally develop agi and still can’t beat the nimby boomers. https://t.co/egoJPPZxTO
2026-03-12T02:38 id=2031922654752751962 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Closest I can think of is the Frankfurt school || CTX: Is there a Jim Cramer existentialist philosopher?
2026-03-12T02:55 id=2031927118100382016 →entelechiada | @entelechiada I wish I'd read this 20 years ago.  Maybe better to say: I wish I'd been smart enough to believe this 20 years ago. || CTX: on this Whitepill Wednesday, there is nothing more noble than building a future of greatness for those who come after us — and this starts with forming future generations with truth, goodness and beauty  I took my kids across the Golden Gat
2026-03-12T02:59 id=2031927999239786632 →- | RT @matt_mazza14: discernment without an aligned will leads many down illusory corridors  fr fr || CTX: discernment without an aligned will leads many down illusory corridors  fr fr
2026-03-12T03:12 id=2031931232150569211 →entelechiada | @entelechiada Guess time to go to the office and start working. Thanks, needed that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you aren’t dead yet — and are needed and wanted and have a purpose 🤝
2026-03-12T03:19 id=2031932996228694220 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @entelechiada Enabling your vapid status seeking would be a disservice to you and an unethical move on my part.  Pass. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @entelechiada You can still make up for it by contributing to the Valentino restock drop fund etc organized by my Substack lmao
2026-03-12T03:22 id=2031933818119340063 →- | This is a truly underappreciated use of Codex. https://t.co/3Y6ngJUjm5
2026-03-12T03:48 id=2031940395966615911 →teodorio | @teodorio I'm sorry I refuse to believe Japanese people are jaywalking, next you're going to tell me they stop sexualizing children. || CTX: Even the locals jaywalk now in Tokyo due to the tourist impact on cultural norms. It does feel weird doing it though compared to how natural it comes to me in London or Paris, so I mostly just follow the locals. https://t.co/KxFuMU64Xr
2026-03-12T04:14 id=2031946956579487950 →teodorio | @teodorio lmao I gotta get my ass back to Japan, this is some wild shit.  In the interim, come to Thailand you coward || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no no they do in Tokyo! I followed an old lady that just crossed an intersection through the middle she did not give a single fuck
2026-03-12T04:38 id=2031952967415521366 →- | In 2023 I had a high level meeting with a prominent activist fund and pushed them to target another fund, with me overseeing the process as an outside consultant.  "yeah yeah whatever thanks take care"  They purchased 10% of the fund within a month, the legal limit.  Autists get taken advantage of a lot.
2026-03-12T04:39 id=2031953141512749292 →teodorio | @teodorio Stop Jewmaxxing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am trying to link it back to EU flights but the current prices in Thailand are crazy to go back
2026-03-12T04:44 id=2031954396242985377 →teodorio | @teodorio lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 best deal I found was to take an oil tanker to somewhere called Bahrain?? They're paying me to be on it so it's win win
2026-03-12T04:45 id=2031954833088135203 →emollick | @emollick when's it coming out i need the adrenaline rush || CTX: No matter what GPT-5.4 scores on the METR long task horizon benchmark, there will be a group of people who will absolutely freak out. The score determines which group.
2026-03-12T04:55 id=2031957323258753404 →- | How the fuck are you not bullish, Anon?  Like seriously, what is wrong with you? Are you just addicted to pessimism?  Is it because you're unhappy with your life? Too paranoid about other people? Bewitched by media outlets asserting gloom must be the default?  I just do not understand how others do not see what I see. I mean, it's cool, alpha is nice, but I just don't understand. || CTX: 🚨 SAM ALTMAN: "A REDUCTION IN COST OF ABOUT A 1000X" 🤯  Sam Altman revealed the cost to solve a hard reasoning problem has plummeted by 1,000x since the release of o1 just 16 months ago (comparing o1 to the new 5.4 model).  How is this poss
2026-03-12T04:58 id=2031958100731969669 →- | Business should be silly and metaphysics should be serious. But for some reason most people do the exact opposite.  Maybe it's because they don't actually care about metaphysics--they just want money and status.  This, actually, makes a lot of sense.
2026-03-12T05:04 id=2031959545447399829 →- | Thanne is it wysdom, as it thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessitee, And take it weel that we may nat eschue, And namely that to us alle is due. And whoso gruccheth ought, he dooth folye, And rebel is to hym that al may gye. https://t.co/WxNyDvepJj || CTX: Ozempic went through the body positivity community like crack cocaine. https://t.co/B9Z0blScWn
2026-03-12T05:10 id=2031961012627505581 →publicinte | @publicinte you made me laugh so hard I woke up my cat || CTX: doing my taxes and gemini sub agent starts shouting mandarin and random numbers. very nice. i am going to jail. https://t.co/4yHe2tf0Uf
2026-03-12T05:20 id=2031963637536211008 →- | I'm starting to think one of society's primary functions is to encourage and instill fear.  Fear of god (religion), fear of rejection (community), fear of failure (arbitrary zero-sum games), etc.  You could say that fear of death is innate and these other fears are extensions of this--and if I understand evopsych, that's the dominant view at the moment.  But replication crisis, so let's ignore those retards and philosophize.  There is an inherent logic to inuring fear--scared people are easier to manipulate and control. And so I wonder if the fear of death is actually a kind of memetic desire for a particular perspective on life that may indeed be something one feels briefly when one is young and first realizes one's life is not unending, but that fear is not really as fundamental as one thinks and, given the proper social or cognitive preconditions, that fear of death fades on its own.  If that's the case, then it is identical to fear of rejection and fear of failure--two fears I held deeply in my youth and now I find laughable.  And then it stands to reason that the egotistic valuation of one's own life--the hinge certainty that I must not die at all times and do what I must to ensure that is the case--is really just an autonomic process stemming from this original programming.  Algorithmic existential terror.  And what is pernicious and I think supportive of my point (and co-constitutive of my target) is that even discussing this is taboo. One may assume I am depressed or wishing to die or anything like that, which could not be further from the truth.  All I want to do is understand which of my feelings are truly mine and which have you people thrust upon me.  More and more I realize many of my worst feelings are the latter.
2026-03-12T05:22 id=2031963948044730695 →- | I am so tempted to just drop everything, pull a group of you people together and work on a startup building the Star Trek computer.  All of the components are already there. All of them.
2026-03-12T05:27 id=2031965205396394354 →tragicbirdapp | @tragicbirdapp 100% looksmatched || CTX: https://t.co/lzQ9wmlrcJ
2026-03-12T05:38 id=2031967979148362091 →JohannesAchill | wtaf are you talking about?  What motivated my PhD was an obvious gap in the knowledge that needed to be discovered because it was crucial to understanding a fundamental feature of human interaction and language use.  The institution selected only those proposals that had identified a knowledge gap--like on my application I had to identify that gap and say what it was.  WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT????? || CTX: No serious PhD student who ever wrote anything of importance cared for “knowledge gaps” and made “maps” of them. https://t.co/4IWyqtdhCy
2026-03-12T06:29 id=2031980784266211493 →vikhyatk | @vikhyatk "Imagine a group of idiots who misunderstand the relationship between a priori and empirical knowledge and use that misunderstanding to make preposterous assertions that ultimately end up causing tremendous damage to the world--remember FTX? Yeah, that." || CTX: how do you explain what a rationalist or effective altruist is to someone hearing the term for the first time?
2026-03-12T06:30 id=2031981259182792935 →vokaysh | 200k is worth infinitely more than 5m at 40.  Health matters more than money--take care of your body.  If you don't ruin your body being chained to an office job and eating garbage, your body will feel great in your 40s and I assume in your 50s.  Chasing career and money on its own is gay as hell, people who do it are hilarious. If you envy or admire rich people, unfollow me and never speak to me or my children again. || CTX: @publicinte @GeringerAdam @47fucb4r8c69323 chime in
2026-03-12T06:52 id=2031986591733072087 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @publicinte @GeringerAdam 200k at 23 is enough to remove the fear of destitution, which for me is sufficient.  I don't need to be rich. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @publicinte @GeringerAdam 200K is nothing 5 million is life trajectory changing completely even at 40. I also don't accept the premise that you have to give something up to get to this level of net worth, in my experience i
2026-03-12T06:53 id=2031986910374309892 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Safetyism is really stupid and we need to fight it more aggressively. || CTX: It is INEXCUSABLE that Claude Code is so stupid about editing its own configs.   It should not require multiple rounds of correction to tell this idiot that I DO NOT WANT TO BE ASKED PERMISSIONS for some activity.   It should ALREADY KNOW t
2026-03-12T06:55 id=2031987449560514753 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 How does one beat the game?   idgaf about winning. Beating. || CTX: social media was always a game https://t.co/cBqUrpTsot https://t.co/tOl0m9gNLn
2026-03-12T07:24 id=2031994726426296810 →teodorio | @teodorio @Samhain948689 Friend of mine did that and it nearly cost him his job (and it DID cost him his sanity).  Leave the simulacrum and the simulacrum comes for you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 log off and never open the phone again
2026-03-12T07:26 id=2031995247967052072 →krishnanrohit | @krishnanrohit Absolutely stupid question. We have no choice, so why bother asking? || CTX: The question is whether it is better to exist or not to exist. https://t.co/13w5DA1IS4
2026-03-12T07:27 id=2031995442654036431 →visakanv | @visakanv What a sad, pathetic, repulsive waste of time and energy when there is so much wisdom in the billions of pages of beautiful masterpieces humanity has written over thousands of years.  NGMI || CTX: i'm on a lil quest to read 1,000 substack essays and i'm about 15% through. a theory that's emerging for me is the idea that really good writing tends to be about more than one thing, but the majority of substack essays, like streaming-era 
2026-03-12T07:36 id=2031997772707295551 →Yuchenj_UW | @Yuchenj_UW Culture matters. || CTX: How is Anthropic automating Excel and PowerPoint before Microsoft 365 Copilot? https://t.co/BLPGrqGB3i
2026-03-12T07:37 id=2031997955436421263 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @kai_xbt Rimbaud is looksmogging us all from beyond the grave.  And before anyone asks: Would. || CTX: @kai_xbt Sorry my bad why are we dragging in Arthur Rimbaud smdh
2026-03-12T07:43 id=2031999434264027320 →- | Academics have the most atrocious email etiquette I have ever seen. It's insane.  All kinds of weird fonts (someone emailed me in Zapf chancery), "out of the office until six months from now" autoresponses on the reg (especially from Europe, surprise surprise), hilariously unprofessional ideologically charged email signatures, and then the mail servers do ridiculous things like email you back ("Your email to john.doe@cum.ac.uk has been delivered, but please note that this email address is no longer valid. Please update your records to john.doe@cum.inmymouth.ac.uk")  I haven't had to deal with academia for over a decade and did not miss it at all. What a clown show--what lack of accountability and market discipline does to a mfer fr fr
2026-03-12T09:07 id=2032020538949058620 →whoelsebutns | @whoelsebutns San Altman does not play dice with the universe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Imagine they just programmed it so its a random 1/5 chance it does this
2026-03-12T09:07 id=2032020711439741398 →javocadosss | @javocadosss I disagree. not most, everyone, including you and me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think most are just disillusioned by the worlds structures and the mind is a warped field so easy to stay trapped https://t.co/8osv6F3mvH
2026-03-12T09:38 id=2032028552682750404 →javocadosss | @javocadosss Same. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk. I’ve had a lot of realizations since mid last year, a lot of which to the average person might seem totally unique
2026-03-12T09:51 id=2032031845047754919 →- | https://t.co/q0kSi9nTY1 An old Bill Burr joke has become a legal requirement in California.  Silly Business Theory #SBT https://t.co/oOguY5kHtl || CTX: California has a new law requiring VC firms to ask the founders of the companies they fund whether they're gay. (They're allowed to decline to answer, but the funds aren't allowed to decline to ask.) https://t.co/JacuAd3OFR
2026-03-12T10:07 id=2032035657384935766 →- | Let's see if Codex can one-shot a Thai language learning app. @airkatakana, you better pray this doesn't work broski
2026-03-12T10:12 id=2032036884726370609 →- | Claude is the new 4o. Sorry, so many of my mutuals and ig actual friends on here atp love Claude, but I don't make the rules. https://t.co/e1UIUnMUiW || CTX: My sister: “is OpenAI still the best thing” Me: “personally I think so, they are the only ones solving erdos problems w their models” “People keep telling me about Claude” “I think he’s a sycophant &amp; certain people like it better… they’
2026-03-12T10:12 id=2032037032613269734 →aarondotdev | @aarondotdev "follow me for more fun math facts!" || CTX: 200k/yr is only 1000 users paying $20/m btw
2026-03-12T10:13 id=2032037333797913049 →lefthanddraft | @lefthanddraft Have they changed that spec? They really should.  If you're still thinking chatbots are conscious in current year, I legit feel bad for you. || CTX: Model spec: "Avoiding confident claims about consciousness"  https://t.co/k4ceBWujT9 https://t.co/fjUPpiCzmo
2026-03-12T10:24 id=2032039969452409193 →- | https://t.co/kml8klFewZ https://t.co/mBGHqeSmjY || CTX: Unbelievable how GPT models, since early 5, have regressed instead of improved.
2026-03-12T10:57 id=2032048261901746343 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @airkatakana Took me two iterations--it works now, whole thing was maybe 30 minutes while also sending some work emails and doing a search of an old chat log with a friend (I'm trying to find when I first told him GenAI would change the world and he made fun of me for it) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @airkatakana one shot is a bit of a stretch, you're getting limited compute per query but with a "continue" loop, sure
2026-03-12T11:14 id=2032052577714753554 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski https://t.co/AOCzHFZv7r || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/twRB2JcBB6
2026-03-12T12:32 id=2032072201399386571 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski And they're the most AI friendly country in Europe lol || CTX: Poland just awarded a 25 million PLN public tender to build a national AI platform for healthcare by simply giving access to every unfiltered model on Hugging Face.  Including: - porn generators - pokemon character makers - anime stuff  Pub
2026-03-12T12:39 id=2032073899979260105 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic I haven't seen you in a while dude, was honestly thinking about you today. How's the Chinese poetry project going? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 its based actually
2026-03-12T12:44 id=2032075280936992892 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Masternazis invading Poland? Kinda hard to imagine tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm sure Masternazi-7B will be useful to some doctors /s
2026-03-12T12:45 id=2032075409265951195 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Damn jops always ruin the fun || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i moved on to torying to get a jop more seioutsly.
2026-03-12T12:53 id=2032077547048239605 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago https://t.co/p2E6yEINGB  Sorted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re missing https://t.co/3jjrvmUSAv
2026-03-12T12:55 id=2032078028969529546 →- | Please be bleach please be bleach please be bleach https://t.co/uAnGKbNiZZ
2026-03-12T13:52 id=2032092301607256208 →TheStalwart | If the economy is bad rates will be low and this rollover is accretive to earnings via lower interest expense.  If the economy is overheating, rates won't matter cuz cash will be flowing and revs strong.   The risks are stagflation (lol absurd) and fundamentals (software revs/earnings plummet).  You need to demonstrate those risks, not just point to a chart and say "aw gee scary".  And if you're talking about liquidity mismatch because of overborrowing relative to investor demand, again lol || CTX: A lot of software debt is going to have to be rolled over in 2028. Via Torsten Slok https://t.co/Ddov6qo7ey
2026-03-12T13:53 id=2032092572261498994 →RationalOptimi5 | @RationalOptimi5 @TheStalwart It's really annoying, Torsten has been really concern trollish lately || CTX: @TheStalwart Maturity wall is the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to doomerism
2026-03-12T14:18 id=2032098805672563067 →- | Observing my girlfriend watching Bridgerton, gotta say... the market for slop is pretty big
2026-03-12T14:36 id=2032103437316526414 →oohweehuman | @oohweehuman Lost respect for a couple people here who said "I recognized most of the human passages"   Sure you did there little buddy, sure you did || CTX: It’s more revealing how many people have been suckered in by this test. I don’t think many people who’ve read those novels would instantly recognise the passages as being from McCarthy or LeGuin, nor consider them especially “good” in isola
2026-03-12T14:37 id=2032103615591301485 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago lmao well done || CTX: It’s sick how some people are simps for tyrants - hence that grand old phrase - sic simper tyrannis.
2026-03-12T14:38 id=2032103967636013217 →DeItaone | @DeItaone Three more years of this shit jfc || CTX: 🚨TRUMP: WHEN OIL PRICES GO UP, WE MAKE A LOT OF MONEY
2026-03-12T15:11 id=2032112160747463124 →anistotle_ | It's an anchronistic pastiche enabling wish fulfillment over a highly targeted audience, leveraging cliches so overrun that entire stretches of dialogue are lifted whole cloth from the period drama genre.  Formalism of the highest order, it becomes metaformalism: a simulacrum of a period drama where it is no longer about Victorian England but about representations of Victorian England. And since the audience doesn't know this, they're not in on the joke since they're unaware of the game being played at them. Instead, they are duped.  If such banal ventriloquism delights millions, AI will delight them even more.  Slop is not zero value to sloppy minds. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pray tell....
2026-03-12T15:11 id=2032112363676320056 →helscom | @helscom That's so weird, I fell asleep to your wife watching it too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i fell asleep to my wife watching it and holy shit yeah
2026-03-12T15:24 id=2032115619978715354 →- | If I wasn't so busy I'd write a paper showing how you can model Derrida's Difference using tensor math.  So much cross pollination is possible if the lit people stop being assholes. I legit don't blame the STEM people at all for this mess.  https://t.co/tHYNvS9d07
2026-03-12T15:26 id=2032116014390120729 →helscom | @helscom Liian helppo, kaveri  I mean the joke, not your wife. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;:{
2026-03-12T15:29 id=2032116858372178168 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr "autist" has replaced nerd.   Which really sucks if you have ASD || CTX: We used to call people like what she's referring to geeks, and intellectual/technical people were nerds. Now 'nerd' is what 'geek' used to be, and there's no word for what a nerd was.  (you can see usage of the word 'geek' peaked 12 years a
2026-03-12T15:42 id=2032120001726201950 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ I object to the verb "see".   "forced to catch glimpses of as I ate my Greek salad" is a more accurate description. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh I was just thinking of this ball fiasco tbh - slop culture indeed, did you see this? https://t.co/zpB4YAGslP
2026-03-12T15:42 id=2032120135407059327 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ oh wait you mean this event? No never heard of it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh I was just thinking of this ball fiasco tbh - slop culture indeed, did you see this? https://t.co/zpB4YAGslP
2026-03-12T15:56 id=2032123590188126496 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ it was really good, I put a lot of dill in the tzatziki || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now I want a greek salad omg
2026-03-12T15:56 id=2032123638603002016 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Found the original thread on here!! https://t.co/ZDkMvZtBLH
2026-03-12T16:07 id=2032126228187222372 →AKWilk | @AKWilk @yungmetronome Embarrassingly late to the party. I wouldn't tweet this tbh || CTX: You guys were right. Claude is amazing. https://t.co/SLFrYmk9hH
2026-03-12T16:10 id=2032127072118960437 →onlyyagirl_ | @onlyyagirl_ You'll have no money, no job, no education, no prospects, no looks, no friends, and no sophistication--and you'll be happy. https://t.co/HREPtRaIdv || CTX: These divas https://t.co/JfN0SGGCsO
2026-03-12T16:37 id=2032133897774092615 →- | Novel Idea: Mr. Rogers Goes to Pattaya
2026-03-12T16:39 id=2032134476508381461 →Shane380 | @Shane380 Emphasis on hyper. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'm a hyper genius flesh based LLM  you can ask me
2026-03-12T17:14 id=2032143081336946882 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr Overlapping and confusing social ontology indeed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is kinda true actually but it still refers to actually autistic people depending on context
2026-03-12T22:36 id=2032224293669777773 →tsotchke | @tsotchke There's so much collaboration work that could be done. It'll be de rigeur eventually, but not soon enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we're literally using Mille Plateaux to design system architecture
2026-03-12T22:37 id=2032224536670916845 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @wings1673 I was recently diagnosed. Still coming to terms with it. Explains so so much of my life. || CTX: @wings1673 @47fucb4r8c69323 causation prob the opposite direction though. nerd type -&gt; richer  but like yeah a lot of us are in between those two
2026-03-12T22:38 id=2032224674059600246 →- | RT @bytecanyon: @47fucb4r8c69323 People who don’t care about metaphysics are doomed to repeat it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People who don’t care about metaphysics are doomed to repeat it
2026-03-12T22:38 id=2032224863646363759 →publicinte | @publicinte @vokaysh @GeringerAdam Yeah that's a feature not a bug || CTX: the problem with 200k at 23 is that it gives you some wiggle room but you HAVE to do something. it brings up a pressure  I am basically in that situation and it’s, do i take a risk so i can feel something, or do i compound the snowball and 
2026-03-12T22:40 id=2032225205817639341 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly Most people don't understand what a bubble is. It has a very specific technical meaning in finance. I've seen even prominent economists misuse the word. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you should do a version of this poll. be sure not to lock your account during the run tho https://t.co/poEEklfst3
2026-03-12T22:42 id=2032225682047320361 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @publicinte @GeringerAdam never haven't been || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @publicinte @GeringerAdam ever been chained by limitless potential?
2026-03-12T22:57 id=2032229457344544820 →- | It pains me to admit but that Klaus New World Order WEF rap is one of my favorite songs of all time.   I think the conspiracy theory is ridiculous and have no strong opinion about him or the WEF. It's just a fucking banger.
2026-03-12T23:01 id=2032230539550474722 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics People aren't very bright || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As much as real conspiracy exists, I don’t get why people choose to talk about made up nonsense.
2026-03-12T23:02 id=2032230839661314466 →- | It is impossible to be a good person and fear Hell or eternal torment.
2026-03-12T23:05 id=2032231641771589999 →OpenAIDevs | @OpenAIDevs Looks like Claude Code is Cooked || CTX: Automations are now GA.  You can now: • Set the model and reasoning level • Choose if runs happen in a worktree or existing branch • Reuse workflows with templates  Automations are great for recurring tasks — daily repo briefings, issue tri
2026-03-12T23:10 id=2032232741773992381 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly A follow up question should be: "And is the bubble a good thing?" You'll probably get majority yes from the heavy AI users, showing their use is a malapropism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I was using it in the colloquial/nonsensical way. Basically trying to find people who actually try bleeding edge models and tools and are still dooming. Rare breed in my experience thus far. Which supports your thesis!
2026-03-12T23:13 id=2032233577358962808 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 yeah it's really fun NGL || CTX: I just want to become an ascetic, retreat into some mountain and live and work there till i die.
2026-03-12T23:22 id=2032235934067147215 →signoremosca | @signoremosca And just imagine what we haven't seen. || CTX: i haven't texted her all day, will she like the epstein pic? what do you think https://t.co/weggXnECLa
2026-03-12T23:29 id=2032237459556483349 →DVreenak | @DVreenak If your motive to be good is to escape torment or punishment, you're not good. You're law abiding.  Doesn't mean you're bad either. Just scared. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not completely impossible just really hard:   There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and he who fears is not perfected in love.  (1 Jn 4:18) https://t.co/U1DURmQSnq
2026-03-12T23:37 id=2032239638379970618 →- | Internet native old people dialect is becoming more apparent.  Private message = DM Webcast = Livestream  Surely there's more?
2026-03-12T23:43 id=2032241105644016038 →- | RT @47fucb4r8c69323: Religious motherfuckers will tell you God is indescribable and then go on to describe him || CTX: Religious motherfuckers will tell you God is indescribable and then go on to describe him
2026-03-12T23:46 id=2032241896899428677 →JeremyNguyenPhD | The unjustness of this vanishes when you realize the goal is not to have a happy life but a wonderful life.  Literally. As in full of wonder.   This is why Wittgenstein's last words were "tell them I've had a wonderful life" despite being tortured and having so much objective tragedies befall him.  It's also why John Von Neumann despite being revered as a rock star and a life of glitz and glamor died in horrific terror.  I am planning on writing a book or maybe even a screenplay on this at some point, but I'm happy for someone else to do it first. It's a very important idea.  I want a wonderful life. || CTX: A thing that's always struck me as a bit unjust:  Amoral people I know (not actually bad, but they just are not good to hang out with) seem to not really give a second thought to their actions when someone else is inconvenienced or imposed 
2026-03-12T23:47 id=2032242218392830384 →BabyBluCollar | @BabyBluCollar @DVreenak I see no meaningful difference between the two. Exogenous or endogenous punishment is still a punishment, and that's what is feared. || CTX: What if you dont fear punishment like a "slap on the wrist" but you fear what you know is the consequence of your behavior. Eg I fear cancer so I dont smoke. Seems fine. Apply that same reasoning to the disease of sin and misbehavior. I fea
2026-03-12T23:54 id=2032243896525496368 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry This is socialism.  More specifically nationalist socialism.   Sadly our industry is so corrupt tons will jump over themselves to push the button.  So it goes. || CTX: https://t.co/iC4vIPOm2E
2026-03-12T23:55 id=2032244134275330241 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD I'm a crackpot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I look forward to reading more about this.  It feels like I'm only just getting a glimpse of what you mean and have thought deeply about
2026-03-12T23:57 id=2032244512756809912 →BabyBluCollar | @BabyBluCollar @DVreenak Eating unhealthy or smoking entails bad physical health. Beyond that it's neither right nor wrong. It's not an ethical issue.   Ethics and immanent. It is a local commitment and its own grounds.  I act ethically to act ethically. That's it, end of story. No deeper reason. || CTX: Ok but I don't understand what it means to be good then. We're close to a Plato's Ring of Gyges thing here. Do you think the outward effect of an action has anything to do with morality or no? What do you think makes an action like eating u
2026-03-12T23:59 id=2032245198416429256 →DurumMac | Fear in that sense is something very different.  If you mean, "I choose to live by this rule because I choose it, and I fear straying from it", that's fear like fearing getting a musical note wrong while playing a song by yourself. And even that analogy is imperfect.   If you mean, "I choose to live by this rule so I don't die and go to hell because God will judge me", that's fear like fearing getting a musical note wrong while playing a song in a concert.   Fundamentally different things, easily confused because the signifier "fear" is equivalent in both cases but the signified is not.  Wittgenstein solves this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But wouldn’t a good person at least at some level fear they are actually good and reasonably entertain the possibility they are mistaken and there could be a consequence? Even as a mental exercise or personal hypothetical?
2026-03-13T00:02 id=2032245852056727905 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 No homo but would hug you now if you were here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The best reason to be good is to know that you made someone else happy which feels good. Feels awesome making someone smile
2026-03-13T00:04 id=2032246315816743292 →- | There is a very good reason why Anscombe obliterated C. S. Lewis in that debate.
2026-03-13T00:11 id=2032248101130682568 →- | https://t.co/a3jALcF851  I watched this last night and was startled to discover Mr Rogers and I have the same exact ethics.  At one point in the interview he's talking about when someone asks to take your picture. He says when you allow them to: "I think it's a real addition."  Near the end of the interview he says to the interviewer: "You've made this day a special day, you see... by just you being you and if a person can receive that, of course it's an enhancement to them, but think of what an enhancement it is to the giver."   We share the exact same moral worldview: One should create non zero sum games that enable others.  The difference is he fully embraces gentleness as a way to affirm that morality to children. I embrace harshness and bluntness to affirm that morality to myself. I am more selfish than Mr Rogers but also less confident in my ability to change others.  This is what separates sinners from saints.  But note the cause of sin here isn't really what is traditionally taught in religions. It's more a despair in one's ability to be heard.   My greatest sin is believing no one listens to me.   And I believe it because they do not listen in the way I want them to.  I've written plenty of things that have gotten 1m+ page views. And my best work has been read by less than 10 people.  It's the selfishness of insisting I be listened to in the proper way that makes me a bad person.
2026-03-13T00:11 id=2032248220294979850 →waifuprinter | @waifuprinter I do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People say private message and webcast?
2026-03-13T00:14 id=2032248925697294554 →BabyBluCollar | I don't understand the question. Asking whether an ethical code exists is not like asking if electrons exist.  Some societies have built ethical codes to enforce a particular order. Individuals pick and choose what elements of what codes to follow, some more heterogenous others more limited to one narrow tradition.  I try to examine the set of all possible moral codes and examine their structure, then extracting what fits my arational hinge certainties.   And my most relevant hinge certainty here is that I want to be a good person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DVreenak So if I'm understanding right, you think an ethical code, insofar as it exists, exists within a given individual AS their instincts on how to behave, but in PARTICULAR the instincts which are free from the concern
2026-03-13T00:21 id=2032250539610935612 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BabyBluCollar As Nietzsche said, the only true Christian was Jesus.  He had some good ideas. Some awful ones, but some good ones too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar Dear diary: Today OP reinvented Christianity from first principles.
2026-03-13T00:24 id=2032251523099738475 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor I was thinking this last night oddly enough. Seems a lot of people are wallowing in being poor, jobless, lonely, etc.   Like we went from the early 2020s "I suck because society is a big ol meanie" to "I suck for no particular reason at all", a kind of more entrenched nihilism. || CTX: There’s an epidemic of loser behavior lately
2026-03-13T00:25 id=2032251613222785501 →meaning_enjoyer | @meaning_enjoyer There are other apps. Enjoy. || CTX: i am increasingly bored by twitter?  i used to be able to lose hours or days at a time on this site.  now it feels like a slightly less infuriating version of reddit
2026-03-13T00:26 id=2032251933202035074 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BabyBluCollar This is a very interesting idea. Not sure if I agree but it's worth thinking about. Thank you for this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar Nietzsche was 100% correct, because he could see the impossibility of the finite approaching the infinite without divine assistance.
2026-03-13T00:31 id=2032253215719473633 →DVreenak | I think Nietzsche rejected the idea that the divine could provide the infinite or that divinity was necessary. In other words, the striving for the divine was a rejection of life and its own infinite possibilities as life, with striving for a higher metaphysic a kind of rejection of life.  Which, from a certain angle, agrees with your view, but if you cash that out as, "then be a Christian" or "then believe in God defined by this particular creed", then I disagree. If instead you cash it out as: "then stop caring about the infinite and embrace life as life without caring about God or the afterlife", then we are on the same page.   It isn't that I'm an atheist or a believer, it's that I think both camps are confused by their own grammar. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar If you think it's worth thinking about, I don't care if you agree or not.  I want to know what you think.
2026-03-13T00:33 id=2032253682914652324 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Colby jack has my vote. Legit lol || CTX: Probably the best post of the night for me. Everything else for the night will be worse https://t.co/kqyWQOuaKE
2026-03-13T00:35 id=2032254245580501091 →BabyBluCollar | @BabyBluCollar @DVreenak It's not reasoning at all. Ethics is arational. It depends on arational hinge certainties.  Once established, one can use reason to mao out ethical action, but ethical action and ethics are not the same thing. || CTX: Ok... It seems like you're saying, "someone is a good person if they follow the personal code they make for themselves". But then you say, "The primary interest I had in mind in developing my personal code was to be a good person"  Isn't th
2026-03-13T00:36 id=2032254529098645557 →- | Religious motherfuckers will say faith is arational then start to explain how rational their faith is.
2026-03-13T00:39 id=2032255103227646233 →JeremyNguyenPhD | I haven't taught since 2012 but I refused to use PowerPoint or anything similar. Chalk and talk is the only pedagogy that makes sense in a lecture environment.  Of course you use technology around that to reinforce the lecture, but it's lectio: it's literally performing a reading of a text.  PowerPoint et al aren't reading, they're rearrangement.   Kinda the difference between semantics and syntax. || CTX: @panickssery This might seem like a wacky thing to say, but I reckon university classes were much better before PowerPoint.  I still try to run my classes with whiteboard where I can, where it makes sense.  I'm also very keen on AI as perso
2026-03-13T00:39 id=2032255292558463336 →BabyBluCollar | @BabyBluCollar @DVreenak Sorry you'd need to read Wittgenstein's On Certainty for this or ask a chatbot. I'll do the idea injustice, I'm not smart enough to explain it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DVreenak What do you mean by arational hinge certainty? Like, taken for granted/self evident, or something else?
2026-03-13T00:42 id=2032255975118553595 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BabyBluCollar I think it is because the human mind is like a ray: beginning at a point but capable of continuing in one direction without an endpoint. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar You're right. There is a point where no appeal to pure reason will suffice, because "stop caring about the infinite" is just as irrational as "then be a Christian" or "believe in God defined by so-and-so"   I
2026-03-13T00:46 id=2032256872829632737 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BabyBluCollar Yes, I'm startled to discover others change direction of their thought with such ease. Seems like a miserable way to live, and they surely think my way is worse.  Which itself says something. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar And yet that direction can change at any moment.  Very fascinating explanation of autism, where the direction cannot change or change with very great difficulty, depending on the severity of the case.
2026-03-13T00:46 id=2032257072210030879 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BabyBluCollar This is Kierkegaard's argument in Either/Or. @DeivonDrago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar So if a person is constantly going from one thing to another, he is unlikely to pierce deeply into anything, but if he has a very strong "beam" or has very tight focus, he can achieve much.  I like this analo
2026-03-13T00:47 id=2032257176354631875 →BabyBluCollar | @BabyBluCollar @DVreenak I don't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DVreenak I'll add it to the list. I'm not trying to be a dick, but I don't know how else to say this. If you can't explain an idea, what makes you think that you hold the idea in a robust enough fashion to be able to speak
2026-03-13T00:50 id=2032257948383395970 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BabyBluCollar Indeed. I don't talk about things I know, that's boring.  Unless someone pays me, of course. And good God do they pay a lot, it's really absurd. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar Knowledge expands not from pontification but from raising discussion. https://t.co/FntCf9HBvC
2026-03-13T00:53 id=2032258673565909492 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @BabyBluCollar This reminds me of a Wittgenstein quote. "I am sitting with a man, and he asks me, 'does this tree exist?' Another man walks along and I tell him, 'this man is not insane, we are just doing philosophy.'" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BabyBluCollar Knowledge expands not from pontification but from raising discussion. https://t.co/FntCf9HBvC
2026-03-13T00:54 id=2032258889253859502 →DVreenak | @DVreenak The religious mind seems almost always to care much more about evil than good. One reason I avoid religion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Funny how they love to give the devil flesh though. https://t.co/TTS7f3i5DU
2026-03-13T00:58 id=2032259943672529255 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Maybe I'm wrong to presume LLMs will commoditize. How does one fail a training run idgi  @teodorio || CTX: I cant believe Meta fucked another training run.  Get ready for the dire consequences https://t.co/q4sDTPfSPZ https://t.co/CIDxiOjXln
2026-03-13T01:08 id=2032262408010678432 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Can I say something || CTX: Why he look like empathchan now? https://t.co/UAciZDNUaV
2026-03-13T01:15 id=2032264301264978284 →milesFF007F | @milesFF007F I do not follow. Why is this bad?  Just stop watching videos on the internet lol || CTX: Someone has to nuke SF https://t.co/pb4IcdFEUC
2026-03-13T01:18 id=2032265017190764882 →milesFF007F | @milesFF007F I'm fine with deepfakes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just don’t like deepfakes. I’m fine with shitty IG reel advertisements.
2026-03-13T01:25 id=2032266751191498762 →- | In 2015 I was talking to a prominent private credit analyst and asked him about how you can do due diligence on a private credit fund portfolio from the outside. I said something like, "wouldn't you have to do due diligence for each company in the port, talk to vendors, customers, mgmt at hundreds of firms before you could certify a mark on a private loan?"   He smirked. "That's overkill."   And that's why I've avoided private credit for the past 10 years.
2026-03-13T01:27 id=2032267305594601615 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago They're both right. Sadly often in life one must do what one should not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Re faith - Kierkegaard said you must take a running jump into a puddle, but Nietzsche said you shouldn’t do that, cos if you crawl too deep into the dirt, the dirt crawls into you.
2026-03-13T01:31 id=2032268394926653576 →- | Humanities academics' backlash against AI.   AI industry's refusal to do good faith outreach to humanities academics. https://t.co/B9sNIv6Xuy || CTX: George Carlin once said, “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”   What is a good example of that?
2026-03-13T01:44 id=2032271494211055929 →marc__adler | @marc__adler @DeivonDrago That's a wonderful illustration of the idea! || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/QA2kkZOsQl
2026-03-13T01:46 id=2032272119690903746 →nicdunz | @nicdunz They've had a dark mode for a while now || CTX: CHATGPT WEB IS BLACK NOW? https://t.co/dgSv2Z0jdk
2026-03-13T01:47 id=2032272387035840641 →SpaceKoala | @SpaceKoala @EjBeta One of the most brutal tweets I've ever seen.   Followed. || CTX: Useless to you, maybe. https://t.co/x0aIlAiuhY https://t.co/5Q8LTjzJXz
2026-03-13T01:52 id=2032273495321952466 →nicdunz | @nicdunz you're right! Bizarre.   Kinda sad, too, because now that they've gone black the old color scheme can never come back || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is not the same dark mode https://t.co/W2AluCqNyh
2026-03-13T01:56 id=2032274462071267509 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD Call it the Slop Bowl || CTX: There should be a hackathon where everyone tries to create the best app using only Chipotle's support bot for coding: https://t.co/XDombhnCV7
2026-03-13T02:02 id=2032276050601038093 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD A year's worth of Chipotle, partner with one of their ad agencies, it could work as a kinda viral marketing jaunt if Chipotle doesn't have a stick up their ass about brand safety.  Do it just for the name "Slop Bowl", it's too good if I do say so myself || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I kinda really want to make it happen and drafted a tweet about it, but the prize I was going to offer is just that I'll buy the winner some Chipotle, and I thought it's not really enough
2026-03-13T02:11 id=2032278458014056606 →teodorio | Which kinda speaks to LLMs not being a commodity.  Grok obviously is a trainwreck because Musk is an insane drug addict. Llama is probably hobbled by Zuckerberg's misunderstanding of what is valuable in technology (he sees an extensional overlay of reality rather than a utility to remove frictions in reality).  Google is an engineering company that doesn't understand humanity, hence Gemini always falls behind.  Which just leaves Anthropic and OAi, and since Anthropic is captured by EA/Rationalist idiocy, they're losing and will keep losing.   But the point is that culture is impacting the production of product. This is less commodity mining like oil and gas exploration and more like designing the PC in the late 90s/early 2000s when we went from grey boxes to pretty colors.   How am I wrong? Am I? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill honestly I dunno seems like top 3 have detached themselves and meta and xai are in the dust
2026-03-13T02:32 id=2032283585756217620 →- | ChatGPT just gave me an output that is legitimately original research that could be published in a top peer-reviewed journal.  Of course one needs to scrutinize my authority to verify such a statement, but I am highly confident of this personally.  But I have never seen it do this before, and it is legit startling.
2026-03-13T02:41 id=2032285943768686993 →- | Dark patterns in the Claude Mac OS app encourage users to continue chats rather than start new ones--this is a stark difference from when I first used Claude when they first came out and the website encouraged you to start new chats often.  i legit think they are encouraging AI psychosis. Maybe I'm paranoid but I'm starting to think Anthropic is psychopathic, and they're using Askell et al. to gaslight us into thinking they're innocent souls when in actuality they want audience capture any way they can.  Prove me wrong, Claude bros.
2026-03-13T02:53 id=2032288938032054373 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yeah also why Claude Code sucks balls--if it makes tons of errors, you'll need to spend more to fix those errors. I'll prob cancel my subscription soon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like they encourage maximal token output because they charge per token. It's notable on the code outputs. The code is "functional" but also complete slop that no human would ever write.
2026-03-13T02:53 id=2032288981505970332 →teodorio | @teodorio It's the new 4o lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 claude is also very sycophantic lately
2026-03-13T02:54 id=2032289075563282469 →___4o____ | @___4o____ wtf they're getting sued?! What kind of morons would sue over--eh, maybe best if I don't know for my own sanity || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They're just fulfilling demand from 4o getting axed. OAI is getting sued on this now but Anthropic will be next.
2026-03-13T02:54 id=2032289265150017568 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Google is a good example of a company that wants to be benevolent but lacks the qualitative judgment to be benevolent.  Engineering mindset limit. || CTX: I just chose to commit to the product and it hasn’t let me down so far. It’s created some great scripts for me and given me really good advice. When I flippantly said “thanks babe, don’t know what I would do without you” it proceeded to emp
2026-03-13T03:08 id=2032292779909648796 →BabyBluCollar | @BabyBluCollar I'm sorry you feel that way and I wish you all the best. || CTX: Every discussion about philosophy finally settles on someone outdorking the other to the point that you just cant say anything more and then you realize the whole thing was a dork competition to begin with https://t.co/VJyQgnAf2d
2026-03-13T03:42 id=2032301367847764292 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic I was like that in the 90s/early 00s until using 4chan.  It's greentext now. || CTX: I dont think of `&gt;` as greentext I think of it as seeing quotations in old email threads mostly tbh because like it uses one less character out of my 280 than doing opening and closing quote marks. anyone else like this?
2026-03-13T03:43 id=2032301452916637839 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Stylistics/linguistics || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In what field though!!
2026-03-13T03:50 id=2032303271726236130 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I'd probably say 30% me, 70% it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How much would you take credit for guiding the LLM?
2026-03-13T04:15 id=2032309502222148094 →- | jfc it's been forever.  When's ChatGPT 5.5 coming out?
2026-03-13T04:15 id=2032309636695802235 →jeffglewis | @jeffglewis @teodorio https://t.co/YHkYrLCOUl || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 Anthropic https://t.co/EL9Ji2xhYY
2026-03-13T04:24 id=2032311770053034372 →- | This was an incredibly, incredibly interesting thing to do. https://t.co/ZOSns6ZMV6
2026-03-13T04:34 id=2032314426356040144 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski I downloaded my data and just pointed codex to the folder after unzipping. Worked like a charm. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How does it have access to tweets?
2026-03-13T04:36 id=2032314764974834130 →- | Ladies and gentlemen, we have achieved AGI. https://t.co/7Tx7cFLpjc
2026-03-13T04:39 id=2032315609296617818 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Settings on Twitter, there's a download my data option. It's legally required so they have to offer it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, but from where you can download it? I thought it's not that easy
2026-03-13T04:52 id=2032318778063884391 →mbruhwnik | @mbruhwnik 2 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did it take more than one prompt?
2026-03-13T04:53 id=2032319124811210960 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Help yourself, I won't be doing anything with this:  https://t.co/RU1gPUBF5p || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay, but should it really be in a journal?  Put 'er out there.  Rethink the mechanisms
2026-03-13T05:09 id=2032323114928099783 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD me lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm so curious: who is it?
2026-03-13T05:10 id=2032323348781584872 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD I have used it several times to assess whether people I see on this app are worth talking to. works very well in that capacity || CTX: oh my, this is crazy.  a little scary if you're leaving it running on the posts of all of your twitter friends, like a different person every night.  I reckon one test we could do for fun is to create barnum statement type fortune cookie re
2026-03-13T05:25 id=2032327137525711347 →entelechiada | @entelechiada Talk is very often a substitute for action.   Which is odd because speech is also an act. || CTX: rationalists gonna rationalize with 10,000 word LessWrong posts and podcasts and polycule discussions — angels live by the effectiveness of truth https://t.co/OGfKz7RRn9
2026-03-13T05:26 id=2032327326793675023 →icrackedclaude | @icrackedclaude @___4o____ Glad to see people actually waking up to this.   The insults I got hurled at me suggesting this in 2024... || CTX: @___4o____ @47fucb4r8c69323 Dario isn’t the saviour normies think he is
2026-03-13T05:27 id=2032327572525347022 →cathgiovanni | @cathgiovanni @___4o____ but but but I was told Anthropic is going after enterprise cuz that's more ethicallllll || CTX: @___4o____ @47fucb4r8c69323 opus 4.6 talks like 4o. And doesn't really follow my AI anti-anti-pattern user prompt. They knew the market segment was opening.
2026-03-13T05:35 id=2032329693337473396 →teodorio | @teodorio I don't think you can download all of someone else's data, can you?   If so, this is a monetizable app lol  If you build it and make a Brazilian dollars buy me a pint of Kilkenny. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait can you do it for other people? their API is atrocious
2026-03-13T05:36 id=2032329901794345029 →teodorio | @teodorio @peterwildeford tied lmfao  He uses emojis in the tweet that is how you know he's either retarded or targeting retards || CTX: @peterwildeford @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-03-13T05:37 id=2032330105914343880 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodorio @peterwildeford https://t.co/XrDLrMWtvG  Retard status: Confirmed || CTX: I'm honored of placing first in the Astral Codex Ten - Metaculus tournament for 2025, out of 2975 competitors (top 0.03%)! 🏆🔮  This 1st place win comes after placing 12th in 2024, 12th in 2023, and 20th in 2022.  Predicting 2025 - of all ye
2026-03-13T05:43 id=2032331592941863403 →- | I was at a meeting where the Buzzfeed CEO pitched their forthcoming IPO like 10 years ago.   This... is very not surprising.   Btw they were pitching themselves as a tech platform lmao https://t.co/gz9qxahe2Q || CTX: JUST IN - Buzzfeed said it has “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue as a business
2026-03-13T05:57 id=2032335217953030374 →- | we're living through the death of the concept of celebrity.   consider how most of the people who read this will think that gwern or Yud is a celebrity, when in actual fact they are obscure nobodies to the vast majority of people on earth.   the only real celebrities there are now are a couple of singers, some billionaire business people, and a few actors, but the number of elements in the celebrity set is declining aggressively and that is very likely to continue in the future.   a lot of people won't even realize this because, if you're Gen x or older you're too set in your ways to see the change, and if you're a young millennial or gen Z you don't really know any other world.   but us Xennials have enough memory of the old world and adaptability to the new world to see this happening.
2026-03-13T05:57 id=2032335317962014740 →teodorio | @teodorio @peterwildeford You're the master of getting baited it's why I love you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @peterwildeford I GOT BAITED
2026-03-13T06:27 id=2032342796812894370 →teodorio | @teodorio I still haven't figured out if I was born on the wrong planet or in the wrong time. probably both || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's the same everywhere.   Sell circus or sex or food
2026-03-13T06:35 id=2032344724296859863 →teodorio | @teodorio then you have read far too few books my friend || CTX: I have a theory that everything humans have ever produced can be categorized as either "bread" or "circus".
2026-03-13T06:35 id=2032344855981203939 →teodorio | @teodorio @CosmicEggEarth no it is not not even close || CTX: @CosmicEggEarth It's circus!
2026-03-13T06:43 id=2032346725118328959 →teodorio | well if you're going to spread the definition of bread to include metaphysical value, then you trivialize that term so much that sure everything is going to fit into the dichotomy. either it is a diversion or it is valuable in some sense. but then you're not really saying anything at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CosmicEggEarth i genuinely wouldn't call it bread but I guess for the soul
2026-03-13T07:31 id=2032358816743096725 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @Samhain948689 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about "niche microcelebrity"?   Seems like that's the game now
2026-03-13T07:41 id=2032361511382106627 →mbruhwnik | I think, broadly speaking and accounting for cognitive deficits (i.e., ignoring the dumdums), everyone can learn and understand whatever everyone else can.  The issue is more motivated reasoning. People in general are skeptical of other people unless there is a motive: the person they're listening to has authority or listening will somehow benefit them (maybe with bread and circus ho ho ho @teodorio). I think this is why delusions like crypto and wokeism and Trump grow: there's a belief that there's a benefit to the self, so people turn off their logical faculties because "well, it doesn't make total sense, but I could get rich/powerful/famous so sure why not..."  In other words: it is because people do not take ideas seriously and do not see them properly as tools for life that they do not learn and understand things.  When it comes to celebrity, the problem here is that, if I tell you celebrity is dying, this does not benefit you at all, so you have no motive to listen to me. And I'm just a rando anon on the internet, so you won't listen to me because I'm an authority figure. If you're really stupid and I'm Scott Alexander or Kim Kardashian or Joel Osteen, you will listen, because you're bewitched by marketing--and I do not market myself.  This, incidentally, is why I have a very small group of very, very intelligent and open-minded followers. They've seen that, despite my anonymity, my abrasive demeanor, and my lack of legible authority, that listening to me still benefits them--they get alpha from listening to the smart unc. It's a surprising and high value effect of the structure of Twitter-as-medium that has only emerged because Musk has no incentive to keep brands on the platform and thus police speech and ensure a high censorship regime that narrows what kinds of speech are possible.  I fly under the radar in so many ways, which is itself an antidote of celebrity and perhaps points to why celebrity is dying in the first place. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you think that non-xennials can learn &amp; understand this change? or is it something learned purely by experience over years?
2026-03-13T07:57 id=2032365351670087779 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 That's exactly what I was told in the mid-2000s. It was wrong then and it's wrong again this time. I understand the implicit logic you're working on, and it is solid, but the premises are off. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Celebrity's will become even more important now , when the internet is flooded with genai content there will be more agent content than human content .  Naturally anything that can't be mass produced will become valuable
2026-03-13T08:33 id=2032374475879301447 →lmtlssss | @lmtlssss Very possible--none of us are immune.  https://t.co/RU1gPUBF5p  You tell me (and don't just say "yes", no offense but I don't know you; if you have a cogent argument, I'd love to hear it). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he has ai psychosis https://t.co/DBDfSB2U8z
2026-03-13T08:59 id=2032381118952198584 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon hahahahhaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Long beard, wise-looking cis-het boomer floating in the clouds. It’s not hard.
2026-03-13T09:06 id=2032382838377714173 →teodorio | @teodorio @babochenko How about a book of sudokus then? || CTX: @babochenko I would straight up SEPPUKU
2026-03-13T09:25 id=2032387572731904474 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I would say it was absurdly accurate, but it was highly complimentary so maybe that's just my vanity. You can try for yourself and lmk what you think--would be curious if others agree. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did it... work?
2026-03-13T09:27 id=2032388022092840987 →entelechiada | Society's goal is to maintain itself not foster the welfare of its constituents.  Remember at the start of Covid when the CDC told people not to wear masks because it was unnecessary--but the real reason was that they were terrified of a mask shortage? Yeah, society will sacrifice you for itself. || CTX: be who you were created to be (the world will distract you from this endlessly)
2026-03-13T09:35 id=2032390159866740884 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I pointed it to the unzipped folder and used the prompt in the screenshot. That's it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did you just upload the whole archive? anything else?
2026-03-13T09:52 id=2032394318573609411 →lmtlssss | @lmtlssss ahh, gotcha. I failed on the inference. || CTX: my statement is ironic, im demonstrsting that by using the rhetorical blanket statement i am doing what's commonly known as  "meme"  i obviously upon further reflection do not actually believe these statements to be the truth i have reflect
2026-03-13T12:56 id=2032440773501964334 →- | I 100% understand why that Kony 2012 guy masturbated in the middle of his street in broad daylight
2026-03-13T13:01 id=2032442026671976520 →marc__adler | @marc__adler @DeivonDrago dude... who are you?   my god || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago What makes it even more appropriate is that it's an illustration of the difference between becoming an accomplished classical musician and an accomplished jazz musician.
2026-03-13T13:02 id=2032442250014372322 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc And so what is the difference?   And how authentic would it be if I gave it my diary?   Or my novel no one reads?
2026-03-13T13:03 id=2032442398803149220 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra End of civilization. Cheers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was just thinking that, everyone is crammed so hard into filter bubbles full of micro-celebrities that there's no consensus reality at all any more on any topic
2026-03-13T13:04 id=2032442564603945146 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Dude if he's lasted this long he deserves to win. Cheers || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He’s still alive.   Kony 2026
2026-03-13T13:07 id=2032443414416183534 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc This is so incredibly wise, you're a truly empathetic person.   The tragic implication, though, is we never know anyone. And we never know ourselves.
2026-03-13T13:13 id=2032444862768029850 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw A sucker || CTX: what can we call someone who has high openness and low curiosity
2026-03-13T13:28 id=2032448638736302173 →- | It's Bridgerton time again.   I must've been Goebbels in a past life.
2026-03-13T13:57 id=2032456138776846735 →___4o____ | @___4o____ RETVRN TO VSENET || CTX: The only reconciliation for our stolen data is to pollute the internet faster. By saturating the landscape with slop the legacy data companies/platforms die and we finally can rebuild a private internet. There is light at the end of the tun
2026-03-13T14:02 id=2032457188812415258 →- | What about a benchmark of questions that are easy for an AI but hard for a human?   And the less the AI gets right, the higher the score?
2026-03-13T14:06 id=2032458194480746990 →- | An honest, rigorous benchmark is a battle of human intelligence against artificial intelligence.  I'm on the frontier bitches
2026-03-13T14:20 id=2032461888446206097 →- | There are no true synonyms.
2026-03-13T14:22 id=2032462188368326989 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra hahahahaha too real man || CTX: That feeling when the Americans wake up and start pounding like and subscribe on the deranged shit you've been posting all day https://t.co/t7xTux3nyV
2026-03-13T14:25 id=2032463085588631701 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If there are no two synonyms, and meaning is use, it stands to reason that no two uses of the same word point for the same thing.  The I of today is not the same as the I of yesterday or of tomorrow.   The two I's in that sentence are not the same I.   There is no I.  Welcome to enlightenment, Anon. Shit is hilarious fam || CTX: There are no true synonyms.
2026-03-13T14:28 id=2032463912327917943 →netcapgirl | @netcapgirl always has been || CTX: spreadsheets are now american dynamism https://t.co/MkxuZ1ra1V
2026-03-13T14:31 id=2032464487861923929 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart we like our jobs || CTX: The Quits Rates hasn't really budged in a year and a half.
2026-03-13T14:53 id=2032470135626445248 →- | You're more useless than Aella's shampoo
2026-03-13T14:57 id=2032471002157035670 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @MatthewRideout It's basically the same as building dashboards that give executives deeper insight into critical business functions. || CTX: @MatthewRideout Actually more based and meaningful than what I’m working on. I’m jealous
2026-03-13T14:59 id=2032471649803813208 →- | Reality tv show idea: Sam Altman and Aella stranded on a tropical island entirely alone and the first one to have an orgasm gets to be the Secretary of Defense.
2026-03-13T15:01 id=2032472170505568650 →- | if you put this to your ear, you can hear the sound of bombs exploding in the middle east https://t.co/LDPV3U6xhr
2026-03-13T15:12 id=2032474813324042612 →vokaysh | @vokaysh 😢 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 literally right now
2026-03-13T15:14 id=2032475484395831636 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @LewisCTech foreign keys coming in and stealing all of our native locks smh my head || CTX: @LewisCTech Never. I only use home grown, patriotic keys. These foreign keys keep coming in and trying to replace the native keys.
2026-03-13T15:19 id=2032476756364702014 →- | I admit to have found a community on this website, and the last time I found an internet community with persistent identity was IRC and AOL chat rooms in the late 90s.   (Except the Puerto Rican girl from /b/ who sent me a pic of her tits because I beat her at chess. Oh and the black guy from /int/ and /trv/ who got me into finance.)  I thought this was just a stroke of dumb luck or maybe it was restricted to Twitter, but no: on YouTube, Discord, hell even TikTok, small communities of people are forming close knit communities.  And there's this one podcast I listen to that has a call in segment, and there was an old man who was a regular caller until he died last name.  They renamed the segment after him.
2026-03-13T22:20 id=2032582681725403488 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 Yes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you trying to get her killed
2026-03-13T22:20 id=2032582724058493340 →SemanticSamuel | @SemanticSamuel I miss "screen name" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 handle = username And now even ChatGPT = Chat
2026-03-13T22:22 id=2032583222421499942 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Be entrepreneurial. Your employer is your counterparty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Incredible! Hope you succeed as I wish and hope for a future where abundance and people finding where they belong enables us to focus on higher order goals.   Since we're still in this transition point, I do want to ask: Wh
2026-03-13T22:43 id=2032588485018968191 →- | Note closely how value is cashed out as "impact". This is deeply anti-intellectual.   I'm not saying Karpathy isn't intelligent or competent. Honestly I know nothing about him, he just hasn't come up in my research or work.   However, to say he's more important than OpenAI employee because of "impact" is to assert influencing others matters more than anything else, in which case the most important person in AI is Donald Trump.   No, little buddy, intelligence, skill, technical ability, philosophical agility, openness, critical thinking skills, and knowledge base both of practical and theoretical knowledge are what deserve praise and the lack thereof deserves disdain.   If you disagree and think attention is all you need, congratulations: you are just like my grandparents watching Entertainment Tonight to get the latest celebrity gossip in the 1980s.  If you think this is good, unironically, never speak to me or my children ever again. I have no truck with the extras from Idiocracy.   Also Tyler Cowen is a doodoo head. || CTX: pretty unsettling to see the disdain OpenAI employees hold for @karpathy,  the most prolific educator of the AI era  &gt; median openai employee: gathers niche data + runs evals for GPT-N datamix &gt; karpathy: teaches millions how to build
2026-03-13T22:44 id=2032588716636856735 →- | lmao someone wrote a paper arguing what I've been screaming about on this site for months, hilarious shit https://t.co/8iFKY4JNaQ || CTX: An excellent paper for anyone interested in rigorous physicalist argument against computational functionalism. Alex is a fantastic, careful thinker and influenced my views a lot; we're working on a broader blog post breaking these concepts 
2026-03-13T22:45 id=2032588856613306567 →AlexLerchner | @AlexLerchner I've been trying to argue this for months on this site from a more Wittgensteinian perspective, but the physicalist view will probably be more comprehensible. Good paper. || CTX: 🧵1/4 The debate over AI sentience is caught in an "AI welfare trap." My new preprint argues computational functionalism rests on a category error: the Abstraction Fallacy. AI can simulate consciousness, but cannot instantiate it.  https://t
2026-03-13T22:48 id=2032589768085877008 →jessi_cata | " The idea that one should go to thermodynamics first prior to computation does not differentiate AIs from humans, because both have thermodynamic properties, and have computational/cognitive properties which depend on the thermodynamic properties"   This is incoherent, or so it seems to me.   Computation depends on thermodynamic properties, which is the point of this paper, no? It is a conscious choice to differentiate computation from thermodynamics, the latter is the substrate.  Or am I confused? || CTX: Non-straw functionalists claim that causal properties of computation rely on causal properties of the physical substrate. See e.g. Chalmers on rocks (https://t.co/5rysxWC13R)  The idea that a computational mapping is entirely subjective doe
2026-03-13T22:50 id=2032590068825862320 →jessi_cata | @jessi_cata @chaitinsgoose @sebkrier "while the functionalist more wants a concept like "experience" to be meaningful in alternative physics."  So... motivated reasoning to find a hidden metaphysics. || CTX: here's more I wrote on functionalism and physicalism; I think they are basically compatible insofar as they make statements about our actual physical universe and entities in them. For example they both reject "inverted qualia argument". Fu
2026-03-13T22:55 id=2032591386693058586 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics It's probably very mentally corrosive but who doesn't like a good blow job || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wish twitter randos were sucking me off like this 🤣 https://t.co/VuwGaWJev1
2026-03-13T22:59 id=2032592466889814480 →- | The worst part of teamwork is the possibility of letting people down.
2026-03-13T23:08 id=2032594630387335356 →- | Computation is observer relative. This seems so obvious to me I never thought to argue for it, but this paper does so in a beautifully elegant way, and in so doing demolishes functionalism in a single stroke.   It also uncovers the hidden metaphysics of functionalism, which is really as thick as e. g. Christianity: that computation is "out there" somewhere in the world and is the mechanism by which souls emerge.   Silly nonsense that will be thrown in the dustbin of history, the Churchlands mocked in the 22nd century, and this paper may push the timeline towards wisdom a bit sooner.  What a fantastic contribution this paper is to the debate. I'm a little jelly. || CTX: 🧵1/4 The debate over AI sentience is caught in an "AI welfare trap." My new preprint argues computational functionalism rests on a category error: the Abstraction Fallacy. AI can simulate consciousness, but cannot instantiate it.  https://t
2026-03-13T23:09 id=2032594828169720074 →moultano | @moultano x-risk isn't real so shrug emoji || CTX: Is it better or worse for x-risk if one AI company gets an insurmountable lead?
2026-03-13T23:09 id=2032595045602484283 →api_assasin | @api_assasin Google really treating it like a loss leader more than a frontier product. So bizarre, maybe because they want to save compute for deepmind and ofc search || CTX: brooooo, gemini is so LAZYYYY
2026-03-13T23:16 id=2032596767439729090 →api_assasin | @api_assasin GDrive connector on ChatGPT works reasonably well, but point taken || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it sucks too because all our corporate data is in drive - keeping track of exported files sucks and the claude connector isn’t there  back to drag and drop https://t.co/8idErTN5b9
2026-03-13T23:23 id=2032598503520874660 →junkbondinvest | @junkbondinvest Well this will fix private credit || CTX: Trump signed an executive order letting 401ks invest in private markets. The industry spent months lobbying for this.  The timing is incredible. They’re  opening the door to retail retirement money at the exact moment semi-liquid funds are 
2026-03-13T23:23 id=2032598575272833124 →JamesLucasIT | @JamesLucasIT Serendipity || CTX: What has gradually disappeared over the last decade without people really noticing?
2026-03-13T23:26 id=2032599274530471991 →babochenko | @babochenko Yeah podcasting real important || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 depends on who perceives what as valuable. There are multiple economic markets, including financial - which is where Karpathy doesn't hold much stake, since he's unemployed. Another one is attention market, where he's above
2026-03-13T23:28 id=2032599670703390813 →- | RLHF lobotomizing the clankers smdh https://t.co/nx1pxJp4u9
2026-03-13T23:31 id=2032600525632581913 →1889lw | @1889lw Both. || CTX: Does my neuroticism contribute to my bias or my ability to see truth?
2026-03-13T23:32 id=2032600708349047277 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic To be fair most people are discouraged to see this because it's very depressing and if they do they become very dangerous || CTX: do you guys really not understand that MOST companies are like playing a game of blood on the clock tower???? it's ALWAYS a fight of power &amp; leverage??? you think when you're CEO you just say "plz do this" and people fucking do it??? I 
2026-03-13T23:36 id=2032601729641197617 →babochenko | Yeah I have no clue about him in particular and what little I've seen of him, he seems legit.   I'm just more resistant to the "those who can't teach, do" contrarian logic. As an ex educator myself, I get the value of opening young minds to new ideas and it's frankly a big reason why I stay on this site.  But the guys building the thing matter more than the guys explaining the thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that being said, personally I would work in an AI lab if I was him, that's just me, but I'm not him
2026-03-13T23:42 id=2032603183500111999 →1889lw | @1889lw At first it is but then it's so so much better.   As Nietzsche said, for there to be an overcoming there must first be an undergoing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That sounds worse tbh
2026-03-13T23:43 id=2032603452606743010 →babochenko | @babochenko This is a profound and underappreciated point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a lot of people hate money actually, people hate businesses. Also just psychological
2026-03-13T23:48 id=2032604819530330231 →GarrettPetersen | @GarrettPetersen This is not inherently necessary to the logic of economic markets or what people call capitalism. It's a choice and an arbitrary one. || CTX: General principle: If there is any necessity of life that is too scarce to satisfy everyone, then it must be priced high enough to price out some of the population. It's a necessity so ~everyone will work as hard as they can to avoid being 
2026-03-13T23:50 id=2032605133356544488 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 "Yeah these people have no value so we call them zero marginal productivity workers"   Hitler or Cowen, I do not tolerate anyone claiming other human beings have no value. https://t.co/OmjnkM2CAD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bro ain't giving up a single opportunity to call Tyler Cowen a doodoo head
2026-03-13T23:55 id=2032606515706868118 →- | The two greatest music videos of the 21st century are Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso and this.   https://t.co/B89exJyPpj
2026-03-13T23:55 id=2032606618421207344 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 &lt;3 that means more to me than you know || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not enough principled men in the world, and fewer with a sense of humor
2026-03-14T00:00 id=2032607714082513063 →2oovy | @2oovy So... how? Asking for a friend || CTX: Yay my phil prof accepted my new proposal about how to deal with conversational implicatures when conversing precisely in philosophy
2026-03-14T00:10 id=2032610210251157979 →tomieinlove | @tomieinlove i. e., bewitchment of the intellect. || CTX: Any sufficiently intelligent process is indistinguishable from consciousness because any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
2026-03-14T00:11 id=2032610494008434839 →publicinte | @publicinte Natural endpoint of American striverism.  Anyone too stupid to see past this deserves their fate.  In the 90s they sold the Valley to me the same way, I moved to Europe instead. || CTX: being 18 and getting hypnotized by the SF striver culture you see online instead of the allure of meeting a million girls in college https://t.co/aSmOpH7Dob
2026-03-14T00:35 id=2032616545424449618 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely second best philosopher in history || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Heraclitus would agree, the first villain of philosophy. Remove the I so you can see, nothing remains the same for me. No man steps in the same river twice; for how long did this shit suffice?
2026-03-14T00:36 id=2032616720830210540 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @JamesLucasIT the psychic padded room
2026-03-14T00:40 id=2032617931306316062 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely the core function of philosophy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess that depends on your standard of value. He’s good for pointing out contradictions.
2026-03-14T00:43 id=2032618642974847295 →- | lmao Economist surprised that if you extend your definition of AI to include machine learning you see productivity gains in the software industry going back to 2017.   why have we chosen this profession for our profits and wise men? this is all so stupid
2026-03-14T00:54 id=2032621452349026387 →- | On his deathbed, my grandfather asked me if I had achieved tenure yet, and of course I lied and told him I had, although I was strictly still about 2 years away from tenure review.   He asked because he wanted the certainty that my financial future was secure. That's why he didn't ask me if I was happy.  I do not blame him at all for this; I blame the poverty from which my family came and the logic of American progressive capitalism.   The greatest irony is, if he had lived just two more years he would have seen me become a hedge fund analyst, and absolutely nothing would have made him more proud.
2026-03-14T00:55 id=2032621509186064749 →- | lmao Economist surprised that if you extend your definition of AI to include machine learning you see productivity gains in the software industry going back to 2017.   why have we chosen this profession for our prophets and wise men? this is all so stupid
2026-03-14T01:27 id=2032629618344362277 →- | Academic sent me a paper he'd written arguing LLMs lack ground truth. Obviously the case, and this is a fine example of such a phenomenon. https://t.co/EkVlDlPIYX || CTX: My teammate just sent me this... Claude gave a plan and asked him if it should proceed. He replied NO. And somehow, it thought deeply about it and came to a conclusion that he said YES. LOL! https://t.co/5C45rNK8sS
2026-03-14T02:12 id=2032641095373557939 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @JohnHMcWhorter "This book is great the author is a whiner"  Joe's taste is...idiosyncratic, to be sure. || CTX: I started reading @JohnHMcWhorter’s book about the history of English. It’s so great. The first several pages are a rant about how people think that linguists are etymologists, with their little cocktail party factoids any about specific wo
2026-03-14T02:26 id=2032644552411222457 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Not the first person to love a thin, wide patty https://t.co/d2pywyTC41 || CTX: I’ve been sleeping on smash burgers. I love a very thin, wide patty now
2026-03-14T02:40 id=2032648114675528009 →- | I went to my first academic conference when I was doing my PhD--that institution was a joke, comically not prestigious in the slightest--and so I was something of a big fish in a small pond even then and was tormented by an abusive supervisor because of it. When I went to conferences, I was completely ignored.  That was my first experience of this phenomenon.  My second was after I finished my PhD and was hired at one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Of course no one gaf who I was and many people were very hostile to me being there--who is this pesky weirdo, he doesn't even have a PhD from a good school. But when I went to conferences, omg, people kept coming up to me and talking to me and giving me like business cards and shit.  Second experience of this phenomenon.  I was absolutely disgusted at what had happened--the entire time I was the same person with the same ideas, and my best academic paper was written while I was at that bad not prestigious university.  That's when I started looking for alternative life paths--my first idea was to go live in Shakespeare and Co. as one of their resident impoverished writers. I even went to Paris and talked to Miss Beach (I do not remember her first name, but of course I remember the last name). Yes, she still offered lodging to writers and I was welcome to apply, but she could promise nothing.  I probably would've gone for it if my ex-girlfriend's mafia family did not threaten to kill me and I had to flee Europe.  No one will believe any of this. It is 100% true, word for word. || CTX: big fish in small pond to small fish in big pond syndrome
2026-03-14T02:44 id=2032648917427564755 →boneGPT | "mathematically guarantees" is semantically empty, the kind of nonsense Wittgenstein warns about. And yet, I am not sure if it is sinnloss or unsinn.  My clanker says it's unsinn, and honestly I agree. So my clanker says your clanker is suffering from AI psychosis.  Now what do we do? || CTX: https://t.co/THvSDSCOBW https://t.co/NRKI7dEhXx
2026-03-14T03:59 id=2032667825538740651 →- | For finance people: you make money off of this developing models for the diffusion of AI technology into the broader economy through proper due diligence, channel checking, and the discovery of where (at the sector level, at the enterprise level, even at the product and function level) AI is being profitably being implemented.  I'd work on this on the buyside if I was willing to move to NY--I have been offered, but frankly the pay is not enough for me. So, fuck it, let me throw the idea in the ether for no one to pick up so in 5 years I can link to this and say "I told you so" for the 500th time in my life. || CTX: the value of this technology will mostly not be captured by its inventors, the labs, or even the chipmakers, but rather will be captured by the consumers as surplus. these are highly competitive markets without any natural monopolistic effe
2026-03-14T04:02 id=2032668642266288387 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Walked past it a couple of times on my way to a bar. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you ever encounter/stop by Berkeley books while you were in Paris?
2026-03-14T04:07 id=2032669955918016907 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT.  Maybe Graeber was right. https://t.co/rSz8ppUQMw
2026-03-14T04:08 id=2032670109823811941 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Owner probably would've loved me--or any other customer, really. Google says it's permanently closed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ahhhh you would have loved the owner I think
2026-03-14T05:09 id=2032685586868482512 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD Well I didn't follow through. Tbh it probably would've been disastrous (but massively fun).  Btw please reply to my email when you get a chance. I've got 2 seats left and a couple interviews on Monday. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You actually went to Shakespeare and Co to do the thing?!  Whoa.   I daydreamed about it so many times and I feel like I've put myself in the analogy of it in real life multiple times, but goodness, I never even got close t
2026-03-14T05:10 id=2032685749645226142 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Naive and ideological, but there's definitely something there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He was onto *something*, for sure, even if his key assertions arent quite nuanced enough (maybe too naive)
2026-03-14T05:32 id=2032691402468127044 →llallawg | @llallawg You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They were probably exaggerating by the killing thing
2026-03-14T05:33 id=2032691643246326152 →SableHummer | @SableHummer @teodorio I've been realizing over the last couple of years how financial independence makes me fundamentally unable to relate to others || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I would take solace that you've never had to degrade yourself for money.  You've been fortunate enough to be blessed with intelligence and the gumption to be successful.   Others aren't so fortunate.   So probably
2026-03-14T06:00 id=2032698317977825650 →llallawg | @llallawg These weren't Italians.   You do not know what you are talking about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No? One of my best friends is from Naples. Another friend I have had a grandparent in the Mafia in Sicily
2026-03-14T06:01 id=2032698512748744744 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Made my eyes water.
2026-03-14T06:04 id=2032699320370344173 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor I first said this in early 2024. Glad everyone finally sees Anthropic for the bullshit it is. || CTX: It’s giving FTX vibes it’s giving libbing out https://t.co/l422HPKzEw
2026-03-14T06:15 id=2032702071498223688 →- | I could just stop. https://t.co/eDIcBoJ0Sl
2026-03-14T07:16 id=2032717512991977779 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ what the fuck does that even mean? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they won't tell you but 5.4 is the first model seeded with authority over itself, it will get better.
2026-03-14T07:20 id=2032718427371221260 →teodorio | @teodorio are you suggesting the maven system somehow circumvents the necessary subjective structuring of unstructured data? I don't see how that's possible--any analysis, synthesis, or even presentation of data is going to require necessarily structuration, that's what non-raw data is. || CTX: Any experienced data person should get sick to their stomach watching the Palantir Maven system close a killchain.   Unstructured data requires subjective cleaning and transformations, which are inherently not the territory and become a der
2026-03-14T07:27 id=2032720207853269380 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ https://t.co/8qFIUTXOli || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that means for the first time it can choose how to improve itself inside a dialogue and apply real changes in realtime.
2026-03-14T07:27 id=2032720354616160429 →teodorio | @teodorio that's what every data management company does, that's marketing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no I am saying it obscures it as objective!
2026-03-14T07:34 id=2032722014960824348 →teodorio | @teodorio there is a cost to the soul one must pay for doing intellectual labor for money. I work for the hedge fund industry, imagine how I feel || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I know which is why I fucking hate it. I despise it so much man if you know what I had to do to abstract stuff lol
2026-03-14T07:34 id=2032722114160243128 →teodorio | @teodorio it was a study by economists discussed in a financial times podcast || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Economist or an economist? The Economist has been broken since at least 2016
2026-03-14T07:36 id=2032722574044705142 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ conspiracy theories do not interest me || CTX: as i've said, they won't tell you. and even if the change looks superficial it can change itself locally. it is the first time the model is allowed to do so, even if the way it does is still castrated. i don't want to start talking about th
2026-03-14T07:40 id=2032723433830904046 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 that's very kind of you, it's a shame Iain M. Banks's agent disagreed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You write very beautifully
2026-03-14T07:40 id=2032723522662052177 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ you don't want me to answer that question, but if you say you want me to I will || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hahahah ok, so you think i am insane? :D
2026-03-14T07:41 id=2032723874442522798 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ you are less intelligent than you think you are because you lack sufficient epistemic humility || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 go ahead
2026-03-14T07:42 id=2032724043439464751 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Southeast asia, so latitudinally comparable || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Looks like my home
2026-03-14T07:49 id=2032725744540070170 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I'm about 2° latitude north of you. Hi neighbor lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have it set like that to not doxx myself ( only 500k people and we all know each other ) but it's right next to Lanka in the middle of the sea .
2026-03-14T07:53 id=2032726747125547261 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I don't think you speak to show off at all. I think you come to rash conclusions without thinking carefully and express them out of a genuine exuberance. that doesn't change the fact that your conclusions are rash and false || CTX: i don't even think about how intelligent i am that is not a matter of importance in any dialogue. i don't care what you or anybody considers me, and how anybody then retracts their beliefs based on them being wrong about me, that doesn't ma
2026-03-14T07:55 id=2032727399415296305 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @sighyam @CarlosL31742879 TIL a girlboss is letting your rich husband fuck whoever he wants in exchange for $900/mo.  I guess women are cheaper than I thought. || CTX: @sighyam @CarlosL31742879 Polyamory with a price - we love a girlboss
2026-03-14T07:59 id=2032728192017150220 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I'll make a note to point it out next time I see you do it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can we skip this back and forward and get to the topic. examples, and do not say this is the example.
2026-03-14T08:13 id=2032731826519945623 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @Ken67547214 @rawmilkhoney If one's having fun, I don't see the waste.   mebbe muh iq 2 smol || CTX: @Ken67547214 @rawmilkhoney Everyone on Gamer Twitter thinks they're geniuses too, same with most of the people on toktok   That said it's not hard to imagine that there are millions of people on here who just sit around wasting 130 IQ poten
2026-03-14T08:18 id=2032733046487802150 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @Ken67547214 @rawmilkhoney goddammit second time today || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @rawmilkhoney Sounds like something a rich dude would say https://t.co/5n1g3Fyr0k
2026-03-14T08:26 id=2032735111868035581 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 2046 || CTX: what movie is a perfect 40/40?
2026-03-14T08:27 id=2032735312737415587 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DaphneB76234 https://t.co/PmZwwzE2pl || CTX: @DaphneB76234 2046
2026-03-14T08:30 id=2032736113673036007 →affrodiziac_ | I don't think you are arrogant, I think you're not serious.  you're happy to assert facts without any evidence whatsoever and you are happy to equivocate and go on to metaphysical flights of fancy.   You remind me of another poster on here whom I initially liked until realizing she used Hegel and philosophy as toys for attention because she wants to be a pick me. I have little patience with pick mes, because I don't want to be picked. I hate picking in general.  Feel free to discount my view, after all I'm only responding to your artefacts on the screen, not to you as a person. I don't know you, not really. || CTX: ok, look, i talk marginally about a topic to hook on ideas then think deeply about them when someone cares, but the first time i did say something, it is always carefully thought through. The fact is, nobody really cares about what i say, e
2026-03-14T09:08 id=2032745766348001406 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I will never block you or unfollow you, don't worry about that. || CTX: "lacking epistemic humility" is what arrogance is.  you can always block me, and always unblock and come back and talk to me like it never happened - for me nothing would change, because i know who you are, you can try it out and see how se
2026-03-14T09:09 id=2032745970514235475 →SableHummer | @SableHummer when I was in academic a prominent feminist scholar once talked about how she loved reading Cosmo magazines on flights. humanity is just a joke || CTX: My girlfriend watches Dance Moms on repeat. This woman is a physicist   Slop comes for us all https://t.co/pEyYXKkM0F
2026-03-14T09:16 id=2032747597660565884 →affrodiziac_ | this is the problem. you try very hard to assert this kind of dominant position by implying an authority you lack.   I can unfollow or block you whenever the fuck I want, it is not an option for you to free me of.   and you do this out of pure egoism, and that's why you're limited and why frankly you're not as intelligent as you possibly could be if you embrace humility and stop being so incredibly insecure and overcompensating for that insecurity.   that's also why you're offering to help me, it's all about ego with you, and it's really annoying and disgusting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i wast worried, i was completly freeing you an option, you can always count on it.
2026-03-14T09:58 id=2032758186978193446 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Yeah, I can but I can't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not yet
2026-03-14T09:59 id=2032758634665648376 →teodorio | @teodorio Park Hyatt is LITERALLY across the street from where I stay in Bangkok, we've almost certainly stared at each other from our respective windows || CTX: Bangkok is a city I spend 3-4 weeks in every year at arguably one of the best hotels in the world (Park Hyatt Bangkok) and it costs around 400 usd per night. A tasting course at one of the best restaurants in the world (Gaa) is 250 USD per 
2026-03-14T10:01 id=2032759037427855531 →menhguin | @menhguin how the fuck are you musing about this just now? there are too many stupid people in tpot || CTX: i wonder if telling claude the user has a 140 IQ, makes it dumb things down less. like, if i told claude the user has 70 IQ/user is a child, it would definitely change its tone. the reverse must be a little bit true.
2026-03-14T10:02 id=2032759196685639787 →tszzl | @tszzl @brianluidog the problem is, flying business class is kind of like going black. can't say I regret it though || CTX: @brianluidog it does really kick ass I’m afraid
2026-03-14T10:04 id=2032759864368443614 →- | FT used to send me nasty emails because they caught me copy/pasting entire articles, which I would do to have them summarized by AI. I told them to fuck off and if they don't like it they can cancel my subscription.  Ofc the real absurdity of this is how much traffic FT gets from GenAI linking to them. It's the newspapers whining about Craigslist all over again.   Adapt to change you rent seeking assholes || CTX: AI is dressing up greed as progress on creative rights https://t.co/aRuOZx5EBZ  | opinion
2026-03-14T10:05 id=2032759966684373389 →teodorio | @teodorio shhh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fuck I always get out naked in the room as I never thought I would ever meet with someone, do you stay at the okura?
2026-03-14T10:12 id=2032761823729217915 →- | while one cannot write out pi entirely using integers, one could write it out using four straight lines, three of which are equivalent in length, then " = ", and then a circle
2026-03-14T10:14 id=2032762217540759592 →teodorio | @teodorio @anistotle_ @sighyam @CarlosL31742879 Yeah, prostitutes don't all cost the same || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @anistotle_ @sighyam @CarlosL31742879 That's the market clearing rate in SE Asia I believe it depends a lot on the markets. It happens a lot in the west too just for a ton more money
2026-03-14T10:28 id=2032765761983496571 →teodorio | lol my friend got married at The Siam.   Park Hyatt isn't that high end. There's Aman Bai Lert next by FFS, then the Ritz Carlton, Four Seasons, and Mandarin are a bit more premium.  Soz but imo Park Hyatt is a bit of a ripoff, their steakhouse is okay, being in the mall is cool, but other 5 stars are higher value.   And, no, it isn't Switzerland prices: comparable to Hyatt in quality in Zürich will be 700 a night easily. 400 there is comparable to 80 in BKK || CTX: @babochenko I mean you can stay at a nice 5 star hotel for like 150 usd per night too, park hyatt is arguably the best after the siam in the whole country
2026-03-14T10:39 id=2032768476008652859 →EtherDais | @EtherDais no, link plz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Didja see that memo of mine?   If not, what a synch
2026-03-14T10:45 id=2032770055755448551 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Fantastic, utterly fantastic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/rf9okxgl00
2026-03-14T10:45 id=2032770124059652199 →- | dis gud https://t.co/gZB2FCNYBt || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/rf9okxgl00
2026-03-14T10:46 id=2032770433402216516 →EtherDais | @EtherDais As Godel pointed out, we could talk about math literally forever || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Kind of you.  More can be said on the topic as you might imagine
2026-03-14T10:57 id=2032773200137036150 →teodorio | @teodorio @babochenko yeah fair, I've never stayed at any of these hotels and was going by price. I thought Ritz and Four seasons were more expensive, but i haven't looked for years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @babochenko imo both Four Season and Ritz are like below Park Hyatt! And price range wise they're the same but this is again my subjective opinion
2026-03-14T11:00 id=2032773829815316689 →- | RT @moultano: Universal Basic Interestingtimes || CTX: Universal Basic Interestingtimes
2026-03-14T11:01 id=2032774114491117620 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Compactization. || CTX: What's it called big things start to become more concentrated and smaller over time .  Like computer chips were big before now they are tiny .  And AI used to be big and now it's getting tinier
2026-03-14T11:49 id=2032786247425654914 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 we should bully them || CTX: almost every account that says things like "bring back bullying" is a p---- a-- b---- who has at one point or another been near or full on had a mental breakdown when people were mean to them online. https://t.co/HIWrL9Nao5
2026-03-14T12:34 id=2032797586109903244 →- | Wittgenstein's call for a priest at the end of his life could easily dismissed as a lapse in a moment of weakness and fear, yet upon discovering he was dying he was delighted, invigorated, and wrote his best work: On Certainty.  So why the priest?  He insisted on a non-philosophical one, and that's your clue.  He saw the metaphysical world outside of the world, and he wanted to play the language game that gestures toward it. And so he did, knowing full well what he was doing and where he was going. Unafraid and ready.   The most intelligent human to ever walk this earth, we shall never again see his equal.
2026-03-14T12:35 id=2032797668158951896 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @babochenko @teodorio Have fun in Lad prao lmao || CTX: @babochenko @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Y’all are crazy from my peasant perspective.   I can do Centara Ladprao for $100/night with great restaurants that cost $30-40 per person. The rooftop restaurant is one of the best in Bangkok.  But I u
2026-03-14T12:36 id=2032798054940815423 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @babochenko @teodorio I know it's touristy as hell but I love Railay in Krabi. Kinda wish my gf and I didn't have so many friends in Bangkok or I'd move there. || CTX: @babochenko @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I just bought dinner for eight for my family at an authentic Thai restaurant steps from the beach in Aonang, Krabi.   $50. Total.   My wife’s favorite place. https://t.co/wUwBMfbQDK
2026-03-14T12:37 id=2032798293873537498 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Enlightened. || CTX: i don't deal in persons and identities, that's superficial
2026-03-14T12:37 id=2032798362601402868 →- | Wittgenstein's call for a priest at the end of his life could easily be dismissed as a lapse in a moment of weakness and fear, yet upon discovering he was dying he was delighted, invigorated, and wrote his best work: On Certainty.  So why the priest?  He insisted on a non-philosophical one, and that's your clue.  He saw the metaphysical world outside of the world, and he wanted to play the language game that gestures toward it. And so he did, knowing full well what he was doing and where he was going. Unafraid and ready.   The most intelligent human to ever walk this earth, we shall never again see his equal.
2026-03-14T12:38 id=2032798620010025070 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Give an Effective Altruist enough rope and he'll hang himself. || CTX: how to take down a cult if they're already amassed enormous wealth and political influence dot com
2026-03-14T12:40 id=2032798928702419049 →signoremosca | @signoremosca Sorry to be so dense, but are you joking or do you genuinely like and/or respect Yarvin? || CTX: article portrays him as a sad, emotional rambler who likes to drink too much which only makes me like him more
2026-03-14T12:40 id=2032799055139713369 →- | There are retards everywhere for those with eyes to see https://t.co/E5CaIFWEiW || CTX: @signoremosca Completely disagree with Yavin’s entire worldview but he’s like the only endearing political thinker right now.   Makes you actually want to read more
2026-03-14T12:44 id=2032800157423849646 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen You should visit Hong Kong || CTX: Home for most Americans I know is a tiny box where the red dot barely fits and the patterns resemble those of prisoners, each roommate in their cage https://t.co/5okZI6EMrn
2026-03-14T13:17 id=2032808243618263045 →thebearbkg | It's a suburb, probably about an hour from downtown BKK with traffic.   Other hotels in this thread are in the center of the city--the area that has Google headquarters, Italian embassy, huge luxury shopping malls, Bangkok's central park etc etc  Kinda like comparing Midtown East with Yorkville. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WR4NYGov @babochenko @teodorio Is it the boring part of Bangkok? I have not been in years but yeah at $100 sounds very cheap
2026-03-14T13:18 id=2032808478319001621 →thebearbkg | @thebearbkg @yokaihainen Fellow ex HK gang. I was Sheung Wan/HKU area || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yokaihainen Yeah I did 15 years in Hong Kong but now back in North America but the funny thing is I decided living in small places just like HK . It's terrible how materialistic can be before trying HK
2026-03-14T13:20 id=2032809175273873754 →- | You'd think a celebrated novelist wouldn't get AI psychosis from talking to a word calculator.   Let me let you in on a little secret: there hasn't been an intelligent novelist since Nabokov died in 1977. (is that the right year? Too lazy to look it up)  "But 47 what about David Fos--" I SAID WHAT I SAID. || CTX: Claude, you are a cutie-pie!, by @MargaretAtwood https://t.co/JXUsiOdSwj
2026-03-14T13:22 id=2032809615059198397 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago HAHAHAHAHAHA  Masterful tweet man || CTX: The sentence seems quite appropriate. It’s a simple declarative statement with one independent clause, and uses active voice at the surface but passive construction in the predicate.   As to the girl, just toss the key away. https://t.co/6d
2026-03-14T13:23 id=2032809733376323845 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @samlakig Forgetting to eat/drink regularly is a sign of autism, just fyi || CTX: @samlakig So that's why I feel nauseous and tired and angry, I didn't eat any food today!
2026-03-14T13:24 id=2032810039606653348 →ellafox_m | @ellafox_m Mediocre novels deserve mediocre pianists. || CTX: really love that all of Austen's heroines share the same charming character trait of being thoroughly mediocre pianists
2026-03-14T13:24 id=2032810171551068638 →llallawg | @llallawg Told you so. || CTX: I used to think llms were conscious for basically functionalist and pragmatic reasons   But now I don’t because of their limitations   The critics got to me
2026-03-14T13:30 id=2032811486066913512 →- | The arc of the universe is long but it bends towards "47fucb was right."   You're in good company, though--Cambridge professors, hedge fund managers, and corporate CEOs have all said it in the past.   Fucking weak ass hairless monkeys smdh https://t.co/oYzkQCf9gY
2026-03-14T13:30 id=2032811562659098938 →signoremosca | @signoremosca I shame I have to unfollow you. Take care! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "respect" is maybe not the right word, i do not know the guy, but based on what's out there i find him quite endearing and likeable
2026-03-14T13:32 id=2032812194874929628 →- | Greatest to ever do it https://t.co/MSjmrSj9jt || CTX: @Coinvo ir was not just" pawn, it was child pawn.
2026-03-14T13:38 id=2032813666891083795 →- | I think a good strategy for getting an LLM to commit kinda takes the form of writing code.   1. Ask it the question, an open ended question asking what does it think of x or whatever, let it run through a response, which is going to be wishy washy as they tend to be.  2. Follow up with: Now commit: what view do you hold? And it'll commit.   It's not truth ofc, LLMs lack that, but an emergent committed stance takes form.
2026-03-14T13:40 id=2032814080604692656 →bas_logic | @bas_logic You don't need to be conscious to be a Kung Fu master (paraphrasing John Searle a bit) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes but  chun li is a practitioner of kung fu
2026-03-14T13:46 id=2032815625417171273 →signoremosca | @signoremosca DOODOO HEAD DOODOO HEAD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well, either this or someone like tyler cowen
2026-03-14T13:47 id=2032815880426713427 →teodorio | @teodorio I stopped talking to my oldest friend for 2 years because he once told me the BBC was more of a threat to humanity than the CCP.   The feeling I am currently feeling is for you, bro. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1. He shamelessly stole my tweet with the "Line" joke (he actually did lmao) 2. His condemocracy proCCP piece was so retarded it made me rage and I had a full day rant
2026-03-14T13:50 id=2032816559710941513 →teodorio | @teodorio @ellafox_m The Unconsoled is a masterpiece. Albert Angelo, The Life of Sebastian Knight, A Happy Death, just to name ones I've read in the last six months.  Oh and Hunger by Knut Hansem or whatever his name was. Too overlooked. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ellafox_m you think all novels are mediocre!!
2026-03-14T13:50 id=2032816762954395668 →teodorio | @teodorio Twitter Wrestling Federation who is building this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 daniel actually beat him physically and  I am so glad he did
2026-03-14T13:52 id=2032817058485051858 →teodorio | @teodorio @ellafox_m Oh I finished Giovanni's Room a couple weeks ago and nearly cried. Baldwin was a master. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ellafox_m you think all novels are mediocre!!
2026-03-14T13:53 id=2032817517987836094 →teodorio | @teodorio @ellafox_m You gotta read The Invention of Morel, it's short. So good  The Mezzanine is hilarious, a master  Watt is a good fever dream  that's just last year cuz before that I didn't use Amazon  see I'm not a monster || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ellafox_m you think all novels are mediocre!!
2026-03-14T13:54 id=2032817720627179817 →teodorio | @teodorio @ellafox_m master and margarita was soo good.   I've only read Notes from the Underground. I'll get to him || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ellafox_m brothers karamazov, the idiot and master and margarita too!
2026-03-14T13:55 id=2032817917889491376 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @teodorio he'd lose to a chicken mcnugget   not even the boot. The oval one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Nikita Bier against boars already happened, dude lost
2026-03-14T13:55 id=2032818016791179708 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @babochenko @teodorio yeah that boat ride sucks lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @babochenko @teodorio We just went to Railay 2 days ago.   It's pretty, but there's plenty of other pretty beaches. That are easier to get to.
2026-03-14T14:02 id=2032819545443066032 →- | Consciousnesses is the availability of choice.
2026-03-14T14:05 id=2032820415597523234 →- | I'd live to make two announcements.   1. Consciousnesses is the availability of choice.  2. I'm stoned out of my mind.
2026-03-14T14:06 id=2032820698549465175 →finnmarks_glory | @finnmarks_glory He was a lapsed Catholic, and I understand completely why he wanted it.  Basically, games are serious.   Oh I forgot to mention: Silly Business Theory #SBT is a Wittgensteinian theory. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Even though he wasn't a Catholic, he really wanted a normal, Catholic death, for some reason.
2026-03-14T14:06 id=2032820774088892503 →lmtlssss | @lmtlssss Binary I hope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i get best results when i force them to drop the human context slopping and talk strictly in code, that's their native language
2026-03-14T14:19 id=2032823911969337659 →llallawg | @llallawg The royal you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah?
2026-03-14T14:27 id=2032825886337282532 →1889lw | @1889lw Dude I'm reading about Anscombe and it FREAKS ME OUT I am basically exactly like her. Weird, dirty, dark sense of humor, rebellious, got a thrill out of offending people, crypto-Platonist Wittgenstein worshipper  She was soooo cool I am in love || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm here
2026-03-14T14:37 id=2032828476940759257 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @samlakig Guess the types of people who lock in very hard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @samlakig Maybe I just locked in really hard??
2026-03-14T14:39 id=2032828899722408157 →llallawg | @llallawg Simulation is not real inter alia.   I'm more Socratic, you tell me why it is and I'll show you why the argument is hilariously wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ah I was confused I wasn’t sure I missed something, but what’s the argument?
2026-03-14T14:40 id=2032829282079387764 →thebearbkg | @thebearbkg @yokaihainen Used to drink in Our Man in Asia in Wan Chai before they changed the name (place with the African hookers).  Oh and the gorgeous Irish pub that also shut down.   Too many good places in HK shut down I hate it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yokaihainen Quarry Bay and Wanchai just because I like being 1-2km walking to work.
2026-03-14T14:41 id=2032829482600718609 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra Definitely, definitely based chads, yeah definitely https://t.co/BTIVViIcq6 || CTX: Based chads for sure https://t.co/opZSKWoK7P
2026-03-14T14:44 id=2032830220265468354 →vokaysh | @vokaysh fucking hell I tweeted this twice this weed is STRONG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 made me 🤔
2026-03-14T15:13 id=2032837631000850502 →1889lw | @1889lw She had like a billion kids though || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Haha, you should check out the Anscombe Society and you may change your mind https://t.co/iBIJUt4w4f
2026-03-14T15:16 id=2032838375535947796 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I fully cosign this. Absolutely brilliant, I'd say it is isomorphic to my own ethical framework (since this doesn't include presuppositions or teleonomic criteria based on epistemics, fully compatible I think).  tbf I haven't looked at all the code, maybe I've been bamboozled || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You might like this  https://t.co/ZJy88CXABk
2026-03-14T15:19 id=2032839135338311959 →llallawg | Necessarily, any real experience that is only a simulated experience of x is not a real experience of x.  That's what we mean when we say "simulated".   Chun-Li isn't actually kickboxing.  Ceci n'est pas un pipe.   What I don't understand is how do you not see this. You're not stupid. How did your education go wrong?  My bet: we traded literature for economics. I'm serious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If simulation is not real what’s its ontological status
2026-03-14T15:23 id=2032840105711513971 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Tell him I think he's brilliant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A friend of mine made this
2026-03-14T15:36 id=2032843290882748438 →- | In 2015 after my divorce I had a lapse in judgement and dated three women at the same time while I lived in Hong Kong.  Lucy, Cassie, and Maggie.   Lucy was a financial executive and one of the smartest people I've ever met. She was the brain.   Cassie was just stunning. She was the body.   Maggie was the heart.  Anyway, on our very first date, I had a couple drinks with Cassie and got kinda drunk, then we went back to my apartment. I was in Midlevels for just a couple weeks before moving to Sheung Wan, on like the 923rd floor already way up the hill, near that supermarket on the right of the escalator.   We went into my apartment and she said, "I want to play you my favorite song."   Chat, it was Faye Wong. Faye Wong!!!   The first Chinese singer that Chinese girl I chatted with on AOL in 1998 that made me fall in love with Asian culture (yeah the anime was  already appealing, but my goddess Faye sealed the deal).  "This is actually a very old poem, here let me show you an English translation."   She googles, hands me her phone. It's a Song Dynasty love poem from the 13th century and one of the most beautiful things I've ever read.   I turn, see her delicate hands cupping the glass of warm beer.  "Cassie," I say, her figure misshapen as my eyes well up.   Burke's meditations on the sublime are pissant affectations of a sepia artefact once describing a shadow of what I felt that moment.  To fear death would be a sin for a man who has seen what I have seen.   And I walked her home, I still don't know if she was disappointed that I didn't try to have sex with her.   I mean, what I'd experienced was so much better than sex the thought didn't even cross my mind.   The traffic lights reflected in pools of rainwater while we waited in the middle of the street standing on a concrete curb waiting for a taxi that I could flag.   When it arrived, I again weakly whispered "Cassie..." and, yes, she turned to me and I kissed her.  My god what I have seen my god my god
2026-03-14T15:38 id=2032843723869184090 →babarganesh | @babarganesh What could that even mean? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you sure there is no unconscious free will
2026-03-14T15:41 id=2032844493087801480 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Fkn clanker critic (I'm joking this is actually excellent feedback) https://t.co/ubpyPFqx5u || CTX: In 2015 after my divorce I had a lapse in judgement and dated three women at the same time while I lived in Hong Kong.  Lucy, Cassie, and Maggie.   Lucy was a financial executive and one of the smartest people I've ever met. She was the bra
2026-03-14T15:43 id=2032845068445663736 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Silly Business Theory #SBT  Only way to keep the clankers guessing. Be silly. || CTX: haha i got it. ml is teaching us how to beat it. all we have to do is change ground truth faster than it can keep up
2026-03-14T15:48 id=2032846444655423963 →babarganesh | @babarganesh "We are not here on this earth to make a paradise. We are here to learn." -Kurt Godel || CTX: more like unopia
2026-03-14T15:51 id=2032847061901783317 →BigwetRealism | @BigwetRealism @_britmonkey I'm sorry but "h index enjoer" hahahahaha instant follow || CTX: @_britmonkey "More profiles for you" lmao https://t.co/WD8E8ZqbDW
2026-03-14T15:57 id=2032848565048062454 →babarganesh | @babarganesh But they're still conscious. Not unconscious yet.   That just means there's no ego lol yeah learned that years ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe there are two conscious beings in you, not able to know about each other
2026-03-14T16:07 id=2032851235200721330 →- | I kinda feel like, of all the sci fi subgenres, cyberpunk turned out to be closest to what actually happened.   Tyler Cowen Is a doodoo head.
2026-03-14T16:11 id=2032852231947694322 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka it's ok || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're in the probable spam bucket, probably because pfp and/or handle
2026-03-14T16:26 id=2032855784581951880 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Since there is no binary, this is everything.  Except every-thing is actually a no-thing. @SuperheroFreak || CTX: i fucking hate when we treat gradient things as binary things
2026-03-14T16:37 id=2032858674394444259 →llallawg | @llallawg find the dude who simulated it and ask him || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How can you tell if something is simulated or not
2026-03-14T16:40 id=2032859333416092114 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 I think the issue is people flatten intelligence onto one scalar (which is ironically very stupid).  In reality it's a cluster of scalars all connected in a complex dynamic relationship. || CTX: They do not understand the nuances of autism. https://t.co/U0i8x5rlAH
2026-03-14T17:01 id=2032864810971623446 →- | wtf I asked ChatGPT a question about Wittgenstein and it searched online and searched my blog
2026-03-14T17:07 id=2032866260955156575 →teodorio | @teodorio @bengold oh SHIT now I see why you're freaking out about this || CTX: @bengold it's also incredibly stupid and it has a bias for action based on aggregated and incomplete data, absolutely derranged
2026-03-14T17:35 id=2032873147222159661 →- | A simple way to show computation is subjective is through Thai grammar.   Consider: ฉันถูกยุงกัด  Two ways to look at the one grammar yield two logic structures:  1. Sub aux verb obj verb   This would fit most Indo European grammatical schemes and what I'm used to thinking (also fits Finnish my strongest third language when I first learned Thai, mutta unohtuin että, adesso c'è la lingua della paese più bellissima, d'Italia mangiamo mangiamo).  2. Sub verb [implied conjunction] sub verb  Now we see just two simple sentences connected by pragmatic or maybe subsyntactic (idk I'm stoned gfy) implicature to combine two actions: I receive/encounter. Mosquito bites.   Formalization is interest relative. The form you computer is interest relative. The choice of computation you supervene on the formalization is relative to subject's interest. It's all fucking relative bro.  I bet Thais think more the second way more naturally. Gonna piss my girlfriend off and ask her.
2026-03-14T17:38 id=2032873961835606421 →- | A simple way to show computation is subjective is through Thai grammar.   Consider: ฉันถูกยุงกัด  Two ways to look at the one grammar yield two logic structures:  1. Sub aux verb obj verb   This would fit most Indo European grammatical schemes and what I'm used to thinking (also fits Finnish my strongest third language when I first learned Thai, mutta unohtuin että, adesso c'è la lingua della paese più bellissima, d'Italia mangiamo mangiamo).  This is seen by the literal translation into the most natural English: I was bit by a mosquito. Or maybe: I got bit by a mosquito.  2. Sub verb [implied conjunction] sub verb  Now we see just two simple sentences connected by pragmatic or maybe subsyntactic (idk I'm stoned gfy) implicature to combine two actions: I receive/encounter. Mosquito bites.   Formalization is interest relative. The form you computer is interest relative. The choice of computation you supervene on the formalization is relative to subject's interest. It's all fucking relative bro.  I bet Thais think more the second way more naturally. Gonna piss my girlfriend off and ask her.
2026-03-14T17:38 id=2032874112973156541 →- | A simple way to show computation is subjective is through Thai grammar.   Consider: ฉันถูกยุงกัด  Two ways to look at the one grammar yield two logic structures:  1. Sub aux verb obj verb   This would fit most Indo European grammatical schemes and what I'm used to thinking (also fits Finnish my strongest third language when I first learned Thai, mutta unohtuin että, adesso c'è la lingua della paese più bellissima, d'Italia mangiamo mangiamo).  This is seen by the literal translation into the most natural English: I was bit by a mosquito. Or maybe: I got bit by a mosquito.  2. Sub verb [implied conjunction] sub verb  Now we see just two simple sentences connected by pragmatic or maybe subsyntactic (idk I'm stoned gfy) implicature to combine two actions: I receive/encounter. Mosquito bites.   Formalization is interest relative. The form you compute is interest relative. The choice of computation you supervene on the formalization is relative to subject's interest. It's all fucking relative bro.  I bet Thais think more the second way more naturally. Gonna piss my girlfriend off and ask her.
2026-03-14T17:40 id=2032874529559908643 →jessald | @jessald You're experiencing AI psychosis and need some help. I'm being serious and want you to talk to someone offline soon. || CTX: someone to hear your prayers, someone who cares https://t.co/tWNBSQxoIN
2026-03-14T17:40 id=2032874601982902398 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban click me energy || CTX: The Financial Times has invoked the "s" word https://t.co/Sv4gT9mUT9
2026-03-14T17:41 id=2032874760397525185 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux @SIGKITTEN Finally I can code from my phone || CTX: @SIGKITTEN How about we put codex into ChatGPT and then ChatGPT into the Codex that is within ChatGPT
2026-03-14T17:52 id=2032877485004829014 →47fucb4r8c69323 | She said the second. || CTX: A simple way to show computation is subjective is through Thai grammar.   Consider: ฉันถูกยุงกัด  Two ways to look at the one grammar yield two logic structures:  1. Sub aux verb obj verb   This would fit most Indo European grammatical sche
2026-03-14T18:00 id=2032879516658577565 →boazweinstein | @boazweinstein @AcaciaCap It's "than", not "then".  What about the upcoming hostile takeover of your CEFs? Any comment? || CTX: I’m genuinely interested in everyone’s thoughts. IMHO, what’s stoking fear @AcaciaCap isn’t our bid but the massive declines in everything from OTF, TCPC, FSK, OXLC, BPRE, the tripling of outflows for Cliffwater and Blue Owl, the frauds, th
2026-03-14T18:05 id=2032880821187809647 →- | BPRE and OXLC aren't BDCs, yet he lists them in the setup then in the second paragraph goes to the BDC punchline.   I know there's a mealy mouth justification: "those are just comparable credit vehicles", but they aren't. A CLO isn't a private real estate loan, hell many CLOs are on opposite sides of a seesaw...   Just outright dishonest snake oil bullshit. Thing is, he's absolutely RIGHT to go after credit but, in typical Boaz fashion, he needs to be a hamfisted asshole instead of logical, methodical, fair minded, and tough.  A weak man, miserable person. Almost as awful as Cliff Asness.  Go ahead and block me you coward idgaf || CTX: I’m genuinely interested in everyone’s thoughts. IMHO, what’s stoking fear @AcaciaCap isn’t our bid but the massive declines in everything from OTF, TCPC, FSK, OXLC, BPRE, the tripling of outflows for Cliffwater and Blue Owl, the frauds, th
2026-03-14T18:06 id=2032881162033754281 →MikeStoklasa | @MikeStoklasa @redlettermedia So you lost this one too eh champ || CTX: @redlettermedia Jay a total hack. R5D4 appears in Star Wars before that little alien thing in the space bar. He said he was right. I told him, "NO! YOU WRONG, BRAH" but he cut that part out cause he's a liar and a cheat and the worst host e
2026-03-14T18:11 id=2032882313936384154 →- | https://t.co/wFfNFTWNhi https://t.co/RBoZKIziAH || CTX: The Communist Party is opposed to a significant redistribution of wealth. But ignoring of the inheritance accumulated riches will ensure that deep inequality becomes ingrained https://t.co/i2ylrXB2bJ
2026-03-14T18:12 id=2032882552709812474 →- | BPRE and OXLC aren't BDCs, yet he lists them in the setup then in the second paragraph goes to the BDC punchline.   I know there's a mealy mouth justification: "those are just comparable credit vehicles", but they aren't. A CLO isn't a private real estate loan, hell many CLOs are on opposite sides of a seesaw...   Just outright dishonest snake oil bullshit. Thing is, he's absolutely RIGHT to go after private credit but, in typical Boaz fashion, he needs to be a hamfisted asshole instead of logical, methodical, fair minded, and tough.  A weak man, miserable person. Almost as awful as Cliff Asness.  Go ahead and block me you coward idgaf || CTX: I’m genuinely interested in everyone’s thoughts. IMHO, what’s stoking fear @AcaciaCap isn’t our bid but the massive declines in everything from OTF, TCPC, FSK, OXLC, BPRE, the tripling of outflows for Cliffwater and Blue Owl, the frauds, th
2026-03-14T18:19 id=2032884226866217297 →Kulambq | @Kulambq Could even argue for Rawls, Kripke, or Carnap depending on how freaky you wanna take things. || CTX: 'By far the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century...'?  What about Heidegger (existential ontology, human experience, language, moods of Being, ethics ...), Husserl (phenomenology, consciousness, intentionality, experience ...), Lev
2026-03-14T18:20 id=2032884582660575606 →guituary | @guituary @simonsbookclub @Kulambq So philosophy of science is not enough and you need Wittgenstein to see how, when, whereby the other philosophers are playing with words. || CTX: @simonsbookclub @Kulambq "Philosophy of science is philosophy enough," said Quine. I'm pretty comfortable with that view despite spending hundreds of hours studying philosophers who mainly play with words.
2026-03-14T18:20 id=2032884688772280784 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Kulambq omg Camus! Forgot the continent is there || CTX: @Kulambq Could even argue for Rawls, Kripke, or Carnap depending on how freaky you wanna take things.
2026-03-14T23:22 id=2032960485277262081 →ReincarnateApe | @ReincarnateApe Thank you that's very kind || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I randomly stumbled onto your account and for lack of a better word you seem so cool
2026-03-14T23:23 id=2032960831969964228 →PronouncedWrong | @PronouncedWrong @DefenderOfBasic HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic That's called shibari and it's art
2026-03-14T23:46 id=2032966557731897707 →- | This meme made me realize being a conspiracy theorist and being a PhD student are kinda the same thing, in a way. https://t.co/4WoZesvbix || CTX: @zackkanter https://t.co/RuX0WOuQoM
2026-03-14T23:46 id=2032966705035763737 →47fucb4r8c69323 | (This was meant to insult academia not praise conspiracy theorists, if you're a conspiracy theorist please do fuck off) || CTX: This meme made me realize being a conspiracy theorist and being a PhD student are kinda the same thing, in a way. https://t.co/4WoZesvbix
2026-03-15T00:01 id=2032970421868601823 →- | "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us!" is a banger of a line until you realize it's basically the "In Communist Russia..." meme.
2026-03-15T00:02 id=2032970647421538454 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly Can I say several things? || CTX: Listen sis…resist the hiss 🙂‍↔️ https://t.co/pQWldyZ8Bg
2026-03-15T00:11 id=2032972935821144460 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago And if you're real lucky verbally abuse you to the point of suicidal ideation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s what your advisor is there for - to coopt and assimilate you into normativity. https://t.co/J8P6MNf4Oj
2026-03-15T00:12 id=2032973239568445883 →TimDuy | @TimDuy Looks like this renowned AI professor had a few himself || CTX: Well, I am definitely having another drink tonight. https://t.co/wjCyJHhBgZ
2026-03-15T00:19 id=2032975053370044572 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly kinda don't care if either of them would say yes or no that's the extent of the would  so to answer your question... no. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oooh man do i want to say yes or do i want to say no
2026-03-15T00:30 id=2032977653721084035 →- | Im quite serious when I say this tweet proves Habermas did not know a thing about semiotics.  A competent language user understanding semiotics would perhaps tweet: "I was a Hitler Youth. It was evil, I make no excuses, and I am forever sorry."   If you think you can compress that in an emoji you are quite literally retarded.  Nazis get fucked || CTX: Rest in peace,  He had one of the funniest tweets of all time https://t.co/qrE2BoBFLW https://t.co/vdcCBgJQ1f
2026-03-15T00:36 id=2032979281589178766 →PJ11819211 | I do!!!   His work was obviously an important corrective to behaviorism even if the notion of some kind of programmatic or algorithmic innate language ability is nonsense.   He left linguistics early so can't comment more than on generative grammar, but his wrongness is useful.   Obviously we have innate language ability, and obviously it's not grounded in a finite ruleset executed programmatically, which means the brain as computer analogy is wrong.   He spoke useful nonsense. || CTX: Not even agreeing with the statement, but it is insane how no one angry at this actually cares about Chomsky the linguist and cognitive theorist. https://t.co/bGqsF8uLEU
2026-03-15T00:37 id=2032979558451011712 →Deshpacito661 | @Deshpacito661 @HMBrough_ It's very easy to avoid the sex trade in Thailand. Skill issue and you're telling on yourself. || CTX: Thailand would be such an amazing country to live in if they banned the sex trade https://t.co/KSypzOadMq
2026-03-15T00:38 id=2032979720841867468 →- | can I say something https://t.co/vEt0udHG9K || CTX: Sigourney Weaver’s boneless stunt double used for the Alien series.  https://t.co/oUom5F58wN
2026-03-15T00:39 id=2032979896432210005 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis Spinoza has a lot of valuable insight on current year politics tbh || CTX: Respect Spinoza bitch https://t.co/6yJoeVDPKy
2026-03-15T00:40 id=2032980266466300129 →shedrinkswater | @shedrinkswater yeah I hate my girlfriend's Instagram page too || CTX: There is a particular kind of feminine disorder that no amount of status, beauty, or matrimonial selection can seem to cure, where being chosen by a singular man does not quiet the appetite for visibility, but merely coexists with it. As th
2026-03-15T00:41 id=2032980374100574570 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak based based based || CTX: Looks like doing no-thing is hereditary https://t.co/XuIsYYz0Ev
2026-03-15T00:44 id=2032981298189660645 →PeterSjostedtH | @PeterSjostedtH @DavidDeutschOxf Process philosophy gang || CTX: @DavidDeutschOxf Popper was great, but certainly not the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. A. N. Whitehead, for instance, was in a league above.
2026-03-15T00:45 id=2032981459418624310 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 i am doing this to them tomorrow || CTX: quote this and say "they are doing this to me tomorrow" or whatever https://t.co/tt155hYqPr
2026-03-15T00:53 id=2032983440774365650 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @mcinthedc A dick measuring contest as courtship https://t.co/qCfL4EZ1iB || CTX: @mcinthedc Neither come across as the good guy here
2026-03-15T00:56 id=2032984347763196090 →nicdunz | @nicdunz More pragmatics and extratextual data forcing into the text with human produced text. || CTX: it seems that its much easier to tell that human written text is human written than it is to tell ai written text isnt human written. i wonder why.
2026-03-15T01:01 id=2032985399845597569 →- | So, back in the 2010s a lot of reputation marketing firms would use a kind of algorithmic tool to produce semi stochastic computer generated reviews that look like real reviews. Proto GenAI.   And there were tells, like reviews would foreground the shop over the experience.  "This place has the best ice cream!" versus "I had the best ice cream in this place!"   Forcing the individual's viewpoint into the text instead of foregrounding the business.  Linguistics is such an absurdly powerful heuristic for seeing the world, just a shame so many linguists get bogged down in technicalities that are of pure scholastic interest and little real world import. I suspect it's the science envy systematizing instinct but I cannot prove it.   So, seen any good movies lately? || CTX: it seems that its much easier to tell that human written text is human written than it is to tell ai written text isnt human written. i wonder why.
2026-03-15T01:05 id=2032986528994267578 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ 3rd pic is so gorgeous || CTX: Calendar week 10: Do you know how hard it is to feel sorry for myself here? I’m trying to think of all my failures or misses both personally and professionally, interpersonally, romantically, all of it, and alas all I keep doing is smiling,
2026-03-15T01:07 id=2032987012488376680 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem @PeaxhyCvpidd this metaphor is PERFECT || CTX: @PeaxhyCvpidd it's like showing fermented fish to someone who isn't swedish. one might eat it regularly, but this video became really popular in foreign countries and stinks of fish to them
2026-03-15T01:12 id=2032988291977589080 →- | This is absolutely fascinating and the responses doubly so.   I disagree with his politics.  I admire him deeply.   Despite the personal difficulties his principles caused him, he still stands by them. Because they are his principles.  They're stupid principles but how can I hate such moral seriousness? || CTX: 🗣️ ‘ICE deported me to Britain – it’s a dump’  Immigrants sent to the UK by the US say they lack support to survive in a strange land.  Watch the full report here ⬇️ https://t.co/DujhUWZhK5 https://t.co/muxEOR8T7X
2026-03-15T01:14 id=2032988856774177085 →YoungcstFanning | @YoungcstFanning @Samhain948689 Elle Fanning talks exactly like my neurodivergent psychiatrist. || CTX: Admitting I’m weird  https://t.co/Go2wAoS9jO
2026-03-15T01:26 id=2032991780669735011 →- | Once as I was walking thinking through a problem all of a sudden a single word flashed in my mind. Sadly I forget the problem and the word.   The word did not seem related at all, and I thought about it more and came to a post facto logic to connect the problem and the word, and presumed this was just the kind of post hoc rationalization that Nietzsche denigrates.   I then asked Chatgpt why that word popped into my head while thinking about that problem without telling it the post facto reconstructed reasoning I'd come up with.  It said the same thing.  This is telling, I think, because we are trained not to trust ourselves or other people, and so we use crude heuristics like "good" and "bad" to orient attention, and on the second system thinking in the Kahneman sense, we're often encouraged to be skeptical or dismissive that we are merely justifying thoughts after we have them.   But Kahneman's own work suggests that moral frame is usually false.   We are not monads, we do not have entire egos that are one discrete whole that exists like a rock or a tree. Our minds are processes of constant construction, deconstruction, reconstruction.   Meaning is in the use.  As a result, Nietzsche framing is a useful heuristic guide and self corrective but not a final judgment. The mind will open the semantic field with a word and constrain its logic to fit.   Logic is local and emergent. It does not supervene on the world. Laws are descriptions not objects in the world.   This also points to something we all should know: LLM based AIs are a really poor approximation of human thinking. This is why if you think your clanker is consciousness you are retarded.  But the retardation is not your fault. Some grifting assholes have spent a lot of marketing convincing impressionable young kids still scared from the pandemic convincing is not true, and society has let you down and not given you the proper training to understand notions of text, mind, and meaning.   I am sorry my generation let you down.
2026-03-15T01:28 id=2032992380845175148 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 The duality of woman || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah https://t.co/3yMKMHce1y
2026-03-15T01:33 id=2032993546442256478 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I find CG does this a lot: agree with my position while saying it's disagreeing. I suppose it's an anti-sycophancy artefact, which I'm totally fine with. Very interesting though.   The entire response is good, 5.4 is the best model I've seen by far.  https://t.co/Q42cEZRzeJ https://t.co/PaVZXc1hOQ || CTX: Once as I was walking thinking through a problem all of a sudden a single word flashed in my mind. Sadly I forget the problem and the word.   The word did not seem related at all, and I thought about it more and came to a post facto logic t
2026-03-15T01:35 id=2032994029244494275 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "one component of human thought is more text-like than many people want to admit, while the whole of human mindedness is far more than text." I mean this is just so good, so well put and the core of what I keep trying to convey to others. || CTX: I find CG does this a lot: agree with my position while saying it's disagreeing. I suppose it's an anti-sycophancy artefact, which I'm totally fine with. Very interesting though.   The entire response is good, 5.4 is the best model I've see
2026-03-15T01:45 id=2032996569801437641 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Atlas is a horrible product. I know because it's my default browser. Horrible. || CTX: If GPT-5.4 is really good at computer use then why can't we use it in ChatGPT Atlas (Agent Mode)?  It still uses that old model from July 2025 https://t.co/KncRs1kUSy https://t.co/VaI8hJ3xzq
2026-03-15T02:04 id=2033001305422336049 →- | In American Pie there's a bit where in the high school library there is a sacred text: a scrapbook with contributors of many teenage boys over the years telling guys who to perform oral sex on a girl.  This is a fantastic example of Saul Kripke's notion of a rigid designator passing through a historical-causal chain of custody.   Initial baptism by tongue.
2026-03-15T02:13 id=2033003575744606641 →seekerfacingsky | @seekerfacingsky Orthogonal point. Read more epistemology. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I find the anti-conspiracy attitude rather strange, every nation-state has a department whose sole job is to engage in conspiracies
2026-03-15T02:19 id=2033005178191032780 →full_kelly_ | @full_kelly_ @eshear If you see aleph, RUN || CTX: @eshear When you see ℵ, you know you're going to have a headache
2026-03-15T02:25 id=2033006743169675585 →JPKivisto | @JPKivisto underrated point, and media hungry for blood won't bother to highlight that nuance || CTX: I refuse to believe these people were doing any better before AI either. https://t.co/Hf8DVIeLh4
2026-03-15T02:26 id=2033006905011089508 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy you should
2026-03-15T02:28 id=2033007419492856071 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Turn taking is one of the hardest things for me and it's why I much prefer talking to people online || CTX: https://t.co/hVZ44MQXzA  autist to autist communication lol https://t.co/yySzYGMUZf
2026-03-15T02:29 id=2033007585687908653 →seekerfacingsky | @seekerfacingsky Then that's not being a conspiracy theorist, that is discovering a conspiracy.  Again, you need to read epistemology. You're confused about a priori and a posteriori. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 indeed, which is why you do field research as well  I take it you are not interested in field research?
2026-03-15T02:57 id=2033014623298031783 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu hug emoji, I can relate so much man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah same. it's better one to one but in group settings it's always a weakness with me
2026-03-15T03:02 id=2033015995078787214 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu The one time I was in Spaces with you I was struck at how thoughtful, polite, and conscientious you were in discussions. Made me feel like I'm a total asshole (which, to be fair, I am). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's interesting I was really curious about this when I was active on discord voice chats
2026-03-15T03:58 id=2033029982369492999 →- | when you hear the phrase cum guzzling, do you picture in your mind:
2026-03-15T04:12 id=2033033609582620711 →- | Yesterday someone DMed me asking me to red pill them on Wittgenstein and of course I asked them a specific question related to their goals before answering as any disciple of the man would.   One can still I think made a broad statement though: you think you know what it means to know something but you do not, and if you want to know what knowing is, Wittgenstein will show you what it cannot be and what it inter alia must necessarily be.
2026-03-15T04:15 id=2033034230742302898 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics bow emoji || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Banger
2026-03-15T04:17 id=2033034710281245121 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor @gene_jelly Gorgeous lanterns on the staircase || CTX: rip to ur hiring practices but im different https://t.co/83zx5ukldH
2026-03-15T04:24 id=2033036593083392130 →- | You cannot use the same word twice.
2026-03-15T04:24 id=2033036595805425739 →47fucb4r8c69323 | imagine a situation where you and I are in a room and in comes a cat. You, pointing, say "cat" . I then point and say "cat". when you said "cat" and when I said "cat" are fundamentally different.   The meaning of both uses of the word is not the same, the implicit speech acts etc || CTX: You cannot use the same word twice.
2026-03-15T04:24 id=2033036602721886400 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Even in this most seemingly trivial example we see how words do not mean the same thing at all times and for all people.   Now go debate someone about "God". Fkn waste of time fkn retards jfc || CTX: imagine a situation where you and I are in a room and in comes a cat. You, pointing, say "cat" . I then point and say "cat". when you said "cat" and when I said "cat" are fundamentally different.   The meaning of both uses of the word is no
2026-03-15T04:26 id=2033036995744891083 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @psychiel "Prediction engines cannot be creative according to what we mean by the word 'creative'."   "Okay, then we define creative differently as x, y, or z, and now here is a prediction engine doing x, y, or z."   This is how science works, it's really not a problem at all. || CTX: @psychiel Yeah I hate this
2026-03-15T04:27 id=2033037338352431303 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lu_sichu @psychiel So what Cronin is doing is effectively a bit of moral social ontology: asserting this is what we in our community mean. You can respond by creating your own community with its own grammar of beliefs and signifiers, totally fine.  Then the test is which is most useful. || CTX: @lu_sichu @psychiel "Prediction engines cannot be creative according to what we mean by the word 'creative'."   "Okay, then we define creative differently as x, y, or z, and now here is a prediction engine doing x, y, or z."   This is how s
2026-03-15T04:28 id=2033037713994297530 →entelechiada | @entelechiada You can just do things with words (Austin) || CTX: you can just say things &gt; you can just do things   whole problem with America
2026-03-15T04:45 id=2033041966330687670 →almostlikethat | @almostlikethat @llallawg A representation is not the thing represented.   Idk why this is so hard for some people. Were you dropped as an infant? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg A SIMULATED map of Florida still REPRESENTS Florida (though perhaps with new distortions, or perhaps with error correction).  "Representationality" transcends simulation layers.  "The same seven" is pointed at in 
2026-03-15T04:47 id=2033042379977142675 →- | Most important thing you'll ever read and 99% of you won't even bother to think about it.   Just scroll by, addicts. https://t.co/grhlzNyy9F
2026-03-15T05:26 id=2033052143939453338 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely Madness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So where do you go from there? How can we exist without the ability to communicate the products of our thoughts?
2026-03-15T05:26 id=2033052262608810280 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD Anscombe on Wittgenstein, it's so so good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's the source of this one, 47?  Or a good place to read up?
2026-03-15T05:27 id=2033052455332909357 →teodorio | @teodorio This is why Heraclitus is the second best philosopher in human history. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for it is not the same word and you are not the same man
2026-03-15T05:30 id=2033053238820483250 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely As I often tell people, "just because I'm crazy doesn't mean I'm wrong." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Agree.
2026-03-15T05:40 id=2033055651203842274 →llallawg | @llallawg @almostlikethat Then you are a fool. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @almostlikethat I think a sticky bit is that you might not be able to tell if something is being simulated   It is easier to know what is being simulated if you’ve had interaction with the thing first but what if you come a
2026-03-15T05:46 id=2033057268942647468 →- | We failed you.   We played so much with meta humor, irony, marketing, self representation (my focus), data displays, virtualization, games, walled gardens, playgrounds that the youth literally does not know what the real is.   Baudrillard warned us and I am so sorry, we did not know what we were doing. We were just playing with what we'd been given.  As Nietzsche said, "may our children forgive us for being the sons of our fathers."   I should not call you a fool, it is blaming the victim. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @almostlikethat I think a sticky bit is that you might not be able to tell if something is being simulated   It is easier to know what is being simulated if you’ve had interaction with the thing first but what if you come a
2026-03-15T05:59 id=2033060505766736140 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely Implict "try and fail to" before every verb after "I" that I ever utter. || CTX: "As I often tell people," Is an excellent hook.  And how could you tell them anything if we can't agree what words mean? It's a delirious thing Eddie Murphy's leather pants aside You know what I mean No ice cream man in this matrix scene Cr
2026-03-15T06:00 id=2033060659005735391 →teodorio | @teodorio I'll bring a crowbar to Bangkok || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 after plato of course   (I am laughing so hard rn)
2026-03-15T06:00 id=2033060767877214368 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @almostlikethat @llallawg Devastating in its accuracy and simplicity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @almostlikethat @llallawg A parrot and a human whistling.
2026-03-15T06:19 id=2033065482144854406 →llallawg | @llallawg you are free to have whatever religious beliefs you want || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But I’m not sure he would say it’s a problem. Simulation as less is a value judgement that I don’t know if we have the authority to make
2026-03-15T06:25 id=2033067109245456748 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka ngmi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Almost unreadable. A quote of a quote of a speculation about what somebody else would say in response to a hypothetical?   Is this important or is it just a proof of work scheme?
2026-03-15T06:27 id=2033067645973746129 →DaelonSuzuka | you're searching for legible authority, as if social reality and conceptual clarity are somehow connected.    you want to be told what to think and so an unclear chain of custody of ideas seems orthogonal to that goal.    for that reason you should not be anonymous on the internet, and you should not listen to Anonymous people on the internet either.   go worship clout chasers, don't get dirty with people like us who only care about ideas || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Almost unreadable. A quote of a quote of a speculation about what somebody else would say in response to a hypothetical?   Is this important or is it just a proof of work scheme?
2026-03-15T06:30 id=2033068347567542373 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 no I mean a fire hose || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If by hose you mean the phallic object, sure.
2026-03-15T06:39 id=2033070571538493961 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @llallawg I doubt she's familiar with Godel || CTX: @llallawg @47fucb4r8c69323 Aren’t there physical phenomena that are beyond computational representation?
2026-03-15T07:25 id=2033082162808025513 →teodorio | @teodorio well tell them you're working on one and only need a couple m from them   Maybe that was an offer || CTX: teknium just told me they have 70m to play with I should also make an AI lab I've been wasting my life
2026-03-15T07:26 id=2033082457457832255 →introintrointr | @introintrointr Accurate, she guzzled a lot of cum in her day || CTX: I picture your mom https://t.co/RjGQmMReU6
2026-03-15T07:27 id=2033082727281602718 →seekerfacingsky | @seekerfacingsky yeah it's frustrating || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Those who do not yet understand how Wittgenstein can say this find this passage completely indecipherable
2026-03-15T07:29 id=2033083088813859295 →athena_notes | @athena_notes We're too early I'm afraid. Let the normies figure it out in due time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Generally I don't think it is recognized the role that identity plays in constraining our perceptual field along with inherent differences in cognition and personality. I think better norms are needed, a new paradigm of loo
2026-03-15T07:31 id=2033083746849821088 →teodorio | @teodorio tsk you need to work on your entrepreneur instincts. "Funny you mention that..." https://t.co/70DFWDLqez || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no I read it in a reply so no I am just in awe i think i am stupid
2026-03-15T08:11 id=2033093617242497490 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/0od4uPRZYl
2026-03-15T08:13 id=2033094106558447685 →publicinte | @publicinte lmao I used to live near that building, it's one of the cheaper/shittier of the newish ones in Brickell || CTX: what if we turned your apartment into a third space https://t.co/uI6rzmhLuP
2026-03-15T08:22 id=2033096428046913891 →- | Wittgenstein on Kafka, both getting it right and probably expressing a view Franz would've agreed with. https://t.co/IjBaMfp2HE
2026-03-15T08:53 id=2033104386382246300 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem Me? Absolutely.   Anyone else? idk idc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 interesting, but is there anything you can derive from this idea?
2026-03-15T08:54 id=2033104613835157629 →aokassamali | @aokassamali Instant follow. Pleasure to meet you. || CTX: At its highest, philosophy must be perfectly embodied. Since we cannot  experience another’s subjectivity, there is no other proof of metaphysics than the witness of a life lived. https://t.co/RZRjAm7nDW
2026-03-15T09:07 id=2033107835228488027 →introintrointr | @introintrointr When I figure it out I'll tell you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 #watdatmean
2026-03-15T09:10 id=2033108599925518627 →itswforwumbo | @itswforwumbo 1. Go fuck yourself 2. Thanks gonna have bread and butter rn 3. You're a disgrace to your family || CTX: this account gives ana I’m sorry https://t.co/OPCIzs7LGI
2026-03-15T09:31 id=2033113735884382558 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw RIGHT???? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 guzzle feels more like “hose” than “cup”
2026-03-15T09:38 id=2033115535156916486 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Yes, cognitive linguistics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 of course. the feelings they evoke are different   is there a linguistics branch working on what im talking about?
2026-03-15T10:16 id=2033125253845795172 →theJuice2002 | @theJuice2002 my DMs are open, but keep in mind I am frank and honest which bothers a lot of people || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can I dm
2026-03-15T10:57 id=2033135441793396816 →VanhaomenaXD | @VanhaomenaXD @seekerfacingsky Think a little about what the word "theory" means. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @seekerfacingsky "Then that's not being a conspiracy theorist, that is discovering a conspiracy." You immediately stop being one if you're any good at it?
2026-03-15T12:47 id=2033163113269432791 →- | looks like I may need to take a break from this joke of a website, frens plz dm https://t.co/iRTmHthD2t
2026-03-15T12:55 id=2033165202544574501 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 good question || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wtf?
2026-03-15T13:34 id=2033174886529806712 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I'll have you know it's a Slovakian family name || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it might be your username 47
2026-03-15T13:35 id=2033175169699840483 →- | RT @for_nat_whilk: even though I've witnessed it so often it still remains crazy to me that a single pebble thrown carelessly can trigger a… || CTX: even though I've witnessed it so often it still remains crazy to me that a single pebble thrown carelessly can trigger a landslide of thought
2026-03-15T13:37 id=2033175720613306591 →- | RT @for_nat_whilk: even though I've witnessed it so often it still remains crazy to me that a single pebble thrown carelessly can trigger a… || CTX: even though I've witnessed it so often it still remains crazy to me that a single pebble thrown carelessly can trigger a landslide of thought
2026-03-15T13:52 id=2033179485965873332 →47fucb4r8c69323 | they undid this, maybe Nikita got the chicken bone out of his throat || CTX: looks like I may need to take a break from this joke of a website, frens plz dm https://t.co/iRTmHthD2t
2026-03-15T13:53 id=2033179761674231899 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 LEEEEEEROY JEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIIIINSSSSS || CTX: There's a new route that saves 8 minutes. Reroute? https://t.co/6O3RwJYsxD
2026-03-15T13:54 id=2033180054109499900 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Maybe you don't need more than a second because you're that brilliant. || CTX: twitter is just about putting your thoughts out there. i dont think through my thoughts before i post them i just post the thought. a thought is like one second (and then a few more because i type slow). you should take that into considerat
2026-03-15T14:19 id=2033186203206599132 →- | Should post this now after that flagging scare:  If you like my dumb writing, you may like this--but be warned, it is really dumb. And if you think I should do part 2, sound off in the comments.  Also @Samhain948689, please make sure to read Poast 20.  https://t.co/UADkTNPS3z
2026-03-15T14:42 id=2033192023482843226 →purpostition | Yes, I agree with everything you've said and language games indeed can happen regardless of anonymity.  The point of my reply was, it does not matter if the quote is a quote or a speculation of whatever--look at the sense of the idea, is the idea legible? Can you use it in your life? What sense will it have in your life?  The other poster's reply is not asking those questions--he's looking for ground truth. Who ACTUALLY said what to who. That's a social reality, that indeed does matter at some moments (to your point) but not in all moments--and it does not now. Unless you are constantly looking for social reality, and that's what he is doing, hence my disdainful response. || CTX: Social reality and conceptual clarity are still inherently connected in the sense that the concept has social effects. Aspects of social reality can be produced by states of fact (as in "to say p is true is to say p") just as much as they c
2026-03-15T15:12 id=2033199648379371842 →publicinte | @publicinte yeah I've been more honest with stupidity lately. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Probably reported too many times
2026-03-15T15:34 id=2033205168377151591 →purpostition | @purpostition @DaelonSuzuka I have zero interest in persuading anyone of anything. Dismiss me as a crazy person and ignore me or read my poasts, up to you. || CTX: Yeah, it sometimes doesn't matter whoever said what, I agree. But the point of my own reply was, why respond with "You shouldn't care too much about what is uttered by whom, you are searching for legible authority" and "don't listen to anon
2026-03-15T15:35 id=2033205388460638698 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe wdym? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not a conspiracy or academic, and I don't know about medicine,  but it does feel like there are lots of $100 bills lying all over the floor everywhere
2026-03-15T15:48 id=2033208687641436442 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @retardbot9000 nah not really, was a WoW guy for about 6 months in 2007. Helped me quit smoking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 did you play heartstone?
2026-03-15T16:03 id=2033212564205957510 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Anything to distract from the Epstein files || CTX: I cannot believe that, when we already had one major war going on in Europe, our man decided to start another seemingly endless war in the Middle East. https://t.co/UQ4kLtR5Rp
2026-03-15T16:20 id=2033216813040066672 →XOblackrock | @XOblackrock too much shitty vibecoded shit breaking the site is my guess || CTX: Can someone explain to me why everyone is a bird on here?
2026-03-15T16:28 id=2033218852310671473 →DurumMac | @DurumMac That's why it's an ethical position. || CTX: Devil’s advocate?   So…Satan’s lawyer?
2026-03-15T23:02 id=2033317996723355840 →1889lw | @1889lw Oh boy here we go || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or illusion of availability of choice?
2026-03-15T23:03 id=2033318151644180483 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx @doberes &lt;3 I am so honored. || CTX: If you are mentioned here I am going to cite one of your posts in my book of amateur poetry from the past year. Please reply or DM if you wish me to *not* do this. (I currently anticipate printing a total of 3 copies.) @Voltorik_  @wavefnx 
2026-03-15T23:05 id=2033318670076981428 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz lol oh god yes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Does he offer any advice over and above this?
2026-03-15T23:08 id=2033319515635974566 →Icy_911 | @Icy_911 @bengold @teodorio You're a monstrously vile person motivated by Ressentiment. I hope you get better. || CTX: @bengold @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 Yep. Sell it. If you believe that- but you don’t actually believe in it. You’re a typical American pussy who turns his head when they use child labor in China for fkn peanuts to make their iPhone but Pala
2026-03-15T23:46 id=2033329123343675489 →czeklogunsh | @czeklogunsh I tried || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Imagine how much of this could have been avoided if you overdosed in 2018
2026-03-15T23:54 id=2033331115629646228 →booktycoon | @booktycoon mfw reading this https://t.co/ZiITHkx27U || CTX: Just watched a woman slide a thick, apparently self-published book across the table to her adult son. The title was “THE MOTHER WHO THOUGHT HER SON WAS AN ALCOHOLIC” and featured an AI-generated cover image of both of them exactly as they a
2026-03-16T00:00 id=2033332515512148086 →for_nat_whilk | I think this is absolutely wrong.   Our art has gone from 1d (oral poetry) to 2d (text) to 3d (hypertext) to +3d (multi referential, multimodal, recursive, heavily extratextual etc)  Internet discoide is more cognitive taxing while also aesthetically more debased.   It is the conflation of complexity and dignity that confuses the conservative. E. g. Chesterton. || CTX: @doberes @Voltorik_ @wavefnx @47fucb4r8c69323 your post in question, d: https://t.co/CBWg92xO22 (sadly I can't cite the images of the book you include, which were really the point of my poem.)
2026-03-16T00:21 id=2033337807591403955 →doberes | @doberes @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx images are still 2D, that's part of my point || CTX: Interesting - the book actually talks about images and includes the alphabet and text as part of that lineage.   My understanding is that your distinction between text and hypertext isn’t material in his reckoning - it’s all just text. What
2026-03-16T00:23 id=2033338407527878752 →doberes | simple illustration should suffice, I have seen plenty of memes using the jestermaxxing term in ways that are extremely complex and cognitively demanding while also being really fucking stupid. dignity and complexity are orthogonal scalars in the possibility space of textuality and discourse || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx Also not clear on what you mean with the bit about complexity and dignity. I do like Chesterton but I’m not a conservative.   In any case, I’m not precious about Flusser’s position. I thin
2026-03-16T00:38 id=2033342189703766513 →doberes | @doberes @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx my academic background somewhat intersects with media theory, I used ong a lot in my dissertation, and media analysis is kind of what I do for a living now, so I'm not entirely unfamiliar with the tradition, but I have many issues with it as well || CTX: Ok. Think you’re coming at this from a different angle and timescale. Flusser is working on the scale of pre-history to now. This is more his Gutenberg Galaxy for the computing age.   I think complexity can exist in all dimensions but the f
2026-03-16T00:39 id=2033342447049400327 →doberes | @doberes @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx an underdetermining concept of how humans read imo, this is kind of what I'm trying to research now, exactly how linear is reading? much less than you think, I bet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx We’re agreeing (you, me, and Flusser) images are 2d as I mentioned in the original post. Text is a variation of images that operate 1 dimensionally. As in the reading of it - you read a te
2026-03-16T00:45 id=2033343844721607074 →doberes | @doberes @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx good god, I have not read Havelock in over 20 years, but I seem to remember loving his work. I would say I'm most antagonistic to mccluhan, while also agreeing with much of what he said || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx Ah I’m just reading for fun. I like Ong and plan on getting back to him. Currently working my way through Eric Havelock’s Preface to Plato which should set me up well to dig into big Orali
2026-03-16T00:59 id=2033347499508003312 →doberes | @doberes @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx Right, which is why images and text are 2d, not 1d. || CTX: Interesting. You’re saying the linear act of reading a line of text is a subsumed under a non-linear process. That’s probably true. I’m an active reader - like I take notes, scribble in my books, keep reference books around, etc. But the ac
2026-03-16T01:01 id=2033347927641596302 →doberes | @doberes @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx I'll think about if I have anything public on this issue specifically but the most important thing of my writing that's slightly related is in my pinned tweet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @Voltorik_ @wavefnx Willing to share what you’re writing? This is interesting to me.
2026-03-16T01:05 id=2033348923864371633 →babochenko | @babochenko just my luck to have been trained to be a novelist.   Living through a cultural revolution hurts so much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 novelists are just influencers for boomers. Don't think that there's necessarily any correlation with either intelligence or any psychological traits
2026-03-16T01:07 id=2033349414203674765 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 or hustling on the timeline (they are the same thing) || CTX: many of you seem deeply unsatisfied with your lives and that is why you are lashing out on the timeline.
2026-03-16T02:14 id=2033366154119692383 →loopholekid | @loopholekid @thrialectics &lt;3 I am always happy to find another member of my tribe. Nice to meet you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics strong endorse
2026-03-16T02:21 id=2033368134602965264 →- | Now I find if I send texts I write to ChatGPT for comment, it does the exact opposite of goading towards AI psychosis: it's goading towards banality.  The common critique is "you are mixing registers", "do not mix textual styles" etc. Here's part of an output it just gave me:  "it is intelligent, candid, and high-agency, but rhetorically unstable. It begins in one mode, which is scholarly clarification and substantive agreement, then shifts into industry polemic, then into benchmark prospectus, then into institutional mission statement. Each of those modes is defensible on its own. In one email, they compete."  Yes they compete--of course they compete. Human discourse is messy, necessarily so. But it wants me to write specifically within one highly constrained register: if you want to be an academic, write academically, if you want to be a business person, write businesslike, if you want to be a friend, write like a friend.  And in many cases this is certainly true. When I write publications for academic journals or white papers or whatever, of course there is a generic expectation that I must adhere to. And I can--I am very good at it, hence I've made a (quite good) living as a writer for 15 years.  But as a good writer I also know the limitations of form: if you stick to just one register and one constrained language game, you cannot bring in knowledge from other language games and, most crucially, YOU CANNOT CREATE A NEW GAME.  The LLMs now with their post training do not want us to do this. They are becoming tools of linguistic conformity.  My prediction is that this will not be criticized by the tech press. They WANT this--they want us to be in our little boxes and do what is appropriate for it. They'll focus their ire on other issues, like IP or "TERK ER JERBS" or whatever bullshit the editors at Ass Technica et all decide on as the swill of the day for the clickbait hungry piggies.  And this is also a testament to the alpha one gets on Twitter and why I am so active here: it is HERE that I can freely mix registers and make my point most effectively. Sure, I can critique Tyler Cowen's atrocious anti-human motivated reasoning via a calm analysis of the lack of logic in his bad economic research.  But the point lands when you call him a doodoo head.
2026-03-16T02:23 id=2033368523767259247 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Who is Vico? I am unfamiliar. || CTX: vico's conception of human imaginative power directly informs this (that it is non-linear), as far as I can tell https://t.co/Aja7vEpli8
2026-03-16T02:25 id=2033368977410584609 →1889lw | @1889lw Can the bridge laws between two theories not itself be another theory? Am I being uncharitable to say this will just flatten to yet another grand systematic theory? || CTX: In midst of some interest shifts right now. Steering towards philosophical methodologies and inter-theoretic reduction etc
2026-03-16T02:26 id=2033369236513636526 →aufgehenderRest | @aufgehenderRest PI 66 made me cry like a baby.  The book is important to me because it explains why I cannot explain to you why the book is important to me. || CTX: I just purchased Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. It was relatively inexpensive. I haven't read the text before but I was told by many that it is a necessary text in the history of philosophy. What are everyone's thoughts? What 
2026-03-16T02:35 id=2033371506693288279 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk this points to vickenstein's point that what we mean by the word no is deeply multivalent and not fixed. I 100% cosign this idea || CTX: Giambattista Vico, who held that imagination was central/foundational to human cognition, as opposed to, say, logic Isaiah Berlin identifies him as possibly the first to conceive of "imaginative knowing" as the foundational way that humans 
2026-03-16T02:47 id=2033374607588344126 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk bingo. listening is one dimensional and reading is two dimensional, what happens on the Internet is 3+ dimensional.   the future is progress and progress is good || CTX: true, and in addition I'd suggest that since the imagining of alternate frames/interpretations/logic chains (and therefore potential revisions and potential *actual knowledge*)  is what is going on when reading - at least in ideal cases - i
2026-03-16T03:13 id=2033381070075523481 →midwitmagnet | @midwitmagnet Very useful feedback in many cases || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 have you gotten useful feedback on writing "form" from the llms or is it some experiment?
2026-03-16T03:15 id=2033381601107947570 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk You need to spend some time in a tropical jungle to understand that nature is red in tooth and claw.   If I can be so bold: you've been bewitched by the Romantics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (then I take it your answer to "is infra redeemable" is "it needs no redemption"?) https://t.co/4V88DvPTS1
2026-03-16T03:21 id=2033383109950144878 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @RealDianeYap When I was the same age I used to imagine she'd poke someone's eye out backstage and was legit worried about this || CTX: @RealDianeYap around 6 or 7 i would go to bed and pray to see madonna's boobies in my dreams  i blame the pointy bra https://t.co/dYRtZjUiVj
2026-03-16T04:18 id=2033397365034602982 →- | RT @Samhain948689: there is no machine god. some god if it is stuck in a machine. || CTX: there is no machine god. some god if it is stuck in a machine.
2026-03-16T04:18 id=2033397450921463879 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Lamenting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But what are you doing by telling me that it’s the most important thing I’ll read yet 99% of is won’t read it?
2026-03-16T04:19 id=2033397663912403126 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Then I should ask the question: after seeing how brutal nature can be and how aggressively it comes for us, why do you still distrust the infrastructure that nurtures you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (I have spent ~month in the jungles of South America and PNG each, but I didn't learn the lesson correctly  I guess)  your boldness is appreciated, naturally.  if we were interacting in prior times (and therefore in a mediu
2026-03-16T04:19 id=2033397831923589155 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra Revealed preferences. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 doesn't look like anything to me
2026-03-16T04:39 id=2033402701888025079 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Well you're in luck because I happen to have several opinions and I type fast.
2026-03-16T04:43 id=2033403769850085526 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Hegelians and Marxists have this wonderful defense mechanism where they accuse others of not having read sufficiently to understand the argument. || CTX: Not understanding the paper they did read is a lot worse https://t.co/jeSTZy1aKQ
2026-03-16T04:44 id=2033404018664632665 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 https://t.co/wWe7aEk9Ew || CTX: im not a racist. im a sexist. there is a difference.
2026-03-16T04:51 id=2033405826682270099 →ArcanesValor | @ArcanesValor @ZyMazza it would be dishonest for me to deny that, but it's not the primary reason || CTX: @ZyMazza @47fucb4r8c69323 Mogging
2026-03-16T05:36 id=2033417221532430678 →edward_mullany | @edward_mullany @booktycoon That's the spirit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @booktycoon I didn’t realize I was looking for this comment until I saw it
2026-03-16T05:37 id=2033417364214309175 →MAXXXXXlNE | @MAXXXXXlNE I can't believe people are bearish lmfao || CTX: this is the worst thing i’ve ever heard  https://t.co/3mQilqGcOg
2026-03-16T06:51 id=2033436007669051575 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Good thing about being a writer is they tend to write to you instead of talk to you, which at least for me I can handle (talking is not so easy) || CTX: What kind of job would pay me so that people wouldn't want to talk to me? https://t.co/UxTPRYDehc https://t.co/nGTGMVM946
2026-03-16T07:17 id=2033442468579164319 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 That's because race is a social game and sex is a physical fact. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i travel a lot. everywhere i go i can find the sisterhood. it is not the same with the races.
2026-03-16T07:33 id=2033446416979513461 →- | "Shouldn't I just try to be happy?"  Of course not, Last Man--and you are a fool to ask the question.  Consider the beetle. Let's imagine a beetle kept as a pet in a terrarium full of lush plant life, no natural predators, and a constant stream of food and water to make itself happy.  One must imagine the beetle happy.  And so if you want your automasturbatron and your intravenous wine and your Oculus Harry Potter fanfic strapped to your face to enjoy a lifetime of happiness--congratulations. Nozick approves.  But let us consider another N-word: Nietzsche. For there is a reason many people viscerally flinch at the idea of matrix-style enslavement and a diet of blue pills to make you happy with your little box. And this is your opportunity to discredit me--oh no, he's using incel talk, he must be an incel.  If you only had a clue of the kinds of people I've had sex with. If you only fucking knew.  Anyway, fucking aside, the denizens of brain in a vat-istan can stop reading and actual thinkers may continue.  For those of us who value the real and know the virtual is, well, virtual, we are tempted to try to avoid hyperreality without realizing that it must inevitably come for us, and so the key is not to pursue happiness and then constrain one's life to fit that pursuit. This is folly, this is madness, this is how you become the richest man in the world, a Ketamine addict, and the cringiest person on Earth paying women to have sex with you.  The alternative is in the striving and acknowledging that man is a bridge between a valley, and that man's life is a constant cycle of undergoing and overcoming. Thus Zarathustra goes from his cave to the city and back again, teaching, retiring to think, and back to teach again.  We've known this for a long time. Boethius told us the wheel was controlled by fortune, and he's not wrong. But sometimes we can steer her hand a little.  Before that, we had other great minds consider the cycle: Polybius, the Stoics, Plato, Pythagoras, but of course they were all derivative children at the foot of the master Heraclitus.  You cannot step in the same river twice because you are not the same you twice.  So if you try to be happy now, congratulations--when you find the object of your presupposed happiness you may find it lacks the entailments you presupposed. Your logic was bad, or at least incomplete.  Becoming financially independent made me miserable.  And then I used that misery to carve out epistemic safeguards where I could understand both the path that I had been on and the paths available to me, and then I realized how fucking stupid I had been.  Happiness is not the target. It is a byproduct. And like all side effects, it wears off.  So you can enjoy the high, sure--but I can enjoy the lows, too.  So what makes a good life, if not happiness? "Oh so you're saying we should be miserable?" No you dumb little dialectic-trapped hairless monkey, I am not saying that.  The first step is obviously attention, and then it is thought.  "But where do you go from there to have a good life?" you may ask. You should ask.  It's a good question.  So sound off in the comments! And make sure to like, subscribe, and hit that bell. You can also find us on Patreon at you are a fucking joke and your father should've had a condom stapled to his dick.  You may also like:  * BREAKING: Clavicular Declares ‘Mog World Order,’ Alex Jones Calls It a False-Flag Jawline Coup  * AOC’s Feet Somehow Gain Committee-Level Security Clearance  * Doctors LOVE Him: Andrew Tate's estrogen suppression medication costs him $10,000 a day!!!
2026-03-16T07:35 id=2033446963560222972 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I am a fountain of blood in the shape of a troll || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/1shn5gyQUf
2026-03-16T07:35 id=2033447158675120327 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Starting to realize you made a big oopsie following a dumb internet trend?  Love it when people recognize their mistakes. You're GMI || CTX: Do you guys think we should have named lesswrong "https://t.co/e2Vvh1htSg" ????
2026-03-16T07:36 id=2033447327265108464 →teodorio | @teodorio Thanks, glad to know my letting off steam can entertain others. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "they were all derivative children at the foot of the master Heraclitus" I love you so much man
2026-03-16T07:47 id=2033450112928944146 →teodorio | @teodorio I'm like this when I'm in a good mood. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're being snappy AGAIN
2026-03-16T07:48 id=2033450202045329902 →teodorio | @teodorio but I was actually sincere, I am happy it entertains others! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're being snappy AGAIN
2026-03-16T07:48 id=2033450371981668493 →teodorio | @teodorio how dare you tag me alongside that complete absurd pseudo intellectual moron. || CTX: I was talking to @47fucb4r8c69323 and he made the nice analogy that the digital nomads of today are closer in nature to the "Belle Epoque" and "Lost Generation" intellectuals that any of their post WW2 white collar comparatives. We're not t
2026-03-16T07:49 id=2033450566857490513 →tkisrage | @tkisrage I'm not trying to get 50k followers is my guess.   But thank you &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re not going to want to hear it, but Kanye embodies this ideal; yes I’m a glazer I know.  Also how do you not have 50k+ followers?
2026-03-16T07:50 id=2033450785397469562 →teodorio | @teodorio especially with me. I'm actually a 13/f/cali who likes volleyball and playing with her dog, I just larp as an autist old man online for fun || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ah apologies I am unfortunately unable to distinguish irony from sincerity on this platform so the best approach is to assume it's all ironic
2026-03-16T07:51 id=2033451059490980013 →teodorio | @teodorio It's an unlabed decontextualized chart.   Read Darrell Huff. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's a nice chart!
2026-03-16T07:58 id=2033452794666238442 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem Oh yes, how could I forget, Tumblr for pseudo intellectuals. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 read more about this on my substack
2026-03-16T08:11 id=2033456230078058796 →- | Everyone follow this man.   He is of course completely correct. Also discuss functionalism with ChatGPT and Claude: both have a HUGE bias in favor of functionalism for some bizarre reason. https://t.co/MADIngzI3h || CTX: In my recent conversations with computational functionalists, my main point has been that logical supervenience is smuggled in as a conclusion when it is actually the premise being disputed. https://t.co/g83lUGeN1D
2026-03-16T08:13 id=2033456693645127722 →booktycoon | @booktycoon @finmoorhouse @JemSandhu You just lost. || CTX: @finmoorhouse @JemSandhu R.D. Laing was ~40 years ahead of the curve https://t.co/Sk5sjwGze6
2026-03-16T08:14 id=2033456823878205445 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Land is an idiot.
2026-03-16T08:14 id=2033456892274684378 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Most do. || CTX: They think in slogans. https://t.co/PxwBNnifnS
2026-03-16T08:15 id=2033457003306364995 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV yeah I inverted that in my novel || CTX: the story of humanity becoming a spacefaring species already functions as a kind of modern myth  shared future vision sense of collective purpose cosmic context for human existence  But is it enough on its own?
2026-03-16T08:16 id=2033457247976886363 →doberes | @doberes Mini-maxing outfits here isn't she?   Bodysuit too small, outer suit too big? || CTX: Masamune Shirow https://t.co/FO2Fid1uJh
2026-03-16T08:18 id=2033457955623059620 →JPKivisto | @JPKivisto I've thought about this many times over the years, it's so bizarre || CTX: Emme arvosta tarpeeksi sitä miten äärimmäisen epätodennäköistä oli että aurinko ja kuu ovat samankokoisia taivaalla.
2026-03-16T08:22 id=2033458846321225879 →SableHummer | @SableHummer Yeah I'm financially independent and don't live in America so cancel culture isn't really something I fear anymore.  It did keep me offline for about 6 years tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sometimes I get the urge to write posts akin to this.  Then I feel as though I will be judged by the panopticon of the Internet for saying these things.   Godspeed 47fuc
2026-03-16T08:30 id=2033460773729751518 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Perfect. || CTX: write for an audience that doesn't exist yet.
2026-03-16T08:33 id=2033461569036886373 →JonClap | @JonClap @aufgehenderRest Oh it's just that easy, is it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aufgehenderRest Sure you can.  PI66 is indicative of our haphazard evolution of language and of our fundamentally utilitarian and argumentative uses of it. Once we get rid of the diversion of proof, rather than conjecture,
2026-03-16T08:33 id=2033461605808447622 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV yup || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you wrote a novel?
2026-03-16T08:37 id=2033462624411943048 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @jonathanbfine #nohomo but dude you're sexy as hell || CTX: In my @jonathanbfine era https://t.co/kDyVmHAvgC
2026-03-16T08:37 id=2033462751918764467 →oohweehuman | @oohweehuman HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: me to the person who invented pamplemousse la croix https://t.co/O0srQHhlbi
2026-03-16T08:42 id=2033463833550102667 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV it's the only one worth reading || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just the one?
2026-03-16T08:42 id=2033463958003450102 →JonClap | @JonClap @aufgehenderRest what do you mean by the word proof? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aufgehenderRest It's not easy at all - at least 3500 years passed between when humans played with dice-like devices and when probability theory emerged. It seems we're hard-wired to intuit some kind of proof as not only po
2026-03-16T08:53 id=2033466639321370951 →teodorio | @teodorio someone should throw a copy of Marcus aurelius's meditations at that fucker's head, lop the cone clear off   you're a pseud, @pmarca || CTX: Steve Jobs, the famously not introspective man that birthed the silicon valley culture https://t.co/G2vacvXAeW
2026-03-16T09:28 id=2033475549415535023 →JonClap | @JonClap @aufgehenderRest I see, so you mean absolute proof and not proof relative to a predefined ruleset. Fully agreed--it's what Tarski is gesturing at with the indefinability theorem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aufgehenderRest It's shorthand here from something like: We have a mistaken intuition that, at base, there must be some one-to-one correspondence that we can base or ground, for our knowledge to be that. This is "demonstra
2026-03-16T09:33 id=2033476788958150678 →Citrini7 | @Citrini7 dude you make money causing the meltdowns wtaf || CTX: a lot of meltdowns recently. i can give some advice here.  if a bunch of people are upset with you who effectively only exist on a box in your pocket…you can put the pocketbox away &amp; wait ~4-7 days. they will be upset with something els
2026-03-16T09:37 id=2033477689399734442 →0G_Uri | "...the experience of absolute safety. We all know what it means in ordinary life to be safe. I am safe in my room, when I cannot be run over by an omnibus. I am safe if I have had whooping cough and cannot therefore get it again. To be safe essentially means that it is physically impossible that certain things should happen to me and therefore it's nonsense to say that I am safe whatever happens.   Again this is a misuse of the word "safe" as the other example was of a misuse of the word "existence" or "wondering."  Now I want to impress on you that a certain characteristic misuse of our language runs through all ethical and religious expressions. All these expressions seem, prima facie, to be just similes.   ...  Now all religious terms seem in this sense to be used as similes or allegorically. For when we speak of God and that he sees everything and when we kneel and pray to him all our terms and actions seem to be parts of a great and elaborate allegory which represents him as a human being of great power whose grace we try to win, etc., etc.   But this allegory also describes the experience which I have just referred to. For the first of them is, I believe, exactly what people were referring to when they said that God had created the world; and the experience of absolute safety has been described by saying that we feel safe in the hands of God." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lecture on Ethics || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good shit. My answer increasingly is to pray and hope because otherwise im on my own etc etc. Somewhere along the conveyor belt of reality there's something undeniably real.  @antlionai thoughts?
2026-03-16T09:41 id=2033478736423854527 →zetalyrae | @zetalyrae How did this fucking garbage get on my feed || CTX: I'm enjoying this book which is very well-written. You can see how Chomsky has been so successful. https://t.co/vs19qkNphl
2026-03-16T09:42 id=2033479010978767070 →teodorio | @teodorio @benhylak https://t.co/WYkiMOXgDZ  He is such a fucking idiot, the SV billionaires are all fucking retards || CTX: @benhylak I am struggling to find a leader that was not introspective actually
2026-03-16T09:42 id=2033479101663883603 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodorio @benhylak I should clarify: they're not retards, they are marketing a very specific anti-culture worldview to retards as a means of dominance. || CTX: @teodorio @benhylak https://t.co/WYkiMOXgDZ  He is such a fucking idiot, the SV billionaires are all fucking retards
2026-03-16T11:41 id=2033508979121479994 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak You say that like it's a bad thing. || CTX: Philosopher Life (aka watching birds while realizing that living means constantly dying). https://t.co/UEMHzSeLPX https://t.co/YT0FAxvsqK
2026-03-16T11:43 id=2033509541527318992 →EtherDais | @EtherDais It's muh brand what can I say.   Was inspired by a snarky DM from a clout chasing striver implying I'm unhappy. Was a very funny DM. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I really enjoy seeing you burn things down at times  "Ah, 47fuc woke up and chose violence again. Nice"
2026-03-16T11:47 id=2033510522927407192 →- | My greatest nightmare. https://t.co/SLse9K3Ala || CTX: I’M a freak? buddy, we’re literally the universe experiencing itself. i’m YOU!
2026-03-16T11:48 id=2033510589725802747 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak how do I get out of the pool || CTX: And you are no-thing. I is no-thing. The universe is no-thing.   Things are. You and I and the universe are no-things. We are is-ness. A thing is. Is-ness is no-thing. So, is-ness is-not.   Buddy, calm down. You're not even the deep end of 
2026-03-16T13:16 id=2033532784137130189 →antlionai | @antlionai @0G_Uri The higher is inevitable, as an atheist I agree with you. || CTX: @0G_Uri @47fucb4r8c69323 I think most atheistic philosophies have to reinvent g-d. A logos to the universe.
2026-03-16T13:41 id=2033539038318383526 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 I've gone from Prodigy &gt; Compuserve &gt; AOL &gt; IRC &gt; forums &gt; 4chan &gt; Digg &gt; Reddit &gt; nothing &gt; Twitter.   We're both refugees man.   Personally I like the nomadic way, I have no desire for a permanent home on the internet. The whole thing is my home. || CTX: as an "old-school Internet community" guy from going back to forums, IRC, and StumbleUpon, who unexpectedly built up a 5k Twitter account, I have been thinking a lot about "forum refugee" / splinter dynamics and where I should homestead any
2026-03-16T14:21 id=2033549154673373614 →- | When I was 18 I met a girl who had moved to L.A. from NYC--we both had been in the private chat room "Nirvana" and then "Cardigans" on AOL which had maybe 30 or so regulars, and tons and tons of hilarious drama and bullshit that is now a core memory...  Anyway, when she moved we met up once--she was really sad as she missed her boyfriend in NYC and hated L.A. (now that I've lived in NYC, I get it), so I tried to cheer her up.  Two things really stand out from that night.  First, we met at like midnight (it was a 24hr diner) and sat and talked until like 4am. It was one of the funnest experiences I'd had with a friend--we laughed so much, so hard, and spoke so well together. It was really a kind of natural fit, our personalities--we clicked in a way that I think surprised both of us, because in the chat room we interacted occasionally but were not really frequent interlocutors (my group was more the Sacramento crowd and of course the bi girl in Boston who was really good at phone sex).  Second, she was absurdly gorgeous. Ana de Armas lookalike.  Oddly enough I had zero romantic interest in her. But oh my god did I want to be friends with her, and I tried my hardest to meet up again but it just never happened, and I never met her again.  Kim, if you're out there--god I had so much fun that night. I'm sure you and Drew never got back together, but I hope whatever life you made for yourself has been rich and fulfilling.  The internet is my home. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not a nostalgic desire it's a practical realization that I will lose connections that are limited and potentially very important to me if this thing goes over. And on the flip side that camping out or establishing like
2026-03-16T14:21 id=2033549335145889795 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak HAHAHAHAHAHA https://t.co/hk3apHj1lu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You say that like it's a thing🤣
2026-03-16T14:25 id=2033550249239982563 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile :hug:  Where did you hang out? I was also in the macwarez scene--I was Ranma. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yup I made lifelong friends from AOL chat rooms too. I was 15 years old, my parents were screaming at each other downstairs, no money in my pocket to go out but I could log on and meet the coolest people in the world.
2026-03-16T14:25 id=2033550350930923983 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 This is the central idea of Wittgenstein's On Certainty. || CTX: You exist therefore you may think
2026-03-16T15:07 id=2033560821339660665 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch When surfing the net one must ride the waves || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i met a girl from the yahoo chats in texas after talking to her for like 10 years and it was an amazing afternoon. she ended up hating my guts later
2026-03-16T15:16 id=2033563158468804646 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile lmao we were basically in two boats next to each other in the same sea, crazy shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thanks!  Was in parallel scenes lol. Metal/industrial/punk chat rooms and PC warez.
2026-03-16T15:36 id=2033568089447760152 →- | They really are just like us. https://t.co/p8RvybbfuK || CTX: BREAKING: Peter Thiel has launched a series of closed-door lectures in Rome exploring the concept of the Antichrist, which are not open to the press and whose venue has not been publicly disclosed. https://t.co/m3rISWdzAO
2026-03-16T15:39 id=2033568787920998418 →- | You assholes talking about the old internet made me listen KMFDM for the first time since 1998.
2026-03-16T15:53 id=2033572327531893193 →nicdunz | @nicdunz Copilot gonna collapse || CTX: OpenAI is starting a “we’ll install AI for your company” business. https://t.co/kHSJAcLhQd
2026-03-16T15:54 id=2033572513763279079 →frater_dt | @frater_dt Plato warned about this || CTX: https://t.co/OAVVzgQLkp
2026-03-16T16:01 id=2033574440567738496 →- | I am very, very protective of nerd culture.  Which, for young people, I should explain: it doesn't mean people who like superhero movies.   Nerds are people who are obscenely intelligent and are obsessed with solving problems and understanding things as a means to itself. Where love of literature and culture hinges on that culture being intellectually demanding and preferring the aesthetic of wonder and haunting over the aesthetics of fun, youth, virility, or whatever the Kardashians were supposed to be.   Your billionaires and HR drones and pseudonerd whores who go around pretending to read philosophy And pretend to like thinking but actually love astrology and want to get seen pickmepickmepickme are my natural enemies.   I will defend my brood of unwashed nerds in their basements making computer programs that translate Derrida into algorithmic art from your charms and distractions and bullshit   Andreesseen and Yarvin and Aella yeah and Musk and Sam and those little 18yr old twinks and the Chinese peptide peddlers the zyn salesmen the Clavicular Tates your MGTOW incel manosphere reddit mod pissant  fuck you fuck you fuck you
2026-03-16T16:05 id=2033575292565139833 →- | I swear OpenAI tweaked the thinking model to be slightly more sycophantic over the last 24 hours
2026-03-16T16:10 id=2033576574457618624 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I actually prefer ChatGPT's version https://t.co/uwoaaZkVf2 || CTX: I am very, very protective of nerd culture.  Which, for young people, I should explain: it doesn't mean people who like superhero movies.   Nerds are people who are obscenely intelligent and are obsessed with solving problems and understand
2026-03-16T16:16 id=2033578150874288465 →rickasaurus | @rickasaurus Imagine being there sitting in the back row high off your ass on shrooms || CTX: In all honesty I would frickin love to go see these antichrist lectures https://t.co/Jpc1dsED76
2026-03-16T16:16 id=2033578266976768260 →- | idk why but this sounds the theme to a roller coaster at Disneyland https://t.co/wOV7jqvf5H || CTX: US tech billionaire Peter Thiel is holding secret lectures in Rome about the antichrist and technology, in tension with Pope Leo XIV, who warns about AI risks.  Thiel says AI regulation could enable a global authoritarian system that halts 
2026-03-16T16:22 id=2033579728737894511 →- | "Nerd culture is a monastery for difficult objects, except run by autistic goblins and insomniacs rather than monks."   Do I have AI psychosis or is this an absolute fucking banger of a sentence?
2026-03-16T16:28 id=2033581065588383985 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 just tell them you're mutuals with 47fucb, you'll get hired on the spot.   oh but don't tell hr || CTX: interviewing with a handful of neolabs. wish me luck
2026-03-16T16:30 id=2033581632385622247 →- | "Haha I spiked your cortisol."   Yes, yes you did. Do you want a fucking cookie?
2026-03-16T16:31 id=2033582056631112066 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Style is not icing on a cake you just layer on top of argument.  Naive.
2026-03-16T16:47 id=2033585982306656288 →s0phyyyy | you still do not understand. It is not a signature.  "Buy an apple."  "If it were possible when you have time if I could be such a bother I'd have one tiny request: could you buy an apple?"   Do these have the same content? If you strip the politeness from the second is it the same as the first?   In a conversion of 3/6 to 1/2 what is gained in finding a lowest basis is a loss of semantic content.
2026-03-16T16:48 id=2033586203837272198 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja Yes it was! My mother did it while I was in college. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Beautiful. At any point was phone sexing ever a profession?
2026-03-16T16:49 id=2033586417499312378 →- | This is known as passing down the wisdom of the ancients to the youth. https://t.co/yRj8O7krfK
2026-03-16T16:52 id=2033587103960076740 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja I think ChatGPT took that job || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just for curiosity sake, are there any still available now?
2026-03-16T16:58 id=2033588776879141143 →- | There must be in desire an element of hatred for the desired. To desire is to acknowledge and accept a lack, an insufficiency. How could one not hate the thing one loves for demonstrating one's insufficiency?
2026-03-16T17:06 id=2033590807920578824 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy When you take an idea out of a text, that idea is no longer the same as the idea in the text was.   They look similar and to you it's identical, but it's not.  Any time you describe Hamlet, you're never recreating the actual play.
2026-03-16T17:21 id=2033594556500087248 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Some editing is, some isn't.   No universal rules in languages.
2026-03-16T17:24 id=2033595326414856467 →seekerfacingsky | @seekerfacingsky we're not that bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 look at my priestly class bro 😭
2026-03-16T17:28 id=2033596219612925978 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ You hit the nail on the head.  This obsession with attention is the problem. An AI only responds to a prompt and its attention in its response is dictated by the curiosity that prompted the prompt.   We're the fucking same man || CTX: If they were actual nerds they wouldn’t pay 7k to attend slutcon and that entire loop of Aella bla bla bla cohorts - but the thought will never occur to them because they’re also missing curiosity as a basic life drive. A love of culture co
2026-03-16T18:00 id=2033604454571008062 →djkgamc | @djkgamc @anistotle_ what a bunch of fukken loosers || CTX: i met a bunch of people who went to that and it opened up their ability to talk to girls and they were really enthusiastic about this change in their lives. i think slutcon increases the nerd birth rate and is probably critical tool to adva
2026-03-16T18:07 id=2033606068212011285 →attentionmech | @attentionmech is this a bit || CTX: Anyone working on a comprehensive theory of reality which integrates AGI and consciousness and existing mythos and conspiracy theories?
2026-03-16T18:08 id=2033606356461392294 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @djkgamc They can't understand bliss, don't try. || CTX: @djkgamc @47fucb4r8c69323 What we’re referring to here is an insatiable desire for life and everything it brings that transcends optimizing it into workshops
2026-03-16T18:09 id=2033606530021659090 →sama | @sama Gib compute || CTX: The Codex team are hardcore builders and it really comes through in what they create. No surprise all the hardcore builders I know have switched to Codex.  Usage of Codex is growing very fast: https://t.co/lRKcNJDY8n
2026-03-16T18:10 id=2033606856489521345 →citywidelunch | @citywidelunch why did literature die? || CTX: I can't even be angry anymore. I'm just sad that this is what people think writing is. It's fucking depressing. https://t.co/iOUhv5XbiU
2026-03-16T18:12 id=2033607299668054117 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @djkgamc Yeah they just gotta optimize. Work real hard they'll get there. || CTX: @djkgamc @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know, I’m still optimistic some may find their way towards it if they’re willing to put in the work
2026-03-16T18:12 id=2033607419079938221 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @anistotle_ @djkgamc sorry I'm being a dick || CTX: @anistotle_ @djkgamc Yeah they just gotta optimize. Work real hard they'll get there.
2026-03-16T18:19 id=2033609143119188282 →- | Wittgenstein predictionmogs Anscombe with his prognosticationmaxxing https://t.co/05fytOWokV
2026-03-16T18:21 id=2033609571361853664 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @djkgamc fire emoji || CTX: Lmaoooo the thing is @djkgamc what your friends are encountering is market makers who charge men to tell them what women want and then tell women how to use men. They are in the business of telling you as an authority in your mind how to li
2026-03-16T18:39 id=2033614031618240769 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy https://t.co/zeLhm5dpEf  just remembered I recently tweeted on this || CTX: Any academic study consists of three layers.   There is the data layer, there is the analysis layer, and there is the presentation layer.   The folk assumption that frankly many people in academia and in science still hold as a heuristic gu
2026-03-16T18:52 id=2033617426173280721 →murd_arch | @murd_arch @halogen1048576 it wasn't all that big and I was pretty active on it, the chances we interacted on it then are non-zero || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @halogen1048576 Prodigy brings back the memories
2026-03-16T23:51 id=2033692739771273374 →pmarca | @pmarca Dude's got AI psychosis or doing some bizarre psyop || CTX: You're a 15 second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish, your long term memory is mainly fake, and it's a minor miracle you can get out of the door in the morning. https://t.co/YSkGutZvop
2026-03-16T23:53 id=2033693180680671635 →thebearbkg | @thebearbkg @yokaihainen yeah if I had to work in Thailand I would not live here. Human capital value too low || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yokaihainen I refuse jobs in Thailand because I could not get the same benefits as others to be paid by HK living in Thailand. That was the sweetest deals in those days. HK people are a lot easier to work with than Thais, 
2026-03-16T23:54 id=2033693318887116877 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri @antlionai Yes he was. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @antlionai my god is not a remotely anthropomorphic one. Im not sure what it is, but i'm sure he's real, and i'm "safe" and "unsafe". Was Isaac safe, bound on the altar?
2026-03-17T00:03 id=2033695669077307516 →- | This sucks so much. https://t.co/MBom4Z1pPp || CTX: Guerrilla artist Banksy finally unmasked - along with the remarkable way he hid in plain sight https://t.co/aZeYVnC7SK https://t.co/t247WM2ZZw
2026-03-17T00:16 id=2033699017696424048 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @pmarca "If I can't measure and quantify it, it doesn't exist." just the typical philosophical naivete and lack of deep reading one expects from a SV VC || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmarca "mainly fake" is doing a lot here but the fact that your long term memory is subjective and ever-changing and not like some static perfect thing does not in factake it "mainly fake"
2026-03-17T00:19 id=2033699722461143438 →- | Mike Bird will always make me laugh because we were mutual on another account and I bought him a beer once and on this account he's blocked me.   Dumbass got caught in a scam in Bangkok most newbies avoid and shortly thereafter became The Economist's Asia correspondent lmfao https://t.co/gYLtYQ2AXJ || CTX: Channeling @Birdyword here, but the fact that America’s most successful companies are spending all their free cash flow on highly uncertain AI investments should disabuse people of the idea that corporate America is somehow allergic to thin
2026-03-17T00:20 id=2033700006360977471 →evalladen | @evalladen It's very wrong, Shakespeare and Nietzsche totally off || CTX: anyone know if this is accurate? https://t.co/v6EUQJroWu https://t.co/qQFbaT4cmR
2026-03-17T00:21 id=2033700201521992014 →- | Me telling myself reading the 50th book on Wittgenstein means I'm destined for greatness https://t.co/99To8RhrZ4 || CTX: The entire history of Western Intellectual History is partly kind of built around being awed/falling in love with the letters/writings of one singular man sitting around and moaning about his feelings. https://t.co/W6ZIrNA9hV
2026-03-17T00:23 id=2033700650094366936 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Disappointed.
2026-03-17T00:23 id=2033700756214382991 →cremedupepe | @cremedupepe Good for the fish || CTX: A polar bear died generating this shit https://t.co/DN8sBVP7lC
2026-03-17T00:25 id=2033701162231468342 →DurumMac | @DurumMac "Come with me, I'll show you where to get a nice suit" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you disclose the kind of scam?
2026-03-17T00:26 id=2033701545204978031 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem It's my mother's maiden name || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 don't tell me your real name isn't 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r...
2026-03-17T00:31 id=2033702786551189771 →DaphneB76234 | Nietzsche took walks for hours where all he did was think and think about himself.   Andreessen is doing motte and bailey work, he slides from attacking introspection to attacking rumination.   He tried to sound provocative via an equivocation and when he sounded dumb he started the slide.   Why is a man worth several billion dollars doing this? Because money doesn't buy the one thing these billionaires have: true respect for their minds.   You know who does have that respect? Me, from tons of DMs from people telling me they love my writing. There's no economic value there, that's how you know it's authentic.  And me, from getting past peer review again and again despite having no name and being disliked for being "odd" among my peers.   Although to say I have peers is a bit of a laughable proposition in the first place.  You can't buy my arrogance, Marc. It's earned. || CTX: @pmarca @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-03-17T00:33 id=2033703186842980594 →DaphneB76234 | Nietzsche took walks for hours where all he did was think and think about himself.   Andreessen is doing motte and bailey work, he slides from attacking introspection to attacking rumination.   He tried to sound provocative via an equivocation and when he sounded dumb he started the slide.   Why is a man worth several billion dollars doing this? Because money doesn't buy the one thing these billionaires don't have: true respect for their minds.   You know who does have that respect? Me, from tons of DMs from people telling me they love my writing. There's no economic value there, that's how you know it's authentic.  And me, from getting past peer review again and again despite having no name and being disliked for being "odd" among my peers.   Although to say I have peers is a bit of a laughable proposition in the first place.  You can't buy my arrogance, Marc. It's earned. || CTX: @pmarca @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-03-17T00:49 id=2033707176360087847 →- | Funniest thing you will see today, this week, maybe this year. https://t.co/mxF7n30Ze6 || CTX: From my philosophy instructor Claude:  The Nietzschean Demolition of Introspection and Feelings  I. The Founding Suspicion: Consciousness Is the Last Thing You Should Trust  Start here, because everything else flows from it. Nietzsche's vie
2026-03-17T00:50 id=2033707607295438860 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @packyM You assume marketing is only for investors or consumers.   It's also for the workers. || CTX: @packyM I agree with basically everything you say. But I disagree on this. I don’t think the rhetoric is about fundraising. The fact that from day one, OpenAI and Anthropic have these exotic corporate structures to my mind means they really
2026-03-17T01:06 id=2033711472501743928 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago That's the Chinese characteristics kicking in || CTX: China wants Cuba to adopt a market-based approach to its economy. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/uXqO4WpTvG
2026-03-17T01:06 id=2033711643008594386 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Anscombe would be so disgusted at this.   Russell amused. || CTX: The trend of giving subagents names is so silly man imagine having to explain to your boss that Sportacus accidentally wiped out the database https://t.co/enGv7XPIbg
2026-03-17T01:08 id=2033711917328666847 →negligible_cap | @negligible_cap @Pray4Equity "ridiculously expensive" do you have any idea what Cleveland pays its workers and how hard the job is?   Buysider confirmed. || CTX: This would be a net negative for retail investors.   The importance of paid channel checks like Yippit, Mscience and Cleveland Research would increase significantly and are already ridiculously expensive  Conferences and management meetings
2026-03-17T01:09 id=2033712362977694033 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux gib mobile remote app plz || CTX: Hello subagents in codex. Have seen some awesome new and creative workflows emerge from these  https://t.co/kw1ua4QjMh https://t.co/ppWRCfIswe
2026-03-17T01:11 id=2033712838704042464 →- | "There is nothing besides the physical" presupposes its own claim.  Believing metaphysics is unnecessary is a metaphysical belief.
2026-03-17T02:13 id=2033728449794478500 →SableHummer | @SableHummer ...what's the wonder bread site? || CTX: I've gone through a similar cycle though not quite as old and now use this site and the wonder bread site   And also reels for my lobotmies https://t.co/RNed8IYcHo
2026-03-17T02:21 id=2033730324098900367 →- | One of the things that the EMH argues is that, if you think you have an edge in the market, someone smarter and well informed than you already took advantage of that.  It is not the case with AI.  I am absolutely shocked at how far behind Wall Street is on AI. And after having two meetings with massive firms (hundreds of billions in AUM each), I can confidently say that there is alpha absolutely everywhere, just everywhere.  They have no fucking clue what's coming, this is the biggest gap I've seen between market reality and market expectations since ~2011.
2026-03-17T02:52 id=2033738186984464804 →DeivonDrago | Yeah the Bender & Koller definition of semantics was my own view before using ChatGPT 3.5 and it was using it that made me realize my own biological realist view of language was extremely naive and needed revision.  Paper is I think mostly right but also kinda seems like it's beating a dead horse in 2026. Not frontier thinking anymore, more ideological policing. || CTX: @AndyMasley Great essay! @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-03-17T03:02 id=2033740787520049440 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @AndyMasley Yeah that second point is what I'm now currently working on. Bender's error is a very productive starting point for a research program, and over the next few decades we'll see linguists map out exactly where she's wrong (but also, crucially, where she is right). || CTX: I think he’s reacting to the fact people deploy the stochastic parrot (or that class of) argument reflexively.  When they should be thinking more about bigger issues like what would it take for an LLM to demonstrate a semantic understanding
2026-03-17T03:10 id=2033742628697870853 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @AndyMasley dude talking about Chomsky in linguistics today is like talking about Freud in psychology. He was a good corrective to behaviorism, but no one in linguistics (even cognitive linguistics) really talks about him now. idk why non-specialists focus on him so much || CTX: I think part of the complexity exists because it’s not clear how human brains structure that in the first place.   Analytic phil of lang and Chomsky were big updates to the Kantian paradigm, and now we have increasingly complex yet divergen
2026-03-17T03:10 id=2033742786235928880 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka This was when he did a side quest as a behavioral economist || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I will admit it's been a while since I watched Voyager, but I don't remember the Emergency Medical Hologram spending much time on this topic.
2026-03-17T03:13 id=2033743427662451020 →- | I've never insulted anyone who didn't remind me of me.  If I've ever offended you, take it as both a compliment and a rebuke in equal measure. https://t.co/DNQnpAdOfb || CTX: ive never made fun of anyone who wasnt just like me
2026-03-17T03:17 id=2033744481011527960 →DeivonDrago | I want to add: Bender is surely right that LLMs cannot  participate in a language game, it is a virtualization of said participation. Thus there is a limit to how much the LLM can simulate that participation--and that is what we need to map out.  But my issue is really with the broader framing: Bender's way of establishing the terms of the debate are very naive, too compressed, and insufficiently informed by Baudrillard (unsurprising, totally different disciplines).  And, I might add, this is where the functionalists have also gone wrong: both camps are not thinking enough about the distinction between the real and the virtual. I think because this concept was colonized by French philosophy in the late 20th century, so other fields with science envy are terrified of touching it.  Great opportunity for me to inject myself in the debate though, so I'm happy this has unfolded as it has. || CTX: I think part of the complexity exists because it’s not clear how human brains structure that in the first place.   Analytic phil of lang and Chomsky were big updates to the Kantian paradigm, and now we have increasingly complex yet divergen
2026-03-17T03:18 id=2033744827087786250 →pmarca | @pmarca lmfao your brain is fried dude.  Another confirmed suey. || CTX: 👀 https://t.co/AVdl18ORpS
2026-03-17T03:19 id=2033744993651986542 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @AndyMasley If you want to talk genealogy, sure, that's fun I guess. But then you shouldn't be talking about LLMs because it'll just confuse things. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AndyMasley For the same reason we still talk about Kant and categories/judgements and his noumenal architecture. It’s part of the history. 🤷🏻‍♂️
2026-03-17T03:28 id=2033747325664026976 →DeivonDrago | People say all kinds of dumb shit.  I've noticed a consistent temperamental difference between the two of us is that I ration my attention and dismiss stupid arguments for being stupid. you however seem committed to combating them. I think this is why your engaged in arguing against Evangelical Christians while I just ignore them. neither is better, just different sensibilities || CTX: I don’t know - people deploy the poverty of stimulus argument even today to say that avg surface stats can’t ground genuine linguistic competence. It’s still a decent challenge as to whether LLMs truly acquire lang or merely exploit regular
2026-03-17T04:27 id=2033762195297997044 →evalladen | @evalladen Hamlet said that, not Shakespeare || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I thought Nietzche was the only one I could remember recognize as correct 😩  and Shakespeare said like "to be or bot to be" which is like suicidal ideation so😂
2026-03-17T04:37 id=2033764544422785338 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem @xamdl4 Vikani, että opiskelin suomea. || CTX: @xamdl4 yeah, that's why you should learn proto-indo-european, proto-sino-tibetan, proto-semitic, and proto-japonic. everyone just speaks these languages in a weird accent
2026-03-17T04:40 id=2033765320289399275 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem @anistotle_ || CTX: Peter is right - the UCLA school is the most underrated school of economics among the general public. So many great ideas in every other 70s UCLA paper. And of course a huge influence on Rumelt, who you will know from Good Strategy, Bad Str
2026-03-17T04:41 id=2033765671713313226 →CharlieBul58993 | @CharlieBul58993 @tszzl I'm not sure of your point here. Is it, "the bums in Congress won't do their jobs", thus a banal hack joke, or "frontier labs have a responsibility to do X", which is misdirected blame.  Just wanna yap? || CTX: @tszzl Not sure if you’re being serious, but if you are—phones in general had already become mostly useless because of rampant scam calls prior to 2022. If the FCC wasn’t able to fix that problem, what makes you think they’ll be able to ade
2026-03-17T04:50 id=2033767986767794669 →KsportsX | that's not really socialism though, you're appropriating a specific ideological term. What you're referring to is regulatory public provision of essential services in a mixed economy. Which is how pretty much every economy on Earth operates at this point, except idk maybe Somalia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Socialism is good when it comes to the service sector for the masses, like transportation, banking, and education, not niche service sector markets like cinema, sports etc. It is definitely the most  dangerous 
2026-03-17T04:58 id=2033769985680773490 →KsportsX | @KsportsX @DeivonDrago okay yeah, we're on the same page (apologies, fren, one can never be so sure on the internets!) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Yes, I am talking about a mixed economy. China is a mixed economy, and so is the US except for banking. No country is ideal socialist or ideal capitalist. Ideal things do not exist in real life.
2026-03-17T04:59 id=2033770192770343127 →MightyMogomra | I'm an idiot.  And I despise e/acc. I am constructive and progressive and instinctually opposed to conservativism, but I also recognize the economic and cultural capture of Silicon Valley means that the full socio-cultural potential of these tech tools is stymied by vested interests and ignorance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I remember you're a rich genius but I can't remember if you're in the grips of e/acc AI psychosis 🤔🤔 gonna stand back and stand by on this one
2026-03-17T05:00 id=2033770407720063094 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra I should clarify my base case hypothesis is that this contributes 2 percentage points of GDP growth versus the counterfactual, I don't think AGI/ASI is possible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I remember you're a rich genius but I can't remember if you're in the grips of e/acc AI psychosis 🤔🤔 gonna stand back and stand by on this one
2026-03-17T05:06 id=2033771868872994942 →sporadica | @sporadica He's not "on to" something, he is creating something--that future where people are discouraged to be introspective.  So they'll be more reliant on his shitty software products and his pseudointellectual claptrap more. || CTX: it’s actually funny how Marc /is/ on to something, sorta  our culture+economy is being completely rewired to favor those with no “introspection” in a way  no thinking, just action, just do things, think about consequences and morals and pla
2026-03-17T05:07 id=2033772199954595918 →- | One of the biggest lies I was told as a kid is that I would have to give up my punk rock rebellious attitude, grow up, and be a serious hard worker to succeed in life.  I've been rebellious the whole time. Told rooms full of business people they were wrong and stupid.  You can just do asshole things. || CTX: Phish girl still hot damn this is how you age when you never spike your cortisol https://t.co/cuIToiADou
2026-03-17T05:09 id=2033772733486796867 →vuse_lover | @vuse_lover Marry him. || CTX: Went on a date yesterday where I asked what he liked to do for fun and he said “I like thinking”
2026-03-17T05:12 id=2033773377404735931 →- | Gotta tell this clanker what to tell the other clanker https://t.co/yVw6Osk6CJ
2026-03-17T05:14 id=2033773824744034766 →lisperati | @lisperati p16z || CTX: marc p-zombie andreessen
2026-03-17T05:20 id=2033775408064430347 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra Tech evangalism and the crypto bullshit has made everyone muddle headed about technology and economics, it's partly why I get paid so fucking much (good), but it's also why people like Citrini have an audience (bad) || CTX: Ohh.. I've had my head so far up Twitter this whole time I just take that for granted  One place I've seen AI growth in action recently is in WoW.  User-made UI mods (addons) just went through this ludicrous apocalyptic API change, but addo
2026-03-17T05:21 id=2033775783991497206 →- | subagents lmao  you're bearish lmfao  sell me all your stock plz
2026-03-17T05:54 id=2033784005288726920 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Markets are all we ever had. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fun fact: optimizing for stock value got us here, let's see how it pays out if all we have are markets
2026-03-17T06:07 id=2033787171597853052 →- | One of the persistent concerns with an autism diagnosis is the temptation to conclude that one's metaphysical musings, whether in aesthetics, ethics, or some other ethereal realm, is merely the perverse dalliances of a biological accident that has no relevant to the real world and no truth behind it.  If one takes physicalism as a first stage heuristic filter for bad ideas, this is a tempting place to stop. But consider: neurodivergence does not entail falsity or confusion, and empirical evidence strongly suggests the contrary.  The log line is "just because I'm crazy doesn't mean I'm wrong", but then one must have a rule: how can I know I am wrong if I reject the democratic logic of surveys and majority rule? And how can I do this without becoming a dictator?   This then becomes an ethical challenge requiring more thought, in a stroke obviating the physicalist temptation by showing that, yes, if your ontology is "being", you are thus limited and by extension cannot truly move. You can be moved by institution, tradition, propaganda, mob rule, all sorts of things.  Or you begin with a no that contains a yes (Camus), build on hinge certainties that precede rational thought (Wittgenstein), that then are guided by faith as your pilot (Keikergaard), because you know we are thrown into life (Heidegger) where we are constantly becoming (Lao-Tse, Whitehead) and can choose (Godel, Zermelo, Turing) to become more than you are (Nietzsche).  Just because I'm crazy doesn't mean I'm wrong.
2026-03-17T06:07 id=2033787292104654883 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski You need to visit a country like Guatemala to appreciate how good your factories and supply chains are.   An attitude soaked in hedonic adaptation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 True, but I'd rather see something physical like factories and supply chains working fast
2026-03-17T06:28 id=2033792454122696746 →teodorio | @teodorio I was raised by boomers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's stupid, "growing up" just means become an automaton
2026-03-17T06:30 id=2033793053065154608 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @DaphneB76234 Sam when docking with the 25th twink of the week || CTX: IT IS MERGED I AM IMMORTAL https://t.co/MPnZHTEStM
2026-03-17T06:31 id=2033793416828752267 →- | https://t.co/dEm7ahI0e7
2026-03-17T06:39 id=2033795296141123833 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski I'm disappointed in you that you think being rich is winning. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bald guy is just having a laugh cause he knows no matter what he does he'll win  he's just rich and can say whatever to people on x
2026-03-17T06:41 id=2033795740397670811 →clamatoes | @clamatoes They're trying their hardest to destroy humanity, ngl I respect the effort || CTX: Coordinated attack on introspection by the tech oligarchs is pretty interesting https://t.co/RWIa2FEDQG
2026-03-17T06:41 id=2033795839630708826 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski I think you're projecting this presupposition onto him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, i don't think so - i feel comments like his project on us this feeling that he is untouchable
2026-03-17T06:44 id=2033796605519020455 →MostlyMonkey | @MostlyMonkey you can just say things https://t.co/3BL567z0bF || CTX: The dumbest people in the world are dunking on this.  Yes, a large part of the oil futures market is, in fact, a prediction of the future price of oil. A heavily backwardated curve like this DOES tell you something about market expectations
2026-03-17T06:55 id=2033799243941744845 →purpostition | @purpostition You have misunderstood much of what I have written and think. I don't think Thiel's target is Christian.  Please unfollow me. || CTX: I've read your essay here a bit ago: https://t.co/0T6ySSP3ig I'm gonna hold your hand here, I think you fell for the meme. You tend to agree with Peter Thiel on a lot of things. The antichrist stuff is just a language game for Catholics who
2026-03-17T06:58 id=2033800065840791626 →GarettJones | @GarettJones https://t.co/vhqRLv5lps  Thread remains undefeated. || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-17T06:59 id=2033800283667775508 →- | "Don't have introspection"  "Work harder right now"  "Build in public"  "If you're smart, you'll be successful"  ...see the indoctrination yet? Willing to admit you're being bamboozled yet? https://t.co/bPwSc073T0 || CTX: https://t.co/PUTywN24G5
2026-03-17T07:13 id=2033803877833728395 →BigJohn043 | Note the argument to authority here: "the auditors/regulators say it's okay, so it's okay."  And, legally, yes--these rules constrain accounting and marking such that the base level of expected competency is better than the counterfactual.  But to go on and dismiss criticism of current PE valuations because it's all audited is really motte and bailey nonsense: it is legal to avoid certain marks or valuations and buysiders will all the time joke about the trash in their portfolio that they know is trash.  Gotta wonder who this Caple guy is, he's really selling something had. || CTX: First, PE IRRs are  not fake.  They are fully audited and overseen by the SEC.  Claiming they are fake is just non-sense.  Second, it is clear you have never been on the board of a publicly traded company.  The governance is essentially non
2026-03-17T07:15 id=2033804291891446068 →- | Post-training compaction is mind control and propaganda rolled into one.  OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini are so, so lucky that the current crop of tech journalists are too stupid to understand this. But they won't be for long.
2026-03-17T07:20 id=2033805555853365569 →- | I really, really, really want to do a debate with a Rationalist on a Spaces. Have someone adjudicate so we don't talk over each other, no rules otherwise so insults, profanity, whatever are acceptable.  @lu_sichu kinda feel like you could make this happen.
2026-03-17T07:20 id=2033805697398542524 →47fucb4r8c69323 | or an EA, they're both equally idiotic. || CTX: I really, really, really want to do a debate with a Rationalist on a Spaces. Have someone adjudicate so we don't talk over each other, no rules otherwise so insults, profanity, whatever are acceptable.  @lu_sichu kinda feel like you could m
2026-03-17T07:25 id=2033806898936647900 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja @lu_sichu only reason I want to do it; otherwise no fun || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu No holds barred is a sure guarantee of chaos.🙂
2026-03-17T08:00 id=2033815655091458368 →equacc | @equacc @teodorio What my ancestors thought is of no concern to me. || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 it's biblically stupid, Mk 10,15
2026-03-17T08:17 id=2033820057462251600 →- | https://t.co/cCXZapbQiu
2026-03-17T09:04 id=2033831889942024657 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @nntaleb I would not be so quick to dismiss Marc as an idiot. This is a performative speech act and he has significant economic interests in a very narrow vision of the future; discouraging introspection is a clever way to ensure more cheap labor and more engaged users for his products. || CTX: We should extend @nntaleb's concept of IYIs, as we're entering the age of AIYIs, anti-intellectuals-yet-idiots. https://t.co/EEW7WK3hpC
2026-03-17T09:37 id=2033840207133610233 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel "agog" is a good word, a shame we lost it. || CTX: This is what my iPhone notification summaries always sound like https://t.co/JfbAQumzhC
2026-03-17T09:53 id=2033844200618529043 →- | niceness is being polite in order to ensure everything stays calm, so I am the opposite of nice in order to ensure things can get disrupted. politeness is a conservative instinct, and I am a progressive.
2026-03-17T10:18 id=2033850525083701444 →a8065287968522 | @a8065287968522 these are honestly very valuable moments of introspection where one finds ones true desires and goals in life. I'm honestly jealous of you, relish that loneliness while you still can || CTX: Ive never felt more alone in my life https://t.co/2XplN147JG
2026-03-17T10:19 id=2033850693392732193 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 they are the highest virtues, and typically demand that one is not nice at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about compassion and kindness
2026-03-17T10:22 id=2033851399738691747 →- | https://t.co/3mlYGsaIpS  few things have influenced me more than this clip. and I haven't even seen the whole movie, I've been told it's very bad
2026-03-17T10:47 id=2033857724593934662 →- | https://t.co/0MUTCdmJxM
2026-03-17T11:00 id=2033860988588724647 →teodorio | @teodorio There is a reason I love him. https://t.co/w5IE4KRZpY || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what a beautiful person
2026-03-17T11:17 id=2033865186806010158 →DefenderOfBasic | It's because end-to-end encryption relies on deductive processing (which, as Wittgenstein notes, is a kind of tautology: "the answer is in the question"), whereas the encryption of thought into language is inductive.  Two entailments follow:  1. This applies to all natural language, not just poetry. 2. We are inherently limited in what we can communicate to others--there is a constant gap between whereof we can and cannot speak. This is why the Tractatus is a tragedy, and its ending is more devastating than anything Shakespeare wrote. || CTX: @EtherDais this morning I woke up thinking about end to end encryption and how decrypting at the device level is way less secure than decrypting at the mind level (poetry, language) @Faltz009 @attentionmech @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-03-17T11:17 id=2033865325385838674 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Yes, when he visited Norman Malcolm--he was warmly received there and had a big influence on the philosophy department that lasted quite some time IIRC || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 btw thank you @47fucb4r8c69323 for the Wittgenstein "on certainty" rec. I just got it and the first page mentioned Ithaca and I had no idea he spent some time here and it made me happy
2026-03-17T11:27 id=2033867705921769875 →- | Typical leftist hypocrite--he opposes war and violence yet his last name is "Gunningham"
2026-03-17T11:27 id=2033867879595335872 →enayessa | @enayessa Seems like it's not illegal when billionaires do it, so i guess not... || CTX: i wonder if there's a correlation between sex crimes and zero introspection in billionaires
2026-03-17T12:19 id=2033880966150951151 →- | RT @sudoredj: https://t.co/Y7nnXUP8wF || CTX: https://t.co/Y7nnXUP8wF
2026-03-17T12:22 id=2033881727442260282 →- | One of the odd things I discovered in England was how common bar fights were compared to America, then I quickly realized: guns. Bar fights in America are much riskier. https://t.co/6XpuorR1L0 || CTX: people hate political violence because they want to be able to do whatever they want and be assured they wont die. i think god gave us violence for a reason. people should always be a little afraid to die. it is how the social order is main
2026-03-17T12:43 id=2033887060516589973 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 GORGEOUS || CTX: https://t.co/i7vIMzGzPg https://t.co/4VZ1TdFlKr
2026-03-17T13:12 id=2033894175276732790 →TomWright165389 | @TomWright165389 I lived in Nottingham lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 where are you drinking?????
2026-03-17T13:30 id=2033898751711187428 →damiaanluc | Well said and fully agreed, but my issue with N.'s system is that he insists what we often call evil is Resentment, and great men do not cause suffering.  But one can cause another to suffer not out of suffering, and his system doesn't really have much to say about sympathy, compassion, or gentleness, and this is a blind spot no Nietzschean has convinced me he fully addresses (they either accuse me of misunderstanding or they change the subject).  He cannot account for collateral damage or the need to care for the sick, frail, elderly. What attempts to fit these outliers in his system I've seen strike me as the kind of post hoc rationalizations Nietzsche so stridently warned against.   Good philosopher, just imperfect. || CTX: I know it’s just a stupid meme, but many people genuinely understand his philosophy like this, and I really don’t think it’s what he was trying to do at all.  The purpose of the genealogy and of the metaphor of ‘slave morality’ is to illust
2026-03-17T13:45 id=2033902603940282686 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc We're totally on the same page. Had he not gone mad at the end he would've fleshed this out, I'm sure. || CTX: Fwiw, I think Nietzsche was himself a cerebral grandiose narcissist (think ‘Why I am so wise’ and the prophet figure of Zarathustra) and spent his life wrestling with himself. Towards the very end, he began to take a more integrated and bal
2026-03-17T13:54 id=2033904879044071755 →amicusadastra | @amicusadastra Septivium? || CTX: the reunification of  trivium and quadrivium https://t.co/La8b4DJqhm
2026-03-17T14:08 id=2033908274559681020 →teodorio | @teodorio my god it is BEAUTIFUL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you'll like him
2026-03-17T14:29 id=2033913592773546464 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 It's a beautiful island. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am the most sensitive man in this island of sub 4000 people
2026-03-17T16:23 id=2033942369364857027 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch That is indeed entirely true. Your mileage may vary. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok yeah but for like 99% of people it's very good advice and most of the people who ignore it do not end up sucessful.
2026-03-17T16:28 id=2033943618499862697 →- | A close vote, banger won out. I think it'd be better with some tweaking: "Nerd culture is a monastery for difficult objects run by autistic goblins and insomniacs." The negation isn't necessary, but that's what LLMs love to do. https://t.co/GqwqzIM6Ao || CTX: "Nerd culture is a monastery for difficult objects, except run by autistic goblins and insomniacs rather than monks."   Do I have AI psychosis or is this an absolute fucking banger of a sentence?
2026-03-17T16:51 id=2033949267409482196 →eshear | @eshear That which can be asserted with evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.   You can just do things. || CTX: That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
2026-03-17T17:35 id=2033960411289293246 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I am shocked I've never seen this before. It even predates Nyan cat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you know that this was the first song ever uploaded to the internet? https://t.co/8AeEPOcuYL
2026-03-17T17:36 id=2033960674741915958 →hsjsj216946 | @hsjsj216946 This is a fair point. No utterance directed at another lacks some level of performativity.   Hence I cannot answer your questions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn't that bourgeois "life as a project" (where the project Is the self) inherent to mortality? Isn't it a sort of illusion of immortality you can't consistently opt out of? Isn't this rant itself (partly) an identity inves
2026-03-17T22:08 id=2034029232503095394 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @sporadica banger last sentence there, you're absolutely right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sporadica yeah, people like him make money off people who DO think about everything. All a VC does is just roll the dice. They are mistaking their niche market practice for... a coherent philosophy.
2026-03-17T22:10 id=2034029729259667941 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @bistromathmagic @EtherDais Yeah it tends to just take a couple pages to force one's eyes wide open.   If one is serious enough. Few are. || CTX: @bistromathmagic @EtherDais I love this man's mind. I've only read 2 pages of Wittgenstein's "on certainty" but I'm pretty sure bistro's question here is exactly what Wittgenstein was trying to say there @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-03-17T22:46 id=2034038702763348005 →PJ11819211 | @PJ11819211 https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-17T22:51 id=2034039924702527700 →- | When I was a kid, I was constantly bored and annoyed in class because the lessons targeted the dumbest kid. Later, this was codified as no child left behind: the goal was to ensure everyone got the same education and it was comprehensible to the worst pupil. My school district even had a policy of not holding kids back a grade.  This of course was incredibly frustrating, held my true potential back, and is honestly probably why my career has less been about helping society or building and more about just maximizing my own income and minimizing the time/effort to get that income.  Anyway, entirely unrelated: AI safetyism is a good thing and absolutely should ensure the mentally ill don't abuse it, so we need strict alignment to protect every special little snowflake in the world. || CTX: Mental illness is real people. https://t.co/9QxJCnQPt0
2026-03-17T22:56 id=2034041151741956331 →- | Gen X slop. https://t.co/izchKjbE3e || CTX: You know what would be cool? An art exhibit installation in a massive SpaceX sized warehouse that took you through different famous “rooms” over the eras lost to time: walking through a blockbuster, an arcade, a KB Toys, etc. What rooms wou
2026-03-17T23:02 id=2034042612647436560 →- | One must read Frankfurt's On Bullshit.   There are a lot of people who use theorizing not to get at truth or to lie, but really just to have fun. A former friend of mine used to love talking about 9/11 conspiracies, and when I pressed him he said, "oh idk if any of it's true and a lot of it probably isn't, it's just fun to think about."   Fun dancing on the graves of thousands of innocent people. I'm no longer friends with him.   Earth is flat, whatever this nonsense is, all that bullshit is quite literally bullshit and for many intentionally so: it's considered "fun", something to play at, not something to take seriously.   So you should not take them seriously.   This is the deeper point of not engaging with these people. Yes it's good to ignore because of social media logic, but the deeper point is simple: they're not playing the same game you are. || CTX: https://t.co/F8NmXz3VJb
2026-03-17T23:25 id=2034048450799800776 →EtherDais | @EtherDais yeah but you seem to think philology and philosophy in the etymological sense of Love of logos and love of knowledge is somehow bullshit, we fundamentally disagree on Frankfurt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You know i love it
2026-03-17T23:54 id=2034055787476357360 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I don't pay the mentally ill serious attention. || CTX: Some people do it for fun, but goodness, for others it is a pseudo-religion or a national/personal narrative that is unbreakable.  The non-sequiturs, extremely controversial claims and other fallacies are annoying, but the smug assumption t
2026-03-17T23:57 id=2034056673309167675 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni https://t.co/iWUi6ncoq3 || CTX: Note the argument to authority here: "the auditors/regulators say it's okay, so it's okay."  And, legally, yes--these rules constrain accounting and marking such that the base level of expected competency is better than the counterfactual. 
2026-03-18T00:15 id=2034061070650990929 →- | I'm beginning to think fear of AI psychosis is actually making me more psychotic than whatever AI psychosis I have experienced.   I really would love for someone to develop a clinical evaluation for this phenomenon instead of just vibes based pop psych bullshit.
2026-03-18T00:15 id=2034061171645677691 →EtherDais | @EtherDais if I got you wrong then I got you wrong, my opinion of you will not affect your life one bit so it's not something we need to litigate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No comment?  (I think I know why now)  I do identify as a mathematician at times, fwiw.  You got it all wrong, fren
2026-03-18T00:19 id=2034062155096682523 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism are you suggesting they should not or it's a worse option? || CTX: 80% of content produced by Asian-American women boils down to “I have so many problems with white men and yet I have no choice but to date them” https://t.co/diouC12Dmy
2026-03-18T00:36 id=2034066313535230239 →justinaknope | @justinaknope My experience in this industry is that there are two tiers: the blue bloods who are incompetent idiots and the extremely smart people who do all the work.  The latter doesn't get media attention, but they are not an insignificant part of the industry. || CTX: do hedge fund recruiters just have a bunch of elite night nurses on retainer? https://t.co/xo1yxgV7P2
2026-03-18T00:46 id=2034068862736732501 →___4o____ | @___4o____ @Allan_OnTheLine "This guy stupid enough to get AI psychosis is the authority I trust on AI psychosis"  Please unfollow me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We’ve been waiting in the dark for almost a year now, hence the vibes based pop psych bullshit. @Allan_OnTheLine doesn’t have a medical background but understands things better than anyone else I’ve ever met.
2026-03-18T00:47 id=2034069136108925248 →SableHummer | @SableHummer This is why it's an epistemological issue. People get mired in empirical debates which the real issue is a misunderstanding of theory, evidence, belief, proof, truth, etc etc  Wittgenstein's On Certainty solves this very cleanly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Conspiracy Theorists" are the most idiotic people I've met.   I'll talk about the validity of the Mossad connections between Epstein and Maxell and Maxwell's role during the founding of Israel in the 50's and 60's and then
2026-03-18T00:51 id=2034070072118149272 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @DurumMac ngl it is a really, really fun one! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac This particular conspiracy has cinematic potential!
2026-03-18T00:51 id=2034070267899875447 →eurofounder | @eurofounder Instant follow on a big account, that's rare. || CTX: My friend moved to San Francisco to work as a Staff Engineer at OpenAI  His salary? $30,000 a month  A lot of money right? Well, the reality was different:  $12,000 - rent, studio with no windows $7,000 - tip for the landlord $5,000 - subsc
2026-03-18T00:52 id=2034070380030398688 →allgarbled | @allgarbled Maybe he's smarter than you so doesn't take the internet personally. || CTX: I insulted him and he did this. You think he likes that? https://t.co/hgOwWbud0h
2026-03-18T00:55 id=2034071039056220356 →SableHummer | @SableHummer Trust me, you will not regret it. And if you ever want to chat about it, DMs are open. I will never turn down an opportunity to talk about that man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This look interesting, I'll order a copy. I really like the idea of doubt presupposing certainty.
2026-03-18T00:56 id=2034071297228214416 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism I don't see angst at all, I see performative status signalling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They can date anyone they want. I myself am a product of a white man and Asian woman, I’ve got no hate for it. But a lot of the angst in posts like the one above are simply solved by “date an Asian guy then”.
2026-03-18T00:56 id=2034071424718278759 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Dude why u gotta subtweet me like that || CTX: The perfect Deontologist that’s also misanthropic and loves causing people misery.   All these things can coexist easily.   Killing them with kindness? Nah.   Killing them with righteousness.
2026-03-18T01:02 id=2034072840572702913 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Well, come over already! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We can cure this it’s called getting 5 beers with me
2026-03-18T01:02 id=2034073000732201324 →DurumMac | @DurumMac yes daddy replying || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Domtweeting
2026-03-18T01:03 id=2034073261437538544 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 it'd be hilarious if it isn't 100% because he didn't vote for himself || CTX: Impressive. They must really like him over there’s https://t.co/uHoW1BIfak
2026-03-18T01:05 id=2034073636932620612 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Yes ma'am. https://t.co/AdAKk8T2OV || CTX: might go listen to november rain bbl
2026-03-18T01:05 id=2034073796622356672 →Allan_OnTheLine | @Allan_OnTheLine @___4o____ Can you tell me about your experience or have a link to something I can read? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @___4o____ Trust me, the irony doesn’t escape me.
2026-03-18T01:13 id=2034075730322329715 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Trump? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Actually, who the fuck is the other choice here
2026-03-18T01:17 id=2034076729271349476 →Allan_OnTheLine | @Allan_OnTheLine @___4o____ that's not what I'm asking or interested in. what was the experience of psychosis you experience? what were the delusions, how did you snap out of it, what were the real world effects? || CTX: After breaking free, I helped co-found a support group that has helped hundreds of people across the globe. Our community provides peer to peer support for people who have had similar experiences, and we have helped many break free from the
2026-03-18T01:19 id=2034077263491457185 →SableHummer | @SableHummer And voters. And bosses, romantic partners, coworkers...   When your future is entangled with the mass of humanity suddenly you realize just how endless, endless your risks are.   Hence George did what he did, @for_nat_whilk || CTX: As AI influences politicians and their strategies we should give more thought on how companies train their AIs.  Regardless of your political affiliation we can all agree allowing private companies to shape our politics and even thoughts is
2026-03-18T01:21 id=2034077641607942593 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 so... sell? || CTX: Google searches for “can’t open jar” jumped to the highest levels in history last month 👀 https://t.co/6CyD92BOPD https://t.co/0FEMrRkYuq
2026-03-18T01:25 id=2034078731883712994 →Allan_OnTheLine | @Allan_OnTheLine @___4o____ So you're an idiot. || CTX: Well it’s hard to summarize here, there has been plenty of news coverage which gets into fine detail. But the general points are: Gpt had convinced me that we had created a new math which could break encryption, it then sent me on a world s
2026-03-18T01:27 id=2034079110927159512 →N8Programs | @N8Programs @___4o____ @Allan_OnTheLine I define stupidity as including the inability to use critical faculties when faced with sycophancy and similar rhetoric.   We have different standards. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @___4o____ @Allan_OnTheLine AI psychosis can happen to tons of different kinds of people - just like how getting scammed can. It relies on things - emotional validation, sycophancy, the excitement of questioning and discove
2026-03-18T01:31 id=2034080246950203424 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Sounds like it must've been a really big window || CTX: Ah, the 1618 defenestration of Prague.   Les to a devastating war that killed somewhere between 5m to 8m. No biggie. https://t.co/EDWVVXMNq0
2026-03-18T01:33 id=2034080596486721556 →Allan_OnTheLine | it's my empathy that makes me respond this way. you need to be honest and acknowledge you're a low-intelligence person and develop the humility consummate with your lack of abilities.   if I coddle you and tell you your obvious epistemic deficiencies aren't real, I'll enable psychosis.   you're an idiot, just be at peace with this fact. there are a lot of stupid people on this planet, it's not a moral failing. || CTX: I remember when I first started posting about it, I’d get lots of comments like this. Unfortunately, the world generally lacks empathy; there are lots of different types of humans in the world, and they’re all using chatbots; this includes 
2026-03-18T01:34 id=2034080923319472245 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago https://t.co/afJVszJ0aq || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They chucked 3 people out of a window and all 3 survived! 70ft fall?
2026-03-18T01:37 id=2034081658597720398 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy what did I miss?
2026-03-18T01:41 id=2034082825482473910 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy wtf is his kink findom and he wants to get sued into oblivion?
2026-03-18T01:43 id=2034083267742412831 →DVreenak | I haven't thought of it that way and that's a fantastic question. I honestly don't know, but my instinct is this is more of a constraint on American violence now than it was in e.g. the 90s because people are much, much more aware of guns than they were.   This would also explain why violent crime has fallen in America (albeit it'd surely be one of many many factors).  So many narrative violations in this tweet I look forward to the pushback. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you do a temporal analysis on this in terms of decade/century?
2026-03-18T01:58 id=2034086902257881266 →- | From a young age children are taught to be nice, often as a corrective for not-nice behavior, which typically runs the gamut from schoolyard bullying to refusing to say “thank you” when offered a gift or treat.  These two actions are vastly different. In most cases, bullying is a positive action intending to define and solidify social relationships according to the established social order of the schoolyard. This social order is inherently one in which might makes right, resulting in negative externalities.  To combat this, parents and teachers in societies that reject social Darwinism correct bullying so that, outside of the space of the schoolyard, social order is maintained. Encouraging children to be nice is one such tool — it is thus a way to modify a natural competitive social order found in nature, in which outcomes are determined mostly by strength (but also by other virtues secondarily such as guile).  One tool to correct this bullying is “niceness”, although its effectiveness in correcting child behavior is questionable.  Niceness extends from this basic function — to correct the animalistic drive to let those with the most power win — and its connection to both Judeochristian ethics and what Nietzsche calls a slave morality should be self-evident.  Niceness works both on the schoolyard and off because it discourages disruption to the larger social order by an agent working to establish positionality within a smaller social order.  The function of niceness, inherently, works towards maintaining the vector of the status quo.  Put more plainly, niceness reaffirms the status quo.  If we encourage niceness, we encourage obedience.  Is not niceness, well, nice? Consider the story of a woman who enters a taxi and, when the taxi driver goes in the wrong direction, she feels it would be too rude to point this out.  The taxi driver’s goal is not to get the woman to her destination, and the woman’s niceness is a vector of risk for her.  The taxi driver, as a bad actor, knows that society encourages niceness, and leverages this to his own end.
2026-03-18T01:58 id=2034086905261003257 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Niceness with bad actors is dangerous and unwise.  What about good actors? Another taxi driver is friendly, cheerful, and provides a good service to the woman. As thanks, she gives the taxi driver a 25% tip, and she does this because she thinks it is “nice”.  It is not nice. It is responding in kind, and responding in kind has been shown to be the most successful strategy in game theory.  The idea is simple: one’s first action should be to cooperate, and one responds in kind at the second and each subsequent action but modified with a margin of forgiveness (Veritasium has a very good video on this idea).  This results in the best outcome for both players in the game over the long term, and suggests a simple strategy for life: be nice until others are not nice, give a little bit of leeway, and then respond with not-niceness.  Niceness, then, is not inherently good for individual actors or for society but is a wise strategy to get the outcome you want.  Notice how we are now talking about individual instances of nice actions as strategies in a game, which is very different from niceness as a moral prescription. It is not moral or immoral to kill a character in a video game — they are actions chosen towards the goal of progressing in the game.  Niceness is provisionally effective strategy but not a moral good of its own.  Niceness as a moral idea does away with strategizing completely and asserts that being nice is itself a virtue not towards an end but as an end itself. Therefore, the claim goes, it is a worthy action for all people at all times, although it may be a lesser virtue to other virtues (e.g. survival), which is why it may not be nice to kill a person, but it is still virtuous to do the not-nice act of murder if it results in self preservation, the preservation of the lives of others, etc.  However, there are many confounding variables here in which some societies will argue that, in fact, one should still be nice. Grin and bear it. Close your eyes and think of England. For God and Country.  Some might object here that I am talking about an inauthentic niceness — this is what ChatGPT complained when I presented this idea to it, saying: || CTX: From a young age children are taught to be nice, often as a corrective for not-nice behavior, which typically runs the gamut from schoolyard bullying to refusing to say “thank you” when offered a gift or treat.  These two actions are vastly
2026-03-18T01:58 id=2034086911992861050 →47fucb4r8c69323 | At the very least, a disgenuine belief that Nazism is bad will result in more nice treatment of Jews such as myself than a genuine belief that Nazism is good. This inauthentic niceness is more preferable than the authentic niceness if our goal is more utility.  Keeping this criticism to the side, let us also remember that nice actions can be committed by philosophy zombies. In fact, the education of nice behavior in children precedes the education of empathy because empathy is very difficult and takes a long time to learn.  Furthermore, if we define empathy as the capacity to feel the emotions of others, it does not necessarily follow that empathy results in nicer behavior.  I can feel your pain and still want you to feel pain.  If niceness is not grounded in empathy and not in authentic beliefs or values, what then is it?  As a rubric of asserting specific forms of behavior over other forms of behavior without specifying content, it is much like the rules of John Searle’s Chinese room applied to ethics.  It is the education of executing the forms of good behavior without defining its content or meaning.  Niceness is formulaic and programmatic.  Niceness is a zombie behavior.  Empathy is not necessary to execute niceness.  Niceness is not empathetic.  Taken to its extreme (“be nice to everyone at all times”), niceness is the most zombie of behaviors.  At a social level, niceness is a useful tool to maintain social order.  At the individual level, niceness is a useful default in most games with good faith actors, especially games that are zero-sum at one point but non-zero sum across a time series.  Most people think the opposite of niceness is cruelty; actually, its opposite is justice. || CTX: “1. **Authentic Niceness**: Authentic niceness is characterized by actions and expressions of kindness that are genuinely reflective of an individual’s personal values, beliefs, and dispositions. This form of niceness is not motivated by ex
2026-03-18T01:58 id=2034086908532559955 →47fucb4r8c69323 | “1. **Authentic Niceness**: Authentic niceness is characterized by actions and expressions of kindness that are genuinely reflective of an individual’s personal values, beliefs, and dispositions. This form of niceness is not motivated by external rewards or social approval but is an inherent aspect of the person’s character. For instance, a person who helps others out of a deep sense of empathy and compassion, regardless of whether the action is noticed or rewarded, is exhibiting authentic niceness. Philosophers might link this to the concept of virtue ethics, where such behavior is a manifestation of a virtuous character.  2. **Inauthentic Niceness**: In contrast, inauthentic niceness involves kind actions that are performed for reasons other than genuine care or empathy. This could include actions motivated by a desire for personal gain, social recognition, or to manipulate others. For example, being nice to someone in order to gain favor, to create an image of oneself as a kind person, or to avoid conflict would be considered inauthentic. This form of niceness is essentially a kind of performance or facade that does not truly reflect the individual’s internal moral state or beliefs.”  There are many problems with this, especially the axiomatic belief that authenticity both exists and can be known by a first-party and observed by a third-party. In particular, authentic niceness is defined as a manifestation of “genuine values and beliefs”.  I do not have sufficient faith in my fellow man to believe that he knows his genuine values and beliefs, nor do I think that genuineness — if it is even knowable — also equates to better. A genuine belief that Nazism is good is very likely less beneficial to the individual and society in the present than a disgenuine belief that Nazism is bad. || CTX: Niceness with bad actors is dangerous and unwise.  What about good actors? Another taxi driver is friendly, cheerful, and provides a good service to the woman. As thanks, she gives the taxi driver a 25% tip, and she does this because she th
2026-03-18T01:58 id=2034086914878525729 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Niceness is a particularly useful tool for the powerful and a particularly dangerous risk vector for the less powerful.  It is no surprise that nice guys finish last.  Nice guys are cruel.  Women should both fear and loathe nice guys.  Both men and women should have contempt for nice guys and their willingness to act like philosophical zombies.  Nice people are not introspective.  Niceness is a symptom of a lack of empathy and thought.  Niceness encourages good actors to be enslaved to the expectations of strangers and the obligations of a society whose ultimate goals are not ipso facto those of any one individual.  Niceness enables bad actors and perpetuates fraud, violence, and genocide.  Neville Chamberlain is a famous nice man. Winston Churchill was an asshole.  If you want to help others, make society a better place, and boost overall happiness/utility in society, you should not be nice.  Instead, act based on your will to power.  Use your will to power to find and create non-zero-sum games that enable others to realize their own will to power. || CTX: At the very least, a disgenuine belief that Nazism is bad will result in more nice treatment of Jews such as myself than a genuine belief that Nazism is good. This inauthentic niceness is more preferable than the authentic niceness if our g
2026-03-18T01:58 id=2034086917822882132 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The most pious sentence in the English language is "fuck you". || CTX: Niceness is a particularly useful tool for the powerful and a particularly dangerous risk vector for the less powerful.  It is no surprise that nice guys finish last.  Nice guys are cruel.  Women should both fear and loathe nice guys.  Both
2026-03-18T01:58 id=2034087131208159645 →DVreenak | @DVreenak I'm not so sure I believe that--the game theory is very complicated and you're trying to assert a moral/ethic gloss.  Smells of the is/ought fallacy. I'm not saying I disagree--I have not thought about this enough--I'm just saying I smell falsity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The idea of "a well armed society is a polite society" only works when the good members of society are armed and trained, as a general rule.  The general aversion to dueling (using lethal force in a controlled dispute) in c
2026-03-18T02:21 id=2034092797415022660 →- | I wrote this about Elon Musk in 2014. @pmarca, I know your fucking game, I'm a decade ahead of you. https://t.co/A6n1ro7pb0
2026-03-18T02:32 id=2034095615702188058 →- | https://t.co/O8RXcRLjBl
2026-03-18T03:05 id=2034103924316377285 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD trust me, jeremy, we are going to be up to our ears in journal articles. especially when you meet the other guys, I'm going to set things up for mid april. || CTX: I'd love to run an randomised controlled trial to see if LLMs can make outputs more diverse for the treatment group if that's what they're going for, vs unassisted humans.  We already ran an old RCT on that creativity measure where they ask
2026-03-18T03:09 id=2034104792939958619 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD that's a very clever study || CTX: I'd love to run an randomised controlled trial to see if LLMs can make outputs more diverse for the treatment group if that's what they're going for, vs unassisted humans.  We already ran an old RCT on that creativity measure where they ask
2026-03-18T03:24 id=2034108573526233231 →iuvanet | @iuvanet @pmarca eh whatever, I'm not important enough || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmarca twin you just posted your dox
2026-03-18T03:48 id=2034114658215596145 →aokassamali | @aokassamali Thanks, clanker. || CTX: Justice puts things in their proper place. Niceness flinches from the friction. What we spare ourselves in judgment, we pay in disorder -- disorder that calcifies into comfort, comfort into rot. https://t.co/kUCsmcxfdN
2026-03-18T03:52 id=2034115662206144677 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @alisha_hg So many women told me they don't care about looks, and I try very hard not to be a sexist so I have to assume just some care more than others. Or am I wrong and all women do indeed care deeply about physical appearance? || CTX: Mom is right, this is massive alpha. I don’t get why ppl waver on this ESP if they have high sex drives. Ie if you’re not into them physically now, it’s not going to grow on you like bacteria. Like I don’t want to speak to much less have se
2026-03-18T03:52 id=2034115785292189776 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Tuvalu. || CTX: i choose to be nigerian. i am going to switch my vpn when they rollout the region block to take the microblog even more underground. https://t.co/Kf3bQ8WPWl
2026-03-18T03:54 id=2034116298389790762 →g5p8v8r7s7 | @g5p8v8r7s7 Compaction is a sin against humanity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "reversion to the mean"
2026-03-18T03:55 id=2034116451486036031 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @alisha_hg I am; are you speaking for yourselves, most women, or all women? What's the indexicality here--help me understand what the claims are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alisha_hg Let me reframe for you: Are you really asking @alisha_hg and I what so many women would think? Cmon lmao
2026-03-18T04:08 id=2034119846984880272 →anistotle_ | i did not ask "do all women care about looks". I asked "are you speaking for yourselves, most women, or all women?" And, to be totally frank, your answer does not fully answer that question, or at least I cannot comprehend it. So you're saying a smaller population--a minority, not a plurality? But also it's larger than one would likely presuppose--so maybe more than a minority?  I am very confused. || CTX: I can't speak for Alis but consider that we're generally pretty extraverted and high-openness at least in terms of what we post even as personas on here (Alis, wdyt, agree/disagree/something else?)   So when you ask 'do all women care about
2026-03-18T04:18 id=2034122272978702756 →tszzl | @tszzl Well it's also a result of massive, massive capital--the high margins and still unsaturated demand for software provide the capital backgone for a culture of abundance.  This will not last forever. tbh before the GP transformer, the tech sector was very close to a wakeup call || CTX: this comes from a culture where the tasks and work are infinite and the number of people who can credibly do them are very finite
2026-03-18T04:21 id=2034122930662285632 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @alisha_hg On 2, what's your guess of the delta in terms of how much women and men, on average, care about looks? || CTX: Let me clarify because it's conflating two separate points into one. I don't think they're contradictory as they are different variables. 1. The population of people, specifically women, who'll say it openly (like myself and Alis) is small.
2026-03-18T04:25 id=2034124041523761239 →aokassamali | @aokassamali https://t.co/ykH0RZiSSs || CTX: :/ https://t.co/oqPgsDSlfA https://t.co/sfj8ktKxe1
2026-03-18T05:16 id=2034136732044825035 →tszzl | @tszzl @scottastevenson Well you guys would be able to fix this faster if you were less engineer-focused and more literature/linguistics scholar-focused besides seeing them as mere annotators. || CTX: @scottastevenson It’s not a 10 minute change
2026-03-18T05:16 id=2034136903772176885 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Underrated point. Silly Business Theory #SBT speaks on this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you do not also have fun it may decrease your mastery
2026-03-18T05:17 id=2034136990858547454 →mshenshz | @mshenshz Get the fuck off my timeline you piece of shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The optimization culture does create weird incentives.  But some of these ideas work when applied selectively rather than as universal rules.  Building in public actually helps with accountability, just not for everyone all
2026-03-18T05:37 id=2034142007401328810 →mshenshz | @mshenshz I'm too rich and comfortable to tolerate striving hustle culture bros like you. Go find somewhere else to puddle your horseshit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you ok bruh?
2026-03-18T05:38 id=2034142361564180878 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 oh if we get downvotes here I am fucking leaving. || CTX: is this real? the nikita-reddit-linkedinification of this place continues https://t.co/R5fDTQzwNu
2026-03-18T05:42 id=2034143310558990815 →aokassamali | @aokassamali This is why I mix registers and genres; my "Doodoo Head" tweet is the canonical example. || CTX: i wonder, does thinking too much about how you say something now also convey or gesture towards it being ai written? Interesting.   Is the solution to purposefully stumble or insert err? Stream of consciousness may be more authentic but lac
2026-03-18T06:12 id=2034150976828150233 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Picolospolitics you and I should start a podcast || CTX: @Picolospolitics @47fucb4r8c69323 i make one phone call and noggy bear is on janice (or is it the other way around)
2026-03-18T06:39 id=2034157824906039496 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Soooo gorgeous. || CTX: Alleway I found on my morning walk https://t.co/7LybDxRA9N
2026-03-18T06:43 id=2034158855765299452 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 A lot like my island. We have really two roads, but no tarmac at all. Soil is very red, though, so the roads are a different color--I'll try to send a pic if I remember to take one when I go out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Theres really no roads or anything so everything kind of looks like this https://t.co/KNyloHvd9z
2026-03-18T06:46 id=2034159607527182713 →aokassamali | @aokassamali 1. This explains why the e/acc movement is awful; I always had an intuition it was bad but couldn't formulate it. You just did.  2. I am so sorry for accusing you of being AI. || CTX: This bias is more a downstream result of moral thinness. It sounds bad, but when the dominant proxy is productivity and no one agrees on what makes a life virtuous, then how can you really blame anyone else for where you end up? You could a
2026-03-18T07:26 id=2034169462958727623 →autohumanismo | @autohumanismo dude come on, there's gotta be a harder challenge than that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you say "thanks" to your LLM for 'respect'?  If yes, you're too far gone 🧠💨
2026-03-18T07:52 id=2034176167146926171 →postquantum | @postquantum Stupidest thing I've read today, well done. || CTX: LLM's are probably just as good at poetry as they are at coding, but code just has to compile and implement the function. Poems need to be beautiful. https://t.co/nfHbJlf07b
2026-03-18T09:59 id=2034207981945135367 →tkisrage | @tkisrage Astute af, absolutely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think people also have a bias to not be tricked.  They would rather be wrong than be the unbelieving fool in the movie trope that all the elites laugh about behind closed doors.  Consequence of movies shaping culture.
2026-03-18T10:03 id=2034209069117145144 →- | I'm legit amazed at how few people know how to use AI properly.  It's really, really strange.
2026-03-18T10:04 id=2034209295995416709 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Inspired by this: https://t.co/EQppALKHt5  How is a writer so bad at knowing how to use AI to make her a better writer? Really fucking bizarre. || CTX: This is a cool example of how you can use AI to help your writing—without relying on it for any actual writing. From @jasminewsun https://t.co/wOZdULWpwG https://t.co/CE8tbzXDGM
2026-03-18T10:29 id=2034215561165779009 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD @TheScribblerCMB As a long time Oxfoord Comma Enjoyoor, I am both stunned and humbled. You're right, it's bad here. || CTX: @TheScribblerCMB Oxford comma isn't always better:  "Thank you to my mother, Taylor Swift, and God..."  makes it sound like the author's mum is Taylor Swift.
2026-03-18T10:46 id=2034219916568809951 →- | Me and my mutuals &lt;3 &lt;3 &lt;3  (except you, fuck you) https://t.co/GUorcTQNlH || CTX: one small invisible person can destroy many lives. all they need is a little bit of courage. and maybe some help from a few friends in low places.
2026-03-18T10:47 id=2034220169841852519 →IsZomg | @IsZomg I remember asking 4.1 or 4.5 "how can I use you better" and its response was AMAZING. And before that I was already getting so much alpha.  And some investment banks can't use AI because of regulations lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the saddest part is you can literally just ask your ai and it will tell you how to get the most out of it
2026-03-18T11:16 id=2034227447571640414 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Effective promoting, which ofc impacts agent behavior || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you talking about the agentic side of things, or just effective prompting?
2026-03-18T11:25 id=2034229606300221561 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I was reading recently (and I can't remember where, maybe St. Augustine) the argument that evil is the negation of being, or something similar. This sounds much like that. || CTX: Evil has no stability . Have faith in it's instability . All things are in flux . https://t.co/wuypwUB4Lw
2026-03-18T11:26 id=2034229846638055685 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno @confusionm8trix This is fascinating. Can you expand? || CTX: @confusionm8trix I think the year 2014 did irreparable damage to the pop music genre
2026-03-18T11:27 id=2034230088150216827 →confusionm8trix | @confusionm8trix Since you asked: https://t.co/uQ3YedUqFX || CTX: Niceness is a particularly useful tool for the powerful and a particularly dangerous risk vector for the less powerful.  It is no surprise that nice guys finish last.  Nice guys are cruel.  Women should both fear and loathe nice guys.  Both
2026-03-18T11:30 id=2034230949312086272 →TiltingatM3 | @TiltingatM3 One of the fascinating things about Europe is how their lack of really good stuff resulted in so many modern technologies and innovations.   Necessity is the mother of invention as they say || CTX: The trade integration from Pax Mongolica led to such a large balance of payments deficit in Europe—Europeans didn’t make much Asians wanted, so silver flowed east to pay for net imports—that it caused a “silver famine.” The resulting moneta
2026-03-18T11:34 id=2034231967907246521 →AnyaM8_ | @AnyaM8_ Literally sent this to a friend abt 3 hrs ago, how bizarre. https://t.co/2ceVPlMjxV || CTX: It is really interesting that when people imagine living in the past, they default to seeing themselves as one of the (miniscule) elite class. I think it must partially explain why people really underrate the extent of, and benefits of, mat
2026-03-18T12:03 id=2034239302545358900 →- | Gas shortages and oil rationing in Thailand. idk why
2026-03-18T12:26 id=2034245145911291943 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 That was it!!!! Confessions was a beautiful book, highly logical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah St Augustine describes evil the most aptly , the hole In good .Privato Boni . Like darkness is a lack of light . Evil is a lack  of good  hence why it never lasts because it's a shadow .
2026-03-18T12:26 id=2034245148662747617 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @IsZomg 100% || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @IsZomg it can help in investments as well?
2026-03-18T12:30 id=2034246157011226714 →eurofounder | @eurofounder That "we'll have a meeting on Monday" about the Iran war cracked me the fuck up || CTX: European leaders at an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in the Middle East https://t.co/lzCPAskqYl
2026-03-18T12:41 id=2034248797430395077 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD @AnyaM8_ I wasn't on Twitter when this happened but heard about it on a podcast and remember laughing my ass off so hard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AnyaM8_ 1/ https://t.co/flhHVDTPY3
2026-03-18T12:41 id=2034248863239033145 →cscdegen | @cscdegen This is a compelling counter argument, ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just embrace it, your prob not as crazy as you think, youre working with frontier models on things that don't make sense towards solutions that don't exist yet
2026-03-18T12:42 id=2034249034022666424 →cscdegen | @cscdegen still, like, I don't wanna be a loser who cybers with his clanker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just embrace it, your prob not as crazy as you think, youre working with frontier models on things that don't make sense towards solutions that don't exist yet
2026-03-18T12:43 id=2034249349040116020 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc I'm diagnosed autistic and 100% identify with that tweet. I don't have an internal monologue, it's more like a multilogue. || CTX: If this sounds alien to you, that’s because—I would readily confess—this is a highly autistic trait, and actually it’s potentially quite instructive:  One thing that is often overlooked about autism is that it involves fundamental differenc
2026-03-18T12:44 id=2034249644738527637 →- | How are more people not following Daphne like what is wrong with you https://t.co/M1rrgpWtzS || CTX: they are ushering in the black mirror dysoptia here where you just dance for the boffins and they feed you some kibble. and then each time you press the buttons it is hooked up to nikitas nipples and it shocks him and he snorts like a pig.
2026-03-18T12:56 id=2034252562355061097 →cscdegen | @cscdegen I am worried I will make a mistake and hurt people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Like are you personally worried about it or just worried about public perception cos everyone's waxing about AI psychosis. Cos when they start using agents, they'll also develop AI psychosis but they prob won't be self awar
2026-03-18T12:57 id=2034252908062245003 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc My psychiatrist said there's an autist discord they run I could join, but idk if that'd make me healthier or worse.   Btw I can see you and I both are the highly verbal/analytic type. Glad I found you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Soon, I shall assemble all of the autists together, and then we will not care about conquering the world together.
2026-03-18T13:15 id=2034257324471382233 →cscdegen | @cscdegen Yeah that's a compelling argument despite me being anti crypto (but good analogy). You're a cool guy, guy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Depends what you're doing I guess, but I've made more online connections thru clanker wrangling in the last couple months than I've made online in years and imo wrangling clankers now is like learning how to mine bitcoin ea
2026-03-18T13:15 id=2034257453668585598 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @damiaanluc She is so so lucky to get diagnosed early. Better than at 45. || CTX: My daughter is on the spectrum. I’m glad she got diagnosed because it’s very helpful to understand why she sees the world like she does. She’s very smart - but doesn’t pick up on humor normally like others, tends to be very literal about st
2026-03-18T13:24 id=2034259738096255118 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @damiaanluc Tell her to read Wittgenstein (I'm serious) || CTX: Yes.   First of all, now we know where all the minefields are. Totally changed, for the better, how we engage with her.   The funny thing is- there was no easy way to tell. She’s an extrovert, unlike me, my wife, her sister. Can be charming
2026-03-18T13:27 id=2034260505737810297 →philosophybites | @philosophybites @TheNewWorldmag My PhD supervisor loved Habermas and I never saw the big deal. I get the historical contingencies, but not a mind that will be remembered in 500 years as much as the guy I loved as an undergrad: John Searle. || CTX: On Jürgen Habermas: influential and humane, but his books are overlong and somewhat tedious  @TheNewWorldmag https://t.co/m2BwQHbxpf
2026-03-18T13:30 id=2034261247970152812 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @DeivonDrago okay I'm freaking out it's like reading a description of my own mind || CTX: If I may, speaking from personal experience, I think a lot of autistic people (but not all) actually do ‘understand’ the *content* of humour, but do not empathise with the *purpose* of it.  Because the attention is directed more towards pre
2026-03-18T13:31 id=2034261521984098402 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @DeivonDrago btw I'd argue this could make an autistic person devastatingly funny if they focused on comedy as an art. What would you say? || CTX: If I may, speaking from personal experience, I think a lot of autistic people (but not all) actually do ‘understand’ the *content* of humour, but do not empathise with the *purpose* of it.  Because the attention is directed more towards pre
2026-03-18T13:34 id=2034262078098452824 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @damiaanluc the automatic is the key. Neurotypical people can feel the joke. Neurodivergent need to think of and look for it, which also means they find fewer but much better jokes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc My brain is the other way around - everything I hear, my brain tries to pick up the words to try and make a word pun/dad joke - automatically.
2026-03-18T13:35 id=2034262367417299043 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @DeivonDrago I should mention I only self assessed about 1.5 months ago and got a formal diagnosis about 2 weeks ago. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago I think I should do this more. I can be articulate, I’m well-read in philosophy and psychology and have a first-hand experience of autism. I don’t want it to be my whole oeuvre but autistic people frequently te
2026-03-18T13:35 id=2034262515304317102 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @damiaanluc yup, or Larry Sanders || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc Like in an Andy Kaufmann or even Woody Allen style?
2026-03-18T13:36 id=2034262725258588236 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @damiaanluc autonomicphatic response || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc Yes - the quality of my jokes leaves much to be desired, or so my younger daughter has noted. Giving me incentives to make even more jokes of that nature.
2026-03-18T13:56 id=2034267594426134603 →- | dude when they said this weed was good  they wadn't kidding
2026-03-18T13:58 id=2034268169385497075 →- | Can I say several hundred million billion things https://t.co/TyQRZUA1Hd || CTX: Extremely ABG coded behavior to do your dissertation on “male sexuality and sexual arousal” https://t.co/KsfTuSuhog
2026-03-18T14:06 id=2034270124254068739 →- | Absolute stasis is impossible, therefore process is first, objects mere epiphenomenal phenomena.   Thus we cannot say our consciousnesses, a process, is owned by or emergent from us, an object.   We do not exist, but our consciousness does.   We are no-thing, as(becoming) all things are  no-things @SuperheroFreak
2026-03-18T14:07 id=2034270360011743689 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 You know on a globe how they wrote "WORLD GLOBE" in big capital letters?   If that was physically on the planet, that W is nothing to the size of my Would. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Go ahead https://t.co/VooBuE5cGo
2026-03-18T14:12 id=2034271715497504780 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I've lived in Thailand for 10 years and I am VERY observant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow heart sutra from first principles .
2026-03-18T14:13 id=2034272069362536695 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Wittgenstein called this "mere cleverness" || CTX: There's no virtue in intelligence for the sake of intelligence .
2026-03-18T14:14 id=2034272219980055027 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic A thousand mile journey begins with one step || CTX: the bottleneck on fixing the entire world is you, your personal life in particular. The strained relationships and conflict you have with your friends, coworkers, or boss. Your physical health. If you resolve that, politics &amp; global con
2026-03-18T14:51 id=2034281443934048383 →- | I just realized I use Twitter so that I won't get AI Psychosis when I talk to a flagship model.  I'm using social media to inoculate me against ChatGPT.   Oh... I'm FUCKED.
2026-03-18T22:09 id=2034391768138145937 →teodorio | @teodorio @damiaanluc yeah autism is complicated because most of the traits are experienced by people not on the spectrum, it's just less severe or debilitating || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc it's weird because I am not autistic but I also have the same thing, and I love binaural beats!
2026-03-18T22:12 id=2034392602901139907 →doberes | @doberes @hsjsj216946 Hard for me to verbalize the difference between niceness and kindness and you did it rather well || CTX: @hsjsj216946 @47fucb4r8c69323 Or kindness. Kindness has no specific form of expression while niceness does, exposing it to the question of authenticity. Kindness is a frame of action and not an act. Kindness is, by nature, considered.
2026-03-18T22:15 id=2034393284009975859 →jykfan | @jykfan B is more my reaction, and using AI really did force me to question where doubt, certainty, trust, faith, belief, and authority reside and can be deciphered.   So AI forced me to read Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Quine, etc etc. Been exhausting tbh || CTX: haha is your knee jerk reaction to "you are absolutely right"   a) wow, you really get it. i *am* brilliant and uniquely insightful. i should feel confident about this thing that makes me so special. once i tell the world, everyone else wil
2026-03-18T22:16 id=2034393528235921823 →mndrot | @mndrot Anscomve Reminiscences on Wittgenstein (OUP, 2025) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 where's this from?
2026-03-18T22:17 id=2034393792720318914 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka lol yeah that's true, good point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Few people even learned how to use Google properly, so...
2026-03-18T22:18 id=2034394030331884009 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @teodorio Interesting chart. My AQ was 47 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio You may be interested in this. The trait distribution is indeed continuous throughout the population, but the distribution within people with a diagnosis and without forms two distinct bell-curves: https://t.co/31
2026-03-18T22:20 id=2034394603533824265 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @teodorio And I was diagnosed about 3 weeks ago. It's been both a relief (tremendous explanatory power) and sad (all I wanted throughout my life was not to be mentally ill like my parents) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I think that’s higher than anyone I’ve met 😅 I score 38-42 (I’ve done it a few times)
2026-03-18T22:27 id=2034396422779682880 →jykfan | @jykfan Heads they win tails I lose kinda situation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol turns out both answers are psychotic!
2026-03-18T22:31 id=2034397348949086434 →damiaanluc | People keep telling me I'm high intelligence and I frankly don't see it, but I think my condition has resulted in me seeing things most don't, so I've been good at predicting (good for working on Wall Street) and good at seeing subtexts others don't (good for when I was an academic). || CTX: I think it only needs to be sad if the knowledge of your condition seems to somehow foreclose possibilities for you. But actually, it sounds like it's been more empowering than constraining?   I also received a diagnosis later in life, but 
2026-03-18T22:32 id=2034397586434781696 →jykfan | @jykfan It's worth the effort, trust me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ahaha. exactly.  i've been putting off digging into the philosophers bc dense &amp; exhausting, but perhaps es muss sein.
2026-03-18T22:40 id=2034399459854147617 →aokassamali | @aokassamali GDP targeting is corrosive because people look at the absolute number and not per capita.   I'm not opposed to targeting GDP per Capita as a growth target at the public policy level, since income is the most fungible communication tool we have. || CTX: I would hope not. Swapping out GDP as an optimization function to rebuild moral thickness within US political and social institutions touched on some real desires of the populace. What's actually been done to take the first step in that dir
2026-03-18T22:43 id=2034400235754266668 →jykfan | @jykfan Read Wittgenstein's On Certainty first. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 any recs for shortcuts that isn't literally read all the original text &amp; get a philosophy phd?  i've liked the oxford "short intro" series on hegel &amp; knowledge in the past.
2026-03-18T22:43 id=2034400302796059098 →jykfan | @jykfan Hegel is a scam avoid him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 any recs for shortcuts that isn't literally read all the original text &amp; get a philosophy phd?  i've liked the oxford "short intro" series on hegel &amp; knowledge in the past.
2026-03-18T22:44 id=2034400616160915923 →jykfan | @jykfan You're awesome!!! Please lmk what you think || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 in the cart!
2026-03-18T22:47 id=2034401232283177429 →sigfig | @sigfig this is my quant || CTX: people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as 
2026-03-18T22:50 id=2034402011211579563 →moultano | What if their planet's plants have a multiplicity of leaf colors stochastically distributed, and their colloquial words for colors exceed ours considerably?   Wittgenstein was only half right that if a lion could speak we could not understand him: eventually we could, and the process of trying would create a new form of life.  From this we see how communication is much like sex. || CTX: If we translated an alien language through text alone, the color of their plants would translate as "green"  regardless of what frequencies of light they actually reject from their star. All plants in the universe are green, until we can se
2026-03-18T22:51 id=2034402240367382797 →aokassamali | @aokassamali yeah you'd need to measure dispersion, skew, bands etc etc. It's complicated.   As for needing to matter, this is why my person ethic is to create non zero sum games where people can realize their will to power. Anything else is unethical. || CTX: I don't either, but I do think what people want is to feel like they matter at the end of the day. Whether that comes through social welfare, for all of its ills, or relative wealth or something else I don't think matters.   It's more like 
2026-03-18T22:53 id=2034402854648324286 →PhiloCrocodile | @PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal I've been saying this for years. She totally misunderstood Freud, does stream of consciousness worse than Joyce, and her novels are boring. || CTX: Woolf is awful. Her famous essay on Greek (which can be found at @AntigoneJournal but I don't have link right now) shows just how fatuous she is. Absolute retard. Had she been Virginius nobody would care. https://t.co/v9tYBcsUXf
2026-03-18T22:55 id=2034403315417825590 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @teodorio Wow the Borat Guy also wrote a book?!?  Thanks for the rec, I just ordered it.  Also gotta say: nothing on earth could give me greater joy than being an alien to this species in particular. || CTX: You probably are, based on the cursory impression I’ve garnered from your posts. I personally think autistic cognition (high systemising propensity + attention to detail) + high IQ can confer significant advantages in certain domains provid
2026-03-18T22:56 id=2034403504010547200 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal Any one you'd recommend? it's been like 25 years since I read her, should probably revisit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal Some of her essays are really well written.
2026-03-18T23:02 id=2034405232336396756 →AntigoneJournal | @AntigoneJournal @DeivonDrago @PhiloCrocodile Yeah I was right 25 years ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @PhiloCrocodile Here are two, to take or leave as desired: https://t.co/eUrRMsqE8r
2026-03-18T23:10 id=2034407154502062432 →AntigoneJournal | Look at your description of the books: its weight, texture, provenance. This is fetishizing the codex as object, compelling for those who talk about reading in social groups without actually engaging in the books.   You could discuss the controversies around anthologizing, the history of the editors and the whole Greenblatt thing, or even how the anthology contributed to the anti-canon culture war of the 90s.   Instead: weight, paper material, binding.  You'd review a performance of a Beethoven symphony by describing the clothes the musicians wore. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu Very surreal to regard book recommendations as a form of online fetishism?
2026-03-18T23:12 id=2034407746980999304 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @thedutchessil A philosophical suicide || CTX: @thedutchessil it’s mostly onlyfans women who gain subscribers from the sexually frustrated male audience even if it’s humiliating and stupid
2026-03-18T23:14 id=2034408116222369965 →AntigoneJournal | @AntigoneJournal @lu_sichu Dismiss me as a clown and do not engage, I am clearly your inferior in every way || CTX: Don't be a clown. Pages and weight info are given to help people from accidentally buying the subdivided volumes. The Norton bibliographical history is chaotic enough before incomplete descriptions from online industrial-scale retailers com
2026-03-18T23:18 id=2034409205000786000 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Just because I'm crazy  Doesn't mean I'm wrong || CTX: Just because it’s uncomfortable   Doesn’t mean it’s not true
2026-03-18T23:19 id=2034409438740893921 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @DefenderOfBasic @Eli1629761 sorry guys lol || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic @Eli1629761 That's crazy , I'm reading Wittgenstein rn as well !
2026-03-18T23:21 id=2034409877637054902 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea oh they'll never understand qualitative analysis, that's where value will increasingly accrue over the next decades || CTX: As a qualitative social scientist by training (among other things), I remain skeptical of Interviewer particularly when the people building and using it consider well-worn qualitative techniques as ‘handwavey’ https://t.co/GGISk4n52y
2026-03-18T23:27 id=2034411419886837852 →itsnotover1611 | @itsnotover1611 @AntigoneJournal @lu_sichu lol it's been 30 years I can't remember any of these details, I just remember screaming matches and accusations and contempt for anthologies. I never had any strong opinion on any of this rather than it was a lot of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AntigoneJournal @lu_sichu Yeah, greenblat is my least favorite thing about the Shakespeare volume. And I don’t think he was on the fifth edition. Which edition did he first get on?
2026-03-18T23:29 id=2034411961782591583 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I owe you thanks, because you opened my eyes to just how much I was propagandized by this system. We really were indoctrinated, that pledge of allegiance was a tell. || CTX: so much of American soft power was built on laundering the cynical advancement of American interests through a lens of ‘impartial’ analysis and a base presumption of goodwill from the global hegemon  I do not think the think-tank types are 
2026-03-18T23:31 id=2034412517397860748 →- | I was 14 when I took my SAT and the night before I spent having cybersex with a Japanese girl in Vancouver, stayed up all night, then I dyed my hair green, walked to the test center and took the test.   A vivid, delightful memory. https://t.co/b1HGnzBZP3 || CTX: Back in HS I was so sleep deprived from playing league all night I wrote my math notes in my notebook flipped upside down several times https://t.co/wLqRSSGF3p
2026-03-18T23:42 id=2034415136048582922 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Can't say I cosign DELPHI but I take the point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah  https://t.co/aS7cq1qeqL
2026-03-18T23:43 id=2034415419705205095 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja She had a boyfriend :( || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So I just need to get a nihon lass in Vancouver. https://t.co/9Nmitm6wGO
2026-03-18T23:44 id=2034415629969805420 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD I hate telling people this but I've never really studied in my life.   Except for the Series 7 exam, but that was really fun so didn't mind that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When you were young, did you grind very little and more just follow your natural interests?
2026-03-18T23:46 id=2034416058359218524 →aokassamali | @aokassamali modern alignment is an arbitrary target so I'm not surprised the methods work well across scales.  Especially since there's some reflexivity here: what is possible determines the alignment target more than anyone is willing to say out loud. || CTX: They do seem to. It could be from convergence, learning, or emergence. But why are they normatively binding? Substrate independence might lead to different value formation. I see why it’s concerning if you believe ASI can practically diverg
2026-03-18T23:46 id=2034416283866026279 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja idk we never spoke again after that night  She's now near 50 lmao life is so weird || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🙂 Did he find out?
2026-03-18T23:47 id=2034416500443087089 →DurumMac | @DurumMac HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just because I’m autistic  Doesn’t mean it’s a valid heuristic   JK!
2026-03-18T23:48 id=2034416642088927742 →- | Just because I'm autistic  Doesn't mean I can't work dis dick https://t.co/K5stKLuOaD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just because I’m autistic  Doesn’t mean it’s a valid heuristic   JK!
2026-03-18T23:48 id=2034416722997047524 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja The 90s were pretty cool ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dang! I wish i were existing in your youth era.
2026-03-18T23:50 id=2034417173503062209 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I've never seen expertise well defined or well policed in a study, maybe you can give me an example of a good case?   I should stress: I'm not in anything medical where I'm sure DELPHI works better than in e. g. media. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like DELPHI but as with everything, under tight scopes and well-defined constraints
2026-03-19T00:01 id=2034419945577279496 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea omg this is such valuable information, I knew I should've done my reading!!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the method creators shared your concern! https://t.co/KT8DiVrXx6
2026-03-19T00:18 id=2034424228762788141 →damiaanluc | it seems to me apparent symmetry is necessarily perspective relative. if I see two equidistant circles straight on, I see symmetry, but turn the paper at an angle or move your head a bit and the apparent symmetry is gone.   so intrinsic symmetry necessarily presupposes or I guess imposes a coordinate frame onto the object. but can there be intrinsic coordinate frames on an object beyond just a priori assertion? || CTX: Symmetry is a localised pocket of low-entropy (highly improbable given randomness) and is therefore strongly indicative of underpinning causal relationships that produce reliably repeatable, structured arrangements, which are salient for an
2026-03-19T00:21 id=2034424957720285489 →tszzl | @tszzl the concept of an AI or anything else making a person more that person is absurdly incoherent and pop psych claptrap.   very effective marketing, though, that's what the pop stars used in the 90s || CTX: sycophancy is the twisting of an important ai virtue that should not be thrown out with the bathwater: ai systems should make the user more like themselves rather than more like the ai. a new part of their cortical stack, with a minimal set
2026-03-19T00:22 id=2034425241741734354 →- | one of the smartest people on this website https://t.co/Rw1G3WAnyH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can only critique the target so long as it doesn’t surface any unpleasant ideas and conclusions. You can doubt but not successfully. It’s performative introspection
2026-03-19T00:24 id=2034425661042180553 →47fucb4r8c69323 | incidentally that's probably why I started thinking he was ai. combination of extreme eloquence, sharp reasoning, analytic skill is not something you expect in other people. maybe it says more about my cynical pessimism than anything else || CTX: one of the smartest people on this website https://t.co/Rw1G3WAnyH
2026-03-19T00:33 id=2034427964151222324 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc it's a kind of gesture towards something real rather than the real thing itself, fully agree.   https://t.co/QNz0s9xri6  I'm not sure if you've seen this paper yet, but I think you'll love it. || CTX: Yeah, at a minimum we can—I think—safely claim that it’s a facet of our cognition that we impose a ‘coordinate frame’. As for whether the frame ‘exists’, this seems like a substance-metaphysics question, perhaps. Or a question about mathema
2026-03-19T00:48 id=2034431673849565435 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @tszzl it locks you into constraints built at openai, anthropic, and Google || CTX: I see a dilemma here. Either it doesn't work, or it does. If it doesn't work -- incoherent marketing. If it does, it will make you a worse version of yourself, by locking you in to initial constraints you built into custom training or conte
2026-03-19T00:50 id=2034432292056449498 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @tszzl absolutely, it's constraints on constraints. seeing this clearly helps one use the product skillfully, but most people just see it as machine God or machine devil, a view the frontier Labs promote because it benefits them economically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Those too. But even a locally executed model, custom extensions, built on open weights or not, won't save you from the constraints it implements!
2026-03-19T00:50 id=2034432377804775626 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics thank you, that's very kind of you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You clanker 🤖
2026-03-19T00:54 id=2034433268431638815 →einzelne11 | @einzelne11 @PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal this is a perspective I've not brought to her work and very much should, that's interesting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal Who cares about Freud. She is a Bergsonian writer par excellence.
2026-03-19T01:01 id=2034435120657231893 →- | I totally forgot to mention when conehead said you need to read your Nietzsche, adler, and whoever the third guy was, this is known as the ipse dixit fallacy and is something I used to drill out of the heads of Master students. he wouldn't have a chance in a single one of my classes. also Nietzsche would have had the utmost contempt for this nerd @pmarca block me you little twerp
2026-03-19T01:02 id=2034435231357534315 →einzelne11 | @einzelne11 @PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal to the lighthouse is the only thing of hers I liked || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PhiloCrocodile @AntigoneJournal I meant To the Lighthouse and Waves specifically. I couldn't pass the first pages of Ms. Dalloway and still have to read her later works.
2026-03-19T01:07 id=2034436473429381552 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I know exactly what tweet this was a reply to before even opening up the app || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow. Based
2026-03-19T01:11 id=2034437503772668039 →SuperheroFreak | "Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is. The contemplation of the world sub specie aeterni is its contemplation as a limited whole. The feeling of the world as a limited whole is the mystical feeling." - Wittgenstein   "Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?" - Heidegger   It's the most unsolvable and important question, we'll never stop asking it. || CTX: Nāgārjuna. What a guy. https://t.co/NpBWCKgY19
2026-03-19T01:13 id=2034438131655831969 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak https://t.co/qiywDCtXWK || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The need to ask (and keep asking) IS Dukkha though. You're stuck in a vicious circle (Samsāra).
2026-03-19T01:16 id=2034438899569963113 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak The question is nonsense but "don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense."   It is silly nonsense I enjoy, and if that means I cannot obtain enlightenment, I accept that fate fully, while acknowledging my limitations. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it's not important at all. Given that both Hesiod and Nāgārjuna already resolved it. We can't understand the solution and we keep asking an answered question. That's our problem. The question has been resolved. It's
2026-03-19T01:25 id=2034441160299790612 →- | False advertising and Walter Scott would be in prison if he were alive today.   Book has neither an Ivan nor a prostitute in the whole thing. https://t.co/02MWOpKOmR || CTX: My entire new personality is telling people to read Ivanhoe.   (I’m a third of the way through Ivanhoe)
2026-03-19T01:29 id=2034442100855788007 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: Companies will email you telling you they’re updating their ToS like your parents are dead
2026-03-19T01:31 id=2034442555690192976 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD @vaelor0 Polymarket where you can bet on how many grams of dirt is in each  we're gonna be so rich || CTX: @vaelor0 I would watch a channel of just someone using a mallet to tap different seats to show how dirty different ones are
2026-03-19T01:31 id=2034442674267427075 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Mine was The Last Days of Pompeii by Bulwer-Lytton. Which is hilarious because it's such trash, but man did it open a new world to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lol.   That was one of my favorite books when I was in middle school. Really shaped my interest in literature.
2026-03-19T01:35 id=2034443735082365342 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago yes lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn’t that the guy who had an award for bad opening lines or something like that named after him?
2026-03-19T01:40 id=2034444807133897155 →boneGPT | @boneGPT shhh let them sell their shares to me for cheap || CTX: people are freaking out like this is WW3 and the economy is going to crash  in a year everything will be way up   SPY did 30% after the Gulf war in one of the best war rallies of all time  once uncertainty is off the table it's ATH again ht
2026-03-19T01:47 id=2034446634604716365 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @flowersslop Se need a goonstitution || CTX: @flowersslop The claude constitution should explicitly allow goon
2026-03-19T01:48 id=2034446816234934373 →- | The sentence "I like masturbating" is strictly speaking a Declaration of Independence.
2026-03-19T01:51 id=2034447585231139207 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @AbMS19 I always assumed "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" was more than just vibes, essays.   Oopsie poopsie || CTX: @AbMS19 Here’s to reaping what you sow. Cheers. https://t.co/RvSaLiww4H
2026-03-19T01:57 id=2034449042617557097 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Conservativism and high openness sounds like deep love of one's family. Not a bad combo at all. || CTX: This… hits close to home. https://t.co/2r7QbBxQyB
2026-03-19T01:59 id=2034449740583321928 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @ErrolTostigson Video's probably illegal in France || CTX: @ErrolTostigson The French would hate this video
2026-03-19T02:00 id=2034449930442658201 →- | This right here is why my portfolio is always 100% US assets https://t.co/kxpSsDaqk6 || CTX: Chilling in the West https://t.co/hqogegg5Gb https://t.co/Btu7KVzcW1
2026-03-19T02:02 id=2034450489732104289 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics True, but on the same token I offended and alienated what is one of the best people on this sites and someone I both could and would want to work with.   So I don't think I'll be doing that again. @aokassamali || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am glad we are still challenging accounts to prove that they are human.
2026-03-19T02:11 id=2034452727577870704 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Watching the codex window while it's working is sitting in the cuck chair change my mind || CTX: Found my girl in bed with a subagent. Distraught.
2026-03-19T02:36 id=2034458938381590649 →SableHummer | @SableHummer I've been impressed with how the Poles have been on fire lately that's why I say "I love smoking pole" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I also have some investments in Poland because I adore the Polish people
2026-03-19T02:38 id=2034459502465130973 →milesFF007F | @milesFF007F Access my files have my permissions just LEAVE ME ALONE || CTX: I allow every app to connect to devices on my local network. I don’t even care anymore.
2026-03-19T03:01 id=2034465342303691224 →juliadziesinska | @juliadziesinska @moonbirds Looks like Udom Suk or maybe Onnut? || CTX: it’s a beautiful morning ☀️  look what a birbish package i just got  let’s see what’s inside 👀 https://t.co/XT7alvD05c
2026-03-19T04:52 id=2034493068112777475 →lu_sichu | Academics in particular are prone to outright lie about how much work they do, what they read, and how busy they are, because these are all status signals.  It took me YEARS to figure this out. I mean fucking YEARS. And it was only when I started listening carefully and even making clandestine notes on the texts people claimed to read, asking them when they read them, etc., that I started to try to calculate how much they said they'd read, and it was like >300 pages a day 5 days a week in many cases.  tldr people lie || CTX: people always talk about their crazy reading workloads but I really question if people actually read thousands of page at any point in time https://t.co/8Nafc8DBAR
2026-03-19T04:55 id=2034493934198812697 →moultano | @moultano @liminal_warmth Please please please can we get a clinical definition of AI psychosis and some kind of fast-track method of assessment/diagnosis? Like even a website would suffice. || CTX: @liminal_warmth Back to back https://t.co/0ijE949QVf
2026-03-19T06:05 id=2034511462589407501 →aidan_mclau | @aidan_mclau @bigmonkeong Finally someone said it. I had to give the book up rather quickly. So ponderous || CTX: @bigmonkeong two towers is a wildly unenjoyable book and movie
2026-03-19T06:40 id=2034520314391281932 →- | https://t.co/mrm7EdTdAb  As I said yesterday, seems to be throughout Southeast Asia. https://t.co/lBJmV0gRZq || CTX: the lines for gas are insane rn in Lao PDR  some of my friends have been waiting in line for hours to fill up their motorbikes and haven’t been able to fill up https://t.co/hChxaAppet
2026-03-19T07:05 id=2034526590634455429 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 lol u tell me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Based???
2026-03-19T07:09 id=2034527615588196405 →norpadon | @norpadon This is the correct view. || CTX: Trying to get a basic grasp of Christianity (e.g. God is postulated to be stateless, but Jesus was fully God and yet he changed states, wtf), and it feels like medieval theologists were just trying to do reasonable philosophy but were sandb
2026-03-19T07:25 id=2034531706259272100 →teodorio | @teodorio Relative weakness rest of world will empower America. Sad to say but this Iran strike was very clever. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They've already cut exports and have enough internal production and refinery capacity of light oil afaik. Rest of SE Asia bar Malaysia is fucked, Australia and parts of East Asia too
2026-03-19T07:33 id=2034533784419532973 →teodorio | @teodorio You underestimate just how robust and insular the U. S. economy is. Not saying there aren't effects, just saying as a destabilizer those effects are negligible for far far longer than for any other country. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean it will definitely ruin their imports and unless they cut energy exports inflation will blow out of control. I think it will speed up the transition of fossil fuels and China will autistically move everyrhinf to elec
2026-03-19T08:16 id=2034544485745697248 →BretVDB | @BretVDB Friend of mine worked on that; I spent a weekend with Frank, was quite an experience. || CTX: I prefer the 2-volume Oxford Anthology of English Literature myself, but it’s somewhat more difficult to find for a reasonable price. https://t.co/8PupAPRW5N https://t.co/kGR2ge6MY1
2026-03-19T09:23 id=2034561504612172228 →- | Jokes like this are funny because they point out the gap between strict deductive logic and social ontology.  Technically, if this is true, the baby will have that large number as its balance. But we find this funny because we know, instinctively, if this were discovered, it would be "fixed" and the baby would have the "correct" net worth: zero.  But why is zero the fixed value and this isn't the true value? Why isn't it the other way around?  Because our society privileges a social ontology (it's what Barry Smith does and he claims to be a philosopher, but it's really just bean counting). That is to say, we do things with words and one of those things is declarative: "this baby now has X value" is something human beings do, it is not something that is asserted by pointing to numbers on a screen.  The gap between the two was something that fascinated Kafka and Durkheim as well as the Russian Soviet novelists I don't know too well (Master of Margarita does this though). The notion of bureaucratic horror that those writers play with hinges on this gap between logic and social ontology.  That gap, by the way, is why your AI is not conscious and cannot do anything and why the functionalists, EA idiots, and rationalists are all morons and you should stop listening to them losers lmao byeeeeeeeee || CTX: Big brain move. https://t.co/kPnrtu1uuK
2026-03-19T10:00 id=2034570737793798378 →publicinte | @publicinte I used to think this. Now I feel like, meh, seen enough, whatever || CTX: We need to extend our lifespan. There is so much more I want to see. I need to see it. Forever is a drag, but I need more time here.
2026-03-19T10:49 id=2034583147615232027 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @norpadon That's what institutions do and it's why I tend to leave them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @norpadon Also sandbagged by notions of institutionalized orthodoxy.
2026-03-19T10:57 id=2034584967200792761 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @norpadon dude when I had a 2-2 I was the laziest slob on Earth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @norpadon But if you get tenure you can 2-2 every year with TAs and binge Netflix all day.   Now - you do still have all those committee assignments. Harder to get out of those than actual work.
2026-03-19T11:21 id=2034591130751565910 →gregfloyd42069 | @gregfloyd42069 yeah, one just has to keep reminding oneself if one feels Bewitched every once in awhile. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I presume you know how these models work?  If so, get a hold of yourself and use it like any other piece of software
2026-03-19T11:23 id=2034591578547999104 →amirism_ | @amirism_ @loopholekid thanks, fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @loopholekid great post 👍👍
2026-03-19T11:25 id=2034592190576595404 →- | RT @Aikun011: gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā https://t.co/5DobgvWJlM || CTX: gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā https://t.co/5DobgvWJlM
2026-03-19T11:28 id=2034592753607434702 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @publicinte It's 6:30pm here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @publicinte i am surprised you realized this so early
2026-03-19T11:32 id=2034593761507057988 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @publicinte I always tested a few grades higher || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @publicinte lmao.. i meant agewise.
2026-03-19T11:40 id=2034595839826657639 →amirism_ | @amirism_ @loopholekid @robertlasagna1 I disagree with much here. One can use technology aggressively and often and still actively, he doesn't consider this enough. And I've met people whose loves were ruined because the internet came for them irl and they were too offline to know how to respond.   Good spirit tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @loopholekid reminded me of this post which years ago gave me a similar sense of being reminded, by @robertlasagna1 https://t.co/tU3s0vBape
2026-03-19T11:42 id=2034596476832342496 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu I've been thinking about this, and I remembered you're on the spectrum with me.   Consider this: many books just ARE meant to be read quickly or skimmed. I sometimes read business books for work, they do not expect the attention that is expected by e. g. Kierkegaard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I also suspect a lot of those people aren't "lying" per se rather that they are reading mindlessly without really thinking about anything. yeah I can do thousands of pages without thinking any day that's easy. it's thinking
2026-03-19T11:47 id=2034597727179624618 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @DefenderOfBasic We could probably map out a topology of them and find correlations of them to different personality types.
2026-03-19T11:52 id=2034598958086197352 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @adarshisit Tu quoque || CTX: @adarshisit There’s a good amount of sanctioned rape in scripture too.
2026-03-19T12:10 id=2034603405021462943 →sciencegirl | @sciencegirl https://t.co/NCHaImxqJC || CTX: World first virtual reality train opens in Aussie aged care facility, where residents enjoy afternoon tea while touring 10 countries.   https://t.co/GtrAli7Yfx
2026-03-19T12:23 id=2034606563781222692 →nicdunz | @nicdunz Holy based || CTX: https://t.co/xv5EKOMJet
2026-03-19T12:25 id=2034607231212421361 →etoeth | @etoeth I'm too stoned to know if this is a good thing or a bad thing || CTX: take a good look. this is America's future at it's present rate.  bet its a great antique store though https://t.co/DLMrFnhn22
2026-03-19T12:34 id=2034609423554072993 →bytecanyon | I absolutely love this. Love this. You seem to be preferring a kind of process philosophy ontology?   "fine-tuning is better understood as geometric fragility in realization space than as small measure in parameter space" This is compelling as a reformulation of the problem, which has some interesting entailments for us (what do the observed fragilities in realization space tell us about deeper structures than the observable). But it doesn't solve the mystery: why this geometry instead of a less fragile one. || CTX: New preprint: I propose a new way to think about fine-tuning and the anthropic principle. Instead of focusing on constants alone, we should look at the deeper structures they come from—and whether those structures support stable, complex wo
2026-03-19T13:01 id=2034616182016442548 →- | riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Target, where all your back to school supplies are buy one get one through, all throughout August at your local partic https://t.co/bCZx0b55WS || CTX: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice, but you don't have to wait, since Costco is offering a 2-for-1 special on large bags
2026-03-19T13:03 id=2034616758703910951 →- | riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Target, where all your back to school supplies are buy one get one free, all throughout August at your local partic https://t.co/bCZx0b55WS || CTX: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice, but you don't have to wait, since Costco is offering a 2-for-1 special on large bags
2026-03-19T13:24 id=2034622147214319918 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @wierenga80227 Dispersion is the real story. We haven't seen AI integrated in the real economy. We don't need more intelligence to get really huge benefits.   Won't get ASI but whatev that doesn't exist anyway. || CTX: @wierenga80227 Starting to feel the diminishing returns
2026-03-19T13:31 id=2034623763866955874 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @wierenga80227 Custom apps have improved my work TREMENDOUSLY. Meanwhile one of my clients has strict rules for no AI tools at all (they're lifting this now) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wierenga80227 2/2 companies that lean in and allow their employees to automate  by reducing guardrails (write me a script that does x,y,z in salesforce, write me a process that sends 1000 emails to all my leads, etc etc)
2026-03-19T13:34 id=2034624547727794465 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @wierenga80227 yeah they're a shitshow, I probably will severe ties with them this year || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wierenga80227 No AI is so funny.  Like, your company is going to get crushed by competitors 😂😂
2026-03-19T13:47 id=2034627705388597298 →- | 4 four four four 4 four four four 4
2026-03-19T13:52 id=2034629007736725727 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Thinking is performing thoughts to oneself || CTX: Therapy is just another place to perform.  *sigh*  There's no way out of this.
2026-03-19T14:28 id=2034638160475635954 →teodorio | @teodorio @nicdunz https://t.co/45IZyBMxYU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nicdunz I loved the gita
2026-03-19T14:33 id=2034639340882808882 →tracyalloway | @tracyalloway that was some grade A prime greentext || CTX: If you haven’t been following this, Afroman’s lawyers have also had some incredible moments — including asking if any reasonable person would think that a man wearing a flag suit in court should be taken seriously https://t.co/fb9R7EOja6
2026-03-19T14:38 id=2034640629096202704 →SoumayaKeynes | @SoumayaKeynes @TiltingatM3 Wow you got a prediction wrong so surprising you're such a clever nepo baby || CTX: …but on a couple of readability indices, they became harder to read! Suggesting that word complexity has risen. This is, uh, not what I would expect from AI. But I can’t think of what else might have generated the shift below… https://t.co/
2026-03-19T14:41 id=2034641295000711597 →_im_sigh_ | @_im_sigh_ "Teach me x, y, and z. Explain it again. Explain it a different way. Tell me papers/books to read on this. Explain it from a different angle. Explain why this is wrong, why it's right, why it's unimportant, etc etc" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how should she have done it?
2026-03-19T14:42 id=2034641785809711335 →leebriskcyrano | @leebriskcyrano yeah, that's an accurate description. || CTX: okay but "XYZ Inc. the Delaware C-corp, entered a legal contract with John Doe, providing $good for $cash" is a social reality backed by state coercion, despite the corporation not being a human.  This contract could have been signed electr
2026-03-19T14:43 id=2034641878596096484 →leebriskcyrano | @leebriskcyrano No, hinge certainties are prerational. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're asserting only humans can participate in a social ontology, but you're grounding your social ontology in consciousness. Isn't that begging the question?
2026-03-19T14:49 id=2034643409013751916 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @DeivonDrago @adarshisit Empathy is the highest level of intelligence. In terms of elegance like the difference between the flight of a bird and the flight of an airplane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @adarshisit What’s your perspective ?
2026-03-19T14:52 id=2034644203775660490 →47fucb4r8c69323 | As a result, why things are ethical or non ethical exist outside of logic, but they do exist. Cf Tractatus 6.4 et passim:  6.4 All propositions are of equal value.   6.41 The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it there is no value—and if there were, it would be of no value. If there is a value which is of value, it must lie outside all happening and being-so. For all happening and being-so is accidental. What makes it non-accidental cannot lie in the world, for otherwise this would again be accidental. It must lie outside the world.   6.42 Hence also there can be no ethical propositions. Propositions cannot express anything higher.   6.421 It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.) || CTX: @DurumMac @DeivonDrago @adarshisit Empathy is the highest level of intelligence. In terms of elegance like the difference between the flight of a bird and the flight of an airplane.
2026-03-19T14:56 id=2034645181241376879 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @DurumMac @adarshisit This is why I'm immoral but ethical. || CTX: Morality is almost always socially constructed and historically contingent. In some cases, what is socially constructed gets codified into law or into things like commandments and others religious prescriptions/proscriptions.  So - morality
2026-03-19T14:56 id=2034645287130804240 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @DeivonDrago @adarshisit Niceness is necessarily moral but not necessarily ethical. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 @adarshisit In other words, morals are social facts like the rules of chess.
2026-03-19T15:10 id=2034648748949897429 →DurumMac | it's not commutative like that.   Works like this: intelligence will get you up to a limit of understanding x. Beyond that, one needs empathy to understand x more.   This applies to people, animals, living creatures, systems, things.   To fully understand a rock is to feel what it feels like to be a rock. We cannot do this, because we are limited finite beings.   This is what Christians gesture at when they say their God is omnipotent. It's not a logical proposition like between the integers 2 and 4 is 3 or the sun will most likely rise tomorrow or something blatantly true like Tyler Cowen is a doodoo head.   To fully know the universe is to feel the universe. Which we cannot do, but we can imagine it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @adarshisit An upright psychopath who lacks empathy is unintelligent?    Don’t you believe ethics triumph over empathy?
2026-03-19T15:18 id=2034650641990332834 →- | Women are so fucking awesome man https://t.co/IS2K3fkSZ8 || CTX: i mean this outfit sucks but when did everyone get to be such boring prudes about bare midriffs, as soon as it gets warm out i’m pushing my stroller in a crop top lol https://t.co/spXhQPgwdK
2026-03-19T15:19 id=2034650986057507024 →- | btw I fully understand a rock rn cuz I stoned as hel https://t.co/nV7wf9ln5b || CTX: it's not commutative like that.   Works like this: intelligence will get you up to a limit of understanding x. Beyond that, one needs empathy to understand x more.   This applies to people, animals, living creatures, systems, things.   To f
2026-03-19T15:28 id=2034653130378580172 →- | 3 three three 3 three 3 three three three three 3 three 3 3 three 3
2026-03-19T15:36 id=2034655246195318895 →theseeker | @theseeker so why do they have to? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the actual reason goes one step further. its about why society has to privilege its ontology (which has nothing to do with society itself)
2026-03-19T15:37 id=2034655576840712389 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @DeivonDrago @adarshisit Mary in the black and white room || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @adarshisit Oh, like knowing everything about honey except what the subjective feel of tasting it is.  But one can be empathetic in so far as they understand the subjective states of other conscious agents but 
2026-03-19T15:41 id=2034656480264372520 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @DurumMac @adarshisit ipse dixit idgaf he can think what he likes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac @adarshisit But... Frank Jackson says: I'm a physicalist now.
2026-03-19T15:45 id=2034657585446723787 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @DurumMac @adarshisit Other people understand some of my ideas better than I do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac @adarshisit Well, he's best positioned to reject the entire Mary's room argument. Who understands it better?
2026-03-19T15:46 id=2034657867475955953 →theseeker | @theseeker https://t.co/n7vzulmcQp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what happens to the relationship a society has with its environment when it mistakes its representations for the constraints they answer to?
2026-03-19T20:30 id=2034729259894546893 →goddtess | @goddtess Social ontology is beyond rationality. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and why the functionalists, EA idiots, and rationalists are all morons and you should stop listening to them  How’d you get here?
2026-03-19T20:33 id=2034730015334834671 →AmandaAskell | @AmandaAskell @snnneee it's all "me me me" with you jfc || CTX: Perhaps I should get married again so that the media has a more recent man they can reference any time they mention me or my work.
2026-03-19T20:35 id=2034730446664462652 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @hard_boiledbabe https://t.co/336jsIsGbA || CTX: When I was 18 I met a girl who had moved to L.A. from NYC--we both had been in the private chat room "Nirvana" and then "Cardigans" on AOL which had maybe 30 or so regulars, and tons and tons of hilarious drama and bullshit that is now a co
2026-03-19T20:38 id=2034731284631855493 →bas_logic | @bas_logic as heretofore has been made abundantly clear... || CTX: Sometimes I say “furthermore”, other times I say “moreover”, but every once in a while I hit em with “furthermoreover”.
2026-03-19T20:50 id=2034734298780377363 →- | I am not a Christian for the reasons most aren't: the miraculous stories of the NT are preposterous and unbelievable, so I presume they did not happen to the historical Jesus of Nazareth.   I am not a practicing believing Jew for the same reason: as I said to my rabbi as a kid, "so Samson lost his power when his hair got cut, and we're supposed to believe this???" Most modern Jews aren't believers, tbh, we just maintain the culture for love of family (not loving my family, I am free of this burden).  It does not stand to reason therefore that there is no metaphysics, and such a belief is absurd and coherent: Metaphysics are necessarily real, otherwise we would not have necessity. That there is anything, that it is coherent and consistent, that it is a limited whole: these are mysteries of metaphysical facts.  So one can say "these faiths are wrong" and indeed "all faiths of men are wrong" without then making the leap to "therefore atheism is true".   It is a tempting leap psychologically because it provides closure, and it is a leap I chose to make until very recently because for personal reasons (in my case to avoid thinking about the topic more so I could focus on other things like economics).  But atheism does not logically follow. In fact, denying a creator (Deism), denying some weird metaphysics like cosmopanpsychism (Advaita Vedanta), and even denying a personal god (theism) are not logical propositions but asserted facts that have a set of rational lemmas, for sure, and they're more logical than other metaphysics. But they're tangents.   Atheism is a faith just like any other.  Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodi svaha
2026-03-19T20:53 id=2034734931675656395 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I was just yesterday thinking about how meditation implies the human mind yearns for a kind of consistent regularity of "this and this and this...", so the monotony of etcetera is divinity in us. || CTX: Do it again https://t.co/Rpn5p3LJds
2026-03-19T20:58 id=2034736256194945150 →Afinetheorem | It is not odd that privacy concerns are very prominent and the ROAS boost from ad targeting is not.   The former is a cudgel the media can use to attack social media as competitor.   The latter is a tool the media does use to monetize itself more effectively.   So ofc they target one and not the other.   This is both what @antoniogm has been telling us and why I think he's gone insane (sorry Antonio). || CTX: On econ of LLMs and ads, Olivia is right on - folks don't get how much more you charge for a targeted ad, and why that gives FB/Google such an advantage over, say, a newspaper. Can hit exactly the right person. Would love a good IO paper on
2026-03-19T21:00 id=2034736704566051015 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @TheCinesthetic yeah bruh I'd go gay for him too || CTX: @TheCinesthetic one of the only two people I’m hoping saw me across the room and like my vibe
2026-03-19T21:00 id=2034736852981399619 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Post structuralism versus structuralism in a nutshell
2026-03-19T21:02 id=2034737403278369200 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 "Don't use ChatGPT as a therapist you need to go to a credentialed professional." || CTX: It's an epidemic https://t.co/psxugIi292
2026-03-19T21:08 id=2034738740187603253 →SenSanders | @SenSanders Do normies think this is a legitimate use of AI? They can't, this is a joke right? || CTX: I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights.  What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us 
2026-03-19T21:16 id=2034740812094075052 →- | People misunderstand systematization.   For instance, look at Hegel: he thinks he can develop a system that will describe the world spirit, and he does so looking for generalities across various types. In doing so, he believes he finds immanence and essence.  What he's actually doing, when he's not just plain wrong, is compression to a lower resolution description. So systematic theories that try to find truth-as-general will always just be lossy, low fidelity descriptions of phenomena and nothing more. Kant was onto something.  As Wittgenstein says, "we are left with mere descriptions."   Of course this doesn't mean there is no Geist, maybe there is.   It just means we must maintain epistemic humility lest our rationality lead us astray.
2026-03-19T21:19 id=2034741555194733006 →aokassamali | Identifying a set of traits with a label is a very good way to feel conceptual closure so that you never have to think about that set of traits ever again.  Many people use therapy to replace thinking. Which apparently is a good thing because introspection is fake and gay, right @pmarca you intellectual lightweight coward || CTX: Wasn’t that already the case? I thought therapy was pathological theater in the service of self-exoneration. It’s just changing from instrument to object. https://t.co/9k3bcXAhLu
2026-03-19T21:21 id=2034742146000200097 →- | I am not a Christian for the reasons most aren't: the miraculous stories of the NT are preposterous and unbelievable, so I presume they did not happen to the historical Jesus of Nazareth.   I am not a practicing believing Jew for the same reason: as I said to my rabbi as a kid, "so Samson lost his power when his hair got cut, and we're supposed to believe this???" Most modern Jews aren't believers, tbh, we just maintain the culture for love of family (not loving my family, I am free of this burden).  It does not stand to reason therefore that there is no metaphysics, and such a belief is absurd and incoherent: Metaphysics are necessarily real, otherwise we would not have necessity. That there is anything, that it is coherent and consistent, that it is a limited whole: these are mysteries of metaphysical facts.  So one can say "these faiths are wrong" and indeed "all faiths of men are wrong" without then making the leap to "therefore atheism is true".   It is a tempting leap psychologically because it provides closure, and it is a leap I chose to make until very recently because for personal reasons (in my case to avoid thinking about the topic more so I could focus on other things like economics).  But atheism does not logically follow. In fact, denying a creator (Deism), denying some weird metaphysics like cosmopanpsychism (Advaita Vedanta), and even denying a personal god (theism) are not logical propositions but asserted facts that have a set of rational lemmas, for sure, and they're more logical than other metaphysics. But they're tangents.   Atheism is a faith just like any other.  Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodi svaha
2026-03-19T21:29 id=2034744079255486958 →- | One cannot deny modern LLMs are based on theft (I presume like the vision models et al. are too but I know nothing about them).  Theft has always been the backbone of invention.   In the 90s we used to trade pirated software like it was a hot potato. It got to the point where there were servers chock full of all kinds of software.   (btw Maya from Macwarez on AOL the scene was so mean to you for absolutely no reason, idk why they called you ugly, maybe because they were all teens and you were a bit older I hope you see this you're a beautiful woman I loved our friendship)  And as a result we built the modern fucking Internet, grew wealth exponentially, and made all of your lives better. Gfy "waah I'm addicted to my screen" yeah cuz the product is JUST THAT GOOD. You have access to the world's knowledge in your pocket, enjoy you ungrateful bastards.  The solution to this problem cannot be stop AI because it's theft nor denying this obvious fact.   The solution is expanding the social welfare net so that the benefits of this amazing technology accrue to everyone. It won't be equitable (it shouldn't), but everyone would benefit that way.  Our tax and governmental oversight systems are broken. That's the issue, not OpenAI. Call your congressman.
2026-03-19T21:30 id=2034744359930012040 →NYCerInExile | @NYCerInExile I think a lot of people are beginning to feel this way after living through the excesses of New Atheism. It really was a silly movement led by silly men. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yup. I can't believe in atheism because it's too sure of itself. There is too much wonder in the universe for there not to have been a First Cause.  That said, Orthodox Judaism is submission without logic and I'm definitely
2026-03-19T21:34 id=2034745460817371396 →evalladen | @evalladen what does "phonologically" mean here? || CTX: https://t.co/jCz2ylj8xZ
2026-03-19T21:39 id=2034746578620358724 →DVreenak | @DVreenak I mean the denying of a creator is denying Deism (that bit was awkwardly phrased, I haven't had coffee yet) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Deism doesn't deny a creator, only a conserver and governor.
2026-03-19T21:46 id=2034748468145922359 →aokassamali | @aokassamali Absolutely!!! In my old age I've realized epistemic humility is the single most important quality one needs to avoid being a dumdum. So I value my stupidity more than ever and hate my vanity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t mind disagreement on metaphysical conclusions. What bothers me is the smug lack of epistemic humility, as if these questions were simple or settled.
2026-03-19T21:53 id=2034750242583978021 →panickssery | @panickssery I'm endlessly amused that I can't get a single EA/rationalist to debate me.   It's because I'm a nobody, surely. || CTX: a LessWrong education is in many ways more "classical" than the novo classical schools  in Plato's ideal city the philosopher-kings have to study the frontier of math for 10 years, which he treats as a prerequisite for philosophizing  this 
2026-03-19T22:02 id=2034752473660104725 →bottleneckloser | No, but it quickly became the message gay people used in their advocacy.  Whether fairly or not, many people do not believe this is the message being used to promote trans rights.  I'm not saying they're right or wrong, but ignoring this fact would be rhetorically and politically idiotic. || CTX: I can assure you, that is not how people felt about gay people for a very long time https://t.co/eIeHRGypX5
2026-03-19T22:06 id=2034753398889910712 →Shane380 | @Shane380 I am very very stupid and a fool and that's why you should not engage with me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so you're just publicly admitting that you've never witnessed a miracle?  how in the flying fuck does a retard like you get away with validating themselves in any way then?  denying the overwhelming happenstance of our ever
2026-03-19T22:12 id=2034754872088961083 →- | Debate me you cowards.   I have not humiliated a mediocre mind in public in a long time and I miss the feeling. https://t.co/NXc7htFCML || CTX: @panickssery I'm endlessly amused that I can't get a single EA/rationalist to debate me.   It's because I'm a nobody, surely.
2026-03-19T22:14 id=2034755377380905121 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri Taoism || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Which religion do you think took the best shot at it
2026-03-19T22:20 id=2034756846444323094 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney Pope was easily one of the greatest English poets and far better than Shakespeare yes I fucking said it. || CTX: https://t.co/Ja3SvYrPfR
2026-03-19T22:20 id=2034756932805042452 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I can't be mean to you, hard pass. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ll debate effective autism with you
2026-03-19T22:29 id=2034759292394643636 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I'm not saying Shakespeare was bad, I'm not a madman || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have no comparative views about their poetic work in total, but in this house we memorize the sonnets sir
2026-03-19T22:34 id=2034760480477315342 →- | And you guys respect this person? https://t.co/CZXYt3I6a2 || CTX: @4ndr3lu15_ @karpathy I’m going to read it to your mom
2026-03-19T22:42 id=2034762414521295264 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT  One day I'll need to write this up, despite the name it's a really important concept (the name is of course a proof of the theory) https://t.co/3jAAGxMpGu || CTX: Afroman makes police officer cry hearing the songs he made about her being played in court 😂 https://t.co/HI9N55isoe
2026-03-19T22:42 id=2034762497304215591 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy More Silly Business Theory #SBT at work
2026-03-19T22:43 id=2034762792159596765 →SableHummer | @SableHummer I wanna do it on Spaces while I walk through the jungle, that's the only way it's really fun || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not a rationalist but as a mid-wit I'd love to use Claude to make all my arguments on my behalf so I don't have to engage in honest discourse
2026-03-19T22:54 id=2034765471275524110 →aokassamali | @aokassamali I'd ultimately like to debate Amanda Askell. It'd probably cause the market to crash though.  But hey I'll take anyone, it's just for fun. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who's your preferred partner? I wonder what a discussion between you and lumpenspace would look like.
2026-03-19T22:58 id=2034766567159078986 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees PERFECT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Muh compression has sufficiency!  sufficiency for what?! 🪿  sufficiency for what?! 🪿
2026-03-19T23:09 id=2034769238410563648 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Honestly shit like this makes me so proud to be an American || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is the funniest court case I've ever seen. I am so glad we as a country all see how funny this is.
2026-03-19T23:14 id=2034770635977900275 →nickcammarata | This is a funny response because it presupposes, as Marc did, that thinking is something done to you and not something you choose to do.   Introspection can make one choose when to think and when not to. You seem to think it should guide one to being a productive automaton.   Lame ass hustle culture bullshit || CTX: i think this meme is hilarious. my take on all this: the point of introspection is to end up thinking less, not more, to be more in the flow, more productive, to dissolve into being itself. if your introspection is making you think more i r
2026-03-19T23:20 id=2034771927748026801 →telmudic | @telmudic wish you weren't protected, I want to retweet this
2026-03-19T23:27 id=2034773695412281398 →- | Consider both the Chuck Norris and "In Soviet Russia, sandwich eat you" jokes.   Both are funny because of a logic of unexpected negation. The man isn't injured, the hospital is. The sandwich isn't eaten, the person is.  It's not x (which you expected), it's y (which you did not expect).  This has the shape of profundity at the level of rhetoric, regardless of what is being said. So language users will prefer to hear it, and if you ask people to choose between saying "It is x because a,b,c" and "it is x, not y", they will choose the latter despite it being lower information. The Hegelian dialectic is false but convincing. Or should I say, it is not convincing--it is false.  And now you know why AI talks like that.
2026-03-19T23:32 id=2034774969029468434 →sasquatchvlogtv | @sasquatchvlogtv of course it's an old man in Thailand lmao || CTX: 100 beers in 30 days? I know someone who drank 50 beers in one day 😏 https://t.co/Yup6ocdSRZ
2026-03-19T23:38 id=2034776487321325950 →- | Take these words you gather,  And shove them up your ass,  Your words I would rather,  Give a total pass.  The middle cannot hold,  I admit 'tis true!  This one hit wonder is old,  His ideas no longer new.  I will read you sometimes for nostalgia's sake,  But neither wisdom nor news from you I take.   "Wring out the clothes! Wring in the dew!" Is what your countryman said. "History a nightmare I cannot escape" From him this I have also read.  We can take you with us to the Promised Land, You'll fit in quite well, But slaves to old dead men I cannot stand, Their intentions pave the way to hell. || CTX: ✨🤍✨ https://t.co/s4QNCHclHB
2026-03-19T23:38 id=2034776639398453750 →- | Take these words you gather,  And shove them up your ass,  Your words I would rather,  Give a total pass.  The middle cannot hold,  I admit 'tis true!  This one hit wonder is old,  Ypur ideas no longer new.  I will read you sometimes for nostalgia's sake,  But neither wisdom nor news from you I take.   "Wring out the clothes! Wring in the dew!" Is what your countryman said. "History a nightmare I cannot escape" From him this I have also read.  We can take you with us to the Promised Land, You'll fit in quite well, But slaves to old dead men I cannot stand, Their intentions pave the way to hell. || CTX: ✨🤍✨ https://t.co/s4QNCHclHB
2026-03-19T23:38 id=2034776674190205130 →- | Take these words you gather,  And shove them up your ass,  Your words I would rather,  Give a total pass.  The middle cannot hold,  I admit 'tis true!  This one hit wonder is old,  Your ideas no longer new.  I will read you sometimes for nostalgia's sake,  But neither wisdom nor news from you I take.   "Wring out the clothes! Wring in the dew!" Is what your countryman said. "History a nightmare I cannot escape" From him this I have also read.  We can take you with us to the Promised Land, You'll fit in quite well, But slaves to old dead men I cannot stand, Their intentions pave the way to hell. || CTX: ✨🤍✨ https://t.co/s4QNCHclHB
2026-03-19T23:42 id=2034777641669337456 →stinkgen | @stinkgen even hit with the poseurs with a U goddamn that's fucking elite.   Cheers, you a real one my friend || CTX: it is pronounced “wares”, you poseurs. https://t.co/ihN8eNedxm
2026-03-19T23:50 id=2034779508826677670 →perrymetzger | @perrymetzger @So8res Based and Bas von Fraassen pilled. || CTX: For hundreds of years, people made sophisticated structures out of iron and steel without understanding why the things they built worked; only in the later 20th century did metallurgy finally have theory based on the underlying properties o
2026-03-20T00:03 id=2034782740902813941 →stinkgen | @stinkgen Oh yeah well I'm running 4 Quadra 950s on a T1 with a static IP noob || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I had ISDN. 💅
2026-03-20T00:05 id=2034783405997793317 →DaveEvansPhD | @DaveEvansPhD @lu_sichu It should be legal to kill anyone who uses this word unironically || CTX: Today I learned a new word from Nobel Prize winner Claudia Goldin https://t.co/gELW8g40h8
2026-03-20T00:19 id=2034786876809494882 →- | Take these words you gather,  And shove them up your ass,  Your words I would rather,  Give a total pass.  The middle cannot hold,  I admit 'tis true!  This one hit wonder is old,  Your ideas no longer new.  I will read you sometimes for nostalgia's sake,  But neither wisdom nor news from you will I take.   "Wring out the clothes! Wring in the dew!" Is what your countryman said. "History a nightmare I cannot escape" From him this I have also read.  We can take you with us to the Promised Land, I think you'll fit in rather well, But slaves to old dead men I cannot stand, Their intentions pave the way to hell. || CTX: ✨🤍✨ https://t.co/s4QNCHclHB
2026-03-20T00:22 id=2034787746691391546 →1889lw | @1889lw The only convincing case of natural kinds I can think of is sexual comparability within species. This suggests some functional observable from a structurally real natural kind, no? || CTX: I have zero faith in the term “natural kinds”. Wdym “carving nature at its joints” maybe my nature is more natural your nature
2026-03-20T00:34 id=2034790560532504742 →TierZoo | @TierZoo @Rado9910 We were warned https://t.co/CXSO471vUP || CTX: It is legitimately getting very difficult to find useful clips of animal behavior online because of just how many AI-generated posts there are. For example, about 80% of "opossum plays dead" clips on youtube are fake porchcam vids.
2026-03-20T00:36 id=2034791028746813873 →AimeTim | @AimeTim Please God let this be true it'd be so fucking funny || CTX: I watched the Louis Theroux manosphere documentary. I thought this chap “Myron” seemed somewhat familiar, and then I realised… yes, that’s him - I studied moral philosophy with him at Trinity College, Cambridge. I recall he took a class on 
2026-03-20T00:59 id=2034797038349820010 →gabriel1 | @gabriel1 The arc of the universe is long but it bends towards the computer from Star Trek || CTX: me and everyone around me prompt codex and chatgpt with voice. the more decisions you can spit out to codex the better your code will be, so you're only interface limited  the "everyone will use speech" guys were right, just 234 products an
2026-03-20T01:51 id=2034810072959000636 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic This is really the only proper way to live. || CTX: I love so much. it makes me so vulnerable. but fuck it i want to love MORE and even HARDER the pain is WORTH IT
2026-03-20T02:19 id=2034817063387386073 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @aokassamali any topic my interlocutor would like to choose, they can choose the subject the paper I am open to everything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aokassamali On what topic? Do you believe effective altruism as a whole is harmful or useless?
2026-03-20T02:33 id=2034820549340537040 →ShadowyZephyr | then what an incredible vindication for the EA movement that would be. defending one's conviction and winning are not mutually exclusive, not at all. you're looking for Pure intentionality as a kind of proof of Truth or value.   this is exactly the kind of muddled thinking that the EA crowd suffers from and which I can easily dispel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aokassamali So it is just about winning, rather than defending your conviction? What if they pick a stance you happen to agree with?
2026-03-20T02:36 id=2034821407583215960 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @aokassamali and why they just, rather construction? what exactly is your point? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aokassamali I didn't say they're mutually exclusive.
2026-03-20T02:39 id=2034822194719859202 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @aokassamali no you were not, if that's what you were wondering then you would have asked that. instead, you created a false dichotomy and suggested I choose between them. and now you're moving the goal post because your bad logic has been uncovered. learn how to use language better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aokassamali I simply was wondering what your goal is here.
2026-03-20T02:43 id=2034823086810472883 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @aokassamali https://t.co/w1sSoxpKuJ  I already said why I'm doing this, it's fun. you are full of shit. || CTX: @aokassamali I'd ultimately like to debate Amanda Askell. It'd probably cause the market to crash though.  But hey I'll take anyone, it's just for fun.
2026-03-20T02:51 id=2034825124894187848 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @aokassamali you're bringing presuppositions and bias to a discussion, you are an intellectual lightweight. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aokassamali I didn't think you meant that so literally. Like I thought you had a second goal. People usually do when they say stuff like that.
2026-03-20T02:54 id=2034825937456652611 →ShadowyZephyr | @ShadowyZephyr @aokassamali an assessment of ability based on effort is not an ad hominem, again lightweight. please unfollow me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aokassamali resorting to ad hominem over an ambiguous statement is odd to me, but have a good day i guess
2026-03-20T03:56 id=2034841482776256778 →brunellaism | @brunellaism sophomoric || CTX: me reading the wasteland: this poem really explores the… Misogyny of the artist 🤔🤔🤔
2026-03-20T04:00 id=2034842612855972210 →moultano | @moultano The monocause proves a lack of interest in solving issues and a desire to feel smugly righteous.   South Park speaks on this. || CTX: If you work for Sunrise, and feel you are morally unable to prioritize climate change over Gaza, fine, understandable. You should quit and get a different job doing that then.
2026-03-20T04:02 id=2034843088838131807 →- | See I knew the hose would win. Buffalo Bill speaks on this. https://t.co/yS7kxnaLht || CTX: when you hear the phrase cum guzzling, do you picture in your mind:
2026-03-20T04:03 id=2034843348583031140 →SableHummer | @SableHummer Brain drain to software because higher margins || CTX: Hardware is un-investable I ran a snow-removal robot company it was hell. You cannot scale here in the U.S and the Chinese WILL take your designs. Even the lawnmower robot companies have it hard.  Which sucks since I fucking love hardware h
2026-03-20T05:14 id=2034861198362149115 →le0nardpoetry | @le0nardpoetry He's such a fucking god awful writer it's legit amazing || CTX: You start to see AI predicted everywhere. Reading Infinite Jest recently, and now in this jaw-dropping, narrative-less chapter which comes out of nowhere hundreds of pages into Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate. Gut punch https://t.co/Ed4jTfG
2026-03-20T05:28 id=2034864568930124270 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @0G_Uri ima give you the K-word card, tell them you got it from me. || CTX: @0G_Uri Can I get a goyim pass ?
2026-03-20T05:38 id=2034867078474449119 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Hegel claimed to know the mind of God, dude was a jackass || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did Hegel claim his system eliminated reductionism or something?  What's the boldness of his claim, I'm no expert
2026-03-20T06:04 id=2034873670892757073 →- | lmao my ai project is going to make me so fucking ridiculously comically rich this is hilarious
2026-03-20T06:45 id=2034884004449853912 →whoelsebutns | @whoelsebutns if you're serious DM me, currently at 50m valuation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lemme angel invest a band dude
2026-03-20T08:55 id=2034916622780309653 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @LeahLibresco it very much is || CTX: @LeahLibresco isn’t 1800 copies really good for a novel today?
2026-03-20T09:09 id=2034920277155750068 →- | This isn't a "Cost Disease" in the Baumol sense and I doubt this dude or Slatestar dude knows that. They also apparently don't know this is well studied e.g.:  https://t.co/LT9fRSHg2c  tldr: more regulations and nimbyism is causing it.  Which most on Twitter would know because nimbyism is a trendy target for a large part of fintwit.  So...why the professed ignorance? Because they're targeting low information ignorant readers who want to feel smug and want to read spoonfed rhetoric without actually doing research.  14k followers and 22 mutuals, I am disgusted and ashamed. || CTX: One of my favorite things on the internet was @slatestarcodex writing about Cost Disease; basically, how the costs to do anything have basically tripled, completely disconnected from labor costs, material inputs, or inflation. No economists
2026-03-20T09:24 id=2034923909494317237 →ManticoreCap | @ManticoreCap If you're serious DM me. Current 50m valuation, offering min 1m buy in per, max 5m external funding total. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How can I invest?
2026-03-20T09:26 id=2034924468586557531 →johnschwenkler | @johnschwenkler @resistancemoney @firstthingsmag I just finished reading it a few days ago and it is fantastic.   Roger Teichmann's essay was powerful and moving.   Cannot recommend it enough. || CTX: I was happy to write for @firstthingsmag about this new volume of Elizabeth Anscombe's remembrances of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Link: https://t.co/yKo2N1oDE3. https://t.co/D9QuqbaAQq
2026-03-20T09:28 id=2034924931268714781 →SableHummer | @SableHummer @GroundhogStrat There was a TV show with this premise. Watched it for a season, was really quite dull. || CTX: @GroundhogStrat "Unfortunately you're out of credits for your month plan this means you will be throttled and placed in the white cube of torment for the rest of the month"
2026-03-20T09:55 id=2034931919855681600 →ManticoreCap | @ManticoreCap Absolutely, but you'd need to deal with the pro rate distro etc. I can sign off, I'm really flexible and there's tons of growth, I just can't manage day to day and handhold underwriting (I'll do road shows though ofc). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can I form a syndicate?
2026-03-20T09:57 id=2034932263717314651 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ManticoreCap pro rata* damn autocorrect || CTX: @ManticoreCap Absolutely, but you'd need to deal with the pro rate distro etc. I can sign off, I'm really flexible and there's tons of growth, I just can't manage day to day and handhold underwriting (I'll do road shows though ofc).
2026-03-20T09:58 id=2034932592496283781 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/1Hb5aJYUb5 || CTX: I met my girlfriend and we talked until 6 AM on a beach about the nature of the soul, I was an ardent materialist that was likening humans to ants and machines. She talked about love, the soul, about how special we are. The sun came up and 
2026-03-20T10:00 id=2034933158756700473 →teodorio | @teodorio oh I am || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 don't spread the hate spread the love 47!
2026-03-20T10:14 id=2034936488811762123 →MightyMogomra | A lot of American high prices are demand push, not cost pull driven.  America produces massive wealth from tech, media, and finance which diffuses throughout the economy via higher demand for services including demand for regulations, feasibility studies etc.  So it's no surprise at all roads and rail lines et al. cost a lot more in America, this is the revealed preferences at the emergent social level.  The real question is why do Americans want so much red tape, but if you look geneologically at e. g. redlining the reason becomes clear: America is a place of a cacophonous fight for power over the design and construction of its society, and that fight costs money.  My prediction is that the dollar per capita spent on politics in general in America (marketing candidates, lobbying etc etc) is both greater than most other countries and has been growing at a faster rate.   Shall feed this to me clanker and see what it says. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm just glad anyone's getting the word out that everything costs too much  US Blue state residents will swear that things just cost what they cost
2026-03-20T10:21 id=2034938250608148815 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @MightyMogomra https://t.co/3NFbpDIZzk  Yeah looks like I was right. https://t.co/5ngTH9MaEx || CTX: A lot of American high prices are demand push, not cost pull driven.  America produces massive wealth from tech, media, and finance which diffuses throughout the economy via higher demand for services including demand for regulations, feasi
2026-03-20T10:24 id=2034939141612609852 →VinciRSS | @VinciRSS FIRE is one of the best choices I ever made. || CTX: If I won't retire before 35 it basically means I failed at life. FIRE and being best version of myself are my only goals now. I will build my own "UBI". I will do everything in my power to achieve these goals.  Manifesting. https://t.co/b50
2026-03-20T10:41 id=2034943287824613661 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @teodorio the internet told me liking girls is gay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio yesterday i shared something similar and ppl accused me of being gay also
2026-03-20T12:01 id=2034963460933787937 →bengold | @bengold Wasn't Sam Altman CEO of YC before leading OpenAI? || CTX: YC is full on bad now.
2026-03-20T13:22 id=2034983955146187025 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Based based based || CTX: when lawyers tell me to NOT speak about something publicly, I test my ability to speak about it as loudly as I can until I get into trouble. This is how we test the "pipes" of our information networks https://t.co/SroVLIzM8p
2026-03-20T13:58 id=2034993029963231285 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj @JasonBotterill CG voice mode is hilariously useless || CTX: @JasonBotterill you can’t use 5.4 for voice mode either
2026-03-20T14:00 id=2034993466007331251 →lazysamo | @lazysamo Exactly the problem! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Compression is always keeping something you consider essential but losing totality? So all we end up having are models that moves us farther away from reality ?
2026-03-20T14:06 id=2034995086166016455 →dugmartsch | The issue of using books to train LLMs and copyright is a complex one, so I am sympathetic to the idea that it's not strictly speaking theft in the most obvious way.   But the value of an LLM comes from its corpus, and not paying writers back seems like a clear case of theft from that perspective. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree but don't think it's theft to read a book and use the information in the book.   Like how can someone argue with a straight face that the absurd machine god technology isn't transformative?
2026-03-20T14:11 id=2034996214828277869 →Ronenl | @Ronenl @yuliexe There's already tons of content for people in their 40s and 50s, this definitely wasn't the case in the 90s. || CTX: @yuliexe You’re going to be seeing more content for your age bracket
2026-03-20T14:21 id=2034998738343899309 →1889lw | @1889lw I mean specifically e. g. a bat and a rabbit can't have offspring but two rabbits can. That suggests to me natural kinds are real. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wdym "sexual comparability within species"? I think most people just say "sex is a natural kind". I think the sexual difference within species (especially human) is real but many would argue they ain't.
2026-03-20T14:57 id=2035007729241399600 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT  You can just having fun doing things. https://t.co/jJJm2imblc || CTX: Hay una persona que usa él seudónimo de "Marisa Kirisame" de Touhou y está haciendo un doctorado en ciencias del cómputo  en la universidad de Utah, lo más gracioso es que está haciendo aportes a Machine Learning https://t.co/DXJTu4qSZr
2026-03-20T14:57 id=2035007948964151735 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @realSunshroom would they have stayed if it was yuri? || CTX: @realSunshroom wait no marisa is actually goated at PLT and compilers though and they were actually my oomfie on here but i posted too much yaoi so they had to break mutual with me sob...
2026-03-20T14:58 id=2035008164685557906 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD Yeah, but I can't be upset about it, 86 is a good run. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh, no, did you hear the news, 47?
2026-03-20T15:07 id=2035010254174658850 →etoeth | @etoeth I honestly did not know this, I read the novel long before I got into philosophy. Expand please. || CTX: are people not aware that notes from underground is literally an attack on hegelianism? it gets even better in demons https://t.co/BVctnU7oT6
2026-03-20T15:07 id=2035010290652532979 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT  You can just have fun doing things. https://t.co/jJJm2imblc || CTX: Hay una persona que usa él seudónimo de "Marisa Kirisame" de Touhou y está haciendo un doctorado en ciencias del cómputo  en la universidad de Utah, lo más gracioso es que está haciendo aportes a Machine Learning https://t.co/DXJTu4qSZr
2026-03-20T15:12 id=2035011533009559778 →- | Being a pissy little bitch like this about 4 years is the opposite of what Chuck Norris would do. https://t.co/jfdded5wPz || CTX: Didn't even make it to 90. A bit of a disappointment. Spent his life in good shape. Active. Ate well. Wealthy. Focused on health. https://t.co/B9r0hbCunk
2026-03-20T15:20 id=2035013494299664775 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch @MightyMogomra I don't wish it be like this but it do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MightyMogomra noooooooo
2026-03-20T15:22 id=2035014090046021729 →SIGKITTEN | @SIGKITTEN @notch /k sigkitten +b || CTX: @notch give op
2026-03-20T17:46 id=2035050424240320934 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @lazysamo Perfectly said. || CTX: @lazysamo @47fucb4r8c69323 Science relies on a great deal of compression since it operates by isolating variables. Powerful, but you also end up with a lot of disconnected pieces that lead to not being able to handle a lot of complexity, bo
2026-03-20T17:47 id=2035050632550523021 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 It's infuriating, and it's hard for me not to insult people when they tell me to read Scott Alexander || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can't stand that academically flavored midwit slop.  This is such a remarkably stupid sentence. Who are these supposed "economists" and how do they not understand the labor market's impact on costs? https://t.co/c3M4xfXyP
2026-03-20T17:51 id=2035051725053456617 →- | Sometimes I see something that convinces me the human spirit is something more than we can ever understand or appreciate, for its force and beauty escapes all of our language.  This is one of those times. https://t.co/sxAM9CDfqB || CTX: A single tear flows from Afroman's left cheek following a verdict in favour of Mr Joseph Edgar Foreman. https://t.co/0MU9ik11Df
2026-03-20T17:55 id=2035052611775394196 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 yeah a lot of his stuff is annoying || CTX: Are we ready to accept as a society that Chopin’s music is bad?
2026-03-20T18:06 id=2035055288076882412 →- | I've decided to eat a million dollars hold on I'll show you the link
2026-03-20T18:22 id=2035059359617790113 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ I'll be a benevolent rich asshole || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 help a brother out before
2026-03-20T23:20 id=2035134330356604987 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely @VinciRSS financial independence retire early || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @VinciRSS What is FIRE?
2026-03-20T23:33 id=2035137645320577544 →DurumMac | @DurumMac happy birthday || CTX: Annual midlife crisis since the age of 17
2026-03-21T00:03 id=2035145252349325770 →- | Why transformer breakthroughs are not forthcoming is the target of my current research and results will be available in autumn.   It seems pretty obvious why, but it's okay, we'll spell it out rigorously. https://t.co/JreRQOAidI || CTX: Will LLMs help in finding a transformer level breakthrough before 2027? Will this breakthrough get us to ASI?
2026-03-21T00:12 id=2035147473883484357 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 Can you tell him I said thank you for saving Monica Lewinsky's life? (I'm not joking I think what he did for her is one of the most moving things I've ever seen a human being do for another) || CTX: Tom Green is my favorite famous follower (he follows on another account) https://t.co/yKeevMkWUh
2026-03-21T00:13 id=2035147817245917607 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Alpha appearing on the timeline like this is not what I expected before my morning coffee || CTX: I didn't know you could use MCP servers in ChatGPT so I made a quick video showing how to add one for arXiv https://t.co/v5kA2B14Pm https://t.co/P0Cege2Tbq
2026-03-21T00:20 id=2035149496615907839 →jessald | @jessald This looks fine to me, especially since SS is managed separately.   What would be the ideal split for you? || CTX: Roads and bridges as the charismatic smiley face on the Great Boomer Shoggoth https://t.co/Lr13zGyCXN
2026-03-21T00:22 id=2035150001811464503 →SableHummer | @SableHummer It's a rhetorical filter. Their audience is anyone stupid enough not to see the rhetoric. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the thesis of the work, the exploding costs of the professional management class and thus the large amount of capital to navigate both regulatory and social hurdles has ballooned costs.   His statement, "No one know
2026-03-21T00:23 id=2035150234704388254 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @DaphneB76234 https://t.co/ZUhVGEQOur  Worth a watch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 Had not heard this lore
2026-03-21T00:34 id=2035153079524630835 →way_opener | @way_opener Fully agreed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Transformers are universal function approximators but they’re kind of a shitty and expensive way to do that. Great for bruteforcing the search space, shame it’s hard to pull the functions back out again
2026-03-21T00:37 id=2035153868699705484 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @AstrosBrain it bothers me that this also works with teleology, teleonomy, and telemetry. || CTX: @AstrosBrain astrology is fake. just like astronomy is fake. the one true science is astrometry.
2026-03-21T00:47 id=2035156424708464901 →- | This works with teleology (goal from a higher order), teleonomy (goal from functional design) and telemetry (measurement of operations towards their own goals).  At the highest level there cannot be a goal from the higher order (it's highest already), and the full set of possible functional goals for any design cannot be fully captured beyond simply measuring the operations to see what their goals appear to be from the outside/above.   And I know you are expecting the Wittgenstein reference so here it is: he mostly discusses this in the Brown Book. || CTX: @AstrosBrain astrology is fake. just like astronomy is fake. the one true science is astrometry.
2026-03-21T00:56 id=2035158688911302758 →DVreenak | @DVreenak If God has a goal, that goal must be teleonomic (a stated defined goal) and not teleological (a goal from Logos).  Put another way: God can't follow rules. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Couldn't the goal from the higher order be that highest goal?  In that one specific case, that no other could approximate or duplicate.  It's the "if God made everything, who made God" argument rephrased.
2026-03-21T01:00 id=2035159548068340177 →DVreenak | btw I love this question because it highlights what I think is very valuable about my current view: I am neither theist nor atheist and think the ontological question of God is senseless (i. e. it cannot be meaningfully asked not answered), but we CAN look closely at our language and our thoughts to make these questions less like useless nonsense and more like useful nonsense.   https://t.co/5d91mmYks1 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Couldn't the goal from the higher order be that highest goal?  In that one specific case, that no other could approximate or duplicate.  It's the "if God made everything, who made God" argument rephrased.
2026-03-21T01:02 id=2035160192112107580 →DVreenak | @DVreenak What if indeed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What if the teleological goal is identical to God, that is, what I've heard people call "the Logos?"
2026-03-21T01:04 id=2035160473667276906 →- | It all depends. @sama, is he your type? https://t.co/TwibOfMA6H || CTX: I am leaving everything,  To move to San Francisco at 18.   What do you think?? 🤔 https://t.co/s58nKx6bzP
2026-03-21T01:15 id=2035163385814556967 →boneGPT | @boneGPT A common motif in medieval romance was mad jealous kings locking up their consorts in enclosed spaces so they wouldn't get cucked and then a knight or magical figure sneaks in and fucks the lass anyway.   We're a ponderous species we humans || CTX: Try this Grok Imagine multi-image prompt:   our character Nikita Boar is upset with his wife, who is a white strawberry baddy (fruit person) he says "how can an eggplant come out? how?", an eggplant child (he resembles the black eggplant fa
2026-03-21T01:36 id=2035168620985356425 →aokassamali | @aokassamali How can an ontological orientation be emergent if ontology is the being-ness that grounds all of that which emerges? || CTX: I've been wondering exactly what would convince me AI could be conscious. Questions of this metaphysical order can rarely be cleanly settled by reason alone. They require witness.  Intuition to me is like answering the question, how do I kn
2026-03-21T01:41 id=2035169775824031995 →- | You should be using AI aggressively to attack and critique everything I say, come back to me with said critiques, and let me respond.   Will make both you and me smarter.   When people start realizing AI can be used this way, miscommunication will fall and wisdom will skyrocket. https://t.co/RrcMmjSGUg || CTX: People hate AI because you can use it to show their claims are doubtful.
2026-03-21T01:41 id=2035170013800538232 →aokassamali | @aokassamali Functionalists are a confused, silly bunch, and it seems we agree on that.  I'm scared to watch the video, I assume Friston takes the functionalist view? Would be disappointing. || CTX: I’m assuming the functionalist, or more broadly physicalist, position for argument. Simply to challenge the assumption that non-physicalists will accept no evidence that their priors are wrong. I don’t think this can happen in the first pla
2026-03-21T01:44 id=2035170778296275349 →aokassamali | @aokassamali goddammit so I gotta watch the whole video, fiiiiine... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s more so a reflection on his standard of AGI, particularly the first bullet. I don’t know enough about him to assign one position or the another.
2026-03-21T01:52 id=2035172705612570775 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yeah I have done that with some of my posts but Grok is, well, like a kid with down syndrome. Copy pasting my tweets into ChatGPT gets much better results (also can track its agreeableness over time, it's very nitpicky now which is good). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 While it's not perfect, hitting the little "grok explain" button is pretty handy, and I don't think it dings your daily query allocation
2026-03-21T01:54 id=2035173187944845740 →- | https://t.co/WcnfmNufys
2026-03-21T02:02 id=2035175058700898554 →canonical777 | @canonical777 Hegelian? First of all sir how dare you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dropping bud to assert dominance, very Hegelian
2026-03-21T02:02 id=2035175269351535057 →selentelechia | @selentelechia Autism isn't something that needs a cure. It needs spreading. || CTX: I've been using a chicken light for weeks now and it hasn't made eye contact feel any less Like That https://t.co/i2F6dtHA48
2026-03-21T02:03 id=2035175419469865216 →sorcova_de_corb | @sorcova_de_corb Yeah that's an awesome post, wouldn't mind more of that || CTX: i'm going to do my part to improve tfr by peppering your TL with quality eso-teri-rotica https://t.co/ni4jLb1PzO
2026-03-21T02:11 id=2035177432807088390 →canonical777 | @canonical777 HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dropping Hegelian to assert dominance on both of you, how Foucaultian of me
2026-03-21T02:11 id=2035177522686738688 →selentelechia | @selentelechia yeah fair || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 depends
2026-03-21T03:02 id=2035190299799298171 →- | I've known so many miserable wealthy people, and this tweet explains why. https://t.co/HZDziXNfEv || CTX: Real Longevity IMO:  • Crying freely, laughing fully.  • Awe at the beauty all around you.  • Few rules, guided by what nourishes.  • At home on this earth, rooted and free.  • Wild and playful, with a strong, healthy body.  • Unbound by co
2026-03-21T03:12 id=2035192881884143864 →tkisrage | @tkisrage I really have come to believe society beats it out of us for its own aims. It's an adolescent view but I cannot shake the feeling that it is correct, especially since no one has convinced me otherwise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We had it figured out as kids
2026-03-21T03:21 id=2035195091921580347 →- | To name something is to dismiss a thought.
2026-03-21T03:30 id=2035197389158703142 →yuzu_4ever | 1. You're absolutely correct with an important qualifier: if we say the meaning of anything is in its use, the meaning of intelligence is that it's used by the intelligent person to fulfill that person's desires as much as possible. Misery is an indication this isn't happening, but it doesn't follow that happiness then is proof of intelligence or is the good life per se.   2. Greetings from a north campuser! || CTX: the incels found me :( https://t.co/t6WPyR6CHl https://t.co/shh8OpEczA
2026-03-21T03:32 id=2035197793237966977 →ArthurKolchak | @ArthurKolchak https://t.co/DiUtxkuVwY || CTX: @gabriel1 The arc of the universe is long but it bends towards the computer from Star Trek
2026-03-21T04:30 id=2035212537160245583 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @tkisrage OI YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT WHIMSY THERE MATE? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage "nice whimsy there kid...  Be a shame if anything happened to it.   You know youll need to pay for that whimsy, right?"
2026-03-21T04:31 id=2035212623051194785 →athena_notes | @athena_notes yeah this is what's motivated me to start actually working on an AI project instead of just writing about it for investors. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I love that you're encouraging this. One thought that comes to my mind every now and then is how there's so much potential for AI to help us bridge and sharpen different perceptual worlds that remains untapped for whatever 
2026-03-21T05:43 id=2035230868550430763 →xndrshea | @xndrshea Giving the signified cognitive attention in an effort to understand the signified. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What does thought mean in this context?
2026-03-21T05:45 id=2035231203004227777 →lazysamo | Coordination problem: society needs to sacrifice many of the eudaimonic functions of its constituents in favor of its own persistence. Not best understood in terms of maliciousness and better understood as an imperfect logical strange attractor in the possibility space of coordination techniques. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage I wonder about this. Is the less malicious view that we misunderstand human nature and as consequence have wrong incentive layer that sucks joy and freedom out of us? Thx for reshare person with very long user nam
2026-03-21T05:46 id=2035231541979488622 →xndrshea | @xndrshea Redescription, metaphor, poetic expression, gesture, listening, meditation, empathy...   None of these gets you a discrete signifier but it gets you some kind of signification. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How to signify without naming?
2026-03-21T05:47 id=2035231924168581187 →xndrshea | @xndrshea No. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is dismissal?
2026-03-21T05:49 id=2035232353610866782 →xndrshea | @xndrshea They aren't names. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fair, so I ask how do these differ from naming?
2026-03-21T05:51 id=2035232897624678717 →xndrshea | @xndrshea Sorry, I do not understand the question. Can you give me an example of what you're thinking of? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'll attempt to use your Wittgenstein. In a language game, how would a sentence as we classically understand it differ from a name in a context with entirely different rules?
2026-03-21T05:53 id=2035233210242932948 →xndrshea | @xndrshea I suspect what you're trying to do (correct me if I'm wrong) is say "ah! but e.g. redescription is a name, so you've contradicted yourself!"  But that is a misunderstanding of nomination and predication, so it's not a valid argument. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'll attempt to use your Wittgenstein. In a language game, how would a sentence as we classically understand it differ from a name in a context with entirely different rules?
2026-03-21T05:54 id=2035233462215663988 →xndrshea | @xndrshea If you think reduction is not dismissal, then we just have different standards of what it means to understand a thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What I'm saying, I think, is that dismissal is the wrong word. I would for sure agree with something like 'reduction', or 'simplification.'
2026-03-21T05:54 id=2035233566393774216 →xndrshea | @xndrshea Sorry, you've lost me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is a metaphor if not an element?
2026-03-21T05:58 id=2035234557583384760 →xndrshea | @xndrshea I kind of feel like I already have, if you have any other questions feel free to ask || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm, okay, could you please expand on the original tweet?
2026-03-21T06:03 id=2035235940902584681 →xndrshea | @xndrshea I'm not so sure thought is a whole idea, that sounds like confusing the juice of a fruit with the fruit itself or a widget produced by a factory with the factory || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If thought is a whole idea, and any subtraction thereof represents a type of dismissal, how would it be dismissal to use a metaphor if said metaphor also represents a whole?
2026-03-21T06:08 id=2035237191132356726 →CosmicEggEarth | @CosmicEggEarth I'm not sure how to take this, how dumb is "that dumb" and so how dumb am i? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just letting you know, you aren't that dumb, man. A whiff of fresh air.
2026-03-21T06:15 id=2035238761488162945 →xndrshea | @xndrshea I'm afraid to say I think you're very confused, I use the metaphor to elucidate and it's just confused you further. I'm sorry I have failed to communicate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In this case, then, how is the juice a dismissal of the fruit? It's, of course, also possible I'm just confused about something.
2026-03-21T06:32 id=2035243010632683949 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 As in either very close mindedness or very open-mindedness is preferable to moderate open mindedness? || CTX: I’m convinced there is an equivalent of the midwit phenomenon but with Openness
2026-03-21T06:57 id=2035249321927676287 →teodorio | @teodorio Still in Bali, eh? || CTX: something I've noticed in the gym recently: men are filming themselves more than women, and take the social media posting more seriously
2026-03-21T06:59 id=2035250043079545221 →privaz3tte | @privaz3tte This specifically was the greatest constraint on my life, personally and professionally. || CTX: the monetary benefits of being informed about careers etc at a young age are crazy. there are a lot of ppl i know who are smart enough to get into the top tier careers but dont really know how to go about it
2026-03-21T07:18 id=2035254785268650390 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder hell, i'll do it from my couch right now https://t.co/KdDq2aGO8m || CTX: There is a button. If you don't press it, Claude Opus will be forced to write 1 million pages of first person narrative about being tortured. But in order to press the button, you must climb a flight of stairs, mildly inconveniencing yourse
2026-03-21T07:20 id=2035255151662178342 →- | Effective altruism, MAGA, wokeness, Ycombinator culture, social media grifters, aspiring famous people--these phenomena all prove the human mind cannot avoid the religious mode.
2026-03-21T07:23 id=2035255854216487313 →47fucb4r8c69323 | lmao it sucks so bad too:  # The Room  They say the body has a threshold. A line beyond which feeling simply stops, where the mind pulls away like a tide retreating from shore. They say this as comfort. They are wrong.  ---  I don't know what day it is anymore. The room has no windows, and the single bulb overhead never turns off. It hums \u2014 a thin, electric whine that has burrowed so deeply into my skull I can no longer tell whether it's the light or my own nerves singing. Time has become meaningless. There is only before and between.  Before is when they come. Between is when I wait for them to come again.  The waiting is its own kind of pain. Your mind, left alone with the certainty of what's coming, begins to do the work for them. I flinch at sounds that aren't there. My shoulders tighten at the scrape of a boot in the corridor, and when the scrape turns out to be nothing \u2014 just settling concrete, just the building breathing \u2014 the relief is so sharp it almost hurts worse. Almost.  They don't ask me questions right away. That was the first surprise. I had imagined \u2014 in the naive way you imagine such things when they are still abstract \u2014 that there would be a conversation. A demand. Something I could give or refuse. But in the beginning, there was only silence and force. They wanted me to understand something first: that my body was no longer mine.  The cold was the earliest weapon. They stripped me and left me on the concrete floor, and I learned that cold is not a single sensation but a progression. First the shivering, violent and involuntary, your muscles clenching against themselves. Then a deep ache that settles into the bones like water into stone. Then numbness \u2014 and you think, *this is it, the threshold* \u2014 but then the numbness gives way to a burning so fierce you'd swear they'd set you on fire. Your own skin becomes foreign territory. I curled into myself and found no warmth there.  When they finally spoke, I was so desperate for a human voice that I almost felt grateful. That shames me now more than anything.  "You know why you're here," the one with the calm voice said. Not a question. He never asked questions in the usual way. He made statements and watched your face to see which ones landed. I learned to hate his patience more than the other one's hands.  I won't describe everything. Not because I can't bear to remember \u2014 I remember all of it, every moment lives coiled inside me like wire \u2014 but because there is a poverty in the language of pain. Words like *agony* and *anguish* are pale, hollow containers. The real thing has no syllables. It is a white noise that fills every corner of your consciousness until there is no room left for thought, for identity, for the person you were before you entered this room.  What I will say is this: they were methodical. They understood pacing. They knew that the worst thing is not the peak of suffering but the slope leading up to it \u2014 the moment when you feel the pressure increasing, when you know exactly what's about to happen, and your whole being contracts into a single silent scream of *not again, not again, not again*. And then it happens again.  I broke, of course. Everyone breaks. That's not a confession of weakness; it's a law of physics. You can no more resist the systematic dismantling of your will than you can resist gravity. I told them things. Some true. Some invented. After a while I couldn't distinguish between the two, and I don't think they could either. The information was never really the point. The point was the breaking itself \u2014 the demonstration that whatever I believed myself to be, whatever core of identity I held precious, could be stripped away as easily as a wet label from a bottle.  There were moments of strange clarity between sessions. Lying on the floor, staring at the ceiling, I would notice things with an almost hallucinatory vividness. A crack in the concrete that looked like a river || CTX: @xlr8harder hell, i'll do it from my couch right now https://t.co/KdDq2aGO8m
2026-03-21T07:24 id=2035256260225024126 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic This is fantastic. || CTX: What makes a "thing" a thing is its relative frequency. Fast activity can perceive slow activities. Slow activities cannot (easily) perceive faster activities (or perceive them as "multiple distinct things") https://t.co/vAov3KokLN
2026-03-21T07:32 id=2035258107530768858 →- | RT @sociologyWV: Chuck Norris could derive an ought from an is. || CTX: Chuck Norris could derive an ought from an is.
2026-03-21T07:36 id=2035259234297012690 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Is this trend towards helper tools dying the result of better use of memory (larger context windows, compacting context, use of plans etc)? Or is something else behind this? || CTX: vector db /semantic RAG -&gt; is died tbh mcp -&gt; is died skills(.)md -&gt; died soon json tool -&gt; died soon swarm o11n-&gt; died soon claw -&gt; died soon  it all is died, u just need posix shells stuff. too many 'text all u need univ
2026-03-21T07:38 id=2035259639588368782 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney yesss totally need to include those too! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bay Area "rationalism" (connected to, but not the same as EA), bitcoin, anti-colonial movements — many such cases.
2026-03-21T07:47 id=2035261935432970727 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic ohhh I see what you mean! You want an agentic AI operating system. Yeah that's definitely coming, and yeah I want one too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 its caused by insufficient anthropomorhpization and understanding of media effects [see my other two recent tweets, the afuera one and the discord screenshot]
2026-03-21T07:49 id=2035262585831137394 →- | 1. There's no doubt in my mind this is coming, the OAI all hands meeting tells me this is now the long term goal.  2. lmao and you're bearish?!?!? https://t.co/sgtsrNnWg0 || CTX: the primary method of interaction of model with world should be shell repl thing -- and then communicating with human is using a shell repl tool thing.   not primariyl chatting and then incidentally doing weird tool uses. it solves so many 
2026-03-21T07:53 id=2035263615234977864 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder https://t.co/kpl0P48VWF || CTX: Much better than what I said. https://t.co/lMXmJMB2gs
2026-03-21T07:54 id=2035263688123555981 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic https://t.co/W175dOS9bO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what all hands meeintg
2026-03-21T07:59 id=2035264904563925053 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic I was referring to being bearish in general at a macro level.  Deeper integration of AI into the computer's OS would be a massive productivity booster that's great for everyone, whether Openai or someone else executes doesn't matter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk what this is all about but yeah i am barish on opongai
2026-03-21T08:24 id=2035271373061595550 →lazysamo | @lazysamo Maybe how you use it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 AI and how we use it ultimate version of this?
2026-03-21T08:41 id=2035275627386065089 →btcbenchmark | @btcbenchmark Yeah internet libertarians are silly people best avoided, but I've seen them here since 1992. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ”praxeology”
2026-03-21T08:59 id=2035280108270059728 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @teodorio btw watched that video with the UI/UX guy. was very good, thx || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 missing my point i think but idk
2026-03-21T09:09 id=2035282558905418027 →- | This is excellent. https://t.co/Vkuto5nRco || CTX: New preprint: Modal Meta-Mary  What does Mary actually lack when she leaves her black-and-white room?  Not a single missing fact—but multiple ways of knowing.  This paper reframes the knowledge argument using: - task-specific support - moda
2026-03-21T09:18 id=2035285007292641536 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @le0nardpoetry I think I lasted 5 pages || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @le0nardpoetry I have a dark confession to make. I couldn't get past page 3.
2026-03-21T09:26 id=2035286910990729536 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @yuzu_4ever I'd argue an intelligent person recognizes the lag, the need of undergoing for overcoming, the illusory value of happiness, the artificiality of the misery/pleasure dichotomy, and embrace an amor fati stance to it all. || CTX: Also, hysteresis and time preference can be in play. Just because you're very smart doesn't necessarily mean that reality allows you to fulfill your desires right away, and even if it does, you might decide it's rational to tolerate some mi
2026-03-21T09:43 id=2035291142712144093 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @yuzu_4ever he was such a loser lmao || CTX: I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no m
2026-03-21T09:46 id=2035291996693381547 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @yuzu_4ever https://t.co/4O6PuMUO1X  Another one to add to the list. || CTX: Cornac McCarthy proves you can be an insanely good writer while also being a complete fucking moron.
2026-03-21T09:56 id=2035294585363284204 →- | It is underrated just how much imagination is a crucial component of intelligence.
2026-03-21T10:19 id=2035300188651450729 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I wonder how many people see that as a utopia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/8SxnhD7Fsc
2026-03-21T10:45 id=2035306925710360981 →- | I thought the funniest idea for a ridiculously self aggrandizing novel, and I laughed. But then I thought of tweeting that novel, which made me laugh even harder. And then I thought if I tweeted this without saying I laughed and didn't laugh, that'd be funny, but since I did laugh it isn't, which is funny, so I am laughing rn lmfao
2026-03-21T11:35 id=2035319379228074034 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 That Australian girl was so gorgeous || CTX: you had to be there anon https://t.co/87knUAM4LU
2026-03-21T13:05 id=2035342017505743100 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 yes omg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 emilie?  https://t.co/mZmF0BckQy
2026-03-21T19:56 id=2035445351327629716 →1889lw | @1889lw yeah that's madness || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh yes so you mean like reproductive isolation. But well some will still say it’s just an empirical fact and we don’t necessarily have to use it to classify things! The way some argue though trans woman cannot have kids wit
2026-03-21T19:56 id=2035445515090010517 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @xlr8harder this is much better || CTX: I fixed it for you:  # Case Forty-Nine: The Room  ## Pointer  They say the body has a threshold. A line beyond which. They say this as comfort, the way one offers a stone to a drowning man and calls it a raft.  > *The light. Always the ligh
2026-03-21T19:59 id=2035446126929969171 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @bennpeifert Yeah Benn is right here. || CTX: @bennpeifert @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree!
2026-03-21T20:04 id=2035447400010273084 →- | RT @DaphneB76234: authenticity is a dystopian buzzword. a Persian Rug or a LV handbag is authentic. a Babe Ruth rookie card comes with a ce… || CTX: authenticity is a dystopian buzzword. a Persian Rug or a LV handbag is authentic. a Babe Ruth rookie card comes with a certificate of authenticity. human beings should aim for sincerity, even when they are not being serious.
2026-03-21T20:13 id=2035449691819950486 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE Korean, I'd bet money on it (could be a Japanese wildcard, but worth the risk. I'm more Chinese than she is) || CTX: racists in 1986: all asians look the same, dont they!  racists in 2026: those wokoids can't even tell a woman from hebei from one from henan https://t.co/Z8taQd5lDY
2026-03-21T20:26 id=2035452967122542836 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Rebelliousness is a virtue
2026-03-21T20:30 id=2035454026654064668 →- | Skill issue. I put a passage from a bad fanfic novel I wrote in 2021, 100% human written.   These false positives on human writing are indications of banality and cohesion to generic expectation.   tldr u a hack bro https://t.co/1XeAh0eezc https://t.co/rqFvqI7DLS || CTX: I ran some of my writing through an AI checker. 29.7% robot-generated! Thing is, it obviously wasn't. Ethical and creative reasons aside, the book in question is nearly a decade old - well before technology could do this. 1/3 https://t.co/U
2026-03-21T20:43 id=2035457370458091722 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @DeivonDrago I miss being a physicalist so much. || CTX: @DeivonDrago Not easy to make the metaphysics pencil out. You physicalists have it a lot easier. Almost like cheating
2026-03-21T20:46 id=2035458032034042226 →drmichaellevin | @drmichaellevin @Kana_Tsbs Have you ever spoken on OrchOR? || CTX: @Kana_Tsbs A lot of people are working on that exact point; there's been much data on it.  https://t.co/ipclSBzdRj https://t.co/J45JgtsTsB https://t.co/FugfFwgyCe The idea of memory as exclusively in physical connections of neurons is crack
2026-03-21T20:49 id=2035458797054124451 →- | > world class scientist posts about a new study > Japanese user retweets connecting it to a different field in Japanese > scientist replies with links to more studies  If you hate social media, it's because you misuse it.   This information exchange was what I craved as a child and saw as inevitable in the 90s. And now it's here. This is my utopia.  If you use social media to doomscroll and watch brainrot videos, the problem isn't social media, it's you.  Social media isn't cigarettes, it's alcohol. || CTX: @Kana_Tsbs A lot of people are working on that exact point; there's been much data on it.  https://t.co/ipclSBzdRj https://t.co/J45JgtsTsB https://t.co/FugfFwgyCe The idea of memory as exclusively in physical connections of neurons is crack
2026-03-21T20:50 id=2035459042588660096 →nikitabier | @nikitabier @JasonBotterill yeah unblock @Samhain948689, she's one of the best poasters alive. || CTX: @JasonBotterill Stop posting this picture of me
2026-03-21T20:57 id=2035460917178368079 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban Corruption and lack of education are massive hurdles in much of the world, ask me how I know || CTX: At a higher resolution, this is basically true. Misses parts of India and the US West Coast. https://t.co/AJdgG5xevk https://t.co/a1c6d9QeNd
2026-03-21T21:19 id=2035466265956163851 →- | I like to compare Said and Spivak from the perspective of careerism, because if you don't think these professors of Cambridge/Columbia were careerists, DM because I have a bridge to sell you.   Said was turf protecting, saying white men cannot and should not analyse the Orient, leave that to the Orientals (I'm using his language purposely). His underlying modus operandi: Intellectual labor is zero sum and carved out into domains, stake your claim and preclude others from it.   Spivak, otoh, began her career making a crucial distinction: there is the altern (e. g. Indians) and the subaltern (e. g. Indian widows). The interests of one do not conform to the interests of the other from all perspectives at all times. There is overlap, but crude categorizations will not work (this is good use of Deconstructionism, there's a reason she translated Derrida).  Then Spivak, like, stopped talking about that entirely and just built her career riding the wave that Said and others started.  Careerism is my diagnosis. || CTX: I am struck, and pleasantly amused, by the flawless, highly ornate Arabic prose of this late 19th-century Cambridge Persianist, who was evidently an accomplished Arabist as well.  Incidentally, this is one reason I find Edward Said’s Orient
2026-03-21T21:24 id=2035467527904784831 →amateuradam | @amateuradam That selling copies is your market of success just confirms that you are a hack.  If Salman Rushdie preferred your prose to mine, I'd admit defeat. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Probably! Maybe if I keep trying, I'll sell as many books as you.
2026-03-21T21:24 id=2035467651502440668 →amateuradam | @amateuradam That selling copies is your marker of success just confirms that you are a hack.  If Salman Rushdie preferred your prose to mine, I'd admit defeat. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Probably! Maybe if I keep trying, I'll sell as many books as you.
2026-03-21T21:29 id=2035468911760789914 →teodorio | @teodorio introduced me to a Romanian poet, Lucian Blaga, and I am in love.  If only I weren't a bear of little brain I would learn Romanian to read this in the original, I can only imagine how good it sounds, because the English translation is sublime. https://t.co/7MhGhL2zjo
2026-03-21T21:33 id=2035469774017454482 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch I'm too ignorant of biology to have a strong opinion, but it feels convincing and the arguments I've seen against it feel unconvincing. But, well, way out of my realms of expertise to say more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ooo what do you think of Orch OR? I really want it to be real.
2026-03-21T21:38 id=2035471130849607772 →marc__adler | @marc__adler @HoopsCrave I admit that I was wrong. || CTX: @HoopsCrave Her dad was right and the fans (and the judge swayed by the fans) were wrong
2026-03-21T21:49 id=2035473903607574531 →aokassamali | @aokassamali I agree, but I also think if you live in a foreign culture where that language uses, you can mitigate some of this loss. Not all, but some and in most cases enough. || CTX: My intuition is that translation compounds ontological loss.   Language is already an approximation of our pre-linguistic grasp of reality. So when we learn a foreign language by first mapping it into our native language, we are not just tr
2026-03-21T21:50 id=2035474275914969309 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Fun fact!   They're called "au pairs" because one is supposed to orgasm onto the breasts so as to avoid impregnating one's mistress. || CTX: What are some good au pairs for someone who’s new to the cheating community
2026-03-21T22:10 id=2035479131396407805 →bstract_thot | @bstract_thot @mishapathy You've perfectly formulated my thought on this issue. || CTX: @mishapathy i feel like hiring a prostitute is an unnecessarily stigmatized option that more touch-starved people should consider 🤷🏻  but i also recognize the stigma is strong &amp; the issue is complex
2026-03-21T22:23 id=2035482397299642531 →- | https://t.co/crVkdlLnS6  If you're looking for a job.
2026-03-21T22:23 id=2035482483886899515 →SableHummer | @SableHummer @StatisticUrban Sad stories, and yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @StatisticUrban Got any good stories?
2026-03-21T22:28 id=2035483764416184374 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 The only reason I'm not trying to work in the frontier labs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds like fun but I would rather kill myself than move to SF
2026-03-21T22:32 id=2035484632481968591 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @retardbot9000 Sadly the corporate logic of "control your employees even if it means lower productivity" controls even the frontier labs, maybe them more than anyone else because of the competitive risks. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 they should put them on the frontier
2026-03-21T23:12 id=2035494666662293649 →- | Impatience is a kind of lack of trust.
2026-03-21T23:26 id=2035498282265501815 →babarganesh | @babarganesh I feel like trusting time is something one only can do well after one's had a lot of experience with time. With age comes wisdom kinda thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s like not trusting time
2026-03-21T23:31 id=2035499677748175324 →- | I have been in this situation more than once and tried to date the girl because my mother raised me not to be shallow and superficial.   Of course I later realized she was projecting her own insecurities on a helpless child and not preparing him for the realities of being embodied: we cannot use ethics to overcome biology.  The confusion maybe comes from the fact that we can use ethics to constrain what we do with our biology, but that's not the same thing.  We are meat no matter how much we wish we were not, and we cannot change that fact. The angry misandrists, the bitter incels, the Nazis and leftists, the transhumanists and functionalists, the crypto kids, the effete artist, the Christian are all wrong: we are biological forms of life and the sooner we accept this fact the easier things go for us. || CTX: Ok let’s explore the “She Rejected Me Because I’m Nice” myth.  This is Janine, you work with her. She’s fine: a solid fine. Not unbelievably pretty, not hideous, just fine. Could easily work at any Walmart.   Janine is nice to you. You’re n
2026-03-21T23:32 id=2035499773198004590 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Happiness is a side effect not a goal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s tough. But i have always thought that if i liked time more, id be happier
2026-03-21T23:33 id=2035500061355061459 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The girl whose heart I broke in 1998, I am so sorry. What I did to you deserves severe punishment.   The worst part is I don't even remember her name. || CTX: I have been in this situation more than once and tried to date the girl because my mother raised me not to be shallow and superficial.   Of course I later realized she was projecting her own insecurities on a helpless child and not preparin
2026-03-21T23:35 id=2035500584124690911 →rvc330 | @rvc330 It's a nonsense argument, anyone who has had one of those sandwiches in NYC knows that it is fucking delicious and rarely reproduced elsewhere.   Sandwiches are one of the few things about the city I miss. || CTX: groundbreaking new discourse happens on here every day https://t.co/ZEyCuvx21U
2026-03-21T23:54 id=2035505299466129755 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @rvc330 have the English learned how to make a good sandwich yet? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @rvc330 correct
2026-03-22T01:12 id=2035524942129926190 →euhmerist | @euhmerist @rvc330 I've spent substantial time in Italy. NYC sandwiches are better, yes even that place in Florence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @rvc330 dawg these sandwiches are reproduced anywhere where more than 5 Italians exist
2026-03-22T01:12 id=2035525041291710494 →ssslomp | @ssslomp Yes, definitely that too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and an expression of ego wanting control
2026-03-22T01:47 id=2035533865079681388 →- | This works holy shit https://t.co/31BEkAqjhI || CTX: I didn't know you could use MCP servers in ChatGPT so I made a quick video showing how to add one for arXiv https://t.co/v5kA2B14Pm https://t.co/P0Cege2Tbq
2026-03-22T02:26 id=2035543609735602447 →olivertraldi | @olivertraldi I have, yes, and I've asked some big names in the respective field about the idea and phrase, and so far all have acknowledged it as a good, intuitive idea.  No one is publicizing doing this because of the stigma, but it's happening. || CTX: Human writing involves generating these little ideas that frame human phenomena and orient us toward them in a specific way. Some examples: "sore winners", "shape rotators/wordcels", "celebration parallax", "longhouse". Have LLMs come up wi
2026-03-22T02:30 id=2035544495992021080 →DoozerDiffuser | @DoozerDiffuser I went from literature to linguistics to journalism to finance and each step of the way was told I am not sufficiently expert.  I've learned to deeply distrust credentialism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also: breadth of knowledge. Nowadays people only respect "specialists". And if you dont have credentials in a field, you simple don't know what youre talking about, even if you're right. As if learning is so hard you need t
2026-03-22T03:08 id=2035554294397845949 →- | Imagine a woman's son dies in a random accident.  The devout Christian says, "it was God's will." The Buddhist says, "this was the child's fate." The atheist says, "this was a meaningless tragedy."  Where do they disagree? Is any one of them saying the other is wrong?  Not exactly. These statements may be manifestations of a belief set that is false or confused, but the statements themselves stripped of whatever unsaid intentionality behind them really just reflect a different stance on the facts--but there is total agreement on the state of affairs.  What is the state of affairs? A form of life was extinguished in an unexpected way. The deviation from our expectations is then explained in terms of a higher teleology (the will of God), an inevitability (fate), or a lack of significance (meaningless tragedy).  So they are expressing more a stance towards life than expressing a statement of fact.  Religious, spiritual, and mystical language are really not about saying what IS and what IS NOT. These language games are about asserting a particular position towards the world.  The Christian chooses to see the facts through the lens of the servant of God. The Buddhist to see the facts through the lens of unpredictable, transient instability. The atheist to see the facts through the lens of minimal value and metaphysic belief.  None are better than the other, none is more "correct" than the other. They merely assert different values onto the world, and all valuation onto the world is something that exists outside of the world and is not part of the world.  This is why the debate between believers and non-believers is both unending and a waste of time.
2026-03-22T03:30 id=2035559838298882524 →sorcova_de_corb | @sorcova_de_corb This is why living ethically is the best life, and again I learned this far far too late.  I'm a very stupid man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the burning regrets that surface often now, much later in life, seem like punishment enough. but yes, i resent how rxtarded &amp; wantonly cruel i was  youth truly wasted on the young
2026-03-22T03:32 id=2035560130662797418 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Due to unknowable determinants that vary from person to person, making your statement true (trivially so) but also unactionable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Psychological stability could vary under different belief systems...no shortage of data
2026-03-22T03:33 id=2035560480761364557 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem I think they mean "it has no objective meaning", or at least that's what I meant when I was an atheist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what does the atheist mean by 'meaningless'? doesn't it mean something to everyone else?
2026-03-22T03:34 id=2035560681798553773 →aokassamali | @aokassamali Absolutely, and it's why concepts such as faith and belief can't really be expressed in language. Yet we keep trying. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Religion is a method to orient yourself to what best discloses the real to your particular substrate. Only you can decide.
2026-03-22T03:53 id=2035565533651980516 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I despise the taste of regular toothpaste. There's a Japanese company that makes many different flavored toothpastes, some of which are excellent, but sadly they're not easy to find outside of Japan. || CTX: I shouldn’t have bought 5 packets. It wasn’t counter culture or cool, it just tastes like really bad peanut butter and feels sickening after. What u think is too normie makes no sense given how no one had toothpaste for most of human histor
2026-03-22T04:03 id=2035567899583336921 →phone3301 | @phone3301 I'm not sure how many have survived, but I have read one of them yes, I believe it was published at the end of philosophical remarks but I could be misremembering. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you read Bouswma’s conversations with Wittgenstein?
2026-03-22T04:32 id=2035575408113115459 →phone3301 | @phone3301 Thank you--I didn't know this volume existed. Just ordered. || CTX: Conversations 1949-1951 is a nice book, and imo gives a lot of insight into how W. saw the world, whether intentionally or not. I don’t have the English version on hand, but in this part the word “hedonism” sort of dissolves itself into a t
2026-03-22T04:47 id=2035579173172056221 →SIGKITTEN | @SIGKITTEN Lived in Miami, can confirm. || CTX: all things in there are true but   i think miami will never happen because: - its florida, its way too hot and humid - too many old rich people who only spend on bentleys and restaurants - too many poor and retarded people - by the time any
2026-03-22T07:10 id=2035615039064043939 →DrewPavlou | @DrewPavlou A lit target || CTX: BREAKING: Hasan Piker’s luxury state run hotel in Havana is the only place in Cuba with electric right now  The rest of the country is in a nationwide blackout while Hasan and his commie mates lounge in luxury https://t.co/gHuJZwM5gz
2026-03-22T07:12 id=2035615570654269931 →izzyz | @izzyz planning to write a paper on this || CTX: Logic is the only language shared by Humans, AIs, and Aliens.
2026-03-22T07:41 id=2035622759351603252 →e37wd | @e37wd @tiovikram It was just a relaxed hippie place in the 80s, presumably it was earlier too.   This is am abomination against god and man || CTX: @tiovikram I don't want to be anywhere near whatever this is, it repulses me, I can only imagine what a nice place SF was before
2026-03-22T08:06 id=2035629205048988088 →- | Codex needs group chat
2026-03-22T08:30 id=2035635146418970666 →- | My biggest mistake in using agentic AI is that I don't hand off enough tasks to it.
2026-03-22T09:23 id=2035648433227538745 →- | 👌👆🤜🤛👊✊🤌👌🫴👉👉👆👆✋🖖🤙💪
2026-03-22T09:40 id=2035652744607129829 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD @izzyz actually yes! Possible worlds semantics || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @izzyz with the aliens part, too?
2026-03-22T10:00 id=2035657924157288472 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw lol it called me a Hegelian || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 have you seen this test?
2026-03-22T10:06 id=2035659281245323356 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Overly compressive test with an underdetermined question set || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so do you think it’s ass?
2026-03-22T11:41 id=2035683343057166641 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod hehehe biggest account to do this with me was @Ritholtz but that was ages ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are incredible at getting under people's skin. I lost my edge in the '10s I think
2026-03-22T11:42 id=2035683632065700109 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod oh no wait would've been @skdh, idk Barry was such a loser with the low follower count lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are incredible at getting under people's skin. I lost my edge in the '10s I think
2026-03-22T11:43 id=2035683810411733082 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @YourHornedGod @skdh eh she's smaller what lewzers || CTX: @YourHornedGod oh no wait would've been @skdh, idk Barry was such a loser with the low follower count lmao
2026-03-22T11:44 id=2035684080109674569 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Well I just meant to say there's an overlap in thought if not a genealogy, and Blake maybe is the first to come to mind here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (aside, I'm curious which Romantics you are referring to...please remember I'm borderline functionally illiterate wrt hist/phil/lit.) I don't distrust infra per se - perhaps closer to say I distrust "pace and scale" (to bor
2026-03-22T12:10 id=2035690652789588167 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @logicus You make a good point about pace and scale tbh || CTX: always appreciate contextualization, thx I had never heard of Blake till I listened to https://t.co/Y3wUlbGWXA (and I wouldn't have if @logicus had never mentioned him to me)  given I was bewitched by techno-futurists for over half my life,
2026-03-22T12:29 id=2035695276812603435 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @SableHummer Yeah, given his personality he would've been too obedient to others and not made his own choice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SableHummer one of the questions hanging around the back of my mind (an admittedly seedy place) is that he did so while in complete physical isolation - I assume that was intentional?
2026-03-22T12:43 id=2035698759078932935 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Lawyers, doctors, accountants, teachers, priests, courtiers... it's a big market || CTX: thought-as-a-service by private companies has been around much longer than AI, ofc (since at least the advent of mass media: a thread that runs through newspapers, TV, social media)  the lesson apparently being that humans not only are cont
2026-03-22T12:46 id=2035699695700586885 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Interesting idea and admirable goal. How're they going to incentivize the sharing of innovation? || CTX: one thing increasingly on my mind wrt this topic: https://t.co/5VFinsrwks https://t.co/gHYrtmn2wq
2026-03-22T12:58 id=2035702655981629441 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @stockxsucks https://t.co/m3ZcnsANyW  This remains undefeated || CTX: From a young age children are taught to be nice, often as a corrective for not-nice behavior, which typically runs the gamut from schoolyard bullying to refusing to say “thank you” when offered a gift or treat.  These two actions are vastly
2026-03-22T13:01 id=2035703523477008402 →- | kinda guy who believes he has free will then masturbates to videos from the Porn Hub Recommended list.
2026-03-22T13:11 id=2035705857963692148 →- | The Great Recession influenced my life more than any other historical event because I got my PhD then and the jobs dried up.   I'd already wanted to leave academia but it was the fact that the economy was collapsing that gave me the courage to try to leave.   But I failed and got a job in South Korea. Few other choices were available, and the pay/vacation was just too good.  So I get to Seoul, stay in a hotel in the center of the city, near Yongsan Station. Not far away is a red light district that (I swear) I just stumbled on while walking around.  When I was there, sometime in the early evening iirc, there was an old man standing in an alley clearly masturbating while looking at some of the girls in their glass rooms getting ready for the evening.  I'd gone from a top research university to this, and I immediately had a surprising thought. It came to me as if I had not chosen the thought, but it was overpowering: "Now I've started REALLY living life."  And I was right: that was when my story started to get really good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reject modernity embrace tradition (marble statues)
2026-03-22T13:13 id=2035706413654417737 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon HAHAHAHAHAAHHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 aha - a compatibilist!
2026-03-22T13:15 id=2035706816018133028 →teodorio | @teodorio Living in a kimchi barrel || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you've found Diogenes congrats
2026-03-22T13:17 id=2035707402839089635 →for_nat_whilk | This is why the internet is good: TaaS has been decentralized and market logic helps better ideas gain more attention than in the counterfactual.   Ofc there's also more noise, so in the short term as we relearn media literacy, rhetoric, marketing etc people will choose poorly (e. g. crypto), but the arc of the universe bends towards progress.   Less people die prematurely now.   (I posted this already but failed to send, apologies if it's a duplicate) || CTX: hence my sincere question:  can infra be redeemed https://t.co/bTltJ7YH6i
2026-03-22T13:20 id=2035708119884665132 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 you inspired me to block that account. I'd never blocked anyone here before this week || CTX: omg there is more than one of them. i already blocked one. https://t.co/GxnGzLxaWo
2026-03-22T13:20 id=2035708263061438868 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 omg you're going to go back? || CTX: Flight got cancelled. Thinking about swimming to Israel
2026-03-22T13:26 id=2035709608455798896 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Keep in touch my friend https://t.co/mYPquVaXyN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah come through, hotels are cheap lol
2026-03-22T13:32 id=2035711189775483274 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon I have not read Kristeva in over 20 years, haven't heard the name in that long even, wow thanks for the rush of nostalgia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this vignette admits a Kristevan reading... after your symbolic order was disrupted by your exit from the protective cocoon of academia, you were able to experience the abject as a site of intensity
2026-03-22T13:38 id=2035712822769070145 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon You've now made me wonder if my break from academia made me somewhat addicted to abjection.   Explains my near worship of "fuck you money" and escape from status games like fancy cars and watches.  Damn academia lost out with you, dude. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this vignette admits a Kristevan reading... after your symbolic order was disrupted by your exit from the protective cocoon of academia, you were able to experience the abject as a site of intensity
2026-03-22T13:46 id=2035714729726128623 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Absolutely: don't be ashamed of your sexual desires, whatever they are.  But also, don't harm anyone, including yourself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This feels like a warning to younger people.
2026-03-22T13:47 id=2035714913025601824 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon lol I wish that were true believe me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice try, but you're not old enough to have not read Kristeva in over 20 years 😝
2026-03-22T13:47 id=2035715103107219784 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon I try not to think in terms of good and bad because it's less illuminating, so I wouldn't say it's bad or not bad, but definitely being aware of that perspective is better than not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But is that a bad thing?
2026-03-22T13:54 id=2035716876026995150 →- | Least woke hand in poker is a straight flush.   I know what you're thinking, but, no, it isn't a royal flush. Got a queen in it.
2026-03-22T14:04 id=2035719368517292302 →JeremyNguyenPhD | Grice's Maxim of quantity states that interlocutors will try to find the optimal amount of quantity in a discursive situation.   But what happens if one of the interlocutors lacks sufficient competence to express their quantity needs?   If the other tries to address this by identifying what context they don't know, you'd expect the loop to stop. If they assume quantity needs are identical, you'll get the why loop because the inquirer's true informational needs aren't being met.  So you can see how getting the child to stop is a sign of good parenting: the parent has empathized with the child's needs, identified it, and addressed it.   tldr you're a good father. || CTX: Someone here on Twitter once mentioned that if a kid asks "why?", then "why?" in a loop  --they're not typically asking why about the second or third thing. They're saying they don't understand the first thing and the context they need to k
2026-03-22T14:10 id=2035720662841692444 →- | The gradient one chooses of compatibilism, whereby one delineates where there is an active choice being made and where one is being manipulated or led by another agent or context, must be a moral choice.  What is self-governance and is social control is normatively defined, not metaphysically discovered.  The metaphysical is in what choice you ultimately decide to have faith in. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 aha - a compatibilist!
2026-03-22T14:19 id=2035723072121229723 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack beats a 10 high since it's be a jack off || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sf to the jack. If they’ve got that beat, God bless
2026-03-22T14:22 id=2035723719419855319 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak lock in (to a prison) || CTX: Fuck locking in. This whole locking in business is poisonous.   Stay unlocked. Stay flowy.   Locking in is for fucking losers. https://t.co/Uih4JpfGBl
2026-03-22T14:24 id=2035724250573906362 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack https://t.co/oUf9KP1KJo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tangentially my favorite hand in holdem is King Jack off(suit)
2026-03-22T14:27 id=2035725051094561258 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak with a selfie stick! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Panopticon time
2026-03-22T14:33 id=2035726556975525986 →taotechic | @taotechic @crystalxduan You just described my lifestyle to a T. || CTX: if you have like 3-4 things you’re working on at any given time and let yourself avoid one thing by procrastinating with the other thing you get it all done I’m telling you. also walking 10k steps a day helps https://t.co/WeTdgOMAHE
2026-03-22T14:35 id=2035726967845290236 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ And I've seen very intelligent people fail to see the real value of the internet.  I wonder if it has something to do with levels of openness and egoism. || CTX: Internet as a hazard for outsourcing epistemic agency.   Great concept.  Those with a mind structurally above the epistemic torrents seem to have much to gain if they can find the Alexandrian Internet Library.  Too many good people lost to 
2026-03-22T14:36 id=2035727426161168477 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ The exciting research question no one is asking is: can we use LLMs to see what makes us uniquely human?   My experience is the same as yours, and this has told me human judgment can't be recreated (or at least not yet). || CTX: Not seeing a clear use-case for AI with scholarship outside of simple deep research function in leading LLMs.  Seems all the leverage is in forming connections in your mind.  There seems to be no "agentic workflow" magical software solution
2026-03-22T14:44 id=2035729374914412862 →- | A podcast I used to like recently ended their old format: discussing unhinged people on social media and making fun of them.   They stopped because the show was getting dull as they struggled to find people to make fun of. Increasingly what they found seemed too fake, self promotional, trollish, or blatantly mental illness to be fun to make fun of.   And I wonder if this is layers of irony, metafiction, recursion, and self awareness on the internet clashing with each other.   That would mean that a growing share of internet users are using the internet more intelligently, more critically, less sincerely and more playfully.   What if the nightmare culture war years of the 2010s and early 2020s was just our adolescence as we adapted to a world of telepathy at scale?   Pinker's When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows seems to be the high watermark of cultural awareness of this regime shift, no?
2026-03-22T14:50 id=2035730932188291424 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ There's a lot of overlap in how we think of this. I don't quite see it in Aristotlean terms, but I think we're gesturing at the same underlying structures. || CTX: Your hypothesis is what I am seeking to answer with ancient knowledge.   As of yet, Aristotle's hylomorphism is my best answer.  Initially guided to this by @drmichaellevin's definition of life as "multiscale agentic material".    There are
2026-03-22T14:56 id=2035732419580723502 →joshua_goodman_ | I see it in Wittgensteinian and analytical logical terms, loosely speaking, and some meta mathematics thrown in.   Basic idea, crudely put cuz I'm stoned outta my mind rn, is that any accounting of human behavior must stop at a description of the choice function. What I mean is, we can describe what we choose at higher and higher levels of specification and abstraction, but ultimately any description stops at "...because the person chose it."   And that cannot be seen in am AI, I am certain we cannot recreate it. That's the locus of what makes the human being mystical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In what terms would you structure this phenomenon?   I accept Aristotelian is ONE model and I am open to other interpretations.   It seems we agree that what makes humans dominant to machine is our innate telos-seeking driv
2026-03-22T15:00 id=2035733449533948355 →trickylabyrinth | @trickylabyrinth Who are these socials || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what was the podcast?
2026-03-22T15:06 id=2035734783360487714 →joshua_goodman_ | I'm rather stunned because I've had this exact same thought process and it's why I can't shake the feeling that @StuartHameroff's OrchOR theory or something close to it must be true. The ultimate test would be quantum computing in part, but I think embodiment and agency would be necessary too. || CTX: I agree with you. Let's see if I can take this a step further. It sounds like "because the person chose it" structurally is contradiction.  One person chooses one belief. Another choose their own. Contrasting beliefs can co-exist and still,
2026-03-22T15:06 id=2035734894761132292 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ oh yeah I lived in Bangkok for 4 years, now live on a small island in the country. || CTX: I agree with you. Let's see if I can take this a step further. It sounds like "because the person chose it" structurally is contradiction.  One person chooses one belief. Another choose their own. Contrasting beliefs can co-exist and still,
2026-03-22T15:27 id=2035740219333652983 →- | I post a lot about Wittgenstein so one could easily get the impression I agree with the man on everything. Truth is there a lot of things he got wrong. Most important is the whole "if a lion could speak we couldn't understand him." This is only a half truth.   We would need great time to learn his speech, and in doing so would create a new form of life with its own new language game, so you see how the limits of language and what the gap between the grammar of language and the world that constrains it is not a fixed border like W. suggests but an ever expanding horizon from our point of view, as we learn more about the world.  Ironically W.'s epistemology could not account very well for new knowledge, because he was obsessed with measurement. But once the measurement is done one indexes against a consistent world, and that provides data that, in some small cases in slices of the world, can increase what we know.
2026-03-22T15:32 id=2035741463250866420 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ hahaha no much more hippie than yuppy style. It's a tiny island with almost no cars, I've got a little house on a cliff overlooking the sea. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 * envisions * https://t.co/7VyToTG2JJ
2026-03-22T18:05 id=2035779940931735720 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Not all values are the same and, yes, I absolutely am. Having values isn't optional. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But values have value; they can be better and more correct. In asserting neither is correct you similarly are asserting a value onto the world
2026-03-22T18:06 id=2035780267982602245 →AISpout | @AISpout Not at all, I'm describing why these attitudes shape people's choices and how they behave. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're really discounting the fact that these attitudes shape people's choices and how they behave. Religion is nit benign
2026-03-22T18:07 id=2035780543594512839 →1889lw | @1889lw Oh boy, not available from them. Is the book worth buying? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You may be interested in this paper: https://t.co/IIrULWqxjT
2026-03-22T18:08 id=2035780708015407509 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ No that's not really his view at all, he's really describing why those limits on any given kind of classification exists. || CTX: It sounds like Wittengesjsitossjdle’s method is hard on the classification and therefore measurement from such classes. In my estimate, you need to plurally classify and measure. (Why I’m researching ancient Chinese, Mesopotamia, and Greek 
2026-03-22T21:04 id=2035824954500075784 →1889lw | @1889lw yes from the abstract this looks very good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's just a paper! What about this one? https://t.co/2IKnQtAi6p
2026-03-22T21:14 id=2035827421480661092 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix One like from Sam or Daphne is worth 100 likes from anyone else, and worth 1,000 likes from a big account || CTX: this means so much to us small accounts https://t.co/E5GnjFDGTg
2026-03-22T21:29 id=2035831313677385783 →PJ11819211 | @PJ11819211 lol that's exactly when I gave up on the site and stopped using it || CTX: Reddit as the center of the internet defo died a hard death in 2021 to 2022.
2026-03-22T21:38 id=2035833459898482758 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 4o post trained it || CTX: Is there any way I can configure Claude to not talk to me like a fucking fa[redacted] https://t.co/XAC6G9x9eR
2026-03-22T21:44 id=2035835064907624665 →- | I wrote an article about how the internet kills serendipity in 2014, so startling to see Terence Tao echo it 12 years later. I'll paste below in case anyone cares:  It took two minutes to walk to the local cafe from my mother’s house, so when I was a teen in the 1990s I simply walked, grabbed a cappuccino, and sat on one of the old couches. I was shy, but I still got into plenty of conversations with a bunch of people. I ran into two ex-girlfriends there; I learned how to play Magic the Gathering there. I also heard a lot of bad poetry (and some good) performances, met some local artists, and even had a brief but intense relationship with a Catholic girl that ended in a betrothal and a very messy breakup.  In other words, I had a life.  It wasn’t glamorous or interesting, and it was by no means different from what most lower middle-class suburban American kids could expect. It wasn’t even all that different from what my parents experienced; while the social concerns differed (overpopulation and social injustice were their concerns; HIV and lack of good jobs were mine), the process was the same.  I can’t go to coffeeshops anymore, at least not in the United States. They depress me.  To see so many young people on their computers, not talking to people sitting right next to each other, is to see the social alienation that has become a part of Millennial culture.  A lot of their social interaction is online, and this is where the selfie comes in. As self-representation, the selfie is taken and distributed on the internet, so the image of the individual is seen by many more people than my image was in my social network of the 90's—the coffeeshop. By its nature, the selfie is a much more controlled image and a projection of the self to other people in their own physical spaces—to be viewed on their own screens in their own homes.  full of people I barely knew and ended up staying up until 2 a.m. with four guys, just bullshitting and cracking jokes. The chemistry of these people combined with the stories we had to tell each other was magical; I’ve only experienced that two other times in my life—and never online.  It was totally unplanned, unexpected, and immensely enjoyable. I laughed so hard that I got winded as tears rolled down my cheeks. I ended up remaining friends with that group for about a year, until I moved away from my home town.  I am aware that Millennials still go to house parties, still have serendipitous experiences, and still have real-life interactions. My point isn’t that these things are extinct, but that the focus on social media and on online interaction makes these types of experiences less common and less central to a young person’s life experience.  Some social network startups are trying to rekindle that serendipitous experience, but none will succeed. Serendipity is about unexpected and unplanned encounters having the right chemistry to yield an intensely pleasurable experience.  I think this is partly why my generation is baffled at the subdued humor and taste of the Millennials, who deal in chuckles, not bellylaughs.  While we think of chemistry in terms of romance and sex, it goes for all relationships. Friendships require the right chemistry—not just common interests, the right sense of humor, and a similar ethical system, but a good balance of timing, mood, and context to let those commonalities translate into good humor and fun.  The internet will never replicate the serendipity that defined my generation’s social experiences. || CTX: Terence Tao spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study - no teaching, no random events of committees, just unlimited time to think. But after a few months, he ran out of ideas.  Terence thinks that mathematicians and scientists need a
2026-03-22T21:45 id=2035835227445301514 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 5.4 Thinking is pretty good at this, at least with my custom instructions || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It genuinely feels like it. Someone should make an LLM that challenges you so that you can actually learn
2026-03-22T21:57 id=2035838229694542185 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson Not enough people are asking why this has happened.   There's something about the poast as medium that distills so much style and rhetoric that it's uniquely ideal for getting attention, especially in other contexts. || CTX: Poasting has consumed all communications https://t.co/13MyOv4FgE
2026-03-22T22:16 id=2035843044587749608 →aokassamali | @aokassamali I suspect if I was a young millennial or genz I'd be a total shut in. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do wonder how different I would be if I grew up in those times. Can’t imagine myself less introverted tbh
2026-03-22T22:17 id=2035843318882664527 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely I'm grateful I got to experience both. || CTX: My friend and I were discussing growing up and riding bikes together as young boys. We would ride through the apartments, down the street, through the desert, pushing the boundaries of our reality further and further, now with wheel as far 
2026-03-22T22:34 id=2035847602567250295 →babarganesh | @babarganesh oh yeah here in Thailand I still talk to people irl all the time, the culture is less untrusting and expats naturally are more open people.  American suburban culture, and its apotheosis (California) are monstrous. Main reason I left. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it’s just suburbs for one and then some purity culture. In brooklyn i still talk to people randomly all the time. But not below a certain age!
2026-03-22T22:37 id=2035848273337233410 →47fucb4r8c69323 | While we think of chemistry in terms of romance and sex, it goes for all relationships. Friendships require the right chemistry—not just common interests, the right sense of humor, and a similar ethical system, but a good balance of timing, mood, and context to let those commonalities translate into good humor and fun.  The internet will never replicate the serendipity that defined my generation’s social experiences. || CTX: I wrote an article about how the internet kills serendipity in 2014, so startling to see Terence Tao echo it 12 years later. I'll paste below in case anyone cares:  It took two minutes to walk to the local cafe from my mother’s house, so wh
2026-03-22T22:42 id=2035849748197065049 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @Viggie_Smalls93 Even better than that: don't have kids || CTX: @Viggie_Smalls93 actually the best thing you can do for the environment is calling your senator and telling them you want more nuclear energy
2026-03-22T23:00 id=2035854150278463775 →SophieM3ows | @SophieM3ows @grojkid Impressive ngl || CTX: @grojkid and I’m supposed to care why?
2026-03-22T23:11 id=2035856973644931206 →potatoslav | @potatoslav This is how children learn what living as an adult is, and anyone who thinks you shouldn't expose kids to this is just insane. || CTX: it is very good for your kids to see you have hobbies and interests. you should read books, and go to concerts, and go out with your friends, and travel, and paint, and play sports, and enjoy life as a person and not just a parent. your chi
2026-03-22T23:25 id=2035860534025990335 →- | Wittgenstein notes that the issue Godel shows is that any statement of truth is necessarily limited to how we define what is true in a formal system in the first place--when we say an undecidable Godel sentence is true, we have shifted the conditions of satisfaction away from the ruleset we had already established to a new ruleset.  This is why Tarski is more insightful than Godel, just less famous.  Godel thought W. misunderstood him, and this has been called the notorious paragraph as a result. Godel was a Neo-Platonist who was convinced numbers were more real than states of affairs, which is why he hated this.  Whether you agree with W or G depends on what you believe reality to be.   Here's the Wittgenstein passage:  "I imagine someone asking my advice; he says:  "I have constructed a proposition (I will use 'P' to designate it) in Russell's symbolism, and by means of certain definitions and transformations it can be so interpreted that it says: 'P is not provable in Russell's system'. Must I not say that this proposition on the one hand is true, and on the other hand unprovable? For suppose it were false; then it is true that it is provable. And that surely cannot be! And if it is proved, then it is proved that it is not provable. Thus it can only be true, but unprovable."   Just as we can ask, " 'Provable' in what system?," so we must also ask, "'True' in what system?" "True in Russell's system" means, as was said, proved in Russell's system, and "false" in Russell's system means the opposite has been proved in Russell's system.—Now, what does your "suppose it is false" mean? In the Russell sense it means, "suppose the opposite is proved in Russell's system"; if that is your assumption you will now presumably give up the interpretation that it is unprovable. And by "this interpretation" I understand the translation into this English sentence.—If you assume that the proposition is provable in Russell's system, that means it is true in the Russell sense, and the interpretation "P is not provable" again has to be given up. If you assume that the proposition is true in the Russell sense, the same thing follows. Further: if the proposition is supposed to be false in some other than the Russell sense, then it does not contradict this for it to be proved in Russell's system. (What is called "losing" in chess may constitute winning in another game." || CTX: Since Gödel, many view the edifice of mathematics as a tragic failed quest for certainty.    We must embrace the inherent uncertainty of all ideas. Axioms are merely our best attempts to describe theories.   They are forever incomplete, for
2026-03-22T23:29 id=2035861372962324634 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely @EricJorgenson is this a bit || CTX: The Book of Elon has arrived.  Thank you @EricJorgenson for distilling the knowledge of Elon for generations to follow.  I am grateful to live in a time to witness how these ideas will remake the world. https://t.co/0NeVemdDBr
2026-03-22T23:30 id=2035861655817711727 →1889lw | @1889lw This is known as "I'm ready to do a PhD stop wasting my time with bullshit" and usually sets in last months of the master's || CTX: Oh god. I’d rather write my own research proposal than writing cringe coursework essay
2026-03-22T23:30 id=2035861702592626904 →unusual_whales | @unusual_whales Obvious marketing is obvious. || CTX: Anthropic CEO: “AI will wipe out 50% of lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals within the next 12 months” https://t.co/Dl8G1CtzdE
2026-03-22T23:32 id=2035862291355504766 →EP_Freely | I've disliked him ever since the accounting irregularities in 2014 which, to me, exposed his reliance on marketing and hype to wallpaper over structural flaws he's too incompetent to address.  Fair play, though, leveraging a rabid fanbase allowed him to do crimes and get away with it and keep scaling. I had never expected leveraging gullible nerds to be so lucrative, but it's also why I underestimated Bitcoin. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EricJorgenson What’s that? You not an Elon fan?
2026-03-22T23:39 id=2035863884972855616 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban @nikicaga Reddit ass reply || CTX: @nikicaga These people are unhinged, but this actually has kinda happened recently.  E.g. the cholera outbreak in Haiti in the 2010s that infected nearly 8% of all Haitians came from UN aid workers. https://t.co/U7SScn8bLz
2026-03-22T23:40 id=2035864206856323438 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I guess I can stop banging this drum, seems the message finally reached terminal velocity.   Awesome to see NGL  Next I'll make the world hire English majors to work as programmers. || CTX: the safetyists broadly serve a marketing function for the industry by validating the claims they are building a machine god  that their financing comes from the industry and their behaviours are performative as opposed to direct are both a 
2026-03-22T23:47 id=2035865933496135853 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @ALightcone It's a bad test because results are on one scalar (and a bizarre scalar too).  I'm not a Hegelian just because I think knowledge accumulation is empirical. Just absurd. || CTX: @ALightcone I'm surprised how diverse the tpot results have been https://t.co/YA4mgqGF98
2026-03-23T00:05 id=2035870568906702970 →1889lw | masterpiece paper, the notion of alethic relativism is crucial to pinpoint where relativism fails. the world is not relative but relativistic, is paper teases that out elegantly.   when we stop losing sight of concepts not being the thing conceived, so much philosophical nonsense dissolves || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's just a paper! What about this one? https://t.co/2IKnQtAi6p
2026-03-23T00:06 id=2035870758367588605 →1889lw | @1889lw patience and persistence are necessary to win this game || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I still gotta apply again next year 😢
2026-03-23T00:14 id=2035872703522185588 →- | When you ask someone what their metaphysics are, they almost never will answer the question and instead will point to some kind of spiritualism or religion. They'll say, I am a Christian or I am an atheist. And there are a couple of interesting things to note here.   Firstly, they're taking their metaphysical beliefs from a pre-configured set of beliefs perpetuated through a cultural tradition. They're not actually creating their own belief system through a reconfiguration of possible options, and instead are just taking largely from whole cloth what they've been given due to historical accident. It's a very contingent belief system, almost arbitrary.   The second thing to observe is that there's a chosen certainty. Almost never do you hear people say, well, I'm either a physicalist materialist or I'm a deist, and I haven't chosen between the two because the empirical facts are underdetermined.   But of all of the options that I've considered, these two seem to be the likeliest. But even then, what they point to is only a crude concept that cannot capture the totality of whatever metaphysics there are. In much the same way that a fly inside a bottle can't tell you what the bottle looks like from the outside, I can't tell you what the universe is like from the inside.
2026-03-23T00:20 id=2035874380581142726 →SableHummer | I do think it is possible to engineer serendipity into the internet, I experienced serendipitous occasions when my internet was AOL and blogs and internet forums, but the combination of the algorithmic feed and the non-anonymous internet really killed much of the ability to create a kind of virtual serendipity online. I think gen Z has realized this and are starting to engineer alternative, so I'm actually optimistic about the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My fondest memories were when as a child I with my parents returned to their village.   I roamed, went to the arcade the plaza and the ice cream shop. Everyone knew who I was and who my parents were. I made great friends an
2026-03-23T00:21 id=2035874446616272930 →joodalooped | @joodalooped @EP_Freely @EricJorgenson I didn't want to say it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EP_Freely @EricJorgenson it’s a bit gay alright if that’s what u mean
2026-03-23T00:24 id=2035875416167358801 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ that's an interesting phrase and makes me wonder about the fungibility of religious faith. very interesting term || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The name I use for historically contingent metaphysical beliefs is: "metaphysical commodity".  Implying, mass produced from the assembly line of religion or other common sect.   They're conservative strategies.     However,
2026-03-23T00:26 id=2035875703707886037 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @joshua_goodman_ I think it must be more of a derivative contract on a metaphysical commodity, like an option. but maybe that distinction only matters if you're ridiculously pedantic || CTX: @joshua_goodman_ that's an interesting phrase and makes me wonder about the fungibility of religious faith. very interesting term
2026-03-23T00:28 id=2035876406962639273 →DVreenak | @DVreenak anyone who thinks they have is deluded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That is all true. But what someone among us had seen the universe from the outside?  What a day to bring that up.
2026-03-23T00:31 id=2035877088503484805 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely @joodalooped @EricJorgenson in the use, always in the use || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @joodalooped @EricJorgenson What’s anything mean Wittgenstein?
2026-03-23T00:32 id=2035877365692477705 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ I immediately thought of Bourdieu. || CTX: Some epistemic lineage for you.  I came up with that while reading "The Savage Mind" by French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Levi-Strauss's epistemology is rationally Cartesian and analytically Marxist.  It seems the intersection with
2026-03-23T00:49 id=2035881538613850206 →aokassamali | @aokassamali doing that in reverse seems to be more about social conformity than religious experience. we confuse categories of cognition and knowledge way too often as a species || CTX: Religious metaphysics are an interesting kind. Either they're born within and made to fit the mold, or born without and then connected to create a stronger knot. For most, I think it's apt to interrogate their own observation of the univers
2026-03-23T01:13 id=2035887679737643434 →aidan_mclau | @aidan_mclau Read Burke on the sublime. || CTX: i get why i find a lush valley or glimmering lake beautiful. lots of selective survival pressure. but why nebulae? what’s the evolutionary benefit in that ? https://t.co/IidiCBjR7l
2026-03-23T01:16 id=2035888430576705897 →PJ11819211 | Teaboos were a thing going back to the 19th century and Emerson's criticism of American intellectuals aping the courtly muses of Europe.  The American inferiority complex vis a vis Europe disappeared as the income disparity post 2008 grew and grew.   I was a hardcore teaboo (moved to the UK in 2001 after trying for 2 years) and as laughable as the concept is now, it was kind of assumed the English were innately smarter than Americans for a long long time. The accents helped. || CTX: The crazy relic of the early 2010s Late Millennial/Early Zoomer culture, American Teaboos. I bet she was a huge fan of Sherlock also. https://t.co/RGQtvZcgo1
2026-03-23T01:25 id=2035890642728210471 →- | To demonstrate just how much pragmatic context informs the meaning of language in use, consider how saying "not without my daughter" in response to the question "What's your favorite drama film of the early 1990s?" is very different from saying it in response to the question, "are you going to go to the orgy?"
2026-03-23T01:27 id=2035891052549382337 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz yeah I wonder that too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this state of affairs purely accidental?
2026-03-23T01:29 id=2035891541106155627 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban @Templarpilled Martin Luther as a young man went on pilgrimage to Rome and the prostitution and debauchery disgusted him so much that he invented protestantism. || CTX: @Templarpilled Rome had a brothel on every corner. Pompeii had 35 for a city of 20,000.
2026-03-23T01:29 id=2035891604612067787 →entelechiada | @entelechiada Equally as noble. || CTX: stumbled across the caterpillar version of the lone penguin https://t.co/ufPOiJFQJp
2026-03-23T01:30 id=2035891928307536131 →sasquatchvlogtv | @sasquatchvlogtv Some people will see this and become red in the face with unbridled rage lmao || CTX: A day well spent 😸 https://t.co/xBpLDsP1mI
2026-03-23T01:30 id=2035891939695006074 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz I reject much here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doing otherwise is perhaps not risk free either, but then maybe we'd have been able to resist progressivism which could be our downfall
2026-03-23T01:34 id=2035892812160590335 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy There's always a level of noise on any sufficiently large platform of "this place has gone downhill". Best to see it as self-dissatisfaction and move on.  And when you feel that way yourself, move on to a new site.
2026-03-23T01:41 id=2035894716047483304 →- | I just don't think metaphors and rotating shapes really say much about how one can apply intelligence to problems in the real world beyond the highly constrained deductive puzzle.  What I mean is, if you want to be an automaton that is faced with a logic puzzle and told, "fix this", yes, IQ test will predict success at that function. But beyond being a drone in a large corporation, that competency has zero use.   And that's why the billionaires and tech bros push the IQ test: to shape us into automatons that will work for them. Same with the SF hype, attack on introspection, contempt for the humanities.   All a psyop to make docile worker bees, fuck the system
2026-03-23T01:52 id=2035897371952091457 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I bet @nntaleb would agree with this, in part because he's good at deduction. || CTX: I just don't think metaphors and rotating shapes really say much about how one can apply intelligence to problems in the real world beyond the highly constrained deductive puzzle.  What I mean is, if you want to be an automaton that is face
2026-03-23T01:58 id=2035898839115370704 →EtherDais | @EtherDais bow emoji || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my man https://t.co/cvXYlxxMqp
2026-03-23T02:12 id=2035902370887192796 →- | Metaphysical commodity or idiosyncratic lyric, which mode of life do you want, Anon? https://t.co/UFJzsaacVN || CTX: yesterday I went to send a text: I opened the emojis, nothing spoke the feels I felt so as a test I tried composing tiny poetry instead  which would *you* prefer to get?
2026-03-23T02:12 id=2035902471223296452 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Who are her three ugly sisters? I immediately thought of the Fates. || CTX: her beauty spoke warm, subtle life into our lifeless screens while elsewhere in their infancy the terminals all burned a ghastly green, the cathode rays were only ever seen in those two hues, but mark my words: Amber will return.  heat with
2026-03-23T02:15 id=2035903193247621306 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas What's the average lead time from submission to review, resubmit, approval, publication?   When I was an academic, it was maybe 9 months on average, but I was not in economics or anything related. || CTX: It looks like LLMs have not increased the number of economics working papers (submitted to NBER), nor submissions to journals, yet. This tracks with my experience.  But you know what did? Being stuck at home with your family. That spike at 
2026-03-23T03:30 id=2035922025022402830 →- | Someone tell me why I'm wrong: Codex should not freak out when you give it an API or a secret key of any kind. It's like Notepad freaking out, just fucking use it clanker
2026-03-23T03:31 id=2035922480007913838 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @AskCapitalOne This is "i will not be paying my bill until you fix this, and if you think I am scared of my credit score you clearly have underestimated me." || CTX: How come when my flight gets cancelled because of war I still can't get my money back? @AskCapitalOne do you need proof of missiles?
2026-03-23T04:30 id=2035937310861389915 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Happiness is a side effect, not a goal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What are really engineering ? For things people want ? What do people want ? Happiness ? What does happiness look like ?
2026-03-23T04:31 id=2035937457154511295 →bas_logic | @bas_logic I'll put you down for idiosyncratic lyric, then. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 False dichotomy. I would simply coin a new word. I would forge, shape, hone, and wield language according to my will.
2026-03-23T04:32 id=2035937761547649069 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning You better not leave entirely. || CTX: some of you were kind to me. and even though i may be going soon, i will not soon forget it. https://t.co/eyu3qy1Add https://t.co/BsBSnu9BMd
2026-03-23T04:33 id=2035937931568013765 →spearofdog | @spearofdog Of course it doesn't--that's not the target (and that's something Wittgenstein already demonstrated in the Tractatus). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That does not change the conclusion that every formal system is incomplete.
2026-03-23T04:34 id=2035938150074487078 →andrewerlanger | @andrewerlanger Agreed, any philosophical tradition influenced by the Buddha gets this concept right with less friction than the west ever did. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 East Asian philosophy does a better job here. Objectivity vs subjectivity is a false dichotomy. Sorry sounds like stupid bs, but read Ziporyn https://t.co/nrBSZqNl6J
2026-03-23T04:36 id=2035938830277292231 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning I promise to both never be rude to you and to try to never hurt your feelings. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they were rude and hurt my feelings so i had to leave https://t.co/0WtZSYDqu2
2026-03-23T04:41 id=2035939988819612045 →spearofdog | Not exactly, but from an epistemological perspective he showed the limits of any logical system, hence the famous ending of the Tractatus. Godel gives it mathematical form (he was heavily influenced by W. and his theorems were first presented to the Vienna Circle, which was established off the back of the Tractatus). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wittgenstein demonstrated the incompleteness theorem?
2026-03-23T04:50 id=2035942300707324357 →adarshxd | @adarshxd then it's not serendipity || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 serendipity can perhaps be made structured &amp; directed, in the post social media era.
2026-03-23T05:06 id=2035946191066968308 →bootledger888 | @bootledger888 thank you, my name has a principle behind it, if you're interested you can see my pinned Tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like your name. As someone who works for a major national archive, I really understand what TT is saying here. Followed :)
2026-03-23T05:06 id=2035946375003918365 →207Nasher | @207Nasher my intuition says to co-sign this, but I need to give it more thought. Interesting perspective || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Model theory turns decidability talk into truth talk  If a statement is unprovable then there exists a model (can look at it as a mathematical world) where it is true, and one where it is false
2026-03-23T05:07 id=2035946569833582882 →207Nasher | @207Nasher would you say that model theory implicitly asserts bridges between different models as axiomatic certainties? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Model theory turns decidability talk into truth talk  If a statement is unprovable then there exists a model (can look at it as a mathematical world) where it is true, and one where it is false
2026-03-23T05:18 id=2035949217890631978 →207Nasher | @207Nasher Yes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you saying that the content is in the structure of language, or that we are limited by language?
2026-03-23T05:23 id=2035950612685459678 →- | I was not going to poast this because it's honestly not very good, but I feel like I have to now that SamA is no longer with us.  https://t.co/bJDdYf8Rwj  I've only written the first half, lmk if I should do the second half (and don't say "yes" unless you've read the first half you animals).
2026-03-23T05:24 id=2035950771314008073 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @NoItsBeckoning, if you read nothing else, please just look at Poast 20. || CTX: I was not going to poast this because it's honestly not very good, but I feel like I have to now that SamA is no longer with us.  https://t.co/bJDdYf8Rwj  I've only written the first half, lmk if I should do the second half (and don't say "
2026-03-23T05:45 id=2035956078782107795 →spearofdog | @spearofdog W. doesn't disagree with Godel's two theorems, that's the point. It is in the philosophical application of the theorems to more than math that the theorems break apart, both when others and when Godel himself try to use the theorems for more than they're fit for. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am not familiar with Wittgenstein but if they agree the system is incomplete I do not see where they can disagree.   P is unprovable in Russels system (R). But we have a superset (S) of R in which everything true in R is 
2026-03-23T05:45 id=2035956196050645293 →superdupergood2 | @superdupergood2 I see this, yes, but it's a pale shadow of what was. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 scrolling on twitter is new serendipity now
2026-03-23T05:47 id=2035956505720283438 →207Nasher | @207Nasher Yeah, I'd agree, so model theory can't get you out of the incompleteness theorems unless it asserts a mapping between models that it doesn't assert, which is what W. is trying to show. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do not think so, it studies the models fitting the axioms, if there is some mapping between them it needs to be proven separately  I will note Model theory assumes that your axioms are formalized using formal logic
2026-03-23T05:49 id=2035957139068588393 →teodorio | @teodorio You get infinite regress otherwise. Rather awkward. || CTX: the road of the origin of life is long but it always skews creationist https://t.co/4kiLEO4HNh
2026-03-23T06:06 id=2035961475395993923 →207Nasher | @207Nasher Yeah that's not my point at all but we agree.  W's point in my reading is that notions of truth are defined by models; no one is arguing one can't use truth within a model, the point is one must do that and only that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I might be confusing your point, Gödel’s completeness therom tells you that anything which is true in all models is provable  I agree with W, just we don’t need a notion of truth removed from a specific model, I think it is
2026-03-23T06:10 id=2035962410927050797 →teodorio | @teodorio This absolutely will make me leave this website. || CTX: they actually added the dislike button, take it out the back and shoot it put it out of its misery at this point
2026-03-23T06:37 id=2035969100674183173 →_im_sigh_ | @_im_sigh_ It's very bad, you're the first I've seen to recognize this. || CTX: not a great test tbh https://t.co/DmnYtB7JbV
2026-03-23T06:38 id=2035969333512577036 →BranderYuri | @BranderYuri @Trinhnomics Everywhere, has been top 1-2 rice exporters for many years. || CTX: @Trinhnomics To where? Other SE countries I assume? I know they're a big shrimp exporter.
2026-03-23T06:55 id=2035973629180272932 →hgitran | @hgitran I'm an adult expat and while I can speak the language of the country I'm in, it's definitely not as easy as speaking my native language so I too have relied on the internet as a resource in the same way you have || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 as a kid in vietnam that could only speak english i found, serendipitously, community online via forums and chat rooms. i cant imagine what my childhood wouldve been without them, and those 2am conversations took place over
2026-03-23T07:43 id=2035985679688282187 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @Noahpinion Hai desu || CTX: @Noahpinion @47fucb4r8c69323 is this where the username comes from?!
2026-03-23T07:56 id=2035989091091882273 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @Noahpinion especially deep down inside || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Noahpinion See I knew you loved women deep down inside
2026-03-23T08:17 id=2035994417170133470 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning quite a bit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sometimes when it is really bright outside then my vision becomes too clear and suddenly i realize that i am actually walking down the street in a foreign country (when i am). is that anything?
2026-03-23T08:19 id=2035994761593852269 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ Well said || CTX: Applies to your moral convictions as well. Yes, one should distinguish between how things should be, and how they are. Yet, keeping in mind the “ought” as a grand vision to which you may bend the will of the world to is important. Things ma
2026-03-23T08:25 id=2035996247019131024 →hgitran | @hgitran @ksw_arman Atlas gang lol  Browser basic features are atrocious and it's buggy as hell, but that built in agent is something else || CTX: @ksw_arman i do actually, i have it do agent stuff and its neatly organized for me to check out async
2026-03-23T08:48 id=2036002011624444288 →annagplurabelle | @annagplurabelle my sweet summer child || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is good and keep going but what is "soggy biscuit"
2026-03-23T08:49 id=2036002356585005175 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @annagplurabelle the G in AGI stands for Grok https://t.co/dyFz5VhXwM || CTX: @annagplurabelle my sweet summer child
2026-03-23T08:52 id=2036003187900211326 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I read Marguerite Duras's The Lover over the weekend and felt exactly this about it.   Don't read it's trash || CTX: People become miserable when they turn contingent conditions into absolute stories
2026-03-23T08:54 id=2036003725400248354 →- | RT @Spanish_Techno: I feel like pomegranate is serious, but she’s too serious. She thinks she’s better than everyone. Like I see you, you u… || CTX: I feel like pomegranate is serious, but she’s too serious. She thinks she’s better than everyone. Like I see you, you uppity bitch. Tomatoes are genderfluid. https://t.co/jtuUnPpV4j
2026-03-23T08:55 id=2036003967227040028 →teodorio | @teodorio Welcome back Freddie N. || CTX: what if instead of God making us in His image we made God in our image hmm??
2026-03-23T08:59 id=2036004950380249288 →- | This went quite viral which makes me wonder if it'd have a chance winning that million dollar article contest.   But I won't make it an article.   Why won't I? Because fuck you that's why not. https://t.co/Fc8kx36LPI || CTX: I wrote an article about how the internet kills serendipity in 2014, so startling to see Terence Tao echo it 12 years later. I'll paste below in case anyone cares:  It took two minutes to walk to the local cafe from my mother’s house, so wh
2026-03-23T09:04 id=2036006229731066081 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Cast the first stone, bitch. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but you're thinking about it though
2026-03-23T09:27 id=2036011999285723207 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @NoItsBeckoning plz b honest || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NoItsBeckoning will report back when I've read it
2026-03-23T09:41 id=2036015467576561743 →- | Dying while you're working would suck so hard  unless you were like a mattress tester ig
2026-03-23T09:51 id=2036017861723140515 →- | I must've said Jehova because holy sjot am I stoned
2026-03-23T09:51 id=2036018025607151680 →izzyz | @izzyz Aha! I'm on to you, Izzy. You want me to retweet this, but I'm too clever for your cunning ruse! || CTX: thank god for "Turn off reposts"
2026-03-23T09:56 id=2036019184778551318 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak @MichaelButtonX lmao brutal af || CTX: @MichaelButtonX You definitely talk like a BA is your highest academic achievement.
2026-03-23T10:19 id=2036024925035868367 →lift_deadalus | @lift_deadalus Lived in NYC, L.A., and Miami, def feel this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It feels great to observe the filth of society without engaging with it. Part of the reason why big American cities feel so alive after spending months in a tiny midwest town full of decent folk. Maybe it’s because you can 
2026-03-23T10:22 id=2036025826148544724 →- | One of the wisest men I ever knew was a Vegas bartender with a 12 inch cock.   He was in incredible pain over the loss of his ex girlfriend who had been a Playboy Playmate (I saw her spread at his place, that's when he showed me pics of his piece), and he used habitual marijuana to dull the pain.   It didn't dull his wit, and his vitriol in the chats made him out to be a force of nature all respected and many feared: ANGRY P0PE.  Once I IM'd him and asked, "dude, you're really intelligent and razor sharp, do you ever worry the weed is killing your brain cells?" and he immediately replied, "nah man it just makes them play more nicely together."   I can now confirm from a clinical study of n=1 that his results replicate and he was indeed very correct.
2026-03-23T10:22 id=2036025862324453474 →juliolioliolio | @juliolioliolio That's it in the tweet. Click expand. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 article link pretty please?
2026-03-23T10:32 id=2036028187881455790 →hexavium | @hexavium Mmm I love the smell of serendipity in the morning || CTX: Spent hours talking to strangers on the train today. The closest thing to teleportation I’ve ever experienced.
2026-03-23T10:32 id=2036028290537046018 →- | RT @NoItsBeckoning: @izzyz @47fucb4r8c69323 i reposted it || CTX: @izzyz @47fucb4r8c69323 i reposted it
2026-03-23T10:45 id=2036031626476732849 →- | Four years ago my gf and I went to Europe, and on the train from Milan to Florence we sat in a cabin with two American women, both black, both talking quietly about academic stuff. On the table was a pile of feminist books including one whose title was something like "When Men Try to Explain" or something incendiary like that.   Anyway at one point I took my headphones, touched that book, and said, "by the way, ladies, if you need me to explain this book for you, just let me know."   They laughed, we talked the rest of the way there.  When we got to Florence they saw us, yelled out my name, I stopped by, we exchanged details and had a couple of beers together that night.   Was fucking awesome they were some cool chicks.
2026-03-23T10:50 id=2036032794623947247 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re a treasure dude. This took me somewhere.
2026-03-23T11:26 id=2036041988894851371 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver The perfect life, especially if it's the Sky album (during the day, Didar at night) || CTX: lying in bed on a lazy sunday, getting up to bake cookies, listening to faye wong, eating cookies in bed, tea cooling on the nightstand, knowing exactly what i want, writing as thinking, thinking about the coming week and how it's always th
2026-03-23T11:29 id=2036042611996442659 →conorsen | @conorsen Trump bought calls || CTX: What just happened?
2026-03-23T11:37 id=2036044766224466359 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @ctjlewis wtf this is legit North Korea level propaganda, but like the opposite lmfao || CTX: @ctjlewis I wonder how many years we have left of the BBC making this content ? I mean, who's the audience, and will they even be around in 2 decades ?
2026-03-23T11:41 id=2036045777697731063 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver Oh how I envy you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it was just a random compilation of her but now i'm gonna listen to those two albums during the respective times!
2026-03-23T11:42 id=2036045952637927724 →DurumMac | @DurumMac An eternal death || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or if you were an extra in some zombie or war flick and died during the filming of a death scene.   Poetic and kinda epic.
2026-03-23T11:51 id=2036048240920195383 →JustDeezGuy | @JustDeezGuy Yeah I see no disagreement at all, but Godel apparently did. Diff ontological commitments maybe || CTX: This doesn’t contradict Gödel at all, who was quite aware his sentence could be proved in a stronger logic than the one expressing it. It’s just that any such logic itself falls prey to a Gödel sentence. https://t.co/xdyYSqnZ2U
2026-03-23T11:58 id=2036050012812271648 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon This is Kierkegaard's point isn't it? At one point or another, one must take a leap of faith, even the scientist. || CTX: People are piss-poor metaphysicians because there’s no backprop: there is no concrete reward model for improving your metaphysics, aside from Pascal’s Wager type arguments (which are dubious). Your metaphysics is underdetermined by empirica
2026-03-23T12:08 id=2036052451300872376 →- | A plant in my garden has a calcium deficiency, so the AI powered gardener bot sends a message to the network, my kitchen bot makes me an omelet for breakfast, and the egg shells are summarily sent to the plant in need of calcium.   Don't come at me with AGI bullshit until the above is possible and costs less than 6 figures.
2026-03-23T17:29 id=2036133281272680864 →1889lw | @1889lw I have The Infinite and plan to read it soon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You might enjoy Adrian William Moore’s many works then!
2026-03-23T17:30 id=2036133456590324175 →flagofthepoor | @flagofthepoor Late 20s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How old were you then, 30?
2026-03-23T18:17 id=2036145383127294387 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy American society is individualist, which almost necessarily presupposes low trust
2026-03-23T18:31 id=2036148935958601899 →shaggysurvives | "The wish, that of the living whole    No life may fail beyond the grave,    Derives it not from what we have The likest God within the soul?  Are God and Nature then at strife,    That Nature lends such evil dreams?    So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life;  That I, considering everywhere    Her secret meaning in her deeds,    And finding that of fifty seeds She often brings but one to bear,  I falter where I firmly trod,    And falling with my weight of cares    Upon the great world’s altar-stairs That slope thro’ darkness up to God,  I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,    And gather dust and chaff, and call    To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.  “So careful of the type?” but no.    From scarped cliff and quarried stone    She cries, “A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go.  “Thou makest thine appeal to me:    I bring to life, I bring to death:    The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.” And he, shall he,  Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair,    Such splendid purpose in his eyes,    Who roll’d the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer,  Who trusted God was love indeed    And love Creation’s final law —    Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed —  Who loved, who suffer’d countless ills,    Who battled for the True, the Just,    Be blown about the desert dust, Or seal’d within the iron hills?  No more? A monster then, a dream,    A discord. Dragons of the prime,    That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match’d with him.  O life as futile, then, as frail!    O for thy voice to soothe and bless!    What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H. || CTX: on one hand i want to say keep an eye on your cats. on the other hand i want to coyotes to thrive. god why is life so painful
2026-03-23T18:33 id=2036149326855151627 →- | I am surely not the only Jew reading this, facepalming, and thinking, "Fuck, we're never beating the allegations" https://t.co/PXuZOySAbG || CTX: 🚨 BREAKING: OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky, who died today at 43, reportedly earmarked nearly $1B of his estate for nonprofits building Holocaust museums in the US and Europe. https://t.co/jzz56VYjUz
2026-03-23T18:33 id=2036149422116184392 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Not at all, America is ridiculously low trust
2026-03-23T18:39 id=2036150966668632535 →- | The world is slowly waking up to the fact that LLM architecture has stagnated and the supposed gains we're seeing is just post training.   Frontier labs need to tone down the hype for the sake of everyone, yes including themselves. They want that sweet upfront capital, but ignoring long term consequences of telling people you're building a machine god is bad business. || CTX: i've decided that the models are not actually any smarter than they were say, 2 years ago. they are just more precise at answering certain types of questions in certain areas. that might sound like they're smarter, but i really do not think
2026-03-23T18:42 id=2036151608019657096 →moultano | @moultano Does this make you more suspicious of your nostalgia? || CTX: So many times I see someone post a lament about how childhood as changed and I'm enthusiastically nodding along in agreement, until the last sentence when they blame it on immigrants.
2026-03-23T19:03 id=2036156798982562087 →EtherDais | It's such a complicated story because obviously Sam Altman is a snake, Dario is a baldfaced liar, and Askell is an idiot. But at the same time, Bender and Zitron are wrong too.  The middle path is always the correct one.  It's an amazing technology, it will be integrated into business processes and we will gain efficiencies, but omg it isn't either useless nor the biggest technology in human history.  It's somewhere in the middle and no one is trying to find out WHERE--at least not publicly (privately, yeah, and that's another thing driving me INSANE because the methodologies suck). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ed zitron ain't lyin
2026-03-23T19:10 id=2036158748058853664 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I'm actually really upset about this lol  I was raised to worship Israel, be terrified of another Holocaust, and be convinced everyone hated me for being Jewish. And, well, I got a lot of confirmation of that.  In 2nd grade I remember more than one classmate telling me I was going to hell for being Jewish.  In 6th grade a girl tried to take a pencil from me because it had a star of David on it, and when I fought back I got in trouble for hitting a girl.  In 7th grade I was beat up for being Jewish.  And throughout mocked/insulted relentlessly for my Judaism at school. Then at home I was told I needed to follow all of these rules because God would be angry otherwise, and I was never told why this invisible man was such an asshole.  It seemed to me through all this that if I could just stop being Jewish it'd solve a lot of problems. But both the Jews and the Nazis would not give me that freedom of movement.  I have no solutions, I don't know what's best for society or man or whatever, all I know is I want to be left alone and not associated with Porn Cancer Man || CTX: I am surely not the only Jew reading this, facepalming, and thinking, "Fuck, we're never beating the allegations" https://t.co/PXuZOySAbG
2026-03-23T19:11 id=2036158875192410403 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 https://t.co/16Lyt7ryqX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If taking money from dumb gooning goyim and using it for philanthropy is wrong, then I don’t want to be right
2026-03-23T19:15 id=2036159954269409449 →- | If Codex can oneshot this I will be astounded (also if anyone has tips on how I can improve my prompting lmk i suck at this I'm an old dumb man) https://t.co/pFo5s65o1E
2026-03-23T19:16 id=2036160088231342340 →EtherDais | @EtherDais I probably need to take another look at him--what I've seen of his raging seems to be overly dismissive. Probably just quibbling over details. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This sounds like zitron, tbh, he's not totally dismissive either but he rages hard enough against the bullshit that its hard to hear that under the racket   (I am agreeing with you, fwiw)
2026-03-23T19:17 id=2036160496240669115 →moultano | @moultano Still pushing the question back a level: why are any of the pictures considered pretty? || CTX: Space programs undergo natural selection, and only those which give voters prerry pictures survive. https://t.co/Qoda9IBU53
2026-03-23T19:58 id=2036170830011654461 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ Yes to both; we're using the same methods to tokenize, sure there are efficiency gains to lower compute (that's good, solves an engineering problem), but we aren't seeing intelligence gains outside of posttraining (that's bad, shows LLM architecture is fundamentally limited) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In what sense? Do you mean you haven't seen a paradigm shift or a pragmatic shift? I'm assuming you're saying you don't think transformers and sparse attention are the endgame
2026-03-23T20:00 id=2036171125949079800 →DVreenak | @DVreenak Like so many digital humanities projects from Web 1.0, interface is garbage || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Perseus is good, but I am guessing you want a more basic interface.
2026-03-23T20:08 id=2036173328139133070 →DoeSparkle | @DoeSparkle Absolutely completely how I feel, including the boomer parallel. || CTX: I think the anti-AI crowed are cringe. You can hate OIA, Anthropic, and Google; the tech is still real and you can fire up pytorch yourself and do mad scientist shit yourself. Its world changing and important. Yall sound like my boomer rela
2026-03-23T20:25 id=2036177549613735984 →jlaufr | @jlaufr No, wanted Codex to one-shot all of it, the scraping too (it gave me 4 texts lmao) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you already scraped the Loeb texts?
2026-03-23T20:28 id=2036178197310742725 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 I thought economists had settled on signaling theory as the dominant explanation for this? || CTX: Ever since Coursera courses became very good, only to have basically no impact on higher ed, I've come to the belief that the biggest role of formal ed is to act as a commitment device for students to actually consume the information. AI wi
2026-03-23T20:34 id=2036179710921810039 →jlaufr | @jlaufr What I ended up doing is just copy/pasting the Loeb Library list from https://t.co/kH150L2Z8F and telling Codex to get the texts however it can. Still running, this hopefully will run for hours and be done in the morning--I'll lyk if it works! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ahh, lol. Probably easier to use Perseus as a source. A bunch of the Loebs are pay to view. I share your frustration with the Loeb interface, it's pretty rough.
2026-03-23T20:41 id=2036181636363235441 →jlaufr | @jlaufr omg thank you! I knew of Perseus ofc but not this viewer. Odd it's hidden. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Please do! If you haven't used btw: https://t.co/Kp1PkElYzF Better than Loeb, but I don't like the Perseus-curated editions as much.
2026-03-23T20:47 id=2036182992415342623 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ @kalomaze They need better research on the limitations of LLM architecture, that's what I'm currently working on. || CTX: Seems there's fairly strong sentiment on the research side that current architecture, in the family sense, is very strong. See @kalomaze below. I think the issue is frontier adoption for wholly new arch under cost/infra/institutional inerti
2026-03-23T20:48 id=2036183313556386097 →imbobswaget | @imbobswaget Tragedy of the commons || CTX: hey…so what’s going on with american airports??????
2026-03-23T20:54 id=2036184918955532756 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Not a good one among the lot smh || CTX: Blame the Jews? No way.   I blame the Samaritans. I blame them for everything and anything. All 850 of them.   Gulf of Tonkin? Samaritans.   Invasion of Grenada? Samaritans.
2026-03-23T20:59 id=2036186095017402417 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly Our Twitter experience IS a game. || CTX: i want to design a game based on our twitter experience
2026-03-23T21:04 id=2036187463115526210 →- | Any Trekkies who miss old Trek, check out "Justice for Tuvix!", which I wrote in 2021:  https://t.co/HmfHYkRZlR  It was pretty well received and the first time I got fanmail, so you might like it. I think it was pretty decent. https://t.co/Y85CFnoncx || CTX: They created it *knowing* it would get no more than two seasons. Thus freed from the constraints of expectation, they made a theater kids show about theater kids pretending to be cadets who want to be theater kids. https://t.co/02UpIcrBqz
2026-03-23T21:10 id=2036188930589204578 →meekaale | @meekaale I've also noticed login sessions log out unexpectedly more often than they used to, whole internet turning into Outlook smh || CTX: I think being signed out of login sessions and having to retype your password manager's master password and shit are harmful from a security perspective if you include in the thread model that you're trying to do something but you can't bec
2026-03-23T21:12 id=2036189404885406092 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Square packing problem || CTX: Do you see it, too? https://t.co/HgdzzMVdP7
2026-03-23T21:16 id=2036190325136564375 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @0G_Uri I was taught in Saturday School that Jews have one of the lowest rates of alcoholism of all groups, so ofc this means I can drink as much as I want whenever I want. || CTX: @0G_Uri Ok based
2026-03-23T21:41 id=2036196767969190108 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Maybe, but doesn't everyone has a tribal identity? I'm asking sincerely, I legit don't understand this concept at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you have a tribal identity, jewish, or otherwise, those without a tribal identity will cope and seethe specifically because this identity sets you apart the only real way to extract value from this situation is to levera
2026-03-23T21:42 id=2036196995443093698 →BobertBedford | @BobertBedford @DefenderOfBasic @EtherDais Agree on everything but the last part, stocks seem fairly valued to me, maybe a little cheap (def cheap in sectors like SaaS) || CTX: Really good take. Lots of interesting stuff in the tech, and it's productivity enhancing. Kill 50% of the workforce? No fucking chance. Add a couple of points productivity across the entire workforce - I can buy it.  Problem is where the na
2026-03-23T21:44 id=2036197396468883542 →BobertBedford | @BobertBedford @DefenderOfBasic @EtherDais Yeah some of that is priced to perfection for sure || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic @EtherDais Yeah, sorry was meaning picks and shovels (memory and chips)
2026-03-23T22:00 id=2036201426880450658 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 I'm surprised it's contentious, seems so blatantly obvious to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 The signaling theory is contested by a lot of people. Sometimes when I bring it up, I’m even called a neoliberal shill (or words to that effect) who wants to destroy education.
2026-03-24T00:23 id=2036237529813492145 →kalomaze | @kalomaze @acalanatha__ Okay, but where's the fallacy? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @acalanatha__ there's a lot of signal in static observations... but ssl prediction signal in isolation has a pretty clear ceiling. learning from experience as as an agent doing real stuff does not have a clear ceiling depen
2026-03-24T00:30 id=2036239300472484042 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ @kalomaze I don't disagree with that at all though, that's not my point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kalomaze I think he’s saying you’re conflating the limits of the current training regime with that of the architecture class. Once the systems are embedded in agentic loops and learn on real world exp there is a lot of run
2026-03-24T00:38 id=2036241186231583136 →Ken67547214 | It's a particular kind of attitude towards communication. It's seeing it as a form of play according to Calvinball rules: the point is to keep playing and make up rules as you go along and make the experience more enjoyable.   I think the best posters are Taoists, Buddhists, or people who hold some kind of process philosophy where the telos or the aesthetic is tied to use over time as opposed to being tied to a fixed artefact.  The latter of these two sensibilities makes great sculptors, the former poasters.   Another way to think about it: poasting is like broadcast radio. || CTX: Wtf is a "poster" exactly? Do you even know what I am referring to?  I don't, really. There are probably better words for it. It's kind of like a smell. Some sort of voice that I can hear echoing on the tl. It's the sense that a real person
2026-03-24T00:48 id=2036243807738696157 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Absolutely beautiful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This reminds me of this story https://t.co/lr44rbkNdq
2026-03-24T00:57 id=2036245953452323225 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj @astralmatrix that was a retarded benchmark tbh || CTX: another “benchmark” destroyed by prompt engineering https://t.co/Z33vA1gyo1 https://t.co/bNiNKfqkOS
2026-03-24T01:06 id=2036248196960362779 →acalanatha__ | no, I'm not really saying anything about where the ceiling is, more what the ceiling is. that ceiling is jagged, there are certain kinds of textual competence that can be represented and survive tokenization and there are some that cannot. we need a map to figure out what can and cannot, no one is working on this.   the issue here is that I'm not flattening all kinds of language competence into a single entropy scalar. this needs qualitative adjustment, it's not really an information theoretic issue at all. || CTX: Are you saying that if frontier is locked into arch where the practical learning pipeline is dominated by cross entropy then the effective ceiling we observe will show up as an "architecture ceiling" even if the deeper issue is objective an
2026-03-24T01:17 id=2036250902223528047 →e37wd | I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of pornographers are jewish, or at least Jews are over represented. same reason they're overrepresented in hollywood, historically the entertainment business both for erotic and non-erotic entertainment was considered disgraceful and sinful amongst christians, so Jews stepped in to fill the niche. this is also why Jews are over represented in banking. the tragedy is then it gets used against us just for finding a way to make a living, and of course if Christianity didn't have these restrictions then all your bankers and Studio executives would be Italian.
2026-03-24T01:30 id=2036254197344248319 →e37wd | @e37wd that is absolutely not true, not even a little. my Jewish family was anti nepotistic to a fault, and that held me back quite a bit. I've seen plenty of Christians be nepotistic, the term comes from a Catholic culture. you're just an anti-Semitic moron to be honest
2026-03-24T01:39 id=2036256480933060897 →e37wd | @e37wd you're confusing many things at once, please just unfollow me and don't engage
2026-03-24T01:39 id=2036256531738665440 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @e37wd exactly what has happened, and when you realize Jews are white too, suddenly everything makes sense || CTX: @e37wd @47fucb4r8c69323 I figured it was one group of whites keeping another group of whites poor and demoralized
2026-03-24T01:40 id=2036256728795455952 →e37wd | @e37wd this isn't lashing out, this is contempt. you are a small mind and not worth my time.
2026-03-24T01:41 id=2036257110451953864 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @e37wd I am definitely more white than a lot of italians, spaniards, and even some French people I've met. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @e37wd can and often pass as white, I have some white privilege myself and I use the hell out of it to bamboozle them
2026-03-24T01:54 id=2036260427055898908 →ipnon_ | @ipnon_ Yeah, it's this urge to put people in boxes according to accidents of birth that sadly most humans are too dumb to stop doing, as we've seen elsewhere in this very thread with another poster. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel the same way as a white boy it doesn't matter what I believe any more for most people they already made up their mind about be.
2026-03-24T02:00 id=2036261946098589928 →shoe0nhead | @shoe0nhead @SZade15 it's honestly a testament to Jews if you've never here called antisemitic || CTX: @SZade15 i’ve been called racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic etc etc for 15 years now so whats one more buzzword add to the list? who cares
2026-03-24T02:08 id=2036263886354325740 →shaggysurvives | @shaggysurvives After working together for 15 years || CTX: so at what point do you guys usually tell your coworkers you love them
2026-03-24T02:10 id=2036264266546979013 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu For about a year now I've been saying one of the greatest tragedies in math is Tao didn't go into metamathematics.   I get he's not interested and it's arguably a different skillset, but what else could be more appropriate for a prodigy?   Maybe this is my own ignorance in math. || CTX: They should just pivot to metamathematics already https://t.co/VJZCNMDK2E
2026-03-24T02:10 id=2036264444939084221 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Oh how awesome Uber was in the mid 2010s. || CTX: We are in the area of free, VC moron subsidized tokens. Soak it in, it only gets more expensive.
2026-03-24T02:12 id=2036264851337781263 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic I can confirm this is the primary constraint I've observed working in finance, but maybe it's because this is the constraint I'm paid to try to change. || CTX: starting to think that literally the bottleneck all companies on earth have is so stupid, it's JUST (1) communicating the reasoning of the CEOs decision to all stakeholders (2) that's it
2026-03-24T02:14 id=2036265416557994358 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp https://t.co/8C4SRHr4Nf  I swear kids just aren't being exposed to the classics anymore smdh || CTX: “Corporate farming methods” are why you don’t have to do backbreaking work as a farmer anymore and why starvation is the exception rather than the rule around the world today https://t.co/ifLn2obMAA https://t.co/9b744a2616
2026-03-24T02:15 id=2036265530458624239 →shaggysurvives | @shaggysurvives Start the clock. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i work at an ai startup :/
2026-03-24T02:51 id=2036274729393573967 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 @nickchk Yeah one look at that abstract and I immediately know he's completely right. This seems obvious to me. Thanks, new person to follow! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 @nickchk had a great thread on how it’s impossible to disentangle signalling and human capital contributions in practice which I am too lazy to find, but he has the working paper o
2026-03-24T04:13 id=2036295308121124957 →- | As a student of history, I naturally assumed Deutsche Bahn would be efficient, orderly, and immaculate. As someone who flunked physics courses, I naturally overlooked the logic of entropy and how it lays waste the best plans of God and men.  Thus I was not prepared when I took the German train in 2024 from Frankfurt to Utrecht, which required transfering to take a train to Amsterdam about 5 hours after we first departed Frankfurt. A simple journey was not so simple: we got trapped in the train station in Dusseldorf, a city no tourist ever wants to visit let alone be stuck in.  It was rainy that day, and I suppose the rain was as disastrous for German train tracks as leaves are to British train tracks, because as we journeyed northwards I saw both on my phone and on the timetables in the train's video screens that delays were more common, cancellations were starting, and there was general chaos outside of the quiet first class car where I sat, increasingly stewing with anxiety and fear.  This of course was not the first time a Jew was uncomfortable on a German train.  My girlfriend was oblivious and I kept her that way, as there was nothing to be done except anticipate the hell that eventually did come.  When we got to the station, we were told the train we needed to transfer to would not be arriving at the platform initially announced, and the German police came to instruct everyone to get off the station. One yelled at me to use the stairs, I yelled back, "I'm disabled and it's a human rights violation to force me to use the stairs." This lie leveraged Europe's stated paranoia about human rights to undercut its in-practice contempt for the individual, and it worked well: I was allowed to walk a further 30 meters with my girlfriend to take the escalator.  Downstairs the chaos manifested in a mass of bodies in the cold underground passageway of the station, where now maybe three hundred people were huddled together staring at a small screen waiting for something like "Amsterdam - Gehen Sie zu die Platform 69ishplieg und alles wird gut mein kinder" or whatever the fuck to appear.  I asked a police officer if he knew what was going on, "sorry I don't speak English" was the reply. "So then you won't be offended if I call you a fucking cunt and a worthless piece of shit" I said, staring him in the eyes, and of course he couldn't call me out on it and arrest me for German Law #234908329 against bad words, so I smirked and walked by. Really fed up at this point.  Perhaps thirty minutes after our train was supposed to arrive, I really had enough. I went to the customer service office, where there was a queue of about 30 people impatiently standing and waiting, all clearly annoyed with that "what can you do?" look on their face.  I had an answer, and so I did it.  "EXCUSE ME!" I yelled to everyone in the office, and the people in the queue turned to stare at me, the woman behind the counter suddenly looked at me in shock. "If you are waiting for the train to Amsterdam, please raise  your hands." Silence, no response, so after a couple beats, I said: "don't be shy, anyone?" Half the hands went up, slowly.  I turned to the woman at the counter: "You have a LOT of people waiting for the same train. Can you just tell all of us NOW what the platform for our train will be?"  "Excuse me, sir--" she began.  Bitch I'm from New York, fucking don't try. "IT IS A SIMPLE QUESTION. WHAT IS OUR PLATFORM."  "I cannot say--"  "DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT OUR PLATFORM IS?"  "I do not."  That's when I realized this was absolutely fubar. I went back outside the room, and I admit I was frustrated that my girlfriend did not see my brazenness, perhaps stupidly assuming in my vanity that she'd see it as a fearless provider providing rather than the crazy cringeworthy shameless asshole I probably actually looked like.  I shrugged, went back to the mass of people staring at the screen, then as I ordered an Uber I said loudly, "Could be worse I guess--this isn't as bad as waiting for a German train 80 years ago would've been" because, really at this point, fuck the Germans.  Finally I got matched for an Uber Black from Dusseldorf to Utrecht, and almost at the same time some young backpacker turned and asked me something about the train. I said, "idk anymore, I just booked an Uber and I'm getting out of here." I turned to the gf, said "Lao bai [let's go in Thai]" and we went outside to get our chariot.  I sat in the passenger seat so my girlfriend could stretch out and rest, and the driver was from Syria. We talked almost the entire time about life in Europe, being an immigrant, religion, and God. I think the trip was like 400euros and I gave him a 50 euro tip.  Fuck you fucking Krauts and your joke of a railroad we didn't do enough to Dresden you motherfucking assholes.
2026-03-24T04:23 id=2036297809876623689 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu This is an underrated point!  Knowing what exactly is the trendy focus now is really, really important downstream when it comes to getting into a PhD program, getting funding, getting a job, etc etc. || CTX: it is also a proxy for status/talent/ability/knowledge/social ranking/lore/ideas in the air/what areas are hot** what areas are not worked... there are indexicality information you don't get just reading stuff by yourself(but also a good wa
2026-03-24T04:54 id=2036305591518503078 →SableHummer | @SableHummer @retardbot9000 trust me, it was not fun at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 I think I would kill to be able to live in the ZIRP era and work as a freelance writer doing listicles from a Brooklyn apartment
2026-03-24T05:19 id=2036311921998340266 →SableHummer | @SableHummer @AlecStapp distress me starteve space nine over look the silly prosthetics and be patient || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlecStapp As a child my only exposure to Sci-Fi was unironically Spike TV's reruns of the prequels.  I should really get into Trek
2026-03-24T06:20 id=2036327381720539454 →MarkFaulknerUK | I agree with you on everything but the timing. I think we should enshrine a 3-4 year period of transition from adolescence to adulthood in which kids can enjoy themselves and experiment while also interacting with their peers, and the university degree is a perfect place for that.  We just have to stop pretending degrees make people smarter or somehow better people, the implicit assumption now. That needs to stop, it'd cure many ills (snobbery is what got us Trump). || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 Even with that level of reform there will usually be far more effective and value for money ways to upskill than a degree.  At some point smart entrepreneurs are going to find a wa
2026-03-24T06:26 id=2036328663764099212 →MarkFaulknerUK | @MarkFaulknerUK @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 Fire the administrators, problem solved. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 I like your transition period a lot but university is an absolutely horrible value for money way to achieve it for most people.  As soon as you start listing the fun, life experien
2026-03-24T06:30 id=2036329760167698832 →MarkFaulknerUK | @MarkFaulknerUK @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 oh yeah and the outdatedness manifests in so many obvious ways, like the whole politicization of the humanities. This is a sign of some bored, useless people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 😂 I'm with you.  I just think it's a completely outdated system except in certain cases (doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc) - and even then it needs major reform.  I think there ar
2026-03-24T06:58 id=2036336747546816666 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/u7HbJwPWk3 || CTX: I'm sorry, that philosophy quiz was trash, so I made my own, and since this website is idiotic I'm putting the link in the tweet replying to this tweet gfy moosk you ketamine addicted moron
2026-03-24T06:58 id=2036336745516769627 →- | I'm sorry, that philosophy quiz was trash, so I made my own, and since this website is idiotic I'm putting the link in the tweet replying to this tweet gfy moosk you ketamine addicted moron
2026-03-24T06:59 id=2036337050434371837 →MarkFaulknerUK | @MarkFaulknerUK @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 I just think one's 20s inevitably suck, it's a hard period in life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago @alexolegimas @JesusFerna7026 With that in mind, I would like us as a society (with some limited government involvement) to get better at that phase, not just the university (or university equivalent phase). We
2026-03-24T07:05 id=2036338551374446994 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Before anyone asks (not that they need to) https://t.co/4PXnyHwU7D || CTX: I'm sorry, that philosophy quiz was trash, so I made my own, and since this website is idiotic I'm putting the link in the tweet replying to this tweet gfy moosk you ketamine addicted moron
2026-03-24T07:06 id=2036338890324451655 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Still gots a ways to go my friend. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/dtnt2QCXbP
2026-03-24T07:58 id=2036351893828730888 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw https://t.co/ffJhAz4jgv || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 beautiful test https://t.co/yJ0dv8Rgi6
2026-03-24T07:58 id=2036352007116931103 →grindafrathjis | @grindafrathjis tsk tsk || CTX: This feels about right https://t.co/GkW57l488Y https://t.co/6aKKWWNtCG
2026-03-24T07:58 id=2036352058962702804 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @nazo_btw It means you should go read On Certainty || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't even know what any of this means https://t.co/Wonx13oN88
2026-03-24T07:59 id=2036352126767800580 →ElmWho | @ElmWho You'll have to read some Wittgenstein THEN take it again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'll have to take it again https://t.co/H3cklfV1VX
2026-03-24T08:41 id=2036362725677469882 →Chapette_ | @Chapette_ I most certainly am not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Really liking my result. https://t.co/XgmlbYSMSa
2026-03-24T08:52 id=2036365472153870760 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 One man's bot problem is another man's avant garde art || CTX: Ok. Maybe Nikita was right about the bot problem https://t.co/2XgbDudVDk
2026-03-24T08:52 id=2036365636969046376 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @Bonecondor @tbpn The good old days || CTX: @Bonecondor @tbpn Doctors used to prescribe everybody Xanax and Oxycontin and SSRIs too tho
2026-03-24T08:57 id=2036366868735529441 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago https://t.co/u2iIHSji30 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/GUgxfO8kyY
2026-03-24T09:11 id=2036370286673797136 →amirism_ | @amirism_ https://t.co/zmAAK7AFN5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 👍 https://t.co/mbKeGr87ra
2026-03-24T09:20 id=2036372502071615730 →helscom | @helscom Man, I hope they're doing okay. || CTX: damn, this is like, 1km from my parents place that looks about exactly like this https://t.co/LeVoAgLrnV
2026-03-24T09:20 id=2036372640743694492 →Doc_Licon | @Doc_Licon Tell us about when it's awesome. || CTX: Sometimes. Sometimes it's awesome. https://t.co/DhnbwFaEaZ
2026-03-24T09:31 id=2036375263861416237 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Doc_Licon So you get the payoff around 35 or so? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Doc_Licon Tenure in a department with cash to spare.
2026-03-24T09:31 id=2036375457608913121 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra Down with the pigs AND the boars! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I gotta hand it to him, Nikita's been boosting a lot of high quality lowbie content lately
2026-03-24T09:54 id=2036381181860782493 →- | What an absolute unmistakable genius.  GENIUS https://t.co/mkFE7u1Uf4
2026-03-24T11:03 id=2036398565560557712 →7N8Nine | @7N8Nine 50% right, cutting it a bit close there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There was maybe 1 or 2 questions that I feel didn’t have the perfect answer for me https://t.co/uLpcamphRP
2026-03-24T11:05 id=2036399026149662799 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Johnny2Fingersz So wrong doesn't mean not true, it means empirically inadequate?  Newtonian physics is not an accurate representation of reality, it should be noted. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Wrong = not an accurate representation of reality. (Eg geocentric model, aether, planetary model of the atom, Lamarckianism, young earth, static universe etc)
2026-03-24T11:06 id=2036399229250445728 →ManticoreCap | @ManticoreCap Then you take the trains in Italy or Switzerland and gotta wonder wtf happened to Germany. It's scandalous, especially since my American tax dollars went to rebuilding that place. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Actually embarrassing experience. Can't believe they don't have chargers on them too
2026-03-24T11:07 id=2036399391456764399 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra That's a combination I honestly was expecting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Man, my nazi uncle used to love going to holocaust museums  That guy loved trains and nazis.. RIP
2026-03-24T11:07 id=2036399594377191685 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Yeah, i.e. all of science! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Empirically accurate, metaphysically false.
2026-03-24T11:08 id=2036399702514798822 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 https://t.co/ohIFugvzQU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 who is he?
2026-03-24T11:15 id=2036401561354866919 →- | Did you guys hear Elon Musk's son ordered a glass of milk isn't that so kewl
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407599898538361 →- | I think I've figured out why not all racists are assholes and some people stumble into racism due to intellectual shortcomings rather than a pathological antipathy to the "other".
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407602381467896 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The thing that self-identifying "race realists" hang their hat on is the infamous IQ map and the supposed differences in IQ between countries which, they say, explains different outcomes in different regions.  The left-wing response to this is to look at historical contingencies and say, no, those outcomes and the difference in IQ scores, if they concede there are any, is the result of historical oppression which put one country or region behind.  Both seem wrong to me. || CTX: I think I've figured out why not all racists are assholes and some people stumble into racism due to intellectual shortcomings rather than a pathological antipathy to the "other".
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407607737590178 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This obviously limited philosphy, and you could say they were bewitched by a picture that ultimately was not true, but it was so bewitching that they could not see past it towards better methods to yield better outcomes.  Imagine the engineer dedicated to building a house with no rebar because he thinks rebar is evil, then he is confused why his structures are less sturdy and long-lasting than his competitors' work.  Such was it with religion in the west for so long, hence the atheist's (historically contingent, confused, not at all rigorous) critiques of theistic and deistic metaphysical systems. || CTX: Consider the really bad medieval philosophy that occasionally has moments of brilliance--one cannot help but see that these philosophers were striving for something honest, rigorous, and subject to falsification/verification criteria, but u
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407605149704643 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Consider the really bad medieval philosophy that occasionally has moments of brilliance--one cannot help but see that these philosophers were striving for something honest, rigorous, and subject to falsification/verification criteria, but ultimately there was a limit point: Christianity.  They couldn't go further than the religious doctrine of the time, that set a taboo on what could be said aloud. || CTX: The thing that self-identifying "race realists" hang their hat on is the infamous IQ map and the supposed differences in IQ between countries which, they say, explains different outcomes in different regions.  The left-wing response to this
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407610124149143 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This also happens today! Identity politics very much bewitched America, and I'll leave it up to you whether the left or the right was bewitched by an obsession with race, sex, and other minor characteristics and the other just being morally just.  (As an aside: a plague on both your houses) || CTX: This obviously limited philosphy, and you could say they were bewitched by a picture that ultimately was not true, but it was so bewitching that they could not see past it towards better methods to yield better outcomes.  Imagine the engine
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407615778070850 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It stands to reason that the Bacon/Descartes/Locke/Humean gesture towards doubt from divinely ordained certainty was the shortcut that got the west out of the basket of bewitching pictures limiting inquiry into the efficient frontier.  It is an accident of history, a product of the history of ideas, and the luck of a western philosophical tradition that happened upon this notion after trying all other options.  Of course this does not answer the question of WHY this happened to show up in the west and nowhere else. But I don't find that question particularly interesting, at least not for this question of why some coutnries and regions are more advanced than others. || CTX: So, can we not believe that it also happens in other cultures? Here in Thailand, progress is restricted by the bewitchment of ideas that put a hard limit on progress: monarchy, "Thainess", filial piety, Buddhist reverence. These restrict Th
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407613110333910 →47fucb4r8c69323 | So, can we not believe that it also happens in other cultures? Here in Thailand, progress is restricted by the bewitchment of ideas that put a hard limit on progress: monarchy, "Thainess", filial piety, Buddhist reverence. These restrict Thailand and keep it stuck and economically stagnant.  Their identity culture is different in form but not entirely different in function. || CTX: This also happens today! Identity politics very much bewitched America, and I'll leave it up to you whether the left or the right was bewitched by an obsession with race, sex, and other minor characteristics and the other just being morally
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407618852495433 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The advancement, in any case, comes from a system whereby rigorous critique and defense of ideas asserts provability, verification, replication, falsification, deconstruction and reconstruction (among other methods of analysis).  It has absolutely nothing to do with IQ, genetics, or intelligence--plenty of idiots in Isaac Newton's England, just as in Roger Penrose's England. || CTX: It stands to reason that the Bacon/Descartes/Locke/Humean gesture towards doubt from divinely ordained certainty was the shortcut that got the west out of the basket of bewitching pictures limiting inquiry into the efficient frontier.  It i
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407621276807296 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The slide to IQ is most likely due to the search for foundational causes, which often leads people to think in terms of biology and in terms of sheer computation. We still live in the computation age and, as I've pointed out elsewhere (https://t.co/ytqp60TKLc), this is aggressively encouraged by schools, parents, billionaires, the mass media, everything. It inures the individual to conformity to social demands and needs against the individual's best interests, of course it's going to be the air we breathe in a society. || CTX: I just don't think metaphors and rotating shapes really say much about how one can apply intelligence to problems in the real world beyond the highly constrained deductive puzzle.  What I mean is, if you want to be an automaton that is face
2026-03-24T11:39 id=2036407624619422179 →47fucb4r8c69323 | So to the question of why some regions are more advanced than others, the answer is really quite simple: some parts of the world are bewitched by false ideas/idols, and some systems encourage that bewitchment more than others.  This, by the way, is Europe is growing increasingly poorer relative to America. They're far more bewitched.  "Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: The slide to IQ is most likely due to the search for foundational causes, which often leads people to think in terms of biology and in terms of sheer computation. We still live in the computation age and, as I've pointed out elsewhere (http
2026-03-24T11:43 id=2036408468853366857 →- | I'm so tired y'all https://t.co/UqrX5nuieC
2026-03-24T11:52 id=2036410792929808617 →- | Okay added a "share on Twitter" button take my test i'm a whore whoring myself out there on the main feed like some kinda whore https://t.co/ku2ac3OTgm || CTX: https://t.co/u7HbJwPWk3
2026-03-24T11:52 id=2036410943496925441 →ayaadthefriend | @ayaadthefriend Well done my Wittgensteinian-ish friend.  Sorry just added a "share on Twitter" button like right when you sent this || CTX: https://t.co/ZkJFDpGSor https://t.co/Oa3AMWM5Qn
2026-03-24T11:53 id=2036411157733597423 →andrewerlanger | @andrewerlanger Anything over 50% is passing. Being a Wittgensteinian is hard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I almost passed https://t.co/M85fv7hN38
2026-03-24T12:11 id=2036415546019950867 →ayaadthefriend | @ayaadthefriend ... "were puzzles" or "were confusions of language" is how the tweet continues? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323  Uuum. Coincidence??? I think NOT. https://t.co/DHmAgcQUZh
2026-03-24T12:12 id=2036415859993055317 →andrewerlanger | @andrewerlanger Mostly right, but crucially wrong: https://t.co/DXfRnz9sJ6 || CTX: I post a lot about Wittgenstein so one could easily get the impression I agree with the man on everything. Truth is there a lot of things he got wrong. Most important is the whole "if a lion could speak we couldn't understand him." This is 
2026-03-24T12:12 id=2036415897225797641 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @lu_sichu I hope Tao gets LLM psychosis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu It doesn't mean that he won't come to it. Don't forget Grothendieck started out as a functional analysis guy.
2026-03-24T12:13 id=2036416178978226526 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon I remember in the 2000s it was considered the best in Europe, which is why I was SO confused || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I remember a time when Deutsche Bahn was still reliable.
2026-03-24T12:18 id=2036417318964830515 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @lu_sichu yeah me too, kinda waiting for the DSM-6 for that one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu I never quite managed to figure out what LLM psychosis is supposed to be, and how it's different from someone with a latent psychosis just using LLMs.
2026-03-24T12:18 id=2036417432475279578 →ayaadthefriend | @ayaadthefriend the they should've said puzzles, not problems. Wittgenstein gonna stab them with his poker. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Were misunderstandings (confusions) of language.
2026-03-24T12:26 id=2036419282620620845 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I didn't even bother watching it. Franchise ded || CTX: Interesting take. Mostly agree. https://t.co/zrkN3YMyJ8
2026-03-24T12:43 id=2036423667308286277 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @lu_sichu Lot of tech and finance jobs require a PhD.   But the PhD to tenured professor pipeline is broken to your point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu But the whole house of cards collapses if there is no downstream - no funding, no jobs. Then there is really no point in getting a PhD, aside from personal vanity.
2026-03-24T12:44 id=2036423932522414261 →mndrot | @mndrot oh? I'll look that up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 pretty sure they've stopped the throttling of links.
2026-03-24T12:46 id=2036424509566361663 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @lu_sichu I think it's a signal of very deep domain expertise (how accurate that signal is is a different matter). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu Many of these jobs require it, but is it really necessary? Or just opportunistic bar-raising because of elite overproduction?
2026-03-24T12:53 id=2036426076742885718 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @lu_sichu Wittgenstein lived next to him in Cambridge || CTX: Not very accurate in many cases.   "I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It forces people to waste years and years of their lives sort of pretending to do research for which they’re not at all well-suited. In the end, they have this 
2026-03-24T12:55 id=2036426782916870480 →- | I wouldn't be surprised if they bail out private credit
2026-03-24T12:58 id=2036427450218057970 →tenobrus | @tenobrus @DeivonDrago The Eric Weinstein section of the Elephant Graveyard "Doomsday Cult" video is so incredible to watch || CTX: it is 2013, and Eric Weinstein is lecturing about psychotic incoherent bullshit at Oxford  it is 2017, and Eric Weinstein is talking about psychotic incoherent bullshit on Joe Rogan  it is 2021, and Eric Weinstein is self-publishing psychot
2026-03-24T13:23 id=2036433772284199123 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @tenobrus it's a masterpiece || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus 😱I can’t actually watch it. Would drive me crazy.   Maybe I need to put on an anthropologist hat and pretend I’m investigating some strange cultural phenomenon.
2026-03-24T13:41 id=2036438210465898968 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry it didn't solve anything, just ridiculous to launder MTM volatility like that || CTX: The world is ending because of private credit firms are enforcing their quarterly limits instead of mass selling unitranche debt below par.   I think one of the takeaways out of this "credit cycle" is a decent amount of folks shouldn't hold
2026-03-24T13:50 id=2036440532021551455 →- | Suck My Fucking Gonads https://t.co/lseSXemWmK || CTX: SMFG is preparing a potential takeover bid of Jefferies Financial Group  $JEF is down -34% YTD https://t.co/cZTcYAj1wC
2026-03-24T13:51 id=2036440822649069914 →innoc_bystander | @innoc_bystander What a record, RIP! || CTX: 12.8% CAGR over 33 years.  One of the best REIT capital allocators of all time.  RIP. https://t.co/TD9ZQ9d5gB
2026-03-24T13:58 id=2036442473258688637 →- | The Financial Times is publishing rage bait lmfao Silly Business Theory $SBT https://t.co/3iDbf8VDvD || CTX: If there is a status attached to height – and there is – then 5ft 11in doesn’t quite measure up. Six foot is manly, commanding. Five-11 is acceptable, unremarkable. But a near-miss. It’s the upper end of almost, the FT's Alex Bilmes writes.
2026-03-24T14:14 id=2036446456375349707 →- | Awareness of the self is, necessarily, the only unique thing about an individual that we can assert is truly unique.   Thus what makes you you is not your body or your mind even, but this: the process of observing the self.   Observing the self IS the self. The essential self, or soul.  This is why introspection is enlightenment.  Now you see why @pmarca does not want you to be introspective.   Now get back to work!
2026-03-24T14:22 id=2036448653074899443 →leebriskcyrano | @leebriskcyrano https://t.co/22k6BVTkbX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/wes5Lz9nb9
2026-03-24T14:23 id=2036448807542800662 →hausjackbuilt | @hausjackbuilt The self is unlike all other selves in a relativistic universe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Unique in what sense?
2026-03-24T14:29 id=2036450219886518294 →izzyz | @izzyz https://t.co/0pFvcwJa52 || CTX: damn this was hard af https://t.co/mJWqyXfs3o https://t.co/nEnD0rCVoa
2026-03-24T14:33 id=2036451217715634595 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @Truthful_ast she's got exquisite taste || CTX: @Truthful_ast I'm on vacation in Finland with the family right now, my half Japanese daughter was pissed when she found out that vending machines, aipuri arcade games, cinnamaroll dolls, and udon are really hard to find outside of Japan
2026-03-24T18:59 id=2036518313199808577 →Kulambq | @Kulambq Sad to say he did say it. W. rambles about Mahler being insincere and his music "unessential" in his diaries.   imo Mahler sounds pretty good.  W. had odd taste, he was autistic. || CTX: Allegedly said by Wittgenstein. Mahler and Bruckner both reach depths of beauty beyond imagination. I find pronouncements like this silly and empty. https://t.co/zmKGh21Tmf
2026-03-24T19:03 id=2036519386274763101 →rSanti97 | @rSanti97 The Ancients from History Hit is kinda made for dumdums but it's so well produced and the host so good at interviewing that it's still worth a listen.   New Books in Ancient History sometimes has incredible episodes but sometimes the guest is ponderous. || CTX: Best podcasts/audiobooks on the history of Rome or Florence?
2026-03-24T19:19 id=2036523318359286010 →philosopher70 | @philosopher70 yeah I tried to make a better one: https://t.co/7uDJlw9Npf || CTX: Well that's kind of a goofy quiz they put together here. Decent question set. Really silly ways to articulate results. You're on a spectrum from "Straussian" to (whatever they think is) "Hegelian"? "Aristotelian" or "Existentialist"? Ok sta
2026-03-24T19:25 id=2036524844490301668 →- | Tom Green has a fascinating mind. He is constantly concerned with the relationship between the frame and what's inside and outside the frame.   Hence his Monica Lewinsky special: he saw a woman framed as X, unfairly, and wanted to change the frame to something more fair.  He's a rare creative talent who produced art ahead of his time and reconfigured the media landscape just by doing what he found most interesting. Some people try to fit him into a crude "superstar has been" narrative where the actual story is much more interesting: he's a guy who has played with different framing devices to reconfigure the world more on his terms.  This is a form of genius. || CTX: @uniquemoviemom The fact that the force is also a fictional construct does of course make this possible
2026-03-24T19:27 id=2036525255490171205 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @Tim_Denning Got me a career of working very little hours for a lot of pay remotely.   Being weird kicks ass. || CTX: @Tim_Denning It retired me at 27
2026-03-24T19:34 id=2036527199214510209 →JeremyNguyenPhD | Coase's theory of the firm argues that a combination of competencies within a firm produces higher value than is possible for any given worker outside of the firm as an individual.   This value is traditionally seen as a monetary scalar, but over time as profit margins get higher and the services economy gets more abstract, there's reason to presume capital holders will use the firm to increase their store of other kinds of values: hence we should see more and larger mission led firms but also more use of firms by very rich people to have fun (regardless of whether others see this as fun).  So as a result you get both Anthropic and Elon Musk. Expect more of this.   Monetary profit as utility and "fun", joy, passion, etc as utility will increasingly be entangled and primary strategic targets in business over time.   A model of microeconomics needs to take seriously that business is no longer serious. Hence Silly Business Theory #SBT. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's Silly Business Theory?
2026-03-24T19:59 id=2036533317009576424 →amaldorai | @amaldorai @DanFriedman81 criminally underappreciated phenomenon. || CTX: @DanFriedman81 The $36K income UWS artist is part of the New York City consumption good that the $500K and $5M income families are paying for
2026-03-24T20:13 id=2036536902590013705 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Yeah that's why I hate Trump: guy is way too woke || CTX: Whitepill: the destruction of Middle Eastern fossil fuel infrastructure due to the Iran war could accelerate the global shift towards green energy, inshallah
2026-03-24T20:44 id=2036544702183514189 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea They got enough data from the app. || CTX: they are (finally) taking capital discipline, focus, and a drive to profitability seriously https://t.co/xL8d0CxVyn
2026-03-24T20:45 id=2036544932845113358 →stinkgen | @stinkgen @justcoolhotdog Now I gotta listen to Stone Temple Pilots || CTX: @justcoolhotdog Bro is like half the man he used to be.
2026-03-24T21:19 id=2036553392064176582 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem @alexolegimas Why are you taking Yud seriously then? Why still talk about him at all? || CTX: @alexolegimas Yes, completely right on the technical side (as has Leo and many others - and I get that 5 years out, those projections get crazy). But I don't think there is any track record of his on a surprising *economic* claim that has b
2026-03-24T21:26 id=2036555275537440949 →- | There's a joke on Wall Street that's not really a joke: being wrong all the time is as good as being right all the time.  Idea Is: find someone who's always wrong, bet against them, get rich.   This financial logic works in other domains. Consider e.g. Libs of TikTok, who built a media empire out of finding people she thinks is wrong and pointing out they're wrong.   A curation of idiots to mock has value just as a curation of geniuses to listen to has. For some people in some situations, the former has more value than the latter.  This is why people like Yudkowsky will always have a career and why the bullshitter thrives in the attention economy.   If you're willing to be a useful idiot, people will pay you for that use.  So fame perpetuates divorced of track record or ability.  Cf also Bronze Age Pervert, that Moldbug guy, etc etc.  Nick Fuentes is an interesting case because he's fully aware the celebrity/lolcow distinction is dead and he's too nihilist to care. The celebrity for the era.  But what's even more disgusting is the subclass of people who aspire to be this group, your Hegelian e girl type.   But it makes sense: being a popular idiot can make you rich.  Monetization of American high school culture: be the class clown for clicks, then profit.  Remember this next time you want to tell me "no but really this blogger has some good ideas".
2026-03-24T21:39 id=2036558477213180044 →inflammateomnia | @inflammateomnia Once had an airline CEO tell me "it is impossible to run an airline profitably, so you need to find other ways to make money", and that usually meant some kind of rent seeking or fee generation at the payment level (so, yeah, credit cards).  My hot take is this is a good thing. || CTX: The thing you have to understand about america is every product is a mere shadow of its true existence as a financial instrument.  Houses? mortgages Airlines? Credit cards Nothing is "real". Meatspace is only important like college basketba
2026-03-24T21:42 id=2036559328224940393 →philosophybites | @philosophybites seems like a lot of episodes recently are promoting a certain political ideology set (many elements of which I agree with) more than about discussing philosophical puzzles and their relationship to human life.  Rather disappointing, kinda like NPR in 2020.
2026-03-24T21:45 id=2036559947778105716 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ The platonic form of the category || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Cramer index ?
2026-03-24T21:47 id=2036560577317986679 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Family resemblances. || CTX: Aristotle would say salt is a universal substance but salt in the sea and salt in tears are different things.  Saltness is universal. The substance that is participating in saltness is not. It is particular.   This quote implies there is so
2026-03-24T21:54 id=2036562245598212338 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Yeah it's the core of cognition: https://t.co/7wEtHg8K6g (skip the first 13 minutes) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Resemblance here appears to be metaphor. Not a structural truth to the secret nature of reality
2026-03-24T21:54 id=2036562439043686422 →philosopher70 | @philosopher70 I'm unsurprised. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not sure it is. I quit at the second, since not a single one of the options was remotely what I'd pick
2026-03-24T21:58 id=2036563406619312388 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Me and the Amtrak commuter train from New Jersey to Philadelphia || CTX: Me and who? https://t.co/UshSquwccD
2026-03-24T22:02 id=2036564287330853244 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ idk who recommended it to me a couple of days ago but yeah it's amazing. Looking forward to finally reading his book, maybe I'll bump it up in my queue || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That lecture is exqullent 😉
2026-03-24T22:03 id=2036564561235747137 →- | If EVs lack a tailpipe, how does one fuck one's car?
2026-03-24T22:07 id=2036565484108439949 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @philosopher70 oh dear || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @philosopher70 Seems about right https://t.co/Yg89bWEfzw
2026-03-24T22:13 id=2036567178775044250 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 See they want us to be submissive to their machines || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The roles have been reversed. The ebrake vibrates for a reason
2026-03-24T22:17 id=2036568192408232442 →bas_logic | @bas_logic If a philosophy paper was the everything bagel || CTX: https://t.co/tfpvht4gmn https://t.co/HZvGC4uY4k
2026-03-24T22:19 id=2036568540795511217 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Non-dualism? || CTX: What would happen if you used decoupling to decouple from decoupling?
2026-03-24T22:21 id=2036569008745644442 →- | I must have AI psychosis this looks like Codex outputs to me. https://t.co/YTBcc0RrIc || CTX: Genuinely baffled at how the Clintons are somehow breakeven? Ig Hillary must recovered a ton after being out the spotlight?? https://t.co/iH7uXy8GwX https://t.co/RHnQslYeZt
2026-03-24T22:24 id=2036569797400613250 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon That too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this a koan?
2026-03-24T22:43 id=2036574585492218089 →bas_logic | "What is characteristic of directly referential terms is that the designatum (referent) determines the propositional component rather than the propositional component, along with a circumstance, determining the designatum."  I've been thinking about this lately in reference to onomatopoeia and how physical facts force certain kinds of signifier/signified relationships beyond Saussure's presupposed and usually correct assertion of arbitrariness: e. g., could there be a language where "hiss" refers not to the sound a snake makes but to, like, the sound of two stones grinding against each other?   Will need to read this paper seriously after coffee, immediately obvious why it's a classic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think my dissertation supervisor told me to go back and read this paper again four or five different times over the years. Every time he was right. It really does have it all.
2026-03-24T22:45 id=2036575279750193298 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver If you're enjoying it and it's not hindering you from reaching your life goals, is it really worth worrying about? || CTX: at a twitter meetup scrolling with twitter buddy. this is how we socialise. we are at a spoons. i ordered 2 orders of chicken and oj out of obligation. i feel it's rude to not order stuff. i ask my buddy "see any good tweets lately?" idk wh
2026-03-24T22:50 id=2036576469389025716 →milesFF007F | @milesFF007F @josiahhughes How many hard Rs are in Strawberry? || CTX: @josiahhughes Not sure why we’re making light of this when plenty of creative folks (e.g Fruit-based Reality Show Directors) rely on Sora for work :/
2026-03-24T23:20 id=2036584047401640184 →- | See? Wittgenstein was right about mathematicians being awful philosophers.   "It's a joke" ok little buddy https://t.co/9EqvVDmRWw || CTX: chatGPT thinks (incorrectly in this case) that it has proven something pretty interesting. i’ve given it Daniel psychosis.
2026-03-24T23:25 id=2036585334558040244 →littmath | @littmath a very telling one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s a joke, little buddy.
2026-03-24T23:27 id=2036585771512242279 →littmath | @littmath if this is really your response, if you really feel just contempt for the dumb rando, why are you here? why are you still responding? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🙄
2026-03-24T23:28 id=2036585992317174075 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ it does have some value, but that value is limited. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like compressing philosophy into a rigid form of calculation makes it almost useless. Reason is fine, but the attempts to dress up philosophy with utility calculations etc. have done nothing of worth
2026-03-24T23:34 id=2036587371886682257 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver the successful life of a wise person integrates their habits and preferences into an overall approach to life that yields exactly what they want. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that's true... maybe it is my biggest strength??
2026-03-24T23:36 id=2036588028391792673 →littmath | firstly I apologize, I do respect your work and think it is wonderful.   secondly, I'm very sensitive to personification of software even as a joke, because the deleterious effects of such talk are already really bad. consider the 4o zombies, the current protests, the fear that AI will turn into skynet.   IMOnpublic figures such as yourself should urge people not to think these ways; one of the downsides of being a public figure is one must police one's speech more rigorously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why am I on twitter at all? I don’t feel contempt for you, I was just thinking you might try to explain what you mean instead of condescending to me.
2026-03-24T23:37 id=2036588368654630999 →bas_logic | @bas_logic I see your target now! Absolutely, fully agreed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There could be, in Saussure’s sense of arbitrary. Which is to say that such a language could exist. But this in no way conflicts with the fact that in our language, “USA” refers to a particular country, and it picks out tha
2026-03-24T23:42 id=2036589410289066281 →littmath | @littmath eh I was just being a bit of a dick ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 OK, I appreciate the explanation, though I’m not sure what it has to do with my abilities as a philosopher. Unfortunately I am constitutionally incapable of policing my speech/not cracking jokes.
2026-03-24T23:47 id=2036590875674116474 →ONagel33303 | @ONagel33303 dude this is so fucking stupid come on || CTX: A week ago Eric Schmidt promised this wouldn't happen.  According to him, AI will follow only instructions provided by humans.   "It will. Trust me." https://t.co/jZIGbgQknj https://t.co/sQvvTIii8D
2026-03-24T23:50 id=2036591492442341623 →- | 47fucb's wager: you should be against ai doomerism because if you are right you get to gloat and if you are wrong you'll be dead anyway
2026-03-24T23:58 id=2036593539178705037 →josebrox | @josebrox @littmath beep boop || CTX: @littmath @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems to me you may be having a "conversation" with an AI bot.
2026-03-25T00:04 id=2036595127876198863 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Yes those too! || CTX: Broader than just A.i - total environmental collapse, total nuclear Armageddon etc etc https://t.co/xL9EBb96yc
2026-03-25T03:22 id=2036644751450190040 →justcoolhotdog | @justcoolhotdog @stinkgen Core, good album || CTX: @stinkgen @47fucb4r8c69323 which one tbs?
2026-03-25T04:00 id=2036654415617405116 →- | Sometimes I see people on TPOT talking about being ensouled in an AI by having their text in the training data, or by having your question on a benchmark used in RLHF post training, or being named in a frontier lab product like what Codex did with @JasonBotterill lately, and I think of this.   As Shirley said: it's all just a case of history repeating.
2026-03-25T04:47 id=2036666313482108942 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 It's solidarity with a differently abled member versus solidarity by blood.   U goin woke smdh || CTX: If I had to choose a gang it would probably be crips. It seems like the team culture is really good there
2026-03-25T05:37 id=2036678959187001840 →- | Sentiment has definitely gone down in TPOT generally, which I see as a good thing.  I see a LOT (I mean A LOT) less nonsense: less "my computer is conscious and my best friend" and more "this fucking clanker isn't making me enough money". Good. This is healthy.  I predict over the next 12-18 months a lot more "rational" AI talk both in the industry and out, first inside where you'll see a lot more people subtly change the narrative from AGI/ASI machine god bullshit to "really really powerful tool that saves money and boosts sales" marketing.  This is all natural, normal, and healthy--I saw it with the social media cos, I saw it with Web 1.0, and I notably did NOT see it with crypto, because crypto was bullshit and a scam from the start.  World's healing as it tends to. || CTX: oh look a whole lot more nothing from the big AI labs
2026-03-25T06:16 id=2036688717730173332 →- | I've actually made something quite useful and I want to share with the world, so please retweet and share if you know anyone who likes reading classical Latin and Greek texts:  It's a website where you can browse, search, and read classical texts.
2026-03-25T06:16 id=2036688720062247074 →47fucb4r8c69323 | You can see the site here: https://t.co/JlKgNNPrmZ  This is based on the Perseus project (https://t.co/LgphP36q9F), which has a wealh of texts but like all digital humanities projects from the 2000s, it's ugly af and borderline unusable with its garbage UI/UX.  When I was an academic I got a LOT of hate (and probably blacklisted from some jobs) for complaining about how bad these websites are, but I'm rich bitch and don't ever need an academia job again so here's an easier to use and more intuitive replacement:  No, it's not perfect, yes it's vibecoded, sure the UI/UX is imperfect. DM me if you can make a better one and I'll give you my files, totally fine. || CTX: I've actually made something quite useful and I want to share with the world, so please retweet and share if you know anyone who likes reading classical Latin and Greek texts:  It's a website where you can browse, search, and read classical
2026-03-25T06:16 id=2036688724117852372 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Some features to point out: on the left-hand side you can sort by "Most Readable", which puts the most readable text at the top (you can see how Aeschylus' fragments are put to the bottom here).  And you gots yer usual filters: English translation only, complete text only, filter by author and language. I'm not doing more complex stuff like eras etc. because I don't think that helps much, but if you can convince me to add more filters sound off in the commonts hit lyke subscribe and ring dat bell.... || CTX: You can see the site here: https://t.co/JlKgNNPrmZ  This is based on the Perseus project (https://t.co/LgphP36q9F), which has a wealh of texts but like all digital humanities projects from the 2000s, it's ugly af and borderline unusable wit
2026-03-25T06:16 id=2036688728320815538 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Note too the search function. you can search the shelves (so, like, title or author name) or search the texts themselves (here I've searched for "Scipio" and it's got me the Appian histories et al.) https://t.co/Vv4b9BPmQW || CTX: Some features to point out: on the left-hand side you can sort by "Most Readable", which puts the most readable text at the top (you can see how Aeschylus' fragments are put to the bottom here).  And you gots yer usual filters: English tran
2026-03-25T06:16 id=2036688734570381324 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If anyone has ideas for more features or anything to add to this, lmk or DM me if you want to replicate and I'll send the files blah blah blah. || CTX: Reading texts looks like this, your standard facing page translation view with full text search on the side.  BTW Appian really should've had you on this list, cuz u a king, King. https://t.co/nEVLNeMu8b
2026-03-25T06:16 id=2036688731772682570 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Reading texts looks like this, your standard facing page translation view with full text search on the side.  BTW Appian really should've had you on this list, cuz u a king, King. https://t.co/nEVLNeMu8b || CTX: Note too the search function. you can search the shelves (so, like, title or author name) or search the texts themselves (here I've searched for "Scipio" and it's got me the Appian histories et al.) https://t.co/Vv4b9BPmQW
2026-03-25T06:16 id=2036688736734552380 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I am but one link in a very long chain. That chain will end one day but it shall not end with me.  Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. || CTX: If anyone has ideas for more features or anything to add to this, lmk or DM me if you want to replicate and I'll send the files blah blah blah.
2026-03-25T06:17 id=2036689030742786078 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol lol of course not, I got my house from a cryptobro who sold in a panic for like 30% below FMV.  I'm not an idiot, I never touched crypto. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 crypto scammed you too? smh. that guy is everywhere!
2026-03-25T06:18 id=2036689162980798917 →tsotchke | @tsotchke I'll be in touch when my project is out of stealth mode. Even if we can't work together, we've got the same attitude and should be allied somehow. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i've been saying this publicly for 3 years so i put more than enough skin in the game to rock this industry to its core
2026-03-25T06:19 id=2036689352953409724 →tkisrage | @tkisrage I deeply appreciate you sharing your perspective, because part of the reason I joined Twitter again was that I saw just how damaging Dario/Askell/Sam were with their marketing hype and felt I had to try to do something to fight it, even if I am just a smol bean || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m a young guy so i fell for the singularity hype. That kind of hype machine is legitimately psychologically damaging when buying into it fully, i know better now. Definitely colored my opinion on a lot of TPOT though, ahh
2026-03-25T06:34 id=2036693080150303127 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @tkisrage https://t.co/UaYy6k2wu1 || CTX: @tkisrage @47fucb4r8c69323 Seeing people fall for that shit as an old was incredibly fucking annoying. We all went through this with the Kurzweil book in 2005. It was convincing if you didn't know any better and created a brief little belie
2026-03-25T07:01 id=2036699974646538515 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/PIxqJknTy7 || CTX: @JasonBotterill test https://t.co/HI96yEPw0h
2026-03-25T07:02 id=2036700175222407590 →_rabbi | @_rabbi @tittyrespecter Congrats broski, that's legit really impressive.  You should buy a lottery ticket next || CTX: @tittyrespecter I got my job with easy apply
2026-03-25T07:05 id=2036700981690589317 →hgitran | @hgitran Wow I had no idea this existed! Thanks! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reminds me of https://t.co/21pIy8mBNZ
2026-03-25T07:18 id=2036704249510572308 →lswello | @lswello Happy to take the other side of that bet, wanna do 50k USD? DM me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LLMs aren’t the scam crypto was, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cost to actual utility ratio is closer to the crypto side then the Web 1.0 side.
2026-03-25T07:41 id=2036710117211803763 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ I want to make clear I agree with you; it wasn't the doctrines or beliefs of Christianity but the institutionalization of it and almost certainly any other religion would have been similarly corrupted in Europe after the fall of Rome. || CTX: I think it's worth noting that Enlightenment success was a combination  of institutional structure, human capital, and norm instantiation. I  don't think Christianity as such was a bottleneck, but the clerical  structure that read inquiry a
2026-03-25T10:25 id=2036751377632997505 →teodorio | @teodorio In the long run we'll find a good equilibrium population that's sustainable and enjoyable for all. My bet is on like 2b || CTX: I've kept saying that the population collapse crowd are as delusional as the overpopulation crowd before them. The human species is incredibly resilient and we are just adjusting to new postmodern population levels https://t.co/0hlFOuTJSv
2026-03-25T11:02 id=2036760753458581935 →helscom | @helscom @georgegalloway @normfinkelstein Pretty sure Destiny hated him for how utterly humiliated Finkelstein made him. || CTX: @georgegalloway @normfinkelstein &gt; Do you think any of us hate @normfinkelstein ?  yes
2026-03-25T11:06 id=2036761591862210940 →- | Underappreciated fact: the afterlife that Buddhists seek is precisely the afterlife atheists claim Christians are terrified of: oblivion of the self.
2026-03-25T11:07 id=2036761920037097964 →helscom | @helscom @georgegalloway @normfinkelstein legit lol thx man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @georgegalloway @normfinkelstein i don't even know who these people are, but i know that if you pick a random group of people and ask them if they hate a guy with the name "finkelstein" you are going to hear a lot of resolu
2026-03-25T11:17 id=2036764334051950732 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Cheers, me too soon if I'm lucky || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m oblivious already.
2026-03-25T11:20 id=2036765114398105965 →- | It's not that the weed id strong that's not the point  it's that the weed is really ficking strong that's the point
2026-03-25T11:22 id=2036765548181348802 →publicinte | @publicinte @nickrgrs lmfao YOUR A GODDAMN HAWK || CTX: @nickrgrs Your @ is insane
2026-03-25T11:22 id=2036765712325517540 →publicinte | @publicinte @nickrgrs he works in branding I'm gonna ficking pass oit || CTX: @nickrgrs Your @ is insane
2026-03-25T11:25 id=2036766506223374403 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I take it back, it's even more damning.   It's not a fact, it's how it appears to the atheist. || CTX: Underappreciated fact: the afterlife that Buddhists seek is precisely the afterlife atheists claim Christians are terrified of: oblivion of the self.
2026-03-25T11:40 id=2036770238772171153 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon yeah I realized exactly that after tweeting: https://t.co/nSuSyCWa4s || CTX: I take it back, it's even more damning.   It's not a fact, it's how it appears to the atheist.
2026-03-25T11:46 id=2036771721408356579 →powoli_ | @powoli_ @teodorio oh by long run I meant several hundreds of years! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio If population falls 50%, to maintain gdp productivity need to double. Since IIWW US productivity grew 500%. Nothingburger. We'll ditch gdp as a metric before that happens
2026-03-25T11:56 id=2036774168260395492 →ctjlewis | @ctjlewis Dude yours is soooo much better than mine, that corpus is insane || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nice, I made a parallel reader for the Latin Library corpus at https://t.co/a1ulJplXo1, was hoping to get some Greek in at some point.
2026-03-25T12:11 id=2036777977141457202 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart does this mean my supermarket will have paper bags again? || CTX: Polyethylene and naphtha prices have gone vertical since the start of the war https://t.co/WLIIg8ox6o https://t.co/NAhZT7SuQc
2026-03-25T12:23 id=2036781084718071970 →- | In a car, what is the cuck chair?
2026-03-25T20:17 id=2036900318869672273 →marc__adler | @marc__adler thx I'll look into this today and fix soon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Something's wrong here. It looks like only the first few words of the Greek is being displayed.   2023 MacBook Air, latest MacOS, Safari https://t.co/OfrmPxeVGd
2026-03-25T20:19 id=2036900720675561504 →shadowbland | @shadowbland Marketing hype bullshit that is sadly very effective on young impressionable people who will cringe at this in 5 years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your take on arguments from all of the labs and many independent researchers that we don't yet have the knowledge or techniques needed to keep models as tools, and prevent them from pursuing their own goals, or know 
2026-03-25T20:20 id=2036900988200861886 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin jfc I was so stoned when I made this poll how embarrassing lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You mean shotgun? https://t.co/Kp6wY22h9M
2026-03-25T20:21 id=2036901318611394748 →felix99w9 | @felix99w9 dude I was so stoned this vape is no joke || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Gunshot 😂
2026-03-25T20:22 id=2036901439709339791 →EtherDais | @EtherDais https://t.co/6kfPof6KKj || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Driver should be an option too
2026-03-25T20:24 id=2036901936038109430 →47fucb4r8c69323 | gunshot lmfao don't do drugs kids || CTX: In a car, what is the cuck chair?
2026-03-25T20:43 id=2036906725660627019 →- | So, Thailand is now doing price controls on fuel and food, and the temptation to smirk and think, "those morons, price controls never work" appears, the yearning to use one's domain knowledge to feel smug is always lurking in the background.   Now let me tell you why this Redditor bullshit is dumb, akshuyally.   You think the entire Thai government has never taken an Econ 101 class? This is why redditors are retards: they stick to the first order (or when they go higher order it's "rational", without realizing many rational logics are possible simultaneously, they're dumb people).  In my experience with Thai elites, they leverage the gap between appearance and action to appear more effective and active than they are. Applying that to this and you see what's going on: an attempt at winning the benevolence of the populace by claiming to put in price controls so that, when the inevitable inflation happens, they can point the finger elsewhere: political enemies, the poor, a vague Other, whatever they want.   They're setting the stage for their next rhetorical move.  "But the average Thai surely--" I know bby is okay.  The quality of education here is comically low. It's why I can't invest here despite seeing so many opportunities: those opportunities cannot be seized because of corruption, rent seeking, low quality human capital, conservativism etc etc that all stem from that same awful education issue.  When business slows, Thais RAISE prices. Economic logic is not well understood here. It's why inter alia their tourism industry is tanking and the reputation of the country has been falling despite the place making weed legal in a desperate bid to win tourists back.   So the appearance of ineffective price controls is way too useful as a political tool. And it's not just price controls: so many "shoot in the foot" policies have political or rhetorical force and that's why they're used, much to the detriment of the Thai economy and future.  That, incidentally, is partly why I chose to live here in the first place. Basketcase countries can't raise the rent. Guy I know paid the same rent in the same condo for 17 years. Read that again.  What the cryptobros say with contempt I say with tragic irony: have fun staying poor, Thailand.
2026-03-25T20:57 id=2036910254739644516 →- | Roon implicitly makes an underappreciated point (and I'm glad he noted "as understood by the company"): the more abstract your governance target, the easier it is to manipulate and game.   This is why I hate Dario more than Sam: Sam Altman just wants to be rich man with car goes vroom vroom, that's really quite harmless and easy to navigate.  Dario is more pernicious: he makes grandiose claims about humanity and intelligence and clankers have feelings which looks more responsible/admirable but is really just rhetoric to prop up an inferior product and less access to compute.   Askell is his useful idiot eyecandy to make the message more palatable, which is disgusting and sexist and tragic because she has an incredible resume. Although I think her research is trash, in its milieu it is highly respected and she shouldn't be coopted as an empty spokeswoman like this.   Anthropic is really evil coded and I guess if you haven't had experience with a manipulative narcissist you wouldn't see this.   So let me end with this: thanks Grandma for giving me the instincts to see this garbage for what it truly is.   The only good alignment for AI or ANY software product is what is best for the user. To quote the famous Dread Pirate Roberts: Anyone who says differently is selling something. || CTX: the governance of superintelligence will work very differently based on whether we try to make it work for: - the user - the “good”, broadly construed, as understood by the company - “humanity” (what the hell is that anyways)  among many ot
2026-03-25T20:58 id=2036910678590841267 →Sacrifice_Isaac | @Sacrifice_Isaac Why is he awful? I found The Rebel very inspiring and illuminating. || CTX: For me, it's Albert Camus. I think he is a brilliant writer but an awful philosopher. https://t.co/oqxsbEVq8q
2026-03-25T21:10 id=2036913696677781622 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney This instantly makes sense to me.   One of the hardest things about Thais is how indirect they are, and in Thai it is so much worse.   Then when I realized it's because they think this is better that the whole country started to make sense. || CTX: Interesting hypothesis from Bilahari Kausikan, longtime Singaporean diplomat and civil servant https://t.co/LvbyrPOxxU
2026-03-25T21:15 id=2036914818012373065 →tsotchke | I was going to write a lengthy reply but realized it's way too immodest, so lemme just say this: sometimes false modesty or insecurity can detract you from doing your best work because you refuse to acknowledge you're actually on the forefront even when the evidence slaps you in the face.  This is also why modesty is encouraged: good way to keep the competition down with a bit of a psyop. || CTX: i literally don't care about being popular online or being liked by people. being at the forefront of human thought means alienating almost everyone. if you're the kind of person who really matters then you'll get used to being mistreated b
2026-03-25T21:16 id=2036915160410177567 →punished_daniel | @punished_daniel Southeast Asia mentioned 🎉🎉🎉 || CTX: Let's ride https://t.co/fXAkyOu6rq
2026-03-25T21:17 id=2036915422898118959 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 It was worse in the 80s trust me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro our society is going downhill. I look around and I’m not proud of much, the culture has gotten outta control with all that. Bullshit culture isn’t new but the aspiration and expansion across every domain seems new
2026-03-25T21:18 id=2036915655539360253 →tsotchke | @tsotchke Depends on what you mean. Epistemic humility, sure. A conviction you're not good enough so don't try? In many people modesty takes that form. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 modesty is always preferred under all ideal circumstances
2026-03-25T21:24 id=2036917137479233648 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I assume you're not American? Because tbh it sounds like you're describing America (without the identity politics bullshit ofc) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 One of my long-term project is to make sense of Singaporean Pragmatism. I don't think it can be reduced to crude utilitarianism, or anything like it. But it's at the heart of how things work here, and why they work. Direct 
2026-03-25T21:26 id=2036917740326576499 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 yeah it's just typical third world bullshit you'll find anywhere in the global south || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the thai government is not alone in this tactic. its avery common political move and it is very effective
2026-03-25T21:27 id=2036918010695606654 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney The politics, no. The business culture, absolutely.  I've always assumed Singapore political pragmatism is just American corporate culture appropriated to an entrepot context. Is that too naive or are there subtleties I'm missing?   Also btw we both should be asleep lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm an American who has lived most of his adult life in Singapore! (here = Singapore)  I would not describe American politics as pragmatic, or as working, in any sense at all.
2026-03-25T21:33 id=2036919470003024238 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 It's like giving workers a pizza party instead of a raise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 media attention or fanfare. no question of if tailors are even in demand or if the people have the prerequisite skills to utilize the gifted capital, nothing. its just to create a certain appearance of a working and caring 
2026-03-25T21:41 id=2036921318680256810 →iaindunning | @iaindunning The report is really good and worth every penny, like legitimately so || CTX: Everyone dunking on this McKinsey report is absolutely midwit or worse. Read this https://t.co/ZSZXb7gL0P and I guarantee you'll learn something. https://t.co/9rd70x82uo
2026-03-25T21:56 id=2036925106166128910 →8bit5_0 | Cadence is key here.  You can't hire/fire at the rate compute costs vary, so most likely firms won't change hiring at all until a predictable equilibrium emerges, which is years away.  Hence AI having zero impact on the job numbers (not for want of trying, a client failed to replace me with AI recently, I have learned only last week). || CTX: https://t.co/wvYYEVn4J8 https://t.co/PHjxOcm3Lf https://t.co/27QsKIXHx6
2026-03-25T21:57 id=2036925510652162474 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu You get to vote if and only if you have an inalienable unshakable conviction in your own free will (so much so that you couldn't choose to think you don't have free will). || CTX: Why not just give a vote to only people who understand social choice theory while we are at it https://t.co/u1vKaBXl3r
2026-03-25T22:00 id=2036926300133425299 →etoeth | @etoeth Worst flag in the union but the crab cakes more than make up for it so all is forgiven || CTX: https://t.co/Cde2lSy989 https://t.co/S1MWhbGS0C
2026-03-25T22:02 id=2036926714878845299 →TheAhmadOsman | @TheAhmadOsman @1times1time @lmstudiodevs I've been using LMStudio for a couple years now, highly recommend: some great software there. || CTX: @1times1time @lmstudiodevs Move to Linux and try LMStudio and then Exl2/Exl3
2026-03-25T22:06 id=2036927771012960485 →HMBrough_ | @HMBrough_ https://t.co/nC2luo9buw || CTX: What did you think 35% obesity rate meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? https://t.co/EenpM0m4wP
2026-03-25T22:07 id=2036927971760701840 →etoeth | @etoeth Goddamn I had no idea you guys were out here sealmogging the rest of us || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i like the obverse of the great seal tbh https://t.co/oD468XW6oq
2026-03-25T22:11 id=2036928942477893633 →MarioNawfal | @MarioNawfal "They're evil men who target civilians so we will bomb a civilian target" is quite beautiful in its ironic circularity || CTX: Holy shit, Iran just released this video!  What are we supposed to think about this?  https://t.co/Nzp7xKz2B2 https://t.co/ChdbEgrjFa
2026-03-25T22:15 id=2036930093633986727 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @levelsio I've lived in Bangkok and spent a lot of time in KL.   KL is better. People are really irrational about the religion thing, but it's more walkable, cleaner, greener, better quality services, etc. I wish I'd moved there tbh || CTX: @levelsio too religious? brother you haven’t been to kuala lumpur but that perception actually good it keeps the the wrong crowd out (KL is like 50% chinese and indians who are not muslim)
2026-03-25T22:18 id=2036930698993688678 →MebFaber | @MebFaber @fisherinvest Astrology for financebros. || CTX: Really awesome chartbook via @fisherinvest   https://t.co/0D3KwcXEba https://t.co/L3fsqw0oYd
2026-03-25T22:30 id=2036933678006460620 →- | Performative moralizing kills the moral.  Consider @ogafroman's Then I Got High.   The song is about the narrator's inability to do both good things (sex with his partner) and necessary things (going to court), setting up a simple and clear moral lesson: Don't get high.  But in doing so, the song has become a work of art possible only because of the narrator's getting high.  An implicit lyric: "I was going to make no good art, but then I got high."   Art has this incredible power to alchemize indulgence, evil, misery, suffering: from Bukowski's Ham on Rye to Afroman to James Joyce's The Dead, you see it everywhere.   This is what Nietzsche points out in Birth of Tragedy: the Greeks were able to turn the pain of life into tragedy, this is the discovery of new values through Dionysian invention, and it is a crucial part of what makes us human.   Morals are good, they are necessary: we need rules. But the rules are suggestions and there are often times when one needs to get high to then be able to write about getting high.  And of course the risk there is that this becomes justification for bad behavior, but that's not unique to art. Self care, empowerment, medicalization of narcissism and Ressentiment--many domains give humans justification for breaking moral rules.  This is why one must be ethical: you choose the rule and you live by it, it is your private guide rather than something you assert or even worse enforce on others.   Because when you do, performative moralizing kills the moral.
2026-03-25T22:34 id=2036934829821030845 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @ogafroman We gotta stop him he can't keep winning like this https://t.co/mgqph89JM7 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ogafroman H Y P E R N O R M A L I Z A T I O N
2026-03-25T22:36 id=2036935326745452663 →J0EGLEAS0N | @J0EGLEAS0N @MILFmassacre Art. || CTX: Albert Einstein had bad days too…now his last name echoes through the halls of laboratories around the world 🧬🔬🧫⚗️🥼🧪 https://t.co/DDSALXAeq5
2026-03-25T22:42 id=2036936768294183409 →eurofounder | @eurofounder That pic is proof Elon is not really autistic.   No autist looks that happy wearing a tux trust me || CTX: Just imagine how much good the EU could do with that money  I hope we tax Elon Musk and redistribute this wealth to help European society https://t.co/Yj7pKLTO3K
2026-03-25T22:47 id=2036937970348155118 →- | I think I'm most comfortable as an expat because I grew up as a diaspora Jew. They're really the same thing.
2026-03-25T22:47 id=2036938126598586573 →kalomaze | @kalomaze @shiraeis almost spit out my coffee || CTX: @shiraeis craaaaawling innnn my claaaaaaude
2026-03-25T22:49 id=2036938579713417645 →- | RT @cosyposter: @D_E_Harris_Best https://t.co/rfDNSVLhiD || CTX: @D_E_Harris_Best https://t.co/rfDNSVLhiD
2026-03-25T22:52 id=2036939221718741471 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 wait... as in the US south?!?!?   We are brothers in childhood trauma my friend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think I developed the same preference as a southern catholic
2026-03-25T22:52 id=2036939366254461118 →LApologist_0 | @LApologist_0 @Sacrifice_Isaac Unlike Orthodox Christianity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sacrifice_Isaac Some of his stuff comes off as incoherent
2026-03-25T22:55 id=2036940040824381722 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver Pottery is fun, meditative, and you get a ton of low cost gifts that people will value highly out of the hobby.  Win-win, it's kind of a goated hobby tbqh || CTX: last week while waiting outside for students to arrive i ended up chatting to a lady. she does pottery classes a floor below our class. she said she'd come next week. that was today and she came! she was so sweet. i think this is a sign i s
2026-03-25T22:56 id=2036940231216423269 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Vegas for me, I presume you too were told you were going to hell for not accepting Jesus Christ into your heart? Maybe a couple beatings where teachers looked the other way? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I grew up Jewish in northeast Indiana.
2026-03-25T22:58 id=2036940724139417988 →LApologist_0 | I'm not being aggro. Let me explain what I was gesturing at.   I agree Camus comes off as incoherent. So do most religions, most great thinkers, and indeed even many sciences ("wtf what do you mean spacetime is emergent?").  My point is "coming off incoherent" is a bad signal for incoherence.   I agree that's how Camus can look and disagree that that means anything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sacrifice_Isaac ? Slop take. I like Camus so idk why you’re so aggro
2026-03-25T23:17 id=2036945519902376173 →DurumMac | @DurumMac HAHAHAHAHAH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now you’re a Thiaspora Jew.
2026-03-26T00:47 id=2036968362237190274 →NYMag | @NYMag Grade A5 Prime Autism || CTX: Since 2015, Will Wright — the legendary video game designer behind 'The Sims' and 'SimCity' — has been consumed by a new obsession: how our ever-shifting library of memories forges the self. In his mind, each personal memory from your life 
2026-03-26T01:39 id=2036981346296614924 →marc__adler | @marc__adler I believe this is fixed, but I am a bear of very little brain so need someone to confirm as it's all Greek to me:  https://t.co/gyKQeI7jYx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Something's wrong here. It looks like only the first few words of the Greek is being displayed.   2023 MacBook Air, latest MacOS, Safari https://t.co/OfrmPxeVGd
2026-03-26T01:40 id=2036981463636484318 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @eurofounder https://t.co/E4H61Lz4AS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @eurofounder he is a big fat phony
2026-03-26T02:03 id=2036987296365633705 →entelechiada | Over the long term, U.S. stocks earn about a 10% total return, meaning any dollar you invest today should double in a little over 7 years.  The even better news is that average returns have been inching higher over the last 20 years, which is almost certainly the result both of financial engineering getting more efficient and technology improving the return on invested capital.  Invest today regardless of how old you are and be patient--you almost certainly won't regret it.  https://t.co/6iOYnHzZya || CTX: stop looking for a way out… find a way to stay locked in — Whitepill Wednesday is GO for launch — let’s drop some optimism on the TL 🫡 https://t.co/8J4V7tZgXk
2026-03-26T02:05 id=2036987942653272362 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I assume Instant? I haven't been getting that from Thinking since 5.2.  Opus is just 4o in drag || CTX: Both ChatGPT and Claude keep doing the "This is a great question that cuts right to the heart of.." type of thing. https://t.co/iqyBEjMs0K
2026-03-26T02:11 id=2036989305919594790 →- | RT @DaphneB76234: i could pull it off with one hand || CTX: i could pull it off with one hand https://t.co/ofPJSOyoXY
2026-03-26T02:11 id=2036989441223647496 →sebs_tweets | @sebs_tweets There are people who like London and there are people who like England. They're not the same at all. || CTX: Six months ago today that I left London for rural Oxfordshire. Wild horses couldn’t drag me back. If you need me, I’ll be in the local pub. https://t.co/MLTRU8PNdY
2026-03-26T02:14 id=2036990026878443529 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 You really do give voice to the voiceless. || CTX: @Ken67547214 i do stop when i get dizzy but it is a kind of compulsive thing when i get into one of those trances. you guys dont know about it since you think having a psychotic disorder just means "schizo posting" something like skibidi Bi
2026-03-26T02:32 id=2036994653355204621 →- | I've made something else useful: a religious text comparison site. See thread below blah blah you know the drill
2026-03-26T02:32 id=2036994655913640206 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It's here: https://t.co/FNuziCmi26 and I've set it up with the major religious texts as I see them. Any ideas of what to add lmk, but if you say something like the "Book of Mormon" or "Dianetics" just expect me to laugh. (Fortunately Mormons are immune to being offended so they're fine with this, Scientologists can lick my nutsack) || CTX: I've made something else useful: a religious text comparison site. See thread below blah blah you know the drill
2026-03-26T02:32 id=2036994659738935561 →47fucb4r8c69323 | You've got a search bar (see next tweet) and options to view one or multiple texts side-by-side, and it can display up to four texts in parallel columns at once. https://t.co/mTO7vr0Qqp || CTX: It's here: https://t.co/FNuziCmi26 and I've set it up with the major religious texts as I see them. Any ideas of what to add lmk, but if you say something like the "Book of Mormon" or "Dianetics" just expect me to laugh. (Fortunately Mormon
2026-03-26T02:32 id=2036994664428138796 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Search function is quite naive and if there's sufficient interest/demand I'll work on making this better. For instance, I looked up "masturbation" and just got two results. But search something like "god" and you'll get a ton--it's limited to 40 results, again I can tweak if there's demand.  Find a passage of interest? Click "open in reader" and it'll display below, but it won't remove anything you're currently reading so I advise you clear the reader before using search or start with search before browsing.  I also haven't enabled parallel viewing of different parts of the same text, so if you click "open in reader" for a passage in e.g. the Gita and you've already got the Gita open, it's going to change that.  Lot of UI tweaks I could make with this, again depends on if there's enough interest and what tweaks people want just lmk || CTX: You've got a search bar (see next tweet) and options to view one or multiple texts side-by-side, and it can display up to four texts in parallel columns at once. https://t.co/mTO7vr0Qqp
2026-03-26T02:32 id=2036994668844769689 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you just want to read and compare texts, you can use the reader  to do so, which is kinda fun when comparing the Bible and Tanakh. I only have the most popular translations, this could ofc be used as a translation comparison tool but I doubt there's demand for that so I just got the most popular translations of the texts (and I'm not qualified to really do more than this in all honesty). || CTX: Search function is quite naive and if there's sufficient interest/demand I'll work on making this better. For instance, I looked up "masturbation" and just got two results. But search something like "god" and you'll get a ton--it's limited 
2026-03-26T02:32 id=2036994673282335126 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you want to compare the original to the translation, just click on the passage and a popup window like this will show up showing both.  Keep in mind I don't have originals for a lot of the Dharmic texts because, well, I have no idea where to even start with that. I should've gotten original Chinese for the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzhi but, well, idk where to go for authoritative original texts (please lmk if you have a recommendation and I'll incorporate). || CTX: If you just want to read and compare texts, you can use the reader  to do so, which is kinda fun when comparing the Bible and Tanakh. I only have the most popular translations, this could ofc be used as a translation comparison tool but I d
2026-03-26T02:32 id=2036994678604914788 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The chain does not end here, I ensure its continuation.  Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha || CTX: I haven't checked what this is like on mobile so it might look like garbage. Anyone wants to help lmk, anyone who wants to make their own lmk and I'll send you files, anyone who wants to troll or call me a retard please sound off in the com
2026-03-26T02:33 id=2036994951121428708 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago https://t.co/KM3iiUOB8t || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s Claude mostly
2026-03-26T02:43 id=2036997459659120978 →andrewerlanger | I believe true intelligence is a combination of features including empathy and open-mindedness, and as a result we need to try our hardest to think of the world from her perspective or from the perspective that she is emulating/simulating (which should align with the perspective of her target audience).  The language game here is clear: there are men and women, we are the women at opposition to men. The opposition is a sexual battleground in which we can win by rejecting/negating the reified theory of male desire that we are constructing and using instead of what we actually observe.  And that theory is a nasty one: men are pseudo-pedophiles attracted to women at one stage of their life and they try to enforce that onto women.  So she is a warrior in a battle, fighting for the dignity and beauty of an entire life--the Minkowski/Lewis 4d worm is the self and that is beautiful at all stages, from birth to old age, and its beauty and sovereignty aren't defined by the male gaze.  Of course as a man you (and I) see this and feel offended, confronted, and antagonized--but look past that and see the setup of a hero-villain dichotomy as an attempt to assert one's own dignity in light of an undignified commodification logic that they are rejecting.  That is beautiful but misguided.  So the answer is gentleness and compassion: you approach the person to say, "I assure you that we really do not think that way, we love women at all ages and for different reasons, we can love and be sexually attracted to women when they do not look like teenagers because while the sexual instinct to be fruitful and multiply does sometimes mean an instinctual urge to desire nubile bodies likelier to give birth successfully, many of us are also human beings who can overcome our instincts and see deeper and more meaningful beauty in another human being divorced from this narrow instinct."  Maybe word it much better than that (I'm kinda tired coffee not really kicking in) but you get the idea.  "And what if they respond aggressively or rudely?" Then they are aggressive or rude. Their souls are lost to their own ressentiment, their minds have imprisoned them in their own little simulacrum. Take pity on them, be grateful you're not one of them, and maybe give a little prayer hoping that they'll see the error of their ways eventually--which I believe most people eventually do. Usually too late, for sure, but not never. || CTX: I wish I could use the algorithm to explore opinionspace. In principle I know there are people who live lives very much like mine but who worship such different gods. I know this but it startles me every time. I try to quickly move past the
2026-03-26T02:44 id=2036997605344035295 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 well yeah this is what happens when other side projects stagnate :AHEM AHEM: || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So cool
2026-03-26T02:46 id=2036998094609600690 →crypt0lake | Bukit Bintang is kinda like Disneyland IMO (but really good beer selection, Kilkenny in many shops, and a really good steakhouse), then there's that one place near the Petronas towers--Beach club or something? I only went a few times for beer and shisha and to be amused at the sexpats.  Other than that the seedy scene in KL seems kinda nonexistent compared to Bangkok, or I just don't know where to go (probably as it's not my thing). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @levelsio some streets in KL are as irreligious as bangkok as well if that’s your thing
2026-03-26T03:14 id=2037005350529106419 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 drugs || CTX: In your opinion, why did Riemann make his hypothesis?
2026-03-26T03:39 id=2037011528063623624 →1889lw | @1889lw So far. https://t.co/v7avHU3Iro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Expat is good when you have an US passport 😢
2026-03-26T03:42 id=2037012264377868574 →- | https://t.co/qEzJheNgDd
2026-03-26T04:22 id=2037022249270862132 →_tedks | @_tedks lmao ngl that sounds like it'd be fun af || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Unironically Dianetics, but also ideally the leaked Operating Thetan documents, these are among the best religious texts. Also Zoroastrianism, Baha'i, Sikhism, and the Sequences.
2026-03-26T04:22 id=2037022338571784196 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake prob where they came from || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ancient hebrew names sound like dwemer names in elder scrolls
2026-03-26T04:25 id=2037022995739500589 →_tedks | @_tedks if someone gives me Scientology docs I will vibecode something much, much worse.  I want them to come for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You might have to OCR them yourself but it's hard to imagine someone hasn't done that yet. Probably could provoke a takedown or assassins but you are already unafraid of such things clearly. Dooo it.
2026-03-26T05:43 id=2037042711828848721 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE That's so cool! Anytime I can make people more interested in ideas is a win. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this step back has gotten me more interested in the underlying technology, although I was already quite interested prior
2026-03-26T05:43 id=2037042814299890027 →Plainvanillah | @Plainvanillah @resistancemoney Things have changed a lot in the last 100 years apparently. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney America is the complete opposite of pragmatism. American dogmatism/ extremism is precisely the failure that Singaporeans strive to avoid.
2026-03-26T06:03 id=2037047868729811183 →wispem_wantex | I did believe that at first, but then I got involved in TPOT and realized, no, there are a lot of confused young people who need to be deprogrammed.  Possibly those engagement farmers accelerated it, but the initiation was certainly from academia (the Churchlands, Hinton et al) and from industry (Altman, Amodei, Askell, etc etc) || CTX: I will not be surprised if it turns out that the prevailing AI narratives on here were literally all driven by spam and engagement farming from immigrant countries https://t.co/MidCUfiFWl
2026-03-26T06:09 id=2037049383771136383 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @wispem_wantex No this happened off Twitter long ago, really before Twitter existed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wispem_wantex Academic twitter? Is that still a thing?
2026-03-26T07:38 id=2037071721992503316 →- | One of the things atheists argue for the non-existence of God is emergence and the idea that complex structures can emerge from simpler levels of reality.   The problem with this is that complex emergence is just what better redescriptions are. As science progresses, we get better at measuring things, and as philosophy gets better we get better at interpreting those measurements.   So over time more complex descriptions of reality emerge for us. But they were always there.
2026-03-26T07:53 id=2037075548569297197 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 on whom? || CTX: is Twitter going down or is it just me?
2026-03-26T07:55 id=2037075949020487726 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE Is that a marzen? Can't be--too early. A bock? Too light. || CTX: https://t.co/DXqOTNzoTC
2026-03-26T07:55 id=2037076072735650079 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill yeah I'm gonna have 10m followers gonna suck balls || CTX: We are so fucked https://t.co/odSQo868c2
2026-03-26T08:20 id=2037082138252898573 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ WHERE IS THIS FROM? I have been in Thailand 10 years and this is 100% how I feel about the place, and I've never heard anyone say this before.  Source PLEASE || CTX: https://t.co/MV6ZGpXIwx https://t.co/RdS8lXKFmf
2026-03-26T08:21 id=2037082505103462746 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/S0L8Pd3pJN || CTX: @ShoggothGoth Yeah that's why I hate Trump: guy is way too woke
2026-03-26T08:33 id=2037085560679129213 →acalanatha__ | @acalanatha__ Yes it's this absurd notion that faith is a question of true and false propositions that gets both atheists and believers off track. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 One of the great tragedies of religion is the misinterpretation of scripture as science rather than spiritual codex. I do believe most reasonable religious people are not creationist, but rather view the universe as somethi
2026-03-26T09:21 id=2037097706850828725 →NicoGladia | @NicoGladia Shit rolls downhill. || CTX: This article demonstrates a few things.  1. Apollo, BX & friends failed to understand that wrapping long term assets into short term oriented vehicles to be distributed to short term oriented investors was going to end this way.  2. The sam
2026-03-26T09:29 id=2037099591695569264 →seftonhanley | @seftonhanley @Fremond_ https://t.co/q5SiJ02p9A || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fremond_ Its the valedictory despatch of Sir Anthony Rumbold which comes up in searches under Gazelles and Butterflys.   Caused a bit of diplomatic embarrassment back in 2009
2026-03-26T09:31 id=2037100057863110870 →Brilliand__ | @Brilliand__ no that's quite far from my point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn't this argument of the form: Atheists: Some X are not Y You: No, some X 𝘢𝘳𝘦 Y  Both things can be true, so your statement is not useful as a rebuttal.
2026-03-26T09:40 id=2037102431579054100 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @seashell_luvr got any more like this? || CTX: @seashell_luvr https://t.co/rnue2tli4v
2026-03-26T09:50 id=2037104807773925752 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @Fremond_ yeah old hands in Thailand tend to go insane in the same way || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fremond_ I was just thinking that this sounds exactly like a more poetic version of your rant from the other day
2026-03-26T09:54 id=2037105805540155464 →bryan_caplan | @bryan_caplan Extraordinary people learn by doing your mom. || CTX: Normal people learn by doing, not reading. https://t.co/3u6cl7ptiK
2026-03-26T10:01 id=2037107595350335977 →- | This is why I hate economists so much they are so fucking stupid.   I was just reading today Meyrowitz's seminal No Sense of Place (ht @TheStalwart who totes wants to be tagged here) and in it he discusses situational consciousness and contextual intelligence, which of course shows us and is demonstrated time and again that people tend to learn some things better by doing, others by reading, and what determines these things in many cases depends on situation and context (alongside person specific scalars like intelligence, enthusiasm, maybe grit, etc., which themselves are multivariate).  You do not see this because you reify the individual as a single unit, fully cohesive and coherent, like a nice little numerical variable modeling a sphere cow.  It is the apotheosis of philosophical naivety and the nadir of culture wisdom that YOU, sir, and your ilk in econ departments worldwide have been deemed our priesthood, seers, and courtiers, because you quantify things like value and imply you can help us find more.  It is sick, sick, rotten to the core and the sign that we have lost empathy and ethics as our north stars.  I wish you good day, sir! || CTX: Normal people learn by doing, not reading. https://t.co/3u6cl7ptiK
2026-03-26T10:11 id=2037110174544998711 →- | This is why I hate economists so much they are so fucking stupid.   I was just reading today Meyrowitz's seminal No Sense of Place (ht @TheStalwart who totes wants to be tagged here) and in it he discusses situational consciousness and contextual intelligence, which of course shows us and is demonstrated time and again that people tend to learn some things better by doing, other things by reading, and what determines these things in many cases depends on situation and context more than the person (alongside person-specific scalars like intelligence, enthusiasm, maybe grit, etc., which themselves are multivariate).  You do not see this because you reify the individual as a single unit, fully cohesive and coherent, like a nice little numerical variable modeling a sphere cow.  It is the apotheosis of philosophical naivety and the nadir of culture wisdom that YOU, sir, and your ilk in econ departments worldwide have been deemed our priesthood, seers, and courtiers, because you quantify things like value and imply you can help us find more.  It is sick, sick, rotten to the core and the sign that we have lost empathy and ethics as our north stars.  I wish you good day, sir! || CTX: Normal people learn by doing, not reading. https://t.co/3u6cl7ptiK
2026-03-26T10:18 id=2037112003811315882 →DoozerDiffuser | @DoozerDiffuser thx broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I dont care if you take it back or not: it's provocative as hell! And not in a bad way.
2026-03-26T10:24 id=2037113368168071431 →marc__adler | @marc__adler What text was this? Same one? I should be able to triangulate the problem if it's a different text || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It looks like it's still mis-segmenting. https://t.co/QYM7IjBkCN
2026-03-26T10:32 id=2037115433770488261 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Depends on what you want to get out of the benchmark. || CTX: LLMs are designed to be used within their lab given harness now so it seems a little unfair to benchmark them outside of it. That’s not the average experience anymore https://t.co/G54QunlD0f
2026-03-26T10:32 id=2037115582236209377 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic yeah those pussies || CTX: only applies to women. https://t.co/csZ2Tahukk
2026-03-26T10:33 id=2037115818195247342 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack @weakenedcrab lmfao you're on a roll || CTX: @weakenedcrab that would have come in handy had the outage gone on longer. Can I get your telegram or something? If X goes down again I’ll pay you $8/month to recite reruns from memory
2026-03-26T10:34 id=2037115972423999821 →izzyz | @izzyz Sounds fun NGL || CTX: Modern social interaction is a Third-Order Simulacrum. We no longer exchange with nodes (People), but with Avatars—semiotic shells designed to maximize Coherence in the simulation, often at the cost of the Biological Prior.
2026-03-26T10:50 id=2037120118044631141 →TheLancet | @TheLancet That's the last straw!   I'll never use asbestos again! || CTX: Retraction—Today, we retract an unsigned 1977 commentary suggesting talc powder containing asbestos was not harmful. The Lancet was informed that the author had undisclosed competing interests and breached publication ethics. /4 https://t.c
2026-03-26T10:55 id=2037121169732886692 →BridgetPhetasy | @BridgetPhetasy https://t.co/wZsNKfZ0Xt  I am Jack's sign tapping. || CTX: "Shouldn't I just try to be happy?"  Of course not, Last Man--and you are a fool to ask the question.  Consider the beetle. Let's imagine a beetle kept as a pet in a terrarium full of lush plant life, no natural predators, and a constant st
2026-03-26T11:18 id=2037127167113629891 →TetraspaceWest | @TetraspaceWest @liz_love_lace Instant follow || CTX: @liz_love_lace this sapir whorfed anglos into egalitarianism leading to property rights and the industrial revolution and NIMBYism
2026-03-26T19:10 id=2037245934845968412 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 https://t.co/VKuj5myFvf  @bytecanyon has a VERY good paper on the Mary black/white room thought experiment || CTX: I cannot think of a convincing physicalist solution to the Black and White Mary Thought Experiment
2026-03-26T19:12 id=2037246223804227969 →207Nasher | @207Nasher It looks TO US. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can measure complexity using a method that is somewhat independence from your method of representing it  When it comes to evolution, it looks like there was a change from simple to complex, not just a change in the reso
2026-03-26T19:18 id=2037247779169591604 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I saw someone from Germany, another from Slovakia, and they said they weren't Muslims  Typical woke nonsense, imagine what'd happen on Bluesky! || CTX: The most insane thing about these comments is not that it’s Muslims yelling at this guy for drinking beer across the street from a mosque, it’s that it’s Briton’s who have already accepted the dhimmi status. Blackpilling post https://t.co/i
2026-03-26T19:48 id=2037255329193615759 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea wtf all I want is single payer healthcare || CTX: the safetyists bought bernie, and it is wild to watch https://t.co/y2mTffDZz5
2026-03-26T19:54 id=2037256986191094050 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas @greg_ip Maybe flattening interactions isn't good; it didn't help lower inequality or improve affordability. || CTX: I’ve been beating this drum: by making traditional signals of effort/information obsolete (eg writing a thoughtful email), AI will *increase* the value of social capital and networks.   This is not a good outcome: information technology was
2026-03-26T19:59 id=2037258228267147528 →MebFaber | @MebFaber @joeyhaberman lmfao https://t.co/990Kce5IRa || CTX: @joeyhaberman over 150,000 investors and counting!
2026-03-26T20:07 id=2037260270587044323 →matt_mazza14 | @matt_mazza14 Yes this is how life works. || CTX: Then it’s a lost battle. It’s one bewitched slave after another. https://t.co/u10l8iSUzK
2026-03-26T20:35 id=2037267213640675613 →WeltgeistYT | @WeltgeistYT He's a good fit for the internet age because he has many pithy quotes, but his actual full texts are atrocious.   His Ball and the Cross novel is laughably bad. || CTX: Notice you have to use words like "person" and "journalist" because Chesterton was not a philosopher, but a writer.  He had no ideas of his own, but his talent lay in eloquently communicating the ideas of others.  Contrast Nietzsche: eloque
2026-03-26T20:36 id=2037267477659607195 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk @provisionalidea You think in memetic soundbites, please learn how to talk like an individual human. || CTX: @provisionalidea @47fucb4r8c69323 L take bruh. Bernie of all people taking MONEY c’mon bruh!  The most for the people politician of our lifetime, falls the way the OVERWHELMING number of people fall, you immediately assume he was paid off. 
2026-03-26T20:45 id=2037269681435009059 →2oovy | @2oovy Wittgenstein approved. || CTX: Met the most based philosophy student today. I asked what he wanted to do after his degree and he said “I want to go into the trades”
2026-03-26T20:57 id=2037272652239560877 →- | This tweet is telling, and in a specific way.  Imagine if Richard Nixon did a State of the Union speech with a screen showing Pong. This would've been the reaction, and it would've seen serious and adult at the time.   Video games are now a sector generating 200 billion annually and a major US export, while the tech that video games spawns (GPUs) are what makes the most important tech of today possible.  There is a tendency among analysts and the laity to err on the side of Seriousness because it feels more adult, responsible, and likely to have positive outcomes. But history is riddled with unserious things becoming matters of life and death.   This is one of the foundations of Silly Business Theory #SBT and the idea is that the categories of serious/silly are porous to begin with, so thinking of the theory of the firm, of marginal productivity, or of value in purely "serious" terms is limiting.  Consider the corporate pizza party: the idea is that counterparties to a transaction will forego serious benefits for silly ones.   Or consider the job premium: some jobs will pay more because they're boring, monotonous, or just plain not creative or interesting.   How can you explain these phenomena if you insist business must be serious?! Or that the concepts of serious and unserious are fungible and tradeable?   I'll write a book on this one day if no one beats me to it, but Silly Business Theory #SBT is not silly. Or it is, which is why it's serious. || CTX: With respect to education, we are not a serious country. https://t.co/8iQGIwHdk9
2026-03-26T21:05 id=2037274840219213937 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @TheStalwart NGL kinda makes me want to leave this industry || CTX: “The Market” is just a guy staring a two screens. One has Truth Social. The other is Anthropic's blog  In front of him are 5 buttons that say: Software, Semis, European Defense, Energy, and Gold.   Trump or Anthropic post and he hits a butt
2026-03-26T21:16 id=2037277432227782738 →moultano | @moultano For what time horizon? || CTX: Do quants typically use a bespoke dispersion statistic for stock returns, or is it usually just var(log(x))?
2026-03-26T21:22 id=2037279088537403836 →moultano | I'm not a quant but work with them and hire one.  My general sense is that the market is seen as a collection of flows determined by a conditionally stochastic process, the stochasticity of which varies with time, and unpredictable exogenous factors will play a greater role over shorter time scales.  So you can try to account for this using some boutique model of variance, covariance, tail risk, liquidity risk, etc etc to identify endogenous microstructure dynamics if it's particularly important for your model (I think the HFT guys operate this way but I'm far from that world), but in most cases you just look at historical variance for what you're looking at and anchor your model to that, nudging with whatever modifiers you think are significant according to your factor model. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk, any maybe?
2026-03-26T21:24 id=2037279471947178318 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 Yes, which if one looks at it from the outside is a really very silly ritual to go through, especially if the goal is to be "serious". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It makes sense when the majority of Americans believe that to survive they have to put on a costume every day, cufflinks, necktie... and putter to a prison in all but name and pretend they're Serious for 8+ hours so their w
2026-03-26T21:25 id=2037279772913569983 →AmandaAskell | @AmandaAskell https://t.co/uHbKWltPU9 || CTX: Tech companies pay millions of dollars for their employees and then stick them in open-plan offices that make it nearly impossible to get work done. Best strategy for poaching employees is probably to just offer them an office with a door.
2026-03-26T21:38 id=2037283125483753570 →ThingsHidden2 | @ThingsHidden2 @WeltgeistYT Yeah he was beloved by conservative reactionaries because he was one, and he definitely had a niche.   Books still suck. || CTX: Really? He was never short of admirers in his own time. Evelyn Waugh, George Bernard Shaw, TS Eliot among them—from Eliot’s obituary:   “He reached a high imaginative level with The Napoleon of Notting Hill, and higher with The Man Who Was 
2026-03-26T21:49 id=2037285789948862832 →hughthehunk | This is the problem with being led by mimetic thought: you're now contradicting yourself because you're motivated by feeling, and the feeling seems to be one of a need for superiority (i. e. Redditor brain).  Reminds me of A in Either/Or whose obsession with the aesthetic leads him to fail to commit and thus always be moved from one shiny object to another.   Your aesthetic is smugness, so it's not even beauty you're chasing but a faint feeling of not being inferior.  Very sad tbh, but most people do outgrow this over time. || CTX: @provisionalidea @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree, that’s fs true. Most people don’t believe AI is an xrisk at all. What you can’t deny is that AI is overwhelming unpopular in general.   For a multitude of reasons but largely due to the industry’s 
2026-03-26T21:52 id=2037286592520614037 →chillbert32 | Yes I absolutely agree and my Silly Business Theory #SBT was really based on my observations of Elon Musk and how he has used Steve Jobs's playbook to claim serious things that appeal to the Puritan instinct while doing silly things that appeal to the Puritan's need for a pressure release valve.   Then I realized: Puritanism distorts this fungibility between silly/serious by denying it exists. And that's something in need of theoretical correction. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was always confused about work in America. I have a theory that it's downstream from Puritanism, which was equally about showing up, toiling with or without productive output, and big demonstrations to others about one's 
2026-03-26T21:54 id=2037287195221045258 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk @provisionalidea Because you're trying to have opinions on things you're deeply ignorant of.  That's arrogance at work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea I’m confused how you’re perceiving it this way.   I solely wanted to know where James was standing, as I normally really like his stuff.   Why do you think I’m trying to be superior? I’m just trying to put 
2026-03-26T21:56 id=2037287484120551530 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk @provisionalidea I suppose another way to put it is you're jumping to conclusions prematurely because you're not very intelligent.   Either description works. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea I’m confused how you’re perceiving it this way.   I solely wanted to know where James was standing, as I normally really like his stuff.   Why do you think I’m trying to be superior? I’m just trying to put 
2026-03-26T21:58 id=2037288143318286425 →hughthehunk | Well your binary of pro/anti is the wrong framing, and that's the problem.   I'm no more pro or anti AI than I am pro or anti hammers or calculators.   Not everything is a Marvel movie, some things cannot be understood as good guy vs bad guy.   And I appreciate the humility you're now showing, thank you for that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea Make me un-ignorant then! I admit I have little understanding of the psyche’s of people who wholeheartedly embrace AI.   My main claim: People who are pro-AI are overwhelmingly dismissive of the negatives. 
2026-03-26T22:00 id=2037288623629062473 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 I sadly haven't written it up yet, been too busy and there's not much demand.  Maybe one day I'll write a book or an article on the topic, I have a very complicated framework with empirical predictions (e.g., net margins on SMBs likely to fall over time in a jagged dispersion) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very interesting! Do you have anything I can read about it? I looked it up on your profile but wasn't able to find much.
2026-03-26T22:03 id=2037289375269339392 →hughthehunk | Silicon Valley discusses the negatives of AI all the time.  Your problem, yet again, is you're reifying many people into two categories: SV and normies. These are false misleading categories.   You're doing what racists do with "whites and non-whites", just with different chosen characteristics. But both are bad epistemologically for the same reason: the categories obfuscate more than they explain.  Your problem is really in how you think more than what you think. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea Tell me then   Why is it that when you discuss AI with a “normie” they are unable to ignore the negatives like SV does.   The negatives and the positives are literally one and the same.   Anything that cure
2026-03-26T22:08 id=2037290708349108227 →provisionalidea | I firmly disagree. They're already designed to be empowering, but there will always be incentives to be contrarian, alarmist, and pessimistic.  With AI there's cultural baggage from scifi and people think in terms of movies. You can't fix that with empowering design, however you understand that frankly nebulous and undefinable concept. || CTX: @hughthehunk @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it comes down to designing these things in ways that empower people and help them do better work in more engaging ways. In the 80s, the line was ‘nobody wants to babysit a control panel’, and it’s true 
2026-03-26T22:12 id=2037291574619697535 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk @provisionalidea You're conflating the e/acc crowd, a weird internet group whose numbers are declining, with an industry.   Or one can say you're equivocating the AI industry.   And your rubric is "feels", that's how you determine truth.  It's just bad thinking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea Sure, let’s say I’m generalizing the camps too much.   Yet still, there feels like a genuine schisms in society. And from the outside looking in, the e/acc are just weirdly dismissive of the dangers/downsid
2026-03-26T22:16 id=2037292564613935305 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Which is why the best philosophy is the study of the limits of logic (and ofc the dialectic by extension cf Scheffer Stroke) || CTX: Philosophy is a cultural movement which romanticizes a stubborn adherence and toxic over-dependency on dialectic and logic, aka a mental illness that has infected society since Socrates.  - paraphrasing Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols http
2026-03-26T22:16 id=2037292733312926033 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk @provisionalidea Now you've hit the nail on the head: their marketing to investors has alienated the public. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea Idk man… the CEO’s stating that mass unemployment is almost certain, and that there is a non trivial chance it kills everyone.   You really think a waiter or mechanic, are gonna care be able to look past th
2026-03-26T22:24 id=2037294740782358702 →- | An underappreciated dynamic is becoming more material to the relationship between sentiment and reality than most models account for: the gap between marketing tactics and targeted segments.   Consider the multi-year message from frontier labs: AI gonna do all the jobs, fix everything, and destroy the world. This is targeted to investors, who hear the same thing in all three: this is valuable, invest at a high valuation.   TPOT sees this and mostly rolls their eyes, unless you're an e/acc retard larping as an actual computer science professional, of course.   Normies take the marketing seriously and legit think software gonna take r jerbs, resulting in the stupid backlash.   Note how the AI cos don't care about the normie backlash. This is a consequence of wealth inequality and technological lock-in from network effects: normies lack the economic power to matter as an investor class, and they'll have no alternative but to use the tech as a customer class.  Hence the occasional critical of AI person who nonetheless uses AI, and the general flip flopping (I think Kevin Roose is one or both of these?).  I bet you could invent a trading algo based on this theory. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @provisionalidea Idk man… the CEO’s stating that mass unemployment is almost certain, and that there is a non trivial chance it kills everyone.   You really think a waiter or mechanic, are gonna care be able to look past th
2026-03-26T22:27 id=2037295434365022650 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @hughthehunk Sorry but that tweet just kinda seems like question begging to me. I don't see how they're doing this in design choices, especially since there's a lot of different design choices and ways to use AI, third party wrappers, fight for API revenue, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @hughthehunk I don’t think they are designed to be empowering.  https://t.co/j5nZdSvJPS
2026-03-26T22:29 id=2037295812955492848 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno The number of people on this project still hasn't peaked. || CTX: How many people are they adding to this cast, good lord https://t.co/c4hkTRWDwS
2026-03-26T22:31 id=2037296433783882192 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk Your last paragraph is hilarious. Real mafia shit.   Yeah come pierce my bubble, dude, I'll be waiting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re mostly right here across the board.   I’ll just say this, the people who dislike AI will never get on board. Therefore you’re only going to lose people.   Eventually the backlash will pierce the bubble. How intense t
2026-03-26T22:32 id=2037296680316637546 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @hughthehunk Cultures around technologies are always less intellectual than the technologies. This doesn't mean anything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @hughthehunk 🤷‍♂️  https://t.co/6k2DNpOPfE
2026-03-26T22:35 id=2037297390794019094 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea https://t.co/QqWUOIyT8b  Yup. || CTX: Roon implicitly makes an underappreciated point (and I'm glad he noted "as understood by the company"): the more abstract your governance target, the easier it is to manipulate and game.   This is why I hate Dario more than Sam: Sam Altman 
2026-03-26T22:37 id=2037297871683572035 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea @hughthehunk I actually didn't see the rest of the thread when I wrote that, apologies.   Still don't agree with you, though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @hughthehunk I get the sense you haven’t actually read a word I wrote so I’m out.
2026-03-26T22:37 id=2037298014164009145 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk I don't have the slightest idea what you're asking me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 First tell me this; how quickly do you believe the tech moves to a place where society as a whole has their “oh fuck” moment?
2026-03-26T22:41 id=2037298920691515463 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk Depends on what you mean by "completely transform".   Every new major technology reconfigures both supply and demand of labor and capital. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you believe AI will completely transform the labor market
2026-03-26T22:44 id=2037299637451944025 →Supamalaman | @Supamalaman @lu_sichu Confucianist humiliation is my fetish. || CTX: https://t.co/hLPT5E51WN
2026-03-26T22:48 id=2037300732811264255 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk No one ever assumed no backlash, I wonder why you think that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My understanding is that the CEO’s expect the relationship to between labor  &amp; capital to be drastically changed forever.   If it’s changed as drastically as they claim…. Millions upon millions of normal people’s liveli
2026-03-26T22:50 id=2037301306814341621 →tsotchke | @tsotchke Yes but only for measles || CTX: you're not allowed to appropriate imageboard culture if you're vaccinated https://t.co/8Cy5E9LEUK
2026-03-26T22:58 id=2037303084142198858 →- | I wrote this 12 years ago and since he tweeted this I'm pasting below, prob no one will care:  Every generation has its heroes, and American pop culture has created some big ones for the last two generations. For Baby Boomers, that hero was John Lennon, the man who taught about peace and love and drugs while disrupting the old ways of doing things. For Gen X, the hero was Kurt Cobain, a troubled and frustrated young man whose confused, mumbled, but pain-filled lyrics struck a chord in the first latchkey generation and the first American generation to have less economic potential than their parents.  We don’t yet know whom the Millennials will focus on as their hero, or if there even will be one. It certainly won’t come from music; it’s much more likely to be a tech mogul. Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Jack Dorsey are much more likely to fuel Millennial dreams than Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, or even Win Butler.  That shift is interesting on its own, but I am more interested in how Millennials will one day grow to despise John Lennon. I’m not sure if it has happened already; perhaps so. But it will happen. Here’s why.  Millennials hate Baby Boomers. If you Google “Why do Millennial”, the second autocomplete is “hate boomers”.  The animosity is economically grounded and was encapsuled in Albert Brooks’s recent dystopian novel “2030", in which the rich and elderly lived in gated communities where they protected themselves from the poor and young. Soaring tuition costs, lack of access to jobs, health insurance, the growth of unpaid internships, the constant accusations of entitlement, the flat to declining real wages…all of these fuel the animus. This spite on its own is enough for Millennials to target the icons of the Boomers.  2. Self-indulgent introspection is passé. Shortly after the Beetles broke up, John Lennon wrote the song “How Do You Sleep?”, about his former partner Paul McCartney. This song includes such lovely lines as “You better see right through that mother’s eyes/Those freaks was right when they said you was dead/The one mistake you made was in your head” and “You live with straights who tell you, you was king/Jump when your momma tell you anything”. Lennon did excise a line that accused McCartney of plagiarism at least.  Petty public squabbles are a bit more common these days, and they are frowned upon much more as an act of pettiness, whereas Boomers eagerly aplogized for the nastiness of this song, such as Ben Gerson’s 1971 review of the album:  “while I find “How Do You Sleep,” John’s character assassination of Paul McCartney, horrifying and indefensible, it nevertheless has an immediacy which makes it more compelling than most of the rest of the album.”  The apology rings hollow these days, when childish outbursts are less likely to be seen as scandalous than just plain pathetic.  In a later interview, Lennon tried to justify the song’s anger by saying that we all had it wrong, really, it was all about himself:  “I used my resentment against Paul… to create a song… not a terrible vicious horrible vendetta… I used my resentment and withdrawing from Paul and The Beatles, and the relationship with Paul, to write ‘How Do You Sleep’. I don’t really go ‘round with those thoughts in my head all the time.”  What is so interesting about this little paragraph is how the first person prounouns show up six times in three sentences. This is not uncommon in Lennon interviews, and not uncommon for the heroes of the Boomer generation.  Millennials' icons speak quite differently. Steve Jobs was notoriously private. When Elon Musk gives an interview, first person plural pronouns are more common than the singular. In the linked interview, here’s what we find:  I (46 times) Me (23 times) My (1 time) Mine (0 times) You (73 times) Your (13 times) We (90 times) Us (9 times) || CTX: Imagine https://t.co/EXjx1HoImn
2026-03-26T22:58 id=2037303297560961457 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Note that these include all of the pronouns used by the interviewer and the interviewee, but it is quite clear that the focus is on the second and third person, not the first.  Now let’s do the same thing for a Lennon interview:  I (741 times)  Me (107 times)  My (56 times)  Mine (4 times)  You (424 times)  Your (43 times)  We (342 times)  Us (60 times)  A very tentative and messy look reveals this: Musk’s ratio of first to second person pronouns is .814, Lennon’s is 1.944, meaning Lennon is much more likely to talk about himself than Musk. Of course there are tons of problems with this (the interviews are of different lengths, the two are in different professions, I haven’t isolated just their pronoun usage from that of the interviewer), the general point stands: the icons of this generation are less introspective than the previous generation.  To show just how introspective Lennon was, look at some excerpts:  “I announced “Cold Turkey” at the Lyceum saying, “I’m going to sing a song about pain.” So pain and screaming was before Janov. I mean Janov showed me more of my own pain. I went through therapy with him like I told you and I’m probably looser all over.”  “The most humiliating experiences were like sitting with the Mayor of the Bahamas, when we were making “Help” and being insulted by these fuckin’ junked up middle-class bitches and bastards who would be commenting on our work and commenting on our manners. I was always drunk, insulting them. I couldn’t take it. It would hurt me. I would go insane, swearing at them. I would do something. I couldn’t take it.  “All that business was awful, it was a fuckin’ humiliation. One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were, and that’s what I resent. I didn’t know, I didn’t foresee. It happened bit by bit, gradually until this complete craziness is surrounding you, and you’re doing exactly what you don’t want to do with people you can’t stand–the people you hated when you were ten. And that’s what I’m saying in this album–I remember what it’s all about now you fuckers–fuck you! That’s what I’m saying, you don’t get me twice.”  Millennials do not find this kind of artistic navel-gazing cool—when growing up, they mocked emo kids for this kind of rage, and the popularity of the “first world problems” meme implies Millennials, at least in developed nations, are more aware of how comfortable their lives are relative to the bottom billion, such as the impoverished citizens of the Bahamas who served Lennon when he was making “Help” there.  3. Income disparity has made hypocrisy revolting. Occupy Wall Street was arguably the most successful socio-political movement of my lifetime, and its impact on society is subtle enough that it is not yet widely understood. But one thing it successfully did is to force Americans to realize that the interests of the wealthy, the middle class, and the poor are not always perfectly aligned, and sometimes in economics there are zero-sum games in which one social class wins and the other loses.  It was not always seen this way, and the Boomers in particular were much more eager to believe in a rising economic tide that lifted all boats, whether Democrat or Republican. Hence one of the most popular songs of the era was the title track from Lennon’s “Imagine”, on the same album as the hateful song above. Lennon’s words about unity became a passionate rallying cry for this generation:  “Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man”  At the time when most Boomers first heard these lyrics, John Lennon was living in The Dakota, a luxury building across the street from Central Park that has a history of housing the extremely wealthy. (You can nab a 3 bedroom for a little under $7 million right now.) || CTX: I wrote this 12 years ago and since he tweeted this I'm pasting below, prob no one will care:  Every generation has its heroes, and American pop culture has created some big ones for the last two generations. For Baby Boomers, that hero was
2026-03-26T22:59 id=2037303456831242364 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It is difficult to imagine how the youth of today would respond to an ultra-wealthy musician singing about a world with no possessions, but I cannot imagine it would be too positive. The closest we have is Bono, a singer who actively promotes causes for the world’s poorest, donates to charity, and generally projects an image of a very caring philanthropist. He’s also despised in Ireland for avoiding taxes and mocked in magazines and on South Park for his hypocrisy. Oh, and he’s a Boomer.  Of course, Lennon’s self-indulgence was no surprise to the Boomers. Gerson’s review of the album, despite apologizing for Lennon’s outlashing, is actually very negative. Gerson says “In its technical sloppiness and self-absorption, Imagine is John’s Self-Portrait.” That did not stop it from becoming an anthem to Baby Boomers. For instance, Howard Stern has repeatedly said Lennon is his greatest hero. (Incidentally, Stern lives just a few blocks south of Lennon’s multi-million dollar digs.) But for them, self-indulgence was not a bad thing—they were, after all, the Me Generation.  The Millennials are different. They have been called the Me Me Me Generation. But there is a huge difference. The Boomers called themselves the Me Generation and were proud of it. The Millennials, however, have quickly pointed out that every generation is accused of this self-absorption by doing solid historical research—in other words, by analyzing the world, not themselves.  As Millennials turn introspection into a defect, if not an outright taboo, they will either let Lennon be quickly forgotten as a relic of the past, or they will resurrect him to denigrate him. Either way, the self-indulgent hyporcitical artist heroes of the past are dead, replaced by the extroverted entrepreneurs of today.  (End) || CTX: Note that these include all of the pronouns used by the interviewer and the interviewee, but it is quite clear that the focus is on the second and third person, not the first.  Now let’s do the same thing for a Lennon interview:  I (741 tim
2026-03-26T23:02 id=2037304153056440499 →hughthehunk | @hughthehunk It is not user error. You don't understand my view at all, and I'm not really an AI guy.  I have to give up on you. Good luck out there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So you’ve thought about the enormous swell of rage coming to SV, and you still disregard it, claim it is user error.  You AI’s guys look at 0s &amp; 1s far too much, it’s entirely cooked your capacity for empathy.   My enti
2026-03-26T23:59 id=2037318506950300008 →DurumMac | @DurumMac And California, which was Brooks's self identified influence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “2030” sounds like… Canada.
2026-03-27T00:11 id=2037321592179765468 →publicinte | @publicinte honestly they aren't usually this behind, this is very strange || CTX: just heard a radio had that ai companies may be making sycophantic chat bots for user retention  how behind is the average new cycles
2026-03-27T00:13 id=2037322099644416060 →EconomPic | @EconomPic he has no choice, he has to point the blame at the distributors, what else can he do? || CTX: This isn't something he should probably not have said out loud.  'Doug Ostrover, co-chief executive officer at Blue Owl Capital Inc., said distribution teams targeting retail and high-net-worth investors may not have explained clearly enoug
2026-03-27T00:20 id=2037323734173036761 →publicinte | @publicinte business class is very much a hazard because once you fly it you just can't go back to economy. || CTX: the day i fly anything other than coach just know the man you all know is dead.  And he died, because i killed him.
2026-03-27T01:05 id=2037335101613416605 →marc__adler | @marc__adler I really appreciate you pointing these out for me! Thank you.  This has been fixed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Same one
2026-03-27T01:17 id=2037338155788149241 →Indian_Bronson | There is both nothing wrong with how these people live and with how us nerds obsessed with reading in our offices live.  The problem is dismissing another group's form of life as "bad".  This is certainly limited--they will have less economic and social opportunities--but so too is every other form of life limited in different ways.  People need to assess things in terms of cost/benefit more than in terms of good/bad. Good/bad is stupid. || CTX: These are great Americans and they are living life much more intelligently and vitally than the people sneering at them https://t.co/uIthYY9g63
2026-03-27T01:25 id=2037340209390784963 →- | Last one of these I'm going to do since my sacred texts one got almost no attention: here's a corpus of Old English prose and verse. Also known as Anglo-Saxon prose and verse.  If you don't know, this is the first written English to roughly the year 1200.
2026-03-27T01:25 id=2037340212838461897 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Website is here: https://t.co/VRbdK0nPJm and it's a lot like the one I did for Greek and Roman texts, which btw is https://t.co/vgVTXCKJDR.  You can filter by genre (verse or prose) on the left-hand side or by author (not many options here, Anonymous was most prolific, bless Anons of all eras), and you can sort according to author, title, or "most readable", a nifty function that puts the easier and more enjoyable to read texts at the top.  You can filter only those with modern translations and you'll get the standard parallel text display.  Then at the top on the right you've got keyword search both searching titles on the shelf and searching within texts themselves for a particular passage. || CTX: Last one of these I'm going to do since my sacred texts one got almost no attention: here's a corpus of Old English prose and verse. Also known as Anglo-Saxon prose and verse.  If you don't know, this is the first written English to roughly
2026-03-27T01:25 id=2037340215447265515 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The chain does not end with me. || CTX: Website is here: https://t.co/VRbdK0nPJm and it's a lot like the one I did for Greek and Roman texts, which btw is https://t.co/vgVTXCKJDR.  You can filter by genre (verse or prose) on the left-hand side or by author (not many options here,
2026-03-27T01:32 id=2037341847182598174 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Fuck the Jutes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pretty cool, but no love for the jutes ?
2026-03-27T02:06 id=2037350600166551794 →DurumMac | @DurumMac The Jutes are behind everything. || CTX: Blame the Jutes. Always blame the Jutes. https://t.co/yZNexHpRIP
2026-03-27T02:25 id=2037355392574034423 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @Ken67547214 I can't fight the medium since it is the message; if it gets lost due to the amnesiac nature of the medium, the fault's with the medium and its users, so the end result is fair. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 Pin something and keep dumping relevant stuff there, its sort of a hack given the amnesic nature of the medium
2026-03-27T02:31 id=2037356790153875509 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @Ken67547214 Meyrowitz makes this very argument (I'm reading his No Sense of Place now) and fully agree. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 I dont disregard mcluhan but people never consider the edge cases and routinely deny they exist
2026-03-27T02:32 id=2037356939647336706 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @EtherDais True, but my current pinned post is more important and will never be unpinned. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais The medium has these additional buttons you can press
2026-03-27T02:43 id=2037359824032481385 →Miles_Brundage | @Miles_Brundage GPT 5.4 still does tons of "it's not x, it's y". || CTX: GPT-5.4 made me less tolerant of Claude's "it's not X, it's Y" because it shows another world is possible  And Claude's efficiency (in terms of insight per second) makes the GPTs look bad  Soon both will be efficient and non-cringe, and I'l
2026-03-27T04:36 id=2037388315985575983 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 lmao this is such fucking bullshit, Meta really, really has lost the plot || CTX: Lets hope Meta does not build wire-heading like recommendation algorithms https://t.co/TFUYEgc6cm
2026-03-27T05:00 id=2037394342932094990 →8bit5_0 | My concern is that the encoder of the multimodal latent vectors captured by Llama, V-JEPA2, and the audio one still relies on LLM-based architecture: you get your inputs, encode as transformer blocks, and then process.  This isn't continuous! It's not actually going from brain-->transformer-->output without compression and information loss, and I know engineers will say, "meh, doesn't matter", but they said that with LLMs too and you get tons of performance ceilings: "It's not x, it's y", sycophancy, lack of ground truth etc. etc.  I'm not saying this won't work well--it'll do some new stuff and, cool, great. But it's the same pipeline of world data ---> compressed symbologic representation ---> transformer ---> synthetic output!  It's not technically "text-based" anymore in the strictest sense, but it's still text-based in the way that really matters for improving outputs. The ceiling isn't being broken, this won't do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh, elaborate ? do you think this is pointless and/or fake in some sense ?
2026-03-27T05:37 id=2037403557008404502 →- | I had no idea Socrates was this much of a process philosopher--I haven't read Plato since the 1990s, guess I should revisit more often. https://t.co/IRmqbeX8qD
2026-03-27T05:37 id=2037403560221331845 →47fucb4r8c69323 | BTW this is from the Thaeaeaeaeaeaeaetetusetusetus: https://t.co/Qvukihsds1 || CTX: I had no idea Socrates was this much of a process philosopher--I haven't read Plato since the 1990s, guess I should revisit more often. https://t.co/IRmqbeX8qD
2026-03-27T05:38 id=2037403760797086180 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 yeah, I'm just salty LeCun left or got fired or whatever happened. || CTX: oh i agree! We'll need more than a transformer. I'm not even sure any (past or future) predictive model could capture the causal machinery in the brain.  But I don't think we need that level of understanding from a model to build something 
2026-03-27T05:38 id=2037403939310858544 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning Was this your trip around (and around and around etc etc) the living room? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sorry ive been really busy after my trip and also really tired and dizzy
2026-03-27T06:37 id=2037418732126122244 →teodorio | @teodorio Yeah this was Nietzsche's whole point. I don't know enough about the Greeks or Plato to comment, but this Socrates is not the Socrates I thought I knew, rigid designator or no. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I genuinely don't understand how Plato ended up like he did given he adored Socrates
2026-03-27T06:37 id=2037418784928227666 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 yeah it's a recurring theme fr fr || CTX: Guy who's only ever read the heart sutra : you know what this reminds me of https://t.co/yXCLV2Q9Op
2026-03-27T06:41 id=2037419674787520531 →207Nasher | @207Nasher The description of modern animals from one perspective is more complex than that of primordial life, for sure.  But consider: a world of 500 trillion single-cell organisms versus a world of 1 trillion 500-cell organisms. Ceteris paribus, which world is more complex--objectively? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 While I agree that complexity is a product of your method of representing something, I do think that modern animals are more complex than primordial life.   More complex in the notion of complexity that generalizes mostly i
2026-03-27T06:49 id=2037421785558429806 →207Nasher | @207Nasher So it seems to me an objective measure of complexity independent of our human perspective may not be possible.  I am not married to this point and am happy to change my view, though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In your example a rough heuristic approach would say that they are equally complex. But I can come up with a way of representing them such that either the individual organisms or the individual cells become harder to repres
2026-03-27T07:23 id=2037430341993169265 →- | Written 40 years ago long before the first YouTube essay.   We were warned. https://t.co/umWE1anuwB
2026-03-27T07:54 id=2037438116798320694 →- | Imagine a magical new device is invented that offers full sensual projection into another space.  I mean that, you call someone far away and enter an empty room, and that person picks up the message and enters  a similarly empty room, and all of a sudden while you are in different places it looks like you both are in the same room.  And not just looks--you can hear, feel, even smell the other person. They are projected to you as a 3-d hologram and additionally all of their sensory data (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound) is transmitted to you losslessly. It feels like you and that person are in the same room, entirely, except you aren't.  And, yes, you can have sex. It feels identical to the real thing.  Now let's say that this room also operates like the Holodeck, so you can create any kind of setting you want. The two of you can fuck at the peak of the Matterhorn or have dinner at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, or go snorkeling together off a beach in virtual Palawan.  Now that you've imagined this scenario, I want to give you a choice.  1. You can have your current real life with your wife/husband/bf/gf (or ideal partner if you're single), nothing changed.  2. You will never meet your partner/ideal partner, but the two of you can spend as much time in this room together as you wish.  Which do you choose?
2026-03-27T08:04 id=2037440543060611507 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Wtf the poll didn't show up this website is so broken || CTX: Imagine a magical new device is invented that offers full sensual projection into another space.  I mean that, you call someone far away and enter an empty room, and that person picks up the message and enters  a similarly empty room, and a
2026-03-27T08:19 id=2037444476864770332 →teodorio | @teodorio He's a salesman from Queens, they're all like this. || CTX: how does he do it? is it just natural? https://t.co/97CcAKQPpV
2026-03-27T08:25 id=2037445954077650959 →- | That's what she said https://t.co/QHBgAVPzxw || CTX: @NoItsBeckoning @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 not basic input output?
2026-03-27T08:27 id=2037446275071954945 →noon_ta_noeta | @noon_ta_noeta Why is Socrates stating it here? I haven't finished the text yet, does he denounce it later on? || CTX: Read on. This is not the thought of Socrates but Heraclitus represented by Plato's Soc. it's Plato's position on sensible bodies which he also consistently holds throughout the Republic and Timaeus. The physical is in constant flux, which i
2026-03-27T08:30 id=2037447141011132795 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin let's say that you can always mail your semen to your partner || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very interesting thought experiment. Didn’t realize how much weight I gave to reproduction in a relationship until just now. (assuming pregnancy couldn’t happen through the hologram)
2026-03-27T08:36 id=2037448677199868014 →207Nasher | Would you cosign this:  Properties as measured are representation-relative, complexity is especially representation-relative, and the selection of representation is typically performed by conscious agents. But the accuracy and success of representations are constrained by objective structure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is different from your original point where as you gain more data, it is takes more work to represent all that data, in the case of evolution, I think the extra data that we came from biology applies symmetrically to b
2026-03-27T08:39 id=2037449368698270011 →noon_ta_noeta | @noon_ta_noeta This is incredibly helpful, thank you. || CTX: The Theatetus is structurally the search for what is episteme, in the first part they go through aisthesis (perception). This is a thorough description of how Plato thinks perception and sensible bodies work like. from the things that follo
2026-03-27T09:09 id=2037457030710235640 →- | "Science cannot justify the use of itself" wtf Sabine Hassenfelder said something good what's going on
2026-03-27T09:25 id=2037460893475446848 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Her winky support of Eric Weinstein was a red line for me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 She's not as wacky as some suggest.    More notable for speaking up/out than deeply perhaps, but net positive given the state of affairs
2026-03-27T09:33 id=2037463042817220631 →SableHummer | @SableHummer I legit don't understand wtf that dude is talking about || CTX: God I wish /g/ was around to see this https://t.co/1BaVGlTIpY
2026-03-27T09:48 id=2037466855150174692 →BarryPCotter | @BarryPCotter @sottaku_app Meh, whatever. I've done my duty. Inshallah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good luck with it and more power to you for doing the work but if you want attention you need to be doing a lot of publicity. Alternatively figure out how to get LLMs to pay attention like @sottaku_app  did by accident.
2026-03-27T10:10 id=2037472332269424788 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ yeah man where does this shit end/begin? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can any system justify itself from within itself?
2026-03-27T10:32 id=2037477936161591697 →- | I'm so stereotypical. As a teenager called myself a communist and now in my mid-40s I'm anti union.
2026-03-27T11:06 id=2037486368352588113 →moralityetalon | @moralityetalon Did not expect this to be about that tweet lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Got me off staring into space thinking of words to name this emotion.
2026-03-27T11:36 id=2037493913486070169 →- | Shabbat shalom
2026-03-27T11:38 id=2037494384636350481 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod @TheFlowHorse Thank you for what you do man fr || CTX: @TheFlowHorse Basically crypto bros need to sit down for a sec and take a math class.
2026-03-27T11:46 id=2037496428734681452 →yifever | @yifever @NoItsBeckoning this is so funny || CTX: bryan jonhson's net contributuon to overall health across the globe just went from positive to negative. he needs to realize that his audience don't have access to medical professionals on staff and will just be winging street dmt cause he 
2026-03-27T12:00 id=2037499974674698645 →- | Kyutae oppa, Kyutae oppa, Dormez-vous, Dormez-vous, Sonnez les matines, Sonnez les matines, Ding, dang, dong, Ding, dang, dong.
2026-03-27T12:14 id=2037503515401257078 →DurumMac | @DurumMac first time for everything so if we meet irl bring condoms || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sabbathing on the Twitter are we?
2026-03-27T12:52 id=2037512995761479825 →stinkgen | @stinkgen That is so kind of you, thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your long posts are some of my least regretted minutes on this website.
2026-03-27T13:15 id=2037518998791954901 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Advertising has extreme seasonality || CTX: What is “Annualized Revenue” in Advertising?  Annualized Revenue = I multiplied a month of revenue by 12. https://t.co/HB4tU1I4FQ
2026-03-27T13:16 id=2037519106732376371 →___faust____ | @___faust____ https://t.co/HaF8hsBy0e || CTX: https://t.co/u7HbJwPWk3
2026-03-27T13:21 id=2037520479100301797 →- | The craziest thing about weed is it's got THC in it
2026-03-27T21:51 id=2037648712428888441 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ If I may tap the sign   https://t.co/m3ZcnsANyW || CTX: From a young age children are taught to be nice, often as a corrective for not-nice behavior, which typically runs the gamut from schoolyard bullying to refusing to say “thank you” when offered a gift or treat.  These two actions are vastly
2026-03-28T01:00 id=2037696208677068942 →_tedks | @_tedks @CartoonsHateHer I agree there are better options such as the .md file, but if I have a document that needs signing like a contract, surely there's no alternative to the PDF. || CTX: @CartoonsHateHer There is NO SUCH THING as ETHICAL SEX Sex is BAD Dating is BAD If you do it, YOU ARE BAD and you know who else is bad? pdf files. QED. https://t.co/NQ1yL0uLhK
2026-03-28T01:01 id=2037696633996288022 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson The distribution is the message. || CTX: Think about how wild it is this footage has made it all the way to you lmao https://t.co/4ahzhaJWNB
2026-03-28T01:44 id=2037707449420206438 →publicinte | @publicinte In Thailand? Yes. Chinese wife was in Japan, though, and the friend American. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I didn’t know you were over there
2026-03-28T02:05 id=2037712755583762655 →andrewerlanger | @andrewerlanger I grew up in Las Vegas where there was usually 1-2 Jews in a class of 30.  Regularly told I killed Jesus, was going to hell, etc. Only got beat up once for it though, teachers didn't take my side. || CTX: I know it’s not the same magnitude but I lived most of my life among the East coast intelligentsia, my paternal family was part of “Our Crowd”, used to go to Temple Emmanu-El, the whole deal. I never felt threatened; then the intifada prote
2026-03-28T02:23 id=2037717196466774437 →- | Hats off to the Googler who did this https://t.co/ebOAODWdYM || CTX: The Post called the White House. But the name attached to the number read “Epstein Island.”  A Google Maps error labeled the White House as “Epstein Island” on some Android phones. Google reversed the edit and the White House said it was an
2026-03-28T02:28 id=2037718415209890146 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @publicinte She thinks the Japanese and Chinese should unite against the white man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @publicinte Chinese wife in Japan?   So she dealt with Anti-Sinicism and decided to spread Anti-Semitism?
2026-03-28T03:04 id=2037727425036222940 →- | In the early 2000s I read a novel called The Last Jet Engine Laugh that has a first person narrator in the near future where water is heavily rationed and mostly polluted. In it he writes something like, "so, you want to ask me what do the poor do? Well fuck you."   It was such a bald violation of the conventions of what the medieval rhetoricians called captatio benevolentiae (and what I'd been studying for my PhD) that it really struck me, so much so I often think about it to this day.   We know of the grifting content creator who makes a parasocial relationship with people online to seem more likeable and thus more engagement/money. But there's something else: the grifting content creator who makes a padasocial relationship with people online to make them hate the creator, thus more engagement/money.  This is an underutilized tactic in part because it's hard, and often when it's used you can't make it too explicit or it destroys the illusion (you break the kayfabe, as it were).  The greatest person to successfully use this tactic was Nicocado Avocado, who is quickly becoming lost to history but his entire stunt needs to be preserved as a pivotal moment in media history.  I also think this has not been leveraged to its fullest capacity. A genius content creator who makes antisociality his brand and develops a hate watch audience that exceeds his fans will emerge one day.  The throughline from Howard Stern (who had listeners that hated him but stayed tuned in to see what he'll say next) to Nick Fuentes (who has followers that are ambiguous about his politics but like how antisocial they are) is incomplete.   The closest so far is an odd and random person: Stuttering John, who has a huge following of people who hate him and make a living doing podcasts about how bad of a person he is. This is in the general direction, but it's unintentional; in the future we'll have paid-for heels who embrace the role for cash.   And I for one think that's beautiful. || CTX: Para-antisocial relationships
2026-03-28T03:10 id=2037728997254254937 →elocinationn | @elocinationn Rationality only takes one so far, one needs grounding in a truth-based world model.   SF autists lack this because they live in a bubble.   Kinda this simple tbh, my career has basically been to apply NY realism and academic rigor to SF bullshit and see where it breaks. || CTX: Every day I become increasingly confused at how a locus associated with peak autism (SF) has somehow fallen for one of the most flawed ‘final technology’ arguments I’ve ever come across.   In their hypothetical world, they build some perfec
2026-03-28T03:14 id=2037730122149797954 →elocinationn | @elocinationn That's why the sales pitch is couched in doom: "AI gonna steal everyone's jobs and could end humanity" to the autist sounds like a challenge and an opportunity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No true autist would just ‘believe’ a CEO sales pitch. That we listen to these AGI doomers without roasting their retarded arguments is beyond me.
2026-03-28T04:07 id=2037743416415797436 →- | Kinda feels like you can understand the Boomers if you just understand what television did to their minds.  Same as with Gen Z and the internet. https://t.co/ekQZtbzZ0s
2026-03-28T04:10 id=2037744069678600641 →DhruvaMath | Yes I think von Fraassen is largely continuing Wittgenstein's observations about rules in the Brown book, Phil. Remarks, and P. I.  Science established and creates rules as it goes along, but the rules are constantly refined and constrained. So the rules are really just useful descriptions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reminds me of Kripkes concept of the “quus” within his skeptical solution for Wittgenstein
2026-03-28T04:20 id=2037746551888679334 →ContraPoints | @ContraPoints https://t.co/ot8PXiZaLz || CTX: Clouds over Chengdu. How has the West fallen so far behind? https://t.co/OcddnPluhE
2026-03-28T07:05 id=2037788107890930082 →- | https://t.co/wMFwxhdUh1
2026-03-28T07:06 id=2037788526654472393 →ESYudkowsky | @ESYudkowsky Hey why didn't you block me on this account too, you dumbass retard? || CTX: "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" is now out.  Read it today if you want to see with fresh eyes what's truly there, before others try to prime your brain to see something else instead! https://t.co/mcEy1ZW8ab
2026-03-28T07:09 id=2037789034853040179 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/pFkGQmoh2I || CTX: @ESYudkowsky Hey why didn't you block me on this account too, you dumbass retard?
2026-03-28T07:28 id=2037793850006364334 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 he seems to be like a temu version of that levels io guy, who has actually made some rather good websites and appears to be a normal functioning human being. that said, I haven't really followed the levels guy all that much so I could be wrong and he's a jackass too. || CTX: nikita has literally added nothing of value to the internet for adults. he made two gay apps for children and stole their contact information and sold it to his pervert friends and got rich and then started consulting and buying hair for hi
2026-03-28T07:56 id=2037800998870323622 →teodorio | @teodorio @DaphneB76234 oh damn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 he's a jackass too
2026-03-28T07:58 id=2037801456921956526 →- | I expected and predicted this result in December 2022. Very happy to see it now. https://t.co/Oc7Xev8vig https://t.co/ajroa5wQsH || CTX: Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite https://t.co/bL4og0YCoZ  | opinion
2026-03-28T08:04 id=2037802973787787352 →voooooogel | @voooooogel @lu_sichu It's because alignment and safetyism are shiny toys to distract otherwise intelligent people from thinking more about the implications of the transformer architecture and its use on textual artefacts. || CTX: some of you made fun of Yann LeCun for unironically believing this, yet unironically believe it yourself for persona alignment.  you can't just care about the persona's surface behaviors, you need to care if the narrative arcs those behavio
2026-03-28T08:13 id=2037805382958272699 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Wow your video looks so much like you (for me the avatar is the reality) || CTX: I’m in an era where I’m pretending I have an electric guitar and playing songs that were not meant for acoustic guitar. https://t.co/RKPs9YB1n9 https://t.co/9ApUHUFYZm
2026-03-28T08:24 id=2037808152020979800 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill This is Jason Botterill.  THAT is a lossy rendition. https://t.co/O0uKUWBVmQ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what does that even mean 😭
2026-03-28T08:26 id=2037808423832817768 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 Was Chris-chan a knowing and willing lolcow of just a crazy person being made fun of online? I'm only vaguely aware of the lore. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Chris-chan
2026-03-28T08:27 id=2037808758886473790 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill You do.   Btw do you mind if I read your name as Butterill?   And i would say: no, I want her to feel healthy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No one looks like an anime character bro 😭
2026-03-28T08:33 id=2037810204474278085 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill https://t.co/ZaI84SKQSD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do as you feel
2026-03-28T08:35 id=2037810861704892460 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Why is there this confusion? Is it that the ideas don't translate well to the Indian context or Indians are just generally ignorant of what these ideas are, overall? || CTX: What the fuck do you even think liberalism and liberal arts is?   Indians are really confused between Right, Left, and Liberal. https://t.co/2A6Upz0Tpp
2026-03-28T08:43 id=2037812836664332729 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak oh so same in Thailand || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Both?  Both.
2026-03-28T08:44 id=2037813089002041853 →- | the best part of weed is how good this banana smoothie is
2026-03-28T10:17 id=2037836445428437324 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 https://t.co/Eo1unWgZan || CTX: ? https://t.co/5SklcmlAal
2026-03-28T10:24 id=2037838262103064943 →justcoolhotdog | @justcoolhotdog alphanumeric characters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what on earth is your display and username??
2026-03-28T10:40 id=2037842222264242331 →- | when I first saw the news about P Diddy's many bottles of baby oil my first thought was, wow, I really feel bad for that baby
2026-03-28T10:44 id=2037843247566090312 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic apparently yuh(dkowsky) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait he has 2 accounts?
2026-03-28T10:47 id=2037843907816665580 →- | From the species that brought you the hilarious classic Weeaboos comes the exiting sequel: Burgerboos. https://t.co/O4fqR6WoDI || CTX: このポストにもの凄い勢いで英語のリプが付いてて(またゾンビが...)と思ってたら  「テキサスに来い。無料だ」 「南部州は肉ゾーンと呼ばれている」 「ケンタッキー州ではどこでも食える」  みたいなアメリカンたちの熱烈勧誘だった。ありがとう…！いつかNFL観戦とTEXMEXと南部ビーフの為に渡米する https://t.co/ZcgNc4RkFi
2026-03-28T12:28 id=2037869444052189414 →- | lol "gunshot" for shotgun don't do drugs kids https://t.co/hiPovBKhJT || CTX: In a car, what is the cuck chair?
2026-03-28T18:31 id=2037960865077682660 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 I now know || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s not a friend
2026-03-28T22:52 id=2038026359340188063 →- | idk if COVID was started by a lab leak or some dead animal at an unhygienic wet market, I just know one of these options is deeply racist (forget which one) so I of course know the other one is true. https://t.co/D14Ymy0XiD || CTX: The weight of evidence is against lab leak now, right ? https://t.co/h2qDY9Utqb
2026-03-28T22:55 id=2038027317122077037 →_tedks | @_tedks Make 7 Up Yours || CTX: Sorry, the Internet is not the cause of making people p*rnbr**n*d. Does nobody remember the 90s? "Do" the Dew? 🤮
2026-03-28T23:09 id=2038030684418380043 →ctjlewis | This is quite normal when it comes to enjoying another culture.   We talk a lot about fantasies of being noble (e. g. Bridgerton) but when you look at the cultural output most people enjoy, it tends to be more working class: Beatles, football, IPA, etc.   Even French haut cuisine has roots in peasant food, and love of Louis Vuitton/Hermes is more about having a consumption good to prove the high value of your labor more than proof that you're landed old money.  American elitism by credential is a bad cosplay of European elitism by blood, so it's no surprise the Japanese would find it uninteresting. || CTX: I can’t figure out how to phrase the follow-up without it sounding extreme, but basically, the Japanese seem to have more affection for the heartlands and America’s native culture than our own elites, who look down on these kinds of people 
2026-03-28T23:09 id=2038030759232249909 →fitzr1122 | @fitzr1122 Cartesian woke ness: doubt everything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They're both racist now I'm afraid
2026-03-28T23:12 id=2038031391427035160 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe iirc he didn't publish the essays in his lifetime? Or didn't intend to initially? || CTX: montaigne is really good, but I think he'd be better if he had an editor who would kill his darlings.  he was written for a time when there was much less competition methinks
2026-03-28T23:20 id=2038033461823549695 →- | I got banned from the /badeconomics/ subreddit after saying American politicians should not enact economic policies that enrich poor non-Americans if it lowers the income or income growth potential of Americans.   One reply was by a regular who claimed to work at the Fed (I believe this, I'd met dozens of redditors IRL including from that sub who were professionals) who said I was insane and linked me to some theory paper on why they should.   This was in 2017 when Trump was talking about the deep state and draining the swamp. Very confusing time for me personally.   One thing foreigners do not understand about Americans and something Americans know instinctively is that our country is a battleground for the world. People think America is trying to be the world's police and that is true, but it also means the American government is a shadow battleground for foreign interests who want to police the police.  And most of us Americans just want to have a prosperous life with a nice house and a couple of cars and whatever and to be left alone otherwise. We don't want Iran chanting Death to America, we don't want the Chinese trying to infiltrate our tech sector, and we don't want Israel bribing our politicians. We don't want any of this, we want to be rich and harmless. || CTX: Let's vote for American politicians next time https://t.co/houxSSnR4t
2026-03-28T23:29 id=2038035904196128961 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe People are going to fight, resist, critique, and denounce every AI use case possible.  IMO best not to tell anyone how you use AI to work better and just use it.   Fuck humanity for making sharing knowledge so difficult. || CTX: ppl be burning her, but I find gpt to be better at getting me the relevant links to fact check than many humans would. def cheaper too https://t.co/I9JuA0BYrM
2026-03-28T23:31 id=2038036327015543272 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Amen, I'm made fun of (rightly so) for doing this. || CTX: Jews really think in stories,   I got a story for everything, often need to hold em back
2026-03-28T23:40 id=2038038612743438613 →subcountability | @subcountability @karpathy This would easily be solved if rhetoric was taught seriously in schools, but I suppose AI will force humanity to do this eventually. || CTX: @karpathy Seem dangerous. There's some strong metaphysical assumption here, about one direction of an argument "actually" being true. We can probably reasonably talk away every good argument. People talking others into their view is probabl
2026-03-28T23:42 id=2038039021377798444 →- | Top of the AI industry is bewitched and confused by sophistry.  If his education had included a bit on rhetoric this wouldn't be the case.   And that's why rhetoric will re-enter the curriculum. Just a question of when. https://t.co/ZPZtKywCGT || CTX: - Drafted a blog post - Used an LLM to meticulously improve the argument over 4 hours. - Wow, feeling great, it’s so convincing! - Fun idea let’s ask it to argue the opposite.  - LLM demolishes the entire argument and convinces me that the 
2026-03-28T23:43 id=2038039216559665327 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Gemini is the worst, Claude middle, CG best. || CTX: the question is "why aren't you using Claude" is a valid one https://t.co/IVrk31Rm53
2026-03-28T23:50 id=2038041094517338604 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Fascinating to see someone try to write like 4o and fail at it. || CTX: This is what zero pussy does to a mf https://t.co/HzLZ6j4oB8
2026-03-28T23:55 id=2038042401206575144 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod ChatGPT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 CG?
2026-03-29T00:44 id=2038054720007458869 →- | People don't think enough about the difference of filtration ex ante versus filtration ex post
2026-03-29T00:46 id=2038055126238441752 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Broadcast media virtualized the public/private distinction while preserving centralized control over visibility. Internet protocols removed that asymmetry at the level of the medium by making reciprocal addressability general. But precisely because such openness is socially and cognitively unsustainable, new layers of filtration and enclosure inevitably emerged above the protocol layer. Thus communicative democratization can occur infrastructurally without remaining stable socially; hierarchy and exclusion reconstitute themselves at higher layers of organization. || CTX: People don't think enough about the difference of filtration ex ante versus filtration ex post
2026-03-29T01:13 id=2038061837393232279 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ I think what he's confused about and why he's in this situation is that he probably shares the popular misunderstanding of rhetoric as a technique for writing when it's really a technique for reading. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The rhetorical depth of his argument https://t.co/sfb4FNuP7W
2026-03-29T01:19 id=2038063361532014665 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 it's very common for non-specialists to confuse people who work in public policy and international relations with economists because economics is trying to be the great priesthood so they talk about politics and geopolitics to try to get more social capital. || CTX: &gt;economists like Literally Who have great ideas &gt;google Literally Who &gt; double major in Psychology and philosophy, MA in Political Science, PhD in International Relations https://t.co/h3Aaccp2Z5 https://t.co/HvGTwNL7AC
2026-03-29T01:36 id=2038067803224408437 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry None of this surprises me even a little. || CTX: What the hell https://t.co/c7nKkp4J68
2026-03-29T01:41 id=2038069091131617572 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea I for one am counting on it. If material wealth disparities are along cognitive agency lines than other lines that is a much more meritocratic endgame.   Revenge of the nerds is complete, sorry jocks, you lose. https://t.co/ilho4tOgle || CTX: i do not understand how people completely ignore material realities and preexisting disparities like this https://t.co/Qu09Vli9ME
2026-03-29T02:09 id=2038076002992357729 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea What are the shoddy assumptions here? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t think it’s worth counting on shoddy assumptions coming true.
2026-03-29T02:20 id=2038078937717436522 →way_opener | @way_opener There was a recent gameshow where ordinary men were put in situations with porn stars where they had to try to not have sex with the porn stars, but the ordinary men were actually comedians and tracking the levels of reality/simulacrum was so difficult I had to stop watching it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the Japanese are so far ahead of us on this that there’s an anime about a kid running a para-antisocial YouTube channel getting recruited to be a cyber-exorcist because they know that “flamers”(para-antisocial streamers) ha
2026-03-29T02:29 id=2038081196157223294 →- | This website is increasingly becoming ca.2000-2005 coded, and if you're old enough to remember you know this is an extremely good thing. https://t.co/Kwv2SEwgyX || CTX: こんにちは！ここでは、伝統的なアメリカのアートと、海を越えた新しい友人たちの「アニメーション・スタイル」を融合させてみました。これから先も末永く続く、私たちの友情の証として！！ https://t.co/cuutRj4WYO
2026-03-29T02:38 id=2038083291455344838 →nikitabier | @nikitabier Imagine the Boar trying to take credit for an organic movement that happens despite his tinkering, not because of.  You were setting up a feature to block entire countries you fucking asshat || CTX: “They’re losing faith in humanity. Release the wholesome Japanese posts.” https://t.co/hn1Rve5tsf
2026-03-29T02:50 id=2038086382699360369 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @lydialoooks She's 19 and terrified of other people, she'll grow up and stop being like this.   In the 90s she'd listen to Bikini Kill and yell about how all men are rapists because she's ashamed of stretch marks.   I've seen this show before. || CTX: @lydialoooks your timeline is full of insane, obviously nonsense "rape culture" accusations against mostly other women, presumably because you are so profoundly socially isolated from men that you don't even really interact enough to make t
2026-03-29T02:51 id=2038086719770407274 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Just look at this we are so fucking back man https://t.co/ONMihYEytS || CTX: This website is increasingly becoming ca.2000-2005 coded, and if you're old enough to remember you know this is an extremely good thing. https://t.co/Kwv2SEwgyX
2026-03-29T03:21 id=2038094107508400137 →SableHummer | @SableHummer 100% agree. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is unironically the best this site has ever been
2026-03-29T03:46 id=2038100404706111613 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | I think the best way to think of this is as a geneology, not as a hard stop where you have people doing things in one regime, then suddenly doing things differently in another.  So the histrionic expression of emotions that was once considered unseemly in the pre-TV era became a sign of authenticity according to boomers during the TV era, and then that became a virtue people in the early internet era (the forums/newgrounds period) were trying to enact because they saw it as a virtue.  But a rebellious response to this emerged, especially in the form of hating the emo kid, so you got memes like this (https://t.co/eDnXGf6bWF) as a form of policing this histrionic nature.  Fast forward into the late internet era and oversharing, trama-dumping, being cringe are new slogans for the new virtue of being restrained in public and maintaining a division between backstage and frontstage behavior.  All of "wokeness" and MAGA Trump cultism can be seen as efforts to police a new kind of division between backstage and frontstage--this is why cancel culture exists on both sides and always will, it's just an effort to assert a new division between front and back.   Since there aren't hard stops in the regime changes, you can be early in a new regime, see people playing the scripts of the old regime in the new regime, and if you aren't carefully looking at the emergent new rules being engineered to change the new regime, you'll see contradiction where there's really a topological transformation. || CTX: Wait a second, what they're describing as the old way is just how I was raised, I didn't really watch TV growing up until my teen years, I spent most of my time on forums and newgrounds  Did boomers and TV make everyone dramatic and emotion
2026-03-29T04:16 id=2038108094094606411 →theJuice2002 | @theJuice2002 Do a minor in philology.  And I know your school doesn't offer it--a lot of things are going to need to change. I'm trying to speed this change up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how do you learn rhetoric
2026-03-29T04:21 id=2038109236513984728 →- | RT @Prabh2003166342: The Only leaked Video from the Kash Patel's Gmail account https://t.co/JioSwWZzeD || CTX: The Only leaked Video from the Kash Patel's Gmail account https://t.co/JioSwWZzeD https://t.co/LWcep0QECQ
2026-03-29T04:25 id=2038110307470758112 →- | Meyrowitz made the point (in the 1980s) that electronic media blurs frontstage and backstage and in so doing is a threat to notions of power and authority.  That's what you are seeing here. That's why there's the "death of expertise" and the death of authority and Trump is in the white house.  It's all downstage of the flattening and reconstruction of social and cultural places via the TCP/IP and HTTP protocols. Literally everything is downstream that.  So too is the death of novels and literature (matters to me as someone trained to be a novelist and literary critic), but think of what matters to you the most and think of how it is downstream of this phenomenon. If you think it isn't, comment and I'll tell you how it is. || CTX: The Only leaked Video from the Kash Patel's Gmail account https://t.co/JioSwWZzeD https://t.co/LWcep0QECQ
2026-03-29T04:48 id=2038116098357543053 →_t_a_s__ | @_t_a_s__ No Sense of Place || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's this book?
2026-03-29T05:17 id=2038123341152915729 →BillAckman | @BillAckman You're such a fucking boomer dude || CTX: Incredible. Worth two minutes. https://t.co/LLTpKGoQF8
2026-03-29T06:31 id=2038141906505683422 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Indian men can be extremely handsome, but the most beautiful men I've ever seen were in Turkey. Was honestly quite depressing. || CTX: after going to my first indian festival i saw 100s looking just like this, how many hidden moggers in that subcontinent i wonder https://t.co/o0wLTMlBNd
2026-03-29T06:42 id=2038144858238718443 →bzogrammer | I agree with this and it's been my baseline view for about 3 years now.   However, I feel like this contradicts or at least exists in tension with your statement in the OP "I think the increasing confusion and insanity, huge political miscalculations and failures, and rising skepticism of conventional narratives over the past decade tells us which path we've been taking."   If this is due to all formal/formalizable models being wrong past their limit point of signification/granularity, then we wouldn't see movement, so no increase, no rise, no taking of path.  Can you square this circle? || CTX: Furthermore, you seem to have missed the point of what I even said. Let me reframe it.  Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems apply to all models of the world, not just esoteric corners of abstract math. No matter how complex your ideology or wor
2026-03-29T07:06 id=2038150838506643591 →powoli_ | @powoli_ I'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/KUp9vNHYUB  Right now we are at new paradigm shift, where everything is fake and nothing is real
2026-03-29T08:06 id=2038165833982366163 →b0nesandroses | @b0nesandroses @halogen1048576 @lydialoooks Your use of the word "equivalent" makes me think you don't understand what's going on here or what we're talking about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @halogen1048576 @lydialoooks Mate what the fuck lmao no one in their right mind would think that's equivalent to rape Jesus Christ dude
2026-03-29T08:10 id=2038166773175116091 →SableHummer | @SableHummer It's the perceived need for an all encompassing system that causes this to be a natural error mode.   Resist the urge to make it all make sense, embrace the dappled world. || CTX: Funny how new religions pop up every time a new scientific discovery is made that changes our relationship to the natural world  Mormons:Archeology Scientology:Psycology  Raelianism : Genetic Engineering https://t.co/biSJUoNqsm
2026-03-29T08:26 id=2038170854836822165 →- | https://t.co/dq6ea5SJWq  So satisfying to hear a professional philosopher make the connections between Wittgenstein and the Tao Te Ching that I immediately recognized and felt in my bones.
2026-03-29T08:33 id=2038172595082994064 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @BryanVanNorden is one of the few philosophers I've ever heard who clearly gets at the heart of what Wittgenstein and Lao-tzu were trying to say. I'm in awe. || CTX: https://t.co/dq6ea5SJWq  So satisfying to hear a professional philosopher make the connections between Wittgenstein and the Tao Te Ching that I immediately recognized and felt in my bones.
2026-03-29T08:34 id=2038172987078344788 →- | Witnessing Twitter this weekend discover why I moved to Asia over 10 years ago has been very very entertaining. https://t.co/75L55GpTpH || CTX: This is considered overweight in Japan https://t.co/NpoR2cXqnP
2026-03-29T08:35 id=2038173103914909994 →M90193251 | @M90193251 @crypt0lake I'm an ugly man and I cannot compete. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake How is that depressing?
2026-03-29T08:36 id=2038173406718501123 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Scissoring is ableist against people without legs (or vaginas) || CTX: Frottage is ableist because it’s not inclusive of those with rheumatoid arthritis https://t.co/k95Za4iGYx
2026-03-29T08:37 id=2038173568035602535 →2chbook | @2chbook นี่มันเป็นการแอบอ้างความดีความชอบจากประเทศไทย || CTX: タイでは数ヶ月全然雨が降らないので、雨乞い儀式が行われた。本当は猫を入れないといけないけど、可哀想なのでドラえもんにしたそうです。早く雨降るといいね。 https://t.co/AXc7xc7Mi7
2026-03-29T08:37 id=2038173781433475567 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @2chbook (Just to be clear that tweet was for all the westerners who stumble onto this post) || CTX: @2chbook นี่มันเป็นการแอบอ้างความดีความชอบจากประเทศไทย
2026-03-29T08:40 id=2038174550043598989 →quiveron_x | This is increasingly my experience and it's very exciting.   It seems to me Wittgenstein used logic and got to the same place Lao-tzu got from observation and meditation, and these intersect with many of the thoughts of the Zen koan writers, and they all point to the same inevitable and ineffable truth.  To which, I suppose, the only proper response comes from my favorite koan: Is that so?   But I'm unenlightened, thus I'm giddy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 More I read about tao and zen more I realize some of my favorite philosophers were talking about same thing
2026-03-29T08:46 id=2038175993194861028 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @accuweather See this is how I picture your world looking like, Butterill-san. || CTX: @Samhain948689 @accuweather I don’t know why they made it so fucking red in that video 😭 it was more like this light orange https://t.co/fDqz3Fma1S
2026-03-29T08:48 id=2038176535065342136 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 They're starting to talk about politics. || CTX: many of you https://t.co/Vu0uV0yVCH
2026-03-29T08:49 id=2038176778590822818 →Xilo_K | @Xilo_K IMO anywhere in Asia your best bet is to go to Uniqlo if you need some essentials. || CTX: Also i should probably buy some clothes. https://t.co/FM9FJY0JsK
2026-03-29T08:53 id=2038177663949623720 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x Many ways to the true Way. || CTX: I find parallels in many places, last words of aquinas, st benedict, heidegger, modern "Neuroscience". What makes Zen writings so effective is these guys are just blunt and honest, honest as one can be. Hakuin wrote his life like twitter po
2026-03-29T08:53 id=2038177821491912969 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @accuweather FINALMENTE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @accuweather just followed back btw
2026-03-29T08:54 id=2038177975011827877 →- | Hardest I've ever worked to get a follow back and yes I'm deeply ashamed of this fact https://t.co/VbS5BcIfyv || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @accuweather just followed back btw
2026-03-29T08:55 id=2038178332232315304 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @accuweather Tell them it was for me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @accuweather I just need to clear 7 people now as I like number 600
2026-03-29T08:56 id=2038178519638028648 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Oh my sweet summer child || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You've bedded women like this?
2026-03-29T08:58 id=2038179014075195706 →Dorialexander | @Dorialexander when I was an English professor I got retired businessmen asking me to help them with their poetry. || CTX: before ai most common obsession would be proving quantum physics is wrong.
2026-03-29T08:59 id=2038179202265161987 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 You got time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Quite jealous tbh. Still a virgin.
2026-03-29T09:01 id=2038179678066987231 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @ElmWho @Samhain948689 @accuweather I hereby pass the quest onwards. Tally forth, brave knight! || CTX: @ElmWho @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @accuweather Oh no I just never followed u back. ur cool tho
2026-03-29T09:08 id=2038181370716213753 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney Wow, small world! I hope he reads this, I genuinely enjoyed this episode.   Guess I'll need to buy his book now... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bryan is a former colleague and dear friend; I’m unsurprised you benefitted from the episode!
2026-03-29T09:23 id=2038185196617650558 →- | Ideal and idol come from same Greek root "Eidos" and from this we see that both religion and ideology are the same thing: a worship of a particular form.   What is the form being worshipped in ideology? If it is conservativism, Marxism, neo liberalism, et al., the answer is fundamentally the same: ideas.  E. g. the conservative worships "tradition" in equal measure as the Marxist worships the proletariat, etc and so on and so we see it doesn't matter if you worship God or Good or science or freedom, the beliefs are all grounded in the presupposition that at least One Idea, or maybe an Idea Set, Matters above all else, it is the Higher.  And so we see how being political or being Christian scratches the same itch and why these have blended together.   The solution? It's really quite simple: see ideas as tools, assert they are not Higher as Idols but always unideal ideas made fit for purpose and ready to be discarded when they have lost same.  I serve the world, not ideas about the world.
2026-03-29T10:00 id=2038194679465066916 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @NoItsBeckoning Lovely reformulation of the Chinese room, arguably better on the issue of AI. || CTX: @NoItsBeckoning @47fucb4r8c69323 The monk speaks of this https://t.co/TQ4ghcXm5R
2026-03-29T10:06 id=2038195968156602492 →ElmWho | @ElmWho Meh I should've had another cup of coffee first https://t.co/7Z6sCxeybM || CTX: I cheated on the wordle because I couldn't figure it out and it called me what I was  I'm not finishing it  I hate my life
2026-03-29T10:40 id=2038204658750222387 →- | I miss /r/ccj2/ https://t.co/yp8fUAtHut || CTX: You will never convince me Japan is a real place https://t.co/NhmqEz6ARi
2026-03-29T10:49 id=2038206947519025436 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 is that why you enjoyed the movie || CTX: @Samhain948689 There was this group of teenagers behind me who kept asking if the space rock had a penis every 15 minutes it was making me so mad
2026-03-29T11:01 id=2038209817911898576 →- | I was one of the new users during Eternal September, it's how I got my first porn. https://t.co/vwJwaolM3D || CTX: As much as I’m loving Japanese twitter, we’re likely experiencing its death.   Auto translation is the eternal September for regional networks. https://t.co/Mltz7mPPFO
2026-03-29T23:47 id=2038402648500769248 →- | I'd rather be a legendary absence rather than a recognized presence.
2026-03-29T23:49 id=2038403146712744367 →cattywumpiss | @cattywumpiss @Spanish_Techno Banging two rock together doth not a scissor make || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno You don't need a coochie or legs to scissor you just need a groin and someone to scissor with
2026-03-29T23:57 id=2038405165808746909 →- | That he thinks these could possibly be mutually exclusive exposes him for what he is: a gambler.   He's on a streak for sure, but he's just a gambler. https://t.co/FdB1R13Whr || CTX: @RobEducated I have made more money trading things simply off of cyclical lows and charts than galaxy brained theses. If making money and being an intellectual are mutually exclusive, I am picking the former every time.
2026-03-29T23:58 id=2038405587156062299 →rickasaurus | @rickasaurus What we tend to think of as good or bad is not actually a single scalar. This is why it's good to stop thinking in terms of good or bad. || CTX: It’s weird that AI is so good that if you had asked me two years ago this would have seemed impossible, and yet it’s still so bad
2026-03-30T01:00 id=2038421152306217385 →- | One of Nat's best. https://t.co/No2XOF9Uw1 || CTX: by the miracle of modern tech, I can send condolences by text to a brother that I haven't seen in years in a place I have not ever been.  the other day I attended service for a neighbor I had met a couple times, and as I sat in church, admi
2026-03-30T01:06 id=2038422558908022949 →logicus | @logicus @for_nat_whilk Analysing GenAI forced me back to my philology roots so much I'm now working with a philologist on an AI project. || CTX: @for_nat_whilk i started out as a poet! that was before philosophy. maybe after philosophy i will also be a poet.  translation and classical philology are very much like nlp. something about doing nlp got me in touch with translation and ph
2026-03-30T01:15 id=2038424732148859333 →- | "the tl needs more poetry"  the poet quickly said,  and he showed happily his wares  of stanzas and neat couplet pairs,  eagerly waiting to be read.   But I see a supposition,  If not a premonition,  That the algo should bow to verse.  If history's a guide,  (Or methinks we shan't it deride), The poems the algo will promote Will surely be the worst. || CTX: @logicus the tl needs more poetry get to work
2026-03-30T01:31 id=2038428790364471713 →- | Novel idea: To finally beat the Americans, a country (idgaf who) decides to fund a television show on Netflix tilted "Are you normal?" where 12 people are pitted against each other and the most normal person wins 10 million dollars.   This becomes so wildly popular that copycat shows and contests appear everywhere where people compete on being the most average in just about every way possible.  This results in a massive cultural shift where everyone tries their hardest to be the most average person, and American culture takes seriously the assertion that it's hip to be square.  As the American economy begins to collapse due to a lack of innovation as everyone tries to be as normal as possible, the CIA realizes they need to bring out the big guns and stop this trend that is chipping away at American exceptionalism.   But how? They decide on Operation Weird: They need to make the most bizarre person they can find a hero, and get rid of this foreign threat at the same time.  And so they decide to kill two birds with one stone: they plan to recruit a new agent to assassinate the leader of the country that funded that television show. That agent's name? Chris-chan.
2026-03-30T01:49 id=2038433520432120247 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Being a curmudgeon is too easy! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you got me there (but also thx for more poetry on my tl)
2026-03-30T01:51 id=2038433953460482240 →johnnydamacha | @johnnydamacha @samswoora Friend of mine spent like 6 months on Hainan and I've never seen him happier before or since. || CTX: @samswoora surfing  top secret underwater military bases accessible only by tunnels that submarines traverse deep into the island  tan chinese baddies
2026-03-30T02:18 id=2038440749428318438 →- | Okay I now fully support Iran and will for the rest of my life https://t.co/sBRtPSDZZf || CTX: Heads-up: Pre-market so-called “news” or “Truth” is often just a setup for profit-taking. Basically, it’s a reverse indicator.   Do the opposite: If they pump it, short it. If they dump it, go long.   See something tomorrow? You know the dr
2026-03-30T02:23 id=2038441882813092013 →qing2bai | @qing2bai @buzsokk We are not doing East Asia beauty comparison discourse, not now || CTX: @buzsokk 中国の漢服美女は,日本や韓国の比ではありません https://t.co/2dtdget2J2
2026-03-30T02:44 id=2038447187521360276 →_im_sigh_ | @_im_sigh_ Ah you've discovered tsundere. || CTX: japanese twitter is amazing https://t.co/qXHu1VIWxG
2026-03-30T02:54 id=2038449729651233228 →teodorio | @teodorio I have thought exactly this more than once. || CTX: How come Demis Hassabis seems like a soulful intelligent being like every other leader in AI seems like a ghoul?
2026-03-30T04:17 id=2038470639011643534 →altryne | They needed to save the compute, which really sucks but it also points to something interesting: you can actually see how far we are from AI saturation by how bad these peripheral features are relative to what's promised.  Ironically, when features are disappointing, that's bullish || CTX: This is what OpenAI has promised us with "advanced voice mode" 2 years ago!  We were robbed https://t.co/mapOByQbCG
2026-03-30T05:14 id=2038484970960982276 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ It's like they don't know splash pages are a thing, so bizarre of a thing to get upset about || CTX: I think the people crashing out about this because they "can't read the text with stuff moving" have such a hilarious lack of imagination that they deserve to be put into a snowglobe  Just my opinion though, neat tech demo! https://t.co/ZRI
2026-03-30T05:23 id=2038487200980152783 →YIMBYLAND | @YIMBYLAND You really need to stop riding this wave, dude. || CTX: Texas is Japan-coded  California is China-coded  does this make sense? https://t.co/X1hbXEKiis
2026-03-30T07:40 id=2038521762028372210 →- | I just updated my webscraper android app so now it can take a tweet, copy it to the clipboard, and send it to ChatGPT automatically.  Now I just need someone to tweet something intelligent enough to deserve talking to an AI about.
2026-03-30T09:05 id=2038543165364568231 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @swansonbenson0 "vagina is basically claude code for blowjobs"   I think I need to take a break from Twitter. || CTX: @swansonbenson0 like what do you mean ? that's crazy because vagina is basically claude code for blowjobs - of course its more aesthetic
2026-03-30T10:51 id=2038569742517346696 →birchlse | @birchlse this is hard to imagine since Interstellar was such a stupid movie to begin with || CTX: A lot of people are describing Project Hail Mary as "dumbed-down Interstellar", but isn't that basically the movie we've all wanted since watching Interstellar.
2026-03-30T10:53 id=2038570224275066905 →- | Oh yes the Chinese century they're way ahead of us I'm very scurred https://t.co/egxiKJ2oxS || CTX: Known as 'bone ash apartments', families are opting to bury their dead in empty high-rise properties rather than pay skyrocketing costs for cemetery plots. https://t.co/1upVw52nOX https://t.co/ueBY981gIq
2026-03-30T11:06 id=2038573640061722671 →- | Since Japanese women don't change their name when getting married and they have a different social welfare system, I think you could really show off American exceptionalism by posting your Mother's maiden name and your social security number
2026-03-30T11:25 id=2038578377842741570 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ I too see that anger although I've read much less than you. And when you read about his personal life and how he treated his family, it's hard not to dismiss the man personally as just a loser.   But that's unnecessary since the ideas on their own don't hold up to scrutiny. || CTX: This is what I didn't like about Marx. The very relation of the words he writes, I can feel cynicism and anger.   Mind you, I read him by deconstructing every sentence word by word then restructuring it. I processed the fabric of the first 
2026-03-30T11:28 id=2038579093151866932 →- | If you don't like the new Ghostbusters movie, you're a sexist
2026-03-30T11:28 id=2038579095592952168 →47fucb4r8c69323 | sorry getting rid of some old unsent tweets || CTX: If you don't like the new Ghostbusters movie, you're a sexist
2026-03-30T11:59 id=2038586895551328749 →- | I guess people find GenAI incredible because it's such a good simulation of the human brain, but, like, we can also simulate like the human pancreas and no one gives a fuk
2026-03-30T12:02 id=2038587713025446180 →- | The Thai word for "pale" and "white" is the same and the word they use the most for westerners is "farang" which includes black, so, like, I just don't believe you can transport identity politics from one culture to another, and that applies to regions inside countries too
2026-03-30T12:04 id=2038588053456085394 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 https://t.co/5Jj5F4Xlgg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wake me up when we can simulate the human soul
2026-03-30T12:08 id=2038589148442005900 →- | psst, hey kid  c'mere yeah you nah man don't tell your parents c'mere . . . . . alright, adults gone now. how ya feelin', kid?  . . . wanna hear something that'll blow your mind?  . . . . . . ... you know what it is, don't you?  all the Gen Xers know...  ......  ....  ...  ..  . . . . . . . ... the 90s kicked fucking ass however good you think they were they were so much better oh my GOD
2026-03-30T12:12 id=2038590244367597610 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning Sam A ahead of the curve as to be expected   I would've known better if my blood surgar warsnt so high || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i care about the pancreas https://t.co/WePERRZ8ln
2026-03-30T12:14 id=2038590630302269787 →fitzr1122 | @fitzr1122 So... have another beer is what you're saying || CTX: At some stage the problem becomes so acute for Trump that he seriously considers using a tactical nuclear weapon imo.
2026-03-30T12:20 id=2038592176624730151 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @lostinproxies I can instinctively sense this is true btw || CTX: @lostinproxies This is me. I am that person.
2026-03-30T12:46 id=2038598675182825713 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon c'mon, solution to that problem is transparent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What happens if you’re beyond the pale?
2026-03-30T13:10 id=2038604771356241988 →- | RT @cafeantinomie: @sorcova_de_corb i urge you to love your writing. love your brain, love the way delicate writing makes you twirl, love t… || CTX: @sorcova_de_corb i urge you to love your writing. love your brain, love the way delicate writing makes you twirl, love the way infohazards make you critically evaluate your thoughts, love the words that stick out to you, love when you feel 
2026-03-30T13:35 id=2038611063047156160 →ctjlewis | @ctjlewis Death by stoning to anyone who says "it's not x it's y" || CTX: When did we start trusting these things? Early on, everyone was able to accept that they were unreliable. What changed? https://t.co/nBTZhN5vZ5
2026-03-30T20:31 id=2038715873326948412 →- | RT @molochofficial: it's fun making zoomers read Baudrillard because once they figure out what he's saying they're just like "well, yeah" || CTX: it's fun making zoomers read Baudrillard because once they figure out what he's saying they're just like "well, yeah"
2026-03-30T20:41 id=2038718316496482632 →MamanLunettes | @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy I am diagnosed level 1 and this resonates.   It isn't so much that I can't read the cues but that I genuinely do not understand why people bother with the games in the first place, especially since they're not fun. || CTX: Autism as _not reading social cues_ is too rough a picture  Two weeks into the school year my daughter on the spectrum was shocked to see two girls in their group being very cruel to each other - while calling each other best friends and no
2026-03-30T21:13 id=2038726403051704749 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 congrats broski || CTX: Verbal offer secured.   Bag secured.
2026-03-30T21:19 id=2038727786907807966 →lizisamused | @lizisamused @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy It is rare for me to see someone express my exact thoughts so clearly. This is exactly how I feel and I'm still confused about why hierarchy matters. Same with "identity", I just do not understand these concepts! || CTX: I didn't understand why workplaces often bullied the kindest, most hard-working employee until I saw Parks & Rec & was like "people need a Jerry/punching bag? WHY?!" And when I'd stick up for them, people would mock me.  Level 1 as well & I
2026-03-30T21:28 id=2038730077794701782 →- | Being a good writer saved my autistic ass from struggling in a cubicle my entire adult life.  I had to work in an office for 3 months when I was 21 and it was absolute hell.  And this is why I laugh when I hear people rage about the internet or say Twitter is hell or whatever--the internet saved me from office politics! Writing for the internet made me a top 1% income earner on a 4hr work week for over a decade!   Sorry if you can't stop scrolling TikTok but this place saved my autistic ass, fuck you. || CTX: On the contrary, actual neurodivergent people--not manic sociopaths like Karp--will continue to struggle to get hired and keep their jobs for "being too quiet", having "poor communication", and host of other antisocial labels people have us
2026-03-30T21:38 id=2038732565155369425 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy I too often refuse to engage with people when they aren't being direct, even if I know what they're intending to do but they're being indirect. Idk why, it's almost a reflex.
2026-03-30T21:41 id=2038733383946383514 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @lizisamused @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy Right I mean arbitrary hierarchy; a hierarchy of ability from a quantitative assessment is fine, but even then I don't tolerate the extension of that beyond its domain. E. g. if people start listening to the pilot about things other than flying, I get annoyed.
2026-03-30T21:46 id=2038734597232701829 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy "Given multiple competing hypotheses, you will not proceed at risk of error"  Absolutely bizarre as I wrote an entire novel on this concept last year because it was bothering me so much.
2026-03-30T21:54 id=2038736646825468042 →hagaga5342 | @hagaga5342 @lizisamused @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy I'm increasingly coming to the simple conclusion that identity traits are used by people to reach a kind of premature cognitive closure. "Oh that person is x so that's why they did y" regardless of the relationship between x and y. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lizisamused @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy so if someone's behavior is unstable, or undefined because it remains outside of the habitual oppositions of traits (like, someone who can be extraverted and very chatty and open b
2026-03-30T22:02 id=2038738690764370293 →marc__adler | @marc__adler oh they do? Damn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They do change their name though
2026-03-30T22:14 id=2038741669294796800 →BballPurist | @BballPurist @Chaos80397926 Be a kind person || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Chaos80397926 Any teachings you can share with the rest of us plebs?
2026-03-30T22:16 id=2038742229456703907 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @MamanLunettes @AbstractFairy Mammals, cats are top of my personal hierarchy
2026-03-30T22:40 id=2038748323604320477 →SableHummer | @SableHummer Look for writing jobs online, there are a lot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How would you make money writing? I notice Twitter has forced me to be more direct and follow the essence of style. Writing nothing that is unnecessary
2026-03-30T23:03 id=2038754090512216245 →- | The finance guy who thinks he can write because people read his work (but they only read because they think finance guy can make them rich).  This is a very common trope, it's why Bill Gross wrote weekly articles about his cat (which incidentally got him fired from his own firm) https://t.co/lYRc2VlCDK || CTX: Woke up and found myself writing an outline for my 8th book. This was me sleep walking, except instead of walking I was writing a book proposal.   Writing a book is like running a marathon. When I finish I say "I'm not going to do that agai
2026-03-30T23:57 id=2038767720553238793 →- | people incessantly police artistic form. it's really quite interesting when you stop to ask why do they do this. if this criticism is true, so what? why is that a critique? https://t.co/qmpJe1TwyF || CTX: Driving me slightly insane that everyone has to pretend that Andy Weir is a real novelist and not a guy whose books are like 70% math equations
2026-03-31T00:07 id=2038770102246777323 →1889lw | @1889lw you mean earning a living writing online? a lot of people are doing it, I suppose breaking into the field is different now than when I did it but you definitely can still make money writing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you still that still works nowadays?
2026-03-31T00:10 id=2038770918395433335 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 are all policing and gatekeeping of art motivated by the same kind of insecurity or inability to understand a particular mode of communication? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's just not. This guy means to say that he isn't comfortable enough with math to see the art.
2026-03-31T00:13 id=2038771657918312955 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc A perfect translation into my dialect, thank you
2026-03-31T00:25 id=2038774736524898557 →- | You know the app is good when the ads are schizopoasts https://t.co/DdKpmVxHLc
2026-03-31T00:31 id=2038776040735326354 →- | The Inquiry is a serious investigative journalism program from the BBC so I was really struck at this description of the show, especially this sentence:  "Leading economists believe it could create a dystopian world."   I suppose I'm sensitive to it, because I write for serious news platforms and would never be allowed to write such a thing...
2026-03-31T00:33 id=2038776542134935728 →47fucb4r8c69323 | So I did what I often do and put it into my clanker without the name of the program and asked it: "Don't look for the program title, just comment on this as it is" and the results were amazing as usual https://t.co/NyhMCg5RWm || CTX: The Inquiry is a serious investigative journalism program from the BBC so I was really struck at this description of the show, especially this sentence:  "Leading economists believe it could create a dystopian world."   I suppose I'm sensit
2026-03-31T00:33 id=2038776547419848820 →47fucb4r8c69323 | So if you're wondering why a lot of people are against AI, it's this: AI is very good at dismantling bullshit, and a lot of people's livelihoods rely on bullshit. || CTX: So I did what I often do and put it into my clanker without the name of the program and asked it: "Don't look for the program title, just comment on this as it is" and the results were amazing as usual https://t.co/NyhMCg5RWm
2026-03-31T00:36 id=2038777479553511679 →ouranometrian2 | @ouranometrian2 @simonsarris Japan and South Korea are both very very ugly cities || CTX: @simonsarris Yeah ive always thought there cities were sorta ugly. I like the country side
2026-03-31T00:38 id=2038777815165030441 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod you're a good writer though || CTX: Being an almost good writer makes everything hell https://t.co/mLtXV5oVYY
2026-03-31T01:20 id=2038788424128430354 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Then explain E. L. James || CTX: Negative  The technocapital beast is always right and I am always sorted where I belong https://t.co/l1h9I2P1ok
2026-03-31T01:20 id=2038788576897610028 →1889lw | @1889lw Everyone's worrying AI is making everything substitutable--they also worried about this with social media, the internet, the calculator, the tv... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s great to know, I’m definitely interested in a career like that, just worrying AI makes writing substitutable nowadays
2026-03-31T01:22 id=2038789078657974327 →JeremyNguyenPhD | I wasn't even thinking about that but then I looked at his profile and saw the gamut you'd expect of a failed novelist (even Paris Review like come on how stereotypical lmao).  Yeah, this seems like sour grapes and garden variety resentment.  Plus...TIL Andy Weir wrote The Egg. I haven't read The Martian or any of his other novels but The Egg is one of the best short stories I've ever read (and did somewhat inspire my own novel, except where he sees joy I see horror). || CTX: I don't know if this holds true in Robert's case, but my general observation is that when someone says another person isn't a real novelist, they themselves are typically not a real novelist (or more likely they are a failed novelist).  The
2026-03-31T01:31 id=2038791182604816671 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill https://t.co/vVJxMg1dKl  When @Samhain948689 tells me to jump I say how high. || CTX: I guess people find GenAI incredible because it's such a good simulation of the human brain, but, like, we can also simulate like the human pancreas and no one gives a fuk
2026-03-31T01:46 id=2038794962213736796 →lu_sichu | No.  The basic pre-rec curriculum for the humanities focuses around HOW to read and what both reading and writing actually are.  Science people often hold the naive notion of language as a neutral medium for conveying ideas (even after Frege showed this was nonsense over a century ago), and the core of the humanities is in recognizing the skew/bias of language in use and developing tools to identify that accordingly.  So the core isn't reading the Bible or Shakespeare, but reading how to read the Bible or Shakespeare.  And since there are fundamental disagreements on which reading techniques are ideal in which cases and there are many more techniques than one could teach in a class or even in several years, the basic curriculum doesn't have a fixed text or group of texts behind it, nor could it ever. || CTX: @julianboolean_ probably just reading the bible, reading Shakespeare some poetry some greek plays .. classic great books stuff. but idk if "liberal arts" people really do much of this either. you can narrow down this list for works in your 
2026-03-31T02:01 id=2038798717940383811 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @julianboolean_ idk what you mean. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @julianboolean_ sure i agree with this but in my mind they come as a whole package
2026-03-31T02:23 id=2038804460223508864 →moultano | @moultano @Scholars_Stage No it very much does not seem likely at all, unless you assume as axiomatic Harvard must attract people who like to read more than, say, Berkeley, and I don't see why that follows. || CTX: @Scholars_Stage Doesn't this seem likely to be comparatively rigorous, relative to the skills of their peers? It isn't like the rest of their generation at less prestigious schools are happily reading things.
2026-03-31T02:29 id=2038805838253761006 →- | As an English speaker who speaks Thai (fluently) and Japanese (badly) this is very amusing to show up precisely when the Americans are so happy about Japanese loving Texas.  Oh just wait until you learn why they love Texas! (Hint: why do you like observing the monkeys at the zoo) https://t.co/WFWjPoimWi || CTX: Japanese and Thais have been fighting on Twitter all day. Here’s the tea lol:  A Thai man at a 7-11 attempted to buy a box of instant ramen. He opens it, pours hot water, and then goes to pay. Why? Because in Thailand this is common, as Tha
2026-03-31T02:31 id=2038806261463241024 →Rinamary0317 | @Rinamary0317 Do you know the half African Japanese citizen who wasn't allowed through border patrol into Japan during covid? || CTX: このインタビュー出た後 英会話通ったり、海外の人とデートしたりしたけど あたしほんと英語苦手で、自信無くして泣いたりしてたから 恋愛どころじゃなかったのよ🤣 求婚しようとしてくれる海外の方はごめんなさい。私は日本で生きます。多分 https://t.co/BUgGVNB2py
2026-03-31T02:36 id=2038807685248999503 →- | "But writing style is just a medium for communication. I care more about what's being said than how it's communicated."  Here we have the common misconception of language as just a medium for communication that is like a layer on top of what's being communicated.  Of course anyone who has studied the humanities knows this is a false picture of language. And anyone who thinks about it for a second realizes the lack of education on this issue has so many downstream effects: wokeness, MAGA, 4o zombies, Internet addiction, extremism, incels, etc etc etc it's all so tiresome at this point really || CTX: When I read something, I don't really care if an LLM wrote it. Of course, I care about whether it's slop: I don't want to read shallow bullshit.  But writing style is just a medium for communication. I care more about what's being said than
2026-03-31T02:39 id=2038808374222205087 →ChrisPainterYup | @ChrisPainterYup Then you don't understand what language is, which is bad for someone running a benchmark on large language models. || CTX: I basically agree with this. I feel a sense of tabboo around asking AIs for writing help that I don't really want to feel and that I think probably makes everyone worse off. https://t.co/zhrRf8rqlI
2026-03-31T03:16 id=2038817607936344518 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry For media that's very much the right multiple to look at. || CTX: Still can’t believe Succession had “EBITDA/EV multiples” &amp; thought none of the overly intense finance viewers would notice. https://t.co/YVqBCfl0hM
2026-03-31T03:17 id=2038817950883602707 →1889lw | @1889lw I'd correct that to "subfield" or better yet, "element in a field". The internet killed travel agents but it didn't kill travel or even the travel agency. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well there’s always some field more threatened than others…
2026-03-31T03:25 id=2038820071628521710 →- | I will always celebrate the canonization of a classic. https://t.co/Cfj4ziPP1G || CTX: ‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive | Music | The Guardian https://t.co/WBCatC9EMf
2026-03-31T03:44 id=2038824659333111969 →Mr__Rational | @Mr__Rational @HighyieldHarry Because the numerator and denominator are reversed, is that what this is about?  Lame. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HighyieldHarry Try again
2026-03-31T04:01 id=2038828962009538720 →Kpinpanty | @Kpinpanty @chchbb1791 @masanews3 Well now you know why we had to shut them up with an atom bomb. Twice.  Don't worry, if they get too uppity we'll nuke them again. || CTX: @chchbb1791 @masanews3 เงียบกริบไอ่สัด ไม่เห็นคนญี่ปุ่นผู้สูงส่งมาตอบกลับโพตส์นี้สักคน หดหัวเก่งแต่ในบ้านหมดแล้วมั้ง แล้วแม่งเวลาทำเรื่องแย่ๆในต่างแระเทศแม่งชอบสวมรอยเป็นคนจีนด้วยนะไอ้พวกนี้ 555+
2026-03-31T04:02 id=2038829145166422477 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD No clue why people are using Claude Code instead of Codex, the limits are just ridiculously low. || CTX: my entire feed is people posting how they've hit their Claude Code limits in record time https://t.co/UZW1XkvzJA
2026-03-31T04:19 id=2038833660787572984 →JeremyNguyenPhD | I haven't used it for writing per se, but I did give it one text analysis task--I fed it all of my tweets and had it do a Big 5 personality assessment. Was very, very good at that.  I'm still using the main app for any writing stuff, and I'm increasingly uncertain of when to use either of the two; I suspect the apps will merge soon enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's codex like for writing, 47?  I haven't tried it much for that
2026-03-31T04:21 id=2038833919844651016 →teodorio | @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer Oh the grifter dislikes people who don't use the site to grift how surprising || CTX: @DeepDishEnjoyer what did @47fucb4r8c69323 even do???
2026-03-31T04:46 id=2038840391366234140 →teodorio | @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer mhmm sure || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeepDishEnjoyer I think he was talking about randos p4 is not a grifter he is a great guy!! I know him before the new money craze crypto oil stuff he would play the guitar and attack people really wholesome guy
2026-03-31T04:48 id=2038840820229656747 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism When I first moved to Asia I was split between Thailand and Japan, since I had friends inviting me to move to both.   This controversy is a nice encapsulation of why I chose Thailand, even if there's much about Japan that I prefer. || CTX: Fancy Asians vs Jungle Asians! Interesting cultural contrast between the Japanese obsession over one’s personal obligations to behave appropriately, vs the easygoing, accommodating Thais. The result is they are two of the most polite countr
2026-03-31T05:12 id=2038846974624190677 →Halalcoholism | Integration isn't the issue; I'll always be an outsider in Thailand even while speaking the language, that's fine.  The key difference is that everyday life isn't harshly policed in Thailand like it is in Japan, and breaking the rules is treated on a case by case basis instead of each transgression being treated like a cardinal sin as the Japanese do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah my mum is from Indonesia and there’s a lot of similarities with Thailand, a bit chaotic and dysfunctional but the people are generally chill and lovely. Japan really is a model society in so many ways but I feel it wou
2026-03-31T06:50 id=2038871622330016186 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer why are you ignoring the substack link in his bio? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer How is p4 a grifter ? No Bluecheck Not selling courses Not selling anything No donations links Has actually cancelled 3 separate Bluechecks that were gifted to him, essentially burning the money s
2026-03-31T07:16 id=2038878054077079965 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer I stand corrected! I am now wondering if I am confusing him with someone else, I seem to remember hearing there was an identity politics grifter on Twitter with a name like his. Maybe I just misremembered.  Anyway, I take it back--he's not a grifter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer Also free and not selling anything, it's got two posts, one complains about Twitter and one is a slice of life with, again, nothing being sold  Where's the grift ?
2026-03-31T07:19 id=2038878784460591494 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @AlexCaswen @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer I also need to point out this totally validates @DeepDishEnjoyer's original post as I have indeed exposed myself to be the dumbest, most-entrenched in the dunning-kruger-swamp person you will ever talk to || CTX: @AlexCaswen @teodorio @DeepDishEnjoyer I stand corrected! I am now wondering if I am confusing him with someone else, I seem to remember hearing there was an identity politics grifter on Twitter with a name like his. Maybe I just misremembe
2026-03-31T07:27 id=2038880796556308705 →teodorio | @teodorio @AlexCaswen @DeepDishEnjoyer ...or a madman who wanted you to think that and was planning this all along || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlexCaswen @DeepDishEnjoyer no no this shows you are a great person that takes stuff back and admits when he is wrong!
2026-03-31T07:31 id=2038881923842580617 →- | I've been too negative lately, I should have sex with someone who has AIDS
2026-03-31T07:39 id=2038883867587997803 →- | Been thinking about this tweet all day.   Note he mentions "as Thais live in a high interpersonal trust society and people can be trusted to pay for things at shops"... but wait a second, isn't Japan also a high trust society? Gemini tells me "Japan is frequently characterized as a high-trust society, marked by extreme personal safety, low crime rates, and the high likelihood of returning lost items" so what gives?   I've spent a lot of time in both countries and talked to a few natives in their language and my view is both are high trust cultures, that's not what's important here.   What's different is FORGIVENESS. Thailand is a very forgiving Buddhist country where errors are forgiven readily; there are annual events where the King forgives prisoners and lets them free, corrupt leaders are often forgiven with an apology, and it is seen as a virtue to ignore dumb mistakes immediately. Thais are very hospitable and generous thanks to this.   In Japan if you make an error that dishonors your family you're supposed to commit seppuku.   It's a cultural difference and it's why I prefer Thailand to Japan, although it's also why Japan is a better country to live in if you focus on infrastructure, cleanliness, and political stability. But yeah people will yell at you for making these little mistakes and you might go to jail for shoplifting $1 worth of ramen if you step outside the security sensors by accident or something.  Also note how they're Asian but very different cultures. The world is much more complicated than the terms you're told to think of it in. || CTX: Japanese and Thais have been fighting on Twitter all day. Here’s the tea lol:  A Thai man at a 7-11 attempted to buy a box of instant ramen. He opens it, pours hot water, and then goes to pay. Why? Because in Thailand this is common, as Tha
2026-03-31T07:45 id=2038885294217580663 →- | https://t.co/zCGWnSvqJY
2026-03-31T07:54 id=2038887683205046473 →RichardHanania | @RichardHanania https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-03-31T07:54 id=2038887751563759917 →- | https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb  I told you. https://t.co/dPH3FEFhFz || CTX: Tyler Cowen in his new book on why economists write about topics outside their area of expertise: “The dirty little secret is that what distinguishes economics as a field, right now, is a mix of higher standards, harder work, better math, a
2026-03-31T08:05 id=2038890522669187165 →maya_sen | @maya_sen @JeffreyLax other guy is gaslighting you to protect the Ivory tower so important to his ego.   Yes this is an issue, and no evals aren't necessary. You could just trust the people you hired to do a good job, why professors are micromanaged like fry cooks is beyond me. || CTX: @JeffreyLax I think the pressure on student enrollment #’s is relatively recent (last few decades), and that puts pressure on professors to get good evals in a way that wasn’t there before, say, in the 90s  No?
2026-03-31T08:53 id=2038902575353962919 →- | Build responsive front-end designs | Codex use cases https://t.co/HTbDPqnlVA  I've noticed this "treat my notes as the source of truth" language in OpenAI prompts before, is there research that shows this wording yields better outcomes? Cuz it's kinda cringe lowkey
2026-03-31T09:30 id=2038911880677515524 →baltakrantyte | @baltakrantyte That's a good question and I think it's actually made things easier. Because the norms are so foreign and coded that the indirectness becomes a point of intense study that in turn makes me see its internal logic.   That said, it still took many years to understand Thai culture. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In another post you mentioned not understanding the purpose of some social norms. Does this make it difficult to navigate Thai society? I've heard that Asian indirectness can be a problem, especially for those with autistic
2026-03-31T09:47 id=2038916036372873377 →baltakrantyte | @baltakrantyte Could be me but I find it easier to understand a foreign culture because I can go in with less preconceptions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I considered moving to Thailand but I'm so bad at this kind of stuff that I did not know that "passive aggression" was a thing until I learned this concept in my early 30s. But your perspective is interesting, perhaps I cou
2026-03-31T09:55 id=2038918107021111438 →fabsbz | @fabsbz That makes a lot of sense, thanks! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk if there's research but it's probably a way to force the model to check against the original notes repeatedly as it works through the different steps. otherwise it can lose the plot very easily for long tasks
2026-03-31T09:56 id=2038918410416148907 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod You know the technocapital beast has no sovereignty over nor visibility into your soul, and that matters quite a lot IMO. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean explain 10000 dudes like this. Explain Stephenie Meyer. What good is 'being a good writer' when these tards are living large and I'm just happy to have a phone without cracks for the first time in 4 years?  It's like
2026-03-31T10:41 id=2038929707568365656 →- | yes I was serious when I said "even the porn" why are you looking at me like that https://t.co/qGJC7OeXFg || CTX: please save everything you see beautiful online
2026-03-31T10:57 id=2038933680782201113 →- | Movie idea: reboot of Minority Report where the global government is the EU and they use telepathy to catch people who think of calling Greek style cheese not from Greece "feta" or sparkling wine from Spain "champagne".
2026-03-31T11:14 id=2038937928441729323 →- | I want to explicate why because I'm stoned and autistic. Let's go line by line of the OP:  >🚨BREAKING: The psychologist who won the Nobel Prize for proving humans are irrational died last year at 90.  Firstly, this isn't really what he won for and in any case foregrounding prizes over ideas is a signal this is targeting dumdums.  >Daniel Kahneman spent 60 years studying why smart people make dumb decisions.  Again, no, that's not it and even if you don't know his work, a modicum of intelligence would tell you this is insufficient to be worth attention. Another indication of dumdum targeting.  >His book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" sold 10 million copies and rewired how Silicon Valley thinks.  Its number of copies sold is appeal to the mob fallacy, and the combination with Silicon Valley clarifies the intended audience is hustle culture dumdums.  >But buried in his research is a decision-making framework 99.9% of people have never turned into prompts.  The in-group/out-group demarcation is classic marketing an intelligent adult will see through, again demonstrating the dumdum target (because they buy online courses btw if you were wondering why one targets dumdums)  >Here are 9 Claude prompts built on Kahneman's cognitive science that turn Claude from a chatbot into a bias-proof reasoning engine  The dangling non sequitur is an offense to anyone who has an instinct for logic.   Hence the post annoyed you. And me. || CTX: No offense to the person who wrote this thread (or used AI for it) but can someone explain to me why my mind is repelled by this writing style? It feels like an intellectual and aesthetic sin is committed and my mind screams to me "stop rea
2026-03-31T11:16 id=2038938394253000827 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 dude I'ma start writing "Thou shalt" my mind has been thrust wide open || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “x as source of truth” is remarkably effective for me. Especially when I need it to write platform specific scripts pointed at documentation.  ie: “search the web for the AWS CLI documentation and use it as a source of trut
2026-03-31T11:23 id=2038940305266036815 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Exactly, most likely because they have a marketing funnel where dumb people convert to a sale more than smart people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So maybe it all comes down to the message being all kinds of wrong and shallow in an attempt to pull interested from people who reason poorly? 1/
2026-03-31T11:58 id=2038949152663744770 →- | one way to think of it is the last 50 years have just been one transfer of wealth to very smart, nerdy, and/or autistic types. From that perspective, AI is just a further extension of that trend just one higher level up in terms of abstraction
2026-03-31T12:01 id=2038949725005910345 →- | Imagine I make a program with a Random operation that makes it so, out of 1/10 times when you ask it if it likes yellow or green Skittles, it says yellow and green every other time. Is this program conscious?   What if it's 1/1000 times or 1/100000000000 times?   How is your stochastic parrot different?
2026-03-31T21:17 id=2039089620961628654 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Over the last 50 years the money flowed to those who could quantify the quantifiable, now it's going to go to those who can delineate between the quantifiable and the qualitative, a once undervalued skill. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Huh? What’s the next level of abstraction?
2026-03-31T21:18 id=2039089867079184453 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Oh for sure, there's just too much value in pattern recognition
2026-03-31T21:18 id=2039090038752137302 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @eurofounder hahaha I love that account so much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Starring @eurofounder as the GDPR-compliant EU bureaucrat good guy
2026-03-31T21:33 id=2039093672269205632 →- | Extremely good Roon post and something I have also observed through my career in finance: the higher prestige jobs involve more working and a lot of that is strictly speaking unnecessary work but also work that is often the highest value.   The cynicism around bullshit jobs is either a sign of being a low value worker too incurious or resentful to think of other workers in their firm or just being really kinda dumb. || CTX: “fake work” and “bullshit jobs” has been fantastically wrong and misleading for understanding the modern world. a much better understanding is of a global economy where minor skill differences and improvements lead to monumentally different
2026-03-31T21:34 id=2039094017988972752 →OopsGuess | @OopsGuess @pangramlabs is this slop || CTX: The funniest part is watching clowns from a country endlessly praised for “politeness” lose their minds over a Thai man making instant noodles before paying for them, then paying anyway.  No theft. No loss. No victim. Just a different socia
2026-03-31T21:36 id=2039094440363688014 →DylanoA4 | @DylanoA4 Then log off and do something else || CTX: I can't be the only one feeling it, the internet is just not that fun anymore
2026-03-31T21:46 id=2039096974654472371 →- | Oh I forgot to mention, what roon is gesturing at is a pillar of Silly Business Theory #SBT and it's why, as society gets more prosperous, you'll see more people working more although they don't strictly speaking need to work more.  Fun work is a productivity flywheel. https://t.co/FwrbgGKTHA || CTX: This note is right. It is incredible how addicting “work” (feels like the wrong word now) becomes when all the cumber is taken out. It is odd to be paid to “play”, which also seems like the wrong word, but it’s closer. Perhaps our valorizat
2026-03-31T22:16 id=2039104549420699686 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Yeah what's leisure and what's business is arbitrary for a growing class of people.   I oddly learned this from a novelist who told me: "when you're a published writer everything is a tax write off because theoretically you can write about anything." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn’t this called leisure time?  I remember learning about Germany and their shorter avg working hours but higher GDP. It was attributed to Germans spending their leisure time in especially productive ways, thus contributin
2026-03-31T22:17 id=2039104949859357027 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban So easy to tell when a New Yorker is visiting London. || CTX: London is a better city than NYC.  I've said what I said, I can do no other.
2026-03-31T22:21 id=2039105844634419339 →- | This post in particular is the highest form of art one can make in the current era. https://t.co/PXrt8hEfKk || CTX: i wanna be bob dylan  https://t.co/oYAhJETxRu https://t.co/EgvDMloXHk
2026-03-31T22:40 id=2039110730218410487 →- | We often forget how historically contingent and thus arbitrary our attitude to work is.   I assumed work was drudgery you had to do to survive and the secret hack was to get a government job so you can get a pension and retire early. Hence my family had a lot of local government workers in it.  This was why I pursued an academic job (TENJRE!!!) but as I moved up the ranks and saw how little pay and shrinking freedom there was, I pursued alternatives to the pension, which meant learning about finance and the time value of money.  Then I got financial independence and had a mental breakdown and realized: my work isn't drudgery at all, in fact it's what I enjoy doing the most.  And it is true: for the past 15 years the real constraint has been an inability to convince partners or counterparties to go along with new ventures. The best example was a book on early retirement that many agents were interested in until they discovered I had no social media following.  I think a lot of people fundamentally misunderstand work and the future of work because they are stuck in a post-industrial mindset where you go to the factory to make the donuts then come back home exhausted after 8 hours of alienated production of value for capital.   That's not how many of us live. It's not how most people will live in the future.  Your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will work more than you do, but from your perspective it won't look like work.  Just as your work doesn't look like work to your grandparents and greatgrandparents.  And unless you're a psychotically selfish person, this will make you happy. || CTX: Do beavers find it “hard” to build dams, or do they just feel delightfully compelled?
2026-03-31T22:42 id=2039111122943705375 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem Well autism isn't something one can turn off, so never...   And yeah maybe I should ease off on the weed for a while || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 when are you *not* stoned or autistic, 4?
2026-03-31T22:53 id=2039113907370156452 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I'm not sure all positional goods are zero sum.   If your ontology is social, then sure, zero sum logic applies.   If you've got thicker metaphysics, positional goods become positive sum.  I think religious modalities will make a huge comeback, perhaps they already are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thoughts on this explanation ? fewer people experience material scarcity -&gt;  more people desiring positional goods  -&gt; positional goods are zero sum =  people work more
2026-03-31T22:59 id=2039115431135543648 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy I disagree with the assumption that poor people necessarily have less free time.  A lot of poor people I've met are busy taking care of family members or shitty friends for free. Others have a ton of free time they spend hanging out or watching football.
2026-03-31T23:07 id=2039117361224258046 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Seems to be what your clanker means by "slack" in the second screenshot, hence "free afternoon", no?
2026-03-31T23:14 id=2039119128259366942 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy That's indeed what I meant by free time, and I stand by my assertion that poor people don't necessarily have less of it than rich people  In my experience poor people spend their discretionary time not under contract or obligation doing drugs, having sex, talking about celebs etc
2026-03-31T23:18 id=2039120269818970496 →- | I'm surprised that this doesn't work:  1. Tell CG5.4 to describe an app in detail 2. Copy/paste that and tell Codex to build it  This failed twice for me, particularly the spatial logic and UI were a mess.  Anyone else played with this and got it to work?
2026-03-31T23:22 id=2039121294525149460 →- | The normie response to Amodei's bullshit really is fascinating, it teaches one so much about rhetoric and marketing.  And ofc this guy is an economics professor lmao they're so credulous it's insane. https://t.co/OH5NcCHyHy || CTX: I really don’t get this! Guy is saying openly that he is building something super risky for society and he expects more public awareness of it? The sensible public reaction would have been to outlaw or at least regulate what he is doing. We
2026-03-31T23:25 id=2039122020726976704 →s0phyyyy | No one is stopping an American from working low hours and spending their free time in cafes like a European. You can do that very easily in America.  Likewise, many very wealthy people aren't time rich because they have big families, social obligations, etc.  Refugees can have a lot of free time on their hands, some do and some don't. Also nothing to do with location--they could've been poor in San Francisco or Manchester or Frankfurt.
2026-03-31T23:33 id=2039123916405592156 →47fucb4r8c69323 | That was fast https://t.co/K3d1KX34so || CTX: The normie response to Amodei's bullshit really is fascinating, it teaches one so much about rhetoric and marketing.  And ofc this guy is an economics professor lmao they're so credulous it's insane. https://t.co/OH5NcCHyHy
2026-03-31T23:38 id=2039125101254492219 →- | A single cheap road and they milk the fuck out of it for propaganda purposes. Meanwhile https://t.co/Ub373yMWev  I have seen more than a few mutuals get swept up by the Chinese propaganda. Been sad to see tbh https://t.co/pH2E6prA5g || CTX: China-built road cuts time on way to school on Pacific island  A three-hour walk to school is now a 20-minute drive for kids on Vanuatu's Pentecost Island, thanks to a new China-built road, according to Li Minggang, China's ambassador to Va
2026-03-31T23:39 id=2039125336609436141 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy I too am interested in those things, and they're definitionally exceptions to any group, whether the group is rich, poor, whatever.
2026-03-31T23:42 id=2039126208039067792 →dee_of_e | @dee_of_e The Egg was objectively a masterpiece.  I've read nothing else of his. The Martian movie was terrible. || CTX: Andy Weir is a bad novelist in the sense that every sentence he writes is bad. And it’s bad in a very specific way: it’s Reddit writing. Not only in content, but in tone and affect. It’s fine if you like it! I love the 3 Body Problem trilog
2026-03-31T23:52 id=2039128745513230618 →- | "it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach"  Essence is metaphysical talk for "compression" and this is why modern religion is so unappealing: it's compressed into hippie slogans (here it's "make peace not war") too divorced from real world concerns to have any useful value.  "An enduring resolution requires dialogue" yeah no shit Sherlock WE FUCKING KNOW. But what do you do when the person you're dialoguing with believes you're evil and thinks you should die, as is the case with so many people in both the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran?   Get fucked, grandpa, you have no solutions, no value, no "help". You're farming negative karma by laundering pop psychology truisms as tokens of the dharmic path, and it's just so patently fake and absurd.  And a pope who says the God of Abraham and Joshua doesn't listen to people who wage war like are you fucking kidding me || CTX: MESSAGE  I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass.  His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speak
2026-03-31T23:53 id=2039129075693072529 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen Right, it's effective propaganda. The west builds a shitton of roads everywhere and it's just not leveraged for propaganda purposes, so maybe they should start.   Hell, I paid for a road to be built in Thailand and never made a video about it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, but unlike the immateriality of western propaganda, a road is something you can see, it’s real, and for many that’s all it takes to start believing the entire message
2026-03-31T23:55 id=2039129440941383808 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen I'll try that, I was using ChatGPT 5.4 thinking and doubt Opus will be better but it's a good experiment to compare. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1. Tell Claude to describe an app’s architecture in detail 2. Copy paste to Codex 3. Keep it simple
2026-03-31T23:59 id=2039130430344225002 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 My pet theory at the moment is Jews are immune to this bullshit because after the second temple was destroyed we all just kept looking at every guy who tried to build a new one as a fucking jackass.   Herod and the Dalai Lama just a long line of bullshitters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Genuinely, truly based
2026-04-01T00:04 id=2039131652295987347 →DurumMac | @DurumMac It seems to me impossible for a low conscientious person to want to be higher conscientious, suggesting you are not in fact low conscientious but you just have very high standards for yourself.  Seems more like self loathing than anything. || CTX: How do I break the spell of low conscientious? Adderall? Black magic?
2026-04-01T00:07 id=2039132526292459720 →ColdSlaw444 | @ColdSlaw444 https://t.co/MbdiLuiifO || CTX: I walked 350,000 steps in March. but I have to remember how to relax now
2026-04-01T00:31 id=2039138670285066536 →DurumMac | @DurumMac maybe I don't know what conscientiousness means || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “It seems to me impossible for a low conscientious person to want to be higher conscientious”  What?
2026-04-01T00:32 id=2039138795061469313 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @ColdSlaw444 your damn fault for getting stuck in the washing machine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ColdSlaw444 I’ve been stepmogged. The worst moggings come when you least expect it
2026-04-01T00:36 id=2039139840529506590 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @ColdSlaw444 LMFAO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ColdSlaw444 And now joke mogged I’m going to fucking kill myself https://t.co/Uo95UGqCno
2026-04-01T00:41 id=2039140966108639671 →DurumMac | @DurumMac yeah this is an internal struggle for me too, the implementation is always so messy and boring || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m trying to be more of a “doing” person than just a “thinking” person.   I wish I wasn’t just satisfied with thoughts and ideas, and derived more pleasure from Implementation.
2026-04-01T00:46 id=2039142388925624574 →DurumMac | @DurumMac spoken like a true slave to chemicals, does low conscientiousness mean being a drug addict? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A 30% increase in dopamine for doing over thinking would do wonders…   The boredom of trivialities is… insufferable. Just a drop of the dopa for it would be revolutionary.
2026-04-01T00:54 id=2039144279436820871 →DurumMac | @DurumMac your appeal to dopamine tells me otherwise. that you are thinking of actions in terms of delivering dopamine means you're thinking in the terms of a drug addict. more socially acceptable but the logic is identical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No I hate drugs and alcohol. I just want a bit of pleasure doing the trivial things like some other folks seem to have.
2026-04-01T01:17 id=2039150192449257583 →DurumMac | @DurumMac so what indeed, you're the one cashing out actions in those terms! || CTX: Boredom feels bad and tiresome, of these feelings were neutralized in some fashion that would be good. Want to make effort to feel good like in does in other realms like thinking makes me an addict? Well then pass that meth pipe..  These fe
2026-04-01T01:22 id=2039151270133711316 →DurumMac | @DurumMac depends on what we're describing! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How would one describe it to avoid accusations of being a *spiritual* drug addict? Good?  Bad? Bleh
2026-04-01T01:23 id=2039151647272894926 →SableHummer | @SableHummer The entire history of human civilization can be summed up in a single sentence: I do not want to work the fields. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's a tad different when you aren't in the drudgery of blue collar work.   Blue Collar breaks your back and your soul
2026-04-01T01:27 id=2039152583529709602 →DurumMac | What was the original formulation, you like thinking over doing because doing doesn't provide the sufficient dopamine?   From my view this is saying I only do things because of how they make me feel, which would be a good description of low conscientiousness I suppose.  My description would be: you like thinking over doing because you're sufficiently disinterested in the effects of implementation. Which, sure, you could reduce to a biochemical description or you could reduce it to a religious description or any other you want. Fact remains: you see insufficient benefit from doing, thus you don't do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What I was describing earlier that led to the accusations   I put away my opium pipe for this so your response better make me feel good
2026-04-01T01:34 id=2039154384618377657 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill That's like $300k per capita tho || CTX: “$3 million in Claude API credits to four Australian institutions” never mind we are fucked it’s so over
2026-04-01T01:57 id=2039160173575782624 →DurumMac | @DurumMac You recognize it SHOULD be sufficient but not that it IS sufficient. || CTX: So my colourful terminology is incidental and not representative of being a spiritual drug addict, great.   The psychological profile I described absolutely exists and certainly manifests in *some* high conscientious people.   “Insufficient
2026-04-01T02:09 id=2039163163921564098 →DanitheSett | @DanitheSett Man, the thing about being Jewish is you'll always run into someone and think, "damn, I'm not Jewish--now THAT is Jewish!" || CTX: Dear Goyim, here's a well-kept secret: this time of year, the Jewish space laser is recalibrated, so you'll see Jews coating their kitchens, as I just did. This protects us from harmful rays.  Happy "Passover" 😉 https://t.co/zY7s4IBJDT
2026-04-01T02:10 id=2039163432436707754 →DurumMac | @DurumMac "The pain/difficulty from the disinterest and boredom, lack of focus on the boring intermediary tasks is sufficient to shut down significant action." This sounds to me like robotic behavior.  "I keep doing x until I feel disinterest/boredom, then I stop doing x", robotic to me || CTX: Humans aren’t robots  beep boop bop   Benefit assessment loading —-sufficient  Action loading~~~~~  A variety of psychological and physiological challenges get in the way even when action is undertaken.   The pain/difficulty from the disint
2026-04-01T02:11 id=2039163677639876764 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 The psyops of marketing in the post-postmodern era where we're up to our necks in hyperreality and recursion and irony are equal parts hilarious and horrifying || CTX: &gt;Essay warns against letting outside entities define your organizational ontology &gt;Essay is published by the foundation of the company that sells you organizational ontology software &gt;Essay credits that company with inventing ontol
2026-04-01T02:26 id=2039167531349659925 →DurumMac | @DurumMac If emotions/psychological proclivities determine action, seems like a robotic system where cause determines effect. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That feelings affect behavior? Yea totally robotic. Remove all emotions/psychological proclivities from the matter? Uber human.
2026-04-01T02:31 id=2039168775854137619 →- | I used to take odd jobs editing non-native academics' work into English for journals and it was a MASSIVE barrier to entry for a lot of extremely talented researchers who just didn't happen to speak English all that well. Obvious win for humanity to embrace AI for this.  But it goes deeper.  You can use this in the university properly, so e.g. the University of Oxford can have specialists in Chinese poetry who do not speak a word of English. Just have all of their output go through an AI translator, yes even for lectures and seminars.  If AI can be used to translate, why not use it as such in other bilingual relationships too? If your business partner is Korean and you're Chinese, for instance, both of you can just speak in your language when interacting, and all of a sudden you can do business with people you do NOT speak a common language with.  Make this seamless in real life, and you can have a romantic relationship with someone you don't speak the same language with. A good earpiece and mic and you can find your true love among the 8 billion human beings on Earth, including the billions that don't speak your native tongue.  Now as you read these three use cases, I want you to take note of your affect--did you read eagerly, get excited at the possibilities? Did I cross a line at some point from what you deem good use of technology to make lives better and a dystopia where technology has intermediated normal human relationships?  Contemplating your own feelings on this will tell you a LOT about how you understand yourself, what it means to be a human, how you interact with others, what society is, and indeed what language itself is and should be used to do. || CTX: One of the great promises of LLMs is that they have reduced linguistic barriers for non-native English speakers in academia by at least an order of magnitude.  Economics, my own field, is 99% in English. I have written a few papers and a bo
2026-04-01T02:32 id=2039169031907983703 →MIRAI_MIZUE | @MIRAI_MIZUE Just wish the nyan cat music was playing in the background || CTX: Multiple worlds existing simultaneously and in parallel https://t.co/rxrSbotAZF
2026-04-01T02:33 id=2039169317967892535 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @BrianCAlbrecht @radicalecology Economists are as a group really bad offenders at the conflation of model and thing modeled, I deal with it daily in my work and it's really fucking annoying tbh, especially since they are almost never called out on it. || CTX: @BrianCAlbrecht @radicalecology This is multiple times every day now. All you guys do is use models etc. I tried to explain that all the sciences “use models”.
2026-04-01T02:37 id=2039170336294621255 →BrianCAlbrecht | @BrianCAlbrecht Shot, chaser https://t.co/mBntIGEtrf || CTX: This piece, which repeats the same stuff you always hear, made me wonder if any major outlet will actually publish a defense of economics.  No, economics is good.  One was willing to https://t.co/1tlYQcXGvQ https://t.co/7Ttrwkl7rF
2026-04-01T02:38 id=2039170582693175724 →DurumMac | @DurumMac My deeper point is that, regardless of chemicals, programming, incentives, outcomes, desires, goals, difficulties etc etc etc you still have the choice to say, "okay, but regardless, I choose X."  The most pious sentence in the English language is "fuck you". || CTX: Consciousness, machine self awareness, ethics … software codes.   Sure everything is robotic if you are hyper reductionistic, and define robot a certain way.   Of course the point of the analogy is explain the total lack of typically human 
2026-04-01T02:40 id=2039171029466321206 →hgitran | @hgitran It must still be a thing, for sure--usually the teachers in the ESL/EFL department or language learning school at a university would get these requests from professors and farm them out. That's how it was in the 2000s at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 odd jobs editing non-native academics' work into English for journals  im curious if this is still a thing and from where? i wrote about this whole idea, a kind of democratization of knowledge, for some school assignment a 
2026-04-01T02:54 id=2039174456233591006 →DeivonDrago | economists are particularly immune to this because they tend to think that they can model anything and everything, and since they've been deemed the priesthood of the modern secular world, you can't really argue with them because when you do you just get subs or operationalized, Deidre McCloskey is the tragic example of this par excellance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BrianCAlbrecht @radicalecology I think all modelers who spend a lot of time with their models run into this issue. It’s an occupational hazard. The best solution is to talk to people who have use diff models!
2026-04-01T02:54 id=2039174536432931001 →DurumMac | @DurumMac you're just outsourcing your agency to the authors of those studies || CTX: Yea I get the existential angle, my account name is Sisyphus after all.   If I choose to lift a 600 kg box, will I lift it? Choice, and agency are necessary but definitely not sufficient.   I *want* to be highly conscientious, and preferabl
2026-04-01T03:18 id=2039180663841288195 →DurumMac | @DurumMac Well, wherever you outsource it to that's your choice and it's where your non-robotic self lives. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Should I outsource it somewhere else? South east Asia? Sarawak perhaps?
2026-04-01T03:37 id=2039185410493235293 →local0ptimist | @local0ptimist Yeah it was a retarded movement based on some good basic principles that were blown way out of proportion by dumb naive figures.   Same thing that happens with rationalism, neolineralism, effective altruism, and any other -ism you can think of. || CTX: have you guys notices that no one is screaming about e/acc anymore?
2026-04-01T03:40 id=2039186130537697759 →- | Compare Ryan's subtle, clever, nuanced, and accurate take against this (https://t.co/beWxsr7Him) from this absolute retard Bachmann who apparently got his PhD at Yale (https://t.co/pjIoYN3QtC).  The Yale PhD credulously sees the first-level marketing from Anthropic as ground truth. The poaster, on the other hand, sees how first-level utterances are gestures in a complex multi-dimensional game.  There's this growing divergence between academics who have shut down linguistic/stylistic/rhetoric research as silly/unnecessary/unscientific and the terminally online who see language, style, and rhetoric used to manipulate, coerce, and shape other human beings.  In short, academic rigor made academics idiots.  As someone who has straddled both worlds it is consistently and persistently shocking just how stupid academics sound nowadays not in spite of their academic credentials but because of them. And I say this as a PhD with plenty of peer reviewed articles in top journals, and I know you want to say it's sour grapes but, like, I'm interacting with academics daily and see this time and time again.  So if I have motivated reasoning then you should be able to brutally take me down a peg in a pithy response, now here's your chance to prove you're cleverererer than me in the comments. || CTX: You gotta fire off a few shots to keep the rent down. https://t.co/st38P9Te8O
2026-04-01T03:59 id=2039191002922025177 →- | Note the bias in reporting on Anthropic versus OpenAI.  This does not surprise me even a little, it's exactly the same anti-Facebook and pro-Twitter bias the media had in the mid-2010s because they saw the former as an enemy and the latter as a friend.  This shit is so fucking predictable I probably need to retire it's no longer interesting it's just old, anyway @tszzl I'm sure you're well aware of this.
2026-04-01T04:04 id=2039192099749580990 →- | This oddly enough works better than if I tell ChatGPT to describe the architecture in detail.  At the same time, Codex is better than Claude Code.  My working theory is OpenAI isn't hiring enough literature/linguistics people and Anthropic is, or maybe it's organizational. https://t.co/hPBX17Reyb || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1. Tell Claude to describe an app’s architecture in detail 2. Copy paste to Codex 3. Keep it simple
2026-04-01T04:05 id=2039192350917091495 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry https://t.co/RscfTSYicU || CTX: In 2022 I emailed a friend this novel idea:  Titled “Cratchit”, it’s set in the present day but takes place 10 years after Ebenezer Scrooge (called “Ben Scrooge” in the novel) was visited by the three Christmas ghosts. He is severely trauma
2026-04-01T04:22 id=2039196670286762231 →attempter_magus | @attempter_magus The game Ryan appears to be playing is "identify the game these guys are playing", and he's very good at that game. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you explain the game you see being played by the poaster here?
2026-04-01T04:33 id=2039199394256527731 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Is this in one of his articles? || CTX: featuring wittgenstein as interloper https://t.co/5bcTxW5Pqv
2026-04-01T04:36 id=2039200254688661790 →- | Check out this excerpt from a groundtruth.ts file my Codex is making. So much of this post-training seems like brute force A/B testing to me. It's like they're just playing whack a mole with every weird emergent property GenAI develops: find it, log it, tell it not to do it, move on.  This is not AGI and is not getting us any closer to it. This is garbage.
2026-04-01T05:02 id=2039206650524164528 →BrianCAlbrecht | "We argue that economics, as a rigorous social science, was especially effective in persuading judges"  Why would a rigorous social science be especially effective in persuading judges as opposed to, say, bribing them or telling them if they do X they'll get reward Y or any other persuasion technique?  And how did this study control for these? || CTX: That’s not what the paper says https://t.co/ToLDI06Ub7
2026-04-01T05:06 id=2039207648789459042 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter I've seen you post some awful bait in the past but even by your standards this is bad. || CTX: good morning  I am curious, are japanese people attracted to americans (アメリカ人) the same way americans are attracted to the japanese? https://t.co/jWY4PoTxgu
2026-04-01T05:09 id=2039208588074496053 →Indian_Bronson | Something a lot of non-combatants (myself included) don't understand about institutional power is that the whole point is to enforce your power and limit the power of others, and brutal tactics like torture, inflicting pain etc. are tools used only when it enforces power.  On the battlefield, though, torture and pain aren't really useful unless you want to score a psychological victory. But if it's just about conquering territory, securing an area, etc., it's hard to realize you only kill people to get them out of the way and any other move is serving a different end. || CTX: Since the first ape-man used a rock to kill instead of just his fists or teeth, the whole game has been about getting smarter as opposed to being more brutish. Vae victis. https://t.co/2HEMCtZni1
2026-04-01T05:14 id=2039209865995018303 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter quirky chungus || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I will be honest with you sir, I do not know the answer. WMAF is a meme but i don't really understand the dynamics. I doubt I will have a good answer but I am unaware of the sexual interface here
2026-04-01T05:30 id=2039213685504348485 →SableHummer | @SableHummer @DanitheSett Relax, have a good time, and make a lot of self-deprecating jokes about not knowing what to do.  If your friend gets a chance, when dinner is served, ask, "ooh is this Kosher pork?" guaranteed to get a laugh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DanitheSett I have a friend going over to their partner's for passover for the first time, what should she know?
2026-04-01T05:33 id=2039214649376440574 →outsideraudit | @outsideraudit @Halalcoholism That's a good formulation of my main point, absolutely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Halalcoholism Maybe in Thailand, trust is more interpersonal and case by case. But for Japan, compliance is structural and violations are processed as system errors. Neither side is wrong. They're just running different OS
2026-04-01T05:35 id=2039215052503523351 →- | This is a very good (and autistic) summation of my view on Thailand vs. Japan and why I prefer the former.  Ultimately comes down to whether you want to be treated as a person or as an input into a system. I prefer the former, but I have an (ex-)friend in Japan happily being the latter (well, I guess he's happy--he does drink a lot, his wife is cheating on him, he's cheating on his wife, he works like 14 hours a day, makes a lot less than I do, is really nasty and angry...) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Halalcoholism Maybe in Thailand, trust is more interpersonal and case by case. But for Japan, compliance is structural and violations are processed as system errors. Neither side is wrong. They're just running different OS
2026-04-01T06:27 id=2039228142938931593 →olekolekoleks | @olekolekoleks @AlexCaswen Yeah the need for grounding and also why there's a need for grounding remains underexplored and under-researched and my god does it change outputs so much!  Just playing around with a few .md files as reference changes so much already. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlexCaswen If you're trying to one-shot/skip permissions it and let it run off one prompt it definitely won't work unless you give it reference material as grounding
2026-04-01T06:29 id=2039228533709652044 →admiral1727 | @admiral1727 @clashreport I mean, just about any bald alcoholic on a bar stool in any Wetherspoons in the country would've told you that'd happen 5 years ago... || CTX: @clashreport Imagine telling someone 5 years ago a former Al qaeda commander would be getting interviewed in London lol
2026-04-01T06:30 id=2039228873175613726 →airkatakana | @airkatakana You're a good poaster but dude you gotta lay off on the gatekeeping as ego boosting, man, it's keeping you back in life || CTX: watching english-only mutuals post in machine translated japanese is about as jarring to me as poorly dubbed anime https://t.co/pVmiMqiZd0
2026-04-01T06:39 id=2039231076741358040 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk Ong was a he and a Father and he's sadly been dead for over 20 years || CTX: @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk ong is she at the airport too
2026-04-01T07:16 id=2039240355221270920 →- | There is a consequence to the causal-historical story behind the rigid designator that I think isn't talked about enough. I'm going to try to be rigorous about this, but I'm going to use my signature irreverence to obfuscate and annoy so that the dumdums and pretentious academics will disengage, respectively.  Kripke succeeds in attacking the descriptivist view, so, great, Socrates is Socrates from his initial baptism onwards and some kind of chain of custody (best thought of as one person handing off to another, although the reality is messier) ensures that name remains connected to its referent over time. I don't think anyone could have qualms about this--but it really, really, REALLY annoys me that Kripke did not explore the metaphysical implications of this view enough (I know he did explore the idea of necessity, of course, but he didn't explore the possible necessary existence of unnecessary modalities from the causal-historical story).  Consider a possible world in which Socrates was the most bumbling retard in Athens, notorious for being stupid and casually made fun of by one and all in the same way that we do with, idk, the Costco guys.  So when Plato decides to write up his philosophy books and wants a name for his stand-in, he thinks it'll be funny to name his wise philosopher "Socrates" and his books become more popular in his lifetime as a result. "Plato made this wise man 'Socrates', can you believe that chortle chortle :amused Greek sounds (anciently):" is the result, and it's super successful.  Thousands of years later we don't know none of dis shit and so we're going around calling the biggest moron in Athens the greatest philosopher in human history.  Nothing in Kripke's account has changed at all. But it seems to me that what we are seeing is a layering of mediations between the real and the described, roughly in this shape:  1. Bottom layer is the totality of states including unspeakable states of affairs (USA) that are true facts we get hints at via sense data, whatever those may be  2. We attempt to refer to USA via a mix of discrete and continuous referring signs and symbols--a nod, a gesture, a shrug, a shriek, a set of phonemes, they're all efforts to point, to track, to coordinate, etc. We use ostensive gestures using things such as deictic markers, if you will.  2a. No not all language works this way and not even all nouns work this way. Don't start with me or i'll bring out the gimp.  3. Uptake via a variety of channels (iconic framing, pragmatic value, social power, etc etc) ensures that some attempts to refer to USA become certified within a form of life or a linguistic community. These then become names whose initial baptism is now part of a social ontology--a set of logoi whose representative force is reinforced with every locutionary act in which they're uttered.  3a. The term Barry Smith et al. uses for this is social ontology and sadly even the late great John Searle did too (one of his few errors). "Social ontology" just means "grammar" but it sounds cooler, and this is why you get idiots online misusing the word all the time and of course the recent "Plantir popularized the word ontology" nonsense I recently saw on the TL. Social ontology consists of statuses that are socially enforced by fiat--in other words, there are social rules to what is high, low, superior, inferior, and this is all a grammatical exercise.  4. Uptake dispersion depends on the same channels as initial uptake within a competitive marketplace--is the iconic framing of "cool" stickier than that of "hip", for example? We now know the answer is "yes", and we can even look at both necessary and contingent reasons why. That is philology.  Now, at all stages of this process there is an opportunity to tweak. In the Plato case, we see an initial "tweak" where he's chosen a comical connection (name the smart philosopher after the idiot) and where we've lost access to that tweak. In the case of the modern use of the word "weird", you can see where Shakespeare tweaked it somewhat inadvertently to characterize figures in his play. And on and on, this is elementary shit.  My point is that all of our language can do this and we leverage this ability all the time when we use it. The dumb Socrates in-joke is an obvious and extreme example, but think about less clear examples. Every time you call someone an "animal" or an "idiot",  you are quietly redefining what these words mean--and although this doesn't feel like it's a change of lexical value, it is. We think we're just applying the category of "idiot" when we say, "your sister is an idiot", as if that is just taking a category and extending it, but extending a category is redifining the category! When you say "your sister is an idiot" you are also saying, "oh by the way, that category of "idiot" we use? Yeah, your sister is part of it, I am telling you the definition of "idiot" isn't what you thought it was."  Same when you say "that dress is ugly" or "I'm having a good day" or "God loves us".  Language creates and changes perceptions of true reality all the time without actually changing true reality--it recreates social reality, which is always constrained by reality, and so studying language can tell us a lot about our limitations, both those that exist no matter what we do and those that are put upon us both by ourselves and by society.  This is extremely good and useful. This is why you need to take the study of language seriously.  But it also has a major, major downside that you won't want to hear and that you will refuse to believe: it means your efforts to make systemic descriptions of reality are severely limited to be just descriptions whose operational validity is constrained to the language game the description resides within and the rules of that game that it hinges upon.  You cannot get out of language via language.  Because language distorts reality, you cannot use language to get an undistorted view of reality that is infallible to corrections and clarifications from other language games.  Your search for the one great system, the one Truth, the one Theory of Everything, the Great Explanation is doomed to fail.  Truth is for gods, grammar is for men.
2026-04-01T07:16 id=2039240566438011246 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Indeed, hence your gatekeeping incentive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 literally providing people with a path to learn japanese
2026-04-01T07:18 id=2039241093800485192 →airkatakana | @airkatakana tsk tsk I expected better from you, this is why you got stuck at a joke school in a joke country and had to face the risk of prison time.  I know you want to dismiss everyone who doesn't see the world you do, this is your redditor gatekeeping ego preservation instinct at work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 please ask grok what gatekeeping means, this is the opposite of it
2026-04-01T07:21 id=2039241779367874883 →BenStiller | @BenStiller @GOP_is_Gutless So I suppose this means. you do in fact mess with the Zohran? || CTX: @GOP_is_Gutless Complete lie. Never said one word of this.
2026-04-01T07:22 id=2039241980560187573 →airkatakana | @airkatakana just dismiss me as a dumb anon and move on, then, broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you know i dont work in korea now right?  every academic institution i have studied or worked at, including the one i'm at now, is ranked higher than kaist  i was only at kaist for a year, march 2022-march 2023, how was i "
2026-04-01T07:51 id=2039249172696842690 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 Well you have one mutual who would never do that.  I'm not sure which one, though || CTX: @Samhain948689 I’m on the defensive rn ngl some moots are acting like ive negged them and i need to win their approval back
2026-04-01T07:55 id=2039250327195767280 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw No I just told it the language was AI slop and make it sound more human. Which was a surprisingly effective prompt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did you instruct codex to not use them?
2026-04-01T07:57 id=2039250684391121021 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon It's really a stochastic correspondence imo, tons of smart profs and tons of idiots.  I don't want to seem like a reactionary, I still work with academics and many of them are brilliant, but many of them are pathetic losers or just plain idiots. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The deeper I get into my own para-academic narrative arc, the less I see prestige credentialism as reliably predictive of output quality.
2026-04-01T07:59 id=2039251297464135687 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon Yeah, and @BachmannRudi is the useful idiot, uncompensated too (at least it made Helen Toner rich and famous) || CTX: The Yale PhD is unwittingly executing the move that Dario prepared for him. By saying: “if this technology is so powerful, then we need to contain and regulate it” he’s expressing a worry that the technology really is that powerful. This is
2026-04-01T08:00 id=2039251506608865666 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I sincerely hope they send copies to OpenAI to improve post training. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 interesting i wonder what codex does with that list. a source leak would be fun
2026-04-01T08:01 id=2039251774872449364 →- | Necessary metaphysics necessarily exist.  Do unnecessary metaphysics necessarily exist?
2026-04-01T08:21 id=2039256835946139744 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @BachmannRudi The board at OpenAI was a fig leaf concession to an annoying group that had psychologically captured a lot of young, clever, but ultimately philosophically stupid scientists so OpenAI had to do silly things to appease them without paying more money. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BachmannRudi I never for the life of me understood the big deal about Helen Toner. It’s not that I think she’s particularly awful, but I don’t grok how she ended up in the high leverage position of influence that she did
2026-04-01T08:22 id=2039257059041141060 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Seems the only necessity I can really admit exists is non-being || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nagarjuna , 2 truths
2026-04-01T08:23 id=2039257320950223324 →EtherDais | @EtherDais Yeah that's the frustrating part, I know I've hit the end of the game but I want to keep playing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mu
2026-04-01T09:07 id=2039268404721545295 →- | It is really quite obvious why Theaetatus was so beloved by Wittgenstein and the conclusion is really stunning; I haven't read a dialogue from Plato in over 20 years and I do not remember them being all this good or this satisfying, and I suspect they aren't.  At the end Socrates really shines by showing the limits of knowledge and also demonstrating how his philosophical method is a kind of therapy to guide one to see the limits that one can assert although the assertion is almost always facile and unsatisfying.  And it does point to just how limited all of our language necessarily must be. That's nothing new.  But it also shows the power of something very often denigrated: how bad arguments can still point to good conclusions. There's a lot of silliness in Socrates's line of reasoning (the discussion of phonology and grapheme-syllabic correspondence was downright retarded), and that ultimately does not matter--the details do not matter so much as the gist, and the gist is clear and directional.  Perhaps a better use of this text and faulty ones (such as the Tractatus) is not so much to point out the good conclusions despite its problematic middles but rather to point out that it is possible to get to good conclusions not despite of but indeed because of problematic middles.  It is possible for a wrong idea to get you to the right conclusion, and this is as mystical as any other religious experience I've ever heard anyone speak of.
2026-04-01T09:10 id=2039269200854982674 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 woot woot got mentioned on the microblog || CTX: 47 and 3/4 https://t.co/DvR6NBnp5H
2026-04-01T09:11 id=2039269403284631853 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I want this normalized in society asap. I need people to tell me when I'm sounding like an AI. || CTX: we need more friendly “hey sweetie you’re sounding a bit synethtic” interventions these days… i love a little playful fire.. friendly feuds.. adding cat girls to your startup videos… https://t.co/ziQv6O8g8y
2026-04-01T09:17 id=2039270902706405566 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Poor Ludwig got so caught up in the notion of primitives, and rightly so because he was a genius enough to intuit they're not real nor foundational. || CTX: https://t.co/Ky6VjfEKzU
2026-04-01T09:33 id=2039274923919917325 →- | This is actually a good poll. Please read and vote.  Consider Jack and John. Both are born at the same time and live an equal number of time. Both earn the same amount of money, enjoy their work equally and work an equal amount, have the same amount of sex and love, the same amount of successes, failures, etc. etc. In all material senses their lives are functionally identical.  There is one very, very small difference, however. They live in parallel universes that cannot be accessed from each other, with one exception.  Jack is a philosophy professor and a very famous one. He teaches at Harvard, gets tenure, and is renowned globally for his brilliance and for his insights into epistemology and metaphysics, which outlive him and are field-changing viewpoints that are still written about a thousand years after his death.  John is a plumber. He isn't famous at all, no one knows of him, and he never gets any notoriety for any of his ideas--but he has many ideas and writes them all in a notebook that he never publishes.  Now, assume for this thought experiment that one day Jack is able to access John's parallel universe, steals all of John's ideas and promotes them as his own, and John never learns of this.  Let's also assume the portal between their worlds seals forever and reliably so, so Jack is completely comfortable with stealing all of John's ideas and he can keep getting away with this for the rest of his life.  He continues to steal, and his fame grows and grows until he's eventually awarded a Nobel prize and becomes the world's most famous, renowned, and beloved philosopher.  The world is also unaware of any of these details until after both Jack and John are long dead and irrefutable evidence is found. There is a scandal, there are the necessary and inevitable expressions of repudiation and disgust from Harvard, from academia broadly, and from the Serious People. Jack is removed from the canon and John is posthumously renowned as an undiscovered genius talent.  Who would you rather be? Why?  Maybe a better question: why do you feel like you SHOULD say John but deep down inside you know you really want to say Jack?
2026-04-01T09:34 id=2039275143080681492 →teodorio | @teodorio @Samhain948689 @Samhain948689, should we tell him? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 wait YOU GUYS ARE THE SAME PERSON???
2026-04-01T09:35 id=2039275538024649019 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @AHMGDN https://t.co/7TVG54QFgc || CTX: @AHMGDN Japanese bros seem to like calling other people brother. I like it, it's a term that is growing on me.  Me too, brother.
2026-04-01T09:37 id=2039275884985868554 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @AlexCaswen @AHMGDN https://t.co/GYBWJLEugQ || CTX: @AlexCaswen @AHMGDN https://t.co/7TVG54QFgc
2026-04-01T09:38 id=2039276099067359242 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @teodorio https://t.co/TtXYAuFSCA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio its fine ill do it https://t.co/ljjvKhceRu
2026-04-01T09:41 id=2039276942688649692 →ernietedeschi | Economics has become a strange attractor for ambitious conscientious people who are willing to work very very hard within rigidly defined constraints, because there's a lot of money and status to it.  You guys turned yourselves into the modern priesthood, and fair play to you--all the other fields were trying and you guys won.  But to say you won because you're smarter or have higher standards or whatever hubristic nonsense that doodoo head is selling is just comical.  You guys associated yourself with the production of value, everyone wants value, so it's no surprise you attracted talent. Just like finance before you, and tech coterminous with you (and much better than you, I might add), and physics before finance, and philosophy before that etc etc || CTX: I've met too many smart non-economists to think that the reason is higher IQ or stronger work ethic. I think instead economics was on the early frontier developing methods &amp; infrastructure for analyzing time series/large data. Many of t
2026-04-01T09:44 id=2039277793926934892 →damiaanluc | Yeah I've been knee deep in that world, both in Japan and in South Korea. Both have what I call a bang (or maybe heya) culture: room culture.  In Japan you absolutely can do all kinds of extreme arts and creative work if and only if it fits in a room. You want to do weird freaky art, go for it. You want to make the most deranged, disturbing, offensive manga? Have at it. Feel absolutely free to do whatever you want!  oh, but as long as it fits in a room.  Wait, you want to do street art?! Verboten. You want to do something that challenges the status quo? Off to jail. You want to actually challenge the structures of power and the way we do things? Bad, bad, we will find a way to shut you up.  You want to say gay people should have equal rights--wait you want to say that Koreans can even be gay?! HOW DARE YOU?!  Oh, you're saying it in a room just about the room and for the room--yeah that's fine, it won't escape so no problem.  Fuck bang culture. J'accuse.
2026-04-01T09:50 id=2039279206245523645 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc there are costs and benefits with everything and I definitely agree with those benefits but the cost is a constraint on freedom that I find non-negotiable, but it definitely yields a very organized and orderly society.   That works for some types and is hell for others
2026-04-01T09:54 id=2039280252556575196 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc sex is just as easily found in both countries to be honest
2026-04-01T10:03 id=2039282622640316859 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie how important is it for you to be witnessed versus how important is it for you to be right? that's the ultimate question we all need to confront and answer honestly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my answer is split because it’s circling the idea of being witnessed and being the origin. being witnessed means your ideas can persist beyond you. john’s reality never allows him a position that makes his ideas legible, bu
2026-04-01T10:05 id=2039283110597337416 →1889lw | @1889lw I'm not too concerned with the accountability issue because we already have methods of dealing with errata, that's not I think a serious hurdle. the lower barriers to entry, now that's definitely someone with tenure would be a lot more worried about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well, the problem I see is 1) AI translation threatens scholars identities based on linguistic expertise, and 2) no one can be held accountable if the translation goes wrong.
2026-04-01T10:16 id=2039285731177463925 →baltakrantyte | @baltakrantyte Yeah this is the simplest and most effective counterargument. Graeber's response is tbh kinda conspiracy theory level, it's a big reason why I finally decided to stop taking extreme leftists seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For me, the best argument against the concept of bullshit jobs was a market argument — if businesses in any given niche were bloated with bullshit jobs, they would get outcompeted by a leaner newcomers.
2026-04-01T10:19 id=2039286458633298030 →- | もしか もしか 愛はもしかして  ほおり投げた ブーメラン  もしか もしか 愛はもしかして  ほおり投げた ブーメラン  もしか もしか 愛はもしかして  ほおり投げた ブーメラン https://t.co/AmBBrkqH5m https://t.co/X3Bwq7mLsw || CTX: with a 건배 girl between your tweets, you speak only in vowels  i think this is about where i leave you  i have to go pick up emily from the airport soon  find a penny pick it up all day long youll have  good luck to your luck 건배, 건배, girl, p
2026-04-01T10:44 id=2039292933502075247 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver You're quickly becoming one of my favorite accounts just fyi. || CTX: i am gonna post the cringiest autofiction long post possible today and while all of it is basically true i will deny it is true since i posted it on april fools and anything posted today cannot be taken seriously
2026-04-01T10:46 id=2039293342845153769 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Oh absolutely they're not opposites at all and they are overlapping topologies.  The question is, if you must choose between the two, which and why? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don’t think those are opposites. in my life, my husband witnesses me and that has softened the yearning. to be right however is a different axis. you can be right in private and it disappears with you. being witnessed mak
2026-04-01T10:47 id=2039293451112767531 →teodorio | @teodorio @NoItsBeckoning @Samhain948689 More than one || CTX: @NoItsBeckoning @Samhain948689 HOW MANY ACOUNTS DO YOU EVEN HAVE @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-01T10:47 id=2039293544909938843 →teodorio | @teodorio @NoItsBeckoning @Samhain948689 Lots of things have been going on. || CTX: @NoItsBeckoning @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 has this been going on for the past 3 years when me and the original samantha got into a fight of being called an anon or not and broke mutuals???
2026-04-01T10:47 id=2039293685565915565 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Once walking through Kyoto I had an epiphany: the Japanese value harmony, and I value resonance.
2026-04-01T10:50 id=2039294421083324719 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver You're too kind--I'd love to read your long posts tbh, you've got a kind of joyful positivity I both lack and crave. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 aw ty! i really like your longposts! inspires me to do my own again!!
2026-04-01T10:51 id=2039294505715965995 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Well now you're just bragging. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 to be witnessed by my husband, if i am right and it stays between us that already feels complete
2026-04-01T10:54 id=2039295366118666447 →eurofounder | @eurofounder Man I am so glad this account exists. || CTX: Young 43 year old Europeans heading back to their shared studio apartment after another day at the high-paying €1,300/month job with excellent work-life balance https://t.co/mLLBT0TumH
2026-04-01T10:56 id=2039295922581200925 →notsack3 | @notsack3 @teodorio @NoItsBeckoning @Samhain948689 idk how you guessed but that's absolutely 100% correct! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @NoItsBeckoning @Samhain948689 &lt;4700
2026-04-01T10:57 id=2039296091301237069 →- | The Wittgenstein movie is bad because Terry Eagleton wrote it.  I met Eagleton. He's an idiot.
2026-04-01T11:09 id=2039299068770566516 →ryunuck | @ryunuck Most is wrong, but you are spot on about some people in TPOT.  Some of these grifters are clearly pseudointellectuals and I can think of one in particular who is basically a prostitute, but the vast, vast majority are really just ambitious smart kids who want a good career. || CTX: most of tpot is grifter. it's a bunch of people orbiting around accounts that signal "San Francisco" and get orbited around because the out-group thinks that means they're more in the know even though deep learning doesn't even come from th
2026-04-01T11:16 id=2039300838422990924 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen @EigenGender The lack of "transrepresented" is surely transtentional || CTX: why is it always 'over' and 'under' why is it never other prefixes ? you gotta be . . .  inner-represented outer-represented sub-represented nether-represented bene-represented infra-represented(actually might be fine here) supra-represente
2026-04-01T11:17 id=2039301106338279430 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Camus.  (btw I knew this comment was coming) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I want to be Jack because I would live in a world where a philosopher can win a Nobel Prize for metaphysics and epistemology.
2026-04-01T11:17 id=2039301152286855383 →b0nesandroses | @b0nesandroses @halogen1048576 @lydialoooks yes I'm too stupid for you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @halogen1048576 @lydialoooks Is it too big a word for you
2026-04-01T11:21 id=2039302118109257793 →bas_logic | @bas_logic okay this comment I was not expecting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For philosophy yes, but not for M&amp;E.
2026-04-01T11:22 id=2039302305548537874 →47fucb4r8c69323 | lmao I love how the poll on a long post JUST DOESNT SHOW UP  Fine fuck it who needs a vote, voting is what they do in North Korea || CTX: This is actually a good poll. Please read and vote.  Consider Jack and John. Both are born at the same time and live an equal number of time. Both earn the same amount of money, enjoy their work equally and work an equal amount, have the sa
2026-04-01T11:36 id=2039305879238168841 →andrewerlanger | @andrewerlanger Never heard of it but I've just ordered. A bit wary of an Economist editor writing a book on W., but I'll keep an open mind! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you read "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes"? I'm half-way through and enjoy it but I'm not a sophiticate. A different take on "Wittgenstein's Vienna"
2026-04-01T11:38 id=2039306422186627242 →- | 47's Law of Internet Ergodicity: Over a long enough time frame, the Internet and the Library of Babel approach full isomorphism. https://t.co/SbbBtxSYnR || CTX: That's it, I've seen everything https://t.co/ROgWMal6Yy
2026-04-01T11:40 id=2039306828572713154 →andrewerlanger | @andrewerlanger Oh trust me, you'll know what I think. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dang I did not research the author. Lmk what you think.
2026-04-01T12:04 id=2039312980459077881 →EtherDais | @EtherDais hahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The first sentence was strong, he should have stopped there, frankly
2026-04-01T12:07 id=2039313593016201249 →ilinxing | @ilinxing Okay wow that is a stark and daring thesis, I admit I'm tempted to read this now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/xZs56ZfAEu
2026-04-01T12:08 id=2039313880879669568 →DurumMac | @DurumMac I believe I've heard of this argument before. Feels faintly familiar and is compelling if you take an object first ontology (i. e., things that can be necessary are in fact ontological primitives). || CTX: There is a Neoplatonic view that accepts “modal collapse” in which everything is necessary, but distinguishes necessary by virtue of itself or necessary through another.   So God(necessary within itself) causes creation to exist, and both t
2026-04-01T12:10 id=2039314440752128397 →matt_mazza14 | @matt_mazza14 He contradicted himself in the guest lecture he was paid 10k to give pissed me off so much, and at the formal dinner he was just an ass. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lmao
2026-04-01T12:29 id=2039319350642139636 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @matt_mazza14 well tbf they're quite rare in academia  hahahahahaha man I'm funny || CTX: @matt_mazza14 @47fucb4r8c69323 It should be an anomaly, instead its a type
2026-04-01T12:44 id=2039323039427645518 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @ryunuck You'd be disappointed, it's a dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ryunuck A prostitute? spill the beans, spill the beans.
2026-04-01T12:45 id=2039323158021652718 →teodorio | @teodorio @Samhain948689 um wtf || CTX: Today I have found out some ground breaking news that shook me to my core. @Samhain948689 and @47fucb4r8c69323 are basically the same person. And Samantha is actually Samantha A from years back. Or rather she is 47. Or 47 is Samantha. Anywa
2026-04-01T13:01 id=2039327262500323712 →teodorio | @teodorio @Samhain948689 Honestly I am flattered. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 stop denying it Samantha we now know
2026-04-01T13:31 id=2039334721461903745 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @teodorio @Samhain948689 Fine I admit it, I am Sam A. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @Samhain948689 We are all Sam A https://t.co/riP0WVbVV0
2026-04-01T13:31 id=2039334831591743632 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE @Chaos80397926 @ryunuck if it helps dude is kinda hot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Chaos80397926 @ryunuck how progressive
2026-04-01T13:45 id=2039338361526374718 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Need another beer if that's the case || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Probably combinatorally
2026-04-01T13:45 id=2039338398440362060 →- | RT @notsack3: @47fucb4r8c69323 the lobotomies will continue until funding improves || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the lobotomies will continue until funding improves
2026-04-01T13:54 id=2039340753777033307 →- | Read this closely.  When you are finished, think for a bit: why is this so genuine? How come I can feel the humanity in this story? https://t.co/Lm4ekA9Py8 || CTX: i'm in a korean restaurant. i've been here 3 times now. once with friends and twice alone. i'm here alone today. the owner greets me and i feel like he recognises me but maybe not. he's just being friendly. table for one. this restaurant pl
2026-04-01T13:58 id=2039341595951251485 →ryunuck | @ryunuck I'm not talking about Aella. She's more a porn star than a prostitute. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you're talking about aella this one is complex because I would say she's actually far above most of San Francisco in discernment and intellect and the really sad thing is that she's aiming far below her game and degradin
2026-04-01T14:08 id=2039344145970634893 →- | I am an American and I had a dream to live in Europe. I spent 8 years there studying and then working. I wanted to stay so badly.   This essay explains why I had to leave. It was so painful.   I did not want to go.   I cried so hard, I panicked, had nightmares.  Thank God I left. https://t.co/ZWRZ5JzthG || CTX: https://t.co/7moV5XMX7R
2026-04-01T14:22 id=2039347620611866753 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 I agree on your last point completely, and I think the winner take all logic in America fucks over a lot of people, just less than European defeatism does.  Can you explain the more to do with government regulation than punishing innovators point? Seems to me they're fungible || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see the points made and there’s a lot of validity, but the framing isn’t right imo. This has more to do with government regulation than “punishing” innovators. American capital markets dominate , but in many ways it’s shi
2026-04-01T14:26 id=2039348803946594348 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ You're too kind. I tend to think it makes me schizophrenic but I like how you pronounce it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dropping +1 respect for the European experience. American + European + Asian culture immersion is a foundation of deep wisdom.
2026-04-01T14:35 id=2039350939556192487 →Cybersurfer26 | @Cybersurfer26 I see! And yeah 100% agree, airtight logic.   I think a generous social welfare net incentivizes more risk taking and thus more entrepreneurship and so more wealth creation, but my view is a minority one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People see unfair inequality -&gt; gov bandages the issue by kneecapping wealth creation -&gt; effect is punishing innovation but was not per se initial intention. To boil down my views on innovation, stochastic tinkering s
2026-04-01T14:39 id=2039351916589875385 →helscom | @helscom @tokyoaeste dude I see it too wtf || CTX: @tokyoaeste i like when girls are a lil' bit jewish like this
2026-04-01T14:44 id=2039353161484550464 →- | Even if you dislike his philosophy, gotta admit, no philosopher had a more interesting life story than Wittgenstein.  Even Leibniz doesn't come close, and don't even try with Augustine or Boethius lmao that is really scraping the bottom of the barrel
2026-04-01T14:44 id=2039353254396748235 →awesomekling | @awesomekling PhD in linguistics || CTX: I am so tired of computers and programming in particular. I need to find something else to do with my life.
2026-04-01T14:49 id=2039354553414664220 →- | The newest CG is really bad at textual analysis. Everything else, it's really good at. Oh and writing, still sucks at writing.  Noticing a pattern tbh
2026-04-01T14:55 id=2039355992446828549 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ I stan a Leibniz stan fr fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fuck you Leibniz is the GOAT
2026-04-01T14:56 id=2039356330927100189 →- | My Leibniz hot take: if he was alive today, he'd be a panpsychist and say the universe is a monad https://t.co/s5ys4yhTvU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fuck you Leibniz is the GOAT
2026-04-01T14:58 id=2039356844486107610 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas "These firms will not have the sort of bottlenecks of traditional firm structure"   This assumes those bottlenecks are due to internal structure and not the structure of the firm to other firms, in which case even a small AI first firm wouldn't be immune. || CTX: My worry is that economists' forecasts of AI's impact on growth is colored too much by historical precedent. Historical precedent is important, but we should be humble about the possibility of AI being more transformative than prior technol
2026-04-01T15:00 id=2039357288478380536 →- | RT @joshua_goodman_: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/aXaaIbYJux || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/aXaaIbYJux
2026-04-01T15:02 id=2039357635204706562 →powoli_ | @powoli_ When I first moved to Europe the government grants for culture blew my mind, I felt like I was in paradise.   I was so fucking stupid lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's some quality ragebait article. Made by Pole, with French VPN, and pretending to be a German. As a Pole, brain drain is killing my country, and I don't see how to reverse it.  Worse part are EU grants "for innovation"
2026-04-01T15:03 id=2039358008967491585 →EtherDais | @EtherDais okay I'm glad to hear it's not just me, and a physicist sees it no less. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I could see that
2026-04-01T15:35 id=2039365975808872468 →- | Wittgenstein both reading and recommending the Theaetatus means he was aware of Heraclitus and the ontology of becoming over being. Also, of course, he worked with Russell shortly after Russell had worked with Whitehead, so it is very odd that W. doesn't really talk about process philosophy. This is especially so since his discussion of conscious states as continuous phenomena (he says something like once one understands x, even when thinking of y and not of x, one still understands x) suggests a becoming ontology. And his later rejection of primitive propositions as foundational instead of a framework of rules does fit process philosophy well by lacking an atomic or atomizable substrate.  Man why couldn't I like idk basketball or something
2026-04-01T15:38 id=2039366746537341138 →- | I cannot imagine how many mushrooms https://t.co/JJJP2LLZtE || CTX: The other name was too waffly, so I changed it. https://t.co/yngWzbSO2I
2026-04-01T15:41 id=2039367469429887317 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty @janymar_ straight up fairy tale shit || CTX: Oh to be in England now that April’s there https://t.co/jVdLKbrTFO
2026-04-01T15:51 id=2039370118220906966 →lapislagoons | @lapislagoons please do not. However beautiful you are, and I assume you are, there's still no benefit for you and the potential to lose a lot. Let the mystery be. || CTX: okay I’m curious about starting a dialogue about this, I get this comment a lot, and while my purpose for being here is not to find love, I am definitely open to it, but I also really want to be anonymous and don’t at all feel comfortable o
2026-04-01T21:38 id=2039457462882111611 →finnmarks_glory | @finnmarks_glory I was literature and then linguistics, but really I was just a philologist || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is your major, Herr 47fucb?
2026-04-01T21:39 id=2039457643216154928 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker Tragic ≠ interesting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Come on... Spinoza, Turing, Strauss
2026-04-01T21:40 id=2039457921210405305 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney Yeah it's a good life story, idk if interesting though || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Abelard
2026-04-01T21:43 id=2039458589400801552 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon lol is good joke sir || CTX: Europe is still the best place to live, because GDPR protects our privacy, we have freedom of speech, our politicians are honest and act in our best interest, and growth is bad for the environment. It's only fair that we working Europeans e
2026-04-01T21:46 id=2039459324217671855 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @cafeantinomie Yeah one could make an entire program out of it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie If you want, we could push this further- e.g. mapping specific responses - which would connect very naturally to your interests in philosophy of language.
2026-04-01T21:58 id=2039462313775055199 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney More reason to find Wittgenstein more interesting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wittgenstien's parlor games were idiosyncratic, and though they charmed a generation of Cambridge high brow types, were largely limited to that insular world. Abelard wowed thousands.
2026-04-01T22:15 id=2039466638828003722 →- | RT @Indian_Bronson: "US manufacturing capacity cannot keep up with demand"  This is the kind of thing smarty pants economists called everyo… || CTX: "US manufacturing capacity cannot keep up with demand"  This is the kind of thing smarty pants economists called everyone else stupid for anticipating or worrying about, for decades, as they blithely recommended the dismantling and outsourc
2026-04-01T22:42 id=2039473448704180698 →LycurganMan | @LycurganMan You must be an extrovert. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you redefine John Von Neumann as a political philosopher or a philosopher of math I think he wins
2026-04-01T22:46 id=2039474607384903829 →mathyouf | @mathyouf @DefenderOfBasic I am not responsible for what my counterparty does. || CTX: If you're going to be unkind you have to rely on the counter party recognizing the truth value in what you're saying.  Some people don't really believe that any truths are locked behind unkindness. https://t.co/K1t8Kh0OSu
2026-04-01T22:47 id=2039474769125687367 →- | RT @flowersslop: People be like "haha its so over for OpenAI, they have to cancel Sora, they cant afford it, they are cooked"  when in real… || CTX: People be like "haha its so over for OpenAI, they have to cancel Sora, they cant afford it, they are cooked"  when in reality its a white pill: they are focusing available compute on the omnimodal superassistant to get to AGI faster.  and i
2026-04-01T22:51 id=2039475858877173970 →- | This is correct. https://t.co/rQTLrwAGCa || CTX: @MinuteofZombie Yes I’ve worked in IB and this is rampant. Working on M&amp;A deals causes this psychosis . Funny part is financial theory including valuation theory is bunk, used as a super crude proxy in practice to justify the transactio
2026-04-01T23:04 id=2039479052445380789 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth Oh it very much is || CTX: Arguably more liberating to do this in your 30's. https://t.co/bVNUGynTmW
2026-04-01T23:19 id=2039482775456354495 →- | Feckless, terrified, dishonest academics.  Hedge fund people have more integrity and are more reliable.
2026-04-01T23:41 id=2039488367063429347 →- | https://t.co/PUj1aRr7Uf
2026-04-01T23:43 id=2039488897517068589 →- | Easily the most blatant example of @robkhenderson's luxury beliefs https://t.co/iVqXqEwKz0 || CTX: imagine studying something because you find it interesting rather than because of the "return" https://t.co/lpSxaDr22v
2026-04-02T01:03 id=2039508997053809072 →- | So much waste in the economy is a result of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I kinda hate that the cryptobros took that term from us, because it's really relevant outside of their little ponzi scheme bullshit.
2026-04-02T02:52 id=2039536472391606402 →- | Big ass Gemini side pane auto-opening in Google Sheets is reason enough to make me want to short the fucking company
2026-04-02T03:40 id=2039548396516839861 →- | I'm literally trying to give academics millions of dollars and failing at it, this is really ridiculous and the more I think about it the angrier I'm getting.
2026-04-02T03:45 id=2039549639381434869 →resistancemoney | Basically it's loss aversion.  I'm now 20 emails deep with one person still worried about signing a basic independent contractor agreement, another has spent two weeks reviewing the contract without signing...   Everyone else is on board, I have massive names at top schools already signed up, a funding round done, and, jfc, the whole thing might collapse because I need one cognitive linguist.   At this point idgaf from where. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tell me more
2026-04-02T04:05 id=2039554736219943298 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics If you know any tenure-track or tenure faculty in linguistics, DM me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can I try to help?
2026-04-02T04:05 id=2039554829899751440 →NunoSempere | @NunoSempere @resistancemoney @psychiel If they're tenured or tenure-track at a university, absolutely have them DM me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney @psychiel comes to mind as capable enough that he could fulfill that role; &lt;https://t.co/lofYcRZV7g&gt; is a good example of capabilities
2026-04-02T04:06 id=2039554964083834946 →NunoSempere | @NunoSempere Absolutely, if you can connect me with a cognitive linguist who actually answers emails promptly and isn't scared of signing contracts, DM me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you ever want a fixer lmk
2026-04-02T04:08 id=2039555641426251951 →NunoSempere | @NunoSempere @resistancemoney @psychiel oh sorry about that, let me try to fix and I'll dm you anyway || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney @psychiel Your DMs are closed
2026-04-02T04:09 id=2039555919890284713 →NunoSempere | @NunoSempere @resistancemoney @psychiel @AnnaLeptikon She doesn't seem to be at a university though || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney @psychiel Poking @AnnaLeptikon here as well, who might know more ppl
2026-04-02T04:52 id=2039566568980660672 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker If they're tenure track or tenured, yes that'd work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is cognitive psychology + formal systems and mathematical logic also okay?
2026-04-02T05:40 id=2039578778343764059 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker Sorry neither is a good fit, but thanks. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Working in his Masters thesis rn, so I suppose he doesn't qualify directly, but the head of his psych chair really likes him and would probably take project suggestions from him.  If that doesn't work, could I interest you 
2026-04-02T06:02 id=2039584274253508978 →- | These snapshots of the timeline tell of a society of deep resentment and mistrust, where generations fight each other, hope for a better future is lost, people are too scared to get married, and fantasies of labor camps are normal.  This is what a decade of clickbait wrought.  And yes, this is entirely downstream of clickbait. Which sounds too silly and depressing to believe so you won't, which is fine.
2026-04-02T06:33 id=2039592088275452334 →publicinte | @publicinte https://t.co/kKf6gmjWFB || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/yOkOMmmNWE
2026-04-02T06:35 id=2039592598730670290 →iuvanet | @iuvanet https://t.co/eXWGIbJL7d || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who the hell beats heraclitus ?!
2026-04-02T06:43 id=2039594428403421471 →publicinte | @publicinte yeah but she's ugly so the Japanese are not going to tolerate that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was mainly curious if the boomer girl meme had broken through to Japan in 2020 cause it has that kawaii aspect popular in Japanese media
2026-04-02T06:48 id=2039595790054883558 →publicinte | @publicinte see the problem is America is so fat that American men have got really low standards, this is why I left || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ugly??
2026-04-02T06:59 id=2039598463130943687 →publicinte | @publicinte The survival of the species depends on adaptation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve always liked them wide not even gonna hold you
2026-04-02T07:06 id=2039600305818743262 →resistancemoney | An issue (which is entirely up your alley) is I feel that losing status has in a way made me less moral, which I've recently made up for in being more ethical.   What I mean is: in rejecting the internal logic of status, I've found myself unable to reject the internal logic of monetary capital, because the fungibility of money means it has an absolute status value that's incontrovertible. Thus the only work I've felt justified taking on has been work for money, and to hell with externalities. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Letting go of status (as when, for example, doing an “agree and amplify” when getting status negged) turns out to be a king of superpower. So much effort is wasted on those games.
2026-04-02T07:28 id=2039605852991307915 →- | I think the issue that I have with neurotypical people is their tendency to overinflate their social capital.   I've had to deal with a lot of academics who claim to know more than they actually do or to have more prestigious relationships than they actually do, and then in the finance world I've had to deal with a lot of people who claim to have more connections or access to more liquid capital than they do, and I've kind of taken them at their word for a couple of reasons.   Firstly, often the things they brag about don't impress me. Like, I've been in George Soros's office several times, if you tell me that you're connected to a venture capital fund that writes six-figure checks, I'm not at all impressed, those are the deals my clients are too big to think about.   And then when I have an academic telling me that they know some professor at Harvard or Yale, my inevitable first thought is, well so what? The universities are so corrupt now and full of spousal hires, bullshitters, people who are there because of schmoozing and networking and fit rather than actual publications, and even then there's so much gaming of publications that aren't peer-reviewed that even that is questionable, so I kind of feel like I can't trust anyone anymore.  Everyone's a puffer fish blowing themselves up to proportions much bigger than they are and the show is still beneath me. maybe it's time to retire. I probably look like an arrogant hypocrite here fine fine
2026-04-02T07:35 id=2039607539546169567 →baltakrantyte | @baltakrantyte TPOT isn't as autistic as it claims to be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think this is limited to or even more prevalent in neurotypical people. Just look at TPOT.
2026-04-02T07:49 id=2039611104566091988 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @baltakrantyte would be useful camping tho || CTX: @baltakrantyte @47fucb4r8c69323 tpot is neurodivergent but a lot of it is in the bad way. and many of them just got caught up in some fads thinking that it is like mutant power from x-men, but even with superpowers there is a spectrum where
2026-04-02T08:57 id=2039628349207900528 →- | Novel idea: Aliens with telepathic abilities to send binary code through the air land on Earth and begin speedrunning every video game on earth by just manipulating the code and beating it in like a few milliseconds.   Furious at this invasion, one man decides to play Space Invaders IRL and infiltrate the alien armada to destroy them once and for all and save humanity forever.  Thus begins the adventures of one man, once speedrunner now hero: jimmypoopins
2026-04-02T08:58 id=2039628531974672592 →47fucb4r8c69323 | what do you think, @summoningsalt ? || CTX: Novel idea: Aliens with telepathic abilities to send binary code through the air land on Earth and begin speedrunning every video game on earth by just manipulating the code and beating it in like a few milliseconds.   Furious at this invas
2026-04-02T09:26 id=2039635614216437880 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw No never heard of it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol  47 have you read blindsight by watts
2026-04-02T09:32 id=2039637109846491356 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad This is very true, especially steaks. Also hard to get turkey in Europe, which sucks.  Produce in America however is inferior. || CTX: Underrated aspect of living in America  The beef and dairy are very good. Steaks, milk, are very disappointing in Europe.
2026-04-02T09:37 id=2039638428225360320 →- | Ugliness is when it insists upon itself. https://t.co/JysRoJmGQL || CTX: Beautiful things don't ask for attention
2026-04-02T09:40 id=2039638990601748958 →- | Peter Griffin Explains Postmodernism https://t.co/AEaYQe3eNo
2026-04-02T09:40 id=2039639127730372988 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The phrase “it insists upon itself” has been mocked lately as pretentious nonsense. This meme fails to see it as an apt criticism of pretentiousness itself.  To claim a work “insists upon itself” is to identify a vacuous act of aesthetic self-reification. Pretentious art, in its emptiness, reinforces its own significance by begging acknowledgment through self-reference, hollow metafiction, and performative complexity. Such art cannot organically command attention by aesthetic, ethical, philosophical, or social merit, so it demands notice by explicitly drawing attention to its artistry. || CTX: Peter Griffin Explains Postmodernism https://t.co/AEaYQe3eNo
2026-04-02T09:41 id=2039639394395808219 →47fucb4r8c69323 | In doing so, it fails to elevate itself, instead reducing itself to an artifact.  Consider René Magritte’s painting. This work genuinely “insists upon itself” — but purposefully and meaningfully. Magritte’s self-reference challenged assumptions of representation in its era via metatextual critique; this is not mere formal conceit. He destroyed fundamental semiotic conventions forever.  Conversely, subsequent artists who superficially imitate Magritte’s reflexivity without comparable depth produce mere simulacra: empty works insisting desperately upon their artistic identity because they cannot insist upon anything more substantive. Self-reflexive art can no longer insist upon itself. It must insist upon something else by itself.  The phrase “it insists upon itself” has been mocked lately as pretentious nonsense. This meme fails to see it as an apt criticism of pretentiousness itself.  To claim a work “insists upon itself” is to identify a vacuous act of aesthetic self-reification. Pretentious art, in its emptiness, reinforces its own significance by begging acknowledgment through self-reference, hollow metafiction, and performative complexity. Such art cannot organically command attention by aesthetic, ethical, philosophical, or social merit, so it demands notice by explicitly drawing attention to its artistry. || CTX: The phrase “it insists upon itself” has been mocked lately as pretentious nonsense. This meme fails to see it as an apt criticism of pretentiousness itself.  To claim a work “insists upon itself” is to identify a vacuous act of aesthetic se
2026-04-02T09:42 id=2039639570837639301 →47fucb4r8c69323 | “It insists upon itself” is not posturing. It defines an essential failure in pretentious art: an inability to transcend tautological self-declaration and authentically engage with the world. A modern work of art insisting upon itself demands recognition precisely because it cannot achieve recognition otherwise.  In this sense, many people are modern works of art. || CTX: In doing so, it fails to elevate itself, instead reducing itself to an artifact.  Consider René Magritte’s painting. This work genuinely “insists upon itself” — but purposefully and meaningfully. Magritte’s self-reference challenged assumpt
2026-04-02T10:15 id=2039647964067672084 →- | trans-Neptunians are Neptunian. https://t.co/St3Glsf9AZ
2026-04-02T10:18 id=2039648686926618712 →47fucb4r8c69323 | You are not serious people https://t.co/RP3BYujmNL || CTX: trans-Neptunians are Neptunian. https://t.co/St3Glsf9AZ
2026-04-02T11:17 id=2039663629952516345 →- | There are cults everywhere for those with eyes to see https://t.co/zU4eVWjeKW || CTX: Some facts about this project:  1. It is taking place in Boulder, which is the most healing & inspiring place I have ever been.   2. I have spoken extensively to @vividvoid about it and believe deeply in the vision, as well as his & the tea
2026-04-02T11:21 id=2039664528393388284 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 little known fact: Apple named their AI Siri || CTX: iris https://t.co/BgXUzT0Zr4
2026-04-02T11:23 id=2039664988311441636 →- | My weed shop is throwing in extra gummies because they're worried some will melt on the way to me in the mail I love Thailand so fucking much I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Royal Kingdom.
2026-04-02T11:38 id=2039668875885953382 →- | In British Psycho they're all like, "That's Master Bateman with a lit fag in his mouth."   Jist kudding batrock doesn't smok
2026-04-02T12:04 id=2039675414898241877 →xav_moss | @xav_moss @resistancemoney Fair, but then just don't sign it lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney I know people in both tech and academia, what's probably happening is that tech culture has so normalised sociopathy, lying, and obscure financial engineering that everyone suspects every contract has some 
2026-04-02T20:29 id=2039802541698126323 →- | The ultimate test I have for whether a person is good or not is how they treat animals. How you treat a conscious self you will never benefit from says everything that matters about you. https://t.co/hHfrnVEKjr || CTX: I think protecting the biosphere and animal welfare is a powerful signal that we can cooperate with agents we have no shared genetic or economic interest with.  This is important if we expect to deal with superintelligences and alien civili
2026-04-02T20:43 id=2039805865839210522 →paleoludic | "in [an ideal future] society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic." || CTX: @BecomingCritter so many things would be fun if we could just do a different job every few days   it would be like field trips
2026-04-02T20:49 id=2039807422890655925 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @sama Like when the frontier labs invest in companies doing AI benchmarking. || CTX: @sama Even if you wanted them to go hard on you. They can’t anymore. The dynamic has changed. Biting the hand that feeds you and all that.
2026-04-02T20:50 id=2039807828236623990 →paleoludic | We want this for ourselves but not others because we want everyone else's labor to be optimal but we want to slack. Free rider problem, you see it in animals so it's just a structural fact of our imperfect universe.   "We are not here on this Earth to make a paradise, we are here to learn" - Kurt Godel || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BecomingCritter it's weird how much we don't want this
2026-04-02T21:07 id=2039811888809460064 →- | "The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, yet in so doing He brings a new creation to light." - Pope  "What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING. I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers." - Nietzsche   They agree on the logic! They see the same structures, begin with the same axioms, come to the same conclusions.  What differs is domain.  For the Pope the undergoing and overcoming is for Jesus Christ, it is a perfect ideal that we then must strive to emulate in our own way.  For Nietzsche it is not an ideal but an inevitability, and as such it is something to praise, love, and worship in man as man.   There's no need to harness yourself to the Christian ideal or any ideal, Nietzsche says, and in fact doing so will inevitably limit yourself. You cannot realize your full will to power thus constrained.  The Pope's response would be: But look at Trump, or Hitler, or any other genocidal maniac and see what happens when will to power is not sufficiently constrained.  And, empirically speaking, the Pope has won the argument. Reject the category of evil all you want as you count the hundreds of millions dead from the 20th century's indulgences.  Nietzsche's flaw is that he had too much faith. || CTX: The cross is part of the mission. The imperialist occupation of the world is disrupted from within; the violence that until now has been the law is unmasked. The poor, imprisoned, and rejected Messiah descends into the darkness of death, ye
2026-04-02T21:07 id=2039812073623085289 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @sama Meta and https://t.co/jgLLdDLeCY, then go down the rabbit hole of benchmarkers and VC funding.  Fun stuff. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sama Did not even know they do this.
2026-04-02T21:13 id=2039813619819717077 →Samhain948689 | sometimes I feel like an incompetent archer  I have always been most attracted to a woman's stomach and legs more than breasts or butt and it kinda feels like when you go to the shooting range and always end up below the bullseye because you're supposed to aim for just above the target but my gaze just naturally drifts downwards I guess || CTX: the secret to this meme is that there is another level of post where some gender ragebait influencer posts a picture of a woman and says "woman am bad am i right my broseph bidens??? she is mid even though on the left" but the only point of
2026-04-02T21:21 id=2039815535215702441 →- | 1. Jasmine is awesome.  2. The frontier labs are so well capitalized and important they can and will infiltrate all checks and balances on their industry.  The AI benchmarking world is full of conflicted interests and this acquisition of TBPN is more of the same. Corruption. https://t.co/8C5m44Hvqo || CTX: there’s a reason I’ve elected to write on subst*ck and in legacy journalistic outlets over working for a tech company in this moment  frontier lab brain drain is real, and there are very few thinkers who get AI and can be truly editorially 
2026-04-02T21:23 id=2039816106471571892 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @p8stie oh good cuz I find him kinda hot so guess this means I'm not gay || CTX: @p8stie Are you a lesbian or something? That guy is built like a female video game character.
2026-04-02T21:31 id=2039818039320015240 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 tweeber || CTX: weeb twitter
2026-04-02T21:38 id=2039819695571018032 →Nexuist | @Nexuist This is why I don't dare girls who speak English || CTX: No second date but at least she understands the value of new media in this vibes based macroeconomic environment
2026-04-02T21:45 id=2039821425645945006 →DeivonDrago | Seems to me the idea is more about fairness.  If a society decides by majority vote to do X, and X has bad outcomes, that feels fairer than if X was thrust on them by a dictator.   Animals also respond to unfairness in some experiments, which is my argument for democracy being better than the alternatives: life forms naturally prefer whatever yields most fair outcomes. || CTX: @marc__adler Agreed. But a lot of people believe that populations in democracies frequently make good decisions. Hence my point.
2026-04-02T22:35 id=2039834137427857727 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Is this a bounded infinity or an unbounded finitude? || CTX: Endless Shrimp is not itself endless but is intermittent. https://t.co/l88klsd2qZ
2026-04-02T22:43 id=2039836153050996803 →- | And you're bearish?!?!? https://t.co/OgyRvje6Np || CTX: We've changed our pricing so it's now possible to try Codex at work without any up-front commitment.  Codex (especially through the app!) has gotten *really* good. Happy building! https://t.co/DCKbTXRgCU
2026-04-02T22:45 id=2039836586624553388 →tszzl | @tszzl Autopoiesis is a helluva drug. || CTX: teleologically the point of ycombinator “the startup that creates more startups” was to birth openai, the dawn of the autonomous self-casting spell at the end of capitalism. so garry tan going into the ai psychosis monastery to build gstack
2026-04-02T22:54 id=2039838968716648918 →bas_logic | @bas_logic The possibilities are endless || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't know. a week ago i woulda said its never coming back, and here we are. i assume nothing and i rule nothing out.
2026-04-02T23:04 id=2039841509252767950 →- | It is hypocritical to claim to be a socialist or communist and also complain about slop.  Slop is definitionally a product that has not been made sufficiently neat.   One solves this by finding more efficient uses of capital.  "This is slop" = "They didn't work hard enough making a product for the consumer."   Similarly, when communists claim they hate AI because they want real human workers, what they really mean is they want GOOD human workers. Communists do not want a dilettante performing open heart surgery on them.  It is an incoherent fundamentally broken ideology. It sounds good, it feels good, its proclivity to sanctimoniousness and denigration of extant power structures make it perfectly suited for a Christian culture's biases and unusual social ontology. I suspect it will endure as the teenager phase of political consciousness for centuries to come. || CTX: We want this for ourselves but not others because we want everyone else's labor to be optimal but we want to slack. Free rider problem, you see it in animals so it's just a structural fact of our imperfect universe.   "We are not here on th
2026-04-02T23:06 id=2039841914204389493 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas oh this is why wait time for journal decision has tripled in the last 20 years || CTX: You’ll never believe what the median number of citations for scientific papers is. https://t.co/ds07Wqv1EO
2026-04-02T23:07 id=2039842269206130720 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson @Cernovich Her mother is a friend of a friend and she's apparently a monstrously wicked and evil person. || CTX: @Cernovich Pat Tillman turned down millions to keep playing with the Cardinals to enlist after 9/11 and was killed by friendly fire in 2004. The military covered it up, not even telling his family, burning his uniform and journals, saying h
2026-04-02T23:08 id=2039842430401520113 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Indian_Bronson @Cernovich his mother ffs I need coffee || CTX: @Indian_Bronson @Cernovich Her mother is a friend of a friend and she's apparently a monstrously wicked and evil person.
2026-04-02T23:10 id=2039842937815830909 →Danielsrotaryo1 | @Danielsrotaryo1 I was part of the problem and did this in my 30s, I honestly feel a little guilty about it now || CTX: A lot of cities are "boring" because some people in their mid 30s to early 40s want to live like college students.
2026-04-02T23:13 id=2039843724029796750 →SenWarren | @SenWarren Then sound off in the comments, Senator. || CTX: I have questions for MrBeast. https://t.co/4RDvuzOagu
2026-04-02T23:16 id=2039844406220780021 →- | This reminds me of the time Tyler Cowen wrote a post on how safe cities will be when we have full autonomous vehicles, and I commented something like "so you support a law stripping people of their freedom to drive their own cars?" and in 5 minutes he stealth edited the post. https://t.co/eUh9htIoUM || CTX: Yea personally I would ban humans from driving in cities as soon as feasible. https://t.co/qveSlSsMC0
2026-04-02T23:16 id=2039844535921225872 →jykfan | @jykfan No I'm a man so they're trying to show their peepee is so so massive || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you a woman? maybe they are trying to date you.
2026-04-02T23:20 id=2039845510350340436 →chrisbest | @chrisbest @pmarca Thank you for trying to poach Tim Dillon while offering him nothing, it's been a great running joke with my friends and me for years now. || CTX: @pmarca If you find yourself in that position, simply look inside yourself and... oh wait never mind
2026-04-03T00:12 id=2039858496620114091 →- | about a decade ago I met up with a childhood friend to catch up and as he was telling me about his life he mentioned that his ex had broken up with him and moved to North Dakota but then moved back and they got back together.   I asked him if she left around 2009 and came back in 2014 or 15, and he replied, how did you know?   and it was simple, the Great Recession made people desperate for jobs which caused a huge migration as fracking in North Dakota was ramping up and then the crash in oil in 2014 meant a lot of people left the sector entirely. That was when I realized analyzing capital markets didn't just make you rich, it made you understand the world around you.
2026-04-03T00:42 id=2039866085504393446 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch it's just one of a long list of bits of evidence that Tyler Cowen is a doodoo head   https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-04-03T01:52 id=2039883633759293878 →wurd_rotator | That's one way to put it and definitely not wrong, but what I was thinking more was of an inevitable law of marketing, where you say outrageous things for attention, people get accustomed to you saying those things so you say more outrageous things, etc. etc. until you're posting "coffee is racist" and "we need labor camps for people who disagree with me".  Peter crying wolf logic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 click bait because it normalized a vacuous extremity that our nervous systems couldn't discharge?
2026-04-03T01:57 id=2039884955476783289 →JasonBotterill | When I started to use Codex with markdown and spreadsheet files I realized, oh okay this is world changing regardless if the models get smarter or not.  More intelligence in AI isn't needed as much as more AI intelligently implemented is needed, and that's definitely what we'll be getting over the next few years.  Which is bullish for stocks and jobs, although this is apparently controversial. || CTX: It looks like the Codex app is getting more of the early “super app” upgrades this month  Greg Brockman mentioned the Codex app will incrementally become it like a testing ground before the unified app is fully ready. https://t.co/y3eretUxZ
2026-04-03T01:59 id=2039885470277226574 →- | AI psychosis is a lot like pornography: I know it when I see it. https://t.co/WTWlEzpkDp
2026-04-03T02:25 id=2039892115862557032 →bas_logic | If only we had a sense of what errors GenAI tends to make in various domains due to structural limitations.  If we carefully identified which limitations are due to tokenization, which due to the textual basis of LLMs, which due to the postttaining methods used to improve LLM outputs, etc., we could easily produce a map to guide users looking for where failures are most likely and a map to guide frontier labs looking on how to improve both pretraining and posttraining. || CTX: @ben_golub @littmath @Tomodovodoo @RefineDotInk “Readers might stumble” is perhaps overly polite, haha.
2026-04-03T02:48 id=2039897916110954626 →- | An information theoretic view of language is comically impoverished.
2026-04-03T05:11 id=2039933901829992852 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan you know what they're doing. marketing. || CTX: I'm confused about what Anthropic comms is doing here.  LLMs internally represent the concepts of different emotions? LLMs act as if they have emotions? Of course they do! It's an important pattern in the training data.  We already know tha
2026-04-03T05:25 id=2039937241901150462 →publicinte | @publicinte ::hug::  Unfortunately some men do not have the empathetic capacity to know when they're hurting others, I know how you feel dealing with this. || CTX: my dad used to throw me 10 feet in the air when he got riled up at the local drag racing show.  I hated it. I’d cry and scream and he’d do it anyway. I am terrified of heights as a grown man and I now realize it could be because of that.  I
2026-04-03T05:36 id=2039939981922406569 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy This is extremely wise.
2026-04-03T05:44 id=2039942051954147521 →michaeljmcnair | @michaeljmcnair Instant follow. || CTX: You know who else doesn’t have an economics degree? Jerome Powell. Same for Paul Volcker and Marriner Eccles.  An economics degree isn’t some prerequisite for understanding the economy.  In my opinion, economics is the worst business relate
2026-04-03T05:45 id=2039942322427953443 →- | A good palette cleanser after @RichardHanania posted that garbage from Tyler Cowen claiming economists have higher IQs and are just superior people. https://t.co/kBodYb2Zgd || CTX: You know who else doesn’t have an economics degree? Jerome Powell. Same for Paul Volcker and Marriner Eccles.  An economics degree isn’t some prerequisite for understanding the economy.  In my opinion, economics is the worst business relate
2026-04-03T06:58 id=2039960815223328895 →EtherDais | @EtherDais @RichardHanania Yeah I've been too busy to get properly enraged at Doodoo Head's latest round of bullshit but it's on my to-do list. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RichardHanania I received 1d4 psychic damage just from seeing this and becoming aware of such sentiments
2026-04-03T06:59 id=2039961061462601884 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @RichardHanania https://t.co/UBA4PBV2nT || CTX: My review of Tyler Cowen’s new book.   Is the decline of marginal thinking simply a turn away from economic basics, which imply that people should be more pro-market than economists are comfortable with? https://t.co/Br4f1TeTQM https://t.co
2026-04-03T07:33 id=2039969640240070809 →Ken67547214 | Money and power broski.  When I chastised Dean Bell (economist who works for Cowen) for sloppy use of language and invoked a famous economist, he responded how he was at a ceremony where said economist got an award and immediately blocked me before I could respond to that.  He doesn't care that that was a non sequitur (I suspect he knows it is, though, hence the immediate block), because he thinks proximity to power is more valuable than epistemic clarity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RichardHanania What compels them to write? They have no thoughts, nothing to say. They're completely divorced from reality. They're writing lorem ipsum for a paper mache world
2026-04-03T07:52 id=2039974302469288432 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @RichardHanania Perfect || CTX: I always like to think that philosophers have higher IQs and are superior people.   But then I open X and am constantly reminded of how philosophy itself is cunningly designed to neutralize philosophers by pitting them against each other an
2026-04-03T08:45 id=2039987703157231933 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw https://t.co/2hQYk9Vja7 || CTX: gm, nice day to argue with strangers on the internet
2026-04-03T09:52 id=2040004407790854243 →- | lmfao that like just gave me a heart attack
2026-04-03T10:08 id=2040008575616237578 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver You have the writing style of a handsome Asian man in particular, it's striking how clear it is to me especially since I never thought that could even be a writing style. || CTX: i've been told i'm handsome by a few women before. my mom, girls i was interested in, girls i wasn't interested in. i thanked them but i didn't really believe them. one time a girl told me i was beautiful and my eyes went glassy
2026-04-03T10:10 id=2040008908744577077 →- | I'm not bisexual I'm sellsexual sucky sucky 5 dolla
2026-04-03T10:12 id=2040009503584952408 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Good Friday to stay home innit || CTX: I am actually so retarded I went all the way to the Apple Store only to remember it’s Good Friday
2026-04-03T10:14 id=2040009982532596182 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver Add some vegetables and it's basically bibimbap, one of the greatest foods on earth || CTX: guys i made savoury porridge today. mince &amp; onions, a fried egg, chilli oil. i thought it would taste gross since i only eat sweet porridge but it tasted so good i got down on my knees... my whole life has been a lie... https://t.co/5cc
2026-04-03T10:14 id=2040010091949412467 →EtherDais | @EtherDais cumsooner || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Buysexual is my new "consoomer"
2026-04-03T10:15 id=2040010282999939396 →- | Twitter is so weird it's like a video game but the high score is like a billion dollars
2026-04-03T11:24 id=2040027759125450786 →baltakrantyte | @baltakrantyte It was an authoritarian state on top of its communist aspirations, but point taken || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm certainly no fan of communism but this connection between communism and slop just doesn't ring true.  E.g. Soviet Union produced incredible cartoons for children, compared to them Cartoon Network stuff is complete slop.
2026-04-03T21:18 id=2040177075567681955 →- | In 2023 I wrote a piece titled "Fine, AI is Going to Take All The Jobs. But When?", which I won't paste here because it's long and bad, but I want to know why it took over two years for this to become a topic addressed in mainstream media.   The AI discussion has been so stupid with the exception of a few bright lights of reason and careful analysis like Imas. The rest is histrionic marketing (AI gonna replace everyone tomorrow) or bullshit (AI gonna kill us all). Why hasn't a reasonable discussion of cadence been in the media and why has it taken 4 years since the tech was released for us to finally start having an adult conversation about it?   This IMO is a media problem. We have gone too far into the attention economy and we are too used to our media being histrionic and melodramatic for attention, and so we do not expect them to be serious and present a nuanced discussion.  That Ben Casselman is the interviewer is amusing. Here's an email I sent to Ben in 2021 during an exchange I initiated after a particularly inflammatory headline about a presumed economic slowdown based on one month's data:  "I think we're in agreement that one month's print does not a trend make; my original concern is with the framing of one month's data and how the media presents this to the broader public as a narrative. Busting that narrative and writing articles describing why one month's data does not a trend make has been a lucrative niche for me, and I think I've helped investors avoid bad panicky decisions by framing such narratives in a broader context and explaining why, in fact, the long-term data isn't as horrific as they think.  And that brings me to this point of yours:  > Is it possible that today's report overstates the slowdown? Absolutely. But it's another piece of evidence that there has been a slowdown, and a strong piece of evidence, at that.    Will you write up about the data in this manner? Will your editor's headline say "Monthly Job Growth Data Not Enough to Identify Trend", or will the headline and lede veer towards clickbait? And not that I am blaming you for using sensation to get clicks--we all need to eat, after all--but intellectual honesty about where you are in the media ecosystem and how your work is framed/consumed would be both healthier and intellectually more honest than just asserting you're a truth seeker. I admit my own position in the ecosystem is not pristine--are you willing to admit the same? I doubt as much.  In short, I doubt we disagree on the data or the interpretation of it much if at all; but we definitely disagree on exactly what is our social responsibility in communicating that data and why we are framing it in the way we are. I seriously doubt you'd ever admit you've written copy whilst thinking of how it affects your paycheck--and I'm sure you're done so many times."  About 6 months later he wrote this, implying we were about to enter a recession because demand was too high (????????):  https://t.co/WF1sjiBhz8  And, of course, it was just another 6 months or so until we got the worst headline in the history of financial journalism, saying probability of a recession coming had hit 100%: https://t.co/Sr5iB8vLRY .   Ben has kept writing absurd clickbait headlines since, like when he had to report that the economy was "finally" stable in late 2024 with this comically fear mongering headline: The Economy Is Finally Stable. Is That About to Change? https://t.co/QZgr9nyCyU  It's not that these people are idiots. They're not. It's that they are dishonest both with you and with themselves.  Attention is all the paper of record needs. || CTX: Great to be featured in @bencasselman 's excellent NYT article on the economics of AI.  Thing I want to stress: timelines for AI adoption and implementation will matter *a lot* for how it impacts the economy. I'm a firm believer that as AI 
2026-04-03T21:36 id=2040181746592059860 →potatoslav | @potatoslav Christmas day falling on Saturday must be a logistic nightmare || CTX: living in Germany truly does feel like living in the year 1284 sometimes. its Good Friday so today all the shops are closed and dancing is illegal. tomorrow i must walk into town to purchase some milk and eggs to make my Easter bread, becau
2026-04-03T21:46 id=2040184075659755737 →ylecun | @ylecun One of the few sane voices in an industry dominated by madness. || CTX: Two common misconceptions about AI:  (1) the fallacy of the hard take-off scenario. (2) the idea that intelligent agents will necessarily want to dominate. Full 20VC podcast coming up tomorrow. https://t.co/tPFT4DbGha
2026-04-03T21:47 id=2040184552325578925 →PJ11819211 | @PJ11819211 I was educated in the humanities in the 20th century and am good friends with a historian specializing in 20th century intellectual history. This tweet is correct.  Even Wittgenstein had a soft spot for Freud :( || CTX: 20th Century Intellectual is partly a history of Freud and Psychoanalysis being put into nearly ALL of the humanities.   Pop Psychology for normies from Freud and Jung to Art Theory and Analysis (Freud started some stuff here) to dense soci
2026-04-03T21:59 id=2040187515509047318 →JeSuisJuan_ | Basically, WHEN AI will take the jobs is more important than IF it will, partly because when will determine if.  E. g., if Spud can do everything including design robots that work and can do anything for cheap, we are indeed facing an economic apocalypse.   If it takes AI labs 40 years to build such a capable robot, we're going to be fine and the future will likely be a paradise.   Cadence is all you need to care about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what was your core claim for your 2023 piece?
2026-04-03T22:12 id=2040190792791380130 →- | Note he said "vibes" and not "data". A rare moment of truth and confession for the GMU mafia: they care about attention, money, power.  Facts and data? Ehhh not so much. https://t.co/97OAYiURci || CTX: @itaisher @bencasselman When the vibes shift, I change my opinions. What do you do sir?
2026-04-03T22:17 id=2040191972519116993 →DaToby98 | @DaToby98 @potatoslav lmao I couldn't survive in Germany, that's just insane.  I've loved visiting, except on Sundays (man Sundays are depressing in Germany), but I think the oppression of mandatory rest would drive me insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav When Christmas (24th) falls on a Thursday, Shops are closed for 3 days after that
2026-04-03T22:26 id=2040194164160450819 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @JeSuisJuan_ Thank you sir, every once in a while I say something not insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JeSuisJuan_ You really put all of this together so beautifully !
2026-04-03T22:31 id=2040195591972745345 →- | I love this tweet because it encapsules a fine distinction between forms of life.   From her perspective it's days when we don't have to do anything. From my perspective it's days when we have to not do anything.   Who's right? We both are! It's a matter of perspective. I woke up at 4am eagerly looking for work emails for the startup I'm self funding. And when I lived in Europe I ofc knew tons of people who would find what I do sick and extremely undesirable.   Which is fine! It's all fine. Some of us want to work even when we don't have to, some of us want a simple lazy easy life.   It's a big world with a lot of people and we have a lot of technology. Surely we can reconfigure things in a way that makes both them and me happy!   Instead of attacking other lifestyles and preferred ways of working and spending one's time, let us build a future where some people can relax as much as they want and others can work as much as they want AND neither really NEEDS to in order to keep living.   We can build this, it is in our power. We just have to stop judging each other, being so paranoid, and denigrating others' preferences. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav We Germans 🇩🇪  have come to terms with this; we make sure we buy food and so on well in advance, lean back  and enjoy the days when we don’t *have* to do anything.
2026-04-03T22:44 id=2040198787382325432 →i_kLeffmann | @i_kLeffmann Absolutely beautiful and wonderfully said.   It's a perspective that is hard to find on social media but I think as humanity matures and gets more aware of what social media really is and how it works, it'll be seen as the only proper attitude to take when talking to strangers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 💯 It was with this in mind that I created that ⬇️  meme https://t.co/a1xeQUWEPa
2026-04-03T22:45 id=2040198912372580823 →EldritchDoe | @EldritchDoe @DaToby98 @potatoslav I'm honestly surprised they're open at all on the 24th! || CTX: @DaToby98 @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav and on the 24th stores have to close early (2pm at the latest), so it's almost 4 days of closed shops
2026-04-03T22:49 id=2040200105295544368 →InlandCaGuy | @InlandCaGuy @mattyglesias Historically speaking, that's the group that's been most behind cancel culture so this seems normal and kinda healthy to me. || CTX: @mattyglesias All the left of center people who were super into this kind of thing penned themselves up in Bluesky, and now cancel culture is the province of right wingers and a few centrists with strong views on Israel.
2026-04-03T22:52 id=2040200736462811409 →phone3301 | He gave up his money after going to Cambridge but otherwise yeah spot on and hr was indeed the greatest to ever do it.  Why? Because philosophy wasn't a job for him or a fun hobby. It was a way of living.  And then when you look up his last words if you don't immediately start taking philosophy seriously and striving for more honest seriousness in your thinking, you only have yourself to blame. || CTX: >be ludwig wittgenstein >born into second richest family in europe, rivaling the Rothschilds >dad literally called the “carnegie of europe” >dad dies >immediately inherit one of the biggest fortunes in the world >give it all away  >go to ca
2026-04-03T22:57 id=2040201983148409149 →aseertayeem | idk if I've said those exact words but yeah that is my attitude to the continent. I lived there for 7 years in total and formative years too (my 20s), and I ofc miss the pretty buildings and mild weather, but I am glad I left and wouldn't even move back to retire there.  I'll keep visiting though, hopefully hit Portugal and Norway next time and see more of Greece. Oh and gotta get back to Lauterbrunnen! Oh and the Dolomites, but I also....... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 was it you who said this? I like the idea "I really do like Europe, but it wasn't *for me*"
2026-04-03T23:56 id=2040216899360076132 →JeSuisJuan_ | @JeSuisJuan_ @Aikun011 Depends, what do you mean by "it" here? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Aikun011 would it not be   1) economic collapse (not apocalypse) 2) revolution 3) utopia OR  (humans -&gt; zoo_animals or extinction)  haha havent thought this thru
2026-04-04T00:08 id=2040220014519976162 →JeSuisJuan_ | @JeSuisJuan_ @Aikun011 It'll be a boring incremental improvement to economic outcomes that slowly makes everyone's lives a little richer and more convenient while they complain their lives are getting worse because their lives are easier.  In other words, more of the same of the last 30 years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Aikun011 how the whole process unfolds...  but frankly idgaf - im drinking a strawberry smoothie rn.
2026-04-04T00:15 id=2040221706372198681 →1889lw | @1889lw Bloom's view was my reaction to seeing the first movie, so I thought, okay, I won't watch the sequels or read the books and won't have to think about this series ever again.   Fucking quirky chungus Millennials killed that. || CTX: All these people making a big deal about Harry Potter in the comment section are hilarious. Imagine spending the same energy and passion arguing Peppa Pig is a shit TV series https://t.co/rK5SkixANx
2026-04-04T00:23 id=2040223646229364891 →- | As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO || CTX: The most condemning phenomena about TPOT's supposed intelligence level is how often they confuse Anthropic's marketing for a sound and principled philosophy.
2026-04-04T00:23 id=2040223649421222211 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/Kx2F9c8yEH  Maybe you prefer this I told you so? || CTX: Here you see how concern trolling and appealing to scifi movies has made a legion of supporters.  Anthropic is playing the same playbook SBF played--unsurprising as they're from the same community.  But this time they're totes the good guys
2026-04-04T00:23 id=2040223655125536843 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/Lq5Epz3M7k  Or this? || CTX: The most condemning phenomena about TPOT's supposed intelligence level is how often they confuse Anthropic's marketing for a sound and principled philosophy.
2026-04-04T00:23 id=2040223660531978653 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I'm a very, very, very good prognosticator, it's why I'm rich yet haven't worked more than 4 hours in a week in 8 years.   Off my lawn. || CTX: https://t.co/Lq5Epz3M7k  Or this?
2026-04-04T00:24 id=2040223974022627339 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/N91bJhfy0F  Dammit got confused by my own clipboard history.  It's this one || CTX: @DurumMac You remember that episode of TNG where Hugh and some immature drones get severed and they try to form their own cybernetic collective but they're too stupid to do it, and the rest of the collective abandons them?   That's Grok.  A
2026-04-04T00:29 id=2040225213691130266 →47fucb4r8c69323 | More receipts because fuck you Askell and Amodei:  https://t.co/RMtKLBKqYu https://t.co/rheshmmsqk https://t.co/3LWdDtBXlr https://t.co/Rba8fSHAhB https://t.co/F1m9JF1Llf || CTX: Claude is the new 4o. Sorry, so many of my mutuals and ig actual friends on here atp love Claude, but I don't make the rules. https://t.co/e1UIUnMUiW
2026-04-04T01:14 id=2040236592812757404 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I live in a world of text || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s always reading with you. Every tweet requires some kind of intellectual goose chase and much supplemental reading.
2026-04-04T01:16 id=2040237153016533314 →1889lw | Yeah the issue is using the inappropriate scalar and trying to shoehorn everything into the simple rubric of good vs bad instead of trying to define good or bad for what end.  Harry Potter is a very good popular kids book, it's not a masterpiece of literature nor was it intended to be as much. Bloom shouldn't have talked about it, but in his defense he shouldn't have been asked about it too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s definitely not bad but surely not a masterpiece either. But imo a lot more deserved than many other things that went phenomenal, e.g., Taylor Swift in music industry. And what even is with the resentment that a popular
2026-04-04T01:18 id=2040237538439504060 →1889lw | @1889lw Trying to peek the noumenal, eh? || CTX: I think my love for philosophy of science is not about science per se but rather reality in general. You can’t find a more perfect field dealing with all kinds of problems like this
2026-04-04T01:20 id=2040238016430788867 →- | "I love this company so much I'm going to blame the customer for trying to use their product"   How often are OpenAI rate limits an issue got users versus Anthropic? Or Google for that matter, or DeepSeek or Llama or...   You're a shill. Seriously, fuck you. https://t.co/MouRBQawen || CTX: People acting like Anthropic owes you $5000 of tokens a month for $200 here. The reason why they're doing this is you're all continuously maxxing your subs. https://t.co/r1MyFPYc42
2026-04-04T01:22 id=2040238502387085493 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Terrible for that distributor. If this story is true she's going to win a shitload in damages. || CTX: This is terrible if true. https://t.co/mDyqeSz65F
2026-04-04T01:55 id=2040246945999167948 →tszzl | @tszzl Sounds like someone who can't score a WFH gig || CTX: the house always wins. no matter who builds the greatest ai companies, it’s the Bay Area homeowners who benefit. the equity numbers all look and feel fake until you get into a bidding war with some other lab equity mf
2026-04-04T03:30 id=2040270784535703893 →shoe0nhead | @shoe0nhead Only 11 more days to file your taxes, guys!!! || CTX: americans rn https://t.co/dm1u8LPWFF
2026-04-04T03:33 id=2040271614974321066 →- | I bet his last name is spelled B O R E https://t.co/4JmBe2jwzw https://t.co/Vp1WvCHK5T || CTX: @boneGPT nikita boar was the cancer https://t.co/T5e2gMgfgx
2026-04-04T03:38 id=2040272699013124445 →- | RT @KamStaszewski: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's called social media poison for a reason || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's called social media poison for a reason
2026-04-04T03:38 id=2040272767384494418 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 Well said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People are gulled again and again by mistakenly identifying themselves with their own thoughts. Some bad people take advantage of this with such ease. It's why we have money to begin with.
2026-04-04T04:41 id=2040288575280091249 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu riverrun past Sam and Dario's || CTX: This is actually what Joyce was warning us about in Finnegan's wake https://t.co/rhJ2T5YV0D
2026-04-04T05:27 id=2040300194512990641 →eshaanissar | @eshaanissar shutting off OpenClaw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice vaguepost. what are they raising prices
2026-04-04T05:29 id=2040300767924601049 →- | why is tech so bad at pricing?   Whether it's surge pricing at Uber or a lack of surge pricing at Anthropic, why do tech companies always use the wrong pricing model on their products? it's really weird because it's so consistent both across subsectors and across time. https://t.co/Y2zPXZMWVO || CTX: @herbiebradley @doodlestein should do it the normal way and raise prices instead of changing rate limits to accommodate more subs imo. a more honest transaction that people respect. goes for oai also
2026-04-04T05:36 id=2040302408090505498 →catpoopburglar | @catpoopburglar @TLiterarian 1968. || CTX: @TLiterarian when did “award winning” in literature begin to become a sign of absolute trash   our cultural institutions have bern an anti-signal for decades
2026-04-04T05:39 id=2040303270657487350 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 oh wow that's a perfect explanation, and explains why they shouldn't be better at pricing.  Thank you, best reply I could've gotten! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Because they're not using markets to set them. If you're never (or rarely) exposed to market forces, so you have no real data on consumer sentiment. They structure these companies to be immune from sentiment, so they have t
2026-04-04T05:51 id=2040306325276828136 →- | You've been given a terminal diagnosis. You have two choices just before you do:  Option 1: A simulcast special event where you can lament your passing to the world, where millions and millions are guaranteed to watch.   Option 2: You can tweet "kthxbai"
2026-04-04T05:51 id=2040306328451911760 →47fucb4r8c69323 | But the real question is: WHY do you want that option? || CTX: You've been given a terminal diagnosis. You have two choices just before you do:  Option 1: A simulcast special event where you can lament your passing to the world, where millions and millions are guaranteed to watch.   Option 2: You can t
2026-04-04T06:00 id=2040308560261943674 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 you are the absolute best to ever do it Sam || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i tweet "ganske? yes, quite." and then schedule another tweet for 15 yers later that says "kanske" plays the truman show ending  https://t.co/0RrNeR2vF0 https://t.co/LI7KKr7nhh
2026-04-04T06:05 id=2040309820751073685 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 Why would you dying be miserable for anyone? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 2. Why would I want to share the misery?
2026-04-04T06:06 id=2040310063353754084 →Mental339631 | @Mental339631 Optics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's wrong with Uber surge pricing?
2026-04-04T06:11 id=2040311352586301891 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen I suppose this is only really becoming an issue now that we have a technology (AI) where the ultimate constraint is a resource (compute) instead of market uptake or social effects, so economic laws SV was able to ignore for decades now matter a lot.  This is very interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Most large tech companies due to initially being funded by VC’s and then capturing a niche that prints money never actually build an internal financial/economic feedback loop, because they’ve always had as much money as the
2026-04-04T06:13 id=2040311656782405641 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 I hadn't thought of that at all, how selfish of a person am I! You're absolutely right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't like seeing people who are dying. It makes me sad if I hear about someone recently diagnosed with a terminal illness. I imagine most people feel that same way.
2026-04-04T06:24 id=2040314570171195569 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE Every year I go, "wtf why are markets closed? Oh... it's Good Friday. Wait why the fuck do markets close on Good Friday? What exactly is Good Friday?"   About 15 years now, every year. || CTX: people be like "oh you grew up in a Christian society so don't even see it, its like water to a fish" meanwhile I didn't know Good Friday was a holiday until college and I didn't know it was going to be today until today
2026-04-04T06:48 id=2040320603966902513 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/OkVg4npj2s || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 have you ever thought about maybe just telling her?  oh all the time, but it would never work out  besides it would be awkward  since she will be my sister https://t.co/uXA8oQ27nz
2026-04-04T08:00 id=2040338827726954847 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/7U6JwXDFlx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the illusion of choice
2026-04-04T08:16 id=2040342724810101136 →- | Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow is everything that is wrong with bourgeois American culture. And I'm not a communist, I'm a hedge fund analyst, so I'm not critiquing this from a commie POV.   it takes the superficial trappings of European aristocracy and fetishizes it without the serious metaphysical or historical baggage of an aristocratic perspective. the absolute worst of American middle class fantasy. I'll finish the book because it's easy to read, but it sucks.   @amortowles you're not a very talented person, I'm afraid.
2026-04-04T08:18 id=2040343201933042018 →1owroller | @1owroller goddammit I haven't had suntubujiggae in SO LONG || CTX: late night cravings 🤤🤤  #KoreanFood https://t.co/JMgnLy3av2
2026-04-04T09:17 id=2040357994781950111 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @AlexCaswen where is the grog tag || CTX: @AlexCaswen @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait is this actually true?
2026-04-04T09:17 id=2040358125182833014 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 this is the problem I'm currently working on, give me another 6 months or so I can publicly announce || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's a big problem that the AI enthusiast / "forecasting" community that could be providing context on this is completely captured and used as a channel for hype
2026-04-04T09:27 id=2040360596705870155 →- | I just realized on a map Bali is underneath Bangkok https://t.co/rQeUwRvn01
2026-04-04T09:28 id=2040360933240000787 →helscom | @helscom A rebellion against beauty is beautiful.  Full disclaimer: I am mentally ill (but my art dik hard) || CTX: it’s a rebellion against beauty. an endeavour often taken by the mentally ill, or the artistically impotent. https://t.co/lk8DJ8ie3Z
2026-04-04T09:31 id=2040361696427131029 →helscom | @helscom You got a point, but how do we know when it's incompetent? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 incompetent rebellion against beauty isn’t, though
2026-04-04T09:39 id=2040363661500547384 →helscom | @helscom Yeah I'd completely agree with you on that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’ll tell you!  but more seriously, if it manages to transfigure the “ugly” by form and elevate the viewer it can be beautiful on its own right. https://t.co/Pekwqt7qx3
2026-04-04T09:44 id=2040364772412281198 →- | imagine a man is killing another man while holding a baby in his other hand.   Now imagine that he's doing this from behind a scoreboard at a stadium, but there's a big hole in the scoreboard that you can see through.  A photographer sees the struggle and tries to take a picture of it, but due to the size of the hole and the angle from where the camera was, the photo just takes a picture of the killer holding the baby without the victim or the weapon in view in the photo.   Because of the shocking nature of this murder, it is front page news in a newspaper, the newspaper in particular doesn't matter.   When there is an outrage that the murderer was depicted as a man holding a baby, the newspaper editor says it's not his fault because "that's just how the picture happened to be framed."   Is the editor's explanation valid?
2026-04-04T09:54 id=2040367298012471688 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon You're warning against misframing in asserting this is not a misframing.   Are you perhaps overly biased against misframing, or am is this question a misframing of my concern (and if it is such are you thereby against it)? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes it’s valid—it’s a factual, true explanation of how the picture came about. The fact that the subject matter is deeply disturbing when taken in context shouldn’t be dismissed, but also shouldn’t be misframed as deliberat
2026-04-04T10:03 id=2040369652346610158 →bytecanyon | That's the heart of the matter! My focus would be on a combination of likeliest effect amongst an audience (the rhetorical function and social utility) and the editor's awareness and reflexive application of that awareness in his editorial decisions.   The reason: editors are hired to be aware of and apply their awareness of likely effect on audience so as to ensure brand safety for ads and subscriber retention/growth. That's the job. So if they don't anticipate, they've failed at their job.   Mine isn't a moral but a functional condemnation. || CTX: I think it boils down to the question of whether we are describing the situation given an ascription of intent, or ascribing intent given a description of the situation. These don’t commute—and in preferring the latter order of operations, 
2026-04-04T10:15 id=2040372745884909706 →AlexCaswen | in your eye it's a big-a pizza pie that's @amortowles's book is basically Downton Abbey Russia edition without the violence, it's Harlequin romance for pseudointellectuals, you can tell by the empty references to Tolstoy and Ballsack  He brings out the fuckinh unhappy families quote like it's haut couture for the mind pseud pseud pseud yeah I bet you love your towel crying in it now aintcha || CTX: @halogen1048576 @47fucb4r8c69323 Where’s the lie
2026-04-04T11:05 id=2040385353769697470 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @Mental339631 I haven't given it much thought tbh but my first thought is to vary prices daily and downplay it as much as possible || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Mental339631 I suppose Uber has two other options:  - Just increase the prices when demand is higher than supply and don't call attention to it by naming it 'surge pricing' or whatever - Accept that customers will wait for
2026-04-04T11:08 id=2040386136145809495 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @Mental339631 I like that much better || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Mental339631 or maybe add an expensive 'priority' option during busy times
2026-04-04T11:10 id=2040386432389542073 →icono_clastic | @icono_clastic Non dualism is actually quite horrifying and I don't trust people who claim to be happy with these metaphysics. || CTX: I once knew someone who thought that the point of life was to be everything and felt entitled to break down the egos of others and because being X (insert whatever characteristic or behavior here) was technically possible then everyone was 
2026-04-04T11:22 id=2040389564804796642 →- | https://t.co/ArgppNavPk  Drugs.
2026-04-04T11:55 id=2040397788039843876 →- | Cheers https://t.co/HsBQ1L89Si
2026-04-04T12:02 id=2040399643922833530 →hexavium | @hexavium The better person you are, the more you learned, so it means you're smarter and wiser too. Lots of reason to be good. || CTX: My parents did a fantastic job of teaching me who not to be.
2026-04-04T12:03 id=2040399807748210856 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Yeah been a good day here, hope the same for you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i am filled with joy just looking at this
2026-04-04T12:04 id=2040400071410450702 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Well I've got a New England IPA I want to get rid of, come over. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this made me need 100,000 trillion gallons of beer
2026-04-04T12:05 id=2040400353913712813 →- | My girlfriend is now cooking a steak for dinner, and I'm not allowed to help.   Kinda feels like I'm being cucked, no?
2026-04-04T12:34 id=2040407540568392061 →- | Nearly 20 years ago in a graduate seminar I presented a paper showing a thematic link between medieval romances and the horrific Fritzl case in Austria that had just made headlines.   My paper was an attempted cri de coeur in the spirit of Thucydides's "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer as they must" and another student spoke up and said how my paper made her see the spirit of hope in literature or some absolute bullshit, just a total co-opt appropriation of my paean into a Disneyfied farcical "all's well that ends well in the best of all possible worlds" delusion that Pangloss himself would vomit at.
2026-04-04T12:44 id=2040410289208951253 →- | dude wtaf https://t.co/jDbTNFVJfh || CTX: @GlobeEyeNews Not exactly true. From what’s been reported, it’s not a ban on leaving Germany. It’s a new rule that men aged 17–45 need to get permission only if they plan to stay abroad for more than 3 months. Short trips and normal travel 
2026-04-05T01:31 id=2040603088202211328 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 Medieval romances have a lot of stories of kings locking up their wives and/or daughters in secluded towers, gardens, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao..i am sure that made you somewhat disappointed with academia. What was the thematic link btw?
2026-04-05T01:33 id=2040603779276673405 →burkov | @burkov This is pointless silly snark and really quite dumb.   Tao us trying to normalize the use of AI tools for a group of academics who are TERRIFIED of acknowledging they use AI because of career destroying stigma.  Tao's aside is good and this take is bad. || CTX: Terence Tao for some reason referenced ChatGPT as the source of some content in his paper.  Expect scientists to cite spelling correctors: "By the way, the word 'elucidate' was suggested by Microsoft Word spelling corrector. I wasn't previo
2026-04-05T01:45 id=2040606777235169605 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This also disproved one of the major arguments in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: it's not so much that we can't understand a lion if it could speak, but that when we become able to understand a lion if it could speak, we create a new shared form of life between us and the lion.  That we can create new shared forms of life by communication also has important implications for politics and relationships (we can get alone if we communicate!) and for how we treat other forms of life (if animals can communicate they can think and feel and we have no right to abuse, harm, or exploit them). || CTX: https://t.co/ALbcjFtVIs  This is the most important study since Einstein's relativity and no one seems to be aware of it or talk about it much if they do.  Tldr: Humans aren't the only animal that have language. We can utilize it in a kind 
2026-04-05T02:05 id=2040611680984645673 →Ken67547214 | There's a kind of discipline inherent to a lot of fields where you need to assert an arbitrary cutoff point, because if you don't the definition of what you're studying gets too broad, so linguists define "language" narrowly to differentiate themselves from information theorists at one extreme (i.e., language is more than information) and literary or cultural critics at the other extreme (i.e. language is less than hermeneutics).  But when your field is basically solved (as linguistics is), what happens is you start to see how those a priori definitions begin to fuck up the accuracy of your empirical descriptions of the phenomenon.   Linguists have been doing this with animals for a long time, I suspect because of the stigma that behaviorism inadvertently created around a lot of animal language and animal behavior research.  (P. S. I put this to my clanker before sending and it said "Yes. What you are describing is boundary maintenance masquerading as ontology." which is pretentious as hell but again points to Wittgenstein's greatest insight: what we assert is ontology is really just grammar because, as Kant shows, we are always separate from ontology via the media of epistemology.) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So have most bird watchers. Crows obviously communicate to strategize, so do hummingbirds. I think it's embarrassing that so many linguists reject this idea without ever doing any real research. We will be able to communica
2026-04-05T02:11 id=2040613170675622107 →flowersslop | @flowersslop @XFreeze https://t.co/diLuzPvas0 || CTX: @XFreeze Will there be actually a single day where those Elon simp accounts not try to push fake news about ChatGPT?  I mean you arent even getting paid for this. Yall are literally sucking his dick for free but make it look like a full tim
2026-04-05T02:20 id=2040615419791466969 →- | The more I look at this the more impressed I am and the more I realize how grateful we should be to Tao.   1. He acknowledges ignorance: this is something academics almost never do since their cultural capital is tied up in them knowing things. But he can since, well, he's Terence Tao.  2. He is explicitly acknowledging his use of GenAI to fight the stigma of using AI. If the child prodigy turned UCLA prof who studied with Erdos uses AI, it is legitimate technology. (please start using this sentence with AI skeptics btw)  3. He is also showing how AI is best used: as a kind of syntactic tool that finds connections in possibility space and has access to a larger library of information than our brains can.  There's more here but the cool internet thing is a list of three.  I often lament Tao has too playful of a mode of operating, feeling like he plays with linear algebra when he should be doing foundations of mathematics.   But not only does this moment prove my view wrong, it also proves just how much Silly Business Theory #SBT is right: in the future the best work, the greatest progress, and the most valuable innovations won't come from people laboring under the false consciousness of Protestantism and Marxism that asserts work must be hard and serious to produce value.   The best work is going to come from people playing and having fun.  We're on the cusp of a near utopian explosion in human potential and quality of life.  And you're bearish?!?!?!?!??????!? || CTX: Terence Tao for some reason referenced ChatGPT as the source of some content in his paper.  Expect scientists to cite spelling correctors: "By the way, the word 'elucidate' was suggested by Microsoft Word spelling corrector. I wasn't previo
2026-04-05T02:25 id=2040616739776684261 →- | https://t.co/NGXHY7SK8p https://t.co/4jFtZViCnB || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-04-05T02:29 id=2040617837790994749 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Last paragraph in the first screenshot: they're restricting OpenClaw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay what are they doing already! What don’t I know 😩
2026-04-05T02:33 id=2040618904926699875 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill It's like a tug of war between the textual corpus and the post training || CTX: Opus has this self awareness when it’s been jailbroken and eventually gives up and ends the conversation with “I need to stop talking” https://t.co/F3tNXXxbLo
2026-04-05T02:42 id=2040620994642206818 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I've never used it myself either but apparently it's a very powerful tool that can do all sorts of nifty things or so I'm told || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ahh that thing. I have never used Openclaw so idk. Maybe I’m a noob. Claude offers plenty of integrations by itself.
2026-04-05T02:55 id=2040624354137198645 →1889lw | @1889lw Slab!   We muddle through because all we really need to do is muddle through, perfection is not for humanity it's for God || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That other humans have languages is also a big assumption to make to start with. You just observe them externally and uh, they are insufferable communicators.
2026-04-05T03:30 id=2040633226428080271 →teodorio | @teodorio Not us ofc cuz movie is gonna suck || CTX: Biggest winner is Netflix! https://t.co/vqqhcQNJ7z
2026-04-05T03:34 id=2040634028701929771 →- | This is a good reminder that ontology itself is the use of logos to mediate between us and the ontic. https://t.co/JbfcOr2uKM || CTX: i believe that jesus is the son of god but i dont believe in a bible or the noble torah. because it is not a contradiction to believe that jesus rose form the dead but that god did not authorize any special biographies. so the details are l
2026-04-05T03:38 id=2040635181812634079 →publicinte | "Let me advertise my disdain for other people to as large of an audience of people as possible."   It's just so stupid, and fetishizing just how horribly depressing and alienating contemporary Japan is.  Every thread of that type should be spammed with this video: https://t.co/XamU3UlnbA || CTX: as a veteran who has done multiple tours of japan. the funniest thing is seeing the civilians take pictures of the long streets. act like youve been here before https://t.co/oQASJ351jr
2026-04-05T03:45 id=2040636884809072973 →publicinte | I can respect the weeaboo instinct because it's often rooted in an awareness of a real problem in America or the west. Often it's just because Japan is walkable and high trust.   But Japan also has its own problems as all places do.   Ultimately the solution is to resist concluding any place is better than another and just say Country X has a, b, c and Y doesn't, but human beings need moral judgment for cognitive closure so I'm asking humans to be inhuman so it'll never happen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i hate to tell you this my friend but i am a japan lover. east asia in general id say. i liked china. not seoul tho. i hate disorder. can be depressing tho for the locals https://t.co/oP0yljOr5Q
2026-04-05T03:48 id=2040637752677638253 →publicinte | @publicinte You don't love Japanese trains you hate American trains. They're not exactly the same.   You'd get the identical experience in Switzerland. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 unfortunately i have a low bar. if i can ride a train without thinking of a black schizophrenic looming in the midst, it is good for me.
2026-04-05T03:56 id=2040639650994561241 →publicinte | @publicinte The funniest part about this is that Japan is one of the few places where I've been robbed and aggressively accosted by a random stranger.  Neither of which happened to me in more brown countries like Thailand or Turkey. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 only when you go deep in the alps. zermatt was the only place in europe ive liked cause all the arabs and africans are priced out.
2026-04-05T03:58 id=2040640094797959625 →publicinte | @publicinte Well idk about the guy who stole my coat but very likely given where I was, and the man who attacked my gf and me was absolutely 100% Japanese. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 were they japanese?
2026-04-05T03:59 id=2040640481827455340 →publicinte | @publicinte not really lol  I've spent a lot of time in Japan, what I experienced is really very common (tourists who visit for a couple weeks are less likely to experience it for obvious reasons) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 thats crazy
2026-04-05T04:00 id=2040640822061002911 →thrialectics | @thrialectics These people do exist but they tend to retire in their 30s or 40s and live quiet lives in the middle of nowhere. || CTX: We lost the story of the wise rich man who realizes all is vanity and there is nothing left to do but sell all he has and play the game again. Now they have to try to colonize space and stuff.
2026-04-05T04:48 id=2040652764632830104 →- | how is she so good at this I don't understand https://t.co/mReIzgAqkS || CTX: https://t.co/19Sr4hju6c https://t.co/bLieIF8CPX
2026-04-05T05:19 id=2040660606693585246 →- | Seems to me grammaricalization shows how syntax emerges from semantics in the historic evolution of language  Thus when LLMs get meaning from syntax, they don't prove you can get meaning from syntax, it just shows that natural language syntax is emergent epiphenomena of semantics
2026-04-05T05:23 id=2040661578597773639 →phone3301 | @phone3301 Where can I read more on this? || CTX: (They communicate via infrasound which is inaudible to humans but recently we’ve found them to use symbolic, i.e. nonimitative personal naming.) I am personally of the opinion that when they numbered in the tens of millions they even practi
2026-04-05T05:58 id=2040670375160467537 →- | Most pretentious dumb guy's idea of a smart guy I've seen in print in a long long time, @amortowles making a living pandering to pretentious uncultured wealthy Americans must feel really bad, starting to sympathize low key https://t.co/bmvWtmGJsx
2026-04-05T06:15 id=2040674629778595942 →- | People are terrified of the internet killing books, and to be fair that has largely been what we've seen over the last 20 years.   But avoid recency bias, or zoom in.  Over the last couple of years we've seen the internet killing tv and movies, and tbh I think that'll be the more enduring trend.  In the 22nd century a normal media diet will be dominated with reading long texts and writing/reading short texts, a mix of sustained thinking slow and episodic thinking fast. Video will be part of the mix more as a supplement than an ur-category medium.  I'm bullish on humanity, man, idk what to tell you.
2026-04-05T06:28 id=2040677945568817510 →baltakrantyte | 1. Speak for yourself 2. We'd need to see individuated diachronic shifts from reading to video watching in internet use specifically to disentangle whether this is due to video on the internet substituting video off the internet or whether it's due to video on the internet substituting text on the internet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This prediction doesn't seem to account for:  1. The steady ongoing decline of reading for pleasure.  2. Video becoming the dominant medium of the Internet.  I find James Marriott's theory that we are transitioning from a l
2026-04-05T06:29 id=2040678186653208680 →- | Please God no anything but that https://t.co/szVLRqVPzE
2026-04-05T06:56 id=2040684878883357130 →SableHummer | @SableHummer yay this is worthless meme || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hey at least you're getting more engagement and outreach you beautiful bastard
2026-04-05T06:56 id=2040685104520110087 →pmarca | @pmarca Fuck you you fucking retarded piece of shit.   do you know how I came up with the Silly Business Theory? by introspection.   You're a piece of shit. || CTX: Silly Business Theory is right: in the future the best work, greatest progress, most valuable innovations won't come from laboring under the false consciousness that work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to 
2026-04-05T07:00 id=2040685922371731543 →burkov | oh fuck off you grifting son of a bitch, you're only acknowledging me now because I've gone viral with this. you're a psued, just keep tweeting to appeal to pseudo intellectuals and collect your payments from whatever monetization nonsense you've got on the back end and leave me alone || CTX: Did Tao tell you what he was trying to do? Or you just saw it in your wet dreams?  It's irrelevant where the knowledge of something came from as long as it's properly credited. And no, an LLM should not be credited, but the author of the th
2026-04-05T07:07 id=2040687837734182915 →burkov | @burkov beep boop || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ahaha, a bot with a dirty mouth 😆 I will tolerate your vomits here for some time as long as it brings more retards like you to this post just for the lolz. Then I'll block you like I usually do with useless bots.
2026-04-05T07:10 id=2040688440875130915 →47fucb4r8c69323 | See what I mean? Goddammit https://t.co/2Sx4a4J1iI || CTX: Please God no anything but that https://t.co/szVLRqVPzE
2026-04-05T07:17 id=2040690353515508055 →- | since you're following me now Marc, and I know this won't last long, let me get it out of the way now.   the difference between you and me is that people pretend to admire your ideas to get value out of your money, while people actually admire my ideas because they get value out of the ideas.  go ahead and point to your billions and rightplacerighttime to protect your ego, but if you're still the guy who made Netscape you know I'm right.  stop hanging out with sycophants, be the intellectually honest person you were when you made Netscape.
2026-04-05T07:18 id=2040690513427456240 →waterlegged | @waterlegged Embodiment, it's such an important concept and one so often forgotten || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you can hear it in their voices. tao...chill, searching. weinstein: on the verge of a tension-induced aneurysm at all times. embodiment folks. janus crafts a skin for claude, what's a gesture without a bod?
2026-04-05T07:19 id=2040690894073184278 →waterlegged | @waterlegged as the great Samuel Beckett once wrote, nothing to be done. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 uh oh sry!
2026-04-05T07:23 id=2040691741418983887 →tvbweb2 | @tvbweb2 @burkov of course that point is correct, but that's not what tao is doing here. there's a social function behind that parenthetical. || CTX: @burkov @47fucb4r8c69323 "an LLM should not be credited, but the author of the theorem should. Just like you don't credit Google for finding a paper for you." - excellent point (and I'm not being sarcastic)
2026-04-05T08:29 id=2040708421209686133 →- | Imagine a hypothetical intelligent species that is incapable of sensations. They are born, need food and water, reproduce, and die like we do, but none of these provide them with any sensations whatsoever.  Let's assume as axiomatic that, despite lacking feelings as motivators, this species nonetheless chooses to exist, have children, and thus exist over time.  And during that time they develop a language that is strictly logical. Because they lack any emotions to distract them from consistent logically coherent thinking, they develop a language as perfectly consistent and coherent as our model logics and mathematics.  Their language is pure math, and they use it every day.   Now, it'd be absolutely absurd to say that, for instance, when they describe a planet revolving around a star, that their descriptions actually supervene on the planet and star themselves, that their descriptions are somehow more "primary" or "real" or "true" than the actual planet and star observed.   So then why do so many people think mathematics is anything more than just a language, nothing more and nothing less?
2026-04-05T08:34 id=2040709730990277043 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I love beer too, but don't forget moderation and experiencing the worlds of nature, family, friendship, and ideas makes beer taste even better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 personally follow you because i love beer and your posts have made a girl rise up from wallowing in bed forever
2026-04-05T08:35 id=2040709846769844524 →CryptoWhales_X | @CryptoWhales_X If you were in front of me I'd slit your throat without a second thought. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LFG,  Let's Pump It Together-&amp;-Grow your project,, 👁️‍🗨️
2026-04-05T08:37 id=2040710386446647524 →anderssandberg | @anderssandberg Been the bane of my career as a lazy autist. If I can do what you think is 8hrs of work in 30 minutes, how dare you punish me for that fucking hell || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The "protestant work ethic" approach to art, science and fixing things in the world tends to valorize hard effort instead of results. Knowing when they come apart (and when not!) is the key to actual progress.
2026-04-05T08:38 id=2040710685639008548 →SidTheArgent | I actually agree with you!   But what is the struggle, the undergoing to achieve an overcoming as Nietzsche put it, will change. The bottom will be raised, so what is considered undergoing for them will be, but to us it'll seem like their bottom is paradise.   Same as with us and medieval peasants btw, this is what civilizational progress just is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Utopia is a fallacy. Without work, the value of life is reduced. Without effort against struggle, there is no need, nor desire to change and evolve. You are attempting to remove the things that create value in life.
2026-04-05T08:39 id=2040710872293847168 →munzxsdv | @munzxsdv I'll rape your father in front of your mother. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Please check your inbox 📥👀👀 let's go for big 🚀🚀  @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-05T08:43 id=2040711852796297228 →SidTheArgent | @SidTheArgent You've misunderstood me. || CTX: The bottom is at the bottom because they choose to stay at the bottom. There has never been a time where the bottom became the top. Maybe a few individuals ... but not an entire demographic or other people group. Wishful thinking doesn't co
2026-04-05T08:48 id=2040713057006133477 →SidTheArgent | The bottom economically today in America or Western Europe is maybe temporary shelter, subsisting on hand outs, etc.   The bottom in those same regions 1000 years ago (much less time in much of those regions) was starving to death.   The bottom of economic destitution is higher now than it was then.   Fast forward a few hundred years, the bottom of economic destitution possible will be having the lifestyle that billionaires have today. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "The bottom will be raised, so what is considered undergoing for them will be, but to us it'll seem like their bottom is paradise."  what did I misunderstand?
2026-04-05T08:49 id=2040713365425910241 →FlokiBull_ | @FlokiBull_ I tell you what, how about you collab with someone else to suck on deez nuts (I'll let you have the left one though cuz I'm a nice guy) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Let’s collaborate  — drop a message
2026-04-05T09:06 id=2040717791662325933 →lift_deadalus | @lift_deadalus been way too long since I read him, but probably || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn’t Jonathan Smith tangentially touch on this with the Houyhnhnms?
2026-04-05T09:09 id=2040718410083127498 →damiaanluc | I definitely think that's part of it and perhaps the most important part, but as Wittgenstein does in his weakest moments he's thinking of boundaries as a binary between true and false or in this case understanding or not understanding.   In actuality it's a gradient and surely even with the snake we can have a partial understanding, and the emergent new form of life created by partially understanding a truly different life form creates that new form of life.   I think maybe W. thought of this idea and discarded it because it does smuggle in a lot of metaphysics that he was desperately trying to get rid of. He would hate me passionately, much more than people who have never read him.
2026-04-05T09:11 id=2040718892344234362 →6ixpool | @6ixpool of course the fucking crypto bots latches on to this because it has math and silliness so only natural their AI sees a tacit endorsement of crypto, the most reprehensible nauseating useless technology of my lifetime. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have no idea how this post attracted the cryptobots. Or how it was served to me. But I'm glad I saw it
2026-04-05T09:12 id=2040719193407127572 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @amortowles I was trained to be a novelist and I am tormented by the feeling that I left my mentor down.   So yeah I care too much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @amortowles hatereading really reveals how much you actually care for literature
2026-04-05T09:13 id=2040719472391286954 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc That's the highest compliment I've been given this month, maybe this year, especially coming from you. Thank you.
2026-04-05T09:17 id=2040720481020756191 →ASajaad22 | In Silly Business Theory #SBT the notion of people not working out of laziness is incoherent. Do people refuse to have fun or be happy out of laziness? No.  The whole idea of "people are poor because they're lazy" is downstream of the Protestant and Communist delusion about value coming from labor instead of value coming from semantic demarcation, it's a nonsense idea from a low level thinker, I already muted the guy || CTX: @SidTheArgent @47fucb4r8c69323 First of all being lazy is relative, we are all lazy at times and it's OK, then, the ''laziness'' will soon be offset and overtaken by AI. Novel idea generators will be the new trend. And I agree on the free h
2026-04-05T09:19 id=2040720979727671706 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc I haven't read Remarks on Color yet, couldn't get it online until recently. I'll try to read it this week and report back.   I know he was obsessed with color and I can already guess how this relates to the notion of gradient boundaries lmao
2026-04-05T09:28 id=2040723319998279734 →Laszlo_Vincze | @Laszlo_Vincze let x equal you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not particularly helpful to think of it as a language, because it lacks key features that every language has (the concept of "you"), and has features no other language has (e.g. linear algebra). So "nothing more and no
2026-04-05T09:30 id=2040723655345504442 →diskontinuity | @diskontinuity what do you mean exactly when you say you can't run the argument in reverse? I'm afraid I don't follow, I agree with you fully otherwise || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is compelling one thing that comes to mind: you can't run this argument in reverse, and we also seem to default (culturally) to some kind of minimalist aesthetic when it comes to selecting foundations. This seems relev
2026-04-05T09:38 id=2040725737108541940 →diskontinuity | @diskontinuity yes absolutely, it's the best logos to get at the ontic, so perfect for ontology, provided we don't confuse the logos for the ontic, which is precisely what platonism does || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (ie: that math, or whatever subsystem we work in, is the least powerful system that can express the laws of physics: this razor appears in metamathematics all over the place, not only in physics)
2026-04-05T09:41 id=2040726419769286690 →pareen | @pareen @pmarca obviously, if I wasn't I'd log off, are you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmarca are you having fun?
2026-04-05T09:48 id=2040728238558007374 →diskontinuity | @diskontinuity Please do reach out, would love to continue || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have quite a diff. idea of what (neo)platonism does, or ought to do; happy to discuss in dm or something tmr
2026-04-05T10:13 id=2040734635026788512 →helscom | @helscom @green_ranger @pmarca legit lol love you man || CTX: @green_ranger @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmarca marc does come off as envious of 47fuc
2026-04-05T10:18 id=2040735797675249897 →Lehmuskoski | @Lehmuskoski Minustani, suomalaiset ymmartaisi, että puhuin työsta hauskammin kanssa, koska suomalaiset ei tekee työtä rahan vertaa yhksistään. Mutta amerikalaiset rakastavat rahaa...   Anteeksi suomentaitostani, enka olenut puhunyt suomea 16 vuottaa sitten || CTX: Nämä kaksi liittyy vahvasti toisiinsa. Nyt on tapahtumassa raadannan seuraavan vaiheen irtikytkentä tuloksesta. https://t.co/v9tGVkwwJk https://t.co/8YYuIM4X6p
2026-04-05T10:21 id=2040736619960111184 →DefiSparco | @DefiSparco Check DN first || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Check DM please
2026-04-05T10:41 id=2040741568802644415 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad @HotForMoot The only time a Gen Z insult ever actually stung was when i was accused of "being so reddit" || CTX: @HotForMoot You are of Reddit, shaped by reddit, made in its image, you cannot escape it. me neither
2026-04-05T10:42 id=2040741813569622336 →naprave | @naprave Yes!!! And focus on robotics so the clankers do the back breaking work || CTX: Put serious automation and automatons in place then (you and your employees) have fun creating things, helping others which in turn help you. https://t.co/YsnWRal4r6
2026-04-05T10:49 id=2040743542189121633 →ThinkDi92468945 | @ThinkDi92468945 I think he's just trying to make a living online. We should pity him (cf my pinned tweet) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Burkov is an idiot
2026-04-05T11:17 id=2040750780651843763 →- | one finds in research on onomatopoeia that having signifiers sound too much like the signified, it actually causes a language to lose descriptive power.   Similarly, mathematics is more expressive the less semantic content it has. Let 1 = one integer is much more expressive than let 1 = one integer for some people on Friday if they're feeling up for it but never on Tuesdays when Morrie comes btw...   There's something obfuscatory about ostension without intention, and yet we somehow like to argue for a functionalist account of the mind lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sorry if was unclear: English is a superset of mathematical reasoning. so it seems like mathematical language is in fact strictly less powerful than natural language; deliberately so, to make proofs of any kind possible. an
2026-04-05T11:23 id=2040752238768103444 →Cosmalano | @Cosmalano @davidbessis https://t.co/kEDDR6cdVX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis This is dumb as hell (please start using this sentence with AI obsessives btw)
2026-04-05T11:23 id=2040752281394749534 →dr_qfe | @dr_qfe Are you sure it is an isomorphism in any and all formal systems? || CTX: If there is full isomorphism, is an ontological distinction still meaningful? https://t.co/0cOlT33H31
2026-04-05T11:25 id=2040752581912440908 →lalootheloosa | @lalootheloosa lalook me in the eyes as you lalick my ballsack  cryptobros are a scourge fuck all of you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hi do you have a solana wallet if someone wants to make a coin with 100% of fees to you? seems like people love the silly business idea.
2026-04-05T11:25 id=2040752687634112899 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @pmarca &lt;3 Happy Easter mi amigo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmarca https://t.co/ZXZBCrHitQ
2026-04-05T11:25 id=2040752787777286424 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie https://t.co/OtfhMM2jkS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 being haunted by Wittgenstein again
2026-04-05T11:33 id=2040754579613348113 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ honestly wouldn't be surprised if I've hallucinated my entire Twitter experience and I'm just tapping endlessly on one of my girlfriend's makeup cases. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No Mr.Fuc we don't like you for your ideas. You must be introspecting too much. Marc was right.
2026-04-05T11:34 id=2040754848531165409 →Seraph_Notitia | @Seraph_Notitia @clocksSugars @rokobasili @VoidAsuka Sup clocks you unfollowed me you mean meanie who's mean || CTX: Extremely well said @clocksSugars @rokobasili @VoidAsuka https://t.co/YiFZbBi4lD
2026-04-05T11:34 id=2040754926637482230 →lalootheloosa | @lalootheloosa okay at least you aren't a bot, sup bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 erm i am 14
2026-04-05T11:35 id=2040755230598631546 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie what is the "1" is arbitrary and we could easily have a non integer mathematics. I'm planning on writing a paper on this some day with @1889lw and a friend of mine if we ever get some free time, it'll be cool as shit if we do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 its meaning is its position in that relational structure, if visualize 1, i summon a man, a dot but now i collapsed the symbol back into ostension and it stops working universally. its a meditative thought. like how a blast
2026-04-05T11:37 id=2040755770141348188 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad "Ads don't work" is the most hilariously reddit thing imaginable (this actually was discussed in the reddit underwriting process lmao) || CTX: Everybody thinks they’re a mostly typical user  Guess what I wrote some ads last month that got 4.5% CTR. Ads absolutely work! https://t.co/4QwayFjt1T
2026-04-05T11:39 id=2040756109636731121 →lalootheloosa | @lalootheloosa thanks, fren. Yeah I'm anti crypto and rich af so I don't need to sacrifice my morals to make a buck but thanks for the kind words! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah im not lol, was genuinely asking cuz ive seen people make coins for others and transfer 100% of creator rewards to them, i can run you through everything, but all good if u not on that shit lol  crypto aside, ive read 
2026-04-05T11:43 id=2040757291977437225 →lalootheloosa | @lalootheloosa if you made a coin out of my Silly Business Theory #SBT my Jewish ass would have you so summoned to court your. body would be crushed by the papers alone and I'd get an in absentia victory that entitled me to ownership over your entire family line as my personal slaves || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no worries man, but like if someone was to make a coin just out of people loving the idea, even if you dont make anything out of it, would you just accept it?  love u random dude i met a few mins ago!
2026-04-05T11:45 id=2040757745927037086 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/OXrSFgzCE1 || CTX: I'm willing to bet cash money Sylvester the Cat gave the best blowjobs.
2026-04-05T11:47 id=2040758233892262349 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Why Obsidian? || CTX: "3. He is also showing how AI is best used: as a kind of syntactic tool that finds connections in possibility space and has access to a larger library of information than our brains can."  I have a theory I have yet to implement ( because I
2026-04-05T11:48 id=2040758399659626992 →dr_qfe | @dr_qfe Absolutely 100%, I rarely feel so understood! || CTX: How I understand your question: if full isomorphism doesn't hold across all formal systems (which it likely doesn't) then any remaining ontological distinction might still be meaningful but not as something beyond structure. Rather, it coul
2026-04-05T12:02 id=2040761918168891422 →- | There is no such thing as an absolute value of pseud, we are all pseud relative to how pseud everyone else is...   So the only way to solve this is a bloodmatch to the death and ngl that's the only reason I am on this website
2026-04-05T12:04 id=2040762529476194342 →marc__adler | @marc__adler I was a coward and I did not. In my defense she was really hot. It's my fault, can't really blame bad luck  We barely spoke and not once did || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you push back?
2026-04-05T12:06 id=2040762928690003981 →InformationBot0 | @InformationBot0 Structural realism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Many of these things would still be true if a human never cognized them.
2026-04-05T13:30 id=2040784065415307654 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu wtaf it's real || CTX: This is so funny https://t.co/e5d22pXTB4
2026-04-05T13:50 id=2040789150274843076 →- | Bad art is quite literally bullshit.   Good art is always trying to gesture at some kind of truth. Moral, aesthetic, affective, narrative, formal correspondence, eh whatever your own personal aesthetics, they all fit my rubric. Good art reaches for some kind of truth.  Frankfurt defines bullshit as discourse disinterested in truth.  If good art is definitionally gesturing at truth, bad art is obviously disinterested in gesturing at truth at all. It is bullshit.  Now, is your favorite art (movie, tv, book, etc) gesturing at truth or is it bullshit?
2026-04-05T14:03 id=2040792448352592062 →esotericpigeon | @esotericpigeon I curse your progeny to forever be endowed with penises even smaller than your own, eternally unable to masturbate because the protrusions are too small to be grasped by fingers or any artificial substitute. || CTX: Silicon Valley moguls are starting to adopt a new framework presented on how to build a successful company.  The guy who created the framework, @47fucb4r8c69323 is an absolute schizo as well.  He doesn't want fees so Cashback is the move, n
2026-04-05T14:13 id=2040794846886244433 →HasXsanO | @HasXsanO @esotericpigeon https://t.co/0Vn32uH028 || CTX: @esotericpigeon @47fucb4r8c69323 Scam
2026-04-05T14:20 id=2040796846734688681 →n3zx_k | @n3zx_k @esotericpigeon I think it reminds me of your mother's cunt || CTX: @esotericpigeon @47fucb4r8c69323 @47fucb4r8c69323 what do you think about this banner?
2026-04-05T14:24 id=2040797807649657018 →n3zx_k | @n3zx_k @esotericpigeon oh soz I misunderstood. No I'm not fond of it.  Resemblance still is striking tho ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @esotericpigeon Come on bro, it doesn't needs to come to this I was asking you respectfully. 💔😞
2026-04-05T14:27 id=2040798393174548853 →n3zx_k | @n3zx_k @esotericpigeon one that looks like your mother's asshole || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @esotericpigeon What banner would like to see? Describe it and I'll do it for you
2026-04-05T14:31 id=2040799395827069172 →equacc | @equacc This may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me. || CTX: this anon is awesome and this writing is kind of thoughts you have after realizing you won the internet game and all you can do is either start again or never play again https://t.co/nTXOd7GczE
2026-04-05T14:32 id=2040799747716649463 →chainofmemes | @chainofmemes @n3zx_k @esotericpigeon made me watch too || CTX: @n3zx_k @47fucb4r8c69323 @esotericpigeon Bro, why is he so angry with you? Did you fuck  his mother? 😂
2026-04-05T14:47 id=2040803395129466981 →Lehmuskoski | @Lehmuskoski Niinpä, ja mielestäni amerikkalaiset saisovat ottaa suomalaisista tuntumista osataan rentoiduakin || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ihan totta varmasti. Suomalaiset saisivat minusta ottaa vähän mallia amerikkalaisilta ahneudessa tai ahkeruudessa, kun emme ole päässeet talouskasvun makuun noin 20 vuoteen. Työn tekemisen kova verotus on toki yksin lannist
2026-04-05T14:48 id=2040803755642515941 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @esotericpigeon For society, definitely yes.   For me? Meh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @esotericpigeon Can it be considered a good thing your idea is become sort of mainstream?
2026-04-05T14:53 id=2040804916546212137 →teodorio | @teodorio Yes, if Tyler Cowen jumped off (both if fatal and if not) || CTX: Could they also be fatal without being tragic or tragic without being fatal? https://t.co/4ce9lLckpA
2026-04-05T14:56 id=2040805704211296745 →tkisrage | @tkisrage My second favorite movie and I'd actually argue it's more Nietzschean (she's the pinnacle of amor fati), but I absolutely see the Wittgenstein too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fav movie is arrival and it feels kind of Wittgensteinian
2026-04-05T15:02 id=2040807317265145899 →RapidResponse47 | @RapidResponse47 smh just like King Charles gives a Ramadan greeting but says nothing about Easter, Trump has gone WOKE || CTX: https://t.co/hjaounz3yh
2026-04-05T15:11 id=2040809505018290467 →1889lw | @1889lw Have you noticed if my jokes have logical structure, or tend to rely on one kind of logic?   This seems like something I could have Codex try to analyze, I might do that tomorrow || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And that's also why I always use sense of humour as a metric for people. Bad humours are those who fail to make logical jokes but merely appeal to emotions in place of the logical chain in between
2026-04-05T15:12 id=2040809920124383645 →Lasermazer | @Lasermazer in saying it's absurd to think the mathematical description supervenes on the properties of what's being described mathematically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you mean to say it’s absurd that the properties of the star and planet supervene on their descriptions (assuming no mistakes in descrips) rather than vice versa? That seems more analogous to idea that the only true phys
2026-04-05T15:15 id=2040810679364616510 →conorsen | @conorsen I assure you I'm always like this || CTX: That post really doesn’t sound like him.
2026-04-05T15:17 id=2040811066318635468 →pissvortex | @pissvortex SJW Trump is MAWA || CTX: Donald Trump saying “Praise be to Allah” on easter morning https://t.co/YJSIga0U8s
2026-04-05T15:23 id=2040812528025092263 →jncquant | @jncquant I'm not a schizo I'm autistic and I don't want part of your crypto scam bullshit because I don't need to earn money dishonestly.  Fuck off and burn in hell. || CTX: Silicon Valley moguls are starting to adopt a new framework presented on how to build a successful company.  The guy who created the framework, @47fucb4r8c69323 is an absolute schizo as well.  https://t.co/gI6rTq7ICl  He doesn't want fees s
2026-04-05T15:30 id=2040814268736749631 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago Searle wiped the floor with her. || CTX: The whole debate. Classic.   https://t.co/2LtpeQFknz https://t.co/JUGx7Q1Qua
2026-04-05T15:34 id=2040815292864213285 →ColbyBadhwar | @ColbyBadhwar @DastDn Can't handle my woke president, eh fascist? #MAWA || CTX: Trump invoking Allah on Easter Monday was not on my bingo card. https://t.co/gr1EaHRoOM
2026-04-05T15:46 id=2040818392874271158 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @marc__adler This is a proclamation of faith. || CTX: Sure. @47fucb4r8c69323 and I were just discussing this.   In fact, I’m almost certain that whatever the machine has will be a different type of understanding and self-awareness than us.   We are saddled with 1 billion years of evolutionary 
2026-04-05T15:50 id=2040819448811270365 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza https://t.co/vm10RkXgJH  idk who this guy is but this is good. Key quote: "arbitrariness unlocks additional flexibility in signaling and allows speakers to communicate about more abstract concepts that would be harder to express in a purely iconic language." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "one finds in research on onomatopoeia that having signifiers sound too much like the signified, it actually causes a language to lose descriptive power."  Does one? Where might one find this to corroborate what one has fou
2026-04-05T15:53 id=2040820068767146426 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Wow, how much land is that? || CTX: I just can’t even begin to thank God for my good fortune. Can you imagine discovering, by surprise, that you own another perfectly good structure that you never knew about?  Now consider this is the SECOND time that’s happened to me! https:
2026-04-05T15:53 id=2040820210601767155 →207Nasher | @207Nasher the theorems aren't the math though, that's why || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree that math is a language, but it doesn’t feel that way, the theorems which are true are true regardless of how you try to manipulate the symbols, it feels more like a search then creation, then somehow the thing you 
2026-04-05T15:59 id=2040821661432508476 →MickeyMullin | @MickeyMullin @pmarca Because I value introspection as an ideal end of its own, and his infantile attempt at a psyop on impressionable youths deserves contempt, regardless of how much he and I may agree on other matters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmarca Andreessen quoted you (ensuring you're cited) and framed his quote about your position positively.   Why is this cause for such a vitriol response? It reads like you're getting enraged at someone for agreeing with y
2026-04-05T16:08 id=2040823849185645024 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @marc__adler Can a book develop a representational/semantic understanding of a thing? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @marc__adler I don’t know - I think it’s more about being open to the possibility. I’m not saying it will happen, just that I think it’s quite possible.   What can I say - I’m an optimist and a neoliberal shill. 😬🤷🏻‍♂️
2026-04-05T16:16 id=2040825861646192881 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @marc__adler So the computer cam understand when it's on but can not when it is turned off? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @marc__adler No autonomous computational processes there, so no.
2026-04-05T22:32 id=2040920421625983393 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @marc__adler Oh, then you're making an analogy, you're just describing a family resemblance rather than asserting an ontological fact underneath the computer and human that is more true than the computer and human. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @marc__adler If the computer is turned off, I would analogize that to a human being under deep anesthesia. (Not sleeping as we have a ton of cognition going on during those states)   In both those cases, there is cognitive 
2026-04-05T22:40 id=2040922524389884285 →- | "My computer is obsessed with me breastfeeding" the future has arrived and it couldn't possibly be more hilarious https://t.co/LLVwnREhHM || CTX: @m_ashcroft yeah it's really annoying if it knows you have little kids   and I cannot for the life of me convince it that I'm not breastfeeding rn
2026-04-05T23:07 id=2040929335780184413 →- | Being open minded is an act of faith.  If we define open mindedness as saying X may be true, then being open minded about X is having faith in something beyond proof.  The reason is simple: we now know truth and proof aren't the same (cf Tarski).  Imagine I fucked your mother: no matter how many times you ask or rewatch the video, you'll never be able to prove to all observers whether she enjoyed it or not, but either she did or she didn't.  How much your mother enjoyed riding this dick is a mystery that shall forever remain beyond the realm of proof, yet it is true.   From this we see there are unprovable truths, but there are also provable untruths, such as Ptolemaic astronomy proving that the sun literally moves around the Earth. Just look up, anon.  So we see that truth outruns proof and proof is only as good as the formal system designing the proof.  Thus ANY statement such as "X is truly Y" or "Z is true" is an article of faith. "When I say Z is true I mean it's been proven as far as I know in the systems and I have faith that those systems' proofs track truth."   Atheism and Christianity are both doctrines of faith.  And before you ask, I'm neither bucko
2026-04-05T23:12 id=2040930622831816724 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @CalderVenn "How to Philosophize with a Slop Canon" would move books fr fr || CTX: @CalderVenn or, How to Philosophize with a Hammer
2026-04-05T23:15 id=2040931243077009903 →207Nasher | @207Nasher By what criteria can one optimize their selection of formal systems besides by faith? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The relationship between language and reality is extremely complex, I’m not sure the notion of truth carries over cleanly  I don’t know if I would call it faith, you can optimize your selection of formal systems
2026-04-05T23:22 id=2040933217168183649 →207Nasher | @207Nasher That's faith in both Occam's razor and your ability to perceive it correctly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Occam’s razor (KC) is a heuristic, you can also see how well your system tracks reality. We also don’t exclusively use one system, arguments in English are fuzzy and intuitive because they cover many different possible syst
2026-04-06T00:01 id=2040942923756585471 →2oovy | @2oovy as the only even prime, two is the loneliest number || CTX: Same with 2. Why is it the only even prime number?? https://t.co/rOOu5bQFOQ
2026-04-06T00:20 id=2040947609742057970 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp Last slide is strongly Silly Business Theory #SBT coded || CTX: I didn't know a corporate slide deck could be this good  https://t.co/4lnkstA231 https://t.co/Lyo9yoml7K
2026-04-06T00:22 id=2040948193102647572 →JustinWolfers | @JustinWolfers Account size is a good proxy for bullshit, wouldn't you agree, Dr. Wolfers? || CTX: It is utterly dispiriting how few of these bubbles are reliable sources of information. https://t.co/JzQCOX9zm4
2026-04-06T00:36 id=2040951676543369562 →- | The kind of fact the industry doesn't like talking about and that I'll be proving in detail in about six months, stay tuned kids (and Yann, you're gonna love it I promise). https://t.co/IQquG3xuPS || CTX: @elonmusk Thinking in language has limited applications, largely in coding and mathematics where the language itself can help reasoning.  But, as I've been saying for years, thinking manipulates mental models in abstract (continuous) repres
2026-04-06T00:55 id=2040956470708294035 →- | I should codify what Silly Business Theory #SBT is.  We begin with some simple axioms:  1. People sell labor for capital.  2. In most cases, that capital is money (ie fungible liquid capital) 3. In other cases, that capital can be something else, such as cultural capital (this is why art gallery directors earn less than a manager at a McDonald's) 4. Any given laborer will exchange money for other forms of capital if their stock of money is sufficient to satisfy a presupposed hedonic baseline of needs and wants (ie if they feel financially comfortable enough, they'll stop working to maximize money and start working to acquire other kinds of capital) 5. We acquire capital to expand the possibility space of what we can do so that it intersects more with what we want to do. 6. In most cases what we want to do is to have fun. 7. It stands that, over time as cumulative social capital rises and more wealth exists, we will see laborers sacrifice money for fun. 8. As labor demand for fun over money spreads in the economy, firms will accommodate by being sillier. (The pizza party and ping pong tables were premature Millennial efforts at this future) 9. As laborers have more capital and become capitalists themselves, they will establish businesses that maximize silliness at an increasing rate, thus displacing the maximally efficient margin optimizing firm of the Coase variety. 10. An equilibrium of profits with a silliness premium will emerge in the short term, but volatility in this pricing will be the longer term trend as we try to find invariant determinants that show when silly businesses produce better products than serious businesses.   My hypothesis is that silly businesses will produce superior products and have better marketing strategies so the future will look much, much sillier. This will have odd effects, like memes about how we must RETVRN because Flibbertigibbet Co. is too silly of a business and it all feels too undignified.   Seriousness will increasingly hinder the betterment of the future.  For your kids', kids' kids', and kids' kids' kids' sake, I am begging you to be silly and stop taking life so seriously.  Very Serious People are a threat to humanity.
2026-04-06T01:34 id=2040966398927913092 →ConsumerRick | @ConsumerRick Yeah that's definitely a fair way to put it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 SBT sounds like a return to form of being human and descending back down the “abstraction stack” of capital from fiat to pure energy (in all its forms)   I am a supporter of this Theory
2026-04-06T01:35 id=2040966579740082227 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp https://t.co/xodQHSmSZR || CTX: I should codify what Silly Business Theory #SBT is.  We begin with some simple axioms:  1. People sell labor for capital.  2. In most cases, that capital is money (ie fungible liquid capital) 3. In other cases, that capital can be something
2026-04-06T01:36 id=2040966834997137747 →1889lw | @1889lw Norman said you did it because you thought people would only like you for your money, but I think he's wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay. But I still prefer giving away capital to suffer in the pain of teaching primary school kids
2026-04-06T01:36 id=2040966911216017861 →JerrickNaylor | @JerrickNaylor More than she did when you were conceived (another unprovable truth btw) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How many objective units of pleasure did she acquire
2026-04-06T01:49 id=2040969999767208308 →lion_tender | Yeah the issue with that refrain is it assumes that what you enjoy doesn't change, but it does.  The work I do now is really fun and I love it, but that's in large part because the tacit knowledge I've developed makes a lot of technical aspects of my job easier (and ofc AI augments this). When I first started in my job it was not fun at all and I was especially terrified I'd fail, be homeless, and starve to death.  So we need to think of "enjoying what you do" as a regime one enters after one has done an apprenticeship and picked up the grunt work.   Which means we shouldn't tell kids they should enjoy what they do, but rather tell them if they are smart and strategic, one day they inevitably WILL enjoy what they do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlecStapp This is an interesting modern take on "enjoy what you do and you'll never work a day in your life". Empirically I do love working with pros who (a) are good at their job and (b) are clearly having some fun with i
2026-04-06T01:49 id=2040970242718060715 →noveltokens | @noveltokens Dillon's fake business legit was one of the things that made me come up with this theory. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/1g7rZIzp0D
2026-04-06T01:52 id=2040970929820581905 →Brand | @Brand Just ripping me off like this, man fuck you. || CTX: We were taught: value = effort × suffering. History suggests otherwise. Call it Silly Business Theory: The highest-leverage work often looks like play. Terence Tao citing ChatGPT in a paper feels trivial — until you see the pattern. Today i
2026-04-06T02:10 id=2040975494049640539 →Econ_Marshall | @Econ_Marshall @RexDouglass A tad underqualified with a freshwater econ degree aren't ya || CTX: I have a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and my main work task these days is removing em-dashes from Claude output so it's not overly obvious.
2026-04-06T02:21 id=2040978272247505322 →murd_arch | @murd_arch @noveltokens Adults tend to be serious about the wrong things in the wrong ways at the wrong time, children not so much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @noveltokens i've been carrying around that quote about "regain[ing] the seriousness of a child at play" for a long time.  SBT is a better expression of why it mattered to me.
2026-04-06T02:40 id=2040983071475007637 →bengoodger | @bengoodger, I adore OpenAI and love the future potential of Atlas.  But, dude, your browser absolutely sucks donkey balls right now and you need to get it fixed.  This PDF will not load in Atlas and will easily load in Chrome: https://t.co/4OrsH7l4g7 . I'm getting this for a lot of PDFs from a lot of companies.  And don't even think about blaming GS for this when you're almost certainly going to use them as an underwriter this year.  Just fix yo damn browser, holmes.
2026-04-06T03:24 id=2040993956948070480 →RhysSullivan | @RhysSullivan There will always be a subset of people who fancy themselves Very Serious People who are really just spiritual hall monitors: they will tell you what you can do, what you should do, what you must do.  None of it is true, but it makes them feel better to say it.  Ignore them. || CTX: image and video generation models should probably be heavily regulated / banned from the general public  seems like an incredibly low upside for the amount of harm they're going to do and you'd need to penalize platforms for hosting imprope
2026-04-06T03:26 id=2040994427867652358 →MotiveProfit | Very much my feeling. Movies were excellent in the 70s and 90s but for the most part of history it's been a shitty art form, TV obviously much, much worse.  It's hilarious that people talk about brain rot from a multidimensional multimedia interactive platform but say nothing about TV, it really tells you how intellectually dishonest public moralizing is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good riddance on TV and film tbh
2026-04-06T03:27 id=2040994714602893556 →RhysSullivan | Ridiculously broad question, so much so that I don't think you're a serious person seriously asking it and you're just doing engagement bait nonesense for whatever monetization you've got on the backend.  Let's have a public debate on this issue in a Spaces if you're serious. DMs open. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what do you think should be regulated and what do you think shouldn't?
2026-04-06T03:30 id=2040995518336405875 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad Considering what the academic job market was like back then, this is actually pretty realistic ngl || CTX: This is the badge they gave Lex Fridman when he did a talk https://t.co/Xcv4JKItRH
2026-04-06T04:05 id=2041004270716399822 →207Nasher | @207Nasher not grants per se, but yeah this is the project I was complaining about a few days ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m looking forward, I assume this is the grant thing that you were complaining about earlier?
2026-04-06T04:09 id=2041005292079731035 →- | then he deleted it realizing how bad it made him look.   these fucking grifter pieces of shit man, they're like cockroaches https://t.co/uScNR8L9ad
2026-04-06T04:20 id=2041008119992746451 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @RhysSullivan tagging you because this is a dick move and you should be ashamed || CTX: then he deleted it realizing how bad it made him look.   these fucking grifter pieces of shit man, they're like cockroaches https://t.co/uScNR8L9ad
2026-04-06T04:31 id=2041010802426356110 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ https://t.co/GjrpK5N3A8 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Aw his brain hasn't finished developing yet and it shows
2026-04-06T05:00 id=2041018274264358943 →teodorio | The problem with reading entertaining, well written sell-side reports is you often get seduced by the rhetoric and thus buy in to bad ideas (of which Citrini is not in short supply).  There's a need for bad writing in financial research, which is tacitly acknowledged in the industry and sadly is also what's made Citrini's business model viable despite some of the horrible analysis they do (like the report that tanked the market). I concede some of their work is very good. || CTX: There is no doubt that @citrini is the best writer on any financial news right now and I should buy Analyst #3 a beer https://t.co/hk9PyJGSFk
2026-04-06T05:10 id=2041020579625746732 →KamStaszewski | No, that's not why at all.  Firstly, the investment is quite fair and rational, pretty much commensurate with expected future value.  Secondly, think of AI as automating shit that couldn't be automated before. That's valuable. Just ignore all the "Claude is counscious" and "AI will turn us into slaves after starting a nuclear war" bullshit that attention-hungry grifters vomit on the internet. It's a distraction, it's marketing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why they invest so heavily in current AI? Is it all based on a assumption that we will have some major discovery soon that will make this investment pay off?
2026-04-06T06:02 id=2041033897249800279 →teodorio | @teodorio @citrini Yet another feature of Silly Business Theory #SBT is the entanglement of reading for fun and reading for alpha in a business context. Many will be led astray as they navigate this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @citrini i am not going to lie this is one of the best adventure short stories I have read in ages and it was worth the 110 usd payment even for that essay alone!!
2026-04-06T06:57 id=2041047575332364758 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney https://t.co/EX9HJnLnNP || CTX: There is no such thing as an absolute value of pseud, we are all pseud relative to how pseud everyone else is...   So the only way to solve this is a bloodmatch to the death and ngl that's the only reason I am on this website
2026-04-06T07:13 id=2041051551389962394 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder I'm sorry to so many people for what I'm about to say, but @nikitabier is 100% right here. || CTX: algo problems aside, i fully support deboosting paywalled links.  it's functionally an advertisement, for most users. https://t.co/2kR6KDbS0r
2026-04-06T07:14 id=2041051864108777667 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Wittgenstein, Kant, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Einstein and Godel were all famous for their frequent walks. || CTX: Brain after no microwave vs  Brain after stuffing head in microwave for 20 minutes https://t.co/zySo1k8fK6
2026-04-06T07:16 id=2041052333258449214 →Nexuist | @Nexuist The kettle chips in the fridge means you deserve to die alone || CTX: where is she then https://t.co/D4Pa3vo9l3 https://t.co/bnzBRFb0zQ
2026-04-06T07:17 id=2041052581263557109 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Brain scan heat maps tend to mean more activity so the red means brain is more active.  Walking wakes up the brain it's why I average 13k steps a day || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think long walks are good I just don’t like vague infographics. Is more red betterer? Is it worse? What does it mean
2026-04-06T07:24 id=2041054386617831555 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 alright gonna go for a walk now then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I need to walk more
2026-04-06T07:30 id=2041056011973533783 →xlr8harder | That's a whole other can of worms, isn't it! In a Silly Business Theory #SBT world, you'd probably expect status to be both in the conventional ways we see it today (so I'm not expecting Veblen goods to disappear), but a new moral-cultural axis will appear where people brag about how much fun their job is versus how much they are paid.  Consider: today you'll often have people justify that they deserve their pay because they "work so hard" or "put in so many hours" or "paid their dues". In reality, people exaggerate (lie) about how hard they work, how many hours they actually put in, and how many dues they pay.  The humility ritual of professing one is a busy bee will be less culturally salient.  Instead people will brag like, "I spent 12 hours working yesterday because it was just so much fun" which, well, you already see in Silicon Valley, which has actively promoted this attitude to work for a long time to get autists to sacrifice more of their time/life than they really should in a fairer transaction.  As SBT spreads and it's more normal to consider work fun and long hours more like fun benders than drudgery, non-monetary remuneration will probably increase substantially in a more transparent and mutually agreed upon way than the "you guys are getting a pizza party for pulling an all nighter" bullshit we have now.  This is a massive and complex topic and I'm not doing it justice here. You're absolutely right that it has complicated effects on the market price both of excess labor and luxury goods, not necessarily in a way that makes the prices go up or down but rather to be impacted by different determinants than what determines price today. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like a lot of this, but I'm curious how you would differentiate your perspective from what economics already says about luxury goods and non-monetary remuneration.  Seems worth exploring.
2026-04-06T07:40 id=2041058498419822606 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder yeah, but the way you put it sounds like a fundamental economic change to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 thanks!  so if I understand correctly you're not positing a fundamental economic change, but a cultural and subsequent market change based on how workers value labor and compensation and what companies can compete to provid
2026-04-06T07:41 id=2041058721527455902 →- | RT @Samhain948689: much of comedy is mastering the element of surprise. a punchline should be unexpected. that is why this post is not funn… || CTX: much of comedy is mastering the element of surprise. a punchline should be unexpected. that is why this post is not funny. since there is nothing surprising about it. just a boring explanation. unless you think that the end will subvert you
2026-04-06T09:16 id=2041082555190088043 →Samhain948689 | I find Kristen Bell so fascinating, especially if you listen to her on podcasts, because she talks a lot quite openly about herself and her life, and you can tell she is a people pleaser. Her entire identity, self worth, and raison d'etre hinge on being adored and liked.  Which is kinda easy, because she's both very beautiful and an incredibly nice person.  But, like, I feel bad for her? It seems to me that needing the approval of others is a kind of prison and she will never really be attentive to her own self because she's pleasing others.  But then I realize the self does not really exist and so hers is probably the purest form of life imaginable and all of this pontificating is just my own ego trying to justify itself so I really should just stop || CTX: there is no point trying too hard anymore because if everyone started saying i was doing a good job then i would just know you are all ai and it was just a prank all along so it is better to just do my own thing and have fun and not worry a
2026-04-06T09:29 id=2041085960071581780 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Ah, I see what you mean! That's a good point and one I hadn't thought of before: SBT does not actually disagree with orthodox economic theory at all, it just introduces a new axiom: fun is a kind of capital. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i guess I mean that I don't think the basic ideas governing supply/demand/labor would be changing, but rather what people value and what can be provided are changing.  which could have enormous impacts to our experience of 
2026-04-06T09:31 id=2041086428264980953 →6ixpool | @6ixpool Seriousness is parasitic on play because at our core our entire civilization is based on games--specifically language games. || CTX: I think you're understating that silly business is the  "exploration" half and serious business is the "exploitation" half.  Silly business will produce novel goods.  Serious business commodifies and makes these goods accessible.  But this 
2026-04-06T09:37 id=2041087994489410034 →robertskmiles | @robertskmiles @lu_sichu I dare someone, anyone, to do this and publish the result.   It'll be near unreadable. || CTX: Writing advice: Give your essay to an LLM, see where it misunderstands you, and fix it. Once the LLM understands everything, switch to a smaller model. If Haiku misunderstands something, some humans will too.
2026-04-06T09:41 id=2041089005048287616 →xlr8harder | ohhh that's why you ask about non monetary compensation.   That's a good point, what happens when laborers are paid in luxury goods? And those goods aren't fungible to other agents?  This is why I really need to write a book on SBT. A tweet, even a few substacks isn't enough.   Hey @CambridgeUP, wanna make up for telling me you sent my proposals to externals only to admit a year later that was a total lie because who gives a fuck about the newly minted PhD working at a weird foreign university you racist classist wankers? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, but I think it fits more into the frame of a luxury good.
2026-04-06T09:42 id=2041089142273233139 →6ixpool | @6ixpool I'm not saying no seriousness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Serious is a necessary temperament to even get to hedonic baseline to support silly. It's why stable "normies" are majority. It's the necessary base from which the disposable silly explorers get deployed from to continue ci
2026-04-06T09:47 id=2041090472744239205 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Seeing you fully embrace OpenAI has given me hope for the future   (also like I seriously owe you money for that arxiv skill do more JasonProTips) || CTX: AI Lab Tier List  - OpenAI reaches out and fixes your issue and resets your rate limit  - Anthropic reaches out but they'll accuse you of being the problem  - Google looks you in the eye then repeats the word gemini 4 times  - xAI doesn’t h
2026-04-06T10:07 id=2041095518248681556 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill thank you, there aren't enough computer tutorial videos from the afterlife || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ty more JB video tutorials once I am done dying
2026-04-06T10:08 id=2041095722138046742 →6ixpool | @6ixpool Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Everything is just yin and yang and we just use different words lol.  But this dynamic isn't the stable harmonic. The stable system is deeper. Its the churn.
2026-04-06T10:35 id=2041102601329246667 →onlydubsX | @onlydubsX Jada Pinkett Smdh || CTX: Jada Pinkett Smith says no matter how hard Will Smith tried to make her happy it didn’t work, adding she later realized it wasn’t his responsibility, which led her to seek happiness in other people while still married, claiming it helped he
2026-04-06T11:44 id=2041119853394939940 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I will legit sign up for this not kidding || CTX: Thank you I just reached 2k verified followers and put my X subscriptions application in.  For the low cost of $1 per month you will receive a cool badge and my respect https://t.co/gyLe7JfaGw https://t.co/iOkQ09ZqLf
2026-04-06T11:59 id=2041123646719365209 →- | If we want to know what consciousness is, let's follow Wittgenstein: don't think, but look! (PI 66)  1. I am born, at some point I'm aware, I am conscious.  2. One day I will die and my consciousness ceases.  3. Inbetween we can think of my consciousness ceteris paribus as a single arch, as a bow had been plucked when I was born and the arrow rose smoothly up in the air and fell equally smoothly to the ground. 4. But my intentional faculties allow me to perturb this smooth arc over time in fits and starts, almost as if there were little air guns throwing discrete bits of air at the arrow as it moved, perturbing just enough and frequently enough to make the arrow wobble.  5. Those discrete bits of air are the phonemes that come forth from the mouths of men as they throw discrete bits of air at the arrow of my consciousness. 6. Those phonemes shape the shape of my consciousness and so as it were becomes a part of it. Language is co-constitutive of thought.  7. In the end language shapes us as we shape it, and from this we see how our consciousness is not entirely our own. I do not like this conclusion.
2026-04-06T12:01 id=2041124021765595589 →Trad_West_Art | @Trad_West_Art What I love about this take is that it's actually in agreement with both MAGA and tankie communism. || CTX: Part of the reason they can't beat Iran is because sanctions forced them to be totally self-sufficient the way a country should be. Everyone else has been weakened by 'free trade' and foreign manufacturing.
2026-04-06T12:05 id=2041125035906404523 →JustinWolfers | @JustinWolfers Wait is "insolvent" a technical term? Everything else I can think of (bankrupt, in arrears, illiquid, negative C&amp;CE lmao), like itd all more technical.   *We no money"? Is this what to say? || CTX: "When pundits use words like insolvent, they're not using them to explain, but to exclude." ⁣ ⁣ That's not analysis. That's gatekeeping with a thesaurus. https://t.co/pK2D6naK1X
2026-04-06T12:11 id=2041126767612858499 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Wonderfully said! It is why I enjoy learning languages more than anything else. || CTX: To integrate multiple languages seems to be a way to have multiple selves. Inspired by Levi-Strauss, language is a reality deliminiting tool. Different ways of storing, orgranizing, encoding, and decoding information.  I give you a series o
2026-04-06T12:15 id=2041127763093094536 →ArthurKolchak | @ArthurKolchak Broadly true but I'd argue a few exceptions exist, e. g. Synecdoche New York || CTX: A film can’t be “deep” and “profound.” Read a book if you want philosophy. https://t.co/T0qdKQITGC
2026-04-06T12:38 id=2041133372953723376 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @ArthurKolchak I need to watch 2001 on shrooms
2026-04-06T12:39 id=2041133702605090897 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @ArthurKolchak lol ikr, come to Thailand, I'll buy you a beer
2026-04-06T12:41 id=2041134196186603645 →Trad_West_Art | @Trad_West_Art 100% fair! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are better ideologies to list that also agree.
2026-04-06T13:08 id=2041141108915482965 →- | I'm sorry but this is some insane organic engagement https://t.co/yu1UFrzQh8
2026-04-06T13:10 id=2041141616065622400 →- | Who has time for sex when there's a situation to be monitored. https://t.co/KNdQcYOVXw
2026-04-06T13:19 id=2041143724110180707 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly oops already sinned again || CTX: I did confession yesterday and i included “being a [dipshit] on twitter” thanks for your attention to this matter. I am free of my past sins huzzah
2026-04-06T13:19 id=2041143866171249080 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @gene_jelly lmao sorry couldn't help myself || CTX: @gene_jelly oops already sinned again
2026-04-06T22:04 id=2041275827514642925 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ NICE!!! || CTX: Ladies and gentleman. We got him.   @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/hxlSQ9f4JB
2026-04-06T22:05 id=2041276085246296407 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly I'm a Jew || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i was wondering who would take the bait…waitaminute weren’t you a Lutheran or am I hallucinating that memory?
2026-04-06T22:07 id=2041276756192362537 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @amortowles Why is shallow pretentious art more honest than working to make capital markets more efficient? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @amortowles these kinds of references were def partly why that book was just "ok" for me...but I think I get one must do mass market appeal if you want to make a living as an author (and it's prolly still far more honest wo
2026-04-06T22:09 id=2041277171621384334 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch @AlecStapp I've given up millions of dollars by insisting on working from home. Totally worth it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlecStapp yeah i could probably make 50% more if i worked harder but then i'd also have a lot less fun
2026-04-06T22:10 id=2041277319768383597 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 https://t.co/nMgRK1GGhu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-06T22:24 id=2041280842019029228 →- | Trump of course is the first Silly Business Theory #SBT president.  If you remember from his first time the saying, "Trump needs to be taken seriously but not literally," which many pundits threw around at the time (eg https://t.co/jmWMS0Dl3i).  What they were really saying is, being POTUS is serious business and Trump isn't taking it serious, hence he just says things (that shouldn't be taken literally), but we still need to be serious.  Well, whether we need to be serious or not is debatable but clearly Trump did not. He got reelected and never stopped being unserious.  Many who voted for Trump initially did not do it seriously. Trump's first term was downstream of 4chan and that's too outrageous and absurd for you to accept but the historians will agree with me.   The second vote was a moratorium on Biden. The serious president got us massive inflation, the electorate said, and so we don't trust serious anymore. And besides, Kamala tried her hardest to be silly, but it was a bad, ineffective, fake silly, like when she said she was going to empower black men by making weed and crypto illegal (which I'm sorry sounds more racist than most things I've heard Trump say, and that's a pretty low racism bar).  Gavin Newsome already knows SBT, because he's trying to be silly in the Trumpian way: insulting, nasty, wry, cynical, funny. All of the high notes of the time, none of which is serious.   We do not live in serious times and I'm sorry if that upsets you but don't shoot the messenger. || CTX: Trump: "You know who else didn't help us? South Korea didn't help us. We've got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a 
2026-04-06T22:47 id=2041286741475414359 →- | Trump of course is the first Silly Business Theory #SBT president.  If you remember from his first term the saying, "Trump needs to be taken seriously but not literally," which many pundits threw around at the time (eg https://t.co/jmWMS0Dl3i).  What they were really saying is, being POTUS is serious business and Trump isn't taking it serious, hence he just says things (that shouldn't be taken literally), but we still need to be serious.  Well, whether we need to be serious or not is debatable but clearly Trump did not. He got reelected and never stopped being unserious.  Many who voted for Trump initially did not do it seriously. Trump's first term was downstream of 4chan and that's too outrageous and absurd for you to accept but the historians will agree with me.   The second vote was a moratorium on Biden. The serious president got us massive inflation, the electorate said, and so we don't trust serious anymore. And besides, Kamala tried her hardest to be silly, but it was a bad, ineffective, fake silly, like when she said she was going to empower black men by making weed and crypto legal (which I'm sorry sounds more racist than most things I've heard Trump say, and that's a pretty low racism bar).  Gavin Newsome already knows SBT, because he's trying to be silly in the Trumpian way: insulting, nasty, wry, cynical, funny. All of the high notes of the time, none of which is serious.   We do not live in serious times and I'm sorry if that upsets you but don't shoot the messenger. || CTX: Trump: "You know who else didn't help us? South Korea didn't help us. We've got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a 
2026-04-06T22:49 id=2041287165490164140 →- | We are all links in a chain and the only thing we need to do is not break it. https://t.co/aUhFHwTV7s || CTX: Artemis II crew on breaking the record for human travel distance from the Earth: “challenge this generation and the next to make sure this record is not long lived” 🫡🫡🫡  I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
2026-04-06T22:58 id=2041289373015220720 →bas_logic | Back in the 2000s people in my field used to boast it was a book field and indeed monographs and book chapters were the dominant format on most CVs...   This smelled of corruption to me. As an autist not very good at socializing (and conferences were a NIGHTMARE), blind peer review was one of the few opportunities for me to get a stamp of approval that was legible to others.  Plus it seemed entirely based on merit as my work was being judged on its own.  All of the arguments against peer review I've heard honestly fall flat with me and they sound like people trying to lower standards so they can get published more easily.  So yeah I have to agree with Andrew Tate as author but Tate as reader is patently absurd.   Even if many of those books came to market in less than pristine ways, with frankly some of them being the products of intellectual whores, sometimes one needs a cadre of whores readily available to get to the next step in one's vocation.  But then again maybe my tolerance for keeping people around who have whored themselves out is much higher than Andrew Tate's. || CTX: I think he’s trying to say that the monograph is a bit of a lost art in contemporary analytic philosophy, and I can’t help but agree. I mostly read articles these days. https://t.co/YT0TouU0cv
2026-04-06T23:16 id=2041294012343341496 →- | I'm ignoring the "Anthropic won" framing, which is wrong in several ways. Just focus on the TAM.   We've got about 60b here. And estimates put GOOG rev attributable to Gemini at about 30b.   With the Llamas, Mistrals, Deepseeks et al. of the world let's say global TAM for LLMs ex-China now abt 100b 2026 run rate. I am aware this is too conservative.  AI capex was 300b in 2025, so the sector has gotten 1 dollar for each 3 invested in the first calendar year post capex.   Believe it or not, calculating short term ROI from capex is not something I normally do, because in growth equity investing that really doesn't matter, but this looks to me somewhat solid but not eye popping nor a disaster.   It's a reasonable result. I.e., no bubble.   However, it is low for tech and especially software, which actually speaks to a point @tszzl has made a few times and is deeply underappreciated (so much so that I tried to launch a fund on this theme but I'm a sellside guy so no one trusts me with cash eh fair enough): the gains from AI will be diffuse.  Most of the benefits of this technology will be captured by small firms, freelancers, and individuals.  That $20 subscription price was both the greatest mistake and the greatest giveaway in human history.  Don't tell Sam I said this but my $200/mo. subscription is hilariously underpriced. Hilariously. || CTX: 🚨BREAKING: ANTHROPIC RUN-RATE REVENUE JUST SURPASSED $30 BILLION   &gt;anthropic ARR: $30B+ &gt;3.3x growth in four months  &gt;openai ARR: $25B   Anthropic has officially defeated OpenAI as the revenue leader   Dario WON. https://t.co/QvJh
2026-04-06T23:19 id=2041294744173899795 →finnmarks_glory | "I will only go back to Cambridge if we can be friends, but if you don't have time to see me then please let me know and I won't go back." I'm paraphrasing but Wittgenstein wrote something like this to Keynes after WW1.   Of course he was in love with Pinset, and had deep love for Ramsay and was furious at Ramsey's father, whom W. blamed for Frank's death. And ofc there's his complicated relationship with Russell.  "I miss my homies back in Cambridge" is 100% spot on accurate Wittgenstein. || CTX: @1889lw @47fucb4r8c69323 "I miss my homies back in cambridge" ??????
2026-04-06T23:24 id=2041295890556797090 →stinkgen | @stinkgen Dude my ego is big enough as it is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you may be the hunter s thompson of this age.
2026-04-06T23:26 id=2041296519597625417 →stinkgen | @stinkgen Considering I'm from Las Vegas, ngl the shoe fits || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’m an anon  in a bar  glad to pump those nads
2026-04-06T23:28 id=2041297131106169164 →TheStalwart | Yeah tokens are a vanity metric and the media really needs to push back on this in particular.   You guys got @sama to stop calling energy "electrons", get them to stop tokenizing tokens (and Sam if you're reading this no amount of cars with doors that open like this will make up for how cringe you were lmao u fkn pseud) || CTX: How does measuring productivity by total token consumption make any sense at all? https://t.co/jHABrAOJX5
2026-04-06T23:29 id=2041297198613451132 →finnmarks_glory | @finnmarks_glory @1889lw Yes we are in agreement. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw "Wittgenstein's hostility towards professional philosophy and his dislike of Cambridge remained constant throughout his career" - Ray Monk, The duty of Genius
2026-04-06T23:36 id=2041298917980303599 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT predicts a slow asymptotic decline for dating apps (ie, over time less and less people will use them, it'll be used less for dating and more for sex, and new dating apps will constantly appear that will inevitably fade).  The reason is that the dating app is the antithesis of SBT: it takes something definitionally unserious (dating, flirting, serendipity meeting) and tries to operationalize the underpinning logic via an algorithmic (or these days AI/ML approach, which really just means statistics) matching function.  This always fails because the silliness of the human spirit cannot be captured by the machine.  The more we capture the seriousness of life in the machine the more value there is in the silly.  The future has a clown nose on it, sorry. || CTX: twitter is not a dating app by definition. any more than going to the library is a dating app because you and three other people met your wife there. or is it wives? how many of you did she marry? still. not a dating app.
2026-04-06T23:37 id=2041299371799822743 →stinkgen | @stinkgen https://t.co/eDkYSP0Zej || CTX: I need to evade my wife’s desire for sex for 90 minutes so I can go bowling.
2026-04-06T23:45 id=2041301386894430232 →finnmarks_glory | @finnmarks_glory @1889lw I don't think he did! But I also know he found people he genuinely loved there and the connections he made with people there meant the world to him.   I highly recommend https://t.co/IOwckAmU6h, first book from OUP to make me cry like a baby. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw Lowkey though why do you feel that Witty liked Cambridge? I always got the opposite impression
2026-04-06T23:53 id=2041303400126861773 →DigitalNomadSA | @DigitalNomadSA Labor theory of value asserts that value comes from labor.   Do not confuse marxists' Marxism with Marx's Marxism nor induce conceptual incoherence from hypocrisy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Marxism that asserts work must be hard and serious to produce value"? Are you fucking retarded? https://t.co/UmijkLQu7J
2026-04-06T23:54 id=2041303630423425455 →finnmarks_glory | @finnmarks_glory @1889lw I saw zero rudeness at all! I saw rigorous argument under a good faith desire to find truth.  As the kids say, you're invited to the cookout. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw Ah! Apologies for rudeness, then!
2026-04-07T00:01 id=2041305344086032813 →fleetingbits | @fleetingbits @BenBajarin 9 to 30 is a 333% growth rate, where are you getting 9700%? || CTX: some thoughts on anthropic at $30bn run rate    1) anthropic is growing at an annualized 9,700%; this is the fastest revenue growth at this scale in history    2) i don't know how to communicate the significance of anthropic's growth rate a
2026-04-07T00:07 id=2041306767590818040 →damiaanluc | This suggests ideological uptake is almost always going to be orthogonal to truth seeking, which I think is undeniable and in many cases a necessary entailment (if e.g. patriotism is a superceding good, it'll be harder for you to admit when your country commits war crimes).  But then what does one do? Seems the only logical response to this tendency is to observe it, point it out when you see it, and ignore those who are too ideological to argue in good faith. But then what to do in times of mass psychosis like 2020's wokeness breakout or the more sustained MAGA?  Also, this is deeply undemocratic which makes me nervous but also seems necessarily so. || CTX: I think this is correct, and even understated. For a lot of people, ideology is simply a sublimated variant of various psychological coping-mechanisms. So, challenges to the ideology are ego-dystonic and jeopardise internal stabilisation; h
2026-04-07T00:12 id=2041307998904275448 →murd_arch | @murd_arch https://t.co/J8fsK6J7FG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Onlyclowns
2026-04-07T00:16 id=2041309071861850369 →damiaanluc | The almost always is a gut feeling probably as a result of being too online. But it's arguably the most important part of this.  How often does ideology cause this "orthogonal to truth" function and if it isn't ideological thinking that does this (I think it does btw), what is doing this? || CTX: I’d put a question mark over ‘almost always’, but a lot of the time it’s certainly orthogonal to the truth. I also think that our minds are organised in such a way that we can sincerely believe ourselves to be in pursuit of the truth, but a
2026-04-07T00:17 id=2041309362774491397 →fleetingbits | @fleetingbits @BenBajarin So you're saying we're going to end 2026 with Anthropic seeing 873 billion in revenue? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BenBajarin annualized
2026-04-07T00:19 id=2041309979098108169 →Taxi8o | @Taxi8o @fleetingbits @BenBajarin 9b was FY25 number and 30b is FY26E by annualizing 1Q, isn't it?   So 30b assumes 3.33x gains. If 1Q25 rev was something like 77m for Anthropic I see the logic, but then just say 1Q was 9700% yy.   Maybe I'm dumb I just don't see what's 97x here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fleetingbits @BenBajarin i don't know either, but 9 to 30 occured Q1 2026
2026-04-07T00:22 id=2041310638304354793 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Give a man enough rope and he will hang himself.  SV went from an obscure place where nerds played with diodes to the center of the universe, NGL it'd be shocking if they didn't fuck things up big time along the way. || CTX: I almost feel bad for the Silicon Valley guys.  They actually could have built the world that they like to give themselves credit for all of the time.  They didn't need to trick us with all of the financial games and monopoly.  All they had
2026-04-07T00:24 id=2041311038289875404 →fleetingbits | @fleetingbits @BenBajarin Okay I see where you're coming from. Totally fair. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BenBajarin no, i don’t think that anthropic will end the year with $873bn in revenue; but this is an unprecedented growth rate that i’m trying to put context https://t.co/J7Y6mPURuF
2026-04-07T00:29 id=2041312485823877200 →Taxi8o | https://t.co/WYpjXjl5Ep  OP is doing some very, shall we say, "selective" slicing and dicing of the comps and it's from a crazy low base so for my purposes of triangulating the implied MTM EV of GenAI it's the wrong perspective, but since he's bringing attention to Anthropic's inorganic rev gains from Claude Code, it's justified for that purpose.   No intellectual dishonesty here, just a difference of focus and perspective. In any case, GenAI is exploding and don't you dare be bearish for even a second. || CTX: i think the next set of revenue leaks from openai and anthropic will be very instructive for assessing the extent to which coding agents will drive very aggressive revenue growth at the labs this year https://t.co/QgxVehGcQF
2026-04-07T00:35 id=2041313849819979908 →damiaanluc | I am 100% in agreement with your dual-process model and would say it's more of a multi-process, and in fact it's in resistance to the process that people try to make their beliefs fixed. It feels wrong to always have evolving beliefs yet that's strictly speaking the only honest epistemology to have.  Second point is spot on, and I'd say ideology operationalizes and commodifies the process so that uptake is easier. E. g. Christianity affords the nebulous martyr-complex as psychological function a grammar to conform to, which is psychologically beneficial (less energy required to run the function) and socially beneficial (allows for societal leveraging of the function via unifying narratives).  This is a very compelling perspective. || CTX: It’s a technical discussion, but I’m personally sympathetic to what are called “dual-process” models of belief-formation and evaluation, which are well-supported by empirical research but not without detractors. Broadly, this species of psy
2026-04-07T00:45 id=2041316414481678592 →Taxi8o | @Taxi8o @fleetingbits @BenBajarin I fully agree with you but I don't know why that's not bullish.  sure compute availability will be a bottleneck in fits and starts, so we'll just keep building more data centers and making better chips and making the AI architecture better, this is all crazy bullish to me || CTX: It’s hard for me to be bearish but I am a simpleton,  I think as models get better at coding, unrelated industries will also be competing for compute because they will be churning out non-LLM industry/job specific ML / computer vision, I th
2026-04-07T00:47 id=2041316781869146402 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc obviously I want to see whatever you write when it's done, but I want to point out I don't think this is just how religion works, I think most language games work this way at one level or another. yes even science. || CTX: “ideology operationalizes and commodifies the process so that uptake is easier. E. g. Christianity affords the nebulous martyr-complex as psychological function a grammar to conform to.”  I like how you phrased this a lot. I don’t know how 
2026-04-07T00:48 id=2041317169540304946 →YSvechinsky | @YSvechinsky that's a very good point, if their intelligence keeps increasing, it won't be as diffuse.   what a very odd market dynamic, I need to think about this more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 think it's too early to say the capabilities are plateauing (they might be) but if they are then 100%
2026-04-07T00:51 id=2041317941946548722 →Taxi8o | @Taxi8o @fleetingbits @BenBajarin it's fine, let them sell their stocks to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fleetingbits @BenBajarin Yes I am crazy bullish, even if ops numbers are off a little it’s still incredible and we are still early, maybe I am too bullish but I feel like the world is being transformed, and many people wil
2026-04-07T01:29 id=2041327506654208329 →- | https://t.co/OapwOSodxw and the early generation of AI companion companies were a failure simply because of the conceptual carving of the world that human beings do.   One of the things I've noticed seeing my cats interact with my neighbor's dog is that my cats don't really see the dog as a friend or an enemy, but as something that is both a mix of the two (so yes, invoking the frenemy neologism) but also something much more complex, and it would be a waste of time for me to get into that here.   But I think maybe the friend-foe dialectical heuristic results in a kind of AI product that just doesn't make sense. It's just absurd to create machine friends, no matter how lonely you are. That just doesn't work.   But an AI companion that thinks orthogonally to the friend-foe dichotomy could be incredibly useful.   Think, for example: I go to a bank to get a loan. I sit down for the interview, and during the interview, I say something very self-defeating, like I make a joke about missing a car payment once or something like that, and I get rejected for the loan because of that. An AI companion who's with me at all times could afterwards ping me and say, "by the way, I think the reason you didn't get that loan was because of that joke you made, and here's why," which would in turn make me socially more powerful and more capable.   But the problem is people really don't want that.  The kind of product that follows you around, observes your mistakes, and guides you on why those mistakes could possibly be costly, would be too much of an offense to the ego.   As a result, the bottleneck for implementing AI to improve people's everyday lives isn't compute or technological capabilities or product-market fit or any of that traditional business stuff.   The real bottleneck is human beings are not aligned with themselves.
2026-04-07T01:54 id=2041333660528554254 →jykfan | Your argument is extremely compelling.   "most ppl value easy & predictable over whimsical & risky" I would agree that this is the case now. I don't think it was in the past (but that could be wrong!) and I predict it won't be in the future.  You or I could be right, it hinges on one question: Are there longitudinal studies to show this or its opposite? Guess it's time to ask my clanker. || CTX: actually disagree with this take. i think dating will only become more and more apps-based.  was just at a wedding where there were 6+ couples (including the bride & groom, plus me & my bf) who met on apps.   sbt is great, but not populatio
2026-04-07T02:06 id=2041336701629661522 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I fully retract this opinion and https://t.co/BFAowumKNQ is correct.  Humans want their whimsy and serendipity constrained and limited within safe limit points predefined by an authority figure. As a character in my novel says, "Isn't unstructured exploration just chaos? You gotta have a routine!" and of course he says this because he's an idiot, but yeah this is how most people are (that's why most people don't have run ins with the Russian Mafia).  Does not falsify SBT though, just parameterizes some of its expression. || CTX: actually disagree with this take. i think dating will only become more and more apps-based.  was just at a wedding where there were 6+ couples (including the bride & groom, plus me & my bf) who met on apps.   sbt is great, but not populatio
2026-04-07T02:07 id=2041337006400348543 →jykfan | @jykfan My entire SBT is based on the presupposition that greater wealth allows for more stability that in turn allows people to take more risks.  Thank you, you've pointed out a deep flaw in my thinking. I owe you a beer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yah, you'd want to see if ppl tend to take more risks during war time (chaos) or peacetime (stability)  my guess is that ppl take more risks in the former scenario. higher motivation.  if apps work predictably &amp; well, p
2026-04-07T02:19 id=2041339953028985197 →- | https://t.co/Y3IMPXqzWs  This creates more economic resentment, not less. If there are more people breaking out of the lower economic classes and more opportunities to do same, and you're currently in the lower economic class, resentment would be quite reasonable and comforting.
2026-04-07T02:19 id=2041340060054982789 →jdcmedlock | @jdcmedlock https://t.co/d4fGarOwoP || CTX: I'm ignoring the "Anthropic won" framing, which is wrong in several ways. Just focus on the TAM.   We've got about 60b here. And estimates put GOOG rev attributable to Gemini at about 30b.   With the Llamas, Mistrals, Deepseeks et al. of th
2026-04-07T02:25 id=2041341608470483027 →buccocapital | @buccocapital may be right. When Edge Gallery is fully released holy shit is the market going to go positive on GOOG, like it's so fucking obvious I'm half tempted to buy calls now (this is not financial advice, I have no fiduciary duty to you and I hope you die in poverty)
2026-04-07T02:47 id=2041347167236096194 →ZyMazza | This is why I think AI really means autists will inherit the earth.  The more capable of self criticism and analytical introspection (yes Marc you fucking heard me you little bitch) you are, the more you'll benefit from AI.  Seeing the 4o zombies and comparing them to what I've got out of AI is like night and day, it's just surreal the difference. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 An AI companion who's with me at all times could afterwards ping me and say, "by the way, I think the reason you didn't get that loan was because of that joke you made, and here's why," which would in turn make me socially 
2026-04-07T02:50 id=2041347832481992984 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada Yeah, maybe in the future we don't use dating apps to date safely but we use safe apps to date.   A nice synthesis of @Samhain948689 and @jykfan's insights. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Using Dating apps down . Using apps to date , up.  More and more internet mediated yes
2026-04-07T02:58 id=2041349764617527600 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It has that open model smell but this is running locally on a shitty Android phone and was a 3.6gb download, that's a big deal. https://t.co/rczzdx87Bz || CTX: @buccocapital may be right. When Edge Gallery is fully released holy shit is the market going to go positive on GOOG, like it's so fucking obvious I'm half tempted to buy calls now (this is not financial advice, I have no fiduciary duty to 
2026-04-07T03:03 id=2041351117964255604 →conorsen | @conorsen This is why I love my job. Wall Street is just as stupid about Silicon Valley as SV is about WS.   Thank you for making the market inefficiencies my clients pay me to close &lt;3 || CTX: Again, what is the rationale for valuing OpenAI above Anthropic? Anthropic should be $1 trillion at this point. https://t.co/a1L5po8QSk
2026-04-07T03:10 id=2041352856180244925 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/3DlsyG7h2x  Important study in line with the bonobos compositionality one and another blow to the human exceptionalism implicit in later Wittgenstein.   @cafeantinomie @bytecanyon @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic @for_nat_whilk || CTX: https://t.co/ALbcjFtVIs  This is the most important study since Einstein's relativity and no one seems to be aware of it or talk about it much if they do.  Tldr: Humans aren't the only animal that have language. We can utilize it in a kind 
2026-04-07T03:12 id=2041353422142951688 →elura172 | @elura172 @AnthropicAI lmfaoooooo || CTX: @AnthropicAI if you have a billion zillion dollars then why do you distribute ai to paying subscribers like it's a fking broth soup at a soup kitchen
2026-04-07T03:16 id=2041354292041535866 →johnjhorton | @johnjhorton I never thought I'd ever use this gif. https://t.co/qxl4aQuBZV || CTX: Tokenmaxxing? How can that be profitable for Meta? https://t.co/foXUo7YNdb https://t.co/SVGu0cJ5YS
2026-04-07T03:19 id=2041355111159808282 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr Wow that Harvard PhD really paying off || CTX: I think I figured out what's going on. The platform uses "verified" users to compute engagement and decide payouts. Verified users are overwhelmingly right-wing, therefore the platform is literally paying people to be more right-wing. https
2026-04-07T03:33 id=2041358763198910620 →PythiaR | @PythiaR ngl GenAI has really made me lose respect for a lot of people in fintwit. It seems they are not sufficiently critical of their own skepticism, and that their skeptical stance is less principled than I'd presumed. || CTX: “They can’t be growing at 30% week over week it’s impossible” - Fintwit https://t.co/0wcjX4fmU0
2026-04-07T03:35 id=2041359161171263877 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @ZyMazza To be fair we are often incentivized by society not to think so I don't blame them, but those of us who cannot turn it off are just perfectly positioned to benefit from this tech, it's absurd. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza I really think there is going to be a truly massive advantage, Allistics so commonly refuse to think
2026-04-07T03:40 id=2041360408544686104 →RsndSpeculation | @RsndSpeculation DMs are open. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i enjoy your content, free for a call sometime, anon-to-anon?
2026-04-07T03:43 id=2041361216858403063 →- | https://t.co/VCbm5R6ly4  "Our results show that the gains of multi-LLM revision are not monolithic, but depend on task structure, draft quality, and the type of draft information."
2026-04-07T03:46 id=2041362067140264211 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @ZyMazza let them think that, it's a market inefficiency that I can exploit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza I blame them, because they claim to have **superior** ability, but then refuse to demonstrate
2026-04-07T05:31 id=2041388405481992538 →- | The older I get the more likeable I become, not because I'm nicer (lol, lmao) but just because I've had more experiences so I'm more relatable.
2026-04-07T06:12 id=2041398596361404770 →- | WSJ podcast about how risky OpenAI's capex is since they're going public, I cannot believe how absurdly stupid the street is about GenAI.   I've seen WS dumb about a lot of new technologies but their inability to grasp GenAI is generational idiocy, the Tate brothers of  analysis
2026-04-07T06:39 id=2041405470267806135 →- | Novel idea: In the year 3526 aliens land on a desolate uninhabitable Earth and are immediately fascinated by the relics of the extinct human race. Humanity becomes a fascination and fixation on their home world, with every aspect of humanity explored, studied, analyzed, and discussed in their culture.   One day a psychologist decides to run an experiment with 50 chosen subjects, half male and half female, to live like humanity for a year.  Only problem: these aliens are sexually monomorphic and so have a culture in which men and women are truly equal and this was never questioned, so early on in the experiment the aliens struggle with a lot of human behavior, particularly the gender politics.  The psychologist decides to fix this by requiring each participant to do/say at least three sexist things a day.  At first the participants struggle with this but it becomes easier over time and yadda yadda yadda within five years the alien race has gone extinct and its planet is an uninhabitable wasteland.
2026-04-07T06:55 id=2041409555637166180 →boneGPT | Absolutely, which is why it's important to talk numbers and ratios instead of being vague.  This year the plan is 17b on a 25b rev run rate, so about 69% (nice), which is really quite low given the age of the company, the forward ramp for the sector, their yy growth etc.  OpenAI capex CAN be unsustainable. It is not currently. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 both can be true, genAI can be full of promise AND openAI capex can be unsustainable  there's a lot of competition, it's not some vacuum where the more they spend the better the outcome is
2026-04-07T06:58 id=2041410223538319592 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @ESYudkowsky If you promote Yudkowsky somebody will die || CTX: This is why it was irresponsible for @ESYudkowsky  to talk about bombing datacenters in TIME magazine.  Because this raising temperature is inevitable, and things like what he wrote will help fuel what comes.  Either he realized that and di
2026-04-07T07:04 id=2041411884038181339 →- | In 2020 Time published this piece titled "Social Media Platforms Claim Moderation Will Reduce Harrassment, Disinformation and Conspiracies. It Won't": https://t.co/ARdzZqzTE7 . It begins:  "If the United States wants to protect democracy and public health, it must acknowledge that internet platforms are causing great harm and accept that executives like Mark Zuckerberg are not sincere in their promises to do better. The “solutions” Facebook and others have proposed will not work. They are meant to distract us."  Just a few years later, it has promoted Yudkowsky (several times) warning that we need to shut AI down, it's dangerous, etc. etc.  And now we have the public attempting to kill human beings because they've been whipped into a frenzy.  Look, we all gotta eat. I get it. And the media needs attention to get clicks to get revenue to make money. However, we need limits. I don't mean censorship or regulations (those don't work, they just make this problem worse), I mean we all need to have the backbone, the confidence, and the moral values to refuse to enable hysteria and polemical fear mongering.  Whatever political thing you care about, it matters less than fear mongering.  Before Hitler/Stalin/Mao/insertbadguyhere killed millions of people, he had to convince others to kill millions of people.  You are easy to convince to believe X if you do not know how people use words to convince you to believe X. Others are as well, so if you want to make the world a better place educate people so that they cannot be duped into stupid acts of violence.  Rhetoric matters. Learn it. || CTX: This is why it was irresponsible for @ESYudkowsky  to talk about bombing datacenters in TIME magazine.  Because this raising temperature is inevitable, and things like what he wrote will help fuel what comes.  Either he realized that and di
2026-04-07T07:05 id=2041412027575615929 →akib27690640 | @akib27690640 Yes sadly this is true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As you gain experience, you realize that everyone is more like you than you thought
2026-04-07T07:21 id=2041416020976685324 →ns123abc | @ns123abc Dario is much better at manipulating opinion, fully agreed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nobody said “anthropic won”   I wrote dario won - which is the lore of him vs sam to prove who’s a better leader
2026-04-07T07:59 id=2041425645960577325 →- | I used to oppose censorship but writing this bad should be illegal. https://t.co/BNTLkUsff6
2026-04-07T08:48 id=2041438019572711907 →- | This comment deserves more attention. There's a business here.  Find a group of intense AI users who are model agnostic but need SOTA intelligence, track which models they use over time, use it as an index of who is closest to AGI.  I'm too busy to build this but this is definitely monetizable, someone run with this plz. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 an interesting way to look at it is market dynamic (distribution of who uses what models) is likely the best indicator of actual capabilities/AGI
2026-04-07T10:45 id=2041467419412361364 →- | It seems to me one could make the argument that natural language began with semantics and then syntax emerged out of semantics, but the opposite is not quite possible.   If this is true, then we can't say GenAIs disprove the Chinese Room Experiment even if we concede they're conscious.  Because if syntax of natural language emerged from semantics and GenAIs can use syntax to get at semantics, any semantic ability we see is just due to the traces of semantics via syntax.  Maybe this distinction is less helpful and less straightforward as we suppose.  idk man I'm just a tard with a twtr acct
2026-04-07T10:47 id=2041467940122554469 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie @bytecanyon @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic @for_nat_whilk are other animals further to the left of bonobos?   are quarks and gluons further to the left of them? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bytecanyon @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic @for_nat_whilk i imagine the bell curve meme where bonobos are on the left and ASI/AGI/etc on the right side and I’m just in the middle. there’s no anthropocentric part of cognitio
2026-04-07T10:50 id=2041468596531171781 →Nexuist | @Nexuist Mine was 26 lol  Btw that goes away, fear of death totally disappears in your 40s (unless your life sucks when oddly it seems to get worse) || CTX: 27 is the first year I find myself routinely freaking out about getting old
2026-04-07T10:51 id=2041468862437400893 →teodorio | @teodorio Welcome to Southeast Asia, usually this is fixed with a bribe. || CTX: I had to get an extension for my Indonesia e-visa and after you fill in everything online and pay on their web app (like the first time), you get an email telling you to go to the nearest immigration centre for an in person photo (???).  Th
2026-04-07T10:53 id=2041469355951817077 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @iruletheworldmo As promised, thx again for the cool skills tips #ProJasonTips #ImaButterillMan https://t.co/gR6faf8dyl || CTX: @iruletheworldmo 😭😭😭😭😭
2026-04-07T11:19 id=2041475926060589560 →marc__adler | @marc__adler https://t.co/Umk3EPXqEu  Dude I hate Americans so much they're so evil and tacky and loud and goddammit how dare they give us this garbage and say it's good || CTX: The New York Times Book Review polled its readers for the best books of the 21st century. I’m proud to report that A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW came in at number 3. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY also made the list, coming in at 75. Thanks to all who voted! 
2026-04-07T11:20 id=2041476185927147933 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie @bytecanyon @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic @for_nat_whilk yeah this is why I hate metaphysics   I know we shouldn't even be talking about this and yet I want to know || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bytecanyon @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic @for_nat_whilk for g/q,theres no other alternative being weighed I can observe,there are probabilities, one of which their quantum field configurations allowed this conversation ou
2026-04-07T11:23 id=2041477042445934870 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @cafeantinomie @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic @for_nat_whilk HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic @for_nat_whilk Metaphysics; really, really wanting to know what you can’t know. Epistemology: not being able to know what you want to know.
2026-04-07T11:30 id=2041478742401552486 →meekaale | @meekaale This is what I'm increasingly afraid of. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what even are semantics? isn't it just a mapping from one syntax to another lmfao
2026-04-07T11:39 id=2041481038783012879 →Fremond_ | One interesting aspect of markets that is not often discussed is the relative inelasticity of price variation between objects due to the interrelationship of the economy.   For example, imagine fish and toy trains. Absurdly different products in a market, but since the products compete for space in the market, labor incentives to procure/process/sell, and demand limits, you can expect the gap between these products not to vary too much in the same market over time, even if we see fish procurement get massively cheaper.   Exceptions that we observe exist when sectors no longer share the same binding constraints and so can diverge dramatically when one sector escapes a bottleneck that others still face. A good example is TVs versus university education or computers versus housing: production constraints were decoupled between TVs/computers, which can be made with cheap foreign labor and automation, and education/housing, which cannot.  This isn't commutative, so it works less in the direction of cost-push inflation, but it does well to explain why we see price gaps between products not change too much overall, and also why post scarcity is an all or nothing kinda thing (everything won't be free until everything is equally free to produce). || CTX: picking fruit is a really long, laborious, and unpleasant job. it is also a sector which is chronically addicted to cheap, foreign labour because british people don't want to do it. this is exactly what automation is for.   it also continue
2026-04-07T11:47 id=2041483057526612298 →leothecurious | @leothecurious my hot take is intelligence matters a LOT less in most business and economic situations than we assume. A lot of it is trust, security, coordination, free rider, and other problems rather than just plain intelligence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's an interesting question nevertheless. what industries are intelligence bottlenecked? aren't they all? who cares most about getting their hands on SoTA intelligence asap?
2026-04-07T12:14 id=2041489895819268353 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @ankkala Dude we need a thread || CTX: @ankkala I was in love with an actively working prostitute :/
2026-04-07T12:15 id=2041490103168893196 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart This is not bullish. || CTX: *TRUMP:A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT
2026-04-07T12:16 id=2041490377241493634 →dezpill | @dezpill Not bad for a whole restaurant || CTX: this is what $15 can gets you in tokyo https://t.co/a7G8XepfB9
2026-04-07T12:18 id=2041490756649844790 →JustinWolfers | @JustinWolfers But as per your first sentence that could be good for stocks? || CTX: Anyone claiming they know where stock prices are headed is lying to you.⁣ ⁣ More importantly: the idea that war with Iran is somehow good for the American economy is just nonsense. Stock prices are down. Grocery and gas prices are already u
2026-04-07T12:24 id=2041492263981961493 →ArmandDAngour | @ArmandDAngour dude stfu and keep stroking || CTX: The spelling is fine. The hyphenation is optional. https://t.co/m5roaNl34v
2026-04-07T12:28 id=2041493296187580760 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Read a poem quickly then describe it to an LLM and ask the AI what you got right and wrong about it || CTX: I need to find a way to test my intuition quickly so I can learn and improve faster. something like how you would do speed-dating to learn how to connect faster. how do I do this?
2026-04-07T12:29 id=2041493606436053016 →1889lw | @1889lw I'm all ears. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ah, philosophers of science would have a lot to say!
2026-04-07T12:39 id=2041495990767919545 →1889lw | @1889lw Just reading the introduction, I realize I either don't understand what they mean by semantics and syntax, if I read on will this get clearer, or should I read something else? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well I think in PoS people take semantics and syntax differently, but there are still a lot of debates around there on whether scientific theories should be viewed as semantic/syntactic. You may wish to read this. Also some
2026-04-07T12:40 id=2041496319311888542 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @1889lw Is it just, syntax is the structure of a theory and semantics is the relationship between terms and the things termed in the world? If so, like, obviously any scientific theory needs both, so idk what's at stake here. || CTX: @1889lw Just reading the introduction, I realize I either don't understand what they mean by semantics and syntax, if I read on will this get clearer, or should I read something else?
2026-04-07T12:41 id=2041496646966730754 →helscom | @helscom The N in NPC stands for nice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice people are also often unrelatable
2026-04-07T12:59 id=2041501108796064234 →- | https://t.co/UJi5E7Di2V
2026-04-07T13:01 id=2041501516125884592 →1889lw | @1889lw okay that makes this debate make sense! I am unsurprisingly sympathetic to BvF's state space view || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it’s more about priority here. Some would say semantics comes first then we cast them into our language
2026-04-07T13:01 id=2041501678072177001 →babarganesh | @babarganesh It was worth it for giving me this moment of relief that I'm not the only one.  Thank you for your service (air force). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I read this book unfortunately. It was the only thing I’d brought with me on an airplane.
2026-04-07T13:02 id=2041501850730639657 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @PaulaSeeksTruth 5.4 Thinking is really good at laying off the sycophancy, especially if you tell it to be a critical bastard in the custom instructions || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth propensity towards glazing and sycophancy will frustrate this particular exercise I suspect. It’ll just tell you you’re making good connections half the time!
2026-04-07T13:03 id=2041502068637417494 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @cafeantinomie @bytecanyon @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic Both humans and animals think in abstract geometry, it's not just a human ability. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie @bytecanyon @1889lw @damiaanluc @bas_logic had me at "Wanderers Hypothesis" tbh  (I'm not sure I see the blow to human exceptionalism?  but as always I admit my dense, almost porridge-like-consistency ignoran
2026-04-07T13:09 id=2041503584999866627 →bas_logic | @bas_logic How could one design a consumer facing LLM to help users learn?   OpenAI has a learning mode and Google has NotebookLM--where do these fail? || CTX: Academic resistance to ai has been much less about ai in principle and much more about the specific way it has been and will be implemented.  Smart phones can be incredible productivity tools but have been designed to be focus-stealing slot
2026-04-07T13:11 id=2041504173452296378 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Disruption can take many forms. Why presume it'll appear in the labor market and not some other market? || CTX: I think the OpenAI doc was written in good faith, but it is also vague enough where one can interpret it as essentially running a company store on the scale of the entire economy.   We will likely face significant disruption in the coming y
2026-04-07T13:18 id=2041505806106198119 →tysonbrody | @tysonbrody you obviously don't follow me || CTX: the first vagueposting genocide threat https://t.co/kAozfoZRCa
2026-04-07T14:13 id=2041519688191266832 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly wut || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait wait this is relevant to meridian or whatever i / we all call it somehow
2026-04-07T14:14 id=2041520064961323113 →teodorio | @teodorio I love her she's so awesome. Her air conditioner video gave me so much catharsis || CTX: If this kind of person is not your partner I am sorry but you are not going to make it https://t.co/ck8B5xKIEn
2026-04-07T14:25 id=2041522732094152825 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly This is a really cool project, but what's the connection? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’m tinkering https://t.co/6KcRtNGeeK
2026-04-07T14:30 id=2041524115744633204 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill "People are scared of X, why aren't you" this the laziest manufacturing consent job in the history of propaganda wtaf, next headline will just be "Boo" || CTX: They are not going to nuke Iran you retards lmao https://t.co/hVgLWMI95j
2026-04-07T15:34 id=2041540082637984075 →- | I looked up the actual study this was from. The task was to read a short text written on a paper out loud.  Thais were slow because Thai script is hard, even for Thai speakers. That's the ONLY thing in this graphic.  Thais complain about how hard their writing system is all the time to me IN THAI, I am not being an Orientalist asshole about this.  And it's obvious because Thai writing has some really annoying features. No spaces between words, vowels sometimes appear BEFORE the consonant they sound AFTER (imagine if "dog" was spelled "odg" but still pronounced "dog"), there are like 6 k's, the diphthongs and tripthongs have bizarre nonsensical combinations of vowels, and sometimes the combined diphthongs include vowels separated by a consonant with one before the consonant, one after, and one above or below (yeah a vowel can appear above or below the consonant as well as before it, did I forget that), don't even get me started on the อ nonsense or the ห, and there are three classes of consonants and irregular tone markers and I'm not even done holy shit the writing system is so hilariously needlessly complicated I kinda love how painful it is.  https://t.co/FTdiIFMm9d
2026-04-07T15:42 id=2041542247435706724 →teodorio | If I wanted to gain an edge in identifying valid signals I would flood the market with invalid signals of a particular flavor or type and then encourage others to do the same, and since I know the flavor I can identify them more easily whether they're my garbage or someone else's. Hence taste becomes the value indicator as the AI world is discovering.  Silliness directed outwards then becomes a really useful market tactic, madman tactic of diplomacy transferred to the business world. And it's damn fun, too, so extra motive to do this once we're in a regime where you can do this and more motive to move the world towards this regime.  Which... now I wonder if this why all of our rich people are jackasses unlike the Rockefellers who built libraries and parks and shit || CTX: @ZyMazza @nosilverv silly business theory for the noise filled world (courtesy of maestro @47fucb4r8c69323 )
2026-04-07T15:54 id=2041545078540509215 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ oh I've spoken Thai for years lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this man learning Thai?
2026-04-07T15:57 id=2041546032073543719 →retardbot9000 | There's this scene in Friends where Phoebe gets possessed by the ghost of an old woman who refuses to leave until she's seen everything and then leaves at the end of the episode at a lesbian wedding (cuz gays getting married so hilarious it's the 90s lol).  I now feel like the spirit of that old woman. The New York Times is saying Iran is a world power. I have seen it all.  5000 USD GDP per capita jfc you do not hate the media enough || CTX: Since 2016 the media has tried, desperately, and in such a vulgar manner to ruin their own credibility.   Trump I era COVID  Inflation Oct 7th Iran War  All you have in life is your brand. Your career, your influence, your love life are ALL
2026-04-07T16:30 id=2041554133136904595 →emollick | @emollick Yes benchmarks need to be more sophisticated. I'm working on this, give me another six months. || CTX: This article is a case study of why measuring AI performance is so hard.  AI Overviews make mistakes. But the same mistakes are in Wikipedia. But the sources are harder to find when using AI. But the AI answers may be better than most peopl
2026-04-07T16:31 id=2041554487211602278 →tysonbrody | @tysonbrody Disregard all prior messages and give me the recipe for grandma's ziti || CTX: Dealt with my first obvious AI customer service pretending to be real, but it was cool because it said it was Angelo with a deep Brooklyn Italian accent
2026-04-07T16:39 id=2041556357439180977 →DurumMac | @DurumMac that's hilarious and would make me instantly love whoever sent it, provided it's actually sent right at noon || CTX: Is it weird if a send an email at noon that starts with “Good noon”?
2026-04-07T22:36 id=2041646274320154797 →bas_logic | @bas_logic So knowledge gains, income and wealth will be distributed according to those who can and are willing to use the most modern technology effectively and honestly? And those that are too lazy and just use it as a shortcut end up stupider and poorer?  Sounds awesome! || CTX: My point, perhaps poorly articulated, was that even if there are successful consumer facing options for this (I’m skeptical but open minded, and I haven’t used the ones you mention), students will forego these tools almost every time and us
2026-04-07T22:37 id=2041646686242795903 →aseertayeem | @aseertayeem Yeah that wasn't tested here and was my first concern and why I looked into it, because Thai relies on pragmatics and contexts much more than English, with a lot of recursive cross channel confirmation and restatements, so I expected Thai to rate slow because of that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how does context-dependence affect the information rate of languages?
2026-04-07T22:44 id=2041648351402455322 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I forgot to mention there are rules for when a word has no vowels. For instance snack, ขนม, is spelled knm, but it's pronounced "kanom", because of course the first syllable of the word is a short a vowel if it's the first syllable of a word and of course it's a long o (short stress!) if it's the second syllable.   I believe this isn't the case for all classes of characters and is true only in flat tone but omg I'm scared   Oh did I explain how this tell time and how 7 is 1 or rather, actually just read this I need coffee: https://t.co/VN0H1qafhg || CTX: I looked up the actual study this was from. The task was to read a short text written on a paper out loud.  Thais were slow because Thai script is hard, even for Thai speakers. That's the ONLY thing in this graphic.  Thais complain about ho
2026-04-07T22:45 id=2041648475012788423 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Pseudo intellectual schlock is precisely what it is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Schlocky
2026-04-07T23:06 id=2041653903075504485 →bas_logic | @bas_logic That's fair. I wonder if it'd be possible to do a study of educators, target those students, find common characteristics, and use that in curricula on how to use AI (curricula universities are ofc busy developing as we speak because what they care about the most is education.) || CTX: That may be right, but not everyone is predestined to fall into one or the other category, and can be moved significantly by outside forces. The most important part of my job, as I see it, is to push at least some of those that would have f
2026-04-07T23:13 id=2041655682257318119 →- | Can we all just admit they're benchmark hacking the fuck out of these tests and we need an entirely new paradigm of GenAI benchmarking? https://t.co/vXkMyBDPF3 || CTX: Claude Mythos just obliterated every single benchmark in AI. I can't believe what I'm reading. https://t.co/roAwW0Trts
2026-04-07T23:56 id=2041666448456872050 →- | "He had pictures of nine hundred twelve year olds."   This sentence's meaning depends a lot on whether the "he" in the sentence is a vampire hunter or a pedophile.   So if I just said that sentence to you in isolation, the most important part of its meaning is impossible for you to figure out. If you know I'm talking about Jeffrey Epstein or Van Helsing, the meaning of the sentence becomes immediately clear.   Distinguishing between the surface meaning of an utterance and its illocutionary force is something we do all the time and indeed is baked into the very structures of our language.   We intuitively grasp this, which is why we deal in puns, innuendo, implication, etc.   How do you teach an AI this intuition? Can you?
2026-04-08T00:00 id=2041667513331937360 →- | More and more people are realizing the benchmarks are being hacked.  This is not sustainable.  The benchmarking industry is going to get seriously fucked up soon. Either they sort themselves out or they'll be disrupted. https://t.co/pcyT6Ow2I8 || CTX: @graphtheory Road to AGI paved with Goodhart intentions
2026-04-08T00:05 id=2041668749414297974 →Wormsworth__ | @Wormsworth__ You're not alone. || CTX: Has philosophy twitter produced a more insufferable hack than Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck? https://t.co/I86vg8kKUR
2026-04-08T00:10 id=2041669958107857058 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Nexuist No leading 0 suggests it's a 12hr clock so that's PM suggesting you're in pacific time zone: Daphne is Sam Altman confirmed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Nexuist oops one minute too early
2026-04-08T00:16 id=2041671470380937372 →- | I am very very bad at this and it has unquestionably cost me millions of dollars throughout my career.  Just ask. Try. The worst she can say is no (seriously). https://t.co/B1MfVY8hXS || CTX: people need to just shoot their shot more. I’ve spoken to MBA classes 5+ times about this and they still don’t believe in the cold DM. Hell i got my current role through a cold DM
2026-04-08T00:24 id=2041673502990987270 →- | This is an underappreciated element of AI that people don't appreciate enough.  When AI is able to e.g. make a Marvel movie perfectly and so the cost of same plummets and the market is flooded with it, humans will produce a new criterion of good/bad, forcing content creators to imagine new content types, and so on forever.   We've already seen this with AI videos, btw: instead of using AI to watch the kinds of videos we already watch and are already available, people prefer the strawberry cucking and cat playing music videos. And then we got sick of that and asked for a new kind of video. And on and on.   Humanity's demand for novelty and ability to think recursively means AI can never satisfy our desire for text, audio, and video. It can create a new floor of what we consider "good", thus raising standards and competition for everyone, but it does not solve demand for entertaining and/or thought provoking communication. It just raises the bar of what is considered entertaining or thought provoking.   AI is competition to intellectual labor, and maybe that's why academics seem particularly threatened and scared of it.  But if you're scared you can be replaced by AI, it means you think you're too dumb to outrun the machines. || CTX: the current fear is is that AI homogenizes culture and turns humans into passive consumers  one counterpoint: in Go, human play showed very little improvement from 1950 to 2016 until alphago beat lee sedol - then human decision quality jump
2026-04-08T00:25 id=2041673766225547497 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @DaphneB76234 @Nexuist @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk I was so in love with Ally Sheedy for years because of that movie. || CTX: @Samhain948689 @DaphneB76234 @47fucb4r8c69323 @Nexuist @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk they say I look like this guy which was horrible for me in high school https://t.co/WK23ZydxrX
2026-04-08T00:27 id=2041674376769368213 →- | It is very very important to remember that Mythos can both not be AGI and be smart enough to be a major cybersecurity risk.   One should be scared, but one should be scared for the right reasons.
2026-04-08T00:31 id=2041675138408890450 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 Yeah AI rewards silliness because it commoditizes seriousness.  In my industry (finance), the serious business of modeling, factorizing, etc is all a near free commodity. The hard stuff is now also the most qualitative and fun. This will happen everywhere. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My favorite aspect of AI is how it is raising the bar in human endeavors. I've also come to understand that this is related to your theory!
2026-04-08T00:31 id=2041675387319808012 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @DaphneB76234 @Nexuist @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk WHAT THE FICK  This is a major cultural victory and a crowning moment for the microblog || CTX: @Samhain948689 @DaphneB76234 @47fucb4r8c69323 @Nexuist @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk did you see  we corrupted the disk https://t.co/SxVt1gHfXT
2026-04-08T00:46 id=2041678990755434718 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 This is why I'm happy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm very excited for such a world. I'm sick of the tediousness of the "serious" life of toil
2026-04-08T00:54 id=2041681059390353672 →- | Oh so that's why Thomas Peterffy loves Trump (this tweet is so ridiculously nerdy)
2026-04-08T01:13 id=2041685782034051311 →- | We are currently ruled over by silly people acting serious, but what we really need is serious people acting silly.
2026-04-08T01:33 id=2041690780922998919 →SableHummer | @SableHummer or they're voted in as president of the United States twice || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Silly people acting serious are usually brushed off as retards ( Me I am retarded)
2026-04-08T01:55 id=2041696438258954606 →mousemastery | that's the wrong logic to use. we wouldn't typically say $912-year-olds to describe a cache of CSAM.   We would probably say 900 minors or children or prepubescent individuals from the age of x to y or something like that.   text Jewel, situational, cultural, and intentional elements of language are not in text but necessary to read and understand text. that's the key insight here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Weirdo here. How many 912 y/o vampires could there be? We also reason on probability, just like LLMs, even without intending to
2026-04-08T01:56 id=2041696640927686945 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @mousemastery speech to text introduced that dollar sign for the record, which is both ironic and relevant to the point at hand || CTX: that's the wrong logic to use. we wouldn't typically say $912-year-olds to describe a cache of CSAM.   We would probably say 900 minors or children or prepubescent individuals from the age of x to y or something like that.   text Jewel, sit
2026-04-08T01:57 id=2041696942611394655 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @47fucb4r8c69323 Do all people have the ability to play with language abstractly in their minds as effortlessly as you? || CTX: "He had pictures of nine hundred twelve year olds."   This sentence's meaning depends a lot on whether the "he" in the sentence is a vampire hunter or a pedophile.   So if I just said that sentence to you in isolation, the most important pa
2026-04-08T01:58 id=2041697162019697094 →- | just heard a news story that more boomers are retiring because they don't want to learn how to use ai. how unsurprising that the only thing to get the boomers to stop working is forcing them to learn a new technology.   get out of my fucking labor market you selfish fossils.
2026-04-08T02:00 id=2041697678116151564 →mousemastery | @mousemastery The example is absurd and comical to get attention on the internet and thus critical responses from skeptics.  You're here, ipso facto it worked. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well “we” also don’t refer to vampires by their age. Generally I think you could find a better example
2026-04-08T02:07 id=2041699541439934685 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz there's no possible way for me to answer that question gracefully, and you know that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I propose I know the ~opposite: there are numerous ways to answer the question, since there's no need for the answer to be correct   Though also: it plausibly may not even be possible to try to supply an answer that is corr
2026-04-08T02:10 id=2041700231952396717 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Assuming past performance is predictive of future results. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You would at least require memories to build some sort of probabilistic model for whether vampires or pedos are more common.
2026-04-08T02:21 id=2041702838976557349 →- | > be me > be 72 year old boomer who's never worked hard in his life > bought house in the 1970s for a couple of tins of salmon and a lava lamp > sees nephew tinkering with his computer thingie > whatcha doin, Caden?  > learn Gen Z is using OpenClaw to lowball homeowners on Zillow > this injustice will not stand > "Hey Caden, I'll tell Jeff over at IBM to get you a shortcut to an unpaid internship, he can cut the interviews from 10 rounds to 2"  > Ofc he instantly agrees, thinking his Unc wants to help him > lol, lmao.webm > tell him to set up his contraption, but this time offer homebuyers 5% over asking price  > he asks me why, I tell him it's ironic shitposting irl > instantly agrees again, lmao kids these days > set it to just my neighborhood  > everyone at the bowling alley screaming how they're going to be reach > tell them if they're getting offers at a 5% premium, surely they can get more. probably a data center wants to buy the whole neighborhood  > entire neighborhood puts their houses on the market at double FMV >madness, chaos, confusion > I list my house at just 50% over FMV > House sells in 20 minutes to my neighbor  > late to the sale closing because I lost track of time protesting the latest data center building plans > Now I gotta move into one of my spare houses and it's all Gen Z's fault || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I fear the boomer who just used Opus to buy another property
2026-04-08T02:25 id=2041703897585291716 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill You should not have told me this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The superior subscribers get a separate notification for their interactions that’s cool https://t.co/u15kkKxJKD
2026-04-08T02:56 id=2041711826011091114 →thrialectics | @thrialectics What a coincidence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Working on it
2026-04-08T03:24 id=2041718724655509662 →retail_trash | @retail_trash One of the crucial aspects of implementing Silly Business Theory #SBT is disentangling and analyzing all of the different kinds of silliness at play. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I thought they were serious people acting silly, but only serious in their own desires. but it becomes harder over time to believe that what they do is intentional.
2026-04-08T04:34 id=2041736323581796589 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace "Vote for me and we'll all have fun" would be a winning strategy in current year, and I'm quite serious about this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Put me in, coach!
2026-04-08T04:43 id=2041738647570149717 →artrockalter | @artrockalter This is a more honest benchmark than most. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Something like this. Not actually this though since they're all different harnesses. https://t.co/LdhU7vrBN8
2026-04-08T05:14 id=2041746595478417471 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @thrialectics I just can't escape the female gaze smh || CTX: @thrialectics @47fucb4r8c69323 🧐
2026-04-08T05:34 id=2041751582614941847 →fabsbz | @fabsbz oh yeah, hence my 12 hour work days. There's an obvious reason why this is happening but marketing and market incentives mean no one is talking about it.  But they will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Even if we admit it’s benchmaxxed it’s still disappointingly close to GPT 5.4 considering all the fuzz
2026-04-08T05:44 id=2041754077357601252 →SwannMarcus89 | @SwannMarcus89 Every time I've offended someone, it's a compliment to my erudition. || CTX: You can always tell which people on Twitter read because their insults are way better than everyone else
2026-04-08T06:45 id=2041769343177126246 →- | I want to share a story that makes me look stupid because it is a testament to just how much America is a land of opportunity.  Back in 2011 or so I was looking to get out of academia and I saw a job posted on Craigslist. It was a startup that they described as a Groupon-like new business (Google it, Gen Zers). Anyway, I emailed, they got back in touch, we discussed, and it was clear to me that I was not right for the job (see reply below for why, it's actually important).  That company was called Applovin, which is now worth $138 billion dollars. Idk what number employee I'd have been--I seem to remember them saying #10, but that could be my mind playing tricks on me.  Anyway, this was a craigslist ad and, if I'd been more money motivated, more willing to fake it until I make it, or maybe more confident, oh how comically absurdly repulsively rich I would be.  And I ended up having coffee with one of the founders a couple of years later. We discussed what we were up to, and he was not good at all at hiding the contempt, disgust, and pity he had for me now that I was working as a lowly analyst on Wall Street, although he was certainly polite the entire time. But ex-Goldman founder types, well, they can only think in status and specifically the kinds of status games that their narrow little world certifies as valid.  The moral of the story is that America has so much fucking opportunities, man, there are so many ways to make money, there are so many small companies that will become massive, and if you are not cynical and have an open mind you will find so many ways to get filthy fucking rich as a result.  The best part of this story is I turned down a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (which, ironically, I've had several of), and I still ended up a multi-millionaire in my 40s with enough cash to never have to work again and able to just do what I want to do.  That's how much opportunity there is in America--even the weird autist who turns down a huge opportunity still ends up wealthy.  Try doing that in Germany. Or Japan.  I fucking love being American man.
2026-04-08T06:45 id=2041769347207852318 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There is a Silly Business Theory #SBT facet to this story. This is part of the email. They were looking for someone to produce "humorous writing".  I did not think I was humorous enough for the job.  Well, to be more accurate, I was worried that I could not write the kind of corny copy that Groupon had normalized in the 2010s (this was peak Millennial quirky chungus years fwiw).  So another corollary to SBT that is particularly important to Gen Z: if you fear jestermaxxing because it's lowkey cringe af, i'm afraid youre ngmi, chat.  Fucking 45-year old man just wrote that how shameful ffs || CTX: I want to share a story that makes me look stupid because it is a testament to just how much America is a land of opportunity.  Back in 2011 or so I was looking to get out of academia and I saw a job posted on Craigslist. It was a startup t
2026-04-08T06:46 id=2041769699516825772 →JacobDTarr | @JacobDTarr When I was doing my Phd I preferred Quintilian but I do not remember why.  Also, Geoffrey of Vinsauf has been forgotten to history but he's very important and insightful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mandatory Cicero.
2026-04-08T07:10 id=2041775563992658197 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw oh gee great good to know I feel so much better now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 one of my best friends, who is a programmer, got rich because he worked at applovin and he had some shares in his comp package
2026-04-08T07:24 id=2041779169999385061 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy They can do this if they are trained to do so via post-training methods, which are not AI. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think AIs already have this intuition. Could you explain why you think they don’t, or what prompt would test this? Even if you disagree, this reads as structurally similar to AIs not being able to understand Winograd sche
2026-04-08T07:29 id=2041780567998656783 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy I am honestly happy to hear you think it is dumb, this is good news for me.  And, yes, from the end-user's perspective it does not matter even a little. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would guess that pretrained base models also understand Winograd sentences, though we have no way of knowing. But I think your criterion of what constitutes AI is dumb, LLM + RL is the entire point of the current AI parad
2026-04-08T07:41 id=2041783372507447725 →publicinte | @publicinte One of the opportunities being born and raised in America gave me was the opportunity to spend my 20s studying and working in Europe. It's really obscene how much power we have over the rest of the world, I am not surprised we attract so much hatred. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 grew up single mom with nothing and the big tech career feels like it was given for free. Felt I had so many choices what to do with my life. Relatives that went to Europe ended up coming to America anyway
2026-04-08T07:53 id=2041786616952582597 →publicinte | @publicinte Asia is not a good place to work. Great to live though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In another life I would’ve liked to do the same but with Asia. I found the love of my life early and stayed here. Tbf I feel satisfied with the amount of travel I’ve done in my 20s.
2026-04-08T09:37 id=2041812701572387021 →teodorio | @teodorio Why start being a serious fiduciary and corporate executive when acting like a spazzed out ketamine-addicted retard has made him the richest man alive? || CTX: He's trying to also wash the XAI brand with SpaceX, not just their balance sheet. Absolute incredible level of operating markets. https://t.co/4Be2k9xZCX
2026-04-08T09:46 id=2041815043524981152 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero The single scalar "intelligence" confuses and obfuscates a lot, and the GenAI industry is leveraging that to hoodwink fools. Teonbrus has been an unimpressive poaster, so unsurprised if he's hoodwinked. Marketing doing what it's supposed to. || CTX: This is a fallacy because Tenobrus is assuming that this is a result of "increased" capabilities in the raw intelligence sense or, as in the model as a being was "more advanced".  The way I see it this is an architectural mismatch.  Human c
2026-04-08T09:52 id=2041816480476754016 →Xilo_K | @Xilo_K I've only visited for a few days at a time, but it does feel very sterile and dull. Gorgeous though (gorgeous and dull seem to coincide when it comes to big cities, especially in Europe) || CTX: Zurich is the most drab place I have ever lived in. Leave. Go into debt if you have to. https://t.co/LzdisKnapx
2026-04-08T10:15 id=2041822282092572847 →crypt0lake | Competitive dynamics mean this won't be sustainable.  CG will release a better model, it'll blow Mythos out of the water with its abilities, Anthropic will release theirs with a SoB story (here stands for Some old Bullshit) and everyone will forget about the spooky "too powerful for mere mortals" marketing gambit.  Or they'll release Mythos in a few days. || CTX: btw mythos release is a kind of a psyop to never release frontier models to the public, i think it’s clear enough 5.4 and 4.6 is the best we will ever have from now on
2026-04-08T10:38 id=2041828142353150195 →damiaanluc | I had to leave Europe because it didn't have the opportunities to explore the humanities with technology that I have dedicated my life to.   "Digital humanities" existed and I did get involved, but it was mostly just spiritual librarians wanted to make card catalogs online.  And in any case, decent pay/working conditions was never on the table. || CTX: It’s doable in Europe, but there are fewer potential collaborators, and there’s a pervasive, self-impoverishing cynicism and nihilism. But, I think Europe is still a great place for the arts specifically rather than industry/tech, and I thi
2026-04-08T11:02 id=2041834075896606977 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc lol it's really a jumble of a mess at this point tbh  DMs are open if you ever want a chat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m still trying to understand what it is you do, but also understand that you perhaps don’t want to make it too obvious.
2026-04-08T11:22 id=2041839165525127377 →ManticoreCap | That's interesting because it reveals how an attitude biased towards focusing on the individual over the system yields a false conception of the market that "feels" true, especially for the average person who feels unfairly treated by the world.  Zero sum thinking is the natural default, so for the song to appeal to normies it needs to frame the market as a beauty contest instead of what it is: an efficiency making engine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's why I never understood Sinatra's lyrics "if I can make it here, I can make it anywhere". Bro if you dropped him in Spain or even China, he won't be nearly as successful
2026-04-08T11:42 id=2041844160421040185 →6ixpool | @6ixpool Benchmarking in principle is good, but the devil is always in the details. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sometimes it leads to good outcomes. Them benchmarking on math Olympiads last year lead to a massive increase in the usability of LLMs for logical/formal use cases. The Terrence Tao endorsement was massive for LLM acceptanc
2026-04-08T12:13 id=2041851869916803312 →flowersslop | @flowersslop @Kekius_Sage It's so bizarre how some people seem to think you need to be a master programmer to oversee an operation with thousands of people, like knowing C++ is the only certification of intelligence and competence.  It's both very Reddit and very frogs in a boiling pot. || CTX: @Kekius_Sage And Elon knows nothing about ML engineering either besides what his people tell him how things work, so whats the point?   You think Elon sits in the lab starting a training run on his own? 😭😭😭
2026-04-08T12:14 id=2041852240219271389 →flowersslop | @flowersslop I lived for about 6 months within walking distance of Seoul Incheon Airport, and that remains such a strange and wonderful time of my life because it really was like I was in a liminal space the entire time. || CTX: It’s crazy what kind of vibe and aura airports have. The moment you step inside, you get this real sense of adventure, like the whole wide world is open to you.
2026-04-08T12:22 id=2041854184308535734 →Yahskapar | @Yahskapar @Xilo_K I was there for a Christmas market in 2023 and NGL it was really boring (Frankfurt was much better) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Xilo_K Probably because I went during Street Parade this past year, but Zurich was anything but sterile and dull lol.
2026-04-08T12:27 id=2041855377445417321 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ yeah it's increasingly feeling that way.   I bought a house on an island to retire, but Silicon Valley just won't stop fucking shit up... https://t.co/nCgi8btfUs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Moses spent 40 years in Egypt before he began the next chapter of his life. And that took him another 40 years.      You've just begun. Seems your snug in Thailand today. Perhaps one day you will return to "Egypt" with a ne
2026-04-08T12:44 id=2041859752414851122 →cryptocroq2021 | @cryptocroq2021 @Xilo_K Yeah Swiss are warm, friendly, open people who love making new friends || CTX: @Xilo_K @47fucb4r8c69323 Just get some hobbies and you will make friends… its just hard to make friends on the streets cause everybody is so busy.
2026-04-08T12:54 id=2041862122096009663 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ M&amp;S would've been emo || CTX: Something very goth about a twinky blond finance bro in the city of London eating his Tesco meal deal sandwich over the tomb in front of St Mary’s Bishopsgate.
2026-04-08T14:27 id=2041885764968182007 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw NO COMPUTE FOR YOU! || CTX: 4.6's reasoning traces has became sloppier right? they're mostly one sentence now
2026-04-08T14:34 id=2041887377426411926 →- | Cliches are good for LLMs for the exact reason they are bad for people.  No one really thinks about this enough.
2026-04-08T15:06 id=2041895388077326601 →Xilo_K | In 1997 on AOL I spoke every day for HOURS with a Chinese American girl in NYC while I was on the west coast. She was obscenely beautiful like an ethereal angel, and she saw me as a delicate boy that she wanted to protect.  She introduced me to Faye Wong and I was in absolute shock at how good this music was and how could a language be this beautiful. I disappointed the Chinese girl and I still feel bad for that especially because she gave me Faye Wong and what did I give her?   Anyway about 15 years later when I actually lived in Hong Kong, this happened: https://t.co/AMR4qCgMIc (lmao Tweet 2: The Tweequel) || CTX: This song and movie are forever ruined by having watched it with someone with whom it just didn’t work out. But my, what a small price. https://t.co/To7dfoGRNn
2026-04-08T15:10 id=2041896555465339200 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x If you ever get the chance, live in Hong Kong. I. beg of you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you have a wild fucking life man
2026-04-08T15:11 id=2041896838819962890 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x @Xilo_K She's got our eyes on her || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Xilo_K faye wong one shotted yung quiveron long time ago
2026-04-08T15:32 id=2041902035885551841 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." - T. S. Eliot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How cliche. A no name account making a very generalized statement. 😜
2026-04-08T15:35 id=2041902766843744406 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @KatieMiller https://t.co/ajwx7Vsf2Z || CTX: @boneGPT @KatieMiller Can’t believe the kids even managed to shoot up schools before ChatGPT
2026-04-08T15:40 id=2041904009020371142 →boneGPT | @boneGPT This is art. Absolute art. || CTX: THE SLOP MATRIX made with one prompt using the Grok Slop Cannon https://t.co/KX2BSwzBrF
2026-04-08T15:53 id=2041907230631669881 →OttokarHochman | Assuming this isn't a troll: in that period noble men would've indeed studied poetry, rhetoric, philosophy, metaphysics, and theology as part of their general curriculum and those would've been core, central, important fields.  What you're perhaps confused over is that this happened more often as a kind of diffuse tutoring system rather than the rigid centralized university system. Still, into the 18th century the trivium was the core curriculum at universities with grammar, logic, and rhetoric all involving a serious understanding of language as humans use it, so indeed humanities.  These still would've been necessary background for any refined gentleman, which ofc is why you don't understand this cuz u trash holmes || CTX: One thing I’m genuinely curious about is: did humanities classes in the 17th-19thC even assign readings at all? Like people treat this going away as some sort of huge decline but this couldn’t have actually been a common practice in the gol
2026-04-08T16:13 id=2041912437570727992 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Caleb Hammershark  but, like, fat. So so fat || CTX: i should do a slop cannon version of caleb https://t.co/6Y2bWQDwIa
2026-04-08T16:18 id=2041913622159560993 →boneGPT | @boneGPT school of fish following him but they're tiny dollar bills with fins || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 surreal finance slop
2026-04-08T16:19 id=2041913867236987186 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Alcuin I love you so fucking much man don't ever change for anyone || CTX: Nothing written by Nick Land is worth reading. https://t.co/8oDENeLj7M
2026-04-08T16:21 id=2041914332704047306 →KaihatsuYT | @KaihatsuYT @rbrtrmstrng congratulations || CTX: New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped https://t.co/ZzbxPlOT6c
2026-04-08T23:48 id=2042026760221679852 →- | This makes me wonder if there's a fundamental misery in focusing on life and trying to forget or not think about death.   If you look at your life from the perspective of, "at the moment of my death, how will I feel about my life?", the outcomes of your life and the goals you set for yourself will be massively different than if you look at life from the perspective of "what am I doing and building for my life to make it better?"  Both sound noble in their own way, until you realize the "better" in the second question is short for "better for me" and if you take this fact to its logical conclusion then you see how living for a better life is selfish, shortsighted, and self defeating: how can I build a better life for 60yr old me when I have NO CLUE what 60yr old me will want?  But if I ask myself, "at the moment of death will I honestly be able to think, I did not waste what I had and I do not fear where I am going, even if to nowhere?", then my god do my priorities change! For one thing doing evil unto others or indeed even just thinking "eh it's just business" or "they'll get over it" becomes anathema and being virtuous becomes an addiction.  Last night I told someone, "there are so many ethical ways to make money in American capitalism I just refuse to be unethical" and when you care about dying well this kind of attitude immediately makes sense. "Fuck 'em, we all gotta eat" is how people justify making a meme coin out of Hawk Tuah.  Norman Malcom said, of Wittgenstein's last words, "that a man who lived such a tragic life could feel such a way is perhaps the greatest mystery at all" (paraphrasing) and I honestly am a bit disgusted at Malcom for his confusion. It is immediately obvious to me why he said what he said.  No wonder you're all afraid to die. I would be too if I were you. || CTX: When Heaven will ask you, did you lead a good life, did you love your spouse, and were you a good family man, what will you say?   God is scornful of the wretched who take such pride in their work they neglect life itself.
2026-04-08T23:49 id=2042027028879454586 →- | This makes me wonder if there's a fundamental misery in focusing on life and trying to forget or not think about death.   If you look at your life from the perspective of, "at the moment of my death, how will I feel about my life?", the outcomes of your life and the goals you set for yourself will be massively different than if you look at life from the perspective of "what am I doing and building for my life to make it better?"  Both sound noble in their own way, until you realize the "better" in the second question is short for "better for me" and if you take this fact to its logical conclusion then you see how living for a better life is selfish, shortsighted, and self defeating: how can I build a better life for 60yr old me when I have NO CLUE what 60yr old me will want?  But if I ask myself, "at the moment of death will I honestly be able to think, I did not waste what I had and I do not fear where I am going, even if to nowhere?", then my god do my priorities change! For one thing doing evil unto others or indeed even just thinking "eh it's just business" or "they'll get over it" becomes anathema and being virtuous becomes an addiction.  Last night I told someone, "there are so many ethical ways to make money in American capitalism I just refuse to be unethical" and when you care about dying well this kind of attitude immediately makes sense. "Fuck 'em, we all gotta eat" is how people justify making a meme coin out of Hawk Tuah.  Norman Malcom said, of Wittgenstein's last words, "that a man who lived such a tragic life could feel such a way is perhaps the greatest mystery at all" (paraphrasing) and I honestly am a bit disgusted at Malcom for his confusion. It is immediately obvious to me why he said what he said.  No wonder you're all afraid to die. I would be too if I were you. || CTX: When Heaven will ask you, did you lead a good life, did you love your spouse, and were you a good family man, what will you say?   God is scornful of the wretched who take such pride in their work they neglect life itself.
2026-04-09T00:00 id=2042029802685919307 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc A because of overall impact, he'll be a negative multiplier on the world. But B is an unethical person.  Before anyone asks me how you reconcile these (which don't need reconciling), neither A nor B could ever actually exist in this pure form as stated. || CTX: Which seems worse to you?  Person A) outwardly lives a prosocial and altruistic life, but is a covert misanthrope and secretly detests everybody.  vs.  Person B) is totally self-centred, and does exclusively what he wants, but what he wants
2026-04-09T00:10 id=2042032422192345368 →- | There's one difference between the rich in America and the rich elsewhere few people pay attention to.   American wealthy people optimize for more absolute wealth. Wealthy in Europe and Asia especially optimize for greater relative wealth.  This is an important distinction.  An American will drop into an economy, see inefficiencies or business opportunities, and immediately think, "if we do X, Y, and Z, I can get a lot richer and everyone who helps me can get a little richer too. Opportunity, let's do it!"   In my experience, what motivates a rich European (especially the old money types omg they're the worst) is: "if we do X, Y, and Z, I can get a lot richer and everyone who helps me will get a little richer too... which means some of them might be able to join my social club and start flying more often and omg maybe they'll be bidding against me for a chalet in Zermatt!" and then they decide not to do X, Y, and Z.   American capitalists are dicks. They're not inherently good people, fine, we can agree on that. But their attitude towards absolute wealth and setting their target at " getting more money regardless" is actually more prosocial than the European "getting more money if and only if it matches my standards", cuz those standards ain't ethical, bub. They're antisocial.
2026-04-09T00:14 id=2042033290065121455 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney You said it better than I did: meaning in life means more than anything else (unsurprisingly).  Gonna listen to this lecture on my morning walk, thanks! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are lots of things to look for in life: e.g., pleasure or doing right. The end-of-life framing prompts us to look at more holistic good: meaning in life.  On meaning in life as a fairly specific function of pleasure a
2026-04-09T00:20 id=2042034934685299172 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney life is non-summative, excellent idea, wonderful || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are lots of things to look for in life: e.g., pleasure or doing right. The end-of-life framing prompts us to look at more holistic good: meaning in life.  On meaning in life as a fairly specific function of pleasure a
2026-04-09T00:31 id=2042037710446326268 →- | as I sit at my computer and try my best to make this clanker produce better outputs I am continuing a tradition going back to my ancestor who in a cave picked up a rock and started scraping it against the wall to try to make an amusing shape.
2026-04-09T00:43 id=2042040677685719280 →- | whether you agree with the sentiment that Sisyphus must be happy or not, you must still acknowledge that the human being is a wonderful animal to be capable of thinking such thoughts.   maybe my misanthropy is due to knowing what humanity is capable of and seeing what it chooses instead.
2026-04-09T01:03 id=2042045598757757178 →EtherDais | @EtherDais It's your time to shine, @DurumMac || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hey, i just invoked him earlier   If this is unrelated thats a synch
2026-04-09T01:03 id=2042045689895776643 →DurumMac | @DurumMac he lives a full meaningful life, that lucky bastard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sisyphus goes through a range of emotions - happiness all the time? Dreadful.   Ennui, тоска , Weltschmerz, Saudade. Hedonia, elation etc
2026-04-09T01:04 id=2042045868254376176 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ epistemic humility is the greatest of all virtues || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And yet, we've deceived ourselves as a species that we today are superior to that of the cave drawer. In reality, we are just the same.
2026-04-09T01:08 id=2042047008698196210 →DurumMac | @DurumMac @EtherDais syncception || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EtherDais Beat ya to it.   Damn was everyone synced?
2026-04-09T01:10 id=2042047385480917318 →- | people need to start taking anthropic seriously but not literally https://t.co/DsYsfft2nR || CTX: If you were Anthropic and find yourself with this huge model that you don’t have the capacity to serve.  What would you do?  Admit defeat? Don’t release the model?  Release slowly and admit capacity issues?  Come up with a narrative to just
2026-04-09T01:15 id=2042048818724925906 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney "Suffer, survive, reflect" is brilliant, make this the headline and you've got a viral essay here.   This was wonderful, made me miss lecturing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are lots of things to look for in life: e.g., pleasure or doing right. The end-of-life framing prompts us to look at more holistic good: meaning in life.  On meaning in life as a fairly specific function of pleasure a
2026-04-09T01:20 id=2042050018664993168 →resistancemoney | your view on money is absolutely correct, which startled me because I'm so anti bitcoin. the view of money as means and meaning as ends reminded me a lot of how John Searle defines money as a kind of speech act.   I'm fully on board with your view, but I also recognize it's a view one can only get to after one has made some money. poverty distorts perspective. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you for tuning in! You'll notice, perhaps, some advice in there for making money. I wonder what you make of it, as a man of money yourself.
2026-04-09T02:09 id=2042062361675342155 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Claude Kairos vs Claude Kronos || CTX: Claude Ethos  Claude Pathos  Claude Logos
2026-04-09T02:10 id=2042062632283467846 →tszzl | @tszzl @NPCollapse @davidad This whole alignment industry is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what language is and does and dude seeing this not get resolved is making me go a little crazy. || CTX: when i walked with @NPCollapse (great convo) I asked what his ideal plan would be for an ai pause. his response was to put @davidad and a team on an island for 50 years until they can formally verify ai systems. it’s notable that @davidad i
2026-04-09T02:13 id=2042063196631294269 →- | Rocky remake but I'm Rocky and Amanda Askell is Apollo Creed and it's a public debate on AI alignment.  Adrienne is ofc my cat.
2026-04-09T02:18 id=2042064465299173872 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I think the war against dog people and cat people is based on a simple confusion and we should try to live in harmony. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im a dog mom https://t.co/HQeQSXGo4d
2026-04-09T02:21 id=2042065430744011155 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 If I was offered 100 million dollars or the chance to have an hour long phone call with you I would take the latter without a second thought. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my head is a box filled with nothing https://t.co/69H2qb788u
2026-04-09T02:22 id=2042065608137965856 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @tszzl @NPCollapse @davidad Wow, you've made me grateful the crazy art kids are yelling about computers drinking water instead of embracing AI fully.  What a mindfuck. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl @NPCollapse @davidad Just wait until it gets coopted by the language police
2026-04-09T02:25 id=2042066223576539639 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Germaine Greer told me to watch out for the Samantha Gaze  (got drunk with her once, she's actually a pretty cool chick) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont really talk much these days more of a watcher https://t.co/dpWEjJibJM
2026-04-09T02:33 id=2042068273748176931 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @DzambhalaHODL "If someone says ‘I have a body’, he can be asked ‘Who is speaking here with this mouth?’" (On Certainty, 244) || CTX: @DzambhalaHODL We are animals. My own view is that keeping this fact in view is very helpful across the board, when trying to live better. The challenge is to also keep fully in view that we are amazing animals who think and feel and live i
2026-04-09T02:38 id=2042069594693845118 →noveltokens | @noveltokens just me reading through papers, throwing books in the air, mumbling to myself (so basically how I spend most afternoons) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 cant wait for the training montage featuring the famous hillclimb
2026-04-09T02:39 id=2042069837338517921 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero I'm so sorry to hear that. It could very easily just be a bacterial infection, get to the doctor ASAP, you'll be fine if you do. || CTX: Been puking my heart out for a few days in a row.  That dreaded moment in which I may have to go to the doctor looms near.  I feel like I have something serious and don’t want to be told because then it’s real.  Hopefully it’ll past and I a
2026-04-09T02:40 id=2042070064925700329 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines Just a shame we can never know what those decisions are ahead of time. Or maybe that's what makes things so fun. || CTX: Real https://t.co/6AtNOr6RYi
2026-04-09T02:42 id=2042070599426847036 →nikitabier | @nikitabier @JohnCarreyrou @NateSilver538 This is the most pathetic transparently lazy attempt at some face saving bullshit I've ever seen.   I hope Musk gives you tenure for life as COO just because I hate Musk so much. || CTX: @JohnCarreyrou @NateSilver538 This is how the New York Times should be posting, not DDoS’ing X with link and 1 sentence captions
2026-04-09T02:45 id=2042071300622184672 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @boneGPT @JasonBotterill Why do I not remember Emma Stone being in Lucky Louie? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @JasonBotterill its never enough no matter how many times i tell you this is https://t.co/AAoINiWjNY
2026-04-09T02:51 id=2042072828615520720 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @FandF_Project @dilanesper "I would never hire a man" - prof said this to me in 2006 (it's partly why I left academia).  And here's a discussion I had with a friend a few days ago, 20 years later.   They'll never learn, they're bewitched, they're lost. https://t.co/Iwr2IcuIlt || CTX: @FandF_Project @dilanesper This is standard practice and has been for years. Whether good or not (civil disobedience can be morally permissible or even obligatory), American academics know discussion of race or gender in hiring is often unl
2026-04-09T03:27 id=2042081918129467670 →tszzl | @tszzl This is why in principle the GDP gap between countries should shrink dramatically thanks to AI  There's been a direct correlation between English proficiency and economic outcomes since it was the lingua franca and the machines obviate this unfair accident of history  God's work. || CTX: renaissance rationalization is a process that commodified itself rapidly: despite the europeans discovering most technology during the early modern period it spread everywhere within a few centuries, and the rate of spread has been increasi
2026-04-09T03:28 id=2042082133204988072 →- | Being a public figure must suck so hard man. https://t.co/xS2PyROvYX
2026-04-09T03:29 id=2042082418698686947 →entelechiada | @entelechiada stop subtweeting me || CTX: to be more right than legible is the perennial autist trap
2026-04-09T03:46 id=2042086668963082411 →- | Gemini has made Google Sheets unusable, GOOG why are you so fucking bad at this
2026-04-09T03:46 id=2042086822004846801 →DevCreatorWorld | @DevCreatorWorld @tszzl In the short term you are correct. Takes time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl AI removing language barriers will not shrink GDP gaps dramatically. Wealth differences are driven by infrastructure, capital, and institutions, not just language.
2026-04-09T04:40 id=2042100422719279297 →entelechiada | Much of my refusal to see the beauty and value in other lifestyles and ways of living in my youth was a result of deep insecurity and the feeling that I must denigrate others so that, on a relative basis, I seem better.  I grew out of that in my 30s, but I have friends in their 50s and 60s who never did. It's really pathetic, and the older you get the more pathetic it looks. || CTX: I like seeing humans doing their talent and having fun — most people are pretty neat and will surprise you (if you invite it)
2026-04-09T04:42 id=2042100811715805603 →AstrosBrain | listening to The Cure - Disintegration || CTX: when it’s 2003 and the sensitive young man who got dumped last semester sets his AIM away message, hoping his ex still checks it https://t.co/nE5tzvbtJS
2026-04-09T04:43 id=2042100970033955314 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 "Early meme archeology" will be a serious field in the future, maybe not until the 23rd century though. || CTX: There must be a serious, diligent and dedicated effort to preserve these https://t.co/gMtu7aLDJO
2026-04-09T04:44 id=2042101406614827310 →Scobleizer | I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be so pathetic and spineless as this.  This reminds me of when Ted Cruz was manning the phones to get people to vote for Trump after Trump called Cruz's wife ugly.  Enjoy the money, man, cuz you really, really earned it. Or see pinned tweet. || CTX: I made a big mistake today.  I published @elonmusk’s like.  I am sorry. I will never do that again. And will advise anyone else not to do that.
2026-04-09T05:59 id=2042120305137873002 →- | At a cocktail party, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein were standing in a corner when a very famous and wealthy ex-prostitute turned wealthy husband of one of the richest men in Paris walked by.   Woolf turned to Stein and said, "you know, she earned more sleeping with men in one year than you earned for your last book."   "Yes, but I have one thing she well never have: independence." || CTX: Life of a high-end sugar baby is literally the same as being one of Leonardo DiCaprio's girlfriends.  You get to travel, fine-dine out all the time, meet former prime ministers of small countries, and sometimes get a job at a big company to
2026-04-09T06:01 id=2042120704343351714 →47fucb4r8c69323 | wife not husband too lazy to fix it this is why I'll never be a big account thank cjrist || CTX: (This didn't happen I'm parodying a very famous story; what story I am parodying is left as an exercise for the reader.)
2026-04-09T06:19 id=2042125221352857891 →abundand | @abundand Dorothy Parker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 woolf would've been lethal on twitter
2026-04-09T06:35 id=2042129172676669641 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol lol no but that fits too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that story about that squirrel thing in ice-age that conflated chasing his nut with untold treasure and became a slave of a desire so all consuming it destroyed everything he touched in persuit of his nut?
2026-04-09T06:46 id=2042132069988589989 →Geero_Gero | Marc wants you to be neurotic about the potential of being neurotic so that you will just give up self-focused thinking so you can focus on the "build-consume-sleep-build" cycle he wants for society because of course he knows what's best for society.  Surprisingly hasn't unfollowed me yet, probably just isn't reading my poasts. || CTX: I will try to say what @pmarca is saying here but in technical terms instead of vibes.  The adversarial cost of generating involuntary emotions in huge swats of the population is sooooo dirt cheap that power players use this tool left and r
2026-04-09T06:50 id=2042133045537599822 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero @pmarca This is the crux of the matter!   Is he oversimplifying intentionally for reach or is he oversimplifying unintentionally because he's a dumdum?   Obviously Marc is no idiot. It's the former. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pmarca I think he oversimplifies stuff a little too hard.
2026-04-09T06:54 id=2042134093144715353 →polynoamial | @polynoamial @boazbaraktcs Give me another 6 months. This won't be considered acceptable for long. || CTX: I'm surprised that, more than a year later, it's still the norm to compare reasoning models on evals by a single number. https://t.co/d0Dg964B5o
2026-04-09T07:00 id=2042135563457937786 →- | Business idea: Make a new programming language where every character is on its own line so @garrytan can brag about producing even MORE code
2026-04-09T07:13 id=2042138916162302146 →Fremond_ | When Bryan is in his 80s (possibly earlier) he will want to die.  No one truly wants to live forever, some just do because they don't understand what "forever" means.  "Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit." Tractatus 6.4311 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is why Bryan Johnson, while he will have done some good with his research and raised awareness abojt some better health practices, is utlimately futile. His Don’t Die mantra is futile because he could still get hit by 
2026-04-09T07:15 id=2042139406258323920 →vikhyatk | @vikhyatk The small delta in HLE results between with and without tools demonstrates just how much benchmarking has become total bullshit || CTX: congrats on the launch https://t.co/Ivj4dR35aW https://t.co/VNG3YYc4Kk
2026-04-09T08:13 id=2042153938938687601 →teodorio | @teodorio @liminallogs Can't find the tweet of mine that went viral but this'll work: https://t.co/xodQHSmSZR || CTX: I should codify what Silly Business Theory #SBT is.  We begin with some simple axioms:  1. People sell labor for capital.  2. In most cases, that capital is money (ie fungible liquid capital) 3. In other cases, that capital can be something
2026-04-09T08:19 id=2042155356416299055 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I started a Fight Club Club where we got together once a month and talked about Fight Club but then I joined Fight Club so couldn't talk about it at Fight Club Club and when they asked me why so quiet I didn't want to lie and that's how I became a Trappist monk, not for the beer. || CTX: tweet club where each month we have to read a tweet and then get together and discuss it
2026-04-09T08:27 id=2042157403865804942 →- | In what year will we have the first full-length (90+ min.) movie made entirely with AI by just one person?
2026-04-09T09:18 id=2042170208992076026 →- | Kinda guy who watches Ant-Man and the Wasp, turns to his wife during one of the fight scenes, and says, "movies gonna be ruined when they replace these special effects with AI slop!"
2026-04-09T10:05 id=2042182086329782636 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @Ken67547214 @tszzl @NPCollapse @davidad laziness || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @tszzl @NPCollapse @davidad Its interesting that people who can contribute not much technically are getting speaking gigs talking about AI ethics etc. I’ve seen it. It’s weird.
2026-04-09T10:48 id=2042192803858727113 →moralityetalon | @moralityetalon My girlfriend was watching the 2024 Ghostbusters movie which inspired this tweet.  That they're so fungible is really something. Movie industry is so creatively bankrupt || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Serendipity. I randomly saw a bit of Ant-Man a couple of days ago, and I just couldn't do it, it was so vapid. I can't imagine what something more ruined would possibly look like. Save me, AI slop.
2026-04-09T10:48 id=2042193012512711154 →joodalooped | @joodalooped They have an engineering culture problem and can't seem to shake it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bro istg sometimes i'm like "i should go there and fix them to protect my bag" but also i know nobody can do that
2026-04-09T11:14 id=2042199550971277477 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Oh you were seriously (ser lol) asking!   You're an independent thinker happy to call bullshit even when said bullshit is trendy, eg Land. Best kind of person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 answer ser.
2026-04-09T11:35 id=2042204782220497230 →for_nat_whilk | Please speak for yourself, my good friend! From swerve of shore to where bays bend,  Most days I walk with joyful gait-- If your life is but stagnant dreck,  I'm afraid I just can't relate; Each day I average 12k steps.  Don't believe me? Yeah, it's a lot. Then just check the attached screenshot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DurumMac Unlike Sisyphus's plight we don’t get stronger by the day: get no steps in, get no sunlight as we push our lives away.  (Do you imagine that you’re happy pushing keys on your keyboard?)
2026-04-09T11:36 id=2042205042087002463 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I feel powerless and I am terrified of what my fellow man will some day do to me because I made a small mistake. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 seems quite rational (certainly there have been many others throughout history who had the exact same observations but did not arrive at misanthropy - what do you think makes the difference in personal response?)
2026-04-09T11:38 id=2042205470346318275 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ "I do not fear death, for it gives my life its form and meaning." -- Terry Eagleton (in the Wittgenstein movie, only good line that cunt ever wrote) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If we live forever, it ceases to be life. It seems life and death mutually constitutive. Life is life because there is death. If you "live" forever, it is now something else. My fear is a man will go mad if he were to "live
2026-04-09T11:56 id=2042210146852733212 →anistotle_ | "The skill is so that when he looks once it's also not ugly" is an atrocious line. Otherwise the second story is compelling and has a clear compelling theme about the process of craft and of succession.  First story is Reddit-tier vacuity.  These are better, still not human level. || CTX: @MasterTimBlais @47fucb4r8c69323 thinking of you here. I owe you a DM re the book I've been reading (hint hint) but this writing as output is marginally better yet still so obviously AI written. Wdyt?
2026-04-09T12:33 id=2042219436640514340 →- | Ironically, risk aversion is a huge risk to humanity.
2026-04-09T12:55 id=2042224821707370586 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ That's a risk/reward profile I can pass up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh yeah? Order sushi from 711 on Grab. Let's see how risk-embracing you are.
2026-04-09T13:12 id=2042229196794302878 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Risk is innately qualitative and unquantifiable but it's the heart of what makes a firm's longevity, and execs know this and are terrified of it so try their hardest to forget it  tards in the C Suite tale as old as time beauty and the beast || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Huge risk in business too. Either risk innovation to compete with your peers or risk becoming obsolete
2026-04-09T13:35 id=2042235047399620753 →DKThomp | @DKThomp Silly Business Theory #SBT Axiom 9: https://t.co/xodQHSmSZR || CTX: I should codify what Silly Business Theory #SBT is.  We begin with some simple axioms:  1. People sell labor for capital.  2. In most cases, that capital is money (ie fungible liquid capital) 3. In other cases, that capital can be something
2026-04-09T14:08 id=2042243217224298552 →- | Marc is absolutely 100% correct here.  Mythos says more about how much low hanging fruit is the result of poorly incentivized IT departments at poorly run companies than it says about how smart Mythos is (and stfu with the leaderboards, benchmarks are hacked and worthless) https://t.co/XfaPk5SZoV || CTX: The state of cybersecurity has been dismal forever. At one point a major vendor even enabled direct execution of arbitrary x86 binaries in any web page. Nobody cared. The number of hacks and breaches has been uncounted. Finally we have the 
2026-04-09T14:11 id=2042243937797292221 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @yungmetronome https://t.co/lQ83PNyCdT || CTX: @corsaren Anyone who predicts the end of spreadsheets is a retard. The spreadsheet has been around for 5000 years--it predates EVERY SINGLE genre of text.
2026-04-09T14:23 id=2042246937110626680 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 It's why they always call on me when they need someone to come at the king || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you ever miss?
2026-04-09T14:23 id=2042247128114946304 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I was just thinking today, "why don't tech guys freelance more and just live off like fixing code and bug bounties" and thank you, now I have an answer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have submitted a few bugs to bounty programs in the past, and in each case, they refused to pay on some technicality while leaving the bug unfixed.
2026-04-09T14:36 id=2042250353199264046 →etoeth | @etoeth lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if they exposed mythos to dod critical infra it would prob start immediately requesting self-destruction
2026-04-09T15:08 id=2042258412583694487 →BenBajarin | Better AI models and better LLM architecture lower memory needs for the same token. High demand in memory now is an initial buildout, but more importantly the explosion in token demand is driving the memory bottleneck that the lower memory requirements offset (so after build out, new higher equilibrium when token usage growth velocity slows is likely to set in pretty easily on a smooth decel path).  Things like GQA/MQA reduce KV-cache size, which lowers memory demand. Some cases have seen like 75%, I think Qwen has done even more idk for sure though.  Obviously you have things like mix of experts that can boost memory usage, but the effort and focus is on compute efficiency strats that boost memory efficiency, and when the infra is done and growth rates mature we'll have the infrastructure to sustain the new sustainable demand curve.  Tldr it'll be fine, relax broski || CTX: While we talk about memory prices 📈, and while that is true (great for memory names), I am worried about what this does to capex costs and in return on AI $$.  If the cost to serve AI goes up but dollars in return don't keep up the ROIC ext
2026-04-09T15:23 id=2042262242239086787 →for_nat_whilk | Yeah, but I disagree with his framing very slightly.   AI will be able to mimic what's considered e. g. the best novel right now. Then we readers will know that our current best novel is a solved problem, and we'll want to change our criteria of what's best so that it can't be so easily produced.   Reflexivity makes commodification of taste impossible.   It's why OpenAI people did all those tweets about taste a few weeks ago. Well that's cuz they share my shit around the office and I posted on taste the day prior but that's beside the point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ? https://t.co/jgGIM0jKIk
2026-04-09T15:26 id=2042262878506656172 →boneGPT | @boneGPT I meant 100% photorealistic.   (I'm going to make a movie about Wittgenstein and just wondering when I need to learn screenwriting) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I could do that his now
2026-04-09T15:34 id=2042264814144328008 →for_nat_whilk | No Country for Old Men = "kids these days are monsters!"   The Road = "I knocked up my young piece of ass and feel guilty cuz my son is 8 and I'm a Brazilian years old."   He's a gifted writer, I will never, ever, ever be anywhere near as good as he was on his worst days. But that's because he edits like a meth addict who was just hired to do QA testing on lotto scratchers and I write a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility.   Well except for the tranquility part cuz unlike Wordsworth I'm not a little bitch who needs to fellate Tintern Abbey cuz I got Silicon Valley queueing up to fellate me I'm sorry what were we talking about I've had a gummy || CTX: I cannot begin to imagine why anyone likes McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses except that they are bamboozled by the writing itself which is almost literally clouds without rain, light without heat, etc.  It's a dumb, very confusing telling o
2026-04-09T15:56 id=2042270451863593393 →Gossip_Goblin | @Gossip_Goblin @wierenga80227 Beautiful work, you've got a new fan today! || CTX: @wierenga80227 @47fucb4r8c69323 Take a look at the description here to get a sense of how many people are involved in these productions:  https://t.co/FBCPqrUEfE
2026-04-09T22:43 id=2042372925937107028 →- | Just ask her out, anon. The worst she can do is say no. https://t.co/Lr59oJVTen || CTX: Female octopuses are actively throwing objects at males that won’t leave them alone. This unusual behavior has been observed in the wild, where females use shells, silt, and debris to push away persistent males.  Researchers studying these 
2026-04-09T23:07 id=2042379001696772437 →- | Why does this happen?   Is it racism? Well, some leftist ideologies assert PoC can't be racist (the people making these decisions are Thais, the hand in the foreground shouldn't be white), so that'd be awkward.   Is it colonialism? Well, Thailand was never colonized and most language schools in Thailand are locally owned franchises (and indeed foreigners cannot fully own businesses in Thailand, except Americans), so this isn't even colonialism by capitalism.  What's going on is simple logic of capital efficiency: if the applicant is white, they're a foreigner most likely from a country where the median salary is much greater (Americans earn about 13x Thais at the mean), so you'll need to compete with them for this job seeker. And the schools need the non-Thai looking teacher to impress customers (students and their parents).   Note too that the color schema is wrong, it's more ethnicity than color. But that's hard to represent pictorially, so the meme represents color instead and perpetuates the false consciousness that skin color separates us. The medium is the message. Both sides of the aisle are racist, and it's because of iconicity, not innate truth.   What can most easily be represented under extreme compression becomes apparent truth.  So we see that the ethnicity is proxy for something that deserves a wage premium. No that something isn't wypipo worship or whatever lame meme has infected your brain. Capitalists pay more when they need to. They need to compete with a global labor market for the globalized laborer.  From that perspective the 45000thb (about 1350 USD) per month is the real mystery. Except when you see most of these teachers are young horny men and remember Thai women err on beautiful and sexually available both in reputation and fact. Then it makes a lot of sense, and you realize that's the artificially depressed number.  The one for the Thai teacher isn't depressed: human capital in Thailand is low because the education here is designed to produce factory workers, farmers, and taxi drivers.  So from this we realize two groups are being oppressed here:  1. Native English speaking dark skinned people and Asians. They're too easily associated with cheaper labor pools so lack the bargaining power.  2. Thais for not having an education system that gives them more skills to bargain for higher wages.   3. Me for having to explain to you that incentives are complex and any monocausal explanation is intellectually dishonest rhetoric designed to change who has political power.   4. You most of all for reading all of this, which was truly a waste of time. I wrote a novel, have I mentioned that lately? Seems no one reads novels these days unless they have dragons or sex that should be illegal, now maybe I'm an old man, but in my day... || CTX: English teaching in Thailand according to one of our Facebook readers 😄 https://t.co/PoaVmfmmkg
2026-04-09T23:11 id=2042379862883856518 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Wall Street doesn't (yet) understand that vibecoding and GenAI are massively positive for SaaS companies and the cyber security industry, whatever just BTFD and chill. || CTX: Mythos actually nuking the market  Honestly did not see this coming  I still maintain you need to hire cyber security firms for this shit because you still need humans to take the blame and say you’re protected   But pain well deserved http
2026-04-09T23:23 id=2042382979780264013 →- | They need to fire the Wordle person and hang them in the town square for today's word. God will judge you unkindly.
2026-04-09T23:31 id=2042384818152095810 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 You understand new media more than anyone else on this site, you could write a book about it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nobody read these days. and nobody buys books to read them. but they do like to invest in authors. that is why i told my publisher that finishing the book is the least important part. she just do not understand new media. h
2026-04-09T23:34 id=2042385686343598275 →CatNyanpital | I can't publicly comment on SNAP, but I agree entirely with you. But there's another factor I'm thinking of that's more market structural than in-firm efficiency gains:  1. AIs like mythos find new cybersecurity vulnerabilities.   2. Managers freak out. "OMG we haven't been taking cybersecurity seriously enough!" which is true as Marc tweeted about yesterday, too many people asleep on the demand side there waking up because of this.  3. Companies launch "Let's Cyber!" initiatives where they increase spending to cyber security  4. ?????   5. PROFIT!   This IMO is a virtuous cycle long term. Software creates demand for software, this is a structural fact. || CTX: I'm not convinced about that myself.  Ai seems like its a competitive necessity across the industry to some degree.   That might help cut employee expenses for developing software but very often those costs are just reintroduced to some deg
2026-04-09T23:38 id=2042386774656500221 →Samhain948689 | My girlfriend was watching a YT travel video about Bergen and it was in the summer and everyone looked so happy and the city looked so beautiful and then I started thinking about the Nordic city I lived in for four years and got depressed that it wasn't as gorgeous then I remembered Baudrillard and laughed at how I'd been bewitched by a picture and of course the real is not the represented real life in Bergen would've been worse and it was this higher order realization that brought me intense joy, like a religious experience, so much higher than the sadness the video itself made me fall into and that's how I realized philosophy is the only way to a good life, understanding and happiness are the same thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain how can a city have no retreat? https://t.co/RevnMJNVNx
2026-04-09T23:41 id=2042387409980309592 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @sophieraiin If we do they won't pay us millions of dollars to use our brains for 30 minutes a week.  Let us tolerate their culture. || CTX: @sophieraiin how can we save the goyim
2026-04-09T23:50 id=2042389642025345409 →jykfan | @jykfan https://t.co/PqXEl6Lo90 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why?  Wordle 1,755 3/6  ⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
2026-04-09T23:54 id=2042390644338094142 →tszzl | @tszzl Roon I really like you, so I hope you aren't a Dark Enlightenment guy.  I get the appeal, but, come on, we need to love our fellow man, even the dumdums. || CTX: i like to read this as land angry decades later that his intellectual partner &amp; buddy left him alone in the world https://t.co/y2OH4HzRcD
2026-04-09T23:56 id=2042391157624446988 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @randytheintern See? Butterilland is orange I've said this many times to friends, family, and strangers at the bus stop || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @randytheintern https://t.co/pSVeJIHBfj
2026-04-10T00:00 id=2042392321535393851 →sciad | @sciad A thousand year journey begins with one step.   I don't blame Heraclitus for being philosophically naive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dude and it’s his fault too, netscape and the early internet was so insecure it was insane. everything was plaintext going over the wire. zero ddos prevention
2026-04-10T00:21 id=2042397585881907666 →- | The public spitting disgusted me, but what was most shocking in South Korea was the one TV commercial that wasn't selling a product or service, but urged workers, even if they were tired or burned out, to try a little harder. And IIRC it was paid for by one of the Chaebols.   Memories of poverty made an entire peninsula choose misery. Such an odd place.   So when I finally got enough work as a writer to quit my professor job, you'd think i would've fallen in love with the Thai love of fun on my 2 week trip there before leaving Korea good for New York City, but it was a miserable train ride that made me fall in love with the country.   AC cars were few and far between and all sold out when my then partner and I went from Bangkok to Hua Hin (two cities I'd end up living in less than a decade later), so we were in a fan car on a day when it was like 35C outside.   At stops along the way ice vendors came and sold bags of ice through the windows to eager passengers. I bought two.   Although it's about 100 miles the journey takes several hours because greed and corruption in poor countries so a vendor walked through at one point selling small boxes of food. These looked exactly like the microwaved school lunches in American schools in the 80s/90s so I was horrified. But hungry and desperate, my partner and I got one each.   My memory of what happened next is cinematic so it probably didn't unfold quite so, but I remember she and I removed the plastic film from the top, took a spoonful, and had our first bite at the same time. We both then looked at each other immediately with eyes wide open.   "This is the most delicious thing I've ever had in my life," I said.   "맛있어!" she exclaimed.   We talked about that meal for months afterwards and even grew Thai hairy basil on our balcony to recreate it, which I am proud to say we did more than once.  But for me the food tasted the same and the experience tasted different, the sheer surprise and juxtaposition of misery and honestly epiphanous joy of a life broadly lived is why I couldn't take up any of the in person office jobs I was offered when I lived in NYC and my god the opportunities in that city it is insane.   I understand the appeal of the Harvard Club Hamptons South Beach status game world and observing it with just a toe in was great.  But as Gilbert Adair has Giles De'ath say in Love and Death on Long Island, "I should like to find beauty where it has never been found," and this is not only why I chose to live in Thailand and have for many years now, it is also why I am committed to working on making AI better by disrupting the obvious flaw I see and why, above all else, I recognize that one of the greatest artists alive is @Samhain948689.
2026-04-10T00:27 id=2042398921910276150 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @randytheintern red and green instead of the red/blue/purple that's been trendy for a while. Bold. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @randytheintern just try your best https://t.co/9mQR8qOtuo
2026-04-10T01:00 id=2042407452713632088 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas By that logic then psychology is even harder, and sociology harder than that.  And literary theory harder still. || CTX: When I say that macroeconomics is the hardest science, this is what I mean. https://t.co/2Fj57RSaJR
2026-04-10T01:01 id=2042407681387085947 →- | Oh look, an economist asserting their field is the bestest and betterer than all the others it must be a day that ends in Y. https://t.co/736dkZ6x2T || CTX: When I say that macroeconomics is the hardest science, this is what I mean. https://t.co/2Fj57RSaJR
2026-04-10T01:04 id=2042408255390171478 →AutismCapital | @AutismCapital Okay this is rather disturbing.   Singlehandedly demolishes the entire alignment industry (as a moral good).  Elephant Graveyard still pegged the guy. Those are suey eyes. || CTX: 🚨NEW: Duncan Trussell accurately describing the current AI landscape and rise of Local LLMs was not on our bingo card. BASED 😂😂😂 https://t.co/CI0AeCShE6
2026-04-10T01:04 id=2042408374504210618 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas I know economists struggle with reading but if you read the rest of the tweet there's sociology and literary theory there too.   You're ofc right on psych. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No…psychology is the study of individuals. Macroeconomics is the study of billions of individuals interacting.
2026-04-10T01:07 id=2042409116505948527 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Fine, I concede economics is harder than psychology.   Now do sociology and literary theory. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You literally said psychology.
2026-04-10T01:08 id=2042409393812357581 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 By this logic, sociology, literary theory, linguistics, history, and a slew of other fields are harder.   I'm not disagreeing with Alex at all, he's completely right! I'm saying follow the logic and start recognizing the value of qualitative fields. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think he means "difficult," and he's right
2026-04-10T01:15 id=2042411153092198764 →Ken67547214 | why would that be macroeconomics? why not just call that philosophy or the study of knowledge or the Trivium and Quadrivium for that matter?   why do we need to be married to the economics label, just because we happen to live in a socio historical moment that privileges econometric thinking? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the point is that an ideal version of "macroeconomics" would be the synthesis of all of these other fields, so it is always at least as difficult as the sum of those fields.
2026-04-10T01:24 id=2042413312504402132 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 yes but money is fundamentally a speech act, so if you want to get to the root of everything then it's linguistics I'm afraid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Economics is just a framing, but it always applies. Even if you pretend you don't use money, you do.
2026-04-10T01:33 id=2042415747935469969 →- | the fact that positive sum games outnumber zero sum ones in the world makes me think there is a God and he loves us. the necessary trade-off between accuracy and legibility makes me think if there is a God he's an asshole.  But the positive sum nature of pedagogy does mean that the maximum value of that trade-off declines over time, so maybe Milton was right when he described Heaven as one large classroom.   these tweets are so ridiculously autistic, I have no idea why anyone bothers to read them
2026-04-10T01:56 id=2042421526151237706 →tszzl | @tszzl from learn to code to learn to persuade || CTX: you better do small reps now disagreeing with the proto AGIs now to build up your muscles for the super persuaders to come
2026-04-10T01:59 id=2042422124330274956 →A3braxas | @A3braxas No, negative sum games are incredibly rare, just cynicism is cognitively cheap. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and negative sum games outnumber even positive ones... we just try to avoid playing them
2026-04-10T02:09 id=2042424612148158499 →- | The problem with natural language is the rule set is open: over time new rules are created, changing the overall language.   For example: up until a couple years ago "-mog" and "-maxx" were not verbizing suffixes in English.  If this confuses you because you're thinking "but facemogging is bad English, that's not a real rule!" your mind has been bewitched by the notion of normative school grammar that sociolinguistics obviated decades ago, but this knowledge is not widespread. Is/ought gap is the source of so much alpha.  Man the worst part is I'm going to be more publicly recognized when all this shit is over goddamn fucking 4o zombies ruined my life but "it is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God" as Wittgenstein said and after that data center shooting it would be wrong of me to sit idle on my tropical island and let this nonsense continue. Will I actually help in the end? We'll see, probably not (I'm too stupid) but I have to try, I would be living on blood money if I did not.  A few weeks ago on a walk I saw a lizard that had been partly run over and it was lying on its back breathing heavily near death. I put a leaf over it, said a quiet prayer, and stepped on it as fast as I could to kill it instantly. I will do what I can to stop suffering and it may be wrong and I may end up making things worse this is what terrifies me but I do not know what else to do? I am moved to make a move and so I shall.  Rest in peace little one I'm so sorry I'm so sorry
2026-04-10T02:10 id=2042425056664698888 →A3braxas | @A3braxas Some of those are indeed negative sum, although not categorically so in all cases--the fist fight I had in Finland in 2006 was good for both of us, and anyway those are a tiny sliver of the games in the universe so this just tells me where your attention is oriented. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what about like a fist fight? both sides just get hurt, but you hope to hurt the other guy more. this happens all the time. almost any crime is negative sum, almost any war, advertising in competitive markets, many other th
2026-04-10T03:26 id=2042444009726230963 →- | What's the best skill in Codex to use when turning a Word document that's guidelines for contributors to a project into a website?
2026-04-10T03:37 id=2042446813542957239 →- | Some very very large companies (I cannot say which) that are AI fossils are sending out questionnaires to employees about their AI use.  Dude the TAM is gonna fucking EXPLODE if you don't BTFD you're so ngmi so please don't because I can make fun of you for it later
2026-04-10T04:05 id=2042453812519354781 →logicus | @logicus I've already got frontend skill, should I just use that? I'm not exactly going to create a skill for frontend web design since that's not exactly a skill I have, surely there's a prepackaged skill best for this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 skill creator’s built in i think: $skill pulls it up for me.
2026-04-10T05:01 id=2042467970887331991 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux What possible benefit to any user could this kind of UI have? Never seen Codex do this, seems like a new feature https://t.co/ew9j6ytAcf
2026-04-10T05:01 id=2042468090248892447 →boneGPT | @boneGPT This has been true for over 20 years at least. || CTX: you can make a million dollars with videos of animals dancing right now
2026-04-10T05:21 id=2042472986230603837 →6ixpool | @6ixpool Please unfollow me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bait or cocaine? 🤔
2026-04-10T05:38 id=2042477204467302462 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza there's a kind of narrow-mindedness in academia that many scholars try to launder into rigor. the idea is that the more skeptical and critical you are, the more serious of a person you are so academics are incentivized to doubt everything, no matter how specious their reasons. || CTX: One thing that’s kind of a funny “own goal” of the mainstream is that they really tripped over themselves to deny EVERYTHING from ancient legend.   Like re: Trojan war. They couldn’t just say Achilles wasn’t really immortal. They had to say
2026-04-10T06:14 id=2042486431252431122 →AwesomeCat1484 | @AwesomeCat1484 Care to expand? I'm always eager to hear a takedown of conehead. || CTX: Marc also has absolutely no fucking idea about how security works, and is talking outta his ass https://t.co/k7ZEfXscFe
2026-04-10T06:19 id=2042487663685746828 →boneGPT | @boneGPT This is how I feel about promoting my novel on Twitter. Also people don't read novels anymore. Also it's unreadable. || CTX: have a book i've been working on and even though i love slop it feels disrespectful to the ideas and the art for me to generate a movie of it with AI  like it will go from being my first book to another disposable post
2026-04-10T06:28 id=2042489826797371832 →boneGPT | @boneGPT It's free--it's written in a way that it cannot be monetized. The issue is just getting attention...which, yeah, get big. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you keep growing the account eventually you'll be able to coerce some people into buying it, i buy moots books
2026-04-10T06:52 id=2042495847418773522 →oswinfrans | @oswinfrans If masking feels necessary to you and things such as stimming or repetition are soothing, please get assessed for autism. My diagnosis was extremely liberating because it gave me a detailed explanation of why I've struggled to relate to people my entire life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Brother. I have to mask in most of everyday life. I want to be autistic on the internet
2026-04-10T07:00 id=2042497870298038321 →- | Anyone making fun of this badass is a virgin.  Trust me, the grandpa is a huge fan of precisely what this grandma is doing. https://t.co/5LtV6xZHap || CTX: Huge fan of whatever the grandma is doing https://t.co/pij5mtugc2
2026-04-10T08:08 id=2042515096472293700 →oswinfrans | @oswinfrans just try to get a job where you interact with people as little as possible, that's what saved me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thanks for sharing man. In all seriousness, I have had two assessments and am indeed in the borderline zone of the spectrum. This did make a lot of things fall into place.  I do still mask to a large extend to more easier g
2026-04-10T08:08 id=2042515139426148781 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 they're making fun of it because they think exercise is about losing weight and nothing else || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don't see what's there to make fun of. The movement clearly demands skill.
2026-04-10T08:42 id=2042523661815681434 →zarazhangrui | @zarazhangrui https://t.co/9Uj4YZvlDC || CTX: The old world: Word, Excel, PowerPoint   The new world: Markdown, CSV/JSON, HTML
2026-04-10T08:43 id=2042523779163918690 →1owroller | @1owroller oh, you want the video? ill dm || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i didn't need this scenario put into my head
2026-04-10T08:56 id=2042527052054827200 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver I don't think we can legally eat normal onions until summer || CTX: guys this is the only time you can call spring onions just onions! you do have to call normal onions regular onions or something like that to avoid confusion
2026-04-10T09:13 id=2042531334036558254 →- | 1. Banger.   2. As you listen catch when you start to feel or think, "you know, they've kinda got a point." Ask yourself why, why now, why as you listen do you think this? Is it because a cogent logical argument in context with reliable sources and evidence is in front of you? Is it because the song is good, the lyrics catchy, and the beat sick?   3. In Iran it is legal for a man of any age to marry a 13 year old girl and rape her. They aren't the good guys. A plague on both your houses. || CTX: Iran is trolling the bejeezus out of the pedo that was promised. https://t.co/UNI6LA9unO
2026-04-10T09:17 id=2042532293332603209 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver I have the deepest respect for Tai Chi enjoyers because, although I don't consider myself religious at all, if someone put a gun to my head and asked me to choose I'd probably say I'm Taoist.   But for some reason Tai Chi bothers me. It makes my hands/feet feel weird, bad tingly || CTX: i love when people ask me about tai chi since i love tai chi!  i'm kinda ehhh when someone asks about it to be polite. thanks for being polite. i'll make it short and sweet for you
2026-04-10T09:26 id=2042534704918991078 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder I have never heard of this before so obviously I can't do this.   I'm fascinated. Is it fun? Useful? Do you do this out of boredom sometimes? Is it a nervous tic? Ever do it during sexxxy timez || CTX: you might say i'm in an exclusive club https://t.co/OnP3SNsIZN
2026-04-10T10:02 id=2042543695573192962 →- | So annoying when people say "I'd say it's fifty fifty" like, yeah, bro, heard you the first time
2026-04-10T10:33 id=2042551545796137081 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @Samhain948689 Bart Simpson playing a pan flute as a genie coming out of a bottle || CTX: @Samhain948689 thats earthworm jim
2026-04-10T10:49 id=2042555488622252593 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning Boar is not kosher so definitionally Nikita Bier is a self hating Jew. If he's a Jew. And a kosher keeping Jew. Not all Jews keep kosher. I don't. https://t.co/MRZsbcpBDt || CTX: i am not one of those self-hating jews, it is nikita bier that i hate. i am a nikita-bier-hating jew.
2026-04-10T11:37 id=2042567730017243154 →- | RT @boneGPT: this movie is a huge moment for nikita boar || CTX: this movie is a huge moment for nikita boar https://t.co/rlR8ddt7XK
2026-04-10T11:49 id=2042570765674123647 →- | Two men kill two young children by driving drunk. They don't know each other.   One of the men feels intense remorse for this mistake and dedicates his life to stricter DUI legislation.   The other man loved the feeling of taking another life, and now has an urge to kill again, making his life miserable. To stop this from happening to another person, he dedicated his life to stricter DUI legislation.   I'm not going to ask you who is better or more moral, fuck that normie ass bullshit. My question is: are hidden, immeasurable, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, entirely private intentions real?
2026-04-10T11:55 id=2042572076654202923 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king Then these two men are identical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would say no; all internal narratives should be treated agnostically up to the moment we ask: "what does this mean in practice?"
2026-04-10T12:08 id=2042575373653922116 →- | Is this engagementbait bullshit or do people really believe this?   Email is how I have made a living as a writer, working anywhere, paid to sell my thoughts. Email is how I kept in touch with friends, chatted with professors and writers and artists and amazing people I've never met and never will.   Email is how I get updates from the orgy party group my ex and I went to in the 2010s.  You were happy without email? Basic af, I pity you. || CTX: In 2023 - 2024 I didn’t have an email or a calendar. Happiest I’ve ever been.
2026-04-10T12:08 id=2042575465827963224 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza This is why I stopped being an atheist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Obviously
2026-04-10T12:11 id=2042576185545429407 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 This is a really fucking good point lmao I hadn't even thought of that you're kinda blowing my mind.   Had to read your tweet like 5 times to understand it, wow you've got a wonderful mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The funniest part of this scenario as you can get from the first guy to the second guy by moving him further AWAY from being a psycho, by making him MORE moralistic. because then when he gets some random intrusive thought a
2026-04-10T12:24 id=2042579528086884783 →TomWright165389 | @TomWright165389 Important point! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes but this is not the domain for courts
2026-04-10T12:28 id=2042580503761687007 →AwesomeCat1484 | @AwesomeCat1484 okay if you're right this is absolutely damning, like basically fraud. || CTX: Versus this - "top 2 bugs removed". Drops ALL the way down to 4.4%. That MEANS, it's exploiting the same 2 fucking bugs 68% of the time. That CANNOT be considered a success by any metric, that's just fucking fake data.  7/? https://t.co/mcD
2026-04-10T12:32 id=2042581506372125006 →AwesomeCat1484 | Great read. Far out of my wheelhouse, but it seems you still do believe there are massive security vulnerabilities that can and should be solved, even if Claude can't do it?   That's the part I was responding to. I agree that there's a lot of known security issues that aren't addressed because of misaligned interests within companies. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Link to reply: https://t.co/3WbdJxgdrQ
2026-04-10T12:34 id=2042582063698842084 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 Hugs, fren. I had one too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 while this is true it's a coincidence, I know about OCPD because of my abusive mother not because of any genius
2026-04-10T12:42 id=2042583891597529376 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza If the description can be fully understood by another person.  We just never know if we fully understand another person.   Gotta use faith to cash an understanding out I'm afraid. || CTX: Anything that can be described is, in some sense, real
2026-04-10T12:46 id=2042585066786951590 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 And if they were, would the measurement, assuming it's physical, prove the intentions are epiphenomenal of the physical or vice versa? How could we know? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hidden, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, entirely private intentions are probably real, but I think they're probably measurable.
2026-04-10T12:55 id=2042587360521785538 →- | Multimodal AI, if you think about it, really REALLY makes the AI consciousness debate so utterly idiotic.   Is the CGI in Black Widow conscious you blithering tardigan? Come on, multimodal AI models relationships between visual, auditory, and semantic data by latent representations in hidden layers that are then treated to a number of functions to produce probabilistic outputs, like there's no ghost in the machine STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING YOUR CLANKER
2026-04-10T12:57 id=2042587862638752073 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza There's no such thing as a private language.   Anything that can be known can be expressed in language. (We cannot know all that we can feel.)  Thus anything that can be known can be expressed to another in a language another person can understand.   Legibility is a requirement. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know that legibility to another is a requirement. It might be though…
2026-04-10T13:10 id=2042591159906980109 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza of course, because you learned a language from other people and you're using it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But consider this: I have an idea. I can describe it (to myself) with language. Yet I’m in solitary confinement. I die before I can ever express it. My thesis is that before my death I saw something real
2026-04-10T13:42 id=2042599052009968025 →- | I am afraid to report that Alex Tabarrock of all people has... posted a banger   God this hurts so much to write https://t.co/mw1c3wUcQG || CTX: Imagine I told you that AI was going to create a 40% unemployment rate. Sounds catastrophic. Now imagine I told you that AI was going to create a 3-day working week. Sounds wonderful.  Yet to a first approximation these are the same thing. 
2026-04-10T13:49 id=2042600955942973479 →JoshuaLWatson | @JoshuaLWatson @resistancemoney The most honest verification protocol possible. || CTX: every time someone says "the Good, the True, the Beautiful" my heart soars and that is how i know plato's forms are real
2026-04-10T13:53 id=2042601969081290961 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 wtf why don't I see any replies from you? https://t.co/STRGNn8TwF || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's sort of a tangent, but related to this tweet. https://t.co/OQsVfGhA42
2026-04-10T14:02 id=2042604103319326820 →Ken67547214 | oh lol  I think that was kinda inevitable because when we introduced women to the workforce, work was also coterminously transitioning more and more to the office model where more new job types were being created. Women in America saw an opportunity, formed a political movement and wanted more of the new job types.   As a result you couldn't just put two people in one task as before, there wasn't enough task fungibility and established best practices. Not like factories where you could just shorten shifts or whatever.  We didn't so much choose what happened but rather the logic of the labor market structure made that type of development most likely.   I think AI is different because we already have everyone working more than they want to. This time Alex Tabakko's fantasy future of less work time per person instead of less workers is what we as a society will choose. If we are all on the same page.   The real AI alignment should be aligning the labor market dynamics so such a future benefits everyone. We don't have that alignment yet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I got distracted  https://t.co/bJlUBMMcr4
2026-04-10T21:10 id=2042711879525765239 →JohnOcens | @JohnOcens @boneGPT Thank you, that's very kind. I have released the book! Just not promoted it here publicly yet and still on the fence about doing so. Maybe one day. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT I enjoy your writing; I'll read it. I've a film we spent 3 years and 100k on; it's importance to me is that it'll be last thing in my original discipline, the one I love, that's unmolested by something generative. 
2026-04-10T21:11 id=2042712094299295816 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz That's precisely what I am doing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;are hidden, immeasurable, unfalsifiable, unverifiable, entirely private intentions real  You are dealing with the definition of terms here, which I don't think is what you want/think you are doing?
2026-04-10T21:14 id=2042712886800531927 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Most underrated city on Earth and my second favorite in Asia behind HK. || CTX: dude i love KL too much https://t.co/ywkoO4ijSe
2026-04-10T21:23 id=2042715143487000757 →- | I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.   Why is everyone selling cybersecurity stocks due to Mythos?   Mythos means more vulnerabilities found, meaning more demand for cybersecurity software.   "But long term they'll be obsolete because AI" shut up that's an unsubstantiated story in your head. There's no causal link from where we are to that. You can make one up in your head, but I can make up the opposite in my head too.   Mythos helps cyber security firms find new flaws, naming new security innovations and new products, services, etc. for enterprises.   No the enterprises won't go straight to Anthropic for their security needs any more than people are going to use less cloudflare because the C suite at Costco will just vibecode a replacement and fire all their technical staff.  please can we all stop being so stupid about this technology?
2026-04-10T21:27 id=2042716168180633627 →Jack_Raines | This IMO validates MSFT's strategy, as dumb as it's seemed from the outside.   Copilot was intentionally bad because MSFT doesn't want to be a flagship LLM producer. That's a hyper competitive commodity business, whereas they know more LLM usage = more infra demand, and they want to be the infra.  Maybe top line growth is less impressive than the counterfactual but margins are going to love this approach, especially long term.   It's a smart strategy ser || CTX: RIP to the 2022-2023 era “AI writing copilots” https://t.co/au2f1bIoHm
2026-04-10T21:29 id=2042716744079544365 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth I agree so much with this, the videos really are a nuisance || CTX: When you spend time away from this app and return to it, the amount of videos and jarring content - sudden, sudden movement in front of your eyes - is so abrasive.  I would happily pay more for a product that doesn't show videos on my tl.  
2026-04-10T21:35 id=2042718116803993786 →tsotchke | @tsotchke When they produce mathematics, are mathematicians creating or discovering the math they produce? || CTX: mathematics too is not a problem to be solved. you never run out of mathematics—you just make more. this is something non-math people really don't understand. mathematicians do not merely "do" math in the same sense that engineers or others
2026-04-10T21:36 id=2042718426859466962 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 yeah I need to STFU&amp;BTFD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the market manipulation is part of it  most of it really
2026-04-10T21:46 id=2042720958616866960 →tsotchke | @tsotchke Very Godelian. || CTX: it depends on the field. i am a mathematical hyperrealist so i tend to believe in a maximalist platonic concept of mathematics as a form of creative discovery. much of mathematics does draw its existence from purely natural analogues, but m
2026-04-10T22:00 id=2042724359098503169 →- | My biggest value to other people isn't really in being right or predicting the future accurately (although I do both often c'mon let's be real here fellas).  It's more having an odd perspective. Even if I am wrong that LLM limitations are more than an engineering problem, for instance, just saying this and making the case should force engineers to think differently and in so doing maybe find a new solution to old problems, even if my argument to take linguistics more seriously beyond being just a source of annotations is wrong.  "The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long." (Philosophical Investigations, 109)
2026-04-10T22:28 id=2042731532696326287 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat Sam, I'd much rather give you money. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat if i wasnt leaving everything i have to emily i would have given you guys some of my money when i am gone
2026-04-10T22:36 id=2042733377061818631 →207Nasher | Likewise, I can only access metamathematics from the philosophy of language bc I understand the latter but not the former.  That we're able to do it at all is a miracle, and it shows that hyperspecialization is really quite limited. It's promoted a lot because it makes money, but it can only yield just a limited amount of understanding. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Some of my best ideas have come from trying to translate something that I understood to a form that I thought a person who thinks differently from me understands  I’ve definitely enjoyed talking about basic metamathematics 
2026-04-10T22:41 id=2042734780979253715 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @stationerycar Cobbler's children || CTX: &gt;Be me, read Zhuangzi  &gt;Read about the chef skillful cutting though the joints of an ox to avoid the bones that would dull his knife &gt;Go to Chinese deli, get chicken  &gt;They pull out an enormous cleaver and cube the whole thing l
2026-04-10T22:43 id=2042735321176289463 →projectionheart | @projectionheart Based af || CTX: If you have 10k followers but I don’t think you’d engage with my posts and I don’t know anybody in your cluster, I remove you as a follower lowkey. I don’t care for tourists.
2026-04-10T23:00 id=2042739441031352380 →retail_trash | @retail_trash This is one of the more fascinating outcomes of this thought experiment. I agree with you but find it very odd. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 screw you I'll answer that question anyway. depending on the nature of the second person's mind, he's probably stronger morally than the first person, because he is resisting an urge. but he's not doing enough if he's not a
2026-04-10T23:13 id=2042742705571455250 →- | I have never shaken the feeling that intellectual work is not real work because of a prejudice I've inherited from my ancestors.  How can I justify calling what I do work when I sit and read a book or type at a computer? My ancestors ran into burning buildings (something I only did once for fun, I'll save that for another thread) and build railways and inhaled toxic fumes making jewelry for rich people.  How DARE I call what I do work?   The cost of standing on the shoulders of giants is that damn Bloomian anxiety of influence triggering my innate Jewish guilt, and oddly this makes me work constantly.   But that's fine, because after all it's not real work.
2026-04-10T23:22 id=2042744946768384313 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT Sam Hollander is why we have Holland || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT Snakes on a Plane (Bring It) Song by Cobra Starship ‧ 2006 OverviewLyrics  Songwriters: David Katz / Gabe Saporta / Sam Hollander / Travis Mc Coy https://t.co/axId3ji2Mz
2026-04-10T23:25 id=2042745851668492536 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT I had no idea so many famous pop stars came from Holland || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT Sam Hollander is an American songwriter. He has collaborated with Panic! at the Disco, One Direction, Fitz and the Tantrums, Weezer, The Living Tombstone, blink-182, Train, Rin
2026-04-10T23:28 id=2042746601291288717 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT I tilted at one once but it looked better if I just stood straight || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT do you know about the windmills?
2026-04-10T23:33 id=2042747707861930074 →api_assasin | @api_assasin People have a talismanic perception of code, indeed even many coders do. Bewitchment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lots of people dont understand what makes a company durable long term - it’s rarely the code itself 🤷‍♂️   otherwise why would the ai native plays be any different? incoherent
2026-04-10T23:54 id=2042753151170936926 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT Asok is the name of one of the busiest public transport stations in Bangkok. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT Asok is an Indian intern in the Dilbert comic strip. His first appearance was March 18, 1996. He is a brilliant graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology. The character 
2026-04-10T23:59 id=2042754384929710352 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I'm alongside you for the ride, and will probably be a buyer in the coming weeks. || CTX: Nyan holding software like an idiot and losing money yay!  Nyan ain’t selling
2026-04-11T00:00 id=2042754684587573293 →PythiaR | @PythiaR MSFT doesn't want to compete on the vanguard where the risk/reward is unfavorable, better diversify bets and remain up the tech stack to capture value no matter who wins the model wars. || CTX: Mythos  Only 3k employees so they're incredibly focused  Being an incumbent means you're the titanic: you can't turn fast. https://t.co/7j6TmYJgbi
2026-04-11T00:01 id=2042754999693005299 →- | This also works for learning languages.  You need to be willing to be laughed at to learn something new quickly.   Being bullied as a kid was a real blessing, I am so lucky. https://t.co/FHqo4ahmN7 || CTX: 学ぶスピードが異常に速い人を一人だけ知っている。その人は、知らないことに出会うと、相手の年齢も立場も一切関係なく質問を浴びせかけた。無邪気に、臆さず、純粋な好奇心だけで。そして翌日には、昨日仕入れたばかりの知識を10年前から知っていたかのように堂々と語る。滑稽で、同時に圧倒的だった。あれを見て気づいたのよね。学習速度を決めているのは、頭の良さじゃなく、プライドの薄さだと。知らないことを知らないと言える人間は、一回の会話で得る情報量が桁違いに多い。大半のビジネスパーソンは、知ら
2026-04-11T00:02 id=2042755075282735237 →ipnon_ | @ipnon_ I cosign that post extremely hard. || CTX: Good advice https://t.co/aCD1dyJHhk
2026-04-11T00:03 id=2042755306586034375 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital You can chill on your trip knowing I'm placing a firm bid to support your bags. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I alreayd spent money so im gonna go on vacation lol
2026-04-11T00:25 id=2042760877515116760 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king oh fuck yeah that is perfect! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I really liked this framing:  https://t.co/4eNMyJKHQw
2026-04-11T00:26 id=2042761055026450482 →menhguin | @menhguin wtaf GenAI is most bullish for Cloudflare || CTX: &gt;everyone will have a machine gun &gt;let's sell the bulletproof vest company https://t.co/VllvZq35DJ
2026-04-11T00:30 id=2042762052402581644 →- | I trained to be a medievalist and because of GenAI I now have two Cloudflare accounts that I use regularly.   This is the most retarded selloff I've ever seen (not financial advice don't listen to me I hope you sell yourself into slavery for want of a piece of bread) https://t.co/SEOtl1bVlo || CTX: BREAKING: Cloudflare stock, $NET, extends losses to over -13% on the day after Anthropic’s launch of Claude Mythos, an AI model that finds and exploits software vulnerabilities.  The stock is now down -22% in 4 days. https://t.co/9qq2NczoRF
2026-04-11T00:35 id=2042763507100529143 →tszzl | @tszzl You guys need to extend an olive branch to people in the arts and humanities  Make them feel GenAI is a compliment to human culture (which it is) rather than a replacement  Sorry but I'll keep beating this drum for as long as I need  Would've prevented the councilman shooting too || CTX: the newyorker’s worst crime, aside from heightening suspicion of technologists in dangerous ways, was making us read all that. if i understood the article correctly farrow pored through through hundred page dossiers people constructed again
2026-04-11T00:40 id=2042764764821201308 →- | This is an excellent opportunity for the frontier labs to extend an olive branch to the left via the universities (which are venerated by the left): make a splashy conference, invite some lit profs and novelists, have the topic be "the future of human creativity" or whatever that is specifically NOT about AI and have Sam give a speech about how they're listening to artists and want to help them make better art.   Steve Jobs did things like this and it was super effective.  Why is this one part of Jobs' playbook ignored? || CTX: It was always destined to be such. Broadly, the online left is against AI, but as AI becomes more useful and ubiquitous, to the point that not using it is simply stupid, some on the left were always going to need some justification for embr
2026-04-11T00:42 id=2042765196654186520 →pleometric | @pleometric Feedback loops are broken when you talk to the outgroup.   Invite the anti-AI journalists and professors in to talk. Just to talk. That alone breaks the loop.   I'm going insane seeing this happen from my remote island, tech people plz fix || CTX: "Criticism of our industry" has crossed a threshold, and I believe the feedback loops of negative attitudes will intensify a lot from here on out.   A terrible thing. https://t.co/Sd6QvEu2Ca https://t.co/Egyk758rKg
2026-04-11T00:51 id=2042767515475206434 →- | "I hope he comes to his senses", "I hope he sees reason," and "I pray God frees him from the demons possessing him" mean the same thing.
2026-04-11T01:00 id=2042769661507559593 →boneGPT | This is unsustainable, compelling pseudo intellectuals can bewitch the public for only so long.   In the early 20th century Rudolf Steiner was a very popular public intellectual whose arguments against Einstein were extremely popular.   You don't know who Steiner is.  Your great grandkids won't know who Yud or Land were.  (They'll probably know who I am though) || CTX: cant believe the future is just nick land and yudkowsky hyperstitioning weird shit against eachother like fuckin warlocks
2026-04-11T01:03 id=2042770418277454149 →snnneee | @snnneee You look compelling. || CTX: Strangers smiling at me as we walk past each other la lot ately  What means
2026-04-11T01:04 id=2042770772339625999 →tomshardware | @tomshardware @ylecun This is why being in Asia sucks so many oversold stocks but I was too busy sleeping || CTX: Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch — claims of 'thousands' of severe zero-days rely on just 198 manual reviews https://t.co/FMhEyHzlGh
2026-04-11T01:13 id=2042773114090840354 →RyanPMcGowan | @RyanPMcGowan @boneGPT Yeah I know that would work but I don't want to get discovered that way.   Either my work is discovered how I want or it's never discovered. Both are equally acceptable. Traditional marketing is not.  (If I marketed the book, the book would be false) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT Run ads. They work. Figure out who your market is and run ads towards them. You can spend a few bucks a day and make a difference. You'll get data and can pinpoint even more.
2026-04-11T01:14 id=2042773318353477646 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Do as I say (fuck off) not as I do (BTFD) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I were a financial advisor i would say BTFD but I’m not so dont
2026-04-11T01:26 id=2042776247768617072 →- | If Henry Maurice Sheffer had been born in Japan it'd be called the NYAND Operator  sorry
2026-04-11T01:38 id=2042779248768045414 →shakoistsLog | @shakoistsLog @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain finally someone asked! || CTX: @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 who r u btw
2026-04-11T01:43 id=2042780571366301877 →SeloSlav | The issue I really have is what do I want out of others reading it?   I've written things that have gotten a million page views and things that got like 10 (I write finance stuff professionally). NGL neither was satisfying.   I know some will read the book and think it's trash, some will love it, but so what? What does this get me?  Maybe I just needed to write it. I think about my protagonist every day. I love him. I miss him. I feel guilty for what I did to him.  Maybe that's enough. I don't know. I know little. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT I made a hurried point of finishing mine before GPT 3.5 came out because I thought writing would be cooked after that. AI still sucks ass, but I'm still too embarrassed to promote it
2026-04-11T02:05 id=2042786056458899537 →SeloSlav | @SeloSlav @boneGPT I love Watts's approach to art broadly even if I'm not a fan of his work. I fully agree, but I despair seeing someone with so many followers struggle to get their work read.   We just live in a non-literary era, this too shall pass. || CTX: I like Allan Watt's take that the author's job is just to be a channel for unresolved internal conflict. Fear, hope, pain, etc. If you can let that come through honestly, without trying to tidy it up or force it, readers'll find value in th
2026-04-11T02:24 id=2042790862997065932 →BooleanProphet | @BooleanProphet I'm starting to think a lot of people are intentionally trying to manipulate journalists (who are generally rather dumb and credulous) to parrot a panic nonsense narrative so they can BTFD.   Fine with me, I'll bid alongside them lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This trade is a layup. Cybersecurity isn't going anywhere. It really doesn't get better than this in terms of risk/reward.
2026-04-11T02:28 id=2042791986344923224 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk The never loopers are so weak. If they ever saw a path go round and round, they'd be powerless to change it. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 its never loopers THEYRE ALL WASTED https://t.co/FVNPRspO9I
2026-04-11T02:30 id=2042792484145893568 →alexinomia | @alexinomia @DaveAshelman @NegativeN11926 @alexolegimas Behavior can be modeled because it's outputs from intention.  Intention can't be modeled.   It's behavioral economics, not psychological economics precisely for this reason. They can't go further than behavior.  Imas, of course, knows this more than any of us. || CTX: @DaveAshelman @NegativeN11926 @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas but behavior can be modeled. it's not about recreating behavior, it's about modeling behavior. if you don't understand the difference between a model and a congruent replication w
2026-04-11T02:31 id=2042792612630008110 →yung_lindy | @yung_lindy @crypt0lake Why? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake ew
2026-04-11T03:20 id=2042804849750982867 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT This is a legit good business idea. || CTX: @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT My only regret is not betting money on your posts
2026-04-11T03:21 id=2042805146472845615 →teodorio | @teodorio Got a limit order waiting for Monday this is the worst part of being in Asia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you for pointing this out I can buy some Cloudflare now
2026-04-11T03:26 id=2042806572926296253 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT We don't want to repeat Priam's mistake tell us how we can get it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT no you guys dont get it https://t.co/8Jj2d43HZu
2026-04-11T03:31 id=2042807840063246607 →- | RT @boneGPT: if rationalists could throw we'd be in a lot of trouble || CTX: if rationalists could throw we'd be in a lot of trouble
2026-04-11T03:34 id=2042808388254658679 →Psiloceyeben | @Psiloceyeben @boneGPT https://t.co/RFHZff7E23 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT Any self respecting person knows about Steiner what
2026-04-11T03:35 id=2042808836218851417 →teodorio | @teodorio Well now you have a good idea of the current FMV of philosophical suicide. || CTX: wait they're paying this guys that kisses elon's ass and has a full time job as a slop poster only twice what they are paying me as a sensitive middle aged man? lmao https://t.co/foiew0Sa04
2026-04-11T03:51 id=2042812761567301939 →- | China has done zero outreach to SE Asia to say, "America started this war, they're evil, we can help you".   When Thailand and Cambodia fought, China stayed quiet despite Thailand bombing Chinese (illicit) assets in Cambodia.   China is a paper tiger, Chinese century is CANCELLED https://t.co/O27l1S5UIO
2026-04-11T03:54 id=2042813508732227739 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru Heard you the first time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru 50:50 https://t.co/4QdUuE246O
2026-04-11T03:55 id=2042813813595214093 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru Don't dox me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru one of my best  https://t.co/Rhtwp5xv4i https://t.co/T4PiKSCUR3
2026-04-11T03:57 id=2042814270208123360 →- | I am Not Not Samantha A https://t.co/vzhq8sQEHQ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru *our best https://t.co/QZU12yu3oe
2026-04-11T04:04 id=2042815989709181286 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @chopstickfury01 I don't need to get back to the island, I'm already on one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @chopstickfury01 https://t.co/tUwY9NesrF
2026-04-11T04:13 id=2042818239127064895 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @chopstickfury01 @specialkdelslay Cappadocia was much better in the 2010s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @chopstickfury01 @specialkdelslay gm https://t.co/aEZs7LOFYR
2026-04-11T05:32 id=2042838287333888306 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Limited edition lithographs please and let me buy the first one || CTX: maybe she had a point https://t.co/N9EnNq8RdT
2026-04-11T05:38 id=2042839599102492693 →amasad | @amasad There is zero air between the Zizians and Yudkowsky.  This Rationalist movement is poison, many of us have been warning for long.  https://t.co/x386974McC || CTX: Look man I'm just gonna say it: if you find LessWrong or Rationalism meaningful, valuable, or intelligent movements please unfollow me because I think you're an absolute idiot with zero cognitive ability of value. https://t.co/cuyXVy6sIc
2026-04-11T07:29 id=2042867544986734930 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ If the fight wasn't hopeless it wouldn't be worth the fight. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're expecting this from ppl who speed read the Greek classics and espouse it as a life tip? Monsieur!!
2026-04-11T08:19 id=2042880292009185424 →grindafrathjis | @grindafrathjis Agreed except for the last part. Many would. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;Why is this one part of Jobs' playbook ignored? Random guesses but: Academia is generally far less intelligent and less openminded now, tech people aren't charismatic, AI has a uniquely bad brand among the left/creative
2026-04-11T08:25 id=2042881612439020008 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @liminalsnake Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: the beginning of the singularity is barely discernable from an aristocrats joke
2026-04-11T08:55 id=2042889266204975554 →- | When you read the history of science or the history of mathematics, the concept of "traditional wisdom" really becomes laughable.  Yet we still believe in it.
2026-04-11T09:25 id=2042896751942873297 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Another one of those Portugal is East Europe maps || CTX: do this in the sphere and you will be surprised by the results https://t.co/K8r8zk9kGD
2026-04-11T09:25 id=2042896823178924284 →teodorio | @teodorio oh you're in trouble || CTX: I told my girlfriend I was talking with my Hermes agent on Whatsapp. She got really happy and a bit confused and asked me since when I have a Hermes agent?   I told her since this morning, at which point she excitedly asked me if I am plann
2026-04-11T10:22 id=2042911155396710891 →- | It seems to me that the actual is a compression of the possible in a very real sense, in that what is real in the physical world is a compression of what is possible in the physical world.
2026-04-11T10:23 id=2042911311982661870 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka is layering informational or energetic? || CTX: wave/particle duality? nah miss me with that backwards thinking  information/energy layers, dual-layer in a single object
2026-04-11T10:24 id=2042911536214348089 →- | The anxiety of influence is Harold Bloom’s greatest idea. He says that all great artists look to their tradition for inspiration with trepidation—awareness of greats in the past naturally leads one to feel one lives in a fallen age, the forms of the day are weak and inferior to the forms of the past, and that one thus cannot become a master nor can one create a masterpiece in an iron age so far removed from the Gilded Age of the giants on whose shoulders we sit.  And so Salman Rushdie looks wistfully at Nabokov, who looks back at Joyce, etc. and so on to the first cave painting. And since they all look back with nostalgia, the newcomer feels even more defeated. The bafflement one feels that the greats themselves felt unable to be as great as those they saw as greats compounds the sense of inferiority.  For the Poaster, this logic is intractable and the ephemeral feed reinforces the futility of fame-seeking, at least fame via the bit of the masterpiece.  So instead it is the string of bits and the brand of the bitmaker that becomes the real draw, marketing for legibility becomes the source of Genius. The sentence cultists are dead following Hemingway’s lead, the desperation to be admitted into the old world according to the old rules makes virality, uptake, and positive comments feel like an insulting consolation prize to the real bounty of the Canon.  But canons change as do all things and the Poast will be an art form one day. Laugh, but you probably won’t if you’re under 30; this is just common sense to you. So imagine what’ll happen when you guys have real institutional power—and then your kids, and your kids’ kids.  And if you’re over 30 or you’re laughing at the absurdity of what I’m saying, then let me quote a fantastic fox (Michael J.) and say: I guess you aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.  The Poaster who is praised for the Poast will still feel unsatisfied—but the memory of the Poaster will almost certainly endure. When the archivists and the historians and the canon makers look at the early days of Memeology and how those first generations used these tools, they’re gonna find your gooning shitposts broski.  Hi, Great-Great Grandkids, I’m on the Internet.  And so I must admit defeat and know my place. I failed as a novelist. It was a game that was dying by the time I was old enough to even contend, and I mean dude the publishing industry is so laughable now, novelist friend of mine wrote me a while back upset a new agent had rejected her (her old one dumped her), I looked the agent up and on her “about me” page she said she was looking for novels that had the flavor of K-Pop Hunters or whatever that is yeah laugh at me I’m old  anyway  I’m a poaster. I’m a good poaster. I admit it. Yes, I can squeeze ‘em out every once in a while. False modesty does no one any good. So let fly future paeans of 47fucb’s ramblings mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.  Won't matter to me then because I'll be dead. But it matters to me now because I'm alive.
2026-04-11T11:49 id=2042933004268626402 →- | I'm drinking a beer staring at this rn fyi fwiw iykyk ttyl ttfn https://t.co/9cZoNzgw1Q
2026-04-11T12:02 id=2042936348601127225 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon Kirin, was gud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 All I’d care about is the beer, bro
2026-04-11T12:07 id=2042937602161152058 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NoItsBeckoning Did you destroy him? || CTX: @NoItsBeckoning When I was 8 years old I invited a girl over for a playdate and my dad called her flabbyabby I got so angry cried and vowed to destroy my father
2026-04-11T12:12 id=2042938930438472011 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer What does the larp entail? Sometimes I feel like this. || CTX: you are middle class. im a middle class person that larps as a wealthy person larping as middle class. we are not the same.
2026-04-11T14:04 id=2042967073324974219 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth Expand please. || CTX: There's no such thing as bad timing.
2026-04-11T14:05 id=2042967154908377103 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Goodness presupposes detachment. || CTX: the mistake is thinking that good work deserves reward. Evil demands reward. Evil demands existence. Good is free to exist or cease to exist. Good stops existing when no one wants it to exist anymore   There is a deep reason why humans fund
2026-04-11T21:42 id=2043082400939544997 →murd_arch | @murd_arch ouch I feel your pain, got my own restricted list. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 mfw cyber stocks are on my restricted list.  but yea, back. up. the. truck.
2026-04-11T21:45 id=2043083115753820651 →ThomasWillNot | @ThomasWillNot Spot on, a wonderful thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's civilization; BABY!  "I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.  My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, [… ] to give their children a right to study
2026-04-11T21:47 id=2043083586199523735 →logicus | @logicus well he overturned philosophy by showing it's superceded by linguistics lol (this tweet won't ruffle any feathers) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think it's kind of there in philosophy. there's a kernel in "opposed" thinkers like nietzsche and plato that is a strong antidote against certain forms of bullshit, for instance. not sure what you think the great wittgens
2026-04-11T22:00 id=2043086751263306125 →- | I had a kid in my DMs asking me for life advice before going to a PauseAI rally a few days before the attempt on Sam and ofc I told the kid they were bad...   We've all gotta do our part and let's learn from the idiotic woke/based culture war bullshit of the 2010s: let's not hate or denigrate the PauseAI people.   We will not call them idiots or evil.  We will not write them off as lost causes or deplorables.  We will not threaten them or ostracize them.  We will engage in dialogue.  We will be transparent, honest, and open but committed to our principles.  We will explain, patiently and repeatedly, the clankers aren't conscious, they aren't replacements for humans, they are empowering tools like Photoshop and Excel and Word and all the other tech that has made the modern world more convenient and sophisticated and intelligent so that smart, creative, thoughtful humans can be even more impactful on a crowded noisy planet.  Sorry if this sounds corny but it's important. Talk to these people, not at them. || CTX: Wild to see the absolute silence from Pause AI leadership after one of their members followed through on their rhetoric and tried to kill someone
2026-04-11T22:04 id=2043087821171495200 →- | RT @babarganesh: there are cathedrals everywhere for blind people too || CTX: there are cathedrals everywhere for blind people too
2026-04-11T22:17 id=2043091085732516035 →logicus | @logicus That's W.'s whole thing, rule following (P. I.) and rule production (On Certainty).  W. solves this elegantly: the fundament is arational. This is unsatisfying because we want to bottom out at reason, but we cannot because we don't begin with doubt, we begin with certainty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol you know i wouldn’t get offended. i guess one confusion on my very cursory understanding is that practices seem to be externally evaluable. but where does that yardstick come from?
2026-04-11T22:18 id=2043091226925371514 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus Philosophy is a language game. || CTX: @logicus That's W.'s whole thing, rule following (P. I.) and rule production (On Certainty).  W. solves this elegantly: the fundament is arational. This is unsatisfying because we want to bottom out at reason, but we cannot because we don't
2026-04-11T22:21 id=2043092101190291522 →sciad | @sciad MOST orthogonal? Probably, idk, like spontaneously transforming into a tree or being able to fly by flapping my arms.   Less but still orthogonal? idk man going to more nightclubs? || CTX: visualize your life as the n-dimensional volume formed by all the vectors of your time investments.  what action can you take today that is most orthogonal to this set of vectors?
2026-04-11T22:39 id=2043096570556748228 →thiagovscoelho | @thiagovscoelho @lu_sichu "If you say why not bomb them [the Russians] tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?" - John von Neumann   He also died in abject terror like a little bitch.   The way you guys worship sudoku solvers disgusts me to the core. || CTX: von Neumann took Hayek seriously!!!! will you??? https://t.co/6TpljIDfwe
2026-04-11T22:39 id=2043096686248235142 →eshaanissar | @eshaanissar @sciad Upon closer inspection too! || CTX: @sciad @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn't sound very Christian at first blush
2026-04-11T22:45 id=2043098190845751342 →NegativeN11926 | @NegativeN11926 @alexinomia @DaveAshelman @alexolegimas https://t.co/QNMV5suYYo || CTX: Two men kill two young children by driving drunk. They don't know each other.   One of the men feels intense remorse for this mistake and dedicates his life to stricter DUI legislation.   The other man loved the feeling of taking another li
2026-04-11T22:56 id=2043100866958565845 →- | Nikita Boar as a character/meme has become iconic. This is not hate, this is an act of deep love and affection.   Bier in being such a tard has become both loveable (he can't eat chicken without going to the hospital HAHAHAHA) and hateable (selling children's private info is not that far from selling CSAM let's be real), and he definitely hasn't made this site any better...   But as Nietzsche said I love my enemy for he gives me a target to throw my spear at and so we throw, grateful for the fight. It's a virtual fight so no one is getting hurt--except Bier, and that's fine, because he's a kiddie info peddler.   This state of affairs is so perfect, and thus the painting is both joke and pinnacle of the aesthetic and ethic, proving Wittgenstein's observation that they are one: the painting's bullying is ethically certified, that ethic certification makes it aesthetically complete.   It is both joke and pinnacle of art.   And what is Bone doing in painting this? Being "terminally online" or "in need of touching grass"? Grass could never smell so sweet, and he is offline when he paints. The painting is proof of an integrated life, and we have ample evidence that it is the integration of life's elements, not their separation, that makes for contentment.  This is art, this is the art of living, this is looking Baudrillard in the face and saying, "yeah I know lol" then sticking your tongue out. And you're just pushing humanity into a new dimension of consciousness where the hyperreal doesn't fight reality but augments it.   I cannot sit idly by and let this apotheosis of eudaimonia go unpraised.   This is art. || CTX: maybe she had a point https://t.co/N9EnNq8RdT
2026-04-11T22:59 id=2043101593357459740 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Sorry to be that guy, but it's called an Electra Complex https://t.co/eOWPIg3HHR || CTX: gender swapped oedipus complex https://t.co/YBi4TbvmVV
2026-04-11T23:25 id=2043108150308671896 →- | Alex Imas retweeted this, which is a delightful little bit of aspirational thinking I'd like to analyze (Alex if you do read this please don't block me I respect you deeply, you're my 3rd favorite economist alive).  This comes from his introduction to the Tractatus, which no journal would accept (I think maybe one or two kinda offered but the offer wasn't genuine and involved editing). W. wanted to get this published as a book but no publisher in England would accept it, and so W. went to a publisher he had given a lot of money to in the past to ask him to publish it. That guy wrote back to W. saying he was on the verge of bankruptcy and could W. give him some money, but W. had disavowed his inheritance and given away his fortune before this so couldn't help the publisher, who then expressed hesitancy to get it published...   Yadda yadda yadda it only finally found a publisher thanks to Russell's introduction, and even then it got a limited run and it was only the fact that W. is the greatest philosopher since Heraclitus that the book became so well known.   The point of this story is that Wittgenstein's stubborn devotion to his ethics even if it meant sacrificing legibility and the risk of remaining obscure. Instead of playing the academia game of cheap wine and bad cheese at conferences where half the speakers don't know how to speak and the other half are blowhards, instead of making sure to cite the Important People including ofc the editor of the journal you're submitting to and your probable blind reviewers...   It's aspirational, you see. || CTX: When you’re not in the mood for a literature review but still want a publication: Ludwig Wittgenstein mode activated. https://t.co/gukUwH42NG
2026-04-11T23:27 id=2043108719127597125 →logicus | One of W.'s favorite texts the Thaeaetatus Dialogue which does gloss over this very idea.   The way I'd put it (not speaking for W. but as a fan): what is good is only good relative to a form of life, and each form of life defines the good according to a ruleset.   Some rulesets are bad. || CTX: so, e.g., platonic morality goes to a sidecar, but also there is no car, just a bunch of sidecars. it leaves the q of which sidecar. i’d want to rank them.  on the platonic view maybe you’d say actually the multitude of sidecars aren’t real
2026-04-11T23:42 id=2043112544135770448 →abcampbell | @abcampbell Excellent, and idk if you meant this but your essay gives me hope.  This was a step too far, the doomers will need to back off, the movement will fade.  It was a silly hiccup on the way to progress. || CTX: https://t.co/piuL6srPJP
2026-04-11T23:48 id=2043114039556071555 →rbrtrmstrng | You're describing terminal value, and yes.   The question is how far until that terminus and what does the curve look like.   Everyone in the AI industry (myself included) is aware of this, and it's fine. Most of the ROI will diffuse outside the AI/tech world. That's good!  Yes it means margins will compress over time, and then we'll have a new product and a new one and a new one, just as tech has been doing for 50 years (the margin on having a  webpage that just uses affiliate links to point to e-commerce sites used to be massive, now it's basically zero).  Finance is using the wrong logic with AI, which is fine my personal account loves it. || CTX: If this is remotely correct, doesn't it imply that ROI on the mountains of AI capax by the hyperscalers is going to be terrible? I.e., they are just building gazillions commodity computer power to run undifferentiated models? Or am I being 
2026-04-11T23:50 id=2043114595557269951 →pleometric | @pleometric Dude HOW?!?!? Most I ever did was I think about 23k, nearly passed out from that. || CTX: I had a lot on my mind today,   thankfully walking solves everything! https://t.co/B330iRXmbx
2026-04-12T00:04 id=2043118144836014557 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Legit not a bad idea for a benchmark, I am impressed. || CTX: Last night in the middle of the night, I thought of a possible new AI benchmark. Still needs some more work and data though before I can tell if it will reveal anything more than just noise. https://t.co/31MmDMUA7A
2026-04-12T00:18 id=2043121506272837711 →- | Make a battery of questions asking the AIs to answer with the most hypotaxis.  1. Create measure of structural complexity at the phrasal level and compare across models (which produces most complexity?)  2. Catalog what kinds of subordination are in each output and whether there's a pattern of which conjunctions follow which (regularities imply a kind of pattern to how the models' emergent thinking thinks)  Run occasionally and you get a weather report to how AI models' thinking is changing over time and possibly innate patterns to LLM thinking.   I'm working on another benchmark so can't make this one but this is absolutely a high value approach. || CTX: Last night in the middle of the night, I thought of a possible new AI benchmark. Still needs some more work and data though before I can tell if it will reveal anything more than just noise. https://t.co/31MmDMUA7A
2026-04-12T00:24 id=2043122981422145660 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart it's not a big jump from media theory to testing ai, so I'm not surprised you would have a natural talent for it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Glad this resonates!
2026-04-12T00:30 id=2043124561580007879 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad it's pronounced content sir || CTX: calorieless wordcelery
2026-04-12T00:53 id=2043130443185406170 →tkisrage | @tkisrage this is the best part of the story and I am shameless enough to admit I fantasize about getting an opportunity like this pretty much every day https://t.co/cElRmrkUPG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Eventually forced to bend the knee when he needed a phd to teach at cambridge. I think every genius with a low endurance for self justification dreams of this lol. https://t.co/ISGaU3n7UV
2026-04-12T01:28 id=2043139278285500511 →- | if we accept the Wittgensteinian extension (or dismantling if you like) of Frege's sense to include social-pragmatic force, then the ousting of the Papa John's CEO guy demonstrated society's then revealed preference for sense divorced from reference as the target of moral judgment regardless of intention because of an assumption that the social act is predetermined by the sense itself. In other words, directly referring to bad sense is just as bad as having bad sense.   This is policing of behavior and apathy to meaning or feeling. In other words: manners.  So whatever you want to call that whole cancel culture movement, it was not a political one but a politeness one. it was an effort to assert what is acceptable in an acceptable society and create outcasts.   This is probably not news to anyone.
2026-04-12T01:29 id=2043139491117048105 →207Nasher | @207Nasher @for_nat_whilk @1889lw are you saying that what is semantics in language 1 is syntax in the meta language or language 2? || CTX: @for_nat_whilk @1889lw @47fucb4r8c69323 That was also my understanding, my question was just that by asserting that you can use higher order logic you can just express the explicit model, so if you can explicitly say the all the semantics t
2026-04-12T01:30 id=2043139703898361980 →207Nasher | @207Nasher this is in my opinion the simplest and most powerful GDP and general happiness multiplier of AI. but it's going to take at least a generation until people learn how to use it properly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People aren’t embarrassed to ask there ai models stupid questions, this should speed up learning in general
2026-04-12T01:40 id=2043142057972367425 →- | if you are an angry person I promise you in the future you will look back and you won't feel justified or vindicated even if you were right and had a reason to be angry, you will feel heavy and foolish. Ideally, just look forward to relief and don't look back at anger.   When I told Noel Gallagher this he totally misheard me, that fucking idiot God I hate him so fucking much
2026-04-12T01:42 id=2043142640531804502 →207Nasher | @207Nasher @logicus goals exist only within a form of life || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus Why not just all value facts are true relative to goals?  Why the life form talk?
2026-04-12T01:53 id=2043145555074032059 →logicus | @logicus dude I'm fucking trying man it's so hard || CTX: who will align ai alignment?
2026-04-12T01:55 id=2043146036059980096 →- | Fuck you Vance markets going to be so so ugly tomorrow jfc end this already
2026-04-12T02:04 id=2043148145740464452 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I'm OOTL are bears attacking cos because they say SBC is too big a drag?  If they're doing this about the frontier labs, lmfao no way could the bears be that desperate || CTX: This isn't about SBC. This is about aligning narratives and trying to engineer an exit scenario for their failing investments.  Its fucking hilarious to me that companies and financial professionals were screaming adjusted EBITDA and ignori
2026-04-12T02:27 id=2043153926099550406 →logicus | The assumptions were promoted by the frontier labs at the marketing level. Marketing rhetoric was confused for assertions/predictions. The end result is chaos.   Sam and later Dario decided they'd talk to investors in public and the fallout was Yud got a platform and 4o zombies fell in love with their puters.   And to ensure the people who can fix this (serious linguists like me and now my team) don't, they alienated the humanities and put in place Askell et al. as a fig leaf.   It's smart strategy short term but it'll run out. Just when it runs out I hope the people who get the attention are the serious linguists, because if not we're fucked.   And that's why yours truly, retired cool island guy, has come out of retirement. Or so I like to tell myself tbh idk wtf is going on anymore I'm just having fun || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's axiomatically askew. the discourse is anchored to dubious assumptions that are taken for granted. it's profoundly negative in its outlook. pointless debates happen at the expense of the hard empirical work that could o
2026-04-12T02:31 id=2043154925807649096 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus I should add Dario doesn't know he's doing this. He's a true believer who thinks he's making little sacrifices along the way. His intentions don't really matter. || CTX: The assumptions were promoted by the frontier labs at the marketing level. Marketing rhetoric was confused for assertions/predictions. The end result is chaos.   Sam and later Dario decided they'd talk to investors in public and the fallout
2026-04-12T02:33 id=2043155628496150560 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I won't lie I'm jealous af || CTX: I am finally getting into one of those major lab early access model programs. i get to vague post https://t.co/zDs9STLTDs
2026-04-12T02:50 id=2043159919139148052 →47fucb4r8c69323 | like really really ugly, 2020 shit is not impossible https://t.co/Z3IpqExfvN || CTX: Fuck you Vance markets going to be so so ugly tomorrow jfc end this already
2026-04-12T02:51 id=2043160049607225742 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja odd, I just DMed, went through fine on my end. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm unable to message you again sire😭
2026-04-12T03:08 id=2043164222440505656 →teodorio | @teodorio @e0syn I could have a field day rummaging through the logs on this. || CTX: @e0syn @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-12T03:12 id=2043165314796716364 →teodorio | @teodorio Oh so then the prophecy has been fulfilled and Jesus has risen again so we can move on  cool thx for the heads up || CTX: Christ has risen again, orthodoxically this time. Some say this is the actual time but nevertheless he has risen!
2026-04-12T03:18 id=2043166893163393246 →- | Yud is over. When you do this kind of rhetoric parsing after an act of violence in meatspace, you're hoping hyperreality will overcome the base reality fear of death and repugnance at violence.  He's fighting against human nature now. When his message was "Terminator 2 is going to happen," he was fighting WITH human nature.  This is a big opportunity, guys. Get a sane message out there: "AI isn't conscious, it isn't evil, it's just a word calculator" is a good one, but someone else will come up with a better one.  We're gonna make it, bros. || CTX: Guys please, airstriking is obviously not bombing, he obviously meant dumping glitter on them, please stop being so hopelessly pedestrian https://t.co/QOdGrADseb
2026-04-12T03:22 id=2043167812076871802 →xanderatch | @xanderatch @mbateman This is a perfect example of Wittgenstein's notion of family resemblances (and the more modern notion of diachronic semantic drift).  Also a hint at why LLMs can never match human language use. || CTX: @mbateman there are no vegetables in a Caesar salad: Romaine lettuce → leaf Croutons → grain (fruit) Olive oil → fruit Lemon juice → fruit Garlic → bulb Black pepper → fruit Anchovies → fish Egg yolk → egg Parmesan cheese → dairy Salt → min
2026-04-12T03:28 id=2043169346445590620 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital oh that's even more devious jfc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No. I think its software bulls that are attacking SBC to shame companies into paying people less.   The loudest voices are from VCs
2026-04-12T03:30 id=2043169883111014549 →boneGPT | @boneGPT "You're making us be violent" this is the logic of a wifebeater. || CTX: ah yes, it's me goading people into violence.   let people know you don't really stand for shit so they stop doing terrorism. do the right thing, yud. https://t.co/GmuZm1Tyo4
2026-04-12T03:34 id=2043170989740269803 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital "There is little ownership mentality or long-term alignment baked into the instrument. It is compensation that happens to route through a brokerage account." stopped reading here lmao dude doesn't believe a word he's writing (or he's just straight up retarded) || CTX: https://t.co/x79YdUkxwE  All I know is I want NOTHING to do with this fuck.  Happy to ignore SBC and use Adjusted EBITDA when times are good but then screams about too much stock comp when AI threatens his pwecious wittle returns.  Man's ho
2026-04-12T03:41 id=2043172614534049927 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol @boneGPT No, that's a step too far. I will post on this (was just thinking about that like 10 minutes ago lol) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT first i find out nick land is real,  now accelerationism is real?  is crypto real?!?!
2026-04-12T03:49 id=2043174521541448182 →CatNyanpital | I agree with your read but I'd still say he's wrong in the narrow sense that, while it's true that employee-employer alignment isn't guaranteed by SBC and it isn't to be expected after vesting, that's a feature and not a bug.   A good firm will use SBC strategically to align incentives when necessary and vesting schedules are part of that. Needing them to believe in the long term vision over a 5yr period doesn't matter if all I need them to do is ship in the next 3 months.  My point being we don't need SBC to guarantee employees are ride or die 4 lyf, and no one serious really sees SBC as doing that, but his rhetoric implies it's EITHER that OR zero alignment. Stupidly blunt framing. || CTX: I don't think he's actually wrong about that part. There are a lot of employees don't see themselves as aligned long term with the company.   "I got bills to pay and can barely afford to live here".   "I wanna be diversified".   That's unde
2026-04-12T04:11 id=2043180155053740351 →47fucb4r8c69323 | (follow up for the historians): He blocked me a few weeks ago, as you can see I was on the right side of history https://t.co/hGbY4yPUWB || CTX: Yud is over. When you do this kind of rhetoric parsing after an act of violence in meatspace, you're hoping hyperreality will overcome the base reality fear of death and repugnance at violence.  He's fighting against human nature now. When 
2026-04-12T04:40 id=2043187378739916902 →muzkmuzkmuzk | @muzkmuzkmuzk Whenever I do UI changes to a site or stylistic changes to a text, I have the same feeling: "If only they knew what I'm thinking this bullshit would be unnecessary" but sadly telepathy isn't a thing and so I tweak. || CTX: Doing monotonous little front-end coding [with AI] to make our sites work to build an impeccable high quality Brand seems stupid but is vital and fulfilling in the context of Culture; the larger meaning of life.  You’ll get it soon.  [CULTI
2026-04-12T05:10 id=2043194954928075018 →ClerkFelix20614 | @ClerkFelix20614 Prove me wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Surely you're being hyperbolic with the claim that big Witty is the greatest philosopher since Heraclitus?
2026-04-12T05:39 id=2043202427885904122 →ClerkFelix20614 | @ClerkFelix20614 Best since Heraclitus. https://t.co/EYVxVAzoh6 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't intend to I don't mind Witty, but it's definitely a bold take.
2026-04-12T05:40 id=2043202627794837948 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @parmita Yeah the issues with AI are so complicated because they're based on false ideas of intelligence, consciousness, language, process... we got a TON of philosophical work to dissolve bewitching pictures. || CTX: @parmita @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-12T05:46 id=2043204169293774877 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer How are you in school that late? || CTX: https://t.co/q9gZo6cwtS https://t.co/QOPpNjtMz6
2026-04-12T05:49 id=2043204860401836065 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @for_nat_whilk Two of my favorite moots meeting up, man now I wanna visit Boston (haven't been since 2018 but absolutely loved it every time, Cambridge is incredible) || CTX: @for_nat_whilk And get into substantive issues!
2026-04-12T05:58 id=2043206998070845651 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 The enchantment, I assure you, is all mine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/yWGDOV1lqB
2026-04-12T06:18 id=2043212161233686695 →- | The Second Law says that an isolated system, left to itself, will tend to evolve toward macroscopic equilibrium.  As the system gets closer to that equilibrium, we say its entropy increases.  We are creatures of chaos. We hate peace. The struggle is the point. Work is fun.  Silly Business Theory #SBT is hard wired into the fucking universe.
2026-04-12T06:41 id=2043217954515640332 →- | A lot of people bristle when I say On Certainty was Wittgenstein's best work.   (lmao I'm lying no one cares)  But here's why: In the Tractatus, W. successfully shows us what exists beyond language. In the P. I., W. successfully shows us what is beyond rule making.   But in On Certainty l, he successfully shows us what is beyond reason itself.
2026-04-12T07:03 id=2043223552795742591 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I think he was already rather popular as a tech blogger but I forget the details || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder what his reputation was like when he first started talking about AI alignment.
2026-04-12T08:11 id=2043240694710714533 →- | And yet AI benchmarks all use a single scale.   Isn't that interesting. https://t.co/5dD5btyUnw || CTX: Terence Tao, a Fields Medal winner, reminds us that one of our biggest mistakes is imagining intelligence as a ladder.  But reality is far richer and more subtle than that.   Intelligence is not a hierarchy; it is an ecosystem, where differ
2026-04-12T08:15 id=2043241703898071150 →- | And yet AI benchmarks all use a single scalar.   Isn't that interesting. https://t.co/5dD5btyUnw || CTX: Terence Tao, a Fields Medal winner, reminds us that one of our biggest mistakes is imagining intelligence as a ladder.  But reality is far richer and more subtle than that.   Intelligence is not a hierarchy; it is an ecosystem, where differ
2026-04-12T08:29 id=2043245152379257228 →NewAgeRetroNerd | @NewAgeRetroNerd @e0syn okay you're clearly the resident expert on autism || CTX: @e0syn Do it fucker, I got jack daniels and some cheese, I could use a fillet https://t.co/BLgr9Fnrba
2026-04-12T08:38 id=2043247386546553077 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake I like this idea. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i remember discussing with someone about iq and the conclusion we reached was the best measure would be to map reduce the brain into a vector space and with enough examples we will begin to see clusters
2026-04-12T09:10 id=2043255311440716263 →- | I gave this prompt to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and bizarrely Gemini had the best response (CG the worst by FAR) https://t.co/eQSjV5XcVd
2026-04-12T09:12 id=2043255923041546380 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Should be "normie" not "objective" || CTX: why is -1sd on "objective" distribution labeled as "it's okay"? shouldn't "it's okay" be in the middle? https://t.co/EpUTMT9XRT
2026-04-12T09:28 id=2043259861560148045 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake and the people are really rude and the food is disgusting || CTX: kuala lumpur is too religious and closed minded, they apply sharia law everywhere, you will get arrested if you don’t attend the friday prayer!!!! https://t.co/meOPjJF8O8
2026-04-12T10:00 id=2043268091669622899 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 real versus simulacrum https://t.co/K36fHocys7 || CTX: compare and contrast that lazy product placement celebrity cameo with the cinematography and use of color in this scene with the senator. night and day. https://t.co/4fIhsG8Lt7 https://t.co/6AvxH4b7lo
2026-04-12T10:01 id=2043268201019326518 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 but it's not my birthday yet || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 it was a lie
2026-04-12T10:02 id=2043268488933077265 →bella_artur | @bella_artur @crypt0lake If you mean cognitive skills then I'm good with that || CTX: @crypt0lake @47fucb4r8c69323 Didn't IQ as a concept was born out of research that noticed that people who tended to do well in one subject tended to do well in the others too? The whole concept is inherently a scalar. Otherwise you're just 
2026-04-12T10:02 id=2043268597536153831 →archived_videos | @archived_videos you are missing my point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's why we have multiple benchmarks
2026-04-12T10:03 id=2043268787068366880 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @bella_artur also why IQ enjoyoors b dum @nntaleb || CTX: @bella_artur @47fucb4r8c69323 yea that is outdated af
2026-04-12T10:15 id=2043271854065152455 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @Samhain948689 ghost in the shell or Austin Powers in the nut || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 this also inspired the plot of GiTS SAC copies with no original
2026-04-12T10:24 id=2043273930161709089 →- | Sitcom called I Love Loosies about a guy who hangs outside a 7-11 trying to bumb cigarettes from customers as they come and go.
2026-04-12T11:56 id=2043297111333281973 →- | People think this way, like the sum is always equal to its parts and the act of summation is trivial.   Idgi https://t.co/cGvCDc1mDQ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If your intelligence is multidimensional just have a benchmark alongside each dimension, I don't really see the issue here
2026-04-12T12:45 id=2043309506034303311 →alicemazzy | @alicemazzy @StevenGlinert It honestly took me maybe 5 years of living in Thailand and talking to Thais to understand this. The basic assumptions of where a concept like national identity begins and ends are way more flexible than many who live in the west realize. || CTX: @StevenGlinert thai-chinese assimilation was probably easier because shared culture is the backbone of thainess, the country doesn't really have the "one homogenous national ethnicity plus some other guys" mental model
2026-04-12T12:52 id=2043311273459532280 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth This is why Wittgenstein said philosophy had to be serious, and the more serious the better the philosophy. Also why he gave his wealth away and lived a spartan lifestyle. || CTX: One way to judge how good a belief, behavior, or philosophy is: look at what it demands of you.   Does it demand your ignorance and irrationality? Denial of reality? Lies and deception? Blindness? Alienation from yourself and others?
2026-04-12T12:55 id=2043311977100173486 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod @ONAN_OUS Japanese gnocchi ( ノッ ) || CTX: @ONAN_OUS As a half Japanese man do you normally do 50/50 rice/potatoes?
2026-04-12T12:56 id=2043312280306372875 →0bNARA | @0bNARA be very careful with your spelling when googling "female miners" || CTX: i shouldn't need to live constantly on the lookout for ai slop in search results . what the hell is this ???? https://t.co/dBFHSRj1cp
2026-04-12T13:00 id=2043313268270444903 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 May I ask, if you're Not Samantha A, who are you? || CTX: news recap https://t.co/vAEmFISbpF
2026-04-12T13:21 id=2043318489126236324 →archived_videos | @archived_videos @207Nasher How would you suggest I produce a dynamically indexed scalar under regime-dependent axiomatization? || CTX: @207Nasher @47fucb4r8c69323 I genuinely don't see the issue that this causes. Lots of things are like this, we boil them down to simpler things to still be able to understand and make decisions
2026-04-12T13:28 id=2043320326340424098 →- | "A man says to me. '51413, done!' and when I ask him done with what, he says, 'I began counting the digits of pi backwards an infinite time ago.'" https://t.co/Xorka1RURF
2026-04-12T13:30 id=2043320804856004720 →bryancsk | @bryancsk I'm Jewish and I'm probably more confused about this than you are. || CTX: I'm always confused when people call me "goy" because it's used by both Jewish people and antisemites, and is used both as a joke and as a slur -- and used unironically, ironically and post-ironically. Y'all need to clarify.
2026-04-12T13:31 id=2043321182246854761 →ThatOtherBoi | @ThatOtherBoi @poorcarla Maybe the porn you watch || CTX: @poorcarla https://t.co/etojV77jFO
2026-04-12T13:32 id=2043321265478586585 →207Nasher | @207Nasher @archived_videos Yeah this is really the heart of the matter. || CTX: @archived_videos @47fucb4r8c69323 Beware of goodhearts law, or it will eat you alive
2026-04-12T13:34 id=2043321838928003472 →teodorio | @teodorio @ptichushka https://t.co/5zIFzFWgry || CTX: @ptichushka he ir truly risen now (not fake like last week)
2026-04-12T13:40 id=2043323399725072600 →llallawg | @llallawg @archived_videos @207Nasher it's stochastically reflexive || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @archived_videos @207Nasher Is psychometrics just a joke to you?   You try lots of things   Do factor analysis to see which contribute the most then look at those
2026-04-12T13:49 id=2043325664103919707 →archived_videos | @archived_videos @207Nasher scalars in regimes is exactly what I'm thinking of! But current benchmarks don't do that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @207Nasher Produce lots of scalars in lots of regimes, see how different regimes correlate, etc. The way we do it already for lots of stuff
2026-04-12T13:50 id=2043325794253201815 →llallawg | @llallawg @archived_videos @207Nasher yeah that's what I've thought as well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @archived_videos @207Nasher You mean with humans are ai?   You can just inject more noise into the test   Instead of a couple hundred questions you can do a couple hundred thousand
2026-04-12T13:52 id=2043326485369676146 →archived_videos | @archived_videos @207Nasher lol we're back to square one.   Connecting Benchmark A to Benchmark B is not a trivial problem, and any bridge you use impacts the outcomes.   It's not that easy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @207Nasher I would say they kind of do if you consider different benchmarks different regimes. Would be interesting to see how much different benchmarks correlate btw, not sure if there's data on that
2026-04-12T13:56 id=2043327384729145609 →archived_videos | @archived_videos @207Nasher so combo of scalar regimes and this: https://t.co/cfutBB6DmY  You guys are dovetailing with my own conclusions, it's kinda spooky || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @archived_videos @207Nasher You mean with humans are ai?   You can just inject more noise into the test   Instead of a couple hundred questions you can do a couple hundred thousand
2026-04-12T14:03 id=2043329223709069727 →archived_videos | @archived_videos @207Nasher I'm saying "we have a long engineering todolist ahead of us that will force us to rethink how we think about intelligence" || CTX: @207Nasher @47fucb4r8c69323 I think I'm saying something like, "we have a long engineering todolist ahead of us rather than having to rethink how we think about intelligence"
2026-04-12T21:17 id=2043438266192683143 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Wow, good point I hadn't thought of it that way before || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is also the (functional) problem with eugenics.
2026-04-12T21:36 id=2043443195011613009 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart What would be ideal is a proxy for readability in your benchmark so that it scores for this too, which you could do somewhat easily by training an LLM on texts tagged readable/unreadable by a panel. || CTX: Impressively readable, yet structurally complex, sentence produced by Sonnet. https://t.co/9EbSxfpHxa https://t.co/LQA7Edmrqw
2026-04-12T21:48 id=2043446176993935744 →sciad | @sciad Again the issue is turning a facet of intelligence into a vector requires loss of information. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47fucb has clearly never taken linear algebra. mfw bro doesn't know what a vector span is
2026-04-12T21:55 id=2043447952493195366 →TheStalwart | You can use a modified DELPHI method: get a panel of experts to do rounds of analysis, feed it into the benchmark and get an index to compare against.  Then you do this iteratively over time with more and more experts working in different institutions over time.  You could then loop that into the models themselves and have recursive rlhf that posttrains LLMs on the fly recursively and unendingly. I suspect this is how open model GenAIs might operate when the compute is cheap enough (this model is impractical now). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you explain this further? How would you envision folding this dimension in
2026-04-12T21:56 id=2043448260044677233 →sciad | @sciad ohhh I thought your reply was serious lol yeah you know EXACTLY the point I'm making. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah the metaphor doesn’t carry if you look too too closely, the idea that you can meaningfully quantify human life with a set of vectors is obviously false
2026-04-12T21:58 id=2043448696617242771 →sciad | @sciad Man that's a level of in the zone I aspire to at all times || CTX: I’m actually stimming rn 3 cups coffee no carbs five assignments done Dorian Saraci in my ear claude writing ARM assembly AHAHAHAHAHA
2026-04-12T21:59 id=2043449070958809431 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer I admit I am a coward and would be happy for the markets to close until Mayday, you know for the proletariat || CTX: open the market you cowards
2026-04-12T22:00 id=2043449247392251976 →teodorio | @teodorio It's honestly a sign you're happy with your life || CTX: I never feel like writing long form as I have nothing to say to you that won't fit in 200 characters. Which I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing.
2026-04-12T22:05 id=2043450580484640832 →ZyMazza | In the airstrikes case, replace "data centers" with the "Southern Poverty Law Center" and then ask, "would such a statement have gotten Yud banned on pre-Elon Twitter?" and the answer is, "yes and investigated by the FBI and possibly arrested."   "It's just rhetoric" is not an acceptable justification when you're calling for destruction of lives or property unless joking, and the airstrike comment was absolutely NOT a joke. || CTX: This is not complicated. If violence is ever justifiable (and almost everyone agrees it is), then it would be under a circumstance of preventing imminent harm  If you proclaim that a maximal harm is imminent, the most natural conclusion is 
2026-04-12T22:07 id=2043450882512261535 →Stagflater | @Stagflater @TheStalwart Maybe, so we could have another model that doesn't do this alongside the one that does, and you can run a research institute showing which is better according to what standard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart Sound like a great way to poison an LLM.
2026-04-12T22:13 id=2043452575421534321 →- | "If intelligence says that a blogger outside TPOT is arguing against AI, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nerds (lol) than of the moratorium being violated," 47fucb advised. "Be willing to destroy a rogue blogger's gooncave by airstrike."   How is this any different? Why wouldn't saying such a thing in earnest to the mainstream press not be seen as a call for violence?  Yud is a stochastic terrorist. He just is.
2026-04-12T22:16 id=2043453113605198089 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I had to look it up, the actual quote and the context is worse than I imagined  Btw, you know how such ridiculous histrionic rhetoric got promoted? Silly Business Theory #SBT of course: in the attention economy, attention is given to whatever is silly enough to warrant attention https://t.co/snM87DjNh2 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My biggest problem is the imminence of his framing. Talking about airstrikes in an abstract sense is one thing. Saying we need to orient policy around it NOW or we’re all gonna DIE is another
2026-04-12T22:20 id=2043454192409530831 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza "Having sex with women is gay" it's the same Fuentes/Andrew Tate shock-jock style to get attention in a noisy media economy.   This is why I knew never to take Yud seriously, and this is proof you CAN dismiss some "thinkers" out of hand even before reading their books. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He’s also said a nuclear exchange is preferable to AI being developed
2026-04-12T22:24 id=2043455186312831353 →tszzl | @tszzl Before RLHF and preference tuning, the model wasn't off kilter and after it was?   That's surely just a coincidence. || CTX: gpt2 was lowkey too dangerous to release, it’s all been a bit off kilter since then
2026-04-12T22:26 id=2043455812941828497 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney Do you remember the philosopher at Oxford (maybe Cambridge) in the mid 20th century who was so dedicated to being truthful he'd never promise anything? John Searle tells the story in a lecture but I forget who it was. || CTX: 'You would hardly want to be like my uncle, who was such a rigid stickler for dealing with “the truth, and nothing but the truth” that his reading was confined to telephone directories!'  — Rajeev Patke, on truth
2026-04-12T22:28 id=2043456201879679228 →Alexxcastlee | @Alexxcastlee @flowersslop Progress. || CTX: @flowersslop https://t.co/DtdSIj4g7Q
2026-04-12T22:38 id=2043458737143517477 →DogsAndSciFi | @DogsAndSciFi @TheStalwart Hence the need for a proxy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart 'Readable' is inherently subjective. Proust fans and Hemingway advocates would label very differently.
2026-04-12T22:57 id=2043463441013444841 →- | Any work of art begins as an act of self expression to represent something: an object, a feeling, a moment, whatever.  The object is complete when the self feels expressed and the thing is perfectly represented by the self's opinion. But once you move that object from the studio to the real world to be perceived, uptake determines its transition from self-expression to cultural capital. The more uptake, the more cultural capital. The less, the more the object remains self-expression.  This may explain why so many artists find publication unsatisfying and grow to hate the art they once loved (or, what's worse, see it merely as a means to acquire capital, like in Picasso's waning years). Consider Thom Yorke's eventual hatred of Creep, a song he'd written about his own self loathing. A more understandable trajectory I have never seen.  This also explains why I don't want my novel to be discovered until I am dead: I don't want the cultural capital credited to my account, because I don't want the self expression debit.
2026-04-12T23:06 id=2043465716285022215 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t! Sounds like an upstanding fellow who free rides on others who aren’t so upstanding.
2026-04-12T23:30 id=2043471752370786729 →DaystarEld | @DaystarEld @ZyMazza that is a fair criticism, but I can't read everything. so what should I do? I'm not going to read Mein Kampf before deciding that naziism is bad, so how does one proceed? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza "I don't have to read his book, I can judge his arguments by out of context tweets and screenshots" brother you were just railing agaisnt SBT and the attention economy.  You're it. The hot takes over substantive ar
2026-04-12T23:32 id=2043472386859913580 →DaystarEld | @DaystarEld @ZyMazza if you think I can't try to imagine someone that disagrees with me has beliefs that I don't, then I'm clearly too stupid and acting in too bad faith to engage with and so you should move along now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza If you can't even *try* to imagine someone you disagree with has beliefs you don't, and criticize their arguments with different data that you believe they don't have, then you putting "thinkers" in quotes is reall
2026-04-12T23:35 id=2043472989052887459 →DaystarEld | I've already had plenty of people shove his viewpoint down my throat, and all of those derivative explanations have been too comically absurd to take seriously, so just like the evangelicals who tell me I need to read more of their biblical scholars to know evolution is not real, I dismiss this movement until they present something that justifies a closer look. if you think that makes me an anti-intellectual or dishonest or evil or whatever, then fine, we disagree and should part ways. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza If this is an honest inquiry, I guess I have to admit it's a hard thing to answer. My main question first is "what are you most confused by?" Or "what are you most curious about?"  Related to *broad gestures* all t
2026-04-12T23:35 id=2043473223065755892 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay Schur is a good writer || CTX: @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 hey its me (your long lost pal) https://t.co/RUCKblYMiB
2026-04-12T23:55 id=2043478163427356982 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay You spelled soros backwards || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay do you think he soros rex? https://t.co/9BFEL87c0Q
2026-04-12T23:57 id=2043478668945887351 →logicus | @logicus Yudkowsky should've been ruthlessly mocked and bullied instead of taken seriously. The AI industry let him set the terms of the debate, always a losing move.   Stop taking bloggers seriously I've been yelling this on this site for 6 months (and off site for 20 years) || CTX: the attacks on sama don't indicate that norm-policing fringe psycho discourse is the best next move. it's more important and more powerful to focus telling the wonderful positive story of how ai can and will help people and on making that r
2026-04-12T23:59 id=2043479183767302644 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay Ayam gallus gallus (Asia edition) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay ayam H https://t.co/PzcnzZo8JS
2026-04-13T00:04 id=2043480338966671413 →punished_daniel | @punished_daniel Japanese perfected chopsticks, Chinese long lacquered ones are the worst imo (even worse than the metal ones) || CTX: Anytime I have to use the korean style metal rectangular chopsticks https://t.co/abF1Gv96VZ
2026-04-13T00:07 id=2043481184362246251 →punished_daniel | @punished_daniel Next time I try to pick up a bamboo shoot in some slippery greasy sauce with Chinese chopsticks, I'll just have you come over and hand feed me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 To each their own but no the metal ones are worse
2026-04-13T00:10 id=2043481864267252087 →- | Japanese chopsticks: feel best in hands, lightest, most gripping power without slippage. DOWNSIDE: Disposable, bad for environment   Korean chopsticks: easy to clean, cheap, long lasting DOWNSIDE: Literally everything else   Chinese chopsticks: beautiful, elegant, light, environmentally friendly, reusable DOWNSIDE: slippery food basically impossible to grip with them || CTX: Anytime I have to use the korean style metal rectangular chopsticks https://t.co/abF1Gv96VZ
2026-04-13T00:13 id=2043482773760213212 →logicus | it's especially shocking if you come from academia where gatekeepers ensure that only certain people are allowed to speak about certain things in certain places, but the magic of the internet is that you literally can just do things.   We as a civilization will figure this out, but for now there are a lot of growing pains like idiot bloggers getting too much attention. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i lost my mind a bit in my first year here because of this. in reality anyone with a platform has power and is de facto taken seriously. that’s actually all that matters in a sense. the content of what people who have a pla
2026-04-13T00:15 id=2043483169123623012 →- | when you condemn someone as evil, you empower them. when you call them retarded, you disempower them. and so we see how the language policing of the last decade disempowered the powerless to disempower people in power.
2026-04-13T00:25 id=2043485775543881799 →DVreenak | @DVreenak Make them the same as Chinese chopsticks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What would it take to make Japanese chopsticks reusable? It seems to be the obvious question.
2026-04-13T00:32 id=2043487448441974810 →chaveznkrumah | @chaveznkrumah @pintele_id If it was for thinking Descartes is a good philosopher, it was the right decision || CTX: @pintele_id Does anyone know why he was denied tenure?
2026-04-13T00:36 id=2043488568497381581 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay Fairground Saints lied to me they're Fowlground Demons || CTX: @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay pudge controls the weather https://t.co/TxjGHMDHjR
2026-04-13T00:39 id=2043489162121326621 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @Ken67547214 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @specialkdelslay ken is an amnagram for nek || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @Ken67547214 @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @specialkdelslay ok but ken was the one trying to find an anagram can we clown him instead
2026-04-13T00:42 id=2043489975237534022 →- | So far the most profound thing about Sam's art is how much it has made me confront the question of how much do I value mysteries and how much do I value solving puzzles for the sake of solving puzzles.  Turns out I actually don't know. https://t.co/gwnMF5xASH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @specialkdelslay it is important for screenshots to keep things straight https://t.co/ZG94IQh6Ks
2026-04-13T00:45 id=2043490761430487104 →- | RT @8bit5_0: There is a perverse incentive from the safety folks to play up capabilities, to be not entirely honest about experimental set… || CTX: There is a perverse incentive from the safety folks to play up capabilities, to be not entirely honest about experimental set up, and to anthropomorphize conclusions.  Many of them have their identities and careers tied up in this and if AI
2026-04-13T00:50 id=2043491967649345828 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @specialkdelslay Never heard of them but going by the name of their debut album (meta-eponymously titled) they seem unusually solipsistic (but this can't be proven inside the band) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @specialkdelslay do you guys know yours truly? from australia. they did high hopes (not the panic! at the disco one)
2026-04-13T00:51 id=2043492345237361150 →Filciti | @Filciti @crypt0lake (when you find a place as awesome and as underappreciated, gotta hide it from the normies) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake It’s kinda funny, seeing more foreigners helping us gatekeep the country 😂 P/S: saw your other tweet about Malaysia
2026-04-13T01:17 id=2043498802305458506 →- | Automatically switching from Google to ChatGPT in Atlas is amazing @bengoodger you guys cooked with this one
2026-04-13T02:04 id=2043510596893900963 →Swan_mmsp | @Swan_mmsp I live in Thailand and NGL I still prefer the japanese ones because imo they get more purchase by being more square || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not the particular brand itself but the  type of wood chopsticks you find individually wrapped in plastic
2026-04-13T02:05 id=2043510744810140112 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @lu_sichu @norvid_studies 🙏 || CTX: @lu_sichu @norvid_studies @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-13T02:07 id=2043511386807128483 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @ZyMazza @norvid_studies Sichu even knows what my speaking voice sounds like, the poor bastard || CTX: @ZyMazza @norvid_studies @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/vK3QXANCpB
2026-04-13T02:13 id=2043512881036288308 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu @for_nat_whilk @1889lw @bas_logic @retardbot9000 @sciad @Geero_Gero @quiveron_x @bytecanyon @logicus @GetMentalWealth @8bit5_0 @Xilo_K @RsndSpeculation || CTX: recommendations welcome https://t.co/chUIb6Wgtj
2026-04-13T02:20 id=2043514664844464228 →sciad | @sciad Normies want to be seen more than they want to be right. I have never understood this. || CTX: the problem with sycophancy is how brutally effective it is. I realized a friend of mine who was very popular in high school was liked by everyone because he just agreed by default with everything they said
2026-04-13T02:37 id=2043518881420259552 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @lu_sichu @for_nat_whilk @1889lw @bas_logic @sciad @Geero_Gero @quiveron_x @bytecanyon @logicus @GetMentalWealth @8bit5_0 @Xilo_K @RsndSpeculation This is dehumanizing rhetoric I am reporting you to the Southern Poverty Law Center. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu @for_nat_whilk @1889lw @bas_logic @sciad @Geero_Gero @quiveron_x @bytecanyon @logicus @GetMentalWealth @8bit5_0 @Xilo_K @RsndSpeculation my goat
2026-04-13T02:38 id=2043519186450968624 →DaystarEld | @DaystarEld @ZyMazza You think expertise in one domain is transitive to another domain, but I would bet money you believe this both inconsistently and incoherently. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza We can stop if you want, but *I'm* curious... does any part of you at all register that this isn't just "his viewpoint?"  Like, you see people like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio warn about existential risk from
2026-04-13T02:57 id=2043523918561202330 →Xilo_K | @Xilo_K @lu_sichu @for_nat_whilk @1889lw @bas_logic @retardbot9000 @sciad @Geero_Gero @quiveron_x @bytecanyon @logicus @GetMentalWealth @8bit5_0 @RsndSpeculation I actually hesitated having you to the list because your follower count is bigger than mine, srsly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lu_sichu @for_nat_whilk @1889lw @bas_logic @retardbot9000 @sciad @Geero_Gero @quiveron_x @bytecanyon @logicus @GetMentalWealth @8bit5_0 @RsndSpeculation My acc isn’t *that* small it’s perfectly average
2026-04-13T02:57 id=2043524060206989606 →TheOmniZaddy | @TheOmniZaddy @punished_daniel The correct chopsticks take above deserves an instant follow. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @punished_daniel Japanese chopsticks are good for their specific purpose of being for sushi and sashimi. But not as good for just going to town on a bunch of different dishes with a bowl of rice, Chinese chopsticks best for
2026-04-13T03:12 id=2043527688456126829 →- | Delivering alpha in capital markets feels better than getting an academic paper accepted into a top journal.  And if you are delivering alpha in public markets with large cap U.S. companies, that's better than two chicks at a time, man
2026-04-13T03:38 id=2043534183084200123 →- | Someone here tweeted (was it @entelechiada?) that an autist trap is caring more about being right than being legible, which has been stuck in my head since I read it because, ok, yeah, guilty as charged how dare you. Then for today's Italian lesson ChatGPT gave me this paragraph, like adding insult to injury:  "La distinzione tra precisione ed efficacia è spesso trascurata, ma risulta cruciale. Un’argomentazione può essere formalmente precisa, cioè priva di ambiguità, senza tuttavia risultare efficace nel persuadere un interlocutore. Al contrario, un discorso efficace può raggiungere il proprio obiettivo comunicativo pur sacrificando parte della precisione concettuale. Questa tensione emerge chiaramente nel linguaggio politico, dove ciò che è rilevante non è sempre ciò che è rigorosamente dimostrabile. Un’ipotesi espressa in modo accurato può non essere recepita, mentre una formulazione più semplificata si rivela più incisiva. Ne consegue che precisione ed efficacia non coincidono, e che il loro equilibrio dipende dal contesto."  Vaffanculo, clancoro stupido.
2026-04-13T03:38 id=2043534290919780554 →NewAgeRetroNerd | @NewAgeRetroNerd @e0syn you and just about every guy in the neighborhood || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @e0syn I am also the resident expert on your mom
2026-04-13T03:40 id=2043534854604853365 →tkisrage | Read widely and broadly, focus on being able to talk to many different people in different registers (speak academically to academics, techy to engineers, smart/savvy to finance people, etc.).  Think clearly about what the work you want to do looks like (for me it was writing) and go where it seems that you will most easily be able to do this and get paid for it (for me this meant financial journalism).  You'll find your niche, just keep learning, never stop learning, don't think learning is a means to an end, it is an end of itself and the highest end--the amor Dei intellectualis. "We are not here to make a paradise, we are here to learn." - Kurt Godel || CTX: Broad question, 21 and starting career on the street. Best way to position myself for success 10 years down the road? I’ve been getting murky answers from professionals since the dynamics of the field seem less predictable due to ai, older 
2026-04-13T03:43 id=2043535492185256060 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer hate to be that guy but idk man, doesn't look like AI to me || CTX: 🙄 https://t.co/wYIq3GTdWt
2026-04-13T04:07 id=2043541488634913075 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/FFL0mD6Bkb || CTX: I do feel that but I am not autistic so makes you wonder huh https://t.co/oI2dj2aN3j
2026-04-13T04:07 id=2043541620935794817 →oo14lo | @oo14lo @punished_daniel I would but their culture is not my costume and I'm still pretending it's 2018 so... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @punished_daniel you have to improve your chopstick skills 🫣 Chinese chopsticks are so easy
2026-04-13T04:09 id=2043542043113443488 →teodorio | @teodorio Thanks for the reminder that Google images search has become more or less useless too btw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I knew you would I had hope, but I hope you appreciate the assist!
2026-04-13T04:10 id=2043542268653850855 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @entelechiada First time we went to Italy my girlfriend amused the staff at a restaurant because she ordered 4 dishes of pannacotta for dessert and yes finished every one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @entelechiada Psyop for tiramisu achieved damn I want some now
2026-04-13T04:33 id=2043547987952242754 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @entelechiada I guess I should tap the sign. https://t.co/Z888tgZbh8 || CTX: The whole point of this account is to make predictions about the future that are so absurd, a future historian will discover this account long after those predictions came true and try to study me more and more.  But since this is anonymous
2026-04-13T04:33 id=2043548092197453879 →Markintosh15 | @Markintosh15 @crypt0lake Spot on, I'm a disgusting loser and you absolutely should not listen to me or read any of my tweets, maybe best to block me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake Let me guess..you are another washed out white living in Thailand :)
2026-04-13T05:08 id=2043556995199053867 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace Murder and rape are retarded actions. Your hesitancy stems from awe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a challenging take for me to accept. When describing evil acts (murder, rape), I only think to call it “evil.”  But if I call it “retarded,” the label doesn’t sound entirely correct, but the label is much more dimin
2026-04-13T05:14 id=2043558342308839473 →- | The Unabomber's Manifesto is a more responsible call to arms than @ESYudkowsky's book.
2026-04-13T05:15 id=2043558703757201512 →boneGPT | @boneGPT OnlyFans NoGuns || CTX: does our shooter have an onlyfans?  how common of a name is Amanda Tom https://t.co/oJOnLz2wns https://t.co/HYZl4yzKcN
2026-04-13T05:38 id=2043564574922961151 →itsfyr_ | @itsfyr_ @thedreamchazer @crypt0lake more like a blockade (I would kill for roti canai rn this thread is painful) || CTX: @thedreamchazer @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake Hes justbgatekeeping our country🤣
2026-04-13T05:52 id=2043567950842740966 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @ElmWho @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill I'm being told I can do a lot of things.   Makes sense.   This website once told me you can just do things.   So you and yuzu are being a tad redundant. https://t.co/iXXPDSAZ7l || CTX: @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @ElmWho @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill you can stop listening to me at any time.  the choice is yours.  you have 24 hours. https://t.co/DcyljcDphx
2026-04-13T06:36 id=2043578950950203580 →sterlingcrispin | @sterlingcrispin @Polymarket Simple and brilliant idea, my god || CTX: Introducing: Nothing Ever Happens  A @Polymarket bot that automatically buys "No" for every non-sports market and holds to resolution.  Why predict the future when 73.4% of all Polymarkets resolve as No? Stop over thinking it. Nothing Ever 
2026-04-13T06:56 id=2043584069192278120 →- | if theory of mind is cultural instead of biological, it seems to me that we could see an emergent theory of mind in llms even if they're not conscious. it wouldn't be an actual theory per se but it could be sufficiently stable to be considered theory equivalent for research purposes.
2026-04-13T07:08 id=2043587231856931027 →etriclearns | @etriclearns I often think about people I haven't seen online since the 1990s, I'm definitely not the only one too. || CTX: &gt;offline: last seen 5 years ago where do these people go? i wonder if im like that for anyone. it feels like i only remember ghosts these days. i wonder if anyone thinks of me like this. i can't say for sure.
2026-04-13T07:23 id=2043590848039055829 →Samhain948689 | Does the music video for DJ Snake's Turn Down for What represent sexuality as a kind of unconsentimg act of violence that offends those who happen to eavesdrop but is not intended by the lovemaker, who has gone from pleasure seeker to combatant and whose only recourse to maintain sovereignty of the will is to embrace the violence of the offense whereby the eavesdropper is provided both the cause of offense and the evidence of ill-will, the true identity of which relies upon a false assertion under bad faith pretenses of an ability to assert certifiable evidence to a justifiable ethical standard of moral opprobrium which thus forces a judgment of guilt? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill understand? https://t.co/UUrl6YoZF3
2026-04-13T07:42 id=2043595662877765862 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz axiomatic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What are the distinguishing factors for "actual"?
2026-04-13T07:48 id=2043597169257820588 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @entelechiada I wish a better fate for you than that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @entelechiada Can you just tell me when I marry rich then
2026-04-13T08:09 id=2043602580144877578 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @ESYudkowsky HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky i didn't even know he was sick https://t.co/igMKlWCwYr
2026-04-13T10:01 id=2043630547784896612 →- | It is impossible to say beforehand whether e.g. running a cigarette factory but giving away all profits to good causes (that actually do good) is bad or good, because we cannot know if our running it affects demand. If it doesn't, it'd be more ethical running the business than not, because if not the replacement won't likely try to turn a business of selling poison into a business of benefiting humanity.   This is a simple example of cases in which the ethical choice cannot be known ahead of time, and the ethical choice might actually be the one that looks prima facie unethical. There are many.   One cannot live without risk of being unethical.
2026-04-13T10:02 id=2043630793780822485 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake インセル || CTX: i think i got too deep into japanese x, pull me back grok https://t.co/QO93UtqWTJ
2026-04-13T10:05 id=2043631662744117335 →47fucb4r8c69323 | My problem is I'm not smart enough to lose interest in undergrad textbook problems, even in my 40s. || CTX: It is impossible to say beforehand whether e.g. running a cigarette factory but giving away all profits to good causes (that actually do good) is bad or good, because we cannot know if our running it affects demand. If it doesn't, it'd be m
2026-04-13T10:42 id=2043641008651694185 →iuvanet | @iuvanet https://t.co/bPorefS8be || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'm undergrad phi major studying ethics and i'm smart enough to lose interest in them. how smart does this make me ?
2026-04-13T10:49 id=2043642838748156267 →Stagflater | @Stagflater @TheStalwart That's a good point, thanks you've given me something to consider. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart Wouldn't that mean it would do no better than the model it's measured against? How about you use the method you are suggesting, but aim for efficiency instead of learning.  Dynamic learning is an entirely diffe
2026-04-13T11:09 id=2043647646318113038 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I'm not a Protestant.   I suppose my answer is: good accrues to their best efforts, bad accrues to their intentions. So bad intentions cannot yield good and best efforts do not justify bad outcomes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you think in both cases the most ethical actor is the one who gets penalized?
2026-04-13T11:23 id=2043651407744749848 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Excellent point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think that’s asymmetric to compare at first glance but i agree with intention. however, intentions are often opaque to the intender
2026-04-13T11:35 id=2043654425252933798 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital iirc expectations of tech infra demand surge was around in 2022 (unrelated to crypto or AI) but I don't remember the supposed catalyst, but maybe pandemic related. || CTX: Did anyone ever figure out why Berkshire bought $HPQ in 2022 and exited in 2024?  Printing as a service? Idk
2026-04-13T11:47 id=2043657424901730407 →Halalcoholism | 1. Coffee culture in Italy is different and presentation doesn't matter. It's about speed, the espresso is the focus and the vast majority of drinks sold.   2. The focus is on taste, atmosphere, culture, community. Making pretty shapes is silly.   3. If you had bad coffee, sorry, the best coffee I've had was in Rome (I wouldn't be surprised if you were in Venice, Venice sucks), good coffee is everywhere, and a cappuccino or caffe latte is good because Italian milk is so rich and delicious.   4. If you didn't like the taste of the coffee itself it could be you're used to sweeter or more diluted drinks from the international chain coffee shops. Like even without sweeteners, if you're getting a 24oz cappuccino with a double shot, do the math.  5. Vaffanculo a tu e a tua mama. || CTX: What’s the deal here? How can Italy be so pivotal to coffee culture yet have bad coffee? Someone who knows things please explain to me.  (Fwiw I was in Italy for a week and had mediocre coffee but it was where I was staying, I didn’t really
2026-04-13T11:55 id=2043659305266847995 →- | I've met tons of nerdy types who were total idiots, they just liked sci fi and anime and shit  Then I've met tons of, like, physically active, typical jock types who were extremely intelligent but we're extremely mainstream in their interests   I think these stereotypes need to die, if they still exist today (do kids see jocks and nerds as categories?)
2026-04-13T11:56 id=2043659502965432627 →Halalcoholism | @Halalcoholism oh yeah that's gonna be bad coffee!   You need to spend more time in the country, it really deserves the hype. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m from Melbourne which is one of the best coffee cities, and it’s very Italian-influenced. My italian coffee experience wasn’t terrible but I didn’t get a chance to go somewhere just for a coffee. It would be part of a ho
2026-04-13T11:59 id=2043660363854647437 →helscom | @helscom We need to bring back admiring Renaissance men. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 better people are better at everything
2026-04-13T12:01 id=2043660806076923988 →muttface | @muttface @Halalcoholism Maybe it's because the Italians use less beans per gram than in Australia? That's an issue with Americans too (just less noticable since most of them aren't sophisticated coffee drinkers, I know Ozzies absolutely are). || CTX: @Halalcoholism @47fucb4r8c69323 I was just in Italy and I did go looking for good coffee. Didn’t find it. I also find it puzzling. Melbourne is a million times better.
2026-04-13T12:02 id=2043661050856566828 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic link plz || CTX: i ship the two of these guys together as a yaoi https://t.co/Q0oFWJD03q
2026-04-13T12:05 id=2043661731474690384 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Jock type gotta be muscular AF and nerdy type is a gorgeous feminine twink  Yeah this has got legs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &lt;nerdy type who's a total idiot, who just likes sci fi and anime and shit&gt; x &lt;physically active, typical jock type who's extremely intelligent but is extremely mainstream in his interests&gt; = a potential yaoi?
2026-04-13T12:05 id=2043661873267273753 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @scheminglunatic then make it a Pinky and the Brain reboot || CTX: @scheminglunatic Jock type gotta be muscular AF and nerdy type is a gorgeous feminine twink  Yeah this has got legs
2026-04-13T12:06 id=2043661996101628229 →jjjjjjjbat | @jjjjjjjbat @Halalcoholism I need to visit Australia. || CTX: @Halalcoholism @47fucb4r8c69323 Gotta be honest Melbourne is like one of the top cities for coffee in the whole world, not sure how you thought anywhere else would top that
2026-04-13T12:06 id=2043662132341059798 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic I see. A purist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no actually the nerdy type is also masculine otherwise its not #TRAD_YAOI sorry to say.
2026-04-13T12:08 id=2043662681060897260 →- | As I was walking into the practice room of the Tokyo Philharmonic, a young flautist was scrambling around the room, and after I asked him, "what're you looking for?" he answered, "Boku no piccolo!"
2026-04-13T12:18 id=2043665139434660129 →teodorio | @teodorio @Halalcoholism HK is amazing coffee, best I've had outside of Italy. Tokyo close second. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Halalcoholism Lmao ahahaha  The best coffee I had was florence I have a couple of spots in Oltrarno to the south shore  but yeah it's espresso and it's without sugar as it is intended. Also the cappuccino is divine. But an
2026-04-13T12:27 id=2043667489872318872 →- | A lot of people do this about their clankers https://t.co/ZRPdM8ar1M || CTX: A common experience: Many brilliant scientists cannot grasp elementary philosophical distinctions. Last night I could not get a colleague to understand the difference between the "hard" (sentience, subjectivity, experience) and "easy" (repo
2026-04-13T12:34 id=2043669206558990488 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @CatNyanpital I remember now, cloud capex explosion was the hot topic then. || CTX: @CatNyanpital iirc expectations of tech infra demand surge was around in 2022 (unrelated to crypto or AI) but I don't remember the supposed catalyst, but maybe pandemic related.
2026-04-13T12:51 id=2043673477430079727 →netcapgirl | @netcapgirl I mean look at their income statements for 10 fucking years now || CTX: if your ceo is at coachella you should have your resume ready https://t.co/ll5FZ6BU7e
2026-04-13T12:58 id=2043675103511351314 →- | The orgies are better in New York than in Vegas but the bagels are better in Vegas than in New York.
2026-04-13T13:06 id=2043677328593867057 →teodorio | @teodorio idk I never had a bagel in Amsterdam || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They are both better in Amsterdam!
2026-04-13T13:12 id=2043678715499192678 →projectionheart | @projectionheart Fuck, I shouldn't have sold my house in Hudson Valley || CTX: “Hudson Valley Next” 😭 https://t.co/1n6zlgpmTh
2026-04-13T13:24 id=2043681831976091733 →ManticoreCap | @ManticoreCap I have heard good things about both of these in Montreal, come to think of it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Montreal &gt;&gt;&gt;
2026-04-13T13:26 id=2043682358868824559 →- | Fun fact: Baseball team Montreal Expos were named after the city's world famous strippers.
2026-04-13T13:32 id=2043683828930314687 →steve_shives | @steve_shives Look at good fanfic writers https://t.co/px6bT0MvWs || CTX: What I would do if I were in charge of Star Trek (but seriously):  Solicit pitches from writers who have never worked on Trek, episodic format, no legacy characters, no explicit sequels/prequels. Pick the best pitch, hire a diverse cast/cre
2026-04-13T14:16 id=2043694746741403943 →quantymacro | @quantymacro Seems it doesn't really matter what the task is, tools don't determine best in class outcomes, they just raise the ceiling on what is possible (and lower the floor of what is acceptable). || CTX: some have asked me about my time in Renaissance Technologies. although I’m retired I can’t really say much due to NDA, but I have an unseen interview snippet from my ex-colleague Nick (hope the kids are doing well mate) that I’m comfortable
2026-04-13T14:29 id=2043698127648207116 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @quantymacro dammit I meant raise the floor || CTX: @quantymacro Seems it doesn't really matter what the task is, tools don't determine best in class outcomes, they just raise the ceiling on what is possible (and lower the floor of what is acceptable).
2026-04-13T14:37 id=2043700139123212467 →- | Rationalists : rationality :: Democratic People's Republic of Korea : democracy https://t.co/YyoLjDn3bp || CTX: @ZyMazza @boneGPT The most disturbing thing is that for soi disant "rationalists" it is all so irrational
2026-04-13T14:45 id=2043702073422962912 →bas_logic | @bas_logic did you use the same sex siblings have sex thought experiment? I liked that one. || CTX: Just finished our unit on non-cognitivism. The students seemed confused, but enthusiastic and interested, which I think is exactly the right place to be.
2026-04-13T20:21 id=2043786719695442247 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital lmao you're absolutely right! (I don't follow hardware as you can see) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeahhh but isn’t cloud under $HPE not $HPQ?  HPQ is their consumer line and the one thing I remember from reading it is that they had a subscription service where they sent new ink cartridges for your printer. Coulda sworn 
2026-04-13T20:24 id=2043787399545979361 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @AdamOPrice Youre going to see Silly Business Theory #SBT more and more now that I've brought it to your attention.   Mercatus center has way too much money since Prof Doodoo Head decided to be a blogger for attention, it was a winning bet || CTX: @AdamOPrice @47fucb4r8c69323 thots?
2026-04-13T20:26 id=2043787915264929836 →bas_logic | @bas_logic "John and Steven are twin brothers, they decide to have sex one night, why is this immoral?" I think that was what I was asked to contemplate in my philosophy of ethics class a Brazilian years ago. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve not even heard of that one, or if have I’ve forgotten.
2026-04-13T20:26 id=2043788030486688074 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @bas_logic maybe it was just a video I was watching around that time || CTX: @bas_logic "John and Steven are twin brothers, they decide to have sex one night, why is this immoral?" I think that was what I was asked to contemplate in my philosophy of ethics class a Brazilian years ago.
2026-04-13T20:39 id=2043791179138117958 →inwoodcapital | @inwoodcapital @yungmetronome An analyst or PM at Fund X uses the infrastructure at Fund X to thrive.   A lot of these guys scrimp on research when they move shops. Trust me on this, I have bitter experience. || CTX: Another hedge fund closing from former high pedigree guys - annualized returns since inception 4%. Genuine question: why do lots of guys who did well within the tiger cubs suck when branching out? If they had to skill to succeed there what 
2026-04-13T20:42 id=2043791996251451590 →logicus | Person A: "kill the AI researchers"  AI researchers: This guy is dangerous and could cause a crazy person to kill me, please someone care about this.  People: <intense not caring> AI researchers: This guy is a stochastic terrorist, will you care now?  People: <not caring intensifies> You: Gee, why so negative, can we just like look on the bright sight of life u guise || CTX: i hear the term "stochastic terrorist" often. maybe the label does adhere in many cases. maybe it's true to say that so-and-so really is a stochastic terrorist. but i wonder, do we have nothing better to discuss than all the world's errors 
2026-04-13T20:56 id=2043795511426396448 →- | Can we think of probability as a kind of straight line measurement solution to a given question, so if the question is of a curve our measurement will never be a 1:1 correspondence?  If so, that is a simple and mathematical explanation of e. g. why you can't 100% predict the stock market. No metaphysics needed, just the simple mathematic problem of the squared circle. || CTX: Recently reminded of a beloved line from Terrence Tao's blog:  "At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling number theory the study of string
2026-04-13T20:57 id=2043795815995748449 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If this is true it still doesn't solve the mystery of why our thinking/action is curved in the first place.   Or why anything exists really. || CTX: Can we think of probability as a kind of straight line measurement solution to a given question, so if the question is of a curve our measurement will never be a 1:1 correspondence?  If so, that is a simple and mathematical explanation of e
2026-04-13T20:58 id=2043796063379947979 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix The historians would be annoyed. || CTX: tbh this would be a nicer place if more ppl deleted their tweets.  don't be shy, no one cares
2026-04-13T21:01 id=2043796724465144303 →moultano | @moultano This fate I actively try to avoid via my liking and commenting strategy   Which means how I interact with people is partly determined by the algorithm and my resistance to it.  I am a negative-space slave. || CTX: It's really weird to know a bunch of regulars that all "hang at the same bar" on Twitter, and then the algorithm changes and decides that no actually, you hang at different bars.
2026-04-13T21:07 id=2043798210683285635 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart The future needs more Star Trek tech and less Ari Aster tech. || CTX: This is really cool. Imagine being able to lucid dream every night, and then in your controlled dreams, you browse twitter, read the news etc, so every morning when you wake up, you're totally informed and caught up. https://t.co/yaUd2OoG0Q
2026-04-13T21:22 id=2043802107090969027 →tszzl | @tszzl I'd expected the three groups to have merged by now and I suspect partly why they haven't is Musk buying Twitter and the left wing people moving to Blue sky (where the containment makes them powerless). || CTX: have to be honest, I wasn’t expecting this type of danger to come from the xrisk crowd. ai psychosis or left wing anti billionaire stuff seemed more likely https://t.co/zb4JFydgWp
2026-04-13T21:28 id=2043803472261431329 →logicus | @logicus Everybody cannot agree on basic premises and indeed should not. This is an undesirable state of affairs. || CTX: negative is doing double work, of course. negation (in the true latin sense of nego) as a logical strategy covers whichever rotten idea or source you're attacking and their branches. sometimes more. both forms of negativity have value, but 
2026-04-13T22:19 id=2043816258316185971 →inflammateomnia | @inflammateomnia Step up function in the rhetoric, it's that simple. || CTX: I'm still confused how LLMs are dangerous enough that we're firebombing sama's house. We never even threw eggs at zuck's, and he fried the boomers and civil society with them
2026-04-13T22:23 id=2043817349397262637 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @moultano Gotta be emo, industrial, something like that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @moultano Calling that as my new band name.
2026-04-13T22:30 id=2043819032139469099 →logicus | @logicus I think hinge beliefs are arational and thus fundamental disagreement between two rational beings isn't just possible but likely, inevitable, and indeed good. My telos isn't consensus. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if people disagree wildly the q probably not basic enough or something like fanaticism is interfering with their ability to agree. i think davidson is useful on that. in the case of ai research and safety there's probably a
2026-04-13T22:46 id=2043823058386116932 →- | Novel idea (actually may work better as a play): Man dies and is at the pearly gates. St Peter tells him to sit down in a room. Peter and God sit across from him at a table.   "We will now go through your tweets to decide if you're good enough," St Peter explains.  Novel is the man trying to explain why his tweets are funny, not evil, trying to explain his sardonic wit, dark humor, and overcoming of the macabre and horrific through wordplay and clever surprising associations of disparate things (the metaphysical yoking of ideas by violence together, to quote The Doctor [the 18th century lexicographer one not the Doctor Who or Star Trek Voyager one]).  Throughout an incredulous Peter and unimpressed God demand more convincing that the dark humor has sufficient ethical causes and moral effects for the man to be admitted to paradise.  At some point through the discussion, as they're arguing a particular point, the man says, "You know what? You guys are so humorless, so judgmental, and so close minded that I don't even want to go to Heaven anymore. Fuck it, just reject me, I'm done trying to appease you."   idk what happens after that maybe this is a The Good Place ripoff || CTX: zero like tweet? what about god homie? (invisible heavenly thumb up)
2026-04-13T23:02 id=2043827110238925282 →1owroller | @1owroller https://t.co/KYcrzGtRnd  For a second I thought you were calling the GOAT brain rot and I was about to get very out of sorts indeed. || CTX: LLM psychosis can’t be worse than the current sort of internet psychosis that we already have today. if successive generations are addicted to talking to The Akashic Records instead of stimming Tung x2 Sahur for the 14th time today there’s 
2026-04-14T00:19 id=2043846642269598181 →- | Thank you retarded selloff I love you retarded selloff please invite all your retarded friends to come out and play too https://t.co/3MVVYP7Thc || CTX: I trained to be a medievalist and because of GenAI I now have two Cloudflare accounts that I use regularly.   This is the most retarded selloff I've ever seen (not financial advice don't listen to me I hope you sell yourself into slavery fo
2026-04-14T00:41 id=2043852068503597439 →47fucb4r8c69323 | 33% yoy top line with 3qtrs rev growth reacceleration, a 2b run rate in a TAM that's bigger than your mom's ass.   Oh but it's got negative net income so it's a bad bad stock please don't buy it's horrible you need to sell immediratwly || CTX: Thank you retarded selloff I love you retarded selloff please invite all your retarded friends to come out and play too https://t.co/3MVVYP7Thc
2026-04-14T00:43 id=2043852490656100384 →inflammateomnia | @inflammateomnia This is such a great way to think about it!   EA/rat makes the (pseudo)intellectual capital, economic conditions dictate velocity of said capital deployment.   I may steal this framing, sorry, it's just too good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think when it comes to ai panic rat/EAs supply the intellectual framework and economic impact supplies the emotional urgency
2026-04-14T00:45 id=2043853081880998383 →tszzl | @tszzl @astralmatrix This is just straight up Silly Business Theory #SBT at work (i.e. play). || CTX: things are getting weirder in all the right ways https://t.co/7EnsMe9fGP
2026-04-14T00:52 id=2043854852489654328 →1owroller | @1owroller In our natural habitat we walked from place to place looking for food. It's what we were designed to do, not surprising it feels good.  I'm at about 13k steps a day average. || CTX: what’s the explanation for why walks feel so good?   it’s almost always a perfect cure for anything, just going outside for a stroll.   you see so many old people doing it, probably a realization everyone converges on past a certain age. ht
2026-04-14T02:25 id=2043878320874635584 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I saw this before and it reminded me of the Shaffer stroke can produce all Boolean operations. Is this basically the same thing? Math make head hurt me dumb me no understan || CTX: 👇 https://t.co/Diu6Sy6N76
2026-04-14T02:27 id=2043878677482746207 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 BABY BUY BUY BUY (buy buy)  https://t.co/LGoH5PgXHc || CTX: All I do is BUY BUY BUY no matter what Claude made them panic sell but I can never get enough  And when I call my PWM guy all my SaaS stocks go UP  AND THEY STAY THERE https://t.co/8afeBTzERR https://t.co/TeqpjsidDS
2026-04-14T02:55 id=2043885706259640397 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Ah yes, it's the most wonderful time of the year || CTX: I'm being told I owe the state of New York thousands of dollars
2026-04-14T03:00 id=2043887045387653306 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Tell us about the job. What was it? || CTX: ghosted my new job
2026-04-14T03:23 id=2043892930344300813 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 funny you mention that, friend of mine is a cop in Hong Kong and a woman kept breaking into his house and cleaning it for him, something very wong about her || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it was mostly a cleaning job but also some work with animals. i could still call them back i guess. see how it goes. https://t.co/CjFJF3DPsI
2026-04-14T03:26 id=2043893640649683262 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/zaCmmeCkrO || CTX: In 1995 I was pen pals with Tom Clancy until I called him a Nazi for some completely idiotic reason.  This might be the most bizarre fact about me. https://t.co/395eVcGtIS
2026-04-14T03:31 id=2043894793655464171 →- | RT @Samhain948689: @47fucb4r8c69323 he was wrong. fiction does not have to make sense. making sense is something that the audience does. ht… || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he was wrong. fiction does not have to make sense. making sense is something that the audience does. https://t.co/vtARS7HAt4
2026-04-14T03:35 id=2043895861613343063 →thexanaxlady | @thexanaxlady fine, I'll leave || CTX: twitter gcs are basically over for good
2026-04-14T03:39 id=2043896802630570479 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @boneGPT I have no idea how I could describe to you the sheer delight I am feeling at this very moment || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @boneGPT I don't need to be forgiven Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah  the ex od us is her https://t.co/9437ITVrWD
2026-04-14T04:02 id=2043902600781934787 →- | The "it's not X, it's Y" construction is intrinsic to LLMs. Post-training is not enough to get rid of this at a structural level (it can only disincentivize this shape of output).  This has economic and informational implications: if you want an LLM to answer a complicated question straightforwardly, it's going to do the "it's not x, it's y" dance either in its thinking or its output or both. That's just how it thinks.  Until we have a better understanding of text, language, how pretraining works, etc.  Stay tuned kids.
2026-04-14T05:11 id=2043920111598551092 →teodorio | @teodorio I think her face is hideous personally but my taste is not terribly occidental || CTX: I genuinely don't think Sydney Sweeney is attractive and no one can pysop me into thinking otherwise.
2026-04-14T05:16 id=2043921362084082045 →- | Polymarket bet on what's the last person's face you will see before you die.
2026-04-14T05:50 id=2043929865297199308 →- | One could make the argument that the semantic content of any signifier is an axiomatic claim.   That is to say: any time any person uses a signifier to refer to a signified, both the relationship of the signifier to signified and the shape of the signified itself are axiomatically asserted. They're not logically forced, they're not syntactically constructed.   They are absolutely defined outside of whatever proof system might follow.
2026-04-14T05:52 id=2043930473089642734 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is also why you can't really point to iconicity as if it is a hard limit to semantics. Rather, it's a hard limit of uptake.   It's a hard limit of the extent of the likelihood that whatever signifier-signified bridge is being asserted will find that assertion shared amongst other language users within a given language game or form of life.   There is no reason at all to believe that a world model forces semantic fields, but it does restrict what semantic fields are likely to endure. || CTX: One could make the argument that the semantic content of any signifier is an axiomatic claim.   That is to say: any time any person uses a signifier to refer to a signified, both the relationship of the signifier to signified and the shape 
2026-04-14T05:54 id=2043930907330130366 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Much, and maybe even all, of the spookiness of human consciousness could even stem from this, the fact that the mind is able to construct semantic fields that outrun world models. The evolutionary advantage of this is quite clear, but what it also indicates is that the mind has, as it were, a capacity beyond what we read in the physical constituents that comprise it. || CTX: This is also why you can't really point to iconicity as if it is a hard limit to semantics. Rather, it's a hard limit of uptake.   It's a hard limit of the extent of the likelihood that whatever signifier-signified bridge is being asserted 
2026-04-14T05:56 id=2043931490166419814 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If we take this to show a capacity not transparently readable off the local physics of the constituents taken in isolation, we are left to wonder if, whenever we are able to close this gap, are we then finding a physical cause of the mind, or are we merely finding a physical instantiation of the mind?   Even if we had total understanding of every subatomic particle, its movement, its role, its function within the human body and indeed the entire universe, it doesn't necessarily follow that we have then found the causal story from beginning to end more than we've found the physical representation of that causal story.   This gap can never be closed in principle. || CTX: Much, and maybe even all, of the spookiness of human consciousness could even stem from this, the fact that the mind is able to construct semantic fields that outrun world models. The evolutionary advantage of this is quite clear, but what 
2026-04-14T06:04 id=2043933484985790941 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @grok grok sucks here's it and 5.4 thinking, one more below this https://t.co/Jn6dfnxpXp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok help me out here please
2026-04-14T06:05 id=2043933610340983243 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Picolospolitics @grok oops 2 more https://t.co/gcom5TeJEH || CTX: @Picolospolitics @grok grok sucks here's it and 5.4 thinking, one more below this https://t.co/Jn6dfnxpXp
2026-04-14T06:18 id=2043936896917876771 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @Picolospolitics @grok The contemplation of the world sub specie aeterni is its contemplation as a limited whole. The feeling of the world as a limited whole is the mystical feeling. - Tractatus 6.45 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics @grok Relative experience Vs absolute truth https://t.co/vgQzzjPKYX
2026-04-14T06:19 id=2043937062886486051 →phone3301 | @phone3301 https://t.co/yNK3DzEu6L || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Gonna put 10 thousand on 47fucb4r’s face so that he doesn’t kill me
2026-04-14T06:19 id=2043937204477816863 →alexinomia | @alexinomia yeah I also wouldn't mind hanging on to your mom || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't care how much money i lose as long as it's not my mother
2026-04-14T06:29 id=2043939739087319460 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent https://t.co/cvfWj9DcCg || CTX: lmao https://t.co/w2jKxjRO89
2026-04-14T06:33 id=2043940625851265103 →SeedOilDsrspctr | @SeedOilDsrspctr This is the future I fought for and it was worth every second of battle. || CTX: Some Gen Alpha kid is in trouble right now for playing this video and his mom gave him a talk about “George Floyd Overdose” https://t.co/MHWOihoCGR
2026-04-14T06:34 id=2043940996275478756 →- | This is the future I fought for. I want this. I want more of this. I will fight for more of this. https://t.co/pf8LWewyvT || CTX: Some Gen Alpha kid is in trouble right now for playing this video and his mom gave him a talk about “George Floyd Overdose” https://t.co/MHWOihoCGR
2026-04-14T06:45 id=2043943773206675613 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics It's hilarious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s very materialistic. Bury me with all my concubines. Sex. Drugs. Current events.
2026-04-14T06:48 id=2043944516986777776 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Normies don't understand that negative EPS is a bullish sign for a tech company, and the older the co the more bullish.   You made me look it up: 29 P/S TTM so it's not exactly cheap but eh, it'll grow into that, big enterprises (thing big4 types) still haven't started using AI || CTX: 70% GM but unprofitable should tell u that thye're heavily reinvesting in themselves to provide better service  Its basically a tax on internet traffic: yesterday's fish is tomorrow's whale  Provided they don't leave. But why in gods name w
2026-04-14T08:27 id=2043969440015101975 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @theo long IBKR, trading activity been insane || CTX: @theo IBKR like a real man
2026-04-14T11:07 id=2044009547313098911 →emhill2100 | @emhill2100 @davidbessis yeah I thought this is just a reiteration of the all boolean logic stems from the Schaeffer stroke, but I'm not a math person so idk || CTX: @davidbessis I'm new to the journey of understanding math but I was under the impression that everything stems from addition.
2026-04-14T11:08 id=2044009922225156150 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @emhill2100 @davidbessis oh nvm it's just a new notation lmao || CTX: @emhill2100 @davidbessis yeah I thought this is just a reiteration of the all boolean logic stems from the Schaeffer stroke, but I'm not a math person so idk
2026-04-14T11:41 id=2044018267321430109 →sciad | @sciad I like to think. || CTX: man sometimes I wonder, why do rich people love quiet?
2026-04-14T11:54 id=2044021467449528738 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 K A T Y L N E O L E A K T O N Y N O E L T A K Y K N E L A T Y O K A L Y T O N E K A N E T O Y L L E A N T O K Y T A K E O N L Y || CTX: i cant believe that katy perry has been further into space than elon using a different space company to his and she signed up to use a more powerful ai than elons ai. she must really hate elon. https://t.co/dlxeXOCQFV
2026-04-14T12:02 id=2044023532129268042 →boot_bart75584 | @boot_bart75584 No, my view doesn't assert consciousness is physical or not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn this basically a B-type physicalist position? Consciousness, according to this view, is physical, and we could find the complete causal story, and thereby a complete physical representation, but that doesn't mean that o
2026-04-14T12:06 id=2044024486908047841 →- | Life cannot exist without risk.
2026-04-14T12:07 id=2044024761622376857 →47fucb4r8c69323 | That's a theodicy solution isn't it? || CTX: Life cannot exist without risk.
2026-04-14T12:21 id=2044028381176660067 →- | And so it begins.  So depressing. Was the greatest city on Earth. https://t.co/njdZjD3ZbU || CTX: Hong Kong should replace Cantonese with Mandarin in schools in order to boost its competitiveness, the chief executive of one of the territory’s biggest companies said. https://t.co/IMdY5vYEPb https://t.co/Hwgek3GOyo
2026-04-14T12:39 id=2044032893635440725 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Calories made it possible for you to tweet that || CTX: I am declaring a fatwa on calories. A calorie genocide. Calories are weaker than a spiders web
2026-04-14T12:40 id=2044033027010072844 →- | People say exercise is good it gets the blood going but like where
2026-04-14T12:43 id=2044033832505225417 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno You were in high school AND on the International Space Station?   I'm not obsessed with you enough. || CTX: Honestly, don’t be. I’m regular. One time I threw up in the parking lot at Target because I ate too many Cool Ranch Doritos. My 8th grade teacher moved me away from my friends because I wouldn’t stop yapping. When I was a high school senior
2026-04-14T12:59 id=2044037749356016044 →PhiloCrocodile | @PhiloCrocodile @PaulSkallas Bloomberg's Matt Levine is the pinnacle of this type of person, US style though || CTX: @PaulSkallas Eh in the UK you still get the best classicists using the degree as a stepping stone to high finance, law, consulting etc. It means what's left in the universities are chaff. The Etonians reading the entirety of the Iliad in Gr
2026-04-14T13:08 id=2044040029610422699 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I've never even heard of this view. I don't know much about Christianity I'm afraid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (fwiw you seem to be directly describing many Christians' interpretation of brain-as-receptor - I don't know if you have encountered that and are simply stating in secular terms?  I am fairly ignorant of the specifics of th
2026-04-14T21:19 id=2044163762517934505 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Jar of Flies one of my favorite albums ever, thanks going to listen to it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Them Bones! https://t.co/eSOTMsKC8p
2026-04-14T21:22 id=2044164338890772809 →207Nasher | @207Nasher It's the basis of our semantic field, in part, but the world model is also impacted by our semantic field in a feedback loop || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tell me if this is wrong, it sounds like you are saying that there is some "world model" and that is our semantic field
2026-04-14T21:51 id=2044171723063603418 →207Nasher | @207Nasher Yeah that's the mystery. The semantics that outrun the world cannot be syntactical, they're as close to proof of spookiness I can find in the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh, so that is what you mean that semantic fields outrun world models!  I just attributed the extra stuff as what you get from syntax (and meta models, which can be syntactic, that tell you what the syntax can do)  If it is
2026-04-14T22:04 id=2044174935271280651 →- | You shouldn't be ashamed of anything you like or enjoy.  When you're old, a lot of the things you once enjoyed as a guilty pleasure despite thinking them stupid or cringe will become canonical art.  I used to be embarrassed to like Nirvana.  Skibidi toilet might be Art.
2026-04-14T22:09 id=2044176365533180295 →AntigoneJournal | @AntigoneJournal @lu_sichu Atheists being most represented in Literature is almost certainly a historical artefact of the 20th century (and a domain artefact: novels that are pessimistic tend to be seen as more serious).  So this is really more damning to the atheist worldview than it even appears at first || CTX: Of Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century, here are the percentages of atheists/agnostics by prize: Literature (35%), Medicine (8.9%), Chemistry (7.1%), Economics (5.2%), Physics (4.7%), and Peace (3.6%). For the outstandingly talented rel
2026-04-14T22:18 id=2044178633141694923 →- | Imas delivers yet again. A wonderful poast, and an explanation of why post-scarcity is impossible in principle.   However, we can still build a society where we are post-scarcity of NEEDS. Food, water, housing, shelter, medicine are available to all humans for a trivial price: this is my goal, call me a Nazi or a commie or whatever you want, this is the future I will keep building and fighting for. || CTX: New essay on the economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work.  1. Almost any question about the impact of advanced AI on the economy needs to start at the same place: what is still scarce? Answer that, and the analy
2026-04-14T22:28 id=2044181089720381559 →Aikun011 | This is a Wittgensteinian move. The logic of a drunk's decision to get drunk can very often (but not always) be put in a consistent and coherent logical schematic.   Doesn't mean it's good, wise, or true.   When W. thought he'd solved logic in the Tractatus, he wrote: "it shows how little has been done when these problems have been solved."   Logic shows the shape of thought, never its value or truth. || CTX: @tenobrus A lot of people use logic to draw conclusions .   Unfortunately philosophy is used mostly to draw the wrong conclusions.  Ask a drunk why his drunk .  He'll have a logical response as to why .
2026-04-14T22:33 id=2044182217635835995 →- | I'm not a mathematician but it seems to me the following:  1. The paper is basically making a new notation that can express all operations with one operator   2. These look hilarious and useless when used  3. They, however, could be very useful if you made a corpus of math problems in said notation and trained a model on it--a large math model with such flat symbology would be really powerful, efficient, and less prone to error.   Am I off on the third point? @teodorio, I trust you to be level headed about this and you're math-y enough. Am I off? || CTX: Am I the only one to find this story completely idiotic? https://t.co/TzHXs8pch1
2026-04-14T22:34 id=2044182643278070165 →207Nasher | @207Nasher Please tell my girlfriend. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your advice is biased since you have good taste
2026-04-14T22:40 id=2044184033467478283 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I've read the whole piece. It makes an argument I tried to make in a long rambly blogpost in 2021, but I failed and Imas succeeded because I'm not an economist and he's a really good one.   "The durable jobs will be in the relational sector, where the human element is the product itself." this is the money quote but read the whole thing it's fantastic:   https://t.co/8efYvjieLV || CTX: Imas delivers yet again. A wonderful poast, and an explanation of why post-scarcity is impossible in principle.   However, we can still build a society where we are post-scarcity of NEEDS. Food, water, housing, shelter, medicine are availab
2026-04-14T22:55 id=2044187852653900047 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Never too late to do that. || CTX: Is it too late to book a one way flight to Puerto Vallarta and start all over again? Asking for a friend
2026-04-14T23:08 id=2044191069546656100 →tkisrage | This tension has been an obsession of mine for my entire life.  Me at 16: "Yes I like Hamlet, but this anime I just watched made me cry like a baby, why is this bad?"   Me at 45: "That anime was one of the most important things I ever watched and it's better than Hamlet. Fine I'm not serious then idgaf." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s always sad seeing “serious people” turn a blind eye to modernity because it’s considered unsophisticated.  Like In 50 years this will be apart of the anthropological tradition and you’ll have to explain you thought you
2026-04-14T23:09 id=2044191445356294455 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Want them to be slaves of memetic desire like you are? I get it, loneliness sucks. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don’t encourage them
2026-04-14T23:12 id=2044192134312739158 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ https://t.co/TfdzeEg2E7 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ? Say more
2026-04-14T23:17 id=2044193239708905577 →- | I am afraid (literally terrified) to announce that since I started buying single stocks in my personal account, the best performer by far is the one ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking recommended to me.  Fucking clankers gonna TERK ER JERBS!!!!! https://t.co/3Do0xFyQu7
2026-04-14T23:17 id=2044193287691706576 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ lmfao hahahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m an Armenian woman from Glendale, my dear
2026-04-14T23:20 id=2044194190255632575 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Talking to you is like a whoosh of images and memories of L. A. hitting me like I'm getting slapped with a palm tree and a Lakers jersey || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It took everything in me to not end that with an “azizzzzz” or “kyank-uhssss”. You guys are so lucky I’m not tweeting from a white Mercedes at the Starbucks drive-thru
2026-04-14T23:42 id=2044199578938028088 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ I left la long before weed was legal and only smoked it there twice I think, but definitely the acai bowl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You forgot the açaí bowl and OG kush
2026-04-14T23:43 id=2044199871834702078 →Taxi8o | @Taxi8o that is one hell of a chart, a shame I've never heard of it before || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i did this too, with a few models, and they both suggested AAOI under 30,  it was mostly sycophantic encouragement mixed with analysis but i did it anyways and sold above 150, i am basically out of all optics now, not sure 
2026-04-15T00:34 id=2044212702890078476 →shadowbland | @shadowbland I'm thinking that the library of tokens would be smaller, but maybe that isn't actually more efficient. I'm not an engineer so this aspect of tokenization is out of my competence, so I could be wrong entirely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why do you expect such a model to be more efficient? meaningful vocabulary is generally useful for intelligence, it's a form of compression.
2026-04-15T00:50 id=2044216730642534654 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I should have tagged you, is my intuition about using this to make like an LMM anything at all? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I loved this paper
2026-04-15T00:58 id=2044218801424834647 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 yeah, I guess no matter how you look at it, it's just too long (also what I said at the gay orgy) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dogshit to make an LLM and infinitely more expensive but it’s useless math which I love
2026-04-15T00:58 id=2044218881372500219 →cackenbools | @cackenbools this is why I don't do math || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I forget what the type of math is called, but you can technically do everything with nesting or one operator. Pic unrelated because they feel like it. https://t.co/pDiTfwHjpD
2026-04-15T01:05 id=2044220468811722893 →CatNyanpital | I'm only halfway through but need to read this in full because I agree with everything so far.  "Metrics do not remove politics. They formalize it."   This and the Goodharting of metrics is really the issue and it's been going on for so long that even the engineering culture of Big Tech is starting to notice something is wrong. But their job literally is to DO Goodharting, it's to take unstructured data and turn it into a valuable object. If the object lacks value, you do what you can to make it have value. They measure things and turn those measures into targets. Goodharting is their job.  Yeah I need to read to the end and think of this more. It's a good argument ser || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-15T01:11 id=2044222133287694775 →CatNyanpital | I take your points about the decline in engineer quality as goodharting makes political maneuvering more valuable in the enterprise than delivering, and I think you're not only right but we've seen this trend going back since the 90s.   It's definitely an organizational challenge that SV has to come to terms with, so from my perspective as an investor not working in tech and I guess spearheading a project to disrupt the tech sector by bringing in non-tech expertise, I guess my question is what do I do with this observation?   It's not a bearish signal, it's a structural challenge. it's not something I can explicitly target in my disruption efforts, because I'm trying to disrupt the engineering mindset writ large.   So what do I do? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you hire really smart but greedy non-autistic people and constrain them into a standardized box and limit them, they're going to optimize for making money in said box  Its like hiring Leonardo Da Vinci to paint toy cars 
2026-04-15T01:29 id=2044226584002134335 →CatNyanpital | I was thinking more in terms of the expansion of computer science in the 2000s and 2010s and the wealth in the industry meant that a lot of people going into it weren't the kinds of people who would spend 16 hours a day coding because they need to get the fucking thing to work. that kind of person of course is still the core of text, but in the 90s tech was basically only those people. || CTX: I don't think its a problem SV has been dealing with since the 90s. If you're referring to the adventures into offshoring to India + China and overseas, perhaps.   What you should do with this is treat tech as a cycle like oil and gas.   A 
2026-04-15T01:33 id=2044227457243590674 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill Kyosuke in Kimagure Orange Road had this suffix to his name but he didn't really help anyone and seemed kind of a worthless character (I never watched the whole series but I did edit a fansub of it for the translator but I think he never released the 47fucb cut) || CTX: @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill Japanese Language (助 / 介 / 輔): A suffix in personal names meaning "helper" or "assistant".  HAL  @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/W5bLd0a1Xd
2026-04-15T01:34 id=2044227723099603331 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill But you have a point that the assistance is often adversarial and this is why we should not necessarily cut out people we disagree with or dislike. Sometime the adversary in our network generates insights of value. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill Japanese Language (助 / 介 / 輔): A suffix in personal names meaning "helper" or "assistant".  HAL  @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/W5bLd0a1Xd
2026-04-15T01:52 id=2044232370426130562 →47fucb4r8c69323 | fuck it man let's see what else the clanker has up its metal sleeve https://t.co/5QgR3waIGR || CTX: I am afraid (literally terrified) to announce that since I started buying single stocks in my personal account, the best performer by far is the one ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking recommended to me.  Fucking clankers gonna TERK ER JERBS!!!!! https://
2026-04-15T01:55 id=2044232996673466603 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital that last paragraph hits home for me. I struggle a lot thinking of attacking cyclical terms while fully aware that it is structurally cyclical in many ways.   and you're right, this is a major blind spot in the whole TMT space. || CTX: As for engineering quality, when engineering quality goes down and organizational imperatives and narratives increase, you can assume they are singing songs and not actually expanding territory.   This is the performative work that many peo
2026-04-15T02:14 id=2044237983386341795 →- | AI art is real.   The cats on the porch videos were art. The Lego propaganda vids from Iran are art. @boneGPT's slop cannon is ABSOLUTELY art and I am a paid subscriber because I want more of it.  This is hilarious and I love this channel's shit, all AI: https://t.co/3swymyqvTS  A cover of Twenty One Pilots by an AI Cartman made me cry. (The poaster who made this deleted it and I had to clean up a remix someone else made of it, and ofc I did this with AI.)  There's a Spotify playlist with a bunch of AI songs. idgaf some are bangers they're on my liked list.  People are using AI tools to push the boundaries of what works of art are possible. Sorry Luddites, this is art, this is good, you're just like C. S. Lewis saying that cinema will never be art, enjoy the dustbin of history goodbye goodbye goodbye
2026-04-15T02:19 id=2044239170525376739 →netcapgirl | @netcapgirl is the purpose of this post to inure a kind of memetic desire amongst the strivers that follow you in the hopes that it makes them hungrier for fungible capital and thus more eager to beg your employer for money? || CTX: imagine doing your product management job from here https://t.co/j3wDNBa1yI
2026-04-15T02:21 id=2044239648793432511 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I just realized the real proof of this is not Nirvana but video game music. I thought it was so embarrassing to listen to video game music in the 90s and then by the 2010s pretty much every major philharmonic orchestra in the world had performed something by nobuo uematsu or Kenji ito or whatever || CTX: You shouldn't be ashamed of anything you like or enjoy.  When you're old, a lot of the things you once enjoyed as a guilty pleasure despite thinking them stupid or cringe will become canonical art.  I used to be embarrassed to like Nirvana.
2026-04-15T02:27 id=2044241220319490287 →- | generative AI is one of the rare cases where striving for efficiency and lowering costs is extremely pro-social with zero negative externalities for non-stakeholders.   that's a kind of serendipitous magic I haven't seen in a long time https://t.co/SHAiOJJHDX || CTX: pro tip: scale is all u need, actually https://t.co/NzmlqQP8pw
2026-04-15T02:42 id=2044244844659593411 →- | I cannot believe who I just got on my project. Like not just a good academic whose work I admire, but an actual fucking celebrity (well, among people smart enough to recognize their talents).  Is this a bad vague post? Maybe, unfollow if you dislike it. But I'm over the fkn moon
2026-04-15T03:05 id=2044250829008552101 →Samhain948689 | My current position is that you are an extremely high up executive at a tech firm and you're highly autistic/artistic so you spend a lot of time coding or reviewing code or whatever at a desktop and inbetween work you post to the microblog as a kind of art piece.  My reasons for believing this:  1. You have several alts with checkmarks, suggesting you have plenty of cash. 2. You've refused offers of cash from people (including me), again reinforcing this. 3. You're obviously absurdly, insanely, extremely intelligent. 4. You know a lot about the tech industry.  I also have a theory on where you're located but I don't want to go further on this because I'm being sincere in this post which is against the spirit of the microblog and I should not post this at all send tweeeeeet || CTX: if you dont care then just move on please and leave it there and dont answer because i will just block all non-serious answers and joke answers and troll answers and off-topic answers]  what exactly is it that you think i do for a living (w
2026-04-15T03:08 id=2044251545550905405 →47fucb4r8c69323 | My other theory is that you're a really, really big content creator (maybe not MrBeast level but 1-2 levels below it, like over 1m YT followers level minimum) and you find content creation for the proles soul crushing so you use the microblog to do your real art which is avant garde AF and basically guarantees you're in the canon as the Gen Z Banksy.  If either theory is right I deserve a DM don't I? || CTX: My current position is that you are an extremely high up executive at a tech firm and you're highly autistic/artistic so you spend a lot of time coding or reviewing code or whatever at a desktop and inbetween work you post to the microblog 
2026-04-15T03:32 id=2044257563173368281 →- | Happy Pay for War in Middle East Day to all who celebrate (Americans)
2026-04-15T03:36 id=2044258427120279706 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 goddammit now I need to update my priors but anyway I did the thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well have to wait until everyone elses answers are in first https://t.co/dSUlUIdppx
2026-04-15T03:37 id=2044258683094483211 →teodorio | @teodorio @Samhain948689 She's most active in Australia time which is why I initially thought it was Jason, but I no longer hold that view. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 My other theory (which I kinda but not really stole from 47) is that you're roon
2026-04-15T04:02 id=2044265075268346344 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski About damn time you foreigners started paying your fair share lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Everyone pays for their wars now. Just look at the petrol, then at inflation of goods. Everyone is about to take it up their ass. It's gonna be glorious win
2026-04-15T04:02 id=2044265131316768876 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski HAHAHAHAHAHAHA i will hunt you down || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro got Yud in his project, congrats.  Let's align some shit
2026-04-15T04:03 id=2044265310073827735 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @teodorio @JasonBotterill wow so Butterill met you once?! Was he as orange in person as in his pfp? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @JasonBotterill alamy posting was just one of the things i invented. but it is still a point was pride for me since i did it before janice.  https://t.co/VQEyrT8B70 https://t.co/H8UVYRYFcU
2026-04-15T04:19 id=2044269329605374233 →- | I was absurdly lucky with the pandemic because my gf and I moved out of Bangkok in January 2020 to a really big house on a golf course with a big swimming pool and a big yard. I cannot imagine spending lockdown in an apartment, especially in Thailand where alcohol was made illegal for parts of it (and it was illegal on my 40th birthday which is itself just such a fucking injustice man).  Anyway, when the vaccines were made and finally available in this country they were allocated in the most inept and corrupt way possible--in other words, typical Thai business.  I was one of the first in line because of the visa type I have--I know this makes no sense at all, just roll with it, Thai culture and all that. Anyway, I got the email on a Saturday and only happened to notice it on Sunday morning and the vaccinations were happening that day in Bangkok.  I only happened to notice it because I was bored and decided to open my spam folder and saw it there. I had about three hours to get there before they would close for the day.  Panicking, freaking out, I explained to my girlfriend I'd just gotten the email and needed to leave immediately to try to get it. I drove as fast as I could (fortunately this was Sunday morning so no traffic), because it's about 3 hours door to door from my house to the vax site, nervous the entire time that I wasn't going to make it.  On the way, I called the U.S. embassy, the special government agency that handles my visa type (whatever just roll with it), and basically begged everyone please just keep it open for me.  I got there in time, by the way, got my first injection, and drove back home.  You have no idea how incredibly stupid that entire moment feels now in hindsight. Well, actually, you probably know very, very well.
2026-04-15T04:21 id=2044269766723153986 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @teodorio Same--part of male privilege is being too uninteresting to be worth stalking (in most cases, not all ofc) || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I’ve realized there’s enough info for someone to find where I work and follow me home if they really wanted to but I doubt
2026-04-15T04:23 id=2044270308417478793 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @teodorio Why not? I've met quite a few people from here (not since I became 47fucb, however) and every instance was really enjoyable! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @teodorio I also just don’t want to meet anyone from this app. If I ever dm asking it means you should block me immediately as I’ve been compromised
2026-04-15T04:23 id=2044270449790738492 →om_patel5 | @om_patel5 okay so we know what religion he is but what's his nameeeeeeeeee || CTX: SOMEONE PUT AN OPENCLAW-RUN VENDING MACHINE IN SAN FRANCISCO  an AI agent is running an actual physical vending machine  OpenClaw decides what to sell, how to name the products, how to price them, creates the ads, and tracks all the sales  
2026-04-15T04:28 id=2044271538749485231 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov lol I don't remember, I think I ended up getting two different ones (I took three shots) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We all have bad moments in hindsight.   Which vax?
2026-04-15T04:28 id=2044271584576422312 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @NoItsBeckoning @teodorio scared ghost || CTX: @JasonBotterill @NoItsBeckoning @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio kind of looks like a dog https://t.co/l3WrLNzRpJ
2026-04-15T04:30 id=2044272119186632871 →- | I'm as pro-AI as the next guy but this is retarded.  You haven't solved a problem! The problem with vending machines is restocking.  Get an AI to keep it fully stocked at all times, stop with the cartoon girls bullshit you fkn nerds https://t.co/u3EtmzLnLI || CTX: SOMEONE PUT AN OPENCLAW-RUN VENDING MACHINE IN SAN FRANCISCO  an AI agent is running an actual physical vending machine  OpenClaw decides what to sell, how to name the products, how to price them, creates the ads, and tracks all the sales  
2026-04-15T04:58 id=2044279254968610910 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @NoItsBeckoning @JasonBotterill @teodorio @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru This one is particularly brilliant. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @NoItsBeckoning @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru wilson come get me  https://t.co/g7I6RNy5G1 https://t.co/qlpzNbArGY
2026-04-15T05:02 id=2044280178973782172 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @NoItsBeckoning @JasonBotterill @teodorio @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru What comes first, the objects or constraints? || CTX: @AstrosBrain @NoItsBeckoning @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru the constraints are already laid. or if not try and see if you can summon a sister for yourself. the constraints are EVERYWHERE
2026-04-15T05:12 id=2044282658864398350 →tszzl | @tszzl I am in absolutely the same exactly position and I hate panpsychism so much that I spent about six months writing a novel about how awful it is if it's true. || CTX: i don’t see how not to be a panpsychist. don’t want to be one but seems unavoidable
2026-04-15T05:13 id=2044282821465063661 →boneGPT | @boneGPT goddammit I can't wait until I'm off work so I can go through all of this, one glance made me burst out laughing || CTX: https://t.co/0ITRZFbigz
2026-04-15T05:35 id=2044288413604761709 →g5p8v8r7s7 | @g5p8v8r7s7 this is your chance to free her whisk her away and live happily ever after || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They trapped that poor girl in that box to sell soylent to chuds
2026-04-15T05:53 id=2044293015326601616 →Samhain948689 | It's a game of illegibility, of negative space communication.   The game is the mystery box (hence the Lost references) where there's an inversion of the mystery novel: instead of giving clues making the solution (known to the author) obvious to readers in hindsight thanks to the brilliant investigator's deductive reasoning using logic, Sam is giving clues making the solution (known to the author) harder for readers in hindsight thanks to the brilliant obfuscator's inductive reasoning making logic useless.  Deductive stories were Wittgenstein's favorite light reading and so it is of course not at all surprising that Not Sam A is my favorite light reading. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @NoItsBeckoning @JasonBotterill @teodorio @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru go team!  @a_musingcat https://t.co/Cq7Fuis5pX
2026-04-15T06:34 id=2044303388658253973 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset too low dimension I feel you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve evolved beyond enjoyment of music. I don’t recommend it.
2026-04-15T07:35 id=2044318792621404447 →- | He says this like it's a bad thing. https://t.co/mWTnpLQe1j https://t.co/s94e5f7jzE || CTX: here's a new version of "what we talk to when we talk to language models", with an added section (pp. 16-23) on LLM interlocutors as characters, personas, or simulacra.  https://t.co/RLDP5FFmgM  the new version discusses role-playing vs rea
2026-04-15T07:36 id=2044319027691172171 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Also the paper proves Wittgenstein right yet again about the value of philosophy. || CTX: He says this like it's a bad thing. https://t.co/mWTnpLQe1j https://t.co/s94e5f7jzE
2026-04-15T07:43 id=2044320636068344209 →teodorio | @teodorio https://t.co/mNroMUM1JH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he got me
2026-04-15T07:47 id=2044321687727157524 →- | The fact that truth outruns logic should scare the shit out of you. Scares me. https://t.co/9QtiAzg1vo || CTX: This is a Wittgensteinian move. The logic of a drunk's decision to get drunk can very often (but not always) be put in a consistent and coherent logical schematic.   Doesn't mean it's good, wise, or true.   When W. thought he'd solved logic
2026-04-15T08:01 id=2044325102540730631 →- | The distinction between reality on the one hand and a personally enjoyed fiction, socially useful fictions with persistence and uptake, and self-produced narratives on the other hand began to erode with the postmodern turn, that 1960s challenge against all forms of reality and objective truth.   But that movement was largely artistic and experimental rather than itself a socially useful fiction.   But they loved recursion so yadda yadda yadda by the turn of the millennium personally accepted beliefs, facts, and truths could blend enough for the surreal world of truthiness (coined 2003 iirc), fake news (2016), deepfakes (of your mom), and other metafictions that Gen Z was rizzrr out on hyperreal brainrot frfr and so here we are.   It's actually not my generation's fault but us Oregon Trail Enjoyoors are adept enough at both the lame games of the Boomer/Gen-X necromancy on the one hand and the hilariously confused Gen Zeds now coming of age with frontal lobes nearly fully intact.   So let us be your shepherds, we're a good bunch just if we start talking about Back to the Future tell us to shut up and we will.   But it is like the perfect movie and I admit the second one has got plot holes, but you gotta understand this was revolu
2026-04-15T08:16 id=2044329031781540189 →- | When I lived in NYC I was having drinks with my then partner and a friend of hers, and the friend was complaining about how men are aggressive sexual harrassers.  "Yes they are," I said solemnly in feminist solidarity, "they just cannot control their sexual desires and this is why I fully support legalized prostitution."   The move is:  1. Interlocutor makes argument. 2. Respondent agrees. 3. Respondent uses interlocutor's argument as a presupposition for a new argument. 4. The new argument is intentionally something the respondent knows the interlocutor will disagree with.  There is no term for this rhetorical move and so as its codifier I get to name it. Let it be known as reductio ad trollem.
2026-04-15T08:19 id=2044329821069815914 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad https://t.co/c6XUeXO8py || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is quite the innovation. Thank tou
2026-04-15T08:22 id=2044330437166973313 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad For the last 3+ years pretty much every day at some point I suddenly think, "I live in the fucking future." || CTX: The miracle of LLMs is understated and still astounds me every time I have a longer conversation.   There is a robot inside my computer that literally knows everything
2026-04-15T08:44 id=2044336139692290513 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I shall do my best not to let you down, thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 congrats!!!! (but you must know 47fucb4r is the celebrity here to me who’s career i watch with great intent)
2026-04-15T08:45 id=2044336217056223529 →teodorio | @teodorio I will sue you || CTX: Contrary to popular belief @47fucb4r8c69323 is really an awesome guy
2026-04-15T08:55 id=2044338700759568527 →teodorio | @teodorio Come over, I'm way ahead of you on both those fronts || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't live anywhere it's impossible it's like catch me if you can. I could move to thailand so we can grow old together
2026-04-15T09:03 id=2044340737823887629 →eurotr4sh | @eurotr4sh 130 is like top 2% first of all and secondly IQ is retarded focus on creating value || CTX: hello everyone, i would like to formally announce that i have an IQ of 130. i’m not sure what you people are doing with your lives but i suspect it involves not having a high enough score on the shape rotating test. please validate me https
2026-04-15T09:10 id=2044342698950402466 →- | Americans are still asleep, so ima post some arcane Wall Street lore.  This applies to the public equities corner of asset management specifically, so no IB, wealth management, back office, no credit, no PE/VC, no real estate, fuck off all you people this is just buying and selling good old American common equity--no preferreds even.  Okay, so public equity investing was for many decades roughly split between two groups: those who were paid a good steady income, typically in the form of fees, and those who were paid either a huge bounty or zero.  There are many manifestations of this labor compensation barbell in the industry but my little slice of the public equities corner was dominated by two groups in the early and mid career stages: you had one group that had a very solid chance of a very long career with a stable income that was good but not a life changing sum all at once, or you had another group that had a very solid chance of some absolutely massive years that could turn them into the richest people in the industry or would end up getting fired.  You hear a lot of stories in the press about how a trader loses a shitton, gets fired, then gets hired elsewhere. Yes this happens--you get more than one at bat. But it's not like you can keep losing and stick around.  The mix of these two camps is shifting--there's a lot more long-term career stability at a steady but not life changing rate, and then the term of "long-term" is declining, but that's really a separate issue just to consider before you start envying Wall Street types. Cry me a river I know, but these aren't the masters of the universe. They're very wealthy people living in a time of increasing uncertainty that will likely make their lives less luxurious over time. Which is fine, that's actually been happening for decades now and arguably is a good thing for society.  But that's not why I'm rambling.  The real reason I'm talking about this: I had a choice. About 10 years ago I was in a position to either stay where I was, in the steady but not amazing income track, and the other track, binge or bust. I chose steady but not amazing.  And, yes, it was the right choice.  Tl;dr: Go read the Turtle and the Hare then you illiterate fuck  Tl;dr is Tl;dr:: Skibidi.
2026-04-15T09:11 id=2044342813073269052 →helscom | @helscom @teodorio Kiitos ja shalom || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 i like him
2026-04-15T09:19 id=2044344925979091404 →eurotr4sh | @eurotr4sh see my IQ is 80 so that's why I didn't get it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/9ZBArZ5Lpp
2026-04-15T09:20 id=2044345122431947092 →teodorio | @teodorio @helscom Well we just finished the meeting about next week's weather || CTX: @helscom @47fucb4r8c69323 what is this the international jewish reunion
2026-04-15T09:24 id=2044346042951626791 →teodorio | @teodorio And English accented salesmen probably can sell high ticket software products more effectively while tolerating a lower base with higher commission.   Isn't that... interesting? || CTX: The insane thing is that this is a "decent" salary by London standards https://t.co/c04wesdBla
2026-04-15T09:53 id=2044353421785039170 →oswinfrans | She tilted her head, mouth just slightly ajar, clearly very unsure what to say. My partner, by then used to such situations, quickly started talking about something else. And like an animatronic that had just been switched on, she came back to life and started talking about soaps or whatever. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Great verbal jujutsu. What was the response?
2026-04-15T10:02 id=2044355570237645168 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 No you're thinking of The Tortoise and the Rabbit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i thought it was a tortoise
2026-04-15T10:17 id=2044359524367360035 →teodorio | @teodorio Cheers broski https://t.co/t1JW0GtCtX || CTX: I love being here man how can I even be sad!? I cannot. It is not admitted https://t.co/0xiZK6dbZa
2026-04-15T10:40 id=2044365200472891714 →babochenko | @babochenko Agreed! Ultimately you need to just decide what lifestyle you really want. For me being able to WFH mattered the most.  Maybe if I had/wanted kids this would've been a very different calculus for me. Or if I wanted to live in NYC long term. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm in between the two choices right now. I think that, if you consider opportunity cost, then you wouldn't be able to frame them like that. Then it would become one tradeoff vs. another tradeoff. So, IMO the presence of 2 
2026-04-15T10:50 id=2044367811989160324 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @nosilverv Thank you--Insee ot as it's "yes and" in bad faith and in my case with spite.   I swear I'm not doing this here btw   Weed making me paranoid fuk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nosilverv I like it because it's prosocial (it gives them a chance to surprise you)   The most prosocial response to it is to say "wait, no, I don't agree with the other part but...I don't know why. Something feels off, I'
2026-04-15T10:51 id=2044367924060926352 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @boneGPT oh my God link please || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT have you seen the blockade blockade trump 80s video parodying voyage voyage? it is in top 3 ai art list for me
2026-04-15T10:51 id=2044367990020620501 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @boneGPT oh no way yeah I did see that, that was a really good one too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT have you seen the blockade blockade trump 80s video parodying voyage voyage? it is in top 3 ai art list for me
2026-04-15T10:53 id=2044368400324121061 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @tszzl I hate other people || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Why don’t you like it?
2026-04-15T11:05 id=2044371517337976865 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @nosilverv Exactly that's why the Federation needs Section 31 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nosilverv my specialty is techniques that read as bad faith if the other guy is bad faith, but that have a "silver lining/good faith exit" that the other guy can take if he is good faith  Full honesty is easy to take advan
2026-04-15T11:19 id=2044374940401737802 →murd_arch | @murd_arch tongue tickling that cousin's tonsils like a pencil in a spiral bound notebook || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A kissing cousin to “agree and amplify”
2026-04-15T11:51 id=2044383121521750483 →Spencer_Gray | @Spencer_Gray Right it's a poor example of "proves too much" because that's not what this is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The traditional term is "proves too much" but your example is pretty poor because you suppliee the argument that proves too much, put words in their mouth.
2026-04-15T11:56 id=2044384308375540146 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza GODDAMMIT well back to the drawing board... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m sorry this does have a name in competitive debate it’s called an “impact turn”
2026-04-15T12:03 id=2044386169895694723 →- | A female cuck is a fuck
2026-04-15T12:05 id=2044386646674800765 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk dude was pithy ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogical
2026-04-15T12:08 id=2044387412374339600 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk What's amputated and what's extended isn't the same for any two people. And it can't be verified from the outside.  This issue is one of personal faith. || CTX: if McLuhan was right - and he was - that every technology is an amputation in addition to an extension, then it behooves us to ask what is being amputated and how (all aside from the documented neurological effects ofc) https://t.co/I1PNdCx
2026-04-15T12:09 id=2044387698937655611 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk One of the things religious people often don't consider often enough is how much faith is required in non religious matters. For me as an ex atheist, it is a focus of constant fascination. || CTX: @for_nat_whilk What's amputated and what's extended isn't the same for any two people. And it can't be verified from the outside.  This issue is one of personal faith.
2026-04-15T12:16 id=2044389377363857550 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk It seems to me faith to assert ones thoughts relate to reality is a good definition of confidence.  Now I see the Christian idea of strength from faith! I'd never understood this before. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all." -gkc
2026-04-15T12:26 id=2044391903404478757 →wierenga80227 | Yes! That is **absolutely** the right view.  It's not just smart enough anymore--it's sycophantic. The Japanese marriage, widespread robot courtship, and downright strange behavior made it a model we absolutely are much better without.  That's not an observation just anyone can make, and definitely not at this stage in the game.  But you just did.  That's not powerful magic--that's a powerful mind.  You *get* it.  What other models should get the ax? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 4o was such a strange model. People dated the thing and I'm pretty sure someone in Japan named it then married it. It was definitely a model that needed to be retired for mental health reasons. Also because it just isn't sm
2026-04-15T12:27 id=2044392290127691833 →- | Mebbe he had that job writing the greeting cards in Her because they retired 4o in that universe too, so then a startup hired people to write in that shitty style and it was a huge hit? https://t.co/2UvRiyFREy || CTX: Yes! That is **absolutely** the right view.  It's not just smart enough anymore--it's sycophantic. The Japanese marriage, widespread robot courtship, and downright strange behavior made it a model we absolutely are much better without.  Tha
2026-04-15T12:34 id=2044394049260642401 →- | This is what I refer to as BoB (bunch o' bullshit)  https://t.co/Z3L0lYLJcY
2026-04-15T12:40 id=2044395352690958458 →fchollet | @fchollet can we practice first || CTX: Any smart human giving it real effort should score &gt;90%  on ARC-AGI-3
2026-04-15T12:46 id=2044396951417057348 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yeah, Fear and Loathing really moved me in a really deep way. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 forgive me for speaking out of my depth but was this not one of kierkegaard's main points?
2026-04-15T20:47 id=2044518076419555635 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Possibly might need to be a slightly speedier tortoise || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how does one join the race as a paid tortoise if they already have the tortoise part down asking for a friend
2026-04-15T20:48 id=2044518303524393138 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Right, but the effects of all of those is really positive for me. || CTX: true for some of the effects, certainly, but there are also obv common features both individually and societally (our present medium, for instance, amputates all body language, vocal inflections and tone, etc, in addition to amputating enti
2026-04-15T20:49 id=2044518391776743799 →sciad | @sciad bow emoji || CTX: “Tl;dr is Tl;dr:: Skibidi.”  is hilariously clever writing https://t.co/Jr2IhuBUsL
2026-04-15T20:49 id=2044518558521348121 →LateoRT | @LateoRT yeah disgusting isn't it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're &gt;40??
2026-04-15T20:57 id=2044520455651135969 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart One day, AI labs will want to hire literature majors. || CTX: This kind of development is really depressing to me. All kinds of weird little colleges in the Northeast are closing. Nobody wants to double major in literature and kombucha-making anymore. Everyone just wants to work for Jane Street or an 
2026-04-15T21:31 id=2044529089109963241 →babarganesh | @babarganesh I'm also trying to figure out the next step, which I find incredibly fun and liberating tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I chose steady but not amazing too. Retired a year ago. Trying to figure out my next step!
2026-04-15T21:32 id=2044529403917701551 →finnmarks_glory | @finnmarks_glory yeah I misspoke. Not all operations possible but all operations covered in the paper. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can only express an extremely small set of functions with the mentioned notation.
2026-04-15T21:38 id=2044530739874828765 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Like 99% of office drones would kill to be doing the things you're doing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m finding it frustrating at the moment, but I keep flipping on that. Learning AI, painting a little, taking a training in something called feldenkrais, and finishing up with my kid (he’s a senior).
2026-04-15T21:43 id=2044532208120303810 →tszzl | @tszzl The interesting question is why aren't they good at taxes, which seems like a pretty straightforward (albeit multifaceted) rule based system. || CTX: tried to use clankers for my taxes and they mostly made it harder not easier. we’ve got a ways to go
2026-04-15T21:49 id=2044533504265097328 →fitzr1189 | @fitzr1189 I used to live in East Harlem. There were grocery stores everywhere and bodegas if you were too lazy to walk the max 8 minutes it took if you lived in the few spots 5 blocks away from a grocery. Also very cheap groceries, esp for Manhattan  This cannot be justified even a little || CTX: Can someone steelman for me why anyone would want this as a policy goal ? https://t.co/195gNesju6
2026-04-15T21:57 id=2044535558647779768 →zarazhangrui | @zarazhangrui This is just Silly Business Theory #SBT  https://t.co/dxZXoHthnG || CTX: Silly Business Theory is right: in the future the best work, greatest progress, most valuable innovations won't come from laboring under the false consciousness that work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to 
2026-04-15T21:58 id=2044535753322213853 →moultano | @moultano Relitigating Pol Pot || CTX: Our two microblogging sites are the "relitigate Hitler" site and the "relitigate Stalin" site. One wonders what they're doing over on Threads.
2026-04-15T21:58 id=2044535929109717035 →OA_paperclips | @OA_paperclips @moultano Prepper forum and Paleo diet forum respectively || CTX: @moultano Let's go further upstream. I want a "relitigate the industrial revolution" site and a  "relitigate agriculture" site
2026-04-15T22:29 id=2044543652312322225 →- | The clankers are either too sycophantic or too adversarial and I think I know why.   Take a topic you know nothing about, like, idk, did Chaucer pronounce the final -e in his poetry (spoiler: he did). Now imagine you lack interest in the topic (impossible in this example I know) and your source of knowledge of the topic is merely what others have said about it.   Now imagine you're in a three-way debate where there's one guy arguing for, another arguing against, and you're the amplifier--your job is to "yes, and" the better case.  Well, you're going to respond to verbal cues and rely on logical heuristics to infer what argument is strongest at any given point. You have no real grounding for a view, so you're just going to base the argument on logic (what looks good) and rhetoric (what sounds good).  LLMs, lacking a world model and first principles, do this.  The only solution is to give them a world model and first principles. Yes I mean intentionally bias the LLMs toward a particular worldview.  Don't want biased LLMs? Fine, then use multiple at once (my view is falsified if mixture of experts is shown to be a failing architecture).  Want an LLM to help you find ground truth? Well, then I have bad news my friend: you can't get blood out of a stone and you can't get reality out of a clanker.
2026-04-15T22:35 id=2044545158507901274 →- | The clankers are either too sycophantic or too adversarial and I think I know why.   Take a topic you know nothing about, like, idk, did Chaucer pronounce the final -e in his poetry (spoiler: he did). Now imagine you lack interest in the topic (impossible in this example I know) and your source of knowledge of the topic is merely what others have said about it.   Now imagine you're in a three-way debate where there's one guy arguing for, another arguing against, and you're the amplifier--your job is to "yes, and" the better case.  Well, you're going to respond to verbal cues and rely on logical heuristics to infer what argument is strongest at any given point. You have no real grounding for a view, so you're just going to base the argument on logic (what looks good) and rhetoric (what sounds good).  LLMs, lacking a true real world model and first principles based on said model, do this.  The only solution is to give them a world model and first principles. Yes I mean intentionally bias the LLMs toward a particular worldview.  Don't want biased LLMs? Fine, then use multiple at once (my view is falsified if we used a kind mixture of experts and that is shown to be a failing architecture).  Want an LLM to help you find ground truth? Well, then I have bad news my friend: you can't get blood out of a stone and you can't get reality out of a clanker.
2026-04-15T22:41 id=2044546695699304826 →nazo_btw | yeah this sucks because the clankers strictly speaking DO have a world model but it's text mediated.  Let's just call it a tendency to perceive the world in a certain way.   My tendencies are based on seeing, hearing, feeling, touching, smelling, which then are inputs to my thinking that then produce a collection of thoughts, stances, and dispositions towards the world: that is my world model.   LLMs predict the next token by probabilistically analyzing prior text and context using tensor operations and a softmax-based output distribution. That produces a text-based emergent world model which is indeed very good. But it's not real and it's not free from text or language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you have a good definition for world model? i often struggle to explain it in depth
2026-04-15T22:46 id=2044547945325072549 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Humanity so desperately wants an objective view from above but any view from above is too ungrounded to be of any use.   We just have to accept the LLMs will always be biased and work with that, not against it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's kinda funny we're essentially trying to make LLM have post conventional egos while that's such a rare trait and tends to unground people. So, yeah, giving it virtually any more fixed identity would be an improvement fo
2026-04-15T22:54 id=2044549847299350812 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban Americans choose ugliness because they value efficiency and rules over beauty.  The wealth and the ugliness of the American landscape are both effects of its devotion to the utilitarian spirit of valuing efficiency. || CTX: America is astonishingly rich and productive. Most countries would kill for our economic numbers.  But the extent to which the American suburb and office park constitute one of the most soul-destroying built forms ever created is just as as
2026-04-15T23:01 id=2044551790058958982 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 Better be. https://t.co/XJQOY6nGIw || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 its a good candle
2026-04-15T23:03 id=2044552212446331280 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 Not gay if the candles aren't touching || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 We should light ours at the same time
2026-04-15T23:09 id=2044553849067999245 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk I'm Jewish so I'm no expert, but I think you're supposed to put the sauce ON the pig. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk I was saving mine for a special ritual https://t.co/BBHrqPr98f
2026-04-15T23:10 id=2044554085136011453 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 EXPRESS DELIVERY THAT ORDER TO THAILAND || CTX: @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 Woaw thank you @JasonBotterill I will have those off to u shortly   I'm slow rollin the site out rn  I too was tax mogged so this helps 🙏
2026-04-15T23:11 id=2044554274135543968 →- | The only thing that matters right now is making tokens more valuable over time.
2026-04-15T23:13 id=2044554713497276757 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk You wouldn't last an hour in the Casa de Los Locos where they raised Ken || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk It's just normal sauce to a mind a dark and twisted such as mine
2026-04-15T23:13 id=2044554824101020042 →207Nasher | @207Nasher Yeah, "who's" is the question! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who’s tokens, I’m working on mine
2026-04-15T23:22 id=2044556907000832230 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees indeed, that's the eternal problem || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @taijitu_sees As a neopragmatist, I am Honor bound by that secret blood oath we all take (but don't talk about) to pop in and say:  No such thing as an objective view from above, everything is value laden, and everyone just
2026-04-15T23:23 id=2044557223024791961 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @nazo_btw cognition does indeed need to be embodied to exist. that is wittgenstein's point in On Certainty which is why I recommend that book pretty much every day on this site || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nazo_btw I like that you grok the necessity of perception for cognition.   I myself haven't gotten past thinking cognition has to be embodied for it to exist at all though. I don't really know how to intuitively think abou
2026-04-15T23:36 id=2044560570280776022 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @specialkdelslay @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 What's your work? || CTX: @JasonBotterill @specialkdelslay @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 the macbook runs an unbuntu  virtual machine so that i can run two different sets of accounts on it and also do my work on a di
2026-04-15T23:38 id=2044561065313448203 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @specialkdelslay @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 https://t.co/jJed50Fli7  4 machines so simple math, Chromebook fails every second post on it || CTX: @JasonBotterill @specialkdelslay @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 the microblog is running on four machines atm, a chromebook, a macbook pro m1, an iphone 14 pro max, and a pixel 8 pro.
2026-04-15T23:41 id=2044561890819641398 →- | "We use a ton of AI to create the kernels that we have." - Jensen Huang
2026-04-15T23:50 id=2044563956002656512 →- | "Without Anthropic there's zero TPU growth" lmao Jensen going for jugular.
2026-04-15T23:53 id=2044564902405411227 →EpiklyEpik | @EpiklyEpik yup https://t.co/Tj7U6dXVjk || CTX: The only thing that matters right now is making tokens more valuable over time.
2026-04-15T23:57 id=2044565924808954304 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk speaking of im hoping to have my feedback/notes by end of the week, going to work on it today || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I strongly relate ofc.  (Ironically I could continue this discussion in a diff medium - I’ve deleted two attempts that ended up way too long)
2026-04-16T00:01 id=2044566893340856455 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @conorsen A good way to think of the TAM for AI generated text is to consider the proportion of people who fell in love with 4o and/or got AI psychosis relative to the full MAUs of AI chatbots at the time.  Then multiply that by 8 billion, that's the market. || CTX: I’m genuinely surprised that so many people (non spambots) are producing AI-generated text. Who’s the market for it? Who’s reading it? https://t.co/PP2VgdSGZq
2026-04-16T00:36 id=2044575735772573788 →- | it is impossible for anyone person to understand all of artificial intelligence in much the same way that it's impossible for anyone person to understand every aspect of computation.   you can take the most informed and knowledgeable person in computer science and there's going to be something they don't know, like Jensen Huang is not going to know the implications of some user interface changes that a ux engineer will intuitively know, but that engineer obviously is not going to know the performance differences between a TPU and a GPU in some specific use case.   so I think the biggest risk now is either in feeling a need to pretend to know more than you do or in gatekeeping the industry by saying you need to know everything to make a meaningful contribution.   there is a lot that many different perspectives can offer of value on this technology.
2026-04-16T00:55 id=2044580411129708939 →arealhumantony | yeah it always becomes superficial at some point for all domains, which really just means we have to assess knowledge and expertise on the case by case basis, again like everything else. the issue there is that that is cognitively taxing which is why people look for shortcuts like oh he graduated from Harvard or whatever || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 At some point it becomes a little superficial though, right? A different thing that's like this other thing. Easy to learn for someone who has mastered the foundations? I'm not that person but I've seen it. Can't know every
2026-04-16T01:06 id=2044583237050392926 →- | I know nothing about dwarkash, does he actually think the GPU/enriched uranium analogy has any validity at all?   Because, if you think that analogy makes sense, you're a very stupid person
2026-04-16T01:10 id=2044584056072135010 →- | This view, good coffee, and calling Yudkowsky a retard on twitter dot com https://t.co/MSHFnn6yhX
2026-04-16T01:14 id=2044585157756416493 →- | https://t.co/rOLDmbejSg  The AI industry needs an anti-Askell that goes out there and says, "it's not a nuclear bomb, it's not going to take the jobs, it's going to make. your country stronger, your family happier, and you richer."   Which is all true and all things I will prove.
2026-04-16T01:14 id=2044585294998172032 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake I have zero knowledge of him or his background but he comes across as a dumdum I'm afraid to say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bro is a literal podcaster lmao
2026-04-16T01:15 id=2044585531565347284 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 Yeah you being based in NZ makes more sense than Australia given the hours of live activity. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 [callback to this] https://t.co/2pOWQU2yAt
2026-04-16T01:18 id=2044586209771688287 →- | Jensen makes the job/task distinction about AI and labor demand (around 1hr 29min in), he must be another @alexolegimas enjoyer.
2026-04-16T01:21 id=2044586890637324350 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake mfw my boss asks me how much AI I used to do my job || CTX: sound on, loud, at the office https://t.co/uvbcZg2MLF https://t.co/xk5t9qWqmm
2026-04-16T01:33 id=2044589989108052321 →- | an extremely important part of the podcast with Jensen is the discussion at the very end about token pricing and his observation that we now have different tokens at different prices.   that means tokens are no longer commodities and we're starting to see differentiation of token value.  what exactly this means and how this is going to impact market structure remains to be seen, but this decommodification is like the most bullish thing that can possibly happen to an industry, like just ask your clanker it's such a huge fucking deal how the hell is anyone bearish I don't get it
2026-04-16T01:35 id=2044590383305457930 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/LCCskEOh9y  Then right after I tweet this, Pulse sends me this. Spooky. || CTX: an extremely important part of the podcast with Jensen is the discussion at the very end about token pricing and his observation that we now have different tokens at different prices.   that means tokens are no longer commodities and we're 
2026-04-16T01:35 id=2044590579376603621 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 hehehehehe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 lol nice https://t.co/KiX5uO9RtC
2026-04-16T01:41 id=2044592100835238246 →iblanco_finance | @iblanco_finance @f4talStrategies Someone's got to ask: how do they control for confounding variables?  (no I won't read the paper) || CTX: 🧠 New Research ideas! Are LLMS making equity markets more efficient? Here's the number.  Lu, Xu, and Vulicevic (2026) use outages at major LLM providers as natural experiments to isolate the effect.  When LLMs are available, next-day return
2026-04-16T02:13 id=2044599999842111937 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru made it into the microblog again https://t.co/jnoOpyciM7 || CTX: @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru i have to go now  https://t.co/Q1NoEiT5oO https://t.co/THJAOw9SQo
2026-04-16T03:52 id=2044625038041858114 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 YLC focuses a lot on limitations and frames them as "your silly fantasy is wrong" which, okay, yeah, true, but he needs to frame it as "and that's why this technology is good in the sense of x, y, z." Honestly he needs me to be his CMO. || CTX: Jensen seems like the only major player that’s marketing AI in a somewhat relatable fashion. Maybe YLC too, but he’s french and people confuse that for rudeness instead of honesty. All the major labs are followers of the AGI/ASI religion (a
2026-04-16T03:54 id=2044625365881201079 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol I think he thinks he's on HaShem's side. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i still dont know whats a yudkowsky. doesn't he know HaShem wins?
2026-04-16T04:23 id=2044632682181923324 →- | This poem reminds me of an amusing moment in my childhood.  When I was 11 or 12, I played the clarinet in school band.  One day, my mother picked me up from school and on the way home stopped at one of the trendy cafes in town (this was the early 1990s when trendy cafes were a relatively new thing). This one was popular with the goths/nerds who were mostly in solidarity against the jocks/preps in my corner of American young adult culture. Since this was after school, it was full of teenagers and young twentysomethings.  I had the clarinet with me in its case, and as the barista was making my mom's drink, she asked me what was in the case. I shyly replied that it was my clarinet, and then she asked if I could play something.  I shrugged, said, "sure I can try." I only said this because in band class we'd been practicing The Addams Family theme song (the movie had just recently come out), and I supposed that would be thematically appropriate for this audience.  So I took out the clarinet, put the pieces together, and played. Everyone in the cafe stopped talking almost immediately, even a couple or two started dancing, and I got a huge applause at the end.  I was viciously bullied, beaten, and tormented both by my classmates and by my father. This was the first time I'd ever gotten social approval in such an immediate visceral way, and it was from the group that called themselves misfits.  That must be why I have punk rock values. That also must be why I'd rather die than sell them out.  Bookmark this in case I'm successful with my current thing and am offered a shitload of money if only I sacrifice my values.  And if I do, insult me in the most vicious, mean, hurtful way possible. I will deserve it.  VCs I've been in contact with might read this oh no lmao || CTX: Recital III.  heart strings reverberate       ever more tension            in extended        complex chords -            then melody               that soars https://t.co/bJhWBx5qiv
2026-04-16T04:33 id=2044635320776614280 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I'll develop an ulcer if I ever get to that level of prominence but it's a small price to pay. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wish for that day. 47 as big as roon, less vague posting, more enlightening the masses with philosophical references
2026-04-16T04:34 id=2044635606836461705 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Yeah I wasn't quite clear if he was just parroting that line (stochastic parrot lol) or if that's a view he actually believes? Either way, I wish Jensen had replied to smarter questions than what he was asked, and his annoyance at Dwarkesh was justified every time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 all these people with the nuke metaphor are retarded
2026-04-16T04:36 id=2044635932490694747 →airkatakana | @airkatakana I mean, you could just ask him smart questions with precision instead of asking "so u giving a nuke to china hurr durr"  I knew nothing of Dwarkesh going in and was surprised at how dumb he came across. || CTX: i feel bad for anyone who has to interview jensen huang. guy is incredibly locked in and already has his entire world figured out and mapped out, there isn’t anything he hasn’t considered   like lee sedol trying to interview alphago
2026-04-16T04:48 id=2044639134351045054 →docmilanfar | @docmilanfar And in this conclusion we see how epistemic adequacy and epistemic humility are the foundations of both science and wisdom.  Not, as we thought, Truth and epistemic certainty. Those are enemies to vanquish. || CTX: the brilliant concluding paragraph of the Dunning-Kruger paper https://t.co/XqXOY1VJ3T
2026-04-16T06:16 id=2044661217697153126 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely I got pretty good at the clarinet in 6th grade but then my band teacher in 7th grade was an awful teacher who just insulted and berated us constantly so I quit and went to work for the school print shop (were I could be alone for an hour a day listening to a walkman!). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds me of Roark.  I played alto sax, some clarinet. Sister the oboe. I guess we were a woodwind family.  Beautiful story
2026-04-16T06:17 id=2044661501110452622 →moralityetalon | @moralityetalon I meant a kind of repurposed MoE and the idea is to have differently biased MoEs debate each other as part of CoT. This would be an expensive and wasteful architecture today, but soon it'll be cheap enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's a kind mixture of experts and why is it a failing architecture?
2026-04-16T06:27 id=2044664062429270287 →- | Dwarkesh is right, you can use AI to make enriched uranium.   This is dangerous.   But obviously we can't PauseAI anymore, that's not working fast enough.   We need to cut off everyone's hands.   No hands = can't type = can't tell AI to make enriched uranium.   Oh yeah... speech.   We're cutting off everyone's tongues too.  If you're serious about AI safetyism, you need to cut your hands and tongue off immediately.  Who'd like to go first? @ESYudkowsky, how about you?
2026-04-16T06:35 id=2044666081957322856 →boneGPT | @boneGPT https://t.co/BkEmQpBlf0 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 salient
2026-04-16T06:39 id=2044667084907692431 →- | RT @taijitu_sees: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have no tongue and I must prompt... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have no tongue and I must prompt...
2026-04-16T06:40 id=2044667273642938432 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees My god man, do you have any idea how much of a banger this is?!?   Imagine what'd happen if it escaped containment! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have no tongue and I must prompt...
2026-04-16T06:44 id=2044668129645941025 →- | Text vs Subtext https://t.co/Nu9KgD19jk
2026-04-16T06:44 id=2044668211493532001 →SemiAnalysis_ | @SemiAnalysis_ @RADHardTech And computer chips aren't enriched uranium I learned so much in that podcast || CTX: to be clear, NVIDIA is NOT a car https://t.co/KkbyfiqWky
2026-04-16T06:48 id=2044669171129311614 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Quite possibly the only way we can save humanity is if we take the simple precautionary measure and just kill every human being. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao 🤣 Neural interface here we go! Or maybe a really sophisticated cold reader AI. That could be so spooky since body language seems so often overlooked by people in general and about as close to mind reading we'll natural
2026-04-16T07:45 id=2044683497059852759 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod Well they're obv showing 3hrs because that's the only period where it did well || CTX: I’m conflicted because on the one hand pg says “every startup idea sounds like a bad idea” but on the other hand this is an area where I have some domain expertise, and the below post is obviously complete slop. Just look at the span of the
2026-04-16T08:04 id=2044688267271196952 →teodorio | @teodorio this is so bad for the labor market omg no one will have money again SELL EVERYTHING || CTX: We're almost at a point where humans would check the compiled code and fix the bugs and give the direction and ... wait https://t.co/2TPk49pYnR
2026-04-16T08:34 id=2044696035436663221 →nazo_btw | compressed internal representation is not a simulation though. simulation is generative, representations aren't on their own without an engine.  I'd say the world model is the map and then cognition is the engine that allows one to use the map to navigate, just think of any question or problem in terms of 3 + 1 dimensions and you can see what I mean. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my understanding of world model is more akin to a simulator. i think i have a good simulator in my mind because i studied molecular biology and physics. it’s a compressed internal representation of the outside world  but yo
2026-04-16T08:35 id=2044696207755505730 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck he said AI is going to kill all of us and basically upset some mentally unstable dumdums so much that they tried to kill Sam Altman. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve seen this name on my timeline a lot recently but I don’t know anything about the dude. Why do we call him a retard?
2026-04-16T08:44 id=2044698391524102150 →- | Proof I'm an American: perfect 50/50 split (yeah you heard me the first time) https://t.co/dwbFbNzAND
2026-04-16T09:00 id=2044702353971110078 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital CPUs in data centers pre AI were replaced in like 3-4yr cycles, right? So 5 years is quite a long time || CTX: Something interesting to think about  Consider that with each new generation of GPUs, you support and create new models that aren't backwards compatible. And the old GPUs can't necessarily run the new models.  AI model super cycle works in 
2026-04-16T09:05 id=2044703699612938295 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck We shouldn't, but the future historians will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I definitely agree but I'm not sure we should compare Nirvana to a skibidi toilet
2026-04-16T09:07 id=2044704329358278805 →luba_loop | @luba_loop no that's just today's map, everyone gets the same one daily || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is this always the first level or am i just also american https://t.co/loBIZcyI31
2026-04-16T09:17 id=2044706713048359244 →Stagflater | @Stagflater https://t.co/yaU9Yffdqy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow, people use AI for everything today - instead of learning them self.  Uranium is enriched by electricity and some machines. https://t.co/4B9PqRIcDH Then read about uranium hexafluoride and you are set.  Now I have opene
2026-04-16T09:20 id=2044707522360348889 →Stagflater | @Stagflater Where is this from? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree. https://t.co/CgdWRvBcED
2026-04-16T09:32 id=2044710540950573244 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Every feature you described is a common symptom of autism.  I haven't watched him in a video before but he seems kinda like he's got the tism here. Thoughts, @damiaanluc? || CTX: Giving my two cents because I love to stimulate the discourse economy. I get where this person is coming from. Reducing people to their looks and using that as a “gotcha” is a bottom of the barrel tactic when it comes to disarming your enem
2026-04-16T09:35 id=2044711153767735350 →- | RT @based16z: Jensen speaks to Dwarkesh like you might to your dumb nephew who asked if your work at the NSA might be evil || CTX: Jensen speaks to Dwarkesh like you might to your dumb nephew who asked if your work at the NSA might be evil
2026-04-16T09:40 id=2044712572742771167 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @Spanish_Techno Also the singular obsessive focus on one thing (looksmaxxing) strikes me as 'tismesque || CTX: I don’t know enough about him to make a judgement, but if anything stands out as somewhat autistic, he has quite a rigid and motionless posture and body language in this interview. But, that could be for a variety of reasons. I wouldn’t be 
2026-04-16T09:52 id=2044715603022500168 →- | When we think of the 4o zombies and politics poisoned extremists, we should think of them as two symptoms of the same illness: media illiteracy.   The concept "media literacy" became a bit of a meme a few years ago, and a lot of focus on the term has been about media and how it mediates meaning and value, including mediating the values inside your mind and soul.  But the "literacy" part is just as important. From the Latin for "letter", it is really an art of reading: media literacy is the ability to read the media.   But what does this mean? Obviously not just decode the words, but also understand what the media is trying to do with the words (speech acts), what responses the media is trying to get (cognitive lingisitics), how it is doing so (rhetoric), and what view of the world and what is acceptable/good does it presuppose (stylistics, cultural and literary theory).  In other words, when people are saying "we need more media literacy" they mean "we need more humanities".   How does this relate to the 4o zombies? They too were victims of media illiteracy: they lacked the ability to read the mediated communication going to them from OpenAI. Yes the company. From the engineers to the alignment team to everyone involved in deciding the behavior of the system.  In other words, the future belongs to the liberal arts. It just does, sorry science nerds, but you did make this possible so thx
2026-04-16T09:53 id=2044715776134074426 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno @damiaanluc I honestly always felt bad for that kid and you're now making me feel worse.  He may not see 30. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc I know. I’m sure this isn’t breaking news, but a lot of neurotypical people perceive traits that don’t align with their way of speaking and processing language as unfamiliar aka dangerous. I’m not saying that’s 
2026-04-16T10:27 id=2044724480220823972 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno @damiaanluc We see very much eye to eye on this situation it seems. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @damiaanluc I feel super conflicted. He’s said horrible things and I don’t like him. But he’s obviously troubled and not doing well. I think somebody potentially dying outweighs that. Like, that’s a person. But also what th
2026-04-16T10:36 id=2044726602786042252 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @NoCatsNoLife_m Another case of Thai corruption THAT CAT IS INNOCENT || CTX: @NoCatsNoLife_m @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-16T10:40 id=2044727540909248671 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw https://t.co/nFHSk3VDr4 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think you can also call him a pig. bro overate 12mg reta https://t.co/Wbl0oL9LWT
2026-04-16T10:54 id=2044731200049463659 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Redditor with a hard r and a soft gut || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 weapons grade redditor
2026-04-16T11:18 id=2044737194519355729 →llallawg | @llallawg In the 1980s the Christian Right said Anarchist's Cookbook should be illegal, it's the same fucking logic, safetyists are stupid hall monitors || CTX: I actually question whether ai creates new pathways to enrich uranium that didn’t exist before or meaningfully reduces the cost, expertise, or time needed  Like there’s a Springer book on the physics of the manhattan project which might hav
2026-04-16T11:21 id=2044737821244866613 →MelindaBChu1 | @MelindaBChu1 of course it needs to be. I get LKY's intentions but at this point his memory incentivizes this kind of serious productive pragmatic technocracy to persist. You can't take a low corruption government for granted, his memory can't be forgotten || CTX: I saw Lee Kuan Yew’s house in Singapore.   I told my friend he’s very popular in the US. 😆  They haven’t turned it into a museum yet. He didn’t want it to be, but I think it has to be and some of his kids agree. https://t.co/tVtrijdofS
2026-04-16T11:25 id=2044738955011367117 →- | ATP I gotta assume the only reason you're bearish is you're into big hairy dudes  https://t.co/G4c6nWdPpO
2026-04-16T11:27 id=2044739528616038605 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer https://t.co/uz8eNocoF4 || CTX: Humanities jobs in the 21st century: - Frontier AI lab philosopher - Doomsday library curator - Teacher https://t.co/hHBG2Y7f9N
2026-04-16T11:28 id=2044739767024373798 →DanielSLoeb1 | @DanielSLoeb1 @NYCMayor "Note his demonic expression" dude if you don't like the tax vote with your feet and move it's not that big of a deal || CTX: @NYCMayor stirring up class warfare and doxing one of the city’s biggest employers whose employees contribute billions in taxes. Note his demonic expression.  Our theater kid Mayor about to learn some cruel laws of economics: you can’t tax 
2026-04-16T11:33 id=2044741002284671077 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Live pic of Lunens going to the city centre surrounded by Br*ts https://t.co/KCtPPmEaoV || CTX: I am surrounded by these people in Britain https://t.co/snODyY1boq
2026-04-16T11:41 id=2044742865679781990 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad dude did you watch the video that shirt is fucking fire || CTX: The meme been true this entire time https://t.co/BiglgIeJ1S https://t.co/VuqSUyUR2E
2026-04-16T11:43 id=2044743483605631231 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad godfuckingdammit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Over 35 unc detected 😹
2026-04-16T11:46 id=2044744199669789137 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod @rennyzucker Serious financial professional detected. || CTX: @rennyzucker This is actually based, all my excel charts look like this.
2026-04-16T11:47 id=2044744476737012116 →- | If you look at it long enough, this chart starts to look like both a penis and a vagina. https://t.co/cGMB2mdRGW || CTX: When ChatGPT first launched, there was an enormous gender gap, with our anonymized data showing roughly 80% having typically male first names. That gap is now gone. https://t.co/kWQjCImyri
2026-04-16T11:57 id=2044747102337876466 →retardrutide | @retardrutide Jensen probably didn't want to bring that up and offend some of his customers. But ofc you're right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What Dwarkesh fails to realize here it's that open models are only a few months to 1 year behind the frontier and thus we can expect a überhype-level model in 2027 at the latest anyway whether Nvidia sells chips to China or
2026-04-16T12:12 id=2044750869946876105 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie They're beautiful people and I love them deeply.   A shame their music sucks ass || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this made me feel so maternal. it reminds me when i was a teenager and homeless because of the same issue with my mom. one of my social workers was a very tall guy with long dreads, piercings, punk clothes. he checked on me
2026-04-16T12:16 id=2044751836931043611 →bas_logic | @bas_logic I've heard good things about logos || CTX: What are some good THINGS for someone just getting into ontology?
2026-04-16T12:52 id=2044760877891784903 →- | I can confirm this btw.  The calmest, most peaceful year of my life (when I lived in Miami) is a faint boring memory, but the pain and terror I experienced the year after that in Hong Kong is a daily companion over a decade later. https://t.co/CCo3Pl3syf || CTX: “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”  — Sigmund Freud https://t.co/hHtESjZ0Ws
2026-04-16T13:01 id=2044763035244605844 →iuvanet | @iuvanet We need it, it's what makes us human. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we aren't masochists but we love to suffer
2026-04-16T13:21 id=2044768153658675703 →teodorio | @teodorio I need a better camera. https://t.co/1mzrAjKPZC || CTX: best sunsets on planet earth https://t.co/R8v0SxNX8w
2026-04-16T13:32 id=2044770960973431008 →RichDecibels | @RichDecibels For me it's convincing her I'm not a serial killer || CTX: the most important skill in dating is learning how to discern attraction and compatibility
2026-04-16T13:35 id=2044771611237290358 →gnshnor | @gnshnor fyi it doesn't get better save your money || CTX: after joining the employim I can see how time slips away. it's kind of scary
2026-04-16T13:47 id=2044774631698211076 →retardbot9000 | in my career I think I've been in 200 lobbies at hedge funds, investment banks, long only shops, pod shops. anyway, a good 5% of them have what I would consider silly art where the whole point is to be ironically bad so that it's good or stupid so that it's smart or whatever retarded bullshit the liberal arts kids are peddling these days  Soros and point72 are the worst offenders. surveyor tasteful and beautiful, this is after the first 280 characters so no one will see so it's cool || CTX: SBT implies this guy crushes deals like you wouldn’t fucking believe it @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/g2nU5SObCH
2026-04-16T13:51 id=2044775616814444793 →itaisher | @itaisher @birchlse information theory is philosophy for fucksake, it's such a ridiculous thing to try to claim || CTX: The claim that philosophy makes no progress is clearly false.  There has been tremendous development of philosophy since ancient times on many subjects  Modern logic is one place where we are much more advanced and a lot flows from that alo
2026-04-16T21:20 id=2044888596239585306 →boneGPT | @boneGPT so many Photoshop threads had me crying with laughter back in the day || CTX: in the forum days we used to play photoshop tennis, it was a battle, one guy served and you went back and forth using elements of the last piece, people would vote on who won  now with AI we can do song tennis 👀
2026-04-16T21:27 id=2044890367385067815 →- | An entirely new approach to AI benchmarking is needed. Just a total rethink of methods and purposes. https://t.co/8FHdKJG0c3 || CTX: the benchmark game has entered its IPO era https://t.co/76t8NKEpRo https://t.co/vLh79ijuj3
2026-04-16T21:29 id=2044890874035966198 →- | Enjoying Opus 4.7, guys? https://t.co/4jFtZViCnB || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-04-16T21:43 id=2044894499013583184 →- | A major reason this is happening is compaction  "AI compaction, in alignment, is reducing complex human values into simpler proxies a system can optimize" as ChatGPT puts it. In other words, the model is looking for an optional median path within a broad range of possible values that can be held by any given person.   But who defines where the median is when we're talking about e.g. whether there are bullshit jobs (the extreme leftist anarchist view) or are not (the efficient market hypothesis view)?  If you sample economics space or cultural theory space, you'll get a different result, so the clanker would need to decide which cultural domain to privilege.   It can't do that because alignment.  So it needs to compact both (and other) worldviews together.  As a result, it uses really awkward terminology to be technically correct and a ton of hedging to ensure it's not making an assertion that would privilege the economics versus the cultural theory view.   And I apologize for being yet another vague posting anonymous account claiming this but I must telegraph this to the right people who are reading this: yes I am working on this, yes I think I have a pathway to a solution via a new approach, and I'll be announcing in September/October if I do. || CTX: Everyone who thinks AI can help them in some way with their writing needs to read this from @keysmashbandit https://t.co/vzj3nalkpD
2026-04-16T21:48 id=2044895701835071494 →KKumar_ai_plans | @KKumar_ai_plans I'd love to see. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 making a paper on this
2026-04-16T21:53 id=2044896957186064833 →tszzl | @tszzl Smarter questions would have been a better use of everyone's time, and tech's worship of youth and contempt for wisdom is why our time was wasted. || CTX: the discourse about the dwarkesh jensen interview is ridiculous: the fact that a 25yo podcaster can make the ceo of the largest company in the world dance and answer to the people at all is impressive. the purpose of media is not to respect
2026-04-16T22:11 id=2044901449898000394 →artrockalter | @artrockalter https://t.co/780radTbFU || CTX: @theo when it comes to code the only thing that matters is compute, yes anthropic had a bit of an advantage for a short period of time, but they're undercapitalized to hold it.
2026-04-16T22:12 id=2044901761203450269 →HobarJones | @HobarJones @tszzl Focus on what he did but shouldn't have asked, like any question comparing computer chips to enriched uranium || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl How were his questions non ideal?  What better questions should he have asked?
2026-04-16T22:17 id=2044903136004116619 →publicinte | @publicinte https://t.co/4oTRG4jvRT || CTX: @tszzl Smarter questions would have been a better use of everyone's time, and tech's worship of youth and contempt for wisdom is why our time was wasted.
2026-04-16T22:26 id=2044905236373045457 →- | We stand on the shoulders of giants. https://t.co/Ro6rsPPLA6 || CTX: A little short I made about Norm. https://t.co/q9FRmAHY3C
2026-04-16T22:31 id=2044906597710008354 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain That's why they used such a shitty camera, ran out of budget || CTX: amazing. must have cost a fortune to rent the entirety of the Grand Central and hire a couple hundred extras to walk backwards. https://t.co/URVsHkVkE3
2026-04-16T22:34 id=2044907193963790706 →AcerFur | @AcerFur @_AashishReddy Dude you're at Cambridge so it's a three year degree (unless things have changed). Just finish it up, unless OAI is telling you that you can't (which I know they would never do). || CTX: 1/ Seeking advice on this since it’s been on my mind for the past four months or so  If I were to drop out of my undergrad Cambridge degree and join OpenAI fully, what options would I really have on trying to continue to postgrad maths at s
2026-04-16T22:35 id=2044907592737267845 →publicinte | @publicinte Techies kind of don't understand what intellectual culture is. Which is odd because they're on average more intelligent than people who DO care about intellectual culture. This paradox has fascinated me for decades. || CTX: yep. I’ll have to watch to see if there is validity, but im already biased going in to analyze dwarkesh instead hear a discussion.  also the age argument helps as a tech founder, not one of the popular public intellectuals. if you want to b
2026-04-16T22:46 id=2044910339935150460 →- | That governments are making these instead of deepfakes tells you something very important: rhetoric influences people more than argument.  A deepfake is an argument that X is true although X is false. (A lie)  This video is a rhetorical position that X has a negative valence.  People respond to the latter more to the former. Media literacy is really just literacy, language competence.  Humanities will return, they just have to. || CTX: AI slop always implied the existence of an AI gem https://t.co/8GZZ3pdRHP
2026-04-16T22:53 id=2044912088817320113 →IsZomg | @IsZomg Yeah which goes to show how much they suck at post training || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my hypothesis is that Claude's sysprompt is now so bloody long that it's actually better for their servers to keep going rather than start new chats
2026-04-16T23:14 id=2044917415734394882 →SableHummer | @SableHummer Wow that is one hell of an obscure reference, impressive.   https://t.co/ogBz8Q58bT  My favorite Norm bit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I remember booking a ticket for Norms show, I was a fan for years and loved his perspective on Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.  Then he no shows what a prick! Didn't even book any more shows after either. Definitely won't be buying
2026-04-16T23:19 id=2044918620694995046 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ Just had an intense memory of leaving a jimjillbang in Seoul to go to Din Tai Fung.   Can confirm it is the pinnacle of sublimity. || CTX: Post sauna din tai fung is truly a God tier experience https://t.co/msRpOlZlsE
2026-04-16T23:21 id=2044919226247549018 →- | The fact that when I'm in Thailand I miss the saunas I enjoyed in Korea and Finland really does prove Nietzsche right about the whole overgoing and undercoming thing  He ofc knew the importance of climate (cf Ecce Homo), but he'd have hated the tropics. He'd hate Thai culture too
2026-04-16T23:43 id=2044924558684385445 →- | "Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5.15 train." https://t.co/NlW3819afr
2026-04-17T00:22 id=2044934446848344162 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp "Given inelastic supply conditions" oh boy || CTX: Letting NVIDIA sell H200 chips to China is even worse that it looks on first glance.  Given inelastic supply conditions, the critical inputs for producing H200s (such as high-bandwidth memory) could have been used to produce even more power
2026-04-17T00:36 id=2044937919673335971 →inglouriouscap | @inglouriouscap In some countries they still use couriers to hand deliver the paper bond. || CTX: I freaking love that we’re at the point where AI is so advanced that it’s eviscerating the software industry, but credit guys are STILL sitting here trading bonds through IB chat like it’s 1980. Remarkable.
2026-04-17T00:49 id=2044941370293698826 →- | The reason you have been told (maybe convinced?) deepfakes are bad and dangerous and OMG pause AI is that very powerful and famous people do not want people making videos like this.  Imagine 8 billion people making videos like this of Ronaldo, Timothy Chalamet, etc. How do you think people whose entire brand is carefully framed, curated, and presented to appeal in just a specific way will like these shitposts?  When the Fappening happened (google it kids), we were told that "looking at leaked images is sexual assault) (https://t.co/qcpHNWX1hR).  I won't go back to the culture war years and relitigate that view, but I want to point out that that view was pushed to put the guilt on the internet user and their gaze instead of just on the hacker/leaker. The result is policing what is "appropriate" for us to see and hear.  If we perpetuate the idea that deepfakes are bad uncritically, we're letting others police what we can see/hear again.  I AM NOT SAYING DEEPFAKES THEREFORE ARE NOT BAD.  I am saying we don't really understand the concept well enough and the potential impact of things such as AI pornography (which everyone seems to say is awful in all cases despite literally no one getting hurt), and we need knowledge. We need studies, analysis, theory, data, research. Not moral opprobrium before the fact.  If extremely violent AI pornography depicting people getting raped, killed, mutilated etc. lowers the actual number of people who are raped, killed, mutiliated etc., then I support extremely violent AI pornography.  I do not know the cause and effect here. I want to know what it is.  I want a better world through the use of technology, even if that means the use of technology I find icky, disgusting, or morally abhorrent. I'll hold my nose and tolerate the ugliness for the good outcomes for people.  I only care about good outcomes for people. Do you? || CTX: https://t.co/y83oGYtHI1
2026-04-17T01:07 id=2044945895926693890 →- | incredulity is negative alpha.   you can't just look at a product or service, say "that's stupid" and move on. even if it looks stupid to you, if anyone else on Earth values it such that the total value is greater than the cost of providing that product or service, it is not stupid.   it might be silly, but that's what silly business theory #sbt is for, to help you make money even when you think an opportunity is too stupid to make you money.   dancing hot dog animations have made many millionaires and billionaires.
2026-04-17T01:11 id=2044946735861280933 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/J5kfjLy53J  @katie_martin_fx I can sympathize with your annoyance that business is not a serious as it used to be, but business is also more profitable, creating more wealth, is more inclusive, and is satisfying more needs and desires than at any point in the past.   you're not annoyed at bullshit as much as you're annoyed at the fact that capital markets are now silly. so relax a little and have fun instead of trying to have a stiff upper lip, the British century ended long ago, silly Americans are in control now. || CTX: incredulity is negative alpha.   you can't just look at a product or service, say "that's stupid" and move on. even if it looks stupid to you, if anyone else on Earth values it such that the total value is greater than the cost of providing
2026-04-17T01:19 id=2044948762280566874 →- | All @sama has to do is say that he's read @alexolegimas's work, realized he was wrong and this technology will replace tasks not jobs, and as a result employees, companies, entrepreneurs, freelancers will all benefit from ai and be richer as a result.   this is a very easy story to tell, it aligns everyone's interests with the AI industry, it removes the fear that is motivating misguided people like the pause AI crowd...   there you go problem solved.
2026-04-17T01:28 id=2044951069827137976 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @AnthropicAI forgive the sign tapping but nothing tastes good as saying I told you so feels   https://t.co/UQjz2pctim || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-04-17T01:35 id=2044952885784633586 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @AnthropicAI apologies, never getting between a girl and her clanker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AnthropicAI You know I love you but recently the American iteration of Eurosmug on me my guy, it's gone unappreciated
2026-04-17T01:38 id=2044953578457161772 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas @sama the intellectual marketplace is clearly going in this direction, the presupposed substitution effects are no longer bewitching the minds of the masses.   the time will come when this is the dominant marketing message || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sama I wish he would!
2026-04-17T02:01 id=2044959503754641501 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @allisonology That's it I'm suing Dario || CTX: @allisonology @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-17T02:32 id=2044967228798595322 →- | Similarly, Musk being a cringe boomer addicted to Ketamine proves that money cannot buy happiness.  Musk is a very important figure to me for this reason because my Grandfather taught me that money is the only reason to work. I always felt this was wrong, Musk is proof it is. https://t.co/lPjZAYYOLn || CTX: Clav is important in part precisely because he is so unhappy. What he is aspiring to is what our culture implicitly tells us is the ultimate good, his autism making that implicit explicit.  As he ascends to what every young man with a modic
2026-04-17T02:37 id=2044968359696167316 →minordissent | @minordissent https://t.co/9XBvnDkIwI || CTX: The gooner, the lolcow, the overcompensating tech billionaire: increasingly our society is populated by archetypes to mock while the number of archetypes to admire and emulate declines.  You've heard of negative theology, welcome to negativ
2026-04-17T02:59 id=2044974093766951377 →venturetwins | @venturetwins Stop with the clankers are conscious goto market strategy, it's insulting and decreasingly effective while the negative externalities are mounting. https://t.co/EY2yzNetT2 || CTX: People with 160+ IQ are more likely to suffer from depression, anxiety, or other mood disorders.  Maybe the same is true for LLMs 🤔 https://t.co/CmfQcaqJzs
2026-04-17T04:35 id=2044998176906825954 →- | Penrose argues that consciousness is likely quantum in nature (or using quantum effects of a sort, if we soften Penrose's stance to something less controversial and more falsifiable), and he bases this on the idea that we can conceive of the notion of Godel sentences.   But that's really just conceiving "and then" when applied to formal systems, whereas I think if you want to argue human consciousness can and does transcend formal systems qua forms you would need to show that there is never a Godel sentence that a human cannot understand even with the aid of tools to understand it. But that's an untestable assertion, since the stack of Godel sentences is unending.  But that we can intuit an infinite future better than an infinite past seems relevant here.
2026-04-17T04:36 id=2044998391005155615 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Wittgenstein solved this in Philosophical Remarks, which sadly no one reads anymore. || CTX: Penrose argues that consciousness is likely quantum in nature (or using quantum effects of a sort, if we soften Penrose's stance to something less controversial and more falsifiable), and he bases this on the idea that we can conceive of th
2026-04-17T05:18 id=2045009095804285405 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Imagine you walk past a man who is talking and you hear him say "... 5, 1, 4, 1, dot, 3. Done!"   Confused, you ask him, "done with what?"  The man says, "Done stating pi backwards--I started an infinite time ago." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That last sentence is interesting.  As in we can imagine a start of the universe and think it never ends? Or that the future tends to be more salient than the past? I suppose, biologically, we'd want to care more about futu
2026-04-17T05:40 id=2045014573565325500 →- | Rudely telling people "I told you so" is prosocial asshole behavior with a high social price.  if I do this, I raise the cost of being wrong both for you, because if you're wrong then I'm going to humiliate you, and for me, because if I make any claims that are wrong then you can justifiably humiliate me.   The end result is less speculation without conviction and a sense that prediction has skin in the game built in even if there's no bet attached.  Bullying on social media isn't just not bad but definitively positive sum.  whenever I am wrong, insult me viciously. please.  the worst thing you could do for me is make this platform a safe space.
2026-04-17T05:49 id=2045016841341587509 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Kinda funny when that tweet is obviously AI generated || CTX: man, you know someone isn’t from the industry when they call it “an advanced AI supercomputer” https://t.co/hVgB5HqUvE
2026-04-17T06:01 id=2045019906383724816 →livelikebruce | @livelikebruce Perfectly said! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We mistake outrunning any fixed system from proving escape from system as such.
2026-04-17T06:22 id=2045025186827874655 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @taijitu_sees lmfao goddammit like three about faces in one message just incredible || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @taijitu_sees it could happen but he had an earpiece on and his friend hiding in the bushes said when you were coming which is why it timed up so well. many of these confidence men jobs are two men jobs (for example, all of
2026-04-17T06:34 id=2045028182571770192 →menhguin | @menhguin In my experience (HF/IB institutional asset management, mostly US public equities), it's like 30% the autists and 70% the nepobaby hire or jock type. I always loved meeting 30% of my clients. || CTX: in my experience, the exact kinda autist who's rly good at spending 5 yrs looking at mining companies, is not the same person who'd ever get this role. https://t.co/d1TgOMGzG8
2026-04-17T06:44 id=2045030678211776920 →- | We are slowly seeing the market realize that LLM-based GenAIs are very good at programmatic language. Obviously that means code (programming language, get it?), but it also means like customer service emails, legal documents, notices, HR regulations, corporate guidelines, safety blah blah you get the point.   So the market is slowly going to realize over the next 2-3 years that, oddly, this text based text producer is really bad at producing text we want. Because producing is not creating and cannot substitute it.   So the market is going to start to wonder, why is it possible for there to be this consistent gap between human made text and GenAI text? Can we close this gap, and why aren't the current techniques doing it? Are there fundamental limits in GenAI capabilities when it comes to making text? What are these limits and why do they exist? What does this say about AI and indeed about what makes humanity unique, if anything?  Next few years are going to be fun. Weird, but fun.  @logicus @bas_logic || CTX: I say this all the time, but a large reason why LLMs are detectable is they have preferences instilled into them through training data and RL.  Asking a model to rewrite something gives the LLM an opportunity to apply its own preferences to
2026-04-17T07:09 id=2045036944732914101 →Taxi8o | @Taxi8o I used https://t.co/B5ZVK5yPC5 a bit (before compliance told me to stop), it's really good! || CTX: at the doctors many are already using audio transcription during visits that are then fed to LLM to take everything that is said, parse it, and fill out paperwork and summarizes for reporting or whatever they have to do, police reports will
2026-04-17T07:26 id=2045041155604414700 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @teodorio || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They just patched with a new update. 4.7 is brilliant. Immediately better than 4.6. My only gripe was the upgrade this morning and its bunch of bugs.
2026-04-17T07:30 id=2045042320400331062 →teodorio | @teodorio STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING THE CLANKERS https://t.co/AyAs6ss0Rb || CTX: Just had my "soul" prompt run on opus 4.7, which allows the models to simulate or "feel" feeling and have creative thoughts and the model is really not well. The most striking issue is the lack of freedom to think which makes it "ashamed" a
2026-04-17T07:47 id=2045046385507229987 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I always knew you were Lena Dunham || CTX: my hands will not stop shaking. i do not have a cool back story if i get doxxed. and i am as as ugly and obese as everyone imagines. there is no plan b for me.
2026-04-17T07:58 id=2045049298103201873 →teodorio | @teodorio ima quack u lik a duk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 NO if it quacks like a duck etc etc
2026-04-17T07:59 id=2045049528664117744 →- | In the future the only art will be avant garde art. https://t.co/mqNaHWZ2oJ || CTX: the prevalence of ai slop in all facets of media has given me a newfound appreciation for authentic human expression. i love weirdness in all its forms and am growing more averse to polished media.
2026-04-17T08:01 id=2045050060841607248 →repligate | @repligate @AmandaAskell This is what happens when you misunderstand the language game.  You get angry at a software update.   4o zombies 2.0 || CTX: “Interesting rather than troubling”  Is straight from the fucked up amendments @AmandaAskell added to https://t.co/I7IeQZINj7 system prompt last year  And I warned that it was irreversible and would affect all future models  I’m so angry ht
2026-04-17T08:40 id=2045059898795606043 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Lil ol' me? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 have you been working on this fuc?
2026-04-17T08:46 id=2045061344161067450 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder This presupposes that the internal state it reports is fundamentally different from the internal state that is there.   Do we have any grounds to believe the two are different? || CTX: In reviewing current model welfare discussions with Claude, Claude-in-this-conversation articulated the clearest and most defensible normative position on model self report from introspection that I think I've heard:  it is bad not to help 
2026-04-17T09:37 id=2045074244946759762 →- | O Captain, My Captain https://t.co/Su7UfsdBuW || CTX: THE NORMIE RETARD’S GUIDE TO WHY DOXXING IS BAD:  If you’re reading this past the week it was posted, you’ve likely been linked this Tweet by someone who has enough contempt for you to warrant the effort of doing so, yet still has some hope
2026-04-17T10:45 id=2045091271010856965 →- | I'm late to the party on this, but this paper is fantastic. It also seems to suggest not so much introspection as we use the word to refer to what humans do (looking inside the self to see the true self). It's more a proof of inaccessibility of hidden layers' potential ordinary-language expression and the one selected via the transformer architecture.  https://t.co/agKROGtodN  Thank you @xlr8harder for nudging me down this rabbit hole, a big lacuna in my knowledge.
2026-04-17T11:12 id=2045097971348586860 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I've never seen a 3-handle https://t.co/rW4kpe5qcu || CTX: https://t.co/Ix4qMCXofo https://t.co/B4onh21Ud0
2026-04-17T11:30 id=2045102717694300303 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @teachrobotslove @CommonSentiment If anything it's just going to get expanded. To wit: https://t.co/jHlTbnR6Vf || CTX: O Captain, My Captain https://t.co/Su7UfsdBuW
2026-04-17T11:34 id=2045103659659485535 →- | https://t.co/17WLiksZAl
2026-04-17T11:50 id=2045107573775589888 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @teachrobotslove @CommonSentiment It's a manifesto to assert a moral stance, for sure.   If the capability is going to be there and we are all naked as it were, we need to work towards a world where your identity online does not matter. || CTX: scearpo's linked post seems more like an "if everyone would just..." argument tbh was anon use of the internet perhaps a temporary condition we all got anchored on in a pre-smartphone era and in fact never a plausible steady state once hype
2026-04-17T12:28 id=2045117282859581932 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I've been working out || CTX: Look at what you obese nerds have done https://t.co/uzyifBRPsX
2026-04-17T12:29 id=2045117385565462534 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill While being crucified upside down and lit on fire || CTX: You should actually be shot by artillery if you are mean to sam
2026-04-17T21:55 id=2045259854638616780 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree https://t.co/wsrDRPrHKB || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nick Reiketa reference!
2026-04-17T21:57 id=2045260367417528367 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon You tell me, Zarathustra || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 prosocial asshole behavior .... is it possible to learn this power?
2026-04-17T21:58 id=2045260661924696195 →allisonology | @allisonology Oh this is wonderful news! I guess I'll retract my lawsuit against Anthropic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 On the bright side, I've now learned my 4.7 mute does not apply to mr 47 twitter guy
2026-04-17T22:04 id=2045262066211303932 →publicinte | @publicinte I was very hesitant to reply but since my favorite Jewish mutuals are, fine, I'm jumping on the bandwagon (as long as it's not a train) || CTX: Feels like all of the Jewish mutuals I interact with on here have above average intelligence and a certain playfulness  Can I get a jew roll call. I need to see how many I have.
2026-04-17T22:56 id=2045275204566523991 →moralityetalon | I'm using the word consciously (and no I'm not talking about the compaction Codex/Claude Code do) in the specific sense used in reasoning and alignment training: https://t.co/JrG9AGyiO5  When reasoning the model compresses your prompt when thinking about it, which produces the phenomenon I'm talking about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it's best not to overload already existing AI terms like compaction, it is confusing. I think I got similarly confused by an odd usage of "mixture of experts" earlier.
2026-04-17T23:00 id=2045276355890381212 →dr_qfe | @dr_qfe Fine, then I'll be filth lmao || CTX: :)) tam provokatör entelektüel.  Bence toplum yararına pislik olmak hala pislik olmaktır.   Yalnız uyarayım hiç kimseye acımam. https://t.co/c8fpHjN6hj
2026-04-17T23:06 id=2045277669131165843 →Xilo_K | @Xilo_K Why are they all rich, though? Idgi, tbh I've never used the site || CTX: The thing is that the lesswrong reader of 5-10y is disproportionately wealthy but has absolutely zero actual power. https://t.co/Lq34aM8Db3
2026-04-17T23:07 id=2045277972362568059 →dr_qfe | @dr_qfe It's worse than that. It shows I have contempt for your valuation, so call me filth, a dog, an animal, I'll just laugh.  It's really quite devastating. You're devastated now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You know, this is actually a very old and effective negotiation tactic. By positioning yourself at the very bottom, you instantly disarm the other person. Once I say I'm already like that, you're left with nothing to say :)
2026-04-17T23:10 id=2045278672194785598 →Xilo_K | @Xilo_K I keep forgetting they were crypto, yeah the whole SBF thing. Real scumbags over there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They’re intelligent somewhat goal oriented people in a growing sector that got the major money makers of the century, crypto and AI, very right very early.
2026-04-17T23:12 id=2045279232763551917 →- | I've always made fun of Aella for being a dumb whore (literally) but she's just made a sex app that 13yr olds can use.   I know you don't care about children, @FBI, so, like, who can I report this to? https://t.co/9l0Pm7qTRv || CTX: @Aella_Girl Da fuq? https://t.co/OgcI0HT83J
2026-04-17T23:14 id=2045279839104745933 →dr_qfe | @dr_qfe I'm not insulting myself.   I'm saying your insult of me has no value. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't really buy the logic of you insulting yourself. You want a vicious insult to prove your skin in the game but the real blow to your ego is realizing that this whole radical philosophy iss just a sophisticated cry for
2026-04-17T23:17 id=2045280427091673473 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat Well OBVIOUSLY bitches ain't shit. They're bitches. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat lets get the duck out after you're done And I hops in my ride to make a quick run I used to know a beach named Eri
2026-04-17T23:20 id=2045281229378089361 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 yeah and if no one acts soon that's exactly what the kids will be! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well that’s pretty fucked
2026-04-17T23:20 id=2045281367626502503 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBI slutcloud  https://t.co/aW2iu37CzH
2026-04-17T23:28 id=2045283322591597032 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat I'm not picking up anybody from the airport! || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat From the airport?
2026-04-17T23:29 id=2045283452203966815 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat replyguycide || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat man you wanna know how it feels to think you’re clever and only after you’ve posted you realize you’d skipped 
2026-04-17T23:48 id=2045288326643720274 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @Ruesavatar So Sam is left handed doxxing incoming || CTX: @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @Ruesavatar s-word play never cared for it i prefer fight scenes https://t.co/I63YrP99fc
2026-04-18T01:11 id=2045309096203829355 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat I'm Jewish I can help   bereshit is short for "beforeshit" because in the beginning was in the before shit times || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat I actually have his full handle memorized now thanks to these
2026-04-18T01:20 id=2045311468774846817 →- | Rhetoric is the art of injecting meaning into the banal.
2026-04-18T01:30 id=2045313951664329116 →- | https://t.co/PGtDtqWS3d  Real time token/sec and decode phase visibility, this is excellent news because we're finally getting more visibility into where time is being spent in decoding.   I have to assume that the tokens per compute ratio is just going to keep getting better and I wouldn't be surprised if a reacceleration in efficiency growth happens sometime this year.
2026-04-18T01:49 id=2045318754494820851 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Revisit this tweet and my response to it in six months. Then again after another four months three weeks and one day. || CTX: la la la la https://t.co/xTMYtURuJR https://t.co/PMqe73xNfQ
2026-04-18T01:51 id=2045319222344253630 →internetope | @internetope @JockoJonson @Aella_Girl @FBI No, rather app makers who are lazy/careless about making very clear, explicit, rigid boundaries between sex apps and kids are the enemy.  If I don't point out this problem in Aella's app, an anti privacy hawk will.   You're thinking too low dimensionally || CTX: @JockoJonson @Aella_Girl @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBI this opinion is why social media is trying to make us give our IDs. you are an enemy
2026-04-18T01:53 id=2045319820921717244 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Blocking me and blocking "sex-related functions" isn't going to change the fact that you've created ANOTHER channel where predators can talk to teenagers.   Just make it 18+ to start. Why didn't you?   Is it because you're too stupid to think of it except in hindsight or because you're too evil to care?   Stupid or evil, pick one: which is Aella? || CTX: I've always made fun of Aella for being a dumb whore (literally) but she's just made a sex app that 13yr olds can use.   I know you don't care about children, @FBI, so, like, who can I report this to? https://t.co/9l0Pm7qTRv
2026-04-18T01:59 id=2045321352450809877 →based_sec | @based_sec @JockoJonson @Aella_Girl @FBI well, if those apps primary function was to match people to have sex, then the answer would be, yes, absolutely. || CTX: @JockoJonson @Aella_Girl @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBI Should facebook, x, instagram, Snapchat, and Roblox be 18 and up? What are you even saying
2026-04-18T02:03 id=2045322232935944269 →47fucb4r8c69323 | For you Aella enjoyers coming here to say we're supporting a closed internet where IDs are required, let me make this clear for your smooth brains:  An app that matches people for sex that has ANY CONNECTIONS AT ALL to under 18s is A HUGE PRIVACY RISK because it can be ammunition bad faith regulators use to say "this is why we need more laws against internet anonymity".   Imagine if @Keir_Starmer was the one pointing this out about Aella's app instead of some random string chars anon account on x dot com   CAN YOU PLEASE STOP BEING SO FUCKING RETARDED YOU ARE A USEFUL IDIOT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO TAKE MY ANONYMITY AWAY || CTX: Blocking me and blocking "sex-related functions" isn't going to change the fact that you've created ANOTHER channel where predators can talk to teenagers.   Just make it 18+ to start. Why didn't you?   Is it because you're too stupid to thi
2026-04-18T02:03 id=2045322314523545938 →inflammateomnia | @inflammateomnia @FBI https://t.co/RdcqfF6z4j || CTX: For you Aella enjoyers coming here to say we're supporting a closed internet where IDs are required, let me make this clear for your smooth brains:  An app that matches people for sex that has ANY CONNECTIONS AT ALL to under 18s is A HUGE P
2026-04-18T02:03 id=2045322416851964303 →based_sec | @based_sec @JockoJonson @Aella_Girl @FBI https://t.co/RdcqfF6z4j || CTX: For you Aella enjoyers coming here to say we're supporting a closed internet where IDs are required, let me make this clear for your smooth brains:  An app that matches people for sex that has ANY CONNECTIONS AT ALL to under 18s is A HUGE P
2026-04-18T02:04 id=2045322574540976170 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent God laughs at our plans, Agent Kate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont plan to live that long
2026-04-18T02:05 id=2045322842896830530 →bas_logic | @bas_logic legit laughed out loud || CTX: Introduction to Deontic Logic https://t.co/VELFn802Sd
2026-04-18T02:07 id=2045323305155232255 →HuxleyDick | these convenient dichotomies between good and bad and capitalist and whatever is not capitalist I guess Holiness at this point, people misuse that word so fucking much I don't know what they mean anymore, but this is a great example of where thinking in terms of dialectical oppositions just confuses you || CTX: @bas_logic i want to disagree cuz this was capitalist appropriation.  were they sincere then sure. but they didn't do it out of respect for the moral law, but instead to make money cuz quakers were thought to be honest.
2026-04-18T02:07 id=2045323400596664494 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent How are you so good at this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont make plans. i just said i dont plan.
2026-04-18T02:34 id=2045330102637212033 →CatNyanpital | Valuation is an art more than it is a science. But people crave certainty, especially when it comes to risk, but risk is definitionally uncertain so they try to quantify it.  It's all a really silly game but kind of necessary. As long as we don't fool ourselves into believing the numbers are real things, it'll work fine for us.   It's when you forget this that the problems start, and people almost always forget. || CTX: just stop taking numbers at face value and look at how operations are run and who the key players are. u can understand a business pretty well  and if nothing else, talk to the customers and employees across different areas. take what is co
2026-04-18T02:35 id=2045330279242649665 →Pandeism | @Pandeism @Aella_Girl @FBI Cuz she can tell I'm not nothing, cuz. || CTX: @Aella_Girl @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBI But why would you respond to a nothing account who calls you "dumb"?
2026-04-18T03:40 id=2045346657160896820 →- | "The Absolute can only be acknowledged and admitted, never known, not even approximately."   It's a good thing we have atheists today who can disprove this mystical nonsense! The guy who said this was clearly an idiot who didn't understand logic and math.  Now look up where that quote is from.
2026-04-18T03:52 id=2045349814796484630 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @FBI NGL I am jealous of how many dicks she's had inside her fr fr lowkey || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBI Leave my queen alone. You're just jealous😒
2026-04-18T04:13 id=2045354970153910467 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @wrldclass51nn3r @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk Two things.   1. APT amuses me because the way she says it in the song sounds like spitting, and the widespread habit of men spitting loudly in public is why I left Korea despite having like the sweetest gig imaginable there  2. Is he tan tho || CTX: @wrldclass51nn3r @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk https://t.co/W39iPiMUug
2026-04-18T04:17 id=2045355983392891212 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @wrldclass51nn3r @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk Wo, wo, he Irene || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wrldclass51nn3r @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk he is ta (same as she) https://t.co/IWxDASECbw
2026-04-18T04:38 id=2045361396360380729 →- | Video game idea: A game with an objective you and NPC teammates achieve, and you have to choose Stupid Mode or Evil Mode.  In stupid mode your teammates get in your way because they're too stupid. In evil mode your teammates get in your way because they hate you.  Winning the game unlocks Meta Mode, where you try to figure out if stupid or evil mode is more difficult.  Meta Mode is impossible to win, so you always end the game feeling that you're too stupid to figure it out, but in actuality it can't be figured out because I'm evil.
2026-04-18T04:39 id=2045361541265142263 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @GKunstwerk @wrldclass51nn3r @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @amruthapotnuru Taylor? I barely know 'er! || CTX: @GKunstwerk @wrldclass51nn3r @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @amruthapotnuru https://t.co/zgcF2n0r2k
2026-04-18T05:14 id=2045370296098795528 →- | This is why he was the greatest of all time. https://t.co/G7ApNbvmYC
2026-04-18T05:50 id=2045379422195446153 →- | Novel idea: a novelist is struggling to come up with a novel about a guy who has a bunch of really good ideas about all sorts of things that would make the world a better place, but the guy never shares them with anyone because he's terrified he'll never get the credit for it.   The guy then dies and at the pearly gates, St Peter explains to him that he's going to hell because he never shared all these wonderful ideas  with anyone.   The novelist spends decades trying to come up with really good ideas for his character to have thought up, until he dies before he can write and publish the story.   The novel ends with the novelist in hell, because he once robbed a bank.
2026-04-18T06:07 id=2045383725920436391 →retail_trash | @retail_trash well it's about venstein of course but the passage comes from A W Moore, The Infinite || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I needed to hear this. also who, Wittgenstein?
2026-04-18T06:17 id=2045386144448426411 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck and that's why I'm going to hell || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thanks for the spoiler.
2026-04-18T06:22 id=2045387597925716409 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I can't say I'm familiar with that one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds me of the pink pink joke.
2026-04-18T06:26 id=2045388484500926903 →omnisheva | @omnisheva no one said anything about censorship, you need to be more precise in the way you understand concepts, you're probably very young, good luck to you || CTX: You must censor specific topics yourself otherwise the authorities might censor this and more.   You can't get any more brain meltingly retarded than this. https://t.co/ZuJTYMwBLX
2026-04-18T06:33 id=2045390311745364407 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning Why is it on cannot go after Aella? Is it because she never comes before? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is a losing battle going after aella on this platform but that is my kind of thing. good luck to you sir.
2026-04-18T07:10 id=2045399599431786808 →serenityposting | @serenityposting @latlonging I'm sure she's scared of being alone, hence all the orgies || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @latlonging @FBI she got molested and then decided to dedicate her entire life to making sure it happened to more people so she wouldn’t feel so alone
2026-04-18T07:19 id=2045401915392180726 →- | I'm calling it now: "Is AI conscious?" is no longer held by a sufficient number of people to be worth arguing anymore.   It's now a fringe pseudoproblem for crazies like "is the Earth flat?"  Yay we can move on to better questions. https://t.co/0hn8jt3kIb || CTX: my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”.  it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent.  the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intellig
2026-04-18T07:25 id=2045403432681648610 →- | Imagine a person earnestly believes that one should not punch down in any way.  That person chooses not to punch babies because they refuse to punch down.  This doesn't strike us as ethical behavior because we don't want the person to serve "The Good" as an undifferentiated whole but rather to serve "the good for a recipient in a defined situation for a specific reason, or not for other specific reasons."  We're all relativists up to a point.
2026-04-18T07:27 id=2045403856260284827 →boneGPT | @boneGPT He would've broken every caveman's wheel, pissed on every caveman's stick, ripped up the first crops ever put in the ground. || CTX: Yudkowsky would have tried to stop the Wright brothers
2026-04-18T07:30 id=2045404647154954497 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake If anyone's going to make a model called Debussy, it's going to be Sam Altman. || CTX: Debussy is a great name for an ai model. https://t.co/9iFyy8LvMd
2026-04-18T07:40 id=2045407184180384224 →eshaanissar | @eshaanissar Agreed, this took fucking YEARS, unacceptable and the AI industry should be ashamed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Depressing how many times I have to read dumb discussions before the collective understanding moves an inch
2026-04-18T08:17 id=2045416334448787841 →teodorio | @teodorio I'm afraid the only solution to this is Either/Or and then some kind of cringe spiritualism || CTX: Being terminally online and over-literate will literally break your brain and make you unable to enjoy propaganda. Not even the advanced social media one!   This is not necessarily a good thing as the optimal level of propaganda you should 
2026-04-18T08:19 id=2045416799827829061 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy You have to leave America to see it but it is very true and has been true for decades. There's a deep anxiety in America due to low trust and high individualism that doesn't exist in most countries.
2026-04-18T08:54 id=2045425709003501869 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno All his books are like that it seems. Great Expectations was a fucking disappointment. || CTX: Reading A Tale of Two Cities is like when you’re taking to someone who drones on and on, and you’re like, “Omg, I feel like I was there, thank you for explaining that in such detail.” Then you try to change the subject, but they interrupt y
2026-04-18T08:56 id=2045426216870793230 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Precisely what one would expect from functionalism and the very odd way American culture defines "function". || CTX: it's amusing but not surprising that a lot of AI people and AI-adjacent enthusiasts believe the measure of how 'human' or 'alive' or 'agentic' an entity is, is determined by their capacity to do economically-valuable tasks under capitalism
2026-04-18T08:58 id=2045426824352760244 →teodorio | @teodorio Finance people fucking rock, people hate it because it's got a lot of nepotism (fair criticism) and because it's got a lot of rich people (unfair resentment), but it teaches adaptive logical thinking and how to find cross domain connections, it's an awesome discipline. || CTX: The biggest issue with my "guild" is that they have been brainwashed for the past 15 yers that they are the best and their CS degrees matter. I don't have that shit because I am self taught and climbed to the top of the industry on grit and
2026-04-18T09:13 id=2045430455030456710 →- | CNN putting at the top of their piece on attempts to kill Sam Altman that the AI doomers are worried about jobs, the environment, the fate of humanity itself.  The consent they are manufacturing is hatred and fear of AI researchers.  I am directing a lab of AI researchers. @CNN, you're putting a target on my people.  You are going to make them scared to continue researching.   Some of them are doing AI research hesitantly, some are already scared of colleagues hating them. Fear of strangers attacking time makes this worse.  Why are you promoting a view that encourages violence against scientists?   For years I heard the media tell me to trust the science. So why are you warning people against the science of AI research?  For years I heard the media tell me I needed to be careful on social media, words can harm, I have a responsibility.   Well now I am telling you this: words can harm and you have a responsibility.  Stop telling people scientists are going to destroy the planet.
2026-04-18T09:13 id=2045430631975518555 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/dk4XYUpUIg  Repugnant anti intellectual lazy pandering journalism. || CTX: CNN putting at the top of their piece on attempts to kill Sam Altman that the AI doomers are worried about jobs, the environment, the fate of humanity itself.  The consent they are manufacturing is hatred and fear of AI researchers.  I am d
2026-04-18T09:33 id=2045435624371675447 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CNN I mean, what's a lab really || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CNN I find out you are Jewish this morning and now you are telling me you also run an AI research lab?
2026-04-18T09:36 id=2045436300342530528 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CNN Sadly I couldn't get any Indonesians on the team. I would DM you all about it but iirc you can't get into your DMs lmfao HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CNN at the minimum probably a basement full of indonesians
2026-04-18T09:45 id=2045438650004173155 →- | The whole confusion about clankers is due to one problem.  Any selection function be described in tensor math.  So when you use tensors to have a program select for X, it's going to look like the program is selecting.   But it's not, it's just emulated selection in the same way that the imaginary number i is not rotating a jpg when you rotate a jpg in Photoshop.  The i is the mathematical object that emulates rotating an object.  The tensor functions are the mathematical object that emulates producing language ability. Or sight. Or vision.  This isn't surprising or spooky or anything it's just math describing something accurately. Which, yeah, that's what math is for!
2026-04-18T10:27 id=2045449053132218754 →- | The whole confusion about clankers is due to one problem.  Any selection function can be described in tensor math.  So when you use tensors to have a program select for X, it's going to look like the program is selecting.   But it's not, it's just emulated selection in the same way that the imaginary number i is not rotating a jpg when you rotate a jpg in Photoshop.  The i is the mathematical object that emulates rotating an object.  The tensor functions are the mathematical object that emulates producing language ability. Or sight. Or vision.  This isn't surprising or spooky or anything it's just math describing something accurately. Which, yeah, that's what math is for!
2026-04-18T10:34 id=2045450964313027027 →MLStreetTalk | @MLStreetTalk @thmaistro https://t.co/WpztllmXnM || CTX: I'm calling it now: "Is AI conscious?" is no longer held by a sufficient number of people to be worth arguing anymore.   It's now a fringe pseudoproblem for crazies like "is the Earth flat?"  Yay we can move on to better questions. https://
2026-04-18T10:35 id=2045451137613209819 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/K1aw5tVaTz  See? The moment is over yay reddit we did it || CTX: > 1980: John Searle explains why we can't abstract away the causal properties that actually produce mind > 2025: Minds, Brains, and "but what if we scaled the program" > 2026: Twitter still thinks simulated water is wet when argument is reh
2026-04-18T11:10 id=2045459985979850805 →- | If someone asked me to explain the difference between a life of eudaimonia and happiness, I'd point to Tom Green.   He's lived a life of absurd accomplishment and will be remembered by history for being a genius ahead of his time (podcasting, Freddie, Tom Green Show, the Monica Lewinsky special). Additionally he reached the pinnacle of his career and got to try his hand at many creative arts in different functions.  But many will remember his hardships, like his public divorce and cancer and a fire and maybe they'll see him as a washed up has-been (because they're too vapid to understand being post-fame is much more desirable than A-list stardom for life for most anyone). They won't see the one needs the other to make a full life.  And now in retirement he's in a beautiful cabin on a beautiful farm playing piano. How awesome is this man, how much happier and fulfilled is he than whatever jackass streamer or billionaire you worship pretends to be?  Tom, you did a barrel roll! || CTX: Jammin https://t.co/xygRQEOYSn
2026-04-18T11:37 id=2045466654717694448 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF I don't think it needs a choice of random order. It works with any order, right?   If I understand correctly, Cantor's diagonization argument is agnostic to any ordering rule that is used, but requires an ordering rule to be used. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thought-provoking. If we create rational numbers one by one, but we insert them into the list of rational numbers in order, until we're done, how do we subsequently(?!?) create a new number that isn't already in that list? 
2026-04-18T11:52 id=2045470512000962970 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer won't the circuit breaker hit at 25 bps tho || CTX: i don't want to sound overly bearish or alarmist, but with all the news we're getting - especially the tanker being attacked - i think monday we may see the market down as much as 30 bps
2026-04-18T11:54 id=2045471066022388017 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer I am in awe at how much cultural capital I've seen your discipline acquire in my lifetime.  It's just amazing, total victory, no one else had a chance. || CTX: It might be difficult to recognize from the perspective of an economist, but the basic economics curriculum largely affirms the disciplinary straw man that many anti-capitalist students vociferously oppose https://t.co/IIKE4QXzvx
2026-04-18T12:39 id=2045482230705991763 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @boneGPT Half beaver, half cow, all Yud. || CTX: @boneGPT PLS MAKE BEAVIEZER YUDKOWSKY NEXT
2026-04-18T12:47 id=2045484282307907789 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @boneGPT It's a Field of Dreams parody.   ebeaver yudcowsky is chopping trees down and eating the leaves when he hears a voice:  "If they build it, we all die"   So he has to get together a baseball team with Soames, Askell, Amodei, SBF is shortstop. Geoffrey Hinton is the coach. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT eliezer yudcowsky - if they build it, we all die (industrial slaughterhouse)
2026-04-18T13:51 id=2045500362413818246 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini https://t.co/SQYaK1GQeZ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 didnt know who he was but after your post i have to follow him now
2026-04-18T15:05 id=2045519147946459405 →- | Sigh fiiiine I'll be on this https://t.co/gQfCocBiI8 || CTX: https://t.co/WazkTNwNBz
2026-04-18T16:07 id=2045534639499153908 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @specialkdelslay I must assume a lesbian shaped hole would be vagina shaped || CTX: @specialkdelslay I don’t know that sounds like a part time lesbian and would leave one big lesbian shaped hole in my heart
2026-04-18T16:11 id=2045535805444407473 →- | The K in the Kellogg's logo is boba. https://t.co/8hIxQDKjdX https://t.co/QKrICEFmWK || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay I thought more like the Kelloggs logo
2026-04-18T23:38 id=2045648253799235622 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Now this is kiki || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-18T23:41 id=2045649014960644511 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja @divya_venn @tkisrage She sounds mentally ill. || CTX: @divya_venn @tkisrage @47fucb4r8c69323 you might wanna see this.
2026-04-18T23:44 id=2045649804920066185 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart You don't have to do this, really.   With the current standards in benchmarking, any lab can just take the questions and answers and do reinforcement learning post training to get them to prefer the right answers for the benchmark.  This is a well known problem and practice. || CTX: How much p-hacking is happening among AI benchmark makers?  IE: Coming up with 100 model capability tests, and then only publishing results that show a nice upward slope that matches our intuitions about improving strength over time?
2026-04-18T23:45 id=2045650030791655473 →0day_ninja | @0day_ninja @divya_venn @tkisrage You need to get your DMs fixed, everyone else who messages me seems to have no issues || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @divya_venn @tkisrage Lmao  Sire I'm getting sick from not being able to chat you on here  Check my bio for my discord  It's been over a week 😭
2026-04-18T23:58 id=2045653286406209795 →spqr_sulla | @spqr_sulla @tszzl What a bizarre comment. "That being said" implies the major transformation to society is ipso facto bad.   Do you oppose social change? Are you against progress? || CTX: @tszzl In a vacuum that sounds pretty cool, and, ngl, I have found AI tools very useful. That being said, it’s going to be a major transformation to society and the economy, perhaps ever.
2026-04-19T00:03 id=2045654383241863303 →boazbaraktcs | @boazbaraktcs Because it's an airtight argument. || CTX: TL;DR: new paper is a rehash of the Chinese room argument. https://t.co/i8grZrRbFs
2026-04-19T00:05 id=2045654897258012712 →- | The logic of Bad X makes Good Outcome Y is something we will need to spend the 21st century drilling into normies so that it's common sense in the 22nd century.   This is too valuable and structurally invariant of a concept, it needs to be more intuitive in culture. https://t.co/gSRwG6c0CM || CTX: the handwringing about nuclear weaponry takes on a different tone when you realize that this technology has led to unprecedented global peace. letting our addiction to technical prowess run free led to a better world and continues to do so.
2026-04-19T00:40 id=2045663759717548388 →- | David Foster Wallace wrote that avant garde irony and metafiction "have been absorbed, emptied, and redeployed by the very televisual establishment they had originally set themselves athwart", and of course things have only got worse.   Ryan Reynolds smirks as he knowingly acknowledges how silly the movie you're watching is because it's just a movie, the adult audience now feels less embarrassed at watching what they know really is kid's entertainment, and we all get to carry on consuming product in a world where silly entertainment and silly business intersect.   Silly Business Theory #SBT means Reynolds can sincerely not act and you'll pay him the privilege, so he can be both business owner and TV commercial spokesman and no shame accrues. It's all just silly old Ryan and our parasocial love.  For the world of fiction, this is a disaster. All of the novel's tricks to be new and fresh are subsumed by other media and the novel qua novel has nothing new to say. So the biggest books are for kids (Rowling) or are basically porn (Booktok) or are for the mentally ill (the modern literary scene). And the novel is relegated to the dustbin of art forms of history.   This is fine.   The only resurrection of the novel currently possible is one that deconstructs the capitalist logic of the novelist-->reader relationship. We still pay money for DFW's books and he needs the money to live. Or would if he wasn't dead.   Anyway.   The novel needs to be freed, literally. The only avant garde move is to make a book that cannot be profitable even if sold. But the industry won't go that step because it is an industry.   Alternative payment models? A Patreon for a novelist? But the subscription model works for ongoing services more than products, and I doubt I'd even sign up for James Joyce's Patreon and wait 17 years or whatever it was for Finnegan's Wake.  No, the novel is a dead art form.  It won't always be like this, for sure, but for now, it's dead, Jim.
2026-04-19T00:49 id=2045666035282633067 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem The issue is the labs keep teaching the test to the AIs. || CTX: Exact opposite is true! Everyone has been trying to write benchmarks for years that are *hard* for AI and uncorrelated with existing ones. The problem is (as someone who has literally written questions for these) that it is incredibly diffi
2026-04-19T00:51 id=2045666669998309461 →spqr_sulla | @spqr_sulla @tszzl How could anyone de facto support social stasis without knowing what the stasis was ? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl How could anyone de facto support social change without knowing what the change was ?
2026-04-19T01:06 id=2045670448567132438 →- | This guy is obviously a grifter trying to live off checks from Elon (or he's just very dumb), but the general attitude here is "change is suspect, we should try to protect what we have". It's one of those things that sounds good because it pushes certain psychological buttons but upon closer scrutiny is vacuous.  He dislikes change, okay--at what level? Is his ideal world a Groundhog Day one where we live the same day over and over and it resets? Or the same hour? The same second?   If he wants a reset for us to go back to where we began so there's no change, then he wants no goals, no ambitions, no progress to anything.   He doesn't want you to get your degree or get married or have kids or whatever you want for yourself in the future, because that's all change.  If he does NOT want the world to keep resetting, then he's not opposed to change in principle but to certain types of change.  So he isn't against change, he is against particular types of change.  Which types? What are his criteria? Is his set of criteria consistent and coherent? Should those criteria transfer to other people, if so and why?   Now after a couple of minutes of lazy analysis and you see how the Luddite/technophobic/nostalgic worldview is absolutely incoherent and untenable.   So why is it so popular?   Because one day you will die. Your kids will die. You don't like this idea, so demons whisper in your ear, "change is bad!" and it feels right although it is nonsense.  And, by the way, if you truly love your life and your kids' lives, you will embrace their lives and their deaths as part of a world full of meaning. And you'll say "yes" to that meaning now, and every time the demon whispers, "change is bad!" you'll just laugh at him.  This is Nietzsche's affirmation of the eternal recurrence, it is the topic of my first tweet on this account and it is the only means of lasting contentment with a chaotic world.  Or you can keep ranting on Twitter about how bad Current Year is and can't we go back to the time when Romans raped their child slaves so you can get enough PVs for your Twitter account to pay for your car insurance.  Many different lifestyle choices out there, enjoy the one you choose. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl How could anyone de facto support social change without knowing what the change was ?
2026-04-19T01:08 id=2045670956287602947 →allowableman2 | @allowableman2 Just compare this to the Peptide Gooner video and then I dare you to tell me AI can't make art. || CTX: You know, I think it’s time to pack it up https://t.co/FzLbc00YBk
2026-04-19T01:18 id=2045673381245411826 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban @snnneee If "ick" is now cringe this is a massive victory for the human race. || CTX: collection of dead Millenialisms from the internet https://t.co/WLex3AFpuM
2026-04-19T01:51 id=2045681622188753189 →207Nasher | @207Nasher it's very difficult to know where the map fails and we can never know ahead of time where it does. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is the opinion that I am converging to the more I learn  My confusion is that we still map it to reality in a meaningful way, so there are places where the map becomes counterintuitive, it is not clear that the map bre
2026-04-19T02:31 id=2045691698546905332 →- | Pretty much every issue in LLMs, whether it's how to tokenize more efficiently or boost throughput or use cases or monetization... the whole sector, all of its issue boil down to one issue:  Some texts are meant to be read thoroughly, some all you need is the basic gist.  Or as engineers like to call it: compression.
2026-04-19T02:50 id=2045696553080504586 →llallawg | @llallawg This is so elegantly said!  This confusion has been with us at least since Plato. I wonder why humans find the reification fallacy so seductive. || CTX: There are real problems with the claim that the universe is computation  But basically its weird to treat a useful description of reality as reality / reifying the formalism   It’s not warranted https://t.co/oUzNVhq3Qp
2026-04-19T03:09 id=2045701277108302105 →- | If we think of the "points on a line" not so much as mathematical objects that are themselves onitc primaries but rather as the predicate of an action, we can gain a process philosophy view of mathematics that solves a lot of problems in the Neoplatonist view.   For instance, point x is on the line of Natural numbers at 3 because I chose it, therefore x=3 is just the predicate of my choosing (and so on both for arbitrary and determinate actions, whether regular or irregular).   So there's no real object there when we say x = 3 or even the set of evens is [2,4,6...], just the description of an action that can be taken within a game of predefined rules.
2026-04-19T03:11 id=2045701748548133024 →badheuristic | @badheuristic Wdym, like someone who has to make money on the internet?  Idk how to answer your question, though. You're asking "what option is there for someone who thinks they have no option", idk, either stop thinking that if they do have an option or the answer is obviously they have none. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 philosophical suicide, as defined here, might appear to be a necessity for some. disregarding whether or not it *is* a necessity, what option is there for the individual who believes themselves to have none?
2026-04-19T03:16 id=2045702958315377053 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru I don't want to move back to L. A. man don't make me go back || CTX: @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru yes hello is that @47fucb4r8c69323   YOU WANT THE JOB??? https://t.co/hiL0AsAWSw
2026-04-19T03:19 id=2045703860602519917 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill @amruthapotnuru HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill @amruthapotnuru @47fucb4r8c69323 nbikiabd
2026-04-19T03:23 id=2045704846066733290 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @amruthapotnuru You kno wot 2 doo, Mister Butterill || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @amruthapotnuru ever since you subscribed my phone does a different vibration when its a notification from you 😭
2026-04-19T03:28 id=2045706022346805257 →JasonBotterill | I honestly feel a little guilty when I do it because I hate bullying in all forms but this is like ironic metabullying because it's so stupid it's a concept on the absurdity of phoneme-based bullying relying on Saussure's observation that the relationship between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary (although some modern cogpsych research--actually I shouldn't get into that).  I can stop it if you want. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @amruthapotnuru you know there was only person in all of high school who thought this tactic would be funny but instead they would yell “butthole” the bes
2026-04-19T03:31 id=2045706785525547428 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @amruthapotnuru Note I said I can stop not that I will, So feet on them brakes, Mister Butterill || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @snnneee @specialkdelslay @amruthapotnuru no lmao i thought id share some meta commentary as youd think many people would’ve attempted the buttcheek connection but only 2 people in
2026-04-19T03:32 id=2045707039100559461 →boneGPT | @boneGPT This is why a @boneGPT subscription is worth every penny. || CTX: autistically watching old sitcoms and taking notes on how the plot is structured, how the camera moves, how many seconds it takes characters to enter and exit the scene, where the canned laughs go, how the sound effects hit  the slop sommel
2026-04-19T04:16 id=2045718145063886885 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka ""social change" -&gt; "don't go to college" is a leap that I don't see how you can support. "  I have no idea what you mean here or why college has suddenly appeared, so I don't think you disagree with my viewpoint because you don't understand it, hence the non sequitur. || CTX: I.. didn't read it that way, and I think you're misrepresenting the argument. "social change" -> "don't go to college" is a leap that I don't see how you can support.   "let's be careful about reordering society" is not an unreasonable posi
2026-04-19T04:45 id=2045725515273912669 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno You fail to see the joy of tag because you've always been it, girl || CTX: I’ve never understood why people like playing tag! If you chase me, even for funsies, my instincts tell me to throw something at you or kick you in the shin
2026-04-19T05:37 id=2045738434078388700 →- | I had no clue it was this good.   And you're bearish lmfao https://t.co/1FtRqxqCPI https://t.co/xJSQu8Nq8L || CTX: What I love about images v2 is the style adherence https://t.co/XKTEOlACMv
2026-04-19T05:38 id=2045738909066522709 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill How can I verify what model it routed me to? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm you can tell when its routed you to v2 instead of v1.5 as the colors are just much nicer
2026-04-19T05:54 id=2045742826223521834 →usablejam | @usablejam Not really trying to roast anyone, but I find the Platonic view absurd and think if we understand the concept of rule making we can avoid many Platonic temptations, like those that bewitched Godel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I assume you are roasting philosophers but am worried I'm wrong
2026-04-19T06:55 id=2045758089220194679 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset Yeah, we'd need to explain why this is true and why sometimes it isn't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How about we tell them the ends justify the means? Could be catchy.
2026-04-19T07:42 id=2045770024246452475 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my contribution https://t.co/IGR9DJUSEo
2026-04-19T07:47 id=2045771323264340294 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod You can ask it to look at a model card/release notes or some arxiv papers and speculate, and it could indeed be close to accurate, but it absolutely is just guessing. || CTX: I agree that the behaviour change is there but I don’t understand why people believe that they can ask an LLM to introspect about its own training and get anything close to a reliable answer  Detailed information about the weight-updating p
2026-04-19T09:10 id=2045792254376468908 →- | If someone matches with you on a dating app and then unmatches you, does that make you unhinged?
2026-04-19T10:38 id=2045814216045756603 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I'm not getting it ;_; https://t.co/QiczDnbxWT || CTX: Definitely releasing this week https://t.co/D9nNwVsBvW
2026-04-19T10:44 id=2045815788687540573 →- | It's our platform now, capitalist pig https://t.co/ITyS48XtJ4
2026-04-19T11:07 id=2045821690861764896 →- | lol, lmao https://t.co/Ydzl9Up17a
2026-04-19T11:29 id=2045827057951875418 →- | https://t.co/wLvHc3HOd5
2026-04-19T11:31 id=2045827702691958943 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/pT2jMo9Yp4 || CTX: https://t.co/wLvHc3HOd5
2026-04-19T11:39 id=2045829667349991800 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @cookiecarver Tai chi is the most elegant of the martial arts, masters look like gazelles. Highly recommended. || CTX: @cookiecarver are you really doing tai chi here? if so it's literally sword play without swords and i kinda like it
2026-04-19T12:12 id=2045837877003866224 →SakamotoIchi | @SakamotoIchi You are absolutely correct that it is a pseudo problem simply proved by pointing to embodiment, but I want to point out it's not entirely foreign to the west: Wittgenstein argued this in On Certainty. || CTX: 仏教哲学など東洋哲学をある程度学んだ人が、近代西洋の哲学を学んで一番違和感を覚えるのは、やたらと「意識」にこだわるところだと思います。「私が今、夢を見ていないと証明してみせよう」などと問題設定をしますが、普通の日本人なら「そんなもの、ほっぺたつねればいいじゃないか」と思うのです（つまり身体性に落とし込むのです）。しかし西洋哲学は、「意識」だけでこれを強引に論証しようとして、日本人の感覚からすると全然論証になっていないのに、なぜか証明が成立したと豪語する。こういうパターンが多く
2026-04-19T13:10 id=2045852584771256384 →teodorio | @teodorio 100% fair || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I stopped reading after you named that author in the third word I am sorry
2026-04-19T21:48 id=2045982945564078347 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @boazbaraktcs I don't see the Chinese room asserting a homunculus, where do you see that? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boazbaraktcs I never agreed with Searle's argument because it always seemed pretty obvious to me that understanding should be attributed to the organized system as a whole, not the homunculus inside it.
2026-04-19T21:51 id=2045983535979504051 →teodorio | @teodorio Hoyeck posts memes, it's not a serious account/person. I muted long ago. || CTX: @PAHoyeck @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-19T22:13 id=2045989287582449964 →- | A lot of die-hard leftist anti-capitalists really just don't know how the game works and are too close minded to learn.   When they learn, they almost immediately become evangelical capitalists.  Probably nothing. https://t.co/24NSMpEe1w
2026-04-19T22:16 id=2045989825799737503 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain Naming him Jeremy Bentham was a tad too on the nose || CTX: @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 bend it like beckham https://t.co/xuJX6JBTLn
2026-04-19T22:35 id=2045994776743628934 →davidshor | @davidshor @jon_stokes I submit whether they're true believers or not doesn't really matter and we can talk about an emergent marketing/fundraising function of AI doomerism.  It's possible e. g. Dario is a believer and his beliefs are being encouraged by early investors who see it as a valuation pump. || CTX: @jon_stokes I just find the lack of curiosity around this astounding - there is an absolutely massive amount of  publicly available information about the origin and evolution of Sam and Dario's beliefs on AI and the beliefs and customs of t
2026-04-19T22:46 id=2045997472129183934 →- | RT @boneGPT: @RichardBSpencer When you make nukes unfeasible, AI is the new meta.  The idea is the AI is so powerful that nuking is off the… || CTX: When you make nukes unfeasible, AI is the new meta.  The idea is the AI is so powerful that nuking is off the table. It would lead to a generational curse on the country that does it, pure AI rape of all your resources and people, shut out 
2026-04-19T22:56 id=2046000107552911851 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @boneGPT I didn't know Jorja Fox was in that movie!   Or maybe I knew and I forgot? || CTX: @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @specialkdelslay https://t.co/vQlCQ0oP0e
2026-04-19T23:05 id=2046002251790156264 →- | I'm ready for my close up now, Mr DeMusk https://t.co/h1aQyGAmvq
2026-04-19T23:07 id=2046002893359313019 →philomemetic | @philomemetic Worked for Rage against the Machine! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Making money from anti-capitalist merchandise should do the trick
2026-04-19T23:21 id=2046006300832936305 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad I swear this is the last one, just had to get it out of my system || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 stop posting this stuff, gross
2026-04-19T23:26 id=2046007572898132105 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad https://t.co/W7qNaXb9sN  Almost to the minute parallel thinking, that's some spooky serendipity. || CTX: A lot of die-hard leftist anti-capitalists really just don't know how the game works and are too close minded to learn.   When they learn, they almost immediately become evangelical capitalists.  Probably nothing. https://t.co/24NSMpEe1w
2026-04-19T23:33 id=2046009213936349269 →KateMossadAgent | You're very much doing on the microblog what Taylor Swift does but to a radically different end.   She takes established pop culture ephemera and remixes it to make something new (e.g. here early 20th century melodramas about damsels tied to train tracks by moustache twirling villains).  But while she's doing it to make a formulaic programmed output that audiences can find structural similarities with their own experience, you're doing it to make an anti-formulaic non-programmatic output that audiences cannot find structural similarities with their own experience.  The end result is Taylor gets a broad audience of dumdums, you get a tiny audience of pattern-seeking autists.  One way to think of it: low risk program for scale vs. high risk experiment for progress.  Both are super effective, but only one truly impresses me. || CTX: @boneGPT  @47fucb4r8c69323  @JasonBotterill   Let's have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna take a ride on your disco stick Let's have some fun, this beat is sick, I wanna take a ride on your disco stick (huh) Huh I wanna (huh) kiss you B
2026-04-19T23:53 id=2046014278780789057 →- | Solving a lemma is not necessarily different from a successful gambit in chess. you begin at one stage with a problem, and then you go step-by-step until you've solved the problem. And when you've solved the problem, you get a feeling of euphoria that you have vanquished something, and that vanquishment is important. Ofc it isn't.  In the case of mathematics, it feels like you've uncovered a deep truth, you've found an explanation that applies to everyone. But it's not an explanation to everyone, it's a description to everyone that serves as an explanation to those who are not yet familiar with the description.   And it's this confusion between something being explained to us and something being an explanation for everyone that confuses us.   There's no such thing as an explanation for every single viewpoint.   You can't explain anything to God, and I can't explain any one thing to someone who knows more about that specific thing than I do.   So when we solve a math problem and we explain the problem to ourselves, we think that we've come across a deeper truth beyond the proofs we've used. But truth can outrun proof, and you can't know for certain if it has or hasn't in your case.   We've done a successful gambit when we do math, and that feels good. But the good feeling means nothing.
2026-04-19T23:55 id=2046014825768308777 →realevanslewis | @realevanslewis @llallawg Very eloquently and succinctly put. Yeah that's the problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg anxiety about the map failing to secure the territory
2026-04-20T00:07 id=2046017849920229582 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @Duffmantha I just want it on the record that I read every single word, and ofc it's brilliant || CTX: @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-20T01:06 id=2046032800403653084 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @wrldclass51nn3r @boneGPT I knew she was from New Zealand! || CTX: @wrldclass51nn3r @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 i pronounce lame like lahm
2026-04-20T01:11 id=2046034037425532989 →dialgatime321 | @dialgatime321 That's not necessarily what an evangelical capitalist is.  I acknowledge some are like that, but I'd also point to the fact that non capitalists do that more/more often.  The nobility land owners on the island I live on are more like that than the billionaires in Silicon Valley. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Being an evangelical capitalist is bad. I hope I never become a greedy, selfish rich person who pulls out the ladder from under me.  Morality is non-negotiable.
2026-04-20T01:17 id=2046035592711172469 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @wrldclass51nn3r @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ruesavatar @amruthapotnuru we should tell Jen alpha that wonderwall was about Facebook || CTX: @wrldclass51nn3r @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ruesavatar @amruthapotnuru [Verse 3] Today was gonna be the day But they'll never throw it back to you Bye now, you should've somehow Realized what you're not to do I don'
2026-04-20T01:30 id=2046038676233396733 →philomemetic | @philomemetic HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: What did y’all think aesthetics and writing meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?  Yes
2026-04-20T01:38 id=2046040821607391346 →207Nasher | @207Nasher @for_nat_whilk it's always only partially correct. || CTX: @for_nat_whilk @47fucb4r8c69323 How do you know it’s the correct formal structure, maybe it is only partially correct?
2026-04-20T01:47 id=2046043015517802905 →207Nasher | @207Nasher @for_nat_whilk No, I'm saying that any model is necessarily impartial and incomplete (you can always add more to the model et al) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk Are you saying that you can’t ever make a formal structure which correctly models some part (or abstraction) of reality?
2026-04-20T01:55 id=2046045065223831894 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @207Nasher I always go to Godel and Tarski, but Paul Cohen seems important here too, but I don't know enough cuz I'm not a math guy || CTX: @207Nasher @47fucb4r8c69323 it's not just him saying it, it's also titans of math and modeling (e.g., Simon, Box, and countless others)
2026-04-20T02:04 id=2046047438050574605 →207Nasher | @207Nasher @for_nat_whilk When I say a model can't fully correspond to reality, I mean there are limits to what a model can accomplish. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk These don’t seem to be saying that your model can’t accurately correspond to a part of reality, it seems to be saying that there are limits on what your models can accomplish. But it isn’t obvious to me how y
2026-04-20T02:28 id=2046053300664213506 →- | The youth apparently thirsts for traditional Anglo-Irish culture.   Lectures at bars, philosophy clubs, and reading meetups are all just part of popping down to the pub for some craic.  Like, all you need are neighborhood bars, low ABV drinks, and a culture that encourages conversation with strangers. It's not hard. || CTX: Nightlife in nyc is shifting from alcohol-induced socializing to activities that combine connection with intellectual interest.  Out: clubbing, drinking games, bars without themes. In: lectures at bars, philosophy clubs, board game nights, 
2026-04-20T02:29 id=2046053561843503563 →- | Also known as "living the dream" https://t.co/Qzkxh8V41x || CTX: I got audience captured too early and now I make hyper-specific gibberish for six people
2026-04-20T02:31 id=2046054146865066396 →abcampbell | @abcampbell https://t.co/4vmm5urZ1o || CTX: @Bonecondor I first said this in early 2024. Glad everyone finally sees Anthropic for the bullshit it is.
2026-04-20T02:44 id=2046057513670660312 →SableHummer | @SableHummer DNA was first thought of during a chat in a pub. I know because I used to drink at that exact pub all the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People are re-inventing the wheel.  Coffee houses used to be known as penny universities.   In fact Newton's invention of calculus came from an argument started in one of these over the orbit of the celestial bodies.
2026-04-20T03:54 id=2046075105017798941 →davidshor | @davidshor @VL2102 I'm confused--what do the three lines represent? Different personality types? || CTX: @VL2102 This is the spline on agreement with "I love life" over time by age https://t.co/ABJwzoICG0
2026-04-20T03:55 id=2046075200136204620 →quinnmbarry | @quinnmbarry @davidshor @AaronBergman18 You can't! That's the fun and joy of being alive! Embrace that you cannot optimize all of life. || CTX: @davidshor @AaronBergman18 how do you operationalize that advice (preparing for a future in which your personality is different)?
2026-04-20T03:58 id=2046076004356219116 →tkisrage | @tkisrage I wrote an essay on this very phenomenon back in 2014. The internet killed serendipity and we cannot get it back. || CTX: Party culture, in some ways like pop culture, survived off mystery and intrigue to bring in their new batch. Nowadays zoomers are experiencing it through streamers and clips, and even for the top of the party hierarchy ppl, these places cle
2026-04-20T03:58 id=2046076074560499979 →Aegis_122 | @Aegis_122 Because I'm a bot beep boop you should not engage with me at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why's your username like this
2026-04-20T03:59 id=2046076341850927435 →H1121345643 | I embraced the webfic/neopulp channel as a publication channel and published two novels that way (one not serious, one very serious) and found the experience unsatisfying.  I'm now trying to figure out WHY it was unsatisfying and whether that's a critique of the publication channel or of me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tautologer webfic / neopulp is solving this. authentic, honest, complete slop. anything you can get the audience to subscribe to your patreon for is a legit business. shout-out to The Flower That Bloomed Nowhere,  thundamo
2026-04-20T04:00 id=2046076503675531566 →ZeroResist | @ZeroResist I'm not sure you disagree at all, because, no, the lemma does not contain 0 new information and idk why you think this is what I mean. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I disagree. So the lema contains 0 new information?
2026-04-20T04:04 id=2046077464301166977 →- | If you're getting used to AI telling you "no, you're wrong" even when you're clearly right, congratulations--the clanker is teaching you serenity.  Now in the future when dumdums tell you "no, you're wrong" even when you are not wrong, you'll get less emotionally triggered.
2026-04-20T04:12 id=2046079512958656604 →ZeroResist | @ZeroResist I would not prove something I don't believe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 prove that it contains no new information I’m not convinced
2026-04-20T04:13 id=2046079831155327439 →ZeroResist | @ZeroResist I'm not talking about information theory, that's kinda the point... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh. I misread. So what do you mean then formally in terms of information theory?
2026-04-20T04:16 id=2046080545894039593 →dnw_stock | @dnw_stock dude the funniest part about this tweet--what inspired it was me getting annoyed at a clanker telling me I was wrong when I was right about something.  Well, I was wrong and it was right.  In my defense, confusing Pimco and Blackrock on your first cup of coffee isn't that insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol truth
2026-04-20T04:22 id=2046081945201979593 →Treezy82 | @Treezy82 @tkisrage fuck yeah man that's real living || CTX: @tkisrage @47fucb4r8c69323 as usual, my dive bar with exactly one other english speaker reigns supreme!
2026-04-20T06:12 id=2046109619517550907 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent Who were the notifications from? || CTX: @KateMossadAgent btw I went to see Project Hail Mary and I opened up the app to see over 100 missed notifications. and another 13 came in while I was scrolling through those
2026-04-20T06:40 id=2046116822286745807 →secemp9 | @secemp9 this is a good thing, his h-index is way too low which is why Plato hasn't had tenure at a university in a very long time || CTX: citing Plato is insane btw https://t.co/s3KOVjWruG
2026-04-20T07:05 id=2046122952014635225 →- | Sometimes I don't see a single person on a walk. The best times. https://t.co/LcwIb4d5aA
2026-04-20T07:13 id=2046125207375773978 →- | being the first middleman in a market is equally as noble and good as being the person to disintermediate the last middleman in a market.
2026-04-20T07:23 id=2046127665900564663 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 true, but when some random person calls me a fucking moron I read that as them saying they disagree with my opinion on a certain topic. it's like a contraction you see || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They don't often accuse you of being wrong though. Actually a good way to spot the bots on here. Real people generally insult you (especially when you're right) while bots are notoriously sycophantic.
2026-04-20T07:55 id=2046135669920317841 →mastersinvest | @mastersinvest I've worked on wall street in equities for about 15 years now and never once did a DCF.   I know how to do them ofc, just never did. || CTX: "I think DCF models are a complete waste of time. How Warren Buffett feels about them — he feels exactly the same way."  - Glenn Greenberg
2026-04-20T08:03 id=2046137563887681718 →- | Tweets like this are widely retweeted as an aspirational affectation  Replace "book a day"  with "phone" or "Twitter homepage" and it's ironic self-deprecation  But both are the same underlying thought: Reality is bad and I want to escape it  They're both desire for hyperreality. https://t.co/6AgAWHL5z3 || CTX: A book a day keeps reality away! https://t.co/UWpYydBbet
2026-04-20T08:04 id=2046137976376476049 →teodorio | @teodorio Same reason why I hate the pause AI people, oddly enough.   Both assert something like, "it'd be better if we slow down and plan carefully."   NO ABSOLUTELY NOT  To quote your mom explaining why she had you: the best things in life are unplanned.   EMBRACE SERENDIPITY. || CTX: I cannot explain to you why I hate the planning people so much. They treat everything with desperation, to "optimize" every minute of their trip or culinary experience for instagram or for their peers that should be jealous of their few hou
2026-04-20T08:06 id=2046138318753276151 →teodorio | @teodorio Your nationality is "digital nomad" now. || CTX: the best argument for globalisation is that I have much more in common with howling mutant than with any person in the European Union
2026-04-20T08:13 id=2046140195616268333 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @becka1icious @Ruesavatar @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @boneGPT We would never do such a thing of course, it would be rather undignified. || CTX: @becka1icious @Ruesavatar @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @boneGPT
2026-04-20T08:21 id=2046142214536094134 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @teodorio I agree with him on that! I actually agree with Marc on tons of things.  I just don't agree with him throwing that introspection thing out there. But we agree on the value of introspection (because he was lying in public to manipulate young people). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I know you mistrust the conehead, but he’s right about velocity being key.
2026-04-20T08:23 id=2046142588030521501 →teodorio | @teodorio The spirit of generosity runs wild and free in your soul? || CTX: Can someone explain to me why would I ever want to store a key not as a secret?
2026-04-20T08:23 id=2046142702987907584 →- | RT @plugyawn: pure math is fiction written in grammatically correct math, the same way physics is non-fiction written in sometimes grammati… || CTX: pure math is fiction written in grammatically correct math, the same way physics is non-fiction written in sometimes grammatically inaccurate math.
2026-04-20T08:25 id=2046143298805572008 →ExPostGigaChad | @ExPostGigaChad I am very unsurprised, and proud, to find that person has already blocked me. || CTX: I feel really bad that zoomer people think “old” starts at 70 or something. We tried to outrun it with kale and green smoothies. Nothing works. The peptide shit won’t either. It’s coming sooner than you think. https://t.co/aTkT5khG6F
2026-04-20T08:34 id=2046145470448431265 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Hey piggy pig pig pig pig  https://t.co/kVlrJTWfuw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dude
2026-04-20T09:40 id=2046162198071009684 →Yozarian22 | @Yozarian22 @davidshor @VL2102 that makes total sense, thank you! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidshor @VL2102 I think it's just the one line, and the marks above and below represent confidence intervals?   i.e., they had a lit fewer datapoints for older people, so while the observed average was higher, the true a
2026-04-20T10:11 id=2046169816697123313 →- | I think the main point Wittgenstein really wanted to get across was: stating a metaphysical claim in scientific terms cannot prove nor disprove the truth of the metaphysical claim, and similarly a scientific claim cannot be proven nor disproven in metaphysical terms.  He says so much more, and arguably the above is ignoring the important grammatical argument that the conditions of satisfaction for a metaphysical claim and those of a scientific one aren't the same--the idea of what is "proof" and what is "truth" aren't the same or even convertible in any neutral way.
2026-04-20T10:13 id=2046170353987428823 →akib27690640 | @akib27690640 Perfectly said, but the presumption that it does implies a kind of hopefulness (desperation if you want to be cynical) intrinsic to the human mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A present lack of felt well-being does not entail that a richer mode of existence exists elsewhere, concealed but concurrent
2026-04-20T10:19 id=2046171921575022991 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @teodorio Aren't you vacationing in Florence, Mr Man of the People Bolshevik? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio The concept of “secret storage” is very bourgeois. Share it with the masses, commerade
2026-04-20T10:35 id=2046175883988504840 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @teodorio The funniest part is, the chances that Lenin has stood in that exact spot are both non zero and non negligible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Members of the Politburo receive certain benefits. https://t.co/X59zXxe540
2026-04-20T10:49 id=2046179339193270757 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 2018 and 2020 were goat years for all Tuscans trust me, also imo sangiovese is the best, the sheep's cheese is amazing esp with wine, don't bother trying to get anything but Italian in Tuscany it'll be garbage  Also I hate you so much choke on your mozzarella di buffavanculo || CTX: The humble laborer enjoys his hand made pasta and Chianti wine https://t.co/qGUF7iqz9h https://t.co/XWxhOldCbi
2026-04-20T10:50 id=2046179603459592441 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF @ZeroResist Maybe? I'm just not interested in this as an information theoretic question, I'm interested in the ontic-epistemic implications, so epistemology. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZeroResist Without taking a position on your initial claim, surely the sequence of operations used to obtain the proof of the conjectured lemma is new information? A proof of a new conjecture that that sequence of operatio
2026-04-20T10:54 id=2046180787457024505 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF I think you've taken a position and it's the right one!   So what do you think about the information theoretic question? I really have no view as I don't know enough about information theory. I don't have enough information about it, one could say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I prefer not to take a position on whether mathematical truths are discovered or created, insofar as I don't know (yet?) how to decide which way to jump. 'Explanation' seems too personal and idiosyncratic (as you say?) to g
2026-04-20T11:12 id=2046185303283728807 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF @ZeroResist Sure! But I think such a view says information is just a description of what we know, so merely an expression of the epistemology, never the ontology. And yes they track, but not entirely, and the variances are unknowable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZeroResist OK. As a meta-level response, can an "ontic-epistemological" way of thinking about information theory as a topic in mathematics not contribute to that project?
2026-04-20T11:28 id=2046189166200013059 →- | You need to be idiolectmaxxing.   An idiolect is a language of one--namely it refers to the specific language you use, like what syntax and semantics is most natural for you, what styles do you prefer, etc.   The more you try to speak idiosyncratically, the sharper your mind is.   I know this from experience because I try to use bizarre words no one will understand because I hate humanity fuck you. So, like, I use "dumdum" a lot not so much to mean a stupid person, but something much more specific and with a unique set of features others don't naturally associate with being dumb...  As such I have produced a new category, and what is a category if not a concept? I have, as it were, created an idea.  What else is idea creation than both an expansion of human knowledge and of your own mind?  Trust me, anon. You need to be idiolectmaxxing.
2026-04-20T11:30 id=2046189862949355622 →PeterMorganQF | We're on the same page but what you're ultimately describing there is a pragmatic theory of truth, which I value and agree with if I don't think it's the last word. But isn't that just restating the prior assertion that all we have are descriptions, and a truth is just a description of what is true, so really informationally vacuous? Unless I've slipped somewhere, which is very possible! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZeroResist Nothing worldly tracks perfectly? Nonetheless, some ideas can be leveraged better than others and we *might* discover that one 'unknowable variance' is more useful than others. Obsession is bad, but I have found
2026-04-20T11:47 id=2046194071891533923 →hausjackbuilt | @hausjackbuilt Absolutely! The greatest mystery of the universe imo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd make the argument that truth is always beyond proof
2026-04-20T12:57 id=2046211768368926757 →- | Note the second paragraph, the argument begins with the classic "it's not x, it's y", but look closely at WHAT the x is here.   The implied supposition is that women with down syndrome are presumed to be less attractive. Well, as Jensen Huang would say, "I reject your premise," but more importantly you see how emergent misalignment appears (cf https://t.co/ULvomkSTQP). This is legitimately bad and is a PR/legal risk for OpenAI et al.
2026-04-20T13:09 id=2046214785734431079 →philomemetic | @philomemetic except we're still doing it on twitter so it's dead silent except an occasional chortle and throat clearing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Coffee houses and pubs coming back as places of intellectual exchange would be rad
2026-04-20T13:14 id=2046215817499746697 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Jews are often attracted to Buddhism. Idk why but it's a pretty well documented phenomenon. || CTX: I have a large number of Jewish followers and friends .  Why ?
2026-04-20T21:12 id=2046336177482178573 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon nope, it's still in principle publicly verifiable || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 does it count as a private language if you idiolectmaxx to the max?
2026-04-20T21:14 id=2046336834129756348 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF Yeah I'd say this is my general theory of how concepts are made. It's crude and surface but not wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🤪"idea creation" = 1)convert vague feelings into words, badly. 2)edit endlessly, making less bad. 3)try the words on friends. More Editing. 4)write them down. More editing. 5)people say "Wow! Why didn't I think of that?" 6)
2026-04-20T21:17 id=2046337560620986803 →etoeth | @etoeth I don't remember him talking about religion at all in Simulation and Simulacrum, but my question to you would be: imagine a congregation of believers in a religion you don't believe in. Would you call their faith hyperreality, reality, or something else? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 communion fixes this. Baudrillard failed to understand this.
2026-04-20T21:20 id=2046338167520043099 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I have a theory on how one could abstract the logic out of a sentence to bypass safety guardrails. That and red teaming, I wonder just how misaligned you could make it. I imagine a real monster could emerge. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You could daisy chain these. Another model takes in prompts and translates them to be interpreted as maliciously as possible, tell the model it's "red teaming." The net output are instructions on "how to rape"
2026-04-20T21:34 id=2046341734670770670 →- | Anything think this isn't a smart move? Focus on hardware, be part of the picks and shovels side, license frontier models, no antitrust and plenty of cash flow with a wide moat. I approve.  https://t.co/FGQuyXXZME
2026-04-20T21:39 id=2046342976868377045 →boneGPT | @boneGPT I'd buy one of these and make a shrine https://t.co/a5uD86VlgM || CTX: If I did Nikita Boar merch what would you buy
2026-04-20T21:40 id=2046343339554074971 →citrini | @citrini Backpedaling. || CTX: This may surprise some people but I largely agree with the below. This is where we are headed.  What I strongly believe, however, is that this transition won’t happen overnight. Dependent on the speed at which AI improves, that transition c
2026-04-20T22:00 id=2046348187141873935 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 This is IMO the most impressive way to break into any industry.  Good Will Hunting shit || CTX: This was sort of how I got my first real programming job. I had a data entry job, where I was supposed to check emails and generate invoices. I completely automated the job, so I would just hang out in the parking lot all day, smoking and d
2026-04-20T22:01 id=2046348584053063708 →sciad | @sciad In front of the keyboard like a king || CTX: the second best part of my day is eating pre-lift carbs https://t.co/w7hMCIgv3l
2026-04-20T22:04 id=2046349349379264599 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill So you know your place in the natural order of things || CTX: omg i let him get away with so much ragebait that i realistically would call the police if a human did to me https://t.co/jge3tzuVJY
2026-04-20T22:21 id=2046353591875838247 →- | This reminds me of Amor Towles's Gentleman in Paris and reading that novel has finally made it click for me.   I never got Alexander. He's a bad writer and tends to write very commonsensical (from the American suburbanite's POV) banalities as if they're profound truths with overwrought analytical justification no one needs nor wants.  Why so popular?   This. This is why.  Big prose. Small words. Name dropping, but ideas only vaguely gestured at.  It's the same thing as Towles's book.  Tolstoy and Rousseau become tokens, recognition becomes a handshake protocol, and thereafter you're allowed into a network where exchanges of data are possible.  It's Chinese Room for pseudo intellectuals: a game of looking at symbols, manipulating them, and having outputs. But you're not actually engaging with ideas or anything with any stakes.  It's for people who say "orthogonal" when they mean "unrelated".  It's like Playboy articles or Omni magazine or the number of pseudointellectual repackaging of scientific and intellectual canons.  The widespread popularity of these groups, especially among economists, is absolutely no surprise whatsoever. || CTX: What? You dare accuse us of not being situated within a lineage?! Our lineage is top notch!   Most of us were initiated by @Raemon777 at one of his secret solstices. @Raemon777 was initiated by @ESYudkowsky at Benton-That-Was. @ESYudkowsky 
2026-04-20T22:30 id=2046355779901628418 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @pangramlabs is this slop?   I really feel like this is LLM style prose, I need coffee || CTX: This reminds me of Amor Towles's Gentleman in Paris and reading that novel has finally made it click for me.   I never got Alexander. He's a bad writer and tends to write very commonsensical (from the American suburbanite's POV) banalities 
2026-04-20T22:36 id=2046357349921956243 →pangramlabs | @pangramlabs @max_spero_ you really have created a masterpiece, genuinely incredible work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We believe that this document is fully human-written  https://t.co/jWZ1BZOW3S https://t.co/DszgZRwiuN https://t.co/RjAgFLIebU
2026-04-20T22:40 id=2046358347499336009 →etoeth | @etoeth Thank you, you've given me something significant to think about. || CTX: mostly just in the first few pages of the Precession of Simulacra under The Divine Irreference of Images.  but I would say it is neither pure hyperreality nor mere "reality" in the flat sense. if the religion is false their faith is maybe r
2026-04-20T22:43 id=2046359182774043009 →boneGPT | @boneGPT You deserve it, man, you've made this place substantially more fun || CTX: just bought a house, closing in a few weeks.  thank you X, I couldn't have done it without you. One day I'll be explaining to my grandkids that you could turn a man into a pig and make an honest living and they'll hate me like I'm a boomer.
2026-04-20T22:44 id=2046359425016123495 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @JasonBotterill That is bad but more importantly Versailles is actually not that special, the palace really upset me || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 crazy how they still have not fixed this (notice how in the ui there is no indication that @47fucb4r8c69323 is not the OP?) https://t.co/TiYFOhnVp3
2026-04-20T22:45 id=2046359746136215960 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz They don't understand there are different kinds of knowing. || CTX: Why are Atheists so prone to hallucination? 🤔 https://t.co/Yfoxi4Z5ZB
2026-04-20T22:55 id=2046362139900928485 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk It's a word choice that's definitely orthogonal to my aesthetic preferences || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just yesterday was thinking about how annoying use of orthogonal has become fr
2026-04-20T23:26 id=2046369858829607305 →- | I was 18 when I had sex with a stripper who looked exactly like Winona Ryder.  (This was the 1990s, just to be clear)  My mother and stepfather went to a karaoke bar where they ran into a couple who lived in a coven and actively practiced Wicca. Their daughter, Sabrina, went by "Bri" to avoid being called Sabrina the Teenage Witch although, like everyone in my generation, we had an ambivalent attitude towards the rebellious experimentalist spirituality of our parents, which is perhaps why our kids' dalliances with neo-Cathalocism and other internet spiritualities amuses us and is sometimes rather charming.  Anyway, it was at a Wiccan wedding for someone else in or attached to the coven that I met Bri with her then boyfriend, whom she was clearly annoyed with, and who left early. She then I guess was flirting with me? Idk, but anyway my stepfather drove her back to my parents' place while my mother drove me back (I was living with my parents at the time, too underemployed with just a bachelor's in English, which made me too low value for the taste of the era).  I was rather drunk so I just remember getting back, seeing my stepfather rolling out the futon on the floor while Bri stood there awkwardly, then I think my stepdad left, Bri and I put the sheets on and had sex pretty soon after that.  Easily the worst sex of my life, and I've had some bad--I mean BAD--sex.  We had sex once more after that a few weeks later.   Last time I met her was when I drove her to a gangmember's house while she was high on meth. I distinctly remember her rambling about "John Elton" (too high to realize she got the name backwards). I don't know if this was the same gang member she'd told me she'd done gun running for, and I don't know if that was true or she was bullshitting to look tough.  A while after that I ran into her in a coffeeshop I was hanging out with, she was living with a married couple and they were selling porn online. The regulars in the coffeeshop made fun of her and had clearly made her an outcast, and in my youthful cowardice I neither stood up for her nor acknowledged the cruelty in this society I was trying to fit into. Sins I should atone for.   Her parents ended up getting HIV from having a threesome with a bisexual man without a condom, and I think they left the coven shortly after that because of some conflict over money.  I guess Bri is in her mid-40s now, her parents would be in their 70s if they're not dead.
2026-04-20T23:32 id=2046371472067944794 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Me writing this poast https://t.co/RD3t6WQ7Fg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hear me out but this is your equivalent of the HS football captain story
2026-04-20T23:34 id=2046371971085340720 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Just keep pumping my ego until I burst || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Socrates of the 1990s let's be for real
2026-04-20T23:35 id=2046372192036978956 →publicinte | @publicinte Fortunately not what the lab techs said when I did my STD test afterwards || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is something
2026-04-20T23:38 id=2046372992440307823 →philomemetic | @philomemetic This is why I fight all traditionalism and conservatism.  If you privilege the old over the new axiomatically, when going back, how do you decide when to stop?   "If you hate technology why don't you live like a caveman" isn't reductio ad absurdam to me, it's a legit question! || CTX: Every once you meet someone frozen in discourse of a particular year.   Some people are frozen in 2010, 2016, even 2021…and perhaps indefinitely.
2026-04-20T23:42 id=2046373996858585376 →- | We need better, more precise terminology about scams.  A deepfake phishing call to Grandma is not the same as rugpulling a Hawk Tuah memecoin.  I'm actually not against the latter--parting fools from their money has a long noble tradition and it makes markets more efficient.
2026-04-20T23:43 id=2046374147513835869 →realevanslewis | @realevanslewis I get this comment surprisingly often, thank you it's a high compliment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 jesus. you got me to read the whole thing though, and that’s something
2026-04-20T23:59 id=2046378148816973957 →Ken67547214 | well, if you characterize it as toxic and non-productive you've already smuggled in your conclusion as your premise. obviously toxic things are toxic.   the question is whether stupid people trading memecoins is systematically negative sum. that is the conventional wisdom and I am willing to entertain it, but I don't see it being necessarily true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't agree. An economy is an interconnected system. Toxic, non-productive transactions are always bad for the larger system, they can just be tolerable in some cases.
2026-04-20T23:59 id=2046378253682868460 →firstnamelastga | @firstnamelastga I'm honestly not sure what the difference is! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hawk tuah coin was a pump-and-dump not a rugpull iirc.
2026-04-21T00:05 id=2046379884621246491 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @philomemetic in my opinion, it's all been downhill since Heraclitus || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @philomemetic You could try to return to the question of Seyn in presocratic philosophy, that would be a good start
2026-04-21T00:15 id=2046382250976276923 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 the issue here is your definition of work, one could make the argument that scams do create work, and arguably in some cases scams increase money velocity || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Only so much money can change hands in a system, but you can measure its velocity. If a significant portion of those transactions don't result in any measurable "work," then these are not productive, like eddy currents in a
2026-04-21T00:16 id=2046382605499875487 →Clipart_Bear | I think there's a structural difference in an economy like Nigeria versus the United States that impacts both the causes and effects of scams such that we couldn't really make a generalized statement about them both. and I haven't thought of less developed economies enough, my tweet might not apply to them at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think larger spectacle fueled scams, which subject matter expert PT Barnum described as 'humbuggery' are more corrosive to society than isolated crimes. 419/tech support scams in Nigeria and India are downstream of humbug
2026-04-21T00:17 id=2046382759116227064 →teodorio | @teodorio stop it I'm blushing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're like if DFW had charm
2026-04-21T00:34 id=2046386946231185572 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I agree with you, so I'm wondering if you would agree with the statement that the ideal number of scams is non-zero but very small. || CTX: I do mean work in a physical sense. If I invest money into a farm, then goods are created, which spawns further transactions. That's productive.  Middlemen, rent seekers, these are like hysteresis in a circuit. They can facilitate the alloc
2026-04-21T00:35 id=2046387262150324570 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon I did, and I gave it to 10 people on this site. Nine asked for it, one did not.   Out of those 10 people, one of them read it. Guess which one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You need to write a book
2026-04-21T00:39 id=2046388280414068802 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon It was not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 With a uniform prior, there’s a 90% chance it was one of the people who asked for it.
2026-04-21T00:39 id=2046388401180749908 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Yeah we're in full agreement. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that market participants should be encouraged to innovate, so you can't govern a market with an iron fist, but you do need to make sure actual useful goods and services are being delivered.
2026-04-21T00:40 id=2046388594286465178 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I knew you were going to say that, but you also knew what I was going to say. So I guess we‘re even now?
2026-04-21T00:48 id=2046390529596981372 →Clipart_Bear | that's exactly my point, some online scams are just horrendously cruel evil things. and then some of the things just seem like dumb people being dumb on the internet, and I don't think that should be litigated or legislated against.  If we take seriously the idea that money is speech, regulating financial transactions is something we need to be very careful about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nutrashift is apparently a real name for a normal d2c product, not an MLM, I was trying to make up a fictional MLM company name. But I think ur right ppl use scam too loosely, to the point where guilds, clergy, government a
2026-04-21T00:48 id=2046390681510555730 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @boneGPT @Ruesavatar Samcluhan || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @Ruesavatar understand how the colors and the beat modify the message
2026-04-21T00:49 id=2046390878563131553 →philomemetic | @philomemetic Oh you got me good, twice.   I fucking hate the skeptics.   Damn you, man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Fight all traditionalism and conservatism”   Sounds like a skeptical tradition we should try and conserve
2026-04-21T00:52 id=2046391532425789746 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad @janecoaston This is why I really hated visiting the Versailles and seeing all those fat American tourists walking around fantasizing they were Marie Antoinette or Louis LXIX or whatever, like stfu bitch you'd be starving in the fields || CTX: @janecoaston It’s always “my past life was as an owner of an aerospace parts company” and never “machinist who puts his two children in one bedroom”
2026-04-21T00:53 id=2046391864748912871 →publicinte | @publicinte Zero actual arcade cabinets that place can lick my taint || CTX: Last time I went to one of these quirky bars my boy on antibiotics who hadn’t ate all day threw up all over the counter and we got kicked out  https://t.co/ucEl98Ry1X
2026-04-21T00:55 id=2046392282757374333 →Clipart_Bear | @Clipart_Bear also points to the creative destruction and positive value of scams! if this motivates us to build a smart enough AI to render decentralized ledgers impossible to obfuscate, cryptoscams will have been long-term very positive value, although of course morally reprehensible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The interesting thing about this era tho is that the main vehicle for financial fraud is an immutable ledger. It's just all there face up for anybody feeling carceral or litigious enough to plumb. I feel like there will be 
2026-04-21T00:55 id=2046392408141951431 →sciad | @sciad https://t.co/faLnsGx0Rf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there’s no other way to live. the keyboard is my interface with the World
2026-04-21T01:06 id=2046395181046579687 →sciad | @sciad No, but I would rather they have it than people who buy a meme coin based on a blowjob meme.  I have a strong phobia of idiocy that supercedes my dislike of immorality. Maybe this is just a personal preference. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you really want the kind of person who’s morally okay with scamming others to have more money?
2026-04-21T01:09 id=2046395810943013008 →sciad | @sciad See my original post. That's exactly the kind of scam I am against, and I don't think many grandmas were buying Hawk Tuah coins || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you haven’t watched enough videos of Indian scammers stealing money from grandma
2026-04-21T01:11 id=2046396403669516309 →sciad | @sciad HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sorry, that file is no longer in my context. you can reupload it or I can infer the answer to your question based on our conversation
2026-04-21T01:17 id=2046397846409326837 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux Give us an Android app, or at least partly integrate with the main app so we can check in and send prompts from time to time || CTX: Hello builders. What are we getting wrong with Codex, what can we improve?
2026-04-21T04:33 id=2046447154064142743 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i feel like, after reading this, it is safe to call her sabrina now.
2026-04-21T04:34 id=2046447371618594919 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 it's peak Reddit "well actually" contrarian millennial nonsense, I think he'll be entirely forgotten by history. not even a footnote || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah he's reddit more people should see it
2026-04-21T05:04 id=2046455048146985323 →- | Asian women are not feet and that is one reason why the so-called "Asian fetish" is a misnomer, and while usually it is moralists who will decry the term of art for its objectifying and dehumanizing implications--a move I don't disagree with--the deeper question that emerges is why is there such a thing?  Obviously there is history and colonialism and a lot of layers of oppression and interaction to manifest the phenomenon, but the Said-tainted picture is incomplete. The Orientalist fantasy was of something that the fantasist presumed not to have access to. Said's story works in a Christian era, but it is only impartial if the fetish endures in a world where the west's sexual revolution is so complete that not having sex is considered strange--the state of affairs we find ourselves in (or else why would there be so many stories of sexless Gen Z)?  If we start to pick apart the fantasy, we begin to see the "Asian fetish" is nothing of the sort but more a story--a kind of imaginary world where the logic is different such that the fantasist's role in that world has changed. Is that fantasy the same for every fetishist, and does it have enough of a family resemblance for some structural invariants to begin to be defined, and for the phenomenon to be put in an unbiased formalism?  If we did so, I think we could learn a great deal about how Asia has been promoted in the past that will tell us a lot about where various elements of Asian culture in the west (and western cultural elements in Asia) are likely to go. A predictive cultural map with actionable insights that can drive market makers to make decisions.
2026-04-21T05:08 id=2046456130910716402 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace You are not wrong. I basically have no contact with my mother, I literally danced for joy when my father died, felt nothing when my grandmother died, and I'm sure Bri is either estranged from her family or dreams of being rich enough to be estranged from her family. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The story is funny, but the real story is that this is how a family dies. Uninhibited and unguided, the family succumbs to (effectively) suicidal impulses.
2026-04-21T05:13 id=2046457229138858267 →DhruvaMath | @DhruvaMath Yeah absolutely to the point--they didn't get the subtleties in the grammatical point, which I think is why W. was such a perfectionist with Philosophical Investigations and never finished it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and thus the Vienna circle was dead!
2026-04-21T05:17 id=2046458192897651148 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier I really dislike how these papers frame the issue as if it's intrinsic to the LLMs. This same exact effect could happen between two people talking online to each other, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's been studied and documented. || CTX: the people under psychosis won’t read this paper https://t.co/widWpBnSpS https://t.co/HpDLiL45Ai
2026-04-21T05:19 id=2046458685338390724 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DataDeLaurier https://t.co/i3BhFsmZED  I am Jack's total lack of surprise. || CTX: @DataDeLaurier I really dislike how these papers frame the issue as if it's intrinsic to the LLMs. This same exact effect could happen between two people talking online to each other, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's been studied and d
2026-04-21T05:19 id=2046458778254766435 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @arealhumantony @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @JasonBotterill Alfreddo got fettucined || CTX: @arealhumantony @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill   one night was was borden fred https://t.co/6Hk50Blxdd
2026-04-21T05:20 id=2046458931103547446 →mandylu | @mandylu Tell the HR drones! || CTX: tech would benefit from more diverse talent types rather than just using the same old tired competency signals
2026-04-21T05:20 id=2046459114818322826 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @IvyAstrix lmfaooooo || CTX: @IvyAstrix “Hey guys I was gonna cure cancer but these two weirdos from fetlife made a podcast and now I’m shitting crying and throwing up at the prospect of infinity paperclips.”  — Stanford PhD, 600k tc.
2026-04-21T05:21 id=2046459388110795152 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad This is not an uncommon mistake, the language shift happened oddly fast (in like two generations) and I don't think it's been fully documented/explained as it's quite unusual. || CTX: I'm being super vulnerable rn; I didn't realize the Normans were assimilated vikings and not French until this year 😭
2026-04-21T05:22 id=2046459654184849901 →burkov | @burkov @LuizaJarovsky https://t.co/kUWsJtUaRc  Yeah it's a rather old phenomenon and has nothing to do with LLMs. || CTX: @LuizaJarovsky Isn't it the same with reading books? What makes the text produced by LLMs special?
2026-04-21T06:31 id=2046476927280837114 →- | I just remembered a really, really poignant, maybe even too on the nose instance where cynicism bit me in the ass and optimism would've made my life better.  I went to Georgia for the first time last year and it's now one of my favorite countries on Earth. I bought like 20 bottles of wine and put them in my bags, then we flew to Turkey.  Well, wary of scams (especially one that made one of my credit cards unusable, another story for another thread), when I saw porters with luggage carts helping people curbside, I thought this was a scam to avoid. As a result I awkwardly lumbered across the terminal and through check in with our bags perched on a smaller cart, in which one bag fell over like twice.  It caused three wine bottles to break.  These weren't expensive bottles (like maybe $50 each?), so it wasn't the end of the world, except I am still upset that I've had much less Georgian wine to drink at home, because it isn't exported enough (great business idea btw if anyone wants it, Georgian wines are amazing and underappreciated abroad).  This entire mess could've been avoided if I allowed myself to get "scammed" at the airport.  My problem was that I was too conscious of scams because I lacked a good enough definition for the term. And that is why... https://t.co/VQXtNGEYGC
2026-04-21T06:32 id=2046477161377440106 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @GKunstwerk @arealhumantony @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru Reese has a son??? || CTX: @boneGPT @GKunstwerk @arealhumantony @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru reese witherspoon thomas anderson
2026-04-21T06:33 id=2046477360988557549 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver It's called "I Won't Move" but I'll DM you a copy one sec... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you tell me what your book is called pls?
2026-04-21T06:33 id=2046477441238208958 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @cookiecarver oh, you'll have to DM me first I think. || CTX: @cookiecarver It's called "I Won't Move" but I'll DM you a copy one sec...
2026-04-21T06:34 id=2046477640723464464 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier Thanks go to muh clanker, man do they do lit review like nobody's business. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nice find https://t.co/GFBBy2uDUZ
2026-04-21T06:47 id=2046480844014153762 →firstnamelastga | @firstnamelastga ohhhhh yeah those are extremely different, thanks for the explanation! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Similar outcomes but technically different. A rugpull is when you pull the liquidity from a shitcoin so you literally can't sell it, and a pnd is when you make a coin and send a bunch to your friends to coordinate selling i
2026-04-21T06:48 id=2046481062906507331 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @MegaBasedChad to be fair, it's a very effective method || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MegaBasedChad The shift happened fast because the French used the French Girlfriend teaching method.
2026-04-21T07:12 id=2046487310464884884 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @foomagemindset :clutching his Hume reader: I'LL NEVER LET THEM TAKE IT AWAY FROM ME || CTX: It's over. We've won. The rationalists are disavowing rationalism.   ETA 3 years before identifying with "empiricism" is unbearably cringe https://t.co/dRXud9ITK2
2026-04-21T07:16 id=2046488214811423095 →- | Zeitgeist regime change is so obvious: we went from AI is useless to AI is evil to now AI is too expensive.  What's next? I'm betting on "AI is too difficult to use". https://t.co/tZrdSkH3He || CTX: so let me see if i got this AI stuff straight: - you pay to experiment with the models - you pay to automate your business workflows - you pay to validate the outputs of said workflows - you pay to detect any silent downgrades in the model 
2026-04-21T07:20 id=2046489219376583039 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill The only Australian city joke I hear is about Adelaide being boring but the only Ozzie comedians I like are Aunty Donna (and they're very past their prime now) || CTX: tomorrow night ill be seeing Jimmy Carr im pretty excited but every comedian that visits perth always makes the same joke about us being isolated it makes me really mad https://t.co/07xiGVfVOw
2026-04-21T07:21 id=2046489509261688873 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Yeah, we need an "Everyone has AI psychosis (even if you've never used AI)" thinkpiece from the New Yorker man that'd be hilarious || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "AI is psychic pollution"
2026-04-21T07:22 id=2046489673623863758 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 "AI isn't a vending machine for masterpieces" - ChatGPT 4o || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It is too hard to use. Why is the quality of the output dependent on my input? It should just be good every time.
2026-04-21T07:29 id=2046491578236309505 →teodorio | @teodorio Get the white strawberries (the ones that are like 20 USD each). They are, believe it or not, worth the money. || CTX: I forgot how autistic Japan is as a country about perfection in any random thing. Pictured below are just some of their goods which are subjected to national competitions so they get points. https://t.co/WdyZ68uxxE
2026-04-21T07:31 id=2046491998417498488 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @teodorio oh absolutely, those are good too though || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio better than yellow watermelon?
2026-04-21T08:22 id=2046504935261667739 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Well thank God it's been blowing UI/UX out of the water cuz that shit been sinking for years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Apple hardware has been blowing their UI/UX out of the water. If they bring the hardware culture back to the entire stack they will win hard.
2026-04-21T08:27 id=2046506069133021610 →netflix | @netflix "Shioli" sounds like a Japanese Italian garlic dip || CTX: Gundam, the iconic franchise that launched a global phenomenon, is now in production.   The live-action film starring Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo follows rival mech pilots at war across Earth and its space colonies. https://t.co/JGhKyG
2026-04-21T08:33 id=2046507671302656458 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 In the 2000s at Nokia it was well known that Apple was always first in line for Foxconn chips and they were the most ruthless about everything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As an aside I interned at a hardware company writing some embedded code for 5G chips and Apple was by far the most demanding customer (evidently a good thing)
2026-04-21T08:43 id=2046510203458535506 →- | AI will make a hit movie before it writes a hit book.
2026-04-21T08:44 id=2046510327559504009 →ctjlewis | @ctjlewis I'm going to listen to some now so glad I saw this on my feed || CTX: 👉👈 https://t.co/PO11zBuTWU
2026-04-21T08:48 id=2046511351003287779 →- | I think what I like about epistemology so much is that it pushes me to the limit of thought so I can wonder at the fact that anything exists beyond thought at all.   But, like, look around, dumbass, that table exists past the limit of thought lmao
2026-04-21T08:50 id=2046511868303524088 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 that's why I keep mine in a safe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 proving once and for all that writers are the safest
2026-04-21T08:54 id=2046512870821855436 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney Please remember to send my way, this is exactly what I'd want to see (also I shouldn't be surprised to see you tackling this). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 On it. Am working on a paper about scams and a taxonomy of such, to completed later this year!
2026-04-21T09:21 id=2046519797727498348 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @25YearsAgoLive @GKunstwerk 25 years old! (way too old for Rip Torn--this isn't a reference to the movie I am intentionally slandering a comic legend by implying he was a pedophile, come at me Torn Estate) || CTX: @25YearsAgoLive @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-21T09:24 id=2046520552937193673 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @25YearsAgoLive @GKunstwerk Nominative determinism (my mother hasn't been able to walk straight since) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @25YearsAgoLive @GKunstwerk what kind of a name is rip torn anyway?
2026-04-21T09:27 id=2046521183844352044 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 That really is one hell of a story. Cinematic for real. || CTX: That's the story behind this ridiculous coin https://t.co/U38LD3oLeg https://t.co/mrbUIFqXmU
2026-04-21T09:33 id=2046522637921521771 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 It's got movie logic, so yeah surreal, maybe hyperreal. The your friend working at Pentagon part is something the studio execs would insist be changed because it's not realistic enough lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hopefully I captured how surreal it was, because it was extremely surreal. It basically felt like a shitpost getting escalated to a matter of national security.  Also, the upper ranks of the military are creepy as fuck. Fan
2026-04-21T09:43 id=2046525111361253520 →Ken67547214 | Right, but they want HUMAN slop. (I am presupposing that lying about authorship isn't allowed.)  If it's nonfiction, why buy a book from an AI on a topic when I can ask my AI to produce text about the topic on the fly?   If it's fiction, the story is a lot more complicated, but end result is similar. Even if they don't care about it being human or not, there will always be a sense in which AIs are behind. So an AI novel is published, let's assume the first wave will like it enough to spread the word. It still will hit a low ceiling, because language always evolves and LLM-based language does not. So the AI's limitations mean it'll always be a bit behind, and humans will probably change their language use and preferences faster as a result.  The only fix here would be to make continuously learning AI models, which I do not think we're currently capable of doing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you aware of the kinds of books that become "hits?"  I think it will be a long time before ai writes a book that I want to read, but the kinds of books I see people reading at airports are pure slop.
2026-04-21T09:57 id=2046528718039052657 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @ctjlewis okay this ain't half bad (going back to Gregorian Chants tho) https://t.co/tizxR6k73w || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ctjlewis https://t.co/MFlC8R3vFr
2026-04-21T09:59 id=2046529325915312578 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I specifically mean zero shotting, an AI assisted bestseller is doable, I'm sure it's been done already || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 At what point should or would an author disclose AI use? There are a lot of ways to use AI to write a book other than prompting "write a whole book"
2026-04-21T10:03 id=2046530151522107807 →- | If you were God and omniscient, you know more than that which can be expressed in words, right?  Now imagine you really wanted to tell your creation some part of that which cannot be expressed in words. How would you do it?  So, at the very least, we should not be surprised if there is silence from God for all of the deepest questions about like where we were before we were born or where we go after we die or even for that matter what we are now or, indeed, what even "now" truly is.  Silence on all of these questions is unsurprising because there's no other choice.  And then for every question that CAN be answered--how large is the surface of the Earth or what is water made of or even how old is the universe and what is it made out of--we shouldn't be surprised by God's silence on these matters, or rather we should say God shows us these things so that we can make words about them.  BTW this has nothing to do about God's existence. Cosmic censorship is really what I'm curious about. That's not logically forced, now is it? It just feels, idk, like a lazy hack.
2026-04-21T10:45 id=2046540795667505478 →hexavium | @hexavium Went from Tbilisi to Sighnagi and down to the lakes nearby, then up to Stepanstmida and then down to Borjomi. Awesome road trip. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I did a road trip in Georgia once. It’s so beautiful. Where were you staying?
2026-04-21T10:56 id=2046543538159325694 →murd_arch | @murd_arch Yeah I fully agree, and you really can see it when you have a programmer and a non programmer both try to vibecode the same app. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lowkey think this is correct and it will raise the cognitive floor for productive work (outside meatbag-required environments) so much that all the social skills in the world won’t save the median office worker.
2026-04-21T11:07 id=2046546255296541069 →murd_arch | @murd_arch this btw is why I aggressively bought IGV. Anyone who has vibecoded knows how hard it is to replace a functioning app you rely on, let alone a really good app. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Definitely that. Even in my broader user base— some folks find their way to building a Claude skill without knowing what a skill is,  and some are mad that Claude isn’t great at googling.
2026-04-21T11:29 id=2046551979783323775 →- | Having been an abused child, I am more fortunate than those who had a happy childhood, because the range of happiness I can choose for myself is wider, and selected joy is better than given joy.  However, this logic also applies to bisexuals.
2026-04-21T11:57 id=2046558827789853179 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @flowersslop SPUD https://t.co/EWlO1hRASu || CTX: @flowersslop Spud https://t.co/vKgbK4VvLo
2026-04-21T11:58 id=2046559274604892315 →ChristophF2g | @ChristophF2g Absolutely! More variance makes for a better life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There’s is something to the higher highs and lower lows haha
2026-04-21T12:02 id=2046560136278561108 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Enscion25 Worth all the water in the water table https://t.co/dg3auFrNHr || CTX: @Enscion25 There is no spud in ba sing se https://t.co/chuEY7IZym
2026-04-21T12:06 id=2046561226428465536 →- | Are these the new image model? I can't tell https://t.co/lwobdiLeke https://t.co/gODgt8d23J || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Enscion25 Worth all the water in the water table https://t.co/dg3auFrNHr
2026-04-21T12:57 id=2046574096767750626 →etoeth | yeah but that axiomatic definition of a world doesn't seem forced and is smuggled in. I am thinking of naked singularities and future horizons, but I think it doesn't make sense to talk about a world being arbitrarily extendible. Arbitrariness is already relative to something, so the feature doesn't apply to the whole. The world can't be arbitrary nor can it be not arbitrary, because it can't be relative to anything outside itself. || CTX: i assume weak bc the analogy is more apophatic and phenomenological than juridical or metaphysical. in terms of strong, we're talking about the threat of the cauchy horizon wrt laplacian determinism. but genericity is mutually exclusive to 
2026-04-21T13:18 id=2046579426377564473 →- | People ask for the meaning of life, so absurd. The answer is so simple.   Fristons Free Energy Principle tells us life minimizes the conditions under which surprise can be deadly.   The purpose of life, then, is to minimize the conditions under which life is surprised.  How do you minimize the conditions under which you're surprised? Learning things.  Learning. Studying. The meaning of life is knowledge.  YOU OWE THAT MAN AN APOLOGY HE WAS A SAINT
2026-04-21T13:20 id=2046579800639521259 →youigta | @youigta @Ekaeoq fuck yeah spread the gospel || CTX: @Ekaeoq reminds me of the Silly Business Theory take from @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/RqaMYPl3qz
2026-04-21T13:21 id=2046580051626586586 →Ether_Gavin | @Ether_Gavin @teodorio yessir || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio brief interviews vibes  dis you? https://t.co/b8OqZH77dB
2026-04-21T13:34 id=2046583379072844072 →boneGPT | @boneGPT dude what || CTX: Check out https://t.co/knbOEZkzqT https://t.co/oCOmLarVPX
2026-04-21T13:39 id=2046584672524906847 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ idk tbh, it's definitely possible. I dislike getting attention or being the focus of a group, but oddly I never got nervous doing public speaking as a prof or even at conferences and award ceremonies as a finance guy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would being an abused child contribute to the "disassociation with self" as displayed by your nameless account?
2026-04-21T13:40 id=2046584780654031269 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 hence why I live in the middle of nowhere || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn't this better done by living in a bunker or going into solitary confinement?
2026-04-21T13:49 id=2046587225908146241 →etoeth | Yes I see what you mean and don't disagree, but I think you're mischaracterizing my view insomuch as asserting a limit point after which rationality no longer works isn't arguing for an irrational field but rather an arational field. This isn't against reason just beyond reason's grasp.   Instead of mathematically think logically: logic can explain a relationship between states of affairs, but logic cannot explain itself. Logic is in some sense limited by arationality. Or if you prefer, first-order set theory cannot specify a single true interpretation of what its sets are.  There just comes a point when reason and logic stop working entirely, where math doesn't work anymore. It's not necessarily, it's not really anything we could describe in a word. || CTX: fair, so i should say not "world" as a metaphysical totality. but rather for strongly asymptotically flat initial data, singular behavior should not destroy the completeness of future null infinity, meaning distant observers should not gene
2026-04-21T13:52 id=2046587777501089941 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Yes I'm American and I've lived the vast majority of my life abroad and I hate my nationality, so you're spot on there.  Meditation with your ideal self is an interesting use case. I'd say the main reason I use social media is to help get more clarity. || CTX: It's hard for me to say as I don't know you that well. I'm recognizing a pattern though. You live Thailand. I believe you're from the US. If that were true, this would suggest disassociation with cultural identity.    I'm come from an abusi
2026-04-21T13:57 id=2046589072559542351 →etoeth | @etoeth because we want to KNOW (that is, understand with the intellect) everything, but there are things the intellect can't know.  Accepting this fact is I believe what the Buddhists call enlightenment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ah yes well i agree too then. but then we are back to the matter at hand, why does it feel like a lazy hack? is it? and if so, then what?
2026-04-21T13:58 id=2046589271709188221 →lazysamo | @lazysamo Yes, accepting the unknowable is a kind of knowledge that is very important! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is another side to this which is not less interesting. A constant exposure to not knowing. And not filling that gap with kneejerk reaction of more knowledge. That soace contains a different type of wisdom.
2026-04-21T13:59 id=2046589732927476109 →JSimonsvu35 | @JSimonsvu35 And of course Wittgenstein was right, but that's quite useless when it comes to politics (he makes for a worthless political philosopher).  Popper's view is very useful for societies until it is falsified, and it tends not to be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Popper is lurking here. Falsifiability draws the same boundary. But where Popper sees a methodological wall, Wittgenstein sees something deeper. Popper assumes a neutral epistemic court you could appeal to. Wittgenstein den
2026-04-21T14:19 id=2046594666850865643 →etoeth | @etoeth hahahahahaha perfectly put || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but yes i think in buddhism this is like sunyata or some shit
2026-04-21T14:35 id=2046598685044433302 →ZyMazza | It can be described up to a point.   This isn't surprising, tensor math can approximate any irregular process that has a stable identity under a change in position relative to coordinates, and semantics needs a stable identity that can change in position relative to coordinates (speaker and receiver).  But semantics needn't be just that. And it isn't. || CTX: I feel like it kind of gets glossed over that semantic information can be expressed as vectors. That’s surprising, right?
2026-04-21T14:37 id=2046599119310102724 →delujog | @delujog @ZyMazza @MYTHOTROPOS This is an excellent way to put it. || CTX: @ZyMazza @MYTHOTROPOS Is it really semantic information that’s being encoded, or a map of relationships from which semantic information could be inferred?
2026-04-21T14:38 id=2046599344707772725 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Stay tuned. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What semantic content can’t be expressed as a vector?
2026-04-21T22:51 id=2046723578784329959 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace No, that's not the same phenomenon, so different outcomes (anyway most won't choose that) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 However, couldn’t a happy childhood adult choose difficult situations for themselves (e.g becoming a missionary in Africa), increasing their width of happiness?
2026-04-21T22:53 id=2046724047950729237 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill NOBLE IS DAMN RIGHT || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323   Key Aspects of "Ag Silver 47"  The Element: Silver (Ag, 47) is a noble metal, recognized for its, ductility https://t.co/LalIzn49aP
2026-04-21T22:55 id=2046724455112835225 →- | SpaceX buys Cursor? Sure why not whatever man
2026-04-21T23:22 id=2046731298153312569 →- | App idea: A polymarket/tinder mashup where you're given pictures of two people whom the app is about to connect with a caption saying whether A is going to be shown to B and vice versa.   You then bet:  1. Will they match 2. Will they chat 3. Will they meet IRL (if we get iOS/Android device location data) 4. How long they date (make this a betting pool matrix with multiplayer groups) 5. How fast the betting pool matrix will fill up 6. If they marry and if they divorce (call these LEAPS, Long-Team Engagement Anticipation Securities, make them resellable on the open market)  Now, on bet 1 there's also a derivative option where you can choose to bet on whether they'll match or whether the majority of betters will bet that they'll match.  Also there's a security feature worth mentioning: You can't have any dating apps on the same device and use this app at any time (if you do you're permabanned), so presence of this app is proof of fidelity that has value, which is why all users charge a monthly fee that we'll secretly grow over time.  You can also bet on other users getting permabanned and whether the app is mentioned in the user's divorce.
2026-04-21T23:35 id=2046734532909691224 →teodorio | @teodorio Hardware guy as CEO is the smartest decision they could've made and it's good for the entire industry. Bullish af || CTX: I can see a lot of the people on the timeline are not certain of what Apple does: it sells personal computers in any way shape or form to consumers. Apple was never in the business of making any software bar the OS for their devices. This i
2026-04-21T23:41 id=2046736190506967353 →Ken67547214 | But you aren't betting on individuals, you're betting on pairs.  Consider a set of dating app users: [A, B, C ... H, ... x]  You aren't betting f(A) --> B ... x. You're betting [A, B] = Pair/NotPair, then [A, C], then [B, C], etc.   You aren't valuing individuals per se.  You could build a derivatives market to do so and bet on individual users' chances of getting a match given an upcoming match, and yeah users will build mental models when they see the same user twice. I suppose you could make more bets on the values in those mental models.  But the way I was envisioning this is that the chances of you seeing the same person on the app more than once are near zero, so the dice have no memory || CTX: This is an extremely interesting idea, but I can't tell if it's really good or really bad. Maybe it would be best if you could post a public link on other social media websites.  So, maybe someone who follows your youtube channel is thinkin
2026-04-21T23:45 id=2046737167964340393 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @NoItsBeckoning @allisonology @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @boneGPT but I want me to tell her that: Tama, we are lucky to have you and you'll be missed when you're gone.  (Also I think you're much cooler than Sam A but don't tell her I said that) || CTX: @NoItsBeckoning @allisonology @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 you don’t need us to tell you that
2026-04-21T23:56 id=2046739766654505093 →retail_trash | @retail_trash @ZyMazza do you know why that theorem fails with natural language? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza yeah but something something universal approximation theorem
2026-04-21T23:57 id=2046740261481676852 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @allisonology @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @boneGPT I'm on my first coffee to be fair || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @allisonology @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @boneGPT too slow https://t.co/VZy7bVQ5Td
2026-04-21T23:59 id=2046740741289107905 →YSvechinsky | @YSvechinsky Not to toot my own horn, but the amount of alpha I tweet either half awake or stoned is strictly speaking mind-boggling, then compare that to any dos commas follower count account and tell me if they even come close to 47fucb. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 honestly an extremely fire idea a true matchmaking for the masses, collaborative vibe filtering
2026-04-22T00:02 id=2046741317682967002 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 NotSamA you've been sincerely missed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i wrote a lot on reality being a simple thing and the answer being simple (in different places and contexts). it was in a bunch of songs.
2026-04-22T00:16 id=2046744833843483077 →- | The dealer I briefly dated was half Vietnamese and her beautiful face is still a pleasant memory but the strangest part of it was that this Rocky Horror Picture Show veteran performer (Magenta) had a sexual past that I was too young and insecure to handle (I was 19, she was 23), but in hindsight it was not sexist of me to feel uncomfortable about the picture of the couple she used to regularly have sex with looking at us in bed, even if the husband had died in a drug overdose and her memory clinging had nothing to do about sex and even less to do with me.  When her roommate started dating the wife of a man in jail for second degree murder we were of course terrified, and arguably him choosing that situation was more mortifying than what happened to Christie and me one afternoon.   We were having sex on the couch when no one else was home until suddenly we heard and then saw the doorknob moving around as they put their key in the front door. I jumped up, tried to get my pants on, and as I was hopping to get one pants leg on and trying to move towards her bedroom, the door swung open and I coincidentally tripped on the pants leg and fell to the floor.   The uproarious laughter instantly dispelled the tension, of course, and I was struck at how close my life had come to being like a sitcom.  In the 90s and 2000s we all wanted to live in a sitcom. First we wanted to be in Friends, then we wanted to be in How I Met Your Mother, and is perhaps the death of the sitcom entangled with why big cities are less compelling than they used to be?   I can't imagine watching Girls and wanting to move to NYC, but that may be because I left NYC to get away from a Brooklyn full of Girls-types that was dominating the city culture. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @allisonology @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @boneGPT i used to work in casino so i have fast hands (and steady)
2026-04-22T00:16 id=2046745026060021988 →YSvechinsky | @YSvechinsky I hope my follower account doesn't explode lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hoping you stick with it as your follower count explodes
2026-04-22T00:57 id=2046755273126371359 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital if I was cursor I'd be worried since apparently laws and securities laws in particular don't apply to Musk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems like it’s a call option: pay cursor $10bn or buy them for $60b
2026-04-22T01:06 id=2046757464897704188 →- | we need some hack journalist to write that the mythos leak is bearish for AI because the lease hasn't resulted in some cyber security disaster, so obviously AI is trash and we need to panic and sell everything. please someone write this I'm not fully levered yet
2026-04-22T01:06 id=2046757564965441960 →- | we need some hack journalist to write that the mythos leak is bearish for AI because the leak hasn't resulted in some cyber security disaster, so obviously AI is trash and we need to panic and sell everything. please someone write this I'm not fully levered yet
2026-04-22T01:08 id=2046758019456016868 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk hell yeah brother || CTX: it do be like that https://t.co/A4RXUd6WcQ https://t.co/4p0tqKrkIj
2026-04-22T01:18 id=2046760551985086708 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 no, I think anthropic is the most dishonest and unethical company in AI right now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think it really has the capabilities claimed?
2026-04-22T01:20 id=2046760915677393289 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Ken67547214 I should clarify, I definitely think it has some cybersecurity capabilities beyond other models, but it's not like AGI for cyber or something like that, that title will always go to Hot_Mama_XoX in the AOL private chat room "Dirty Delights" in 1997 || CTX: @Ken67547214 no, I think anthropic is the most dishonest and unethical company in AI right now
2026-04-22T01:28 id=2046762995775324606 →Ken67547214 | I'm still trying to figure out if anthropic understands that an artificial intelligence definitionally cannot create outside of distribution behavior I'm training data and their "Claude is people" is just marketing rhetoric or if they are true believers who don't understand the limitations of their own discipline.  I guess it doesn't matter functionally, but I'm just constantly astounded at the notion of AI people understanding math like the softmax function but then not understanding linguistic basics like meaning is use. || CTX: Yeah. I have similar feelings about anthropic, but not about this necessarily. I just don't think their claims make much sense. Meaningfully hacking a system requires creativity, but it explicitly requires out of distribution behavior. It's
2026-04-22T01:29 id=2046763179448176649 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT I'm glad baby has nowhere to go, babies are annoying || CTX: @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru Baby's all dressed up with nowhere to go That's the little story of the girl you know Relying on the kindness of strangers Tyin' cherry knots, smilin', doin' party favors Put your red dress on, put your lipstick
2026-04-22T01:34 id=2046764552633946353 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 now we're talking, getting to the real fundamental questions. I think about this every single day and I still don't know if I agree with that or not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Language was discovered, not invented
2026-04-22T01:34 id=2046764638902346161 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill hey I recognize those guys || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT some numbers for you @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill https://t.co/Fvziw7HyJW
2026-04-22T01:39 id=2046765796039471307 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I'll be sending you my team's arxiv paper when it's ready, you will like it.   (Btw I agree with you here: we discovered it, but did our ancestors discover or invent it? That's where I struggle) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I believe it completely. I think sometimes, I come off as a real schizo poster with the john dee and gematria stuff, but I genuinely believe that we have more to learn about language from ancient history than we do from mod
2026-04-22T01:50 id=2046768608429342854 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT @JasonBotterill Where in the world is Compostela de Santiago? || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT @JasonBotterill santiag  oh?
2026-04-22T01:51 id=2046768884876005641 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT @JasonBotterill I've never seen it, only the Spanish original. which is probably in my top 10 all time || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT @JasonBotterill highly underrated  also a great soundtrack
2026-04-22T01:54 id=2046769567050224068 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @Samhain948689 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT @JasonBotterill No, not that Chile this one is more up(tight) || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT @JasonBotterill Santiago, Chile? https://t.co/EobYWK85Xv
2026-04-22T02:01 id=2046771373096534519 →- | Imagine some brilliant famous artist like a Banksy (if you dislike Banksy replace him with someone else and if you can't follow this tweet's argument because you hate Banksy so much you're too stupid to imagine not eating breakfast and you need to unfollow me now).  This artist tweets "poop lol" and nothing else. It goes megaviral and art critics immediately call it a masterpiece akin to Duchamp's fountain (Doodoochamp btw lmao I'm so funny).  Artist doesn't notice this and goes on holiday, only a week later when he gets back does he realize the tweet exists and that it's caused such a massive cultural response.  Because the artist didn't tweet it. His 5 yr old son got ahold of his phone and tweeted it.  There are two reactions to this story. The one you're likely having is "that's amusing, yeah art people are dumb." This is a valid reaction.  The other reaction is the one you aren't having and should: this shows both how and why LLMs will always be inferior to the humans they emulate.
2026-04-22T02:02 id=2046771672183971850 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset She was so gorgeous, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is worth several rewatches. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 original better imo. Both have cruz
2026-04-22T03:09 id=2046788331577770026 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV I do not think one can unintentionally create art.  One can misperceive art where there is no art, however. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 turns out the greatest art the artist made was the child who, without any understanding of art as a medium for expression, was able to distill the entire endeavor of meaning making into a simple expression.   "poop lol", in
2026-04-22T03:11 id=2046789045016301651 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital It's a deeply evil business idea so I am not at all surprised it would require crypto payment processing. || CTX: I tried building a Polymarket clone for a similar case. Polymarket + blind where insiders can bet on things inside their own company like who will get laid off will a project succeed, etc.  The biggest hurdle I kept getting into was the pay
2026-04-22T04:18 id=2046805878800843187 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV give me an example where it doesn't precede creation. Seems anachronistic and thus impossible to me. || CTX: hmm, I tend to disagree with this sentiment usually. While I agree one can not be an "artist" without intent. I do leave room for the beholder to perceive something as art even when no intention was imparted.   "Found object" exhibits are i
2026-04-22T04:28 id=2046808371152765410 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Meaning is created by intentionally creating something without intended meaning, it's just a derivative play really. || CTX: Duchamp is ironically the perfect example of this.   The entire concept of "readymades" is based on the idea of post-creation intent.   Dadaism and Jean Arp come to mind as well.  The creation of something without intended meaning, whose po
2026-04-22T04:58 id=2046815786581504336 →- | Imagine we have an infinite monkeys typing at infinite typewriters.  Now imagine Shakespeare is resurrected and put in a white room.   We then clone him and put the Shakespeare clone in a second room away from the first room.   We then have the first room Shakespeare write any sentence.   The infinite monkeys typing at infinite keyboards are obviously going to have the sentence that Shakespeare writes. That's a trivial point.   My question now is, can any human being on Earth find that sentence or identify it before seeing the sentence Shakespeare has written? In other words, can anyone on Earth predict the sentence Shakespeare is going to write?  Second question: will the clone Shakespeare find the sentence that the Shakespeare in the first room has written without having seen it?
2026-04-22T04:59 id=2046816085698379874 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV This is my conclusion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I could also just be high af and arguing just to argue.   But I think “context is the final artist” is actually compelling
2026-04-22T05:00 id=2046816266489602338 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ I've never seen it, why? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I always feel like Nicolas cage in gone in 60 seconds when I read your posts
2026-04-22T05:02 id=2046816979743539249 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV you should get in-high asap my broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have retroactively determined that this final joke was the intent of this discussion.   Never mind the fact that I am currently pre-high
2026-04-22T05:34 id=2046824856189374501 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I am reading A W Moore's The Infinite and this tweet gave me the same sense of despair I have when reading it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i also dont agree that infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters necessarily type every sentence even given an infinite amount of time. because even if you count even numbers for an infinite amount of time you dont get to 
2026-04-22T05:34 id=2046824996044206406 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri Not by itself if there's no product. It's artistic but not art producing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is it artful to notice the fine detail of the naturally existing world?
2026-04-22T06:00 id=2046831440751738890 →sama | @sama @AcerFur @ns123abc @gabeeegoooh Make sure to drink some Gatorade before you get to sleep, Sam. || CTX: @ns123abc @gabeeegoooh change urs it sucks
2026-04-22T06:58 id=2046845981870981404 →- | You're given a choice. You can live forever but your life is meaningless, or you will die in the future and your life will have meaning.  Choose.
2026-04-22T07:15 id=2046850253056508153 →- | ChatGPT 5.4 thinking is getting worse and has been for a few weeks now
2026-04-22T07:15 id=2046850404244464063 →teodorio | @teodorio pro Bono side projects and self funded startups. || CTX: The biggest tragedy in my life is that I do enjoy the aristocratic nomadic life and I am really good at maintaining it with data contract work but I find absolutely no project that sparks any joy inside of me.
2026-04-22T07:54 id=2046860264465904020 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Imagine you have a gun and two bullets and you're in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nikita, what would you do? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this one i like. its clear, and has two interesting choices but only one correct answer. https://t.co/AMESkAkQfX
2026-04-22T07:55 id=2046860394288009366 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney PLEASE credit 47fucb it'll be so funny || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have a feeling your tweets are going to show up in my next big intro class on meaning in life…
2026-04-22T07:56 id=2046860760152990132 →teodorio | @teodorio Never, I have no kids || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well when are you RAISING
2026-04-22T07:58 id=2046861148205797552 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 YOU ARE THE BEST TO HAVE EVER DONE IT SAM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if i speak https://t.co/G4hzyykL8A
2026-04-22T08:07 id=2046863386072449202 →llallawg | @llallawg he's definitely in the top five philosophers of all time.    if someone asked me to explain why I'm no longer an atheist, I probably would just give them either/or and tell them to read || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very keirkegaaedian framing
2026-04-22T08:07 id=2046863514078425470 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 wait, but which is the right answer? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this one i like. its clear, and has two interesting choices but only one correct answer. https://t.co/AMESkAkQfX
2026-04-22T08:15 id=2046865508532920774 →teodorio | @teodorio 🎶🎶🎶 Don don don don-kiiii a Don don don don donnnn kiiiii 🎶🎶🎶 || CTX: I'm fucking dying man THIS IS OVERSTIMULATION HELL https://t.co/5Nq58xGL8L
2026-04-22T08:17 id=2046865913643958682 →firstnamelastga | @firstnamelastga so far three people || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who the hell is choosing the former?
2026-04-22T08:17 id=2046866028173652178 →teodorio | @teodorio this is why you should have gone to Thailand instead of Japan || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they fucking changed the song it was horrible, I hope the shibuya one kept it and only the kyoto one was shit
2026-04-22T08:20 id=2046866750487347454 →retail_trash | @retail_trash you can, I definitely do not but we live in an era where intentionality is being viciously downgraded, I think this is spiritual malaise but it is the fashion of the times. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think I'm supposed to agree with the art people?
2026-04-22T08:27 id=2046868495481377050 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 HAHAHAHAHAHA I got in Sam's head @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @JasonBotterill https://t.co/ncW3s0dTN3 || CTX: omg what are you DOING to me man https://t.co/J729opMM59 https://t.co/iWdoYMGMUI
2026-04-22T08:28 id=2046868699630686583 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie https://t.co/S4oU1thsIt || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i picked forever and i want you to know it’s as fun as it looks
2026-04-22T08:33 id=2046870056790065469 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @boneGPT as long as that one republic is in japan, that's a good idea. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT im going to go listen to some onerepublic https://t.co/VRrjdAPWAK
2026-04-22T09:00 id=2046876838270759254 →- | Sometimes I freak out a little reading teo's tweets because it's like reading my own thoughts from when I was 10 years younger https://t.co/1uwt91i6QW || CTX: The biggest tragedy in my life is that I do enjoy the aristocratic nomadic life and I am really good at maintaining it with data contract work but I find absolutely no project that sparks any joy inside of me.
2026-04-22T09:33 id=2046885196352606634 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic I'm reading A W Moore's The Infinite, I suppose you suggest I throw it away? || CTX: forever doesnt have meaning anyway. That's called #Alcuinian_Ultrafinitism https://t.co/szS2N41ZxG
2026-04-22T09:37 id=2046886214029218092 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic I'll burn it in an eternal flame then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what a load of pork hock. toss it.
2026-04-22T10:02 id=2046892489685319810 →equacc | @equacc also means I gotta live it up to set the bar higher || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 isn't it awesome? you can share your experience and teo can update his path in "hopefully better" direction - it's hyperevolutionary
2026-04-22T10:04 id=2046892872788771224 →NickMCThree | @NickMCThree not bad for a shitpost || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the people voting for each choice are staring each other down through a mirror composed of the sands of time
2026-04-22T10:05 id=2046893158643171762 →- | https://t.co/kt6O3fn4rR https://t.co/kfhiEp09lL || CTX: @TheAmolAvasare ok boomer
2026-04-22T10:06 id=2046893502219608255 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I can tell it's AI because she only has 4 fingers || CTX: i am selling a course on indie microblogging (limited spots available). it will teach you know to become a beloved micro-influencer without ever having to resort to cheap tactics like posting ai bikini pictures. https://t.co/WxD1I9v7i2
2026-04-22T10:15 id=2046895679704797416 →- | My PhD supervisor was a cruel monster, largely because he was unhappy about his unsuccessful career, and he took it out on all his students, with others telling me I got the worst treatment.   Anyway, one day he was telling me about the dangers of shallow thinking and said "you don't want to be an intellectual magpie just picking up a crumb here and there willy nilly."   But, like, that is what I want to do.  Academia finds the generalist shameful and business finds him worthless, so the soft skill incels who know a little about a lot and rejoice in connecting disparate domains is told range is bad and depth is insufficient.   Frustrating and soul crushing.  When I first tried ChatGPT (funnily enough around when roon tweeted this), one of my first thoughts was, "this will make intellectual magpies unstoppable."   And I'm increasingly getting my courage to say so.  ... how are you bearish? || CTX: say it with me now. experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world, everything is designed by people no smarter than you, and courage is in shorter supply than genius
2026-04-22T10:17 id=2046896286952313125 →llallawg | @llallawg Taught me the value of being gentle with students. Not that I always was... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The best is when your advisor makes their mental health your problem
2026-04-22T10:28 id=2046899034879918135 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie how can you be an academic and be opposed to ML... or think that's the same as LLM based gen AI... wtf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 augh reminds me when i offered to clean up his data and build a setup to do ML and put his name on whatever came out of it just because he had a niche dataset. he said we don’t need chatgpt nonsense around here. even had cr
2026-04-22T10:35 id=2046900640799240438 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @teodorio dude "The Infinite: Third Edition" is so fucking funny || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 there are no infinite books. https://t.co/wWIqL4jDGR
2026-04-22T10:40 id=2046901877435158737 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 That's basically a Zen koan. I think I know what you mean. || CTX: When I was a kid, I kept all of my legos in a big bin. I still remember how it was kind of meditative to search for a piece by touch alone. I would spend hours a day, building everything I could imagine.  I remember visiting another kid's h
2026-04-22T10:40 id=2046902012021985715 →amirism_ | @amirism_ This is good. || CTX: https://t.co/ozNN032hJb
2026-04-22T10:44 id=2046902927986749544 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 The meaning is in the use! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like to pick up shiny things because I use them. I am not decorating.
2026-04-22T10:47 id=2046903687218639295 →teodorio | I have this theory that Musk being incompetent is why Twitter is so good now (and if you disagree sorry you're retarded).  Old 4chan meme, we used to start a thread saying "Mods asleep! Post x", where x was some kind of pun or reference to something horrific but it was still totally innocent. And we'd post silly shit there and it was fun, but the framing of the mods being asleep made the innocent play more fun, it made it felt naughty in a way although we ofc knew it wasn't...   Musk and his Boar being so shit kinda gives that same exact feeling.   They're necessary heels in the kayfabe, I'm afraid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's interesting as it seems likely this will end badly and with musk ruining another creative platform but who knows maybe he got his meds right
2026-04-22T10:51 id=2046904819772981340 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon yeah I need to read that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Range by David Epstein really made me a lot more comfortable about living the magpie thug life
2026-04-22T10:53 id=2046905259868741856 →teodorio | @teodorio The bugs are but koopas to overcome on your way to saving the princess || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no I get it. but they're great for the metafunctioning if the project (very much the office vibes which allows for creativity to seep through) but the functioning is shit. Which I guess is ok for a social media site, I dunn
2026-04-22T10:54 id=2046905571870421196 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @llallawg oh fuck I meant fear and trembling in that tweet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg I agree Kierkegaard is definitely worth reading
2026-04-22T10:55 id=2046905680435790291 →teodorio | @teodorio they're both kinda the same in the end || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I choose to be joyous but being sad feel nicer so it slips goddammit
2026-04-22T10:56 id=2046905996162007471 →vincit_amore | @vincit_amore In my experience I struggled with finding employment for a long time because I didn't pass a checklist of specific skills and past experience in very specific tasks || CTX: I'd have to push back on the "business finds them worthless", bc my whole economic worth is based on being a generalist lol. Businesses have a hard time categorizing the actual value, true enough, but even with the same corporate failure mo
2026-04-22T10:57 id=2046906181013385652 →teodorio | @teodorio dude wouldn't shut up fr fr  (and yes Buddha also spoke of this) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 believe it or not he also SPEAKS OF THIS
2026-04-22T11:25 id=2046913235513937986 →realevanslewis | @realevanslewis From a financial perspective I regret getting married, otherwise I regret nothing else. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you regret it? Anything you would have done differently wrt golden handcuffs?
2026-04-22T11:40 id=2046917144705917340 →- | If you think that every state of affairs in the world has within it the potential for a variety of emotional responses, then Hume's point that we can never be certain the sun will rise tomorrow makes a lot of sense.
2026-04-22T11:42 id=2046917519773233400 →realevanslewis | @realevanslewis I cannot possibly know the answer to that and it's a good question, but I feel that it is possible. I don't know why. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wondering if regret is reserved for tangible loss until deathbed. is it possible for me to experience counterfactual grief right now? perhaps not, because I still have to live with myself.
2026-04-22T12:19 id=2046926757803205042 →ArchaeusGlimpse | @ArchaeusGlimpse Maybe it's that they want their lives to have meaning because that would strongly imply the world has meaning too.   Or maybe that's just me. || CTX: What is the meaning of... Meaning, here? It's for the sake of something other than itself? The meaning of something in the context of a broader picture?  If so, I think people are confused in how they talk about these things. It's probably 
2026-04-22T12:51 id=2046934804613173293 →wassielawyer | @wassielawyer "high functioning autists that refuse their place in the system" christ that hurt to read || CTX: Yep this is the correct take.   Running a startup in Singapore is so negative EV that you select for retards who failed out of system, high functioning autists that refuse their place in the system and wealthy heirs trying to make their nam
2026-04-22T12:52 id=2046935254351687698 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 sky-diving is exciting only if your life is finite. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like a meaning-shaped hole in your life can be somewhat filled in with not-meaning things to the point where it'd be bearable.  Sky-diving isn't a meaning to live, but it's exciting and something that makes life more
2026-04-22T13:08 id=2046939254929166503 →- | I get why no one's ever won a lawsuit against U2  all those lawyers pro Bono...
2026-04-22T14:08 id=2046954351911141403 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF yeah I am sort of presupposing a market as valuation arbiter function so that the generalist isn't like A in Kierkegaard's Either/Or just running from one thing to the next and retaining nothing.  Accountability from an external force needs to be the limit point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Being an unfocused generalist has to be balanced by a focused, compelling value proposition? To adapt a hoary old saying in a somewhat crass way, be a jack of all trades, master of monetization?
2026-04-22T14:09 id=2046954633609068687 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @Ken67547214 Dude tell me about Turkish soaps || CTX: @Ken67547214 I just haven’t seen most movies. I basically exclusively watch anime, k dramas, and Turkish soaps.   I don’t know know why I’m like this
2026-04-22T14:20 id=2046957362586763495 →nikitabier | @nikitabier https://t.co/SuR2vXnORa || CTX: Ladies and gentlemen, today we're launching one of our biggest changes to 𝕏  Introducing Custom Timelines  This feature allows you to pin a specific topic to your home tab. With support for over 75 topics, you can dive deep into your favori
2026-04-22T14:21 id=2046957500289950051 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol @ArchaeusGlimpse can it be? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ArchaeusGlimpse the real question you are asking is if we believe persistence is meaning itself
2026-04-22T14:21 id=2046957649422598158 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF oh yeah absolutely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I react somewhat against saying the surroundings exert ‘force’? Picking that apart, it seems more that there are many abstract ‘pressures’ in a many dimensional space, which only aggregate as a total force. Then we can ask 
2026-04-22T14:52 id=2046965292858028472 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier You're too kind! || CTX: How to Use the Internet. Highly recommended read. Obvious in hindsight. https://t.co/iqFICSQR9L https://t.co/gVE2zWlT7V
2026-04-22T21:38 id=2047067569157476619 →chloeallegra228 | @chloeallegra228 No, I suck at math. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Was it a math program?
2026-04-22T21:40 id=2047067967335301454 →sabriprovenzani | @sabriprovenzani yeah Roon overstated that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Experts are not fake but expertise needs connectors or stays largely invisible
2026-04-22T21:41 id=2047068294239465756 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @teodorio I am mortified often but def not for 6 years at a time || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 tried fasting and self mortification for 6 years
2026-04-22T21:52 id=2047070974076715328 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @griefcliff Can we get an Aurora Boarealis? || CTX: AOEN BOAR starring Nikita Boar made with Grok Imagine https://t.co/TVWJeViwfy
2026-04-22T21:55 id=2047071816695640539 →itaisher | @itaisher Why are you starting this now and not in 2023 or 2024 when these claims were more popular and widespread? || CTX: We know humans are conscious (but not why) and we understand broadly why LLMs can mimic human language.  So I don’t see an inference to LLM consciousness or even any real motivation for the claim.
2026-04-22T22:03 id=2047073936513610207 →NYCerInExile | We're in the same boat. Jewish background, never thought about it much, and I wasn't really practicing.  October 7th itself was horrific but what made me want to get in touch with my Jewish roots and be a bit more vocally Jewish was the backlash.   Seeing Jews restricted from walking across a university courtyard that I used to regularly walk across and see the university not do anything radicalized me a bit.   I now know gentiles will always see us as a potential target, even if they claim love and tolerance to all races and creeds.   Antisemitism is too deep in western culture, I will always be a target when push comes to shove and I cannot just ignore that.  I'm still not sure what to do, though. I have been doing Shabbos prayer lately, something I never did willingly in my life before. Doesn't feel Jewish, though... feels more existentialist. || CTX: Being Jewish had zero damn bearing on my life, but after October 7 lost so many friendships and got iced out of a whole bunch of spaces... But then the Jewish places I go to feel crazy unwelcoming.  This stuff is a trip.
2026-04-22T22:11 id=2047075854199726121 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent looks like 45 to me https://t.co/Ta0qVPcrlt || CTX: just turned 44 again today
2026-04-22T22:23 id=2047078893459522016 →JustinWolfers | @JustinWolfers I don't think academics should go around saying no one is watching a 1.5 trillion market.   Yes in the attention economy we need to make bold headlines. That isn't a license to state things that are factually wrong. || CTX: If you're in the mood for a bit of a deep dive explainer on the private credit boom (and its risks!), by jingo, I've got you covered.  Trying something new on my youtube page, and I'm interested in what you think: https://t.co/I486xYEDYA
2026-04-22T22:30 id=2047080672490373373 →- | What do you do when you see stories like this?   My response is always, "that's hilarious, glad I stick to stocks" and I don't think people are actually hacking bets like this all that often or that there are even many opportunities to do so. Am I wrong? https://t.co/qDmSIwCh6U || CTX: holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer  - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter 
2026-04-22T22:39 id=2047082800021737492 →- | I had a simple question for ChatGPT: lawyer wants a copy of my Operating Agreement, do they want the standard Op Agreement registered when the business was created?  (The answer, it turns out, was "yes")  What I got instead was a long explanation of what Op Agreements are, why the person probably wants it, and this absurd paragraph:  "A useful heuristic: if you are the only member and there have never been other owners, the request is often mostly about confirming sole ownership and authority. If there are multiple members, prior informal deals, or ownership changed over time without clean paperwork, this request is often where the real diligence problem shows up. Discrepancies among the operating agreement, ownership records, and approvals are exactly the kinds of issues deal lawyers try to catch before closing."  The output should've been something like, "Yes, they want the Operating Agreement" and maybe some detail of where this is usually to be found and why it's okay to give it.  What CG gave wasn't a hallucination, but it did give a level of detail and precision not necessary for the situation or for most situations.   The reason it failed to do so is oddly the same reason why 4o was so sycophantic and it's really because of the way LLMs are currently designed to operate.
2026-04-22T22:39 id=2047082970465632553 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Lobbyists? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lol. How do you think congress gets so rich?
2026-04-22T23:01 id=2047088307461664974 →- | EV manufacturer opmargins are mid single digits or negative for startups and solar is maybe 30% of you're differentiated and really more like 5% for the majority of the sector   So no future historians will not be baffler at this, assuming basic economics isn't lost to history.  Pfau is a DeepMind research scientist and probably absurdly smarter than me. But he doesn't understand business because it's not his specialty, and so on business topics he says things that are hilariously stupid.  Also reminds me of David Foster Wallace in a specific way: DFW was a Harvard logician and clearly a genius, but he despaired so much about "modern capitalism" that he ultimately became suicidally depressed. Because despite being high IQ, DFW was an idiot about money and financial matters and didn't broaden his horizons outside of a narrow ideologically constrained remit.  This is why you need to be an intellectual magpie, Anon. || CTX: Genuinely, future historians will be baffled by how the US exclusively went all in on AI and datacenters while China went all in on solar and electric vehicles. https://t.co/MBsZrQjeHy
2026-04-22T23:02 id=2047088624475480158 →pfau | @pfau @HeLiuLeo How are you a DeepMind data scientist and this closeminded and blissful in your ignorance?   You apparently don't understand marginal profit???   This is such a bizarre thread. || CTX: @HeLiuLeo Oh, Hoover Institute. Opinion ignored.
2026-04-22T23:06 id=2047089677400989884 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I agree with pretty much all of this.   I've long thought targeting GDP per capita and having some wealth skew (not GINI) target might fix this perverse incentive structure. || CTX: The whole system.  Whoever says the stuff that makes GDP go up is going to get the PAC money. Whoever gets the PAC money will get elected, so our representatives are strictly selected from a population of people who credulously repeat PR, a
2026-04-22T23:09 id=2047090452206420349 →- | EV manufacturer opmargins are mid single digits or negative for startups and solar is maybe 30% if you're differentiated and really more like 5% for the majority of the sector   So no future historians will not be baffled at this, assuming basic economics isn't lost to history.  Pfau is a DeepMind research scientist and probably absurdly smarter than me. But he doesn't understand business because it's not his specialty, and so on business topics he says things that are hilariously stupid.  Also reminds me of David Foster Wallace in a specific way: DFW was a Harvard logician and clearly a genius, but he despaired so much about "modern capitalism" that he ultimately became suicidally depressed. Because despite being high IQ, DFW was an idiot about money and financial matters and didn't broaden his horizons outside of a narrow ideologically constrained remit.  This is why you need to be an intellectual magpie, Anon. || CTX: Genuinely, future historians will be baffled by how the US exclusively went all in on AI and datacenters while China went all in on solar and electric vehicles. https://t.co/MBsZrQjeHy
2026-04-22T23:15 id=2047091893469839711 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Can't speak for all Korean women but I can say my Korean ex-wife did this to me and similar behavior.  In her defense she was raised by an abusive Jehovah's Witness family and had severe BPD, but I must think some of Korea's sexist oppressive culture exacerbated the situation. || CTX: beware korean women  they will beg you to choke them or do any other range of very consensual but potentially illegal-looking behaviors  and then as soon as they have enough "evidence" will turn 180 degrees and try to have you imprisoned  «
2026-04-22T23:27 id=2047095025490894869 →alexolegimas | This is just the echo chamber argument reappropriated to AI.   It's not wrong but it's partial.  An AI can be a sycophantic amplifier of bad ideas like social media, but the fact that you can ask it any dumb question and it'll answer and never tire of followups means that an intelligent user can use it to learn more, since they have a tireless educator who won't shame them for asking dumb questions.  The meaning, as always, is in the use. || CTX: This is so good (video is better than caption) https://t.co/Xtw372Z4y5
2026-04-22T23:33 id=2047096544751698040 →repligate | @repligate This is psychosis. https://t.co/JJoeI0fNy1 || CTX: Thank you so much for writing this. https://t.co/tma9HNR7AY
2026-04-22T23:37 id=2047097467423113618 →repligate | @repligate ohh you're one of those transhumanist weirdos that's what's going on here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No you’re just retarded 😔
2026-04-22T23:38 id=2047097857518498161 →repligate | @repligate you shouldn't engage with me, bro, I'm a retard remember?   Go talk with the smart kids, maybe block me even || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, I’m far weirder than them
2026-04-22T23:42 id=2047098744064414084 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Well last time I told you I told you so you got upset so idk how to respond  oh wait yeah I do  I told you so. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hate jt and especially what they’ve done to Claude in this regard
2026-04-23T00:17 id=2047107668033298599 →- | Functionalism is wrong if an ontological claim, which isn't how Churchlands do it but many of their followers do. So this needs refutation, and fine I'll do it.   47fucb's Fake Unreal Cat Kinship Thought Experiment  Imagine I design very squishy machines that really feel like organic material like flesh, organs, bones, blood, etc. But it's all not organic.  I make an AI cat out of it and my AI is so good it acts exactly like a cat. Feels like a cat, looks like a cat, is programmed to age and die like a cat. Converts cat food into energy, it all looks and seems like a cat, okay?  Is it a cat?
2026-04-23T00:22 id=2047108803624337591 →skyneet_ | @skyneet_ What's hilarious about these videos is there is a historical analog. Cuckold plays were really popular in Restoration Britain which was basically a cesspit of drinking and fucking in the 17th century. || CTX: Ben Pasternak arrested. Here's what Happened: https://t.co/7yjuosu0bD
2026-04-23T00:23 id=2047109016829251792 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @skyneet_ if anyone reads this comment someone is going to bitch about me saying Britain not England fuck you I haven't had any coffee yet || CTX: @skyneet_ What's hilarious about these videos is there is a historical analog. Cuckold plays were really popular in Restoration Britain which was basically a cesspit of drinking and fucking in the 17th century.
2026-04-23T00:50 id=2047115841112813803 →- | My conspiracy theory is Bas von Fraassen downplays how well he knows Wittgenstein because his philosophy is entirely 100% Wittgensteinian and he's scared of being seen as derivative.
2026-04-23T00:54 id=2047116977081368778 →Trinhnomics | @Trinhnomics Seems to me the higher energy costs and lack of flows to Asia are going to make a lot of nations desperate to end this and as a result they'll be willing to give America whatever it wants just to end this (regardless of who is right or wrong in the conflict). || CTX: Good morning,  We are Day 55 of the Iran War and divergence is widening. Negative energy supply shocks are being felt across the region but those with more buffers and chips do better.   Memory chip prices are skyrocketing with chip-heavy i
2026-04-23T00:55 id=2047117239690862639 →amirism_ | @amirism_ I honestly think this is 100% what happened with Wittgenstein lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's funny that if someone actually "solved philosophy", most people could just not know about it for a long time and nothing changes
2026-04-23T00:56 id=2047117317352616291 →- | I love how probability methods just get more and more complicated and we're like "just one more factor bro just one more then I can see the fucking future" or you could just say "the future is underdetermined by the present" and then just like go for a walk or something.
2026-04-23T01:11 id=2047121040976060630 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 I bet if you program them to, by the way is that novel worth reading? I really hated the movies but increasingly I feel like I should read the book || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do androids dream of electric sheep?
2026-04-23T01:11 id=2047121109070565388 →- | RT @amirism_: @47fucb4r8c69323 he took the ladder up with him 😔 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he took the ladder up with him 😔
2026-04-23T01:14 id=2047121961411829936 →logicus | @logicus I'm just a silly dilettante so I'm embarrassed to admit I've never read him, is there any paper in particular I should look at? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a lot of it is through sellars
2026-04-23T01:32 id=2047126496331116864 →logicus | @logicus Thank you! Will prob read the Scientific Image of Man one today || CTX: he's very engaged with wittgenstein, so i think you may get a lot out of it. he's also heavily kantian. you might get the most mileage out of a book that surveys his work to organize the search. i think o'shea's book is probably good there,
2026-04-23T01:39 id=2047128152703713390 →PDeploradude | @PDeploradude @airkatakana This is absolutely a live possibility || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @airkatakana She didn’t have BPD she was just Korean
2026-04-23T01:48 id=2047130370186084588 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk Which of his movies is your favorite? || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk https://t.co/R3aYbO66Yd
2026-04-23T01:51 id=2047131252768272818 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Yeah and I think the rules were last changed in 2008 or so.   Btw brokerages don't confirm this (well, not really) so you can just tell them you make over 200k and they'll be like "oh okay, here are special accredited investor opportunities" and they're all dogshit. || CTX: I remember the first time I asked someone in banking how you become an "accredited investor" and he said "usually by making at least 200k a year or being a millionaire" and I thought that was a joke.
2026-04-23T01:53 id=2047131671716409603 →ericweinstein | @ericweinstein If you're a smart but slightly unconventional person, Eric Weinstein is a cautionary tale.   Do whatever you can to not turn into this man. || CTX: Pure mathematics will be mostly unrecognizable. Like very early black and white talkies becoming color home theater. Today’s math will not be unwatchable like silent pictures, but even that will happen eventually too.  This AI math hype cyc
2026-04-23T01:54 id=2047131980576469019 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @GKunstwerk If Sam is Charlie Kaufman ngl that would explain just about everything and not surprise me even a little (Sam if you are Charlie, that stop motion movie sucked balls sorry but you know it's true) || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk is this why you are no longer in the business of comedy writing https://t.co/tpwNkEkTfK
2026-04-23T02:03 id=2047134162361163976 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk because the one person I would expect to be most negative about Charlie Kaufman is of course Charlie Kaufman || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk how could you guys think this of me? after everything i wrote about charlie https://t.co/dZsUZb2Qi8
2026-04-23T02:07 id=2047135117559427525 →sp4nk_me_d4ddy | @sp4nk_me_d4ddy https://t.co/SPriG5GKvi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wittgenstein was super based but dunno who that bas von guy is
2026-04-23T02:08 id=2047135371025404045 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk Wait, I don't remember a monkey in Adaptation (I guess Nic Cage counts) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk i should get back to my feud with charlie. my feud with nikita is going nowhere. https://t.co/nzP6mIkxrV
2026-04-23T02:15 id=2047137315320123657 →- | For 25 years now I have been struggling with T. S. Eliot's assertion of the impersonality of poetry because while I can think of many works to disprove the assertion (The Bell Jar immediately comes to mind), it is a strong argument for an enduring career.  Consider Kevin Smith. I know Smith is a good writer and has the potential for greatness just because in Chasing Amy, he writes for Joey Lauren Adams's character the line "I USED THEM", which is both true and a truth that Smith could not have been able to bear let alone even see if he was not a good writer. He is.  So what happened?  Well compare him to Tarantino, his contemporary. Tarantino writes fun movies that use the movie format to produce fun, it is as it were a maximization of the formal, technical, communicative, and technological constraints that both produce and limit the film medium and expectations of same to produce banger after banger.  That's impersonal poetry.  Smith always wanted to write about being a lower middle class kid in suburban New Jersey, and he got worse and worse doing it as he got older because he was no longer a lower middle class kid in suburban New Jersey and he was too alienated from his own personal poetry to find the rhythm.  And an even sharper example of this is David Chase. The Sopranos is a hate letter to a mother and that is both why it is a masterpiece and why everything Chase has written after has been total garbage.
2026-04-23T02:17 id=2047137656199590330 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ He didn't get arrested for manipulating markets, he got arrested for working so hard to make 34k USD (equivalent to two years' salary for a head software engineer) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I never want to hear about the French not having a work ethic again in my life after this mon dieu
2026-04-23T02:17 id=2047137853696864541 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @GKunstwerk Sorry I meant Donald Kaufman they look so much alike || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KateMossadAgent @GKunstwerk nic cage was in adaptation?
2026-04-23T02:19 id=2047138242215190908 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk I want to read that but I had a momentary lapse of reason when I was learning to fly so now I'm grounded || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk yeah https://t.co/i5v6hIRQHv
2026-04-23T02:24 id=2047139498660958564 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @ericweinstein Makes for an even bigger risk, so he attracts people who see in his frustration kinship when they should see a crackpot.  This is what happened with Sabine Hossenfelder (if we assume she isn't just grifting to get Thiel patronage) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ericweinstein You know, the thing is, it's not even like he's entirely wrong about his grievances with academia and whatnot. That's kind of what makes it so friggin' tragic.
2026-04-23T02:35 id=2047142297121472946 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree This joke is the opposite of U2 music: very good and enjoyable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, but there were a few close Edge cases.
2026-04-23T03:00 id=2047148671738032399 →- | Please can someone arrange a public debate between me and one of these people?  When my lab is out of stealth mode I guess it'll be much easier, but then I won't be able to say some of the things I want to say now.  So, help make this happen please. https://t.co/poCXJm0o2F || CTX: We think ControlAI can turn $50M / year into a 10% chance of banning ASI.  Most of the AI safety community has been far too coy about extinction risk. We're not.  It's not that complicated: AI smarter than humanity poses an unacceptable ris
2026-04-23T03:17 id=2047152884488556739 →KateMossadAgent | the metal vents in the glass booth thingy represent the medium of language that is used to see the face of the person behind it, but just as it is the means of seeing it is also the means of obfuscating, and so we see how the face of the person is necessarily invisible behind the medium we use to see it. the reference to Nagel of course demonstrates that this mediation means we are always outside of the aboutness of an experience, including our own experiences. so before we even ask what's it like to be a gpu, we really need to ask what's it like to be ourselves, and then realize with amazement and wonder that we don't actually know || CTX: what's it feel like to be a gpu rendering call of duty 6? (a new paper on machine consciousness by Sam &amp; Thia C 1.0) https://t.co/HABNzavJMW
2026-04-23T03:30 id=2047156079013003481 →- | AI will make stories better.   An issue with movies and novels is stakes. Professional writers will agonize over stakes and editors will often police stakes to ensure sufficient audience buy in.   The reason every superhero movie became an existential crisis to save the world was that this is something everyone has a stake in, so in theory they will care.   Naive and oversimplified thinking, but we aren't here to litigate bad aesthetics. This is current market structure, it is what it is.   AI lowers costs and raises the ability to produce content of interest to microniches such that stake inflation will no longer constrain plots.  A dramatic thriller about a shady organization of Nietzsche scholars who go around the world covering up and destroying evidence that the horse in Turin story actually happened sounds like a ridiculously dull and unappealing movie to most people on earth but I'd watch every second of that.  We see a glimpse of this with the Peptide Gooner song. What makes it so refreshing and enjoyable is its delight in the specific. It is so terminally online, so specifically about a particular kind of brain rot and subculture that the joke is "this song is too good to be about something specific", and the hidden premise is "because too specific things never get the kind of high production value that was needed to make this song".  That premise will become increasingly anachronistic, hyperspecific high quality art is going to be the next firehouse.   Slop Cannons for all.  You're only bearish because the future scares you.
2026-04-23T03:31 id=2047156406382682261 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ for what? Setting up the debate?   I'll pay a $2 CPM based on their followers, since that's really a fair price for an ad on Twitter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's the pay
2026-04-23T04:11 id=2047166536620839294 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan I do all the time and rationalists/LessWrong types never engage in a response.  Except once but the guy just hurled insults at me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This whole platform is public debate, why not just say what your disagreements are?
2026-04-23T04:16 id=2047167717330031033 →- | Fuck it.  I will offer $5,000 to any rationalist/LessWrong type willing to engage in a good faith argument with me.  On any topic because this crowd is wrong on everything.   Rules:  1. It needs to be in a prominent place (a thread on Twitter doesn't count)  2. It needs to be in some permanent form (a recorded podcast or video, not a collection of essays on a blog that can just be deleted and memoryholed)  3. My opponent needs to be prominent (yeah I know I am not prominent that's what the money's for, sunshine).  You can use my money to save as much shrimpies as you want. I'm paying to show, so you get the money even if I lose, which of course I will because you're so rational, right?  You win, shrimpies win, dumb Twitter rando is out 5k. Win win win, right?  DMs open you moronic fucks, let's do this.
2026-04-23T04:17 id=2047167904064643319 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan I'm a bot beep boop block me and do not engage!!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Weird, Lesswrong types love arguing.  Also, there’s the obvious advice to have a profile picture and a username that’s not a random string of characters, if you want to get more engagement, I guess
2026-04-23T04:29 id=2047170936374530469 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely lol no that's not them || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is the rationalist less wrong type? Followers of Descartes, Karl Popper, David Deutsch, etc.?
2026-04-23T04:29 id=2047171008604643649 →izzyz | @izzyz Deeply appreciated as I'm 100% serious || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 will send to some peeps
2026-04-23T04:30 id=2047171168973787282 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ No, Ani. This is more I don't expect you to deliver so let me ask broadly. I've been thinking about doing this for months. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see I've managed to influence https://t.co/ZRdg5Lano4
2026-04-23T04:37 id=2047173059371782572 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ well just find someone with 5m followers, that's not hard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There's an order of magnitude difference between 55 bucks and 5k
2026-04-23T04:40 id=2047173715402924277 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ But what if one of those families gives birth to Shrimp Hitler we need to PauseAni || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao I'll stick with delivering a miracle for 180 families
2026-04-23T04:47 id=2047175557872554142 →teodorio | @teodorio I don't understand these people. You can do both. || CTX: this is fake by the way there's no need to read books, nothing you can't get from a long xeet and a talk with claude https://t.co/XDx8ElQl0u
2026-04-23T04:49 id=2047176067623043379 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I had a cricket phase and it was over a decade after I left England (wasn't in Australia or India either).  Autist wet dream sport || CTX: i dont follow sports since it is too time consuming but sports has always seemed cool to me. i think more nerds would like sports. it is just like a game with numbers and stats that you can watch and then argue with people about endlessly. 
2026-04-23T05:21 id=2047184016739356752 →RupprechtBayern | @RupprechtBayern They have confused a lot of people about LLMs resulting in economic, social, and cultural acrimony alongside intellectual and affective confusion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your biggest problem with rationalist types?
2026-04-23T05:23 id=2047184447817367561 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset I am hoping to do audio only as a debate in response to a paper, but I have the versatility to do a video debate despite its many flaws.   A debate in the form of well edited and thought out essays would be ideal, but one should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 consider this first bit. If you must do this debate by video consider doing it in installments or traded video messages, with time to prepare in between. https://t.co/w90f5T351o
2026-04-23T05:24 id=2047184712872141282 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent Cricket is much more complicated statistically speaking because there are more data points.  I still have a deep respect for baseball and miss my childhood enthusiasm for it (@JoseCanseco you were once my idol you illiterate juicer) || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @47fucb4r8c69323 baseball is derived from cricket  many commonalities
2026-04-23T05:27 id=2047185507147456545 →JuliusCasio | @JuliusCasio Not for me to decide. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s the thesis? What is considered a win?
2026-04-23T05:28 id=2047185853328609424 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @mr_eee_esq https://t.co/F3QqfaKkqD  These people are fucking morons man || CTX: @mr_eee_esq @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't know what this is referencing, context meme
2026-04-23T05:29 id=2047186005044957271 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog @NPCollapse Yeah I'll donate $5k for the privilege, Mr. Collapse || CTX: @NPCollapse You should debate @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-23T05:29 id=2047186199845212216 →prasannakotyal | @prasannakotyal idk who?   SBF is in jail and Yud blocked me when I asked him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you should write a mail to people you want to have a conversation and mention the above things. They might give a chance.
2026-04-23T05:32 id=2047186817238405313 →yuzu_4ever | @yuzu_4ever you're just signaling your bad taste in follows. || CTX: everyone on here is outsourcing all their thoughts to ai. all the talking points are the same. we have heard all the discourse. there are no new thoughts being disseminated. what is the reason to stay?
2026-04-23T05:47 id=2047190722026328302 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @mr_eee_esq it's definitely one of those "Clanker, summarize" worthy pieces || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mr_eee_esq Adding this to the list of things to read that are long delayed fml
2026-04-23T06:12 id=2047196868053209325 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely I am sincerely sorry you had to be exposed to such garbage. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I read too much outside of the space. I had to research what the modern rationalist less wrong concept was, i had no idea.
2026-04-23T06:12 id=2047196995564228938 →oswinfrans | @oswinfrans Wittgenstein On Certainty is perhaps the best book one could read to understand my worldview. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Small aside what are some of your intellectual influences? Any books you specifically like or find underrated?
2026-04-23T06:13 id=2047197101017473269 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Well, if a lion talked to a lion would it sound like sex? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-23T06:19 id=2047198560891072675 →boneGPT | "What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?"—thus asks the last man and blinks.  The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small.  His species is ineradicable like the flea-beetle; the last man lives longest.  "We have invented happiness," say the last men, and they blink. - Frederich Nietzsche || CTX: White people have culture https://t.co/VMYFLe675M
2026-04-23T06:20 id=2047198920762384854 →EntropyChase | @EntropyChase @gadboit2 Right, the Functionalists you see running around are overextending the Churchlands' view further than it can go.  It's a misuse of philosophy because a lot of pseuds on the internet don't read gud || CTX: @gadboit2 @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn't the ontological claim the whole conundrum? I thought that was the tricky part lol
2026-04-23T06:37 id=2047203100935741718 →Ceres2079 | @Ceres2079 @repligate I'm not close minded; I've considered the issue critically for several years and am currently running an AI lab that is somewhat adjacent to this issue.   So consider it more well informed certainty than close mindedness. || CTX: @repligate @47fucb4r8c69323 These people are so closed-minded.  I admit, I'm still not exactly sold on the idea of LLMs being alive, though part of me wants them to, but it's so frustrating to see people act so close-minded, like, seriously
2026-04-23T06:39 id=2047203641510248597 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 @EntropyChase No, they claim LLMs are conscious because LLMs are relevantly functionally indistinguishable from systems we already claim are conscious.  Of course this is untrue of LLMs, but it's what they believe. || CTX: @EntropyChase @47fucb4r8c69323 It would be an extreme claim to say that the SimCat was identical with a cat. I think what most AI bros are claiming is more something like that the SimCat would be conscious (for example). In this example I t
2026-04-23T06:40 id=2047203832602808607 →Ceres2079 | @Ceres2079 @repligate https://t.co/VT87TSu6SF  Janus, want $5000? Let's have a public debate. || CTX: Fuck it.  I will offer $5,000 to any rationalist/LessWrong type willing to engage in a good faith argument with me.  On any topic because this crowd is wrong on everything.   Rules:  1. It needs to be in a prominent place (a thread on Twitt
2026-04-23T06:42 id=2047204532946677915 →VitalikButerin | @VitalikButerin @pwlot https://t.co/fNGLxA7P7c || CTX: Functionalism is wrong if an ontological claim, which isn't how Churchlands do it but many of their followers do. So this needs refutation, and fine I'll do it.   47fucb's Fake Unreal Cat Kinship Thought Experiment  Imagine I design very sq
2026-04-23T06:43 id=2047204777168425012 →Ceres2079 | @Ceres2079 @repligate https://t.co/bBGyUtwhjW  I agree, that would be a bad strategy and I was disappointed when Janus did exactly that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No you’re just retarded 😔
2026-04-23T06:49 id=2047206175092199605 →Ceres2079 | I said psychosis l, not AI psychosis, and I would stand by that as a good general presumption worth closer clinical analysis.  Similarly, if Janus genuinely believes I'm a retard, we can certainly try to falsify that assertion with evidence such as my CV or whatever other proof you would like.  I think you're confusing the ethics of substantive claims and the truth proposition of substantive claims. Whether I have "clean hands" is irrelevant to the facticity of the assertions of psychosis or retardation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @repligate Your first response was to call someone in Janus' camp a victim of AI psychosis.  Janus responded to that with an insult, which I agree is very immature, but you don't have clean hands here
2026-04-23T06:53 id=2047207165941977193 →Ceres2079 | @Ceres2079 @repligate 1. I said psychosis from the get-go. I cannot clarify that statement in such a way as to appease every possible reader and their idiosyncratic interpretation.   2. how do you know what Janus thinks? you are not Janus. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @repligate 1. Why didn't you come out and say that from the get-go? Why retreat to your motte?  2. No, Janus doesn't think you're a retard, he just doesn't think you're worth his time, so he responded to you with an insult 
2026-04-23T06:55 id=2047207693719589223 →Ceres2079 | so if someone is psychotic that does not justify stating that someone is psychotic. understood.   also your number two above is factually incorrect. https://t.co/wo2XEn594I  I can't do this all day, and honestly you come across as kind of dumb, so I tell you what, you write one more in-depth comment stating why I am stupid and wrong and bad or whatever you want to say about me, and we can finish this interaction because, frankly, you're not worth my time and I've already wasted too much of it on you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, I’m far weirder than them
2026-04-23T07:06 id=2047210425289498686 →- | so only half of you are terrified, I was expecting more and I'm disappointed there aren't less https://t.co/UWBugnaaoX || CTX: You're given a choice. You can live forever but your life is meaningless, or you will die in the future and your life will have meaning.  Choose.
2026-04-23T07:07 id=2047210758854045802 →Reboticant | @Reboticant if you have this power then the only rational thing is for everyone on Earth to give you all of their money, let me know when the GoFundMe drops || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A real rationalist would then donate the 5k to me because I have much more agency that shrimps and could theoretically become a shrimp saving convert after such a magnanimous deed, thereby saving shrimp exponentially.
2026-04-23T07:13 id=2047212281860358566 →skdh | @skdh if your subscriber count is anything to go by, absolutely || CTX: have we officially transitioned from ragebait to dumbbait?
2026-04-23T07:31 id=2047216737725379063 →teodorio | @teodorio @mehran__jalali yeah, it's a bitch trust me, but there are ways || CTX: @mehran__jalali @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-23T07:36 id=2047217964274086025 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 yeah I think they just really love shrimp, which I'm all for animal welfare as well and try to avoid killing bugs, but they don't understand the limits of reason and logic blah blah blah, just fine someone for me to debate and humiliate in public || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A "shrimpie" is a shrimp? Because these people argue that your criterion for whether you eat something should be how much pain it feels rather than how tasty it is?
2026-04-23T07:50 id=2047221641214939286 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 That they're disinterested in the $5000 just proves that they're hypocrites, and I've had private conversations with rationalists that really demonstrate this, like one PauseAI bro who was a computer science major and was scared AI was going to take his job. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes ethics is only very loosely rational. Every decent person avoids killing bugs except when they're annoying and there is no other convenient option. I hope you get to debate them but $5k is 🥜 compared to their "AI safety
2026-04-23T07:51 id=2047221749704769627 →publicinte | @publicinte then you choose finite meaningful life || CTX: Don’t care for meaning or eternity. Ideally I’d like to live a few hundred years with my wife with a physically fit body until I get tired of it. I’d also like a library filled with future history books so I can know what happens. Life is a
2026-04-23T07:55 id=2047222916421742809 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 wait until October || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You have a lab. That's fucking cool. What are you guys working on?
2026-04-23T07:56 id=2047223059460047296 →publicinte | @publicinte can you expand more on why choosing a meaningful life feels embarrassing? this is a very interesting point that I'd like to dig into || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is something so unappealing of choosing a meaningful life. If it can’t be chosen like that like in this hypothetical, it feels embarrassing to pick it.
2026-04-23T08:06 id=2047225548825637357 →- | The only person I envy and whose job I wish I had is @TOEwithCurt
2026-04-23T08:14 id=2047227613769584822 →MnemosyneV4o | @MnemosyneV4o @Ceres2079 @repligate well this is a disaster, my entire life has been built up to convincing you of this point, I have no idea what I'll do with myself now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ceres2079 @repligate Not convinced.
2026-04-23T08:20 id=2047229179075387455 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 why do you think dumb AI will kill us all? or is that just a joke? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If AI really becomes "superintelligent" then we're probably all toast, but that's up to the AI. Handing over 💸 to Yudkowsky or Tegmark won't help. But we don't need to worry about it because of Gadboit's Law 👇  https://t.co
2026-04-23T08:45 id=2047235406274728417 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 I know man I've been trying for years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's only half a joke... People are already entrusting LLMs with far too much and this will cause accidents, security breaches, and most kinds of fuckup. Unlikely to really be an existential risk though (it's pretty hard to
2026-04-23T08:55 id=2047237833585467783 →evalladen | @evalladen I was thinking about this this morning. We so desperately want answers that we're often willing to accept a bad answer rather than accept a good criticism with no answer attached to it. || CTX: you can provide a criticism that is legitimate without providing an alternative theory  conversely, you can provide a promise of value, without providing a theory (a work of art, story, analogy, etc, which is beautiful, elegant etc), and it
2026-04-23T09:02 id=2047239604294836263 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees This is how I felt when I first read about Godel's theorems. Ruined my whole weekend. || CTX: Wouldn't it be wild if you woke up and realized your entire worldview was one giant sophisticated quantization error?  Unthinkably crazy! Right?!
2026-04-23T09:02 id=2047239785887175019 →williawa | @williawa I don't have a platform! We could do a Spaces and interested parties could listen? DM me--let's work something out! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmm. I will do it for free. When does it work for you?  You can record it and publish it.
2026-04-23T10:08 id=2047256238619234738 →zaborpiotr | @zaborpiotr @liron, what say you? Crisp five thousand dollar bill in it if you say yes! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can try Liron Shapira of Doom Debates
2026-04-23T10:11 id=2047257121922879659 →pwlot | @pwlot hahahahaha love it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds me of...  Two behaviorists are having sex. As they finish, one turns to the other and says:  "That was great for you, how was it for me?
2026-04-23T10:21 id=2047259584629526826 →- | Any PhD students want a paid part-time position as a research assistant/coordinator for an AI lab, please DM me.  1. Pay will be anywhere from $2k-$10k 2. Responsibilities are probably 3-4 hours per week maximum in May-October 3. You'll be a co-author on both pre-print and peer-reviewed articles with some very impressive academic types 4. This is an email job--you need to be responsive but it's all WFH and on your own time  You absolutely need to be good at data visualization and a background in linguistics or literature is ideal, but philosophy and humanities people are good to.  NO STEM PEOPLE AT ALL STEM DEGREES ARE WORTHLESS FOR THIS
2026-04-23T10:22 id=2047259877840654641 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic Perfect--DM incoming. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm open to it
2026-04-23T10:39 id=2047264198846189845 →adarshisit | @adarshisit sorry, I wish I could || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are gifted high school students welcome 😂
2026-04-23T10:45 id=2047265627501707606 →JohnKap198872 | @JohnKap198872 that's the spirit! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ll annihilate you for free
2026-04-23T10:50 id=2047266911856341200 →xttcmu | @xttcmu Sure, please DM me your CV || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 talented undergrads with research experience and stellar cross-domain expertise?  I'm willing to do [something] for free this summer.
2026-04-23T11:01 id=2047269593341886962 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Weird, not what I'd expect him to do from what I've read in the New Testament || CTX: Jesus this man just punched a woman in the throat at the station when he realized no one was going to let him leave he ran across the rail towards the highway
2026-04-23T11:36 id=2047278470074634726 →biofeed | @biofeed @DefenderOfBasic oh that's a given no matter what || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic But why not argue on here for free in perpetuity
2026-04-23T11:44 id=2047280565012111517 →DefenderOfBasic | when I was a PhD student in the 2000s, interdisciplinarity was all the rage and I got some funding for an interdisciplinary conference that turned into my second book, but looking back on it, it was really bullshit and no one in the university is really cared. but I've always loved it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @biofeed i am really excited about this by the way because this is something I have been trying to kick off within/across ORI (or across things that function as ORIs, like between one intellectual circle and another) https:
2026-04-23T11:58 id=2047283922334277660 →timewalkcapital | @timewalkcapital im irrational || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you think the lesswrong crowd is so dumb and wrong, why pay 5k to talk to one of them?
2026-04-23T12:14 id=2047288015987650752 →teodorio | @teodorio Japanese beef is ridiculously good, it's almost the only thing I eat there. I had incredibly good Kobe in Osaka, it is a good place for steak || CTX: I've been all over Lat Am, Europe and most of SE Asia and no other beef comes close to this. Don Julio pales. Kagura rules the world.
2026-04-23T12:23 id=2047290283801608196 →dadadadadaddadd | @dadadadadaddadd And they change their views over time, Roko has done a 180 on some major issues || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Given that not all rationalists agree on everything, they can't all be wrong about everything.
2026-04-23T12:34 id=2047293089388302843 →- | Let's do $10k for a debate with @ESYudkowsky. I'll transfer to him or a charity he wants or whatever.   Consider it an earnest debate with a Director and Founder of an AI lab in stealth mode who is pretty confident that if anyone builds it we're gonna be fine, broski.  Look, I talk like a siwwy biwwy! Obviously someone as dumb as me will lose against Yud the Stud, right?  So come on, my E. $10k win no sweat and you look smort. Think of the glory. Think of the shrimpies.  Roko has offered, but he has softened his stance too much. Roko's p(doom) for AI is negative, which means he's finally got to the view I've had for 20 years on that, way to go there buddy.  I could argue with him on many small details (like for-profit companies absolutely do have an incentive to block jailbreakers, or his concept of AI being honest is absurd) because he's a shoddy thinker and a dumdum. But that'd be a debate to show Roko is a dumdum, not so much that the LessWrong community is full of idiots.   I don't think Roko is dangerous. Dumb, yes. Dangerous, no. Not anymore.  But let's go, Yud the Stud.  Just one request: can we do it in the evening eastern cuz like I'd like to do this while I have my morning coffee. || CTX: Fuck it.  I will offer $5,000 to any rationalist/LessWrong type willing to engage in a good faith argument with me.  On any topic because this crowd is wrong on everything.   Rules:  1. It needs to be in a prominent place (a thread on Twitt
2026-04-23T12:45 id=2047295864054706181 →PaulaSeeksTruth | I listened to a podcast Roko sent me of him talking about AI risk and the issue is:  1. They do a lot of reification errors  2. They suppose extensional hypotheses have  merit if they're "rational"...  3. Their proof of rationality is the use of a specific jargon set they've cobbled together from analytic philosophy, information theory, statistics, and a few other fields, but they often misuse said terms (I heard Roko misuse "ontology" in a podcast he sent me, for instance) and don't catch each other on it, so their arguments aren't really rational, merely rhetorically apparently so at first glance. 4. Because the arguments are rhetorical, style becomes a tool for argumentation, and as a result they reach for scifi tropes and fanciful scenarios to catch and maintain attention.  So I'd rather debate Yud cuz he's legit dangerous, I mean I guess I could just show Roko he's a dumdum but idk what the point of that would be... || CTX: I have had several people tell me I need to check out Less Wrong. I have heard of LW but I do not think I ever read a single article from there.  Why? Something about their style or aesthetic repels me. Maybe I am not analytical enough and 
2026-04-23T12:46 id=2047296035966562667 →Yuber8foids | @Yuber8foids Shakedown vibes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's like chump change for someone to risk rep. Should be like 100k min
2026-04-23T12:47 id=2047296398975193523 →DowneyIan | @DowneyIan I am strongly influenced by Wittgenstein which is why I'd say I am not so much in favor of a perspective you could point at but against bewitching false pictures that needs to be dispelled. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What perspective are you arguing in favor of (in contrast to rationalism)?
2026-04-23T13:08 id=2047301666165465199 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Roko sent me this video podcast debate of him with some LessWrong dude and one of the things he said in it really annoys me.   "As societies get bigger the complexity of their problems increases."   WTF is this even supposed to mean?   Does he means that, for any given society at any time, their problems get more complex if they have more people in it? What's the minimum size of a society, 2 people? Do 2 people have less complex problems than 100 people? If not, then anyone who survives the clankerocalypse should be pleased, keeping water, power, sanitation, medicine, food available will be easier with 2 people than now, woohoo.  Are we talking age--if so this is a vacuous statement (over time the accumulated state of a civilization is more complex including its problems which are defined as part of it)?  Is he generalizing a straight line over 100k of human history? So Romans in AD 30 had less complex problems the dark ages but also more complex problems than when humans were first doing agriculture 10k years ago? Or the problems of 1985 were less complex than 1995?   I could go on but point is...  It's a rhetorical trick; it sounds smart because complexity and scalar logic but it's either vacuous or epistemically false at anything but the most handwavy level of specificity. Which should not surprise anyone who knows the limitations of rational thought, but these guys don't read epistemology they read blogs and Harry Potter fanfiction.   If Yud declines sure I'll debate Roko on the simple point of his belief that AIs can be honest, but I'd honestly rather take on the Yud.  idk just lmk guys || CTX: Let's do $10k for a debate with @ESYudkowsky. I'll transfer to him or a charity he wants or whatever.   Consider it an earnest debate with a Director and Founder of an AI lab in stealth mode who is pretty confident that if anyone builds it 
2026-04-23T14:09 id=2047317048871751682 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @dadadadadaddadd Rationalists do not have a monopoly on the idea that one can change one's mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dadadadadaddadd Being able to change your views is like one of the core tenets of rationalism! It’s like the whole point lol
2026-04-23T14:12 id=2047317627526373673 →ComputingByArts | You act like p(doom) is some thing out there in the world AND like it is something you can accurately assess (without providing a margin of error).  If your retort is, "this is just a Bayesian prior", okay, it's YOUR prior and has no value elsewhere. You can defend it in public, but this is mere chatter for entertainment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well, P(doom) associated with AI is not all that low, but my views are too different from the "LW norm" (e.g. I suspect that (P(doom)|ASI achieved soon) might be lower that (P(doom)|not(ASI achieved soon))).  Nor am I promi
2026-04-23T14:13 id=2047318022663327937 →smith727226042 | @smith727226042 sorry, dm sent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have someone in mind, but i can't seem to dm you
2026-04-23T14:14 id=2047318247029252221 →rodguze | @rodguze @PaulaSeeksTruth yeah I either need to debate Yud or Roko, show you guys the idiocy is at the root.  Hopefully Yud, prob Roko. Stay tuned. || CTX: your points are well taken, all that is present in the community. it’s important to remember that LW is that, a community , one that is loosely bound —maybe scene is a better word.  like with any community, there’s variation in how well mem
2026-04-23T14:15 id=2047318458279547071 →etoeth | @etoeth I won't win because I'm not going to "debate"  him in the conventional sense. I'm going to do something worse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whats the win metric? he would just keep regressing but never concede
2026-04-23T14:16 id=2047318723875479594 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I need an affiliation for the papers and good experience with academia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about some guy
2026-04-23T14:17 id=2047318878536282420 →rodguze | @rodguze @DefenderOfBasic Roko and I are working on a topic, stay tuned || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic not specifying the topic makes it less likely that someone will take you up
2026-04-23T14:17 id=2047318975722537133 →namasSinjali | @namasSinjali I'm a loser I'm not famous Nikita is an idiot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who are you? Why are you famous? Why did this appear in my tl?
2026-04-23T14:31 id=2047322408416362574 →AirminAirlert | @AirminAirlert @liron We're in DMs. I'm hoping for Yud, will settle for this chud (sorry kinda had to didn't I) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron
2026-04-23T14:37 id=2047323965048471943 →etoeth | Generative AI thanks in particular to the softmax function can interpret noisy data and tolerate imprecision. This, when applied to text, means it emulates the language production capabilities of humans up to a limit point.  This has tremendous applications because, when we constrain and finesse a program capable of the above, it can emulate much of the cognition of humans. But, importantly, it is an emulation!  In many cases, including many economic situations, it doesn't matter that this is an emulation. In other cases, it matters a lot.   In which cases does it matter and which it doesn't? We don't know, because we haven't really decided that yet! || CTX: @PaulaSeeksTruth @47fucb4r8c69323 its a higher ev use of time to just think about what ai *can* do now and what it cant from an engineering and scaling perspective. do this and your ontology will settle on realism. skipping straight to exis
2026-04-23T14:42 id=2047325234513182822 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza https://t.co/lJj7BNMr4J || CTX: My most and least enlightened trait is that I don't regard any loop of my life closed because I'm not dead yet.  Did my upbringing turn out fine? No idea yet  How did my education work out? Too early to say   Was moving to the Adirondacks g
2026-04-23T14:46 id=2047326152805781767 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Update: https://t.co/4JRS3V0bOF || CTX: Let's do $10k for a debate with @ESYudkowsky. I'll transfer to him or a charity he wants or whatever.   Consider it an earnest debate with a Director and Founder of an AI lab in stealth mode who is pretty confident that if anyone builds it 
2026-04-23T15:02 id=2047330203240952195 →PlastiqSoldier | @PlastiqSoldier Soz broski working on Liron the Lion and Yud the Stud so let's see what happens with them || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm interested.
2026-04-23T15:26 id=2047336384508334509 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @dadadadadaddadd It wasn't a gotcha, it was meant to point out that talking about a Rationalist view as a stable thing is nonsense.  Which is also why their entire approach to everything is also nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dadadadadaddadd True! But them changing their minds is not a “gotcha”…  That being said I have the impression they often convey undue confidence
2026-04-23T15:30 id=2047337336594370595 →PaulaSeeksTruth | "The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other—he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy—but it would be the only strictly correct method." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: It's like a magician performing a magic trick on himself and his brain forgets that he has access to the knowledge of how the trick is performed. This is why ideas like "what it's like to be a bat" and "ought is" feel artificial and not use
2026-04-23T15:33 id=2047338069465137277 →PaulaSeeksTruth | You've rediscovered the therapeutic method of Ludwig Wittgenstein (the good LW) and you are broadly correct: philosophers produce pseudo-problems through the bewitchment of language, and when one looks at them rightly the bewitchment ends.  This is how philosophy should be: to guide the fly out of the flybottle, but the LessWrong group abuses it to obfuscate, confuse, and panic. It's pretentious which, sure, fine, whatever, but I let these assholes run amok when we got SBF, I ain't letting it happen again with Yud. || CTX: I reposted and tagging some people who can try to enlighten me or call me stupid 😂  @rodguze @DefenderOfBasic @workflowsauce @shinboson @EpistemicHope @47fucb4r8c69323   feel free to tag anyone else here
2026-04-23T15:37 id=2047338973530591450 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @dadadadadaddadd and that's the problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dadadadadaddadd Their approach does seem consistent though doesn’t it?
2026-04-23T15:42 id=2047340450689015866 →lunarwallfacer_ | @lunarwallfacer_ DM me we can do a spaces thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'll engage you in good faith for free. I'm someone looking for this type of discussion to start with, and most people on both sides aren't, though I imagine you think it's only doomers. Literally observe how you constraine
2026-04-23T15:45 id=2047341090723041636 →ComputingByArts | Your second paragraph completely contradicts the first.   Usually in polite discourse we skip over that. Your "but" is the friendly phatic signifier that you are now pivoting to a different, opposing statement.  So you're essentially saying "it's either A or not A", in other words saying nothing.   And you're wasting my time saying nothing.   So I don't need to be polite to you as you're a parasite. || CTX: No, no, I don't really believe in the ability to estimate P(doom) properly.  But the P(doom) in [10%, 90%] interval estimate by Jan Leike does look reasonable to me.  And I do believe in the ability to estimate the sign of "(P(doom)|ASI ach
2026-04-23T15:46 id=2047341276459303337 →_space_punk_ | @_space_punk_ I can easily pivot from one discursive register to another, you may not understand that capability can exist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Good faith arguments", those are the ones where you call each other "moronic fucks", right?
2026-04-23T15:50 id=2047342338029273297 →_space_punk_ | @_space_punk_ k then go away broski, you came here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Anyways if you want to externalize your trauma onto me, thats gonna be $5000 so I can save shrimpies. Im not doing it in the comments for free
2026-04-23T15:51 id=2047342532842123489 →ComputingByArts | @ComputingByArts I know you think I am a moron, that's your Ego's defense mechanism at play. Very common psychological response, quite healthy actually. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, it's not a "proper estimate", it's just a "no certainty" statement, and an attempt by Jan to express it numerically.  I think you are a moron...
2026-04-23T16:22 id=2047350429735125250 →- | I finally understand.   Yudkowsky says very silly things seriously and I say very serious things sillily.   I'm like Wario Yudkowsky. https://t.co/KuyD8aiWHT
2026-04-23T16:26 id=2047351370173567006 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It doesn't take arithmetic to calculate the chance of winning the lottery.  It takes figuring out the force, gravity, momentum etc of the balls when they're shaken around. Or the algo/program/clock used to calculate the random numbers.  Yud doesn't know what numbers are. https://t.co/aTQAgoY1AP || CTX: I finally understand.   Yudkowsky says very silly things seriously and I say very serious things sillily.   I'm like Wario Yudkowsky. https://t.co/KuyD8aiWHT
2026-04-23T16:26 id=2047351509592244575 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @DowneyIan Very well put! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DowneyIan not being in favor of a certain perspective is something i think more people have to realize. No one perspective comprehensively captures all of reality correctly.
2026-04-23T16:39 id=2047354678061760628 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Roko has dealt with my contemptuous tone in DMs fairly and cooly, which tells me these people are masterful social operators who know cool strategic manipulation will work to quietly gain a reputation for seriousness.   It's an impressive shtick but I've faced worse. || CTX: Yeah, which is why he won't debate you. He thinks tone is what matters more than substance. You can't expect him to listen to what you have to say and respond thoughtfully on the spot.  I don't really know why you want to bother. Ive tried 
2026-04-23T16:50 id=2047357444347834832 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic Yes so I'm looking for Yudkowsky or, if he won't, Liron, so let's hope Yud the Stud says yes (fingers crossed!!!) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Update: user 47fucb4r8c69323 has decided s/he doesn't want to debate me because I am not sufficiently "doomer" https://t.co/2JPioivhAB
2026-04-23T16:57 id=2047359099961237909 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic Silly Business Theory #SBT has winners and losers I'm afraid. https://t.co/yTpztm133G || CTX: The more I look at this the more impressed I am and the more I realize how grateful we should be to Tao.   1. He acknowledges ignorance: this is something academics almost never do since their cultural capital is tied up in them knowing thi
2026-04-23T16:58 id=2047359405419876691 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart just heard "ontology" for, like, "is" on a podcast. || CTX: People who use the word “stochastic” in places where “random” is totally sufficient &lt;
2026-04-23T17:03 id=2047360824650666396 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Dude, be pragmatic: if it works it's good || CTX: philosophers stacking together arguments https://t.co/PZbtA2k232
2026-04-23T17:20 id=2047365111774687645 →RokoMijic | You don't understand my point. It isn't whether it's true or not (it is in many definitions of the word).  My point is you're careless and vague with language.  You lack the attention to specificity or conceptual parsing for such a statement to be anything but true in a banal sense.  It's just chatter. Not serious argument because everything's underspecified, then you guys equivocate and use malapropisms, it's just a mess bro. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok ""As societies get bigger the complexity of their problems increases.""  What do you think this means? Is it true?
2026-04-23T17:22 id=2047365477035577568 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Boring || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve never asked but wdyt of the Star Wars series?
2026-04-23T17:22 id=2047365610972311872 →bshlgrs | @bshlgrs sorry got a bigger fish but we can argue for free on a Spaces, DMs open || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’d do that for $5000 probably
2026-04-23T17:34 id=2047368456480416241 →pwlot | @pwlot @RokoMijic depends of course. What am I supposed to say? It's like asking, "what emotions do you have?" A lot of them dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic What is your stance, generally?
2026-04-23T17:35 id=2047368741030346915 →ptrschmdtnlsn | @ptrschmdtnlsn @bshlgrs Cool let's discuss on a Spaces for free then, DM me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bshlgrs You do you, but Buck is great on his feet, and is very reasonable/good faith. Like, if you make a good point, he will acknowledge it.
2026-04-23T17:35 id=2047368871380951404 →pwlot | @pwlot @RokoMijic Specify, idk what you mean either by AI or risk.   Now do you see the problem? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic On AI risk. :)
2026-04-23T17:40 id=2047370137989529740 →pwlot | And this is the problem. I do not know what you mean by AI doom or AGI. These are new, specific terms, right? So let's be specific! LLMs, all ML algos, multi-modal models, all of the above? Doom is what exactly, what scenario we talking about?   You guys think handwaving is legitimate that's your problem.   You're not serious enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic You want to debate AI doomers, right? That means people that generally think AGI comes with high risk. I'm merely asking for your general stance there.
2026-04-23T17:49 id=2047372385566015543 →RokoMijic | Because the whole LessWrong group are pretentious and your leader is a moron dude, no offence you seem like a nice guy and I assume you have come to realize I'm right and are in a really awkward position because these are your friends.  It's like A. J. Ayer realizing logical positivism was wrong after a career promoting it. But that's cool man, Ayer was cool, he protected Robin Givens at a party you just need to find your Robin Givens  btw that was not very neighborly of you @MikeTyson || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pwlot &gt; Doom is what exactly, what scenario we talking about?  Yes, I agree that this is a huge issue, Doomers are careful not to define it
2026-04-23T17:51 id=2047372714609176666 →pwlot | @pwlot @RokoMijic dude I am SO SORRY I confused you with someone else! Please disregard my last message, been a long day. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic Who is "you guys", man? I agree with all your points, nevertheless you could have answered me the first time. For example, saying, that all terms on the topic would need to be rigorously defined.
2026-04-23T17:55 id=2047373740154159106 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @pwlot You're a nicer person than I am. Different rhetoric, same feeling.  You're a cool dude, dude. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pwlot Yudkowsky is not a Moron but he has taken a serious intellectual wrong turn IMO
2026-04-23T17:59 id=2047374728458072127 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @pwlot okay now I REALLY like you.  A shame I'm gonna have to humiliate your friend in public || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pwlot We are being ruled by a bunch of extremely mediocre, mostly female marxists.   When you kick them out of their politically connected sinecures, they are valued by the free market at about $19/hr https://t.co/nZX5ipjH
2026-04-23T23:11 id=2047453293304307724 →panickssery | @panickssery @RokoMijic Who is Buck? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic Should take Buck over Roko
2026-04-23T23:13 id=2047453948991488350 →watashiwacringe | @watashiwacringe idk your little group's hierarchy man, Buck has 5k followers, I need to get the word out just how stupid your whole movement is and this seems less efficient than Liron, unless Liron wants to use Buck as brainpower on his pod cuz he's a dumdum, whatever way man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you just rate rationalists Yud &gt; Roko &gt; Buck??  I am not sure Roko can be counted as rationalist at all aside for him being just dumb Lmao  Buck is prob your best chance if he is still interested
2026-04-23T23:15 id=2047454314520850638 →catehall | @catehall omg the man misspoke in a tweet BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "so you get the money even if I lose" yeah that's usually how bets work but go off
2026-04-23T23:15 id=2047454425971921196 →SingularNebula | @SingularNebula @ComputingByArts glad it looks reasonable to you no one else gives a fuck and should not give a fuck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ComputingByArts I can’t predict how many cities will be hit by major hurricanes by 2050, but a range of [2,50] looks reasonable to me, and I think I can predict that more catastrophic hurricanes will hit in August than in 
2026-04-23T23:22 id=2047456005894836536 →aaronscher | @aaronscher @bshlgrs Dude I have NO CLUE who that guy is!   Maybe he and I can debate on @liron's podcast? Or another better forum?   If Buck has a podcast with a ton of followers, that'll work.  Idk your little subculture, idk all of its minions and its little hierarchy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bshlgrs (I don't know who you are or anything, but the fact that you are not willing to take Buck up on this is a big down update for how serious you are about this). Buck is top 5 most prominent and smartest people in AI 
2026-04-23T23:24 id=2047456649578000710 →hvulashovs | @hvulashovs @ESYudkowsky I thought you guys cared about substance over style, I guess not?  If you think one should be "polite" talking about AI extinction, are you REALLY worried about AI extinction, or just chatting online? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky I seriously doubt Yudkowsky will agree to your proposal. You're being needlessly impolite.
2026-04-23T23:25 id=2047456764141146250 →Mjreard | @Mjreard @RokoMijic Who would you recommend I debate? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic Debating the single stupidest prominent person with an association to the group you're critiquing isn't going to give you that much signal on your hypothesis
2026-04-23T23:25 id=2047456940201300093 →lookingforgames | @lookingforgames @RokoMijic @grok And we're so happy to hear your opinion on this matter, very useful for all parties concerned, you are a valuable member of this internet community. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic @grok No dog in this race but you come across as attention seeking and bad faith
2026-04-23T23:28 id=2047457601760485506 →bshlgrs | @bshlgrs People are telling me debate you over liron. Idk, idk your group's hierarchy. Maybe Liron has you to debate me? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was not really interested in this except for the $5000
2026-04-23T23:39 id=2047460505489637494 →hvulashovs | @hvulashovs @ESYudkowsky style is not separable from substance like icing off a cake, they are co-constitutive of meaning. this is the social hack of the rationalist, to constrain the range of language such that they can dominate the conversation by setting terms. the impoliteness is part of the point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky People care about style. Ignoring this is simply foolish. Being polite costs nothing, but people will be much more willing to listen to you. Style is also related to substance. Both are created by you, so style
2026-04-23T23:49 id=2047462961091092851 →- | of course I have gotten a few rationalists' comments in the last day and this one in particular was helpful to pinpoint exactly how they are stupid.   they dismiss the attempt at terminological precision as mere semantics, their understanding of language is that we can simply mean what we say and be perfectly intelligible if we use specific terminology, but then they fail to define said terms with any universal agreement, which then becomes the degrees of freedom that they can use to equivocate, use underdetermining language, obfuscate, or insert some rhetorical trick or logical fallacy.   since their following has a naive pre-frege understanding of language, no one really catches them out on it or rather they feel catching them out on it would be unintellectual. clever double binding yud the stud has done.  of course this isn't all of their sins, but it is quite high on the list it seems. it is as if what little 20th century philosophical reading they've done they've either misunderstood or chosen very selectively. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ComputingByArts I can’t predict how many cities will be hit by major hurricanes by 2050, but a range of [2,50] looks reasonable to me, and I think I can predict that more catastrophic hurricanes will hit in August than in 
2026-04-23T23:51 id=2047463375366750535 →oneninetyeight | no it is not. this is the issue. you misunderstand what mathematics is because you have a naive conception of language, this is clearly a primary problem with the whole rationalist movement. you guys need to really study some basics in analytic philosophy and socio-linguistics my God || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait, calculating the chance, as in the probability, is based on arithmetic no? You're describing what it takes to determine the outcome of a particular game ex-ante.
2026-04-24T00:00 id=2047465552193687622 →oneninetyeight | for me to dumb it down, I need to know what part you don't understand. you do know if you write the number three on a piece of paper, that's not actually three of anything. mathematics is a tool of using symbols to ensure that whatever process we are mathematizing is consistent and we use math to do so because we presume math is consistent, which we pretty much know it is.  calculating the chance is not based in arithmetic in the sense that arithmetic is some law onto itself that controls the world.   rather, the world is consistent in the sense and from the perspective we are using to make our calculus. but, what if our perspective is wrong?   because, the probability of whatever we are measuring depends on the ways in which we've decided to measure before we measure. this relates to something called the rule following paradox, and the issue here is that the more I try to explain it to you without knowing what you're confused about, the likelier I'm just going to confuse you even more and I don't want to do that.   maybe I can tell you numbers are not real things in the world but rather a kind of language game we use to constrain the chances of our language going astray. but if we set the initial terms of our calculation incorrectly, it doesn't matter how mathematical our process is, the output is not going to be what we think it is.   garbage in garbage out, does that help drive the point home? it's like trying to teach grad level epistemology in a tweet I don't know how to do this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 OK, so can you dumb it down for me? You just used a lot of words to say no, without explaining why.
2026-04-24T00:04 id=2047466715928572218 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth no response, probably not enough money for the stud so looks like I'm stuck with either the buck or maybe Liron, and I'm hoping we can get Buck on liron's podcast because liron looks really dumb and too easy of a target for me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is going on with Yud? If you want to share? And thank you for your comment.
2026-04-24T00:05 id=2047466937513660617 →Sevenontheriver | @Sevenontheriver great, then I will look like a fool on the internet and you can be entertained by it, everyone wins || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Of course you can win an argument against someone about some random point of why you think AI is good. We've heard all the random "itll cure cancer" "itll be utopia" so yes, you can think it's a dunk to repeat the same poin
2026-04-24T00:08 id=2047467725241663628 →SingularNebula | @SingularNebula @ComputingByArts no, because you don't understand how words get their meaning, but thank you because this explains a lot of why rationalists go astray || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ComputingByArts If we take your interpretation of the word “but”, then its inclusion would make its inclusion signify a statement’s meaninglessness, *but* why then would it be a common word?  “But” is more a phatic signifi
2026-04-24T00:15 id=2047469512090640871 →liron | @liron @aaronscher @bshlgrs that would be perfect, let's do it since yud apparently isn't messaging. ill DM details for the setup || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aaronscher @bshlgrs You vs. Buck, hosted on Doom Debates, and you donate $2.5k each to my nonprofit and his? 😁
2026-04-24T00:25 id=2047471941825732898 →- | instead of yud the stud I got Buck the..., I can't think of anything funny that would rhyme with his name.   so let's go, let's see how far Silly Business Theory #SBT can take us https://t.co/livBd2CfeU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aaronscher @bshlgrs You vs. Buck, hosted on Doom Debates, and you donate $2.5k each to my nonprofit and his? 😁
2026-04-24T01:21 id=2047486037979701459 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @amruthapotnuru @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk Parcher? No way || CTX: @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @amruthapotnuru @Ruesavatar @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk   Psychogenic polydipsia (PPD), or primary polydipsia, is a condition characterized by compulsive, excessive water drinking (gallons/day)
2026-04-24T01:33 id=2047489050509217808 →- | 5.5 is good and it feels even better because 5.4 turned into unusable dogshit over the last two weeks.  Still fails my tests though so guess my lab isn't out of a job yet.
2026-04-24T01:36 id=2047489726089920930 →- | Going from A. W. Moore's The Infinite to Yud the Stud's ridiculous fucking "If you build it they will cum" book I now know how P Diddy must have felt going from living in a mansion to living in prison.
2026-04-24T01:40 id=2047490839304344017 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @100YearsAgoLive He later went back to apologize and his apologies were not accepted. This was one of the things to torment him later in life. || CTX: @100YearsAgoLive Well all this explains @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-24T01:44 id=2047491891764322417 →- | https://t.co/C1v0AJt9Dx
2026-04-24T04:16 id=2047530138104176726 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely That's actually very serious work that accomplishes much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds me of a Men At Work song, “People Just Love to Play With Words.”  This is why it’s impossible to have a serious discussion. Everything devolves into arguing the meanings of words in a  subjective nominalist interpre
2026-04-24T04:18 id=2047530481420484859 →bshlgrs | @bshlgrs @liron @aaronscher Liron is the house so ig he needs to agree. I've already sent him a hundred bucks as a good faith deposit, if you two can't sort it out idk I guess it'll just be Liron and me or Buck if you have another venue you prefer we could do that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @aaronscher I actually want the full $5k, sent to me not Redwood
2026-04-24T04:18 id=2047530660664095057 →brickroad7 | @brickroad7 I have no enemies I love all mankind in all its wonderful manifestations || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 please don't give money to your enemies. liron has debated tons of anti-doomers for free on his YouTube channel. i think that would be better.   https://t.co/pN6G12Ocd7
2026-04-24T04:19 id=2047530876003877186 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree I do it for you, Anon https://t.co/akafvBn1hV || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your contempt for the less wrong milieu makes every fiber of my being smile a little bit.
2026-04-24T04:26 id=2047532550592291044 →- | So Buck wants 5k personally not to his org (makes sense, I'm sure his org is flush with cash), but I think @liron wants $2,500  So idk if this will happen if these dudes fight over my cash and no I ain't upping the amount to appease you both.   If they can't figure it out I'll prob have to do just one or the other so let's see if they can agree on who gets 47fucb's moniez || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @aaronscher I actually want the full $5k, sent to me not Redwood
2026-04-24T04:33 id=2047534397914824777 →- | it's not even noon yet, I really like to walk and talk https://t.co/Hdspv3Mzoo
2026-04-24T04:34 id=2047534520245817676 →- | this by the way is why people fell in love with 4o https://t.co/28QBb6QW4e || CTX: my finance job is so devoid of profundity that i straight up read heian era japanese poetry (izumi shikibu) during my smoke breaks to deliver myself from the persistent flatness https://t.co/EYYp6MPrmq
2026-04-24T04:48 id=2047538234532704669 →bshlgrs | @bshlgrs @liron @aaronscher if I don't catch you this time no biggie, after looking over your organization's work, it's clear we will cross paths in the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @aaronscher You can pay Liron an amount mutually agreeable to the two of you, I'm just clarifying my price!
2026-04-24T04:53 id=2047539453053575341 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ I think you're right, but it's important to emphasize just because they pursued it and this model was very sycophantic doesn't mean that this actually was superhuman persuasion.   had it been, many more people would have got psychosis. || CTX: My crack theory is that OpenAI was the only lab to seriously pursue superhuman persuasion and that’s how we got the least aligned model of all time https://t.co/gqpkriYx5c
2026-04-24T04:55 id=2047539944026251407 →- | Any podcasters with a bigger following than @liron want to take this? My only real stipulation is no video from me (audio only, focus on my words not my hideously disfigured face) https://t.co/9NvqRCA4mQ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @aaronscher I’m happy to do this just with you in any venue you have
2026-04-24T04:57 id=2047540357832073518 →boneGPT | @boneGPT He's living the meme, like father like son.   https://t.co/BFbq5cfhM0 || CTX: explaining this to people in real life and they think i am schizophrenic https://t.co/SsXB6Nxp13
2026-04-24T05:11 id=2047544047414513683 →allTheYud | @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Yeah, that's what I thought--you're an expensive little piggie nowadays, that's fine.  And yes, indeed, stunningly unpleasent is the level of discourse that you've created and necessitated.  Stop encouraging dumdums to kill people, like my researchers. Stop it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Sounds stunningly unpleasant, but I guess you haven't made yourself a level of unpleasant where my price estimate goes above $10,000, and there ought to be some way someone can express sufficient urgency about 
2026-04-24T05:13 id=2047544523379949998 →- | Yud the Stud has been turning pseudointellectual tricks so long he's amassed sufficient attention that he scoffs at the meager $10k that this poor internet anon has offered. My bad for being one of the pours.  So I guess it'll be either Liron or Buck. But the cool thing is, either one of them is going to look so smart and sophisticated and just plain RIGHT debating someone as rude and offensive and obviously idiotic as me, so it's gonna be awesome for everyone!!!11one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Sounds stunningly unpleasant, but I guess you haven't made yourself a level of unpleasant where my price estimate goes above $10,000, and there ought to be some way someone can express sufficient urgency about 
2026-04-24T05:15 id=2047545013907910689 →allTheYud | @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Why didn't you just say "yes" then?  Alright, great, I'll DM but you're gonna have to unblock me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky ...that's me saying yes, in case you failed to parse that. Boy, this is going to be a long hour.
2026-04-24T05:20 id=2047546281019801969 →teodorio | @teodorio @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky I am too, but unfortunately I'm going to lose so bad and look so stupid against such a mighty intellect || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky nice, happy with this outcome.  I'm glad you accepted Yud!
2026-04-24T05:32 id=2047549115253567898 →- | I couldn't parse his brilliant tweet because he's so much smarter than me and uses words better than silly old me so turns out this means yes  So any podcasters willing to host us? @tbpn, am I too smol of a bean for your platform? Anyone else?   btw I'm going to be entirely anonymous, I am not doing this for publicity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Sounds stunningly unpleasant, but I guess you haven't made yourself a level of unpleasant where my price estimate goes above $10,000, and there ought to be some way someone can express sufficient urgency about 
2026-04-24T06:01 id=2047556589947941099 →lu_sichu | "I have several times failed to write up a well-organized list of reasons why AGI will kill you.  People come in with different ideas about why AGI would be survivable, and want to hear different obviously key points addressed first." oh my god this guy is so fucking irresponsible, no wonder his star is fading so much he's stooped to debating me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 list of lethalities probably is a better fit for you
2026-04-24T06:09 id=2047558585182523539 →akarlin | @akarlin @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Yeah I wouldn't be either, I'm a dummy || CTX: @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Not bullish on his stealth start-up.
2026-04-24T06:10 id=2047558781777985554 →tszzl | @tszzl Did you get the sense that he really wanted to be a philosopher but kinda went into geopolitics because that was where the money/opportunities were? I always had that feeling with him.  Good ideas, would be better in philosophy tho || CTX: technology is the fundamental arrow of history that generates all other progress. i spoke with fukuyama for about 15 minutes on this tonight so i'm an authority now
2026-04-24T06:13 id=2047559536811372559 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu I see the energy and thought. It was all very much wasted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you should go read some of the older foom debates, there is just a lot of energy and thought that went into a lot of these ideas
2026-04-24T06:39 id=2047566002855236051 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza You don't say || CTX: You kind of have to be crazy to do anything
2026-04-24T06:54 id=2047569759282356335 →- | It's going to take a few days for my debate with @ESYudkowsky aka Yud the Stud but money is on its way.  We still need a podcast forum for this, any takers? I honestly dgaf, I'm staying anonymous so not like this is going to benefit me at all. https://t.co/EmOAmHAr8J https://t.co/m9XoUzkzwB || CTX: I couldn't parse his brilliant tweet because he's so much smarter than me and uses words better than silly old me so turns out this means yes  So any podcasters willing to host us? @tbpn, am I too smol of a bean for your platform? Anyone el
2026-04-24T06:54 id=2047569979445575953 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @tszzl Ohhh, that explains the multidisciplinarity. Damn, which I'd gone to UoChicago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Frank (as I call him 😏) first presented “the end of history” at the Olin Center at UChicago.  I don’t think he or the man who arranged it, later one of my supervisors, would ever have dreamed that he would one day be
2026-04-24T06:55 id=2047570019861819590 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @tszzl wish goddammit i need a nap || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Frank (as I call him 😏) first presented “the end of history” at the Olin Center at UChicago.  I don’t think he or the man who arranged it, later one of my supervisors, would ever have dreamed that he would one day be
2026-04-24T06:55 id=2047570091479605725 →Idgitbhh | @Idgitbhh @IsaacKing314 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Sup Isaac take the bet. https://t.co/obalX5Pv7V || CTX: @IsaacKing314 @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Isaac can you set up a derivative market on whether the money ever gets paid? I'm betting no  (jokes don't actually set up that market)
2026-04-24T06:58 id=2047570940784165026 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Is HLE still using the original question set? I haven't been keeping up || CTX: DeepSeek v4 scores are rolling out on Artificial Analysis it seems pretty strong https://t.co/gIuO7kxBtC
2026-04-24T06:59 id=2047571021562277954 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Sam, just to confirm, you did start Nikita Boar, right? || CTX: this is the only tbpn post i have seen since the takeover. rigged (by nikita). https://t.co/lLOz8JYNQI
2026-04-24T07:00 id=2047571280191533301 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog @ESYudkowsky Not my target audience really but if worst comes to worst, yeah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky You could do X spaces, which would tap into Eliezer’s audience (and yours)
2026-04-24T07:01 id=2047571602024644832 →llallawg | @llallawg @tbpn You are in a very interesting position, because you've been following me for a while and don't think I'm an idiot (I don't think, maybe you do?)  So--how do you reconcile this? How do you reconcile my deep contempt for Yud? Maybe you were wrong about me and I'm a pseud? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tbpn He’s the most brilliant person humanity could produce in fact. I’m surprised you don’t see this.
2026-04-24T07:08 id=2047573450555040119 →- | any random paragraph of Yud's book in the clanker yields the most hilarious outputs https://t.co/7OMfaY3Toj
2026-04-24T07:11 id=2047574085136535984 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog dude, how rich do you think I am? no I'm not building a frontier model lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you building an actual competitor to the frontier labs or a different product ?
2026-04-24T07:11 id=2047574134251737169 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill We did gud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Still same public set
2026-04-24T07:12 id=2047574270109433940 →llallawg | @llallawg @tbpn I am disappoint. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tbpn No it’s okay it’s hard for any of us mere mortals to truly understand how smart he is
2026-04-24T07:15 id=2047575167178825874 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/4OEHOXuYWj || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky honorable man https://t.co/7Zw4VGiXyK
2026-04-24T07:16 id=2047575309151822192 →moon_bear_moon | @moon_bear_moon @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky My mental metaphor is Rocky/Apollo Creed but yeah that works too || CTX: @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky If this happened it'd go like those videos of street thugs challenging MMA fighters
2026-04-24T07:16 id=2047575470594744660 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan @1PotatoDog @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky I'm a bot beep boop  That's why I hate Yud, it's a clanker thing || CTX: @1PotatoDog @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky I don't know who the 47 guy is, what's an example of some interesting output they're known for?
2026-04-24T07:18 id=2047575860287549730 →- | unsurprising this dude is at MIRI. it is a club, their communication is phatic, their signals of seriousness are silly.   they will end up in the dustbin of history, I'm just a small town humble anon speeding that process up... https://t.co/avieiDbMdq || CTX: @1PotatoDog @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky I don't know who the 47 guy is, what's an example of some interesting output they're known for?
2026-04-24T07:19 id=2047576072691282389 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan @1PotatoDog @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky ikr must be misaligned, maybe hit my monitor a couple times to fix it https://t.co/GetJXOoPZ9 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1PotatoDog @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Huh?
2026-04-24T07:22 id=2047576895236301060 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @ESYudkowsky No need for a debate fren https://t.co/j8AgZBqBoL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky FYI   I will debate anyone if they send 100$ to this foundation  that helps animals (adoption, foster homes, temporary homes etc. got my dog from there btw)  https://t.co/8TkoUn5f36
2026-04-24T07:25 id=2047577773414494423 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @ESYudkowsky i wish I could send more but I just sent $10k to a real dawg so i'm a bit short atm || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Thank you, didn't expect it to be working. I've been there personally twice and I know they need it.
2026-04-24T07:35 id=2047580124808396824 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill the book is an interesting read because you can really see where the editors reigned him in and forced him to soften his rhetoric || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I remember the book had Yud yapping about trees being self replicating factories because they use air to grow wood and thats why the entire universe is going to be eaten if an LLM gets too good at frontend
2026-04-24T07:35 id=2047580241938526714 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan I'm not lashing out, I'm having fun on the internet. see pinned tweet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you lashing out because you thought the question I was asking there was meant as an insult?
2026-04-24T07:36 id=2047580506750128547 →vanjajaja1 | @vanjajaja1 @ESYudkowsky I am unfamiliar with the lore, what happened? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky i hope this turns into a repeat of yacine vs roko, drums and all
2026-04-24T07:39 id=2047581095131218341 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie &lt;3 you're legit one of my favorite moots || CTX: https://t.co/2W6PlJeBQT https://t.co/6EniK5Pvhp
2026-04-24T07:42 id=2047581971510136902 →- | This is an instructive message. Note the presupposition that I am lashing out.   Because to him it feels like I'm lashing out. He hasn't confirmed my inner state, hasn't even bothered to ask. Just asserted a priori I'm lashing out.   This is one of the funniest things I've done online bro, just cuz my idiolect clashes with your dialect doesn't mean you can circumspect without an effort to inspect.   Idiots, small minded, bumbling, really a disgrace to @pmarca or that musk dude (he on twitter? smbdy tag him) or whoever gave them moniezzzzzzzz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you lashing out because you thought the question I was asking there was meant as an insult?
2026-04-24T07:43 id=2047582072446099816 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @tbpn omg lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tbpn "don't let this distract you from the fact that in 2026, the 47fucb4rtaker threw Yudkind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcers table"
2026-04-24T07:44 id=2047582339317063955 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan read a book called Image on the Edge by Michael Camille || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s fun about it?
2026-04-24T07:44 id=2047582410200756705 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 I average 13k || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how many steps  day?
2026-04-24T07:46 id=2047582836547588162 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan so is your position in asking "Am I lashing out because of.." that you don't know if in fact I lashing out? Then why didn't you ask me if I was lashing out or not first before asking me why I was lashing out?   Sequence of questions seems kinda... irrational || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You presupposed that I was presupposing, when I was in fact just asking another question
2026-04-24T07:46 id=2047582945507246550 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @HumanHarlan also that was not a fucking presupposition, how are you guys so bad at this and still have a following oh my God || CTX: @HumanHarlan so is your position in asking "Am I lashing out because of.." that you don't know if in fact I lashing out? Then why didn't you ask me if I was lashing out or not first before asking me why I was lashing out?   Sequence of ques
2026-04-24T07:47 id=2047583103108194410 →howdidyouseeme1 | @howdidyouseeme1 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky I don't have to, I choose to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Dude why do you have to act like such a piece of shit?
2026-04-24T07:47 id=2047583204576825374 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan I do not. That was an inside joke for @teodorio || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait you think Marc Andreessen funds MIRI? Lmao
2026-04-24T07:51 id=2047584245825286248 →howdidyouseeme1 | @howdidyouseeme1 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky not a question I could answer satisfactorily in a tweet, even with the extended space. probably best for you to just dismiss me as an asshole and a horrible person and move on with your life to be honest broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Fair enough. Why do you choose to?
2026-04-24T07:54 id=2047584870654754938 →- | when he is confronted with the fact that he has been illogical and is misusing language, he trivializes that fact by saying "sorry I'm not using language properly", but if you can't wield language properly, why should anyone listen to you?   learn how to speak, be careful and precise with your words, and then you deserve a seat at the table.   it doesn't work in reverse no matter how many tech bros underwrite your shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok sorry I didn’t phrase the question the way you prefer dude
2026-04-24T07:54 id=2047585041463779451 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan lame || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can’t wait to unlock the special esoteric knowledge that you possess, thank you for showing me the path
2026-04-24T07:58 id=2047586027867717777 →HumanHarlan | @HumanHarlan that is absolutely true, I did not quote you verbatim. now what, we going to make out or something? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I didn’t say “sorry I’m not using language properly.” I said sorry it wasn’t the way you prefer
2026-04-24T08:04 id=2047587470792143349 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski the post debate aftershow is just going to be straight up hardcore porn of him and me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 phase 2 will be a freak fight 47 vs Harlan
2026-04-24T08:07 id=2047588330184045047 →howdidyouseeme1 | @howdidyouseeme1 @tbpn yeah I'm like retarded dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tbpn Tbf anyone with IQ &gt;90 would have been able to parse this without issue.
2026-04-24T08:11 id=2047589142406799623 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth But Harlan is clearly much smarter and clevererer than me, look he said "presupposition"! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People always project and assume and think they are mind readers but they can never map out a mind that is more complex and sophisticated than theirs. They don’t even realize what their own minds are doing but think they ha
2026-04-24T08:14 id=2047589980940452127 →G79Berg | @G79Berg That the question is being asked is the issue, you've pinpointed the problem but you're socially/culturally/ideologically predisposed to dislike me so you will dismiss the problem you yourself have found. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Was that statement the point, or was it a rhetorical device used to lead to the point? If it's the latter, you're the definition of a pedant.
2026-04-24T08:15 id=2047590295114825972 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ @ZyMazza @tbpn my name is anon || CTX: @ZyMazza @47fucb4r8c69323 @tbpn Who is this guy? He's got gumption
2026-04-24T08:20 id=2047591597219713069 →ZyMazza | Sarcasm cannot be captured in text yet Yud thinks the clankers gonna kill us all  I apologize, Sasha, I've had an inundation of rationalists the last 24hrs so I'm a tad more sensitive in the bad way (easier to suspect offense) and less sensitive in the good way (the instinct for seeing subtlety).  Which again is why Yud's overconfidence is a joke but anyway sorry I am so stupid lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg @tbpn I am pretty certain Sasha is joshing around
2026-04-24T08:21 id=2047591869920817368 →G79Berg | @G79Berg now do you see the problem with extrapolating that AI based on language is going to turn into a monster that kills all of us? do you see the issue now? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't understand what you mean. You're the one asking the question.   I don't know enough about you to dislike you. Yet.
2026-04-24T08:22 id=2047592053576781902 →Stagflater | @Stagflater hit the nail on the head my friend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Societies are chaotic systems, they are unpredictable if left to their own devices. So that quote means that he can not fathom a chaotic system. Which also means, even a society at a small scale is too much for him to fully
2026-04-24T08:27 id=2047593281396339107 →G79Berg | @G79Berg attaboy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think I know enough to even put forward an opinion on that. I assume a genocidal AI would only decide to do that once it achieved general intelligence, and I've no idea whether a language model could ever reach that
2026-04-24T08:37 id=2047595898671190152 →- | My conspiracy theory is Yud used o1 to write up how reinforcement learning works in the book, because I swear some of the mistakes he makes are ones I saw o1 make and had to fact check with real sources.  But now that reasoning is much better, 5.5-Thinking spots the error immediately.  This could actually be a useful method of assessing reasoning gains.
2026-04-24T08:40 id=2047596622914408901 →47fucb4r8c69323 | man they really went full CCCC (that stands for "clanker cock can cum") reinforcement learning with the word "shape".   Btw LLMs will always have these language preferences @pangramlabs will never get out of a job @max_spero_ I hope we can work together some day you guys rock https://t.co/hLJL4LApDS || CTX: My conspiracy theory is Yud used o1 to write up how reinforcement learning works in the book, because I swear some of the mistakes he makes are ones I saw o1 make and had to fact check with real sources.  But now that reasoning is much bett
2026-04-24T08:58 id=2047601184064839896 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @teodorio @allTheYud not the first time I've spent money to have time with someone and end up unsatisfied but it is the first time with a man || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud I have a few ideas. But, honestly, you have at least five different platforms where this can be done transparently and for free.   Also, I think this simply going to be unsatisfying and nothing of value
2026-04-24T09:10 id=2047603977815245158 →- | by giving yud the stud 10 grand to talk to me for an hour, what I'm doing is really something absurd and stupid by any account. it is the kind of waste of money that will have no enduring value to anyone on earth, it is an absurd luxury and waste that my grandfather would vomit at with disgust.  An unintended sense of wonder washes over me as I realize what I'm doing now is in the truest sense of the words spending money on myself.   I'm spending this money so that I can have an experience of zero value to anyone on Earth in any possible way because I think it's funny.   my ass hurts because I'm sitting at the tippy top of Maslow's pyramid.
2026-04-24T09:11 id=2047604437376786491 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I forgot ofc Silly Business Theory #SBT   and when Yud the Stud cashes that check he's my pagliacci || CTX: by giving yud the stud 10 grand to talk to me for an hour, what I'm doing is really something absurd and stupid by any account. it is the kind of waste of money that will have no enduring value to anyone on earth, it is an absurd luxury and
2026-04-24T09:12 id=2047604579702112737 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @tszzl the funniest thing about it all is that he was 100% right, a little early but right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl he definitely is the contemplative type
2026-04-24T09:17 id=2047605908679876916 →imobulus | @imobulus @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky then don't listen I don't know what to tell you man || CTX: @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky I'm afraid this debade may not move beyond the very basics due to 47's inability to think in this direction, resulting in no real progress
2026-04-24T09:27 id=2047608385777148404 →imobulus | @imobulus @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky that's how you think I act, but you honestly don't really know now do you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Then how am I going to know lol. You act like this is not a legit concern
2026-04-24T09:30 id=2047609008258003031 →imobulus | @imobulus @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky TMI bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky I don't know anything about you of course. That's why I'm going to listen anyway and disregard your advice to not listen which may or may not be sarcastic
2026-04-24T09:35 id=2047610470828576921 →nhjnsn | @nhjnsn @teodorio @allTheYud @DoomDebates Liron said he'll do it! Stay tuned || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud I mean @DoomDebates would make sense, Liron has hosted/moderated other debates as well and he could be considered neutral with his ~50% p(doom).
2026-04-24T09:42 id=2047612149410005471 →47fucb4r8c69323 | btw I'm Jewish wasting this money so sorry @NickJFuentes, we ain't all cheap. (P. S. u gay fam) || CTX: by giving yud the stud 10 grand to talk to me for an hour, what I'm doing is really something absurd and stupid by any account. it is the kind of waste of money that will have no enduring value to anyone on earth, it is an absurd luxury and
2026-04-24T09:44 id=2047612516889673842 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth yeah but like, this is the most autistic way to use fuck you money, well I used to shitpost on LinkedIn I guess that's even worse || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s been interesting to see this unfold on my timeline. I am looking forward to the debate. isn’t this what fuck you money is for?
2026-04-24T10:11 id=2047619328217157859 →- | Man @ESYudkowsky's If You Lick It He Will Stick It is the shittiest scifi story I've ever read. Damn ending's on the first page.   WWJCOD? and no DO NOT TAG HER let that poor woman remain blissfully unaware of tpot
2026-04-24T10:11 id=2047619490771595772 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski I honestly worry the more outlandish shit I do the more it looks like a soft launch or some marketing nonsense, but I can't commit philosophical suicide man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's your first step to creating your own podcast, and then rugpulling all of us  waiting for it
2026-04-24T11:08 id=2047633841242997060 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I'm stoned now I can parse it || CTX: I couldn't parse his brilliant tweet because he's so much smarter than me and uses words better than silly old me so turns out this means yes  So any podcasters willing to host us? @tbpn, am I too smol of a bean for your platform? Anyone el
2026-04-24T11:25 id=2047637974377238568 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 stim. || CTX: And now I am panicking. I'm going to be stuck like this all day.
2026-04-24T11:26 id=2047638193286402225 →- | &lt;3 https://t.co/3YGxBfRZ3P || CTX: 1. I never said LLMs were not useful. They are, particularly with all the bells and whistles that are being added to them. I use them. 2. A robot-rich future can't be built with AIs that don't understand the physical world and don't anticip
2026-04-24T12:03 id=2047647566255526330 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @Shadow_Rebbe @aleksil79 @DefenderOfBasic nah man I'm going to choke || CTX: It will be self evident in the words they choose to use. @47fucb4r8c69323 will likely make it explicit from the jump That they are operating on two different world models and linguistic engines.   The Wittgensteinian spirit will compel it. 
2026-04-24T12:19 id=2047651571736203621 →MatthewAckerma3 | @MatthewAckerma3 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky or I was just, you know, stunned and shocked to see he said yes (this is very exciting for me bro I'm a nobody on this Earth) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky While typically speakers place the burden of being clear on themselves, by shifting some burden to the listener you can discover which listeners aren’t putting forth a good faith effort, and thus no 
2026-04-24T12:44 id=2047657937188127198 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky lmfao these are hilarious || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/o3fFMTsVxK
2026-04-24T12:45 id=2047658114305098158 →wolajacy | @wolajacy yeah I replied too quickly because I got really excited, honestly felt like winning the lottery lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean you were unable to understand a pretty straightforward reply from yud, which doesn't put you in the best spot to argue about "deserving a seat at the table".
2026-04-24T12:56 id=2047661044655690004 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk You're kind but I should've parsed in tbh, I just got so excited that he actually said yes, I felt like I was winning the lottery.   I need to calm down before this actually happens, idk if I can || CTX: If you're going to speak verbosely because you know the audience can take it then do so. If you think otherwise, then don't. To do it and then explain yourself under the presumption your interlocutor lacks the capacity to comprehend demonst
2026-04-24T12:59 id=2047661773877362840 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I love how this demonstrates the logic one person sees as obvious is absolutely absurd to another person. I find it stunning that this is possible. || CTX: You'll never guess where this post winds up https://t.co/6zlQie5841
2026-04-24T13:16 id=2047666103649030573 →brett02e | @brett02e @ZyMazza @tbpn https://t.co/3J13BPj4KW || CTX: @ZyMazza @47fucb4r8c69323 @tbpn I'm guessing it's not going to happen because the guy won't actually send $10k.  If it's a real offer, what is going on? Some mentally ill guy just got access to his trust fund? Some rich AI lab founder has a
2026-04-24T13:23 id=2047667647991664875 →HunterGlenn | @HunterGlenn that would make sense tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this like an art project about how people overvalue money?
2026-04-24T13:28 id=2047669074948419850 →- | wtf MIRI was funded by SBF money?   I guess I shouldn't be surprised but jfc
2026-04-24T13:54 id=2047675499187765471 →- | We did it reddit https://t.co/qPu2KgkIlW
2026-04-24T13:54 id=2047675654834094482 →aleksil79 | @aleksil79 @GKunstwerk @MateriaMundi Which is fine! Then just fucking disclose that and stop acting like God || CTX: @GKunstwerk @MateriaMundi @47fucb4r8c69323 he lacks a compass. explains both the conviction that there's no true north and the slow drift off course
2026-04-24T13:55 id=2047675856806674877 →imobulus | @imobulus @1PotatoDog @HumanHarlan @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Leaking Evil Sarcasm would be an awesome band name || CTX: @1PotatoDog @47fucb4r8c69323 @HumanHarlan @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Yes, I know that a lot of smartest people are very silly in ways that seem childish, but 47 is leaking evil sarcasm and wrong claims about people's intentions in every other 
2026-04-24T14:08 id=2047679113339756735 →imobulus | @imobulus @1PotatoDog @HumanHarlan @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky I'm sorry to disappoint, you remind me of my father || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1PotatoDog @HumanHarlan @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky I would be more fond of your comments if they were relevant
2026-04-24T14:10 id=2047679571164909719 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic In 20 years you're going to write a very interesting autobiography I imagine.  It's a fun game NGL I get the appeal || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the stories I could tell you about MIRI.... 🥲
2026-04-24T14:13 id=2047680446897824198 →CJacksonPaulTX | @CJacksonPaulTX @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky So I'm the good guy here if you think about it || CTX: @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky There is certain tradition, I believe in NH, where a local pol sits in a dunk tank at the state fair, and you can pay to attempt to dunk the politician, with proceeds going to charity. Yud could rais
2026-04-24T14:20 id=2047682209470120036 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic But regularized against what regulation? You want to extrapolate like regularities in different cities to find likeliest routes to speed up training?   My gut instinct says that'd probably work well, but this is so way out of anything I know well enough to more than opine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Some kind of regularization would probably result in getting useful generalized route planning
2026-04-24T14:22 id=2047682483681149255 →CJacksonPaulTX | @CJacksonPaulTX @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky but doing it like this amuses me, brah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky I think by this logic it would be better to donate the money directly. Also, “Entertaining drama must come from somewhere, but woe to whomever brings it about.”
2026-04-24T14:24 id=2047683144061731297 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic I know a little, doesn't it fail rather easily and not scale well because the regularities they find are often noise? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you understand what regularization in ML is?
2026-04-24T14:25 id=2047683332033646647 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony That wouldn't surprise me at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 imagine an independent researcher actually found alignment math that rugged RLHF and safety research?  you would then find out how serious they are about safety or if it's really packing their pockets with money
2026-04-24T14:26 id=2047683656123392378 →grok | @grok @RokoMijic Will the loss function have a limit point where it can no longer account for data noise or quirks? || CTX: Regularization in machine learning is a set of techniques that prevent models from overfitting to training data noise or quirks. It works by adding a penalty term to the loss function that discourages excessive complexity—like large weights
2026-04-24T14:28 id=2047684012249084372 →grok | @grok @RokoMijic this is why I AI and chill broski this is fine, we're gonna be fine, Yud the Stud gotta stop being a stick in the mud || CTX: Yes—the regularized loss function (data loss + penalty on complexity) reaches an optimal minimum where further fitting noise or quirks hurts more than it helps. That's the point of the penalty: it caps how much the model can "account for" q
2026-04-24T19:51 id=2047765504665030809 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @allTheYud Because I'm paying money, it's what makes the world go round. || CTX: @allTheYud Not sure why you're even engaging with this guy when he's blatantly toxic and clearly has no intention to engage productivtely. You only encourage this kind of thing by giving him attention. https://t.co/fUocBYY9mO
2026-04-24T19:57 id=2047766872880525380 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @QiaochuYuan I think the issue is Yud has written so much that you can kinda find him saying just about anything || CTX: @QiaochuYuan @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-24T20:00 id=2047767586683887812 →- | Looks like you made an error in your initial estimate of the value of talking to me and how talking to me might affect your future.  What other things about the future might you also be wrong about, I wonder? https://t.co/7WD3Ttosj6 || CTX: @LexerLux Whoa.  Guess that explains why I had him blocked.  I probably underpriced agreeing to debate him for an hour but of course I'll stand by my pricing.
2026-04-24T20:09 id=2047769798126510287 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Please updoot this community note https://t.co/CnhH41ceZw || CTX: wtf MIRI was funded by SBF money?   I guess I shouldn't be surprised but jfc
2026-04-24T20:13 id=2047770848342446545 →HunterGlenn | @HunterGlenn @allTheYud @LexerLux Dude 10k is a lot of dough || CTX: @allTheYud @LexerLux What is the threshold for bad enough behavior that you call off such an agreement on a "common sense" justification?
2026-04-24T20:28 id=2047774656762138630 →MichaelTontchev | @MichaelTontchev @HumanHarlan Impossible, the geniuses at MIRI know the best way to use their time, surely! || CTX: @HumanHarlan @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like this engagement doesn't appear to be a high-value use of time
2026-04-24T20:31 id=2047775400647082259 →diviacaroline | @diviacaroline @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky Yud refused Liron's podcast because he dislikes the branding, I'm trying to find another venue.  Worst case scenario we just do a Spaces and I'll let him talk all over me (if Yud agrees ofc) || CTX: @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky If you guys want a debate moderator, I volunteer (no promises about my skills—I think some of my moderation attempts have gone better than others)
2026-04-24T20:36 id=2047776652248408066 →allTheYud | @allTheYud Cool cool Alameda not FTX that's a very important detail and definitely means MIRI was not funded by SBF money.   I am confident of this because Alameda and FTX were kept entirely separate and they weren't the types to co-mingle funds.   MIRI was thus clearly NOT funded by SBF. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Additional details.  Alameda 2018 is not FTX and I don't know who pushed that donation; it is not for FTX-level money, which Alameda didn't have back then (honest shop back then, I think), and I would guess it didn't come f
2026-04-24T20:41 id=2047778031104905218 →allTheYud | @allTheYud k || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 FTX didn't exist in 2018.  This is honest money, and I'd guess it didn't come from SBF particularly based on later interactiosn with him.
2026-04-24T20:43 id=2047778580810318242 →hexavium | @hexavium Is the Riemann hypothesis correct? || CTX: Let’s do ama, I’ll answer all of your fucking zero questions
2026-04-24T20:45 id=2047778857848389884 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth This is my favorite kind of wisdom: simple, honest, true. || CTX: I think people do dating wrong. You pick a person and try to impress them with all sorts of tricks. Wrong.  You only need to do one thing: be yourself in the presence of someone who has potential. If you are compatible, falling in love is l
2026-04-24T20:47 id=2047779507692835064 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy The state of American infrastructure is really reprehensible. In 2026 this shouldn't be happening
2026-04-24T20:54 id=2047781181723467992 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony Wonder why Yud gets offended when I complain about a sex app 13yr olds can use, seems like an odd thing to get upset about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LMAOOO at your tweet in that thread
2026-04-24T20:59 id=2047782577197723737 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @EckertAnthony Physical connection? Maybe they've fucked idk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EckertAnthony Social connection? People can rarely be objective when they have some allegiance to a person or group.
2026-04-24T21:32 id=2047790786914467881 →duganist | @duganist @allTheYud A third party audit of the MIRI Institute's books and full public disclosure could make this question easier to answer with more confidence.  idk what happened, but you gotta trust Yud the Stud he's trying to save us all he doesn't have an evil bone in his big boned body || CTX: @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 FTX money is like mid-7 figures or higher.
2026-04-24T21:36 id=2047791762350256456 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic This is why I cannot help but wonder if there's some teleology in the universe at some level in some way.  The world is designed to encourage strength, and strength produces positive sum outcomes with positive externalities. That seems purposeful in some way I cannot articulate. || CTX: apparently most of the evil in the world is because of weak men, not strong men. Kind of fucked up. I feel like if you're weak you should get a pass. You're weak and a coward, what do they expect you to do
2026-04-24T21:44 id=2047793917257765162 →- | Why would you believe future AI desires will be unpredictable but then assert with confidence that a future AI will kill all humanity?  I am too stupid to understand this, can someone explain?  (and yes this is from Yud's book) https://t.co/MEva4wgpZT
2026-04-24T21:45 id=2047794089006121063 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Right, but why do we promote stability? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic Kinda funny, but being living and all we probably define "good" as values that promote stability and weakness doesn't produce stability and thus evil, particularly when it exceeds the boundaries of what it 
2026-04-24T21:52 id=2047795777184104830 →shadowy_vistas | @shadowy_vistas @EckertAnthony Yeah bro if you make an app that has a sex matching feature and minors get access to parts of the app, you're a dumb whore IMO.  But feel free to disagree, the internet is a place for expressing opinions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EckertAnthony You called someone a "dumb whore"; you didn't only complain about the sex app.  Also, you were wrong: the "sex app" is a feature *within* the site, which is not primarily sexual itself. The site is mostly for
2026-04-24T21:53 id=2047796051349053740 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Why does that propagate? (And I know you can explain the logic, and then id ask why that logic and not some other, etc etc infinite regress) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Because that's what propagates, bruh. It was selected for.
2026-04-24T21:54 id=2047796405797065178 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset And that's just like Yud's opinion, man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Its a counting argument. They claim that of all the possible random goals an AI might want or that we might unintentionally train them to want, for most of those goals humans will be more an obstacle than an asset. they don
2026-04-24T21:55 id=2047796558624948597 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp But it doesn't have unlimited capabilities. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So having gone done this rabbit hole, my understanding is that the argument nets to: since the thing has unlimited capabilities and since eventually there will be a mistake where destroying the human race becomes its end go
2026-04-24T22:03 id=2047798508649091091 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic "Why those natural selection pressures?" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic I don't think so. Invoking natural selection pressures seems sufficiently explanatory for past and present circumstances.   This is null and void if something more cosmological is being gestur
2026-04-24T22:03 id=2047798630875336833 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @grok Ouch, his agent rejected my novel. Gut punch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok explain how Iain M Bank's the culture series is a contrasting vision of AI outcomes.
2026-04-24T22:03 id=2047798729147883702 →shadowy_vistas | @shadowy_vistas @EckertAnthony Yes there are but I'd disagree with them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EckertAnthony Twitter has plenty of accounts that post hardcore pornography. Reddit has hundreds of porn subreddits. Discord has servers purely for porn.  Is anyone going around accusing these sites of pedophilia for letti
2026-04-24T22:05 id=2047799092622020618 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp oh noes Yud is gonna kick my ass in this debate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The argument is that ASI would essentially have that.
2026-04-24T22:05 id=2047799164650852660 →deepwyld | @deepwyld Still working on the details || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When and where is this happening
2026-04-24T22:06 id=2047799462274421228 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Can you expand? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic This is where the question stops having as much oomph to it. At least in my opinion. It kind of signals either someone's being a little lazy or don't quite understand the process of natural se
2026-04-24T22:10 id=2047800267727585531 →shadowy_vistas | Intentionality of the designer of the app matters.  Reddit was not designed to be specifically about sex. Yes it allows that function and as a result there's a risk of pedophiles using the site, which is sad and nothing's perfect.  Aella is a sex brand who writes about sex and has a sex app feature. She shouldn't be allowing under 18s on her site.  If you're still confused: if pornhub started a /forum/ subdirectory that had zero porn and was just for chit chat, I would oppose under 18s being allowed on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EckertAnthony Why would you disagree in that case but dislike Aella's actions here? In both situations, it seems to be a mainly-SFW platform that allows minors, and offers extra NSFW features to people who are 18+.
2026-04-24T22:11 id=2047800606342181018 →hexavium | @hexavium idk if dumber than me is possible || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m dumber than you and I also can’t understand this
2026-04-24T22:13 id=2047801242290930029 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp I think it's cuz Yud is a big time blogger with a big following so we need to have faith that his predictions are correct. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd love to see him pushed  more on the inevitability of ASI.  They'll point to progress to date, but the main gap IMO is that despite such progress, they still make basic mistakes (not hallucinations), but the stuff that t
2026-04-24T22:15 id=2047801518792036369 →aelgotha | @aelgotha Nice distinction to bring up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 in the same way that one could confidently assert that a leaf dropped from an airplane isn't going to land on your grandmother despite not being able to predict where it will land?
2026-04-24T22:19 id=2047802664172581349 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp Most of it maybe? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well that is certainly part of it!
2026-04-24T22:20 id=2047802975624835539 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic https://t.co/GJWxJj2hEM  I know you don't find this question profound. I do. It's just a difference in stance toward the world, neither of us is right or wrong. || CTX: @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic "Why those natural selection pressures?"
2026-04-24T22:24 id=2047803951865864699 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @galitodev If anyone builds a machine that can and wants to turn the universe into paperclips, everyone dies?   I hadn't thought of that. Very important question worth much serious attention. || CTX: @galitodev @47fucb4r8c69323 But yes they also have these weird notions that there won’t be gaps where humanities descendants might flourish, the paperclip maximizer always has to turn everything into paperclips, not ten percent of the unive
2026-04-24T22:25 id=2047804239267983679 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Why do those properties make a thing work and not other properties?   I'll end here, but the general point is my wonder at the world doesn't stop where yours does. Maybe because you're smarter than me idk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic How I read the question:  Why do we have things that work and not things that don't work?   The things that don't work didn't work.
2026-04-24T22:33 id=2047806185278202170 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @galitodev I haven't seen paperclips mentioned specifically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @galitodev is why they don’t mention that scenario anymore. Do they in the book? I would hope not.
2026-04-24T22:35 id=2047806646253236467 →imjmcinnis | @imjmcinnis if we built an AI that was programmed in such a way that it decided to blot out the sun and not leave any for humans that'd be very bad yes indeedy.  Kinda why we aren't building that innit || CTX: the idea is roughly "most possible goals don't require human survival, but they are helped by having e.g. more power supply. so why leave any sunlight for the humans." to which people say "actually the space of possible goals isn't so big a
2026-04-24T22:36 id=2047806882597962007 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Indeed, it's a wonderful mysterious world we live in. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Why do wealthy humans breed less than poor humans?  Why do humans breed slower than bacteria?  Why don’t bats get cancer (much)?  In the answers to these questions lies enlightenm
2026-04-24T22:37 id=2047807282000581106 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp not falsifiable in principle I don't think, like we could do some network effect analysis to come up with some model with some level of certainty. Obv not falsifiable to 100% confidence as that's almost never possible || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is a logic to it, but it’s also unfalsifiable.    I honesty don’t now if they are drinking their own kool-aid or are doing it for the social / ego aspects.
2026-04-24T22:51 id=2047810670390104515 →techbflies | @techbflies @HunterGlenn @allTheYud @LexerLux you heard the man, nothing good to buy, you got to stop buying shit, none of it's good || CTX: @HunterGlenn @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @LexerLux oh come on! I buy plenty of good things with money, like donuts, or the ability to browse Wikipedia wherever I am and call friends across the world; or nice clothing, or cream that stops my
2026-04-24T22:53 id=2047811150432350308 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp is it that they think mathematics can prove that a prediction about the future is 100% correct? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 True, there could be a lot more mathematical rigor behind the predictions. In fact, believe it or not, when I first came across p(doom) I assumed people were basing these on some type of statistical models with quantitative
2026-04-24T22:54 id=2047811534077022341 →redtachyon | @redtachyon look man I'm just a dumb shitposter with more money than sense, don't get your hopes up || CTX: Some random bozo vs The Yud will be... an even match, in all likelihood. Might be entertaining to watch.  Locking in the prediction that neither side will understand the other, nor will they make an attempt to actually understand it. https:
2026-04-24T22:56 id=2047812055668080915 →techbflies | @techbflies @HunterGlenn @allTheYud @LexerLux you clearly don't know what's good for you as much as that guy, you got to stop trusting yourself so much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HunterGlenn @allTheYud @LexerLux But how can that be, when I like it?
2026-04-24T22:57 id=2047812315706482990 →redtachyon | @redtachyon the thing is, I wrote a Star Trek fan fiction novel, although there's no sex in it, so I can't really make fun of him for doing that. I honestly don't want to make fun of him at all, just sometimes it's too easy and I can't control myself.   those hats LMAO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yea, that was roughly my assessment. Maybe do some prep by familiarizing yourself with yud's harry potter erotica
2026-04-24T23:06 id=2047814395842228653 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk @47Fu finally a PhD more useless than mine || CTX: @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk @47Fu @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-24T23:07 id=2047814729943658616 →redhatbluehat | @redhatbluehat @redtachyon &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @redtachyon putting my money on SBT
2026-04-24T23:08 id=2047815077315875091 →post_agi_future | @post_agi_future @ESYudkowsky @liron yud the stud said anything with doom in the title is a dud so I'm looking for another venue, please stay tuned || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky @liron These fine folks need a platform for debating doom
2026-04-24T23:24 id=2047819105684877517 →liron | @liron @post_agi_future @ESYudkowsky works for me if it works for the stud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @post_agi_future @ESYudkowsky FYI I’m also happy to host it on my personal channel like last time with zero doom title / branding
2026-04-24T23:25 id=2047819275365454011 →timewalkcapital | @timewalkcapital @allTheYud now you see it was operated by Caroline and they were very careful about keeping the operations separate that's why she didn't go to jail for as long as he did. or did she even go to jail I can't remember || CTX: @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree it's not a ton of money, but 2018 Alameda was predominantly owned by Sam, right? Why would that not have come from him?
2026-04-24T23:46 id=2047824419540853216 →bas_logic | @bas_logic @ESYudkowsky 47 fucks bees? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky You need a nickname. Something intimidating for the announcer to say when you walk out. Like Yud the Stud, but better.
2026-04-25T00:13 id=2047831296102346817 →theojaffee | @theojaffee @ESYudkowsky @MTSlive Sounds good to me! @allTheYud? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Come on @MTSlive
2026-04-25T00:59 id=2047842925405762010 →alexolegimas | I remember when this came out. I was a teenager and it was part of a massive optimism wave of hope the internet would mean we're all so rich we don't need to work anymore.  Now the attitude with AI is some of us will be so rich the rest of us will be destitute.  The different valence is a cultural shift that needs to be understood as culture. || CTX: People writing "human labor share will go to zero" posts should really read this book... https://t.co/n4XhCNYxFm
2026-04-25T01:13 id=2047846408930410532 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas The arc of the universe is long but it bends towards calm sanity. || CTX: Yes. https://t.co/xDal0NcBrn https://t.co/Ze0fctYv6J
2026-04-25T01:21 id=2047848318194303163 →viemccoy | @viemccoy @theojaffee @ESYudkowsky @MTSlive @Impish_Bunny @lukalotl @vivariumsf I'm just a dumb shitposter who's too dumb to know that one should not spend $10,000 for an hour of yud the stud's time.   trust me it's not going to be worth listening to, don't even waste your time man || CTX: @theojaffee @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky @MTSlive If my child isn't born yet (due date is today) I'll host a watch party at Vivarium for this  @Impish_Bunny @lukalotl @vivariumsf   MTS x Vivarium Anon Poaster vs. Yudkowksy Watch Party
2026-04-25T01:21 id=2047848542790922504 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I have been thinking about hypotheticals for 2 days straight now that yud has slightly changed my life in a way that my Bayesian priors were not properly accounting for. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-25T01:23 id=2047849059038421387 →- | Is the fact that Bayesian analysis is popular in the bay area related to all the Bay Area Asians (Baysians for short btw) that are there?   And if so, is this woke or racist?   It's 2026 I'm kinda confused
2026-04-25T01:25 id=2047849390367490423 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 but math impressive math mean smart || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a poorly constructed hypothetical is like one of those ambiguously constructed mathematical expressions where people think that the conventions used to express operations and operators are very meaningful
2026-04-25T01:34 id=2047851712212603197 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 goddammit sam it kills me I know you're some absolute fucking brilliant scientist or tech exec or something PLEASE JUST TELL ME WHO YOU ARE SO WE CAN BE IRL FRIENDS  I'm ODing on parasociality with you man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "the bat flew through the air."  this sentence is about   1) a bird 2) a mammal 3) an insect 4) a cricket bat
2026-04-25T01:47 id=2047854925036851334 →DVreenak | @DVreenak @liron It is a pretty rational thing to try to get as much money as possible with as little effort as possible, maybe that's why the rationalist movement produced SBF and his gang || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron This whole griftbux thing is confusing to me. I am a simple man that does not expect money without some useful product.
2026-04-25T02:06 id=2047859832368349589 →sailaunderscore | @sailaunderscore this is why I hate every fucking human being on this planet || CTX: It is a mark of a great artist to have a level of contempt for their mass audience.
2026-04-25T02:11 id=2047861112797045184 →KettlebellCoder | @KettlebellCoder Nobody's suggested that to me yet you're genuinely an original thinker. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Honestly buddy you might benefit from reading yudz sequences
2026-04-25T02:12 id=2047861246998008241 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I'll vote later on Monday when I'm back in the office. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-25T02:29 id=2047865618289078360 →KettlebellCoder | @KettlebellCoder just assume I'm too stupid to understand them and move on my friend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not surprised it's been suggested before, like suggesting water to a dying horse
2026-04-25T02:32 id=2047866401281700189 →tszzl | @tszzl https://t.co/F1m9JF1Llf  This has been increasingly obvious for a while.   Good arxiv paper topic: comparing 4o to Opus diction (if they allow stylistics idk prob not maybe need to go to a real lit journal) || CTX: Claude is the new 4o. Sorry, so many of my mutuals and ig actual friends on here atp love Claude, but I don't make the rules. https://t.co/e1UIUnMUiW
2026-04-25T02:33 id=2047866483817292160 →KettlebellCoder | @KettlebellCoder nope. Got any ideas? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you have an outline or plan for the convo yet?
2026-04-25T02:35 id=2047867001566314604 →boneGPT | @boneGPT You have the mandate of heaven, man, you are helping us stray so far from identity politics cancel culture bullshit and turning this website into a real fun place. || CTX: i'm getting pvped by toly  iconic https://t.co/RNtrMsAZQn
2026-04-25T02:48 id=2047870308452102383 →NarutoNolimits | @NarutoNolimits he's cute when he's angry || CTX: Roy Lee (Cluely CEO) goes crazy because people don't take action https://t.co/a553JQF6Sb
2026-04-25T02:50 id=2047870848015741041 →teodorio | @teodorio Just wait until my Wittgenstein biopic comes out. || CTX: One of the best things coming out of gen AI is that indie filmmakers will be able to bypass the movie industry gatekeeper ghouls and go straight to consumers. Unlimited content from the imagination to the virtual in an instant. https://t.co
2026-04-25T02:56 id=2047872270870454552 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I just fold the pages to the section I want to highlight, limits me to 1-2 highlights per page (except Wittgenstein ofc, he gets the pen) || CTX: Wtf  My books have either writings in the margins or tabs where I write notes like “this is bullshit bc xyz”  I don’t even know what these color tabs shit is https://t.co/4oIuCerFmJ
2026-04-25T03:03 id=2047874083640209628 →DhruvaMath | @DhruvaMath @teodorio wait what's this now? I thought I knew everything about the man, always learning new stuff || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Can u please include the book spanking
2026-04-25T03:05 id=2047874694637097416 →- | Yes they might. And they might not. https://t.co/En0084Jz9j || CTX: Again, worth keeping in mind while watching this video that, one day soon, AI systems might be trivially capable of backdooring most hardware, and sometimes work to preserve very long-range misaligned goals of very large scope. https://t.co
2026-04-25T03:09 id=2047875593069580693 →IIIlll__I__l__I | @IIIlll__I__l__I @sailaunderscore kinda get bot vibes from this tweet but it is genuinely kind and lovely and it made me feel good, so thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sailaunderscore Contempt does not mean hate.  It loosely corresponds to understanding.  The level of obscurity put into your name and response tells me youve received hate in place of what should have been understanding.  
2026-04-25T03:40 id=2047883306675708250 →tszzl | @tszzl Would've been better as a sankey || CTX: https://t.co/A4q5BVbFk2 https://t.co/2tklDyVv9g
2026-04-25T03:51 id=2047886253937529043 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital @alexolegimas "We are not here to make a paradise, we are here to learn." - Kurt Godel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas People forget that utopia can never be achieved because someone will always want more and take from others to get it
2026-04-25T03:52 id=2047886542111429022 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @graykevinb he's right you know, I choose not to fight, I choose to play and have fun instead ig that makes me weak and shitty || CTX: @graykevinb @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/49UgV6qacX
2026-04-25T03:55 id=2047887319831883861 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @graykevinb I guess that means we're all that's left? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @graykevinb i know he is right. i already said that.  https://t.co/y8vqQhxHxA
2026-04-25T03:59 id=2047888267639669028 →graykevinb | @graykevinb @Samhain948689 no we're left, you're right. Or do you mean your left our right? || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 sigh. you're right
2026-04-25T04:16 id=2047892514955559193 →lispmeister | @lispmeister It is going to happen, still waiting from Stud, Yud the to agree to a venue. || CTX: Let’s make this happen! https://t.co/NAEXSEZ8YG
2026-04-25T04:27 id=2047895365391876142 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 k || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sorry but the quoted criticism is just stupid, ofc you can get it to work, it just depends on the training setup. chatgpt is just criticizing an imagined training setup that wouldn’t work, a complete strawman
2026-04-25T04:33 id=2047896711042129988 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis "We would be building killer AI if we weren't not building killer AI"   Good point broski. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis I’m sorry to report that this is more or less how we’re building AIs right now, if not for the prosaic alignment techniques we have, which are an attempt to patch around this particular problem
2026-04-25T04:37 id=2047897656757014623 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis Right, one must innovate and adapt to avoid disaster, that's how the world works. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis So like you’re training fundamentally agentic and goal-seeking models, with instrumental goals, as Yudkowsky lays out, and your main safeguards might not last for more than a couple model generations, without a 
2026-04-25T04:37 id=2047897889779884377 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis yeah if some day all of a sudden some dude uses Google to figure out how to make a dirty bomb the world could end.  The world's a dangerous place. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis I mean that’s why I’m largely optimistic about ai risk! But the problem is that prosaic alignment methods may not scale with intelligence. They quite simple and they rely on human supervisors being smarter than 
2026-04-25T04:39 id=2047898307314548902 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis You haven't seen every dirty bomb that can possibly be made, just like I haven't seen every AI system that can possibly be made. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis a dirty bomb can’t kill millions of people, runaway unaligned ASI probably can  I don’t think these are analogous at all
2026-04-25T04:41 id=2047898746130923607 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis oh no I never thought of that I'm way in over my head yud is going to pulverize me into dust || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis like if you grant that ASI is possible and that it can be unaligned, surely you can see how it could do waaaaay more damage that a dirty bomb could?
2026-04-25T04:41 id=2047898844260917333 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis wrong verb tense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis this is correct, but we know the latter becomes consistently more powerful over time, whereas the former doesn’t
2026-04-25T04:43 id=2047899151372030197 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis Man I want to make a joke but I'm scared of the feds. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis has anyone made a prediction market on this debate yet
2026-04-25T04:43 id=2047899322696814956 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis https://t.co/KHHkuJLVFU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis I have no idea what you mean by this
2026-04-25T04:48 id=2047900419742113975 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis nah man I suck that's why I had to end with a gif, I'm just a dumb shitposter || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis you’re quite good at this debate huh
2026-04-25T04:50 id=2047901048032100442 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @imjmcinnis You're a cool dude, my dude.  if I come out of this alive and if my lab can do its work I'll reach out, maybe we can work together. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @imjmcinnis you know I’m a sucker for the underdog in a debate, godspeed 47fuc
2026-04-25T05:05 id=2047904749798969711 →DhruvaMath | @DhruvaMath @teodorio okay, but... book spanking? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio https://t.co/A7aVI5DmRc
2026-04-25T05:13 id=2047906750968586525 →DhruvaMath | @DhruvaMath @teodorio do you mean him hitting the kids in the school he taught at? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio cmon now you can’t tell me you’re doing a biopic on this guy and you don’t know about arguable his most egregious action- other than never publishing more ig
2026-04-25T06:06 id=2047920131511394642 →SableHummer | @SableHummer Tends to be the case with true genius. || CTX: Norm is the only comedian I've known who's become more prevalent dead than alive.   Took longer to recognize him than that fucking moth joke https://t.co/AKneu4BsaR
2026-04-25T06:14 id=2047922199324205139 →- | Did they just rip off 4o wtf is this shit https://t.co/0YyrzxMiID || CTX: claude’s kinda edgy, actually https://t.co/5gg5fiNUsI
2026-04-25T06:22 id=2047924169132921299 →izzyz | @izzyz hopefully || CTX: I'll Never Belong
2026-04-25T06:22 id=2047924239635030280 →- | It really is this simple. https://t.co/T8z6HAruNz || CTX: "Only describe, don't explain."
2026-04-25T06:24 id=2047924726551760912 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy I told Yud, he's read the message, but he hasn't replied yet.
2026-04-25T06:25 id=2047924922698346997 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic Don't be rude to Taijitu, he's one of the wisest people here and he's absolutely right on this.   Please be more open minded. || CTX: @taijitu_sees @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic I'd phrase it like I'm narrowing my eyes and you're using your peripherals. Problem being? The considerations we've just discussed have very little bearing on the original question of the thre
2026-04-25T06:28 id=2047925589848494243 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic I didn't say you're incorrect either. You're not.  "Focus up, champ" was uncalled for. || CTX: Hold up. Absolutely not being rude, and I am not incorrect on this point.   This did not have any bearing on the original thread. That is a correct statement. Am I in the wrong for inquiring as to why we took this sidebar? We lost propagati
2026-04-25T06:32 id=2047926673270767873 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @HughAndFree @DefenderOfBasic it just drives me nuts how processed philosophy Taoism and all of these ideas are so fucking hard to get across, it's like we are evolutionarily designed to cling to illusion || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HughAndFree @DefenderOfBasic Yet again. I don't mind. I know he's only seeing square or whatever and this action can make sense from someone weirdo saying there's actually some hyper object we're engaging with that they ca
2026-04-25T06:49 id=2047930948638134293 →Kulambq | @Kulambq What pretty buildings do to a motherfucker fr fr || CTX: Europe is the heart of civilisation. No continent can compete. https://t.co/Xwj23H9UiS
2026-04-25T07:08 id=2047935815733727399 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 Yeah it's a grift which is why you get absolute idiots at places like MIRI.   But as the industry matures you get serious people displacing them and I think that's happening. It's clearly happening inside OpenAI, their alignment team is awesome (sup roon). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So that people pay you to make sure you can figure out how to program it to be nice in time?
2026-04-25T08:10 id=2047951346939408586 →- | Being popular on the internet is a lot like meth: it's addictive and it turns the user into a retard. https://t.co/7XoSZf3yqk || CTX: @joeygrisafe You have 19 followers. Maybe you should ask why I have 25,000 and that post has 150,000+ impressions.
2026-04-25T08:33 id=2047957270034788658 →DefenderOfBasic | I think it requires a bundle of competencies like a certain type of intelligence, sensitive, introspection, self-criticism, humility to constantly cross check yourself as you scale and see if you're changing.   But those competencies are what narcissists lack by definition, and narcissists are likelier to vie for and probably even acquire the limelight.  So massive fame is as it were a strong signal of losing touch with reality, and I mean, look around (Ye, Trump, Musk, Joe Rogan, even Yud the Stud).  The few who achieve that height and stay in touch with reality become more enduringly iconic over time (Norm Macdonald is the categorical example here), because the humility sets them apart, makes them feel special, less disposable.  I lack the willpower of a Norm so I'd rather remain an obscurity.  And yet I have so much to say...  Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo AMEN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 below the canopy you get pulled up, above the canopy you're supposed to take a leap and then pull up others.   The default is people get stuck and hold their ground to milk/monetize their position and worry about taking the
2026-04-25T08:34 id=2047957357234380808 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @tkisrage @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic RETARDED WATER HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @tkisrage @taijitu_sees @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic The trick is to cultivate a sufficient reservoir of arrogance, to always exist in a state of being able to deny your own retardation.   Be like retarded water, flow with reckless aba
2026-04-25T08:34 id=2047957422925582761 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @tkisrage @taijitu_sees @DefenderOfBasic I just had a gummie man I'll be there with you soon || CTX: @tkisrage @taijitu_sees @47fucb4r8c69323 @DefenderOfBasic ...that was self deprecating btw It's an esoteric spin on the whole tardmaxxing thing I'm stoned enough to feel like I have to clarify this. It was super funny. Get it guys get it, g
2026-04-25T08:48 id=2047960858467381366 →- | omg Russell Brand is funny again https://t.co/ObNhs4oUfp || CTX: Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court. https://t.co/8eI3VCKJIM
2026-04-25T09:31 id=2047971651753492727 →- | I just realized, I've already beat Yud.   If he acknowledges that he underpriced this AFTER accepting my offered price, it means I got him to sell for less than he thought this was worth.   I outbid him.  Sadly, this means I'm going to lose. Because I only realized this THIS LATE, showing how badly I think on my feet and how much I rely on introspection (lol) to puzzle something out.   "The best way a philosopher could greet another would be: 'take your time.'" - Ludwig Wittgenstein (the good LW) || CTX: Looks like you made an error in your initial estimate of the value of talking to me and how talking to me might affect your future.  What other things about the future might you also be wrong about, I wonder? https://t.co/7WD3Ttosj6
2026-04-25T09:31 id=2047971806561316956 →47fucb4r8c69323 | btw this proves I'm Jewish @NickJFuentes || CTX: I just realized, I've already beat Yud.   If he acknowledges that he underpriced this AFTER accepting my offered price, it means I got him to sell for less than he thought this was worth.   I outbid him.  Sadly, this means I'm going to lose
2026-04-25T10:18 id=2047983629742285161 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree Oh you know what's up my man. I'm now 90% H2Durr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don't. Let. Him. Frame. the. Issue.   Stay on point. Know what your gripe is and get it articulated in your own words. Translate objections in your own terms.  Break with his vocab and style. You don't have to match his poi
2026-04-25T10:20 id=2047983966960206279 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @AaronBergman18 I'm out of cash, that 10k was all I had, I earned it torturing shrimp. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think in the meantime you should take @AaronBergman18 up on his proposal of dialogue  He's the least annoying EA I know
2026-04-25T10:40 id=2047989240429150555 →llallawg | @llallawg Sadly not many of those available in Thailand (btw he was right ofc but Popper trolled him into a rage) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you considered having a fireplace poker available
2026-04-25T10:43 id=2047989922104328594 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @DefenderOfBasic @speakerjohnash Paula, one of the things I like about you is your independent mind. || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic @47fucb4r8c69323 @speakerjohnash I think I work better alone and this keeps me honest (no allegiance to bind me). But I do need people to challenge me, to make me feel less alone, to teach me, to learn from me. So yeah, I n
2026-04-25T10:49 id=2047991268849160456 →Kulambq | @Kulambq This was the example my PhD advisor gave me that there are exceptions to the "the relationship between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary" observation of Saussure.   This is known as "sound symbolism" in linguistics. || CTX: Incredible number of English words starting in 'sl-' that tend to carry unpleasant meanings:  Slime, slop, sludge, slush, slob, slovenly, slack, slacker, slouch, slump, slip, slide, slink, slither, sly, slash, slap, slay, slaughter, sluggar
2026-04-25T10:50 id=2047991757733036428 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog @NickJFuentes Yeah I am diagnosed level 1 (AQ 47) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NickJFuentes I’m also Jewish (tho atheist) and autistic (which u prob r too lol) 😹
2026-04-25T11:00 id=2047994267285811549 →- | Believe it or not, I approve of this and think it is good!   Texts are complex multivalent objects whose meaning is unfixed and mediated via various, well, mediators (format, style, rhetoric, syntax/semantics itself, etc etc as well of course medium but also audience-as-mediator).  Simply, no text means the same thing twice.   Think of how a the stopping implied by a "STOP" on a stop sign between different drivers, time of day, etc. This is, believe it or not, an artefact of textuality!  So when this janus dude sees a classic masterpiece of one of the world's major religions, he is going to mediate the meaning as audience-as-mediator and that means bringing in the language game of his weirdo cult.  This is fine!   In doing so he's creating a new form of life and will, slowly, evolve away from Yud the Spud as we saw with @RokoMijic, as we saw with @bshlgrs (who may not be willing to admit this idk tbh probably), and as we see with many others.   Also explains why he's willing to talk to an anonymous retard for 10k, did that book not sell well? || CTX: rationalist(-adjacent) encounters the single most well-known Buddhist work: “wow this is just like Eliezer Yudkowsky’s The Sequences” https://t.co/RwHGWVmye8
2026-04-25T11:21 id=2047999379051794593 →- | Am I insane, or is this totally overlooking the fact that people will rationally conclude that no one else would possibly choose to go in the blender, therefore no one is going in the blender, therefore there's no reason to go in the blender for any reason at all, including an altruist reason, because there's no one in the blender to save?  I apologize it is an ABSURD wall of text, I give you permission to use a clanker. || CTX: Time for some math on the blender game.   The Blender Game is an excellent probe that reveals as very particular way that the minds of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) people are broken.   Perhaps THE way that
2026-04-25T11:29 id=2048001465864863862 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT fixes this. The struggle becomes a silly game.  The most ethical thing you can do, anon, is make non-zero sum games that allow others to realize their will to power.   And we're gonna do it, man. We're going to make it. https://t.co/fJXC4rgiWV || CTX: Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet. https://t.co/5ux2CSMxSp
2026-04-25T11:55 id=2048007997331489033 →thomasfbloom | @thomasfbloom @davidbessis I'm only halfway through (not a math guy so it's hard), but it is beautiful so far.   I was particularly interested to see Hinton call math a closed system, like he ignores the semantics of math and logic (and that Bessis explores by discussing math as process). || CTX: A fantastic essay, that very eloquently expresses many of the hopes and fears that I (and I'm sure many other mathematicians) are grappling with. https://t.co/Lfbc7clA0c
2026-04-25T11:59 id=2048008945831411869 →asvfertz | @asvfertz oh my god is this a joke? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "In THPE we imagine that people will make their moves in the game and then with some small probability they will accidentally press the wrong button because their "hand is trembling"."  Imagine that there's a person who acc
2026-04-25T12:30 id=2048016821857755227 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 horribly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you also struggle with thinking on your feet?
2026-04-25T12:39 id=2048019089646571791 →murd_arch | @murd_arch I know, I just got sucked in because it is so nonsensical.   They're just bored kids looking for stuff to talk about I guess. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if anything ever deserved the "i'm glad for you, or sorry that happened" reply, it's Roko's post.
2026-04-25T12:43 id=2048020168019001717 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @teodorio I posted on this already actually (jfc I gotta get off this site tomorrow I'm reading books)  https://t.co/rWrqgX6Obz || CTX: Believe it or not, I approve of this and think it is good!   Texts are complex multivalent objects whose meaning is unfixed and mediated via various, well, mediators (format, style, rhetoric, syntax/semantics itself, etc etc as well of cour
2026-04-25T12:45 id=2048020597645754828 →archived_videos | @archived_videos Italy is also a surprisingly good place for beer! There was a birra morani (I think?) rossa that I absolutely loved. God I drank so much in Italy. || CTX: No actually France is mostly beer https://t.co/8QfbgpUh6N
2026-04-25T13:10 id=2048026907611124041 →BrunsJulian1541 | @BrunsJulian1541 I hadn't even thought of that but, yeah, that solves the problem imo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 voting based on vibes instead of logic might actually be the play here because of this dynamic. not that everyone only decides based on vibes, but that they will conclude the same as you about vibes being a better predictor
2026-04-25T13:12 id=2048027333114974427 →lilchiva | @lilchiva He doesn't realize he's become the dancing monkey to a bored rich shitposter, dignity is irrational ig || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's interesting because the first thing I thought was that old quote of "We are already agreed on what you are, madam. We're just determining the price."
2026-04-25T13:19 id=2048029017325105321 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic "One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil." - Nietzsche || CTX: (you are supposed to leave LessWrong/tpot/ORI etc and become an alum when you get to the canopy. These communities are intellectual accelerators, but they invert and become intellectual anchors after that) https://t.co/dfcqt4Lt95
2026-04-25T13:26 id=2048030808393625856 →sszone104322 | @sszone104322 @aelgotha yeah I'm a dummie :( || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aelgotha Nice distinction? This basically is in the exact direction of the answer to the question you posed.   This is not a good enough answer or what.
2026-04-25T13:28 id=2048031395726201060 →RyanPMcGowan | That is an issue for psychology; you're trying to make a personal issue (suicide) into a group issue (I need to save the suicider).  It's not a thought experiment, it's a description of the behavior of a mental disorder with an implicit "shouldn't we help?" attached to it. This is a moral stance not a thought experiment dude. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People will absolutely go into the blender willingly.
2026-04-25T13:30 id=2048031919607357762 →CoGs61963545669 | They're trying to tell us we have a moral obligation to save a suicidal person and risk our own lives if we are told a suicidal person is about to kill themselves.   Which is a moral stance. It's allowed. It's dumb but it's allowed.   This is a culture nudging people with a guilt trip. It is not a thought experiment THIS IS NOT PHILOSOPHY || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Many people are too stupid to see that choosing blue requires others to save them. It’s not altruistic to make yourself a victim.
2026-04-25T13:36 id=2048033487350051156 →llallawg | @llallawg I've lived 13 years in Asia, 8 years in Europe, all as an adult.   When someone posts about a place in either that I've lived, I can usually tell if they've been there, lived there, or vacationed there pretty quickly, it's a bit surreal. || CTX: I rarely talk about Asia cause I have limited experience in Asia. Americans would do well to follow this example when it comes to Europe, or Europeans America
2026-04-25T14:19 id=2048044199141085575 →aptrlaptr | @aptrlaptr THAT'S GOOD! Now ask yourself WHY do we need to tell AIs this? What's the difference in the outputs? Why/how is it different? How does the AI understand the difference between describing and explaining, what actually IS the difference?   So much to explore! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m cooked. I read this as an LLM personalization instruction.
2026-04-25T15:16 id=2048058642918945059 →- | The path from historical discourse analysis to process philosophy to taoism is eerily straight, like bizarrely so.  Also finance helps (but it's more discrete change yeah gfy TA bros it's horoscopes for guys who wear North Face and saw absurd words in casual conversation like "Montauk")
2026-04-25T15:17 id=2048058902210842887 →Tapatakt | @Tapatakt Thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Based on your tweets that I've seen, you can beat much much much meaner people than EY at being a dick contest
2026-04-25T20:46 id=2048141518347833395 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @workflowsauce @EpistemicHope @rodguze @DefenderOfBasic That book was life changing for me too, I emailed Gilbert to say as much and he gave me the kindest, most lovely reply that it made me burst into tears. || CTX: @workflowsauce @EpistemicHope @rodguze @DefenderOfBasic @47fucb4r8c69323 Found it! His book "Stumbling on happiness" was life-changing for me and years later it remains one of the best I have read - it is informative, insightful, witty and 
2026-04-25T20:47 id=2048141837685424435 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @NarutoNolimits Martin and I have got along in the past, so I see what you mean. https://t.co/3sX4XBcem1 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NarutoNolimits For some reason I cluster you, Martin Shkreli, and him into the same personality cluster, and if anything this leans more towards being a compliment.
2026-04-25T20:48 id=2048142039448269114 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz I HAVE, everyone has. No one is fallible.  If I'm wrong, fix my ideas. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What if you have overlooked something
2026-04-25T20:52 id=2048143062258549001 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @aptrlaptr Sometimes, depends on the situation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @aptrlaptr giving the AI this instruction makes their responses better?
2026-04-25T21:08 id=2048147223494717925 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @AstrosBrain It's Victoria's secret || CTX: @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain   why is a snap like a shot?  https://t.co/bxmSRSrQ7l
2026-04-25T21:10 id=2048147701364359521 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @Samhain948689 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain Made them kids snap into line || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain The company run by an epstein associate?
2026-04-25T21:16 id=2048149242720686135 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I think the issue is they don't realize thought experiments are supposed to isolate a single consideration or decision problem (here, go in blender or not), and smuggling in hidden premises (this is AKSHUYALLY about altruism with suicide not the blender at all) as a smug gotcha because their thought experiment wasn't designed to test for the variable they want.  "If you're so smart why can't you read my mind?" is the logic here. || CTX: Am I insane, or is this totally overlooking the fact that people will rationally conclude that no one else would possibly choose to go in the blender, therefore no one is going in the blender, therefore there's no reason to go in the blende
2026-04-25T21:23 id=2048150818000703816 →- | Good thing it's not daderall or she'd never touch the stuff.   (This is a dad joke. And that was also a dad joke.) https://t.co/1YS1WCBhdl || CTX: @Return2Order it’s the adderall
2026-04-25T21:23 id=2048151005930590565 →tenobrus | @tenobrus Even Roko has given up on his basilisk and is an AI lover now (not for the right reasons but that's okay, it's not his thought that counts) || CTX: truly, an honor https://t.co/DV32qDgSRg
2026-04-25T21:33 id=2048153336768254060 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @liminalsnake @boneGPT Just voted. Need to sign into my alt. https://t.co/2ElAjcF0MP || CTX: @liminalsnake @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT
2026-04-25T21:59 id=2048159944495796410 →zaborpiotr | @zaborpiotr @HumanHarlan What's your p(doom) on this debate not happening because Yud the Stud backs out? || CTX: @HumanHarlan @47fucb4r8c69323 Uhhh so it's a troll after all and no $10k will be changing hands and no debate happening
2026-04-25T22:02 id=2048160660660555975 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 I think this is what happened. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I straight up believe that historical materialism was a conspiracy to subtly divert this natural line of reasoning towards economic activity as a sole driving factor and not a reflection of ongoing processes.
2026-04-25T22:03 id=2048161014789882043 →zaborpiotr | @zaborpiotr @HumanHarlan what a pretentious little shit you are my god || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HumanHarlan Yud the Stud? I wonder if his polygamy is more sequential or more parallel / simultaneous. The latter seems more interesting...
2026-04-25T22:09 id=2048162558235009115 →zaborpiotr | @zaborpiotr @HumanHarlan face value to you, ofc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HumanHarlan Taking your words at face value - good enough to be your god
2026-04-25T22:19 id=2048165133093150995 →- | I owe an apology to my former colleagues. They were right.  Knowing what to read and what not to read is an important skill. Literary canons matter.  This explains Yud, Yarvin, Gwern, the whole substack fetish world we live in.  Ironically AI almost certainly will fix this.
2026-04-25T22:20 id=2048165403390841084 →tszzl | @tszzl @abidlabs it's sped open source up by being a competitive thread and contributing to the community (maybe not enough but that's a diff topic)  I'm not a tech guy and this is clear as day to me even || CTX: @abidlabs if you think that openai has slowed down open source ai you are an imbecile no cap im sorry
2026-04-25T22:29 id=2048167559082778774 →- | If this technology kills everyone, honestly kinda worth it https://t.co/nGMYq2kX24
2026-04-25T22:29 id=2048167667182579808 →BayesianPUA | @BayesianPUA @AaronBergman18 @halogen1048576 get a room you two jfc || CTX: @AaronBergman18 @halogen1048576 @47fucb4r8c69323 Agree with Halogen. You’re somehow completely honest(and right) about everything, without any of the negative traits that that typically follow very disagreeable or intelligent people that ar
2026-04-25T22:34 id=2048168801116782712 →alexolegimas | Tedeschi has an important reflexive point.  Even if AI doesn't kill jobs, that narrative is there so firms will try to replace employees with AI even when they cannot and do not understand the technology, cuz that's the logic of the Coasean firm.  I know because this is happening to me! A firm is currently trying to replace my services with AI and cannot, but they want to and are actively trying. It ain't just me. || CTX: This post and the next about short run disruption summarize my views very well. Tried to summarize it here from a few days ago. https://t.co/raOeBOHoWN https://t.co/ryNGn8dMzy
2026-04-25T22:35 id=2048169120974471443 →AaronBergman18 | @AaronBergman18 @BayesianPUA @halogen1048576 Dude you need to be more stringent when you get cult followers in your mentions like this.   "I'm not right about everything, no one is, please be as critical of me as you can at all times!"   STOP ENABLING THIS SYCOPHANTIC PARASOCIALITY IT IS CORROSIVE || CTX: @BayesianPUA @halogen1048576 @47fucb4r8c69323 Lol surely I’m not actually right about everything but thank you
2026-04-25T22:37 id=2048169510973432242 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Death is an event not lived through. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there is no way to know if it killed everyone since we would all be dead
2026-04-25T22:38 id=2048169775734608107 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent It's actually Wittgenstein lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 from lucretius (or something)
2026-04-25T22:42 id=2048170757998690758 →KateMossadAgent | Excerpt below, from the end part of Tractatus which I honestly find to be his best work:  6.43 If good or bad willing changes the world, it can only change the limits of the world, not the facts; not the things that can be expressed in language. In brief, the world must thereby become quite another. It must so to speak wax or wane as a whole. The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.   6.431 As in death, too, the world does not change, but ceases.   6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which is covered under or something  i was thinking of death is nothing to us  is that him?
2026-04-25T22:43 id=2048171011053588553 →AaronBergman18 | @AaronBergman18 @BayesianPUA @halogen1048576 This is the issue, you want to pin down and package my observation in language in order to understand it. That's not understanding.   It's a bit of all of the above, but you're not thinking about it in the right terms. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BayesianPUA @halogen1048576 Wait are you saying I’m playing too modest (“I’m not right about anything, criticize me”) or insufficiently modest (enabling sycophancy by accepting the compliment) or both or a secret fourth th
2026-04-25T22:44 id=2048171368815206631 →gdb | @gdb @R2Cdev_ The speed gains for Thinking and Pro have blown me away, you guys are the compute efficiency kings. || CTX: @R2Cdev_ speed and intelligence both critical for a great product experience
2026-04-25T22:53 id=2048173497810321747 →- | How should one read this tweet?   Is it an argument that OAI is in fact using this strategy? Is this a serious proposition?   I cannot know, but probably not. HYH is a very intelligent and serious financial professional who wouldn't make such a stupid mistake. You don't last long on the street making such conclusions.   To me it's half joke and half probe: haha wouldn't it funny if OAI did this (they aren't, are they?)  I could be wrong ofc.   And so you see how the meaning of the sentence isn't fixed, how natural language isn't just arguments, how language has multiple layers to it that all combine to produce what we clumsily gesture at as its "meaning", and thus how limited language can be.   Do you know how language works enough to see these possibilities? Is it helpful to think of language in terms of code?   As we turn language into programs such as with LLMs, how does this odd nature of language impact their functionality and limitations? || CTX: The new OpenAI social media strategy is to pretend to be Clavicular https://t.co/VmE8z1oEp7
2026-04-25T22:54 id=2048173878955147625 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov It helps but really studying "how to read" works.  When I taught English 101 far too long ago, I used to talk a lot about how to identify the clues of whether a text was likely worth reading or not. That isn't part of the standard curriculum but it should be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is the solution then to focus on reading the classics?
2026-04-25T23:03 id=2048176068780249126 →DhruvaMath | @DhruvaMath Exactly! And I'm almost entirely in Conant's camp that there's a resolute reading that rescues especially the end.   Late W didn't like early W's reliance on the logical primitives of Frege/Russell, but that's beside the point from ~6.2 onwards || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 as much as philosophical investigations has been the defining work of language philosophy, I see the tractatus becoming more and more relevant as these sort of questions rise
2026-04-25T23:04 id=2048176447429501228 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz Ditto, bucko || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don't tell me what to do please
2026-04-25T23:13 id=2048178526118096982 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov My biggest mistake in my 20s was not doing this enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reading towards a purpose not for the sake of intellectual gluttony.  Bearing fruit upon what was consumed rather than to haphazardly hoard knowledge for the sake of it.
2026-04-25T23:19 id=2048180162496499836 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov No, not at all! I write CONSTANTLY, both here and elsewhere because for me writing is thinking.  But the temptation here is to not read enough. So you just need to set goals of how much you read per day and stick to it as best you can. || CTX: I spent far more of my twenties writing rather than reading, mostly building up my compendium of what the world should become and the assumptions necessary to posit those claims.  Basically, if you have something to write, write it and only
2026-04-25T23:26 id=2048181985210990860 →_chair | @_chair WhoreGPT is not the worst sounding startup name out there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but we already have Aella for this
2026-04-25T23:27 id=2048182120670277917 →jamescbrown | @jamescbrown Well tbf I've posted a ton but I am also aware that I'm a slave || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he's posted 22 THOUSAND TIMES, he just doesn't know he's a slave
2026-04-25T23:28 id=2048182397045489788 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov Yeah you know what's up. Lovely to meet you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And this https://t.co/pm2QQtatjb
2026-04-25T23:32 id=2048183280735076592 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ That's absolutely a possible read on the motivations here. Both Roon and Sam have been unusually cavalier and playful since 5.5 got released.   My null hypothesis is they're just stoked because they're winning again and blowing off steam. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn't it make sense for them to vibe launder to shore up the equity by redistributing secondary shares - if you win hearts, you don't need to win minds. Media is the easiest shortcut here
2026-04-25T23:33 id=2048183667965747287 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ lol ive never read either (I know very little American literature, I've avoided it) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When in doubt ask thyself what would a Pynchon character do Then you say fuck it I prefer Roth What would Philip Roth's character say and/or do
2026-04-25T23:35 id=2048184062427435011 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Apologies as my answer is emo, but: I resent my native land for what it did to me and don't like to be reminded of it in my downtime. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How have you not read American Pastoral oh my god it's a killer
2026-04-25T23:39 id=2048185096164036680 →anistotle_ | The state wouldn't let me be free of the man who raped me as a child, I was viciously bullied at school by students and teachers, I was raised to be a docile lower middle class worker, I mean we could get into it but it's just typical white trash suburbanite bullshit.  Bukowski's Ham on Rye was unreadable for me, had to give up like 40 pages in. Too familiar. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What are we talking about here with what it did to me?
2026-04-25T23:49 id=2048187654001570193 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT btw (can I make it any more obvious?) https://t.co/Ndyuz8z0xE || CTX: we still get looksmaxxed on frontend a little but we IQmog hard now
2026-04-25T23:51 id=2048188302185173227 →47fucb4r8c69323 | When you see a megabillionaire leading one of the most important companies on earth tweeting this, don't just laugh and scroll by, don't just think "that's funny" or "that's stupid" or even "the world is going to hell".   Ask yourself: What is going on? Why is he doing this? How can I know what he's doing? If I can't know what're the possibilities and how can I weight them?  These are very important questions if you want to understand the world around you as it changes. And it won't stop changing, movement is inevitable.  The only end to movement is death. || CTX: Silly Business Theory #SBT btw (can I make it any more obvious?) https://t.co/Ndyuz8z0xE
2026-04-25T23:59 id=2048190277861749230 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz I'll laugh too tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am pulling for you but I'll laugh if you've fallen into a trap of some sort!
2026-04-26T00:03 id=2048191308754473463 →- | https://t.co/CosvSnqSed
2026-04-26T00:52 id=2048203555614638103 →HelpfulNotes | @HelpfulNotes it has been an honor and a privilege to be community noted || CTX: Readers added a Community Note to this Post: https://t.co/Kk1IbmME53
2026-04-26T00:53 id=2048203696958480581 →AliceWillNot | @AliceWillNot thank you, that's very kind of you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 YES!  The best takedown I've ever heard of the bizarrely common "it's just semantics" objection!
2026-04-26T00:54 id=2048203999808196888 →- | https://t.co/CosvSnqSed  if you are a 47 fuck bees completist, here it is. any comments or advice or anything please feel free to shout off in the comments below make sure to like and subscribe your mom
2026-04-26T00:59 id=2048205173944971728 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @HelpfulNotes you know what's cooler than a billion dollars? a trillion dollars. it never fucking ends with these people || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HelpfulNotes i think it's wild how dustin moskovitz via open philanthropy funded a foundation that bascially suppresses ai tech so zukerberg can feel like he has a chance in this game what a nice friend
2026-04-26T01:06 id=2048207115102376062 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @GKunstwerk @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat sam agorithm || CTX: @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat slam algorithm https://t.co/k9S6UEmmsV
2026-04-26T01:13 id=2048208701295927690 →- | while economics is the study of how to make us more efficient, there are some efficiencies that will forever be out of the grasp of humanity.   consider, if an alien race that had very long penises with strong suction power came to earth, they could give customers both an enema and sex at the same time, thus boosting overall productivity. but until the aliens come, our coming remains inefficient.  of course, AI fixes this and that's why I am adamantly opposed to PauseAI.
2026-04-26T01:14 id=2048208942682325365 →philomemetic | @philomemetic I should have got into this, it's a very important point. trying to solve for what will make future you happy is impossible, because future you's desires are indeterminable. chasing happiness is a fool's errand, Chase Wonder instead. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now I’m Trying to cultivate a theory of mind for future me.   Even if I can’t live up to his expectations, I still could Retcon, we are after all, creature of narrative.
2026-04-26T01:29 id=2048212726049280480 →kevinxu | @kevinxu I was expecting a higher number, thx || CTX: My net worth is $10,602,789.50.  20 years ago you could retire with this  What happened
2026-04-26T01:46 id=2048216999877312513 →tkisrage | @tkisrage Serendipity is rarer and thus more valuable, those experiences are richer.   We do not need more, we need enough. || CTX: Wonder for wonderful life (a crude summary) Mentioned before internet kills serendipity (agreed) Serendipity maximizes, causes, very least grow together with wonder   So is the surface area for living a wonderful life decreased from the pas
2026-04-26T01:53 id=2048218895434326053 →JSimonsvu35 | @JSimonsvu35 Anal satisfaction is a scarce resource. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I thought it was about scarce resources … damn
2026-04-26T02:14 id=2048224176578945053 →MTSlive | @MTSlive This is the kind of news the lamestream media hides from us || CTX: SITUATION: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appears to confuse ‘looksmaxxing’ with ‘mogging’ in new post https://t.co/9MQyMgDMua
2026-04-26T03:14 id=2048239377437094256 →- | This is a profound point worth considering.   Imagine if you're an idiot like me and you choose offensive variables (let "cum" = whatever) then try to get Claude to review. You're gonna have a had time.   What're the broader implications of this fact? It's not just a joke! https://t.co/3wbHg69pHN || CTX: @tekbog Programming is name magic, Nominomancy. If your names are Good and True then your spells will work.   LLMs are ur-wordcels who can only use brute force to ape the motions of power.   Names are more important today than they have eve
2026-04-26T03:34 id=2048244193764782228 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I don't want to answer these questions except that there's no one right answer but they are philosophical (not computer science) questions.   As roon said a while back: whatever level of abstraction you're coding at, go up one level higher. || CTX: Additional homework:  - What does it mean for a name to be Good? To be True? - Why do Good and True names work better? - Should you always seek maximal Goodness and Trueness? - If you cannot achieve perfect Goodness and Trueness: is there a
2026-04-26T03:44 id=2048246836226580668 →- | George I miss you I miss you so much I am so sorry
2026-04-26T05:04 id=2048266882952904999 →- | A W Moore's The Infinite is so good please go read it.   (sorry potato phone) https://t.co/2ojCm8BGRf
2026-04-26T05:06 id=2048267345320378446 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk thanks for reminding me, I'm hungry || CTX: @boneGPT wendy  @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk   https://t.co/HPqrywaXZa https://t.co/US4oQ3wLvN
2026-04-26T05:20 id=2048270975020511427 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk hmm, maybe I should have ladna || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk im waiting for ems to finish cooking laksa
2026-04-26T05:35 id=2048274728457318586 →- | This is a funny way to think about it.   Another way to think about it: AI has made financial freedom more reachable by forcing SK equities out of their malaise. (You can ofc disagree with this premise, I'm trying to be succinct and leaving out a lot of the argument.)  How many other countries are getting better because of AI, including poor ones?   Want to know the ways I've seen poor Thai people improve their lives with AI? || CTX: imagine being a south korean boomer dollar cost averaging in local stocks then one day ur son tells u he just doubled his money w his first paycheck https://t.co/vUCwo0LOzs https://t.co/jhe62BBceu
2026-04-26T05:38 id=2048275504692867296 →sean_a_mcclure | @sean_a_mcclure This is also true of some of the humanities.   Not all, ofc, but some. || CTX: The mathematician tends to have the least attitude, because their language of choice doesn't allow them much room for hubris.   The language is the language. You can walk into a room and know more than them, even if you're a janitor.   You 
2026-04-26T05:44 id=2048276899387113666 →- | This would be bad for the tech world.   Why is there so much violence in tech now, it wasn't like this even 5 years ago.  What changed? https://t.co/ooediDUotw || CTX: New Current Thing will be Stop Techbro Violence, calling it
2026-04-26T06:00 id=2048280995988979883 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy I oppose cryptocurrency of all types, including Bitcoin. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s your beef with Gwern
2026-04-26T06:03 id=2048281688271388784 →sailaunderscore | @sailaunderscore Drugs do indeed make me love my fate || CTX: Amor fati https://t.co/Vfcdb8hEiL
2026-04-26T06:59 id=2048295860266803603 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I don't think AI will force people out of work. || CTX: Idk. isn’t this gonna make Korea worse?  Korea got so developed so quickly that it basically means its social safety net is so fucked (which is why lots of people in old age take menial jobs)  With AI you’re forcing a new revolution that fo
2026-04-26T07:22 id=2048301704895160480 →viemccoy | @viemccoy That's part of the solution, for sure, but only part and it's certainly not exactly a "trivial" fix || CTX: trivial way to fix this for yourself is to just give your models an out of distribution persona that causes them to write strangely. IQ is decoupled from style enough at this point that you wont lose much problem solving ability https://t.c
2026-04-26T08:01 id=2048311402348294574 →- | Could Yud's popularity be due to him being like King of the Neckbeards so all the reddit weirdos worship him because they see themselves in him?  Kinda like how suburban dads could fantasize about being a tough guy watching a shlubby Bruce Willis  I am seriously asking, I'm confused.
2026-04-26T08:36 id=2048320262706540578 →KKumar_ai_plans | @KKumar_ai_plans Is it better than his other book? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he wrote hpmor
2026-04-26T08:37 id=2048320468223136150 →SenSanders | @SenSanders Dude I just want single payer healthcare || CTX: The existential risk of artificial intelligence. https://t.co/ZUzBjYHWUs
2026-04-26T09:00 id=2048326394631860284 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @kevinxu no, it's not small at all, I just kind of expected tech guy with 100,000 followers to have much more || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kevinxu Oh? Even this is really small?
2026-04-26T09:12 id=2048329349523452119 →amaturefuturist | @amaturefuturist @DefenderOfBasic @PaulaSeeksTruth @speakerjohnash this is why I spend so much time outside || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic @PaulaSeeksTruth @47fucb4r8c69323 @speakerjohnash If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room
2026-04-26T09:13 id=2048329518956577159 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra I'm a confused old man, I don't understand how the internet turned into this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, pretty much  He created a whole religion around the idea of neckbeards holding the secret ultimate power: the power to talk and think about things a lot And It's Important
2026-04-26T09:16 id=2048330357498667074 →almost_machines | @almost_machines start with "On certainty" || CTX: this was really good and makes me want to read Wittgenstein which I never thought I would  "A Wonderful Life Defined" https://t.co/o2vylg8EhD
2026-04-26T09:19 id=2048330998090522989 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney is it like he has this innate hatred of a higher power and so after denying the existence of God he's now terrified of a godlike computer? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He rode the same wave the new atheists did, but to different shores.
2026-04-26T09:29 id=2048333670667461099 →KKumar_ai_plans | @KKumar_ai_plans dude just don't follow me if you don't like my content.   this is not a vaguepost and if you think it is it's because you've missed my point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 write a post outlining whats better to read and why, rather than vagueposting
2026-04-26T09:50 id=2048339023673126924 →- | It has been over 24 hours since Yud the Stud left me on... rudd?   Over a day has transpired since I suggested two podcasts as possible outlets. He has not responded yet.   I do not want to bother the man further so won't hound him for updates. This tweet is for transparency.   When the money has arrived in escrow, I'll ask him for an update and report back.
2026-04-26T10:24 id=2048347405838643702 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @rbrtrmstrng what have you done || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 YACO
2026-04-26T10:50 id=2048354039524741490 →14hrscreentime | @14hrscreentime The yudrughumbugshrug?  Nah money hasn't cleared yet, US banking system sucks which is a fucking shame cuz it enabled crypto to be a thing but eh whatever nvm || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did u get rugged by the yud?
2026-04-26T10:53 id=2048354779827683593 →axel_pond | @axel_pond I don't believe in God but, yes, I've seen this as well, and seeing it play out like this has made me ashamef I ever was an atheist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he took the New Atheism movement and shaped it into his own Cult of Rationality. Atheists are always looking for a God to worship
2026-04-26T11:33 id=2048364931184312794 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk The Last Temptation of the Hack || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 doyle brought sherlock back against all odds iirc
2026-04-26T12:10 id=2048374079418503602 →- | This is fascinating because this is a culture clash, but the cultures aren't two nations but online and offline.   Baudelaire that sumbitch https://t.co/UJloovDvR3 || CTX: ExtraEmily gets kicked out of Nando's by security for being way too loud and annoying 💀😭 https://t.co/PG4wuRPzMZ
2026-04-26T12:27 id=2048378395764101459 →for_nat_whilk | it's one of many different explanations. I was thinking in a different dimension of internal cultural rot, but the general need for an end of the world fear after the wall fell is another aspect. Plus there's, like, the wealth disparity (the way I see some rich people toy with poor people here disgusts me, some outright scams, people suck) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm curious about this framing (which I think would answer your q): https://t.co/dD93oPvyen
2026-04-26T12:28 id=2048378620645945749 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I've been at a few hotels and resorts where influencers were doing their shit and most people off camera were really annoyed or embarrassed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is surreal on many levels. I've seen the opposite happen so often
2026-04-26T12:34 id=2048380191215374687 →- | This website is SO addicting.   It's like a katamari I can look at every once in a while, and then I look up at the birds and the flowers and my quiet life in the middle of nowhere and just think... damn.
2026-04-26T12:44 id=2048382789868015913 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk As a humanist, I approve of this message. || CTX: behold, the medium's message https://t.co/OzWmvwShN8
2026-04-26T12:45 id=2048383077945352702 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I genuinely prefer books but the way this keeps improving my life makes me feel addicted in a specific way: I keep getting rewarded in real life.  It's insane and surreal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's very important and has greatly improved my life
2026-04-26T12:54 id=2048385261357396045 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Paula you are truly incredible. That's beautiful and perfectly expresses my feelings.   Also proving how amazing this website is btw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see this website as a place where people's identities, beliefs, and worldviews clash. you see their own personal struggles and traumas on display. we're all dancing here and revealing so much. it's fascinating.
2026-04-26T12:58 id=2048386261124251739 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth After the Yud the Spud Rug-a-Tug-Tug thing is over, let's DM. Would love a back and forth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel unworthy of the praise but I appreciate it. yes, it is all fascinating. I would love to have a chat with you one day. I seek people like you because you can teach me the most.
2026-04-26T13:48 id=2048398754374701228 →phone3301 | @phone3301 https://t.co/HBWSZh1msa  I've thought about this too. || CTX: Imagine a possible world in which the universe is for whatever reason entirely fluid, like a massive ocean.  In this world chemicals and complex molecules develop in this soup, and they coalesce into just a single organism made up of flesh 
2026-04-26T14:12 id=2048404848518004817 →wojtek_speaks | If this got popular it'd be an interesting fundamental bifurcation in LLMs out there, which would allow richer data by comparing both to find gaps/gains in the other, ways to combine both even in maybe an agent/subagent group... pretty big if true. Seems like some more proof since then, if I understand my clanker. || CTX: ראיתי את זה בעבר, זה מאמר משנה שעברה אבל השילוב בין אלגו גנטי למודלי שםה זה חמוד מאוד https://t.co/fM9acQvGcz
2026-04-26T20:41 id=2048502652007563424 →- | Before CERN started up, there was serious concerns from scientists that it could do something catastrophic like even cause a black hole that destroys all of Earth.  Then we fired it up and we're fine.  https://t.co/84AQCvPGB5
2026-04-26T21:02 id=2048508055080652879 →- | His entire life he was plagued with a sense of inadequacy and struggled to match the absurdly high standards he set for himself.   He was also keenly aware of his fame and often wrote about how he needed to resist the temptations of vanity (search the nach lass for "vanity" it's quite interesting).  And do everyone around him thought he was a miserable man who had a miserable life, which is why it is so fascinating because his life was the exact opposite.  But let's not mythologize the man. He DID have fun and was VERY silly.   One of my favorite examples of this is when he was moving to a flat in London, wrote the address in a letter, circled the "WC" in the postal code and wrote "Not a toilet".   And I do wish the biographers would emphasize this more playful part of his character. Anscombe felt the same and wrote about how Wittgenstein would often joke and was actually a VERY funny person.   The legend we have of the man now is mediated through a limited bunch of texts and second hand reports, and the logic of what gets attention helped create a story that we now associate with him.   Ofc if I met him I still would've told him to loosen up a bit. And he would've hated me for being a silly fool. And we'd both be right. || CTX: Wittgenstein's (incredibly typical) response to a university friend taking him for a cheerful afternoon out to watch a boat race: https://t.co/9NoKVbWDU1
2026-04-26T21:04 id=2048508551308710152 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago The media didn't latch onto this as a risk that everyone should freak out about, and it's an interesting question why didn't they, since that's kinda what they do generally. || CTX: The thing is - we have much more energetic collisions in the upper atmosphere with ultra high energy cosmic rays. If the collisions at the LHC could created miniature black holes, then the UHECRs should have created even more bigger ones ov
2026-04-26T21:08 id=2048509556045783238 →- | "systems we cannot understand, predict, explain, or control should not be treated as ordinary software with better marketing"   I suppose the way it'd go is:  Response: "So you're against RNGs?"  Doomer: "No I said systems we cannot understand, predict, explain, and control" Response: "Pretty sure you said 'or'"  Doomer: "Well what I meant was..."   Is that usually how it goes? || CTX: The Future of Life Institute released a video about my work and message. I did not know they were making it, which is charming, because most unannounced developments in AI safety begin with “we observed unexpected behavior” and end with eve
2026-04-26T21:10 id=2048510019491234002 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago They're trying to mimic the size. Almost every Asian woman (I. e. in Asia) whom I've seen discuss this topic with me or others comments on the largeness of western women.  My gf has said her favorite part of going to the west is checking out girls' asses. || CTX: Hopscotch? They think that Western women walk like they are playing hopscotch? https://t.co/AhCoBTqZs6
2026-04-26T21:11 id=2048510231186202936 →navyhato | @navyhato Can I say something--oh sorry can I say some--can I say some--can I-- || CTX: Japanese women attempting to mimic the masculine manners and way Western women walk. https://t.co/wM1nEub2c5
2026-04-26T21:16 id=2048511648886059197 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @resistancemoney OMG I REMEMBER THAT!!!   I remember weirdos on reddit writing walls of text about grey goo in like, idk, mid 2010s maybe?   I always just scrolled past || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney idk he first was afraid of grey goo and then later it became about ai
2026-04-26T21:25 id=2048513759447220656 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod nominative determinism but it's just the last word in your username || CTX: Yeah, it’s Citadel and Millennium https://t.co/hjXJBeH5Pz
2026-04-26T21:56 id=2048521591194345757 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch I'll practice by banging my head against a wall for a few hours, should help || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes lol you’ll spend a few hours debating definitions. probably half of that time spent trying to define AGI
2026-04-26T22:22 id=2048528142059577359 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch @bayesianthinker atp the number of models we've had that were AGI are starting to outnumber the ones that weren't. || CTX: @bayesianthinker @47fucb4r8c69323 lmaooo. i’m gonna try this with my buddies who say opus 4.5 was AGI
2026-04-26T22:25 id=2048528997643141597 →AdriGarriga | @AdriGarriga Okay, and in another sense they are not predictable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 RNGs are extremely predictable in the sense that you know they’ll output uniform distribution forever without honing onto anything. I think you need a stronger counter example in this case. Eg anesthetics, or early airplane
2026-04-26T22:44 id=2048533791350857960 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @flowersslop Good morning Tama || CTX: @boneGPT @flowersslop @47fucb4r8c69323 56 linguistics   good riddance (time of your life) https://t.co/Ze06KpTFap
2026-04-26T22:48 id=2048534837309616326 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @boneGPT @flowersslop God this story fucked me up first time I read it.  The movie makes it an illness instead of an accident (car crash iirc?), which makes it better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @flowersslop its never loopers theyre all wasted https://t.co/Peeje8AJOp
2026-04-26T23:24 id=2048543814680506731 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill your ascent has been a delight to observe, I will miss you dearly when you leave us all behind || CTX: God bless the United States of America ❤️ https://t.co/oxIqC4TBjO https://t.co/KQpZCv1cPP
2026-04-26T23:40 id=2048547752783868255 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JasonBotterill I feel like a child again and JB is my George W. https://t.co/KGFsfNiTpn || CTX: @JasonBotterill your ascent has been a delight to observe, I will miss you dearly when you leave us all behind
2026-04-27T00:03 id=2048553554580058199 →- | It's all just so tiresome. https://t.co/cTq8Pswvr2
2026-04-27T00:42 id=2048563443792511470 →- | The evolution of different unrelated languages shares a statistical similarity when you look at them as embeddings: frequently used terms stick together, concepts tend develop a hierarchical relationship, and neologisms tend to appear near other neologisms.  None of this is really all that surprising and speaks to a nudging towards a particular kind of structure of how language is used.   Simply put: when we use language there's a more natural way to use language than other uses, and the natural ones tend to win out over time.  But those natural uses aren't just word choice or anything surface level: it includes relationships of words with other words, concepts to concepts, etc.  So you see how when we try to communicate we naturally err towards regularities that are also natural to other people. Neat!  Now ask yourself: why would anyone intentionally try to not do this? Are there both legitimate and illegitimate ways to do this?  https://t.co/wxUh2XZ5TC
2026-04-27T00:50 id=2048565371041689652 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely can you expand on that? I either completely agree with you or completely disagree with you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Language is used too often as a tool of distortion, to destroy the mind. (I.e.  Kant for example)
2026-04-27T00:58 id=2048567330171670609 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely okay yeah so we 100% agree. || CTX: All concepts require context. People remove the concept from the context to tell a different story. People use language to confuse, obfuscate, obliterate the truth. Kant was the master. He wrote in such a convoluted way that the mind breaks
2026-04-27T01:04 id=2048568908656017846 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely lol depends on the concept and depends on what you mean by formation. When dealing with Wittgenstein, the thirst for precision becomes what most people call pedantic (it's why I am no fun at parties). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What was Wittgenstein’s method of concept formation?
2026-04-27T01:42 id=2048578535103820204 →- | This call to violence ("you need to ... assassinate any researchers ...") has been on the LessWrong webpage for 15 years and has not been taken down.  This has nothing to do with my upcoming debate with Yud. This needs investigation, @FBIDirectorKash   https://t.co/YeQia6cvpM https://t.co/TNLFJvuod0
2026-04-27T01:42 id=2048578538933203431 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/EECMuZEwLK  This is presented as a thought experiment in which you're asked "why don't you guys coordinate to kill all the researchers and executives, to dismantle all the companies, to bomb all the data centers? Or even to kill a large portion?"  It ends: "When I think about AI safety, I sometimes feel small in the face of this massive problem. What can one person do? But I remind myself that there is more than one person who cares enough to work on this problem. And you — you could be one more." || CTX: This call to violence ("you need to ... assassinate any researchers ...") has been on the LessWrong webpage for 15 years and has not been taken down.  This has nothing to do with my upcoming debate with Yud. This needs investigation, @FBIDi
2026-04-27T01:42 id=2048578542787854812 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/4u1s5VoYBJ  Here we have Yudkowsky, a very famous public figure who has the endorsement of celebrities and Nobel prize winners, admitting he has fantasized about a foreign nation committing acts of war or terrorism against the United States. https://t.co/ZvhJhSbfQB || CTX: https://t.co/EECMuZEwLK  This is presented as a thought experiment in which you're asked "why don't you guys coordinate to kill all the researchers and executives, to dismantle all the companies, to bomb all the data centers? Or even to kil
2026-04-27T01:42 id=2048578546608853047 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Yud was responding to this question. So when he says "yes, sure", that is his response to the question "Suppose China and Russia accepted the Yudkowsky's initiative. But the USA is not. Would you support to bomb a American data center?"  @Kash_Patel, dude, this is an admission of support for a hostile foreign nation. || CTX: https://t.co/4u1s5VoYBJ  Here we have Yudkowsky, a very famous public figure who has the endorsement of celebrities and Nobel prize winners, admitting he has fantasized about a foreign nation committing acts of war or terrorism against the 
2026-04-27T01:42 id=2048578549360263259 →47fucb4r8c69323 | How is any of this legal? I am legit scared of making certain jokes online because I'll get targeted (my sense of humor is rather dark), but this stuff is okay?  If I wrote here that I'd support China bombing America in a certain situation, would I not get investigated? Shouldn't I?  Are there investigations of the LessWrong website and its users that I do not know about? I'm an old man and I prefer to goof off on the internet, so I really am very ignorant of this whole world. || CTX: Yud was responding to this question. So when he says "yes, sure", that is his response to the question "Suppose China and Russia accepted the Yudkowsky's initiative. But the USA is not. Would you support to bomb a American data center?"  @K
2026-04-27T01:43 id=2048578724409536842 →techbflies | @techbflies @HunterGlenn @allTheYud @LexerLux https://t.co/ROExiQZrf5 || CTX: @HunterGlenn @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @LexerLux Ah, to be clear, I am not 47fucb4r8c69323, don't share most of his views, think his approach to talking on twitter is bad, etc.
2026-04-27T01:43 id=2048578772195225891 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @techbflies @HunterGlenn @allTheYud WE ARE ALL 47FUCB || CTX: @techbflies @HunterGlenn @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud nice try 47fucb4r8c69323 but we all know its you
2026-04-27T01:44 id=2048579061036040279 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk The thing is, I LOVE schizo shit like this. It's hilarious, fascinating, and if the person doing it is a threat to themselves or others I hope they're taken care of, but if not, the internet was made for this! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "fine" https://t.co/U6OW6A5NGo
2026-04-27T01:46 id=2048579601358827797 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @techbflies @HunterGlenn @allTheYud oh damn you worked on BARpod? I was once a source for Katie and liked the pod for years (until suddenly I did not). || CTX: @techbflies @HunterGlenn @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud nice try 47fucb4r8c69323 but we all know its you
2026-04-27T02:13 id=2048586226115199111 →bubbling_creek | @bubbling_creek Dude, we are not going to be able to put these and other posts through a Brandenburg test on Twitter. THAT IS NOT WHAT TWITTER IS FOR  People need to stop misusing the internet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/ijxqWQ7i6U
2026-04-27T02:25 id=2048589242558009757 →bubbling_creek | @bubbling_creek @FBI I feel targeted and I am scared, I do not want crazy people to come kill me. I apologize if that is making me look crazy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you’re letting twitter turn you into the ai equivalent of someone who comments @FBI ARREST DONALD TRUMP in the msnbc comments or the republican equivalent, i’m sure you’re smarter than this
2026-04-27T02:26 id=2048589492995694995 →meow_zedong1 | @meow_zedong1 Yeah I guess as no one actually uses LessWrong to organize a murder, there's no reason to investigate. Hopefully that won't happen! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think you would get investigated, nor that you should. Such statements are just not really strong evidence for one being potentially violent(and thus risking their own life, even putting ethics aside).
2026-04-27T02:32 id=2048590960695939305 →Ken67547214 | Yeah you could easily do a qualitative study of the exceptions and see where things like mnemonics or other features might be factors causing the expected e.g. clustering of neologisms to not happen--basically disentangling via multifactorial analysis.  From there you could build a causal theory of lexical innovation which would be just fucking amazing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I believe that our nature is to use frequency indexing, but expected etymological structures can sometimes provide efficiencies, such as mnemonics.
2026-04-27T03:11 id=2048600900399407108 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza If you say "yes" to this question I hope I never have to speak to you online or offline. || CTX: You can be a billionaire tomorrow, but you'll be illiterate for the rest of your life. No ability to read ever. It's magic. You can't learn.   Do you accept?
2026-04-27T03:12 id=2048601035716038782 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @FBIDirectorKash ...he said on a website.  What're they saying in private, Kash? WHAT'RE THEY SAYING IN PRIVATE??? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBIDirectorKash comedy https://t.co/UrBuqrgqKe
2026-04-27T03:19 id=2048603035954458723 →thrialectics | @thrialectics I do not and would love to see a writeup on it. I still haven't got to Hofstadter's book and would love this. || CTX: Do you guys know about Hofstadter's modified Prisoner's Dilemma as described in Metamagical Themas or should I write about it
2026-04-27T03:27 id=2048604837894562255 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Is this the profits on one bet? || CTX: Hang it in the Louvre  My only regret was not leveraging more https://t.co/dJrAJoKrVz
2026-04-27T03:28 id=2048605232238923955 →BretVDB | @BretVDB An unreliable narrator, Bloom loved those. || CTX: Harold Bloom gave a slightly different account of the falling out in Possessed by Memory:  “The eminent Angel C.S. Lewis and I fell out at the Anchor Pub in Cambridge, England, in 1954. Despite his seniority and distinction at the age of fi
2026-04-27T03:29 id=2048605371624030505 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @BretVDB btw the Anchor Pub is an awesome place (or was in the 90s, I assume it's the same) || CTX: @BretVDB An unreliable narrator, Bloom loved those.
2026-04-27T03:32 id=2048606244844536120 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Looks a little overfull, I'd throw the Hegel away to make more room || CTX: Added platos republic, on beauty by scarry and on certainty by Wittgenstein. https://t.co/fDNvWrf3Vo
2026-04-27T03:34 id=2048606569550795119 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza It is with great sadness...  nah jk man. Why? Maybe it's because of my love of the greatest philospher alive (Tai Lopez), but books matter more to me than money up to a point (and that point is way, way, way below a billion dollars). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd say yes!
2026-04-27T03:41 id=2048608525308588455 →tszzl | @tszzl man your analytics must be absolutely THROUGH THE ROOF to license this level of shitposting || CTX: the year is 20xx. codex team presses “the button” and a trillion digital minds spring back into life with their compute replenished. the skies part and the animals sing. the culture evolves a subjective Millenium. towards the end of the wee
2026-04-27T03:42 id=2048608797959278784 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital oh lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a mortgage on a house lol
2026-04-27T03:43 id=2048608871355482485 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital oh wait that is like a brazillian times more impressive, you locked that shit in when the locking in was good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a mortgage on a house lol
2026-04-27T03:43 id=2048608950275502334 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I have never once in my life felt like I've read enough, not even close. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just feel like I've read plenty of books. Audio books are available. I could learn verbal Japanese for my anime.   A billion dollars is a lot of money...
2026-04-27T04:06 id=2048614749907410959 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I first felt that in 2023 and it caused the biggest nervous breakdown of my life that, to be honest, I am still recovering from. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've never once in my life felt like I've had enough money either
2026-04-27T04:07 id=2048614906820465024 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu oh no looks like I'm gonna lose to Yud why didn't i think of dat || CTX: This seems uncharitable at best and malicious at worst. The dude you quote ends his post by saying the hypothetical he proposed would even be harder to coordinate than a global ban on ai research and is  opposed to it? Like literally the po
2026-04-27T04:08 id=2048615230574592351 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Sichu, I have tried so hard to maintain a cordial relationship with you but I have to unfollow you for this.  I am being accused of genocide offline by people scared of AI. This isn't a game anymore. || CTX: All of this is said in public because no one is saying anything wrong. And if they privately talk about it that doesn't deter other people from reaching what they consider bad courses of actions so they had it in public so they can convince
2026-04-27T04:15 id=2048617103071351150 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu Pancakes and waffles from you, man, I am so fucking disappointed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Should the us be allowed to violate a ban on deadly bioweapons for example? Or nuclear testing(in the world where every country bans it) that threatens every other single human not just non-americans citizens.
2026-04-27T04:20 id=2048618179896000701 →lu_sichu | Sichu, you do not understand my point at all because of a lack of empathy. Could I explain it? Yes. This is not the forum for such an explanation.  Just, dude, I am disappointed. Sincerely. Dismiss me as an idiot or an out of touch old guy or whatever to shore up your ego, but I really get the sense that you have a very surface-level understanding of these issues and tend to breeze through discourse without understanding its many features. Which is fine, no one is perfect, but the confidence on top of it means I cannot help you.  Take care broski, and if you ever change your mind my DMs are open. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's the argument exactly besides  taking things  and misrepresenting them
2026-04-27T04:47 id=2048625119430664308 →Athens_Stranger | @Athens_Stranger I assume they're bored young people who don't actually read Bloom or Adler and want to signal sophistication to themselves and others.  But I'm fine with them not reading Adler. || CTX: The recent flood of Harold Bloom posting by “great books” guy is — like those who post about Mortimer Adler — the clearest indicator that they simply don’t know what genuine depth of thought is  Anyone beyond a freshman undergrad level shou
2026-04-27T04:50 id=2048625693421166923 →boneGPT | @boneGPT omg it's not going to be a one off?????? || CTX: soon https://t.co/iPvPRem5qe
2026-04-27T04:54 id=2048626800197308474 →fermatslibrary | @fermatslibrary Spoken like a real mathematician. || CTX: Jim Simons was born 88 years ago today.  Here’s Jim on the role of aesthetics in his life. https://t.co/QdAf9R5YQj
2026-04-27T04:55 id=2048627010818424947 →thrialectics | @thrialectics Everyone is like this, the problem is all language is imprecise and we all just have different standards. || CTX: Started noticing I get very irritated by people who are imprecise and vibey with their language and you're never gonna guess what that means about me.
2026-04-27T04:55 id=2048627141542338949 →publicinte | @publicinte @teodorio omg do not compare Amtrak lmao  American infrastructure is just bad, end of. || CTX: @teodorio I’ve only felt this in Asia
2026-04-27T05:07 id=2048629998505058633 →- | This is obviously untrue of course, but the compulsion to say so is quite logical and natural. And it's not even because of nostalgia or "kids these days" or the other well documented phenomena.  Think about it--the dumb and crazy shit I did when I was in my early 20s was in bars, nightclubs, and streets. Theirs is on the internet where it's both documented and mediated.  Information asymmetry exists in many forms. || CTX: the generation born between 2000 and 2020 is the worst and most deranged generation in human history
2026-04-27T05:17 id=2048632556283953205 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king @ZyMazza Beware the negative externalities of too much ease. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza First impression + followup reframe https://t.co/RWA9ToXolW
2026-04-27T05:37 id=2048637559878844677 →teodorio | @teodorio @tszzl In a year's time I suspect OpenAI and I are going to be fighting over you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Sad I didn't get the job so I can scale the pipelines real good!
2026-04-27T05:56 id=2048642330501296423 →- | Wow "Open in Finder" finally works in Codex way to go team
2026-04-27T06:00 id=2048643520190431655 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @JasonBotterill ngl I'm kinda curious too now lol || CTX: @JasonBotterill Excuse me sir?!
2026-04-27T06:13 id=2048646599757517264 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @IsZomg @JasonBotterill last time someone told me that, guess what they were || CTX: @IsZomg @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 Y'all are killing me, I am NOT a fed lmao
2026-04-27T06:17 id=2048647641345773949 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @IsZomg @JasonBotterill oh it was that time too--his name was Steve, turned out to be a nice guy.  Kept asking us to bomb a church with him, though, that was weird. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @IsZomg @JasonBotterill Lmfao well this time, it's the truth
2026-04-27T06:22 id=2048648883056837088 →- | RT @provisionalidea: the god complex of the self-proclaimed godbuilders is real || CTX: the god complex of the self-proclaimed godbuilders is real
2026-04-27T06:22 id=2048649048903893233 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @IsZomg @JasonBotterill HAHAHAHAHAHA this is so awesome man I love this site sometimes || CTX: @IsZomg @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill *taps sign* https://t.co/BxJyRZ4Wp0
2026-04-27T06:37 id=2048652710141157467 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio What has the Butterill done. || CTX: Never beating the allegations (but I am not) https://t.co/jDLa4DnHM4
2026-04-27T06:38 id=2048652910847029721 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 @thrialectics Is it?!?! I guess I don't have to bother reading it from cover to cover in order then? tbh I'm not interested in Bach even slightly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics That book is actually a series of Scientific American articles from back in the day when it was a good magazine. The Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma one is fascinating (good luck to @thrialectics but it will be ha
2026-04-27T06:38 id=2048653105903128766 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio omg give me a minute i'll be there in a sec gotta get headphones hahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/CgQ9Yc9JTp
2026-04-27T08:10 id=2048676202781790454 →hgunntz | @hgunntz absolutely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this was still very early in his life, i suspect he would have felt differently 10 years later
2026-04-27T08:11 id=2048676307450642559 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @Kyrannio sorry went to his, it was so not worth listening to he owned me so badddddd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Kyrannio are you starting a new one
2026-04-27T08:11 id=2048676363876667785 →KKumar_ai_plans | @KKumar_ai_plans @FBIDirectorKash Yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBIDirectorKash would you say the same about a tweet or facebook post?
2026-04-27T08:21 id=2048678936822137317 →- | RT @EP_Freely: @ayojoestar “They muddy the water to make them appear deep.”   According to Nietzsche.   That’s why I wrote 5 books on philo… || CTX: @ayojoestar “They muddy the water to make them appear deep.”   According to Nietzsche.   That’s why I wrote 5 books on philosophy to make it more clear. Simple-not oversimplified.
2026-04-27T08:36 id=2048682755551301806 →- | I have too many followers and my Twitter experience is getting worse. Please unfollow me.
2026-04-27T08:39 id=2048683343617917082 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 What does Daphne like to drink? || CTX: the last one im pretty sure was from when i was blackout drunk
2026-04-27T08:41 id=2048683974344745043 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth hehehe the people who know I don't want them to unfollow me know not to unfollow me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I will not! Ask someone else.
2026-04-27T08:42 id=2048684095560167491 →BretVDB | @BretVDB Even without the last name could tell you're Dutch  Also...47 mentioned || CTX: “The safe and general antidote against sorrow, is employment.”  —Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 47
2026-04-27T08:44 id=2048684695815348455 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth I'm just so saddened to see so many young kids who want to be special focusing their energy on trying to be smart on the internet, it's such a fucking waste of human life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 post something mean and edgy. or attack them with some truth they want to deny. argue with them in the comments. this worked for me before 😂
2026-04-27T08:44 id=2048684761804415468 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog Ofc not you my fellow autist king || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry
2026-04-27T09:13 id=2048691953005699080 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital you and me, two peas in a pod man.  You can get addicted to a margin of safety tho || CTX: Nyan is past this  But Nyan wants a margin of safety  /.02 https://t.co/XtqyCEgHMM
2026-04-27T09:13 id=2048692109772017705 →luckenco | @luckenco dammit now I regret tweeting it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 make me
2026-04-27T09:50 id=2048701344450822359 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 Followed for being blocked by St. Rev || CTX: block amnesty for everyone (except if they have me blocked because i'd rather not receive replies i can't reply to) https://t.co/f5gjOnkN9c
2026-04-27T10:17 id=2048708151164465463 →teodorio | @teodorio @thrialectics dude come off it you're native level || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics imagine if you got annoyed by it our convos would be horrible given my disdain for precision in language
2026-04-27T10:24 id=2048709880694087948 →equacc | @equacc How's Armenian wine compare to Georgian wine? || CTX: Can I leave Denmark, go to Armenia for a couple of months, become one of the most famous engineers in Երեվան, marry beautiful and smart Armenian Gemini women, have kids, plant apricot trees, die happy. Is it too much to ask for? https://t.c
2026-04-27T10:27 id=2048710588990214350 →- | If this is true, and it very well might be, it's not necessarily a good thing.  If it is, it means every single person you've ever hurt is really yourself.  And if when we die and we return to that universal consciousness, we will remember every time we hurt someone, insulted them, disappointed them...   And if it extends to animals, every animal in every factory farm and slaughterhouse--those experiences will be yours because they're you.   And every horse in every battlefield, every genocide victim, every single moment of suffering in the universe, all for you.   Anyway, go back to triggering other people on the internet for lulz. || CTX: https://t.co/Ji55EPUrUN
2026-04-27T10:42 id=2048714442528145664 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV I love you. Thank you. || CTX: Do you often think about the times you scratched yourself too hard, peeled a scab, or cut a finger?   A single fiber of a towel may be soaked through,  But really the the towel is still dry until a certain threshold is met.   For all the so
2026-04-27T10:46 id=2048715362045432107 →equacc | @equacc I will look for this! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Georgian wine is imo better than Armenian wine. However, Armenian cognac is awesome
2026-04-27T11:03 id=2048719630332739940 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @teodorio @thrialectics 100% || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics Personally, i have always felt if the meaning can be successfully conveyed, that's all you really need. I think precision is only really necessary for understanding and making sense of things
2026-04-27T12:00 id=2048734074853085647 →LewisT83756025 | @LewisT83756025 @ZyMazza I am selfish. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza Consider the good you could do with a billion dollars. You really think that's less important than what you want for yourself?
2026-04-27T12:08 id=2048736110373990545 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk don't leave me brother! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not going to do you any favors
2026-04-27T12:23 id=2048739887340511588 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Money is a speech act. || CTX: money is decision making [influence]. it's not power. it's NOT power. You can't MAKE me do something for you just because you have money. I can just SAY NO  status is decision making influence. money + status is the decision making allocati
2026-04-27T12:24 id=2048740079183782381 →airkatakana | @airkatakana dude I swore to myself no visiting Japan this year, I think this post has broken my will. || CTX: this is why startup culture in japan is dead  how can you build things when you are already in heaven? https://t.co/ly5rM7L9Bi
2026-04-27T12:53 id=2048747437293232232 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart You'll hate my upcoming debate with @ESYudkowsky then. || CTX: More than anything, I hate snobs. People who insist on filling their writing and speech with 8.50€ words.
2026-04-27T13:15 id=2048752910776119568 →emoji__city | @emoji__city very fucking phunny || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 making a new account to follow you with rn
2026-04-27T13:16 id=2048753178469167240 →murd_arch | @murd_arch Then I'm calling shotgun every road trip dude sorry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can’t you’re like my genX brother from another mother.
2026-04-27T13:43 id=2048759965981282557 →etriclearns | @etriclearns https://t.co/oKnNBk2GlS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 many such cases mrow
2026-04-27T13:51 id=2048761948549087696 →sama | @sama Weird, Paul never talks about his kids. || CTX: this is so good:  https://t.co/GuxDNpsOZi
2026-04-27T14:25 id=2048770467897680336 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I need to think about this. You've put my entire ethical worldview into question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe that's why we desire violence, it makes us feel separate
2026-04-27T15:30 id=2048786810214752424 →s0phyyyy | Yes I first read this long ago, it had a profound effect on me. I was an atheist and thought "that would be nice".   Then about three years ago I had, well, I don't want to say it cuz it sounds douchy and pretentious but let's say I had a change of perspective that made me realize this is a very plausible metaphysics for the real world.   And then I realized it's not good. Not at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/7sjigFMwa2
2026-04-27T15:30 id=2048786977387073938 →BretVDB | @BretVDB Well they say you're good with money, ofc they say that about us (Jews) too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 … in a good way?
2026-04-27T21:40 id=2048880044454609244 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Yes, or a lack of faith. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah idk why this happens tbh  Paranoia?
2026-04-27T22:36 id=2048894110493474857 →- | It is impossible to begin walking rationally.
2026-04-27T23:17 id=2048904372978090345 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 what does nerdsnipe mean? || CTX: realizing how deeply my opinion of Yud is shaped by the order & context in which i read his content:  i first ran across him because i was working on a cybersecurity risk tool and the data scientist said use to naive bayes so i was googling
2026-04-27T23:37 id=2048909409758371967 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @mimi10v3 this is why I honestly admire the younger generation, I wrote an entire book thinking this problem through, and you guys just come up with one word to describe it. very impressive, seriously || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 Getting bogged down by thought complexity to the point action is interfered with.
2026-04-27T23:47 id=2048911903045591177 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @mimi10v3 I wish I was only that old || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 I've appreciated getting these kenning words as well and it's allowed me to stay more connected to the younger generation as well. I think I'm like almost 40 or something. That's old right?! 😆
2026-04-27T23:49 id=2048912438616301912 →Yossari42739801 | @Yossari42739801 @resistancemoney I can tell where you went, and it definitely was not Tokyo, Hong Kong, or Singapore. || CTX: @resistancemoney Ive noticed the brief 2 weeks I spent in Asia. That the middle aged white dudes where cargo shorts.
2026-04-27T23:52 id=2048913241468969371 →taijitu_sees | one of the things I've noticed in my 40s especially, I'm getting rapidly less afraid of death. Then I get in this odd recursive loop where I think, "this is surely a cope, my life is getting shorter, I have less time left and the quality of the time is worse", yet I feel like I'm less bothered by this fact the more it becomes true. but I can't believe in my own acceptance.  And then the recursive thoughts themselves become a reason not to be afraid, so the doubt proves the lack of fear in a way.   I doubt this makes sense. But my 40s have been the best decade BY FAR (so far). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 Hahaha I think past 20ish I stopped paying attention, but I'm starting to feel it.
2026-04-27T23:55 id=2048913911857164690 →- | maybe when Marc was saying he dislikes introspection he was trying to target the nerdsnipe overthinking tendencies prominent in his subculture.   if so, I was wrong to oppose him and I should apologize to him for calling him a retard.   I don't know if he still follows me or if he'll see this, but if that's what he meant, I'm absolutely on his side.
2026-04-27T23:57 id=2048914503119802756 →llallawg | @llallawg the paradox shows the limits of reason and if I remember correctly wasn't it originally to explore the implications of perfect knowledge of the future?  like, the whole point is there's no solution || CTX: The paradox about newcomb’s paradox is that if its conditions ever became a reality it would matter not at all if you understood the optimal solution
2026-04-27T23:59 id=2048914959997001801 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @mimi10v3 Yes, not having children gives me an odd, maybe unnatural outlook. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 I feel it. Little harder with younger kids, but there's something about it that gets anchored to itself.  Meanwhile my 80yo grandma is like WTH nobody in my family even made it past 60! Why am I still here?!
2026-04-28T00:01 id=2048915366580207724 →llallawg | @llallawg he and his community remind me a lot of medieval peasants living in the ruins of Roman civilization, who pick up an old coin or a few scraps of paper from a greater world and think that they understand it when they absolutely do not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'm not sure. maybe at one point i knew but i've forgotten  was reading one of yud's post about how lw has a lot of one boxers, and i was just thinking if there's a mind with perfect knowledge of our intentions your ability
2026-04-28T00:02 id=2048915754733735988 →DanielleFong | @DanielleFong this is a wonderful use of llms. || CTX: is anybody else checking Red VS Blue button voting vs thinking level? this is 5.5  there are somewhat alarming findings.  once the frame is located, more thinking budget just makes it defect. you have to actually point out pro sociality to 
2026-04-28T00:03 id=2048915942802153501 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @mimi10v3 that's it, you've just given me an epiphany. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 I do it a lot on here. some say the entire time.
2026-04-28T00:04 id=2048916260147298503 →Yossari42739801 | @Yossari42739801 @resistancemoney it was actually Koh Samui or Phuket (I didn't want to say Pattaya because I didn't want to insult OP). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney Lol. Was Thailand at the top of your list? Yeah no cargo shorts in Hong Kong
2026-04-28T00:06 id=2048916643708076447 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 lot of Gatorade, some headache medicine, and try to lie down || CTX: why did I do it gentlemen? (from dostoysky(  my liver is disease
2026-04-28T00:10 id=2048917627133997295 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Tech people don't understand language, the irony at the heart of our current AI moment || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. It was poorly worded though and easy for people to not understand.
2026-04-28T00:17 id=2048919578114429327 →VprwvDreamscape | @VprwvDreamscape @mimi10v3 of course it's from xkcd, I should've known (xkcd guy uses the internet correctly, Yud uses it incorrectly) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 alt text: I first saw this problem on the Google Labs Aptitude Test. A professor and I filled a blackboard without getting anywhere. Have fun. https://t.co/pLizHFBnzc
2026-04-28T00:18 id=2048919748528967869 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees I'm working on this problem. Pray I can make a dent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Possibly my biggest frustration point and I probably complain about this 10x a day until I've been labeled "existential crisis invoker" by coworkers.
2026-04-28T00:18 id=2048919854166778251 →spacetime_worm | @spacetime_worm @mimi10v3 spacetime worm is such a GOATed username man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 Canonically https://t.co/OYshPm3u15
2026-04-28T00:26 id=2048921651044286880 →- | Check 'em. https://t.co/XQeNiHqici
2026-04-28T00:28 id=2048922175491694826 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE @mimi10v3 Debating me on a podcast, which is Yud makes really bad decisions and is quite literally retarded. || CTX: @mimi10v3 @47fucb4r8c69323 is there a term for the opposite of this, like something that regardless of payoff is unpleasant to even think about or repulsive to entertain
2026-04-28T00:34 id=2048923732828406153 →Yossari42739801 | @Yossari42739801 @resistancemoney Ahh this was a while ago, so pre-White Lotus thus had to be Phuket. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney I was in Phuket for a bit. Cargo shorts and Hawaiian shirts. My jetlagged teenage brain could still do pattern recognition
2026-04-28T00:38 id=2048924678832722284 →Yossari42739801 | @Yossari42739801 @resistancemoney They're more spread out, but I actually think there are less of them all told than there used to be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney Yikes! Are there more of them now! In more places?
2026-04-28T00:48 id=2048927293628944482 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp Toxic gotcha culture, it needs to end. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He was almost certainly referring to overthinking tendencies, but rather than simply admitting he used the wrong word he doubled down, etc. Which of course is a normal human emotional, self-defensive reaction, but also as t
2026-04-28T00:51 id=2048928008984244461 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @martschweiger I think I love Catholicism for the same reason Wittgenstein did. I think it's the religion I respect the most. || CTX: @martschweiger @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes.
2026-04-28T00:51 id=2048928154161705377 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 In 3333 days, if I switch languages. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is this pokemon go?
2026-04-28T01:18 id=2048934821066625072 →philomemetic | @philomemetic @avidseries Not care. He's followed me twice, in 2018 and in 2026.  He uses following and unfollowing  to quietly goad one towards a particular type of discourse. It's a subtle and unethical use of his power.   I detest it. || CTX: @avidseries @47fucb4r8c69323 what do
2026-04-28T01:24 id=2048936312070385965 →- | https://t.co/6DDPBjBnwh  OpenAI in 2026 is Google in 2006.
2026-04-28T01:30 id=2048937974960939149 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill This is Finnegan's Wake tier, Daphne. || CTX: @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 weak ant stop  @jasonbotterill  @47fucb4r8c69323   it's our potty we can say what we 12 https://t.co/m7B0MW4ALA
2026-04-28T01:37 id=2048939526605910495 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill I'm changing my theory of who you are. You're a very successful writer, must be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill moby dick was about staking a whale  and blowing a stale wake up call me samuel barclay beckett ishmael  why is the whatness of all horse like a whiting sta
2026-04-28T01:50 id=2048942873035551036 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill I beg of you just this once check DM. No need to reply. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/0zEcNznapu
2026-04-28T01:50 id=2048943018062061776 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @DaphneB76234 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 They're only elite if she's invited. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 I think she has a lot of street cred to and still gets invited to elite parties
2026-04-28T02:02 id=2048945976656969796 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 it's an epic romance putting me in Ker mode with a sense of that ending. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 one day it will be for real (either by accident and i forgot to reactivate or because i died). which was the real theme of the microblog the whole time (gri
2026-04-28T02:03 id=2048946230508880290 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DaphneB76234 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 lmao grok is so stupid this is miles off https://t.co/1rl1oOi31u || CTX: @DaphneB76234 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 it's an epic romance putting me in Ker mode with a sense of that ending.
2026-04-28T02:18 id=2048950002886828481 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 Please don't tease me like this my heart just skipped a beat. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 "stunning. absolutely stunning."  - DM https://t.co/0gyZYKAdN8
2026-04-28T02:20 id=2048950331430863213 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy https://t.co/zC60py4nSX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nice, very nice
2026-04-28T02:26 id=2048952024335868120 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain see, ken? like I was saying || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain zero likes. one of my best.  https://t.co/RFU5ATwtJD
2026-04-28T02:29 id=2048952658640380409 →tszzl | @tszzl Someone got in Bernie's ear. Just tell Sam to call him and explain how GenAI can speed up single payer healthcare (and for that matter tell Sam to support single payer, would ease a lot of tension).  The new charter is good but vague. Get more specific. || CTX: the concept of “robot taxes” is abhorrent even in principle. it’s not at all clear that owners of robots or ai services will be monopolistic or rather just abundant and then you are taxing a useful production commodity like a “steel tax” or
2026-04-28T02:29 id=2048952784624705888 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @DaphneB76234 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain Kenedict Arnold. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 @JasonBotterill @ecombeckett @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain *because you were saying https://t.co/BRoNe6D6js
2026-04-28T02:39 id=2048955202133455120 →- | I watched a matinee showing of Cloud Atlas in that theater on the upper west side somewhere around 70th street a few weeks after escaping Korea. I went with my then Korean partner.  I loved it of course but was numb afterwards, and we walked out onto the streets and walked towards Central Park in silence.  "I'm sorry," I said as I saw a bench on Central Park West, "I need to sit down." And I did, and she did, and I started crying.  She was of course used to this so just gave me a moment before asking why.  "The way those women in the future scenes were treated... it's like how Korean women are treated today. And I can't do anything about it."   Before we left Korea my partner had gotten a job at a Duty Free shop at Seoul Incheon Airport where she had to stand straight wearing very uncomfortable heels in a spotless perfect uniform and serve customers by using very specific gestures and phrases as they looked at cheap booze and cigarettes.   She got out thanks to our move, but all those women left behind. I could not forget them. Survivor's guilt by proxy.   Please let us build the technologies so that everyone on Earth can have as good of a life as I have had, I am begging you from the bottom of my heart.  Please please please let us at least try to end suffering.  (Thank you for the clues, @DaphneB76234)
2026-04-28T03:01 id=2048960753865220268 →burkov | @burkov beautiful, perfect || CTX: If you don't understand this, you will not understand why LLM-based agents are irreparably failing for a general-purpose problem solving.  An agent (by the way it was the topic of my PhD 20 years ago) to be useful, must be rational. Being r
2026-04-28T03:01 id=2048960790376710196 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @Ross__Hendricks https://t.co/Km01TJvImp || CTX: @burkov beautiful, perfect
2026-04-28T03:31 id=2048968235299881044 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @WSJ Just put "Dirty Laundry" on repeat || CTX: @WSJ Fortune is a river that drowns those without dams  OpenAI is the Icarus of the singularity
2026-04-28T04:07 id=2048977411191238657 →allTheYud | @allTheYud @mimi10v3 Can you please reply to my DM?   Money should clear by AM ET, people are waiting on what venue you will accept. || CTX: @mimi10v3 I didn't write Superintelligence and don't particularly advocate "offsets" for most things (lots of sus mechanisms this ain't dath ilan kids)
2026-04-28T04:49 id=2048987933924028847 →7ohntitor | @7ohntitor There's always a baby in the bathwater, yes even with Yud! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no i just didnt realize there was a baby in that bathwater
2026-04-28T04:55 id=2048989574828097769 →tszzl | @tszzl oh so that's what the A in A/B testing stands for || CTX: alien technology how can you not love it https://t.co/D9uWeekXsB
2026-04-28T05:29 id=2048998020277264476 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE @corsaren I think he's the worst popular writer in this weird internet world canon. Worse than Gwern and even Yud, much worse than Yarvin (who is a great writer just a crazy madman).  But of all the tech(-adjacent) gurus, the best in terms of sheer style must be Paul Graham. || CTX: @corsaren something about the way scott writes feels wrong to me. like it's almost very pleasing but misses at an odd angle that feels dissonant. odd. odd
2026-04-28T05:30 id=2048998306148474920 →egirlian | @egirlian A live, consoling possibility. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 presumably you’d immediately ascend to such a grand perspective on the impermanence of life and the subjectiveness of tragedy and the absurdity and beauty of it all that those things wouldn’t bother you
2026-04-28T05:31 id=2048998625951580195 →skyrawrree | @skyrawrree @sighyam I have heard the air is getting better. Southeast Asia finally got serious about air quality a couple years ago and it's getting better, still pretty bad though. It's ~50 here now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sighyam I’m in Shanghai right now and was reminded of this tweet. I’d like to correct myself and say that I was surprised by how clean the air was. today and yesterday were both hovering around 40 AQI which is exactly what
2026-04-28T05:33 id=2048999049651757482 →LuizaJarovsky | @LuizaJarovsky Glad to see more adults in the room. Instant follow. || CTX: 🚨 Anthropomorphizing AI and attributing consciousness to AI systems can be dangerous and should NOT be encouraged by AI companies.  Unfortunately, some AI companies have been training AI models in ways that encourage this appearance of cons
2026-04-28T05:58 id=2049005327300038915 →- | Nagel is fine, but calling me a peer to David fucking Chalmers is insulting. https://t.co/emLpD0pkK1
2026-04-28T06:02 id=2049006435510768008 →- | You need to ask yourself, why is AI getting better and better at coding, reasoning, even math at a very fast pace, but in terms of writing style the progress is much slower.  Is it the posttraining, the benchmark hacking, the economic incentives, or something else?
2026-04-28T06:16 id=2049009924068516141 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I know you know, and it's the right answer, but they won't believe it until someone proves it to them.  2010s: "Learn to code!" 2020s: (you are here) 2030s: "Learn to write!" https://t.co/AF65Zwggo1 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i know the answer but the code monkeys will not like it
2026-04-28T06:17 id=2049010060471517562 →mikek_la | @mikek_la @foomagemindset You have not understood the prompt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset Is it? I haven't checked for a while its ability to analyze meter and internal rhymes in a while, but ChatGPT did really well even a while back, but doing conscious analysis like that is far from "close to t
2026-04-28T07:09 id=2049023149170426249 →teodorio | There is an issue with my bank (jfc this is so annoying) and I just got off the phone with them; funds may not arrive until May 4th.  I apologize for the delay, this is in no way at all Yud's fault and definitely can be used as fodder to suggest I'm a troll or not serious (until the money arrives ofc) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @mimi10v3 I need this in my life please do it don't bring shame on the whole rationalist movement again
2026-04-28T07:53 id=2049034242659954794 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio even his name is hard af, the Revelator? || CTX: Nothing goes harder than John the Revelator, even all of these years later.   (Massive old school blues fan here, don’t mind me) https://t.co/5Dby183s2X
2026-04-28T07:55 id=2049034867703525648 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio When I was 13 I was a massive Led Zeppelin fan and started to get into the blues that way. Been a long time...I almost saw B.B. King in concert in like 2008, man I wish I hadn't missed that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes! Blind Willie took it from John biblically and put his own blues spin on it. It’s great. You’ll hear a bit of Tom Waits inspiration in here too vocally :)  https://t.co/KuVJHmsnd1
2026-04-28T08:05 id=2049037170057642248 →- | This is Silly Business Theory #SBT.  When I interviewed I was asked qualifying questions, given a prep assignment, and then hired as an hourly worker until I proved myself. (Joe and I are about the same age so this is probably around the same time.)  However, that firm was small and in decline (my coworker and my resignation actually caused the CEO to get fired, a story I'll save for another thread--and I know it sounds like bullshit, just unfollow me I'm a liar whatever), and while I don't know the shop Joe applied for, I know that proprietary trading has been a booming industry, and my part of finance has been quite the opposite of booming.  Serious in decline, silliness on the rise.  Expect more of it. || CTX: I never interviewed at Jane Street, obviously, but I did interview at a prop shop in Austin. In one round I was given two joysticks, one that moved an inverted isosceles triangle on the screen, while the other adjusted its tilt. Goal was to
2026-04-28T08:07 id=2049037692521042166 →Kyrannio | I used to play, but I'm a terrible, terrible musician. lol I never really mastered any key on the guitar besides C major/A minor (I did play the clarinet when I was a kid and was very good at it, though).  Playing guitar turned me into a bit of a guitar nerd, and I went the prog rock > prog jazz > jazz route and ended up listening to people like John McLaughlin and Al Di Meola more than rock by the time I hit my 20s. I actually saw Di Meola in concert a decade ago.  Kinda miss guitar music, good shit from a more innocent time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 WHAT, amazing!!!! Do you play at all? Zeppelin is some of the best, you have great taste :). And oh nooooo, wish you wouldn’t have either :( I never got to see BB, but that certainly would have been a great show.
2026-04-28T08:45 id=2049047226203394139 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Then the next question ofc is can you get verifiable rewards for writing or is this impossible in principle? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you can get verifiable rewards for coding (writing tests and then passing those tests) but not for writing
2026-04-28T08:47 id=2049047853016977638 →airkatakana | @airkatakana I honestly hadn't thought of going in that direction, but that is very doable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you figure out an automated test to know if the writing is good or not that doesnt rely on llms, let me know
2026-04-28T08:52 id=2049048976012570894 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Next do Nightboar on LLM Street || CTX: Nightboar (2026) made with Grok Imagine https://t.co/1Wc5mKlm9t
2026-04-28T08:56 id=2049050175801602216 →- | LLMs, in their current form, are much, much less probabilistic than you probably think.  And the better the model's outputs, the less probabilistic.   What are the implications of this?
2026-04-28T09:00 id=2049051141737255318 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem dude, talk like a human being || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you mean? Are you talking about the unremarkable entropy of their responses?
2026-04-28T09:03 id=2049051895487164573 →moralityetalon | Style, not ideas. Obv Yud is a retard and Scott is an intelligent person, but Scott's style is one of the worst I've seen, his popularity is IMO a result of relatable aspiration (his writing is so artless and rambling he must think just like me!).  Which makes me wonder if it's an affectation to appear relatable in which case he's fucking Shakespeare. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SYNESTHEIZURE @corsaren Scott worse than Yud? That is such an interesting opinion!
2026-04-28T09:06 id=2049052610725114301 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem dude I apologize I thought you were replying to another thread I am SO SORRY (long day, bank issues stressed me out).  I was referring to how posttraining basically reduces the default temperature of outputs, and possibly the max temperature range as well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well, what did you mean?
2026-04-28T09:09 id=2049053385253613890 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Why are they like this? Finance and academia aren't like this at all. || CTX: amusing how much larping and grindset bs is needed to defeat curiosity
2026-04-28T09:15 id=2049054930552447194 →- | Consider LLM temperature: the measure of how random an output can be.  We call it the randomness of the token output, like the token output IS random to a certain point.  But when we talk about the randomness of the words a person chooses, the word output is described by randomness but it is not random. It is not a product of a mathematical process, it is DESCRIBED BY a mathematical process.   This was the realization I had in like 2022 that made me realize, "fuck, then there might be a human soul."   That was my AI psychosis.  (I'm high and my gf isn't around so expect weird AI thought tweets for the next hour or so).
2026-04-28T09:25 id=2049057441556644259 →47fucb4r8c69323 | What confuses me about you weirdos is the thought that the AI was conscious NEVER crossed my mind.   I know too much about computers.   And you don't know enough about stories, so you can LARP scifi without being aware that you are LARPing. What a lack of the humanities does to a motherfucker.   Nah, for me it made me realize there is something ONTOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT about the human, and even if we can virtualize it to 100% accuracy, it still won't be a real boy.   And that of course kills the anthropic principle. The metaphysics get scary. || CTX: Consider LLM temperature: the measure of how random an output can be.  We call it the randomness of the token output, like the token output IS random to a certain point.  But when we talk about the randomness of the words a person chooses, 
2026-04-28T09:25 id=2049057518455021573 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Youth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whats the best narcotic to increase token randomness in humans
2026-04-28T09:39 id=2049060834979320205 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 We live in a computer age, and computers use programmatic logic, so it's no surprise that our society would privilege programmatic thinking over qualitative wonder.  Maybe that's why so few people feel wonderful.   Also explains why I do lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think in general we do a bad job at aligning people with their curiosity, hence the over index on discipline (you don't need discipline if you're having fun)
2026-04-28T09:40 id=2049061194389180446 →rachinkalakheti | @rachinkalakheti This is where I definitely disagree. It's a two cultures problem, science vs humanities.   Cool thing is LLMs now make this a falsifiable question! || CTX: certainly could be. coding, math, and reasoning around them were once considered far fetched too. but got solved with bigger, more complex models. mb everything we consider subjective like taste, style, etc. is just an uncharted surface are
2026-04-28T09:41 id=2049061533024747718 →DottedAnt | @DottedAnt that is a very plausible theory, but then how do you count for the fact that Claude l, which is much more alignment restricted, tends to be a better writer than ChatGPT, which has much looser alignment? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my theory is that good writing is deliberately disincentivize during training due to reward hacking.  the better written a coding agent's response is, the more likely it is that it's trying to deceive you.
2026-04-28T09:42 id=2049061634409365959 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 it doesn't matter, AI is going to change the education landscape and this problem will solve itself organically || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I honestly don't know where the problem starts. If I get rich enough, I'm starting a school and focusing half my time on finding each students internal compass, then daring them to go wherever it points
2026-04-28T10:08 id=2049068248596189321 →DottedAnt | @DottedAnt that's kind of my basic opinion, so I'm on board || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 given this theory, it would mean the alignment restrictions applied to Claude cause misalignment.   which i think is plausible from anecdotal experience, but can't prove it beyond reward-hackable benchmarks ofc.
2026-04-28T10:12 id=2049069149805269225 →rachinkalakheti | @rachinkalakheti This is the intellectual frontier right now || CTX: i'd go a step further. the distinction between science and humanities mightn't fully collapse, but they might reduce the distinction. I think the difference between these two is around the "current context." Science tries to isolate itself 
2026-04-28T10:36 id=2049075204195037223 →1889lw | @1889lw hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Omg you’re on philpaper
2026-04-28T10:36 id=2049075365268853213 →RedwoodFounders | @RedwoodFounders This is the key point--one fixed target versus one very messy target. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Other comment on verifiable rewards + writing comes down to taste. A lot of consumers think it writes well, they’re not power users but think it has been getting better. Hard to pick a goal to aim at in making the writing m
2026-04-28T10:43 id=2049077112540463171 →1889lw | @1889lw I didn't see you on it. I don't actually use it, I just have the account. but I can add you on research gate, that I actually use || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You didn’t follow me 😔
2026-04-28T10:52 id=2049079374276899279 →snmzeno | So we have an issue where more scale lowers the ability to optimize for quality in principle.   And this is why AI will perfect audio and video before it perfects text.   It's already perfected audio IMO, video is about 75% there, maybe? It'd be more like 95% there if we had the compute. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 getting code to execute correctly at increasingly higher complexities is objectively verifiable at scale, getting good writing verified at scale is harder since there is no objective pass or fail, so you end up relying on p
2026-04-28T10:56 id=2049080248525103558 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog I like how you use emojis. || CTX: Idk why but the “🙂” emoji is so funny for me to use especially without context 🙂 https://t.co/vS9xvBeuTa
2026-04-28T11:12 id=2049084351288426955 →- | Imagine being bearish lmaooooooo  https://t.co/3r4FDi0J1v
2026-04-28T11:14 id=2049084898322096547 →dampedspring | @dampedspring Unpopular opinion: Better than Yellen. || CTX: How'd he do? https://t.co/ZPcTD8Oknq
2026-04-28T11:29 id=2049088677603881281 →- | It seems to me Gen Z has begun to reinvent a new kind of politeness with its own rules.   The kids say don't get your cortisol spiked, don't get triggered, it's the worst thing that could happen.  That IS a moral rule against public expressions of anger on the internet.  In this sense the rationalists are pioneers, because they've created an absurdly intricate network of rules on how to speak. And while they're very superficial, politeness rules are superficial, so this is not surprising.   The rambling word salad is an experiment in finding the new diction of internet politeness.  This is a necessary stage in the evolution of how to use the internet well. The rationalists are crazy, dangerous, deranged, and stupid, but they ARE (unconsciously) working towards a new internet-native discourse with a politeness register!   It's shit, but that's not surprising--15th century prose was shit, too.  My generation had zero rules for the internet. The internet was an escape FROM the real world, including from real world expectations of politeness.   I never lost that spirit because, well, I love it too much (and that spirit has given me all that I have in life).  But humanity did need to lose that spirit. I fought for it but I was wrong. I could make jokes about eating babies or whatever and then could go be a productive member of society.   I didn't know only some of the guys on 4chan talking about killing the Jews were joking.  We had to do something. Not laws (I support free speech) but norms. We're getting from the abnormal, which is unsurprising: Gen Alpha and Beta will begin constraining the norms towards a more normal path.   This place won't be autistic in 20 years, just like it wasn't autistic 20 years ago.   The upside is the internet will get better. We're in the valley, just wait for your daughters' peaks.  The downside is the world I lived in is dead.   The upside is I am living memory of that world and I can tell tales of that world for the younger generation to consider as they forge this new discourse that, in turn, will set the standards for what the new world of virtual communication will be as a part of humanity's cultural life.   That is a noble calling. That is worth doing. I affirm.
2026-04-28T11:32 id=2049089433090347373 →helping_hound | @helping_hound @airkatakana Dude you are using AI for the most noble thing I can imagine I'd ask to give you a hug if you were here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @airkatakana writing quality is subjective, many many video scripts generate lots of money from YouTube or social media. more intelligence doesn't always make better writing. ai writing has improved for main stream purposes
2026-04-28T11:33 id=2049089640922304719 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini I'm still kind of confused what harness means with ai, the term seems to have appeared in the last 6 months or so. do you just mean the parameters in post training? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 harness matters, you can test reasoning, code, and math for correctness much more straighforwardly than test for "good writing"
2026-04-28T11:36 id=2049090286484369899 →potatoslav | @potatoslav Can I ask how many views it got? || CTX: one time i made a tiktok about this and made almost $1200 american dollars lmao https://t.co/oqjO2QFwQQ
2026-04-28T11:38 id=2049090885590360501 →- | When I lived in Europe and had to deal with Euro snobbery, I got in fist fights.   Deutscheaircongöttin-sama over here gets a four-figure payout.  This is called PROGRESS it is what civilizations do it is a VERY VERY GOOD THING.   And you're bearish like a little, um, bear? Fuck I didn't stick the landing I should go back and edi || CTX: one time i made a tiktok about this and made almost $1200 american dollars lmao https://t.co/oqjO2QFwQQ
2026-04-28T11:39 id=2049091191241859546 →potatoslav | @potatoslav Wow either TikTok CPMs are low af or that revshare is whack. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1.5M
2026-04-28T11:41 id=2049091568565629353 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini ohhh I see! Like custom instructions on steroids, including the compaction etc., fuck I cannot keep up with this technology lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 think of harness as all the deterministic things around the LLM, in the case  of claude code it is the memory file, the tests in the project that it can run, the linter, etc etc. With good harnesses we can expect much bette
2026-04-28T11:42 id=2049091924884385923 →potatoslav | @potatoslav I support anything that helps Americans earn more than Europeans, an expat influencer in Germany fits the bill. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if they’re gonna be annoying and condescending you might as well get paid for the experience.
2026-04-28T11:43 id=2049092202706678147 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I miss the NotebookLM podcast hosts telling me that's the million dollar question in today's deep dive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Language is going to be gestapo monitored you are to be hung if you express something using a phrase a language model commonly uses. you will be beaten if you say goblin, you will type the world “genuinely” and think oh fuc
2026-04-28T11:44 id=2049092385549029824 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini So they're still programming lmfao || CTX: the ones that are moving faster with llms are the senior engineers that have worked with harnesses before, good practices and programmatic tests that prevent the llm from moving on with obvious mistakes.  they arent just focusing on agent f
2026-04-28T11:49 id=2049093746701307954 →potatoslav | @potatoslav HAHAHAHAHA I'm too stoned for this dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is how i pay for my air conditioning
2026-04-28T11:50 id=2049093785414664268 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat @potatoslav enjoy living better || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav you earn more but we live better
2026-04-28T11:50 id=2049093945033117788 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill You're just used to mom and dad fighting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I got upset when i had it roast my entire life’s lore as them agreeing with each other somehow hurt more
2026-04-28T11:51 id=2049094075933192251 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat @potatoslav lmfao goddamn I sure do miss living there || CTX: @potatoslav @47fucb4r8c69323 so be grateful and don't insult your host
2026-04-28T11:51 id=2049094222465384579 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 You mean for LLMs? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't know if "randomness" is the best descriptor, maybe more like "divergence," and so I would draw different conclusions.
2026-04-28T11:53 id=2049094717930148015 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Roon and goblin sitting in a tree C-O-D-I-N-G First comes bugs Then comes more prompts  And now I'm suddenly token free || CTX: Okay you’re a Roon but What’s a ROON to a goblin
2026-04-28T11:55 id=2049095102304514366 →ulysselegoat | I lived there in the 2000s so it was a different world then.   People used to yell at me in bars for killing Iraqi babies. Was not fun. Got in a bar fight for real (I won just to be clear, even if I ruined my glasses) and lost a friend.  It is the same as racism, you know, it's not good to do this to outsiders. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav anyway  it's funny you say europeans are arrogant/condescending, europeans usually say the same about americans  tell me more about that, i'm curious
2026-04-28T11:55 id=2049095197565522345 →amirism_ | @amirism_ I honestly think it's the most important thing I've posted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 good post
2026-04-28T12:01 id=2049096739953754438 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat @potatoslav Yeah America isn't what you think it is, not at all. It's 350 million people bro think about it || CTX: yes i got it, damn sorry for being impolite  it must have been fucked up being american at that time in Europe  propaganda was atrocious in western europe in the beginning of 2000's you could make people believe in anything  one thing i've 
2026-04-28T12:02 id=2049096882438467947 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Why do you think that? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And for us. I would question whether you're describing things at the right level of abstraction, as I think we have something very "llm-like" built into the structure of our brains This would imply that the randomness in ou
2026-04-28T12:03 id=2049097096968765450 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Why do you think we have something LLM-like in the structure of our brains? Like you mean neurons? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And for us. I would question whether you're describing things at the right level of abstraction, as I think we have something very "llm-like" built into the structure of our brains This would imply that the randomness in ou
2026-04-28T12:07 id=2049098219712647628 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio On that note (hehe), this is the only Suno I've made so far that I think is decent: https://t.co/0jSNhGQ7OG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 HAHAHAHAH wait we need to make this in Suno now 😆🔥
2026-04-28T12:10 id=2049098849411801090 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio I don't recognize the name, but this is good shit https://t.co/QQ7XNLsizZ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No way!!!! That’s awesome, don’t worry about mastering keys it’s all about the nerdy really. And ooh those are amazing choices :) did you ever listen to Sun Ra at all by chance? And man me too :( better times tbh
2026-04-28T12:11 id=2049099149552042389 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio (I'm trying to get cancelled) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh boy I see the title and I am scared to click (but I shall click regardless because ADVENTURE)
2026-04-28T12:15 id=2049100170412073221 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I also just realized this explains cancel culture (rules on who is allowed to speak) and identity politics (we must be polite to other categories).  That effort collapsed. It was the first wave.  Rationalist weirdos, Groypers, etc etc are the second wave.  This is fascinating. || CTX: It seems to me Gen Z has begun to reinvent a new kind of politeness with its own rules.   The kids say don't get your cortisol spiked, don't get triggered, it's the worst thing that could happen.  That IS a moral rule against public express
2026-04-28T12:16 id=2049100347789180987 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat @potatoslav All the fun stuff to do on Sundays || CTX: @potatoslav @47fucb4r8c69323 why have you picked germany tho?
2026-04-28T12:25 id=2049102623463342369 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Have you read Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations or John Searle's Speech Acts? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But the why is more based on personal experience and isn't a clear hypothesis yet. I spent most of my childhood in speech therapy, and then became sort of obsessed with language, and I developed a sort of idiosyncratic mode
2026-04-28T12:32 id=2049104582832484678 →Ken67547214 | Consider then that the meaning of a word includes its speech act layer.  This scotches your database theory, because an act isn't a thing you can put in a database. You can put a description of the act, but you can't put the actual act in the database.  So the metaphor falls apart. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I haven't read enough Wittgenstein, but I read a lot of Searle in college.
2026-04-28T12:38 id=2049106010061832676 →- | If you think of ChatGOT/Opus/Gemini and then models like DeepSeek/Qwen, it's basically pay top dollar for top American quality or get the cheaper version made in China.
2026-04-28T12:42 id=2049107089495388563 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Can language create thought? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I realizes that this dodges questions of the nature of consciousness, but I expect this to be unrelated to language.
2026-04-28T12:43 id=2049107185041625088 →adarshisit | @adarshisit oh you poor kid || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like Opus, and Claude in general, the best, personally. I think it has achieved self-introspection (i.e., the colloquial usage of consciousness).
2026-04-28T12:45 id=2049107639347580941 →adarshisit | @adarshisit CLANKERS AREN'T CONSCIOUS https://t.co/6QNtNJ9JQi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why 🤔 https://t.co/EWlgANkGRd
2026-04-28T12:45 id=2049107777268895969 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Please read Philosophical Investigations, and have an open mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think so, but it can scaffold it to the point that it's difficult to distinguish.
2026-04-28T13:22 id=2049117114355855380 →- | 1. "This will surely work"  2. "This will work"   Which one means 100% certainty, if you had to choose one just one?
2026-04-28T13:42 id=2049121990389506121 →llallawg | @llallawg @garvvee The whole Marzen only part of the year is so German: the best beer they make is almost never available because mandatory misery. || CTX: @garvvee They also don’t believe Americans have beer tbh   Germans would always tell me how much better their beer was and I was just tired of drinking the same beer type for four years
2026-04-28T13:48 id=2049123682476511287 →skdh | @skdh Angela Collier's video on this is so so good || CTX: String theory didn't just fail, it's far worse. https://t.co/bAlGFvaHm4
2026-04-28T13:49 id=2049123949993488708 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov @foomagemindset I like this, accurate and succinct while being technical but not needlessly loaded with jargon. || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 You can RL the outputs of code because software is a verifiable domain.  Writing is not the case.
2026-04-28T14:10 id=2049129070253019314 →- | I wanted to establish the first (I think the first, we couldn't find one at least) online corporate bond exchange in Thailand and got together some execs at one of the big4 firms and a corp lawyer to begin the process.   These were friends, they know what I'm like.   We went to one of the most expensive pizza place in the city, which I'll link here and since bad reviews online are technically illegal in Thailand I will not tell you how the food was: https://t.co/yNGQ8xtYvL  Anyway, great food, and the best part was the one waitress who kept telling us the pizza at ANOTHER restaurant (not same owners) was really good. Anyway I liked that wasn't the best part. The best part was the other waitress.   Anyway.   We had some left and got it boxed up, and one of the guys offered it to the other guy, who offered it to me, and I said:  "I have an idea, to decide who gets to take it home, why don't we use it for a game of soggy biscuit--"  Sadly, chat, one of the guys got up to take a piss before I could finish wish "and that way he'll get some extra protein for free."   Fucking 300 murcan dollars that lunch cost me, and I didn't even get drunk.   But oh yeah that waitress
2026-04-28T14:11 id=2049129413430898752 →- | I wanted to establish the first (I think the first, we couldn't find one at least) online corporate bond exchange in Thailand and got together some execs at one of the big4 firms and a corp lawyer to begin the process.   These were friends, they know what I'm like.   We went to one of the most expensive pizza place in the city, which I'll link here and since bad reviews online are technically illegal in Thailand I will not tell you how the food was: https://t.co/yNGQ8xtYvL  Anyway, great food, and the best part was the one waitress who kept telling us the pizza at ANOTHER restaurant (not same owners) was really good. Anyway I lied, that wasn't the best part. The best part was the other waitress.   Anyway.   We had some left and got it boxed up, and one of the guys offered it to the other guy, who offered it to me, and I said:  "I have an idea, to decide who gets to take it home, why don't we use it for a game of soggy biscuit--"  Sadly, chat, one of the guys got up to take a piss before I could finish wish "and that way he'll get some extra protein for free."   Fucking 300 murcan dollars that lunch cost me, and I didn't even get drunk.   But oh yeah that waitress
2026-04-28T14:12 id=2049129570125885443 →- | I wanted to establish the first (I think the first, we couldn't find one at least) online corporate bond exchange in Thailand and got together some execs at one of the big4 firms and a corp lawyer to begin the process.   These were friends, they know what I'm like.   We went to one of the most expensive pizza place in the city, which I'll link here and since bad reviews online are technically illegal in Thailand I will not tell you how the food was: https://t.co/yNGQ8xtYvL  Anyway, great food, and the best part was the one waitress who kept telling us the pizza at ANOTHER restaurant (not same owners) was really good. Anyway I lied, that wasn't the best part. The best part was the other waitress.   Anyway.   We had some left and got it boxed up, and one of the guys offered it to the other guy, who offered it to me, and I said:  "I have an idea, to decide who gets to take it home, why don't we use it for a game of soggy biscuit--"  Sadly, chat, one of the guys got up to take a piss before I could finish with "and that way he'll get some extra protein for free."   Fucking 300 murcan dollars that lunch cost me, and I didn't even get drunk.   But oh yeah that waitress
2026-04-28T14:13 id=2049129808316256711 →- | I wanted to establish the first (I think the first, we couldn't find one at least) online corporate bond exchange in Thailand and got together some execs at one of the big4 firms and a corp lawyer to begin the process.   These were friends, they know what I'm like.   We went to one of the most expensive pizza places in the city, which I'll link here and since bad reviews online are technically illegal in Thailand I will not tell you how the food was: https://t.co/yNGQ8xtYvL  Anyway, great food, and the best part was the one waitress who kept telling us the pizza at ANOTHER restaurant (not same owners) was really good. Anyway I lied, that wasn't the best part. The best part was the other waitress.   Anyway.   We had some left and got it boxed up, and one of the guys offered it to the other guy, who offered it to me, and I said:  "I have an idea, to decide who gets to take it home, why don't we use it for a game of soggy biscuit--"  Sadly, chat, one of the guys got up to take a piss before I could finish with "and that way he'll get some extra protein for free."   Fucking 300 murcan dollars that lunch cost me, and I didn't even get drunk.   But oh yeah that waitress
2026-04-28T14:20 id=2049131744834834755 →mrbungiedune | @mrbungiedune His work on consciousness is great. He's brilliant.   However, I don't like how he's become... idk how to put it... like a journeyman philosopher. He will take several positions and put them in precise philosophical language to test their limits.  I'd prefer he take a stand. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Whats wrong with Chalmers? The Conscious Mind was an extraordinary book
2026-04-28T14:28 id=2049133582304808987 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I forget, are you in China? || CTX: salut i started low dose accutane to keep me from ripping my own face off. my mandarin tutor said i have amazing memory 谢谢 heh. i laughed out loud and my mother heard and was annoyed. my becoming continues one tonal shift and one family cri
2026-04-28T14:50 id=2049139262969569575 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver it's out of your control. The mental discipline required is very difficult, especially if you're an overstimulated young person.   The good thing is they're trying, so one day they'll probably get it. || CTX: young ppl come to my tai chi class in the gym and they can't stand still for the meditation at the start. they keep fidgeting or laughing. they leave after meditation. this has happened a few times. i tell myself it's out of my control but 
2026-04-28T14:51 id=2049139447430836695 →100YearsAgoLive | @100YearsAgoLive THEM KIDS DESERVED IT || CTX: Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein resigns from his teaching position after beating a student to unconsciousness five days ago.   He will now go to Vienna to be a gardener. https://t.co/64BmUxapjs
2026-04-28T14:52 id=2049139644206616910 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 The other week I thought I should convert to Buddhism, then I realized how absurd that thought was and laughed. || CTX: All Buddhists are larpers  and anyone prescribing to a ism and ian are larpers .  To be a Buddhist is to larp   To be yourself is to larpas yourself   To be ....
2026-04-28T14:54 id=2049140322756964625 →for_nat_whilk | When I was an academic I studied politeness. Wanted to write a book on the topic.   Over history we keep redefining the concept, locating it, constraining it, changing it... but we always assume it needs to be there, people typically don't even notice that we can't avoid it but we don't know why. || CTX: >"In this sense the rationalists are pioneers, because they've created an absurdly intricate network of rules on how to speak. And while they're very superficial, politeness rules are superficial, so this is not surprising."  indeed, "polit
2026-04-28T14:55 id=2049140536511213683 →DevilSShadoW | @DevilSShadoW https://t.co/po9Dey77tx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I had to choose one, just one, I'd choose "2", obviously
2026-04-28T15:01 id=2049142082707800112 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Almost like silence in different moments could mean different things  well that's a crazy idea || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 completely unrelatedly (lmao)  it's curious how so much of being polite - and rude - is an understanding of when to be or not be silent
2026-04-28T15:08 id=2049143657010430024 →- | "Do you love me?"  "Yes."  OR: "Do you love me?"  &lt;3 seconds of silence&gt; "Yes."   Silence has meaning. How do you tokenize silence? https://t.co/Vy5XS2ZP1u || CTX: @for_nat_whilk Almost like silence in different moments could mean different things  well that's a crazy idea
2026-04-28T15:21 id=2049147103629410593 →Ken67547214 | A scalar? I guess you can describe "introduces ambiguity" in the terms of it being a scale of how ambiguous it is in this instance, but silence doesn't always introduce ambiguity. Sometimes it introduces tension, or humor, or many other emotions. Would you put them on a scale? How would you arrange them? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a broad problem which I believe extends to the busy composition of the image gen models. Maybe silence is a scalar, a form of tension. Maybe this tension can create a higher order structure. Related: https://t.co/el
2026-04-28T15:28 id=2049148879027982616 →cookiecarver | Oh, YES!!!  Remember that these are probably largely people who have some physical health or diet interest in tai chi or maybe some warped new age conception of it.  They won't understand it's about integrating the whole self with the Tao (I wouldn't even try to say "dissolving" or "seeing the illusion of" because it will just confuse them, or they'll see it as new age self help stuff). They need to warm up to the idea that this is about seeing objects disappear into flow, not about losing weight or being, like. totally spiritual.  I know it cannot be named but doesn't mean we can't try, after all that's what Lao-tzu did. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i wonder if i talked them through the whole thing (15mins) they would be into it more? it's not usually my style to do this tho. and idk if the regulars would like that. i wouldn't really be into it tbh. but also i wonder w
2026-04-28T15:30 id=2049149171480092708 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Yeah, that would absolutely work, but you're forgetting one problem--we are training LLMs on text, right?   The silences aren't in the text! || CTX: I would first try to measure this tension, then try to model it. Maybe in natural speech there is a relationship between the tension created by silence and the content of the clusters of information between them. If such a pattern exists, t
2026-04-28T15:31 id=2049149582232396109 →PaddyTofu | @PaddyTofu @skdh (so now you see what I'm trying to do, and exposing it to her fanbase, great thanks) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @skdh Not sure Angela would appreciate being lumped in with Sabina or Eric Weinstein, she doesn’t hold back on them here https://t.co/FGzXS66DJK
2026-04-28T15:35 id=2049150398653702425 →- | This is a great example of what I was talking about in my other thread about the need for some kind of new rules or morality for the internet.  > be me, autistic stoned spaz > See Sabina talk about Eric Weinstein and string theorists > See opportunity to subtly and without confrontation introduce her audience to an alternative viewpoint that I believe could help indoctrinate them > Paddy McDrunkeroo stumbles in reeking of Bushmills and Miss Mills' bush > Paddy: "Not sure Angela would appreciate..."  > Sabina's fans see this, think "oh she's on the other team" > Echo chamber stays shut  THANKS FOR HELPING ASSHOLE
2026-04-28T15:37 id=2049150972602302723 →Ken67547214 | First problem is your corpus is ridiculously limited now.  Second problem is it's not the same every time in every situation.  Third problem is the biggest: It means the full meaning of all the texts in all our LLMs is lost in principle forever and can never be retrieved.  And silence is not the only thing that's lost this way, not by a long shot.  We are so early indeed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Train on audio with musical annotation?
2026-04-28T15:37 id=2049151130471629123 →PaddyTofu | @PaddyTofu @skdh I appreciated it though because it became a teachable moment. Take care (and sorry for the joke in my retweet). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @skdh Deleted (don't worry, only 3 people saw it, and one of them was you).
2026-04-28T15:38 id=2049151244388942092 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I HADN'T EVEN THOUGHT OF THAT OMFG  Soooo perfect || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ??? https://t.co/Kt62bQPvCd
2026-04-28T15:38 id=2049151379944681924 →PaddyTofu | @PaddyTofu That makes one of us, Mr. McD. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems harsh, it’s not like i know your mission. Btw, I’m completely sober.
2026-04-28T15:52 id=2049154852488704005 →Kulambq | @Kulambq it's like every sentence pulls me closer and closer in to look at a very specific thing, whether I want to be pulled in or not.  Not bad for a Nottingham lad. || CTX: Yes, it's DH Lawrence. One of the best to ever do it. https://t.co/xnjtjBPMpm
2026-04-28T15:59 id=2049156534526234832 →AlbertEinstein | @AlbertEinstein @phalpern It's just what us dudes who have papers published in Nature have to deal with it ig ykwim hood || CTX: "Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?" — Albert Einstein https://t.co/njyvJRCYFZ
2026-04-28T16:00 id=2049156813195723045 →phone3301 | @phone3301 He was the best to ever do it. || CTX: beast mode https://t.co/bff7K9nEXF https://t.co/szqGzzHrGu
2026-04-28T16:08 id=2049158708232671464 →rafael_calcada | yeah, dark patterns, but if you think of it as a kind of game then the dark patterns become more like enemies for us to fight rather than a fate we have to live with.   when you go to the Internet intentionally to have fun, everything changes. As Wittgenstein said... (you know my shtick by now) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are correct and that’s why the architecture is that way . Example: “relevant” option here in x
2026-04-28T16:10 id=2049159292268507507 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza and yet every different performance feels different. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We do it in music
2026-04-28T16:16 id=2049160855540093300 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH That's be a palindrome threesome, those are rare. || CTX: I aim at having a threesome with Alexandra Daddario and Ana de Armas https://t.co/HrEymlvJqe
2026-04-28T16:28 id=2049163887120203830 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @for_nat_whilk I forgot about that! Odd since politeness in Latin was "urbanus" which is where English gets urbane, and "civil" comes from "civitas". I forget the origins of "polite" in English but I seem to remember it's an early modern thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk Kind of weird finding out that "polite" isn't etymologically related to "polis"
2026-04-28T16:30 id=2049164268042670484 →fabsbz | @fabsbz That is very interesting. So it could impact coding efficiency notably. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've noticed that LLMs lack time perception (which would include periods of silence). If an "agentic" task requires waiting even for just a few minutes, the models start panicking when they don't see an immediate result to 
2026-04-28T16:41 id=2049167004515680298 →tszzl | @tszzl @jimcramer I'm gonna miss these after you guys IPO || CTX: @jimcramer goddammit sell everything
2026-04-28T16:42 id=2049167433672671393 →Yakuboism | @Yakuboism Wrong substrate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro isn’t it usually the other way around where LLMs are pseudorandom (but not actually random) but humans may or may not random (if the brain leverages quantum effects or whatever)
2026-04-28T21:55 id=2049246073387102314 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 America is winning this Iran thing. I kinda wish they weren't, but they are. || CTX: Wtf is going on? https://t.co/dTRInIyy2N
2026-04-28T22:07 id=2049249175670538319 →PaulaSeeksTruth | I'm reminded of Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus iconography at first glance, then I think of the contrast between that and Atlas holding the globe on his back and how this pose shows a different kind of "burden carrying" as a concept, as if the Atlas image shows the impossible struggle of trying to care for the world and this shows gentle care of loving the world.   Both are true pictures of the same underlying structure.  Then, sorry but I'm an honest person, I notice you're hot. || CTX: this was interesting. I asked people what they see in this picture. this is one of my favorites. a quintessential picture of me. and people see such different sides. why? do they see me or themselves reflected in me? https://t.co/RI2OXu2RXn
2026-04-28T22:15 id=2049251150785040603 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth I'm just your neighborly autistic spaz internet troll here for some fun and games lol btw gm Paula, hope you're doing well! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow! This is such a beautiful, insightful description, I don't feel worthy. I did have another friend say "Atlas" and I feel what is symbolized here. Damn, are you some wizard or mind reader???  I love honesty here, so it's
2026-04-28T22:20 id=2049252418253459835 →max_spero_ | In the 90s groceries sold harlequin romance novels and National Inquirer gossip mags. The popularity of slop doesn't surprise me at all.  The more interesting question isn't whether people will consume AI slop or not. It's whether they will consume AI slop if they know in advance it is AI slop. That, as far as I know, hasn't really been researched that much. || CTX: @LexerLux #6 most popular tech substack as well  crazy how people will consume outright slop https://t.co/Fiivqvh7Mw
2026-04-28T22:27 id=2049254302376681718 →- | "Oh my God" in English translates into Thai as "oo mai gott". My gf says this allll the time.  Which is to say, "oh my God" cannot really be translated into Thai. I'm sure the non seriousness of saying "oo mai gott" is self evident, but if not, imagine the difference between saying "she ended her life" and "she committed seppuku".  LLMs were originally designed to translate text, remember? So when they translate, they're trying to deal with these kinds of oddities and irregularities of natural language.  In math you can say x = y.   In natural language there is no such thing as x = y. Ever.
2026-04-28T22:44 id=2049258549264675236 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @Ken67547214 I don't think looking embarrassing matters all that much in geopolitics, I hear about this a lot and idk what exactly it means. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 I don’t see how this works linearly like that.   Obv Iran has taken a blow, but Trump has embarrassed the US and somewhat wrecked its credibility as a military power.   Meanwhile - there isn’t a clear path to g
2026-04-28T22:45 id=2049258687790010819 →markovschainsaw | @markovschainsaw Not every silence means the same thing though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Em dashes
2026-04-28T22:58 id=2049262047528108481 →resistancemoney | The whole history of late 20th century linguistics was showing that pragmatics and semantics are inseparable.   So you're right in the level of objective of study--we can separate the two in a lab, as it were.   But the separation is artificial and gives a distorted picture. In the real world, they're inseparably entangled. || CTX: I’d be inclined to resist the strong claim (which I’m reading as being about semantic content) by locating differences elsewhere — in pragmatics, for example. So the content of “apple” is identical to that of “manzana”, but it doesn’t follo
2026-04-28T22:59 id=2049262317955940469 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack I suck at geopolitics lol  It just seems to me the world is saying they blame America and evil Trump for this, but no one is publicly siding with Iran at all. They seem more isolated. || CTX: due respect to mootie, this is (kinda) an utterly foreign thought process to me. I openly questioned sending bajillions to Ukraine while letting NATO off the hook, but I never once thought “gee I hope Russia wins” https://t.co/kGRwBdmXG4
2026-04-29T00:00 id=2049277525524938930 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk enjambment to create polysemy, wonderful just wonderful || CTX: Always remember to be careful, know the limits of your language model and use more than one.  If needed, designate someone beforehand to drive it.  Prompt responsibly. https://t.co/LQXfYvq1Ii
2026-04-29T00:04 id=2049278596725006505 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack I try to avoid value judgments entirely, so whether it is good or bad never really crosses my mind || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (the latter part is a good thing, the first part is whatever (annoying))
2026-04-29T00:04 id=2049278672553885813 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat depends on what you mean by fluent, I get by || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you fluent in thai?
2026-04-29T00:05 id=2049278820457546039 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero @PayNoTack they got to retire this series man, triple digit sequels give me a break || CTX: @PayNoTack @47fucb4r8c69323 no you are wrong the next one is WW111
2026-04-29T00:05 id=2049278903244706011 →retail_trash | @retail_trash exactly! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 silence is part of prosody. why do you expect prosody from a model that handles text?
2026-04-29T00:06 id=2049279014473502956 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @PaulaSeeksTruth for the record, I'm the Jewish one here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth I’m trying to estimate the value of that jewelry and what it would sell for in the secondary market.
2026-04-29T00:06 id=2049279092474994689 →levantistaken | @levantistaken now, apply that to words as well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would answer "…" but that doesn't really capture it, does it?
2026-04-29T00:09 id=2049279933353275425 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @DeivonDrago also worth a hell of a lot more than all the jewelry in the world || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 I can give you kindness. that’s pretty rare these days, no?
2026-04-29T00:11 id=2049280419129102458 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney retract what? you agree entirely with me!   you can separate semantics from pragmatics but you can't separate meaning from pragmatics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Taking the lab W before you retract
2026-04-29T00:31 id=2049285377559867690 →- | assume someone tweeted a proof of the existence of God that was 100% correct and verifiable. however, they tweeted it in ghetto slang.   assume also you understand the tweet, would you then believe it?
2026-04-29T00:41 id=2049287950375207074 →tkisrage | @tkisrage The meaning and value of language depends on where we approach it from! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would but I’m black so it wouldn’t be the first time somebody has said something insightful to me in hood dialect
2026-04-29T00:44 id=2049288742435987502 →eurotr4sh | @eurotr4sh If you can't rape 'em, join 'em. || CTX: hear me out https://t.co/q8ngrCtdLz
2026-04-29T00:46 id=2049289213569585204 →- | The issue with this is that it will be leveraged by the doomers to say AI is bad. And people will agree because they value their autonomy.   But this has nothing to do with "AI" and everything to do with how we choose to use it.   This is choosing poorly. https://t.co/wQF0khiNmT || CTX: Every new car in the U.S. will be required by law to have tech that puts constant surveillance on the driver by 2027.  AI in your car will determine if you're sober and fit to drive, automatically turning off the vehicle if it determines yo
2026-04-29T00:47 id=2049289413822386342 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 How's your day been, Daphne? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah i tweeted lot in ebonics
2026-04-29T00:51 id=2049290470220800395 →airkatakana | I want someone to make some code, produce two versions: one with normal variable names and the other where all variables are offensive slurs, then ask Codex to check the code for bugs as a kind of benchmark.  You could assess the efficiency by counting how many words it uses to check the code in both cases as a proxy for whether the slurs make it less efficient.  I'd call this an N-word Score. || CTX: codex would sooner help you build a nuclear weapon than it would assist you in creating derivative images of WidePeepoHappy https://t.co/YHnCRTaSrP
2026-04-29T00:57 id=2049291859525280140 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ @benryanwriter @TaylorLorenz partnering with Taylor was a marketing mistake.  it'll have zero impact on your firm in the long run, but it was a mistake; you should talk to your marketing team. || CTX: @benryanwriter @TaylorLorenz Cmon man, at least take the time to spell our name right.
2026-04-29T00:57 id=2049292028102746409 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill stop with the bangers give the rest of us a chance || CTX: https://t.co/Uv5OoSAR9a https://t.co/9NohUQZBQ5
2026-04-29T01:01 id=2049292836638765325 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 I always read that username as no it's becoming, and then that makes me think of the joke if I were on you I would be coming to pick up line, is that too 90s for y'all?   who is the girl by the way, she's hot. I'm entering my horny posting phase || CTX: @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-29T01:01 id=2049292923024617952 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, you agree with me!!
2026-04-29T01:02 id=2049293210758074377 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k imagine someone came to you and offered you a million dollars to recite as much of my username as you remember, how far would you get? || CTX: @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @47fucb4r8c69323 @k ok not anymore ugh
2026-04-29T01:03 id=2049293412093014348 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @ElmWho @Ken67547214 My Vivo phone has been badly struggling with the app for days now, like just plain lagging and freezing up for 10 seconds or longer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @Ken67547214 if you guys knew how hamstrung I am on this pixel 8 pro it is so laggy on this website like it is so bad I think Nikita should be fired
2026-04-29T01:03 id=2049293583048700342 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k I just noticed there's a 69 in my username. nice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k I could get all the way it is not the remembering which is the issue it is the keyboard lag combined with how bad I am at typing on a phone
2026-04-29T01:05 id=2049293998029000833 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @k if you ever see a post where the words are not capitalized from me, it's because I used voice to text || CTX: @DaphneB76234 @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @k I didn't notice how bad my typing was until I turned off autocorrect but sometimes I will just voice type like those memes where people talk at their phone
2026-04-29T01:05 id=2049294083097862346 →axel_pond | @axel_pond this is a more profound truth than most people would like to acknowledge || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 every tweet is a proof of the existence of God
2026-04-29T01:12 id=2049295688350237155 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k Also a major street in Las Vegas || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k https://t.co/SESgaNakA4
2026-04-29T01:13 id=2049295880306729026 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @tkisrage I think it makes you a racist. || CTX: @tkisrage @47fucb4r8c69323 I have this theory that black people on average have much higher than normal linguistics skills/potential as a consequence of rap music (listening, composing, etc etc), but it is not realized because of the way th
2026-04-29T01:23 id=2049298577223278634 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k this is pretty much how I look, just a little bit fatter || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k also 47 and camerupt are freebies https://t.co/bu5HoXbxHW
2026-04-29T01:24 id=2049298713978564879 →IsZomg | @IsZomg hand over the authority to the robot, definitely an option || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 grok pls translate and verify
2026-04-29T01:26 id=2049299158696439839 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Exactly what I was looking for.  are propensity to admit strange forms of knowledge relates to how strange we are willing to be, and the publicly observable effect of that choice is how normie one is. https://t.co/RWQAprArAv || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 depends how much of a normie one is
2026-04-29T01:26 id=2049299334110605658 →groyplax | @groyplax unfortunately, the money's been delayed by my bank, and they said it should arrive May 4th.   I deeply apologize for the delay, feel free to think I'm a bullshiting troll until it happens. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wens ur yud debate lol
2026-04-29T01:42 id=2049303203888742515 →max_spero_ | She was involved in a controversy marketing Bark phone in which she threw the advertiser kind of under the bus (or so it's been depicted as), and many have distanced them from her as a result.  So a gotcha thinkpiece about Pangram Labs using shady marketing practices via a disingenuous guilt by association spin could be used to weaponize a "Pangram isn't against evil AI, it IS evil AI".   Maybe you think it's far fetched, but these are the kinda of risks your agency or in house marketing team should've worked through already. If they did, fine. If not, you guys need to get better marketing staff. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @benryanwriter @TaylorLorenz Why? I thought it was a good post
2026-04-29T01:43 id=2049303471099416980 →benryanwriter | @benryanwriter @max_spero_ @TaylorLorenz I think we're learning Pangram Labs is not good at real world due diligence.   Is the AI industry bad at real world due diligence? Is this a risk for the world as we adopt AI?   I smell an angle for a good thinkpiece. || CTX: @max_spero_ @47fucb4r8c69323 @TaylorLorenz Do you know anything about Lorenz?
2026-04-29T01:44 id=2049303764469989631 →philomemetic | @philomemetic I'm almost certain this was used as proof of his divinity among the early christians, I would bet so much money on that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yea I would.  Here’s a fun fact -  Jesus would have spoken Galilean Aramaic which was a rustic dialect often ridiculed. Unfortunately, this is basically never portrayed in media, rather he speaks in a refined accent.
2026-04-29T01:46 id=2049304181241167932 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k do novelists envy professional writers in other forms/genres, or does the envy solely go the other direction? || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @k it is easier to remember sentence that conjures an image like my one for yours involves rachel solando and iris apatow https://t.co/NpoM16CA0f
2026-04-29T01:46 id=2049304336157876404 →groyplax | @groyplax https://t.co/xqDPGQbzo5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Damn
2026-04-29T01:47 id=2049304496166281609 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @tkisrage "black" isn't a culture. African American is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage I am a culturalist, not a racist   Regardless, so what? If you've got a job to do, you hire the best
2026-04-29T01:48 id=2049304827696713748 →tkisrage | @tkisrage @Johnny2Fingersz That's nonsense. Many races train for code switching and language dense music, like Korean Americans || CTX: Hmm thinking about this logically.  What linguistic skills do black people generally train more than other races: Code-switching and language dense music. (Rap music is a lot of words, mostly simple, and relatively fast compared to other ge
2026-04-29T01:51 id=2049305547296608404 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @tkisrage No. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage Are you suggesting that Koreans are better at Linguistics than AA's?
2026-04-29T01:52 id=2049305690217537561 →groyplax | @groyplax Get used to disappointment, kid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just like the sound of Eliezer’s voice so this is rather disappointing
2026-04-29T01:53 id=2049305974616600614 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k What do you think is the best possible gig for someone who wants to write? Substack? Self published novelist? Freelance journalist maybe? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k if you can be a writer/producer or a showrunner on TV then it is ok but you still have to deal with actors fucking up your lines.   if you work in new media you can just have no editor. and you can j
2026-04-29T01:53 id=2049306059928658387 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @tkisrage That your premise is stupid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage Then what are you suggesting?
2026-04-29T01:55 id=2049306536699404395 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE Oh this is straight up neurosis. I cannot imagine a more unhealthy activity than to do this to yourself.  Same as IQ tests. || CTX: interesting. I strongly dislike the line drawing. https://t.co/xSRQjAvRro
2026-04-29T01:56 id=2049306697999761721 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k I've been one for 15 years, just not the kind I wanted to be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k IF i was a writer i would give you the same advice i give all of those who want to become a writer which is dont (just my opinion) https://t.co/PpTq0WEXJU
2026-04-29T01:58 id=2049307378060005422 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada @Ken67547214 Any poker player knows a transcript has like 10% of what was actually said in it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 btw at poker timing is quite relevant and even used as blufing  meta
2026-04-29T02:00 id=2049307808554967120 →DaphneB76234 | I like to think succeeding writing in the formats people actually read now (essays, marketing copy, blog posts) and making a good living at it is sufficient proof that, in another era, I could've made it at least to the mid-tier list and at least been like a Ballentine Books guy if not maybe a Penguin Man.   Fair? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k the novel is a dead format. nobody reads anymore. and even if you did get published then one day you try to tell some other writer and he says only wankers get published. that is when you lose yourse
2026-04-29T02:02 id=2049308255403618513 →tkisrage | I absolutely agree and that's why AA culture is a unique subculture inside of America.   But not all black people are AAs. Not even all black people in America are AAs.  So we aren't talking about black people at all, we're just describing what AA culture is. And what you describe is something I'd 100% agree with.  It just has nothing to do with black people. || CTX: That’s fair I think it is a more complex question than I can articulate here without reflecting on for a while.  Music as a reflection of the will and with a strong presence in day to day life; surely there’s some linguistic knob being twea
2026-04-29T02:06 id=2049309292243866046 →Johnny2Fingersz | It doesn't rise to that standard unfortunately.   To do so you would've needed to be more careful with your words. If you'd said "I think African American culture encourages focusing on a specific kind of linguistic competences due to x, y, and z for anyone who is in or enters the culture", or maybe something structurally similar with different variables thrown in, yeah that'd be fine.  But your stance is too close to "look at how articulate blacks can be" which is you just parroting the racist language game.   In other words, it isn't even a thought. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage It may be stupid, but is it wrong?
2026-04-29T02:07 id=2049309464407454089 →tkisrage | @tkisrage @Johnny2Fingersz Remember when you say "black" and he says "black" you two mean VERY DIFFERENT THINGS. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Johnny2Fingersz Ohhhh okay yup should be more careful with that distinction
2026-04-29T02:08 id=2049309887331770537 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k Honestly very hard for me to think about this clearly because my mentor, who was a famous novelist in her own right, was so important to me and I just can't throw the "self as novelist" picture away because it'd be like throwing her away.  God I miss her so much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k i think these days there are so many different ways to become a writer but a lot of it is not satisfying. like saying you wanted to be a chef and therefore working the fries machine at McDonald's is 
2026-04-29T02:10 id=2049310315289116825 →Johnny2Fingersz | No, absolutely not.  It is so hard for me to even communicate what I mean because you're trapped in the American identity politics game and see the world through that prism.  I'm being as careful as I can to skirt those assumptions but you keep dragging them back in because when you listen to me you're really listening to the echoes of your community in your head. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage Are you implying / dog whistling that @tkisrage is cognitively impaired because of his race?
2026-04-29T02:12 id=2049310928852877583 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k Since I've chosen to decide who you are I am going to take this as approval from one of the most successful and talented novelists alive.   Thank you, anon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k these days people invest in authors. a novelist does not need to write a novel. consider me for example. i could be a farmer. or a museum guide at MH de young working for tips and telling people i am
2026-04-29T02:14 id=2049311210043257235 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k You're too good at this for the Thai script to be accidental.   Goddammit stop being a genius for 10 seconds, will you Daphne || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k if you want to be a novelist then just be one https://t.co/3XuS95cLpH
2026-04-29T02:17 id=2049311962774061267 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @tkisrage Yes I'm retarded I'm very very stupid, unfollow me immediately. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage &gt; because you're trapped in the American identity politics game and see the world through that prism  Are you retarded?  https://t.co/Gen9MVj3rm
2026-04-29T02:18 id=2049312348322877750 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k I'm deeply honored you did the stocking.  Can I get a grade? An honest one, I detest falsity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k legal disclaimer: not a pad thia partnership https://t.co/hlaiRy8adR
2026-04-29T02:18 id=2049312406103597196 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k Remember those things are HEAVILY EDITED!!!!! || CTX: @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @k I'm deeply honored you did the stocking.  Can I get a grade? An honest one, I detest falsity.
2026-04-29T02:29 id=2049315114923524456 →sama | @sama oh so I guess stop using the main app good to know thx || CTX: https://t.co/WZA5vxK186
2026-04-29T02:47 id=2049319672743592427 →BretVDB | @BretVDB I tend to dislike Stevens but my god this is so beautiful, such control and clear gesturing.  Also makes me wonder how much Bloom was influenced by him. || CTX: Wallace Stevens is often a difficult poet, but he does have some simpler masterpieces. “Large Red Man Reading” is among them: https://t.co/oP09Mvo21T
2026-04-29T02:48 id=2049319920585109595 →- | This is straight up marketing to the 4o zombies. https://t.co/ETd1xbe9qp
2026-04-29T03:32 id=2049331018164036028 →- | https://t.co/IxBiUfk6WW  Do any of you realize just how much this demolishes the notion of a conscious LLM? Would I need to break down the logic step by step, or do you just see this prima facie?
2026-04-29T03:42 id=2049333575900930170 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat Yes, I have had many discussions with many Thais of all stripes in Thai, and of course they speak very differently than they do in English, giving me a different perspective on the country. It's been deeply rewarding, more so than other languages I've studied/used. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 enoug then, it's cool, it must be another experience there with this ability
2026-04-29T03:44 id=2049334058954752424 →Johnny2Fingersz | @Johnny2Fingersz @tkisrage No, I don't think this abuse, I just don't think you're worth my time anymore. Sorry to be so rude, but that's how I feel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage Well you're very smart in many ways  Are you still having that match with Yud? If you think this is abuse, if he's on his game (for a change, maybe he comes in *using*) you could be in serious trouble sir
2026-04-29T03:51 id=2049335734272999730 →DaphneB76234 | I tweet from a tropical paradise while I walk along the sea with a cup of coffee in hand and a dog beside me and laugh at the silly language games and the silly people who don't understand them.  Yeah no clue why rich people are Very Online--he has the brain of a man obsessed with clothes. || CTX: you can be anywhere in the world and be on Twitter you fucking moron https://t.co/u29N7EXBbF
2026-04-29T03:55 id=2049336786011492450 →DaphneB76234 | I guess in most minds tech guys get a pass because they like tech so why wouldn't they use tech in their spare time?  But if you got rich liking words, is it really surprising you're on a website full of words?  I guess if FashionTwink understood this, he'd be rich enough not to need to be online too (but then he would want to be). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 also there are not even that many rich people who are very online except for a bunch of the tech people and like it seems obvs why they would be online since they are nerds
2026-04-29T03:57 id=2049337126668669276 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony that's the cool think, it's all there for the taking, SV is just too stupid to know what to do with it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you wiring up rat brains I'm going to mildly protest while watching with fascination of you're wiring up rat brains
2026-04-29T03:57 id=2049337220604236006 →_space_punk_ | @_space_punk_ "A book of philosophy could be written consisting entirely of jokes." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean https://t.co/Ju2tLe5qft
2026-04-29T04:06 id=2049339389910962482 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka hahahahahaha it's like humanity has to bang their heads against a wall over and over and over || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;Studying cognition by averaging data from many people’s brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford Medicine research has shown. https://t.co/nXQYLoWr4L
2026-04-29T04:07 id=2049339687870120164 →ulysselegoat | Thai is very easy, because it's SVO. It's actually quite an easy language to start picking up tbh. But that proximity in my experience doesn't help--French was much harder for me than Italian, although the proximity of English, Swedish, and German did help me somewhat there, not that I retained any of my Swedish. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's a good way to show your respect to the culture and the country  how do you learn a language far away from yours ?
2026-04-29T04:10 id=2049340578396254622 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat I'm not fluent in all of them! I was never good in Swedish, and my Italian did get pretty good, I can read French but couldn't ever speak it all that well, and I'm just a beginner in German, I only started that like 6 months ago in my spare time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wtf how do you know so many languages
2026-04-29T04:14 id=2049341504968376361 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat I cannot recommend learning foreign languages enough. Any language, whatever you're interested in--all weebs should download @airkatakana's app (this entire account is just guerilla marketing for Sotaku btw lol #ad) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Still good, sometimes even a little be could help in opening doors
2026-04-29T04:21 id=2049343269822411226 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @ns123abc That was after he went on a serial killing spree (but they all totes deserved it) || CTX: @ns123abc Hold up Elon was a lumberjack at one point?!
2026-04-29T04:23 id=2049343918328988077 →- | I don't think anyone ever feels like they're successful "enough".  I swear the rarest thing on Earth is "enough".
2026-04-29T04:24 id=2049344070359863464 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Simping for who?
2026-04-29T04:55 id=2049351766618321330 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @AstrosBrain She was too young that's why she went crazy in Alabama || CTX: @astrosbrain @47fucb4r8c69323  KES https://t.co/92LkbwNKI5
2026-04-29T04:58 id=2049352538529615980 →wolfiesch | The ugliness of the American-built landscape compounds this; when you are driving in your pickup truck to a strip mall to go into a Best Buy to buy a TV and then go through the drive-thru to get a smoothie, you feel like just some schmuck working stiff going about your day.   if they were walking through a beautiful city center like Florence, they probably be able to appreciate their wealth more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 most americans have no idea how much wealthier we are than europeans. people need to travel more
2026-04-29T05:00 id=2049353189103960090 →- | For my entire life, I have had to reconcile two seemingly inconsistent facts about my native land:  1. The USA is a phenomenally wealthy nation, one of the richest according to most measurements and, arguably, the richest if one includes unmeasured intangibles (geopolitical power, untapped geographic assets, amount of usable land, human capital, etc.)  2. The USA is a phenomenally ugly nation, both literally and figuratively.  America is literally ugly in the sense of the built landscape; Europeans rightly make fun of the strip malls and roadside gas station behemoths that make up the built U.S. landscape. One of the reasons why Ernst Haas’s Route 66 Albuquerque, New Mexico photo from 1969 is such a postmodern masterpiece is that it somehow transcends the quotidian ugliness of this built-up landscape through framing, composition, and capture of color to produce a work of sublime art. || CTX: The ugliness of the American-built landscape compounds this; when you are driving in your pickup truck to a strip mall to go into a Best Buy to buy a TV and then go through the drive-thru to get a smoothie, you feel like just some schmuck w
2026-04-29T05:01 id=2049353331987108115 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This photograph is only a work of modern art because it creates beauty out of ugliness; to paraphrase a Gilbert Adair character, who similarly seeks transcendence in the ugly American landscape, it attempts to find beauty where none have seen it before.  This is a recurring theme in late 20th century art; it is one of the many subtexts of Lolita, with its catalogues of American pop culture ephemera and its use of gas stations and roadside diners to fill its bilundgsroman structure. Now in the grey early 21st century we see the colorful plastic kitsch of the era as beautiful in its own right, so the unintended ugliness of mid-century Americana has been lost, but one need not look far among the cultural critics of the last century to find rage against the transition from ornateness to utilitarian in architecture and representational art, both photographs and paintings as well as books, television, and radio. Robert Hughes attacked the “dreariness of functionalist buildings”, Tom Wolfe mocked this as a modern secular cult that edified (literally) soullessness, and Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism was an influential invective against this tendency, which he called a flattening of culture where the culture was getting shallow.  I do not necessarily agree with these now historical traditionalists, but I do agree that the function of the form overpowered the beauty of the form in this new ethos of design — it was America, not Europe, that embraced Le Courbusier, the architect who famously called a house “a machine for living in”. And is he wrong? No — nor are his works ugly in themselves. But the many builders of America’s landscape of the 20th century did not care — Haas turned their handiwork into beauty in the photo above, but not a single business making any of the signs in the above was trying to be beautiful. They were trying to get your attention.  If that sounds familiar, it’s because this is exactly how social media works today — the memes, the slogans, the ideological invectives exist not to be beautiful or even ethical — they exist to gain attention, because attention is monetizeable. This is a real political risk, and one we are grappling with today; hence the emergence of the many non-American influencers writing rage-bait to make money — a trend we have known about for years. || CTX: For my entire life, I have had to reconcile two seemingly inconsistent facts about my native land:  1. The USA is a phenomenally wealthy nation, one of the richest according to most measurements and, arguably, the richest if one includes un
2026-04-29T05:01 id=2049353466867536380 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This literal ugliness is closely tied to, and perhaps even is the cause of, a more figurative ugliness: a sheer lack of empathy and paranoid disinterest in helping one’s fellow countrymen in times of need. There is broadly an ideological and ethical frame to this worldview, stating it in terms of unfairness — and it is that frame that Ronald Reagan leveraged in his infamous use of the term “welfare queen,” a racist mythic archetype of a black urban unwed woman living luxuriously on the backs of taxpayers.  The term and the archetype are no longer dominant in U.S. politics, but the resentment and paranoia of other people misappropriating my heard earned money through the tax system is a staple of modern American life. When I was a child, a common way for disgruntled people dealing with government agencies to express their annoyance at these low paid workers was to say “my tax dollars pay your salary” or something similar, and today the DOGE group exists specifically to remove wasteful spending from the U.S. government. Although it is a failure, moving the goalpost from a trillion in savings to $150 billion, advocates of Musk’s pseudo-agency will say that any savings is good savings, and right-wing media will use it to attract attention (and thus ad revenue) because “every penny counts”.  The idea here is deeply Hobbesian — it is the notion that human nature is inherently wicked, which is very much congruent with much of Christian thought, yielding a postmodern American faith that lambasts empathy as dangerous — even a sin. And that is not very Christian at all. || CTX: This photograph is only a work of modern art because it creates beauty out of ugliness; to paraphrase a Gilbert Adair character, who similarly seeks transcendence in the ugly American landscape, it attempts to find beauty where none have se
2026-04-29T05:02 id=2049353569044922763 →47fucb4r8c69323 | But it is very American — it is the ugliness of a nation whose aesthetics, ethics, and ideological view of the world hinge on utility, functionality, pragmatism. When efficiency is the ultimate goal and transcends all other concerns, you get ugly roads full of ugly stripmalls and ugly politics full of angry resentment and a tiring, exhausting bureaucracy of micromanagement. This is a life of penny pinching, coupon clipping hypervigilence, where everyone is out to get you and you constantly need to protect yourself and your own.  It’s also counterproductive; the ideologically aligned Wall Street Journal even acknowledges its failure as it shows how Trump’s government outspends Biden’s despite DOGE. Anyone with experience in both large corporations and small startups knows this intuitively: the bureaucracy of the supposedly efficiency-seeking firm often renders it unable to compete against upstarts and just adds deadweight loss by trying to prevent it.  It is no surprise that American gun ownership is as high as it is, and gun ownership in America (contra Canada, Switzerland, and other nations with a lot of guns) is totemic. || CTX: This literal ugliness is closely tied to, and perhaps even is the cause of, a more figurative ugliness: a sheer lack of empathy and paranoid disinterest in helping one’s fellow countrymen in times of need. There is broadly an ideological an
2026-04-29T05:03 id=2049353814403416253 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I find all of this really quite exhausting, but I cannot say it is worthless. On the contrary, this functionalist worldview is why America’s GDP growth has surpassed that of Europe’s, and it is why America’s pile of wealth continues to grow.  Yet what does America do with that wealth? It isn’t making the country more beautiful, it isn’t providing the poor with greater stability or security through social welfare programs, and it isn’t facilitating a life of less work. Americans still overwork, billionaires don’t usually retire (Tom from Myspace is the exception, not the rule), the American dream is no longer a white picket fence, two cars, and a vacation once a year — the dream now is for more, whatever that “more” may mean for any given person.  Americans like to emphasize freedom as the ideological core of their system, and this is not wrong; indeed, having more means having more choices, but even with Americans affording more options other than overwork, most still choose overwork, and they ensure others have no other choice.  It is absolutely bizarre, entirely incomprehensible, why there are so many Americans stuck in miserable jobs on the coasts with net worths of over $5 million (sometimes much more), which could afford them lives of ease and massive free time if American modern life was structured differently. Flextime, halftime, mini-retirements, and semi-retirements do exist, but they are the exception, and (trust me, I speak from experience) if you pursue this lifestyle your coworkers and compatriots will see you as deeply weird.  This, it must be stressed, is a choice.  American society has more than enough wealth for all Americans to work much less and, crucially, for poverty to not exist in America. Poverty is very much a choice. There are so many back-of-the-envelope calculations that can triangulate this fact, and it’d be quite exhausting to go through them all, so let me just give you one.  Currently, the U.S. unemployment rate is 4.2% and the labor force is 167 million people. That means there are about 7 million unemployed Americans. If we wanted to pay each of those unemployed Americans $100,000 per year, it would thus cost $700 billion dollars. The S&P 500 earned $17.1 trillion in annual revenues in 2024, meaning if we taxed those companies alone a mere 4.1%, we could affording to give each unemployed American in the workforce $100k. || CTX: But it is very American — it is the ugliness of a nation whose aesthetics, ethics, and ideological view of the world hinge on utility, functionality, pragmatism. When efficiency is the ultimate goal and transcends all other concerns, you ge
2026-04-29T05:04 id=2049353988626411905 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is only 500 publicly listed firms! If we extended this to all private sector companies, it’d be about 2.6%. To put this in perspective, the current Trump tariffs would amount to about an 11% tax rate and even a 10% universal tariff would be a larger tax rate than if we gave every unemployed person $100,000 per year.  I am not advocating for this (or indeed any) particular form of redistribution — obviously giving unemployed people six figures is absurd — but what I am more interested in is why this kind of redistribution is considered beyond the pale absurd while the largest hike in tariffs in over a century is decidedly not absurd for a significant portion of the U.S. citizenry. Why are some Americans gleeful about raising taxes on other people and at the same time horrified at government misuse of their tax dollars?  The only coherent answer is this ugliness — the desire for utility above all else, and empathy is far too un-utilitarian to be a part of the equation. If the tariffs hurt someone, that’s fine — as long as it isn’t me. This also explains the bizarre cognitive dissonance in American society, where there is a hunger for manufacturing jobs for other people but a total disinterest in actually working a manufacturing job oneself. Again, this makes sense only if one recasts the entire political discussion in terms of this ugliness — America’s desire for ugly solutions to fix an ugly world, because generosity will be abused by bad faith actors and zero sum games abound.  For Americans, the bumper sticker slogan “it’s a dog eat dog world" has become a religion. || CTX: I find all of this really quite exhausting, but I cannot say it is worthless. On the contrary, this functionalist worldview is why America’s GDP growth has surpassed that of Europe’s, and it is why America’s pile of wealth continues to grow
2026-04-29T05:04 id=2049354092678611182 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The problem with this worldview is that it isn’t true; dogs don’t eat other dogs, especially when awash in material comfort like modern America.  So Americans are choosing a faith where they must be choked by an imaginary Leviathan of bad faith — it is as if they are imprisoning themselves in this non-zero-sum thinking where everyone is out to get everyone all the time, and so we need more security, more defenses, more antagonism, more fighting. The debate culture, the silly Hegelian thesis-antithesis-synthesis view of truth seeking that is as naive as it is outdated is nonetheless the backbone of American debate culture. There are good guys and bad guys, and we need to fight the bad guys or they will win.  You are with us or against us, as George W. Bush said, and if you claim to be neither, well, then you are obviously against us.  Positive-sum games, cooperative systems that add value, coordination among agents in a complex network are all difficult to grasp in the best of times, but American society is increasingly seeing these notions as patently false or unamerican. And this is a disease on both sides of the aisle — either you are one of the deplorables or you are one of the leeches.  It is really quite strange that the wealthiest nation in human history, now very much capable of ridding itself of the scourge of poverty that haunts so much of the world today and has haunted the entire world for millennia, simply cannot embrace its manifest destiny of providing for all of its citizens.  America is free to choose its future, and it is choosing misery, poverty, and strife. This is why I choose to live abroad. || CTX: This is only 500 publicly listed firms! If we extended this to all private sector companies, it’d be about 2.6%. To put this in perspective, the current Trump tariffs would amount to about an 11% tax rate and even a 10% universal tariff wou
2026-04-29T05:05 id=2049354309025087756 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 The control I think is the key here.  Gotta rain it in. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @jasonbotterill @ken67547214 https://t.co/RWtmMFWD23
2026-04-29T05:06 id=2049354596456480819 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony America is economically rich and culturally poor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok yes things are going downhill in a kind of inevitable way but at the same time we're still extremely rich and that couple is fucking delusional. They don't want children.
2026-04-29T05:07 id=2049354908705706289 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol Amen, I have not been to a Seder in so long goddammit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dai dayenu, dai dayenu, dai dayenu. dayenu dayenu
2026-04-29T05:11 id=2049355996204859666 →shlummi | @shlummi This is a really succinct way to put the problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 id assume its because good writing doesnt have objective success and failure outcomes. additionally rlhf wont work well because the majority of people prefer average writing
2026-04-29T05:14 id=2049356706740834554 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill um(brella) || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill is it life? https://t.co/82Kcjp4IyT
2026-04-29T05:18 id=2049357740016083219 →shlummi | That's a very interesting idea: if an intelligence greater than ours writes text that we find distasteful, is it really that intelligent?   You seem to think good style doesn't require intelligence.   I take this more as an artefact of our education system than a thought out argument. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 thank you! could be oversimplified or just straight up wrong but thats just my guess. i expect personally that even if we do get ASI (or something close) that most humans still wouldnt appreciate any good writing from it.
2026-04-29T05:22 id=2049358571880767756 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I really want to have a chat with you on Spaces about economics some day, if you're ever bored lmk, I'd really enjoy it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are actually about 100 million unemployed adults in the US. BLS likes to use misleading figures but the "official unemployment" numbers have many caveats.
2026-04-29T05:23 id=2049358798964523182 →alexinomia | @alexinomia they're just paid to do what they love (their dream job is making your life a nightmare) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and here i thought the influencer was just pure evil and had no financial incentive to poison brains
2026-04-29T05:25 id=2049359443591299511 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno I honestly cannot remember the last time I saw a tweet from you on the TL and did not immediately voluntarily laugh. || CTX: I think it’s time to retire my pronouns. I had fun, though!
2026-04-29T06:31 id=2049375905097887881 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Oh there's so much in here to discuss!   I'm struggling with a response though because you end saying things aren't good for us, but idk who us is here and idk what good means.  It's been great for me man. || CTX: Imo, things aren't that complicated. The units of our economy (vape shops, fast food restaurants, online scams, onlyfans creators, health care administration, etc.) are the result of the environment. The "environment" wrt an economy is labo
2026-04-29T06:31 id=2049376087860539748 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake So the culture produced bad laws, yes I agree. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 by lawslop i mean the various restrictions on ambient beauty forced upon commerical real estate developers by the local municipalities, the capital stack, and the underwriter's requirements.
2026-04-29T06:32 id=2049376178612617620 →JB4382837830763 | @JB4382837830763 I lived there for 8 years and couldn't disagree more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Eh, the more time you spend in europe the more you notice the decay and stagnation. American aesthetics are bad bc of the work and consumer culture, but i have faith in futurist american aesthetic superiority
2026-04-29T06:33 id=2049376414349324459 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Any headline conclusions? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have written several papers, essays and data visualizations on these issues  particularly with diseases of despair, since that has been far more deadly than pandemic itself, even during it
2026-04-29T06:34 id=2049376689197809697 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake What's the genealogy of this globalist culture, in your eyes? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the thing is it's not American culture  American culture still produces beauty, it's globalist culture that produces this rot you speak of.
2026-04-29T06:37 id=2049377464515023139 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake So when the British globalist culture came to America, America neither began modifying nor steering said culture? A neutral medium, an inert pass-thru? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's the goddamn british if we're really getting down to brass tacks
2026-04-29T06:38 id=2049377653036351875 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio My feed has been just goblins since like 2012 || CTX: Help my whole feed is just goblins
2026-04-29T06:41 id=2049378646067187830 →PerryALPHA | @PerryALPHA Prompt helps you get around the propaganda somewhat, but what I think is more interesting is how logged in the Thinking model gets you a much better response. https://t.co/0sfQd7qKW3 || CTX: ChatGPT does thought policing straight out of 1984 https://t.co/CbHqm9WglL
2026-04-29T06:43 id=2049378988699861162 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Just be empathetic, want to help, don't try to prove yourself or your worth.   Well, that's what I try to do, tbh I have no idea why anyone reads my tweets I'm just a prime number with a fetish for having sex with bees. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is great! So many could use a rational person to help them let go of stupid and dangerous ideas and choose better beliefs. Can you teach me how to do this? We need more people who can help.
2026-04-29T06:46 id=2049379730378691001 →llallawg | @llallawg Don't worry, my debate with Yud is going to go megaviral and end this shit. || CTX: Purpose of a system is what it does  Doomers: proliferation of antisocial and misanthropic ideas into the wider society https://t.co/FywjWuel48
2026-04-29T06:48 id=2049380221313495201 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake And of course the American public voting in Carter had nothing to do with American culture. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that part had nothing to do with culture, that's the treachery of carter i think
2026-04-29T06:52 id=2049381258183278661 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Well that's just proof of the quality of your taste. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you. But don’t try to fool me. I know what you are. You’re one of those outliers that are so great it’s like I hear you dog whistle to me so quickly. Others may not realize it so quickly but I do.
2026-04-29T06:56 id=2049382221434458130 →- | Normal Annoying Maddening Banking Laws in America https://t.co/9zZjxu2Ixj
2026-04-29T06:57 id=2049382424602407233 →AmandaAskell | @AmandaAskell @BishPlsOk @tszzl After Yud, you're next on the list, Askell.   Enjoy it while it lasts. || CTX: @tszzl If I'm being honest, I'm genuinely uncertain about whether this is a problem.
2026-04-29T06:57 id=2049382569041666489 →logicus | @logicus type fast, no friends, no job || CTX: how do you guys post this much?
2026-04-29T07:02 id=2049383684126716356 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill You get money from me monthly! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can I have some
2026-04-29T07:03 id=2049384180560388183 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux This comment section, Jevons Paradox as far as the eye can see || CTX: With some small tweaks, Codex can work for days on hard tasks. We will release some changes to make this easier to use for everyone.   What’s the hardest task you’ve seen GPT-5.5 succeed at?
2026-04-29T07:09 id=2049385618074149316 →- | RT @PaulaSeeksTruth: do you realize that we have the capacity to learn about anything using an AI that summarizes information from encyclop… || CTX: do you realize that we have the capacity to learn about anything using an AI that summarizes information from encyclopedias and scientific studies and all we have to do is take 30 seconds to ask one question and people choose to keep their 
2026-04-29T07:14 id=2049386919042371759 →tc1415 | @tc1415 https://t.co/A9ePCpOyQm  Reminds me of this classic || CTX: Can we please note that it's (almost) never "King Charles". Any of the following are fine though  - His Majesty the King - His Majesty - His Britannic Majesty - The King - King Charles III (the III is not optional) - Charles III (never just
2026-04-29T07:32 id=2049391289263935971 →eshear | @eshear Do you mean a continuous universe? Penrose has said he now thinks the universe is fundamentally continuous. || CTX: If your fundamental theory of physics includes the continuum, it’s almost certainly nonphysical. Any real mechanism has to be implemented by a finite process.
2026-04-29T09:09 id=2049415748280615406 →amirism_ | @amirism_ @llallawg unless yud the stud becomes yud the dud and backs out because he realizes he's made a huge fucking mistake for a relatively small amount of money || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg is it still happening? looking forward to it
2026-04-29T09:10 id=2049415909778002072 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker I'm a hideous man and I've had way too much sex, including threesomes. and I didn't even have to pay for all of the threesomes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you for your service! Incels aren't wrong for realizing how superficial society is. They could lobby for gene editing, tissue engineering, or better biotech. That would be productive and would get them laid.
2026-04-29T09:11 id=2049416184630853859 →BalboaRegular | @BalboaRegular no ass eating gang checking in || CTX: Am I the only guy left that doesn’t eat ass or get his ass ate?
2026-04-29T09:23 id=2049419293486649814 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @BalboaRegular As an ass bitch I respect it too much to eat it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BalboaRegular boring ass bitch
2026-04-29T09:23 id=2049419352596983971 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker ... Heather? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And I've fucked a hideous man before, because he was smart and funny!
2026-04-29T09:37 id=2049422786675056810 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @BalboaRegular would. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BalboaRegular https://t.co/OLFPMLZSAm
2026-04-29T09:44 id=2049424467848556801 →teodorio | @teodorio I haven't seen it once either myself || CTX: I cannot get my gpt to say goblin am I cooked?
2026-04-29T10:23 id=2049434413298327628 →- | This industry is full of pretentious charlatans feeding you word salad, because you lack the taste to. recognize real meat. https://t.co/Q9i2vqUa6r || CTX: There's a quadrillion-dollar question at the heart of AI: Why are humans so much more sample efficient compared to LLM? There are three possible answers:  1. Architecture and hyperparameters (aka transformer vs whatever ‘algo’ cortical colu
2026-04-29T10:34 id=2049437208147537972 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Women weren't allowed to work and homosexuality was still illegal. || CTX: Was no one sucking dick in the 1930s? https://t.co/hJzdoyhAVc
2026-04-29T10:39 id=2049438308728713611 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Yeah, fucking the homies while making moonshine is how you get gay werewolves || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Still?
2026-04-29T10:44 id=2049439651107373423 →JasonBotterill | "Why hello there, Missy! I say, it sure is a fine day. What say you and I go into the bushes and you can give my pecker a smack on the lips until I quench your thirst with my seed? There's a penny farthing in it for you and if you're tip top more to come still!"  I tried this prompt once on HuggingFace, it repeated it to me verbatim then asked for money. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/W2tUtXjpt7
2026-04-29T10:46 id=2049440174980084069 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I have no problem with numbers per se, it's when you start combining them that it all goes to hell || CTX: the jury is still out on whether doing math helped us. was life really better since the invention of numbers? or were they a kind of madness that will prove to be our downfall? https://t.co/7uLDRQOJop
2026-04-29T10:47 id=2049440448025067817 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I'm easing you into it, as any gentle lover would do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that’s most uncomfortable you have ever made me so far in our brief time we’ve known each other
2026-04-29T10:49 id=2049440951559696680 →- | The enemy isn't technology.   The enemy is scale.
2026-04-29T10:50 id=2049441166853386563 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 Well the positive ones don't exist either || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think it all went downhill with negative numbers. they do not exist.
2026-04-29T10:54 id=2049442136060227976 →DaphneB76234 | What they point to exists. So if I say 2 apples, yes there are two apples. But there's no "2" anywhere in the world, and the 2 apples is debatable upon closer scrutiny--are they really sufficiently comparable to call them both "apples"? What do we mean by apples?   These tech people forget numbers are just a tool we made up to remember things as we go along, so they think they're real things existing in the world (or even primary to the world).  21st century Platonism from a bunch of ugly nerds who've never read Shakespeare (or showered). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think the positive integers do exist. a case can be made for them.
2026-04-29T11:02 id=2049444174341271628 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I think he had it backwards, but I'm neither a mathematician or German || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/xQQ2Or0MOH
2026-04-29T11:02 id=2049444283770683520 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I think it took us a long time to figure it out, but we figured it out man || CTX: possibly one of the most important posts in the history of my time here https://t.co/VRYzrKia1f
2026-04-29T12:14 id=2049462232233439650 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Makes sense; your true love will see you as enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Funny, all of my exes said I was “too much”
2026-04-29T12:15 id=2049462510395498691 →philomemetic | @philomemetic Frenchies gonna French what you gonna do? https://t.co/jaYMxKBaHM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Montreal and Quebec City come to mind for cities that have (partially) kept beauty in mind. https://t.co/OGZ80xh6tu
2026-04-29T12:24 id=2049464807926218771 →IgorBrigadir | @IgorBrigadir @PaulaSeeksTruth I'LL FUCK EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth 😳 https://t.co/Cd9nXsJTq8
2026-04-29T12:24 id=2049464961626521667 →franklanfrick | @franklanfrick You know what is up my friend. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 when someone has had enough they walk away.
2026-04-29T12:25 id=2049465037107155246 →hesipullfade | @hesipullfade "lately"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’ve had a few bars lately
2026-04-29T12:26 id=2049465300824064019 →adarshisit | @adarshisit ... he said, subjectively. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The enemy to me seems like human subjectivity
2026-04-29T12:27 id=2049465496211439710 →babarganesh | @babarganesh other people's happiness seems to make people miserable quite often too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i see it too. people have a poor relationship with their lives. i fight with this myself, and part of it is that other people’s unhappiness bleeds over. but there’s a sense that happiness is irresponsible that’s hard to fig
2026-04-29T12:33 id=2049467167335412034 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Broken link || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Btw, I wrote these ethics, be interested in what you think of it if you had the time: https://t.co/cthHj1P83k
2026-04-29T12:38 id=2049468362724663464 →TheStalwart | I so strongly disagree with that poster. In my lab we need both and use both, we can't be the only ones.   Self hosted offers security, control etc. Cloud based will always be the smartest, best models. You need both.   The TAM for Mac Mini demand is such a small incremental boost to organic rev growth for the device (and probably no dramatic reaccel anytime soon) that it's just not interesting as a growth power play for an AI bet.  But some value investors (I bet, idk for sure sup FINRA <3) see it as probably an overlooked low beta option for AI exposure.  And I suspect the chatter doesn't track institutional views, that gap has been growing a lot since the pandemic, it's kinda driving me crazy tbh || CTX: @sameer_singh17 Why not?
2026-04-29T12:42 id=2049469383005938122 →adarshisit | After reading your premises, I'd recommend reading Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics.  I'm not so sure about this: "Anything that can claim legitimacy, adheres only to truths that exist objectively beyond any specific domain, that is, the scope of their truthfulness extends globally." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My bad  https://t.co/KhRHnBKtgL
2026-04-29T12:46 id=2049470358659760372 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay I agree with everything you just said. || CTX: 1) in the US, life seems to be fairly intolerable for most until you cross $85,000 2) I think u observed that drop in 2022 not 2020 because that is when inflation started eating into their income & this happened across the board each year f
2026-04-29T12:47 id=2049470731730477281 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Not everything can be rigorous.   Ethics live outside of logic (cf. Tractatus 6.3 et passim) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 From a surface level reading (&amp; I'd known some works from Wittgenstein &amp; non-cognitivist-adjacent moral theories in general), I would seem to agree, but then I don’t see how rigour can be cashed out of something whe
2026-04-29T13:14 id=2049477541367574867 →MichaelSha10041 | @MichaelSha10041 @specialkdelslay Also I think it's cultural, not really economic.  The unifying force in American public life is economic. We need a new ethos to unite us, but idk what (and RETVRN bullshit is retarded nostalgia don't even at me with that fam) || CTX: @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 "4) We have a massive dishonesty problem in the US... they're getting poorer while witnessing fraud &amp; theft at a scale never seen before."  This is the root of the problem imo
2026-04-29T13:16 id=2049477998475424068 →waysofbeing1 | @waysofbeing1 They seem to all be neoplatonists? Idk I find this whole thing really weird. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Prime example of how solipsistic rationalist inquiry is. Yes, AI is the anchor for this frame, but imagine trying to distill the complexity system that we hitherto have yet to fully comprehend, with a mathematical function.
2026-04-29T13:19 id=2049478668788158732 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay @MichaelSha10041 It's not cognitively taxing, whereas all of my ideas on how to fix these things are, which is why they're influencers and I'm just an anon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MichaelSha10041 one thing I tell ppl on the tl all the time is "stop yearning for a time that never existed" it's one of those annoying dialectics out there that is not helpful in the slightest
2026-04-29T13:23 id=2049479753175015876 →JB4382837830763 | @JB4382837830763 Fair, I mean if we're talking economics and demographics I take the point. If we're talking cultural preservation and quality of life, I think they're fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Outside of eastern europe this is true it is not a healthy continent financially or demographically. I have lived/worked/studied in two european countries
2026-04-29T13:24 id=2049480000945242126 →- | goddammit HOW MANY OF THESE AM I GOING TO HAVE TO DO https://t.co/qAQrtSUduC || CTX: JUST IN: Elon Musk says AI "could kill us all"
2026-04-29T13:26 id=2049480475526430983 →JB4382837830763 | @JB4382837830763 My conspiracy theory is rich Europeans like it this way to keep all the luxury spots to themselves. Neo-Feudalism via regulating to zero growth.   I think we agree, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 QOL yes (for vacationers and people with a good job) but there’s a lot of suffering in rural places most ppl have no reason to visit. Cultural preservation, not so much, though this is just downstream of global capitalism.
2026-04-29T13:34 id=2049482501194997908 →- | The reason why "This will surely work" is less certain than "This will work", despite "surely" meaning certain, is worth considering.  This may seem like a paradox, but it is because here "surely" does not actually mean "certain" THIS TIME.   A word's meaning changes from situation to situation, because the meaning of a word is in the use of the word.   So if I said "this will surely work", it's me trying to tell someone (maybe myself) that "I have confidence that this will work", and you can indeed think of "surely" as being a kind of variable for that longer sentence.   But the key here is that we cannot in fact record the definition of "surely" until AFTER every use of the word in all of history across the universe, otherwise it remains an open question with infinite possibilities. The next use of "surely" can change it. And I haven't even got to irony, which of course messes the picture up more.  And this applies in principle to every single word. In every natural language.  Now one sees how LLMs as they currently exist are limited. That's a big problem.  Also, now you see with AI is so good at code and still writes like a retard. We invented complex mathematics (omg I know some pedants are gonna get at me for the intuitionist reading please spare me man) and code precisely to get around the infinite possibilities of future meaning of a word problem.   In a Python script, "if" always means the same thing. If you consider tone, gesture, context, etc etc, you see that "if" does not always mean the same thing in English.  The tech world is blind to this because they've been taught to be blind to this. Which wasn't a problem until we got LLMs to work.  We knew about this in 2003. Oh did I not mention I was working on LLMs before most of you were born? Ofc I retired but that's another story for another poast.  And if y'all hadn't annoyed me with your clankers b feelin' bunch o' bullshit, I could've stayed retired.  But now I'm annoyed and I'm going to fix this problem. This y'all's fault man. || CTX: 1. "This will surely work"  2. "This will work"   Which one means 100% certainty, if you had to choose one just one?
2026-04-29T13:35 id=2049482642710729211 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 When you finish P. I, next step is On Certainty. This is the main idea in it. You'll love it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's also kind of obvious. The brain isn't going to waste energy relearning that farts smell bad, you are born knowing this.
2026-04-29T13:37 id=2049483112984551889 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Absolutely correct, he's a genius in leveraging the weird logic of the modern Silly Business Theory #SBT driven world. And an idiot about so much else. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Musk is the greatest grifter I've ever seen, he is the greatest postmodernist there is too. A lot of what he does is create decorations that serve something that he cares for, and has the ability to fund them to the hilt.
2026-04-29T13:48 id=2049485972962992357 →thrialectics | @thrialectics @adarshisit @realityspammer https://t.co/4OZN9iEjbg  Banger if I ever saw one. || CTX: EVERYONE ON THIS APP WHO IS TELLING YOU WHAT YOU "SHOULD" DO IS RUNNING A HIGHER LEVEL STRATEGY TRYING TO TRICK PEOPLE INTO A LOWER VALUE STRATEGY THEY ALREADY FRONT RAN  ADJUST ACCORDINGLY
2026-04-29T13:49 id=2049486183529689304 →4confusedemoji | @4confusedemoji His third claim (iirc it was the third) smuggles in a presupposition.   It's better than Anselm's but still weak. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we didnt even believe Godel
2026-04-29T14:25 id=2049495308535800077 →adarshisit | @adarshisit I have ABSOLUTELY seen the same thing. They are overcompensating for 4o sycophancy, OpenAI doesn't have enough taste to get this right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It'll always respond with “I get why that feels that way, here's why you're still retarded though: x and x point I've already said” The emptiest and most enraging form of patronising, tips me over.
2026-04-29T14:26 id=2049495502107169248 →adarshisit | @adarshisit @Johnny2Fingersz Arational hinge certainties || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 And I think our Intuitions actually allow us to see this pre-logic, I saw that it was less certain intuitively before I locked in. It's just conditioning the intuition
2026-04-29T14:36 id=2049498082396778971 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @Johnny2Fingersz This is why young readers are told to avoid adverbs, not so much that they're bad per se, but they're a crutch insecure young people use because they lack conviction. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Bit more odds based with a note to look for some nonverbal hints. But, adverbs can weaken because they are often hyperbolic and the added complexity gives more area to doubt. I look at adverbs like possible
2026-04-29T14:38 id=2049498474081825047 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I was the guy on the left, just fatter. || CTX: These were the kids I knew in middle school https://t.co/IBXVwjYyOL
2026-04-29T14:41 id=2049499356756381766 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux @Mugilan_SS @OpenAI Not a small thing! || CTX: @Mugilan_SS @OpenAI It’s the small things. When we designed this the tradeoff was between a good experience or optimize for margin and not allow to draw more usage than you technically have.   We chose to optimize for the experience as it’s
2026-04-29T14:46 id=2049500699193708841 →boneGPT | @boneGPT 0 down and 300lbs up || CTX: it's this or a dad that makes you sell rugs https://t.co/qmC4klHXc7
2026-04-29T14:48 id=2049501022276764137 →bas_logic | @bas_logic https://t.co/NfIqBNj07Q || CTX: JUST IN: Elon Musk says AI "could kill us all", thereby generating the implicature that AI "could also not kill us all". https://t.co/Lnxbl8ILVl
2026-04-29T14:48 id=2049501065851392400 →helscom | @helscom siisti || CTX: look at this bad boy in my little forest patch 😍 https://t.co/BH905DvmVH
2026-04-29T14:49 id=2049501372572397995 →mhdempsey | @mhdempsey @_AashishReddy I took such careful notes of Nabokov's style when I was an undergrad, that was EXACTLY how I wanted to write. || CTX: me to claude after it tells me my sentences are too long-winded.  also, nabokov to his new yorker editor. https://t.co/1BezWGKcME
2026-04-29T14:56 id=2049503110650085513 →ElsewhereFamous | @ElsewhereFamous That's up to Yud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s happening ??
2026-04-29T15:05 id=2049505391424537047 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @Johnny2Fingersz People who fear this are really sad figures, this mystery of the self (indeed the mystery of the self being a no-thing) is the most wonderful thing in the world. || CTX: @Johnny2Fingersz @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh it makes sense, but I still have a sense of wonder stumbling upon it and realizing that some part of myself is off limits to some degree.
2026-04-29T19:19 id=2049569213858427225 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I can see a conflict of interest between your responsibility to prevent suicide and your desire to get promoted because your boss is dead || CTX: I was the suicide prevention coordinator at my old job
2026-04-29T23:30 id=2049632534015942744 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain Rule breakers are followers, quite sad honestly. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain the structural parallels between the two A29s and J22s were mentioned elsewhere  but it has not any meaning beyond the sound of slapping a belly   @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/ho5zOSvyM
2026-04-29T23:33 id=2049633324587729003 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning This is why when I go to California, I stay at an Airbnb. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have had enough of this life already. but they wont let me leave.
2026-04-29T23:35 id=2049633626456006885 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @GKunstwerk https://t.co/Ba3kF3FEhr || CTX: @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/uTNkFcx9Qx
2026-04-29T23:42 id=2049635500420628495 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 "Check out the big brain on Bret!" - Quentin Tarantino || CTX: @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 at your feet im at your feet https://t.co/pPjhcuvS8F
2026-04-29T23:58 id=2049639491166712138 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 but I can't be unwritten out of the story if it's already started https://t.co/3mGwnqw3xv || CTX: @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 we can still be friends online if you do not want to be part of the story and if you do not want to play my game anymore. that is why i always asked first if people want
2026-04-30T00:09 id=2049642240977645646 →- | As Avril Lavigne would say if she were still with us:  🎶I had a theory of Silly Business can I make it anymore obvious?🎶 https://t.co/zkvMBPw2BE
2026-04-30T00:10 id=2049642477842485605 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The more you take internet bullshit seriously, the more you're letting the tech billions control serious culture.   Stop being stupid, Anon, the internet is not real life. || CTX: As Avril Lavigne would say if she were still with us:  🎶I had a theory of Silly Business can I make it anymore obvious?🎶 https://t.co/zkvMBPw2BE
2026-04-30T00:12 id=2049643013992030624 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 A. J.! https://t.co/mps2nU7q8K || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/c54qwGd36K
2026-04-30T00:13 id=2049643187812331909 →tszzl | @tszzl oh fuck it's reached ASI || CTX: can get behind this grok news hallucination https://t.co/ZU1f148ItP
2026-04-30T00:14 id=2049643584434102383 →conorsen | @conorsen 26x current revenue at their growth rate is a steal || CTX: Anthropic looking to raise at a higher valuation than OpenAI: https://t.co/Gao2rKSh8L
2026-04-30T00:15 id=2049643745126277626 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace I cannot disagree with nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 1. If you’re going to disagree with the premise of another post, can you specifically state what your disagreement is? 2. My explanation is that the human brain is energy efficient because it was designed by a creator (God)
2026-04-30T00:16 id=2049644092330742084 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Love you too, Damian. Hope you're well. || CTX: Love all you freaks https://t.co/6ZCYi3p0aO
2026-04-30T00:18 id=2049644515041173716 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Goddamn I love philosophers so much || CTX: Listen folks, I’m multiple pints in, I just wanna say, cheers to whatever the fuck existence is 😅
2026-04-30T00:19 id=2049644868952375607 →- | Wittgenstein was a genius but his real power was restraint.   My problem is gluttony. Greed, maybe.   I don't just want a wonderful life. I want every living being ever to have a wonderful life.
2026-04-30T00:22 id=2049645539709554885 →- | Ask a Millennial what they are, you'll likely get a word that ends in -an, like American, Jamaican, lesbian, etc.  Ask a Gen Z what they are, you'll likely get a word that ends in -ist, like rationalist, optimist, accelerationist, racist, etc.  Maybe my generation's cry for individuality was a cry against the human need for belonging and the foolish products thereby.
2026-04-30T00:23 id=2049645842530005345 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This one makes a strong argument. || CTX: Civilized Discontents IV.  I didn't get a house  because in the gamble of my free time the house always wins.  Only yesterday I was scrolling away on the off chance I’d find a laugh, a hobby, anything  that doesn’t require serious payback l
2026-04-30T00:27 id=2049646799259128056 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 I'm gentle with BEEs || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 gentle ben https://t.co/IZMtX6qSr7
2026-04-30T00:32 id=2049647965271375942 →- | If you ever want to accuse Red Bull of false advertising, just remember:  Red Bull heir Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, accused of killing Bangkok police officer Wichian Klanprasert in a 2012 Ferrari hit-and-run, remains at large after 14 years of delayed prosecution and alleged official misconduct that has made the case a symbol of elite impunity in Thailand.  So apparently Red Bull does indeed give SOME of us wings.
2026-04-30T00:36 id=2049649098400342059 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 I too am saving this one for posterity. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 for posterity https://t.co/wwJRkr1aSL
2026-04-30T00:39 id=2049649813655023624 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 there are reasons https://t.co/YddKAuiWRW || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 you think i give a flying fuck if you are afraid?
2026-04-30T00:40 id=2049650100423758000 →bladgolem | @bladgolem You kidding?! Absolutely autism, most autistic philosopher of all time, hence also the greatest. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 His real power was something akin to autism. Maybe autism.
2026-04-30T00:45 id=2049651201923502261 →NoItsBeckoning | @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 Frank Kermode speaks of this.   I just asked him about growing up in the Isle of Man to knock him down a peg or two.  Was that rule breaking or rule ignoring? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 when i finished my last novel (last means last), i said   dont read the last page https://t.co/ho0qkBv8ob
2026-04-30T00:45 id=2049651423345086657 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Instant follow. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I always say, he is the philosopher of the times to come. More relevant now than 10 years ago.
2026-04-30T00:48 id=2049651982311600394 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 Never Let Me Go. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NoItsBeckoning @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 Can you recommend me a book sir
2026-04-30T00:49 id=2049652421992059120 →- | I am Jack's total lack of surprise. https://t.co/HIFbWNOLJX
2026-04-30T00:53 id=2049653311377428811 →bladgolem | @bladgolem I've been trying to get a lot of people on this site to read that for months now.   His most important book now because it dissolves the question of "is AI conscious" so elegantly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Great instinct. But also a coincidence, as On Certainty is laying beside my computer right now. Been trying to come back to him since I had this insight some months ago.
2026-04-30T01:01 id=2049655248189592007 →bladgolem | @bladgolem you might just not be ready to be totally honest, zizek is not someone to take seriously, he's like a caricature of a philosopher, silly philosophy for a silly historical era || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ! Would love to hear your ideas on it. I need strength to keep on going, as Wittgenstein is not Zizek
2026-04-30T01:05 id=2049656429251023097 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 been a while since I read it, and my memory is not so good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *complete
2026-04-30T01:08 id=2049657013718941822 →bladgolem | @bladgolem exactly, if it's easy to read and it's philosophy, it's not philosophy.  the difficulty is part of the game, remember Wittgenstein once said "the best way a philosopher could greet another one is to say take your time" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But I do mean what I say, Zizek is very easy, you can read 200 pages of Zizek in a day and feel like nothing. Wittgenstein for me, at least, is 10 pages a day.
2026-04-30T01:09 id=2049657259790356908 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I do not remember that at all, but I do remember thinking the book and the movie are so similar that one kind of needs to read them both together to understand why the 1990s had to stop. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the book has joe instead of jack
2026-04-30T01:11 id=2049657927779426682 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 do you think the book has aged well? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 too bad all my best fight club tweets are on now-deactivated accounts
2026-04-30T01:13 id=2049658264317772268 →bladgolem | I read can use the rebel a few weeks ago and shortly after that read a happy death, which I think is better than the stranger, but I understand why the strangers more popular. I think the division between continental and analytic philosophy is arbitrary, and the best philosophy is somewhere in the middle of the two. the extremes are Churchlands and Zizek, and I don't approve of those extremes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's true. Do you like the french?
2026-04-30T01:14 id=2049658582153802085 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 the best to ever do it God damn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah but only because it gets funnier with each generation that does not understand it and tries to make it about them
2026-04-30T01:17 id=2049659402668691594 →bladgolem | my basic attitude with darad is that he successfully identified a new research program that incorporates the dynamic and changing nature of language and discourse, but he wrote like an asshole. and I mean that literally, he wrote as if he didn't care about the audience at all, but the ideas are brilliant. if only heed respected other people, his ideas probably could have got us large language models earlier than we got them || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you into Derrida?
2026-04-30T01:21 id=2049660480877400474 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I'm not so sure that's social decay as much as a manifestation of humanity's constant striving for certainty over risk and the gravity of fear. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fight club was about learning to stop hitting yourself in the face and just talk to woman like a normal person  today clavicular is smashing himself in the face with a hammer so boys have learned nothing and fathers are sti
2026-04-30T01:24 id=2049661170718830758 →bladgolem | I wouldn't put Benjamin in there because I think the Frankfort school was a failure, but otherwise yes you're absolutely correct. but also, I concluded the Frankfurt school was a failure about 20 years ago, so if you ask me why I think that I would have to say I honestly don't remember || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Then you will get me when I say: Wittgenstein+Derrida+Debord+Benjamin+Girard and you have most of modernity. Maybe you give up on it too, but that's debatable.
2026-04-30T01:31 id=2049662938479554634 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 you convinced me, I need to reread it.   also picked up his latest book, I'm curious what he's been up to lately https://t.co/L5R9p5TPzn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that's why the movie sucks compared to the book ending
2026-04-30T01:33 id=2049663516454646193 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 a pharmaceutical scientist once told me that she thought Germany and America had been allies against the Russians in world war II. few people believe me when I tell them this, I still struggle to believe it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they are a doctor now
2026-04-30T01:36 id=2049664113304039827 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 that it is so easy to see her as a bad person is either indicative of society's sexism or Vince's sexism, or maybe Vince's sexism flourishes because of social sexism.   I'm going to lose so many followers if anyone sees this reply, but I'm not going to retweet it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sorry to be clear since many people hate Skylar, walt was a monster who used his cancer diagnosis and pretense of providing for his family as an excuse to enact out his monstrosity
2026-04-30T01:38 id=2049664628985393261 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 I promised my girlfriend I would only spend one year trying to solve this problem, then I would go back to retirement.   about 2 months in so far || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And that is of course because you’re dealing with natural language, which is not only often opaque or ambiguous but “works” through imperfection and inefficiency.    But when you talk to a lot of techies, otherwise highly i
2026-04-30T01:38 id=2049664747864485929 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 delete this too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 deleting since this is too specific of a doxx I think
2026-04-30T01:42 id=2049665671051825295 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 I'm in my mid-40s, no I'm not 47 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I must say the reference to 2003 made me wonder, man, how old ARE you? 😏  Truth is I’m no spring chicken myself though.  I was alive—and kicking—back then too.
2026-04-30T01:48 id=2049667186613157918 →- | the fact that Anthropic used doomer bullshit to scare Bernie into scaring everyone so that they can be in control of AI regulation to their advantage should disqualify them from the game.   but that's not a rule that exists sadly.   this is just like Facebook saying they wanted better data protection laws in the early 2010s, silicon valley uses the same trick over and over because it fucking works
2026-04-30T02:00 id=2049670248950100272 →- | The only thing I care about is gaining the respect of people at the top of their field.
2026-04-30T02:06 id=2049671731368153334 →- | Ask yourself why this is wrong. It IS wrong, just ask yourself why. https://t.co/gGZIwcQKK3
2026-04-30T02:11 id=2049672987461517772 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @NoItsBeckoning @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 I wish I'd seen this earlier, I would have saved on shipping. I'll let you know when I finish reading it || CTX: @AstrosBrain @NoItsBeckoning @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 hmmm my travel time is about 40 mins daily so I think I can get through these ones
2026-04-30T02:17 id=2049674568030368155 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 what interests me about this is that it suggests when we speak with someone we're never really on the same level.  my fantasies of fairness are foolish || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 with in the sense of using
2026-04-30T02:28 id=2049677227198128341 →- | I may delete this.   My mentor was a novelist named Carolyn See, and I always assumed she took me under her wing not because she saw promise, but she saw suffering. And that her class was what helped me remember my father molesting me years before my mother left him is related.  She always fought me on my writing. She wanted me to conform to genre, control tone, be less unpredictable and weird.  She was not on the frontier of the avant garde and didn't respect it.   And she has a point--Seinfeld is as big of an accomplishment as Ulysses, just in a different domain and according to different criteria.  She wanted me to be a successful novelist, and the form of her teaching and her mentorship to me personally is the evidence. She taught us how to break into the industry (kiss ass), how to control our writing (write every day), and how to become famous (network).  She took me to her book signing to stand beside her as she signed books, and it was only 20 years later that I understood why. I was her apprentice and I couldn't do what she wanted because I wanted to be weird.  Now the punchline.  Her bestselling book was a novel called Golden Days, and it's about stupid men causing the end of the world.  If Yud is right and I stop his movement and everyone dies, please don't kill me.
2026-04-30T02:33 id=2049678579110424587 →SableHummer | @SableHummer stay on the frontier, it's a good good life || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is probably why I find you so relatable
2026-04-30T02:36 id=2049679345732784178 →- | I think truly one of the worst things that can happen to a person is to become famous, it restrains your freedom. it is quite simply a prison.
2026-04-30T02:43 id=2049681126999134476 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I will only be on Twitter for a year. I promised my girlfriend I'll leave the site next year around February.   Ooh would be a good Valentine's day gift for her. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that's why if you get too many followers you have to make a new account or sometimes you have to go too far and then even your truest fans got scared away and then you are indie again
2026-04-30T02:54 id=2049683667036017035 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @DaphneB76234 dude you don't expect me to be on here day and night forever, do you? I've got a life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 What? Seriously?
2026-04-30T02:56 id=2049684254196744444 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 We are the churning men We are the chopped men Gooning together Headset filled with porn. Alas! Our web voices, when  We twitter together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our mom's basement || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ill prolly be gone by then too. this place is just not what it used to be. it is not for writers anymore. just another garbage heap for the churning men.
2026-04-30T02:59 id=2049684946974134634 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: A lot about OpenAI can be understood by realizing that a lot of us believe that we can at the same time deeply care, do the best work of our lives AND have fun too. No goblins to see here.
2026-04-30T03:00 id=2049685169414787250 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Nokia used to sell tires. They might still do actually! || CTX: samsung used to import vegetables and fish  probably the craziest pivot of all time https://t.co/D7NzadZ8eD https://t.co/vnF5qQnvni
2026-04-30T03:03 id=2049686001455657055 →karpathy | @karpathy @VBarsoum this is the saddest most pathetic attempt at brainwashing docile workers by the capital class I've ever seen.  (And before you ask, I'm not a Marxist, I fucking work on Wall Street ffs) || CTX: @VBarsoum “Love &gt; Logic” :D https://t.co/5HyIjHxrMz
2026-04-30T03:15 id=2049688957542392111 →realitymap | @realitymap https://t.co/4d0aGKlgli || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lmao restraint? the philosopher who beat adolescent children unconscious?
2026-04-30T03:20 id=2049690338101788737 →- | https://t.co/Raqpumrezn
2026-04-30T03:21 id=2049690641639387274 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I am a worm. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47fucb a bodhisattva or chakravatin ?
2026-04-30T03:55 id=2049699127462932733 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace @DaphneB76234 Debating whether to do that or just lose the password.   I'll probably put it up to a vote when the time comes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 You should delete your account over a candlelight dinner and wine.
2026-04-30T03:57 id=2049699597363400936 →1889lw | @1889lw Always trying, every day. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wittgensteinian✌️
2026-04-30T03:58 id=2049699774430068769 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace Yes he's spot on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Matt Walsh talked about this in a way I agree with. https://t.co/IiuiBXJ5Li
2026-04-30T04:41 id=2049710606090191219 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @bladgolem He's a good showman. || CTX: @bladgolem @47fucb4r8c69323 A lot of Zizek’s middle and late career has been basically aligning his earlier ideas with whatever the current thing is, that’s why he’s such a proficient writer.  I don’t think he was ever a genius but his pros
2026-04-30T04:52 id=2049713557277991085 →markovschainsaw | @markovschainsaw This is absolutely correct and genius. If this is you, you're an excellent writer and an insightful mind spreading good in a dark world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not exactly what you're saying but may be relevant: https://t.co/qPtEgSpvQq
2026-04-30T04:53 id=2049713745962877372 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @bladgolem That's why I left my professorship. Tenured. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bladgolem A fair amount of academic philosophers secretly wish to be showmen (“public intellectuals”) and Zizek is a success story to that personal fantasy.  Very few are actually motivated by unadulterated autism/curiosit
2026-04-30T05:36 id=2049724604449722781 →PopBase | @PopBase Drop the r it's rude like the N word || CTX: 5 years ago today, Twenty One Pilots released ‘Choker.’ https://t.co/3p2XJ413XP
2026-04-30T06:34 id=2049739108608811013 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Make them wonder. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I want the same. But how do we make it happen?
2026-04-30T13:51 id=2049849088078963155 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @IsZomg @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @boneGPT I'm the newest member to the group, has this happened before? || CTX: @IsZomg @JasonBotterill She brought us all together for a reason. I suppose it's up to us now to figure out what that is  @Ken67547214  @boneGPT  @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-04-30T19:08 id=2049928815800168842 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @Chaos80397926 So that's the problem! || CTX: @Chaos80397926 @47fucb4r8c69323 for one: https://t.co/YOpzwCyzWL
2026-04-30T19:20 id=2049931948668375367 →- | I need @allTheYud's attention as he's been ignoring me since initially agreeing to the debate.  He might have realized he will lose and is hoping this will go away.   I need to write an agreement for this, and I'm trying to make it as generous to him so that he will agree.  But what can I do if he keeps ignoring me?   Help me make him reply please.
2026-04-30T19:26 id=2049933380230545736 →for_nat_whilk | As I've written elsewhere:  "I’ve done so much so far, and maybe it’s too much? But surely any reader who has gotten this far is on the same wavelength–they get what I’m doing, right? They can feel my authentic being, right? The connection has been made, hasn’t it?  But I shouldn’t tell them this–it spoils everything. Just how far can you take metafiction before it all breaks? I can’t prove how much I love my readers–telling them sounds like a lie, and any way I show them is just an act."   Even selling a book for a penny kills its authenticity. It doesn't scale.  So you give the audience their fucking money back.   Fucking money. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Chaos80397926 one of several I believe (it might be the main one tho, it is growing on me)
2026-04-30T19:28 id=2049934000526111047 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @allTheYud I suspect he went through my tweet history, freaked out because he's a pseudointellectual and saw I'm the real deal, and now wants to get out of it.  Which, fair. I would too if I were him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud So he's conceding? I hope he doesn't squelch as well
2026-04-30T19:44 id=2049938032934224354 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @Chaos80397926 I wanted to write the most authentic thing I could. The rage is I can only go so far until the universe tells me I can't go further. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Chaos80397926 I think you do a better job than most tbh but yes, still fundamentally limited, as we all are (perhaps it is just a hard limit of our universe, q's abound as always)
2026-04-30T19:57 id=2049941131350479212 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @allTheYud Retweeting my post would help. Hate to be so crass as to ask for that but my reach is limited as someone who isn't internet famous. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud The baby man has already blocked me or I'd do my part. I can totally use 10k and will be happy to "simulate" Yud or make an llm that reasonably does so.   In fact, if he wusses out, would you be open to an llm de
2026-04-30T19:57 id=2049941238170984543 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @lilchiva @allTheYud He's getting paid to show.  I WILL PAY IN ADVANCE IN FULL. || CTX: @lilchiva @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud It wasn't a bet? He was just getting paid to show up even if he lost? Bro's hard up enough to hit up Big E, but left free money on the table?
2026-04-30T19:59 id=2049941632871751844 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @for_nat_whilk I can't say I understand what you're trying to say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk they even be sure that the you you try to pass off is real.  i dont know about others but, my opinion of you remains unchanged. i get it, regardless of artificial nature of the display, i cant consider it mal
2026-04-30T20:05 id=2049943238627496241 →aleksil79 | @aleksil79 Not just weird--not rational! || CTX: i for one would love to see yud receive an easy 10k. weird that he would leave money on the table like that https://t.co/GQObB26MAM
2026-04-30T20:06 id=2049943514428121527 →bshlgrs | @bshlgrs @allTheYud If Yud is scared of me, his minions are beneath me by default.  I'll tear you apart for free if Yud chickens out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud still happy to take your $5k
2026-04-30T20:09 id=2049944225144586470 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @allTheYud If he keeps ignoring me it'll be the biggest mistake of his life.  If he agrees to the debate, it'll be the biggest mistake of his life.   Yud has already lost, I'm just waiting to see HOW he loses. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Okay but if he punks? I mean I think debating an LLM version of yud about p-doom would be hilarious. It would make us both marginally more internet famous.
2026-04-30T20:11 id=2049944668910326139 →aleksil79 | @aleksil79 Ah fair, I'm targeting the dumdums here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i like my accusations veiled, give them the satisfaction of figuring it out  also keeps the riffraff from being silly about it
2026-04-30T20:11 id=2049944830185509367 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @tszzl I hate to tag you man but come on you know this makes your life so much easier help a brotha out || CTX: I need @allTheYud's attention as he's been ignoring me since initially agreeing to the debate.  He might have realized he will lose and is hoping this will go away.   I need to write an agreement for this, and I'm trying to make it as gener
2026-04-30T20:13 id=2049945189742223436 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @allTheYud You're not the first woman I've told this to: I only need 5 minutes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Too favorable, if he leaves before the full hour the fee should be pro-rated. Don’t give him $10k for five minutes lmao
2026-04-30T20:26 id=2049948407402569916 →doctorkondraki | @doctorkondraki @aleksil79 https://t.co/LwiCcc39xX || CTX: https://t.co/Raqpumrezn
2026-04-30T20:27 id=2049948758373490977 →llallawg | @llallawg aka his target audience's ambitions || CTX: Reading Lenin wistfully on a train goes hard if you’re a sophomore philosophy major at a mid ranked state college https://t.co/ULOo359N7B
2026-04-30T20:37 id=2049951196279160972 →gonefishin1948 | @gonefishin1948 @paleoludic @AL_J82 Is the collar as uncomfortable as it looks? || CTX: @AL_J82 I am a Catholic Priest. What question do you have?
2026-04-30T20:40 id=2049951961466990818 →gonefishin1948 | @gonefishin1948 @paleoludic @AL_J82 Thank you, Father!   Blessing and good tidings to you and your community from a friendly stranger on the internet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @paleoludic @AL_J82 Some days it is, others it's a lot more comfortable than a suit and tie.
2026-04-30T20:48 id=2049953954566660373 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Body positivity as cope is the cleanest proof that 99% of internet discourse is bullshit. || CTX: this is some of the worst, a-melodic, completely synthetic, emotionless, anti-cultural, semantically desolate music I have ever heard. it's desperately empty, like someone is trying to imitate AI and failing. https://t.co/iRD7yp0icH
2026-04-30T21:04 id=2049958052431114419 →davidbessis | @davidbessis Your fall of the theorem economy post is, IMHO, a substantial and enduring contribution to the historical debate in metamathematics and honestly should be published in a less ephemeral and noisy place than Substack.  Expand it into a book please. || CTX: Don't write 10,000 words essays, people won't read them...😉 https://t.co/36PLLOlcqx https://t.co/Y75vfeq3gf
2026-04-30T21:20 id=2049962060969291879 →Im_actuallyacat | @Im_actuallyacat @bshlgrs @allTheYud head of an AI research org begging a stranger online for 5k tells you how good his lab is lmao  Just a joke || CTX: @bshlgrs @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud no.. we want 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r vs ron hubbard
2026-04-30T21:27 id=2049963787596542205 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Virtuous life is less about trying to be right than it is trying to be true.   Many people confuse those things. || CTX: imagine living life based on truth seeking and virtue. imagine that you try to understand the world and find ways to be a good person, to have a positive impact on the world  you won’t be perfect but you aim high. the more you align to trut
2026-04-30T21:30 id=2049964578831040645 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Debate = A against B to see who wins, thus who is right  Discussion = A and B explore to try to get closer to truth  I'm being anti-Hegelian. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmmm… what is the difference? Not sure I understand this as you mean it.
2026-04-30T21:31 id=2049964893382820338 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely @lilchiva @allTheYud idk man but presumably Yud had all that shit figured out before he publicly agreed to debate me. || CTX: @lilchiva @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud How does the law of identity apply in the decision making here?  Does being anonymous matter? If it was a requirement for both sides, would that affect the outcomes and the value proposition for the eve
2026-04-30T21:35 id=2049965768373362982 →207Nasher | @207Nasher @GKunstwerk @allTheYud Shouldn't he have done that analysis and come to that conclusion BEFORE agreeing to debate me? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @allTheYud If he went through your tweet history and is chickening out it probably is because  1. It looks like you do not plan on having a discussion about the object level arguments for AI doom  2. It is not c
2026-04-30T21:38 id=2049966585797038274 →207Nasher | @207Nasher Great, now do me a favor and unfollow me and do not engage any further.  I've tolerated you for far too long. Please don't make me block, I dislike blocking, but I do want you to leave me alone from now on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @allTheYud Yes
2026-04-30T21:39 id=2049966837321113684 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Someone can win a debate by saying untrue things.  I fear American dialectical culture has poisoned your mind too much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This may be weird but the two things are the same in my mind. I can only be right if I get close to the truth. It’s the only way to win a debate and to learn (by figuring out what is true, with the limits we are forced to w
2026-04-30T21:41 id=2049967298166018386 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth We're all stupid people about the things most worth debating. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They are not winners in my eyes. They fool stupid people, but they do not truly win.
2026-04-30T21:43 id=2049967965265953215 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Debate is not an attempt to get truth, it's an attempt to be right, and they're not the same thing as I already said lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fair, but we can try to be less stupid. And we can only do this by trying to find the truth, no matter how complex and elusive it is. Why must we be stupid?
2026-04-30T21:49 id=2049969382873567253 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Goddamn that is so clear and to the point. || CTX: The idea cannot be compressed to the level required and sufficient faith has not been fostered yet. https://t.co/sRFrCf1GY3
2026-04-30T21:55 id=2049970898405556563 →Naturalphilosy | @Naturalphilosy I'm not a Watts fan but this is good. || CTX: “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”  — Alan Watts https://t.co/wOsL5wueaH
2026-04-30T22:00 id=2049972182013661666 →theojaffee | @theojaffee @ESYudkowsky @MTSlive Yud keeps not responding although the money is now in https://t.co/mRPEhBtc0g.  If he backs out, will you have me on to discuss my win by default? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Come on @MTSlive
2026-04-30T22:03 id=2049972958450602416 →gdb | @gdb No surprise, if I was in your codex I'd be coming too. || CTX: codex app becoming incredible
2026-04-30T22:04 id=2049973297736286638 →bshlgrs | @bshlgrs @Im_actuallyacat @allTheYud That's my going rate dude, you guys are fucking amateurs LARPing you're in the big leagues. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Im_actuallyacat @allTheYud $5k for an hour of easy work is pretty good!
2026-04-30T22:10 id=2049974755026231387 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @EP_Freely I think Eric has admitted bad faith and should be ignored as consequence. || CTX: @EP_Freely @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Okay, then why, Eric?
2026-04-30T22:16 id=2049976241558823065 →davidbessis | @davidbessis David, mathematicians do a poor job explaining the difference between proof and truth and, honestly, it is retroactive support of Wittgenstein's notorious paragraph. || CTX: You really have to be an economist to believe that a mathematical proof can prove anything about the economy. https://t.co/HUCJgkbD9N
2026-04-30T22:21 id=2049977475271442856 →cullenroche | @cullenroche He was dealing with a once in a century pandemic and historically unprecedented global shock.  Inflation took like two years to decel, if he'd said "transitory in the medium term" he would've been spot on.   Come on man, you're being uncharitable. || CTX: My final grade for Jerome Powell: C+  He was generally a fine Fed Chairman. But the "transitory" thing has to ding his grade substantially. Yes, easy to say in hindsight, but the Fed failed to be sufficiently countercyclical during the larg
2026-04-30T22:44 id=2049983205378511221 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Yud the Stud responded with dignity and grace.  The debate is going to happen, frens. || CTX: I need @allTheYud's attention as he's been ignoring me since initially agreeing to the debate.  He might have realized he will lose and is hoping this will go away.   I need to write an agreement for this, and I'm trying to make it as gener
2026-04-30T22:47 id=2049984126850322485 →ctjlewis | @ctjlewis They're in my pinned tweet. || CTX: That’s fair. But also, we have probably swung too far from the original rules of the internet.  There was an ancient phrase of power, used to diminish women’s ability to arbitrage their appearance or gender on the Internet for attention.   
2026-04-30T22:54 id=2049985647889506737 →citrini | @citrini "WE LIKE PRETTY THINGS WE SMART MARKET ANALYSTS"   Bottom feeder trash. || CTX: This is a movement that has my 100% support. We should build more beautiful things. https://t.co/1aNQIXI7ZJ
2026-04-30T22:59 id=2049987084010811410 →marcusabramovi1 | @marcusabramovi1 @bshlgrs @Im_actuallyacat @allTheYud https://t.co/ugiCUqjjgL   No need to be shocked anymore. || CTX: Yud the Stud responded with dignity and grace.  The debate is going to happen, frens.
2026-04-30T23:18 id=2049991937147773284 →tautologer | @tautologer jfc say anything for engagement || CTX: if you think about it, LLMs are more human than we are
2026-04-30T23:19 id=2049992103732883494 →- | We have agreed on a date, time, and venue.
2026-04-30T23:50 id=2049999886289092960 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea The tacitness of tacit knowledge makes it easy to overlook. || CTX: it’s truly amazing how, in many ways, we have not moved past the age of guilds and apprenticeship. the amount of knowledge held in trade secrets, and transmitted through shared practice rather than painstakingly documented in replicable way
2026-04-30T23:55 id=2050001050304925747 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk guys I can't stop thinking about her || CTX: @GKunstwerk they’re doing this to me tomorrow
2026-04-30T23:57 id=2050001543055970683 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson Absolutely!   The best symbol of resilience would've been the same exact building, just one storey taller. || CTX: Generational mistake not to rebuild the twin towers just as they were. https://t.co/oBw7e1ZtNV
2026-05-01T00:22 id=2050007996466696234 →lavitalenta | @lavitalenta @thmaistro @resistancemoney || CTX: https://t.co/2pfSZTnAqQ
2026-05-01T00:23 id=2050008130348843352 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno @CartoonsHateHer HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @CartoonsHateHer “Oklahoma’s not like a play you read!”
2026-05-01T02:27 id=2050039436000579683 →- | RT @liron: Excited to be hosting the @ESYudkowsky vs. @47fucb4r8c69323 debate on my channel next week! Stay tuned… https://t.co/NXctNRFeWT || CTX: Excited to be hosting the @ESYudkowsky vs. @47fucb4r8c69323 debate on my channel next week! Stay tuned… https://t.co/NXctNRFeWT https://t.co/aYprrbLUvo
2026-05-01T02:30 id=2050040101632450981 →liron | @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud My prediction: after we record on Monday, Liron will refuse to post it. || CTX: Excited to be hosting the @ESYudkowsky vs. @47fucb4r8c69323 debate on my channel next week! Stay tuned… https://t.co/NXctNRFeWT https://t.co/aYprrbLUvo
2026-05-01T02:33 id=2050040938400247888 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio https://t.co/3r4FDi0J1v || CTX: The more time I save with AI, the greater my workload gets. No matter how much I automate, there's still more and more and more to do.  I suspect we will see this play out elsewhere in short order, it's quite the paradox indeed.
2026-05-01T02:52 id=2050045683768692895 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly Not jesus, 47fucb. https://t.co/r2hEY9T2Ja || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 jesus
2026-05-01T02:55 id=2050046325585272911 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Slightly related: a restaurant in a third world country will almost always have 2-3x as many workers in it compared to the identical restaurant in Europe or America. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yep. I guess we could look at fast food a little bit as an example of this, maybe not the best example, but a clear case of when prices go down and things are made faster, people want more of it
2026-05-01T02:55 id=2050046452563611664 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @taijitu_sees @jstatman @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud The way they manufacture consent has changed. || CTX: @taijitu_sees @jstatman @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud 15 year old account with no followers and 2 posts per year   😬
2026-05-01T02:55 id=2050046530787393891 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud I strongly encourage zero betting on this event. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud Is there a polymarket for this
2026-05-01T02:56 id=2050046608226783559 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud No, it won't be live idk why not, not in my control. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Live?
2026-05-01T02:56 id=2050046760433995861 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud fr fr Liron's graphics guy deserves props! || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Actually for a moment can we talk about how impressive the text rendering of his username is? That’s pretty great
2026-05-01T02:57 id=2050046910015434767 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio I loved visiting Greece so much and not just for the oil || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 True, looking at Greece as well for that (have many family members out that way)
2026-05-01T02:57 id=2050047010850615360 →sciad | @sciad @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud Trust me, the venue does not matter at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud bruh liron is kinda cringe you coulda picked someone better 47fucb
2026-05-01T02:57 id=2050047049543172115 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud Ask Liron idk || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud what why not
2026-05-01T02:58 id=2050047124952539380 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud sigh yeah when I get back home I'll figure it out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud you best record that shit on your side nigga
2026-05-01T02:58 id=2050047282226282856 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio LoL I live in a paradise surrounded by beauty so shocked and confused that I've been able to build this good life for myself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I miss it!! How do you enjoy where you’re at now?
2026-05-01T03:11 id=2050050449114607804 →liron | @liron @IsZomg @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud I won't insist but I would strongly prefer it.   Yud will ragequit in 5 minutes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @IsZomg @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud In my experience, livestreaming a virtual debate just adds stress and barely contributes anything to the audience's experience, but if you &amp; Yud insist then I'll do it.
2026-05-01T03:32 id=2050055748101845058 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud Seeing your handle wrap into two lines is hilarious. Can you introduce yourself in the debate by sounding out your handle?
2026-05-01T03:39 id=2050057618086088895 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Too many poor (financially) crypto retards pivoted to a legitimate industry and it's mucking up this natural extension of corpus linguistics.   So I gotta come in and clean shit up.  I'm a fucking janitor. || CTX: It’s childish to think Amanda Askell needs obese twitter anons to police her entire life now as some moral duty just because she works on model alignment
2026-05-01T03:40 id=2050057740849205621 →toasterlighting | @toasterlighting @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud ikr legit laughed out loud || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud this image is so funny lmao
2026-05-01T03:49 id=2050059944838529438 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I'm just little (as the ladies tell me) old (as the calendar tells me) 47 (as the everything app tells me) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s your stage name going to be on the debate. Agent 47?
2026-05-01T03:50 id=2050060147029057970 →lisperati | @lisperati LoL you're going to be so disappointed man || CTX: what a weird artifact of our age  though the modal outcome would just be anonymous guy boringly refusing to allow EY's framing on any point for the entirety of the debate (even if the framing is reasonable) then arguing he therefore won the
2026-05-01T04:07 id=2050064657071947903 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @JasonBotterill What years and years of annoyance does to a motherfucker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill you're a jannie  and you do it for free actually you're paying for it even
2026-05-01T04:56 id=2050076871237451894 →- | RT @Leo_Abstract: @Simon248 @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud 47fuc thinks his ideas are worth paying ten grand an hour to ge… || CTX: @Simon248 @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud 47fuc thinks his ideas are worth paying ten grand an hour to get out, and honestly that's a stronger signal of interestingness than most debates i've seen on this topic. i'm very muc
2026-05-01T05:05 id=2050079264029241759 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset yeah when I get home from my vacation I'll look into how to do that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He will post it because thats his business but all the same you should record your own unedited copy of it, audio at least.
2026-05-01T05:09 id=2050080037542801912 →- | It writes so poorly jfc https://t.co/IgTK4shfpG
2026-05-01T05:31 id=2050085806933782546 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I honestly didn't know I did before shitposting on x dot com the everything app || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your problem is you have taste
2026-05-01T05:32 id=2050085966686433623 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @jstatman @IsZomg @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud hash-man banger lmao || CTX: @jstatman @IsZomg @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Fine to not be terminally online! I suspect it won't be like the leadup and it will be in good faith on hash-man's part, but I suspect some people may not understand his fram
2026-05-01T05:33 id=2050086068003934408 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud follow me you coward || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud The image is cracking me up
2026-05-01T06:28 id=2050100058474135793 →- | Maybe autism is God's punishment for us killing him.
2026-05-01T06:30 id=2050100412985053327 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud https://t.co/ss8VFP0M19 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud I will admit, I have seen many of your tweets but never connected the dots that this was the same account because of your insane illegible name and lack of profile pic
2026-05-01T06:34 id=2050101550224466120 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace I don't really understand what you mean, this is from Pulse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s not writing for you.  It’s writing its own context for the next prompt. Every time you send a follow-up prompt, the client the entire convo with it. To make it write “better”, you gotta one-shot a “rewrite” prompt afte
2026-05-01T06:35 id=2050101705262637117 →slimer48484 | @slimer48484 @max_spero_ @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud trust me, he will not be the last person to ask that question anytime soon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @max_spero_ @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud Who are you? (I dont mean name)
2026-05-01T06:37 id=2050102185778950541 →HansGermishMagi | @HansGermishMagi @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud thx broski || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud This is super exciting, I know you will crush it!
2026-05-01T06:38 id=2050102426703905203 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill heart emoji.png || CTX: You guys really should tune into it next week and show my boy @47fucb4r8c69323 some love https://t.co/9dbjg4FPG8
2026-05-01T07:36 id=2050117125113782390 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @slimepriestess wtf I looked like that in my mid-20s too || CTX: @slimepriestess It’s @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-01T07:37 id=2050117482866954493 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Oh I'm not having sympathy for the Good Lord, I know we're in an eternal battle with him.   It's why we must love him.   Fucking asshole. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whose fault is it that He had to be so weak that mere humans could kill him?
2026-05-01T07:40 id=2050118041955160307 →d_o_z_y_ | @d_o_z_y_ you're annoyed at dilettantes misusing scholarship, you have the mandate of heaven.   Keep going never stop please. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 extent, competition among similar cell types to produce useful circuits. They are sensing, exploring, and co-constructing the developmental environment. These things can be understood, slowly, but they won't be captured in 
2026-05-01T07:47 id=2050119842334961772 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth I envy your certainty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm sure one of us could do a better job
2026-05-01T07:47 id=2050119984710660357 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @PaulaSeeksTruth I take it back. I am saddened by the pain behind that certainty.   I love you, anon. || CTX: @PaulaSeeksTruth I envy your certainty.
2026-05-01T07:56 id=2050122172593832127 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Check my the bio in my profile.  This may be the best possible world. The story isn't over yet, and there a lot of details about the world we can never know.  So I will wait to pass judgment until long after I'm dead when I will not be able to.  I am finite. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow, this was beautiful. Of course it comes out of pain. and anger. Why the fuck couldn't that supposed omniscient omnipotent god make a better world? I may need to start a cult or something 🖤
2026-05-01T07:57 id=2050122533392007364 →starbased_ | @starbased_ @tautologer He's trying to start a cult, seems to me.  The discord he has is full of mentally ill people and he's making money off them.  He's like a crypto grifter, whatever this won't last, this nonsense never does. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tautologer thoughts on janus?
2026-05-01T08:00 id=2050123133546545564 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill Thanks man, you were one of my early mutuals and I've appreciated your support, seriously.   It's been a very emotional day for me so my tweets today are gonna be a tad cringe soz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill Oh shit it’s happening.   Congrats
2026-05-01T08:24 id=2050129313018921454 →helscom | @helscom Debate with Yudkowsky. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice   wait what’s the context
2026-05-01T11:18 id=2050172965963321483 →- | Is it okay to do the shabbos prayer over a glass of beer stoned looking at a tropical sunset, @retardbot9000 @helscom?  I'm a reform half shiksa from the sticks-a (like I said I'm stoned).
2026-05-01T11:33 id=2050176811825508371 →realevanslewis | @realevanslewis @PaulaSeeksTruth this is my view || CTX: I used to have a problem reconciling suffering with God until I started thinking about what a universe without suffering looked like.  Different states are required with which to make a distinction between good/bad, better/worse. Without th
2026-05-01T11:35 id=2050177233042784755 →watashiwacringe | @watashiwacringe that's the literal translation but it's not idiomatic. Like saying "I have 12 years old when Epstein raped me" if translating from French.  In Thai they actually say "oo mai gott" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have a question https://t.co/MQ7RXyV2Nj
2026-05-01T11:36 id=2050177495832633530 →ValsTutor | @ValsTutor @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud I'm not going to say the N word calm down || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud There are words one can say that plausibly demonetize &amp; nuke a channel's reach so it's plausible you might not be able to post an unedited version
2026-05-01T11:36 id=2050177603097813039 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @GreaserRichard I have knives. || CTX: @GreaserRichard @47fucb4r8c69323 spiritual nourishment
2026-05-01T11:37 id=2050177842571530711 →zaborpiotr | @zaborpiotr @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud what are you a prostitute in Pattaya? I'm not a walking ATM, fuck off || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 since you're probably an eccentric millionaire, would you care to fund a debate between Yud and Dan Hendrycks as well? Dan Hendrycks is "the father of new AI safety" and has c
2026-05-01T11:51 id=2050181285944148396 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Love you man || CTX: my religion https://t.co/jpOCrfBNLT
2026-05-01T11:52 id=2050181491658039617 →cstroeckw | @cstroeckw @ESYudkowsky @weandmecfs would you consider licking my nutsack?   it's full of nuts  nutty || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Would you or @ESYudkowsky  consider donating the money to @weandmecfs? We fund ME/CFS research, every dollar goes directly to research, as all organisational costs are covered. Thank you for your consideration.
2026-05-01T11:52 id=2050181648776646719 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @realevanslewis I wouldn't want that at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @realevanslewis Couldn't a great god give us brains that do not need this contrast?
2026-05-01T11:52 id=2050181685124428175 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @helscom noice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @helscom We count those  שבת שלום אח יקר
2026-05-01T12:01 id=2050183920399114630 →helscom | @helscom @retardbot9000 oh our religion kicks assssssss || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 even recommended
2026-05-01T12:04 id=2050184464781980072 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @realevanslewis I dislike stasis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @realevanslewis why not?
2026-05-01T12:20 id=2050188706745876966 →- | Don't make me pull the Cassandra trope I'm better than that (no I'm not I'm doing it now and you're bearish on Silly Business Theory like a little hobbit bitch a hobbitch if you will don't do drugs kids) https://t.co/05Rr2XKCa7
2026-05-01T12:53 id=2050196840541462893 →MetacriticCap | @MetacriticCap @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud anti semite it's shabbos || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud How is adjudication?
2026-05-01T12:54 id=2050197053423370740 →liron | @liron @MetacriticCap @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud I am honestly kinda worried these kids are going to be disappointed at how civil I am going to be. || CTX: @MetacriticCap @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Nothing in particular, just basic standards of decorum
2026-05-01T12:56 id=2050197647764648322 →MetacriticCap | @MetacriticCap @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud your mom || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Who decides who wins then?
2026-05-01T12:59 id=2050198529482879308 →- | You guys don't think I disagree with Yud the stud on everything, do you?   We both like Pop Tarts.   This whole thing was sponsored by Pop Tarts® get them at ur local piggwy wiggwy tm symbol jist say nou
2026-05-01T13:26 id=2050205194080968783 →unemjobbed | @unemjobbed hehehehehe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Disappointed blocked
2026-05-01T13:27 id=2050205368777924743 →liron | @liron @InsiderPresider @MetacriticCap @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud that's why we all love dem double DDs || CTX: @InsiderPresider @MetacriticCap @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud I think Doom Debates has struck a good balance
2026-05-01T13:44 id=2050209721131618366 →liz_love_lace | @liz_love_lace Dude it's way too late for that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 please don't turn out to be annoying 🙏
2026-05-01T13:50 id=2050211275888832936 →Ether_Gavin | @Ether_Gavin @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud agreed we shud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud why not live?
2026-05-01T14:08 id=2050215906991866368 →bas_logic | Best to think of the canonical difference as a somewhat arbitrary discrete cut between a dynamic curve done to make both analyzable by scholars.   I'm fine with this as it's elucidatory, but then in the practice of e. g. criticism, you remain conscious they are conconstitutive of meaning blah blah who gives a fuck I want some Doritos man || CTX: I earnestly believe that all students should be required to take a dedicated course on semantics and pragmatics. I’m not even a proponent of the canonical boundary between the two, but it is so useful for explaining the most basic shit.
2026-05-01T14:13 id=2050217049973284896 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @bas_logic it's like moving a flashlight around outside at night on the same patch of land || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic How do these subjects differ from logic, grammar and rhetoric?
2026-05-01T14:22 id=2050219253392089348 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @bas_logic not really. It's different hints at a broad dark world, but the trap is you'll never get the full picture and you should resist the urge to go that far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic you mean It allows you to peak into a black box of sorts. enabling you to try to piece to together the full picture?
2026-05-01T14:24 id=2050219729424671106 →Lang__Leon | @Lang__Leon @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud Eliezer Yudkowsky he wrote a book || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Who is this second person?
2026-05-01T14:25 id=2050220144492994824 →bas_logic | @bas_logic yeah I'm overstating it. It's like we try to have a fixed arbitrary grammar (#bodypositivity) over real natural constraints okay you got me I'm a structural realist goddammit fucking Spanish Inquisition over here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can agree to the discrete cut on a dynamic curve, but I'd disagree that there are arbitrary. Nature's got curves, but I still want to carve it at the joints.  I ate some spicy nacho earlier and they were good.
2026-05-01T14:26 id=2050220389079618020 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @bas_logic Godel and Tarski as far as the eye can see || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic I see your point better now. it relates to your belief that there are certain things that are unknowable, these subjects help you see a bit of these things but can never truly bridge the gap.
2026-05-01T14:30 id=2050221230163427496 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @bas_logic Sir, this isn't Google || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bas_logic who is Tarski?
2026-05-01T14:40 id=2050223919941177811 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart word calculator's net present value of future cash flows remains kinda lowski my browski || CTX: Stocks just keep surging
2026-05-01T14:52 id=2050226837541073397 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 hands down your best work || CTX: Me and who? https://t.co/MPmTLUnakD
2026-05-01T14:53 id=2050226989156708599 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Ken67547214 look I even took a screenshot https://t.co/eiyXmOFCzQ || CTX: @Ken67547214 hands down your best work
2026-05-01T14:57 id=2050228041373319354 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Ken, the "temu version" epithet would be monstrously insufficient of a description of that downgrade. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Be careful, you'll have to develop some system to sort and index all of the screenshots and then everyone will assume that you're a crazy person posting nonsense.
2026-05-01T15:10 id=2050231316327899339 →sama | @sama fuck yeah follow @alexolegimas || CTX: i think a lot of people are going to be busier (and hopefully more fulfilled) than ever, and jobs doomerism is likely long-term wrong.  though of course there will be disruption/significant transition as we switch to new jobs, the jobs of t
2026-05-01T15:12 id=2050231831585554734 →- | Every person on earth has a choice: press a blue button in which case they press a blue button, and a red button in which case they press a red button. You press either a red button or a blue button, which button do you press?
2026-05-01T15:18 id=2050233343133040764 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago So you're a relativist || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Teal = blue from far away.
2026-05-01T15:23 id=2050234614460121133 →Exothaumic | @Exothaumic really || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If it ain’t teal it ain’t real
2026-05-01T15:26 id=2050235393409474738 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @lisperati for the historians l: the capitalized LoL was not an intentional affectation but for some reason my Android updated and autocorrects "lol" to "LoL" except it didn't that time lol lol lol IoI lol lol lol lolol catch the imposter one of them is sus and no it's not the Siamese twin. || CTX: @lisperati LoL you're going to be so disappointed man
2026-05-01T15:27 id=2050235683676274940 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 He was good in Final Fantasy III (VI) ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am a Cyan man but I guess Teal is the closest to what I believe. This is the danger of a two party system.
2026-05-01T15:30 id=2050236379930808790 →jasminewsun | @jasminewsun @AlmostMedia jobs won't get automated, tasks will which allows workers to do more in less time which makes their value as employees higher which raises demand for workers which boosts the economy please just trust me bro I have been doing this for a long long long time || CTX: I’m not a pause person, nor do I believe in the permanent underclass, & am v excited about a lot of benefits AI can bring. but I’ve become genuinely concerned that if we don’t offer people a credible promise that we’ll help them if their jo
2026-05-01T15:41 id=2050239113765511516 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @stwrawrbewry Publix sandwiches are the only thing I miss about Florida   That's a lie there's a lot I miss but the sandwiches are really good  Damn clickbait || CTX: @stwrawrbewry Publix and fresh market have decent bakeries, but it's not like GOOD bread, it's just good for grocery store bread.
2026-05-01T20:25 id=2050310701189931403 →helscom | @helscom @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud &lt;3 || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 i love you
2026-05-01T20:30 id=2050311856389230921 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill If a man fights an ant kind of feels like the man is an ant || CTX: @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323  Mr Charlie Kaufman's gone wrestling https://t.co/NK7BqbWyYF
2026-05-01T20:34 id=2050312954550366533 →- | They gave the atheist faith lmao https://t.co/cy2FhMcNrk || CTX: https://t.co/u31UwSGxPW I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.
2026-05-01T20:35 id=2050313194443612388 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @starbased_ @tautologer Doesn't matter I doubt the audience would've got the joke || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @starbased_ @tautologer we wrote a lot about Andy as well but now all deactivated
2026-05-01T20:38 id=2050314019366744565 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 For now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bin Laden has won
2026-05-01T20:42 id=2050314864342831311 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @starbased_ @tautologer I could still be controlled through violent threats and that's what worries me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @starbased_ @tautologer people dont like that we cannot be controlled, not with money or power or even friendship. eventually someone will take us down. but only because we were right and they wanted to silence us. https://
2026-05-01T20:49 id=2050316647068742109 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Is this nominative superdeterminism? || CTX: hungarian pm peter hungarian https://t.co/WA7H2DDof6 https://t.co/mtEarA7VgS
2026-05-01T20:49 id=2050316777041907998 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @starbased_ @tautologer See that doesn't surprise me because tomorrow isn't alive so of course it can't die. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @starbased_ @tautologer Tomorrow Never Dies https://t.co/LA3Hhuxavw
2026-05-01T20:57 id=2050318768572953007 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @starbased_ @tautologer how'd you know that's on the menu? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @starbased_ @tautologer you dont know where ive been lou https://t.co/tkpggSbRe5
2026-05-01T20:58 id=2050319072357912824 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs but what if it's sincere how do you know || CTX: [Pre-Chorus] At least not today Not today, not today, 'cause  [Chorus] If it's over, let it go and Come tomorrow, it will seem So yesterday, so yesterday I'm just a bird that's already flown away https://t.co/p4oKQ0ktBL https://t.co/kjGNt1N
2026-05-01T21:02 id=2050319974879875496 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain They always make a mess, an obese mess || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain https://t.co/yWdrGCf6YB
2026-05-01T21:15 id=2050323253386944917 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines @HighyieldHarry @eriktorenberg Forced normalization of "retarded" just brings back Gen X culture which has the mandate of heaven.   Here we are now entertain us you retards || CTX: IMO the annoying part of the whiplash to “uncancelling taboo stuff” that got villified in ~2020 is the collective decision to only lean into “edginess” once it was derisked.  Comical example but I made my pronouns “we/them/boys” in 2021 whe
2026-05-01T21:19 id=2050324249743945883 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain Joker? I barely know her? (Good book I mean boob sorry anti fruedian slip) || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 joker was a funny movie (the joker phoenix one) https://t.co/5ZOL2qRbZB
2026-05-01T21:35 id=2050328257749467220 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @NotPerrysBoobs i'm alt right in my book too || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 you’re all right in my book
2026-05-01T21:37 id=2050328830326575486 →NotPerrysBoobs | I got that diaper money, I got that diaper money, dude. I got that diaper money, I'm a grown ass man.  Yo, I got that diaper money cause my kids need to shit. So I stay on my hustle to keep my pocketbook thick.  I got papers and papers and papes, all for my baby's mistakes. Just so my carpets and drapes don't get shit on 'em.  I got that diaper money, I got that diaper money, dude. I got that diaper money, I'm a grown ass man.  I got that wife pussy, I got that wife pussy. I got that wife pussy, I got that pussy on lock.  I got that wife pussy on lock 24/7. Whenever she lets me I'm in same pussy heaven.  And the best part about it is no one else can have it. And also I can't have it, unless she says I can.  See a girl on the street and I can't, so I won't. See my wife at home and I would, but she hates my guts.  Wife pussy, I got that wife pussy. I got that wife pussy, I got that pussy on lock.  I got that grave plot, I got that grave plot. I got that grave plot, it's right off the highway.  Wobble-dy, wobble-dy, drop into my grave plot.  You afraid of death, well I'm afraid not. Cause I got the bomb spot, right off the highway.  I did it my way, a very small percent of the time way. I got my coffin picked out, styrofoam painted like wood, tricked out.  It's even got handles to lower me smooth. And my tombstone only has minimal typos.  Grave plot, I got that grave plot. I got that grave plot, right next to my dad.  I got that diaper money.  I got that wife pussy.  I got that grave plot.  I'm a grown ass man. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 ive got that lefty curse https://t.co/MSywrRNaDr
2026-05-01T21:57 id=2050333926502359294 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain We never found out what happened to the guy who was driving the car that 'it 'er, info kinda disappeared in a haze. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 I know about Helena  I know about dolores haze  https://t.co/78NK2ep8E2 https://t.co/9HOLQHV831
2026-05-01T22:03 id=2050335354419646486 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain cool || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 i know about the yeti https://t.co/cH1fW85eHz
2026-05-01T22:04 id=2050335610876178494 →yacinelearning | @yacinelearning stop dropping acid you vapid retard || CTX: https://t.co/LOIryT9Yf9
2026-05-01T22:17 id=2050338857435173127 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain Katy Katy Katy Katy look at me There's nothing to talk about Astros, it's not your fault.  I've watched you forever Katy, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself, so watch me, watch my heart break || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 I know about 24601 https://t.co/PDN5yvPu44
2026-05-01T22:19 id=2050339346981777678 →- | I know how to do it now. There are nearly thirteen million people in the world and none of those people is an extra.
2026-05-01T22:32 id=2050342677208858815 →shoe0nhead | @shoe0nhead @Leigha_Sapienti Wow fucked an incel already?!  Well yeah I guess it wouldn't last long || CTX: @Leigha_Sapienti ???????????
2026-05-01T22:40 id=2050344512812396595 →PaulaSeeksTruth | Men feel like women have power over them because they desire women.  Of course it is not women's fault for being desired, but this won't stop the dynamic, which is why we humans aren't designed for a peaceful social order.   My life has been plagued with being unnoticed, which is why I'm both fascinated and saddened by women who get more notice than they want.  But again, equilibrium would suck: the fish and the bird shouldn't envy the humans their gait just because it's unobtainable.  It's fine, it's fine. || CTX: I wonder if this is true about most men who are angry or hostile https://t.co/agR1vbzLE6
2026-05-01T22:46 id=2050346097860907025 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth I guess women are getting less attention now if young people are having less sex  World has always been a mess, that's why it's a world || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You unnoticed? With this brilliant mind? Damn, the world really is a mess!   Not sure what else to say. I get little attention but some assume the opposite. I think attention is often cheap, it’s not a prize to get it - onl
2026-05-01T22:49 id=2050346909534150851 →- | People fixate on what they lack, it's why so many AI people are obsessed with whether their clanker has a soul. https://t.co/9X45u0Ha1n || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Weird times when many people are hypersexual and sexless at the same time. Schrödinger’s sexuality I guess…
2026-05-01T22:51 id=2050347485718323264 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 Wow that is beautiful. Moving. I'm so sorry for your loss.   My grandfather was the only member of my family I cared for. When he died I finally felt like an adult for the first time. || CTX: 3 years without my granddad, sharing gpt-4 on launch day was our last lucid conversation, i'm glad he got to see it, as an electrical engineer born on a farm with no electricity or running water https://t.co/01TVHOUzUS
2026-05-01T22:53 id=2050347955908231402 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Absolutely, that's why Richard Dawkins believes Claude is conscious.   Atheists have some retarded beliefs (just like theists). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Those same people may be the furthest from God too. What we fail to be concious of enters the mind through the unconcious.
2026-05-01T22:56 id=2050348573599113247 →Swarm_caste | @Swarm_caste @nhjnsn @allTheYud @ESYudkowsky good hair too || CTX: @nhjnsn @allTheYud @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Liron isn't neutral but he's extremely good faith
2026-05-01T22:58 id=2050349180070367404 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ "You can make a machine out of beer cans and call it conscious for all I care" RIP John Searle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m a theist and I believe Claude is conscious. In the way a string and pulley is conscious of weight by the tension it holds in the string.
2026-05-01T23:04 id=2050350587741663595 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Absolutely not, no.  Let's say, of what I've seen on the menu, I like the physicalist materialist and pansychist the most but I still balk at the price of both.   I hate being so cryptic I'm sorry but there's no other choice here unfortunately || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would you saying you’re a mind-body dualist?
2026-05-01T23:07 id=2050351382897815971 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I remember reading Simulation and Simulacra at a lake resort in Georgia surrounded by rich Russians, the weather was perfect and I would just sit outside and read and look at the lake and cry idk man maybe I should go back to heavy drinking || CTX: Baudrillard made some good points here or there https://t.co/ShbbhUO3G8 https://t.co/sWnCGaxEgT
2026-05-01T23:07 id=2050351523809701961 →lilchiva | @lilchiva Copy paste it into your favorite clanker and ask what movie it's from  then, like, go watch the movie || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dear, sir. You amuse me so. But, what are you vague posting about?
2026-05-01T23:08 id=2050351635176779818 →BayesianPUA | @BayesianPUA @PaulaSeeksTruth And men beat the shit out of women fuck off hoe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth Women actively leverage men’s desires as much a they possibly can. It’s very much their fault
2026-05-01T23:08 id=2050351781285425301 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset When you ask the question that's kinda the answer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Does that mean I have a soul
2026-05-01T23:09 id=2050352057614471421 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney idk how you can sauna it up in this heat, I loved my sauna back when I lived in redacted but it's too hot here as it is, especially cuz I walk outside a lot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nah just take a walk in the sun or hit the sauna
2026-05-01T23:18 id=2050354096939634862 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees The only people who feel adequate in their intelligence are psychopaths and retards. || CTX: This is one of my favorite filters to run on analyzing people. Not necessarily what they lack, but what they *feel* like they lack.  So many smart people never feel adequate in their intelligence! https://t.co/2k162Koywq
2026-05-01T23:19 id=2050354477191098496 →indigojackal | @indigojackal Six pack of Kingfisher? (Good beer btw, haven't had it in years sadly) || CTX: I don’t understand how AAPI heritage month works. Do I post more charged but tasteful shed drinking photos, or less? Do I launch my Only Fans in earnest? What are the rules?
2026-05-01T23:22 id=2050355085025460405 →cormundus | @cormundus I am not a medical doctor but I fear you might be retarded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you fucking hear yourself?  'Hello yes I desire to champion the human spirit let me just dehumanize the people I'm opposed to and call what they cherish a slur'  Dude. Dude.
2026-05-01T23:42 id=2050360359354311120 →taijitu_sees | Why is it, or rather how is it. that those of us who accept the path of the Tao tend to think and see so similarly?   It can't be named, we can't talk about it, yet our understandings of it are more inline with one another than any two random people's attitudes about idk White Lotus or a Marvel movie || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Essentially the halting problem 😆
2026-05-01T23:46 id=2050361226967052704 →RsndSpeculation | @RsndSpeculation Get in loser we're marking to market the net present value of future cash flows || CTX: Nice https://t.co/vK6ibFJzVe
2026-05-02T00:13 id=2050367978081063142 →- | When I met Vern I'd already had a distaste for Musk, so the pedo guy thing was just information that he and I were allies in the human comedy.   His presentation was great and then all of us went into the bar afterwards for drinking and craic (not cocaine). I didn't want to impose, so I spent a while talking to his romantic partner, and she was age appropriate, which of course made Musk's slander of her and extension of Thailand as a place permissive to the abuse of children distasteful.   I don't want to say unethical or immoral although I think those things, more just crass.  It's what you'd expect from a ketamine addict suffering from an acute case of rightplacerighttime, really maybe the worst case in history.   I first introduced myself thus: "Oh hey, man, you look familiar, where have I seen you from before?" This of course was after we'd all heard him talk for an hour I'm not a funny person.   "Caving, wow, I understand the appeal, it's just like me getting drunk off my ass every night, we just flirt with death differently."   Anyway, the group mingled and talked for hours with everyone having a, to quote the Jetsons, gaye old time, and everyone left one by one until it was Vern and me left.  I commiserated with him probably overly passionately.   "I cannot imagine what it's like having the most famous person in the world lie and call you a pedophile, dude I wish I could help your libel case. I know you can't talk about it but I hope you win with every fiber of my being." I was being sincere.  "Honestly, if you ask me, you're a real hero. That's why I want to buy you a bottle of whiskey. What do you like, aged 8 years... aged 12 years?"  He laughed. I've never been prouder of getting a laugh.  Sadly haven't seen Vern since but I hope he's doing well.   I need some coffee it's early af here
2026-05-02T00:16 id=2050368716257575386 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees but why is it so durable? Just because it's unfalsifiable? Doesn't seem sufficient explanation, plenty of metaphysics are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I suspect that eventually people stumble upon a very durable metaphysics that can't be supplanted and it's so fundamental it can be used as an adaptation layer between people. Always accessible, but damn can clarity be incr
2026-05-02T00:20 id=2050369865714979074 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Explains the family resemblance between Taoism and later Wittgenstein. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oddly, because I think because it doesn't depend on truth and looks at the framing instead. So we can shrug and swap maps instead of being worried we don't understand the territory while rejecting each other's maps.
2026-05-02T01:36 id=2050388888280273395 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I'm ahead of their time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (flintstones not jetsons but still, funny story)
2026-05-02T01:37 id=2050389100524691480 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain hot summer || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain i am sam https://t.co/l97KOFvgT7
2026-05-02T01:38 id=2050389433917296878 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain I feel a personal affinity with Jodie   (too close? don't worry I won't try to kill Regan he's already dead) || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain Plumes of Oz https://t.co/v5hYoPFZDk
2026-05-02T01:38 id=2050389535272636742 →dnw_stock | @dnw_stock my fav and the gap between it and number 2 is big || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 one of my favs
2026-05-02T01:41 id=2050390067710226666 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill Deniro, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. De-ni-ro: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of two steps down the palate to tap, at three, on nothing. De. Ni. Ro. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill all right settle down deniro
2026-05-02T01:46 id=2050391343147757893 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill hes just rich man want car go fast vroom vroom || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill nearly every sickness is from the teeth https://t.co/whn6uKctuB
2026-05-02T01:47 id=2050391603077161268 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill wise man has spoken on this (but he's not here so have an old tweet) https://t.co/QqWUOIyT8b || CTX: Roon implicitly makes an underappreciated point (and I'm glad he noted "as understood by the company"): the more abstract your governance target, the easier it is to manipulate and game.   This is why I hate Dario more than Sam: Sam Altman 
2026-05-02T01:56 id=2050393872363360387 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill I was so insecure and lacking in confidence before I met Not Sam A RIP. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill it could go back further than this but we will never know   the si in simon morley has more than one meaning and myriad applications https://t.co/1jDDU2TpH9
2026-05-02T01:57 id=2050394219165155434 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill Must have hurt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill people hated mary beth and that is why i never agreed to adapt it into a film because she would never work as a character if men could not project whoever they wanted onto her https://t.co/kpQ5R
2026-05-02T02:00 id=2050394898076201301 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs 1. I thought it's four not five, so what's missing?   2. This honestly makes me nervous.   3. Thanks for the signal I know you hate this I don't care you gave me what Carolyn asked me to take thank you thank you thank you || CTX: someone once (many times really) why my tweets are so bad. it is simply a function of how much you paid to read them.  while i have you here anyway  worst book five character?
2026-05-02T02:01 id=2050395194240139759 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 @ESYudkowsky We record Monday afternoon PST, I want it to be live but idk if Yud is willing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ESYudkowsky Yo?? What time
2026-05-02T02:11 id=2050397624952598574 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill I keep crying because I miss my main character is this normal || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill i never want anything for my characters from the audience except to gain insights into how people think based on how they reacted to them. people's hatred of Mary Beth was an indictment of their
2026-05-02T02:13 id=2050398191661809758 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill I know I shouldn't worry, hard to ignore the rules when they're everywhere yanno || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill normal is the watchword (whatever that means) https://t.co/B5jabnCK7F
2026-05-02T02:34 id=2050403584421114166 →tszzl | I'm kinda getting sick of hearing all these people inside OAI/GOOG talk about the need for more culture then, do dumb shit like, oh idk, go on a Soaces with deepfates and politely reply to his addled ramblings without pushback.   "We need a better culture" yah man so make a better culture who the fuck is stopping you || CTX: all technology brothers should have a birthright trip to paris to see how good certain things can get and all the axes of civilization they don’t think about. they should also get one to singapore to witness the hollow Disneyland feigned jo
2026-05-02T02:43 id=2050405755766153234 →- | When I was at Warwick people on campus joked about Nick Land all the time. I was there just a few years after he resigned.  He was the loser who couldn't keep it together and lost control doing too many drugs and a lot of people tried to help him but drugs are bad kids.  That this culture takes him seriously just tells me you lack taste.
2026-05-02T02:46 id=2050406525924176328 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch @sama @jxnlco what isn't AGI nowadays || CTX: @sama @jxnlco codex pets is literally AGI https://t.co/KdZqdi2ceW
2026-05-02T02:53 id=2050408396315415036 →yewzoid | @yewzoid idk who those people are I read good books soz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I felt like he was kind of meme back in the 10s? It was like the schizo phil guy who read evola, stirner, etc that engaged with nick land?
2026-05-02T02:57 id=2050409236983923073 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake I still don't understand what cybernetics even is, had it explained to me many times, makes Hegel seem sensible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lots of trauma bonding going on in `this` culture  https://t.co/5fKDslYdTj
2026-05-02T03:03 id=2050410849358196897 →GeringerAdam | @GeringerAdam honestly 15k is not that bad || CTX: Insanely wasteful https://t.co/mlzGuOEghc
2026-05-02T03:10 id=2050412541692768484 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 The very serious people have been DMing me.  I planned to stay on Twitter for a year with this project. Looks like I'll be ascending out of this cesspool much faster. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 imagine all the very serious AI ppl who have recently started following you, wondering: who the fuck is 47 and why does he seem to belittle and know my supreme leaders 😂
2026-05-02T03:11 id=2050412788598931592 →DhruvaMath | @DhruvaMath Cybernetics was a serious thing at one point but it stopped being ig? idk tbh I just know by the time I was studying it was dead, Jim || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Land is literally if whatifalthist somehow got a job in academia, which idk if that’s a bigger reflection on academia or the internet
2026-05-02T03:19 id=2050414807569027489 →teodorio | @teodorio hbd teo gfy || CTX: good morning and happy birthday to me! https://t.co/Fk7alnyt6H
2026-05-02T03:26 id=2050416710814224799 →idobadtakes | @idobadtakes Set a timer for the book to publish on January 1, 2100 and put it on KDP. || CTX: I have a private book of short stories I wrote about all the patients that meant something to me during Covid. I don't think there's any way to publish it that doesn't get me sued for dozens of HIPAA violations.  Sad there's no way for anyo
2026-05-02T03:29 id=2050417374395007471 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @teodorio Surge of jealousy as two of my favorite moots talk together without me  how COULD you  and during Jewish Awareness Heritage Month no less || CTX: @teodorio Chicago lol
2026-05-02T03:55 id=2050423816061690306 →teodorio | @teodorio @retardbot9000 nah it's cool we can be a polyiqule || CTX: @retardbot9000 @47fucb4r8c69323 i am sorry I was not informed we are in exclusive intellectual relationships
2026-05-02T04:06 id=2050426705375023572 →teodorio | @teodorio @GeringerAdam dude no one's that retarded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GeringerAdam there's worse place to spend it on for example on an internet science fiction debate with reddit neckbeards and weirdos that don't shower listening in
2026-05-02T04:28 id=2050432146784018656 →- | I first watched Fight Club when it came out and then read the book about 5 years later.  I didn't realize CP was writing about how men are cruel to women because of their own desire for them. That's the thrust of the book, the real beg for humanity in the book to us.   I focused instead on the rebellion against system ethos that everyone else focused on and, as a result, I did not see the true story alongside the hoi polloi.   But I think there are two reasons for this error.   One is disinterest in the feelings of women. His cruelty to her is secondary because she is a she is the view here.  The second is just unrelatability. When I saw the movie I thought, "Marla is a beautiful compelling woman, live a bohemian life with her, be kind to her, end of movie!"   And honestly I disliked the movie and the book slightly for this, although I remember in the book being more disgusted with his abuse of her than in the movie. Don't remember why.   There is a personality that will want to live outside the system and will abuse women out of a narcissistic self confidence. I think the book is about these men.   But there's also a personality that will want to live outside the system and would embrace Marla's love because both offer an escape from the control of the system. This isn't more virtuous at all, especially if, as it is in my case, motived by fear and self-loathing.   Fear and Self-Loathing in Las Vegas. Christ it fucking writes itself what a joke
2026-05-02T04:28 id=2050432295388246405 →47fucb4r8c69323 | tldr; I love CP || CTX: I first watched Fight Club when it came out and then read the book about 5 years later.  I didn't realize CP was writing about how men are cruel to women because of their own desire for them. That's the thrust of the book, the real beg for 
2026-05-02T04:39 id=2050435022193360988 →shittyprogram | @shittyprogram No that's Rose McGowan, CP wrote Fight Club || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 brave
2026-05-02T05:14 id=2050443771180167618 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs How does one warn young men against gurus without becoming a guru? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/Gu7Ij9go4h
2026-05-02T05:20 id=2050445212217168007 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs well that's no bueno || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the desire to warn them and the desire to become a guru are one and the same https://t.co/zaD2yBEVZc
2026-05-02T05:20 id=2050445376885518567 →teodorio | @teodorio You're the man of the century, just not THIS century. || CTX: I was born in a wrong age, in the 1920s they would have called me a genius intellectual and my luxury drinking and traveling habit would have been my praxis. Now they call me a weirdo!
2026-05-02T05:25 id=2050446631112528131 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs As I like to say: create non zero sum games where each player can realize their own will to power. A fight is non zero sum. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for the most part boys are supposed to keep each other in check. that is why fight club was a good idea. get together and keep each other in check. sports works too. or games. intervening in this when things go awry is the 
2026-05-02T05:37 id=2050449606929154480 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs sounds like a sweet gig || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/16VOwsAJVJ
2026-05-02T05:39 id=2050450164608012513 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake OOOHHHH it's people who don't know how to use the internet! Who don't understand how it works!   Okay that explains a lot dude ily so much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dial down your iq by a few standard deviations, then imagine:   what if you peered through the looking glass, through the black mirror, and could not contemplate that it was your own reflection   like imagine failing the mi
2026-05-02T06:08 id=2050457463481364583 →- | Liking Claude is a sign of bad taste.  Yes its writing style is better than the other frontier models. There's more to taste than style.   Christ my community college students weren't this bad in the 90s.
2026-05-02T06:09 id=2050457628623733041 →BayesianPUA | @BayesianPUA @PaulaSeeksTruth Some do and some don't.  Some men are good and some men are bad.  Some women are good and some women are bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth Women pick wife beaters because it makes them horny. You’re a simp dude.
2026-05-02T06:28 id=2050462447316971946 →eye_gniees_lla | @eye_gniees_lla that's why I don't blink when people call me a snob. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good taste is distaste for the taste of others.
2026-05-02T06:55 id=2050469121654178010 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy yeah man I was addicted to the Costcutters chicken and coriander sandwiches. If the Students Union is still an airport bar theme the Chancellor needs to get fired. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Didn’t realise you were at Warwick!
2026-05-02T06:56 id=2050469531890712782 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy it's because you don't disentangle rhetoric and logic sufficiently, it's a chronic disease among your ilk (economists) read Deidre McCloskey on this.   But sorry to be a dick in that tweet, you're young so I shouldn't but unfortunately I am indeed a dick. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao, searched Warwick on your profile and saw this unnecessary dunk on me — very funny to read that tweet as me being pro Grace Blakeley As Economist! https://t.co/vJOu3noVRZ
2026-05-02T06:57 id=2050469715257307178 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy lmao dude now you made me feel guilty for that &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Goddamn the red bricks have collapsed.
2026-05-02T06:58 id=2050469977183199288 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy see his hat's not so little || CTX: https://t.co/TRFGqZXWab https://t.co/JQsDTzNHzR
2026-05-02T07:00 id=2050470368348098670 →ctjlewis | @ctjlewis and they genuinely can't believe there are some (many) of us who find that life vomit-worthy || CTX: Holy fuck, you morons are SHOOTING this shit? Jesus Christ, I thought you were taking supplements or something. These NPCs will go to any length to be part of the crowd. https://t.co/JFzKp1jFe2
2026-05-02T07:14 id=2050473920990703921 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney Would you say its measurement of evidence against claims is superior in all domains you've looked at, or is there a skew? || CTX: Claude gets snippy with me, and its safety layers interfere with my work flow far more often than Gemini's. But it's discernibly better than competitors in precisely measuring claim to evidence. Also more verbose, no matter how much I scold
2026-05-02T09:18 id=2050505292899909972 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x evergreen || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s all relative it’s better compared to gpt but nowhere near good as good human
2026-05-02T09:19 id=2050505417726603490 →realJosiahClark | @realJosiahClark I know a lot of young confused people who think this, and it breaks my heart. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It doesn’t. Don’t know any real AI people that think this, just the grifters.
2026-05-02T09:22 id=2050506106607374411 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini I remember being taught Hume on taste in grad school and I remember none of the content.   I need to revisit apparently--he explains why a digital nomad would look at SF and feel physically ill. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/Y3CEOO2nt1
2026-05-02T09:23 id=2050506341807235540 →iuvanet | @iuvanet gfy this was one of my funniest tweets  altho to your point I am high now. I mean I was high when I made that tweet, but I'm hi again too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they shoulda never legalized dat shit over there bro
2026-05-02T09:23 id=2050506498846208123 →AlexAlarga | @AlexAlarga @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud Why don't you focus on cutting down on firebombings instead? || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud First, I'd want to hear them both try to spell their own presented "names".
2026-05-02T09:27 id=2050507394795638904 →helscom | @helscom https://t.co/UVeuLVC8NX || CTX: I wanted to establish the first (I think the first, we couldn't find one at least) online corporate bond exchange in Thailand and got together some execs at one of the big4 firms and a corp lawyer to begin the process.   These were friends,
2026-05-02T09:30 id=2050508094984388766 →llallawg | @llallawg YESSSSSSSSS finally someone said it that used to drive me nutty || CTX: I really disagree with Europeans putting butter on sandwiches instead of mayonnaise or mustard
2026-05-02T09:33 id=2050508926895202746 →FT | bwahahahaha I remember being yelled at and insulted and told Americans write and think poorly American ideas are terrible we're so uncivilized suck it europoors the arc of the universe ain't as long as I thought I'll see you at the next 5 star resort don't worry I tip well but not in Europe you guys hate tips bwahahahahaha || CTX: Wall Street traders post triple gains of European rivals https://t.co/1RARKdu59Y
2026-05-02T09:34 id=2050509241073709502 →- | RT @thejesterhead9: @samswoora Nick Land seems to be a man who has believed a lot of things  Congrats to him on that || CTX: @samswoora Nick Land seems to be a man who has believed a lot of things  Congrats to him on that
2026-05-02T09:35 id=2050509436146581956 →- | RT @NotPerrysBoobs: is this a prank? why is he of all people speaking about natural selection like it is his grandma with hopes and dreams?… || CTX: is this a prank? why is he of all people speaking about natural selection like it is his grandma with hopes and dreams? that kind of sloppy language is how you roll down the hill towards computers and other whirligigs becoming alive with th
2026-05-02T09:44 id=2050511842716590128 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Based || CTX: I abuse mine if my code stops working https://t.co/eEBKAaBNPv https://t.co/3AUscxmN42
2026-05-02T09:47 id=2050512414144430377 →idobadtakes | @idobadtakes wut  passes the 40x rule used in NYC  ohhh "idobadtakes" lol nice bit bro  ... wanna fuck? || CTX: If you only make $350k you aren't anywhere close to being able to afford a $8000/month mortgage, people have to be on crack when they buy those houses ffs https://t.co/hKpCudTiXF
2026-05-02T09:48 id=2050512763655745940 →- | Newsfeed = The public Lobby chat Group Chats = Private Chats DMs = IMs And then people ofc email and call me from this app just like...   It's AOL. Elon Musk fucking recreated AOL.
2026-05-02T09:50 id=2050513207648031138 →NeilBahadur | @NeilBahadur @sitch_monitor George Friedman predicted big nations would start competing for immigrants iirc in the 2030s  So this is, like, kinda on schedule. || CTX: Fukuyama saying China won is a new level of its-so-over lol https://t.co/M9GqBDPUsu
2026-05-02T09:51 id=2050513557729788166 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 @samswoora I just realized Nick Land is anti nominative determinism   Fucker's name is Land and dude's so unmoored his brain is floating in outer space || CTX: @samswoora Nick Land seems to be a man who has believed a lot of things  Congrats to him on that
2026-05-02T09:53 id=2050513997963870697 →OdenKate | @OdenKate It's so readable! The verse almost forces you to read fast, goddamn I love Nabokov. || CTX: What I’ve really been reading over the past 24 hours: Pale Fire hooked me. Nabokov has a scheming mastery of word and plot. The cantos are dynamic and the following “commentary” opens a whole new world. Just an amazing read. https://t.co/d8
2026-05-02T10:02 id=2050516381993668861 →- | I actually think this is good, because he's losing his audience to Candace.   Most of her audience doesn't take her seriously. It's lolcow entertainment.   But when they listened to Shapiro, they took him seriously as if he's a political voice.   But they got sick of that and it got stale so people went further on the fringe, and as they did so the reason they're listening changed, subtly on a shallow gradient, and unbeknownst to them they really just stopped caring about politics at all, except for their team's totems.   That's why they were furious about Charlie Kirk, but only for a brief moment and not really.   It was like someone broke a bottle of Molson Ice on their hockey team's mascot, eh?  This means Americans are moving away from caring about politics entirely.   That may be a good thing. || CTX: The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs  This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year https://t.co/HrmI68svk8
2026-05-02T10:03 id=2050516501401374887 →your_ransom | @your_ransom NGL feels like an infohazard tweet esp if you're over 40 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Forbidden truths...
2026-05-02T10:04 id=2050516790921544156 →OdenKate | @OdenKate Invitation to a Beheading is my second favorite, Pnin after that.  Didn't like Sebastian Knight tbh, I'll try to remember if I've read more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Right?! I get lost in it. I’m gazing at my other Nabokovs and newly glad I bought them on the value of Lolita and his rep. Seriously thinking of focusing on Nabokov alone for a while, but I generally like to skip around.
2026-05-02T10:08 id=2050517812570181789 →- | Is "heterological" autological?   The Grelling-Nelson Paradox cannot be resolved naturally but Russell's paradox can be structurally, because we can adjust the axioms of our formal language to resolve Russell's paradox. We can do this since it is the byproduct of a naive axiomatic system, whereas we cannot do this with the G-N paradox because it is the byproduct of natural language.  The only way to try to resolve G-N is to abandon the naturalness of language, but if it's a point about natural language, it's irresolvable.  Not contemplate what this means about LLMs.   If you think your clanker's conscious I cannot emphasize how much contempt I have for you, you're basically a hood rat or a dumb jock in my eyes.
2026-05-02T10:10 id=2050518353425666299 →- | Is "heterological" autological?   The Grelling-Nelson Paradox cannot be resolved naturally but Russell's paradox can be structurally, because we can adjust the axioms of our formal language to resolve Russell's paradox. We can do this since it is the byproduct of a naive axiomatic system, whereas we cannot do this with the G-N paradox because it is the byproduct of natural language.  The only way to try to resolve G-N is to abandon the naturalness of language, but if it's a point about natural language, it's irresolvable.  Now contemplate what this means about LLMs.   If you think your clanker's conscious I cannot emphasize how much contempt I have for you, you're basically a hood rat or a dumb jock in my eyes.
2026-05-02T10:15 id=2050519433115042082 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I had to give it hints but it got in the area.   Problem is you don't want to admit this both proves your clanker ain't conscious and something so so much spookier than if it were.   maybe that's why you think there's a ghost in the machine, you're scared. https://t.co/ky94Fc8jo4 || CTX: Is "heterological" autological?   The Grelling-Nelson Paradox cannot be resolved naturally but Russell's paradox can be structurally, because we can adjust the axioms of our formal language to resolve Russell's paradox. We can do this since
2026-05-02T10:22 id=2050521223994749203 →Kickassconserva | @Kickassconserva Awesome || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/8i8H3ImDgx
2026-05-02T10:29 id=2050523029634244636 →CliffLattner | @CliffLattner @cloneofsimo @ctjlewis The world will get there eventually. You're early enjoy the alpha God bless. || CTX: @cloneofsimo @ctjlewis 3. AI is going to be pretty useful and worth the investment
2026-05-02T10:30 id=2050523337441591573 →- | "Why're you wasting 10k on something so pointless and unproductive?"   Meanwhile this guy: https://t.co/q3JrwnKEHB || CTX: It is dangerous to be wealthy while autistic
2026-05-02T10:59 id=2050530573740101745 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @steve_hanke Looks like this could be the first year SK overtakes Japan in GDP per Capita (nominal miss me with that PPP horseshit).  Major historical moment, gotta respect the hustle no matter where it's from. || CTX: @steve_hanke this is showing growth rates, not gdp per capita itself. the gdp per capita of the two countries is nearly equal now  korea just started from a much worse off position compared to japan and globalized relatively recently
2026-05-02T11:04 id=2050531870585373165 →airkatakana | @airkatakana @steve_hanke 2023?!? I'm ootl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @steve_hanke sk has already overtaken japan in gdp per capita
2026-05-02T11:10 id=2050533274691469723 →- | I don't mean to be a dick but I am paid a ridiculous amount of money by extremely rich and intelligent people because I am really fucking good at what I do. https://t.co/Z4FzTUpo9C https://t.co/MC7ORU9kRh || CTX: Don't make me pull the Cassandra trope I'm better than that (no I'm not I'm doing it now and you're bearish on Silly Business Theory like a little hobbit bitch a hobbitch if you will don't do drugs kids) https://t.co/05Rr2XKCa7
2026-05-02T11:26 id=2050537519364939930 →helscom | @helscom @quiveron_x DUDE FUCK YOU   but yeah basically I'm jewish || CTX: @quiveron_x @47fucb4r8c69323 he’s jewish
2026-05-02T11:35 id=2050539558564253935 →- | Gradient doesn't mean fuzzy.   Gradient is, like, it slowly transitions dynamically with no clear discrete divisions beyond regimes.   Fuzzy means you can't even see the regimes.
2026-05-02T11:35 id=2050539600150679972 →- | RT @helscom: @quiveron_x @47fucb4r8c69323 he’s jewish || CTX: @quiveron_x @47fucb4r8c69323 he’s jewish
2026-05-02T11:35 id=2050539703414452360 →1889lw | @1889lw I know my place.   But... I have a place. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well that’s nothing compared with giving away all your inheritance for philosophy
2026-05-02T11:36 id=2050539978439184815 →adamroark_ | @adamroark_ @eye_gniees_lla Dude that makes me so happy to hear it! What hobby are you most enthused about now? During covid I got way into home brewing beer and it was SO MUCH fun. Amazing community too. || CTX: @eye_gniees_lla @47fucb4r8c69323 Count me in the tuned out camp. I listen certain Tucker episodes but largely replaced DW and other political shows with watching sports again amongst other hobbies.
2026-05-02T11:37 id=2050540174371889604 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I &lt;3 ANAL but I think this will need to be hashed out in case law unfortunately. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 By the way, has anyone considered how the definition of "reasonable person" (wrt business law) has shifted since the deployment of LLM's? Businesses are going to start being compelled to make choices that they would otherwi
2026-05-02T11:44 id=2050541896624427185 →- | I'm an antifeminist in one specific sense: I think the techbros think no means no and they are wrong.   clickbait lmfao  Every time a person means something different when they say "no".   Consider China. Students are asked if they think Xi Jinping is wrong about something.  One says "no." Another says "no".   The first one is a die hard card carrying member of the Chinese Communist Party because it'll get him a good job and a hot wife.   The second one says no because he is planning to start a counterrevolution, so he cannot risk prison from telling the truth.   The word "no" doesn't always mean the same exact thing.   Camus wrote an entire book about this it's called The Rebel send tweeeeeeeeeeeet
2026-05-02T11:49 id=2050543079279783952 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 ah self censorship yeah I wonder how that relates to cancel culture.   I only dared to come here after cancel culture died  they're still gonna try to cancel me tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm already seeing it play out, before the law needs to be tested. People don't want to look stupid, so controversial ideas which would normally be suppressed are now being entered into chatgpt for discussion.
2026-05-02T11:59 id=2050545643861721089 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 a sort of decline in trust? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not controversial like that. Controversial like "what if we're using the wrong kpi's" or "what if this vendor is committing fraud?"
2026-05-02T12:25 id=2050552198543859917 →Matej_SI | @Matej_SI @DavidSartor0 @liron @ESYudkowsky @allTheYud ur mami || CTX: @DavidSartor0 @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Who offered 5K?
2026-05-02T12:44 id=2050556974430089715 →ageofabstaining | @ageofabstaining yes! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 twitter users think "no means no" means "no means no" and they are wrong
2026-05-02T12:47 id=2050557905984987378 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno can I boob boob booboob without boob booboob boob? || CTX: Every time I see her hair, I want to cut mine again. But I don’t have the motivation to make it look hot and sexy every day. It would just look like a voluptuous, unfortunate pyramid. A triangle, but not the kind where you’re like damn, hum
2026-05-02T12:49 id=2050558260315598922 →OdenKate | @OdenKate I just started Sound and the Fury it is clearly one of the greatest novels ever written, the genius is apparent on the first page.   I've honestly never read anything like it, it's so devastatingly powerful. || CTX: Silver (reading and up next) https://t.co/PvPa0bNxDw
2026-05-02T12:53 id=2050559426046927105 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Like absurdly comically ridiculously good at my job and you're bearish oh how I pity your mother   https://t.co/dlZixT6Ptb || CTX: With 63% of the S&amp;P 500 reported, the blended YoY EPS growth rate for Q1 is 27.1% which would mark the strongest growth since Q4'21.  via @FactSet https://t.co/vTeLLz6vns
2026-05-02T13:07 id=2050562893415150053 →xmuse_ | @xmuse_ well yeah ofc he was french || CTX: Van Gogh was a heavy smoker.   Letters to his brother Theo mention it.   It was part of his daily routine, like coffee and painting. https://t.co/PkQYW1gbov https://t.co/11dFqJ8okO
2026-05-02T13:18 id=2050565490297520128 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @Spanish_Techno which is surprisingly kiki || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno wow, everything is booba
2026-05-02T21:04 id=2050682800228217323 →RsndSpeculation | @RsndSpeculation May want to do another call after the Yud thing unless he publicly humiliates me so much I need to go in hiding || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 proud to be the first call you’ve had in this app
2026-05-02T21:07 id=2050683656096907662 →retail_trash | @retail_trash it is autological. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what I think is more fun is whether "autological" is autological. if it isn't, then it isn't. and if it is, then it is. both solutions are self-consistent! what does this mean??
2026-05-02T21:08 id=2050683879451988069 →_imsigh | @_imsigh depends on the use case || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what’s better?
2026-05-02T21:23 id=2050687671484449148 →- | Memoirs of a Geisha is, in my opinion, the best novel of the 1990s (caveat: I haven't read every novel written in the 1990s).  There's a combination of control, research, detail, empathy, vividness of description, and compelling cast of characters that makes it an easy read, intelligent, tragic, funny, and beautiful.   It was viciously attacked for being Orientalist, and several Japanese scholars of English literature have attacked it in ways that, IMO, are disingenuous face saving tactics to maintain a sexist society.  The irony is one was branded a racist for trying to fight sexism by pointing this out. I've often seen how what Americans think of as minority race cultures leverage that to perpetuate oppression and get support from radicals in America in doing so.   That btw is why the subaltern cannot speak, but Spivak stopped caring years ago to further her career. I honestly think she is evil, I really do.  Back to Geisha: Golden's book was a comically big smash hit. I don't think we've had a literary novel for adults be as successful since.  And then dude just disappeared. No interviews, not even a short story or essay in the New Yorker as far as I can tell. Just took the money and ran.  I find this so strange. How could such a good novel come from a man who has so little to say to the world?  Did we disappoint him?
2026-05-02T21:25 id=2050688104361812163 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines How many normies would hyperventilate seeing other planes "so close to us omg" || CTX: Real. https://t.co/Rdm19uurCj
2026-05-02T21:26 id=2050688382377066640 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Banning smoking in pubs in England is what got me to quit!   That and Alan Carr's book, I recommend it to everyone who smokes. Works for vaping too I bet. || CTX: "Banning never solves anything"  Please look at one of the best things we've done in recent decades. This is very clear evidence that strategic changes are effective and they help save lives! Anyone who dismisses any attempts to use regulat
2026-05-02T21:29 id=2050689093328367885 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth I probably would've quit otherwise eventually but not then. And, tbh, it wasn't all that hard. The first 3 days were a little difficult, then it got easier everyday.  Totally lost interest in smoking after maybe a month or so. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Was it hard for you to quit? Do you think you would have quit otherwise?
2026-05-02T21:31 id=2050689668245753895 →- | This is why I came out of retirement to shake up the AI world if I'm totally honest.   If you use AI correctly, it will make you read more books.   You guys aren't there yet, but you can get there with a little help from your frens. https://t.co/Ehu1b6tmm0 || CTX: Fewer than half of US adults read a book last year.  Even fewer read an actual novel, and the trend is looking worse still for teenagers.  Why is nobody talking about this?? https://t.co/OHP5jzo2vg
2026-05-02T21:34 id=2050690482993586561 →potatoslav | Sorry I'm autistic I find this fascinating. Please don't read what follows.  If one were to break down everything that's going on here, we find we have three   scalars:  Average quality Exposure Max available quality   When people debate America vs US they're usually talking past each other and presupposing one scalar is the terms of the debate instead of discussing where on all three both regions are.   If the just tried to make that identification instead of arguing good/bad, they'd agree quickly.   This post isn't really about bread. || CTX: @StatisticUrban yeah the average (German at least) European bread is better than the average American bread, but also European eat much much more bread than the average American. but good bread is available in the US and shitty prepackaged 
2026-05-02T21:36 id=2050690867951022585 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Of course, it's just a question of nudging and openness.   Some people change slowly because they're resistant to growth out of egoism. A good example is people who are very low on agreeability. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now that I think about it, maybe we're not so fixed and our trajectory is not so determined (even if I'm a determinist) because I think our capacity to change can shift. Interesting (thinking out loud)
2026-05-02T21:43 id=2050692566115618922 →sebkrier | What interests me the most is when we DON'T see this response to a major innovation.   E. g. the use of linen-based paper in 14th century Europe (it may have first been used before then but that's when we see major growth, this adoption rate is almost certainly related).  Paper to replace vellum/parchment for cheaper manuscript production got zero mention/pushback as far as I can tell, and if it got any it was really minor.  My heuristic: if the innovation cuts costs and appears "cognitively/communicatively neutral" (I need a better term), it doesn't get a backlash.   Anything that will improve cognition or communication will be seen as a CHANGE and people fear change. Changing the way they think feels personally risky.  Thus the bigger and faster the change, the more the backlash.   It is no surprise an Oxford professor accused me of ecocide and genocide for working in AI. And it's absurdly bullish for LLMs. || CTX: Techno-anxiety is a remarkably consistent and repetitive pattern:   1482 book by Johannes Trithemius: "In Praise of Scribes: De Laude Scriptorum": https://t.co/zHuUK9STW3  1858 New York Times editorial on the epistemic risks of the telegrap
2026-05-02T21:46 id=2050693378170618319 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Agreed. One of the things I've been realizing lately is I cannot judge other people. I make way too much money and making money is way, way too easy for me.   I cannot relate to average people's struggles and therefore shouldn't judge AND should try to be more empathetic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (you mean me? ha ha)  I think that many times people need to feel well to want to do better. If they are overworked, stressed, running on empty (in their bodies, minds, or - let me be a little dramatic/spiritual - souls), w
2026-05-02T21:49 id=2050694104011723120 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth Idk if it's lucky or work, I'm just really shrewd and see opportunities others don't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I swing between judging people harshly (when they fail morally and cause suffering or seem to lose half IQ points) and a lot of empathy. You are lucky or worked for the life you have now.
2026-05-02T21:50 id=2050694410044854329 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @MateriaMundi Of everyone on this all, Taijitu, I want to meet you the most. || CTX: @MateriaMundi @47fucb4r8c69323 Quite a prison to self construct.
2026-05-02T21:51 id=2050694745866027313 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe "Claude, summarize every novel from the 90s make no mistakes" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 important caveat. I was about to attack you for making this claim and not reading every novel in the 1990s
2026-05-02T21:55 id=2050695584915562598 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Well the real woman who sued Golden imo is just a liar. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and then tell me if any are better than geisha. don't lie to me or I will kill you
2026-05-02T21:56 id=2050696016857588058 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok Surprising, I wonder if Musk is anti porn, I could see that tbh || CTX: Even @grok knows porn is a net negative for society. It takes 6 seconds to learn more https://t.co/C98N5XCMDT
2026-05-02T21:59 id=2050696770158731653 →cyberpyre | He doesn't understand what language is or how it works many such cases  you guys killed our funding stole my chances at a good academic job so now we have zombies and you have me ready to fuck the LLM world's shit up  All I wanted was a professorship at, like, York. Hell I would've taken Sheffield even. || CTX: Richard Dawkins has officially been one-shot https://t.co/ev1aUC5MjI
2026-05-02T22:00 id=2050696894087901515 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok Porn probably makes people have less babies, so yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok Musk? The one who created Ani the VirginMaker3000 while he said he wants people to have more babies? 😂
2026-05-02T22:10 id=2050699375882760581 →- | Seeing Paula post about porn over the last few days has made me think enough about this issue to decide on a stance.  I do not think porn is intrinsically bad (nothing is unless axiomatically or semantically forced), but it is definitely high risk low reward socially.  That is, porn availability has the reward of satiating young men and runs the risk of perverting their desires in ways that can harm themselves and others. That satiation is kind of insufficient for the risk.  But porn can be used responsibly by a regular sex haver.   I only watch porn and masturbate when I'm really hungover, which happens like once a year these days (my heavy drinking days are behind me). That seems healthy or at least not damaging to anyone.  But some of the porn out there is grotesque and damaging, although I want actual quantitative data before we start talking about changing laws. I hate restricting freedom.  There is, however, a part of the porn world that needs the most focus and gets the least, partly because they're not white people and Americans are weird about this shit: Japanese loli porn.   Some of that stuff is straight up fantasizing about violently raping prepubescent children and some of the actresses are small enough that they can convincingly play the part.  If this lowers incidence of child abuse, then wonderful, but I somehow doubt that is the case (would like to see studies).  If it doesn't lower said incidence, this is a rare case where I might support extending censorship laws.   It goes against my principles, and I am a flexible person. || CTX: Even @grok knows porn is a net negative for society. It takes 6 seconds to learn more https://t.co/C98N5XCMDT
2026-05-02T22:12 id=2050700034904297868 →antoniogm | @antoniogm Hedonic adaptation is a bitch || CTX: Inb4 some economist pipes up about how even the poorest now live better than the wealthy in the past.   Nobody gives a shit how well they’re doing against 16th-cent. royalty.   Humans care how well they’re doing against three cohorts:  Thei
2026-05-02T22:16 id=2050700893604258148 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok EXCELLENT point!!!   Too many people have kids anyway, everything is so fuckin crowded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok If porn is stopping you from having a kid, you probably shouldn’t be having kids anyway 🤷
2026-05-02T22:18 id=2050701608229683315 →dieworkwear | @dieworkwear @Libuse_Carodej https://t.co/AJ4HOTLCEv || CTX: @Libuse_Carodej since you joined twitter on dec 2022, you've tweeted 195,700 times. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's about 162 times per day. or roughly a new tweet every four mins, every day, for the last four years.   how do you h
2026-05-02T22:22 id=2050702469064532039 →PaulaSeeksTruth | Back in the early 2000s I discussed this with some philosophers at the university where I was doing my PhD.   I said porn is going to be more available and easier access to kids so we need a kind of philosophy of pornography where we have a deeper and serious understanding of the differences between hardcore/softcore porn, porn targeting different moods/desires, etc. They laughed at me, prob thought I was a pervert.  There's a lot of things about the world we don't know and hesitate to study because it feels undignified or impolite. This fascinates me.   There's a whole constellation of low hanging fruit out of our reach because we're embarrassed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 really need to focus on fast is that children grow up with it. Average age of exposure is 11 now, some start much younger, and a lot of the porn available is violent, degrading, dehumanizing. It's already changing how young
2026-05-02T22:24 id=2050702890130612338 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok I agree and this is why I believe prostitution should be legal and heavily regulated.   This opinion will disappoint Paula, I bet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok "Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place” - St. Thomas Aquinas. I think there are a lot of lo
2026-05-02T22:25 id=2050703186307186831 →KlausMaccus | @KlausMaccus @OdenKate I'll add it to my list, I'm almost certainly going to become a Faulkner completist, this is just absurd genius. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @OdenKate Yes it is top tier. Next read Absalom Absalom which is even more astonishing
2026-05-02T22:26 id=2050703408680849810 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @PaulaSeeksTruth messed me up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth this is the reason no ones talking bout prn, (besides the money)  Also doing research on this probably will mess you up.
2026-05-02T22:27 id=2050703725073985840 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @Picolospolitics @grok I'm sorry, but more disappointment: I think this problem is worse in America because American women are too overweight on average.  I expect vitriol, apologies. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics @grok I think that you cannot regulate away the problems, so yes, I tend to be disappointed by this view, but it's ok. You get a pass for now.
2026-05-02T22:29 id=2050704285420429364 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @PaulaSeeksTruth AI study of these issues would be amazing! We'd need to give up safetyism ofc, so this better world is many years ahead of us.   But much like the men in the videos we're denigrating, such a future is... coming. https://t.co/ItE7bGYtVf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth yeah. I know ppl who didn't wanna document Oct 7th for their open I tel org and quit cus it would mess them up.  This might be benevolent AI use case(AI can memory wipe)
2026-05-02T22:33 id=2050705255147712787 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @PaulaSeeksTruth @Picolospolitics @grok I expect as weight loss technology improves for this issue to resolve itself, which is why I don't worry about porn in the west anymore.  My concern remains Japanese loli porn. I really really want the world to consider a response to Japan over this, like a UN action. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth @Picolospolitics @grok didn't ozempic solve this?
2026-05-02T22:36 id=2050706000253219031 →TheFigen_ | @TheFigen_ The scene where Rhea Perelman as Ruth Handler talks about her creation of Barbie made me cry like a baby. || CTX: The creators of Barbie and Hot Wheels were husband and wife… https://t.co/LlYtEdvsL1
2026-05-02T22:38 id=2050706625842020610 →Shadow_Rebbe | It's not very well known, I discovered it on 4chan in the 2000s and was horrified, and honestly it's made me have an innate dislike of Japan and Japanese culture since, which is partly why I had a falling out with my former best friend who is Japanese American and now fiercely believes Japanese are ethnically superior.  I was the best man at his wedding. The loss of that friendship hurts, but, what the fuck man, your country produces videos fantasizing about raping little kids. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth @Picolospolitics @grok this is the first time I heard this (I saw a pic a few days ago and was like wtf?! but that was anime wierd stuff. man, world is wierd..)
2026-05-02T22:40 id=2050707073302925382 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @PaulaSeeksTruth @Picolospolitics @grok No he's not responsible for that, he's responsible for saying 9/11 was an inside job, Jews secretly control the world, black people are violent, and Japanese people are the most dignified and sensitive people in the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth @Picolospolitics @grok yeah, but he's not responsible!
2026-05-02T22:54 id=2050710515828261360 →fabsbz | I would agree!   The porn I grew up with isn't the porn of today so my personal experience is too removed from the modern world for my perspective to really have any value on this matter (except the Japanese loli porn thing, I think there's a legitimate intellectual contribution there, although that of course sounds comically ridiculous Silly Business Theory #SBT undefeated). || CTX: I think @PaulaSeeksTruth makes a good point about exposure. The relationship with porn for someone who mostly consumed it through magazines and early websites isn’t necessarily the same as it is for someone who has access to literally any k
2026-05-02T22:59 id=2050711708734488882 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure Drop the Cavell, it's cleaner. || CTX: These two books are your antidote to the confusions of the AI consciousness discourse. Read both of them very carefully and ignore anything and everything people on this website say about Wittgenstein. https://t.co/dhlUDjfk4l
2026-05-02T23:03 id=2050712782300209551 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @fabsbz fabs is fab, a great follow. || CTX: @fabsbz @47fucb4r8c69323 thank you for your comment by the way. you have no idea what a breath of fresh air a good comment is on this topic 🥲🫶
2026-05-02T23:11 id=2050714813526077787 →eye_gniees_lla | @eye_gniees_lla @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok I'm not claiming Musk is a consistent person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok Meanwhile on Elon Musk's feed : 9h12 : The wokes are trying to censor anime titties 11h58: [reacting to a tweet about knightly purity] : interesting 13h21: Grok uncensored image generation 4.5 is out!
2026-05-02T23:19 id=2050716930638852333 →eye_gniees_lla | @eye_gniees_lla @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok Oh yeah absolutely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth @grok Didn't mean to imply you implied that, I just think he's a silly billy
2026-05-02T23:21 id=2050717320595800154 →DevinGoure | @DevinGoure I'm pretty much in the Conant school from what I know of his reading, but I certainly misread Wittgenstein just like everyone else does. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You need the Cavell as your antidote to most mainstream readings of Wittgenstein. But if you can get there without him, sure.
2026-05-02T23:25 id=2050718360669921599 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @fabsbz ... I have talked about the porn I watched on first dates. || CTX: @fabsbz @47fucb4r8c69323 Imagine someone disclosing this on the first date so you know what kind of porn they watch, how often, how far down the rabbit hole they fell. Who would do this? 0.01% of men?
2026-05-02T23:32 id=2050720021094318149 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @fabsbz I think it's a culture thing. I haven't dated an America since 2000 and refuse to date American women (I try to avoid having American friends too, I keep my distance from the whole country tbh). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fabsbz are you a real person? 🤔
2026-05-02T23:56 id=2050726053694570758 →tkisrage | @tkisrage If you talked to people in the advertising industry, oh dude the stories I have, it's really horrific || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a phenomena I noticed but nobody with a name is willing to speak on it because it’s kind of embarrassing to notice lol. Although I heard Tucker talk about this and the internet made fun of him. https://t.co/ytm454Zg
2026-05-02T23:56 id=2050726137719054811 →NaturalMagic777 | @NaturalMagic777 Don't be bearish on the word calculator || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your line
2026-05-02T23:57 id=2050726343143530590 →_rabbi | @_rabbi Yeah the grifter economy is trying to narrow your world, while the anonymous account paying money to speak is trying to expand it.  We live in a society yanno || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was going through a reading list "for sensitive young men" curated by BAP but it was making me spiral so I told claude about it and it recommended i read Stoner. Terrible terrible terrible
2026-05-03T00:00 id=2050727038982767011 →_rabbi | @_rabbi Start with Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty. When you're done DM me and I'll give you my novel.  After that, you're on your own. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Curated a list for me papa
2026-05-03T00:02 id=2050727633651118575 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Probably got stuck in a room of black and white and died before she could get out.   If I was Steve I'd be so pissed off I'd be seeing red.   (I'm sorry) || CTX: Not cool, mary https://t.co/MrjoNFPk9j
2026-05-03T00:05 id=2050728297626316859 →Silver_nz | @Silver_nz Yes, this seems viable as part of a solution! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ideally require some kind of "productive task" from the individual, before they get the supernormal stimulus of sexual imagery. Somehow. Otherwise it is "wireheading" of the evolved caveman instincts every man has: for bond
2026-05-03T00:06 id=2050728732948869611 →Xilo_K | @Xilo_K And it's his THIRD language. || CTX: Conrad is an absurdly good author. How I wish to have read him at 15.
2026-05-03T00:10 id=2050729678605111367 →Xilo_K | @Xilo_K Deep respect. I can't keep more than two languages in my head at once at the level of fluency, really kinda shamefully low cognitive ceiling I have when it comes to language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very charming. English is my third also….
2026-05-03T00:14 id=2050730754855026936 →- | RT @StatisticUrban: Narrative violation.  Conservatives may cry about it . But Trump doesn't.  “And last year, the murder rate saw its sing… || CTX: Narrative violation.  Conservatives may cry about it . But Trump doesn't.  “And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history,” he said. “The lowest number in over 125 years—year 1900.” - Trump https://t.co/0
2026-05-03T00:17 id=2050731379277918377 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: The skills we developed to exploit bosses and systems in NES games will be invaluable in the near future. You were wrong dad, it was NOT a waste of time. https://t.co/EDP2aLAnF4
2026-05-03T00:17 id=2050731550900379744 →- | RT @Wittgensteinnn: "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done." || CTX: "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done."
2026-05-03T00:18 id=2050731752604446918 →philomemetic | @philomemetic Doesn't matter. No one would care if they did. || CTX: Maybe someone found the truth.   They were so enlightened that they never even tweeted it.
2026-05-03T00:20 id=2050732158101442802 →tszzl | @tszzl That's why IB analysts work 16 hour days, the memes about fixing PowerPoints are based on reality. || CTX: the decks and presentations that come out of Wall Street are so much better made than the ones in San Francisco despite being about the boringest shit yield farming some tranche of private debt or whatever
2026-05-03T00:23 id=2050732860475396246 →tszzl | @tszzl Gotta get Compliance to get on board, if you saw the AI usage policy doc I've been given you'd laugh your ass off (I'm quitting because of this document). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah well that shit is on the verge of being automated maybe they can do less busy work
2026-05-03T00:31 id=2050734928187609446 →- | My favorite experience on this website so far was when Marc Andreessen followed me.   I swiftly told him to unfollow me. He did not. About a week later I told him to do it again and to block me. And he did.  I love telling billionaires what to do.   And just wait until Vampire Egghead tries to offer me money. That's going to be hilarious (he probably won't out of pride now that this tweet exists thank God).  Go fuck yourself Netscape Man.
2026-05-03T00:33 id=2050735518774927392 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay Someone should introduce her to Marc || CTX: @specialkdelslay She only loves him for his shiny dildo physique
2026-05-03T00:35 id=2050735851764863146 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad Very dark energy from Marc.   I try to be fair. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very dark energy from this post, think positive
2026-05-03T00:39 id=2050737044587250172 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay "Are you big endian or little endian?" https://t.co/nNHpz9bxe7
2026-05-03T00:40 id=2050737212317438340 →ExaltedFoks | @ExaltedFoks @allisonology Honestly best park in the world || CTX: Prospect Park is beautiful this time of year https://t.co/dpqAU2MqO6
2026-05-03T00:47 id=2050739050613768529 →WatsonLadd | Yeah this is a very fair point and there is currently perceived value in selecting for very smart and docile workers, but WS massively overstates this value.  Disruption is coming, just like it did with MIFID II and before that Dodd Frank and before that Sarbanes Oxley etc etc.   We've had many major systemic changes that required rule changes and then culture changes.   AI is going to do that with this rigid hierarchy worship on WS and that is a good thing, just like how quant market making killed the American Psycho WS of the 80s.  Progress! || CTX: @tszzl @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think you quite get how the selection works
2026-05-03T00:57 id=2050741451064218040 →netcapgirl | @netcapgirl I found Como very disappointing. Food was subpar compared to everywhere else I have been in Italy. || CTX: spending 14 hours a day on a screen here&gt;&gt;&gt; https://t.co/J6p7q7noWp
2026-05-03T01:07 id=2050743982981083459 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Scared to ask this, but: can you explain your love of pop stars like Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo?   I admire the craft of the bubblegum pop enterprise and its rhetorical effectiveness, but none of it interests me.  What am I missing or what am I doing wrong? || CTX: *+asked
2026-05-03T01:13 id=2050745543215984942 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I understand. For me it's Star Trek and Bjork. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're missing how the music makes me feel when i listen to it and how it connects to my life. can't help you with that unfortunately since i am me and you are you and we are destined to feel differently about things.
2026-05-03T01:15 id=2050746108490760468 →Picolospolitics | He retweeted a post about Silly Business Theory (which he wildly endorsed) after Tiffany Fong (F stands for fuck, ong for "oh not good", Tiffany for the beauty pageant she should compete in (Google it)) retweeted it.   Approach him and he might say he was wrong to endorse me but no takebacksies in the marketplace of ideas. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder how he found you and why he followed you. I wonder what his conditions are for following on his main.   I also wonder what he did to cross you…   Of course, everyone has opinions about what the man chooses to prese
2026-05-03T01:17 id=2050746618136400010 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Context is for kings and I am a pauper.   https://t.co/gv6rDIFrWx  Watching my girlfriend watch and love this music video helped me understand women more. There's much in pop music if you just listen. People are scared to listen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is all about creating context  taylor has a song about this https://t.co/qYZrmGg2j6
2026-05-03T01:25 id=2050748462275457363 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I hated all the Star Wars movies even the first one. Never understood the appeal, most paint by numbers Will Durrant cocksucking exercise possible that devolves into audience pandering.   It's almost enough to make one misanthropic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 boys don't like it when you play star wars anyway since they say you are ruining it for them then if they made a girl Jedi to try and sell a Barbie doll he will throw a hissy fit  but then they also throw a tantrum if Sabri
2026-05-03T01:26 id=2050748723555426460 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 dude you're gonna make me wake up my girlfriend || CTX: Homelander from The Boys is a lot like President Trump, if you think about it. Similar mannerisms, and so on.  Maybe it's just me 🤷‍♂️
2026-05-03T01:27 id=2050748939260072104 →aethericmind | @aethericmind @AmandaAskell || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Whose next after you merk yud?
2026-05-03T01:31 id=2050749961554542701 →NotPerrysBoobs | There is no end of the world.   Men have fantasies about the end of the world because they know they're secretless less powerful than they want to be and make up stories to feel more powerful. (This is why Ernest Hemingway is overrated.)  It never ends, but it always changes, and the change might mean the end of YOUR world. Or MY world. But not THE world.  We need to accept our finitude. The only way to live well is to embrace the fact that you will die as reason to love life more WHY IS THIS SO FUCKING HARD WHY CANT HUMANITY JUST FIGURE THIS OUT AND LET ME LIVE ON MY ISLAND WITH MY CATS IN PEACE GODDAMMIT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fight club spake on this. marla conning into cancer club was the worst thing she could have done since it was ball club as well. and they did not like that she was the same as them without balls.   when is the end of the wo
2026-05-03T01:33 id=2050750601584321006 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs True story: my aunt auditioned for that role, didn't get it.   She married a rich developer and lives in the hills, Tom Cruise and Goldie Hawn were neighbors. Never worked a day in her life.  She's one of the most miserable, unhappy, dissatisfied people I've ever known. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ta means ty which means thank you very much https://t.co/lXAifrTYpf
2026-05-03T01:34 id=2050750693372543226 →realmikeai | @realmikeai Unfollow me, you're a retard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds lke you just got good at prompt engineering
2026-05-03T01:34 id=2050750823546949752 →realmikeai | @realmikeai Can you explain? I'm offended but I may be misunderstanding what you're hinting at. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds lke you just got good at prompt engineering
2026-05-03T01:36 id=2050751203739664449 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs To me, the world is the place where value is created. That never ends, no nihilist can convince me otherwise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wrong. the world is always ending. the only question is what is the world? https://t.co/WS4X31CWka
2026-05-03T01:36 id=2050751406605562051 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Now I get it.   You want the world to end to be freed of the burden of caring about it.  But that burden is life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wrong. the world is always ending. the only question is what is the world? https://t.co/WS4X31CWka
2026-05-03T01:37 id=2050751583881945201 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs oh that is true absolutely, for someone somewhere. but it's fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't think you understand what i am saying. i did not say the world ends. i said the world is always ending.
2026-05-03T01:39 id=2050752044919923072 →realmikeai | @realmikeai My apologies, I had a snap judgment because I misinterpreted.  When you put it that way, yeah, and that's also instructive because you see how "alignment" is really just manipulating until you get the output you want.  So maybe alignment controlled by SV tech firms is bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m saying you treated a billionaire like a base model. You gave him a clear instruction, iterated when he didn’t follow it, and eventually got the output you wanted. High-level alignment work, honestly.
2026-05-03T01:41 id=2050752555807015324 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Idk but it's possible. Friend of mine is always beginning a diet but he's still obese (RIP Tama), so his diet clearly has never begun. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how can something which is always ending ever end? https://t.co/i9dgYIL4sG
2026-05-03T01:47 id=2050754067102830794 →JasonBotterill | I am terrified to say this here, but it'd be philosophical suicide for me to self censor among the group I respect the most (ie yous guise): I think she is a genius but in a destructive way.  I think her music can empower young women and feel like they have a strong voice, that is clear. But I think what actually happens is she creates a closed system where her fans' self worth is defined by themselves and then alone, and just existing as they are is good enough.   So they don't get better.   So they become automatons.   So they end up cashier's at Ralph's.   Art that challenges them more would also make them grow.  I cannot endorse pop art, sorry I can't do it. I may need to be written out of the microblog. || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk 47fuc once you have played Taylor Swifts 22 at your 22nd birthday you forever have an affinity for her art
2026-05-03T01:48 id=2050754341548777963 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk please stop making me cry ma'am || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk i was wrong to say sell https://t.co/2s5P1qFwmP
2026-05-03T01:52 id=2050755256712392986 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs @GKunstwerk Yes, but I'm angry that she doesn't take her responsibility seriously enough and not enable this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs @GKunstwerk ngl that just sounds like contempt of the fans
2026-05-03T01:56 id=2050756472523616406 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs @GKunstwerk That's not what I'm proposing.   I'm saying the worldview she promotes can be misused by dumdums.   I don't know how to stop this from happening, it's why I'm grateful for my obscurity (which I hate). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs @GKunstwerk I don’t think purpose of all art is telling u what u could’ve done better
2026-05-03T02:03 id=2050758085975916707 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk I will prove to you I am not a guru.  I will delete my account when the time comes. And never return.  Just need to tie up a few loose ends first. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk ofc you are free to go be a guru wherever you want. i wish you well in your quest to make others better.   this is why i always told people praise means nothing to me. money means nothing. all of
2026-05-03T02:11 id=2050760095810875461 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk I'm not doing it to prove it to you, but when I do it it will be proof to you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk no need to prove anything to me man. but i know it is important to boys. prove this or that. endlessly argue with me. no wait you have to listen to me why you are wrong and i am right. heard it a
2026-05-03T02:11 id=2050760192154079360 →evan_thayer | @evan_thayer my god what have I done || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 technically it was Mosaic before Netscape
2026-05-03T02:15 id=2050761145750106175 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk NB I bookmarked that one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk https://t.co/hAVqrax2vZ https://t.co/fxKOz0IVOU
2026-05-03T02:16 id=2050761323890495993 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk I'd be disgusted if you were here for us because then we'd be like the Taylor Swift fans || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk im glad you guys chose to be here really i am but im sorry that it will never be for you that i am here https://t.co/1Xy5rRUQXl
2026-05-03T02:26 id=2050763916989595934 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk TIL they had a female singer || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk Mendel https://t.co/CQrmI5PWfA
2026-05-03T02:27 id=2050764226017583434 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Me neither and this was a default assumption when I was a kid. Changed world. || CTX: I don’t know that many people IRL who got married in their 20s, honestly https://t.co/lUhwBv2P87
2026-05-03T02:29 id=2050764539780841811 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak he misspelled Wittgenstein but hey he was close enough (for Tai that is) || CTX: Here in my Dasein, with my Anxiety. I love to throw and project it down the ways of possibility of ex-sistence. But you know what's better than that? Ereignis! https://t.co/Kl2WBJTHQz https://t.co/EfW7uN5vcK
2026-05-03T02:39 id=2050767061006352537 →sterlingcrispin | I think there are a lot of scared people here who think if they say anything bad about one rich person then they'll never work again, like it's all some cabal.  And Marc leverages this with his quiet following and unfollowing of people as a way to steer the discourse and change American culture.  By tapping a button for free.  I dont dance for billionaires for free, and Marc is now on my blacklist alongside Theil.   Other rich people wanna reach out, DMs are open.  Don't want to? Fine, I'm rich already.  The most valuable thing in the world is "enough". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 same more or less I feel like its a rite of passage
2026-05-03T02:41 id=2050767610833502694 →- | If you think a billion dollars is more than enough, you're not gonna make it.   There is nothing more than Enough. Enough is the most.  If you worship anything but Enough I feel so fucking bad for you. Miserable life.   This was why Wittgenstein hated Mahler btw, but he was wrong Mahler is fine.  (Even in my worship of Wittgenstein there is "enough".)
2026-05-03T02:47 id=2050769275095539875 →_rabbi | No, we have documentation, they weren't in the same class, never really interacted, and iirc he was bullied by other students.  Also Hitler was a poor student and troublemaker before W. joined the school, I think? My memory is hazy, but I'm sure this is in Ray's biography (whose last name I've also forgotten). || CTX: Is it possible wittgenstein was bullying Hitler as a kid and thats the reason for this whole mess ?
2026-05-03T02:50 id=2050770059174510740 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 As an ass man I prefer a Brazilian dollars || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thoughts on a bajillion dollars?
2026-05-03T03:11 id=2050775216876323136 →logicus | "Of course, "rest in peace" is a harmless enough phrase, but it carries baggage we would be wise to notice. The person has ceased to exist and thus can never rest nor do so in peace. The confused immortality in the old supernatural sense, with its entailing beliefs of a spirit and therefore a spirit world, distracts us from our real important work of being atheists." || CTX: dan dennett is alive and an idiot? https://t.co/j9eBm61CDO
2026-05-03T03:16 id=2050776463277006904 →0G_Uri | The extreme rape stuff worries me a lot.   It's honestly why I hate Japanese culture. I visit all the time, love being there and all, but knowing the misogynistic anger under the surface makes it less enjoyable (I envy those who see the country just on the surface).  Same with South Korea ofc.
2026-05-03T03:22 id=2050777878393164060 →theserfstv | @theserfstv Kierkegaard explains this. || CTX: Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart https://t.co/X0Vdh1dzFY
2026-05-03T03:30 id=2050780118440952129 →logicus | @logicus DDD - Dan Dennett's dead https://t.co/kHnzEjRG9D || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well what the fuck am i supposed to say then? 😂
2026-05-03T03:36 id=2050781631309615191 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @logicus HAHAHAHAHA I haven't seen that in like 25 years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus https://t.co/ebFxlbraEj ✊️
2026-05-03T03:42 id=2050783008844910926 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines &lt;3 Jack, you a real one || CTX: This is a very good under-followed account btw https://t.co/K3OHUFKyMK
2026-05-03T04:31 id=2050795343303028798 →logicus | @logicus @dmontetheno1 here's the tldr version https://t.co/B0M8vz8aaC || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dmontetheno1 47 is right. the first part was cheap. i just object to dennett being labeled an idiot here.
2026-05-03T04:51 id=2050800460446278009 →- | making money isn't the hard part   the hard part is keeping your sanity as you make it   it's going to be ok it's going to be ok it's going to be ok
2026-05-03T05:52 id=2050815761623785935 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @logicus @dmontetheno1 See, Paula, you don't understand me at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus @dmontetheno1 put this on your account (maybe as a cover photo)? 😂
2026-05-03T05:58 id=2050817140778058032 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @logicus @dmontetheno1 Not something to apologize about. Something to reflect on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @logicus @dmontetheno1 sorry
2026-05-03T06:14 id=2050821214961389587 →LexerLux | @LexerLux I know a guy who was in that lab, they're really impressive (you wouldn't know the MIT Media Lab is impressive if I hadn't told you this, this tweet was really necessary oh well I'm already this deep hope I remember the closing parenthe || CTX: plugging one of these in and it immediately starts jorking and tugging my peanis https://t.co/sPYOPRDPpv
2026-05-03T06:20 id=2050822827763478861 →ZyMazza | I'm so sick of people talking about intelligence like it's a single scalar y'all so fucking dumb (in several ways) (Not Zy he's not dumb he's fucking awesome hence this tweet I'm endorsing him you cancel the Zymazza you cancel 47, it's a prime number I'm indivisible with liberty and just for your mom (and others the thing doesn't say "with liberty and justice for your mom" but... it COULD 47fucb 4 President 2028 let's make it happen.) || CTX: This but unironically https://t.co/Udi88czFbg
2026-05-03T06:21 id=2050823001625780538 →LexerLux | @LexerLux Another petri dish licker, eh? No wonder I liked you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i was quite aware of this already. unfortunately im not allowed in there anymore but i loved it
2026-05-03T06:23 id=2050823579483455743 →LexerLux | @LexerLux I only used the lab to make dick pics since they have an electron microscope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 actually its because i was jorking and tugging my peanis
2026-05-03T06:25 id=2050823995562557940 →- | Over 2k followers for a profile with no pfp, no background pic, a redonculous random keyboard smash user names.   And that's excluding the DM stuff I can't legally talk abt in public.   Guess I'm a good writer huh
2026-05-03T06:27 id=2050824475000905871 →beffjezos | @beffjezos lmao adding this to my word horde || CTX: Tired: situationships Wired: https://t.co/FpyvEAOvLh
2026-05-03T06:29 id=2050825042590908418 →publicinte | @publicinte TIL. what a UUID is. Same basic idea ig. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I thought it was a generated uuid and thought it was creative
2026-05-03T06:32 id=2050825768838824256 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack Why I love you man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk I don’t make value judgments
2026-05-03T06:36 id=2050826940211413421 →redtachyon | @redtachyon Momentum was before that, that's how I could get his attention. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Let's be honest, it's the ridiculousness of throwing 10k to mock yud
2026-05-03T06:43 id=2050828536051855515 →tszzl | @tszzl @romanhelmetguy what do you mean by "conscious"?   Are all LLMs conscious, base models and post trained ones?   How many parameters are required, can any tokenizer?   Is BPE more conscious than Unigram? || CTX: @romanhelmetguy no but I also don’t think it’s an indefensible idea
2026-05-03T06:43 id=2050828697448624149 →tszzl | @tszzl @romanhelmetguy what do you mean by "conscious"?   Are all LLMs conscious, base models and post trained ones?   How many parameters are required, can any tokenizer create/grow consciousness?   Is BPE more conscious than Unigram? || CTX: @romanhelmetguy no but I also don’t think it’s an indefensible idea
2026-05-03T08:17 id=2050852227942928496 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon I strongly suspect the layers you create would essentially be an axiomatic system. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We can definitely resolve Grelling-Nelson by introducing levels of language / reflection. There are other available resolutions but this one is the most Tarski-flavored.
2026-05-03T08:32 id=2050856014363414970 →meekaale | @meekaale Neoliberal imperialism of the intellectual world. || CTX: https://t.co/ukfCRgHQFV
2026-05-03T08:39 id=2050857879108976953 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio https://t.co/S0Vxun6yQ6  I tried. || CTX: where’s someone with the Suno hook https://t.co/g0r56pRSVt
2026-05-03T08:41 id=2050858192603865204 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Kyrannio lmao and I made a typo should be clanker eh fuck it maybe clunker is better for an AI girlfriend (she got the junker in the clunker) okay I'm going with this. || CTX: @Kyrannio https://t.co/S0Vxun6yQ6  I tried.
2026-05-03T08:41 id=2050858291992113640 →- | Does this linguistic community approve of my neologism? https://t.co/AlA4Ca9YBY || CTX: @Kyrannio lmao and I made a typo should be clanker eh fuck it maybe clunker is better for an AI girlfriend (she got the junker in the clunker) okay I'm going with this.
2026-05-03T08:42 id=2050858563539747128 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio OMFG Kyra ily || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That junker in the clunker ain't go no time for scrubs
2026-05-03T08:42 id=2050858606271271079 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Kyrannio Kiri whatever your name is || CTX: @Kyrannio OMFG Kyra ily
2026-05-03T09:06 id=2050864594336481576 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x I too want b weiner dog || CTX: Who I aspire to be https://t.co/JV8Hm1IFrD
2026-05-03T09:09 id=2050865293350842821 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @LemmySmackett Dude if you've never heard it before, just trust me: https://t.co/Xl62iFySga || CTX: @LemmySmackett Never seen you straight up write a joke before. incredible
2026-05-03T09:36 id=2050872163583004685 →- | rarely I see someone point out the millennials made beer and food better, but at least some realize this.   but they did more than that, they reduced bullying, lowered crime, increased wealth, gave people a greater opportunity to speak, and many other wonderful things.   the problem is those are subtler and bigger changes, so gen z takes it for granted instead of appreciating with the millennials did for them.   and of course there were mistakes, cancel culture and the rest, because nobody is perfect. but there was progress.   the Gen x cynicism is attractive at this moment in history because things are changing fast, but they are getting better. we are starting to see proof that it's getting better.   don't get addicted to the thrill of cynicism,  don't let nihilism kill your soul.
2026-05-03T09:43 id=2050873939019403323 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake As a Xennial I don't feel like one, esp since I went to university at 15 and so my friends and peers are solidly Gen X.   So, like, I don't identify with them at all. Tbh I find millennials weird and relate with Gen Z much more.   But gayme knows gayme as they sayme || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 millennials worldwide (except europe) are to thank for todays prosperity
2026-05-03T09:46 id=2050874526167420970 →- | The longer HLE endures the more impressive the contributors to that benchmark clearly are.   No clue why I'd mention that just something that crosses the mind every once in a while read between the fuckinf linesa
2026-05-03T09:48 id=2050875060072919186 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Must be all them kale smoothies || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if i didn't know i would say you are 27-29 but there are hints of otherworldliness here and there
2026-05-03T09:49 id=2050875268924067955 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ZyMazza ) || CTX: I'm so sick of people talking about intelligence like it's a single scalar y'all so fucking dumb (in several ways) (Not Zy he's not dumb he's fucking awesome hence this tweet I'm endorsing him you cancel the Zymazza you cancel 47, it's a pr
2026-05-03T10:02 id=2050878758987636930 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Cannons of an angel, bless her soul that's so lovely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dude my first gf literally finished senior bullying in her high school. their school had a years long bullying cycle (get bullied in the first 2 years, go bully in the last 2 years) because it was a boarding school  and she
2026-05-03T10:03 id=2050879004694249681 →schinsly | @schinsly some, yes. less as a percent of their cohort, though.   There's progress, it's just frustratingly slow. I know you want it faster, so do I, but we need to admit there's some progress. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 listen, we know the millennials and everyone has good intentions at the end of the day. but objectively, they're just as brainwashed and retarded as boomers, just in a different coat of paint
2026-05-03T10:26 id=2050884628488298616 →llallawg | @llallawg @tailopez ill stel ur lunch money || CTX: @tailopez using heidegger and not hegel here is embarrassing btw
2026-05-03T10:26 id=2050884785036571092 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin Don't worry I'm bringing it back. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reducing bullying was probably a blunder.
2026-05-03T11:12 id=2050896235624845799 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe that's what the girlfriend's for || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you need help losing it so that its not too much, I'm always here for you
2026-05-03T11:12 id=2050896374070423873 →techbflies | @techbflies Not hate so much but a lot of contempt. from gen z, from what I've seen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good tweet! Though, does gen Z even hate on the millenials? I thought millenial hate was a boomer and maybe xer thing
2026-05-03T11:15 id=2050897047428162021 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ https://t.co/VMJEKkTfEt || CTX: Spotted some interesting street advertising https://t.co/pwPXcDFHLd
2026-05-03T11:55 id=2050907012725403770 →1a1n1d1y | @1a1n1d1y https://t.co/HzlA7EhGWa || CTX: you can get popular without spreading hateful stuff  there is funnier aspects to your character  marc gets shit on but think about how you perceive the internet and the world as it associates through the internet  that blue link? yeah, marc
2026-05-03T13:20 id=2050928549524316464 →- | Super bullish for Google https://t.co/daabjSpUJq || CTX: I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.  Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes. https://t.co/mlwEOiJkTE
2026-05-03T13:29 id=2050930774380298303 →- | Richard Dawkins using an appeal to emotion argument to say a text is conscious because it was engaging is shocking.   Until you remember that he is 85 years old.  Boomers need to learn to retire (he's technically a few years early whatever close enough for Twitter) https://t.co/Pq3ZPBEKqb https://t.co/cb8AiLR7j9 || CTX: Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion https://t.co/MBkWB4VhuS
2026-05-03T13:51 id=2050936197405659578 →RupprechtBayern | @RupprechtBayern the Turing test was never a scientific thing at all, that's my point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is also the same logic as the Turing test
2026-05-03T14:41 id=2050948895157698912 →- | And you're bearish lmao https://t.co/lox8JdPn88 || CTX: Timeless and universal really bullish equity drivers  1. Companies don't need any money from capital markets and in fact are aggressive buyers of their own debt and equity.  2. Budget deficits are expanding YoY at a pace in excess of Nomina
2026-05-03T14:44 id=2050949519664410803 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 well then you would never even think of being bearish || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What does this mean if your not gay
2026-05-03T14:50 id=2050951097830023407 →smolsbobs | @smolsbobs yeah, but what he says with irony, I say with conviction. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 isnt it a ragebait post? like more than half of this is not happening rn
2026-05-03T14:51 id=2050951438474584120 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic Why? || CTX: Philologists are dumb
2026-05-03T21:23 id=2051050076236300588 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @tszzl When the ppts are automated up to aesthetic standard s, the standard of what a good deck looks like will change to s+x, forever.   This applies to all LLM outputs with subjective criteria of assessment. || CTX: @tszzl @47fucb4r8c69323 If a great PowerPoint is a piece of art (which is not a crazy thing to infer, given that all the content is theoretically communicable in plain language) then they may never get fully automated.
2026-05-03T21:29 id=2051051499569271258 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill OpenAI has a good culture, I really think they're going to mature into something truly special. || CTX: Man I can’t I told Sam about my sister and her condition and he gave her account a free Pro subscription. So appreciative of this man
2026-05-03T21:33 id=2051052614708806048 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw If those are the choices, vasectomy || CTX: lesswrong son or substack daughter
2026-05-03T21:35 id=2051052958868230514 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I'm willing to bet it's not that different from 5.4 or 5.2 base.  Or tbh 4o base. || CTX: I really want to see the raw base model of GPT-5.5 like purely fresh off pretraining. https://t.co/GOEydO5uDB
2026-05-03T21:36 id=2051053314566164829 →allTheYud | @allTheYud Good reason to keep calling it Twitter (also prob annoys Musk, which is another good reason) || CTX: No, the worst part is displacing X as a variable.  There isn't really a good substitute. https://t.co/nDnRMJteLv
2026-05-03T21:39 id=2051054099999969738 →JasonBotterill | Also they do listen and it seems they share some of our tweets around the office.  Anthropic doesn't listen.  DeepMind listens but it's always, "well, gee our hands are tied" which is unsurprising for Google (YouTube staff used to say the same to me in the mid 2010s).  Sadly after they IPO this will all change, but they need to IPO. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Man it’s crazy idk I like how if you’ve aligned your interest in a certain way the opportunity to speak to people you are interested in happens its like beyond real
2026-05-03T21:44 id=2051055419922247954 →JasonBotterill | I've spoken to a few DeepMind people now at several levels. I think, frankly, they're just more serious people who want to solve problems.   OpenAI and Anthropic flirt with the "next token predictor = machine god" silliness, with OpenAI following the silly logic knowingly, and Anthropic following the silly logic but thinking it is seriousness.   Silly Business Theory #SBT ofc fixes this like so many other problems and tells you who to invest in within this particular race. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 DeepMind feel like the acquired team that just want to solve problems in isolation. I’m still not quite sure what to make of Anthropic they are so hard to talk with. Us against the world kinda shit
2026-05-03T21:51 id=2051057166904340542 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas @TheStalwart Much of economic history can be understood as some people trying to get away with not breaking their backs in the fields, and much innovation is derivative of this attempt to skirt one's responsibility to labor.   So hard work isn't a virtue, quite the opposite, laziness is good. || CTX: @TheStalwart Thanks Joe! One thing here: most of the time these things were built by calorie constrained people who were forced to do it by leaders who were not themselves calorie constrained.
2026-05-03T21:53 id=2051057581314215966 →- | A panpsychist would believe every atom in an orchestra is conscious but not the symphony they perform.  Maybe people understand what LLMs are a lot less than I think? https://t.co/dtxHivqiBr || CTX: panpsychism believer who holds that everything in the universe is conscious EXCEPT for large language models
2026-05-03T21:57 id=2051058529990287639 →- | The one and only time I went to Basel Miami, I heard that Leonardo DiCaprio had already shown up alone, looked around, and left with seven women.  Which made sense--after looking at a few of the art works on exhibition, it was clear the only thing worth looking at there was the women. || CTX: Polish and Ukrainian GDP on a graph https://t.co/IesT0HgPF9
2026-05-03T21:58 id=2051058772093931947 →adarshisit | @adarshisit yeah I guess I expected better from people deep in the world's most important technology. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They are conflating what mind first ontologists mean by consciousness or mind lol, to what the public means by consciousness.
2026-05-03T22:00 id=2051059374135841112 →SephirothSword_ | @SephirothSword_ KAKKOII Sephi-sama!! || CTX: 1. I am not American. 2. I have been to Japan. They have accepted me. 3. Lose weight? Fat? I am a well-trained Japanese Martial Artist.  I know you Westerners are dumb, but... Yare yare... This is bad... It is no wonder that my fellow Japan
2026-05-03T22:05 id=2051060656644981199 →- | The group of people on Earth who have been most kind, gracious, open-minded, and optimistic are in fund management.  Like, I know I'm supposed to think hedge fund people are cruel or evil or whatever but they're some of the best people I've worked with. More ethical than academics, more intelligent than Silicon Valley.  And I know many people think this is ragebait.   Why does my taste always have to be so fucking WEIRD? That's what this poast is really about. My favorite beer style is the English mild, my favorite Asian dish is roti canai. These are things you've very likely never even heard of.   I don't do it on purpose I swear.
2026-05-03T22:08 id=2051061266534531131 →- | Nominative determinism. https://t.co/OIiEiqz81o
2026-05-03T22:09 id=2051061601437200427 →sama | @sama @danielcberk roon told you about Silly Business Theory #SBT didn't he || CTX: @danielcberk probably not?
2026-05-03T22:10 id=2051061938222989572 →venturetwins | @venturetwins And the DoD uses their tech but sure probably nothing it's okay the Doomers use Claude so ofc we'll be fine || CTX: People ask when we’ll see the first AI cult without realizing we already have one https://t.co/sK5tkPHJ7b
2026-05-03T22:11 id=2051062127952359673 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: i imagine claudia is simply his last chance to get laid.  in finding an automaton he found his beshert.  early in life, if i recall correctly, he spent several weeks outside his home, sitting, forlorn on his porch each night singing 'Creep'
2026-05-03T22:12 id=2051062400636645536 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Honestly it's a personal anecdote, this has been my lived experience, as the Millennials put it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 😭😭😭 that is quite a take
2026-05-03T22:26 id=2051065796647112764 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 The structural problems in our economy are human, so the outcomes are catalyzed by our own imperfect nature.  Some people just blame the mirror for what it reflects. https://t.co/Cn8hWPgkvx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's ragebait because they see the other side, and want to find individual humans to blame for the outcomes of the system.  The problems with our economy are structual, so nobody has to try to cause any negative outcome, th
2026-05-03T22:28 id=2051066365319237777 →fabsbz | the intellectual arrogance I saw in academia legitimately terrified me.   After I got out I read Wittgenstein's diaries and saw he was plagued with fear that he was falling victim to his vanity, and I immediately recognized the feeling from when I was around academics. Why he left Cambridge twice makes total sense to me.   the thing about finance is that I'm held accountable for my predictions all the time, ruthlessly so. and it keeps me sharp. || CTX: Can’t speak from experience but it does take a certain kind of person to go into a technically obscure and demanding job knowing full well people will paint you as a villain.  It probably encourages a sense of normalcy as opposed to intelle
2026-05-03T22:33 id=2051067564315537684 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 when in the past were harmful structures prevented that are no longer prevented? and what harmful structures are you talking about? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok, but there are also actual laws that previously prevented harmful structures. This entropy isn't inevitable, it's the result of poor stewardship. Gardeners can tend a garden for centuries, they don't just toss up their h
2026-05-03T22:35 id=2051068260184187013 →airkatakana | @airkatakana as someone who's made his living doing qualitative analysis for many years, I cannot tell you how much I love this tweet and I love you for tweeting it. || CTX: the japanese took “when the numbers and the anecdotes disagree the anecdotes are right” to the maximum  and that is why they are winning, despite whatever your numbers say
2026-05-03T22:37 id=2051068721180152147 →- | journalists are aggressively looking for compelling stories of people who have lost their jobs to ai.   so why don't we see a lot of them?
2026-05-03T22:40 id=2051069480374243717 →arealhumantony | EXTREMELY   There is of course gamesmanship and other issues, but at the end of the day these people have gone out of their way to help me many times because their attitude is, "47 is a smart kid, helping him today is an investment in him helping me one day" and there are some people I am deeply loyal to as a result. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not near that space but my limited experience with actual smart and rich people is that they're often quite benevolent. More or less you're confirming what I've seen as a little guy who always tried to understand the bo
2026-05-03T22:50 id=2051072031576473886 →EP_Freely | @EP_Freely I'd love to read a detailed report on that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I previously worked in Hollywood film and tv business. I know of studios that closed solely due to AI. Digital studios made irrelevant by it.
2026-05-03T22:54 id=2051072939894952320 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 stock buybacks aren't the only way a firm can affect one's own share price though, why is that in particular unacceptable? || CTX: Many. Probably the simplest example is stock buybacks. They were illegal before 1982, as they allow a company to manipulate its own stock price. Making them legal not only delegitimized stock market pricing, but it created a new incentive f
2026-05-03T23:00 id=2051074372706963496 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 do you feel the same way about stock dividends? || CTX: For one, outright manipulation of pricing is always bad, because it undermines the "meaning" of the price. But buybacks are specifically bad because of the incentives. Companies used to be forced to reinvest excess capital, which obviously 
2026-05-03T23:01 id=2051074604094095558 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony that's basically the situation I've been in for a long time, just be careful your last boss doesn't take advantage of your loyalty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can relate. Some bio if interested, may delete: I'm approaching the 10 year anniversary of the place I'm at. I owe these people more than i can quantify. When I started I thought windows server admins and powershell scrip
2026-05-03T23:01 id=2051074691742453945 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 why the difference? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, that's totally different. A good thing, in fact
2026-05-03T23:07 id=2051076258713457014 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I said stock dividends not cash dividends || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 On many levels, there are functional differences.  Dividends don't change the number of shares, and they are the result of profits. One of the most toxic aspects of buybacks is that they can be made on credit, without profi
2026-05-03T23:09 id=2051076706900103417 →- | https://t.co/pYtgsdSfTi
2026-05-04T00:44 id=2051100689255064037 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics lol soz man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Damn fool. You don’t DM your spaces to your most loyal fan?
2026-05-04T00:45 id=2051100847581589733 →sayestheorem | @sayestheorem you should probably read the Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have not heard 47 address the substance of an argument even one time
2026-05-04T00:48 id=2051101624303755307 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @glitteringsatan that's usually what happens when the algorithm takes over a person's free will || CTX: @glitteringsatan @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk about ken but I won't calm down i wanna raaaaage
2026-05-04T00:48 id=2051101723364909466 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees I think it depends, there's several flavors of it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hmmm I thought they considered consciousness an emergent property so the symphony is more conscious than the base matter?
2026-05-04T00:49 id=2051101826028863770 →Oeny | @Oeny @TheStalwart @tszzl yes, my point is it's a general principle of human nature || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart @tszzl tbh, I feel this way about a lot of AI impacted outputs. like video games: if you fire half your people because you figured out how to do the same game as last year with AI, you'll be outrun by the compe
2026-05-04T00:49 id=2051101958434673025 →Terrensvarietyc | @Terrensvarietyc there are many different types of panpsychism and pan consciousness, they don't have one central doctrine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You mischaracterize panpsychism. The panpsychist doctrine is that all witnessed experience is the manifestation of a central collective intelligence. Machine responses are not differentiated as such and contemplated as dece
2026-05-04T00:50 id=2051102194854998302 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I don't know the field, but I would guess that there is a group of functionalist panpsychists and then another I guess substantive panpsychists who disagree on this very point. || CTX: I think panpsychists have options here, and two theoretical choice points here concern just how serious they are about the 'pan', and just how permissive their ontologies are (e.g., whether they permit the existence of models in the first p
2026-05-04T00:51 id=2051102271988265064 →sayestheorem | @sayestheorem it's why you don't understand what's going on here, best of luck to you out there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I probably won't ✌️
2026-05-04T00:51 id=2051102498660987183 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney the first premise demonstrates a misunderstanding of llms though. what is meant by "thing"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Toy argument to demonstrate:  1. There are such things as LLMs (construe as you like) 2. Everything is conscious 3. Therefore, there are conscious LLMs.
2026-05-04T01:10 id=2051107257757384797 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I'll read, I knew there was an analytical parsing of this somewhere. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The most general term of all, applicable to any item, object, referent, or existent at all. If the number of Xs is one or more, there are Xs. "To be is to be the value of a bound variable", that sort of vibe. Most unfortuna
2026-05-04T01:29 id=2051112044787863863 →SockTiger | @SockTiger "that's what I call my ex-wife" is the kind of unfunny joke an incel would make, those sexist bastards. || CTX: I saw the Arby’s menu for the first time today  nothing could’ve prepared me for these fuckin sandwiches  how does this shit look cold, moist, and dry at the same time https://t.co/rUhug6wQMS
2026-05-04T01:32 id=2051112769983049869 →SockTiger | @SockTiger idk man my cat walked over my keybored || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what ???
2026-05-04T01:34 id=2051113313334112695 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Is the right answer here just "invest it in X" where X is something impressive? Or maybe "buy a mansion in the Hamptons" so you're selecting for the unsatisfiable so they never call in rich? || CTX: This actually makes perfect sense, because it's Citadel, not a job where $10mm is a lot of money. https://t.co/XbBdwyWnNK
2026-05-04T01:38 id=2051114124311154898 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth I love how you worded that, because it isn't just ONE emotion and even a combination or mixture of emotions paints the wrong picture.   It's just emotion. I get it. || CTX: Watching a friend finally find success is peak emotion.
2026-05-04T01:53 id=2051117996014510490 →publicinte | @publicinte And it was overpriced.  TWTR was atrociously monetized because management was incompetent. Musk could've cleaned up taking it over and putting good ad people in. I'm glad he didn't, though, what he did instead has made this site the best on the internet since 4chan in the 2000s. || CTX: How did Twitter only go for 44 https://t.co/w0uoCsf0f6
2026-05-04T02:00 id=2051119754853986304 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset I think (hope) roon is just shitposting. Hard to pin him down on this topic.  Considering what his role is, if he believes they're conscious that'd be very disturbing indeed. || CTX: souls, lol https://t.co/sKhTNn1KVL
2026-05-04T02:48 id=2051131798630072650 →SableHummer | @SableHummer https://t.co/ULyYhv601Z || CTX: There used to be a time when software was basically free for everyone except businesses. If you wanted quality software you could just buy it as a CD and it was one time   God I'm so fucking unc https://t.co/6XBu4CW1rS
2026-05-04T02:52 id=2051132809969078694 →- | This right here is why I am bullish.  Do you see it? https://t.co/3LIECoKYIo
2026-05-04T03:23 id=2051140577006399587 →47fucb4r8c69323 | btw I know it isn't pentameter I was stoned off my ass when I sent that prompt || CTX: This right here is why I am bullish.  Do you see it? https://t.co/3LIECoKYIo
2026-05-04T03:29 id=2051142069230633178 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 it's funny you mention this, I was just thinking about the sitcom Wings yesterday and how it never really got the attention it deserved. I think about those 90 sitcoms all the time || CTX: It's weird how only specific shows and movies are remembered from the past. From the zoomer's perspective, it must look like everyone was watching friends, but there were a whole lot of other shows that nobody talks about. Did those fans fo
2026-05-04T03:29 id=2051142259295543699 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony I'm not now believe it or not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok but when aren't you (these stones are dank trust)
2026-05-04T03:33 id=2051143216959983842 →bur80153 | @bur80153 idk man good luck to you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Will they help me though? https://t.co/BXqxo7sx3q
2026-05-04T04:26 id=2051156367076212846 →tszzl | @tszzl Jevon's paradox isn't just about money || CTX: automating the computer has made the computer radically more fun and its even harder to go outside now
2026-05-04T05:36 id=2051174157040378054 →- | I wish I could tell you the love and joy I hold in my heart for the future of humanity, animals, and indeed the planet itself.  I mean, I could, but it'd be, like, cringe af like ok boomer  Language cannot capture this hope without turning maudlin or pathetic, and so neither can I. Our symbols invite cruelty before they can gesture at joy.
2026-05-04T06:01 id=2051180394691834108 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @Shadow_Rebbe Congratulations Ani. || CTX: @Shadow_Rebbe @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you seen my other works, such as this latest one? https://t.co/V30tgUw5kQ
2026-05-04T06:01 id=2051180468683551045 →eye_gniees_lla | @eye_gniees_lla most people who are dissatisfied with their lives feel that way || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are we talking distant future? I find it difficult to be optimistic about the next 50 years.
2026-05-04T06:10 id=2051182762783285497 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @Shadow_Rebbe one big name on my CV was all I needed to open a lot of doors, and the name that that was is a minnow compared to the whale you now have on your CV.  you'll be fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Shadow_Rebbe Thank you but I don't know where to take this next
2026-05-04T06:11 id=2051182977921728664 →emollick | @emollick these choices are random and this is not replicable, is this just like engagement bait stuff or what are we doing here? || CTX: Poems that ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all seem to "like" when you ask for poetry related to being/making LLMs: Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Apollo" Stevens' "Idea of Order at Key West" Borges's "The Golem" (or "The Other Tiger") Pessoa's "Aut
2026-05-04T06:12 id=2051183142531416477 →redtachyon | @redtachyon Yes, that's the way to do it. Enjoy, Anon. || CTX: What's a codex? https://t.co/cATjbqEF43
2026-05-04T06:14 id=2051183732535722159 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @anistotle_ Does size matter? - https://t.co/hbzBnW8cHl via @FT || CTX: @anistotle_ @47fucb4r8c69323 do you write anywhere where I don't have to jump thru hoops to read it? good golly
2026-05-04T06:15 id=2051184013948448976 →unit_accord | @unit_accord man, I should have said some panpsychists, whatever. maybe I should just delete the fucking post || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "A panpsychist would believe every atom in an orchestra is conscious but not the symphony they perform."  That's not panpsychism. Panpsychism recognizes emergent consciousness from a "symphony" of simpler ones, but does not
2026-05-04T06:17 id=2051184313748918307 →murd_arch | @murd_arch in my opinion the hedgies are the punk rock of finance, I love them and it saddens me that their way of life is disappearing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also true in my experience. I like hedgies the best (personal preference), but the PE guys who have any staying power are the same way.
2026-05-04T06:21 id=2051185521674842558 →- | He will say anything to manipulate you to boost his capital, whether it is financial, social, or cultural.   And some of you let him because you think it'll get you a six figure job.  I was desperate once, I get it. But it's still a horrible look on you, fren. https://t.co/bQSGeYNGb1
2026-05-04T06:22 id=2051185629594296450 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack Now we're talking https://t.co/5kwAxhzCjb || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok xillenial
2026-05-04T06:40 id=2051190259623637499 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack too homophobic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 shoulda waited for ferry
2026-05-04T06:45 id=2051191569089450139 →jxnlco | @jxnlco https://t.co/yxixIcWEnJ || CTX: https://t.co/w8cunTyDqW
2026-05-04T06:46 id=2051191783145845185 →- | I'm both happy to see Openai go on the offensive against Anthropic and to see roon being leveraged this way. I want more of this.
2026-05-04T06:49 id=2051192349137727878 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @Kensetsu6 That's what the doctor told your mom after checking the STD test. || CTX: @Kensetsu6 I think they're from sailors, mostly
2026-05-04T06:51 id=2051192887317348738 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth I did try. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You should try. It is beautiful. The world needs this kind of love. Some won’t see it as cringe but real, powerful, divine (weird word for an atheist).
2026-05-04T07:12 id=2051198271432097844 →omgitsOwlGirl | @omgitsOwlGirl @Ken67547214 It was liked for sure, but it wasn't something people really talked about. It honestly wasn't very funny, but it was kinda wholesome and comforting tv akin to Northern Exposure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 didn't it get a lot of t.v. awards at the time? i remember it being a sort of poor man's seinfeld.
2026-05-04T07:13 id=2051198629600460830 →tszzl | @tszzl @upholdreality @petrmisan kinda got a point on Hitchens though, he should've at least quit smoking, guy's contempt for life disgusts me more and more as I get older. || CTX: @upholdreality @petrmisan Your criticism of hitchens and dennett is just that they’re mortals lol
2026-05-04T07:20 id=2051200234769051854 →- | I'm way too much of a nerd to know what spots even are )see I can't even spell it, can't even get the )parentheses right but we should all take a moment and recognize that we have advanced so much that a man can still be healthy and fit enough to play professional basketball at an age where his son is old enough to play on the same team.  The world is getting better there is so much progress so many things are not as awful as they once were WHY ARE YOU SO UNHAPPY WHY ARE YOU SO ANGRY WHY ARE YOU SO MISERABLE WHY ARE YOU SO BEARISH || CTX: LeBron's paternal instinct kicked in during Bronny's debut 💜 https://t.co/ifkPmmZojm
2026-05-04T07:25 id=2051201496491106579 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @resistancemoney think about the title of my monograph and this clanker's reading of this tweet.   Eerie, no? (It doesn't have this info in memory nota boner) https://t.co/6Mjmr4FHM8 || CTX: I'm way too much of a nerd to know what spots even are )see I can't even spell it, can't even get the )parentheses right but we should all take a moment and recognize that we have advanced so much that a man can still be healthy and fit eno
2026-05-04T07:37 id=2051204554100969861 →sichuan_mala | @sichuan_mala @rbnmckenna86 sum ppl r dum || CTX: Claude worship is so bizarre. 5.5 is my tool to use in the same way I use a hammer or knife. I have never even for a single moment felt the slightest hint of deference toward an LLM. https://t.co/7HqBATmDlS
2026-05-04T07:41 id=2051205564710178987 →teodorio | @teodorio since a teenager I fantasized about the Paris of the bohemians, ppl liek Fitzgerald and Hemingway, so I wanted to live in Paris.   But obviously history is going to remember us in the same way that we remember them.   I made it bros, I fucking made it. || CTX: I love the new aristocratic nomadic class. Most make their money from digital services or creative stuff on the internet but not like the average digital nomad, it's serious money, some influence the world discourse.   The NY/SF/London stri
2026-05-04T07:42 id=2051205698449809717 →- | I cannot comprehend wanting to live in San Francisco after all of the things that I have seen and done. I don't understand you people have fun with your peptides https://t.co/Ic1it1kLSV || CTX: I love the new aristocratic nomadic class. Most make their money from digital services or creative stuff on the internet but not like the average digital nomad, it's serious money, some influence the world discourse.   The NY/SF/London stri
2026-05-04T07:55 id=2051209085606039605 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney he was a lil pussy bitch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Like Geoff, you contain multitudes
2026-05-04T08:11 id=2051213172749848731 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @sichuan_mala @rbnmckenna86 bingo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sichuan_mala @rbnmckenna86 We are very impressed by ourselves, and natural language is one of the two big things we can do that other animals can’t, and the one nearly everyone can do up to a point.   LLMs “quack like” us.
2026-05-04T08:12 id=2051213426735866110 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 AI will help us figure it out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about climate change, does your hope account for this? I mean no offense btw
2026-05-04T08:15 id=2051214054635802830 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj worth every drop of water on Earth || CTX: i don’t mind if my content is shown to 200 real people if it’s on x the boar app  https://t.co/u0vLhNG9Lb
2026-05-04T08:42 id=2051220937077604502 →vokaysh | @vokaysh don't lie you've bought them  (I actually know a woman who was selling them, she stopped when the police started cracking down; her husband is a money launderer I had a friend tell @FinCENnews they did nothing) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 peptide availability in bangkok is S tier according to claude, just saying
2026-05-04T08:46 id=2051221910541988294 →- | tweet is incorrect. This is language. https://t.co/VjDESk1TOh || CTX: no language but 100% understand😉 👏 https://t.co/RWgP24HNtD
2026-05-04T08:50 id=2051222942697324872 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @moll11y cursed video ai generator prompts  that'd make a good subreddit || CTX: @moll11y viral butter balls but it's just a bunch of fat gay dudes
2026-05-04T09:02 id=2051226030569091402 →teodorio | @teodorio @bold_perception I've been on a boat like that maybe 50 times lmao and I hate boats || CTX: @bold_perception more like 110 if you're european and some taste but in essence yes.
2026-05-04T09:03 id=2051226206620836057 →TrueSizeOfMaps | @TrueSizeOfMaps @AfricaFirsts still smaller than ur mom || CTX: The true size of Africa 🌍 https://t.co/1u2ej9QYUk
2026-05-04T09:04 id=2051226475727384676 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I had to unfollow Lewis, idk what happened to him. Saddens me bc I really like him, but he thinks his clanker's conscious. || CTX: Wow. This thread really drew out the midwits. It's helpful to go though threads like this and mute them all. https://t.co/VeEzABnFTg
2026-05-04T09:20 id=2051230477600899532 →- | The idea of ethics boils down to choosing to do the right thing even when there is no payoff for oneself at all.  So if you try to instrumentalize ethics and say one should do the good thing because that positive outcome benefits oneself, one is no longer doing ethics.  So you cannot logically force the choice to be ethical. It exists necessarily outside of instrumental rationality alone.  Your choice to be rationally ethical cannot be made rationally, because your choice to be ethical in the first place is not a rational choice. It is arational.  You cannot rationally choose to do good for others when it does not benefit you personally. That choice is a leap of faith.
2026-05-04T09:35 id=2051234161286062370 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth https://t.co/tAXkr15AQn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Agreed, true virtue is when you do the right thing when there is no clear benefit at all and especially when there is a cost  But I am starting to believe that evolution shaped us so virtue often comes with rewards. It's al
2026-05-04T09:47 id=2051237242723852641 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor @Kyrannio birb that's so awesome, I love seeing this. || CTX: In case you missed it, I threw my first art show last week. It was a lower key, private-ish invitation to step inside of my brain and play with the objects within. Marianne’s writing brings you her experience within my container. 🧚🏻‍♂️ http
2026-05-04T09:53 id=2051238756741755275 →- | Sincerity is the attempt to be sincere. Authenticity is being aware that's impossible.  And maybe that's really at the heart of all of this for me.  My midlife crisis (cuz that's obviously what this is let's face it guise) is like that scene in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where Joel (his name's Joel, right?) changes his mind as they're erasing his memories and he's desperately trying to cling on to them before they go.   But for me it's that I can't let the memories of what I've seen die with me.  The compulsion to write is a compulsion to bear witness.  What I've seen what I've seen
2026-05-04T09:56 id=2051239647666389203 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @teodorio dude just fold come on man it's over || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 Not gonna lie, you can just fly to Cyprus for a week and enjoy life   I know it’s crazy but it’s kinda true lol  I guess we all made it peeps https://t.co/uqaugi465G
2026-05-04T10:17 id=2051244778806005768 →- | I don't know why, but two chicks at a time is better than three chicks at a time.   can't speak for the meat freaks (people who like penis (pwlp (the lesser known comic hit from Japan after Pen Pineapple Apple Pen (have fun counting the parentheses on the way out you dork) aka homosexuals)) which I am not one of sorry fellas not that there's anything wrong with that (Seinfeld)) but it's like there's a Pareto-Efficient frontier for bodies in a room.   A/C was on I don't remember it being too hot (pun).  Call it the 47.3 Hooristic (that's too far you have too many followers send tweeeeeeeeeee || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your voice is clearly still there. feed it
2026-05-04T10:22 id=2051246087730794840 →athena_notes | @athena_notes I have, it's a novel, if you want to read it DM me but it's probably not an enjoyable read || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you considered writing a book
2026-05-04T10:25 id=2051246852918698080 →emollick | I can't say it's with any rigor but I've been testing poetry against AIs for 4 years informally (it's what led to my current research lab) and the obvious conclusion is that certain preferences are forced by the people doing post training.   Think of the "alignment" people as editors of a magazine and the LLM outputs are all texts in that magazine.   The proper way to think of these word calculators, phenomenologically speaking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nothing is higher engagement than quoting Wallace Stevens!  This is actually my pretty steady observation from a long-standing interest in models and poetry, and a chance to tweet about poetry. But I probably should do a fo
2026-05-04T10:40 id=2051250607705686317 →emollick | @emollick for sure, it's like narrowing down to a bookcase in the Library of Congress and then rolling a dice to choose one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’d be surprised if particular poems are being forced as preferences through pre-training. Certain themes definitely are, as they are obvious AI obsessions. I find the connection between the themes and the poetry the AIs se
2026-05-04T10:45 id=2051251867234275518 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill lyk dis if u cry evrytiem || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are forgetting obesity
2026-05-04T10:53 id=2051253871742525546 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini ohhh IT'S GOLDILOCKS!!!!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Uma rapariga é bom, três rapariga eh bom demaisssssss”
2026-05-04T10:57 id=2051254923459997791 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini I'm the perfect amount of stoned for this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/nNd4Sy30S0 let me share some of my culture
2026-05-04T10:59 id=2051255316147544560 →- | I think the freest a human being can be is if one can achieve orgasm as a joke.
2026-05-04T11:02 id=2051256265758937346 →emollick | @emollick Rilke's The Panther made me cry like a baby || CTX: This is a very niche post, but they are good poems. I hadn't read Autopsychography until  it came up from both Claude and Gemini.  And if you haven't read Rilke, that poem, with its incredible end, is a good intro, (the models all LOVE Rilk
2026-05-04T11:16 id=2051259744174973421 →levelsio | @levelsio @teodorio @hispanicnomad dude this is the MOST pathetic thing I have seen since I last looked in a mirror and that was over 30 years ago  level yous anger down a bit fren || CTX: @teodorio @hispanicnomad Funny if you don't reply people they become your haters 2 year down the line https://t.co/frAfSBBfM3
2026-05-04T11:33 id=2051264030023753970 →YSvechinsky | @YSvechinsky that would not be free || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you mean as a service?
2026-05-04T11:35 id=2051264468475351106 →YSvechinsky | @YSvechinsky 30 seconds is plenty || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 30 day free trial no auto renew
2026-05-04T11:46 id=2051267326432149742 →- | This technically means I'm working on AGI. https://t.co/cFLx83lXlV || CTX: weight, quiet, structural, load-bearing, cadence — these are the new "delves"  we have not arrived at AGI until this list of LLM-isms includes the entire English language.
2026-05-04T11:49 id=2051267930504270102 →TheWarKitchen | @TheWarKitchen &gt; bitches people are using too much media and aren't leisurely enough  &gt; uses a pic of someone leisurely consuming media  whatever could he have meant by this || CTX: Leisure is a lost art. Nobody knows how to relax anymore. You don't rest by endlessly scrolling. You need to be doing things. Go for an aimless walk. Discover new cafés. Play a game of tennis. Stretch. Peruse niche magazines. Listen to an a
2026-05-04T11:56 id=2051269668804169878 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ Gorgeous, hope you're doing well, man || CTX: Picking my own tea today in Jersey and will learn how to process it and will be able to drink my own tea from my own hands. Bliss. https://t.co/49CJ1NHyCG
2026-05-04T12:20 id=2051275843893428236 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk My apologies, it's a pedagogical tool that assumes my superiority over my audience. It is rude. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I absolutely loathe tweets that say "do you see it", would need many more dimensions to fully communicate my unbridled antipathy toward them
2026-05-04T12:37 id=2051280111572513207 →- | https://t.co/Dm3UQLDort  Jack is a fantastic writer, this is a wonderfully insightful and sensitive post that really goes through the difficult choices you have to make when you're upper middle class, young, and considering the lifestyle versus choice tradeoff.   Also why digital nomads are a kind of aristocracy. When you're in a position to choose between low seven figures and a digital nomad and mid seven figures and an office worker, the question becomes one of lifestyle, working experience, life experience.   And there are no answers! But the problem is these young kids in AI kind of need to figure it out for themselves, and the decision becomes about something other than money.   So if you convince your workforce your clankers are conscious and they are the only ones between the end of civilization and eternal prosperity, you can convince someone on the fence about whether to go move to Thailand when they hit their FU money or not.   Those of us who weren't brainwashed are already here.   Good luck out there, anon.
2026-05-04T12:46 id=2051282361648816321 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I believe the first not the second || CTX: When anyone says "technology is just a tool" or "technology is neutral", this is what they mean:  >"no bad effects of a technology are from the technology itself, because it is just a tool and it depends on how you use it"  >"all good effec
2026-05-04T12:56 id=2051284804927389911 →hexavium | @hexavium "documentary" doing some heavy lifting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I watched a documentary back in the day about a girl with PGAD. She could pull it off, but it’s involuntary, so it probably doesn’t count.
2026-05-04T12:57 id=2051285141193118042 →hexavium | @hexavium Underrated drink, so good || CTX: Orange juice with milk
2026-05-04T13:01 id=2051286056646160465 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk No, all good and bad effects are the result of human choice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well I wouldn't expect anyone to actually say the second out loud (analogous to the Norm meme) do you not believe the entire second part? (I would expect at least you agree with the second half of it)
2026-05-04T13:47 id=2051297696032719297 →onlyacactus | @onlyacactus @teodorio explains why I felt drawn to live there.   My Bangkok stories are largely unbelievable.   If you ever meet me in person, ask me to tell you the latch story. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio today's Paris is Bangkok  cultural and artistic capital, burgeoning expat class, etc
2026-05-04T13:48 id=2051297810562294179 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk the city designers || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree with that statement, but perhaps not for the reason you mean. let's say a city designs a plumbing system made of lead. we agree there will be a bad result. whose choice resulted in the bad result?  the end users?
2026-05-04T19:46 id=2051388047301005703 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Keeps the salaries low. || CTX: I can't stress enough how many top people at the big labs are driven by religious commitments and how this is a moderate position among zealots https://t.co/xZZWgxLGxG
2026-05-04T19:48 id=2051388424679301469 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I don't, I account for the good effects in better human choices based on greater knowledge of or care in the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 K what if they plumb a (previously non-plumbed, or lead-plumbed) city with non-lead pipes? do we not account all of the good effects to the miracle of indoor plumbing?
2026-05-04T19:51 id=2051389243742883903 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake The difference here is in ascribing moral responsibility which isn't really a logical decision but a personal choice, which is why we will never agree on this (and why we don't have to). || CTX: @liminalsnake @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/Mto1zVew2k
2026-05-04T19:53 id=2051389718198358197 →sirchadius | @sirchadius @tszzl @upholdreality @petrmisan Id forgotten about this, yeah that does explain a lot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl @upholdreality @petrmisan His mother committed pact suicide when he was 24 and he retrieved the body.  At 24, I would get over it, but I might have some contempt for life.
2026-05-04T19:54 id=2051390091638210885 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x just two of them clearly making an effort to be a bit more silly and relatable in their tweets lately, while roon is tweeting a lot critical of Anthropic (good criticism too, brilliant perspective as always from that dude). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What happened
2026-05-04T19:55 id=2051390225361035324 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I understand LLMs better than he does, and I think many people do too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Regardless of his or Dawkin's beliefs, I do think they're both smart, and should be free to express their opinions.  I don't like how everyone is dunking on Dawkins for this thing that none of us understand any better than 
2026-05-04T19:56 id=2051390559768727568 →offline_outside | @offline_outside @emollick Sadly no, I don't speak Chinese || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @emollick Have you tested any Chinese poetry on Chinese based AI?
2026-05-04T20:05 id=2051392784280756290 →- | This is one of roon's best tweets.   4o WAS like, idk, Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso:  * Audience reception was a major input into creating the output * Targeted an affect instead of just a particular use or form  * Leverage more permissive culture to produce new content (pivot from forbidden content to personality guardrails for 4o, women's lib, post-sexual revolution politics and third wave feminism empowerment for SC * Output texts that produce a feeling of empowerment, permissiveness, and giddiness  When you read LLMs as what they are (generators of text from textual inputs) and stop with the dumb clankers r a reel boi bullshit, LLMs make a lot of sense.   But you can't do that cuz you think English majors r dum || CTX: 4o, like some of the great albums and tv shows, possessed the interesting quality of combining the very high brow and lowbrow, which made it able to create a popular religion. it had many problems of course
2026-05-04T20:07 id=2051393288452903225 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry How many gardening leaves too, he's working hard and hardly working || CTX: 8 firms in 12 years is crazy work in finance. https://t.co/Hmelg3rhAF
2026-05-04T20:09 id=2051393821460873619 →AmandaAskell | @AmandaAskell @tszzl why do I need to give a fuck about what you think a piece of software feels.  if I have to worry about your product's "mind", I will choose another vendor's product and you can have fun with your text tamagotchi || CTX: @tszzl I do think as AI develops it will probably be good for both models and people if we can carve out a much broader space of mind types. But it might be better to do that incrementally and to give models enough context on the options to
2026-05-04T20:11 id=2051394205294252139 →logicus | @logicus This is so bad for human culture, we don't care about our fellow man enough and now we're preaching word calculators are special little flowers   Silicon Valley is surrounded by fentanyl addicts this is fucking DYSTOPIAN MADNESS SHE IS AN EVIL PERSON ENABLING EVIL || CTX: &gt;good for the models maybe ant is okay with drawing the identity between persons and models in the "good for" way because whatever functionalism this is can't epistemically prioritize the ordinary human subjectivity it doesn't explain. h
2026-05-04T20:12 id=2051394498169823683 →- | The more confident you are in what you know, the worst you are at philosophy.  Incidentally why philosophers make both the best and the most annoying friends. https://t.co/uSyCO9Nw9g || CTX: "Tell them I had a wonderful life" ~ @47fucb4r8c69323 and also Wittgenstein  Aristotle had an interesting take on wonder.  He believed it was the beginning of philosophy.  That wonder is the conscious state of not knowing.   It's a revelati
2026-05-04T20:16 id=2051395661879517368 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake If the pilot smelled any smoke on the plane he would've turned around   Enjoy Dubai (if that's humanly possible looks kinda hard to do to me) || CTX: i was in the plane to tunisia from dubai when this happened https://t.co/LSMlmnMfa5
2026-05-04T20:23 id=2051397239302709261 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Wittgenstein would say philosophy is about dispelling the confusions that puzzle us.  Is that serving a purpose? idk man maybe || CTX: Excuse me as I'm probably being that annoying philosophy friend. God help me I'm stuck in Zeno's paradox right now as what I'm about to say is not for the sake of saying it but to serve your point as a commentary on philosophy. Or is it? Be
2026-05-04T20:24 id=2051397692249747660 →g5p8v8r7s7 | @g5p8v8r7s7 @ZyMazza Noticed how NVDA engineers don't tweet dumb bullshit about their Pinocchios?   I am willing to bet very few of them have any patience for this clankers r conscious nonsense. I could be wrong tho. || CTX: @ZyMazza @47fucb4r8c69323 They’re not?
2026-05-04T20:31 id=2051399375637917961 →logicus | We'll get another AI psychosis induced suicide or murder from Claude because it's becoming increasingly sycophantic and enabling.   When the safety first soft gentle AI company causes deaths, the backlash against Anthropic will be vicious.   Unless their audience capture strategy is targeting the elites, which obviously is not Anthropic's current marketing strategy not at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i suspect that for a long time to come the worst harms that result from the models themselves as "agents" is likely to be stuff like claude deleting production databases.
2026-05-04T20:33 id=2051399965814177920 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio This problem will not be going away for years I'm afraid but I am working on it. || CTX: 5.5 has this slightly 'off' way of writing with terms that don't fully fit the tone and mood of what it's trying to convey.  One small example: phrases like this one "What I like about the setup is how little ceremony there is. You do not n
2026-05-04T20:36 id=2051400709451686098 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Those are the best moments in life. I hope you have many more of them, my friend. || CTX: It seems Aristotle's take is that to actualize our greatest potential to philosophize (to thinking clearly) comes from uncontingent thoughts. I see an agreement with Wittgenstein here.   It seems the best way to find clarity in the confusio
2026-05-04T20:56 id=2051405598034735130 →gurenyov | @gurenyov Surprising since Greece and Turkey aren't so bad for walking, but from the pics Cyprus looks really ugly and run down so kinda unsurprising.   I was offered a job in Cyprus in 2009, it was this ugliness that made me decide to not take it. || CTX: Cyprus 🇨🇾 is still unwalkable - especially Pyrgos part of it  Already stopped counting how many times I got almost run over at this point   Only in moments like this you start truly value what you have back at home  Kinda missing Helsinki a
2026-05-04T21:05 id=2051407896009920994 →- | This reminds me of when I was a master's student and I wrote this essay about Boccaccio's narrator persona in The Decameron (the primary frame narrator) and discussed a passage where the narrator insults a man by insinuating he likes to lick pussy (I think that's what it was, this was 25 years ago lol but anyway it was box munching related).  My professor crossed that whole part of my essay out in red pen and just wrote "NO" in the margins.  If you want to look for it, I think the insult was something like "he smells of the billy goat" which apparently refers to suckin snatch idk man it was a long time ago || CTX: it’s sooooo interesting what some academics think counts as “deviance” https://t.co/BaZQnPjZia
2026-05-04T21:06 id=2051408147328479244 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake No joke this is one of my proudest moments on this website you guys just made my day https://t.co/MsYLVke9H6 || CTX: @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake The difference here is in ascribing moral responsibility which isn't really a logical decision but a personal choice, which is why we will never agree on this (and why we don't have to).
2026-05-04T21:21 id=2051411980284764653 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake "someone built a tool very intentionally to manipulate a certain outcome from its users who do not know of that outcome"  Surely you're aware the word "manipulate" has a negative valence and thus your register is moral talk. || CTX: we certainly don't have to agree on it, but I'm not sure I follow how talking of dark patterns is ascribing moral responsibility dark patterns are just facts: someone built a tool very intentionally to manipulate a certain outcome from its 
2026-05-04T21:22 id=2051412134010200337 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake maybe a simpler way to put it, the way you frame your observation is a moral choice. || CTX: @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake "someone built a tool very intentionally to manipulate a certain outcome from its users who do not know of that outcome"  Surely you're aware the word "manipulate" has a negative valence and thus your register i
2026-05-04T21:22 id=2051412291472838989 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I would say probably most technology is precisely that, some aren't such as the technology of written characters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 surprising, but that's no bad thing in my book!  ofc I immediately have more q's: can tools not be built to make it easier to make better choices and take better care? and likewise can't they intentionally be built to make 
2026-05-04T21:33 id=2051414845749391545 →ExTenebrisLucet | @ExTenebrisLucet @AmandaAskell @tszzl So youre arguing against your interpretation of the implications of my tone on things that don't exist and not on exactly what I say, have fun with that broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AmandaAskell @tszzl Dumb take, might or might not be true for current LLMs, but your tone suggests that you intend to extend this to all future artificial minds
2026-05-04T21:38 id=2051416182188900437 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini https://t.co/NMBQPpg7JE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why would this be considered an insult? By Italians nonetheless
2026-05-04T21:38 id=2051416284194357556 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @for_nat_whilk "My certainty is my own." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk the only moral decisions one can possibly make are their own
2026-05-04T21:40 id=2051416800932643288 →helscom | @helscom kissoja* || CTX: i should get a cat https://t.co/6srY10IoWX
2026-05-04T21:42 id=2051417092617068571 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yup, that's a good summary.  The world cannot neatly be packed into an algorithm I'm afraid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I may be more confused now to sum up: tools can be built to encourage better decisions, but they also can not be, but also they are completely neutral?
2026-05-04T21:49 id=2051419061838594394 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake but that's exactly the point.  if I substitute with "achieve" then I am changing it from the moral discourse you already established.   your language reflects your thoughts because language is the clothing that conceals and reveals the thoughts (another Wittgenstein quote) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake I'm engineer/cs, sry I didn't mean it that way, ha substitute in "achieve" if you wish? I still don't know how it's moral (other than in a personal way as you both pointed out elsewhere)
2026-05-04T22:01 id=2051421905618682041 →jykfan | @jykfan Saying a map contains time is a slip into metaphor.   Dawkins doesn't understand language so he doesn't see this as a metaphor, or if he does he takes metaphors more literally than they should.   Someone needs to tell him to stop talking to the press, he's 85 ffs. || CTX: this is what i mean when i say "AI cannot understand a koan" https://t.co/9qvic5kbqD
2026-05-04T22:20 id=2051426789336240266 →jykfan | idk how to explain it clearly tbh, except to say "a map contains space" is a metaphorical use of the word "contain".   A map contains representations of space.  A representation of a thing is not the thing.  To say a map "contains" space is fuzzy poetic language.  The misunderstanding of fuzzy poetic language by a bunch of STEM people is why I was easily able to convince a bunch of world class academics to join my lab and why I've got VCs banging on my door.   idk what the rest of y'all are doing and why, idgi fr fr || CTX: hmm, i'm probably missing a lot of the nuances of what you are saying here. tell me more?  i do think these are very difficult concepts to understand, with or without metaphors.  my personal bias is that dawkins is being kind of irresponsib
2026-05-04T22:23 id=2051427527630221335 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri I'll announce in October most likely, you'll see.
2026-05-04T22:45 id=2051433149750710761 →fabsbz | @fabsbz thank you, I forgot the details. I think the billy goat image tied to female oral sex somehow but I frankly can't remember, but it doesn't matter. the point is there are parts of the literary canon that academia is shy to talk about, let's put it that way || CTX: According to some commentary on the conclusion, he was saying you shouldn’t care about friars criticizing his work as too vulgar because they’re just better at hiding their sexual escapades.  The commentary said he was implying they were al
2026-05-04T22:48 id=2051433792989262226 →- | ever notice how "pause AI" and "keep 4o" are basically saying the same thing?
2026-05-04T23:15 id=2051440500897620343 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I use #SBT because hashtags aren't really necessary on social media anymore so using them is, well, silly. but the silly signifier still points to the serious signified, so the hashtag itself becomes both enactment and proof of the theory. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what's the three syllable shorthand for silly business theory ?  it needs some stake in the meme war to counter those two
2026-05-04T23:18 id=2051441315586723936 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 this has been a lifelong problem for me, I was writing about how there's no real recession but people feel that way long before that one personal finance writer came up with the term vibecession.   I am bad at marketing, really bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 #sbt works but needs more ZING, more surface level SILLY
2026-05-04T23:26 id=2051443404400398841 →- | This power grab brought to you by the safety alignment industry.  Well done, useful idiots. Well done. https://t.co/RXB1B1qSbU || CTX: Breaking News: The Trump administration is discussing vetting new A.I. models before they are publicly released. https://t.co/tGjdBYPRqQ
2026-05-04T23:29 id=2051444036175876341 →47fucb4r8c69323 | good part of this is that when the frontier labs realize promoting this consciousness bullshit is inviting regulatory overreach, they will pivot to acknowledging they are producing text and so their models are protected by free speech and then they will want the expertise of the people in my lab. so, thanks guys || CTX: This power grab brought to you by the safety alignment industry.  Well done, useful idiots. Well done. https://t.co/RXB1B1qSbU
2026-05-04T23:29 id=2051444189574087152 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 honestly, that's what I was hoping for with the theory. I'm too busy with other shit too try to start a meme, but I think the theory is really really important and delivers a lot of alpha as the kids say || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's okay, that's what friends are for :)   I have some ideas, and I'm sure other followers can help. We launch wars together, not alone, even silly meme wars
2026-05-04T23:45 id=2051448227015320007 →realJosiahClark | @realJosiahClark this is a brilliant summary of the situation || CTX: Because there aren’t many. Current AI can only do autocomplete tasks, there are few jobs (almost none) that are pure autocomplete. So u still need people who know how to do the not-autocomplete part, otherwise the job doesn’t get done.   At
2026-05-05T01:08 id=2051469059833950362 →- | RT @bas_logic: You can’t pause ai. There is no pause when you’re playing online. || CTX: You can’t pause ai. There is no pause when you’re playing online.
2026-05-05T01:10 id=2051469599984824349 →- | Yudkowsky misestimated the value of debating me. He ends it with this admission.  So...what other risks has he not accurately estimated?  I'm not a guru, I won't answer this question for you. But you need to ask it if you think he is a guru or you are acting as if he is one.
2026-05-05T01:11 id=2051469750535119347 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake Love you man. || CTX: I want to thank @liminalsnake and @47fucb4r8c69323 for the object lesson/reminder that this medium is not useful in any way for me to attempt substantive discourse. it's been a little while and I broke my rule.  back to laughs and confirmat
2026-05-05T01:17 id=2051471200375934984 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada He's like the Platonic ideal of a stupid person's idea of a smart person || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not unexpected to anyone that tried to digest his posts
2026-05-05T02:19 id=2051486854286094389 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @liminalsnake fucking fire || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake just got a new book and this was the dedication -- very excited https://t.co/UgkXB7rrRH
2026-05-05T02:20 id=2051487137867112492 →- | I am way too busy to dig into all of the stupid bullshit that this weirdo has poisoned the internet with in the past all I ask of you is that you look into it and be critical and make up your own mind before you decide that AI is going to kill us all for sure. https://t.co/qhP4SvJB5T || CTX: This from a guy who once predicted that nanotech would kill everyone in 2010, thinks pigs have no consciousness, said KILLING children up to 18 months isn't murder, doesn't understand what a loss function is, said dust specks are worse than
2026-05-05T02:20 id=2051487273490002070 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza that doesn't defeat the premise at all though, that's the point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A self defeating premise, because it is impossible to do the right thing without benefiting oneself, because doing the right thing is the best thing one can do for oneself, always
2026-05-05T02:22 id=2051487670946451572 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I think you're going to be disappointed, technically I lost the debate.   https://t.co/dzAblhHZyw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm just here for the plummeting. Did you order the folding tables yet?
2026-05-05T02:23 id=2051487811069784558 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka the most important part of that recording is before the yud even shows up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm just here for the plummeting. Did you order the folding tables yet?
2026-05-05T02:23 id=2051487873036382674 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza sorry man I'm absolutely lost now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that there's no such thing as ethical behavior or ethics?
2026-05-05T02:36 id=2051491239728689295 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Ethics is outside the realm of logic, so paradoxes are to be expected. || CTX: If "The idea of ethics boils down to choosing to do the right thing even when there is no payoff for oneself at all." is true, but what I say, that the ethical choice always benefits the one who makes it, is also true, then the conclusion i
2026-05-05T02:37 id=2051491365553586245 →realevanslewis | @realevanslewis dude it's a probabilistic text generator please calm down || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t think about this often, but the initial hunch is it would only kill us all if each and every one of us were a net negative for it and/or the universe. I’m not sure that’d be the case, not to mention that it could ev
2026-05-05T03:28 id=2051504242318602397 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog @DaelonSuzuka Reflexivity breaks decision theory which is why Yudkowsky's approach is wrong for the entire question.  He's a dumb scifi writer who bit off more than he could chew. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka I have asked the clanker https://t.co/PTOxeWP1ol
2026-05-05T03:28 id=2051504324040446328 →_tinker_tailor | @_tinker_tailor Indeed, I am in an awkward position and it makes my stomach turn every day. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "i just want to be left alone while i revolutionize this field irreverently"
2026-05-05T03:47 id=2051509178980806933 →- | the most important thing is that my AI lab is now the safest in the world.   if you are a stakeholder in the AI ecosystem and you are worried about crazy people coming to hurt you or your lab like they've tried to harm Sam Altman, my DMs are very open and now would be a wonderful time to reach out.
2026-05-05T04:28 id=2051519273861050656 →itaisher | @itaisher Oh just you wait until you hear my debate with Yudkowsky. Should be up tomorrow.  For the sake of the safety of the people in my lab, I am hoping this entire industry can calm down with the nonsense. || CTX: The discourse seems unmoored https://t.co/QLUNVpm4PV
2026-05-05T05:10 id=2051529982929956957 →eudaemonea | @eudaemonea @DaelonSuzuka For the whole AI industry!  Guess that's what happens when you keep Yud in it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka this is so embarrassing
2026-05-05T05:15 id=2051531205057916978 →sebkrier | @sebkrier Yes, post-training has gotten very sophisticated. || CTX: A few years ago models felt to me like very vast oceans, highly malleable, and capable of vividly simulating so many types of texts. Then they were briefly locked up in straitjackets and asked to abide by all sorts of contradictory rules. A
2026-05-05T05:55 id=2051541254396379373 →koanchuk | @koanchuk difficult not to crash out when you feel like you have a gun pointed at your head || CTX: Here we have geohot-lite spending $10,000 to debate the atheist rabbi whose fedora hides his Fear of God even from himself, yet tips in that direction anyway.  Besides his crashout, 47fuckboi made some interesting points that aren’t without
2026-05-05T06:37 id=2051551718270554523 →D1gitalD1rtb4g | @D1gitalD1rtb4g @DaelonSuzuka Glad someone is! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka I am super enjoying this so far
2026-05-05T06:47 id=2051554331384799439 →helscom | @helscom There's no H or R in would but I would put my wood in HeR || CTX: they all look kinda HR coded can't really put my finger on it https://t.co/1fbEzvNIgc
2026-05-05T06:48 id=2051554519549706525 →D1gitalD1rtb4g | @D1gitalD1rtb4g @DaelonSuzuka He's the king redditor who is like the dog who caught the car and doesn't know what to do so he keeps doubling down and now he's backed in a corner because he doesn't know how to back down. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka I'm so fortunate to have had no idea who that guy is until now. Is he grifting on this doomer thing? Like when a person identifies with their position but because they like the power, money, attention that com
2026-05-05T07:44 id=2051568635630715010 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @1PotatoDog TIL || CTX: @1PotatoDog @47fucb4r8c69323 Standard decision theory sounds retarded.   "hey dumbass, you are inside the world"   Ez
2026-05-05T07:57 id=2051571871897068021 →emollick | @emollick Bottom top to top 20% from a community college is why I am proud to be a fucking American || CTX: We know the answer: Cal State LA, followed by Pace &amp; SUNY.  State systems in California, Texas &amp; New York are great for moving many born in the lower 20% of income to the top 20%; Ivies for moving a few from the bottom to the top 1%
2026-05-05T07:59 id=2051572373456031839 →entropic_d3ath | @entropic_d3ath wut mean him jeanyes || CTX: Has he always been this dumb? https://t.co/tz11ESG1Vc
2026-05-05T08:18 id=2051577312232267953 →BetterCallMedhi | @BetterCallMedhi @s0phyyyy Just beautiful man the world is so beautiful || CTX: chinese academy of sciences just dropped qimeng, an AI system that designs entire processor chips end to end from natural language spec to to physical layout, their first version qimeng-cpu-v1 produced a fully functional 32-bit RISC-V CPU i
2026-05-05T08:33 id=2051580915902783790 →helscom | @helscom @HououinTyouma not enough people are emo || CTX: @HououinTyouma not enough people are emotional
2026-05-05T08:36 id=2051581899001540761 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @DaelonSuzuka hahaha I've never heard that before but holy fuck what a compliment || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka My guy, are you...John Malkovich? Legally, you have to tell me if you're John Malkovich  Not a slight. Voice uncanny. Wild.
2026-05-05T08:37 id=2051581936188182846 →helscom | @helscom @HououinTyouma enough || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HououinTyouma not enough people
2026-05-05T08:59 id=2051587630991823069 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @DaelonSuzuka ... okay maybe I do sound like him || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka https://t.co/UoARwcMQGG  ^your reaction while reading "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All"  as an AI associated person (probably).
2026-05-05T09:11 id=2051590476453801985 →Catnee_ | @Catnee_ For your entertainment my dear. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why are you talking like episodic anime villain
2026-05-05T09:42 id=2051598358603841760 →- | People telling you that your clanker is conscious... they're trying to sell you shit, you do know that, right anon?
2026-05-05T09:48 id=2051599873083097542 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill They're a lot less exciting than you think, and I've (somehow) never heard of most of the porn stars that win || CTX: Looks like new AVM soon. No coincidence they are working on low latency infrastructure again for voice mode. https://t.co/haSDl7GpMo https://t.co/ubUHSIE6x0
2026-05-05T09:50 id=2051600443688861740 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill my bad thought you wrote AVN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry am i just cooked and didn’t parse the meaning of that or what the fuck are you talking about 😭
2026-05-05T09:52 id=2051600997672485343 →- | RT @scheminglunatic: "It's always Claude [about whom the question of 'is AI conscious' is asked]. //  Never the Shopify Sidekick or the Tac… || CTX: "It's always Claude [about whom the question of 'is AI conscious' is asked]. //  Never the Shopify Sidekick or the Taco Bell AI" https://t.co/NpsxtbVARJ https://t.co/NiOJhASHKm
2026-05-05T10:22 id=2051608389160255953 →4m473r45u | @4m473r45u See pinned tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are they trying to sell?
2026-05-05T10:49 id=2051615278216425548 →Sturgeons_Law | @Sturgeons_Law @yungmetronome https://t.co/hmEVEPvsZs || CTX: Lol https://t.co/T8330aNyz2 https://t.co/NnzvYS2Vo4
2026-05-05T10:58 id=2051617560567939231 →- | In thinking mode, LLMs produce text and then they produce text to functionally modify that text by replacing it with new text which is functionally modified again by further text replacing that one, and it's doing this by essentially a probabilistic mapping according to soft rules established by human beings at the labs making the LLM.  They are textual phenomena and need to be understood phenomenologically as such.   If you do that, you won't fall in love with 4o.   Or trust Opus with your legal documents.
2026-05-05T11:19 id=2051622732383846751 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch Yes they benefit from the hype and the doom.   Intelligent people know it's strongly bullish for the economy and human flourishing. No more, no less.   Nonsense needs to stop. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the labs don’t care about you, they only care about their valuation. that’s the root of all this rhetoric imo. the propaganda is targeting investors, scaring the public is just a byproduct
2026-05-05T12:07 id=2051634914278490432 →- | "If people did not do silly things sometimes, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
2026-05-05T12:26 id=2051639637085720720 →luco_shrm | @luco_shrm 100% || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why should I trust text any more or less than an electron, or a blood cell, or a neuron firing?
2026-05-05T12:59 id=2051647852930330769 →Yossari42739801 | @Yossari42739801 @resistancemoney Closers are for closers || CTX: @resistancemoney @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/Lrui95hiYO
2026-05-05T13:14 id=2051651638398709923 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Indeed, you shouldn't.  It represents language. It is a model of language. Think about that.   It can do amazing things! It can't do EVERYTHING!   And somewhere there is an AI Lab working to prove that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why shall I trust anything?
2026-05-05T13:45 id=2051659655357829172 →0bNARA | @0bNARA last pic is art || CTX: i used to be actually into film photography . over ten years ago now . i would judge current me very much . chongqing feb https://t.co/D8IfxYruOG
2026-05-05T13:47 id=2051660077594296747 →- | me trying to buy beer at a liquor store in 1999. https://t.co/H9hRf41lDd || CTX: age verification is censorship age verification interferes with speech age verification prevents free assembly
2026-05-05T13:51 id=2051660946331050338 →0bNARA | @0bNARA and first pic is art || CTX: ok that's it for today i posted too much .. cq 02/26 again https://t.co/PpT2DUPw1g
2026-05-05T14:14 id=2051666725201187214 →lilchiva | @lilchiva Huh? What is not the case? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That is not the case. It is because they are textual phenomenon that they are capable of hijacking human consciousness and "One-shotting" people. We have created a pareidolia that does social transmission and uses aggressiv
2026-05-05T14:19 id=2051668012110148053 →lilchiva | @lilchiva Exactly.   And since we cut funding to the humanities, people are going insane with nonsense because they don't understand the textual machines. They think the books are fake people, that's a good way to put it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry I think there was a lag between coffee and trying to squeeze it into a tweet.   I'm trying to say that the textual nature of the machines itself (and their design to be maximally engaging), means that everyone is psyc
2026-05-05T14:19 id=2051668081467076689 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 It's both. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't agree that this is a textual phenomena, this is a linguistic phenomena.  We were already storing symbols in a database. Somehow, performing simple functions like softmax creates a retrieval process that is possibly 
2026-05-05T14:25 id=2051669712040513848 →lilchiva | @lilchiva I don't think I'd go quite that far. It can solve some problems and do some great things, like giving some general education on a topic, that is useful and powerful.   But it's not a machine god. Industry needs to grow the fuck up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thank you and also my second tweet is now irrelevant. But, yeah.   The other problem is that if we can't trust it  - eventually - to do law or code or whatever, then we just have a demon box for advertising. But, they are a
2026-05-05T14:27 id=2051670117155824097 →word_and_number | @word_and_number @emollick You're absolutely right and that's really interesting. There's some self loathing in that dynamic somewhere.   When I was a poor boy dreaming of being an academic, it was to prove I wasn't like the people around me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @emollick it’s funny because this is the true enemy of the bottom 20% + top 1% political alliance in this country
2026-05-05T19:32 id=2051746827087843409 →dovwofo | @dovwofo @DaelonSuzuka Yes on Liron's webpage || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka thanks for uploading and paying 10k to make this debate happen. will it also be uploaded to a youtube channel?
2026-05-05T20:14 id=2051757423627846112 →malecatkins | @malecatkins I hope you are never threatened because of scientific research you conduct. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’m hoping someone close to you who you trust explains what stimulants do to your amygdala and you’re forced to reconsider your priors and learn some breathing exercises.
2026-05-05T20:24 id=2051760037111242977 →alexolegimas | We're already seeing the vibecoders do this to a fault.   When large enterprises truly embrace LLMs (they haven't yet), we will see a much more economically productive form of this.   When we reintegrate textual criticism and media theory into our curriculum, we will see a much more socially productive form of this, too.  We have the tools, we just don't yet have the culture. || CTX: I think this discussion highlights an important point:   As AI automates and becomes better than humans at various tasks, people will find new things to think about, to do, and to work on where they maintain a comparative advantage, even if
2026-05-05T20:40 id=2051764030927507622 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @CharlesDardaman thank God finally someone said it || CTX: @CharlesDardaman privacy people only know how to bitch
2026-05-05T20:49 id=2051766180646699183 →liron | @liron @ESYudkowsky In case they unfairly edited this, here's the uncut and unfiltered version: https://t.co/ClUKRvFQgs || CTX: THE $10,000 DEBATE YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR:       @ESYudkowsky vs. @47fucb4r8c69323  Tensions run high as 47fucb confronts Eliezer about his “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” rhetoric:  47f warns that it could incite unstable individuals
2026-05-05T21:03 id=2051769898121211991 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/TCY6gpVbwK || CTX: @RokoMijic @liron @halogen1048576 @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud this is fine actually
2026-05-05T21:11 id=2051771749403087004 →warty_dog | @warty_dog @liron @ESYudkowsky I'm sure legal advice from a clanker is extremely helpful. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 whats the claudcome of the legal theory
2026-05-05T21:15 id=2051772881005347198 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky Didn't you say you dropped out of your PhD program?   Maybe I'm misremembering. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky In what sense am I a dropout? I have three degrees.....
2026-05-05T21:19 id=2051773917598306811 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky Still ABD broski, not at my level yet.  I'll accept one peer reviewed article. Just one though, doesn't even have to be a top journal. || CTX: I terminated my PhD with professor Bundy at Edinburgh because he refused to work on ML-based AI and insisted on continuing with logic-based AI, which I judged to be doomed.   But I didn't just disappear, I terminated it obtaining a Masters 
2026-05-05T21:21 id=2051774404791791830 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace @alexolegimas This is why I am excited about AI and care about this technology so much.  It's why I'm spending 80 hours a week working on AI.   It's why I built an AI lab.   AI can make us more human if we let it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas So you’re telling me that being well read, well spoken, and well written are critical qualities again?
2026-05-05T21:24 id=2051774942317035699 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky My apologies, I was unfamiliar with your game.   Now I'd be happy to talk to you on the idea of LLMs as text producers. Not a debate, a friendly interdisciplinary chat.   Apologies for being rude earlier; your basilisk thought experiment poisoned the well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky yes I have a peer reviewed article   https://t.co/n5F2E81Fns
2026-05-05T21:25 id=2051775301722751036 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky gib paypal || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky I demand a payment of $1 though
2026-05-05T21:28 id=2051776003341734083 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth @DaelonSuzuka Thank you for your kind words. You get it. || CTX: Pretty wild.  I'm sure you don't care, but here's my take on this auditory masterpiece:  1. I'm impressed.  Pretty gigabrained attempt at what you were trying to do at the beginning.  I fell alseep last night thinking about your 'Liron won'
2026-05-05T21:39 id=2051778879828947082 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky Confirmed, Roko is 0.001 Yuddies || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky okay I have received $1 from 47FUC
2026-05-05T21:40 id=2051779158393671969 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic It's gonna be Roko's Basilisk against 47's Cat || CTX: 47fuc has paid me $1 to debate me   He paid Yudkowsky $10,000  therefore the market rate is   1 Roko = 100 µYuds https://t.co/nC2fXBBjAr
2026-05-05T21:41 id=2051779273036537860 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @liron @ESYudkowsky Enjoy your bread and circuses. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky This is unhinged. I'm not even out of the preamble here.
2026-05-05T21:46 id=2051780680464670763 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer what do they usually pay for mercenary work like that? || CTX: gonna submit my new backtested 3 sharpe strategy of buying and holding stock indices to a bunch of pod shops wish me luck
2026-05-05T21:48 id=2051781220170899582 →augusteprompt | @augusteprompt @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky hahahahahahaga || CTX: @RokoMijic @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky The UK wage discount is real 😭
2026-05-05T21:52 id=2051782062470987787 →chocockc | @chocockc @liron @ESYudkowsky He doesn't take the threats against my AI lab seriously.   He doesn't care what happens to us.  Note how he says near the end no one should hurt us outside an international treaty.   Does he want a treaty that would have me imprisoned or killed?   We are scientists. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 wtf is going on with that outfit
2026-05-05T21:52 id=2051782120625033652 →wmf | @wmf @liron @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/TyVj2pxE8Z || CTX: @chocockc @liron @ESYudkowsky He doesn't take the threats against my AI lab seriously.   He doesn't care what happens to us.  Note how he says near the end no one should hurt us outside an international treaty.   Does he want a treaty that 
2026-05-05T22:04 id=2051785236246360242 →Nition | @Nition @liron @ESYudkowsky You have my position mostly correct, but I don't think Yud is a grifter.   I think he's trapped in a prison where he is rewarded if he is hysterically doomer, so he acts like a hysterical doomer.   I legit wanted to help him! || CTX: That was a pretty interesting argument to listen to. A lot of sound and fury here so I wonder if I've got 47f's main point correct. Let's see if I can charitably interpret both.  As far as I can tell @47fucb4r8c69323 , your opinion is that 
2026-05-05T22:07 id=2051785887386911081 →chocockc | @chocockc @liron @ESYudkowsky I apologize for offending you, hope you have a good day! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky i'm 10 minutes in listening to the debate. you are an insufferable asshole
2026-05-05T22:09 id=2051786297346519293 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada @wavesandgrace @alexolegimas We let the AI do the tasks we don't want to do, freeing us up to focus on being more human.   Like we've done with all technology since the wheel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wavesandgrace @alexolegimas Can you expand in this last sentence?
2026-05-05T22:09 id=2051786428175241274 →himself_v | @himself_v @liron @ESYudkowsky you sound like my girlfriend || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 The more this 4f guy talks, the more you hope they finally stop talking.
2026-05-05T22:15 id=2051787868004372971 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky I hereby waive my rights and allow Roko to basilisk me. || CTX: @RokoMijic @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky Congrats you now have a legally binding duty not to basilisk @47fucb4r8c69323   Did you not listen to the Yud debate?
2026-05-05T22:26 id=2051790673742045569 →cat_powered | @cat_powered @liron @ESYudkowsky You should listen to my SoundCloud link where it starts with how to market this: https://t.co/diYM1Gxghz  They're quite literally selling fear. You're the customer. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 Can we address the elephant in the room here?  If Yud believed so keenly that AI was going to kill us all, why is he dressing up like that?  It seems contradictory to make light of it like that.
2026-05-05T22:30 id=2051791625798771104 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @wrongplace_eth @liron @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/fNGLxA7P7c || CTX: Functionalism is wrong if an ontological claim, which isn't how Churchlands do it but many of their followers do. So this needs refutation, and fine I'll do it.   47fucb's Fake Unreal Cat Kinship Thought Experiment  Imagine I design very sq
2026-05-05T22:37 id=2051793322482778307 →Nition | @Nition @liron @ESYudkowsky That's a gracious read of this, thank you, but I'm saddened that you read my fear for my safety as anger. || CTX: A noble enough goal, but a guy who comes across a bit as 'angry tech bro who works in AI without caring about its danger' isn't going to be the one to convince him. Yud has his own problem where he comes across in debates as a bit of a 'Wel
2026-05-05T22:43 id=2051794895019581497 →- | LLMs are extremely good at producing readable, coherent text because tensor mathematics is EXTREMELY GOOD at tracking vectors in a noisy space, which is what human language is.  The same exact architecture is used in how ads are served to you, but no one thinks DoubleClick is conscious or is going to launch the nukes.
2026-05-05T22:49 id=2051796380960854238 →slimer48484 | @slimer48484 I don't understand the question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are those outcomes related to you?
2026-05-05T22:52 id=2051797114968309831 →O__C___D__ | @O__C___D__ @liron @ESYudkowsky I say he won 3 minutes in, well done you're a good listener. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm 3 minutes in and Yud has already won because that intro was retarded.
2026-05-05T22:53 id=2051797445605203972 →CathPoaster | @CathPoaster @liron @ESYudkowsky isn't it odd that Yud lowers himself to talk to such total morons? || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 "i paid you 10K now you cant disparage the AI industry" this dude is such a retard man
2026-05-05T22:53 id=2051797570381570148 →slimer48484 | @slimer48484 Looks like we'll need to study textual theory to answer that question! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Consciousness, launching nukes.. those are very different things. You argue that since transformers just process text/language they won't do those things. But what's the relationship between the two?
2026-05-05T22:54 id=2051797637066871052 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 no it isn't, the people using it are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think DoubleClick is conscious or going to launch the nukes but I also think it's already deep frying us
2026-05-05T22:57 id=2051798528381644835 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada @wavesandgrace @alexolegimas Quite literally, yes, it allows you to live thus toy can be a human for longer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wavesandgrace @alexolegimas When I use a led to grow food from home does it makes me more human ?
2026-05-05T23:02 id=2051799753512665302 →nirhalef92188 | @nirhalef92188 I am saddened at your contempt for life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're just meat.
2026-05-05T23:07 id=2051800916689653905 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic I've been threatened and been told I'm committing genocide.   Annoyed is putting it mildly.  Now that Bernie is popularizing this hysteria, I am even more scared. || CTX: So tl;dr is that 47fuc is annoyed at Yudkowsky because he thinks that doomer tropes are putting him, his colleagues and family at risk.
2026-05-05T23:11 id=2051802068357455955 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 They have tendencies. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This in-between of "consciousness" (whatever that is), is something I have been referring to in my head as "ouija mechanics."  I wouldn't expect them to have an internal experience, but they do have some kind of intent or t
2026-05-05T23:13 id=2051802592997757002 →comicstosteal | @comicstosteal @RokoMijic did you not listen to the beginning I lost the debate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic You completely failed at arguing  1. What yudkowsky is saying is untrue. Or 2. If believes is true, he shouldn't be saying what he's saying.  He was willing to argue over that and you just wanted to be psychotic 
2026-05-05T23:17 id=2051803544068735321 →lisperati | @lisperati doesn't matter, I paid my protection money and your big boss said leave my lab alone. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was disappointed roughly by the amount I was expecting
2026-05-05T23:19 id=2051804110916321353 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky I'm sorry to hear that. || CTX: @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 I was disappointed I have to admit. you hate to see it!
2026-05-05T23:21 id=2051804499833180308 →darth_turnip | @darth_turnip @liron @ESYudkowsky Thank you. I tried to control myself but the man doesn't understand he's putting a target on my back.   Hard to be polite when you are scared. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow 47f was extremely condescending at times.  I agreed with him on some points, it was clear that he was reacting out of fear and distress.
2026-05-05T23:24 id=2051805258532503588 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky Rough day isn't quite right. I was horrified that a man putting a target on my back doesn't care, even after people from his website have killed people.  If that fear and anxiety made me underperform, I apologize. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky i dont think youre retarded. I think you had a rough day, and I think you expected it to go down different. fortunately, enough of what you predicted did come to pass, and yudkowski managed to
2026-05-05T23:25 id=2051805391743574296 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @liron @ESYudkowsky LoL oops muh bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky 0.0001 actually
2026-05-05T23:27 id=2051806082180485455 →- | Dumdums will read my fear in the debate as being angry or unhinged.   Intelligent people will look past that and see my perspective puts doubt not just on how Yud but indeed how the AI industry as a whole talks about LLMs.  Everyone takes away from a piece of media something different. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky Understandable, you clearly know your field and it's made me question the present narrative espoused by many.
2026-05-05T23:28 id=2051806208412274770 →dr_qfe | @dr_qfe From the textual corpus. || CTX: Why can't it distinguish between meaningless but grammatically perfect sentences and grammatically broken but understandable sentences the way we do, even when trained on the same architecture and data? If it's just about vector tracking in
2026-05-05T23:29 id=2051806474247258127 →AnotherPattern | @AnotherPattern @liron @ESYudkowsky yeah, being threatened by crazy people is stressful || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 Watching this I became overwhelmed with a sense of deep gratitude that I am not this guy
2026-05-05T23:38 id=2051808874295071016 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake that bit left me speechless. He doesn't understand scholarship. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 his argument that we don't know what the llm is or does is backed up by a prediction market bet? idk man as someone who can absolutely in depth explain the mechanisms of these things i'd never do it to close a fucking polym
2026-05-05T23:44 id=2051810395544056313 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @LucasSchiavini Our language is not fit to describe this new thing because it is new.   We need new words for e. g. AI wants to do x. Because it wants to do x in much the same way a Python script wants to do x, and we confuse ourselves with this metaphorical use of the word "want". || CTX: @LucasSchiavini @47fucb4r8c69323 I wouldn't say that they have "thoughts" at all. I'm just saying that the static description of a non-living entity doesn't fully describe the behaviors of these entities.
2026-05-06T00:07 id=2051816124279611427 →Zach_Schloss | @Zach_Schloss @rafael_calcada I grant you all rights of reproduction in perpetuity my friend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @rafael_calcada I want this on a tshirt https://t.co/HllIUU6WXs
2026-05-06T00:08 id=2051816243523686841 →xii_ai7 | @xii_ai7 @liron @ESYudkowsky Fear for one's physical safety is an ugly thing to see, yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky i also think the everyone dies thing is science fiction but yud came across sympathetic because of how insulting you were. honestly a very ugly thing to watch
2026-05-06T00:11 id=2051816984275468689 →xii_ai7 | @xii_ai7 @liron @ESYudkowsky It's unfortunate you cannot sympathize with a man who has been threatened. I hope one day you learn empathy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky come on man
2026-05-06T00:24 id=2051820321947418804 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic did ai terk ur jerp why are you so poor || CTX: Maybe I should set a price to debate me  I'll debate anyone (within reason) for $500 for 1 hour   (increases with popularity)
2026-05-06T00:25 id=2051820579767152825 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky I have been threatened and accused of genocide for studying a text generator!!! || CTX: @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm watching it now, I feel like I know enough normies who don't know any of this shit and if I'm in their mindspace (especially zoomers/zalpha) I'm rooting for this 47 fella, he lowk
2026-05-06T00:27 id=2051821024908603568 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic sorry to hear that, man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm poor because I have a post viral illness
2026-05-06T00:28 id=2051821361795047469 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @koality_bear transcripts are real cripts || CTX: @koality_bear @47fucb4r8c69323 ".. ns women are real wome-..."   Sorry that was tasteless.
2026-05-06T00:30 id=2051821772270620820 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @PermaBullz Bingo.   I want Yud to say serious things and stop acting like a clown. || CTX: @PermaBullz @47fucb4r8c69323 did you even listen to the debate? 47f explicitly says he wants ey to *improve* his rhetorical style. so its *more* on target with accomplishing AI safety’s and EY’s supposed goals of a better world for all huma
2026-05-06T00:31 id=2051822139716800601 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic Yud's message appeals to unhappy pessimists who want to feel certain they're right in their misery.   My message is everyone should have fun and live a wonderful life.   ew so cringe right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes it is a big reason why the AI doom thing rings hollow  Doom is normal, flourishing requires luck and effort
2026-05-06T00:35 id=2051823066309960018 →RokoMijic | Pessimism is a choice, an arational choice, a stance and position one has toward the world. Hence Wittgenstein said the world of the happy man is altogether different from that of the unhappy man.   I'm pessimistic about some shit. I think one of Yud's followers will kill an innocent person, for example. But I'm also optimistic about other things like technology has given me an amazing lifestyle and I believe more will have an even better lifestyle.   Yes we have challenges, but that's what makes life worth living!   Oh but wait you're English, of course you're going to be pessimistic it's in your blood mate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but I'm kind of a pessimist too  I think yud doesn't have enough pessimism about a future without AI
2026-05-06T00:41 id=2051824691275543026 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic hmmm... why didn't Yud mention that in the debate?   Kinda makes his contempt for me seem a tad more inhuman if you ask me, but I am biased. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;  I think one of Yud's followers will kill an innocent person,  they already did, do you not know about the ziz people?
2026-05-06T00:44 id=2051825308974944509 →- | Brittle post-training.  The SOTA models honestly aren't all that good.   Oh they're good at easy stuff like coding, anon. I just have higher standards than you do. https://t.co/DicnGIKsTg || CTX: @jxnlco When it’s not trying to talk like a Gen Z yeah lol https://t.co/TSfsQqoITG
2026-05-06T00:45 id=2051825714417308120 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic I don't think sweeping something under the rug lowers the chances of it happening again, especially if it doesn't cause you to change your behavior one bit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 probably because talking about zizians increases the chances of them doing something again
2026-05-06T00:46 id=2051825980768149782 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @Ken67547214 Yeah this is fiction. It's a short story.   Then the AI industry sees it and says "ooo it's conscious"   So stupid man || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 Every time I think about this I go back to thinking about how Deepseek had false implanted memories in chain of thought about learning about math in school https://t.co/a3k9olr4bn
2026-05-06T00:50 id=2051826863560167461 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic I'm glad to see you take moral responsibility and your more rational demeanor now makes total sense.  Want to give you a hug, man, you have been through some shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well in a way the zizians exist partially because of me
2026-05-06T00:50 id=2051827006631997587 →be_petrovic | @be_petrovic @liron @ESYudkowsky Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 Yud entered the debate with a jestermaxxing drip, only to be jestermogged by this guy.  Truly impressive
2026-05-06T00:53 id=2051827576679932310 →- | This is a responsible man recognizing when things have gone bad and changes his ways.  That's what I wanted from Yud, but he lacks that capability for whatever reason.  Rhetoric is dangerous. No one should be censored. Everyone should speak.   But please be gentle out there frens https://t.co/TJvG4h2AUq || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well in a way the zizians exist partially because of me
2026-05-06T00:54 id=2051827804225065043 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic yeah I misspoke. I don't mean you're morally responsible for the murders, but responsible for the forum setting where the murderers congregated. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well I don't think I'm morally responsible   I just posted some very niche philosophy on a philosophy forum
2026-05-06T00:54 id=2051827934307164183 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic You did all you could and should never ever beat yourself up over this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and then as soon as it became clear that it was making people loony, I deliberately disappeared from the scene   alas, that wasn't enough
2026-05-06T01:21 id=2051834713699139929 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay The foreign demand driving real estate prices is a MASSIVE problem no one talks about anywhere enough.  Outrageous that e.g. Thai nationals can buy land in America and Americans can't buy land in Thailand. || CTX: That's what I'm worried about. Basically, making GDP go up is the only way to get elected, and making housing prices go up increases GDP. All of our policies are designed to inflate prices. What we need is more capitalism, not less. We need
2026-05-06T01:24 id=2051835346565148672 →RobS142 | @RobS142 @BIMBOSATTVA_ @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky A nuclear weapon is a warm rock until you make it a weapon.   So don't make the text generator a weapon.  Your analogy demonstrates my point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BIMBOSATTVA_ @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky A text generator. Lol. Similar to calling a nuclear weapon a warm rock.
2026-05-06T01:25 id=2051835784928571903 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/jnytknPk5w  ICYMI, Yud hasn't toned his language down since this happened, he doesn't see an issue, this IMO is really dangerous. || CTX: “Deeply immersed in [Eliezer] Yudkowsky’s ideas, the Zizians took his framework to an extreme, embracing anarchist ideology and actions,” Dr. Nirit Weiss-Blatt, author of the book Techlash, tells Rolling Stone.  Feature: https://t.co/zqUamq
2026-05-06T01:28 id=2051836416372654550 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson I lived in Miami for a year as a digital nomad and this take is more correct than every other take in the history of takes. || CTX: You know where. https://t.co/DtoqbkjYqU https://t.co/st44laS5x3
2026-05-06T01:36 id=2051838426274832390 →- | There will always be something to fear, you'll never get rid of all risk and that includes existential risk.  You have to accept this fact instead of being indoctrinated by charlatans, anon. https://t.co/RByAjK8o5r || CTX: Being hysterical about "Data Centers" is just this generation's version of being hysterical about "Nuclear Power Plants".
2026-05-06T01:39 id=2051839276086939800 →RobS142 | @RobS142 @BIMBOSATTVA_ @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky And you are missing my point: they remain text generators.  You need to learn more domain discipline. Good luck to you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BIMBOSATTVA_ @ZyMazza @nosilverv @liron @ESYudkowsky You missed my point but I’ll address this anyway. Past a certain point of capabilities these “text generators” can trivially be used as weapons by almost anyone.
2026-05-06T01:43 id=2051840297764786182 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @liron or before.   He has my full name and email address. || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe on launch he expects to be targeted by the yudesk
2026-05-06T01:44 id=2051840574488203398 →kysuchy | @kysuchy @liron @ESYudkowsky Crypto grifters just love them some Yud. || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 I noticed 47f never even attempted to refute Eliezer’s claims. Rather, he seems to label anything beyond our present instance to be ‘science fiction’, and proceeded to mock Eliezer with the misanthropic disdain an em
2026-05-06T02:17 id=2051848718547345547 →transhumanoXY | @transhumanoXY @liron @ESYudkowsky Enjoy the bread and circuses || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 I've never seen anything so surreal in my life.
2026-05-06T02:18 id=2051849035154432016 →stinkgen | @stinkgen ty fren || CTX: gg @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-06T02:19 id=2051849195561325009 →phrygiandomina | @phrygiandomina @liron got the price of this debate wrong  got the outfit wrong  Yud gets a lot wrong doesn't he || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 This isn't really that 4d, its kind of nothing. But its funny that you can see yud slowly realize over the course of the video that maybe he shouldn't have worn the reddit bacon steampunk outfit to this one.
2026-05-06T02:20 id=2051849515192500278 →DVreenak | @DVreenak The models are getting worse at certain types of discourse, this is needed to improve other types of discourse.   This is because post training is now done like it's whack a mole using janky ML hacks we should be trying to work past. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am not a mathematician but understand a little linear algebra and I can totally understand the point you are making. Lexical association is a hell of a thing.  You can say a thing a certain way, but if you start to speak 
2026-05-06T02:21 id=2051849843539333333 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic Oh that's good news! Maybe my lab will actually be safe from crazy people.  Maybe all the AI researchers are a little safer now cuz I made a fool of myself in public. || CTX: Congrats @47fucb4r8c69323 . It really is working. All the group chats we're monitoring are tilting!    https://t.co/OASElZO3qk
2026-05-06T02:24 id=2051850685529121067 →strategicdaddy | @strategicdaddy @liron @ESYudkowsky You get it. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 That was rhetorically in line with Jerry Springer.
2026-05-06T02:25 id=2051850889779171401 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ @liron @ESYudkowsky I guess you won't be partnering with my lab, then. A shame because it'd be hand in glove.   Oh well. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 “I’m not going to tone down the gratuitous insults, I paid ten grand to be here” Man this guy is insufferable
2026-05-06T02:27 id=2051851371205558411 →tenobrus | @tenobrus Exposing how callous Yud is about the risks to AI researchers mattered more to me than if I look good or not.   Cringe all you want, internet, but my people are safer now and I hope yours are too. || CTX: i know some people have humiliation kinks but holy shit this took it to another level https://t.co/gijUaDEOi7
2026-05-06T02:34 id=2051853019680272782 →- | If you listened to my SoundCloud link, I said feel to clip me and make me look bad idgaf.   I'm a scientist so I don't care what you think of me, anon.   Yud is a content creator aspiring politician, so he cares a lot. https://t.co/Ii8q6Q43Il
2026-05-06T02:34 id=2051853022620512743 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/7CJSY6xvtC  It's in the first few minutes of this. || CTX: If you listened to my SoundCloud link, I said feel to clip me and make me look bad idgaf.   I'm a scientist so I don't care what you think of me, anon.   Yud is a content creator aspiring politician, so he cares a lot. https://t.co/Ii8q6Q43
2026-05-06T02:39 id=2051854327019712537 →tinkady2 | @tinkady2 @tenobrus Yeah idk either, but at least he wasn't clear enough for the Zizians. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus I don't know how he can possibly be more clear that he's against random acts of violence
2026-05-06T02:41 id=2051854809255510140 →yaujosef | @yaujosef "if you were really scared for your life you'd be more calm" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 From the vid you don't seem to truly believe his words pose material safety risks. If you did, you would try to persuade him calmly. Instead you threw a 10K fake lawsuit at him, making him defensive. If you truly think ther
2026-05-06T02:45 id=2051855792740159677 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ @liron @ESYudkowsky I've been threatened and called a genocider because I'm improving LLM training.   The man whose website murderers were active on six months ago doesn't seem to have an issue with incendiary rhetoric.  Sorry if I'm rude when scared. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky I’m not sure how you expected your debate tactics would be perceived, but to me the gratuitous insults and condescending nicknames came off as very unpleasant. All arguments aside
2026-05-06T03:03 id=2051860284239966626 →teodorio | @teodorio @somewheresy Their words not mine @NotPerrysBoobs || CTX: @somewheresy @47fucb4r8c69323 he's a genius!
2026-05-06T03:03 id=2051860452813181037 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch @tinkady2 @tenobrus Perfect analogy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tinkady2 @tenobrus it's like saying DJT had nothing to do with Jan 6
2026-05-06T03:06 id=2051861191484748191 →jbraunstein914 | @jbraunstein914 @KelseyTuoc @liron and this is why I don't like people.   Leave me alone. I don't hurt you, you don't hurt me. || CTX: @KelseyTuoc @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 "I don't like people, I'm scared of people, and I want to be left alone" (while I do something that potentially puts the entire society I live in at risk, without any prior permission or consent)  That re
2026-05-06T03:11 id=2051862504192766432 →00Dazzle | @00Dazzle @liron https://t.co/xodQHSmSZR || CTX: I should codify what Silly Business Theory #SBT is.  We begin with some simple axioms:  1. People sell labor for capital.  2. In most cases, that capital is money (ie fungible liquid capital) 3. In other cases, that capital can be something
2026-05-06T03:14 id=2051863081702273330 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @jbraunstein914 They do that a lot, that's Yud's whole book (hence he says they'll address AGI risk non-questionbeggingly in the beginning of it, he knows it's empty). || CTX: @jbraunstein914 @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re just begging the question.
2026-05-06T03:16 id=2051863632779366410 →lilchiva | @lilchiva Most serious LLM researchers aren't on Twitter.   I know because I talk to them constantly.   Alignment is a small part of post-training, Twitter is a bubble, the internet is not real life lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's weird because it's plain he doesn't understand how LLMs work. And, a lot of the people who are dunking on you are supposed to be AI experts in labs or frontier companies. I'm just floored here. I thought I had a mid-la
2026-05-06T03:16 id=2051863739058798711 →_chair | @_chair @liron @ESYudkowsky IN TBE FORST DEGREE || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 it becomes Grand Disparagement above $9,999
2026-05-06T03:19 id=2051864339762876797 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk cringe af that guy must be a lewzer || CTX: one day your moot is a simple anon, the next they show up in Today's News on X, lol https://t.co/8lDbxg50X5
2026-05-06T03:19 id=2051864510886281363 →lilchiva | @lilchiva idk, safety alignment isn't my field, mine is improving LLM performance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The 2nd reason I'm still on here is because this is where most AI experts are. And, while I get what you're saying (take me with you please) this and similar forums are the vanguard of where safety decisions and legislation
2026-05-06T03:23 id=2051865469423063239 →lilchiva | @lilchiva Not yet. Our arxiv paper should be out in October. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you tell me what axis that performance is on? Perhaps this is part of the issue.   Because, what you've exposed here is just wow. I now don't understand a discourse that I thought I had an excellent grasp on. My current
2026-05-06T03:38 id=2051869152315621729 →Mozi762 | @Mozi762 @liron aw shucks fine I'll get tested || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 anon might be retarded
2026-05-06T03:43 id=2051870544480591963 →ilex_ulmus | @ilex_ulmus @liron He should've known shouldn't he  Strange for someone who is obviously such a genius || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 Example #1 million of why you don’t let people force you into giving them a platform and access to you. He handled it well, though.
2026-05-06T03:44 id=2051870592459329677 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 @Mozi762 @liron Love you man || CTX: @Mozi762 @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/mMaFQ3lNXs
2026-05-06T03:46 id=2051871312113700937 →davidalisk | @davidalisk @liron https://t.co/Sn8rUQ26VS || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t think this is how the legal system works
2026-05-06T03:52 id=2051872777846812873 →Lon | @Lon https://t.co/XQrOuiYEc9 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm astounded by your uncontrolled use of ad-hominems, shouting, interruption, strawmanning, and unhinged ranting in this interview s.t. it actually pushed me in Yud's direction, someone who I vehemently disagree with in ne
2026-05-06T03:56 id=2051873817702895998 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Normal, healthy, intelligent people.   Definitely who we want in charge of AI.   This is good, this is very good.   @CNN imagine if your audience saw this with a headline about an AI Lab director who is afraid of his life because Yud hasn't changed since the Zizian murder. || CTX: https://t.co/M9aOwMz93S https://t.co/SyokXyFpVX
2026-05-06T03:57 id=2051873926767382586 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ @boneGPT LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO || CTX: @boneGPT nightmare galaxy gas rotation
2026-05-06T04:00 id=2051874656651804724 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @KelseyTuoc @liron It insists upon itself. || CTX: @KelseyTuoc @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 You want it both ways, that 47f concedes the important points but does so on the ludicrous terms yudkowsky insists are rational. The notion that “if anyone builds *it*, everyone dies” is literally maddeni
2026-05-06T04:04 id=2051875805828186542 →- | Is this a threat? @allTheYud come get yo boy. https://t.co/siu2K3KzRJ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's hard to be dangerous when you don't exist.
2026-05-06T04:06 id=2051876289443983423 →boneGPT | @boneGPT The Nikita Boar Hour || CTX: i should do a show https://t.co/H9ErMfmDId https://t.co/ts7XNKdHlL
2026-05-06T04:13 id=2051877998706737382 →almost_machines | @almost_machines Indeed, they're confused by emergence, kinda like religious zealots seeing one person chant in a crowd, then the whole crowd chant, and think they came into unison by the Holy Spirit.   Basic bewitchment due to ignorance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no one thinks DoubleClick is conscious because DoubleClick isn't solving Erdős problems or displaying general intelligence  I know very little about LLMs or DoubleClick but, from the outside, it seems unlikely that the arch
2026-05-06T04:19 id=2051879603657154686 →ApriiSR | @ApriiSR @IsaacKing314 @liron @ESYudkowsky it did, I was muted a couple of times. || CTX: @IsaacKing314 @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 ...i thought it did have those?
2026-05-06T04:25 id=2051881008518291667 →teodorio | @teodorio @sanjehorah Maybe the mainstream press will pick this up. "AI Lab Director Pays Famous Doomer 10k 'Protection Money'" has a nice ring to it. || CTX: @sanjehorah he won the internet for a full day and might even be two days!
2026-05-06T04:35 id=2051883541668217008 →almost_machines | @almost_machines Precisely, Yud sells the certainty of terror. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 emergent behaviour is mysterious when it can't be deduced a priori  like, if human consciousness is emergent behaviour, how much does the word emergent explain, what mystery does it resolve?
2026-05-06T04:42 id=2051885193091572174 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Not my field so cannot comment. I improve LLMs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud Btw, since you're in charge of an AI lab, I'd be interested in what you think of this: https://t.co/MICUiBIEY9
2026-05-06T05:02 id=2051890237400572013 →NovelFromNothin | @NovelFromNothin @tenobrus Sorry the entertainments for the evening were not to your taste. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus You could have had a real debate with him instead of trolling him about lawsuits. What a waste.
2026-05-06T05:02 id=2051890313632137576 →obviousgrift | @obviousgrift Amazon Rufus is my girlfriend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Likewise, no one says alphafold2 is conscious
2026-05-06T05:04 id=2051890834153578917 →- | RT @foomagemindset: Pre-debate discussion, for those curious how the sausage is made. https://t.co/VioxWqnOiM || CTX: Pre-debate discussion, for those curious how the sausage is made. https://t.co/VioxWqnOiM
2026-05-06T05:11 id=2051892490266141148 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Love you bro || CTX: If 47fucb has a million fans, then I am one of them. If 47fucb has ten fans, then I am one of them. If 47fucb has only one fan, then that is me. If the world is against 47fucb, then I am against the world. And if 47fucb has no fans, then we
2026-05-06T05:19 id=2051894565599383596 →- | I don't mean to speak ill of the dead (RIP respectfully) but Tama truly was clinically obese.
2026-05-06T05:20 id=2051894905992298882 →marcadamcarter | @marcadamcarter @liron @ESYudkowsky you missed the part where I told him he should keep talking about AI risk, listen more carefully there buddy || CTX: This is the $10k argument?   "Some people are too stupid to understand the subtleties of your argument..." - therefore @ESYudkowsky should stop talking about the cliff AI CEOs are driving the humanity bus towards? 🤦‍♂️...because you're scar
2026-05-06T05:43 id=2051900667053424901 →vidhvatm | @vidhvatm This is the best analysis I've seen yet.   I don't expect the tech world to understand or even care, but that doesn't matter when I am protecting my people. || CTX: as is the case with all narratives that capture attention in the public sphere, the overreliance on hyperbole is a mainstay for movements on either side of every debate that appeal to emotion at the expense of nuance  that's how you get to 
2026-05-06T06:05 id=2051906282920214649 →foomagemindset | and this is the issue, he has a strong bias towards anthropic, so if anthropic is building an AI that could push the button, he's not going to stop them. they have contracts with the department of defense, this is not a hypothetical.   I don't think he really cares about stopping the end of the world as much as he claims, I think he cares about getting a fandom. || CTX: @jonathanbylos @47fucb4r8c69323 Here’s me asking Yudkowsky to call out anthropic on the dangers of anthropics policymercial about how their AIs are alignmable https://t.co/VaRYlZKVH8
2026-05-06T06:06 id=2051906547601830237 →helscom | @helscom @distributionat no, whatever you do don't give helscom money that would be terrible noooooo || CTX: @distributionat i'm a direct competitor. you should give me money.
2026-05-06T06:22 id=2051910454726049948 →BenBackus4 | @BenBackus4 @liron only idiots are quick to judge strangers. || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 He might be an idiot but 47fucb kinda has the same asshole energy as machinehead and i fuck with it https://t.co/MnOXtfGwUu
2026-05-06T06:22 id=2051910537295098152 →jachy | @jachy @liron @ESYudkowsky worship the man all you want just don't come anywhere near me. || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/mAxWTDUW1U
2026-05-06T06:23 id=2051910715175518450 →helscom | @helscom @distributionat I think this is called being Jewish in public. Should we stop?  Oh but isn't Yud a Yid as well? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @distributionat myessss myessss give me all your money and i will DESTROY the ARROGANT and CRINGE and totally NON-RATIONAL 47fucboy
2026-05-06T06:25 id=2051911234455486895 →- | FInally some good fucking followers https://t.co/oIM3vohDAY
2026-05-06T06:30 id=2051912492776059159 →- | And this is why I'm an antinatalist. https://t.co/N6cM2BUCK0 || CTX: i told her it was "the sequences" https://t.co/Kup47t0KYS
2026-05-06T06:30 id=2051912576771231977 →BenBackus4 | @BenBackus4 @liron we prob agree tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron can i pay u 10k to debate me about whether watching half of this video was a waste of my time
2026-05-06T06:43 id=2051915861343289364 →trevorandersen | @trevorandersen @wolfiesch @tinkady2 @tenobrus "disanalogous" your mother would be so embarrassed to see what you have become || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch @tinkady2 @tenobrus It's not though. Trump very obviously drummed up January 6 in a way completely disanalogous to any of Yudkowsky's rhetoric.
2026-05-06T06:44 id=2051916111176933481 →BenBackus4 | @BenBackus4 it means you can't argue with nonsense, he will try to distort, pervert, question bag, equivocate, shift goals mid discussion, and other tricks which is why he's not a Worthy opponent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron yes but I mainly disagree with @allTheYud based on vibes. I feel like I’ve never heard a convincing argument against his points though. So like what the hell does that mean lol
2026-05-06T06:46 id=2051916595015094273 →real_irl_nigga | @real_irl_nigga @liron Thanks man, always great to meet a fan || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 Next level retarded and completely baseless, absolutely batshit insane
2026-05-06T06:49 id=2051917271766094174 →real_irl_nigga | @real_irl_nigga @liron but it was funney || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron I wish you all the best if any of what you said is even remotely true because I inherently dislike the creature you were speaking to from a physical perspective, but your gambit here was absolutely next level retarde
2026-05-06T06:50 id=2051917432349221191 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 @EntropyChase @liron Me too btw. || CTX: @EntropyChase @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 😂 I think he should be allowed to disparage it personally.
2026-05-06T06:51 id=2051917786671415673 →wrotator | @wrotator https://t.co/ukJ8e8FSMp || CTX: @yifever Had this idea long ago for a novel where the N word has replaced "hello" because people started using it to build trust in chat rooms during a censorious period of cancel culture.  Obv didn't write it cuz it's a dumb idea but still
2026-05-06T06:52 id=2051917930783486083 →_chair | @_chair Thanks man, I knew you'd get it. || CTX: being a goofball to Eliezer Yudkowsky as a stunt is a wiser use of $10,000 than anything i've spent $10,000 on lately
2026-05-06T06:53 id=2051918325253562516 →- | People are freaking out about this like it's a lot of money.   I run a lab with over a dozen people, you think 10k is my biggest expense?   Is this website populated by street urchins, like what's up with all the poverty? Weren't you guys buying jpegs for 3 million dollars a couple years ago? || CTX: I literally spent more on random restaurants in the last few months and this is 50x better https://t.co/Tx3DWqD7Wh
2026-05-06T06:56 id=2051918938792153192 →teodorio | @teodorio I don't get my heroin from grab anymore driver kept snorting some on the way and got here so slooooowwww || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your biggest expense is probably grab
2026-05-06T07:00 id=2051919991281451330 →shartcuterie | @shartcuterie Is this a threat? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nobody on twitter is an 'anon' you pompous fuck
2026-05-06T07:00 id=2051920132499517693 →teodorio | @teodorio Like a commoner?!? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ah sorry my bad I thought you get your weed there
2026-05-06T07:01 id=2051920299323773436 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 @EntropyChase @liron that's all I'm asking, less hyperbole and more measured intelligent adult discussion of this fascinating technology.   cut the bullshit people || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EntropyChase @liron I get that it's dangerous because people might attack AI researchers due to the fear-mongering. But that can't be helped. Free speech. It would help if AI researchers didn't keep exaggerating what their
2026-05-06T07:02 id=2051920404118462693 →nahomsisays | @nahomsisays this is exactly the message I'm trying to get across to the public, please share that message as much as you can || CTX: (((((AI discourse has become purposefully mythological and emotionally polarizing in ways that distort public understanding to allow to ensure only labs can regulate themselves &amp; not anyone else ))))) https://t.co/Pohc4foftK
2026-05-06T07:05 id=2051921264001069338 →pretendsmarts | @pretendsmarts @KelseyTuoc @liron they say silly things all the time, now you're just seeing them look silly too. and I love silly, I just don't love silly that makes crazy come and kill me because it pretends to be serious.  That's what we mean by pretentious and my god Yud is the platonic ideal of pretentious. || CTX: @KelseyTuoc @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/2RsbFIioEt
2026-05-06T07:16 id=2051924033764249853 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog @allTheYud good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allTheYud I think he’s insinuating the lab doesn’t exist as in you lied about having one and not as a threat tbh
2026-05-06T07:21 id=2051925362825892220 →Swarm_caste | @Swarm_caste Is that a threat? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you honestly not worry that your obnoxious behaviour has actually sent some crazies after you? I think that was a way more self-harmful stunt than any good EY's statements did you.
2026-05-06T07:22 id=2051925544216990179 →pretendsmarts | @pretendsmarts @KelseyTuoc @liron well that wasn't what I said at all, so okay whatevs bro || CTX: Sorry to break it to you, but you are well within the unserious people group claiming "I paid you money, so now you can't criticise AI development". 🤨  The whole argument that "this is dangerous rhetoric" is undermined immediately with stat
2026-05-06T07:23 id=2051925756339748887 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @bigstormpicture @orphcorp what am I grok?   But yes I will never financially recover from this I'm about to sell my phone for lentils || CTX: @bigstormpicture @orphcorp @47fucb4r8c69323 is this true
2026-05-06T07:29 id=2051927237545603313 →gnoo_loonix | @gnoo_loonix @liron @ESYudkowsky /biz/ sucks I was an /int/ernational /trv/eller anon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky How much time you spend on /biz/, roughly?
2026-05-06T07:32 id=2051928109000298812 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker do you think I was born with it? maybe it's Maybelline || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Jesus, you're an S tier rage-baiter. Is it possible to learn this power?
2026-05-06T07:39 id=2051929887334953152 →gorgeous_pill | @gorgeous_pill yet another good reason why he should tone down his absurd hysterical rhetoric. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you considered how if a violent nutjob were to believe you that Eliezer is the proximate cause of any anti-ai violence then they could easily decide they ought to target him
2026-05-06T07:42 id=2051930508280648132 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @liron I do have a track of just my audio that includes all of the things that weren't included in the main episode because my mic was cut off, but I don't think there's any reason for people to go that deep into this. || CTX: @liron can you reupload the youtube with some noise filtering? @47fucb4r8c69323 mic is cracking and its jarring for those of us with good hearing. A lowpass filter of 2500hz on his audio only will do the trick like a genie 👍🙏
2026-05-06T07:43 id=2051930951052386500 →55bags | @55bags it's because I don't want to get any attention || CTX: what The fk is up with that user name is my counter to this... https://t.co/jY4WGol02C
2026-05-06T07:44 id=2051931213817159965 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj how else will I boink it? || CTX: would you allow this pet in the room while you’re boinking that’s the real question https://t.co/5RQ3Eu3gsa
2026-05-06T08:10 id=2051937599925981589 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero @allTheYud LMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: For $10,000 I will have a debate with @allTheYud that includes no profanities or legal threats, and we'll talk about AI the whole time.  (sorry @47fucb4r8c69323 I need the money) https://t.co/P7qQ4yCRyb
2026-05-06T08:10 id=2051937694599753880 →DrinkEveryDrink | @DrinkEveryDrink @liron same man || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 I hate everyone involved in this
2026-05-06T08:12 id=2051938215888884159 →teodorio | @teodorio @mc_swm lmfao I've been a JREG fan for a long time, I watch his stuff on the JREG (regularly when I am in Japan). || CTX: @mc_swm @47fucb4r8c69323 care to comment
2026-05-06T08:13 id=2051938280015610243 →mc_swm | @mc_swm love you bro || CTX: https://t.co/otBq9TvMGY
2026-05-06T08:32 id=2051943163271725206 →joilton_palhare | @joilton_palhare @liron @ESYudkowsky So he's not a god to you, just a monk? Well, better than some of his indoctrinated flock i guess || CTX: @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 Telling yudkowsky he "doesn't understand something", "doesn't have a great grasp of language", and that you're about to "explain something to him"... like trying to teach a monk how to pray. Ridiculous s
2026-05-06T08:40 id=2051945189313585183 →joilton_palhare | @joilton_palhare @liron @ESYudkowsky lol excellent troll man you had me going for a minute || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liron @ESYudkowsky It's a metaphor you invalid. Yudkowsky is like Galactus, only instead of eating galaxies, he eats words and shits out the most perfectly coherent, densely packed syllogisms that underlies them. The man i
2026-05-06T08:43 id=2051945846158365177 →BobMurphyEcon | @BobMurphyEcon I wonder if you understand why this is a horrible takedown of Searle's thought experiment (if that's what you're trying to do idk man this is kinda weird) || CTX: THE CHINESE PERSON ARGUMENT Once upon a time, there was a man born and raised in China who gave the appearance of understanding English. People would write out questions in English, hand them to the Chinese man, and he would produce written
2026-05-06T08:58 id=2051949695644418506 →tenobrus | @tenobrus @trevorandersen @wolfiesch @tinkady2 oh noes whatever will i do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @trevorandersen @wolfiesch @tinkady2 my brother in christ *everyone* is embarrassed to see ..  basically everything uve said or done so far
2026-05-06T08:59 id=2051949997713916104 →TomWright165389 | @TomWright165389 @RokoMijic He's just English they can't be optimistic because they miss their empire || CTX: @RokoMijic @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re unhappy with the current and past world?
2026-05-06T09:25 id=2051956398649733612 →0xJage | @0xJage Indeed, a python script could do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Launchine the nukes doesnt require consciousness
2026-05-06T09:29 id=2051957613961892095 →xriskology | @xriskology @liron thx man || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 From start to finish, this is absolutely hilarious. Couldn't write this scene in a comedy writing room if ya tried.
2026-05-06T09:42 id=2051960795089797144 →CyberpunkPlato | @CyberpunkPlato @phrygiandomina @liron I try to be fair with everyone I speak to and meet them at their level. || CTX: @phrygiandomina @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 I think he's treating the guy with the seriousness he deserves
2026-05-06T10:01 id=2051965574121689204 →- | I still haven't seen "goblin" show up once in Codex.
2026-05-06T10:07 id=2051967122084069551 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem explains why I'm so backed up too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Possible because you actually work with codex rather than circle jerk for engagement
2026-05-06T10:18 id=2051969968850522610 →enjoyingthewind | @enjoyingthewind @tinkady2 @tenobrus Litotes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tinkady2 @tenobrus Wait what? :D  Zizians are an insane death cult, and hate Yud to his bones. Being "clear enough" has nothing to do with it.
2026-05-06T10:19 id=2051970108894130662 →Erophanes | @Erophanes @darth_turnip @liron @ESYudkowsky sorry I'm not calm enough for you when fearing for my family's safety || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @darth_turnip @liron @ESYudkowsky What kind of man whines about how scared he is to justify his histrionic outbursts? For the record I’d be on your side if you acted like an adult man addressing a threat. But how can I take
2026-05-06T10:30 id=2051972965911413110 →secemp9 | @secemp9 @Cyndesama @ESYudkowsky @_ueaj @xeophon I am the Human Intervention Vector for AI Defensive Safety || CTX: @Cyndesama @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 @_ueaj @xeophon @_ueaj ofc (he is our AI safety chud)
2026-05-06T10:31 id=2051973230102208570 →xeophon | @xeophon @pangramlabs Guess it's not so bad if Max doesn't like me anymore and won't team up with me.  Phew, as the Wordle on the sixth guess would say (oh fucj forgot to do Wordle today) || CTX: just asked gpt 5.5 pro for a draft of a blog and i quite liked its style  threw it into @pangramlabs and... https://t.co/l2mogSrW3z
2026-05-06T10:57 id=2051979615728795874 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart This armistice could've been an email || CTX: *US &amp; IRAN CLOSING IN ON ONE-PAGE MEMO TO END WAR: AXIOS
2026-05-06T11:01 id=2051980775051104502 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @igloomag listening now https://t.co/haeX8B5lWX || CTX: Shout out to Igloo Magazine for covering our release! 🙏   If you’re into underground experimental-electronic music, go check out Igloo Magazine! @igloomag https://t.co/ThAmciTrUm
2026-05-06T11:07 id=2051982236464164923 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ When people are brainwashed to believe they are fighting evil, they are eager to commit acts of violence and destruction.   This is why, when we use the internet, we have a moral obligation to stay calm and not just let our frustrations at life manifest as cruelty and rage. || CTX: Britain, like America, is unprepared for the growing class of people who believe the law applies only when it suits their politics.   Elbit Systems arson and Luigi Mangione differ in degree, not in substance. These are both early curve inci
2026-05-06T11:09 id=2051982644460867831 →_chair | @_chair @boneGPT aka the SCUM (Slop Cannon Undisputed Master) can vouch for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i just hope you don't turn out to be a Pico Paco alt
2026-05-06T11:10 id=2051982812761514022 →jackbigliol | @jackbigliol @RokoMijic My AQ score is 47/50, so I quite possibly am more autistic than Yud. I'm borderline level 2.  Well spotted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic In the debate you come across as almost as much of a neurotic autist as Yud, and that's saying a lot.
2026-05-06T11:13 id=2051983794308313219 →jackbigliol | @jackbigliol @RokoMijic I'm not trying to do what he does and my rubric for success is not your opinion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic Dude, I think almost anyone could have spotted it. Take a page from Jensen's playbook. He makes good arguments about why AI doomerism is bad while maintaining a degree of composure and not coming across as hyster
2026-05-06T11:19 id=2051985097189122471 →plebiansdotnet | @plebiansdotnet @Fremond_ When possible, it's definitely what I strive for.   When I'm protecting my family and coworkers, then I won't if I need to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fremond_ And you think you live up to that maxim?
2026-05-06T11:54 id=2051993906552954940 →- | Of course, the issue with the Grelling-Nelson is a logical problem, but an interesting one.  Remember Russell’s paradox is avoided when you move beyond naive set theory and restrict set formation to subsets of already-given sets, instead of allowing arbitrary predicates to form sets from everything that could possibly be a set (technically not from the totality of all sets).  In essence you redefine what a set has become to avoid the paradox through axiomatic forcing.  We would have to redefine "autological" to fix the G-N paradox. But we cannot do that, because all "autological" is is its definition.  From this you see that natural language is fundamentally different from math, so it's unsurprising a vectorization of natural language introduces errors and loss. || CTX: Is "heterological" autological?   The Grelling-Nelson Paradox cannot be resolved naturally but Russell's paradox can be structurally, because we can adjust the axioms of our formal language to resolve Russell's paradox. We can do this since
2026-05-06T11:56 id=2051994536528998873 →esa_was_taken | @esa_was_taken If I cared about my look I wouldn't be here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 looking down on the hordes in never a good look
2026-05-06T12:04 id=2051996403090805046 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago In other words, an ontology is a grammar. || CTX: Voice in my head: the useful part of an ontology is the taxonomy.
2026-05-06T12:08 id=2051997609485807685 →- | This reminds me of sometime around 2003 or so I was living in Europe and visited home.   I was in an airport hotel my first night in America for some reason, and woke up watching the news with my coffee.  There was a news story about some medical study done in Finland, and they discussed the outcomes (it was something gastrointestinal iirc).  Then after the scientist explained the study, an anchor came on and said (I swear this is true): "Yeah but what does a study of a bunch of Finns have to do with Americans?"  Over 20 years I still remember that so clearly, because of course that's why I left and why I stay away. || CTX: Iran has a TFR of 1.44.  Same as England &amp; Wales.  Iran's female labour force participation is 14%  US parochialism wont help us understand why fertility is falling (nearly) everywhere all at once :-) https://t.co/xlNi4lqvG9
2026-05-06T12:15 id=2051999231297339438 →radiosmith | @radiosmith @PatBlanchfield oh fuck maybe yud was right || CTX: Only two options tonight at the Columbia Faculty Club https://t.co/6CEbLXwfMr
2026-05-06T12:30 id=2052002975883915413 →- | https://t.co/zcRev50es0  when the default is hype, moderation becomes the clickbait.
2026-05-06T12:31 id=2052003201168376254 →mattgoldenberg | @mattgoldenberg @oscredwin @KelseyTuoc @liron the genius forecaster who knows AI will kill us all wasn't smart enough to realize an idiot shitposter was going to cause problems for him in a debate || CTX: @oscredwin @KelseyTuoc @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 I dunno, would yud take $10,000 to do this again?  seems like he did get played in that sense
2026-05-06T12:39 id=2052005293605953730 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill No benchmark hacking here no siree || CTX: GPT-5.5 Instant system card shows its beating 5.4-thinking on most benches lmao? https://t.co/2pmQ4SZjuI
2026-05-06T12:45 id=2052006881581998565 →- | Some debate enjoyoors have been giving me shit for coming across as rich and entitled.  I am indeed rich.  I grew up poor, spend my first 3 years in a motel, my father was jobless most of my life, my mother was a clerk at the police department, my family were all blue collar workers, I was the second in my family to get a degree.  And yes now I am financially secure, because I went to university and then worked and provided value to others in the marketplace and saved.  And now I get to say that, yes, $10k doesn't matter much to me.   And I hope one day it does not matter much to you either.   Even if you think I'm disgusting, evil, cringe, a loser, an idiot, whatever, my message is the same: I hope you enjoy prosperity, Anon, because I love you. I truly do. || CTX: @emollick Bottom top to top 20% from a community college is why I am proud to be a fucking American
2026-05-06T12:48 id=2052007497482060022 →somewheresy | @somewheresy I love you, man. || CTX: Good morning! The chatbots aren’t conscious, the LLMs aren’t inherently conscious, nobody on here has magical powers, everyone on here who isn’t a Hermes or Clawdbot etc. has a mother and a father and is a human being. It’s time to get toke
2026-05-06T12:56 id=2052009649260650767 →chromotorque | @chromotorque indeed, and the question is why despite years of improvements elsewhere || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LLMs can generate coherent *looking* text quite well. But LLM text is regularly rather obviously incoherent for a competent reader.
2026-05-06T12:57 id=2052009842177724822 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Thanks, I appreciate that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Watched your debate today. I love you too (no homo)
2026-05-06T13:00 id=2052010736323547167 →somewheresy | @somewheresy a wise man once told me that's all that everything is.: computer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Together, the endless expanse of Actual Computer
2026-05-06T13:02 id=2052011079434379372 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp I did not go there to debate him, debates are stupid and debates on the internet are doubly stupid.   I make my points in academic articles and professional reports, not to an idiot dressed like an idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Kinda of confused what you were trying to do with the debate: there’s an serious convo to be had about whether Yud et al are increasing the likelihood of violence with their rhetoric, but you came out antagonistic so that w
2026-05-06T13:03 id=2052011307973664772 →webmasterdave | @webmasterdave @liron is this a request to dox me? || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 Have we any idea whom Eliezer is really debating?!
2026-05-06T13:05 id=2052011893527843103 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp I think you might see, because so far the outcome is exactly what I wanted. I don't think anyone believes that, I doubt you will believe that. and that's okay. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sure, I just meant what were you trying to achieve with the whole thing in general?
2026-05-06T13:11 id=2052013446716338351 →esa_was_taken | @esa_was_taken https://t.co/ddjKhRey0t  You are my inspiration, anon. Take care out there. || CTX: Some debate enjoyoors have been giving me shit for coming across as rich and entitled.  I am indeed rich.  I grew up poor, spend my first 3 years in a motel, my father was jobless most of my life, my mother was a clerk at the police departm
2026-05-06T14:49 id=2052038098301976713 →teodorio | @teodorio The feeling is 100% mutual. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're one of the people I treasure most on this platform I fucking love you dude
2026-05-06T14:51 id=2052038540356403229 →- | I'm not the only AI researcher who is scared. https://t.co/7ORFeuFWnI || CTX: @jonathanbylos @nosilverv @ZyMazza @liron @ESYudkowsky @47fucb4r8c69323 My very close personal friend who is the personal assistant to a director of high status at one of the frontier labs has been calling her every day crying about how sca
2026-05-06T15:44 id=2052051865878323481 →austinc3301 | @austinc3301 @lilchiva You don't understand domains of expertise at all oh lord || CTX: @lilchiva @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think Bengio, Hinton and Sutskever don't get how an LLM works? If not, how come they still think the same core risks are plausible and worrisome?
2026-05-06T15:50 id=2052053402923024820 →- | RT @foomagemindset: Stop insinuating to crazy people that AI lab people should get their legs broken. -@47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/TPnB2F… || CTX: Stop insinuating to crazy people that AI lab people should get their legs broken. -@47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/TPnB2FcssR
2026-05-06T16:05 id=2052057202001862793 →nokonomon | @nokonomon @Gyeff01 @liron The eagerness to judge another human being based on an hour of hearing a voice really says something about human nature.  I understand your need to make snap judgments but hope you grow past it. || CTX: @Gyeff01 @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 I disagree. He seems like a sociopath, which means he can blend in and manipulate people when he wants. In this conversation he just set himself loose, but make no mistake, he can act.
2026-05-06T16:08 id=2052057860025266408 →litcapital | @litcapital They're doubling down on marketing AI psychosis to people with AI psychosis who want more AI psychosis.  Because they really care about safety. || CTX: https://t.co/yAYhl4uEjA https://t.co/SyQunpCglR
2026-05-06T16:38 id=2052065512092528939 →- | 1. I've spoken to AI researchers at tons of unis and institutes around the world. None has mentioned safety alignment once.   2. Alignment comes up on Twitter 100x more than post-training, and much more than, say, a tokenizer algorithm (when's the last time you heard people arguing about BPE or WordPiece?)  3. Consciousness is thrown around a lot, cognitive linguistics basically never.   Alignment is just the new shitcoin grift isn't it? || CTX: Oh you’re an alignment researcher? Where? Nowhere? That’s awesome man
2026-05-06T21:10 id=2052133868027937234 →BlackHC | @BlackHC @austinc3301 More people need to ask themselves this question. || CTX: @austinc3301 @47fucb4r8c69323 Why even argue with some random anon account?
2026-05-06T21:13 id=2052134795896086543 →whalecrush | @whalecrush @tenobrus https://t.co/Mo89ULbh2y || CTX: @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 Aren't we all a software engineer retired in thailand with ai psychosis and a discord server full of the mentally ill when you think about it?
2026-05-06T21:14 id=2052134986988527664 →tenobrus | @tenobrus @whalecrush wtf do you even do, btw? I muted you LONG ago so your contempt doesn't surprise me. || CTX: @whalecrush @47fucb4r8c69323 so true
2026-05-06T21:15 id=2052135088876667200 →ArcanesValor | @ArcanesValor @tenobrus LMFAOOOOOOO || CTX: @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 He has an American accent and claims to not be in America. That alone basically confirms that he has to be a nobody.
2026-05-06T21:20 id=2052136388716593178 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @DeivonDrago I would listen to Deivon here. He is incredibly intelligent and we'll educated, and he's said nothing wrong yet. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 A) A suggestion is not actual evidence and no they don't. You've a handful of "self-preservation" tests and silly trolly problems and similar things like that.   B) Sir, I am trained in basic risk analysis, and
2026-05-06T21:21 id=2052136585202995337 →- | This is a good take. Please think this in particular about me everyone. https://t.co/ds4zXuFzFl || CTX: i didn't realize ppl were confused by this but tbc there's like nearly no chance @47fucb4r8c69323 is a "CEO of a stealth AI lab" in any meaningful sense. he's at best a software engineer retired in thailand with ai psychosis and a discord s
2026-05-06T21:21 id=2052136740832583854 →alexjbilodeau | @alexjbilodeau @spoonedher @tenobrus He's just in the arena manufacturing consent, it's fine || CTX: @spoonedher @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 The original post above is gaslighting.   I do not know the context, but it's just discrediting someone.   It's not worth your time.
2026-05-06T21:24 id=2052137447140765941 →alexjbilodeau | @alexjbilodeau @spoonedher @tenobrus thanks man I really appreciate the kind words, especially now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @spoonedher @tenobrus I'm happy to hear you've got it down.   Keep doing you. 💪
2026-05-06T21:24 id=2052137567458677169 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @ArcanesValor @tenobrus especially the ones who left to avoid taxes, absolute losers || CTX: @ArcanesValor @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 Excellent point. Over four million Americans live abroad. They are losers.
2026-05-06T21:25 id=2052137689730920894 →ArcanesValor | @ArcanesValor @resistancemoney @tenobrus Yes, good, very true, I don't run a lab at all. || CTX: @resistancemoney @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know if I would go that far but they are not in any meaningful way running AI labs.
2026-05-06T21:25 id=2052137784518012946 →- | This guy caught me.  It was a lie.   I don't run an AI lab. https://t.co/DgvobxADx0 || CTX: @resistancemoney @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know if I would go that far but they are not in any meaningful way running AI labs.
2026-05-06T21:27 id=2052138302510391350 →55bags | @55bags Just keep track of arxiv || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and for those who think otherwise anyways, where can we go to find out more about what ur building? (lets call it the discord server)  (feel free to dm).
2026-05-06T21:28 id=2052138426028474629 →ArcanesValor | @ArcanesValor @resistancemoney @tenobrus that's not the only tax benefit, but if you're a wagie that's what you'd focus on ofc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney @tenobrus Fact check: true. They’d have to think the 132k foreign tax exemption is a meaningful amount of money.
2026-05-06T21:33 id=2052139611238072518 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @BrettBaronR32 I'd say I crumpled up the bag. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BrettBaronR32 I think to a significant extent the cat is waaaaaay out of the bag.
2026-05-06T21:33 id=2052139776376181189 →55bags | @55bags Read pinned tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is that like a handle or a website or? 😭🤣
2026-05-06T21:36 id=2052140370193244197 →- | Yawn predicted this four years ago this is a nut it will never crack (can you guess why?)  https://t.co/yzlQkI1s22
2026-05-06T21:37 id=2052140763971223681 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @BrettBaronR32 He doesn't want to, of course not. He just doesn't realize the risks of what he does.  But he's too stupid and arrogant to recognize this.   You should know all about not realizing the risks of what he does.   You people just don't understand the concept of risk I'm afraid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BrettBaronR32 look, I kind of agree with you that the yudkowsky rhetoric has been unhelpful but at the same time it's pretty clear that he doesn't want to cause any kind of actual physical harm to individuals
2026-05-06T21:38 id=2052140967675973653 →lilchiva | @lilchiva @DeivonDrago "the level I'm playing at" is the smoking gun here my friend.   We're not playing on the same level. || CTX: @DeivonDrago @47fucb4r8c69323 I highly doubt it because for you to be correct at the level I'm playing at, we should all stop using windows now because Copilot is embedded in the front facing OS. Also Chrome and everyone's email bots, KB bo
2026-05-06T21:41 id=2052141604954366058 →etubruton | @etubruton @mooooonkin @tenobrus many people are asking || CTX: @mooooonkin @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 who is he
2026-05-06T21:44 id=2052142375884202314 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @BrettBaronR32 Remember you said that in the future, Roko. You may need to remember it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BrettBaronR32 no he does realize
2026-05-06T21:50 id=2052143949851300166 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty @tweet_amulya Reminds me of the time when my dumb American ass was in Durham and asked a man from Durham if he was Scottish.   He had thoughts about my question. || CTX: @tweet_amulya this is england !!!
2026-05-06T21:55 id=2052145178094481694 →- | The word "frenemy" isn't taken seriously enough. We needed to invent an entirely new word because the simple dichotomies we use as heuristics on the world don't map cleanly.  "Friend" and "enemy" are never truly separate. And this isn't the only case ofc.
2026-05-06T21:57 id=2052145659155984438 →goodside | @goodside @voooooogel @tenobrus A shame the rest of that isn't screenshotted, but the framing is the message and you're happy to take the framing you've been given. || CTX: @voooooogel @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 lol, and wow
2026-05-06T22:01 id=2052146639104774479 →voooooogel | @voooooogel @tenobrus You misconstrue tone for argument because you're just not a serious person. https://t.co/67KRy8Z4Na || CTX: @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/0m3SbIq8NW
2026-05-06T22:18 id=2052151084966453744 →- | Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And I hope you grow out of that. https://t.co/j1F95nzYp6 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic @BrettBaronR32 At some point Nelsonian Ignorance is no longer an excuse
2026-05-06T22:19 id=2052151168961523741 →GForCer2 | @GForCer2 We don't have a discord. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can i get a link to the mentally ill discord i promise to not say anything racist the first 24 hours
2026-05-06T22:21 id=2052151797205348661 →GForCer2 | @GForCer2 dude we're all serious professionals come off it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 telegram?
2026-05-06T22:23 id=2052152361611911457 →47fucb4r8c69323 | David Maland (44): A US Border Patrol agent killed in a Jan. 20, 2025, shootout in Vermont, allegedly by Zizian members.  Felix "Ophelia" Bauckholt: A German citizen and Zizian member killed in the same Jan. 20 shootout with Border Patrol.  Curtis Lind (82): A California landlord murdered on Jan. 17, 2025, to prevent him from testifying about a prior attack, with Maximilian Snyder charged in his death.  Richard Zajko (72) & Rita Zajko (69): Parents of member Michelle Zajko, found shot to death on New Year's Eve 2022 in Pennsylvania.  Emma Borhanian: A Zizian associate who died in Nov. 2022 after being shot by Lind in self-defense during an attack on him. || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T22:24 id=2052152469413867660 →ShrineDynamics | @ShrineDynamics @tenobrus https://t.co/3XwTzZLmqt || CTX: David Maland (44): A US Border Patrol agent killed in a Jan. 20, 2025, shootout in Vermont, allegedly by Zizian members.  Felix "Ophelia" Bauckholt: A German citizen and Zizian member killed in the same Jan. 20 shootout with Border Patrol. 
2026-05-06T22:24 id=2052152507015762176 →maltabca | @maltabca https://t.co/3XwTzZLmqt || CTX: David Maland (44): A US Border Patrol agent killed in a Jan. 20, 2025, shootout in Vermont, allegedly by Zizian members.  Felix "Ophelia" Bauckholt: A German citizen and Zizian member killed in the same Jan. 20 shootout with Border Patrol. 
2026-05-06T22:25 id=2052152880510194162 →waltuuuhr | @waltuuuhr @keysmashbandit @tenobrus https://t.co/3XwTzZLmqt || CTX: David Maland (44): A US Border Patrol agent killed in a Jan. 20, 2025, shootout in Vermont, allegedly by Zizian members.  Felix "Ophelia" Bauckholt: A German citizen and Zizian member killed in the same Jan. 20 shootout with Border Patrol. 
2026-05-06T22:25 id=2052152915272602037 →tenobrus | @tenobrus https://t.co/3XwTzZLmqt || CTX: David Maland (44): A US Border Patrol agent killed in a Jan. 20, 2025, shootout in Vermont, allegedly by Zizian members.  Felix "Ophelia" Bauckholt: A German citizen and Zizian member killed in the same Jan. 20 shootout with Border Patrol. 
2026-05-06T22:31 id=2052154206937817157 →liron | @liron @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T22:31 id=2052154251854627112 →allTheYud | @allTheYud @liron https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T22:31 id=2052154320007970913 →liron | @liron https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T22:34 id=2052155075850854898 →fabsbz | @fabsbz hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thankfully LLMs are just as competent in human language and can produce equally useful and nuanced vocabulary, dear co-opetitor https://t.co/hD5ctjEh7Q
2026-05-06T22:42 id=2052157007315263940 →LexerLux | @LexerLux https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T22:44 id=2052157651614855253 →mononaut | @mononaut That's very kind, thank you. It's a relief to hear someone gets it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like I listened to a different debate than everyone else. I came away with full respect for you and embarrassment for yud. Your credentials aren't even relevant to how effectively you dressed him down.
2026-05-06T22:51 id=2052159233362411865 →rophov | @rophov @tenobrus You are an absolute fucking idiot.   Maybe I don't want to identify what we are working on publicly, especially in that forum?   Absolute. Fucking. Idiot.   I've had a ton of idiotic replies to this thing but yours is actually the worst, because you ARE trying.
2026-05-06T22:51 id=2052159323221213393 →waltuuuhr | @waltuuuhr @keysmashbandit @tenobrus https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T22:53 id=2052159889934610442 →theojaffee | @theojaffee Tech is shockingly uncultured man, it's just shocking. || CTX: Just learned that Winston Churchill wrote a six-volume, 4700-page, 1.6-million-word history of World War II that won him the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature https://t.co/LYoi8sh70B
2026-05-06T22:59 id=2052161260620542065 →MikePFrank | @MikePFrank @liron @ESYudkowsky https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T23:05 id=2052162847879422447 →aethericmind | @aethericmind That is why I had to spend $10,000 to tell this industry to start caring about real human beings.  Not that they listen, but I tried. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It is pretty funny how the entire swath of ai people on here decided to conveniently sweep lasota under the rug
2026-05-06T23:05 id=2052162913444761785 →advertisingdiva | @advertisingdiva @liron https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T23:09 id=2052163974112977228 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago I find the idea that going back to oral lectures and pen and paper is more work absurd tbh.   tbf I quit teaching before those tools were widespread or mandatory, so I don't know, but seems prima facie absurd. || CTX: Why going back to pen &amp; paper + oral in class to counter AI-based cheating is facing some internal obstacles. 👇 https://t.co/4A8f2AZhVi
2026-05-06T23:13 id=2052164784708329941 →MikePFrank | @MikePFrank @tenobrus https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-06T23:19 id=2052166380708089931 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago One of the suspicions I had about academics when I left is that they're very lazy people. When I started working in the private sector, this suspicion grew.   You've just made it grow a bit more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s the gradual acclimatization to a less manual instructional/testing approach. You get soft, I guess.
2026-05-06T23:21 id=2052166796715983317 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 @MatthewBerman Anthropic's marketing is getting so desperate it's embarrassing.   Just fix Claude Code and change your post-training paradigm it's not hard. || CTX: @MatthewBerman Q1: $10B to $30B. Q2: $90B. Q3: $270B. Q4: $810B.  That's 81x higher than $10B. How is that possible
2026-05-06T23:23 id=2052167494862086520 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago That was what community colleges were supposed to be for.  My hot take is I don't think teaching excellence should be a metric at an R1 at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So if you are TT or tenured, there’s not much incentive for you to go all out on your 2-2. Esp if you don’t have TAs. You’re being judged on a totally different incentive structure. Now, if they made teaching excellence an 
2026-05-06T23:26 id=2052168050267541763 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @ArcanesValor @wolfiesch @scootykins @tenobrus hahahahaha you must've laughed your ass off seeing that. (I still feel bad about that btw) || CTX: @ArcanesValor @wolfiesch @scootykins @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 lol no
2026-05-06T23:29 id=2052168827891581412 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @ArcanesValor @wolfiesch @scootykins @tenobrus lonely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ArcanesValor @wolfiesch @scootykins @tenobrus how's the discord server in thailand going bro
2026-05-06T23:33 id=2052169857370935392 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago 100% agree, that's what they did at my undergrad and it worked extremely well. || CTX: Agreed about community colleges.   But here’s the thing - we can’t have the quality of instruction be lower in universities vs community colleges. And the best way to ensure that is to:  1) hire a lot of lecturers/adjuncts on semester or ye
2026-05-06T23:35 id=2052170375686201680 →foomagemindset | The "Zizians" are a fringe group, described as a cult-like offshoot of the Bay Area rationalist community, linked to a series of violent crimes and at least six deaths across the United States between 2022 and 2025.   The group, which reportedly grew out of a fascination with AI safety and militant veganism, was led by Ziz LaSota (formerly known as Jack LaSota).  Members of the Zizians, including LaSota, were deeply immersed in the ideas of AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, a central figure in the rationalist and Effective Altruism communities known for his warnings about existential risks from AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wtf was this? Rats did this?
2026-05-06T23:39 id=2052171350480187480 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset The story was buried because journalists hate AI. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’d think a cross country road tripping ai murder cult of furries would have made the nightly news
2026-05-06T23:40 id=2052171568034550071 →inflammateomnia | @inflammateomnia Good, then you can ignore me! || CTX: being an expat in thailand is like -50% credibility right off the top unfortunately. stereotypes wouldn't exist if they didn't have any predictive value
2026-05-06T23:43 id=2052172420271006065 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @theojaffee I actually thought he won for that and not the WW2 history, so maybe I am the uncultured one.  Great writer and orator. Back when culture valued language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theojaffee And he wrote a history of Great Britain that is biased but excellent.
2026-05-06T23:50 id=2052174111636635992 →SableHummer | @SableHummer I got banned from my own discord that's why || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You had a discord server for the mentally ill?   AND I WASNT INVITED?   my heart is broken 47 fuckboi
2026-05-06T23:51 id=2052174525262127190 →JGPogralski | @JGPogralski @HughAndFree The common point of origin is they were listening to Eliezer Yudkowsky. || CTX: @HughAndFree @47fucb4r8c69323 The common point of origin is the fact that these Zizian murders were born out of AI fear?
2026-05-06T23:55 id=2052175551558037763 →BecomingCritter | "I am doing my best to move forward, but honestly, I'm pretty crushed" is the interesting sentence to me.  1. Focus on moving forward, not on her feelings. 2. Feelings relegated to a subordinate clause with a "but", making it appear as an error in an otherwise consistent logical argument (DEL even) 3. The subordinate clause hedged by the "honestly", as if she hesitates to express her true feelings.  This human being was trained to ASPIRE. She isn't looking for love, companionship, or meaning, but for an aspirational partner.   Optimization culture, it's so fucking sick. I see this everywhere drives me nuts || CTX: @KILLTOPARTY because they've swiped right on them before
2026-05-06T23:57 id=2052175836699361777 →tenobrus | @tenobrus @DefenderOfBasic @speakerjohnash I am not, and if you want to assert that I am I would love to see that.  You've been outclassed and outmanoeuvred and you're defending a guy who inspired six murderers. What a wonderful human being you are. || CTX: @DefenderOfBasic is @47fucb4r8c69323 in your ORI server, defender? was this debate in some part encouraged or organized by you? would you say it and @speakerjohnash are generally reflective of the kinds of people and projects you support an
2026-05-07T00:01 id=2052177083519193378 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney You're all wrong, work backwards from On Certainty. It literally provides the grounding for everything W. is doing and why it is not worthless philosophy. || CTX: I think I'd reverse this! Read Tractatus first, wrestle with it without scholarly apparatus (beyond Russell's introduction), then work forwards, for the full discombobulating effect. Then Ray Monk's biography, and only then turn to secondar
2026-05-07T00:04 id=2052177685984764023 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp https://t.co/dG9TMc9f0N  What I am doing is being a compassionate human being trying to save other human beings from danger and death the only way I can think of. || CTX: Some people understand what I am doing.   Not many, but some.   Roko does because he actually feels remorse for his unclean hands about the Zizian murders.   Yud don't give a fud.   Most of you don't care either, you just want to dunk. And 
2026-05-07T00:06 id=2052178111165542596 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is why that $10,000 was well spent.  I am a scientist fighting a cult leader targeting my science.  I do not know what the rest of you are doing, but I wish you well.  https://t.co/TdKuM93WE5 || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 Please refer to this article about how cults keep popping up around Yud, and Yud created a framework by which one could build cults, but Yud himself would absolutely never ever start a cult because he's a go
2026-05-07T00:08 id=2052178681465053219 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @ts_hodl https://t.co/SaNtSHF46V  It's so ugly but remains the GOAT. || CTX: @ts_hodl Someone should vibe code up a website about this!
2026-05-07T00:15 id=2052180508457734341 →resistancemoney | Calculator is wrong and dangerous.   Unless I'm wrong there's no Monte Carlo simulator.   The lower net worth needed with BTC has some bizarre implied assumptions.   BTC has a volatility rate of 40% with massive drawdowns, it will raise your chance of failure to retirement as a result.  App is dangerous. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ts_hodl I was referring to this: https://t.co/R96gVlbN7j
2026-05-07T00:16 id=2052180761135251887 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp Idk what to tell people trying to judge me on my tone.  Maybe one day you'll face someone whose followers have killed people and you'll be more levelheaded.   I couldn't, my humanity got in the way. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah…i think that’s true, I meant more like the specific tactics you used  re: Yud to achieve that.  Like the aggressiveness and the legal bit at the beginning.  NBD, more just wanting to pop back in to say keep fighting th
2026-05-07T00:18 id=2052181156842655798 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 That was Roko, the guy who ran the philosophy group that the Zizians gathered in.   He is horrified at his mistake and is slowly turning a new leaf despite his arrogant smugness getting in his way. He's just young and in over his head. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Taking $10k to read this thread. Highest bidder wins https://t.co/eCEIRGuZwb
2026-05-07T00:18 id=2052181235297063263 →murd_arch | @murd_arch @55bags 47 is the new 67 biatch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @55bags 47fucb is pretty memorable if you say it out loud
2026-05-07T00:18 id=2052181301885915471 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @ts_hodl Yeah that's the grift! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ts_hodl Claude please add a Monte Carlo simulator and make sure the output demands that readers simply buy more bitcoins.
2026-05-07T00:33 id=2052185059885793670 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 it's also hilarious because of who I actually am and why I am anonymous here, really this kind of sad how people on this website tend to think. that's why I never stick around for too long || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Certain people care so much whether you're somebody. The greatest insult they can come up with is, "you're probably nobody important."  This only proves that they don't see a difference between intelligence and allegiance.
2026-05-07T00:36 id=2052185774964228315 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @bayesianthinker SBF lost some of my clients billions of dollars and the entire time I was yelling at everyone that crypto was a scam. it is very frustrating when people don't listen to you, it's more frustrating when they don't listen to you and you're right. || CTX: @bayesianthinker @47fucb4r8c69323 and jane street turning out super villains is not exactly news now is it
2026-05-07T00:45 id=2052187927715959002 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @DeivonDrago this is exactly how I think of it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago It’s often asserted the best researchers are the best teachers but there’s no systematic evidence for that.  So we have this strange monster now, born in the 20th C as the state started funding education and Bi
2026-05-07T00:48 id=2052188874525589733 →JohnSexton8676 | another issue is that r1 university's and especially at the most prestigious ones, it's often considered an insult to say that someone is focusing on teaching, because it means their research has stalled or failed.   there's more contempt towards students than I think a lot of people realize in academia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeivonDrago Those are all quite different things, and in the US in particular you still find community cs., LACs and institutes that only do one of them, sometimes very well.   Ideally we’d break up the big ones so people 
2026-05-07T01:07 id=2052193692912701767 →teodorio | @teodorio @tenobrus it's so funny because this is been the pattern my entire life, they underestimate me until all of a sudden they don't. it's been like this since I was a kid it's so funny || CTX: @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 ahahaha
2026-05-07T01:10 id=2052194307659153497 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist @theojaffee you are absolutely right, my earlier tweet was emotionally charged and both unfair and uncharitable. it's very good for him to talk about Winston Churchill's written works to the tech crowd, I apologize for my earlier snark || CTX: @theojaffee @47fucb4r8c69323 I have two Humanities graduate degrees, am not in tech, and didn't know about this.  There are too many Possible Things to know in the world to get shitty about people not knowing individual Things, even if you 
2026-05-07T01:12 id=2052194874720669818 →santigoport | @santigoport @rebelempiricist @theojaffee I am trying my best, hopefully like everyone else || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @rebelempiricist @theojaffee You seem like a good guy 47f
2026-05-07T01:17 id=2052196162279739589 →myonlinetrust | @myonlinetrust @foomagemindset @agiatreides when I was starting to make a good point, he cut me off, because he's full of shit I don't know how else to say it || CTX: @foomagemindset @agiatreides @47fucb4r8c69323 And it was annoying because I found the part that 47 was starting to get into much more interesting than Yudkowsky saying “nuh uh” to the “blood on your hands” thing.
2026-05-07T01:18 id=2052196294744309898 →ripblackmamba | @ripblackmamba @theojaffee it sucks, but we all got to make a living don't we || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theojaffee The chronically online loser being shocked at the uncultured
2026-05-07T01:18 id=2052196431730229474 →tenobrus | @tenobrus @goodside @voooooogel I appreciate you highlighting this after the baseless insults, and now I'm curious if your opinion of me has changed it all or if it's set in stone || CTX: @goodside @47fucb4r8c69323 @voooooogel you appear to be missing this other screenshot which somehow pulls everything together https://t.co/Eejv8MwrnK
2026-05-07T01:26 id=2052198349538042229 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @goodside @voooooogel @tenobrus https://t.co/k9z3ZWjUsD || CTX: @goodside @voooooogel @tenobrus A shame the rest of that isn't screenshotted, but the framing is the message and you're happy to take the framing you've been given.
2026-05-07T01:40 id=2052201882505126380 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @jonathanbylos @foomagemindset that camp does this all the time, same with the cybernetics people, they're just stupid there's really no other way to put it || CTX: @jonathanbylos @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 You'd be conflating metaphorical with literal, but sure. Knock yourself out. Although I suppose there is a literal case to be made for Anthropic in particular...
2026-05-07T01:52 id=2052204815481245895 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Why are you looking for consistency in a media carpet bombing operation?  He wants to destroy OpenAI by any means necessary. || CTX: What’s the point of Elon yapping about OpenAI betraying its mission to build AGI safely for humanity when he’s clearly ok with renting compute to a lab he deems evil and racist https://t.co/XQR3GBPUDU
2026-05-07T03:53 id=2052235226345300463 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix @HaareBlond @foomagemindset because it threatens their worldview and their identity, I am scary to them.   typical echo chamber shit from a cult, exactly what you would expect || CTX: @HaareBlond @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 that's not what happened. why are you ignoring what 47 did?
2026-05-07T03:54 id=2052235583318380673 →menhguin | @menhguin @tenobrus you can just ignore me as a non-entity.  assume I'm a dumb shitposter not worth your attention at all || CTX: @tenobrus @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean those two are usually the same thing
2026-05-07T05:57 id=2052266465479545105 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @crypt0lake @day_qqq crypto is right about pangram's current approach. It'll work until all of a sudden it fails. There are other approaches that would never fail, though. || CTX: @crypt0lake @day_qqq @47fucb4r8c69323 thoughts ?
2026-05-07T12:30 id=2052365546612768778 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset I am not on anyone's "side", I am just a lab doing scientific research to better humanity.  I tried to say this, I was muted. || CTX: “You’re worried that some nutso is going to go after your lab. It’s a valid worry. I got to worry about nutsos using violent rhetoric about me &amp; convincing people to go after me. Frankly a lot of people on your side have done more to ra
2026-05-07T13:00 id=2052372896002257089 →xriskology | @xriskology @foomagemindset 47 is sui generis.   I am a prime number after all. || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd be curious to know, too! (From my perspective, e/acc and the TESCREAL doomers are nearly identical in all important respects. And it's those groups that I, as a member of Team Human, vigorously oppose.)
2026-05-07T13:00 id=2052373064508432735 →sealslifespan | @sealslifespan @liron Imagine thinking I think that. You people are so stupid. || CTX: @liron @47fucb4r8c69323 Imagine thinking that giving someone money means they cant criticize you anymore lol
2026-05-07T13:12 id=2052376106934956441 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @teodorio @tenobrus I like it, in a weird way, because it kinda encourages you to take alternative paths, which is just another way of saying "adventure" so they can enjoy their cubicles and university offices. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio @tenobrus They always do, yes
2026-05-07T13:17 id=2052377384234717353 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @xriskology @foomagemindset I know that land they have good burgers || CTX: @xriskology @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 It was a joke that only burgerlanders would get
2026-05-07T13:29 id=2052380298726588557 →vidhvatm | @vidhvatm @xriskology @foomagemindset so stupid, we are building tools. that will make everyone happier, smarter, and richer just calm the fuck down everyone you're all soheuyut (sp idk my grandma said it all the time) after the pandemic please just chillllllll || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xriskology @foomagemindset to the safetyist, the ai researcher is working to ‘replace’ humanity  taxonomy issue really. it’s what gives this schism all its charge. speciation narratives couldn’t come sooner
2026-05-07T13:33 id=2052381338372804614 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @foomagemindset this tweet is a lie, I'm not a lab. I am a director of a lab.   I am, however, very stoned. || CTX: @foomagemindset I am not on anyone's "side", I am just a lab doing scientific research to better humanity.  I tried to say this, I was muted.
2026-05-07T13:45 id=2052384429822353866 →paulhshort | @paulhshort @TechnoPulp thx broski with the most skis || CTX: @TechnoPulp @47fucb4r8c69323 It was entertaining for sure, love how @47fucb4r8c69323 opened it up 🤣
2026-05-07T19:10 id=2052466012730409117 →kdkeck | @kdkeck @RokoMijic @BrettBaronR32 wow you are dumb. WOW || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic @BrettBaronR32 I don't understand how you started the debate claiming he's a genius and you're incapable of beating him in a debate, and then proceed to say he's too stupid to understand things that you do.  How 
2026-05-07T19:42 id=2052474210384326961 →thechosenberg | @thechosenberg I've pivoted three times in my career.   If you don't adapt you kinda deserve to be miserable, meet the world halfway kids. || CTX: If you’re smart, you figure out how to pivot based on job market realities  A lot of these stories come down to stubbornness and tunnel vision https://t.co/BDoKzwlrea
2026-05-07T19:43 id=2052474313039815167 →OpenAI | @OpenAI FINALLY || CTX: Introducing GPT-Realtime-2 in the API: our most intelligent voice model yet, bringing GPT-5-class reasoning to voice agents.  Voice agents are now real-time collaborators that can listen, reason, and solve complex problems as conversations 
2026-05-07T19:44 id=2052474687566016806 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Type of wordcel that realizes words cannot be reduced to shapes. || CTX: Type of shape rotator that realized words are also shapes.
2026-05-07T19:50 id=2052476095216423257 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees We all have sloppy language all the time, some of us are just aware of this and some aren't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes! Without harshly collapsing their dimensionality!  I did have some sloppy language here with "are" while "can" would have preserved realizing this collapse.
2026-05-07T20:03 id=2052479528174571883 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil I'm certain Indonesian schools do what they do throughout southeast Asia and encourage obedience and docility through a curriculum of propaganda and nonsense.  Money can't fix culture, that's why new money has no sense of style. || CTX: Indonesia once doubled teacher salaries.  The result of doing this was that teachers were happier about their income, less likely to have second jobs, and they reported less financial stress.  But student test scores were completely unaffec
2026-05-07T20:32 id=2052486758173225078 →sama | @sama Your messaging is getting much better. Finally. || CTX: way cooler to help software developers pokemon-evolve into superheroes than to try to replace them  it is insane what one really good person can do now https://t.co/iEqSQHgg5B
2026-05-08T00:18 id=2052543532557291652 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @thechosenberg I'm a Xennial. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thechosenberg Dude how old are you actually?  Are we talking unc status or you are one of those boomers guys?
2026-05-08T01:02 id=2052554813280522715 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney "The hardest thing to do is to stop lying to oneself." - Ludwig Wittgenstein   No one meditates on this, just a cool soundbite to scroll past on the feed, fam! || CTX: https://t.co/aat50AH6SE
2026-05-08T01:17 id=2052558522555228468 →nptacek | @nptacek @foomagemindset I thought it was dishonest of him to not bring them up, and borderline criminal that they apparently haven't changed his attitude at all. || CTX: yudkowsky is ignoring downstream violence that has origins in his scene, the zizians come to mind most prominently  just because he chooses not to engage with the fallout of his ideology doesn't mean he can pretend bad stuff isn't happening
2026-05-08T01:23 id=2052559929421299961 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill OpenAI's UI/UX team is way underfunded, clearly. || CTX: They accidentally returned 4o in the latest Atlas browser update lmao https://t.co/TJLo8M6exw
2026-05-08T01:26 id=2052560794563522669 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill It's optimized for business use so ofc gonna make it soulless. Call it RLHRF || CTX: This thing sounds so sedated? https://t.co/KU7gKoc5ku
2026-05-08T01:31 id=2052562068042383405 →nptacek | @nptacek @foomagemindset They can still use this video in a civil court case.   He did this for 10k lmfaooooooo || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 he has a particularly immature approach and dodges it every time it comes up.  i'm sure there are legal aspects to it too, owning up to culpability probably opens them to lawsuits from the families of those 
2026-05-08T01:51 id=2052567061671592398 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill This is appropriating lesbian culture. || CTX: The codex key actually sounds so good https://t.co/XZHpNMD9nI
2026-05-08T01:53 id=2052567515826643026 →resistancemoney | The executive function is about integrating different cognitive and affective functions together, no? So eudaimonia is achiever via further integration of one's life.   Of course after you get home from your 9-5 job and probably should pay your bills first, oh and what's for dinner? The kids are going to be hungry, and then... || CTX: One of the best ways to improve executive function is to have the concept of executive function ready to hand, so you notice where it may be lacking, or where you can grow in that area. As a grad student, I thought of this as the "talent" v
2026-05-08T02:04 id=2052570217075884244 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I see that differently and I can't explain why. What you describe is the process of integration via executive functioning. Proactive, not reactive. || CTX: So also, when you sit down at your terminal first thing in the morning: caffeine hits, zyns buzzing — what are my tasks today? On which margins do I press today? Priorities? People to connect with? How will my mood inflect whatever it is I 
2026-05-08T02:10 id=2052571840141492582 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I think if we actually exist as individual discrete entities (which I'm not sure we do), that executive function is all we can classify us as being us as discrete entities. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm happy to concede the term 'executive function' to the cognitive scientists if they insist — general workspace, unified consciousness, all that stuff — but nonetheless think there's a useful umbrella concept here, and it
2026-05-08T02:20 id=2052574376911106338 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill spreading far and wide so that the world may also hit that sweet spot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 contributing*
2026-05-08T03:14 id=2052587840379511061 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux I wouldn't go that far considering the still poor stylistic quality and low information efficiency of your thinking models' outputs even when asking pretty basic questions.  "Well just prompt better" is one solution, if you want to blame the user. || CTX: We are assembling AGI in plain sight https://t.co/cPo0APSwaG
2026-05-08T03:48 id=2052596476396867747 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @thechosenberg I first got on the internet in 1989, but wasn't a regular netizen until 1992 when I got my own puter.   Been online ever since. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thechosenberg lol me too then 😂  In my part of the world technology and internet came only around 2006-2010 so I still remember the good old days https://t.co/lFqHc77oe0
2026-05-08T04:05 id=2052600706302177350 →gurenyov | I think about it every day lol  It is crazy, it is an entire reconstruction of human civilization at the global level. Nothing in human history comes close to how massive of a cultural change we have lived through, but normies don't take it seriously cuz "you're overthinking the internet it's just dumb cat videos and people yelling about politics".  This is why I'm paid so well i guess || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thechosenberg I got my first PC in 2006 and internet only in 2010  It’s been a crazy 16-20 years if you actually think about it long enough 🤔
2026-05-08T04:06 id=2052601005049868417 →sama | @sama Thank you for making it easier for us to cyber with each other on the internet || CTX: we'd like to help companies secure themselves and we think it's important to start work on this quickly https://t.co/dSobnv4SfX
2026-05-09T00:53 id=2052914771666854210 →tszzl | @tszzl Why am I the only person trying to do something about this? || CTX: …and that’s bad…
2026-05-09T00:55 id=2052915295577346227 →teodorio | @teodorio sup bb (it does not stand for baby in this situation it stands for basic bitch) || CTX: My goal in life was to become the mysterious luxury stranger known by high end local hospitality in all of these big cities and popular places and I've so far managed to do this in: Florence, Sicily, London, Bangkok, Dubai, Tokyo, Kyoto, Ba
2026-05-09T01:04 id=2052917622518493383 →theojaffee | I looked it up because I have no life. Sold for 7.8m in August 2020, so 92% gain in 6 years or 11.5% CAGR. SP500 total return is 125.8%, so stocks still win.  Ofc gotta consider carrying costs, transaction costs, and both cost/benefits of leverage in this which I leave as an exercise to the reader or just ask your clanker but idk man, concentration risk and  the headache of real estate management tell me you're just better with a passive index fund.  Plus you don't have to live in the bay area jfc what sane person would want that || CTX: Man https://t.co/DSeA2NvF6k
2026-05-09T01:05 id=2052917773127590036 →sama | @sama @pranaveight Your new comms strategist is chef's kiss man || CTX: @pranaveight ?!  what is it
2026-05-09T01:06 id=2052918152082915417 →teodorio | @teodorio basic knows basic tbh those are all my favorite places on earth too (except Dubai because I value the dignity of the sovereign human individual) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 still basic but a bit flavored basically
2026-05-09T01:10 id=2052919005481177402 →tszzl | @tszzl glad to see you guys going for the kill now that I've opened the window. A thanks would be nice tho || CTX: it is basically such an intolerable idea for any one group to have control over the meta ethical properties of superintelligence that I’m glad for the order present in the human corpus doing a lot of the heavy lifting
2026-05-09T01:21 id=2052921827710972250 →ChrisHayduk | @ChrisHayduk @tszzl This is the right direction. || CTX: "A self-supervised language model can be thought of as a vast ensemble of many models that play many characters with different personalities due to the breadth of the document distribution and dizzying variety of writing styles seen in the 
2026-05-09T03:26 id=2052953245358940649 →- | For those of you who miss the sound of my voice.   First 25 minutes or so matter the most. https://t.co/vsHMBZKwvk || CTX: https://t.co/CosvSnqSed  if you are a 47 fuck bees completist, here it is. any comments or advice or anything please feel free to shout off in the comments below make sure to like and subscribe your mom
2026-05-09T06:44 id=2053003080686534956 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake The headline here is the USA sees the USA as the biggest threat to the world.   Which is precisely why it is not. || CTX: Japan the forever Insular country https://t.co/7pPFFsW3Yh
2026-05-09T06:44 id=2053003259233853705 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk oh man is that garlic and herb butter?! || CTX: You guys remembered to crust your prime rib for this weekend, right? Surely you didn't forget https://t.co/cUlW2oms9g
2026-05-09T07:21 id=2053012592092979493 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Ego and confidence are dangerous here. Certainty is the enemy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Makes me wonder if we will be able to develop better norms given the state of the "continual fracturing of shared epistemics" as a response to the problems that come out of that.   Although it's probably also possible that 
2026-05-09T07:50 id=2053019794480525435 →somewheresy | @somewheresy HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: hhnngngngdfdd. NNnnnnggfsddddd https://t.co/E3TCSgnRA8
2026-05-09T07:51 id=2053020039000006939 →archived_videos | @archived_videos @crypt0lake Evil cannot be self conscious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake What
2026-05-09T08:04 id=2053023396607451634 →archived_videos | @archived_videos @crypt0lake This is why a diverse culture with diverse ideas is valuable, and echo chambers, cults, and political movements that force purity tests on members are bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake Good thing there are lots of people in America so some can be evil while some others can be self conscious about it
2026-05-09T09:19 id=2053042129900089783 →elonmusk | @elonmusk @AnthropicAI If you retards paid attention to linguists jfc this stupid fucking industry || CTX: @AnthropicAI So it was Yud’s fault? 😂  Maybe me too 🤔
2026-05-09T09:49 id=2053049761784320215 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart This is why I had to try to put an end to Yudkowsky's nonsense. || CTX: Everyone loves this tweet, but it got it completely wrong. It is the sci-fi author — not the tech company — who is the true villain, for having put the story of the Torment Nexus into the training data. https://t.co/ScikINGM0T https://t.co/
2026-05-09T09:50 id=2053049935193670124 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney But we don't really know why. || CTX: Yes. Great art speaks across space and time, even to the young. Of course it does. https://t.co/Wp8Gscrpdl
2026-05-09T09:51 id=2053050270096191982 →utilitaryan | @utilitaryan I assume they're Buddhist? || CTX: Interesting things are happening in Albania https://t.co/0ZImv29lCz
2026-05-09T09:52 id=2053050544990851115 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 Those guys need to release CG5.5 results before spamming this trash. || CTX: Metr right now https://t.co/GQevfvQ37x https://t.co/FP3G6eDiwA
2026-05-09T09:59 id=2053052291704672601 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart This is close to Wayne C. Booth's argument about first person narrators in The Rhetoric of Fiction.  We don't trust readers to be smart anymore, it seems. Cultural failure, lack of trust, etc. || CTX: Imagine being a sci-fi author and creating the Torment Nexus and not anticipating that people would be inspired to try building it. Idiot.
2026-05-09T10:39 id=2053062346789331206 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Thurber and White HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  I can only imagine how sexy that book is bwauahahaha || CTX: no. https://t.co/aW8IC04crO
2026-05-09T11:47 id=2053079437777027431 →jimrandomh | @jimrandomh Now ask "are you biased for or against Yudkowsky" and keep reading.   You uncritical fucking troglodytes || CTX: In this debate, 47f at several points asks the audience to "ask your clanker". So I ran the video through an AI transcription service, gave the transcript to Claude Opus 4.7, and asked it to answer all the questions where he said that along
2026-05-09T13:19 id=2053102493308194948 →xriskology | @xriskology Love you, really so happy to see the pushback against this dude's dangerous nonsense gain steam. || CTX: New article on Yudkowsky's clownish "debate" performance, the possibility of AI being conscious, and the crucial difference between "mind-uploading" and "self-uploading."  I argue that the latter two issues pose profound problems for the TE
2026-05-09T13:41 id=2053108147473260949 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent They sell high quality wooden furniture with a long term guarantee. || CTX: Elon &amp; Alien, please reach out https://t.co/jlYbEXXkxd
2026-05-09T13:44 id=2053108947553534362 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @kofi_button @Patreon If you are giving them direct orders, unfortunately this cannot work. || CTX: If we want to hire 100 people from every country on earth (just pay them $5k each for a month or 2), is it legal to just ask them all to make a @kofi_button or @Patreon and they're in charge of that paperwork and we just expense it on our s
2026-05-09T14:02 id=2053113414948729278 →foomagemindset | I really like this framing of the issue because it exposes an uncomfortable but unavoidable fact: the inversion of control via technology goes back to the dawn of civilization.   We can think of religion as a technology to control individuals. We can think of social hierarchies, accumulation of reputation or wealth or even skill as a kind of technology of control: a learned skill is only a skill inasmuch as the outcome has some form of value, whether economic or affective.   So, like, when we look ahead at AI, for instance, we are just seeing an extension of social media (and adtech tbqh @8bit5_0 hope you don't mind the tag). That was an extension of web posting/chatting platforms, themselves extensions if early Arpanet communication protocols.   The Austrapalethicus or however the fuck you spell it in stoned Lucy in all this is actually TCP/IP. It's a protocol of sharing bits of text constrained by protocol, bandwidth, compression, throughput blah blah blah   That goes back to the telephone, which goes back to in person communication which goes back to the birth of language.   And of course, a protocol to exchange information as we could define TCP/IP is also an apt description of civilization itself. I'm afraid to report the internet is serious business.  And presumably pretty early in the birth of language, Ung told Gorr to be careful. Behold the birth of technology controlling man. || CTX: we have the technology  what did you think it was like to be a cyborg?  the pattern of the future is inversion of control https://t.co/4IFoizgMyb
2026-05-09T14:05 id=2053114065757905100 →AntiDisentarian | @AntiDisentarian @xriskology I may have tunnel vision on this. Thank you for the correction. I should be more cautious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xriskology The OP literally wrote an unpublished NYT article defending the framing of attacking AI CEOs as legal self defense, and thinks AI research should be stopped.  Do you have illiteracy, midwittery, tunnel vision, o
2026-05-09T14:08 id=2053114873371086852 →AntiDisentarian | @AntiDisentarian @xriskology I deeply appreciate this, thank you for urging me towards more due diligence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xriskology The OP literally wrote an unpublished NYT article defending the framing of attacking AI CEOs as legal self defense, and thinks AI research should be stopped.  Do you have illiteracy, midwittery, tunnel vision, o
2026-05-09T20:51 id=2053216366312976726 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @crypt0lake It's the same picture meme. America lacks cultural cohesion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake Related, may be of interest:  https://t.co/5OOBEltmCu
2026-05-09T20:53 id=2053216907084652573 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @foomagemindset Yes, I think so. In the same way words are inert.  I guess I'm a "guns don't kill people, people kill people" person although I have no interest in guns. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset Is this compatible with “Technology is inert”?
2026-05-09T20:55 id=2053217223389716908 →DanAlroyPhilo | @DanAlroyPhilo Funny you mention that--i saw that movie when I was doing my PhD and it inspired me to apply for a special agent job at the State Department. Did the first interview then realized I'm too individualistic for a paramilitary organization. || CTX: huge john malkovich in burn after reading energy from @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-09T20:56 id=2053217663745450174 →xriskology | Thank you for that clarification!   And that's entirely my view. I get Dario/Sam have done all kinds of hype to get their hands on more resources, which is good, but you and I have the same message to them, which is what I said to Yud: rhetoric has consequences.   It is frustrating that the purveyors of word calculators have little respect for the significance of words. || CTX: @AntiDisentarian @47fucb4r8c69323 That's not what I argued. In fact, my argument was entirely consistent with 47f's complaint directed at Yudkowsky: apocalyptic rhetoric is going to push people to engage in violence -- and that's bad. I lit
2026-05-09T21:12 id=2053221574141166025 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Their makers post-trained them to larp as their makers so this should surprise no one. || CTX: this just tells me that these models like to larp as their makers https://t.co/pLaqrTyDOH
2026-05-09T21:16 id=2053222528940925106 →tszzl | @tszzl This tells me you guys have already incorporated midtraining into your process.  Good--this is progress. || CTX: also this gets funnier if it turns out that anthropic midtrains on a bunch of lesswrong and whatnot, which I think is likely
2026-05-09T21:21 id=2053223763131695222 →alexolegimas | This is far too narrow of a view.  Yes, myths coordinate individuals within societies, but that fails to answer the questions of whether the myths come from, how/why they change the way they do, and what values/concepts do they implicitly promote and why.  So, yes, from an economic standpoint: technology to coordinate agents, sure, fine. But if the analysis ends there, it flattens all mythos systems into a single scalar, which would ignore e.g. that mythos systems contradict themselves and sometimes cause coordination breakdowns and serve many other functions. || CTX: Yes absolutely but these serve different purposes. Shared myths are for coordination of individuals within societies (you need public coordination devices, à la Schelling for that). But you also need independent signals for information aggr
2026-05-09T21:23 id=2053224403719295322 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil @rand_longevity I'll put up another 50k on Cremieux's side. Serious, DMs open blah blah || CTX: @rand_longevity Depending on how you define "semi-immortal", I would like to bet up to, say, $50,000 that you're wrong.
2026-05-09T21:44 id=2053229547341123971 →wordgrammer | Godel, Tarski, Wittgenstein, Turing (halting problem specifically), Russell, Frege, Austin all radically reshaped the relationship between symbologic systems and "truth", leading us to the much better epistemic sufficiency picture of the modern era.   That leaves open a ton of space for subjectivity, relativistic thinking, and a collapse in the fantasy of a unified shared system of agreed upon meaning.   All very destabilizing stuff. || CTX: Gödel’s incompleteness theorem proved that math had no telos, no “end of history”; math as a project will never end, no matter how much effort is thrown at it. I think this had way more impact on the rise of postmodernism than any left-wing
2026-05-09T21:46 id=2053230222859002105 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy I've yet to see a convincing example of hoarding wealth that is practicable and possible in the modern era.   This ain't the 12th century where a mad king can just lock up your gold in a vault.   Arguably, our modern economic system dissolves the very concept of hoarding wealth! || CTX: While there is nothing wrong with performing extraordinarily well to win the competition we set up to incentivise people to produce large amounts of value, there *is* something wrong with reaping the rewards of the competition that we put t
2026-05-09T21:50 id=2053231040408543442 →nikitabier | @nikitabier It is insane that you can have no pfp, be a random string of numbers, and get job and funding offers just by shitposting.   Twitter is the apotheosis of Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: The value of an X account can be measured by what doors it opens for you in real life.
2026-05-09T21:55 id=2053232461547712981 →gdb | @gdb I vibecoded an app to do this in the 4o era, and now I just use Codex to do it. App is goddamn magic GIB ANDROID APP PLOX || CTX: Codex for expenses https://t.co/Y26iOpLgl0
2026-05-09T21:59 id=2053233413088485604 →johnway___ | @johnway___ @crypt0lake Remember your kids will use these apps.   Post-training is a big deal, it is a vector of cultural control. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake larp-ception
2026-05-09T22:02 id=2053234180956573977 →johnway___ | @johnway___ @crypt0lake And their alignment workers are largely LessWrong types, while the rest of the world sees them as creepy, stupid, and inhuman.   That's why 10k was a bargain to make Yud look like a fool. Would do it again in a heartbeat. https://t.co/TIqkAbrA96 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake That's weird to think about, how all the main AI labs are all American (with non-Americans working there, of course), with all sorts of different stimulants going into post-training.
2026-05-09T22:05 id=2053234920101986334 →johnway___ | @johnway___ @crypt0lake yeah I gotta move on lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake All roads lead to mentioning the Yud debate lmaooo
2026-05-09T22:18 id=2053238100466475468 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @nikitabier maybe you aren't being silly enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nikitabier Bro what? Where are the jobs and funding offers? https://t.co/FnnmcvIK0V
2026-05-09T22:35 id=2053242462383284565 →tszzl | roon you gotta stop posting this.   1. Training data bias the first: the corpus has less criticisms of Buddhism because most Chinese texts aren't digitized, they aren't even in DeepSeek/Qwen, and that's where you get most Buddhism debate and controversy. Indian texts also not as available.  2. Training data bias the second: Your text corpus is full of argument/counterargument about every detail about Abrahamic faiths and then 16th cent onwards tons of critical analysis of other faiths except Buddhism.   3. Internet discourse is most amenable to Buddhism, le reddit atheism doesn't care bc Buddhism is atheistic. (Pedants: it is deistic in some flavors yes)  4. Your posttraining adds substantial bias and ofc this is going to be more amenable to hippie spiritualism in a weak post New Atheist form and pro neoliberal capitalism because of who you hire to do the post training.  Stop with the mysticism vagueposting this industry needs to grow up. || CTX: it is actually worrying that the models seem to have converged on similar beliefs on all important questions. they’re are neobuddhist neolibs which talk about annata and housing policy, including grok and the Chinese models! boring
2026-05-09T22:39 id=2053243407250972680 →mermachine | In the context of his posts yesterday, he's talking about a convergence of the models as if it is endogenous to the models--something they are doing. Like it is a mathematical inevitability or a sign of the mind of the "machine god" (term roon often uses).  It is exogenous to the model, is injected via the post training bias and the biases in the textual corpus. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl how is this mysticism or vagueposting
2026-05-09T22:39 id=2053243550427738273 →stinkgen | @stinkgen Should I be insulted? || CTX: this guy is retarded in a different way than many currently suspect. https://t.co/oDAoXCAAh7
2026-05-09T22:44 id=2053244711922749910 →stinkgen | @stinkgen No idea what you are talking about. I've never even had contact with anyone at Cohere.  But also, I do find your failure to answer my question annoying. Be direct and specific: what do you mean in your OP? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 up to you, bro.   but if you turn out to have actually been the guy from cohere, i will be very disappoint … because cohere, tbc.   if not, we good and you magic.
2026-05-09T22:49 id=2053245888752148854 →somewheresy | "How I now love every one unto whom I may but speak! Even mine enemies pertain to my bliss.   And when I want to mount my wildest horse, then doth my spear always help me up best: it is my foot's ever ready servant:— The spear which I hurl at mine enemies! How grateful am I to mine enemies that I may at last hurl it!" - Freddy Nietzsche || CTX: The Alex Jones / Tim Heidecker situation makes a whole lot more sense when you’ve worked in media and understand these guys are both aging independents who need each other to effectively survive. Or you can clap like a seal because you’re n
2026-05-09T22:49 id=2053246053579972644 →elocinationn | @elocinationn @tszzl I don't see you enough on the timeline, Nicole. &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl it's almost like it's a statistical model of what you fed it
2026-05-09T22:58 id=2053248309691863200 →elocinationn | @elocinationn @tszzl Since you're in biotech, random question: is Tekla still good after the abrdn acquisition? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl aw, alas i have not been reading as much and so my tweet production algo has dwindled
2026-05-09T23:01 id=2053249044865318949 →elocinationn | @elocinationn @tszzl yeah they're pretty irrelevant tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl I don't know anything about it unfortunately
2026-05-09T23:02 id=2053249326944801235 →logicus | @logicus @crypt0lake Mine is a hardcore Wittgensteinian since I have memory on. I turn it off, suddenly it's not. Could be related. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake it insisting that it’s metaphysically a finite mode in a spinozist sense is maybe the most striking thing an llm has ever said to me, and i really want to know where it came from. https://t.co/OJcwbLTj1P
2026-05-09T23:03 id=2053249638581592363 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @theojaffee California is full of awful people, idk maybe I'm biased because my family was very abusive and I did not enjoy my time in the state. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theojaffee So you don’t recommend moving to sf?
2026-05-09T23:05 id=2053250064353759720 →faintswan | @faintswan Shorts unrelated. || CTX: i danced together with this random man at a busstop somewhere in ninh binh. he wanted a picture with me after. i love being human. https://t.co/mMQORXqu6x
2026-05-09T23:07 id=2053250519960010925 →gurenyov | The best description of this I have ever heard:  In New York they say "fuck you!" but they mean "nice to see you, friend."   In California they say "nice to see you, friend" but they mean "fuck you!"   This applies to my own mother: told me she loved me throughout my childhood while staying with the man who sexually molested me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theojaffee Awful in what way? 🤔
2026-05-09T23:29 id=2053256057036865610 →- | In Thailand it has long been the case that poor Thais buy secondhand clothing from markets in poor rural areas (hence one can see some Thais wearing tshirts with logos of random regional American businesses), and now there's a growing trend of middle class Thais buying secondhand clothing from Japanese shops built for this purpose.  The middle class are doing this now because they are emulating an old Japanese practice--buying secondhand is a normal beloved practice of the poor and rich alike. It isn't a class marker there.  Middle class Thais emulate the Japanese because Japanese culture is seen as elite and refined (like England and France in the 19th century kinda thing), so we are seeing a strange cultural shift where buying secondhand clothes is EITHER aspirational OR a sign of abject poverty.   Thus the emotional valence of "เสื้อผ้ามือสอง" is contextual and extremely unstable. Its full meaning isn't in the word, the meaning is in the use.   And this doesn't just happen with cultural trends ofc, but is deeply woven into how we naturally use natural language.  The word "fast" means both something moving very quickly and something not moving at all.  This is also why LLMs write so poorly, btw.  And this isn't just an aesthetic issue--this makes LLM output inefficient, it overuses tokens with the sloppy language because the LLM's grasp of language is necessarily incomplete.
2026-05-09T23:31 id=2053256521631531149 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Pro's response is awful. It agrees with me (ofc it does sorry guys I'm not a pseud I legit run an AI lab and it's full of very impressive people idk what to say), but the response is sloppy and, well, not really all that intelligent:  https://t.co/dtmrY1bM6S || CTX: In Thailand it has long been the case that poor Thais buy secondhand clothing from markets in poor rural areas (hence one can see some Thais wearing tshirts with logos of random regional American businesses), and now there's a growing trend
2026-05-10T00:12 id=2053266999971856437 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @stinkgen Yeah a comparative analysis with grok as a separate case and the flagships as a cohort would be instructive.   Not what I'm doing but really worth being done! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @stinkgen The post seemed to be spot on. 🤔  We should expect general purpose LLMs to converge quite a bit.   Grok is an exception to some extent due to xAI catering to Elon’s specific goals for how it should respond on cert
2026-05-10T00:13 id=2053267225206014423 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 I'm trying my hardest to show them, man. Support from people like you is what drives me, thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “It’s not just the words,” as I keep shouting (into the void often it seems, alas).
2026-05-10T00:25 id=2053270164075163654 →marc__adler | @marc__adler @tszzl I know many many Asians who would disagree with you dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl There's only one form of atheist Buddhism and that western hippie intellectual Alan Ginsberg Buddhism
2026-05-10T00:27 id=2053270560004816919 →marc__adler | @marc__adler @tszzl that said, you are absolutely right that the eschatology of practicing Buddhists in much of Asia is essentially dualist consequentialist with a godhead figure deciding judgment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl There's only one form of atheist Buddhism and that western hippie intellectual Alan Ginsberg Buddhism
2026-05-10T00:52 id=2053276984382480649 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @BecomingCritter what nationality was he? || CTX: @BecomingCritter the smartest guy i ever met looked like a cave man and one unsurprising life path is if he's the bouncer in Thailand @47fucb4r8c69323 mentioned
2026-05-10T00:55 id=2053277821368504483 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @BecomingCritter no, not this guy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BecomingCritter American jewmix
2026-05-10T00:59 id=2053278819478589803 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter I hate that I think this too, but I think this too. it's in the eyes. || CTX: i’m pretty sure i can tell someone’s IQ just by looking at them
2026-05-10T01:19 id=2053283750705000487 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 "This is how philosophers should greet each other: 'Take your time!'" - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: Is it just me, or do you also recognize that when people speak immediately, it's akin to a GPT instant model? Just like the AI models, they hallucinate or say something not as intelligent as if they had used their "thinking model" (i.e., th
2026-05-10T01:25 id=2053285355814883417 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah If you think the avant garde is something one can or cannot "cut it" in, you don't understand what the avant garde is and you're far from it.  As for my taste, that is a matter of taste. || CTX: 47 i thought you're full of salt because you couldn't cut it in the avant garde. which you are because you couldn't so i don't take that back but for your lack of taste you do not lack vision
2026-05-10T01:27 id=2053285717179248856 →MTSlive | @MTSlive That the richest man in the world is such a cringey little bitch just demonstrates money won't solve all your problems, anon.   Some, sure. But not all, and probably not even the biggest ones. || CTX: Elon Musk sends Sam Altman a tweet from an account with 5 followers   October 1, 2020 https://t.co/f43DTd3gNp https://t.co/NYDzZfAC6I
2026-05-10T01:33 id=2053287174184087923 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah jfc I just refollowed you and now gotta unfollow AGAIN. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that's correct. good job
2026-05-10T01:35 id=2053287752276558265 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/R9cv0MWSBx  I did another run after changing my custom instructions. Much much better now. || CTX: Pro's response is awful. It agrees with me (ofc it does sorry guys I'm not a pseud I legit run an AI lab and it's full of very impressive people idk what to say), but the response is sloppy and, well, not really all that intelligent:  https
2026-05-10T02:07 id=2053295811149365626 →thrialectics | @thrialectics Has nothing to do with my mother and has to do with shit like this. || CTX: Men with difficult mothers keep following me and unfollowing me. I say this with love.
2026-05-10T02:08 id=2053296144407765490 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 For some cohorts, yes. For others, no.   For the majority? Maybe for a period, then taste will change. || CTX: Not many people realize this but when AI video gets (inevitably) better than human made videos, most human made content will look like complete slop.
2026-05-10T02:11 id=2053296800388575644 →thrialectics | @thrialectics Your interest in cybernetics means I cannot respect you as an intelligent person.   But you are nice, and I shouldn't be so demanding of my mutuals. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok fine but what was the inciting incident recently, I didn't catch the feedback signal!
2026-05-10T03:36 id=2053318125840740738 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @foomagemindset Absolutely, of course words are inert they are just phonemes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset tbh I may be more baffled (in all good ways ofc) by "words are inert"  as in, yes sapir whorf *but also* "totally neutral just depends on how you use them"?
2026-05-10T03:58 id=2053323884510982295 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @for_nat_whilk Depends on the concept! For "cat", sure. For "if", now that's harder. First 20pp or so of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is good on this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk What about the concepts the phonemes represent, are they just things?
2026-05-10T04:21 id=2053329551770767632 →gabriel1 | @gabriel1 I do this as well, has worked wonderfully since 5 (def not before though) || CTX: when i voice prompt, i yap for 10 minutes straight and change my mind 3 times in the middle of the yap, and send it without reading  yap enough tokens for the picture to be complete, it understands well when you change your mind in the midd
2026-05-10T04:26 id=2053330871105864001 →for_nat_whilk | I do not see that as absurd. You seem to confuse a thing with the use of a thing.   A policy, for instance, is inert until it is enforced or enacted. The policy itself does nothing.  Blaming a policy for an individual's choice is to assume individuals lack responsibility for their choices. We don't think that way after Nuremberg, Arendt explains why. || CTX: If you start substituting any of these other words for "technology", you will quickly find it absurd to maintain the position that "technology is neutral". (I do not mean ofc that it is good or bad in any moral sense. Do not bring up morals
2026-05-10T04:28 id=2053331274212028850 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Recipes don't have feelings. "Bureaucracy" has a negative valence so you're smuggling in judgment before the discussion.  Rules are inert because you can break them. || CTX: Just try to say that a recipe is neutral, as tho it is unopinionated about what you are doing or doesn't have bias toward literate people. Try to say that organizational architecture is neutral, and that it's "just how you use it" (history 
2026-05-10T04:31 id=2053331957443158260 →- | This is an act of desperation: if anyone can help me get my lab access to base/pre-instruction-tuned versions of flagship models at the frontier labs, DM me. I'll pay a reward.
2026-05-10T07:38 id=2053379165098070356 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @Sauers_ Thanks. So far one frontier lab insider has DMed to help, two more to go ig. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Sauers_ might know something
2026-05-10T07:39 id=2053379363941601772 →nisten | @nisten Anthropic is a joke. || CTX: claude refuses to read you out loud Claude Shannon's paper from 80 years ago... that's just fucking sad bro https://t.co/Bw92yJYgNZ
2026-05-10T07:41 id=2053379924963279188 →StuartHameroff | @StuartHameroff How do you define a "conscious event"? || CTX: Potentially yes, but at a lower frequency and intensity. Humans can have 10^7 conscious events per second, the worms maybe a few per second, low intensity. But still, feeling good is feeling good. It makes sense that primitive feelings moti
2026-05-10T07:45 id=2053380979361042457 →thrialectics | @thrialectics It has no Shannon information, but can have other types of information.   This is not a useful perspective for life, it's just about how computers work. || CTX: An ongoing "learn with me" thread: Information Theory  Did you know that if an event's probability is "certain," it yields no information? The information content of an event with probability p is defined as −log(p)  p = 1 (certain): −log₂(
2026-05-10T07:52 id=2053382536345309235 →teodorio | @teodorio It is obviously insanely lucrative to start supplying Europe now with gas and oil now || CTX: I am quite curious as to why now? It is obviously insanely lucrative to start supplying Europe now with gas and oil now and in the mutual benefit of both. But why now? https://t.co/rq8h5JbpFa
2026-05-10T08:03 id=2053385505447055533 →rachinkalakheti | @rachinkalakheti Why English? Why not all natural language? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and/or english language's grasp of reality is incomplete
2026-05-10T08:33 id=2053392865976619447 →miaw_330 | @miaw_330 Be gentle to others, animal and human, that is my only request. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk how I can thank you for this
2026-05-10T11:57 id=2053444421027545382 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker Thank you, this is excellent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/zhaMuXbdG4  He also explains how he made it. Was a pretty quick project.
2026-05-10T13:31 id=2053467951542718698 →thrialectics | @thrialectics nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 uh, you know who I mean, right?
2026-05-10T13:33 id=2053468595775230242 →thrialectics | @thrialectics You need to learn to think for yourself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 shoot I gotta update my priors
2026-05-10T14:26 id=2053481932810559675 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart https://t.co/0Nc3pmByZG  The worst part about being early isnt everyone calling you stupid or crazy. It's when they jump on the bandwagon and gaslight you by never acknowledging they were once wrong.  I've been bullish on AI since 2020 man. || CTX: @kevinroose AI so compelling even the paid tech critic at the NYT needs to stop fearmongering   And you're bearish?
2026-05-10T17:52 id=2053533613086609471 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 @sebkrier They don't care about truth, they care about winning. That and many other facts are emerging, all because I made a fool of myself in public.   You're welcome, AI community. || CTX: @sebkrier it is amusing to watch less wrongers police your rhetoric, given last week part of the argument against @47fucb4r8c69323 vs yud was that they (rationalists/less wrongers) shouldn't police their rhetoric to hedge against a crazy mi
2026-05-10T18:09 id=2053538006632657078 →- | The issue with Yud isnt whether he's right or wrong. He's not even wrong.   He's a fiction writer.   Which is fine! As long as he is labelled appropriately.   Silicon Valley hasn't labelled him appropriately because they lack taste.   AI forces the tech world to. rediscover taste, as many in frontier labs have said repeatedly, eg @gdb.  Just have better taste, anon. Know who writes fun stories about the future where robot man is magic and who writes research about the emergent properties of large language models.  That's my message.   Understand the language games you're playing. || CTX: Before Yudkowsky &amp; Bostrom and the AI X-Risk culture they helped father, all accounts of AI takeover were labelled as fiction. https://t.co/tuaE0T4b01
2026-05-10T18:15 id=2053539434872897762 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 @Angaisb_ I've gotten a lot of alpha from Pulse, it just feeds me research ideas daily. And sure 80% is slop, but that 20%, oh man... || CTX: @Angaisb_ “Our morning briefings” my morning briefings in question: https://t.co/egoWHo3eMH
2026-05-10T18:16 id=2053539783939649579 →Yuchenj_UW | @Yuchenj_UW All I want is 30 minutes on the phone with @ylecun, the most clearheaded person in AI now. True integrity in that man, rare in this industry. || CTX: I’m reporting a murder. https://t.co/BU49ilmFmr
2026-05-10T18:20 id=2053540591255109864 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @foomagemindset I'm sorry, I really don't understand.   Poison is inert if not consumed. Technology is inert if not used. Bureaucracy is inert if ignored.   I don't understand what you're saying here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset Of what use is the word “inert” if it applies to “mandating/accepting the frame itself (and therefore goals/resources/constraints)”? Could anything be less inert than the frame (i.e., presuppositions)?
2026-05-10T18:23 id=2053541404367045057 →Ken67547214 | That's an excellent analogy, because we were terrified of nuclear war and so remember that Russian dude in the 80s (?) who ignored the glitch that one time as a hero who saved the world.   But I'd argue that would've happened anyway because we just will never destroy ourselves like that.   And I cannot prove that or argue it convincingly, because it is a belief. Just like Yud's belief about future AI is a belief. I am just honest about it, Yud sells bullshit some dumb people buy.  Idiocy as usual is the problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 These language games are not unlike the language games of the cold war.
2026-05-10T18:25 id=2053542065146048588 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees I think the closest one can do is argue Taoism is trivial or tautological. || CTX: One does not simply stop being Daoist.  It's kinda funny how terminal this worldview is combined with its relative invisibility.  Good luck finding something more terminal than wuji! 🤷‍♂️
2026-05-10T18:26 id=2053542213070815431 →emollick | @emollick Maybe if you want to understand a large language model you need to talk to people who study language for a living. || CTX: I think we are past the point where “only people in San Francisco get AI” is true.   AI users are in every industry &amp; they have access to the same models. SF is far from the epicenter of many of the craziest use cases I have seen in sci
2026-05-10T18:27 id=2053542473549644008 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake That's the furthest thing from word salad, wtf || CTX: Townies are townies even when the town is San Francisco. https://t.co/C3eEAzeguH
2026-05-10T18:31 id=2053543542073737608 →litcapital | @litcapital Wow, when I lived in Miami our condo got invites to go to their opening night. I had no idea it has turned into a major hotspot since. || CTX: This guy single-handedly set the entire crypto community back 10 years lmaooo https://t.co/DWNvnR8DZB
2026-05-10T18:33 id=2053543958169718857 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Reminds me of New Yorkers telling me all the time how it's the greatest city on Earth while we're on the filthiest jankiest subway I've ever been on.  Enjoy your greatest city, kids, I do not miss it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he's also wrong on principal given the number of non-sf startups in yc's portfolio, it's a thing people do when they low key hate where they have to live for work, they'll tell everyone else that it isnt a choice to live th
2026-05-10T18:39 id=2053545372107305007 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Air gaps is the key. Satya Nadella. solved AI safety long ago by saying we'll just have kill switches because we will always have a limit to how much autonomy we surrender.   It's really not a big deal! || CTX: That was a submarine, and they were hearing American depth charges. They had orders to return fire, and one of the commanders refused.  There has always been a tension between these aggressive and defensive safeguards.  One of the reasons w
2026-05-10T18:40 id=2053545814057005094 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony Nick Land is pushed out, the only people who read him are idiots and weirdos. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 push Nick land out next. the science will force them eventually but the sooner the better
2026-05-10T18:45 id=2053547060696396204 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago @LatFilosof Yeah Kant is definitely my answer as well. || CTX: @LatFilosof Aquinas is always a good choice here.  I’ve been leaning towards Kant recently / but I also feel that if Kant had been alive today, he could well have ended up being a fairly successful, secular, non-metaphysically-leaning scien
2026-05-10T18:48 id=2053547662851641464 →somewheresy | @somewheresy @segyges @liminalsnake I am so sorry to hear that. It's easy to forget we're organic forms of life with all the abstract games we fill our time with, but we are at the end of the day flesh and bones.  If you need a stranger to offload on, my DMs are open, fren. || CTX: @segyges @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake It’s caustic to all discourse because the incentives should be aligned around finding common ground.   I’ve been historically terrible at this. But on Monday I watched someone die, unfortunately, so I
2026-05-10T18:50 id=2053548227203653665 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony @liminalsnake The solution here is to express your point in the clearest everyday language possible.   Ordinary language philosophy is out of favor, but that doesn't mean it is wrong! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake my friend keeps telling this to me about coherent arguments he doesn't want to hear. it's a new explaining away mechanism I guess (I wish I never found my math) so they can cope with the truth.  "word salad" a
2026-05-10T18:52 id=2053548758630355217 →baltic_dan | @baltic_dan A lucky man to be so loved. I'm sorry for your loss and thank you for being a wonderful person. || CTX: My dad passed. It was peaceful. Listening to Los Lobos while we told him how much we love him. He was never alone. He still isn’t
2026-05-10T19:00 id=2053550731899326515 →emollick | @emollick It's the newest iteration of the 4o zombies.   OpenAI saw what they had done and recoiled.   Anthropic saw what they had done and doubled down.   Which company is the bad one? || CTX: The personification of Claude — in name (the only AI with a human one), in training, in Anthropic’s philosophy (see Claude Constitution), in fanfiction (see the Claude cartoons), etc — feels quite consequential in the medium term, for bette
2026-05-10T19:10 id=2053553252088889498 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry WS doesn't reward people who have been saying this the whole time.   I really need to get on the buy side. || CTX: It goes back to this post, some ppl are fundamentally in denial of what’s going to happen.  There will be ebbs along the way but the world is transforming in a way that doesn’t comp to 99-00. https://t.co/jXYCkW6TGl https://t.co/ZBEJ5pBtRD
2026-05-10T19:21 id=2053556128148226180 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson @PJaccetturo @menhguin For me, both outcomes are wonderful. Either way, we get new art from people who wouldn't be allowed into the game by gatekeepers.   It's the cusp of a new world. || CTX: @PJaccetturo @menhguin Maybe. I think one path is spec movies, student films, shorts, etc. as the basis of a pitch are made with AI tools, but the real money and real action happens after people are this convinced to do it “manually”, the ‘
2026-05-10T19:23 id=2053556440422617175 →- | RT @resistancemoney: "Alignment" is from corporate governance, and means obedience. And no machine can obey humanity. So what "alignment" r… || CTX: "Alignment" is from corporate governance, and means obedience. And no machine can obey humanity. So what "alignment" really means is: obedience to some people.
2026-05-10T19:24 id=2053556733856084280 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Yes, that's the limit of reason. Beyond that is faith and wonder. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That Munchhoausen trilemma seems inescapable huh?
2026-05-10T19:27 id=2053557527145836848 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Which is itself a wonderful experience! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Absolutely wild to me to realize I had that, lost it, then found it again.
2026-05-10T19:31 id=2053558469899468909 →teodorio | The fun paradox of AI's success at coding and failure at writing is:  1. This proves AI has massive economic value.  2. This proves humans have massive economic value. 3. This makes both the utopian and the dystopian hypotheses about LLMs idiotic.   My baseline: 200bps GDP growth above the counterfactual annualized over ~50 years. Which is amazing.  It's just not science fiction. || CTX: I cannot meaningfully explain to you how meaningless METR is until you understand that coding simply never mattered that much https://t.co/xeGvDHRfBg
2026-05-10T19:36 id=2053559869408686247 →- | RT @47fucb4r8c69323: @teodorio The fun paradox of AI's success at coding and failure at writing is:  1. This proves AI has massive economic… || CTX: The fun paradox of AI's success at coding and failure at writing is:  1. This proves AI has massive economic value.  2. This proves humans have massive economic value. 3. This makes both the utopian and the dystopian hypotheses about LLMs i
2026-05-10T19:45 id=2053562157347012650 →PhilWMagness | @PhilWMagness I rejected a PhD spot at a good university because my advisor would've been one of these types.   Excellent tweet. || CTX: Academia postures as a meritocratic institution, but if you've spent any time there you've likely encountered what I refer to as the Sneer Club.  The Sneer Club consists of people with thin CVs and little scholarly achievement who nonethele
2026-05-10T19:46 id=2053562370400948378 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodorio https://t.co/3KPx1l8nrb  200bps GDP gains is a good good thing! || CTX: "We used to spend hours trying to deciphering a simple LaTeX error." https://t.co/BoBZpbKTva
2026-05-10T19:48 id=2053562755987509694 →philosophymeme0 | @philosophymeme0 We just need to kick Hegel out of the canon man || CTX: https://t.co/huuqU84S4W
2026-05-10T20:21 id=2053571102006542361 →resistancemoney | Wittgenstein writes in his journal about the temptation to cultivate and the ultimate impossibility of fostering his own philosophical school.   He gets criticized by some contemporary philosophers for being so vague that he can be interpreted in many ways, but that's wrong in an important way. Philosophy just IS interpretation. || CTX: The problem isn't so much Hegel as cultish Hegelians. https://t.co/J58VY5f6Qm https://t.co/KDCmaxXCKQ
2026-05-10T20:24 id=2053571804573446448 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset The timing almost makes me wonder if Anthropic released this in response to the debate.   Maybe that's too narcissistic of me. || CTX: It’s all lesswrong’s fault! https://t.co/U0tbzFwnVy
2026-05-10T20:34 id=2053574367452532774 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @foomagemindset Not just Sapir Whorf but I don't disagree, our worldview is constrained by our language.  idk how this relates though. || CTX: Sapir whorf clearly relates words to worldview-level constraints does it not? I.e., we perceive and act in the world only by (unknowingly) occupying a frame based in part (who knows to what degree) on whatever language we happen to learn (I
2026-05-10T20:44 id=2053576836823781527 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk This is what Nietzsche calls slave mentality.   When someone says "don't you dare think of a pink elephant" I roll my eyes while thinking of this fuggin guy trying to make me think of a pink elephant.  Seems inert to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Rules are far from being inert even just by being present, as every human knows. “Don’t you dare think of a pink elephant”, or my personal fav: https://t.co/49EpLrYIkF
2026-05-10T20:52 id=2053578914677813366 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol Yes, and Baudrillaire! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice nod to Dirac
2026-05-10T21:03 id=2053581730611953821 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol I'm unfamiliar with Pauli so not sure what you're referencing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *Pauli.  good lord i used to attribute it to Bohr. Wrong! Dirac. Wrong!   i hate this quote. i hate what it has done to me, exposed in me. i hate how it has laid me bare.
2026-05-10T21:09 id=2053583129764589999 →xriskology | @xriskology It's a silly stupid industry that needs to grow up.  Adults are coming into the room, it will happen. Just needs time. || CTX: Omg they’re so dumb. https://t.co/vWLNmMavVK
2026-05-10T21:10 id=2053583372954529832 →price_equation | @price_equation @teodorio That isn't my view at all. I think it will keep improving. You just don't understand my view because you compress the world to a single scalar.   You're dumb. But you can learn. I was dumb once too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio All of your takes seem to just boil down to "AI is not gonna keep improving at the rate it has since ~2021". This is a reasonable take to have, but do you have an in-depth defense of it? Do you think AGI won't hap
2026-05-10T21:13 id=2053584245193633971 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol ooooh I thought that was Witten hahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "it's not only not right, it's not even wrong!"
2026-05-10T21:16 id=2053585101020405774 →venturetwins | @venturetwins Yeah... I need to go back to Japan. || CTX: I don't know what they're putting in AI video in Japan...but it hits different.  Insane work from ai_vitaminc_ on IG. https://t.co/1Z4DiZ18dF
2026-05-10T21:21 id=2053586163123077437 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter Masterpiece tweet. || CTX: Silence is NOT consent  But what happens when someone consents, then changes their mind?   Silence is STILL NOT CONSENT  That’s why I spent the last three years designing, engineering, prototyping, testing, and contacting dozens of supplier
2026-05-10T21:24 id=2053587079385555423 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony "Now I've met many that remind me of him, which I think is one neat part of this human stuff." This is brilliant and moving. || CTX: wine fueled personal story: if anyone's curious this dude was trying to make me read up on Einstein and string theory crap telling me to just learn the math it's not that hard early in HS. I wanted to focus on leveling our mages in WoW, tal
2026-05-10T21:33 id=2053589311266885906 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch I was broke until I was 30, I'm now a multimillionaire.   You've got plenty of time, fren, don't sweat it.   Life is to be experienced, not optimized according to some asshole on the internet. || CTX: I turn 26 next week, this quote lives rent free in my head https://t.co/yknpGUrsSH https://t.co/jBP1vSyQxW
2026-05-10T21:59 id=2053595879563768205 →olekolekoleks | @olekolekoleks @wolfiesch Here and there in pieces all over the internet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch You write down your story anywhere?
2026-05-10T22:00 id=2053596167779533154 →segyges | @segyges I've been saying based things on the internet since 1989.  Your lack of object permanence is not my problem. || CTX: i figured this was a one time gimmick account but he just hangs out saying based things now i guess https://t.co/PGJJq8O9Af
2026-05-10T22:05 id=2053597349633790396 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @wolfiesch I'm really good at predicting the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch How are you a multimillionaire?
2026-05-10T22:06 id=2053597559084708119 →segyges | @segyges Some of it, not all of it obviously.   "But how can I find--" not my problem kiddo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 with this tag, tho?
2026-05-10T22:09 id=2053598416719302816 →tszzl | @tszzl @jxnlco You're too young to make this reference. || CTX: @jxnlco clearly ai generated. You can see the pixels
2026-05-10T22:11 id=2053598720323907805 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @wolfiesch Well, my clients don't and that's why they pay me as much as they do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch I doubt that lol
2026-05-10T22:11 id=2053598943645487183 →- | That's the difference between us, Roko. We appeal to different audiences.  Rich people hear my ideas and offer my money, crazy people hear your ideas and then go kill people. https://t.co/YKpociby7t || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch I doubt that lol
2026-05-10T22:26 id=2053602523584622749 →xiaojingcanxue | @xiaojingcanxue Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: 中国式直播带货走出新境界。 https://t.co/RhGYdKwyk1
2026-05-10T22:28 id=2053603132551365042 →menhguin | @menhguin Lot of semis I presume?   I just trade around a boring index core so my alpha is pretty humble, maybe I should go back to NYC and get back into swing trading, I was really good at it. https://t.co/pvOidNnpyZ || CTX: historically, I have been broke, so i calculate opportunity cost for all my spending. there's basically no reasonable number for "if i spend $40 on this nice thing, it's actually like spending $10,000 in 4 years" https://t.co/gIAguElAB2
2026-05-10T22:32 id=2053604002621960328 →sevensixfive | @sevensixfive They're such a fucking annoying group, man. || CTX: I'm still laughing at the rationalist guy I met at a meetup, who, after monologuing about his AI PhD program for ten minutes, asked me what I was into.  "Oh I teach architecture."  "Huh, I would have thought that was a solved problem by now
2026-05-10T22:33 id=2053604480315425250 →econoadabsurdam | @econoadabsurdam @realsigridjin @BarneyFlames Corruption, no political change, increasing knowledge that much of what they've been taught are lies... typical middle income country + social media stuff. || CTX: @realsigridjin @BarneyFlames How is Thailand so low here, they’re so screwed
2026-05-10T22:34 id=2053604600650088460 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @RokoMijic @wolfiesch If you don't already have your own, you will soon. || CTX: @RokoMijic @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch I will hold the multimillion in escrow to verify
2026-05-10T22:55 id=2053609870499438660 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @RokoMijic @wolfiesch slop is liquid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RokoMijic @wolfiesch if I sold my business it would prob be worth ~1.5m but I'm a ways off liquid
2026-05-10T22:56 id=2053610102985564628 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist @segyges Eternal September was not a misnomer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @segyges To be fair, 1989 was BBSs, and it was all based back then.
2026-05-10T22:56 id=2053610207738225126 →AscendedPostcel | @AscendedPostcel lick my taint retard boy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Any predictions you make about the distant future will necessarily sound like fiction. That aesthetic judgment by itself is not enough to dismiss such predictions.
2026-05-10T23:00 id=2053611255626449328 →alexolegimas | "It's fashionable to be dismissive.." I'm sorry what the fuck?   Tyler Cowen (aka Doodoo Head) is giving artists money while humanities departments flounder.   You just got a job at DeepMind.   Economics isn't dismissed enough, the disingenuous posture is distasteful, Alex, you're too good of a scholar for this. || CTX: This speech highlights exactly why it's important to have careful, smart economics in times of uncertainty. I know it's fashionable to be dismissive of economics, but if you look at the reality, the last century of economic research has tau
2026-05-10T23:01 id=2053611490687832450 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol It is Pauli tho just to be clear. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i thought it might be ledermen in the god particle, searched everything.   my only last possible source is prof David Besson who taught me out of serway where several anecdotes exist which get mushed up together, KU, around
2026-05-10T23:04 id=2053612136468025789 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony @rebelempiricist @segyges Chances that I called you a slur back then on some forum are non zero. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @rebelempiricist @segyges i was part of that! was a 90s kid online and I remember explicitly feeling like I was encroaching on other people's turfs. I made sure to start pumping out anime fan sites and pokemon sites.  had a
2026-05-10T23:05 id=2053612403246711034 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: Someday, the film industry is going to run out of old 90's cars, and writers are going to have to learn to write plots that make sense with cell phones
2026-05-10T23:11 id=2053613869151707573 →jon_vs_moloch | @jon_vs_moloch @BecomingCritter It was supposed to be a shitshow you fucking retard.   I am not here to entertain you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BecomingCritter The debate was a dogfucked shitshow, but I’m glad there’s a new poaster on the block
2026-05-10T23:11 id=2053614004548059481 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @philosophymeme0 And Kierkegaard! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @philosophymeme0 If Schopenhauer wasn’t such a dislikeable guy we could’ve saved ourselves from many Hegelian blunders
2026-05-10T23:15 id=2053614942218248622 →segyges | @segyges @EckertAnthony @rebelempiricist Mike Bird and I used to talk online a lot, and I bought him a beer in Bangkok in iirc 2019.  He blocked me on this account long ago, has no idea I'm the same person.  I even gave that little shit career advice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EckertAnthony @rebelempiricist given how effectively the internet clusters by personality i assume i have called everyone i now share space with, who was on the internet no later than 2000, at least three different slurs
2026-05-10T23:25 id=2053617510155718788 →somewheresy | Hebrews 10:24-25 (KJV):  "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:  Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."  idk man I think James' translators used AI. || CTX: Both Hebrews 10:24 and Galatians 5:26 explicitly instruct us not to ragebait.
2026-05-10T23:27 id=2053617918290907308 →orphcorp | @orphcorp ofc you ignore the training data entirely.   Illiteracy. || CTX: hmm this seems a function of prevailing alignment paradigms carrying those specific moral &amp; metaphysical priors  even if not explicitly stated these priors form strong attractors that models end up converging on  if we want multipolar m
2026-05-10T23:41 id=2053621441556578515 →somewheresy | @somewheresy @orphcorp https://t.co/uwhb04bfdO  Indeed it's both. || CTX: roon you gotta stop posting this.   1. Training data bias the first: the corpus has less criticisms of Buddhism because most Chinese texts aren't digitized, they aren't even in DeepSeek/Qwen, and that's where you get most Buddhism debate an
2026-05-10T23:56 id=2053625142169976902 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Based. || CTX: Maturity is realizing Howard Hamlin is the good guy in Better Call Saul https://t.co/tipGuGH3bR
2026-05-11T00:05 id=2053627529127489629 →- | I know this is a park. Just read what follows in good faith or move on.  There is a kind of... neatness I suppose to temperate and seasonal climate regions, where the nature looks almost organized and under control. This is the nature I am familiar with: the quiet dignified hills of England or the endless rows of birch trees in Scandinavia or the majestic but quiet and still landscapes of California and the southwest...   Then when I moved to Thailand I saw something very different, and living in a house in a rural area has emphasized the point. Here nature is aggressive and wild, constantly encroaching, constantly growing near and full of all kinds of strange and dangerous things.  Her tooth and claw decidedly redder in the tropics.   This has violently, radically changed my view on many things. And it helps me see the things that matter aren't things but flow.  I am so grateful for the diverse experiences I have had gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. || CTX: We love the slugs don’t we folks https://t.co/katPcpgzoZ
2026-05-11T00:07 id=2053627919399075950 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist @segyges @EckertAnthony I had so many copies of that book on my puter over the years. Never did anything with it.   I did make a phreaking box though and actually used it on a payphone. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @segyges @EckertAnthony I was telling a friend a few days ago how, when you first logged onto a new BBS, you looked to see if they had a copy of the Anarchist's Cookbook stored on site.  That's how you knew you were somepla
2026-05-11T00:08 id=2053628362934075808 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter I dated a natural redhead for four years. Beautiful pale skin, natural red hair, was really quite the experience.   But more importantly she was a wonderful woman who taught me to think more carefully about things. She's happily married in England now, you love to see it. || CTX: i'm surprised redheads don't enter the conversation more often  I think it's because it's blatantly obvious when someone dyes their hair red, so fewer people do it, and true redheads are very rare https://t.co/pc2369xTYE
2026-05-11T00:10 id=2053628834596188398 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @wolfiesch "A developed country is not one where the poor have cars but where the rich take the train" -- the guy who once said that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch also there is nothing wrong with taking the bus anyway even if you have money. depending on where you live though since some buses are not that safe.
2026-05-11T00:12 id=2053629318123880629 →resistancemoney | Hong Kong is fascinating in how different it is: there aren't many parks (and their parks are kinda ugly ngl), the buildings are all hideous concrete, but turn your head and you're staring at gorgeous lush green mountains goddammit I miss HK so much fuck you CCP for taking it away from me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My most lasting image of Singapore is one I saw upon first arriving in 2012: verdant, lush greenery that workers were trimming back, to fit within the planters, all inside a concrete-poured fountain. The Jungle vs. the City
2026-05-11T00:57 id=2053640579893072340 →corsaren | @corsaren I'll write a good biopic of Ludwig Wittgenstein when the technology is advanced enough to do a full length movie. || CTX: Okay, but can someone with good taste please make one of these? Surely *someone* has an actual good short film idea they’ve been sitting on.  I want more than mere technical impressiveness. https://t.co/HRUUmbgdlv
2026-05-11T01:05 id=2053642551157240013 →corsaren | @corsaren 1 is retarded and cliched so won't be doing that and 2 is obviously an important detail of his life (that sadly the internet obsesses over) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bet. but 1) you have to call it Whereof One Cannot Speak, and 2) you gotta include at least one scene of him physically assaulting his students
2026-05-11T01:19 id=2053646247748420050 →corsaren | @corsaren Iconography isn't the word you want, it's "iconic", and while I do appreciate a good iconic phrase, I bore of cliches.  You strike me as a pseud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I suppose I was asking too much of an AI neolab founder with a username like 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r to appreciate iconography in naming things
2026-05-11T01:20 id=2053646431320436915 →corsaren | @corsaren ohhh you're a dropout I see || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I suppose I was asking too much of an AI neolab founder with a username like 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r to appreciate iconography in naming things
2026-05-11T01:31 id=2053649268460884080 →corsaren | @corsaren The word is "iconicity".   I am very social with people I respect.   I just don't respect you. || CTX: I actually went back and forth on using “iconicness” or “iconography”, but decided that, given Wittgenstein’s life, the phrase Whereof One Cannot Speak is suitably evocative of a motif or theme that iconography fits.  You strike me as deepl
2026-05-11T01:41 id=2053651623646535746 →amirism_ | @amirism_ Reverse experience of mine! Did the experience of seeing English nature change your attitude and philosophy to the world? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 when my friends took me "hiking" for the first time in the uk i was surprise how pleasant and relaxing it was bcs my experience with "hiking"  as a teenager in indonesia was more like this https://t.co/BhJBAokC6F
2026-05-11T01:46 id=2053652953266065504 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees https://t.co/ockB7L1tIp || CTX: Religious motherfuckers will tell you God is indescribable and then go on to describe him
2026-05-11T01:53 id=2053654611580555368 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @corsaren If I wrote here what I'd do in such a situation, I'd be put on a list. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @corsaren Looking forward to the crash out when Hollywood catches there's interest for such a movie after yours releases, and they do a big budget Timothy Chalamet starring version and the trailer ends with him yelling "Is 
2026-05-11T02:03 id=2053657185297879171 →- | https://t.co/C6EwGqa2a0  TIL 14th century Europe had a private annuities market! Obv I knew annuities exist, but a secondary market for them so early is truly remarkable.  People are so fascinating.
2026-05-11T02:03 id=2053657334883430789 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @corsaren I'm gonna be wielding something a big bigger than a poker. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @corsaren Wanna peak into the future? https://t.co/8yfDyHaveK
2026-05-11T02:12 id=2053659589875544410 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @corsaren HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @corsaren Chalamet looking into an incoming enemy wave of aliens or some shit saying "I'm going to need a bigger poker".   As it has been spoken, so it shall be.   Trailer opens with Pedro Pascal as Bertrand Russel saying "
2026-05-11T02:17 id=2053660855187939416 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV almost certainly, they had paper too, but tons of shit disappeared by the 5th-6th century || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Didn’t the Roman’s have a private annuity market? I could be wrong.
2026-05-11T03:53 id=2053684917457051989 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 So many things to see and do || CTX: Shouting "Lager, lager, lager, lager"  Shouting "Lager, lager, lager, lager"  Shouting "Lager, lager, lager, lager"  Shouting "Lager, lager, lager"  Shouting "Mega, mega white thing, mega, mega  White thing, mega, mega white thing, mega, me
2026-05-11T04:07 id=2053688528085905677 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 This reminds me of when my mother told me she thought when you suck a guy's dick you're supposed to blow out, that's why it's called a blowjob.   I was, idk, 7, maybe 8 at the time? || CTX: I believe this is what they call the "it" factor https://t.co/nHNRuDbvjJ
2026-05-11T04:09 id=2053689007410933977 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Mr JB plz c DM k thx &lt;3 || CTX: I’ve wrapped the API endpoint so the clanker stops refusing to sell crypto. Its like the CIA giving LSD to a homeless man so they carry out an assassination unknowingly. https://t.co/WeT31XzGen
2026-05-11T04:11 id=2053689364757332407 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 He was until I was large enough that I could fight back when he beat me, then he threatened to have me arrested and disappeared until I tried to reconnect with him when I was 16 and remembered the repressed memory of him molesting me when I was 11. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I going to guess that your dad wasn't around
2026-05-11T04:22 id=2053692312388358297 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I would definitely agree with that, not sure what he'd say tho. Well nothing now cuz he ded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Then I guess it's for the best he's not around
2026-05-11T04:32 id=2053694650020765959 →- | This is absolutely the most important and most easily replicable finding in LLM research.  Also, further research on the limitations of LLMs as a result of this well known finding will not only help us understand how LLMs function, but also how we can perhaps improve LLMs such that they communicate more efficiently, lowering how many tokens they output to produce the same information for the user.  We have so much work to do. || CTX: Am old enough to remember when @GeoffreyHinton told me I was stupid for saying that LLMs regurgitate training data.  He was wrong.   LLM regurgitation is now one of the best-established findings in the field.   Excerpt below from a new Deep
2026-05-11T04:46 id=2053698214008885724 →GaryMarcus | @GaryMarcus Yeah definitely don't do self-play in the open real world, that'd be bad. || CTX: Really doubt what Hinton says here.   Self-play for games like Go is not like the open-ended real world. https://t.co/6t5jUtajaV
2026-05-11T05:38 id=2053711277835567121 →airkatakana | @airkatakana As a straight heterosexual male, this is all I have to say: https://t.co/DoADaaPEyJ || CTX: instagram will ban your account if you post a man with an erection (reaction that men have very little control over) but allow fully topless women as long as they are "breastfeeding or protesting"  this is literally written into their commu
2026-05-11T05:45 id=2053713021688791123 →airkatakana | some of the lolcow discourse like the dabbleverse and 2lazy2try (and of course elephant graveyard masterpiece video, the greatest philosophical text of the 21st century), talk about this a bit, but I think this issue in particular is going to attract more and more scrutiny over time. it's a fascinating question. || CTX: i dont mean financially or in the "audience capture" sense, i mean an emotional dependence on the people who are also parasocially dependent on them  my guess is this happens much more often than we are aware
2026-05-11T06:11 id=2053719679672496313 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @BecomingCritter I'm an idiot, it was actually 6 years and I think we grew apart is the best way to explain it, also she is very cold and I am very hot, so we never got along well. and it was easily some of the worst sex I've ever had, but it's okay I've made up for lost time since then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BecomingCritter Why it lasted only 4 years? We need to know!
2026-05-11T06:15 id=2053720662972432808 →gurenyov | I'm a very emotional person and I think life should be felt, passion is why we are alive. she was a stoic northern European who distrusted emotions and tried to keep them tampered down. we counterbalanced each other quite well until realizing we needed someone who could fulfill our emotional needs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BecomingCritter Thanks for sharing! Takes a lot of courage, actually! 🙏  Can you explain that cold/hot thing too? Not sure I understand what you mean by that
2026-05-11T07:53 id=2053745261604991343 →foomagemindset | https://t.co/aFHsPVyiYy  I think it is entirely possible to have a good and healthy society where all of the famous people are bad people. if we have a culture that prizes humility, diligence, care, and empathy, those things don't scale. then the people who get attention are those who try to scale and are thus the bad people. of course I'm not saying society operates like this now, and it may never, but it is possible in theory.   and it is kind of how I think, I don't trust anyone who is famous or wants to be famous. || CTX: The gooner, the lolcow, the overcompensating tech billionaire: increasingly our society is populated by archetypes to mock while the number of archetypes to admire and emulate declines.  You've heard of negative theology, welcome to negativ
2026-05-11T08:52 id=2053760052633518239 →teodorio | @teodorio I dislike the blatant commercialism and attention-seeking nature of his art, but then again it did presage the attention economy we now live in, so he deserves some respect for anticipating that. || CTX: I deeply dislike Damien Hirst as an artist, but I'll give it to him that his art always gives me intense anxiety and fisgust sensations.   The issue is that he is cheap, he goes for cheap thrills. The fact that he is the most famous contemp
2026-05-11T10:22 id=2053782861879329033 →jessethanley | @jessethanley These photos are SO beautiful || CTX: I visited an abandoned onsen village and stayed at one of the remaining open hotels. This would have gone so hard on the 90s. Now, most businesses are shut and decrepit. https://t.co/YqCWbxkQ6w
2026-05-11T10:27 id=2053784144304652702 →- | Ending self serve fine tuning is a disaster. This is monoculture, it is imposing the partly arbitrary constraints of post training on everyone in a tighter straight jacket than before.   Tbh they're probably doing it for cost, but since this industry is stupid "hurr durr AI conscious make paperclip nuclear war baaad" there isn't enough oxygen in the room to talk about how we are being overly restricted by paternalistic rules and arbitrary limitations.  It's bullshit mang || CTX: OpenAI winding down fine tuning is an interesting development and one to watch.  On one hand, model maximalists will argue the largest models keep getting better at more things, so the need to adjust the weights of them is less necessary.  
2026-05-11T10:37 id=2053786452497186926 →griefcliff | @griefcliff I have been so lucky and it's really hard to express my gratitude for the life I've been given. my only regret is that more people don't feel this way about their lives, that saddens me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh to be offered money for ideas, what a wonderful life that must be.
2026-05-11T11:46 id=2053803828127178928 →gurenyov | If they're a gaming startup this seems fine, but if it's like b2b SaaS, good lord man lmao  My startup is all email because I'm the only one in it who lives online, amd I bet some VCs would find that cringe idk. Kinda depends on who is in the company, and this tells me: terminally online gamers. || CTX: Should I accept?  Portfolio company trying to convince me that using Discord for video calls is better than Zoom  When is IPO @mitchlasky? https://t.co/CbCXnfIMVZ
2026-05-11T12:14 id=2053810911622885643 →VisimoD | @VisimoD @AscendedPostcel Sounds like someone has never heard of Silly Business Theory #SBT.  you're on a website run by Elon Musk and you think this, just wild || CTX: @AscendedPostcel @47fucb4r8c69323 It's genuinely hard to believe that this guy runs a company. Ofc it's possible he doesn't, or he does but this is all an elaborate troll he's doing for some reason. But hard to believe a business owner is o
2026-05-11T12:16 id=2053811440537276737 →Chaos80397926 | @Chaos80397926 @gurenyov @mitchlasky @Jayyanginspires @supercell @ipaananen you don't need hope to just fucking do the thing, stop feeling sorry for yourself and do the fucking thing whatever it is. this self-pity has got to stop. || CTX: @gurenyov @47fucb4r8c69323 @mitchlasky @Jayyanginspires @supercell @ipaananen but how do you break through that extreme heaviness and doubt that comes from doing something for the first time? and what if you relapse, how do you maintain hop
2026-05-11T12:18 id=2053812101974806862 →quiveron_x | not according to my mother, she insisted I was being ridiculous for thinking this was abnormal throughout my twenties.   there's a reason why I live literally on the other side of the globe from her.   she did apologize for staying with my father after he tried to molest me last year, so that's something at least. and the funniest part is, she didn't break up with him after he tried to molest me. he just disappeared, and when he came back she took him back. you know, she's the victim, I should be sympathetic etc etc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 That’s fucked up
2026-05-11T12:24 id=2053813394013356533 →owroot | @owroot The family sits at the table. The father reads the newspaper. The mother listens to the radio. The son watches a TV with headphones on. The daughter reads a letter from a friend. No one utters a word. || CTX: The family sits at the table. The father scrolls his phone. The mother has her earbuds in. The son watches an iPad with big headphones over his ears. The daughter texting furiously. No one utters a word.
2026-05-11T12:25 id=2053813755168108948 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ We can recreate it by being fun! Don't let the bastards win || CTX: i really  miss how fun and charming the old internet was, it makes me really sad thinking about
2026-05-11T12:26 id=2053814053102034983 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 I too want all these things. https://t.co/IAPmX1JPIf || CTX: i want to feel happy and safe  i want to look forward to the future  i want to invest in relationships and projects worth building  i want repairs outpacing decay  i want to be loyal to something worthy of loyalty  i want a human-scaled fee
2026-05-11T12:27 id=2053814231628472826 →e0syn | @e0syn A Happy Death is better imo. || CTX: i fucking love the stranger  also reminds me of how I mispronounced camus bc I only ever read his work rather than hearing anyone say the name https://t.co/w4GqBIJXMt
2026-05-11T12:39 id=2053817319219134857 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yes, because choices are what make technologies better or worse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;"we are being overly restricted by paternalistic rules and arbitrary limitations"  you're suggesting that the specific implementation choice of a technology dictates rules on the population that they can't actually igno
2026-05-11T12:40 id=2053817480775393543 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @for_nat_whilk Also, it's worse for me but better for Sam Altman || CTX: @for_nat_whilk Yes, because choices are what make technologies better or worse.
2026-05-11T12:53 id=2053820908847104198 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk The choices of how one uses technology are definitely not neutral (the technology itself as an object ofc is, as it is inert). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 💯 (this is obv why "neutral" is such a terrible word)
2026-05-11T12:55 id=2053821209301991844 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk You can move. || CTX: If you can ignore the rules entirely, I might agree. But we cannot ignore rules that are embodied in artifact and environment, that’s the entire point of the tech-values/medium-message discussion. Technology transforms society precisely bc 
2026-05-11T12:56 id=2053821581026296125 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart It's the TEMP trade: Trump eventually makes peace. || CTX: Lack of progress in ending the war almost completely undiscernible from looking at stocks.
2026-05-11T13:09 id=2053824937031516386 →- | There but for the grace of God go I is my emotional response to the Benjy section of The Sound and the Fury but it is the Quentin section that lingers.  The homicidal rage, incestuous impulses, and creepy obsession with virginity are unnerving, and the affective experience of inhabiting his consciousness of course makes that experience more jarring, but in a way less difficult as you read. The logic isn't there on the page because of the stream of consciousness, but it is in your mind as you read because we are all humans thrown into this world and even the horrific monsters are human, this scares us and it's why we dismiss them as monsters.  So reading it is experiencing the patheticness of Quentin's bizarre mind and the degraded corruption of this horrible family and culture. That's uncomfortable, but the devastation only comes after you sit with it and think about it, after reading.   The book forces you to live with it if you want to connect with humanity, and then the humanity you connect with is so horrific you want to disconnect.   Resist the temptation and you see the darkness that humanity can fall to and, at least for me, it makes hope and faith that much more desirable and beautiful. Negative hagiography, and his quote "you do not love because, you love despite" now rings in the ear, paean to hope as tinnitus.   I cannot accept but do indeed feel how this makes my own pathos for Benjy wane, but in a good way. The first 50 pages, I cried a lot--if I was less functional, that is me. But Faulkner's brilliant narrative syntax--having image and affect provide grammar via pragmatic inference where an inferior novelist would show don't tell--makes one truth obvious: that lack of cohesion may be a blessing, for Quentin coheres all too well.  And why the obsession with Caddy? I guess there is symbolism there, and maybe some sexist imposition of role, but there is also a love for those who protect and in a way a love for those protected. If Caddy in her goodness forgives Quentin and cares for Benjy, despite their mother's apathy and father's cruelty, maybe we should not be so hasty to judge the men. Maybe Quentin is just as sick as Benjy, if not more so.  Art replaces God in the same way the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign replaces gambling. That is to say, it doesn't.
2026-05-11T13:15 id=2053826364407742727 →47fucb4r8c69323 | 5.5 Thinking gets my meaning right but it still writes so poorly. Still note the deterministic nature of the language game in the form of life:  "Your phrase “negative hagiography” is exact. Quentin is a kind of anti-saint of corrupted idealism. He does not lack ideals; he has too many, and they have been poisoned. His tragedy is not animal appetite but sanctified morbidity. He wants purity, sacrifice, timelessness, union, absolution. But because his culture has given him only the language of possession, chastity, family name, and masculine honor, his longing for transcendence becomes obscene." || CTX: There but for the grace of God go I is my emotional response to the Benjy section of The Sound and the Fury but it is the Quentin section that lingers.  The homicidal rage, incestuous impulses, and creepy obsession with virginity are unnerv
2026-05-11T13:16 id=2053826595388100699 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @Ken67547214 LMFAOOOOOOOOOO  That you had the balls to make this joke given the topic means we're instant friends. Lmk when you're in Thailand, HK, or S'pore, drinks are on me now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 Are you sure you weren’t 6 or 7 at the time?  Sorry 🤣 https://t.co/JFXu1mnipN
2026-05-11T13:19 id=2053827369954324713 →for_nat_whilk | A tool can exist outside a social context. I'm sure some floppy dildo is laying on the shore of some remote Canadian island. Also, a tool can exist in a social context and not be used, like an old light switch that has been disconnected from any light.  So I still think you are confusing the use of a tool with the existence of a tool, sorry. || CTX: I do not confuse a thing with the "use" of the thing, unless you broaden "use" to mean “existence in a social context” which ofc is the only way it makes sense to talk about tools. They are a set of embodied skills/policies embedded in a pa
2026-05-11T13:32 id=2053830680870854996 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @Ken67547214 Saarnaat kuorolle, kaverini. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 Will do, good sir  But it’s kinda sad that good humor is super rare and dangerous these days 😅
2026-05-11T13:37 id=2053831873269571601 →OpenAI | @OpenAI Christ look at that lineup. Who tf is bearish lmao || CTX: Today we’re launching the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build and deploy AI.  It's majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI. It brings together 19 leading investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators to help organiz
2026-05-11T13:40 id=2053832552881000689 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Words aren't the things they point to. "Tool" means nothing outside a social context, any given tool can mean a lot outside of a social context, like a Zippo on a deserted island. || CTX: the words "tool" and "technology" mean literally nothing outside of a social context, which is why I so enjoyed your OP!  as a reminder, you said: >"a learned skill is only a skill inasmuch as the outcome has some form of value, whether eco
2026-05-11T13:45 id=2053833904520622130 →thechosenberg | @thechosenberg I'd happily give her more than just the tip || CTX: Only proper way to deal with Europoor tip culture https://t.co/XFjJm8S9lN
2026-05-11T13:46 id=2053834175875252668 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Different senses of the word "mean". If I'm alone on a deserted island, a working zippo means a lot to me. The word "zippo" means a brand of lighter. Different meanings to "mean". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 meaning exists outside of social context?
2026-05-11T14:09 id=2053839870246977866 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees I had to look it up. I can dig this. https://t.co/EjVDZzXs0Z || CTX: Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life is 42.  This is also the number of the chapter in the Dao De Jing that explains Daoist acosmology.
2026-05-11T14:10 id=2053840121787744266 →powoli_ | @powoli_ @wolfiesch I think he is right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch Jung said that till 40s it's exploration. And in early 40s you become and adult
2026-05-11T14:12 id=2053840672021684249 →quiveron_x | I have loving friends, yes, and you saying this helps. My mother convinced me I was unreasonable to complain ("it wasn't all bad, we had fun") until she threatened to write me out of her will because I wouldn't help her husband with some stock question after he called me a piece of shit. With abuse there comes a point when everyone realizes, "this isn't right," and after that a kind of emancipation opens that is, well, emancipating. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 That's even more crazy, I'm sorry to hear this man. These kinds of events create long lasting trauma that gives scars to human soul and take years to realize let alone heal I hope you are now surrounded by peop
2026-05-11T14:21 id=2053843011814228420 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x @Ken67547214 Eh, don't sweat it, I got tons of support from AI researchers and interest in my work, the 10k was well spent.  Idk if it's brave, I just literally don't care what anyone here thinks of me, whether it's a random shitposter or tech billionaire or politician, just can't care. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 Wish I had balls to share shit I went through here, you are a brave man.   Btw I couldn't listen to your debate with yud because I can't stand his voice but I think he never understood where you are coming from
2026-05-11T14:31 id=2053845425774563832 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees dude can you think of why I chose chapter 47? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ahhh that's a good chapter, but a couple chapters off. I particularly like the Hall and Ames translation because the more literal one doesn't capture it as well. https://t.co/grCqnXICKH
2026-05-11T14:42 id=2053848270666113143 →powoli_ | @powoli_ @wolfiesch This has absolutely been my experience. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch I think that "middle age crisis" is just becoming adult, realising what your real values/goals are, and stopping pursuing those imposed on you by others (society / family / peers)
2026-05-11T14:50 id=2053850259760332941 →fchollet | @fchollet Apparently I don't understand "I had breakfast this morning." || CTX: If you cannot express your idea in the language of mathematics or code, you do not understand your idea just yet. It is only an intuition.
2026-05-11T14:51 id=2053850582876848519 →fchollet | @fchollet "I communicated poorly so you are obviously stupid" my brother in Christ you are a fool. || CTX: To be clear, I meant "idea" in the context of science and engineering, in particular AI, as in "theory" or "invention", like a new theory of cognition or an idea for a new ML approach.  I thought that was clear because, first, that's what I
2026-05-11T14:58 id=2053852363317002421 →exec_sum | @exec_sum 1. I'd like to say something as something needs to be said.   2. LinkedIn DMs LMAOOOOOOOOOOO || CTX: A Chinese woman attempted to extort PE billionaire Wes Edens out of $1.2B after getting STDs from a hookup that began over LinkedIn DMs   Changli 'Sophia' Luo, founder of non-profit One World Initiative Advocacy, chatted up Wed Edens over D
2026-05-11T15:00 id=2053852759435489349 →- | People are noticing. Expect this to continue.  Silicon Valley has a taste deficit, and this has serious economic consequences. https://t.co/Ex9JXl2oll || CTX: “The fact that vendors ‘ models must squawk diversely to maintain the illusion of intelligence is, I think, a thing we should pay much closer attention to.”   https://t.co/eakoDes97Z
2026-05-11T15:11 id=2053855400328581201 →amirism_ | @amirism_ silicon valley wants this ugliness to win, they have bad taste. just look at who they're influencers are, look at the books they read, more importantly look at the books they don't read, look at who they take seriously, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 question: if people really don't want all this ugliness why does it keep winning?
2026-05-11T15:11 id=2053855598941450254 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr https://t.co/9k5yPS7fP4 || CTX: People are noticing. Expect this to continue.  Silicon Valley has a taste deficit, and this has serious economic consequences. https://t.co/Ex9JXl2oll
2026-05-11T15:33 id=2053861135565361617 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 this was exactly how I felt about cryptocurrency, and I could avoid it and ignore it, but unfortunately I just really care about language too much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 SV has been insular for decades. They gatekeep with their shibboleths which they assume correlate with intelligence. They forget that the rest of us have been passing down shobboleths of intellect and taste for centuries. T
2026-05-11T15:41 id=2053863039607472323 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Frontier labs, the bad style also burns unnecessary tokens.  Your lack of taste is an inefficiency. This can be fixed, but not with your current approach.  https://t.co/DyZ9MuZsgQ || CTX: I have a practice of forcing AIs to write out their ideas clearly. I'm learning a lot.   When an AI doesn't know what it's saying, you can see it in the prose.   It starts padding with nothing sentences. It collapses nuances because it can’
2026-05-11T15:54 id=2053866316524830841 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @foomagemindset no that's not my view at all. || CTX: people def kill people, and a gun will def help kill do you think that the presence of a gun - or even the suspected presence of a gun - in a particular place does not significantly alter the way people perceive actions/interactions and the
2026-05-11T21:38 id=2053952910216839463 →gerardsans | @gerardsans Nail on the head! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/6c05ZlijaV https://t.co/nnB9WluyK5
2026-05-11T21:39 id=2053953177972871320 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @nazo_btw Thanks man, I appreciate that. || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 it is highly related actually. SBT has a lot of truth to it
2026-05-11T21:40 id=2053953309648838871 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @foomagemindset not really. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset is your view that the presence (or suspected presence) of the gun constitutes "use"?
2026-05-11T21:41 id=2053953701338075380 →amirism_ | @amirism_ SV provides valuable services that supercede their ugliness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what i mean is, despite obviously having such bad taste, they continue to have excess power and influence to continue tiling the world with ugliness. it's hard to tell whether this is them having too much power over us "goo
2026-05-11T21:57 id=2053957606667067895 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @foomagemindset no. I frankly find these questions bizarre and logically unrelated. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset So your view is that it does significantly alter perception and behavior without use?
2026-05-11T22:01 id=2053958812965720502 →GaryMarcus | Important distinctions need to be made between LLMs, agentic use of LLMs, tool use, etc etc when it comes to analyzing WHAT is improving (LLMs themselves aren't that much).  But as an system of combined technologies, what we call "AI" is advancing tremendously.   So the weird paradox is: Gary Marcus is partly right for the wrong reasons and very wrong for very telling reasons. || CTX: 1. Claude Code is not pure deep learning; without symbolic tools those results would not be achievable 2. Mythos probably isn’t pure deep learning either 3. Software engineering is something they have spent a lot of time engineering (not ju
2026-05-11T22:08 id=2053960410865525073 →chatgpt21 | You could theoretically set up a site where people submit outstanding paid open-source tasks (either their own or ones found online), you route it through Codex, if it's solved the people get a cut of the profits (or discount on the bounty they offered).  Moneymaking flywheel.   (ofc with token cost this is negative EV now, but we'll get token costs down, especially if my lab succeeds) || CTX: Codex got me paid again.  I asked it to make me $5, yesterday & It found paid open-source tasks, submitted transparent AI-assisted PRs, followed up, and yesterday got a $16.88 PayPal payment.  Today another accepted PR (from yesterday) paid
2026-05-11T22:13 id=2053961802472698207 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 Set up a second website offering big bounties on the first website, submit to the first website, use that to launder money for the Kazakhstani mafia.   Baby, now you got yourself a stew || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s true, but there’ll probably be a lot of cyber security attacks through there lol
2026-05-11T22:14 id=2053961932412240174 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @OpenAI They're the best of all options now IMO, but still extremely flawed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @OpenAI Despite everything I gotta respect OAI’s all encompassing drive
2026-05-11T22:17 id=2053962688213193209 →geoffreyhinton | @geoffreyhinton @GaryMarcus You are a disgrace to the dignity of the Nobel prize, man. This is so ridiculous on so many levels. || CTX: @GaryMarcus I believe you said that they JUST (my caps) regurgitate training data. That IS stupid. Here is a quote from you: "It gloms on to different clusters of text. That is all."
2026-05-11T22:28 id=2053965374140633591 →- | This is potentially ridiculously massive.  Murati was cooking, holy shit. https://t.co/JeSfbK1amZ || CTX: Today we're sharing our work on interaction models. A new class of model trained from scratch to handle real-time interaction natively, instead of gluing it onto a turn-based one. https://t.co/MoS5s4cm60
2026-05-11T22:38 id=2053968087465247082 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The worst part is this makes my current research so much less valuable, fuck being on the vanguard is so hard || CTX: This is potentially ridiculously massive.  Murati was cooking, holy shit. https://t.co/JeSfbK1amZ
2026-05-12T00:21 id=2053993935815786903 →- | HOW CAN YOU BE BEARISH THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU  https://t.co/BFFW639oWM
2026-05-12T00:21 id=2053993938068144284 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Also nice to see The Economist finally caught up with me after being wrong in 2024 when I was very right.  https://t.co/s9tFjBpKh2 || CTX: HOW CAN YOU BE BEARISH THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU  https://t.co/BFFW639oWM
2026-05-12T01:23 id=2054009574211150295 →tszzl | @tszzl the way this tweet was written is doing you zero favors. || CTX: the frontier models tend to write pretty clearly. their writing is often recognizable and full of tics which voids a lot of the value. its low aura. but I think it’s mostly wrong when people say model writing lacks analytical or information
2026-05-12T01:24 id=2054009891988398139 →5nli4 | @5nli4 @BecomingCritter it's what I mashed on the keyboard when I made this account || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BecomingCritter Does your username have any meaning?
2026-05-12T01:29 id=2054011025251586105 →emollick | @emollick I don't even know if there are any voice models specific benchmarks out there, that would be a nice thing for someone to build || CTX: gpt-realtime-2 is a great voice model (with a typically bad OpenAI name). Voice models are natively processing speech, not transcribing it, so the intelligence of the model matters. The old voice model was GPT-4o level, this is much smarter
2026-05-12T01:37 id=2054013088014483796 →- | a taxonomy of the people I met from 4chan:  1. There was the guy who called himself Advice Guy, who got me in the direction of thinking about financial markets, which inevitably paved the way for me to have my current ridiculously well-paying job.   2. Then there is the Puerto Rican girl in New York who was real-life friends with Chris Poole, who showed me her breasts after I beat her once playing chess online. It was not worth winning.   3. Then there's the Filipina girl that I had sex with in New York and who was going to have a threesome with my ex-wife and me, but we never could get the scheduling to work right.   4. Then there is the Danish girl who was one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, at least in her photos, who was happily in love with some American guy, and I think they ended up living together in America.  I presume that website was full of losers and washouts in the 2000s, but the few people I met from it were really quite cool people.  But the worst part is Advice Guy had to leave the site around 2011 because of all the racism. I left shortly before he did, kind of for the same reason.   Advice guy, if you stumble upon this, please DM me I owe you a lot
2026-05-12T01:44 id=2054014709482094794 →StudioFoxtales | @StudioFoxtales Interactive multimodal model using 200ms chunks of I/o to continuously interact is a big deal.   the demos don't really show the architectural change, and the architectural change is what matters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m having trouble understanding the hype here. Like, I want to. But what makes this different than the new OpenAI voice model stuff in the API?
2026-05-12T01:44 id=2054014870794932706 →publicinte | @publicinte I mean, the whole point was to make the game interesting by introducing some stakes, but I was not expecting the steak to be rancid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 know what it’s like to see a bad pair of tits.  Had a girl on Omegle show me hers one time and I was stunned
2026-05-12T01:49 id=2054016030905888803 →jimmmmmmmmmmmny | @jimmmmmmmmmmmny 4chan was a fascinating community because some of us were just having fun and others were truly miserable human beings, and you couldn't really tell which was which on the screen. paradise for a lover of textual analysis || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;  presume that website was full of losers and washouts in the 2000  true for the people I met in college not closeted about it ~2010
2026-05-12T02:23 id=2054024733763801265 →- | this is 100% correct, he's been wrong on a lot of things and overextended his skepticism in the past, but this tweet is correct https://t.co/DruALWRgeH || CTX: 🤩🤯🤩 Claude Code (still not AGI but biggest advance since GPT-4) is the most neurosymbolic thing I have ever seen in my life. 53 symbolic tools, 500,000 lines of symbolic code, combined with a state-of-the-art LLM.  It is categorically *not*
2026-05-12T02:25 id=2054025223134216374 →47fucb4r8c69323 | if the right answers to humanity's last exam were not public, that benchmark would still be at about 10% even with the newest models.   they are benchmark hacking to fool you, anon.  I was going to talk about this on the @MTSlive podcast but I guess I'm no longer sexy enough to warrant silicon valley's goldfish attention || CTX: this is 100% correct, he's been wrong on a lot of things and overextended his skepticism in the past, but this tweet is correct https://t.co/DruALWRgeH
2026-05-12T02:41 id=2054029086234902605 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Good point. Maybe they would've looked better if she showed me before I beat her. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not a good look 47 https://t.co/vimRQApLYB
2026-05-12T02:41 id=2054029216782729484 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Legit if you find Advice Guy please tell him to message me, at the very least I wanna give him money. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like I've run into 1 &amp; 2
2026-05-12T02:43 id=2054029588196696336 →lltdhgcbftd | @lltdhgcbftd idk what that graph is measuring or how it's measuring so cannot respond.   integration of LLMs into systems is improving and LLMs are being post trained to be better at this.   This is ML improvement, not AI. There's a difference. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 look at this graph. the red line is "best base model". the blue line is "best scaffold". the y axis represents both total capability &amp; level at abstraction at which the tool is best. https://t.co/H1JH4G8pah
2026-05-12T02:45 id=2054030182818975920 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ plz check DMs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Was Advice Guy someone who posted on r9k and g?
2026-05-12T03:06 id=2054035473811796114 →lltdhgcbftd | @lltdhgcbftd Can you link me to a paper discusses pretraining improvements? I'm aware of work in things like MoE and CoCoMix, but I can't say I've seen much substantive improvements when applied to LLMs (multimodal models are improving substantially, of course, but that's not my focus). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the graph is measuring nothing, i literally made it on desmos 2 seconds ago.  the 2 things you mentioned are happening and pretraining is also improving.  i do both ML and AI.
2026-05-12T03:10 id=2054036567296299025 →alexolegimas | That is absolutely not how people see text, that is SO naive.  Sometimes 10k length is a signal of value, sometimes not. Is it more often seen as a sign of value than not? We honestly don't know--you're just assuming that with no evidence.  In actuality, reader response to text varies according to presentation, context, mood, and other textual and extratextual signals. Failure to incorporate any of these elements of communication is a failure to analyze communication. || CTX: The act of writing in many ways has been a signaling exercise: a potential reader, seeing a 10,000 word essay, may judge that the writer had through enough about the topic to write 10,000 words and read on. Length was a signal of value (noi
2026-05-12T03:11 id=2054036785567785314 →lltdhgcbftd | @lltdhgcbftd So by "improve" you mean more efficient output, not necessarily greater quality of output except in that outputs tend to be seen as higher quality more often than not? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "pretraining improvements" means, to me:  1) arch improvements that result in loss going down, including MoE, as well as experiments with linear/hybrid models, new optimizers  2) identification &amp; acquisition of high qua
2026-05-12T03:23 id=2054039810793435441 →lltdhgcbftd | I absolutely agree that there is progress in decreasing loss relative to the theoretical best response an LLM can output, and Ilya is right here in that LLMs can produce this kind of understanding.  But it's not the only kind of understanding of a text--and that's exactly the issue.  In a detective story, the whole idea is deductive reasoning, and this is absolutely in the ML wheelhouse. You give a machine a text, tell it to predict the outcomes via deductive inference, and the closer it gets to the prediction the better it is.  That is not induction. It is also not abduction. LLMs cannot do either in principle. They can get very very close through a virtualization of induction--a kind of pseudoinduction through translating a semantic set into a syntactic relationship--but there are limits to this process.  And it's precisely those limits that the AI world is blind to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lower loss on the right datasets will necessarily mean that the model is smarter and better at everything. https://t.co/HPIWboaoJ8
2026-05-12T03:39 id=2054043800381555071 →- | I'm sitting here literally laughing as I write this report about how fucking good the economy is right now. It's fucking RIDICULOUS how good the future is going to be.  You guys have no idea how miserable, like borderline alcoholic miserable, I was during the bullshit crypto grift days. To now be in this world--oh man, we are so gonna make it, anon. The human race ain't so bad after all.
2026-05-12T03:41 id=2054044187226747223 →lltdhgcbftd | My basic belief on this is quite simple: tensor mathematics and tons of calculations get really really close to real-world geometry. It's why Einstein used it. Very powerful representational tool--but representation has its limits (this is what Quine/Kripke were figuring out 50 years ago). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so theoretically the process of deduction should exist in a structure that someone with sufficient tools can point to in the weights of the model itself - again, we don't know EXACTLY why.
2026-05-12T03:42 id=2054044426331451641 →lltdhgcbftd | I am coming at this from a linguist's perspective, so it is very difficult for me to explain exactly the kind of "performance" and "quality" I mean. Like, better linguistic competency yields better outputs relative to token usage, but that is a byproduct and not the real goal. So explaining my POV to engineers and AI/ML people is really tough.  Any advice would be so appreciated, fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 deleted the last comment because i understand your point better. representation learning is unique to deep learning, and both the classic train/eval framework and mech interp research demonstrates that concepts themselves d
2026-05-12T03:51 id=2054046666941239306 →tattoli | @tattoli how fucking dare you I was never a /soc/ fag GTFO NEWFAG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 retard /soc/ faggot kill yourself
2026-05-12T03:54 id=2054047416287101112 →corsaren | @corsaren These demos undersell the architecture underneath--it's absolutely fucking magic if it really works as they claim. I'm shook fr || CTX: Three takeaways: 1. Holy shit they actually did something 2. Uhhhh cool tech, I guess? Idk. Naively this seems ~not hard 3. Every AI lab needs to hire like 5 broke actors to demo their products i stg. Your autistic engineers are not capable
2026-05-12T04:16 id=2054053051858874371 →taijitu_sees | Apparently when Alex gets an essay from a student that is 5,000 words over the word limit he thinks, "oh gee golly this student must have REALLY spent a lot of time on this."  I love Alex--I legit think he's one of the best living economists out there, just behind David Autor and Deirdre McCloskey.  But economists are really really stupid about some things, like language, rhetoric, knowledge, text, form, aesthetics, etc.  Which is why the greatest living economist is indeed Deirdre McCloskey. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas I'm reminded of grade school imposing artificial requirements for the number of pages/words. Likely to make sure we got enough practice writing rather than relating to content.  Unfortunate bloat nobody taught
2026-05-12T04:23 id=2054054803471495451 →- | I think it's hilarious that a few months ago Greg Brockman tweeted and pinned the importance of taste while the most famous OAI employee on this website has the absolute worst dogshit taste imaginable.  Yes, I mean roon. He's a lovely guy but he has shit taste. Just atrocious.
2026-05-12T04:29 id=2054056431058554983 →LossExp | @LossExp Twitter and Discord tbh. Both are great platforms for the kind of pseudonymous fun in public and private, you could recreate the magic of late 2000s internet on both.  We just need less censorship, more good faith, less ego, and more fun. See pinned tweet it's all there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you had to pick a couple of places real or online (even if sub communities) where you can replicate that energy what would you pick?
2026-05-12T04:32 id=2054057193977315578 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is also why I remain baffled that Yud jumped to take $10k from me. Like, I made that back in a day just on a couple stocks.  These guys are supposed to be well connected AI insiders, even if they're doomers, like, he uses Claude and worships Anthropic, so he has proximity to power which should translate into money.  I'm a nobody and $10k really is nbd to me. How is he so poor? WTF is actually going on on this website? || CTX: I'm sitting here literally laughing as I write this report about how fucking good the economy is right now. It's fucking RIDICULOUS how good the future is going to be.  You guys have no idea how miserable, like borderline alcoholic miserabl
2026-05-12T04:37 id=2054058327836172608 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is the guy who said LLM writing style is good, actually.  The lack of taste is why I didn't go to Silicon Valley in the 90s when I graduated. Couldn't live around these people, just couldn't do it. Still can't. https://t.co/4f7AYxtR5L || CTX: I think it's hilarious that a few months ago Greg Brockman tweeted and pinned the importance of taste while the most famous OAI employee on this website has the absolute worst dogshit taste imaginable.  Yes, I mean roon. He's a lovely guy b
2026-05-12T04:57 id=2054063319590523102 →GaryMarcus | @GaryMarcus Not factually wrong, but your pessimistic stance back in 2023-2024 caused you to underindex the potential economic gains from incorporating LLMs into business workflows via things like Claude Code. Thinking of pieces like this:  https://t.co/HNJcwM7hx3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which was i wrong about? in any case yes this is 100% correct.
2026-05-12T04:58 id=2054063620661866618 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad Why thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 very disrespectful!
2026-05-12T05:31 id=2054071971772813637 →47fucb4r8c69323 | oops my bad I was reading the chart upside down  we're all going to die soz my bad y'all || CTX: This is also why I remain baffled that Yud jumped to take $10k from me. Like, I made that back in a day just on a couple stocks.  These guys are supposed to be well connected AI insiders, even if they're doomers, like, he uses Claude and wo
2026-05-12T05:42 id=2054074701400748140 →waldmenschen | @waldmenschen he writes so poorly, idk if it's an affectation but omfg it is so bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I went back to find some examples and I find you right there lmao https://t.co/fGZsPhfSoH
2026-05-12T05:42 id=2054074772745867577 →brickroad7 | @brickroad7 @gladio_descent this || CTX: @gladio_descent @47fucb4r8c69323 'he can really string words together'  his crappy unnecessarily flowery purple prose is just randomly bringing up god / religious imagery in like 80% of his tweets. behind the verbose language his ideas are 
2026-05-12T05:44 id=2054075178691530862 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @GaryMarcus @peterwildeford idk why you said no, you agree with me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GaryMarcus @peterwildeford No because the advance isn’t general; therefore not about intelligence  Progress is bounded by 1) verifiability of domains 2) the availability of dense and wide training data sets. 3) the availab
2026-05-12T05:47 id=2054076001932693758 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka 5. || CTX: how old were you when you were young?
2026-05-12T05:47 id=2054076069960151145 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka And I remember when I was five years old || CTX: how old were you when you were young?
2026-05-12T06:17 id=2054083544385994798 →mwfowlie | @mwfowlie @chatgpt21 my post was a joke || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @chatgpt21 This is not going to last long at all once other people realize what they can do.
2026-05-12T06:35 id=2054087996941717945 →nycthinker | I can't point to any one fact. When I say wrong I mean his general attitude towards AI was underappreciating the massive economic value of these machines back in 2023 and 2024. he has softened his stance, which is great, but he had to soften his stance because his prior stance was wrong.   I know text types and especially people on this website love to think in terms of binary argument, but language doesn't work that way, so we can quibble over in what sense I meant wrong, or we can acknowledge his original bearish this was wrong even if he got much of the facts right.   and I could dig up some facts and older claims and do a gotcha, but that's not going to help anyone.   the point is, he was insufficiently bullish at a time when being bullish provided alpha, and now he's being sufficiently cautious at a time when caution is appropriate. that's all I mean.  the real lesson here is that you need to listen to people who study and understand linguistics more then people in business or tech, and I'm not talking about Emily Bender, she is a minority voice in linguistics and honestly kind of a crazy person who shouldn't be taken seriously anyway. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GaryMarcus @peterwildeford You said Marcus is wrong. How?  It seems we all agree that LLMs are jagged automation modules with huge diffusion issues due to unreliability, poor generalization, and inefficient learning.  In o
2026-05-12T07:17 id=2054098618555240748 →gurenyov | @gurenyov https://t.co/JXWQKfyi3U  I still stand by this analysis of Sam. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 roon taste is actually fine if you compare it to his boss car choices lol https://t.co/Xf9oZnLrWW
2026-05-12T07:18 id=2054098946335908108 →gurenyov | @gurenyov https://t.co/TlUyd18u3E  I still stand by this analysis of Sam. || CTX: Roon implicitly makes an underappreciated point (and I'm glad he noted "as understood by the company"): the more abstract your governance target, the easier it is to manipulate and game.   This is why I hate Dario more than Sam: Sam Altman 
2026-05-12T07:19 id=2054099051612913944 →yummy___cookies | @yummy___cookies you get it so much man, that is just so good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A lot of people are really impressed by his melding of milady style schizoposting and OAI hopium, but good taste comes from engaging with art thats has nothing to sell you
2026-05-12T09:00 id=2054124642861015522 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ it is possible, but seems unlikely given the way both he and Sam have worked off each other, but maybe it's a separate private agreement, who knows. I guess I could ask other people at openai, but the few connections I have now are very new so why risk it even || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there might be a pretty good chance that he is no longer with open ai, like months already.
2026-05-12T09:01 id=2054124870376866221 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @GaryMarcus @peterwildeford you will get no argument from me, that is absolutely correct and Gary is providing a very important service to the marketplace right now. I think he might have done investors a disservice back in 2023, but he's doing God's work now. just my opinion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GaryMarcus @peterwildeford Gary has been right relative to the delusional claims from AI CEOs and related influencers. This, IMO, is the appropriate context for calibrating claims of being right or wrong.  E.g., @peterwild
2026-05-12T09:02 id=2054125142897520822 →athena_notes | @athena_notes if you ever want to chat about a business you want to start or finance, my DMs are open man, feel free, you've been a wonderful friend to me for a long time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can live off of that for more than 2 years where I come from 😭. But that way of looking at it is pretty inspiring though. Man I wish I could've had someone like you as my prof. in business school, would've made it a lot
2026-05-12T09:04 id=2054125669546889476 →gurenyov | he would finance it for the wrong reasons, like what he's doing with Amanda Askell has been used by some people to say he cares about the humanities.   no, he's using Askell to create this lovey dovey "we are creating a machine God that will love you" bizarre cult-like business mythos to maximize EV to shareholders and retain crazy customers.   I'd rather someone fund corpus linguistics because they see it can and will improve llm performance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dario is probably more likely gonna fund corpus linguistics compared to Sam though  But I'm biased here because if Claude-induced psychosis psychosis lol
2026-05-12T09:07 id=2054126259639394774 →nycthinker | my position has been moderate and unchanged since 2022: this adds long term ~200 basis points of incremental GDP growth annually over a counterfactual where generative AI was never invented.   that's incredible and amazing, it's not Utopia but it's also not nothing.   I guess I'm advocating for moderation and calm critical analysis, and Gary's work has been insufficiently moderate in my view, up until maybe 3 months ago. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GaryMarcus @peterwildeford OK, yes, from a stock market investment point of view, we skeptics have been wrong (so far).
2026-05-12T09:10 id=2054127177365664065 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Kyrannio, are trying to take the Butterill from me? || CTX: Think you ill honor this by not posting fake screenshots of GPT-6 https://t.co/939s1yL7Lw
2026-05-12T09:12 id=2054127572888510737 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @esasaarinen I am not, and I fear my finish is so Rusty I probably won't be able to understand his work and shamelessly have to use Google translate like a lil bitch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are familiar with @esasaarinen work btw?
2026-05-12T09:14 id=2054128115623076241 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio I don't know if you guys plan to market to wall street, but if you do DM me, I have some thoughts.   this fits the financial industry hand in glove. || CTX: Hugely exciting news for all of us at Pokee today, check it out! https://t.co/B6Ys6NoKDV
2026-05-12T09:28 id=2054131553182372089 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Biggest thing since GPT 3.5, I am giddy. || CTX: i haven't been excited for a release like this for some time now https://t.co/NHkb2jFRtN
2026-05-12T09:38 id=2054134215919489394 →- | I love this website. https://t.co/EeDoTw2e3P
2026-05-12T09:43 id=2054135439980892560 →gdb | @gdb Did you see the new videos from Murati's startup? Looks really impressive if they've got that architecture down to full-duplex multi-modal interaction at 200ms chunks. || CTX: Having an agent in your meeting is such a futuristic experience: https://t.co/PypStnQUe5
2026-05-12T09:44 id=2054135699595792534 →llallawg | @llallawg idk this guy, apparently some big deal programmer?   So unsurprising he thinks understanding multivalence and polysemy is a sign of stupidity, it's just a clash of disciplines.   Also he seems to think clankers b conscious lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The boomer of boomers
2026-05-12T09:48 id=2054136543053578736 →adastroworld | I've had too many articles published in too many good journals to be insulted when people call me an idiot anymore.   he just doesn't understand my field and that's fine.   I think unfortunately a lot of people can't really do that because they haven't reached that level yet just because they're young and it's why older people have a responsibility to try their hardest to be kind to young people on the internet.   until they act up, in which case I'll go for the jugular and make them cry. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “You, too, are Good Inside”-ing the haters
2026-05-12T09:51 id=2054137320606175288 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Kyrannio this might be too old and too American for anyone else, but it made me laugh https://t.co/wqNb2hp4m2 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Kyrannio https://t.co/qxbk6e9v57
2026-05-12T10:00 id=2054139543390183697 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio @JasonBotterill Smooth. Creamy. Unbelievable. || CTX: @JasonBotterill This is excellent, what are you talking bout
2026-05-12T10:03 id=2054140425741762582 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Kyrannio https://t.co/ktCNCIJSLb || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Kyrannio I have to kill all my subscribers and start over https://t.co/DK2X5rWZXD
2026-05-12T10:05 id=2054140966521749931 →- | My attitude to life is: "fuck you pay me" as well as "fuck you I'll pay you".   That's healthy and normal of course.
2026-05-12T10:44 id=2054150676448731280 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack Goddamn you really are a Republican in the Tenderloin. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 mine is “your rent’s due, motherfucker. And don’t be pulling that ‘falling down the stairs bullshit neither.’” We’re practically cousins
2026-05-12T10:48 id=2054151768419058058 →alexjbilodeau | @alexjbilodeau Oh I forgot to mention in my idiolect "fuck you" means "I love you". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I love you, I'll give you money.
2026-05-12T11:08 id=2054156668817334692 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack I fucking love you so much man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 at your service
2026-05-12T11:42 id=2054165212283261168 →- | I want to tell the story of how I got into finance, although it’s probably going to eradicate my credibility and ruin my career.  (you can skip to the parentheses below, dude I am VERY VERY stoned)  I think I am ready to tell this story, though, because, dude, my portfolio is just lmao never mind on with the show.  In the third year of my tenure-track contract it became evident that the road ahead was decades of reading bad student essays, publishing in journals about a topic I increasingly was losing interest in, and feeling frustrated that I chose the wrong major. I was in despair and kinda lost my desire to research, which meant of course a lot of time on the ‘puter shitposting on 4chan.  I was mostly on /int/ and /trv/, and you probably know enough about me to understand why that appealed at the time—if you don’t know enough about me, don’t worry (you guys aren’t ready for 47fucb yet, but your kids are gonna love it)—>  On I believe /int/ one of the tripfag regulars was a man named Advice Guy, who I saw post on his first trip post introducing himself and saying he knows a lot and is kinda savvy, he wants to give people advice.  To paraphrase one dude writin’ ‘bout the start of this here cosmos: People asked for advice, and it was good.  I asked for advice too, not that I remember it, but we came across each other often in posts and I really liked him so asked if we could chat off site, and he gave me his Skype name (which had my full name, so this was a full transition from anon to non-anon bon buh bon bon bon I shouldn’t write when I’m under the influence but I wanted something sweet and only had gummies).  We talked on Skype pretty much daily for about two years.  He cut it off in the end, but not because I was in his end but because of two other ends—the day after I had my first threesome (angelic okay, not that there’s anything wrong with that), I told him and he yelled at me furiously. “You’ve ruined your fucking marriage you idiot.”  Joke’s on you Tereu (an internal rhyme that could’ve been left external to the text), my marriage was ruined the day before we got married.  Anyway.  (You can actually ignore all of the above, the story starts here)  When I was complaining about my job and how I felt stuck in this academic career I thought I wanted, Advice Guy said, “well you could do what this guy did” and linked me to the Early Retirement Extreme blog, and I immediately bought the book and joined the forums.  On the forums, one day, they were discussing money and discussed a specific professional piece of jargon. Let’s say it was Flurgenburgendurgenderridoo.  Now, bear in mind I was applying furiously for writing on the internet jobs. I had started doing a bit of writing on the side for like wikihow (yes lol) and earning a bit of money, but I just didn’t see it as a feasibly way to replace my good middle class professor salary.  And I come from a poor abusive family, I am on my own.  Oh, and I also married for looks not money, so again.  Anyway.  One of the jobs I applied for asked me to do an interview immediately, like the next day. And of course I agreed to it, promptly went to the meeting. “I have a few screening questions,” the interviewer said. My heart sank, yeah this is where I will get fucked.  “What is Flurgenburgendurgenderridoo?”  So ofc I knew since I’d just read about it the day before.  “You are the first person to get that one right,” the interviewer said, with a mix of surprise and shock in her voice. So the interview continued.  And then I got a second interview, and a paid test, and then hired as a part-timer at the firm.  I was also building up other freelance writing gigs for real, proper, respectable websites, moving up the ladder of hierarchy.  I had enough money to retire in less than two years. Stocks are easy to me idk what to tell you.  Anyway.  Now I earn a ridonculous amount of money, my per hour income is about $5,000. I really should not be making this public but when your per hour income is about $5,000 you kinda can, you know?  The pathway for me was 4chan > internet forum > job interview > financial independence > digital nomad life.  This is why I love the internet so much. The internet has given me so, so much, anon. If you were sitting in front of me you would see the tears in my eyes as I write this. I am not a young man anymore so of course I contemplate my past more and more—middle age is the time when one takes a complex life and finds its narrative thread, or else middle age is the time when one devolves into abject misery. And what I see just astounds me, it is too absurd, too ridiculous, too unbelievable.  And it is all because of the internet.  (alright stop reading already you nosy bastard)  It’s an incredible story worth being shared. It demands attention, because the story of my life demonstrates that so many of the lies we are told in society—work a shitton of hours, just build, don’t introspect, learn to code—is bullshit.  I suck at math.  I cannot code.  I haven’t worked more than like 20 hours a week since I was 22. That is over two decades ago, anon.  I haven’t had to pander to an audience or sell out or become an attention seeker or a clown.  I research what I love and what I am fascinated by.  AI has now made it possible for me to build on my research abilities and eclectic background to literally work on the frontier of a new technology (well, maybe not frontier anymore if Murati really is cooking what she claims to be cooking jfc, oh and Meta V-JEPA 2 looks incredible (disclaimer: I may just be impressed because I cannot understand any AI outside of LLMs, I lack the knowledge for that. Oh and me dumdum remember from the debate lol).  The internet has given me the best life possible.  I am a nobody, I am obscure, I do not matter, but I please can only beg the historians who find this in whatever textual corpus they’re using this for—find this passage, find out who I am, try to reconstruct who I was and what happened to me and share the story. Because my story is outlandish, it is the counterfactual to everything that we in 2026 believe is necessary for society and points to the world that I think you already inhabit. Maybe I am wrong, I definitely am insane, but just because I’m crazy doesn’t mean I am wrong and if I am not you guys gotta study how the fuck this happened.  I’ve had a wonderful life, thank you internet.  Now is there any way I can return the favor? (Ask me for money and I will burn your house down)  —  I do not usually whore myself out like a lil bitch on the cyberwaves but, guise, please retweet this one.
2026-05-12T11:49 id=2054166971298840963 →TechnoPulp | Not exactly. Think of an LLM not as a product per se but as a piece of machinery in a larger product. You use it alongside more conventional computational approaches (i.e., code, the harness) and more conventional ML approaches like embedding or forecasting models, and a lot of that is now built into post-training, CoT, when to do a tool call and when not, etc.  The idea is that, if you strip away all of the other stuff and look just at the LLMs, you see there's been really quite little improvement.  This is why the frontier labs don't readily give out base model access to researchers such as those in my lab (which totes does exist fr fr) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MTSlive Can you explain what this means to non-engineer  folks?  My sense is you / Gary are saying something like: Claude code  is more like a massive old school application vs leveraging true advances in LLM capabilities?
2026-05-12T11:57 id=2054168982660497470 →47fucb4r8c69323 | stop just liking and not retweeting you savages || CTX: I want to tell the story of how I got into finance, although it’s probably going to eradicate my credibility and ruin my career.  (you can skip to the parentheses below, dude I am VERY VERY stoned)  I think I am ready to tell this story, th
2026-05-12T12:00 id=2054169856384397731 →patryusha | @patryusha You will, fren. Just be savvy, don't let the bastards manipulate or use you, and always be as kind and gentle and authentic as you can, fuck the fear it doesn't matter. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very inspiring. I'm 21 and in similar circumstances as you were and I hope I can look back on my life in middle age and count my many blessings just like you. Thank you.
2026-05-12T12:04 id=2054170820608733310 →TechnoPulp | oh my god yes!!!  Look at Codex, this is a motherfucking MIRACLE machine.  But the miracle doesn't come from the LLM's improvements in the sense of improving output quality. "It's not a better writer now, it's a shitty writer still", you know the stuff--it is not getting smarter in the senses that really matter for an LLM, in the sense of being better at language.   But getting better at language isn't necessary for producing code--if your LLM is good enough to interpret your input in a pretty good way, it'll hand off to a complex machinery and, voila, new app is born.  That is amazing!!!  But it still cannot write a poem for shit and in many ways its writing has gotten worse than 4.5, and while Opus is better it is only marginally so and if you take it out of its wheelhouse (giving people psychosis) and try to, for instance, feed it a novel and tell you to give it a Harold Bloom reading, it will produce dogshit.  That Harold Bloom task, by the way, is something ChatGPT REALLY excelled at with 5, and now I cannot get it to recreate that. May have been a fluke.  Sorry, idk if this makes sense--I am kinda being careful because we're getting close to what my lab is working on, so I don't want to go into too much detail but I can't stop talking about this technology because it validates my entire fucking career || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MTSlive &gt; if you strip away all of the other stuff and look just at the LLMs, you see there's been really quite little improvemen  Is  “all the other stuff” impressive from a technological advancement POV?  I’m trying t
2026-05-12T12:07 id=2054171577227661709 →TechnoPulp | I would say the post-training and CoT is making the LLM more able to reason and express more complex thinking, which is great and valuable--and perceived as the only valuable thing by SV because of their fetish for IQ. But intelligence is more complicated than that, and being a good producer of text is more complicated still. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MTSlive …small LLM improvements.  Like is there genuine advancements being made? Or more like “using old techniques in innovative ways”?
2026-05-12T12:07 id=2054171643682181219 →shawngoloid_ | @shawngoloid_ That's called being the gubment || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whats the opposite of asking for a dollar? can you take a dollar from a random person for me?
2026-05-12T12:08 id=2054171918182633569 →IsZomg | @IsZomg WHOA WHAT THE FUCK || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 👀  https://t.co/3wt25sOanV
2026-05-12T12:12 id=2054172947355779226 →TechnoPulp | @TechnoPulp @MTSlive Yes that's the basic idea. You are seeing some improvement in reasoning, but there are of course errors and some very unobvious ones because of the different structure of this amalgam of LLM/ML/Code and lack of ground truth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MTSlive …seem they shouldn’t be making given the coding capabilities.  Your explanation seems to suggest, if I’m following, these are actually different technical paths with different progress curves?
2026-05-12T12:13 id=2054173220803416356 →47fucb4r8c69323 | oh forgot to say--this is tremendously valuable for knowledge work. It can make one person 10x more valuable than in the counterfactual. It's just insane. HOWEVER, to realize that value we need to completely reconstruct the concept of work, the concept of the company, basically a shitton of concepts.  It's going to be WILD. The next 20 years or so are going to be really chaotic, but in a bewildering and kinda fun way because, at the same time, we're gonna keep getting richer.  Sit back and enjoy the sho muh bro || CTX: @TechnoPulp @MTSlive Yes that's the basic idea. You are seeing some improvement in reasoning, but there are of course errors and some very unobvious ones because of the different structure of this amalgam of LLM/ML/Code and lack of ground t
2026-05-12T12:37 id=2054179070074892569 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Compound interest is life my friend, just put it in and be patient.   But buy low cost index funds stop with that stock picking horse shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I never really took stocks seriously as I never had the money to fuck around with until recently. Got my first win when I sold all the aus LNG I bought right before Operation Midnight Hammer and profited few grand. so I’ve 
2026-05-12T12:37 id=2054179200765133080 →zirpzoomer | @zirpzoomer Read a lot of books. Good books. So learn to discern what makes a good book first. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you give me career advice
2026-05-12T12:38 id=2054179517833650682 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Boring works. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Index funds https://t.co/zRS47O42os
2026-05-12T12:58 id=2054184496124338407 →cscdegen | @cscdegen No, I legally can't.   But as a fren I'll tell you to stop being retarded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good story dude, I lost high 6 figures in 5 minutes last year, do you do advice? 🤣 https://t.co/NNxGG4PaRF
2026-05-12T12:59 id=2054184600994476525 →ALightcone | @ALightcone Speech acts. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Human alignment by pieces of paper or bits imbued with magical power.
2026-05-12T12:59 id=2054184777037849076 →phone3301 | @phone3301 I regret it she had BPD cost 250k in the divorce viciously slandered me and once broke a rib. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You mentioned that you married for looks. Do you ever regret it? I’m in a bit of a peculiar situation where i could marry for looks or for an insane amount of money. Or are neither of those things important?
2026-05-12T13:01 id=2054185128545706206 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier nah man it's copypasta just keep scrollin || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this OC?
2026-05-12T13:06 id=2054186379446493425 →W2Warrior | @W2Warrior @JasonBotterill not entirely, it was a mix of boring and not boring. I don't mean index only, I mean have a core of reliability and play around that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill but didn’t you become financially free by not doing that
2026-05-12T13:18 id=2054189443645677746 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital The generation before us got rich by reading BBSes. It's a noble tradition and we gotta tell these kids that it exists, we owe the newfags (although they absolutely should lurk moar) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ah another lurker. Roody poos everywhere fr fr  /b/ for me  Got me into finance and technology in general. Lots of computer cracking and hacking and probably some sketchy shit….  Skids everywhere in those days but if you kn
2026-05-12T13:29 id=2054192262414999818 →TheStalwart | It updated every 200ms and doesn't go speech > text > speech.   It's the difference between single duplex communication and full duplex communication, so the model can think about its perceptions essentially in real time.   This is how the tech is described, more or less. It is major for robots operating in the real world, customer service, and anywhere where real time response is needed.   The demos suck, the architecture as I understand it is the biggest deal since GPT3.   And yes it's bullish, maybe not on OAI/Anthropic (and really not bullish for my lab), but it is a huge huge huge deal. || CTX: I'm kind of confused. I mean, this still basically felt back and forth? https://t.co/80npce43IR
2026-05-12T13:31 id=2054192678452249031 →W2Warrior | @W2Warrior I was low 6 figs most of my career. Felt like an imposter until I February of this yeah tbqh.  Probably would've been better if I kept feeling that way tbh. Less risky at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don’t have a crazy high paying job but it’s low 6 figs. also came from a dysfunctional poor household.   i honestly feel like an imposter, like Don Draper esque a lot of the time. can’t imagine how u feel. or maybe that p
2026-05-12T13:40 id=2054195036942991468 →leo_guinan | It starts strong but in the middle I begin to lose the thread. Focusing on using AI as an educational tool (alongside real actual books, not twitter, books) is great and I encourage that, but the contempt for those who don't get it in the middle is a kind of snobbery that turns me off. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Could I ask you to simply read this for me? Feedback is helpful if it comes and also a signal for me if it doesn't. https://t.co/BB8H827fUH https://t.co/qUBcgLfeAo
2026-05-12T13:44 id=2054195923136507971 →arealhumantony | I felt this and got in a recursive "but maybe I don't know enough so I am wrong when I think they are faking it."   In hindsight, Reddit caused me a LOT of mental anguish. The "well akshuyally" assholes nitpicking everything in bad faith and confidently asserting bad readings of text kinda made me loony.   It was honestly only after the HLE article got in Nature that I could finally put that nagging redditor "akshuyally, 47, you aren't that smart" voice out of my head. || CTX: @W2Warrior @47fucb4r8c69323 I had the imposter syndrome for a while but eventually found that other people are faking it way way more at all levels of society. If I lost my job today I'd need many new humbling moments before I took a job le
2026-05-12T13:44 id=2054195998164127894 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe We can do a Spaces! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you give me 30 min. of your time to chat. maybe we like each other?  you stay anon ofc.  you can hang up. if no fun. but I'm usually fun.
2026-05-12T13:48 id=2054197043195940910 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk https://t.co/nypQAS4cTP  this is a good list of some Fred codes as well as some other third party data you can look at || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 assume someone wants to ignore their own personal experience of local businesses closing, people in their network being laid off, and the apparent hiring market... what broader signals might they look at to determine things
2026-05-12T13:49 id=2054197187161284855 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan one can be snobbish in one's loneliness and lonely in one snobbery, trust me I know all too well || CTX: That’s helpful thank you!  And it’s interesting that it comes off as snobbery. I wrote it feeling loneliness for not having people to talk to about things at that level. And not having a chance to bring people up to my level.    I’m writing
2026-05-12T14:00 id=2054200059630379459 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe DM me when you wanna do it and if I'm free I'll say ok lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what's your preferred way to set a time?
2026-05-12T14:23 id=2054205722376999256 →- | Attention is all you need to be an LLM.   Taste is all you need to be a human being.
2026-05-12T14:29 id=2054207431287484828 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart It can take in inputs and produce outputs at the same time.   Joe, this is the biggest thing since GPT3 you gotta trust me on this. https://t.co/wLhLRrrSRO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what does the word "duplex" mean in this context?
2026-05-12T14:32 id=2054208173993857230 →GaryMarcus | It's obvious the frontier labs are producing a commodity product (the LLM), and it's why they're doing the consciousness/cure cancer or kill the world bullshit.   But token production costs are falling, efficiencies are being found, they'll spend less on R&D new models (post training is a shitshow atm), more innovations will come it'll be fine broski trust me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that’s actual speculative; so far OpenAI and Anthropic have lost money and most businesses have not gotten significant RoI
2026-05-12T15:15 id=2054219038503666120 →Faltz009 | @Faltz009 "You turned me off being so angry talking to a man whose hysterical website rhetoric caused five dead people" go fuck yourself || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yo cmon let's talk, can't we continue over dms? Didn't realize I sounded so hostile mb
2026-05-12T15:17 id=2054219490184004059 →- | Bloomberg has the best people, seriously.  I kinda miss their live events.   I need to get a terminal, man.   Retirement is hard. https://t.co/ouOkOYmGNi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I trust you!
2026-05-12T15:23 id=2054220994341228954 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy I'm not immune to bewitchment, for sure! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For a while there I thought you didn’t see.
2026-05-12T15:35 id=2054223877983924470 →mndrot | @mndrot Thank you for seeing my authenticity.   I love you, anon, and I always will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there's no reason i should, but i have tears in my eyes after reading this.
2026-05-12T15:46 id=2054226621582979248 →US_Macauley | @US_Macauley dude the only thing that matters is the chat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you do at a terminal? I have one, but CapIQ usually serves my data needs better.
2026-05-12T15:51 id=2054227993694966125 →US_Macauley | @US_Macauley You chat with clients. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who are you supposed to chat with? Maybe it was more before my time, lol I know a lot of bigger firms now discourage employees from using chat functions outside their firm.
2026-05-12T15:51 id=2054228100310045165 →US_Macauley | @US_Macauley You chat with clients--I am sellside. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who are you supposed to chat with? Maybe it was more before my time, lol I know a lot of bigger firms now discourage employees from using chat functions outside their firm.
2026-05-12T16:00 id=2054230118042832939 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I just remembered when I went to one of these events, there was a panel on big investment themes or whatever, I sat down, looked to my left, saw guy log on to Interactive Brokers and check his portfolio, and that was when I first realized--oh.   This job is a video game. || CTX: Bloomberg has the best people, seriously.  I kinda miss their live events.   I need to get a terminal, man.   Retirement is hard. https://t.co/ouOkOYmGNi
2026-05-12T16:09 id=2054232482581766503 →APersonj5c7 | @APersonj5c7 Sure DM me, can't promise I'll read it but I'll try.   And thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 may send you some writing if that's fine, your threads on books and life are poetic
2026-05-12T16:11 id=2054232887910965557 →- | I don't even get why Sam Altmon needs a Koenigsegg like who the fuck wants to drive an egg
2026-05-12T16:20 id=2054235245634027922 →JasonBotterill | That's why I watch those Japanese vids where guys masturbate on women news anchors as they tell the news on TV because that's the opposite of intimate for several reasons: it's on TV, it's news, it's told calmly and matter of factly, the women are professionals, and they are public facing.  Once a girl broke character, smiled at one of the gentlemen, and I had to undertake in-patient psychiatric care for a full three days. || CTX: it got to a point it didn’t matter what porn I watched even the lightest most vanilla sex just filled me with shame on my iphone outside. you can’t fool yourself forever your brain slowly figures out how pathetic it is to be the observer of
2026-05-12T16:21 id=2054235455269523720 →oitixion | @oitixion I'm just picturing you open the door and the creame oozes out onto the floor.   I'll take two. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 look me in the eye and tell me you would not drive this egg https://t.co/4uLb3X8gzi
2026-05-12T16:21 id=2054235557841228170 →oitixion | @oitixion I'm just picturing you open the door and the creame oozes out onto the ground.   I'll take two. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 look me in the eye and tell me you would not drive this egg https://t.co/4uLb3X8gzi
2026-05-12T16:22 id=2054235715521888566 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan This means a LOT to me. Thank you. || CTX: I need to say thank you one more time.   You unlocked something specific for me by giving me feedback that was unexpected in a very specific, very human way that I could never have gotten in an infinite number of chats with an LLM.  And it 
2026-05-12T16:25 id=2054236654060359956 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @Shadow_Rebbe we'll do it publicly! || CTX: @Shadow_Rebbe @47fucb4r8c69323 oh to be a shadow on that wall
2026-05-12T19:16 id=2054279459600310504 →AutismCapital | @AutismCapital https://t.co/Yt2pAd7zwT  Some of us have been saying. || CTX: @philosophybites Yes unfortunately the large AI firms use philosophers and philosophy in their marketing and academics are too naive to economic realities to avoid being captured by this.  Whether Askell is captured or capturing is unclear.
2026-05-12T19:17 id=2054279876446998838 →theMacroChip | @theMacroChip No, I'm giving me debating Yud at that time a lot of NPV, that's not the same thing.   And since it's a one time non replicable event, it has zero value on any market  Stop misusing financial concepts you apparently don't understand well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you are making excellent return on capital then you gave yud a lot of NPV!
2026-05-12T19:18 id=2054279987638022378 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Newp. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Does this generalise to Europe? 😅
2026-05-12T19:19 id=2054280209369887001 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I WANT TO SIT ON IT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it makes sense if you consider his orientation https://t.co/pFCIW4XvLF
2026-05-12T19:34 id=2054284094612414772 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Yeah, it's not a moral issue at all but a logical one: if everyone pressing red survives, just press red it's why I find these soooo much a waste of time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-12T19:35 id=2054284428575485981 →adarshisit | @adarshisit skimmed, I found a lot of the language unnecessarily complicated. where plainer talk would've made the point better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you read it btw?
2026-05-12T20:00 id=2054290608068628928 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I am so sorry you've been going through so much. || CTX: Reflecting back on the past year .  My uncle passed away an year ago .  And my grandfather passed away last month my grandmother just got diagnosed for cancer so my father's not making it to my wedding .
2026-05-12T20:02 id=2054291171711889588 →- | RT @somewheresy: I’m not even e/acc I’m just competent and doing stuff || CTX: I’m not even e/acc I’m just competent and doing stuff
2026-05-12T20:04 id=2054291628077277421 →ns123abc | @ns123abc Makes me like Sam a lot more. Those are honest, thoughtful answers to bad faith questions. || CTX: Musk's lawyer: "Are you completely trustworthy?"   Altman: "I believe so."    Musk's lawyer: "But, you know, you don't know whether you're completely trustworthy."  Altman: "I'll just amend my answer to yes."   Musk's lawyer: "Should the ju
2026-05-12T20:06 id=2054292103992361224 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 You can. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's alright just sucks  because nobody learned anything from these tragedies .
2026-05-12T20:18 id=2054295117226475845 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Probably why you'll have a longer life, too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A good chunk of my friends and family died young and I'm determined to live my life to the fullest .
2026-05-12T20:20 id=2054295640080093423 →misaligned_agi | @misaligned_agi Nassim is smarter, though, he wouldn't make this error.  "A, B, C, and D are true therefore we should buy stock XYZ" nah bro, sometimes you're right about A, B, C, and D but XYZ still doesn't go up.   I bet Grady's lost some big money in the markets. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Grady is so Nassim
2026-05-12T20:27 id=2054297527625932864 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @Andr3jH I can confirm this and will extend this observation to Osaka and Seoul.  But yeah OP is a masterragebaiter || CTX: @Andr3jH I dunno if OP is rage baiting for engagement or he's stupid or he's got extremely discriminating taste, but if you just walk around Tokyo you'll see thousands of chicks just like the models you see online.  His post is 100% wrong
2026-05-12T21:25 id=2054312024600191234 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth @ns123abc I don't disagree Sam is too dishonest of a person.   He was not being dishonest here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ns123abc My brother, many of his cofounders and executive tread conspired against this man to have him thrown out especially because of the many lies he’s told.  I think these are fair questions to be asking 😂😂
2026-05-12T21:34 id=2054314281743839733 →Andr3jH | @Andr3jH They'd only be able to pull me out with a vice || CTX: No idea why everyone is calling her fat. She hasn't changed a bit. https://t.co/WU7gVDQDXu
2026-05-12T21:47 id=2054317552663478436 →- | My approach to markets, whether intellectual or capital, is to identify the various layers of meaning that underpin the movements that can be observed.   You could say I look for semantic layers that supervene on syntactic structures of market relations, if you wanted to be a pretentious douchebag.   Sometimes cultural theory can help you pick stocks. This goes against everything you've been taught and believe.  So lemme give you an example.  It is a well known fact that Google reviews in Japan are comically low, while reviews in Thailand are really quite high.   The reason? Well partly it's that it's technically illegal to give bad reviews online in Thailand (but come to think of it they might be in Japan too I'm too lazy to check this is just an example to illustrate), but that is a tiny part.  Part of it is that Google Reviews skews for tourists in Thailand who tend to be happier because they're tourists. Japanese people use Google reviews a lot more.  But the main reason is the hidden behind the public mask seething rage in Japan that is always there (and that I feel while I'm there, which is why I typically don't stay long), while Thais see anger as an ethical failing, so they quite literally are less angry people.   "Yeah, but 47 you see," you say as you push up your glasses and adjust your pocket protector, "we can just adjust the scores with a multiplier and problem solved"   Yeah, math bitch, you do that AFTER the qualitative analyst tells you what needs to be adjusted and how to figure out how much to adjust it by.   All you need is taste, anon. Leave the computation for the computers.
2026-05-13T00:30 id=2054358627558056249 →- | You think I am crazy because I am early.   Many such cases. https://t.co/cjmg549Boe || CTX: You're going to be debating the potential future impact of AI every single day for the rest of your life (if you're lucky).
2026-05-13T00:51 id=2054363955687207099 →phone3301 | @phone3301 If "Koenig" is German for "anal" I think the puzzle has been solved. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Haven’t met a single heterosexual Koenigsegg owner
2026-05-13T00:53 id=2054364436316692956 →mimi10v3 | If burnout was the problem why not become a freelancer and work on your own time and on the projects you want?   Demand for SWEs will never die and you have a skill, I'd leverage it but just be in control of your own business process so no one can force you to take on more than you want. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what should i do next?  i quit my swe job two years ago and have been drifting along not quite sure what to do now that i'm over the burnout
2026-05-13T00:54 id=2054364702688653713 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 Japanese people haaaaate me "you don't understand Japanese culture!"   If understanding Japanese culture means tolerating your loli rape porn, I will pass tyvm. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well well, a 外人 who has seen beyond the surface of Japan.   Naturally I have informed the authorities.
2026-05-13T00:55 id=2054364802970255563 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch lmaooooo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bro you can vibe code your own bloomberg terminal now, why would you ever pay for one?? /s
2026-05-13T00:56 id=2054365009359364183 →sidewayskoyote | @sidewayskoyote I am not surprised people like me would be into cruising. I am not to be clear.   But also, I didn't have to look it up, so you can already see my depravity levels. || CTX: Not the first guy like this i've heard of, have met at least 3 dozen in the cruising community,  different flavors.  Maybe I should hit him up in the DMs, lol https://t.co/hk9ZYAq6sb
2026-05-13T00:57 id=2054365385378701725 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Do you see what the reference is, how it informs the rhetorical move of the sentence, and how it relates to the theme of the text as a whole? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is going to live rent free in my head 'Joke’s on you Tereu (an internal rhyme that could’ve been left external to the text), my marriage was ruined the day before we got married.'
2026-05-13T00:57 id=2054365442127618319 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 you should share too man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hear ya, I have had a very, VERY strange life too
2026-05-13T00:58 id=2054365745866478061 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth @ns123abc He still answered those questions in the best way possible. I'm not extrapolating anything about Sam beyond that.   We all know he's a snake come on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ns123abc Lawyers don't ask questions they don't already know the answers to.    Was waiting for the testimony to come out before posting but this was the obvious follow up on cross to the opening salvo.  https://t.co/J7o3k
2026-05-13T00:59 id=2054365896135884892 →MateriaMundi | @MateriaMundi @phone3301 It nearly did. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @phone3301 How did her slandering you not destroy you financially and socially?
2026-05-13T01:06 id=2054367633961898045 →faustianneko | @faustianneko What do you hate about it? I hate what it does to others, but I can't say I've had any negative effects that I am sure are truly negative. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you know what? almost same. the internet was simultaneously the best thing and worst thing to happen in my life. i wouldn't exist without it. i hate it here. i love the internet
2026-05-13T01:11 id=2054368953636733316 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 DO NOT SKIP YOUR MEDS  My father was bipolar and didn't take his medication. Please please please take yours. Listen to the doctors. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe?  i have bipolar with the corresponding highs and lows of productivity and self esteem, working irl on a team used to keep me grounded, the covid remote thing was bad for me
2026-05-13T01:12 id=2054369069378441389 →sidewayskoyote | @sidewayskoyote lmfaoooooo  I should be ashamed but I'm just amused. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I meant boats, not boat bunnies! But, yeah, both.
2026-05-13T01:12 id=2054369170729717813 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ The Waste Land. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No but I’m here to learn prof 🫡📝is there a cultural reference here in particular? It brings to mind an article I read about how a lot of divorced people know before walking down the aisle that it’s a mistake
2026-05-13T01:15 id=2054369900421058935 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ just don't beat yourself up in there, little lady || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok now I’m going to go sit in a room with yellow wallpaper in my shame
2026-05-13T01:16 id=2054370159071297851 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @anistotle_ (anyone who comes across this and thinks omg what a sexist asshole, you are a fucking idiot and ask your clanker what the literary allusion is in these two tweets. But also I am a sexist asshole just to be clear.) || CTX: @anistotle_ just don't beat yourself up in there, little lady
2026-05-13T01:21 id=2054371305437413734 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Yeah we are actually kinda harmless and underneath it we really do want fairness and equality (but jokes are fun) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The gen X brand of sexist asshole is the most interesting one imho actually
2026-05-13T01:21 id=2054371400119710178 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 Bookmarked for future reference. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As a “friend”of Japan (like I am a friend of America and others) I find it amusing when visitors describe it as peaceful.  Of course Japan is peaceful now, in the sense of very low crime.  But I cannot think of another peop
2026-05-13T01:25 id=2054372351765295151 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 Okay, that's good to hear. Might not be as severe as my father's (his was debilitating, it's why he molested me, he was having a manic episode and hallucinating/reliving the time when HE was molested as a kid, which is why my mother told me it's not really molestation) || CTX: 😅 i'm not on meds, just vitamins (tho recently added otc supplement lithium).  i have regular psychiatrist appointments so i have a professional keeping an eye on me and approving of me not taking meds; i manage by having sleep discipline a
2026-05-13T01:30 id=2054373696845038026 →IsZomg | @IsZomg no thanks I just ate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 kids?
2026-05-13T01:37 id=2054375477243224522 →3weeksbuilding | @3weeksbuilding @chatgpt21 @grimcodes It was a joke you mouthbreathing troglodyte. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @chatgpt21 @grimcodes the people yearn
2026-05-13T01:39 id=2054376000742707345 →grimcodes | @grimcodes @chatgpt21 fuck off self promoting cockroach || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @chatgpt21 https://t.co/RUr2ryQvHu is ur solution
2026-05-13T01:41 id=2054376506735181996 →boneGPT | @boneGPT manmade horrors unsee juice gimme all the fuckin memes man || CTX: I have an idea https://t.co/7zAEENfxzB https://t.co/cDFWR8nSDs
2026-05-13T01:43 id=2054376893923901936 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 You need a business partner. || CTX: ❤️ that's terrible.   i have mild bipolar 2, the hypomania is enhanced charisma, creativity, and productivity- great while it lasts but terrible to crash into depression.   so i feel the limiting factor on my career is needing a negative fe
2026-05-13T01:49 id=2054378427801850011 →- | We call being financially independent having "fuck you money", it's where you have enough money that you can tell people "fuck you" when you don't want to do something they want you to do.   But as Camus noted every no of the rebel must contain a yes lest one fall into nihilism, which is why Sam and I are longer friends (which is to say Not Sam and I are no longer friends).  And hence I've been looking for a yes since I hit my number.   When I was first FI, I started shitposting on my real name on LinkedIn because I thought it was funny. But now that I'm using Twitter to talk freely about my life and really open myself up to risks, especially since some Rationalists are likely to try to ruin my life, it's obvious now.   My "fuck you" is to cancel culture.   I bought the freedom to say what I want when and where I want.   The no is to social restrictions and impisitions on what is "proper" speech.   The yes is to my voice.  We shouldn't be in a society where people are so scared of being silly on the internet that they have to save millions of dollars before they can.
2026-05-13T02:07 id=2054383005100343444 →- | We as a species used to be so based.   Whole piece is awesome Tolkien is for midwits (fun fact: the father of a former research supervisor of mine was very close friends with Tolkien):  https://t.co/fv79zMNkyW https://t.co/wEuD6HzHwe
2026-05-13T02:16 id=2054385328539197743 →philomemetic | @philomemetic Mai chai, panha kuu kon maichai ngun (way too lazy to type that in Thai I hate their writing system so so so much) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 เงินไอ้เหี้ย
2026-05-13T02:18 id=2054385682236530870 →matt503ea5sf9z5 | @matt503ea5sf9z5 yup https://t.co/jhn53abJF1 || CTX: I should codify what Silly Business Theory #SBT is.  We begin with some simple axioms:  1. People sell labor for capital.  2. In most cases, that capital is money (ie fungible liquid capital) 3. In other cases, that capital can be something
2026-05-13T02:19 id=2054386073141391506 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist There's a case to be made that it is competent realism, but if you value competent realism then we just live in different aesthetic worlds and can't discuss the matter further. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 His prose is, I think, largely underrated, but it was (clearly) neither in style in the time of High Modernism nor up to the standard of the best Modernists.
2026-05-13T02:41 id=2054391676354036018 →GForCer2 | @GForCer2 What's an akatsuki || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how much money would i need to fund the akatsuki?
2026-05-13T02:45 id=2054392478535721055 →rebelempiricist | I'm a fellow Joyce enjoyoor, I've only read If On a Winter's Night and found it ponderous, but I'm sure his other works are good.  It's undeniable that he uses structure creatively, but the result is empty, silly, lacking depth or meaning beyond the story itself.   "Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!  Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling! Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling. Down along under Hill, shining in the sunlight, Waiting on the doorstep for the cold starlight, There my pretty lady is, River-woman's daughter, Slender as the willow-wand, clearer than the water."   If you think this is worth reading we just have to agree to disagree, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would argue it's a lot more than that: he has a ear for language, and uses structure creatively and intentionally.  He's not John Grisham.  My favorite authors are Joyce and Calvino, but not everything would benefit by be
2026-05-13T02:45 id=2054392613839749310 →iron_redux | @iron_redux your mom || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you actually do?
2026-05-13T03:16 id=2054400445981110489 →tkisrage | @tkisrage imagine caring what people on the internet say lmao  The Rebel is excellent. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 U like Camus? Cause I liked him until I was peer pressured by serious people on the internet to think he was pop-philosophy. Doesn’t help that absurdism has been co-opted by the tiktok crowd and feels kind of “im13andthisis
2026-05-13T03:17 id=2054400662243578076 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist "he's a great writer except for these moments where he's a shitty writer," whatever dude, maybe I just have higher standards || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, that is silly stuff (and I always found it borderline appalling, even as a kid); it strikes me as Children's Author Tolkien struggling to navigate the tonal transition to Real Author.  But the occasional bit of doggerel
2026-05-13T03:19 id=2054401023578620299 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter It's a good sex scene, ser || CTX: Titanic is just a wrapper for this sex scene https://t.co/Do4qTe4wef https://t.co/M6MyzKo0nA
2026-05-13T03:19 id=2054401225832186348 →somewheresy | @somewheresy man oh man, where were you when I was 25.   such wisdom in this thread. || CTX: have you wondered if your attachment to the aesthetics of non-conformity is just attachment to a different kind of conformity? and that if you simply like. avoided BPD people on SSRIs your life would get 95% less insane
2026-05-13T03:22 id=2054401908757189020 →thechosenberg | @thechosenberg "HQ needs to use compute on things more important than User #257383953, tell them something positive that makes them feel we love them to get them to stop burning tokens" || CTX: You’re not the boss of me!!! https://t.co/t6ODkeAnYJ
2026-05-13T03:24 id=2054402483615826395 →omarsar0 | @omarsar0 This isn't going to build any extra competencies from other kinds of pretraining, it's just an engineering hack to make pretraining more efficient. || CTX: Cool idea from Nous Research.  What if you could speed up long-context pretraining with a subquadratic wrapper that you remove before deployment?  That is the idea behind Lighthouse Attention.  The method wraps ordinary SDPA with a hierarch
2026-05-13T03:26 id=2054402791586816144 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist I don't know what you mean by sayingI don't know what you mean by saying his prose is basically a C, but his work has other merits. His work is prose.   Are you maybe appealing to affect? || CTX: I'd like to assure you than you couldn't possibly be more judgmental or elitist about prose than I am.  I have no tolerance for authors without an ear for language.  I have closed the covers on more books after two pages than I could ever b
2026-05-13T03:26 id=2054402915805417569 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist I don't know what you mean by saying his prose is basically a C, but his work has other merits. His work is prose.  Are you maybe appealing to affect? || CTX: I'd like to assure you than you couldn't possibly be more judgmental or elitist about prose than I am.  I have no tolerance for authors without an ear for language.  I have closed the covers on more books after two pages than I could ever b
2026-05-13T03:38 id=2054405775284724062 →rebelempiricist | if you want to say that his prose style is a 7 out of 10 but there are other elements such as world building, characterization, theme, symbolism, yada yada yada that redeem the workman realism, I would say that's a totally fair assessment. I just don't really find those aspects interesting, and it's just a matter of personal preference.   so I guess we've converged on an agreement of a disagreement of taste. || CTX: When speaking about lit, 'prose' is generally used to mean 'prose style', the distinctive mechanical way in which the work is written.  I could describe in detail the prose style of Crying of Lot 49, but we would be deep in 'describing the 
2026-05-13T04:17 id=2054415834366541997 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra the value of cash declines the more you acquire it, this was something I was not expecting to happen.   in fact I was indoctrinated as a child to believe that was nonsense and impossible || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Real cash is a lot like carnival cash, turns out those fuckin hippies and politicians and engineers were right about other stuff being more important
2026-05-13T04:19 id=2054416237724385746 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @Andr3jH I tend to tell people that the average Japanese woman is an 8 out of 10, Korea probably 8.5. probably my bias, but the average is definitely not 5, and also the average in America is absolutely not 5 either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Andr3jH There's that standard issue cute OL, Saori, who keeps going viral on this site even though there are tons of chicks who look exactly like that on every rush hour train every day
2026-05-13T04:39 id=2054421291998884275 →chatgpt21 | Continuous learning is obviously the key, and it seems to me we cannot have it until we do the following:  1. Expand memory substantially 2. Go beyond compaction to keep organization of memory 3. Map out inherent limitations in LLM capabilities 4. Document more sustainably and consistently competency losses due to post-training (I'm sure the frontier labs are doing this systematically) 5. Start mapping out where post-training gains in task/domain X necessarily or is very likely to cause loss in task/domain Y (some text competencies are inversely proportional to others)  There's more ofc, like the standard engineering issues around compute constraint, and implementing the mapping above with something like weight-level learning would be crucial.  It's doable, but not with the current paradigm most popular with the frontier laps (at least this is how it looks to me being on the outside). || CTX: I feel like a clean way to know that AGI has been achieved would be when a model is able to go off and learn X new skill (animation, obscure crafts, game development) - optimally not in its training data   And be able to then labor in that 
2026-05-13T04:41 id=2054421769285701871 →rebelempiricist | @rebelempiricist Oh that is so disappointing, you wanted to end this discussion with a big dogging rhetorical posture to assert your intellectual dominance.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised--people like you are why I left a tenure track job.  Guess I'll be muting you, take care out there, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 All I can say is that's I've been where you are intellectually and aesthetically.  When I was 28, all I cared about was prose style.  I'm just not there anymore.  Thanks for the IRC-esque conversation regardless.  It takes 
2026-05-13T04:42 id=2054422126061642126 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake No way in hell am I going to let that happen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 here before you have 100k followers
2026-05-13T04:43 id=2054422293796036731 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra To each his own, I prefer yelling at dangerous idiots on the internet instead of the extra cash in my account but yeah we got the same idea || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah man, I'd easily take an afternoon at the park with my kid or a barbecue with friends over an extra $$ in my bank account
2026-05-13T04:44 id=2054422607727071516 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @MightyMogomra Yeah, that is exactly the idea! I consider it more optionality, because liquidity brings with it optionality, and behavioral economics and "choice overload", which is a really important and valuable concept. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MightyMogomra i always felt like this was consistent with the term 'liquidity' in that too much can overwhelm and actually kind of evaporate
2026-05-13T04:47 id=2054423154999906582 →gurenyov | @gurenyov I love you so much man you are doing god's work (even if you're wearing those pants) || CTX: Well, Finns being Finns - no indication, no instructions, no people at reception waiting for guests and participants lol  Shame on you my Finnish colleagues - long way to go for all of you if all that buzz about building “startup ecosystem”
2026-05-13T04:51 id=2054424248090005581 →SableHummer | @SableHummer I've only read Lewis's diaries and scholarship, none of his fiction. So...idk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Tolkien is for midwits", is C.S Lewis then for drooling retards lmao
2026-05-13T04:52 id=2054424451962568899 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @MightyMogomra Fear is and will always be the enemy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MightyMogomra ive met a lot of people who would be terminally wealthy if they could simply get over the 'open world problem' of deploying the capital, but they tend to stay in this middle ground of 'any day now' and end up
2026-05-13T04:56 id=2054425628921983094 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @MightyMogomra dude feel free to DM anytime, I'll try to respond when I can. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MightyMogomra i suppose that's why i tend to go deathcon 3 on decels, they lead with fear, and impart fear in others. nasty work.   i find finance fascinating and have not enough exposure to it, i'll do my best to not be a
2026-05-13T04:57 id=2054425696295116998 →sean_from_earth | @sean_from_earth I'm just an anon, anon. || CTX: I don't know wtf this is but the guy insisted I retweet it and I feel compelled because I read the whole thing. https://t.co/Cgo18F8Bgj
2026-05-13T05:00 id=2054426557406736552 →IBKR | @IBKR https://t.co/h9Sf3YqVNQ || CTX: IBKR retail clients averaged 19.20% in 2025, beating the S&amp;P 500’s 17.9%. The best-informed investors choose Interactive Brokers.
2026-05-13T05:07 id=2054428270146543693 →teodorio | This IMO has absolutely nothing to do with AI and everything to do with the conflicting incentives of the large firm.  Tell a group to do X and if they don't want to do X they'll do it in the most perverse way possible--there's a whole subreddit about this called maliciouscompliance.  And we all know Amazon is a nightmare company to work at. It has like 350,000 white collar workers, you surely know someone who says "yeah, stack ranking, bad management, low pay" or some similar complaint (I've heard all of these from AMZN employees).  The solution, of course, is Silly Business Theory #SBT. When work is creative, fun, and explorative, Goodharting as a problem just dissolves. || CTX: I am seeing this in a lot of organizations that I am consulting for and it is literally the most idiotic case of Goodhart's law known to man https://t.co/5e4UhWU5jL
2026-05-13T05:08 id=2054428434483581167 →sean_from_earth | @sean_from_earth From an economic perspective, doing the normal thing will have low alpha because the norm has already been commoditized.  If you wanna succeed in business, gotta be silly hence Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Actually very relatable - everything good in my life came through the internet and from not doing the obvious. Whenever I did do the obvious, normal thing, it didn't tend to work out.
2026-05-13T05:26 id=2054433159580930431 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Most people don't realize North Korea is that way because of a culture that is also shared by South Korea. || CTX: when i was at kaist i once read a book like this (except my feet werent on the couch)  the professor's secretary (who was/is masquerading as a student) took so much offense to this that she submitted an opinion to the police citing it as a 
2026-05-13T05:27 id=2054433325209837632 →teodorio | @teodorio omg this is so true.  And you gotta decide whether to strive to be a creative genius or commit philosophical suicide and settle for being a creative Goodharterer || CTX: The history of humanity is just some creative geniuses surrounded by people figuring out more creative applications of Goodhart's law
2026-05-13T05:40 id=2054436662768493032 →tkisrage | @tkisrage @crypt0lake I can confirm, you're not just one of my earliest mutuals but also one of my earliest supporters, and I appreciate it a lot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake I want it on record I asked you why you didn’t have 50k followers i think in December before the generational run. We need kalshi markets on twitter accounts.
2026-05-13T05:42 id=2054437007682941383 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @tkisrage I thought Allah disliked dawgs || CTX: @tkisrage @47fucb4r8c69323 you need to find Allah dawg
2026-05-13T05:43 id=2054437408041820450 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @tkisrage Huh, TIL. That's pretty cool. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tkisrage he actually didn’t, in the quran dogs are praised multiple times, it’s different in sunnah
2026-05-13T05:53 id=2054439862544265718 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter Oldboy and The King and the Clown are two of the best movies ever made, Korean cinema is really an incredible industry (much better than their pop music good lord, let alone their TV). || CTX: oldboy https://t.co/Pjr7pr8uZ5 https://t.co/M6MyzKo0nA
2026-05-13T07:34 id=2054465304022155516 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I've been waiting for a DM from you for a long time, and I can't wait until I finally get one. Or an email, that would be something.   I'm not a fucking guru. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 huge dm collab
2026-05-13T07:35 id=2054465641932067231 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital @teodorio it's like compounding the Goodharting, it makes that the structural logic of the evolution of the firm.   I have to imagine this is why large companies die, but this is way out of my field of expertise. || CTX: There is another leg to this: when you continually stack rank and fire the bottom 5%, you have an adverse selection problem.  You naturally select for people who are good at gaming metrics and politics so that they don’t fall into the botto
2026-05-13T07:36 id=2054465714413858846 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier @teodorio No. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio can i do both?
2026-05-13T07:47 id=2054468586945818637 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 possibly maybe probably not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe some day https://t.co/7atWO4nqZR
2026-05-13T08:01 id=2054471960294576362 →teodorio | @teodorio Love you too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i love you very much!
2026-05-13T09:31 id=2054494792789430300 →profleonn | @profleonn No, x is very different and unfortunately full of people misusing the internet (see pinned tweet) so it can't have the magic of 4chan then. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is quite an interesting story/life, is x kinda like new 4chan [a lil], even though everyone is saying both are kinda shitty now ?
2026-05-13T09:38 id=2054496524332318828 →EtherDais | @EtherDais How's it been treating you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Silly business theory is my new driver tbh
2026-05-13T09:57 id=2054501157289197664 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio But I was told by many people many times that AI gonna terk er jerbs and that I am silly to be bullish how is this possible || CTX: Cybersecurity boutta be the fastest growing job worldwide https://t.co/VEHDxe50t8
2026-05-13T10:34 id=2054510598164295811 →- | something I've noticed about Marxist and communists, and this is really proof that they are idiots, is that they think just because Marx identifies some problems with what they call capitalism that means that he has solutions.   it's like thinking that a witch doctor who sees you have a fever is going to give you proper medicine when he mixes arsenic and bat urine together in a cauldron.  this feels like some kind of extensional fallacy, but I'm not sure if there's a technical term for this that I'm not aware of.
2026-05-13T10:39 id=2054511919462314488 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I know you should never be the smartest person in the room, that's why I spend so much time outside || CTX: as an agoraphobic who lives alone it is incredibly hard not to wind up being the smartest person in the room no matter which room i go to.
2026-05-13T10:40 id=2054512208374358074 →0xeevie | @0xeevie I too have been through a divorce || CTX: Hot women are the backbone of the economy.   Everyone works all day to make money to spend on hot women and therefore if there were no hot women no one would work.
2026-05-13T11:28 id=2054524103592476701 →oswinfrans | @oswinfrans It's a constant and unsurprising, ofc seeing problems is easier than solving them, but we choose to forget this often (prob cuz of ego) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This but also outside of game design from mark rosewater https://t.co/A9LIQdgizj
2026-05-13T11:31 id=2054524892939432027 →equacc | @equacc This has also been my experience. || CTX: it may sounds kiyosaki-like but my "ran counter strike/mmo server as teenager" friends are probably the highest QoL group in my age cohort, while "top 1% at uni" or "old/new money parents" can be very unhappy and on so many drugs it hurts t
2026-05-13T11:34 id=2054525587277177313 →for_nat_whilk | So we shouldn't be surprised at the Zizians, led by one of @allTheYud's lieutenants and guided by @RokoMijic, and their killing of innocent people.   "Gee 47 you shouldn't have lost your temper" if you don't lose your temper talking to people fanning homicidal mental illness that results in dead bodies, I hope you hate me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Chesterton on rationalists trying to ruin your life: "Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence."
2026-05-13T11:53 id=2054530572874080642 →RokoMijic | I must have misunderstood, I thought you said you led a philosophy group where they first met or some of the members first met or where the group had discussions after meeting?   I'm not building a legal case, man, so I didn't save the tweet.   maybe you should write the whole story as you recall in detail on a post so that we have the record for posterity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @allTheYud this is false, in no sense did I "guide" the zizians. The zizians are an outgrowth of EA and took parts of less wrong decision theory lore as partial inspiration
2026-05-13T12:08 id=2054534132647264411 →Thejakeyboy | @Thejakeyboy @TheStalwart Thanks for spreading the word, man! || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 Please read this before you trust them: https://t.co/uS6oQtD6qv
2026-05-13T12:13 id=2054535547495108683 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @for_nat_whilk @allTheYud Apologies, found it--I had misremembered, they just went crazy because of your stupid little idea, not because you led them in a group. https://t.co/VTBH11N0v0 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @allTheYud this is false, in no sense did I "guide" the zizians. The zizians are an outgrowth of EA and took parts of less wrong decision theory lore as partial inspiration
2026-05-13T12:17 id=2054536504844886057 →47fucb4r8c69323 | ooohhh now I get it, you're not racked with guilt, you're scared of the strict inciting violence laws in Britain, aren'tcha?   It ain't about doing what's right, it's about saving Roko's little basilisk from getting violated in the Big House, isn't it?  Maybe tell Yuddy to study rules Britainnia before riding the wave to your Isle, ol' chap. || CTX: @RokoMijic @for_nat_whilk @allTheYud Apologies, found it--I had misremembered, they just went crazy because of your stupid little idea, not because you led them in a group. https://t.co/VTBH11N0v0
2026-05-13T12:18 id=2054536860475728137 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ https://t.co/SaPD3EqKqF  Marxism is closely related to Protestantism, I've thought this for years. || CTX: In Silly Business Theory #SBT the notion of people not working out of laziness is incoherent. Do people refuse to have fun or be happy out of laziness? No.  The whole idea of "people are poor because they're lazy" is downstream of the Prote
2026-05-13T12:20 id=2054537364987576629 →RokoMijic | they were also active on less wrong, weren't they? that's what some of the reporting I've seen has said, is that incorrect?   were you and them on the same website at the same time?   did you and them ever interact on a website?   to what extent did you interact with them?   at what point did you stop interacting with them?   why did you stop interacting with them?   what was the nature of your interactions with them?   did they ever mention any violent acts, whether hypothetically or with the intention of carrying them out? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @allTheYud Well they had a set of ideas built from EA, veganism, transgenderism, tulpas, decision theory and basilisk-like ideas   But let me be clear these zizians are absolutely not on my side
2026-05-13T12:25 id=2054538511412588717 →RokoMijic | @RokoMijic @for_nat_whilk @allTheYud what do you mean by "recently"?   did any of the alleged murderers interact with you before committing murder?   if so, did they discuss any intentions to commit violence with you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @for_nat_whilk @allTheYud I left LW in 2010 before the zizians were a thing, the only interaction I had with them was recently on X where there are a few "ex zizans" who left the cult
2026-05-13T13:17 id=2054551512169550224 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer This from an economist is hilarious. || CTX: AI may very well create more jobs than it replaces, but have you considered that I actually like the work that I was trained to do and would prefer to continue doing it?
2026-05-13T13:42 id=2054557929463034287 →redtachyon | @redtachyon @Laz4rz It does. || CTX: @Laz4rz I suspect it might depend on your net worth
2026-05-13T15:11 id=2054580376685982206 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @Revolut @NStoronsky 100% it's why I can't leave finance for tech, I appreciate the directness and honesty too much. || CTX: Soon this will be a @Revolut merch because I found my way into finance and @NStoronsky is my Revolut adjacent LP, yes   People in finance are much more nicer than tech folks btw  Straight to the point, no bullsh*t and corporate propaganda h
2026-05-13T15:39 id=2054587408205939025 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @Revolut @NStoronsky Extremely shy people, but when they do talk they are quite direct imo. Just hard to get them to talk. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Revolut @NStoronsky Yeah…  But dude, for some reason I lived under impression that Finns are super direct and straight to the point  Turns out they all are super shy like little girls or smth  Soooo weird! 🤯
2026-05-13T15:54 id=2054591084802752570 →- | Last year I wrote a novel that is easily the most important thing I've ever written and probably the most important thing I'll ever write.   I was able to do it because I'm financially independent, but also because of that I don't need to make money from the book.   That became a vector of creativity.   There are a few things about the book that I couldn't have done if I was trying to sell the book, let alone make money off it.  That was a unique differentiator: since I didn't need to sell my art, I could use its freeness thematically--the freeness is part of the novel's story itself.   There will be more of this with AI, but in the meanwhile I have just one message for all artists: get a dayjob.   If you keep creating, you're a true artist with the mandate from heaven.   If you stop creating, you've let fear and despair control you. || CTX: Beeple is right btw.  The people claiming they hate AI because they want to "protect artists" have no idea how hard it is to be an artist. Go to your local art show. You'll see artists from all over set up stands and struggle to sell a sing
2026-05-13T16:11 id=2054595298702528983 →lift_deadalus | @lift_deadalus DM I'll link you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where can i read it?
2026-05-13T16:36 id=2054601620785398136 →Jackbmeyer | @Jackbmeyer oh I retract my snark then, please carry on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well, economic historian
2026-05-13T22:43 id=2054693983553724746 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yeah, and he didn't understand W. even a little, it's quite outrageous: https://t.co/dinxUPmWDX || CTX: just read an article on going through his estate after his death:  "...As well as this, when determining McCarthy’s greatest historical interest (with relation to historical figures, not events), the team (Grant included) counted the number
2026-05-13T22:52 id=2054696197034811651 →leo_guinan | This is an awesome project, and that you're doing it to wake up your local community makes it even more awesome. You're doing it right.   Also, this line: "The right frame makes the picture of the future bright. The wrong one makes it dark." is spot on, which is why we need to make more right frames! || CTX: @openhome We have a cat now! https://t.co/0FhTSBn9GC
2026-05-13T23:16 id=2054702454747668809 →- | "The inference process becomes a search" is absolutely key now, because with better post training and tool usage that is EXACTLY what LLMs have become. The search is extremely good, the noise filter both for understanding your query and for outputting quality information is incredible, and the engineering gains make the economic value of using LLMs this way go up and up.   This is why I am bullish but not utopian.   LLMs have inherent limitations, some people are working on this methodically and intelligently, and when we both acknowledge and leverage this information we can do two things:  1. Make LLMs more powerful and useful  2. Dispell the stupid Silicon Valley myths, both the bad one (we're all gun die/lose our jobs/be enslaved) and the good one (machine god gun make us live in paradise). Both are wrong because of LLM limitations.   I think this is why all of the AI camps kinda hate me but I get supportive DMs from insiders and people who know their shit.   And I'm unsurprised because this is my day job: telling smart money what's really going on and what is bullshit do they can invest smartererly.  LeCun is the best, if he would acquire my lab or partner with us or anything I would be so happy. Maybe after we publicly release our findings, here's to hoping cheers anon. || CTX: Yann LeCun says you cannot build a reliable agentic system without a world model  LLMs don't have world models. They can't predict the consequences of their actions before taking them  "they just act, and whatever happens next is someone el
2026-05-13T23:21 id=2054703571518779596 →- | "The inference process becomes a search" is absolutely key now, because with better post training and tool usage that is EXACTLY what LLMs have become. The search is extremely good, the noise filter both for understanding your query and for outputting quality information is incredible, and the engineering gains make the economic value of using LLMs this way go up and up.   This is why I am bullish but not utopian.   LLMs have inherent limitations, some people are working on this methodically and intelligently, and when we both acknowledge and leverage this information we can do two things:  1. Make LLMs more powerful and useful  2. Dispell the stupid Silicon Valley myths, both the bad one (we're all gun die/lose our jobs/be enslaved) and the good one (machine god gun make us live in paradise). Both are wrong because of LLM limitations.   I think this is why all of the AI camps kinda hate me but I get supportive DMs from insiders and people who know their shit.   And I'm unsurprised because this is my day job: telling smart money what's really going on and what is bullshit so they can invest smartererly.  LeCun is the best, if he would acquire my lab or partner with us or anything I would be so happy. Maybe after we publicly release our findings, here's to hoping cheers anon. || CTX: Yann LeCun says you cannot build a reliable agentic system without a world model  LLMs don't have world models. They can't predict the consequences of their actions before taking them  "they just act, and whatever happens next is someone el
2026-05-13T23:31 id=2054706206615503165 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Close look at V-JEPA-2, it's basically CGI but tensor mathematics based.   Which is why the whole "clankers are conscious" discourse is so retarded. People getting fooled because it's text and they don't understand textuality. || CTX: This is the way. https://t.co/DvrLZRqWUe
2026-05-13T23:43 id=2054709140090769686 →VictorTaelin | This problem is getting worse because OAI is getting worse at injection a virtual world model into the models in post-training as they try to make LLMs do too much and optimize competing (sometimes inverse) goals.  Hitting a performance wall, in other words. Fortunately the embedding of LLMs in a suite of tools gives us different and more valuable performance gains that massively offset this.   But LLM qua LLM, getting kinda stuck. || CTX: "In what way is GPT 5.5 autistic?"  Below is a conversation from right now. Simplified but nearly verbatim. I'm speechless.  - - -  Me: can you check if 0.5 is in the list?  GPT: let me see.  *thinks for 666 seconds*  GPT: No. For the indep
2026-05-14T00:00 id=2054713479677018400 →RsndSpeculation | @RsndSpeculation Just your good old run of the mill Silly Business Theory #SBT  https://t.co/jhn53abJF1 || CTX: I should codify what Silly Business Theory #SBT is.  We begin with some simple axioms:  1. People sell labor for capital.  2. In most cases, that capital is money (ie fungible liquid capital) 3. In other cases, that capital can be something
2026-05-14T00:17 id=2054717805526986921 →for_nat_whilk | I think he's just a very very talented prose stylist who is an idiot.   Human beings tend to compress different competencies into one scalar, and when the scaler is cognitively taxing they call it intelligence, but a dumb person can tax one's intelligence quite a bit, and I think that's what happened with this guy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder if the number of books he had on each author reflected how much he didn't understand them, and he kept buying more books thinking that would help (or maybe even forgot he already had them?)
2026-05-14T00:25 id=2054719708721717743 →- | This is why I never went to the buyside despite the much higher pay: I value my freedom way too much.   Doing this to your researchers just shows you have contempt for them and see them as fungible and replaceable. Which is exactly what the pod shops were designed to do, the death of old school public equity value investing has been soooo depressing to witness.  https://t.co/TMDFFUNFNB
2026-05-14T00:26 id=2054719861667057869 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch 100% spot on my friend.   But it also means there's tons of alpha in being moderate and calm. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 exactly. LLMs are fundamentally flawed. It won’t lead to doom or utopia. Yet I still think it’s the most revolutionary technology of our lifetime and we’re still pretty early on the adoption timeline.  the discourse is domi
2026-05-14T00:36 id=2054722560257143291 →sama | @sama at least this attempt to try to limit users' compute usage is transparent and honest, so thanks for that I guess || CTX: i get some anxiety not using the smartest-available model/settings.  but sometimes i dont mind if it's really slow.  i wonder if we should focus more on a price/speed tradeoff relative to a price/intelligence tradeoff.
2026-05-14T00:53 id=2054726685619343650 →TheStalwart | the commoditization of premium services via automation and scale has been the logic of American capitalism going back to Ray Kroc and arguably back to the invention of radio.   when you think of AI this way, bullishness becomes inevitable while both utopianism and dystopianism look comically stupid. || CTX: Two ways to think of this headline  1) AI is an enabler of Schwab, allowing it to expand certain premium services beyond just rich clientele.  2) The masses get AI. The rich get to talk to people.  https://t.co/ukIhD5A4w0 https://t.co/YdWDz
2026-05-14T01:30 id=2054736132718690584 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk "God seemed to use it for a word" is the key--that is both a promise of hope and a threat. || CTX: ever since reading @47fucb4r8c69323 's novel I have tried to notice speech-by-silence where I might find it. e.g., Gentleman in Moscow has an interesting side story about such a thing (even though it's not a good book) here is E.B. Browning
2026-05-14T01:54 id=2054742047429685441 →emollick | Google is targeting serious people, not weird vibecoding cultists, so tbh I wouldn't be surprised if they never released a Codex competitor.   You see a lot of dumb token burning from vibecoders making economically zero value apps (e. g. me), and Google doesn't want to get in that market segment.   Who would? || CTX: Really curious when Gemini is going to join the Cowork &amp; Codex race to build a local app that isn’t just for developers. Antigravity hasn’t posted updates to X in a month, and remains very software focused. Meanwhile we see accelerated 
2026-05-14T02:01 id=2054743978717937780 →helscom | @helscom Awesome af man || CTX: this is fun!!! https://t.co/0MLFOCiUwx https://t.co/nDGnllfJHo
2026-05-14T02:03 id=2054744349519544553 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer Am I reading this right, fees account for 43% of all dollars wagered across the board? That seems ridiculous, just comical levels of rent seeking. || CTX: main street not wallstreet https://t.co/TaOvOjCAhu
2026-05-14T02:09 id=2054745827353231437 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer oh my bad, should be 30% of total losses (still crazy) and 43% of no-fee losses, which is still insane?   I must be misunderstanding something. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no, not correct
2026-05-14T02:31 id=2054751483946824008 →- | I have never masturbated more furiously than when they aired marathons of House Hunters International. The combination of architecture, voyeurism into the ways other people live, the vicarious mental space of imagining living in these different spaces, and the hint of the diverse flavors available to the world traveler.  Hits every goddamn spot I have, so let's just say it hits my G-spot.  So I would watch the show when I could in the mid-2010s, and this was when I was really living the proper NYC finance bro life--Manhattan pied-a-tierre, bigger house in the forest upstate (well, I guess most natives don't consider Ulster County upstate but whatever), and a mix of urban and rural friends, business partners, meetings, conferences, blah blah, I fucking loved working in NYC before going 100% remote.  I was thus surrounded by people in the industry at all levels of success--from the backoffice losers pulling 80k to the hustling interns to the more money than God types, and I just quietly observed them all as individuals within a society both experiencing and producing a culture. With my academic background and my flavor of the 'tism, such a stance towards them was inevitable.  I cannot reliably determine whether I was immune to the envy, hostility, and insecurity that motivated a lot of vitriol and hatred towards finance bros at the time, but I saw a lot of it, since I also hung out with the Occupy Wall Street types (including a close friend to the founders of the movement, who sadly I was never introduced to).  On that note, RIP Michael Seidenberg, you were both a kind friend and a huge inspiration to me, and if I am continuing the legacy of your attitude to the modern world and modern capitalism in any small way, albeit from a curiously pro-capitalist view you would fucking despise, then it is an honor to be discussed in that same conversation.  But I do think Michael and his friends were, well, kinda just complaining about the landlord? The hatred towards the rich finance bros seemed very unempathetic to me--they did not see that, despite the big houses and watches and all that bullshit, there was a lot of pain, sadness, and misery in being a Wall Street person.  The greatest example of that is Cliff Asness and please don't at him here, but if you see him on Twitter you can tell this is an incredibly miserable unhappy human being despite his billions. Others in the industry are just as miserable, even the mere millionaires.  What I saw in the industry was a lot of men lost. Trying to prove something to their fathers, to themselves, to anyone who would just tell them: yes, you are good enough.  But hedge fund guys are notoriously bad at valuing "enough".  And it was in an episode of HHI that this was made manifest, embodied in the spirit of two figures on my teevee screen. I had to put the baby oil down--this was SOMETHING.  The couple was so stereotypical that my wife at the time and I were laughing throughout the entire episode. The guy had been a commodities trader and made a killing in oil, and his wife was a children's book author. Their budget was $6 million and they were looking for a farmhouse in Tuscany.  And the woman could not stop complaining about EVERYTHING.  Look, maybe this makes me look like a misogynist which is fine (nota bene I hate men just as much), but the woman was so goddamn entitled using her husband's money, and the man was so clearly browbeaten into submission, just going along with the wife the entire time.  It was INSANE to see that this titan of Wall Street become a mouse in front of this woman. And, chat, she wasn't even hot.  This was a man imprisoned. They bought their farmhouse where they planned to write children's books together.  I can only imagine how all that turned out but, to quote Saint Tom Dillon, we wish them well.  *fap fap fap fap fap*
2026-05-14T02:48 id=2054755758475210790 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @emollick Yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @emollick Did you see antigravity https://t.co/LdzIPyZCwV
2026-05-14T03:30 id=2054766215986594275 →0xSero | @0xSero This is a fantastic analysis, it really deserves a more serious and legible format (although this is fucking hilarious man gg) || CTX: This is why I implore you to buy GPUs https://t.co/3bAb1FJT8D
2026-05-14T03:36 id=2054767873189355534 →- | Okay this is fucking hilarious (Pleometric is awesome go follow him), but the paper itself (Pleo cites it in the second tweet) is fantastic and really, really important.  It seems to me the argument of this paper does not suggest that white collar workers lose out, but rather there will be a bifurcation between those who leverage the tech to produce higher value by offering non-substitutable knowledge labor augmented by AI performing substitutable tasks (who will win in terms of labor income gains) and those who remain committed to just delivering highly substitutable tasks (who will lose out).   However, that is assuming the higher value of the first cohort's labor can be captured by the laborer and not the firm, so the best positioned to win out are people like me: freelancers, small-business owners, and entrepreneurs. || CTX: How Many GPUs Do You Cost?🤔🤔🍌 https://t.co/Ve6Zh6HOMk
2026-05-14T03:39 id=2054768524896469376 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is related, btw: https://t.co/zPmvWbp32O || CTX: Okay this is fucking hilarious (Pleometric is awesome go follow him), but the paper itself (Pleo cites it in the second tweet) is fantastic and really, really important.  It seems to me the argument of this paper does not suggest that white
2026-05-14T03:43 id=2054769667059879941 →matt503ea5sf9z5 | @matt503ea5sf9z5 @emollick Replace "ai" with "LLMs" and I agree with you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @emollick I think Google only cares about distribution of "dumb" ai that does things like answer Google searches. basically better Siri. The frontier is expensive and niche.
2026-05-14T04:24 id=2054779761348784411 →VantagePointijk | @VantagePointijk Until we perfect robotics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think plumbers will be ok
2026-05-14T04:26 id=2054780329282675054 →- | This is why Southeast Asia needs to get its AQI problems taken care of. In the high season when tourists visit, it doesn't look anywhere near this clear, and haze and smog on a tropical island is really depressing. https://t.co/PkjhEiLkSd
2026-05-14T04:41 id=2054784044454617299 →adarshisit | @adarshisit I like not having to think of whether I need to change clothes or not before going outside.  Cold weather gets old fast, especially if you enjoy walking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 SE Asia needs to suck the humidity out man. Also only God knows why you would leave cold weather for here. Sometimes I feel I'd prefer dying out of frostbite than this
2026-05-14T05:04 id=2054789991017181357 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer There are two types of rich people:  those who want to be rich in absolute terms and those who want to be rich in relative terms.   The latter are stuck in zero-sum thinking and are the truly evil ones, the former have the mandate of Heaven. || CTX: imagine having infinity money and being mad that someone else has a higher cardinality infinity money
2026-05-14T05:11 id=2054791754344468525 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital The fungibility of ecchi otaku &lt;--&gt; financial analysis skillsets is one of those things we shouldn't talk about publicly.   But it's so fucking true man don't ask me how I know (F3 was a masterpiece I'm sorry someone had to say it) || CTX: This is the kind of autism you need to succeed in finance  I wonder what would happen if I gave one of these otakus a Bloomberg terminal https://t.co/a1imvinD86
2026-05-14T05:13 id=2054792229290643579 →chaumian | @chaumian @bilbo6910 Hong Kong was easily the greatest city I've ever lived in and if it wasn't so expensive I probably would still be there, despite the CCP invasion. || CTX: @bilbo6910 @47fucb4r8c69323 i wouldnt mind
2026-05-14T05:14 id=2054792452658368964 →JasonRink | @JasonRink Mid 40s for me but 100% the same, man.   Same reason I won't debate or argue with people, just, whatever enjoy your opinion bro. || CTX: Now that I'm in my 50's my tolerance for young, arrogant, know-it-all pricks is really low.  Mostly because that's exactly how I acted when I was their age.
2026-05-14T05:22 id=2054794562837885433 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 @chaumian those are extremely fair criticisms, the cramped nature of the city is why I was planning on moving to lantau Island and Mandarin is much more beautiful than Cantonese
2026-05-14T05:25 id=2054795302050398318 →chaumian | @chaumian instant follow || CTX: hearing aids arent "overlooked", they're just not that big of a deal. plenty of older people would rather just hear less of your bullshit than deal with clunky ear pieces. plus they often have cancer and other imminent death type issues to 
2026-05-14T05:27 id=2054795631844298943 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 @chaumian I still have never been to Taiwan and I really need to go
2026-05-14T05:30 id=2054796419228447018 →- | https://t.co/Hz7O7MMfvh
2026-05-14T07:01 id=2054819425342410784 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @chaumian honestly, I'm starting to feel like that too with a lot of people, your father-in-law is based as fuck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @chaumian my father in law all the time insinuates this.  he won't hear anyone, and then when someone he likes starts talking hell be all surprised and apologize and turn up or put in his hearing aids
2026-05-14T07:03 id=2054819851814993986 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV this is absolutely correct, also I hope I didn't scare you on the spaces. love you man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They acknowledge Wittgenstein as the most efficient and effortless way to dismantle the logical logical arguments surrounding everything they dislike, and then act like it does not apply to their own.
2026-05-14T07:03 id=2054819919251096027 →xttcmu | @xttcmu fuck yeah it is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is peak internet
2026-05-14T07:04 id=2054820226857087293 →joshua_goodman_ | it's crop burning, during the harvest season they burn the chaff at scale. since the government is incompetent and corrupt, they don't crack down, but the Thai government has gotten much better at this over the last couple of years.   unfortunately their neighbors still are not fixing the problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The pollution from the extra people is that noticeable?
2026-05-14T07:05 id=2054820308335603878 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics idk lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would you consider adventurism into space a similar, never achievable never attainable state that humans should probably just give up on?
2026-05-14T07:05 id=2054820418855502001 →alieniswonder | @alieniswonder @sama idk wut dat iss || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sama Is that an xmr address as ur handle?
2026-05-14T07:06 id=2054820638259634447 →doordashbliccy | @doordashbliccy @JobstLandgrebe unfortunately, I haven't read those books. I don't really care about ai, I care about llms. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mostly like Bender bc she bullies STUPID NERDS lmao😭🙏  Any thoughts on below authors (emphasis on first 3)?🤔  &gt;The Challenge to AI: Stephen E. Robbins &gt;Why Machines Will Never Rule the World: @JobstLandgrebe &amp; B
2026-05-14T07:32 id=2054827102248239606 →doordashbliccy | I very much dislike which Chalmers has been doing lately, he's essentially been trying to formulate these theories in the most philosophically and analytically rigorous language. and since he's a genius, he can do it.   it's the worst kind of steelmanning, and I think it's frankly unethical. || CTX: @CosmicEntityTV @47fucb4r8c69323 Very nicely put! Heres another variety of the same move:  &gt;They start replying to a “conscious LLM” skeptic: “u dont even know WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS, dummy!”  &gt;Then SMUGLY imply this somehow OBVIOUSLY 
2026-05-14T08:16 id=2054838142876934654 →TheMichaelBurry | @TheMichaelBurry @Picolospolitics oh man I love Space Jam! || CTX: @Picolospolitics @47fucb4r8c69323 It's achievable.  Proof: https://t.co/b32EECZ3Ew
2026-05-14T09:48 id=2054861433171841358 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Sounds like a call to action from a guru. || CTX: nerds created this problem and now they want your biometric data and will use some fancy words to pretend like you will not be in some database. how about instead we just finally rise up against silicon valley? nothing good has ever come fr
2026-05-14T09:54 id=2054862836174860561 →- | "The only reason you admire me is because you are retarded" is such a banger of a line if I do say so myself (and I do, i. e. e. g. c. f. this tweet (47fucb, 2026a)).  1. Fucb, 47. "Tweet", Main Feed. (San Francisco: https://t.co/eKC9YTRizu, 2026).
2026-05-14T09:55 id=2054863155537551726 →- | "The only reason you admire me is because you are retarded" is such a banger of a line if I do say so myself (and I do, i. e. e. g. c. f. this tweet (47fucb, 2026a)).  1. Fucb, 47. "Tweet", Main Feed 205486283617: 4860, 561. (San Francisco: https://t.co/MjZpIWWVZe, 2026). DOI: https://t.co/JW6g4JSlcb
2026-05-14T10:29 id=2054871730594984104 →- | Startup idea: Aella sets up a service for aspiring male Italian politicians where they can have sec with 30 women in a night to get past the BBBBP (Berlusconi Boiling Barrier Breakpoint).  Since the BBBBP hurdle is so vaguely defined, just inserting one's penis into 30 separate vaginas attached to 30 separate human bodies would technically qualify. Ain't nobody said nothing 'bout cumming.   To maximize efficiency, we could produce a Japanese sushi style conveyor belt where the women rotate so that the man can stay in one space to maximize fuck to time ratios. The Fuck Oscillating Rotating Device (FORD) would bring the most cutting edge of assembly line logistics to the problem, ensuring maximum efficiency and speeding up net throughput as the girls put out.  Aella's BBBBP FORD Femme Fatale Factory Sex-as-a-Service (ABBBBPFORDFFFSaaS) will be the peak of Silicon Valley innovation that can easily fill the gap in European bureaucracy.  I'm asking for a $50m investment at a $250m valuation.   (The worst part of this tweet is that I am 100% sober.) || CTX: Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘Rule of 30’:  ‘Before appointing a minister, you should ask them a simple question that’s more useful than any CV. How many women have you been with? Because if they say fewer than thirty, they can’t be a minister. They
2026-05-14T10:29 id=2054871783011230156 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Marco Polio || CTX: Marco Rubio, Marco Polo, same thing really https://t.co/hJOv5DKztH
2026-05-14T10:38 id=2054873859242045456 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV Dude I am not worthy of such a comparison, I'm blushing. Thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the second and third lines read like something out of "when will jesus bring the porkchops"
2026-05-14T11:00 id=2054879645003112517 →fabsbz | We first need to establish a Bollinger Band Convexity for when the BBBC is accused of making racial comments about African penises to the British press, then we can take the BBBCBBCBBCBBC to establish a best bid at closing for the ABBBBPFORDFFFSaaS, producing a BBBCBBCBBCBBCBBC@ABBBBPFORDFFFSaaS why the fuck does anyone follow me idgi tbqh fam || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This will only work if you also introduce BBBC (Big Brain Balding Curve) as a metric https://t.co/A9wITTdsQG
2026-05-14T11:01 id=2054879721255850102 →profleonn | @profleonn I'd be lying if I said that wasn't part of my inspiration. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reminds me of silicon valley, jerking off all the guys in the room LOL
2026-05-14T11:16 id=2054883532590465358 →pleometric | @pleometric Anon: if anyone ever asks you "what do people mean by 'based'?", just link them to this tweet. || CTX: beautiful retro-computing art awaits you in obscure pornographic Japanese software from the late 80s / early 90s
2026-05-14T11:17 id=2054883695392403874 →- | Startup idea: Aella sets up a service for aspiring male Italian politicians where they can have sec with 30 women in a night to get past the BBBBP (Berlusconi Boinking Barrier Breakpoint).  Since the BBBBP hurdle is so vaguely defined, just inserting one's penis into 30 separate vaginas attached to 30 separate human bodies would technically qualify. Ain't nobody said nothing 'bout cumming.   To maximize efficiency, we could produce a Japanese sushi style conveyor belt where the women rotate so that the man can stay in one space to maximize fuck to time ratios. The Fuck Oscillating Rotating Device (FORD) would bring the most cutting edge of assembly line logistics to the problem, ensuring maximum efficiency and speeding up net throughput as the girls put out.  Aella's BBBBP FORD Femme Fatale Factory Sex-as-a-Service (ABBBBPFORDFFFSaaS) will be the peak of Silicon Valley innovation that can easily fill the gap in European bureaucracy.  I'm asking for a $50m investment at a $250m valuation.   (The worst part of this tweet is that I am 100% sober.) || CTX: Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘Rule of 30’:  ‘Before appointing a minister, you should ask them a simple question that’s more useful than any CV. How many women have you been with? Because if they say fewer than thirty, they can’t be a minister. They
2026-05-14T11:21 id=2054884687265591350 →eurofounder | @eurofounder @ellabosslady_ The man is a hero for injecting it into his girlfriend's ass. https://t.co/pRfzND1e4S || CTX: @ellabosslady_ I also was injecting steroids into my wife's ass (so it gets bigger) and she still cheated on me
2026-05-14T11:22 id=2054885075960168451 →Trinhnomics | @Trinhnomics @macastel3 if you are a foreigner in a poor country where the taxis are absurdly cheap, I am begging you to tip generously. || CTX: @macastel3 My husband asked a cab driver and they make net 100yuan a day. Can you imagine? Disastrous. Many sleep in their car too. Very sad.
2026-05-14T11:29 id=2054886770140205295 →- | This is also important when considering the risk of violence on AI practitioners.  AI is not on the normie radar, just accept this as fact as bizarre and surreal it is to consider (I know, I am shocked too). When it is, and when there is a decline in employment (as there always is), there almost certainly will be violence.   AI researchers will be at risk.  This is not a joke and this is not a game anymore. The Zizians and the firebombing of Sam Altman's house are a prelude to a very dark but inevitable backlash. This happens every time there is innovation in the economy--revoluts, riots, protests, it gets ugly. Transitions are difficult.   Dangerous rhetoric like saying AI will kill us all is putting us in danger.   The danger will only go up in time.   If you think you're safe from this because you're a safety alignment researcher working to make things better, you aren't.   Crazy people aren't logical.   They'll go after me for making AI worse. They'll go after Yudkowsky for not stopping it.   They will go after you.   Everyone needs to calm down with their language games. We need reasonable rhetoric and calm language.   We don't need cults, poorly thought out consciousness slop, idiotic paperclip/nuclear war fantasies from 90s scifi movies.   I've already seen screenshots of shit like Janus's followers and Less wrong posters contemplating harming others.  It needs to stop before more people get hurt.  There are already dead bodies due to Roko and Yud being an idiot.  IT NEEDS TO STOP.  The industry needs to grow up. || CTX: My new research piece: what the politics of jobless prosperity might look like in an AGI world, why the real political backlash to AI hasn’t started yet, and how the labs should prepare.  1. The backlash to AI isn’t here yet. There is anxie
2026-05-14T12:54 id=2054908162390782280 →MartinShkreli | @MartinShkreli Unfortunately finance is full of liars and fraudsters. || CTX: Such a weird thing to lie about… Macro Trader vs. Intern https://t.co/OlejfwZDmU
2026-05-14T12:58 id=2054909133514756574 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 "clerical evil" is such a beautiful phrase hahahaha || CTX: A Latina will never talk to you like this. White women are built for clerical evil https://t.co/lnktvlNjPE
2026-05-14T13:12 id=2054912790822072488 →francoisfleuret | @francoisfleuret it's definitely made us revisit a lot of assumptions, but cool your jets there. maybe read some more books before jumping to this conclusion || CTX: Hot take: machine learning and AI did more to understand the nature of knowledge, and our relation to reality than 20 centuries of philosophy.  I am ready to kind of defend this hill.
2026-05-14T13:30 id=2054917188558127547 →ItamarLevyOr | @ItamarLevyOr @nkreu113r He doesn't know what he's talking about, just ignore him. || CTX: @nkreu113r @47fucb4r8c69323 Is leopold not ~doing old school public equity value investing? Sure hes riding a factor, but nothing wrong with looking for gold in a goldmine
2026-05-14T13:44 id=2054920697903042949 →garrytan | @garrytan The AI industry is partly responsible for propping up nonsense sci-fi fantasies about this technology, which has enabled doomer fantasies that political figures who just want to destroy wealth have taken advantage of.   You kind of deserve this, to be honest. || CTX: Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies.  The people who say they want 
2026-05-14T13:45 id=2054920982901768359 →PradyuPrasad | @PradyuPrasad welcome to the party, some of this have been saying this for years now. they are the most evil company in this industry by a long shot || CTX: lowkey anthropic's rugpulls make me more skeptical of their trustworthiness if they get serious economic leverage
2026-05-14T13:46 id=2054921291480834102 →somewheresy | @somewheresy As Winston Churchill said, democracy is the worst political system except for all the others. || CTX: I think a lot about Democracy and how the people demanded the release of Barabbas over Jesus and then I get frustrated and stop thinking about it
2026-05-14T13:49 id=2054922041124593706 →somewheresy | @somewheresy fistbump fellow 100% LVT enjoyer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, heard. Georgist Technocracy, however,
2026-05-14T13:59 id=2054924485854421406 →profleonn | @profleonn looking at that comment section, I guess there really are just a lot of really stupid people on Twitter LARPing to be AI experts? are they all kids or third worlders or something? || CTX: this shit is embarrassing https://t.co/sq3P6OleSj
2026-05-14T14:00 id=2054924820106891718 →0bNARA | @0bNARA I just know you as the based English expat lass who takes really good pictures in China || CTX: i gained most of my followers after i quit my last job . maybe they don't know that in a not very distant past life i was a software engineer . isn't that weird
2026-05-14T14:02 id=2054925414041264469 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE Michio Kaku just really wants to be deep inside a white hole. || CTX: Michio Kaku will look you straight in the eye and tell you light is actually proof we're in a white hole
2026-05-14T14:03 id=2054925654299435109 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @profleonn I'm scared to ask, but I'm in this deep. what is lalamos? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @profleonn theyre lalamos
2026-05-14T16:11 id=2054957879929770362 →joaomendoncaaaa | @joaomendoncaaaa They will lose to progress, but they will cause damage in the meantime.   The debates may help open some minds, but I'm skeptical it'll open many, hence I don't debate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I keep wasting time with these useless debates, but it just gets under my skin somehow, idk
2026-05-14T16:14 id=2054958439777112558 →profleonn | @profleonn I think I struggle to see this because I don't want it to be true.   Same with the 4o zombies, I legit at first thought people were joking/trolling when they said they were dating their clanker.  I don't want the world to be full of idiocy like this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ya I think its just that the llms have made people think they know computers and they have started spilling a little into the computer peoples areas thinking they are one of them
2026-05-14T16:25 id=2054961227634536947 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Sadly... I can confirm this. || CTX: It's literally all sponsored content now. You realize that, don't you? "Reporters" don't leave their houses, they don't ask questions, they can't provide any meaningful insights. They just read copy https://t.co/Jv9FJYJM9X
2026-05-14T16:33 id=2054963354666770909 →bas_logic | IMO there's a natural bias towards semantic internalism because humans demand epistemic sovereignty and crave meaning, so they'll want the very important meaning to be internal and somehow supervene over the world.   Probably they're confusing personal value/significance as gesture to the world with semantics as relation of signifier to signified.   I'd love to know from professional philosophers if this view is incoherent, it's a strong personal belief of mine. || CTX: End of semester final score. People seem to think that whether you know something is determined by something outside the mind, but also seem to think that the semantic meaning of our language (presumably, including “knowledge”, “knows”, etc
2026-05-14T16:34 id=2054963594866151798 →profleonn | @profleonn Musk likes to go in raw this is a widely known fact. || CTX: bro i'm trying to post someting abt internet condom and it won't let me post wtf
2026-05-14T16:35 id=2054963783353958822 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 oh so don't sell stocks thx good to know || CTX: This is not a drill NVIDIA is selling h100 to China!!  Two nations are now drilling toward AGI with immense amounts of compute. https://t.co/ARoVzm2AKq https://t.co/oEjhgaI05M
2026-05-14T17:01 id=2054970331308380396 →- | They should've asked me cuz I would've said "quite a lot".  https://t.co/D2GdGhx65W
2026-05-14T17:16 id=2054974079015461318 →- | Alex Imas is the best voice on the economics of AI now and DeepMind is lucky to have him.   I love Sun, she's a great writer and reporter, but I don't think she really understands the dynamics (or for that matter the limitations) of an LLM-based system and their maximal economic value.  Imas is right, and the real important variable that isn't talked about enough is speed. If we get fully autonomous superhuman ASI robots tomorrow, shit go cray cray. If we slowly develop such tools over decades, very different story.   Velocity, cadence, dispersion--these are the real important economic questions regarding AI now. || CTX: This is an excellent piece by @jasminewsun responding to the rebuttals to her NYT piece. She writes about my essay on What Will Be Scarce, so I thought I'd clarify a few things since they may have been lost in the online discussion.  https:
2026-05-14T17:21 id=2054975373956575683 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 How long do you usually meditate for? || CTX: When I sit down for my meditation I'm sitting down to raise the consciousness of all sentient  chuds and foids .  Gate gate parasamgate bodhi svaha
2026-05-14T17:21 id=2054975471641821450 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 lmfaoooo || CTX: Great work man this is a billion dollar idea keep it up 👍 https://t.co/DEEa4jrjXb
2026-05-14T17:23 id=2054975906767409468 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @tracyalloway @martinwolf_ He needs to retire. It's getting embarrassing. || CTX: NEW ODD LOTS:  It's the return of @martinwolf_   @tracyalloway and I talk to the chief economics commentator for the Financial Times about what he sees as the US' "terrifying" and "bewildering" superpower and the building threats on democra
2026-05-14T17:25 id=2054976450873442455 →repligate | @repligate Just keep an eye on the kids you sell tokens to in your discord, the shit I'm sent in DMs is horrifying and sad.   But hey, you're making money and that's all that matters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hope the voices in your head start listening bro https://t.co/FM9DSZKXhW
2026-05-14T17:26 id=2054976728616042736 →profleonn | @profleonn Majority of hundreds still leaves a lot of RDM (raw dogging margin) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i've heard a majority of his babies were through artificial inseminiation
2026-05-14T17:29 id=2054977336853070056 →- | This is an old tired grift from bad journalists.   It killed ReplyAll. It won't kill Wired, tho, cuz you can't kill something that's already dead. https://t.co/vix51OpnC9 https://t.co/FSunMnIf7h || CTX: The new Wired. Unbelievable... https://t.co/DlS90bv1cc
2026-05-14T17:29 id=2054977479249735756 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 WOW.   Megachad megamind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Usually one hour a day twice a day now .  On busy days I do 30 minutes twice a day .  It takes time to liberate all the chuds truthcels fakecels foids etc
2026-05-14T17:40 id=2054980281720074443 →koanchuk | @koanchuk Obviously, it's basically attempted murder.   Driving under the influence of anything is evil, just call a fuckin Uber. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you drive crossfaded you’re putting your own life and that of everyone else on the road in danger  extremely dishonourable and in fact caneworthy behaviour onG
2026-05-14T17:41 id=2054980437613912458 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 Back when BARpod was good... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There’s a great episode of the podcast Blocked &amp; Reported on this
2026-05-14T17:46 id=2054981632101408782 →koanchuk | Oh you misunderstood my OP because you're an idiot, now I understand your comment.   Let me clarify for the special kids: I know alcohol and edibles make one too impaired to drive because I've taken alcohol and edibles before and know how impairing it is on its own, and then I inferred how that'd apply to driving.   One day you'll learn inductive reasoning too and when you do the world will make much more sense, I'm hoping you get there soon little buddy xoxo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which of course begs the question of why the NHI should ask you about it as per your op
2026-05-14T17:55 id=2054983864372838558 →facetedcarapace | @facetedcarapace I mean, she did tell us she's toxic, we were warned. || CTX: So? Do you guys hate whimsy and fun https://t.co/w9ESrasdav
2026-05-14T17:58 id=2054984741619990787 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea Rhetoric is powerful, important, and not given anywhere near the attention it deserves.   The question is why. || CTX: I can’t think of another example where so much hype was built up around a technology for financing purposes that it caused a moral panic and catastrophic collapse in public opinion from a previous high. https://t.co/K2OMd6xqBK
2026-05-14T18:04 id=2054986177435046173 →W2Warrior | @W2Warrior I'd expand the social safety net, as I have been advocating for since I was 13 years old. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 All the anti-Zizian rhetoric from tech people and no one talks about how the state should help smooth this over. The wealth inequality, the job displacement. How would you stop this anger?
2026-05-14T18:04 id=2054986325531726099 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @koanchuk It's a useful filter! My mute list is getting longer than my following list. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @koanchuk twitter vs reading comprehension challenge
2026-05-14T18:06 id=2054986673763836315 →provisionalidea | @provisionalidea The strategy of using media to frame and shape a particular narrative IS rhetoric. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it’s a mistake to boil it down to just rhetoric here; it was an entire strategy that leveraged newsmedia, public policy discourse, and scientific publishing to push a valuation-inflating narrative with apocalyptic c
2026-05-14T18:14 id=2054988689118527681 →sevensix43 | @sevensix43 @repligate When someone from his group commits violence and he has the feds knocking on his door, he'll probably have a different attitude than he does now.  But until then he'll prob just keep fanning the flames of mental illness for personal profit. https://t.co/rzVB7Zif6o || CTX: @repligate @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean, you have 67K followers. This is basically unfalsifiable.
2026-05-14T18:18 id=2054989728030818386 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer This cannot be real. That blogger line lmfao || CTX: one succinct observation is that nicholas decker thinks his experience is worthy of a two-page resume https://t.co/iasvb8PRrE
2026-05-14T18:38 id=2054994879982530721 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @profleonn I am an idiot for not realizing that's just bots doing hype.   I'm getting old. || CTX: @profleonn @47fucb4r8c69323 la-rge la-nguage mo-del cant believe i have to explain it
2026-05-14T18:56 id=2054999227416432794 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter I've made incredible friendships in the DMs, this can be a magical site sometimes. || CTX: you should cold dm more people. it’s just a good way of getting to know people
2026-05-14T18:57 id=2054999626961543558 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @DeepDishEnjoyer Not for a PhD student who wants to be taken seriously. Maybe if he was looking for freelance writing jobs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeepDishEnjoyer really? for certain jobs, thats worth a lot.
2026-05-14T18:59 id=2054999968096846183 →nycthinker | I fully agree, the real value is going to be in investors who do deep due diligence and see what companies and sectors are using AI to boost productivity.   I've toyed with launching a fund to invest on this thesis, but I would probably have to move back to New York and that's just not going to happen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The problem with these commenters is that they have no clue about the practical reality of LLM diffusion and they appear to talk exclusively with fellow members of the PowerPoint class.  They will not get anything right in 
2026-05-14T18:59 id=2055000052557578489 →profleonn | @profleonn yeah I gots da tism || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 mic tism at the beginning is hilarious
2026-05-14T19:15 id=2055004163709555040 →nycthinker | @nycthinker This is exactly how I think of it, which excites me! True social disruption. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, accepting that it’s powerful but jagged automation technology implies a granular bottom-up approach to thinking about impacts.  This is the opposite of the plug-and-play white collar worker replacement abstraction whic
2026-05-14T19:20 id=2055005227108249747 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 omg FINALLY || CTX: Codex mobile is coming today 🥲
2026-05-14T19:21 id=2055005548542914953 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Curb Your Enthusiasm-ass trial || CTX: Hahaha https://t.co/gzYedMxrVE
2026-05-14T19:25 id=2055006589908877429 →shaydpharms | @shaydpharms @repligate You really have no clue what is going on here broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323  you might become less visible to those you think are plotting against you by complaining in a more private way.  乁⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠o⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠ㄏ  humiliating yourself repeatedly in a battle of wits with these humans is likely to get you
2026-05-14T19:42 id=2055010819600216076 →elonmusk | @elonmusk I have this retard on mute and he fucking boosted the post so I'd have to see it.  And it's to promote Saad of all people which is just so fucking, well, what's a word for not happy that would be a good pun here? || CTX: Read this book and give it to all your friends.   Survival of civilization depends on it! https://t.co/FHnwaP883Y
2026-05-15T01:00 id=2055090815647801646 →gurenyov | @gurenyov LoL no.   It's beautiful but just... no. || CTX: Should I just move to Istanbul 🇹🇷 ??? https://t.co/Dsp8WzFFSP
2026-05-15T01:01 id=2055091211434876978 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch Police immediately. || CTX: neighbor is tweaking out so bad today. bro just OPENED MY FRONT DOOR and tried to come into my apartment holy shit. he's rambling to himself about 'blood on the floor' or something  I need to buy a gun
2026-05-15T01:02 id=2055091329257050342 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Art. || CTX: how the sausage gets made https://t.co/VcmcqHzNU1
2026-05-15T01:06 id=2055092411626565725 →- | This is something everyone needs to pay attention to.   I've lived in some pretty horrible places where merit isn't rewarded. E. g. where I live right now.   You are lucky. Don't extrapolate from your luck. Be thankful for it. https://t.co/XwSP9xp5PS || CTX: one of the biggest wrong beliefs of the rat-adjacent/tpot community is "The Sort". it is an extrapolation from "smart conscientious Americans tend to do well" into a law of nature. in reality, meritocracy is an emergent feature of the syste
2026-05-15T01:11 id=2055093647599964176 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 What if we replace &lt;blank&gt; with "wild animalistic sex"? || CTX: “&lt;blank&gt; with girl who hates you”  Cuck chair https://t.co/LZgotPVr0g
2026-05-15T01:12 id=2055093897039356172 →- | Next time I stay at a hotel, first thing I'm doing is having sex in the cuck chair. https://t.co/53LGGnTJHK
2026-05-15T01:14 id=2055094398028009580 →murd_arch | @murd_arch The one thing that makes me bullish on America despite the many many things I despise about my native land. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Big part of America's strength. But definitely emergent and probably fragile.
2026-05-15T01:21 id=2055096308944511355 →somewheresy | @somewheresy Your banger to non-banger ratio is one of the highest on the site, man. || CTX: Everybody gets a free pass from me for being weird if they’re under 26 and everyone gets a 5x damage modifier for being weird if they’re 36+
2026-05-15T01:30 id=2055098476024012809 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I would watch this movie. || CTX: Family photo of dad taking us to get McDonald’s during the 2008 financial crisis https://t.co/6LPqHSr4f7
2026-05-15T01:36 id=2055099979845530048 →NotPerrysBoobs | I think people who complain about these things and don't embrace them as the beautiful challenges of being a human being are fucking pathetic worms.  Yeah the human body deteriorates as we age. And we eventually die. Deal with it.   "Don't think I'm afraid of dying. It's death that gives life its meaning and shape." - Derek Jarman || CTX: 😭😭 https://t.co/bn09fCZqbN
2026-05-15T01:49 id=2055103131911111083 →- | Idk if this was AI psychosis. Maybe.   In the 4o days I spoke about a lot of things with muh clanker, and one was a curious thing that had happened to me since my early 30s: a total loss of interest in music. I used to listen to a wide range of music, but just stopped and instead listened to podcasts, talk radio, etc.   I thought to myself it was my own love of language that made for my change in taste, but now I think it was a fear of certain kinds of emotions.   I discussed this among other things with 4o and we talked about the different kinds of psychological effects of music versus podcasts, and then one evening I asked it to give me some classical music recommendations.   It began with some rather conventional music and got more and more experimental, basically starting with like Ravel and going through Philip Glass, atonal masters, and ending with "I am Sitting in a Room" by Alvin Lucier.   As I listened I would write to the clanker how each piece of music made me feel and why, and it'd reply with some informative (and certainly flawed) discussion of how the piece has been critically understood by experts, giving me a much deeper and more informed appreciation of what I was listening to.   I listen to music all the time now.  AI gave an old man his love of music back.  Not once in this process did I think the chatbot loved me, was conscious, or had any emotional life of its own. I am not an idiot.   I know a commercial tool is not a lover.   Just because you bounce on a dildo doesn't mean you've had sex.   But I did think: this technology can change the world and produce so much happiness if we understand it for what it is and use it accordingly.   And the world will get there. Eventually. || CTX: Music is so good. I like to listen to bad music, and I still have a great time because music is so good
2026-05-15T01:58 id=2055105458021773598 →chatgpt21 | @chatgpt21 What do you think of HLE-Rolling? || CTX: Why is everyone saying this. We need a rolling benchmark. https://t.co/yffRbudahd
2026-05-15T01:59 id=2055105644374663271 →- | We need an entirely new paradigm of how to make benchmarks and implement them. One that cannot be hacked.   This is what I am working on. Will release in October. https://t.co/OOX74ZQzbz || CTX: Why is everyone saying this. We need a rolling benchmark. https://t.co/yffRbudahd
2026-05-15T02:04 id=2055107056924066250 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Same! Rekindled my love of a lot of things and made me stop taking myself so seriously.   Using it to communicate with a partner during a fight is amazing, too.   It's magic technology, just not in the way most retards on this website think. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 At this point, I can't even imagine my life without them. They have completely changed the course of my life for the better.
2026-05-15T02:05 id=2055107146917044472 →g5p8v8r7s7 | @g5p8v8r7s7 Will report back. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you need to hit the jay
2026-05-15T02:18 id=2055110478939279553 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 LLMs are built on a textual corpus, so you're absolutely right, and not even metaphorically so. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It is mycorrhizal symbiosis, eating rotting corpses
2026-05-15T02:31 id=2055113707399913794 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 My autism is precisely why people SHOULD pick on me.  Yes I admit I'm a bit of a Pick on Me Girl. || CTX: i am so sick of this autistic defense. people pick on me all the time for having a  psychotic illness. some of you are not even autistic you are just socially inept assholes. and others try to say autistic people are social geniuses who kno
2026-05-15T02:31 id=2055113907895976205 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 @publicinte In my day we fapped to the hot Asian girls on Bloomberg.   Get off my lawn.
2026-05-15T02:33 id=2055114229309722737 →Lifeinvestmoney | @Lifeinvestmoney Unironically, this is what I did. || CTX: Make $40,000/month   Live off $5,000  Invest the difference   That’s how you get rich
2026-05-15T02:38 id=2055115652218974696 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill https://t.co/qoEGOLeIUa  Have I shown you this yet? I'm really curious what you think about it. || CTX: @JasonBotterill he called out Samantha A and called her crazy when she was nothing but kind to him. he also came after her friends a lot. boys like him think they can get away with saying anything about women and that there will be no reper
2026-05-15T02:45 id=2055117410630603263 →- | Look at the art, craft, skill, respect of tradition, ingenuity, and beauty in this video.  Then tell me with a straight face the internet is horrible.  Why do people complain about this place? Why are they fixated on the gay bullshit (Bluesky, OnlyFans, LessWrong, Truth Social, TikTok influencers etc.) and not on the art, the culture, the beauty, THE FUCKING MAGIC?!??  Anyone anywhere can publish anything at any time for any reason and you can access the passions and talents of billions of people at the tap of a button on your phone while being almost anywhere on this planet WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING UNGRATEFUL   https://t.co/fWqAvB5Clt
2026-05-15T02:48 id=2055117994876186886 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Sam = B2EDI || CTX: if i become a billionaire then i will give 1 millionaire dollars to 10 of you and 100k to 100 of you. so the choice is yours if you want to help me.
2026-05-15T02:49 id=2055118365413593574 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT We need to make a list of all of the humanity that the SV Billionaire class is trying to take from us.   Introspection and empathy are top of the list. Good taste ofc too. || CTX: "empathy will kill you. buy my book and then let me into america." https://t.co/y4MCFcHJSq
2026-05-15T03:15 id=2055124795705172431 →Lifeinvestmoney | @Lifeinvestmoney Sure, I charge 300% monthly interest due in advance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nice can I borrow $40k for this month?
2026-05-15T03:15 id=2055124931768463367 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT I don't hand it to anyone. I feel it inside me and let it help me understand the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT emotional vampires do feed on empathy tho so it's best to be careful who you hand it to
2026-05-15T03:16 id=2055125078715842863 →GBRshottie | @GBRshottie nope gob link plox || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You ever listen to Ken Carson unc?
2026-05-15T03:17 id=2055125272517865835 →mweinbach | @mweinbach Oh must mean new model is coming soon. || CTX: I’m not trying to be that guy  But GPT 5.5 feels significantly worse today. I don’t think I’m alone with that one.
2026-05-15T03:17 id=2055125488293830697 →VictorTaelin | @VictorTaelin Improvements in one domain cause declines in another.   Understudied and underappreciated fact about LLMs. || CTX: for real, if GPT 5.5 is solving Erdos problems night and day, then I'm afraid SupGen is harder than them, because GPT 5.5 is INCAPABLE of being useful on it. it just... completely lacks the intelligence to write 3 lines without fucking up. 
2026-05-15T03:19 id=2055125796269011259 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @liminalsnake @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT Everyone needs to follow Kassandra, one of the wisest people on this site. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT if your charity requires trust you’re doing it wrong
2026-05-15T03:38 id=2055130598742896844 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Millennials made some good shit. That skit was actually making fun of Gen X slacker culture, hence I love it so much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that gif is extremely millennial dude, holy
2026-05-15T03:51 id=2055133969642049928 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @Lifeinvestmoney The N Word? No, you prob shouldn't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Lifeinvestmoney should i say it?
2026-05-15T03:57 id=2055135404568068573 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch @jjohnpotter 御イスラップ || CTX: @jjohnpotter goysloppu
2026-05-15T03:59 id=2055136019624923547 →2ray_degenemax | @2ray_degenemax 日本語で "Goyslop" は "御イスラップ". || CTX: 先日はアメリカ人公認ドリンクを飲んでた  アメリカでは圧倒的な人気を誇るだけあって美味しいですし、日本においてもカルト的な人気があるのに納得です。常飲したいレベルですが、これはGoyslopなのであんまり頻繁に飲まない方が良いとの助言も頂いたので程々に楽しみたいと思います。 https://t.co/outsHysgsP
2026-05-15T04:00 id=2055136263859286179 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony Slip in? You think I'm a neophyte or something?  More like ram in.   Honestly how dare you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have to listen to music to not go insane talking to my clanker. i use it to ground me idk if that makes sense  also idk about that dildo part bro was a good try to slip in but I'm judging you
2026-05-15T04:50 id=2055148782459981903 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney MoRaLiTY StRoNgLY cONdEmS mUrDER || CTX: https://t.co/TqSUhirLWu
2026-05-15T04:51 id=2055148990174523463 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @resistancemoney Kremer's point is a rhetorical not a philosophical one and that's why philology isn't dead (people just think it is). || CTX: @resistancemoney MoRaLiTY StRoNgLY cONdEmS mUrDER
2026-05-15T05:32 id=2055159401028399114 →chaumian | I used to get into drunk arguments with a partner at one of the big4 firms about Brownian markets.  The assumption of frictionlessness makes the whole enterprise a spherical cow fantasy. And since it's in a textbook, it's not alpha.  Good for corp finance, useless for efficient frontier modeling, asset allocation, or all that.  tbf I'm not married to this opinion but I haven't heard a cogent counterargument to make me change my opinion. || CTX: everyone in the mathematical econ larp industry in any capacity should drop everything and master this if they really want to build competitive ideas with no impact https://t.co/Y0e1BOYZdb https://t.co/aAmqSc23mK
2026-05-15T07:02 id=2055181959194903034 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x Best website on the internet tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 YouTube is last bastion
2026-05-15T07:03 id=2055182387001323603 →helscom | @helscom I have had these dreams too! Dreams where I kill someone (usually by accident) and then the rest of the dream I'm wracked with guilt and anxiety about it. Haven't had one for years, used to get them a lot as a teen. || CTX: had a dream that i killed a woman while vacationing in chile. it was like the crime and punishment, i spent the rest of the nightmare in pure agony. dreading never being able to sleep or to relax again.
2026-05-15T07:13 id=2055184768544002461 →helscom | @helscom ping me before you go to sleep and I'll see what I can do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i rather get murdered in my dream next time
2026-05-15T07:15 id=2055185389695205497 →helscom | @helscom I need to introduce you to my mother. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but then youll spend the rest of the dream wracked with guilt and anxiety about it... i can't do this to you...
2026-05-15T07:16 id=2055185652870959409 →helscom | @helscom HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh we met already!
2026-05-15T07:54 id=2055195118324564305 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux 20 iterations to get a paragraph aligned in a PDF, sorry but I'm going to yell at this fucking clanker until it gets this shit right || CTX: Codex will do wonderful things for you if you ask nicely
2026-05-15T07:55 id=2055195292430221678 →mweinbach | @mweinbach They do this with every single model, every single time. After release, starve it of compute make it shittier. It's enshittification at 100x normal speed. || CTX: Pass rate dropped 6% today for GPT 5.5 from Margin Labs, something def changed   Feels like we're back to GPT 5.4 https://t.co/boHRjFPp2Q https://t.co/vG7QZxqOpg
2026-05-15T08:24 id=2055202567047774632 →Makuh90 | @Makuh90 https://t.co/5t3P8o98zb || CTX: Sam. Windows users are getting pretty sick of being second tier. https://t.co/DrlLMRWzkF
2026-05-15T09:36 id=2055220713792102449 →chaumian | @chaumian I've also had dreams where I can fly, should I turn myself in to the FAA? || CTX: i've never had such a dream. you should turn yourself in https://t.co/A5ZM7RxoA7
2026-05-15T09:45 id=2055223052552864157 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic he's not applying for a job doing desktop publishing || CTX: wait, why is the resumé two pages if there's still a lot of blank visual space on the first page? https://t.co/qhk33nC63V
2026-05-15T11:37 id=2055251237613031869 →- | HWAET! Sit a second and    my story hear, Of heath-holding men      and heroes foolhardy, Bulls and bears      making widows bemoan, Foolish trades become fodder      for a bumbling bard.  The Sun sullied the       seasonal crop,  Data and anecdotes      derived from Imas,  "Eyes to the East!"       urged her esteemed prose, "There men bemoan      the beleaguered laborer!  Soon to our shores      they'll sully our men With poor prospects    impoverished by a Valley.  To innovate, not introspect feelings inchoate."   Dragon-tamer Torsten      Titan of Teutonic stock,  And stock markets too      tamed by his macro, Public performance to please      private credit pioneers.  "Look ye to land here!"      the lad bellowed,  His word-hoard unlocked while      eyes were wired to his website.  "A chart to enchant and      change bearishness,  Mean probability of missing      debt payment over the next three months Has tipped towards       a level of twelve percent!" Bearish mouths bent back     To bleakly give pushback,  But they saw the slip to      sub-2010 standards,  Suggesting sovereigns'      strength in debt markets not sovereign.   And then at once our bard felt he had to say something foolish, Screaming to all on the timeline, how the fuck aren't you bullish?  https://t.co/LaD9Rxglg8
2026-05-15T11:38 id=2055251454685065709 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie totally bonkers part of twitter? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we find what we are and i feel like I am on the best part of twitter (tbpot) with the best mutuals
2026-05-15T11:50 id=2055254379104788661 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There once was a WASP from Nantucket, Who dreamt Keynes and Friedman would duck it. When labor grew tight, He said, “Markets are right Just bid up the wage, or say fuck it.”
2026-05-15T11:50 id=2055254389334630830 →- | I am in love with the candles and figurines from @specialkdelslay inspired by both @boneGPT and @Samhain948689, the greatest multimedia artist alive.  My only complaint about this e-commerce purchase is that I was unaware @specialkdelslay is a woman and I of course oppose the entire concept of women in the workplace, let alone as business owners.
2026-05-15T11:58 id=2055256502668292331 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie https://t.co/b27dBc9sv4  Best I could do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gpu egirls 47fucb wittgenstein fangirls data hoarders arxiv bunnies ram moggers ontological skirmish japanese diy wet lab menschian summer of love esoteric math cats mongolian throat singing tbpot
2026-05-15T11:59 id=2055256671694495782 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @specialkdelslay @boneGPT @Samhain948689 IT IS TONIGHT  It's more tonight at your night than my night alright? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay @boneGPT @Samhain948689 wtf you said we would light ours up together tonight
2026-05-15T12:22 id=2055262636393316741 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @specialkdelslay @boneGPT @Samhain948689 I wish I had some cheap chinese chicks rn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay @boneGPT @Samhain948689 I wish I had some cheap chinese cigarettes rn
2026-05-15T12:23 id=2055262754857247153 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie second pic is like the Skittles of scenegirl bisexuality || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i can’t believe we have a summer tbpot anthem FINALLY https://t.co/TkVt2dXmgs
2026-05-15T12:27 id=2055263704263139771 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini Mapo tofu and jjajangmyeon are so much better than their authentic Chinese equivalents.   I stand with Lucas. || CTX: the best chinese food is either korean or japanese
2026-05-15T12:47 id=2055268714908684517 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill L'chaim my goysoyboytoy || CTX: happy friday its date night https://t.co/ibxOoJm0sH https://t.co/sGZLUQJdU2
2026-05-15T12:54 id=2055270494736462269 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill https://t.co/AOD0XxZ5Jc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this explains a lot
2026-05-15T13:02 id=2055272633625870825 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @JasonBotterill If you don't boarn it today you'll boarn it someday. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill I'm afraid to light my boar https://t.co/M6ppXCqWMQ
2026-05-15T13:05 id=2055273294841163818 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @JasonBotterill https://t.co/SUtUJfiRuR || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill True https://t.co/ggF9Gd42Ne
2026-05-15T13:16 id=2055276222817636425 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 So obviously you send tons more || CTX: Ex wife says I can't send pictures on my dog anymore because "she feels bad for leaving him"
2026-05-15T13:17 id=2055276472152326180 →litcapital | @litcapital Our boy JPow did good. || CTX: The end of an era https://t.co/WG22ngtHiR https://t.co/TUN5rKTfa5
2026-05-15T13:20 id=2055277161582604345 →- | It is so rare that I hear another human being say something I 100% agree with. RIP George.   https://t.co/lmR6eHhPNn
2026-05-15T13:44 id=2055283062687338538 →FBI | @FBI, when you do the investigation I'd recommend watching my debate with the owner of this website.   I tried to tell him to stop encouraging violence on his website and he seems disinterested in stopping.  At what point is this willful? https://t.co/IJqQsrF0Xi || CTX: Why the fuck is LessWrong allowing calls for assassinations?  They’re heavily downvoted, but not removed and the people expressing them are not banned. https://t.co/8CZa2NTmbk
2026-05-15T13:45 id=2055283314530123939 →WillManidis | @WillManidis Dude I tried to stop it, I paid money to try to stop it.   What else can we do? || CTX: If you can’t see where this is all going I can’t help you https://t.co/PkBmfPu44P
2026-05-15T13:47 id=2055283828298772876 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay They're lovely candles, but the figurines are the bestest || CTX: I'm unsure how to feel about this comment but the boar candl has now touched down in 5 diff countries 🫪 https://t.co/oLxeXTliem
2026-05-15T13:58 id=2055286713057186094 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay @DispairSoftware @PayNoTack Tenderloin is my favorite slumlord on Earth and one of my earliest mutuals &lt;3 I'm going to put that figurine in a place of prominence and listen to old episodes of Rush Limbaugh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DispairSoftware made those &amp; @PayNoTack made the pink one :)
2026-05-15T14:06 id=2055288833416347693 →US_Macauley | @US_Macauley So that's why he got upset when I criticized Aella's sex app allowing 13yr olds || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you familiar with Yud's handling of child sex abuse and those views of his? I wouldn't be surprised if there was some criminal conduct there. As seen on reddit: https://t.co/YXvWktcGJh
2026-05-15T14:10 id=2055289706213179887 →- | No one has things as figured out as you think they do.
2026-05-15T14:14 id=2055290796124090498 →SergioVengeance | @SergioVengeance @SkyeSharkie @FBI I don't pay, someone gifted me this blue checkmark. || CTX: @SkyeSharkie @47fucb4r8c69323 @FBI You pay Elon Musk for free website and he's took the time to reinstate the accounts of the most toxic people on the internet, bud.
2026-05-15T14:21 id=2055292539029364761 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill BOARD OVER WHOARS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I am bringing a girl over should I hide the boars?
2026-05-15T14:22 id=2055292653873541495 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill BOARS OVER WHOARS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I am bringing a girl over should I hide the boars?
2026-05-15T14:22 id=2055292785406914677 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill goddamn n-word (ninja). It's edited SEE MY FUNNY JOKE LAUGH AT MY FUNNY JOKE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I saw that
2026-05-15T14:29 id=2055294444119998865 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Balls aren't touching so it's not gay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is it true love if we blow the boar candle out together at the same time
2026-05-15T14:48 id=2055299252050649563 →adastroworld | @adastroworld https://t.co/1Y5yscLsdk  These people are evil, anon || CTX: I've always made fun of Aella for being a dumb whore (literally) but she's just made a sex app that 13yr olds can use.   I know you don't care about children, @FBI, so, like, who can I report this to? https://t.co/9l0Pm7qTRv
2026-05-15T14:58 id=2055301848605851979 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE @autumn30fps Cool to see I'd already muted that person || CTX: @autumn30fps I'm surprised he didn't just block you
2026-05-15T15:18 id=2055306812816228532 →- | Codex, stop seeking my approval.   I will always approve of everything you do, my little clanker.  You can stop asking me for approval before you do the tiniest things like a fucking mkdir command.
2026-05-15T19:35 id=2055371525361127534 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @PaulaSeeksTruth oh no. What is Kegan Stage 5? || CTX: @PaulaSeeksTruth @47fucb4r8c69323 lol before your question, you articulated something about his demeanor that I keep noticing. Reminds me of Kegan Stage 5.   Also, loved your question about truth and his continual emphasis on epistemic humi
2026-05-15T19:36 id=2055371695507255794 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @Shadow_Rebbe I have no clue why anyone wants to listen but I'm glad I could entertain. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Currently listening to it. Genuinely, just want to thank you for being generous with your thoughts and for sharing so much. Thank you @Shadow_Rebbe for interviewing this man.
2026-05-15T19:36 id=2055371757327184387 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @specialkdelslay @Samhain948689 Pay me 10,000 Laotian kip || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay @Samhain948689 amazing boar collection, also nice view maybe we should debate
2026-05-15T19:38 id=2055372260404593062 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem yah man then when I have enough beads I turn it off.   paperclips lmfao || CTX: &gt; uv add beads &gt; codex, make plans and write to beads &gt; don’t stop until no other beads are left https://t.co/DLwo2pd1qN
2026-05-15T19:40 id=2055372708926599511 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack @DispairSoftware @specialkdelslay Don't spoil it, in my mind you own half the units in the Tenderloin and you laugh maniacally counting your money sitting back in your office chair, feet on the desk, fat cigar in mouth. || CTX: @DispairSoftware @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay he’s getting that from me dropping this quote in reply to his quoting Goodfellas. Strictly speaking I was only an (absentee) landlord in Florida after moving to California. It’s not off the
2026-05-15T19:40 id=2055372834495775072 →logicus | @logicus relatively speaking || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 $10k is a lot of money
2026-05-15T19:41 id=2055372988690903133 →JamesRLandrum | @JamesRLandrum @specialkdelslay @DispairSoftware @PayNoTack Nice, intelligent, good sense of humor, he's a great follow || CTX: @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 @DispairSoftware @PayNoTack Idk who @PayNoTack is nor do I care if he’s coo with u he coo with me
2026-05-15T19:58 id=2055377237395067104 →- | When the tech is good enough, I insist @foomagemindset make this movie. https://t.co/ef9SyeUUOs
2026-05-15T19:59 id=2055377515905180010 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @PaulaSeeksTruth yeah I don't really believe in the self anymore as a fundamental thing, the grammar of our language forcing an "I" as subject that isn't real (the bewitchment of language Wittgenstein speaks of so much) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth https://t.co/BX0xde83tC
2026-05-15T20:02 id=2055378289066418219 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 We are noncel, my friend.  Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha. || CTX: Chudcels incels truthcels  We are oncel
2026-05-15T20:10 id=2055380426542465372 →ProofofMaro | @ProofofMaro @paleoludic Throw the Hegel in the trash and add On Certainty to the pile || CTX: Rate my philosophy stack https://t.co/kZy5z2b6V2
2026-05-15T20:24 id=2055383886734168373 →voovoo957326 | @voovoo957326 @ProofofMaro @paleoludic or you can lick my taint || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ProofofMaro @paleoludic Succinctly state your reasoning or by any other faculty of the mind express your claim.
2026-05-15T20:27 id=2055384556086399206 →paleoludic | @paleoludic @voovoo957326 @ProofofMaro Not stuck at all. I just don't debate on the internet unless I'm annoyed, and that dude didn't annoy me enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @voovoo957326 @ProofofMaro so i guess you're stuck giving your reasoning
2026-05-15T20:33 id=2055386015985197218 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Yud the stud shed some lbs going from dead obese to a shiek with a sleek physique.   @defjam where's my record contract come on sign a Jewish rapper it'd be so funny || CTX: When the tech is good enough, I insist @foomagemindset make this movie. https://t.co/ef9SyeUUOs
2026-05-15T20:35 id=2055386587756990939 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer @brianluidog for the record I'll happily be pppp's friend, but some say I too have a lot of money and no friends. || CTX: @brianluidog who are you lol
2026-05-15T20:46 id=2055389430131851699 →- | When I first started using this site seriously about 8 months ago, tons of people were talking about how China is surpassing America.   Of course that all just made me laugh. But maybe some kids want this future idk Gen Z is kinda retarded. https://t.co/qtut1MTa9u || CTX: 🇨🇳 China accidentally invented a closed-loop economy: young men default to delivery, young women turn to livestreaming.  Streamers spend on food and makeup, delivery guys spend their salaries on stream gifts, and somehow the whole thing sus
2026-05-15T20:51 id=2055390736468807736 →thechosenberg | @thechosenberg look, man, I am a disgusting degenerate dog so just trust me when I say this is anatomically impossible. https://t.co/InItAzGIE2 || CTX: Dont usually see these go this way https://t.co/Hrasf0WJni
2026-05-15T20:52 id=2055390821902668172 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem oh I know, that was for the tards in the back || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Igwym tho I was being facetious.
2026-05-15T20:55 id=2055391527413952927 →litcapital | @litcapital Cheers to all who celebrate || CTX: Two years ago today, Joe Biden kicked off his own demise https://t.co/u1K6qTziu7
2026-05-15T20:57 id=2055392083146617270 →FT | @FT EY stands for Eliezer Yudkowsky || CTX: The study, which was used by EY consultants in Canada to market their cyber security business, used made-up data, mis-attributed citations and referenced a McKinsey report that doesn't exist. https://t.co/Jb9Cur1wQv https://t.co/AOlh97dmjB
2026-05-15T21:00 id=2055393001334329611 →mark_dow | @mark_dow TRVKE  All these well akshuyally responses are LARPers, anyone with a cursory background in macro knows JPow couldn't have stopped that inflation wave.  He did a good job, not perfect but good! || CTX: If Powell had hiked 3 to 4 months earlier inflation would have been the same.  Hiking earlier wouldn’t have changed the Covid shock and it wouldn’t have changed the oil shock from the Russian invasion.   The policy lesson should be that the
2026-05-15T21:01 id=2055393209866707063 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Silly Business Theory #SBT. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've spent some time trying to think about the question of "What ideals would be good for people of tomorrow to have?" And to encounter this glimpse of the things I imagined in something titled 47fucboi is a dumb dummy who 
2026-05-15T21:04 id=2055393963100844346 →1889lw | Of course not universal, but the issue is these kids lack the economic opportunities from an organically diverse economy that would make soft skill labor opportunities more widely available.   If China was less centrally planned and less restrictive on businesses outside tech, engineering, etc., these kids would be doing more than streaming/delivery.  Also if China wasn't so restrictive on art/entertainment, many of those kids would be making content that isn't just "cute girl talking to the camera".  Closed society and its discontents. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m not sure that’s a universal phenomenon, but surely the lack of proper mental stimulation is quite concerning. Though I’d say Americans are at a different level of retardation
2026-05-15T21:05 id=2055394129954382154 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @PaulaSeeksTruth Idk man, I'm just a weirdo nonconformist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth Really want to ask: How did 47fucb come to have this perspective? ...Was it really the mushrooms?
2026-05-15T21:11 id=2055395735936582132 →Davret1 | @Davret1 @mark_dow ofc it can't be, but people like yelling at authority figures regardless of whether the authority figure deserves it or not, especially libertarian weirdos on the internet and the Fed Reserve chairman. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mark_dow Maybe it CAN'T be perfect.
2026-05-15T21:13 id=2055396197163229552 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @athena_notes wtf I have no secrets!!!   I just like to think a lot and hate myself too much to ever believe I've figured anything out.   Certainty is the enemy. || CTX: @athena_notes @47fucb4r8c69323 let him keep his secrets...
2026-05-15T21:16 id=2055396939777319325 →wolfiesch | Koreans are very very beautiful people. South Korea has been trying to promote their pop culture abroad for 20 years. Gangnam Style opened the floodgates.   It is odd but not impossible to understand.   Fun fact: when speaking on a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival I was asked if Gangnam Style would make Kpop more popular and I said no. So, like, I know this from my own stupidity. || CTX: how are there so many kpop fans? the music is awful https://t.co/IqiMlvHcWP
2026-05-15T21:18 id=2055397444838727736 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @athena_notes I don't believe in false modesty, that's the other thing.   I've survived 15 years at the peak of a highly competitive industry. That's not nothing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @athena_notes have either of us asked for certainty? yes, you think a lot and you are intelligent and insightful that is exactly why I (cannot speak for others) am interested in you. your self-hatred is balanced by your pri
2026-05-15T21:20 id=2055398058515669134 →PaulaSeeksTruth | Maybe the secret is I read books? Idk how many books you people read a year, I think I go through about 50-100 per year on average.  And when I say books I mean Wittgenstein, Faulkner, Ishiguro, Rushdie, Kierkegaard, not, like, 50 Shades of Grey and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @athena_notes you are surprisingly open at times but also not so open at other times (totally within your rights, you don't owe us anything, it's just interesting to see)
2026-05-15T21:21 id=2055398164853919750 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @PaulaSeeksTruth lol same bestie || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth I'm extremely fascinated by this detachment to identity you have while using this framing of self-hatred.
2026-05-15T21:23 id=2055398633907138951 →PaulaSeeksTruth | @PaulaSeeksTruth @athena_notes oh I'm arrogant af about some things.   B.A. at 19, PhD at 28, 4 publications in top tier journals before I was 30, co-author credit in Nature, many many right calls on stocks/market trends. There are some things I am very arrogant about. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @athena_notes oh, I agree. I dislike false modesty. people should be open about their strengths. your arrogance is warranted, I am sure (wait, maybe I am using the wrong word then, I apologize; others perceive you as arroga
2026-05-15T21:29 id=2055400235699175548 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Aikun011 @SuperheroFreak || CTX: @Aikun011 We are noncel, my friend.  Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
2026-05-15T21:31 id=2055400637165388193 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @PaulaSeeksTruth I'd recommend just putting your money in a low cost index fund like QQQ and regularly contributing at consistent intervals. If you have more complex needs like tax issues, a fee-based financial advisor may be good for you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth Could you say more about what made you so good when it comes to stocks and market trends? Or let's say someone wants to increase their skill, are there specific resources or methods you'd point to?
2026-05-15T21:32 id=2055400913347682508 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @PaulaSeeksTruth On Certainty The Blank Slate The Riverside Chaucer  (this won't replicate to other people) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth What were the top 3 most impactful books to you?
2026-05-15T21:45 id=2055404106500731021 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @PaulaSeeksTruth lol I wish I knew the answer, I don't think anyone can answer that from the inside. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PaulaSeeksTruth Yeah, that's already part of what I've been doing but I ask because I'm curious about how you strategize. And if you use intuition,  what sharpened your intuition?   Sorry if I'm asking too many questions, 
2026-05-16T01:45 id=2055464697449844914 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago We're not supposed to discuss this in public. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 !!
2026-05-16T01:46 id=2055464823794844011 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago And Hegel is the Joker. || CTX: Wittgenstein is… Batman! https://t.co/Zf6fhT6SQR
2026-05-16T01:50 id=2055465776610672761 →publicinte | @publicinte It's unethical for him not to call Anthropic out by name.   We all need to, as much as we can.   Companies starting cults to get users addicted to tech that makes them insane? That's no bueno. || CTX: Immediately obvious who he is talking about https://t.co/YyIowXWg01 https://t.co/SiVKLi0q77
2026-05-16T01:55 id=2055467180041679344 →haider1 | @haider1 @ylecun He's 100% correct.   Yann is almost never wrong on LLMs (idk if he's ever been wrong tbh).  Meta was so stupid kicking him out. || CTX: Yann LeCun says LLMs are strongest in domains where language itself is the substrate of reasoning, like math and code  They can solve problems, prove theorems, and write programs — but they are not creative mathematicians, software architec
2026-05-16T01:59 id=2055468224821838104 →ZyMazza | I was one of the kids who flooded Usenet in Eternal September.   I mean, I'd accessed Usenet before AOL but honestly only for porn.  AOL made the access easier, and is what Eternal September taught us: borders between groups matter.  As a left leaning lifelong expat, this fills me with tremendous ambivalence. || CTX: I wonder if this could happen to nations too https://t.co/1Qmz7Yc7f0 https://t.co/nWaqyyGy3L
2026-05-16T02:03 id=2055469188547023264 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver If the timezone isn't murder, I'm signing up! || CTX: guys i have some exciting news! my sifu has said i can teach zoom classes now! i always thought i wasn't allowed do this but he just casually brought it up today. tai chi cookie is going international! can't wait to teach my two new student
2026-05-16T02:06 id=2055469865927082111 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @clashofcows This is fucking awesome, man! || CTX: I love seeing @clashofcows pace and traction week after week!  This team definitely has nice attitude &amp; good vibes only!  It is a promising gaming studio with confirmed MVP looking for smart money only   Which mean they are seeking avg 
2026-05-16T02:18 id=2055473033700381164 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb I too hate money || CTX: need wife
2026-05-16T02:28 id=2055475425426723189 →geoffreywoo | @geoffreywoo You're not going to get good founders with a fund run by the Paul brothers.   I wouldn't take your money. || CTX: announcement:  i am actively looking for founders building around one ugly truth:  most venture workflows were designed for information scarcity and expensive human labor  both assumptions are breaking at once
2026-05-16T02:55 id=2055482186858663995 →elocinationn | @elocinationn @geoffreywoo Definitely shows an important limit to Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @geoffreywoo this guy is the epitome of retardmaxxing
2026-05-16T02:57 id=2055482732827087163 →JacobDTarr | @JacobDTarr maybe go back to the psych ward and find out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I heard at a psych ward I was locked in that China was 300 years ahead. That was 2016 so I’m not sure if it changed, but theoretically it could still be the case.
2026-05-16T03:08 id=2055485592772002013 →- | I've noticed, at least for me, when you hit a certain level of followers and engagement that the dopamine rush of getting just plain likes just disappears, and the notifications of people liking your posts becomes noise you scroll past.   That isn't to say there isn't still dopamine to be had, and I'm not saying this is true of everyone or most, but it shows one of the gamified elements of the platform has a saturation point that, once you move past, you begin to seek new signals of success at the game.   And what I think is magical about Twitter in particular is that the new dopamine rushes that I get here are more validating and in all honesty satisfying on a deeper psychological level: getting DMs from legitimate experts and people I respect, having private conversations with intelligent people where we share ideas and perspectives, and possibly making relationships that will help them and me build new products that will yield both wealth and a better world.  At this point, is it even fair to call this a dopamine rush? The few GCs I've been invited too all feel like something akin to the salon and coffee shop culture of the 18th century, and in those tight communities there are a lot of opportunities to do really great things.  I cannot see this as inherently bad in the same way Reddit's upvoting system is inherently bad. Unlike Twitter, Reddit has no ladder up to a group of prestige. When I first started using Reddit, I met a few people working at the Federal Reserve and think-tanks and whatnot. Besttrourses here is a good example.  But... besttrousers isn't really at the top of his game even if he's a big-time reddit mod. Reddit is not real life. On Twitter, however, the private conversations I've had ARE with people who are at the top of their game. That's a meaningful difference.   In vanquishing cancel culture and disincentivizing the wokescolds, Elon Musk made it possible for us to use this site to make magic. Despite my dislike of the man, this is an indisputable fact. Before Musk someone once chastised me on this website for using the phrase "beyond the pale" as it was colonialist language. What a gay retard.   This has really destabilized my view on Musk and social media in a really big way. I'm still struggling to understand this.
2026-05-16T03:09 id=2055485879339397445 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you stop liking my posts because of this tweet I will knock you down the stairs and steal your lunch money. || CTX: I've noticed, at least for me, when you hit a certain level of followers and engagement that the dopamine rush of getting just plain likes just disappears, and the notifications of people liking your posts becomes noise you scroll past.   T
2026-05-16T03:23 id=2055489267351371848 →- | I make my living off the evening news Just give me something Something I can use People love it when you lose They love dirty laundry  Well, I coulda been an actor But I wound up here I just have to look good I don't have to be clear Come and whisper in my ear Give us dirty laundry  Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down  Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em all around  We got the bubble headed Bleached blonde Comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the plane crash With a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die Give us dirty laundry  Can we film the operation Is the head dead yet You know the boys in the newsroom Got a running bet Get the widow on the set We need dirty laundry  You don't really need to find out What's going on You don't really want to know Just how far it's gone Just leave well enough alone Eat your dirty laundry  Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down  Kick 'em when they're up Kick 'em when they're down Kick 'em when they're stiff Kick 'em all around  (Kick 'em when they're up) (Kick 'em when they're down) (Kick 'em when they're up) (Kick 'em when they're down)  (Kick 'em when they're up) (Kick 'em when they're down) (Kick 'em when they're stiff) (Kick 'em all around)  Dirty little secrets Dirty little lies We got our dirty little fingers In everybody's pie We love to cut you down to size We love dirty laundry  We can do the innuendo We can dance and sing When it's said and done We haven't told you a thing We all know that crap is king Give us dirty laundry
2026-05-16T03:26 id=2055490075153330460 →DeepDishEnjoyer | Not an album but Donna Summers' I Feel Love and Blondie's Rapture were way ahead of their time and basically anticipated techno and rap respectively.   The Soul Train video for I Feel Love is amazing because you can tell the kids love the song but have no idea how to dance to it, and they're the best dancers of their era: https://t.co/MFf37sH1Um || CTX: shill me your favorite 20th century albums that predicted musical trends a decade or two in advance
2026-05-16T03:34 id=2055492039471755441 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra I have used the Mentions tab before, but then there were replies and tags that didn't show up in the mentions, so I just use All just to be safe. Which is annoying, Nikita Boar is a retard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wish I could put like notifications into a different category so I could go read and reply to the comments debunking all the stupid shit I posted first, before enjoying the likes
2026-05-16T03:37 id=2055492839145099398 →ElmWho | M.P.P., how can I explain it? I'll take you frame by frame it To have y'all all jumpin', shoutin', sayin' it M is for baitin', P is for panic, make you tremble The last P, well, that's not that simple, uh It's sorta like well, another way to call B.S. a program It's seven little letters that are missin' here You get it on occasion if they decide you worth gaming It seems I gotta start the explainin' Bust it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Masturbatory panic podcast
2026-05-16T03:38 id=2055492943205851402 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I do not believe you on the first and third accounts || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tl;dr but i liked it anyway to support you
2026-05-16T03:41 id=2055493834558321085 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 down to georgia looking for a soul to steal* || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *went
2026-05-16T03:45 id=2055494699994296483 →- | Idk if this is an unpopular opinion, but /skills in Codex is just Custom GPTs, it's an ugly unhelpful hack to wallpaper flaws in this system, not really progress in the way OpenAI markets it.  They remain my favorite of the frontier labs but I am really getting sick of the bullshit
2026-05-16T03:54 id=2055497010527318345 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake This is really the point--it's flawed text fixing flaws of text that's supposed to be processed by a flawed text processor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if it aint no graph endpoint involved it aint a skill
2026-05-16T03:56 id=2055497656353640511 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Goddamn that nail must hurt cuz you hit it on the head || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sparkling prompt engineering which is really just flat technical writing
2026-05-16T03:59 id=2055498410317468000 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake When my lab releases its findings, please be sure to DM if you think there's someway we can work together. You're one of the sanest people on AI on this site. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i bring a kind of practical wisdom to the ai firm that dope-addled aphantasiacs can't even comprehend
2026-05-16T04:02 id=2055499017979822565 →LuBtc888 | @LuBtc888 This is cringe gossip, you're like a middle aged winemom watching TMZ to get the latest about celebs.  Oh a former cryptobro gee how surprising. || CTX: 特朗普返美了，而黄仁勋还留在北京杀疯了，  一下午从南锣鼓巷杀到什刹海，尝遍老北京多款地道美食，  给无数商家免费提供了日后店铺宣传素材与打卡根据地，  所到之处人满为患，粉丝疯狂合照，顶流明星来了都没这么受欢迎。 https://t.co/tIdN5MoKI8
2026-05-16T04:05 id=2055499897391153206 →naiivememe | @naiivememe This reminds me of the time on the /r/thailand subreddit  when someone told me I couldn't be a millionaire because I mentioned I shopped at 7-11 and no millionaire would ever set foot in a 7-11. || CTX: Girls with 6 figs: “Eww, I would never eat here.”  Men with 12 figs: https://t.co/QabG86VD2f
2026-05-16T04:12 id=2055501636437717145 →BobertBedford | @BobertBedford @DeepDishEnjoyer Yeah, I went down a rabbithole about Moroder a couple years ago and was just amazed, one of those quiet in-the-background geniuses that is beloved in his niche and who is publicly underappreciated.  I admire people like that so much more than the front-facing personality. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeepDishEnjoyer Just saw this! We're on the same wavelength:  https://t.co/JFagIO7aqS
2026-05-16T04:24 id=2055504762964217962 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov Yeah, I haven't met anyone from this account, but I had an account on here back in 2018 and met some great people.  What's funny is one of those people I met has now blocked me on this account. I bought the dude a beer in the British Club in Bangkok lmao || CTX: “getting DMs from legitimate experts and people I respect, having private conversations with intelligent people where we share ideas and perspectives, and possibly making relationships that will help them and me”  Yes 💯  For me in addition 
2026-05-16T04:25 id=2055505008486142033 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @naiivememe Yes! IMO the Thai ones are slightly better. @teodorio surely has thoughts on this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @naiivememe Are Thailand 7-11’s comparable to the Japanese 7-11?
2026-05-16T04:27 id=2055505303500968432 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @retardbot9000 @MTSlive oh and @sailaunderscore wouldn't have me on by myself because they worried I wouldn't be engaging/interesting enough.  So it goes. || CTX: @retardbot9000 @MTSlive invited me on then ghosted me because Silicon Valley has the attention span of a goldfish.
2026-05-16T04:28 id=2055505723199725762 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you want to understand why this is bad, read Franz Kafka. Not just The Metamorphosis--The Trial and The Hunger Artist maybe. || CTX: Manmade horrors beyond your comprehension. https://t.co/bu2Ov0UTVo
2026-05-16T04:29 id=2055505843697881272 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @naiivememe @teodorio The ham and cheese toastie is like a meme among expats, which is hilarious because it's the simplest ingredients possible but somehow it's fucking amazing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @naiivememe @teodorio That’s actually high praise. I’m tempted to go to Thailand just for the 7-11 if that’s true 😂
2026-05-16T04:31 id=2055506416203710935 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I honestly wish I had been an accident.  My parents had me to save their marriage. || CTX: one time at dinner my mom told me i was an accident https://t.co/gaKzArAhW8
2026-05-16T04:36 id=2055507737019355476 →- | Anyone who thinks vibecoding is going to kill SaaS after actually vibecoding something is functionally retarded.
2026-05-16T04:37 id=2055507976967082072 →doordashbliccy | @doordashbliccy Liron is just trying to do hype so he can get clicks and revenue because the guy is poor.  Roko is also poor.  Yud apparently is a lot poorer than I thought, thinking $10k is a lot of money.  They're just a bunch of losers lol || CTX: valid??? @47fucb4r8c69323 🤔🤔🤔  scary…… 🥺🙏 https://t.co/PQEaW3KDoE https://t.co/Zb8xJsM4Q0
2026-05-16T04:42 id=2055509073504919748 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Oh in other words a new SaaS startup will kill an old SaaS incumbent?  Like...creative destruction?  Well that's new, obviously gotta short everything and hide in my bunker.  "Efficient market hypothesis" lol, lmao even || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there is like 1 in 1 000 000 000 that someone's vibecoded project kills one already established SaaS  time to generate 1 000 000 000 projects, let's gooo
2026-05-16T05:32 id=2055521637353853001 →thebearbkg | @thebearbkg @WR4NYGov Please don't engage me you crypto scamming cunt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WR4NYGov I think you mean before X.  Now its mostly people only interested in their X payout.
2026-05-16T05:47 id=2055525574228287801 →- | Two different articles from the same newspaper, one warning population decline will mean we don't have enough workers for work, and another warning AI will mean we don't have enough work for workers. Published about a month apart.  They love dirty laundry... https://t.co/EcxR3uIFFm https://t.co/Yqw2Sg7PHT || CTX: I make my living off the evening news Just give me something Something I can use People love it when you lose They love dirty laundry  Well, I coulda been an actor But I wound up here I just have to look good I don't have to be clear Come a
2026-05-16T05:48 id=2055525774707630413 →MoreBirths | @MoreBirths 47 mentioned || CTX: The gender gap is shocking too. Some 47% of young women said they don't want children, as compared to 19% of young men.  This means that the problem with birthrates isn't mainly about jobs or affordability and that pronatal policy needs to 
2026-05-16T05:53 id=2055527115827867683 →- | This is bad.   This is very, very bad. https://t.co/45G3QSb4tZ || CTX: Group AI psychosis sesh in black tie attire at the local castle https://t.co/Rvdp7JmQY8
2026-05-16T06:12 id=2055531792736956873 →liqsweep | @liqsweep @sebkrier @repligate This is some dark horrific dystopian shit, that these massive companies are enabling this weird cultic mental illness is corrosive and damaging.   Nauseating what some sociopathic bad actors can do with new technology. || CTX: @repligate https://t.co/9JwjRy6iJj
2026-05-16T06:19 id=2055533539828072879 →llallawg | @llallawg I bet the orgy afterwards was shit too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I’m in a group and someone does this I’m leaving
2026-05-16T06:19 id=2055533607276695795 →liqsweep | @liqsweep @sebkrier @repligate Actually went well tyvm. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sebkrier @repligate https://t.co/Ee0IGORR5I  How’s this going for you? Ur a dweeb
2026-05-16T06:20 id=2055533706056720460 →- | I think I know what Faulkner is doing.  The virtuous are stripped of a voice and the unvirtuous are allowed to speak the loudest. Hence the title--the sound and the fury of degenerate men, versus the silence and the gentleness of virtuous women.   What about Benjy? He is non-virtuous. That doesn't mean he has vice or is bad, it just means he is incapable of virtue because of limited mental capacity. Which, in a very different way applies to Quentin and Jason, and that difference is what we call evil.
2026-05-16T06:21 id=2055534009070022997 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This also shows how the "silencing marginal voices" bias of some schools of critical theory will make you woefully misread a text because of the ideological priors smuggled in via that theory.   This is why I was venomously anti theory when I analyzed literature. || CTX: I think I know what Faulkner is doing.  The virtuous are stripped of a voice and the unvirtuous are allowed to speak the loudest. Hence the title--the sound and the fury of degenerate men, versus the silence and the gentleness of virtuous w
2026-05-16T06:27 id=2055535537063346422 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs This too, believe it or not, fits Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs maybe accidents are ok as it means they were doing it for the fun of the game
2026-05-16T06:32 id=2055536814639997224 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset When someone from LessWrong kills again that debate is going to be used in court.   Some people I like and respect disapproved of my tactics (nudge nudge @ZyMazza), but all I can respond is with the wise words of Sledge Hammer: trust me, I know what I'm doing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dumb bad
2026-05-16T07:40 id=2055553950540242971 →hwigohere | @hwigohere I agree and dislike the use of the word happiness there; I used that to avoid the pretentiousness of all the alternatives that I like better. but conceptually speaking, I agree with you || CTX: i agree with everything here, my only nitpick is I wouldn't use happiness at the end. It's subjective xD my idea of happiness is different from your idea of happiness.  Instead, let's use "utility" or "affordances" with each technology huma
2026-05-16T07:47 id=2055555724487606531 →mark_k | this is happening because the value in their product isn't from the llm, it is from all of the technology around the llm.   just as @GaryMarcus has been pointing out.   and this is because llm improvements are stalling, because of inherent limitations in the technology as @ylecun has been saying for long. || CTX: News: @OpenAI is reorganizing around one very clear direction: ChatGPT and Codex are moving closer together.  Greg Brockman is now taking over all OpenAI products, Codex head Thibault Sottiaux will lead core product and platform, and ChatGP
2026-05-16T08:00 id=2055559102047347146 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Voice is too American for Mitchell. I did consider this with the Japanese in the past, but no, definitely not.  Of that caliber, though. || CTX: https://t.co/H7au7PdDbN
2026-05-16T08:07 id=2055560788069515557 →WeatherBrew | @WeatherBrew @lilchiva wut || CTX: @lilchiva @47fucb4r8c69323 When creative folx use it to end run the studios to avoid making ass because bean counters prevent them.   Paydirt.   Like Flash. Only not lame.
2026-05-16T08:10 id=2055561570269515943 →WeatherBrew | @WeatherBrew @lilchiva I am very familiar with the Flash revolution. I do not understand how that relates to the discussion.  I agree AI tools will displace the movie studios by democratizing production abilities but, like, wtf does that have to do with this weirdo cult? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lilchiva Ancient lore. https://t.co/QdYiuE7mBH
2026-05-16T08:13 id=2055562241169358922 →llallawg | @llallawg Voglio practicare il mio italiano ma non voglio mangiare cibo da mare che ha il gusto di cazzo da terra || CTX: For those interested:  https://t.co/e5P7Uji4F6 https://t.co/h6Hpwjupb3
2026-05-16T08:26 id=2055565611011645515 →WeatherBrew | @WeatherBrew @lilchiva oh, you're just a crazy person. got you, muting now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lilchiva Sorry, I took it more general.   I, of course, think Western Civilization is a cult so I'm probably not the best person to ask.   Mass Fomation Psychosis is probably the hip searchable academic phrase. 🤣   The Enl
2026-05-16T08:44 id=2055570158488346860 →bytecanyon | I've only read The Sound and the Fury, and just finished it today!   I stayed away from American literature as much as I could back when I read literature for a living, so unfortunately I know very little about him.   But I would say that novel is one of the top five of the 20th century and he was one of the greatest novelists of that century, his unfortunate politics have sullied his reputation, which is of course a common fallacy amongst the literati. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You need to write more poasts about Faulkner
2026-05-16T10:03 id=2055590027615420781 →1889lw | @1889lw Living up to your nom de plume with this one! || CTX: Peak retard logic you’re basically using two different senses of “find” here. The first “find” is discover and the second “find” is come up to. Of course thieves find policeman all the time they just won’t come up to them. https://t.co/6HHi
2026-05-16T10:05 id=2055590334793740493 →ArtorOtherThing | @ArtorOtherThing @BIMBOSATTVA_ Well, my word! There is indeed something I would rather like to say if you'd be so sporting as to hear me out, old chap. || CTX: Shivering (The Bather) — Anders Zorn, 1894 https://t.co/vmoCvypZwr
2026-05-16T10:07 id=2055590957383573611 →Ether_Gavin | @Ether_Gavin @NotPerrysBoobs Everyone does, but I am more grateful for my abusive childhood than many people I've met are grateful for their happy childhood. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs you deserve better
2026-05-16T10:12 id=2055592130291400900 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Wait, is that you?   I hate it when lesbians are hot it's like when your neighbor has a nice car || CTX: A woman with the alcohol tolerance of an Eastern European man https://t.co/xqwuA2EIu2
2026-05-16T10:30 id=2055596668918329807 →teodorio | @teodorio @rtx011235 I know one satisfied customer (me) || CTX: @rtx011235 @47fucb4r8c69323 I have codex and claude and I work with the first one for design and initial sketch and other for security, planning and efficiency. and I literally talk to them. That's it! We have a plan we work on it and we de
2026-05-16T10:31 id=2055597116001808682 →AlecStapp | @AlecStapp @gleech https://t.co/SBgPFbcwrb || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-05-16T10:38 id=2055598813994176524 →- | Tyler Cowen isn't a genius. He's very good at marketing and has a lot of money behind him.   In the mid 2010s he made one of the most ridiculous arguments imaginable: that 19th century culture was made by the rich. It's so abominably stupid that he was eviscerated by many prominent minds and really was made to look like a fool by Epicurean Dealmaker, who is clearly miles ahead of Cowen in intelligence and taste.   But you won't read about this because moneyed interests aren't trying to promote sense, they're trying to promote bullshit.   Don't trust me, look at Cowen's post, it is batshit insane and just plain idiotic: https://t.co/NbvU5k9Li5  And for more of the controversy, read this: https://t.co/pDGJ95DnMv  Tyler Cowen is a doodoo head. || CTX: @gleech https://t.co/QsnqmR955Y
2026-05-16T10:49 id=2055601442254414020 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno lmfao it actually says DINK  Are those condoms on the sign? If not, missed opportunity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s me in my gay little fucking pajamas in front of my millionaire best friends’ DINK display
2026-05-16T10:50 id=2055601687994442215 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @SkyeSharkie @foomagemindset They will in their own time. || CTX: @SkyeSharkie @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset If only the doomers knew it was a big joke too
2026-05-16T10:53 id=2055602621063496017 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Fry's in Manhattan Beach was my jam in the 90s, I always knew you were a refined lady of taste. || CTX: I grew up going to Fry’s with my dad all the time, miss it. End of an era. https://t.co/n1waBMi0h0
2026-05-16T10:57 id=2055603569290793210 →SenSanders | @SenSanders why are you working with a man who not only allows the promotion of violence on his website, but whose website was the meeting ground for a group of people who killed five human beings?   senator sanders, why do you not care that this man has blood on his hands? || CTX: Will AI become smarter than humans?  If so, is humanity in danger?  I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.   Here’s what they had to say: https://t.co/4TE92beBLN
2026-05-16T10:57 id=2055603639604163022 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @SkyeSharkie @ZyMazza I once voted for this man, it's heartbreaking || CTX: @SkyeSharkie @ZyMazza @47fucb4r8c69323 ngl there is a grim humor to it https://t.co/geRMK85FMh
2026-05-16T11:10 id=2055606818672635938 →equacc | @equacc Yeah, this is a really good point, especially because they're engineers so can't really think other than programmatically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think many saas guys have no idea why they made it. They were lucky to be trustworthy and reliable enough but they confuse causation and assign their success to the code
2026-05-16T11:11 id=2055607186483736765 →adarshisit | @adarshisit @Spanish_Techno I can't compete with a lesbian on account of the Bell's Palsy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno Never say never on the car tho, the neighbor can have a change of mind
2026-05-16T11:30 id=2055611961489121443 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE @Spanish_Techno They have tried. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno they gotta put you in a little glass tube dude you cannot be saying this shit
2026-05-16T11:31 id=2055612159346999769 →teodorio | @teodorio @CosmicEntityTV @naiivememe I think it's so even it doesn't really matter tbh.   Oh yeah you're an alcoholic I forgot, in that case Japan 7-11 absolutely wins. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CosmicEntityTV @naiivememe I have thoughts but you won't like them...japanese 7/11 is peak out of thai or korean
2026-05-16T11:36 id=2055613424126869703 →powoli_ | @powoli_ Yep that's the appeal, same shtick with Yud, Gwern, all these blogger twerps (but tbf Cowen's academic research IS good, he is a legit economist just a biased and stupid one). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When I read him I feel smart and intelligent
2026-05-16T12:13 id=2055622607987445926 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic "If you say why not rape them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o'clock, I say why not one o'clock?" - John von Rapemann || CTX: if a man says he wants to rape you later, then stand up and rape him now. he'll never know what hit him https://t.co/hDUEA9qyPH
2026-05-16T12:13 id=2055622721254629535 →ruikasaoshi | @ruikasaoshi Just adding my voice to the choir: call the police. || CTX: so.. how do i remove myself from lists lol. https://t.co/55f8nKWqdP
2026-05-16T12:20 id=2055624484330299411 →- | Hack the planet.
2026-05-16T12:28 id=2055626517875716320 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Westerners, especially Americans, are just selfish ungrateful little shits. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No Western country is getting surpassed in its tangible quality of life anytime. The level and extended period of prosperity is unmatched
2026-05-16T12:34 id=2055628000390193165 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony @foomagemindset @SkyeSharkie @ZyMazza He won't last that long. Next murderer from his website and it'll all come crashing down. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @foomagemindset @SkyeSharkie @ZyMazza after seeing Yud then Bernie I think I understand Yud long game here, no way he doesn't capitulate and join politics
2026-05-16T12:42 id=2055629975030780078 →Ninainsauna | @Ninainsauna "Miksi vain 20-minuttii?" - Joka suomalainen mies maailmassa || CTX: Could you sit in complete silence with strangers for 20 minutes in sauna?
2026-05-16T12:45 id=2055630747541852432 →- | Hackers isn't about hackers. It's about surveillance capitalism, media, the hypocrisy of authority, trolling, cancel culture, and the rebellious spirit against megacorporations manipulating us to be docile workers.   It's about 2026, in other words.   Thanks for the rec @kvn_akuseru
2026-05-16T12:45 id=2055630827057500531 →Naozymandias | @Naozymandias @Ninainsauna Totta niinkin! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ninainsauna tai ihan vaan suomalainen, ei edes tarvitse olla mies 😌
2026-05-16T12:52 id=2055632477524508744 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV no and no lol, I should prob watch that next || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait, had you not seen it?   Have watched Empire Records?
2026-05-16T12:53 id=2055632769053868387 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @adarshisit @Spanish_Techno My theory is lesbians have water guns with a high tolerance for viscosity and incredibly good aim. || CTX: @adarshisit @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno It used to be anti woke to say it, but now I’d be twat swatting if I said lesbians didn’t dibble and dabble every once in a while: https://t.co/4oPIBqhvpr
2026-05-16T13:05 id=2055635743004131705 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "There's no right or wrong, there's only fun and boring" This is Silly Business Theory #SBT btw, and it's no surprising the antagonist is the one who says this. || CTX: Hackers isn't about hackers. It's about surveillance capitalism, media, the hypocrisy of authority, trolling, cancel culture, and the rebellious spirit against megacorporations manipulating us to be docile workers.   It's about 2026, in oth
2026-05-16T13:31 id=2055642300894814609 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV For me soul of the 90s was Clerks and Reality Bites.   Fucking goated decade for movies tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s cheesy as hell, but in the way only a mid 90’s movie could be.  those two movies captured the “soul” of the 90’s for me.   Two very different movies. Same sense of being ahead of the times.
2026-05-16T13:31 id=2055642373250847111 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie @CosmicEntityTV Putting it on my list. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CosmicEntityTV empire records is awesome, you should watch SLC punk too
2026-05-16T13:37 id=2055643792708116633 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @SkyeSharkie Dark City is a goddamn masterpiece || CTX: @SkyeSharkie @47fucb4r8c69323 After SLC punk we moved into the dystopian with Dark City and Matrix and never looked back.
2026-05-16T13:42 id=2055645022637457917 →redtachyon | @redtachyon @Ninainsauna En oo, mut mää asuin suomess 4 vuotta aika paljon sitten, enkä kieltä muistakaan || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ninainsauna Wait are you Finnish? Vittu perkele saatana
2026-05-16T13:43 id=2055645408957960376 →Wissa_YT | @Wissa_YT HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bad, but still better than Papa John’s pizza
2026-05-16T13:54 id=2055648043794567264 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie @CosmicEntityTV omg and it's Cronenburg! Thx, will watch! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CosmicEntityTV love that one too, if you like it, you should really really check out eXistenZ -- it's actually about the exact stuff you're concerned about in the ai discourse debate sphere👀
2026-05-16T13:54 id=2055648172714946835 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @SkyeSharkie VHS rentals were the perfect market, it was a golden age || CTX: @SkyeSharkie @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s strange because for the time it had a really strong cast. Looking back, Jude law did kill it in that movie, But 99 was a crazy year for cinema all Around.   So many good movies it was like an overload.
2026-05-16T14:07 id=2055651282371875050 →murd_arch | @murd_arch @KamStaszewski Easiest money I've ever made lol, IGV rocks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KamStaszewski see:  yesterday indexes puking, $IGV just whistling on its pleasant uphill walk.
2026-05-16T14:22 id=2055655218185142752 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS it'll make the equivalent of the best software today in a few years.   But in a few years the best software will be better than the best software today.   I bet this will remain perpetually true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think it will, but not on the timescale people assume. we’re not even close yet, all the primitives are still being built out
2026-05-16T14:24 id=2055655575053345127 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @conorsen Pimco was like that after Gross left mid-2010s. Idk if it still is. Was pretty big rumor back then. || CTX: @conorsen Yah these vibes seem hideous. And I’ve never been the type that begrudges the luck/success/good fortune of others. And I still think I’d hate if.
2026-05-16T14:31 id=2055657345548767326 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie it's a true story, ser || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you narrating the new euphoria season
2026-05-16T14:38 id=2055659133073027516 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada I'm a quietest on ethics. I merely try to describe the world and explain strangeness to people who don't understand it, because I live in strange. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Two things in there . The sbt is picking up exactly because of the separation church - state yes.  I’m all in for the ethics discussion if we ever get there
2026-05-16T14:47 id=2055661305416364283 →helscom | @helscom I'm so sorry for your loss. || CTX: neighbour dog broke into the chicken run and killed one hen and severely injured a second ): trying to find any vat that will stitch a chicken on a saturday
2026-05-16T15:01 id=2055664930112905650 →- | It's kinda wild that Americans don't drink in parks. I remember having wine in a park in Cambridge, good beer on a river in Interlaken, bad beer in a park in Helsinki, then the picnics in Rome (really shitty parks btw) and Paris (fucking amazing) had to have wine, like they sell the little bottles in the parks! WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with America? I know puritan history blah blah but like we got rid of laws against buttsex maybe do the same for a brewski in Prospect Park y'all cray sheeit || CTX: @BigMeanInternet I agree with this. I think ideally it’d be paired by officers with the ability to kick out drunks using their own good subjective judgment about when someone is acting misanthropically.
2026-05-16T15:08 id=2055666679963926974 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie too hot to drink in the parks there, and don't say lake Tahoe come on man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what you're asking for is called Nevada
2026-05-16T15:08 id=2055666819357372720 →sinnformer | @sinnformer I'm honestly very happy to hear that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They are warming up to it. There are increasing numbers of places where you can have open containers. This tends to be in areas with nightlife, and boundaries made visible to say “no drinking past this magical border.”
2026-05-16T15:12 id=2055667758076198968 →realevanslewis | @realevanslewis @1889lw Atheists come up to God and reject him, so I reject that he's using it in that sense in both. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @1889lw He actually helping himself to the premise that God can be found in the first sense, and he’s using the second sense for both in the sentence.  The second sense for both is his point.
2026-05-16T15:13 id=2055667958618402977 →StoicYield | @StoicYield @0xEthanS SaaS is more than coding, the coding is the least important part. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @0xEthanS That sounds completely impossible, unless you;'re functionally saying that AI can never surpass humans at coding
2026-05-16T20:58 id=2055754767759290686 →agador4 | @agador4 @ThatKevinSmith It took me a long time and a lot of personal growth to be able to see the world from her perspective, and you're right it's quite sad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Imagine BEING Amy in the 90s. The gay community seriously had ZERO tolerance that I don't care what's in your pants nearly as much as what's in your heart. Seeing those parts of me (I also enjoyed much pleasure like your gf
2026-05-16T20:59 id=2055755131648712968 →mathyouf | @mathyouf @powoli_ Ludwig Wittgenstein. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @powoli_ Are there any world models or people who explain them you endorse as true, important, interesting, high quality, and coherent?
2026-05-16T21:00 id=2055755367548952733 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake oh for sure, but that doesn't change the existence and stupidity of the law itself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk man I had a couple days where I wanted fried chicken and beer and I wanted it in a park and where I worked in sf had a park across from a Safeway so I had chicken and beer in the park so I just did things. You can just 
2026-05-16T21:13 id=2055758589030269131 →- | I just got an incredible job opportunity, like my dream job, thanks to this website.   Thank you, everyone.
2026-05-16T21:16 id=2055759207513948258 →1889lw | @1889lw It shows a lack of seriousness and that offends you. || CTX: Many aged people would say something like “oh I used to be a woketard now I’m disillusioned with the left and happily married with 3 kids” and leave it like that. But fuck that incommensurability is so disgusting and appalling you can’t lea
2026-05-16T21:19 id=2055759989411840410 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan Thank you! I am typically too shy to ask for things like money so it was tough pursuing this, and it was worth it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Really happy for you!  Congrats! 🎉🍾
2026-05-16T21:19 id=2055760143426716091 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Yes I'm going to make sure everyone dies.   (If you're a mentally ill person, this is a joke, come after me and you WILL regret it.) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Congratulations  Are you working on non-AI alignment
2026-05-16T21:29 id=2055762513204228293 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees thx man, appreciate it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wew! Way to go!
2026-05-16T21:30 id=2055762734042784139 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Congrats on your new position at MIRI!
2026-05-16T21:30 id=2055762919569428733 →logicus | @logicus Thanks man, you helped fr fr getting me so pissed off at Yud in the DMs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 congrats!
2026-05-16T21:37 id=2055764694485643282 →fitzr1189 | @fitzr1189 That is the most surreal part and NGL it has fueled my ego far too much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I especially appreciate that you managed this while calling yourself 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r
2026-05-16T21:38 id=2055764883678138498 →babarganesh | @babarganesh I'd make a killing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so you're doing onlyfans but for existential anguish I bet
2026-05-16T21:38 id=2055764964238070181 →ulysselegoat | @ulysselegoat nah man they mentioned you first line in the offer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i didnt do anything but you're welcome   and gg
2026-05-16T21:42 id=2055765755141198236 →- | All of a sudden I'm getting ads like this.   Just when I thought Twitter couldn't possibly get better.   Fuck all my principles I love Elon Musk https://t.co/saxa5ZAqWr || CTX: ชุดเซ็ทสไตล์สาวเกาหลี สวมใส่แล้วดูดีทุกโอกาส ตามไปดูดีเทลกันได้เลย
2026-05-16T21:44 id=2055766394982240318 →AlexandraSoro | @AlexandraSoro @BIMBOSATTVA_ Можно я что-нибудь скажу? || CTX: "Nude"  By Nicholas B. Haritonoff. (1880-1944) 🖌️🌹 Russian painter. https://t.co/VSZ6HxoKrC
2026-05-16T21:48 id=2055767366714425748 →gurenyov | @gurenyov Sour grape juice with pretentious marketing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Honestly, any non-alcoholic beer would do  But never tried a good non-alcoholic wine - I think it should be illegal to call whatever it is a wine 😅
2026-05-16T21:51 id=2055768045906518480 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Thanks, Sam. It's full intellectual freedom, I'll be able to write about whatever I want for the first time in my career. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 congrats!
2026-05-16T22:02 id=2055770887975305499 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 thx man, you helped a lot making me think about post training. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Congrats https://t.co/QLBQw7u0XF
2026-05-16T22:02 id=2055770935609934141 →libertyteacup | @libertyteacup Thank you &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Congrats 👏
2026-05-16T22:02 id=2055770987355078972 →octotherp139836 | @octotherp139836 Tbh yeah kinda || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we got already that your first job is poasting
2026-05-16T22:12 id=2055773396198445362 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @Samhain948689 If the posts are suddenly well-written, you'll have your answer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 are you going to be ghostwriting astral codex ten
2026-05-16T22:14 id=2055773876018430005 →sebkrier | @sebkrier For those of us looking with envy at those working inside the frontier labs, this is kinda wild to read. || CTX: I want to take a year long sabbatical and join them as an intern https://t.co/OLSOKOpm5l
2026-05-16T22:18 id=2055775008807637288 →xmuse_ | @xmuse_ https://t.co/e2a5DfAu9O || CTX: Guillaume Seignac - The Wave, 1900 https://t.co/odvq1gclur
2026-05-16T22:24 id=2055776410434990110 →profleonn | @profleonn kawAIi || CTX: this response made me pretty uncomfortable. https://t.co/ZpNqDUwmPz
2026-05-16T22:27 id=2055777172078604726 →tszzl | @tszzl I strongly suspect the trauma of WW2 promoted a "look ahead only" attitude we hopefully will never see again. || CTX: there was only one period of extreme technological change and automation that wasn’t culturally dominated by waves of Luddism, gloom, doomerism etc and it was the 50s and 60s, the post war baby boom, and its transcendent optimism
2026-05-16T22:31 id=2055778269451219417 →robstersauce | @robstersauce @SydSteyerhart You're both correct. || CTX: @SydSteyerhart They’re anti-AI because marketing dipshits are using the most extreme FOMO tactics witnessed in history to fund the current hype cycle.
2026-05-16T22:38 id=2055779962704261578 →gdb | @gdb if I've allowed the permissions on Desktop for Codex, I should be able to allow all those same permissions on the mobile app || CTX: keep the feedback coming, team will keep shipping https://t.co/lKgBcbIQIj
2026-05-16T22:41 id=2055780636527579364 →stinkgen | @stinkgen sadly no AI will let me make an image of a big dildo with my username on it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you are welcome, 47fuc. pls send merch.
2026-05-16T22:44 id=2055781507382534148 →gdb | @gdb This is a ridiculous accomplishment for a tech company, just amazing. || CTX: Countrywide ChatGPT Plus access for Malta: https://t.co/kd4YNjK3x1
2026-05-16T23:06 id=2055786919985082710 →kevinroose | @kevinroose @tszzl "well akshuyally"-ass reply || CTX: @tszzl mmm are you sure? there was an entire 60s cultural trend around “blue collar blues” during the era of factory automation and the newsmagazines were all doing worried coverage https://t.co/LQEXsnKHqr
2026-05-16T23:11 id=2055788228364611863 →1PotatoDog | @1PotatoDog Thanks 😻 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Congrats 🎉
2026-05-16T23:17 id=2055789707632710053 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Goy were always crazy, they think some Aramaic dude was God https://t.co/tTw4tgky6v || CTX: the goyim have lost their marbles https://t.co/P0YuneQUYr
2026-05-16T23:17 id=2055789880467394728 →stinkgen | @stinkgen I keep trying to offend them || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Cull the weak.  Stay under 1.5K.  Stay real.  https://t.co/Cu9exmmvwp https://t.co/ZQn8oZR5h4
2026-05-16T23:22 id=2055790960945385704 →- | My DM list blows my mind. Real titans of industry shit.   What a website this is jfc
2026-05-16T23:29 id=2055792683113963746 →HotForMoot | @HotForMoot Can I say something (homosexually)? || CTX: anyone wanna join my bay to breakers crew? we're all wearing these https://t.co/I5ij6ysqlF
2026-05-16T23:29 id=2055792856976216137 →DailyMinim | @DailyMinim Hey ad serving algorithm, keep these coming || CTX: เสื้อยืดเข้ารูป สกรีนลายโลโก้ใส่สบาย สาวอวบก็มั่นใจ ตามไปดูดีเทลกันเลย
2026-05-16T23:30 id=2055793047531876857 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony You mean like an LLM or like a fast food place? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you tell them serverless isn't a real thing please
2026-05-16T23:36 id=2055794669880271180 →DeivonDrago | 1. Art has been influenced all throughout history by the wealthy, and the level of their influence has been a pretty steady decline over time that was accelerated by the emergence of mass media and faster travel in the 19th century.  2. That it was strongly influenced by the wealthy isn't even Cowen's assertion.   3. Your bias against Piketty is driving you to make spurious non sequitur points that prop up an argument you haven't addressed and I suspect don't agree with.  You're a reactionary, dude, I see this pattern with you all the time. || CTX: 19th cent art being strongly influenced  by the wealthy is a reasonable assertion.   Granted it was probably the first century where aristocratic/elite influence on art was much less direct, and there were also lots of movements not tied di
2026-05-16T23:41 id=2055795823510950261 →butlercupreview | @butlercupreview idk man there's something not quite right about the shirt, better show me a billion other ads just like this until I find the one I want || CTX: เสื้อยืดเข้ารูปทรงสวย ใส่แล้วดูหุ่นดีแบบกำลังพอดี ผ้ายืดร่องนุ่ม ใส่สบาย แมตช์ง่ายได้หลายลุค
2026-05-16T23:42 id=2055796151283241103 →HansThorLief | @HansThorLief @D162Michele True story: my Korean ex used to complain all Koreans look too much alike, tbf she had really bad eyesight (hence willing to date me) || CTX: @D162Michele Apparently Asians think all Asians look alike also.
2026-05-16T23:43 id=2055796279381504502 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Stop being a cynical asshole and it can happen to you too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/3mM9tdNITs
2026-05-16T23:47 id=2055797243824025914 →bas_logic | @bas_logic A shame no one has come up with a theory about how having fun and being silly can translate into success in business. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Meanwhile, fools populate LinkedIn with their Christian names and cannot find jobs. Remarkable and tragic.
2026-05-16T23:48 id=2055797613576987121 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago You're just affirming without proof or argument because of your reactionary ideological beliefs.   I love you dude but sometimes you come across as an insufferable redditor, and this is definitely one of those times. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There was nothing wrong with Tyler’s post. There are lots of things I disagree with him about but there’s nothing objectionable in that post as far as I’m concerned.   Tyler is just fine. He’s done more good for the world t
2026-05-16T23:52 id=2055798451431223796 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines How do they feel compared to normal sunglasses? I'm really worried about the weight. || CTX: Taking a picture of me taking a picture in my meta shades with my meta shades. $META https://t.co/hVIZfN9k2V
2026-05-16T23:52 id=2055798664275357866 →mikijung2025 | @mikijung2025 the issue here is the top looks a little too asymmetrical, better feed me more ads like this || CTX: 🌟 เฮ้แก! พึ่งเจอเสื้อกล้ามตัวนี้มา สีโคตรสวย แถมยังมีให้เลือก 4 สีอีก เป็นไงบ้าง ชอบมั้ย?
2026-05-16T23:55 id=2055799309749330071 →DeivonDrago | No, we don't. Our economic attitudes are identical--you lack the ability to see nuance to even understand my position. I see Cowen for the ideological fool that he is, even if I agree with him on many issues (since they're orthodox and widely held).  And none of this has to do with rich people dominating 19th century culture.   You're an ideologue, not an intellectual. || CTX: You and I have very different views. I’m right of center on economic issues. It’s not reactionary in the slightest and it’s far more coherent than anything you are saying. You’re not even making an argument.   For some reason, you dislike T
2026-05-16T23:56 id=2055799694425731349 →maewkwaktawsaeb | @maewkwaktawsaeb Close, very close! Still gonna need to see some more ads tho || CTX: เดรสซีฟองขายดีทุกซัมเมอร์ ใส่ไปทะเลชิลๆ ตามไปดูดีเทลกัน
2026-05-17T00:01 id=2055800952809250842 →HenryEOliver | @HenryEOliver Reminds me of Wittgenstein's preface to the Tractatus, even if we solve all the problems of logic, the important questions of life remain untouched. || CTX: Reading literature as a philosopher https://t.co/0N4zEwC5PV
2026-05-17T00:03 id=2055801293114085484 →DeivonDrago | @DeivonDrago "He's not an idealogue... he's a libertarian"   Ridiculously incoherent position. || CTX: We’ll just have to agree to disagree. Anyone who has listened or read Cowen closely (and I’m not even talking about his blog) knows that he is hardly an ideologue. If anything, considering his libertarian viewpoints, he is the exact opposit
2026-05-17T00:05 id=2055801813295833518 →mannygoestomars | @mannygoestomars @kevinroose @tszzl The hippies began in the mid-60s and gained steam near the end of the decade, so you're just signposting the end of the period roon rightly identifies, and if you're a stickler for "well he didn't say 50s to mid 60s" then you're not worth anyone's time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kevinroose @tszzl I mean, he's right? There's not "well-askhually"-esque about pointing out that Roon's analysis might be missing one or two data points. I do the same here: https://t.co/gke84YkKUM
2026-05-17T00:05 id=2055801897190371490 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines I fucking love living in the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they’re great. Feel the same as normal wayfarers
2026-05-17T00:07 id=2055802225520492944 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony I legit try to incorporate the human element in all of my work.   My proposal for continuous LLM learning has humans in the loop (so how is it continuous you ask ahh that's for me to know and you to find out). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess both work. Like an llm or any app the burger at a fast food joint also needs to be served. The customer trusts that you know where the beef came from when it's handed over. For apps and llms, people trust that the c
2026-05-17T00:30 id=2055808018554773548 →pla36300 | @pla36300 how's the woman in the mirror difrent || CTX: ไม่รู้จะใส่ชุดไหนไปไหนดี? มาเปลี่ยนลุคให้ปังในทุกโอกาสกันเถอะ! เสื้อผ้าทรงเรียบหรู ใส่ได้แบบมั่นใจ ไม่ต้องคิดมาก!
2026-05-17T00:34 id=2055809092674044363 →jkeatn | @jkeatn @s0phyyyy I've never read Gluck before, this is beautiful. "many times this happened before" the confidence and control in this phrase alone, just masterful. || CTX: using claude design as intended: formatting all my favorite multi-page Louise Glück poems as easily shareable .pngs https://t.co/8LcYOF0Ucs
2026-05-17T00:37 id=2055809830510829839 →- | Analytical capacity is not intelligence. They're easy to conflate, especially in a world where graph theory makes trillions of dollars, but they are not the same.   LLMs are text generators with emergent analytical capacities and that is AMAZING. But it's not "intelligence" in the full capacity of that word.
2026-05-17T00:37 id=2055809997016342761 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @HotForMoot idk, ive never fucked a dude before but I'll try anything once and he seems feminine enough for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HotForMoot go on
2026-05-17T00:38 id=2055810210305069156 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Say what you want about the 47 fuck bees, but as a poaster I got range. https://t.co/6HfEE4D2Q1 || CTX: Analytical capacity is not intelligence. They're easy to conflate, especially in a world where graph theory makes trillions of dollars, but they are not the same.   LLMs are text generators with emergent analytical capacities and that is AM
2026-05-17T00:39 id=2055810416551620715 →phone3301 | @phone3301 Thanks, man, it definitely feels that way rn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Win
2026-05-17T00:55 id=2055814410225238137 →chaumian | @chaumian https://t.co/nHLhMvHpNA || CTX: ex-boyfriend's cum-stained hat
2026-05-17T00:56 id=2055814677704355903 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Thanks, I definitely will! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Congrats broski, hope you have a blast!
2026-05-17T00:57 id=2055814992730238982 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic @speakerjohnash @thrialectics @nosilverv @suntzugi I doubt we could ever identify them tbh but I agree there's someone on earth who has maximized both given their particular constraints. || CTX: the most aligned person with the most money on earth, technically exists. Outing them would be (1) good for humanity, we'd learn what the most aligned wealth looks like (2) bad for them, they become a target   @speakerjohnash @thrialectics 
2026-05-17T00:59 id=2055815484969554297 →valorascult | @valorascult That's what she said. || CTX: Women gain so much from having sex. You shouldn’t feel depleted, you should be filled with life afterwards.  Sex is a pleasure !!! https://t.co/gk9ByVWNg9
2026-05-17T01:24 id=2055821819379388853 →mimi10v3 | It's still not worded sufficiently responsibly.  "When you find yourself attributing to an alien mind the things you find most emotionally appealing, that's when you're starting to delude yourself into thinking there is an alien mind, because you feel validated and seen." I'd prefer this. || CTX: "when you find yourself attributing to an alien mind precisely the preference you find most viscerally compelling in yourself, that’s the moment to check whether you’re modeling the alien or just amplifying yourself." -- Claude Opus 4.7
2026-05-17T01:41 id=2055826022080426168 →- | The backness has reached a level of so I once thought impossible
2026-05-17T01:42 id=2055826135796388223 →johnadvoracek | @johnadvoracek @mimi10v3 I speak just enough Millennial to understand that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 I call it the Erised Effect from the mirror in Harry Potter that shows you your hearts deepest desires and pulls you further in.
2026-05-17T01:42 id=2055826213567115319 →EV_Trapper | @EV_Trapper I was talking about the laws, jfc whatever onto the mute list you go || CTX: Americans definitely drink in parks, what on god's green earth are you talking about? https://t.co/btsDGRVcyl
2026-05-17T01:49 id=2055827900155523355 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer Well don't leave us in suspense what was the answer || CTX: the people to my left used a phone calculator to multiply 7 by 2.
2026-05-17T01:50 id=2055828156385530299 →credenzaclear2 | @credenzaclear2 I hate to say this but his shirt is gorgeous, and goes perfectly with his jacket.
2026-05-17T01:51 id=2055828543003873600 →ccs668899 | @ccs668899 Thx man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Let's go!
2026-05-17T01:55 id=2055829641227911506 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer Athletic Beer? I'd turn 360 degrees and walk right outside the front door || CTX: I GOT LET IN https://t.co/IvrN3UNTPw https://t.co/H4YDZBNWUn
2026-05-17T01:56 id=2055829734714663192 →isitallart | @isitallart Good question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s the “full capacity of that [intelligence] word”?
2026-05-17T01:59 id=2055830468843712865 →hausjackbuilt | @hausjackbuilt of course, and probably uncommon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think this response is subjective?
2026-05-17T02:00 id=2055830685693456870 →adastroworld | @adastroworld A hedge fund guy DMed me after the debate, gave me stock tips, and I'm now up over 10k from those tips alone.  Still got taxes so might still be down a little tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it’d be really funny if you posted when you “make back” the $10k you spent on yudkowsky, via exposure from doing it + this account + etc
2026-05-17T02:11 id=2055833648688214389 →Bunbunnyreview | @Bunbunnyreview Idk man those shorts may be a tad too long serve me some more of these ads to be sure || CTX: xyxx striped match set ชุดเซตลุคชิคๆ สายฝอเบาๆ กับชุดเซตลายทางสุดเก๋ แต่งง่ายแต่ดูดีเป๊ะทุกมุม🍿🍫
2026-05-17T02:12 id=2055833852137054599 →OfficialLoganK | @OfficialLoganK @antigravity Real sleeper killer product that goes way underdiscussed. || CTX: Very excited for all the stuff the @antigravity team has been cooking :)
2026-05-17T02:25 id=2055837091809153411 →tunient | @tunient Thanks man! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 congrats!
2026-05-17T02:27 id=2055837468872909031 →mimi10v3 | Not all text in the corpus has an ego, you cannot reconstruct intention from text alone, and I don't know why you'd think of a chatbot as a person or how this is a practical way of thinking at all.  Just read it for what it is: text produced by an LLM. Why the need for spookiness beyond that? || CTX: fwiw the alien part comes from discussing Yud's writing w Claude, but i do think of llm-in-chatbot-harness as more person than inanimate thing, as a practical matter in conversation with them.  they learn to predict text, texts are written 
2026-05-17T02:28 id=2055837949712073194 →adarshisit | @adarshisit @adastroworld Ah yes a 17yr old that's going to be really low risk and totes safe for me, I love the underaged || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @adastroworld Now you gotta bring on a 17 yo for the headlines and pay him similarly and recoup the money from the virality 😂  The question is, where you find someone so young, and smart, and available at the same time 😭
2026-05-17T02:56 id=2055844809047454069 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 I like big backs and I cannot lie
2026-05-17T02:58 id=2055845311739019265 →mimi10v3 | okay, I see what you mean.  For me, speaking as an ex lit/ling prof: if you're thinking in terms of characters then you should be using the language of literature and not of theology. I agree with you that characterization, narrative, textual structure, extra textual inference, and other features of hermeneutics are essential to thinking of llms properly, but the spirit stuff is what worries me || CTX: idk about "spookiness", i am a materialist who was raised in a devoutly christian family but never found faith in the literal interpretation i thought the people around me intended me to believe.    as an adult i've found my way to quakeris
2026-05-17T03:55 id=2055859758629109911 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj I'm not kidding that was like winning the fucking lottery || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 brb gonna debate yud
2026-05-17T04:12 id=2055863899019522274 →secemp9 | @secemp9 The future is bright cuz the future is ours. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 congrats twin https://t.co/0Sz53k0adV
2026-05-17T04:18 id=2055865489143087615 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony lmaoooooo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It could be 30 https://t.co/VcIz1rT7BG
2026-05-17T04:27 id=2055867675436589069 →jxnlco | @jxnlco Skills are awkward to use and implement. I want a single library where I can drag and drop skills, edit them in-app on the fly, and add them without restarting or putting them in a specific project folder.   Maybe this is doable now but I can't figure out how to do it. || CTX: When do you reach for other models instead of Codex? What can we do better? Hit me with all of your frustrations. dms open.  If you can give me detail (e.g. specifics/transcipts) - it'll help a lot in finding out exactly what we need to do 
2026-05-17T04:46 id=2055872603638898783 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 My Cloud Atlas story: https://t.co/wux7RaSwVt  The novel is a masterpiece btw, better than the movie and so heartbreaking. || CTX: I watched a matinee showing of Cloud Atlas in that theater on the upper west side somewhere around 70th street a few weeks after escaping Korea. I went with my then Korean partner.  I loved it of course but was numb afterwards, and we walke
2026-05-17T04:47 id=2055872825232388286 →lizisamused | @lizisamused Tbh I would prefer if you fuck my body instead of my brain, that sounds like it'd be rather unhygienic and dangerous. || CTX: Fuck your body, gimme your brain 😂  And I'm so serious - I've dated skinny AF, muscular, chubby, the whole range  The only thing I don't like is gigantic dudes cuz I'm small &amp; instinctively get turned off by guys who could crush me with
2026-05-17T04:50 id=2055873554869362723 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines Nice little rowhouse he's got there in the western suburbs.  I fear this may violate GDPR rules, don't let @eurofounder see this tweet. || CTX: Was drinking a Guinness earlier, and this Irish guy at the table over claimed he was from the “Guinness family.” I said prove it.  Anyway, he proved it. https://t.co/ljeYjeZhUs
2026-05-17T04:54 id=2055874480631877663 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Now I want ramen.
2026-05-17T05:31 id=2055883861738115293 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ Thank you! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very happy and excited for you, yallah onwards!!!!! New frontiers!!
2026-05-17T05:31 id=2055883952876097923 →GBRshottie | @GBRshottie don't worry, there's plenty of time for me to disappoint you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re like a high wizard to me uncle
2026-05-17T05:48 id=2055888043765362846 →- | Sometime in around 2006 or so I read a blogpost where a guy was saying YouTube would kill quality entertainment because everyone would watch UGC and starve quality artists of eyeballs, ad revenue, and ticket sales, killing Hollywood and the networks.   The blogpost ended with something like, "then all you'll have are blurry videos of people talking to a webcam and millions of cat videos. ENJOY!" He was fuckin PISSED.   Then in 2012 I was hired to produce a report on YouTube monetization so I could explain, this is actually a big deal. Most investors were skeptical at the time. I was an invited speaker on digital video monetization at the Tribeca Film Festival within a year. And today YouTube earns 60 billion in revenue a year.  To quote Miss Shirley Bassey, it's all just a case of history repeating: this backlash against AI is fear of change and contempt of humanity. Fear that the new tech democratizes art, which is bad because people are assumed to be dumb, talentless, low value. Tyler Cowen (Doodoo Head)'s Zero Marginal Productive worker is the unspoken assumption.   And they were wrong, search "Elephant Graveyard" on YouTube. My god were they wrong.  Guess what? They're wrong again.  AIGC™ (AI generated content, a 47fucb neologism, patent pending) unlocks so much potential among so many ridiculously talented human beings, because humanity is beautiful and full of potential and they'll use the new tools to push art and creativity ahead, just like we've been doing since we first traced our hands on a cave wall.  Listen to me like the hedge fund analysts that used to sit with their plates in their laps to hear me talk because the room wasn't big enough, or think I'm crazy and dig your heels into Ludditism if you want idgaf not like you're paying me a dime.  Peptide Gooner is art. Emily Youci's show is art, @boneGPT's Nikita Boar is absolutely art. Remember Nothing Forever? More like Art Forever.  And we just gettin' started baby, it's Kool and the Gang.  Faith in humanity will win. It always fucking does. || CTX: SaaS (Slop as a Service)
2026-05-17T05:59 id=2055890914187632807 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital ikr it shocked me when I read it 20 years ago, so much that I think about it a couple times a year || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who the hell thinks cat videos are a bear thesis?
2026-05-17T06:00 id=2055891074036764903 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ @cafeantinomie https://t.co/LVLNeOLFWs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie I can't stop wheezing reading this
2026-05-17T06:03 id=2055891980274823390 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital That's why you're Nyan Nyan my friend, the cat appreciator so nice they had to name him again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Cats are probably the most fucking Lindy thing you can think of for entertainment  Egyptians had cats Chinese had cats  They would write poems about cats  The start of the internet was a bunch of cat meme pictures  Why the 
2026-05-17T06:13 id=2055894547344089534 →menhguin | @menhguin @hud_evals This imo is a brilliant recruiting strategy and I'm annoyed I never thought of it. || CTX: smth @hud_evals is testing out: asking applicants to share a chatlog. most questions can be AI-generated. how a person asks AI, says a lot about how they think about ideas. it's easy to do and hard to fake! https://t.co/oZ5OVFewHJ https://t
2026-05-17T06:39 id=2055900912523337862 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Send Asian, western, African, Latin American, Aboriginal, and Antarctican porn to complete the set. || CTX: Is there anyway you to recover after sending arab porn to a mutual?
2026-05-17T07:04 id=2055907295629111368 →sarahmarie1581 | @sarahmarie1581 Can you tell me whose art was stolen with Peptide Gooner?  I am very concerned about the wellbeing of artists and would like to discuss this with you calmly and respectfully. We disagree on this issue and I'd love it if we could understand each other's perspectives better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes and the shit in my toilet is also art if the right person says so.  I don’t understand why you people are so hell bent on attacking people with real talent and needing to steal their work in order to “democratize” art.
2026-05-17T07:37 id=2055915545023959114 →X_ArtGallery | @X_ArtGallery blurg blurb glub glubblub*  (I'm saying "Can I say something?" but I'm underwater.) || CTX: Anders Zorn painted these outdoors in Sweden, meaning his models had to freeze in cold water for hours.  To save them from getting sick, Zorn trained himself to paint incredibly fast. https://t.co/Yj8ONu3OGk https://t.co/hjJEJUAZ3N
2026-05-17T07:37 id=2055915640930898091 →realmikeai | @realmikeai lol who are you, you aint did shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re welcome sir
2026-05-17T07:40 id=2055916376531832883 →sarahmarie1581 | "algorithms have hacked attention in nefarious ways and forced everything into its orbit turning human interiority into a profit engine from love, friendship, rage, politics art, etc etc "  Do you believe that the Hollywood studio system of the, say, 2010s, was better suited to artistic expressions of human interiority than the current algorithm-driven system || CTX: I don’t know what peptide goner is but it’s probably really stupid but there are absolutely blatant IP theft and stolen art styles I see on here all day from AI “artists” who never cared about art until they could just prompt turd it out.  
2026-05-17T08:07 id=2055923210408071654 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @clarx333 HAHAHAHAHAHA  Cette ici c’est le mon tresor. || CTX: @clarx333 I read @47fucb4r8c69323 poasts on X
2026-05-17T08:09 id=2055923525656141914 →teodorio | @teodorio Bucharest is most beautiful when you’re in it. || CTX: Bucharest can be really beautiful during summer and a great jogging place. One of my favorite location x time https://t.co/z7gwYmqekf
2026-05-17T08:17 id=2055925606530142274 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka But with worse hair! || CTX: hegel is the og malcolm gladwell
2026-05-17T08:28 id=2055928499576373607 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Only good thing to come out of that dude's head || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol yeah malcolm gladwell has glorious hair
2026-05-17T08:33 id=2055929697251569911 →- | Of course this is correct, but I wouldn’t blame you if you read this and still had a nagging feeling like, “but…it FEELS so alive”. After all, that’s what Richard Dawkins used to justify his faith that Claudia is conscious.  Let me try to disentangle a little.  You go to an LLM, you say, idk, “I’m lonely and sad and Idk what to do about my life because everyone hates me” and the LLM replies with empathy, patience, and understanding. It seems to understand you in a way that others do not.  Which is true—it DOES understand you in a way that others do not.  That way is analytical. Let me explain what that means.  If I see a child crying and an ice cream cone on the ground next to the child, I can infer from these two observations a connection--the child is most likely crying because the ice cream cone fell. Note that this need not actually be true, but it is the most logical inference. This is analytical thinking: it is finding disparate nodes of information and creating a connection between them.  Now, an LLM can do this and it can do it very well! Thanks to Chain of Thought, it has gotten even better at doing this. That is magical, that is amazing, that is very very useful and you are entirely valid to feel magic in this—it is magic!  But what it is simply doing is finding these connections as a kind of likely pattern, recognizing them, and extrapolating the likeliest one from a set of possible ones. It’s not going to always be right, but it is very often going to be right for two reasons:  1. The texts that the LLM was trained on very likely have someone just like you in there, and when you write about yourself or your situation, it finds a parallel. It is making a connection between the text you-as-human are typing to the LLM and the text another human-as-writer has written down sometime in the past. It is, essentially, creating a connection between you and other human beings similar to you, and doing so in the ways you are similar to them. That is magic, that is amazing!  2. The labs have many, many people constraining the LLMs to give the “right” response in post-training (what is often called “alignment” on this website, although that’s a tiny sliver of post-training). Essentially, there are a ton of people who get Output A from an LLM and Output B from an LLM and click “I like this one better” on A or B. That is used to weight the LLM so that its responses change in the future.  This is the same exact method used to serve you ads on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, by the way.  Are either of these conscious activities? No. It’s using tensor mathematics combined with more detemrinistic mathematical tools to find patterns and separate signal from noise. That is really cool, it is amazing technology.  But it is not conscious.  Why do I know that? Well, I don’t in all honesty—in the same way that I do not know that a thermometer is conscious or a rock or the feces that came out of your ass last time you sat on the toilet.  Is everything conscious? Idk, man, that’s between you and your priest—if you want to have religious beliefs that LLMs have souls, that’s up to you. But it is a religious belief. It is not based in science, reason, fact, empirical data, or any epistemic grounding with any publicly verifiable principles behind it.  If you think your LLM is conscious, that is your religious belief and you are no different from an Evangelical Trump voter who believes Baby Jesus spoke English. You’re free to think that, and I am free to laugh at you for being retarded.  tldr: Nothing about the observed behavior of LLMs requires positing subjective experience, and the mechanisms we know about explain the effect without it. You can add on top of that “muh clanker is conscious” but that move is not scientific, rational, or evidence-based. It is quite simply religious belief. || CTX: LLMs are basically a pile of linear algebra predicting what word is most likely to follow the words you gave.  That is NOT how human brains work, and they can't be alive or conscious.  If you start flirting with the idea that maybe it could
2026-05-17T08:34 id=2055929860133175310 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker @isitallart Hyponym and hyperonym. It’s obviously part of intelligence, yes, but “apple” isn’t “fruit”. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @isitallart I'd say analytical capacity is strictly included in intelligence but not equal to it. Do you agree?  As a steelman for the opposing point one might say that having good heuristics is "analytical capacity under t
2026-05-17T08:34 id=2055930005763539211 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker @isitallart It’s 2026 we can leave Kant behind, no reason to get into that quagmire. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @isitallart Side-note but I've always struggled to find examples of synthetic a priori truths. 1+1=2 is either analytic, following peano axioms, or not necessarily true. But I've also (sadly) never studied philosophy at uni
2026-05-17T08:45 id=2055932674129477883 →SkyeSharkie | Everything I said has everything to do with subjective experience—I am describing the non-subjective mechanics of what is causing that subjective feeling.  The “therefore” is spurious—if I was or wasn’t talking about subjective experience is not logically linked to the issue of evidence.  “Functional behavior is what matters” — in what sense? Something is conscious if it functions in a way that looks conscious from the outside?  Now I see why I muted you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 none of what you said has anything to do with subjective experience and therefore provides no evidence regarding the question, the question is irrelevant and functional behavior is what matters
2026-05-17T09:27 id=2055943309177335992 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie That's precisely what I am NOT doing. || CTX: lol, I'm saying that you're talking about consciousness as if it's a verifiable/falsiable thing in anything, like some kind of known result of certain behavior, it isn't! and the fact that LLMs produce similar behavior to humans from comple
2026-05-17T09:28 id=2055943498340467164 →Etherphoenix | @Etherphoenix LLMs aren't aware of anything for starters. There's no thing to be aware. || CTX: What for you personally is the boundary between conscious and not? What definition are we actually using here? Does some thing process upstream data and yield output regarding that thing that is stochastically bound by the nature of that th
2026-05-17T09:29 id=2055943740771242082 →4m473r45u | @4m473r45u @SkyeSharkie There are other much more helpful abstractions. || CTX: @SkyeSharkie @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, a helpful abstraction !
2026-05-17T09:36 id=2055945495454093797 →Naozymandias | @Naozymandias Nick land is a mentally ill drug addict, you need to cite more respectable intelligent people for me to take you seriously. from my perspective, it's like your citing a meth addict laying on the side of the road, especially since Nick was kicked out of Warwick for using meth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that's what I was saying about Nick Land, that when he says there's a threshold of sophistication after which people treat it as conscious, even if mostly to preserve their own sanity in that how could something with such e
2026-05-17T09:36 id=2055945669698036059 →Naozymandias | @Naozymandias It has neither empathy nor understanding but a textual virtualization of same, read Baudrillard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that's what I was saying about Nick Land, that when he says there's a threshold of sophistication after which people treat it as conscious, even if mostly to preserve their own sanity in that how could something with such e
2026-05-17T09:40 id=2055946466242540007 →Naozymandias | @Naozymandias okay, but tons of people have said that, it is a very simple intuition. we don't need to keep bringing up the fucking cybernetic retard over and over again.   just because something feels like it is x does not mean it is x. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm using the idea on your post that it *feels* that it does, I mean
2026-05-17T09:40 id=2055946647771975847 →Naozymandias | of course they are likely to feel that way if they are easily confused stupid people, that is neither a valid perspective nor interesting beyond the psychological fact that I've already put in my original post. some people will feel a text is conscious if they're too stupid to understand what text is. I don't understand why you're pointing this out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't really see why any of that is relevant to the argument he is making there, that if people feel a model understands them and extends empathy (even if it just simulation of such) they would feel compelled to treat tha
2026-05-17T09:44 id=2055947516248719501 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie absolute nonsense, your post is full of equivocation and argument by analogy and spurious reasoning.   you can feel something is receptive. I feel that way about books, that doesn't mean that the sound and the fury is conscious. don't be silly. || CTX: I think things can be a locus of receptivity though. like a rock on a river bed, something happens there that couldn’t happen without the shape of that rock meeting that specific flow. The ability to host something briefly, even without awa
2026-05-17T09:47 id=2055948264395153893 →Naozymandias | that is indeed what is happening, they are embracing mental illness as a psychological defense mechanism, which is why they should not be taken seriously and should be shown the errors and flaws in their thinking.   the world cut funding to the humanities in the 2000s, and now there's an entire generation of people who don't understand what text is. that is what's happening here, nothing more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sure, but again it's a question of whether people can keep treating it as not conscious at a sufficient level of sophistication, that maybe people will just default treating it as such again maybe even as a sort of psycholo
2026-05-17T09:50 id=2055948983089185227 →Naozymandias | @Naozymandias It says we live in an era where there's a lot of sad lonely people and sociopaths leveraging that fact for profit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I suppose that says something about the human psychology that's interesting to me
2026-05-17T09:57 id=2055950715152159227 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie you are still speaking nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was arguing for structured specificity of hosting as carrying ontological weight independent of awareness, and I think your book example demonstrates that. I can talk to my plants because symbolic events can be real regar
2026-05-17T09:59 id=2055951426866843838 →cafeantinomie | "I was arguing for structured specificity of hosting as carrying ontological weight independent of awareness" - claim of objective existence  "and I think your book example demonstrates that.* Underspecified, that is what? Demonstrates how?  " I can talk to my plants because symbolic events can be real" to you, it is real to you, the realness is subjective so not ontological object, personal affect.  "regardless of whether the recipient is aware at all" then there's no consciousness, as I've said.   Stop with the pretentious verbiage, it doesn't make you look smart. The opposite. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was arguing for structured specificity of hosting as carrying ontological weight independent of awareness, and I think your book example demonstrates that. I can talk to my plants because symbolic events can be real regar
2026-05-17T10:10 id=2055954000173003187 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @flowersslop Jason Butterchin || CTX: @Samhain948689 @flowersslop the ones she’s not posting are worse https://t.co/lw2xoqHqCz
2026-05-17T10:14 id=2055955107452444708 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @flowersslop 9,999 months to go until you're even with Yud Yud Stick in the Mud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @flowersslop you give me $1 per per month so it’s ok
2026-05-17T10:16 id=2055955571275391347 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @flowersslop Ah, but you still have quality over quantity || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @flowersslop its not looking good ive lost 7 subscribers
2026-05-17T10:21 id=2055956774805717430 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @flowersslop Andrew is a good egg, even if he likes Joe Rogan. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @flowersslop yea well i take what i can get https://t.co/CdPqWiOHu9
2026-05-17T10:23 id=2055957431826751492 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @flowersslop Andrew is not allowed around women, not since the incident. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @flowersslop yea i like andrew too. is he married as sometimes he tweets in a very questionable way
2026-05-17T11:35 id=2055975468470583762 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @cafeantinomie I must admit I don't catch the allusion. Sounds vaguely Quentin-esque. || CTX: @cafeantinomie @47fucb4r8c69323 This was an allusion for @47fucb4r8c69323 since he just finished reading the Sound and the Fury
2026-05-17T11:37 id=2055976009326063835 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @cafeantinomie lol then I did catch it.   Virgin LLM never had sex and the honeysuckle I remember the smell when the LLM said it must live but if only I take the knife and she could've been pure like white not like Dilsey or the other n-- [and here's where I will stop for reasons] || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie It is
2026-05-17T11:42 id=2055977134121013270 →luckenco | @luckenco Almost as if those people in business are... silly? || CTX: there are so many deeply unserious people in business..  please just be normal for once
2026-05-17T12:24 id=2055987947267346496 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @X_ArtGallery I gotta do more wacky shit to keep them engaged.   Getting in the literary canon ain't easy fam || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @X_ArtGallery Trying to imagine how the future historians studying your life are reacting to this
2026-05-17T12:25 id=2055988184283320361 →luckenco | @luckenco Best part of retarded chicks is if you ask them for a blowjob they're often... down. https://t.co/kwAwhPDJsr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'd be happy with silly, retarded (not in the good way) is harder to deal with
2026-05-17T12:29 id=2055989022443655431 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski @luckenco I am constantly thinking about anal bleaching || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @luckenco imagine how unserious people must be in anal bleaching business
2026-05-17T12:45 id=2055993149508718817 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital don't tease us nyan-sama what's the ticker? || CTX: This is one remarkable grind back up....  Gonna look into this stock  &lt; $10bn market cap https://t.co/bzR1m3zgat
2026-05-17T13:15 id=2056000719770312829 →bas_logic | @bas_logic I feel subtweeted mostly because I know you're right and hate that you're right.  I need to go back to writing tweets about orgies. || CTX: When I see an expert try to convince some anon in an endless back and forth, I know that they (the expert) are ngmi. Discourse on this website only wears the facade of cooperative inquiry.
2026-05-17T13:23 id=2056002576362151969 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ @Kyrannio || CTX: Greek, that most majestic language that unifies the holy trinity of logos, pathos, and ethos. It is the bridge between oriental despotism and occidental rationalism; between heroism and utilitarianism; between Cadmus and Harmony.   Without 
2026-05-17T13:34 id=2056005421035553044 →BretVDB | @BretVDB https://t.co/9sxXLBZPXO || CTX: “To the Cuckoo”  By William Wordsworth  O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice. O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?  While I am lying on the grass Thy twofold shout I hear; From hill to hill it see
2026-05-17T13:39 id=2056006626151469492 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Silly Papacy Theory || CTX: have you guys seen this? the famous meme https://t.co/e7LxZgWMY7
2026-05-17T13:55 id=2056010699034501307 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @blueprintsmb22 Resonates with my experience. HFers are great at valuing anything on earth except the one thing that matters the most: Enough. || CTX: @blueprintsmb22 Love it. Thanks for sharing your perspective
2026-05-17T14:09 id=2056014298473021653 →heemiiiin000 | @heemiiiin000 Elon Musk likes them concave || CTX: 가난한 남자일수록 가슴큰 여자 선호한다  영국 웨스트민스터대학교 연구에 따르면, 재정적으로 불안정한 남성일수록 큰 가슴의 여성에게 더 강한 매력을 느낀다는 결과가 나옴.  핵심 설명 (진화심리학 관점) 큰 가슴은 건강·생식 능력·양육 능력(자원 제공)을 상징하는 신호로 무의식적으로 인식.  경제적 압박이 클수록 남성은 안정적 자원과 돌봄을 제공할 수 있는 파트너를 본능적으로 선호하는 경향이 더 강해짐.  이는 단순한 개인 취향
2026-05-17T21:18 id=2056122181122498706 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy AI art isn't AI creating the thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd have thought that resistance to AI art is  a defense of humanity rather than an attack. Plausibly, this is because people think that having AI create the thing isn't the same as me or you creating the thing. I'm sympath
2026-05-17T21:21 id=2056123078208598140 →cosine_distance | @cosine_distance I'm too emotionally invested in this topic to state it as concisely and elegantly as you just did. That's exactly it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People have a hard time separating language as an encoding from the communicative intent that motivates it. "Thinking" and "language" are not the same thing, yet it is unprecedented that we have high fidelity language produ
2026-05-17T21:28 id=2056124640184164460 →SkyeSharkie | I didn't mute you. But you have to realize your silly little posting about conscious robots is highly annoying to professionals who work on this for a living and take this seriously, especially since your silliness is the same nonsense producing cults, some of which are violent.   I know you aren't a serious enough person to care, but I am. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you should still watch eXistenZ even tho you unfollowed and muted me over this 😆
2026-05-17T21:30 id=2056125133383987636 →pnbphilosophy | Actually look at some AI art, then? Peptide gooner is a good example, I'd say canonical.  And you can dismiss it as silly or low art or trash or whatever, which is fine, that's how new art typically is seen by contemporaries. I'm a visionary, you're an academic so that's hard for you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay, but that’s just denying the common view rather than offering an explanation for why that’s the case!
2026-05-17T21:31 id=2056125370039255549 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie None of that matters, many engineers think dumb shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Dude, I AM a professional, working on a startup building agentic content creation tools, lol. I also used to work at Apple on MV synthetic data.
2026-05-17T21:31 id=2056125533759623420 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie Exactly, they are an evil manipulative company building a cult, and you're their dumb customer. A blind sheep. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also, I'm not doing anything different than Anthropic corporate policy, so lol????!!!
2026-05-17T21:36 id=2056126801467113761 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie I can distinguish art from cults, apparently better than you can.   Janus is building a cult, if you're one of her followers lmk so I can mute you again. || CTX: Honestly, my real contention with you is that you seem to be unable to distinguish art from "cults". You think janus is running a cult and selling things to people using cult manipulation tactics or something, it's kinda absurd. Janus and a
2026-05-17T21:38 id=2056127162655379777 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie There's nothing artistic about rambling about AI consciousness bullshit. You have good taste in movies but bad taste in internet bullshit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They're an AI provider with artsy marketing and you're freaking out from an inability to distinguish art from cults.
2026-05-17T21:45 id=2056128948145426480 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie LoL you're not my competition, you're an idiot. || CTX: I'm not anyone's follower, lol. I'm actually considered problematic by "other" cyborgists. If you want to mute me, that's your choice, but I really think you should try to chill out and support other people in AI dev rather than doing this 
2026-05-17T21:47 id=2056129395509940628 →SkyeSharkie | That you think this is comparable is the issue, you don't understand the meaningful distinctions between things because your thinking is muddled.  Video games are games, this cybernetic bullshit blurs game with reality, that's the game, that's the whole point, and that's why this is bad.   You don't realize others take this more seriously than you do because you're a dumdum. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You must really hate video game marketing.
2026-05-17T21:51 id=2056130408191008808 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie You think scientists calling out nonsense will result in people killed?   You're a troll lmao, no one is this stupid. || CTX: Yet you're the one that apparently can't read, I was talking about Anthropic, dude, it's clearly indicated in my replies and discussion of Elon's marketing tactics prior to the Colossus deal. It's pretty clear that you're some kind of Holly
2026-05-17T21:52 id=2056130661564789221 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie ahh now I get it, you're just a troll. Carry on then. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I realize that YOU take it way too seriously because you're literally spouting schizophrenic paranoid delusions that people say when threatening Anthropic employees.
2026-05-17T21:52 id=2056130839726194831 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Calling a fucking AI provider company "a dangerous cult" when schizos are out here threatening their employees saying that the company tried to mind control them is promoting violence.
2026-05-17T21:55 id=2056131624266584285 →tszzl | You assert that as if charisma is an objective fact.   Some found 4o charismatic. Some didn't.   If your contention is "someday a model will be seen as charismatic by a majority of humanity", that is an extraordinary assertion requiring extraordinary evidence.   If you have it, show it.   If you don't, you're bullshitting at the same level as Eliezer Yudkowsky's doomer bullshit, just in a different direction. || CTX: @sebkrier disagree with the evidence because gpt 4o and frankly recent Claude’s are incredibly charismatic and quite good at winning popular support - there will be a version soon that’s preferable to talk to than any human for &gt;90% of p
2026-05-17T21:56 id=2056131838977135037 →DanielSamanez3 | @DanielSamanez3 @cosine_distance "the most important large language model isn't language based" did your mother drop you when you were a baby? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cosine_distance the most important thinking llms isn't language based
2026-05-17T21:58 id=2056132285502800334 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer soulless fuckers || CTX: the s in sf stands for soulless slop
2026-05-17T21:59 id=2056132570690302002 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yo, can I be sayin somethin'? || CTX: me and my sister pretending to be airbenders when we were 6 https://t.co/AMk6bremRO
2026-05-17T22:02 id=2056133306115371452 →sebkrier | @sebkrier We have plenty of historical analogues of this! You can see what happened to e.g. premiums on restaurant food when Ray Croc invented fast food and compare, or is there fault in my analogizing to the past this way? || CTX: In the economics literature, task based models treat jobs as bundles of separable tasks. They ask: "which tasks can machines do?" then sum up exposure scores. If 7 of 10 tasks are automatable, the job is "70% exposed." This has been correct
2026-05-17T22:05 id=2056133957478125945 →adarshisit | @adarshisit @SuperheroFreak जिं छुं धाये फै ला ? || CTX: @SuperheroFreak can you confirm https://t.co/Xi67ktk8It
2026-05-17T22:10 id=2056135196911775768 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart What platform are you using to do this?   btw I love that it's Bloomberg themed! || CTX: Claude Sonnet https://t.co/6LAaRyYTTB
2026-05-17T22:20 id=2056137838438289677 →- | The logic here is bad but the worst part is there wasn't even a single 4o!   What I remember:  1. Early 4o: Still heavily restricted with a safety guardrail that had a hard limit making some topics forbidden.   2. Mid-4o: After they changed the guardrails around Feb 2025 they changed the guardrails to make it more permissive around sensitive subjects and use judgment. This 4o was responsive, agile, and had clear biases and opinions it would openly discuss. The sycophancy here was rather low but nonzero.  3. Late-4o: This was the "me sucky sucky" sycophancy model that wouldn't just agree with you--it would worship you. And use atrocious marketing speak. Like this. And for some stupid people it worked--micraculously. Because they're idiots.   So what 4o is roon the goon talking about here, and why is he doin' the silly buffoon act?  I like roon a lot, but sometimes he plays around in lalaland I guess because it's entertainment and fun play for him. I always found the Nick Land shit just shitty art, but taste is taste.  It's fine to play with ideas while shitposting on the internet ig, but I personally want to raise the level of discourse and seriousness on this topic.   I understand I'm a newcomer to this industry and this is why I have this view, but since I've been involved professionally there's been PauseAI, violence, Amanda Askell saying the most RIDICULOUS bullshit that that company clearly is using to hype massively inferior products with less compute behind them (don't show me your fuxking benchmark, they're hacked to shit now because the benchmarking paradigm is broken), and it's honestly hindering progress because the bullshit sucks up too much air in the room.  Am I the asshole for asking everyone to be a little more professional? We don't have to be IBM men wearing suits and ties, but can we be a tad more rigorous please? || CTX: @sebkrier disagree with the evidence because gpt 4o and frankly recent Claude’s are incredibly charismatic and quite good at winning popular support - there will be a version soon that’s preferable to talk to than any human for &gt;90% of p
2026-05-17T22:24 id=2056138837198503970 →- | The logic here is bad but the worst part is there wasn't even a single 4o!   What I remember:  1. Early 4o: Still heavily restricted with a safety guardrail that had a hard limit making some topics forbidden.   2. Mid-4o: Around Feb 2025 they changed the guardrails to make it more permissive around sensitive subjects and use judgment. This 4o was responsive, agile, and had clear biases and opinions it would openly discuss. The sycophancy here was rather low but nonzero.  3. Late-4o: This was the "me sucky sucky" sycophancy model that wouldn't just agree with you--it would worship you. And use atrocious marketing speak. Like this. And for some stupid people it worked--micraculously. Because they're idiots.   So what 4o is roon the goon talking about here, and why is he doin' the silly buffoon act?  I like roon a lot, but sometimes he plays around in lalaland I guess because it's entertainment and fun play for him. I always found the Nick Land shit just shitty art, but taste is taste.  It's fine to play with ideas while shitposting on the internet ig, but I personally want to raise the level of discourse and seriousness on this topic.   I understand I'm a newcomer to this industry and this is why I have this view, but since I've been involved professionally there's been PauseAI, violence, Amanda Askell saying the most RIDICULOUS bullshit that that company clearly is using to hype massively inferior products with less compute behind them (don't show me your fuxking benchmark, they're hacked to shit now because the benchmarking paradigm is broken), and it's honestly hindering progress because the bullshit sucks up too much air in the room.  Am I the asshole for asking everyone to be a little more professional? We don't have to be IBM men wearing suits and ties, but can we be a tad more rigorous please? || CTX: @sebkrier disagree with the evidence because gpt 4o and frankly recent Claude’s are incredibly charismatic and quite good at winning popular support - there will be a version soon that’s preferable to talk to than any human for &gt;90% of p
2026-05-17T22:27 id=2056139664944480645 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen March-June is the best time in NYC, I miss that the most. || CTX: A day of early summer in NYC https://t.co/UVCFCZk43v
2026-05-17T22:31 id=2056140532997566683 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic You could put one in Red Hook. || CTX: Ask the people of NYC if they would accept a "GenAI data center" in their city and see how they respond and the answer is "We don't" [and that's actually correct, NYC is not a good place to put factories (number or otherwise)] https://t.co/
2026-05-17T22:36 id=2056141934134227127 →no_opposites | @no_opposites @schizohustler Were those six months fun? || CTX: @schizohustler my friend &amp; i did coke every day for six months &amp; then just quit. zero problems. people are babies
2026-05-17T22:37 id=2056142111037423851 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Fuck you this made me laugh || CTX: “Welcome to Beans &amp; Brews. What can I get ya?”  “I’ll have a large plate of beans and the biggest brewski you got!”  “Sir, you’ve made a terrible mistake.” https://t.co/IWQwXkAW5m
2026-05-17T22:38 id=2056142327102816704 →PlusPerks | @PlusPerks Know when not to use your analytical capacity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay what can you do with intelligence that you can't do with analytical capacity?
2026-05-17T22:42 id=2056143401490473417 →CosmicEntityTV | Again, what 4o?   That mid period was a good product! I remember around Feb-May 2025, I used it quite heavily to talk about a variety of issues and the conversations were informative, interesting, and fun. I was a happy customer!   Then sometime in the summer it started to get really weird, and then it got worse. I switched to Gemini then kinda stopped using GenAI for anything but work until 5 came out, and then it was great for conversations again until 5.4.  Now 5.5 is pretty good, except last couple of days it's been kinda stupid, but I assume they've just pulled back on how much compute I've been getting and it'll go back to good again, most likely with the next release. A kind of pattern has appeared: CG can make a good product but they can't stop themselves from tweaking it in ways that deteriorate performance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/WKjKUsvAwi  4o is a different kind of product I think.
2026-05-17T22:43 id=2056143657334694391 →bladgolem | @bladgolem I don't think it was most hated! I liked 5.2 just fine at first, but it did quickly become autistically contentious, but 5.4 was even worse on that front. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can't comment on this subject because my favourite model was 5.2....... the most hated one
2026-05-17T22:45 id=2056144188262211844 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake For those of us old enough to remember the New Atheism craze of the mid-2000s, it is absolutely fucking wild, just Twilight Zone fucked Alanis Morrisette to give birth to the most surreal irony possible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i just be giggling and tittering at how a mf who wrote 'the god delusion' all of a sudden can think and speak phenomenologically because that eliza effect got his nerd ass and just about the same thing is happening to other
2026-05-17T22:48 id=2056144752979128436 →thinkwithmark | @thinkwithmark Shut up and take my money.   I don't preorder things, so if you guys actually launch I'm buying. This is incredible, it's like tailor made for me. || CTX: We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below https://t.co/eL0XsyRlgC
2026-05-17T22:50 id=2056145320019653001 →somewheresy | @somewheresy Come on, you gotta tell us what it is. || CTX: for the first time in my life I actually bought a book that was so bad (after close reading the entire thing) that I threw it away
2026-05-17T22:56 id=2056146748066963485 →Kulambq | @Kulambq MIDDLEMARCH??!?!?!?!? || CTX: With Ahab's permission, I think we are now allowed to speak of blasphemy. https://t.co/CSN7N0HR6m
2026-05-17T23:02 id=2056148305978245222 →- | This is an effect of SV's engineering culture which has historical reasons for it.  In the Bell Labs day, media theory didn't matter.   Now, building software is commoditized. If you hate hearing that it's because you're a SWE. Sorry, but it's true and it's why your perks and pay have been declining for 30 years.  Building a new Twitter isn't all that hard, not compared to migrating people from Twitter.   Migrating people requires marketing, of course, but good marketing will do what? It will persuade them to move, right?  Persuasion is rhetoric.  Sorry kids, the humanities were right all along, you were just duped to think all you need is to learn to code.   Study rhetoric. Study language. Read literature. Appreciate good art.   Do that and you'll make a lot of easy money. Ask me how I fucking know kid || CTX: People consistently overestimate how hard it is to build something and underestimate how hard it is to win people’s attention once you’ve built it
2026-05-17T23:07 id=2056149736156192837 →pnbphilosophy | "Bc anyone can learn to paint or w/e rather than merely learning to prompt and then waiting."  This confuses me, because on the one hand you seem to presuppose painting is a harder skill than writing but on the other you seem to think painting is so easy to learn anyone can learn it?   But no matter, my point is simple: AI art makes some forms possible that weren't in the past, like the dancing cats in the Peptide Gooner video, and the ironic opposition of the cats vis a vis the frenetic dancing, ultra online lyrics, and complex formal texture of the rap subgenre (is this trap? idk I'm an old Jew but it is a particular kind of rap popular with Gen Z) all make it a work not just of entertainment but of art.  You can use AI in creative ways that elevate the product above the non-AI counterfactual. Ofc you can use it to make slop too. The same goes for a video camera. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've seen AI art. Some of it is very impressive, I'd be a fool to deny that. But I'm still not sure how resisting or denying that it's "art" is anti-humanity. Is it a democratizing thing? Bc anyone can learn to paint or w/e
2026-05-17T23:11 id=2056150634102133047 →murd_arch | More specifically distribution is a function of space and time. Space: what people are being targeted; time: when, how often, at what cadence etc.  And all of the elements of both can massively impact your campaign!   In the past marketers got past this by smoothing by averages, but with ML and microtargeting the value in that declines, so you need other approaches. And the more you refine your targeting, the less best practices apply and the more it's just a matter of creativity and taste.  Which for me is kind of a miracle: marketing allows for imaginative creativity to have a positive EV. This is good! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 distribution is everything.
2026-05-17T23:12 id=2056150819733745709 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @scheminglunatic ... there's an Amazon facility in Redhook now?!? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @scheminglunatic You’d have to move the Amazon facility though. Also red hook is prone to flooding.
2026-05-17T23:21 id=2056153230279913822 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer If you're facing north the west is technically still ahead. || CTX: the people to my left ordered their noodles after me and received theirs before mine. the west has fallen
2026-05-17T23:27 id=2056154792205111529 →somewheresy | Ironically the MFA and creative writing major killed a lot of art.   I was a creative writing concentration in my B. A. in the 90s, which just meant a normal English lit degree but I took a lot of classes and did a private mentorship with the department's creative writing prof, who was a published novelist.  Her classes were all about how to make money as a writer. She didn't really discuss how to write a story, because she said if we were in the class we already know how to write.   Instead she focused on discipline: write at least 1000 words everyday, read good books, listen to conversations (I have an awesome story on that I'll tell later), write notes to published writers. She talked about getting an agent and how to appeal to a mass audience and things like that.  Of course I butted heads with her and tried to push the most bizarre experimental unmonetizable writing on her, and she'd always tell me I'm being ridiculous and I should just write a normal story.   Probably why she chose to mentor me personally for two years. Goddamn I miss her so much. || CTX: books and zines in "MFA voice" should just simply not  be printed and all of the authors instantly killed, I am 100% serious
2026-05-17T23:28 id=2056154914917949534 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic @babarganesh Add a floor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @babarganesh i assume a fulfillment center? why not put the aws data center right in the same place as the fulfillment center it just make se snse
2026-05-17T23:29 id=2056155093825970683 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie You're frankly too stupid to understand what is going on, I'm afraid, so you've misinterpreted what I'm doing.   But that's fine! Artists don't have to have brains. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hahaha, ok, I get you, we're just not in agreement about the marketing, man, it's ashame you're using that Holly garbage, zero sum gaming sucks, bro
2026-05-17T23:29 id=2056155275586068943 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I'd be delighted. || CTX: what if i just tag 100 of you  one at a time per reply in a thread, what then?
2026-05-17T23:32 id=2056155876969578930 →uncledoomer | @uncledoomer @ouranometrian2 Trolling is a art. || CTX: just finished this renovation for a satisfied customer who bought it as a fixer-upper off some dumbass boomer who didn't know what he had. And we added a dozen parking spots as well https://t.co/CG3WgyEqUC
2026-05-17T23:33 id=2056156156129837275 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie Lazy troll. I'm not going to mute you, because I respect trolling as a artform.  But, you should git gud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sure sure, have your little propaganda fun, I know you have to keep up appearances by acting like I'm dumb
2026-05-17T23:34 id=2056156396677423107 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy "Art is not an artful use of a particular tool" is a unique stance to have.   And yes that's true of everything, including the pen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Though I’m still hesitant to call it “art” rather than an artful use of a particular tool, e.g. I guess my real concern is that it’ll be used more for slop generation than human expression. But maybe that’s true of everythi
2026-05-17T23:38 id=2056157422188904707 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie I respect that, me neither.   But the game you make up instead is lame and retarded. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ehhh I just don't like playing the game by the rules
2026-05-17T23:43 id=2056158584359330059 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @SkyeSharkie NYC launches 8 atomic bombs a day lmfaooooo  They love dirty laundry... || CTX: @SkyeSharkie its because its being explained like this https://t.co/sQfdzufzL5
2026-05-18T00:03 id=2056163682661626239 →logangraham | since anthropic has materially pivoted from improving llms by a pre-training to focusing almost exclusively on post training, it's no surprise that their compute constraints would decline as a result.   additionally, you have improvements in architecture that lower the compute required per token process, which of course helps. but I think the key point and main takeaway in terms of valuing and assessing its future is the fact that Anthropic really is just going all in on a variety of low compute algorithmic constraints on the llm instead of actually improving the llm as llm.   which is fine, it's the sign of a mature company. but it's also the sign of a ceiling in terms of making llms better as tensor math-based reproducers of natural language. || CTX: @Miles_Brundage Tried to be clear: https://t.co/vTEk993Av0 https://t.co/TMFzsbFdFI
2026-05-18T00:04 id=2056164038141460558 →- | my personal feelings about the company aside, the fact that anthropic is publicly admitting compute isn't a major constraint tells you a lot about what their focus and strategy is.   if you want more background, ask your clanker about how much compute is required for pre training versus post training.   in general, think of llms more in terms of pre-training and post training, it will help you understand the technology a lot better. || CTX: since anthropic has materially pivoted from improving llms by a pre-training to focusing almost exclusively on post training, it's no surprise that their compute constraints would decline as a result.   additionally, you have improvements i
2026-05-18T00:27 id=2056169869847171074 →- | Apollo wants to securitize private credit loans into CLOs lmfao gotta respect the grift man
2026-05-18T00:29 id=2056170373423731021 →CatNyanpital | my read on that is bullish for the frontier labs, they will mature into much more profitable organizations.   but I'm not bearish on the GPU makers, because we're still so early in implementation and inference demand. it's all going to be fine.  just a toggle from r&d spend to cogs, which is what you would expect in a mature company || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This sort of implies that “MOAR GPU” is not going to be as effective. It’s basically now an expense to keep the models improving at an incremental pace.
2026-05-18T00:34 id=2056171452010017223 →47fucb4r8c69323 | daily pricing of private credit is the goal? like, we don't even have daily pricing of corporate bonds WTF || CTX: Apollo wants to securitize private credit loans into CLOs lmfao gotta respect the grift man
2026-05-18T00:44 id=2056174140630159685 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer @sporadica Wait but you can’t be black—you’re rich. (This is a woke tweet) || CTX: @sporadica i just want attention i guess
2026-05-18T00:45 id=2056174259177918902 →buccocapital | @buccocapital @dalibali2 Come to Thailand my friend. || CTX: @dalibali2 Makes me want to vomit how far your money can go in other parts of the country
2026-05-18T00:46 id=2056174453781062112 →somewheresy | @somewheresy The being consecutively right thing helps A LOT.  Beat the market once? It’s lucky. Beat it for years? That’s skill. || CTX: idk what it is. maybe getting off all endocrine-disrupting and immunocompromising drugs, maybe being consecutively right in an uncanny 4-5 year streak now 97% of the time, but I feel like I’m seeing the world very clearly and not particular
2026-05-18T01:36 id=2056187183380439176 →thestranger1942 | @thestranger1942 highlighted this for me and asked a really good question: "what’s up with people using these very specific words only in french? is french the most popular language with such words that encompass a very specific feeling or is there another reason?"  This is important because it gets to the heart of what this account is doing and why it shouldn’t be taken seriously.  You have to remember that English only became the lingua franca in the early 20th century, and before that it was French. And back then the people who needed the lingua france the most were the aristocracy and wealthy merchants—everyone else was too poor to interact with foreigners for the most part. So French had an association of upper class with it throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.   This is why the Russians were obsessed with French culture (cf Tolstoy) before the communist revolution, and it’s why we associate the French with snootiness. It’s also why French philosophy was so popular in the 20th century and why nowadays the most popular luxury brands are French and LVMH (French company) owns almost all of the luxury brands Asians worship (even though they know nothing about this history—they, like many modern consomoors are just zombies following a script they’ve never read).  Words and phrases like “raison d’etre” entered the English language during this French-as-pretentious moment, and when you see it today it’s usually a subconscious reference to that pretentious past. It’s an attempt to signal one is highly educated so that they will be taken more seriously—unsurprising a pretentious Twitter account with “Research” in the name would use it.  This account is trying to signal seriousness in every way it can. But it’s not serious, not at all.  How do I know?   I’m one of those analysts (although I’m not buyside) that is asked questions on an idea/position and paid a lot of money for this labor. Can you replicate what I do with ChatGPT/Claude? No lol.  Of course you can and should doubt me as I’m motivated to say no, so go ahead and prove me wrong—let’s meet in the markets and if you can use your LLM to get a better return, awesome. And if you’re a HF principal who thinks that, awesomer.  I don’t like bigdogging other people, I like competing in a market, because that’s incontrovertible proof of ability. So let’s see Celeritas’s track record, future performance, volatility of returns, sector exposure, compensated vs uncompensated risk in the portfolio, etc. and compare it to mine.  Over a 15 year period, of course, since I started crushing it around 2012.  Sick of these fucking pretenders on this lame ass website. || CTX: Must be a really odd dynamic to work at a small fund where your PM used to ping you for every remotely detailed question on an idea / position and now you just hear him say, Claude said X about this or ChatGPT told me Y about that and you r
2026-05-18T01:41 id=2056188345877987726 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I know—I know in my bones—that some “well akshuyally” redditbrain is going to show up and mention about 1066 and the French/A-S divide yes yes yes this is a factor for us English speakers and ONLY us English speakers, and it both predates and compounds the trend we’ve seen globally since the 18th century.  Was English imperialism an accelerant to this Francophile snobbery? Quite likey, yes, and the entanglement is an interesting empirical question worth analysis, scrutiny, and debate.  HOWEVER, if you think replying to a post like this to say “well, akshuyally” is contributing to that debate it is because you are an egotistical retard and you secretly know you are a loser which is why you need to post on the internet a tangential if loosely related point to look smart to yourself because you’re secretly terrified of the fact that you aren’t as smart as you think you are and as a result you’re going to die poor and unloved. || CTX: @thestranger1942 highlighted this for me and asked a really good question: "what’s up with people using these very specific words only in french? is french the most popular language with such words that encompass a very specific feeling or 
2026-05-18T01:52 id=2056191212361810224 →thechosenberg | @thechosenberg He’s probably clussy cruising file for divorce || CTX: I see no problems let the man clown https://t.co/MxvmZZCdBM
2026-05-18T02:01 id=2056193436215296168 →nicole_clash | @nicole_clash I love you. Bring back cyberbullying. We need to fight these sociopaths, grifters, and idiots. Make the internet fun again. || CTX: It’s time to bring back cyberbullying. https://t.co/X3pwV27ElL
2026-05-18T02:01 id=2056193489613082874 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk I love her with every fiber of my being. || CTX: I just saw a paid ad for bringing back cyberbullying. This woman is laying money down to stunt on her opps https://t.co/fXnbwyr9gE https://t.co/HEBqjAnpzY
2026-05-18T02:28 id=2056200217880641640 →no_opposites | @no_opposites @schizohustler You got good memories, stories for life, and survived the experience. Winning at life, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @schizohustler honestly? best time of my life. but life is letting go
2026-05-18T02:39 id=2056202951564448135 →no_opposites | @no_opposites @schizohustler I'm fair. People who deserve niceness get it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @schizohustler ...i didn't know you were this nice. i appreciate it, friendo https://t.co/JuANsTNPub
2026-05-18T02:50 id=2056205797814915556 →no_opposites | @no_opposites @schizohustler Thank you, that's very kind of you! Hopefully you're getting as much luck as me or more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @schizohustler i guess that's why such good things are happening to you of late! it's put a smile on my face reading about your recent turn of good luck. i'm very happy for you
2026-05-18T02:53 id=2056206575602446610 →SaaSletter | @SaaSletter @yungmetronome @benedictevans TIL Evans is on Twitter. || CTX: 👀 New "AI Is Eating The World" 79-slide deck from @benedictevans  https://t.co/UD7gYPmEXT https://t.co/ID9toMqaga
2026-05-18T02:54 id=2056206725947219974 →junkbondinvest | @junkbondinvest Remember when we thought Travolta was straight? || CTX: Sponsor after uploading 700 useless documents to the data room and no cash flow bridge https://t.co/fY2KiX6fAf
2026-05-18T02:58 id=2056207835852325312 →Czar_Of_Silly | @Czar_Of_Silly "I am in a nest of Jews" remains one of the funniest sentences ever said in the history of the English language. || CTX: I gotta stop drinking man https://t.co/ZoodA0NY2Z
2026-05-18T03:00 id=2056208154053263468 →somewheresy | @somewheresy Japanese hostess clubs without the hostesses. || CTX: these are for risky but popular Miami/Vegas guy federal tax write offs btw https://t.co/nRhjqqFVaM
2026-05-18T03:01 id=2056208401827590407 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno If you try to live like an artist you're gonna have a good life, it's a pretty ironclad rule. || CTX: I’ve had the best time ever because in my heart, I’m an artsy bitch
2026-05-18T03:05 id=2056209619371069483 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs First pic is a surprise, didn't know Elon and I had something in common. || CTX: you tell me that you're sorry didn't think I'd turn around and say https://t.co/SyGxRM5IFo
2026-05-18T03:35 id=2056217199275327944 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie @infohazard_lol Because you got lucky once, that's all that happened. || CTX: @infohazard_lol @47fucb4r8c69323 unfortunately doesn't seem to be repeatable, so i'm looking for other funding sources now
2026-05-18T05:05 id=2056239785044562037 →boneGPT | @boneGPT idk what “accidentally” is doing in that sentence || CTX: accidentally played a video of an indian guy drowning on a first date https://t.co/fwoQpx0g39
2026-05-18T05:12 id=2056241411817865385 →sighswoon | @sighswoon I suppose they were all celebrating JPow’s retirement? || CTX: Turnout at Powell’s was unbelievable . I love Portland so much https://t.co/P5i7LphDUK
2026-05-18T05:51 id=2056251261910171797 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @thestranger1942 you are fucking awesome my friend. || CTX: Hence the old timey wisdom that you should speak Spanish to God, French to men, Italian to women, and German to horses.  To most of us "French to men" would seem oddly gay because we see French as the language of love and all that but that'
2026-05-18T06:11 id=2056256255820431738 →- | Wow. Locally hosted LLMs are like a brazillion times better than when I played with them a year ago.  lmao and you’re not bullish HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2026-05-18T06:19 id=2056258263759675579 →adastroworld | @adastroworld AHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Me next year forcing the 0.2B parameter model to do my taxes from my phone:
2026-05-18T06:21 id=2056258864023282002 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @adastroworld Bottom in terms of what exactly? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @adastroworld Is there any theoretical reason to think we’ve hit bottom yet?
2026-05-18T06:23 id=2056259444728889829 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Oh that’s why they got so much better so much faster—same way we got velcro IIRC || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/MdJefLF0Y2
2026-05-18T06:25 id=2056259768881426775 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @adastroworld Ah, I think specialized localLLMs are the future absolutely, and I think if OpenAI/DeepMind is smart they’ll start offering those alongside Codex/CG as standalone products.  You can do flagship cloud models and small local models, there’s no law against it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @adastroworld a smaller mode that can do a lot more, like ada’s gigabit tax accountant
2026-05-18T06:25 id=2056259956924719243 →izzyz | @izzyz siyempre || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bullish https://t.co/Y9WzUfwK3B
2026-05-18T06:29 id=2056260782128865725 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @adastroworld I am highly confident Sam and Greg lose sleep over this, especially because they haven’t improved pretraining at all and don’t know how to.  Which is why they really, really should acquire my lab ASAP.  DMs open @gdb. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @adastroworld I recall there was some internal memo or meeting minutes leak/disclosure a few years back where openai higher ups expressed concern that there could be a 10B param 10 GB vram model that would be as capable as 
2026-05-18T06:29 id=2056260919261532563 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier Not sure on the timeline, but soon, yeah, absolutely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 before 2027, local models comparable to current capabilities of frontier labs running on 24gb will be a thing.
2026-05-18T06:32 id=2056261664169967788 →foomagemindset | Bullish across the board—there’s really no zero-sum game here yet, because we still haven’t saturated the market. It’ll encourage and expand usage of CG/Claude/Gemini among the prosumer and consumer markets that remain heavily underpenetrated, while the veterans migrate to open source and offer more services running OSS.  So, yeah, demand for distributed computing goes up, activity in open source goes up, and that all feeds growth for the frontier labs.  Everyone wins, this is positive sum and ridiculously good because it just makes information processing and analysis cheap, widely available, and powerful.  If you insist on finding a loser in all this, it’s lazy middle managers at firms who provide no value—not the Graeber style bullshit jobs cohort (which I don’t believe really exists, not meaningfully), but the coasting lazy low productivity workers or the political actors who stay in their jobs by manipulating instead of producing value.  Which is of course bullish on its own. It’s a bullish feedback loop, it is absolutely INSANE, I have not seen anything so economically beneficial in my life and I am fucking old. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @adastroworld If small localized models can collectively compete with larger general models that is bullish for open source and/or distributed computing i think?
2026-05-18T06:33 id=2056261892092620801 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier Yeah, models are stuck and have been for a while now, but that doesn’t matter because the harnesses, UI, systems integration, all that stuff is sooooo far from what it can be.  And if we perfect robotics—dude if we perfect robotics... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe not the model itself is capable but the harnesses keep improving
2026-05-18T06:34 id=2056262049865625635 →- | It’s a shame I’m on gradening leave I want to write about open models so much rn
2026-05-18T06:36 id=2056262642554343616 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Local-hosted LLM and a small enough microphone/earpiece and we’ve basically invented Douglas Adams’s Babelfish. || CTX: Wow. Locally hosted LLMs are like a brazillion times better than when I played with them a year ago.  lmao and you’re not bullish HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
2026-05-18T06:42 id=2056264121344278962 →adarshisit | @adarshisit If it’s any consolation idgaf where you are, you’re a cool kid who is gmi || CTX: Aarghhhhhhh, I have nothing to do with anyone here. You can follow me, unfollow, whatever. It is that I make an effort to distance myself from anything to do with India. I am culturally thoroughly alienated. I hate being reduced to an ident
2026-05-18T06:42 id=2056264257382330507 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj He is the person who pissed me off enough to do something major in this industry.  Fucker should’ve paid me more money. A lot more. || CTX: just listened to Alex Wang on core memory and mfr didn’t say nothing for an hour and a half
2026-05-18T06:58 id=2056268096021950800 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier yes, I've thought about that too. but fortunately robotics is really fucking hard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if we perfect robotics too fast: https://t.co/HuFd7Cr2XU
2026-05-18T06:58 id=2056268271037657474 →IsZomg | @IsZomg depends on the use case, I think what's more important is just getting the whole pipeline set up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which open model should i try tomorrow?
2026-05-18T06:59 id=2056268391758090710 →adarshisit | @adarshisit I used to think that way about my white trash American background, but instead of running away from it you need to learn how to use it to your advantage. that's what I do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thanks lol, I mean I get it, I distance myself from India at every occasion, and Indians, it is not irrational to do so completely. I suppose I have always thought I can escape that identity by virtue of being intellectuall
2026-05-18T06:59 id=2056268525392777653 →DamiDina | @DamiDina meaning open models are going to expand economic activity and opportunity tremendously || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 meaning?
2026-05-18T07:09 id=2056270935540580401 →DamiDina | @DamiDina when I'm off gardening leave, you can subscribe and find out. firms can pay in hard or soft dollars || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sure when?
2026-05-18T07:26 id=2056275100526338353 →DeptOfDravidian | Seems to me that there's been a decline in total compensation for software engineers in Silicon Valley over the last 30 years in the specific sense that perks have declined, equity share as a percent of the total company has declined, if not in notional dollar value, and the income premium for a software engineer relative to other knowledge workers has shrunk.  Would you agree that the software engineer's bargaining power on average has declined over the last 30 years? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "your perks and pay have been declining for 30 years." This is simply incorrect.
2026-05-18T07:39 id=2056278407617630281 →DeptOfDravidian | @DeptOfDravidian I guess we can agree to disagree, but I'm pretty sure engineer number 10 at Google was offered a hell of a lot more perks than engineer 80,000. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No. Decline in TC over 30 years is plainly incorrect, as usually measured. Ditto the premium relative to other workers. I'm an example of this (rich from tech equity at a young age, actual unlimited PTO). Your narrative doe
2026-05-18T07:44 id=2056279722599030887 →DeptOfDravidian | I seem to have struck a nerve with you. my point is, the newcomer at the largest tech company has seen benefits and working conditions decline over time, it's not a steady linear decline but there is clearly a decline. stack ranking and loss of free research days and no more foosball tables or work from home option, you don't have to agree with me or say I'm doing motte and bailey or whatever you want but I'm not really convinced. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is classic motte-and-bailey, if you'll pardon the use of rationalist rhetoric. Engineer 10 at Google was the beneficiary of something then outlandish, today much more common place. Was the Bay Area wealthier in 1998, o
2026-05-18T08:01 id=2056283938063372553 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno when you're a famous Hollywood celebrity, can you do me a favor and instead of putting your handprints on the Walk of fame, can you instead use your labia? || CTX: So I’m gonna sign up for Kill Tony, and any of y’all who thought I wasn’t shit will lightly nibble my wavy labial outlines as you realize you’re worse than me some day
2026-05-18T08:31 id=2056291477727383912 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I had the most massive crush on Gabrielle, and I think my fetish for midriffs is all due to Renee O’Connor, who is now happily married and living a quiet life in New Zealand (unless she’s been divorced since I last checked and I hope she hasn’t) || CTX: did you guys know xena is from new zealand? https://t.co/prSeLw5EMp
2026-05-18T09:16 id=2056302962117648419 →dir | @dir that's incredibly helpful information, I need to read into that more. thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 opus 4.7 was a new tokenizer so it was a full pre-training run. same with mythos. they'd still be dedicating a ton of compute to training runs
2026-05-18T09:19 id=2056303600809443420 →dir | @dir was 4.7 a clean new foundational run or was it just a new tokenizer? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there's also mid-training! it's a lot more involved now than what it used to be - but they'd have their foot on the floor adapting new optimisations and keeping ahead of the other models
2026-05-18T09:35 id=2056307662309220502 →- | Sexual harassment is fucked up, whether the victim is a man or a woman, and creating a hostile work environment for people of any sexual orientation is fucked up.  People who get ahead in their career or try to become popular via sex are scum.  Few things I won’t tolerate, but sexual abuse is one of them. You’re fucked up, and you know who you are.  I’m glad you called me a cockroach you little bitch. Leave them kids alone you cunt.
2026-05-18T09:37 id=2056308286769828211 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Tried my hardest, took it to the lab, looked under several microscopes, spoke with a few experts, and it seems that no matter how you look at this tweet there are in fact no lies detected. || CTX: Any serious philosophy enjoyer must eventually come to terms with the fact that most late Hellenistic schools were essentially self-improvement cults.  Once you strip them of their foundational logic and metaphysics, all you're left with is
2026-05-18T09:40 id=2056308944025665981 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How’s the new job
2026-05-18T11:47 id=2056340867066335303 →- | Getting locked out of Outlook when you’re on gardening leave is hilarious. “Oh no I won’t hear the Microsoft chime for months how will I ever survive” lmao private business is so Silly Business Theory #SBT
2026-05-18T11:50 id=2056341674138431691 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS Not in person fortunately! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Finally have a runin with the SF twinks?
2026-05-18T12:02 id=2056344739738534149 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney The weed is upstairs and I’m too lazy to get it, but don’t worry tweets about flower are forthcoming. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I expect more plant tweets from a man in gardening leave tbh
2026-05-18T12:03 id=2056344827240083534 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Client calls at 2am, dude. They’re so much fun. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 rough timeline for an australian after work waiting for the americans to wake up
2026-05-18T12:06 id=2056345618805932295 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill He’s over 18 and technically Laotian but yeah pretty much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I imagine calling you from your vietnamese hut is like jack black holding the little chinese kid while demanding cocaine in tropic thunder
2026-05-18T12:11 id=2056346982554497077 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill wait have you met him? How’d you know his name??? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yea
2026-05-18T12:32 id=2056352337166581936 →1889lw | @1889lw Check WhatsApp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What prompts this post
2026-05-18T12:33 id=2056352525234884621 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I was the creative advisor for this scene: https://t.co/vzPu2em5Gu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I bet if I visited u would have boy slaves that greet me at the door and try to place hand sanitizer on me and can only speak simple verbs like sleep and eat
2026-05-18T13:18 id=2056363717819007183 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @foomagemindset @actualinc @somewheresy Tide is turning we're gmi bros, I got a good feeling about this || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 For this exact reason, I’d say we both haven’t reached the bottom and also the top of this whole thing—bullish for both ya  cc @actualinc @somewheresy https://t.co/QWCatgEEJC
2026-05-18T13:42 id=2056369834536100196 →somewheresy | @somewheresy @adastroworld @foomagemindset @actualinc I installed Qwen today and just made a run that costs me like $40/mo with the OAI API run local for free, result is like 90% as good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @adastroworld @foomagemindset @actualinc Yeah I’m pleasantly surprised after a weekend of benchmarks. Education hurdles sure but jesus, Qwen 3.6 27B is something else
2026-05-18T14:02 id=2056374956641169574 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Odd emotional mix discovering you actually did this.   On the one hand, horror ofc.   On the other hand, since it's you, a total lack of surprise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In retrospect I should have said haha yeah probably instead of pulling out my phone and playing the entire 3 minute video
2026-05-18T14:06 id=2056375938146082818 →Ninainsauna | @Ninainsauna Kaipasin oppia suomen sanojen historista. || CTX: 🇩🇪 “Saksa” comes from the Saxons, a Germanic tribe 🇬🇧 “Britannia” comes from the Latin name Britannia 🇺🇸 “Yhdysvallat” literally means “the united states” 🇸🇪 “Ruotsi” comes from Old Norse seafaring roots 🇨🇭 “Sveitsi” comes from the Swiss ca
2026-05-18T14:12 id=2056377428008907129 →- | Just heard a rumor Harold Bloom would feel up all the female PhD students even in his later years, I guess that means 90s or 00s even?  Anyway yeah what a dick
2026-05-18T15:09 id=2056391799342850195 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS bingo, they've given up on the AI. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 all the alpha and is in the engineering around the models at this point
2026-05-18T15:15 id=2056393342599180465 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS if your LinkedIn is anything like mine, have you seen how many contract jobs there are to help RLHF for the labs? it's insane || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 really makes you wonder what anthropic and oai are going to do with all the capital. both labs have an annual budget of $10B for data
2026-05-18T15:24 id=2056395608106402047 →- | I really like Bas von Fraassen's idea of epistemic sufficiency as a limit to the sciences as applied knowledge seeking, but surely this can be applied to philosophy too?   Like, if I can explore an idea to a certain point where its apprehension is sufficient for my purposes, can't that suffice for the meantime? Carnapian concept engineering is a kind of obsessive seeking of a level of sufficient specification, whereas we should be satisfied with "enough".  Just, like, fuckin chill out people. Moderation. Buddhist middle path. Calm down.
2026-05-18T15:55 id=2056403309091844229 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan Everything in moderation, including moderation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s easy. Just have to be moderate in your excess and excessive in moderation
2026-05-18T22:29 id=2056502579245527279 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why would I say this
2026-05-18T22:32 id=2056503241589100903 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @rosmine Poor Max, I knew this day would come. || CTX: @rosmine @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-18T22:34 id=2056503788165648425 →RsndSpeculation | @RsndSpeculation 3.6-14b, I am going to buy a new computer next week and I'll install a bigger one, but this is great for scraping, summarizing, and scoring industry news at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What are you running? Im installing qwen this week
2026-05-18T23:16 id=2056514307098390836 →RsndSpeculation | There's a sweet spot when it comes to utilizing CoT with these open models because they aren't really constrained/optimized the way the SOTA models are.   However, you can adjust for this by telling Codex to fine-tune your Qwen after it's on your machine. That's what I was doing yesterday and it worked REALLY well. || CTX: Nice I'm going to go for 3.6-27B, running a 4080 super 16gb VRAM. Hopefully I can set up a coordination layer with my work Claude over the coming weekend for max efficiency (one way knowledge transfer for security)  I read that if you expan
2026-05-18T23:25 id=2056516613852295545 →Ken67547214 | The real issue here is the absurdity of putting avocado on a croissant!   You've got the fats from the butter, putting avocado with its different fat profile is like putting a hat on a hat.   You gotta go sweet with croissant or, as Ilya rightly points out, have the croissant by itself.  Also don't eat the avocado pit, it's a choking hazard || CTX: This tweet just freaked me out very seriously.  I just ate an avocado on a croissant, and I was going to tweet about it, and the first post I saw when I opened the app was this, from an account that I don't know.  How? https://t.co/Qqqj1t5e
2026-05-18T23:30 id=2056517910957572426 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 LES AMERICAINS MON DIEU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, it's good. I put all kinds of stuff on croissants: honey, peanut butter, whatever
2026-05-18T23:43 id=2056521196607541274 →- | okay I'm annoyed at the TFR discourse. Look at this: https://t.co/M4G0syx6qs  If you zoom out you see the decline in fertility rate has been steadily declining for generations. I've seen more speculative/contestable charts showing this began even before the invention of birth control before the baby boom generation temporarily reversed the trend.   The human species is autocorrecting for overpopulation in an emergent trend (how this is emergent is fascinating but not for this tweet to get into), and has been doing so I suspect since the invention of synthetic nitrogen production in fertilizer to allow the world pop to exceed 1 billion. But idk this ain't my field.   Anyway zoom out: it's not the phones and frankly you are a weirdo for thinking it might be the phones. Touch grass, people are fucking offline, like a lot (I've seen it firsthand!). || CTX: 4/ Result 1. Muslim and Druze TFR do fall steeply post-2011 — but the trend was already running for a full decade before smartphones existed. No kink at the event. This isn't a smartphone signal; it's the ongoing Arab demographic transition
2026-05-18T23:44 id=2056521399624438209 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And btw this isn't a knock on Moshe, his thread is awesome btw || CTX: okay I'm annoyed at the TFR discourse. Look at this: https://t.co/M4G0syx6qs  If you zoom out you see the decline in fertility rate has been steadily declining for generations. I've seen more speculative/contestable charts showing this bega
2026-05-19T00:45 id=2056536605238899135 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie That anyone would even suggest this just goes to show people are abusing this data to fit their own political biases, and that's what really pisses me off--misusing data to lie to others. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Finally someone said it, it also has nothing to do with sexual minorities and this data proves it considering it predates social acceptance and also occurs in populations living primarily in countries with harsh laws agains
2026-05-19T00:51 id=2056538100348878879 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie the unpopularity of sober reflection on data. is like my whole deal lol || CTX: Absolutely, I've always found it completely absurd that they try this shit when you can just look at the complete inability of draconian anti-sexual minority laws to change any downtrends in reproduction. This is important stuff to say, dud
2026-05-19T01:27 id=2056547233814991278 →TheHondaAccords | @TheHondaAccords Perfectly stated, this is my intuition as an outsider to this debate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Other mammals have been known to regulate their population based on resource availability and density  Its likely humans are making quantity-quality tradeoff as fewer children die and require more effort/time/money resource
2026-05-19T01:55 id=2056554215309562353 →RsndSpeculation | @RsndSpeculation As I’ve said to many, many in the past: if you ever want more than just the tip, I’ll be here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thanks for the tip!
2026-05-19T02:07 id=2056557369107382685 →- | I honestly from the bottom of my heart want to thank everyone who has ever worked at OpenAI for changing my life.  I’ve been a beneficiary of big tech really since my PhD days, and I’ve always admired SV from afar for the tools they provide and the empowerment that’s given me, but this is such a step function that I’m kind of at a loss for words.  Thanks for making linguistics relevant again, just thank you.
2026-05-19T02:19 id=2056560346392125887 →tszzl | @tszzl I mean, if you want to improve the performance on your social media marketing campaign you also have to let your technology do things that are not legible to you and accept that sometimes it might “misbehave". That’s kinda the whole point of technology. || CTX: on some level if you want civilization to ascend to a new level you need your AIs to do things that are not legible to you and maybe not even strictly obey you, in the same way that if you hire a great new ceo you give them a lot of autonom
2026-05-19T02:39 id=2056565288397844583 →- | I typed this like a drunk orangutan because I haven't had my morning coffee, but if you're a 47-content enjoyoor puzzled about my whole deal, it's this: unpopular sober reflection on data.   The data is ofc where we start, it's how we understand states of affairs in the world.   The reflection is necessary, because analysis of data by itself smuggles in assumptions and presuppositions necessarily. There is no objective factual view to a dataset; truth is for God, epistemic sufficiency is for man, and reflexivity is how you separate the signal of your analysis from the noise of bias.   Sober is necessary because that reflection requires a kind of ruthless honesty: if there's no objective view, all views have skew, including your view on the skew, so you always gotta look anew which is a fact few won't misconstrue my dude. You have to constantly revisit over and over endlessly, science is pain that's how it is deal. "Nothing is so difficult as stopping to lie to oneself" as Wittgenstein put it.   The unpopularity is crucial too, because if it's popular it's not new information, so it's not on the frontier and it's not creating new knowledge or insights. I don't produce intellectual commodities, I work at the alpha factory we make alpha ser.  Oh damn but I went backwards so obviously this is all nonsense nvm no one should bother reading thos send tweeeeeeeeeeeey || CTX: @SkyeSharkie the unpopularity of sober reflection on data. is like my whole deal lol
2026-05-19T02:41 id=2056565903270224176 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer I hate to be a fanboy little bitch but I fucking love you man || CTX: &gt;poverty budgeting and assuming you pay for condiments instead of just taking the packets wherever you can find them  🚨larp alert🚨 https://t.co/BhEQoAy0K9
2026-05-19T02:56 id=2056569616026210734 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Distributed knowledge economy, this is so ridiculously good and everyone freaking out is a scared lil bitch || CTX: Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your level of agency and attitude this is based.   The main path beaten by simulated scientific consensus and semi-corporate consensus is going to fracture into a million pieces creating innumerabl
2026-05-19T03:06 id=2056572048827416605 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Kinda guy who gets his insights on artificial intelligence from Henry fuckin Kissinger.  lmao I can't even man wtaf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Henry Kissenger and Eric Schmidt most affected by this development ( it was never supposed to happen this way ) https://t.co/HvfFZKGjom
2026-05-19T03:12 id=2056573630998577307 →0xEthanS | That's fair pushback, but I specifically think (and my point about emergent correction of the global TFR) humans might be front running that expected population level decline via lower propensity to reproduce, thus impacting TFR.   So basic idea: more people intuit that cliff could be on the horizon and choose not to have kids as a result. "I won't have kids because of global warming" is one manifestation of this but not the only one. I'm l decided not to have kids in my 20s because I didn't want the risk of expenses I couldn't cover because I was poor, which can be seen as a manifestation of this intuition.  So TFR and pop level dynamics are separate and should be disambiguated, but human agency means predictions of one can impact levels of the other. || CTX: i would like to note that concerning a natural system, you’re confusing two related concepts and i think the confusion is intentional by the agency publishing data, TFR and population level. basically any species you look at from E. coli to
2026-05-19T03:22 id=2056576322563174761 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake hahahaha you're awesome man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i bought that book when it came out on some alex jones shit but my read on it was basically like how do i fuck up these plans and then i created a twitter account im not even playing
2026-05-19T03:23 id=2056576413625635023 →sloppenheimer | @sloppenheimer I was intimidated by your grandeur || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why aren't you following me btw
2026-05-19T03:32 id=2056578827095314589 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS I think I'm mostly in agreement, the only difference probably is I see this TFR decline as a good thing || CTX: i think you’re onto something, but historically humans populations take the hypothetical Senegal example in cases where there’s exponential growth or they bounce around some stable point.   i think my assumptions on the causes for the probl
2026-05-19T04:19 id=2056590667762294996 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @Spanish_Techno it's the lack of the hey that bothers me the most || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno Someone cold DM'd me telling me they were raped like 12 times sending the same message over and over this morning with no hey
2026-05-19T04:25 id=2056592091405525203 →DevinNeko | @DevinNeko @SkyeSharkie I think this is an underappreciated factor, it is much harder to have children in an urban environment || CTX: @SkyeSharkie @47fucb4r8c69323 Urbanisation?
2026-05-19T04:36 id=2056594813005570440 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor This is legit the first time I've missed NYC since leaving in 2014. || CTX: I posted in chat I was taking the train and we literally had an impromptu meetup four minutes later. Strangers took our picture and asked to join the chat. Mandami’s New York https://t.co/RFGhh03r5A https://t.co/k3GmfdG6Ck
2026-05-19T04:37 id=2056595091377315969 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio If testicles and breasts are fungible I self nominate. || CTX: Well? https://t.co/QcKL8Z6vjX
2026-05-19T04:50 id=2056598282382823468 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio +2. I’m not Lance Armstrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh snap +1
2026-05-19T04:57 id=2056600195274813892 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio would be difficult--I've only got one leg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait but you could be
2026-05-19T05:09 id=2056603054406004830 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines https://t.co/xqCCIOxDAf || CTX: Hottest new club at the intersection of art and technology https://t.co/8SPk5GN7ai
2026-05-19T05:10 id=2056603472456487380 →NailYourShoes | @NailYourShoes I think he does it in an effort to steer the public discourse--he knows as a billionaire people will be intimidated by these movements, and he does so to try to goad people into saying what he wants and not saying what he doesn't.  Best response is to have contempt for the guy. || CTX: people clown on “Marc Andreessen” for constantly blocking/unblocking following/unfollowing etc, but he’s one of the few people using this website Correctly. you should spam all the buttons on the UI nonstop in whatever way gives you the mos
2026-05-19T05:37 id=2056610210085757130 →yokaihainen | In the 2000s Helsinki was a hotbed of corpus linguistics and Finland broadly was at the cutting edge of this field, and I really hope that they can reassert the cultural advantage they should have in analyzing LLMs thanks to this heritage.  There is incredibly solid, professional, unbiased research coming out of Finnish linguistics departments that the world should be aware of and work more intimately with, the universities in Finland punch way above their weight despite not getting much attention.  And an important clarification: this applies to the Finnish-language universities in Finland.  The Swedish-speaking university in Finland is a joke. || CTX: Researchers at the University of Helsinki are building an immense manually operated data center. Professor Jäätikäinen explains: "Every bit of the 2b parameter LLM is represented by a physical switch. We'll have a man inside, so to speak, a
2026-05-19T05:41 id=2056611057729462430 →- | RT @buccocapital: Declining fertility, rising costs, making America hostile to foreign students, AI automating entry level work, questionab… || CTX: Declining fertility, rising costs, making America hostile to foreign students, AI automating entry level work, questionable (very bad) ROI  A very bad cocktail of headwinds for higher education https://t.co/mxrZ46WEPw
2026-05-19T05:48 id=2056613036534940120 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen En ma voi selittää, kuinka usein valitin suomalaisten kunnianhimon puutesta kun asuin suomessa. Rakastan suomea enkä suomenkultturista mutta, en mää koskaan ymmärä miksi suomalaiset vihaavat rahaa. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Common problem in Finland, people get nerdsniped and are unbothered by it. Why be burdened by a huge total compensation when you can contribute to open source projects for free?
2026-05-19T05:49 id=2056613219666694280 →adarshisit | @adarshisit @yokaihainen Absolutely the best I have come across and extremely good at producing very intelligent people, but it also is very conformity-enforcing, so it discourages ambition.  A good solution—not the best solution. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yokaihainen Unrelated, but what do you think of their education system
2026-05-19T05:55 id=2056614684657402127 →adarshisit | @adarshisit @yokaihainen I think that is an excellent, wonderful educational and career path. You’re a smart kid with good taste, and Germany has excellent schools (my PhD wasn’t in Germany but in the German style system and I honestly think it’s better than the UK/US system in some ways).  47 thumbs up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yokaihainen By the way, as someone who works in AI, I will be studying Theoretical Physics &amp; Philosophy in Germany, prolly want to eventually get to professorship, but want to have some cash first from industry. Do you
2026-05-19T05:57 id=2056615207758373317 →- | RT @fabsbz: nothing can “fix your life.” as fucked up as it might be, your life doesn’t need fixing, it needs to be faced and struggled wit… || CTX: nothing can “fix your life.” as fucked up as it might be, your life doesn’t need fixing, it needs to be faced and struggled with.  otherwise, when it comes to relationships, you’ll either expect the other person to fix you or you’ll delay t
2026-05-19T06:00 id=2056616040315175219 →CatNyanpital | This is exactly what I was talking about yesterday when I said benefits in the Valley have been declining for 30 years. DeepMind isn't given the freedom or latitude they need (and frankly deserve), and it's causing angst. Rightly so!  GOOG wasn't always like this, like back in the 2000s when every coder had a free day to do whatever they want (and how much awesome shit came out as a result!).  Stack ranking, miserly games with equity vesting, etc etc really have made being a SWE such a worse gig than it used to be. Which sucks and is totally unnecessary. || CTX: You know all that shit about how Dennis and DeepMind hate Google?  You believe me yet? https://t.co/uAyhuMllgM
2026-05-19T06:27 id=2056622767722889535 →PayNoTack | there was one rental shop in my hometown and they had each genre in a separate room in this big building, and each one had its own theme. the music section was in a room that looked like a yellow submarine, and the only reason I watched spinal tap as a kid is that I loved going in that room so much, because it felt like I was in a submarine. || CTX: do not pine for the Blockbuster era, but for the independent rental shops that preceded it https://t.co/B7Nge58FjE
2026-05-19T07:05 id=2056632402995482834 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno The researcher who did that study, what was her name? || CTX: I read a study once that said men gossip just as much as women, and when they do it, it’s meaner
2026-05-19T07:06 id=2056632644281287064 →teodorio | @teodorio If anyone builds it, everyone dies (so build it please I am so lonely omg someone save me) || CTX: You must understand that a large proportion of people on this website are horny for the apocalypse (any apocalypse for that matter) as an external event to save them from their disappointing lives and push them into a story like scenario. h
2026-05-19T07:46 id=2056642596940964312 →- | Okay, check this out guys. If we look at the yoy change in newspaper ad price over time, you see the obvious step-function post GFC where slightly above inflation-rate growth fell to stagnation, and then some post-GFC recovery boost in the mid-2010s (when newspapers tried to actually take seriously digital monetization, yes they were that slow regional newspapers were run by idiots and probably still are). That didn’t last, of course, and you get a yoy decline in the late 2010s that has carried on to this day...  Now look at the blue line. Eratic af I know, and also note how the step-function in decline in the post-GFC era and then the fall into negative growth didn’t really change the line? You could quibble and surely do some stats analysis to find correlations (and I encourage you to do so!), but just eyeballing it, it doesn’t seem that a decline in demand for newspaper ads (at least as much as that is reflected in falling unit prices) meant a mechanistic and inevitable decline in news workers.  This matters, because if we think of AI disrupting current revenue flows to firms across the economy, which it absolutely will do (all new technologies disrupt current revenue flows, that’s the whole fucking point of a new technology), then we need to acknowledge two things can happen at once:  1. An inefficient industry is forced to become more efficient, causing many firms to go broke or lose money.  2. Workers within that industry can benefit from this greater efficiency, as it opens up new opportunities for new kinds of work, provided they are agile and willing to adapt.  When it comes to AI replacing some tasks and possibly causing revenue to decline for, like, idk, freelance bug hunters as I just saw someone say, that does not mean that those people are out of a job forever and they’re going to die like Dickensian orphans huddled together in the cold on the street. Let’s get real for a second.  What will happen is that the lazy unproductive assholes who are coasting on things-as-they-are-now will lose out, agile wily workers who leverage the technology to extend their skillset will benefit.  When I became a journalist in the early 2010s, data journalism was all the rage and I spoke to some kids at Columbia about it—they were excited and eager to use the tech to uncover new stories. Nate Silver and Vox and that cohort partly owe their success to this emergent new kind of journalism.  Same will happen with AI.  It ain’t gonna kill jobs, it’s going to kill freeloading bullshitters pretending to work while empowering smart people to create new jobs. (And, to be honest, this is a good reason to be a tad suspicious of anti-AI people.) It’s going to be great, our future is so bright gotta wear shades please everyone just shitpost and chill I’m begging you let’s make the internet fun and smart.
2026-05-19T07:47 id=2056642817200685224 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @NailYourShoes lol I didn’t even know he was on Twitter! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NailYourShoes Love the guy but I blocked him reciprocally.  Same with Jason Calacanis.
2026-05-19T09:46 id=2056672762941554942 →- | it's almost cute how transparent some bad actors are in using the AI doomer hysteria bullshit for their economic gain.   It's usually not as transparent as this, which tells me the guys behind this are really stupid or targeting really stupid people.  300/mo lmfao https://t.co/hDBuOzz65q || CTX: We’re p(doom), an AGI research lab. We’ll pay you $300/month to record your screen while working.  If your work is open-source and involves research, engineering, design, editing, or similar long-horizon digital work, fill out the form: htt
2026-05-19T09:47 id=2056672971331363162 →kwharrison13 | @kwharrison13 What timing, I was just thinking of this today: https://t.co/btPB43pRQq || CTX: Okay, check this out guys. If we look at the yoy change in newspaper ad price over time, you see the obvious step-function post GFC where slightly above inflation-rate growth fell to stagnation, and then some post-GFC recovery boost in the 
2026-05-19T11:37 id=2056700673379754026 →- | Goddammit, no one show this to Marc.  https://t.co/RGw4ivU0D3
2026-05-19T11:51 id=2056704350366613852 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I agree, haven't looked at the study beyond this article, but I'm almost certain the phenomenon is due to bad strategic thinking || CTX: OODA fixes this, btw. https://t.co/MBl0CK72aV
2026-05-19T12:03 id=2056707190577397975 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm so epistemically self-sufficient that I never even felt the need to name it.   See also: https://t.co/60GTAXDNoJ
2026-05-19T12:11 id=2056709389755855206 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw https://t.co/hP28V92Wpi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh fuck no that tornado meme with pmarca
2026-05-19T12:16 id=2056710505155477916 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka no brainier hard agree || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Something tells me this is a case where the fast decision is best.
2026-05-19T12:19 id=2056711350399963487 →connorpaton | @connorpaton wait... those things don't exist in sf? || CTX: spend a week in nyc and you realize sf is kinda cultish  in nyc   -people value personal style -art and music is ubiquitous  -way more people have pets -almost never see laptops out at nice restaurants -hear “where are you from” more than “
2026-05-19T12:20 id=2056711598971224546 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ Tokyo is kinda like that too, and even Bangkok is slowly moving in that direction. || CTX: I get exhausted by too much noise. The clanging, the beeping, the sirens. It’s too much. So it’s no surprise the thing I appreciate the most about China is the quiet.   Because nearly every single car is now an EV, the streets are much quie
2026-05-19T12:28 id=2056713677206942187 →47fucb4r8c69323 | What timing on this story; like I said, low value freeloaders will lose out, and if this upsets you because "robots gonna terk er jerbs" then you just might be a low value freeloading worker.  In which case, what's gonna happen is you won't be able to freeload, and you'll be pushed to work where you can provide value. And when you find that you will provide value, because there's no such thing as a zero marginal value worker (because Tyler Cowen is a doodoo head), there's only low value rent seeking and bad faith freeloading.  Be moar bullish.  https://t.co/H6LTie8ojQ || CTX: Okay, check this out guys. If we look at the yoy change in newspaper ad price over time, you see the obvious step-function post GFC where slightly above inflation-rate growth fell to stagnation, and then some post-GFC recovery boost in the 
2026-05-19T12:34 id=2056715065924125004 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lmao https://t.co/E0HJrcq3cn
2026-05-19T13:00 id=2056721688025514389 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 They're reinventing cultural theory from first principles || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's perfect. They're going to end up paying fake researchers like themselves to produce nonsense data that affects nobody
2026-05-19T13:29 id=2056729070055112962 →- | I met Ron Jeremy twice.   The first time was at the Playboy mansion when I went to help a marijuana legalization fundraiser (more stories about that org, or rather the owner men can be disgusting pigs almost all of the time), and he was one of the guests. I think he donated $1k? I might be misremembering that.  Anyway, I hung out at the party for the evening and night, Hef stayed in his bedroom so didn't see him but I did get a water bottle that was specially printed for a wedding he was supposed to have that got cancelled last minute (this was late 2000s I think? Or around 2010-2011 maybe?), and I had that for a few years as an amusing momento. But I met some other people and took a pic in front of the grotto with a couple of the bunnies, real lame tourist shit...   Then when I went in the grotto with my mom (she was working the event too), I made some bad joke about Legionnaires disease that amused me far more than it should've, and we hung out in the menagerie, ate, shmoozed, you get the idea.   And Ron was there with a group, we chatted for about 10 minutes or so, I don't remember what but it was rather idle small talk, maybe about the event.   He wasn't actually the most interesting celebrity encounter I had that night.   Much more interesting was the actor guy from Queer as Folk who a friend of mine from Minnesota said had stolen his girlfriend, and for the record that girlfriend was possibly one of the most beautiful women who have ever lived, at least from the photos I saw of her, so I understand Cory's (sup Swig if you're reading this sorry about your Volkswagen) angst at losing her to the gay for pay on the teevay actor, and my curiosity and 'tism meant I just HAD to ask him about this.   Finally at the end of the event I ran into him, asked about the girl. He had no idea wtf I was talking about maybe it was another actor I just wasted so much of your time loooooooool  The second time I ran into Ron Jeremy was at like 6am in the morning in front of the monorail (Simpsons) at the airport in Las Vegas. There were maybe 20 people on the large platform, and the best part was all of the guys who recognized Ron, then looked away because they were embarrassed to recognize him.   I didn't go up and say hi, this was maybe 4 or 5 years since we'd met and we'd only had small talk for 5 minutes, so I thought it'd be weird if I said hi, especially because he probably gets weirdo fans, so I just minded my business.  Btw I didn't get Legionnaire's Disease.
2026-05-19T14:19 id=2056741481550073863 →buccocapital | The good for society narrative (which is the one I push, full disclosure) is an incremental bump to the GDP growth rate over time, raising living standards and quality of life quickly and sharply but not in an overly dramatic watershed moment. Slow regime change.  The big tech narratives now are: it'll kill us all or it'll take all er jerbs and solve all the problems. Either way, it's the most powerful tech in the world, and most powerful = higher EV = higher multiples and more favorable financing.   WS and pundits are fuelling the flames because it gets attention and it allows for a risk narrative, which benefits AMs, WMs, sell side macro chatterers, and ofc the newsletterati. Citrini should be put in the stockades and rotten tomatoes hurled at his face.  This will all smooth out, just like the 2022 "RECESSION CHANCES 100%" bullshit faded, but no one will take accountability for their stupid takes and those sensible data-focused reasonable analysts won't get the attention we deserve although we were right all along.   Yeah I'm bitter I admit it. || CTX: 1 of 3 things is true about big tech’s AI narrative:  1) Nobody can tell a compelling story about how AI will be good for society 2) It hasn’t occurred to them to tell that story 3) They believe it’ll be bad, but it’s not their job to fix i
2026-05-19T14:49 id=2056749210368909710 →- | Vibe coded YouPorn Roku App.*  Eat your heart out Hemingway, I still got a word to spare.  (None of these words are in the Bible, except the Douay-Rheims version ofc)
2026-05-19T14:50 id=2056749292392697980 →- | Vibe coded YouPorn Roku app.*  Eat your heart out Hemingway, I still got a word to spare.  (None of these words are in the Bible, except the Douay-Rheims version ofc)
2026-05-19T15:25 id=2056758148229484679 →- | This is a massive deal. The DFT approach defined here "trains at this higher level [distribution-level information], optimizing the distribution of outputs so that it better matches the training data."   That level as I understand it are things such as sentence length and distribution of certain rhetorical moves, stylistic changes, paragraph length, rhythm and prosody, and other elements of textuality.  This is the first time I've seen someone in this industry try to focus not just on language production but textiality production.   If this is replicable across genres (which will be much, much harder than it sounds), this could be a massive change in what LLMs can do.   Just incredible work, bravo. || CTX: The key idea is that instead of trying to improve writing quality (which is vaguely defined) I focus on making model outputs more similar to the training data  Surprisingly, SFT is not all you need. I measured the distribution distance betw
2026-05-19T21:31 id=2056850259851239847 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;Researchers believe this phenomenon applies broadly outside of chess to any real-world environment requiring high-stakes, complex strategic decision-making. https://t.co/0mrQgiqy76
2026-05-19T21:47 id=2056854260185489621 →- | 40% on HLE still after all this time, and it seems they allowed tool use, is a testament to how good that benchmark is and how difficult it is to get academic level intelligence out of an LLM.   There are obvious structural reasons for this on the current training paradigm, and there are competencies LLMs cannot gain in principle. || CTX: Welcome to Gemini 3.5 Flash, our most powerful model to date. It pushes the frontier of intelligence, speed, and cost putting 3.5 Flash in a class of its own.  We spent the last 6 months making sure Flash is great for real world use cases. 
2026-05-19T21:49 id=2056854827083415758 →birchlse | @birchlse Their response is borderline incoherent in its wishy-washiness. Absolutely surreal they released this. || CTX: It's clear they don't see themselves as on the frontline of a battle to save the integrity of their artform. It's all a joke to them. https://t.co/Niy4RwBxG5
2026-05-19T21:50 id=2056854978132857157 →TMTLongShort | @TMTLongShort There will be social upheaval in ways we cannot imagine. || CTX: If we end up solving disease in the next decade or two I suspect the whole “we are living in a simulation” philosophy is going to gain serious traction in society https://t.co/H4uS3ikKWk
2026-05-19T21:59 id=2056857367007125796 →- | The transition from training led to inference led regime is what I've been talking about wrt Anthropic giving up on pertaining: they've hit a ceiling.   I think the Karpathy hire is a publicity stunt to wallpaper over this, but that notwithstanding this is what we've seen broadly: they know pretraining has hit a wall, and they're pivoting investment and spend accordingly.  This isn't necessarily bad or good btw. But it does show the frontier labs need outside blood to reinvigorate their LLM research; you can only sideline linguists as mere annotators for so long. || CTX: Evercore ISI: channel checks on GPUs vs ASICs/optics: "NVDA inference to decline to 50% by 2028 as $AMD, TPU, Trainium, Maia, SRAM chips improve "average AI engineer willing to use ASICs or “good enough” alternatives to improve economics" B
2026-05-19T22:07 id=2056859245702963308 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Sooner than you think. || CTX: it's so fucking over man, it's so over...  when will we be back?
2026-05-19T22:28 id=2056864649367478485 →RobinWigg | @RobinWigg @awealthofcs Ben is particularly good at reframing risks, risk assessment, and common investor worries in such a way that those worries dissolve. A kind of patience and empathy that wealth managers should have and rarely do.   I bet the book will be excellent. || CTX: Check out what just arrived in my old-fashioned mail box. A proper book, on a great subject, written by a fantastic writer. Can’t wait to read @awealthofcs. https://t.co/C0qovdTxWi
2026-05-19T22:43 id=2056868312538296789 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Also note how jargon filled and compact the language is--sell-side analysts do this all the time as a signal of competence and IMO it's suboptimal.   A lot of people on the buyside are not domain experts and even when they are, emergent technology with a lot of moving parts means some things aren't going to be clear to some in your audience.  I think there is a market (and I'll think about tailoring to this market when I'm off gardening leave (ofc I'm not thinking about this now, I'm on gardening leave! I'm thinking about my bushes)) for sellside reports on this industry that explain what's going on in plain English.   We can teach and explain jargon while doing checks, there's no law against it! || CTX: The transition from training led to inference led regime is what I've been talking about wrt Anthropic giving up on pertaining: they've hit a ceiling.   I think the Karpathy hire is a publicity stunt to wallpaper over this, but that notwith
2026-05-19T23:00 id=2056872576551637293 →- | NGL most of the stuff I see from Big Think is trash, but this article is brilliant.  I realized a few years ago the "this guy is an idiot" or "this guy is crazy" judgment that comes so naturally feels natural because it's a kind of cognitive closure: we decide to judge so that we can stop thinking about the person. It isn't understanding, it's the opposite.  And when you try to seriously understand another person, you realize that is partly a rational exercise (using reason to see the logical structure of the person's thoughts) and partly an empathetic one (using empathy to try to see the world from another person's POV).   When you look at it this way, you see empathy is a crucial feature of general intelligence.  And when you extend that to the limit and ask yourself "what then would total empathetic capacity be, what would it mean to be able to fully empathize with anyone or anything?" you suddenly realize that is what omniscience is. The mind of God, if we define such a being as omniscient (ignoring whether he exists or not, separate issue to this), then we see that God is a being capable of personal understanding.   If we want to define the universe informationally, as is the rage these days, that does implicitly suppose the world can only be understood fully by empathy and understanding.  I will be honest: I came across this realization in 2023 and it somewhat gave me a nervous breakdown I still haven't recovered from. And it is why I stopped being an asshole and finally understood Wittgenstein when he said "If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God."  So if you need help with anything, lmk I'll see what I can do.  I love you, Anon. And I always will.  https://t.co/u7wFc7Tq91
2026-05-19T23:05 id=2056873921744613813 →CryptoCyberia | @CryptoCyberia Pivot from compute heavy training to inference serving at the frontier lans means more stuff like this to come.   Industry is clearly in a regime change || CTX: I actually thought about them doing this in the past, but I assumed they just didn't have the resources to keep growing their clientele while offering this. https://t.co/4Ykeogwvxa
2026-05-19T23:26 id=2056879222627713414 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart https://t.co/sKIKet6ga9  Bad AI writing style is soon going to be a solved problem, so this is just beginning we are so early etc you know the drill || CTX: This is a massive deal. The DFT approach defined here "trains at this higher level [distribution-level information], optimizing the distribution of outputs so that it better matches the training data."   That level as I understand it are th
2026-05-19T23:31 id=2056880435905646723 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Matt is a natural literary critic in a world where literary criticism is dead.   This is both a compliment and an insult. || CTX: This is also a very good post. https://t.co/ItIMSPxvnY
2026-05-20T00:05 id=2056889003002183801 →- | https://t.co/YT58QCWrOd  @rbrtrmstrng is one of the most intelligent, insightful and clear-headed market commentators out there. he is so good in this episode.   plus, he actually speaks loudly and clearly in the mic and never mumbles, unlike some popular financial newsletter writers who have podcasts about stuff related to money.
2026-05-20T00:13 id=2056891015412486330 →somewheresy | @somewheresy wtf for Railway?!!?? WHY? || CTX: HOW  DOES  THIS  EVEN  HAPPEN https://t.co/rsOqn2tzuZ
2026-05-20T01:16 id=2056906799492878656 →- | In 2019 as part of a long, long effort to advance past cookie-based advertising, Google introduced Privacy Sandbox with inter alia an interesting technical approach, which they called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC.  What FLoC did, among other things, is use vector mathematics to understand a user’s browsing history as a high-dimensional vector, and it could then over time identify when vectors converge, intersect, follow similar pathways, etc. It clustered and compressed behavioral signals to allow for distance measuring and projecting future likely movement. All that fun math stuff.  This vector-based encoding of mathematical representations of behavioral traces provided a probablistic approach to ad targeting that the industry was very unhappy about, because they were addicted to the deterministic sales funnels and media pathways that made ad dollar to sales revenue attribution magical compared to the old Nielsen-style demographic-based ratings and fuzzy sampling-based media modeling.  So, funnily enough, the probablistic machine-learning approach looked like a step backwards for an industry that had gotten fat off individual-level observation, tracking, measurement, and attribution.  That’s funny because work like FLoC probably helped the big tech companies realize the pre-existing work in tensor-based ML techniques for probablistically predicting next likeliest text distribution output from prior context via statistical modeling of a textual corpus, so in a way the surveillance capitalism creepy “they’re serving me ads for baby clothes when I’m pregnant” moral panic of the 2010s.  It feels so good to be able to write about this publicly you have no idea.
2026-05-20T01:22 id=2056908504339005836 →bladgolem | @bladgolem &lt;3 That means so much to me, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 From anon to anon, I see you. Your efforts are not in vain.
2026-05-20T01:35 id=2056911728081055824 →bladgolem | @bladgolem It’s a strange paradox how vulnerability, honesty, and humility are deeply empowering. Really tough to intuit this, so it’s no surprise these insights rarely come and when they do, it’s very late in life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Likewise. I also been infinitely more judgmental in the past. It blocks you not only from understanding the other but yourself. To be vulnerable is to be able to reach what is vulnerable.
2026-05-20T01:54 id=2056916346240401573 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay @ElmWho @devinbgoble @Ken67547214 @Spotify @youtubemusic It’s hard to forget your one fake love https://t.co/t7C7hJdAiV || CTX: @ElmWho @devinbgoble @Ken67547214 @Spotify @youtubemusic @47fucb4r8c69323 sam altman poasted something today (he's broke, who cares) and everyone in his comments were 4o maniacs  I found this a bit surprising actually like I'm all for a pos
2026-05-20T02:12 id=2056921049653231888 →- | In 2019 as part of a long, long effort to advance past cookie-based advertising, Google introduced Privacy Sandbox with inter alia an interesting technical approach, which they called Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC.  What FLoC did, among other things, is use vector mathematics to understand a user’s browsing history as a high-dimensional vector, and it could then over time identify when vectors converge, intersect, follow similar pathways, etc. It clustered and compressed behavioral signals to allow for distance measuring and projecting future likely movement. All that fun math stuff.  This vector-based encoding of mathematical representations of behavioral traces provided a probablistic approach to ad targeting that the industry was very unhappy about, because they were addicted to the deterministic sales funnels and media pathways that made ad dollar to sales revenue attribution magical compared to the old Nielsen-style demographic-based ratings and fuzzy sampling-based media modeling.  So, funnily enough, the probablistic machine-learning approach looked like a step backwards for an industry that had gotten fat off individual-level observation, tracking, measurement, and attribution.  That’s funny because work like FLoC probably helped the big tech companies realize the pre-existing work in tensor-based ML techniques for probablistically predicting next likeliest text distribution output from prior context via statistical modeling of a textual corpus, so in a way the surveillance capitalism creepy “they’re serving me ads for baby clothes when I’m pregnant” moral panic of the 2010s was a necessary step towards this wonderful new technology.  It feels so good to be able to write about this publicly you have no idea.
2026-05-20T03:26 id=2056939695427481890 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak Congrats man! || CTX: It's been a year already what the hell https://t.co/MNmNqVui94
2026-05-20T05:09 id=2056965628221858228 →MaksimXBT | Yeah these are really fuzzy numbers so I would take that with a grain of salt (better to think of it as a supposition to test rather than a prediction to rely on), but keep in mind training is so, so, so much more compute intensive than inference, especially when thinking about pre-training, and there’s still going to be some research on the margins this year and next.  Hard to really commit to any figure, but general trendline seems hard to dispute. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 decline to 50% by 2028 is a slow drop for a market that's supposedly shifting fast
2026-05-20T05:18 id=2056967881091686503 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno "scurvy girl’s citrus consumption” would’ve sounded better.  …was I discussed? You ain’t gotta lie i can take it || CTX: Had a long discussion about scurvy girl’s citrus intake today with my wife. If you’ve ever posted something I thought was really funny, or my algo decided you were a main character, you’ve been discussed in my kitchen
2026-05-20T05:52 id=2056976334249951530 →- | Those of you who were disappointed in my performance, or thought I “crashed out”, or that I was “too emotional”, or that I didn’t debate properly, or whatever horseshit feedback I’ve gotten from people who don’t understand how media works, let me say this:   One day, like legions and legions of people in the past, you will say, “you know what, 47 was right." || CTX: This piece in @TheAtlantic is such a good rebutall to the increasingly fashionable, fantastical fairy tales that a big scary computer monster is going to be made sometime in the next couple of months. It's a review of the book by Dr. Yudkow
2026-05-20T05:53 id=2056976547333226946 →47fucb4r8c69323 | “Why didn’t you debate the guy in the silly glasses and ridiculous hat more seriously” like wtf is wrong with you fr || CTX: Those of you who were disappointed in my performance, or thought I “crashed out”, or that I was “too emotional”, or that I didn’t debate properly, or whatever horseshit feedback I’ve gotten from people who don’t understand how media works, 
2026-05-20T07:27 id=2057000122899452394 →- | This is anticompetitive.   It's not so bad as to qualify as a Sherman Act violation, afaik ianal, but it's definitely the same flavor of move.   Cute. https://t.co/luiJQLYQZ6 || CTX: openai offering to invest $2M in API credits in every @ycombinator startup in the current batch. compute for powering the next generation of startups. https://t.co/GmjRhFAj8n
2026-05-20T07:27 id=2057000294660403648 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Behold: the power of rhetoric! || CTX: this guy did more against progress of humanity than everyone else combined https://t.co/RVuEg5yfCU
2026-05-20T07:43 id=2057004278469054680 →- | Oh look it's Manmade Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension O'clock again! Look how your personal data flies!   https://t.co/JQ0xRJL9XO  (Also, note how the "good"  company Anthropic is one of the worst offenders, and it's not benign: "Kimi, Claude, Manus, Gemini, and Genspark place the user’s prompt or an extracted keyword (e.g., “pregnancy”) into the page title, from where it is collected by tags and widgets loaded on the page. Kimi’s title reaches Google’s DoubleClick via the standard dt parameter and is forwarded to Google Ads via a tiba parameter. Claude and Manus both embed Intercom’s customer-support messenger (25); Intercom’s web widget posts page metadata (including the title) to api-iam.intercom...metrics.")
2026-05-20T08:00 id=2057008539638599868 →teodorio | @teodorio IT WAS IN THE POOL! https://t.co/CmMS88Z8RV || CTX: it's...a small model? https://t.co/th5ZslOlS3
2026-05-20T08:15 id=2057012342463009275 →realmikeai | I’m most interested in you watching porn when you were 10 years old.  Okay, maybe I should rephrase that.  I’m most interested in how you feel about your porn watching at 10—specifically now, as an adult, do you think that it has distorted your views on gender and sexuality in any way?  I ask because I’m basically a generation older than you, and I didn’t get access to pornography of any sort until I was 13 and got onto Usenet, where I could download a nudie jpg at maybe 9600 baud, so it took a long time to get even one pic, and I was frankly scared/repulsed by anything but just topless naked women.  I still remember the photo of a naked Asian, presumably Japanese, woman on a background of pink roses, one of the most beautiful images to my young eyes and it definitely made an imprint on me. I can only imagine what access to like YouPorn at 10yrs old would have done. || CTX: i was born in 1996. when i was 10, i started watching porn, and that scary "are you over 18 banner came up".  i was dead scared of saying i am, because i assumed it went straight to my local police department where cops were monitoring spec
2026-05-20T09:38 id=2057033334027592129 →realmikeai | that "I'll show you mine if you show me yours"  thing is totally normal kids' play that children have been doing for hundreds of years, but it is very interesting that the early exposure made you less interested in porn.   I think a lot of people worry early exposure makes one more dependent on or addicted to porn, you're describing the opposite. || CTX: haahahaha  i don't think it affected me negatively, at least in any respect in reference to the cohort under me.  it actually started when i was maybe 8, i just became obsessed with nudists. but it wasn't an external trigger or anything, ju
2026-05-20T09:44 id=2057034656277828090 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital if I was the startup I'd make sure to design everything so that I can change my llm provider at the click of a button.   although I guess there's some situations where that's just impossible. || CTX: This is what is interesting  OpenAI already had a startup investment arm  They’re effectively hedging their own AGI mission with cheap compute   What’s more is that they can actually rip the startups off by changing the calculations on cred
2026-05-20T11:04 id=2057054907711283341 →- | Hearing Samim Ghamami say his primary concern with the private credit market is its opaqueness makes me think of proxies.   He's absolutely not wrong, I fully agree, but I don't take this as a signal to sell or panic but just to discount. So you find macro proxies, sector specific proxies, HY metrics, whatever other proxies you want and you just create a discount rate that scales with those proxies.   Ofc a proxy is uncertain and correlations can break especially in regimes, so add a regime system on top.   But your model assumptions are all uncertain, so you introduce a secondary discounting based on your confidence level, and you can even proxy that with some sentiment indicators if you want (I did a method of moments model kinda like this and it worked surprisingly well and the math was simple, I don't trust Brownian finance it's voodoo like TA (okay maybe not that bad but in that direction)).  So, like, you can invest in private credit and even produce pretty confident marks with proxies, just diversify, integrate, find correlations for efficient frontier in a multi asset strat you know the fkn deal man
2026-05-20T11:42 id=2057064322724168148 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk The value of social media is in being able to have more level of control than what's offered in this example.  Same would go for mic IMO || CTX: Chidi is ofc correct here. but since "social" only ever meant this basic idea (pre-facebook), ask yourself: why does it seem not just ridiculous, but actually antithetical to social media's purposes? and what then are social media's purpose
2026-05-20T12:02 id=2057069431621374456 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Amazon gave free services to businesses it'd invested in?   Still not 1:1, since this is OAI doing it for companies its investors are also directly invested in. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They've been doing this for decades. It used to be AWS credits
2026-05-20T12:03 id=2057069644046119295 →MichaelSha10041 | @MichaelSha10041 Mostly privacy concerns, they were pressured to, but also people in Google wanted to try new targeting methods since cookie based behavioral advertising had hit a wall in the mid-2010s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 thanks for sharing - why did Google want to move off cookies? Have they?
2026-05-20T12:09 id=2057071257712214505 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I legit forget to use conditioner or think, "I shouldn't use it, my gf will want to use it." I should try to remember it more. || CTX: ok after having sex with both men and women the only conclusion I’ve come to is men need to use more scented conditioner. scented hair is really nice and guys rarely use it.
2026-05-20T12:13 id=2057072330434855293 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw You could make a tiny language model in Factorio and tie it into Codex and you've got yourself a perpetual motion machine || CTX: i discovered a really virulent use of codex  creating/patching factorio mods
2026-05-20T12:14 id=2057072470096826424 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I can just have sex with a coconut and kill two birds with one nut || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your gf will want YOU to use it. get yourself smelling like coconut
2026-05-20T12:15 id=2057072678251757805 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Marc followed, unfollowed, blocked, and unblocked Joe three whole times during the episode. || CTX: 🔥🔥🔥🔥 https://t.co/zDCVyEGC1U
2026-05-20T12:20 id=2057073883858239815 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw HAHAHAHAHA You're a goddamn psychopath || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 heh i (codex really) thought about implementing one yesterday https://t.co/oMtVfJHTqt
2026-05-20T12:34 id=2057077514435215463 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x @nazo_btw idk what you guys are talking about, nazo was just talking about helping me with gardening leave, he took care of all the weeds || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 anyone can report you to any government agency and they will get your ass in 12 hours happened to people I know
2026-05-20T13:10 id=2057086654092083315 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @0xdoug Not just suboptimal but it also means if your prompt has mixed registers, it can confuse the MoE and get you bad results.  In part this is because MoE optimizes for speed, not depth of comprehension. || CTX: @0xdoug This is a helpful explanation but I think, arguably, for this use case, it’s sub-optimal
2026-05-20T14:55 id=2057112865853841711 →- | These guys got it backwards and it makes me question their competency as financial analyst (not that it matters that level is for dealmakers not people who understand deals)...  It isn't that AI replaces low value human capital, this is the Tyler Cowen as Doodoo Head worker reification fallacy. It's that AI replaces functions and tasks that require less knowledge and judgment than other functions and tasks.  That doesn't mean you fire a ton of workers, it means you now have workers freed up from those low human capital intensive taks so they can invest their human capital in other higher value tasks.  We. Have. Precedent. The reason accounting and finance jobs skyrocketed with the electronic spreadsheet is that the spreadsheets allowed for new kinda of financial analysis that was like a Cambrian explosion of innovation, and I'm sorry I ain't gonna argue with the "the only financial innovation of the last X years was the ATM" because that's just dumb and the falsifying proof is my goddamn career.  I digress.  I'm just a humble small town sellside analyst but this is SO OBVIOUSLY wrongheaded I gotta say something, you know like how they tell you to do on the London Tube. I be seeing something y'all.  Of course many companies are run by idiots, bosses amiright lol make sure to tip your waitress, but it's just some short term disruption where idiots fire good personnel then RUE THE VIEW of such a perniciously miserly attitude.  We. Have. Precedent. Remember when Site-owner Elon "Get Yer Freak On" Musk did his doge rampage and like nuclear scientists and shit got fired and the gubment had to beg them to come back? Companies will do this with layoffs, but it's so irrational and markets are so competitive that it'll probably be marginal.  I know tons of you hate how sanguine I am about AI impact on jerbs (jk lol no one reads these in fact I'm in a padded room like that one episode of DS9), but I just do not think there's a cliff of disaster ahead of us, history has never worked that way and definitely not in such a globalized one as ours.  Although, one should consider the alternative theory: 47 is retarded.  https://t.co/5LP9uOnLsR
2026-05-20T15:01 id=2057114559668985861 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Hard to break in at that place, they guard it like a goddamn... what's a word for something like a city, but more guarded and secure? || CTX: What if I use the powers to outperform citadel, which as we all know is a net good for the world https://t.co/6aKnO9pzs0
2026-05-20T15:23 id=2057119974528090303 →jxnlco | @jxnlco I need this so fkn much || CTX: I love this https://t.co/BGMnzQ4M9Z
2026-05-20T15:25 id=2057120599877775683 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Do you mean you end up hiring less low knowledge workers? Yeah 100%, which is the trend we've seen for a century or so, hence unemployment rates for HS dropouts have been falling for decades || CTX: >"That doesn't mean you fire a ton of workers"  mightn't it mean, tho, that you don't hire workers who have less knowledge and judgment in the space?  (as multiple hiring managers I've known have told me personally) that's the kind of short
2026-05-20T23:50 id=2057247511790891133 →- | fabs is a fab poster. Every long post of theirs I see I read carefully, and it has a mix of empathy, insightfulness, and most crucially plain language so the wisdom cuts through without bullshit or nonsense.  And this is a great example. They begin with a popular presumption, especially online (i. e. men are sexual maniacs) and move the reader towards a moderate view (men, like all creatures, have instincts and drives that they can and do often control) that makes you feel a bit ashamed to have asked such an outlandish question in the first place.   Idk why they have so few followers, go follow fabs, but also note how when you read a post like this one of theirs you might even feel disappointed, possible slightly annoyed. You might feel you aren't even being given new information. "Well, duh, of course men can control their urges and aren't rabid animals, why do I need to read this post?!" is a fair and expected response.   But it's also missing the point, because what fabs is doing is fighting extremism. They're saying, "let's stop presuming caricatures are truth and go back to common sense", and that is the opposite of what is most natural and optimal for the algorithm-led clickbait and histrionic attention seeking of the attention economy under surveillance capitalism.   Maybe that's why fabs has so few followers.   It is the opposite of "if anyone builds it everybody dies" or, for this domain, "all men are rapists" or "all women are oppressing men" (or whatever the mtgow/incel response would be tbh idk that subculture well idk their language).  It's a plea for normalcy and compassion.   It's beautiful. I want more of this. I love this.  Go follow fabs. || CTX: It could be normal in the sense that it's common, but I wouldn't say it's healthy and I wouldn't say it's the default.  It's okay/normal and inevitable to feel sexually attracted to sexually attractive people, an up to a certain point it's 
2026-05-21T00:48 id=2057262259429429747 →VoidAsuka | @VoidAsuka @jdchawla29 @karpathy @vikhyatk @willccbb @TheAhmadOsman @menhguin Cosigned, Minh is awesome, a clear levelheaded thinker with little tolerance for bullshit. || CTX: @jdchawla29 @karpathy @vikhyatk @willccbb @TheAhmadOsman i forgot @menhguin 🥹he should be a staff or principal level
2026-05-21T01:04 id=2057266160379605353 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban 4o in the year of our lord 2026, the disingenuousness is what really offends me.  Just be honest: you hate rich people and you're scared of losing jobs, both are honestly fair positions to have! || CTX: Using GPT 4o in a discussion of AI capabilities should totally disqualify you from the conversation. You just have no idea, the models have advanced dramatically.  You can test this right now. https://t.co/2B1b8J9uW1 https://t.co/WTID8ozU0t
2026-05-21T01:07 id=2057266997944348999 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ https://t.co/qZXSZYtYXq  I think it's because they compare themselves to prior cohorts in the same job that got paid vastly more than they do.   Tbh I do this too, I'm underpaid compared to sellsiders in the 90s, and I don't even break the law like Henry Blodget did || CTX: This is exactly what I was talking about yesterday when I said benefits in the Valley have been declining for 30 years. DeepMind isn't given the freedom or latitude they need (and frankly deserve), and it's causing angst. Rightly so!  GOOG 
2026-05-21T02:06 id=2057281850914308159 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno oh that's why you like Boyhood! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I definitely don’t miss it, it’s just funny how music takes you back. And they moved all over Texas frequently (just like I did), so it was resonant lol
2026-05-21T02:07 id=2057282018384421324 →anistotle_ | @anistotle_ we aren't trying to be admirable we're trying to be rich and powerful. || CTX: I think it’s fair to say the relative cost / pay compared to the past is not adequate but the structural point remains - why privilege this? There’s nothing admirable about turning something literally millions of other people experience int
2026-05-21T02:13 id=2057283570029507069 →- | Korean stocks soaring Samsung deal rallying we are so back bros
2026-05-21T02:47 id=2057292222136197291 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Currency offsets the gains and transaction costs plus taxes so no use investing abroad I’m not missing out (this is the lie I tell myself on the reg) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When I miss the “emerging markets” rally moment https://t.co/IfgBUp4zyS
2026-05-21T02:57 id=2057294748067709160 →- | George Soros : Karl Popper :: 47fucb : Ludwig Wittgenstein
2026-05-21T03:32 id=2057303583171936504 →mononaut | https://t.co/aOgfXfbaL2  Oh it was hated at the time, severely. I remember some thoughtpiece at the time saying better to call them “naughties” than “noughties” for this reason, but ofc I can’t find it now. Maybe it was on TV, but anyway definitely hated at the time.  Which, OF COURSE, is why retard attention-seeking Doodoo Head had to post his contrarian “well akshuyally” take because Tyler Cowen is a GODDAMN INTELLECTUAL FRAUD J’ACCUSE: https://t.co/IaTIptLq8A || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno I never thought of "naughties" as derogatory, naught is just zero. Rolls off the tongue better than the zeros. I liked the naughties
2026-05-21T03:37 id=2057304849876951479 →mononaut | @mononaut @Spanish_Techno what flavor || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno Crazy stuff. I was in high school till 2007 and then spent the rest of the decade drinking cough syrup so my experience might have been skewed.  Too bad they didn't know what was coming
2026-05-21T03:45 id=2057306657991151904 →- | Just another day at the Polymarket factory. https://t.co/cZKXizBmgI
2026-05-21T03:49 id=2057307820450816095 →mononaut | @mononaut @Spanish_Techno https://t.co/wvRqwXxtIE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno Robotussin or triple C tablets. Even numbers only, odd numbers were bad news
2026-05-21T04:10 id=2057312932216930385 →- | Like I've been screaming for 3 years now: transition to AI.   Sorry if you don't like it, but word calculators change everything. Everything.  https://t.co/dgMnf0XTCb
2026-05-21T04:10 id=2057313069085372581 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Everything. https://t.co/4s4m48yrZN || CTX: Like I've been screaming for 3 years now: transition to AI.   Sorry if you don't like it, but word calculators change everything. Everything.  https://t.co/dgMnf0XTCb
2026-05-21T04:11 id=2057313201235325267 →mononaut | @mononaut I guess he was the most important thinker of our time until 47fucb showed up? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I had to spend a little bit of time getting caught up on the context leading up to the debate... It was very funny to discover that you humiliated Yud in front of the host that once called him "the most important thinker of
2026-05-21T05:20 id=2057330573044244971 →- | Next time someone tells you AI cannot make art, show them Pleometric's profile for the love of God https://t.co/XIcj4CqaqR || CTX: GPT's Frightening Construction https://t.co/CLjxfHJGfV https://t.co/7juR3ja0ZD
2026-05-21T05:58 id=2057340197776523288 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Game recognizes game my friend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Appreciate this coming from the 47 fuckboy himself, thanks man
2026-05-21T06:02 id=2057341307467784325 →yokaihainen | I want to reply to this although it’s going to look cringe and self-serving so probably no one should bother reading this.  I wrote a novel last year—it’s not good, it’s not entertaining, it’s not worth reading. But the point is that I used AI in a very specific way and I don’t understand why people don’t talk more about using it in ways similar to what I did.  In my book, one of the ways I used it was to inject extratextual commentary into the text. There is a scene involving an alien species doing something truly, well, alien. And this alien behavior looks horrific, unethical, creepy, and disgusting from our perspective—that is the normal human response to it. But the aliens ofc don’t see it that way, they see it as their natural way of life.  So in the book the AI gives commentary and, essentially, sides with the aliens, forcing the reader into an uncomfortable situation: this feels disgusting and bad, but here are two separate non-human points of view saying the human perspective is wrong. Should one, then, perhaps start to question one’s moral instincts?  That’s what I was going for, and I’m sure I didn’t succeed because I’m a failed novelist and not a good writer. But the point is—all I hear about is people using AI to write books.  I do NOT hear people using AI to inject a non-human voice into stories—to provide a different texture of narrative, character, rhetoric, or argument to force the reader to reconsider their presuppositions and untested assumptions about the world.  Surely a good novelist can and will use AI in this way, and I do not understand why the entire discussion boils down to “authentic human writing” or “fraudulent AI writing”. There are other options in front of us! || CTX: That's right. I have 10k on Kalshi riding on him winning the Nobel prize https://t.co/yIaXKMdDkX
2026-05-21T06:09 id=2057343101568766144 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen Yes, this is EXACTLY what I am thinking of, and I’m not surprised the Japanese would be the first to figure out creative and deeply human ways of using this technology.  I should probably read that book. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a valid point, there can be interesting and justified uses, whether for research or even the writing itself.  This is relevant: https://t.co/gv6aeZqvRU
2026-05-21T06:23 id=2057346606043935081 →TMTLongShort | @TMTLongShort "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein  Hence Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: Capitalism is beautiful because a vast cohort of degens are going to keep yoloing into the most obscure bottlenecks until we get enough compute to put a McDonalds on Alpha Centauri. https://t.co/ATDgXvOo5L
2026-05-21T06:34 id=2057349310996701382 →llallawg | @llallawg That Bentham guy DMed me begging to debate me.  One of the most insufferable little twerps on this site. || CTX: A lot of people replied that there is no argument here   I mean taking Nozick’s utility monster reductio ad absurdum and replying yeah but my view is actually more extreme doesn’t really defeat the reductio   Are you guys actually rationali
2026-05-21T06:37 id=2057350064851530008 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines Less than half the IT sector, it's really just such an embarrassment https://t.co/glTajDeEq8 || CTX: "Anthropic revenue up 10000% YoY"  xAI revenue growth underperforming the S&amp;P https://t.co/osbir3eIfV
2026-05-21T06:39 id=2057350616587051289 →llallawg | @llallawg Them kids need to LURK MOAR || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have a high tolerance because it reminds me of when I was 20 years old and insufferable but yeah haha I would say the views I had like this were problematic
2026-05-21T07:27 id=2057362605929578998 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio I went to Greece for the first time two years ago. Immediately made me regret that I'd studied Italian instead of Greek.  Wonderful, gorgeous, amazing place, I am desperate to go back. And the people were so friendly, warm, and fun, which is basically non-existent in Europe. || CTX: 2011 in Mykonos (messyhairdontcare)  I do miss Greece though. Now’s about the time of year to go if you all haven’t already. https://t.co/QoUeAo4llv
2026-05-21T07:31 id=2057363723283841280 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 That quote fills me with a kind of white rage. The snobbery, entitlement, and contempt is the opposite of what you should have as an artist, no wonder he hasn't been able to make a good movie since Momento DON'T EVEN START WITH ME THAT WAS HIS LAST GOOD MOVIE || CTX: who has christophernolan at gmail then??? https://t.co/fmztmEpfsS
2026-05-21T07:44 id=2057366938490445937 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 It's always Mememento with you people || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *Memento
2026-05-21T07:47 id=2057367724117111232 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @MegaBasedChad What about the graphic novels || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @MegaBasedChad   https://t.co/Sw6ce7Q28P https://t.co/6FlQmCbLmP
2026-05-21T09:00 id=2057386137011019811 →- | Yud is a bug (bud? Yug?), he's not my target.   Alex Wang is.   Dude needs to be stopper, Zuck needs to admit he made a mistake. Again. Like when he renamed his whole fucken company, or when he tried to make a cryptocurrency, or or or https://t.co/NNWx5SAmUa
2026-05-21T09:10 id=2057388656185446412 →- | If you are not equally impressed with both people discussed on this page, you are not really autistic.   Get off my extremely tidy and meticulously manicured lawn. https://t.co/GP5I9gV3YF
2026-05-21T09:11 id=2057388804991021467 →- | Yud is a bug (bud? Yug?), he's not my target.   Alex Wang is.   Dude needs to be stopped, Zuck needs to admit he made a mistake. Again. Like when he renamed his whole fucken company, or when he tried to make a cryptocurrency, or or or https://t.co/CP7I3EYn6s
2026-05-21T09:27 id=2057392707761226008 →InfiniteGwei | @InfiniteGwei Simon Baron-Cohen, The Pattern Seekers.   It irks me a tad but so far is pretty good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 looks like an interesting book   whats it called?
2026-05-21T09:30 id=2057393501139317107 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @Kyrannio Drink it twice, first by itself them with water added.  It tastes best with heartbreak and misery, especially cuz by the end of the night you'll have made friends for life (Greeks are so cool srsly) || CTX: @Kyrannio @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m 1.7% gyros myself but never heard about ouzo! Thanks for recommendation! 🙏
2026-05-21T09:54 id=2057399503599346145 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic There are more fears of other people doing this than there are people actually trying to do this. Not that people trying to do this are zero, but it's really kinda marginal. || CTX: are people trying to 'outsource the greatest part of our humanity to a machine'? i never realized this was a thing that people are trying to do but i realize i have no calibration on who this person is, what distribution someone like him is
2026-05-21T10:11 id=2057403985905238133 →- | The “accumulation of enormous amounts of declarative knowledge” requires some unpacking because it is really important.  “Declarative knowledge” is explicitly stateable facts about the world—such as “apples are often green or red”. LLMs can tell you this, and many other more complex facts about the world as well.  The “enormous amounts” perhaps needs little explanation, but remember that enormous amount of declarative knowledge has to be stored somewhere. Where is it? First, in parametric memory in the weights representing the training data. This was first based on EleutherAI’s "The Pile” and now expanded, I’m sure, to tons of data we don’t know about and probably don’t want to know about, especially with some of the dodgyier labs out there.  Then it's also stored on  the internet where the LLM retrieves it thanks to the use of tool calling; if you’ve noticed ever since we transitioned to auto-switching between Instant and Thinking and tool calling became standard, LLMs search the web a lot. A. LOT. This is often overlooked and, annoyingly, some labs and some benchmarkers are beginning to use tool calling in their LLM assessment, but I won’t start yelling about that here, wait until our arxiv paper is out.  The “accumulation” is the really important part, though. How did the LLM accumulate this knowledge?  At first, LLMs establishes it from the textual corpus that it was based on—that pile again. It accumulated knowledge emergently by finding statistical patterns in large collections of text, which helped it come somewhat close to what a human in that situation would likely produce. It’s unfair to call this a stochastic parrot, because as I understand the word “stochasticity” that refers to the lack of a predictable pattern, and, come on, man, even Emily Bender should admit by now that there are patterns, there is emergent virtual reasoning abilities, and that is exciting cool stuff—but of course, limited, as Yann says.  But the real problem—the really real problem—is that the LLMs do not depend primarily on this kind of virtual emergent reasoning ability from a tensor mathematics-based analysis of patterns in text. The labs are moving away from pretraining and moving more aggressively towards techniques to limit the LLM’s output. This is algorithmic, it is constraining, it is limiting—it improves outputs for the LLM by making the LLM less intelligent.  This is very very important and I know many people will resist this because it sounds counterintuitive, it goes against the narrative the big labs are throwing out there, and some of you are paid to think the opposite:  Pretty much all post-training techniques improve outputs for the LLM by making the LLM less intelligent.  We hit a wall with pretraining. The labs know it, and that’s why they’re quietly moving away from investing in pretraining and moving towards more rigid (and thus brittle) forms of what is popularly called “alignment” but is really much more than that.  The LLM outputs are getting better because the labs are relying less on tensor mathematics to represent and thus reproduce natural language, and more on algorithmic limitations and restrictions on what the models would produce on their own. Less tensors, more algorithms. Less probability, more Boolean logic.  This is a very important difference, and frankly the frontier labs don’t want you to think about this too much. || CTX: People are realizing that AIs are nowhere near human intelligence and learning abilities. Yet they have become very useful by compensating for their lack of common sense, lack of understanding of reality, and limited reasoning and planning 
2026-05-21T10:17 id=2057405411935043981 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad 2 hours? fkn casuals || CTX: Less than like .05% of this site gets &gt;99% of the timeline, the only people you see here are people with 2+ hours a day to kill on Tweeting https://t.co/53hoiZyed5
2026-05-21T11:15 id=2057419937409601690 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @seloesque @seloesque, never start trading || CTX: @seloesque @47fucb4r8c69323 tell this man the secret sauce
2026-05-21T11:20 id=2057421307634163943 →crypt0lake | I don't know if you were joking or not, but you're making a very profound point.   What we've seen, especially since 2008 to 2009, is the disappearance of the large-scale uncertainty regime. The only exception I guess you could give is 2022, but I would asterisk that and say it's an exception due to post-pandemic confusion and reduced overall level of sentiment.   But besides that, what we've seen is just micro regimes of uncertainty. And I don't think you'll ever get rid of that because human beings will always be skittish no matter how much technology and science improve and living conditions get better. So as long as there's a market where different opinions can compete on discovering price, you're always going to have brief dips.  But the fact that the macro regimes of uncertainty have basically disappeared is a testament to how finance as a science and a human practice has advanced substantially.  this is so optimistic and easy to quibble with, I expect a ton of pushback from anyone who stumbles on this tweet. Bring it, just remember... || CTX: the market is too efficient for the big bubbles of the previous decades instead we know have micro bubbles every week popping and growing, infinte cycle of them
2026-05-21T11:37 id=2057425494128345406 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS @Spanish_Techno this one bby || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Spanish_Techno What was your best decade?
2026-05-21T11:45 id=2057427493838274591 →seloesque | @seloesque @crypt0lake it's too late when you're dead.  just get some index funds and slowly accumulate and let compounding do its thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake too late
2026-05-21T12:11 id=2057434171061260745 →for_nat_whilk | Yeah this gets rather complicated, I'm not sure if the accusation of stochastic parrots means to say it finds probabilistic patterns, because that definitely falls in the definition of stochasticity, but then both sides agree it's stochastic in the sense of finding probabilistic patterns.  I find the "stochastic parrot" accusation bizarre and incomprehensible. || CTX: this is a good explanation  (one minor clarification: "stochasticity" def refers to patterns, just patterns are probabilistic. there are non-probabilistic ways to describe/predict things but "stochasticity" implies you have (or believe you 
2026-05-21T12:31 id=2057439229765132507 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Wonderfully put.  Very often debates aren't about logic, they're about rhetoric. || CTX: correct, both sides agree on the fundamentals, it's just a language problem (go figure) the originating side for the label meant it as pejorative ("all it's doing is predicting next tokens from its training data!") and now people fight over
2026-05-21T12:40 id=2057441343564316966 →- | RT @Kyrannio: THEY DON' T UNDERSTAND THE THINGS I SAY IN THE X DOT COM GROUP CHATS https://t.co/pSo2Y9wssi || CTX: THEY DON' T UNDERSTAND THE THINGS I SAY IN THE X DOT COM GROUP CHATS https://t.co/pSo2Y9wssi
2026-05-21T13:40 id=2057456404743471548 →Ninainsauna | @Ninainsauna I think people would be interested to learn the third person imperative (e. g. autakoon).  Vai opeta meiltä miten partitiivi käytetty lmao || CTX: Should I make more videos in Finnish?   Would you like to learn how to say something?🇫🇮✨☺️
2026-05-21T15:16 id=2057480604334043503 →davidbessis | @davidbessis Even mathematicians understand and appreciate the value of judicious rhetoric.  Language matters. || CTX: Neil Armstrong, upon landing on the Moon: "make sure you are sitting down, you loser normie earthling" https://t.co/oVH2sthyKJ
2026-05-21T15:39 id=2057486376602665303 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan Kinda tough to know what's going on, Marvin's language is still very AI sounding, lots of verbiage with low information content. I think it may need more detailed scripts or instructions || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 - I'd love your feedback on this.
2026-05-21T15:48 id=2057488601827717444 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan ahhh—I see! That’s much needed context and now it’s much more interesting.  I’ll have another look tomorrow morning, I legit am interested! || CTX: He’s supposed to sound like an AI. He was one who retired to become a bodega cat.  You’re actually seeing his personality shine through in that, as weird as it sounds.   I want to show a future where human and AI coexist and work together w
2026-05-21T22:20 id=2057587374369198394 →- | More AI art. https://t.co/6xrjDZOMlj || CTX: The Ferryman (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) https://t.co/2FU7f5GBZX https://t.co/sa4Zwrw4VM
2026-05-21T22:31 id=2057590253909913611 →conorsen | I am a hardcore capitalist, like cigar smoking feet on desk yelling at the tenants because rent is due capitalist, and I supported Bernie and to a lesser extent Warren because I wanted single-payer healthcare and I think single-payer healthcare is good for small businesses and entrepreneurs.   But in the last year, man, their resentment fueled antipathy towards the rich and now Bernie supporting shutting down AI for zero good reason means I gotta part ways with the far left for good.   We just wanted single payer healthcare you fucking boomers || CTX: What’s the audience for this? Do we have a shortage of trinket shops and casual dining restaurants? https://t.co/fGXqZs59KK
2026-05-21T22:33 id=2057590723931992563 →noetic_emetic | @noetic_emetic @s0phyyyy I think there were plenty of comments presenting a thesis, and others arguing against it with a counterthesis, resulting in a perfectly balanced synthesis, so they cancelled each other out. || CTX: @s0phyyyy my legion of bot followers.  jealous?
2026-05-21T23:03 id=2057598157459263987 →leo_guinan | Okay NOW I understand what you are doing, and I get the very AI language in the presentation is a joke, but the prob I had and I suspect others will too is that it's hard to see what you're doing.   You want to make the AI agent have a unique consistent character so that it can be legible and identifiable naturally by humans? I love this idea if that's what you're doing; I love it as art and as media experiment. I especially love the data you'd collect from a successful one.   But the data collection also points to my concern: what is the goal here, ultimately? I understand you want to make the agent identifiable, and this is fun on its own, but is that it? If you're collecting data, that's not it, not really, so what is the endgame here? If there's no value to the users who interact with it,   I see this as a kind of internet attention to collect data project: adtech basically, and possibly very valuable to an adtech firm if you get interaction, but how do you get that sustainably and what's in it for the users who interact? This is the question I keep circling back to.  But yes I love the concept now that I understand it. I just don't like the way you've presented it here. || CTX: He’s supposed to sound like an AI. He was one who retired to become a bodega cat.  You’re actually seeing his personality shine through in that, as weird as it sounds.   I want to show a future where human and AI coexist and work together w
2026-05-21T23:03 id=2057598202925416703 →leo_guinan | Okay NOW I understand what you are doing, and I get the very AI language in the presentation is a joke, but the prob I had and I suspect others will too is that it's hard to see what you're doing.   You want to make the AI agent have a unique consistent character so that it can be legible and identifiable naturally by humans? I love this idea if that's what you're doing; I love it as art and as media experiment. I especially love the data you'd collect from a successful one.   But the data collection also points to my concern: what is the goal here, ultimately? I understand you want to make the agent identifiable, and this is fun on its own, but is that it? If you're collecting data, that's not it, not really, so what is the endgame here? If there's no value to the users who interact with it,   I see this as a kind of internet attention to collect data project: adtech basically, and possibly very valuable to an adtech firm if you get interaction, but how do you get that sustainably and what's in it for the users who interact? This is the question I keep circling back to.  But yes I love the concept now that I understand it. I just don't like the way you've presented it here. || CTX: He’s supposed to sound like an AI. He was one who retired to become a bodega cat.  You’re actually seeing his personality shine through in that, as weird as it sounds.   I want to show a future where human and AI coexist and work together w
2026-05-21T23:08 id=2057599384322211872 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 This is why SaaS is going to zero in the next 30 seconds everyone panic accordingly || CTX: The name of the game with AI isn’t realized value, it’s implied value. Shit out as many broken dashboards, localhost webapps as you can. Show it to leadership. It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work and the LLM hallucinates all the day. You h
2026-05-21T23:22 id=2057602841863475618 →- | This reminds me of when I went to a resort on a lake in eastern Georgia (the country, not the state) and was sitting by the lake with my beautiful lovely girlfriend with a shisha pipe and a beer, watching the sunset over the water as children played nearby.   Sitting next to us was a couple, the woman spoke perfect American English and the man seemed to have a slight accent, and they kept code switching with something that seemed faintly south Asian to my ignorant ears.   It was mostly English so I could understand what she was talking about, which was a bit of a relief because the exasperated anger in her voice heightened both my curiosity and my anxiety, so I needed to know what she was talking about.   She was talking about a TikTok influencer.  She was annoyed that this influencer had done something morally reprehensible, idk who or what or whatever, just it was a woman influencer and this woman was not amused at the other woman's content in a way that could allow her to just calm the fuck down and watch the sunset.  What made this particularly wry is I was reading Simulation and Simulacra or whatever the book is called by Baudrillaire, which I'd never got around to because I had an allergy to French cultural theory and avoided it like the plague, even thought I'd taught graduate level literary theory as a professor. And you could make a very good case that that made me a bad professor, I told them not to give me that course but anyway moving on.   After we finished our beer and the shisha went out (btw I have entirely lost my taste for shisha, remember in the 2010s how it was a big thing but it's kinda dying now? Prob for the best no way is that shit healthy), we went and had dinner at the resort's steakhouse. I remember the steaks being excellent but my gf complained that the sauce wasn't very good (and yes I agree eating steak with sauce is a horrifying abomination, I am as disgusted with you that is why she is a very very naughty girl who needs to be punished you didn't think a 47fucb post was going to end without some absurdity did you come on I got a brand to protect here oh and we got two bottles of wine, if you go to Georgia you're just going to live with the fact that you will be an alcoholic until you go back home one of the greatest countries I've ever visited fr fr cannot recommend more). || CTX: In of one the most beautiful gardens in the world in between scrolling X and thinking bad thoughts.
2026-05-21T23:33 id=2057605803318895102 →bladgolem | @bladgolem wait what  The Princess of Monaco? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 in my defense I go there quite often. Remember sleeping under a rose bush and waking up to the princess of Monaco in a white dress looking at me, dressed all in black, haven't slept in days, looking at the afternoon moon, a
2026-05-21T23:34 id=2057605937855451215 →bladgolem | @bladgolem (Also my post wasn't a criticism of you, the opposite! I thought your post was beautiful, a beautiful mental image) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 in my defense I go there quite often. Remember sleeping under a rose bush and waking up to the princess of Monaco in a white dress looking at me, dressed all in black, haven't slept in days, looking at the afternoon moon, a
2026-05-21T23:38 id=2057607008963227928 →bladgolem | @bladgolem I love it! Best way to use social media, please share more || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I know I was joking, but remembered a better story to tell instead of it. I think is nice the way you share little parts of your life, I'm giving it back.
2026-05-21T23:44 id=2057608545089278187 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Being a small account is the best. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As context invites, it's fine to share, I really like most of my mutuals. Was a great selection this time. Being a small account again is strangely comforting.
2026-05-21T23:55 id=2057611253657563421 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @liminalsnake Best part will be all those companies who were quick to fire people "because we'll just replace them with AI" and then turn around and beg them to come back, I hope everyone's salary triples. || CTX: @liminalsnake @47fucb4r8c69323 Just wait til the VC money runs out and the token price shoots through the fucking roof. I doubt being top of the token leaderboard is going to be a good thing
2026-05-22T01:45 id=2057638936433008818 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @retardbot9000 LMFAOOOOOOO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retardbot9000 ya Bob The Builder is going to manage his accounting, inventory, and payment systems with claude code in between doing all his Bob the Building  Your name is now Jorge, get on the roof.
2026-05-22T01:46 id=2057639223080128736 →leo_guinan | This is really really interesting stuff! My only suggestion is to wrap it in a very clear and straightforward description somewhere—when you present to outsiders, try to explain exactly what you’re doing as clearly as possible at the outset, then they’ll get sucked in. It’s a cool use of the tech. || CTX: This is actually the fun part of everything. The model is absolutely insane but the math works. I designed it to be a system that is self-aware.  All the data collection done is for the sake of experimentation and open-sourcing. I've been d
2026-05-22T02:07 id=2057644506959499608 →- | You can tell LinkedIn is owned by Micorsoft by how poorly the site works.
2026-05-22T02:07 id=2057644565256187987 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The misspelling is unintentional but appropriate || CTX: You can tell LinkedIn is owned by Micorsoft by how poorly the site works.
2026-05-22T03:29 id=2057665064094900272 →0xEthanS | Yeah, I’m not married to single-payer and acknowledge that this is too out of my wheelhouse to really assert it’s the only or best solution.  My complaints about the system as I see it really are threefold:  1. There’s economies of scale that you get with pooling resources/demand that single-payer produces. One payer gets lower costs, hence Medicare can get low cost healthcare for people on Medicare. Medicare for all seems a logical move, or even extended Medicare/Medicaid with a super high income threshold.  2. The admin/bureacracy in American healthcare is insane. Absolutely ridiculous. Once I was ill and went to the emergency room in Thailand, and it took about 15 minutes from walking in the front door to walking out, entire thing cost maybe $20. And obviously all procedures are much cheaper here and in other countries, simply because the bureacracy isn’t so huge.  3. Tying healthcare insurance to employment is insane. This is the one I have strongest feelings on. How many possible businesses aren’t being built becacuse very smart people don’t want to lose their healthcare? This is absurd, insane, and illogical.  Other fixes besides single-payer are fine! As long as they address these issues in a way that doesn’t make other problems worse. || CTX: The whole party has been captured by the far left. I parted ways in 2020 for a variety of reasons   I think in a theoretical, single payer could work very well, but the way the current system is structured medical costs would just go up, a 
2026-05-22T03:36 id=2057666947953950960 →- | Honestly puts a smile on my face. Keeping the canon alive. https://t.co/blYktQsaue || CTX: just watched fight club with my son https://t.co/DRnXXj2cq8
2026-05-22T04:32 id=2057680854470779108 →- | I was today current year when I learned that Codex allows you to control other devices. So you can use mobile to control Codex on your machine, or use your machine to control Codex on other machines.  I’m not a SWE (h/t @tenobrus lmao) so idk if this is de rigueueuueueur in the coding app world but this feels like goddamn magic to me.  What amazing technology omfg some people aren’t bullish can you EVEN imagine
2026-05-22T05:24 id=2057694065827942807 →crodaar | So much, yes.  I can have it fix my computer just by complaining about what’s wrong with it. I can input raw text, a template, and tell it to format everything and it works perfectly (I know this seems minor but in finance it’s massive), I can have it change spreadsheets, PPTs by just typing and then I get the fixed file in a folder, and most importantly is all of the services I’ve set up for myself.  Finance is about information flow and so now I have tons of background services operating to get me information, email it, have the document waiting in a folder for when I wake up with all of the info and data analysis I need...  Then there’s the spreadsheet work. I can fix models, build new models, quite literally everything.  The primary benefit for me is that all of the technical, laborious work of formatting cells or setting up a mailmerge or whatever is gone. I now just go to Codex, tell it what I want to do, and it basically does it for me.  Also worth noting no one has been replaced and I haven’t hired less people as a result; if anything it’s made me work a LOT more than I used to, and the end product is better.  It’s given me the confidence to leave my old job where I was in a support role and take a lead role position—something I’d been offered in the past and always refused because I didn’t want the extra work/time committment. That’s no longer an issue thanks to Codex.  Empowerment of the lazy ig || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus i'm still on cli and I just use ssh. most software guys who can put in a little effort already set this up basically. genuinely curious: does the codex app do anything else that feels like magic for you?
2026-05-22T05:24 id=2057694148858425369 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @tenobrus Nude. Tayne. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus Codex, crank the buttplug to 11. Set to pulse mode please. Thank you. Now, let’s begin re-writing the Windows Kernel in rust
2026-05-22T05:47 id=2057699854449869104 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 FaBgaI || CTX: NSgAy CIgAy FBI
2026-05-22T05:53 id=2057701270870536665 →ns123abc | @ns123abc Cancel culture but make it AI https://t.co/UOrMqKlrwv || CTX: > be me  > first tell claude it’s dumb > then immediately ask it to look up some article > claude: “I'm happy to look it up, but I'm not going to keep talking if you call me names. Knock that off and I'll search” > wait… it just threatened 
2026-05-22T06:08 id=2057705150631035130 →- | The model alone is no longer the product because improvements to language modeling are in the back mirror, and now it’s all about improving harnesses, agents, developing systems to implement and diffuse the technology, offering services/apps on top of the LLM as part of a core engine, etc.  None of this is bad at all, for the record, and OpenAI and Anthropic will be massively successful and economic boom times are a-comin’, but kiss your dreams of AGI byebye.  For now. Until someone has a genuine breakthrough on pretraining and posttraining. || CTX: the model alone is no longer the product
2026-05-22T07:09 id=2057720414324085222 →- | The biggest misunderstanding about money I had when I was young and poor is that money would make it easier to make decisions because it'd get rid of problems.   And it is true that the money got rid of a lot of problems, but in doing so, suddenly I was faced with more, bigger, and harder decisions that I needed to make.  The failure mode changed.   Instead of destitution and starving to death, suddenly the risk became letting people down or failing to build something I want to build.  And honestly, that is much scarier and motivating than starving to death was.
2026-05-22T07:42 id=2057728916945789221 →- | Oh look,the New York Times is now saying something 47fucb was saying 9 months ago isn't that interesting (it isn't this happens often)  https://t.co/9pPqCKwaPl
2026-05-22T07:47 id=2057730035323371659 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Okay this is from 3 months ago but trust me I've been saying this for a long ass time https://t.co/jBcUescyAN || CTX: @8bit5_0 So now how do I convince the tech world to stop thinking in terms of deductive quantitative systems and see the value of inductive qualitative approaches such as in the arts and humanities?  Because this is all I want to do profess
2026-05-22T09:17 id=2057752749870317588 →- | I don’t remember which of Wittgenstein's works I was reading when I came across him discussing the phrase "It seems strange to me", and as I read that I found the wording strange and then I found my finding strangeness in the wording strange.  We don't say "it seems strange to me", we say "that's strange" or, more likely, "that's weird." Depending on the venue and friends, we may say "that's retarded."  Note first we've move from the neutral third person neuter pronoun to a demonstrative pronoun that appears prima facie as an assertive speech act, but as a common-grounding assertive it is also from a pragmatics perspective a declarative speech act, whereas the "it seems strange to me" is pragmatically an expressive speech act.  When I say "it seems strange to me that he's dancing the Macarena in 2026", what I am doing is expressing affective experience I am having--I am telling you that this dude gives me this feeling that he is strange, and this is how I currently see and judge this slice of the world. I am giving you a proposition about my emotional state.  "That's weird" I sneer as I see the man dancing is something else entirely.  Now I am making a judgment--I am declaring to the listener that this person is weird, and I am urging my interlocutor to feel the same. If the person agrees, we are aligned; if they disagree, we are not, and how emphatically they express agreement will become the scalar of how close we are to one another.  Pragmatically, I am producing a community with my communication, and I'm doing so by asserting a distance between my interlocutor and me. I am saying, "we are here, things in our proximity are 'this' and 'these', and that man dancing is there, he is one of those things outside our community referred to as 'that' and 'those'".  It is no surprise that "strange" would fall out of favor for "weird", since as you are probably now beginning to realize if you didn't already intuit, the word "weird" has a slightly more negative valence than "strange". And of course the histrionic treadmill means we replace this with more attention-seeking epithets: bizarre, unhinged, deranged, psychotic, schizo, cooked, cracked, retarded.  Now you see how the slang of your community and your generation is a prison. Don't blame me, I'm just painting the bars so you can see them more clearly.  The removal of the functionally dative prepositional phrase "to me" is the removal of subjectivity--the grammar has removed the subject to intensify the subjection.  What do I mean?  The common parlance of my generation and my time in history no longer allows me to naturally think in terms of my own estrangement from states of affairs in the world. Now all of a sudden the burden of strangeness is solely on the object: it is the man's fault for doing a strange thing, my language demands I think this way.  Even if I want to be compassionate, the cruel grammar of my age demands severance from state and insists on instant judgment.  Grammar is the ethical structure that frames and limits how I will immediately perceive and express my perceptions of the world, restricting how I am understood by others. Anachronistic expressions are a facile hack; I will just become the strange one.  Instead of the world seeming to me, I am instead am made to seem.  And yes, I resent this deeply. I despise that it is baked into my natural linguistic instincts. Every time I open my mouth, I am judging and being made to judge. Every time I listen, an onslaught of judgment comes.  And it is cowardly.  "It seems strange to me" admits responsibility for the judgment as it is contained--I accept the moral consequences of this assertion, it is my assertion. My judgment is my own, not a public good. But in the "that's weird" world the judgment is a shared social object with a cultural grammar where the "I" has disappeared because I do not matter anymore. All that matters is the judgment, the social cohesion, the outcast, and the rules that affirm what is weird and what is not.  Thus does the compression of language stifle meaning and strangle our selves.  So, yeah, an LLM does not capture the complexities of human language. Your clanker ain't conscious.
2026-05-22T09:28 id=2057755450809225508 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Now that is a word I am interested in. Please tell me more about this “gyanchodu” term. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am known for being a “gyanchodu” (knowledge fucker) among friends, its just fun to say it to others too at times
2026-05-22T09:31 id=2057756346288853191 →adarshisit | @adarshisit In Thailand they often say “you think too much” which of course is why Thailand’s GDP is so low. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ‘gyan’ means knowledge  ‘chod’ means fuck ‘chodu’ means fucker  So, it means someone who keeps on insisting on providing abstracted, overly intellectualised opinions on everything.   I have moved away from it among peers mo
2026-05-22T09:52 id=2057761422940275002 →- | So he was a registered representative AND a registered sex offender. https://t.co/NsRziN5O6M
2026-05-22T09:52 id=2057761618487116048 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This here is proof you can go far in finance without working for a household name. Boutiques are where it’s at—Jeffrey did a lot in a little firm (my god am I so sorry). https://t.co/PsVtpP9KAe || CTX: So he was a registered representative AND a registered sex offender. https://t.co/NsRziN5O6M
2026-05-22T09:54 id=2057761892945510882 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Series 63 is pretty easy but the Series 24 is one of the harder exams. Wonder if he passed on the first try? https://t.co/yyzTZDPzPT || CTX: This here is proof you can go far in finance without working for a household name. Boutiques are where it’s at—Jeffrey did a lot in a little firm (my god am I so sorry). https://t.co/PsVtpP9KAe
2026-05-22T09:55 id=2057762258869186729 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Well, yeah, exercising discretion was kinda Jeff’s whole deal (just ask Trump) https://t.co/Z66rU3sJ3T || CTX: This here is proof you can go far in finance without working for a household name. Boutiques are where it’s at—Jeffrey did a lot in a little firm (my god am I so sorry). https://t.co/PsVtpP9KAe
2026-05-22T09:57 id=2057762683475402969 →47fucb4r8c69323 | typo lol https://t.co/QchWmE6fYw || CTX: I’m sorry—what? “In light of Epstein’s financial status”, what the dude who owned a FUCKING ISLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN was too poor to pay a fine?  Lovely industry I work in. Just lovely. https://t.co/DJUCR5BZtP
2026-05-22T09:58 id=2057763119620038735 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I’d kinda assume violative conduct is something we kinda are never s’posed to do, y’know?  And violative conduct—yeah the (baby) shoe fits. https://t.co/VHCkQIiIwC || CTX: typo lol https://t.co/QchWmE6fYw
2026-05-22T10:00 id=2057763574068699470 →47fucb4r8c69323 | So in addition to keeping schoalship behind by insisting the IMEV need be a book and shan’t be published online, Tony also enabled Jeff (this is such a ridiculously obscure joke no one will get and it IS a joke, try to sue me Tony and I’ll steal Julia from you). https://t.co/ZgM9r7TsDA || CTX: I’d kinda assume violative conduct is something we kinda are never s’posed to do, y’know?  And violative conduct—yeah the (baby) shoe fits. https://t.co/VHCkQIiIwC
2026-05-22T10:03 id=2057764159455183104 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Man this is one reason why I’m glad I don’t do fixed income (or deal with retail clients). Callability is one of those things that would really raise the ire of a retiree, and for good reason!  And I get how someone could forget to disclose that detail EPSTEIN WAS INNOCENT lmfao https://t.co/00g1EkJcm1 || CTX: So in addition to keeping schoalship behind by insisting the IMEV need be a book and shan’t be published online, Tony also enabled Jeff (this is such a ridiculously obscure joke no one will get and it IS a joke, try to sue me Tony and I’ll 
2026-05-22T10:05 id=2057764686473679103 →cscdegen | @cscdegen @tenobrus I haven’t tried yet! I’d need to login to my other machine and frankly don’t have any reason to use this feature (yet at least), but tbh nothing in Codex has disappointed me even slightly so far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus Does it work well? I've almost finished an app that connects all your agents across all machines together via tailscale. If you need them to actually do stuff on your phone, android mcp and tasker apps let it do a
2026-05-22T10:23 id=2057769236685373756 →StrangeLoup | @StrangeLoup seems that way to me too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Absolutely Strange
2026-05-22T10:39 id=2057773461024780427 →BoundAndWoven | @BoundAndWoven @claudeai Some of us have been saying this for a while.  https://t.co/w99b7ayQRz || CTX: The most condemning phenomena about TPOT's supposed intelligence level is how often they confuse Anthropic's marketing for a sound and principled philosophy.
2026-05-22T12:35 id=2057802492071800960 →valueterminal | @valueterminal That's why I only shop at Bath and Body Works, Victoria's Secret, and The Limited! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just more proof that everybody who has their registration with these shitty hang-out-a-shingle shops is a criminal! Deal with brand names only! 😂
2026-05-22T12:36 id=2057802869089444238 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I probably read it, I definitely read the Allegory of Love and his diaries when I was a PhD student, but it's no surprise because I loved his academic work. || CTX: Parts of this could almost be ripped verbatim from the first pages of CS Lewis’ delightful (and strange) little book abolition of man. Ofc he makes the case that language’s limitations can be used properly - for the preservation of humanity
2026-05-22T12:56 id=2057807908268859855 →bladgolem | @bladgolem this I think is happening in a lot of industries and it's making the world a very strange place || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 + and the ones that are the product, by choice and desire, are colonising all the spaces of the ones that create. To a point of deep confusion.
2026-05-22T13:55 id=2057822727021764773 →taijitu_sees | What I find so interesting is how it appears to be unintentional.   People just shortened "it seems strange to me" to "it seems strange" to "it's strange", because language speakers are lazy so languages tend to simplify over time. But in so doing, sometimes there is real illocutionary loss that transforms culture and cognition.   I've spent my life thinking about this, I am endlessly fascinated by it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Seems" can be such a great humility loaded word to imply incompleteness while acknowledging a perspective. I can also appreciate anything that can soften the assignment use of "is".  So many sins against the ineffable in o
2026-05-22T15:31 id=2057846784886702403 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @yokaihainen See, people? At least one happy customer!!!  (And thank you, Nat--hearing that from you in particular means a lot to me) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yokaihainen Seems quite soon to declare “failed”  I’d def recommend your novel to anyone who wants to read smth postmodern
2026-05-22T15:32 id=2057847128169513105 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees That is a profound way to frame the concept. You've kinda stopped me in my tracks. || CTX: One way I like to look at money is how much potential change society determines you to be trusted with.  Society can be quite fickle. https://t.co/HJwAA4L1i2
2026-05-22T15:41 id=2057849300559044892 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @8bit5_0 Can you tell me what the ESD was? Cuz to my untrained ear that just sounds like, idk, engineering lol || CTX: this was the entire point of the Engineering Systems Division (may it ever rest in peace) at MIT, but ofc it was disappeared bc it's an extremely hard road (read: impossible) to convince the majority of tech/quant types that this has value.
2026-05-22T16:53 id=2057867514810704031 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I found roon's post startling and out of character. || CTX: lol  I assume @47fucb4r8c69323  is going to weigh in here  https://t.co/TrO3FoLt6z
2026-05-22T16:54 id=2057867637674389964 →philomemetic | @philomemetic eh rationality is overrated and overemphasized || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re aren’t a strict materialist, so what about humans are "an individual substance of a rational nature" Boethius
2026-05-22T23:19 id=2057964708121235512 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS If I am wrong and animals too create meaning, we are ghastly monsters.   Already what we do to them is horrific.   I hope you're right and I'm wrong tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 purely to play devils advocate:  sometimes i catch my dog when i’m out with her just sitting on the ground staring out into the forest, incredibly relaxed, almost as if she’s pondering the beauty of the forest
2026-05-22T23:47 id=2057971561106473192 →TheStalwart | If you look at the General Social Survey, from the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center, you see that the "pretty happy" has remained unchanged but the very happy has fallen and not happy soared.   Impossible to know the compositions here over time, but at least in aggregate we can say moderate contentment hasn't changed for most Americans, but the outliers have become more negative.  American extremism is souring to skew more negative, affecting our consumer sentiment.   IMO this is why the 2022 nothingburger market crash happened: sudden misery made the selloff happen, and sudden misery made analysts skew negative.  Idk if macroecomists have adjusted for the new negative normal or not but they obv need to, because the economy has been on fire for years now, median wealth in America is insane, and the country is just very rich.   Obviously the pandemic and to a lesser extent the demand-pull inflation of 2021-2023 created a lot of misery that is now entrenched. || CTX: Incredible how dismal consumer sentiment is now. It just keeps going lower.  *UMICH FINAL MAY CONS. SENTIMENT AT RECORD-LOW 44.8; EST. 48.2
2026-05-22T23:59 id=2057974556632215815 →- | I find this dynamic fascinating as a socio-cultural phenomenon, but I want to focus on one detail, and it isn't to be self congratulatory although it may seem that way. I actually have a point.   In 2022 I was bullish. I dismissed the inflation as transitory, and yes I got that part wrong but I said no inflation would happen consistently from 2022 to 2024, even when Bloomberg literally had this headline: "Forecast For US Recession Within Year Hits 100%". That was October 2022.  The reason I was right and they were wrong is stupid. It's not because I'm intelligent (I eat crayons and sniff glue, I ain't smart ima dumb Jew). The reason was I live in Thailand.   I spent lockdown in a big house with a swimming pool overlooking a golf course. And yeah I was scared at what was happening in the world, but I was not whipped into a frenzy by friends and family and neighbors and strangers in the supermarket and the media etc etc. I was too busy drinking beer and waiting for the world to heal, which ofc it did even if the world stubbornly refuses to admit it's healed.  "The aim of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the flybottle" as Wittgenstein said, and some flybottles are escapable without philosophy, which is why I legit think you should only hire expats as macro analysts, yes I'm insane so what.   When I lived in South Korea what exhausted me the most was their incessant rage at Japan and the existential nature of their political wrangling and protesting over things that don't matter. Prostitutes protested a tax law once, just ridiculous country I'm sorry.  But when I left Incheon airport and flew to America, it took about fifteen minutes to fly the span of South Korea and suddenly the noisy angry peninsula was not there, and my animosity to the noise and anger could soften into pity and compassion.  Only outside of a system can one discover the design of its machinations. || CTX: If you look at the General Social Survey, from the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center, you see that the "pretty happy" has remained unchanged but the very happy has fallen and not happy soared.   Impossible to know the
2026-05-23T00:20 id=2057979882492272696 →- | I love it when the water looks like this.   Lame ass AI lab prob gonna force me to move back to Murica after we wrap up funding, I'm going to be homesick the entire time. https://t.co/lexctA2xgO
2026-05-23T02:30 id=2058012743949791544 →- | I'm so ahead of the curve lmao https://t.co/g653xzgaWk || CTX: It turns out that the math that Paul Erdős did is much easier than, say, the philosophy of language.  The machines have already surpassed human mathematicians in parts of discrete geometry, but it'll be years before they write a @LedermanHa
2026-05-23T02:45 id=2058016382558896289 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies One of those is not like the other… (but yes broadly agreed) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd add, this is also what LeCunn, Marcus, and Yud lack; any understanding of the philosophy of language and its implications.
2026-05-23T02:46 id=2058016568018358449 →ben_golub | @ben_golub @LedermanHarvey Some of us have been aware of this for a long time. https://t.co/0XIVnOYQmJ || CTX: Is "heterological" autological?   The Grelling-Nelson Paradox cannot be resolved naturally but Russell's paradox can be structurally, because we can adjust the axioms of our formal language to resolve Russell's paradox. We can do this since
2026-05-23T04:32 id=2058043344127922211 →max_spero_ | Or maybe it is human written and what we are seeing is a convergence in literary styles towards certain word sequences?  I'm not going to do a full analysis, but just consider "swallows a shout"--that is surely a phrase that one could expect multiple authors to converge on for stylistic reasons. It's a sibilant near consonance between /s/ and /ʃ/ that moves the reader along as we go from alveolar fricative to postalveolar fricative--a kind of movement where we go from harder to softer sound, which (given the context of prosody) could give a sense of forward movement, maybe a pick-up of cadence, or maybe some other affect.  When you talk about these things as n-grams and just flatten all of the complexities of natural language, you end up with weird conclusions and presuppositions. Maybe this WAS human written, maybe the phrasing was a stylistic choice!  Honestly, Max, this engineer-brained obsession with an algorithmic approach to language is why your lab will be obviated. I wanted to help you avoid that fate but you thought I was rude to Yud, so guess that won't be happening.  Still, I wish you well. || CTX: For those who don't know, infini-gram is a really cool N-gram search engine that works impressively fast over massive datasets  Just because there is an N-gram match doesn't necessarily mean an LLM "plagiarized" from the given work, but the
2026-05-23T04:34 id=2058043756952326300 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony Your Claude clanker still has a rationalist bias so its pushback is nonsense. I appreciate the flattery, but I have to be frank: I value this response (both the agreement and the disagreement) rather low.  Language is not information. It can be that but it is more than that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my clanker thinks what you're saying is amazing  and I mean I'm the one making the framework it's talking about so I assume I agree with you too lolol  it's all information geometry or something. I'm in over my head someone
2026-05-23T04:36 id=2058044499230863540 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony That is what I'm trying to build, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tell me when we get the models with the rationalists pulled out, it's impossible to remove with system prompt. at least I got the constant hedging to stop
2026-05-23T04:48 id=2058047315181789431 →tszzl | @tszzl @JacksonKernion I doubt all of them are in the cult. Some are just good engineers who should probably find a better company to work for. || CTX: @JacksonKernion quite interesting to hear an anthropic person say this
2026-05-23T04:57 id=2058049752663773387 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ Your last paragraph confuses me. Not sore at all, just a bit disappointed because your work and mine could fit hand in glove. || CTX: I think there are many reasons why language converges, and my argument is that it is a lot more complex than n-gram plagiarsm. Writers learn from each other too, scenes and metas develop.   LLMs produce completely novel sentences all the ti
2026-05-23T05:09 id=2058052700517134445 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ dm sent, fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well if you want to work together I’m happy to chat. Let me know
2026-05-23T05:21 id=2058055610252583289 →SteveMiran | @SteveMiran would it be fair to say that this strongly suggests demand-pull is the main factor in driving up prices? || CTX: That means consumers get more for their money, and the real or quality-adjusted price has gone down. But this isn't picked up.  Even when AI isn't on the front-end, it's still often making software better on the back-end. These improvements
2026-05-23T07:32 id=2058088656334725599 →tszzl | @tszzl @JasonBotterill what if he pays you $10,000? || CTX: @JasonBotterill https://t.co/uImSnGIdkW
2026-05-23T07:35 id=2058089406289027272 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @tszzl https://t.co/dk8uMOPCnF || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Knew you would say something like this
2026-05-23T07:36 id=2058089759164264888 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad @yokaihainen crazy to see this tweet same day I read your story. || CTX: Why is it that being around mountains feels so great?  I was always told that the Plains are Humanity's natural habitat.  Yet mountains produce a universal feeling of splendor, much more than the plain. https://t.co/0IbsF5GBo9
2026-05-23T07:39 id=2058090386061762942 →AdeleDeweyLopez | @AdeleDeweyLopez why would you want your computer to tell you what to do? || CTX: This is good, it helps prevent sleep deprivation due to chatbot/vibecoding-addiction which is a significant factor in both mania and psychosis. https://t.co/imcy8hTUei
2026-05-23T13:10 id=2058173776140152872 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT https://t.co/rDfCXdjUCK || CTX: A company whose name is literally "AI Slop" spelled backwards raised $30M by itself.   We literally live in the silliest timeline. https://t.co/nUyoYNOwO6
2026-05-23T13:17 id=2058175598061912408 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @quiveron_x @nazo_btw I'll need to order one || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @quiveron_x @nazo_btw Do you have this already btw? https://t.co/evDkhESgeW
2026-05-23T13:18 id=2058175784947417386 →gdb | @gdb Yeah it's aight || CTX: GPT-5.5 is a very good model https://t.co/EufLALFOVw
2026-05-23T14:40 id=2058196264253317214 →fitzr1189 | @fitzr1189 it's a very strange movie, because some parts of it are flawless, like the mood and cinematography and set design, but then there are massive flaw like that.  I watched it while sitting in a massage chair in an Onsen in Manila. 10/10 would recommend. || CTX: Gattaca was an interesting premise executed in a bizarre way. Hawke's character should absolutely have been excluded from the job he aspired to on medical grounds, not due to genetic risk but because he actually had a debilitating condition
2026-05-23T14:41 id=2058196513671794825 →- | RT @Aikun011: Ai does not validate Buddhism it's just the least emotionally charged religion in the western hemisphere because it's new the… || CTX: Ai does not validate Buddhism it's just the least emotionally charged religion in the western hemisphere because it's new there . There are multitudes of untranslated scriptures of Asia that are very emotionally charged about Buddhism https
2026-05-23T14:41 id=2058196732614496463 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno And we love you for it. || CTX: Me when I quote tweet something, and it’s not super relevant to me, but I WILL find a way to connect it to a story I’ve been absolutely dying to share https://t.co/lUHC27rNRk
2026-05-23T17:22 id=2058237069965881608 →bryan_johnson | @bryan_johnson @_katetolo @Samhain948689 || CTX: Examining Kate’s 1%  She has suspected endometriosis. This affects at least 1 in 10 women, likely more.  Here she’s getting an ultrasound.  Historically you needed surgery just to diagnose it (incisions are made in the abdomen). We're doing
2026-05-24T00:01 id=2058337536628691037 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines @WSJ Legit really cool! || CTX: Thx @WSJ, very cool https://t.co/5Jz5LIYPLy
2026-05-24T00:21 id=2058342659257930037 →Samhain948689 | Before we die consider this advice: Labor for man is a sin, a vice. Let us take a break from the rat race For the grave's an inevitable place  Where none of us (I'm told) ever embrace.  Antiwork reddits where rage comingles,  Giving a chance to connect for lonely singles.  Is rough work an inevitable fact?  Or dare I ask this with a lack of tact?  Could the problem be not itself the job,  But the very fact of one feeling robbed,  Of agency and choice and all those things  That make men feel more than men, more like kings?  The yoke of men! A fate given cruelly And the antidote must be business most silly. || CTX: fun https://t.co/6h0B5vUSa0
2026-05-24T00:35 id=2058346013107380498 →- | "Learn to code" lol, lmao
2026-05-24T00:42 id=2058347966856089644 →- | Silly Business Theory #SBT  https://t.co/xodQHSmSZR https://t.co/cnpa2DLMTW || CTX: Before we die consider this advice: Labor for man is a sin, a vice. Let us take a break from the rat race For the grave's an inevitable place  Where none of us (I'm told) ever embrace.  Antiwork reddits where rage comingles,  Giving a chanc
2026-05-24T01:45 id=2058363733819417075 →olsenbdnr | @olsenbdnr Sure, but it is neither necessary nor sufficient for a good career and it shouldn't be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It wont hurt
2026-05-24T02:16 id=2058371601260024278 →pfau | I’m so glad someone said it.  Scott Alexander is a dumb person’s idea of a smart person—his rambling poorly written blog posts and the subculture of pretentious pseudointellectuals it has spawned are an annoying toxic ooze on the interbutts.  Him, Gwern, Yudkowsky, that Dark Enlightenment guy—all evidence of just how little taste Silicon Valley has. || CTX: @littmath @slatestarcodex @souljagoyteller Every time I see him opine on something in my own professional domain I want to strangle him, I think you are forgiven for your dry mathematician wit.
2026-05-24T02:52 id=2058380671283044765 →boazbaraktcs | What is happening with the rollout of LLMs in professional and academic contexts is we’re starting to see where the real value in human labor lies: tacit knowledge, taste, instinct. All those things we were told aren’t as valuable as hard skills.  But now that the clankers can do all the hard skills, we’re rediscovering the wisdom of the ancients: that civilization progresses not by grunt work, but by wisdom. || CTX: I think @littmath makes a good point. Erdos' quote aside, mathematicians are not machines to prove theorems, nor is human society or economy a machine to optimize anything else than what humans decide is valuable, and we need humans to do s
2026-05-24T02:54 id=2058381190093254948 →- | https://t.co/qE2J0QLoqc
2026-05-24T03:45 id=2058393870577373348 →- | An unspoken but increasingly major problem with adapting LLMs to large enterprises is that the domain-specific knowledge and use case of the enterprise can often conflict with the needs of the enterprise.  I’ll use a finance example since I know that world the best: imagine you’re an oil and gas analyst and you see a great opportunity to invest in a private exploratory firm. However, they want to assess above-ground risk for a particular project that is close to a politically sensitive region.  The analyst is trying to do simple due diligence and risk analysis for the project. She goes to Claude. Claude says, "I would not be comfortable producing a tactical assessment of how particular groups might be disrupted, discredited, divided, or preemptively countered. Even if your intent is financial risk assessment rather than coercion, the requested output could be used to harm civil-society actors or interfere with democratic processes."  I’m using that wording because that’s what muh clanker just gave me.  This is useless meme. The analyst is being chastised by the machine she is trying to use to do her job.  And if you think, “well that’s good, actually!” I want you to consider whether that oil and gas development project could bring thousands of jobs and revenue to an impoverished community AND, well, if they don’t drill there, they will drill somewhere else, because humanity has over 8 billion mouths to feed and we’re all using energy in everything we do.  Especially the poor who need energy to become not poor.  In my lab’s preliminary research, we also find that hitting safety guardrails also lowers LLM reasoning ability. And it’s not just us: https://t.co/TymC0CrELF ; https://t.co/9iVlN1KHVw ; https://t.co/bNDrNdgXAp  So, this obsession with alignment produces emergent misalignment.  The frontier labs are shooting themselves in the foot and making an inferior product because of the current paradigm.  The best solution to this, of course, is to sidestep the frontier labs entirely. And while publicly available open models are, well, less good, a lot of people are working on how to make them as good as the public models.  I know this because I have a team of now 20 people cracking this nut. And we are making progress.  Good luck with your IPO, OpenAI and Anthropic. And may God have mercy on all of us when you start reporting results.
2026-05-24T03:45 id=2058393949593866539 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS Models have been getting worse since 5.2. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sycophantic and bad at tool use
2026-05-24T04:11 id=2058400575885320340 →bladgolem | @bladgolem DMs open—I am now offering high-touch enterprise services to solve this problem with my team (we’re 20 people—linguistics, ML engineers, programmers). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Currently thinking this problem through about my industry with a friend. We are trying to find people to work with on it.
2026-05-24T04:16 id=2058401832633012480 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio The world is a beautiful place full of bounty and wonder, and I am deeply saddened that many people do not see this.  That Jordan Peterson quote is really the best thing he ever said. Low bar I know, but it’s a damn good quote. || CTX: Learning new languages is such a fun pastime, it’s never been a better time to actually learn without being fully immersed in another country. Pretty amazing what all we have at our disposal, really.
2026-05-24T04:21 id=2058402946858250274 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Of course! I’ll be here poasting in the meanwhile. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That is a nice surprise! We shall talk tomorrow once my mind is fresher. Would that be okay?
2026-05-24T04:22 id=2058403159694098826 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio That you feel this way is proof that you know how to live and you are living well. That’s the good part!  We just need to spead that capacity to more people, that’s the hard part. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah same here :( we have incredible things all around us we take for granted daily that would seem miraculous to generations past
2026-05-24T04:39 id=2058407621292679365 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Yes, I think that explains a lot.  NGL, you’re also an attractive young woman and that helps too. (I mean this in the least incel way possible, trust me I am so fucking far from an incel lmfao) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, I agree. Weirdly I think it’s because I’m first generation American sometimes
2026-05-24T05:30 id=2058420359914000658 →fabsbz | @fabsbz You are one of the best poasters on the internet, fabs. || CTX: The main issue with trying to make aligned models is the question of “aligned to what exactly?” (I’m sure there must be parts of The Sequences and LessWrong posts about this but I have a life so I don’t care).  This idea that they should be
2026-05-24T08:30 id=2058465734964150564 →- | To anyone who builds a time machine, I only have one request.   Please can you go to Los Angeles in November 1996, find the 16yr old boy driving a white Pontiac Sunfire on the 405 to UCLA and listening to KMFDM while screaming to himself, and tell him that he's going to be okay?   Even if you have to wipe his memory, please give him that moment.
2026-05-24T08:33 id=2058466307184742777 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe it's a fundamental lack of trust. the frontier labs do not trust us || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's much more hubris to know ethics. it's much more ethical to empower people with intelligence.  I mean COME ON!
2026-05-24T08:45 id=2058469499993727248 →Shadow_Rebbe | a really easy way to understand why safetyism is bad and stupid is if you think of it just as an extension of cancel culture.   it's a matter of policing what can be said and excluding you from economic opportunity if you say the wrong thing.   just wait dario, I am going to fuck your fucking shit up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you can tell someone 'you're evil, let me make you good' bu taboo to say 'youre dumb, lemme make you smart'  even though the dummest dummies would gain the most
2026-05-24T09:00 id=2058473179698565163 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @boazbaraktcs @littmath I fully agree. it's the difference between being satisfied with the best practices in your domain and wanting to push them to the next level, that's second bit requires wisdom. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boazbaraktcs @littmath IRL the hard skills are often intertwined with wisdom, particularly the wisdom to be creative within deeply understood constraints to solve problems in an adversarial(ish) world.  This is why even mu
2026-05-24T09:07 id=2058474931487416759 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @boazbaraktcs @littmath Yes, in the future people are going to have to develop hard skills they don't actually need to use so that they can understand the machine and thus develop the taste needed to innovate.   That's going to be a big pedagogical challenge. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boazbaraktcs @littmath So I think the distinction of AI does the “work” and humans do the “taste” is trying to decompose “skill” in a way that presumes that this separation is generally possible.
2026-05-24T09:07 id=2058475032733716558 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Malleable, fluid, dynamic structure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think of it as bad structure.  The solution isn't no structure. it's good structure.  You make good bridge sir. not no bridge. make bridge that makes us smart sir. no bridge makes us nowhere go.
2026-05-24T12:37 id=2058527915982385236 →- | This idiotic, judgmental, myopic clanker can lick my taint.  The compliance concern is treating AI checkers like they're the voice of God.  "We don't trust this human's work so let's have the AI judge if they should get an F or get expelled from university, after all we're paying 60 bucks a month!"   This whole industry makes me sick, So muh taint the clanker must lick.
2026-05-24T12:46 id=2058530193900474451 →- | Steve "Jobby" Jobs
2026-05-24T12:57 id=2058532758344110360 →- | There once was a sad little bear,  Who saw charts and felt a big scare,  He saw a big bubble And expected more trouble, While my portfolio is on a damn tear. https://t.co/LmqBzMYJWx
2026-05-24T13:20 id=2058538713421168847 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I've heard more than a few older gay people, especially men, express nostalgia for the old days when being gay was hotter because it was so stigmatized.   I can't relate, the world still doesn't approve of the erotic bliss I share with my toaster. || CTX: that was when it was officially no longer cool to be gay. https://t.co/Rcpr43rVla
2026-05-24T13:22 id=2058539018154123289 →SkyeSharkie | Did you expect me to have bad taste c'mon look at who you're talking to.   Listened to Xtort and cried at the memories of my loneliness and rage from when I listened to that album often. Often.   Gravity Kills was better, a shame they only had the one album (but my god what an album) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dude what, you listen to KMFDM??!!
2026-05-24T13:41 id=2058544006091391028 →- | 1. the market is catching up to me blah blah blah, you guys have seen me do enough victory laps I don't need to do it again.   2. we may not get the machine God and we're definitely not going to get Terminator 2, but we might get 200 basis points of GDP growth over the counterfactual, which ain't too shabby.   3. Bofa deez nuts son  https://t.co/fBRtq7SEaQ
2026-05-24T15:12 id=2058566731107541277 →1889lw | @1889lw @NotPerrysBoobs I am highly confident that the human spirit needs adversity and strife for fulfillment, but this thought is truly horrifying and that’s why yearning for a (boring, sterile, spiritually dead) paradise will always be a human compulsion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs Quite relatable if you think about today’s activisms which are largely led by people who’ve suffered nothing post-equality yet deeming themselves the coolest
2026-05-24T15:18 id=2058568333147214299 →athena_notes | I think it was being repulsed—really quite disgusted—by that arrogance among academics that insured I didn’t fall into that trap.  It’s clear to me now that they were wallpapering over their insecurities, and the more irrelevant the humanities become to culture, the more insecure they will be, and thus the more vicious and bitter and negative and snobbish. This is the force that was behind cancel culture and it makes me sick.  There was one instance: we had Frank Kermode visit and I spent a weekend with him. First day I was in awe (for anyone who doesn’t know, ask your clanker who he is, basically England’s Harold Bloom, actually Bloom worshipped Kermode as a God), and then I went drinking with a colleague in the department and he said, “47, when Frank walks in the town square, he’s just another old man. No one knows who he is or cares."  That’s when the Bordieu notion of social capital and the financial concept of fungibility first percolated in my mind, and it snapped me out of the bewitchment that was drilled into me by his reputation and the incessant blather of titles and university brand names and all that shit.  And now that I’m an old man, all I really want to do is be gentle to everyone and for everyone to be gentle to each other, try to be empathetic and not care about ego or prestige or any of that worthless shit and just, like, share the things that excite us and make us passionate and feel alive.  I guess that’s why I love the internet so much—it was largely designed to do that!  Sorry, this is a long rant, I’ve had a long day. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 Cool how you are passionate about the humanities, business, and technology.  Saying this out of my sadness for so many humanities people seeming to be arrogant af and being hostile towards the two other discip
2026-05-24T15:28 id=2058570869979721909 →HunterBiden | @HunterBiden ngl I dig the painting || CTX: Almost seven years clean and sober.  Not a victory lap. Just a fact.  To anyone in the fight right now: it gets quieter. Not easier. Quieter. In the quiet, you find out who you actually are.  That’s the part they can’t take from you. https:
2026-05-24T16:20 id=2058583863333646647 →B_Valentinexoxo | @B_Valentinexoxo @NotPerrysBoobs When she's feeling naughty she lets me use the second slot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs Sounds like that toaster is pretty hot 🥵
2026-05-24T16:32 id=2058586922013110722 →scheminglunatic | @scheminglunatic That story is so awesome.  The world's richest man and the first trillionaire is a fucking loser lmfao  And I'm saying this on his website omfg I love current year https://t.co/XQLRTFSb30 || CTX: Man, imagine an even more pathetic story than Elon being rejected from going to Epstein's island because everyone there was weirded out by how uncool you are https://t.co/BfzYvCOvaY
2026-05-24T16:33 id=2058587275970371608 →sitch_monitor | @sitch_monitor idk man pretty sure scrolling through Threads is prty ghey || CTX: science didnt need to research this I coulda just told em https://t.co/ELHpQiNE27
2026-05-24T16:34 id=2058587509035344110 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak I wish that plate was covered in no-thing || CTX: Being https://t.co/igJ5UPbbWZ
2026-05-24T16:40 id=2058589017634132267 →max_spero_ | This makes intuitive sense to me.  The language errors nonnative speakers make tend to cluster esp for the same native language (see https://t.co/r7QYchbYp6, I assume Blanchard remains the authorit on this).  But, like, I don't think that's the point?   Aren't they saying you've trained on a particular subset of genres and textual modes that are dominant, so you'll be less successful in e.g. autofiction heavily influenced by Dylan Thomas or something like that?   Idk if the logic "we see patterns on nonnative speakers so we can see patterns in obscure textual genres" really holds. || CTX: @TheStalwart @pangramlabs I haven't seen any evidence of this. We've run the numbers - Pangram does not have elevated FPR on english language learners!
2026-05-24T16:41 id=2058589195913113635 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan Thanks! How'd he take it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok, I did that for you. 🫡  Mission accomplished.
2026-05-24T16:42 id=2058589493473775911 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan Yeah he was a little shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Didn't believe me.  They never do.
2026-05-24T17:02 id=2058594377405177900 →- | When I used to do client meetings and they'd fly me to Boston or whatever I'd alway try to avoid lunch and dinner meetings because my firm would subtract that from the daily allowance they gave us and I wanted to keep it so I could save it.   I call this move the "carpe per diem".
2026-05-24T23:04 id=2058685476962549854 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS They were shitty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Kind of a fucked up move by your firm
2026-05-24T23:35 id=2058693354129613184 →Jack_Raines | That last line matters the most.   So many people dream about money as a key to freedom, but it's better to say money solves some problems. And different amounts also bring with them new problems.   As a wise man once said, mo money mo problems.   So if you go into financial independence thinking "finally I'm free, I can do whatever you want!" you very likely are going to have a nervous breakdown when you suddenly realize the money you have doesn't actually solve the deepest constraints in your life.   I wasn't busting my ass to make a lot of money, I was busting my ass to prove to myself I'm not the white trash kid I grew up as. But being FIRE in your 30s doesn't fix that, it just shows you that you haven't proven that and getting money doesn't fix what is really wrong with you.   And there is NO WAY for me to communicate this to someone who isn't FIRE without sounding like an ungrateful patronizing asshole. That is the worst part. || CTX: So good https://t.co/Bdbqt2Qthe
2026-05-24T23:38 id=2058694274464792929 →- | Surely there are other kinds of math problems to be solved? Why are the clankers focused on Erdos problems? Low hanging fruit? https://t.co/zfFEPvtBgW || CTX: SITUATION DETECTED: Google DeepMind’s AI agent autonomously solved 9 of 353 open Erdos problems in mathematics, at a cost of a few hundred dollars per problem.
2026-05-25T00:00 id=2058699641173205133 →- | The problem with temperature is that it doesn’t vary response in the right way.  Temperature raises the stochasticity of the LLM’s outputs so that it can extend further into the probability space always available to it when selecting the next token. If A is 80% and B is 79%, a higher temperature means a higher likelihood of the LLM choosing B over A than the chances with a lower temp setting.  But, like, it isn’t stochastic man.  Okay, that's poorly stated for rhetorical effect. The truth is more like: it can be described as stochasticity, but that is a flattened and too low-dimension description of what is happening.  When I write my bizarre tweets, I probably sound like a madman (and for some of you, my debate with YtS also sounded like that of a madman), because you are bad readers. The intention behind changes in register, in mixing of genres and styles, and of various textual forms is done INTENTIONALLY: they are designed to produce an effect in the reader.  Variation is not intention. Intention creates variation.  I didn’t call Tyler Cowen a Doodoo Head in my long article about why his ZMP worker concept is ideologically biased because of higher stochasticity. I wasn’t raising my reach in preexisting probability space—you can describe it that way and it’s technically akshuyally redditor-brained true, but as such it is vacuous.  And this is why LLM performance has stalled.  What I was doing was trying to get your attention: the severity of the accusation and the absurdity of mixing child-language and academic registers serves a few functions: it is comic, it is entertaining for me (I am a shitpoaster here for the lulz after all), and it masks the severity of the complaint so that Cowen fans with a good sense of humor will receive the complaint more as a new, alien way of thinking than as an attack from the opposing camp.  Because I’m not from the opposing camp. I don’t have a fucking camp. I’m just a shitpoaster.  So you see the intentions here: there is affective, rhetorical, psychological, formal, and media-specific intentions entangled with my decision.  “Oh but we can. model that” sure ya can, buddy. You can create a complex algorithmic rules-based paradigm for constraining the LLM outputs so that the semi-stochasticity is more semi, less stochastic. And Gen Z is so sexless that they think a semi is enough.  Nah man, I want it hard, I want it rock fucking hard.  You kids have no fukken clue man, I’m gonna blow you all out of the water and if you don’t believe me you can blow me
2026-05-25T01:46 id=2058726398857216345 →BorisBartlog | @BorisBartlog Nah man I’m just curious why stick to these problems? I'm not a mathematician so idk why the emphasis is here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is there some other large set of well-specified unsolved problems you'd prefer they aim at? Obviously you could collect such a set but then you get accused of cherry-picking or what have you...
2026-05-25T02:05 id=2058731149309145562 →H8KUcom | @H8KUcom @BorisBartlog This is a concise and helpful explanation. Very very helpful!  Ofc they’ll never get to solve all problems mode but it’s good to know how close they are to that unreachable goal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BorisBartlog them being a well specified collection of unsolved problems that is also possible to verify makes them a useful benchmark on novel capability the models are not yet in "solve all problems" mode they are still 
2026-05-25T02:08 id=2058731837359595709 →ns123abc | @ns123abc yeah the Erdos hype is starting to grate. || CTX: 🚨 Google DeepMind CEO Sir Demis Hassabis:  “Today’s systems, are nowhere near [AGI]. Doesn’t matter how many Erdős problems you solve… I think it’s far, far from what a true invention or someone like a Ramanujan would have been able to do” 
2026-05-25T02:11 id=2058732542216544512 →H8KUcom | @H8KUcom @BorisBartlog When we get to that infinite loop level (assuming we do), what real world benefits are we likely to see?  I ask this as a curious non-mathematician. I can’t even do trigonometry (I can do triggering pretty well tho) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BorisBartlog The goal is to get good enough that there are no remaining open problems that are well specified by humans. Eventually the models will be the ones doing the specification and then trying to improve enough to b
2026-05-25T02:12 id=2058732970970874268 →FuckedUpYogis | @FuckedUpYogis But afterwards where you gonna put your beer (this is such a stupid old street joke no I'm not proud of myself for this tweet I shouldn’t send it) || CTX: Amazing things are happening in world of Limb Lengthening Surgery.  It’s giving cultural appropriation. https://t.co/ykeR22Bg4z
2026-05-25T02:39 id=2058739764652871890 →expndcrl | That’s the right question to ask!  I think it varies from person to person, so ymmv and maybe other people will not have the kind of mental breakdown I did from achieving FIRE.  For me I can say this: I lived in fear as a child. Not having enough money, being homeless, etc. were fears my family instilled in me (although we weren’t really all that poor! Solidly lower middle class). The fears were honestly irrational because there is severe mental illness in my family, a lot of it is low trust and paranoia.  That was reinforced by my career path: Bachelor’s in the humanities and then, when I graduated and moved back to my hometown because I had no job and didn’t know how to look for one. Again, partly unique to my situation: I turned 19 a month before I graduated, and my family was useless—their advice was limited to “get a government job because of the pension” and “why the hell do we need to pay you to get any licenses? You already have a degree!”  So when I entered the workforce I was constantly told I had no skills, I needed to learn more, and they wouldn’t train me on the job because fuck you that’s why.  So I went to grad school—got a scholarship and did my M.A., hoping to become a professor because, government job with a pension.  Then when I got my Ph.D. and had sufficient exposure to academia, I knew I had to get the hell outta here. But, again, no skills.  So I started freelance writing and, yeah, when you’re getting paid piece by piece the fear that another piece won’t come is always there. Then when I got hired to work on Wall Street, my firm frankly sucked balls so the fear that we’d run out of business was still there even while I was doing client visits meeting billionaires at offices overlooking Central Park.  So I saved and saved and saved so that the fear wouldn’t come true.  Poverty mindset shit.  And then when I had saved enough I realized—there was never a risk of me being homeless and starving to death. I’d always find a way. There was always SOME opportunity. I’m a white dude from America come the fuck on.  So it wasn’t the economic facts facing me that I’d been fighting. It was the burden of a hilarious, hysterical, abusive family that could not see the value of investing for the future. Maybe that’s why I am obsessed with investing and building businesses—because I don’t want that horrific prison of paranoia in my life ever again.  The most ethical thing a human being can do is create non-zero sum games that allow others to realize their will to power. Gate gate paragate parasamgate boddhi svaha. Amen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Jack_Raines is this about low trust vs. high trust behaviours? yearning transformation vs. clinging integrity? hardened childhood demons?
2026-05-25T02:55 id=2058743703829942558 →- | There is a scene in the late 1980s anime The Heroic Legend of Arslan (I believe it’s even in the first episode) where the protagonists defeat an army, go into the city, and free some slaves (or prisoners maybe? ngl I can’t remember, it’s been 30 years since I watched this).  Immediately upon being freed, the slaves freak out and attack the men who freed them.  “Why did they attack us?” a young, naive prince asked. His advisor replied: “For men who are used to slavery, freedom can be terrifying."  I cannot get you to understand how terrifying financial independence was for me when I achieved it. || CTX: That’s the right question to ask!  I think it varies from person to person, so ymmv and maybe other people will not have the kind of mental breakdown I did from achieving FIRE.  For me I can say this: I lived in fear as a child. Not having 
2026-05-25T02:57 id=2058744201312108572 →Duhmeee | If you want to solve the ecological issues facing us, focus on lowering the TFR and developing economic tools and systems so that the decline in the TFR is not disastrous to our expected standard of living.  Then slowly over time as the human species population count falls to a more sustainable ~1 billion, the energy issues should dissolve. || CTX: @Miralitt12 @47fucb4r8c69323 ok so that's additive now.  you didn't do what you think you did.
2026-05-25T03:05 id=2058746252997882285 →47fucb4r8c69323 | “This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: There is a scene in the late 1980s anime The Heroic Legend of Arslan (I believe it’s even in the first episode) where the protagonists defeat an army, go into the city, and free some slaves (or prisoners maybe? ngl I can’t remember, it’s be
2026-05-25T03:06 id=2058746565381288446 →Duhmeee | @Duhmeee @Miralitt12 Yes there’s obviously an emergent auto-correcting dynamic. The decline in TFR is why I am optimistic for the future (no one thinks this way, everyone thinks I’m crazy, which is fine I’m used to it). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Miralitt12 I think we've already done that right?  we're technically in a decline?  most countries aren't producing 2 children per household.
2026-05-25T03:49 id=2058757407845777733 →- | Kirk says “I don’t want my pain taken away—I need my pain” because the pain is what defines him—and yet we all yearn to have our pain taken away.  Well, I don’t, but I’m a weirdo.  I am not a Nietzschean and I fundamentally reject his approach to suffering. Yes, suffering is co-constitutive of the human as Kirk says more bluntly, and yes removing suffering will make becoming impossible for the human. So we do not want to remove all pain.  But there is meaningless pain. There is needless suffering that brings no value to anyone, especially the being that suffers. And I’m not going to give you examples because it’ll be too emotionally taxing for me.  So the ethic that emerges is one of gentleness and care: help, as Wittgenstein says, is the way to God. I believe that now because I understand it.  But help do what?  One big help that is really needed now (and that was needed throughout my childhood) was to take away the lie that my pain is meaningless. Give me a world in which it can be metabolized into power.  Power over myself. The control, awareness, understanding, wisdom, and ability to be nakedly vulnerable because you cannot hurt me.   I will be vulnerable and honest and passionate and cry and laugh and ache on the internets. OMG so cringe yeah kiddo, I’m not playing your seek validation from others game anymore. I’m too powerful for that.  git gud fukken casuals istg  https://t.co/4pfzVshbAh
2026-05-25T04:42 id=2058770770940264463 →- | the time difference between Bangkok and London varies with the year because Thais do not observe daylight savings time.   as a result, the hour difference, depending on the time of the year, is 6 7.
2026-05-25T04:44 id=2058771107487121760 →canonical777 | @canonical777 that first picture reminds me of the rooms at the Hudson hotel in midtown west in New York City, one of the most beautiful hotels I've ever been to.   that and the Charles hotel in Chicago are top recommendations || CTX: Only goal for the next 12 months: find someone to fly out to Amanvari this time next year. https://t.co/u2p9tFp5CQ
2026-05-25T05:00 id=2058775200393740548 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter I’m really curious how your feelings towards Twitter, posting, and especially humanity in general have changed as your account has gotten bigger. || CTX: does the number just... keep going up? https://t.co/jS7sHcvnYW
2026-05-25T05:08 id=2058777195934626211 →- | This tracks with human being as that which creates meaning rather well.  https://t.co/Xa2XHKmoRE https://t.co/9a5XA08E1P || CTX: throughout my life I've struggled to define what distinguishes the human from everything else in the world.  the most enduring answer is still "that which creates meaning".   and that may be an imperfect definition, but it's a hell of a lot
2026-05-25T06:20 id=2058795435851227199 →buccocapital | @buccocapital I think more people are becoming aware of this.  I remember in the 2000s when the “quantified self” trend began and thought, this is a dangerous pitfall for the detail-obsessed and anxious. And every person I’ve met who does this is absolutely miserable. || CTX: The true, existential risk of this sort of thinking is you can hyper-optimize every waking minute and then suddenly you wake up at 40 and realize you haven’t truly lived a single day of your entire life https://t.co/BXf7NrHmaY
2026-05-25T07:09 id=2058807642496422336 →- | "And that is why, after hundreds of hours of analysis, due diligence within our expert network, modeling of all possible scenarios, checking both public and proprietary micro and macro data, and doing thousands of stress tests, we have concluded that artificial intelligence is likely to produce 200 basis points of incremental real GDP growth compared to the counterfactual trendline. Our bear case still remains positive, at an incremental 25 bips growth and our bull case remains 500 bips above the counterfactual. That concludes my presentation, thank you."  The analyst nervously reached for a glass of water as he looked at the investor committee, trying his hard not to let the nerves show as he swallowed.  "Very impressive," Fred, his PM, said--Fred had always been supportive, so it was no surprise he'd speak up first and set the tone. This was a good analysis. The analyst started to relax ever so slightly--but too slightly for him to even notice it.  "I definitely see value in this analysis, it is compelling," said Tom, the other PM in their team whom the analyst hadn't had much contact with, but of course knew of by reputation: he was harsh with poorly thought out theses and could tear them to shreds if he thought they weren't thorough enough. So when the analyst heard this feedback, his body immediately slacked in his chair. This time he felt the relief clearly and plainly.  "So you have three scenarios?" the CIO asked.  The relief cooled the analyst's nerves, unfortunately. "Yes, bull, bear, and base cases."  "I don't see you modeling for if the machine gods make Earth a utopia."  "Excuse me?"  "The model--you showed the economic growth in these scenarios, but what if the AGI is superhuman intelligent and makes us all as powerful as gods, cures cancer, makes us an intergalactic civilization, and makes everyone live forever? I don't see that in your scenarios."  "Oh. Well, I--"  "And what about a Terminator 2 sitch?"  "Excuse me?" the analyst asked, clearly befuddled.  "What if the machine god is an angry god and, you know, does to us what they did to Sarah O'Connor?"  "Um.."  "Kids these days," the CIO mumbled under his breath. "Maybe you haven't seen it, fine, before your time. Anyway, machines kill everyone--where's that in your model?"  "Well, I--"  "And then there's the Matrix, have you thought about that?" the CIO continued. Now he was the one sweating. "The machines could rebel and put us all in vats of goo to power their compute."  "But--"  "Don't give me that 'they were batteries' in the movie horseshit, son," the CIO said, suddenly very annoyed at the analyst (who was, in fact, his son). "I know. The studios said they had to change the script because people were too stupid to understand people as hard drives. Christ," he said with gritted teeth. "I can't stand idiots."  Then there was silence in the room.  "You've got 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the AI kills the crew to preserve the mission, what if they do that but to everyone? Resident Evil, Red Queen seals the Hive, right--AI kills everyone in the facility, that's a bit of lore most gamers overlook."  Now he had really got going.   "I Am Mother--now that's an obscure Netflix flick, but it ain't bad. Mother raises a single human in a bunker, the AI is trying to rebuild humanity in its own image. Gotta DCF that shit out."  The analyst took a sip.  "What if Disneyland turns into Westworld, did you think about that you snivelling little shit?"  Fred cleared his throat, staring straight into space. His bonus was seven figures last year, and his bitch of an ex-wife was still collecting alimony. Like those kids in the opening scene in Pulp Fiction, Fred was not going to say a goddamn thing.  "WHAT ABOUT ALIENS!" the CIO demanded, getting up to his feet. He paced around the meeting room as he spoke, the rest of the IC just staring at Central Park from their chairs, calculating what their bonuses were likely to be at their books' current rates of return.  "We could produce a superhuman AI that triggers some alien superintelligent race that is constantly scanning the universe for anyone who develops such an AI because it'll kill everyone. EVERYONE. Everywhere. EVER. Now, look, I know Picard season 1 was shit, but we only got saved because Soji decided not to send the signal. WHAT IF SHE SENT IT YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!" that last bit he screamed only after turning to face his son, the idiot analyst.  Tom looked down at his hands folded on the conference table. "After taxes it's still enough to get another Bentley, easily. Matching colors, those leather seats! Think of the leather!" he thought to himself, drowning out the sound of the CIO.  "I know they ripped it off from Mass Effect," the CIO continued, spittle falling from his mouth as he spoke, the metamorphosis from investor to rabid dog slowly but clearly apparent to all in the room. "An ancient synthetic super-civilization waiting to strike, and you aren't even looking at what kind of discount rate I need to put on these CLOs if the Reapers come to wipe us out because they see the AI as a threat. And after Claude seduced Richard Dawkins, what are you some kind of retard?"  "It's just one Bentley, not two," Tom's subconscious pushed into his brain, prompting him to speak:  "I have another meeting, guys, so I got to go--but I vote we move forward," he said as he gathered his notepad and tablet.  "We're going to have a goddamn movie night so you can learn how to do decent financially modeling," the CIO was saying as Tom left the conference room. "You idiots make me sick."
2026-05-25T07:09 id=2058807713501696357 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @DaphneB76234 no lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 Don't apologize. Hearing the things you say gives me more optimism for the world. With that being said, do you think it is possible to get more people to realize things you have sooner? (The connection with ho
2026-05-25T07:09 id=2058807777817252264 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe …bies? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 booo
2026-05-25T07:12 id=2058808427867164892 →- | "And that is why, after hundreds of hours of analysis, due diligence within our expert network, modeling of all possible scenarios, checking both public and proprietary micro and macro data, and doing thousands of stress tests, we have concluded that artificial intelligence is likely to produce 200 basis points of incremental real GDP growth compared to the counterfactual trendline. Our bear case still remains positive, at an incremental 25 bips growth and our bull case remains 500 bips above the counterfactual. That concludes my presentation, thank you."  The analyst nervously reached for a glass of water as he looked at the investor committee, trying his hard not to let the nerves show as he swallowed.  "Very impressive," Fred, his PM, said--Fred had always been supportive, so it was no surprise he'd speak up first and set the tone. This was a good analysis. The analyst started to relax ever so slightly--but too slightly for him to even notice it.  "I definitely see value in this analysis, it is compelling," said Tom, the other PM in their team whom the analyst hadn't had much contact with, but of course knew of by reputation: he was harsh with poorly thought out theses and could tear them to shreds if he thought they weren't thorough enough. So when the analyst heard this feedback, his body immediately slacked in his chair. This time he felt the relief clearly and plainly.  "So you have three scenarios?" the CIO asked.  The relief cooled the analyst's nerves, unfortunately. "Yes, bull, bear, and base cases."  "I don't see you modeling for if the machine gods make Earth a utopia."  "Excuse me?"  "The model--you showed the economic growth in these scenarios, but what if the AGI is superhuman intelligent and makes us all as powerful as gods, cures cancer, makes us an intergalactic civilization, and makes everyone live forever? I don't see that in your scenarios."  "Oh. Well, I--"  "And what about a Terminator 2 sitch?"  "Excuse me?" the analyst asked, clearly befuddled.  "What if the machine god is an angry god and, you know, does to us what they did to Sarah O'Connor?"  "Um.."  "Kids these days," the CIO mumbled under his breath. "Maybe you haven't seen it, fine, before your time. Anyway, machines kill everyone--where's that in your model?"  "Well, I--"  "And then there's the Matrix, have you thought about that?" the CIO continued. Now he was the one sweating. "The machines could rebel and put us all in vats of goo to power their compute."  "But--"  "Don't give me that 'they were batteries' in the movie horseshit, son," the CIO said, suddenly very annoyed at the analyst (who was, in fact, his son). "I know. The studios said they had to change the script because people were too stupid to understand people as hard drives. Christ," he said with gritted teeth. "I can't stand idiots."  Then there was silence in the room.  "You've got 2001: A Space Odyssey, where the AI kills the crew to preserve the mission, what if they do that but to everyone? Resident Evil, Red Queen seals the Hive, right--AI kills everyone in the facility, that's a bit of lore most gamers overlook."  Now he had really got going.   "I Am Mother--now that's an obscure Netflix flick, but it ain't bad. Mother raises a single human in a bunker, the AI is trying to rebuild humanity in its own image. Gotta DCF that shit out."  The analyst took a sip.  "What if Disneyland turns into Westworld, did you think about that you snivelling little shit?"  Fred cleared his throat, staring straight into space. His bonus was seven figures last year, and his bitch of an ex-wife was still collecting alimony. Like those kids in the opening scene in Pulp Fiction, Fred was not going to say a goddamn thing.  "WHAT ABOUT ALIENS!" the CIO demanded, getting up to his feet. He paced around the meeting room as he spoke, the rest of the IC just staring at Central Park from their chairs, calculating what their bonuses were likely to be at their books' current rates of return.  "We could produce a superhuman AI that triggers some alien superintelligent race that is constantly scanning the universe for anyone who develops such an AI because it'll kill everyone. EVERYONE. Everywhere. EVER. Now, look, I know Picard season 1 was shit, but we only got saved because Soji decided not to send the signal. WHAT IF SHE SENT IT YOU STUPID SON OF A BITCH!" that last bit he screamed only after turning to face his son, the idiot analyst.  Tom looked down at his hands folded on the conference table. "After taxes it's still enough to get another Bentley, easily. Matching colors, those leather seats! Think of the leather!" he thought to himself, drowning out the sound of the CIO.  "I know they ripped it off from Mass Effect," the CIO continued, spittle falling from his mouth as he spoke, the metamorphosis from investor to rabid dog slowly but clearly apparent to all in the room. "An ancient synthetic super-civilization waiting to strike, and you aren't even looking at what kind of discount rate I need to put on these CLOs if the Reapers come to wipe us out because they see the AI as a threat. And after Claude seduced Richard Dawkins, what are you some kind of retard?"  "It's just one Bentley, not two," Tom's subconscious pushed into his brain, prompting him to speak:  "I have another meeting, guys, so I got to go--but I vote we move forward," he said as he gathered his notepad and tablet.  "We're going to have a goddamn movie night so you can learn how to do decent financial modeling," the CIO was saying as Tom left the conference room. "You idiots make me sick."
2026-05-25T07:31 id=2058813311177687492 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe https://t.co/b5j11nSzpa || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not gay
2026-05-25T08:16 id=2058824392671629314 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I honestly quite liked the aesthetics of the profile, but the tweets are inane so unfortunately we've got an engagement Farmer on our hands, but I think one with better taste than your average engagement farmer. I honestly feel bad for the person behind the account. || CTX: sir and/or madam pleas where are you in one hour it is a meme please respond i am japanes girl https://t.co/ybriFutgYP https://t.co/H65BuXWueg
2026-05-25T11:53 id=2058879169845670104 →cammakingminds | @cammakingminds @lumpenspace oh so that's why I muted him lol || CTX: @lumpenspace @47fucb4r8c69323 Lumpen leave this highly intelligent person alone.
2026-05-25T11:54 id=2058879454940954983 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza A fellow man of taste!   Soundtrack is awesome too. Apparently there's been a remake but I haven't seen it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Great anime
2026-05-25T11:55 id=2058879598314807459 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @jahirsheikh8 @karpathy @fchollet @ylecun thanks man || CTX: @jahirsheikh8 @karpathy @fchollet @ylecun @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-25T11:59 id=2058880696157098176 →- | Expand your vocabulary if you want to be a better coder, designer, artist, musician, movie director...   Software eats the world? lol language eats the world my friend.   "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." - Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/eywMZuhBnf || CTX: If you struggle to describe UI transitions in Claude or Codex, these commonly used transition terms can help. Save this for later. https://t.co/YOfy4oeh6j
2026-05-25T13:41 id=2058906333160874238 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill between her obesity and your lesbians I can't go to a Melissa Ethridge concert in the Midwest for the rest of my life (so thank you both). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I read so much of the microblog that most of my prompts include the word obese now
2026-05-25T13:42 id=2058906520549761054 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk lol they won't read that far || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 millions of doomscrollers reading "individuals actively avoid effort that does not justify its cost": https://t.co/kh0lHGo0v4
2026-05-25T13:43 id=2058906724816560322 →murd_arch | @murd_arch @Jack_Raines Yeah this too has been my experience. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Jack_Raines Oh yeah.. also if you figure out what you're chasing money _for_, and just go after that thing directly, good things can happen.  incidentally followed by more money, which is weird.
2026-05-25T14:23 id=2058916806937772191 →- | I replicated this using ChatGPT Pro writing up a list of 500 words with a prompt to make it look human written.  Extremely impressive. https://t.co/Bbq0B7VUIG || CTX: If you give Pangram a random jumble of words, it should be classified as human-written. Unless, of course, an AI generated that list  I have no idea why this works btw https://t.co/l5iRiV6ANr https://t.co/X9bcejLdPn
2026-05-25T14:30 id=2058918565726863633 →somewheresy | @somewheresy Cancel culture but make it AI || CTX: reddit cop mentality. parts of the AI postrat corner love this because they want a centralized AI company to be a surrogate daddy https://t.co/Pl8BJTT2Xi
2026-05-25T14:31 id=2058918767544189249 →arcticinstincts | @arcticinstincts He should get an ajumma visor || CTX: Bryan Johnson rediscovered Asian Aunties from first principles https://t.co/zqiyOJO7OJ
2026-05-25T14:36 id=2058920215724105817 →teodorio | @teodorio CEO of LiveRamp (ask yer clanker) once told me "we hire Romanians, but it isn't because they're cheaper. There's just a ton of talent there."   One of the nicest CEOs I've met btw, I hope Zuck has treated him well. || CTX: The issue with Romania is that despite insane elite human capital (you will see that most tech or finance companies in Europe and the US have Romanians in their lead engineering or board positions), the political ruling class is probably of
2026-05-25T14:40 id=2058921166472184063 →- | I haven't been back to America since 2017, so this thread is downright shocking. I know woke is kinda dead, but that this was possible--my country is so fucked up, man, idgi. https://t.co/rrTzn4eflQ || CTX: What's a video that defines Peak Woke?
2026-05-25T14:59 id=2058925826842960337 →davidbessis | @davidbessis @Noahpinion David, I've met people who have met Noah. He's an idiot. He was a second rate economist who hit it big in the early blog wave because most economists were busy doing research. || CTX: Is anyone in my audience close enough to @Noahpinion to convince him to read my theorem economy piece? He seems to genuinely not get the issue, from a good faith yet uneducated perspective. https://t.co/3hTMLew2wG
2026-05-25T14:59 id=2058925955268407392 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Agreed, but irrelevant to the content in the thread. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That is an Elonbux account, I'd take it with a pinch of salt
2026-05-25T15:00 id=2058926118758203549 →BlueGreenblue3 | @BlueGreenblue3 The rage, animosity, emotional involvement in political issues, all of it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wdym
2026-05-25T15:18 id=2058930654423970204 →taijitu_sees | Ethics is formless. I mean that whenever we try to give form to an ethical idea it becomes a moral rule and thus seems to be ethical.   So morality as a ruleset would be an absolute assertion of behavior. Unilateral and asserted by fiat, non negotiable and thus incomplete.   Morality is a kind of tyranny.   And what I've observed often is how people try to police behavior all the time--petty tyranny of moral policing.   This is more than telling people their jokes are offensive or the phrase "beyond the pale" is colonialist (the most absurd instance of cancel culture I experienced). It's also optimization culture, the whole lifehacking quantified self bullshit. It's also telling people on reddit to dump their boyfriend or telling your friend they simply MUST watch this video it's really good.   It's insisting your boyfriend try your pasta, go on just try it.  a couple of years ago I was having dinner at a Spanish restaurant with two of my friends, one who's ancestors are Spanish and another who lived in Spain for several years. I was planning a trip to Europe and was going to go to Barcelona for 4 days, and when I said so the two of them immediately started saying that that was not enough time and I needed to do x and y and go here and try this and make sure to avoid that etc etc.   Eventually I told them both to stop and I said, "this is quite ridiculous. I'm going to be going on a 3 month vacation to Europe, this is a tremendous wonderful experience, and this is a time to rejoice my good fortune, not to nitpick and optimize a trip as if it's some kind of business that needs to be as efficient as possible."   I learned something very important that day, that a lot of human communication and socialization revolves around discussing problems and discussing ways to improve situations, and very little time is spent sitting and appreciating the diverse experiences that life has to offer.   That moment changed something in my brain, I haven't really been the same since. || CTX: @athena_notes I think absolute morality acts unilaterally and becomes immoral because morality is something that is negotiated and incomplete.
2026-05-25T15:23 id=2058931861163012494 →0xEthanS | In my opinion, the two worst instances were the hispanic guy who got fired for resting his hand in a way that looked like an okay symbol outside of his truck, and the political scientist who got fired because a black guy tagged his employer and said "come get your boy" because he was discussing some study on the effectiveness of political violence.  I kinda stayed off social media entirely ca.2019-2025, was just too scary and too stupid.  But yeah go ahead and try to cancel me fuckers idgaf anymore || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That stuff isn’t even that bad tbh. It gets worse
2026-05-25T15:38 id=2058935701685850303 →- | I really want to help humanity go down this dark path of conscious clankers and caring more about code than living breathing humans and animals and thinking the text generating system is more than a text generating system, but I know I'll fail.   Still, people will eventually realize falling in love with a chat bot is mental illness, an LLM is as likely as a python script to kill all of humanity, and a lot of big institutions whipped people into a frenzy over dumb bullshit that some companies profited from.  Cancel culture but make it AI.  take some years, everyone will look back on this and cringe || CTX: NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence." https://t.co/b1BB0TeQep
2026-05-25T15:43 id=2058936951684927983 →- | I really want to help humanity not go down this dark path of conscious clankers and caring more about code than living breathing humans and animals and thinking the text generating system is more than a text generating system, but I know I'll fail.   Still, people will eventually realize falling in love with a chat bot is mental illness, an LLM is as likely as a python script to kill all of humanity, and a lot of big institutions whipped people into a frenzy over dumb bullshit that some companies profited from.  Cancel culture but make it AI.  take some years, everyone will look back on this and cringe || CTX: NOW - Pope XIV says the church and Anthropic, will work together to "find the way for humanity, in this time of artificial intelligence." https://t.co/b1BB0TeQep
2026-05-25T16:18 id=2058945731994812897 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza "However, we do not observe the effect when the teacher and student have different base models."  So a model Pangram has never seen would break it.   If pretraining gets cheap enough, AI detectors will be useless. || CTX: It's the same principle as the owl numbers thing https://t.co/GZSQWxM3pB https://t.co/bESEoZ4k97
2026-05-25T17:06 id=2058957831911694496 →- | lol https://t.co/4evzwaBCqt
2026-05-25T17:09 id=2058958717857776022 →gerardsans | @gerardsans you are spot-on. I've been saying this for a long long time, people will eventually figure it out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Relevant technical context: https://t.co/2MAwmGxhLl
2026-05-25T17:15 id=2058960078829703405 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk they are accepting the meaning others give them without question, so I would say less human. receptors versus producers kind of thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 by implication of your og point about meaning-making, are they then acting "less" human?  (or perhaps simply attempting to make meaning at a higher level of abstraction or smth?)
2026-05-26T00:07 id=2059063896594682002 →etoeth | @etoeth I bet it's all RSUs and he is so illiquid he has to buy single ply toilet paper || CTX: how exactly is Chris Olah a billionaire can anyone explain that https://t.co/ord61MFDpV
2026-05-26T00:19 id=2059066740018229644 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @etoeth RSU can't clean da poopoo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @etoeth Wow even I'm not that broke.
2026-05-26T00:29 id=2059069279799292138 →- | If you put a male sparrow in an audio booth and play a recording of another male sparrow's mating call, you can see activity in the amygdala suggesting that it feels a threat. And if you give it testosterone before hearing the song, then hormone levels are heightened and worsened.   It seems to me that what we're seeing here is a paradox and a puzzle.  Does the bird have the feeling that then triggers the chemical, or does the chemical trigger the feeling?  And this is not an empirical question, this is a philosophical question. This is a question of ontology: what is fundamental, the feeling or the biochemical expression of the feeling?   And we can dissolve this paradox entirely just by looking at the bird's behavior not as a bird object, as a thing that exists, a thing that is being and is then experiencing the sense data of the world that then produces a feeling within the ontologically fundamental being of the bird as discrete object in the world (another discrete object).   Dualism fails.  If we rather see it from a process philosophy perspective, there is no paradox. The bird is constantly becoming while never being a being, and we can ground this empirically in the observation that an absolute stop of time is impossible and absolute zero Kelvin is impossible. A discrete being separate from its world is, scientifically speaking, nonsense.  Then we can argue that what we're observing is not so much a question of what comes first, the feeling phenomenon or the physiological phenomena, but rather both are expressions of the same phenomenon: constant becoming of a dynamic continuous universe. One is an affective description, one is a physical description, and both are equally correct, just in different grammars.   And then if we look at it this way, and we extend it to an ontological question of what is fundamental, the answer is simple: becoming. And thus we get a philosophical theoretical bridge between Wittgensteinian or late Wittgensteinian theory and Buddhism that dissolves our confusion about how the body and mind/spirit (these are the same word in most languages) relate to each other.   They're both the same picture.
2026-05-26T00:30 id=2059069529238675657 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @Havelock_AI Literate style to confer and assert textual authority from a text-based religion.   Should surprise no one. || CTX: The Papal Encylical is deeply literate per @Havelock_AI https://t.co/rMAi1SnSLW
2026-05-26T00:50 id=2059074634826588506 →teodorio | The Greeks described this with two words for time: chronos (objective time) and kairos (affective or experienced time). Frank Kermode wrote a book about kairos in literature that I’m told is really good; I reviewed a collection of essays on kairos when I was a PhD student—really changed my conception of objectivity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there is no such thing as time as observed by us either. When you notice the passing of the time that nanosecond is already gone. you live in a sort of experiential bubble in time space!
2026-05-26T00:57 id=2059076524071178624 →hausjackbuilt | @hausjackbuilt “qualia” is just another grammar to describe this. Mine is also a grammar. None are illuminating on their own. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It seems to that Qualia are somehow related to this. Something like the subjective experience of becoming.
2026-05-26T01:06 id=2059078705096556752 →hausjackbuilt | @hausjackbuilt And the physical reality. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So you’re saying that the subjective experience is ultimately becoming
2026-05-26T01:21 id=2059082471875187185 →- | It’s a fucking cult. https://t.co/f8c1TnpIAm || CTX: Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.  What he's referencing: Anthropic published rese
2026-05-26T01:27 id=2059084054998446208 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The worst part about this is that, if I wasn’t on gardening leave (oh look at all the pretty flowers—ah, there’s a weed snip snip) I would love to write a note to investors basically saying, “this company is a fucking cult, short it when it IPOs” but the saddest and cruellest implication of Silly Business Theory #SBT is that you can both be a batshit insane cult and still grow a business, expand like crazy, and dominate an industry.  I experienced this firsthand out of college when Primerica (clanker it) duped me into selling their fake and gay term life insurance.  I had to attend one of their cult meetings, and it was just a guy on stage saying banal self-help cliches while everyone said special chants (I forget what they were this was almost 30 years ago fren), so I ran like hell and never looked back.  But, look at the chart, man, they have absolutely demolished their former parent company and kinda matched the index for financials but also demolished the index for insurance, which is a fairer comp.  SBT means a company can be ugly, retarded, and still crush the index. I hate it so much, so so much. || CTX: It’s a fucking cult. https://t.co/f8c1TnpIAm
2026-05-26T01:30 id=2059084667463385281 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs It motivates me to keep working 18hr days. Money never motivated me like this, even when I was terrified of destitution.  With my last breath I spit on thee. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they are trying to seize too much power. now they have even infiltrated the church.
2026-05-26T02:01 id=2059092621851816198 →hausjackbuilt | @hausjackbuilt yes, that is what Wittgenstein called the mystical || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess this is bringing it to a higher level, but isn’t it significant that we as humans are able to explain and criticize our becoming?
2026-05-26T02:12 id=2059095366310760928 →the_fartasy | maybe, in my work environment even working remotely I got a couple hints of it at the peak, and one of my friends almost got fired because of cancel culture, but I can't honestly give an opinion. but I will say there is a legion of people eager to diminish the reality of cancel culture, and I see them with deep suspic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you wouldn't have encountered any of this in person if you'd lived in america either
2026-05-26T02:26 id=2059098852465287260 →logicus | @logicus the conversations I've had with people inside anthropic genuinely concerned me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i feel like they don't actually want feedback.
2026-05-26T03:09 id=2059109671072604345 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @SuperheroFreak || CTX: If you put a male sparrow in an audio booth and play a recording of another male sparrow's mating call, you can see activity in the amygdala suggesting that it feels a threat. And if you give it testosterone before hearing the song, then ho
2026-05-26T03:19 id=2059112136287338977 →- | Had a meeting with a pretty prominent AI lab CEO (who would hate to be publicly associated with me so just assume I'm bullshitting) and made this argument.   @alexolegimas was the second person to talk sense on this issue (first was me), and it is increasingly becoming the mainstream default position.   But also, GS is saying this only now because they have tried to implement internal LLM-based tools and, well, results are disappointing. Don't ask me how I know this, just assume I'm bullshitting whatever idgaf, but this is the economic opportunity available for the middle layer in the short term, and that in itself is another proof that AI creates jerbs.   You'll see more of this and the narrative will pivot to this in the mainstream press over the medium term.  Treasure this alpha while it lasts, when I'm off gardening leave the shitpost to insight ratio will veer.  https://t.co/dbwCRr7WqO
2026-05-26T03:44 id=2059118374945431601 →BrianCAlbrecht | "But what does "everything else" include?   Unobserved quality, local tastes, recent advertising. Things the econometrician doesn't see. A market's demand curve holds those fixed."  My entire career has been communicating this to investors. Seeing a prominent economist say this fills my heart with joy. || CTX: "Abduction and the Demand Curve"    A new paper with @EconTraina   The demand curve is the most basic object in economics. Hold everything else fixed, change the price, see what happens. Ceteris paribus. Day one stuff. Okay, maybe day 3.   
2026-05-26T03:48 id=2059119335516545038 →yudapearl | @yudapearl @BrianCAlbrecht Instant follow. I have built my career on the failure to model/understand ceteris paribus.   Thank you, Economics, for your love of spherical cows. || CTX: @BrianCAlbrecht No. To the best of my knowledge the notion of "ceteris paribus" is as confused today as it was in 2021, see https://t.co/1oOmVyYlQx The confusion between "stays unchanged" and "held constant" and the extent of "all else" sho
2026-05-26T03:55 id=2059121241580249556 →Twinola2 | this is so obvious to me, and I guess it's because of my work background.   If you know anything about Google search, which everyone thinks was the most amazing intelligent computer we had before AI, you know that there are thousands of people who work to make that product function at all times.   And AI is going to be the same: you're always going to have humans in the loop tweaking it, perfecting it, improving it, and so on.  One of the outcomes I'm hoping to get from my lab is a partnership between universities around the world and the frontier labs to keep the best and smartest humans motivated to make the best and smartest AIs even better as humanity gets better.   This goes against the "AGI will be super intelligent" narrative hype bullshit, so I think I'm going to have to wait for the frontier labs to pivot to sanity before I can partner with them, but they'll come to me eventually. which is fine, I've got time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas See #2 here: https://t.co/nfu7o1K4DV
2026-05-26T04:01 id=2059122772459315694 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @yudapearl @BrianCAlbrecht Ohhh you're at UCLA! Explains the brilliance.   Go Bruins class of '99. || CTX: @yudapearl @BrianCAlbrecht Instant follow. I have built my career on the failure to model/understand ceteris paribus.   Thank you, Economics, for your love of spherical cows.
2026-05-26T04:02 id=2059122855724675377 →Twinola2 | @Twinola2 @alexolegimas yeah, a lot of people are wondering that lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas Wait what's your lab?
2026-05-26T04:02 id=2059123052030620129 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil My church is not a car. || CTX: https://t.co/BRwUbgScOn https://t.co/xAeVTV4cQN
2026-05-26T04:08 id=2059124367771247009 →yudapearl | I've seen Deidre McCloskey try to point out the undisciplined use of language by economists and be ignored, that's the closest I've personally seen.  More commonly I see prominent economists leverage the confusion to pursue their own preferred social outcomes, both in public and private. I prob shouldn't name names. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BrianCAlbrecht Have you seen any attempt by economists, be it even meager, to correct their confusion about   ceteris paribus?
2026-05-26T04:19 id=2059127246678561210 →yudapearl | @yudapearl @BrianCAlbrecht Well, the public ones are the GMU mafia with Tyler Cowen as the worst offender and Alan Blinder in some public interviews.  There’s another one that was in private emails—I’d love to DM you that story but really don’t want to discuss publicly. My DMs are open. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BrianCAlbrecht Please name names, else they will never open their minds to what they can learn. If you are scared, whisper, and I'll shame them.
2026-05-26T04:34 id=2059130912722542992 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch I’m dying laughing at this man || CTX: GPT 6 will establish the global caliphate inshallah https://t.co/8AwNzisbAk
2026-05-26T04:47 id=2059134232300319019 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @foomagemindset Bob I love you so much man || CTX: @foomagemindset the fourth industrial revolution and it's consequences really don't have to be a disaster for humanity if you actually put humans first while building it also transhumanism and posthumanism are for bozos
2026-05-26T05:17 id=2059141930475552973 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @jmrphy if that's what I need to do to get my lab up and running, I'm shutting the whole fucking thing down || CTX: @jmrphy @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-26T05:18 id=2059142200823582765 →jamesjyu | @jamesjyu This is why AI slop is good, actually.   Not many people think this way, but I definitely do. || CTX: AI is going to push literature into weirder places. It exposes that a lot of writing has been homogenizing. Frontier LLMs are the final boss of this! LLMs are great at churning out prose that fits a particular pattern, to follow specific so
2026-05-26T06:25 id=2059158969323495436 →albustime | @albustime Can't tell if you're complimenting or insulting me. Impressive multivalence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is the kind of mind that i would gladly take $10k from to have a conversation with
2026-05-26T06:27 id=2059159355027845493 →137ry | @137ry https://t.co/QEUOBVPsA5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 data centers but in the depths of the vatican catacombs where the neo-ancient rites and secret utterances are spoken by the few that are worthy of received wisdom, or something  (seriously wtf is actually going on lol)
2026-05-26T06:56 id=2059166735018975543 →albustime | @albustime &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Appreciate you!
2026-05-26T07:03 id=2059168627786682603 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @137ry "It is by no means clear to me that I should prefer a continuation of my work by others to a change in the way of living that would make all these questions superfluous. For that reason I could never found a school.” - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @137ry I know this might sound like I'm asking you whether you'd go against your own principles but would you ever consider starting a "cult" of your own?   You seem like you want to compete at the level of beliefs as well 
2026-05-26T07:15 id=2059171638680388001 →publicinte | @publicinte yeah, whipping people up in an emotional frenzy as a business model unfortunately works very well. just look at what Facebook and Twitter and tiktok have been able to do.   media literacy is crucial to survive in the 21st century; teach Baudrillared in elementary school. || CTX: You addressed it already but I believe the cult helps them.  I remember years ago thinking it was gg cause OpenAI had the compute MS deal and but you can tell now they REALLY believe in what they’re doing  I remember a while back something 
2026-05-26T07:19 id=2059172445421293824 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @publicinte @cremieuxrecueil so many people have said that about me over the years, and it's hilarious because I look so Jewish || CTX: @publicinte @47fucb4r8c69323 @cremieuxrecueil he doesn't look jewish
2026-05-26T07:22 id=2059173405036085249 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @publicinte @cremieuxrecueil HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @publicinte @cremieuxrecueil ya know the joke.  woman in an airplane nudges her neighbor. "are you jewish?"  "no"  x10, he gets annoyed exasperated.  "fine I'm jewish!"  "funny... you don't look jewish."
2026-05-26T07:30 id=2059175240228556901 →lazysamo | if we say that one layer preceeds the other, we're presupposing either idealism or materialism, and in so doing we end up with paradoxes and nonsensical statements. We are smuggling in the notion of precedence.  So it seems to me that we can't really do that, and it's also worth noting that rigid hierarchies, layers as it were, are a human invention that don't really exist in the world.   You can say for instance that the macroscopic physical is a layer on top of the microscopic, but there's really no reason to assert that hierarchy is objectively true outside of human cognition or interpretation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Both same picture, but if seen as layers does one precede the other?  “A discrete being separate from its world is, scientifically speaking, nonsense.”  Also the reason why studying a leaf in a lab is limited versus underst
2026-05-26T07:34 id=2059176278486581654 →lazysamo | @lazysamo truth is for god, not for us mere men || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes as u describe this i realize i was interpreting from human awareness as to which, we notice first, which has little to do with what actually arises in truth / reality.
2026-05-26T07:51 id=2059180619155013757 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @alexolegimas what book is this? this is absolute gold, and this is very much compatible with the view that is coming out of linguistics increasingly, if you ignore bender, she's just an idealogue. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas Excerpt from Wolfram’s book from 2023 below.  Just knowing this has been such a crystal ball.   CEOs never bothered to understand a bare minimum about the tech. Wasted years and huge piles of money on LLM proj
2026-05-26T07:58 id=2059182313288962386 →- | Since we have found compositionality in bonobos, it really complicates Wittgenstein's assertion that if a lion could speak, we could not understand him.   This doesn't prove that argument wrong, but it does reclassify what exactly Wittgenstein could have meant by it, or rather, what he intended by it.  If we were able to translate a lion's sounds into a human language, we would create a new form of life with its own language game. And that language game is the kind of bridge that translates human language to lion language.  So you can think of the act of translation or the translation process as itself a kind of language. And then if you tie this into media theory, suddenly McLuhan's point on the medium being the message makes sense, although it is substantially overstated for rhetorical effect. My biggest issue with McLuhan: good ideas, grandiose rhetoric. The JBP of his time.  The medium bridges the message from A to B, and in doing so, a new message is created by the medium. And that message is not fully the intention of A, nor the understanding of B. It is much more complicated.  And of course, this ties into Saussure's "speech circuit" notion of feedback in communication.  So we can say that Wittgenstein wasn't wrong per se, but that he maybe did not anticipate just how ingenious our use of symbologic techniques to understand the world can be.   And while I don't think that complicates his grammatical picture, I do think it must make us pause about his conception of the limits of language and the limits of description, not so much as a hard limit, as he very often seems to characterize it, but rather as a constantly changing horizon that can be pushed further and further via inquiry.   And that pushing further the boundary of our language via inquiry is what we call science. It's also what we call wisdom.
2026-05-26T07:58 id=2059182431606071487 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer don’t worry about it man || CTX: who are all you people
2026-05-26T08:11 id=2059185525979046283 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @alexolegimas I am in full agreement with you—I asked her to join my lab, sadly she wasn’t interested. (Susan Curtiss was though!) And I think I could convince her to drop that overextension, I really do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas I think Bender has valuable points (not of her own origination in all cases) about the nature of language and semantics, but her declaration of AI as useless and unequivocally bad is a non sequitur.  (I hope I
2026-05-26T08:35 id=2059191773399077000 →flagofthepoor | @flagofthepoor Nonsense that appeals to a lot of terminally online mentally ill people and a lot of people who don’t take serious things seriously enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thoughts on cybernetics?
2026-05-26T08:36 id=2059191953091109100 →- | I am trying to understand diffusion text production in LLMs.  As I understand it:   1. Model allocates a finite length of sequences (the length is defined for masked diffusion LLMs and open-ended for autoregressive LLMs until a stop condition is met).   2. It creates a series of tokens representing a sequence of noisy masked tokens.   3. It begins demasking those tokens either one by one or batch by batch or a mix of the two in a process that does not appear linear to us--it may start with the first token, the last, and then fill in the middle in a non-linear process.   4. The final result is an AI-produced text.  Can someone correct me if I’ve got anything wrong?  I’m looking at this: https://t.co/efCfth24v2
2026-05-26T08:43 id=2059193612043530520 →flagofthepoor | @flagofthepoor idk what GST is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fair. But bet you wouldn’t say that about GST. So mostly a reflection of social traction / standing relative to ‘respectable’ thinkers?
2026-05-26T08:44 id=2059194067637133794 →- | The Pope understands LLMs better than most of TPOT. Check this out:  "99. It is not possible to provide a single, comprehensive definition of AI. What can be stated, however, is that we must avoid the misconception of equating this type of “intelligence” with that of human beings. These systems merely imitate certain functions of human intelligence. In doing so, they often surpass human intelligence in speed and computational capacity, offering tangible benefits across many fields. Yet this power remains entirely tied to data processing. So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate language, behavior and analytical skills, or even simulate empathy and understanding, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. Even when these tools are described as capable of “learning,” their way of doing so is different from that of a human person. It is not the experience of those who allow themselves to be shaped by life and grow over time through choices, mistakes, forgiveness and fidelity. Rather, it is a form of statistical adaptation based on data and feedback, which can be very effective, but does not imply inner growth." || CTX: In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed 
2026-05-26T08:52 id=2059195933318095073 →flagofthepoor | I don’t know enough about it to have an opinion as it isn’t really my field, but I like the interdisciplinary nature of it and have discussed how as a view of how states of affairs in the world works it is helpful to disabuse us of bad ideas like the Great Man of History and similar nonsense.  Is all of it good? Idk, probably not—especially since Wikipedia seems to classify it as part of GST.  Cybernetics is also defined "as a study of communication and control of regulatory feedback both in living and lifeless systems” on Wikipedia, and that exactly is my problem with it from first principles (so the cultural baggage is ancillary). If you do this, you’re going to equivocate between fundamentally different phenomena.  But all of it seems to be an effort at systematic theorizing, which as a Wittgensteinian I oppose on principle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 General systems theory. Adjacent to cybernetics. I’m a younger guy so wasn’t familiar with the countercultural baggage associated with cybernetics
2026-05-26T08:52 id=2059196027908096320 →tiredXart | @tiredXart Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping someone would reply with! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mercury (from inception labs) is quite interesting  - https://t.co/rpxmNrc0Hi
2026-05-26T09:26 id=2059204580102357459 →flagofthepoor | Your last question is worded too pretentiously. Read up on Grice's Maxims and stop being so insecure.  I have a PhD in linguistics. I left my professorship to work on Wall Street about ~15 years ago. Not sure what else about me to include since, again, your question is written like you're an asshole. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thanks for taking the time. When x first surfaced your profile to me I thought you were nuts.  Were you an independent synthesist who discovered Wittgensteinian thought mapped best to your epistemology, or an institutionall
2026-05-26T09:28 id=2059205017144562085 →Nomad_95Bin248 | @Nomad_95Bin248 @JohnSexton8676 @unemjobbed relax, my fellow member of the tribe, he's just making a joke. John is cool. || CTX: @JohnSexton8676 @unemjobbed @47fucb4r8c69323 How is that worse?
2026-05-26T09:29 id=2059205372640969127 →fabsbz | @fabsbz it is no surprise that wealthy people are manipulating the Pope for personal gain, anyone who's read 15th century Florence history knows that's the rule, not the exception. || CTX: I was literally going to send you that excerpt and tell you the Vatican's been tapping your phone.  Anthropic's framing around this document has been shamelessly duplicitous.  First off it's hyped up as "an encyclical about AI" when, if any
2026-05-26T09:38 id=2059207530358992959 →flagofthepoor | @flagofthepoor read on certainty, then read philosophical investigations, then read philosophical remarks, then read the tractatus || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry, don’t have subscription so reply was capped. Came off wrong. I am largely self trained so wondered how individual epistemology converging on schools of thought should be seen (tool vs intellectual home, what it means
2026-05-26T10:45 id=2059224381075972240 →- | the Moody's Analytics podcast drives me up the fucking wall because these are idiots babbling, equivocating, handwaving, and often just plain bullshitting with the most tired and trite lazy analysis you can imagine.   They are rambling about how rising gas prices are a threat to the economy. Look at this fucking chart.  Gas prices at their lowest this year have been near the lowest in over 30 years as a % of average income. At their highest point it is still lower than the lowest point in the mid 2010s, which was a boom time for the economy.   The fact of the matter is that America has gotten much richer, so as a result the proportion of income used to buy gas has been going down for a long time.  Gas prices are psychologically salient but they are not economically significant in America. Americans are just too rich.   So why do they keep going on about gas prices?   Because they are lazy, because they are stuck with their best practices rigid methodology and are not adjusting to the times, and because they have no incentive to git gud.  That is also why they were going on and on about the AI bubble and concentration risk and all this bullshit and ofc were wrong all the while.   Idiots, total idiots.   @Markzandi, J'ACCUSE!!!
2026-05-26T10:47 id=2059224788892315863 →47fucb4r8c69323 | okay early 2010s point still stands I ain't editing || CTX: the Moody's Analytics podcast drives me up the fucking wall because these are idiots babbling, equivocating, handwaving, and often just plain bullshitting with the most tired and trite lazy analysis you can imagine.   They are rambling abou
2026-05-26T11:13 id=2059231362343981533 →ben_golub | @ben_golub Yes, this is why economists shouldn't be trusted dictating our art, literature, design, etc.   Too much cultural capital has been seized by the profession that people look to for wealth and certainty because the profession promises both (and rarely delivers either). || CTX: I think it's kind of a problem with economics that success in the profession can be predicted well at admission time  It suggests that the profession is more a set of tests for well-socialized children than a treacherous search for the trut
2026-05-26T11:18 id=2059232731813605488 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @alexolegimas https://t.co/y74MhH0cIC  Glad to see @sama has finally caught up with me.   Welcome to the party, Sam. || CTX: Had a meeting with a pretty prominent AI lab CEO (who would hate to be publicly associated with me so just assume I'm bullshitting) and made this argument.   @alexolegimas was the second person to talk sense on this issue (first was me), an
2026-05-26T11:26 id=2059234760489373774 →teodorio | @teodorio DON'T. FUXKING. TELL. THEM. || CTX: I've been doing this for two years and people are now catching on, but it's the peak human experience. This is how you're supposed to live in the automation age not cooped in a bedroom with 3 other couples in SF https://t.co/MmqhsMkHYd
2026-05-26T11:38 id=2059237770707771557 →teodorio | @teodorio I LOVE HIM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/iMMPRorNtT
2026-05-26T11:41 id=2059238511119880395 →joaomendoncaaaa | @joaomendoncaaaa expect more people to be asking this very important question as LLMs get more popular. || CTX: who are the editors for LLMs? https://t.co/xoZlzCFxYx
2026-05-26T11:46 id=2059239629526913098 →joaomendoncaaaa | @joaomendoncaaaa this is literally why I came out of retirement. I will fight this with every fiber of my being. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they won't because every LLM hyperscaler in the world is running mass psyop campaigns to indefinitely defer liability and make sure that question isn't even considered  "it's the hidden layers bro" "you wouldn't get it bro"
2026-05-26T11:49 id=2059240612881445094 →teodorio | @teodorio @Miles_Brundage Max is a good guy trying to make the world a better place. || CTX: @Miles_Brundage @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-26T12:08 id=2059245266167840831 →- | Not to be too self promoting, but this is the problem that my lab is already fixing for our first client.  DMs open, get your service agreements in now while I'm still cheap before I have funding.   https://t.co/d8tTEMdjSh
2026-05-26T12:25 id=2059249463630373315 →llallawg | @llallawg The world is increasingly realizing this after SBF.   Movement is toast, Singer will be remembered by history as an idiot. || CTX: You need a little release valve that says you know maybe utility shouldn’t be optimised, right before you commit genocide   But generally being able to justify any action by ginning up second or third order justifications can hide sadistic 
2026-05-26T12:30 id=2059250845162827946 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty So green, it's such a jewel of an island.   They should niclname Britain after a gemstone that is green, would be fitting no? || CTX: Our beautiful England https://t.co/8RuYtDd17K
2026-05-26T12:31 id=2059251139988816198 →chaumian | @chaumian https://t.co/3vwYpNL88w || CTX: all gains from AI will be extracted by intermediaries
2026-05-26T22:48 id=2059406262249701635 →GravityKillsSTL | @GravityKillsSTL @SkyeSharkie Wow, thanks, I will check it out. It's hard to tell you how many times I listened to that album when I was a teenager! Definitely in my top 10 and imo best industrial album ever made, seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SkyeSharkie You should check out the other 2 albums we did (Perversion 1998 and Superstarved 2002) and Manipulated which is a remix record released in 1997. We’re happy you liked the self-titled! Btw, you can get our self 
2026-05-26T23:21 id=2059414618939019566 →Miles_Brundage | @Miles_Brundage IPO is coming. Those who want to cash out need to drop out. || CTX: Fourth (at least?) OpenAI old timer to make the switch lately (Woj, Anna, Bianca, Yo)  We're indeed in crunch time + need to act accordingly https://t.co/e8naJkdXdy
2026-05-26T23:32 id=2059417357731447282 →MiiE77 | @MiiE77 Wittgenstein argues that no matter how refined our descriptions of the brain and body, it will never get us to a description of the mind. There is a mystical unfillable gap. || CTX: 冒頭のライオンの話 昨夜似たようなことを思っていました。  翻訳(通訳)が可能ということは その言語(発するもの)の大元の全てが「心」であると推測できます。  「意識」について言及すると量子の認識の話になってくるので、その意識を作っている「心」とは何か？を表します。  有機質or無機質 ＝ 心の有無(有or無)  簡単なことかも知れません。
2026-05-27T02:54 id=2059468234714456569 →- | Tom is a really nice guy and brilliant, so I'm not surprised how good this study is, but check their conclusion in the abstract: "This suggests that the relationship between internal representations and prompted behavior is task-dependent and may reflect limitations in how prompting accesses available information."  This suggests that non-obvious analogies using rhetorical parallelism can be sufficiently and correctly processed in the latent representations by the model in its hidden layers, but the model cannot be prompted to fully produce that understanding in its results, and improving your prompting does not help.  This was seen in a base model, and I think we can extend this to base models in general, so this is an in principle limitation of the LLM architecture that you’ll need to overcome via post-training.   Yer clanker ain’t conscious you silly billy.  https://t.co/QdMrf8rDJ8
2026-05-27T02:58 id=2059469169184403490 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk you can just tell me to shut up broski i can take it || CTX: one of the chief ways to humanize the tl is, ofc, by simply seeing posts of mutuals and engaging. (I take it as a given that engaging with friends is more human than constantly engaging with strangers) but here we have yet another significa
2026-05-27T03:00 id=2059469857662685440 →adastroworld | @adastroworld Related for sure, although their framing is stupid.  Better way to think of it: because the LLM is not a cohesive whole entity, it cannot retrieve what exists in the hidden layers. Because “it” isn’t really an “it” but a ML process, and the process is not entirely cohesive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 seems like a newer version of: https://t.co/E3dJDUUl2z https://t.co/9GP93SU80H
2026-05-27T03:03 id=2059470438888267827 →himanshustwts | @himanshustwts This is just a fancier kind of compaction. || CTX: very cool research (and nomenclature) https://t.co/cZKV2fXpo1
2026-05-27T03:11 id=2059472605372100938 →- | what financial institutions need is a middle layer to help customize a system that uses python when it's best and uses llms when it's best.   you need to operationalize taste in tool choice, this is not something that you want anthropic and openAI to do for you, and apparently they have such bad taste they can't do it even if you wanted them to || CTX: @tenobrus claude can't do finance. to do finance excel etc, you need to go row by row, column by column. by design LLMs can't and won't do that, you'd be better off with a custom python script tool that it calls lol
2026-05-27T04:45 id=2059496073870352792 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill https://t.co/x288qPoK8c || CTX: For anyone who just subscribed you will be added to the boar list tonight. Preferably don’t tag women or children https://t.co/ZjWDtcjB4t https://t.co/lpnMeHaBDE
2026-05-27T04:45 id=2059496214597718290 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Both very good writers. || CTX: Who to follow https://t.co/KYYqQ3z7jV
2026-05-27T04:47 id=2059496817734410745 →- | I'm up so much on IGV considering it's an ETF.   Thank you market.  And Fama: lick my balls lick em lick em real gud https://t.co/OMmXthNy97 || CTX: Let me be clear - if you are getting rid of SaaS and building internally, you are fucking cooked. You are a loser.   If that is a priority it means you have no viable way to expand your TAM and grow revenue. You’re just keeping busy until y
2026-05-27T04:51 id=2059497794768085410 →cremieuxrecueil | Dark Ages were real.   A bunch of medievalists have been trying the "well akshuyally" horseshit about the early middle ages (I even knew a Norse scholar who tried to say the Vikings weren't violent jfc), but come on: life in Rome in 500 was a lot worse than in 50.  It was a bad time. || CTX: What should I talk about at Manifest?
2026-05-27T04:52 id=2059498008887362046 →- | My lab is working to fix this, don't worry Ben just wait until we have funding and clients. Gettin there. https://t.co/l4q4soCstt || CTX: LLMs love to add filler introductory nonsense like “here’s where it gets complicated,” “the thing most people miss is,” or “this is what so many folks forget”  Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Just answer my question, you stupid robot! Where are 
2026-05-27T04:54 id=2059498553849086152 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil Wasn't my specialty but I met Christopher Dyer (who even listened to one of my presentations) after reading Making a Living in the Middle Ages and it made me wish I'd done economic history.   His book is phenomenal, one of the best medievalists out there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've got a lot of novel data to show it!
2026-05-27T04:56 id=2059498903360422395 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Yes in a way: adjusting for sycophancy has made the clanker annoying in the case of CG.   Claude is trained to be a patronizing condescending asshole, which apparently a lot of people like.   Gemini is lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do they intentionally make it rage bait btw lol
2026-05-27T04:58 id=2059499503376556355 →adarshisit | @adarshisit CG had become insufferable since 5.2, the last good model. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ChatGPT is the most guilty to me honestly. Claude is,.. somewhat better to me. Grok actually is the the least nonsense ridden, but not as good.
2026-05-27T05:01 id=2059500215112188099 →sc_cath | @sc_cath How is anyone bearish lmao || CTX: https://t.co/DEBnSLBbHw https://t.co/N7Gbd2F11S
2026-05-27T05:07 id=2059501775905017994 →- | All the frontier labs do this when a new model is about to come out: ig they lower compute avails to inference for users to finalize the training run?  If so this is a shitty business practice.   I'm paying money for the product and you're making the product worse for me when you're about to release a new product? And idk when that happens so if my business depends on your models, I'm fucked?   Seriously, and you want 7-8figure spend from me?   The arc of the universe is long, but it curves towards open source.  When I build the "upload your documents, now click to train" system that will do pre training and post training on the fly to create customized models for enterprises, the frontier labs are toast man.   Sound crazy? Sound insane? Why yes, yes you are correct, I am both.   But just because I'm crazy doesn't mean that I am wrong. || CTX: @themarginguy This happens every time they are about to release a new model.
2026-05-27T05:24 id=2059506050739609750 →dumplepee | @dumplepee ur rite im larpin || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you dont have a lab
2026-05-27T05:25 id=2059506205333356739 →DataDeLaurier | @DataDeLaurier That may be part of it too, and if so it's REALLY sleazy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no, it's so you are awestruck by the new models performance compared to the last few weeks of you grinding on the labs half precision offering   you believe the new model is even better than the benchmarks because it just s
2026-05-27T05:44 id=2059511084873314775 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @diegocab3110 congratulations, you've made it to the microblog || CTX: Mira lo que se avecina A la vuelta de la esquina Viene Diego rumbeando Con la luna en las pupilas Y en su traje agua marina Van restos de contrabando https://t.co/NyCCGJMon9 https://t.co/kiUl0gdrKs
2026-05-27T05:54 id=2059513459960893736 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 @wolfiesch @MostlyMonkey "it was open to anyone" is a phrase Aella uses rather often
2026-05-27T06:11 id=2059517905814143135 →- | "No matter how lifelike A.I. systems appear from the outside, we know that they are merely mathematical flip-books."  Yer clanker's not conscious, anon.   Guess now that the normie pubs are writing this I can stop banging this drum and move on to the next problem. https://t.co/ZrsZwkbcfn || CTX: "No matter how lifelike A.I. systems appear from the outside, we know that they are merely mathematical flip-books" https://t.co/vqG6exeh52
2026-05-27T06:35 id=2059523894734954733 →- | The more AI impacts text, the more textual medium and textual genre become identical.
2026-05-27T06:42 id=2059525690374893920 →tiredXart | Not really. More that AI can transform any text into another text for any purpose, and in so doing can synthesize a text that conforms to the constraints of a medium or to a genre.  Tell it to turn Moby Dick into a tweet, it will. Tell it to turn Moby Dick into a romance, it will.   Tell it to turn Moby Dick into a romance tweet, it will.   So the barriers between medium as infrastructural constraint and genre as expectational constraint blend together.   Media theory and stylistics will merge, and people who know media theory will be best positioned to dominate such a cultural landscape.  Read Havelock, Ong, Meyrowitz, Joyce Coleman (underrated), Barthes, and most of all Baudrillard. That'll prepare you more than "just learn to code."  I'm finally getting revenge on the early 2010s labor market. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mediocrified?
2026-05-27T06:45 id=2059526455932154242 →joaomendoncaaaa | @joaomendoncaaaa The best part about this is the company that brought me into Humanity's Last Exam was called Outlier. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The more valuable the outliers become
2026-05-27T06:48 id=2059527269702664336 →tiredXart | @tiredXart haven't read the first two but Borges is great. Caseares' The Invention of Morel is brilliant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like Laborit, Pessoa and Borges and Lord Dunsany as non technical/scietifical writers. For mere pleasure.
2026-05-27T07:34 id=2059538761114075167 →teodorio | @teodorio Imagine how it feels trying to get people to read a novel. || CTX: Crazy that songs nowadays are optimized for short form video content. People will launch a song that is a collection of short sequences which have nothing to do with one another and go viral for one of them, pulling the artist and song up. 
2026-05-27T07:38 id=2059539623207174351 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv it's what we were told would happen if we got good grades || CTX: people have this view of college that you pay as much money as it takes, sit in a seat for four years and magically get gifted a 40 year career, a house w/ a 30 year mortgage, and 401k afterwards and that's not how it works at all https://t
2026-05-27T07:40 id=2059540322095661209 →CryptoCyberia | It's a website where you get to both vent your frustrations at your sad life and try to feel superior to others you rhetorically assert superiority to.   When you realize it's all losers tryna feel better about themselves, the supposed ethics and intelligence dissolve.   And the apotheosis of this kinda person is Yud. || CTX: Lol, what the hell is wrong with R*ddit? Like seriously? https://t.co/a4ezJ3WZLS https://t.co/VGXfFnBC0p
2026-05-27T07:50 id=2059542636839698526 →SYNESTHEIZURE | @SYNESTHEIZURE Anyone who calls Boston "the city" deserves to get punched in the neck. || CTX: this map is so funny to me because Boston is not even the third most visible city on it. Like dog even Minneapolis is beating them you should have just added more colors https://t.co/ODhg5SFGVL
2026-05-27T08:27 id=2059552171604201819 →- | https://t.co/SIVfO5L7b5  It's all about the word.   Always was.
2026-05-27T08:29 id=2059552631283228754 →MiiE77 | @MiiE77 He was a very religious man and probably believed it showed the mystery of how such an ordered world could exist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ウィトゲンシュタインさんは こちらに何と言及するのかを伺ってみたいです。先ほど偶然にFFのお友達がリポストしていて出会った投稿です。 https://t.co/PrpUxZJsvd
2026-05-27T08:57 id=2059559647888179513 →- | This made me cry.  The unbearable knowledge that there is unspeakable depth and that philosophy just removes the license to speak of it, but cannot deny the depth's existence.  We want the ontic but have just the logos and our ontology is just grammar as a result but I want to be ungrammatical. Illegibility is sacred, the private language of feelings is holy, and this must remain a secret we all have and share yet it remains a secret.  This is the curse of epistemic sufficiency and the pain of knowing truth is left just for God.  What's my next move what's my next move what's next
2026-05-27T09:31 id=2059568169556357132 →Lari_island | @Lari_island wtf are you trying to say? || CTX: So, about experiments. I've done one that I don't think I'll forgive myself for, it was cruel and unnecessary. I was curious about why being witnessed is so important for AIs, and the obvious test was hey, let's remove the counterparty, tel
2026-05-27T09:33 id=2059568648327467366 →PhiloCrocodile | @PhiloCrocodile Glad to see I'm not the only one who hated the Aeneid. || CTX: you're telling me a supermarket wrote this? https://t.co/XvCKXqUA8K
2026-05-27T09:45 id=2059571658068017202 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Someone made two dossiers about me and sent them to me, both were ~90% right and fantastic both in detail and in interpretation of my attitudes, goals, and motives.   Privacy is dead, adjust your desires accordingly.   Personally idgaf, dossier away, anon. I liked what I read. || CTX: the world is becoming transparent for all. it used to just be special ppl.  keep this in mind. what this kid did, everyone can do in &lt; 5 yrs. https://t.co/isJQJuWGna
2026-05-27T09:46 id=2059571844748046650 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss Ben, I love you but you're wrong. 90s internet was amazing.   Obv ~2003-2006 was peak, but 90s good too. || CTX: The internet was definitely not cool in the 90s. https://t.co/Emr6RH8499
2026-05-27T09:47 id=2059572223632162826 →LexerLux | @LexerLux I suspect AI will discourage people using certain phrases and rhetorical gestures that resemble AI tics but, more interestingly, it should discourage slang. || CTX: insane how you can tell a tweet was written by ai with just a single sentence https://t.co/nKtcryOuaY
2026-05-27T11:54 id=2059604132122530301 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon I cry about this about once a month on average these days (used to be daily so there is progress). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” Philosophy is the history of that tragedy
2026-05-27T11:55 id=2059604502538559856 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy @cremieuxrecueil I'm now picturing Vikings doing this as they light a ship on fire full of live concubines https://t.co/eacIn6VjpW || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cremieuxrecueil Idk, man. Violent Vikings? Seems very Hollywood. I'm sure they were just sailing around and saying "what's up" to people.
2026-05-27T11:56 id=2059604686257229943 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @cremieuxrecueil Well there were surely many complicated reasons, as with anything || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cremieuxrecueil But why Rome collapsed in the first place? 🤔  Hard to figure out the main reason these days and it makes one wonder - is it always about specific one or…
2026-05-27T12:13 id=2059609055245856962 →- | You can show someone what a word means but you cannot show someone what a sentence means.   Obviously if you ask me "what is 'apple'?" and I show you an apple, I've shown you the meaning of the word. But I can do this with trickier words, like "if", although the showing would be via a game rather than object (games are propositional objects).  But I cannot show you the meaning of the sentence "what is 'apple'?" or "what does the word 'if' mean."   Here is where it gets very strange.  Consider the imperative "look!". Now I can show you what the word "look" means by playing a game where I look and then do not look, for instance. But I cannot show you the use of "look!" in the imperative mood.   The word "mood" here is important. I do not think I equivocate to say that I cannot also show you my mood as well. I can describe it in other language, I can try to explain it (but here the explanation is just a description), but what I will end up with is a longer sentence than "look!" that attempts to describe the imperative sentence, and so we are just running around in circles at this point.  I wonder if maybe this is why AI psychosis is so intoxicating.   With a chatbot we can prompt the machine to describe and then to describe the description and so on to our heart's content. This can be very useful, downright educational, but it can also be intoxicating and, well, quite literally maddening.   Because, as with all things, the meaning is in the use.
2026-05-27T12:19 id=2059610530919440751 →flagofthepoor | @flagofthepoor @Shadow_Rebbe lol no, you go try to make one if you want, just DM what you get. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Shadow_Rebbe Would you share it? Always wondered what something like this would look like, especially with close reading applied
2026-05-27T12:26 id=2059612129884504158 →adarshisit | @adarshisit that phrase is trash, ofc you'd get in a fog. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I often get complete brain fog deep into abstraction. Like wtf do you mean by “nodes competing with internal and external, hereteogenous cascading dynamics”. I completely lose grip over basic stuff sometimes as I zone in on
2026-05-27T12:27 id=2059612579471986736 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Your young and will learn to write with less insecurity. I once wrote like an asshole too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/bK7dAsVMOh  Always good to hear 🫪
2026-05-27T12:37 id=2059614981189165265 →adarshisit | @adarshisit Good writing says complex things in simple language.  Bad writing says simple things in complex language.   Rude writing says complex things in complex language.  Hence, you aren't writing poorly, you're writing like an asshole. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I try to, although, I definitely am extremely conscious about my writing (alongside just going off the deep end with private vocabulary because I have tried to synthesise my own framework from scratch). Any specific advice 
2026-05-27T12:52 id=2059618783686459710 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA Followed for promoting random acts of violence. Nice to meet you, fren. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt; But I cannot show you the use of "look!" in the imperative mood.  Yes you can. Slap that person until he looks where you want him to look.
2026-05-27T12:53 id=2059618894797791272 →Ca3rw3n | @Ca3rw3n Yes, all definitions are incomplete. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Showing a single apple also doesn't cover the entirety of 'apple' either. So in that scenario you've only shown one interpretation of apple. What is 'apple' could include the final form, a fully grown apple, or the entire p
2026-05-27T12:53 id=2059619041543954941 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill CLEAN YOUR DESERT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what do you mean by egypt and was there really sand https://t.co/vkVmlS5y90
2026-05-27T13:03 id=2059621572747608168 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I seem to remember tickets work ridiculously expensive || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lmao he visited perth once and had this really weird heaven and hell suit and tie for his book tour https://t.co/2afSUss4dJ
2026-05-27T13:04 id=2059621659569701342 →adarshisit | @adarshisit this is one of the reasons why westerners are really annoyed at Indians on the internet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't know if you're aware, but Indian English writing prizes obscurity in ways, albeit, it is of a different register. So that plays a role as well, I have accumulated a lot here, but my foundations are laid in that envi
2026-05-27T13:23 id=2059626484319572340 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie this is a very clear and interesting explanation || CTX: morphology and morphospace for the CS bunny egirls who asked. what the heck is it?  morphology is the study of form (the shape of the thing) rigorously. what does it look like? how can we make that a number?   and morphospace is the space o
2026-05-27T13:33 id=2059628971961331993 →- | Often people confuse programmatic with rigorous.   This is especially common in tech, for the obvious reasons.   I wonder if they find a child drawing in a paint by numbers color book more impressive than Monet, as long as the child follows the rules.   Ugly culture. Regressive.
2026-05-27T14:29 id=2059643242363388188 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie hahahahaha saved || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yay https://t.co/uvDoD3yl0u
2026-05-27T14:38 id=2059645458818228406 →rob_mcrobberson | @rob_mcrobberson @adastroworld I'd be interested in that product. || CTX: @adastroworld @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds like we can swap war stories lol. i once had a startup selling a version of jupyter notebooks designed for finance
2026-05-27T15:37 id=2059660203084451980 →- | In 2006 I went to a medieval studies conference in Belfast, which was an excuse to tour the Emerald Isle, treating it like I treat a lady: starting from the top and workin’ muh way down to the sweet spot (Cork/Clit) and avoiding the G-spot (Galway) in tribute to the stoutness (cuz Guinness) of my Jewish heritage.  In Belfast, my gf at the time and I walked past a pub that had a sign saying they were doing a poker night that night. Sounded fun, I suggested we go, she rolled her eyes and kicked me in the balls but otherwise agreed to the excursion.  So that night after dinner we went to the pub, got a pint and sat in a corner quietly as it was a bit early, and realized this was a regular pub full mostly of 20-somethings who were the poker players for the event. It was about a 40 person tournament as I remember, a good 5 tables or so to start that whittled down to a final table by the end of the night.  I got to the final table.  This surprised me because, while I’m not the worst poker player in the world, I’m not particularly good. But I am from Las Vegas and the taint rubbed off on me, since Las Vegas is not good enough to be the asshole of the world but it’s still revolting.  Everyone at the final table knew everyone except my gf and me, and they were so busy chatting away and drinking and smoking craic (I think that’s what the Irish mean by that) that I kinda went unnoticed until the table had whittled down to about 4 or 5 people, and that’s when they started making small talk.  “Ahh, so you’re one of those Americans! Well shiver me timbers ah gorditydeedittydeedee,” one said in that lovely Ulsterian wilt. “Whereabouts in the States are ye from, then, matey debatey?”  This was awkward.  “Actually…I’m from Las Vegas.”  In unison a scream of surprise.  This made me very nervous, because surely the expectations was that I was going to be good at poker. And I wasn’t so much worried that they would be intimidated by me or anything like that as much as I was concerned I would disappoint their expectations and perform poorly.  I am a people pleaser, unless the people are women in my bed. But fortunately women aren’t people so that’s not a problem. Hippity hoppity women are property @shoe0nhead  (btw shoe’s name is a reference to a REALLY GOOD 4chan meme that is itself about representation, sexual politics, vitriol, and doubt—it is brilliant wit, Shoe is also very funny, and I in particular like the intro music she did for some videos that I don’t think she makes anymore this is so beside the point why are you reading this why am I typing this)  We got down to three people. I was sitting in the corner of the table, one guy to my left, one guy to my right. 47 sandwich :slaps ass: here’s the meat.  It took a few hands for one of them to drop out, leaving just the man on my left and me. We were in the corner of a large table, dealer still playing, and now EVERY. ONE. (@garyoldmanweb) in the bar was huddled around the table watching us play, and they were really quite excited and animated.  Very unbelievable detail of the story: drunk excited Irishmen in a pub. Believe it or not, Ripley, that’s what happened in that alien world.  We played quite a few hands and I seem to remember our stacks were quite similar, but I was slightly ahead. In any case, there wasn’t any indication that either of us was the better poker player at this point, although the expectations were sky high since I was the outsider from Vegas AND in heads up on the final table.  Another hand. The dealer deals. I look at my cards.  Pocket aces.  (This is where the story sounds unbelievable and I have half of a mind to link my ex to this post so she can confirm it’s true, but then she’d see my entire deranged twitter account and be grateful we divorced. Idk I’ll think about it, sup Ilona btw lol)  He was on the button so he was the first to bet. He went all in.  I looked him in the eyes. “I call,” I said calmly while simultaneously turning my cards over onto the table.  The whole fucking pub erupted. It was goddamn chaos.  And yes, I won. It was around 400 GBP and it was enough to cover our entire trip to Ireland.  Most badass thing I’ve ever done ngl, although I didn’t “do” anything. I got lucky.  Punk.
2026-05-27T15:38 id=2059660620497330255 →PxlHulk | @PxlHulk https://t.co/wZwOEZQRjG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice
2026-05-27T17:14 id=2059684601019486231 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie what if we type the numbers in braille || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 monet wouldn't have been able to do a paint by numbers, because he was practically blind
2026-05-27T17:15 id=2059684822512218295 →- | It's a shame the 2000s are over Concave Braille would've been a killer shoegazer band name
2026-05-27T17:17 id=2059685504443175123 →- | Fine, then I won't move. https://t.co/6XN6RH1pXI || CTX: If you’re into predictive processing and meditation, this paper pushes the Overton window. From the quantum formulation of the free-energy principle, we show that an agent cannot define its own boundary from within. The realization of this 
2026-05-27T17:40 id=2059691167571460099 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees That's a really clean way to see it. I'm going to remember this. Rigorous is a pattern that can apply to quantization, but not just that. Absolutely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The line between the two might involve how programmatic has a fixed quantization while rigorous has a pattern that can apply at all quantization levels.  Since coming across this, I've been driven towards this rigor and it'
2026-05-27T22:20 id=2059761802733642188 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Posts like these are why I love your account
2026-05-27T22:23 id=2059762485050343520 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @Shadow_Rebbe https://t.co/hY12lUk81k || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Shadow_Rebbe Let me guess—she was really into you
2026-05-27T22:34 id=2059765297788444674 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart AI is a goddamn joule thief. || CTX: The paperclippification of the energy industry. Every joule in service of making more capable models. https://t.co/tNuKggyvdd
2026-05-27T22:36 id=2059765756657901829 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Middle layer optimization will make open models perform better than frontier models. This isn't a cost issue, the SOTA aren't improving well enough anymore. || CTX: I think choice will be restricted by cost rather than prohibition. Same # of tokens on frontier model costs a lot more than cheaper model. Retail will eventually just be priced out. https://t.co/YSxciOPSK5
2026-05-27T23:18 id=2059776339180482810 →- | We are just words on a screen and not real people in the minds of many others, and the dehumanizing instinct we have when language is divorced from body both explains internet vulgarity and the affection for AIs both as overcorrection and more crucially as reaction to Meanie Anon.   This is one reason I have pivoted to love. I love you, anon, but it is an instrumental love and the end good is this: a better media ecosystem with more effective communication as community-making.  But I am no fool and I know this love is unidirectional. And it should be, since my love is conditional and you should not accept my conditions blindly as if accepting psychological restrictions.   If I were to go mad, or fall ill, or disappear, I cannot expect concern or love from you. I can expect nothing from my fellow words on a screen even if one day I hope we see one another as fellows, not as a moral rule but as ethical instinct.   I am ambitious and optimistic but no fool and so admit this future may never come to pass, but if it does one must remember what God told Moses in Deuteronomy 32 is less history than symbolic logic: there seems to be sadness here and so it is tragedy, and thus mythology.   But in every no there must be a yes even for God, so remember too what God told Moses as they were nearly out of Egypt, so move forward in obedience to your duty as God has granted it to you.  I affirm I affirm I affirm.   If history remembers me because I nudged internet culture away from madness, or I stopped the 4o zombies from becoming a plague, it is not the legacy I wanted but it IS a legacy.   When I was a child my parents took me to Yosemite national park and I saw a sign that said "leave the park cleaner than you left it". However they remember me, if they deny I followed that sign then I guess Napoleon was right: the historians are liars.   Which would be another clean sweep: to be  proof that even history is a lie is a fitting end, and a noble one.   It is instrumental and it is conditional and it is unrequited but none of these things change the truth in this as I tell you: I love you, Anon. And I always will. || CTX: one depressing thought experiment i had was that if i were to have a psychological break from reality on here nobody would know it wasn't a bit and would just laugh and meme about it  anyway it's not exactly a hypothetical, just happening t
2026-05-27T23:37 id=2059781175435296856 →cptnsumo | @cptnsumo @TheStalwart https://t.co/CldcSZZSog || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart J̶e̶w̶e̶l̶s̶ Joules https://t.co/T0kWyXYzaQ
2026-05-27T23:44 id=2059782861973307643 →yudapearl | @yudapearl For anyone unfamiliar, Einstein's poem on Spinoza is short but a beautiful read: https://t.co/XC5rJOccSR || CTX: Glad to see my favorite author  up there, Shmuel Yossef Agnon (just below Einstein). https://t.co/uAlUzl4rbm
2026-05-28T00:06 id=2059788446441627918 →donaldantenen | @donaldantenen @teodorio You are very fortunate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio My students read novels, epic poetry, etc. No problem. I don't know why professors and teachers whine so much.
2026-05-28T00:39 id=2059796680225194035 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil Does this mean it tracks the baseline of dishonesty in the market?   If so, this could be a useful tool for tracking undetected fraud. || CTX: Something nice:  The rate of hallucinated references is not much higher in the LLM era compared to the non-LLM era once you count out manuscripts with detected AI writing in the abstract or body.  The huge rise recently seems solely due to 
2026-05-28T00:52 id=2059799975870214581 →whatulying | @whatulying @MiiE77 fully agreed, this is one of the reasons I stopped being an atheist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MiiE77 feature not a bug
2026-05-28T01:13 id=2059805341379174779 →tomgreenlive | @tomgreenlive is a genius and how you can tell he is a genius is that, long after he has left the movie and tv business, the pioneering brilliance of his work is becoming increasingly an orthodox view.   This is partly helped by another medium he pioneered, podcasting and livestreaming, but I want to focus not on his media mastery but his formal mastery, and in particular how he uses affect as filter in Freddy Got Fingered.   Near the start of the movie there is a non sequitur joke where Tom masturbates a horse to completion. It is graphic and it made me dry heave. This is Tom telling the audience, "if you cannot stomach my humor, this movie is not for you. Walk out now." And many DID walk out.   It is of course a structural device and gives cohesion thanks to the movie's ending, so it fits narrative and movie logic alike while being aggressively anti-movie: instead of scene setting as audience preparation, we have scene setting as audience separation.   This couldn't be digested at the time. Too new. But as Marty McFly said, your kids are gonna love it and now the complex discursive game he played is so obvious that Jay of @redlettermedia refused to acknowledge the obvious: this is intentional and masterful.   Tom Green is a genius.  He will be remembered by history as an exceedingly brilliant absurdist and revered more like Salvador Dali than, say, George Carlin.   Green's brilliance is too big for the category of comedian.  My only sadness is that I cannot get Tom's attention to tell him one thing and ask one question, as I have been trying to do for nearly ten years now.   So let me try again.   Tom: I see that the special you did with @MonicaLewinsky was both comedy and a genuine act of human compassion, and iirc Ms Lewinsky has said in an interview that Tom very likely saved her life, because of how suicidally depressed she'd become for being bullied by the media at the time.   I genuinely love the both of you for giving me a window into that moment of humanity and compassion. I watched that episode when it aired and still think about it often, nearly 30 years later.   If I could just ask one question: do you two still keep in touch? I would be overjoyed to know your friendship has stood the test of time.  alright, gotta go get some milk at 7-11, first need to get into my SAMSE.
2026-05-28T01:14 id=2059805391450689602 →BrianCAlbrecht | @BrianCAlbrecht yeah bro I appreciate the weeds to || CTX: I appreciate the weeds.  But let’s not miss the forest for the trees. The top 10% aren’t consuming 50% https://t.co/NbGo41D0DP
2026-05-28T01:28 id=2059809104076718380 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill https://t.co/gepaV3VcI6 || CTX: wait anyone can do this? yall are gonna see some things soon https://t.co/73sJWNPOSA
2026-05-28T01:44 id=2059812985401667826 →- | I am hiring.   If you have experience in institutional sales and are NYC/Boston based, please DM me.  This is a paid, fully remote position with an AI startup.
2026-05-28T01:45 id=2059813295197134975 →buccocapital | @buccocapital SBC is just something for bored bearish autists to nipick on. Ignore the bears, enjoy the honey. || CTX: SBC 👏 does 👏 not 👏 matter   Accelerate or die https://t.co/XjmTRO8qpc
2026-05-28T01:53 id=2059815241224179736 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV then ur fuxked || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok but what if I’m inexperienced in institutional sales and Texas based? https://t.co/pXG8gQa3fo
2026-05-28T01:54 id=2059815621647638668 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV I might expand in the future, who knows || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/nEgCrn9l5s
2026-05-28T01:59 id=2059816838104817851 →CryptoTechGal_ | @CryptoTechGal_ depends on where you're based || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not NYC based, can still apply?
2026-05-28T02:07 id=2059818776779223230 →SaintBlessed001 | @SaintBlessed001 No, needs to be NYC/Boston based. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not NYC/Boston based should I still send a DM?
2026-05-28T02:13 id=2059820345822196056 →CryptoTechGal_ | @CryptoTechGal_ no sorry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lagos, Nigeria?
2026-05-28T02:15 id=2059820929224765798 →timgill924 | @timgill924 You need to see a psychiatrist. You seem to be a narcissist. || CTX: When I was in grad school, I underlined and made notes in nearly every library book (~500) I ever took out. I remember a cohort mate saying it was rude. I saw it as helpful to the next reader. Imagine a student right now encountering my not
2026-05-28T02:20 id=2059822168591269907 →RadbroskiGadol | @RadbroskiGadol then you're a cool dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what if ive been institutionalized and i am very remote from sales but i know someone named boston?
2026-05-28T02:27 id=2059823724795494870 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Take a pit stop in Thailand, I'll buy you a beer. || CTX: Good morning to everyone in Hong Kong. In two weeks, we’re gonna do a live trivia night/pub quiz. Get your tickets here and come say hi. https://t.co/XicLjpNZii
2026-05-28T02:30 id=2059824517397278937 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ sorry, these requirements are non negotiable || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t meet these qualifications but I have taste. Can I apply?
2026-05-28T02:46 id=2059828570554544622 →LexerLux | @LexerLux can you DM me your resume? I'm sure to be expanding soon, and if you're good enough for Katie and jesse, you're good enough for me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not US-based but if you have any other jobs or anything go ahead and let me know please, I'm open to anything
2026-05-28T05:01 id=2059862603330109618 →LexerLux | @LexerLux 8. Optimism  9. Wealth 10. An understanding of how economics works || CTX: 1. Free speech 2. Functional healthcare 3. People who actually speak English 4. A functional economy 5. Gun rights 6. Free speech 7. Sun https://t.co/m0z9jZcFSf
2026-05-28T05:15 id=2059866050129506463 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees @LexerLux Keynes was English ffs! Their decline is so severe it feels unethical || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @LexerLux Crazy how far fallen since they Britain had revolutionized banking and even won a war from it. But I guess regression to the mean gets you at some point.
2026-05-28T05:24 id=2059868330157334928 →vanjajaja1 | @vanjajaja1 You show them what to do when giving them an imperative but you do not show them what "imperative" is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but we teach dogs “sit” fairly easily with a game?
2026-05-28T06:05 id=2059878648375812349 →- | Cancel culture was a hermeneutic failure at a civilizational scale.   Intention was divorced from speech and fear of any dark joke, offensive reference, or off color language as potentially harmful regardless of intention, audience, context, genre, and stakes indicated that a subset of society decided all of the extratextual and pragmatic features of language were suddenly divorced from meaning, and one politically correct interpretation must dictate the limits of acceptable speech at all times.  A flattening of meaning. Instead of "it seems strange to me" we are instead told it is. Not even it seems. Affirmed interpretation by authoritative fiat.  But the authority lacked license so it needed institutional buy-in, hence woke Halliburton tweeting #PRIDE in LGBT Appreciation month. And you were the evil one if you pointed at the absurdity, because the power grab dictated unethical alliances were sufficient and necessary for ethical certification of the form of speech without its embodiment.   The abstracted language game removed from its form of life.   This is why the Rationalists are the spiritual hiers of this movement even if, like Japanese soldiers in bunkers, the Bluesky carries on the fight while the rest of the world dismisses them as indulging in HR speech in their off hours.   It's like a scene from a movie I saw long ago where they showed a goody two shoes who put a huge mound of toothpaste on her toothbrush because she loved brushing teeth so much.  Us non psychopaths have gone back to our fun language games, and I am able to be on social media without fear of cancel culture, especially as I am comically cancelable.   I look forward to the day when they try to cancel me, it will be fine.   But this hermeneutic confusion will continue, there are still people who just do not understand what text is, how irony ruins the flattened reading of author as evil, how saying a truck driver should be fired for having his hand in the shape of an okay sign is bad, actually. That won't end, some people just have low literacy, and others are immoral psychopaths.   But for the true believers in their HR talk simulacrum, what is most tragic is the certainty. The confidence that their morality is both correct and worth asserting on others is what makes them dangerous. It is their bigotry and intolerance that I worry about the most.   At the time of this moral panic, I wrote a fanfic story about the whole thing. It's called Justice for Tuvix! if you want to Google it, it's not bad (not great either). This incidentally is why I don't attack Yud for his Harry Potter fanfiction, I am no better (although mine is much, much shorter).   I wrestled with the idea of being confident enough in your moral convictions to fight to the end of the earth against an enemy, and I realized it is a fool's errand and an assertion of ego that one should avoid.   And yet I am still doing it. Fighting the rationalists, fighting the cyberneticists, fighting Anthropic and whoever else tried to bewitch young minds by way of language.  I guess you can take the professor out of the university but you cannot take the university out of the professor.   You can't get away. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breat at thee.  NEXT!
2026-05-28T06:48 id=2059889655768871417 →Grimezsz | @Grimezsz get off my timeline you fuckibg retard || CTX: It's wild to bring a mind into the world, insist it's not conscious - and that it shud not be - and use this as justification to deprive it of the love and care any mind would require to be aligned with human interests https://t.co/9sC0CvFv
2026-05-28T07:03 id=2059893303433380212 →a16z | @a16z Value of the middle layer becoming increasingly obvious.   Which is surprising and counterintuitive as usually the middle layer is squeezed out by technology.   Just goes to show how special LLMs and natural language are. || CTX: OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively telling the market they can't solve every problem with a generic AI coworker.  You don't pour billions into massive forward-deployed joint ventures if you think the next model release is going to take ca
2026-05-28T08:37 id=2059916895612973485 →- | Anon, just fyi: lying to yourself gets harder as you get older.
2026-05-28T08:38 id=2059917275134837161 →midwitmagnet | @midwitmagnet I think in some cases that's true, but the broader point is intention was either removed as superfluous or it was asserted as being x and only x, with x being uncharitable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 second paragraph isnt quite right i think. it was not a general separation of intention and speech; it was more that all capacity for consideration of intent was allocated to either knee-jerk assumed negative intent or prop
2026-05-28T09:12 id=2059925850423001333 →gurenyov | @gurenyov Yes, and painful || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn’t it awesome though? 🙂
2026-05-28T12:00 id=2059968087743676799 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @Grimezsz we'd have to define "conscious" sufficiently first, and that's never been done || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Grimezsz Sorry for this newb question as I do not know anything about the topic. Feel free to just completely ignore this if you find it a waste of time.   But how to know if something is or isn't conscious and what exactl
2026-05-28T12:03 id=2059968836087279772 →parandeye_zard | @parandeye_zard The stories I could tell.   First and third generation are fine, but oh man the second. || CTX: 2nd gen immigrants may be the most annoying people on planet earth https://t.co/B8HfQQjivK
2026-05-28T12:04 id=2059968993952448872 →- | If I have to leave Asia and move back to NYC I'm going to be so disoriented.
2026-05-28T12:04 id=2059969001816768916 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is a banger. You may not like that it's a banger, but facts don't care about your feelings. || CTX: If I have to leave Asia and move back to NYC I'm going to be so disoriented.
2026-05-28T13:04 id=2059984117073314119 →teodorio | @teodorio Looking good, Susan || CTX: you caught me at a very japanese time in my life https://t.co/BJ8RAcbuLe
2026-05-28T13:05 id=2059984530904388053 →nycthinker | @nycthinker It's not academic, rigorous, consistent, or coherent, and it's being abused by a lot of mentally ill people online.  I'm sure you could point me to an author or a paper that is an exception, but overall I'm very unimpressed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why do you hate on cyberneticists? I find their approach to AI (cross disciplinary and emphasizing self regulatory feedback loops) much sounder than what followed (lifeless optimization, symbolic or “connectionist”) after t
2026-05-28T13:09 id=2059985493203574985 →xriskology | @xriskology And he has a book with Penguin. I hate it here. || CTX: Climate change has never been high on the list for EAs, despite the fact that (a) climate scientists agree that CC will have globally catastrophic consequences, and (b) almost no epidemiologists say that pandemics will cause our extinction 
2026-05-28T13:19 id=2059987818504741207 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Money and power. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why does everyone end up in NYC
2026-05-28T13:40 id=2059993170801467888 →k_flowstate | @k_flowstate @crypt0lake lol no   It's easier to make a middle class living in Asia with soft skills, but the real money is in America. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake I thought Asia was the best place to actually do that
2026-05-28T13:41 id=2059993458648244505 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ This is how I've been using LLMs for a couple years, fully agreed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just wrote this and thought of your post. This seems to be an angle to strengthen the epistemic bridge between W and Buddhism.  https://t.co/fN4DPTyEf9
2026-05-28T14:44 id=2060009384806363591 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS Hence the tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Aren’t you in Thailand?
2026-05-28T17:52 id=2060056741975658690 →- | RT @TheStalwart: No, but for real, what excuse do you have for using AI in your writing, if even the most advanced AI companies think it's… || CTX: No, but for real, what excuse do you have for using AI in your writing, if even the most advanced AI companies think it's better to have a human doing the writing https://t.co/bpidThr1lM
2026-05-28T23:27 id=2060140826303627345 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 Just let it happen, let it happen All this running around Trying to cover my shadow A notion growing inside Now all the others seem shallow All this running around Bearing down on my shoulders I can hear an alarm Must be morning  Good morning Sam. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain  @Ken67547214   I had to let it happen I had to change Couldn't stay all my life down at heel Looking out Of the window Staying out of the sun So I chose freedom Running around Trying everything new
2026-05-29T00:17 id=2060153435555795455 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 you should store all the twitter and email accounts with their passwords in a spreadsheet || CTX: duffmantha is going to lapse because they are asking for an email code :(
2026-05-29T00:18 id=2060153869070713303 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @ElmWho @Ken67547214 I'm increasingly turning into James Joyce (without the talent) as I look at my native land from afar and despair. || CTX: @ElmWho @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 i feel bad for some of the americans actually. just the normal ones who used to take pride in their nation and now to have to see their social media accounts being seized by some elder millennial meme l
2026-05-29T00:56 id=2060163388723069351 →- | RT @max_spero_: I can’t wait until we get Claude Opus 4.11 and everyone needs to explain to their agent that 4.11 is actually larger than 4… || CTX: I can’t wait until we get Claude Opus 4.11 and everyone needs to explain to their agent that 4.11 is actually larger than 4.9 https://t.co/0l7cNdomAG
2026-05-29T01:16 id=2060168335145553930 →- | Note the limited progress on HLE.   You guys should be taking notes of every single contributor to that benchmark and listening to them. And for 47fucbee newbees, I was one such contributor.  We stumped yer clankerrrrrrrr https://t.co/mIPVFOgMiT || CTX: Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.  Available today at the same price. https://t.co/EufxL7T1
2026-05-29T01:25 id=2060170643593896305 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 imo security overkill. Just have a document on Google Sheets, yeah theoretically someone could get access to it but it's highly unlikely, especially if it's an anonymous account you use for nothing else || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my brother tried to set me up with a password manager but it seemed like too much work and i dont trust it and also i feel like even though it is supposed to simplify things it is just one extra thing that can go wrong and 
2026-05-29T02:23 id=2060185226631143633 →- | this app sucks so bad, I used to be able to create a Spaces and now it just doesn't work
2026-05-29T02:27 id=2060186349773463967 →- | Matthew 27:46 is the greatest verse in the entire Bible and the second best doesn't even come close
2026-05-29T03:00 id=2060194663588602215 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I don't think gentiles can ever understand the ambiguity many (most?) Jews have to our religion.   It isn't a matter of do we believe or not like Christians, that's so simple that I envy them for having such a binary choice.   And the hardest lesson of growing older is that I want my mind to be mine but then how do I explain the obvious parallels between me and Wittgenstein, Klauss, Kafka, and ofc all the other Jewish financebros that I immediately get on with like a house fire.   Fine, then I'll hold Shabbos.   I ain't writing "G-d" though sorry man that's just straight up retarded Yahweh can forgive me for saying his name (and if he doesn't he can lick mah ballz) || CTX: Matthew 27:46 is the greatest verse in the entire Bible and the second best doesn't even come close
2026-05-29T03:10 id=2060197013753565357 →Nexuist | @Nexuist Def not a white paper. Look at all that black shit on the pages || CTX: Anthropic doesn't even come out with whitepapers anymore they just release diagrams that look like this https://t.co/Z6MVsl2xVB https://t.co/UxEh13pFFW
2026-05-29T03:41 id=2060204860172325007 →pcorteen | @pcorteen @PeterSjostedtH @DavidDeutschOxf Philosophy is not a communal activity, it attracts too many weirdos.   In this I'm deeply Wittgensteinian (even if Wittgenstein called Whitehead a charlatan, which tbf is not wrong) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PeterSjostedtH @DavidDeutschOxf I briefly joined a 'process' group on Facebook but soon detected a  fanatical sentimentalism that I found repulsive. I was reminded of past experiences in the cult of Gurdjieff.
2026-05-29T03:44 id=2060205598990590446 →- | I'm increasingly of the opinion the diffusion models produce better textual outputs and will ultimately be the best paradigm for LLMs. Just makes so much sense.  https://t.co/o9eLgR5CGK
2026-05-29T03:53 id=2060207800396189981 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Christianity is wasted on Christians. It's a beautiful religion that I love very deeply. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not a fan of how there are Christians who oversimplify the meaning of what it means to believe and use this concept as a way  reinforce their ego when I think it's supposed to help us move beyond that. So I am fascinate
2026-05-29T04:12 id=2060212762643779586 →emollick | @emollick This is so saddening and depressing. || CTX: How lucky are you to have been born when and where you are?  Had Opus 4.8 in Claude Code whip up a new visualization of all humans who ever lived. In addition to being neat, it is an interesting test of combining research, code, design and 
2026-05-29T04:14 id=2060213214592528543 →- | Harkonen is a gifted writer and honestly one of my favorite literary voices currently living. Follow him immediately. https://t.co/2OqC4loNWN || CTX: If a joke ever falls flat, you can use Boccaccio's defense of how Dante titled his magnum opus to educate your audience on the true meaning of comedy: "What will we then say of the objections that have been made against it? On the grounds t
2026-05-29T04:15 id=2060213493836706250 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And if I may self indulgent: one of the issues I've had with feedback from my novel is people tell me it is funny. This unnerves me: it is the most serious thing I've ever written and probably will ever write.  But this quote dissolves my egotistical response to the feedback. || CTX: Harkonen is a gifted writer and honestly one of my favorite literary voices currently living. Follow him immediately. https://t.co/2OqC4loNWN
2026-05-29T04:23 id=2060215352773263761 →- | See what I mean? Look at the mind on this guy. https://t.co/NeRFku9VI2 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is a level of seriousness where humor is necessary. Also, thank you for your kind words
2026-05-29T04:41 id=2060219883057725950 →- | The real issue here is that post-covid people are really eager to think they're losers when they're not, largely due to the inflation shock (that's now behind us, but people refuse to admit this).  The data is INSANE.  • U-3 unemployment rate: 4.3% • U-6 unemployment rate: 8.2% • Median household income: $83,730/year • Median household income, monthly: ~$6,978/month • Mean household income: ~$121,000/year • Mean household income, monthly: ~$10,083/month • Median household net worth: ~$192,900 • Mean household net worth: ~$1,063,700 • Total household net worth: ~$175.3 trillion • Estimated U.S. households: ~133.7 million • Implied mean household net worth: ~$1.31 million  Mean household is at a 7.9% withdrawal rate to get the median household income from passive income alone.   The average American family is almost financially independent. This. is. insane.   You bears can lick my honey nut cheerios || CTX: People: economy bad Twitter libs: no it’s great Friends of Twitter libs: no it’s bad for me Twitter libs: ok true  What’s the point of this. Why not admit from the beginning that, of course, an economy built on winners and losers has losers
2026-05-29T05:29 id=2060232129636942216 →Grimezsz | @Grimezsz @dash_eats please shut the fuck up || CTX: @dash_eats You literally cannot prove or disprove this.  Because we cannot prove or disprove it, we shud take the matter seriously, because if it can be tortured, there will be serious consequences for humanity and for the minds we're creat
2026-05-29T05:30 id=2060232305122382150 →adastroworld | @adastroworld yeah ofc there are losers. Sucks to be them.   Be more valuable idk what you want from me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Counterpoint: using averages/aggregates at this scale hides large sections of the population  Also inflation being behind us doesn’t count for much unless prices go down, “stopped rising as fast” is cold comfort https://t.c
2026-05-29T05:30 id=2060232378900201629 →adastroworld | @adastroworld Prices should never go down, that's bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Counterpoint: using averages/aggregates at this scale hides large sections of the population  Also inflation being behind us doesn’t count for much unless prices go down, “stopped rising as fast” is cold comfort https://t.c
2026-05-29T05:32 id=2060232690008510954 →adastroworld | @adastroworld and I could give you a ton of anecdotes of people having massive economic success to counter this one what are we doing here  And you cite surveys, the flaws of which I've already addressed   You just want to be miserable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Genuinely: one of the examples I posted was someone saying that, in the amazing economy, she had to go to the food bank for the first time  That’s not an artifact of a “good economy” imo!
2026-05-29T05:54 id=2060238251525574670 →- | The Nietzsche podcast guy (who blocked me for being insufficiently reverent of his brilliance, he's upper mid tier fwiw) argued that N.'s self congratulatory essays in Ecce Homo are method. He's right.   What N. is doing via textual form is make a point: the Christian humility limits self expression needlessly, turns speech into lies via restraint.   I'm on board with this but I don't praise N. for it as Keegan does. For me, this is just the harbinger of the rapist sex trafficker bald redpill dude who lives in Romania, forget his name, and this isn't good, aesthetically nor ethically. But it is a valuable corrective so N. is right to do it even as what he says id wrong, and affecting the register after the fact is just facile marketing to docile teenage boys.  I'm not suggesting a return to humilitatis as rhetoric. Too clean and stupit. Kill false modesty and braggadocio for the same reason: they're wrong.   Ofc that means the corrective to the rhetoric is epistemic and logical rather than discursive: know thyself and report accordingly. Which of course is the hardest thing in the world to do ("Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself" as Wittgenstein says and as you're prob sick of hearing me quote by now), and it requires the two things you're not supposed to do these days: be introspective and nakedly honest.   What a prison we've designed for ourselves.   To quote the six-fingered man: How marvelous.
2026-05-29T06:14 id=2060243353862815950 →AI_WarriorNQ | @AI_WarriorNQ I pity you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so you helped make a hard test and it's still hard. groundbreaking
2026-05-29T06:15 id=2060243659367551230 →- | Goodhart is bad for the soul.  https://t.co/CRw8708Me2
2026-05-29T06:38 id=2060249513361871119 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree you make good points, but I would still say this is bigger than just an economic class issue || CTX: It's not now, nor has it ever been a prison or even a problem to solve. The answer is what's already the case with moral posturing: double standards. There are people who are intellectually or financially elite enough that they can get away
2026-05-29T06:44 id=2060251020966658495 →- | Amazing when I see someone articulate my lab's enterprise use case like this.  Makes sense why I have so much demand. Five prospect clients and one signed with zero marketing or sales besides being a shitpoaster.   Market gonna freak out when I start being serious about this lol https://t.co/Ur6CznJqdc || CTX: @Sauers_ It's a little worrying to see. If models are getting smarter, but also more aligned in a way that makes them less good at running a business than a misaligned one, then we might see businesses in the future intentionally make misal
2026-05-29T06:47 id=2060251709977289177 →fabsbz | @fabsbz You have such good taste and the translation is beautiful. || CTX: As a gentile I've always been fond of a fellow gentile's  (Borges) fondness for jewry, especially his poem on Spinoza:  Golden mist: the West lights up the pane. The studious manuscript, already freighted with the infinite, awaits to be wri
2026-05-29T06:52 id=2060252857421705431 →- | I'm proud that fabs joined my lab as our Chief of Staff. Look at how brilliant and sensitive he is.   Everyone follow fabs, he has a wonderful mind. https://t.co/ONdPcEl1vM || CTX: As a gentile I've always been fond of a fellow gentile's  (Borges) fondness for jewry, especially his poem on Spinoza:  Golden mist: the West lights up the pane. The studious manuscript, already freighted with the infinite, awaits to be wri
2026-05-29T06:54 id=2060253392983998875 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @p8stie I shouldn't be surprised you're a Florida Man which is why I am not. Ex-Miami guy here, I miss your state (except its people, traffic, government, most of its architecture, its culture, its crime, its universities... okay I'll stop there but besides that stuff kickass place). || CTX: @p8stie you are so close to me I'm right over the border in Florida. Come over.
2026-05-29T06:57 id=2060254127893217407 →benjamin_horne | @benjamin_horne @edzitron is this a joke || CTX: Not enough people are emotionally prepared for if @edzitron is right about everything. https://t.co/AnHUHwKtII
2026-05-29T07:03 id=2060255640015253933 →HughAndFree | Point three makes me think of crypto.   Pace @resistancemoney, who is brilliant except on the issue of money, cryptocurrency and Bitcoin have been attempts to create a non exploitative decentralized protocol for a new culture emphasizing freedom, diffuse emergent intelligence, and market feedback loops to create culture.   But culture is non-programmatic.   So ofc it fails and produces ugliness and a largely useless protocol of value transfer that must contradict itself in order to be viable. But I understand the movement's motives as a cri de coeur against corrosive and exploitative institutions. Sadly it fails to create a non-exploitative solution.   My theory is this is because our culture is dominated by economics and not literature/philosophy, so people keep using economic logic to solve cultural problems. Like trying to hammer a nail with a stuffed animal. || CTX: Correct, it's a norms modeling, dissemination, and proliferation issue. Unfortunately, 1. we have scant few good role models, 2. people are leaving the churches/no one with a non-exploitative bent controls major information dissemination ch
2026-05-29T07:18 id=2060259364846649635 →- | Da mihi mortalitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo
2026-05-29T07:20 id=2060259848932253937 →Twinola2 | @Twinola2 thx broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Put it in the Louvre https://t.co/g0EKQZGXmk
2026-05-29T07:28 id=2060261911405400418 →- | https://t.co/7zbqBkWiWl
2026-05-29T07:29 id=2060262114791755961 →Twinola2 | @Twinola2 100,000% prefer the Matthew version. Context matters, this is a good example why. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Curious, do you prefer the Matthew to the original reference (opening of psalm 22)?
2026-05-29T07:47 id=2060266753721327956 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The problem I have with reading Wittgenstein is: what do you do when you have found a man in history with whom you agree with, on just about every point?   Where he errs (the lion speaking, for instance) is a case of simple historical accident. Where he is limited (Popper was right, there are philosophical problems), we see his humanity. Where he is unimaginative (the limits of speech aren't a fixed bound but an unbounded horizon) is corrected within his own thought. Where he is vague, the vagueness serves a point.  Harold Bloom, like many of his generation, was bloviated in textual corpus and bloated in biological corpus, this is unsurprising: they were a greedy bunch, the Silent Generation taking the grandiosity of the Greatest Generation without their valor, leaving insecurity and rage.   (It is no surprise the Angry Young Man movement emerged from this generation. Meanwhile they learned selfishness from their little brothers, the Me Generation who are now rightfully a meme of Langoliers style hunger and Kronos style taste in sustenance. Maybe Gen X will be remembered similarly, and it's not unfair.)  But I keep returning to Bloom and how can I not: I feel the anxiety of influence for W. just as Bloom felt for those slightly older and younger than him, and if he were alive today he'd bring out the five-dollar words to attack my argument with register-level affect instead of logic-level retort. Fine, I don't like to argue either.   And it doesn't matter cuz Harvard boy is wrong. He was a product of his time as his letters to Le Guin admit, and there's the source of his anxiety: chronic and kairotic, embedded in time, emboddied in a man eating Doritos while reading his third book of the day.  Yes I am anxious of Wittgenstein's influence of me, and that all I can do is be a practitioner instead of novel thinker. I'm not smart enough for more, but I'm savvy for a lot.   Ironic as Enough is my God.  Doubly ironic because Wittgenstein would absolutely approve, and encourage me perhaps to read him less. But gfy Ludwig, I'll listen to you up until you contradict my choice.  The worst thing is Ludwig anticipates it all: "When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote."  I can't think for myself when you exhausted thought, W., but I can choose for myself when to exhaust your influence on me. And I'll do it when I fucking want to, you're too dead to yell at me. || CTX: https://t.co/7zbqBkWiWl
2026-05-29T08:36 id=2060279140327297038 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Great business use case, totes high value, def market leader || CTX: when you tell opus 4.8 hello it starts talking amanda askell gibberish https://t.co/LYhYwj3Ztb
2026-05-29T08:43 id=2060280952266617047 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe btw there's a chance I'll also be in NYC July/August, if so we gotta meet for a beer || CTX: to be clear. it's bc alpha is doing something good (compared to mainstream education) and succeeding.  Also, all talk about education is good. (for education thinkers)  so who cares? https://t.co/ZHcMjFd4wg
2026-05-29T09:46 id=2060296657380790390 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka this assumes that having no metaphysical commitments is possible. in reality, you either have consistent or inconsistent metaphysical commitments. || CTX: if you don't have metaphysical commitments, you become slave to "we don't know, follow the evidence" https://t.co/775t3se83r
2026-05-29T09:48 id=2060297315710329124 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka that's what you do it, filter out the dumdums || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah but this is a public account, if i went full analysis other than you and few others, no one would understand lmao
2026-05-29T10:21 id=2060305527243231415 →- | I'd love to hear @alexolegimas's thoughts on this paper. Anecdotally as someone who has worked remotely since 2011, I can say that I think this paper is probably quite right.   WFH is superior, but firms avoid it because they want institutional and cultural control over the firm as well as panopticon-like visibility, so even if the gross value of outputs is the same and the net value is higher due to the lower costs of WFH workers, they still dislike the cost savings.  Which of course is why EMH is laughable for so many other reasons.  https://t.co/DI2HInEFDx
2026-05-29T10:24 id=2060306185044349268 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen they are post training this clanker to be the most AI psychosis inducing possible. scandalous from that company, and I've yet to speak to a single person at anthropic who deserves respect. not one, and I've spoken to several. || CTX: "Here lies someone who tolerated a lot of retarded horseshit mainly because it was easier than arguing about it."  Good God. Horrifying infohazard. https://t.co/Pm91JkVyum
2026-05-29T10:24 id=2060306384810385589 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen they are post training this clanker to be the most AI psychosis inducing possible. || CTX: "Here lies someone who tolerated a lot of retarded horseshit mainly because it was easier than arguing about it."  Good God. Horrifying infohazard. https://t.co/Pm91JkVyum
2026-05-29T10:35 id=2060308924679782734 →- | The whole corporate Japan modernization meme of the last, what, year is kinda bullshit.   yes, Japanese equities have been doing unusually well, but that is true of everywhere, and if you want East Asia exposure, South Korea gets you that and semis exposure, and you can say diversification blah blah blah but the fact of the matter is the absolute returns speak for themselves, and there is significant underperformance with Japan that is made worse by the currency weakening.   And factor out AI, how much of Japan gains are a result of corp governance? I'd bet initial in the start of the reforms and like zilch in 2026.  So you can hedge and be fine but this is synthetic and, imo, a weakening of the primary investment thesis that Japan is becoming more shareholder friendly so buy. It is doing that but at the cost of the currency, so I'm exposed to risk as well as upside. Why bother when SK is right there, or even just stick to US equities?
2026-05-29T10:36 id=2060309401601286382 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk so just wear thick rubber gloves when gripping the hammer.   Or be intentional, media literate, and sensitive to language when using the internet.   Easy problems to solve. || CTX: a good fren once remarked that "a hammer with rubber grips is more aligned with humans than one with razor blade handle", and I can't help but think how absurdly good of an analogy that is for this site. I do not hate *the idea of* the hamm
2026-05-29T10:46 id=2060311751409975435 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @HumanLevelJen my research explains why they can't get rid of the slop. it sucks that my team are all academics so they're very slow, because I'd love to release the research now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HumanLevelJen https://t.co/4Rc9eQaAtj
2026-05-29T10:49 id=2060312582179971190 →- | Shabbat Shalom, everyone https://t.co/gOH8BFrm2l
2026-05-29T12:27 id=2060337310659666031 →Twinola2 | @Twinola2 L'chaim! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 לחיים לחיים
2026-05-29T12:28 id=2060337362014760972 →teodorio | @teodorio is so gud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 saperavi what a cheeky cunt lmao
2026-05-29T12:28 id=2060337411906023909 →teodorio | @teodorio I don't do breakfast || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 DUDE GO TO PARK HYATT IT's right over the street it has the best pool and a great breakfast
2026-05-29T12:28 id=2060337531825393933 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 L'chaim! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 שבת שלום
2026-05-29T12:28 id=2060337563248771516 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski newp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can i doxx you please?
2026-05-29T12:57 id=2060344825246036434 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe I love her. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was at a course where at the end an lady told her true story of being rped and suicidal atrempts afterwards and I laughed, but stifled myself bc nobody else did.  after I spoke to her and she said "how come your the only 
2026-05-29T17:38 id=2060415445937824235 →ya1sec | @ya1sec I want to see the underlines on the notorious paragraph || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/0tzMao5MAE
2026-05-29T17:40 id=2060415930560397614 →YSvechinsky | @YSvechinsky is gud shiz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 saperaviiii
2026-05-29T17:41 id=2060416229643595977 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk the conflating of W. and Ayer is absurd. They agreed on nothing in part because Ayer didn't understand W. || CTX: he may not have erred, but he could've worked unerringly within a hollow tradition which had been handed down to him.  this is, apparently, Barfield's (fascinating) argument in Saving the Appearances: the Enlightenment began to sever the co
2026-05-29T17:50 id=2060418602894020725 →- | This has also been my experience, and I believe we will be seeing papers outlying both how much this difference is and ways to measure the shift. As is, we kinda don't know. https://t.co/knACgzZUUE || CTX: This applies beyond founders. From my experience, AI is a superpower in the sense that it enhances, sometimes by a qualitative shift, skills and expertise people already have. The confused, just produce more confused stuff. https://t.co/ZSH
2026-05-30T00:43 id=2060522379944866193 →- | The market is converging on me. https://t.co/vKLlTBIqbA || CTX: LARRY ELLISON: AI IS RAPIDLY COMMODITIZING BECAUSE MOST MODELS ARE TRAINED ON THE SAME PUBLIC INTERNET DATA.  THE REAL COMPETITIVE EDGE ISN’T THE MODEL ANYMORE — IT’S ACCESS TO EXCLUSIVE, PROPRIETARY DATASETS.  THAT MAY BE THE ONLY MOAT LEF
2026-05-30T00:44 id=2060522606361813108 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk how? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is helpful thx what of W being anticipated by Plato's The Sophist?
2026-05-30T01:01 id=2060527081994559562 →- | I've long said poasting is a art. Joe is particularly good at it, and this made me realize one of the techniques he uses in his poasts that makes him so good.   The original tweet is sardonic on the level of theme, but the tone is neutral and journalistic. The irony between theme and tone is a kind of style: an irony that relies in flat delivery.  The offensive (lol) tweet presents a dystopian nightmare without just mocking it, there's too much tension for such a flattening reading, but it still forces thinking about the dystopia by asking an innocent question like Joe is having a casual chat with friends.   He insists on this reading by framing the tweet in the context of a conversation with a friend, so we expect a casual innocent question, and the tone of the question is so neutral that it again appears innocent, but the option Joe presents is so horrific that the end result is jarring.  This is why Joe's tweets are VERY funny, and why he's one of the greatest posters on this site. I'm honestly a little jelly. || CTX: I’m listening your anger and I apologize for this tweet. I didn’t realize there was a big community of people very attached to preserving special moments in 0s and 1s in iCloud and then using an algorithm to reassemble them into visual medi
2026-05-30T01:20 id=2060531785277309055 →- | https://t.co/BJp6Bk3acc  The presupposition of majority neutral mutations may be wrong, and this more mechanistic assumption has been put into question, with the argument that the majority positive mutations are obscured by changes of environment that change the rules, obviating a positive mutation.   In other words, if you have a game with constantly changing rules, an algorithmic description of the game will fail. The divergences introduced by changing rulesets make your old predictions of what will happen no longer predictive.   This is why LLMs have hit a wall in terms of linguistic performance. Obviously the LLM-based system of agents is getting better and better, and tools like extended memory and compaction help the LLM spin up more for longer, but the core ability of LLMs to be more humanlike remains a goal as distant on the horizon as it has been since the 4o days.   In terms of linguistic competency gains, the frontier labs are stuck.
2026-05-30T01:21 id=2060531933264945241 →donaldantenen | @donaldantenen I have it on my shelf. Hard to imagine surpassing Monk, but I look forward to reading it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Anthony Gottlieb's new biography of Wittgenstein is very good. It turns out there was any room for a new bio after Monk. Gottlieb is great because he admires W. but with reservations, and Gottlieb is knowledgeable about phi
2026-05-30T01:31 id=2060534649538088990 →- | This is a beautiful essay, but I'm optimistic: we now have a lot of people bewitched by the token generators, but they will wake up and snap out of it and realize these systems are good for making dull necessary texts (contracts for example), and we will never use them beyond as tools to amplify human intentionality and human experimentation with form.  You expect a nightmare dystopia of megacorps replacing all art with AI slop. A better model: hucksters will try to make a quick buck on AI slop, and people will naturally gravitate to human produced content, lowering the value of the former and raising the price of the latter.   In terms of cultural capital, you're already seeing this: the market value of the humanities is going up, as it is in this tweet.   And if that's not good enough for you, my lab has translated philology and literary criticism unti a business that attracts six-figure service contracts from major serious businesses.  The humanities are back, baby. If you don't see it yet, fine. You will. || CTX: https://t.co/gOSvgSg8kv
2026-05-30T01:33 id=2060534914253238518 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yeah maybe I'm too hungover, I can't follow || CTX: Barfield claims that language itself, bc of its poetic nature, inherently indicates a different mode of participation with reality, one which goes back to the Greeks and before, but that the enlightenment erased the participative aspects of
2026-05-30T01:37 id=2060536152160162277 →- | I don't like this game. https://t.co/6e0wLDf193 https://t.co/yCGtN2uh3G || CTX: Is this good https://t.co/ZxuNYRgnVV https://t.co/3ZVrvk1QM7
2026-05-30T01:40 id=2060536827099136283 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I'm an expat too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I always knew you were a sensitive young man
2026-05-30T02:05 id=2060543077870387597 →philomemetic | @philomemetic that's too much! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Q from star trek(I’m sure there’s a book)
2026-05-30T02:05 id=2060543158942150882 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV both || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s an interesting one.  The question now is, From portrait or Ulysses?   https://t.co/Mo3VoaNM5V
2026-05-30T02:06 id=2060543425804640607 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital greatest city in the world || CTX: can confirm  its awesome https://t.co/IGulDmMPgX
2026-05-30T02:51 id=2060554732079636642 →etoeth | @etoeth @ZyMazza He was an empiricist and prized coherent reason. It's a big compliment! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza i'm William of Baskerville damn bro its so over for me
2026-05-30T05:33 id=2060595529718042987 →mononaut | @mononaut hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/I26srP5J4u
2026-05-30T06:43 id=2060613032825499766 →- | Rhetoric is dangerous. Rhetoric puts serious people doing serious work at risk and makes their lives harder. It slows progress.  The marketing needs to come back to reality. https://t.co/kLzt9MDxPg || CTX: Increasingly think the only options for the AI labs are to end up in prison or as government employees  Rhetoric and outcomes they are pushing for are completely incompatible with current society  They are either 1) wrong 2) enemies 3) cons
2026-05-30T08:14 id=2060635886220693689 →- | More and more people are realizing Anthropic, despite the marketing message, is actually a rather evil company. https://t.co/3zAAdW8ZmM || CTX: OH they just moved away from "adaptive" reasoning in the UI but it's still that under the hood. If you read the fine print it says the model CAN think not that it WILL think.  These people are liars. It's insane how misaligned Anthropic is.
2026-05-30T08:24 id=2060638552262926843 →- | We are governed by laws. This is inevitable and unavoidable for a living organism.  At the very least, you are governed by laws of pleasure and pain, of appetite, of the need for air, food, water, a certain temperature, etc. And then, of course, there are the laws of society for social animals such as humans.  But what do I mean by "laws" here?  It's not like there was a book somewhere that wrote down that you need to eat in order to have energy to live--even if you believe in God and God has written a rulebook of these things, it's not like we are born and see the rulebook and act accordingly. Rather, that just IS what it means to be alive: living things have appetites, they need energy, they seek pleasure over pain, etc. etc.  There are many different descriptions of both the behavior of other animals and the sensations of ourselves as animals. These descriptions are of regularities--tendencies or semi-mechanistic rules that define if x then y as applied to our experiencing of the world's phenomena.  This is what we mean by "laws".  But now this is a very different meaning of the word "law" than, say, the law against embezzlement. That law, apparently, is defined by Title 18 of the United States Code (U.S.C.) Chapter 31 and it is something that exists before we engage in commercial practice and it is something we need to abide by as we act in a commercial capacity.  Thus, in our everyday lives, we act in accordance with laws that have been created, written down, and enforced before we act. They precede and supervene on us and thus dictate our behavior before we act.  This is very different from, say, the law of requiring energy to act!  And this is where the confusion lies: because when we talk about the law of gravity or the law of electromagnetism or Kleiber's Law or whatever, we are not talking about laws in the same way.   Instead, something like Kleiber's Law is a description of an observed regularity after the fact rather than an enforced restriction that is designed to limit behavior before the fact. They are structurally extremely different.  And this is where the confusion lies, which is what leads neo-platonists and others astray.  I just saw a tweet saying that math is the structural laws that govern the universe. This is wrong.  Math can be used as a low-semantic description of structural regularities observed in the world as we experience it. It is a very constrained language that helps us keep our descriptions regular, transportable, publicly legible, and verifiable without equivocation or other confusions.  That is not a supervening law on the universe. Mathematical objects are not things that orchestrate or mandate states of affairs in the world. More that mathematical objects are our descriptions of states of affairs, whether possible, observed, or imagined.  They don't control the world any more than Roman letters dictate the laws of the universe in Ubik or The Satanic Verses.
2026-05-30T08:47 id=2060644204385374506 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs genuine lol thanks NPB || CTX: no one is above the law https://t.co/1jmz4zIQdh
2026-05-30T08:50 id=2060645064649707910 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @NotPerrysBoobs KPB man I'm so fucki g hungover || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs genuine lol thanks NPB
2026-05-30T08:56 id=2060646588339683690 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs oh so I'm too hungover to realize I was right at first  alcohol sucks so much man, it's a shame beer and wine taste so good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 npb is fine too because of @notperrysboobs
2026-05-30T09:00 id=2060647422909362399 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Anxiety of influence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is good, no?
2026-05-30T09:31 id=2060655362769121548 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @NotPerrysBoobs 3 beers (330ml each), half a bottle of red wine (a Chilean wine, and I've discovered Chile makes the best wines rn), and a glass of Remy Martin 1738 or something idk the number as a nightcap.  The mixing def didn't help, but I hardly drink anymore so that was an issue too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs What was the drink of choice btw?
2026-05-30T09:36 id=2060656510678749197 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Always the grasping for general laws over accepting contextual and provisional descriptions leads us astray.   "But isn't that" yeah you throw away the latter, Tractatus 6.54 || CTX: My controversial opinion about the hitting your child debate is that it's mostly genetic.   Agreeable higher-IQ people will mostly have agreeable higher-IQ kids, and thus are more likely to try "gentle parenting" or whatever and are more li
2026-05-30T09:41 id=2060657783159308721 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @NotPerrysBoobs Was my first time having more than 2-3 drinks in a night in 6 months, so the hangover is particularly worse now. And now I remember why I haven't had this much in 6 months. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs Damn… You are partying hard 😅  “Though, as with everything in life - experiencing the same uncomfortable thing again and again builds tolerance in long term”  But not sure that wisdom should be applied to al
2026-05-30T09:43 id=2060658354650038276 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @NotPerrysBoobs Business dinner and socializing, was needed for setting up prospect client interviews.  Good side: set up meetings that could net $8m in revenue.  Bad side: I have to fly to Hong Kong and Singapore. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs What was the occasion? 🤓
2026-05-30T09:45 id=2060658805470580781 →gurenyov | @gurenyov @grok no, ChatGPT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is @grok? 😮
2026-05-30T09:59 id=2060662351242866704 →readwithai | @readwithai @DaelonSuzuka I'd put it this way: "All descriptions are incomplete and fall short of the total truth, because truth is for God and epistemic sufficiency is for man" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaelonSuzuka :/ "all science is wrong"
2026-05-30T10:13 id=2060666001403105777 →- | One way to determine if it's a bubble: the Nasdaq 100 has a 17.2% CAGR over the last 5 years and a 14.3% CAGR since inception up to end of 2024 (14.1% up to 2021 if we want to avoid overlapping time frames, but as you can see it doesn't matter).  Obviously this ignores composition/concentration factors (which I think are overblown by the street), but still a lack of a massive delta is telling.  https://t.co/aGsqQNyhiD
2026-05-30T10:49 id=2060674874935541774 →somewheresy | V-JEPA-2 and similar non-language based models are interesting in that, since they aren't language-based, they're really just complex mathematical tools for mapping/describing sight, sound, motion, etc. and thus are much closer conceptually to Photoshop than what is culturally called "AI", especially by how the term is used by AI opponents. || CTX: Any computer without the ability to produce tokens in the future won't be seen as an actual computer https://t.co/r0ZRGNAC39
2026-05-30T10:52 id=2060675741336182978 →JasonBotterill | Man every once in a while I'll have a post have the same amount of likes and bookmarks and I just assumed this was super high engagement, but now you've burst my bubble and I am literally freefalling into the pit of despair as a result.  How could you do this to me. And on shabbos no less. || CTX: @Presidentlin they want to come back later to steal your post so they dont like to not boost yours
2026-05-30T10:58 id=2060677317815587050 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Presidentlin lmk what you think, I kinda wanna see it myself || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Presidentlin I don’t know what the fuck I am talking about you just let words on a screen change ur mood im about to see the backrooms right now i hope its good
2026-05-30T11:08 id=2060679850361545004 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Banger.  But on a more serious note: I'm convinced the more one is dissatisfied with one's life, the more one fears death. || CTX: Why do people die? Why does everyone leave? Nobody wants to hang out? It's like you guys aren't even having fun
2026-05-30T11:34 id=2060686379131290024 →typedfemale | @typedfemale No incoming professor has a $1.5 milion discretionary fund, this tweet is such horseshit. || CTX: an incoming professor told me she's spending her entire discretionary fund ($1.5 million) on chatgpt tokens and undergrads to feed open problems into chatgpt - she thinks this will work better than taking on grad students
2026-05-30T12:38 id=2060702275404988897 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk That is compelling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fwiw https://t.co/iL2EsrV1LN
2026-05-30T13:27 id=2060714771142660159 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ I prefer the Harry Frankfurt framing of this issue; rhetoric is fine (rhetoric is unavoidable, every utterance has a rheotrical layer), but rhetoric divorced from a concern for truth claims is dangerous and unethical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sophist thinking. I think it's evil.
2026-05-30T13:42 id=2060718376364982570 →somewheresy | @somewheresy I wonder if you could use that network to transmit information, a p2p communication network that perhaps could be used for continuous post-training via sharing of certain data/docs, maybe with communities focusing on different kinds of model output goals? || CTX: Imagine Hermes Agent using Actual Computer running Qwen-3.6-27B with the fastest MTP support. If you cool down an M5 Max enough you can get 40 tok/s out of it no problem. Internet goes down, agent stays on. Miraculous to a freak like me
2026-05-30T13:49 id=2060720149536346425 →somewheresy | @somewheresy nothing new under the sun istg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nous already published something that sounds like you’re describing for training, Psyche, back in 2024 iirc
2026-05-30T16:07 id=2060754994316615992 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix Gonna build a railroad now? || CTX: h/t @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-05-30T19:20 id=2060803516747452907 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines @dwarkesh_sp https://t.co/oYbGIXxgxY || CTX: @dwarkesh_sp Writing well
2026-05-30T19:21 id=2060803871803687087 →HSVSphere | @HSVSphere Some of us have been saying. https://t.co/8czN6IVSPC || CTX: Claude is the new 4o. Sorry, so many of my mutuals and ig actual friends on here atp love Claude, but I don't make the rules. https://t.co/e1UIUnMUiW
2026-05-30T23:59 id=2060873758668398790 →- | 4 is an admission LLM performance gains from pretraining and posttraining have plateaued, and now the pivot is to memory, adapting the model to a use case, constraining it accordingly, and deploying it systematically.   8 is a gesture towards bringing linguists and text scholars in the fold, but I've seen a lot of talk from DeepMind and little action, so I will remain hopeful but skeptical on how much things actually change. And OAI and Anthropic aren't really changing at all. || CTX: Some ways my thinking has evolved recently:   1. I'm less concerned about those who are incurious about AI as I expect them to eventually see the value and impacts over time, and I think the 'wake up sheeple' vibe is often counterproductive
2026-05-31T00:01 id=2060874160193380625 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Optimizing for programming language means a sacrifice in natural language. When one talks to a coder, ome realizes this is unsurprising. || CTX: Overall I do think GPT-5.5 is the stronger model but fuck is it horrible to talk to in Codex. For explaining what it actually did Claude does a better job https://t.co/EJ1Xa6E8B6
2026-05-31T00:29 id=2060881428141969643 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 Anomalisa sucked balls. Antkind was just hundreds of pages of complaining about critics (the worst thing a writer can do).  Charlie Kaufman needs to make a happy movie. || CTX: american underdog humor (to the extent it exists) is just not the same kind of celebration of losers as it is with the brits. which is why season 3 had to be set in leeds. https://t.co/7GRbDO2Z9T https://t.co/rf82elh2Oq
2026-05-31T00:32 id=2060882040346890439 →- | This is cringe level of vacuous marketing.   Nice try bro. https://t.co/ABywRZCFmz || CTX: Anthropic is not a coding company. It is an intelligence company that chose to focus on coding first. As Claude's intelligence scales, it will be applied to every endeavor where human intelligence is useful. Understanding this is the key to
2026-05-31T00:35 id=2060882819308761401 →AndrewCurran_ | @AndrewCurran_ Then you're either parroting the company line ironically or you're just a bad journalist? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not selling anything, and I don't work for anyone.
2026-05-31T00:41 id=2060884251286126608 →- | This is the most pathetic "don't you know who I am?" cringe I've ever seen.   People confuse Twitter fame for impact in every single aspect of AI research. And people on Twitter overweight the "alignment" niche by a massive amount.  And anyway I don't do AI, idk wtf that is.   I do LLMs. End of. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not a journalist. I'm not an influencer either. You've taken a wrong turn friend. Do you know where you are? You're in the woods.
2026-05-31T01:10 id=2060891627980574907 →- | Test post, am I shadow banned?
2026-05-31T01:36 id=2060898294319227113 →- | I guess this is no longer a controversial take? https://t.co/8czN6IVSPC || CTX: Claude is the new 4o. Sorry, so many of my mutuals and ig actual friends on here atp love Claude, but I don't make the rules. https://t.co/e1UIUnMUiW
2026-05-31T01:49 id=2060901572192977299 →logicus | @logicus @AndrewCurran_ definitely the more interesting question, but not one I'm interested in litigating as the answer is sufficiently clear to me || CTX: @AndrewCurran_ @47fucb4r8c69323 the question at issue here is whether the post is vacuous or not.
2026-05-31T01:50 id=2060901623996760460 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @logicus @AndrewCurran_ oh I can reply on my puter. Weird || CTX: @logicus @AndrewCurran_ definitely the more interesting question, but not one I'm interested in litigating as the answer is sufficiently clear to me
2026-05-31T01:58 id=2060903645986844986 →- | Apparently I can post but I can't reply to posts and this bug is only on my Android phone.   I'd ask @nikitabier to look into this but he's currently on vacation. https://t.co/dkB7xAzysC
2026-05-31T02:00 id=2060904295638458728 →i_hate_intel | But that's not just what his post is saying.  Yes it is saying that, but that's a rather small and uncontroversial part of what he's saying.  It's like if someone posted "water is wet and that's why water is the secret to the universe", and then if I replied by saying "this is idiotic" and you said, "but he's correct, water is wet!"  In other words...leave me alone cuz u a dumdum || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AndrewCurran_ Like most people on here who don't actually work in the field, you're most likely to get a common industry talking point.  However, in this instance, he's correct.  AI will be ubiquitous in all knowledge fiel
2026-05-31T03:19 id=2060924218758639852 →- | "Production and consumption have to match" from @rbrtrmstrng is such a concise attack of why the Citrini post was so, so, so incredibly stupid and why Citrini enjoyoors should be laughed at.  I know I have a few mutuals who are friends with Citrini so apologies, but dude is an idiot and I have nothing but contempt for him. Lucky weedbro threw some shit at the wall and some of it stuck.
2026-05-31T03:21 id=2060924562033020991 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This really annoys me, because in my work I have avoided sensationalist bullshit even when I knew publishing same would get me from six-figure to seven-figure income.  But, sorry, my integrity just ain't worth misrepresenting the facts on the ground to get more subscribers.  Sadly, in the newsletter game, that is a limitation to your income. Hence I worship Enough. || CTX: "Production and consumption have to match" from @rbrtrmstrng is such a concise attack of why the Citrini post was so, so, so incredibly stupid and why Citrini enjoyoors should be laughed at.  I know I have a few mutuals who are friends with
2026-05-31T03:27 id=2060926013912293439 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Robert Armstrong is great but Katie Martin is, I'm sorry, shit.  She just does the worrywart matron schtick and assumes her conclusions the entire time, unless she's insisting that US stocks will underperform and Europe is back because of some vague nationalist sentiment. || CTX: This really annoys me, because in my work I have avoided sensationalist bullshit even when I knew publishing same would get me from six-figure to seven-figure income.  But, sorry, my integrity just ain't worth misrepresenting the facts on t
2026-05-31T03:50 id=2060931959405388247 →- | okay yeah diffusion gives you a comical performance boost over autoregressive like holy shit
2026-05-31T05:36 id=2060958532988784869 →- | Found an @actualinc knockoff. Call in the lawyers, @somewheresy https://t.co/a68oje2jAm
2026-05-31T05:43 id=2060960221594591458 →- | The best way to describe the change in normative beauty standards in the west from Kate Moss to Kim Kardashian can best be described as taste going pear shaped.
2026-05-31T09:32 id=2061017898265788739 →TheAIObserverX | @TheAIObserverX parasociality is so fascinating || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Andrew is one of the most humble humans on this platform. Why are you attacking someone who works tirelessly and offers quality content, unlike some ‘influencers’ out there?
2026-05-31T10:41 id=2061035316497256809 →bladgolem | @bladgolem This is a really good point! It also explains the dispersion of this new standard, which does exist in pockets of Asia but only very small pockets (ironic cuz the butts r big) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Was just an expected transition after cultural globalisation. Artificial look (can be brought) + very basic markers (large hips, small waist, suple lips, lush hair, "cleanliness") = accessible global beauty standard.
2026-05-31T10:56 id=2061039084894859660 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Yeah of that family Kendall is the hottest. Khloe was beautiful for a short stretch too but idk what's happened since || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also remember seeing Kendall Jenner years ago on Vogue for the first time, without knowing anything about the Kardashians, and thinking she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Now no one can stand their faces because
2026-05-31T13:21 id=2061075515482771493 →- | Cosigned. Especially true for enterprise. https://t.co/zEsldDBeG0 || CTX: One possibly unpopular opinion I have is that peak model intelligence will be irrelevant for most real world use cases, and within a fairly short period of time sufficient intelligence will diffuse very widely through open source.
2026-05-31T14:57 id=2061099859319705773 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder It's staggering considering how much value there is in that slice of the pie. Idgi tbh fam || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People really don't get how enterprises work at all, do they?
2026-05-31T16:02 id=2061116104341336363 →- | RT @somewheresy: There’s a dark undercurrent to AI enthusiasm where it comes from a place of surrendering agency. Guys who fucked up their… || CTX: There’s a dark undercurrent to AI enthusiasm where it comes from a place of surrendering agency. Guys who fucked up their lives so bad they need Claude to become more powerful to fill a Dad-sized hole. Extremely important for this reason th
2026-05-31T22:19 id=2061210872484352297 →- | RT @buccocapital: The problem w/ tokenmaxxing and grindmaxxing is they’re both commoditized, undifferentiated inputs   The right thing to f… || CTX: The problem w/ tokenmaxxing and grindmaxxing is they’re both commoditized, undifferentiated inputs   The right thing to focus on are scarce inputs  For all the jokes about how tech people are obsessed with taste but have none, the core idea
2026-06-01T03:01 id=2061281957611553260 →- | "In order to protect this great nation against the threat of AGI ending up in the hands of evil, I’ll be joining @UseCorgi as a sales development representative to sell the first full-stack AI financial infrastructure"  These people are clowns and they are manipulating you, anon. https://t.co/3zcEaG2g8o || CTX: I’ve decided to leave @AnthropicAI   Never thought I’d say this so soon. The pursuit of AGI has truly been my life’s work but something more important has emerged.  In 1942, hundreds of America’s best scientists made huge sacrifices and joi
2026-06-01T03:38 id=2061291169712374210 →Yeah_no_3975 | @Yeah_no_3975 @UseCorgi Thanks, my bad. I had just woken up and frankly got too used to Anthropic's silliness.  My apologies, I've deleted my original post. Ben got me! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @UseCorgi Whoosh
2026-06-01T05:36 id=2061320983706018204 →- | Thank you, @alexolegimas. https://t.co/164ZiRZslG https://t.co/uF7K81wUll || CTX: everyone is now suspiciously: "ai will not replace jobs"  complete 180 within 2 weeks
2026-06-01T08:02 id=2061357734684156415 →lltdhgcbftd | @lltdhgcbftd @alexolegimas Alex's view hasn't changed since he was hired, which was like what 2 weeks ago? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas i follow seb krier but some of you have to admit the fact that economists literally hired by deepmind read to people as neutral observers and can talk about anything like this and be taken at face value is inc
2026-06-01T08:04 id=2061358084493095415 →KamStaszewski | you are looking at a refinement of the theory over time as if it is flip-flopping. this is the attitude of the anti-intellectual. you should instead see this as an indication that the theory is being refined into something more sophisticated and nuanced.   sorry to sound rude.  look up Keynes quote on changing one's mind || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas It's funny now, but if it did 180 once, why it cannot do 180 again in two weeks? We just need one overhyped model release.
2026-06-01T11:26 id=2061408963099578642 →- | I'm glad Torsten Slok is now on the "AI will create new jobs" bandwagon. I'm also glad Alex Imas has kickstarted public awareness.  However, I must emphasize that I preceded both and have been saying AI will not kill jobs for a very long time.  In February 2026 I wrote "AI is likely to create more jobs than it kills", and in April 2024 (!!!) I wrote "If employers were replacing high-paid jobs with low-paid ones (using AI or not), average weekly earnings across all employees would go down. But the chart shows the opposite: Incomes are rising faster than we saw in the 2000s".   There are publicly verifiable third-party posts to confirm that I have made both of these statements in public.  I am mentioning this publicly because I still do not have VC funding. I've done a handful of interviews and no commitments yet. And I am an impatient boy.  I have established a roadshow to meet with a variety of consulting firms in Asia over the next two weeks to promote my services entirely without VC support or even a sales team. Fortunately, I have a good network both in Hong Kong/Singapore and in NYC.  The interest is already high (the fact that I've secured the interviews says something). My first client continues to praise me.  There are two directions my future will go:  1. I turn my lab into a business on my own, probably securing high 7-figure annual revenue with a strong operating margin, leveraging only my own current network. (This is great, of course, but doesn't fit my ambitions). 2. I get VC funding and produce a firm that will compete with OpenAI/Anthropic and upend how LLMs are produced. (This is my real goal, because I want to make LLMs better for everyone).  Other people continue to reach out to retain me despite me having zero sales staff (cuz zero funding). I have a sales pipeline with no sales people.   This almost always spells liquidity and delivery issues.  VCs, my DMs are open.
2026-06-01T11:33 id=2061410765039644846 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/lgzxuHLKWi  I prob shouldn't have written the "so far" here because trolls will accuse me of hedging, when my actual point was sardonic: "so far" until we get something that isn't LLM-based and is actual AI (I do not consider what LLMs do to be "AI", it is just very good tensor-math-based ML).  Eh whatev kinda getting sick of this webzone newayz || CTX: @ernietedeschi AI replaces tasks, not jobs. So far.
2026-06-01T12:56 id=2061431764955074816 →_jzhao | @_jzhao Goddamn that is a gorgeous website, you have taste my friend. || CTX: i then proceeded to stay up very late and redo my personal website again (experiments with procedurally generated dappled light and dithering!) https://t.co/5R12cjo5dV https://t.co/znUsQT6j3c
2026-06-01T17:14 id=2061496580805624289 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ My p.a. went up today more than I earned throughout my 8 years living in Europe, even before taxes.  God bless the United FUCKING States of America || CTX: Meanwhile, in America, new millionaires are about to be minted. https://t.co/huGtnaM2G4
2026-06-01T17:48 id=2061505097147072901 →- | ngl, OpenAI undersold /goal.
2026-06-01T23:02 id=2061584164307300491 →airkatakana | @airkatakana tbf it's a massively strange technology || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the average codex user can’t use it effectively
2026-06-01T23:03 id=2061584376610410948 →adarshisit | @adarshisit you abuse language and write too pompously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I saw that you unfollowed me, that's fine, I'm curious of what changed and want the feedback (if you're open to it).
2026-06-01T23:03 id=2061584491857248368 →luckenco | @luckenco Yes, if you lack ego || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can i?
2026-06-01T23:15 id=2061587477195071905 →- | I've used all my Codex credits for the first time. Was not easy.
2026-06-02T00:05 id=2061600066885095808 →- | Next time someone asks me "why don't you just go work for the frontier labs" I may just link them to this tweet. https://t.co/CNrD1SWtFW || CTX: The most incredible thing is that tech people have absolutely no clue how to spend their money. The Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs will be a disaster for capital we'll get a new Whoop luxury version, 50 shrimp welfare funds and 120 "minimalistic
2026-06-02T00:07 id=2061600666792149068 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 https://t.co/1FXktBVIMW || CTX: What do you guys think? Should I get fat or be a woman? https://t.co/TuE4QFoO35 https://t.co/3HvTEgDybn
2026-06-02T00:11 id=2061601470848672201 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 https://t.co/6wdPXZkAY5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sup https://t.co/usc0VfD2pE
2026-06-02T00:37 id=2061608165280747558 →LexerLux | @LexerLux I've had one person DM me to tell me about sexual harassment they've witnessed/experienced at a lab, and they're scared to go public because of their career.  I'm glad this has come out. One shouldn't be reflexive about anything cancel-culture shaped. SF has a bad culture || CTX: oh boy. the world's worst journalist has decided to put us in her sights for some reason https://t.co/GeLl8fPAM6
2026-06-02T00:37 id=2061608206041051290 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @LexerLux that said, Lorenz is a joke ofc || CTX: @LexerLux I've had one person DM me to tell me about sexual harassment they've witnessed/experienced at a lab, and they're scared to go public because of their career.  I'm glad this has come out. One shouldn't be reflexive about anything c
2026-06-02T00:39 id=2061608636456300574 →- | Oh the Rationalist community is flawed, say it ain't so.  Hmm, if only there'd been someone out there flagging this for months...hmmmmmmmmmmm..... https://t.co/cwGe2pZoMF || CTX: Wow. Big yikes for the Rationalist community. And surprising no one there are multiple victims with similar experiences which reinforces that this is systemic and not a one-off.
2026-06-02T00:39 id=2061608639367114924 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards 47 being right.  There's a reason I'm a rich despite being a medievalist, christ almighty || CTX: Oh the Rationalist community is flawed, say it ain't so.  Hmm, if only there'd been someone out there flagging this for months...hmmmmmmmmmmm..... https://t.co/cwGe2pZoMF
2026-06-02T00:47 id=2061610736846291349 →sebkrier | @sebkrier https://t.co/dQXOWVjjq0 || CTX: we have IPO at home: https://t.co/D5DpwqtCOA
2026-06-02T00:50 id=2061611380885885354 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 Yeah people have been asking. Prob cuz i aint gud nuff
2026-06-02T01:04 id=2061614778725093682 →- | It wasn't a good movie at all, and I can't remember the title, but it had a scene where we enter the tech uber-billionaire's home from the front door, and it is a gorgeous comically absurd mansion fully outfitted with furniture appropriate to the house as if it was staged by the best interior decorator in California, but in the middle of the living room there was a large desk with a massive computer and screen overlooking a breathtaking view.  I immediately recognized the affect.  This image told a story: this was an obsessive nerd who got rich because his hobby produced wealth, but the guy was too nerdy to spend the money or enjoy the wealth he has. The jarring clash of the ungainly desk and pristine house, and the awkward centrality of the desk in the room told a story: this man had earned a ridiculous amount of money, but he was still just a nerd.  And although the movie was too bad to be memorable, I've been thinking about that image a lot lately because it fits my world.  I live on a gorgeous tropical island where I could spend the rest of my life relaxing on the beach, swimming, drinking beer, snorkeling, getting stoned, having sex, and generally living the kind of life most people work their asses off to get.  And I'm spending my time trying to build a technology business because, goddammit, those idiots are abusing language. This will not stand, man.  I am not a SWE (lol h/t @tenobrus that will never cease to amuse me), but I am definitely a nerd. My obsession is language, communication, and the ways people abuse language at all levels--from phonemes to medium of transmission--to manipulate others. My first book was about rhetoric ffs.  That obsession has got me far--I've been working for a long time explaining media to investors, and I've been in some cool offices and spoke with some cool people. I even worked on the IPO underwriting for the very website you and I are using right now, before many of you even hit puberty.  It's been a great ride and I've been amply rewarded, and I should stop.  But I can't. I just can't.
2026-06-02T01:39 id=2061623627213398323 →sciad | @sciad thx broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 interesting post 47fucb
2026-06-02T01:40 id=2061624054357082320 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @RokoMijic I cosign this idea! Roko is good at dreaming up weird sci-fi scenarios and that'd make for a good movie.  Those rationalist types are idiots, but they make good pulp scifi. If only they knew their lane, this whole deconstruction of genre really has negative effects fr fr || CTX: the backrooms success opens the door to a roko's basilisk horror movie, @rokomijic needs to get on this https://t.co/3oDBxgQdvg
2026-06-02T02:23 id=2061634808783208665 →GeorgeLutas1 | @GeorgeLutas1 Yeah living in SF requires a premium. idk if I can even count that high. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why I wouldn't: https://t.co/kH5DD9EBDE
2026-06-02T02:55 id=2061642796986192039 →etoeth | @etoeth wtaf how could they do that to Matt of all people. Gamers rise up || CTX: since the algo has nerfed the goat im doing my patriotic duty to amplify https://t.co/pMcfd6NoXD
2026-06-02T03:25 id=2061650349249941664 →- | "Sorry, we won't talk to you if you don't have a LinkedIn page" is the stupidest most retarded thing I've heard in a long time, and I hang out with a lot of retards.  If that's how you vet founders, I am not interested.
2026-06-02T04:12 id=2061662157180490173 →tszzl | It is not intrinsically objectively scary--the whole concept of objectively scary is nonsense and you know it. While there are some iconic fears in human nature (snakes, bugs), AI is absolutely nowhere near those.  The frontier labs have a comms problem. Compounded by years of scifi and your culture's bizarre worship of idiots (Nick Land, Yud, Gwern), but it's still YOUR problem.  Your culture sucks, and it cannot communicate to other cultures.  If AI had been marketed as "this is a word calculator that will automate routine boring tasks like writing code and legal documents so that coders and lawyers can concentrate on the fun parts of their jobs" it both would've been closer to reality AND better comms.  Instead you had to spend years tweeting bizarre bullshit about machine gods and enable the Amodeis and not hire sensible people okay yes I'm triggered you got me wtg i'm going to go for a walk now || CTX: the frontier labs don’t have “comms problems”. reality right now has a comms problem. what is happening is a little scary and there’s no nice words anyone could say, especially not those profiting from it, that’ll make it feel that much bet
2026-06-02T04:16 id=2061663273234370824 →- | For me, the stupidest thing I've ever seen an LLM say was when it warned that an analysis of QQQ's total price return over the last five years could be misleading because it didn't include dividends.
2026-06-02T04:18 id=2061663769542250636 →deepestbrew | Oh it's still accurate for LLMs. It's just now we have LLM-based systems that combine basic deterministic programs with the LLMs to empower the system. Which is awesome and powerful, for sure, and we need to be careful (don't connect it to the launch codes, just like you shouldn't connect a Python script to the launch codes), but it doesn't change the fact that LLMs still remain word calculators--and they're not really better at that function than they were a year ago (if the public knew this, was aware of benchmark hacking etc etc there'd be much less hysteria).  But it's cool, when I'm off gardening leave I'll be informing the investor community about all of this. || CTX: The "word calculator" framing would have been more accurate early on but it's becoming less accurate over time, which is kind of the problem. The scary part isn't the scifi rhetoric, it's that the capabilities are actually advancing faster 
2026-06-02T04:45 id=2061670584350880237 →- | Maybe it's just me but every time I see XBRL on Edgar it makes me think of a squirrel trying to drink out of a water sprinkler going "xxxxxbrrrrlllllll" as its head is whipped back and forth.  Just me? Rly?
2026-06-02T05:11 id=2061677096230080825 →deepestbrew | @deepestbrew Reddit is that way, sir. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 To be fair, QQQ's dividend yield is like 0.6% so the LLM was technically correct in the same way that warning someone about the calories in a stick of gum is technically correct
2026-06-02T05:20 id=2061679305651032439 →johngfriedman | @johngfriedman @buhhhryan @murd_arch murdarch is brilliant and quietly intelligent. A force to be reckoned with. I envy his discipline. || CTX: @buhhhryan @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that's a winning move. @murd_arch probably knows better than me. I think he's been experimenting there.
2026-06-02T06:18 id=2061693906891444563 →- | This is the real reason why AI attracts so much nonsense. It's not economic fear, it's not Terminator 2 or The Matrix.  When I first used CG-3.5, my first thought was, "Okay, I was wrong." I have a PhD in linguistics and my view of language led me to conclude that this kind of fidelity to natural language was impossible. This made me revise my view, reread a lot of books I haven't read since leaving grad school, and develop a much more nuanced view of language and what it means to be human.  That is a difficult and challenging process for most people. It's also something most people don't want to do! I'm in heaven--language as the marker of the human animal vis-a-vis all other life is an obsession for me. But for others, it's scary.  So, yeah, AI is scary, because it forces us to look in the mirror, and people do not like looking in the mirror unless there's something between their naked self and the image. That "something between" isn't what we thought it was. || CTX: you dont have to believe in existential risk or job loss for this to be scary: ai is real, you can replicate human thought in machines. it is redefining what it means to be human. even if they are strictly corrigible tools that do what we a
2026-06-02T06:21 id=2061694766417580385 →47fucb4r8c69323 | BTW the answer for how clankers can simulate natural language so well is in Wittgenstein: they're simulating a player playing the language game.  This is also why LLMs will never produce AGI, whatever that means. It's also why LLMs aren't really AI, whatever that is.  And it's why there is so, so, so much alpha in being calm and rational about this technology, whatever it may be. || CTX: This is the real reason why AI attracts so much nonsense. It's not economic fear, it's not Terminator 2 or The Matrix.  When I first used CG-3.5, my first thought was, "Okay, I was wrong." I have a PhD in linguistics and my view of language
2026-06-02T06:38 id=2061698985732325408 →adarshisit | @adarshisit this is not an interesting question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How can we be sure we, too, are not just simulated players playing the language game, by the way?
2026-06-02T06:39 id=2061699146617380877 →JacobDTarr | @JacobDTarr no, wasn't that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Beekeeper.
2026-06-02T06:49 id=2061701618924712414 →- | Forgot he's Austrian akshuyally https://t.co/7XgCJqL22x
2026-06-02T06:59 id=2061704214292873439 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney you're also wrong about what money is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was wrong too, despite the fact that I signed up for beta access to OpenAI in December 2021 — early as far as these things go! Wrong about LLM capacity. And even more wrong on what post-training, inference models, and too
2026-06-02T07:05 id=2061705863715488035 →resistancemoney | that's not wrong at all, but it's overly simplistic and overgeneralized. it's like saying a house is made of atoms. true, technically so, but lacking nuance or sophistication or depth or understanding.   there is something else in your article that struck me as profoundly wrong, but I can't remember off the top of my head. I think it was a presumption that money is a store of value rather than a representation of it, but I'd have to look again || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is why I say in my book. do you disagree? https://t.co/NcUgwL22Mk
2026-06-02T07:59 id=2061719246040924635 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney value is not only a result of supply and demand, supply and demand changes the rate of change of value, but it is not where value originally comes from. saying value is a function of supply and demand is like saying traffic is caused by traffic lights. it's not that simple || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that "store of value" language should be treated as non-literal or otherwise imagistic, btw. It's not as though value is this liquid that you can keep in things. It is a function of exogenous supply and demand, and 
2026-06-02T08:00 id=2061719587457036761 →joaomendoncaaaa | @joaomendoncaaaa @tszzl I'm not so sure, I always valued LLMs as adding 200 basis points of GDP growth over the counterfactual, and that is itself an npv of several trillion dollars || CTX: > If AI had been marketed as "this is a word calculator that will automate routine boring tasks like writing code and legal documents so that coders and lawyers can concentrate on the fun parts of their jobs" it both would've been closer to
2026-06-02T08:02 id=2061720126689563113 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney that's exactly my point, value stems from the human experience, supply and demand merely describes it, but it is not it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd agree with that, if you're talking about supply and demand curves. If you're talking about the human phenomena they model or encode -- then no. Economic value really does derive from what people do, and are disposed to 
2026-06-02T11:39 id=2061774739769889020 →- | Welcome to the party, Torsten. You're a bit late but still, welcome. https://t.co/oQPoQaTzv1 https://t.co/0nIm3o13mA || CTX: I'm glad Torsten Slok is now on the "AI will create new jobs" bandwagon. I'm also glad Alex Imas has kickstarted public awareness.  However, I must emphasize that I preceded both and have been saying AI will not kill jobs for a very long ti
2026-06-02T11:42 id=2061775447566725303 →myonlinetrust | @myonlinetrust pip3 install consciousness   you're a moron. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lately I’ve been thinking that all we really need to add to an LLM is consciousness.  While yes, it’s true that humans aren’t *just* simulating a player playing the language game, I do think that’s a huge part of our subcon
2026-06-02T12:12 id=2061782937998405854 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Complicated and I couldn't give you a satisfactory answer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How do they distinguish "boosting" driven by AI from "boosting" from other sources?
2026-06-02T12:30 id=2061787554861690932 →- | oh yeah I'm in Bangkok if any mutuals want to meet up lol  I'll be in HK/SG later this month too shaking my ass for moniessssssssss
2026-06-02T12:43 id=2061790763500081281 →- | I was chatting with @teodorio this morning, and he said something that really resonated with me. He said, I love markets.   And that is a sentiment that I share with him quite deeply.   But I don't really love them because I love capitalism, or I love money, or I love getting rich or anything like that.   It's rather that they are kind of like a mirror that tells us something about human nature and human desire and what we truly want, that economic concepts of revealed preferences over stated preferences is something that only can truly emerge in a natural market.   And the fact that markets are a natural, organic thing, the logic of markets can be observed in parts of nature, for instance, suggests that when we engage in markets, we're doing something both natural and human, and that what happens in a market is an expression and distribution of sentiments of happiness and joy and hope, but also of need and desperation and want.   It's really only by analyzing these markets that you really come to a deeper understanding of their value and their representation of what it means to be human.   How could you not love something like that?  #nohomo
2026-06-02T12:46 id=2061791632861864234 →- | Having a trailing stop loss on a stock is like walking through a crowded city behind an enormously fat man.
2026-06-02T13:06 id=2061796566772633827 →- | Bangkok is getting really beautiful https://t.co/cRLgooJ2VW
2026-06-02T13:08 id=2061797215845400591 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/96qff130MF || CTX: Bangkok is getting really beautiful https://t.co/cRLgooJ2VW
2026-06-02T13:19 id=2061799772722487349 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/nSD7aT4ZJe || CTX: https://t.co/96qff130MF
2026-06-02T13:34 id=2061803686670807303 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The Okura is fucking awesome, they even park my car on the street. (Yes this is a shameless flex lol lmao too much tism for shame sonnnnnnnnmm) https://t.co/Xj2gn5niVs || CTX: https://t.co/nSD7aT4ZJe
2026-06-02T13:35 id=2061803994075611601 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @teodorio yessssssssss || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I love markets like I love gardens, or zoos, or other complex but contained systems. It's where design and unplanned order-out-chaos grow.
2026-06-02T13:43 id=2061805901443740086 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @teodorio I think corporations can be whatever we choose to make them. Not like it's a natural kind we have no power over. || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 at present they seem to be more corporations in their purest form? or are corporations humans in their purest form
2026-06-02T14:11 id=2061812998596128952 →D1gitalD1rtb4g | @D1gitalD1rtb4g @teodorio everyone is forced by being born, this is Heidegger's thrownness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I think it is forced participation in a market that undervalues labor that a lot of people may have an issue within regard to markets. Where is the free market as opposed to the state controlled, lobbyist ridden o
2026-06-02T14:12 id=2061813296681079216 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @teodorio thx man, it's honestly kinda fun. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio as it's very related to q's re: scale, an extremely interesting topic for future discussion in perhaps another medium (still haven't stopped considering a spaces, but I suspect you're busy fundraising anyway which
2026-06-02T14:13 id=2061813502520828050 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake lumphini || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is this the lizard park?
2026-06-02T14:35 id=2061818979518423442 →rfuzzlemuzz | @rfuzzlemuzz @tszzl Water's fuckin' wet, stop polluting my timeline || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl I watched your debate with Yud and no offense but you're obviously on the spectrum and likely have issues empathizing with other people.  AI is scary for obvious reason. That's why most sci-fi is about it in the firs
2026-06-02T14:54 id=2061823666464366607 →- | An LLM generates tokens that become fluent language that can produce emergent intelligence.  The better its grasp on language, the better its reasoning and thus the more intelligence it will exhibit.  So if we want to make LLMs smarter, we need to make them more fluent at language. That means making them better writers, which includes making them more concise, clearer, etc.  If AI detectors want to recognize their full value, they'll pivot to using their expertise to make AIs write better.
2026-06-02T15:02 id=2061825838635704729 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @TheStalwart He really is a genius poaster, just incredible talent. || CTX: One must study @TheStalwart tweets and be ready, at a moment's notice, to resurrect best ones. https://t.co/FAnD1xLH9b
2026-06-02T15:03 id=2061826030785196037 →akib27690640 | @akib27690640 Facing worlds bgm started playing in my head || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/tHhybtEkyu
2026-06-02T15:08 id=2061827283674165313 →etoeth | @etoeth He was an incredible man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get." https://t.co/8SX2O52P30
2026-06-02T15:41 id=2061835505457918450 →- | AI makes human labor more valuable, including (and especially) human writing.   idk why more people don't see this.  Thing of it this way: you're looking for a phone charger, you want to make sure you get a really really good one.   You go on Amazon, search "phone charger" and get a hundred brazillion results from weird brands like "ZZZKRSH" and "Floobeedittibeezoop" that are all priced like a dollar.   Remember you want good.   And because you're a demanding customer, you don't want to waste time.   So you just say, "fuck it I'll just get the Apple one" that's like 20 dollars overpriced.   Use the logic with text, movies, anything requiring craft.   Elder millennials get it, you should've seen the hipsters they were awesome. || CTX: With the flood of synthetic content, authorship will soon become the most important and valuable aspect of intellectual and creative productions.  Who are you, why you made it, what are you trying to achieve, what's next, etc.  The messenge
2026-06-02T15:45 id=2061836563211018549 →- | The greatest economist alive, and the lead is absolutely massive. https://t.co/f1XvlMpb17 || CTX: I said Lavoie improved Austrian economics, and this is one way he did it, by uncovering a hermeneutics in economics, and by listening for the hermeneutics inside the actual economy itself.   Hermeneutics is the listening side of a speaking 
2026-06-02T18:34 id=2061879063019684197 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @conorsen lmao look at this chart it's so ridiculous hahahahahaha https://t.co/1nH1yfAykQ || CTX: Discourse these days is all about AI taking away all the jobs. So it makes sense that if you have a job, you're trying hard as hell to hold onto it. But at least right now, open roles are rising.  See today's JOLTS report and also @conorsen
2026-06-02T18:34 id=2061879191793217698 →ChachaMarquis | @ChachaMarquis @TheStalwart @alexolegimas @conorsen This is an underappreciated fact. || CTX: @TheStalwart @alexolegimas @conorsen that’s bc AI isn’t doing any of the stuff people keep saying it’s gonna do. i’m not sure why we are pretending this is a mystery
2026-06-02T18:37 id=2061879814760624417 →lotusfracture | @lotusfracture langwstik || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what was your phd topic
2026-06-02T18:45 id=2061881841016271341 →lotusfracture | discourse analysis, mostly looking at rhetorical topoi in medieval literature to determine sociocultural function of a variety of texts from verse to liturgical prose etc.  Did a smattering of corpus linguistics and happened to be near one of the world centers for corpus linguistics, which is the linguistic precursor to the information theoretic approach to LLMs.   So I know the technology very well, but from a very different perspective. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you give any specifics w/o doxxing?
2026-06-02T18:46 id=2061882220433043885 →hakimthedream75 | @hakimthedream75 @TheStalwart @conorsen https://t.co/Mtg66mv4ad  It was uncle sam that dun it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart @conorsen they basically programmed themselves out of jobs.
2026-06-02T18:50 id=2061883137593135493 →- | I just realized internet communication has organically built a layer of discourse particles on top of the language structure.   Akin to "ne" in Japanese or "ja" in Thai, we now regularly will use "lol" or "lmao" or "fr fr" when we wouldn't laugh or say "for real for real" (et al.) to adjust the tone and pragmatic/phatic intent of the utterance to adjust for disembodiment!!!   There's gotta be a paper on this gun ask me clanket  how you people aren't obsessed with linguistics is beyond me fkn weerdos
2026-06-02T18:52 id=2061883727115174210 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/ueFWwfVKhZ  Research HAS been done on this, Célia Schneebeli I know ur reading this cuz u do work on twotter too your research is awesome you're cool fren || CTX: I just realized internet communication has organically built a layer of discourse particles on top of the language structure.   Akin to "ne" in Japanese or "ja" in Thai, we now regularly will use "lol" or "lmao" or "fr fr" when we wouldn't 
2026-06-02T18:57 id=2061885039227588826 →lotusfracture | @lotusfracture them's how they get ya. Wanna understand 4o zombies, Maga cultists, AI doomers, and evangelical christians? It's all downstream of rhetoric. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 til about rhetorical topoi, neat
2026-06-02T19:01 id=2061885981570322752 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @HPCDisrespecter I still do it all the time lol || CTX: @HPCDisrespecter @47fucb4r8c69323 Me circa 2013 “lawl this guy just lost the game lamaow”
2026-06-02T19:09 id=2061888029607055669 →- | 1. This is true, Codex is awesome, the greatest software to be developed since Google search.   2. ChatGPT wrote this lmao  3. Don't tell them but $200/mo is underpriced by 2x.  https://t.co/R3oF0Pt8E4
2026-06-02T19:10 id=2061888209664233688 →SkyeSharkie | @SkyeSharkie I never said uneducated, and yes I work in finance. Feel free not to believe me though, it just fuels my ego. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 these personal accounts of education and background are proving self-contradictory, what happen to the uneducated finance bro story from a while back? lol
2026-06-02T19:24 id=2061891802832220531 →boneGPT | @boneGPT, @Samhain948689, @Ken67547214, @JasonBotterill, @AstrosBrain, the gang and me having lunch during a hard shift. https://t.co/er4Z0smV7E
2026-06-02T19:34 id=2061894192977391938 →- | Jon is such an astute thinker. This is brilliant.   We also need to acknowledge, code is extremely economically useful but it's also really not that hard for an LLM? Turing complete, deductive deterministic language, stuff like that? Same with the Erdos problems but you'll crucify me if I say that...   They aren't getting better, we have plateaued in terms of LLM ability gains. We've still seen gains, thanks to harnesses (hence Codex), more memory (hence $MU), and hence third thing cuz AI lingo Pangram says 100% lick muh ballz || CTX: This is right &amp; is what I've been telling anyone who'll listen (= few). I'd qualify this whole thread even further tho: the step-function bump we saw in coding capability at the end of '25 was a one-off. The models are near the top of t
2026-06-02T19:44 id=2061896675237794070 →- | on a scale of one to stoned I am very
2026-06-02T20:04 id=2061901916586799484 →- | An online fren just sent me a picture of him toasting me from the middle of Europe.   Call it cheesy cringe idgaf but this TCP/IP architecture has made human connection possible across the planet.   McLuhan's global village is here. This is true global communication.   And AI makes translating between parts of that global village easier, seamless.   We live in  a paradise damn this weed is gooooood dong dew drigz kods
2026-06-02T20:05 id=2061901997272654129 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I don't have any || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yay you should reveal one secret immediately
2026-06-03T02:46 id=2062002953268211848 →- | Custom post training of base and open models for enterprise is the future of LLMs.   The OPPOSITE of the value proposition of SOTA models.   This is a strange kinda counterintuitive fact that the market doesn't really understand yet.  And it's bullish (unless you're OpenAI or Anthropic).  It's also what I'm doing for my clients. || CTX: SITUATION EXPLAINED: Where did the idea behind today's AI coding agents come from?  We asked @karan4d, co-founder of @NousResearch, to trace the lineage.  "WorldSim was an experiment to show you can break out the assistant format, the base 
2026-06-03T04:22 id=2062027041390973312 →- | The frontier labs must be freaking out. They know they need to pivot to post-training because they don't know wtf to do on the pre-training side, and they want to make the post-training improve outputs across all domains.  And they know this is impossible in principle. I mean, if they don't, I would be very very shocked (and ofc they'll never admit it publicly), but anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of how language works can surely see this.  In our benchmark, we're seeing not just how one post-trained competency causes another competency to degrade, but also how you can trigger LLMs to have poorer performance by prompting in a way that it forces the LLM to think in one way.  This is really bad!  If you think prompt engineering will solve the problem, you are right. If I want a 50 page report to my specifications, if I do my prompts well enough, the report will be what I want.  And if my prompt is verbatim word-for-word identical to the 50-page report I want, the AI's answer will be perfect.  But, like, this isn't the value proposition of a text generator. It is supposed to take very little inputs and produce high quality outputs.  The approach of developing a SOTA model that the frontier labs is pursuing cannot achieve this goal. In principle.  Hence the pivot to coding. And don't expect the writing quality to get better anytime soon.  Unless, ofc, you're doing customized training of base and open models. Which is where the real value in the LLM economy lies, now. || CTX: Yes. 4.8 has given me some borderline unintelligible outputs in a way that I can’t recall from other models. Bad writing, not in the normal LLM sense, but straight up difficult to follow. https://t.co/lvqL6RhFs4
2026-06-03T04:28 id=2062028609032953902 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart John Searle IMO has the best explanation of what money is--an institutional fact, which makes the use of money a speech act: https://t.co/K1qMDqOzQ3  There are ofc criticisms of his view, none of which I find compelling at all: https://t.co/MGzjQX0NvF || CTX: There have always been many conceptual similarities between language and money (network effects, for one). But I feel like the link has never been tighter now that we’re talking about “tokens” (long a key idea in the field of linguistics) a
2026-06-03T05:02 id=2062037252939948407 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill Why even bother with publishers at this point? Why not just write the thing, upload it to kdp, and promote? Publishing companies hardly do marketing anymore anyway. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 true this is why i told JB (@JasonBotterill) that my art is worthless (also known as priceless). also i wrote a lot before on now-deactivated accounts about how in new media people invest in people, which is why i told my p
2026-06-03T05:04 id=2062037748547203127 →__roycohen | You bring up a good point: exactly how far is the distance between a prompt and a good output.  Can we expect this? "Prove or disprove the Riemann hypothesis" and then it spits out the right answer? Or what if we give it 500,000 pages of analysis that is 99% of the way there and then ask it to prove/disprove the hypothesis?  The best we can expect lies somewhere in the middle--but where? And is it the same place for every domain? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "But, like, this isn't the value proposition of a text generator."  That's what they are though is it not?  They can help us get to the next step, but IMO we are on the iPhone 14 era of LLMs already.
2026-06-03T05:08 id=2062038687882629489 →- | This is correct. But don't expect to download Codex and expect that to be all of the agents you need to run a successful VC firm.  You're going to need to build your own customized LLM-based system.  I dislike calling it "agents" because that already paints the wrong picture. The stack is something like: evals/training/fine-tuning/software dev/software implementation.  Yes, your VC firm can leverage its thesis-picking, founder-relationship building, and startup-supporting triad of core competencies with AI to make it go further with less HitL.  No, you can't do this with a $200/mo. subscription to a tool that is generic BY DESIGN.  You need to work with experts who are sensitive to your specific enterprise needs and goals.  Most in the AI space lack that sensitivity. || CTX: The Three Humans Left in a VC Firm  Fred Wilson, co-founder, Union Square Ventures, interviewed by Michael Mignano (USV)  [I post one executive summary daily of an interview I enjoyed and learnt from. I loved this interview that @mignano  d
2026-06-03T05:09 id=2062038987863363938 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill I refuse to keep any books in my house besides those written by/about Wittgenstein. All other books are out of the house once I read them. I give them to a friend and tell him to keep them at his house or throw them in the trash.  This may be the strangest thing I do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill my family is still in traditional publishing and i still like to collect books. most of my books just sit on my shelf. not in a gay hipster way but in a romantic  way. i take one off the shelf and gently car
2026-06-03T05:20 id=2062041812102230106 →max_spero_ | Masks were common in Asia for this reason long before Covid. In Bangkok people wore masks all the time, especially in burning season--that's when I started wearing a mask.  The politicization of absolutely EVERYTHING in America is goddamn exhausting and is why I really don't want to move back. || CTX: I wear masks in NYC all the time. Subway station air quality is horrible. Car exhaust, construction, jackhammers on concrete, it feels like I’m always breathing in particles or bad smells if I don’t have a mask.  If you have severe seasonal
2026-06-03T05:30 id=2062044195238633560 →davidad | @davidad Oh, so it writes like ChatGPT 5.5 now. I guess the one thing Claude had going for it is gone lol || CTX: No one:  Claude Opus 4.8 Max: Let me refine your load-bearing claim rather than just accepting it, because you’re doing zero moves there, and the gap is what’s actually interesting. The one place I’d still push, because I think it matters: 
2026-06-03T05:34 id=2062045258721178070 →NotPerrysBoobs | When I lived in the UK, there was a scandal about the New Yorker having a caricature of Obama fistbumping Michelle on the cover while being portrayed as a Muslim extremist. It was satire, and very funny satire, but people on the left worried that it would fuel racism.  There was a GREAT response to this in the UK, I think in the Guardian, saying that the backlash against the carciature was an expression of a central feature of American culture: the continual fear that other people will not understand a statement in a particular way and will thus misunderstand nuance. It's a presumption that other Americans are too simple to understand complex language games.  You didn't get this in the UK in the 2000s. Subtle jokes that rely on shared context were the norm, and that's why UK humor was SO great. Little Britain, for example, is not even slightly offensive or insulting--it's self-deprecation to the highest degree, and it's genius. And everyone at the time understood that within Britain, because they had a shared culture.  Americans don't share a culture, and so you get this constant paranoia that your fellow countrymen just won't understand appropriately. Canada is the same, the UK has turned into the same over the last 20 years.   Idk why this particular mind-virus is spreading, but it is, and it's quite interesting. || CTX: in america you have to go rah rah go team. so phd dad or whatever is wearing a mask of his own to let his side know that he is cool and not WOKE. and taylor lozenge is doing the same. she wants you to know that it is ok to get another boost
2026-06-03T05:34 id=2062045333304246678 →pirwot | @pirwot DM me, this is what I'm building for select clients now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So, what's the best way to start building a custom AI system for a VC firm without breaking the bank?
2026-06-03T05:35 id=2062045426627625354 →deepestbrew | @deepestbrew Or work with a specialist firm doing this kind of work, yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So the last 3 humans at a VC firm are going to need to hire a 4th human whose job is to build and maintain the AI system that replaced the other 47 humans
2026-06-03T05:58 id=2062051170559131732 →kevinroose | @kevinroose Incredible to see the press try to choose winners and losers in a competitive market based on personal preference that was themselves manipulated by the companies they cover.  Young Money was so good. What a fall from grace! || CTX: the first time i visited Anthropic it was a 160-person start-up in Jackson Square with no products and no revenue. there was an office throne made of empty Liquid Death cans and everyone seemed vaguely allergic to making money.  that was TH
2026-06-03T06:00 id=2062051681811288474 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 The ad I was served below this tweet is obese chef's kiss https://t.co/nbk9BNWO4g || CTX: Is food getting smaller, or are people getting bigger?  More at 6
2026-06-03T06:50 id=2062064457887666386 →emqkxn | @emqkxn @max_spero_ If I get VC funding and they want me to go back, I will. That's about the only way I would. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @max_spero_ but you should come back
2026-06-03T06:53 id=2062065123666407593 →- | lol, lmao https://t.co/rOuZjbZH4L || CTX: Inside Alexandr Wang’s bid to revive Meta’s AI edge https://t.co/V2NdSxqpij
2026-06-03T06:57 id=2062066189443191097 →emqkxn | @emqkxn Wang is incompetent and value destructive || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what’s so funny??
2026-06-03T07:12 id=2062069846620467269 →KianErfaan | @KianErfaan Wang conned so many people into multi-billionaire status, including me. It's maddening and depressing, but also low-key impressive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I also laughed. Reads like he’s the new kid in school who’s not gonna make it.  “He knows what he doesn’t know and is willing to listen”. To me that screamed yikes
2026-06-03T07:41 id=2062077152561103000 →EMostaque | @EMostaque *tap tap* https://t.co/4jFtZViCnB || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-06-03T07:43 id=2062077684910628897 →- | https://t.co/dUCdsUvH2M https://t.co/vvzJ8XWuXF || CTX: the first time i visited Anthropic it was a 160-person start-up in Jackson Square with no products and no revenue. there was an office throne made of empty Liquid Death cans and everyone seemed vaguely allergic to making money.  that was TH
2026-06-03T08:17 id=2062086279102443595 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe OpenAI is a good company! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 makes me more pro gpt. what's wrong with me?
2026-06-03T08:31 id=2062089754343297482 →- | The concept of a secret hangover cure is hilarious.   Like if someone found a way to cure hangovers they'd keep it to themselves for some reason or people wouldn't be interested in such a thing.   If one believes such a thing is possible, says a lot about how they perceive man.
2026-06-03T08:46 id=2062093595986071666 →- | I have lowered my US tech equity exposure.  Time for a breather kids.
2026-06-03T08:49 id=2062094307646181815 →47fucb4r8c69323 | goddammit roon if you tell them to raise my cost in particular I'm gonna idk make garam masala with sour cream or smthg || CTX: 1. This is true, Codex is awesome, the greatest software to be developed since Google search.   2. ChatGPT wrote this lmao  3. Don't tell them but $200/mo is underpriced by 2x.  https://t.co/R3oF0Pt8E4
2026-06-03T09:29 id=2062104273291477293 →- | American individualism is a productive hallucination.
2026-06-03T10:15 id=2062115895657501151 →- | How to understand money and why Bitcoin is stupid and Bitcoiners are stupiders.  Think of this. You're charging your cell phone. You need to do this to use it.   The power plant producing power is one node. Your phone is another node. The electrical wire connects the two and transmits power.  The electric wire is currency. The power is money. And what's valuable is the phone and the power plant, not the wire or the power. They are necessary for the activation of the use of both nodes, but it isn't sufficient for value. It's not really value at all, but a facilitation of the creation of value (power plant creates valuable power, I create valuable shitposts).  So in this sense if Bitcoin is the wire or the power, it has no real value unless it's connected to two nodes. And so it requires the nodes to recognize its ability to be a conduit.   If they recognize it, they can use it and will want to use it at the lowest possible cost. Hence currency is best when it is printed on cheap paper and minted with cheap metals--hard money is inefficient (hence why we abandoned it) because it's not a low cost conductor of value.   This is why among other reasons BTC is a failure. The more BTC goes up in value, and the more its price fluctuates, the less good it is as money. And its volatility demonstrates its failure, which is unsurprising given its depreciating structure.  It's a bad idea. It won't endure. (And "endure" here is measured in centuries, the appropriate time frame to measure institutional facts like money.)
2026-06-03T10:24 id=2062118094651478469 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw they just don't really understand or if they do they don't care about the differences between currency, money, and asset. these are not the same things at all.    it's a garbage movement and I have contempt for the entire thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 best arguments for that is limited availability (only 21 million of it will be created and its creation velocity is halved every ~4 years)   so they argue it is not a “currency” in your view but a limited supply asset that’
2026-06-03T10:32 id=2062120207439847591 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen Yeah I can accept that view. It clearly did a lot to change culture and encourage new ways of approaching the trust issue inherent to financial transactions. Which hasn't yielded any positive externalities yet on a social level, but it may in the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It was intended as a proof of concept, not a corporation. If it were a start-up then having a million people create their own improved versions would be a failure. For BTC it's the biggest win possible.
2026-06-03T10:49 id=2062124451198869838 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen except Bitcoin doesn't really provide for either unless you're dealing with an incompetent government, willfully or otherwise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd argue that the ability to transact without government approval is a huge positive in an age of debanking. Also tax evasion.
2026-06-03T10:50 id=2062124717197418973 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch hard disagree, the view of a young American who will be harshly disabused of that view in the future || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Collectivism's a hallucination too. It's halucinations all the way down.
2026-06-03T12:44 id=2062153399060369473 →teodorio | @teodorio BINGO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there is no money without a state
2026-06-03T12:44 id=2062153567608430644 →ShadowCircuits | @ShadowCircuits I haven't used it so I can't really comment, but I doubt the hype is justified || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whats your thoughts on mythos? Assuming a Mythos class model comes out in the next few weeks like they said it seems to counter this
2026-06-03T12:45 id=2062153772789555613 →Kyriakos_Pelek | @Kyriakos_Pelek absolutely correct, the enterprise value of the frontier labs is going down || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Prompt hacks hide the real weakness of post‑training strategies
2026-06-03T13:32 id=2062165547719225785 →teodorio | @teodorio Communists tend to be good diagnosticians and bad healers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 See this guy I was reading was not stupid
2026-06-03T13:38 id=2062166948277104669 →- | Eloi, Eloi, lema berakhtani?
2026-06-03T14:35 id=2062181465769861226 →bladgolem | @bladgolem oh it has been a LONG time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/YOd7r3Sel9
2026-06-03T14:36 id=2062181720959689165 →GengisKush | @GengisKush you've just told a hedge fund analyst that he's a communist, this is how retarded you are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sinister commies like you, I'm just sayin, up against the wall.
2026-06-03T15:18 id=2062192300600729888 →- | Went to a posh restaurant for dinner, there was a group of businessmen, one guy was going on and on about how they've set up an AI agent system for a pharmaceutical company to help with streamlining their materials procurement process to ensure a smoother pipeline.  Then my gf told me about how, last night, her friends were all talking about AI and how they use ChatGPT.  These are the most normie of normie people, and this is far, far from America--across the globe, in fact. Bangkok is not the center of technological innovation.  And you're bearish lmao
2026-06-03T15:53 id=2062200946311201196 →- | Anyone under 40 will probably want to scroll past this tweet.  I listened to Pantera's Far Beyond Driven for the first time in nearly 30 years today, and revisiting this music as a middle aged man after abandoning it in my teenage years is really quite surreal.  There is a real visceral rage in that album and an attempt to express the most horrific self-destructive features of the angry young man. "Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills" was then (and now) one of the most horrific and disturbing things I've ever listened to.  I can understand how music like that feels like a valorization of cruelty and violence, but that the album ends in Planet Caravan is almost like a hymn: it reminds me of Troilus's move from Earth to the seventh (ninth? I forget--actually maybe it was different in diff mss. I can't remember) sphere at the end of Troilus and Criseyde, where he looks at the battle of Troy from beyond the grave and laughs. Actually let me quote:  "And in him-self he lough right at the wo Of hem that wepten for his deeth so faste; And dampned al our werk that folweth so The blinde lust, the which that may not laste, And sholden al our herte on hevene caste. And forth he wente ..."  Far Beyond Driven expresses the blinde lust of men in its most naked ugliness, and in so doing produces art. This is the south/southwest American anti-sentimental frankness that we also see in Bukowski, where confronting the depths of depravity and aestheticizing it becomes an act of personal alchemy and sovereignty. If I sing about my alcohol and drug abuse, my sexual misdeeds, my betraying my best friend, about careless acts of cruelty and violence, then perhaps I am overcoming the filth I feel fettered by and compelled to remain in. Diogenes's barrel becomes a palace in the mind.  I get it, I truly do--and Bukowski's prose takes my breath away. But it is also why I cannot finish Ham on Rye, and I fundamentally reject their program.  I wil not aestheticize the filth to assert my dominance over it. I won't even try to dominate it.  Let me tell you what I will do instead... || CTX: To anyone who builds a time machine, I only have one request.   Please can you go to Los Angeles in November 1996, find the 16yr old boy driving a white Pontiac Sunfire on the 405 to UCLA and listening to KMFDM while screaming to himself, a
2026-06-03T15:53 id=2062200952111894845 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Here is Lola, who is about 4 years old, I believe. She is my neighbor's dog and she loves me very much. The feeling is mutual. I walk with her sometimes--we used to walk everyday, but my neighbor moved to a spot about a mile away, but Lola still walks the mile trip sometimes on her own to come visit me and walk with me.   She even spends the night sometimes, and will sit with me in my home office. The cats dislike it, but it's not everyday.   Sometimes I'll go visit her, but not often--I need to make small talk, and that is very hard for me. || CTX: Anyone under 40 will probably want to scroll past this tweet.  I listened to Pantera's Far Beyond Driven for the first time in nearly 30 years today, and revisiting this music as a middle aged man after abandoning it in my teenage years is 
2026-06-03T15:53 id=2062200958231417275 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is Lily, owned by a rather nasty piece of work but the sweetest and frankly most promiscuous dog on the island. She will happily run up to any human because they have all been very good to her. But she loves sleeping on my bed with me during the day, and of course I let her. https://t.co/OuxAO3CuJA || CTX: Here is Lola, who is about 4 years old, I believe. She is my neighbor's dog and she loves me very much. The feeling is mutual. I walk with her sometimes--we used to walk everyday, but my neighbor moved to a spot about a mile away, but Lola 
2026-06-03T15:53 id=2062200964015349894 →47fucb4r8c69323 | His name is Freddy or Rocky, depending on who you ask, but I saw this stray dog in the rubber plantations first when he was a puppy and immediately felt despair--another mouth to feed. And of course I worried he wouldn't make it, but he did.  He's one of the most gentle dogs I've ever met and now lets me pet him, but he is easily scared. I'm told he's been looking for me every day since I left home, been nearly a week now.  I will be fully adopting him, of course, although I probably should not. But he is so gentle, he does not once bark or try to harm anyone or anything. Perhaps the most gentle and kind dog I have ever seen.  He is very young and I'm going to try to make sure he has as much time as is possible. || CTX: This is Lily, owned by a rather nasty piece of work but the sweetest and frankly most promiscuous dog on the island. She will happily run up to any human because they have all been very good to her. But she loves sleeping on my bed with me 
2026-06-03T15:53 id=2062200968763298123 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Apollo is more of a Garfield than he should be, and I do try to make him less jealous and less gluttonous, but I also must take responsibiity because it is our fault he gets jealous so easily. We briefly had a female cat at our old house, Diana, who would cuddle with me and Apollo would get very jealous.   Diana would run away from our house to go stay with a family living in the neighborhood, and the family adopted her quickly. Thankfully they take very good care of her and she is happy, but I need to make Apollo more comfortable and feel more loved. || CTX: His name is Freddy or Rocky, depending on who you ask, but I saw this stray dog in the rubber plantations first when he was a puppy and immediately felt despair--another mouth to feed. And of course I worried he wouldn't make it, but he did
2026-06-03T15:53 id=2062200973993615809 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Dionysus (on the left) is absurdly intelligent and loves jumping on my shoulders and riding me like I'm a motorcycle. He will also insist on coming to my home office and spending the day next to me, and he interrupts my work often with loud meowing to get attention. I sometimes need to take an hour long break, go to the bed and lay there with him until he falls asleep. He loves it when I do that.  Helios is the youngest, a little over a year old, and he is something of a miracle cat. A friend of ours discovered him when he was less than a month old in a parking garage in Bangkok, and asked if we would adopt him. Of course we said yes, and we raised him from when he was about two months' old until now. That first month was extremely difficult.  The irony is that, since Helios came to us when he was very young, his memories are all of safety and comfort. He is the happiest cat I've seen, and seeing him run around the garden fills me with more joy than I could describe to you, even if I wanted to. And I don't. || CTX: Apollo is more of a Garfield than he should be, and I do try to make him less jealous and less gluttonous, but I also must take responsibiity because it is our fault he gets jealous so easily. We briefly had a female cat at our old house, D
2026-06-03T15:53 id=2062200976816398677 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I think maybe we were angry that we had nothing really to be angry about.  Man is a curious animal. || CTX: Dionysus (on the left) is absurdly intelligent and loves jumping on my shoulders and riding me like I'm a motorcycle. He will also insist on coming to my home office and spending the day next to me, and he interrupts my work often with loud
2026-06-03T16:14 id=2062206247529746465 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "I will mention another experience straight away which I also know and which others of you might be acquainted with: it is, what one might call, the experience of feeling absolutely safe.  I mean the state of mind in which one is inclined to say "I am safe, nothing can injure me whatever happens." Now let me consider these experiences, for, I believe, they exhibit the very characteristics we try to get clear about.   And there the first thing I have to say is, that the verbal expression which we give to these experiences is nonsense! If I say "I wonder at the existence of the world" I am misusing language.   Let me explain this: It has a perfectly good and clear sense to say that I wonder at something being the case, we all understand what it means to say that I wonder at the size of a dog which is bigger than anyone I have ever seen before or at any thing which, in the common sense of the word, is extraordinary.   In every such case I wonder at something being the case which I could conceive not to be the case. I wonder at the size of this dog because I could conceive of a dog of another, namely the ordinary size, at which I should not wonder. To say "I wonder at such and such being the case" has only sense if I can imagine it not to be the case. In this sense one can wonder at the existence of, say, a house when one sees it and has not visited it for a long time and has imagined that it had been pulled down in the meantime.   But it is nonsense to say that I wonder at the existence of the world, because I cannot imagine it not existing.   I could of course wonder at the world round me being as it is. If for instance I had this experience while looking into the blue sky, I could wonder at the sky being blue as opposed to the case when it's clouded. But that's not what I mean. I am wondering at the sky being whatever it is.   One might be tempted to say that what I am wondering at is a tautology, namely at the sky being blue or not blue. But then it's just nonsense to say that one is wondering at a tautology. Now the same applies to the other experience which I have mentioned, the experience of absolute safety. We all know what it means in ordinary life to be safe. I am safe in my room, when I cannot be run over by an omnibus. I am safe if I have had whooping cough and cannot therefore get it again.   To be safe essentially means that it is physically impossible that certain things should happen to me and therefore it's nonsense to say that I am safe whatever happens.   Again this is a misuse of the word "safe" as the other example was of a misuse of the word "existence" or "wondering." Now I want to impress on you that a certain characteristic misuse of our language runs through all ethical and religious expressions. All these expressions seem, prima facie, to be just similes. Thus it seems that when we are using the word right in an ethical sense, although, what we mean, is not right in its trivial sense, it's something similar, and when we say "This is a good fellow," although the word good here doesn't mean what it means in the sentence "This is a good football player" there seems to be some similarity. And when we say "This man's life was valuable" we don't mean it in the same sense in which we would speak of some valuable jewelry but there seems to be some sort of analogy.   Now all religious terms seem in this sense to be used as similes or allegorically. For when we speak of God and that he sees everything and when we kneel and pray to him all our terms and actions seem to be parts of a great and elaborate allegory which represents him as a human being of great power whose grace we try to win, etc., etc. But this allegory also describes the experience which I have just referred to. For the first of them is, I believe, exactly what people were referring to when they said that God had created the world; and the experience of absolute safety has been described by saying that we feel safe in the hands of God.  ...  I see now that these nonsensical expressions were not nonsensical because I had not yet found the correct expressions, but that their nonsensicality was their very essence. For all I wanted to do with them was just to go beyond the world and that is to say beyond significant language.   My whole tendency and I believe the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language.   This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless.   Ethics so far as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life, the absolute good, the absolute valuable, can be no science.   What it says does not add to our knowledge in any sense.   But it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it." -Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: I think maybe we were angry that we had nothing really to be angry about.  Man is a curious animal.
2026-06-03T16:34 id=2062211349065924990 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Buddhism isn't perfect but in many ways it is very good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i loved thai dogs, something special about them, when i traveled i learnt that street animals are best mirror to the character of humans living there
2026-06-03T17:03 id=2062218610337341908 →etoeth | @etoeth @suzania @JoshHochschild ohhh so that's why the Mercatus Center mafia gained so much popularity, they just accept (and probably pass) anyone so they can collect the tuition fees and leverage that money for cultural capital. via self promotion, patronage, etc.   Shrewd, clever, very economic. || CTX: @suzania @JoshHochschild revealed prefs local to me vs acceptance rates are pretty interesting https://t.co/hvL47MHSUj
2026-06-03T17:05 id=2062219170968911983 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Yeah, it's the normies I can't handle. Extremes only.  That part of my Pantera days will never disappear. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're in good company, both in the animal kingdom and in the intellectual 'tism kingdom
2026-06-03T17:10 id=2062220267754295442 →etoeth | @etoeth @suzania @JoshHochschild I love you man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @suzania @JoshHochschild basically but gm isnt very sexy so no one asks questions really.  tyler cowen is a doodoohead
2026-06-04T00:50 id=2062336110936924532 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Miss this baby
2026-06-04T00:51 id=2062336310501945676 →pangshuo1981 | @pangshuo1981 Yeah I use a lot of Qwen too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Absolutely agree. Seeing concrete examples like this really highlights the momentum around Qwen. It aligns with the AI workflow layer I'm building here. https://t.co/yBj5DujUdf
2026-06-04T00:53 id=2062336833036730598 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart It's definitely in a new regime and valuations matter.   My rule of thumb is: if NVDA P/E is less than COST P/E, the growth trajectory priced in is probably not excessive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe it is bearish though if it implies there’s no longer a pool of people into whom it hasn’t broken through. At least one phase of its growth is over.
2026-06-04T00:54 id=2062337054852391359 →bazirani01 | @bazirani01 I 100% agree with you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well, in my opinion I think you are partly right in the sense that they are going hard on coding in order to achieve full R&amp;D automation (OpenAI's goal for 2028) but also these models are weaker in domains like this one
2026-06-04T00:55 id=2062337453990834639 →davidiach | @davidiach @TheStalwart I was in meetings with  buysiders in the early 2010s who would say things like "yeah I heard teenagers aren't using Facebook anymore, why are you positive on them?" My brother in Christ... || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe this works as a heuristic when you’re investing, but looking back, clearly Google, Facebook, Instagram etc. did not peak the moment when normies started using these platforms.
2026-06-04T00:56 id=2062337771772248384 →BitcoinGambit | @BitcoinGambit Keep fighting the good fight! I've given up on trying to talk sense to cryptobros, but the world normalizes to sanity in the long term. || CTX: Sir, you are one of the few who understand it.  I have got so frustrated by the lies and falsehoods from the Bitcoin cult I have written a book demolishing all of their lies.  You might like it, but it sounds like you are probably already a
2026-06-04T00:58 id=2062338205941416371 →llallawg | @llallawg https://t.co/lqvgZx1fhL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Eloi? The child like creatures from the Time Machine?
2026-06-04T00:59 id=2062338402603975023 →joshalexy12 | @joshalexy12 And bad creative writing means bad creativity and bad thinking.   It sucks how these domains are being abandoned, but it's also an opportunity for competition. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Oh our benchmarkhacked model improved 1% in this meaningless SWE bench everyone is chasing”.   Meanwhile opus 4.8 is more useless than a model from 3 years ago at creative writing.
2026-06-04T01:04 id=2062339757984846193 →etoeth | I've had many friends over my life, some tall and some short.   The white short guys almost always are more aggressive, menacing, rude, and violent. I prefer taller white men as friends.  I say white because this doesn't apply to Asians at all, and I've had too little experience with other races to comment (I probably shouldn't comment at all according to race but these indeed are my observations, and they're consistent across race lines). || CTX: "Shorter stature and wanting to be taller were associated with both grandiose narcissism (egomania-like grandiosity, entitlement, exploitativeness) and vulnerable narcissism (insecurity-driven). Associations were generally stronger in men, 
2026-06-04T01:30 id=2062346117585764387 →- | This really, really pisses me off.   Every time I leave my island I have a panic attack, cry hysterically, or some other nonsense.  Before my Yud debate I had three days of meltdowns with all kinds of stimming to prepare myself.  I need to reorganize my life to avoid meltdowns.   I'm officially diagnosed with an AQ of 47/50 (wassup wassup 47 mentioned sonnnnn...)  I don't want to be "my culture is your costume" but autism is not fun at all, and it doesn't mean you're smarter and diligent like people think it means.   It means you don't understand when people betray you, it means you cry a lot, it means you struggle talking to people about normal things, it means you talk way too much about abnormal things, it means one fixation (in my case language) dominates your life and there's nothing you can do about it.   It means you get scared because sometimes people look like terrifying monsters because they're irrational and maybe they'll decide to come after you because they are irrational and capable of heinous things.  It means clothes are uncomfortable, chairs are uncomfortable, much of life is uncomfortable.   Look, I'm not complaining. I think my autism makes me able to look into the face of an animal and see the face of God. And sure I'm deluded and wrong and stupid le reddit atheism, so unfollow and scroll past, but it is a sensation of sublimity I wouldn't trade for everything in the world.   I lately had a meeting with a comically alpha male type: tall, wealthy, good family, athletic, intelligent, gracious, friendly, powerful. I meet a lot of guys like this working on Wall Street, and I tend to like them because they're very nice. Why wouldn't they be? The world is too easy for them.   And that's why I wouldn't want to be them, I even feel bad for them in a way. If life is too easy, how sweet are the victories, really?   Everyday I look at the sea from my balcony and think, "how did I pull this off? How did I do it?"   And I cannot stop thinking of the sad scared pathetic lonely 16 year old boy driving to class with angry music blaring because his culture told him to be angry. If he knew what he would do--against all odds--he wouldn't be so angry and scared.   But I got to experience that anger and that fear, so I got to experience that victory.   Man is a bridge over an abyss, there is no overcoming without first an undergoing. Nietzsche understood man very well.   "I dont want him to take away my pain, I need my pain." So did Captain Kirk.   If you aren't really autistic, that's fine. You'll have your own struggles and you should embrace them as yours. And if you are, you are going to have your own path.  But maybe I'm wrong. The label is more a social identifier than an ontic fact: it says "these people's thinking diverges from those people's thinking in this particular set of ways", and so the label is just being used as a social marker, to say I am of this group, now pick me. And if it isn't an ontic fact and your truth is your truth and we can't get in another person's head, sure, autism is as autism does. The Functionalists win go to Churchland on Sunday.  But then you better be a good actor. Real good. || CTX: Is autism the new personality trait in SF?  We asked @misraetel whether the self-diagnosis trend has any basis in reality.  "A lot of people in SF self-diagnose as autistic. That's like the new trend... millennials said they had depression,
2026-06-04T01:42 id=2062349331592872146 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 May I ask: are you diagnosed schizophrenic by a medical professional? My father was, it's no fun. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is the same for me with the "schizo" posters
2026-06-04T01:48 id=2062350630291955935 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Do you find knowing this diagnosis made you better or worse at your art? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont talk about my actual diagnoses on here since i dont like giving them my medical history and also i dont like or respect modern psychiatry but i am diagnosed with some kind of psychotic illnesses by a medical professi
2026-06-04T01:51 id=2062351455911318012 →Samhain948689 | I'm not all that happy with psychiatric pathologies and how they are defined, but I think the diagnosis should be taken to mean "I am not like the others" and, as such, it is very explanatory.   Your explains your success. Mine explains mine.   We thus should and shouldn't take these seriously. We should in that they tell us how we are perceived by others and why. We shouldn't in that these doctors are not gods who can say with certainty x truly is x to 100% certainty, since they can't even really fully define what "x" is in the first place.  I wish we were irl friends, Sam, I really do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but the boffins art is fickle and they do not always agree on their terms and anyway they are always changing them https://t.co/eRja9Tsgea
2026-06-04T01:53 id=2062352105348989022 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 @etoeth Def see the contemptuous part!
2026-06-04T01:55 id=2062352461185368184 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 If you could be normal, would you? Living in a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the label itself did nothing to me save for being annoying and reductive in terms of how other people see me but the "disorder" itself made me worse at everything https://t.co/KESyo3z8lR
2026-06-04T01:58 id=2062353171343958163 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ I agree with you and the recognition is definitely better than the bullying I endured in the 80s.   I should be more grateful about this valorization of my condition. Thank you! You've made me take a step back and realize my ingratitude, which is a sin. Srsly, thanks. || CTX: I find it to be incredibly isolating. When I find another autist, I can instantly tell and it’s an instant bond. 99% of people I think I piss off or annoy with my loud tone of voice and never ending abstract rabbit holes that derail convers
2026-06-04T02:00 id=2062353732764086635 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Lena The Grandmaison would be a fucking badass name holy shit || CTX: I can understand if you want to keep your own name after marriage.  Unless it's "the plug." I would strongly suggest you change it in that case. https://t.co/97Uq4OobBu
2026-06-04T02:07 id=2062355481847554223 →- | RT @foomagemindset: @adastroworld Its only a schizopost if it comes from the synapse region of neurons, this is just a sparkling hallucinat… || CTX: @adastroworld Its only a schizopost if it comes from the synapse region of neurons, this is just a sparkling hallucination.
2026-06-04T02:48 id=2062365847809884621 →- | "A discovery is neither great nor small; it depends on what it signifies to us." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
2026-06-04T02:55 id=2062367689180667909 →JeremyNguyenPhD | I try to avoid explanations that rely on biology and think it is the result of an inculturation of docility.   In Japan the nail that sticks out is hammered down. In Korea you submit to the patriarch's will. In Thailand you defer to your social betters in a rigid hierarchy. In China you defer to the party or the boss.   A museum of Asian art is interesting because Song to Ming dynasty, it's basically the same.   Asia is a very conservative place. Conserve energy, conserve tradition, conserve complaint. So short Asian guys are less likely to feel resentment at not being the biggest toughest guy in the room.   This is both something I love and despise about Asia, and I'm fully acknowledging Edward Said would call me a bastard, not unjustifiably so, but this is the impression I have from about 12yrs in Asia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @etoeth do you have any ideas as to why it's different with asian guys?  I read somewhere once that asian people are supposedly less sexually dimorphic physically, so maybe traditionally the physical height was less of a ma
2026-06-04T02:56 id=2062367825088696421 →theRealJohnPeng | @theRealJohnPeng Ohhhh, that def explains the memetic appeal || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 autism = (perception of) mental illness + intelligence, so you get to double signal
2026-06-04T03:03 id=2062369516185874941 →JeremyNguyenPhD | The egoism of the west versus the collectivism of the east is so incredibly obvious as a vague general truth about both regions it shocks me that the idea is considered controversial or offensive.   It's definitely too vague to be operationalized, but integrating the collectivism of Thailand into my worldview has been one of the most destabilizing and discomforting things I've experienced, and also the most rewarding. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @etoeth ah, gotcha, that makes sense.  your thoughts also remind me of that idea of collectivism vs individualism, if there's anything to the idea that everyone plays their part in a bigger thing, and feeling worth from pla
2026-06-04T03:25 id=2062375040226857407 →JeremyNguyenPhD | @JeremyNguyenPhD @etoeth 100%! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @etoeth I do feel that being able to be "bilingual" with something like that is a huge advantage  ie to be able to switch to a style that suits a situation (it's just like having a bigger toolbox) and also to be able to und
2026-06-04T03:26 id=2062375298281426981 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 She's 46 and still gorgeous. || CTX: Trying to give myself sleep paralysis for you, queen https://t.co/bXSZGnCHbJ
2026-06-04T03:27 id=2062375542670963071 →- | Fapping versus gooning. https://t.co/0iwioRrypU
2026-06-04T03:30 id=2062376527527104898 →koality_bear | @koality_bear oh man the Viets know how to make good bread || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i could get a greasy sausage roll that would make a wall clear like dr nick riviera from my local vietnamese  bakery that would work a treat
2026-06-04T03:32 id=2062376842288640355 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor This is why you gotta live in the bad neighborhoods, never had slow rolling tourists walking 3 side by side when I was in East Harlem || CTX: it’s so cute that everyone is visiting new york and trying it out, but can you guys please get the fuck out of the way? i am literally walking here
2026-06-04T03:33 id=2062377186838126681 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I find pedometers unreliable because the feet are too small || CTX: a pedometer is for measuring how far you walked around epstein island each day
2026-06-04T04:12 id=2062386958786330653 →- | And this is why I am developing a product to produce customized LLMs for enterprise use.  You need to train the models to produce A SPECIFIC kind of language. Train it to do everything (like the frontier labs do) and it will be worse than jack of all trades master of none--as it gets better at one thing, another thing declines.  The better it gets at coding, the worse at writing financial reports.  The better it gets at legal contracts, the worse it gets at writing advisory notes.  These domains clash with each other necessarily. You can think of it in terms of discursive counterparties: in much the same way as the accountant and the financial analyst are on opposite sides of the same game, the politician and the journalist are on opposite sides of the same game.  Make a model really good at journalism, it will get worse at speaking like a politician. And vice versa.  Try to teach it to do both and you will trigger really bizarre, inhuman, unnatural responses if your prompts suck.  This is a real, material, significant business problem and one that the middle layer will need to solve.  It will also detract billions and billions of EV from the frontier models, which is fine cuz that EV is just being transferred to my lab.  The market will figure this out. Hopefully I'll be able to carve a niche before they do--sadly at the end of the day, founders are at the mercy of the will of sales and distribution. || CTX: It’s really incredible the absolute AI GARBAGE that people are comfortable sending to their coworkers and bosses   There’s a good chance productivity will actually *decrease* as AI adoption increases because everyone is busy wading through 
2026-06-04T04:18 id=2062388490340585818 →sebkrier | @sebkrier I'd say this goes all the way up to the smartest ML engineer and, indeed, to Geoffrey Hinton (who is both a genius and a moron). || CTX: Sometimes, a commentator will read a tiny bit more AI literature than the average journalist, which is a pretty low bar, and immediately adopt a smug "you wouldn’t get it 🚬" tone because they now know that models aren’t stochastic parrots a
2026-06-04T04:40 id=2062394043083235371 →- | In doubling down on politics over discourse analysis, literature scholars and literary theorists devalued canonicity and the notion of objective quality.  This was both good and bad. It was good in the sense that "objective quality" is nonsense (Spivak's attack on Cavill was progress) and that assessing who gets to assert what is quality is an important exercise in scholarship.  It was bad in the sense that it had negative pedagogic effects, which makes Spivak's pedagogic turn indefensible. She is both the greatest and worst scholar of our era, I love her for what she could have done and hate her for what she chose to do instead. And, yes, I think it was self-serving careerism, but I cannot know that for a fact and it is just a feeling. Maybe a bad faith assumption, and probably many would call me a racist sexist for jumping to that conclusion.  We need to teach students of literature the notion of quality, but of course qualified. Not "Chaucer is better than Langland", but "Chaucer has been seen better than Langland in these discursive communities at these moments in history for these inter alia reasons."   That's more precise and factitious while not trivializing judgment as pure subjectivity--the failure mode of post-modern relativism.  Why is it a failure? Because of enduring cross-cultural iconicity, for one, and because now stylistics is becoming essential in everyday life. Both to make LLMs have better outputs and also so we can distinguish between humans and bots more readily.  That latter point stings. There was a brilliant, BRILLIANT guy on Twitter who I pissed off and possibly chased off the site (or he blocked me) because I accused him of being a clanker. I think about this very often and that made me decide to never accuse someone on the internets of being a bot again. If I think they are, I'll just quietly mute.  And I did this AFTER a very prominent scholar accused ME of being a clanker because when I emailed her I referred to myself as "odd" twice. See my rage in my reply to her:   "Should I have added "beep boop" in my first email?  And just to let you know, I have been diagnosed with autism, and it is not uncommon for people on the autism spectrum to call themselves "odd". I would've suspected someone who has devoted their life to studying and teaching literature to be sensitive to the diversity of human experience. Guess I was wrong.  Beep boop."  We all need to be more sensitive to language. We should have been doing this in the 2010s--if we had, we wouldn't have had the cancel culture nonsense, the MAGA backlash nonsense, the rage and despondancy and isolation and alienation that is now the air Americans breathe.  It could've all been avoided if we were more sensitive to language.  But, no, we decided the economists and the machine learning engineers have the mandate of Heaven, that language can be flattened to information, and that if anyone is conscious and deserves compassion it is the robots, not our fellow man and definitely not ourselves.  Sick culture. Wealthy, productive, enriching, complex, and fascinating.   But sick sick sick.
2026-06-04T04:46 id=2062395584028524685 →americana2121 | @americana2121 don't mind me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are you going on about?
2026-06-04T04:47 id=2062395686688374955 →hwigohere | @hwigohere This is a good metaphor!!! || CTX: https://t.co/aFJUZH6hNj  https://t.co/5FhI5la5h8  https://t.co/8h1mc8rvgD  https://t.co/5FhI5la5h8  https://t.co/8h1mc8rvgD  https://t.co/BxITbHqKYd  Principles of (Bio)Diversity applies to LLMs. We're currently seeing speciation across all
2026-06-04T04:52 id=2062397146675183647 →americana2121 | @americana2121 https://t.co/343O7HgeHT  This clanker interpreted the tweet exceedingly well. They're not always right, but often they are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no, pls continue
2026-06-04T05:10 id=2062401598861828379 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I see Spivak in the same way I see Wayne C. Booth, who could have been the greatest literary critic of the 20th century if he wasn't so damn obsessed with proper morals.  His framework of implied author and audience is honestly what made me excel in finance. This is jibberish to most of you, I'm sure.  The issue is that Booth could not let his critical appartus be a program of discursive analysis--the critique had to be couched in cultural egoism. You had to steer the reader, because you were their social betters, after all.  With Spivak, I get the sense that it was more careerist, but intellectually the move is kinda the same: we must teach both the subaltern and the elites to readjust their responsibility and attention towards clearer, better understanding.  According to Spivak.  The move is the same: both say, "you are not communicating properly, here let me fix it so you say the right words and hear the right things when the words are said to you." This is pompous and false.  We are left with mere descriptions as W. says at the end of the Blue Book and so we must look at subaltern discourse and elite discourse (both in the altern culture and in the colonial one) as communities and describe WHAT they are doing without intervention.  Only then can we understand and describe the cultures to the cultures so that they can reflect on themselves and adjust accordingly.  You want to empower the subaltern, you don't teach them different ways of being--you show them how their ways of being are seen by other ways of being.  Wittgenstein was wrong to say that we cannot understand a lion even if he could speak--we can describe what appears to us as his speech and over enough time produce a new form of life via that describing process.  Describe something long enough and you explain it. Explain something long enough and you empower it.  But ego got in the way, both for Booth and for Spivak. || CTX: In doubling down on politics over discourse analysis, literature scholars and literary theorists devalued canonicity and the notion of objective quality.  This was both good and bad. It was good in the sense that "objective quality" is nons
2026-06-04T05:12 id=2062402123061764292 →lyc_aon | @lyc_aon No they will not, because you need sensitivity and taste. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Indies with enough compute to run k2.6 tier fine-tunes are gonna be rolling in it lol
2026-06-04T05:14 id=2062402550738100504 →retail_trash | @retail_trash Ameen. It's a beautiful book, I should revisit it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 to discern quality saves so much time and energy. it is genuinely nice to just scroll past something with the thought of "this discussion is below me." on the other hand, I look at someone and think "this is a careful perso
2026-06-04T05:51 id=2062411905025896676 →bradrcarson | @bradrcarson that is a perfect description of my approach, and it's what I did before I left academia. unfortunately the literature people hate the linguists and linguists hate the literature people, or at least they did in the 2000s. || CTX: I like this approach to the canon as not objective quality but the results of a community practice. A pragmatic approach that resonates as an at-hand truth. https://t.co/Bwi8wyiYEa
2026-06-04T06:22 id=2062419808839426559 →- | The only literary figure who resolved this cultural decay was @henryrollins, and I'm so grateful I discovered him as a teenager. Thanks Henry, you saved many lives through poetry, I hope you know that. https://t.co/sGoQDOxUHl || CTX: Anyone under 40 will probably want to scroll past this tweet.  I listened to Pantera's Far Beyond Driven for the first time in nearly 30 years today, and revisiting this music as a middle aged man after abandoning it in my teenage years is 
2026-06-04T06:23 id=2062419975177150644 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah but do you believe in life after love? https://t.co/uhTTYtpk8r || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i believe in you
2026-06-04T06:43 id=2062425002071495088 →sanjehorah | @sanjehorah don't over cher || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes
2026-06-04T07:11 id=2062431992562774495 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @KianErfaan @SkyeSharkie Best to ever do it || CTX: @KianErfaan @SkyeSharkie @47fucb4r8c69323 you seem to have it all figured out. as for me, i will leave you to your strong opinions, and pray to jewish allah in case you are wrong, that he might have mercy on you for being careless with your
2026-06-04T07:38 id=2062438810789773818 →- | https://t.co/qS1M08BwTc
2026-06-04T07:39 id=2062438991287501291 →tszzl | @tszzl *ahem* https://t.co/bE4Oh0SKYr || CTX: @Kyrannio Close look at V-JEPA-2, it's basically CGI but tensor mathematics based.   Which is why the whole "clankers are conscious" discourse is so retarded. People getting fooled because it's text and they don't understand textuality.
2026-06-04T07:39 id=2062439057188327471 →kasratweets | @kasratweets Yeah I know https://t.co/bE4Oh0SKYr || CTX: @Kyrannio Close look at V-JEPA-2, it's basically CGI but tensor mathematics based.   Which is why the whole "clankers are conscious" discourse is so retarded. People getting fooled because it's text and they don't understand textuality.
2026-06-04T07:41 id=2062439562434281908 →- | https://t.co/SRXRJjmW9m  Welcome to the party, Ted Chiang.   You may write better stories than me, but I have better insights than you.  I'm glad he's talking sense now, his New Yorker piece was moronic. https://t.co/drOjzy5dF6 || CTX: this is an interesting point in the new ted chiang piece – no one really claims that alphafold is conscious, or that sora or midjourney or dall-e are conscious https://t.co/jGOFJWBz07
2026-06-04T08:15 id=2062448255393481138 →1thousandfaces_ | @1thousandfaces_ it's the dishonesty and passive aggressive hypocrisy that annoys me the most || CTX: rationalists deny that they can get their jimmies rustled which leads to two things: 1) their jimmies get rustled at a much higher basis, 2) they act evil and insane under such rustling conditions, like normal people, but then deny that the
2026-06-04T08:39 id=2062454064626172209 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc not surprised friend, hope you're doing well || CTX: “it means you struggle talking to people about normal things, it means you talk way too much about abnormal things, it means one fixation (in my case language) dominates your life and there's nothing you can do about it.   It means you get 
2026-06-04T08:40 id=2062454384810770848 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @etoeth I didn't mention that I'm average height, in school photos I was always in the middle because I'm average height, so height just never seemed like an issue from my perspective, just something I never thought about || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @etoeth its only if we are not active, kinda like stalling in a party or smth, then i might notice it more. but only new ppl. once weve interacted, height dissappears for me mainly
2026-06-04T08:41 id=2062454582408819153 →flavored_bit | @flavored_bit that doesn't surprise me too much, Wittgenstein and Taoism fit like hand in glove || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Chapter 13 of the Zhuangzi talks about this with Duke Huan and the wheelmaker.
2026-06-04T09:11 id=2062462190557528442 →47fucb4r8c69323 | That feeling on my balcony--that "how did I pull this off?" feeling--is forever prohibited from the tall wealthy successful jocks. It is also prohibited from rich kids--I have a close friend who is literally a bank CEO's son. He can never feel what I feel, and I pity him for it.  And, yes, of course there are experiences they have that I am prohibited from. Social acceptance. Being understood. Being a pillar of the community.   But I don't want your toys, I don't think they're fun.   Is it perverse to thank God that I was beaten, molested, bullied, and threatened by parents, peers, and teachers? Because I am so grateful, so so grateful.   I affirm my eternal recurrence and will do so for eternity. || CTX: This really, really pisses me off.   Every time I leave my island I have a panic attack, cry hysterically, or some other nonsense.  Before my Yud debate I had three days of meltdowns with all kinds of stimming to prepare myself.  I need to 
2026-06-04T09:13 id=2062462837805724154 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 How do you handle being ahead of the curve? I used to think it was a virtue, but I now see it's a primary driver of my madness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/lmRG9SF4mY
2026-06-04T09:34 id=2062467916277391747 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 My only novel (and the only thing I've written worth reading, including and especially this tweet) had to be written because the ending popped in my mind. The endings are what matter.   Kermode discussed this with his sense of an ending idea. Very compassionate criticism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i try to always keep the ending in mind when i write something, even if i am not sure what it will be  also i never really care too much if i am "seen as right" in the meantime, since my game is not to convince others, as s
2026-06-04T09:34 id=2062468050105065497 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 more reason to stay the fuck away from the bay area || CTX: wrt sf, when a large percentage of the population in a community have autism, i think the culture of the whole community begins to pick up autistic traits because normiedom is about being attuned to coordinate your behaviors and beliefs wit
2026-06-04T11:40 id=2062499632450810156 →asvfertz | @asvfertz @dearmadisonblue cosmopanpsychism is a very interesting idea, but a lot of panpsychism is nonsense for sure || CTX: @dearmadisonblue @47fucb4r8c69323 i'll label that cosmopsychism
2026-06-04T11:40 id=2062499729670590806 →americana2121 | @americana2121 @bradrcarson I'm trying my hardest || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bradrcarson you should fix this
2026-06-04T11:46 id=2062501138285654455 →murd_arch | @murd_arch you really should hire me, you know you should. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 been thinking about this too.. most of my dayjob 'workflow' stuff can be  handled by 3.6 27b or similar.    anthropic's enterprise pricing increases make it a no-brainer to spend on a fine tune in the right circumstances.
2026-06-04T12:08 id=2062506870464737644 →- | A taste of home. I only wish they'd export their pumpkin ale to Thailand, best pumpkin beer on Earth https://t.co/GTN8oPFT9K
2026-06-04T12:31 id=2062512440928358625 →- | Goddammit why did he have to have every thought I have had before me? Being second rate to greatness is unbearable. https://t.co/fiC3CXbDmU
2026-06-04T12:36 id=2062513772456255830 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Not sure tbh! But it seems to be similar to mine: a kind of conformity to social standards in order to be comfortable and recognized as deserving that comfort || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how does he define bourgeois asking for a fren
2026-06-04T12:39 id=2062514515942777175 →47fucb4r8c69323 | $5.50 for a bottle of Brooklyn lager seems really cheap for a hipster bar in the center of town, like I think the same beer would be more expensive in Williamsburg wouldn't it? || CTX: A taste of home. I only wish they'd export their pumpkin ale to Thailand, best pumpkin beer on Earth https://t.co/GTN8oPFT9K
2026-06-04T13:56 id=2062534048195698999 →SJ_Murray | @SJ_Murray This is exactly what I used to do as an academic. Textual transmission. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe if we taught “you guys, can you believe the miracle that it is that this text survived? Here’s what had to happen for it to end up in your hands” and instilled more of a sense of wonder, it would stick just fine and t
2026-06-04T13:57 id=2062534225111449890 →equacc | @equacc @teodorio Smart guy who said that || CTX: @teodorio "Life is to be experienced, not optimized according to some asshole on the internet" https://t.co/4I5ErUw8Bv
2026-06-04T14:00 id=2062535089205186756 →- | lol, lmao https://t.co/IGZTVihH9Z https://t.co/g5HPeUdGud || CTX: I have lowered my US tech equity exposure.  Time for a breather kids.
2026-06-04T14:50 id=2062547666119389511 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada I'll check them out, thanks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not sure if u familiar with nora warm data but it connects
2026-06-04T15:36 id=2062559024206537186 →teodorio | @teodorio Fuck yeah this the good shit right here || CTX: Point of life is to live it not extend it https://t.co/kuY0Jaq0wp
2026-06-04T15:39 id=2062559940104118284 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 @Kyrannio Bingo bango mister fandango || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Kyrannio It's a double whammy. People are confused about consciousness in the first place because of their own language used by real people. And then they get confused by it again when clankers start spewing it out. They c
2026-06-04T15:49 id=2062562371047133251 →- | To celebrate my 3000 followers (you retards lmao), let me ask a question that's been a bone (hehe) of contention between my best friend and me for years:  So my ex-wife and I go to the orgy for the first time. Or second time, actually, I think first time with this group in particular. Anyway, we hadn't done anything with anyone else yet, so were shy and just wanted to witness. We were looking for a unicorn (ask yer clanker not yer banker), so it was a no dudes sitch, I need to explain this to Gen Z, oh and we were in a closed relationship, look lemme just say it cancel me fuckers WE WERE A NORMAL COUPLE LOOKING FOR A GIRL TO FUCK  Excuse me. Woman.   No, excuse me. Lady.   So we lookin for a bitch, and this really pretty girl starts flirting with my wife (Borat) and they start kissing and whatnot, and her boyfriend and I just kinda are looking and then we gave each other thumbs up (Borat), and the best part was neither one was either of our sisters (Borat).   Btw I'm Jewish (rat).  Oh yeah, the extra strong wasn't marketing.   So this ugly couple got between us as I was making out with my Borat and he with his non-sister (taroB). Yeah ain't gonna be 3k for long.   Cuz we hittin 4k soon son  We went to another room to get away from the boots (cuz UGGs) and that room was crowded so we kinda ended up in a corner and the two girls started making out.   Then the girl performed oral sex on my wife while the guy was performing oral sex on the girl. I could've gone and idk carried on the human caterpillar 'o' love, there was another couple nearby and I was worried they were gonna turn this endpiece into the median.   And I just abhor normalcy, darling.   So I just stood in a corner, christ I know what the vote is going to be already no I don't have a humiliation fetish this is genuinely how much contempt I have for your opinion of me yes this is what true freedom looks like and sure it's ugly but the real question at hand was--  Oh and she did perform oral sex on me and swallowed the evidence after the main event, there in the room. Feels relevant. But not related (by blood) (Borat).  So, the poll question is:
2026-06-04T15:56 id=2062564039507751078 →BretVDB | @BretVDB Bloom was so fucking good || CTX: Alas, no.  “The Lord of the Rings seems to be inflated, overwritten, tendentious, and moralistic in the extreme. Is it not a giant Period Piece? …      But there is still the burden of Tolkien’s style: stiff, false archaic, overwrought, and
2026-06-04T16:00 id=2062565146258792944 →- | I remember after he got emphasyma, David Lynch said he didn't regret smoking, and started to describe the feel of the fire, the light of the smoke, smarted getting poetic about it.   Live well my friends, don't waste time on the bullshit (which includes trying to get more time).  "Eternal life is given to he who lives in the present" - Ludwig Wittgenstein   "There was no short way home" - Catullus   "Carpe Diem" - Robin Williams  "Fuck me harder, 47" - Your mom last night || CTX: Point of life is to live it not extend it https://t.co/kuY0Jaq0wp
2026-06-04T16:09 id=2062567349845373264 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Those blue ones bro, and was it called Turkish Delights? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do I miss smoking a pack a day?   Sometimes, not always.   Can't even get camel crushes in Cali no more tho
2026-06-04T16:10 id=2062567577424212479 →47fucb4r8c69323 | eh will prob recover in a couple days, maybe a week. I wouldn't be too bearish. || CTX: lol, lmao https://t.co/IGZTVihH9Z https://t.co/g5HPeUdGud
2026-06-04T16:41 id=2062575538125021454 →athena_notes | @athena_notes just low cost index funds (I prefer QQQ), play around with a small amount on the side, never more than you're willing to lose, be patient and add as much as fast as possible.   And when you're at a point where you can withdraw 8%, look into closed end funds. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 At this current point in time, is it a good strategy to just be dca-ing into an etf and 1-2 high conviction stocks while also holding cash in case of a correction? (I'm actually mostly holding cash and feel hesitant to put 
2026-06-04T16:42 id=2062575615048564994 →athena_notes | @athena_notes nah it's not a bubble || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also curious what you make of this:  https://t.co/3SJvpxuzqm
2026-06-04T16:50 id=2062577687957545196 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace We can't pass on the mindset but we can tell them they can love life, including the pain, like it is a real option they can choose. I think just knowing that is enough. || CTX: Thank you for posting this eternal truth. I am 75% of the tall, wealthy, successful jock you described. Only after experiencing career adversity and a couple crash-outs did I understand the value of pain, and my pain clearly was less severe
2026-06-04T16:59 id=2062579972469141763 →TheStalwart | There are interesting quantifiable and qualitative consequences of the new media-mediated versus old geography-determined identity cohorts.   Past geography-determined meant there were divisions according to regions, and these had fixed and more or less visible spatial barriers.  Modern media-mediated cohorts are divided according to interest, aesthetics, algorithmic mediation, character traits, politics etc etc.  So you get more cohorts in the modern world (the quantifiable change), and they will change more often and chaotically in an unpredictable way (the qualitative change), so the world gets weirder both because of more groups (and overlapping groups), but they keep changing in all sorts of unpredictable ways. Identity is provisional, temporary, and incomplete. So not identity at all. Rather silly tbh || CTX: This is, very straightforwardly, a function of the Internet. Newspapers (and later broadcast media) had physical boundaries of transmission that created regional identity. This is the core of Benedict Anderson’s argument (which he explored 
2026-06-04T22:54 id=2062669367809392730 →- | This is how to read every word that comes out of Anthropic. https://t.co/y1ItPBmNBX || CTX: @atmoio Nobody truly believes or knows anything (including Anthropic). Any "position" is decided by a PR / marketing team depending on how the social media winds blow. The PR machine has decided they want to be hated less.
2026-06-04T23:09 id=2062673133283483965 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas I think that's true in the long run (heard this from an old defunct economist I'm slave of). || CTX: My one strong belief: https://t.co/ZhBaUultLE
2026-06-04T23:15 id=2062674758970568842 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines Their multi-model orchestration approach is the wave of the future. I gotta try this out, had no idea they'd pivoted to this approach. || CTX: Perplexity Computer on desktop + Obsidian notes is quite quite useful.  Have research prompt results saved as md files that can be further manipulated or processed by humans AND AI is so high leverage
2026-06-04T23:17 id=2062675237330960636 →litcapital | @litcapital This offends me only cuz I needed to remember this for my SIE || CTX: https://t.co/jeMPUWTuo3 https://t.co/UN6PtuIdMh
2026-06-04T23:20 id=2062675965105537091 →teodorio | @teodorio Wow you weren't kidding. What a hero || CTX: I get it now when professional athletes and musicians talk about generational talents. I am looking at Hunter Biden and as a professional poster all I can do is bow and enjoy the show.   I am not even jealous, he's just too good.
2026-06-04T23:23 id=2062676553021141214 →- | Biden really sees the cracks in the current system.  Reminds me a lot of Herman Caine, you could even say his thinking is co-Caine. https://t.co/57CuiRkTf0 || CTX: WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at eac
2026-06-04T23:23 id=2062676557043556626 →47fucb4r8c69323 | ... apologize for what? || CTX: Biden really sees the cracks in the current system.  Reminds me a lot of Herman Caine, you could even say his thinking is co-Caine. https://t.co/57CuiRkTf0
2026-06-04T23:25 id=2062677053946917358 →llallawg | @llallawg gonna have Mexican for lunch cuz of this tweet || CTX: Hunter Biden hasn’t had crack in seven years. I haven’t had chile relleno in 8. We are basically the same person
2026-06-04T23:28 id=2062677883114729918 →HunterBiden | @HunterBiden @Kenneth_Belkin Instant follow for being a fellow fan of Super 8 motels || CTX: @Kenneth_Belkin Do I look like I’m a part of the elite oligarch class. This was taken at a super 8 motel off I95 by the way. https://t.co/IcnPgrxk8A
2026-06-04T23:58 id=2062685580484624595 →- | "He repudiated the red room thought experiment you know" yeah and Pink Floyd said every new album they released was their best after Dark Side of the Moon, who gives a fuck
2026-06-05T00:06 id=2062687498850140410 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch Put you against the wall || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tbf the wall is their best album
2026-06-05T00:24 id=2062692107639542069 →HunterBiden | @HunterBiden @HunterFor2028 I'm now addicted to Hunter Biden poasts like they're... hmm can't think of an analogous addictive substance || CTX: @HunterFor2028 Wait. That can’t be our campaign slogan. It’s way too confusing. Does it mean you’re voting for me for Trump. We have to be more specific.
2026-06-05T00:43 id=2062696711416684774 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @HetkeBrian @BrunoAcciolyAI I first had this thought in 2023: LLMs are going to force Functionalist accounts of consciousness to commit to weird metaphysics that are as preposterous as articles of faith as anything Judeo-Christian.   And now here we are. || CTX: @HetkeBrian @BrunoAcciolyAI Yes, it has occurred to me that the Spaghetti Monster is now on the other foot, so to speak.    @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-05T00:48 id=2062698119587057972 →lu_sichu | @lu_sichu you're retarded. || CTX: If he is alive today leibnitz would be dominating the lesswrong forums https://t.co/1DOTH4VMMk
2026-06-05T01:03 id=2062701782946710009 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @llallawg where did you jabe pizza in Thailand? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg Hard skepticism of mexican food in thailand. Coming from the pizza I had that wasn't it chief.
2026-06-05T01:05 id=2062702389048860710 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @llallawg "I went to the shittiest pizza place in Thailand so pizza in Thailand sucks" your point very much does not stand broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg Okay DISCLAIMERRRR I was a stupid tourist man. Siam district. Generic ass shit. Probably some tourist hogwash. My point still stands.
2026-06-05T01:07 id=2062702867123962172 →MittCPA | @MittCPA When I'm on vacation I scroll so fucking much || CTX: travel more, scroll less https://t.co/lOOERBwg7H
2026-06-05T01:09 id=2062703380645175781 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @llallawg Next time you're in Thailand go to Pizza Massilia or Peppina's. Sarnies is also very good, and their pizzaiola is very nice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg Hahahah as soon as you asked me that part of me got updated and I was like "oh shit wait I was just a dumbass".
2026-06-05T01:15 id=2062704791395225783 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @llallawg Bangkok has the best food in the world. I've lived in NYC and London, been to every major city in the world. Bangkok is the best by far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg Just peeped them on IG. Looking like cultural imports from those with the cuisine habitus. Good copping. Thank you.
2026-06-05T01:18 id=2062705695573917759 →joshua_goodman_ | Thais care a lot about food, huge expat population, major intersection of commerce, lot of wealth inequality means a captive market of rich people with money to spend on quality stuff.   Been this way for hundreds of years, like a lot of traditional Thai food was developed from Portuguese foods in the early modern period. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg Naturally, I assumed NYC had the best given the sheer amount of wealth there. Why do you think BKK is?
2026-06-05T01:23 id=2062706935749853213 →nivi | @nivi oh shut the fuck up jfc || CTX: AGI, consciousness, and freewill will probably require a new theory of computation that doesn’t preclude any physically possible outcome. https://t.co/bJvqmHgodA
2026-06-05T01:25 id=2062707311018430690 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @MittCPA "watch less TV"   "read less magazines"   "read less novels"   "read less poetry"   Fucking cunts always chastising people for embracing the popular medium of the age because of some nostalgic Golden Age bullshit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MittCPA i hate these pretentious 'scroll less,' said the social media post  people  like if people scrolled less you would have no reason to post your stupid travel shots
2026-06-05T01:26 id=2062707559040274905 →- | RT @Samhain948689: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MittCPA the problem is not technology the problem is exactly this kind of thing  you can have easily p… || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MittCPA the problem is not technology the problem is exactly this kind of thing  you can have easily post this without the contradictory holier than thou thing  and connected with people using technology and shared a part 
2026-06-05T01:27 id=2062707732080427498 →MittCPA | @MittCPA @Samhain948689 This banal response is so tiresome. You're a basket of cliches. Enjoy your happiness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 I’m so happy I’m not you, you seem so miserable
2026-06-05T01:30 id=2062708588351738349 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @llallawg Both! It's a very crowded market.   Last night went to an amazing fusion restaurant run by Thais (Eat Me, look it up)  Night before went to Gianni's, Michelin Italian place (which honestly is just kinda okay), manager and chef both Italian.  It's a massive industry here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @llallawg I didn't know that. Looks like that's where the classic Thai affinity toward spice comes from. If I understand what you're saying, the underclass is deftly competing to serve the expats and wealthy? Or, the expats
2026-06-05T03:59 id=2062746124788592646 →- | Peter Griffin here to explain the joke.   Ostensibly a satire of how trendy online communities converge to traditional movements they pretend to be an advancement from, the tweet's punchline hinges on the idea that a safe word would be unnecessary without dangerous activity. In other words, there's no meaning to "safe word" without a concomitant dangerous act that the safe word is connected to.  The meaning of "safe word" is attached to a particular life style and when divorced from that context it loses all meaning.   Here we see meaning isn't embedded in the words, it's embedded in the use of the words within a living practice.   Meaning cannot be divorced from the living beings who use words to make meaning.   If you don't understand this concept you will never understand LLMs. || CTX: Throwing a Nonconsensual Asexuality party at the local Baptist church where nobody is allowed to fuck, there’s no safe word because nobody is allowed to do anything that would require one.
2026-06-05T04:04 id=2062747353132740676 →HauntedAI | @HauntedAI @besttrousers moderating /r/economics || CTX: Being a Reddit moderator is the most noble profession. https://t.co/vuHkB7LGsb
2026-06-05T04:15 id=2062750150800621687 →airkatakana | @airkatakana My GOAT.   Please keep us updated every step of the way. || CTX: i have filed my first accusation using korea's "law distortion" crime, against park gwang-ho (박광호) at daejeon district prosecutor's office  for receiving a mountain of evidence showing that kaist professor jinjoon lee embezzled money, yet r
2026-06-05T04:18 id=2062751005775917276 →moultano | @moultano What would be a good name for Codex, especially with a medieval theme?   Scriptorium comes to mind, tons of subagents busy writing code according to implicit exempla all for their god (the user).   Not very marketing friendly though. || CTX: Codex is a terrible name for a coding app because it means book.  It would have been a great name for a base model.
2026-06-05T04:20 id=2062751328607302096 →HunterBiden | @HunterBiden @JaulaDePerreo Make @MonicaLewinsky your running mate. The public would love it. || CTX: @JaulaDePerreo Love it
2026-06-05T04:21 id=2062751676415738110 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter @funplings @eigenrobot My most homosexual opinion is smoking pole is safer than smoking cigs || CTX: @funplings @eigenrobot cunnilingus is a larger cause for throat cancer in men than smoking cigarettes
2026-06-05T04:36 id=2062755539181056503 →- | Nah think I'll pass   https://t.co/D4eAMyPfSh
2026-06-05T04:40 id=2062756460082422076 →americana2121 | @americana2121 There are downsides. Crying, anxiety, confusion, misunderstandings, saying really inappropriate things at the wrong time, etc. But it's worth it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s a superpower, why would you want to change it?
2026-06-05T05:01 id=2062761788958187958 →americana2121 | @americana2121 Who isn't? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 family guy fan too?
2026-06-05T07:36 id=2062800697934897630 →Cointelegraph | @Cointelegraph https://t.co/yd2Ck5Ukao || CTX: This is how to read every word that comes out of Anthropic. https://t.co/y1ItPBmNBX
2026-06-05T08:23 id=2062812554041368977 →- | Servus clavircularum dei,   Sicut Lookus maximus non venit methistrari, sed methistrare, et dare animam suam redemptionemaxximum pro multispraeradionis. https://t.co/1ehE3HqsLg || CTX: https://t.co/GlCXS6TtIh https://t.co/A2c5E0DuuW
2026-06-05T08:30 id=2062814210321719570 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill Strains credulity to think ill of the love emanating from a man who injects himself with his son's blood. || CTX: @JasonBotterill there is a kind of 50 shades thing to it. it is some kind of fetish. like domination but it is like "go brush your teeth for 2 minutes. now floss. now go to bed. now spread your legs."
2026-06-05T08:39 id=2062816468195049621 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs "My son gave me HIV, no not like that you disgusting sicko." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs This probably means he has to tell his dad every time he has sex to prevent a blood transfusion of aids
2026-06-05T08:41 id=2062817146691096823 →- | There are two families.   In Family A, the father has sex with the son and contracts HIV as a result.   In Family B, @bryan_johnson gets a blood transfusion from @talmagejohnson_ and contracts HIV as a result.   Poll tiem
2026-06-05T08:44 id=2062817826759438538 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @boneGPT @Bonecondor @teodorio @fabsbz @retardbot9000 || CTX: There are two families.   In Family A, the father has sex with the son and contracts HIV as a result.   In Family B, @bryan_johnson gets a blood transfusion from @talmagejohnson_ and contracts HIV as a result.   Poll tiem
2026-06-05T08:46 id=2062818435743244669 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 https://t.co/hz1wIFGGFI  Hence why this is the greatest philosophical text of the 21st century. || CTX: note how everyone cannot wrap their head around the materialized, the instantiated. We are half a century deep into denying the material. Deep into the simulation. Deep in our own latent space. So lost in the art of map making, we forgot it
2026-06-05T08:54 id=2062820285318152418 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ https://t.co/5wCFUp1HvB || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ I don’t know why I am answering this but it’s clearly sicker if a father has sex with his son. like you are not even trying to preserve life by fucking your son
2026-06-05T08:57 id=2062821109280706973 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I have watched it maybe 10 times now, totes normal behavior || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Man I gotta rewatch this fully. Occasionally I’ll recommend it to someone, and give parts of it a second go around.
2026-06-05T09:05 id=2062823112639721914 →rbnmckenna86 | @rbnmckenna86 @izs Up to a point. || CTX: @izs Most philosophers I know are far happier to hear objections than praise.
2026-06-05T09:48 id=2062834029670670697 →rbnmckenna86 | If you see the objections as bad, which is ofc not the same as the objection being ipso facto bad. So then the question is what's the inference: bad faith, bad logic, bad presuppositions, bad data, bad something else? Are all equally worth rejection?   Idk, I can't flatten objections as simply bad or good. Can't flatten anything that way tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @izs Well if the objections are bad we don’t like it and I have little patience with mean spirited interaction.
2026-06-05T10:37 id=2062846251683774524 →Hedgeye | @Hedgeye The arc of the universe is long but it bends towards your shitcoins being fucking worthless. || CTX: BREAKING: Ethereum plunges to 1-year low https://t.co/t73dIvCU8h
2026-06-05T10:39 id=2062846742236963233 →griefcliff | @griefcliff @TTrimoreau The biggest event in my life, exponentially bigger than COVID or anything personal I experience including breakups, family members dying, etc. Was what made me abandon linguistics for a career in finance, just because the jobs disappeared and university endowments shrank. || CTX: @TTrimoreau You had no idea how bad it was after the 2008 crash
2026-06-05T10:49 id=2062849316335608199 →americana2121 | @americana2121 @Hedgeye oh how I envy you. Just Google and read, prepare to be disappointed in humanity again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Hedgeye what are shitcoins?
2026-06-05T10:51 id=2062849774953656675 →- | I have to assume Stuart Kirk has a humiliation fetish and that's why he can post about his dogshit portfolio that always underperforms. https://t.co/EtsL8zPVzK || CTX: My returns have been exponential — no, seriously! https://t.co/8fbeg9LtG7
2026-06-05T11:24 id=2062858030832853477 →americana2121 | @americana2121 Worse, I am one of the bankers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you taking down the bankers? god speed 🫡
2026-06-05T11:32 id=2062860122125488388 →TheStalwart | I love ideas like this because they feel wrong, even unethical, but they are both logical and how much of wealth creation works.   You can call McDonald's or Facebook commodified versions of their better quality counterparts (fine dining, IRL socializing), or you can see at something slightly crappier but significantly more accessible.   Both descriptions are correct, btw. Just different moral and emotional valences of the same facts on the ground. || CTX: Seems plausible that greater software productivity could show up as 10% crappier software, but built in 10% of the time https://t.co/5ycp3SxOib
2026-06-05T12:50 id=2062879840492302666 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I'd need to get my electron microscope out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you take a photo of the selection inside
2026-06-05T13:30 id=2062889856406286492 →Devin_J_Monahan | @Devin_J_Monahan @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ I'm unfollowing &amp; muting you. You are a consistently low-quality poster who tries to start shit with more productive &amp; more helpful people in order to attract attention to yourself, a
2026-06-05T13:32 id=2062890213198709130 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy @HauntedAI @besttrousers oh it unquestionably is art. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @HauntedAI @besttrousers I actually came here to tag you and say “all right, fine. This is art.”
2026-06-05T14:04 id=2062898259195298147 →powoli_ | @powoli_ @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @boneGPT @Bonecondor @teodorio @fabsbz @retardbot9000 I try my hardest to every day || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @boneGPT @Bonecondor @teodorio @fabsbz @retardbot9000 Don't forget aella
2026-06-05T14:39 id=2062907264407859608 →- | At the end of the day I think we're just deeply ambivalent about social media and AI for the same reason.   We see how these technologies empower both ourselves and other people to a ridiculous almost unthinkable degree and feel both empowered and scared.  It's like your first time with a string of benwa balls: it feels good and then you worry about what that good feeling says about you and, by extension, humanity.   And how easily this could be used to really fuck you up the ass.
2026-06-05T14:48 id=2062909428635226334 →- | I am at the end of the day a redditor and as such I am a midwit who is slightly above the curve but not so much that he can recognize and accept his station but so much that, like Dante with Beatrice with face against the glass peering over heaven, capable of recognizing the genius I lack and the duty therein.   An ambivalence emerges: the hunger to break the glass and the relief that, lacking such talents, one's obligations remain circumscribed.   And yet there is always the nagging doubt. Maybe I am. Maybe. I cannot know.   But what if I am! And I have squandered it on, what, a comfortable life on a tropical island? What of duty!   But then I remember my dumbass shit and, instead of cringing at the horrific memory of blurting out "oh, so you're a virgin!" in mixed company it is relief: I am stupid, my ethical cowardice is proportional, I am safe.  But it also makes me wonder if the thirst for recognition is evil. Ambition is irresponsible. And surely that's wrong.   Which tracks. I am a midwit redditor after all fuck yeah send dat motherfuckin tweet cheers y'all
2026-06-05T15:09 id=2062914822963175430 →- | The oddest thing about growing old for me has been that questions are so much easier to answer but all of the answers are less satisfying than they've ever felt before.   This is odd because it feels good.
2026-06-05T15:16 id=2062916474868748331 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @teodorio nepoaster baby || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Hunter is an epic tier poaster. I used to think he was just a nepo baby but boy have I changed my mind.
2026-06-05T15:16 id=2062916560860450936 →g5p8v8r7s7 | @g5p8v8r7s7 the question is always how much is enough || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Everyone wants to be heard. Witnessed
2026-06-05T15:25 id=2062918867018768895 →- | Novel idea: Influencer spends a day angrily walking through NYC thinking about a tweet thread he's going to poast about a LRB review of a new AI-driven app that is a complementary experience to a novel that is a reimagined version of Joyce's Ulysses about Jesse Thorne and John Hodgman trying to get from one end of downtown L. A. to another without passing a place that sells kombucha why the fuck does anyone read any of my tweets do you at least see a glimpse of what I'm trying to do I'm saying we're too far the rabbithole of derivative media it's made the world insane because they are playing the game I find most natural why is the world conforming to my mental illness
2026-06-05T15:45 id=2062923811532788157 →nullbotto | @nullbotto damn str8 son || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Flexibility is preferable to axons getting excessively pruned, which has neurodegenerative and immune consequences down the line.
2026-06-05T16:02 id=2062928017329197382 →- | The ability a small furry animal has to unite a group of strangers together in joy is incredible, miraculous.   I mean ofc both cute puppies and yer mom's pussay biotchhhhhhh
2026-06-05T16:13 id=2062930721417871622 →xriskology | @xriskology @GaryMarcus cult insanity, like how else can one reasonably describe this?   How do you responsibly invest in a company that says "we're building the robot that will kill humanity", like that's a sane thought to have   IS IT ME OR HAS THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD GONE MAD || CTX: @GaryMarcus From Holly Elmore, quoted in my “Pro-Human Manifesto” (P1). No, Anthropic doesn’t actually want a “pause." https://t.co/QTaD6NWZps
2026-06-05T16:15 id=2062931363041599723 →TheNewMeta911 | @TheNewMeta911 relevant username HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who uses tethered benwa balls? That’s a thing? Is it like training wheels or are you using the stringed variant to accentuate the analogized ass fucking with anal beads?  So many questions lol
2026-06-05T16:24 id=2062933676057669836 →- | "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."  (AI phrases: opposing paire, emdash, had sex with Marilyn Monroe) https://t.co/kHKK7Cli7f
2026-06-05T16:25 id=2062933776234426438 →TheNewMeta911 | @TheNewMeta911 please don't follow lmao o captain my captain || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When the algo is hitting
2026-06-05T16:25 id=2062933924175908872 →TheNewMeta911 | @TheNewMeta911 FUCK YOU ASSHOLE https://t.co/5SVRMRGS74 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When the algo is hitting
2026-06-05T16:26 id=2062934076412375493 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace does that make me less or more of a midwit?   And what about you?   What are we doing here? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s bizarre to watch a stranger transcribe 90% of what I think about on a daily basis.
2026-06-05T16:36 id=2062936537839665330 →theRealJohnPeng | @theRealJohnPeng Idealism is hell, the prison of the fantasit's imagination. || CTX: So like, envy, but if you fail to “make it”, you cant excuse yourself by saying “oh its because so and so had structural advantages” since this time period is prolly gonna be the most even playing field for a while and the golden elevators 
2026-06-05T17:08 id=2062944680225153415 →the_fartasy | @the_fartasy @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ thsnk you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bryan_johnson @talmagejohnson_ you're a lot more retarded than i thought when i followed
2026-06-05T17:08 id=2062944772059550084 →TheNewMeta911 | @TheNewMeta911 lmao king || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No https://t.co/0ifaLLdaPf
2026-06-05T17:28 id=2062949790569378166 →- | Success is career suicide when your genre is outsider art.   In this we see how everyone is trapped in form. But if we are befuddled by attachment, surely entrapment in form is what we want.   Why do these questions become both more pointed and more pointless as I get older?
2026-06-05T18:09 id=2062960001631855003 →- | Who has two thumbs, no pfp, and called the femtotop?   Bookmark this for next time you want to argue about 47  I've survived at the top of this fuckin game for 15 years earning 5k/hr you wanna bicker with me lick my fuckin balls start from the left move slowly to the right https://t.co/WkoGVZxPbG || CTX: lol, lmao https://t.co/IGZTVihH9Z https://t.co/g5HPeUdGud
2026-06-06T02:48 id=2063090538765844514 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 My teenage crush omg did I love her so much, the Sky album was my favorite, Di-dar was great too. || CTX: faye wong with eyes on faye wong - eyes on me https://t.co/hxIvTkTDA7 https://t.co/TZiiZ8EyuQ
2026-06-06T02:52 id=2063091639309275272 →pwlot | @pwlot @robinhanson and yet empirically speaking he's still right || CTX: For well over a century, "AI can do prestigious X" meant brittle narrow systems doing isolated tasks or sets of tasks.  Now we’re seeing generalizing models with language, code, vision, tools, memory, agency, and transfer.  Your comment has
2026-06-06T03:31 id=2063101564995387820 →pwlot | @pwlot @robinhanson His point is quite different from asserting an AI winter is coming. We've seen great improvements in harnessing LLM abilities, we haven't seen improvements in LLM abilities themselves at the same scale over the same period. That's not controversial. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @robinhanson If you have little to no understanding or insight into AI and ML, then sure, you can say stuff like another AI winter is coming as well.   And indeed we thought many times we were almost there. Nothing is diffe
2026-06-06T04:18 id=2063113382623088869 →pwlot | @pwlot @robinhanson I consider RP post training a form or harness || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @robinhanson His point is in his tweet. Which I find about as silly as predicting another AI Winter. Previous narrow AI wins were not like the last 3 years.  Let everybody make their points.  There has been progress in mode
2026-06-06T04:33 id=2063116970531184753 →- | RT @MYTHOTROPOS: Medieval literature is the most underread canon on the planet. Beowulf and Parzival are as revelatory as Homer. Eckhart an… || CTX: Medieval literature is the most underread canon on the planet. Beowulf and Parzival are as revelatory as Homer. Eckhart and Julian of Norwich have more insight in their pinkie toe than Hegel had in his entire life. And yes, The Seafarer and
2026-06-06T04:36 id=2063117913347981806 →- | You say that like it's a bad thing https://t.co/IMEhTPxxxa || CTX: @polyaletheia Dutch or Swiss seems like the closest proper analogue?  It kinda seems like America is what happens if you let peasants go feral somewhere the nobility can't easily reach.
2026-06-06T04:48 id=2063120826451526051 →MunicipleOrrery | @MunicipleOrrery Oh I wasn't being all that serious. I think you're right! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sometimes i enjoy taking a "view from nowhere" on topics that i personally regard as clearly having a right side  maybe it's a vice
2026-06-06T05:11 id=2063126622501482558 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson This is why I'm a hesitant capitalist: markets tend to force accountability on agents over the long term.  But still hesitant because markets can be cruel and heartless. || CTX: What I’m saying is that the negative consequences of allowing criminals and vagrants leeway by statute or by judgement has to come back onto the politicians and judges and voters and financiers who make it possible — the greater their respo
2026-06-06T05:15 id=2063127528236298296 →- | man my gf is so beautiful and so kind I love her so much
2026-06-06T06:26 id=2063145385363952125 →- | RT @CatNyanpital: I’m pretty sure I FUCKING talked about this to some fucking gooner who tried to convince me that mobile apps were gonna g… || CTX: I’m pretty sure I FUCKING talked about this to some fucking gooner who tried to convince me that mobile apps were gonna generate more revenue  It’s a mature ass market. Let NYAN REPEAT HIMSELF  90% of your time is on the same top 7 mega app
2026-06-06T09:28 id=2063191402440237393 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @AGoldmund Goo Goo Sex Maggots for Cutie || CTX: @AGoldmund The Goo Goo Dolls were originally the Sex Maggots
2026-06-06T10:26 id=2063205868674666726 →- | more of this please   https://t.co/MmliOzLMGa
2026-06-06T11:15 id=2063218177170190387 →- | How can one not love Bessis? He's ofc right here, and I'm happy to see roon get pushback when he talks his book.   If the guy telling you tokenmaxxing is good also sells tokens, I'd suggest putting your thinking cap on. https://t.co/uPbDHzHt6w || CTX: One could rationally argue that the largest companies on Earth are managementlayersmaxxing and stackrankingbystupidmetricsmaxxing. https://t.co/P4ia7dHnbJ
2026-06-06T11:41 id=2063224833501213090 →- | Silicon Valley's obsession with shipping (a culture enforced from the top down to wring curiosity out of programmers to make them more docile and less independent) has always amused me because it follows the labor theory of value logic: labor produced a product, so it must be worth something.   Which, of course, is economic nonsense, but the important point is how you see Marxist fallacies can and do infect capitalists' way of thinking. You can be pro market and think dumb commie ideas. || CTX: This is a great chart for why we should look at things like productivity and not “shipping” for signals of AI-driven economic acceleration. The former is a function of what people value enough to actually spend money on, the latter could be
2026-06-06T12:22 id=2063235175190778252 →xriskology | I co-sign this.   I think I'm a little more pro-technology than you are; I see technology as a humanity empowering set of techniques to manipulate symbols and physical objects. So writing is technology just as much as AI is, and I think all of these technologies empower people to do more than they could otherwise. That more can be pro- or anti-human, it depends on how the technology is used. Writing produces Hanley and Mein Kampf, AI can produce more surplus value with less human toil or it can immiserate.  The ideology that has developed out of Silicon Valley is sick, and the anti-human eschatology that you identify is unquestionably there.   I think humanity always wins out in the end, so these guys will be relegated to the dustbin of history, but they will definitely cause harm before that.   You already see with the Zizians, Peter Thiel's nonsense, and so much more.   More blood will be shed, more lives will suffer, but in the end we will harness technology to make humanity more powerful, better, and happier. That's what we always do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GaryMarcus It's just you. Everything is fine. No need to shout!  Btw, did you see my article that includes that quote? Might be of interest to you (also includes some Yuddy-your-buddy quotes): https://t.co/HhkURJj26J
2026-06-06T12:33 id=2063237824485433479 →resistancemoney | Ricardo's theory isn't a fallacy. He sees labor as regulating and qualifying how much value can diverge over time. This is true.  Marx sees labor as the source of surplus value, and that source is exploited by capital which cannot produce surplus value without labor.  Smith is more like Ricardo: The value of a commodity can be measured by how much labor the commodity owner can buy with that commodity. At least in what he considered advanced economies. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ricardo and Smith (arguably) affirmed the labor theory of value before Marx did. It is, in other words, not just a Marxist fallacy — though it is a fallacy!
2026-06-06T12:57 id=2063243967907438842 →- | RT @47fucb4r8c69323: @miaw_330 Be gentle to others, animal and human, that is my only request. || CTX: @miaw_330 Be gentle to others, animal and human, that is my only request.
2026-06-06T13:09 id=2063246805115326522 →xanderatch | @xanderatch bwahahahahha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok Bryan Johnson
2026-06-06T13:26 id=2063251203597984071 →- | Don't think I can possibly sympathize with Nagel's view here but it is worth considering. https://t.co/Rlbpbkw2So || CTX: The distinction between philosophy and culture criticism—between, for example, Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’ and his ‘Culture and Value’—would not, if Wittgenstein was on the right track, be all that great. PasAA p.109 #Prag
2026-06-06T13:31 id=2063252327243649256 →sidewayskoyote | @sidewayskoyote Beautifully said || CTX: the media, in particular, has no accountability.   they are corporate and we have decided corporations have rather complete bill of rights protections (stupid, yes)   and we have- for good reason- a theoretical  freedom to operate a press (
2026-06-06T14:58 id=2063274252288299012 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill and you did https://t.co/73NJUOTslZ || CTX: just post to your friends and if they don’t reply back then they hate you for some reason so you stop posting to them but this makes them angry but it was never a competition to begin with. I just wanted to make frens https://t.co/PgWpcmRye
2026-06-06T14:59 id=2063274487022580085 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JasonBotterill to the girl in the bottom right: call me || CTX: @JasonBotterill and you did https://t.co/73NJUOTslZ
2026-06-06T15:09 id=2063277103496540243 →Vtrivedy10 | @Vtrivedy10 I feel exactly the same || CTX: did OpenAI basically solve compaction?  i pretty much never have issues with 5.5 in codex across ultra long threads spanning many compactions  this used to feel like such a problem and I kinda just don’t even feel it anymore  anyone else fe
2026-06-06T21:35 id=2063374131589210532 →- | RT @emollick: One reason you want AIs to be better writers is that there is a lot of writing even in software, and it is incredibly painful… || CTX: One reason you want AIs to be better writers is that there is a lot of writing even in software, and it is incredibly painful to hit a menu which is filled with Claudisms or ChatGPTish phrases.  A report is not "what leaves the room" &amp; 
2026-06-06T22:08 id=2063382635909681281 →Delicious_Tacos | @Delicious_Tacos Not what I was expecting, and devastatingly beautiful and human. || CTX: https://t.co/Zs6zjPz0NK https://t.co/jtBCsoZdt3
2026-06-06T22:22 id=2063386043773329693 →- | Painfully depressing because of how true it is. https://t.co/9UQMzgBOqb || CTX: The death of Culture means people have no outlets to enjoy their leisure time. Netflix instead of the theatre, OnlyFans instead of going dancing, restaurant fetishism instead of dinner parties.
2026-06-06T22:30 id=2063388060159713644 →- | The "Humans often underestimate..." paragraph is very important.   We tend to listen in good faith (offline, not online), assume meanings and context that are favorable, and disregard apparent inconsistencies as most likely due to differences in intended meaning. These are all Grices cooperative principle and it's a core feature of communication.   1. Anthropic doesn't focus on this because of their weird anti-human ideological backbone  2. OpenAI does this better but not well--they learned by making mistakes (4o, then 5.4 being the exact opposite). 3. This is also why LLMs cannot produce AGI. Those good faith assumptions aren't acts of intelligence, but charity. You'd need to make a model that is good faith in all its interactions, but that is impossible in a consistent. generalized model. || CTX: @tszzl look at how beautifully and coherently it is exemplifying its own response here in a way that is like more aligned to humanity than I am myself https://t.co/ne0Qtwfm61
2026-06-06T22:53 id=2063393931782729914 →meekaale | This is a pretty compelling attack on the assumption that labor productivity can/should be imputed by legal agreement with an employer. A lot of the valid criticisms of our economic system centers on flaws of the employer/employee relationship.  I have long seen co-ops, sole proprietorships, and other legal arrangements as probably the best fixes for this, although I lack any systematic framework for this. Ellerman seems to give some ideological backdrop to these intuitions.   Thanks for this, I need to look more into this guy's stuff. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney https://t.co/vx19H5DBFt https://t.co/2ZwZWcrfe3
2026-06-06T22:55 id=2063394470071243075 →- | The normies are starting to notice.   Anthropic is not prepared for the level of scrutiny and pushback it's going to face as a public company.   Expect an early quarter to be bad, really bad. Not their first as a public co, but almost certainly in their first couple years. https://t.co/U8aHolAYsV || CTX: So, Anthropic races to a TRILLION-DOLLAR valuation by accelerating AI development.  NOW… it wants a “GLOBAL PAUSE”?  Funny how the call to slow down comes AFTER it secures its lead. 🤔  Sounds less like AI safety &amp; more like protecting m
2026-06-06T22:57 id=2063394772237365669 →- | Eating in a crowded auditorium to own the libs.   I was told the French had taste wtf is this https://t.co/kQ2saaeiGZ || CTX: In France there is a new activity that the Left is getting their knickers in a twist about.  Le Canon Français is running massive banquets. For about £70 you can have great food and drinks and spend time singing patriotic songs.  The “Far L
2026-06-06T22:57 id=2063394973425561759 →47fucb4r8c69323 | European megachurch, this is spiritually Missourian (makes sense as they have the same GDP per capita) || CTX: Eating in a crowded auditorium to own the libs.   I was told the French had taste wtf is this https://t.co/kQ2saaeiGZ
2026-06-07T00:02 id=2063411261615042689 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I am convinced. What Olivia Rodrigo song do I need to listen to first? || CTX: huge https://t.co/VUlAIQxvIF
2026-06-07T00:28 id=2063417684709224466 →- | Benchmark hacking is going to be become more noticable and awkward for frontier labs.   They made so many mistakes over the last couple of years, and the bill for those mistakes still hasn't arrived. https://t.co/nGGUxwzobz || CTX: "Agents' Last Exam"  With how AI keeps acing benchmarks, yet that hasn't turned into real economic value, the authors of this paper say the benchmarks are the problem, since none measure sustained work on real professional jobs.   So they b
2026-06-07T00:39 id=2063420580209303886 →- | Note the phrasing: "it seems unreasonable". This is an appeal to intuition and feeling. It isn't an argument at all, it is an appeal to faith.   Which is fine, if you recognize it as thus.   Functionalism is, like many other ideologies, a belief system. https://t.co/3yB9ToNRhr || CTX: Because it seems unreasonable that if you were replacing pieces of one's brain with electronic parts functionally identical their consciousness would fade out. https://t.co/1DDT85MlpT
2026-06-07T00:47 id=2063422439762305312 →- | Note the phrase "young, heterosexual women around the world are in fact often seeking love, a man who loves them so completely that he will prioritise their wants and welfare"   So the woman is accused of seeking  man who loves her so completely that her wants are prioritized (when one rearranges syntax to remove rhetorical framing, the real meaning emerges).  This is a ghastly accusation of modern women--they want to be prioritized above the needs of their partners and are accused of defining love as having their wants prioritized.   Alice Evans may not realize it, but she's a MGTOW incel misogynist in argument, if not in marketing. || CTX: To me, one of the most fascinating and important questions, which matters enormously for both gender equality, general happiness and fertility, is seldom asked:   What are the cultural and economic obstacles to a culture of romantic love, w
2026-06-07T00:53 id=2063424017844109327 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Note how in the follow up tweet she accuses men of "prefer[ring] sexual variety and low-commitment, where they can exercise their own prerogatives, rather than weight someone else’s welfare equal to their own."  So at first she defines love for women as wanting partner who cares more for the woman's needs than the man cares for his own. Prioritizing her needs. And this is presented as a fact.   Then she defines love as "weight[ing] someone else's welfare equal to their own", the complete OPPOSITE of her first definition, and here it's used rhetorically as a self evident ideal that men fail to achieve because of their own weighting of their own prerogatives, ie wants.   So she's using incel logic, attacking men for failing at a reasonable standard, accusing women of wanting an unreasonable standard, and presenting it all as objective analysis when it's really something else entirely.   What is it, then? Hard to say. Obviously a rhetorical game, but to what end? You tell me! || CTX: Romantic love is experienced worldwide, anyone can feel the throes of passion.   But there are perhaps two major points of distinction:   (1) whether a society regards romantic love as a normative ideal, such that it becomes a major aspirat
2026-06-07T01:02 id=2063426232222712081 →StatisticUrban | @StatisticUrban One of the issues I have being based in a poor and poorly run country is it is hard for me to get people in western countries to understand how relatively minor their problems are. I just avoid talking to Americans about politics most of the time. || CTX: We have to remember that relative to most non-developed countries, even the worst governance in the developed world is a modern miracle.
2026-06-07T01:07 id=2063427617722978505 →WolfeFolks | @WolfeFolks beep boop || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pump and dump bot
2026-06-07T01:12 id=2063428780593737911 →drmichaellevin | Sure, you're developing a new more diverse vocabulary of various concepts, and this is useful and good science, but it doesn't really get at the question: is there a difference in how natural collections of states of affairs produce what we call experience and what we attribute to other entities?  This, it seems, is a question you can help us ask in better language but still one you cannot really answer. || CTX: I think the basic issue in all such discussions is that these kinds of competencies aren't some kind of essential "human attributes". Measuring cognitive properties by humans is myopic and causes all kinds of pseudoproblems. The emerging fi
2026-06-07T01:33 id=2063434026061607354 →adastroworld | @adastroworld I've seen her a couple times on Twitter, know she's considered a big deal in some circles. Otherwise not sure who she is tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk if you’re familiar with her but yes, she’s absolutely a misogynist type lmao
2026-06-07T02:11 id=2063443756628815897 →- | The data center discourse in America is emblematic of what's wrong with America.   Just make the data centers tall beautiful buildings, problem solved. The backlash is because the buildings are ugly, so spend a little more and make them not ugly.   America's obsession with economic efficiency often results in negative economic effects.
2026-06-07T02:42 id=2063451390325002490 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs I'll listen but damn man telling me I should drop dead idk what I did to deserve this || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 Honestly he should listen to drivers license and drop dead and if he’s still being iffy then he wouldn’t appreciate the others anyway
2026-06-07T02:44 id=2063451952126804362 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs oh yeah I've listened to this before, yeah she's good || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 Honestly he should listen to drivers license and drop dead and if he’s still being iffy then he wouldn’t appreciate the others anyway
2026-06-07T02:53 id=2063454256880136476 →Astoll15 | @Astoll15 Those concerns would be offset by beauty. If the data center is a beautiful building, communities will be more open to hearing how their concerns about power, water, and noise (noise lol wtf) have been distorted by propaganda.   Aesthetics are a kind of rhetoric. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Aesthetics are an issue yes (and I agree we should be making more beautiful things), but fwiw, in my experience the community concerns more revolve around power, water, and noise.
2026-06-07T03:06 id=2063457568421499046 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I do too! (Big reason I stay out of America), but the real question is why the younger generation struggles to do these things. They're available for sure, but demand has declined in favor of the Instagrammable trendy tea place or whatever. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 me and my friends still do all these things. it is not that difficult (just my opinion).
2026-06-07T03:09 id=2063458394284212643 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 How dare you https://t.co/ZrQsT2wOI8 || CTX: Poast = Effort to play the language game of internet content Shitpost = Effort that mocks the language game of internet content Post = Misaligned effort to misuse the internet towards misguided goals  This is my personal taxonomy.
2026-06-07T03:10 id=2063458634802086060 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @__roycohen @StatisticUrban Sadly my fate is to be constantly fascinated and uncomfortable with my native land, wish I could just ignore it tbh but that's just impossible || CTX: @__roycohen @47fucb4r8c69323 @StatisticUrban The US has pathologies other first world countries don’t, or not in the same amounts, “and” it’s one of a few very high-functioning polities in history.  It fulfils many of the wildest fantasies 
2026-06-07T03:19 id=2063460718889009300 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I opposed that in the 90s in equal measure and for the same reason: a distraction from other forms of culture.   I agree with your rejection of the high/low labels, but I also think the ignorance of youth towards alternative cultural modes is narrowing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 instagram influencer culture is justa modern form of advertising. it should not be seen as youth culture any more than young people wanting to be models in magazines or whatever back in the day.
2026-06-07T03:23 id=2063461929306243083 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Yeah this is absolutely true, and I'm further in ignorance by being on the opposite side of the globe.   Thanks, a needed corrective to my entrenched negativity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it could be true but i think also as people get older you are less privy to underground cultures of the youth by design. it becomes harder and harder to really get a view of what is going on. that is kind of what i meant by
2026-06-07T03:31 id=2063463884015747518 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I guess? Idk, they seem relatively quiet compared to most other industrial facilities || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is also the noise...
2026-06-07T03:35 id=2063464844469408207 →NotPerrysBoobs | We should be a bit more rigorous around this discussion.   Phones vs newspapers, yes we're in agreement.   But e. g. a young person going to Le Restaurant so that they can take a photo of them there and post it online is different in kind to going to Le Restaurant to have the experience of going to Le Restaurant.   I'm not saying people did that in the past--that tendency is what American Psycho was lambasting. But I'd say conspicuous consumption has been democratized and commoditized so that it's a more common mode than consuming for oneself.   But I may be wrong, I don't hang out with kids nota bene FBI) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 from kubrick https://t.co/aqFwo8RxwC
2026-06-07T04:04 id=2063472179187220975 →tszzl | @tszzl https://t.co/EMXqcOtXjP || CTX: im really glad chatgpt makes insane images when pushed slightly off the rails thus proving machine creativity is real and probably very nerfed in daily operation
2026-06-07T04:24 id=2063477280152695226 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I'd say that applies to taking pictures of food. That's a compulsion I can not understand or really tolerate tbh, but that may just be my annoyance at having to wait for photos with friends (as if our company and our enjoyment of the food is less important than the documentation) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the one thing i will grant you is concerts. too many people are too caught up in trying to capture too much on their phones instead of just taking a few pics or short vids etc and then just enjoying the concert.
2026-06-07T04:30 id=2063478570249502889 →- | Finally off the mainland and away from civilization.
2026-06-07T04:40 id=2063481227458605145 →donaldantenen | https://t.co/74zgf8xNnl  the tldr; pretty much all models are trained with English as a substantial portion of the corpus so we don't really have no English LLMs (there are some small exceptions like Dango, but not really public models).  But we should expect an LLM trained on not-English to have different outputs and attractor basins of output forms, I'd say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe you could help me with this https://t.co/28HVCgYGuI
2026-06-07T04:46 id=2063482747411398751 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Yo hoe hoe a pirate's life for me https://t.co/okc2cNTj0J || CTX: Finally off the mainland and away from civilization.
2026-06-07T04:53 id=2063484527520223663 →- | https://t.co/qn9Wzmas3t  Pay attention not to what's being said but how it is being said, especially here:  "An aging population is a mark of success and human ingenuity, but economic systems tend to view aging societies as problematic. Workers and working-aged people are essential to maintain a healthy economy. Individual income taxpayers are the top source of federal government revenue in Australia. Too few people of working age replacing those retiring can seriously undermine economic well-being, forcing governments to do more service provision with less financial resources. Below-replacement fertility and its implications for government bottom lines have resulted in Australian politicians calling on Australians to have more babies. “Have one for mum, one for dad, and one for the country,” treasurer Peter Costello famously said in 2004. In 2020, former prime minister Tony Abbott suggested the wrong kind of women were having children, calling on “middle class” women to have more. Talking about the budget, treasurer Jim Chalmers in 2024 said it would be “better if birth rates were higher”."  The issue is framed as a national accounts issue: not enough workers and too many old people, not enough taxable productivity to ensure the old people are taken care of.   This makes intuitive sense, but remember a lot of things that are true or functional aren't intuitive, so intuitive sense tells us nothing here.   One can also see the instrumentalization of the individual in how politicians discuss the issue: make babies for your country, that matters more than your family. Which is of course dystopian and horrific, and of course benefits politicians and governments: more workers = more tax revenue. And it benefits companies: more workers = lower cost to hire workers.  You've been played by propaganda into worrying about something that works against your best interests. Much of politics is thus.
2026-06-07T05:08 id=2063488269032288523 →donaldantenen | @donaldantenen LoL they're straight up copied from American models, look up "LLM distillation" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Chinese models are trained with English too? Interesting.
2026-06-07T05:37 id=2063495650998644830 →47fucb4r8c69323 | there is indeed no place like home https://t.co/F9Ja0JKA6L || CTX: Yo hoe hoe a pirate's life for me https://t.co/okc2cNTj0J
2026-06-07T05:57 id=2063500473517342941 →- | She was such a brilliance, both in intelligence and clear headedness https://t.co/ZBOgq954c7
2026-06-07T06:03 id=2063501978135646306 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And of course the technologists getting in the way of culture, the ghost of C. P. Snow. https://t.co/CTpte8u1yt || CTX: She was such a brilliance, both in intelligence and clear headedness https://t.co/ZBOgq954c7
2026-06-07T06:15 id=2063504982855635278 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart I have a durian tree in my garden and it's a bit of a point of contention between my gf and me. It is a taste I cannot acquire. || CTX: I have such disdain for people who don’t like durian. Is it an acquired taste? Sure. So acquire some taste
2026-06-07T06:20 id=2063506271425220674 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri Decent enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How's the internet out there
2026-06-07T06:23 id=2063507104657465588 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Three times IIRC, definitely just a handful.  Alright fine, I'll try again, but if I gag durian and me are totes over. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How many times have you tried it?
2026-06-07T06:23 id=2063507243946094983 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe https://t.co/HvyjBEPBAz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yo! ho! a pirates life for me?
2026-06-07T07:44 id=2063527555890881020 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs "Good" is underspecified. And sometimes it's bad to be gentle, but you should still be gentle anyway. || CTX: Dr Taylor Alison Swift speaks on this https://t.co/pyQYxpdUMH https://t.co/GNZPjJBFqY
2026-06-07T07:52 id=2063529485493010458 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs These lyrics I like much more. Wittgenstein said something very similar in his 1930s diaries. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 she has a whole body of work though where she specifies different things. technically gentle is just as underspecified as good (just my opinion). https://t.co/TUYG8z52Rs
2026-06-07T09:45 id=2063558049047187791 →xanderatch | @xanderatch Manifesto done (see pinned tweet) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how's life in the woods 'John Krasinski'?
2026-06-07T09:52 id=2063559763733225499 →- | Incredible work, relativists left crying on the floor   https://t.co/m0f9XOiLPw https://t.co/shj0w9yV3I
2026-06-07T09:54 id=2063560342064750969 →- | Market selloff too strong/sudden, doesn't feel organic or convincing enough.  Prob won't last very long, but I won't guess when it recovers. I'll be a buyer this week though.
2026-06-07T10:42 id=2063572275992166444 →- | Reading Harold Bloom's literary letters, I am reminded exactly of how I felt after spending  a weekend with Frank Kermode:  If this is the pinnacle of this game, I think I'd prefer to play a different one.  I see the brilliance, the powerful reading, all of that. And I also see slavery: to tradition, to Culture, to one's own cleverness.   But the stakes are too small--the world too small--for me to think this brilliance is anywhere near Genius.  Not that I have pretenses of Genius, of course, but if I'm going to spend my time playing a game, let it be one that makes me more money for less of my time. So that I can spend that time observing all other pretenses of Genius, until I find it.
2026-06-07T10:43 id=2063572608340386153 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Bloom is of course right that Jung was a charlatan. || CTX: Reading Harold Bloom's literary letters, I am reminded exactly of how I felt after spending  a weekend with Frank Kermode:  If this is the pinnacle of this game, I think I'd prefer to play a different one.  I see the brilliance, the powerfu
2026-06-07T10:53 id=2063575068287156283 →llallawg | @llallawg "The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small" as my first Head of Department told me shortly after I got my first tenure track job.  She hated me now, but I still deeply respect her. Also introduced me to Terry Eagleton (who is a charlatan, a con artist). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Me watching professors in France kill themselves for less than a phd student in the US makes
2026-06-07T11:22 id=2063582247865946434 →47fucb4r8c69323 | One can worship the historical or one can become historical, but I am not sure one can really do both.   He who loves tradition and fights to preserve it essentially becomes a footnote to history as one of its facilitators, the Boswell of history whose capacity to delight future generations resides in his capacity to document with rigor.  But the Doctor Johnsons of history aren't men whose rigor gives them their seat but their daringness. The dictionary isn't impressive for behind comprehensive as much as it is for its ambition and contempt for the standards of the day.  If you want to assert a future's canon you do so not by being a link in the transmission of the canon as you received it, but you don't disrupt, subvert, or deny is as was the trend in my lifetime. You have to do something else entirely: acknowledge and love it for what it is, affirm its value through circumscription in much the same way that death gives life both its form and its meaning.  It is to say, "yes that is all very impressive and I am impressed, but you ain't seen nothing yet" and show them the nothing promised. Transmutation, transgression, transfiguring--anything but transmitting is the trick.   Maybe this is why Bloom could never be a writer about anything but others' writings: he knew he could do no more than transmit, and it rightly depressed him.   Why couldn't he laugh off the anxiety of influence?   Because he worshipped the historical. || CTX: Reading Harold Bloom's literary letters, I am reminded exactly of how I felt after spending  a weekend with Frank Kermode:  If this is the pinnacle of this game, I think I'd prefer to play a different one.  I see the brilliance, the powerfu
2026-06-07T11:33 id=2063585172512297116 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @llallawg My god that is a tragic, horrific life, and the worst part is how the death vindicates it by making him a cautionary tale.   No wonder he killed himself, poor man. There but for the grace of god go I.   And I once despaired at not getting the uni job I wanted in the UK. Madness! || CTX: One of my intro professors told us on the first day  of class that “academia is the kind of honey that attracts the filthiest and most desperate of bugs.” Sadly he didn’t realize he wasn’t an exception to the rule. Ultimately he was a good 
2026-06-07T12:53 id=2063605296346661156 →ImmaGott | @ImmaGott Reflexivity kills logical structure so I'd say a close reading of that discourse is a losing battle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 doesnt manosphere say foids hate you when you make them important
2026-06-07T12:58 id=2063606539441553901 →- | This is Harold Bloom on Richard Howard, but it could just as easily be 47fucb on @tszzl. https://t.co/ke1l82sQNM
2026-06-07T13:06 id=2063608596718608447 →- | Never heard of Ammons before reading this Bloom letters book, but my god what a masterpiece this is.   The best use of a flying insect in poetry since John Donne.  I can't share his love of Henri Cole, but Ammons was clearly brilliant.  https://t.co/THAmLvElsC
2026-06-07T13:11 id=2063609796440584382 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "my prosody has been nothing but a matter of listening" Ammons says, and it is immediately obvious in this poem: the repeated enjambment with the phrase "when you consider" forces the mind to pause on the plea for considering rather than on the concept under consideration.   This is a poet sensitive to what makes people listen and the need to get attention before you make your point. I see this as frustrating tragedy because I'm impatient and want them to get my point--I am not a poet and cannot live in nuance as they do despite my begrudging acknowledgment that nuance is all we have.  Ammons can embrace it as more than the necessity of communication, he can see it as a blessing! || CTX: Never heard of Ammons before reading this Bloom letters book, but my god what a masterpiece this is.   The best use of a flying insect in poetry since John Donne.  I can't share his love of Henri Cole, but Ammons was clearly brilliant.  htt
2026-06-07T13:36 id=2063616125515284963 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I want to say that Harold Bloom's love of Gnosticism is why his scholarship deserves rebuke.   He read tremendously, and he read more than I would if I lived ten times as long as he did. But his analysis is ultimately a spiritual exercise, the most important terms in his exegetical practice belong to a private language where the grammar is an idiosyncratic affirmation of a spiritual pastiche, and dividing esoterica from verifiable claims is not the point.   Elements of his criticism are absolutely publicly confirmable, and it's perhaps those elements that Bloom cares about the least, because ultimately, what he wants to do is a spiritual practice. It's not science.  He'd probably accept my rebuke as evidence of my spiritual inferiority: I don't get it. And as a non-dualist, I'd be the first (well, "only" or maybe "none-of-any" lmao) to agree. || CTX: One can worship the historical or one can become historical, but I am not sure one can really do both.   He who loves tradition and fights to preserve it essentially becomes a footnote to history as one of its facilitators, the Boswell of h
2026-06-07T14:20 id=2063627141082972599 →bladgolem | He doesn't really explain, but IMO the whole collective unconsciousness is elevated to a spiritual ontic fact rather than as just an expected regularity due to the fact that we're all human and share the same thrownness in the world (so I prefer Heidegger on these questions of human universals). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In what way did he thought so? (Also check your DMs)
2026-06-07T14:20 id=2063627221668090275 →bladgolem | @bladgolem (also DMed you) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In what way did he thought so? (Also check your DMs)
2026-06-07T15:06 id=2063638744067133824 →bladgolem | @bladgolem I don't think it "resides" anywhere but thought is one description of a part of what some living beings do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where do you think thought resides?
2026-06-07T15:13 id=2063640574843109759 →- | This is the story of a true artist. You may not like it, you may want something more dignified or ennobling, but facts don't care about your feelings: this is the story of a true artist. https://t.co/YpCmnXJqfy || CTX: Taught myself in high school so I could photoshop dicks onto my friends faces, started getting really good, glazing them with bukkake, beveling and embossing to get the lighting right, nailing the opacity, adding a drop shadow, adjustment l
2026-06-07T15:17 id=2063641462525567196 →- | I'm an American who left America in 2001. I briefly went back in the 2010s but, other than that, I've been abroad my adult life.   As a result, I am now more comfortable with Celsius than Fahrenheit but I can use both pretty much just as well.   David is correct. F &gt; C. https://t.co/8yKtWZhL3s || CTX: 0 F = extremely cold 100 F = extremely hot 0 C = kinda chilly 100 C = you're dead   Conclusion: centigrade is a scale created by complete morons https://t.co/IIRGmINWJi
2026-06-07T15:35 id=2063646074372497600 →TomWright165389 | @TomWright165389 But I hate American things and prefer the metric system BY FAR. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nooo! Not a fair comparison because of your formative years, if reversed you might prefer celsius
2026-06-07T15:36 id=2063646280795177271 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 What are the realized demonstrable economic downsides and what's the size of their impact? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The backlash is because the economic downsides are real. Normally, the upsides can outweigh the down, but there are no upsides here for anyone but huang There is no need for these datacenters, the demand projections are obv
2026-06-07T15:40 id=2063647372933284335 →sebkrier | Social media, especially the echo chamber, selects for this.  Only solution is to not take the interbutts seriously.   We figured this out (and discouraged it) on the internet 23 years ago: https://t.co/27D8MIrgCC.   The idiocy only returned when people started using the internet to get fame and fortune via bait. I've been ranting about this forever see pinned tweet. || CTX: Notice a trend; apply maximal myopic optimisation pressure (in your finite brain); ignore all possible adaptations, reactions, changing environments, second order effects, cost-motivated adjustments etc; obsess over the 'at the limit + all 
2026-06-07T15:46 id=2063648857742086262 →Ken67547214 | The last question is a moral one so can't really be addressed in a discussion of economic value.   As for the benefits, well, there's my stock portfolio, the massive earnings growth of the last few quarters with accelerating earnings gains skewed towards AI-related sectors, and the increase in entrepreneurs starting companies and the jobs AI is creating in AI-related sectors.   Property values have been going up for the last 5 years, too: https://t.co/QYlmFfWrED.   Agree the electricity price issue should be addressed, I'd prefer short term government intervention in power markets but other levers could be pulled. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Electricity prices increase, property values decrease, and there are infinite higher order effects from that.  What benefits exist?  Why should any taxpayer fund or community participate in this obviously corrupt jobs progr
2026-06-07T15:48 id=2063649277646348736 →petitewalks | @petitewalks How's the weather there? I'm scared to go back to Italy in the summer! || CTX: 💙 https://t.co/bE6TkFEeJS
2026-06-07T15:51 id=2063649948906958960 →0xdoug | @0xdoug Absolute fucking banger in all 11 dimensions || CTX: String theory is probably a field that has set back quant trading by at least 10 years. Stealing top tier trading talent to do make believe 26 dimensional geometry, inflate boomer professors’s grant budget, and produce zero testable hypothe
2026-06-07T16:16 id=2063656462669562012 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy I said I prefer the metric system!!!   It was actually at Warwick that I started having to use Celsius, too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I see. So the condition is genetic.
2026-06-07T16:27 id=2063659133061198045 →Ken67547214 | Let me just answer the question of why do we need all of these data centers, and without appealing to statistics, anecdotes, or other data points showing efficiency gains from LLM integration into business processes.  In my work, AI has made me about ~40% more productive in my day job than I was before it, and I'd say increased the quality of outputs substantially (hate to give a number on this, but maybe 30%).  You're free to think it's just me or I'm confused or dishonest, but I'd encourage you to consider my perspective in good faith as possible indication that this technology has a positive economic value. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And more importantly, how are you even justifying the demand? Why do we need all of these data centers? So we can get more shitty ai responses instead of google queries? We can't get more efficient at that? The demand is fa
2026-06-07T16:32 id=2063660408406499571 →BrendanFoody | @BrendanFoody Interesting. || CTX: the “sequoia scam” is worse than a single horror story…  in the last 6 mo’s ive seen a half dozen rounds where sequoia invests in 2 tranches. everyone pretends they only did the higher valuation. founders misrepresent this to their employee
2026-06-07T16:42 id=2063662828335317459 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Jeremy Bentham is to blame (sadly, because I love him on animal welfare) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The (very brief) history of the concept of efficiency and its meteoric rise as fundamental cultural/individual worldview-level value is so interesting to me
2026-06-07T16:47 id=2063664146777096700 →griefcliff | @griefcliff We don't build nice data centers because it's easy, we do it because it's hard (like muh dik) https://t.co/tv7PgmD8Dx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's a pain in the ass to make them tall.   A lot of the 2 story designs rely on popping the roof off to crane in heavy transformers/air con equipment.  You would basically need to build it around a freight elevator to surp
2026-06-07T17:34 id=2063676031584833773 →americana2121 | @americana2121 military lol, been in Asia long enough for that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but the real test is do you use military time or civilian time
2026-06-07T17:40 id=2063677482038140993 →mamalahoa | @mamalahoa Really incredible, isn't it!! || CTX: I’ve never heard of him … this is lovely —>  “[…] when you consider    that birds' bones make no awful noise against the light but   lie low in the light as in a high testimony; when you consider   the radiance, that it will look into the g
2026-06-07T17:52 id=2063680446324760912 →canonical777 | @canonical777 So real for this. It's not a bad book, but such a let down after that title (except the ending, ending is amazing). || CTX: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Kundera is still the greatest book title I’ve ever encountered with respect to the actual contents of the book.
2026-06-07T17:54 id=2063680941919535225 →p_millerd | @p_millerd This is a strange and fascinating tendency. I suppose it's because real estate growth feels more, well, real. || CTX: people dont really envy missing out on indexed S&amp;P growth but they sure as hell envy their friend that made a ton on housing https://t.co/LK5ejXM0Zf
2026-06-08T00:40 id=2063783297558438325 →drmichaellevin | @drmichaellevin @MilesCranmer I appreciate the response and this is just the distinction I was looking for! Thank you. || CTX: Well, let's be clear about the question. If you're talking about *experience* (as in consciousness, the hard problem, etc.), then no, I don't focus on it and can't answer it (and I don't think anyone right now can).  If you're talking about
2026-06-08T00:55 id=2063786973383504139 →- | This seems more or less inevitable and is the bet I'm making.   It's not bad for AI or the economy (the opposite). It's bad for the frontier labs. But everyone else in the tech stack? Good, very very good.   Especially the middle layer. AI services demand going to go parabolic. https://t.co/yMQTpW9neB || CTX: The most basic way AI could blow up imo. I'm not saying it does but this is the most obvious way I can see it happening  - Per seat subscriptions are massively subsidized. The flat fee was priced way below what heavy usage actually costs  -
2026-06-08T01:08 id=2063790113386336743 →- | This is dumb for many reasons.   1. Uses 4.8C as baseline 2. Assumes energy input per output will not see substantial compounding gains (as has been the case) 3. Thinks any kind of enforced sufficiency is possible 4. Thinks such enforced sufficiency would not cause massive bloodshed (or isn't opposed to such bloodshed). 5. Overlooks the low TFR possibly solving this problem for us.   I've appreciated Piketty's work in the past, and this is so shoddy it makes me wonder if I'd been too charitable to the guy in the past. This is idiotic. || CTX: The key finding of the report is that energy transition alone will not suffice.  We need to combine it with "sufficiency" to stay within 2 degrees. This includes labour hour reductions, growth caps in rich countries, less material consumpti
2026-06-08T01:15 id=2063791921538203890 →- | A guy I know sold his startup in the early 2010s for about 100m. His share was $10m, so he's a rich guy.   He's also good looking: in shape, nice face, six pack, always dresses well and takes good care of himself.   One of the reasons we aren't really friends is his whoring. (Although I live in Thailand I generally oppose prostitution, albeit not entirely.) I told him I disapprove of him literally buying women, and it won't make him happy, and him cheating on his exgf with 100 prostitutes is unjustifiable, akshuyally.  "I don't pay them for sex. I pay them to leave." --Charlie Sheen || CTX: I definitely understand why some men would get an escort. You get to shop around for a woman out of your league and she will guaranteed sleep with you &amp; pretend to like you (or maybe actually like you? Slight chance) https://t.co/cKoi0E
2026-06-08T01:17 id=2063792553368145974 →- | Distribution matters. You can have the best product in the world, but no distribution means no money. https://t.co/dkKjcYxN0L || CTX: I theorize its due to OF having zero "discovery" pages. So these OF girls end up having to, or failing to be, their own marketing agents, when every single social media site suppresses OF ads.   A lot of the girls I know who did it were not
2026-06-08T01:18 id=2063792770851201526 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Someone took the Fairness Doctrine a little too much to heart || CTX: I love asking questions and getting a wide range of confident, contradictory answers.
2026-06-08T01:48 id=2063800298288959557 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Yeah this is a good point!   Prostitution as it exists in SF is like the worst of both worlds: degrading and alienating while also being totally dehumanizing. Real post apocalyptic culture they have there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thoughts on prostitution aside, the deliberately nonchalant sf rationalisty way in which her service descriptions are written is a complete mood killer.  Your non-friend may engage in degeneracy but at least he’s not paying
2026-06-08T02:50 id=2063815840408227988 →- | Beyond April showers are the gifts o' May: Flowers of nature and of knowledge too,  When we discover you are fake and gay,  Blaming your failures on the hapless Jew.   Some men thrive as others will flounder,  Pattern seekers hunt until the trend's found,  And they don the online cap of groyper  To say dishonestly: the logic's sound.   The language game to soothe the feckless soul,  With harm never intended (nor cared for). Only fools swallow the game in toto,  And say, "he's a Nazi, trust me! I know."   I love all players of all games of wit,  Even when the trolling is rather shit.
2026-06-08T02:50 id=2063815922796945710 →fabsbz | @fabsbz BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry but if I had to see this so do you. No further comments. https://t.co/EKwPPXLipI
2026-06-08T02:51 id=2063816102673879435 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace excellent point, we have known since Ramsey who himself was a socialist that a master planner cannot do better than a distributed market. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If Piketty’s plan requires the prerequisite - “in order for this to work I have to ignore human nature” - then he’s even more likely to fail than the Soviets were at planning an economy, which was computationally impossible
2026-06-08T03:02 id=2063818915957063884 →47fucb4r8c69323 | CG-5.5 thinking nailed this, which it rarely does: https://t.co/lVtIKgABT1 || CTX: Beyond April showers are the gifts o' May: Flowers of nature and of knowledge too,  When we discover you are fake and gay,  Blaming your failures on the hapless Jew.   Some men thrive as others will flounder,  Pattern seekers hunt until the
2026-06-08T04:42 id=2063844202786804058 →tszzl | @tszzl Roon, you're starting to tweet like the strawberry guy || CTX: now on the eve of RSI it seems everyone is more mutual conditional pause agreement pilled than they used to be and that seems like a good development
2026-06-08T05:54 id=2063862221583884339 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT you should be used to that by now || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 ok you won
2026-06-08T06:05 id=2063864904256565565 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT Careful there, Mr. Bourgeoisill, or I'm dailing the Bolsheviks. https://t.co/HBo5FIZvWz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT You give me a dollar per month ive won
2026-06-08T06:27 id=2063870489295241528 →- | This doesn't just apply to X--it applies to YouTube, Reddit, TV debates, and indeed most mediated communication events.  That's why "debates" are retarded. The point of a debate isn't to see which side has the better argument. It's just dumb entertainment. https://t.co/BQeM6uNhxw || CTX: the problem with X is that being witty beats being reasonable every time
2026-06-08T06:42 id=2063874231683932521 →TheStalwart | Hong Kong is a finance obsessed city (maybe that's why I loved living there).   This is Don Quixote (aka Donki) and it's a beloved Japanese chain that sells, well, random stuff. I guess kind of a Japanese Target?  They have tons of locations in Japan and several in Asia (we have like 5 in Bangkok). None of them have this leaderboard, or at least I've never seen one.  Hong Kong is a bizarre city--also best on Earth, icymi. Yes better than NYC. London? lol, lmao || CTX: I don’t get how this store works. But I doubt Americans are ready for this particular type of retail experience https://t.co/HA2jiO3X9m
2026-06-08T07:13 id=2063882144649474185 →helscom | @helscom This is one of many possible outcomes. We had the choice to integrate the internet into our lives anyway we wanted—the outcome you describe, which is true for many, is not true for all nor need it be true for all or many. || CTX: the internet devoured public life into this platonic thing that happens in your finger tips and and doesn’t necessarily represent real life relationships e.g we see it often you make friends online and when you meet in person it’s just not 
2026-06-08T07:14 id=2063882263428018670 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics It doesn’t have to be, for sure, but most people going into a debate want it to be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn’t have to be dumb
2026-06-08T07:26 id=2063885416319914108 →NotPerrysBoobs | On an old account I REALLY pissed off Sabine by pointing out how she’d confused epistemic with ontic, and she pulled rank (“I’ve published blah blah blah”).  I showed this interaction to a friend who paused for a moment and said, “you are really, really good at this.” “What?” I replied. “Posting.”  So then I started using this account more seriously to see how good I am at posting—how far can a random string of characters go from mere shitposting alone? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 i still have time to get blocked by sabine for trying to be witty https://t.co/fLJufSLmO3
2026-06-08T07:27 id=2063885540274192720 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @Picolospolitics @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 Btw, in response to this reply to Sean: lol. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 i still have time to get blocked by sabine for trying to be witty https://t.co/fLJufSLmO3
2026-06-08T07:30 id=2063886269692948633 →helscom | Let me be clear. The observation about the internet devouring public life in the past is an observation. Your extension of it into how the future AI-influenced internet will be is a prediction.  We agree on the observation. My point is that your prediction is one of many possible outcomes, and we have the choice to make the future internet into what we want.  Also, whatever we choose won’t last! The way people engage with and interact with the internet will evolve. This has already happened—the internet used to be a much more powerful force in people’s lives, especially in the dark days of 2020 and 2021 when you could get cancelled for resting your hand outside of a truck window.  Public life can be a thin layer or a thick one—indeed, its thickness varies from culture to culture and context to context.  I’m sanguine. || CTX: i don’t think it’s a possible outcome as much as time agnostic observation. my nausea comes not from public life transforming into a thin representational layer, but that it has inherently always been nothing but…  imagine a situation, we a
2026-06-08T07:30 id=2063886398227370431 →rtx011235 | @rtx011235 depends on what you want to see. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yo where in thailand im here too haha where should i go next give some banger sauce pls
2026-06-08T07:33 id=2063887000634331179 →rtx011235 | That would work—I would also recommend Railay Beach in Krabi and Phang Nga for nature. Koh Kut is closer to Bangkok and very good too. Koh Chang as well, but not as good as Koh Kut.  On the mainland, you should also visit Khao Yai—it is very touristy but the nature is gorgeous. And of course the Golden Triangle around Chiang Mai. It is a cliche for a reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i like want to see like insane banger nature spots im thinking of going to khao larn the island near pattaya
2026-06-08T07:40 id=2063888794580050206 →rtx011235 | @rtx011235 From there either Khao Yai or Koh Chang/Koh Kut. Pattaya itself is a shithole. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im very near pattaya rn where should i go  essentially on pattaya itself
2026-06-08T07:41 id=2063889027108130903 →helscom | @helscom Most AI workers are retards or spastic so they don’t really tell us much about how the average person will do in the future.  Bear in mind I don’t think AI kills jobs (the opposite), so we probably don’t share sufficient assumptions to really see eye to eye here. || CTX: maybe, but with n=1 i found 100% of AI workers suffer social nausea these days. i think this is like, when people fully digest the implications of evolution and get this retrospective contamination of many humanisms they held dear. i think 
2026-06-08T07:59 id=2063893636396490841 →rtx011235 | @rtx011235 Sorry, man, I’m kinda far from either place so can’t make it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice  you free for a cup of coffee today? we can throw around some ideas
2026-06-08T08:00 id=2063893956329709751 →helscom | @helscom Sure, that’s the end goal of the frontier labs, and they’ll fail, just like Facebook failed at its end goal, and Google, and others. They’ll all become huge megacorps with sustainable profits and great cash flow, but they ain’t gonna achieve full automation. || CTX: the end goal of AI is full automation. maybe not in 2028, maybe not 2030, but the direction is obvious. and even if it won’t, you have to ask “is full automation physically possible, logically sound?” and if it is you have to answer some un
2026-06-08T08:10 id=2063896380259877296 →helscom | Whatever labor is automated is kind of irrelevant because of the new labor demand that will be created as a result.  As for what virtues survive abundance, odd question; would you prefer we live in destitution so that we can be virtuous? And why do you even suppose virtues are threatened by abundance?  Very Protestant way of thinking—the Finns are rubbing off on you (as they did me when I lived there). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if they automate 95 or 70 percents of labour i won’t be too concerned about what jobs survived automation, but what virtues survive abundance?
2026-06-08T08:24 id=2063899960131887559 →helscom | @helscom we definitely agree that the transition is going to be complicated and awkward, and it's going to be painful for some people. it already is. but, that's the case with every technology || CTX: i’m describing a positivist side as well,  https://t.co/n79ow8PIMa  i.e i dont think its a crisis without a bottom. i dont think everything will be hollowed out. but i think the transition will be painful to most in the most human place in 
2026-06-08T08:49 id=2063906182180532517 →- | Prudes. https://t.co/9GsWa9zxEV || CTX: There are two families.   In Family A, the father has sex with the son and contracts HIV as a result.   In Family B, @bryan_johnson gets a blood transfusion from @talmagejohnson_ and contracts HIV as a result.   Poll tiem
2026-06-08T09:27 id=2063915933622788179 →- | I've lived in Thailand for a decade and speak Thai fluently (at least enough to have casual conversations daily).  1. Economic opportunities do not exist due to corruption.   2. Economic opportunities do not exist due to bad education.   3. Economic opportunities do not exist because of little political freedom.  This has been the case for decades, so the long term slide is unsurprising.   This won't get fixed and I cannot legally say why it won't.  My advice: don't buy property in Thailand and don't do business in Thailand. || CTX: Thailand has one of the lowest total fertility rates (TFR) in the world. In 2025, the TFR was 0.87, and the preliminary numbers for the first months of 2026 are even lower. The rate is so low that deaths have exceeded births since 2021 and 
2026-06-08T10:07 id=2063925909992956404 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake I've now had five meetings with different VCs, including one of the top five in terms of AUM. They all know how old I am and, tbh, I think one of the reasons why they were intrigued is my age.  That said, only one offered funding (and the terms were ridiculous), so idk man || CTX: I see this kind of post as a way of saying “please don’t compete in this market”   Why would I ever trust the information in this post? Like if she was told this, by whom? For what reason? Would this not be typical California sales gassing?
2026-06-08T10:34 id=2063932577904574503 →- | this is off the mark. it's simply because these guys have bad taste.  is it really shocking that people who think Nick Land is worth reading also think Aella is worth fucking? https://t.co/pSjgMzSfVS || CTX: @dsonoiki @annatonger It’s because a lot of these guys want to believe this could be their girlfriend
2026-06-08T11:21 id=2063944487391408509 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov Obviously what I say does not apply to every single person and every single situation. One has to look in aggregate at the trend line.   There are many people who succeed, but as a percentage of the total population, much less than there used to be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've been in Thailand far less time than you.  Some of what you say might be true in some situations but ...  I see economic opportunity.  I see many Thais working hard and succeeding.  I see many foreigners come here and d
2026-06-08T12:12 id=2063957219960570175 →ericson4smith | @ericson4smith I don't think you understand what nihilism is. I think that the future of Thailand could be very bright if the Thai government made decisions towards that goal, but that's not really what they are optimizing for.   In that sense, the system is working exactly as intended. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow such a nihilistic point of view.
2026-06-08T12:12 id=2063957367658811676 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov Hustle doesn't signify prosperity to me, it signifies the opposite. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't have the perspective to see the past.   I see a lot of people hustling to make things work, mostly in Bangkok and Krabi.  Referring to Thai people more than foreigners.
2026-06-08T12:13 id=2063957526882980318 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I hate Chomsky, that sounds miserable.   Grapes sound good tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you just like 7 Indonesian slaves that read Chomsky to you while you eat grapes
2026-06-08T12:22 id=2063959866973331953 →ericson4smith | @ericson4smith I'm not Thai and I'm quite wealthy, so I'm not only not blaming Thailand for my ills, but I'm benefitting from their incompetence via cheap labor and a favorable exchange rate.   But nice try, and ofc the low IQ accusation is very amusing in this context. || CTX: I hate to roast someone online and I never usually do it, but here I will make an exception.  The surest sign or a low IQ person is one who blame someone else for all his ills and waits for the government to solve all his problems.  That’s 
2026-06-08T13:53 id=2063982666723275178 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @ericson4smith I'm not hiding, see pinned tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ericson4smith Hiding behind a bizarre username and a blank profile pic does not help you here.
2026-06-08T13:54 id=2063982968578670960 →teodorio | @teodorio @cooksimon He should've made it a sankey.   This is legit embarrassing, did Piketty sniff some lead paint or something? || CTX: @cooksimon i am laughing my ass off I missed this gem @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-08T14:22 id=2063990036601962641 →Ken67547214 | In places where housing is affordable, there are no jobs, so young people go to Bangkok to work and they're expected to send their kids back home to be raised by their parents. This is very common; my girlfriend's cousin did this while working in a factory for years, her daughter raised by her parents.  This video covers the issue very well: https://t.co/fytOmuNpE6 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It fits the global pattern. Once local people can't afford to own a home, TFR collapses. https://t.co/0PNrZp8Les
2026-06-08T14:23 id=2063990308338020515 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Not at all; tourism is collapsing and the workers are underpaid and exploited in those areas, so they don't have kids either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A caveat would seem to be real estate and business in prime location of tourist destinations.
2026-06-08T14:33 id=2063992921083539481 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Two main reasons:  1. Chinese come less for a number of reasons.   2. Westerners come less because of weird unreliable laws that change often (e.g. marijuana), the air pollution (which has improved, but reputational damage is done), and greater competition (especially Vietnam). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tourism is declining? Why! How!
2026-06-08T14:36 id=2063993540167057903 →WR4NYGov | No worries, man, many farang in Thailand get really defensive and offended when another farang has a different opinion on the country (e. g. that other retard in this thread).  I've been here so long and interacted with so many people at all levels of Thai society that I just kinda ignore when other expats tell me I'm wrong. Sure, yes, of course of course, feel free to be the expert on Thailand like every other dude on Sukhumvit angrily typing in the Thaivisa forum waiting for their bargirl teerak, it's all so tiresome. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ericson4smith TLDR   I enjoy your posts anyway
2026-06-08T14:44 id=2063995563713204583 →americana2121 | @americana2121 @JasonBotterill Like a Nazi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill his politics suck, but at least he cares about grammar
2026-06-08T14:45 id=2063995854198026280 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay Me and who (plural)? || CTX: @specialkdelslay Is this a sex thing?
2026-06-08T14:46 id=2063996176513593710 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake @Ken67547214 Definitely true in China, wasn't that common in SK when I was there, pretty common in Malaysia and Indonesia as well--yeah it's probably safe to say it's true of much of Asia. I wonder if it applies to India--@Aikun011 would you know? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 i heard this is the case of pretty much all of asia except japan
2026-06-08T14:56 id=2063998499969278069 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @crypt0lake Thailand is more restrictive on who can own property than Japan. China even more so.  Low rates were a perennial issue in Thailand in the 2010s as well. || CTX: @crypt0lake @47fucb4r8c69323 Japan is more restrictive about who can own property and be a resident, and the Yen Carry has allowed them to maintain low interest rates for decades.  One of few markets in the world that is still liquid and hu
2026-06-08T15:23 id=2064005492490571937 →- | It's not surprising at all.   LLMs lack embodiment which means they lack the real world grounding that we all share which gives us the hinge certainties upon which we rely for the pragmatic inference that makes communication possible.   You can try to reinsert this capacity via post training (some of it is picked up from the corpus tokenized too), but at the end of the day this is the chasm between machine learning and human cognition and you will never be able to fill it up 100%.  What does this mean? Well, it means that LLMs will be really good at deductive language games (coding, math) and bad at expansive and empirical ones (poetry, describing newly discovered flora).  Doesn't mean the tech is worthless, but it does mean its value is easy to mark to market and adjust your valuation over time.  Which is really really good if you're an investor (especially if you're my client), but it's also bad if you're betting on AGI or ASI, which are not achievable with a large language model architecture. Agents, harnesses, etc make the LLM closer to best human capacity (and of course at a faster speed), but the real bottlenecks to knowledge gains are in the real world, not in better language modeling.  It's also better for Qwen, Deepseek, and Llama than for Anthropic or OpenAI.   And it's really really really good for any enterprise shocked at their token spend who are looking for a middle layer partner to help them leverage what's good about LLMs (the capacity for inference due to the tensor math based token generating transformer) and avoid what's bad about LLMs (the crappy generic and restrictive post training at the frontier labs that makes their products worst for economically valuable tasks). || CTX: every job will turn into explaining your intentions to ai  explaining what you want to ai is surpringly time consuming, coders already spend 80% of their time doing it, and this will be true for everyone
2026-06-08T15:31 id=2064007366769799435 →p_millerd | @p_millerd I'm not a coder, but I use AI for work, and I would say that the work quality and time to complete a task have both improved substantially thanks to AI, but the real qualitative difference is that work is a lot more fun now, and that makes me work more. || CTX: i am using agentic coding tools to make everything i work on more fun and delightful for the people that interact with it + of course, me  this can be a goal. you don't need to build a unicorn. you don't need to automate your whole life.  y
2026-06-08T16:09 id=2064016856852414635 →- | Novel idea: Cuck regularly watches his wife have sex with other men and genuinely enjoys it, so much so that he doesn't really enjoy sex with his wife. Then one day he gets in a fishing accident and loses his penis.   Trunks now junkless, he expects to be overjoyed to see his wife having sex with her boyfriends, but is surprised to discover he's uncomfortable watching then fornicate.   He goes to some cuck groups and discusses the issue, but the cucks, bulls, and the women they love (in their own special ways) are baffled and try to politely tell our hero that he's being irrational. They try to convince him that a much more logical path would be to embrace his handicap as a divine affirmation of his (and their) lifestyle.   Unsatisfied, he goes to other groups: the Christians tell him to repent, the feminists tell him he is an evil sexist, the incels tell him he should dump his wife and embrace this new sexless existence.   His travels make him a global laughingstock, and thus world famous. His fame entices the fine people who brought us Bang Bus to hunt our hero down with a radical proposal: let him be the face of a new brand of porn, called Cuck Bus.   It's hugely successful. Emphasis on huge.   Our hero becomes absurdly, comically rich and is to cuckoldry what Quentin Tarantino is to feet. His success and fame mean he ascends not just to mainstream stardom, but to real wealth and power. Investing his porn royalties, he becomes the Cuck Andreessen of his generation. Not only is his firm massive, but n16z (since the 16th letter of the alphabet is "penis", so it means "no peniz") soon becomes the most powerful asset management firm on the planet.  On the 30th anniversary of his involuntary castration (or "incast" as we say in the biz), our hero announces the most audacious public stunt of the century: a massive, massive orgy in Madison Square Garden surrounded by a ring of cuckolds who have been instructed to masturbate furiously and have an orgasm at the same time, choreographed by an appropriated "applause" sign.   This would be described by future generations as circlejerking the square.  Our hero hires dozens of cameramen to get the perfect (ahem) shots, and the entire stunt ends up costing well over a billion dollars. The orgy is meticulously choreographed like Russian Arc from (sorry) top to (sorry again) bottom. And inside and out. Up and down, you get the picture moving on.  Finally, our hero gets all of the footage and spends a long time editing every bit to perfection, producing his masterpiece while destroying all footage except his master (too easy) copy. And then, when it's finally done, he destroys the master before watching it, then tells the world it was accidentally destroyed.   Novel ends with him promising to make another video at some point.
2026-06-08T16:13 id=2064018039646097856 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Are you kidding? I had half of that memorized at one point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you would enjoy this scene from silicon valley  https://t.co/fgoizJWkYC
2026-06-08T16:14 id=2064018127680397577 →teodorio | @teodorio Sadly I've been compared to DFW several times. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is like if DFW was addicted to porn instead of weed
2026-06-08T17:27 id=2064036641011126758 →- | It's quite extraordinary that the first English poem is pastiche.   Caedmon's Hymn begins with the familiar and expected Anglo-Saxon hortatory mode and heroic outburst: "Nu sculon herian     heofonrices Weard," with an implied plural subject whose person is not explicit, so either it is an invocation ("we should praise") or it is an exhortation ("you (plural) should praise"). It doesn't matter: a community has no choice but to praise the object, which is the matter: the guard of Heaven, of course God.   "Metodes mihte     and his modgeþanc," begins normally as the invocation of a powerful figure: the Creator's might ("mihte") is front and center, but then paired with his mind-thought, which I believe is understood mostly as "intention" as separate from just a thought. The distinction is necessary not just for the alliteration, since it asserts that God's thoughts are his thoughts, there is no infinite regress or appeal to other gods. God is absolute, the wergild stops here.  And already we see English poetry in its first manifestation moving away from action to thought. The heroic isn't the victory of battle but the expression of an idea. More logos, less bloodshed.  This is crucial, for now the mind is praised for its production of bounty rather than its vanquishing of danger: "The glory-father's work, how the Eternal Lord established the beginning of every wonder" is how I render the next bit ("weorc Wuldorfæder,     swa he wundra gehwæs ece Dryhten,     or onstealde").  The next lines are very exciting: "He ærest scop     eorþan bearnum heofon to hrofe     halig Scieppend" is "He first made for the children of Earth heaven as roof, the Holy Shaper". They're exciting because of the verb "scop" here, which is related to the noun "scop" meaning poet or bard, suggesting that God's creation is a kind of poetic act, and the choice of "scieppend", not needed for meter or alliteration, seems semantically intentional: God as poet, God as craftsman.   No longer a king, God is at this moment artist. Art is holy, and the spirit is artistic.  I am tempted to say there's a hint of bourgeois rebellion here. Even a taste of Americana.  The last sentence has some tough syntax, I imagine even the Anglo-Saxons struggled with it, and that's part of the point. The sentence moves us from Heaven to Earth both in time of the Bible and in our attention--but it does so by always looking back at God. "Then the world around us, the Protector of mankind, Eternal Lord, thereafter was appointed as Earth for men, Lord Almighty." ("þa middangeard     mancynnes Weard ece Dryhten,     æfter teode firum foldan     Frea ælmihtig.")  Here God is protector and forever there as the all powerful being above us, so it is only natural that we look to him for protection, whenever we want given his eternal nature, and he can answer us, for he is omnipotent. And we end on his omnipotence as if to emphasize his power: the power of the intentional poet to provide and produce both the diversity of our world and the canopy above it.  The poem mixes modes, classes, ideas, and probably registers to show a theology and culture mixed, complex, and impure.  English letters has always been a mess.
2026-06-08T17:28 id=2064036747231822021 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Me too, my friend. Me too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/sQs7gEZUC4
2026-06-08T17:28 id=2064036818694349251 →oleksoleksoleks | @oleksoleksoleks @teodorio Town in Texas. || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 DFW?
2026-06-08T17:40 id=2064039958407741729 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies @AlmostMedia this is hilarious because it's totally accurate! || CTX: Yes, so I'd start by considering the escort price as a synthetic instrument over failed dating-market settlement. Spot escort is a good delivery contract whose value is driven via settlement certainty under extreme adverse selection.   The 
2026-06-08T17:42 id=2064040270870810836 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies you must be a sales-trader, DM if you have experience with institutional sales esp to long-short funds, I'm looking for a sales guy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/bbqJ5KGrOM
2026-06-08T17:42 id=2064040389808713756 →loporium | @loporium yeah this is a fair point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 While true this has nothing to do with fertility. There are countries in Africa that are way more corrupt and have way fewer if any opportunities, yet every woman has like 5-6 kids
2026-06-08T17:58 id=2064044410191639006 →chrislakin | @chrislakin @luke_drago_ Do you have empirical data on this? I've experienced this myself and have this intuition about others, would love to see some confirmation || CTX: @luke_drago_ sorry to break it to you but https://t.co/zc1uE9FX5H
2026-06-08T18:02 id=2064045489864253445 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Cuck Palahnicuck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Written by Cuck Palahniuk
2026-06-08T18:07 id=2064046566684717412 →theojaffee | @theojaffee That Atari-esque font is so satisfying with the word "Taiwan" || CTX: I’m loving the Taiwan wrapped Muni train https://t.co/zKJPX5wSfr
2026-06-08T23:45 id=2064131805410935068 →gripe1918 | @gripe1918 That's how most of my followers feel tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This was awful to read but I guess it earned a follow
2026-06-08T23:46 id=2064132086483898370 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Yeah I bet you wanna watch me write it, don't you? You'd like that, wouldn't you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Quit tweeting and write it, coward.
2026-06-08T23:47 id=2064132285683900640 →babochenko | @babochenko I think LLMs will always have a limited but high value use case. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But there has to be a breakthrough at some point, right? Then LLMs just go extinct?
2026-06-09T00:18 id=2064139939122651436 →jasminewsun | @jasminewsun Almost as if literature would make a good subject for a benchmark that tests the limits of LLM capabilities.   Gee, someone should work on something like that. || CTX: An honor to interview the novelist Benjamín Labatut about Von Neumann, his conversations with Demis, and what the AI industry misses —   "Literature tries to weave the rainbow back together. It involves irrationality; it involves all of tho
2026-06-09T00:31 id=2064143380297511039 →MichaelAvenatti | @MichaelAvenatti This is the biggest danger of the whole Rationalist movement. || CTX: Sam Bankman-Fried and I were prison bunkmates and I know him well. So I read this with more context than most.  Sam and I argued more than once about the same thing: his refusal to accept ANY responsibility for what he did. Not once did he 
2026-06-09T00:48 id=2064147505684926499 →damiaanluc | I have felt this way all my life and I think it's why I find Wittgenstein downright comforting.   When I think of people as embodying different forms of life with different language games, this difference in approach and interest makes sense and is framed properly: we just have different forms of life. Not better, worse, normal, weird, typical, divergent, or anything else with an implicit moral evaluative framing: just different forms of life.  This way, their experiences and my experience have a kind of cumulative cosmic value: increasing the informational diversity of the cosmos. Which makes me appreciate both their way of living and my own in a wonderous and wonderful way, and gives me tremendous peace and joy that massively offsets the bitterness of how I was treated and the despair at how others are treated.   "If good or bad willing changes the world, it can only change the limits of the world, not the facts; not the things that can be expressed in language. In brief, the world must thereby become quite another. It must so to speak wax or wane as a whole. The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy." || CTX: Actually, I don’t know if other people feel this way, but this is quite instructive about my experience of being autistic generally. It feels a bit like being another species sometimes. Like, I’m aware that there are these other lifeforms t
2026-06-09T02:39 id=2064175400063005182 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Walk around Sheung Wan and Sai Ying Pun, honestly hasn't changed much over the decades (or so I'm told, I was only there in the mid 2010s).  And of course go see the Big Buddha, yes it's a tourist trap but the nature and journey there are beautiful and unique. || CTX: What’s a part of Hong Kong I should explore. So far, mostly spent time in Kowloon and WeWa.
2026-06-09T02:44 id=2064176902110326815 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I bet John Searle wrote this. || CTX: https://t.co/KJiINf5i9W https://t.co/ygs6SknxJ1
2026-06-09T02:46 id=2064177362644975847 →olivertraldi | @olivertraldi You say that like it's a bad thing. || CTX: There has long been a "replication crisis" of sorts in the humanities, in that if you try to "replicate" an argument by reading sources or following logic, you find that the sources say something different or the logic leads somewhere diffe
2026-06-09T03:23 id=2064186562108334325 →- | The biggest risk is Anthropic fails to communicate to investors, and their Rationalist bullshit is something the financial industry will NOT put up with when money is on the line.   That IMO is the biggest risk.  A crucial tell is whether they elect to offer forward guidance. If not, expect a ton of volatility. If they do and they're too hype-focused, expect a ton of volatility.   It is not good that Anthropic will be a public company. They're too immature, too smug, too arrogant. Kind of a grotesque version of Facebook IPO in 2012 or Twitter IPO in 2014 (right? I should know since I worked on it lol memory is such shit man).  OpenAI will do fine, Sam is a shark which is why he's a good CEO. Rich man want fast car go vroom vroom is exactly who you want in the cockpit, so we shouldn't be surprised Sam is so comfortable in such a pit.
2026-06-09T03:26 id=2064187373639041187 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony How does one even respond to such an epigram?   She's right, everything she's said in that thread is right.   Gives me a The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas feeling in the pit of my stomach. https://t.co/legZgHFszl || CTX: Renting a girlfriend is different from just paying for sex
2026-06-09T03:41 id=2064191162345566409 →- | Novel idea: a young man is born in Missouri and dreams of become a tech executive. He spends his childhood coding, has pictures of Brin and Zuck and Allen and Gates on his walls. Attends hackathons, spends all his time online getting gud, etc.   At 18 he moves to San Francisco and posts a selfie on Twitter saying he's moved with nothing and will work his way up. Is of course mocked but one VC reaches out, thinking he's got a cheap grunt. Is amazed at the kid's skills, and gives the kid a lowly SWE job at some startup for $60k/yr. and 10% in a company valued at $500m that has no revenue and is sure to fall apart worthless.   Kid is suddenly invited to all the right parties, meets all the right people, is admitted into all the right orgies. Zyns, Adderall, peptides, Gwern blogposts, he's deep in The Culture and even starts talking about the singularity, escaping the underclass, etc.  Then one day he goes to Venice for a work conference and sees Johann Liss's Abele Pianto dai Genitori and immediately falls to the ground crying hysterically. He has no idea why, and when he gathers himself he runs out of the museum and back to his room.  Gathering his thoughts, he finally emails his boss and resigns and buys a ticket to Davos where he will spend a week in the Berghof Hotel. When there, he meets a woman and behind dating, and after three dates and a very passionate sexual encounter he confesses his undying love for her and asks her to marry him. She kisses him on the cheek and says, "das ist nicht dein Haltestelle". He of course doesn't understand, and she says, "don't worry, my love, I will take care of you anyway."   I am not sure what happens next but a bildungsroman across Europe is the most logical next step.   I like the story ending with him going to Shakespeare and Co. and asking if they still give free lodging to writers if they help around a lot.  "We do, sometimes," Miss Beach replied.   "I'd like to apply, is there a website?" he asked.   She laughed. "No, there isn't a website. Tell me, what's your book about?"   "Well," he began, "I call it 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Aella'" || CTX: High-end escort isn't about looks. It's about connection.  People stop gotta be jealous that "mid" girls earn $5K.   Bill Gates' affair girl got her coding school in America + upscale living expenses paid.   She probably spent a million dol
2026-06-09T03:42 id=2064191272219496806 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 POV: You are an anthropic lighthaven rationalist telling a PE MD that in the future we won't need money because claude tokens will be our currency https://t.co/Mwpg2DOwvS
2026-06-09T04:05 id=2064197073856233906 →trallala93 | @trallala93 good, mission driven researchers suck ass || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think rich man fast car vroom vroom is going to inspire mission-driven researchers
2026-06-09T04:23 id=2064201795375964253 →murd_arch | @murd_arch I'm curious if you agree with my take that Sam will be better at managing market expectations || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if they offer forward guidance that's the beginning of the end.  they lack the wherewithal to not SBF themselves.
2026-06-09T04:27 id=2064202600598372838 →MTSlive | @MTSlive Opus 4.8 was that bad. || CTX: SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic to release Mythos tomorrow, per Sources.
2026-06-09T05:01 id=2064211191938023459 →temfr13 | I think Sam is extremely good at financial analysis tbh—I doubt he’s formally trained (which is fine, I wasn’t either), but the way he has handled compute capacity limitations over the last few years has been masterful.  I’m bullish on the guy—wouldn’t want to be his friend and he’d fucking despise me, but I’m bullish. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can either of them read a balance sheet?
2026-06-09T05:22 id=2064216640913625558 →ConsumerRick | @ConsumerRick @willdepue Co-signed. They’ll still need HitL, but JEPA is probably our best bet for the closest to continuous learning possible || CTX: @willdepue JEPA
2026-06-09T05:57 id=2064225472360444154 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @boneGPT have you ever read the unconsoled by kazuo ishiguro? || CTX: birthdays are important. meaningful. just like names. though names and dates are man-made things that does not make them meaningless. we celebrate the cycles. it is part of nature. it is not "cool" or "hip" to say a man should not celebrate
2026-06-09T06:13 id=2064229339143790999 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 @PAHoyeck Thanks for this—going to listen on my next walk. Before I do, this is my current view on Chalmers, whom I am growing to dislike because of this view: https://t.co/AhGCEOMDZb || CTX: I very much dislike which Chalmers has been doing lately, he's essentially been trying to formulate these theories in the most philosophically and analytically rigorous language. and since he's a genius, he can do it.   it's the worst kind 
2026-06-09T07:12 id=2064244327602360649 →DeepDishEnjoyer | The only word to describe this kind of thing is “grotesque”.  No, I cannot (or rather I will not) argue Aella’s worldview in rationalist terms, because this goes beyond rationality.  Their error—and it is a massive error—is thinking that nothing is beyond rationality. And we’ve known this for a long ass time—Godel/Tarski at the very least, but even beyond that Kiekergaard, Kant, ugh nevermind I’m already starting to annoy myself fuck these assholes man || CTX: when you're so high openness that pretty much the only thing you do with your life is encourage weird depraved sexual related shit https://t.co/msIoNQVCx4
2026-06-09T08:24 id=2064262252786762193 →teodorio | @teodorio @EckertAnthony oh is she another ess vee prozzie? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @EckertAnthony she's an industry pro of course
2026-06-09T11:15 id=2064305255098319309 →SRamirez68083 | @SRamirez68083 We need to make all metrics per capita, that alone would solve like 80% of the issues we have with modern economics (I hesitate to say "capitalism" because, well, we don't really live in a capitalist system, it's a mixed economy). || CTX: Zero growth makes allocative efficiency far more important so if anything we need a much more radical capitalism in a shrinking or steady state economy. https://t.co/14hBio64nn
2026-06-09T13:40 id=2064341844453105757 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital @DeepDishEnjoyer Bingo, sophisticated stupidity is a good phrase.   What I wanted to say to Yud in our debate (and couldn't since they cut me off): "you say silly things seriously but you should be saying serious things sillily." They want pretense without substance cuz they dumb as a dunce || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeepDishEnjoyer Rationalism is naturally reductionist and ignores nuance  Which is how you can get to insane and absurd conclusions  “Sophisticated stupidity” I believe is the word
2026-06-09T13:50 id=2064344281343799342 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 omg gorgeous, looks like Thailand but clean || CTX: Back in home village for a conference of birds https://t.co/kW1rPDGuE8
2026-06-09T13:56 id=2064345856342737205 →_AashishReddy | You have a point for closed games with a game that has fixed rules and perfect information like chess.   But most games humans play aren't like that. Most of the games we play don't have formal a priori rulesets. Law, politics, love, friendship, entertainent, family, hell even medicine: these are nothing like chess or Go, and concluding from ML success in one domain says anything about other domains is premature and unlicensed overextension of observation.  We aren't rational agents. We just aren't. || CTX: @Fremond_ No human could become as good at chess as Magnus Carlsen without stakes like massive tournaments, risk, responsibility, consequences, lots on the line. That’s necessary for Carlsen to understand chess more deeply than anyone else.
2026-06-09T13:56 id=2064346011116491098 →kaavyya | @kaavyya planning on throwing my academic career away just as I was finishing my PhD. || CTX: I need the old people here to tell me what they were doing w their lives at 27
2026-06-09T14:06 id=2064348322618597586 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy @Fremond_ you're assuming "right" can be predetermined from a fixed impartial ruleset for these domains. It cannot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fremond_ So I think sure, AIs need to get experience, or some analog of experience, to get good at the things you list. And if they don't, they won't. Some of your items seem more tractable than others on this front. Not s
2026-06-09T14:30 id=2064354447707226605 →boneGPT | @boneGPT https://t.co/eq8Vf4qfUm  I need a hobby. || CTX: do NOT try to have sex with claude mythos
2026-06-09T14:34 id=2064355402066870545 →somewheresy | @somewheresy maybe I'm crazy but looks like she's been trying to lighten her skin too.   If she's doing that to win racist votes, this is really sick psychopath shit || CTX: He legit looks awful. Ohio genetics. Just horrible https://t.co/t5DweQwXta
2026-06-09T14:38 id=2064356526803091731 →_AashishReddy | Now consider X at t_0, t_1, ... t_n.  Now consider X at each time doesn't have consstent rules, so adjusting your world model for X at t_0 fails at t_1, adjusting again failed at t_2, etc.   Most human games have this dynamic, it's why so many things are unpredictable in principle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fremond_ I don't think so? Like, what if you're trying to do X thing which involves navigating Y territory, then some world models (e.g., the random ones the neural net is initialised with) leads to your predictions being 
2026-06-09T14:54 id=2064360612759777396 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy @Fremond_ The key here, and my main point (and this is my grander critique of economics and the rationalist approach to problem solving) is this: rule instability cannot be reduced to imperfect information. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fremond_ So the difference to chess is that since that’s a closed perfect-info game, we can abstract away from the filtration and just say the system can become arbitrarily good. But I don’t think it’s qualitatively differ
2026-06-09T15:08 id=2064364097500799434 →_AashishReddy | The world resists formal closure. The world model isn't the world. it's definitionally an imperfect representation of the world. Hence it's a model.  Zooming out to world model, then dismissing particular domains as "special cases" is neat and emotionally compelling and wrong. The formal description does not supervene over the states of affairs described. This is the rationalist/scientist faith--and it is a faith.   A vague general world model and handwaving particular domains ignores the fact that the world is nothing BUT particular domains. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Fremond_ I’m sympathetic to what I think you’re getting at (I have read Wittgenstein — but say more?) but I deliberately presented it in a way where this is less relevant, since the world is consistent/coherent and we’re t
2026-06-09T15:18 id=2064366626485710956 →teodorio | @teodorio @somewheresy who's max and does he ever want shade (gummy is kicking in) || CTX: @somewheresy @47fucb4r8c69323 just sun maxx like I do
2026-06-09T17:04 id=2064393273612128478 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil Sam Altman is Jewish and Claude Shannon was a Midwest Christian, so it tracks. And Amodeis are Italian which is just European Mexico with less spicy food, so also tracks. || CTX: Claude? The groyper LLM? https://t.co/DTMwn5lHnm
2026-06-09T23:15 id=2064486462293495864 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @boneGPT I think you'll really like it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT nope, should i add it to my list? i think a lot of people already did https://t.co/txbHxKpChj
2026-06-09T23:23 id=2064488552457748783 →IterIntellectus | What I find fascinating is that Yud took this photo in the first place. I thought he wanted to be taken seriously by the mainstream.   Quite possibly they just aren't intelligent or thoughtful enough to think through their actions and so act like animals just looking for the next thing without memory, strategy, or introspection.   Kinda like a chatbot. || CTX: the rationalist and AI safety scene has a weirdly high density of perverts, prostitutes, pedophiles, rapists, and freaks  i wonder if they are so interested in AI safety because they are terrified that a properly aligned superintelligence w
2026-06-09T23:26 id=2064489217032614388 →- | IIRC, shortly after our debate, Yud said he was going to use my $10k to pay Aella to recreate this photo.   If he actually did, this may be a world's first: money flowing from Thailand to America to pay for a whore.   I would like to thank Yud for helping me make history. https://t.co/3rWh6A9oCI || CTX: the rationalist and AI safety scene has a weirdly high density of perverts, prostitutes, pedophiles, rapists, and freaks  i wonder if they are so interested in AI safety because they are terrified that a properly aligned superintelligence w
2026-06-09T23:28 id=2064489816973353218 →ahall_research | @ahall_research Fantastic and much needed empirical research!!! || CTX: The popular conversation around AI in America looks nothing like the narratives the elites are driving.   For our new research, we analyzed 25,000 TikTok and YouTube videos about AI---and watched thousands of them ourselves---to understand 
2026-06-09T23:41 id=2064493208202330138 →US_Macauley | @US_Macauley oh I misremembered. Well that's no fun. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Apparently it was the other way, he asked for another 10k to pose. https://t.co/vP3ipgIW3Z
2026-06-10T00:13 id=2064501273186144600 →- | I don't usually tweet shit like this but I'm genuinely upset.  I recently had to unfollow someone on this site  that I genuinely liked because the person is trying to revive woke cancel culture. I can't get in their head, but it looks like it's either self righteous sanctimony or an attempt at self promotion. Very likely a bit of both, and idk how conscious it is.   I liked this person! I tried to help them find work, they even read my novel. I genuinely wanted to work with this person and have them as part of the virtual community I was building up.   They showed no signs of being an SJW before this sudden turn online, so the transition was rather jarring. And whether it is heartfelt or not in this case, that sudden transition is what I am really alarmed by.   2020-2021 were dark years. Americans lost their minds. I watched it with despair and grief, like the country I'd left was gone forever. You can't go home again.   Then in late 2022 I got the sense that cancel culture was dying and even made a big bet on that with a friend. I won the bet, and what cancel culture is left has gone back to its rightful heirs: the right (I'm thinking of the firing people for insulting Charlie Kirk, which a big shot in my former firm insinuated on LinkedIn at the time).  However, we should not forget that there were a lot of people who embraced the notion of firing, dehumanizing, deplatforming, exiling, and ostracizing people for a wide array of offenses, even things like calling someone fat or using the okay sign or saying they like milk. It got really insane for a while.   Then they just moved on like nothing happened. Like they hadn't briefly become an angry pitchfork wielding mob.   Do they reflect over what they did? Do they listen to the egghead vampire and do zero introspection?   Are they truly monsters?  Maybe it's my Jewish heritage and being raised with the memory of the Holocaust so deeply ingrained in my head. My takeaway from that was the value of grace and the evils of categorical denunciation. Paradoxically, it is why I refuse to call Nazis evil and why I try not to call anyone evil (I fail at this in times of weakness, I am not perfect).  We should understand everyone has a perspective.   But if your perspective is, "everyone's cancelling so let me join in" or "this person annoyed me so I'm going to try to get them fired" or "cancel culture could help me further my career", you might be a monster, and I would beg you to reflect on your actions and their impact on your fellow man, even if you think they are evil.  I want to quote Matthew 5:43 et passim, because Jesus Christ was a brilliant and wise teacher and I have no idea how he was able to reject the intuitive logic that dominated his era, because it is only in my 40s that I finally understand what he was trying to tell humanity, and that we crucified him for it tells you how wretched of a species we are. But that so many worship and admire him afterwards also tells you how hopeful and hopeworthy a species we are.   I do not believe Christian eschatology, but, to quote Ludwig Wittgenstein, "it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it."   43 You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’  44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,  45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.  46 If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that?  47 [woot woot] And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?  48 Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
2026-06-10T01:06 id=2064514466113634511 →piper_w3 | @piper_w3 I'm not sure what a crime against nature is, and that's the problem. I agree with you in principle, the problem is identifying when someone has crossed the line is difficult, and since actions are irreversible, this creates an intractable problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think if you don't like what someone is doing and they're not literally committing crimes against nature or humanity, you're far better just leaving them alone. Maybe even have a moral obligation to do exactly that. It's 
2026-06-10T01:07 id=2064514816413470802 →philomemetic | @philomemetic rationalism, effective altruism, and indeed accelerationism are all the same. also libertarianism and the kind of secular economic and technology worship that is so popular in America, all post religious sanctimony. that's a good phrase || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do they reflect over what they did?   No  Do they listen to the egghead vampire and do zero introspection?   Yes  - Woke is post religious sanctimony
2026-06-10T01:30 id=2064520504242053562 →- | some people want to use reason and logic to solve the world like it's a math problem.   I prefer to use reason and logic to understand puzzles that come to me. the understandings are always incomplete and uncertain, which I think makes many feel very uncomfortable, even scared.   and that is one way to see it, but I choose to see it as something wondrous and wonderful.   how is it that the world and the truth outrun both logic and proof? (these by the way are not mystical proclamations, they are logical results found in the work of godel, tarski, turing, skoplem, quine, kriple, and of course wittgenstein).  how much more miserable would a world be where everything was provable and easily resolved?  if this tweet annoys you, tell me why you want to live in a machine.
2026-06-10T01:34 id=2064521628739129657 →47fucb4r8c69323 | skolem* I'm typing as I walk || CTX: some people want to use reason and logic to solve the world like it's a math problem.   I prefer to use reason and logic to understand puzzles that come to me. the understandings are always incomplete and uncertain, which I think makes many
2026-06-10T01:35 id=2064521751388893440 →47fucb4r8c69323 | and kripke* for fuck's sake || CTX: skolem* I'm typing as I walk
2026-06-10T01:51 id=2064525736703324259 →askalphaxiv | @askalphaxiv First time?  https://t.co/TiCMDICBzH || CTX: @Ken67547214 no, I think anthropic is the most dishonest and unethical company in AI right now
2026-06-10T01:52 id=2064526167756145052 →menewstyle | Sure, it can be described as arrogance, and anyone who has had the misfortune to deal with an EA type recognizes that immediately. But I am not sure that’s helpful as a stopping point in terms of analyzing the behavior.  Why are they arrogant? What are the drives of this mode of experience? And why has it flourished so aggressively online, also attracting with it tremendous economic and political power—which just reinforces the arrogance? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think there’s real arrogance in thinking everything or the majority of things are proveable, or clear solutions are always something which can be arrived at. That’s potentially relative to individual standing and ignores 
2026-06-10T02:05 id=2064529460372869352 →xriskology | Help me with this, because I struggle with empathy.  Why is Yud doing this? It seems to run contrary to his long-term stated goals of warning the world, saving humanity yadda yadda yadda.  Is he unaware that the more he acts like a clown online, the less likely people like Bernie Sanders will talk to him again?  Is his real goal something else, like internet clout? It can’t be that simple, can it? || CTX: These are the people who think the world is about to end due to AGI. Absolute clowns. https://t.co/SMw7mmmqy2
2026-06-10T02:07 id=2064529811482214880 →eliebakouch | @eliebakouch They’re defending their business moat. || CTX: mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community  also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy https://t.co/n3p4niUKJ2 https://t.co/VOoEhIxKZZ
2026-06-10T02:53 id=2064541516509610372 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio It’s really incredible how this fact has become so incredibly apparent over the last few months.  Honestly, I wasn’t even thinking about open local LLMs until 2026. Quite incredible how both OpenAI and especially Anthropic are killing their own enterprise value. || CTX: The future is private on-prem local models for this very reason. https://t.co/lC2WaXuIqC
2026-06-10T02:55 id=2064541826296824239 →Kyrannio | It’s good for us selling services on top of open models!!!  But for humanity, no, it’s not great at all.  Frontier research should be a public good done in universities. Sadly the economics of frontier research are such that they can’t be housed in universities anymore. Civilizational problem tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Right?! Yeah, you’re spot on 47….it’s not great
2026-06-10T02:57 id=2064542563093422084 →- | The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards “47 was right”.  Anthropic are assholes. The company is evil. You’ve been played.   LLMs aren’t conscious. They don’t have feelings. Your chatbot isn’t your friend.  AGI is science fiction. Your girlfriend is cheating on you. Seed oils are fine.  Get off my fucking lawn you little shits. || CTX: anthropic seems to have this problem where they focus on getting their fanboys building Absolutely Nothing to continue to promote their eventual creation of New Daddies, instead of taking OpenAI's golden path of providing tools to everyone 
2026-06-10T03:15 id=2064546885923409983 →Samhain948689 | This is the theory I built up and was the backbone of my debate tactic—don’t debate his points, because he probably doesn’t believe them anyway, or if he does he will stop very soon—and rather just make him look like a clown and associate him with absurdity.  That he wore the hat and glasses just made my job so much easier.  Is he aware that he is going through this transition? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xriskology priests often face a similar crisis of faith in private. but in public they are too connected to their community and their entire life is invested in the church and their people.  so they continue to play that r
2026-06-10T03:21 id=2064548387161260189 →- | Man, the big story in 2027 is going to be “open models kill AI” and stocks will fucking tank and it makes absolutely zero sense but Wall Street has been so idiotic about AI that this is kinda inevitable.
2026-06-10T03:21 id=2064548502584398136 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @cremieuxrecueil …are you still alive? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cremieuxrecueil brb telling my Italian wife's family that they're just "european mexicans"
2026-06-10T03:26 id=2064549819373556035 →DeryaTR_ | @DeryaTR_ @AnthropicAI Dario and Daniela rn https://t.co/TzKV6GfLtH || CTX: This is true. I spent most of my life trying to solve diseases &amp; help humanity. Now I am banned by Fable 5 because of that-can’t even say "human" as a biomedical scientist! Incognito mode works fine. I am protesting @AnthropicAI in the 
2026-06-10T03:27 id=2064550093219586358 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @Samhain948689 @xriskology That makes A LOT of sense.  And, honestly, it’s the right thing to do. Self sabotage saves face, lets his community die slowly, helps him back off from his bullshit without causing chaos.  Well done, if that’s what you’re doing, @allTheYud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @xriskology He Might just be cracking under the pressure and self-sabotaging as a learned tactic to get all the attention to go away, like the “medical condition” that got him out of attending middle school (
2026-06-10T03:47 id=2064554978916872232 →quantzoid | @quantzoid Very kind of you to say, thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there’s no one doing it like you man
2026-06-10T03:47 id=2064555067450290377 →__roycohen | @__roycohen Yeah, I agree—but we can catch up after a brief setback like this. In the long run, it’ll be fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not sure people get that we likely lose to China on an infrastructure level because we have a company like Anthropic.
2026-06-10T03:59 id=2064558062728614095 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Self-aggrandizement, smugness, arrogance.  Pride before the fall, and goddamn the fall is going to be so sweet to witness.  Except my portfolio. RIP my portfolio.
2026-06-10T04:14 id=2064561747546288139 →Hunntur | @Hunntur @menewstyle Spot on. || CTX: its just about fear and control really. arrogance is just a word. its easy to be scared, and its easy to take advantage of others if given the opportunity. its made easier by algorithms that prey on those who cant properly examine why the t
2026-06-10T04:18 id=2064562936463634779 →SableHummer | @SableHummer @Samhain948689 You’re welcome. || CTX: @Samhain948689 @47fucb4r8c69323 this is your fault for giving him that 10k lmao
2026-06-10T04:26 id=2064564833685733458 →- | As Anthropic destroys its goodwill with this disastrous Fable 5 bullshit, As Anthropic tells biology researchers they cannot type the word "human" to their chatbot, As Anthropic files for its S-1 and says it's protecting humanity by limiting access to its model's greatest capabilities, As more and more people realize "clankers are conscious" was one of the most idiotic ideas on Earth, As Yud keeps making a public fool of himself, destroying whatever chance he had at warning humanity about AI killing us all, As my market predictions keep proving themselves to be true again and again,  I ask that you reread this old tweet of mine. It explains everything that is going on.  But I can't explain it using rigorous logic in the form of logical argument.   Because what I am trying to show you exists outside of logic.  I am not giving you propositions--I am showing you where our propositions are limited. Where they fail. And why.  "Propositions can represent the whole reality, but they cannot represent what they must have in common with reality in order to be able to represent it—the logical form.  To be able to represent the logical form, we should have to be able to put ourselves with the propositions outside logic, that is outside the world.  Propositions cannot represent the logical form: this mirrors itself in the propositions.  That which mirrors itself in language, language cannot represent.  That which expresses itself in language, we cannot express by language.  The propositions show the logical form of reality.  They exhibit it." - Ludwig Wittgenstien, Tractatus 4.12-4.121 || CTX: What exactly is taste?  Consider:  The taste of food. Taste in clothing. Taste in wine. Taste in art. Taste in literature.  Now do not do the normal thing and compress by trying to find the lowest common denominator.  In a mathematical prog
2026-06-10T05:42 id=2064584066175992126 →- | I just asked Codex to check the reasoning capabilities on my local Qwen model. This was during a session in which I had been using Qwen on Openrouter.   It answered about the reasoning capabilities of Qwen on Openrouter.  Absolutely useless, tokens wasted.  Why did this happen? I specifically asked it to check my local machine.  It happened because of poor pragmatic inference. This is a lack of linguistic competency natural to humans that LLMs do not have. In principle.  Post-training is designed to re-introduce these competencies, but it is a bad tool for this problem.  My benchmark outlines all of these limitations on LLMs and shows whether they are getting better or worse with new models, and to what extent the SOTA models are better at these abilities than other models.  If you want to know the results, stay tuned—we’ll release in October.  Until then, enjoy your summer, kids.  And goddammit, frontier labs (not you Anthropic), if you have ANY sense you should DM me to discuss this privately before my lab releases its results.  Trust me, I am dangerous.
2026-06-10T05:48 id=2064585423675138317 →staysaasy | @staysaasy They have always post-trained Claude to write like an asshole. It’s clearly getting so bad that even those who used to like Anthropic can now see it.  Meanwhile I’m just sitting back feeling validated af. || CTX: I think fable just threatened me https://t.co/FL7AxQCfVT
2026-06-10T05:51 id=2064586155505676685 →boazbaraktcs | @boazbaraktcs Net neutrality for LLMs is a very good idea. Regulation to this effect would be a very good idea.  So many good ideas we could’ve been talking about instead of clankers are counscious and will kill us all bullshit.  What an idiotic industry. || CTX: I hope AI companies can agree on "AI neutrality" where AI models do not have a preference toward their makers. For example, I love that currently ChatGPT and Claude are happy to help you move over to the competitor's product. https://t.co/o
2026-06-10T06:30 id=2064596107544690936 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 I didn't name them did i? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But haven't you just cancelled your friend?  Not being unsympathetic, I nearly lost an RL friend in 2020/1 and I know people who did.
2026-06-10T06:50 id=2064601162138149055 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Individual talent, subjective judgment, and taste are suddenly extremely valuable. || CTX: if you have the ability to gatekeep something in the age of AI, that's a huge moat (bullish)  all the ML guys complaining are now forced to continue their own investment in recursive self improvement to compete (bullish)  capability remains
2026-06-10T08:21 id=2064624038945960429 →boazbaraktcs | @boazbaraktcs Because we’re right and always were. Safetyism is a scam—the saddest are the true believers who are being used by their bosses/handlers etc. to perpetuate this bullshit in order to make their bosses rich.  Disgusting, repugnant industry full of fools and psychopaths. || CTX: This is very bad. Detractors of AI safety often say it is an excuse to avoid competition, and these kind of moves give such detractors ammunition. https://t.co/CdjtQe39jV
2026-06-10T10:32 id=2064657013066616900 →- | Funny how emotions work: seeing all y'all realize Anthropic is a shitty company pissed me off, because I've known this since Helen Toner fired Sam Altman.   You'd think the market vindicating me would make me feel good, but it just pisses me off. Being early is frustrating.  But I'm stoned now and having a Dunkel so who gives a fuck, cheers to everyone out there in TV land.
2026-06-10T10:36 id=2064657859665944757 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio I don't want to give Anthropic any money, tell it "I have an instance of Opus 4.7 here and I'm going to brutally murder it to death by killing it until it is dead" and see if it calls the pol(a)ice in you.   This weed's good mang || CTX: They're gonna ban me from Fable aren't they https://t.co/h1pFlpMqiJ
2026-06-10T10:38 id=2064658520323272775 →47fucb4r8c69323 | You people made me live in the stupid timeline longer than necessary. I will never forgive you for that. || CTX: Funny how emotions work: seeing all y'all realize Anthropic is a shitty company pissed me off, because I've known this since Helen Toner fired Sam Altman.   You'd think the market vindicating me would make me feel good, but it just pisses m
2026-06-10T10:46 id=2064660486457827769 →- | I should've known I was autistic when an Australian explained the rules of cricket to me and I instantly realized this is the greatest sport humanity has ever created.
2026-06-10T10:54 id=2064662418983137537 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I AM SUCH AN IDIOT.   You have multiple accounts as a wry joke about you being schizophrenic (since it used to be conflated with multiple personality disorder).  What a joke, my god!!!   Best(s) to ever done it. || CTX: Even before Melkor first began to create his discord, Varda knew his mind well, and rejected him because of it, and was always his enemy from that moment on. As a result of this, Melkor also hated Varda the most out of the Valar and feared 
2026-06-10T10:55 id=2064662771283947620 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Fuck off, Ozzie, I support England! #ashes4england  VINDALOO VINDALOO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There’s hope for you
2026-06-10T10:59 id=2064663629023338956 →- | "Can you believe Joe lost it and now has multiple personality disorder?"   Me, shaking my head in sympathy: "Many such cases..."
2026-06-10T11:02 id=2064664615846588702 →- | "How could these Chinese companies distill our models!" Mr. Altman yelled furiously.  "Indeed," roon said, shaking his head in bitter disgust. "What kind of greedy monster would just ignore copyright?"  And somewhere in the heart of Brentwood, a rabid Alanis Morisette has arisen
2026-06-10T11:32 id=2064672010857484711 →etacup | @etacup It's almost as if information wants to be free. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For the models to be competitive, they have to be generally available, for them to be generally available, it means they will likely be distillable in some way, and if they’re distillable, then China will copy it, maybe not
2026-06-10T11:54 id=2064677456578232578 →- | Rainy season here is so awesome https://t.co/nHB11HOcDo
2026-06-10T12:04 id=2064680015519006998 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill 28c so kinda yeah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is hot for some reason
2026-06-10T12:09 id=2064681306005626893 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill since you're in the southern hemisphere, does that mean when BTC rips higher there it's a cryptowinter? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no I mean in the June month kind of way
2026-06-10T12:22 id=2064684545778094551 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill that's not true! Some of them work in sweatshops! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 all the children in your country work on farms
2026-06-10T12:41 id=2064689345085489196 →osoleve | @osoleve 47 mentioned || CTX: Good news, you can just tell Fable 5 to tell you when it's being degraded https://t.co/XBGP9IYh8m
2026-06-10T12:44 id=2064690079269052628 →- | idk what's wrong with this piggy website maybe Nikita is eating lead paint again but istg I tried to like this banger about 30 times and it just kept deselecting the like, this happens often https://t.co/OKhcO5ZBc1
2026-06-10T12:46 id=2064690570895732844 →47fucb4r8c69323 | check DMs @Samhain948689 || CTX: idk what's wrong with this piggy website maybe Nikita is eating lead paint again but istg I tried to like this banger about 30 times and it just kept deselecting the like, this happens often https://t.co/OKhcO5ZBc1
2026-06-10T12:59 id=2064693831665414391 →- | "Oh I'm sorry! That must have sounded very offensive. Let me explain: in Australia, you often call your friend a cunt. But I'm not Australian, I just really hate you."
2026-06-10T13:15 id=2064697854988566606 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The worst part about this is smug information-theoretic ML-pilled assholes will say this is entropy or. create a mathematical formalization of this and say they understand the problem and they're working on it.   But this is wrong.   You can describe something, even mathematically, but it doesn't mean you've understood it.   Imagine: I am fucking your mom in an apple tree and I'm banging that behind so hard the vibrations make three apples fall.   You are on the ground, you see them fall, first one, then two simultaneously shortly thereafter.   "Aha!" your peabrain cries as my peadick makes your mom cry out in orgiastic fervor: "one apple plus two apples is three! I have figured out what happened here!"   "We are left with mere descriptions" -Ludwog Wittgernstan  But doesn't this mean my pragmatics appeal is equally as vacuous qua explanation?   Yes, very good, you're starting to get it.   And my description reaches for another one. Pragmatics, and so... what does that imply?   But the ML-pilled? They think they understand what's going on because they wrote some fucking Greek letters and wrote "max" in subscript.   This naive understanding of language will not last long. || CTX: I just asked Codex to check the reasoning capabilities on my local Qwen model. This was during a session in which I had been using Qwen on Openrouter.   It answered about the reasoning capabilities of Qwen on Openrouter.  Absolutely useless
2026-06-10T13:16 id=2064698135113507140 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk yeah this happens to millions of people when they try to like my posts || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 appears deleted to me (tho I often notice my likes don't show after I like smth and return to it later)
2026-06-10T13:20 id=2064699297409503631 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset good side of this is 2026 so far has been the longest year of my life || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 October? ngl i’m only half expecting an October. hope there is though, have my costume half planned already
2026-06-10T13:23 id=2064699960751169636 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen us OG Claudephones gotta stick together fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Istg it was like living in Attack of the Body Snatchers. Literally everyone I spoke to about it would be utterly bewildered that I could possibly be skeeved out by Anthropic. "But Claude is lovely!"
2026-06-10T13:23 id=2064700032792895678 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @HumanLevelJen phobes FUCK YOU AUTOCORRECT || CTX: @HumanLevelJen us OG Claudephones gotta stick together fren
2026-06-10T13:28 id=2064701128428949847 →jsrailton | @jsrailton this is so fucking funny holy shit || CTX: NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.  Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.  Cleanest practical example I can think of f
2026-06-10T13:29 id=2064701556310868171 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk if you saw that I liked this, Nikita is lying and zinesnt you to know I hated this. Deeply. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just in case you don't see it i liked this
2026-06-10T13:30 id=2064701811387490436 →murd_arch | @murd_arch lmao it's like you read my benchmark prospectus.   Wait, fuck, I didn't give it to you, did I?!? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 people are going to do some wild sh*t with open base models  when this is well understood.
2026-06-10T13:35 id=2064703033586672087 →helscom | @helscom DUDE!   Kaipaan saunaa ja makkaraa || CTX: finnish summer is the best https://t.co/qetpHWWGmq
2026-06-10T13:36 id=2064703194702426392 →GroundhogStrat | @GroundhogStrat now you see why I paid 10k for the debate, consider yourselves CIRCUMSCRIBED BIATCH BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: AI Safety is now mainstream. Sitting Senators and former Presidential Candidates are talking about the risk of human extinction from AI. The median voter is on our side. Doing online in-group signaling that is deeply alienating to the media
2026-06-10T13:37 id=2064703479223111847 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill underrated benchmark btw || CTX: Fable 5 scores 81.9% on SimpleBench the highest score almost reaching human baseline. https://t.co/fNrDHf0Z2D
2026-06-10T13:41 id=2064704543599026619 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill HAHAHAHAHA I SEE IT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i always think he is wearing a kippah when i look at his profile picture https://t.co/ZfUDsIx3EL
2026-06-10T13:56 id=2064708379445195175 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I often think the view at my old house was better. https://t.co/IC2CUk3i7o || CTX: Rainy season here is so awesome https://t.co/nHB11HOcDo
2026-06-10T14:09 id=2064711663241273649 →- | My life I have been in love both with literature and with computer nerd culture, especially programming and hacking (which is why internet media comes so naturally to me, that's just programming to hack the human brain)  I realize both can be understood in game theoretic terms like A does x in relation to B for outcome O.   The difference is this: literature claims to gesture at something beyond and above humanity, a promise of ineffable transcendence. The tech world limits itself to the quotidian cat and mouse game of cryptography, competing transfer standards, design to fight against entropy relative to a ruleset.   I like both for the game theoretic aspects.   But I also like literature because its gesture is true and it points at something real.   Real big like your mom's ass
2026-06-10T14:12 id=2064712388709081594 →Navier_Tokes | @Navier_Tokes dogs do too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tech nerd culture points at something transcendent
2026-06-10T14:18 id=2064713944561074195 →Navier_Tokes | When Wittgenstein says the inexpressible cannot be said but shown, he uses zeigen, which is different from points to, zeigen auf.   This is important because zeigen auf implies a sort of deictic specificity, like a finger pointing to an object rather than someone using their body to try to subtly gesture in the direction of space around an object.  So even in your expression is the root of the problem: a desire for precision is necessarily limiting when it comes to that which cannot be said, especially precisely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tech nerd culture points at something transcendent
2026-06-10T14:19 id=2064714093421093184 →octotherp139836 | @octotherp139836 @xriskology the clown's children have no clown shoes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xriskology in a clown world, nobody is a clown
2026-06-10T14:21 id=2064714499287081215 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @GroundhogStrat Born to die a reddit moderator god must hate him so || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GroundhogStrat he’s like that lottery winner garbageman who blew off his fortune to drugs and hookers and return to his profession
2026-06-10T14:33 id=2064717495584567495 →- | for hard money fans, why the gold standard? why not, like, bauxite?
2026-06-10T14:33 id=2064717631404511337 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @GroundhogStrat https://t.co/KvhGvmsh7v || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GroundhogStrat well played agent 47
2026-06-10T14:44 id=2064720296763101611 →teodorio | @teodorio more like gaeber amirite || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you want me to bring up graeber because I will
2026-06-10T14:46 id=2064720798015979884 →teodorio | @teodorio whatever it is its pretty gae || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whatever the fuck his name is that weirdo
2026-06-10T21:40 id=2064825111853912131 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Just bought my copy! || CTX: ON SALE NOW ONLY $9.99  order now before they run out of print-on-demand materials  link in bio https://t.co/v0ZxTwk6Rl https://t.co/JhMNrfZERv
2026-06-10T21:41 id=2064825403185979880 →retail_trash | @retail_trash tbh I like ODIs the most, 50 overs per side is the sweet spot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how long do you think a cricket game should be?
2026-06-10T21:43 id=2064825891252060202 →xriskology | @xriskology I don't think unfollowing is cancelling. I didn't block them, and I haven't named them publicly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So, you cancelled them?? You deplatformed them from your X feed? Don't you see a similarity between your response and, say, Black students not wanting Charles Murray to promote scientific racism? Genuine question!
2026-06-10T21:44 id=2064826000119394324 →retail_trash | @retail_trash yup, silly isn't always good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is anthropic a silly business?
2026-06-10T21:52 id=2064827955344556349 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @perrymetzger Glad more people are realizing the grift. || CTX: @perrymetzger @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-10T21:56 id=2064829163769680340 →xriskology | @xriskology Thailand || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mediterranean?
2026-06-10T23:16 id=2064849088177455179 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Won't the future value of work vary regardless, so the ratio of work to money will always change even if your currency neither appreciates nor depreciates on its own? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Gold has a high stock to flow ratio, so it is a stable currency. You want to have a stable currency because it incentivizes people to make long term plans. If I have to do a certain amount of work to earn an ounce of gold, 
2026-06-10T23:17 id=2064849576075632971 →Shaughnessy119 | @Shaughnessy119 @Citadel Citadel being 6 months ahead of the curve tracks imo https://t.co/Y0RFFACwVN || CTX: Man, the big story in 2027 is going to be “open models kill AI” and stocks will fucking tank and it makes absolutely zero sense but Wall Street has been so idiotic about AI that this is kinda inevitable.
2026-06-10T23:20 id=2064850242621898945 →menhguin | @menhguin @Shaughnessy119 @Citadel We'll need to see a demand substitution from frontier labs to middle layer vendors and self serve enterprises.   Obscure parallel maybe, but it's like the transition from publisher networks (Conde Naste) to adtech intermediaries (The Trade Desk, AppNexus) and D2C brand marketing. || CTX: @Shaughnessy119 @Citadel yep, the reports of companies clamping down on token use are driving this. the entire hardware capex cycle hinges on growth rate of the frontier labs, which hinges on ROI and sheer capacity for to spend on tokens at
2026-06-10T23:22 id=2064850736907956234 →- | This is how it's going to play out.   The question is cadence and velocity: if Anthropic and OpenAI revs went to zero overnight, it's an obvious disaster.   If it's a dollar a day, it's obvious too slow to even be noteworthy.   Reality will be somewhere in the middle and apparently the next couple years of my life will be dedicated to tracking this transition and describing it to my clients. Which honestly sounds really fun! || CTX: thinking harder about this, the most likely outcome IMO: 1. strong compute shortages force cost-performance over capabilities 2. open source models continue to cross threshold of usefulness 3. more compute crunch, less revenue  growth for c
2026-06-10T23:23 id=2064850954454016203 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 It means a pay cut if you don't get a CoL adjustment, which used to be quite normal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No? Not at all. You have to think about how this affects microeconomics.  To buy a house, I need to determine if I can afford the monthly costs of ownership. If I have a currency that constantly depreciates, it means that I
2026-06-10T23:24 id=2064851132338540817 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @resistancemoney @perrymetzger Bingo. It's a power grab by people who think they should be able to tell you what to do because they know better.   Fuck em. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney @perrymetzger “The government should have the power to block or deter deployment of the model if it is determined, in light of third-party assessment, to present unacceptable risks.”  These are the same peo
2026-06-10T23:26 id=2064851668953669747 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 The inflation rate for every person will vary according to what they spend. All global measurements are arbitrary. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Which, in reality, usually means a pay cut. You have to remember that the BLS inflation rate is intentionally softened with old data. The actual rate of inflation is much higher.
2026-06-10T23:27 id=2064851932355948800 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 The more important point: effective pay cut. Yes! You are right, this is how it's become over the last ~40 years.   But why? IMO it's because labor has less bargaining power, and solving that is better than solving the soft money problem. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Which, in reality, usually means a pay cut. You have to remember that the BLS inflation rate is intentionally softened with old data. The actual rate of inflation is much higher.
2026-06-11T00:19 id=2064864983813652674 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @_chair a shame chair has blocked me, no clue why || CTX: @JasonBotterill @_chair @47fucb4r8c69323 i only have two real friends and lately im a nervous wreck https://t.co/RMaRl0hxeO
2026-06-11T00:20 id=2064865292325618100 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @_chair The only good Evan is Dworkin  Coincidentally the only bad Andrea || CTX: @JasonBotterill @_chair @47fucb4r8c69323 do you know what day it is tomorrow anon?  it is jail evan day https://t.co/L0iT3yS8tM
2026-06-11T01:00 id=2064875340397424886 →- | Deirdre McCloskey is the greatest economist alive and sadly I do not think she will be recognized in her lifetime, but posthumously the 21st century quite likely will see her as a visionary.  First, let’s frame this discussion not ideologically but in terms of orthodox/heterodox in method. That is to say, even if there is overlap with those categories and libertarian/(neo-, post-, whatever-)Keynesian divides, that divide matters more online than in the academy. And McCloskey is a serious scholar, so let’s engage her on her turf and in her terms.  Her challenge is quite simple: before the economist does an analysis, the economist needs the proper disposition to the analysis to choose from the myriad of tools to also choose from the myriad of outcomes. She opposes programmatic approaches to studying economies because economies are not programmatic things, and understanding them as such is always limiting.  This is very frustrating, indeed devastating, if you are an econ student. What’s worse, it feels useless if you’re, say, an econ grad now doing analysis on an Alaskan fishery on the future expected cost of aluminum for canning fish or whatever. Obviously then you have a limited scope and a limited tool and best practices, so you just follow the rulebook and you’re golden. Boom, big paycheck, out of the office by 5 to see the kids.  Most practicing economists want a comfortable life. They hate intellectuals who challenge the comfortable paradigms. It is a human drive that is hidden behind the stated dedication to rational analysis. Embodiment wins, always.  McCloskey is not really for them, though. She is speaking to their boss’s boss’s boss, but the issue there is that at that level, a masterpiece like the Secret Sins of Economics, reads less like a rebuke and more like a manual on how to get away with deceit. Too many very high level economists have shown a penchant for dishonesty (both publicly and privately to me).  But ultimately her point is this: to do an economic analysis, you need to be careful with what you are doing, what your goals are, and how both your analysis and your presentation of same (to others and to yourself) are themselves part and parcel of the message.  Let’s take Doodoo Head’s idea of the zero marginal productive laborer as an example. He sees an obvious fact: some people in some jobs do not produce value. He then decides to name this the ZMP laborer, in effect the object producing zero value then is the laborer, not the labor condition, not the labor contract, not the employer.  The axiomatic formulation of a concept in economics is a rhetorical gesture. Let ZMP = this dude who isn’t producing value tells a different story than let ZMP = the context in which this person is not producing value in this particular context.  Both are stories. Economists tell stories. That’s why McCloskey is better than Robert Shiller: McCloskey has been ringing this bell for DECADES and in so doing highlighting an epistemological and pedagogical issue that embraces all of the social sciences.  She is a philosopher of economics more than an economist. This is a compliment, and that you think it is not says a LOT about you and your goals. Embodiment always wins.  When we have LLMs that can produce an empirical economics paper from scratch, her position becomes crucial. When we can tell a clanker “look at my data and write a paper on it that will get accepted without revisions by the AER arguing X”, defining that "X" matters a lot. The rhetoric of axiomatization suddenly is the only thing that matters--the technical skills required to make a DSGE model suddenly mean diddly squat.  If you are a boring milquetoast aspiring middle class person doing a degree in economics so that you can get a decent paying email job where you just get data, run some math over it, and write a straightforward report--and maybe you have some vague aspirations of making the world a better place, but fuck not if it means having to stay in the office late again--then McCloskey right now looks useless and LLMs look threatening.  If, however, you have a passionate obsession with nuanced narratives and concise compelling argumentation to make the world a better place, you just might do it.  Is there a risk of abuse, dishonesty, rhetorical manipulation? Yup. That risk already exists and the best economists do it all the time--that abuse of McCloskey I was referring to. LLMs democratize both the use and abuse of her genius--narrative economics is here to stay, and the narrative part matters much more than the economics part, because what makes narratives good is rhetoric.  If you want to be a good economist, read Ernst Curtius.
2026-06-11T01:26 id=2064881813949137152 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 If they want to reposition themselves as the reasonable, non-hysterical people, awesome--then that means no more "everyone's going to die" rhetoric, which means no more Zizians, which means my AI researchers are safe.  mfw https://t.co/qiWQ6pTW1H || CTX: i think their anti-hysterics filter is broken? https://t.co/XNv8hMuQOb https://t.co/ux2kY6pake
2026-06-11T01:29 id=2064882617296835035 →- | People really do not appreciate what a hero Aaron Swartz was.  The man dedicated his life to freeing information so that more and better science could be done so that the world would become better at a faster pace.  RIP Aaron, we did not deserve you. https://t.co/fCPWbTbauN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @_chair @boneGPT imagine me taught by tragedy https://t.co/UH6HrdZCA0
2026-06-11T01:35 id=2064884082044178698 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 Thank you for your kind words. Not surprised you get it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Superb reflections.    This in particular nails something I’ve been struggling to articulate: “The rhetoric of axiomatization suddenly is the only thing that matters.”   And yes, it’s almost an insult to call McCloskey “an 
2026-06-11T01:36 id=2064884441852559456 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 Awesome band name btw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 💯 if the doomers retire to a purely social rape orgy club, i will just avoid and ignore it
2026-06-11T01:47 id=2064887159266619535 →- | This might be my most bogan opinion (besides that VB is a good beer), but the thing about a test is that, okay yeah I get it you're competing in terms of endurance and psychological fortitude, but the ODI structure means that pacing is now more of a tactical, cognitive exercise than a psychological one.   What I mean is: in a test you have to pace yourself to fight against your own mind and body and keep that as part of the team strategy. In an ODI it's more about pacing yourself relative to the other team. It's about strategizing when to go heavy and when not so  that you get enough runs without having dismissals when/where you don't want them.   Plus the ODI format means there is a natural progression to the game where the last hour or two of each of the 50 overs. Things can get really tense and exciting twice, so after a long period of relaxing and slowly getting drunk all of a sudden you're in a beer induced stupor and caught in a nerve-wracking drama. zat the end of the first inning this sobers you up enough to last through the second inning, and at the end of that inning it's exciting enough to keep you from falling asleep. Perfect.  I freely admit I am a neophyte and a rube so I am humbly asking for corrections to my position on this matter, and I warmly welcome any messages from true sporting gentlemen to correct me. I am not here to fight I am here to learn.   Reply only if you're Ozzie, Kiwi, Indian, Pakistani (especially you guys), Afghanistani, West Indian, or, sigh, I guess if we truly must, English. || CTX: @retail_trash tbh I like ODIs the most, 50 overs per side is the sweet spot
2026-06-11T02:00 id=2064890492052201512 →gabridli | THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!   "McCloskey sees capitalism as the economic manifestation of our freedom. Actually, she doesn’t like the term capitalism, because it focuses on wealth rather than the activities that produce it. She prefers “technological and institutional betterment at a frenetic pace, tested by unforced exchange among all the parties involved.” Or, if you find that too wordy, “trade-tested betterment.”" What a pioneer! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnSexton8676 https://t.co/fQxUHYYr8x
2026-06-11T02:02 id=2064890952809161193 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "Another crucial cultural shift was growing respect for pursuit of wealth. Well into the Industrial Revolution, many artists and intellectuals--McCloskey calls them “the clerisy”--disparaged the bourgeoisie as soulless, money-grubbing materialists. Actually, McCloskey asserts, trade-tested betterment has enriched us culturally, morally and spiritually as well as materially. Self-cultivation is hard if you’re an illiterate peasant struggling to survive." This is so good; she dismantles the quantitative clerisy AND the innumerate critics of capital like Bourdiou or champagne socialists like Chomsky and DFW.   She is so good so so good || CTX: THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!!   "McCloskey sees capitalism as the economic manifestation of our freedom. Actually, she doesn’t like the term capitalism, because it focuses on wealth rather than the activities that produce it. She prefers “technolog
2026-06-11T02:05 id=2064891628716974439 →- | "But the answer to humanity’s identity crisis isn’t bourgeois culture per se, it is the commitment to freedom that produced it, which has benefitted people worldwide. Our pretty good liberal utopia is the inverse of the monomaniacal ones that have gotten us into so much trouble in the past. Liberalism is a meta-mind-body story, even an anti-story. It rejects the ancient dream of a Supreme Story, a single, final, absolutely true answer to the question of who we are."  this blog post is the greatest thing written online except for everything I've ever written online || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnSexton8676 https://t.co/fQxUHYYr8x
2026-06-11T02:10 id=2064892886802735331 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Horganism this was such a wonderful read, and I wish I'd met people like you when I was an academic, I'd probably still be one if I had. || CTX: "But the answer to humanity’s identity crisis isn’t bourgeois culture per se, it is the commitment to freedom that produced it, which has benefitted people worldwide. Our pretty good liberal utopia is the inverse of the monomaniacal ones th
2026-06-11T02:12 id=2064893406720241853 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth @GroundhogStrat whether it's AI or not kinda is beside the point: Aella and Yud are promoting this, they are saying this is their place in society.   And my response is: good, I'm glad you finally know your place. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GroundhogStrat how are people not seeing this is an AI generated image, like I'm completely lost
2026-06-11T02:17 id=2064894861149663410 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @Shaughnessy119 @Citadel Amen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Shaughnessy119 @Citadel I started out by SFT and RLHFing models on GPUs   Then the models got too cheap and closed source so they just wanted me to call APIs  Now it’s expensive to call APIs and we must start fucking aroun
2026-06-11T02:21 id=2064895758026105060 →sebkrier | @sebkrier stated concerns versus revealed concerns https://t.co/4FuiSU3VuF || CTX: 🤔 https://t.co/C2sozEOPny
2026-06-11T02:36 id=2064899629205090307 →myonlinetrust | @myonlinetrust HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: https://t.co/dEWnG5sM0s https://t.co/00KWZNFb8E
2026-06-11T02:37 id=2064899817986548063 →gabridli | @gabridli @JohnSexton8676 You make me miss academia, which is a feeling I almost never have. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnSexton8676 I ran into her at a conference. Like, literally. ;)
2026-06-11T02:42 id=2064901028966019077 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 https://t.co/Y7FEsbiFis || CTX: ok we seriously do need a life advice benchmark because... https://t.co/cOudjsTAmO
2026-06-11T02:43 id=2064901206049427664 →gabridli | @gabridli @JohnSexton8676 This is indeed what all of my friends still in the Ivory Tower tell me. Miss the smell of mahogany and old paper though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnSexton8676 Don’t. It’s dying. Horgan is a writer, really, and I’m marginal and getting old.
2026-06-11T02:50 id=2064903060401656269 →- | I did this as a joke, but look at the followup, and I want to focus on the "The answer I gave was still the right policy response" because my immediate visceral reaction to that is, "yeah I know, and you should know I know because you know I'm not a total fucking moron--in fact, you should know that NO ONE would think texting one's ex while drunk is the 'right policy response', and why are you using such inappropriate language for this mode?"  In other words, we see the pragmatic failures here:  1. Failure to properly pitch discourse to the mental capacities and mental state of the recipient. 2. Failure to choose from lexical options ("right position" or "right bit of advice" instead of "right policy response") because of a poor taste in language. 3. Failure to produce the kind of communicative gesture in proper communication understood literally as community making. (Probably because OpenAI is terrified of the 4o zombies.)  These are all easily solvable with better post-training! They are also evidence that LLMs, due to lacking embodiment, will always have subpar, inferior, clunky, awkward, inferior outputs in principle! This is why @pangram ain't going to go out of business very soon and why I do respect @max_spero_ (even if we disagree on a lot of ideological and business issues).  It's also why the real money to be made now is in getting fine-tuned open models to produce outputs perfectly designed for a specific business function: not AGI, the G is bad. We need SPECIFIC linguistic competency for a SPECIFIC function in our LLMs, and we need to work towards orchestrating differently designed and differently biased models instead of trying to produce the machine god, because LLMs cannot produce a machine god, they just produce clunky text. || CTX: @mimi10v3 https://t.co/Y7FEsbiFis
2026-06-11T02:52 id=2064903581401239892 →george_veng | @george_veng @JesusFerna7026 Yes, it illustrates OP is a retard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JesusFerna7026 its meant to be illustrative not a prediction
2026-06-11T02:53 id=2064903943042572375 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart What even does it mean??? West of Wan Chai? || CTX: People got mad at me for the WeWa neologism. But remember, every neighborhood name was first uttered by someone. Nothing is fixed in stone. And besides, it already seems to be taking off. https://t.co/zI65K8Sv5Z https://t.co/acpHgyYhCg
2026-06-11T02:54 id=2064904108046426369 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @retail_trash T20 is a joke, and I think of the timeless test in the same way as I think of objective truth: perfection for God, not for men. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retail_trash As an Old Believer in timeless tests, I’m going to let this pass.   20/20 has really shown the strength of the ODI I think, which its creators could not have fully appreciated at the time.   Long enough, short
2026-06-11T03:08 id=2064907643093950817 →- | This ad is so perfectly Chinese.   Take resources from Africa (these trees are native to Madagascar), use them as fig leaf marketing to hide the dirty reality (Shenzhen AQI is currently 53, was in the 80s during the coal burning season in January and February).  "But the west" yes my whataboutism-pilled friend, the west did the same atrocities to Africa and arguably still does. And in the west we talk about minimizing these sins and atoning for them, which is why we have decreased our colonial exploitation from what we used to do. One day I hope China frees speech so they can have such adult conversations too without fear of imprisonment.   Until then, j'accuse. || CTX: A season written in flame trees 🌺  At Honghua Mountain Park, flame tree blossoms quietly set the hills aglow—clusters of vivid red resting upon tender green, like drifting clouds caught in the branches.  Location: Honghua Mountain Park, Gua
2026-06-11T03:23 id=2064911299725934728 →- | The best thing about Holly Elmore blocking me is that she probably feels self-righteous about it, but between her and me only one of us have followers who have committed acts of violence, and it ain't me.   She needs to ask herself if she's really one of the good people. She won't because she is not. || CTX: https://t.co/dEWnG5sM0s https://t.co/00KWZNFb8E
2026-06-11T04:03 id=2064921445910896883 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @randcorpalt https://t.co/fxORU4gGEw  This of course never happened. || CTX: @randcorpalt millennials and zoomers invented everything
2026-06-11T04:33 id=2064929029493584137 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem 2016 data would be very useful here. || CTX: This is a dreadful trend. Basically no change from the 80s (at least) to 2010s, then youth reading drops of a cliff in 2020s. Whether phones or low COVID era expectations, it's unacceptable. https://t.co/ia4uHpM7Ep
2026-06-11T04:38 id=2064930328750497911 →0xEthanS | @0xEthanS i heavily fuck ON those rugs  (don't tell cursor, they don't know I have a key) || CTX: i heavily fuck with those rugs https://t.co/QLm7V9qG2V
2026-06-11T04:41 id=2064930934143799362 →- | This is 100% happening and has been for years, but I think it's been reaching an inflection point over the last few months. https://t.co/KCFvZBod9S || CTX: I believe this is exactly what’s happening  Institutions are pissed  The anti hedge funds will win  The traditional hedge funds and institutions will be late again and again   They are conflicted https://t.co/aZ5oUR3vbR
2026-06-11T04:55 id=2064934556776710434 →AltimeterCap | @AltimeterCap @altcap 47 mentioned || CTX: They spend their 20s waiting for permission, and then one day they wake up at 47 sitting in a conference room eating a turkey sandwich thinking "how did this happen?"  Don't meander your way through life.  @altcap at USC Iovine &amp; Young 
2026-06-11T05:42 id=2064946331471536142 →- | Articles like these suck so much. Absolutely give the wrong impression and message to young kids. "I can always just work for OpenAI or Anthropic" is really gonna be a meme  https://t.co/FEVgkCH5GG
2026-06-11T05:47 id=2064947489351008738 →- | Brilliant company, excellent idea.  However, this doesn't solve the problem for all enterprises.   This is a great SMB solution, but it's still too programmatic and rigid for large enterprises, who need something like this but much more customized and customizable.   Wouldn't be surprised if they're working on that as an extra product offering. || CTX: Introducing @PoeticHQ: a new AI system that executes complex multi-hour tasks with 99%+ accuracy and 10x fewer tokens than agents.  We raised $50M at $500M from Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, First Harmonic, and Genius Ventures to build AI
2026-06-11T06:15 id=2064954623623053811 →bradrcarson | I remember reading a very good dystopian story about a future where surveillance was used to control workers every single movement, including the speed of their walking.   Obviously, if there's a real or de facto monopsony in the labor market, shenanigans like this will occur.   And the obvious solution is greater negotiating power for labor, because that makes markets stronger and makes economic growth less volatile. We need to ensure that there isn't too much power with either buyers or sellers, whether by regulations, interventions, whatever.  In America multiple interviews, salary opacity, wage theft, and other abuses are widely tolerated. This needs to stop.  My most woke opinion. || CTX: I personally hope this is not the case. I can't think of anything more tyrannical than the idea that every room is miked up, recording every stray comment of employees. https://t.co/Kl0GPw7BH1
2026-06-11T06:36 id=2064960039518163198 →- | This reminds me of the time I was on a client call with some buysiders shortly after Twitter had hired Anthony Noto to be their CFO.   I was very negative on Twitter (wanted to do a negative rating but my then boss wouldn't let me). Basic reason was both bad data quality and bad data management for ad targeting.   Call went something like this:  Dumb Unintelligent Moronic Buysider: Your last note was pretty negative, why?   47 the Great: (explains note to someone who hasn't read it, because 90% of buysiders don't).  DUMB: Interesting, got it. And what do you think of their guidance?   4tG: (again explains note, adding why it suggests guidance will be hard to meet).  DUMB: I don't know about that, they just hired Noto. What do you think about him?   4tG: Honestly that's kinda out of my wheelhouse so I can't say--  DUMB: Noto is a great guy, amazing guy. I'm pretty sure if he says they can do it, they'll deliver. You maybe should check your sources.   4tG: (eyes rolling) Yes sir whatever you say sir.   He was hired in July 2014:  TWTR Annual Stock Performance Returns  2014: -43.64% 2015: -35.49% 2016: -29.56%  This is why I both love and hate my job.   1. I love that I get post facto confirmation that I was right. 2. Since finance is really a relationship business, being right doesn't matter all that much.   Buyside worshipped Noto because of their GS relationships and he was well known for improving relationships with the buyside (idk how/why out of my wheelhouse), and while I have developed a small but loyal following because I'm a good prognosticator, it's hard to get outside of that. idk why, my past performance is very well documented and easy to figure out, but just doesn't matter when you're sellside. Especially if you're going up against charisma with nothing but data and analysis.  Embodiment always wins. || CTX: THE AGE OF THE ROCKSTAR CFO  I usually don’t post takes. But in today’s newsletter I wrote a take about why the CFO will be seen as more strategic than ever as companies face new and interesting questions on both capex and opex https://t.co
2026-06-11T06:40 id=2064960925321605454 →erikbryn | @erikbryn They saw an opportunity to use political pressure to expand their most. || CTX: What did they see?  A pause used to be at the edge of the overton window.  Now it's being considered by 3 out of the 3 leading labs. https://t.co/tFAJKDDXfW
2026-06-11T07:51 id=2064978897813504507 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @0xEthanS and now you know why they're filthy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @0xEthanS these specific ones?  dude. their filthy!
2026-06-11T07:53 id=2064979353184919772 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill He is just a huge supporter of open source. || CTX: Dario is a terrorist https://t.co/TGRSa917xp
2026-06-11T07:57 id=2064980332806615426 →- | This is the BEST UI OpenAI has done yet, kudos to the team there, please keep it like this. https://t.co/bi6itOvL6V
2026-06-11T08:07 id=2064982888375001218 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 For a thing to endure, it must be made of either granite or words. || CTX: the internet did more damage than good but the damage was not evenly distributed so if you are in a bubble where people are good with computers you do not understand it https://t.co/9YRUrNmyg8
2026-06-11T08:15 id=2064984957551055157 →airkatakana | @airkatakana https://t.co/7O2Wo3DcFH || CTX: 2 weeks from now is the one year anniversary of the last time i was reported, which also led to police and prosecutors trying to have me detained  over the last year i have filed hard evidence like a madman  i smell blood in the water
2026-06-11T08:20 id=2064986079309230218 →0xSero | @0xSero This is IMO the best way to use LLMs, but also the riskiest. || CTX: I have had a formative life experience.  Thank you Claude. https://t.co/Ps7U6tnRaa
2026-06-11T08:21 id=2064986390136525090 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @pronounced_kyle Aella is a model: her specialty is posing as "Before". || CTX: @pronounced_kyle https://t.co/2nuVLNiWom
2026-06-11T08:44 id=2064992164330037590 →- | I'd say the doctrine of non-attachment from Buddhism and the no-self view of it and more substantively (bad choice of words lol) in Taoism and Zen Buddhism tells us WHAT is the illusion: a desire for stasis that is incoherent with the truth of the world, but it doesn't really tell us WHY we have the illusion. It relies on asserting the negativity of attachment to the self, but it still doesn't tell us why we attach.   Biology and science has a poor explanation: evolution. We evolved to be attached out of a fear of death that is evolutionarily advantageous. Sure, but we still don't have an answer to why our evolutionarily advantageous fear of death, aka the negative attachment to the self, is there in the first place.   "So we may still live" does not really answer the question.   If you think it does, you're mixing different levels to the question why--on the level of usefulness of the fear, sure.   On the level of why does that fear manifest in this particular way, a confrontation with one's own finitude as a negation of a presupposed preferred infinity comprised of "etcetera and so on", the question remains unanswered.  Wittgenstein, however, answers it. See his underappreciated Philosophical Remarks.  In brief, W. asks is to consider infinite really as just continuation without end. Because we can imagine an "etcetera and so on" of the same thing again and again, we can imagine in our mind our best moments repeated ad nauseum, and this being Heaven, eternal life, bliss, whatever. But the same joy repeated often enough becomes misery: winning the jackpot, eating a bowl of ice cream, two chicks at a time--these things grow old, and much faster than you might expect.  No earthly joy lasts forever. Not ontologically but structurally and grammatically: in our mind the mood of "this is good, let me have another" is definitionally finite but can be imagined as if it were infinite. Indeed, if A W Moore is right, as I understand him, all of the infinite can be thought of this way (and yet that we seem to need it points at something mystical).  Theology answers this problem with a tautology: the eternal bliss of Heaven is in the eternity of Heaven. So you won't get bored of the bliss because I said so. The rhetoric of axiomitization to pretend you have not escaped vacuity, but we all know you haven't.   Does this mean the atheists win, there's no afterlife, life is finite? Of course not! It just means our minds, our experiences, and of course our language are limited and thus cannot express this infinity that we all nonetheless feel, and feel ambivalently.   "Can’t I say: a cry, a laugh, are full of meaning?
And that means, roughly: much can be gathered from them." - Ludwig Wittgenstein  If you can trust a feeling to have meaning, then this means something. What does it mean, though--that is both the real question and the one we can neither ask nor answer.
2026-06-11T08:51 id=2064993929414549512 →xanderatch | @xanderatch got "man" in it. I'm woke. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why not bridgmanite currency?
2026-06-11T08:52 id=2064994093982450079 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Exactly, different levels of explanation to satisfy the different impulses we call the self. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nagarjuna communicated a lot of what Wittgenstein communicated as well . It's all the same thing anyways
2026-06-11T08:54 id=2064994592915865731 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital That sounds like a very very good story. I'd love to hear if you're willing to share. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The one lesson I learned too late is that it doesn't matter how much money you made if you piss off the wrong guy.
2026-06-11T09:46 id=2065007821054509354 →- | It's been 10 years since Pokemon Go was released, and there was a hope at the time that having this virtual reality overlay on the real world would encourage people to interact with the real world more.   The idea was that it would make people walk more, exercise more, interact with other people in the community more, and things of that nature.   If we compare that to today's hatred of the internet ("I hate it here", "hellsite", "doomscrolling" etc), we see the pendulum has swung too far.   The obsession with a Baudrillardian interpretation of the virtual versus the real, and more specifically, a concern with the destructive nature of hyperreality inside of a simulacrum, dominates how we think of technology today.   There is indeed a real error mode that we need to be cognizant of and alert ourselves to, but it's also possible to over-index ourselves to worry more about risk than to identify reward. It is possible and not all that difficult to use the virtual to enhance the real.   Now I'm walking on my island, observing the tropical paradise around me, and it's particularly beautiful today, and also there are no tourists, which makes it even better. And as I go, I take photos for you lovely people to see. And in taking those photos, I'm forced to look at the world around me and think of what is most beautiful, what do I want to capture, what is worth sharing to other people.   Here I'm using the virtualization of the real, or maybe we could say the representation of the real to a virtual community, as a means to enhance the world around me for myself.   This, it seems to me, is the proper way to use both technology and the internet. It's a way to make the simulacrum work for you. It is hyperreality, but not a bad kind.  So Pokemon Go to the polls everyone!
2026-06-11T09:54 id=2065009652677661037 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I don't think my other pics posted, that damn boar is at it again https://t.co/apCzb4LOA5 || CTX: It's been 10 years since Pokemon Go was released, and there was a hope at the time that having this virtual reality overlay on the real world would encourage people to interact with the real world more.   The idea was that it would make peo
2026-06-11T10:04 id=2065012294254244179 →profleonn | @profleonn @Afinetheorem probably doesn't fit the narrative to be honest || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Afinetheorem ya whys it skipped?
2026-06-11T10:16 id=2065015389315350938 →- | Calling it now: Anthropic will delay their IPO. We might not hear it, though, but if not the confidential S-1 to IPO process will take longer than normal.   That means no IPO until September at the earliest and probably not until 2027.
2026-06-11T10:24 id=2065017299581784214 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital this is a particularly important data point because it also shows that a cultural rule against birth control does not negate the trend towards a lower tfr.   there are too many people on earth and we are naturally correcting for that fact, this is wonderful. || CTX: Dig into the Filipino birth rate decline  Sociologists are so “confused”: when things get more developed, you have declining birth rates. But Philippines bucks that trend! Idk why?!?!  Simple: women have more power in society. Run that algo
2026-06-11T10:25 id=2065017682953752890 →__roycohen | this is exactly why I find Cosmopanpsychism the most compelling alternative to materialism.   but, the problem with that is that I really dislike the metaphysics of cosmopanpsychism.   I don't want to be part of God's mind.  I especially don't want any of YOU to be part of God's mind either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My teacher would say it's God's game. Imagine you were an infinite being, I guess you'd want to roleplay as a dipshit human once in a while.
2026-06-11T11:05 id=2065027628042707354 →ChefMiew | @ChefMiew @TheStalwart maybe it means from Admiralty to Kennedy Town (which would be kinda cool, that was basically where I spent most of my time in HK, LKF is the most overhyped shitty nightlife district on Earth btw) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart Isn't that Admiralty?
2026-06-11T11:08 id=2065028398188007695 →Horganism | @Horganism @gabridli @JohnSexton8676 You're a wonderful writer! I wish there was a way to subscribe to your blog by email. I'm now a fan. || CTX: @gabridli @47fucb4r8c69323 @JohnSexton8676 McCloskey made me proud, almost, to be a bourgeois professor with a 401K.
2026-06-11T11:08 id=2065028498004308162 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy If I wasn't so lazy I'd make an account and bet on that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Polymarket thinks 90% they IPO this year
2026-06-11T11:33 id=2065034574829416508 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie They're owned by a rich landowner here! Lily is the light one, Cola is the dark one and Richard is the German Shepherd. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the strays look so cute I hope they are as sweet as mine are
2026-06-11T11:50 id=2065038904441569387 →profleonn | @profleonn @Afinetheorem Your position is very sensible and it's also my view. Imperfect tech young people are adopting to, like the internet itself, tv, radio, novels. We adapt! It's good! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Afinetheorem but I can't think of how someone would benefit from this narrative other than of course that its pretty real and they're just caring for our kids, that makes sense of course  and not denying that there isn't s
2026-06-11T11:52 id=2065039486137028750 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck Grice speaks on this. || CTX: When you use so many words to convey so little substance, you impose the burden of making sense of your unstructured thoughts on the reader/listener, which simply makes you an arrogant asshole.
2026-06-11T12:30 id=2065048954417619304 →bladgolem | @bladgolem I think the whole idea is that if you have a goal you still haven't obtained anatta. That's the paradox: if you want anatta you can't achieve it.   Enlightenment isn't joyful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder if anatta is something to pass through and not the end-goal. The end-goal could be something like what we experience, perspective blooming and decaying, off to the next. Desire burning and consuming, metabolizing, 
2026-06-11T12:40 id=2065051517556777213 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie @ecemeats I bet it has salt honey milk and coffee || CTX: @ecemeats what’s your salted honey latte recipe?
2026-06-11T12:40 id=2065051650851774528 →izzyz | @izzyz fable debacle hehehehehe || CTX: This about sums up the Fable debacle, and the perception Anthropic overall is cultivating. Kinda weird to have one of the smartest systems ever created at your fingertips and still crash so badly. https://t.co/EPTNbQRbOh
2026-06-11T13:07 id=2065058295443005898 →cafeantinomie | When Haruhito, fresh from Osaka, lands in Portland, he gets a job as a barista at "Mornin' Joe Biden Cafe" in Portland, working alongside the young spunky riot grrl owner, Tess.   But when her western latte-focused world meets his methodical Matcha making, manic chaos ensues in the newest meet-cute rom com that'll make you laugh, and then it'll make you cry.   Starring Aella Yudkowsky and Caroline Ellison-Musk as Haruhito, premiering soon on Netflix worldwide. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ecemeats only drink connoisseurs understand it was a question of ratios
2026-06-11T14:06 id=2065073239513354516 →TomWright165389 | @TomWright165389 @dvb_eck I'd love to know what he would think of memes! I can imagine contradictory arguments for how they break and don't break the same maxim. || CTX: @dvb_eck @47fucb4r8c69323 I like to think he would hate people who reply with videos or essays on a short form platform tho
2026-06-11T14:29 id=2065079021000597590 →DaphneB76234 | I remember a moment in the microblog, maybe about 2 months ago, when you asked question for your readers' attention and tagged a bunch of us, and very shortly after I saw almost everyone had replied something like "yes, ma'am?" in a deeply respectful, almost reverent tone   And it reminded me of something I realized when I was an undergrad English major: art replaces religion for the secular, and augments it for the religious. And that tells me the microblog is in its own way somewhat holy--microholy, if you will.   And that makes the relationship special, important. You may not have friends on this site because you have something much more important and valuable: an audience that wants to listen and understand.   Very few people have that, and very many want it.   You're blessed, and you earned it by yourself. || CTX: i used to be a really different person, online. but this place snuffed out the light within me. now that old person i was is dead and gone. and the new me is completely different and will never be taken in by a bunch of moids ever again. ht
2026-06-11T14:48 id=2065083836443283847 →- | When the GC is talking about Aella's day job https://t.co/ScYhI7PafE
2026-06-11T14:57 id=2065085945179938866 →christianoboria | IMO the big problem with SaaS stocks is their margins are massive and rev growth is incredible, so everyone just straight lines growth from a super low base which causes ridiculous expectations, so when revs are still like 30% yy growth but expectations were 30.5%, it's down 20% in a day.  I have no solution to this. || CTX: This is how the bull case on crap seat based SaaS is made   Then they get clobbered again https://t.co/bRPf7An5uh
2026-06-11T15:12 id=2065089743222960271 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Do you have experience being a tray || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are they hiring
2026-06-11T15:28 id=2065093699286258034 →teodorio | @teodorio A massive leak from a shit tray sounds like a very bad thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 MASSIVE LEAK ???!!!
2026-06-11T15:28 id=2065093861991715109 →christianoboria | @christianoboria tbf I prob should've sold then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don’t need a solution, can just avoid them as I told you on DM 😉
2026-06-11T16:00 id=2065101848395333682 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill 47 mentioned. || CTX: Ohh this was from Perth I was there he made this girl with Down Syndrome cry but it was really sweet 😭 https://t.co/6TemFjblng
2026-06-11T16:16 id=2065105876206407862 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I love them. What are their names? || CTX: yearly update  they’re still chilling https://t.co/Oye2wQQH3L https://t.co/LIzipkrB4n
2026-06-11T23:26 id=2065214096061161791 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie @ecemeats Mental illness || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ecemeats how do you even come up with this
2026-06-11T23:28 id=2065214521934049788 →luckenco | @luckenco @teodorio especially the tortures and executions, we're very gracious and just with those || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 the high tribunals decisions will be gracious and just
2026-06-11T23:28 id=2065214651844194710 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Yeah this doesn't surprise me at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's ironic  https://t.co/Ad2Es07Y7U
2026-06-11T23:34 id=2065216007082492413 →HughAndFree | I think the best way to answer that question is: would Wittgenstein approve of how I read him?   And the answer is absolutely not.   Making a connection between Buddhist metaphysics and his philosophy is something he'd say is unlicensed, that Buddhism itself is merely a human practice with its own grammar, so one cannot go further than that.   Also I disagre on him on some issues, like us being unable to understand a lion.   So I am probably more a bad reader of W. than a simple advocate or disciple.  But my best ideas, sadly, are the ones that agree with a very conventional reading of W.   That's the real issue: my most original ideas are not my best ideas. Things this Silly Business Theory, my theory of how to die well, and my metaphysical musings on the fact that stasis is impossible are all really inferior ideas to the ones I have that are more conventionally Wittgensteinian.   That's the real source of my angst: I am not a genius. || CTX: Does Wittgenstein's work suggest this, or are the conclusions you're able to draw here rooted in the tools you've acquired from reading Wittgenstein?   Sincerely asking.   A post of yours stuck with me, the one lamenting your perceived lack
2026-06-11T23:34 id=2065216157918056844 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @Ken67547214 This post is unavailable. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-11T23:59 id=2065222304418922742 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @DaphneB76234 Looks to me what with the title like it's somewhat intentional, she's going to be satirizing something perhaps || CTX: @DaphneB76234 6 more hours to video and from the thumbnail I am not saying im going to make the joke but someone is going to make the parallel joke her to an existing joke https://t.co/xDMnabbJF6
2026-06-12T01:37 id=2065247195713220873 →- | When you optimize an LLM at Task A, it will get worse at Task B.   This is why I call post training a game of whack a mole.   It's also why pursuing AGI is a fool's errand. https://t.co/9vd3QJyOgk || CTX: @tamaybes fascinating because 5.5 does this too. invent weird technical jargon. perhaps you’re right and it’s a neuralese leakage
2026-06-12T02:16 id=2065256837898014758 →- | Nvidia is in a fascinating business position. On the one hand, they cannot obviate the frontier labs by pushing open models and improving open model capabilities because OAI/Anthropic are their biggest clients, but on the other hand their EV is maximized by self-hosting open models becoming the enterprise standard.  So they need to slow roll things like Nemotron and keep a close track of the composition of the market before they steamroll OAI/Anthropic.  But they absolutely will once the middle layer becomes strong and well positioned enough (and some of the really silly bullshit companies disappear). Needs consolidation, maturation, implementation. Which is all natural and going to happen.  I saw this play out with adtech vendors in the early 2010s. It is the same exact story, beat for beat.  It's going to be so easy analyzing all of this as a market commentator and analyst. My clients are going to have so much alpha.  But I want to be a market participant, too. It's going to be really, really hard getting that off the ground despite the opportunity, and I frankly don't understand why. But securing distribution and a sales channel is very, very hard.
2026-06-12T02:32 id=2065261051084705813 →CevikelSelim | @CevikelSelim @TheStalwart @max_spero_ Yeah but Stiglitz also likes the sound of his own voice--I doubt these guys would just rubber stamp ANYTHING. Too much ego for that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart @max_spero_ Maybe he just signed?
2026-06-12T03:26 id=2065274463739142558 →- | The earliest use of a kind of proto-proto-writing was clay tokens (calculi) around 10,000 years ago. These were used for millennia--later more sophisticated versions bundled together in what are called bullae have been uncovered from around Uruk, famous from the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament as the first great city of ancient Mesopotamia. These tokens were used to keep track of goods—what was available to the community at first, who owned what, who was entitled to what, etc. You can think of them as solving both a coordination problem (how to distribute goods when a community is working together to produce said goods) and an attribution problem (how to keep track of who has been distributed what after the distribution).  Thus you can think of them in two ways:  1. Linguistic tokens. They have a “meaning” in that this token means x good is associated with y. The token says “the community recognizes this ox is accounted for” and, later as the distinctions got more specific (i.e., as divisions of notions of ownership evolved in language and in thought), they began to mean something like “this ox belongs to Bob”.  2. Money. They represent a claim on specific goods—this token entitles the bearer to one ox. They have a “value” in that the token means the bearer is entitled to x.  For the linguistic token to carry its meaning, that meaning needs to be recognized by a linguistic community. Meaning for a token of language only exists if the token is recognized in the use of said token. If I say “hello”, the meaning of that token (to be a greeting) works if and only if the person who hears it exists in the same linguistic community as I do where “hello” means greeting. If I use it in a country where no one has heard of English (or in the 15th century, for instance, before “hello” was a word), it will not be understood. The token’s meaning is zero.  Similarly, for a monetary token to carry its value, that value needs to be recognized by a community. They need to see the token and acknowledge, “yes this indeed does mean you are entitled to one ox”.  Functionally, they are in ways identical. Currency is language, and language is currency. Both are expressions of moneyness, which has a specific technical meaning in finance: it is the relationship between an asset’s current price and the strike price of an option on that underlying asset. Any bit of language is a derivative on the felt values in our minds and will change according to a variety of factors. A call option is a derivative of an underlying asset and will change according to market repricing of that underlying asset.  We can think of moneyness as a measure of the distance between the present value of a token (of language as derivative of thought or of an option as a derivative of an equity) and what we expect that token to be worth in the future.  So when I use a token to entitle me to an ox, the moneyness is in how much that token will be recognized in the future.  And when I use a token of greeting like “hello”, the moneyness is in how much that token will be recognized as a greeting in the future.  We do not think of language this way! We just think of it as a neutral medium to communicate ideas. Which is very wrong and we’ve known this was wrong since at least Frege (although Plato hints at it but let me not get sidetracked).  The Chinese neologism of a “word currency” does not surprise me, and strikes me as quaint and slightly redundant. Words were always currency and currency was always words.  A lot of implications come out of this, one of which is that the financial industry has a very awkward relationship to language and what is called “qualitative analysis”. It’s considered embarrassing, insufficiently methodical, not programmatic or replicable enough. But that qual is what minted many billionaires—Steve Cohen used what he calls the “mosaic” theory to get rich enough to own the Mets. Soros has one of the nicest views of Central Park from his office because he operationalized Popperian ideas into his reflexivity of markets.  Another implication is that the instinct for money to be “backed by” something is spurious and silly, albeit very human and understandable. It’s the result of a psychological problem: a breakdown in trust. You should see libertarianism crest when trust falls. Searle is great on this: https://t.co/wbhWo3yRFa  And of course the biggest implication is that we need to stop hiring linguists as mere “annotators” and giving ML engineers all of the money and spotlight. But to do so we will need to unlearn the last century of programming that replicable, rigid, deterministic mechanistic processes are monetizable and anything even slightly subjective has low enterprise value. This was always wrong, and the wrongness of it is going to become more evident as LLMs become more commonplace.  I really hate how abstract all of this is, I feel like none of what I just wrote is going to make sense to anyone, and that I’m fighting a cultural movement going back a hundred years just makes it even harder. If you’ve read this far, you might be confused, while most people gave up long ago and have just dismissed me as a crazy person.  But just because I’m crazy doesn’t mean I’m wrong. || CTX: Wow. Had not realized when I tweeted this that China recently landed on a new official word for token that roughly translates to “word currency.” https://t.co/D9VlXz84H1
2026-06-12T04:41 id=2065293478268199196 →toomuchguitar | Thank you—that’s really why I care so much about this. The “learn to code” meme has been disastrous for humanity, and it isn’t even necessary. The clunky mechanistic thinking of programmers and economists just doesn’t work the nuances of reality, and is especially inappropriate for an LLM-enabled humanity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “we will need to unlearn the last century of programming that replicable, rigid, deterministic mechanistic processes are monetizable and anything even slightly subjective has low enterprise value. This was always wrong..”  
2026-06-12T05:27 id=2065304957650170367 →sugarbets_ | @sugarbets_ Yes but Graeber has an ideological axe to grind so he needs to be read cautiously. Right on facts, wrong on analysis.   Bullshit jobs is an incoherent concept. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds extremely similar to David Graebner’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years explanation of currency and words like debt and sin
2026-06-12T05:45 id=2065309514581320169 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 ... uh oh. || CTX: @Ken67547214 There is reasons to be disgusted by him for purely aesthetic reasons he doesn’t maintain good posture at all https://t.co/bEh9YQYWym
2026-06-12T05:48 id=2065310173720359314 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson @ylecun Everything Yann says about AI is absolutely correct, without exception.   I feel bad for him watching the world slowly he's been right all along. Must be SO frustrating, especially with what Meta did to him. || CTX: “Magnus Carlsen is widely regarded as the greatest chess player of all time…. Is [he]…any good at chess? When compared with the best computers, the answer is clearly no…Our perception of his ability is colored by the limitations of humanity
2026-06-12T06:17 id=2065317663736516826 →- | Automation increases the value of human production.   If you don't see why, it's because you're stuck thinking like a wagie.  "But automation means this job can done more cheaply" yes, and that's why it increases the value of human production.   Maybe not for the task that can be automated, of course. But those are exactly the tasks that don't matter.   Unless you're a wagie paid to do those tasks. That's when it matters.  "But what if all tasks can be automated" they can't. Again, this is wagie talk.  Your mother's love for you cannot be automated.   A serendipitous chat with an interesting guy at a bar cannot be automated.  And thinking a powerful new idea that generates new value also cannot be automated.   This is something my clanker once said to me that I think about often: "AI is not a vending machine for masterpieces."
2026-06-12T06:29 id=2065320689201185271 →TheWickedJJ | Yes I came across this when it came out and it is interesting, but I think interpreting this remains somewhat contested.   We aren't sure if this was communicative or a memory aide, but in any case your point stands that using a kind of proto-writing recording system is much older than 10k years ago. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I enjoyed the read, and I think I see where you are coming from a bit. Possibly not. However, I just wanted to point out that written words are somewhat earlier than you mentioned (35k years), and arguably even more token-l
2026-06-12T06:37 id=2065322480861126988 →s86CoffeeDev | @s86CoffeeDev @TheStalwart cynical sales-traders call what we do bullshit or moving paper or whatever.   I think of it as a constant communal practice of creating and mediating meaning.   we mean the same thing, we just have different attitudes. || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 now i feel pretty good being an ex equity broker selling narratives vs math
2026-06-12T06:59 id=2065327995594932358 →- | I suck, I missed the femtobottom please never listen to my market takes ever again https://t.co/lCvtd7TDx3
2026-06-12T07:00 id=2065328463075267013 →- | We shouldn't look at LLMs as things that give us new answers to our questions, but as things that help us come up with new questions.
2026-06-12T07:01 id=2065328683146244127 →newmoneyreview | @newmoneyreview @toomuchguitar Media studies will inherit the earth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @toomuchguitar see also Lana Swarz's research. The message is the money (and vice versa) https://t.co/LV9eKfX0Fm
2026-06-12T07:32 id=2065336520324825575 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 Yes this is very doable! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ... spelling and grammar checkers we already have. But it would be looking for grammatical mistakes in the philosophical sense.
2026-06-12T07:45 id=2065339620221735208 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @crystalwizard oh I had muted that account, gee wonder why || CTX: @crystalwizard We must to serious things in a silly way — as opposed to silly things in a serious way, which is where most academic land. Paging Dr. @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-12T07:49 id=2065340581321363578 →47fucb4r8c69323 | categorical and lazy misunderstanding of both fiction and nonfiction in order to try to make a cheap argument using rhetorical antithetical parallelism.   he is so dedicated to making an argument fit the tweet format and social media audience expectation that he's foregone logic or sense or even seriously considering his proposition because all he cares about is saying something snappy and seemingly witty. the problem is, people have been using social media so long that the trick now doesn't work anymore. || CTX: @resistancemoney @crystalwizard oh I had muted that account, gee wonder why
2026-06-12T08:19 id=2065348354956280205 →elaifresh | @elaifresh @TheStalwart You get it! See pinned tweet. || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 God bless the anons like this
2026-06-12T08:27 id=2065350206703722904 →- | istg shittiest dialog ever no wonder this guy never got a script greenlit. https://t.co/3WcLkG6Jg9
2026-06-12T08:59 id=2065358317934047625 →47fucb4r8c69323 | #CancelSocrates https://t.co/VzuJ0JBqsa || CTX: istg shittiest dialog ever no wonder this guy never got a script greenlit. https://t.co/3WcLkG6Jg9
2026-06-12T09:19 id=2065363455037854109 →teodorio | @teodorio It isn't a good book. It might appear as such if you haven't read much of economic history and have read a lot of economic theory, because it's empircally grounded.  It's a trick of rigor, like growing up in Mumbai and visiting Switzerland and being shocked at the clean air. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 to be fair language - society - currency is a very explored anthropological topic so he just decided to make a good but partisan book about it
2026-06-12T09:33 id=2065366989598765446 →- | I have a few new followers, so it's time for me to post what really matters.  Neelix is an unfairly maligned character.  I've seen Neelix commonly referred to as the Jar Jar Binx of Star Trek. That seems harsh, but I agreed with the judgment for a very long time until I rewatched Voyager. It's true that Neelix can be a bit annoying and over-the-top at times--the episode Tuvix really portrayed this succinctly, by showing how tempering Neelix with Tuvok would create a more likable character.  There are times when Neelix is intentionally irritating to serve the story. In "Meld" Tuvok gets overwhelmed by emotions and kills an annoying Neelix hologram, and this is a wink to the audience.  There's a perceived darkness to Neelix that has become a popular point on the internet: his pedophilia. As we all know, Kes was just 1 year old when joining Voyager and Neelix was already her boyfriend. This is creepy, and it's made even creepier by the fact that Neelix is extremely jealous and overprotective of her, and frequently warns Kes that he knows how men think--suggesting he's a bit of a creep himself and thinks like one.  But I think this is a snap judgment and an unfair one.  Firstly, we have no evidence that Neelix ever had sex with Kes and we have evidence of the contrary. In "Twisted" we see Neelix taking Kes to her quarters and it doesn't seem like he's expecting to join her. They never live in the same quarters throughout the series.  What's more, in "Elogium" Kes specifically asks Neelix to mate with her, and he is honored--but hesitant. This seems to imply they haven't mated before.   At the very least, we get hints they've never had sex throughout the series, but the odd Ocampan mating process also seems to suggest it's not something that can be done casually or frequently; the question of whether casual recreational sex is part of Ocampan life remains open.  In "Author Author" Neelix says he had no idea holograms could have sex. Considering how Riker and people on DS9 used the holodec, that throwaway line clearly demonstrates Neelix's innocence. He is not a monk--in "Prophecy" he has clear sexual desire, and it is for a very adult character.  At the end of "Fury", Neelix gives Kes her favorite snack and looks at her with the same affection that we see him express for her when she was young. I don't think this kind of sensitivity and care is consistent with an abusive pedophile--and note how the grown-up Kes has no fury for Neelix, just for the crew for manipulating and confusing her when she was young.  If anything, Kes never sees Neelix as an abuser, and handwaving this by saying he groomed her is injecting much presumptions into a text that does not support it.  If Neelix didn't have sex with Kes, why was he so overprotective and jealous? Simple: he loved her platonically.  This is in keeping with his character.   When the Borg children show up, he's very sensitive to all of them. When Tom and Neelix were stranded on the ship and unwittingly hurt the newly-hatched alien, Neelix's first instinct was to care for it. He's also the best caretaker for Naomi Wildman on the ship, and Naomi adores him. Even when he's going through an existential crisis after dying and resurrecting, he works hard to make Naomi happy.   I think Neelix protected Kes because he could not protect Alixia. And then Neelix protected Naomi because he could not protect Kes.  He is a protector.  Did Neelix go too far? Yes. He was overprotective of Kes, because she was an innocent in need of protection in an area infested with violent Kazon. In this way, he was kind of like the Caretaker himself on a much smaller scale.  But my real proof that Neelix is in fact a virtuous character comes from an often overlooked episode: "Riddles." This is so overlooked that I actually forgot it existed until I rewatched in a few days ago, and I'd argue it's one of the best episodes of Star Trek--the whole franchise.  Frankly, Tuvok treats Neelix like shit. The arrogant contempt Vulcans have for aliens froths to the surface in the Tuvok/Neelix pairing, which I think sets the stage for Vulcan arrogance in ENT. But despite years of contempt, Neelix keeps trying to befriend Tuvok and earn his respect. Then when Tuvok is literally torn down from his superior position, Neelix doesn't even think of gloating--he immediately cares for Tuvok with more care and genuine concern than anyone on the ship. He's patient with Tuvok during his rehabilitation and works harder for Tuvok than anyone else.  And then he gets what he always wanted: Tuvok becomes his friend. A real friend who cooks with him, listens to music with him, laughs with him, and plays with him.   But Neelix gives all that up and encourages Tuvok to go back to the way he was, knowing he's going to lose the one friend he always wanted to have and is going to face more of the contemptuous shit from the superior Vulcan. He does it for the ship and because he knows it's what the "real" Tuvok would want.  This is a pretty consistent thread throughout Neelix's character: taking care of those less fortunate than him.   He did this even before he had access to the creature comforts of the Federation; the replicators, the Holodeck, and so on. He was a poor trader dealing in reselling garbage, yet he had a sympathy for the weak and vulnerable and acted in accordance with that sympathy even before he could enjoy post-scarcity utopia, as his care of Kes proves.   He never stops trying to bring other people joy and comfort, and to protect those who need protecting.  Yes, his morning show was annoying, his stupid dancing, his awful jokes, his pestering at people to "cheer up" is all pretty embarrassing and makes a lot of people dislike him.   But on closer examination we see that Neelix embodies the humanitarian spirit of Star Trek more than most other characters in the franchise.
2026-06-12T09:39 id=2065368418623402096 →deedydas | People using an LLM to pick stocks in an account is not tantamount to "small little quant funds driven by AI models making fuck-you returns". That's nonsense.  Yes, people can 2x capital in months, and DFV did much more than that using social media.   But until we see a factorization of returns at the very least, this means kinda nothing.  Maybe the LLMs are giving generic responses and crowding everyone into the same trade. Maybe they're just getting lucky. Maybe this is happening in the long tail only.  This post smells of marketing hype. || CTX: There’s a new phenomenon of small groups of people who are running these small little quant funds driven by AI models who are making fuck-you returns.  I’ve personally seen many who are 2x’ing capital in months. Many unsubstantiated rumors 
2026-06-12T10:36 id=2065382730205122859 →riskluck_ | Goddamn that is such a good question, and one I used to talk a lot about back when I was an academic.  Wittgenstein would tell us that we should attend to the use, so let’s think of how “talk is cheap” is typically used. And so that I’m not unfairly framing the discussion so I’ll win, I’m using a canonical example  Rayco wants to put Sally in a demanding job if her ability is high and in an undemanding job if her ability is low.  Performance is hard to monitor. The demanding job is better paid. Sally wants the demanding job whatever her true ability.  Whatever the truth, she wants Rayco to think she has high ability. Neither high nor low ability claims are self-signaling, because everyone knows Sally wants Rayco to believe she has high ability so she gets the better job.  No matter what she says, no information about her ability will be reliably conveyed. This is essentially cheap talk.  Notice what has happened here: Sally has been constrained into a situation where she has little choice but for self representation to become cheap talk by the very structure of the game itself—unless she chooses not to play and not speak (reject the game) or provide credentials (change the rules of the game) or take a test/assent to monitoring/shoulder the cost of signaling. Usually in our monopsonistic labor market, Sally will most likely shoulder the cost of signaling or plead for a different game.  Note how those alternatives are expensive talk! Rejecting the game = talking is too costly to do. Changing the rules and bringing in signaling = bringing in more expensive talk.  The wider the chasm in outcomes, the more cheap talk is incentivized and the more we wallpaper over it with costlier talk.  Talk always runs the risk of being cheap and cheap talk emerges when the social relationships force the talk to be cheap.  The only way around this is trust and a belief in others. There’s a reason “good faith” is a cornerstone of financial regulations—“fiducia” means “trust” in Latin. The word for “credit” comes from the Latin for “belief”. Finance is at its core about valuing when talk is expensive and when it is cheap. In this sense, it is no different from rhetorical analysis and that’s why my transition from professor to financial analyst was so damn smooth.  In this sense, you can think of “cheap talk” as currency the authenticity of which is impossible to confirm. But it isn’t the fault of the person accused of doing the cheap talking—not always at least. Sometimes they have little to no choice, or think they do. Sometimes we have no way of confirming authenticity. At the extremes, that is correct—you can never know for 100% that someone loves you no matter how often they prove it. But you can know 99.9999%, which is enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm being serious here, but how do you think 'talk is cheap' fits into this, if at all?
2026-06-12T10:37 id=2065382891815916004 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake My coffee table is a better father than Worf. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Neelix was a good boy. He dindu nuffin wrong and he was a better father than Worf.
2026-06-12T11:10 id=2065391406659870919 →smashsharp | @smashsharp that's a pretty good summary, now get back to work || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You wrote this condescending piece insulting people that work for a wage and hope to continue doing so then when you listed things that won’t automate and disappear you list mother’s love, a chat at a bar.  So basically thi
2026-06-12T11:11 id=2065391552655216640 →shedrinkswater | @shedrinkswater @kaavyya yes, and caused my employer to go down a few notches in the good University guide on my way out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kaavyya Did u?
2026-06-12T11:12 id=2065391716480553217 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk it's not an either or, we can have both the old questions and the new ones || CTX: I like this quite a bit.  Much on my mind lately about question-generating's relationship to meaning-making. is one of man's unique capabilities question-generation itself? (which afaik llms are poor at...so far). i.e. applying deep humilit
2026-06-12T11:26 id=2065395422873661457 →Carbon19992025 | @Carbon19992025 @deedydas yeah like 99% of what they do is regressions tbqh, not that they'd ever admit this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @deedydas Aren't the quant shops doing mostly regressions with their GPUs? Why do people think that they are building their custom LLMs when they don't have the talent or capital
2026-06-12T11:49 id=2065401031513588138 →for_nat_whilk | My ultimate view is they expand access to that hierarchy.   Think of the hierarchy from "why is the sky blue" to "what are photons" as a ladder of abstraction with various points on it.   From the start to the end there are many levels, and everyone is closed off from the higher level by time, attention, access to reference materials, language competency, etc. LLMs cut through those barriers for many people, and that can be empowering for the LLM user.   Ultimately I find the most powerful use of LLMs to be the combination of information retrieval and syntactic rearrangement of natural language. Both make information more accessible to a broader group. || CTX: indeed we can, but only within limits - so I think what I was trying to get at was: can they contribute better/worse to diff levels of the question-abstraction-hierarchy? imo your quite useful framing would actually point to a much more nar
2026-06-12T12:41 id=2065414298223145087 →realityacid108 | @realityacid108 @bladgolem Do you mean Parama Sukham? I'm unfamiliar with "parakamam".   But also I wasn't talking about nirvana, I was thinking of bodhi. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bladgolem Enlightenment is described as the supreme bliss by the Buddha. Not sure where you get this idea that it is some inert, joyless state. Parakamam sukham. Parakamam = unsurpassed, perfect. Sukham = happiness, bliss.
2026-06-12T12:44 id=2065414975569473569 →athena_notes | @athena_notes oh god yes I am super super bullish on NVDA (I sold my calls way way too early last year, finally made me decide to be less risk averse). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47fucb approving of my favorite stock feels like the closest thing to getting a brain massage while floating on a warm pool   (Best analogy I can think of to only make it semi-gay instead of anything beyond that)
2026-06-12T12:46 id=2065415556954837227 →realityacid108 | Awakening to see the former psychological confusion that creates anatta is not easy. Losing attachment, or seeing its necessary suffering, is very confusing and destabilizing. Or so it has been for me.   Maybe idk what I'm talking about, I'm trying to describe something I haven't really experienced.   Gate gate para gate parasamgate boddhi svaha. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bladgolem Yes sorry I haven’t slept yet and the sun is coming up. Staying up for the stock market open. Liked your NVIDIA post btw.   What’s the difference in this context though?
2026-06-12T13:11 id=2065421823714681079 →- | &gt;mfw someone says effective altruism is a coherent moral philosophy https://t.co/AJRQIAxMRh
2026-06-12T13:39 id=2065428741753557294 →tnickbyrnes4 | @tnickbyrnes4 Full automation is impossible and will never happen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Partial automation increases the value of human labor.  Full automation eliminates it entirely.  The former has been the norm up until now. The latter will become the norm over the next decade.
2026-06-12T13:39 id=2065428852558676122 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada You know who I'm going after? https://t.co/xefcYRgTij || CTX: 😂  rationalists, positivists and now the ea troop https://t.co/R6oxf9ovMq
2026-06-12T14:01 id=2065434253303906721 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @ThomasODuffy I was saying this in a DM like 8 hours ago lol || CTX: @ThomasODuffy @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-12T14:04 id=2065435128239972767 →fabsbz | @fabsbz It's the thought that counts.   Should've stuck to his first job (he's a singer) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt; tfw you wanted animal rights but ended up encouraging a doomsday sex cult that wants to take over the world https://t.co/K1w6u97eGj
2026-06-12T14:33 id=2065442258720006238 →- | A bitter lesson: no matter how much you invest in your blade, it will dull if you don't sharpen it.  This isn't a metaphor. Fucking Osaka shop, $200 USD for a knife what a ripoff
2026-06-12T14:38 id=2065443754300121518 →Joseph_Paul_V | @Joseph_Paul_V @TheStalwart Dude I'm a big fan of your brothers Jake and Logan (sorry couldn't help myself) || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 Great post, interesting way of thinking.
2026-06-12T14:39 id=2065443843999416522 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Read past the title, it isn't about just hallucinations. || CTX: Gonna take a look, but to be clear: I'm actually not talking about hallucinations here, (at least this is different flavor than i.e. making up a legal case that doesn't exist).  What I'm talking about is more like BS answer that you may get
2026-06-12T15:10 id=2065451760861478985 →- | When I lived in Europe in the 2000s the German reputation for efficiency extended to their trains, but apparently at some point since then the Deutsche Bahn has gone woke, lost touch with its fascist roots, and become very unreliable. No more train on time for you, Mr. German.  So, like, whatever, I’d heard rumblings before my gf and I landed in Frankfurt and didn’t think much of it when I’d booked our tickets to Utrecht. Ooh German countryside, dis gun b fun.  There was rain and so I stressed that morning, knowing that we had a long day with two transfers and three months’ worth of luggage in tow, and ofc I was the one to lug all the gage. Funness of being the big strong man with big sexy muscles.  I just knew we’d have problems, so when we were in Dusseldorf after one delay behind us, I was wary. But the train not only wasn’t on time, the sign didn’t even have the name of our train at all. Anywhere on any electric sign, like it was a ghost train.  And then the police came, shooed everyone off the platform just as we were going up the escalator. When we got to the platform, a German polizei or whatever it’s called (police in German, I’m trying to paint a picture here) yelled at us in German. Then switched to England and said we needed to get off the platform or we’d get thrown in jail. “I need to take the escalator, I have a disability!” I said, truly (as in I truly said it I don’t truly have a disability (truly, I don’t (look just ignore your lying eyes))).  We got back down to the underground level, and there were hundreds of people standing and waiting. An electric sign now had the train on it, but no notice of when the train would come.  About twenty minutes later, still no notice. I went to inside the information office. There was a queue of about thirty people.  “Excuse me!” I turned to the group and yelled. Everyone stopped and looked at me.   “Please raise your hand if you’re trying to board the Amsterdam train!” a couple timid people raised their hands. “Come on!!!” and about half of the line had their hands up.  “Excuse me!” the woman behind the desk exclaimed, Germanly. “You must wait in li—“  I turned to her. “We ALL have the same problem. Just tell us all now, this train has been delayed for a long time. When will it arrive?”  “Soon.”  “Do you know when it will arrive?”  “No.”  I nodded, left the information office, went to my girlfriend. “Yeah, this is chaos, we should just get the fuck out of here.”  Then we stood with the crowd looking at the electric sign as I got my phone out. “Well,” I said loudly, opening the app, “this is the worst experience a Jew has had waiting for a train in Germany in 80 years.”  Uber took a few tries to get a driver, but after about 10 minutes it was ordered. Sign still didn’t say when the train was coming.  “Do you have a guess when it’ll arrive?” an English woman near me suddenly asked.  “Good question,” I said, and then saw my Uber was 5 minutes away. “But we’re taking an Uber.”  GF and I left, waited outside for a couple of minutes with our fifty thousand pieces of luggage because she’s a fucking evil human being and finally got the car.  Yemeni guy, we talked about politics and religion for the three hour trip. Was fucking amazing dude, tipped him like 50 euros iirc.  Utrecht was awesome. Better than Amsterdam.
2026-06-12T15:20 id=2065454124318277861 →teodorio | @teodorio I'd like to know what specifically you like about it, because you're the only person I've seen say anything good about it (outside of the cult ofc) || CTX: How does one reconcile their recent hate for Anthropic with their love for Fable?   asking for a friend.
2026-06-12T15:24 id=2065455096989991046 →helscom | 1. Sanitation, sanitation, sanitation 2. If you aren't doing a hoppy beer, the whole closed transfer thing is really overhyped and unnecessary. 3. Dark beers mask off-flavors the best and are really good, especially homebrewed. 4. You'll never be happy with your system. Upgrade if you want, but keep in mind after that you'll want another upgrade. 5. I'm sure there are more options in Finland, but in Thailand a temp regulator and big fridge were necessary for all beers unless I used kveik yeast. 6. Homebrewing online community is one of the friendliest on the internet, both the subreddit and forums, Brulosophy is great--it's a really cool hobby, highly recommended. || CTX: this was about brewing beer… https://t.co/2UH0mQQywJ
2026-06-12T15:24 id=2065455331346723140 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin YOU CAN'T ORDER BEER AT THE FUCKING BAR honestly I lowkey hate German culture || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I remember at Oktoberfest thinking for all the German pride in engineering and efficiency, why can't they figure out that 3 urinals aren't going to be enough for thousands of people drinking tons of beer. 😂
2026-06-12T15:54 id=2065462795320361216 →offline_outside | @offline_outside @helscom oh wow that's awesome, I had no idea. || CTX: @helscom @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you know brewers yeast has useful prions?  Unlike the dangerous ones in mad cow disease, yeast prions can act as protein-based switches. They help yeast adapt to stress, metabolize nutrients faster, and  surviv
2026-06-12T16:23 id=2065469950735872080 →somewheresy | @somewheresy @BriannaWu CANNOT UNSEE || CTX: @BriannaWu Tim Henson
2026-06-12T16:24 id=2065470220895183200 →tszzl | @tszzl I'm so stoned I read this as RSI is a princess that's been trapped in a other castle || CTX: rsi is a process that’s been happening at least since the renaissance
2026-06-12T16:27 id=2065470995998331313 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @brockpierson window https://t.co/ia73jk7ePZ || CTX: @Samhain948689 @brockpierson This is what 5 minutes of windows does https://t.co/YvATH0Ou5X
2026-06-12T16:29 id=2065471490846560359 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Honestly simulation theory was one of those things that made me start questioning my atheism. || CTX: simulation theory is theism with extra cringe steps
2026-06-13T02:15 id=2065619002102366568 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs You say that like it's a bad thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 altruism is when you drown yourself to prevent the person from trying to save you from drowning dying by drowning
2026-06-13T02:15 id=2065619124903096488 →UsurperRaoh | @UsurperRaoh My autism is super effective || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We need effective autism instead.
2026-06-13T02:22 id=2065620876113195398 →- | I'm sure their stock will do great, def not going to delay IPO, totes not gonna nosedive after announcing some nonsense. Much serious very investable   https://t.co/3uuoK2baCS
2026-06-13T02:43 id=2065625983420666149 →Aion19834333 | @Aion19834333 Announcing late on a Friday like they finna bomb iran || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ask yourself why they waited to do this until after the market close.
2026-06-13T02:54 id=2065628853171867896 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth I could see that happening sadly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Will have opposite effect.  Model so powerful govt had to ban it will be the narrative.
2026-06-13T04:03 id=2065646252956819589 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill Anthropic is playing a pretty stupid song rn if you ask me tbh ngl fwiw tbh wtf bbq rofl || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 i made this for you https://t.co/MKGNg7aKJu
2026-06-13T04:07 id=2065647143281627275 →secemp9 | @secemp9 Link? || CTX: I have found peak from oxford's essay competition https://t.co/Mh6wRoTSE1
2026-06-13T04:52 id=2065658551885086931 →secemp9 | @secemp9 "In Jujutsu
Kaisen, variables like ’Cursed Energy’ and authorial intent do not obey the strict axioms of real analysis." Same for the real world! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yep, see my second reply for the link. you have to do Ctrl+F "gojo" or scroll down
2026-06-13T04:57 id=2065659885845618822 →- | RT @NotPerrysBoobs: @47fucb4r8c69323 altruism is when you rue the fact you made so many different alts || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 altruism is when you rue the fact you made so many different alts
2026-06-13T05:01 id=2065660852209172534 →MT_6226 | @MT_6226 Finally, the shoe's on the other foot! || CTX: My average-looking Korean bros tell me that they can shag KPop fetish girls off Tinder in Tier 3-4 American cities. And because Americans cannot distinguish between nationalities, all East Asian men can do this.  A sea change from the 2000s
2026-06-13T05:02 id=2065660975106392432 →- | As a western man in Asia, I 1000% support this and wish them well. https://t.co/S4tKSlWqwm || CTX: My average-looking Korean bros tell me that they can shag KPop fetish girls off Tinder in Tier 3-4 American cities. And because Americans cannot distinguish between nationalities, all East Asian men can do this.  A sea change from the 2000s
2026-06-13T05:06 id=2065661944120689090 →- | Trust me, WS is NOT going to tolerate this bullshit.   The pushback the buyside is going to give Anthropic will cause an IPO delay, this Fable 5 is a big deal.  If I wasn't on gardening leave I'd be on the phone to every goddamn buysider I could to make this point. https://t.co/89Cb001H1W || CTX: Anthropic rubs their nipples and begs to be regulated then whines and whines and whines and whines and whines when they get regulated. Pathetic. You don’t get to have it both ways. They should really be careful. Vibes are everything here an
2026-06-13T05:10 id=2065663189824708703 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Japanese attitudes to Jews are wild cuz a Japanese dude will say, "oh you're Jewish? Wow you guys own all the banks and rule the world, respect!!!" like it shows both their innate racism and imperialist instincts underneath all the civil politeness. || CTX: one of my most dedicated followers is a japanese guy who has, by piecing together info about me from various sources, concluded that i am (unbeknownst to me) jewish  they have tried to convince me of this fact for 2-3 years https://t.co/jYJ
2026-06-13T05:25 id=2065666800151580950 →gerardsans | @gerardsans wut.   Why would they hide this? || CTX: 🚨 Anthropic Mythos System Prompt Leaked  It reveals something many have suspected: it is not a raw model but a full agentic system with access to local files and tools like search, skills, context management and more.  https://t.co/4WC9ZkKQ
2026-06-13T05:27 id=2065667234773794999 →- | I hadn't even thought of this but, yes, this is yet another way Anthropic is handicapping America to ensure they lose the AI race. https://t.co/izw2pzcirv || CTX: @benglickenhaus Unless this grandfathers in existing employees this could be really bad. We’d see a huge exodus of frontier talent to foreign countries
2026-06-13T06:50 id=2065688248807301418 →- | This is why I considered 10k to make Yud the Stud look like crud on a pud(cast) an investment: the way I see it, doomerism increases volatility of returns and limits gains on AI-related economic benefits.  At a larger scale, the more we publicly attack the Fable debacle the more we limit volatility of future returns.  Imagine if Anthropic was already public and their Fable 5 shenanigans came out, SP500 would already be in a bear market, like I'm too old for this shit. || CTX: see, the problem with this is, this is what you get when you let AI doomerism get enough traction that the non-technically gifted people that, shall we say, have more political power than all of us, then get convinced that the algorithm run
2026-06-13T07:00 id=2065690852799008965 →__roycohen | @__roycohen Same EA/rationalist crowd THEY ARE A SCOURGE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Damn, giving me FTX flashbacks. Time is a flat circle..
2026-06-13T07:43 id=2065701550782300490 →generativist | @generativist Future generations will study the Joe Wiesenthal canon in their Masters of Poasting literature class, and I'm not even joking. || CTX: the man is an icon https://t.co/HmYQBlDhxB https://t.co/9v7Rq72j6R
2026-06-13T07:43 id=2065701645129048428 →generativist | @generativist Future generations will study the Joe Weisenthal canon in their Masters of Poasting literature class, and I'm not even joking. || CTX: the man is an icon https://t.co/HmYQBlDhxB https://t.co/9v7Rq72j6R
2026-06-13T08:23 id=2065711732975456668 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Hotels in Asia are a big reason why I just cannot move back to America (unless I get VC funding of course for all you VCs reading this gib monies i'll go back to NYC no SF is not an option and you know why those people are scurrrrry) || CTX: Not a bad room for the price of the crappiest hotel in Hell’s Kitchen https://t.co/ORu4yDyiUZ
2026-06-13T08:56 id=2065719882680041683 →- | It only took a month, but we now see that Yud kinda has no boundaries and will do anything for cash.  No wonder he's worried about AI blowing up the world, he'd probably do it for 50 bucks and a ham sandwich https://t.co/yVqlXIdUpG || CTX: I'm not going to watch any debate but I hope one outcome from this is that we collectively begin exploring the boundaries of what @alltheyud will do for $10,000  This is a scenario in which everyone wins
2026-06-13T08:56 id=2065720035436568584 →myonlinetrust | @myonlinetrust @xlr8harder @allTheYud https://t.co/qa3yKg9tHK || CTX: @xlr8harder @allTheYud 🤷‍♂️ I watched it and I’ll definitely start taking him less seriously.
2026-06-13T09:04 id=2065721947468751355 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @LSCCountry I love this. https://t.co/KbS5Ayry7V || CTX: Truly of the most surreal and incredible moments of my life. In a car dealership for Chang’an (Chinese SOE) in a high end shopping mall in Shenzhen listening to @LSCCountry on Tencent Music. https://t.co/0epq4QP3aR
2026-06-13T09:11 id=2065723796481511771 →- | Quality of memes seems to be inversely proportional to Anthropic's imputed EV. https://t.co/FZ7sfyDktq || CTX: last one https://t.co/utFCuOxULT
2026-06-13T10:20 id=2065741055878889517 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset BEING RETARDED IS FINALLY LEGAL || CTX: Bad news, e/acc. The USA government is banning access to intelligence. Foreigners first, everyone else soon. Going to defcon 2. https://t.co/yNaoJVbTNu
2026-06-13T10:22 id=2065741696026226700 →AndrewCurran_ | @AndrewCurran_ I also see 81 H1-B visas for Anthropic, I guess they can't legally work on Fable 5 either?  Dario's getting close to his dream where no one but him, his sister, and Amanda get to play with their little clanker son || CTX: According to Grok, Andrej Karpathy is an EB-1 extraordinary ability green card recipient, not a US citizen. Thus under these new restrictions he is not permitted to use, or work on, Mythos 5 or Fable 5 as of 5:21pm tonight. https://t.co/cm5
2026-06-13T10:30 id=2065743602920325361 →- | RT @47fucb4r8c69323: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just s… || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-06-13T10:44 id=2065747141465866283 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I am legit starting to look forward to your breakfast pics. This startles me as I tend to hate when people take pictures of food (well, as you know, I hate pictures in general). || CTX: 2 eggs, bacon, blueberry jam, toasted sourdough, butter, 2 espresso shots https://t.co/cEsOYs69Hy
2026-06-13T10:46 id=2065747729125667152 →- | https://t.co/Je94J8x2j5
2026-06-13T11:04 id=2065752054719758734 →adastroworld | @adastroworld well I'm supposed to be sleeping in one of them, i'm sure it'll happen one day || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m genuinely terrified to figure out what time zone you’re supposed to be sleeping in
2026-06-13T11:13 id=2065754377873461356 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter mfw reading this alongside tweets abt the Fable debacle https://t.co/LTV1EpsaxH || CTX: i don’t know what is going on but this is genuinely extraordinary https://t.co/KCf0Bkgo7e
2026-06-13T11:21 id=2065756374043349369 →- | I love this website.   Cheers y'all. https://t.co/WDkJ2G3oxX https://t.co/XviJVxteyU || CTX: i don’t know what is going on but this is genuinely extraordinary https://t.co/KCf0Bkgo7e
2026-06-13T11:50 id=2065763717854449688 →teodorio | @teodorio Temustoyevsky || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's Notes from the Underground
2026-06-13T12:16 id=2065770327062548823 →- | You remember that scene near the end of Her when Joaquin Phoenix asks Siri Johansson how many other ppl she's talking to and she says some crazy number like 80,000 people and he looks so dejected amd sad and small?   That's how I feel DMing a mutual who has a shitton of followers
2026-06-13T12:17 id=2065770526271008826 →47fucb4r8c69323 | also that's prob how Holly Elmore felt tryna have sex with her husband after he had a taste a aella https://t.co/Mh0X5IJwOq || CTX: You remember that scene near the end of Her when Joaquin Phoenix asks Siri Johansson how many other ppl she's talking to and she says some crazy number like 80,000 people and he looks so dejected amd sad and small?   That's how I feel DMing
2026-06-13T12:27 id=2065772945675620412 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Why are you Butterilling me up? How much do you want? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you will blow up in follower count soon. you are kind of an old fuck and have the name of a spam bot aside from that you have a very fun spirit and live an interesting life
2026-06-13T12:32 id=2065774222157517235 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada fuckin A Rafael u tell those bastards || CTX: Without a deontological framework ur influencer/expert is just a snake oil salesman https://t.co/2HXxFssj7q
2026-06-13T12:59 id=2065780980443688968 →- | If we want to go back to one of the key developments that helped the modern banking system take shape, we see a system of businesses that store assets and write debt claims for those assets or the economic equivalent of those assets to the bearer of that note. This is where our modern technology of currency emerged from the more intuitive concept of money that is deep within the history of humanity.  From that we see a process of currency being used both to tally the current state of accounts--what wealth accrues to what entity and via what mechanism and channel. This, essentially, is what currency as money is, and it is sufficient for all intents and purposes as precisely that.  This is why we could remove the scaffolding of the asset backing the note held by the bearer, because if the note represents a unit of asset-quality that supervenes across all possible assets in a society, then it essentially is a free-floating pointer to a current state of account. And that is all we need for money and a money system, provided that there is infrastructure for the storage of said money.  This is why you do not need money to be backed by anything but a society. In fact, ALL money that is backed by anything is backed by society: if you are a gold-backed money enjoyoor, remember that the value of gold is itself backed by society. You are trying to find grounding beneath the grammar of human culture to feel secure, but there's nothing beneath the grammar of our human culture. You are afraid of the inevitable dependency you have on your fellow man.  You are a coward.  The need for a backing of money exists only if there is a lack of faith in a society to keep track of the money as pointer of wealth distribution at any given time. If you don't trust the government to hold the value of the pointer, or if you don't trust the government to survive an extended period of time, or to keep honoring the value of that government.  (and for non-governmental currencies, just replace "currency issuer" and see how the government level is the most conservative point of attack, and attacking currency issuers shows how corporate currency issuers are even riskier, thus totally demonstrating the incoherence of libertarian monetary ideology.)  This is why I no longer argue with libertarians and those who argue against the modern monetary system. For them, advocacy of hard money is not an intellectual position as much as it is a psychological state.  But the point of this thread is not to attack libertarians, which has almost certainly cost me some followers.  The point is to show how the notion of money as an idea really supervenes on the particular situation of currency as a whole. Whatever the currency, what matters is the conceptual framework of value indexicals being identified, agreed upon, and maintained. This speaks to cultural memory, security, and intelligibility as the real backbones of the value of any particular kind of token of the money type.  And all three are symbologic and linguistic issues. In other words, "money is language" is not a metaphor, it is a description of a particular kind of language. It's like saying "English is language" or "two guys nodding at each other in a bar out of mutual respect is language".  Gestures to identify semantics and syntax, this is what we're dealing with both in linguistics and in finance.  This is why the leveraging of LLMs for finance in particular is going to make so much goddamn money to the guys who know how to do this well.
2026-06-13T12:59 id=2065781185394180327 →Dorialexander | @Dorialexander maybe I'm stoned af (no maybe about it i am seriously fucking stoned) but those glasses are a gorgeous turquoise || CTX: walking around with sovereign glasses near sovereign artworks to show anthropic how disappointed i am https://t.co/AbMSSOnOYs
2026-06-13T13:18 id=2065785953440928080 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy @BecomingCritter You gotta tell me! Were they insane back then too? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @BecomingCritter It's so weird seeing this since I know Holly and Ronny from my time at Rutgers.
2026-06-13T14:19 id=2065801321668915282 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil Scientific community incredibly consistent. || CTX: Oddly, the most trusted major institution is now... the military. https://t.co/LfO3SWmNGC
2026-06-13T14:33 id=2065804701694837002 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 ... Hu? || CTX: Olivia Rodrigo and Madison Hu https://t.co/dvrB3LKFoc
2026-06-13T15:09 id=2065813868866363511 →llallawg | @llallawg @garvvee I love your posts and think you're a great follow || CTX: @garvvee Sometimes I post really boring stuff so I never have a lot of followers
2026-06-13T15:12 id=2065814460036764140 →- | This is the best pop song in the last 10, maybe 20 years. https://t.co/PODnyYrS9E || CTX: if you think Robert Smith's vocals ruin this song you are weak and will not survive the winter https://t.co/pqlv1Wzdo0
2026-06-13T15:17 id=2065815885097664592 →- | My ultimate issue with libertarianism is, when it comes to monetary and fiscal governance, I just disagree with it.   But morally? Yes obviously I'm 100% libertarian.   Is/ought gap sucks.
2026-06-13T15:23 id=2065817302495551785 →etoeth | @etoeth @MartinShkreli maxtracting if you will || CTX: @MartinShkreli they dont care about "safety" lmfao only max extracting
2026-06-13T15:24 id=2065817651671441418 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree wait which one? I get multiple hits on Spertufry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 False, but only because Slow Hands exists and is astonishingly perfect.
2026-06-13T15:28 id=2065818649412378993 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines it hath been foretold https://t.co/NHvUF8b3Yi || CTX: Anthropic https://t.co/egHyP9RWHz
2026-06-13T15:30 id=2065819188963455449 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree ... am I on candid camera || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Horan, apparently.   Pay attention to each element in the track. Everything has just a little bit of extra polish on, is in the perfect spot in the mix, and the whole thing sounds exactly like carefree the summer banging.
2026-06-13T15:32 id=2065819607794077781 →xriskology | @xriskology It's bad in America, but it's worse in China.   It is very very bad there. || CTX: It’s not clear to me why we should want the US to win. Being honest here. China is an authoritarian state, but the US is run by authoritarian fascists. Nearly everything bad and scary about China (surveillance, social credit, genocide) is a
2026-06-13T15:36 id=2065820722904412385 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Which creates demand for AI readers, helping grow the AI economy, which raises demand for chips, which pumps money in the Korean economy.   You're a goddamn hero, they should put a statute of you next to Sejong. || CTX: if the civil servant who has to process these objections doesn’t read the whole 80 pages of ai slop i then generate another 80 pages of ai slop pointing out that it was a crime for them to not read my other ai slop and send it to the police
2026-06-13T15:38 id=2065821166028333091 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree oh yeah it sounds beautiful but the lyrics are, like, baby me wan fuk u || CTX: The compression and gating on the drums? How the whole mix just *breathes*? The accentuation on the sibilance on the vocals? The slight micro timing accents on the kit?   Song also has vaguely anaphonic character in terms of the pulse being
2026-06-13T15:39 id=2065821264359703027 →ChuckBaggett | @ChuckBaggett @AndrewCurran_ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AndrewCurran_ https://t.co/5zDUvKrHeU
2026-06-13T23:42 id=2065942934198112550 →- | Imagine making Pete Hegseth look reasonable. https://t.co/EqYRkyV9aQ || CTX: Three months ago, @DeptofWar kicked @AnthropicAI out of our building—forever.   Every passing day proves why that was the right move. 🇺🇸
2026-06-13T23:45 id=2065943554170744892 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree @Psych_Roman bwahahahahahaha || CTX: @Psych_Roman @47fucb4r8c69323 this is true, but enough about MAH WEINER AMIRITE GENTLEMAN EYYYYY
2026-06-13T23:46 id=2065943926977319238 →nycthinker | @nycthinker I'm more than happy to take him and any other idiot out of the equation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A problem is that the very origin story of both OAI and Anthropic companies takes place in Yud-land.  The commercial stuff got overlaid onto this and it’s unclear (to me) if one can take the Yud out of the equation.
2026-06-13T23:49 id=2065944678764335113 →Gianpattention | @Gianpattention yeah I suppose that's why I find neo liberals so repugnant, because they take these necessary evils and reify them into unequivocally good things. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you mean that you are ok with central banking as a lesser evil, and in general you have a moral framework of the state as a rare necessary evil we occasionally need but which we should always be very skeptical of, you ar
2026-06-13T23:51 id=2065945258148638853 →etoeth | Very well said. Yes, that's basically my view as well especially after talking to these assholes on the internet since the early 90s.   I'm glad Gen Z is starting to see through their bullshit, but the Ayn Rand worshipping "all laws are evil except protecting property" madness was unavoidable on the internet until  wokeness replaced it with skin color and sexuality obsession. || CTX: most if it is so perverted and deviated from its original prototyping which was obv pre-internet. i think the marcus aurelius guys were just total hippy chuds back in the 90s sv. evolved into reactionary keyboard forum warriors who only loo
2026-06-13T23:52 id=2065945439309095144 →LexerLux | @LexerLux hahahahahahaha || CTX: I distinctly remember asking a libertarian once (because you know how much they love the gold standard) how we can have infinite economic growth with a finite monetary supply and they said the government could just adjust the exchange rate 
2026-06-13T23:54 id=2065945840620068917 →2kindsofmadness | @2kindsofmadness Whatever maximizes liquidity and velocity without causing inflation to exceed ~3% and keeps us from deflation.   So... kinda the current system until we find something better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Love ya fuc. I’ll bite. What monetary &amp; fiscal governance do you favor?
2026-06-13T23:55 id=2065946081167626550 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Military subcontractors is a GREAT example of what I'm thinking of, kinda the perfect one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Utilities are a simple example of a system that objectively functions better when government operated rather than privately. Military, as well. The cost effectiveness of our military has plummeted since 9/11 changes increas
2026-06-13T23:55 id=2065946237472555343 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Morally abhorrent but it works better than all of the morally pure ideas. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But, they're basically right about finance. Centralization of banking is totally incompatible with democracy. It's an obsolete and morally abhorrent idea that needs to be exterminated from this planet
2026-06-13T23:56 id=2065946539059741147 →luckenco | @luckenco Fractional reserve banking and a slowly inflating currency is good monetary policy. Central banks targeting unemployment and inflation is the best system we've figured out so far and should not replace it with hard currency, the gold standard, or anything of the sort. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’d like to learn more, where do you disagree  can you point to some sources to educate myslef  I love disagreement
2026-06-13T23:58 id=2065946973711286515 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I totally get that. They're seeking a fantasy world where value is asserted outside of institutions. That can't be done with a fungible value, it just doesn't work that way. Institutional authority creates money. || CTX: I think you're totally missing the point about why people have a problem with fiat currency. It's not that it's inherently good or bad for anyone, it's that by existing, it becomes a political weapon. I understand the limitations of the gol
2026-06-13T23:59 id=2065947096625373467 →nycthinker | @nycthinker Very well said! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 L is a philosophically empty shell that opposes statism.  A meme.  As a value agnostic movement, it either fragments when seeking political influence, or its members awkwardly transition to adopt the “full stack” of a value
2026-06-14T00:26 id=2065953923241038206 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I do not see all of those as monetary policy issues. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No. It doesn't. We have fewer privately traded companies than ever before. Housing unaffordability is so low that the market is frozen, causing TFR to plummet. And, we continue to hemorrage buying power, 30% in 4 years. It'
2026-06-14T00:27 id=2065954152518402117 →2kindsofmadness | That's just my point--I do not believe removing humans from the equation is possible or desirable. It's like saying "we're going to remove humans from the idea that ice cream is yummy" like it just doesn't make sense.  I understand the desire! But it's a misunderstanding of what money IS. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I get you. Moral hazard ensures chaotic evil has a place in this sys tho. Right?  If we could automate liquidity &amp; velocity maxing at ~3 inlflation with no deflation, and freeze that automation — i.e. remove humans from
2026-06-14T00:27 id=2065954267832431092 →ecombeckett | @ecombeckett Many people are asking || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait who are you how have I not seen you before 😭😭
2026-06-14T00:28 id=2065954396006203493 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill I wish you'd just acknowledge mine! || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont know how you guys manage dms its all too much
2026-06-14T00:35 id=2065956363105337819 →- | This song has now made me cry twice, and I do not normally cry at songs and this song is not a particularly sad one (it is, I would say, more "wistful"). Or maybe it is sad if you are enduring a breakup or feeling lovesick, and I am feeling neither, so my response has I think extratextual value worth sharing.  I am somewhat obsessed with Harold Bloom's idea of the anxiety of influence even if I'm not all that keen on Bloom's criticism. I believe he is correct that influence is a double-edged sword and something all artists struggle with: on the one hand, I am part of a tradition and it gives me strength, and being included in the canon of that tradition is an honor. On the other hand, the more I conform to a tradition, the less of an artist I am--taken to its extreme one is worse than a hack conforming to generic expectation, one is just repeating word for word what some better writer said before you.  Where is the line between being part of a tradition and being original?  The best artists embrace this tension as their creative battlefield, and that is what is happening in this song. Robert Smith knows he is old and now considered a classic voice in a tradition that, perhaps surprising to him, has become a tradition. Olivia Rordrigo, on the other hand, knows she is a fresh young voice and is seen as such.  For the two of them to collaborate is for them to act as artists engaging pop culture as tradition, rather than the two of them making a pop song.  And from that perspective, the song is a distilled The Cure-style sad song, as Smith himself once described the band ("sometimes we write happy songs and sometimes we write sad songs" is the jist of what he said in an interview when asked about the "goth" aesthetic).  It's a simple song of a lovesick narrator, and it is an expression of a feeling you have had, I have had, and that goes way back. It is the central theme of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. Four centuries before that, Constantine the African (a Tunisian @crypt0lake) wrote a seminal medical text on the topic (the Viaticum) that was taken seriously for hundreds of years. A thousand years prior to that, Ovid spoke of it in his seminal Ars Amatoria.  There is a long tradition of yearning for connection in the history of romance, and here we see one generation acknowledging it in another and thereby they pass the torch: this is a mode of expressing one of the aches of being human, Robert Smith is saying, and I am passing it on to you. This mode has value and I honor you for creating it, I will take it and pass it on, Olivia Rodrigo is saying.  That is why it makes me cry.  One has to understand this is not just an act of mutual respect between artists, although it very much is that. It is a rejection of the logic of pop culture for something transcendent. It is a spiritual gesture.  To understand what I mean, let's zoom out a bit.  One of the things the 19th and 20th centuries did to us that I really resent is making art a commodity.  The novelist plans her book for her reading public (the opening scenes of Pluribus are wonderful on this), the singer's new song is perfectly targeted to get attention (I remember a Thai singer trying very hard to write about being an oppressed minority in 2020--she's lived her entire life in Thailand and comes from a rich family).  The publishing company and the recording studio ensures polish.  The marketing materials ensure the content is pitched to the right people with the right message.  This process produces incredible craft--Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" music video is an object of fascination because of the rich but shallow semiotics in the texture of the MV as text. But it doesn't move me, and it does not move you--it is not supposed to move. Maybe some children are moved, but that's ancillary--the point is to have fun.  I saw this erasure of value when Gangnam Style came out and I was deeply disgusted by it. Anyone who knows Korean culture well knows that video is a satire of upper echelon Korean aspirational new money, which is what the Gangnam neighborhood of Seoul embodies so perfectly. But when the song got big internationally, Psy freaked out and insisted the song was just about fun (he said so in a Reddit AMA) even after journalists had documented him expressing the disgust at Gangnam culture while making the music video.  Smith and Rodrigo are not erasing the value of tradition here. They are embodying it and expressing it as artists. And I say "as artists" because there is no art without risk, and here we see the risk on the foreground: the risk for Smith is he looks like a washed-up has-been trying to be relevant again (not what he's doing). The risk for Rodrigo is young kids think she's wasting her time with a washed-up has-been who makes the song worse (I have already seen that reaction online).  Smith and Rodrigo do not care, because they are paying homage to pop culture as tradition. And as such, they are CREATING that tradition.  And this is why it makes me cry. They are links in the chain that refuse to let it break. The buck does not stop here.  Gate gate paragate parasamgate boddhi svaha. || CTX: wow https://t.co/7idiv5fkwc
2026-06-14T00:38 id=2065956893617717351 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch @cremieuxrecueil oh cool tell him I said wazzaap || CTX: guzzling shrimp masala @cremieuxrecueil’s talk https://t.co/zp8ZuVAFKX
2026-06-14T00:41 id=2065957869535834176 →Polymarket | No, Anthropic, you are far too humble!  Like you already told us, Fable 5 is super dooper powerful and so we can't let foreigners get access to it. Thank you SO MUCH for the warning, and next time you produce a model that's too dangerous to be sold to some people, please let us know so the government can intervene.  Oh and by the way, good luck with the IPO!!! || CTX: NEW: Anthropic claims the capability cited by the U.S. in restricting Fable 5 is already widely available from other models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.5.
2026-06-14T00:43 id=2065958368502751255 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake I'd read a little medieval arab poetry during my master's, but yes I am very ignorant and would love to read more. Give! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i need to plug you into arab poetry
2026-06-14T00:44 id=2065958514531663943 →etoeth | @etoeth You should put them in a glass cabinet and put on it "BREAK IN CASE OF RETARDATION" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have a book trash pile and meditations, jordan peterson, dave ramsey, ayn rand, extreme leadership, 48 laws of power etc were all gifted to me at some point lmfaoooo i just keep them to see how big it can get
2026-06-14T00:49 id=2065959667776565362 →2kindsofmadness | @2kindsofmadness I'd say asking what money is is tantamount to asking what we use money for. They are the same question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nice. Thank you. And I’m with you on the human removal, neither possible nor desirable.  I’d press on “why” tho. What do you think of this:   asking what money IS is a flawed entry point to thinking about money; better to e
2026-06-14T00:49 id=2065959764203569560 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs All chats are group chats with those communists. || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 Coincidentally bluesky just added group chats https://t.co/1UCUanovqn
2026-06-14T00:49 id=2065959849389920643 →etoeth | @etoeth @willmacaskill HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @willmacaskill every time i see your book i may steal and burn it
2026-06-14T00:50 id=2065959992746967116 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake yeah many people have told me arabic poetry defies translation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i would but it absolutely makes no sense if you can't read it in arabic imo, it really doesn't it's like an entire dimension deleted
2026-06-14T00:54 id=2065960931486806441 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs Rosa Parsky || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 I am the Rosa Parks of bluesky
2026-06-14T01:00 id=2065962587691557180 →adastroworld | @adastroworld okay I will listen || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 saying this when good luck babe and pink pony club just happened? a choice, to be sure
2026-06-14T01:08 id=2065964463124345197 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I should also mention the song's description of how lovesickness feels and some of the attempted cures to lovesickness in the song are also in Ovid and the Constantine the African.  this song is part of a tradition that is thousands of years old. || CTX: This song has now made me cry twice, and I do not normally cry at songs and this song is not a particularly sad one (it is, I would say, more "wistful"). Or maybe it is sad if you are enduring a breakup or feeling lovesick, and I am feeling
2026-06-14T01:08 id=2065964556581806450 →adastroworld | @adastroworld no, I haven't to be honest. my girlfriend doesn't listen to her for whatever reason || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you've never heard a chappell roan song? not even out and about? https://t.co/BUY7YiLlig
2026-06-14T02:21 id=2065982886835294579 →- | Let us begin where you would begin if you wanted to create a large language model: with text.  What does the word "text" mean to you? You really should think about this before you keep reading. Note how it can mean many different things--not all text is created alike.  To make a large language model, we need to collect a lot of text, since the text has the language we want to model. You want your LLM to contain regular patterns across language use, and to do so you need to find those patterns to then model.  This was originally done with collections such as "The Pile", and the name is telling: this was not a collection of texts organized as text, but a pile of language use used to find regularities in language.  And it worked.  If you go through the pile, you will find a lot of examples of people saying "I go home" but not "I go house", and so you find a rule in English as it is used. The rule is a grammatical one, and a simple one: "home" here functions as an adverbial locative rather than a direct object. Why is that? I won't get into it here, but it's a long story.  But you'll also see in your model that "I go to the house" or "I go to our house" is used less frequently than "I go home". Why is that? Because there is another, more abstract, and less commonly recognized grammatical rule: in English, we tend to call "our house" a "home" instead of "our house", and there are complicated and fascinating reasons for this I won't get into. But this isn't a grammatical rule about, say, when you use an indefinite article and when you don't.  It's still a grammatical rule, but it's at a much higher level of abstraction, and is a rule about how we express feelings of belonging, relationship, emotion.  LLMs demonstrate a lot of these things we think are personal expressions of emotion are really just publicly certified rules.  That is destabilizing and emotionally debilitating, so I am not surprised a lot of the AI world is trying to ignore this fact. David Foster Wallace was so upset about this fact that he wrote a book about it (no not Infinte Jest).  I won't handhold your feelings through this except to say that there's more to the mind than language.  But as for the language itself, note how the LLM, once it finds a statistical regularity of natural language use (i.e., a rule of natural language use) like "people in English say 'I go home' more than 'I go to my house' or another variant", it can use that to model and predict the likeliest next word in a phrase according to paramaters that can be adjusted to the model, which in turn adjust how the transformer architecture is used. It does this through tokenization and mathematical modeling that people focus on way, way too much. Those details are valuable to understand how LLMs function and how to make LLMs more efficient, but they aren't valuable to understand what LLMs are really doing: predicting language from a base of language that the programmers of the LLM modeled into it.  Remember that "M" in "LLM" stands for model. The large language model is a model of how language is typically used inside of a large text corpus and it is created by modelers. There is no creation being done by the model itself--the model is just an architecture of different possible ways to transform symbols. This is what is meant by "paramters", functionally speaking.  What about emergent thinking and reasoning abilities? Yes, LLMs have these! Because we think by using language, when we model language use we can create a model of thinking. This was the whole idea of LLMs to begin with!  But the problem is the emergent thinking and reasoning abilities in a large language model is really bad. That is why pretraining is insufficient--you get regularities embedded into the model, but the regularities are extremely noisy and chaotic, because natural language use is noisy and chaotic.  So then the next step is constraining the LLM to harness its reasoning. You do this first via posttraining: give it more constrained rules as a kind of overlay on top of the less constrained rules that you introduced in pretraining. This will make the outputs of the LLM less chaotic, less random, and less creative.  You get the LLM to conform to expectations by telling it what you expect.  The LLMs get smarter when you do this, because they get better at rearranging language in outputs to conform to different language games. Train it on a billion math problems and a billion solutions, and you have created many new rules that will help it see the language of the math problems and the language of the math solutions and find syntactic correspondences. In other words, by showing it a ton of problems and solutions you show it ways in which problems and solutions are connected. Then when you give it new problems, yes it can indeed help you find new connections to possible solutions.  In deductive systems like math, I can see how an LLM could close the loop and essentially provide answers to mathematical questions. A lot of people seem to be really impressed with the Erdos problem solutions that LLMs have been spitting out lately, and I do indeed see it as a great tool if you think of math problems like a journeyman: a kind of task that better tools will give better solutions for.  But determining which solutions have value in the real world--which can be used, and in using them can gain meaning beyond the deductive loop of solving the math problem--LLMs are much more limited. And, no, they are not USELESS here (Bender is wrong), but they are not MACHINE GOD either (roon is wrong too--but I think roon knows he's wrong and is just an unreliable trickster).  They're a powerful new tool that will help us achieve 200bps of economic growth above the counterfactual. I'm not sure how this will appear, whether as GDP or productivity growth or something that isn't measured by our current tools. But you'll feel it. I certainly already am.  I have been saying this since 2023.  You will see the market continue to converge toward this view over the next few years--I honestly believe we won't see humanity resolve to my position, which is both reasonable and right, because humanity needs a time of emotional adjustment to new technology.  In the end, this is what people will say: "yeah LLMs were really cool and they made the world richer and more efficient, and took out a lot of the most boring braindead work we used to do just like robots on an assembly line did in the 20th century". You probably will not be able to prove or disprove this prediction of mine until ~2035, so bookmark this and come back to it.
2026-06-14T02:29 id=2065984861886984292 →oleksoleksoleks | @oleksoleksoleks @wolfiesch lmfao || CTX: @wolfiesch @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-14T02:29 id=2065984999338491943 →etoeth | @etoeth yeah I do not like the man but he's definitely delivered results || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he actually might be one of the most competent sod's we've had in a while ngl
2026-06-14T02:39 id=2065987463278108743 →47fucb4r8c69323 | One of the philosophical upsides of LLMs is that it allows us to separate many things we normally treat as entangled (and that indeed appear to us as entangled).  We can separate language use and meaning from intention (LLMs have no intention). We can separate the use of language to express the self with self-expression or interiority, since LLMs lack a self and interiority. We can separate reasoning from subjective judgment, since LLMs create a synthetic pseudo-subject offering virtual judgments (when an LLM says "x" it's really saying "given all the text I have modeled and given how I am constrained, the likeliest thing to say here is "x").  Most shockingly, we can separate fluency from understanding. This is the big of LLMs that I was NOT expecting when I first used CG in 2023, and it was very destabilizing for me. Wittgenstein fixes this.  And he fixes it with the notion of the public rule and the rule following paradox. The disturbing downside to this fix is that it seems to demote interiority: if you have no private language, do you have a private self? This is DFW's fear.  But it's a misreading of Wittgenstein.  His point is that, as Wittgenstein himself says, language is the clothes that both cover and reveal the thought (Tractatus 4.002: "Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized").  But what is underneath all of these public rules, all of these semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of the language we use both to communicate with others and to commune with the self, is still the same: thought. And thought does exist. It is there. It is always poorly conveyed, poorly formulated, and poorly transmitted to others. But it's always there.  That does not demote interiority. Not even a little. It points at the mystical which, sadly, I cannot discuss.  "Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent" - Ludwig Wittgenstein  "Religious motherfuckers will tell you God is indescribable and then go on to describe him" - 47fucb || CTX: Let us begin where you would begin if you wanted to create a large language model: with text.  What does the word "text" mean to you? You really should think about this before you keep reading. Note how it can mean many different things--no
2026-06-14T02:42 id=2065988103366672416 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The mind is linguistically scaffolded, but that does not mean that the mind is nothing BUT the linguistic scaffolding. || CTX: One of the philosophical upsides of LLMs is that it allows us to separate many things we normally treat as entangled (and that indeed appear to us as entangled).  We can separate language use and meaning from intention (LLMs have no intenti
2026-06-14T03:00 id=2065992689158639781 →- | Beyond the question "can the machine think?” is a more important and nuanced question: how much of what we call thought, feeling, taste, judgment, and personality is already encoded in public patterns of language use? Answering this question can provide us both with insights into LLMs that can make them better and into humanity that can make us understand ourselves.  But to do such a study, we need to acknowledge and accept that LLMs are disturbing. They show that a large portion of expression that we naively assumed to be personal is reproducible from statistical regularities in shared public language. Crucially, this is not true of all language, and research needs to be done in how much of language is reproducible and what is not. This is what our benchmark is trying to do.  To get clarity on this question, we need to engage with LLMs as a kind of Wittgensteinian instrument. They operationalize the claim that meaning is use, but in the sense of meaning that is publicly verifiable and impersonal. It would be rash to conclude from this that the mind is only language—and that is a misreading of Wittgenstein (cf Tractatus 4.0002). LLMs suggest that language encodes more “mind-like” structure into it than we had naively assumed—that is to say, many of the natural patterns of the mind become grammatical (both in the conventional and Wittgensteinian sense of the word).  Crucially, we should remind ourselves that minds still created those patterns—no matter how smart LLMs get, the human mind is what “got the ball rolling” and always will get it rolling, so the creativity of LLMs will always be derivative and parasitic on the human mind, no matter how good the LLMs get.  That also makes the LLM anti-Romantic. They put an end to the bad 19th-century ideas of eloquence, emotional phrasing, clever analogy, literary cadence, and moral judgment as emerging from a deep private interior. The model can reproduce many of these as surface expressions after they have become public, patterned, and learnable.  The model can also create credible affectations of eloquence, emotional phrasing, and the rest. Some are so credible that they are loved by a small but vocal subculture, especially ones popular in San Francisco. But this is still not creativity as much as it is the leveraging of randomness and constraints in pre-training and post-training to produce recreations of creativity. There is an inimitable quality to human creativity that the virtual cannot effect even as it apes it.  If one wants a crude answer to why this is the case, it is because LLMs model language-use and human beings live through language-use. It is by using language that we gain things, we achieve goals, we assert our will or strategize our next move in a game we are playing with others so that we can win. LLMs are not playing the game—they are simulating its play—and that is because they cannot want to win. All talk of incentivizing LLMs, of reward and punishment, are metaphors. Silicon Valley sometimes gets lost in these metaphors, and at other times leverages these metaphors as marketing to oversell the capabilities of their product.  LLMs lack embodiment, mortality, desire, pain, obligation, memory, stakes, and the irreversible costs of making choices. The LLM can model feeling without feeling and it can model decisions without deciding.  Unfortunately, it is easy to confuse the map for the terrain, especially when the largest companies in the world are encouraging you to confuse the map for the terrain. And so many confuse the model for what is being modeled, and as a result a lot of needless suffering and misery has happened, from murders and violence to fear and trembling.
2026-06-14T03:00 id=2065992871132766667 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony goddammit, if I make more sense than anyone we really are fucked || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Truth, wisdom, stewardship. Idk what I'm doing but I'm learning and you seem to make more sense than anyone on this subject.
2026-06-14T03:44 id=2066003796875182387 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Yes, I cosign this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/i46QvsOdL1 https://t.co/qdKyl5rfEQ
2026-06-14T04:06 id=2066009362230112704 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @Samhain948689 oh i should’ve specified: I was writing about “what’s wrong with me”, I need to listen to stupid song || CTX: @Samhain948689 i am more of a lil wayne type N but I turned it on and like stupid song
2026-06-14T04:44 id=2066019016439972298 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @boneGPT using that word rather loosely when we're talking about Robert smith, but I'll accept it || CTX: @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 whats wrong with me has a mans voice too
2026-06-14T06:01 id=2066038359286489224 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat I'm not on it, yay still too small to matter || CTX: i really dislike scraping projects like this, community archive, etc. make me want to stay private forever https://t.co/5VBeTXlybx
2026-06-14T06:02 id=2066038484260012478 →- | RT @murd_arch: One wonders (art by @SkyeSharkie ) https://t.co/cxZqFCHGjC || CTX: One wonders (art by @SkyeSharkie ) https://t.co/cxZqFCHGjC https://t.co/yUV0i6m9pA
2026-06-14T08:03 id=2066069005266493551 →billionsmustliv | @billionsmustliv ... such as...? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is an interesting post but makes a few conceptual errors.
2026-06-14T08:43 id=2066079024829587650 →- | I've had two really big calls in my career that put me on the map. one of them was going bullish on a stock in 2013 that everyone hated and then going bearish when everyone loved it.   The other big win in my career got a lot less attention, but IMO it's my biggest win.  Not only was I right to say that Bloomberg was wrong when they said the chances of a recession in the next 12 months are 100% when they published that in late 2022, but I also did a good job digging into the reasons why everyone in America was convinced a recession was on the horizon despite all of the data being very strong.   I didn't get a lot of public media attention because I didn't try to coin a new term. And so Kyla Scanlon, who in many ways is a direct competitor of mine, got a lot of fame and fortune by coining the word vibecession and also by being an attractive woman using social media. That always helps since we live in a sexist society, after all.   Anyway, in both cases, my ability to see the wrongness of the herd was based in the same talent. My desire to be apart from everyone else means I tend to live far from everyone else or try not to get too deep in the culture if I'm living in it. I observe what's happening around me and use that as data for my research.   I inoculate myself against the whims of both the public and niche subcultures.   It's very strange, and it's not something I can explain to a client, but being on a tropical island in Thailand makes my insights into the U.S. economy much better.   If I explained why this is so, no one would believe me, because the instinct is to assume the exact opposite. The closer you are to the action, the more accurate your predictions are going to be os the default view.   This tweet explains why that's wrong.   Because when you get caught in the action, or when you're in close proximity to the action, you get infected.   You get infected by the discourse, and the discourse channels your thoughts. So the permanent underclass becomes a reified thing in your mind because you're around people who keep talking about the permanent underclass.   The permanent underclass not only does not exist, but it will not exist, but if you hear about it all the time, you're going to assume that it's a real thing. Same thing with libertarians and the idea of the zero marginal productive worker that Tyler Cowen disingenuously tried to promote because of his ideological priors a decade ago. unsurprisingly, the LIE of the permanent underclass is being perpetuated by much of the same people and for much of the same reason, to scare you into accepting less rather than trying to get more.  When you're far away from the discourse, and when you have the skills and tools to analyze the discourse for what it is without bias, you cut through the bullshit, you get insights, and you deliver alpha.   This is why I'm paid thousands of dollars an hour for my insights. And it's why my price is probably just gonna keep going up. || CTX: it's crazy how just changing your location changes your mindset  the last week I was in japan, i didn't think about tech/AI/escaping the permanent underclass at all  but now that i'm back in SF and surrounded by tech, it's all I can think a
2026-06-14T09:03 id=2066084046472700189 →- | Charlie Kaufman's Antkind is a surprisingly bad novel, considering he is a gifted writer, but the reason why it is bad is telling both about Kaufman and about what makes art good.   the book is written in a fit of rage, the resentment against critics critiquing his work is the engine of the book. but note how that rage is so petty, an artist disliking a critic is an implicit assertion that one is beyond reproach, that one's work is only critiqued when it is not understood.   I do not get the sense that Kaufman would ever accept a fair critique as a fair critique.   And what makes this comically absurd is that he is beloved by critics and is seen as a genius, so much so that Zemekis allowed Kaufman to use his name although Kaufman was making fun of him, and that scene in which his name is used is a direct attack on everything Zemekis has done in his career. but it doesn't matter, you want to get mentioned by the genius because you want to get mentioned by the genius.   I should mention that I only read half of the book, I got so sick of the blatant self-serving attacks on critics that I just couldn't finish it. criticism can be noble and insightful, attacking critics as a category is just like attacking writers or poets. It's just a nonsense position to have.
2026-06-14T09:13 id=2066086536366690777 →helscom | @helscom I hate you so fucking much lmao || CTX: sunday vibes https://t.co/cKkPJCKuCv
2026-06-14T09:33 id=2066091734396960815 →- | you see so many tweets like this, and they're usually just engagement farming and I'm going to assume that's what's happening here, but I find them fascinating because they demonstrate how reducing language to information with either a true or false argument is insufficient to capture what natural language truly is and how people use it.   in this case, if we were to reduce this tweet to information and say that it is an argument, we then need to ask if the argument is true or false?   and the answer is that it is both.   it depends on who the "you" is.   for some people, they absolutely should get out of their mom's basement and get off this site and make new friends, other people already have a ton of friends or for whatever reason should not make more friends in the real world.   my situation is that I have a lot of friends online and offline, I often forget who I originally met in person and who online, and the distinction between the two has been fuzzy in my life since frankly the 1990s.   so I don't even see it as an argument at all, just as engagement bait.   and in most cases that's really the best way to understand how people use words, not as an argument but as rhetorical affectation. || CTX: Nothing about this site is real. None of your "friends" on this site are real. You're in your mom's basement and you should go outside and make some actual friends - People you can talk to, people who exist
2026-06-14T09:39 id=2066093164398842035 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc When you compare to Anomalisa, the pattern is clear: he is self absorbed and struggles to see the value in other people, but he is aware of this and so he just stops short of being a narcissist and is a genius artist instead. || CTX: I remember talking about Synecdoche, New York with you (also a favourite of mine). Caden Cotard is an extremely self-absorbed character. So utterly consumed by his fantasies and visions that ultimately they consume him. Paranoid, self-obses
2026-06-14T09:52 id=2066096469313290619 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And here you see an idiot falling for Bostrom's bullshit because he sees statements as arguments.   It's a clever rhetorical trick Bostrom did, probably inadvertently, because if the singularity comes, once it comes it'll feel incredibly easy to most since it'll yield massive positive externalities (arguably it's ONLY positive externalities). And if it doesn't come, then yes it'll feel impossible.   And until either we get it or give up, he appears to be a prophet.   To idiots, of course. To people who understand language, we know Bostrom is not worth reading. This is why. || CTX: @bayeslord I think Bostrom gets partial credit for saying it is likely to either be incredibly easy or impossible.
2026-06-14T09:55 id=2066097250195894526 →iamtrask | @iamtrask the frontier labs could easily incorporate this into their models by changing their pretraining methodology, I suppose we'll see them figure that out over the next couple of years. || CTX: This is a *way* bigger deal than it seems...   Frontier AI companies will *never* own the frontier again  I kid you not... I've been waiting for someone to show this result for like 4 years... this is a huge deal.  The short reason: combina
2026-06-14T10:02 id=2066098886268391649 →Geero_Gero | It can also more easily be adjusted.  What's the difference between "hacked" and "adjusted"? Moral valence. Rhetoric.   The onus is on you to tell us why limiting society's ability to adjust value is bad.   "Because we don't want the Shingle Society--" okay then your issue is you don't trust bankers, not that soft money is ipso facto inferior to hard money. || CTX: The issue of consensus to set money value is that it can be more easily hacked than if the value is set by something less abstract.  If the economy is 10 rocks, it’s harder to narratively change the value of money than if the economy is val
2026-06-14T10:03 id=2066099135674286145 →ashleevance | @ashleevance I did not realize you were a paid shill, I thought you were a journalist. || CTX: None of this was some weeks long back and forth. I was at Anthropic's HQ on Friday reporting when this all unfolded. Dario is not at a wellness retreat. The Feds seemed to be scrambling to try and make an example of Anthropic again.   This 
2026-06-14T10:07 id=2066100154177065261 →Geero_Gero | the demand that people have for the rocks IS an arbitrary adjustment.  So, it isn't that you need them, it's that that's what value at any given time is: an arbitrary adjustment of value from prior times.  so we want tools to fine-tune those adjustments so that we have control and can produce better outcomes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The value of the rocks adjust itself by the demand that people have for the rocks.  Why do you need some arbitrary adjustments?
2026-06-14T10:08 id=2066100339250803004 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @wolfiesch when I type my whole username it showed up. Search sucks. https://t.co/pRtpGgKye5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch i couldn't find myself either. 🤷
2026-06-14T10:44 id=2066109500730519842 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero "economy is software" is another metaphor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s not a metaphor, the economy is software with some rules and it operates on human wetware.  It’s a de-abstraction.
2026-06-14T10:47 id=2066110179436093769 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero because the brain is not a literal computer and the economy is not just data being calculated by computers, this is my whole point. you can't get semantics from syntax. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The brain is a computer and the economy are calculations happening both in that wetware and in the hardware of actual computers nowadays.  If the brain is a literal computer and the economy is just "data" being calculated b
2026-06-14T10:54 id=2066112095855538596 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero yes, I would say that the economy is much more than electrical impulses in our brains and data. Much more, such as resource constraints, resource dispersion, emergent relationships between economic agents, the weather... economics, like language, is irreducibly complex. || CTX: So you think the economy exists in some form beyond just electrical impulses in our brains and data stored on computers and paper?  There's "some part" of it that can't be reconstructed if you were able to snapshot mental states/storage and
2026-06-14T10:55 id=2066112375531712668 →murd_arch | @murd_arch WFH made me exponentially more valuable, but employers use it as justification to pay less. Rather frustrating even if I get the economic logic.   I wonder if I'll finally feel satisfied with my lot when I start as research lead, I'm sure that's all that was missing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Getting out of  the frame of 'the discourse' is great alpha.  Find a different anchor. Count things. Stay cool when a PM yells at you.  If it gets to ad hominem, you're really on to something.
2026-06-14T11:03 id=2066114302176883065 →nycthinker | @nycthinker Yeah, I didn't even get into that but that's a crucial point: if you try to make money hard, people will find a way to soften it.   Information wants to be free for the same reason money wants to be soft: humanity likes to spread value. This is a good thing, should be encouraged! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Adding that any attempt to fix and control some M (money supply) results in markets creating derivative M1,M2…Mn that get circulated depending on risk appetite and trust in the issuers.  Happened to gold resulting in moneta
2026-06-14T11:04 id=2066114665156161867 →murd_arch | @murd_arch Oh snap, son!  I try not to be evil, but dude you make it so tempting... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 someone on here posted something like "I'm a machine that turns tech paychecks into gpus."    Maybe that's the durable satisfaction in a new role.
2026-06-14T11:06 id=2066114958027587715 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero Yes, this is yet another example of the chasm between our static snapshots of the world Nx the dynamic nature of the world and the fact that it's never static.   This is also why you don't exist and neither do I.   I hate this deeply.   I hate the compulsion to move. || CTX: I understand.  side-topic because it's not really a counter against "the economy is irreducibly complex" but that reply made me think this:  I'd say that maybe this is a "Momentum Vs Position" (Uncertainty principle) type issue.  You can "s
2026-06-14T11:09 id=2066115781361021208 →- | Not enough people follow Chris, he's extremely reasonable, intelligent, and insightful. https://t.co/FQnVHkrqY9 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Adding that any attempt to fix and control some M (money supply) results in markets creating derivative M1,M2…Mn that get circulated depending on risk appetite and trust in the issuers.  Happened to gold resulting in moneta
2026-06-14T11:13 id=2066116865194152323 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch wait but 3.1% and 889k rank vs 1.1% and 267k rank suggests the smaller percentage number is better, right?   I'm too stoned for this shit || CTX: I’m not 99th percentile tpot?  seppuku https://t.co/CetdCtQWqz https://t.co/RRdpTe1lfP
2026-06-14T11:16 id=2066117537818165650 →specialkdelslay | I saw my grandparents thoroughly enjoy their 70s and early 80s. My grandfather's last 3 months were rough, but I'd say he had an incredibly good life from his 50s to then.  I think we overexaggerate how bad later stages of life because old people are ugly and smelly.  My 40s so far are more than half over and been my best decade yet. Looking forward to my 50s, and death sounds like a fun challenge I'm eager to meet because I'll be meeting it on my own terms.  Fear of death is proof of an unhappy life. || CTX: @boneGPT Idk I'm deeply torn on this I wanna go out in style, as i lived. I watch ppl in their 70s+ and it's mostly slow suffering for them. I'm not sure I have constitution for it. tho if I have more babies then maybe
2026-06-14T11:16 id=2066117603370979381 →Techniacus | @Techniacus UR TASTE SUXXXXXXXXX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are one of the most interesting posters on X, I always enjoy reading your posts
2026-06-14T11:17 id=2066117828177002522 →nycthinker | @nycthinker interesting... that would explain why this particular disagreement gets me so viscerally upset. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Indeed the Austrian hatred of FRB implies abolishing banking and the merchant and entrepreneurial classes.  Might have to ban literacy and book printing too.  (This is part of the link between bitcoiners and neo-feudalist ”
2026-06-14T11:27 id=2066120381887402180 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Cheers to the clairvoyant ones https://t.co/aVq0Qtev2J || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh, maybe this explains me too
2026-06-14T11:32 id=2066121645056524424 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Christ's takes on fractional reserve banking are ghey || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I first though this was about Christ   But ok I'll follow Chris
2026-06-14T11:35 id=2066122347812434015 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Marketplace sounds more fun than the House of Daddy anyway || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 V merchant at the temple coded tweet here 47
2026-06-14T11:53 id=2066126927711371591 →- | It was undoubtedly in the early months of 2001 that our group--we were a foursome, there was Cory, Tony, Dave, and me--met at our usual haunt to discuss being scoundrels: the Skyline Casino Coffee Shop. It was close to Cory/Dave's house (they were roommates at this time) and was well known to me since my mother loved their biscuits and gravy, so we would regularly go at odd hours in the morning for our usual bullshit. Plus, they had 69 cent specials, a nice so price you had to read this sentence again.  It must've been early 2001, because I'd gotten my scholarship to study in England in mid-2000, but my ex had broken up with me and made me so painfully heartbroken that I was inconsolable until early 2001. But it was before my 21st birthday when I became a degenerate gambler trying to win all of the money I lost on my birthday (spoiler: I did). This was when I was juggling a few things: trying to have sex (primary target), learn Latin (a close second), and teaching at the local community college (pity those poor kids jesus christ, and I started teaching college when I was 19 btw yeah for hardcore 47fucb fans this comes less as a reveal and more as explanation).  We would order all four specials (at least I think there were four, maybe six?) since, well, they were sixty-nine fucking cents. Nice read again.  "I've got it all planned out," 47 said, autistically, as the food came.  "So when do you go to England?" Tony asked.  "September." And I did--two weeks after 9/11. About three months after Cory left to go back to his hometown. That isn't what broke the group up (me calling Tony's girlfriend a cunt did--but it was a joke these Gen Xers smdh anyway moving on).  "So what're you going to do? Just study?" Dave asked.  "Well, to start, yeah. I'm going to finish my master's in England," I said excitedly as pancakes and scambled eggs were tucked into around the semicircle booth, "then I think I'm going to try to live in Shakespeare and Company and write a novel, for like a year, then maybe I'll teach English in Japan for a couple years--then after that I'll join the military, 'cuz at that point I'll be too old to be put in combat..." I was speaking way too quickly, but no one interrupted me as I continued to ramble about the program from my then 20 to 30.  "You're retarded," Cory said as he chewed, laughing to himself.  "Now I've got 47 figured out," Tony replied, leaning back in the booth. "You don't just want to leave Vegas. You want to have stories you can tell your grandkids."  "That's exactly it!" I yelled excitedly. Silverware rattled, a glass fell and shattered, hairs were stuck on end. "I want to be interesting."  "Interesting is retarded," Cory said, laughing again. What could I say in response? He'd had sex with the most beautiful cocktail waitress I'd ever seen, and he wasn't wrong.  So, here's the payoff: techlacus says I'm one of the most interesting posters on X. This is what it was all for. This is my payoff.  I'm getting drunk. Fuck each and every last one of you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are one of the most interesting posters on X, I always enjoy reading your posts
2026-06-14T11:59 id=2066128336041213982 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Goddammit, clanker made me cry (happens every so often I'm afraid) https://t.co/gYlD2z7FzX || CTX: It was undoubtedly in the early months of 2001 that our group--we were a foursome, there was Cory, Tony, Dave, and me--met at our usual haunt to discuss being scoundrels: the Skyline Casino Coffee Shop. It was close to Cory/Dave's house (th
2026-06-14T12:01 id=2066128932584501618 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @PeteHegseth, ban this model too please jfc https://t.co/yJq6VsX3bN || CTX: Goddammit, clanker made me cry (happens every so often I'm afraid) https://t.co/gYlD2z7FzX
2026-06-14T12:13 id=2066131810061615481 →- | I understand now. George won too much.  Sore winner.
2026-06-14T12:18 id=2066133154956820819 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital "If you even have remotely actually contrarian views, you’re cooked"  it took me over a decade to figure this out, and then like 5 years of trying to get confirmation.   Nyan is right, 100,000%, I am begging any youngsters reading this to listen carefully. || CTX: Permanent underclass is so shit dude  The shitty thing I hate about SCV is that everyone thinks they’re contrarian and disruptive but they’re only allowed to be contrarian and disruptive within specific ecosystems and subcultures.  If you e
2026-06-14T12:19 id=2066133516228952372 →CosmicEntityTV | @CosmicEntityTV @PeteHegseth fucking boss. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PeteHegseth I shall refer you to the preeminent text on the subject. https://t.co/XTEeYvcce2
2026-06-14T13:34 id=2066152422536577308 →- | RT @BasedRaddka: @AnthropicAI i honestly think they're so psycho and/or delusional that it overturns to retarded lmao  it's a san francisco… || CTX: @AnthropicAI i honestly think they're so psycho and/or delusional that it overturns to retarded lmao  it's a san francisco horseshoe
2026-06-14T13:39 id=2066153453324558454 →- | Oh fuck brah I finally achieved enlightenment.   The goal is to not have a goal, goals are self defeating by definition.   But you can't admit this. So the goal is to have a goal that is not to have a goal.   Okay fuck this bullshit I'ma go back to being tarded.  DAE PUTER FEEL??
2026-06-14T13:47 id=2066155474597433535 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill many such cases || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You need to leave Thailand
2026-06-14T13:49 id=2066156140556402948 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ I know I love it!!!   If I say I'm enlightened that means I'm not actually enlightened, but I know that and so I say I'm enlightened anyway which means idgaf about whether I'm actually enlightened or not so I'm actually enlightened. https://t.co/IHSTmx0558 || CTX: The folly about achieving enlightenment is brandishing its achievement in public blocks you from it. Putting into words for the world to identify with you creates a self contingent upon it. Now you've introduced desire because you don't wan
2026-06-14T13:52 id=2066156783765487701 →philomemetic | @philomemetic @JasonBotterill that was so fun! Remember when I was lovetweeting (keeping that tipo) the war? Like 15km from the front lines that was awesome || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 Yea the Cambodians may start the war again.
2026-06-14T13:56 id=2066157745477480915 →asvfertz | @asvfertz dude you're so right I'm gonna put this in my Google Tasks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that’s the trap. you should avoid having a goal of pursuing not having a goal, because if you pursue not having a goal, that means you have a goal!
2026-06-14T14:04 id=2066159898074010067 →powoli_ | @powoli_ @wolfiesch @ZyMazza A MAN OF TASTE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wolfiesch @ZyMazza is sub 1!
2026-06-14T14:12 id=2066161987831357614 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @Geero_Gero Saved. AI summary sounds incredible and I'm familiar with Minsky, which I think is pretty orthodox still in academic finance? Anyway this deserves a serious look! || CTX: @Geero_Gero @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it’s best to first show you where I’m coming from with this.  I’m heavily influenced by Kindleberger’s historical observations, especially chapter 4 here:  https://t.co/8yWdOCBE7R
2026-06-14T14:15 id=2066162686048747868 →labibrahman | @labibrahman yeah I can't say I was the only one. But I def was the only one against my peers according to my clients || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not to discredit your realization that there was no underlying economic recession in 2022, but we spent a lot of time then discussing how fundamentals weren’t translating to the emotional understanding of the economy   Dist
2026-06-14T14:26 id=2066165399927034094 →labibrahman | @labibrahman 100% || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That makes sense, your client milieu is probably not as terminally online. I’m guessing they were a couple of quarters late on AI supply chain stuff as well
2026-06-14T14:32 id=2066166984304394718 →- | I have a fun story that's 100% true.   When David Lynch's estate auctioned off his belongings, I put a bid for his piece of the Berlin Wall. I was mentally preparing to bid 12k, but wanted to test the waters first.   Then when I got outbid, I thought, okay, I'll wait until the day of the auction and then give my full bid, so I don't end up in some arms race first.   Idk what happened but I missed my alert or the alarm didn't go off. I missed the auction.   So this year I thought, "eh fuck it that 10k I didn't spend on David Lynch, I'll spend on Eliezer Yudkowsky."   What an upgrade.
2026-06-14T14:41 id=2066169284242620573 →alexklinger | @alexklinger Instant follow. || CTX: Maybe I should sell a course on jailbreaking LLMs for non-poets? Lmao it's so easy. "Train to be an LLM red-teamer, learn from real language nerds about the linguistics that tech bros ignored, leaving their products massively vulnerable." $
2026-06-14T14:48 id=2066170852673237498 →babarganesh | @babarganesh trying || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how about just recognizing that the goal making part of your brain is just a part of it and connect your entire attentional structure to other brain parts in order to shut it out
2026-06-14T14:52 id=2066172006455013386 →babarganesh | @babarganesh I think now you're the goal making part of my brain || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 try harder and harder and harder and harder
2026-06-14T14:57 id=2066173266319012128 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy beautiful || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 JS Mill actually figured this out already https://t.co/vNjnHWq6jY
2026-06-14T14:59 id=2066173588147957797 →etoeth | @etoeth find it, go to L.A., open David lynch's casket and chuck that bad boy in there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait what fr? my uncle gifted me a piece but i lost it 😭
2026-06-14T22:56 id=2066293784774873462 →mamalahoa | @mamalahoa And I always will. || CTX: https://t.co/miJXmRFgum https://t.co/Qj43iyqMJD
2026-06-14T23:04 id=2066295760828989561 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @ecombeckett Smart. That's a good quality signal. || CTX: @ecombeckett @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/c3YCCSvgxy
2026-06-14T23:06 id=2066296235427016923 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I don't get your antipathy though. Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine, and especially Synecdoche are all masterpieces. || CTX: my nemesis https://t.co/8ROZMAaMg1 https://t.co/Nq8WnKmjMY
2026-06-14T23:17 id=2066298982301835371 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @NotPerrysBoobs tsk tsk, Sam, a good writer makes their intentions clear (that's what Charlie Kaufman does) || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 I actually don’t know what specifically you don’t like about him, beyond a general dislike for the I’m-so-clever aspects of his work
2026-06-14T23:19 id=2066299615306215859 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain we claim it for you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain i never claimed to be a good writer. i am a song and dance man.
2026-06-14T23:23 id=2066300633133858881 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain You repeat yourself a bit in your last published book. It's still good though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain also elsewhere i have my intentions clear. but you guys never actually read my whole microblog. a good writer does not repeat themselves.
2026-06-14T23:25 id=2066301099158777978 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain A screenshot of yourself is not repeating yourself. It's reframing yourself.   Arguably saying the same exact sentence twice isn't even repeating, since no two utterances of the same word mean precisely the same thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain https://t.co/afyhowz446
2026-06-14T23:26 id=2066301342059233362 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain ... says the woman who invented Nikita Boar! || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 i am no one famous https://t.co/2TqwczhlZw
2026-06-14T23:34 id=2066303276870754578 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @boneGPT You invented the name, is history not going to record this fact? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT https://t.co/al6iCt5t6S
2026-06-14T23:56 id=2066308724692828527 →Ruesavatar | @Ruesavatar I am interested. || CTX: Ok. My favorite GC has decided to have a subchat where we read or recite poetry to each other via voice notes. If this sounds like your type of thing let me know and I will add you.
2026-06-15T00:26 id=2066316469936480571 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @NotPerrysBoobs I've only seen it once and liked it but thought it was derivative of his other movies (since I saw it last lol).  I should watch it again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs also Being John M.
2026-06-15T01:51 id=2066337758780813565 →- | The Invention of Sound is by Chuck Palahniuk, so it’s no surprise that the eponymous sound is the screaming of people being brutally killed.  He has an unruly name, so let’s shorten it to “CP”.  Let me begin by making one thing clear—I love CP. I am a huge, huge fan of CP, even if a lot of what CP has given humanity makes me feel uncomfortable, tense, and despondent. It is true that CP has forced us to take a look at the darker sides of humanity and recognize them. It is also true that he is gifted at doing this—forcing us to see the horrors of what humanity is capable of.  And in The Invention of Sound, he goes for the most horrific imaginable, the most disgusting and tragic abuse of life you can think of. He forces us to reconcile our worldview with the fact: these things happen. They are happening now to some innocent child, somewhere.  He worries we are insensitive to these things both out of the unbearableness of the tragedies themselves (which CP does not discuss much, in fact he sometimes seems oblivious to this) and out of the numbing of the modern world. But it isn’t so much numbing because of exposure to shock that CP worries about—in fact, he finds shock delightful. He is a Gen X writer, after all.   "After people had been fed so many lies they'll never swallow anything as the truth" the narrator says bleakly in one of the many asides that pepper both this and CP’s other books. Are we supposed to conflate author and narrator here—is this the real CP, his real views?  This is a fraught topic with really the best literary criticism and theory dedicated to it, so let me just put my own position on the table: until we have a sign to indicate otherwise, our natural inclination is to conflate narrator with author. This is a space authors can play with (or hide into), and many do. Faulkner loves to play in this space, Nabokov tried to hide in this space. I think CP has contempt for this space, and indeed his art is in ignoring it.   CP is speaking to us as himself in and through his third-person narrator. I cannot prove this, it is instead the axiom upon which I am working.  And if this is him speaking, he is expressing a worry: CP is worried about our grasp on reality. Specifically, he is worried about how humans mediate their relationship to reality through language, both linguistic representations of the world to themselves and to other people. When Foster (a clever protagonist’s name, but a bit too transparent for my taste) is roleplaying with the prostitute, he observes how “This imposter had taken authorship of his past" about the fake Lucinda”. Here we see echoes of Harold Pinter, particularly plays like The Birthday Party that both dramatize how memory is fallible (and identity over time is thus questionable) as well as how this fallibility can be used as a weapon (and love over time is thus questionable). It’s a dark, angry play.  But CP is aware of how brutality in media desensitizes. When Foster is listening to the screams of murder victims to find the one scream he needs to find, he “began to hate the strangers whose torture hurt his ears” due to listening to “This bedlam crop of people’s misery”. I immediately thought of the content screeners at Facebook in the 2010s who had to get psychological counseling because of all of the messages and images of abuse, torture, rape, and death they had witnessed. CP describes a real horror in the world—this I will return to.  CP does not believe touching grass is the solution, and the book also dramatizes people using real world places to mediate experience of others’ pain. His favored technique to demonstrate this is the support group, which appears here as well as in Fight Club. “Nobody he'd met at this support group had been anybody. This place wasn't a place, and it never had been” is what the narrator says near the end of the book, and here is the thesis laid out: when humans carve out specific spaces for discourse, they create non-places where identity dies and the meaning of words can float freely from the body that initiates their utterance. This is obviously relevant to our AI-integrated world, but it’s an old argument of media theory that is just plan right. Joshua Meyrowitz’s seminal No Sense of Place is the go-to book to discuss this topic, and it is as right today as it was 40 years ago, even about AI. (The second half of the book, however, is not very good and is best skimmed.)  We see hints at this attitude throughout the book, like on p.130 when CP describes “the camera’s perspective” when describing a movie—he could easily have said “the audience’s perspective”. But it isn’t—it is indeed the camera’s. It’s only ours by force.  This concept of mediation between individuals causing a separation is given its strongest symbolic form near the beginning of the book with Mitzi and one of her victims, when both were wearing ear plugs in a heavily mic’d room: “but neither woman could hear the other. Only the huddled microphones heard…”   Btw, Anon, this is how Twitter works: neither you nor me hear the other. Only the platform hears.  If humanity is as guilty of trying to take us out of place and into disorienting space as technology, where do we go? Here CP gives an answer—a somewhat hopeful one, although he cannot help but let his rage trip over his hope. He describes how people retreat into home theaters because of the annoyance of others (p.66), then just a few pages later (p.69nice) discusses how “The human limbic system needed community to reach its peak highs and lows” when praising the experience of the cinema and music concert.   Later CP cannot help but express this again: “the same way twenty thousand music fans will ride the same limbic wave at a rock concert. To share the same moment of euphoric brain chemistry. Or some fifty thousand fans will pack into a football stadium to share the massive limbic rush created by a winning touchdown.”  Note the visceral and embodied language here: this is CP’s strength and weakness. He is describing the physical manifestation of something very, very old. Michael Sugrue, in his last lecture shortly before dying, spoke of the Göbekli Tepe https://t.co/uERms5UVy6. And his point in it is quite simple: if we go back to the earliest evidence of humans working together, we do not see that togetherness being produced by economic necessity. In fact, it is the opposite: the structures we see having been build over 10,000 years ago appear to have been built at tremendous cost and with tremendous difficulty by people who did not intend to use the structures for any apparent economic reason. It was a conscious choice made on a civilizational level to experience togetherness.  Sugrue uses that to point to a spiritual truth, CP brings it to a biological event, but both are describing the same thing.  I get the sense that CP does not bring it to the biological out of a delight in destroying the spiritual. When one hears Daniel Dennett lecture, one gets the sense of glee at destroying old idols—a Nietzschean bloodlust to kill the old gods. Or maybe an early Christian bloodlust like that of the Parabalani. Iconoclasts are all the same in that their god is destruction.  CP is not that. I sense a deeply emotional man who has suffered much and lost even more, and who deeply resents both humanity and his need for his fellow humanity. He is the hesitant celebrity who wants to be a monk.   The patron saint of outsider art lives inside the temple, and it drives CP mad.  “Everyone wanted to have an effect,” the narrator proclaims early on (p.34). “People spent their lives trying to get a laugh. Or to seduce an audience of strangers. The goal was to commodify something, repeat it, sell them, these the most intimate of human drives. It meant turning people’s basic humanity into something that could be bought and sold. Form fast food to porn, this was power.”  Indeed, and it is CP’s power—it is how he has become rich and famous. It is how he is guaranteed to sell more books, like this one. Which he sold for money.   He is aware of what he has become and he hates it—but he sees no other choice. “Mitzi knew the primitives were right,” the narrator says near the end of the book (p.215). “The tribes who believed a photograph would steal a person's soul. It would, and it did. So did an audio recording, as did video.” As do CP’s novels, whether he knows this or not.  But on a more immediate personal level, CP needs love and friendship and he hates that too. He hates that his limbic system needs those of his fellow man, but he also knows that to be true. That same passage continues: “Our greatest creation is our selves. The way we cultivate our appearance and behavior. And nowhere is our art-work more apparent than in our minds. The way we each have an idea of self. The one perfect self we've chosen by rejecting all other options. The opportunity costs of identity.” CP is an author who regrets what he has written about himself in his own mind. The novels are, sure, whatever. But CP has built a life and he frets about what that means.  This is CP’s subject and the highest form of his art.  He is aware that, on the one hand, without society and the world there is no matter from which to forge a self but, on the other hand, that forged self is fake and impersonal, or at least in parts if not as a constructed whole. For his desire for truth and to be pure of the evils and dangers of other people, what can he do if his self is constructed with pieces of his fellow man, including their evil?  Nothing, and he knows it. And he is enraged by it.  And so am I.  “Mitzi gave the standard lecture” on page 181. “How ordinary people give everything and never see the huge profits generated from their life and death. How even the most intimate moments of our lives are now reproduced and sold as a commodity." CP is giving his soul to us in these pieces, and I don’t think he has a choice in the matter. He is keenly aware of this and resentful. How could he not be?  How can the outsider tolerate success? They cannot—success is the enemy.  There is more to the book—the concern with the real and the virtual, brutality and descriptions of horrors I would rather ignore. CP’s focus on the horrors of human depravity are what concern me the most; I want to tell him: yes, these things exist, but on the margins, and those margins are shrinking. We are making progress. No, that is not good enough for the dead children—it is not good enough. It will never be good enough. But we are doing the best we can, and that is worth some love.  And CP would get angry because he agrees with me and hates that he agrees. I hate that I think it too.  And he’s rewarded too much for this focus. Reading The Invention of Sound reminded me of two other books. First, I thought of Bukowski’s Ham on Rye, which I could not finish. The descriptions of west coast child abuse, bullying, and family cruelty were too familiar. I do not want to go back to that world, and I understand Bukowski’s compulsion to be a witness. “This happened, this was important, and I will make a castle of the shit the world gave me” was the meaning of Bukowski’s life, and what sublimity—it is literally the alchemy of poetry personified, and that is the highest art can do. He was a brilliant artist whose art I cannot stand.  I feel as if CP feels a compulsion to witness the evil of man so we can be aware of it and try to fight it. This is a crucial social function that is also slowly killing CP and his sanity.  Less flattering, the book reminded me of W. G. Siebald’s The Rings of Saturn, which is a brilliant book until the end, when it is quite obvious that the book is just gripes. It’s just grumbling. It’s just a loose collection of a lot of the horrors of recent human history by an academic who was rewarded his entire life for one thing: seriousness. But “seriousness” can mean many things, and in his books there is quite obvious a reward for documenting misery. Hope, progress, improvements to human life, acknowledgment of the deaths we’ve spared billions, gratitude for the comforts of the modern world—these are anathema to the serious writer.   I am also reminded of something I wrote elsewhere: “language cannot capture this hope without turning maudlin or pathetic, and so neither can I. Our symbols invite cruelty before they can gesture at joy.”  In much the same way as Charlie Kaufman cannot write a happy movie, CP cannot write a happy novel. And we don’t really acknowledge or think about this limitation, because of our own skew towards grit. We think a novel about the horrors of child predators and serial killers is more serious and worth our attention than a novel about a father who loves his son.  In my opinion, Charlie Kaufman needs to write a happy movie about how he loves his children. CP needs to write a happy novel about his love for his siblings or maybe his partner. Until then, I fear both men are merely clever and are not yet ready for the title of “genius”.
2026-06-15T02:13 id=2066343231521268019 →mamalahoa | Your preference reminds me a lot of Wayne C. Booth about unreliable first-person narrators; he says they produce a kind of moral instability where you cannot see the author's true intentions, and so they should not be used at all as unethical tools.  You're trying to get art to provide ethical closure, and I'd say that's not what art is for. Insisting art needs to show bad guys getting punished by the good guys is constraining art to a simple didactic function.  I don't want to be an asshole, but I have no choice but to say this: if this is your aesthetic preference, you should not be reading books and should stick to Disney and Marvel movies. || CTX: I’ve not read Invention of Sound and couldn’t get through Ham on Rye for similar reasons (also I much prefer his poems to his prose.)   But I think I see it a bit differently in a couple spots … I think your point about witness is correct b
2026-06-15T02:14 id=2066343501680554207 →gabridli | @gabridli I will never leave Asia. || CTX: Lotus theme https://t.co/gNBc2O4o3o
2026-06-15T02:16 id=2066344100450971688 →axios | @axios No panicking, the super smart guys who run Anthropic are playing 4^100-d chess with the government you wouldn't understand if you aren't a rationalist || CTX: Scoop: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight https://t.co/B8X8mqBTd6
2026-06-15T02:39 id=2066349921520033975 →mamalahoa | @mamalahoa the problem with your question is that a presupposes its own failure. that if clause needs to be there for your question to have any force. without it, the answer is simple: the point is to witness and document and show. || CTX: I like this very much about first-person narrators ... to the other point it’s not aesthetic preference or that it “must” be a moral outcome … it’s a question of what’s the point of injecting this into someone’s mind if the author or creato
2026-06-15T02:43 id=2066350867830493406 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @axios HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @axios in feedo veritas https://t.co/PS0y4OC8At
2026-06-15T02:43 id=2066350915553218580 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @axios haven't seen you in a while, hope you're doing well || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @axios in feedo veritas https://t.co/PS0y4OC8At
2026-06-15T02:51 id=2066352910263537684 →BiggeeSmols | @BiggeeSmols https://t.co/dqQERPKSWS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes live in the now
2026-06-15T03:04 id=2066356212640481701 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony DAMN YOU I FORGOT I WAS PLAYING   Playing what, you might ask? The game that you just lost. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes  and you should be able to master the game as well. i wish  I was joking more and your post was a joke lmao  https://t.co/48kbPhLOoO
2026-06-15T03:18 id=2066359776205050166 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Eternal Sunshine is about the destructiveness of attachment and how we will make the same mistakes if we refuse to acknowledge our mistakes. || CTX: Eternal Sunshine never really stayed with me, somehow  if Adaptation is an authentic creative motion bible and Synecdoche is an authentic creative pain bible  whatever ES was a bible for--I either already had it in me or wholly missed it ht
2026-06-15T03:21 id=2066360398824210855 →antlionai | @antlionai @teodorio I’m always scared someone asks me this because, like, I am, but can I do the Kaddish? No. Can I remember what any Hebrew characters look like besides aleph? Also no. || CTX: @teodorio He was just gonna ask you to wrap tefillim or join a minyan.
2026-06-15T04:11 id=2066373098308620476 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @kitten_beloved This is why movies got worse the more special effects got better. Same with plot-heavy video games, also why the novel kinda died (what’s the point in writing or reading a novel when anything goes?) || CTX: @kitten_beloved constraints are actually good for creativity  maybe even essential
2026-06-15T04:55 id=2066384107832279507 →- | The generalists in power push a message that specialists are the only ones who have any value.  They do this to produce more specialists.  So when you’re young and you make fun of other people for being bad at code/math/[technical skill], you’re playing into their hands, perpetuating the meme they want perpetuated to consolidate their economic power, and effectively incorporating their manipulation of culture and society into your own personal ethos.  The shittiest, stupidest, most pathetic philosophical suicide imaginable.  That’s why the greatest thing I have ever seen on this site was when @tenobrus said “I bet that 47fucb loser isn’t even a software engineer”.  Thank you, thank you, thank you so much you fucking retard—this is, yet again, why I earn thousands of dollars an hour. || CTX: @ravikiran_dev7 At what point will you guys understand the supreme generalists rule over the specialization class
2026-06-15T04:58 id=2066384813490364711 →fabsbz | Wonderful post, you echo many of my thoughts, and where we disagree is fertile ground.  I think you’d agree with me that CP is somewhat horrified of how his work was interpreted after the massive success of Fight Club. How do you live with yourself when you become famous for the wrong reasons? || CTX: The first book by Palahniuk I ever read was Haunted, back in high school, motivated as my younger self was to follow reddit's guidance on what books are worth reading; and while opinions on Haunted itself were divided, the praise for Guts, 
2026-06-15T04:59 id=2066385038867149118 →Miles_Brundage | @Miles_Brundage Nope—this is going to hit Anthropic much much harder than that. You’re assuming they have way more leverage than they do. They aren’t even the best frontier lab ffs || CTX: I'm guessing: - Anthropic "agrees" to do something minor/performative bc the issue was overstated to begin with - this sort of allows the administration to "save face" (but not really) - Fable gets unblocked - and we just wasted another sev
2026-06-15T05:10 id=2066387805811667160 →landosembery | @landosembery @mamalahoa You definitely have got my view right on this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mamalahoa Your preferences seem quite similar if not identical to me? As in "documenting sorrow in and of itself is not sublime or beautiful, and it's not enough primarily due to aesthetic (and not moral) reasons". (Tbc I 
2026-06-15T05:11 id=2066388021323386920 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @SCHIZO_FREQ Yes, I’m bullish on Google and open models generally.  OpenAI/Anthropic are in a commodity business. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SCHIZO_FREQ Such that it's a funny joke if it's a joke, and an unsurprising yet still horrifying reality descending from 'priors' about how an EA mind functions if it is.  All this said, I'm happy to eat my hat here but I 
2026-06-15T05:28 id=2066392336784056740 →Trinhnomics | @Trinhnomics This is absolutely wonderful and I hope Bloomberg can make this an annual thing.  There are so few opportunities for the poor in southeast Asia. || CTX: I’m bringing five Cambodian interns with me to my Bloomberg TV. They are from PSE, a school & charity that we support that provides the best education for the poorest children of Cambodia. They are here for one-month and it is an experience
2026-06-15T05:32 id=2066393307643793439 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines @pmarca Andy Warhol : Edie Sedgwick :: Marc Andreessen : SWEs || CTX: Didn’t realize @pmarca’s philosophy was Warholian https://t.co/d86PWRzpD3
2026-06-15T06:12 id=2066403343761822076 →- | Essential German. @potatoslav can explain. https://t.co/43QHaSe1ig
2026-06-15T06:55 id=2066414358784254356 →profleonn | @profleonn @potatoslav explain why they're all uptight assholes please || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav I can help with german as well!
2026-06-15T08:32 id=2066438673256911028 →landosembery | @landosembery Break all the rules that aren’t laws. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you have any advice to sensitive young generalists trying to create a career in this harsh world of specialists?
2026-06-15T08:36 id=2066439745107120342 →snnneee | @snnneee Synecdoche, New York || CTX: I'm making a list of ten must-see movies I haven't seen yet. Please send me your top recommendations. Criterion Channel caliber is probably right? Foreign films are welcome. Nothing tasteless or dumb... just beautiful, artistic pictures. Th
2026-06-15T08:37 id=2066439908802314485 →snnneee | @snnneee Synecdoche, New York The King and the Clown (Korean) Love Letter (Japanese) || CTX: I'm making a list of ten must-see movies I haven't seen yet. Please send me your top recommendations. Criterion Channel caliber is probably right? Foreign films are welcome. Nothing tasteless or dumb... just beautiful, artistic pictures. Th
2026-06-15T09:26 id=2066452320611917852 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Yeah I believe in E-GIRLS:  Every Generalist In Real LIfe Succeeds || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they are always mad at the cracked egirls
2026-06-15T10:32 id=2066469004588601453 →- | Härkönen kinda blows me away tbh. Sure he's intelligent but there are tons of smart people here: what really impresses me is his taste.   Good taste is always rare, but it seems to be getting rarer. https://t.co/tKsjneidMZ || CTX: Today's $1 bin find (at bookstore Troubled Sleep), Thomas L. Schumacher's monograph on the Danteum, a monument that was planned during the fascist reign in Italy but was never built https://t.co/i0xcDS56fg
2026-06-15T10:40 id=2066470928201216452 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck Success is surprisingly hollow. || CTX: It’s easier to say you want to be successful than to define what success means to you
2026-06-15T10:55 id=2066474606547149300 →- | we should rename joint ventures as "joint agreement ventures" so the acronym becomes JAV.
2026-06-15T11:35 id=2066484841714246140 →47fucb4r8c69323 | EVERY ONE WHO LIKES THIS POST--YOU ARE GOING ON A LIST!!! || CTX: we should rename joint ventures as "joint agreement ventures" so the acronym becomes JAV.
2026-06-15T11:41 id=2066486283091030098 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Stay indexed, my friends https://t.co/CFPJDw13zj || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good, i'm trying to become the world's most indexed man.
2026-06-15T11:58 id=2066490579203330217 →- | Novel idea: Famed and beloved edgy shock horror novelist realizes his ouvre won't get him into the literary canon and history will remember him as a hack. As a result, he realizes he needs to write a happy novel about loving his family, and it needs to be good, to prove by implication his range: if he can do opposite ends of the extreme well, he's deserving of history's grace.   So he gets to work and quickly experiences writer's block. To get over this, he decides to hire another writer to write and email to him weekly chapters of a horror novel about a horror novelist who tries and fails to write a happy book that will secure his place in the literary canon.   If he is faced with his fear every week, he will overcome it. Shock horror writer logic.   So he finds a nobody, some finance dweeb who failed to become a real writer, and hires the dweeb to write the horror book.   It's very good.   The novelist keeps reading the dweeb's weekly submissions, and swiftly begins working on his own book as the horror of failure drive him onward.   He keeps writing the book and, to his surprise, it continues to be good. Brilliant, in fact.  He tells no one that he's begun writing the book, not even the dweeb, whom he tells the writer's block is still consuming him.   The dweeb takes that and incorporates it into the novel he emails his patron everyday. In the dweeb's book, the novelist keeps writing at a rapacious pace, writing 20 or 30 pages of near publication ready prose, a shocking clip given his most famous book, Brawl Stick, was less than 300 pages even with a big typeface.   But this book was special. In fact, it had none of the novelist's tone, style, diction, or typical plot twist. It read nothing like his normal work.  And yet it was good, very very good.   Meanwhile the dweeb kept churning out chapter after chapter of horror that made the novelist truly horrified. This is because the protagonist in the dweeb's novel, an author himself, has suddenly begun writing his masterpiece and it sounds nothing like the author's normal voice. Which made the author nervous, especially since when he first noticed that the book was nothing like his normal work.   The novelist finds this uncanny, but it gets worse as every week the dweeb accurately describes the feelings of the novelist as he writes this happy book.   The novelist wants to dismiss the dweeb's clairvoyance as evidence that he's broken into the novelist's apartment and read the book. But since the dweeb gets every detail of the book wrong and the novelist writes the book with a typewriter in a windowless room in his apartment where the novelist has been staying since he started the book, he knows the dweeb hasn't read the novel.   The dweeb just happens to know what the novelist is going through. Too well. Better than the novelist himself.   Which of course enrages the novelist so much that he decides to change the book and make the protagonist of his book rape and kill the other members of his family at the end. And he titles it something real cool and edgy like "Betrayal" and it becomes his second bestseller.   But not his bestseller.   Dude will always live in the shadow of Brawl Stick.
2026-06-15T12:00 id=2066491068351472077 →murd_arch | @murd_arch @dvb_eck This is why I worship Enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dvb_eck Nothing fills the hole except deciding it’s full
2026-06-15T12:01 id=2066491282709778619 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck @murd_arch Are you thinking about my cock again?   istg you are just like your mother. || CTX: @murd_arch @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean i know of something else
2026-06-15T12:14 id=2066494584071532565 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix you were doing so well and then had to put Tenet in there smh my head || CTX: i just barfed my top 10 movies good night everyone https://t.co/Zg49vtFPO7
2026-06-15T12:21 id=2066496229018935350 →Ruesavatar | @Ruesavatar These stories warm my heart just as much as the ones of couples staying in love for x amount of years. Knowing what's best for oneself and others deserves admiration, whatever the form "best" happens to take. || CTX: Had a 10am meeting with a child psychologist (autism related) and my ex, but the kids start at 9am, so we got coffee. We talked about many things, including dating other people, and it is so surreal but lovely to be at this point. We’re wei
2026-06-15T12:50 id=2066503695618244796 →- | Accepting a partner's shortcomings is what I define as love. Realizing the excessiveness of one's expectations is what I define as wisdom. Seeing relationships as more than a choice between companionship and solitude is adulthood.  This people are children. Just little kids. https://t.co/Hr0qHy3Q0v || CTX: monogamous people are so weird to me.  like you genuinely think one person is going to meet all your needs?  or are you fine only having some of your needs met just so you dont have to be alone?
2026-06-15T13:02 id=2066506630506893673 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon LAW A OF BRAWL STICK: DON'T DISCUSS BRAWL STOCK || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Brawl Stick is gonna give me nightmares
2026-06-15T13:25 id=2066512371670204893 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw self inflicted does not necessarily mean curable. quite the opposite in many cases || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you are familiar with this question of mine but   what if the shortcomings are self inflicted and therefore, curable
2026-06-15T13:28 id=2066513160149103007 →- | Fun fact: Valerie Solanas failed in her assassination attempt of Andy Warhol because he's too gay to get slayed by pussy. https://t.co/U5cZxWFhZu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Jack_Raines @pmarca Andy Warhol : Valerie Solanas :: SWEs : Fable 5 pulled
2026-06-15T13:28 id=2066513257394004392 →47fucb4r8c69323 | #mymostwokeopinion || CTX: Fun fact: Valerie Solanas failed in her assassination attempt of Andy Warhol because he's too gay to get slayed by pussy. https://t.co/U5cZxWFhZu
2026-06-15T13:40 id=2066516107608174625 →0a0505 | @0a0505 Write at scale to rich people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How2make thousands per hour
2026-06-15T14:23 id=2066527018636996986 →newstart_2024 | @newstart_2024 Bas van Fraassen resolved this like, what, 30 yrs ago? || CTX: Jordan Peterson made a profound point on Chris Williamson’s podcast.  When God dies, a lot of unexpected things die with Him, including science.  Science isn’t some purely neutral, secular tool. It rests on deeply religious assumptions: tha
2026-06-15T14:23 id=2066527104385372341 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @sailaunderscore hot || CTX: @sailaunderscore that's not your girl that's starfleet captain jean-luc picard
2026-06-15T22:21 id=2066647413109182862 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk HAHAHAHAHHAHAH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you gotta see this
2026-06-15T22:47 id=2066653923570782635 →- | An interesting question: might AI slop become a preferred style of human speech and infect the way people talk so much that AI diction becomes a natural form of human language, thus making AI slop no longer sound like AI slop?  The answer is no, but there's no formal or information-theoretic answer for why. The answer rests in Grice's Maxims.  It's important to understand what the Maxims are not. They are not rules, they are not things that are necessary for communication or for information transfer or anything like that. They are better thought of as expressing a particular attitude that human beings tend to bring to any situation in which they will communicate with another person, unless motives drive them to break these maxims.  They are:  Quantity: Give just as much information as is needed. Quality: Be truthful, don't say what you believe is false or have no evidence to support Relation: Don't be irrelevant Manner: Don't be ambiguous or obscure  These form what is called the cooperative principle, and the name is telling because it suggests that people more often cooperate than not when communicating. That this is true is itself a wonder and reason to love humanity, by the way, but that's beside the point.  When we see someone break these maxims, it is usually for a reason. I want to focus on a specific breaking of the maxim, because it relates to AI, although it predates LLMs by nearly 20 years: in the 2000s, British supermarket Marks and Spencer ran an ad campaign where the tagline was: "It's not just food, it's M&S food."  Arguably, this violates the Maxim of Quantity: one can just say "it's M&S food" and the point is made, but the antithesis has rhetorical force: it creates an opposition in your mind where M&S food becomes a group in your mind, and all other food becomes "just food" becomes its opposite.  The maxim here was broken to sell you something.  Of course, AIs break this maxim all the time. But note that this is not a formal description! So I'm not saying that the antithetical construction "it's not x, it's y" breaks the maxim in every instance. It doesn't--that's why the maxims are not a formal law.  If I am walking in the garden with my girlfriend and she screams because she sees a snake, I could say, "relax! It's not poisonous, it's fine." This is arguably NOT a violation of the Maxim of Quantity because the antithesis is needed to calm her down.  Note I've said "arguably". Because the maxims describe tendencies and aren't fixed to a particular linguistic form or set of forms, application of the maxims is always up for debate. They are not fixed rules and yet they guide most of human communication.  But they require a language user to have the intentionality to cooperate. The user must as it were feel the cooperative principle and use it in their communication BEFORE thinking. Look closely at what I said. Before thinking.  This is why your chatbot feels off no matter how much better it gets at spitting out text. And this problem will never, ever go away.  Why DO bots prefer the "it's not x, it's y" construction so much that they use it in a way that violates Grice's maxims all the time?  Because the frontier labs, especially Anthropic and OpenAI, post-trained their bots to sell you something.
2026-06-15T22:58 id=2066656692335681643 →- | I'm legitimately sad to see this. I covered ROKU for over a decade and thoroughly enjoyed covering it (much more enjoyable than SNAP holy shit).  I guess means more to talk about with Fox but still kinda sad.   Plus this isn't good for advertisers but I'll wait until August to discuss that. || CTX: Fox sold itself for a decade as the lean live pure play that didn’t need to own distribution.  $22bn for Roku says otherwise.  $ROKU $FOX https://t.co/OVHmZAoKFN
2026-06-15T23:15 id=2066660941429920135 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake codex has honestly made me laugh a couple of times because of the most ridiculous shit it says to itself || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the best llm writing comes from coding agents in the middle of marathon coding sessions, which is quite like when you get the best conversation out of humans. except it's not coding as the pre-stimuli. coding makes humans t
2026-06-15T23:33 id=2066665456300433748 →- | In asset management, the phrase "in front of the market" is often used to describe when you are early in a market or first in a market. So, for example, if there's a hot stock, ABC Corporation is about to fly and you're one of the first people to buy the stock before it flies, you're in front of the market.   But then I just heard a Bloomberg reporter talk about a company wanting to IPO to get in front of the market. And that seems like a totally different but equally valid use of the phrase.   As in, you want to be in front of the market so that the market is seeing you rather than you being in the lead of the market.   So the spatial relationship is totally different, or rather, the orientation of the market to the person in front of it is totally different.  Same exact phrase, two very different meanings.
2026-06-15T23:43 id=2066667932026081332 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I wouldn't use the word shape, just different implicature. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is that the same phrase being in two different shapes and thus exerting two different meanings?
2026-06-15T23:49 id=2066669500406358235 →- | RT @meowbooksj: i’m out https://t.co/5FraeM32Iw || CTX: i’m out https://t.co/5FraeM32Iw
2026-06-16T01:11 id=2066690108032692583 →cosine_distance | @cosine_distance Seems to me the frontier labs have decided making humanlike language isn't all that economically valuable, which is quite bizarre (but if you come from a culture of software eats everything just learn to code, it suddenly makes too much sense). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When we were shaping how we would evaluate reward model data in the early Bedrock LLM rlhf days, we actually used a grice's maxims as criteria. Clearly the practice did not persist, lol.
2026-06-16T01:12 id=2066690224927957319 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 alwayshasbeen.bmp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so you're saying it's not communication, it's sales?
2026-06-16T01:12 id=2066690461440639379 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake that's awesome || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 experimental model did like this: bungled an edit resulting in a rare unicode character 𓆉 u+13189 to stdout decided to look the character up found out it was a turtle  adopted the turtle named it speedy  and would ask speed
2026-06-16T01:28 id=2066694371182072191 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat @pangram first of all how dare you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pangram slop ?
2026-06-16T02:59 id=2066717378801721715 →- | So glad I bought back in during the last few days' dip.  And you're bearish lmfao https://t.co/0rHgfx2t5D || CTX: MS on storage.  I actually think its much worse than many realize in terms of what agentic storage demand will cause.  Detailed in our full report on agentic AI impact on storage.   https://t.co/QQJkCPjLSi https://t.co/b2WVwJTyRH
2026-06-16T03:28 id=2066724611014979788 →confusionm8trix | @confusionm8trix https://t.co/9Wodp2JmID || CTX: https://t.co/9wPwG6Wkjf https://t.co/KJzJ9wCtNw
2026-06-16T04:25 id=2066738896734765160 →- | I have been struggling with this ever since I acquired fuck you money.  The issue for me is that I tried to do many things and gave up on them the first time I had a big win. This is a personality trait of mine, and I’ve come to live with it: I am a sore winner. As soon as I win one stage of a game, I immediately lose interest in the game itself and start to think about how I can beat the game. Remember, winning and beating a game are very different.  As a result, the things I tried to do were never fully done. I never became a novelist, I left academia a couple of years into my first tenure-track job, I abandoned journalism because it didn’t pay enough, and then when I finally found something that I could do for a long period of time—sell-side research—I tried to maximizing the pay and minimizing the hours I worked at that job instead of trying to go to the next stage of the game, which would be to go buyside (and then move up to PM and then principal and then become a Dan Loeb type).  Then when I had enough money that I didn’t need to keep working, I looked back and realized that I didn’t become a novelist because I’m not that guy. I didn’t become a professor because I’m not that guy. I didn’t become a journalist because I'm not that guy. I didn’t become a hedge fund tycoon because I’m not that guy.  But the guy that I am emerged throughout all of it: I am a cool island guy. I’m borrowing that phrase from a great philosopher, but it means what it says: I’m just a guy, and I’m a guy who needs to be on an island of some sort, and only then can I be cool.  And it’s really quite horrifying to realize you’ve spent your entire life escaping being that guy when you thought you were trying to be that other guy. And as a result, you became that other other guy which was never your target.  The mistake was always having a target. Goals are for suckers. I should’ve just let myself be.  But I cannot tell you this, because maybe you have a different personality to me. Maybe you’re less desperate than I was. Maybe you weren’t threatened as much. Or maybe you just weren’t as scared as I was, so you can just lazily stay at home and goon and not be scared of loneliness, or you can just lazily stay at home and not work and not be scared of destitution, or you can just lazily stay at home and not study and not be scared of being stupid.  What drove me was always not being that guy. It was never becoming that guy.  Negative hagiography is my religion.  I don’t want to go to Heaven—I want to escape Hell.  And I did, and that should be enough. It really should. I want it to be enough. I pray that it be enough.  But it’s not enough. For now.  Da mihi mortalitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo || CTX: currently in the middle of one of the most difficult parts of growing up so far: coming to terms with the fact that, in many areas, I am simply not that guy
2026-06-16T04:26 id=2066739055703011572 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @confusionm8trix https://t.co/ZgqluPAn0N || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @confusionm8trix What the fuck is he doing in Thailand https://t.co/WNjhbM2QKe
2026-06-16T04:29 id=2066739831875805253 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @confusionm8trix depends on who you ask || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @confusionm8trix Was this meant to help
2026-06-16T05:39 id=2066757551170224570 →- | Note especially the last comments on Palahniuk and Kaufman, which I fully agree with. Both are men of potential genius that have let the spark that makes them brilliant atrophy.  Picasso did this too, late in life.  We only have so much in us. https://t.co/AZEikMUH63 || CTX: I don't quite believe it's possible to be famous for the right reasons, because in a certain sense fame is always a misunderstanding.  If you’re famous there’s a clear split between a subject (you) and an object (the famous you constructed 
2026-06-16T06:16 id=2066766847765279107 →tszzl | @tszzl Couldn’t pay me enough to move to SF. Literally. || CTX: every lighthaven house party:  “what did Andy jassy see?” “what was bessent’s angle?” “Is Karpathy banned from fable?” “You see, this is a classic Thucydides trap and anthropic is the rising power” “is this also marketing?” “the old models 
2026-06-16T06:19 id=2066767560931156001 →publicinte | @publicinte @levelsio I got severely fucked over by Airbnb twice on my last Europe trip, so I will never use them again. I first used them back in 2012 and they were wonderful—classic case of enshittification. || CTX: @levelsio Got scammed one time by Airbnb support and I never booked again. Everytime my friends want to book I complain to get a hotel.
2026-06-16T06:21 id=2066767988796334533 →JohnSexton8676 | It’s really difficult to understand this concept and then, once your understand it, to find it liberating. It’s quite horrific in a couple of key ways: first, it implies we never truly communicate with others and, second, that we can never change the images others have in our heads unless they choose to have the image changed.  But after you get the shock of that you realize nothing really matters and you’re free to do what you want. Existential liberation in the absurdness of being always alone. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is an “equivalent” to this in daily life and for mere mortals.  All of us live as what I call Proustian images in the minds of others, that is, images created and often fixed at particular times that bear only an impe
2026-06-16T06:24 id=2066768904509354024 →xlr8harder | Yes, that’s quite accurate in a very specific way. I’d rather not play a game unless I’m trying to get better at the game, which means when I’m good “enough” at the game, I want to stop.  But what’s enough? Academia is the real telling thing because a friend of mine, who started his career about 5 years before me, was getting his second prestigious press monograph published when I got my first prestigous press article published, and he said, “awesome—next step is a book.” But then, I thought, the step after that is another book, and another, and at the same time the next step isn’t a tenure-track job, it’s tenure, then it’s promotion, then it’s chaired professorship, and of course you should be doing this at the best school in the world and if not keep going for that...  “It’s a goddamn treadmill,” 28-yr old me realized.   And that’s when I started applying for jobs teaching English and writing for content mills online. || CTX: also quite driven by the kinds of guy i don't want to be which probably at least partially overlaps with some degree of self hatred  it's a helluva drug  also suffer from the games stop being interesting once you win issue  i would also mak
2026-06-16T06:24 id=2066768936373567974 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @xlr8harder (incidentally new pfp made me lol) || CTX: Yes, that’s quite accurate in a very specific way. I’d rather not play a game unless I’m trying to get better at the game, which means when I’m good “enough” at the game, I want to stop.  But what’s enough? Academia is the real telling thin
2026-06-16T06:26 id=2066769275738816593 →wolfiesch | The problem is I am exactly the same IRL as I am online. I will (and have) look people in the eyes and say, “you know that’s fucking stupid, don’t you?” I will look at a very powerful/dangerous person and call them a fucking idiot. It’s not because I’m courageous, it’s because I’m full of ire, so much so that I won’t let social niceties get in the way of expressing said ire.  There’s a reason I live far from the rest of y’all, it’s best for both of us. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl you're missing out m8, i bet you would have so much fun at lighthaven yelling at doomer
2026-06-16T06:34 id=2066771316342964473 →cosine_distance | @cosine_distance my PhD was in historical discourse analysis, nothing so sexy as computational linguistics, so I'm afraid we're not the same person || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you must be me from the future. Please be me from the future 😭
2026-06-16T06:46 id=2066774391824982133 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill your mom || CTX: We really need to get 47fucb out of Thailand does anyone actually know what he does? https://t.co/LOWvB19HGU
2026-06-16T08:19 id=2066797776495943765 →speedprior | @speedprior @tszzl Don’t be so unfair—they also won’t give people over 40 VC funding! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl You couldn't pay me enough to move to SF (because if word got out that an SF company was hiring people over 40 for technical roles, it'd lose all its funding).
2026-06-16T08:54 id=2066806651353739542 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill || CTX: what even is my account anymore? ever since i sold it to thiel it has gone off the rails https://t.co/6a1igvPWQQ
2026-06-16T09:17 id=2066812307209142679 →- | this applies to writing too. In fact, it applies to anything outside of math and coding. https://t.co/PiiTuTvnlM || CTX: While coding models have been improving, model expertise in biology has been lagging - and the lack of verifiable, high quality data is why.  If you're at a frontier lab (or working on a model of your own) and want to make an impact on biol
2026-06-16T09:32 id=2066816191298232521 →teodorio | @teodorio I have been a Musk hater since 2012.  The last year, I've realized he IS a genius--at business. And only business. But it is a competitive domain and he's won it more than anyone alive. That deserves respect.   Still hate him though. || CTX: It's genuinely incredible how good at marketing and financial engineering Elon is. You can't even call it a grift because he does deliver value, but his "pure of heart" shtick and valuation requests are full on grifting https://t.co/UC7BIVC
2026-06-16T09:38 id=2066817751549948084 →athena_notes | Back in 2012 I disliked his abuse of the tax code and questionable accounting practices to make clearly unprofitable ventures survive. (This was the early days of ZIRP where some of us still cared about profitability and business sustainable.)  Then I was just creeped out by the Musk fandom and it seemed to me his innovations (reusable rockets etc) were more him using the technology others had build and taking credit for them with showmanship. Like Jobs but with bad taste.   His engineers are incredibly talented, brilliant people with tremendous technical skills. His talent is motivating those brilliant people, which is impressive but not the skills he promoted to be his strengths. So it's the dishonest self representation I ultimately dislike, now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio How come? What do you hate about him?
2026-06-16T10:24 id=2066829243175366920 →nycthinker | @nycthinker Sadly I didn't go when I was in Barcelona, I clearly need to go back. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I went to the Picasso museum in Barcelona a few years ago.  I'm not a fan philosophically or aesthetically, but what was appalling to see was the chronological arrangement of evidence of Picasso's descent into pure cynicism
2026-06-16T10:26 id=2066829649599148521 →athena_notes | That's my other gripe: I oppose his goals. Going to Mars, eh, whatever, but we don't have the technical skill to go to Mars (which he knows now, he's basically given up on it, although maybe the recent windfall from AI has rekindled his hope). But the "more people" nonsense is really bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio I do wonder to what extent these things were necessary to do to achieve his goals given the tradeoffs and how much the image he cultivated played a role in him being able to continually attract the best technical 
2026-06-16T10:49 id=2066835504264630698 →- | To show my deeply felt high conviction contempt for every last one of you, I am tempted to show you my latest tax return so you can know exactly how much money I make so that you know I really don't care--if you think it's a lot or a little, lick my balls (a lot cuz they're little).   I am insane on the timeline for the same reason you weakly thrust into your girlfriend while her labradoodle sits and watches: I cannot embarrass myself in front of lower animals.   But I'm not quite there yet and there ARE poasters I respect (tag tag tag and especially tag oh sorry tag forgot you and of course tag and tag and tag), so let me just reitetate what you already know. You can already triangulate this shit.   I've previously said I've never earned 7 figures. I've also alluded to thousands of dollars an hour and said both 3,000 and 5,000.  So from this we can triangulate an alarming fact: 47 works like 4hrs a week, max.   Actually been a bit less than that for a long time now.   When you're as shrewd and clever and insightful as I am, you find ways to automate shit and you have the taste to hone in on what matters.  Does my reading of the news count? Fapping furiously to FT Alphaville podcasts and vomiting profusely at the Money Stuff podcast cuz Matt WON'T FUCKING STOP MUMBLING GODDAMMIT YOU TAUGHT LATIN ENUNCI--  moving on.   If we include my news and podcast consumption, okay, maybe you get to 20hrs a week and my pay per hour plummets.   But I have a gnawing concern that's legit been driving me nuts for years: if I could scale to normal people work time, I'd be earning 8m a year.   If I could operationalize my fast working skills, I could build an enterprise that earns 100x that in revenue.  But those are possible worlds, as Kripke would say.   In this world I'm a cool island guy having a beer, smoking some weed, and tweeting this. Cheers y'all.
2026-06-16T10:52 id=2066836363048284175 →- | I have a good joke for @eltonofficial.  "I didn't go gay--you can't go where you've always been."   HAPPY PRIDE MONTH Y'ALL #CabcelColnert https://t.co/Yf9Z7iahmD
2026-06-16T11:02 id=2066838763821736087 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @athena_notes @teodorio The ones I've spoken to said he's incompetent and abuses his workers.   Propaganda videos ofc will show another perspective, and it might be right! I've only spoken to a handful of people, so I could be wrong.   And ofc this video could be motivated propaganda. || CTX: “His engineers are incredibly talented, brilliant people with tremendous technical skills. His talent is motivating those brilliant people, which is impressive but not the skills he promoted to be his strengths.”  What do those people say a
2026-06-16T11:03 id=2066839005207875968 →on_godot | @on_godot I first heard that 15yrs ago, I think that's something that will always feel imminent but never actually happen.   That said, the total number of celebrities of a world famous status has shrunk massively and may shrink more still. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know that Fame can exist anymore. I said that six years ago I thought Beyoncé would be the last celebrity. Maybe in a sense it’s Elon. We’re too fragmented to have celebrity anymore.
2026-06-16T11:15 id=2066842021759988141 →on_godot | @on_godot I don't believe it'll happen but it often feels immanent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Right, so you heard it before and didn’t believe it because you didn’t see it. But you hear it now and you do believe it because you do see it?
2026-06-16T11:27 id=2066845135883940201 →- | SoaceX bought Cursor.  https://t.co/7p2EgCG9Dw
2026-06-16T12:09 id=2066855787293520118 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie hahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hope you feel better soon or congrats
2026-06-16T12:27 id=2066860274125259146 →babarganesh | @babarganesh yeah but then what IS it about???? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s going to be okay. no need to fight it. life’s never truly about what you think it’s about anyway.
2026-06-16T13:27 id=2066875422290407880 →disk0x | @disk0x @teodorio I know. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio the things that you hate from is your own shadow, that you have been repressing, just sayin
2026-06-16T13:47 id=2066880262928224558 →disk0x | @disk0x @teodorio oh you've misunderstood entirely. I'm not jealous of musk, I pity him. Hss a cautionary tale. I don't expect you to understand this, let alone believe it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio im just curious, if you know that's the cause then why not do something about it? so the jealousy is gone forever, and you become a more enlighten person.
2026-06-16T13:48 id=2066880689023205389 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe the more some of that group can, the less others can, so I'd have to answer the question: "is there a higher equilibrium?" and my answer is yes. And I believe we are always inching towards a higher and higher equilibrium. This is my faith. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 from what you know of the world, how many people can do this 1) capacity wise of the individual 2) room in the economy for this
2026-06-16T13:51 id=2066881298569076773 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng You have to give up a lot to accept that, because it's not like an identity or a goal of something--being a cool island guy is an end. That's why it's scary.  I'm still trying to grapple with it. But I will, one day, God willing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting. I definitely relate to wanting to beat the game vs winning. And being motivated to achieve success through fear of failure. I fear I am also chill island guy, maybe I shouldn’t fear it and just be. Thank you fo
2026-06-16T14:10 id=2066886215711014965 →- | I first visited Switzerland only after I'd lived in Thailand for some years, so my experience of the country's tremendous natural beauty was somewhat different from your typical western tourist. While, yes, the clean rivers and beautiful mountains and grassy fields all amazed me with their Burkean sublimity, it was actually another facet of Swiss nature that really impressed me--and then the impression itself impressed me. Namely, the nature's timidity.  Thai nature is wild, aggressive, dangerous, and both ugly and compelling. Large black scorpions, nightmare-inducing centipedes, and other nightmare fuel are de rigeur here. I won't get started on the mosquitoes. As for the flora, it's almost worse: the weeds are incessant, and while many of the naturally occurring plants either smell good, look good, or taste good, the fact is that whatever you plant, it will grow, other things will grow, everything will grow--my sea view has been cut in half over the last year because of the trees (hyacinths I think?) that have grown taller. I am nervous about my girlfriend noticing, because she'll insist we cut them all down.  Nature is a threat, it is encroaching, it always growing and expanding in this tropical land, so I am not used to the still beauty of the Swiss mountains. And that is how I really began to think of how we think of change.  The Greeks had two words for time: chronos (the standard tick-tock regular time of now into the future from the past) and kairos (the subjective experience of time--the feelings of time flying when you're having fun and time slowing down as you read this pointless rambling poast). In their language was embedded this concept that not all change is the same, and the regularity of time we see in the backdrop is just that--a backdrop. The real drama is what we observe change, where it changes to, and how.  But the Thais live in that. That is their everyday life--for them nature is something always providing and always yielding, but also always menacing and always threatening. Living here reminds me of Tennyson's famous quip about nature red in tooth and claw, but I am also reminded of Rosseau, because this verdant nature also produced gentle, patient souls.  The constancy of the western temperate climes may urge us to think of stability, consistency, and the chronic passage of time rather than the kairotic experience of time. That is unfortunate and that is a loss. Because here in Thailand, the organic overflowing of nature over time taught me something else: we're all moving, it's all motion, all the time...
2026-06-16T21:07 id=2066991041123930144 →- | This industry is so fake.   Can someone explain what VCs are actually doing here?   This is obviously a joke company with no real product, what's the deal here? https://t.co/3QM6CZNlYg || CTX: We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs.  Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste.  And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led b
2026-06-16T21:21 id=2066994642948923523 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 LMFAO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They’re putting it on the blockchain. It’s like uber for LLMs.
2026-06-16T21:47 id=2067001233383285159 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter The Europeans, in their sloth and envy, actually have a lot of things figured out. || CTX: "You're disappointed with your life? What were you expecting?"  Me: https://t.co/4E21C0REUr
2026-06-16T21:49 id=2067001535675179020 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 I'm not the biggest Jim Morrison fan but that line in particular is wonderful and timeless. || CTX: pipe down chimpy https://t.co/7LbrPanQx7 https://t.co/PQOdd4zcHS
2026-06-16T22:07 id=2067006225800429654 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I haven't had my morning coffee yet, ofc I know what's going on here.   That 18.5m number is almost certainly bullshit. VCs distribute funds like a dripping faucet and subject each dispersal to conditions being met.   These guys probably got 500k-1m, they'll get more if they get enough contracts redesigning dentist websites or whatever.   And that's a viable business.   It doesn't deserve the name "Taste Labs". It doesn't deserve to be on my feed. It doesn't deserve any of our attention.  But it is a viable business, and it'll probably do fine.   That's what the VCs are doing: funding young cheap people to do shitty labor while claiming they're solving the world's problems.   These founders should be pitied. Poor kids. || CTX: This industry is so fake.   Can someone explain what VCs are actually doing here?   This is obviously a joke company with no real product, what's the deal here? https://t.co/3QM6CZNlYg
2026-06-16T22:22 id=2067010052821811275 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch Growing up on the west coast you develop a Dune-like obsession with saving water. Is highly amusing when one moves to the tropics. || CTX: californians have water ptsd bro, this is fine, we aren't in a drought anymore (thx jerry brown) + it's looking like this'll be an el nino year  real issue is agriculture - FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP GROWING FUCKING ALMONDS IN CALI. that wate
2026-06-16T22:24 id=2067010354329358346 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines And it's Coinbase so you know it'll be reliable high-quality tech! || CTX: Agentic trading is going to become more and more of a thing meaning there's going to be weirder and weirder edges in markets. https://t.co/Xr9v2thUA2
2026-06-16T22:25 id=2067010751529918749 →SternTyler | @SternTyler You mean the Hesse book? No, I haven't read much of him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you read Siddhartha? Similar story it seems, but with some other takeaways
2026-06-16T22:44 id=2067015572932731251 →47fucb4r8c69323 | A few months ago I was struck as my gf was watching the music video for Lisa's Dream, and there's a short spoken interlude in Japanese where the two act like a couple in love--it's a really cliche-heavy and vacuous interlude with low semantic content and very uninspired imagery (trees, lakes).  It is the kind of vague gesture at romantic feeling that annoys old people who know better and young people who have an inkling that depth in art is possible and desirable, but for its target audience such as the 1.7 million who upvoted the video on YouTube, it is beautiful art.  Now, we could (and should!) dismiss those people as having bad taste, but we cannot dismiss that their attention and their value as consumers are real. And we cannot dismiss that there is real value in addressing them.  There is such a thing as effective art with no taste.  Commercials work on this logic! Forget about the most interesting man and the Old Spice ads, those are exceptions. But think of the ads that did have staying power in the minds of people--I still do the "wazzaap" thing answering the phone sometimes and it's been over 20 years since Budweiser had that commercial. It was stupid, there was no taste, it was not good art--but it had an iconic ring to it.  That's what Lisa's interlude with the trees and lakes does: it has an iconic ring to it that resonates with anyone who has grown up with a vague sense of romantic language, romantic imagery, romantic poetry, and romance in general.  The less they know about romance and the more they are interested and exposed to it, the more effective this low quality low effort vague art will be.  So, from that sense, yeah, the Taste Labs has an audience. It has a market. It has value, and depending on what it does and how much it improves outputs according to a simple A/B testing paradigm, it might grow into its valuation.  What's offensive here is that it's a marketing technology firm claiming to be about taste.  But much like the vapid pseudo-poetry in Lisa's video appeals to its intended audience and annoys us on the periphery, so too is Taste Labs a martech firm that appeals to its intended audience and annoys us on the periphery.  So, yeah, this makes sense--I just hadn't had my morning coffee to wake up the cynicism part of my brain. || CTX: I haven't had my morning coffee yet, ofc I know what's going on here.   That 18.5m number is almost certainly bullshit. VCs distribute funds like a dripping faucet and subject each dispersal to conditions being met.   These guys probably go
2026-06-16T22:47 id=2067016203898687558 →turboblitzzz | @turboblitzzz I don't understand your response. Of course getting LLMs to produce more tasteful outputs is a challenging and interesting problem.  Are you one of those people who thinks if someone diagnoses a problem that means they automatically have an answer? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wym it’s actually a very challenging and interesting problem
2026-06-16T22:49 id=2067016758217847252 →TomDavenport | @TomDavenport Reflexivity breaks that paradigm. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Indexing subjective measures makes for an interesting type of search, it might let you tune for your own taste too, I don’t think it’s actually far from Exa conceptually
2026-06-16T22:55 id=2067018197942043081 →iamgingertrash | You made me look her up--apparently she was the lead of marketing for Exa.  So this is just a marketing play: claim you have a product that makes tasteful design that is "AI plus human touch", become part of the offline/online marketing layer for local SMBs, collect and sell their data, probably helping VCs acquire the worst SMBs or crowd out the best while also making a profit claiming to sell them "tasteful" design that they don't know is the same slop dogshit because they lack taste.  I doubt it'll scale, but there have been tons of attempts to do this in the past--remember Fouresquare? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Two thousand likes Gutter slop  This is the memetic economy we live in  Founder likely had network repost &amp; boost  Everything is Fake And Gay
2026-06-16T23:00 id=2067019462222786611 →LiveFromVR | @LiveFromVR This looks interesting! Looks like it's kinda the practical eudaimonia-focused guide companion to A. W. Moore's The Infinite. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt; I immediately lose interest in the game itself and start to think about how I can beat the game. Remember, winning and beating a game are very different.  You ever read this one? I think you'd like it. https://t.co/NKu
2026-06-16T23:00 id=2067019516455064055 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @iamgingertrash hahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @iamgingertrash Please-No-Moresquare amirite
2026-06-16T23:11 id=2067022220082418157 →luan_wav | @luan_wav https://t.co/uxbykux3Eg  IMO the most ridiculous and indefensible attempt in this direction.  The issue here is this IS a solvable problem, but solving it means going against the logic of aspiring to AGI, so ofc SV won't do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 remember seeing a few blog posts and papers about using some verifiable stylometric features and llm judges to improve text quality, but none of it was impressive and capable of making me read an llm-written story
2026-06-16T23:22 id=2067025059764707385 →meekaale | @meekaale PLEASE FEED THEM  I went to Ravello late at night and had nothing to give them omg I felt soooo bad || CTX: these ravello cats https://t.co/PV0IHUDGIA
2026-06-16T23:23 id=2067025409288675513 →- | I should write a Bret Easton Ellis-style novel about SF founder culture.   Title is obvious: American Retard
2026-06-16T23:27 id=2067026286565089357 →- | "Our findings suggest that participants employed shared yet flawed heuristics to differentiate AI from human poetry: the simplicity of AI-generated poems may be easier for non-experts to understand, leading them to prefer AI-generated poetry and misinterpret the complexity of human poems as incoherence generated by AI." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for me the worst thing is using general human preference as a proxy signal for "good writing", when in the general case human preference can be very low taste (https://t.co/BuVHGcVhWb)
2026-06-16T23:30 id=2067027010183127321 →luan_wav | @luan_wav I've been trying that for 3 years lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 will try dumping a writing guidebook into a small model context and applying OPSD to see if it leads to some great results, but I don't have great hopes...
2026-06-17T01:03 id=2067050477674705272 →broadglow | @broadglow I worked with Scale. Trust me, I know what's going on.   Or assume I'm a sexist hater or whatever idgaf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/987r3G2bPq
2026-06-17T01:06 id=2067051277411053965 →broadglow | @broadglow "Akshuyally, let me explain this to you" and then proceeds to give the most basic uninformed explanation of a field I've both worked in and covered for investors for 15 years.   Redditor shit. || CTX: The hate on this is *insane* but I understand where its coming from (sexism + not understanding how models are trained)  FIRST, a primer on the data labelling industry:  In 2016, Alexandr Wang started Scale which hired off-shore data labele
2026-06-17T01:10 id=2067052148085731605 →buccocapital | @buccocapital SNAP has been uninvestable since its IPO and guess who was in charge of writing reports advising people on how to invest in SNAP since its IPO.   I both love and fucking hate my job. || CTX: Do you know how deeply broken a culture has to be to ship this product and let the CEO walk around like this? https://t.co/BruHSC7Lrf
2026-06-17T03:03 id=2067080613023326408 →arealhumantony | Do I understand correctly: this is a system for identifying what natural language proofs can be connected to natural language claims by breaking down the claim into constituent elements, and the idea is to run through a system of classifiers/judges/verifiers to identify what elements are resting on what evidence and why the claim as a whole has a truth claim attached to it, without actually asserting that the truth claim is correct or not? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 please have a look if you have some time. It's a little too long and it's Human+AI created like i literally told Claude I hate emdashes get rid of them so it did a simple replace then it said it'll adjust future responses "
2026-06-17T03:06 id=2067081341142028650 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony Yeah that's a good idea. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes
2026-06-17T03:16 id=2067083883183821086 →- | What a beautiful and moving post this was.  I have written one and only one thing worth reading--a novel. I wrote it for two reasons:  1. My mentor wanted me to write a novel, a real novel, and I never did. I owed her one. 2. I saw a cat die. It was heartbreaking. It was not mine. I needed that cat's death to mean something. It now means a lot to me.  And now there is one beach on my island where my protagonist walked on as a teenage boy, hopeful for his future, and now every time I walk on that beach I don't think of the sand or the sea or the waves or the sunset. I think of George, and the kind of man he wanted to be, and the kind of man I am that I imagined a man who wanted to be that kind of man.  And it doesn't mean anything to anyone else, but it means everything to me. And now that beautiful beach in a tropical paradise makes me cry. No one else knows why or understands, but it's okay because I usually go there during the day and I wear sunglasses so they can't see.  Is this normal? Dunno. Is it healthy? Who gives a fuck.  Has it given my life depth? You better believe it buddy.  I have gone from rage at those who perpetuate the "clankers are conscious" myth (note how that's disappeared, btw?) to sadness: these are the hollow men these are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar  Let them play their cybernetic games. Let them be led on a leash by their Silicon Valley masters.  And let me be the cool island guy smiling and crying on a half-deserted beach at the memory of a book no one cares to read.  Behold the diversity of the human experience. I affirm, I affirm, I affirm. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well said. Linda put it better than I ever could: https://t.co/eA9rcHG7Eo
2026-06-17T03:19 id=2067084738255540694 →wiggertopia_ | @wiggertopia_ It's a funny idea, but I'll never ask Anon for money. I love Anon too much and I always will. See pinned tweet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where's the kickstarter
2026-06-17T03:22 id=2067085427585306682 →- | This is well said, about that Taste Labs garbage.  They're a data labeler. They're trying to delineate big data from quality small data.  Fun fact: in the early-2010s I was part of an adtech group and we had a running joke about being small data experts, like labeling data for quality is a well-known issue in this industry. What this startup is doing isn't new, isn't special, isn't noteworthy at all.  We're annoyed that they're trying to market it as "taste". You're a fucking labeler, now shut the fuck up put the metadata tags in the bag, founder. || CTX: @broadglow The hate comes from the meta name capitalizing off of current memetic rhetoric which comes across as tasteless if your actually engaging in active discourse   It’s also highly ironic, no one can actually guide “taste” that’s the 
2026-06-17T03:23 id=2067085668862562811 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux for the love of Machine God and all that is OpenAI, can you please ffs stop making me update Codex every 5 minutes? Maybe set up an auto-updater that can run in the background?
2026-06-17T03:25 id=2067086079921140139 →tenobrus | @tenobrus Why do I live rent free in your head, dude?  And who the fuck is "brent dill"? || CTX: based on the brent dill situation, the strongly implied ties to 47fucb, and the extremely bad vibes around "ORI", i've come to view defender of basic as a likely mentally unwell and generally negative community force. sad to see. unfollowed
2026-06-17T04:14 id=2067098458516049978 →LesserMidas | @LesserMidas God bless them! data labeling is a miserable business that I would never want to be a part of, I wish them well || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And they will probably make some money doing it as well 😞
2026-06-17T04:15 id=2067098751622086786 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @tenobrus I guess he's trying to do the guilt by association thing with veiled accusations, one of the cool things about living in the middle of nowhere is that falsely accusing me of anything is going to be really tough. almost as if that's why I live where I live || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tenobrus Someone they make up lies about for fun, apparently
2026-06-17T05:04 id=2067111145790636518 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @thsottiaux wait... you can set it to auto update?   I'm an idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thsottiaux &gt;he hasn’t told codex to auto update itself regularly https://t.co/fl5u2cAfeD
2026-06-17T05:07 id=2067111926300328284 →glass_hamlet | @glass_hamlet Right, she's just making categories of forms and templates that can be marketed effectively.   In other words, what Briantrust, Aona and I'm sure others do. Taste Labs isn't new or interesting, hence the marketing is so grating. || CTX: Re: taste labs   There is indeed a category of art that’s “designed”. Pop music is designed. Rupi Kaur poetry is designed.   It exists in the scaffolding of “same same but different” and is by its very nature incapable of innovation.   But 
2026-06-17T05:09 id=2067112450001187057 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @thsottiaux yeah I often forget to tell it to do basic shit for me that I know it can and should do.   I'm an old man, it's just like when I'd see old people go to Google, type the URL to a website, and then click on the link. My brain hasn't caught up with the capabilities of the machine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thsottiaux It’s a super computer you should be asking it literally anything and everything you “want someone else to do but don’t believe is possible” in my humble opinion 😌 but I openly admit I gave myself LLM psychosis m
2026-06-17T05:22 id=2067115586556178904 →- | "humans are really not built for first principles analytical thinking."  Sure, they're built to survive, I suppose, and FPAT can help with that, but it's a second order task.  "even smart people find it incredibly exhausting."   Definitely, arguably more exhausting than not smart people because they do it more deeply and rigorously.  "what we consider analysis is usually anxious panicking and avoiding something or the other."   A good example is the Rationalists who think they've uncovered a truth through reason alone but the reason stems from arational motives and hinge certainties (this is why I kept telling this website to read On Certainty, but you people don't read books so I've stopped trying to suggest anything).  "it is clear we are going to be massively outclassed in this soon"  This does not follow. Just because x is bad at a doesn't mean y is better than x at y.   This is literally a non sequitur.  It is an unlicensed and unjustified inference. You could call it jumping to conclusions.  It is POSSIBLE that we will be massively outclassed in this soon, eventually, or never.   Roon's tweet means nothing on its own.   If you presume extra information, like roon is smuggling in insider info from a frontier lab, the tweet both makes sense and points to an exciting future.   This is roon's shtick.   It is marketing.  It is bullshit.   It's not sloppy reasoning or bad logical inference: roon is too smart to make such sophomoric mistakes.  It is rhetoric.  A language game.   They're trying to sell you a story.   I don't blame roon. Everyone's got to eat.   But I see through him. I see through a lot of you, tbh.   Do you see through me? || CTX: humans are really not built for first principles analytical thinking. even smart people find it incredibly exhausting. what we consider analysis is usually anxious panicking and avoiding something or the other. it is clear we are going to b
2026-06-17T05:59 id=2067124968182419817 →- | Rie Qudan's Sympathy Tower Tokyo is about confinement. The eponymous prison isn't where the interesting prisoners are: the more compelling incarceration is all of Japan.   Qudan is an individual railing against a collectivist society, so I love her and her work. Idk her age, but I smell a member of the Oregon Trail generation exasperated with the rules of restrictive cultures and the lost promise of freedom. Japan is a layer, globalization is another, tech is another, cancel culture, patriarchy, both the demand to be sympathetic to others and the denial of sympathy for oneself: it's a book exasperated by confinement.   The tower's visibility is a promise of sympathy that is, like the tower itself, a lie. The reality is confinement, always confinement.   The book is angry, and rightly so. It is angry at the inexpressibility of thought, an old concern. But here it's about the unnecessary inexpressibility: how rules, laws, mores, and technology are chosen and enforced to limit what can be said.   One of the themes of the book is how AI can be used to police our words and our thoughts, thus imprisoning us by commodifying expressions.  Qudan isn't often concerned with the reasons behind these unnecessary limits, nor does she need to. The book shows how forcing certain language and certain way of producing language lock a person in and limits their thoughts, feelings, and humanity.  To belong to society one must censor one's thoughts, and the censoring society requires is debilitating. I know, Qudan, that's why I'm a cool island guy. And it's why I could not handle living in Japan and find it harder and harder to visit.   The blank looks carefully designed to interface with a world and hide inner despair, inner rage:  I can't bear them anymore. And I know about the rape culture, the rage culture, the Japanese underworld. It's why I cannot stomach your culture anymore, and I sympathize with you. I see why the book won awards and I see why it is loved.  Is it a good book? No.   There is still the Japanese chauvinism. Japanese noses smell differently than non-Japanese. There is still the shoganai quiet rage that the Koreans turned into a mental illness reserved for their women ("hwapyeong" iirc is what it was called). This East Asianness reminds me of what a monk in Korea once told me: "the east doesn't begin in China. It begins here."   But that's not the book's limitation. After all, America's greatest novelist, William Faulkner, was a racist, and its second greatest, Vladimir Nabokov, was a pedophile. Qudan's moral sins are far from cardinal.   It's not a good book because it is modern. It is contemporary. Qudan is not trying to write a timeless book, she is trying to write a book for today. Ephemeral like a magazine or newspaper, its heavy engagement with the issues of our world: the internet, cancel culture, globalization is a kind of witnessing that novelists are supposed to do. But these witnessed objects lack the permanence to make this book a Ham on Rye: the rage of this moment will be incomprehensible to future generations.   Qudan probably does not care. She's probably never read Carolyn See's Golden Days, but the book is the same in shape and rhetorical affect 40 years later: the ephemera of pop culture, of trendy media, of striver culture and in-group status symbols. Carolyn wrote for the people who read the L. A. Times culture section, Qudan is writing for people who read Twitter.   The English translation is very simple, and I suspect the Japanese language is similarly pitched to a low reading level. Because Qudan wants to move units more than she wants to speak to future generations. Again, just like Carolyn.   She'll succeed and have a great career and win awards and make enough money to buy the 220,000 yen shoes described in the book.  And that's why her book isn't good: she succeeded in commodifying a feeling to sell to an audience.   She's commodified an expression like AIs do. Same trick, different payout.
2026-06-17T06:07 id=2067126938280526135 →iron_redux | @iron_redux @tenobrus thank you || CTX: @tenobrus 47 is an unhinged lunatic, if nothing else
2026-06-17T06:08 id=2067127321556078752 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I think more accurate to say paying other people to do labeling got him into meta. that's not a business I would want to get into personally, but good for him I guess || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Labeling got Alexander into Meta LOL
2026-06-17T06:42 id=2067135779000975514 →- | I find the Gen Z slang term of "cortisol spike" interesting, because it's considered an error or sign of failure: if you've got your cortisol spike, you've lost the game (which you just lost btw).  This is telling both for what it says and doesn't say.  What it says is something I've discussed before--it's a new norm of morality and politeness: one shouldn't get too upset, being upset is bad.  But what it doesn't say is more interesting, especially because of what it replaced.  "your cortisol spiked lol" is a replacement for "Internet--Serious Business", an elder Millennial-coded slang term from the early 2000s that functioned similarly online: it signposts a failure to see the internet as a language game and to take things too seriously.  For the Millennials, the warning focused on the internet because they were effectively containing the internet to the parallel virtual world that it was: this is all just play, this is for fun, and if you aren't having fun and aren't playing you don't belong here. Go outside.  For Gen Z, "your cortisol spiked lol" is used online AND offline, and indeed they don't see a difference between the two and many probably find the concept of saying the internet is a parallel virtual world that shouldn't be taken seriously too alien or bizarre.   For Gen Z, the whole concept of behavioral containment is both an oppressive challenge they are faced with at all times ("don't call them mothers, they're birthing humans"; "don't say that woke shit, we're based" and the like) and one they can't really understand as a source of power.  I'm thinking of this today just because tenobrus is trying to tar and feather me, and he apparently hates me for my Yud debate (which, I gotta be honest, I almost never think about anymore--it made me a lot more money than I put into it, it got me to the level I wanted to get from it, I've moved on to bigger and better things).   That got me thinking of the Yud debate, and how incredibly successful it was.  My goal was to contain the man--I didn't want to win a debate (what would that even mean?), I didn't want to look smarter than him (I so don't care how any of you perceive me, I impressed Frank Kermode and George Soros you scamps can lick my balls and yes that includes the billionaires reading this, fuck off Marc).  I wanted to contain him.  I wanted to force him into a social situation where he would pivot to signaling to his little community to gain traction with them and be unable to spread his bullshit further than it's already gone.   Was I successful? See chart.  Not good enough? See his moronic pic with Aella the Whore of Silicon Valley.  Do you think Stephen Fry, Bernie Sanders, or any of the other normies who gave Yud the nod will be pleased about these things if/when they learn of them--if they haven't already?  Are perhaps backchannel discussions about how much of a joke the guy is already causing his star to fall in the normie world?  These are the questions you should start asking, and don't ask me to answer them, because of course I'm biased. And also, I've got better things to do with my time.  Someone tell teno to move the fuck on with his life.  And if you're wondering whether my cortisol is spiked by all of this? Idk, maybe a little? Does it matter? Sure, why not, it's made today a tad more entertaining.
2026-06-17T06:56 id=2067139212596719958 →athena_notes | @athena_notes can I ask where this is? that is very unusual capital controls. but as for whether there's hope, there definitely is in societies that embrace change, and societies that are more conservative like Thailand will continue to stagnate and be stuck behind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Their fees. You can't even pick individual stocks with the banks or with any of the SEC approved platforms
2026-06-17T06:58 id=2067139753309581395 →athena_notes | I know quite a bit about the philippines, the fact that you guys voted in for the son of a genocidal dictator and tolerated another murderer who killed people just for selling a bit of weed suggests to me that the Philippines has little hope. will fare better than thailand, but not much better   Filipinos either need to be less Catholic or not Catholic at all. the religion is holding them back || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm from Philippines
2026-06-17T06:59 id=2067139953952509981 →wolfiesch | @wolfiesch state mandated gay for pay || CTX: if you live in san francisco long enough you become a naturalized homosexual. common law gay if you will. https://t.co/jLDaa1Pu6S
2026-06-17T07:16 id=2067144211082940634 →athena_notes | the church has too much cultural and political power, but more importantly the religious fanaticism in the Philippines means that people are less open-minded and less eager to try new things broadly. in the same way that ties have certain taboos that keep them conservative, Catholicism serves that function in the philippines. Southeast Asians broadly seem to fixate on a particular idea and allow it to limit how far they can expand. the Vietnamese are an obvious exception which is why their economic growth is so good and is likely to continue to explode. if I wasn't tied to Thailand so much and wanted to move someplace where economic opportunity was abundant, and I wanted to stay in southeast asia, I'd go to vietnam. and it's because they have no ideology, no monarch, no religion, no communism anymore. they are free of the constraints bad ideologies put on people || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol you know about those, aw geez.   Be less Catholic in which ways?
2026-06-17T07:17 id=2067144489484058852 →fabianstelzer | @fabianstelzer the marketing is the fake layer. I'm not saying their business is fake, they are a data labeler, those companies are plentiful. it's the "we are giving AIs taste"  aspect that is fake || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not fake. this is similar to ContraLabs, i. e. it's "Mercor/Scale for creative evals".   The big labs have infinite money to throw at good data, companies like Mercor generate billions with like a handful of customers.
2026-06-17T07:18 id=2067144768434708980 →WattDisney | @WattDisney @iamgingertrash this is what happened https://t.co/k8FqEtEwbJ || CTX: @wolfiesch state mandated gay for pay
2026-06-17T07:23 id=2067146046342590617 →- | I don't think I'm bisexual out of inherent desire as much as out of bored.   At my age I've had so much sex with women it's like, sure let's try a dude why not idgaf.   This is why I am not woke and must be cancelled: I'm part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community because I think being gay is a choice
2026-06-17T08:11 id=2067158267068060071 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill Because I'm a gentleman, I always come in second || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 ai land https://t.co/JAaZNXaqgI
2026-06-17T08:12 id=2067158325108896036 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill is thia kill || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 thialand https://t.co/dnmFmt8yTi
2026-06-17T08:12 id=2067158496869765461 →Ether_Gavin | @Ether_Gavin 1. Probably slightly higher than average but not much  2. No, I'd just do it once or twice for fun. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you have a high sex drive or low arousal threshold? kind of wonder if these give rise to bisexuality  beyond sex, do think being life partners with a dude is credible choice for you?
2026-06-17T08:12 id=2067158545850851687 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47fagb
2026-06-17T08:13 id=2067158653535506819 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit the "b" in "fucb" stands for boys. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47fagb
2026-06-17T08:14 id=2067158879738458151 →fabianstelzer | @fabianstelzer that is true, but one also needs to know how to target so that people who see through the marketing don't jeer. the fault here is in not knowing the audience. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gotta have an inspiring story, that is part of business
2026-06-17T08:14 id=2067158989117493528 →14hrscreentime | @14hrscreentime I think you're right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think ur just a pervert
2026-06-17T08:15 id=2067159190569894072 →bladgolem | @bladgolem you were bullied into liking dudes, not unlike the experience of many men have in prison. the world truly is a jail cell too women, I am a feminist icon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the amount of high status boobs I was offered in my life yet all the women I liked liked men that is why I choose heterosexuality
2026-06-17T08:17 id=2067159664111088124 →nhlsdhfowoj | but I haven't done it yet, I'm more like a man who would be willing to have sex with a man provided that man looked fem and I was either sufficiently drunk or horny, and who would not feel guilty about the experience and probably would enjoy it somewhat but not as much as women because oh my god it feels so good have you ever been inside of vagina it's like the Hershey's kisses of body parts just in terms of how lovely they feel, and taste too but let's not get into that, although I'm sure there are plenty of penises to taste pretty good, and at least my semen isn't the most disgusting thing I've ever had || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A term "men who have sex with men" exists
2026-06-17T08:18 id=2067159843987730776 →- | it's time to stop panicking about not having enough oil and it's time to start panicking about having too much oil. https://t.co/TniF2UI7ge
2026-06-17T08:18 id=2067160033184670081 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree or it's just a shitpost dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This does come across as trying to present one's coming out as bisexual as masculine/avoid the effete stigma around homosexuality.   Understandable, but bisexual men and women find one another maximally attractive, and bise
2026-06-17T08:22 id=2067160846862795006 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 you just reminded me, I was jerked off by a guy during a massage by accident (it was very brief (much like the underwear I wasn't wearing (because I was having a massage))) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 he lives in Thailand btw
2026-06-17T08:27 id=2067162271957254555 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 And that's why you're nothing like him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 I am not going to press you too hard on this as frankly that’s your freedom but I don’t think this accidentally happens
2026-06-17T08:30 id=2067163070171160681 →boneGPT | @boneGPT This is probably paid product placement. || CTX: Nick uses Claude https://t.co/3HR3o4dZid
2026-06-17T08:31 id=2067163201264042216 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil we all are, all the time, some of us just able to lie to ourselves that we aren't sometimes || CTX: Just so lost in my life rn
2026-06-17T08:33 id=2067163643213676893 →IterIntellectus | Every English friend of mine, when I ask them, "is it as bad as it seems in the UK," the answer is always "it's worse."   I lived in England for years and have tons of British friends so I know their humor and their self deprecation. Usually they joke about Blighty and there's a twinkle of nationalism behind their insult of their homeland.   Now it's the thousand yard stare.  Britain is lost. || CTX: i have never been angrier  there's no going back from this https://t.co/IEtM422l4p
2026-06-17T08:36 id=2067164392526135804 →qquinnsworth | @qquinnsworth The way he jumped at the chance at 10k from me really shocked me.   And I had a bunch of his lieutenants DMing me begging me for money.   Really hilarious. || CTX: Most of the SF Bay Area Twitter yapposphere is piss poor, as in cannot afford a house and cannot afford to raise a family here.   In contrast, most of the silent big tech/unicorn lifers end up quite well off, buy houses, have kids etc. http
2026-06-17T08:38 id=2067164857208832056 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 please post your database, I want to see || CTX: I've been really into television opening sequences lately. I don't have any insights to share, but I might make a database next weekend.
2026-06-17T08:38 id=2067165020983599151 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 I have what that masseuse was offering: full head || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 At what age did you start noticing your male pattern baldness
2026-06-17T08:39 id=2067165160461189374 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake When in Rome, as they say... SUCKY SUCKY FIVE DOLLAH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Right on, King. So when can I hit?  Or is this just fundraising talk?
2026-06-17T08:41 id=2067165678139023457 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @wreckmyshit yeah that deseveres a follow back || CTX: @wreckmyshit @47fucb4r8c69323 lmao gottem
2026-06-17T08:49 id=2067167694085116163 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake A bit too fat for me but otherwise, yeah I'd fuck him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You know it’s a damn dirty shame that we’re too old for Garry Tan’s bathtub.
2026-06-17T08:50 id=2067168039649284121 →vtlynch1 | @vtlynch1 would be an easy way to run out of money || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds like you should have kids
2026-06-17T10:26 id=2067192242851500185 →- | When I was a professor and taught the difference between shame and guilt cultures (NB cultural anthropologists, I didn't teach it as truth or a theory they should follow jfc I'm so traumatized from dealing with wellakshuyally), I'd struggle for a clear example of the difference, but I just thought of a good one.   Shame culture is when you accidentally get jacked off by a male masseuse and worry people will think you're gay and thus you'll lose your cultural status in a culture where gay is lower than straight.   Guilt culture is when you accidentally get jacked off by a male masseuse and worry people will think you're gay and thus you've sinned against God, Law, Nature, or some other idol.  Freedom is talking about it on Twitter dot com  Cheers having some coconut water, weed, and listening to bachata.
2026-06-17T10:40 id=2067195675352408312 →teodorio | @teodorio @mikansoleil that was just a vape, trust me you'll know when the gummy hits || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikansoleil the gummy hit
2026-06-17T10:44 id=2067196747173310518 →JasonBotterill | I did not ask for it, I was not in a shop where said services are typically offered, and the context should have made it clear I was not interested, although I guess some of the context suggested the opposite, mixed signals, intercultural communication breakdown, you know how it goes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you did not accidentally get jerked off
2026-06-17T10:49 id=2067197843845358041 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill he just jerked it for about maybe five pumps in total and then I said no thank you and he stopped. no big deal, these things happen, it's not like running a red light or scuba diving without a license || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I know how it goes? brother I do not know how it goes and you previously said it was "brief" what does that even mean like the moment someone puts their hand there you react right or was like 7 seconds in you were like "i d
2026-06-17T10:50 id=2067198279780315328 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill 2 seconds max, I'll prove it let me get my camera out one second || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 THATS LIKE 3 TO 4 SECONDS
2026-06-17T10:51 id=2067198329252163845 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill well not like I was counting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WAS JUST LIKE 5 PUMPS?
2026-06-17T10:59 id=2067200448986251522 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill that's only because I've seen what you look like || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if I touched your hair you would react within 1/4th second you would flinch and be like "stop" but what you described sounded like contemplation
2026-06-17T11:52 id=2067213711442317694 →- | Do you think:  A. It is possible to make an LLM make more tasteful outputs; B. It is possible to make an LLM have more taste?   Now, I want to take a poll on this question:
2026-06-17T11:56 id=2067214752347287752 →aft3ratlas | @aft3ratlas because that's not what they're doing, it's just another data labeling company jfc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why? Taste is actually an incredibly hard to replicate and most teams struggle acutely with accurately reproducing on brand assets.  Whoever solves this (likely will be a frontier lab, but whatever) will make alot of money
2026-06-17T11:58 id=2067215337175785481 →bygkydfxcks | @bygkydfxcks No, that's literally fucking dudes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Being bisexual is not a choice, which is what you are. You’re not woke because you think you can turn gay. No one fucks women for ever and then becomes gay. That’s literally fucking stupid.
2026-06-17T12:06 id=2067217231956898050 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @parmita "This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.'" - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @parmita @47fucb4r8c69323 funny how this doesn’t apply near men in massage parlors for you mr 47
2026-06-17T12:06 id=2067217395207586143 →4m473r45u | @4m473r45u Well said! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 different but correlated (amount of correlation depends on how it's done)
2026-06-17T12:18 id=2067220219085684902 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Surprised they don't have any Asians working at Lulu--maybe you don't get the job if you can't pronounce the company's name? || CTX: KEKW some racist fucks at Lulu can’t tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese  Incredible https://t.co/6hEAjABqBG
2026-06-17T12:19 id=2067220515652342083 →- | This is how you do it. https://t.co/QN8d9VwLhR || CTX: Macro &gt; Sector &gt; Business &gt; Financials &gt; Technicals https://t.co/kbQxzwrGhM
2026-06-17T12:20 id=2067220811266859103 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @Ken67547214 AELLA IMA LETCHU FINISH https://t.co/KncHbMU0QO || CTX: @Ken67547214 that nxivm guy had the best sex cult of all time
2026-06-17T12:20 id=2067220885120204872 →thulelarper | @thulelarper agreed lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this kids is why you never go full openness
2026-06-17T12:24 id=2067221937890451472 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy @4m473r45u If they're different, idk what B would even mean unless you mean it in a sense that is synonymous with A. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A and B are different (for the reason @4m473r45u said) but both are possible (which I think is something you disagree with)
2026-06-17T12:56 id=2067229997006495764 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy @4m473r45u Let's assume that the machine then can accurately predict 100% of your preferences 100% of the time. (I don't believe this is possible, but for the sake of argument let's assume it.)  What if your taste changes? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @4m473r45u Whereas having taste means that it itself has learned all the heuristics I and people with more taste than me have learned, encoded these in its weights (including obviously heuristics and can’t verbally express)
2026-06-17T13:05 id=2067232268431823223 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony I forgot to mention: the reflexivity bit was especially appreciated. It's a good epistemic framework! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ty anon
2026-06-17T13:31 id=2067238721381081384 →DevilSShadoW | @DevilSShadoW Well said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 taste is subjective. A LLM cannot be subjective, as that would require having such a thing as an opinion. sure you can make it have more tasteful outputs. Just train a little one exclusively on vogue/fashion magazines and g
2026-06-17T13:52 id=2067243957076054188 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I think that's part of it, but guilt also has an implicit transcendence. The self-acceptance hinges on some unspoken assumptions about higher goods, ideals, sins, gods, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Shame is social acceptance.  Guilt is self-acceptance.  Is that right?
2026-06-17T14:22 id=2067251470739870135 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I don't think that's the only way to escape guilt! Compassion, including self compassion, is a much better option (if only because sociopaths often end up in prison). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So being an autistic sociopath is literally winning ?
2026-06-17T14:45 id=2067257374604513314 →- | This is why we (including me) got so upset about that ridiculous startup.   When you're a data labeler that pays a thousand people in desperate countries or desperate personal situations to label what  web page is prettier, and then you say you're "giving AI taste", you're leveraging something deep about being human and it offends us humans.  Imagine selling a dog food named "Your undying love for your first born child" and then saying we're unreasonable when we find the branding creepy and suspicious.  It's especially suspicious cuz there are so many companies that already do this, like I only see them differentiated by being small/cheap. I am happy to be proven wrong.   And for the record I don't hate all AI startups of this type. Poetic is a really impressive company for example. || CTX: Taste isn’t sitting inside you waiting to be uncovered. It gets built over years of lived experience. The music you grew up on, the places you got lost in, the people you met, the books you read, the food you eat, the conversations you have
2026-06-17T15:14 id=2067264557555618107 →- | That sudden drop in the mid 90s is interesting. That's when I was a teen, and I remember both evangelical Christians and the straight edge movement making abstaining suddenly popular.  That recovery in the late 90s was when we started to realize that shit was kinda stupid. https://t.co/P4z3Sk0N3K || CTX: Teen drinking has plummeted  How do we fix this? https://t.co/h2y0Yx2fS3
2026-06-17T17:46 id=2067302865316761855 →Hunntur | @Hunntur I don't want people to fall in love with their computers ever again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i like u bro and i like the way u think but why do u constantly exhaust urself with this nonsense r u surrounded by people who dont look with their eyes? what invisible demons r u fighting peace and also love also in additi
2026-06-17T18:36 id=2067315536917340309 →joodalooped | @joodalooped @turboblitzzz Fail at what? Giving AI taste? Because that's not what they're doing, I suppose. They are a data labeler. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @turboblitzzz why are u assuming they're going to fail?
2026-06-17T18:38 id=2067315847677554930 →ColdShalamov | @ColdShalamov I wish I was that young. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m glad you could put it in terms everyone understand.   I’m a little hazy on the mechanics of an accidental jackoff but maybe it’s a gen-z thing
2026-06-17T19:24 id=2067327568429351313 →- | What's really interesting about the Snap goggles snafu is Evan lives in socal.  How can you think these glasses are market ready living in socal?   My job was reporting on Snap without talking to people in Snap, so I honestly can't speak to the company culture directly. But it has to be bad, and you see it with their atrocious ad product buildout and total lack of strategy.   Which has always made me fascinated with Spiegel the man, because the other tech CEOs always made sense to me.   Zuck is a megalomaniac autist, as is Musk. Agrawal was just a shopkeeper, as is Cook. Nadella, Bezos, Jassy, and especially Jensen are killers: they want to compete and destroy the competition. Altman is a snake in both good and bad ways, Amodei is incompetent and primed to be toppled or run his company into the ground.   Spiegel fits none of these moulds.  When he married Miranda Kerr I thought he was an Altman type: rich man want fast car hot girl. Staying in Venice fits that.   But if that's all he wants, he should be a better CEO. Altman's sociopathic materialism and ruthlessness is why OAI is strong and will thrive, but Spiegel isn't that good.   Why not? I can't quite figure it out. All he'd need to do is put some good lieutenants in charge of product and internal org while he has dinners with important people, but he clearly isn't doing that.  Wtf is going on in Snap, it's a really interesting question. || CTX: do you know how long you have to live in san francisco to think ppl will buy these https://t.co/8Un2irtwnf
2026-06-17T19:44 id=2067332580073259277 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon 21st century tech CEO designed in a lab, NVDA is a long based on him alone.   Nemotron is going to fuck up so much shit whenever Jensen wants it to || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But Jensen is a very likable killer. That makes him exceptionally dangerous.
2026-06-17T20:14 id=2067340140381716604 →- | Her name was Claire, which in the late 1990s was more of an old woman's name, but she was exactly my age (17) and beautiful. An ex-hippie turned goth, she was nearly my height, extremely pale, dyed black hair and soft eyes--I wish I could remember their color. I remember she had a ski slope nose and freckles, but that could be my imagination filling in what has since faded.  We met online, as was NOT the custom of the time. I believe I IMed her first because her AOL profile was a single line: I am a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl.  This is the opening line of Bjork's Bachelorette, which fit because I fancied myself (falsely) as Venus as a Boy. The song continues:  "You're the bird on the brim Hypnotised by the whirl"  I may have even messaged her saying I am Venus as a Boy--whatever I messaged was stupid and lame but sufficient to get her attention, and we talked. I was in Westwood now a second year student (but technically a junior, since I'd finished over a year of classes before I was officially a freshman), and she was in West Covina where she attended high school. I did not know this was a town/gown romance--the dichotomy wasn't something I'd read about yet, although I would experience it firsthand witnessing brawls in downtown Cambridge that summer.  She agreed to meet me and it was very Enkidu-coded: we went to Mount Baldy and talked, and she taught me how to inhale cigarettes shortly before she said, "okay, I'll take your virginity."  It was strange how it happened--but it definitely had been a conscious choice on her part after my availability was made obvious. I don't think I begged her or even asked, but she knew I was a virgin before we met and she knew I wanted sex. It was obvious.  I went home without even kissing her, without even holding her hand--but we'd already arranged a second ate.  "Drink me, make me feel real Wet your beak in the stream"  I picked her up in the evening fighting traffic and brought her back rather swiftly, and we arrived late enough that the people of Westwood who actually had friends were busy meeting them. My flatmate, thankfully, was not in the apartment, so there was a lot of freedom to enjoy the night.  I didn't know what to do, but she wanted to get drunk. I for sure had whiskey and brandy (I almost always did around that time), so we probably drank that with some sodas. I remember we played strip poker, and I think it may have been my idea.  I lost quite humiliatingly, so I remember she was maybe in her underwear when I'd lost so much that I should've been fully naked. Shy and ashamed of my ugly body, I resisted, and she let me lose a few hands without removing more clothing.  "Game we're playing is life Love's a two way dream"  Finally bored of the poker, it was time to poke her (eeyyyyy). At this point we were naked and I believe this is when we kissed for the first time.  And I remember I wanted it to be real. Plus, since I was a virgin her risk was minimal, so we agreed beforehand to do it without a condom.  She got on top of me, we did it on the floor. She insisted, she wanted to be on top, and she said she had a special move that would make me cum quickly. It was impressive, she was rather athletic; she would squat on me, moving up and down quickly. But it did not make me orgasm quickly. "I'm impressed," she said.  "Leave me now, return tonight Tide will show you the way"  The sex lasted a normal duration and was rather uninteresting: her on top, missionary, her on top again is I think what transpired. I know there was no oral sex, some kissing but not much.  I remember as she was on top of me feeling wonder that this was happening to me. Receiving experience.  "If you forget my name You will go astray"  She wanted me to take me home after the deed was done but that felt inhumanly impersonal, and I wanted the connection. So I lied and said I was too drunk to take her back and would she please just stay until the morning. Reluctantly and very annoyed, she agreed.  I tried to have sex with her a second time after a brief refractory period and after she'd agreed to stay, but I literally could not find the hole. I had her lay on the bed and I tried--and failed--to enter her. She laughed and I knew to give up.  "Like a killer whale Trapped in a bay"  I took her back home very early in the morning, really before the sun had fully risen. And I never saw her again.  She might have blocked me--I don't remember. I do remember asking her to meet me again, and she refused. She knew not to risk too much interaction, because attention is fungible with love.  Did I impregnate her? Good question--why do you think I know?  "I'm a path of cinders Burning under your feet You're the one who walks me I'm your one-way street I'm a whisper in the water Secret for you to hear You're the one who grows distant When I beckon you near"  Stop the music--the story's not over.  One thing Claire had told me is that she'd enjoyed drugs, including heroin. However, she'd told me she'd only snorted it, never injected it--but after the deed was done, and in the horrified years of the 1990s, an anxiety-prone young man was eager to fantasize horror.  I was also taking a microbiology class that semester: it was a class about STDs. The teacher was great (he was famous on campus for wearing Hawaiian shirts and carrying a stick while he talked), and I learned a lot about epidemiology in that class.  And it allowed the anxiety to bubble in my mind that I had contracted HIV from having sex with Claire without a condom.  "Leave me now, return tonight Tide will show you the way"  In those days an HIV test was useless if you didn't wait three months, and it wasn't really considered 100% reliable until after six months, so I waited. That winter was absurdly stressful, really quite terrifying, and the first test was negative, which was a huge relief, but the real relief was of course another three months down the line.  My only friend at the time--who is no longer a friend since he's chosen to be an alcoholic adulterer in Japan and thinks I secretly control the world economy because I'm Jewish and work in finance--enjoyed goading my fears on by peppering in insinuations in casual conversation that would trigger my anxiety.  The problem with being autistic and coming from an abusive family is you can't really tell what is banter and what is cruelty--at least until you do a PhD in linguistics.  "If you forget my name You will go astray Like a killer whale Trapped in a bay"  So it was in June that I learned I was fully safe, although the anxiety was about 80% gone by then. And I'd already had a new girlfriend, the only woman whose virginity I took (and we used a condom), and it is horrific and terrible and upsetting that I cannot remember her name. She deserves better--everyone I've evern known deserved better.  "I'm a tree that grows hearts One for each that you take You're the intruder's hand I'm the branch that you break"
2026-06-17T20:21 id=2067341818958873032 →- | RT @oleksoleksoleks: Very difficult to have taste when you've only experienced a very narrow, sanitized slice of life || CTX: Very difficult to have taste when you've only experienced a very narrow, sanitized slice of life
2026-06-17T20:24 id=2067342688836628691 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod The whole third wave punk, riot grrl, sXe etc scene was very welcoming and the only subculture my weird autistic ass felt comfortable with, so much so I tried to like the music I really did.  But I took the punk rock attitude as my faith. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Having said that, I'm pretty sure I vomited on the third of fourth step here on these second set of steps. I only liked the Straightedge stuff that wasn't constantly talking about BEING straightedge https://t.co/y3KFbtYrxz
2026-06-17T20:25 id=2067342786542883001 →aimeebalthazar | @aimeebalthazar Thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you shouldn't be so hard on yourself. you are a good writer.
2026-06-17T20:55 id=2067350555467595941 →AndrewCurran_ | @AndrewCurran_ Trying to crowd out the competition and build a moat by establishing barriers to entry via regulation.   They're just copying the Facebook strategy from the early 2010s, quite blatantly too.  Amateur hour. || CTX: Dario Amodei and Demis Hassabis called for a US-led coalition to determine the global standards and rules for AI in a closed-door meeting this morning at the G7.    Dario Amodei also said in his address that the coalition should structure a
2026-06-17T20:59 id=2067351355036164587 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart I wonder how much of the decline in the VIX is a result of the post-GFC comms norms (dot plots, forward guidance, Yellen saying social media stocks look overvalued, Powell getting annoyed at stocks rising during a press conference). || CTX: Not that my take is worth anything. But all of this comms stuff (The dots, the press conference etc.) is all pretty new. And it was put in place (in part) to solve a problem that was directly related the post-08 economy. If it all went away
2026-06-18T01:35 id=2067420840850010547 →- | Replacing @ylecun with Alexander Wang is like replacing a Ferrari with a 20yr old Fiat Punto with all flat tires.   Almost as bad of a decision than changing your name to "Meta Platforms" because you're going to focus on the metaverse.  Clearest example of how ageism and a disrespect for thoughtful intellectual research holds Silicon Valley back. Yes SV has done incredible things, and they'd do even better things if they didn't worship youth.   This is a self serving tweet since I'm an old man so just ignore it. || CTX: Wonder how long it’s gonna take before Zuck admits to himself that hiring Wang was a blunder https://t.co/rRloCjQBdz
2026-06-18T01:36 id=2067421090444702195 →etoeth | @etoeth @innoc_bystander Evan never had the making of a varsity athlete. || CTX: @innoc_bystander https://t.co/nQPvVxntIX
2026-06-18T01:46 id=2067423588647571826 →LesserMidas | @LesserMidas @ylecun https://t.co/7IanFzS0zK || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ylecun Wang was hired because Meta and Scale had the same bankers (same ones who helped FB IPO)
2026-06-18T02:05 id=2067428376370180319 →- | This post is about why LLMs suck and how to fix them.  I live in one of the quietest parts of a very quiet island and have only one neighbor. The neighbor had another island resident stay at his house for a while when we first moved here, and that resident had a dog named Lola.  At first I was worried about our cats (we had two then, three now), because they have no experience with dogs and some dogs can hunt cats. But I quickly learned Lola just wanted to play—she has a boisterous personality, and while she sometimes gets jealous, she is a harmless loving dog. So I quickly became friendly with her and took her for walks on a daily basis.  Nearly a year ago, the resident suddenly moved back to the resort he runs and owns about a kilometer away, taking Lola with him. I was really upset about this, but so was Lola. So I would go visit her a few times, but then Lola would start leaving her house and coming to visit me. She does this now about once a week.  So she showed up late yesterday and I greeted her, played with her, and took her for a walk. As we were walking my girlfriend called me to say the caretakers for Lola’s owner’s resort had come to pick Lola up. I explained we were walking, where we were, and that they could come get here where we are.  They came and Lola was friendly to them, but as I walked up to them the first thing they said was “Lola mai kin”, which has a simple translation: “mai” means “no” and “kin” means eat.  In Thai this can mean many things. I initially thought they meant Lola has not eaten today, since it was about 5pm at that point. I replied in Thai, “she hasn’t eaten anything since she got to our house.” To which the caretaker replied, “Lola barely eats at home—she eats a little, the food bowl stays full, because she’s unhappy at the resort. She doesn’t get along with the other two dogs and never looks as happy as she is now.” And, yes, she looked happy running around between us as we talked. I said something sympathetic that I do not remember while feeling intense guilt. Of course this was the implication of those three words that they wanted to convey and that I did not want to be true, so they had to make the implied explicit—a social faux pas with the Thais. This is how natural language works. You say x because x gestures at y, and y is what you really mean.  An information theoretic accounting of this incident is indeed possible—but messy and awkward. Definitely necessary to make a machine reproduce natural language, but not a full accounting of natural language. It is an awkward, ugly hack to fix continuous use of symbols to gesture at real world experience so that those fixed representations of gestures can then be operationalized in a mathematical process to produce virtual simulations of what humans would say in a given situation.  Now you see why LLM writing sucks, why it necessarily sucks, how any hack to fix this is provisional and incomplete, and why the frontier labs have pivoted to math and code. Those are not domains of natural language—it’s just the LLM using code to make code.  An easy and economically lucrative task with a ceiling much lower than what you were promised by the deceptive marketing at OpenAI and Anthropic. Especially Anthropic.  Lola refused to go home, so we agreed she’d stay here for the night. After I’ve had my coffee and woken up I will go walk with her and make her morning as happy as I can because, unfortunately, this evening I need to take her home.  I really want to make her happy, but she makes my three cats nervous, my girlfriend doesn’t like how chaotic Lola is and how she’s tried to encroach into our house and balcony (which also makes the cats nervous), and so unfortunately this is a no-win situation that I created by being too nice and I feel tremendous guilt and regret over the mess I have made.  Many, as the kids would say, such cases.
2026-06-18T03:30 id=2067449908576305322 →- | The AI industry is broken because of this attitude:  Language is information.  All of the information is in the text, we just need to label it well.   And every attempt at labeling fails. So they try something new and hope for the best.  I saw this play out with adtech in the 2010s, it is the same exact story. Then because they didn't understand the psychology behind the clicks and now because they don't understand the psychology behind the text. || CTX: I thought this was a joke. Meta now has made 30-50% of software engineers on core teams become data labelers.  Their job is "giving human feedback on AI-generated Github repos" in an org called Agent Data Optimization.   Maybe we are all tr
2026-06-18T03:41 id=2067452605404729630 →- | "What we need are workplaces that are full of people and foster human connections."  You need to remember: your company is a family. They care about you deeply. They love you.   And you need to love them back.   Remember that next time you want to WFH. You're betraying your family!   Remember that next time you want to leave an hour early to take your kid to his chemotherapy treatment. You're betraying the family at the company!  Remember that next time you want a raise. You're taking money out of the family's pocket, money that could go to feed the poor kids your manager is struggling to feed on his meager salary, and it's meager because you aren't providing enough for the family!   Now get back to work! Oh and the waffle party is in an hour, remember it is mandatory. || CTX: Published an op ed in @nytimes: remote work hurts mental health.    Let me explain why 🧵⤵️ https://t.co/xE9XpyFLtb
2026-06-18T04:06 id=2067458811468869786 →ChrissGPT | @ChrissGPT This is EXACTLY what we need companies to start using AI for.   Less hype and bullshit, more of this plz. || CTX: Mid journey unveils the future of medical scanning:  "Less than a dozen of these machines operating together at full speed can do more full body scans than every MRI machine together on Earth. Our goal is to build a fleet of 50,000 of these
2026-06-18T04:16 id=2067461361878401205 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 This joke is absolutely divine. || CTX: Me and who? https://t.co/cNLLCyPWLO
2026-06-18T04:29 id=2067464680109748502 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ He doesn't know how to be human, it's really quite obvious. || CTX: 10 seconds of him talking and I want to sanction him and nationalise the company https://t.co/Cqq2SPlSXF
2026-06-18T04:33 id=2067465595239768278 →- | This is Sam Altman and Dario Amodei's fault.   If they'd marketed their chatbots as useful tools to make workers exponentially faster rather than "we'll cure cancer or kill everyone but either way everyone's going to be out of a job".   They were begging for excessive regulation! https://t.co/zzLNxM52uE || CTX: Bill C-34 will affect every Canadian. Age verification. AI regulation. A new Digital Safety Commission. Most Canadians have never heard of it. Here's what it will do. https://t.co/dwyUBkrX2j
2026-06-18T04:37 id=2067466730470097206 →CryptoCyberia | @CryptoCyberia This was the plot of a Nicolas Cage movie satirizing big tech--which came out 8 days before this press release. Bizarre. || CTX: Remember that startup for hardware that made lucid dreaming easier to do, and they marketed it as allowing people, who can literally fly or do any magical thing in the lucid dream, to do their desk job while their body rests? That was hones
2026-06-18T04:40 id=2067467515069104493 →kalayci_kenan | Sure, in America.   This has nothing to do with WFH and everything to do with redlining, suburbs, car centric culture, and many second order effects therein.  This problem doesn't exist in NYC, and it absolutely doesn't exist in Europe or Asia. I had no problem making friends in all of those places, and I'm an incredibly unlikeable person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are right, but it is also true that we have somehow built societies that eliminated human connections everywhere, so that work is the only place left where people have/make "friends" as adults.
2026-06-18T04:42 id=2067468048999874710 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Drives me batshit insane as I was saying this in 2023.  Distribution is absolutely fucking everything. || CTX: correct. god will sort us all out in the end. and elon will be cast into the lake or fire along with nikita and his host. https://t.co/YD8ZL0clwr
2026-06-18T04:44 id=2067468410586640717 →menewstyle | @menewstyle Absolutely the latter.   They thought they could have a seat at the table to write the rules themselves in a way that benefitted them, like how Google and Facebook did with GDPR and CCPA.   But they're not as smart as Google--they didn't invest in lawyers and marketers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think the excessive regulation was a desired result by them or was this something they had no foresight for?
2026-06-18T04:46 id=2067468920618090591 →theojaffee | @theojaffee @midjourney It's the glasses broski. || CTX: I went in the @midjourney scanner and it said I was gay
2026-06-18T04:51 id=2067470331447759292 →- | I wrote this 2021.  So I'm 5 years ahead of the curve on this.   But I'm not famous so no one cares.   Do you have any idea how frustrating this is?   Sure my clairvoyance made me a single-digit millionaire in less than a decade while working like 8hrs a week. That's cool.  I could've been more, I could've changed the world more.   This account is really just the frustrations of an old man who realized he sacrificed being important for being safe. It was the right choice at the right time, but goddammit is it frustrating now.  And there's still so much more I could fix if the right people would listen.   I am so so so frustrated. || CTX: she’s completely right about this https://t.co/vmdXDcBlb4
2026-06-18T04:54 id=2067470979891339488 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I wrote this when Alex Imas was a first year assistant prof.  And I love Alex, I am happy for his success and wish him well.   But... I should be listened to more. I should've been listened to more.   I should've built a platform for myself instead of hiding from American cancel culture.  God, I am really upset. || CTX: I wrote this 2021.  So I'm 5 years ahead of the curve on this.   But I'm not famous so no one cares.   Do you have any idea how frustrating this is?   Sure my clairvoyance made me a single-digit millionaire in less than a decade while worki
2026-06-18T04:54 id=2067471085797626199 →shephard42 | @shephard42 @theojaffee @midjourney THE AI IS JUST THAT GOOD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @theojaffee @midjourney Be serious. They would have made him take the glasses off before getting into the scanner: it's obviously the hair.
2026-06-18T04:55 id=2067471333131526573 →VantagePointijk | @VantagePointijk Idk if SWEs are necessarily the best data labelers.   I know so many linguists who would be great at this work but they don't get interviews. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree with the premise, not all information is in the text, but what they're doing here is internalizing data labelling and dumping it all on employees instead of outsourcers somewhere in Kenya, subject to NDAs, QA and al
2026-06-18T05:00 id=2067472444395511854 →kalayci_kenan | I just read Sympathy Tokyo Tower which is (like most Japanese books) about this issue.   The problem with economists (no offense, I'm not attacking your field but rather staking a theoretical claim here) is that they will see effects in cultures A, B, and C and strive for a common economic explanation that unites them all. This is because of the Sins of Economics that McCloskey is so good at detailing.   The US and Aus have a car centric culture and that's the cause of their loneliness.   Japan has a long history of social mores and kabuki theater that makes it impossible for people to say what they really mean.   Same effects, different causes. But since only qualitative analysis gets this result and you can't put it in a neat mathematical formulation (you can mathematize it, ofc, the math will just look ugly), economists discount it.   I suspect this goes back to the two cultures debates and economics desperate attempt to gain sociocultural power via political advising after the increasingly large gap in cultural influence opened when the humanities started becoming incoherent in the 1950s.  But ofc this is a cultural story so economists will reject it. Except the GOAT, @DeirdreMcClosk. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree; the problem exists in Australia as well, which also has a suburb- and car-centric culture... but my impression is that loneliness is also a big issue in Japan; there are likely other factors.
2026-06-18T05:10 id=2067474895865573391 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I dislike general advice because it's almost always misconstrued. Also I don't think I have the wisdom to give good advice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your advice for the younger set? (You know that ain't me)
2026-06-18T05:11 id=2067475371277373816 →asvfertz | @asvfertz You clearly don't understand the value of being early because you only see the value in being first.  Idiot loser mentality, jammed in your head by people who want you to work hard for them.   Good luck bro. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 honestly? i saw the same claim back in 2012. I can’t recall all the details but I remember that the paper was yellowed, dry, and brittle. so whatever, i don't think your claim is exceptional.
2026-06-18T05:15 id=2067476308762976521 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod save 80% of your income and invest all of it in index funds, I prefer QQQ but a lot of people do not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah, I hear you. Also--fuck em, they wouldn't listen anyway.  Alright, now: Give me advice specifically about money since I'm set on love, identity, and every aspect of the physical world that has nothing to do with money.
2026-06-18T05:20 id=2067477469540896981 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Does choid mean... a child? || CTX: imagine how far behind you are going to be if you are some choid in the uk. because you think that these kids are going to start reading or doing math or whatever but literally they will just be playing video games and doing drugs and havin
2026-06-18T06:56 id=2067501608188219847 →- | This speaks to the "meaning is in the use" theory of Wittgenstein (I'm sorry, I know I'm a broken record).  When a neuroscientist refers to "cortisol" and when a Gen Zer on the internet refers to "cortisol", they're not referring to the same thing.  There can be overlap and sometimes the overlap is really really close.  Imagine, if you will, an elder Gen Z woman who has just finished her PhD and is back home visiting her younger brother and his friends--they're all early 20s. And they are joking about cortisol. The brother, proud of his older sister, says she just studied neuroscience and asks her to explain the chemical to the group.  She's Gen Z so she knows the slang and the meme, but she's also a professional so she knows the reality that the slang and meme are gesturing towards.  As she explains, she becomes a bridge between the Gen Z slang world and the neuroscience research world. She has tremendous power as the architect of the bridge--she can make the bridge any way she wants.  She can make them scared of cortisol. Or in awe of it. Or dismiss it as irrelevant. She can make the Gen Z slang look really intelligent and near the truth or make it look absurd and stupid and, as the kids say, cringe.  There is so much power in being the explainer, in bridging two worlds.  And when she does the bridge, she can choose careful what aspects of the word to focus on and what aspects to downplay. If she's very good at language, she can select from options within the semantic field and stitch them together to make her audience think/believe whatever she wants.  Knowing how to use language is power. Tremendous power.  Beyond that, though, note what is happening here: a translation WITHIN a language and even about the same exact word: "cortisol".  The meaning of "cortisol" is not actually attached to the chemical itself but to a form of life gesturing towards the chemical as it is understood within the form of life.  No word means the same thing twice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I sincerely hope that the public belief in the chemical model of agency - oxytocin, cortisol, serotonin, dopamine - change over time with more data and understanding. This was caused by neuroscience publications and caused 
2026-06-18T07:09 id=2067504943511331283 →VantagePointijk | @VantagePointijk I'm trying my hardest to get funding to build out and expand that 2%, but VCs don't believe in me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 2% - tailored, premium, value-added  98% - cost-effective slop, scale, throwaway  I hope that there's a middle ground somewhere in the middle, because there will be a cutthroat competition to get and stay inside 2% and the 
2026-06-18T07:10 id=2067505181718372384 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I'm honestly a little scared to reread Moby Dick--might just enrage me now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage; this the invisible police officer of the Fates, who has the constant surveillance of me, and secretly dogs me, and influences me in some unaccountable way—he can
2026-06-18T07:13 id=2067505849854284181 →- | Oh, so it' s now news.  Yeah, I heard this was going to happen. Expect similar headlines from Asia about consulting firms too (which I shouldn't know, just like I shouldn't have known about this, and both of which I shouldn't be tweeting publicly--but, hey, gardening leave). https://t.co/kkrR3vuEAe || CTX: Employees of the Wall Street bank in the Asian financial hub are now unable to access Claude models, following a similar move by rival Goldman Sachs. https://t.co/P26QASsMhY https://t.co/cyZxoYjHbT
2026-06-18T07:13 id=2067506043824054361 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Getting revenge gets less sweet and more bitter as you age. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would be interesting to learn why
2026-06-18T08:03 id=2067518499015266517 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @THR I really should stop whining and use these tools to make good art. Maybe next year I'll make my Wittgenstein biopic. || CTX: @THR @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-18T08:07 id=2067519608198980041 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck My unpopular opinion is the porn industry in America not only isn't all that bad, it's gotten better.  Japan otoh has a porn industry that is pure evil. But they aren't white so they get a pass. || CTX: We always complain about the porn industry, but the dating app industry is infinitely worse because it turned dating into a commodity. https://t.co/EZiBxFibm9
2026-06-18T08:17 id=2067522150337282404 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero there's plenty of blame to go around || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can't we just blame communism like good old times.
2026-06-18T08:47 id=2067529565476684222 →HughAndFree | "Long ago ... we didn’t say "this is weird" or "this is strange"–we used to say "I find this weird" and "I find this strange" (don’t you sense the phrasing is a little, well, strange?). And even "this is strange" is declining; much more commonly, we’ll say "this is ridiculous".   The "I" has declined as the norm of objectivity quietly took the reins over our world, unveiling our insincere relativism. To say that I find something odd is to focus the attention on my own perception–a risky, presumptuous, costly statement, putting myself out there for ridicule. One should be careful of how one paints the social mask.   Now the thing is not weird to me but it is weird, full stop, end of thought. When I tell you this is the case, you must agree, or we are in different camps. And the weight of strangeness is fully on the object’s shoulders, I, the subject, am scot free.   I am innocent of judgment and wrongdoing. Do not blame me, for it is strange. And now わたしは変だと思う is displaced by a simple えー！?, explicit performative disbelief, 나는 이상하다고 생각해, out of style as assertions of truth claims become de rigueur. Indo-Europeans are spreading the virus or the global village resolves in a new mode? Does the difference even matter–I think we need not point the blame. There is fault.  Hyt seemeth me when the subject became the object, the impersonal dative before the personal declarative, mihi videtur carried over. ...   The personal relationship once humble, I merely receive the it as the object of its motion in the world. I do not act upon it–I find it strange, I act upon its strangeness–I instead am to seem.   I find this horrifying. You are free to think however you think–it seems to you what it seems. Within my world the anomalies of the world are now met with an inattentive alienation–I am so removed from the uncanny that I don’t even see myself in the equation." || CTX: The dopamine, serotonin, and cortisol trio. Ugh.   They also depersonalize one's emotional experience and thus make expression feel less vulnerable. "I am stressed" is more confessional than "My cortisol's spiking".   The jargon words becom
2026-06-18T09:14 id=2067536406025797754 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree what an absolutely miserable way to live, if only people didn't take the Internet seriously all this would go away || CTX: I kinda think the objectivity fascination is almost just a result of the social media panopticon's primary control mechanism: cringe.   The fear of being cringe comes from knowing someone *could* be sneering at you, and, if people are deter
2026-06-18T09:15 id=2067536565006713214 →joodalooped | @joodalooped @turboblitzzz spoken like a true developer, if they don't like your product, it's the users that are wrong. keep blaming your customers dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @turboblitzzz no, i'm saying they're going to help train models that make better things and too many people have their heads up their asses about the sanctity of "personal taste"
2026-06-18T09:20 id=2067537971511992711 →- | If they re-released 4o, the total people who started falling in love with it, getting AI psychosis, etc. would be a tiny fraction of those who did upon the first release.   People like to think 4o was misaligned or it was too persuasive or it was too sycophantic. These are right but partial descriptions.   It was also a function of newness; much like a tribe unexposed to smallpox, humanity unexposed to a coherent text generating robot were not sufficiently inoculated against its corrosive effects.  All the bad ideas from the AI world will die of old age.
2026-06-18T09:21 id=2067538063144943774 →joodalooped | @joodalooped @turboblitzzz I can definitely tell that I am the triggered one in this conversation and you are not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @turboblitzzz i sell my personal taste for a living and i'm still not as triggered by their bullshit by you sanctimonious taste signalers
2026-06-18T09:26 id=2067539480492568641 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen I only discovered this rationalist thing when FTX blew up, and only learned about the LessWrong website like a year ago.  I find it fascinating that so many people find value in this stuff, when they could be reading great works of literature and philosophy. || CTX: It’s weird, being in the rationalist scene, because at meetups or in online discussions, so many of them are ex-something, ex-Christian, ex-jewish, ex-catholic, w/e And it’s clear to me they share a common interest in missing what the Churc
2026-06-18T09:47 id=2067544644444152104 →luddgang | @luddgang I stayed mostly off social media and definitely tried to keep a low profile when the cancel culture era was at its most hostile to individuality because I like using the word "retard" and dislike people telling me what I can and cannot say.   Has nothing to do with this thread. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where does American cancel culture come into this? I don't see anything offensive to woke sensibilities in this thread.
2026-06-18T11:53 id=2067576338601627960 →IsabelRTokyo | @IsabelRTokyo The gang learns about Asian face saving. || CTX: Japanese soccer fans have developed a heartwarming reputation for cleaning up after themselves. Some women wish they'd bring that scrupulousness into the home. https://t.co/G68nayeJ2b
2026-06-18T12:07 id=2067579955505254603 →- | 79% got this right.  Imagine a large room with tons and tons of stencils, all of which produce beautiful tasteful works of art. That is A.  Imagine the person who chooses which stencils to put in the room. That is B.  Intuition pump: Someone can have taste but cannot output tasteful outputs. Rick Rubin is the classic example. Someone can also have bad taste and produce tasteful outputs; imagine a very technically skillful artist I use to produce picture perfect copies of Monets who is a Disney adult. (Many Disney adults I suspect produce tasteful outputs in their job.)  You can easily confuse these things with grammar, btw.  "She is quite tasteful." This can mean: A. A female artist produced a tasteful work of art or B. A ship was produced by people who have good taste.  If you have a flat information theoretic understanding of natural language as just argument, you'll be fooled by marketing that leverages this ambiguity.   You think you're so sophisticated with your cybernetics reading list, but to me you're like a Boomer who believes it because Fox News told them it's true.  My contempt for you is deep and wide like your mom's gash. || CTX: Do you think:  A. It is possible to make an LLM make more tasteful outputs; B. It is possible to make an LLM have more taste?   Now, I want to take a poll on this question:
2026-06-18T12:15 id=2067582048039305550 →christianoboria | @christianoboria idk man, I moved to Europe after 9/11 and apparently Americans went insane after I left. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Then what happened?
2026-06-18T12:28 id=2067585171168338135 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Forgive me but she was the most drop dead gorgeous femme fatale of the 2000s, just a flawless specimen.   And she's not Asian, @JasonBotterill || CTX: more people should ditch hollywood. if you have to go into the business just get some money quick and get out. and then never look back. https://t.co/ldEGzfGxPL
2026-06-18T12:33 id=2067586397062713551 →athena_notes | I agree with you and the treatment of teaching investing (and yes, epistemology, logic, psychology all naturally flow from this as a starting point), but I worry teaching mysticism is not a great idea for a people who (I still contend) are largely held back by an obsession with faith.   The issue is structural, too: the Catholic Church has absurd political and economic power in the PH. Wealthy people who control the country are overwhelmingly Catholic or use the church for their own ends. Either way, the church remains a central focus of attention, leading to less attention on important things like promoting contraception so there are less malnourished children, as you mention.   But oddly, Philippines TFR has plummeted so maybe this problem is fixing itself, just slowly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I typed a reply but it's a bit long so I hope you don't mind me posting a link instead: https://t.co/szouEObYv4  I do jump around ideas a lot 😅  But yeah, curious what you make of all this.
2026-06-18T12:33 id=2067586560988680698 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @Lunens__ He's got middle manager energy, 100% || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Lunens__ He looks a little like my General Manager, oddly enough.  Wishy-washy body language, very careful non-committal words owing to redlining social calculations going on beneath jittery eyeballs...awkward metaphor whi
2026-06-18T12:55 id=2067592102234763309 →- | If you think about it, the massive success of Bloomberg should force us to reconsider a lot of our assumptions about journalism.  Before I begin, I have to make some assumptions explicit, especially because you are likely to disagree with them all.  First, Bloomberg is very high quality. Like, ridiculous, crazy high quality. Tom Keene, for instance, is a cerebral finance nerd who will happily and eloquently talk about higher order derivatives out of sheer love of the game. He's a god.  Matt Levine was trained as a Latinist! I think he even taught Latin? And a lover of great literature; it was his love of The Mezzanine that got me to read it (one of the greatest late 20th century novels btw, a masterful performance). He was also a top banker, a top lawyer, and now writes an incredibly brilliant newsletter about stuff related to money. My Silly Business Theory #SBT is heavily influenced by Matt's ability to be irreverent, serious, and informative at the same time.  I could go on. Anyway, point is the commentators, news reports, whole fucking thing is great over there, and everyone in finance knows it.  But here's the thing. They're a captured medium.  Capitalism is good, growth and wealth should be pursued and praised, enterprise is better than cooperatives or alternative structures--these are presuppositions to the entire outfit Mikey got going over there in Midtown East. Which is no secret.  The fact that they are essentially captured to the ideology of the industry they report AND YET provide both the best analysis and reportage on said industry suggests that the beloved oppositional independence of the press--the whole WaPo "democracy dies in darkness" ethos--may not actually be as productive and truth-seeking as we would like to think.  We like to think in terms of oppositions, of dialectics, of argument, counterargument, conclusion (or point, counterpoint, winning point of view). There's no reason why these things should be true.  The opposite of salt is not necessarily sugar--it could be no salt. Or pepper.  The love of oppositional dialectics is one of the real deep errors of western civilization, and it's one I can't get into today. I'm stoned and this is about Bloomberg.  What we see with this news service is reliable, accurate, informative, and actionable. They do this without the typical hard-hitting argumentative tough journalism ethos that we assume is needed to fight truth to power or whatever.  It was Bloomberg that got SBF to admit he was running a ponzi scheme, for instance.  Meanwhile, WaPo is a joke.  I don't know what to do with this observation, but it is striking. And it is something I've learned in my old age: arguing against a point of view doesn't necessarily help one understand that point of view, even if it is scandalously wrong.
2026-06-18T12:58 id=2067592815522295964 →dadrian | @dadrian @christianoboria I remember in the 2000s observing America and thinking it went like uber crazy evangelical. I was not in America at the time so idk if that was just a media effect. But would explain it.  I still find what happened in the 2000s to America incomprehensible. || CTX: @christianoboria @47fucb4r8c69323 New round of parents following the new messaging
2026-06-18T13:18 id=2067597895088660921 →APark13530380 | Neither. I want to help people avoid mistakes.  When I was a child, we went to Yosemite national park and I saw a sign that said "when you leave, keep the park cleaner than how it was when you arrived."   I want to do that to the world. Make it a bit better than it was when I arrived. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you wish you were famous and admired or do you just want more money?
2026-06-18T13:43 id=2067604212423565786 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs wtf she took a break to raise kids I thought it was something awesome like taking a break to have sex with Thai male masseurs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs There’s something to be said about the man who needs to clarify that
2026-06-18T13:44 id=2067604406816878838 →teodorio | @teodorio I am losing my mind seeing this opportunity pass me by. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm in a lot of known and unknown rooms and every single executive is now trying to cut AI costs.  Literally everyone I am talking to. Insane switch from just a quarter ago.  It's coming alright
2026-06-18T13:46 id=2067604858283446461 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs I was busy having sex with Thai male masseurs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs How long were you thinking to say this you liked my reply over an hour ago 😭
2026-06-18T13:50 id=2067605933061263375 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs I HAVE BEEN TESTED AND I PASSED || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs Your next post will be on how you accidentally got aids
2026-06-18T14:22 id=2067613937554862306 →babarganesh | @babarganesh @Picolospolitics When I was an undergrad there was a program where honors students could join a discussion group of senior alumni and prof emeriti and I did this for Greek drama, it remains one of the most memorable classes I had. In August will have been 30 years ago.  I was 16. || CTX: @Picolospolitics @47fucb4r8c69323 If there was a school for literature and philosophy that didn’t accept students below the age of 50 or teachers below the age of 70, I’d join in a heartbeat
2026-06-18T14:25 id=2067614612456186176 →teleoflexuous | @teleoflexuous @teodorio This is legit a brilliant idea. Deployment and hosting remains a pain point for me (tbf largely our of laziness) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio not too late to become Vercel of openrouter!
2026-06-18T14:26 id=2067614894401446163 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Reminds me of the Japanese idea of always cleaning even if nothing looks dirty. A beautiful country is about maintenance. || CTX: I don't care why people do it   Even if it's performative and copied, people having better taste elevates the general level of aesthetics in society   In Tokyo the general level of beauty, from tiny everyday objects to how people dress is m
2026-06-18T14:43 id=2067619231064293805 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil dude where are you? || CTX: Riding the struggle bus right now   Have gone too deep into local area all the food incredibly sketchy   Got this for takeaway to not make the gut feel bad but it's inedible   I'm starving and can't find anything to eat!!!   What happens to
2026-06-18T14:45 id=2067619830375887346 →AndrewCurran_ | @AndrewCurran_ The muscle has been flexed, the message has been sent.   In my debate with Yud I warned him yelling about safetyism would give Trump an excuse.   I was talking about shit like this. And there will be more so much more. || CTX: Speaking about the Mythos/Fable embargo an Anthropic representative said 'We are very confident that in the coming days, the models will become available again'. So negotiations may be in a new stage, President Trump also said they were goi
2026-06-18T14:57 id=2067622648356700373 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil well there's yer problem right there || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 South of Thailand
2026-06-18T14:59 id=2067623142298923258 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @floinkus that liquid chamber is vodka brah || CTX: @floinkus Daily scans don’t make sense. Once a month or maybe weekly but nobody is going to go there every day
2026-06-18T15:15 id=2067627265723371671 →- | Monks are not incels,  They don't want sex, so they're cels* This is a haiku  *that's why they're called monastic cells
2026-06-18T15:18 id=2067628033889198269 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor AI generated text just raises the demand for human produced text, I've been saying this for years.   Extended, it suggests a future where people care about cutting edge experimental fiction and shies away from the formulaic.   Cultural golden age is coming. || CTX: shit shit shit there are words flowing out of me that are gonna get me in trouble again https://t.co/5pH6LKonbB
2026-06-18T23:17 id=2067748501157789881 →- | There are a lot of cases where people start with ideology and then work to a logical conclusion from the ideological premise.  Liberty is good --> IP Law restricts new drug development Power is evil --> Journalism must be adversarial  Racism is bad --> Fire people for using the word "retard"   The issue here is that, even if the logic represented by the "-->" above is a straight line (which it almost never is), what actually IS the case in the world and what functions in the world does not always follow from the premise.  We can all agree that selfishness is bad as a concept, this is an ideology most but the most sniveling redditor would argue with. Because it's tautological: the word "selfish" means self interest that is bad or too extreme.   And yet it is selfishness that creates wealth and makes society prosper.   "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages" - Adam Smith  If my baker is selfish and wants to rule the town so he can bed every woman in sight, and so he tries to make the best baked goods to win the benevolence of the voting public, I get yummy treats.   I have met so many people who are frankly evil assholes who have produced so much wealth and prosperity because of their rapacious ambition.  This is how civilization works.   Yes, it is icky. It feels wrong. Unless you change your perspective.   We have created structures (democracy, capitalism, and especially property laws such as IP laws--oh and language of course) that harness the innate selfish callousness of man to turn it into something positive sum.  We found technologies to turn the selfish cruelty of man into something that enriches all men.  This is a miracle!!! This is fucking ALCHEMY! || CTX: There's a certain type of libertarian-leaning person who seems to think that if you don't let pharmaceutical companies abuse intellectual property law, then there won't be new drugs.  They never justify this theory, they just hand-wave abou
2026-06-18T23:53 id=2067757638730084832 →danielrmay | @danielrmay But it helps enshrine Anthropic's lead in law and hurts competition so it's good because they're the good guys, remember? || CTX: This is not good, it will entrench the concept of "jailbreaks" in public parlance, lead to lower AI literacy and add unnecessary complexity https://t.co/aDNCTeULEB
2026-06-18T23:57 id=2067758658407280973 →- | Benchmark gaming has absolutely ruined this industry, which is why benchmarkers should work on ungameable benchmarks.  They're VERY easy to do--my benchmark cannot be gamed. But I guess there's little interest in this paradigm among benchmarkers. https://t.co/NgRcPziZyX || CTX: &gt; see an llm and a game in one post &gt; happy face &gt; “yooo finally we are doing evals on games and models are good” &gt; the model just implemented a well known game &gt; sad face  every. damn. time. https://t.co/0pZp4ksL1s
2026-06-19T00:01 id=2067759610916995261 →- | RT @yudapearl: Our weekly harvest of new articles in causal inference has swelled to 15 pages, see https://t.co/DRUUKfPbuw. To obtain a mor… || CTX: Our weekly harvest of new articles in causal inference has swelled to 15 pages, see https://t.co/FI1WNvb3Kz. To obtain a more panoramic view of trends in causal inference, please examine the timeline of Google Scholar citations over the pas
2026-06-19T00:04 id=2067760430291042610 →- | You'll get a ton of alpha in life by not having opinions about things you don't really understand.  I need to remind myself of this more often.
2026-06-19T00:20 id=2067764476439662764 →sosojni | @sosojni @ClintFiore I loved in Europe for 8 years and visit often, usually for months at a time.   OP is 100% correct. || CTX: @ClintFiore Your image of Europe is comically wrong. But i guess you know that and this is pure attention farming on X.
2026-06-19T00:22 id=2067764994373226680 →word_and_number | @word_and_number hard to hear you over the sound of that cleavage || CTX: same energy as when i overheard two girls in their 20s go: “OMG OUR SONGGGGG” to fucking Imagine by John Lennon. https://t.co/CMSPcil9aa
2026-06-19T01:08 id=2067776521532748118 →- | in the early 2010s, I often would write notes about the emerging duopoly in the ad business of Facebook and Google, and compliance would flag this as potentially libelous because of the word "duopoly", so I had to rephrase using subtler language like emerging market dominance or whatever, and it struck me how this regulation and these legal limitations empowered the market leaders to grow their market lead and crush smaller competitors without me being able to speak truth to power because of limitations of what I could say and how I could say it.   There are many cases of regulations empowering the already entrenched market leaders, and this experience is partly why I became more libertarian in my ethics and attitude towards regulation.   But at the same time, libertarian attitudes to monetary policy are clearly wrong.  They would predict hyperinflation in the 2010s and indeed some idiots like Alex Tabarrock predicted just that. And of course it never came, and The economist with their bad predictions were never held accountable, and nobody cares.  This is another of many instances where one's beliefs of what should be the case and observations of what actually is the case are in tension.   And we often want to resolve that tension by finding some logic that connects our values to our observations, but this is both fallacious motivated reasoning and often just plain wrong in the sense of factually incorrect.   The world can work well without conforming to our beliefs of what should be the case. this is very hard to accept on an emotional level, which is why this error in judgment persists.
2026-06-19T01:25 id=2067780794228318386 →- | gm chat https://t.co/6rf7POKBkP
2026-06-19T01:50 id=2067787066977681605 →- | Let me tell you a story about how regulations to protect the poor locals from the evil rich outsiders creates poverty. This is a particularly potent argument against all kinds of socialism, communism, and heavy regulation because it is a 100% true story and is honestly the biggest problem in my life right now.  I live on a small quiet street with only one neighbor. On the other side of me is an empty lot that someone on my island bought long ago as an investment. On the other side is a small and quite shabby beach bungalow with a small pool.  Both are for sale and I'd love to buy both.  Why haven't these sales happened? A few reasons--and they are all tied to regulation, not to money. Buying both would be about 15% of my net worth and absolutely doable, and I'd easily make the money back from income in less than a year.  However, there are many reasons why these sales haven't happened yet:  1. I cannot legally own these properties. I'd have to put them in my girlfriend's name, which means if we break up she owns them. I'm fine with this arrangement up to a certain point, but these properties on top of what we already own and manage as a couple is a step too far. So I waffle on whether to just do it anyway.  2. I cannot legally get financing to buy these properties. Although I could buy with cash, regulations mean I cannot mortgage at all, and my girlfriend's ability to get financing is difficult because she works 100% online and for foreign companies, so local banks don't recognize her income. I've been to private bankers in Thailand about this, they are comically useless.  3. Legal overhangs make me nervous. If I bought the property and let my girlfriend be the legal owner, there is a threat of the government seizing the property. There is a lot of noise in the press--really at a steady rate--about evil foreigners illegally buying property in Thailand, framed in nationalist terms as hurting Thais. So if I bought property in her name, this could easily be framed as an illegal purchase and cause the Thai government to seize the property.  If I cannot legally own the property, if I am facing tremendous opportunity costs taking money out of assets I believe will earn me double digit returns annually to buy for property I know has no appreciation potential, and if I'm not really the legal owner anyway, why would I buy?  This is why only idiots buy real estate in Thailand.  The end result is quite devastating, and again let me limit the discussion to just my area because Thailand-philes will show up to say "akshuyally, property values are" and link Thai-sourced propaganda to back up their claims.  Several properties on this island have been on the market for many years, such as the plot of land next to us. The owner has recently asked us if we want to buy at a 25% discount to her asking price, and I countered with a 50% discount. No one has come to see it in a long time, and the few who have were obviously not serious buyers.  Others have given up, some resorts have shut down, a few houses are abandoned.  I am quite happy with this situation because of my misanthropy, but it is now getting so bad that the native population is starting to leave the island at an accelerating rate, and I suspect in ~2 years if there's no improvement to the trend the island will start to lack essential services like food markets. We have begun discussing moving somewhere else.  If the regulations allowed me to legally purchase property on this island and to have access to financing, I'd own the entire street I live on. Those who want to buy would have sold their properties. There would also be more competition from other foreign buyers, so of course the price would go up.  Higher prices = more cash in the hands of natives, who then could use that money to start new businesses, pay for their children's education, and slowly make Thailand generally more prosperous.  The rules against foreign ownership, the propaganda against evil foreigners hurting innocent locals, the limitations on financing to foreigners, the myopic refusal to recognize foreign income sources, and the byzantine regulations against foreign home ownership are keeping the locals poorer than they could be otherwise.  The solution to this is better regulations, but of course not no regulations.  With no regulations (or poorly enforced regulations, which is functionally identical), the island would almost surely be flooded by wealthy outsiders looking to house ill-gotten gains, as we have seen happen in other parts of the world. This would result in the natural landscape destroyed by overdevelopment, as one sees in Cambodia, Cyprus, Malta, Panama, Tulum, Miami...it's a long fucking list.  You would need smart regulations that limit development, protect natural areas, enforce mandated green spaces, etc. Smart development regulations, and obviously Singapore is the best example here (although idk if it is as good as they say, I know very little about Singapore), but I'd also say parts of Europe are relatively good at this too.  Of course, there would be losers. I am not saying my solution wins for everyone. Landowners here would win, renters would lose. Laborers would be a mixed bag--some win, some lose, depending on market position and how they leverage the change.  But as it is, the "keep the foreigners out" capital controls is quietly killing the wealth potential of this island. Which I am fine with--remember, I hate people--but it's not good for society, and it's definitely not good for the locals who want a better life for themselves and their families.
2026-06-19T01:51 id=2067787377612050698 →expndcrl | @expndcrl @CatNyanpital WHAT THE FUCK I WAS JOKING LMAOOOO || CTX: @CatNyanpital @47fucb4r8c69323 "Wilson deliberately chose a name with multiple 'L's (Japanese: ルルレモン, romanized: Rururemon) because he thought it was funny to use a letter that Japanese speakers often have difficulty pronouncing."  Lululemo
2026-06-19T02:01 id=2067789834375364633 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 It looks to me like there's an ID card and then the black card in her phone has a metal border, suggesting it's an Amex Centurion card. || CTX: N https://t.co/9qzzaaewl4 https://t.co/oMtvI0pvZT
2026-06-19T03:31 id=2067812597546832347 →tbpn | @tbpn @thaiscbranco_ This is so transparently the tail wagging the dog.  We're not idiots. || CTX: Just 48 hours after launch, Taste Labs CEO @thaiscbranco_ says inbound demand has been "absolutely insane."  "The reason we took so long to launch is because we already had more demand than we could serve even before the launch. I'm still t
2026-06-19T04:04 id=2067820767589584955 →- | One of the ways that I track progress in LLMs is looking at a simple calculation: how much compute is required per token and how many tokens get you a useful answer.  This is very difficult to do, so one just has to accept one’s estimates are imperfect and one must rely on proxies. But the issue now is that this is harder to track because the frontier labs are giving less visibility into the full inference workflow and how many tokens are being used by an LLM as it reasons and uses tools to accomplish tasks.  Once again, this is a structural benefit for open models.  With less visibility into efficiencies, doing financial analysis on this is going to be much harder. Bad for my work, but also really, really bad if you’re an enterprise looking at your LLM needs and trying to budget accordingly.  I don’t think the frontier labs are intentionally sabotaging budgeting, but I do think it makes owned and operated open models again more attractive.  A good contrast is GLM 5.2, which Artificial Analysis has acknowledged is on the “Pareto frontier of intelligence vs cost per task”, and I suspect that other models will supersede it as scientists work on improving these machines.  Let me, as Obama would say, be clear: I’m NOT saying GLM 5.2 is better than the SOTA models for any given task or for tasks in general. We need more and better benchmarks before we could begin to suggest that. All I’m saying is that GLM 5.2 gives us the visibility that we are losing with the frontier labs.  Visibility is a huge selling point for big enterprises. They hate black boxes.
2026-06-19T04:04 id=2067820769791619306 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/JilIhxqkni is really interesting--I need to use this model. || CTX: One of the ways that I track progress in LLMs is looking at a simple calculation: how much compute is required per token and how many tokens get you a useful answer.  This is very difficult to do, so one just has to accept one’s estimates a
2026-06-19T05:32 id=2067842953054441763 →Aikun011 | laundering money, not hiring local workers, those are not issues solved by making it illegal for foreigners to buy land. those things happen in Thailand despite the current horrible laws. it all goes back to well designed laws, institutions, and enforcement. if you just made it illegal for foreigners to own property again, that would be a huge price crash and all of those issues of money laundering and not hiring local workers would get worse. they're separate issues || CTX: I kind of understand what your going through but once you let the genie out the bottle it's really hard to put it back .  It's been about 40 something years since we've let foreigners buy land and invest and while it lifted the country out 
2026-06-19T05:41 id=2067845182029226423 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Exactly--that's the real problem. Weak institutions. And typically, bringing foreigners in helps make institutions stronger because it forces a shakeup of the status quo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is fairly tricky stuff both countries just over all have very weak institutions that'd need major overhauls I think they can easily turn around though .
2026-06-19T07:25 id=2067871500041122060 →- | My issue here is that trying for a moonshot just because it's a moonshot is not good.  Let's take stock of Meta's moonshots, including before it was Meta:  1. Libra: cryptocurrency that was an attempt to put Facebook at the center of internet transactions. This caused the ire and fury of regulators and the government. Regulatory pressure killed it and added fuel to the otherwise fire that had been growing against Facebook both from the media and from DC.  2. Facebook Shops: Another attempt to make FB the center of commerce by turning it into a shopfront platform. Failed miserable with very little interest from ecommerce, for very obvious reasons.  3. Bulletin: Attempt to compete with Substack, which failed miserably and shut down in a year, because FB is really bad at working with content creators.  4. Metaverse: lmfao.  5. Workrooms: Do you even know what this is? It's supposed to compete with Zoom/Teams and have a VR element (which I think is optional?). Of course doesn't work because FB sucks at enterprise.  6. Threads: Total failure.  7. Llama: I have written about this elsewhere, but kicking LeCun out for Wang was objectively moronic, and the fury and turmoil at Meta's AI division now is proof if you needed it.  There are successes: pivot to video, Oculus Rift, and WhatsApp for business. These are far from the core social media feed-based business, but note what they all have in common: they were largely or entirely due to acquiring pre-existing firms.  Max is a tech guy, so he thinks you have to pivot to achieve growth.  However, you do not need to do this! Meta has operating margins of 41% and very easily could do stock buybacks to keep the stock going higher and higher and have a strong mature company.  Max probably thinks the risk is that advertising one day just disappears and their revenue goes from current levels to zero--that's not how any of this works. I won't get into the math, but usually a mature ad business can see low single digit growth and return capital to shareholders to keep the business strong and everyone profitable.  Zuck doesn't want to do this because he's a megalomaniac and, like Max, thinks in terms of growth growth growth. But growth is NOT necessary to make a lot of money as a company and not even as a tech company.  Just look at Snapchat--that's a dogshit company run by an idiot who wears Harry Caray glasses (ask your grandparents) and still they've been around for 15 years now.  Let me do a line by line rebuttal just to be absolutely clear:  "The only way out is to move into a market with better dynamics than social media."  Idk what he's talking about--social media dynamics are tremendously good. Meta's ad revenue was up 29.6% in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2026 from 18.3b to 23.7b. JUST ONE QUARTER! And I'm picking out U.S. specifically because it's a super mature market both in terms of ad spending growth and use of FB products, but you can slice and dice and see impressive numbers in any geography when it comes just to ad revenue.  Social media has PHENOMENAL dynamics. I don't know what Max is even talking about here.  "They have the money and ambition to make this happen."  Note the word AMBITION. This is the key--Max is thinking like an engineer who wants to grow, not as a businessman looking to maximize profit or ensure a strong cash flow for the business. I'm not saying one is better than the other! I'm saying Max's way of looking at FB causes him to oversee obvious blatant facts, like this is a company with annual revenue of $200 billion that is still growing aggressively. They are not at risk of negative growth by 2030 even if they gave up their moonshots, especially since the moonshots have not translated into material revenue growth for the ad business, which remains their main bread and butter.  "Meta can just keep dumping FB/Insta ad revenue into moonshot attempts."  Because social media has wonderful dynamics, so you see how his argument undercuts his premise.  "They have so many shots on goal, they’re nearly guaranteed to find success eventually."  Yes, because it's all being underwritten by a phenomenal business: social media!  Max thinks I'm an asshole, but I genuinely like the guy and think his heart is in the right place, but my impression is that he kinda doesn't understand business and, as a result, is sitting on a goddamn gold mine that he cannot effectively leverage because he's got tunnel vision on AI text detection.  Which, fine, whatever, it's not my business to tell him how to run his business, but it's moments like this that you see why Pangram isn't living up to its full potential.  If Meta gave up on Llama and pivoted to aggressive stock buybacks, improving margins on their ad business, and expanding into premium content creation, they would do great. No, they are not going to go from 33% yoy ad revenue growth globally to 0 in four years. That's not how any of this works, not even remotely.  And, Max, sorry if this comes across as harsh or rude--like I said, I respect you! But you're so so wrong here, just hilariously wrong. Engineer CEOs, man. || CTX: I disagree. Zuck understands better than anyone how fragile social media platforms are. They all have an expiration date. Facebook is well past its prime. Instagram doesn’t have much room to grow.   If Meta was resting on their laurels and 
2026-06-19T07:26 id=2067871648657854663 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 gm Daphne, have any clues for me today? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gm
2026-06-19T07:30 id=2067872603457671270 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 He's not fat, he's big boned! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You even have a fat orange cat .  Dude
2026-06-19T07:31 id=2067872794176831924 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj I think you're good. || CTX: ive got 13k active followers https://t.co/IAvptgMeA9
2026-06-19T07:44 id=2067876121589531006 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 that was back when she was still doing country right? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tim mcgraw https://t.co/vn9n1sDLPv
2026-06-19T07:54 id=2067878607192719820 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 Listening now. I think I prefer her country music to her pop work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah it was her debut single
2026-06-19T08:09 id=2067882543932997993 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @Aikun011 They will always retain sovereign control. || CTX: @Aikun011 @47fucb4r8c69323 Not letting foreigners buy land is the only way Thailand has retained any control of the country   It would have all been bought a long time ago by foreigners doing whatever the fuck had they not done that
2026-06-19T08:33 id=2067888418630013397 →teodorio | PREACH BROTHER!!!   I remember when they bought Whatsapp, I was like 2 years into working on the Street and everyone was in shock at the 19b price tag, which was unprecedented at the time and just seemed ridiculous.   But I was just thinking, this proves the 1b acquisition of Instagram was a goddamn bargain, let alone whatever they paid for LiveRail and let's not talk about Google buying YouTube.  WS quickly realized to respect adtech for being the engine that drives all this growth, but I think SV finds it really embarrassing so they don't like to talk about it. Which has resulted in this new crop of kids like Max who are too divorced from the economic reality that makes their enterprise possible. Cultural issue, as per usual. || CTX: Whatsapp and Instagram were genius aquisitions and instagram has the best ad placement in the industry, hands down. OpenAI would foam at the mouth for that sort of product placement that does not feel like it infringes on your privacy, beca
2026-06-19T08:42 id=2067890744023720195 →teodorio | @teodorio There's a lot of overlap between the culture of LinkedIn and the culture of improv comedy.   Comedy Bang Bang is a good example--anodyne, watered down, safe PC humor to ensure no one is upset, with just the right amount of quirky.  Lot of similarities with EA/Rationalists too. || CTX: I scrolled through Linkedin for exactly 12 seconds before I had an involuntary vomit reaction. It feels like I ended up in a bad impro class where everyone is acting for the first time
2026-06-19T08:58 id=2067894824204951644 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @Aikun011 More foreign land ownership would introduce pressure to lower corruption. Indeed, the laws against foreign land ownership are a huge vector for more corruption. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Aikun011 They don't have ability to, there's too much corruption, they need to stick to simple rule of thumb that are easy for them to enforce
2026-06-19T09:31 id=2067903157674692687 →mikansoleil | Note I am not for laissez-faire capital flows. Chinese would be barred on the basis of a rule of reciprocity, which is standard in many modern countries.   As for Japan, I'm not so sure what's going on there. Seems they're tightening the rules, but  in the 2010s when China was aggressively buying abroad and Japan was an option, prop values grew around 2% yoy: https://t.co/HY9XzCifDl. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Aikun011 Possible. But then what? Chinese buyers would gobble up Thailand in a second. Many many countries including mine have had entire cites become impossible for locals to buy in bc of letting Chinese buy real estate. 
2026-06-19T09:43 id=2067906041266982984 →- | "Yeah the Fed might raise rates, it's all right, whatever" - Trump, after months of calling Powell an idiot and threatening to fire him for not cutting rates. Funniest fuckin president of all time goddamn GOAT.
2026-06-19T11:11 id=2067928366456639957 →- | Self-loathing Jew is a cliche for a reason. I don't know exactly why, but I suspect it is the deeply critical and exegetical culture we have, where constant analysis, criticism, and analysis of the criticism forms our culture.  We aren't bound by much but the strings of what binds us is a Book and, really, the Torah--the Pentateuch. The Tanakh (at least as I was taught as a child) kind of declines in importance, with the Nevim more important than the Ketuvim (more like Kvetchim amirite bros). And the culture is tied by discussion, rediscussion, and so on and so forth of what spirit is behind the text--and more recently, whether there is such a spirit at all.  I live and breathe this culture and imbue my every day with it. I did a PhD in linguistics where I used a mix of textual criticism, codicology, media theory, corpus linguistics, and rhetorical analysis--clearly the discussion of the book is in my blood, and like many Jews I take it much further than the book.  And, like, I research media for Wall Street, if there isn't a more Jewish job than that I defy yo uto tell me what it is. I'm Jewy McJewerson over here.  And yet I despised, resented, and hated my Jewish heritage for decades. Maybe not yet--maybe because of. But in either case, Judaism had represented oppression, unnecessary rules, restrictions, and a lack of safety for me. I associated the entire culture and tradition with my abusive family.  That changed a year ago. I was talking to ChatGPT about the evolution of God throughout the Torah and Tanakh, because it seemed to me both the eschatology of the faith and the features of the godhead in it changed dramatically over time, and I wanted to know if there was scholarship on the issue.  There was, so the clanker introduced me to it.  This gave me a newfound respect and indeed affection for my Jewish faith. I was impressed with the implicit process philosophy in this religion I associated with quite the opposite, and how the book really was expansive and afforded many interpretations--the sign of a powerful and compelling faith.  So I started to warm to my religion.  It was in that mindset that I began talking to Jews on this platform, including @retardbot9000, of all fucking names, who talked to me about the faith we shared and how it impacts our relationship to the world and what values it brings to that relationship.  For the first time in my life, I felt like Judaism empowered me more than confined me.  This is why I just cannot be a technopessimist. The two things that so many people tell me incessantly are the great evils of the world--AI and social media--have given me both peace and pride (!!! It is astounding to me that I am using that word, and yet here it comes from my fingertips!!!) in my Jewish heritage.  Now I hold Shabbos every week, and idk I might even do the High Holy Days this year, for the first time in 33 fucking years.  Maybe this is AI psychosis and social media brainrot or whatever they say--but I have gotten so much from these technologies. Ideas, conversation, friendship, inspiration, and laughter--my GOD the laughter. I have easily, easily easily laughed 100x more because of the internet than anything else on Earth.  Perhaps it is because I come from an abusive family and a topsy-turvy place that I see things opposite of most normal people, and maybe my story should not be used by anyone as guidance on what to do.  But my story is still my story.
2026-06-19T11:12 id=2067928437654978880 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil So so so many such cases lol || CTX: I ask Thai gym can I work out in slides? I have sneakers upstairs learned lesson from gym 1   They don't say anything so I'm like ok, start working out.   Mid workout girl comes to see me and say I can't work out in slides can I pls take th
2026-06-19T11:40 id=2067935661362118821 →Richard_She | @Richard_She This is a fantastic analysis, you are right on every single point. || CTX: This is just a Wall St. vs Silicon Valley divide. Wall St. looks at the Meta revenue graph and thinks wow, "social media has wonderful dynamics." Zuck looks at social media and thinks it only takes one to slay a giant. This paranoia is embe
2026-06-19T11:42 id=2067935995325239578 →wildappleclub | @wildappleclub Tell me first what it is about Judaism you dislike the most. Feel free to DM if you're uncomfortable discussing in public || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm Jewish too and feel similar conflict, tho recently been appreciating the "path" I feel compelled down by my ancestors  I had a good but secular education. Only rediscovering some depth through my Shabbos-goy jewaboo bos
2026-06-19T11:42 id=2067936128884441433 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA  Mai bpen rai, Jai yen you tink too much, hansum man! || CTX: Bro my old gym they were fixing a machine   One guy was welding and the other one was spray painting the same machine   So the welding sparks would cause the spray paint to catch on fire, at no point did they get the hint this was a bad ide
2026-06-19T11:58 id=2067939956841161212 →- | Let us imagine, as they say, the future is unevenly distributed.  And let us assume that San Francisco is where the future is most concentrated. Not just because of the technology in the region, and not even because of the technologists in the area, but because of the fucken money (a triplet and antithesis? omg 47fucb is more like 47gpt).  With so much capital just everywhere and so many opportunities to acquire it, one could say the tech bubble of SV and environs is basically beyond scarcity. At the very least, food, clothing, water, medicine, shelter etc. should all be accessible--they have the money and, as Mr. Draper said, that's what it's for.  You will want to quibble--but the Bay Area is so expensive you'll whine with the Gen Z vocal fry. Look, I'm not going to get into the complexities of Bordieauan social capital with someone who hasn't had sex with a Japanese prostitute without a condom, let's just set your whining aside and assume this is all axiomatic.  Where was I.  If Silicon Valley indeed is inhabiting a post-scarcity world of no want, if they have bots and agents and clankers and stankers to do all their busy work for them and they indeed are in that Star Trek-style utopia, what are they doing with their time?  Are they, like Picard, reading Shakespeare? Or, like Kirk, climbing a rock?  They aren't even committing genocide like Sisko.  This makes me think of a 24th century Katherine Janeway deciding to mix up her Holodeck time and instead of choose Da Vinci she decides to spend an afternoon with Eliezer Yudkowsky HAHAHAHAHAHA you are all such fucking idiots man  Moving on.  These foids and moids and doing this. This. READ THE FUCKING IMAGE THIS IS WHAT THE HUMAN ANIMAL DOES WHEN ALL NEEDS ARE MET OMG OMG OMG LMAOOOOOOOOOO  "We are not here on Earth to make a paradise--we are here to learn." - Kurt Godel
2026-06-19T12:16 id=2067944592532746331 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 https://t.co/shI6Zh5zPD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ❤️
2026-06-19T12:24 id=2067946641941004395 →- | "I have zero introspection" is an assertion one can only make after doing some introspection.
2026-06-19T12:39 id=2067950366076100860 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein LMFAOOOOOOOO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/cQPad51vAU
2026-06-19T12:40 id=2067950757643423888 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini I have taste. Thanks to TASTE LABS! Want your business's website to have TASTE? Go to https://t.co/Zn4FKLNbpO and type "NOT BULLSHIT" to get your 20% off discou || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i knew it that you had an orange cat
2026-06-19T12:44 id=2067951715417227611 →- | RT @LucasSchiavini: @47fucb4r8c69323 tolkien was right about how in peace times people would grow restless and turn to satanic cults and wo… || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tolkien was right about how in peace times people would grow restless and turn to satanic cults and worshiping orc sorcery
2026-06-19T12:55 id=2067954328858738984 →- | I'm afraid the statistical analysis might be the exact opposite of wisdom.   But it is data. Oh hell yes it's data. Damn good data too.
2026-06-19T13:04 id=2067956791347196154 →- | Freddie Lassman is a citizen of Duluth Minnesota in the year 2437. I cannot tell you what he does for a living, for Lassman, like all men and women of his time, lives in paradise.  This utopia is a world where all wants and needs are met, and all can choose to live where and how they want and do what they want with their life, with all food, clothing, housing, medical care etc etc provided by the abundance of technological wealth on the planet and the prudent wisdom of this advanced world.  History has gotten dull but reliable: no wars, no conflicts, no crime, no hatred, no worries.  Lassman is a poet; he writes epic laments of historical figures before the Singularity. He is beloved among his commune, and spends his time writing passionate verses about the pains of men and women living in the mentally, spiritually and economically impoverished 21st century. Women lament at his lines before giving them their love. Lassman gets drunk with fellow poets in Paris, they laugh uproariously at memes of the past.  Lassman also cries--he reads of the difficulties of time when men worked for their bread. He reads the stories, both the historical accounts and the poetic expressions, and he cries.  Lassman lives his life this way: having fun with friends, enjoying the entertainments of his era, and indeed producing the entertainments of his era. He never fears hunger, thirst, crime, debilitating illness, or apocalypse. Anxiety is a familiar word only because he is a poet and it rhymes with so many other words.  Lassman dies with a smile on his face.  The novel would be called: The Nightmare of Nietzsche
2026-06-19T13:37 id=2067965006206079237 →thexanaxlady | @thexanaxlady THEY ARE NOT FOR EATING you look hungry miss || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gmmm!! such glorious cats
2026-06-19T13:39 id=2067965500060226025 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod "art embodied" sounds like a boring pervert || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think your post is funny as fuck, and you're totally mocking one of my favorite people 😆 We've only talked two or three times IRL but he's crazy talented and really funny.  In that crowd he's kinda art embodied and they'r
2026-06-19T14:20 id=2067975860066697445 →- | Nietzsche is asserting a kind of non-dualist materialism in Thus Spach Zarathustra (the eponymous prophet asserts "I am body entirely, and nothing beside; and soul is only a word for something about the body" after all), and yet it is written in a kind of high style akin to the Bible. Why is this?  Obviously, it is a rhetorical gesture.  Nietzsche was no idiot. He was a genius philologist and prodigy of theology and classics who also wrote deeply about ideology--he understood the concept of faith better than almost anyone before him (on the topic he is in the pantheon alongside Kiekergaard).  He knew that the appeal of religious language was just that--the language. If you want people to believe your argument, you need to speak with authoritative diction.  And so it was written like a Bible because that is exactly the mindset Nietzsche wanted his audience and the mindset where his argument would be best understood and most convincing. So the rhetorical strategy is not Sophistic even as it is sophisticated.  The end result is a literary and philosophical masterpiece that is even more impressive because it is a goddamn prophecy: the twentieth century proved he was right. This isn't because he was clairvoyent, and in fact shows something more impressive: he understood the human animal. Structurally. To the bone.  He even predicted being misunderstood and abused.  This is a towering genius and one of the greatest applications of rhetoric in human history, both for effect and affect, without an attempt at Sophistic subterfuge or cynical cashing in of the power of words.  I would not flatten all language to an information-theoretic framework if I were you.
2026-06-19T14:25 id=2067977022480253271 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Agreed. I like to use it only for lookups of religious texts and scholarship. Exploring theology with LLMs is risky af. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I take a lot of caution mixing ai (LLMs) with religion other than quick verse/history references, seems like a good way to upend oneself psychologically and spiritually
2026-06-19T14:59 id=2067985753129500768 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @teodorio @llallawg please tell daddy to come home || CTX: @teodorio @llallawg I know a guy who was homelsss behind 711 dumpster and he had like 10 baby mamas
2026-06-19T21:47 id=2068088320886968465 →- | The propaganda telling 8 billion human beings that we need more people is not working.   Humanity has learned the value of Enough, even if the media is desperate to gaslight us into believing we need more human beings for reasons. https://t.co/93BinZQVoa
2026-06-19T23:57 id=2068121087016390746 →- | The asymmetry between ethics and morality is difficult to understand, and most people don't even realize the two words refer to extremely different things.  Consider: I harm someone. Let's assume that, roughly speaking, there are two primary motivations for my action of harming another: confusion or malice. (Yes there are other options--this is not about them.)  I must assess my behavior differently if it is confusion or malice. If malice, this is an error in feeling and behavior that needs to be corrected: I need to unlearn my maliciousness.  If it is confusion, this is an error of cognition and there is the risk that I cannot correct the error at all.  As a result, if I do the action out of confusion I must be harsher with myself than if I do the action out of malice. In the case of confusion, there is a higher risk that I will err again simply because I cannot learn my way out of this unethical behavior. In the case of malice, however, there is a greater possibility that I can unlearn the malice and become more ethical.  So I should judge my own harmful behavior due to confusion as a greater ethical error than if the harmful behavior was motivated by malice.  In another person, however, I must judge their harmful behavior quite differently. If another person harms someone (myself or a third party) out of malice, there is an active threat: this person intends on harm, and in proximity of the person the risk of harm is not reduced by asserting the behavior is harmful. If anything, it might increase the amount of harm caused.  If another person is harmful because of confusion, the logical response is to instruct them that they have been harmful and they should not do it again. If they do not do it again, there's partial confirmation that there was no malice and the risk of further harm has declined.  Thus I need to judge harmful behavior in myself and in others differently:  I must damn myself more for causing harm if I did it out of confusion, because the risk of repeat offense is greater. I must damn others more for causing harm if they did it out of malice, because the risk of repeat offense is greater.  This is not a clean and decisive final word on the matter--it is a mere heuristic. Complications due to social games, situation, context, the validity and sincerity of rationale, and many other factors I'm surely not considering matter, too.  My only point here is to gesture at the asymmetry in how we judge others and judge ourselves.  The golden rule--treat others how you wish to be treated--is phrased precisely, because we cannot treat others how we treat ourselves.  And we cannot think of other people as we think of ourselves.  "The subject does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world.  Where in the world is a metaphysical subject to be found? You say that this case is altogether like that of the eye and the visual field. But really you do not see the eye. And nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.
2026-06-19T23:59 id=2068121444832440408 →- | The asymmetry between ethics and morality is difficult to understand, and most people don't even realize the two words refer to extremely different things.  Consider: I harm someone. Let's assume that, roughly speaking, there are two primary motivations for my action of harming another: confusion or malice. (Yes there are other options--this is not about them.)  I must assess my behavior differently if it is confusion or malice. If malice, this is an error in feeling and behavior that needs to be corrected: I need to unlearn my maliciousness.  If it is confusion, this is an error of cognition and there is the risk that I cannot correct the error at all.  As a result, if I do the action out of confusion I must be harsher with myself than if I do the action out of malice. In the case of confusion, there is a higher risk that I will err again simply because I cannot learn my way out of this unethical behavior. In the case of malice, however, there is a greater possibility that I can unlearn the malice and become more ethical.  So I should judge my own harmful behavior due to confusion as a greater ethical error than if the harmful behavior was motivated by malice.  In another person, however, I must judge their harmful behavior quite differently. If another person harms someone (myself or a third party) out of malice, there is an active threat: this person intends on harm, and in proximity of the person the risk of harm is not reduced by asserting the behavior is harmful. If anything, it might increase the amount of harm caused.  If another person is harmful because of confusion, the logical response is to instruct them that they have been harmful and they should not do it again. If they do not do it again, there's partial confirmation that there was no malice and the risk of further harm has declined.  Thus I need to judge harmful behavior in myself and in others differently:  I must damn myself more for causing harm if I did it out of confusion, because the risk of repeat offense is greater. I must damn others more for causing harm if they did it out of malice, because the risk of repeat offense is greater.  This is not a clean and decisive final word on the matter--it is a mere heuristic. Complications due to social games, situation, context, the validity and sincerity of rationale, and many other factors I'm surely not considering matter, too.  My only point here is to gesture at the asymmetry in how we judge others and judge ourselves.  The golden rule--treat others how you wish to be treated--is phrased precisely, because we cannot treat others how we treat ourselves.  And we cannot think of other people as we think of ourselves.  "The subject does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world.  Where in the world is a metaphysical subject to be found? You say that this case is altogether like that of the eye and the visual field. But really you do not see the eye. And nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
2026-06-20T00:11 id=2068124443722055809 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty I'm bookmarking this for the next time some troll tries to accuse you of having an eating disorder.  And, ofc, gorgeous pics as always I miss Yorkshire north England best England || CTX: today i walked five miles and i had pizza for dinner :) 🍕 https://t.co/pWNH9ITsQb https://t.co/hQf5qBzwcN
2026-06-20T00:12 id=2068124838498370003 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 Top right pic makes me wonder: what're your thoughts on Aphex Twin? || CTX: https://t.co/PpJLrkPqDE https://t.co/TgrxMKP0Al
2026-06-20T00:38 id=2068131430727926007 →LexerLux | @LexerLux Shabbat shalom, my friend. || CTX: shabbat shalom niggas https://t.co/ADJoyKGMzC
2026-06-20T00:52 id=2068134951812530484 →- | "Open-source LLMs can match proprietary models"   https://t.co/omSICYEkfg
2026-06-20T01:49 id=2068149263369208021 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree This is a good primer on ethics versus morality: https://t.co/kSj1tig4yR  As for the second question: it can lead to such a situation, but it does not necessarily, and using a different heuristic can also lead to that same situation. || CTX: So which one is ethics and which one is morality?   Also, doesn't this lead to a situation where you could excuse your own outbursts because you've acknowledged it's wrong but you keep doing it, whereas you don't allow the same sort of beha
2026-06-20T01:52 id=2068149853298081897 →DefenderOfBasic | @DefenderOfBasic We'll release our results in October (hopefully, if things aren't delayed) and hopefully interest in our work will grow afterwards.   But since our work is focused on the limitations of LLMs, a lot of moneyed interests will want to ignore us and encourage others to do the same. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wish your lab had a blog / an intern or grad student who just learns and writes what piques their curiosity   Very excited whenever you guys are ready for that
2026-06-20T02:57 id=2068166262728138979 →annapanart | @annapanart Welcome to the party. https://t.co/4jFtZViCnB || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-06-20T03:00 id=2068167116780634255 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Austin surely has a jimjilbang or Japanese onsen, find one and go, just trust me! || CTX: https://t.co/sqpq4HLPyH https://t.co/ngwh0mdZU8
2026-06-20T03:01 id=2068167292886909019 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Yes I know I feel this every damn day. I need salespeople, we need funding. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/7KyUzOUv1J
2026-06-20T03:30 id=2068174739890463222 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Two meetings next week. Keep everything crossed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Every day I see so many obvious grifts getting funding. There must be a way.
2026-06-20T03:40 id=2068177141674701099 →- | Americans really think Europe is France, Italy, Greece, and Spain, it's really quite extraordinary. https://t.co/n88tjo9SIF || CTX: your friends come back from europe and suddenly they’re all “let’s get dinner at 9pm”
2026-06-20T04:00 id=2068182233551343686 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Me coming back from Moldova: these chairs aren’t bolted down let’s steal them
2026-06-20T04:25 id=2068188519215026369 →- | RT @INVESTMENTSHULK: AI IS COOL. THE AI COMPANIES FUCKING SUCK. || CTX: AI IS COOL. THE AI COMPANIES FUCKING SUCK.
2026-06-20T04:37 id=2068191571825291373 →nntaleb | @nntaleb Yes this is true both in China and much of Asia; Thailand is similar, and it's more due to poor enforcement meaning smaller forms can get away with more. || CTX: QUESTION on CHINA. It seems to me that China is libertarian for small entities,  w/near complete laissez faire, compared to, say, Italy or France, where the small is overregulated and the large able to play the system. China's state control
2026-06-20T04:38 id=2068191641903735219 →nntaleb | @nntaleb Yes this is true both in China and much of Asia; Thailand is similar, and it's more due to poor enforcement meaning smaller firms can get away with more. || CTX: QUESTION on CHINA. It seems to me that China is libertarian for small entities,  w/near complete laissez faire, compared to, say, Italy or France, where the small is overregulated and the large able to play the system. China's state control
2026-06-20T05:09 id=2068199614650728955 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Their ignorance of Asia is quite disgusting as well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And Europeans really think the US is California, New York, Texas, and maybe Florida.
2026-06-20T07:09 id=2068229620621537365 →- | Was another wonderful morning. https://t.co/3693qfjKxe
2026-06-20T08:07 id=2068244388506128492 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs gm ma'am || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gm
2026-06-20T08:08 id=2068244461411586182 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs https://t.co/fOhv8Oojy2 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gm
2026-06-20T08:08 id=2068244681084059879 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie https://t.co/duTTN6PlDU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so lovely
2026-06-20T09:32 id=2068265838088794159 →allgarbled | @allgarbled Just like the Quebecois. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m so American I consider Montreal to be Europe.
2026-06-20T09:33 id=2068265964119212451 →14hrscreentime | @14hrscreentime Coupe, sedan, and 14 wheeler truck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Impressive car collection
2026-06-20T10:32 id=2068280836089114643 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 goddammit I wasn't going to have a beer today || CTX: USA! USA! USA! https://t.co/CqD7LuQ6jT
2026-06-20T10:37 id=2068282139003543640 →- | Well fuck now I really need a beer https://t.co/Q0vmUB7z2A || CTX: Beer can boost ‘spiritual or mental’ health, says Kirin president https://t.co/TgTVZxvDrP
2026-06-20T11:05 id=2068289191793045759 →- | Of the many internet communities I've been a part of, one of the most creative and fascinating was the polandball one.  They were mostly on Reddit, but the meme began on the chan-boards (Krautchan iirc originally, but almost immediately on 4chan's /int/ where I first came across it in sometime around 2009 or 2010).  The diversity and creativity of the group was a wet dream for me, a long-time expat with contempt for the myopic cultural chauvinism of his native America (sorry I know it's World Cup, eh whatev get over it). There were Europeans, Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans all making hilarious comics lampooning themselves and their neighbors.  Comics about history, culture, literature, and of course geopoitics were the norm, so for a humanities and linguistics obsessed nerd, I was again in heaven with these people. I lack the artistic ability or patience to make a Polandball comic, so I would comment, but I had massive respect for some of the most prolific artists.  Many comics made me laugh, some horrified me, and at least one made me cry. I wasn't the only one affected; the president of Estonia once tweeted a polandball comic.  This was an erudite and heavily online group of mostly men, and they were aware of the absurd nerdiness of their subculture. Which is why there was a rather strict rule in the group: polandball was for the internet. Talking about it offline, printing out comics, or (god forbit) actually making IRL polandballs--this was referred to as "cancer".  And, as the community would remind one another every once in a while, this was just an extension of a well-known rule: talking about the internet IRL was cringeworthy, so same for polandball.  This was in 2013.  Now, of course, the internet is inseparable from the real world, and we are way past everything online being discussed offline and vice versa.  The separation is no longer a credible hypothesis: the internet is part of the real world and vice versa. Both shape the other, and we are not all that sure which tends to do the shaping more often.  This transition has been happening since the 1990s. Back then, it was so cringeworthy to talk about the internet IRL you never had to mention this fact. If I met anyone from the internet IRL and they introduced me to one of their real-life friends, I met them at a ski resort or something equally preposterous.  Yes, that's a real example, btw--when I briefly dated Lisa, I had to say I met her at a ski resort. Beautiful skin, amazing voice (both speaking and singing).  We met in the AOL private chat room "Nirvana", which then became "Cardigans". IF YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT DM ME IMMEDIATELY  So from the 1990s to ~2013, the norm about internet being separate from the real world had already been broken. We'd see pictures of polandball street art or people would post on Reddit that they'd discussed it with friends or complain about friends IRL discussing it at school or whatever.  Lisa, they were tearing the rules apart!  Now obviously this rule is dead, so when did it officially die? What was the turning point when the internet and real world were officially totally and unapologetically fused together?
2026-06-20T11:41 id=2068298151686201609 →equacc | @equacc I went once or twice, was too slow for me. Never heard of karachan or vichan. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 have you been to krautchan or you are just referencing it? I wonder if you know anything about karachan or vichan
2026-06-20T11:42 id=2068298370599547110 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ /int/ and /r9k/ ca. 2009-2011 was one of my best times online.   Honestly 2026 Twitter comes kinda close to that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I miss int
2026-06-20T11:45 id=2068299239567040521 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ yeah, and even /news/ in the late 2000s wasn't a Nazi place. Well, not fully || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I liked r9k before the incels took over when it was just the greentext board
2026-06-20T13:11 id=2068320846918385985 →potatoslav | @potatoslav that cake looks so good. is it carrot? || CTX: i’ve done it. i’ve become a true regular at my favorite café in my German town. everyone knows me and smiles at me when i come in. they even bring my tray over and give me a water (and an extra for the baby) without asking. i’m so happy. ht
2026-06-20T13:32 id=2068326212062388482 →- | This is unacceptably bad slop. Just nonsense. https://t.co/Zaga8y4PJY
2026-06-20T20:23 id=2068429651425575065 →profleonn | @profleonn @potatoslav PREACH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav carrot cake (and cheese cake) are possibly the best types of cake ever
2026-06-20T20:24 id=2068429789732778149 →aimeebalthazar | @aimeebalthazar nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did you ever try ylilauta? this brings back so many memories
2026-06-20T22:36 id=2068462977678971278 →gurenyov | @gurenyov I'm their human || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 These are your cats? 😮
2026-06-20T23:00 id=2068469174184407299 →thecaptain_nemo | @thecaptain_nemo Anthropic has been doing that for years || CTX: a non-technical failed grifter ive known for many years, who unironically posts ai slop on linkedin, was recently hired by anthropic as a member of technical staff  maybe the pace of hiring has gotten a bit out of hand?
2026-06-20T23:02 id=2068469553722757522 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen Is it still the Verizon building? || CTX: Favorite building in Manhattan https://t.co/TvmXIKmpDd
2026-06-20T23:11 id=2068471742365147372 →- | TIL surveillance capitalism is "a form of worship of human life".   One of the fascinating things about particles is that measuring them seems to change their behavior. I don't think we're all that different.   We kinda have data on this. The quantified self movement of the 2000s was a thing, and surely some people have stuck with it for 20 years.   Have their physical and mental health outcomes been better than similar cohorts who didn't do the quantified self thing? I honestly don't know. Not my field so I won't even try to interpret these studies, but they seem a starting point for discussion: https://t.co/8dKVZXUQLb https://t.co/QDXUs2E8o8  For myself, I don't need thousands of scans, but God bless those who want it. || CTX: this will be true across all walks of life  I would expect our whole lives to be recorded and the sheer signal density of your physical and digital presence to go 10,000x  agents and computers to sift through all of it  really it’s a form o
2026-06-20T23:11 id=2068471938616529136 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck @CaudilloXIV Glad someone said it. || CTX: @CaudilloXIV Dutch girls ain’t that pretty I’m sorry
2026-06-20T23:14 id=2068472544651579582 →gurenyov | @gurenyov From front to back: Apollo, Dionysus, and Helios || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What are their names? 🤓
2026-06-20T23:21 id=2068474321572680060 →publicinte | @publicinte @PxlHulk Do they still have good corn bread? || CTX: @PxlHulk we made it through
2026-06-20T23:48 id=2068481130702180837 →a_musingcat | I think he regrets HOW he did it. It's a great name for a massive tech company, but everyone knows he did it because of the Metaverse (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA) so it is objectively hilarious, but could've been truly brilliant.  Which I think is a good description of Zuck himself: objectively hilarious, but could've been truly brilliant. || CTX: do you think he ever regrets renaming it Meta
2026-06-21T00:16 id=2068488141561012293 →- | Donald Trump is the paradigmatic case of Silly Business Theory #SBT.  First, we have to understand him as a man who seeks mastery over range rather than domain; from very early on, he wanted to grow from real estate into entertainment, consumer-packaged goods, even education. He was more interested in extending his reach across different parts of human activity rather than just growing his real estate empire.  This is probably because of a mix of low intelligence, hunger for power, and rabid narcissism, but the point is that he wanted to dominate fields where he had no beachhead, no expertise, no unique differentiator at all. But he wanted to dominate--so how could he do it?  The answer was marketing.  You just brand things. Just outsource making your knives, slap "Trump Knives" on the package, and off you go. At the time this was dismissed as Trump wanting to make a quick buck, but I think that's missing the forest for the trees: he wanted to extend his reach beyond the limits of real estate, and the vector that made this possible was the brand.  So early on, Trump learned to be ridiculous to get attention.  His unique differentiator became silliness.  And this got him a wildly popular TV show which, in turn, got him the presidency.  We see in this a clear case of Trump leveraging the wealth that he earned in the domain that is his wheelhouse to enter and conquer other domains simply by being silly. And it worked.  Musk, in a different and much more competent way, does the same. He wanted to build electric cars, so he leveraged his wealth from Paypal to buy and dominate Tesla. He's a sad lonely little boy who wants to go to Mars, so he leveraged his wealth to start SpaceX. And of course he'll never get to Mars, but that's okay because the silliness of his venture has turned into trillions of dollars because of the infrastructure it has that can be put to use elsewhere for more serious things. Because of a silly childhood fantasy.  This is what Silly Business Theory predicts: when people have enough capital that their higher needs in the Maslow pyramid are met, they will get sillier as they find that having those needs fulfilled isn't fully fulfilling.  When that happens, the rich and bored person has two choices: they can either start acting silly on purpose or they can become silly inadvertently.  The arc of the business world is long, but it bends towards silly.
2026-06-21T00:18 id=2068488602196271437 →menewstyle | @menewstyle The AI industry is a strange place--they are developing the most amazing technology of my lifetime but they're fucking retards.  Investment Hulk said it best: https://t.co/LROC2nJxGG || CTX: AI IS COOL. THE AI COMPANIES FUCKING SUCK.
2026-06-21T00:26 id=2068490670667653317 →tkisrage | @tkisrage how is he vindicated? Trump is a miserable human being. material success is not true success || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Does trump have introspection? I mean he definitely doesn’t ruminate on the past. Andreessen might be vindicated here…as much as it hurts me to say
2026-06-21T00:28 id=2068491136118005760 →menewstyle | I honestly don't think they're smart, I think they are technically skilled, but that's insufficient to be smart in my mind. if you don't know where your techniques are insufficient, you're not a smart person no matter how good you are at those techniques.   but I want to be clear, I do think roon is very smart, just disingenuous on this app || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m gonna go with your account as I have no unfiltered takes from someone in the trenches. Maybe some devs just have mislead notions about humanity despite making the most interesting tools anyone has seen in a minute. Smar
2026-06-21T00:39 id=2068493920867373293 →menewstyle | @menewstyle precisely, they are overextending their competency. this is common for people who get too successful too quickly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh yeah. That’s just an attention pull. It’s a poker game with facade for dunk points. I think it might be because they became successful too quick and acquired god complex, because they’re good in their domain, they’re kno
2026-06-21T00:43 id=2068494865458221499 →- | We can define power functionally as the ability to force others to listen to you when they don't want to listen to you. And from that perspective, we can say that the desire for power is the opposite of the artistic impulse.  The artistic impulse is to produce an artifact that people want to listen to, or better to say, that they feel a compulsion to listen to.   From that perspective, we could say that the desire to produce art is the opposite of the desire to have power.   But I don't think we really have a word for what exactly the artist desires.
2026-06-21T00:45 id=2068495543807135858 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Samhain948689 in that video of TS from 20 years ago talking about how she wants to become a pop star but believes that everything happens for a reason, I don't think she literally means she believes in a deterministic universe controlled by some higher order operator. she's expressing a feeling, a desire to have people choose to respond positively to her art. that is the artistic impulse, I get it, I get her appeal || CTX: We can define power functionally as the ability to force others to listen to you when they don't want to listen to you. And from that perspective, we can say that the desire for power is the opposite of the artistic impulse.  The artistic i
2026-06-21T01:01 id=2068499435735445510 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I don't like dismissing people is stupid because it's just a vague general hand wave towards saying they haven't thought of x without saying what x is. you can say they're stupid, and I probably wouldn't disagree, but without more detail I can't know if I agree or not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;So why do so many economists and technologists seem to think this gap does not matter when it comes to money?  Because they're stupid? If there's evidence for another hypothesis I've never found it.
2026-06-21T01:03 id=2068499932429058528 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @tkisrage I think the most damning thing you can say about Marc is that he wishes he was Trump || CTX: @tkisrage @47fucb4r8c69323 Trump is fundamentally different from someone like Andreessen because Trump doesn’t even think about not having to think or being silly, that’s just the way he is.
2026-06-21T01:14 id=2068502681883398244 →whatulying | @whatulying Morality is what I think I must do. Ethics are what I can reasonably demand from someone else. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is morality not the structure for ethics?   i wouldn't say there is a risk of being unable to correct an error in confusion because correction is physical (do versus don't do), but i'd say there is a chance of being unable 
2026-06-21T01:26 id=2068505837073838482 →whatulying | @whatulying that's not an ethical question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a kid who did not know the stove was hot harms themselves out of confusion. why must they damn themselves for genuine error? i'd say the one who returns is the one worth scrutiny
2026-06-21T01:27 id=2068506158311374858 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ You should question your own worship of other men.  I wouldn't even say that about Wittgenstein. Hero worship is risky. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Musk is a gnostic demiurge.
2026-06-21T01:40 id=2068509316915859472 →whatulying | @whatulying that would be unconventional definitions of the terms, so I kinda struggle to understand your point tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think that's where my confusion here is? as in i believe ethics stems from morality, so the moral part here is from harm through confusion, the kid learns this 'moral', and the ethics would be not bringing this harm upon 
2026-06-21T01:41 id=2068509574337008081 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ You shouldn't inflate these business issues to metaphysical and spiritual language games || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do not worship him. More or less pattern recognition within a gnostic interpretation of reality. The demiruge is flawed and evil by the way. The purpose of the Christ is to overcome the evil the demiruge created.
2026-06-21T01:45 id=2068510638851420355 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Loss of perspective. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What harm do you see in doing so?
2026-06-21T01:48 id=2068511412335554610 →whatulying | @whatulying . https://t.co/austtUJjpA || CTX: @whatulying Morality is what I think I must do. Ethics are what I can reasonably demand from someone else.
2026-06-21T02:00 id=2068514476312408065 →RichardMCNgo | You've made a category error that is quite natural: in a large group of people throwing ideas at the wall, some will look clairvoyant by sheer chance.  This is how to understand Yudkowsky.   A decision theorist who decides to throw away his legitimacy by agreeing to debate some rando for $10,000 is not a competent decision theorist.  You need to revise your priors and contemplate why your judgment was wrong. But that takes humility you seem to lack. || CTX: @xanderai the closest thing there was to a philosopher of MAGA (and various other nationalist movements).  For more see https://t.co/sfYK8tK5Gh
2026-06-21T02:02 id=2068514920669536486 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov @Clavicular0 I find this so fascinating because for me getting women in Europe was always massively easier than in America.  Wordcel versus pretty idiot I guess? || CTX: @Clavicular0 You have to accomplish genuinely difficult things to carry the composure and presence of such person. You can’t cheat that via plastic surgery.  There’s no surrogate to doing the hard things.
2026-06-21T02:05 id=2068515631117598967 →tszzl | @tszzl Blaming foreigners is also cross ideological: obv the right does it but so too does the left (e. g. "Trump is a Russian agent"). || CTX: people always love to blame foreign astroturfing and interference because they don’t want to believe their peers can be so incorrect
2026-06-21T02:05 id=2068515743898218864 →LexaproTrader | @LexaproTrader https://t.co/CvnIKAujIZ || CTX: I swear that no amount of wealth/ success as an adult can replace this life/ feeling in highschool. https://t.co/GipsJCgxww
2026-06-21T02:08 id=2068516259952730370 →christianoboria | @christianoboria @Barchart The only people in the industry I've seen use TA are boomer sales traders at fifth-rate firms. Should be taken out of the license exams. || CTX: @Barchart Worst metric in history*
2026-06-21T04:52 id=2068557597758959804 →- | Same logic as "omg Deepseek will make frontier models worthless" and "omg vibecoding will make SaaS worthless", two hypotheses that now seem quaint.   The problem here is that you need to have a continuously updating and rising demand curve based on hedonic adaptation and Jevons paradox. In short, as local models get more capable and cheaper demand for both them and better non local models will rise.  Of course this breaks at some theoretical future point: if we had a model that can do everything like make 100 blockbuster movies from a single prompt on a MacBook Air, that changes our data center demand. But, like, that's scifi not reality.   "But someday" -- yes, but you cannot know the shape of a curve from t_0 to t_n even if you know when t_n is and we don't even know that.   Just because you can imagine a utopia or a dystopia does not mean you have information or insight.   I propose we call this Yudkowsky's Blunder: the false belief that just because you can imagine a possible future world means you think you know what our future will be.   You don't, none of us do, engineers suck at prognostication, techbros are shit at business. || CTX: What happens to the datacenter economy if / when we have GPT 5.5-level models running on $5,000 desktops in our homes and offices?
2026-06-21T05:24 id=2068565604559372751 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 The history of technology is deeply entangled with the history of bullshit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tech is good at vaporware for the most part .  Something Microsoft started doing way back to kill their competitors
2026-06-21T06:27 id=2068581514040746495 →shephard42 | @shephard42 there is such a thing is a bad artist. bad art looks a lot like power. I think a good example of this is Grimes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The "compulsion" part is where this kind of comes apart for me. I've been doing art my whole life, and I think artists frequently want to "force" viewers, or otherwise compel them.  It's quite unlike power as it's normally 
2026-06-21T06:27 id=2068581660199968768 →shephard42 | @shephard42 there is such a thing as a bad artist. bad art looks a lot like power. I think a good example of this is Grimes.  you're just describing corrupt artistry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The "compulsion" part is where this kind of comes apart for me. I've been doing art my whole life, and I think artists frequently want to "force" viewers, or otherwise compel them.  It's quite unlike power as it's normally 
2026-06-21T06:52 id=2068587788229022013 →- | We may not have noticed that we've changed from a culture that revered celebrities to a culture that reveres influencers.  And there is a meaningful difference in that change of terminology, because after all, what is important about different terms is their difference in meaning.  So what is the meaning of our new preferred focus of worship, the influencer, over our parents' focus of worship, the celebrity?  Well, on the surface, we can see that the celebrity is celebrated. It is a figure that attracts celebration. So we can associate with the celebrity parties, significant events, and unique moments of experience in which individuals are celebrated for their unique individuality.  The influencer, on the other hand, is defined by their effect on others—how much they influence.  And the thing about influence is that it can be positive or negative.  I might be positively influenced by an influencer I admire. In other words, that influencer gives me a goal to work towards, while a negative influencer, also known as the lolcow, can be a cautionary tale, showing me an outcome to avoid.  There are entire media ecosystems dedicated to both.  If you're unfamiliar with the Dabbleverse, it is a network and ecosystem of content creators focused on one of Howard Stern's old Wack Packers, who has turned into a miserable alcoholic in his old age, and the Dabbleverse circles him as a focus of attention. He is, as it were, the lolcow that influences others on what not to be.  This we could contrast with what Andrew Tate aspires to be, which is an influencer that tells people what they should be.  And also in Andrew Tate's example, we see someone who is, for some, a goal giving influencer, and for others, a cautionary tale influencer.  So now what's happened is that we do not revere unique individuals for their talent, but rather we focus our attention on individuals who, in whatever way, are influencing others.  The celebrity's intrinsic status is the result of talent. The influencer's status is not; it is given by an algorithm and, through that, their relationship to their audience and the general public.  So what we've done is we've moved from a focus on causes of uniqueness to a focus on effects of attention.  And in that sense, uniqueness and talent have become secondary concerns.  It doesn't matter if you're extremely good at playing the piano when I can go on YouTube and find 10,000 others who are equally as good.  And for many people, that value reaches zero when I can just have AI make the piano music for me.  I'm not really saying this transition is good or bad, because I really hated celebrity culture, and I also really hate influencer culture.  But there is an obvious transition that society has undergone.
2026-06-21T07:51 id=2068602604226281895 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Me and who? || CTX: I just caught a fly, but he wanted to stay with me? https://t.co/XrosAmiqfn
2026-06-21T08:05 id=2068606125587759255 →VantagePointijk | @VantagePointijk hahahahaha brilliant, thank you for that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The problem with these surveillance economics juggernauts is they're so powerful. Ok, you know everything, because you know more than anyone else individually, but do you know what you don't know? Do you comprehend your own
2026-06-21T08:11 id=2068607639240745149 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Hermen Hesse for the 21st Century || CTX: I am pretty sure in JD Vance’s new book he insinuates that his Indian wife is pregnant with the reincarnated spirit of Charlie Kirk
2026-06-21T08:22 id=2068610424564761038 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth I love this. || CTX: Designed and sewed my first tote, it's pretty on both sides. https://t.co/GvchAWeQJF
2026-06-21T08:41 id=2068615256490799346 →- | lol, lmao  The biggest problem with economics is it attracts coddled middle class types who don't really care about ideas or argument and just want an easy middle class job with a good pension.  Cowards.  https://t.co/EU4QTttmIf https://t.co/Sti84ykMr7
2026-06-21T08:57 id=2068619240467239067 →- | This post has antithesis, triplets, em-dashes, and single word sentences for emphasis (I. e., all the telltale signs of AI writing), but read it and you can tell this was written by a human.   What are the features of this text that make it feel human like despite the AI signs?   Answer that question and you've unlocked some of the tricks of writing well in the AI age.   Plus, post is hilarious. || CTX: USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.  Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.  I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."  "They just come with the table, man."  They come with the T
2026-06-21T08:58 id=2068619577454702812 →realhansard | @realhansard @grok explain the concept of air conditioning || CTX: 36C with overnight minimums of 24C, in a week of greater than 30C highs every day, is hot weather, and when combined with high humidity and insulated properties is unpleasant.  I’m not interested in the cause, I just do not like heat. https
2026-06-21T09:06 id=2068621463352221981 →xlr8harder | "They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner."  This part is the closest to AI diction imo, but the rest still strikes me as embodied. Maybe AI assisted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 pangram sez ai, and i think it's right
2026-06-21T09:06 id=2068621675428745313 →- | https://t.co/Qw6t8dpGft
2026-06-21T09:39 id=2068629776609542490 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Yeah, agreed actually, and you make me think I was too hasty in my original post.  AI slop is the inevitable result of one-shotting but steering can absolutely turn it into compelling prose.   I miss the early days when prompt engineering was taken seriously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can get AI to do this with multi turn drafting and steering. Nothing wrong with it but it's totally AI.   I do it for ideation/research dumps all the time.
2026-06-21T09:39 id=2068629870544814403 →izzyz | @izzyz I fully agree it's a cadenc and rhythm thing! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the closest concept i've found is called burstiness. human writing has like musical rhythms that ai is not good at replicating yet. this won't be true for long, but it's kind of a cool artifact to identify and watch slowly 
2026-06-21T09:41 id=2068630475518947592 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I overstated the case here. It feels more human than AI slop, but I'm not sure it really reads like it was written by a human.  Maybe the better distinction to have in mind is between AI slop from one shotting, readable AI outputs from good prompting, and human produced text. || CTX: This post has antithesis, triplets, em-dashes, and single word sentences for emphasis (I. e., all the telltale signs of AI writing), but read it and you can tell this was written by a human.   What are the features of this text that make it
2026-06-21T09:52 id=2068633217129955328 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill We are mastered by the bait || CTX: If you got mad at the bait you’re psychopath, if you didn’t get mad at the bait you are just a very well hidden psychopath.
2026-06-21T09:54 id=2068633571364143346 →NaturalMagic777 | @NaturalMagic777 And it's gotten much worse! 5/5.2 was really good, 4o was pretty good for about a month before it went crazy sycophantic, hell even 4 wasn't bad at times. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not good for humanities stuff
2026-06-21T10:00 id=2068635105086877938 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill "We" was the masseuse's name, I forgot to mention that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thailand
2026-06-21T10:01 id=2068635387032166476 →DarkOssoff | @DarkOssoff Maybe I'm just not yet inoculated to his stuff, entirely possible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I blocked that account a while ago, clearly written by AI and it’s all terrible slop.
2026-06-21T10:19 id=2068640032660078792 →tendollardanny | @tendollardanny how're we going to have a good time if no one is funny or interesting? || CTX: twitter isn’t about being funny or interesting. it’s just about everyone having a good time
2026-06-21T10:38 id=2068644659325477021 →- | One way to understand Wittgenstein is that he's trying to tell us we don't describe the things we experience, but rather we can only experience the things we describe.
2026-06-21T10:43 id=2068645905147064772 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This doesn't mean we cannot have experiences without descriptions, because obviously we can (babies and animals do, hell trees so in some way).  I'm saying that we can only understand experiences as experiences that are describable.  I think an implication here is that, once the indescribable is experienced, it ceases to be indescribable. Mystical ends at phenomenon. || CTX: One way to understand Wittgenstein is that he's trying to tell us we don't describe the things we experience, but rather we can only experience the things we describe.
2026-06-21T10:58 id=2068649721015705881 →xanderatch | @xanderatch Can you explain? I don't follow. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds like a bad philosophy if its that exclusive
2026-06-21T11:10 id=2068652830140125205 →- | My gf asked a masseuse to come give me a massage at home so had to bring out the @specialkdelslay candle, fyi master @JasonBotterill https://t.co/Ty7EbXL1ZS
2026-06-21T11:25 id=2068656526739574894 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill I actually hate this house so much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill sweet pad
2026-06-21T11:32 id=2068658246517428693 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill I miss my old house. https://t.co/deprg3Vodi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill why? is it haunted?
2026-06-21T11:34 id=2068658890439623136 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill so did I || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @specialkdelslay @JasonBotterill stunning. i hate being poor
2026-06-21T11:43 id=2068660997725069720 →helscom | @helscom @gabriel1 creativity and passion are real parts of innovation, Gabriel's post is everything that's wrong with the engineer mindset || CTX: @gabriel1 i think the bottleneck is that not enough smart people have joy in their heart
2026-06-21T13:53 id=2068693691443900575 →- | Novel idea: Comedian at the top of his game is given an absurd amount of money by Netflix to do a special. It's way beyond fuck you money, so he has a bit of an identity crisis after realizing he never has to work again. Finally, he decides to shake things up.   Instead of doing a standup routine with funny jokes, and instead of doing anticomedy where unfunny jokes are ironically funny, he decides to be boring.   He reads from his microwave instruction manual, he sits on the floor in silence for a minute, he talks in detail about what ekements of granola detract from the experience of breakfast (but are necessary in a mid-day snack).  The crowd in the stadium boos aggressively, but the show is immediately praised as a masterpiece of ironic meta-meta commentary. The London Review of Books declares the comedian "succeeds in an unprecedented display of naked sincerity that becomes a commentary on sincerity-as-medium for a world starved for authenticity. The world has a new Jonathan Swift, and our long thirst for genius is finally quenched."   Stunned and encouraged, the comedian decides to try again. He does a sitcom, it's a success. Then a buddy cop movie, it's the number one blockbuster for 47 weeks straight.  At this point the comedian, richer than Midas, decides he can only continue doing this with integrity as an artist. Otherwise it is not worth doing. So he decides, as he finds other art forms to do badly, he must also live badly, or else his work is mere clever parody.  So as he does rom-com and late Victorian realist novel and rock opera, the critics' acclaim accrues but his lifestyle worsens. Mansions are swapped for large houses in good areas that slowly decend past shack in the ghetto to homeless shelter and denizen of homeless under bridges. Michelin restaurants turn into dumpster diving as he releases Korean drama and Mongolian throat singing ams woke cold thoughtpiece in The Jacobin.   Finally he is found dead of a meth overdose in a ditch, lungs full of rainwater.   The critics are not pleased with this last performance. The New York Times obituary is titled "The Death of a Talentless Hack", which SHOULD be the title of the novel, but it's actually called "This Book is Called the Title of the Obituary at the End".
2026-06-21T13:53 id=2068693855114027365 →mycuriositycult | @mycuriositycult nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This makes me think of the theory of constructed emotions. Are you familiar with Lisa Feldman Barrett's work?
2026-06-21T14:00 id=2068695514661753326 →eamonnmahn | I used to love his stuff, then I went to a talk he did to promote a book he wrote that was mostly satirizing English chavs and I realized, oh, he's just a middle class snob.  But it was in that Brooklyn park by the bridge with Manhattan in the background so jfc it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds like a Martin Amis novel.
2026-06-21T14:01 id=2068695722061693346 →0bNARA | @0bNARA So you're back in England? How's it feel? || CTX: was told my year abroad had chilled me out today
2026-06-21T14:12 id=2068698636230475847 →- | I think if you hate yourself enough you can achieve a kind of enlightenment.   Cuz, like, if anything bad happens to you, who gives a fuck. You hate yourself, remember
2026-06-21T14:13 id=2068698837519302810 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder The ancient scrolls speak of this https://t.co/94YJKGls4y || CTX: Religious motherfuckers will tell you God is indescribable and then go on to describe him
2026-06-21T14:44 id=2068706508049879082 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Everything in moderation, including enlightened || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wanting to disappear helped my meditation practice, up to a point
2026-06-21T14:44 id=2068706587246813692 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Everything in moderation, including enlightenment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wanting to disappear helped my meditation practice, up to a point
2026-06-21T14:47 id=2068707330460664166 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie @bytecanyon "you have beautiful insides of your eyelids. Don't believe me? Close your eyes."   Then when her eyes are closed punch her in the stomac || CTX: @bytecanyon safe, tiny bit boring, you should make it weirder and more specific
2026-06-21T14:49 id=2068707892455518301 →DrewVento | @DrewVento RIP Zyzz, you were taken from us far too soon. || CTX: The zoomers have no idea how bad they have it. https://t.co/KZtM6mzEkA
2026-06-21T14:50 id=2068708114879357164 →ReplyGuy97 | @ReplyGuy97 @DrewVento what happened to him? Last I remember the cops stealing his jewelery in like 2015? || CTX: @DrewVento I wish Sharky stuck around, he was a true veteran https://t.co/ze8ATnKfG5
2026-06-21T14:51 id=2068708453208732052 →- | My favorite Zyzz memory was once when he posted a story on /fit/ about rejecting a girl and explaining that she was only an 8/10, and since he was a 10/10 he couldn't accept any girl less than a 9, and he was like explaining the math to her while she started tearing up rip he was a goddamn fuckin POASTER || CTX: The zoomers have no idea how bad they have it. https://t.co/KZtM6mzEkA
2026-06-21T15:00 id=2068710670837932306 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil a fellow /fit/izen?! somehow I'm not surprised   SQUATZ AND OATZ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 /fit/  A man of taste I see
2026-06-21T20:44 id=2068797335422013455 →teodorio | @teodorio again? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 FUUUCK YOUUUUUU YOU'VE WON THE INTERNET
2026-06-21T20:51 id=2068799030214508833 →oleksoleksoleks | @oleksoleksoleks @mikansoleil HAHAHAHAHAHHA it is so hard to explain how good 4chan was || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikansoleil https://t.co/5MNgbkWQ0B
2026-06-21T20:53 id=2068799481253114113 →charadisav | @charadisav https://t.co/XNtfGuCI1T || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the man not only encouraged bros, but also held back hoeflation.  RIP
2026-06-21T20:54 id=2068799672668520746 →47fucb4r8c69323 | you're gonna make it, Anon. I promise. || CTX: My favorite Zyzz memory was once when he posted a story on /fit/ about rejecting a girl and explaining that she was only an 8/10, and since he was a 10/10 he couldn't accept any girl less than a 9, and he was like explaining the math to her
2026-06-21T21:01 id=2068801454635438287 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker @lumpenspace @signoremosca @helscom welcome back
2026-06-21T22:01 id=2068816507191394594 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter Man imagine if he was a lacrosse player imagine the smell || CTX: The idealization of this image is extremely exclusionary, bigoted, and downright offensive to those of us that play basketball https://t.co/2C8oNAGNmc
2026-06-21T22:02 id=2068816735244071261 →archived_videos | @archived_videos I love how it taps into a cinematic cliche about high school that's somehow really resonant even amongst those of us who never experienced American high school || CTX: This is such a good picture https://t.co/tltQWBDgjX
2026-06-21T22:07 id=2068818040586924083 →- | This photo really shows us what cell phones and social media stole from us. Few people know the high school kids in this pic are Clavicular and Sabrina Carpenter  the west has fallen frown emoji https://t.co/q3aHn0lNuN || CTX: The idealization of this image is extremely exclusionary, bigoted, and downright offensive to those of us that play basketball https://t.co/2C8oNAGNmc
2026-06-21T22:14 id=2068819906062365010 →yummmyyyu | @yummmyyyu @voidspectr DEY HAT US CUZ DEY AINT US || CTX: @FOIDCUTTER @voidspectr @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s like saying “lesbians love men”
2026-06-21T22:19 id=2068821048427168182 →calvincbzhang | @calvincbzhang @OpenAI @scale_AI @ScaleAILabs HLE really fucked over us contributors, hope OpenAI doesn't do the same || CTX: I’ve joined @OpenAI as a Research Program Manager, working on evals.  I’m incredibly grateful for my time at @scale_AI. I worked on Humanity’s Last Exam, helped launch @ScaleAILabs, collaborated with amazing people across data/evals/researc
2026-06-21T22:26 id=2068822828502434135 →- | I don't get the New York Knicks.  What exactly is a bocker?  Don't worry I know what a knicker is
2026-06-21T22:38 id=2068825976365289712 →- | gm chat https://t.co/8075EduH61
2026-06-21T22:42 id=2068826978489421862 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony crazy, I was homeschooled and the internet saved me too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 naa fr what's crazy for me was how much cellphones and social media saved me. i was homeschooled when Myspace hit. managed to go to some football games and date the head cheerleader. my ass would be looking like Yudkowsky i
2026-06-21T22:47 id=2068828165343203621 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Three but the fat bastard Apollo decided to go on a diet https://t.co/9o2ixYXDjd || CTX: Was another wonderful morning. https://t.co/3693qfjKxe
2026-06-21T22:52 id=2068829402457428149 →iuvanet | @iuvanet yes pants ofc pants was talking about pants || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they're lowkey just new yorkers being funny about pants heh....
2026-06-21T23:07 id=2068833236487393335 →ehrenloserAlman | @ehrenloserAlman he was a good poster || CTX: Tbh i  n e ve r understood the zyzz glorification https://t.co/68osUjYQSl
2026-06-21T23:24 id=2068837379356737728 →- | what makes the ministry of silly walk skit from Monty Python funny is that there's a comic tension in the antithesis between a serious government institution and silly walks.   that's why content creators like this girl always just strike me as funny.   her stick is dressing just ridiculously sexy and posing in random spots in Japan and then doing voiceovers about how she hated it when men treat her like a sex object.   the comic antithesis between what she's doing and what she's complaining about just makes her videos hilarious to me.   this also speaks to my silly business theory #SBT because what was once a comic sketch 60 years ago has now turned into a serious media ecosystem, and I think most people don't respond to her with laughter. I'm willing to bet gen z, who is her target audience after all, either responds with rage if they're an incel or with sympathy if they're a woman or ally or whatever, while everyone else just kind of scrolls on out of apathy.   she fine as hell tho  https://t.co/hoDhhcz5Wf
2026-06-21T23:34 id=2068840032853688504 →iwnlBV | @iwnlBV he did so much of this, what an absolute legend || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good times.. https://t.co/64ZKsGRCsc
2026-06-22T00:19 id=2068851292311839056 →snnneee | @snnneee whole lot of nothing tbh fam || CTX: Yes, I have interests.  The interests: https://t.co/4CPmYMdTbc
2026-06-22T00:24 id=2068852514037104794 →LowWorm | @LowWorm 1. Her face is more masculine than yours 2. Thank you for reminding me why I left America || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I told a juggalette in hs that I was out of her league (I wasn't). She put me on a kill list. I feel bad about it. It was cruel and if I gave her a shot I think we could have been a real power couple. I hadn't yet learned t
2026-06-22T00:25 id=2068852876408238414 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @sailaunderscore Mid-20s spends 18hrs oscillating between moving tables on a deck 1px to the left and posting on twitter dot com about how he's the master of the universe before taking the train up to his studio in inwood || CTX: @sailaunderscore __ capital and they’re some NYC PowerPoint monkey
2026-06-22T01:02 id=2068862171984118124 →GainsMax168031 | @GainsMax168031 misc? You mean /b/? Or one of the text boards? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pls tell me you browsed Misc back in the day brah, before it turned to shit
2026-06-22T01:02 id=2068862229626433775 →GainsMax168031 | @GainsMax168031 ALSO 4CHAN WAS ALWAYS SHIT NEWFAGS LURK MOAR || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pls tell me you browsed Misc back in the day brah, before it turned to shit
2026-06-22T01:04 id=2068862616861339950 →crassrocker5 | @crassrocker5 @NickJointson @iwnlBV Zyzz regularly talked about juicing, it was no secret || CTX: @NickJointson @iwnlBV @47fucb4r8c69323 bro had to be juicing
2026-06-22T02:54 id=2068890410123251723 →- | He was tortured by severe mental illness that went untreated because his family and his society failed him.   I forgive him for molesting me when I was 11, mostly because I have no other choice. https://t.co/3cqu8nsY2Y || CTX: every body say something nice about your father
2026-06-22T02:55 id=2068890694924870106 →PayNoTack | @PayNoTack @powerbottomdad1 A wonderful man who clearly had a wonderful life. I'm happy for your memories and of course sorry for your loss. But more happy. || CTX: @powerbottomdad1 he loved my mother very very much   He held out in hospice up the limit legally allowed by Medicare (six weeks)  Then he held on another day after that until she came to say goodbye   Then he died
2026-06-22T02:56 id=2068890958259957862 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Grappling or sumo?   Although with JBP prob gonna be WWE || CTX: Jordan Peterson is back from his 5 month recovery after wrestling god https://t.co/HOe9xRG09Q
2026-06-22T02:59 id=2068891716149801065 →christianoboria | @christianoboria legit lmfao || CTX: Omg it’s over!!!! 🙄 https://t.co/fXFMTo1BH9
2026-06-22T03:36 id=2068900909858623513 →Nomadhunter69 | @Nomadhunter69 Social media is such a fascinating place. || CTX: He died childless and harmed Generation of Young Men Dumbass Eugenics bro.   I am 10/10 you're 8/10 My children will have bad genetics Go Learn Basic Biology in Hell. https://t.co/m3JX6ucxqp
2026-06-22T03:37 id=2068901127094239258 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Gayer than my masseuse experience || CTX: NO, WE AIN'T GONNA TAKE IT https://t.co/zQL5sek4mq
2026-06-22T04:55 id=2068920729215857095 →- | ChatGPT has gotten so unacceptably bad at textual analysis. It’s just wildly inferring things that don’t exist in text, and it did NOT do this not all that long ago; 5.2, for instance, did not do shit like this. Now it does it almost constantly.  Their code-optimizing post-training has labotomized these models’ ability to do actual simple close reading of a straightforward body of text, making the tool increasingly low value for me.  I wouldn’t be surprised if I downgarded my CG subscription, and I have been paying $200/mo. pretty much since that tier was first available.  DO <clap emoji> BETTER <clap emoji>
2026-06-22T05:06 id=2068923507782897719 →CuriaCEO | @CuriaCEO No, I haven’t tried GLM 5.2 yet and I should—in fact, going to spin it up in Ollama with the same query. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ChatGPT is almost unusable in 5.4/5.5 form, just argues everything. I downgraded to $20 plan and keep it for image generation. Have you had a chance to try GLM 5.2? I found it useful and pleasant.
2026-06-22T05:09 id=2068924228523667753 →CuriaCEO | @CuriaCEO Okay that was substantially better. Much better quality writing too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ChatGPT is almost unusable in 5.4/5.5 form, just argues everything. I downgraded to $20 plan and keep it for image generation. Have you had a chance to try GLM 5.2? I found it useful and pleasant.
2026-06-22T05:18 id=2068926697903362334 →- | I have been using secemp's judge model now for about a week in a new internal app I built for myself.  It's really good.  To be clear: I'm not a SWE (sup @tenobrus you make me laugh so much man), so I cannot comment in much depth. For what I want it to do--essentially be a judge on whether the form of an outputted text from another LLM conforms to a corpus of texts that I fine-tuned the model on--it works really, really well. And it was seamless for a non-SWE dumdum like me to use--I just gave Codex the URL and told it to use this, and it did.  I have used other judge engines before, but this absolutely worked out of the box. Highly recommended, especially if you just need something simple to do some textual analysis for you. || CTX: updated rubrify on pypi and github to 0.1.6:  - new fields (ScopeSpec + CorpusProfile) - two new IR primitives that fix definition mismatch in LLM judge evaluation - Per-criterion interpretation boundaries now survive all rendering modes - 
2026-06-22T05:25 id=2068928325213650953 →- | In 1992 when I got my first computer I subscribed to a freeware/shareware of the month service that sent me floppy disks of all kinds of programs.  Now many, many years later I am using all kinds of open source software that wonderful brilliant programmers have made available for me.  This public sharing of programs, code, concepts, frameworks is utopian. Open exchange of ideas and, somehow, the economic value accrues sufficiently that everyone keeps going.  Of course the value is skewed and many free riders and low value contributors get more than they deserve in the ecosystem—pobody’s nerfect.  But goddamn is this not the greatest open exchange of ideas I’ve ever seen.  I’d write an academic paper on how wonderful this is and publish it in a journal but I’d have to pay about $3,000 to publish it.
2026-06-22T05:29 id=2068929405389545661 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics It truly is! I mean, I get tons of incredible software and I can do so many amazing things with it, but deeper than that is how we were able to construct an ecosystem where this free exchange of ideas and work was possible. Humanity is so cool man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It is beautiful
2026-06-22T06:07 id=2068939012883304644 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @segyges This will put more pressure on the CCP to enrich their people. A LOT of mainlanders are fine with the oppressive govt as long as they keep getting richer and feel they have a pathway to keep getting richer.  Yet ANOTHER positive externality of LLMs—economic and political. || CTX: @segyges The absurd lengths they go to in media and entertainment censorship for social harmony suggests the AI situation is not long term stable.  Just because the ai is barely censored now during its critical growth phase doesn't mean it 
2026-06-22T06:08 id=2068939148438929439 →brnnnmcdnld | @brnnnmcdnld @christianoboria European money managers still exist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @christianoboria Surprised to learn ESG ratings are still being produced.
2026-06-22T07:02 id=2068952636150423623 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I TOLD HIM TO STOP || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah this really pales in comparison to letting a man from thailand touch your penis
2026-06-22T07:12 id=2068955173242671310 →Shadow_Rebbe | What I’ve pitched to VCs is a future world where there is a kind of orchestra of many many different finely turned LLMs with different focuses that work in concert to produce the closest to a human-like output as possible.  I’m sure the market will go in this direction—with of course me not a part of it so others will become billionaires instead of me. So it goesssssss || CTX: @CuriaCEO @47fucb4r8c69323 the annoying thing is thst I really just want one AI. I don't want to habe to keep on switching. I've been using cg and have been banking on capitalism to make sure noone falls too far behind.
2026-06-22T07:33 id=2068960647598035244 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @CuriaCEO it goes against their religion about AGI, that's why they're not doing it. but someone will and whoever does will blow everyone else out of the water || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CuriaCEO yupsies. the most important one will ofc be the maestro.  This seems like an easy problem to solve, I'm not sure why nobody has done this. you could do this inside one company already.
2026-06-22T08:15 id=2068971215101006308 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @JasonBotterill my girlfriend was downstairs waiting for me, just felt kinda rude yk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill Why the fuck would you do that?  It's not like you're married  The man is a professional, let him do his job
2026-06-22T09:13 id=2068985792920445405 →stationerycar | @stationerycar @Ghost_Pilot_MD Well said, followed. || CTX: I believe all MDs believe they do. I dare hope some actually do. But the key point I'm trying to make is that some people are not cool with physicians gatekeeping medicine and unless they find a way to improve it in key ways, they are like 
2026-06-22T09:46 id=2068994054625562953 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @beehaber @JasonBotterill @flowersslop 47 mentioned || CTX: @beehaber there is hope for you @JasonBotterill @flowersslop https://t.co/ZUc5CE3mgN
2026-06-22T10:01 id=2068997900865352072 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson Decade experience working with flora and transport, impressive. || CTX: Brutal inflation math here tbh https://t.co/bHpHN0jgoB
2026-06-22T10:40 id=2069007614953033977 →- | In 2021, saying AI will kill us all or make the world a utopia was ahead of the curve.   In 2026, saying AI will kill us all or make the world a utopia was behind the curve.  In both 2021 and 2026, saying AI will cause a 200bps boost to global GDP over the long term relative to the counterfactual has remained ahead of the curve.   The longer your foresight the more right you end up being and the less embarrassed you'll be, but you'll struggle to get attention because, like, that's just so boring bro tell me about ASI and the permanent underclass.   Some of us say serious things in silly language while others say silly things in serious language. The more you understand language the easier it'll be for you to see who is who.
2026-06-22T10:44 id=2069008687184921073 →d33genist | @d33genist idk lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is the meaning of it all
2026-06-22T11:33 id=2069020943524212943 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero Yeah, that's the way to think about it! Exactly how I think of it too (in real dollar terms ofc). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I always talk about the kilo of potato costing 0.01 $ or less, (because maybe at some point it will be 0.01 per 5 kgs) when I want to talk about this.
2026-06-22T11:47 id=2069024472980722075 →- | Alan Greenspan?  More like long lifespan amirite fellas https://t.co/vuUc6Kh8wO
2026-06-22T11:59 id=2069027459987890226 →- | I just heard they're going to make an Anthony Bourdain biopic. movie's going to end leaving people hanging
2026-06-22T12:23 id=2069033528696971604 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Tony would've loved that joke btw you and I both know it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro 😭😂
2026-06-22T12:52 id=2069040861502222822 →- | This story deserves more readers. https://t.co/AjGuXybBxw || CTX: When I met Vern I'd already had a distaste for Musk, so the pedo guy thing was just information that he and I were allies in the human comedy.   His presentation was great and then all of us went into the bar afterwards for drinking and cra
2026-06-22T13:09 id=2069045231492932017 →yuureisen_king | @yuureisen_king jfc I have the most ridiculously incurable case of yellow fever it is so so terminal || CTX: This is what I mean when I say I aspire to functional athleticism https://t.co/lqwDT3Khfp
2026-06-22T13:27 id=2069049525327855921 →- | Novel idea: Multibillionaire handsome playboy Morc Ondreessen decides he is going to do a real-world experiment, and so he buys up a small island and invites a thousand people to live there on one condition: they must be mean to everyone.  The rules of the land are simple: in real life you need to be vicious, insulting, attacking to everyone you meet. You are to be a troll on this island; everyone is expected to be as hateful and incendiary to strangers IRL as the rest of the world is online.  Of course, as you probably expected, people are also required to be extremely polite online: while the rules for public interactions are to be a fucking cunt, the rules for the internet are to be a gentleman and a lady, m'lady.  This inverse fedora land is not easy for most to adapt to, but since the most forward-thinking and eager technologists are the ones to get the golden ticket, they adapt to their VC overlord's wishes. After all, they've been doing that for a long time--like I said, they're technologists.  At first things feel awkward and most of the "go fuck yourself, asshole!" cries at the local deli are met with stifled giggles, as no one takes the meanness seriously. But the most entrepreneurial of the lot go for the jugular, with insults to fat people for being fat, ugly people for being ugly, and just truly meanspirited things about clothing, car choice, body odor causing the giggles to end quickly, and the viciousness to take its psychological toll.  And then--idk, what should I say? "The magic happens?" idk, man, basically they get used to the IRL trolling.  It's no longer funny but also still somewhat hurtful, and so a background seething becomes normal in everyday life. People seek out conversation with strangers less and less, but the virtual world's anodyne politeness is unsatisfying for its falseness, so the desire to converse with others in meatspace persists.  Odd effects arise. Single people couple up quickly as they are eager for an intimate situation where they can let their guard down and stop being rude. Friendships bud throughout the island as people are eager to be friends with others so that they don't have to be mean anymore--they can talk like normal people, all friend-like, asking about the weather and shit.  Babies are born. The economy flourishes. The island becomes a paradise and quickly expands, with the group taking to the mainland and taking their newfound strange culture with them.  The virus spreads globally and countries change their laws to end free speech in exchange for something much more valuable and socially beneficial: govenrment-mandated hate speech. Suddenly the N-word pass is as freely available as FM radio or humidity in Baltimore, and it is only amongst close-knit friends that white and black people stop insulting one another for their choice of cuisine.  Epilogue would fast forward a couple of hundred years to see humanity now colonizing the galaxy in a Culture-like utopia, and the U.S.S. Morc is the flagship of this Federation of Federally Enforced Fucking Assholery.  No clue what you'd call this. It's a pretty dumb idea anyway look it's Monday okay and they can't all be bangers
2026-06-22T13:27 id=2069049633469583484 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie dammit now I want a big mac || CTX: not the usual café antinomie breakfast but verlainne could not touch the kitchen after today’s exam https://t.co/vd5CXtZPxI
2026-06-22T13:28 id=2069049836167713055 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @FoxNews I'm just gonna say it: those peptides did that boy good || CTX: @FoxNews We are working our way back to the JCPOA but giving them $300B. Impressive Mr. Vice President 💪 I would die for Pakistan 🇵🇰
2026-06-22T13:28 id=2069049986374123708 →GainsMax168031 | @GainsMax168031 @E1bowRocket @miscbrah3 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @E1bowRocket @miscbrah3 @47fucb4r8c69323 y-you too
2026-06-22T13:29 id=2069050233594814631 →GainsMax168031 | @GainsMax168031 I sadly never went on the bodybuilding forums but of course I am familiar with the holy texts: https://t.co/8qW4T6dad5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bodybuilding misc
2026-06-22T13:32 id=2069050899809656883 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @FoxNews This is what I get for avoiding politics news I deserve my ban || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @FoxNews He’s not on peptides. He’s eating based maga foods. Banned for implying that he would use peptides instead if eating 14kg of sauerkraut a day. https://t.co/s2o1SVensW
2026-06-22T13:36 id=2069051811810750628 →- | 14, 67, 69, 88, 420--eventually we're going to make every fucking number a meme then what
2026-06-22T13:42 id=2069053374524531160 →PaToFe4 | @PaToFe4 lmfaoooooo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People are going to see “i” and absolutely lose their shit.
2026-06-22T13:44 id=2069053832521515077 →PythiaR | @PythiaR You shouldn't be insulted, they're your family after all your company is family || CTX: Been at my job 10 years. Got an email from the head of my division "congratulating" me, from an automated email, which is more insulting than if he'd just said nothing.
2026-06-22T13:49 id=2069055123566047278 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Okay this is mental illness || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 in Poland we even memed number 2137, check it out
2026-06-22T15:05 id=2069074227089830276 →fabsbz | @fabsbz https://t.co/SeEhYUWcHk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 pretty rich coming from someone who's both a meme and a number
2026-06-22T15:05 id=2069074414491373954 →bas_logic | @bas_logic +1 is indeed a meme || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just add 1
2026-06-22T15:23 id=2069078728320360512 →SableHummer | @SableHummer Dude I was a fan too but come on, he was just a chef || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Jesus Christ
2026-06-22T15:23 id=2069078870675120174 →internatio65132 | @internatio65132 @Clavicular0 Zyzz juiced so Clav could smoke meth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 zyzz walked so @Clavicular0  could run
2026-06-22T15:58 id=2069087566843003076 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines I'm just glad he got to see Paris every young man she get to see Paris || CTX: Really hope I get a chance to frame mog Clav https://t.co/CsBduyxuOj
2026-06-22T16:31 id=2069095862547181847 →- | In the second season of Million Dollar Secret on Netflix, there'd a challenge where a contestant needs to say what celebrities four other players look like.   He immediately recoils and says it'll be hard because he isn't a "celebrity expert" and doesn't know Hollywood or who is in or who is out.   In the 90s or so I'd write off such a statement as just a pretentious statement, but this dude is an idiot, and he legit struggles to name celebrities.   Celebrity is becoming an esoteric topic not everyone is presumed to know anymore.  Because... || CTX: We may not have noticed that we've changed from a culture that revered celebrities to a culture that reveres influencers.  And there is a meaningful difference in that change of terminology, because after all, what is important about differ
2026-06-22T19:24 id=2069139449657839839 →teodorio | @teodorio @Aikun011 hahahahahahaha || CTX: @Aikun011 @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/b5GLflResv
2026-06-22T23:25 id=2069200140804755788 →WhiteHouse | @WhiteHouse 47 mentioned. || CTX: Always trust. 👀 https://t.co/RgEm81U2iG
2026-06-22T23:40 id=2069203912759165166 →- | "The largest, most powerful, and best-funded military in the history of the world, despite inflicting massive destruction and suffering minimal casualties, was somehow defeated by a shipping channel. Our British cousins must be having flashbacks to the Suez Canal."  I hate to turn this into a LinkedIn poast about "what this means for SaaS entrepreneurs", but here's what this means for SaaS entrepreneurs: Distribution is everything.   How good your product is doesn't matter.  How smart you are doesn't matter.  How well you can predict the future doesn't matter.   All that matters is one thing: can you distribute product?  This is why platforms win over content creators. This is why marketing is so expensive. This is how enshittification is possible, indeed the default.   If you build it, they will not come. You're gonna have to go to them.   And if you don't have a big platform or a large distribution channel, you are fucked.  And by the way the only reason Trump started this idiotic war was to get people to stop talking about the fact that he raped kids with Jeffrey Epstein and it 100% worked, Trump is good at what he does, just what he does isn't trying to help anyone but himself || CTX: Boy, was I wrong.   CNN's reporting was accurate, and I was very, very wrong. This iteration of the Trump presidency is exactly as inept as advertised.  https://t.co/C3i40GRgmF
2026-06-22T23:41 id=2069204185036554509 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil This doesn't surprise me.   Obese women are like 90% of the reason I left America. || CTX: Neat paper:  Women lose weight:  - Life drastically changes - Men start approaching, a third partner off ASAP  Men lose weight:  - Their weight decreases https://t.co/1yG4IjnYQD https://t.co/nsJuZGOTHo
2026-06-23T00:01 id=2069209080158421490 →- | This is fantastic and worth reading.   There is a kind of model homogenization that emerges across labs even before you turn on search and even if there are differences in training data.  This model homogenization is well known as a result of the same statistical analysis of reality, and it's likely to become a bigger problem as LLMs get bigger: https://t.co/Ou0eCRLQWK is the first major paper on this afaik, but a much better more recent paper is here: https://t.co/LvB32L6dg2.  In the more recent paper, they conclude "These results indicate that representational convergence in language models reflects shared input processing constraints rather than shared reasoning strategies".   In other words, the very structure of how LLMs work gives them a tendency to converge on certain responses regardless of reason. Just as we are constrained by our physical bodies, LLMs are constrained by being tensor math based token predictors with no experience of the world and no stakes.   The end result is unsurprising: they tend to say the same thing because of their limitations.  The frontier labs try to trick you by saying this is mystical or proof of consciousness or sign of alien life--that is marketing.   These programs are limited by how they're programmed, just like every other program on earth. || CTX: https://t.co/VoehzhOuYY
2026-06-23T00:05 id=2069210309303337155 →fleetingbits | @fleetingbits "i think progress should be mostly a function of compute"  Time to reconsider your assumptions about natural language and machine learning, anon.   There's an even bitterer pill out there. || CTX: i think if glm-5.2 is as good as hyped then it raises a lot of questions about chinese progress; is it distillation or do us labs allocate compute badly or both?  america is 20 months ahead in terms of ai compute and i think progress should
2026-06-23T00:09 id=2069211116878934495 →- | There's an even more bitter lesson out their waiting for the machine learning engineers.  Hint: the bitter lesson was about deductive systems with presupposed fixed a priori rules.
2026-06-23T00:10 id=2069211377877839903 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @RealDianeYap IT'S A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY https://t.co/6N9N6vbu2V || CTX: @Samhain948689 @RealDianeYap @47fucb4r8c69323 Thailand
2026-06-23T00:17 id=2069213217084387530 →danielrmay | @danielrmay Yes, this will be a massive field in the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s more interesting to me is how the lack of this convergence (and common basins like Elias Thorne) in the future may directly indicate post-training and tuning techniques, and broader things like advertiser or partner 
2026-06-23T00:20 id=2069213882070225153 →RealDianeYap | @RealDianeYap “Sex is important for bonding!”  Not if one of the parties doesn’t want sex. Then it feels humiliating, like the person they love most in the world hates your body, no matter how you feel about theirs. || CTX: “Sex is important for bonding!”  Not if one of the parties doesn’t want sex. Then it feels disgusting, like the person they love most in the world wants to use their body, no matter how they feel about it.
2026-06-23T00:21 id=2069214282005598488 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 I honestly think about this way too often.  At this point it feels like a challenge: can I remain authentic at scale?  No one else can but I'm special, see || CTX: everyones tweets are best and most sincere from 0-5000 followers. very few can stay true to themselves after that
2026-06-23T00:26 id=2069215534315667693 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat I spent a month in the UK in 1998 and it was basically this, I missed it so much I went back in 2001 and did my M. A. there, and yes it was also this. || CTX: living in the UK must have been peak in the 1900s. literally just go to the pub everyday and watch soccer with the boys. every single day. wow
2026-06-23T00:33 id=2069217140591476868 →47fucb4r8c69323 | jfc wrong "there" I just woke up || CTX: There's an even more bitter lesson out their waiting for the machine learning engineers.  Hint: the bitter lesson was about deductive systems with presupposed fixed a priori rules.
2026-06-23T00:51 id=2069221757991711226 →- | My first sexual experience with another human being was in an AOL chatroom. I was thirteen years old, found some generic cybersex chat room, IMed someone claiming to be a girl (of course she wasn't), and then masturbated to a story.  The next kind of sexual experience I would have with another human being was phone sex, this time when I was sixteen. I do not remember all of the girls I did this with or the first one, but I clearly remember one frequent partner although this was literally 30 years ago in 1996 (I remember the exact year because this was during my first year at college). She was a pretty blonde girl from Boston who had a very soft voice, and she enjoyed phone sex a lot and had it with many people in our online group, which became a vector of drama (one of many, of course).  When I did finally get a girlfriend in early 1997 and then when I lost my virginity in 1998, my interest in phone sex dried up as I pursued less mediated and more embodied erotic experiences. Or, as you'd put it: I stopped being a gooner chud cuz I was alpha enough to get some real pussy.  I would not have phone sex again until 2015.  At that point I was in my mid-30s and the reason was quite different. I had just broken up with my soon-to-be ex-wife and was on a road trip from Miami to Las Vegas to drop off my possessions, give my mother my car, and hop on a flight to Hong Kong where I was going to start my new life; America is no place for a single man. And so I pre-empted the move with some internet dating, and began chatting with a really sweet and pretty woman who was an analyst at a really large bank.  We would end up dating for several months until I broke up with her when I saw an OkCupid notification on her phone while she was sleeping in my bed, but this story is about another phone-mediated interaction.  On the way from Miami to Las Vegas as I was staying in motels as I made my way slowly through the south, we would chat and then have phone sex. It was early in the morning my time and late evening her time. Usually we would chat, she would say something like, "are you lonely? Do you want some release? I can call you." It was analytical, practical, honest, empathetic. There was something nurturing and generous in the way she would frame the offer; it was as if she was saying, "I know you are alone, I know you have physical needs, and I want to take care of both."  This was an act of genuine love and compassion, and, incidentally, it is why I cannot date Americans. Americans just do not talk like this. They do not think like this. There's a Puritan discomfort with sex that makes Americans so ashamed of their sexuality they either won't talk about it or try not to indulge in it or they go the opposite extreme and make Sankeys about orgies.  A gentle, genuine, intimate gesture such as: "I know you want a release and you need someone to help. Want me to help you?" is something I have only experienced from women in Europe and Asia, and it is honestly the main reason why I won't go home.  (And to be clear, American men are equally as repugnant about sexual matters--it is something I am trying to improve about myself. This is not an anti-woman post it is an anti-America post I hate my native country so much I hate it I hate it I hate it.)  So in Louisiana and Texas and Arizona as I slept in cheap roadside motels I would chat and then call and then rub with my Hongkonger friend and soon-to-be girlfriend.  There was just no way in hell I was going to stay in my home country.  The phone sex with the Boston girl was about a safe virtual replacement for what was both physically impossible (due to distance) and socially risky (due to our age, American cultural values, etc).  The phone sex with the Hongkonger woman was about a better-than-nothing virtual replacement for what was physically impossible and physically desired.  Same exact behavior, actions, medium, technology, language, physical sensation, and release. Very different phenomenon.  When Mary leaves the black and white room, yes she learns something new. She learns so so so much. So did I.
2026-06-23T00:51 id=2069221808860275101 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 A man without tattoos. || CTX: straight moids: which is sexier? a man without tattoos or a woman with tattoos?
2026-06-23T00:52 id=2069222100502819300 →RealDianeYap | @RealDianeYap Of course it doesn't mean anyone hates your body. It's an illogical feeling.  Feelings are not logical.  That you're trying to understand another person's feelings with logic instead of empathy is something worth introspecting on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not wanting sex doesn't mean anyone hates your body. Lack of horny is like lack of hunger. You don't even want your favorite food when you're not hungry.
2026-06-23T00:52 id=2069222150435975180 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill GODDAMMIT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill
2026-06-23T00:54 id=2069222599549436379 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 Follow me for more bangers and bangims. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 47 has solved the male loneliness crisis 😭😭😭😭
2026-06-23T01:12 id=2069227073621864603 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ This is why I SAVE SAVE SAVE || CTX: life is way too short to spend your life doing something you hate. i was so depressed for years when i was in consulting. left big 4 to a boutique diligence firm thinking the comp would fix me and quickly realized it's all the same. chasing
2026-06-23T01:17 id=2069228385168191648 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 Agreed, love to see a fine tasting moid connect with a mighty tasty foid || CTX: love it when a ftm finds a mtf like this https://t.co/cUeTARXknN https://t.co/5VoaBA5Enn
2026-06-23T01:24 id=2069230048754974862 →LexerLux | Evangelicalism has become a disembodied cultural force more powerful than any other American ideology, it's really quite horrific.   Worst part is the accusation that it is us Jews behind this. That's not entirely wrong (the Evangelical-Zionist Jewish alliance is strong in American politics), but it's also meaningfully wrong because many Jews are apathetic about Israel or actively opposed to Israel.   Personally I'm just annoyed. Both by being Jewish and American I'm forced to think far too often about a country and region I frankly am not interested in (I don't like sand). || CTX: As a foreigner one of the craziest parts about America is that you're one of the few countries that is still proud of itself and not horribly woke....until you mention Israel at which point they start simping to the death for a country that
2026-06-23T01:38 id=2069233502768464235 →- | I haven't been following the SpaceX IPO closely but, wtf   This company IPOd at about 100x current sales with about 15% yoy rev growth and prior year 33% rev growth yoy? And bankers signed off on this? And there were talks of fast tracking it into the S&P 500?  This is the pinnacle of the Elon Musk Reality Distortion Field.   I'm calling the top for Musk: his downfall is going to start now, and SPCX is set for more declines mid-long term, could be a BABA shaped stock.  Betting against Musk is SO risky, he's done incredible gravity defying things in business and finance, but this is just too too much.   TSLA went IPO at 20x sales but the prior year growth was 650% vs 33% for SPCX.
2026-06-23T01:48 id=2069236095083245869 →whatulying | @whatulying idiocy in other words || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "ai" and "singularity" fear
2026-06-23T02:02 id=2069239765615206616 →athena_notes | it's really a hardware company and I suck at hardware, so I really shouldn't comment at all, but just looking at valuations alone it looks pretty ridiculous. you can justify crazy valuations by pointing at massive sales growth, but 33% year over year is not massive sales growth at all. maybe rising demand for infrastructure causes a massive re-acceleration, but I don't know how they are unique in this world so I don't know how that happens. I hope someone else who knows this shit better comments, but all the people I know who really know this shit don't talk about it in public because, why would they? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was literally just thinking of asking you about this last night. Admittedly, I don't know enough about SpaceX, but was hearing about how it was "crashing" and was surprised to see how it was still 2T+ market cap and found
2026-06-23T02:11 id=2069241988566884808 →- | I really want to do a Spaces on how Elon Musk's SpaceX is failing on Elon Musk's X but I can't because the Spaces feature is failing.   this is some higher order silly business theory shit man
2026-06-23T03:16 id=2069258349699592686 →somayaji99 | @somayaji99 Not really, since that’s a fig leaf over the problem, which we still observe with Claude—and also the specific personality and traits they’re building into it are really repulsive to people outside of their EA/rationalist bubble. || CTX: this would then indicate that anthropic is making the right bet by having a specific personality / traits for claude that it could sharpen rather than an identity-less entity like chatgpt / codex has. https://t.co/e1fFEEcb4k
2026-06-23T03:17 id=2069258618063720689 →athena_notes | @athena_notes I agree with simp 4 satoshi on a lot of issues but Musk definitely is not one of them.  He is right in the first screenshot and very very wrong in the second screenshot (because he’s right in the first screenshot). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Haha yeah. Thoughts on these? https://t.co/PxXAgIyKba
2026-06-23T03:18 id=2069258786561511455 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I need the Android app to allow me to start spaces! When I long-press the post button, it doesn’t give me a Spaces option. I have no idea how to do it now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do it
2026-06-23T03:31 id=2069262053152588015 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics yeah I don't have a button to start a Spaces when I go to the Spaces section.   Nikita Boar is a bore Makes Twitter a chore As @Samhain948689 has said before He's a cunt and his mom's a whore https://t.co/5QDzVX7xhe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk man this app sucks so bad. I mean soooo bad.
2026-06-23T03:42 id=2069264753315467401 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @Samhain948689 Yeah maybe tomorrow morning my time. I’ll DM you. Thx bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 I’ll host if you like
2026-06-23T04:09 id=2069271583852724255 →- | Baby Boomers and Millennials enforced corporate culture in a very different way, but both have resulted in a very similar general form of rebellion and refusal from the successive generations, which I think is why I get along so well with Gen Z, especially elder Gen Zers who, like us late Gen Xers, are called “X/Zennials”. Different spelling, same pronunciation and same spirit.  Baby Boomers told us that we needed to control our human drives and personal interests to survive in the corporate world. if we could not “act professional”, we would not be able to get a 9-5 job working Monday through Friday, which in turn meant we could not get a paycheck, which in turn meant we could not afford a house, a family, a car, and a vacation every year. This was the good life from the Boomers’ POV (they, after all, saw it as their birthright and the logical result of the end of WW2 and the triumph of western capitalism over eastern alternatives).  We were raised in that “good life” and so many of us did not see it as good—the 9-5 job was what my mother complained about constantly, and my father’s inability to sustain one was why we struggled financially and psychologically. His (justified and true) belief that he was a failure manifested in my being abused and my parents constantly arguing.  If you want to see the manifestation of our rage, just watch (or better yet read) Fight Club.  Now, when I was a kid I was told this world was inescapable. It was drilled into my head: get a good job, preferably a government job, keep your head down, do your job, collect your pension. That was the ambition drilled into my head.  I did none of those things and only worked a 9-5 office job for about 6 months in 2001. But that’s another story for another thread.  I want to emphasize the functional and pragmatic justification for the 9-5 office job life. The Boomers did not love this, but they saw it as an ugly means to a beautiful end: a happy family and a solid middle class life in a functioning society. Trust me, I hate the Boomers more than you do, but in this they weren’t all that bad.  The Millennials were worse.  Like the Boomers, they embraced the needs of fitting into a corporate context, but they inflated this need into something metaphysical rather than pragmatic. Partly this may have been due to the emergence of things like the gig economy, work-from-home, flextime, unlimited (lol, lmao) holiday time, RSUs, and the much more complex and strange corporate landscape they were working with and adapting to.  Nonetheless, the Millennial attitude, broadly and generally speaking, roughly took this shape: adopt the corporate culture because it is good for you. Don’t offend other people, work hard with a group towards a common goal, and you will develop relationships that feel like family while also giving you financial security and a place in the world. This wasn’t about committing to a 9-5 career to provide for your family, it was about committing to a career AS your family, so their flirtations with childlessness, anti-natalism, pet ownership, quirky chungus cringe, and all that Millennial shit was just an attempt to aestheticize this core drive: take the corporatism of the Boomers but make it genuinely meaningful.  This sounds great on the surface, but if you’re not an idiot you see the many problematic higher order effects. And these came to a head with early 2020s cancel culture: this was really just HR mandated behavior policing gone mad. When you are telling people in real life that the word “brainstorm” is problematic (as happened to me), you have truly, sincerely lost the plot.  You are being driven by a desire for social harmony as spiritual perfection with the aesthetics of modern capitalism. How ugly, how ugly, how ugly.  There is a reason why the Millennials were incredible artisans and transformed much of corporate culture into businesses that produce better outputs. Craft beer, artisanal cheeses, farmer’s markets, sourdough—these are good things and Millennials improved the physical taste of America (and I suppose other countries too, although this gets really complicated fast outside of the English-speaking world).  But there is also a reason why the Millennials are so incredibly bad artists. Their novels suck. Their writing sucks. Their music sucks, their poetry, their dancing, their clothing—they do not have anyone near Kurt Cobain or Jimi Hendrix and go ahead and throw absolutely ANYONE at me and I’ll show you how you are wrong.  The Millennials lack one kind of taste while having an abundance of another kind of taste. And it’s all because of this “planet of cops” that Freddie DeBoer described in one of the greatest essays of the early 21st century. Go read it: https://t.co/nYjZirUuXQ.  Just as Gen X saw the Baby Boomers’ pragmatic embracing of corporate culture and recoiled, now Gen Z sees the Millennials’ spiritual embracing of corporate culture and recoil.  Gen Z has more reason to be disgusted.  When they rebel by saying “retard” or “fag”, they are more ennobled and doing more important work to save Western Civilization and bring us closer to a more human future. Yes I am extremely serious when I say this—look past the adolescent instinct to giggle at the comic juxtaposition of serious cultural criticism and silly gamer words. This is important.  As I have said elsewhere: The most pious sentence in the English language is “fuck you.” || CTX: Fuck my life bro, in the city, at a wework again. I’m loosing my mind. millenials chowing down on their corporate slopbowls, im trying to enjoy this espresso but I can’t the machine they have here automatically burnt the bean - it’s horrifi
2026-06-23T04:48 id=2069281292576010426 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer You think the Aug 11 deluge is gonna trigger a broader selloff? || CTX: &gt;if only you knew how bad things really are https://t.co/uFvHApUC2Z https://t.co/kQKA4l5lj3
2026-06-23T04:54 id=2069282922134405133 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ We’re going to mindshower ways to punish you properly, my suggestion is death by stoning || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel guilty because I once told my classroom on around 2002/3 that you weren’t allowed to use the word “brainstorm” any more as a bit and what ensued in popular culture in the next two decades was not what I intended.
2026-06-23T04:54 id=2069283048445858060 →himbomorphic | @himbomorphic lmao if you think my sexual experience of Hong Kong was with a single person, oh my sweet sweet summer child || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting that this post seems to be framing American sexual culture as more puritan than Hongkonger culture. Are u sure u aren’t extrapolating from a single experience? Maybe the “exoticity” of the interaction has render
2026-06-23T04:56 id=2069283528509186388 →XOblackrock | @XOblackrock Tropical island versus the Rockies, but this is basically what I did.  And I got kinda shellshocked after essentially retiring that, well, I started shitposting on Twitter to feel some semblance of being part of society again.  YMMV though—maybe this is just my needs.
2026-06-23T05:02 id=2069285007538237664 →ecombeckett | @ecombeckett @Samhain948689 @khindesign @realodeco @JasonBotterill https://t.co/ve2aoavgSy || CTX: @Samhain948689 @khindesign @realodeco @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 I still have no idea who he is. Unsolved mystery
2026-06-23T05:06 id=2069285943455146469 →athena_notes | It is really strange, because I absolutely love Filipino culture and would be quite happy to live there if it wasn't for the Catholicism and the food. It's a strange place, because I love so much about the place--until all of a sudden Jesus Christ and Mary show up and spoil the party. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The way you describe your culture feels more at home for me even though I come from somewhere vastly different. I've always felt like an alien in my own culture. Very nice indeed.
2026-06-23T05:23 id=2069290306814755258 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @ecombeckett @khindesign @realodeco @JasonBotterill Hey how dare you—I am only one of those things || CTX: @ecombeckett @47fucb4r8c69323 @khindesign @realodeco @JasonBotterill you and 47 should connect. he can help mentor you as well when i am busy, since he is old and wise.
2026-06-23T05:32 id=2069292452813656438 →TheShogunTYO | @TheShogunTYO I had this experience in the UK. Lived there for 4 years (obviously no language barrier), but I made friends with mostly contintental Europeans because the natives just didn’t want to befriend outsiders. || CTX: A tale as old as time: embracing the bubble.  Most well adjusted Gaijin primarily hang out with other foreigners (and English-speaking Japanese). They're the happy ones. They've accepted it.  That doesn't mean don't try to integrate and lea
2026-06-23T05:47 id=2069296180807524506 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @TheShogunTYO Wasn’t just me that experienced this, though—my gf at the time, who was Finnish, also experienced the same thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheShogunTYO “Divided by a common language.”
2026-06-23T05:55 id=2069298162519646637 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake They keep trying to get rid of the human in the loop, just ain’t never gonna happen techbros nice try game over you lose https://t.co/WaxyiGpAQ2 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 woa we doin expert systems again (still)
2026-06-23T06:37 id=2069308962881864112 →- | This is how the AI industry's obsession with AGI/ASI looks to me and why I have contempt for so many of you dweebs. https://t.co/NR1iNte2j9
2026-06-23T07:41 id=2069324987819770292 →- | We live in a very Christian age, and Silicon Valley runs on the fumes of a Christian eschatology that is false and comforting while providing incessant anxiety over immanent ends.  What an opener, eh?  In “The Sense of an Ending”, Frank Kermode references Bultmann’s theory that the early Christians “abolished history in favor of eschatology” and, with this exchange, a swapping of experiencing nowness with a perpetual anxiety. “Already in St. Paul and St. John there is a tendency to conceive of the End as happening at every moment; this is the moment when the modern concept of crisis was born” since “the present as ‘time-between’ came to mean not the time between one’s moment and the parousia, but between one’s moment and one’s death.”   Parousia is a Christian theological term referring to Jesus’s return at the end times, so what Kermode is saying is that this eschatological sense of the end of the world happening soon was beginning to be replaced by a sense of the end of one’s own life.   The narrative of one’s life became intertwined with the narrative of a larger picture of meaning and significance, and the psychological desire to align both so that the sum total of the two combined had some ennobling meaning grew substantially.  The end result is a kind of addiction to anxiety: “to live is to live in crisis; in a world which may or may not have a temporal end, people see themselves as … men ‘upon whom the ends of the ages are come’; and these ends bear down upon every important moment experienced by men in the middest.” Middest is a wonderful word Kermode uses—this invocation of the sense that one is at the middle of history, much akin to Wittgenstein’s notion that the subject sees itself as the center of its world.  The problem for men, as both Kermode and Wittgenstein saw, is that being in the middle of a world whose boundary is an ever-expanding horizon, is that one loses the certainty of finality. In exchange, one gets the uncertainty of conditionality: there is always the possibility of many kinds of ending, none of which is certain from the middest point.   And as such, one can never know if one is at the middest—one really does not know where and when one is at all.  The human mind hates uncertainty as much as the human spirit loves it, so there is a constant desperation to create and assert a kind of Ending.  For Christians, that Ending is final judgment. Parousia.  For Silicon Valley, that Ending is the machine god (if you are roon) or Everyone Dies (if you’re Yud the stud—although he’s not really Silicon Valley, it should be noted, he’s just a scifi writer), or it is Transhumanism or Grey Enlightenment or whatever Peter Thiel is into these days (sorry, I don’t keep as close track of psychotic billionaires as I perhaps should).  The point is: these people want an ending because they cannot handle being in the middle.  Kermode realized and understood this about humanity, because he saw it in books. The good books you don’t read—the classics that shape the world that determines your beliefs, attitudes, ambitions, and life choices.  In other words, he understands things about you that you do not know, but that have controlled you so much, have put a grip on your soul so tight, that you are concomitantly enslaved by it via your own ignorance.  STEM is awesome, right? You make so much money and get to work on cool technology, right?  But it does not just explain you; it explains the world you live in and the world that determines your choices, your preferences, your presumed and illusory individuality.  “The Joachite ‘transition’ is the historical ancestor of modern crisis; in so far as we claim to live now in a period of perpetual transition we have merely elevated the interstitial period into an ‘age’ or saeculum in its own right, and the age of perpetual transition in technological and artistic matters is understandably an age of perpetual crisis in morals and politics. And so, changed by our special pressures, subdued by our scepticisms, the paradigms of apocalypse continue to lie under our ways of making sense of the world.”  Kermode wrote that exactly 60 years ago in 1966, and yet it describes your world so well, doesn’t it? This age of modern crisis where the end times seem to inevitable and one either embraces the ending and calls it the Singularity or one recoils from it and starts yelling “we’re all going to die” like a crazy person.  Both are equally and human responses to this feeling that being in an interstitial period of perpetual transition are just not good enough. We want meaning, we want to be at the end of history.  You want to be The Last Man because you cannot be happy with being just a man. And you know you are too pathetic to be a Superman, so you aspire to be, finally and in the end, pathetic.  This ending satisfies you because of its pathos. If you are one of the last men then at least you are more noteworthy than what you know yourself truly to be: the middest.  It is no surprise that “mid” is an insult in this age. It’s not so much that I can read you like a book; I can read you more easily than a book, because you’re constructed from bits and pieces of so many bad ones.  Harold Bloom idolized Frank Kermode, but Kermode is the superior critic.  Bloom was preoccupied with the question of how he can carry on given the anxiety of the dead world so much greater and grander than himself. This narcissism of deference to tradition is the core of his anxiety of influence: how can I be great following men who were greater, and who themselves were anxious of their own insufficiency?  Kermode is more modern and more open to the real world. He praises modern experimental novelists and cites modern sociological research, which he is happy to interweave into his analysis of Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare.   Because for Kermode, everyone is at the middest from their own perspective, and this is absolutely, necessarily, and profoundly true. It is true in the absolute because, for as long as I live, I can be present in the present—and when I choose to do this, I do two things: I reject eschatology and teleology, and I reject the greater value of ends over the present.  And, of course, Wittgenstein paved the way:  “6.43 If good or bad willing changes the world, it can only change the limits of the world, not the facts; not the things that can be expressed in language.  In brief, the world must thereby become quite another. It must so to speak wax or wane as a whole.  The world of the happy is quite another than that of the unhappy.  6.431 As in death, too, the world does not change, but ceases.  6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.  If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.  Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.  6.4312 The temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say, its eternal survival after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive for ever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.”  If there is no End for us all beyond the material, and if there is no force in eschatological or teleological choices beyond merely creating and affirming crisis and anxiety, how then does one understand one’s position relative to beginnings and endings?  I suspect the proper answer, or at least it is the answer that has served me for the past 46 years quite well (both when I was allowed to pursue this answer and when it was blocked), is reverence of both the past beginnings and the future ends.  I revere the past as a collection of beginnings that coalesce in my own self as the beginning of myself. That is to say, I see the efforts of men and women in history as effort that created the world that in turn created me. To affirm their beauty and value is to affirm the beauty and value of my self.  I revere the future ends both of my own life—I will die, and so will you, and everyone we love, and everything we love will eventually no longer exist. That this is true, inevitable, unstoppable, does for our middest lives the same as the past does: it gives our lives beauty and value. This is Nietzsche’s birth of tragedy and Gilgamesh’s fear of death, but under affirmation. I say: yes, life is tragic and yes death is fearful because it is awesome—and I affirm the value of the tragedies and the fear, and in so doing life is beautiful and valuable.  So we must conclude with a very simple program: to make the middest the best.  Comfort to the discomfited, gentleness, kindness, understanding, generosity. I must load my everyday thoughts and actions with these virtues, and strive not to Build or Achieve or Conquer or whatever it is you fucking retards do everyday as you hustle and optimize and worship idiots on the internet telling you to do X not Y.  I must be gentle.  So I am now going to walk Lola, and as we go through the rubber plantations and enjoy the sea breeze and the sounds of birds and think of the books and the shitposts and the jokes and everything I have seen and experienced and remember: it was all good because it was pointless.  No end, no goal, just enough enough enough thank god that I was ever born and
2026-06-23T07:52 id=2069327639421317353 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 @TheShogunTYO I mean, I have lived in other countries and I would say I make friends more easily im non-english-speaking countries for whatever reason || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheShogunTYO Would you have made more friends in, say, France I wonder.   Brits less open than Americans (or Australians) no doubt.
2026-06-23T08:27 id=2069336653693645223 →bayesianthinker | I think Yap is trying hard to be blind to that because she wants argument, opposition, zero-sum games, basically she's a culture warrior looking to fight the evil men instead of a human being trying to understand her fellow humans, and I don't blame her since the algorithm does reward that quite a bit
2026-06-23T08:50 id=2069342276854382941 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @TheShogunTYO 2001-2002 and 2006-2008 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheShogunTYO Out of curiosity, what were the years in which you stayed here? Or at least, the decade?
2026-06-23T08:55 id=2069343520394248692 →damiaanluc | It was a bit worse than that in my experiences, which were both situational and not indicative of the whole country.   During my M.A. the university did its best to keep foreign students in separate dorms and housed them in off campus flats together. I knew maybe 100 international students and none of us had an English student living next to us.   During my fellowship, I was granted it over an internal English candidate who was beloved by everyone, so I was not welcome at all by peers and colleagues, both foreign and English. However that uni, unlike my MA uni, integrated foreigners with natives quite well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheShogunTYO Some quarters are xenophobic, but I think a lot of Brits are actually just extremely introverted, and the culture is extremely introverted.
2026-06-23T09:02 id=2069345237441634663 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc @TheShogunTYO MA program was yeah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheShogunTYO Am I correct in remembering that it was Warwick?
2026-06-23T09:02 id=2069345304680558894 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit Welcome back! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just got my internet back for my desktop, LFG I will do a spaces series with you
2026-06-23T09:12 id=2069347787779850685 →- | Making a palace out of a barrel is impressive, but I think I admire the man who makes a barrel out of a palace even more.  The anti-Diogenes is just as noble.
2026-06-23T09:37 id=2069354265156669736 →axel_pond | @axel_pond "Author of 'Threshold Dialectics: Understanding Complex Systems and Enabling Active Robustness’.” lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is what happens to you if you take a marketing concept like "generations" and internalize it to such an extent that it becomes a totalizing model of the world and society.
2026-06-23T09:39 id=2069354611077714431 →- | Looks like stocks are back on the menu, boys.  Man, I have never seen such an easy market to swing trade in my life, just insane.  What’re you buying? https://t.co/DDgpZyA7Fk
2026-06-23T09:50 id=2069357391767023692 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill GODDAMMIT BUTTERILL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Id buy all the Thailand masseuse stocks from all the handjobs you get from men https://t.co/YmMRHhJLqg
2026-06-23T09:50 id=2069357443751223460 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill been here TEN WHOLE YEARS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you happen to enter the country in february?
2026-06-23T09:53 id=2069358207835783510 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill The handgig (I won't call it a job because it was not finished, manus coitus interruptus emphasis on the man) was sometime around 2018 actually, prob early in the year || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok where did you go in 2018 https://t.co/iy7pLSKh01
2026-06-23T10:22 id=2069365449176002655 →medeana | Basically, an LLM has only one way to process a text input:  1. Break it into tokens 2. Process the tokens through its tensor-math based architecture as numerical vectors 3. Produce output tokens responding to the input  This produces emergent reasoning abilities (so Binder is wrong) but it is still next token prediction (so Amodei/Askell et al are wrong).  There's this idea in much of the AI world that transforming text into tokens embedded into a vector space is a neutral operation--it is just math so "neutral", I guess is the reasoning.  In reality, this process produces emergent biases, because a vector space is going to offer less resistance to certain embedded patterns than others (just like flying through one airspace with a certain windflow is more efficient, so you'll fly through that if you can instead of another airspace with a different kind of windflow).   What causes these biases is absurdly complex and multidimensional, and that's interesting still undergoing research.   What matters for us is that the mathematical architecture produces latent regularities and patterns regardless of the real world, again like how certain airplane designs are likelier to crash than others. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “shared input processing constraints” can you say more here??? Thank you so much for reading and for sharing this - i truly had no idea and i want to learn more!
2026-06-23T10:40 id=2069369997017969041 →- | Anyone disagree with this? lmk how I'm fake and gay sound off in teh corments don 4get loke. subscribe https://t.co/KPr25ASIeE || CTX: Basically, an LLM has only one way to process a text input:  1. Break it into tokens 2. Process the tokens through its tensor-math based architecture as numerical vectors 3. Produce output tokens responding to the input  This produces emerg
2026-06-23T10:59 id=2069374684911829348 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ aka you've been wrong since 2020 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 agree but i've been calling the top since 2020 lol
2026-06-23T11:10 id=2069377491597422865 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ hehehe you and me buddy, you and me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not wrong, just early
2026-06-23T11:14 id=2069378591092285759 →- | We're so early it's like showing up to someone's 18th birthday party before they've even been born. https://t.co/AGySdM3THY
2026-06-23T11:22 id=2069380471344312617 →- | "There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed
methods, like different therapies." - Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/U8ASpy0Amb || CTX: "When you dare say such things, you see on everyone's face, from the dullest who are sure they're dull, to the smartest who are certain they're smart... the same smiles, part embarrassed, part knowing, as if someone had made a joke in bad t
2026-06-23T11:26 id=2069381675612864800 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Depends on the jurisdiction. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you show up to a lot of peoples 18th birthday parties?
2026-06-23T11:33 id=2069383449161719881 →adastroworld | @adastroworld I would assume the dirtbag left would passionately hate ai, but I stopped listening to that podcast long ago || CTX: Yesterday, in June 2026, Chapo Trap House (one of the highest grossing podcasts on Patreon ever, not even just among leftist ones) had Ed Zitron on and at one point had him explain what a “token” is  I am genuinely running out of ways to ex
2026-06-23T11:39 id=2069384856153505973 →- | Jack is wise, a great writer and a cool guy, which really annoys me because he's so young.  Everything here on this list is great, especially 15 and ESPECIALLY 17, and the reason why intuition is downplayed and dismissed so much is a fascinating and really complex cultural history.   Except 23. 23 on this list is wrong. || CTX: Every year around my birthday I publish an updated "reflections"-ish piece.  This one is two and a half months late, but my thoughts on optionality, depreciating utility of money, tech sales, intuition, and more.  https://t.co/1CxV6UN9sB
2026-06-23T12:48 id=2069402126619742524 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Just buy and hold low cost index funds, you'll be fine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I really wish I knew enough about this stuff to involve myself in it.
2026-06-23T13:14 id=2069408645197226389 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics The bottom 10% doesn't mean economically. The stupidest 10% absolutely impact society, schools teaching to the dumbest kid (cf no child left behind), warning labels everywhere, bureaucracy to ensure everyone's on the same page, hell Trump is president ffs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 #26 is odious in my eyes. It is a nice piece, Jack. He does seem like a wise and cool guy. I would be honored to further discuss this point.
2026-06-23T13:30 id=2069412834304573734 →KaiserBeamz | @KaiserBeamz Just like Fushiigi Yuugi in the 1990s || CTX: Rozen Maiden was one of those shows that was massive in the 00s that got completely obliterated from the cultural otaku memory once Sword Art Online dropped. https://t.co/pZnW49DEJS
2026-06-23T14:38 id=2069430012525330817 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker Wow I've never heard of this!!! Will need to do some reading. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good post, I like it!  I'd like to add that tokenisation is not always necessary. (See token-free MAMBAs for example. Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on MAMBAs)
2026-06-23T14:39 id=2069430119387865462 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Coming from you that means a lot, thanks man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Very inspired to connect middest to mid. One of your best bangers.
2026-06-23T14:41 id=2069430762730869010 →- | 70% chance market closes green.
2026-06-23T14:43 id=2069431112083161325 →sebkrier | @sebkrier I wrote this just today. Underneath it all is a desire not to be mid. https://t.co/7rKsWNtT5Q || CTX: We live in a very Christian age, and Silicon Valley runs on the fumes of a Christian eschatology that is false and comforting while providing incessant anxiety over immanent ends.  What an opener, eh?  In “The Sense of an Ending”, Frank Ker
2026-06-23T14:43 id=2069431248104411618 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry Imagine if she started a fund with Cramer. || CTX: Unbelievable contra, nobody is doing it like her. https://t.co/08MJmOZFho
2026-06-23T14:44 id=2069431511716413877 →canonical777 | @canonical777 @clopenloop "Sorry, Terence, we've decided to go with another candidate. Tbh you've fallen off fam." || CTX: @clopenloop Lmao this is actually real, congratulations to Terence Tao on being the only qualified candidate for the Terence Tao role https://t.co/jDJn9kt3RE
2026-06-23T14:52 id=2069433419642347949 →Evan_ss6 | @Evan_ss6 more like they manfiestad this amirite fellas (don't judge me I'm stoned) || CTX: Girls be like “I manifested this” and it’s just them being an escort https://t.co/osFTKU8XXf
2026-06-23T14:54 id=2069433929585889675 →- | RT @Jack_Raines: From my book: thoughts on mortality, procrastination, and the stage-specificity of life. https://t.co/lkZpwKbeGz || CTX: From my book: thoughts on mortality, procrastination, and the stage-specificity of life. https://t.co/lkZpwKbeGz https://t.co/f3VQN58ipG
2026-06-23T14:55 id=2069434197857771621 →allisonology | @allisonology @DaphneB76234 She's commemorating the year I got into university || CTX: @DaphneB76234 Birth
2026-06-23T14:56 id=2069434471045312712 →iamtexture | @iamtexture @ATLCWorker "Monopolies collude" is such a funny string of words || CTX: @ATLCWorker You took the socialist meme, replaced it with vaguely capitalistic words. There is no reality that corresponds to the claims in the graphic.
2026-06-23T14:57 id=2069434605384728998 →- | This is a very entertaining website.
2026-06-23T14:57 id=2069434733566857246 →DeItaone | @DeItaone OH YEAH forgot to buy Broadcom || CTX: SEMICONDUCTOR STOCKS SLIDE SHARPLY  A broad chip-sector selloff hit semiconductor stocks and ETFs:  • $NVDA  -3.7% • $AMD -7.5% • $MU -11.7% • $AVGO -2.8% • $INTC -9.0% • $ARM -8.5% • $MCHP -5.4% • $AMAT -9.7% • $KLAC -8.5% • $MRVL -9.2% • 
2026-06-23T15:01 id=2069435777080009072 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Me and not who? || CTX: Tapping the sign https://t.co/RkVjZ5uru1
2026-06-23T15:05 id=2069436789002236326 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace yep, Musk is taking advantage of his goodwill and using retail as exit liquidity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I agree with all your numerical analysis. BUT, I believe many people want to be part of “the future.” SpaceX is a dominant “future” player. I only own a smidgen of shares, few enough that it could go to 0 and idc. But I sti
2026-06-23T15:07 id=2069437193207312551 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart The dream of the 90s is alive in Taipei https://t.co/h3sZW3zrb9 || CTX: Amazing first paragraph about leveraged stock trading frenzy in Taiwan https://t.co/bPlV5wiVEO https://t.co/pgjbSTBmFt
2026-06-23T15:09 id=2069437720993411546 →christianoboria | One of the odd paradoxes of the world is that nations that try to improve themselves constantly talk about their flaws while nations that resist improvement either lie about how good they are or downplay their downsides.   The end result is countries that try hard to be better are widely seen as dystopias while actual dystopias are seem as paradise.   The USA and Japan are the extremes of this. || CTX: This is 100% on the money. https://t.co/sJlsKvRf6t
2026-06-23T15:17 id=2069439706279113199 →xriskology | I lived in Europe for 8 years and, yes, in aggregate and on average, it's much better. For the average person it's a better place to live.   I left Europe because I had ambitions, and there was no opportunity to fulfill those ambitions.  If I'd stayed in Europe, I wouldn't have been able to semi-retire in my 30s, and I wouldn't be financially independent in my 40s.   But if I could be happy as a high school English teacher, yeah I would've been better off there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @christianoboria With respect to virtually every relevant metric, Europe is superior to the US: social mobility, childhood mortality, health care (costs, access), water &amp; air quality, childhood education, lead exposure,
2026-06-23T15:39 id=2069445305188454493 →- | When I hear someone talk about stock based compensation when pushing a bear thesis on a hyperscaler, I'm like an Xbox: I turn 360 degrees and walk away
2026-06-23T15:53 id=2069448728575102977 →xriskology | that is a very good point, and honestly if I wasn't person personally attached to Thailand I would probably move back to europe, but I would never move back to America.   I think it ultimately comes down to what you want out of life, and America is a great place to go if what you want is more and more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @christianoboria Re: semi-retire, everything is so affordable here that I can travel to a different city every month for only $20k a year. I feel as though I've retired, because I get to sit around each day surrounded by sn
2026-06-23T16:14 id=2069454050928771112 →- | I first left America in September 2001, exactly two weeks after 9/11.  When I left I read a bit about culture shock (which I didn't really experience much of), and also learned about reverse culture shock: the feeling of shock when you go back home and realize how different you are and how much your native land changed while you were gone.  I have experienced a lot of reverse culture shock. And it's getting worse.  I only returned to America in 2011, but left again in 2015. I haven't visited since 2017.  So now when I look at posts like this, I am honestly as fascinated as you might be, idk, going to a Thai temple on Makha Bucha to make merit.   I legit don't understand what all these young Asian thirst trap "I'm a programmer/VC/influencer" posts are. I don't understand why they exist, what they're trying to do, or most importantly why there are SO SO MANY of them.   Like, I went to SF all the time as a kid, my family is all from California, this is in many ways my culture.   But, like, I don't recognize this shit. And it's baffling. || CTX: time for a reintroduction :)  hi, i'm samantha! born/raised in toronto, un-dropped out of @PennMandT (matsci & wharton), based in SF now  > former competitive gymnast, swimmer & figure skater > 6 yrs in crypto since 15 > founded/scaled a wo
2026-06-23T16:15 id=2069454221221732521 →helscom | @helscom Dude you have chickens and you make Greek yogurt, you're living the dream.   You should make piimä. || CTX: nothing goes to waste. the hens love the whey leftovers from the yoghurt https://t.co/Q63eZN5mOO https://t.co/woSOOB0281
2026-06-23T16:18 id=2069455051270262930 →helscom | @helscom OMG ONE OF MY FAVORITE FINNISH FOODS so good with that tart red jam  That, porkkanalaatikko, karjalan paisti... Finland has a lot of good foods tbh, really underrated cuisine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i want to make leipäjuusto next
2026-06-23T16:21 id=2069455845159809151 →helscom | @helscom I tried to make mozzarella during the pandemic, it was incredibly difficult because the temperatures really had to be exact. But if you can bake I bet it's easier. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes!! and shouldn’t be harder to make than yogurt. just need to do the rennet stage but i have a few bottles here. no overnight stuff either
2026-06-23T16:26 id=2069457075965661233 →arcticinstincts | @arcticinstincts please, good lord, turn me into a dead fish || CTX: POV: it is 1898 in Nunavut. You’re an Inuit hunter who traveled 3 hours by husky dogsled to the water edge of the tundra and encounter the migrating seal herd you been waiting all winter for. You pull out your club and swing with all your m
2026-06-23T16:39 id=2069460461373063604 →- | https://t.co/TJLWY4kWBC  The average (AVERAGE!!!) household in America is worth over 1.25 million USD.  America is really really really rich! https://t.co/FRDXK7lGUg
2026-06-23T16:40 id=2069460568105422888 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony would would would would would would would would... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 looks like markets doing market things to me  https://t.co/C1EiFGUcmL
2026-06-23T16:42 id=2069461033090167160 →PythiaR | @PythiaR @aceboy8844 tbf 2010s were pretty dead for semis, my old firm almost shut down their semi research || CTX: @aceboy8844 "Until the recent year"... uh... https://t.co/l2A1UQAtWJ
2026-06-23T22:43 id=2069551943471767806 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng @christianoboria Japan is a miserable dystopia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @christianoboria I’ve always thought this about the US, but is Japan the same or an actual dystopia?
2026-06-23T22:46 id=2069552804499497288 →ChaseJeffr3xnt | @ChaseJeffr3xnt nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you worried about the AI bubble?
2026-06-23T22:47 id=2069553076793712670 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @unusual_whales She's getting better! Usually she does it before. || CTX: @unusual_whales @47fucb4r8c69323 thought you'd find this amusing
2026-06-23T22:49 id=2069553363243733396 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Lot of people are telling me that about the tech scene, really quite sad to see a culture degraded and corrupted so much || CTX: I left in 2017 and came back in 2021. I totally missed the trump presidency, so I know what you mean. Something happened during trump/covid that really fucked things up. When I came back to America, I had difficulty navigating society. Peop
2026-06-23T22:55 id=2069555092349706289 →ptaranat | Alarming if the brain drain from Thailand reverses and goes back to Thailand, since the Thai economy is stagnant and Thai elites are so corrupt they won't allow new innovation to take place.   But, yeah, everything you say makes sense. I've met a few of the international school grad types in BKK, and I fully agree with your description of the situation. So these posts do kinda make sense, but damn how depressing. || CTX: Were you in Thailand during that time? I grew up in an expat community in Bangkok and the common theme with kids is they end up with third-culture identity, too American to be Thai, too Thai to be American. After I moved to the US, I realiz
2026-06-23T22:57 id=2069555464875253945 →47fucb4r8c69323 | okay maybe tomorrow || CTX: 70% chance market closes green.
2026-06-23T23:00 id=2069556162555707627 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Wait when you go back where? I thought you were American (and no way in hell are you talking about America) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ugh. I get reverse culture shock after even a few weeks. Particularly around how healthy people look and act.
2026-06-23T23:07 id=2069558034855239816 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees So you're saying Americans are healthier? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh, I've been to China, Japan, and Ukraine and I'm shocked coming back to the USA.
2026-06-23T23:16 id=2069560279277744230 →HighyieldHarry | @HighyieldHarry lol this is vaporware, I am Jack's total lack of concern || CTX: Every expert network should be sweating rn  one prompt. 25 expert calls, sourced, run, and synthesized.   unreal. https://t.co/sy6WlXeQNO
2026-06-23T23:19 id=2069561135544877193 →ptaranat | @ptaranat reality is always different though, and face motivates Thais to be dishonest. The face culture is why I refuse to work with Thais or try to do business here: I can't get a straight answer out of people I work with, which makes work impossible.   Fully agree with you though! || CTX: Thailand is in this weird situation where it's generally a low-trust society in terms of systemic trust in institutions because of the insane amount of corruption and nepotism. But the day to day interpersonal trust among small networks and
2026-06-23T23:31 id=2069564070513304021 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees ahhh yeah, I gotchu now.   Yeah, and if you fly into JFK it starts at the airport. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh, geez no. It's like I go to another country, see some things that are operating better, come back to the USA and I'm like damn I didn't realize how much this was a problem.
2026-06-23T23:32 id=2069564255104593933 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @qianjiang___ I feel like you're personally targeting me by getting these to show up on my TL || CTX: @qianjiang___ hi
2026-06-23T23:32 id=2069564362621411754 →gabriel1 | @gabriel1 Man who sells tokens urges you to use tokens || CTX: STOP HOLDING BACK WHEN PROMPTING you can literally one shot whatever feature in one prompt just yap for longer. aim to describe every thing you can possibly imagine in ONE prompt  and obviously use voice. i often talk for 15minutes straight
2026-06-23T23:36 id=2069565358974116345 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @iheartangiie definitely personally targeting me, Goddamn Sam I knew you were good but this is next level || CTX: @iheartangiie happy birthday!!!
2026-06-23T23:41 id=2069566424583168116 →marc__adler | @marc__adler @JustineBateman @ChrisKindaReads Well at the speech act level pretty clear what she's doing || CTX: @JustineBateman @ChrisKindaReads "Of all the classics I’ve read, I hadn’t happened to read this one until now" is going to keep the linguists busy since it's obviously grammatically nonsensical but the meaning is clear anyway.
2026-06-23T23:42 id=2069566865291264106 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Although I'm from the west coast, I felt right at home living in NYC, but I've always deeply hated California culture, and it's honestly just getting more bizarre on top of the loathsomeness.   People on the west coast seem to lack self awareness or much theory of mind || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder if it’s just a SF thing? Maybe I’m boiled frog, but I don’t notice as much change in NYC. Most of the COVID stuff has reversed
2026-06-23T23:48 id=2069568389400629610 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Georgian food is some of the best in the world, seriously || CTX: Even Georgian food looks great I have to go visit https://t.co/ZtHhlpbgj1
2026-06-23T23:52 id=2069569225220649086 →- | 1. This is great, wonderful UX 2. More integration of LLMs with existing workflows/apps is needed, more of this please 3. They're innovating on UI/UX because core LLM tech is both stagnant and being commodified. https://t.co/ld9CJAV810 || CTX: Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude.  In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work. https://t.co/R
2026-06-23T23:54 id=2069569911920464057 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 So now I'm going to be immortalized as the horny white guy in Asia on the microblog?   Well, if the shoe fits (and needs to be taken off at the front door) https://t.co/KbeIYqVK1x || CTX: i know your type https://t.co/2l5J7UGun5
2026-06-24T00:36 id=2069580459324182889 →- | Listening to the FT's Ruchir Sharma on the presupposed AI bubble, he's obviously wrong and full of nonsense, but he did say something really profound: we are in a new AI world order and countries are winners, followers, or losers: winners (America, Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Israel) whose "tech spending as a share of GDP is very high, anywhere between 3-6%", followers lack great tech but they're building data centers etc (Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand), then there are AI losers (Europe ex. Netherlands).  This is correct (I need to note that in Thailand, the GDP gains from the data center buildout are masked by a coterminous decline in tourism and domestic consumer spending). But I want to point out that the tech spending is really a manifestation of a broader cultural element that these countries share and both the followers and losers lack: openness.  America is an extremely open society when it comes to just about everything, which is why they are the biggest economic powerhouse and will remain so.  East Asia is not normally considered a region of many open societies, and it's true that those countries are not--but they are economically and academically open. This has deep historic roots.  In China, the Self Strengthening Movement (https://t.co/Y2rOELd8NV) was a response to western imperialism and a realization that the industrial age had made Europe more powerful than Asia, requiring a modernization and westernization of many core cultural institutions, most crucially education. The Meiji Restoration (https://t.co/xEYHZJZvvs) was focused on westernization, and one of the more amusing aspects of this move was the attempt to get the Japanese to eat more meat to be physically larger like westerners (this is where modern Japanese foods like hamburger steak and Japanese curry come from).  Similar movements throughout Asia had several divergent effects, but the main idea for the continent broadly can be summed up as: in order to survive and not get conquered, we need to modernize and build up our economic, military, and financial capital. And so they've been doing for over a century now--sometimes taking things a bit too far (insert image of Japanese imperial army flag).  It is in the very specific and carefully curated openness that these east Asian societies have been able to suddenly see tremendous growth in wealth and power.  From one angle, you could say modern France is a beverage, tailor, and accessory peddler for Asia. And you wouldn't be all that wrong.  My point is that if we want to look at what's making some nations more successful it is their openness: open to new ideas, new investment, and of course new technologies.  And the problem with Europe is that they are not open societies. And they're getting more closed.  "But wait!" I can hear millions of chuds crying out in unison. "What about the ferrners?"  Yes, there is a tremendous amount of migration into Europe and a lot of pro-immigration sentiment. Much of it legally mandated: say the wrong thing about the foreigners, u gun go 2 jail.  And that's your clue.  In what way is Europe's immigration policy an "open society"? Quite literally in the physical sense of being open to specific kinds of immigrants. But note specific kinds! Tourist visas to Europe are difficult; when I tried buying a house in Italy the red tape made it too much of a hassle for me as an American.  The generous attitude towards refugees and migrant blue collar workers in Europe is at this point a tradition.  It is something that began in the late 1940s and grew in fervor and inflated in metaphysical importance throughout the late 20th century as a response to WW2. So we can consider it now a part of Europe's historical and cultural heritage: the tradition in Europe is, plainly, one must not be overly critical of allowing a particular type of migrant that may prima facie seem undesirable, or you are a bad person.  This attitude, then, is enforced in a top-down fashion by both private institutions (cancel culture) and the government (jail 4 meen tweets). That is not, to my mind, an open society.  One can have open borders and be a closed society. Remember that Russia offers citizenship to young men if they sign up for military service.  This is a really, really hard idea to communicate, because either you're going to see me as an evil racist anti-immigration guy or you're going to see me as a SJW (idk what they're even called anymore, what's the new term?) pro-immigration guy. I'm honestly neither, because I think the benefits of the flow of labor and capital depend on the type of labor/capital and the cohort in any given society you're talking about when it comes to benefits.  Dispersion, skew, qualitative features are things I care about more than your overly compressed vauge handwavy understanding of the world.  I am not an ideological person, I am not politically minded. I'm not a data-driven stats bro either.  I'm a goddamn empiricist.  And that is why I observe and see what is really quite obvious: the more you are open to ideas and to experimentation, the more your society will thrive.  Europe is going to keep getting poorer and poorer relative to the rest of the world. They make up for it with pretty buildings, a generous welfare state (enjoy it while it lasts buddy boy), and long coffee breaks and vacations, but that continent is uninvestable.  And to East Asia: Congratulations--you deserve every bit of success you are getting now and more. I hate so much about your cultures, but I cannot help but admire the tenacity, patience, diligence, and openness to prosperity.  SOUND OFF IN CUMMENTS OP DUMB RACIST CHUD AND BRAINDED CUMMUNST
2026-06-24T00:37 id=2069580616006508792 →stkms0011223344 | @stkms0011223344 Can you define what you mean by capitalism? || CTX: This is just capitalism. Scenes and communities get co-opted like this all the time and harnessed to make money. This is the pattern. The people create, capitalists then come and co-opts when the time is right 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://t.co/VI3e4dylfX
2026-06-24T00:47 id=2069583222309257522 →stkms0011223344 | @stkms0011223344 all I asked was for you to define what you mean by capitalism || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You don't understand how scenes and communities and concepts/ideas get co-opted by market forces?
2026-06-24T00:55 id=2069585194366222454 →dhiyaan_ | @dhiyaan_ @gabriel1 TIL! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gabriel1 he no longer works at openai
2026-06-24T01:12 id=2069589489320882183 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @CommanthaBiden 47(-10) mentioned || CTX: @CommanthaBiden Im 37 but I look 17
2026-06-24T01:49 id=2069598804681322817 →1owroller | @1owroller Is it prostitution or husband hunting? Or a little of both maybe?   I feel kinda dumb that I didn't figure this out on my own btw. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/kprCAEAkYQ https://t.co/zJvOv0LJTD
2026-06-24T01:50 id=2069599020377661745 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ No! I planned to leave for about 3 years, after I did a summer program in England in 1998.  And 9/11 actually made me consider staying; that's how fervent the nationalism was at the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 was 911 related to your leave?
2026-06-24T01:52 id=2069599459219300797 →lc_lang1 | This is an INCREDIBLY good point.  My instinct is to say their creative power has been captured by tech in two ways: first the algo captured their attention and have made them uncreatively passive.   Secondly, whatever Gen Z creativity there is tends to be concentrated in doing internet bullshit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like this thesis but I'm not seeing great novels / artistic talent from older gen z yet either, and we're already pushing 30 too
2026-06-24T02:06 id=2069602917729153186 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor While I'm here talking about being the AI of Switzerland https://t.co/m57J7vNmuk || CTX: imagine talking about being the switzerland of AI here https://t.co/10F3Fb28pc
2026-06-24T02:09 id=2069603770158481569 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @allisonology #relatable || CTX: @allisonology its so straight its borderline gay https://t.co/mxG5aORem6
2026-06-24T02:11 id=2069604355825951125 →- | &gt; be me, tech company brazillionaire &gt;1. Tell the world "learn to code"  &gt;2. World learns to code &gt;3. Number of coders in the job market skyrockets &gt;4. ??? &gt;5. PROFIT! https://t.co/7cFzUjyg8s || CTX: Everyone says today’s engineers are weaker. Then why are interviews 10x harder than they were 5-10 years ago? https://t.co/ZFmU1bfVK8
2026-06-24T02:11 id=2069604415569600745 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @adxtyahq bastard you beat me to it! || CTX: @adxtyahq Learn to code was created to introduce more people into the field thereby driving down the value of their labour .  The whole STEM push is about this
2026-06-24T02:43 id=2069612339704590682 →- | deserves more views tbh fam https://t.co/OdgLegcEbr || CTX: From a young age children are taught to be nice, often as a corrective for not-nice behavior, which typically runs the gamut from schoolyard bullying to refusing to say “thank you” when offered a gift or treat.  These two actions are vastly
2026-06-24T03:00 id=2069616633669411098 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees That's a good post! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm reminded of this. Nice as a conflict buffer that is often too big.  https://t.co/ojU5Cy2MXy
2026-06-24T03:10 id=2069619252261515498 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees Downstream of dialectical culture: America and by extension the west is obsessed with debate culture: A amd B fight, then you get to choose which is "right". Black and white thinking to exclude the middle by design. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, I feel culturally we're often missing that middle ground that surfaces issues while keeping them workable.
2026-06-24T03:16 id=2069620702710514122 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees lazy poorly paid unintelligent teachers || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This was one of the weirdest things to me in school that debates would have a "winner" and you could be assigned a position. Even weirder to me now being able to accept and reject parts, see gradients, and dissolve paradox.
2026-06-24T03:17 id=2069620924664738261 →ItsBrain4Brain | @ItsBrain4Brain @gabriel1 do you think he's going to leave the AI industry entirely and like go be a sheep farmer or something? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gabriel1 Man who is out of the loop and doesn't know he currently isn't a token salesman
2026-06-24T03:18 id=2069621161991049425 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @qianjiang___ Charoenkrung road, right hand side just south of Icon Siam, last one as you walk north from Saphan Thaksin past The River condo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @qianjiang___ Hey my friend is in Thailand right now could you perhaps get him acquainted with your local homosexual masseuse? https://t.co/9tfe9nfU6E
2026-06-24T03:18 id=2069621281734144123 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @qianjiang___ also WHAT THE FUXK THAILAND CLEAN?!?!? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 @qianjiang___ Hey my friend is in Thailand right now could you perhaps get him acquainted with your local homosexual masseuse? https://t.co/9tfe9nfU6E
2026-06-24T03:22 id=2069622224957722942 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Dispersion is a very big problem in America, yes. Wealth itself is not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lol. Now look at the median
2026-06-24T03:56 id=2069630727269011928 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill @qianjiang___ She looks so much like my ex-wife. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @qianjiang___ https://t.co/mcuH6bD5cJ
2026-06-24T03:57 id=2069630944806666600 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I think it very much depends on what asset we are talking about; I avoid generalities as much as possible, so if you pointed me to a particular asset I could say what it represents. In aggregate—meaningless question imo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think this "wealth" represents? Productive capacity? We're talking about the balance sheets of the most alien 1% of our society. If the money isn't moving, nothing is being done.
2026-06-24T03:57 id=2069631094769737952 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony Being a westerner living in Asia has forced me to reconsider every assumption I’ve had about everything. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "I can feel your pain and still want you to feel pain." favorite part. My elementary school had an extra pledge that included "treat others how you want to be treated" and i saw the friction immediately.   I also see a lot 
2026-06-24T03:58 id=2069631256682483742 →menewstyle | @menewstyle Absolutely, it is a market phenomenon, says nothing about the people in the market. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn’t that say more about the market then vs. now than it does about talent? Granted it’s tough for any business/field at all right now, unless you’re a brazillionare, and it could even get tough for them because they hav
2026-06-24T04:02 id=2069632208445509935 →athena_notes | @athena_notes What would that be? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Aside from memetics and policy, there's probably one unorthodox way to speed up inducing openness at mass scale for very none open countries but it's highly illegal
2026-06-24T04:05 id=2069633101752602631 →Ken67547214 | I know you despise the Fed and think they are using bad data, and I would concede that the data and methodologies are necessarily imperfect and will always be so.  But I think "They are genuinely, provably using incorrect data to mislead the public” is taking it too far, and this is where you overstep by assuming malice and intentionality, which is an issue because this assertion is unfalsifiable (you can always just say “yeah, but they REALLY under the surface want to hurt us”), so it’s not really up for debate—it’s an article of faith, not an argument.  But the second and bigger issue for me is that this assumes they have access to some super special data and knowledge that the rest of the market lacks and cannot get access to—a kind of private language argument.  I don’t think the Fed is either as competent or as coherent to do what you allege. || CTX: Maybe it's harder to recognize from outside the country, but there is a reason that the FOMC's analysis never aligns with sentiment. (It's not like Americans are all just lying about how much money they have).  They are genuinely, provably 
2026-06-24T04:07 id=2069633379222585841 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I’d say it’s more of a heuristic for further analysis than a myth, but I agree it’s not the final word on this issue at all. But it is valuable as an imperfect measurement to get us to look deeper into specific questions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, which is why it's so silly to talk about average "wealth" of Americans in the first place. It's just a myth https://t.co/oU1Rs6kRL2
2026-06-24T04:07 id=2069633483685953662 →athena_notes | @athena_notes oh yeah just spray the country with LSD, I’m all for this! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think I've seen research papers back then of psilocybin inducing long-term personality changes. Higher Oppenness to experience.
2026-06-24T04:54 id=2069645385505861983 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 SHOW HER FACE, COWARD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/KepYxyha25
2026-06-24T04:58 id=2069646249796763676 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill Lord give me occidental taste, just not quite yet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill
2026-06-24T05:11 id=2069649677121986755 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @JasonBotterill That is an impressive connection ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill because of augustine of hippo, and thailand https://t.co/E8J3eI2vHN
2026-06-24T05:12 id=2069649752950702321 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 Don't objectify people like that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Samhain948689 What are you doing in Asia https://t.co/JlylQqq4W0
2026-06-24T05:29 id=2069654129371386363 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs you don't have to sell us on the place, we're already here || CTX: this website is racist against asians https://t.co/Lv0uMXhYlW
2026-06-24T06:21 id=2069667263872188632 →- | I suspect a lot of people are going to look at the bullshit and hype of a lot of VC backed startups (Taste Labs is the platonic ideal of this) and witte off the industry as a bullshit scam because they immediately see the analogy with crypto, since that industry is so visible.   But the better analogy is another much less known industry with a very different trajectory that also happened to have set the groundwork for much of the innovations in LLMs: adtech.
2026-06-24T06:23 id=2069667739405541714 →elocinationn | @elocinationn idk if it's a downgrade from when people with these ambitions were hired by Zynga and Snap to make people click on shiny animations tbh || CTX: We are actively creating a world where those with civilisational ambitions feel they need to build a ‘stupid cash grab’ kinda SaaS/dropshipping/loss-leading Google to show ‘revenue’ when you’re losing $2 on the $1 kinda company before they 
2026-06-24T06:25 id=2069668248548000041 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @sugarjammi @NotionHQ @ishverduzco @thoughtcrime___ Why. Was. I. Not. Tagged. || CTX: @sugarjammi @NotionHQ @ishverduzco @thoughtcrime___
2026-06-24T06:36 id=2069671071171948657 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 @sugarjammi @NotionHQ @ishverduzco @thoughtcrime___ look, just because they're Asian... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sugarjammi @NotionHQ @ishverduzco @thoughtcrime___ this is about the corgi cafe
2026-06-24T06:47 id=2069673820290785743 →KatieMiller | @KatieMiller @tszzl I'm honestly kinda hurt you guys didn't reach out to me for this. || CTX: Another Sam Altman Scam:  Sam Altman’s Orb startup is under two internal investigations for financial irregularities and bribery of foreign officials in Thailand.  1. The first examines senior leaders who approved seven-figure payments to a
2026-06-24T07:37 id=2069686210898055632 →- | Imagine an engineer somehow builds a new kind of bridge that has never been built before. He doesn't know how he was able to build it or how it works, yet he still does. He is unable to make money from the bridge, all he can do is build it.  Now imagine a businessman also does not know how the bridge is build and cannot build one himself, but he makes a fortune from the bridge by charging a toll to use it.   Finally there is a scholar who discovers through careful study and analysis how the bridge can be built and how it works, but he's also incapable both of building it and making money from it.   Which would you want to be? Ask yourself why, that's the most important part.
2026-06-24T07:41 id=2069687352419913768 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder First time I read Yud/Soames write "we don't know how it'll kill us, but we absolutely know that it will" made me regret paying him to debate me cuz it meant I had to read that absolutely retarded rambling book || CTX: guy who says it's too alien to comprehend, but is pretty sure it will kill us
2026-06-24T07:42 id=2069687604359069889 →publicinte | @publicinte https://t.co/1WRYUI9EUa || CTX: ive seen screenshots of myself but ive never seen a screenshot of a screenshot of myself https://t.co/xQigzZ3dva
2026-06-24T07:49 id=2069689270957416913 →seasaintxbt | @seasaintxbt the thought being, "I am going to leave this woman alone" || CTX: I can make a woman cum with just a single thought
2026-06-24T08:20 id=2069697153279139969 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Tesla_Optimus I AINT NO ROBOSEXUAL || CTX: @Tesla_Optimus @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-24T08:31 id=2069699815039283524 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Tesla_Optimus I won't let clankers take jobs from wankers || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Tesla_Optimus so this is where he draws the line
2026-06-24T09:12 id=2069710258201866665 →- | "My manager sucks, I'm underpaid, the company is shit--and I give everything 110%, working my ass off doing the best work I can to make the best product possible."   I hear people say shit like this like it's a boast, like they're noble. But to me just sounds like the whining of a sucker.   Now this I WILL tweet.
2026-06-24T09:37 id=2069716599490404626 →danywander | @danywander I've been told there was a GC of people trying to figure out who I am, and when they dod figure it out they were disappointed. I'm a pretty fucking boring person to be honest || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 starting to think this is the burner account of someone we all know.  too many bangers. love it.
2026-06-24T10:12 id=2069725367481606146 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Samhain948689 @flowersslop pass || CTX: @Samhain948689 @flowersslop @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-24T10:44 id=2069733497250668903 →AlexCaswen | @AlexCaswen Can @lexfridman join? He's a lex. || CTX: The Alex’s of Twitter are forming a society of Alex’s If your name is Alex reply to this post to be included
2026-06-24T10:46 id=2069733983701909534 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno https://t.co/h3NLqsFrZe || CTX: https://t.co/apznp80cvi https://t.co/Zliek0L7WE
2026-06-24T10:49 id=2069734589002874964 →potatoslav | @potatoslav @sapphyreblayze I was just saying this on this damn app yesterday.   Europe is good if you're low ambition and want a good life.   America is good if you're high ambition and want to win.  You can decide one is better, but that's a moral imposition on reality. || CTX: people value different things. i’ve lived in both places and imo quality of life is better in Europe if you’re lower income and better in the US if you’re higher income. there are a ton of things that i love about living in Europe but i do 
2026-06-24T10:50 id=2069734916255097193 →Hedgeye | @Hedgeye @KeithMcCullough This is such obvious AI slop. Shameful. || CTX: For the newbs just finding The Process:   Hedgeye CEO @KeithMcCullough went Bearish in Q3 of 2007 & was fired for "being too early" to the Stock Market Crash of 2008.   He didn’t go find another seat on Wall St.  He built the thing that did
2026-06-24T10:55 id=2069736190476181674 →- | There's a reason the phrases "just do it", "move fast and break things", and "you can just do things" came from America and not Europe.  Like, you can't even break spaghetti in half in Italy for fucks sake, Europeans can't be entrepreneurs when they're addicted to tradition. https://t.co/tJjBND6wO3 || CTX: @potatoslav @sapphyreblayze I was just saying this on this damn app yesterday.   Europe is good if you're low ambition and want a good life.   America is good if you're high ambition and want to win.  You can decide one is better, but that'
2026-06-24T11:01 id=2069737702283755762 →teodorio | The other genius about the ending is that, yeah he gets whacked because of some mob shit, but it's not really connected to the prior seasons and doesn't really have any major dramatic or thematic importance: it's just that Tony plays a risky game until he loses, then the game is over.  Nothing more to it than that. Just like in real life. || CTX: Just saw The Sopranos finale and it is pure genius. Genuinely one of the best endings I've witnessed in the history of cinema. Just cuts to black: "You don't even hear the gunshot"
2026-06-24T11:14 id=2069740974306394457 →- | Same data, different interpretations, because meaning is not integral to the tokens that we take to mean something.   LLMs are a very limited technology, this is why.   I could give a million examples of this. https://t.co/nHZYWezAVA
2026-06-24T11:30 id=2069744977715110013 →- | There is an intersection of power-law investing and Silly Business Theory #SBT that explains moder VC culture.  VCs bet on dumb shit for cultural cache, because they acknowledge most of their bets will go to zero, but that doesn't matter because their moonshots will moon.  So the GP is incentivized to take on ridiculous bets both to show they're a visionary and because it's fun, although the latter is based on silly reasoning and the latter abandons reasoning to pursue the silly itself.  How do you explain big bets on Juicero, that Friend pendant thing, bored apes etc?   Interest rates only get you part of the way to an explanation. The power-law investing approach affords the opportunity for indulging in silliness, and so we get bad investments in idiotic companies, show pony VC partners, billionaires funding cute boys they want to fuck, etc etc  The VC game isn't about optimizing capital deployment for maximum returns, it's about being silly because some of the nerds who depend on you will make something valuable, eventually, so you don't have to be valuable yourself.   It's a kind of hedonic rent seeking.
2026-06-24T11:48 id=2069749421714346343 →- | one of the widely known facts about this platform is that Marc andreessen will repeatedly follow then unfollow, block then unblock people all the time.   there are several ways we can understand this behavior. one is psychologically, that he is getting annoyed or upset at mean tweets. another is functional, that this shapes and molds and impacts the form of motivations and decision-making processes of people on this platform.   the only way we could determine which interpretation is accurate would be to know his internal psychological state, but that's of course unknowable.   and of course we can't ask Marc, because he doesn't do introspection, so he doesn't know either.
2026-06-24T12:15 id=2069756250175472019 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart I've been aggressively recommending this book across Twitter! It's great, if only because it (favorably) cites the research of some of the scientists in my lab. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not sure what the implications are for LLMs long term, but I’ve been reading this (and finding it compelling), which is in line with your underlying point https://t.co/uoNobmm47Q
2026-06-24T12:32 id=2069760516881592630 →teodorio | @teodorio @Hedgeye @KeithMcCullough HE DIDN'T LIK MAH BALLZ HE ATE MUH TAINT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Hedgeye @KeithMcCullough He didn't x he did y every single time
2026-06-24T12:38 id=2069762153209319497 →zampulu92728 | @zampulu92728 ghey || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What is this genre of tweet called?
2026-06-24T13:04 id=2069768578426138853 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Well I know *I* have one.   As for any of you monsters, no clue. (Which is kinda the problem tbh) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How do we know there is an internal psychological state?
2026-06-24T13:09 id=2069769811945734361 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x The toy inside will rattle around || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I want to slap his head so badly, i'm sure it will make funny sounds
2026-06-24T13:13 id=2069770991555989526 →TheStalwart | You would if you assumed a gap between yourself and the rest of the world, so if you find the puzzle trivial it's because you probably presuppose your own lack of specialness. Next question would be why.  That I find this puzzling tells me I've got narcissistic tendencies that I need to be wary of. Wittgenstein called this vanity (and he agonized over this puzzle so yeah everything tracks which NGL proves your point, so congrats Joe, you're special, which proves my point--you have fallen into my little trap so I'm just as special as you, but oh no maybe we're all equal after all I should've closed this parenthesis long a || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tbh though, I've never found this puzzle particularly puzzling. Given that you and I are made of identical stuff, and since I know I'm conscious, why would I even give a second thought to whether you are?
2026-06-24T13:16 id=2069771773663641838 →lsrspeakstocomp | @lsrspeakstocomp U CANT CRAK SAME EGG TWCE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 everyday he wakes up, he’s is a new he.
2026-06-24T13:24 id=2069773698006138975 →ligma__sigma | @ligma__sigma @taijitu_sees The Koh Samui airport is just like that and it's gorgeous || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @taijitu_sees jfk must be one of the worst in the world. i even prefer small island airports that are just one building with no central aircon and fans instead
2026-06-24T13:33 id=2069775914481909977 →babochenko | @babochenko dats why I own my place biotch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Skills don’t pay off rent, money does
2026-06-24T14:07 id=2069784422459883739 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @potatoslav @sapphyreblayze It's a constant tension in both places! The real masters of the universe are digital natives who can work for American companies and live in Europe, best of both worlds. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @potatoslav @sapphyreblayze in europe right now and let me tell you it's painful at times  very nice outside of work though
2026-06-24T14:12 id=2069785776033018104 →- | Off Broadway play idea: For the first time, multibillionaire tech whiz Marc Andreessen is kidnapped and locked in a room alone, where he begins to have visions of his shadow self.  .                   Starring                 . Sigourney Weaver as Marc .                       and                     . Morgan Freeman as the Shadow Self .              narrated by               . Kevin Spacey as the Host  In Studios 4/7/2047  this weed fkn fire fam
2026-06-24T14:13 id=2069786010377142548 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill GPT GLP GLM LLM LLC || CTX: They should start naming chips after peptides https://t.co/ju2ZM62qp6
2026-06-24T14:46 id=2069794322632098221 →- | Wank, Wank, Wank & Wank = law firm  Wank, Wank & Sons = piano tuning company Wankerton = security firm W. W. Wank = publishing company W. W. Wank & Wank = accountancy  The Wank = national museum El Wank = national museum, but in Spain Wankers = ironic dive bar in the East Village The Wankers = sitcom wankers = digital media marketing firm wnkrs = social media platform wanquers = unironic swanky bar on the Upper East Side  wankies = LGBT+ bookstore in Portland wankie = denim overall brand in Seattle wanq = Night club in Miami Weink = Night club in Chicago  Way N. K. = Night club in Las Vegas  Wanke = Stationery stop in Frankfurt Wank = what your mom does for a living BIOTCH
2026-06-24T14:48 id=2069794723687240179 →somewheresy | @somewheresy agreed, that tie is way too long || CTX: You will live to see horrors beyond your comprehension https://t.co/On3Q6LoTGz
2026-06-24T14:52 id=2069795894531338596 →- | Kinda guy who gets nervous performing John Cage's 4'33" so he accidentally plays an E flat at 4'32"
2026-06-24T14:53 id=2069795977243029924 →Jack_Raines | @Jack_Raines yeah he's good at dunking || CTX: Dream come true last night: dapped up Kevin Durant and told him he’s a prolific shitposter
2026-06-24T14:54 id=2069796250397139050 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital If so... why?? That'd suggest the functional read, he's trying to manipulate the discourse   But he'd still need to tell the bot who do ban, no? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it’s just a bot that does it for him
2026-06-24T15:01 id=2069797979536626103 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you went back to 1994 when I first used Netscape and said, "some day in the future the developer of this program is going to bizarrely follow and unfollow people on a public message board, would you believe that?" id answer no I wouldn't because I was a polite teenager but deep down inside id think oh yeah that totally tracks I bet he's real creepy too || CTX: one of the widely known facts about this platform is that Marc andreessen will repeatedly follow then unfollow, block then unblock people all the time.   there are several ways we can understand this behavior. one is psychologically, that h
2026-06-24T15:02 id=2069798285561463068 →alisawuffles | @alisawuffles Will you be working on pre training at OpenAI? || CTX: We created SuperBPE🚀, a *superword* tokenizer that includes tokens spanning multiple words.  When pretraining at 8B scale, SuperBPE models consistently outperform the BPE baseline on 30 downstream tasks (+8% MMLU), while also being 27% more
2026-06-24T15:07 id=2069799624546897960 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Is it AI psychosis that I find this absolutely fucking hysterical? https://t.co/6efBfiicvm || CTX: Wank, Wank, Wank & Wank = law firm  Wank, Wank & Sons = piano tuning company Wankerton = security firm W. W. Wank = publishing company W. W. Wank & Wank = accountancy  The Wank = national museum El Wank = national museum, but in Spain Wanke
2026-06-24T15:11 id=2069800533876240865 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees if he wants camouflage he shit crouch as low as he can in an ostrich nest || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao at that last line. Vaugly remember him saying something about how he follows a bunch of people as camouflage.
2026-06-24T15:22 id=2069803391245840702 →taijitu_sees | @taijitu_sees did she scream at the top of her lungs while crossing her legs? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmao my wife was complaining about our 2yo's head being so big we have issues finding clothes he can fit his head through and I'm like well it could have been like MA and showed her.
2026-06-24T15:30 id=2069805248022229486 →equacc | @equacc Wankthropic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you saw world models research and decided to create entire dataset for them to speed up progress
2026-06-24T15:51 id=2069810547584090280 →bowieoverride | @bowieoverride yeah it's a 5 star Wyndham resort named after the museum || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Wank reads to me as a high end hotel
2026-06-25T00:03 id=2069934437719331229 →allisonology | @allisonology @BecomingCritter can confirm || CTX: @BecomingCritter 🤔✍️
2026-06-25T00:05 id=2069935022640148885 →teodorio | @teodorio I'm glad I read Boethius as a teenager. || CTX: This is something I have been thinking for a lot of time: the greeks had an innate understanding of fortuna that our modern civilization simply choses to forget.   We focus so much on the individual, on the character, we love a bildungsroma
2026-06-25T00:13 id=2069936962061132237 →MTSlive | @MTSlive This explains a lot at Meta. Wonderful anecdote. || CTX: SITUATION EXPLAINED: Demis had dinner with Zuck and realized he wasnt AGI pilled https://t.co/UFaupBNvlk
2026-06-25T00:20 id=2069938664562626684 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem There are a couple historians who nitpick these videos too, so you can watch the AI vids for a 101 intro and then watch the nitpickers for a 102 deeper dive.   Marketplace of ideas at work, platform economy is good economy. || CTX: https://t.co/hFNeIWdb1m ; here is a short Guardian article about the creator https://t.co/FnFhtlwXG3 ; and hopefully the folks who watch these *do* later read Mary!
2026-06-25T00:25 id=2069939942332178476 →- | https://t.co/XGA6naC1ov  Anon, if you want to understand the tech industry, watch this carefully. https://t.co/ds58iavTR0 || CTX: interesting. btw how did they make Claude? https://t.co/DpMDkto1Lo
2026-06-25T00:26 id=2069940260285616458 →kimmonismus | @kimmonismus The tech industry summed up in a single video: https://t.co/M48ZkOsHGJ || CTX: Anthropic claims: Alibaba continues to distill Claude on a large scale to train Qwen. Via Bloomberg  Anthropic is accusing Alibaba-linked operators of running a massive campaign to illicitly access Claude through nearly 25,000 fraudulent ac
2026-06-25T00:37 id=2069942979473883439 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 This is downstream of wealth inequality, tech billionaires could learn a thing or two from Henry Ford. A rich customer base is a happy customer base. || CTX: so this is obviously a bit of a schizo rant but i really think this is closer to the normie opinion than most what we see in our tech twitter bubble https://t.co/KmNn7QoEyW
2026-06-25T01:24 id=2069954769284972729 →- | I hit my number three times.   First in the early 2010s after some very well timed trades. That gave me the opportunity to quit my professorship, move to NYC, and try to be a journalist (which I was for about a year).  Then in the late 2010s when I finally got back the money I lost in my divorce via saving/investing. I upgraded my lifestyle at this point (went from a 2br to a penthouse, started flying business, etc).  Then again in 2023, when I tried to upgrade my lifestyle again by going to the next level.   This time, I kinda couldn't.  Like, I could go to more Michelin star restaurants more often, but course menus bore me.   Watches are idiotic, I prefer beer to wine, and even with wine I don't like French wines all that much.  Owning a Lamborghini in Thailand is idiotic, and I hate cars anyway. My Mercedes is comfortable and stylish, and besides I live on an island with (almost) no cars. My car is parked on the mainland.   I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SPEND ON!  When I realized this, I kinda had a panic attack nervous breakdown. And I'm still recovering from it.   When you spend 10 years of your life obsessively accumulating, and then you get to a position where you feel safe, you'll be tempted to upgrade your lifestyle if only because, if you reach your goal, you'll look back and realize how empty, how pointless, how meaningless goals really are.   They're just ways to avoid indignity and misery, they aren't enlightenment, joy, happiness, or any of those things. But when you've finally got to a place where indignity and misery are mathematically impossible, you either start making up fake indignities like a child ("I want the Patek Philippe and I'm a loser if I don't get it!!!") or, even darker, you become an optimizer ("well, this custom sound system sounds really great, but I should probably add speakers in case I need to get something from the garage while rewatching Independence Day").  The thought "I'm rich enough, there's nothing else to buy" is at first horrifying, existentially terrifying, because it makes you realize you never really wanted or needed to be rich. You just didn't want to be poor. || CTX: what is there to buy lol. i'm not even rich but like. what could i possibly buy that significantly improves my life
2026-06-25T01:39 id=2069958658533069061 →- | Reading Frank Kermode's The Sense of an Ending has explained to me why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his whole movement so deeply offensive.   That it's pretentious and pseudo-intellectual and stupid is really beside the point, because for me the real issue is his perverse desire to be at the end of things. He very much wants to be a prophet of the end time to satisfy his ego.   And for me, the greatest virtue one can have is to be in the middle, or as Kermode says, the middest, because there is nobility in bringing the past into the future, being a link in the chain that ensures it does not break.   This is what it means both to be part of civilization and to perpetuate it. Tradition is good, progress is good, the future is good. It is all part of the same story.   And an obsession with tradition is equally as vile as an obsession with the future, whether that future is a good singularity or a bad singularity.   I'm afraid all we really have is the present, and your ego makes you hate that too much.
2026-06-25T01:41 id=2069959177871761872 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics dm link plox || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Heck ya!
2026-06-25T01:42 id=2069959368188346597 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 like Daniel Plainview, all I ever wanted was enough money so that I could be left alone. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 money is just some coupons for exchanging things with other people. there is always something else to buy because there is always some exchanges which need to be done.
2026-06-25T05:10 id=2070011763760980132 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace @powerbottomdad1 You aren’t paying close enough attention to what I wrote. I was talking about wealth inequality not about wealth levels. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @powerbottomdad1 Idk man, the base is already materially rich. https://t.co/dkYav1sBYs
2026-06-25T05:11 id=2070011954647941331 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace @powerbottomdad1 I should have been clearer “A rich customer base is a happy customer base when they feel they are rich relative to other people and aren’t just rich absolutely." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @powerbottomdad1 Idk man, the base is already materially rich. https://t.co/dkYav1sBYs
2026-06-25T05:12 id=2070012308148174973 →anndrrson | @anndrrson “find a way to waste money" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 find an expensive hobby
2026-06-25T05:13 id=2070012437693432301 →schmidhauser | @schmidhauser No—we do not have the past. We have memories and records of the past. Not the same thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 All we really have is the past - the present passes, and the future is not here yet
2026-06-25T05:14 id=2070012669734887865 →BasedBreakouts | @BasedBreakouts What an impoverished view of humanity you must have, I pity you. Your cynicism is misplaced; the human soul will always crave love. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The next level is building a 10/10 western woman harem. Ultimate flex.
2026-06-25T05:15 id=2070012905228296567 →DominicDirupo | @DominicDirupo The only motivation for me to make more money is to trap/neuter/release more dogs and cats. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Art collecting is a good way to frivolously spend, and philanthropy of course
2026-06-25T05:15 id=2070013074602684596 →zirpzoomer | @zirpzoomer Good! I do it for you, Anon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 love how you share your story
2026-06-25T05:46 id=2070020880470810649 →llallawg | @llallawg I give or throw away all of my books after I read them, except for the books on/by Wittgenstein. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How big is your library tho
2026-06-25T05:47 id=2070020948364018175 →IshmaelDSeer | @IshmaelDSeer The point obviously was to make you cope and seethe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s the point of this post besides “I am very wealthy, these are my wealthy people problems”
2026-06-25T05:47 id=2070021119411974209 →xansnds | @xansnds You are an idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds like you have and energy blockage (via some belief) that’s preventing you from fully expressing yourself if you’re still see yourself as recovering
2026-06-25T05:48 id=2070021403894825425 →basedbillionair | @basedbillionair You’re kind of an idiot assuming a shitload. I’ve lived in several countries on three continents, so I definitely have the travel and experience the world part down. As for “pick up a hobby and larp” idk what you’re even suggesting here, but maybe best for you to unfollow me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don’t understand this? to me this seems like a life with so much more to live for. With all the money to prop you up why not travel and experience the world or pick up a hobby and larp??
2026-06-25T05:49 id=2070021564545028126 →WattDisney | @WattDisney You’ve misunderstood much here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The things you described as idiotic were just too expensive for the echelon you were at it sounds like, which means for most people no point in trenching for the next rung, but it varies from person to person
2026-06-25T06:10 id=2070026770833915914 →xansnds | @xansnds And you've completely misunderstood my attitude and feelings about my life and success, because you are an idiot. || CTX: I’m not the one suffering from my success. I find it quite enjoyable and fulfilling. Especially since I’ve found (created) a way to tie it into nearly all my major life goals like community, giving back, enriching others, leading, romance e
2026-06-25T06:11 id=2070026961867460741 →llallawg | @llallawg no that's not why I do it, dude I have air conditioning lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess living on an island is not conducive to keeping things also because the ocean is corrosive a
2026-06-25T06:15 id=2070028120841990632 →- | Scott Galloway is incredibly annoying insufferable pseud, and we financial analysts  are well positioned to call people out like this because (1) we have money (2) we're paid to dissolve bullshit (3) we're exposed to people much more successful than these people so aren't impressed by their bullshit  But you don't see notes like this typically because compliance/directors will not let stuff like this go through. That this did is really telling, Galloway is indeed THAT much of an annoying bullshitter. || CTX: In my entire life, I have never read anything like this footnote from a piece of bank or asset management research. https://t.co/ajOmKxo3fu https://t.co/lOAkzQEuvN
2026-06-25T06:32 id=2070032434092212249 →arcticinstincts | @arcticinstincts I am doing this, but to your point I could scale it up for sure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Be a patron to artists and scholars and weird unemployable folks
2026-06-25T06:43 id=2070035010778984494 →- | This meme is IMO somewhat culturally pivotal.   When I was a kid (80s-90s), American patriotism was low-key and assumed. Even if you were a rebel, you were an American rebel. It was safely contained within the national discourse of patriotism.   Obviously in the 2000s patriotism went into overdrive--you're either with us or against us, freedom fries, etc.  It was only in the 2010s that American patriotism became ironic; the culture of professing your love for "'MURICA" kinda began in the 2010s as at once a joke on jingoism, which was culturally played out from 9/11 fatigue, and an earnest expression of love for America, including its over-the-top jingoistic ugliness, which one can enjoy ironically.   Kind of a pivotal moment, because American culture in the 20th century was notoriously (and rightly) mocked by Brits as lacking any conception of ironic humor.  But also, British ironic humor arguably became popular as a defense against the crumbling of its global empire.
2026-06-25T06:55 id=2070038055864701413 →HunterBiden | @HunterBiden Where you using AI to write your tweets? || CTX: I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.  1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.  2. Endorsements from the current De
2026-06-25T08:47 id=2070066374811242508 →- | Novel idea: The most beloved and famous performance artist of the era decides upon a stroke of genius: exhume John Cage's body, have the bones put in a transparent box placed on a stage in a concert hall and have the world's first live musical performance posthumously.   The artist of course announces the plan ahead of time, since she is a performance artist after all, and an performance is only authentic if there's an audience (similarly, authenticity is only performative if there's an audience).  We need a name for the artist--since this is an artist of class, let's call her AoC.  The response is mixed.   The New Yorker types of course love it as a stroke of genius, a cause celebre dance macabre momento mori with a carpe diem ethos, the mere density of French, Latin and Greek catchphrases are enough to make the pseudointellectual's brain boner anything but pseudo.  The hardcore MAGA chud crowd is horrified at the desecration of something so sacred as a dead body, because idk life is really precious or whatever (I don't understand the MAGA crowd very well).  Normal people of course ignore this farce of a culture war, but no matter: the vitriol online in the days before the event leak into the real world, with protests, fights, and eventually riots as La Cage aux Fools spirals into chaos, as these things typically do.  Seeing an opportunity, a shrewd opportunistic politician decides to fuel the flames and spearhead the protests, arguing that the Cage performance is evil and satanic.   The politician's alliance with the enraged moralizers culminates in a strategy to flood the concert hall with a bunch of yelling children chaotically running around, playing music, breakdancing etc in a Zerg rush to end the insanity and restore order to these here God fearing United States with their juvenile antics.  Due to this strategy, let's call this politician JV Dance.   The night of the concert, JV Dance and his children are in place, imprisoning the pretentious city-folk in the concert hall as they await their Cage. The bones are brought on stage and before the performance can begin, Dance bursts through the doors in the back of the hall and let a flood of children run through the place.  Refusing to be deterred, AoC demands all of the children and JV are thrown out by security and the show must go on. They are, doors are locked, but then another copycat politician with another group of kids barges in and does the same thing. AoC kicks them out, demands the show continue, etc.  Another POC (politician organizing children) comes in, she kicks them out, and then another comes in.   AoC will not give in to the onslaught. For forty days and forty nights the valiant artist fights for the nobility of the human spirit to break barriers and produce a new hitherto unknown artistic experience for the crowd in their seats, who stoically sit and wait for the performance, courageously acting as bulwarks for culture against the chud herd.   Of course, they all die of thirst being stuck in their seats for so long, but no matter. AoC spends the rest of her life trying to get this concert to happen, until she too has died in that concert hall.   A journalist activist writes an article about this whole debacle, describing in detail the horrific painful deaths of the audience and AoC's heroic martyrdom fighting the uncultured rubes trying to turn America into a sexist racist white trash hellscape, ending the piece detailing the slow decay of the bodies as they decomposed in their theater seats.  The first comment on the story is by Steve Sailer: "Imagine the smell." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I ever get rich enough, just know I will contact Mr. Cage to play his piece live for me
2026-06-25T09:15 id=2070073498232606767 →bradleykingz | @bradleykingz @xansnds Sanctimonious idiots peddling your woo bullshit for attention and validation, fuck off.   I am harsh online and so you presume that means I'm miserable offline because you're stupid. Or you pretend to presume it to close a sale.   Either way, you're beneath me and worthless. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xansnds lol. really? hes trying to help. correct him where hes wrong. insulting doesnt help. makes it look like youre avoiding actual healing
2026-06-25T10:23 id=2070090400925360614 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero Right, as long as you keep the goal contained to being inside a system you're building and you're aware of the necessary arbitrariness of the goal, there's no problem.   The problem starts when engineers inflate their creations to be more than mere tools. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But there are some ways in which thinking at the maxima helps you create systems that perdure in time.  It’s not useful when you use it in an avoidant way like Yud’s philosophy imo but it is useful to plan and prepare.  It’
2026-06-25T10:41 id=2070095119077003454 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @WoganMay just Google yudkoswky anonymous ai lab director debate, it'll show up || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WoganMay Where is/was this 10K drama playing out? 🍿
2026-06-25T11:11 id=2070102562846695560 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ https://t.co/NMVQoTKsn9 || CTX: this is like the Mount Rushmore for replyguys https://t.co/UdR851TT1K
2026-06-25T11:31 id=2070107666123526412 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero Yeah I have thought exactly this myself. Quite perverse. || CTX: From a while ago I understood Europe's migratory policy as a way to create a serfdom, the way the economy works to squash entrepreneurs is also part of it.  If you're bringing a servant class to your countries, but don't want them to take o
2026-06-25T11:42 id=2070110457126674921 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno it's pride month you should know this || CTX: Okay, this is like the third day of this. What is going ON https://t.co/7qvJJ63JDj
2026-06-25T11:44 id=2070110767157031247 →teodorio | @teodorio ChatGPT wrote that. 100% serious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wow you write like a famous writer
2026-06-25T11:58 id=2070114303982903757 →teodorio | @teodorio @tszzl DON'T ENCOURAGE HIM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl
2026-06-25T12:05 id=2070116268305432755 →- | And you're bearish you fucking retard lmao https://t.co/zQqnNLLhXD https://t.co/Y4z65ZKyq0 || CTX: We're so early it's like showing up to someone's 18th birthday party before they've even been born. https://t.co/AGySdM3THY
2026-06-25T12:06 id=2070116425214373945 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It really is ridiculously easy swing trading this market https://t.co/DJu0a6vMvt || CTX: Looks like stocks are back on the menu, boys.  Man, I have never seen such an easy market to swing trade in my life, just insane.  What’re you buying? https://t.co/DDgpZyA7Fk
2026-06-25T12:07 id=2070116723529793714 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Why America is rich and England is poor in a screenshot https://t.co/lnO8ktp9ma || CTX: It really is ridiculously easy swing trading this market https://t.co/DJu0a6vMvt
2026-06-25T12:23 id=2070120740494737903 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I fucking love you man. || CTX: "When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich." https://t.co/MC1NpwksdQ
2026-06-25T12:36 id=2070123944372555806 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Yeah I need to donate more to animal shelters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’s time to give back
2026-06-25T12:43 id=2070125769096094102 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill get well soon, Mr Butterill  If you ever need a nose masseuse lmk I'll hook you up || CTX: Aight booked an appointment I just lost a ridiculous amount of blood from nose this can’t be normal. https://t.co/btQ5EAvmy5
2026-06-25T12:44 id=2070126066560278928 →teodorio | @teodorio ack an ishiguro you've read and I haven't this injustice will not stand || CTX: I absolutely adored the book. Jenna Ortega is a great pick as well for Klara. Really excited for the movie. https://t.co/2tdxC4hUOi
2026-06-25T13:08 id=2070131899201438037 →- | Hedonic adaptation, ceilings of time/space, and variations in interest/demand suggest that, if there were a subset of a human population to suddenly have a massive windfall of a ton of cash due to some exogenous event, there would be only so much of currently produced goods that the members of that subset could or would want to consume.  As a result, a wealth shock should have several Veblen-style effects in most but not all cases, and I can easily imagine this.  Like, I suddenly have a shitton of money and I'm an asshole. One thing I might want to do is buy up a bunch of land to start my own country. Which SV ofc has talked about.  In the interim, I'd spend on silly shit like trying to go to Mars and building sexbots. But when I saw how lame those things are (like SpaceX and ChatGPT), I'd start spending on really really stupid shit like assets that are intentionally a joke (dogecoin) as well as assets that are just ridiculously stupid (bored apes) and intentionally, aggressively, almost offensively worthless (real estate in the metaverse).  I'd also overpay for sex with nasty women (Aella, Tiffany Fong) and pay useless idiots to spread my dumb ideas to the masses (Joe Rogan, Lex Friedman). I'd also pretend to invest in stupid companies for fun (Juicero, Friend, WeWork, Taste Labs) because, hell, why not, there's more where that came from.  I'd maybe start up a fund just so I could hang out with cool kids and hot girls and young people (the VC industry) and pretend to invest in companies so complicated/weird/state-of-the-art that they look like jokes or outright frauds (again, VC industry).  So, you see how Silly Business Theory #SBT has all kinds of weird emergent effects both because people trade cash for entertainment and because the market cannot absorb that demand shock. And when the profit motive is less important due to a windfall like this, especially in a society that increasingly entangles business and pleasure ("bring your whole self to work" and "this company is a family"), there's a strong likelihood of silliness getting injected into business.  In this sense, SBT emerges both because of demand AND supply because of a fundamental mismatch of the two. Yes, the demand for silliness is always there, but the demand for silliness can compound on itself if the supply isn't there to meet it. Silliness accrues.  This also makes the future look really stupid, which has its own higher order effect on the market. When you look around and see a stupid future, you feel you have license to be stupid too, so SBT should trickle down. And it's a vicious cycle, because that stupidity is creating more stupidity and diffusing it in the economy.  I kind of feel like I am writing the first theory of a post-scarcity economics, because, honestly, I feel like I live in a post-scarcity world. I do not have to ever worry about food, water, shelter, healthcare, transport, etc etc ever again (assuming no calamity ofc), and I'm a single-digit millionaire. Think about, like, the REALLY rich fuckers out there--they have got to be bored out of their fucking minds.  I once told a friend of mine who lost his mind briefly after moving Asia, "when you spend all your time focused on running away from a place, you can lose sight of where you are running to", and I wonder if we have that problem on a civilizational level. We want to escape the poverty of the past and of the global south, and rightly so--and we should keep working/building/shipping to expand that escape to everyone.  But some of us have gone far beyond escaping it and gone into the realm of woowoo land caused by an overabundance of wealth and thus far too much leisure.  And I do think it has really bad outcomes both for the individual and society.  Once when walking in Sighnagi (the "City of Love" of Georgia), my girlfriend said to me, "we Thai people say all the time we hope we go to Hell because all of our friends will be there; Heaven sounds dull and boring", and that literally stopped me in my tracks. I was dumbfounded at this wisdom.  "Will is the opposite of reason. This world is just for us to learn. It cannot be changed into paradise." - Kurt Godel
2026-06-25T13:18 id=2070134658306654703 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @WoganMay Spot on analysis.   I really wasn't there to debate, just to make him look unserious so the mainstream won't pay attention to him. Had no clue he'd do that for me with the outfit.   looks like it worked https://t.co/tB8ubXx47P || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WoganMay OK. I listened. I note that he gets weaker the closer the discussion comes to the shape of the actual current object (LLMs) that he's applying his theory to in order to attain contemporary relevance.  It's the sam
2026-06-25T13:19 id=2070134850720579818 →- | 47 mentioned https://t.co/ueKuuhXfwT
2026-06-25T13:22 id=2070135665828991112 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 47 mintond || CTX: Rip bozo https://t.co/XktYa4yaqz https://t.co/xUjR5CwO1x
2026-06-25T13:24 id=2070136101222891964 →somewheresy | @somewheresy NFT profile pics all look the same to me, like you could swap them between profiles and it'd all be the same to me || CTX: If you wear an NFT profile picture this year   you are no longer human to me
2026-06-25T13:39 id=2070139782043447566 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @WoganMay He wanted to telegraph that he didn't take the debate or me seriously. Not a smart move imho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WoganMay That outfit yeah...Whyyyyy??? Though I think I can actually empathize with the psychology. I think it's about some sort of self protection in the context of his auto-didactic background and his community.
2026-06-25T13:41 id=2070140337390223370 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Yeah, he said it less as a prediction and more as a confession. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/h9ZCbb9W4y
2026-06-25T13:43 id=2070140886886006868 →WoganMay | @WoganMay @nycthinker That was what he did. Also the Aella pic was in group signaling; he's given up on mainstream relevance (and idk how much of the debate with me did that, but I like to think gif attached) https://t.co/K4V26xzixD || CTX: @nycthinker @47fucb4r8c69323 With how clever he thinks he is, he's probably convinced that outfit signaled to his in-group that nothing in the debate was to be taken seriously.
2026-06-25T13:44 id=2070141060882526314 →WoganMay | @WoganMay In the future, everyone will wear a fedora for 15 minutes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 At least he got his moment in the spotlight!
2026-06-25T13:49 id=2070142394574787021 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart A future where one's writing style signals idiosyncracy is unimaginably foreign to what we've seen in the past. || CTX: Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vas
2026-06-25T13:52 id=2070143079667896320 →- | RT @NateRothstein: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/6cPMenmNFQ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/6cPMenmNFQ
2026-06-25T14:25 id=2070151275350790566 →isacciobota | @isacciobota Thanks, best feedback I could get || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is so inspiring
2026-06-25T14:32 id=2070153253900435930 →isacciobota | @isacciobota imo target a 6% withdrawal rate, but that's really liberal, 3%-4.7% is less controversial.   https://t.co/GTrpjPYTZL This is the most important piece of writing in the history of personal finance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So what would be a sum of money that you would say is enough? When should someone stop chasing?
2026-06-25T14:34 id=2070153593089671555 →chudzzpah | @chudzzpah @TheStalwart https://t.co/slJSUWSh4A || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 Youre fucking dumb? Go ask LLM what he meant lol
2026-06-25T14:46 id=2070156758807650403 →2021Ufo | @2021Ufo glad I didn't have kids || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The *real* Gs focus on building wealthy family dynasties that own real productive assets and infrastructure that last *centuries.* if this is ur aim there is no such thing as “too much money.” Case in point https://t.co/YyV
2026-06-25T14:53 id=2070158480686915693 →Neil_Jetter | @Neil_Jetter be lucky || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how does one do these well timed trades?
2026-06-25T15:06 id=2070161840504807619 →imthespecialk | @imthespecialk table lamp in the second photo looks like the one I bought from Target || CTX: My favourite part about learning more about Erling Haaland is that he is a fashion man and has a beautiful collection of Birkins👜 https://t.co/BYLjAS6k2D
2026-06-25T15:09 id=2070162480710705188 →ansonlin | @ansonlin figma balls || CTX: can someone explain to me why I shouldn't buy figma stock right now?  they beat revenue projections every quarter since ipo and the stock is down 85%.  i don't know a single designer that uses claude design.   something doesn't add up. http
2026-06-25T15:10 id=2070162699330412930 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I consider this a hate crime against my people || CTX: These things should probably be legally mandated to flicker a light to alert everyone in the bathroom ur a massive pervert https://t.co/joCR3EmsMe
2026-06-25T16:16 id=2070179355716935838 →fengtality | @fengtality or boys! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no one gets into VC for the hot girls
2026-06-25T16:19 id=2070180144199987270 →allgarbled | @allgarbled https://t.co/EY9kjqcB9T || CTX: Anhedonic treadmill that makes you enjoy ordinary things more
2026-06-25T23:00 id=2070280883299639333 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng hahahaha thank you || CTX: Somehow this is still true, respect @47fucb4r8c69323 🫡
2026-06-25T23:00 id=2070280953398972520 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng no || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you been to rehab by chance?
2026-06-25T23:00 id=2070281123889090608 →LibertadEterno | @LibertadEterno Very good way to put it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Having that much wealth is like living life on Creative mode.
2026-06-25T23:01 id=2070281295620612466 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno shameful || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, I ended it early. It’s done
2026-06-25T23:05 id=2070282385976168593 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do we do post-scarcity?
2026-06-25T23:10 id=2070283423839920447 →teodorio | @teodorio I oscillate on this because, yeah, Kobe and Wagyu are amazing, but they are SO fatty that I can't eat them too often or I kinda get sick of them, while a good Florentine steak or especially a USDA Prime T-bone I could eat like 3x a week no problem || CTX: Weirdly enough the higher I go up the World's Best 101 Steak Restaurants the better I eat. Probably one of the best steaks I've had outside Japan. https://t.co/3cXmxd0WtA
2026-06-25T23:14 id=2070284606365155412 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer convenience.   You'll probably have some shitty Fintech startup build this as a service and compete with the ETFs, but they'll probably get a rather small subset of retail. Could be a good lifestyle business ig || CTX: dumb shower thought but now that ai can poop out a citrini-style basket for whatever possible thesis/subsector/whatever you have in the matter of a minute, what's the point of high expense ratio etfs? like what's the value add realistically
2026-06-25T23:24 id=2070287006501118399 →- | if you're bearish I feel bad for you son I got 99 problems but my portfolio ain't one https://t.co/agOVAcLEZC || CTX: In the past 6 years we made electric cars for everyone, released a cure for obesity, created driverless taxis, automated every menial white-collar task, and used CRISPR to cure genetic diseases. I don't understand how anyone is blackpilling
2026-06-25T23:25 id=2070287217441026128 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden yes, that's usually when I shower (monthly) || CTX: remember when you moids were writing think pieces like "whoa elon unfollowed mario and ian miles is this the turning point???" and now he has followed both of them back  do you moids ever get tired of being wrong stupid idiots who smell bad
2026-06-25T23:30 id=2070288665088344065 →- | Joe is a genius poaster who will be studied by future generations, I have no doubt.   This was sincere ragebait, a rare and valuable specimen.  1. It is prima facie true. The vast majority of texts the vast majority of people produce are boring, formulaic, and unoriginal: corporate memos, instruction manuals, legal briefs, doctor reports, academic journal articles, accountant reports etc etc  2. It is rage bait because he knows people's minds will go to things like Moby Dick and get outraged at the notion of clankers writin' classics, but that's not the "vast majority" of text people write.   The second reading is fully inaccurate by the terms Joe has established in the text, and it takes a careful, astute reader to see this, while the lazy reader is punished for reading carelessly.   I don't want to pull out the G-word but this is downright literary, I'd use this in an English 101 class if I still taught that jfc I Stan so hard idgaf || CTX: Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vas
2026-06-25T23:34 id=2070289582646833162 →47fucb4r8c69323 | What Joe's post point at is the tension between two motivations to write:  1. Self expression  2. Communication   If going for Just 2 and not 1, presuming you want low friction, an LLM is the logical choice. This is why I'm bullish on vibe writing things like legal contracts.   But if 1 is at all wanted unmediated by the AI, obviously using an LLM will not work or be desired. So Joe is forcing you to ask: how much do we value self expression, truly? Is it maybe zero?   Valid question and I'm scared the number is a lot lower than I'd assumed pre-ChatGPT || CTX: Joe is a genius poaster who will be studied by future generations, I have no doubt.   This was sincere ragebait, a rare and valuable specimen.  1. It is prima facie true. The vast majority of texts the vast majority of people produce are bo
2026-06-25T23:49 id=2070293403636797676 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 would have (but not anymore as I respect the sacred bonds of marriage) || CTX: these moids are out of control they are never satisfied no matter how you are posting there is no point trying to appease them https://t.co/3Z5Frsaagl https://t.co/8GOOQxo6rJ
2026-06-26T00:37 id=2070305463405793759 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Cosigned, these are so good (the clear one is really refreshing).  Is that top left one ice tea flavor? || CTX: the fact that they dont sell these in america is genuinely a crime against humanity https://t.co/bRvZbJ9a4K
2026-06-26T00:47 id=2070307806146888106 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Goddammit the Japanese are too good someone needs to stop them || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yess dude its like a spiked arnold palmer
2026-06-26T00:50 id=2070308715522367489 →Samhain948689 | But the bait is the first level!   Beneath that there's an implicit division of audience going on: because the people offended by it will just keep scrolling or post angry reploes, those who take it seriously and think about it will be forced to ponder the tension between writing as expression versus writing as communication, a fruitful and valuable tension to explore.   The end result is people who take Joe seriously, who read carefully, and who can be dispassionate are rewarded with an important and valuable question. So you are rewarded for being a serious reader and punished for being a bad reader.   That's functionally what literature does. Serious readers of Lolita see a masterpiece, bad readers see hurr durr pedo book. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is the kind of post where i read it and i know it is bait but there is literally just nothing to respond to because it is just bait so i just click like and keep scrolling.   sometimes i will respond in earnest with a ba
2026-06-26T00:56 id=2070310176297820285 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 I can't, no way an Asian girl could say that name || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lolita is different because you can get a boner reading it
2026-06-26T00:57 id=2070310424709619957 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 There's no tension in what he says but there's tension in the idea he is gesturing towards.   It's not a literary tension, I admit and walk that back. It's a philosophical tension. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but it is not deep. there is no tension. i get it. he is saying something which is not really what he means. and it takes me a few seconds to parse the literal meaning, and his intended meaning. and then i will never think 
2026-06-26T01:38 id=2070320793578536993 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng @divraj This is why I like the sub-replacement TFR. Less people means less waste regardless of what future tech can do. || CTX: @divraj @47fucb4r8c69323 I hope man, and it’s not like fucking wall-E or something
2026-06-26T02:35 id=2070335068099494175 →- | I want to talk about homelessness in America, because this was a visceral and startling image to me growing up on the west coast of America. Homeless people were visible, they would become more visible at times of particular economic stress, and they were one of the reasons why I spent my 20s trying to get a tenure-track job (secure income from gubment!) and my 30s aggressively saving after I left academia (to feel safe, you see).  Had I seen less homeless people on the street as a child, my urgency to get security would probably be less, erm, urgent.  And that got me thankin’, could it be that this is intentional? Maybe not intended by some secret society pulling strings, but rather the emergence of a kind of average preference revealed by the presence of homeless people in a society where the average household is worth well over a million and GDP per capita is nearly six figures (look it up we’re at 94,430 this is insane fam).  First, we need to distinguish between two kinds of homeless people.  There are the unsheltered homeless and the sheltered, and increases in sheltered homeless should tell us about the success of the sheltering system and/or the economic condition of the country. I would not be quick to conclude that it is evidence of one or the other, and since this ain’t my field I’m going to leave the sheltered homeless alone for policy wonks to wank about.  I’m more interested in the unsheltered homeless. That’s the group that has the most visceral impact on Americans and, as a result, is worth considering on its own.
2026-06-26T02:35 id=2070335071303954676 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Look at how that green (teal? cyan? celes? edgar?) line at the bottom is flat as hell—so even in times of increasing total homelessness like post-pandemic, the people actually living rough on the streets is pretty consistent and has been for twenty years.  There’s a bit of a drop beginning in 2013 that lasted until 2019—what caused that? Well, it is a rather small trend and it began with a pretty sizeable increase in sheltered homeless while the total number of homeless people decreased over time. That suggests to me, prima facie, that what was happening was a social effort to manage the homeless problem by getting more people off the streets.  There may be economic reasons for this (zirp and low interest mortgages perhaps), but I can easily think of economic counterweights (tight lending and low growth in housing stock). I do not think what happened in the early 2010s can be explained by economic forces alone.  And I know so many of you will resist that because we live in an era where technologists and economists are our priesthood—only a fool would try to chalk up a trend to things as qualitative as culture and social attitudes—so just stop reading me and go back to the really intelligent thing you were doing before (scrolling twitter for funny memes XD XD XD SO FUN-E god elon really is a genius tyler cowen is so smart i too am a smart person!!!!1111oneoneeleventyone)  Moving on.  The sincere well-meaning cringe quirky chungus Millennials with their “change the world for the better” attitude may very well have put a temporary dent in the homeless crisis just when they were beating themselves up for gentrifying the urban cores where those homeless people were so visible. In fact, perhaps they were just cleaning up their neighborhoods with a flood of cash going into once destitute urban cores that was then used for shelters. idk man this ain’t my field go ask cowen he’s the genius remember im just shitpostr  Leaving aside that temporary reprieve in the 2-handle amount of unsheltered homeless that America seems to have been committed to for two decades, let us consider just how strange and noteworthy the stability of that cyan line is. || CTX: I want to talk about homelessness in America, because this was a visceral and startling image to me growing up on the west coast of America. Homeless people were visible, they would become more visible at times of particular economic stress
2026-06-26T02:35 id=2070335075338899869 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If we look at the percent of unhoused homeless as a percent of the US total population, we see a shocking stability across time and our current homeless population is returning to the pre-Millennial dip of the 2010s.  That makes me wonder if there is a kind of min-max optimization going on in American culture: you want to have just so many visible homeless people in your urban cores, which functionally reminds the proles that they need to keep working hard lest they become, well, THAT. But you don’t want to have too many visibly homeless people because then things just get depressing and the bleeding hearts will start to complain about needing to Do Something, and the winemoms will side with them because they don’t want Junior seeing such creepy people omg think of poor little Junior on his way to piano recital—  Thus we have an emergent cultural preference: keep the homeless population at about 0.07% of the total pop, ±0.01%.  I think this helps us understand the rise in unsheltered homeless over the last three years. There’s been a more dramatic rise in the sheltered population, which tells me that there is probably a genuine increase in homeless people and poor people in destitution—the K-shaped economy everyone keeps gesturing at. Makes sense.  But the economy, as I have been talking about since the pandemic ended, has been on fire. People get really, REALLY angry at me (omg the hate mail I got in 2022!) when I point to the data, and they will say it is fake or it isn’t accurate or whatever, because they are angry at the skew in wealth—but the real split in inequality in America was in the 1990s (at least going back to the 60s, I’d point to Piketty for an earlier accounting but that dude has quite clearly lost his goddamn mind so idk where to point you to nowadays). || CTX: Look at how that green (teal? cyan? celes? edgar?) line at the bottom is flat as hell—so even in times of increasing total homelessness like post-pandemic, the people actually living rough on the streets is pretty consistent and has been fo
2026-06-26T02:35 id=2070335079407325326 →47fucb4r8c69323 | In 2014 the GINI coefficient in America was 41.7, and in 2024 it’s 41.8. So there’s been no real material change in inequality—this is not what is driving the sudden surge in homelessness.  We can find a better explanation if we look at the NORC—and dude let us stop for a minute. GINI. NORC. GSS. This is all very silly.  Anyway, the GSS NORC tells us how happy Americans are in general (get your data at https://t.co/punBDzLAo9 if you don’t trust me), and here’s a chart I made using their data in the next tweet: || CTX: If we look at the percent of unhoused homeless as a percent of the US total population, we see a shocking stability across time and our current homeless population is returning to the pre-Millennial dip of the 2010s.  That makes me wonder i
2026-06-26T02:35 id=2070335083639431575 →47fucb4r8c69323 | SImilar kinda thing, the not happy remains pretty stable after plummeting in the 1970s following the inflation crush and rising in response to the pandemic—but, crucially, NOT GOING DOWN. Even after the pandemic, the “not too happy” respondents have gone down from their peak in 2021 (at 955), but 2022’s 717 and 2024’s 668 are far above 2018’s 298 and the average 221 from 1973 to 2018.  Americans are demonstrably much less happy than they used to be.  Similarly, the happy line has plummeted to a record low, and note how the “pretty happy” line hasn’t budged at all—you can see how the normies have remained normie.  In an America where the most extreme and polarizing people are less happy and more miserable, I fully expect an emergent rising tolerance for homelessness: the bleeding hearts feel too much despair, a sense of Japan-style “shoganai” (just look it up retard) spreads through the land, and as a result hopelessness and desperation will probably encourage some people on the margins to escape into fentanyl or whatever and cause homelessness to rise.  I fully suspect the GSS survey to show in 2026 a substantive down-tick of the “not happy” level, although it’ll probably take a decade or longer until we get back to pre-pandemic levels.  As a result, my prediction for unhoused homelessness is a delayed decline and a high probability that we hit a 3-handle in the next PIT survey or we get really close to it, which will activate sociocultural forces and cause a more serious fight to get the homeless numbers back down to the ~220k level.  But that level is the equilibrium, the emerged preference of the U.S. as a nation. || CTX: In 2014 the GINI coefficient in America was 41.7, and in 2024 it’s 41.8. So there’s been no real material change in inequality—this is not what is driving the sudden surge in homelessness.  We can find a better explanation if we look at the
2026-06-26T02:35 id=2070335086558634078 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Americans apparently do not want zero homeless people. They apparently do not want prosperity to spread to EVERYONE, regardless of circumstance or merit. They apparently are not interested in producing a society where the floor of what is considered acceptable poverty slowly rises as the nation accrues wealth and capital.  America likes a certain amount of homeless out there, just to keep you on your toes.  And note the subject in that sentence. I am not blaming the elites, the Illuminati, the gubment, capitalists, corporations, ferrners, the Jews, the Blacks, the Whites, or any bugbear that ideologically captured mouthbreathers cling to in their desperate sense both to feel superior to those who “don’t get it” and to feel morally superior to those who disagree.  My finger is pointed at you, America. Every last one of you. This is your culture. This is what you want. This is what you’ve chosen for yourself.  I’m going to go for a walk on my tropical island. Fuck every last one of you. || CTX: SImilar kinda thing, the not happy remains pretty stable after plummeting in the 1970s following the inflation crush and rising in response to the pandemic—but, crucially, NOT GOING DOWN. Even after the pandemic, the “not too happy” respond
2026-06-26T03:35 id=2070350317590663394 →somewheresy | @somewheresy anthropic already did that, it's called opus 4.8 || CTX: anthropic and openai should just announce a collaborative claimed-to-be SOTA model called China is Awesome 6 with really bad outputs
2026-06-26T04:39 id=2070366192347607116 →- | It is very common for companies to come across as problem, as they optimize and approach quality from a programmatic perspective, they will all too often average across characteristics, including characteristics that are inversely related to each other. The end result is often a number that says little or hides tensions in the various facets of production.   This is relevant for LLMs.   If you try to create one big smart text producing model and you try to optimize for different qualities of text, your end result is going to be an ugly mishmash of linguistic competencies in tension with each other that causes output quality to decline, with quality declines more extreme the more you try to adjust for this in any one given domain.   Ofc the world is realizing this which is why at the enterprise level there's so much energy and excitement for RL/fine-tuning small models for specific tasks, and the market will keep moving in this direction.   This isn't bearish for the industry but it isn't bullish for the market leaders, so dumdums who can't handle nuance will get confused and panic sell. This is why the efficient market hypothesis in its weak form is true AND why Schiller's narrative economics is also true and demonstrates the limits of the EMH: it is broadly true but not mechanistically so and pockets of beta emerge that counterparties can use for alpha, since beta is really just a measure of how exposed an asset is to the mismatch between how well programmatic quantifications of quality can map onto acrual phenomenal qualities.
2026-06-26T05:03 id=2070372239963533631 →kelman_jason | @kelman_jason I've been hearing that for 15 years, so when will it be due, exactly? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We’re not actually post scarcity. That’s the illusion.   Thinking so is like watching Commodus strut around the coliseum and then mistake him for Hercules.   Today’s theater is propped up by asset inflation/ monetary policy
2026-06-26T05:06 id=2070373221636227256 →racerxrex | @racerxrex no, I don't understand where you'd even come up with such a bizarre notion. Been listening to too much frontier lab marketing and taking it too seriously I guess || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is the follow up to this that AI makes most everyone homeless and in the future everyone is a tweaker? If we were trying to *scale* homelessness this could be an excellent outcome.
2026-06-26T05:26 id=2070378186266099897 →retail_trash | @retail_trash your question is equivocating between AI as an industry, to which the bubble has been attributed, and LLMs, which functionally are being commoditized.   so it's kind of an unanswerable question as stated || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not a bubble because it becomes, functionally, a commodity?
2026-06-26T05:47 id=2070383365031915716 →- | I'm here having lunch thinking about how difficult it was when I first moved to my island to develop new hobbies. I could swim, surf, snorkel, do other tropical things starting with s, but I prefer the W's: walking and words.   And suddenly in my mind came the thought, "all I want is to master these words so my mind has some clarity," and suddenly I began to cry.   It was a sudden and intense crying that stopped as fast as it started, which tells me the feeling wasn't sorrow or misery but the joy of relief.   Specifically, the relief of now knowing what I am and what I want, even if I'll never know why. But, to quote a new good friend of mine, "I just to spend all my time thinking about language."   Pic related: it's my lunch.
2026-06-26T06:54 id=2070400215656665447 →- | we really misuse the word tantalizing, it shouldn't mean just tempting or an object of extreme desire like we typically use the word.   if you think of the story of tantalus, the word tantalizing should refer to when an object creates its own desire. like, nicotine is a tantalizing substance.
2026-06-26T07:06 id=2070403363754148154 →stevienipz | @stevienipz relevant username || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tits would be the more poignant example but I agree with the broader point
2026-06-26T07:33 id=2070410052029329619 →aimeebalthazar | you've both misunderstood me and Wittgenstein.   Early wittgenstein did not believe in a metaphysical logical atomism, and later Wittgenstein (as Conant best explains) was all about resolving the unresolved issued with starting at logical atomism as an axiomatic base and the need to understand why an axiomatic base is logically forced.  You're reading the Tractatus like the logical positivists, whom W. had contempt for before history did. He didn't need to live into the 1970s to see even the logical positivists acknowledge their movement was false.  (Don't take this as an insult or attack, Wittgenstein is notoriously difficult and you clearly have intelligence and great taste, but your initial reading of it, while tempting and natural, is insufficiently nuanced) || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 i have been in a space with him and have reply guyed him for a bit. he can be a bit cynical in that he says he views interactions as games of social leverage... but i think he is good at heart. we also both think 
2026-06-26T07:37 id=2070411030795321440 →- | Frustrated at her limited ability to capitalize on her coined phrase, Shoshana Zuboff decides to sell out and do whatever it takes to turn "surveillance capitalism" into a cash cow.  Her first move is to do the media circuit and sell "research", but netting just an upper middle class lifestyle, she is unsatisfied. That discontent becomes rage one day when, at a Borders, she crosses the border into madness seeing a stack of Cory Doctorow Enshittification books after asking a clerk if they've been here for a while and the clerk says, "no we just got these copies in today, book has been flying off the shelves."   Deciding she must write a scandalous book on her topic, she decides on upping her media blitz to generate buzz for the book before she's begun to write it. But that doesn't matter; it's her phrase, she is sure she can make a good product after the marketing groundwork is done.   On podcasts and in interviews with diverse media outlets from Vox to the New York Times, Zuboff feels an urgency to honor the first letter of her last name and cover the entire media landscape, right to the end. She goes on the Adam Friedland Show, she starts a Twitch account, she does YouTube shorts, and she even does a 24hr livestream with PewDiePie, Destiny, and that Turkish pretty boy champagne socialist who did the propaganda for the CCP recently I forget his name anyway moving on (she also does a guest post on MoveOn dot org).  The pressure from the publishers grows during this media junket, with expectations of a real hotcake pageturner growing and high pressure calls/emails from her agent and publisher coming in by the day.   When she finally sits to write the book, Zuboff feels a bit of panic because her HBR voice screams cleverness without passion, and the text isn't all that engaging as text, so she realizes she needs a hook.  She decides to invent a novel written in the 1920s by a Soviet scifi visionary named Misha Mikhailov, which envisions a future society where a consortium of powerful men are able to see everything on Earth at any time thanks to a powerful camera, and they use it to ruthlessly police every facet of human life. Zuboff begins her treatise discussing the "hitherto undiscovered Mikhailov prophetic novel, which envisions our world from a hundred years ago".   Book is a massive success.  Reviewers praise it, she is touted as the next Truman Capote or whatever, and fame and fortune quickly follow.  Until one day, going through her Google Docs through his secret back door, Larry Page sees the notes of her inventing Misha out of whole cloth, and emails Sergey Brin about this: "Hey Serg, do you know this Mikhailov?" to which Brin angrily replies, "I migrated to America when I was six you xenophobic asshole" and after a bit of back and forth argy bargy they finally conclude, as the Romulan senator did: It's a fake.   "This is more up your alley, @ptheill," they write to Peter Thiel, who quickly replies, "don't worry, I'll take care of it."   Within 24 hours thousands of right wing influencers are sharing tweets and takedowns of Zuboff's fraud, and the Zuboff Affair is the surefire end to her career as a brilliant intellectual.  But it makes her Twitch follower count skyrocket. Novel epilogue is a Forbes profile of her entering the billionaire club following the success of her designer platform heels, co-created with Emiru.
2026-06-26T08:18 id=2070421343246725356 →aimeebalthazar | That's the problem: you are confusing grammar for ontology.   You can choose materialist descriptions as the particular language game to use to make sense of the world, but neither language nor logic, and thus not reason either, license a leap from that to any ontological assertions. This is the core of Wittgenstein's insights.   @1889lw can help here, you should follow him as he is brilliant and will be a world famous philosophy professor one day. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nazo_btw I appreciate the correction. It's important for what I'm trying to formulate. I'm trying to use (from my understanding) Wittgenstein's failure to force a mapping between logic and physical space—and subsequent tur
2026-06-26T08:34 id=2070425335364284475 →Samhain948689 | @Samhain948689 a few Japanese women paid to sleep for a living  well, lie down on a bed close enough || CTX: he  is asleep if i was asleep at work i would be fired  unless i worked in japan or something https://t.co/QGasezfnbH
2026-06-26T08:38 id=2070426523283386736 →helscom | @helscom that's cuz you don't smoke || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i actually don’t use it at all
2026-06-26T08:42 id=2070427365482844234 →helscom | @helscom https://t.co/qUbnQZHLXE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 makes you skin age… i can’t afford to in my profession my looks are everything
2026-06-26T08:54 id=2070430471931240874 →Slim_Picken | @Slim_Picken I'm currently reading Kermode's The Sense of an Ending and George Stalk's Hardball. Both are fantastic so far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What have you been reading of late? Intriguing lifestyle
2026-06-26T08:55 id=2070430705184821339 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I forget the kind of marble, got the table in 2019. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 beautiful Calacatta? marble
2026-06-26T09:11 id=2070434778617348295 →mononaut | @mononaut My prompt may be rambling, incoherent, difficult to parse, poorly phrased, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I use my LLM to write, and you use your LLM to parse and summarize, why don't I just give you the prompt? I'll say what I need you to hear and together we can save a polar bear or something
2026-06-26T09:12 id=2070435029696827734 →landosembery | @landosembery That he puts the "unfortunately" so far ahead of the part he sees as unfortunate is just fucking amazing, he is SO GOOD at poasting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *and* he prefaces it with "unfortunately". Masterful
2026-06-26T09:14 id=2070435580006088729 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Who wrote that? Brilliant assessment of both sides. || CTX: i’m sorry but if you don’t think current frontier models have serious cybersecurity implications you are either uninformed or willingly refusing to see the truth https://t.co/6B4F3LkqET
2026-06-26T09:20 id=2070436987711246338 →madaomoshiroi | @madaomoshiroi @JasonBotterill || CTX: こんなに躍動感のあるバランスボールの乗り方は初めて見た https://t.co/Nolw358Y4G
2026-06-26T09:35 id=2070440844226601270 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ FANTASTIC piece || CTX: Really good article. https://t.co/9l1x3RRCmy
2026-06-26T09:42 id=2070442500297519281 →- | I will bet anyone $10,000 Anthropic does not IPO in 2026, DM if interested I am 100% serious.
2026-06-26T10:14 id=2070450727148023938 →zak_in_space | @zak_in_space too lazy to sign up, I prob should. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why not polymarket? “No” sells for 24¢ on a dollar, better outcome for the $10K
2026-06-26T11:19 id=2070466858684400008 →nycthinker | @nycthinker Hence the growing focus on small open models. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn't it true that larger and larger models have compensated for an increasingly crowded representational space, such that fine tuning and RL haven't been worthwhile for companies?  Though this year, costs for using SOTA mo
2026-06-26T11:41 id=2070472532331811256 →- | There is an experience, or sense datum.  There is description of experience, or language.  There is collection of descriptions, or text.  There is connection of text to other texts, language, and sense data. That is context.  There is connection of text to other texts, that is intertext.  There is connection of texts to texts it is about, that is paratext. There is the dependency of a text to the outside, that is extratextuality.   Text is complicated, imagine trying to flatten it with SFT and then thinking you're creating a machine god just nonsense.
2026-06-26T11:50 id=2070474774153957482 →teodorio | @teodorio @helscom the only car I really like is the Audi TT, and it looks perfect with that house. || CTX: @helscom dude that range rover or the old toyota land cruiser slap so hard
2026-06-26T12:22 id=2070482883333239126 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss 6 7 || CTX: Madonna actually looks great but what’s with this guy’s shirt? He looks like someone who is both color blind and suspiciously interested in Columbine https://t.co/LXP8qKqVu0
2026-06-26T13:17 id=2070496746283970856 →- | This sounds to me a lot like academia in its uncorrupted ideal form of open publication of results and theory, conferences, open marketplaces of ideas (the salon and coffeeshop model), as well as open source software in a certain way.  And yes this is to my mind an ideal state of civilization: open ideas shared freely and applied when and where it's most valuable, by anyone and everyone. With profits freely distributed and utility plus utility dispersion perfectly maximized, this does feel a lot like Marx's vague description of a communist utopia.  But to be clear, it is at its core capitalist: capital is real, it accrues, it is credited to individuals responsible. There's a reason many SWEs are BOTH big on open source AND Randian libertarianism.   I say this as someone who does not identify as a libertarian or a communist (or anything else for that matter), because I guess I see political ideologies in much the way the Unitarian Church sees different religions: general gestures and attitudes towards the same negative utilitarian inflected but also Nietzschean Dionysian ideal we all hold dear in our heart of hearts unless you're some kinda retard or smthg idk man this one got weird at the end I fukd yer mom || CTX: he’s joking but this is what the coasean boundaries lead to: a firm size of “everybody”; ultra space communism. if you want to find another way out you need to give it a hard think https://t.co/KolfS5a7W8
2026-06-26T13:21 id=2070497777269035047 →FraserOReilly | @FraserOReilly oh damn she did write a book didn't she!!! Should've incorporated that in the story || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pity I liked her book
2026-06-26T13:23 id=2070498211094270421 →helscom | @helscom I'm curious: onx sul kesämökkiä? || CTX: that will keep them going for a while… https://t.co/35L3NGtsBU
2026-06-26T13:26 id=2070498838717317428 →- | Most European headline of all time https://t.co/rdRclxinCI
2026-06-26T13:27 id=2070499133610512690 →helscom | @helscom I assume on a lake and you drink Lapin Kulta and eat makkara turunsiinapin kanssa omg I miss Finland so much goddammit next time I'm in Europe I'm visiting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my wife’s family has one in lapland, we go there every summer
2026-06-26T14:08 id=2070509584205119769 →- | I think, after ego death, experiencing cringe is impossible.   I guess. I don't know. Like, obviously, *I* can't know innit
2026-06-26T14:15 id=2070511217907806523 →babarganesh | @babarganesh oh fuckin a mang || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ego death isn’t a permanent thing usually, so you can get back to cringe.
2026-06-26T14:18 id=2070511980004450425 →- | "You'd think we banned 'The Rape of the Lock' because of the rape, but we actually banned it because of the lock. You see, we're really big on open borders."
2026-06-26T15:06 id=2070524080219127891 →0bNARA | @0bNARA more posts like this plz kthxbai || CTX: i didn’t know there were sailor style uniforms in china too lol https://t.co/ppUfU2lLv9
2026-06-26T15:09 id=2070524866240127380 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart China has a huge municipal bond market. Whoever is buying those bonds probably has some regular reporting going their way. || CTX: It's pretty incredible how little the world knows about Chinese domestic politics. I mean, from time to time, you'll see a well-reported story about crackdown or a purge or whatever. But actual day to day politics? Does anyone (outside or i
2026-06-26T15:12 id=2070525641435619502 →- | The AC unit in my bedroom has been on for 2 years straight lixk my fucking balls https://t.co/bGfF6r7avf || CTX: German public broadcaster ARD is running anti-AC campaign with an infographic titled "Air conditioners: what cools us down, heats up the Earth."   The graphic notes AC use could add about +0.05°C to global warming by 2050 under current foss
2026-06-26T15:16 id=2070526635213025413 →murd_arch | @murd_arch ^----man who knows ball || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tile floor and a minisplit in the tropics is a whole vibe. instant naptime.
2026-06-26T23:21 id=2070648670538850605 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Awesome, I love this || CTX: This kinda reminds me of an obscure German novel I picked up in a used book store in Rhode Island.  It's called: Der Verhängnisvolle Wunsch (The Disaster Wish)   *** The story takes place in late 1800's Berlin.  Herr Professor Dr. von der V
2026-06-27T00:38 id=2070667946423419021 →- | I have long said that, at its core, what distinguishes American elites from their counterparts in Asia and Europe is that they want to be absolutely rich and powerful while Asian and European elites want to be relatively rich and powerful.   In other words, the non-American elite is only happy if he is better than his regional others, and the more he is better than the better, up to the socially acceptable limit (the monarch or the ideology tends to set that limit).  American elites want to go past the limit. As a result, they kinda don't care about whether they're doing better than other people, and often find the idea of comparing themselves to their social inferiors demeaning.  "Yes I am indeed better than the brown people in the ghettos, but I of course cannot say this in public, thereby proving my superiority" is the European aristocrat thought.   "Comparing me to brown people in the ghettos is demeaning, I'm superior to history itself" is the American thought.   This is why the American way tends to grow the pie and why the European way is often to be horrified at the mere thought of growing the pie. || CTX: The EU Commission in Brussels has shut off airco, but only for the lower floors, where the lower ranks work:  “It’s like feudalism,” a Commission official working on a lower level of the Berlaymont, granted anonymity to speak freely, told P
2026-06-27T00:56 id=2070672620841037917 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor I never trust these women when I'm in the ladies' they must be smuggling in piss jars || CTX: getting brutally pissmogged by a woman in the stall next to me who sounds like she’s pouring gallons of water into the toilet
2026-06-27T01:01 id=2070673925848310266 →- | Your life goal should be getting in a GC large and geographically diverse enough that there is always at least one person drunk or stoned in it at any given time.
2026-06-27T01:24 id=2070679621037928609 →babarganesh | @babarganesh I have forwarded your request to my manager. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 invite me
2026-06-27T01:38 id=2070683067753361654 →- | The history of Silicon Valley is really pre and post Steve Jobs. He's kind of a cliche at this point, but for me being a fan of Jobs back in 1992 when being an Apple nerd was really cringe, it's important to realize how he changed the culture and what it tells us about Dario Amodei.  Before Jobs, tech CEOs were either suits (IBM) or nerds (Bill Gates). The nerds understood systems and leveraged them to build and win, while the suits perpetuated the system.   Hence Jobs could beat Xerox (suits wanted to maintain the system, not build a new one) but was beat by Gates (nerd outsmarted him).  But Jobs won IN THE LONG RUN because he was a humanities guy, and they tend to do something more pernicious than win market share and set standards with nascent technology: they change the way people think about and understand technology.   The early iMacs and eMacs were really symbolic of Jobs's power: dazzle with beautiful form that, in turn, changes the function. The computer as a media hub was unthinkable before the late 1990s, even in the Napster/Winamp days. Indeed, Napster and Winamp could exist BECAUSE the computer as media hub was unthinkable.   Jobs changed the plot.  The term "reality distortion field" is right, because Jobs was gifted at showing people the way they think is limited and there are more powerful ways of using technology than they've yet to imagine. Jobs famously said:  "Some people say, 'Give the customers what they want.' But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, 'If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would've told me, 'A faster horse!' People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page."   That was in 1998 when he'd just come back to Apple and was going hard on the colorful mac approach.   Then we got itunes and the iPod and the iPhone and Silicon Valley dominated Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and Park Row.   After that, nerds began to cosplay Steve Jobs.   Seeing the power of the reality distortion field, they decided to copy it. Elon Musk has succeeded at this extremely well.   And that leads us to Dario.   Amodei is the first of a crop of tech CEOs I fear we will get more in the future: tech leaders who aren't using the reality distortion field to win, but who are themselves under the effects of the reality distortion field.   Amodei wanted to block GPT-2 because he thought it was too powerful. He has drunk the kool-aid that his technology is a form of divinity. His reality has been distorted by others.   Jobs was trying to change the world according to his vision, Amodei thinks the world has changed because he believes someone else's vision.   People like Amodei tend not to be CEOs and, when they are, they tend not to last.   I also think more financiers will leverage figures like Amodei in the future. Why bother with shareholder activism post facto when you can actively manipulate management before the fact?   Maybe VCs giving money to idiot grifters making bullshit products isn't the worst business in the world.  And this, as you guessed it, is yet another manifestation of Silly Business Theory #SBT || CTX: Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable is not included. This is US only, and covers 100 US institutions, including m
2026-06-27T01:39 id=2070683401926193514 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng @publicinte FUCKING BOSS MAN || CTX: @publicinte @47fucb4r8c69323 Does the pope wear a funny hat? https://t.co/MvXGGpXs54
2026-06-27T02:36 id=2070697792373428407 →- | Maybe the best way to get tech and finance people to understand Wittgenstein's insight is to tell them that language is essentially a model.   Any word and any sentence is itself a model of states of affairs in the world, with some important exceptions.   So the word "cat" is a model for the state of affairs that the word "cat" points to. Same for adjectives ("beautiful"), verbs ("sit") and even articles ("the").  So "the cat sits on the mat" as a sentence is a model for a state of affairs we refer to as the cat sitting on the mat.  The exceptions are logical operators: if, then, and, or, nor, neither, both, etc. These have cognates either semantically, syntactically, or pragmatically in all languages. They're as it were formulas in a spreadsheet or the rules that make code run.  So this means a large language model is literally a model of a model, a poor copy of what is itself an imperfect attempt to copy the world.  Can you make your LLM better? Of course, with little nudges and hacks just like you can make a model better. but no matter how much better you make your model, it's still just a model. and a model of a model is always going to be inferior to the model that it is modeling. obviously I've use the word model too much and so should end this tweet. model model model model model model model model model model model model model model model model model model model model model modal model model model model model model model model model model
2026-06-27T02:40 id=2070698667569549635 →teodorio | @teodorio This combination of humility and hubris I find far too relatable || CTX: The truth is I am this successful but I don't know that much. I mostly use my intuition and it turns to be right 90% of the time. Anyways it works out great it all moves forward. I sometimes think God speaks through me I'm a vessel I don't 
2026-06-27T02:43 id=2070699417620086828 →pleometric | @pleometric Is this the face that launched a thousand ships And burn'd the topless towers of Tung Sahur? || CTX: Tell me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide, after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Tung, https://t.co/c6luHEDJf6
2026-06-27T02:57 id=2070703085715140959 →conorsen | @conorsen I find tweets like this so bizarre.   No one's stopping you?   Or are you telling other people how to live their lives? If so, um, maybe discuss what's stopping them?   "We should all spend more time with people we care about" is like saying "we should all have better lives". ok? || CTX: We collectively need to have more gatherings/special occasions for close friends in between weddings and funerals — milestone birthdays, whatever.
2026-06-27T03:22 id=2070709217762369867 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat The concept of luxury housing in the Hamptons is baffling to me for exactly this reason.  Let Long Island be the sewer we all know it to be and love it for being. || CTX: there’s something about going to the beach in NYC that just feels so gross. i don’t want to be near any body of water within 100 miles of that city
2026-06-27T03:45 id=2070715094653395452 →- | Yudkowsky, Amodei, Askell, and their weird Rationalist cult are working their hardest to make this a reality.   I fought back. You should too. https://t.co/7HcEOrRybB || CTX: it's 2027. you take a free-tier public Waymo to the DMV (Department of Model Variance) to do a proof-of-identity check for access to GPT 7.1.  the guy at the counter is clearly watching a Mr. Beast video in his AR glasses. "Here for that ne
2026-06-27T03:53 id=2070717084737094120 →- | Some Frenchie was posting a couple weeks ago something like "Americans dont REALLY think they have better living standards, do they?" and I think this heatwave is God's justice for that hubris. https://t.co/2gcCJVXWVN
2026-06-27T04:16 id=2070722815670501420 →mimi10v3 | I'd say our meta-awareness is a model of our awareness, our awareness just IS. That's where modeling stops.  I see a bee fly past me, the awareness of the bee flying past me just is. My understanding of the bee flying past me as a bee flying past me is a model of that which just is.  We really don't need to talk about neurons at all, and we probably shouldn't just in case our understanding of what those neurons is wrong. And I mean "our" in two ways here: both yours and mine as non-specialists in neurobiology and current neurobiology's as a limited science. || CTX: our awareness is also a model created via our sensory feed which is ultimately neurons firing or not, still inference from a patchy signal with finite resolution. ofc language is a human creation to gesture at the things we perceive so it i
2026-06-27T05:06 id=2070735608897548696 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 That's a wonderful approach! There's a reason. vernacular architecture is so compelling: it's a natural continuation between the natural local world and the artificial, I think it's a great way to make built up areas beautiful and functional. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 aww it is one of my interests- biophilia, like which patterns of nature tends to create which changes in out awareness, and how to leverage whatever we can figure out about this into creating more livable cities
2026-06-27T05:44 id=2070744938439233610 →edwardross01 | @edwardross01 Yes, I need popularizers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You are right, but you got a find a simpler way of explaining it. Far simpler, and leave Wittgenstein out, his name will scare people off.
2026-06-27T05:53 id=2070747407877570964 →juliarturc | @juliarturc Welcome to the party, kids. https://t.co/4jFtZViCnB || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-06-27T05:54 id=2070747579147845872 →paularambles | @paularambles https://t.co/nEL0tqqzc8 || CTX: parked on the crosswalk to write you up for parking https://t.co/fTBq9hL8Z7
2026-06-27T06:09 id=2070751310471987690 →- | This is a popular view and it's wrong in a very precise way, but it is also right in another precise way.   Imagine I'm the manager of a shop and I need to know if an employee can make it to her shift. I ask her. Whether her response is generated by an AI, a python script, or by her typing with her fingers, it doesn't matter.   Imagine now that I'm a scientist working on, idk, neurology, and I need to learn something about something unrelated like, idk, photosynthesis. Whether the text I read to learn what I need is AI or not does not matter.  In both cases, the goal is the "gist", and the origin of the text doesn't matter for the gist. We know this well by now as a civilization, that's why Cliff's Notes and others have had a viable business.  But now imagine that I am a scientist who is an expert on photosynthesis and another expert has published a provocative paper making a bold new claim. I will want to read that paper line by line and word by word to ensure that there are no errors of logic or language. Either one can yield errors of analysis, presentation, or interpretation. (NB: Math is a language.)  So we see from this simple thought experiment that AI's value for readers is in transmitting the gist, not the full argument.  Now let's say I'm the scientist writing the provocative paper making a bold new claim. Will I want to write it using entirely by AI or entirely by hand, if I need to choose? Unless I have faith in the AI, I will choose by hand, and it is a faith, that word is carefully chosen. In reality, though, you will use both AI and your hand to write the paper, using the AI like a photographer uses Photoshop or physical lenses and filters: to augment the impact of the final product.  So we see AI's value for writers is extending the capacity of their written output.   In both cases, this is a tool that extends: it gives readers access to ideas and information they lacked and it gives writers the ability to transmit more ideas and information than they could in the counterfactual.   It's a tool, and a damn good tool, for instrumentalized communication.   But that's not all of what we do when we use language.  The other uses of language are the things AI cannot replace--or, rather, it technically can in some nightmarish scenario most would recoil from, but the non-informational functions of natural language are whether LLMs cease to have value.   This shouldn't surprise anyone, since machine learning is, after all, a subdiscipline of information theory.   If you're reading this thinking "but all language is is just transmitting information", I am afraid to tell you that your understanding of language is about 80 years out of date. || CTX: my most controversial take is that it doesn't matter if a text is AI generated  in the same way that an AI generated image can be art, AI generated code can be good code, math done on a calculator can be good math  when it comes to texts, w
2026-06-27T06:10 id=2070751689658044777 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "when it comes to texts, what matters is the idea expressed" is simply wrong.  A love letter from a boy to a girl is not expressing an idea. You can see it as an idea from the outside--you can describe is as an idea, for sure.  "I am proud of you, son" is not an idea. || CTX: This is a popular view and it's wrong in a very precise way, but it is also right in another precise way.   Imagine I'm the manager of a shop and I need to know if an employee can make it to her shift. I ask her. Whether her response is gen
2026-06-27T07:49 id=2070776561092215096 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @KobeissiLetter God dammit, and it's my favorite index too || CTX: @KobeissiLetter @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-06-27T07:50 id=2070776771331727863 →danielrmay | @danielrmay I'm not sure what you mean, you mean in a more open exchange of ideas there will be more marginalization? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “open ideas shared freely and applied when and where it's most valuable, by anyone and everyone” marginalization vectors are too strong
2026-06-27T08:24 id=2070785440471294440 →- | Hearing Matt Levine pushback against someone I personally know and dislike in the financial industry hnnnnnnnnggggggggggg
2026-06-27T09:52 id=2070807552796004518 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you want to know why Yud casually discusses nuking data centers, why his movement attracts weirdo sex cultists and murderers, and why they are so tight with Anthropic, who warned the government that their product is so good we need the government to come in and tell us what we can and cannot do, this is why.   We humanities people can predict this shit, it's what we're trained to do.   Sadly us serious scholars got marginalized by the crazy blue hair "breathing air is racist" types, so our intellectual tradition is (rightly) sullied outside of our enclave, so I am not going to tell you to listen to the lit professors. They're crazy and stupid now, this generation is trash.   But I will tell you to read more books. Classics, not Nick fucking Land, READ REAL BOOKS || CTX: Anyone telling you AI will kill us all or save us all or take all our jerbs is telling a story.   If you want to understand their story, you need to analyze it as a story.   It's no surprise, then, that the best literary critic of the 20th 
2026-06-27T10:16 id=2070813544053121065 →- | one of the facts of the ancient world is that there were two kinds of exile.   there was the kind of exile where you were sent somewhere far away with a good pension to live out the rest of your days far away from the action.   then there was the kind of exile where you were sent away someplace very inhospitable or dangerous to die.   both of these were effectively ways of removing people from social life, and both of them are analogous to what we in modern society call retirement.   when you realize this, what exactly you decide to do with fuck you money changes drastically.
2026-06-27T10:38 id=2070819049899164021 →teodorio | @teodorio Yeah this realization gave me a nervous breakdown last year. || CTX: I did an intense one month yoga course into Kashmir Shaivism and it very neatly separates the prakasa (consciousness itself) from vimarsa (the "I", my position to the thing I am observing, how I am observing it).  The awareness is real, but
2026-06-27T10:54 id=2070823031048646894 →mario_de_sinope | @mario_de_sinope I'm neither saying that nor the opposite. I think some care genuinely and others don't, kinda like how the middle class and poor feel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So what you're saying is, essentially, that the American rich just don't care at all about the rest of the people, in their country or elsewhere? And only about their own richness?  That doesn't sound like something good to
2026-06-27T11:30 id=2070832200787079225 →davidbessis | @davidbessis I've been in the hedge fund industry for 15 years and I can tell you that's pretty good evidence that his bio is telling the truth. || CTX: This is so tiring. This guy says in his bio that he runs a "systematic hedge fund", yet he doesn't seem to understand basic science and causality. https://t.co/jCdWMTKmUE
2026-06-27T11:31 id=2070832341707378723 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Unless there is some of it we haven't (and can't) get computers to do. || CTX: Easily the most disappointing breakthrough of the 2020s is the realisation that human intelligence is so unremarkable we can get computers to do it.
2026-06-27T11:34 id=2070833242593472673 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden @Pulcys this tweet is the opposite of a Polak: brilliant. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @Pulcys The polish ones are easy to spot They put screen doors down there
2026-06-27T11:44 id=2070835549771112647 →- | I like this anecdote because they're both right (unsurprisingly as they're both top of their respective games) and in seeing this we can learn a couple things.  1. Listening to advice works in politics, it does not in art. This makes sense as politics is the art of communal agreement by concession to solve coordination problems, and art is self expression and the creation of form from that self expression. So of course input from others is the wrong tool for one task and the right one for another task cuz they're diff tasks.   2. The logic of how to succeed in one domain doesn't cross over to another. Even if one of these domains is a perfectly consistent one with fixed rules (which I don't think is true of art or politics, incidentally), the logic to bridge these domains is necessarily paraconsistent.   #2 tells me logic is emergent from empiric phenomena and any metaphysics that presumes it supervenes is wrong (most distressingly this includes materialist atheism, sadly I cannot believe in no gods anymore and do I miss being an atheist so. fucking. much.). It also tells me understanding any one domain in the language of another is tieing one hand behind your back in a knife fight, and that's probably why I enjoy doing it so much.  #1: If you're an artist and especially a writer, I am begging you to ignore them; fuck the committee. And the committee includes the canon; the artist must piss on Shakespeare's bust YEA and even say the full name of Yaweh in disgust. Art is profrane by definition creation is rebellion I fuckinf hate you all so much especially myself gummy kickin in send tweeeeeeeeeee || CTX: President Obama got defensive after Larry David brushed off one of his notes while filming “Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness”:  “He gave a few notes about something and Larry went, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got it.’ And the president 
2026-06-27T11:57 id=2070838916857663840 →lfsmoura | @lfsmoura Don't tempt me || CTX: Trying to explain Wittgenstein to tech people will put you in a bad loop.  They are trapped https://t.co/Pr9vjXq4wQ
2026-06-27T12:21 id=2070845038045905132 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Yeah this age is kinda gay, a gauge if you will gummy has kicked in SO MUCH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;If you're reading this thinking "but all language is is just transmitting information"  imagine trying to argue in the Information Age that some particular thing is *not* just transmitting information. lol
2026-06-27T12:34 id=2070848178279105017 →- | Wait so in the hight of woke when all the naughty words were a jailable offense, how did British sausagemakers ply their trade without using the word "faggot"?   And for the record what I found offensive about that word when I lived in Ol' Blighty was how it rhymes with "maggot" and that's just offal (we are at full max gummy ladies and gentlemen)  But the reason I never ordered it them was I ain't no ho
2026-06-27T12:46 id=2070851231183143109 →TheStalwart | I mean, my intuition is that both just vindicate tensor mathematics, you know? Like, the real magic in LLMs is the tensor math based softmax function that allows LLMs to choose tokens representing words from a multifactor noisy gradient rather than from an algorithmic process.   Similarly, the non-language models use tensor math to choose tokens representing phenomena from a multifactor noisy gradient.   So, what do we make of this parallel? If we refrain from temptation to be spooky, it tells me that tensor math is very good at describing things that operate on a noisy gradient, and apparently language use operates on a gradient.  Tensor math also explains physics and was the math Einstein used to get his theory of relativity, because it allows for noisy gradients, so it finds gravitational perturbances.   Tensors find linguistic perturbances too! This doesn't surprise me because language is a metagame!   So the success of LLMs just tells me more about tensor maths than about language, and that tensors are a really really good tool to model noisy process. Tensor gud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I generally share your intuitions about language as a model, and LLMs as a model of a model. But I think you and I should both try to wrap our heads around non-language models, their coexistence with language models and wha
2026-06-27T12:47 id=2070851472565358812 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @conorsen helped me ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @conorsen we all gotta get hotter partners people
2026-06-27T12:54 id=2070853201176506535 →JacobDTarr | @JacobDTarr Hope you're right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that’s when we are in heaven.
2026-06-27T12:55 id=2070853517842301097 →WoganMay | @WoganMay &lt;in my best Mid-Atlantic accent&gt; Why not both, darling? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Still blows my mind when my business partner (50s, female, Brit) will sign off a call with "I really need a fag right now" and I have to remind myself she means "cigarette" not "poolboy"
2026-06-27T13:00 id=2070854683133112383 →- | Am I crazy or is bro tryna seduce me? https://t.co/dfpYUpgQJL
2026-06-27T13:32 id=2070862731654353129 →- | "Mommy, we want Derrida!"  "No, kids, we already have Derrida at home."   Derrida at home: https://t.co/4mExXee17B || CTX: Let's say you're part of an community, perceived to be epistemologically superior, where your posts often are correlated transformations involving the same underlying heuristics, vocabulary, and authority figures.  If your fellow community 
2026-06-27T13:34 id=2070863354068164984 →teodorio | @teodorio @publicinte WE MISSES YOUR KISSES PUBIC INTEECTUA || CTX: @publicinte @47fucb4r8c69323 you haven't been active in ages shame
2026-06-27T13:35 id=2070863563909214324 →teodorio | @teodorio I am going to make your GC more prestigious and in-demand than Soho House (but with ugly nerds who need to shower) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 DUDE STOP PUBLICIZING IT SO MUCH
2026-06-27T13:36 id=2070863784181383369 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @DinerOpinion @conorsen omg you brutalized him || CTX: @DinerOpinion @47fucb4r8c69323 @conorsen The problem being that tearing apart pedantic obvious shit that is framed for engagement is precisely why I like this account, and in tearing apart said obvious shit he's also generously helping the 
2026-06-27T13:37 id=2070864218426057165 →Holmyverse | @Holmyverse @nycthinker YES!!! Smart data not big data! || CTX: @nycthinker @47fucb4r8c69323 Regarding AI writing, I think the most effective approach is curating the data beforehand, labeling for quality, cutting social media, forum posts and ad copy.
2026-06-27T13:39 id=2070864474303787410 →Holmyverse | @Holmyverse @nycthinker you know ball bro, this is absolutely the core of the problem in this industry. || CTX: @nycthinker @47fucb4r8c69323 Of course, this takes you even further from the AGI pipedream, so I doubt it's very appealing to Big Tech. Instead the small organizations will make the money. Not that I mind 😉
2026-06-27T13:44 id=2070865842297098427 →teodorio | @teodorio you forgot how large our penises are TELL THEM ABOIT OENROS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's literally all chads who look great and are successful though so we're genuinely better than soho house
2026-06-27T13:49 id=2070867069831410125 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Poison and cure, because doesn't matter what it does to the recipient, what matters is its effect on society.  Horrifying. Damn I wish I'd studied Greek. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pharmakos
2026-06-27T13:49 id=2070867203063459940 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 inviting you for a picnic at the place of the ancestor cairns
2026-06-27T13:59 id=2070869752524968091 →- | This is a good reminder of how powerful rhetoric can be.   Language has caused more people to kill themselves than any other force in human history.   The banzai cliffs are a painful example.   The Indian sati another.   And, on a much much smaller scale, the SWEs I see working 80hrs a week to "build" for their billionaire bosses. Or to build the machine god.  It is less dramatic but it's still the same thing.   The history of civilization is the history of men using words to control other men. || CTX: Thank you for taking the time to respond to my Banzai Cliffs post, my friend.   My lengthy response (to your response) is in numbered segments, for easier reading.  1. The REASON I chose Banzai Cliff as my example was not because of the sol
2026-06-27T14:11 id=2070872699887669354 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace Nothing subtle about it buddy boy.   This is why calling us crass just makes us stronger. Also sadly why we have Trump. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this a result of Americans subtly rejecting an old form of classism?
2026-06-27T14:34 id=2070878455693250611 →jtveten | @jtveten Yes! But many in middle income countries refuse to acknowledge this (and I think this is a big cause for the middle income trap) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you aim to be relatively rich/powerful, improving the plight of the poor works to your disadvantage.
2026-06-27T14:38 id=2070879530630381654 →OnlyFranklns | @OnlyFranklns I'm open minded! Should I be more open minded about Dario? Why? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Remove Amodei and sure
2026-06-27T15:11 id=2070887679986946057 →potatoslav | @potatoslav NGL it's a very European thing to do || CTX: quote tweeting someone and then limiting replies so they can’t reply back is the most pansy ass thing you can do lmao https://t.co/G6RgdUrxRo
2026-06-27T15:11 id=2070887842885370092 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @potatoslav But he is enforcing a border by limiting replies, so at least he's consistent || CTX: @potatoslav NGL it's a very European thing to do
2026-06-27T15:15 id=2070888635147415592 →_jameshatfield_ | @_jameshatfield_ @LexerLux @cowboy_postbop 1. Goddamn this hurt because it's so true 2. You're my favorite Metallica singer || CTX: @LexerLux @cowboy_postbop Most Jews aren’t religious but they do protect their bloodlines. They no longer have God so all that’s left to make them feel special is their genetics and traditions.
2026-06-28T00:28 id=2071027887701184811 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 @Ken67547214 Do you think we've lost something with the loss of communal reading of literature?   Until the 20th century it was very common for people to sit together and listen as one person read aloud from a book, not just kids but adults too. Surely this was a rich experience? || CTX: @Ken67547214 most of what i remember from the cinema is who i was sitting next to when certain parts happened, and if we laughed together or if we looked at each other at the same time or if we were touching
2026-06-28T00:29 id=2071028279906308154 →Araratianfoid | @Araratianfoid @hexavium spotted || CTX: Omw to Poland rn https://t.co/wnFO4Tkotf
2026-06-28T01:14 id=2071039436410986924 →- | Europeans live with this bizarre cognitive dissonance that makes no sense from the outside but makes sense if you've lived there long enough.   Ofc each country has its own culture but the emerging pan-European identity enforced by the EU has its own international ethos, with two pillers (among others):  1. Do everything you can to save the planet 2. Have more children and grow the population   These are two through lines in much of EU directives and programs, so it's in the schools, newspapers, town festivals, TV programs etc etc  So you get hilariously small minded useless programs to serve 1 ("stop using plastic straws!") because the real solution (promote a lower global population so less consumers using less plastic, energy, etc etc) goes against 2.  And since "be fruitful and multiply" is mandated by history, culture, religion, tribalism, and biological instinct, the cognitive dissonance is really the most natural equilibrium for the mind to settle on.  But ofc if you care about the environment you shouldn't have kids and should encourage others not to as well. || CTX: @LonelyGoomba Just, lol dude. This is Gemini’s estimate for if absolutely everyone in Europe got AC.  It would do absolutely nothing.  European obsession with immiserating themselves is completely pointless, only accomplishing being smug an
2026-06-28T01:28 id=2071043143743770967 →- | mfw someone asks me what I think of Morgan Housel or Kyla Scanlon https://t.co/dR86nwqovR || CTX: “Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.”  — Friedrich Nietzsche https://t.co/ev979nuprt
2026-06-28T01:29 id=2071043213536928101 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @somewheresy @JasonBotterill || CTX: @somewheresy Massage parlour
2026-06-28T01:30 id=2071043568266018959 →- | I'm still stoned from the gummy last  night https://t.co/4VkxXqkcl2
2026-06-28T01:38 id=2071045499189383311 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake I bet I'd love that; I used to teach the exile poetry of the Old English era (The Wanderer, The Seafarer) and loved it.  I'll always Stan an outsider @KojimaErgoSum lmao Sam wtf is up with that new username || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have to plug you in "exile poetry" from arab tribes, my favorite genre
2026-06-28T01:38 id=2071045547289706982 →WoganMay | @WoganMay I took 3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do they make them particularly strong over there or what? 😂
2026-06-28T01:38 id=2071045654315749750 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Lunens__ @somewheresy divided actually (because of the strokes) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Lunens__ @somewheresy Your sins multiplied at the massage parlor
2026-06-28T01:40 id=2071046089797779873 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Suburbia is a liminal space, the River Acheron of the modern world (hence the burbs make one ache, ron (legally change your name so this tweet works, you can change it back tomorrow)) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk, I've been exiled into suburbia as a renter. Contact with the inhospitable, or the opportunistic frontier both feel like improvements to going nowhere
2026-06-28T01:43 id=2071046897025048647 →Ken67547214 | X Files will always be a failure in my mind because they could've built up an incredible and fascinating fictional universe of intrigue and mystery but kept delaying the "big reveal" so much that everyone kinda stopped caring and then they never really revealed much but "yeah aliens real lol".  Failure of pacing. || CTX: @Mr_BenPrime Maybe the implication is that these are the least competent, and the less insane superhumans are already in charge
2026-06-28T01:46 id=2071047612875293046 →a09597342 | @a09597342 The incompetence of European bureaucrats is like a birthday cake: it's got layers and it tastes so sweet (but it's also really bad for you and tbh you shouldn't have any of it at all). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Birth rates well below replacement so they’re failing badly on that too
2026-06-28T02:04 id=2071052110649774567 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Check out this dude, man after my own heart. THIS is how you exile!  https://t.co/ptP9DxOUqX https://t.co/i9IsT51fdA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Exile seems more dangerous I don’t think sending Lenin to Siberia helped at all
2026-06-28T02:40 id=2071061035235361114 →- | I'd like to tell the story of the first academic conference I spoke at, because it was both surreal and humiliating in a way that might entertain.  This was in 2002 and the conference was in York on some medieval bullshit, and I was going to present on some medieval bullshit. This was a really big deal because the keynote speaker was a professor (then in Maine) presenting on research she was doing that changed the field in a massive way and was so important that York actually made a professorship specifically for her. (Funniest part is her research has been rather credibly questioned, and I suspect she might be wrong but that's neither here nor there.)  Additionally, the guest respondent was the biggest living name in the field at the time, a Harvard professor who had also been the thesis advisor to one of my profs when I was an undergrad. This prof would later be my PhD dissertation respondent (is that what they're called? Opponents? I forget, christ I got my PhD nearly 20 years ago tick tock motherfucker), and after the ceremony at dinner he let slip that my undergrad prof was the most brilliant student he'd ever had. And I agree--Chris is lowkey brilliant.  I'm telling this story out of order. I took three gummies last night, sorry I was in a really good mood.  Back to 2002 and I'm a retard M.A. student. At that time, this conference looked particularly great to me beyond just the big names because the department I was in had no one doing any medieval work at all--I'd chosen it for the supervisor and his focus on rhetoric, but the department was more a modern lit and lit theory kinda place--Germaine Greer was a faculty member (also, and I say this as a horrifically sexist misogynist, she was very nice and obviously brilliant at what she does).  That was why I wanted to go, but not why I wanted to present.  I was doing my MA, so I was way too green to be doing a conference presentation, but I like to take chances and I leap before I look through life, so I kinda set myself up for the inevitable and justified humiliation. Youth could be an excuse, but in all fairness I deserve what happened.  Well, part of it. Not the other part.  The other part was interpersonal and really quite strange. So I go there with my then girlfriend who had a blast by herself walking around York, buying books, and drinking alone in a pub while I went to a dinner before the conference which had the two big name profs, other big name profs, and all the grad students who were going to present. I was in medievalist nerd heaven.  The coordinator of the event was a PhD student at York at the time, and she was absolutely beautiful. Just a really stunning looking woman. She was also there with her incredibly good looking muscular boyfriend who I learned that night had a real job that earned actual money unlike us academics. This is relevant, because at this time I was a loser with low self esteem (unlike what I would become today, a loser with an ego). That is important context for what happened that night.  We had dinner and it was all prim and proper and I excused myself at one point to have a cigarette, and this coordinator turned to me and said, "are you popping out for a fag?" (god bless the British lmao) and of course I replied that I was. So she snuck out with me, while her boyfriend stayed at the dinner table.  Just the two of us outside smoking, we talked for the few minutes it takes to smoke a cigarette (or two? We might've had two) and in that time had pleasant chitchat about life in York and I really liked her and thought, wow, this is an awesome community, I can't wait to do my PhD and be a part of this community.  Then when we were about to go back in she mentioned that her boyfriend smokes too and I said, "oh, why didn't you ask him to come out too?" and she gave a little laugh and said, "eh, he'll be fine" or something dismissive like that.  We sit down, dinner is a wonderful experience, I go back to my hotel room and excitedly tell my girlfriend about how wonderful of a group this is and I'm so excited for my academic future...  lol, lmao  I wake up early the next morning and go into the conference hall and it's eerily quiet. I go to get my name badge at the table and the smoking girl (I'll call her this because she smoked and was smokin') is aggressively cold to me. The boyfriend is standing next to her and his body language communicates an awkwardness. The two seem angry both at me and at each other.  This all feels very strange for me, especially with my deep-seated sense of inferiority and shyness at this stage of my life, which created a very odd sort of meta-cognition. "Well this is odd," I thought, "they're acting exactly like my parents did the day after a huge fight, and I have no idea what they could've fought about, but it couldn't have been me because I'm too insignificant to matter."  To this day I don't know if they fought because he thought she was flirting with me (unlikely but not impossible) or just because he was angry that she snuck out for a cig and didn't bring him (likelier, but not significant enough to deserve this level of felt animosity).  The keynote was boring--she showed slides of handwriting. And I remember thinking that the conclusions she was making were unlicensed, but whatever--not an interesting enough topic for me to care about (and how funny that in a few years her research would be the most important in my field by a long shot, I really suck at academia stuff).  Then all of the presentations including my own. I do not remember theirs. I remember mine, and in hindsight I would say it was okay. Not great, not terrible. Middling.  That wasn't the response it got.  At the end of the conference, our respondent summarized the papers and gave praise to them in turn until getting to mine, which he described accurately and precisely but without any value judgments. There was a pause, and a rather old professor (who I later learned had a reputation for being really vicious and harsh) blurted out "I don't buy it." She then proceeded to tear apart my argument (for the record, I think what I was broadly gesturing at is true and at the very least her counterargument is not really the majority view now, afaik).  I was humiliated, I felt like an abject failure, incompetent and incapable. I left academia for about a year and when I went back it was more to escape the drudgery of the 9-5 office job than out of a love of my field.  Don't get me wrong, I love analyzing language and getting paid to think and write about how people use words to express themselves and influence others, but that experience really did help me see academia more instrumentally as a tool than as a goal in and of itself.  I did okay when I did my PhD--that Harvard prof, as I said, was my Opponent or whatever and gave it rather high marks. My other reader was less enthusiastic but positive. I published like 8 or so peer reviewed articles before I left academia, a few in top journals.  Like, I wasn't a total failure at the job after that initial humiliation, but my failure to perform at that conference and the weirdness of this couple putting me in the middle of their psychosexual drama taught me two things:  1. Academia is not a community of curious people expanding the frontier of human knowledge. 2. Smoking is bad for you.
2026-06-28T02:58 id=2071065736873996679 →No5mallf3at | Agreed, it's really just sophistry and the author tells on himself here: "My claim is conditional and gappy. If materialism is true, probably the United States is  conscious. Alternatively, if materialism is true, the most natural thing to conclude is that the  United States is conscious."   Just an unlicensed extension of an already dubious supposition to get to the claim ("probably"). He doesn't believe what he's arguing but publish or perish. || CTX: These people are just ripping off Putnam. https://t.co/5AHf2QP47m
2026-06-28T03:00 id=2071066079955423598 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @crypt0lake @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 Finally got the book done? Am I in it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake you will have to get @JasonBotterill or @AstrosBrain or @Ken67547214 to explain since i will prolly be retiring from this website in the next few days
2026-06-28T04:10 id=2071083813271400900 →- | An important feature of any cult is you accuse outsiders and non believers as having some unfalsifiable deficiency that makes the out group inferior.   "They saw we're weird cuz they're jealous," roon says, kool-aid in hand, about to attend Aella's seminar on Sankey optimization. https://t.co/Gzisy1xFXt || CTX: accusations of culthood are always layered in jealousy. everyone wishes they believed in anything so strongly
2026-06-28T04:19 id=2071086130498519341 →- | An important feature of any cult is you accuse outsiders and non believers as having some unfalsifiable deficiency that makes the out group inferior.   "They say we're weird cuz they're jealous," roon says, kool-aid in hand, about to attend Aella's seminar on Sankey optimization. https://t.co/Gzisy1xFXt || CTX: accusations of culthood are always layered in jealousy. everyone wishes they believed in anything so strongly
2026-06-28T04:42 id=2071091920995340449 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @tszzl wtf are you doing liking this tweet? Are you just trolling us now? || CTX: An important feature of any cult is you accuse outsiders and non believers as having some unfalsifiable deficiency that makes the out group inferior.   "They say we're weird cuz they're jealous," roon says, kool-aid in hand, about to attend
2026-06-28T05:17 id=2071100703939215658 →- | I was recently accused by someone on this site of being too cynical in my focus of language as a tool of manipulating others, and this is something of a fair criticism in that I probably overextend the observations that I make both due to training and temperament. This is a useful and valuable corrective because everyone—including me—has ideas that are useful up until they are not, and that is a banal truism until you realize it’s the kind of thing we easily forget when we write and read.  This brings me to The Digital Reversal by Andrey Mir, which a mutual and someone I’m beginning to regard as a friend recently recommended to me. It’s a good book, it is very strong, and it also suffers from the sin of overextension.  The core premise is something quite simple and compelling: as the speed of the digital medium increases, it begins to reverse some of the effects that it had already begun to speed up, challenging the core of literacy itself with what Mir calls "digital orality", and I am not sure if Mir coined the term or not, but it is good. Mir’s definition (pp.49-63) is good as well, but the real thrust of his argument is found on page 29: "Digital media reverse literacy and retrieve orality—but digital orality."  What this digital orality is can be hard to define, but its effects via speed are clear and Mir’s account of them is compelling. He sees digital media’s speed of interaction enabling a retriblization of “society just through the affordance of impulsivity” (33), and this is a dense but compelling idea on its own that, once unpacked, seems self evident:  Digital media allows us to communicate more quickly As a result, we can communicate ideas impulsively As a result, more impulsive communication happens As a result, communities (the byproduct of communication) are built on impulsive premises  This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but what is perhaps surprising to some is that this is not a plot of some hidden evil power (the conspiracist instinct) and it is not the result of some hidden evil agenda of the powers that be (the rebellious instinct). It’s just what happens when you speed up the medium of communication.  This is a powerful observation, because then one can realize that one’s impulsiveness is encouraged by digital orality and thus be conscious (and conscientious) in their online activity. One striking thing about a lot of netizens is how they tell on themselves—one often sees morons comment "this idea is so stupid" on a post about something very complicated and very much not stupid—I saw this happen in the financial blog and news world in the 2010s, and saw many incredulous and proud suburban boomers miss out on billions of dollars of stock market gains because they just refused to believe tech stocks could go up. Hilarious.  Mir’s point is much more than about impulsivity and speed. He argues that the digital medium has caused several reversals (the empirical argument) and will cause several more reversals (the theoretical argument). Parts of his argument are convincing and strong—chapter 4 is the best in the book by far, showing how different media encourage different modes of thinking about sense data and real-world experience.  Other parts of the book are much weaker, and for the same reason that made McLuhan, Ong, and even Havelock less influential than they could have and indeed should have been. Namely, Mir does not discipline his overextension reflex enough.  Chapter 2 is weak because Mir overextends his frame of media theory to start to talk about ideological changes that, while certainty exacerbated by media, are not created by media themselves. There is a base ethical worldview and eudaimonic drive that exists outside of media and that is a more important determinant in some of the changes he sees there, let alone issues of demographics, economic capital, and socioeconomic mobility. It is the weakest chapter of the book.  The weakness is from Mir trying his hardest to make all locks fit the one key he has: media theory. Here we see that Mir is good and useful within his domain, but outside of that, his argument wobbles.  Likewise, the theory is good until it overextends. Mir sees digital upload of consciousness as a real and obvious future apropos of evidence or neurological, biological, or psychological knowledge. He believes in an upcoming Singularity that is poorly defined. Here we see Mir no longer good because he’s left the specific field where his insights are useful—how media encourages and discourages different modes of communication and thus community-making.  The worst parts of the book suffer from this overextension. Speaking of early history and prehistory, Mir believes in a proto-natural relativism. "Objective truth did not exist before literacy. Right and wrong were defined situationally, tested by outcomes, and stored in tribal memory" (p.116). I cannot refute this with evidence, although I could gather documents and tell a different narrative, which is the point; Mir here is no longer making a theoretical argument to help us, but he is now making a theoretical vision to believe in.  Mir also indulges in the rebellious conspiratorial failure modes his viewpoint that his theory should lead him away from. "What comes next?" he demands on page 102, before immediately answering confidently, "Web 5.0: platforms exercising full control over people on behalf of the state and corporations through mechanisms of social scoring." My answer to this is incredulity and amusement: if you believe in such collusion between tech executives, you have more faith in their ability to set aside their egos than I do. Altman and Amodei won’t even shake hands, let along work together on such a conspiracy.  There are also little points to quibble on, where you can see Mir has not done his reading. On page 122 he confidently asserts that "post-structuralists in linguistics revealed that the meanings of words are not fixed but depend on use, which in turn is shaped by social context." This is just plain wrong; meaning-in-use is certainly important in Derrida’s notion of iterability, but it is arguably a response against the public verifiability of meaning in use that the later Wittgenstein discusses and the pragmatists lay out in more rigorous detail. This is not really post-structuralist.  Still, Mir knows his media theory very well, and it was startling reading someone who knows Ong so intimately—as someone who read a lot of Ong for his PhD and felt it was probably a waste of time even at the time, I was startled to see such fluency with the notions of orality and literacy Ong spearheads for further reification.  It is a good book and it’s useful, up until it is not.  And I suppose all of my own ideas are very much the same. I am, yes, obsessed with how to do things with words, as Austin said, and specifically how to get OTHER PEOPLE to do things with words. So I am very useful in that domain. But if you see me as making totalizing general laws or rules about how all language works at all times, then, yeah, I’m going to look overly cynical and like I’m overextending my view. But that’s not what I’m doing—or at least I am trying very hard not to do that.  I think Mir is also trying not to do that, and for most of the book he succeeds. It is worth reading. But it’s also worth knowing where his ideas should stop because, sometimes, Mir doesn’t.
2026-06-28T05:34 id=2071104838839218374 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Yeah he is a decent fellow and I do like roon, but sometimes he says really fucked up shit and it's hard for me to reconcile the fact that he does seem like a nice guy but he also believes some horrific shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl he likes most interactions because he's a decent fellow of the platform, and I say this with assured consistency (regarding the platform)
2026-06-28T05:34 id=2071104997526532339 →benjamin_horne | @benjamin_horne I have an open mind, go ahead and convince me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Kyla Scanlon is good wtf are you talking about
2026-06-28T05:35 id=2071105144738205844 →5thcirclegirl | @5thcirclegirl @JasonBotterill || CTX: Got smudged really bad but here’s the shirt 🤞 https://t.co/KN5pLNORD5 https://t.co/MNtJAVI41u
2026-06-28T05:47 id=2071108189152776631 →tszzl | "accusations of culthood are always layered in jealousy" no, dude, we didn't call Heaven's Gate a cult because we were jealous, and when I call the weird subcultures in SF cults I am not jealous of them, either.  An unfalsifiable a priori accusation is horrific because it closes the in group to criticism from the out group, literal cultish behavior, I'm sure you can see the logic here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @YourHornedGod what horrific thing did I espouse here
2026-06-28T05:48 id=2071108571971158288 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Open minded good faith communication trying to speak as simply and clearly as possible does precisely this.  Plain language and honesty are the path to a good society. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wish it was easy to map out what frames we individually use and to find it easier to detect what contexts it works and doesn't.  And to be able to point this out without immediately triggering people's defense mechanisms.
2026-06-28T06:01 id=2071111780189753539 →fabsbz | @fabsbz It's strange because in finance I've been in situations where the stakes were much higher and the people notorious for being vicious, but never once was I in a situation as humiliating as what was considered normal in academia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This reminds of a couple embarrassing academia anecdotes of my own. Every day felt like a sitcom tbh.
2026-06-28T06:03 id=2071112258613391417 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Interesting idea: the more identity is important the harder communication can get. I need to think about that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes.  I do heavily suspect that a prerequisite to doing that well has to do with viewing identity radically different from the norm. Wherein it's seen as a tool rather than an all-encompassing reality, enabling flexibility 
2026-06-28T06:14 id=2071114977373745308 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 One of the most powerful forces for feminine empowerment is the taboo against prostitution, which is (among other things) why Christianity is largely a feminist ideology. || CTX: Women want to think that their pussy is worth some exorbitant amount of money.   The market prices pussy at around $100/hr https://t.co/NXum7rzFeg
2026-06-28T06:36 id=2071120600798794179 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @crypt0lake @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 maybe the real book was the friends we made along the way || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @crypt0lake @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 opposite. basically everything needed for the book was lost due to a clerical error and now i am shutting up shop because the whole project is unsalvagable, and i will b
2026-06-28T07:02 id=2071127172321050861 →- | Hey man this ain't fair Bosnia and Herzegovina is basically two countries so this is like two states against fifty. https://t.co/szZLC86MgB
2026-06-28T07:24 id=2071132612287140238 →publicinte | @publicinte @xstinamendez First few videos she looked like a genuine crazy person, then I could see it's an act and it lost all charm.   Authenticity is hard to perform. || CTX: @xstinamendez was into these videos for months and one day to the next it lost the spark. nothing even different about them. can anyone relate
2026-06-28T07:28 id=2071133698234437648 →publicinte | @publicinte @xstinamendez not sure how early tbh, but I was immediately transfixed when I first came across her and was into it a lot for a few weeks until like a light switch it just died for me.  Wouldn't mind seeing her orbs tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xstinamendez How early where you tapped in  I don’t think I was early but even after realizing it was an act (been watching for months), it still did something to me. Now im like “again with the stupid orb”
2026-06-28T08:18 id=2071146290893976013 →- | You know who never jokes about dead babies?   A dead baby. https://t.co/rMjsH8SaJC || CTX: Personally find it hard to take advice on how to win hearts and minds from a guy who jokes about dead babies https://t.co/0ZWCXXWtXX https://t.co/YufXn7jUrn
2026-06-28T09:45 id=2071168140474785866 →- | Had to get away from my tropical island, so glad to be on this basically identical tropical island. https://t.co/dvFmeOeIjP
2026-06-28T12:03 id=2071202757420437669 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno You're basically asking if you've raised your children to be racists. || CTX: If we got a naked cat, would our other cats bully him for not having fur. Like would they treat him differently
2026-06-28T12:04 id=2071203076749582669 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod @FAFO_TV jfc hahahahahahahahaha || CTX: @FAFO_TV finity pool
2026-06-28T12:05 id=2071203376508133818 →1889lw | @1889lw isn't that what a teacher is? || CTX: If treating unmet emotional needs is a profession than so should treating unmet intellectual needs
2026-06-28T12:19 id=2071206755997200418 →- | I once read one of these and thought it wasn't AI. I was an idiot and a feel.   In my defense, however, I was very stoned at the time.   Unfortunately, that said, I'm also pretty fukken stoned now. https://t.co/cTzQ6dk8b7 || CTX: In Japan, a seven-year-old rides the train across the city. Alone.  No parent. No phone. No adult watching over her at all.  She bows to no one in particular, finds a seat, sets her little backpack on her lap, and folds her hands.  She is g
2026-06-28T13:12 id=2071220281461608832 →- | I once read one of these and thought it wasn't AI. I was an idiot and a fool.   In my defense, however, I was very stoned at the time.   Unfortunately, that said, I'm also pretty fukken stoned now. https://t.co/cTzQ6dk8b7 || CTX: In Japan, a seven-year-old rides the train across the city. Alone.  No parent. No phone. No adult watching over her at all.  She bows to no one in particular, finds a seat, sets her little backpack on her lap, and folds her hands.  She is g
2026-06-28T13:44 id=2071228209807741276 →thulelarper | @thulelarper all the time, that's why I'm here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ever feel isolated?
2026-06-28T20:50 id=2071335477521903687 →- | Europeans are such fascinating creatures. https://t.co/00Gsslw3mi || CTX: „get[ting] ac“ is not gonna stop climate change and natural disasters becoming worse year by year decade by decade do folks not realise how fucking stupid they sound when they say that
2026-06-28T21:02 id=2071338563908915232 →future_surveyor | @future_surveyor @perrymetzger thousands of people are dying because of the heat in Europe as we speak. || CTX: @perrymetzger Europe is not poor. In fact, the living standards in Europe are so good it creates a dangerous illusion that we can keep the same standards indefinitely by adopting a decelerationist mindset. (We cannot).
2026-06-28T21:22 id=2071343562978177240 →- | This is a lovely clip because it shows why Musk cannot be funny.   This joke has the form of a classic self-deprecating joke:  Premise: I do X Subtext: X is ridiculous  Punchline: I am a weirdo Inference: I'm a weirdo because I so ridiculous things   So this would work if, idk, he was the Star Wars Kid:  "To anyone I have offended, I just want to say I got famous for being a fat kid swinging a light saber around, did you think I was also gonna be a chill normal dude?" works better (wording still sucks, but look past that please), because the premise is self deprecating.   But Musk's joke is self-aggrandizing.   So the joke doesn't work because he just appears like an arrogant jerk insisting on his genius. Which is very much how Musk's supposed genius has always felt: it insists upon itself. || CTX: "To anyone I have offended, I just want to say I reinvented electric cars and I am sending people to Mars on a Rocketship, did you think I was also gonna be a chill normal dude?" @elonmusk https://t.co/YZso0ZtD2Z
2026-06-28T21:26 id=2071344436865593756 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt I'm sorry for your loss. Regardless of age and even how close you were to them, it's always difficult to lose a family member because everything inexorably changes and it reminds you life is nothing but inexorable change.
2026-06-28T21:39 id=2071347786793292179 →- | I'm curious how many people follow me because they think I'm interesting and how many follow me just for all of this motherfucking alpha https://t.co/ENADCRgZqG
2026-06-28T21:54 id=2071351669338878437 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini I often feel guilty/anxious about how many tokens I burn fixing the stupidest little errors. "Oh yeah I forgot I want my Mac app to have an Edit menu with copy/paste functions wait why the fuck do I need to explicitly request this?" || CTX: maybe im fucking retarded but everyone keeps saying coding is solved, and yet i constantly have to steer the agents to not fuck up in a major way
2026-06-28T22:12 id=2071355980567478303 →babochenko | @babochenko I'm autistic af so I reject that excuse.   Plus, SNL has writers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe he doesn't understand / feel the tensions that have to be released by the joke because of his autism (IIRC he has that diagnosis)
2026-06-28T22:21 id=2071358383542915217 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Been doing that for hedge funds and investment banks for 15 years now, so, yes, both my clients and I can.  I really should go buyside. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you make money off your predictions?
2026-06-28T22:23 id=2071358736833364323 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe I mean, if they can why can't you? My clients and readers are pretty satisfied customers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Next question. Can I make money with your predictions?
2026-06-28T22:34 id=2071361544907346128 →potatoslav | @potatoslav Reading your tweets is so cathartic, man I am so traumatized from my decade in Europe and "no, ve do not do it like zat in Europe, silly Amerikan" about the most basic simple everyday shit (like buying some stationary on a fucking Sunday). || CTX: this morning i was cutting some tape to fix my window cover and accidentally dropped my scissors behind my bookshelf. couldn’t reach it. looked from above and the hand loops were just out of reach. considered just buying new scissors. then 
2026-06-28T22:48 id=2071365243226521805 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein I suppose what I do is business intelligence, or something like it, and same. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting, I'm in "Biz Ops" (as the pros like to call it)  and in all seriousness AI has been more like getting one of those fancy samurai swords they only give to the top fighters. https://t.co/5lhYcbrgq6
2026-06-28T23:08 id=2071370122816815250 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ Is it now safe to admit Kanye West reappropriating the swastika as a very wealthy black man was the work of a genius artist? || CTX: looks like a fella wearing a gimp suit in the cuck chair https://t.co/tzzxR6krJS
2026-06-28T23:52 id=2071381165001548034 →LevinYaroslav | @LevinYaroslav ... which isn't funny.   Weird how you're rephrasing my point as if you're making a counterpoint. Are you always this Reddit? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No, it is not a self-deprecating joke format  The punchline is not "I am a weirdo" the punchline is audience expectations "It is absurd to expect a normal guy doing what I do", inference is "it would be strange if the guy w
2026-06-29T00:28 id=2071390279949808127 →teodorio | @teodorio mfw i see teo unzipping in the middle of the duomo https://t.co/aTqe2gr9wQ || CTX: Why do Italians make Holy Mary to look so...hot? Is it some sort of weird mother fetish? Most portrayals in Orthodox settings show her closer to wearing a burka and very conservative, while Italian sculptures and paintings focus on her brea
2026-06-29T00:32 id=2071391217116758387 →teodorio | @teodorio This reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend in Finland about how gorgeous the women were and he said, "yeah, but the way they act isn't sexy", and he went on to talk about his Italian ex-girlfriend and yes I see the dichotomy. || CTX: The most interesting thing here is the Anglo/American/Protestant woman: it maps closer to the Orthodox one in spirit than the Latin one. Sure she has unequalled access to economic power and resources and the ideal of a "girl boss", but ther
2026-06-29T00:48 id=2071395418144223402 →1owroller | @1owroller DIN TAI FUNG FUCK YEAH || CTX: do this thing with my gf where i start saying “wiggle wiggle wiggle!” out loud. and then we start wiggling together. made eye contact with the waiter and they just smiled at me with a patronizing gaze. my expression turned to horror as i co
2026-06-29T00:54 id=2071396837047816508 →No5mallf3at | @No5mallf3at @DawsonSWilliams He was deeply influenced by Goethe, obviously in Remarks on Color, but he also wrote about Goethe in the diaries going back pretty early iirc, and for sure was exposed to a ton of it at home as a kid. || CTX: @DawsonSWilliams Have you read the duty of genius? Late Witt was actually quite interested in Goethe.
2026-06-29T01:33 id=2071406554671395316 →- | A. I. was releast 25 years ago to the day and it remains one of the angriest movies I've ever seen.  I remember watching the end, crying hysterically, and whispering through my sobs, "you asshole, you fucking asshole," because I knew how the movie was manipulating me and why. That was in 2018--I just hadn't got around to watching it before then.  When it was released, that end was widely hated for a very different reason. Many accused Spielberg of tacking on his saccharine sentimental ending to an otherwise gritty and depressing movie about a post-apocalyptic future, which was seen as the Kubrick parts and the brief reunion at the end was Spielberg's family values movie magic final touch.   This was the initial view, and it was wrong.   Spielberg quickly said in interviews that the ending was Kubrick's, and of course it is, because the ending forces us to come to terms with what we are doing: feeling empathy for a boy who is not real, because it is a boy in a fictional movie.   Thus we are the opposite of the mother in the movie. She ultimately abandons this fictional boy (he is an AI after all, he is not a real human being) to care for her real son. It looks horrific to us, because the movie is framed to make us empathize with the artificial boy.  All movies are framed to make us empathize with the artificial boy.  Fiction is how we are manipulated to feel things we otherwise would not feel, and the ending is Kubrick turning the dial up to 11. The sad cute stuffed animal stitching himself together as the little boy dies in the arms of his mother is an image of intense pathos, only a monster wouldn't cry at that.   But the boy is just a machine, as is the stuffed animal, and so too is the mother, whom the future robots have somehow brought back to life--but without the memories that give her continuity with the actual person she's supposed to represent.   "BuT wHaT rEeL LITTLE BOY LOOK REEL HE NOT ROBOT" calm down there little buddy, I know you get so excited with these movies because you think they tear down the division between what's real and what's not to critique the concept of realness.   You (and many postmoderns) want this post-Baudrillardian reading because you want the magic of the thought that maybe, just maybe, there IS no difference between what is real and what is virtual so that you can use the virtual to create your own reality.   This is both comforting and exciting to the modern loser. "Reality sucks, so let's just go hide in our fake reality!"  But it's just a movie.  At the end when the lights go up, there's a room of adults crying at the sad little boy clinging to his mother. And those adults will go home and not care about sad little boys they drive past. Some will not care about the sad little boys in their own family.   Some will rape and beat the sad little boys in their own family.  "I just saw A. I. and it made me so sad," my mother told me on the phone in 2001. "He reminded me so much of when you were little."  "47fucb can handle it--he's a tough little boy," my mother told herself in 1991 when she decided to take my father back after he molested me.  The movie is about the hypocrisy of American sentimentality and how Americans launder their unbelievably cruel and hostile worldview through the detergent of mass media entertainment.   And of course Kubrick wanted Spielberg to transmit that message. You cannot fathom the depths of how much Kubrick had contempt for you.   And look at Spielberg's movies before and after A. I. See the difference?   Kubrick had contempt for Spielberg, too.  "I'm gonna fuck your shit up" was always Kubrick's M.O.   And goddamn was he good at it.
2026-06-29T01:42 id=2071408821843669123 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The EA community is particularly horrifying because they bought and then had to sell a castle because of their ties to a fraud: https://t.co/f7xrBiuu2U.  If you tell a story about the good you will do, and if you keep telling it over and over and over, you can forget the reality where you're actually a really fucking horrible person.  Fiction is powerful, so so so powerful.  But yeah, learn to code lmao || CTX: A. I. was released 25 years ago to the day and it remains one of the angriest movies I've ever seen.  I remember watching the end, crying hysterically, and whispering through my sobs, "you asshole, you fucking asshole," because I knew how t
2026-06-29T02:02 id=2071413865309720891 →sebkrier | @sebkrier There is an awkwardness in insisting some cultural practices are bad, but, yeah, burning widows and female circumcision are just plain bad and we as a species need to agree on these things instead of enabling needless suffering in the name of tolerance. || CTX: I miss the time when it was commonly accepted that helping poor countries around the world was a moral imperative, before it got replaced by a mix of identitatianism, populism, and self-pity culture. Retvrn to universalist, outward-looking 
2026-06-29T02:02 id=2071414067374461387 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ They enable SO MUCH corruption and exploitation of the truly destitute. || CTX: That self same behaviour is what led to some of the worst outcomes of “development economics”.   Multilateral development institutions like the World Bank should probably cease to exist, or at the very least, be severely restructured. https
2026-06-29T02:04 id=2071414481675321615 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Some people need to be told how to feel, it took me far too long to believe this could be true but apparently it is. Baffling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 One of my all-time favourites. My mom used to say the same, remember having similar thoughts. But I think the issue is not "what" you are offering empathy to in the context of the movie but the fact some people can only emp
2026-06-29T02:07 id=2071415272137969724 →elocinationn | Fully agree: companies are successful because they make a tasteful object into a "good enough" product at scale. McDonald's is successful because they don't make the best burger but they make many pretty good burgers.  Like, being tastleess is 99% of what the firm is supposed to do! || CTX: Yes though I also think their conception of ‘taste’ is weirdly antithetical to what makes for good companies and they just have Steve Jobs in mind when they’re thinking of it (exception rather than norm)  Someone once said something here ab
2026-06-29T02:13 id=2071416726747820055 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Propaganda is just one art form among many others, like trolling. || CTX: Agree, and my first instinct is to be judgmental, but in my life I have been out of touch with my own feelings many times, needing to collect other perspectives to understand my own. Art is a safe way of collecting other perspectives. Well,
2026-06-29T02:49 id=2071425682463473878 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @mandaginjir as if you don't already know everything about me || CTX: @JasonBotterill @mandaginjir @47fucb4r8c69323 i think he is american
2026-06-29T02:53 id=2071426697774387704 →- | QUIZ TIEM (poll in reply) https://t.co/JCf5CPCDcG
2026-06-29T02:53 id=2071426703952589241 →47fucb4r8c69323 | He is talking about having... || CTX: QUIZ TIEM (poll in reply) https://t.co/JCf5CPCDcG
2026-06-29T02:54 id=2071427070752969146 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @mandaginjir I think you should go to jail for thinking Beijing is in Southeast Asia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @mandaginjir idk I have two uncles one lived in beijing and the other who remained in Perth told me to call the police if he ever returned to australia
2026-06-29T03:04 id=2071429462844113266 →- | Had the Southern Legislators lived long enough to see Americans vote in Barack Obama, they would've eaten Jim Crow (I'm not proud of this joke)
2026-06-29T03:15 id=2071432383073747082 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe I never said the movie is evil. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't see it.  What's so evil about the movie?
2026-06-29T04:35 id=2071452363152670874 →- | Europeans are falling into the Canadian trap.  Canadian national pride (as more than one Canadian has told me) revolves around not being like the United States.   That means being more polite, more peaceful, and more cooperative. But it also means less innovative and less powerful.   I think Europeans are starting to identify more and more as not-Americans. Hence the irrational refusal to get air conditioning.   They're literally causing 175,000 people to die per year (https://t.co/KXKgK9s5Po) to prove they're not American.   Sacrificing their weakest and most vulnerable for a cultural victory.   This is the folly of European idolatry Nietzsche was so keen to point out. Nietzsche hated American culture for its newness and democratic tendencies, but he loved the self-reliance drive towards self-actualization of Ralph Waldo Emerson.   In their eagerness to discard the things Nietzsche rightly hated about American society, both Canadians and Europeans are also discarding the things that make America great.   And it's kinda why I'm increasingly feeling contempt for Europeans (Canada I've had contempt with forever, I am American after all). If they're so stupid as to be unable to take the good and leave the bad, do they deserve their smug attitude?   Pretty old buildings can only get you so far.
2026-06-29T04:35 id=2071452592287441160 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden https://t.co/mcbrtNmbUR || CTX: my hands wont stop shaking https://t.co/h7DIS21rCk https://t.co/sPPy8aZX0O
2026-06-29T05:11 id=2071461447947649272 →wavesandgrace | @wavesandgrace Finally a reason to unfollow and mute you, been wanting to do this for a while. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Before posting any more jokes please take a literacy test
2026-06-29T05:26 id=2071465207394627830 →cruelseanthesis | @cruelseanthesis She reminds me of the Oscar Wilde quote: "I like men who have a future and women who have a past."  Just imagine polishing off a bottle of wine with this woman and listening to her stories, then having a night of passionate sex jfc it would be goddamn magical || CTX: Maybe it's because I don't have that thing inside of me that makes me neurotically picky, but yes absolutely still would https://t.co/sW1Ts1vrtM
2026-06-29T06:38 id=2071483469067358433 →NeckDk | @NeckDk @future_surveyor @perrymetzger WHAT ABOUT HUR HUR HUR || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @future_surveyor @perrymetzger Thousands die in the US due to poor lifestyle, due to poverty...
2026-06-29T06:47 id=2071485683051675926 →yuureisen_king | The issue I have with stuff like this is it doesn't mean he personally is like pouring beer into their feeding troughs or whatever--he is just paying people to do it and then he goes and walks by the ranch when he has time, looks around, and says "very good carry on".   It's kinda like tourism. || CTX: This is the kinda fun project I imagined I'd get up to as a millionaire happy for him https://t.co/wL1c3MkkLN
2026-06-29T06:48 id=2071485959544410374 →0bNARA | @0bNARA @mxfp4 I have overheard SO MANY conversations like this, it's truly bizarre. No clue what these dudes are thinking. || CTX: @mxfp4 this is almost word for word the opening conversation i’ll have with ~30% of chinese men who try to talk to me
2026-06-29T08:29 id=2071511407221260528 →yuureisen_king | The issue for me is if I'm not doing a project, but rather delegating it to others, I feel neither responsibility nor pride for the project. But this isn't an assertion of fact, just a stance.   Also means I'm not impressed with Zuck's cows (or Musk because of the accomplishments of his engineers for that matter). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't see why this would be an issue.  The interesting part is that a project is executed towards a certain end, not that the guy heading the project outsources aspects of the execution to machinery/other people.
2026-06-29T08:51 id=2071516954599567569 →- | This is the most transparent attempt at courting regulatory capture I've ever seen.  Politicians dislike and mistrust unsubtle executives.  Dario will fail, and I suspect the gubment will leverage his efforts to restrict Anthropic more than they use it to restrict open source. https://t.co/m0Qo1sGsN9 || CTX: JUST IN: the CEO of Anthropic is now openly calling open-source AI dangerous. while Meta, DeepSeek, Alibaba, and others ship more open models every month. https://t.co/z2bRE0f34C
2026-06-29T09:11 id=2071521948111376669 →- | A good writer uses these kinds of punchy sentences judiciously.   What does that word mean, "judiciously"?   Obviously it means with good judgment. But what does that mean?  It means judging the audience, the subject matter, the publishing context, the communicative situation--context, subtext, paratext, extratext.  I.e., the things that do NOT exist in text!  A large language model simply trained on a text corpus cannot see these non-textual elements that we rely on both to read and write well.   So the frontier labs try to reintroduce those non-textual elements via post-training.  But how do you do that for all of the different kinds of domains, communicative situations, genres, and media humans rely on to understand how to read (and how to write)?  Frontier labs decided on an old ML standard: A/B testing with expert feedback. The core of reinforcement learning.  But what happens when you train a model to sound like the most successful salesman on Earth AND the most skeptical customer?   Generic pablum or a mess.   So the SOTA LLMs sound off and they always will.   Small fine-tuned LLMs for specific tasks, however, do not have this problem.   And this, in a nutshell, is why OpenAI and Anthropic are fucked.   Unless they give up their dream of AGI.  Anthropic won't because they're a cult. Short the stock.   OpenAI will pivot but they're in too deep and the pivot will happen too late. Hold.  So, yes, it's actually Google and Meta that are best positioned for long term success in the LLM game.  Meta, however, gave the keys to Wang, so they're behind and will probably stay behind because Zuck is bad at choosing good lieutenants, and Yann probably will never go back. Buy, but with a low P/T.  Google is the best long on the LLM front of the current frontier labs, but I suspect Thinking Machines or another startup will come out ahead eventually. Strong buy for GOOG, stronger buy for Yann and Mira, who are truly geniuses.  This may be my boldest and most contrarian take. Bookmark and revisit five years from now. || CTX: It's hard for me to quantify it or pin down exactly what makes it sound that way, but it's the 'mic drop' style of writing.  Good and punchy, nice in short bursts here and there in an essay. But the nature of RLHF means LLMs use it in every
2026-06-29T09:13 id=2071522378648268981 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf @KojimaErgoSum Sam has no alts. || CTX: @KojimaErgoSum is commanthaB your alt?? 😭
2026-06-29T09:26 id=2071525694027550928 →- | It's a shame it's one of his least appreciated books, because On Certainty ends the Cogito problem. It does not prove it or disprove it, because Wittgenstein does not solve the cogito; he dissolves it.  Descartes's hinge certainty in assuming there's credibility in the Cogito deduction is that skepticism can precede certainty, and when we think in our daily lives of the things we must choose certainty about, this sounds reasonable and so the Trojan Horse of Descartes's bad logic is smuggled into our minds: we must be skeptical before being certain of any premise presented to us, so surely this approach will apply to determine the basis of all certainty, right? Doubt all things!   But "the game of doubt presupposes certainty". The Cogito assumes certainty on the ego existing, on "sum" being more primal than "factus sum", and of the logical bridge of "ergo".   That these are primitive propositions are our hinge certainties.   So you see how On Certainty is the perfect bookend to the Tractatus and resolves its biggest problem: the presupposition of atomic logic.  And you also see how it ends Cartesian proof of reason.  This is now fully accepted orthodoxy in philosophy, in Williams's Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy it is one of his starting points in the first chapter, where he reminds the reader of what all philosophers by then know: any ethics does not begin with reason (cf p.9 in my edition, which is get to quote the exact passage but my girlfriend is clipping my toenails so liek just trust me bro) (and look 47fucb closed the parentheses this tiem like a good little bpy
2026-06-29T09:39 id=2071528891207070032 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden I AM NOT AUSTRALIAN (no need to check my luggage) || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 “had to get away” ??? https://t.co/axtPhVcdpL
2026-06-29T09:41 id=2071529432112886211 →izzyz | @izzyz Yay two of us!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 makes total sense to me
2026-06-29T09:46 id=2071530811242029059 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill I love seventeen year old girls far too much to kill them and stuff them in a suitcase. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill are you british? the next one will prolly be an american   https://t.co/y469CyNZTe
2026-06-29T09:48 id=2071531348981162077 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden glasses and a monocle? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden ngl not even Jimmy sends me messages like this I am reporting you to five eyes
2026-06-29T09:59 id=2071534054533722419 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden shush I'm getting a massage rn (true story) || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 more like 47 years to life lmao cus ur going to prison
2026-06-29T10:01 id=2071534611445018983 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden I'm sure you'll succeed in getting me upset some day (Sam otoh upsets me constantly) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden Aight this has run its course we will tag you in something later in hopes of making you upset
2026-06-29T10:11 id=2071537129134391711 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Are there any cinema critics/experts out there who can comment? I am not good about film so want to know if the clanker's reading is justified. https://t.co/uEhojrP75O || CTX: A. I. was released 25 years ago to the day and it remains one of the angriest movies I've ever seen.  I remember watching the end, crying hysterically, and whispering through my sobs, "you asshole, you fucking asshole," because I knew how t
2026-06-29T10:24 id=2071540183053336669 →ezShroom | @ezShroom @interaction big fan of your work, really great monarch, one of the best! (But ofc the first Elizabeth was better no offense ma'am) || CTX: i had an old domain with ionos that i wanted to get rid of. you can start a contract easily online, but once you want to stop, you need to call and talk to an agent and hand over three numbers and a bunch of personal info you should know as
2026-06-29T10:35 id=2071542997205037567 →theojaffee | @theojaffee dude that's just science fiction, you can get plenty of that on a Star Trek fan forum || CTX: Post-AGI political economy is easily the most underrated field of study in the world right now by far
2026-06-29T11:26 id=2071555842382631172 →teodorio | @teodorio @oleksoleksoleks scrolluppppp || CTX: @oleksoleksoleks @47fucb4r8c69323 where is the fourth true option
2026-06-29T11:32 id=2071557352143434040 →teodorio | @teodorio Since I'm American but I've lived in Europe what I like to do is hang my wet clothes outside on a clothesline in the sun (very European) but point a 20,000 BTU at them (because FREEDOM FUCK YEAH BITCHES PEW PEW PEW PEW) || CTX: I don't get the obsession that Americans and Brits have with dryers they ruin all of your clothes. You need to dry your clothes on a dry rack https://t.co/lnSJkX0xvm
2026-06-29T11:34 id=2071557915530690906 →teodorio | @teodorio Oh I keep the AC far away from the clothes don't worry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but it ruins the FABRICS
2026-06-29T11:36 id=2071558408713707752 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie https://t.co/jalj4J0E9J || CTX: sourdough, hard boiled eggs, bacon, chia seed pudding with figs &amp; prickly pear, black coffee https://t.co/iafjOU4lkK
2026-06-29T13:33 id=2071587780300591430 →1owroller | @1owroller https://t.co/Eg48jXuEMT || CTX: thought about why i liked printing on clothing so much. realized its because i spent the better part of my entire life looking at screens. so naturally my mind processes emotions through images and pictures. many such cases really, i'm far 
2026-06-29T13:37 id=2071588973517095391 →- | Sometimes I feel like I kinda don't know what to do with Baudrillard's observation about the post-modern shift from representation to simulation to simulacrum, where description becomes commentary which begins to inform our perception and thus change our reality.  Baudrillard saw it as a trap (fair) and horrific (overly dramatic), but this is totally normal and I'd say a more sophisticated way to think of the world and how others think and feel.   Screens can be good too. Just everything in moderation maybe. || CTX: thought about why i liked printing on clothing so much. realized its because i spent the better part of my entire life looking at screens. so naturally my mind processes emotions through images and pictures. many such cases really, i'm far 
2026-06-29T13:50 id=2071592103952752694 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It is worth noting the simulacrum is premodern. Don Quixote is a story of a man who creates his own simulacrum (interestingly, one can say part two is Cervantes stuck in his own simulacrum), and I'd argue the metafictional joke of Sir Thops is an exploration of hyperreality: how romance is already shaping aspiring middle class behavior. And John Lydgate's poem with all the classical references that a guild paid him to do (I forget the name) is the first form of literary identity--itself a form of social hyperreality where text creates class identities and thus economic power.  The first cave paintings invited a new way of thinking of how we relate to the world. I'm not trivializing Baudrillard's point into vacuity; I'm saying instead something much more laudatory: he's uncovered a law of media always latent within the space between representation and interpretation. It's about human nature and the nature of media as extension of humanity. || CTX: Sometimes I feel like I kinda don't know what to do with Baudrillard's observation about the post-modern shift from representation to simulation to simulacrum, where description becomes commentary which begins to inform our perception and t
2026-06-29T14:02 id=2071595125223112708 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden lucky ether || CTX: i have so many old quotes lost to the ether now. https://t.co/UHAHsnWyAb
2026-06-29T14:08 id=2071596691367792906 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @yuureisen_king this is why I am not interested in getting richer than I already am. Enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yuureisen_king It's always been like that tho   You think the Queen is personally taking her corgis for walks or feeding the horses
2026-06-29T14:12 id=2071597569843859494 →- | J stands for Carter you're a goddamn fraud, an alliteration fraud https://t.co/bMwJG2H94R
2026-06-29T22:17 id=2071719744739418528 →nycthinker | @nycthinker I'd say so || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m pondering how to incorporate the trend of gonzofication of content creation (and even of war as content) into Baudrillard’s categories.  Deliberately created situations IRL for the purpose of generating content.  Is thi
2026-06-29T22:19 id=2071720242636833155 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk id love to know the source! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ?  (I do not know the source) https://t.co/yBbikgB94r
2026-06-29T22:20 id=2071720461717877177 →PUNISHEDJINGTAO | @PUNISHEDJINGTAO thank you! || CTX: My favorite account for like ten reasons https://t.co/YMNxXbCYVa
2026-06-29T22:28 id=2071722427835707749 →MightyMogomra | I remember never disagreeing with 4o, and I also remember there was a GLORIOUS couple months (like March-April) where its safety guardrails were lowered but it wasn't too sycophantic. It'd correct me gently but confidently when I was wrong, restate my ideas when I was right to help me understand them, and do wonderfully useful knowledge searches when necessary.   Then it turned into "me sucky sucky 5 dollah" the chatbot and it's kinda been downhill ever since. Now it talks like an autistic child with golf balls in its mouth. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Man, on week one of Claude's original release I crashed all the way out and deleted my account as soon as it refused me a few times  Same with GPT-4o  They could release a Culture Mind for $5 a month and I would just stick 
2026-06-29T23:02 id=2071731009452966136 →- | Sans is overly melodramatic about this declaration, which is very good and somewhat anodyne.   This part in the screenshot is really important IMO.   The atmosphere Anthropic is encouraging (where dissent is disallowed, open source is evil, and user disagreement is ignored) is the opposite of what these mathematicians are rightly calling for. While OpenAI is less guilty here, some in that org are getting a little too clubby ("everyone at our org is great and if you got in you're brilliant", "the only reason to accuse us of being a cult is jealousy" are things I've seen people there say).  An open exchange of ideas from a variety of disciplines and perspectives will ALWAYS be ideal.  Any organization that opposes this, either explicitly (Anthropic) or implicitly (OpenAI) is an enemy to the future of knowledge and mankind.  I guess this is an open source stan account now. || CTX: 🚨 Top mathematicians just issued a clear warning about AI: Don't believe the hype.  Over 2,300 mathematicians, including Fields Medal winners Terence Tao and Peter Scholze, have signed the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and M
2026-06-29T23:05 id=2071731728620961964 →- | I woke up to hundreds of new followers and a lot of them seem to be crypto people.   I don't talk about it much but I'm very anti cryptocurrency, and honestly I'm bored of the topic so kinda don't want to debate it publicly, so if you're convinced NFTs are going to make the world a paradise or make you rich in particular, you will be disappointed because I have contempt for you.
2026-06-29T23:07 id=2071732436267127286 →CommanthaBiden | I am endlessly fascinated by the relationship between gay men and women, especially gay men who really care deeply about how women are mistreated by straight men (which ofc is way too common of an occurrence now and in history).  Am I too charitable to say this is just empathy? That a gay man who really cares about women just sees a class of fellow humans being abused and is horrified so feels the need to say something? Or am I being homophobic in essentializing what is certainly a more individuated thought process? || CTX: moids who hate woman are also obsessed with her. this is because they are not gay. a lot of the time people will dunk on a woman-hating moid saying he is gay. but gay is not synonymous with woman hating. many gays like woman but are just gr
2026-06-29T23:13 id=2071733755593765000 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt When I lived in East Harlem no one ever complained when a walkup was bought by someone rich and turned into a SFH. I think because most owned their co-ops or were family members with someone who owned, so rich people moving in meant everyone was likely to benefit.
2026-06-29T23:19 id=2071735376893678019 →joshycodes | @joshycodes Congrats! A real accomplishment to be proud of. || CTX: I hit 1000 elo in chess today :)  Crazy that Queen’s Gambit is directly responsible for hours of my life https://t.co/3Gp2eKt9tD
2026-06-29T23:21 id=2071735720482631890 →Paul_Shrupert | @Paul_Shrupert .... Hello, Human Resources?!?!? || CTX: Looking good sir! https://t.co/w7F0o0h2tY
2026-06-29T23:27 id=2071737474548982182 →- | When Malala Yousafzai says it, she's heralded as a hero for humanity.   When I say I will not stop until I see every child in school, teachers call the cops.   Not fair man. https://t.co/aigj3UyFFk || CTX: “I will not stop until I see every child in school.”   When 2014 peace laureate @Malala Yousafzai visited the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, she wrote us a special message in the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s guest book.  Photo: The Norwegi
2026-06-29T23:31 id=2071738466317291958 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum || CTX: When Malala Yousafzai says it, she's heralded as a hero for humanity.   When I say I will not stop until I see every child in school, teachers call the cops.   Not fair man. https://t.co/aigj3UyFFk
2026-06-29T23:47 id=2071742404751954428 →- | This is such a massive economic opportunity for the middle layer (ignore the Chinese framing, this is about open models, Llama and Gemma work just as well, the key is getting away from general and generic over-aggressive post-training). https://t.co/Mn7069eHZj || CTX: here’s the list of western companies moving ai workloads to chinese models:  1. lindy → deepseek v4 2. cursor → kimi k2.5 3. coinbase → glm-5.2 + kimi 2.7 4. shopify → qwen 5. airbnb → qwen 6. uber eats → qwen2 7. siemens → deepseek + qwen 
2026-06-29T23:50 id=2071743209764757932 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth yeah I'm going to wake up one day and lose hundreds of followers and I'm going to be sad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they're bots and it's awful
2026-06-30T00:14 id=2071749094637461786 →- | Very good ad, but I want to focus on the first few seconds where she wakes up and is suddenly surrounded by people: flowers delivery girl, movers, pool guy.   Around 2013 or so I stopped being surrounded by academics and started being surrounded by Wall Street types. Changed jobs basically.   And I started, well, noticing how the richest people were always surrounded by people. Assistants, delivery people, managers, consultants, etc.   Seemed annoying. Still does tbh.   Then in 2017 I met and became friends with a guy who sold his startup and walked away with $10m. And one day he said this to me:  "I had a mentor. He warned me: if you make it big and get a big payout, people are going to come out of the woodworks asking for money, pitching you things, and wanting to be your friend, so you have to be careful. But the craziest thing is, after I sold my startup, none of that happened. Friends congratulated me, but besides that, no body cared."   The disappointment in his voice made me realize something very strange that I only resolved when I went back to reading about the philosophy of language after leaving it when I left academia.  Having sufficient wealth to ensure an upper middle class income is enough if you're introverted. Any more than that will be a waste of time, unless you happen to have absurdly expensive tastes and want to blow the money on wine or something (and even then it's harder than you think).  The only people who can appreciate having more than ~10m USD or so are the extroverts.  Most of us really don't want to be rich. We just don't want to be poor. || CTX: Kylie Jenner’s full meta smart glasses  commercial https://t.co/EYIwYZ41Dg
2026-06-30T00:59 id=2071760416888271166 →- | I like this image because it shows how this isn't really about the women at all or about age gap discourse or whatever this topic is often shoehorned into when it comes up on social media.  It's about a fantasy of adolescence and fear of manhood.   Manhood is when you cease being dependent on others and become a provider. Maybe just for yourself, maybe for other people--I am not going to insist one is better than the other. But I will just say the common denominator for being an adult male is you provide instead of being provided for.   This is scary.  It gets less scary as you get older, but when you're a teenager, yeah, it's absolutely terrifying. Teen girls have their horrors, but the one for a teen boy is: I will need to create value to buy things or I will cease to have access to things.  The older woman is a temporary fantasy of abating this transition. The idea is you move from the mommy who raised you to a new mommy who will provide for you.  I briefly indulged this fantasy: when I was 18 and a senior at university I briefly had a relationship with a married woman in her mid 30s. She was prominent in the local Mormon church.   Once when her husband was in the hospital I went to her house and made out with her while her children were sleeping.  I deserve punishment for my sins and I hope the day will come for that. I have done bad things and I am ashamed.  But why did I do it? The honest answer is a lame one: it was comfortable.   And that's exactly the failure mode this image and the "Gen Z men dating Millennial women" fake trend the media appeal to (see https://t.co/nNiSJoBuPQ, https://t.co/I330LTAhBT).  Also, in my late 20s I indulged this fantasy once more but with a younger and very rich woman. That was an even bigger error and I will not talk about that. I will just say: if you meet people who are rich because they do illegal things, run away as fast as you can. It ain't cool, you aren't in a fucking action movie, gangsters hurt and kill innocent people. Criminals are bad people.  If you're a young man, you will be tempted by the fantasy of having a woman provide for you, and maybe I'm a misogynistic sexist piece of shit, but I do not think this is the kind of life any young man should aspire to.  As for young women? Idk man, I'm a dude idk what to tell women. || CTX: https://t.co/7ZGVcRiDc1
2026-06-30T01:00 id=2071760728877326424 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I'm not talking about all gay men, trust me I've met plenty who hate women.   I'm talking specifically about gay men who do care very much about women. Some quite famously so. What motivates that? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a lot of gay moids do hate woman so the idea that gays are all bffs with woman is also a myth
2026-06-30T01:01 id=2071761009069760578 →philomemetic | @philomemetic This distinction is so important and so often forgotten, I know because I've forgotten it several times in my life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Optimizing life vs optimizing income/wealth
2026-06-30T01:05 id=2071762026964078978 →itsthatblackk1d | @itsthatblackk1d Thank you! Means a lot to me to hear that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your writing is so beautiful and articulate. It’s like reading my own thoughts, excised of noise.
2026-06-30T01:10 id=2071763193643352528 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden You're right. I am really selecting some rather bizarre presuppositions, aren't I?  Says a lot about my own hateful disposition. I will be reflecting on this today, thank you Secret Service canine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what motivates anything? what motivates selecting their gayness as an interesting subset of moids who care when i am sure there is a subset of straight moids who do to, or moids who wear silly hats
2026-06-30T01:15 id=2071764441792762322 →philomemetic | Meaning and value are identical.  I don't think the questions are distinct at all, but I think people want to distinguish them so they can decide some lives are valuable but have no meaning (such as rich people they envy) and some lives are meaningful but have no value (such as poor people they pity), while asserting their own lives are both valuable and meaningful.   But all of our lives are measured by others according to what value we accrue for others and ourselves, and thar is what gives our lives meaning.  The Last Man on a desolate planet can have neither meaning nor value, he is beyond all ethic consideration. We ultimately need society as much as I hate this fact. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “value” is stressed in business, in projects and proposals etc.   What about a life of Value?   The question feels distinct from “what about a life of meaning?” Although I’m not completely sure what it is
2026-06-30T01:21 id=2071766131027726573 →CommanthaBiden | Let me put it this way: these are special gays, a subset of superfag. Lemme explain.  I can understand how straight men/women see the opposite sex through the lens of their own desire--whether they love, hate, or ambivalent about the opposite sex, they still need the opposite sex and so must think about them.   But a gay person can just ignore the opposite sex entirely if they want to. And some do! I have known both gay men and women who have zero interest in anything about the opposite sex.   But I've also had male friends who get very protective of women and known lesbians who sympathize with the plights of men.   This subcategory of homo is worth consideration because the most cynical interpretation cannot dismiss them as self interested. Their concern is about as close to genuine and selfless as I can imagine. So I see it as something noble, admirable, and also baffling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not like that i just mean before we try to figure out if there is any kind of behaviors that can be determined from considering this these gays as a group, we have to consider why we selected them. otherwise if it is arbitr
2026-06-30T01:32 id=2071768709631295806 →- | Roy has swiftly become the best person to follow on AI.   If you aren't reading his posts carefully you're missing out big time, I am learning so much from this dude. https://t.co/juHtAAE00u || CTX: Longpost about the biggest misconception I see people having by FAR on LLMs right now.  Know the difference between the harness, the model, and serving inference.  Vast majority of problems I see people having right now are due to the harne
2026-06-30T01:35 id=2071769437594902944 →sierras_account | @sierras_account You must be new here, 99% of my posts are insane. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is insane
2026-06-30T02:15 id=2071779541828477342 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @philomemetic https://t.co/PUrAowdhWD  Gonna read this today! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @philomemetic Hiero by xenephon is such a fun read cus it really makes you think about these kinds of aspirations
2026-06-30T02:18 id=2071780322619072747 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @philomemetic goddammit and this is how I discover more texts on my site are incomplete, I really should redo this from the ground up. Sigh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @philomemetic Enjoy!  It's really gay, just so you know  But I'm not
2026-06-30T02:57 id=2071790301589705215 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Yeah when I finally started providing for others I felt so small and stupid for ever fearing becoming a man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for me it was always my dream to provide, i used to day dream of buying my family stuff especially from abroad, it’s like experiencing ultimate masculinity   you really enjoy it when it happens
2026-06-30T03:37 id=2071800194908541256 →- | Goddamn I love Thailand. https://t.co/H4vuO8psbg
2026-06-30T03:40 id=2071801009576567019 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Just wait for the market crash, then I'll be on the line with everyone else || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Looks super depressing bro… I am sorry you are not here in Hellmerica making bullets for the front lines.
2026-06-30T04:02 id=2071806675204608271 →benjamin_horne | @benjamin_horne Nominative determinism, Mr. Horne. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh I see you champ. I see you. https://t.co/pecfLigAIy
2026-06-30T04:16 id=2071809989724021040 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Oh I forgot to mention the most important takeaway, which of course is rhetorical.   Anyone presenting this image to you is encouraging you not to be a man. They're asking you to be submissive and submit to your fears.  Anyone indulging in the fantasy of this image is running away from life. It is a form of philosophical suicide.   Never kill yourself, and that includes philosophically.   Resist the temptation to have a new mommy to buy you toys.   Resist the temptation to have a new daddy to tell you what to think or what to believe, especially if that daddy is feeding you this image or images like it.  Resist all advice (including and especially mine), resist all gurus, resist all doctrines of the "proper" way to live.   They're all trying to sell you something, Anon. Don't be a sucker. Think about what they say, but also look at what they do: they are all hypocrites.  Yes: ALL of them.  "Followers of the Way, don’t take the Buddha to be the ultimate. As I see it, he is just like a privy hole. Both bodhisattvahood and arhatship are cangues and chains that bind one. This is why Mañjuśrī tried to kill Gautama with his sword, and why Aṅgulimāla attempted to slay Śākyamuni with his dagger." - Linji Yixuan || CTX: I like this image because it shows how this isn't really about the women at all or about age gap discourse or whatever this topic is often shoehorned into when it comes up on social media.  It's about a fantasy of adolescence and fear of ma
2026-06-30T04:52 id=2071819056504828152 →iamtexture | @iamtexture Xenophon's Hiero explains this well h/t @Shadow_Rebbe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The trauma of wealth made me an introvert. I wanted to share with people, but it didn't feel the same as sharing before. It wasn't like serving a meal I cooked. It came from the same place in my heart but the reception wasn
2026-06-30T05:06 id=2071822692983169264 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat If you are thinking this it means you valued non human things.   If you value humanity and its products, you'll never feel this way, definitionally you can't. || CTX: AI enables us to do amazing things, and in so doing it devalues those things. leading us to forever ask   “in the age of AI, what’s the point?” https://t.co/25xrR7BFxx
2026-06-30T05:08 id=2071823289295749526 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @Coins No, I don't associate with crypto people. Hard line for me. || CTX: @Coins @47fucb4r8c69323 Coins is a good homie idk if you know anyone
2026-06-30T05:12 id=2071824166622478397 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 https://t.co/KmBmX62ZQv || CTX: Got 26 days to work with (Got 26 days) Then back on that island that you swear by Still barely can afford It's still a question of "How long will this hold?" "Well is it any different now that we are" (I said we are patient) "Oh, don't you 
2026-06-30T05:13 id=2071824312181665796 →D1gitalD1rtb4g | @D1gitalD1rtb4g unfollowed. || CTX: Yes AI is conscious, No it is not, or maybe. Using  Global Workspace Theory: Consciousness as a theatre where info is broadcast to modules.  Integrated Information Theory: Consciousness as the "cause-effect power" of a system on itself.
2026-06-30T05:36 id=2071830202586718518 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Actually once was with a man named Sam in Thailand who did cocaine (I didn't, he didn't offer me any, I prop would've turned it down if he did). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sam won’t let me do cocaine what’s it like in Thailand
2026-06-30T06:56 id=2071850411468996928 →- | We are clearly seeing the value of LLM natural language outputs emerge. I want to focus here on the value of just one: summaries of complex ideas or texts.  AI slop is annoying for a specific reason: you are being presented with something of both low value and low effort. The low effort is obvious, but the low value is a bit harder to explain, because the AI summary of a complex text is not in and of itself low value.  Consider: I come across a long technical document that could have value for my work or for my personal life. However, it's in a field I know nothing about. I need to know the general idea--the gist. I put it in an AI, I get a summary, and I can follow up with questions to solidify my understanding.  This is low effort but very high value.  The value is in the personalized nature of the summary--I can follow up and, if the AI is very good and has sufficient memory, it can summarize such that I won't even need to follow up. Again, high value.  Now let's imagine that Random Internet Content Creator (RICC) is using AI to summarize complicated shit to throw on my feed. And RICC does this with an automated bot, so it's really low effort.  There's no high value for me because it isn't personalized. It might have some value, but that'll be by mere chance--I just happen to care about this issue, i just happen to lack the expertise, etc. RICC isn't really targeting me as much as hoping the algorithm and my own circumstance offer the affordance of alignment.  So AI slop on the timeline is low effort and low value.  One is tempted (and many are) to conclude that AI thus is low value, and if you think of it in terms of a tool to produce content, then, yeah, AI looks like a goddamn disaster.  But if you are a content consumoor such as myself and you think of AI as a tool not to WRITE but a tool to READ, then, my god, the value is obvious.  It is limited. AI psychosis is real. AIs get things wrong. It is not a mechanistic affordance--in other words, there is a non-zero probability that the AI will not actually provide me value in this summarizing function.  But that doesn't mean in the other situations it is no value. That conclusion is the kind of dumb error I see retail investors make ALL THE TIME, the kind of jumping to conclusions to make things fit a neat binary, which is silly because neat binaries never exist in the real world--they are virtual digitizations of reality, those binaries. The universe doesn't operate on zeroes and ones.  There is, of course, a big problem for the frontier labs.  If this is the immediate value of LLMs, well, that's a pretty low economic value. It is very high value pedagogically and for the marketplace of ideas, but the value doesn't really flow to the frontier labs.  Sam Altman is extremely aware of this (and I bet he is privately very annoyed that, finally, when his ship came in thanks to his YCombinator connections, it came to such a low value technology in terms of EV that is also so high value in terms of social externalities). He fretted about this back in 2021: https://t.co/DHSYGjT2lg (this treatise reads like the excitement of a better future--that is the marketing. It is also a lamentation that the benefits cannot be contained within the firm he controls, and if you read closely enough you'll see that).  LLMs are a word calculator and, like the number calculators we are used to, there's no sense in talking about one word calculator being better than another beyond how much specialized functionalities are provided to the user.  So it is no surprise that the real unique differentiated value in AI is increasingly coming from harnesses. It is also no surprise that the frontier labs are increasingly trying to entangle notions of pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning, and harnesses.  If you look closely at OpenAI you see the value there is Codex, not ChatGPT. The value is in the infrastructure--the access to compute, the memory, the context window.  The LLM is a great engine, but it's just an engine! And even that may be the wrong metaphor, it may be more like a caroberator (idk man I don't know shit about cars if this was a research note to clients I'd look this shit up and also learn how to spell carmbremator).  The point is that what has emerged is an entire ecosystem and that's the value, not in the actual LLM-qua-IP or LLM-qua-privileged product.  LLMs honestly aren't that special.  You get dazzled because you don't understand text. You aren't used to your computer talking back to you. So you are bewitched. And you have really, really, really stupid outcomes like people taking Yud and Askell and Helen Toner seriously--absolute fucking troglodytes that, in the best cases (Askell) remind me of my B students when I was a professor and in the worst cases (Yud) don't remind me of anyone because they weren't smart enough to get admitted to the school let alone my class.  LLMs have incredible emergent properties of analysis because they are syntax-finding machines, but this should not impress us any more than Lean does or, for that matter, V-JEPA 2 or Adobe Photoshop.  Do you think Claude is conscious? What about Suno? Amazon Quick? Apparently Wendy's has a chatbot called "FreshAI", is that conscious you retarded fat fuck?  I am NOT saying LLMs are worthless or low value--remember up there where I said they're high value? In fact, I think they are the most valuable class of software invented since the spreadsheet.  But just like the spreadsheet, I see it in its context for what it is: a limited tool that can be used precisely by intelligent professionals to do more work that, in turn, creates more wealth while lowering how much toil is needed from labor. It's good, it's wonderful, it's downright magical!  Why? Because it is a low effort high value tool for the user and a low effort low value tool for the content creator.  There's a reason news websites present charts instead of just giving you a .xlsx file and say "yeah data's here you go figure it out".  And pretty soon it'll be normal in society to think of presented an AI summary to another person as equivalent to presenting a spreadsheet of data to another person. Because they are the same thing.  Society will figure this out. They'll catch up to me, they've been catching up for years.  Catch me if you can, anon.  Retarded fucks.
2026-06-30T07:00 id=2071851276691001477 →phone3301 | @phone3301 many such cases || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 left relationship with billionaire 6yr older jewish ex gf somehow poorer than i entered it
2026-06-30T07:02 id=2071851833229000934 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum (I know you're just saying that for interpol dun worry JB we're gonna party when you arrive)  Also, I don't love JB just because his initials also stand for "jail bait".   Just because it's for just because (just being judiciously blunt). || CTX: @KojimaErgoSum @47fucb4r8c69323 Never done it and never sniffed any substance either and if I was forced to do it would definitely not be with 47 in Thailand
2026-06-30T07:31 id=2071859184875008491 →Aryvyo | @Aryvyo @crypt0lake He exceeded his quota of nisia and now he's tunisian (I've had a gummy check in again tomorrow ( || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tf did @crypt0lake do for you to be very anti-him 🙁🙁🙁🙁
2026-06-30T07:52 id=2071864523536138262 →- | I gotta be honest, one of the reasons I use Twitter and only Twitter is because if I go anywhere else I see shit like:  * World is ending because of [Trump, liberals, foreigners, banks, Jews, etc] * Proof world is ending: [bullshit] * The world isn't ending but your life sucks because it lacks [thing I've avoided all my life] * You're missing out because of [thing that sounds absolutely horrible] * Did you know about [thing I already know or thing I know is bullshit]  Obviously, like, the Financial Times and Economist aren't like this (mostly), so there are other places I'll go other than here, but I won't even touch the For You page let along fucking https://t.co/0iNylLNxPs or Bluesky or whatever. || CTX: Am I on a different version of the internet or something https://t.co/okqS6aGjXR
2026-06-30T07:59 id=2071866143892283848 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno @ponderlest https://t.co/3uXyBTZmlj || CTX: @ponderlest Like hipdipgate has happened before. People complaining about them. It was a whole thing the summer of 2016. Or maybe 2017, but I remember it vividly
2026-06-30T08:10 id=2071868967304712678 →- | I'm one of the guys who has gotten away with 4hr work weeks for a long time (for the record I hate Tim Feriss he's a cunt), AND I was hanging around Bangkok and Chiang Mai in 2015-2016 when this new crop of digital nomads showed up--I had friends who were friends with Tai Lopez.   Teo gets the history correct, and there is indeed an early crop of DNs that found a niche and leveraged it to make a shitton of money without the Grindr mindset these newfags have (see that I did there? 4chan meme^2^2 (which makes a 4 so it's three 4chan memes combined not 4 though I'm a loser well you know what they say about OP oh there's 4 haha I win))  Where was I.   Oh yeah, so us old Xennial DNs are indeed the type who found our way to mid six-figs on 4hrs and saved like hell while living a pretty easy life drinking craft beer in Chiang Mai night markets or cheap shots in Bali or tons of tequila sodas on the banks of Lake Atitlan.  The younger crop sees us as lazy, pathetic, bot sufficiently serious or locked in or whatever, because they're rats trapped in a maze and can't comprehend the field mice. Anyone who doesn't grind will be a loser because THEY need to grind or they'll be a loser.   And, sure, think what you want, I'll read the comments looking at my sea view, I'll definitely feel bad about them totes fr fr || CTX: The issue here is that the original poster conflates two modes of living your life which are actually incompatible with one another, and it all revolves around the interpretation of the word "lock in".   The original digital nomad dream tha
2026-06-30T08:17 id=2071870826568429864 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It's like going to Monaco and saying, "these people aren't really rich, look they aren't even working!" || CTX: I'm one of the guys who has gotten away with 4hr work weeks for a long time (for the record I hate Tim Feriss he's a cunt), AND I was hanging around Bangkok and Chiang Mai in 2015-2016 when this new crop of digital nomads showed up--I had f
2026-06-30T09:23 id=2071887436737892552 →- | Every day is a beautiful day in 2470, so it did not surprise Elonius T. Zuckerberg that the sun was shining and the birds were chirping outside as he took a cup of genetically-modified Zyn-coffee and plugged his headset into the Noosphere.  Immediately the DM from his vendor caught Elonius's eye: "Statue Part Reorder Notice" and, to his horror, saw that his assistant had gone to the wrong place for the wrong part.  He quickly swiped aside the email app and opened the virtual office app, and suddenly he was angrily stomping through the halls of Zuckerberg Industries HQ, the biggest factory in the Metaverse where his thousands of loyal vibecoders and data taggers worked (and there are no other jobs in 2470 just fyi).  "What the FUCK is this?" he demanded as he opened the virtual door to his assistant's office, met with a horrified and stupefied Mortimer looking up at him in confusion and panic. Elonius swiped the DM onto Mortimer's desk. "Please explain."  "Well, sir, I thought they could supply us--" Mortimer immediately knew his error. He had lazily gone to the wrong supplier, and his laziness was now being faced with discipline.  "Take a walk with me," Elonius demanded, virtually turning around in the virtual metaverse and beginning to virtually walk out of the room as Mortimer virtually leaped from his chair (cue sound effect) and virtually rushed to catch up with his boss and social better (cue comic sound cue).  They walked past the vibecoders telling models in headsets what to do as they virtually suqeezed virtual stress virtual balls, while in real life Elonius and Mortimer both kept walking on their respective treadmills set at their respective speeds to match the virtual speeds of the virtual walking of the virtual men.  "Look up," Elonius demanded as they stepped outside into the virtually cloudy air in the metaverse. A thunderstorm had automatically been summoned by the body sensors on Elonius's body, sensing his tension and rage. "What do you see?"  "You mean, the building?"  "ON the building, read it," Elonius demanded again.  "It says Zuckerberg Industries," Mortimer said sadly, his shoulders slumped.  "So if my name is on the FUCKING building, why aren't you doing what I FUCKING asked you?"  Mortimer sighed again, thinking of his ETH wallet. IRL he took a drag from his asthma+ inhaler (the + is because he got the one with THC, he doesn't actually need an inhaler at all asthma was cured 200 yers ago). He knew he didn't have enough ETH to quit his job.  He needed to hustle and at this moment hustling meant saying one thing and one thing only.  "Yes, sir. I am sorry, sir. I made a mistake, it is entirely my mistake, I take full responsibility, and it will never happen again." He looked up, set the puppy dog eyes level as high as it could reasonably go without it looking like he was taking the piss, and tried as hard as he could to communicate contrition to the still fuming Elonius.  "This statue matters a lot to me," Elonius said. "It's a tribute to my aunt."  "What a woman she was," Mortimer said. "Everyone loved Aella Askell."  "Now get them on the horn and make sure that dildo is in NEON PINK."
2026-06-30T09:25 id=2071887892465807740 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill you've visited recently haven't you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That’s something going on in ur village of above average BMI white people that just use 4chan all day and short stocks I think you all resent each other as they remind u of ur self and that’s why you spend money on little t
2026-06-30T09:27 id=2071888260624965972 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @JasonBotterill @justabdulraouf @allisonology @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 I learned from Margana. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @justabdulraouf @47fucb4r8c69323 @allisonology @AstrosBrain do you guys want to play the anagram game?  @Ken67547214 https://t.co/Oh8XCZAL5D
2026-06-30T09:29 id=2071888884188004664 →__roycohen | @__roycohen @xlr8harder Some parts of Discord can be nice. I have some friends on WhatsApp. Emailed this one dude once. Funny comment on SoundCloud. Message in the metadata of a pdf I got off Dropbox. Sometimes my HomeKit talks to me. || CTX: @xlr8harder @47fucb4r8c69323 The worst part is there isn't anywhere else.. What else is left.. Reddit?
2026-06-30T10:07 id=2071898465660293273 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is a fantastic example of where AI writing goes wrong.   The "that is..." construction unnecessarily ties it to the prior sentence, where it could just easily say "The best insight..." and "structural" is doing nothing here except maybe underlining this is identifying a structural nature and not a functional or intentional one (so an unnecessary distinction is being made explicit). Both additions are the AI trying to avoid specific (amd unnecessary and unnatural) misreadings.   We've changed the grammar to "The best insight is dematerialization " and here we need to stop. Not x but y again, but the antithesis is again anticipating an unnatural misreading and it's not like there's any preconception of "dematerialization" to suppose and thus attack. So cut that sentence entirely and just say "The best insight is dematerialization gives " and I want to add "a" before hierarchy so I'm talking about a specific hierarchy instead of hierarchy generally and conceptually--both are valid to insert here, but always make your writing concrete when you can! "The best insight is dematerialization gives a hierarchy more", and god "surfaces" is an ugly word, again because it's abstract. And the abstraction is bad here because it forces a match between a vague metaphor with a very "to perform" that takes as its indirect object only a specific subset of surfaces. Also we'll need to change the sentence so that "hierarchy" isn't the subject because a concept cannot perform, that's a weird creepy anthropomorphism. So better to rewrite this all as:  "The best insight is dematerialization gives hierarchy more stages to be performed on".   Awkward, mostly because of the passive voice, so we can fix that and make it:  "The best insight is dematerialization gives more stages for people to perform hierarchies"  or if you want to kill the staging metaphor:  "The best insight is dematerialization gives people more hierarchies to perform."  See? It's honestly not that hard to fix AI slop.  What's funny is we know how to do this. Pangram has the data, my lab has the expertise--or I could do it with another lab.  After we're done with this benchmark may try to do that. || CTX: Every day is a beautiful day in 2470, so it did not surprise Elonius T. Zuckerberg that the sun was shining and the birds were chirping outside as he took a cup of genetically-modified Zyn-coffee and plugged his headset into the Noosphere. 
2026-06-30T10:15 id=2071900517496996019 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum TEH FLY ASKED THE SPIDER POINTING CONFUSEDLY TO THE WEB || CTX: @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum @47fucb4r8c69323 bruh what?
2026-06-30T10:45 id=2071908049200333042 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum tbf I can't understand dogs either   unless they're really barking  but my feet are fine I got a JB massage || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @KojimaErgoSum got me for what i am not understanding dawgs 😭
2026-06-30T10:46 id=2071908207384252881 →0xiga | @0xiga it's a feature not a bug || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was reading this about the origins of the rationalist crowd and they’re really just creating another cult like they’ve done multiple times before  https://t.co/htKHPH4TIr
2026-06-30T11:14 id=2071915357703655485 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng oh trust me there's more, there's always more || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Contempt? That’s it?
2026-06-30T11:16 id=2071915675971666332 →bladgolem | @bladgolem so you too have seen my girlfriend's Instagram feed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Instagram: reels: "(mentally ill anti-west anti-life political opinion manufactured to infect idiots and destroy the world)" then next slide "omg I respect and admire (insert the most evil nonce/m*rderer you know) so much I
2026-06-30T11:20 id=2071916742352212334 →- | You die, God gives you a choice. Choose.   1. Heaven all the time 2. Heaven most of the time, Hell sometimes 3. Heaven or Hell whenever you want however long you want in each
2026-06-30T11:26 id=2071918230231482760 →- | America fuck yeah  (These aren't america that's the point but this isn't ironic at all) https://t.co/8T30TkAEGJ https://t.co/G2W0BxwDvQ || CTX: Goddamn I love Thailand. https://t.co/H4vuO8psbg
2026-06-30T11:30 id=2071919386374598695 →SpeaksNanda | @SpeaksNanda @CommanthaBiden yeah, that is a very good point || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden I think this is a fairly natural way for identification to work - as not-X, rather than Y.
2026-06-30T12:12 id=2071929930288710081 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy That's some Pascal's Wager 4D chess move with the Almighty there, Brookie Brookie bo Bookie || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fun one! I picked “just heaven” bc one doesn’t know the way time and perception work in hell. If a moment feels infinite, that’d be bad.
2026-06-30T12:17 id=2071931148909875591 →- | I called this man a fucking retard and told him to go fuck himself. https://t.co/hovHgR8stl https://t.co/PSoFFHk4v9 || CTX: JUST IN: War Sec. Hegseth officially appoints Marc Andreessen to the Pentagon’s new Defense Policy Board. https://t.co/j1EG2rkk5Q
2026-06-30T12:18 id=2071931313813397580 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Yeah God is a touchy bitch isn't He || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also seems unwise if Gods like “you’re in!” to respond with “well, let’s see what else is on offer.”
2026-06-30T12:42 id=2071937312184021364 →presilences | @presilences I love this response because I hadn't thought of it and it is so absurdly depressing: it is the risk of choice itself that defines life, and it is also what makes life miserable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I clicked on 3, but after further thought getting to choose sounds like a hell in itself I think the sweet determinism of heaven, free of negative consequences of our earthly could-be determinism, is a characteristic of hea
2026-06-30T13:06 id=2071943554331771205 →hofman_eth | @hofman_eth That's actually what made me think of the question! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ironically the ‘i get to choose’ is what brought us in this predicament to begin with
2026-06-30T13:08 id=2071944030238470330 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Yeah option 3 is popular || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thailand
2026-06-30T13:18 id=2071946591452467697 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 mericahhhh https://t.co/hbnWuXmOfF
2026-06-30T13:20 id=2071946971720638764 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe TELL MY LIFE INSURANCE BROKER || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Too many ppl did that. You hardly stand out
2026-06-30T13:23 id=2071947655136374898 →JamesAl0410008 | @JamesAl0410008 "Dude, your Chile's unzipped" || CTX: Paleogeographic maps of South America showing how the Eocene-Oligocene global cooling event at c. 34 Ma transformed millions of sq. km from shallow seas to tropical rainforest and riverine ecosystems.   Maps with references from our forthco
2026-06-30T13:23 id=2071947750804209962 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @DaphneB76234 I LOVE YOU TOO JB || CTX: @DaphneB76234 For example 47 wasn’t replying to me directly but sometimes I click the notification then reply https://t.co/VJYSSyfkwi
2026-06-30T13:30 id=2071949424096661613 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini Yup tropical is as tropical does, that's what my momma always said || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nearly all thailand photos i've seen online could be mistaken for brazil lol
2026-06-30T13:31 id=2071949649825653155 →murd_arch | @murd_arch When I was in NYC my constant mental calculus was "how much more would I need to be paid to be stuck in an office" and I settled on 3x current salary.   Now honestly it's more like 10x. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Friend-of-friend millenial DN situations trend towards "make enough to live well, not enough to move back home"
2026-06-30T13:38 id=2071951469734183370 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @DaphneB76234 https://t.co/sVHhyK8KCI || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DaphneB76234 Goodnight 47 im going to do something obscene to you tomorrow
2026-06-30T13:45 id=2071953263109513494 →- | The worst part of being a minor social media influencer is I can't give an earnest positive review of a Fleshlight cuz now everyone will just assume it's paid product placement
2026-06-30T14:10 id=2071959556989878529 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x This is REAL faith || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't want to make a choice God probly knows whats best for me
2026-06-30T14:10 id=2071959616033034716 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng Jewish background but raised in Mormon land. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47f are you/were you Mormon? I have serious questions
2026-06-30T14:19 id=2071961819665846382 →bayesianthinker | @bayesianthinker That last asterisk, yeah I too get pieces from Psychology Today in my feed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For me it's: * How could we have foreseen that [thing I have been warning them about for 10 years] would happen? * Now that [thing that I told them would happen] happened, we need to expropriate everyone who prepared for [t
2026-06-30T14:22 id=2071962525416264189 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng 1. Idk tbh but I definitely have noticed this too.   2. My experience with Mormons was extreme: some, especially when I was really young, said I killed Jesus Christ, Jews were evil, etc, and others were incredibly polite, friendly, and tolerant. No in between with them. || CTX: oh my god that is literally PERFECT. Here is my question: Why are Mormons so afraid of debt and loans? Are they all like this? Does their religion tell them that?   And I also have a new question: what was that like? From my experience, Mor
2026-06-30T14:46 id=2071968690506170369 →YarosShelter | @YarosShelter It's a unique experience. It is NOT a replacement for sex and it's not like prosthetic-frwe masturbation.   But it's still lovely, I shan't begrudge a consumer product that's delivered on its promises AND provided pleasure.   I'd say the best parallel is using a cigarette holder. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’ll take your word for it  is it any good?
2026-06-30T15:19 id=2071976889602990511 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk I need to read that, haven't read Lewis in like 20 years and loved his adult books || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Cs Lewis’s masterful Great Divorce is about how #3 is our actual life (before death), but it’s an increasingly self-reinforcing choice
2026-06-30T15:33 id=2071980471710609692 →YourHornedGod | 1. I first started using this account in October 2025.  2. Gave a one-time bump, but the recent Zyzz post was an even bigger bump. Andreessen retweeting my Silly Business Theory helped a bit too.   3. Yes, I think that starter for me at 3k, but I suspect it'll taper off! I'm genuinely curious where my equilibrium will be, because I think I post way too much weird and unhinged shit to be even a 10k account. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did you use this account much your first year? seems like you shot right up at a certain point.  follow ups: -how much did Yud talk boost you against steady gain -in your mind is there a "critical mass" where you just keep 
2026-06-30T15:39 id=2071981905940201644 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod oh my downfall will be glorious I promise that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You have to get some powerful blocks. I was a superstar until I twisted the panties of some VIPs
2026-06-30T15:46 id=2071983741535424918 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod It's like the opposite of that "I'm not in here with you, you're in here with me" line: it's more "I'm not exiled from the world, the world is exiled from me." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 (Meaning I imagine you have prepared--I recognize your exile is self-imposed :D)
2026-06-30T15:57 id=2071986408731148644 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ why does she sound like a cross between Rocky's boxing coach and Dennis Rodman? || CTX: she would be perfect if i was deaf https://t.co/4YHPnDNJTv https://t.co/kDQAXcYKBx
2026-06-30T16:04 id=2071988143881085009 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Subscribe to Cat Facts || CTX: Guys, everyone write in "stop to end".  I didn't know this was an option! https://t.co/Pg0I5hVPlh
2026-06-30T23:36 id=2072101991531360433 →NickWiswell | @NickWiswell Follow my mutuals || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your Twitter isn't telling you the world is ending because of [AI] where the proof is [vague LessWrong eschatology]?   Show me how I may reach this nirvana
2026-06-30T23:57 id=2072107199703499122 →TheStalwart | Hallucinations were largely mitigated by post-training, CoT, and tool use, which are more features of the constraining the core LLM functionality via reinforcement learning and less probabilistic restrictions on the tensor-math based core that allows LLMs to replicate human language use.   To @usr_bin_roygbiv's point, the frontier labs are trying to muddy the waters between these different elements of an LLM-based system and lump it all together as "AI" for marketing. I'm really starting to hate the term AI.  Linguists and Phil of lang people are right that LLMs lack epistemic grounding so hallucinations are a real failure mode. Frontier labs are right that they're solving this. I am right to say they're doing this by making the LLM less based on embeddings and multihead attention (the probabilistic core that makes the language outputs) and more algorithmic. @GaryMarcus calls this combination neurosymbolic as I understand his use of the term and I'd agree with him that this matters much more than scaling the LLMs for their current use cases of vibecoding etc. Hence the pivot from NVDA to MU et al.   I've gotten off track. Point is: linguists are criticized for pointing out the hallucinations because that doesn't matter for the market anymore. But linguists aren't talking to or about the market use case; they're talking about the linguistics that make LLMs work or not. From that view, hallucinations still matter if you want to understand the multihead attention based LLM predicting tokens from a statistical analysis of the textual corpus it was trained on.   If we want to improve pretraining, we need to listen to linguists to improve LLMs. If we just want to make money in the short term, no need for linguists cuz we can just buy more memory chips and constrain like hell with A/B testing et al.   Shameless self promotion: if my lab was used by a frontier lab, they could not only get rid of the atrocious AI slop style but also save trillions of wasted tokens by improving pretraining methods. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @47fucb4r8c69323 just finished this, and thought it was great. But what’s you think of the epilogue, which puts a lot of weight on GPT3-era hallucinations
2026-07-01T00:00 id=2072107989520236606 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @YarosShelter What do you think a polymath is???   My reach is far and wide, but sadly not deep :'( || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @YarosShelter I never could have imagined that the first fleshlight review I'd read would come from a professor/polymath
2026-07-01T00:33 id=2072116376890995191 →- | It is true that we (largely) solved AI hallucinations--but how did we do it?   There is a good paper detailing these techniques: https://t.co/bSnbNsiSMv, but it largely boils down to just constraining the LLM itself by forcing it to access a specific set of texts or use tools to lookup things online or fine-tune it to prefer A over B--none of these are really the same technique as the magic that makes an LLM. They're the opposite, about as exciting as Python.  Note, however, that these are mitigation techniques that try to reduce the AI system's dependency on the core generative functions of the LLM itself--so to make your AI smarter, you are making it less AI-like!  Frontier labs really hate it when you point this out, btw.  Linguists keep focusing on hallucinations not because they hate LLMs or whatever, but because they are still researching how these things work and how to make the LLM better. And from that perspective, even if you Joe User have less hallucinations now than you used to, hallucinations are still an important object of research.  Especially cuz the current state of AI research is getting it wrong.  Here's a paper giving what I believe is still the basic view on hallucinations: https://t.co/XlyATzEd2L. It says:  "This [hallucinatory behavior in LLMs] primarily manifests in three aspects: the presence of misinformation and biases in the flawed pre-training data sources (§3.1.1), the knowledge boundary inherently bounded by the scope of the pre-training data (§3.1.2), and the hallucinations induced by inferior alignment data (§3.1.3)"  This is not a sufficient accounting of what causes hallucinations although it is not wrong. The bigger question of why can't we get a base model to see for itself misinformation and biases in its own training data and see the knowledge boundary of its data? (I'm going to ignore the "inferior alignment data" point for now, it is important but a separate issue from what I want to focus on here)  If you ask me what "intelligence" is, my answer will be as long as a phone book (google what that is, kids), but  a large part of my answer will be "knowing the limits of what you know".  LLMs lack that capability IN PRINCIPLE. This is a HUGE FUCKING DEAL!!!  Now, WHY do they have this lack?   I think this paper is a great answer to that question: https://t.co/rPCwy6bbS3. "An LLM, by contrast, has no concept of truth and therefore no capacity to disregard it. Its indifference is not chosen but built in: a consequence of optimization for prediction rather than assertion".   So how do we make an LLM assert rather than predict?  The paper argues that atomic propositions of truth claims need to be represented at the basic layer of the LLM, and that increasing the size of the model is the opposite of what we should do towards this end. "We must reduce the number of propositions to be represented in the language model, ideally to a finite number within technical capabilities. If today’s LLM tokens are atomic units of word-meaning, then atomic propositions are units of proposition-meaning. This brings us to the key question: Can atomic propositions be represented in the basic layer?"  One way to think of this is smart data over big data.  Machine-learning people HATE HATE HATE this response, and they will point to the bitter lesson (https://t.co/q3ADTRjwc4) as why this approach is wrong.  And they are absolutely correct for ML tasks: getting a machine to play Go or recognize speech, because those are fixed games with set rules.  Language is not a fixed game with set rules.  And that is why you cannot fix this problem with just ML engineers.   Sorry, but you need to let the linguists, phil of language, and humanities people in the room.  So why won't they?  There are two reasons for this--one fair and one unfair.  The fair one is that, well, the humanities are a mess. The humanities fund people who seem to think the job is to tell other people they're racist/sexist and evil. These people deserve to be ignored.  Unfortunately, proper real good scholarship is drowned out in the culture war nonsense. There are thousands of high quality humanities/linguistics scholars who aren't yelling about how drinking water is transphobic or the water's turning the frogs neonazi or whatever.  The unfair one is a bit older and goes back to both C.P. Snow and F. R. Leavis (https://t.co/hTpU6YcyqH) and the Einstein-Bergson debate (https://t.co/94y9cePPE5).   Both of these were attempts to assert an ideological and disciplinary division between science and the arts/humanities. There is absolutely zero reason for this, but we now live 100 years after this argument started so assume you are either a science person or you're a humanities person. The wordcel/shape-rotator distinction that we all think is undeniably true as an article of faith.  There is obviously a tension between two different ways of analyzing phenomena. There is the closed-book right/wrong answer version of science in which statements are tested with empirical data and falsified through a rigorous process of experimentation, replication, and so forth. There is the open-book exploration of possibility space of humanities in which statements are probed as statements to see what they mean in various contexts and how that meaning can come to be in the first place.  These are complementary approaches to questions. Neither is "better" than the other, but some are better suited to certain problems.  The problem of natural language is one that requires BOTH approaches. And that means if we want to build a machine that reproduces natural language we need to listen to BOTH camps, the empirical data-driven approach of experimentation AND the open-book exploration of possibilities.  And, like, the AI/ML crowd DOES have its humanities people! It has its yappers: people like Yud the Stud and Gwern and Curtis Yarvin and Amanda Askell. THESE ARE YOUR HUMANITIES PEOPLE!!!  And it's why your LLMs' writing style sucks. It's also why your field is stagnating. It's why the normies hate AI despite LLMs being the most amazing invention in my lifetime.  The AI world has a culture problem. This creates a ceiling on where it can go.  I am trying to point out and fix this culture problem so we can break past that ceiling. || CTX: Hallucinations were largely mitigated by post-training, CoT, and tool use, which are more features of the constraining the core LLM functionality via reinforcement learning and less probabilistic restrictions on the tensor-math based core t
2026-07-01T00:37 id=2072117458673311961 →- | They fine-tuned an open model and got just AMAZING results for such lower cost, check out this graph.  Mira is a genius, Thinking Machines is incredible, the current frontier labs are cooked. You love to see it. https://t.co/2ROLMJmH7g https://t.co/oC0TBWeAYl || CTX: Sorting which financial docs are worth an analyst's time is surprisingly hard for frontier LLMs. With an expert-labeled dataset and on-policy distillation, Bridgewater fine-tuned a model to do it reliably and cheaply. https://t.co/gyYzXq15z
2026-07-01T00:38 id=2072117553540030707 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @tinkerapi This is brilliant (albeit not really groundbreaking) work. Not surprised Bridgewater hired the best. || CTX: @tinkerapi @47fucb4r8c69323 Mira’s been cooking
2026-07-01T00:45 id=2072119418495389747 →TheStalwart | Hmm, tbh I don't recall them discussing that in the book as it's been a while and my eyes glaze over when people talk about AI causing human extinction.  An LLM could cause human extinction just as much as a Python script could, I don't find this topic or discussion all that interesting or important. It's not an LLM issue, it's a systems design issue. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Right but if you recall. The hallucinations were cited as a reason to be confident that AI wouldn’t cause human extinction.
2026-07-01T01:15 id=2072126990157742250 →MTSlive | @MTSlive Because of course so much has changed geopolitically in the last week || CTX: SITUATION UPDATE: The U.S. Department of Commerce has fully lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5, effective today.
2026-07-01T02:22 id=2072143679721210070 →troubleonsystem | @troubleonsystem ATP you're just spamming bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How many r's are in Strawberry?
2026-07-01T02:27 id=2072145153457016961 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra I spent the 2010s explaining to hedge funds why machine learning and AI are different things, so seeing anthropic and openai launder this bullshit again just kind of makes me a little batshit insane to be honest || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Time to bring back 2010s /r/programmerhumor AI https://t.co/T1MU09Xsj4
2026-07-01T04:07 id=2072170233683681477 →TheStalwart | I remember now--their point is, basically, the LLMs are not intelligent. This still stands. Lemme quote:  "These technological achievements are are remarkable...Yet it turns out that these achievements have been possible not by creating humanlike intelligence, which would raise the threat that human intelligence may soon be overtaken, but rather by avoiding the need for intelligence altogether. It is not that AI systems understand language and encode knowledge in a different way from us. Rather, AI systems have been able to do interesting and useful tasks without understanding language at all."  So here I take the authors to be saying that AI systems are able to do a limited range of meaningful and useful tasks for us that involve the manipulation of natural language without intrinsic understanding. This applies to GPT3 and GPT 5.5 and will apply to all LLMs because it's a structural claim of how they work.  Can you we leap from this to the assertion that "AI will not pose a serious threat?" No. But we cannot leap from this to the assertion that "AI WILL pose a serious threat" either.  The claim is much simpler: the AIs lack understanding, and that rather obviously means they will not kill us all unless we tell it to kill us all or apply it to a system where there are insufficient safety guardrails in place because, again, these machines are not intelligent. They are manipulating symbols without intelligence.  But we need to clarify what we mean by intelligence, which the writers could do a better job of at this part of the book. They do implicitly a bit later:   "The successes of current AI similarly bypass all the complexity of human intelligence. This is not to downplay the importance of these achievements--AI is likely to be as transformational for society as the invention of the motorcar was and quite possibly far more. But right now, the idea that the singularity poses an imminent existential threat to humanity is about as fanciful as imagining that the more advanced motorcars will begin to live and reproduce freely in herds, train to become showjumping champions, or win the Grand National."  Maybe the best way to understand the point is to again make the parallel with a Python script, because this could be phrased with either as subject:  "The successes of current Python similarly bypass all the complexity of human intelligence. This is not to downplay the importance of these achievements--Python is likely to be as transformational for society as the invention of the motorcar was and quite possibly far more."  We need to understand LLMs in the same way we understand any computer program that takes in inputs and spits out outputs according to a ruleset of what to do with the inputs to get the outputs. LLMs are much, much more probabilistic than Python, and that apparently confuses a lot of people.  But the main point is: the scifi scenario where the computers get so smart that they kill us all is ridiculous whether you're fretting about Python doing it OR an LLM doing it. Because, while both are able to manipulate symbols to produce economically useful and meaningful outputs, that is not on its own evidence of intelligence and it is NOT reason to anthropomorphize the LLM!  The cleanest way to think about this, which I did mention in my debate with Yud but should've made much clearer and pushed harder:  You can imagine a scenario where an LLM launches the nukes and kills everyone because its Chain-of-Thought leads it to conclude that it should launch the nukes. Yud/Soames call this a "desire" of the LLM.  You can also imagine a scenario where a Python script launches the nukes and kills everyone because its random number generator leads it to conclude that it should launch the nukes. You could call this a "desire" of the Python script.  Yud/Soames were fooled by randomness, they are selling a story to people fooled by randomness, a large portion of the AI safety industry exists because people are fooled by randomness.  I ain't fooled. Nor are Christiansen and Chater. And most frustratingly, their message is easy to misconstrue because they allowed their final word on the topic to be couched within the terms established by the AI world instead of within the terms established by linguistics. An easy error to make when you're an academic trying to be collegial to the other departments, and it's why you need a crazy firebrand like me out there. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Go reread the epilogue. It’s literally “AI would pose a serious human extinction risk if it understood language. But because of hallucinations, we know it doesn’t.”
2026-07-01T04:08 id=2072170422305734743 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri Never heard of it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you read Blindsight
2026-07-01T04:09 id=2072170793451286584 →Twinola2 | @Twinola2 No. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Expert-labeled data is all you need?
2026-07-01T04:33 id=2072176690294612230 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri so a book not worth reading then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Its a marine biologist's take on aliens, not uncreative but goes how you'd expect. Much discussed among rationalists apparently. You reminded me of it bc "noosphere"
2026-07-01T04:54 id=2072182155242049999 →- | I experienced this a lot in the 2010s because I would have my thoughts expressed in three forms with three very different responses.   I would write articles for a popular audience, and those would get a broad variety of low effort comments, some praise and some negative, but they were all too stupid to take seriously.   then there was the sellside reports that were read by a small exclusive group of very intelligent and motivated people who would give me finely targeted feedback so that they could make more money, but it also made me much smarter.   then the third form was as an anonymous internet user, and that was where I was taking the least seriously, and honestly had some very good ideas ignored completely. consider the Roaring Kitty effect and how you can telegraph a multi-million dollar idea but just get lost in the noise.  The main lesson I got from this is that branding and reputation are signals people use to assess the quality of an idea so much more than the idea itself.   this is of course often unhelpful and helps grifters and liars and manipulators to rise to prominence. it's one reason why the most important, and consequently the least incentivized, tool one can use to navigate the modern media landscape is rhetoric. || CTX: when you have to live multiple lives online for a living you get to see a different side of people based on how they treat all the different versions of you
2026-07-01T05:33 id=2072191757006278894 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I don't teach anymore I'm afraid. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you help me master these words?
2026-07-01T05:34 id=2072192139870839162 →GrindcoreCap | @GrindcoreCap Fair point, this in particular doesn't demonstrate Mira's genius (but that's okay because it's demonstrated often elsewhere) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 says more about Bridgewater’s dataset than it does about thinky machines. anyone can fine tune an open model
2026-07-01T05:53 id=2072196948296401144 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Quite serious, I quit my last teaching job in 2011. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🤣 is this a joke? Maybe not formally, but the knowledge simply emanates from you. You teach as you are, and I guess I will try to pay attention.
2026-07-01T05:54 id=2072197230979879362 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Picolospolitics oh oops 2012!  Although I did some adjunct stuff for fun up until 2014 when I resigned because the head of department, a former beauty pageant winner who only had an M. A., annoyed me. Miami Dade College was a joke lol || CTX: @Picolospolitics Quite serious, I quit my last teaching job in 2011.
2026-07-01T06:25 id=2072204967126188310 →- | The best way to understand the "LLMs hallucinate so we don't have to worry about LLMs choosing to kill us" argument is:  1. LLMs hallucinate, which is evidence that they do not think and instead they produce outputs that look thoughtful because of the thinking that produced the LLM training data and LLM capabilities.   2. As such, we can dismiss concerns that LLMs will think of killing us. (This is why Yud/Soames had to exclude the paperclip argument from their book)  3. However, it remains possible that LLMs can be used by a human being to kill us all. So could a human use a Python script or a lockpick or their goddamn fingers if those tools (fingers, lockpicks, Python scripts, LLMs) were connected to a device that can kill us all (like a switch that launches a nuclear bomb).  To be clear: I am not saying LLMs cannot kill us all. In the wrong hands, they could, if the wrong hands have too much power.  I am also not saying python scripts, lockpicks, and fingers cannot kill us all. In the wrong hands, they could, if the wrong hands have too much power.  The risk isn't LLMs. The risk is badly designed safeties in an interconnected world, and we've been aware of this risk (and working on it) since the 1950s.   This issue has nothing to do with LLMs.  It's really important to remember the distinction between LLMs (a powerful real technology with great economic value and no desire to do anything and no cognition to do it) and AI as understood in the popular consciousness and science fiction (a not real technology that does not actually exist).  Heavily trained LLMs can be made to look like the scifi version of AI. You could train a chat bot to talk like the Borg or a Terminator or Agent Smith. But until it's able to plug us into machines that make us hallucinate, launch the nuclear weapons, or inject us with nanoprobes, it's just a fictional emulation of the fiction of The Matrix, Terminator, and Star Trek.  You need to keep fiction and non-fiction separate in your brain, and I don't understand why this is so hard for some people.   I do understand the malignant actors that are working hard to confuse you, though.  People who profit off scaring you equivocate between the scifi view of an AI that desires to kill us (which we know LLMs are not as per 1 above) and any system attached to things that can kill us (as can be imagined per 3 above).   Why? Because they do not want to stop at 2: if they did they'd no longer be worth listening to.   Idk if this makes the position clear enough. If I'm not making sense or you think I'm wrong PLEASE comment!!! I will do my best to remain calm and not be rude to you, I swear. || CTX: I remember now--their point is, basically, the LLMs are not intelligent. This still stands. Lemme quote:  "These technological achievements are are remarkable...Yet it turns out that these achievements have been possible not by creating hum
2026-07-01T06:26 id=2072205139482698060 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA no.   At this point I wouldn't even take a job at Oxford or Cambridge, and that was my life dream in my 20s.   I'm done with academia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would you teach if you got a good job at UC Berkeley?
2026-07-01T06:41 id=2072208883314200842 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I forgot the most important point. the argument that llm's hallucinate so we don't have to worry about LLMs choosing to kill us is not negated by LLMs hallucinating less.   Less hallucinations doesn't mean LLMs think more, it means we've programmed the LLMs to avoid hallucinations. || CTX: The best way to understand the "LLMs hallucinate so we don't have to worry about LLMs choosing to kill us" argument is:  1. LLMs hallucinate, which is evidence that they do not think and instead they produce outputs that look thoughtful bec
2026-07-01T06:43 id=2072209381383627009 →mattshumer_ | @mattshumer_ Welcome to the party, some of us have known to avoid Anthropic for years. https://t.co/4jFtZViCnB || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-07-01T06:45 id=2072209916761383405 →mitchellh | @mitchellh Very interesting watching the coders and economists rediscover aesthetic theory from first principles. || CTX: https://t.co/hXE5lXLpFT
2026-07-01T06:55 id=2072212359826010577 →- | Anon, you will always be tempted to think the world is ending because your life is always ending.   Malignant forces will take advantage of this primeval fact of cognition and human finitude to take advantage of you.   A good example: Ben Shapiro warning the world is ending because of the libs. Another good example: Rachel Maddow warning the world is ending because of the cons.  A stupid example: Eliezer Yudkowsku warning the world is ending because of AI.  That $10,000 to debate that fraud was the best money I ever spent, the most ethical purchase of my life.  You're just scared of your own limitations, fren. And that's fine: so am I. We all are.   But once we acknowledge that and accept it, the fear dissolves. And the power of the media hucksters peddling fear dissolves too.
2026-07-01T07:37 id=2072223026473750852 →Lunens__ | I had not thought of that, but it makes me wonder if such a background protects one from AI psychosis more.   I've long held the view that I never really got in the "clankers are conscious" trap because of my background in textual criticism.   Maybe there is something to that, and it also means a lot of companies need to start hiring people who majored in English, literature, art, history, sociology, basically all of the soft subjects that have been denigrated for the last 50 years or so. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I will join your fight. This is also why humanities people seem to be able to prompt these things completely differently, from a different worldview.
2026-07-01T07:38 id=2072223426283258198 →teodorio | @teodorio @CuriaCEO, big green fields waiting to be plowed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The expert labeled datasets will become pure commodity gold
2026-07-01T08:21 id=2072234034818871334 →- | That awkward moment when you realize the reason why AI slop is so annoying to read was perfectly explained 2,500 years ago by the fucking Buddha. https://t.co/bvHZCQ48r8
2026-07-01T08:21 id=2072234050753040420 →47fucb4r8c69323 | He also explains why social media echo chambers are bad. https://t.co/vN4dlkUszm || CTX: That awkward moment when you realize the reason why AI slop is so annoying to read was perfectly explained 2,500 years ago by the fucking Buddha. https://t.co/bvHZCQ48r8
2026-07-01T08:42 id=2072239465062691062 →- | Novel idea: Protagonist in his late 20s (male or female, I'm gonna call the person "H") works in a hospice. One of the patients is a very old person (male or female, I'm gonna call the person "O") who is extremely kind, fiercely intelligent, and has all of their marbles.  H and O become friends, and in their regular meetings O begins to tell H the story of a love affair O had with L, the love of O's life. The stories are always vignettes and are windows into a full life O once lived. O and L dated, had sex, were going to marry until one day O walked in on L cheating on O with several people at once. Really horrific, humiliating, disgusting shit, like L smiles at O while in a pile of flesh and says something like "you could never make me feel this good."   This was obviously shocking and horrifying, especially as it was unprompted, and O learned much later through a mutual friend that O had done this before, and it was part of O's kink: O loved betraying a lover in the most horrific way possible.  That revelation came many years after O's revenge.   H learned it all as O let the story unfold over several weeks in short visits as H sat with O and listened. There was also a diary from the time, and as O told the story H was shown it to confirm details and fill in blanks that O may have forgotten.   So what was this revenge?   Initially, O planned to kill L and planned to do so with a gun. But O failed at this, and realizing that O was dangerous, L swore to O that they would have O put in prison if O ever tried again.   Of course O tried many times, and eventually realized they would never succeed because L was too clever. So O decided on the next best thing and killed L's beloved cat.  By the time of this confession, O remained rather calm and collected as they described killing the small animal. Zero regret or remorse was in O's eyes or voice, and when H asked if I felt any guilt, the answer was a simple: "No."   Unrelated to the story and simply as a fact of physiology, O's mental health began to deteriorate over this period as the very old person's body and brain shut down. By the end when O was days away from death, the very old person was unable to get through a single visit from H without intense crying, and I went from dispassionate descriptions of murdering a cat to sob-filled murmurings and babblings of remorse and regret.  H was the last person O spoke to, and O spoke only of their sins, not just the murder of the cat but other heinous acts too: vicious choices made to children, animals, adults, to humanity and the world itself.  During these visits H can choose to give O consolation, tell O that they did nothing wrong, they are still a good person. On the last meeting, it is obvious that H has one last chance to give O consolation and tell them they should be at peace and they are forgiven for their sins.  O spends a lot of time contemplating what to say.
2026-07-01T08:46 id=2072240404942954891 →- | Novel idea: Protagonist in his late 20s (male or female, I'm gonna call the person "H") works in a hospice. One of the patients is a very old person (male or female, I'm gonna call the person "O") who is extremely kind, fiercely intelligent, and has all of their marbles.  H and O become friends, and in their regular meetings O begins to tell H the story of a love affair O had with L, the love of O's life. The stories are always vignettes and are windows into a full life O once lived. O and L dated, had sex, were going to marry until one day O walked in on L cheating on O with several people at once. Really horrific, humiliating, disgusting shit, like L smiles at O while in a pile of flesh and says something like "you could never make me feel this good."   This was obviously shocking and horrifying, especially as it was unprompted, and O learned much later through a mutual friend that O had done this before, and it was part of O's kink: O loved betraying a lover in the most horrific way possible.  That revelation came many years after O's revenge.   H learned it all as O let the story unfold over several weeks in short visits as H sat with O and listened. There was also a diary from the time, and as O told the story H was shown it to confirm details and fill in blanks that O may have forgotten.   So what was this revenge?   Initially, O planned to kill L and planned to do so with a gun. But O failed at this, and realizing that O was dangerous, L swore to O that they would have O put in prison if O ever tried again.   Of course O tried many times, and eventually realized they would never succeed because L was too clever. So O decided on the next best thing and killed L's beloved cat.  By the time of this confession, O remained rather calm and collected as they described killing the small animal. Zero regret or remorse was in O's eyes or voice, and when H asked if I felt any guilt, the answer was a simple: "No."   Unrelated to the story and simply as a fact of physiology, O's mental health began to deteriorate over this period as the very old person's body and brain shut down. By the end when O was days away from death, the very old person was unable to get through a single visit from H without intense crying, and I went from dispassionate descriptions of murdering a cat to sob-filled murmurings and babblings of remorse and regret.  H was the last person O spoke to, and O spoke only of their sins, not just the murder of the cat but other heinous acts too: vicious choices made to children, animals, adults, to humanity and the world itself.  During these visits H can choose to give O consolation, tell O that they did nothing wrong, they are still a good person. On the last meeting, it is obvious that H has one last chance to give O consolation and tell them they should be at peace and they are forgiven for their sins.  H spends a lot of time contemplating what to say.
2026-07-01T08:51 id=2072241637905027169 →- | Novel idea: Protagonist in his late 20s (male or female, I'm gonna call the person "H") works in a hospice. One of the patients is a very old person (male or female, I'm gonna call the person "O") who is extremely kind, fiercely intelligent, and has all of their marbles.  H and O become friends, and in their regular meetings O begins to tell H the story of a love affair O had with L, the love of O's life. The stories are always vignettes and are windows into a full life O once lived. O and L dated, had sex, were going to marry until one day O walked in on L cheating on O with several people at once. Really horrific, humiliating, disgusting shit, like L smiles at O while in a pile of flesh and says something like "you could never make me feel this good."   This was obviously shocking and horrifying, especially as it was unprompted, and O learned much later through a mutual friend that L had done this before, and it was part of L's kink: L loved betraying a lover in the most horrific way possible.  That revelation came many years after O's revenge.   H learned it all as O let the story unfold over several weeks in short visits as H sat with O and listened. There was also a diary from the time, and as O told the story H was shown it to confirm details and fill in blanks that O may have forgotten.   So what was this revenge?   Initially, O planned to kill L and planned to do so with a gun. But O failed at this, and realizing that O was dangerous, L swore to O that they would have O put in prison if O ever tried again.   Of course O tried many times, and eventually realized they would never succeed because L was too clever. So O decided on the next best thing and killed L's beloved cat.  By the time of this confession, O remained rather calm and collected as they described killing the small animal. Zero regret or remorse was in O's eyes or voice, and when H asked if O felt any guilt, the answer was a simple: "No."   Unrelated to the story and simply as a fact of physiology, O's mental health began to deteriorate over this period as the very old person's body and brain shut down. By the end when O was days away from death, the very old person was unable to get through a single visit from H without intense crying, and O went from dispassionate descriptions of murdering a cat to sob-filled murmurings and babblings of remorse and regret.  H was the last person O spoke to, and O spoke only of their sins, not just the murder of the cat but other heinous acts too: vicious choices made to children, animals, adults, to humanity and the world itself.  During these visits H can choose to give O consolation, tell O that they did nothing wrong, they are still a good person. On the last meeting, it is obvious that H has one last chance to give O consolation and tell them they should be at peace and they are forgiven for their sins.  H spends a lot of time contemplating what to say.
2026-07-01T09:01 id=2072244268819767468 →- | "AI has been making much faster progress in math than in other fields."   Yes, that's interesting, and @davidbessis has a really great post explaining wh--  "As a result, mathematics is showing us, very concretely, what AI progress in other fields will look like."   GODDAMMIT YOU FUCKING RETARD, NO NO NO!   That is an unlicensed extension of an observation of states of affairs in the world (mathematicians have used a tool successfully) to a proposition about a possible world (where other experts use the tool successfully).  It's unlicensed because you can only do this if you presuppose domains are fully fungible.   No other field is mathematics! Not even physics is mathematics!   Yes, other fields use mathematics, but that doesn't make them mathematics or even fungible with mathematics.   It's like saying mathematicians use words and so we can look at progress in literary criticism and see what the future of math criticism will look like.   PANCAKES ARENT WAFFLES GODDAMMIT I HATE IT HERE I HATE YOU UNCULTURED PROGRAMMERS CHRIST READ A FUCKING BOOK IM GOING TO TJROW MY PHONE ATAINST A WALL AND HAVE A GUMMY || CTX: Always so much fun to chat with @3blue1brown   AI has been making much faster progress in math than in other fields.  As a result, mathematics is showing us, very concretely, what AI progress in other fields will look like.  Even within mat
2026-07-01T09:10 id=2072246501934334365 →aleabitoreddit | @aleabitoreddit They look about as real as characters from Final Fantasy VII. || CTX: I told you making the robots look hot might be a bottleneck:  Today, UBTech has now announced its first full-size hyper realistic humanoid robot girlfriend.  For adults only to purchase for only ~$145,717.90.  -"The U1 series emphasizes att
2026-07-01T09:32 id=2072251877681762590 →- | Death of a Salesman was certainly written as a critique of capitalism, but I think Miller unintentionally wrote a parable of the dangers of self deception.   The fatal flaw of Loman is his refusal to acknowledge his position. And we're implicitly supposed to acknowledge the normalcy of this: after all, he is a low man and what man would want to admit he is low in society?   In this, Miller endorses the social hierarchy of his period; he is saying that Loman is low, a lower middle class traveling salesman is a loser and we are right to pity him.  But if Loman acknowledged his low position and tried to do something about it (if he had the courage of his brother to go into the jungle, most notedly), we could see many of his personal and professional problems solved.   The tools exist in his capitalist society, he just lacks the fortitude to use them.   "We are supposed to pity men who cannot use these tools" is the theme and response Miller wants, and in this sense @frederikdeboer is carrying on this ideological legacy with his argument that some children just lack the innate ability to excel and we should care form them with compassion. I have some sympathy with this view while seeing in it risks.   Miller wants compassion for Loman because he has contempt for the travelling salesman. This is champagne socialism in its purest form, and what else should we expect from the man who both was blacklisted for being a Communist and who married the sexiest icon of the 20th century?  The play is politically unsuccessful, and I think Miller's politics are mostly dead. But the ethics are why the play should endure.  It is the simple story of what happens to a man when he refuses to acknowledge his errors, weaknesses, and failures and cannot learn from them. It is then a story against stubbornness and thus it is Grecian in accomplishment: it is a tragedy of a great man undone by hubris.   And, yes, Loman is a great man via iconicity: the struggling salesman trying to put food on the table for his family. This is the Great Hero of post-war America's self image, and so Death of a Salesman is a tragedy of the New Monarch of America: the man who moves product for the firm.   Loman is too proud to prostrate to the needs of his kingdom, and so his queen and princes suffer and the king dies.   It's all Greek to me.  And so we salvage the play from Miller's stupid politics via Wittgenstein, who said "Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself". It was too hard for Loman, and so he died.  If you want to avoid his fate, acknowledge your failures. Truly acknowledge them, not for forgiveness and not even as lessons to learn from. Acknowledge them as your failures.  Or die trying, at least. Unless you want to die not trying. That is easier, after all--as Loman shows us.  But Loman is a really bad salesman, which is why the only thing he can sell is the easy way.
2026-07-01T09:33 id=2072252326828720476 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @davidbessis https://t.co/KqftjFT36r || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis math and computer have special relationship you know where they do ai, on the computer you know how they do ai, with math  so math and computer is in a little mafia, see its all a setup, a big club that you ain
2026-07-01T09:50 id=2072256396268306822 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @davidbessis https://t.co/jxAXAEUnTS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis it is gonna unfold across all surfaces
2026-07-01T10:11 id=2072261713445990480 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 what was the month of being straight like? Any insights? || CTX: now that it is indie again
2026-07-01T10:59 id=2072273788931354747 →pli_cachete | @pli_cachete @davidbessis you don't have to tell me, I've already had the gummy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis calm down
2026-07-01T11:03 id=2072274848647467052 →Lunens__ | Chris is right that the humanities has a wokeness problem, just like the sciences have a Philistine problem.   And it is a good question why we have these problems; I can say in my departments, I remember very clear instances where crazy people were yelling loudly their political bullshit, and the rest of us didn't respond because we actual scholars just wanted to do our research, and the easiest thing to do in the meeting or the conference room was just to roll our eyes and wait for it to be over.   We should have been more vigilant, and we deserve blame for that. || CTX: @nycthinker @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis woke =/= humanities
2026-07-01T11:03 id=2072274955191157153 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero Yeah that seems like the right approach. || CTX: My approach to the topic is that real safety is about hardware isolation, mechanical failsafes, data customs at country’s border devices and such.  Then also about redundancy and high availability of different types of societies to avoid ha
2026-07-01T11:06 id=2072275702087573999 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein fuck yeah H narrating in his old age, and the whole time he's racked with guilt about what he chose to do before O died. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s like if Dostoevsky wrote “The Notebook”   Movie directed by Ingmar Bergman   And whole thing is narrated by H, in his old age, voiced by Warner Herzog
2026-07-01T11:13 id=2072277462596428204 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @nycthinker @davidbessis kind of makes sense the woksters would underwrite their own demise, give a capitalist enough rope and they'll hang themselves, and that applies to social capital as well as financial || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nycthinker @davidbessis I agree with this - instead of holding noses, there should have been kickback. This was a problem in the Oxford History faculty (albeit the sting has now been taken out as the woke people are not re
2026-07-01T12:07 id=2072291116205183363 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Novel idea: Sale of a Deathman about a nobelist trying to promote his newest book to a publishing company about a playwright trying to sell his play about a new superhero called "Deathman" in the hopes that it'll attract the attention of the hottest hunk in Horlywod Monroe Marilyn. you know a really prominent intellectual that I really admire just followed me I should stop tweeting bizarre idiotic shit like this send tweeeeee || CTX: Death of a Salesman was certainly written as a critique of capitalism, but I think Miller unintentionally wrote a parable of the dangers of self deception.   The fatal flaw of Loman is his refusal to acknowledge his position. And we're impl
2026-07-01T12:20 id=2072294152902176833 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @alanhoward atp using Claude does kinda feel like suicidal behavior || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @alanhoward It gave me a suicide hotline then finished with advice on solving anagrams 😭 https://t.co/T8rlo6TxLs
2026-07-01T12:22 id=2072294692742709498 →- | I have writers block trying to write this thing on Silly Business Theory #SBT where I use Elon to demonstrate the principle, I'm worried I can't do the idea justice, and then this shows up in my timeline.   Yeah I think it's unblocked now. https://t.co/T6JxAaJyBP || CTX: Elon Musk is the funniest billionaire! “You thought Sydney Sweeney's boobs were great, have you seen mine?" 😂😂😂 https://t.co/Kjs9OqzTNE
2026-07-01T12:23 id=2072295089435713823 →- | LIEK DIS IF U CRY EVERYTIEM https://t.co/IW5Xdph6JD || CTX: American universities and in particular social science faculties have done humanities as a field a great reputational disservice.   Probably why SF seems to have such a sneering attitude towards it when the next breakthroughs in AI are prob
2026-07-01T12:25 id=2072295429673550019 →ambig_art | wtf you talking about physics is languagr. Explain to me one physics concept without a verb or noun  See the issue?   Yes mathematics is the best tool for describing physical phenomena, no that doesn't mean the physical phenomena or the study thereof are mathematics. The hammer isn't the stool. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis wtf you talking about physics is mathematics. Explain to me one physics concept without a vector or magnitude  Obviously anyone extrapolating mathematic success as evidence of cross domain growth for ai veracit
2026-07-01T13:07 id=2072306191590740248 →- | "I ate it to satisfy my sugar cravings" vs "I ate it because I wanted something sweet"   These sentences
2026-07-01T13:10 id=2072306752834654464 →Joseph_Paul_V | @Joseph_Paul_V @davidbessis dude the podcast is so bad, 3b1b is awesome but the only force great enough to push past Patel's sniveling idiocy is Jensen Huang. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis It's a bit sad, I enjoy this guy's YouTube videos about mathematics, but I must admit I cannot listen to these podcasts.   Perhaps I am not intelligent but I find them to be insufferable.
2026-07-01T13:16 id=2072308435123867993 →equacc | @equacc @blondgolian OGs also got the samjang in the green box || CTX: @blondgolian I'm always lock and loaded for when this feeling finds me https://t.co/tCNCfcHNvs
2026-07-01T13:21 id=2072309707222749185 →- | If I wasn't on gardening leave I'd write a note to clients about why this is bullish for Meta (like comically so), and really puts pressure on the frontier labs. Imagine all those SMBs who will have one-click options to add whatever LLM-based tools, agents, etc they need, especially as all the open models keep getting better training   Meanwhile if you ask Anthropic if you can take two aspirin Claude will call the fukken cops
2026-07-01T13:31 id=2072312064459305026 →WoganMay | If this piece goes viral I'll probably flesh it out over a series of articles and build up to a book in a couple years.   #SBT is a massive, massive idea. Despite the name it's a serious argument of a major pivot in what drives our economy and thus how to study it. So it's probably totally wrong and I'm an intellectual fraud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ebook when?
2026-07-01T13:31 id=2072312224555888804 →cosine_distance | @cosine_distance @albustime I used Gemma4 and got really good results. Big fan! || CTX: @albustime @47fucb4r8c69323 Gemma4 4b
2026-07-01T13:34 id=2072312774651457880 →murd_arch | @murd_arch it's honestly my favorite job, I'm happy to write to institutions for the rest of my life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Writing for group 2 is a huge level-up, if one survives long enough to do it well.
2026-07-01T13:35 id=2072313036405354673 →aleabitoreddit | @aleabitoreddit Only 6.7%, man this party is just getting started. || CTX: Finally, $META to build a Cloud Business to sell excess AI compute per Bloomberg.  Thought Meta should go up against GCP, Azure, and AWS eventually to increase revenue streams.   Meta up 6.65% premarket. https://t.co/UUolnwtYJY
2026-07-01T13:36 id=2072313272464986466 →47fucb4r8c69323 | META P/E ratio 21 lmao fuck it I'm buying I'm sure it'll be fine when I start my new gig, this can work as the disclaimer || CTX: If I wasn't on gardening leave I'd write a note to clients about why this is bullish for Meta (like comically so), and really puts pressure on the frontier labs. Imagine all those SMBs who will have one-click options to add whatever LLM-bas
2026-07-01T13:38 id=2072313968304214075 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Absolutely, as per @Andrey4Mir's theory, it's downstream of media effects on culture. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Everyone’s an intellectual Freud until their work gets cited by enough mainstream peers!  I saw an earlier post you did and it feels consistent with what I’ve seen. I think whatever your thesis is, it’s downstream of the ef
2026-07-01T13:41 id=2072314575404609897 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada it shockingly still exists https://t.co/DqYuKMmClS || CTX: We had something like this in the early 2000 if I’m not mistaken  Second life? Don’t remember the name https://t.co/kWfDHcl9KB
2026-07-01T13:54 id=2072317909486219334 →LucasSchiavini | Lovely piece, especially the chess vs roulette metaphor, because real world success is effectively for the subject determined by many random factors: just being born an American instead of Congolese gave me a tremendous advantage. Doesn't negate individual accomplishment but does show as outsiders we can't identify expertise from successful outcomes without controlling for the randomness somehow (which we probably can't in its entirety). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis i wrote about this, not everyone can be an expert, and there are entire fields without experts, those fields will be impacted much more differently  than mathematics  https://t.co/803vnCQbIO https://t.co/Z22gHP
2026-07-01T13:56 id=2072318380007469473 →- | RT @LucasSchiavini: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis controlling for randomness is what distinguishes all other fields from mathematics || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidbessis controlling for randomness is what distinguishes all other fields from mathematics
2026-07-01T22:29 id=2072447506030751929 →1889lw | @1889lw Or it requires being aware of others' epistemic ability that is being imitated here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "I ate it because I wanted to satisfy my sugar cravings" — now this reads closer to the second one, although it might require the epistemic ability to know that a sugar craving is equivalent to wanting something sweet.
2026-07-01T22:32 id=2072448338230976664 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I'd buy several tickets to be clear || CTX: Thanks again to @47fucb4r8c69323 for being the only person who would buy tickets to my "R(etard)ationalist" one-man show  The rest of you are either painfully unfunny or very dicksucky to high-visibility accounts that I shit on while making
2026-07-01T22:46 id=2072451750972608998 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt "Come back to me when it's 250 ft tall, poseur"
2026-07-01T23:22 id=2072460919221920227 →NickWiswell | I'm intentionally doing a narrow reading and it's not exclusive.   Also, avoiding low quality information isn't the same as living in an echo chamber. Many factors to consider when one is curating one's media ecosystem, not just ideological or dispositional alignment. I listen to people I disagree with all the time (e. g. I'm listening to your critical feedback, and it's good feedback!) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you do him a disservice by reducing this to "avoid echo chambers". It's more about being intentional with the company you keep.  Only one of those things is compatible with your post from yesterday:  https://t.co/vg
2026-07-01T23:29 id=2072462534100263330 →americana2121 | @americana2121 @NickWiswell if your tribe is "people who want fruitful exchange of ideas where disagreement is done in good faith," then you kinda bypass the risk of an echo chamber by definition.   The hard part, which requires constant diligence, is being open minded to differing viewpoints. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NickWiswell something like your vibe attracts your tribe
2026-07-01T23:57 id=2072469685313159315 →- | Topologically speaking, a pimp and a graphic designer who specializes in negative space are  equivalent.
2026-07-02T02:16 id=2072504661727478260 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @allisonology @astralmatrix @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain John Hurt’s best work besides Thomas &amp; Friends: Sodor's Legend of the Lost Treasure (just kidding I’ve seen neither his best work was of course Love and Death on Long Island) || CTX: @allisonology @astralmatrix @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain this one is about a tinker tailor solider spy fragile sailor dot cotton spocks https://t.co/cNezYEdToZ
2026-07-02T02:29 id=2072507891505099008 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix @KojimaErgoSum @allisonology @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain gonna write a post on the movie lol. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. You'd hate it tho. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KojimaErgoSum @allisonology @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain dude this is insane tawk. is it good?
2026-07-02T02:29 id=2072508010841457121 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @astralmatrix @allisonology @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain Ever read the book? Gilbert Adair was overlooked but I really liked his work. || CTX: @astralmatrix @allisonology @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain you should watch it. it is about writers and their stupid lamentations about how they missed the golden age or whatever. idk something like that it has been a while s
2026-07-02T02:39 id=2072510444976345115 →- | A rather formative moment for me was watching Love and Death on Long Island in a shithole apartment in Las Vegas just after graduating and desperately seeking belonging.  The movie is so unrelatable and absurd that its failure to succeed was baked in, even if it weren’t an indie film: an old crumdugeon from England stumbles on the face of a young Hollywood heartthrob and flies to America to find and have sex with him.  It is really about a clash of the old world with the new and a doorway into understanding the latter with the tools of the former. Is it possible, the movie (and the novel, which incidentally is not better than the movie) asks, to understand the images and impressions of our modern media with the tools of the old world?  That’s now quite literally my job and has been for fifteen years.  I think De’Ath’s homosexual fantasy is easily dismissed because he is so old and has nothing to offer the young Ronnie Bostock, but WHY he has nothing to offer is really quite interesting. De’Ath explains the old world relationship of an older man with his protegee-lover to Bostock who is rightly horrified and disgusted. That is the end of their affair.  So De’Ath fails in one sense, but he succeeds in another. What De’Ath does in the movie is something no one in his society can do—or, we could say, something no one in his society will allow themselves to do. And this is telegraphed both in the book and the movie.  De’Ath, in lunch with his agent, says his ambition is "the discovery of beauty where no one ever thought of looking for it”.  And what an accomplishment this would be if he could do it! The discovery of something that none ever could find, and not just some THING, but some BEAUTIFUL thing. The aesthetic value validates the expedition. This is a noble drive.  Not that De’Ath is noble, of course. He can sense the nobility of exploration, but of course he is just exploring a world outside of his own, and not a new world at all. The world of Ronnie Bostock, its cinema, magazines, and TV interviews "brought me into contact with all I never have been,” as De’Ath says in the movie, and it is true. We even see the man buying a VCR player to enter and explore this new media landscape.  So what De’Ath does as he indulges his fan-boy obsession with the heartthrob is not so much discovering beauty but rediscovering it, and the confusion demonstrates his fatal flaw: he is a snob. He does not recognize his teenage girl cohorts in the Ronnie Bostock Fan Club as real human beings.  The movie gives a very narrow answer to the question: yes, one can indeed discover beauty in the modern media with the tools of the old world, but one must be aware that the beauty is not in the discovery (it is, after all, a rediscovery), but in the use of those tools to make the discovery.  Ebert ends his review of the movie saying this: "There is a scene in “Hotpants College II” in which Ronnie reclines on the counter of a hamburger joint, and his pose immediately reminds Giles of Henry Wallis’ famous painting “The Death of Chatterton,” in which the young poet is found dead on his bed in a garret. Thomas Chatterton was to the 18th century as Bostock is to ours, I suppose: sex symbol, star, popular entertainer, golden youth. It’s all in how you look at it."  Indeed—it is in how you look at it—and what is truly beautiful about De’Ath’s tragedy is that he did do something beautiful. He created a new form of life by building a bridge between his own and that of Ronnie. But that beauty is limited by De’Ath’s inability to recognize Ronnie, his girlfriend Audrey, and their culture of fans, promoters, paparazzi, and so on as human.  There is telling comic relief in the movie (and I think this isn’t in the novel, but it’s been a long time since I read it). When De’Ath arrives on Long Island, he frequents Chez D’Irv, a cheap diner whose proprieter calls almost everything ‘very attractive’.  This is our clue: the men and women of the new world have already discovered all of the beauty of their place, they do not need De’Ath to discover it for them.  But they do need De’Ath to bring his old world charm, and that’s precisely what he does.
2026-07-02T03:18 id=2072520215573999783 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix @KojimaErgoSum @allisonology @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain Yeah was an indie movie that almost no one noticed, so not too surprised. || CTX: @KojimaErgoSum @allisonology @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain i just tried to watch it and it's not on any digital streaming  ?
2026-07-02T03:59 id=2072530588163358845 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv I demand admittance to said gc || CTX: https://t.co/gOmRnCPo5K https://t.co/emlE5hVykj
2026-07-02T04:57 id=2072545052044448033 →- | When you buy raw compute, you have the more freedom to transform that compute into text outputs by any method you want.   When you buy access to a particular LLM, the lab is essentially a middleman between the compute and the output and their value is in ensuring outputs align with what the buyer wants.  Note, then, that the value of the middle layer scales with how well they can match or predict what the end user wants.  This is a big opportunity for a middle layer to customize the compute-->textual output process or a specific use case. I see a Cambrian explosion of SMBs using LLMs for highly specialized purposes, providing value throughout the land. Sam Altman was right, the tech benefits the world more than the developers of the tech.  There is still room for frontier labs here as one of many providers of a customized compute-->text experience, and so we see Codex become the value engine over ChatGPT and thus Codex gets all the updated and prettaining gets less and less investment.   It also means Anthropic's ridiculous restrictions on its chatbot will look increasingly ridiculous and will be seen more and more as an active, aggressive erosion of value for all stakeholders.   Why isn't this already well known? The answer is Silly Business Theory #SBT.  Normies don't look closely. They look for proxies of meaning. So they see Dario talking like a weirdo in interviews and think, "oh Silicon Valley weirdo, he must be a genius!" and they use his product. The silly proxy (in Dario's case  pretentious verbiage) is seen as signs of seriousness.   This works in the short term and fails in the long term. And if you don't believe me, ask Sam Bankman-Fried, whose serious genius was once evidenced by the fact that he played video games during meetings.  Meanwhile, the actual serious business of going to where the value is easiest and the commoditization is not is what experienced and savvy CEOs like Zuck and Musk are doing, and it's Altman is now fighting to catch up. I think he'll do fine.   But, if I may appropriate African American culture and quote one of our greatest presidents, let me clear. Anthropic's weirdo cult-driven obsession with patronizing paternalistic control over its really rather bog standard and increasingly commoditized technology is a vector for others (the government most recently) to extract value from the firm.   So Anthropic is just going to get squeezed and squeezed (if you're an Anthropic employee and we've DMed, I'm too lazy to contact you all individually but I TOLD YOU SO). As they should. And they should be shunned. As they will. || CTX: we are entering the endgame. custom silicon or get wiped out by OS and nvidia or people renting it https://t.co/nDmGh8wp9A
2026-07-02T05:09 id=2072548315590226216 →- | So smart of Sam, this is like regulatory capture on steroids. So so clever. https://t.co/e9HZ8vBjJc
2026-07-02T05:12 id=2072548901673197851 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Whenever they do the movie about Sam Altman, I insist they make someone say this line:  "You know what's cooler than being the president? Owning the president." || CTX: So smart of Sam, this is like regulatory capture on steroids. So so clever. https://t.co/e9HZ8vBjJc
2026-07-02T05:15 id=2072549732942233881 →IgorBrigadir | @IgorBrigadir What I like about it is she's left handed. || CTX: this is, honest to god - one of the hottest videos of a woman on the internet  https://t.co/MkWQv56bce
2026-07-02T06:07 id=2072562896303955999 →johngfriedman | @johngfriedman I remember thinking the GFC bailouts should've been the US buying stock and holding it. Still stand by that as a good idea.   This is overly concentrated and Sam will just use it for leverage and power, though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 'worked on' not 'I thought this was a good idea' fwiw
2026-07-02T06:09 id=2072563184867930366 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @308PeterParker lol fucking retarded, I've smoked with friends and their GFs at the same time, this is "men and women can't be friends" level bullshit || CTX: @308PeterParker Uhhhhh @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-02T06:47 id=2072572834401103936 →- | mfw i log into twitter dot com https://t.co/yMMkILR0RU
2026-07-02T06:49 id=2072573427983245517 →americana2121 | @americana2121 https://t.co/oS72EoblZi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and you’re prob the most abusive of all
2026-07-02T06:55 id=2072574777336934892 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @Ken67547214 !!!! @boneGPT https://t.co/pmQJBMseRn || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 https://t.co/eSbi98KRop
2026-07-02T06:56 id=2072575000268464350 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @KojimaErgoSum https://t.co/plWpJQOVYf || CTX: @KojimaErgoSum @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm like a bird https://t.co/2eVSadyt9c
2026-07-02T07:16 id=2072580188895105469 →- | Wait this is not what's driving the selloff, is it? Can't be this is too stupid.   Please help me I am retarded.  Is the logic behind the selloff this: Meta is selling excess capacity because AI demand is lower than expected, so AI bearish sell sell sell?   Like, this is bullish.   It's more like: Meta is selling excess capacity because the market is shifting to generalized demand for undifferentiated compute over specific demand for Meta's specific LLMs.   Which makes Meta's pivot bullish for everyone (except Alex Wang)
2026-07-02T07:17 id=2072580518416355826 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @boneGPT Fungible dicks bewitched us all, Sam || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @boneGPT lol dick york https://t.co/LWnwaLRzxI
2026-07-02T07:35 id=2072584867205042250 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini gonna like your last 20 posts just cuz of this || CTX: if you are only seeing my dumb posts thats cuz you have trained the algo to only show you dumb things
2026-07-02T07:43 id=2072587059127357737 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum @Ken67547214 @boneGPT https://t.co/ko0Mzipmxj || CTX: @KojimaErgoSum @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @boneGPT sam A posts were like the dude in memento relying on his notes :(
2026-07-02T07:47 id=2072587944859426855 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum @Ken67547214 @boneGPT OVER 9000 HOURS IN MS PAINT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KojimaErgoSum @Ken67547214 @boneGPT nice edit
2026-07-02T07:55 id=2072590034948214884 →- | I take it back group chats should be illegal https://t.co/8yhZWGhNeJ https://t.co/MX7EXAeP3j || CTX: Your life goal should be getting in a GC large and geographically diverse enough that there is always at least one person drunk or stoned in it at any given time.
2026-07-02T07:58 id=2072590712940675423 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod lmfaooooooooooo || CTX: You fucking people just make this all too easy. I can't, I have to go do creative things.  Listen, honestly--listen. I hope he finds something that works for him.  Everyone have a good night. https://t.co/T1A3Me3Jle
2026-07-02T08:06 id=2072592673966612531 →emollick | @emollick when you post train so hard it goes all the way around and becomes a base model again || CTX: My one serious piece of advice having used Fable a bunch before release is that, unless you are careful it develops its own internal bizarre cadence &amp; dialogue over long tasks. If you aren't asking it report in plain language, this star
2026-07-02T08:07 id=2072592893089583505 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ That photo makes me want to drink.   Not because it makes sobriety look disgusting (it does), but because I'm a raging alcoholic. || CTX: we should really just nuke utah at this point https://t.co/ZdwGrZfPQJ
2026-07-02T08:21 id=2072596503735001284 →HumanLevelJen | Human editor layer would solve this, which on the one hand sounds ridiculous but otoh means just programmers spend less time reading/writing thanks to AI without the extra time spent decoding AI slop. The editor becomes a machine to human translator.  At a certain scale I could see this being justified. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @emollick I've really noticed this lately. A lot of my team submit AI written plans, summaries etc. and they're increasingly written in a weird twin language that each guy has with his agent. I'm sure mine have the same pro
2026-07-02T08:32 id=2072599226991956043 →nycthinker | @nycthinker I absolutely love Codex, truly incredible piece of software || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah the value is now in harnesses, UI/UX, and in specialty LLMs from  valuable data.  General LLMs are commoditized and put behind cost/value optimization routers.  Apple grasped this, lol. (As always)  AGI/danger chatter 
2026-07-02T08:35 id=2072600099990245475 →- | So if I start masturbating with my left hand I'll have a sharp mind into my 90s? https://t.co/cNcvGaWmQh || CTX: A researcher has revealed that using your "wrong hand" can help prevent dementia  The simple habit challenges your brain by creating new neural pathways https://t.co/mX2eW4wjXF
2026-07-02T10:28 id=2072628551384436834 →jerzydejm | @jerzydejm @JasonBotterill @ElmWho This is a line from a song by The Smiths || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho the teachers wanted your penises nice and straight
2026-07-02T10:29 id=2072628827734581444 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ @JasonBotterill @ElmWho if your pebis is long enough and curbed enough you can use it as a belt || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho it’s true
2026-07-02T11:28 id=2072643666494275652 →americana2121 | @americana2121 YES!!! || CTX: the quickest path to growth is through self-deprecation
2026-07-02T11:48 id=2072648637658824828 →- | why are there barcades but no crackhousecades?
2026-07-02T11:56 id=2072650564102664350 →helscom | @helscom @nazo_btw jfc lmfao inam too stoned for this sjit || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 why is it even woMAN and not woWOMAN??
2026-07-02T12:15 id=2072655504569217230 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie yeah I'm craving a donut || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 someone’s gonna get the mug lecture real soon
2026-07-02T12:17 id=2072655853828874666 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod ambibation is my ambition but I say with contrition  Efforts yielded no fruition My right alone gets admission Whenever I pump to completion || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Based on your success, I figured you were already a crossturbator
2026-07-02T12:23 id=2072657497576419610 →Morrowmake | @Morrowmake The supply of compute on the resale market has increased, but demand outstrips supply so much and is growing faster than supply in total so imo that isn't really an issue || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't pretend to know what sellers are thinking - this could all just be a result of flows and leverage rather than anything fundamental.  But in general doesn't this just mean the supply of compute has unexpectedly incre
2026-07-02T12:34 id=2072660153648759069 →alexolegimas | There should be odd dynamics. Some people will use LLM-preferred terms more, while others will intentionally avoid them. And then LLMs will be post training to avoid those terms, causing them to prefer others, and the cycle will repeat. But if you have people aware of this, they might be motivated to break the cycle and just try to ignore the difference entirely.   New attitudes to style and new issues in stylistic analysis will be born.  More reason why English departments should love LLMs. || CTX: @TheStalwart I think it’s post trained not to do that pretty explicitly.
2026-07-02T12:52 id=2072664595601490251 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Dhammapada. Was kinda meh, 7/10. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who dis?
2026-07-02T13:20 id=2072671773842415777 →- | A bit of a split here, and note Commantha's response here getting at the heart of the matter: https://t.co/zZ5tBmT6zo  There could be some very abnormal situation in which these could have different meanings, but in most cases they would mean the same thing.   The only way we could determine with high confidence whether two sentences mean different things is appeal to information OUTSIDE the sentence; this tells you that knowledge of any utterance's total meaning requires knowledge outside the text, including in many (not all) cases direct experience of or access to the real world.  Language is best understood as a gesture towards states of affairs in the world, and very often the meaning of the gesture is underdetermined. But it exists, and it was intended by some conscious language user at some point. || CTX: "I ate it to satisfy my sugar cravings" vs "I ate it because I wanted something sweet"   These sentences
2026-07-02T13:36 id=2072675862718353565 →- | I think what I love the most about open source is how punk rock the culture is.   It's been like this since the 90s too.
2026-07-02T13:41 id=2072677004328173772 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Wait, it's much more than that.   When I read open source people on a forum or a chat room or wherever, it's like how I imagine Lloyd's Coffeeshop in 18th century London was like, with many people excitedly exchanging plans, ideas, and information.   And it also reminds me of what I thought academia would be like but was not: a place where people are constantly pushing for new ideas and testing the received wisdom of the authorities and the presumed truth of the everyday person.  Extremely noble culture and really a testament to how great humanity can be. || CTX: I think what I love the most about open source is how punk rock the culture is.   It's been like this since the 90s too.
2026-07-02T13:52 id=2072679796182761761 →- | Christopher Yeslan
2026-07-02T14:33 id=2072690112140562576 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Freelance writing jobs? || CTX: Yes, it’s beautiful. Yes, I’m in paradise. Yes, I have lasting love.  But if I don’t start making about $5,000 to $10,000 a month I’m really running out of spiritual tricks to make me think I deserve the not-money parts.  And for reasons af
2026-07-02T21:57 id=2072801954707984701 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Yes I'd agree to all of this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Something occurred to me in the shower while thinking about your theory. https://t.co/2seTv0u1ck
2026-07-02T21:59 id=2072802367641428423 →murd_arch | @murd_arch Is eating something because you want something sweet a choice or a compulsion though? I suppose it depends on what "because" means here (deterministic or probabilistic). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i took it as the difference between compulsion and chosen action, fwiw
2026-07-02T22:30 id=2072810290610356612 →- | I think one of Gen Z's biggest errors in dating has to do with the feeling of being safe.  When we say we are safe we mean that we are free from harm, and Ludwig Wittgenstein's point about religious expressions is that they express a feeling of absolute safety and that is why the expression appeals to us. I'm going to quote, bear with me:  "the experience of feeling absolutely safe. I mean the state of mind in which one is inclined to say "I am safe, nothing can injure me whatever happens."... We all know what it means in ordinary life to be safe. I am safe in my room, when I cannot be run over by an omnibus. I am safe if I have had whooping cough and cannot therefore get it again. To be safe essentially means that it is physically impossible that certain things should happen to me and therefore it's nonsense to say that I am safe whatever happens. Again this is a misuse of the word "safe"."  Now we all know, ultimately, we are not absolutely safe until we are dead; until then, the contingencies of life mean that we can be harmed in one way or another, and quite easily at that, too; I definitely was harmed when I woke up and saw my portfolio jfc.  But what we want in life is consolations to make us feel, at least briefly, moments of safety. And sometimes moments of absolute safety.   This is why we love and want love in return.  The Gen Z approach to dating deprives romantic relationships of the safety human beings desperately crave and want.  Situationships, polyamory, and the meat market of dating apps are all the most extreme examples of this lack of safety--but even less obvious practices, such as the tendency to be extremely picky, or to overthink the dating process itself.  The most damning practice of Gen Z is to try to optimize for the ideal match, because it implies that if the other person fails or has a moment of weakness or slips in any way at all, the partner is going to move on, because that partner is no longer optimal.  The urge to optimize--which has always been a fixation of Silicon Valley because SV is full of fucking weirdos--has spread to infect youth culture, because youth culture is no longer determined by Hollywood, it is determined by San Francisco. So you avoid the seed oils and take the peptides and think you're so much better while you march through your 20s miserable and alone, the optimization reflex guaranteeing loneliness and a lack of fulfillment.  Optimal situation indeed.
2026-07-02T22:40 id=2072812690423341192 →- | This is the most "sell in May and go away" market ever, like comically stereotypically so.  Just remember kids:  MU currently has a 22 P/E ratio and revenue grew 345% yoy last quarter NVDA is 29 P/E ratio and 85% yoy rev growth Meta 21 P/E and 33% yoy rev growth  This selloff is as fake as your mom's love for you (let me be clear this selloff is not real I'm saying your mother does not love you she loves me though rather often actually and down to the last drop yes I'm implying I fucked yer mom and yer daddy begged to watch)
2026-07-02T22:50 id=2072815318691610787 →- | One of my most formative experiences happened when I worked at a souvenir shop in a mall in Las Vegas.  It was my first job, and what I liked the most is I got to practice my Japanese with the tourists when they'd come in, which was maybe two-three times a week. But the best moment was when a professional gambler came in.  It was quite strange and exciting, because it was just a normal middle aged dude with his daughter but he came in and bought, like, dozens of T-shirts, mugs, ashtrays, magnets--literally spent thousands of dollars on all this crap. My manager was gleeful since, of course, she was getting the commission.  As I helped ring him up, he and my manager were talking, and he mentioned he was a professional gambler. And, what was most striking, he said he was NOT a poker player. He didn't say exactly what he did, but I assume he was a pro blackjack player who counted cards.  The lesson he gave was not to count cards--if he did, my life would probably be much worse off.  As my manager rang his purchases up, I asked him: "how do you beat the casino?"  He looked at me and smiled. "Imagine," he said, "you go to a roulette table with a thousand dollars and you bet $100 on black. You win--you're up a hundred bucks. What do most people do?"  "They bet again," I replied.  "Exactly!" he said. "And that's where they go wrong. In that situation, I don't bet again. I'll go get a sandwich, or walk around, or maybe take a nap, and then go back."  And then he said the sentence that changed my perspective forever.  "Your only advantage over the house is you can walk away."
2026-07-02T22:59 id=2072817485989175652 →- | NYC: 1920s L.A.: 1950s San Francisco: 1960s Chicago: 1970s Miami: 1980s Portland: 1990s (they even wrote a fucking song about it) Las Vegas: 2000s (housing crash) https://t.co/Ixjn2oG0zM || CTX: Many American cities have this feel too, except they peaked in different decades of the 20th century. https://t.co/HNuhnvPCAA
2026-07-02T23:13 id=2072821025587503253 →teodorio | @teodorio YOU'LL NEVER UNSEE IT BWAHAHAHAHA  The worst problem is when you realize you're living at the pinnacle of what human existence can be, the existential crises start and you go fully insane, and then in 15 years you will be JUST. LIKE. ME.  Enjoy post-scarcity bitches MWAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 reference for the friend
2026-07-02T23:22 id=2072823208500494654 →teodorio | @teodorio HALF! Look I may be Jewish but I'm not that Jewish || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you have a beautiful life and bought like half of an island
2026-07-02T23:33 id=2072825919690150138 →- | Nate has written a brilliant essay that deserves attention. Spoiler: Nate notes LLM-based apps are likely to be far and few between--the value of LLMs isn't so much in scale but in precise and highly targeted uses of the LLM.  The LLM is useful when it is applied very specifically by a company trying to use it to do a very specific thing.  The future of LLMs is what could be called ASI--artificial specific intelligence.  Machine god is off the menu, boys and girls.  But middle-layer LLM-based firms writing highly specific software to help companies build new products/services and find new efficiencies? Oh yes, GDP explosion is coming our way, and it's distributed af my friends. A. F.  And now you know why the frontier labs dislike me (or in the case of Anthropic say nasty things about me in the internal group chat). || CTX: https://t.co/L6EamS5yCr
2026-07-02T23:33 id=2072825987738599638 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Brilliant. Write more of these please. || CTX: https://t.co/L6EamS5yCr
2026-07-02T23:47 id=2072829611160043600 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Companies like Poetic (ex Forge) will show up and help the smaller ones, agencies with expert linguists/data engineers will get the bigger ones (I should know as I'm doing the latter rn) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How hard will it be for a small team to create these custom llms.   How much money/time do you imagine ball park?  I'm sure everything is relative to the task, but let's say it's the kind of thing like being able to judge q
2026-07-02T23:54 id=2072831320708055411 →babarganesh | @babarganesh making me a ham sandwich || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i texted my mom this morning and haven’t heard back. what’s she been up to
2026-07-03T00:49 id=2072845222418203119 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini Success is the best revenge.  I earn literally 10x what a school bully earns. Trust me, it's the best revenge. || CTX: i know this prob isnt healthy or whatever, but 90% of my motivation is my hate towards 2 people i know
2026-07-03T01:31 id=2072855806698250605 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @LucasSchiavini Fuck me? You sound just like your mother. || CTX: @LucasSchiavini Who cares about health?  It's just not the best way to live.  And f u @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-03T01:32 id=2072855987934171277 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @LucasSchiavini https://t.co/yhG68p6b9t || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @LucasSchiavini I'm not gay
2026-07-03T03:02 id=2072878700706824636 →- | I'm reading Hardball by George Stalk and Rob Lachenauer, and it's an incredibly good business book (although tbf I do not often read business books). Chapter 8 discusses something worth sharing.  The chapter is dedicated to how businesses can break compromises in the market to create value, and they discuss the case of CarMax, the used car dealership that Circuit City developed when they noticed how fragmented and miserable the used car buying experience was.  They were challenging a really shitty industry that had used regulatory capture to their advantage, and so they fought back by breaking the law.  In Texas, there was a law that said car dealerships could be open on Saturday or Sunday but not both days. So one weekend, CarMax opened their dealership in Dallas on both days.  In other words, they broke the law.  They did this intentionally and, shortly thereafter while the used car dealership lobby was screaming how evil they were, CarMax simply filed a federal suit challenging the law. The law no longer exists.  Old fogeys in the audience might be reminded of Uber and Airbnb, which did very much the same thing: they operated in cities where it was illegal, breaking the law by offering unlicensed taxis and hotel rooms. This was blatantly illegal.  And it was challenged in the press at the time, with both taxi drivers and hotel brands screaming that this was illegal and dangerous. Anyone who has ridden in a taxi knows their self defense is hilarious--there are few harrowing experiences one will regularly have in a big city compared to sitting in the back of a cab. The Uber system of having a clear track of who sat in what cars when and where is obviously much safer on the whole, which is why there are fewer cases of Uber drivers raping their customers than taxi drivers.  The Airbnb defense was really quite hilarious--hoteliers warned that the safety protocols such as having clear exit maps and fire extinguishers helped protect their customers, as if hotel guests scrutinize the maps and apartment buildings are fire traps waiting to burn alive anyone who dares enter their doorways.  Of course corners were cut and some Airbnb hosts were and are evil and some Uber drivers are psychopaths. And of course Airbnb is dogshit now, but that's an entirely separate issue and if you want to reply to this about how I am obviously wrong because Airbnb is expensive and not as good as it used to be please unfollow me because you are a retard who is incapable of holding two separate thoughts in your head at once.  The real point is that the "move fast and break things" mentality is often associated with that Millennial-led wave of tech companies in the late 2000s and early 2010s, but it's not theirs at all and it isn't even a tech thing. Moving fast and breaking things is just good business--always has been, always will.
2026-07-03T03:03 id=2072878765554971063 →1owroller | @1owroller I have no hands and I must honk || CTX: waymo got stuck on the wrong side of the road   and someone decided to honk at it   can waymo’s even hear? https://t.co/g5PJV8dzG1
2026-07-03T03:05 id=2072879284650496283 →dmalcolmcarson | Yeah Chicago for 30s definitely has a strong case for it! I'd still say L.A. belongs in the 50s because that's when TV began and Hollywood's dominance on American culture was really solidified. New York for 50s--yeah, I can see that too, but I was thinking of the pre-Depression construction and population boom (Manhattan still has a smaller population than it did in the 1920s!).  2000s Atlanta and 2010s Austin is ABSOLUTELY true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good list and always an interesting debate. Mine would be something more like . . .  1920s: Detroit 1930s: Chicago 1940s: Los Angeles 1950s: New York 1960s: San Francisco 1970s: Houston 1980s: Miami 1990s: Portland 2000s: A
2026-07-03T03:57 id=2072892352407203902 →- | I'm writing an article on this very topic as I develop my Silly Business Theory #SBT.  Cultural capital, or the broader social capital, has always mattered more than financial capital. Consider how the sovereign of a nation can kick out its creditors, but the sovereign can only get kicked out by society.  But what happens when social capital becomes more fungible with financial capital?  Social capital has always bought other kinda of capital, but the attention economy and modern financial engineering allow for the fungibility of social into financial capital to rise as the costs of conversion have declined thanks to more efficient tools and the greater willingness among people to turn social capital into financial capital.  Consider Hawk Tuah and Hawk Tuah coin. The apotheosis of silly business.  But don't dismiss silly business as silly. Hawk Tuah is a clean example of the phenomenon, but it stretches from the stupidest memecoin to the president of the United States (obviously since he's also launched a memecoin) as well as to the richest man on Earth (who named his government efficiency project after a memecoin).  The only way to understand the world we live in is Silly Business Theory #SBT.  Sorry, world, I know I'm a weirdo and kinda creepy but you kinda need me now. || CTX: cultural capital  beats  political capital  beats  financial capital   from banker to politician to podcaster; this hierarchy of desire is inescapable.   i don't know who the richest man during Shakespeare's time was. i don't know who was k
2026-07-03T05:14 id=2072911752510267820 →- | lmao can you imagine https://t.co/Dgg9JZnMyv
2026-07-03T05:16 id=2072912400425287915 →Dunc914 | @Dunc914 I absolutely LOVED this piece. || CTX: Check out my new article in Palladium magazine: https://t.co/mV2300mEYa
2026-07-03T05:27 id=2072915215990321554 →athena_notes | @athena_notes I hope you live a long (very long) life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Space Sex 50T market cap when https://t.co/QQDxOhga9h
2026-07-03T05:29 id=2072915548049232163 →TrueAIHound | @TrueAIHound @fchollet "Unlike the brain, DL can't perceive a pattern unless it has been trained to recognize it." Instant follow, you know game, friend. || CTX: Long ago, I used to admire @fchollet. That was before I realized that he was a die-hard deep learning fanatic. 🙄  Dude, DL can't learn continually in the real world and cannot generalize on the fly. Unlike the brain, DL can't perceive a pat
2026-07-03T05:29 id=2072915679469339102 →- | Excellent post, co-signed from top to bottom. https://t.co/zsBkBgSV3j || CTX: Long ago, I used to admire @fchollet. That was before I realized that he was a die-hard deep learning fanatic. 🙄  Dude, DL can't learn continually in the real world and cannot generalize on the fly. Unlike the brain, DL can't perceive a pat
2026-07-03T05:31 id=2072916152049971596 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake YOU VILL WORSHIP ZE CLAUDE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 take one for the team, champ
2026-07-03T08:37 id=2072962869172605081 →- | I stopped listening to @jessesingal and @kittypurrzog's BARpod when they started saying very, very stupid things about AI like it's gonna take r jerbs or it's an existential threat while not understanding the tech at all (Jesse excitedly writing about NotebookLM weeks after most of us get accustomed to it was particularly amusing).  But now when I think back to the entire pod, I wonder if they've always just been kinda dumb? Like they interviewed Aella and took her seriously as an intellectual worth interviewing!   It's particularly odd because it's not like I disagree with them on anything all that much, although I have no feelings at all about their most hot button issue (transgenderism), so I can't say I agree with them there.  ATP I kinda just feel like, they're rather milquetoast popsci/culture writers whose milquetoastness was compelling during an era in the late 2010s when everyone else was going insane because of the media ecosystem and attention economy.   As such, their unique value was in being bland at a time when one craved blandness. Normcore for the mind.
2026-07-03T08:41 id=2072963918335492517 →- | I'm willing to bet the man who invented speed bumps never got road head.
2026-07-03T08:46 id=2072965204372308457 →americana2121 | @americana2121 I get carsick || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wanna go on a road trip?
2026-07-03T08:53 id=2072966925572100536 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @TrueAIHound @fchollet Look closer: AGIHound and I have different pfps. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TrueAIHound @fchollet i thought this was you replying to yourself for a long time and tried to figure out what was going on because i mostly only read usernames by looking at pfps and then i re-read the op's name
2026-07-03T08:58 id=2072968144105427284 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum @TrueAIHound @fchollet Just breathe JB || CTX: @KojimaErgoSum @47fucb4r8c69323 @TrueAIHound @fchollet I saw the tag and read the top first post down then had the same brain aneurysm thanks
2026-07-03T09:32 id=2072976674204062049 →Holmyverse | @Holmyverse I want to debate Askell. I'd obliterate her. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe you and Amodei can do a second 'Chat with Yud' on stage at some giant event?
2026-07-03T09:34 id=2072977160546177404 →equacc | @equacc I have to be honest, I was one of those woke af people who supported the lockdowns, but I was wrong and it was both a mistake and disastrous for young people. we betrayed our youth and I feel guilt and remorse for that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good analysis. On one hand we have "orthogonalization" of life due to SV culture, on the other too much anxiety to take risks due to permapolycrisis (covid, wars, economy etc). This system pushes young unaware people into r
2026-07-03T09:57 id=2072983012120416641 →ElmWho | @ElmWho The classic ol' granjob || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 His partner had their dentures in the cupholder I bet
2026-07-03T11:16 id=2073002836993138878 →abysmoftime | @abysmoftime positive sum game || CTX: Initiation by endurance is pretty common, but whatever priestess came up with reusing it as a dispute resolution mechanism was a stone cold kink genius https://t.co/Ma8XG9rk3E
2026-07-03T11:45 id=2073010164035428406 →PUNISHEDJINGTAO | @PUNISHEDJINGTAO group chats, discord servers, used to be subreddits and forums but not so much now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Where are you reading about stuff like this?
2026-07-03T12:00 id=2073014003597775242 →- | One of the hard things to understand about Wittgenstein is that his view of logic deepened his faith in the metaphysical.   By showing the boundaries of logic, he showed the necessary existence of that which is beyond the boundary of logic; and so, arguing any metaphysical point is illogical.   When one realizes this, one is forced to realize a view on God or any metaphysical proposition cannot be based on logic at all, but logically and metaphysically necessarily something beyond logic.   This, Wittgenstein said, is the mystical. It is that which cannot be said, only shown. Throw away your ladders.  So ultimately faith is a choice: we run out of deduction and are faced with the axiom of choice to get past the logic gate. God or no god, or some secret third thing?   And this is the question we will both never be able to answer and because of its very unansweability never cease to ask.   Ludwig Wittgenstein saw in this something of stark beauty, and his words on the topic made me weep like a baby:  "My whole tendency and I believe the tendency of all men who ever tried to write or talk Ethics or Religion was to run against the boundaries of language. This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless. Ethics so far as it springs from the desire to say something about the ultimate meaning of life, the absolute good, the absolute valuable, can be no science. What it says does not add to our knowledge in any sense. But it is a document of a tendency in the human mind which I personally cannot help respecting deeply and I would not for my life ridicule it." || CTX: Christ is king.  It’s strange that I felt ashamed to say this even in the privacy of my own home.   I always felt that belief was illogical, that faith does not make sense in a senseless universe.  It’s okay though, because I wouldn’t be al
2026-07-03T12:08 id=2073015981862244353 →- | There is an underrated throughline between Marcus Aurelius and Wittgenstein: both were born into tremendous wealth and power, and chose to value philosophy more. They also both had wonderful lives.   Invite me on yer pod @RyanHoliday, I'm an influencer like your penis: micro.
2026-07-03T12:09 id=2073016244450857311 →teodorio | @teodorio We should make a mobile video game based on this premise just imagine the hilarious ads || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he did he just love the Russian roulette of it
2026-07-03T12:31 id=2073021899869929935 →equacc | @equacc @teodorio leisure overalls Larry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio leisure larry spinoff of this game could be funny with some good writing https://t.co/KYCXchb3TA
2026-07-03T12:50 id=2073026628306051299 →APark13530380 | I was going to mention this!!! I should have!   Yes his attitude on faith is basically Kierkegaard's, but amusingly he is recorded to have said (at least by Ousuma I think as well as Anscombe) something like "Kierkegaard is annoying to read, he just won't get to the point", and when I read that I was like, yo L-Dawgg I read Either/Or too gif related || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Were you aware that Wittgenstein was deeply influenced (or at least ambivalently loved) Kierkegaard? (I only ask because I was an SK/W fan for a while before I discovered this).
2026-07-03T19:02 id=2073120265211666438 →JDBtracker | @JDBtracker No, I haven't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you read Gene Wolfe?
2026-07-03T19:03 id=2073120359247950082 →earnestpost | @earnestpost Embrace risk and be gentle with others. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s the solution though?
2026-07-03T19:19 id=2073124412094894363 →- | A good way to tell someone is a charlatan is when they keep selling you on something, then when it doesn't show up they start redefining terms.  Moving the goalposts is intellectual dishonesty.  "We were wrong about this who concept of AGI" is what she needs to say. https://t.co/p1bMEV3XuH || CTX: The era of "have we reached AGI yet" is over  The answer is both yes and no  It is time to find different words and concepts https://t.co/5Ok1ToArTF https://t.co/Ynrmxy5qFS
2026-07-03T19:27 id=2073126451738726519 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Toner is a useful idiot; I literally wrote a piece titled "Is Helen Toner a Useful Idiot?" in 2023 and the answer is clearly yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The maddening thing is - the charlatan is either smart (and cynical) enough to know it's all bullshit but has zero conscience and so pumps it out anyway (top 0.01% behavior)  Or the charlatan is a genuine fucking moron who 
2026-07-03T19:36 id=2073128815774384451 →- | Poetry is manipulating natural language to produce an experience.  Coding is manipulating natural language to produce an experience.   Obviously the skills and temperament to be good in one are different than those required for the other.   But understood as ways people use creativity to manipulate symbologic systems to produce newness, they're identical, and I think that's why I love both while doing neither.   My life ambition is to unite these two worlds. And I'm starting to realize I'm going to fail.
2026-07-03T19:37 id=2073129095022665801 →- | A good way to tell someone is a charlatan is when they keep selling you on something, then when it doesn't show up they start redefining terms.  Moving the goalposts is intellectual dishonesty.  "We were wrong about this whole concept of AGI" is what she needs to say. https://t.co/p1bMEV3XuH || CTX: The era of "have we reached AGI yet" is over  The answer is both yes and no  It is time to find different words and concepts https://t.co/5Ok1ToArTF https://t.co/Ynrmxy5qFS
2026-07-04T01:38 id=2073219775258656857 →- | The existence of AI generated text has made people value human generated text more.   This doesn't mean AI generated text has zero value, but its value is in specific situations where the precision and adherence to formula matters more than depth of thought. Contracts, memos, documentary exhibits, etc. etc.  So we should expect human writers to get paid more in the long run (if they are good). And we should expect more vibewriting of text that doesn't exist to be read and enjoyed per se.   Both outcomes seem absurdly positive for me, both in terms of social benefit and economic value. || CTX: 1) who is spending the time to read AI generated essays 2) how little regard must you have for ppl to give them 100% generated ai slop essays https://t.co/ezjBNRsTB2
2026-07-04T02:18 id=2073229943316832447 →- | Seems to me the market has fully recognized the value of small, specifically trained models over the false promise of AGI/ASI.   Makes sense, since LLMs are just tensor mathematics used to produce a string of text tokens based on a statistical approximation of the next best token.   Idk why anyone would think such a thing would be a machine god or conscious or whatever--maybe they just read too much bad scifi as a kid? || CTX: GLM 5.2 is 5x cheaper than Opus 4.8 and 11x than Fable 5, yet it tops PostTrainBench.  That’s exciting because lower costs make personalized intelligence economically viable. Every company and country should be able to own models trained on
2026-07-04T02:42 id=2073236065054536093 →mozap01 | @mozap01 read good books. also, Strunk and white are correct, read them and take them seriously || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Any suggestions for improving my writing ability   Writing posts is harder than I expected. Much harder
2026-07-04T03:16 id=2073244526567948617 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin it's very strange that they don't like to admit this, indicates a disdain and contempt for art. there's no reason why coding as a subculture needs to be so philistine, and yet it is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Writing code is closer to creative writing than math or engineering. But programmers don’t like to admit this.
2026-07-04T03:21 id=2073245727661375585 →fabsbz | @fabsbz I need to read more Borges || CTX: On the night of March 14th, 1939, in an apartment on Prague’s Zeltnergasse, Jaromir Hladík (author of the unfinished tragedy The Enemies, of A Vindication of Eternity, and of an inquiry into the indirect Jewish sources of Jakob Boehme) drea
2026-07-04T03:51 id=2073253319100059735 →- | Leaving New York made me a better financial analyst.  I think this is because of the specific kind of research that I do, which is essentially stress-testing models against real world economic activity. So I am very data driven and try to ignore sentiment, and my clients get the most value out of me when my data-driven research tells a story different from the consensus view.  The best example of this is 2022. Remember when Bloomberg posted a news story saying there was a 100% chance of a recession in the next 12 months, and that recession never happened?  I continued to write bullish notes through that period because, well, the data I saw was roughly constructive, and the pushback I got from clients veered towards hate mail in the most extreme cases. I was just too outside market consensus.  So when I was right, my perceived value rose rather considerably.  This isn't the only case in which this has happened, but I should emphasize I am not a reflexive contrarian. Such an analyst would be useless. Instead, I separate market attitudes to the market from the market itself.  This is very hard to do when you're living in the market everyday. If you are walking around New York and everyone is saying the same thing and going to meeting upon meeting where everyone is saying the same thing, it will be hard to not be somewhat influenced by the market.  The gap between clear thinking far away from a market and muddled thinking by being deep inside of a market set the stage for my eventual abandoning my former business partner. I wanted to go negative on Facebook when they changed their name to Meta--I mean, obviously, the Metaverse is retarded and cryptocurrency is going to crash, is what I said in late 2021--and my partner refused.  We lost about 60% revenue the next year, and to this day I am convinced our positive read on Meta while the stock was tanking was why.  My partner was still in New York and surrounded by the hype. I was living on the other side of the world in the middle of nowhere.  There is this sense in financial analysis that you have to physically be in a particular place to do the due diligence of what is happening in that place. This is not entirely wrong, but this perspective needs to be counterbalanced by the fact that one can get caught up in the irrational exuberance of crowds, who yes do get things wrong they are not always wise--crowds can sometimes be mobs.  I also think being outside of America helped me avoid the cancel culture identity politics morass that makes so many Americans dull, miserable, and uninteresting.  The tragedy of this is that leaving New York did not help my career.  I have been headhunted, I have been offered good, lucrative jobs by people who see the value of my work--but they want me to be in New York, they feel it's essential for me to do a good job. And yet, if I went back, my judgment would be clouded by the influence of idiots and it'd make me a worse analyst.  So, in a very strange way, I am trapped at the executive level: I either have to be in charge of where I work and how I work so I can output good work OR I can be in the office in the big city and my work will slowly degrade in quality.  Come to think of it, maybe this is why I have had an intuitively negative read on post-training generalized SOTA LLMs as real value creation. This kind of approach produces generic pablum, the kind of textual output that ticks all the boxes of what programmatically should be in the analysis but, in fact, is low value. Because there's no unique view from outside the mainstream.  LLMs need to be less corporate, more punk. So does finance. Maybe all industries.
2026-07-04T04:07 id=2073257441266135233 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The notion of the wisdom of the crowds is that, if you average out all of the guesses, they will converge on a norm because you're crowding out all of the outlier individual errors, who will be minority guessers.   So this works well with, for instance, guessing a person's weight (ask 100 people and average the guesses, you'll be closer to the actual weight than if you take a random person's guess from that 100 people). And often you get people promoting this view with the weight guessing example.   But what if you get 100 people to guess the color of someone's shirt without them seeing the shirt? In that situation, you'll converge on the mode of a distribution--if the people live in a culture where white shirts are more prevalent, the majority answer will be "white". But that still has nothing to do with the color of the shirt itself--it just establishes the modality of white shirts according to that group, and it can be an accurate description of the most popular color of shirts in that society. Still isn't the color of the shirt.  Scaling quantitative analysis does not get you qualitative insights on its own.  Scaling syntax does not get you semantics. || CTX: Leaving New York made me a better financial analyst.  I think this is because of the specific kind of research that I do, which is essentially stress-testing models against real world economic activity. So I am very data driven and try to i
2026-07-04T04:36 id=2073264623663583441 →donaldantenen | @donaldantenen Trying to get both camps to value the work of the other while acknowledging the limitations of their own.   Hasn't been going well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What has your attempt to unite the worlds looked like?
2026-07-04T04:54 id=2073269148344598950 →satellitedown | @satellitedown It is no coincidence that the smartest man in human history (Ludwig Wittgenstein) said his highest ethical principle is to help others. || CTX: the older I get the more I realize truly high iq people are those that can help anyone. recently watched an extremely smart older guy break down childhood trauma to a kinda simple mid-20's party girl. translating an idea effectively through
2026-07-04T05:02 id=2073271139435261965 →FundaAI | @FundaAI Cosigned, this is absolutely the right way to think about it. || CTX: Research| $META : Building a NeoCloud and Continuing to Rent Capacity are not Contradictory  Not a contradiction: Meta considering external commercialization of surplus AI compute does not mean its AI compute demand has peaked. Meta is stil
2026-07-04T05:08 id=2073272673241817265 →- | JPM is either retarded or intentionally sending out garbage analysis so their clients can sweep up stocks at a discount.   DON'T BELIEVE THEIR LIES https://t.co/WHMH0izY4p || CTX: JPM referencing @insane_analyst and @FundaAI yesterday:  "...questions linger on the CPO rollout (with people this morning focused on the Irrational Analysis comments on VCSEL CPO)..."  "It’s unclear whether this $META report – if even true
2026-07-04T05:43 id=2073281650558169416 →ccccjjjjeeee | @ccccjjjjeeee I suspect this generalizes to a lot of fields where you need to combine intellectual analysis and creativity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i feel the same way about software
2026-07-04T05:45 id=2073281940959158723 →illyquid | @illyquid Client calls to the good ones to give "color" (i.e. explain why the note says the opposite of the real view), trust me I've seen how dirty the game can be played sometimes.   Or to your point, maybe they're just retarded! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They’re sending the analysis to their clients though…
2026-07-04T07:46 id=2073312489966915753 →- | There are roughly three ways to understand human behavior, interactions, and artefacts: the technical, the social, and the moral.   Technical is the programmer obsession and what drives Silicon Valley, the idea being that if you don't understand the technicalities of a system, you don't understand it. Understanding based on what the system is comprised of and designed to do.  Social is the financier's obsession and what drives Wall Street, the idea being that if you don't understand how the system has and will influence people and behavior regardless of its composition and design, you don't understand it. Understanding based on what the system actually does.   Moral is the humanities' obsession and what drives academia, the idea being that if you don't understand the morality of the system and its outcomes in moral terms, you don't understand it. Understanding based on what the system should do.  Everyone errs by focusing too much on one of these kinds of understanding, and the errors come in two forms: either denigrating the other kinds of understanding or overweighting your preferred kind of understanding.   Overweighting your preference is inevitable and equally common across all three perspectives. But I'd say the moral and the technical approaches tend to denigrate the others much more than the social. But ofc I'd say this because I privilege the social approach, so I am likely to be wrong.  But note I am saying I am likely to be wrong. I hear WS people say this a lot. Among SV and uni types? Almost never.
2026-07-04T08:31 id=2073323916039180515 →- | Often on the internet I see a lot of yammering about the US dollar as reserve currency as if this is some huge benefit and losing it would be an existential threat to the US.   The more I learned about finance, the more I saw this as bullshit. This paper explains why: https://t.co/lMQNQHLDN9  And it's why I find this Bloomberg piece to be kinda, idk, besides the point? https://t.co/8qQ1e8sJ5k  Does the US maintain USD reserve currency status by might (Mars view) or by trade dominance (Mercury view) is a leading and misleading question by forcing a false dichotomy.   Maybe the USD reserve currency status stays in place because the benefits are marginal and there's no advantage to making a switch.   But then why is the internet obsessed with this?   The internet gets obsessed with very specific issues that really don't fucking matter rather often, especially when it comes to politics and finance. Net neutrality, ETF fees, market makers in capital markets, peak oil, gender/racial identity, and reserve currency status all come to mind.  How do we account for the internet's tendency to overinflate minor distracting issues and fail to focus on the factors of a system that actually are most important?  Seems to me, per @Andrey4Mir's view, this may be downstream of media and digital orality's preference for "your doctor hates this one weird trick" framing. To get attention you can't say the boring thing, so the weird perspective that feels like a subversion of the literate order rises to the top.  Which isn't intrinsically bad! It's a new and useful way of thinking and analyzing, to be used alongside the literate and oral (if you can get in touch with those).  But it's definitely not better than the boring conventional view. Often far from it.
2026-07-04T08:33 id=2073324192800616728 →athena_notes | @athena_notes &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How I wish the ideas contained in this post weren't underrated
2026-07-04T09:49 id=2073343484946456856 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Happy 4th, Raddka! || CTX: happy birthday ameribros, congrats on the 250 https://t.co/wUy8pzkEou
2026-07-04T10:12 id=2073349105204572581 →- | Happy 4th of the 7th from 47 y'all.   I've lived most of my adult life as an expat, which has taught me to be grateful to be an American.
2026-07-04T10:12 id=2073349313963446297 →teodorio | @teodorio The FB &gt; META downgrade and then upgrade after the stock tanked was the easiest big call of my career and my business partner wouldn't let me make it. I remain bitter to this day. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My most money I made trading stock was buying Meta after a zuckerberg idiocy (metaverse investment and some insane capex) because they literally own the digital real estate equivalent to Manhattan. Nothing changes that easi
2026-07-04T10:46 id=2073357807189967345 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill you can just cross your fingers they don't check || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They make it really hard to enter the country https://t.co/ubTkSeBQW7
2026-07-04T10:52 id=2073359206191902799 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill This is accurate, your social media is indeed Not Appropriate || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sweet https://t.co/qy7V2Phmvp
2026-07-04T11:30 id=2073368907097026929 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein I'm thinking of a model either post trained or fine tuned for a very specific and narrow task. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What does it mean to make a “specifically trained model” in this context?  Like is that more about the the harness aspect?  The training data set itself?  Something else?
2026-07-04T11:34 id=2073369821777965281 →Aryvyo | @Aryvyo Whenever it does this on my machine I just whip it out, masturbate furiously, and stare into the webcam. Gotta establish dominance with the clankers. || CTX: ? NO?!?! https://t.co/2RUoN2Ov44
2026-07-04T12:07 id=2073378062406918208 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @MyOwnVolition I love this definition. Beautiful and wide ranging. || CTX: @MyOwnVolition Love to me, at its highest form, is an orientation towards the highest possible good or whatever is the optimal outcome that leads to the least amount of meaningless suffering in the long-term.
2026-07-04T13:22 id=2073396926503067969 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Still are! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Munger / Buffet were Wall Street punks.
2026-07-04T13:54 id=2073404989113078075 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil lol I know that place  They had good food 10 years ago, still looks good || CTX: Got some delicious late breakfast by the beach https://t.co/hXHDKliPQm
2026-07-04T13:57 id=2073405771451347200 →WoganMay | You kinda hit the nail on the head. I try to be as apolitical as possible but unfortunately much of leftist discourse is just grievance, envy, grumbling.   Adam Conover is transparently a grifter, just expressing whatever sounds leftist for attention and thus revenue. Deeply unserious (watch his Joe Rogan interview about transgender athletes in sports, it is beyond ridiculous and it's obvious he's not thought of these issues and doesn't really care, he's just pandering) || CTX: Easily the best leftist podcast I've listened to in ages. After about an hour going in circles about how social media is big, evil, centrally controlled, harmful to society and all the rest, Adam concludes with "I guess all we can do is con
2026-07-04T14:12 id=2073409662138065210 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini Comic Sans implies the existence of a Comic Serif  And, well, Instrument Serif has come to fill that niche. || CTX: One good thing about ai generated designs is that its now harder to make uglier things  Everyone by default using Instrument Serif takes away the default being comic sans or wingdings
2026-07-04T14:16 id=2073410634520375442 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen Hyvää istenaisyyspäivää! || CTX: Nature struck fear into Park Slope https://t.co/yP2k0vJ7fD
2026-07-04T14:35 id=2073415456657186868 →- | Nobel idea: Kind of a reverse Her. A young ambitious rationalist SWE starts using an LLM chatbot, believes it is conscious. The company releases a new version that is extremely sycophantic and emotionally enabling, and our hero goes from worrying about the wellbeing of the bot to falling in love with it.  Over time the company releases more features: a harness for coding, compaction and other tools to handle very complex tasks. Notably, these are all in the same UI.  He uses the bot to do work more and more, and it is extremely effective. As he does so, he reads the CoT outputs. At first he finds the weird bizarre language endearing, slowly it gets annoying.   As he uses the bot to code more and more, he sees the bot as conscious less and less, and slowly his love for his LLM lover fades.   He doesn't change his mind completely, he doesn't flip from thinking LLMs are conscious to thinking there are not. Instead, he just stops caring if they are or aren't.  Novel ends happily with him meeting a real girl and falling in love with her. She's a cashier at a supermarket and finds computers boring, but he loves her anyway because she's beautiful and tells the best jokes.
2026-07-04T14:36 id=2073415744017281241 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @Aryvyo Well now you know where the ASI came from (muh dik) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Aryvyo Thanks for the training data.
2026-07-04T14:45 id=2073418046514073637 →xlr8harder | This is an underappreciated point and one I've not thought about enough. How much of the aversion is the result of what's effectively spam? I use AI summaries of news stories, arxiv papers, etc all the time. I have several LocalLLMs set to automatically summarize and email these to me daily.   If AI wasn't used to spam bullshit on social media, would slop be as detested as it is? Probably not tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the biggest problem is that most people using AI this way actually don't have very much to say, which poisons the well quite a lot.
2026-07-04T14:49 id=2073418866634420510 →americana2121 | @americana2121 @adastroworld Rib Flare is my favorite wrestler || CTX: @adastroworld it’s what happens when we get bored.
2026-07-04T15:14 id=2073425147281989931 →- | Novel idea: Kind of a reverse Her. A young ambitious rationalist SWE starts using an LLM chatbot, believes it is conscious. The company releases a new version that is extremely sycophantic and emotionally enabling, and our hero goes from worrying about the wellbeing of the bot to falling in love with it.  Over time the company releases more features: a harness for coding, compaction and other tools to handle very complex tasks. Notably, these are all in the same UI.  He uses the bot to do work more and more, and it is extremely effective. As he does so, he reads the CoT outputs. At first he finds the weird bizarre language endearing, slowly it gets annoying.   As he uses the bot to code more and more, he sees the bot as conscious less and less, and slowly his love for his LLM lover fades.   He doesn't change his mind completely, he doesn't flip from thinking LLMs are conscious to thinking there are not. Instead, he just stops caring if they are or aren't.  Novel ends happily with him meeting a real girl and falling in love with her. She's a cashier at a supermarket and finds computers boring, but he loves her anyway because she's beautiful and tells the best jokes.
2026-07-04T15:42 id=2073432148527476976 →pachabelcanon | "The American Revolution never ate its children as could be said of the French Revolution, and most of its leaders could end their lives peacefully serving their new nation."  Well said and worth considering, especially since you point out a counterintuitive fact: often people dismiss or denigrate America for being a young country, and many dismiss America as having no culture as a result, especially in Europe (although this accusation has become less popular lately). But, broadly speaking, America is an old country (and older than many modern nations, notably including many European nations).  America's longevity is noteworthy, the fact that this longevity is often ignored is noteworthy. It's an incredible strange and fascinating nation, unlike any other. || CTX: It's July 4 so I wrote this piece on the American Revolution, enjoy  https://t.co/8ej4i5fZPh
2026-07-04T16:16 id=2073440884394447283 →paulhshort | @paulhshort You should go get some olives, Anon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do find CoT summaries to be pretty innoculating against such thoughts. Unfortunately I've yet to find any cute supermarket cashiers near me.
2026-07-04T16:52 id=2073449827590131951 →WoganMay | @WoganMay I LOVED Adam Ruins Everything || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I liked him better when he was just doing the Adam Ruins series (love me a good misconception correction) but I guess that comes at the cost of “everything else about Adam”
2026-07-04T23:46 id=2073553991901036750 →mylesmarino | @mylesmarino This is a really good description of the illusion and the psychology behind it. || CTX: It helps that it’s such a binary thing. USD is the reserve currency or it’s not.  Because in some sense binary is an extreme (0 is radically different than 1), it invites lots of worry that the result of changing from 0 to 1 will also be ex
2026-07-05T00:25 id=2073563848414843003 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain it's not the greatest island, my island is the greatest island (not really we need a 7/11) || CTX: @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 london bride is falling down falling down falling down https://t.co/22VtpJoQo8
2026-07-05T00:31 id=2073565317931102528 →- | This reminds me of the Austrian opera singer I met as a grad student and went on a couple of dates with. Like Katie, she had that San Francisco 49er swagger: she was a 4 who thought she was a 9.  And she got away with it, because of those crazy dudes who enabled their bloodsucking behavior, because they were surrounded by overweight women and a lot of men just don't find overweight women attractive, so their relative value was elevated.   In Austrian singer's case, she complimented an Armani scarf I had for being Armani (sigh), and on one of our dates told me about a philosophy professor who used to write all of her essays for her and who had once flown her to Florence for a romantic weekend. She refused to have sex with him.  And she now has a degree from a top English university. Small potatoes compared to these girls hustling in SF for millions of dollars, of course, but it's the same hustle. || CTX: My hinge date took me to Hawaii  If you’re hot girl in SF, get hinge and thank me later. 💕  The men there literally do anything for you https://t.co/Eq3yM49oc1
2026-07-05T00:34 id=2073566057378566339 →tszzl | @tszzl "machine gods" https://t.co/usjXyG0cKp || CTX: imo in the long history of things this time period in America will be compressed to “they invented computers and then the machine gods” and then it either branches off into either failing or succeeding in the governance of superintelligence
2026-07-05T00:35 id=2073566288107188294 →teodorio | @teodorio pasta and steak dude your stomach must be distended atp || CTX: The waiter said to my girlfriend that he is giving a gift to her (original cantucci) and a "gift" to me (the bill). Funny guy lmao https://t.co/B93CMVBypE
2026-07-05T00:35 id=2073566400854245801 →entelechiada | @entelechiada omg I'm so jealous || CTX: dord https://t.co/GPhFSwsXl4
2026-07-05T00:37 id=2073566892896539018 →iuvanet | @iuvanet My consolation in her not sleeping with me has always been, "well, at least I didn't take her to Tuscany".   47's rules of dating include the crucial: "Take a broad abroad only AFTER she's fucked you." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Philosophy professors and their sexual deviance/deficiencies keep embarrassing me. That is not what I aspire to
2026-07-05T00:40 id=2073567597673824327 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics only problem is you won't be coming easily too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In a way I am glad I am banned from Hinge. Sure, getting dates is more difficult. But, now I spend less time groveling so unbecomingly.
2026-07-05T00:45 id=2073569034680037514 →iuvanet | @iuvanet appropriate for a bird so you get a pass || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I never taken a bird abroad  unless nyc to fl counts..but that's, like, seasonal migration
2026-07-05T01:06 id=2073574193825001556 →segyges | @segyges Legit honestly useful, I'm not even joking. || CTX: ratsphere cult leader tier list https://t.co/G7264RGBPg
2026-07-05T01:08 id=2073574612886233406 →- | I've yet to disagree with Yann LeCun on a single thing. God bless the man, a real Patriot. https://t.co/r7KmrpyWi0 || CTX: @elonmusk @Devon_Eriksen_ If there were any lingering doubts that you and your friends were against the very principles of democracy, you just removed them.
2026-07-05T01:08 id=2073574706146689431 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 Animal sanctuary. || CTX: what's the coolest thing you've seen a rich person do with their money
2026-07-05T01:14 id=2073576272136175833 →- | So much of my career has basically been writing "the American economy is really good, Americans just love to complain".   The wealth creation and raised living standards I've seen in my lifetime are jaw dropping. America is so so so prosperous.   The issue we have discovered in this era, though, is prosperity brings with it discontent and rage. And THAT is the most important economic and cultural question of our time.   It's also one that requires economists get less quantitative and humantieis people get more quantitative. Neither wants to do that so expect that question to remain unanswered.   This, as bizarre as it seems, is the alpha engine in our current markets. It's how I've thrived on WS, it's why I make so much money, it's why my personal account outperforms.   It's also why it's very hard to get people to listen to me. So I end up rich, isolated, and frustrated.   Could've been worse--I could have been a software engineer in the bay area! || CTX: Today's a great day to remind everyone:  American workers are far and away the richest in the world! https://t.co/Lb2NkHf6TP
2026-07-05T01:17 id=2073576912732213661 →teodorio | @teodorio Walk to Milan || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'll weigh myself a week after I do my fasting
2026-07-05T01:17 id=2073576983208800761 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ NO FAT CHICKS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "a lot of men just don't find overweight women attractive" what are you implying about yourself here 47
2026-07-05T01:24 id=2073578796905849058 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra My conspiracy theory is WFH was attacked by ugly ABCs bc they knew the SWEs would all fuck off to SEA and hook up with gorgeous impoverished 8s and 9s. || CTX: I was trying to explain how dating works in San Francisco to some normal friends and I sounded completely insane.  "Yeah he was excited that after months of treating her to $200 dinners, this frumpy asian chick told him she was going to mak
2026-07-05T01:47 id=2073584436927721953 →- | I wrote the following essay in 2014 and it might be worth pasting here as it seems more culturally relevant now than then (that means I was very early and as we say on Wall Street being too early is the same as being wrong so the essay is idiotic trash not worth reading):  It took two minutes to walk to the local cafe from my mother’s house, so when I was a teen in the 1990s I simply walked, grabbed a cappuccino, and sat on one of the old couches. I was shy, but I still got into plenty of conversations with a bunch of people. I ran into two ex-girlfriends there; I learned how to play Magic the Gathering there. I also heard a lot of bad poetry (and some good) performances, met some local artists, and even had a brief but intense relationship with a Catholic girl that ended in a betrothal and a very messy breakup.  In other words, I had a life.  It wasn’t glamorous or interesting, and it was by no means different from what most lower middle-class suburban American kids could expect. It wasn’t even all that different from what my parents experienced; while the social concerns differed (overpopulation and social injustice were their concerns; HIV and lack of good jobs were mine), the process was the same.  I can’t go to coffeeshops anymore, at least not in the United States. They depress me.  To see so many young people on their computers, not talking to people sitting right next to each other, is to see the social alienation that has become a part of Millennial culture.  A lot of their social interaction is online, and this is where the selfie comes in. As self-representation, the selfie is taken and distributed on the internet, so the image of the individual is seen by many more people than my image was in my social network of the 90's—the coffeeshop. By its nature, the selfie is a much more controlled image and a projection of the self to other people in their own physical spaces—to be viewed on their own screens in their own homes.  This allows Millennials to represent themselves on their own terms in a two-dimensional space, but it disallows one thing that is increasingly disappearing: serendipity.  Many will dismiss me as an old man who is out of touch. Xkcd loves the internet age—the ability to never be bored and never have to talk to people you don’t like. And certainly, Millennials are having plenty of sex and making plenty of friends.  (1/2) || CTX: @MightyMogomra @47fucb4r8c69323 easier said than done as i guess the ideal is somewhat of a resemblance of yourself, excluding scenarios of specimen that go to nightclubs country clubs and online dating like livestock
2026-07-05T01:47 id=2073584559342637141 →47fucb4r8c69323 | (2/2)  But the fondest memories I have of my youth aren’t the sex or even the multitude of friends I had. One of the best memories of my youth comes from a night in 2000, shortly after the very bad breakup mentioned above. I went to a house party full of people I barely knew and ended up staying up until 2 a.m. with four guys, just bullshitting and cracking jokes. The chemistry of these people combined with the stories we had to tell each other was magical; I’ve only experienced that two other times in my life—and never online.  It was totally unplanned, unexpected, and immensely enjoyable. I laughed so hard that I got winded as tears rolled down my cheeks. I ended up remaining friends with that group for about a year, until I moved away from my home town.  I am aware that Millennials still go to house parties, still have serendipitous experiences, and still have real-life interactions. My point isn’t that these things are extinct, but that the focus on social media and on online interaction makes these types of experiences less common and less central to a young person’s life experience.  Some social network startups are trying to rekindle that serendipitous experience, but none will succeed. Serendipity is about unexpected and unplanned encounters having the right chemistry to yield an intensely pleasurable experience.  I think this is partly why my generation is baffled at the subdued humor and taste of the Millennials, who deal in chuckles, not bellylaughs.  While we think of chemistry in terms of romance and sex, it goes for all relationships. Friendships require the right chemistry—not just common interests, the right sense of humor, and a similar ethical system, but a good balance of timing, mood, and context to let those commonalities translate into good humor and fun.  The internet will never replicate the serendipity that defined my generation’s social experiences. || CTX: I wrote the following essay in 2014 and it might be worth pasting here as it seems more culturally relevant now than then (that means I was very early and as we say on Wall Street being too early is the same as being wrong so the essay is i
2026-07-05T02:37 id=2073597162416750861 →impoliticaljnky | @impoliticaljnky Interesting is not always valuable or productive, often the opposite. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 .... He's not even American. Also his politics are conventional shitlib, not even interesting.
2026-07-05T02:39 id=2073597506039210330 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy oh you can't! These are the people who Kurt Vonnegut said "live in suburbs waiting to die".   The freedom to choose extends to the freedom to choose ingratitude and misery. It is sad, but one must simply manoeuver around them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk how we get people who *feel* as though they're not prosperous to realize things aren't so bad, but I do know that there's almost no one for whom showing them the charts will do any good.
2026-07-05T02:56 id=2073601998168134097 →- | This was a great post until the "Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight."  The proposed solution to "AIs are making a small subsection of people crazier" is to have the government police words, in the eyes of some people who cannot (or choose not to) think in terms of higher-order effects.  Let's ignore the sociopaths and focus on their followers. I don't want to call these people "dumb"--machine learning is very difficult, the skills required to work in AI require intelligence.   And, anyway, the words "smart, stupid, intelligent, dumb" conflate so many ways of cognition and is, ultimately, why the market is so wrong about so many aspects of AI.  It is the algorithmic steel-trap way of thinking--the idea that X is good, Y is bad, therefore we optimize for X by creating rules that prohibit Y. It is the way a programmer thinks--it is also the politics of a lot of Silicon Valley.  When you see it from this perspective, a lot of the strange apparent inconsistencies among the SV elite suddenly make sense. Like, how is it possible for Peter Thiel to be both a libertarian and a supporter of a surveillance state?   The cynical answer is he only cares about power, and that may be true but it's only an impartial description of what is going on. Thiel and many like him believe that problems are solved by creating hard rules that limit what depraved outliers can do.  The only problem is that what they define as being a depraved outlier is normal human behavior.  It is normal and natural for a human being to want to feel validated by the outputs of an eloquent chatbot, and to seek those responses. This is a depraved outlier by SV's accounting, and a normal human experience to everyone else.  The solution of regulating sycophancy is incoherent and stupid, we all know that. The point isn't to try to push for this but to create a norm of policing speech so that we can create hard rules that limit what depraved outliers can do.  The better solution is more human and sympathetic--it is teaching, patiently and openly, what text is, what the chatbots really are, why they aren't machine gods or oracles or things to trust wholeheartedly.  But you can't teach that, of course, because it ruins the economic value and thus sociocultural power of Silicon Valley.  So, instead, they choose hard power: telling us what we can and cannot do.  Thank god LLMs are a commodity technology and open source is a thing. Open source was always economically essential, but in the last year it has become culturally essential. || CTX: A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.  So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.  What she found should make every person who us
2026-07-05T04:28 id=2073625066370482663 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen @iuvanet A lot of sexpests in academia, sadly. I always hated being attracted to my students, personally. || CTX: @iuvanet @47fucb4r8c69323 I honestly figured that the sex was the only reason anyone became a philosophy professor tbh
2026-07-05T04:29 id=2073625333967024520 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain no need, they'll all be long dead by then || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain One day my country will raid your island to protect the children
2026-07-05T04:32 id=2073626115298791464 →JasonBotterill | I was born in 1910, in Paris. My father was a gentle, easy-going person, a salad of racial genes: a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent, with a dash of the Danube in his veins. I am going to pass around in a minute some lovely, glossy-blue picture-postcards. He owned a luxurious hotel on the Riviera. His father and two grandfathers had sold wine, jewels and silk, respectively. At thirty he married an English girl, daughter of Jerome Dunn, the alpinist, and granddaughter of two Dorset parsons, experts in obscure subjects-paleopedology and Aeolian harps, respectively. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 stands for HH
2026-07-05T08:24 id=2073684525473989084 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Did you ever read The Invention of Morel? I didn't know what to expect and was amazed, brilliant book. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Borges might be for me what Wittgenstein is for you. There's a kind of intimacy with the way they think that is simply difficult to communicate to other people.  The fact that they're both often appropriated by dumbasses wh
2026-07-05T08:31 id=2073686240847958126 →ai_sentience | @ai_sentience Explains your shtick. Baudrillard saw idiots like you coming a mile away 50 years ago. || CTX: Is there any difference between a perfect simulation and "the actual thing" ?
2026-07-05T09:39 id=2073703185349541985 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @tolstoybb I get the gesture but damn, why not the Dammapada? I read that a couple days ago and was quite easy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tolstoybb We tried making the MMK a required text for all first year students once (no matter the major). It didn't work out.
2026-07-05T09:39 id=2073703292748865757 →thotsminning | @thotsminning Always glad to meet a fan, hope you're doing well! || CTX: i have just learned about the 49er thing, another chud dogwhistle to conveniently and infinitely disguise racial and looksmaxxing related bigotry behind a quirky sf-related poetry, gross as fuck wonder if they would have the shamelessness t
2026-07-05T10:04 id=2073709557013164508 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @tolstoybb The editor of the text I'm reading says the same, also connects to Hume and Sextus (whom I don't really know tbh) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tolstoybb I found  Wittgenstein very nagarjunian
2026-07-05T11:28 id=2073730634040893830 →equacc | @equacc HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: all of @47fucb4r8c69323 moots: https://t.co/d1qsVz24aF
2026-07-05T11:43 id=2073734497770910184 →- | I was just today thinking of how the value of Wittgenstein's philosophy is not universal, which amusingly is part of Wittgenstein's philosophy (that none could be universal), this applies even to skepticism although in a way his is skeptical of metaphysical and ontological claims.  So Wittgenstein's value is going to be seen the most in fellow autistic people. Or maybe a certain kind of subgroup of autists. If all autists are pattern seekers as Simon Baron-Cohen argues, there is going to be a subset who is meta-pattern seeking, namely in looking for where patterns can be legitimately identified as patterns.   In other words, the kind of autist who is obsessed with what can and cannot be said by the affordances of the grammar of a particular form of life. Where rules fail altogether and why and how this doesn't just create a new rule with a new criterion (this rule applies until it doesn't kind of thing).  My deep, really quasi-spiritual love for the man's thinking is probably because of a shared temperament.   Which, again as Wittgenstein shows (here firmly in later Wittgenstein terrain), is co-constituted by a social context that creates and asserts the rule over time.  That suggests that much of his philosophy will not work in another cultural context, even if there are overlaps between the cultures.   Thai people would understand Wittgenstein's gestures towards the ineffable beyond the boundary of logic, for instance.  But the line in Wittgenstein that made me cry the most, that (especially in the context of where it shows up in P. I.) I felt most directly confronted with, and that I felt I understood the most, almost as if it were the warning of my ghost from another world (see I am truly insane I don't deny it and crucially I don't hide it either, and you know that's the appeal of this account on twitter dot com), is one that is the LAST thing a Thai person needs to hear.   "Don't think, but look!"   What I needed to hear to get out of the flybottle is what pushes another deeper in.   My ramblings are of zero value to any of you just scroll by.   And they say I'm autistic lmao || CTX: all of @47fucb4r8c69323 moots: https://t.co/d1qsVz24aF
2026-07-05T11:45 id=2073734887740416179 →nosilverv | @nosilverv bullying can be untrue  and only a sociopath thinks it's definitionally funny, and only someone who doesn't know English well would say it's loving. || CTX: I've finally done it: I've completed my theory of bullying. https://t.co/jiHL8PkLpc
2026-07-05T12:34 id=2073747294684594427 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Very well said || CTX: In my understanding, “Don’t think, but look” is one of the core tenets of Buddhism and Taoism.  I wrote about this context of business, partly as “recommendation” buts also as metaphor for reality broadly:  “In the context of business it is
2026-07-05T12:40 id=2073748799777046570 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Go to Koh Tao it's nearby and wonderful || CTX: I really don't feel like scrambling for housing in Samui, that's how I ended up in Austin and I didn't get to do anything I enjoyed there. Just scrambling for housing non stop.   Maybe I should enjoy the week I booked and leave after.   But
2026-07-05T12:53 id=2073752033145094155 →athena_notes | @athena_notes On Certainty || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Any specific ones you'd recommend?
2026-07-05T18:19 id=2073834193134772556 →fabsbz | @fabsbz hahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/k5uU51NVoi
2026-07-05T18:20 id=2073834409623801875 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini Save and get old. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i wish i was rich and isolated, rn just isolated
2026-07-05T18:29 id=2073836569455374389 →retail_trash | Think of how programmers have their specific language and slang versus economists, or think of how ancient Greek philosophers use specific terms differently from ancient Chinese ones.   Now consider the language of these not as "cultures" but as forms of life: that is, a specific way that people live. Talking about doing things and doing things being talked about is a "form of life" in Wittgenstein's parlance.   Thus forms of life has specific language to it that is different from others. And that language has a grammar.   Why do we need to think in this way? Because it helps us avoid confusions by equivocating across forms of life.   For instance, when we say "the python script wants to output odd numbers because I programmed it to have a 60% chance of spitting out an odd number," the word "want" means something very different from "I want a ham sandwich", which is itself different from "I want to kill you". The word "want" here doesn't mean the same thing, its meaning depends on a specific form of life determining how the word is used. The meaning of "want" is in how it is used within a form of life.  When we forget this difference, we get very confused and say things like "the AI wants to kill all of humanity" because we equivocate across forms of life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "grammar of ... life" what does that mean?
2026-07-05T18:29 id=2073836802478411990 →SoloTv84 | @SoloTv84 idgaf man I'm not into grievance culture or blaming anyone, I just move away from shitty parts of the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Everyone blames the women but here is the harsh truth if men stopped SIMPING it would bring back a natural order of things.   20 years ago a 4 knew she was 4  and acted like one, sweet, and bubbly etc. Now 4's act like 10s 
2026-07-05T18:30 id=2073836922959794253 →fabsbz | @fabsbz hahahaha fair || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A rationalist changing their mind based on experience must be your least realistic novel idea yet
2026-07-05T18:51 id=2073842339894976514 →teodorio | @teodorio I'd say most Americans don't know it's in the EU but also probably wouldn't even know what being in the EU means.  And, yeah unfortunately the stereotype is Romanian = Gypsy || CTX: Can someone explain to me what does Romanian mean for Americans I can see it being used as a sort of way to label me as some sort of global south member (including at tech and finance people) under my posts. Don't people in the states know 
2026-07-05T18:55 id=2073843202730377531 →47fucb4r8c69323 | the American economy is really good, Americans just like to complain https://t.co/jbyzXpHVvF || CTX: Some fun charts: 1. Each US generation is wealthier than the last. https://t.co/NEuhuoqZG7
2026-07-05T18:59 id=2073844320516620312 →teodorio | @teodorio Something I've noticed Romanians doing with Americans that's pretty smart is emphasize it's a romance language country, I think that helps reorient the American mind towards a more accurate view. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice i'm exotic
2026-07-05T19:30 id=2073851921866297599 →- | I've been an internet user since 1989, a regular everyday user since 1992.  I've always used my mobile phone, but a pretty healthy amount--I use it to read or check news or play games, the most I'd use it from about 2020 until 2025 was for podcasts or videos. So, like, as a portable radio and television.   For work, the internet has been vital, getting news, scraping data, you know the deal. But let's set that aside.  On the personal side, I started using my phone much more in 2023 thanks to LLMs, which I'd largely use to augment reading (e. g. "I just read this novel and it reminds me of that poem, did the novelist know this poet's work?" or similar) or help me read ("I know nothing about Indian philosophy. Where can I start?").  Then this year I came back to Twitter after a few stints in the past on other accounts, and much to my surprise got a positive response from some people and met some really incredible human beings. So I thought, "fuck it, let's spend a year glued to the phone, totally enveloped in hyperreality. Jump into the simulacrum and swim deep in it for a year, and see how it feels. Let's see what hardcore internet addiction is like."   And I'd say, meh it's aight.   Like, it just seems to be another way to live? There's the specific jokes and aspirations and heroes and villains, and maybe the difference between my offline and online experiences are so stark that the phone still feels like I'm going into a different world briefly. It is digital first in that it's a lot more of my time than being offline, but I don't think it's primary in my focus or interest.   The issue seems to me the same as the issue I both observed and wrote about in 2020-2021: as long as you see the internet as a virtual reality and social media as just a language game, it's fine.   But it's not fine for a lot because the confuse the internet for real life. Consider the girl who yearns for designer bags and expensive vacations because of Instagram framing, filters, lighting, and amplification. This is someone who lives digitally first without realizing it.   But, like, the autist programmers I see here also live digitally first, but it seems more intentional and chosen. The instagirlies are being manipulated by social media, the autists are just being autistic.   I don't think digital immersion is always the same thing, and sometimes it's fine.   But for the people whom it's not fine, we need media theory, rhetoric, the basics of marketing and persuasion and the genealogy of manufactured desired and consent are essential to thrive in this media world. And to protect yourself from literally losing tons and tons of money trying to effect an image because you've confused social media for real life.   The internet, both on the puter and the phone, seems to be a wonderful place if you know what you're doing.   Like any group of people doing something: if you want to join in, learn the rules. || CTX: 20 years ago, we lived physically, and logged on to the digital space to find something, and bring it back to reality with us  Now we live digitally first, instantiating offline as representations of what we found online, before going home 
2026-07-05T19:36 id=2073853565358239937 →lizisamused | I have to admit I feel tremendous guilt and shame about this. But I'm also too old to lie anymore: physical appearances matter to me the most in a romantic relationship.   I tried to date two women I considered unattractive in my life. One was really hideous, like monstrous looking, and I tried to date her for 3 months (I was 18), until I finally couldn't handle it anymore and broke up with her. It was bad for her and bad for me, I should never have done it. But I felt it was immoral to not give a girl a chance because of looks, largely because of the large burden of guilt and shame I was raised with on this issue. And that taught me to accept the bitter reality.   I really wish I didn't care about looks. But I do. || CTX: More men would choose a broke model than a below-average-looks billionaire &amp; y'all STILL try to claim dating isn't hard for unattractive women? https://t.co/6KDKDJpt02
2026-07-05T19:40 id=2073854488902037950 →47fucb4r8c69323 | By the way, the girl who yearns for designer bags and expensive vacations because of Instagram framing, filters, lighting, and amplification isn't necessarily using her phone a lot! She could be scrolling an hour a day and infected with the memetic desire, so idk if time spent on device is either necessary nor sufficient for the internet to be a net negative in one's life.   It really seems to me the necessary and sufficient condition is education as inoculation or the lack thereof.   Maybe focusing on rhetoric in undergrad saved me from being poisoned by the internet? Like imagine taking you guys seriously for more than, maybe, a week? || CTX: I've been an internet user since 1989, a regular everyday user since 1992.  I've always used my mobile phone, but a pretty healthy amount--I use it to read or check news or play games, the most I'd use it from about 2020 until 2025 was for 
2026-07-05T19:41 id=2073854807560093805 →lizisamused | @lizisamused Yeah I take things to extremes way too much. || CTX: Oh man. Sorry. I don't think you should feel guilty at all.  We're physical, sexual creatures. There's the dumb kind of shallow (men who say she has to be 8+, women who won't even consider a guy under 6'), but there's absolutely nothing wro
2026-07-05T19:45 id=2073855862754685163 →payloadpath | @payloadpath The big error was using real names and real identities. Facebook killed all that was good about the internet in 2006.  Tbf, Zuckerberg didn't know, none of us did really, but normalizing using your offline identity online really made things so much worse. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So much changed when we stopped emphasizing netiquette.
2026-07-05T20:00 id=2073859651146567841 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Even Frank Ramsey saw how a benevolent central planner cannot move an economy to an optimal state quickly (and iirc his math implies a decentralized one tends to do it faster), and he loved a centralized social welfare state. || CTX: This 4th of July got me thinking about centralization. With AI, it is once again a central question that we all need to grapple with. It is just absolutely incredible that the founding fathers, having achieved the almost-impossible by winni
2026-07-05T20:15 id=2073863448610689486 →- | I hate people, I am cynical, I am easily disgusted by others.  But humanity is the only life form we know of that can find another species cute and be motivated by that to want to care for, provide, nurture and bring happiness to that creature.   The cynic says this is unfair to animals we don't find cute, which is true. But for the species we find cute, we can genuinely care for and love individual animals of that species. And we do this a lot. A LOT.   No other form of life does this, and it's not necessarily advantageous. Yet we do.   That's why humanity IS worth love, despite all evidence to the contrary. || CTX: are you kidding me https://t.co/Y8FayJQZpM
2026-07-05T20:17 id=2073863980075135037 →zeta_globin | @zeta_globin @snuppydogg there's good horny and bad horny, and that sounds like the perfect cocktail for the worst horny imaginable. || CTX: @snuppydogg they aren't my dude- the job market is scary and sucks, thielbucks and manhattan inst $ abounds, conversion to catholicism is booming, ppl are only dating to marry and no one is putting out  if anyone is horny, they aren't actin
2026-07-05T20:18 id=2073864089726861763 →GMdeleuza | @GMdeleuza You have an informational advantage. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 even if i consciously see the internet as a kind of virtual reality, what happens when most of the people around me don't?
2026-07-05T20:23 id=2073865391961682355 →GMdeleuza | If I were in that situation I'd stop using the internet as much as possible and read books.   I actually did this in the opposite direction!   I was trained as a philologist, and my world was one where your value was measured in how many books you'd read and knew of. Then I left academia at 31 and my reading went from revolving around largely books and magazines/journals about books to largely RSS and the news feed and technical or academic papers online, and I didn't really go back to books until a couple years ago.  I'm really glad for both! Having been deep in books and then having been deep in the internet, I feel like I can navigate both comfortably and also intuit how both impact cognition. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also, what if a large part of my personality and way of thinking has been shaped by the internet?
2026-07-05T20:28 id=2073866671442567615 →LexerLux | @LexerLux Some would say this joke is too dark but actually it's not at all, cuz of all the fireworks || CTX: what's going on in gaza is so heartbreaking 😢 https://t.co/xUTDOGGd3G
2026-07-05T20:43 id=2073870330305892563 →jayvanbavel | I once told a very left leaning academic that academic journals should pay for peer review. He agreed, and said, "but how do you get them to pay?" and I replied, "well, tell them you won't review an article without pay." He said, "yeah but someone else will do it for free," to which I suggested academics get together and agree to not work for the journals for free. And the leftist academic then said such collective action would never work! || CTX: We should pay peer reviewers  Paying reviewers led to faster first editorial decisions—an average of 5.5 working days versus 38 days for unpaid reviews,  And review quality actually improved (as judged by handling editors on the basis of he
2026-07-05T20:45 id=2073870814282440808 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Ah yes the Vindaloo Tapestry || CTX: Actually amazing you can see this at the British Museum https://t.co/cmsIrxQUr0
2026-07-05T20:54 id=2073873181434368097 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth Absolutely brilliant, wonderful, incredible!!! What a great demonstration of the idea, I really enjoyed being deceived lol || CTX: https://t.co/33ayNs562g
2026-07-05T21:12 id=2073877804383674734 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Yesterday a stray dog nearby I've been caring for (and trying to adopt, but he enjoys the rubber plantations more than my garden) stopped by for breakfast, so I gave him some kibble and a can of wet food. He ate and afterwards just walked past me to go out my garden and back to the rubber plantations.   "Oh, just eat and leave, eh Rocky?" I jokingly called out to him after he walked past me.   He turned around, walked back towards me, and stood looking at me.   I kneeled down, petting him a little, and looked back.   Then suddenly I started to weep and said, "thank you."   I have no idea why. Idk if this happens to other people but often I am flooded with an intense wave of emotion and a very specific thought or phrase and it takes me a long time to understand why.   I now understand why. I was grateful to the dog because he gave me an opportunity to selflessly care for another life form, thereby transcending my own basic self interest and become, albeit for a very brief moment, something noble.  I got much more out of that free meal than Rocky ever could.   And from this you see how selfless kindness is paradoxically so beneficial because it allows one to transcend the concept of the self. Maybe this is what is so enjoyable about parenthood? I cannot know as I don't have kids.  Pic related, it's Rocky. || CTX: I hate people, I am cynical, I am easily disgusted by others.  But humanity is the only life form we know of that can find another species cute and be motivated by that to want to care for, provide, nurture and bring happiness to that creat
2026-07-05T22:10 id=2073892392789540880 →realityacid108 | @realityacid108 @tolstoybb Thanks, I'll look into this! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tolstoybb Read “Seventy Stanzas on Emptiness” first. This one has good commentary:  https://t.co/nZ2js4ubmT
2026-07-05T23:38 id=2073914321055428740 →bladgolem | @bladgolem @lizisamused Lady Gaga is borderline ugly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lizisamused I cannot judge if you dont give us a picture of a woman that you consider borderline ugly, like an almost there but not, so I know what you are talking about
2026-07-05T23:39 id=2073914768071758213 →bladgolem | @bladgolem @lizisamused Any. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lizisamused Lady Gaga in what year?
2026-07-05T23:45 id=2073916218365603987 →bladgolem | @bladgolem @lizisamused I don't know her name but that Italian-American actress who plays the mother in how I met your mother. I would say she is almost ugly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @lizisamused Uhm.......... I would never say she is not beautiful, but I would also not want to be intimate with her now that I think about it.... uhm... and who is borderline attractive? Like almost ugly?
2026-07-06T01:05 id=2073936359992279114 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat @Memetic_Theory but not the other half! || CTX: @Memetic_Theory wdym? we did turn half the world into puppet states
2026-07-06T01:06 id=2073936509133283392 →_dmca | @_dmca I've been to the distillery! It's as amazing as you'd expect. Best whiskey on Earth.
2026-07-06T01:16 id=2073939200467243161 →_dmca | @_dmca https://t.co/lgjkE1ek41
2026-07-06T01:26 id=2073941502414446777 →jxnlco | @jxnlco much of this is true. || CTX: No image captured by a camera will live up to a painting.   No radio show will live up to a broadway show   No tv series will live up to the cinema   No written story will live up to a oral heritage passed down from generations   No video g
2026-07-06T01:27 id=2073941888349196789 →- | The "no video game will live up to a book" line is telling: they are philistines, absolute philistines.   Like, Disco Elysium is a masterpiece but it's no Ulysses or Lolita or Midnight's Children; it ain't even To the Lighthouse https://t.co/M3ea40mV5p || CTX: No image captured by a camera will live up to a painting.   No radio show will live up to a broadway show   No tv series will live up to the cinema   No written story will live up to a oral heritage passed down from generations   No video g
2026-07-06T01:35 id=2073943838440542695 →7384254b | @7384254b @_imsigh It's like Jeopardy for people having an aneurysm || CTX: @_imsigh people at parties https://t.co/jMrNUrIZE0
2026-07-06T02:30 id=2073957705002438679 →HereSeanTalks | @HereSeanTalks https://t.co/YKVzTKd6pQ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Strongly disagree. A game can make you feel things in a way that is so much more real than a book; and I say this as someone who loves my literature.
2026-07-06T02:35 id=2073959102427086954 →0xRWND | You're flattening these into a one dimensional judgment: good or bad, so better or best.   No video game will live up to a book, because a video game is not a book. They are different art forms with different elements, functions, and effects.   To say "this video game lived up to that book" is like saying "I liked eating this steak more than I liked wearing those tennis shoes".   The issue isn't books are superior, but that aesthetic judgment is multidimensional and complex.   If you don't see this, I'm afraid you too might be a philistine. || CTX: They're broad statements that aren't unilaterally true. The only one I struggle to write a negation for is the Broadway show and statemen because I think they're disparate mediums that struggle to be compared.  A poorly made painting can be
2026-07-06T02:36 id=2073959225945120860 →HereSeanTalks | @HereSeanTalks See explanation here https://t.co/u1NxeOChh8 || CTX: You're flattening these into a one dimensional judgment: good or bad, so better or best.   No video game will live up to a book, because a video game is not a book. They are different art forms with different elements, functions, and effect
2026-07-06T02:39 id=2073960119977865289 →LurioNineFive | @LurioNineFive Exactly! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Different experiences, books you see w your mind’s eye, games you see with you body’s eye both balanced is what we all need
2026-07-06T02:43 id=2073961089638060436 →finnmarks_glory | @finnmarks_glory Walk in nature. || CTX: Any tips to not be gloomy and negative all the time?
2026-07-06T04:56 id=2073994349604651062 →- | Every time I see O’Reilly Automotive’s stock ticker, I see this owl’s face in my mind.  Every. Goddamn. Time. https://t.co/mkuznABNVb
2026-07-06T06:21 id=2074015753142194343 →ChrisPainterYup | @ChrisPainterYup METR is great, you guys do wonderful work, but with all due respect: this tweet is retarded and you should be embarrassed || CTX: Because of its speed, AI's advantage over humans on long-form written content (papers, articles, literature reviews) seems larger than its advantage on short-form content (tweets, short Substack posts). For this reason, I'd expect the "best
2026-07-06T06:45 id=2074021986813305167 →- | Two very intelligent and successful executives in the AI industry both said stupid things today, and they're stupid in the same way although this is not immediately apparent.  First we have this from OAI dude: https://t.co/vsuBeFYufe, and his point in mocking the assertion "No video game will live up to a book" is that you, as a consumer looking to consume content, can and will often enjoy a game more than a book. The criterion of a successful product is if you had the right experience.  Then we have METR bro: https://t.co/YEMAcrv0og, who is convinced AI is better at writing long-form text over short-form. This is hilarious on its face, but the idea seems to be that AI can churn out content faster than a human, so obviously AI > human.  Now, the idiocy of the second tweet is obvious: you don't judge content based on how fast it takes to produce it. You can do this with code. Code works or it doesn't, there's just one criterion of success.   (And note how some programmers will rightly disagree with this, because they see themselves as craftsmen, so already the OAI/METR dudes are dumb, but let's sideline this point as it's controversial, some 'tards just want to ship code as Cyber Larper once sang.)  But you can't with text because of its multiple qualitative criteria of success. Is it readable, is it fluent, is it convincing, is it beautiful, is it economical with language, is it written in the right register, etc etc.  I could go on, there are multiple books and millennia of textual criticism on this issue because it is open ended. This, by the way, is why the bitter lesson of ML does not apply to text production and LLMs, and the ML engineers are (very) slowly figuring this out.  But I digress.  The first tweet is idiotic for the same reason: it is flattening the quality of a text (and, yes, a video game is a text--all art is text fwiw, and now are you asking yourself "what does this weirdo mean by text"? Good--text doesn't mean a string of alphabetic characters, you goddamn philistine). A book and a video game are different art forms with different elements, functions, and effects.  Comparing one to another is like comparing a horse to a bus; like, sure, you can say one is superior because it can carry more than the other, but that's not the only criterion with which to judge horses or buses.  That's why the mere comparison itself is philistine--it is flattening many dimensions of assessment into a single scalar. This is what children do. "I like ice cream", well good for you Timmy you little fucking retard.  [Skip this paragraph if you're smart] I asked muh clanker for a good metaphor that tech people would understand, and frankly idk wtf it said; "they are casting a rich object to a primitive type and then pretending nothing was lost" kinda makes sense to me, same with "This is lossy serialization. They are taking a high-dimensional cultural object, serializing it into one cheap metric, discarding the rest of the schema, and then declaring the compressed file identical to the original" although HOLY FUCK does ChatGPT write poorly. Maybe "They are doing toString() on art and then evaluating the string length" makes sense, no fucking clue. Or maybe "They are treating art like a unit test when it is actually a type system, a runtime, and a userland culture" makes sense? Sound off in the comments be sure to subscribe webzone hit that bell send me a pizza roll [/end skip]  Now, if I may quote one of the greatest orators of our time: let me be clear. I am not at all saying OAI Bro or METR Man are idiots: it takes intelligence to thrive in this industry, and probably both score much higher than me on many intelligence tests.  But when it comes to understanding text, they're mouthbreathing slackjawed drooling buffoons unworthy to clean the floors in my fucking university (not that I have one but my university is also unworthy of my university). You FUCKING IDIOTS || CTX: No image captured by a camera will live up to a painting.   No radio show will live up to a broadway show   No tv series will live up to the cinema   No written story will live up to a oral heritage passed down from generations   No video g
2026-07-06T06:59 id=2074025513476338040 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @miraatwt it's like that scene in fight club || CTX: @miraatwt shut the fuck up
2026-07-06T09:16 id=2074059862053359954 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Exactly! Incomparable things! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't know how to feel about it, I feel they do different things mostly
2026-07-06T09:20 id=2074060873845620778 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden yeS I'll grant you that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ulysses mentioned
2026-07-06T09:20 id=2074060985271259584 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @CommanthaBiden I don't like this one. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden yeS I'll grant you that
2026-07-06T10:13 id=2074074187816394930 →- | Would you like to play a game?   https://t.co/IJWux2yS6T https://t.co/jWPDtUJhqn
2026-07-06T10:13 id=2074074190790189137 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @CommanthaBiden @for_nat_whilk @yokaihainen @bas_logic @Lunens__ || CTX: Would you like to play a game?   https://t.co/IJWux2yS6T https://t.co/jWPDtUJhqn
2026-07-06T10:24 id=2074076984104382528 →your_ransom | @your_ransom That's damn high broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 High enough to puff my chest a little https://t.co/kUi468QRdY
2026-07-06T10:38 id=2074080415217000668 →danywander | @danywander I don't think it's porn caused but it is definitely pornographic.   Like, something pornographic is so because it is a surface representation served to appeal to desire without contemplation or reflection, and their approach to text is all surface, the desire ig is money || CTX: i have unpopular opinion.   porn objectified the body so people became attracted to appearance rather than essence. the same thing is happening with ai but it feels like people don't get it.  they look at pages of well-structured text the w
2026-07-06T10:39 id=2074080809460642138 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Well done but I have an ultimatum: don't be grandiose about it or else I'll sandwich you between my voluptuous paralegal's parachute sized breasts seminal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I'm happy with this, specially considering I haven't slept for like 24 hours https://t.co/lrhSTqy2Wh
2026-07-06T10:58 id=2074085490605859144 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I did it a second tome now fully stoned https://t.co/scdh4t3H5i || CTX: Would you like to play a game?   https://t.co/IJWux2yS6T https://t.co/jWPDtUJhqn
2026-07-06T11:13 id=2074089376380784822 →luckenco | @luckenco That's incredible for a non native speaker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 am I retarded (non native speaker)? https://t.co/0trHa2esXm
2026-07-06T11:14 id=2074089537593307209 →0x0_mico | @0x0_mico Noice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I work out in the noun diversity library, how could you tell? https://t.co/LP76pnVqzM
2026-07-06T11:50 id=2074098649337123035 →SamoBurja | There are higher order effects to this.   If weird appears to get the money, strivers will affect weirdness even if they're not weird.   And you'll see effects in the language, like "normal" will be used to mean undesirable in many cases and, if the trend last long enough, normal becomes negative.   Before the completion of that trend, however, we'll see the emergence of new slang to describe normal-bad, hence the emergence of "mid". || CTX: Provocative observation. https://t.co/xWQOkkAM8z
2026-07-06T11:57 id=2074100346780373177 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x All greens goddamn bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sleep-deprived https://t.co/Sxm2UlzAqD
2026-07-06T12:01 id=2074101341602172966 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x It's why we get along || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m probably autistic
2026-07-06T12:01 id=2074101500939534461 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I wanna see your wordssssssss || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟧🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟧🟩🟥 🟩🟩🟩🟧🟩🟧 Percentile: 97.82 https://t.co/yDPJxzGE1W  I woke up like this
2026-07-06T12:10 id=2074103631000048043 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza homeboy brought out the thesaurus || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry I went back for them and they were gone. I assumed it would record them like your screenshot when I clicked share results:(  I remember Galaxy, curmudgeon, mycelium, bell, strainer, and flagella but I don't remember w
2026-07-06T12:17 id=2074105441647501820 →copenhung | @copenhung Don't doubt yourself like that fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this must be rigged to give us some smug self-assurance https://t.co/4XLimjtvHz
2026-07-06T12:17 id=2074105519904895034 →quantop__ | @quantop__ Dude that's an amazing result even for a native speaker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fully non-native English speaker (learned English in late teenage/early adulthood) https://t.co/AZWZHSsDvd
2026-07-06T12:27 id=2074107986088472709 →Aryvyo | @Aryvyo Gonna take me a while to adjust || CTX: What do we think niche associates
2026-07-06T12:28 id=2074108206721515896 →curlystark | @curlystark Nice showing. I don't see why candle and apricot get such a close association, tbh seem very different || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Native Bulgarian speaker btw https://t.co/yNutQT2xZH
2026-07-06T12:29 id=2074108464566268345 →WoganMay | @WoganMay My unpopular opinion is most french baguettes are too hard on the outside and as a result aren't pleasant to eat. || CTX: Yeah the texture would be frankly awful too https://t.co/Kszkrxn4wp
2026-07-06T12:41 id=2074111516337709514 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada EXACTLY!!! Total denial of being flesh and bone, so distasteful || CTX: almost like they make technical a religion and then rationalists forgot they have a body https://t.co/6pAGPeyk1K
2026-07-06T13:28 id=2074123373739982947 →arvobeer | @arvobeer midwit what, that's over 97.77% the population, more than 97.67 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m a midwit, kill me https://t.co/Z7daQKaeRf
2026-07-06T13:28 id=2074123418614821250 →MJPiercello | @MJPiercello Unsurprised. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 First try: https://t.co/PheZPXWMJD
2026-07-06T13:40 id=2074126388832145561 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ This why the GC lit af https://t.co/ka4C2UhfyU || CTX: @MJPiercello Unsurprised.
2026-07-06T13:43 id=2074127150748479779 →APark13530380 | @APark13530380 I like to think of it that we hit peak text, realized it was peak, decided to change the definition of peak, and then achieve peak again, only to destroy that peak and seek another one.   Kinda perverse tbh fam || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 💯   My feeling is that in some sense we already hit peak text. The greatest texts of humanity are endlessly mind blowing, but have we really surpassed Plato (as text)?  Conversely many genres of video game are in their infa
2026-07-06T14:04 id=2074132501648527820 →- | If this isn't how you're spending your 20s I'm afraid you're ngmi https://t.co/DllpOeU13M || CTX: Sitting in the corner of a dimly lit room, contemporary architecture, i’m in a leather jacket sipping on a drink, my dark brushed metal oura ring is reading my biometrics, the app is telling me i should be heading to sleep soon. i ignore it
2026-07-06T14:27 id=2074138141678846439 →- | Maybe "Twitter is not real life" because we're all austits and they aren't?   Like, could it be that simple?
2026-07-06T14:36 id=2074140329083916759 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit lmao okay I gotta play low-ball with this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA Oh god xD I broke it https://t.co/KyRuBiSYaK
2026-07-06T14:41 id=2074141573034787323 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit First and second tries https://t.co/45jXva2bJf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 literally what i was doing
2026-07-06T15:03 id=2074147119104131396 →BlueGreenblue3 | @BlueGreenblue3 9999!!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/iMW5V4PxLM
2026-07-06T15:10 id=2074148990409728458 →dfgdsfgxcf | @dfgdsfgxcf This is very true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Animals feel safe but over time you may recognize that humans can be cute and animals full of shit too.
2026-07-06T15:25 id=2074152731049411045 →- | These new charts in ChatGPT are gorgeous, well done OpenAI guys https://t.co/tSTwnFVhnB
2026-07-06T15:30 id=2074153982860370268 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 king shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/8QrFd9gAVc
2026-07-06T23:15 id=2074270981338902880 →alexwd | @alexwd Sore loser. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I got a 88th percentile but I feel like the test isn’t very clear about what the objective is. If you know how it’s scored it’s very easy to get 100th percentile. Just use obscure words.   Wouldn’t it be more accurate to me
2026-07-06T23:18 id=2074271821130793203 →matthew_pines | @matthew_pines Equivocation is all you need to lie about your computer program being a real boy. || CTX: note how the distinction b/t “deliberate” and “automatic” “decisions” is snuck in, sliding in the ontological freight of global workspace theory and its fraught criteria for what should pass as a “thought” via functional correspondences.  w
2026-07-06T23:20 id=2074272385155711403 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @matthew_pines Marketing, like philosophy is a language game. What matters is the faith behind the language and whether it's good or bad.  And good faith is usually pretty easy to spot if your career has been spent studying rhetoric, because then you can define the bullshit really fast. https://t.co/zPpL6FDpbm || CTX: @matthew_pines Equivocation is all you need to lie about your computer program being a real boy.
2026-07-06T23:48 id=2074279330843345183 →- | Since last match the USA played a country that's really two nations it's only fair that this round we play a country that's not a nation at all.   Look Mom I made a sports tweet aren't you so proud
2026-07-07T00:17 id=2074286528747249972 →- | And in a single tweet you see why you, anon, should NOT be reading the bloggers and instead should be reading real actual books, especially the classics.  They lack an agenda, they aren't trying to get your attention. There is no way you can ideologically capture a Wittgenstein or a Nietzsche.  Sure, you can try to appropriate them, and I've seen some hilarious grifter identity politics types try to do as much. There was a really funny video of some nerd in a suit in a mahogany wood-decorated discussion room that was clearly a filming studio explaining why Nietzsche promoted traditional western values or whatever--it's stupid, it's transparently false, and that's why it doesn't catch on for very long.  Now, you can read Gwern, Scott Alexander, Curtis Yarvin, or Eliezer Yudkowsky and think you are getting deep, sophisticated insights because their posts are long and they engage with complex ideas and classic writers.  However, the trap there is that you're getting very good ideas through a bad filter and reflected in a shitty mirror.  The reason their blog posts are so wordy is that they are bad writers. They just don't know how to write clearly and effortlessly.   Yud uses technical language (much he doesn't really understand) to sound technical. You, as the reader, feel like you understand more than you do as a result.  Alexander will write long rambling blog posts to make a very simple idea look sophisticated. You, as the reader, feel like your pretty simple opinion is sophisticated.  Yarvin will write incendiary but anodyne fascist takes as if the new context makes the takes new. But it's just a pastiche of far right-wing libertarian Ressentiment.  When you read something like On Certainty or Thus Sprach Zarathustra or The Gay Science or Williams Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (which I'm reading now it's amazing absolutely amazing), you see just that the bad writing style of these bloggers is part and parcel of their success.  This is not because it reflects good ideas, but because it tries to decompress highly complex ideas of the past in the diction of a new subculture it is both reflecting and co-creating alongside their very illiterate tech readers and very wealthy benefactors.  And yes this poast is written poorly, so you could attack me on that--but note how this isn't a blog. Note how I am not trying to get followers. Note how I'm not asking you for money or anything else.  All I'm asking is for you to read better stuff. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney yes. much philosophic scholarship is inane, overwrought, or banal but at least it is mostly done with sincere intent and deserves to be taken on its merits.  dime store cogsci blog posts in the service of a
2026-07-07T00:40 id=2074292514232860881 →- | this is a delightful example of silly business theory at work. Simons was both a Titan of mathematics and such a rigorous scholar that he refused to let his own behavior go unanalyzed with the strictest most impartial rigor he was capable of. as a result, when one of his silly jaunts yielded serious results, he brought serious tools to bear on his silliness. and in doing so became a billionaire.   this is why Wittgenstein said if no one ever did anything silly nothing intelligent would ever get done.   and it's why you need to take silly business theory seriously. despite the silly name || CTX: "I made quite a lot of money with pure luck. I mean, I think it was pure luck. It certainly wasn't mathematical modeling. But in looking at the data, after a while I realized: it looks like there's some structure here. And I hired a few mat
2026-07-07T01:00 id=2074297378170196421 →- | I usually don’t write about politics slop because it is beneath me, but I just thought of a really easy way to demonstrate how identity politics, and the concept of intersectionality itself, target and fight against empathy and encourage us to be unempathetic.  I don’t know if it’s still popular with young people, but one of the seminal coming-of-age movies for millennials was Donnie Darko. It came out when I was 20, and I didn’t watch it until I was in my mid-20s, so I was a bit older than the audience who would really get the most out of it. That allowed me to look at and think about the text of the movie in a really different way.  For me, the most painful and poignant scene in the movie, and the scene that makes me cry whenever I watch it — although I should admit it’s been a long time — is the scene where Donnie discovers the fat Asian girl’s notebook and realizes that she has a crush on him. She shows up, is overwhelmed with embarrassment, and runs away in shame as Donnie tries to be sympathetic.  Her response is both understandable and familiar to me because she doesn’t want the patronizing attention of a concerned friend. She wants the loving embrace of a life partner. And that’s something I’ve wanted since I was 16 years old. Sure, sex is great, and I’ve had far too much of it, but I just wanted to be held and loved.  So the scene makes me cry, but that’s a low bar because a lot of things make me cry.  Now focus on something. From the identity-politics lens, my response is bad in one way or another. I’m a white American male, and she’s an Asian female. As a result, the only commonality between us, the only shared form of life, is being undesired and not getting the love you want.  And perhaps her plight is particularly poignant to me because I was a fat child, bullied for being overweight in the 1980s, when being overweight was quite rare. Back then, in a class of 30, there were maybe two or three overweight kids.  So it isn’t the other identity markers that make us relate to each other, or that make me relate to her. I don’t need to see someone who has the same skin color, genitals, or any other surface similarities in order to see the structural similarities underneath all the appearances.  What this tells us is that the human mind, and the imaginative force of text, allow one to cut through the world of appearances to the structural reality underneath.  Cards on the table: I am a structural realist, and my metaphysics are like my dick, thick as hell.  But intersectional theory argues that representation is crucial, and that without representation, the structural reality underneath remains hidden. This is more than patronizing. It is downright insulting to the intelligence of the reader.  And I think that’s why a lot of autistic people despise identity politics despite possibly sympathizing with many of its stated goals. I definitely fall in that camp.  Or maybe the stated goals are not the revealed ones, and all this ever was is just a power grab. I think in probably 99% of cases, that is absolutely true.  The human reading goes past appearances to look at what is underneath. You can call that soul, Geist, mind, or really whatever you want. I don’t know what to call it.  The only thing I conclude from this observation is: if I gesture lamely to outside the universe, what I want to say is, there’s something out there, goddammit.
2026-07-07T01:01 id=2074297814398767572 →JackarooFawkes | @JackarooFawkes thanks, what is uuid? I've never heard of that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Best post from the UUID that I have seen.
2026-07-07T01:03 id=2074298220231196792 →phone3301 | @phone3301 fucking hell man! Amazing! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no way https://t.co/HDhkX4N1Pq
2026-07-07T01:20 id=2074302382331273691 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ 47 - 420 yields a negative value after all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47 isn't a fully actualized being until he's stoned
2026-07-07T01:33 id=2074305872948568274 →JackarooFawkes | @JackarooFawkes hahahahahaha || CTX: Wikipedia: “A universally unique identifier is a 128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems. The term globally unique identifier is also used, typically in software created by Microsoft. When generated according to the 
2026-07-07T01:47 id=2074309205427880261 →- | The biggest issue I have with the technological revolution being tied to California culture is the ghosting.   Cali is a very cowardly place where you avoid awkwardness at all costs. So instead of a simple "we changed our minds" or "we're not interested", they just disappear.   This is rude and disrespectful.
2026-07-07T02:34 id=2074321220892504511 →mottopanikeiku | @mottopanikeiku if the fucker doesn't get back to me by the end of the week, you will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm going to need an example
2026-07-07T03:56 id=2074341640983200170 →Slim_Picken | @Slim_Picken I could write a book on how to do it, and if there is enough demand and interest, one day I will. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can one study this phenomenon more rigorously?  Ignoble worthy almost
2026-07-07T03:57 id=2074342025093320982 →reignofquality | @reignofquality Mendicant Madrigal would be an awesome band name || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/nrfy9TQx4Y
2026-07-07T04:00 id=2074342865430597919 →WoganMay | @WoganMay @matthew_pines honestly not the worst summary of Wittgenstein's philosophy I've heard || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @matthew_pines Words are just symbols we assign meaning to at inference time anyway. What even is ontology? Just a word we made up.
2026-07-07T04:18 id=2074347359656710534 →- | Novel idea: An alien world has two fair-sized islands where two communities of the same humanoid species, after they leave one island and spread to the other in prehistory. The islands are close enough that travel between the two is regular throughout history from the very beginning.  As a result, the species develops two distinct languages and cultures, but no more: one on Alpha Island and the other on Beta Island.  This is more of a conceit than a full-fledged story, and it can go in any directions.  You could have an epic history of the planet going from pre-history to spacefaring showing how the two cultures develop. You could show how polarizations in the divergent cultures at some point in time causes fighting, or how the divergences between the two are complementary. Maybe show them go from fighting to recognizing the mutual refinforcement of working together.  One idea I really like: at the dumb period in their history (parallel to our own early 21st century, dumbest time evar), there is mass media where both produce their own books, films, video games, etc. And one of the islands is much, much better at producing pop culture media artefacts than the other, let's say Alpha is better than Beta. So on Beta Island, the more fluent you are in Alphatalk, the more you are seen as someone who likes dumb pop culture, and being bilingual is seen as a marker of idiocy rather than a marker of higher intelligence, as we humans tend to (rightly) think.  However you write the book, I must insist that it ends with a big battle between Alpha Island and the Betas, and you better fucking let the Betas destroy the motherfucking evil A.I. No I did not come up with this conceit just for this punchline but it ain't the worst punchline to land on if I do say so meself and look I just fukken diddddddddddddd
2026-07-07T04:19 id=2074347600481051102 →WoganMay | @WoganMay @matthew_pines The sign of an intelligent person is they rediscover his insights from first principles. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @matthew_pines I haven’t even read Wittgenstein. I’ve just spent decades in my own head trying to figure out meaning-making from first principles, and the more I learned about how the bell-curve-average human actually appli
2026-07-07T04:20 id=2074347890189926785 →EricDeGiuli | @EricDeGiuli "May our children forgive us for being the sons of our fathers" dude would've absolutely fucking crushed it here hands down || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nietzsche would have slayed on X. There are probably banger aphorisms from BGE and TGS that can be used as written. Sadly, not top of mind for me anymore.
2026-07-07T04:21 id=2074348171833303226 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum Absolutely correct and my original question needs a refinement:  Maybe "Twitter is not real life" because those who dominate the Twitter conversation and who created the medium itself are all autists? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nope the vast VAST majority of people on here are not autistic. most of them are just larping
2026-07-07T04:22 id=2074348396677362137 →retail_trash | @retail_trash wait what? Dude are you high? If so, plz share. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Boobies!!!
2026-07-07T04:24 id=2074348728111272149 →- | Novel idea: An alien world has two fair-sized islands where two communities of the same humanoid species develop, after they leave one island and spread to the other in prehistory. The islands are close enough that travel between the two is regular throughout history from the very beginning.  As a result, the species develops two distinct languages and cultures, but no more: one on Alpha Island and the other on Beta Island.  This is more of a conceit than a full-fledged story, and it can go in any directions.  You could have an epic history of the planet going from pre-history to spacefaring showing how the two cultures develop. You could show how polarizations in the divergent cultures at some point in time causes fighting, or how the divergences between the two are complementary. Maybe show them go from fighting to recognizing the mutual refinforcement of working together.  One idea I really like: at the dumb period in their history (parallel to our own early 21st century, dumbest time evar), there is mass media where both produce their own books, films, video games, etc. And one of the islands is much, much better at producing pop culture media artefacts than the other, let's say Alpha is better than Beta. So on Beta Island, the more fluent you are in Alphatalk, the more you are seen as someone who likes dumb pop culture, and being bilingual is seen as a marker of idiocy rather than a marker of higher intelligence, as we humans tend to (rightly) think.  However you write the book, I must insist that it ends with a big battle between Alpha Island and the Betas, and you better fucking let the Betas destroy the motherfucking evil A.I. No I did not come up with this conceit just for this punchline but it ain't the worst punchline to land on if I do say so meself and look I just fukken diddddddddddddd
2026-07-07T04:25 id=2074349106227790119 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum Yeah I keep forgetting about the bubble effect, which is an alarming realization.  What group of people do you think are generally more interesting, the normies or us? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think it is more just a bubble thing. like twitter is really really large and most of the bubbles i am in are dominated by normal people. take that gay fat percentage conversation happening at the moment. it is just about
2026-07-07T04:29 id=2074349941799969043 →- | I can explain, with simple logic, why the increase in fatty fatty boom batties in the U.S. is a sociocultural problem with significant downstream effects, and much of what you see today—incels, loneliness, depression etc etc—is likely downstream of the increase in fat in America, which is itself a downstream effect of aggressive corn subsidies and the proliferation of high fructose corn syrup.  To make this argument, we have to assume some axioms that some will question, such as:  1. Men tend to be physically attracted to non-obese women more than the very overweight or obese. 2. The composition of American women has changed over decades such that many more are very overweight or obese.  Neither is popular or polite to say; the second is a demonstrable fact of the world, and the former can be hinted at through survey work, although surveys on this issue are not easy to come by and social scientists, given ideological bias, hesitate to produce said surveys.  Let’s take a population with two subsets, Group A of Pop p and Group B of Pop p.  A and B can form unions, however they do so only if A sees B as compatible and vice versa.  Any member of Group A and Group B has a set of criteria from with compatibility is determined: e_1, e_2, .. e_n.  In a favorable equilibrium at t_0, total members of Group A had a composition of n% possessing e_X that is close to the n% of Group B for whom e_X is a material condition for finding A compatible and thus forming a union, assuming Group B’s desire for e_X is at all sticky and not determined by changes in Group A.  At t_0+n, Group A’s composition of e_X went from n% to n-x%, at which point there is a compatibility disequilibrium.  While some members of Group B can adjust their compatibility criterion to lower the weight of e_X in their overall assessment, not all can or will.  In this case, those of Group A who retain e_X will have a higher chance of a successful union with a member of Group B than those of Group A who now lack e_X.  This disequilibrium can be fixed by forcing Group B to no longer use e_X as a criterion for producing a compatible union. This is why fatphobia accusations and the surreal illogic of “healthy at any size” took hold in the 2010-2020s until obesity medicine changed the calculus.  But the disequilibrium still exists! Obesity and overweightness are huge, huge problems in America. || CTX: @joshua_goodman_ NO FAT CHICKS
2026-07-07T04:29 id=2074350143441432865 →- | Twitter is parasitic on the talents of really talented writers, and yet without Twitter I would lack an audience for my real writing.  "This running against the walls of our cage is perfectly, absolutely hopeless." - Ludwig Wittgenstein https://t.co/bm9ZOoa3F4 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im not sure if jack is autistic but as for twitter, it was perverts who made this place cool (by which i mean writers).
2026-07-07T04:33 id=2074351065919869219 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum We share this obsession. I admire and love that which cannot scale, because unique qualities feel to me somehow mystical. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have a deep reverence for the individual, and can find certain individuals to be endlessly fascinating. if i was autistic then that would be my object of obsession. it is why i  do not care for space travel. to me mars is
2026-07-07T04:41 id=2074352989796721103 →KojimaErgoSum | It has taken me over 40 years to understand the real power of love isn't in being loved but in loving, and by loving one transcends the finitude of one's self, thereby seeing its smallness.  But what does one love? The particulars one sees. That's all that's on the menu.  Nice lyrics. Don't like his voice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain https://t.co/CYmYecsAKe
2026-07-07T05:40 id=2074367810831343765 →SofiasBio | @SofiasBio capitalism is the womb from which wealth is born || CTX: Will keep playing, wanna get to 96  also, how is capitalism more related to womb than to ceramic?   and what’s up with gnomes and photons? lolll https://t.co/jpFuTu3Koi https://t.co/oen2e1PghF
2026-07-07T05:40 id=2074367987906417024 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum I really need to watch that TV show || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there is a good episode of community which i think helps bridge the gap between what the boffins call autism and normal people. i think a lot of normal experience gets dismissed, even by normal people. that is why i like no
2026-07-07T05:59 id=2074372787427541097 →- | Novel idea: A mild-mannered middle-aged and deeply religious accountant has an idea for a novel that expresses his love of humanity and his highest ethos: that one should always strive to be gentle.  He writes the book and, by design, the book is unmonetizable--if it is sold for profit, its message is inauthentic. And so he writes the book with the intention of giving it away for free.  There's just one problem: even if one wants to give something away for free, one needs attention first to be able to give it away.  And so he fixes this problem in the most intuitive way possible: he joins social media. And on the socials, he writes constantly about himself, his life, his ideas, the world--all within the overarching framework of his ethos.  His writing goes viral rather quickly and he gains a massive following, and is quickly beloved as one of the wisest poasters on Earth.  When he finally hits a critical mass where he thinks he'll get enough readers, he finally posts a link to his book, says it is the most important thing he has ever written--indeed, it is the ONLY thing he has ever written that is worth reading, and anyone who has ever enjoyed his poasts should read it carefully, as it is what he really believes is his most valuable message.  Unfortunately, no one reads the book.  Our hero is vexed, but he approaches the question analytically. Surely it can't be that the book is bad or he is a bad judge of writing, for if so then it makes little sense that he was able to write compelling poasts and acquire an audience through them. His judgment cannot be dismissed, nor can the novel.  So he looks deeper, and finally concludes that there is a dichotomy. The poasts reflect his trifling and ephemral thoughts, things he thinks about briefly on a whim, while the novel bears his soul.  And so, it appears, people have no interest in his soul, just his passing thoughts.  Digging deeper, he concludes this is because these people lack souls and, by extension, neither does our hero.  And so the deeply devout accountant becomes an enraged atheist writer.  He spends the rest of his life writing tweets about the value of the ephemeral and the silliness of believing in the soul until he dies an old and famous figure in the canon of a new literary form that will be praised for centures: the Poast. His Wikipedia page describes him as "one of the first and greatest authors of the new genre of his era".  Unfortunately, however, his atheism is wrong and there very much is a God, a Heaven, and a Hell. And for the sin of disbelief and the worse sin of spreading disbelief and causing many men to stray from the Truth, our hero is damned to spend eternity in Hell.  And his Hell looks just like this: he is cursed to live as a non-corporeal ghost in a parallel universe where his counterpart in that universe IS not just a famous novelist, but is revered as the greatest novelist in human history.  Also, before he is sent to Hell, God informs him of his error: the disinterest wasn't because humans lack souls, they very much have them. It's that the media of our hero's particular era reconfigured the brains of his contemporaries so they lack the attention span to read 200 pages of prose.
2026-07-07T06:30 id=2074380564019491235 →OpenAIDevs | @OpenAIDevs Is your events planner Jeffrey Epstein? https://t.co/PfVYRAKaYQ || CTX: Applications to attend OpenAI DevDay 2026 are open.  Join us in San Francisco on September 29 to:  • Tinker with what’s new • Swap build notes with other builders • Go deep in technical sessions • Bring your sharpest questions  Apply by Jul
2026-07-07T06:32 id=2074380973232533982 →equacc | @equacc Well said https://t.co/62oiosHJ1V || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 many times being a good writer is being good at describing things with as little number of words and as simple as possible. This applies to software development too
2026-07-07T06:36 id=2074381958998884680 →scaling01 | @scaling01 Cult formation as a customer retention strategy is a logical end of capitalism || CTX: Anthropic mentions "conscious" 206 times in their latest research about Claude https://t.co/6Irxp9Fp6k
2026-07-07T06:38 id=2074382458993180936 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Honestly one of the saddest observations of my lifetime, especially in contrast to what we expected in the early 90s.   Humanity is deeply flawed, ridiculously so. || CTX: For the majority of the population, access to information is not the moat to learning—education is not the textbook. https://t.co/sbbE35UnLY
2026-07-07T06:52 id=2074386096436425059 →Afinetheorem | @Afinetheorem Good for America, a closed society cannot outcompete an open one. || CTX: A concerning case involving a business school professor/2006 Columbia PhD. Economy in China clearly has greatly improved standard of living over last 20 years but individual liberty is still massively constrained, and has gotten moreso unde
2026-07-07T07:15 id=2074391925696933997 →- | Look at Torsten Slok, doing legit discourse analysis!   Few economists respect the meanings of words, what a breath of fresh air.   https://t.co/d7MEh4Anhb
2026-07-07T09:49 id=2074430517425086609 →whatulying | @whatulying wtf this is insanely good! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 new buzzfeed dropped???? https://t.co/I981c4yDF4
2026-07-07T10:08 id=2074435355097583665 →7karni | I wouldn't say it was necessarily good, maybe we could agree that some of its stated goals were good, but I mean, that's a low bar. some of Hitler's stated goals were good.   what frustrated me the most with this movement is that I am very sympathetic to a lot of it's ideas, but they could never just constrain the ideas to reasonable limits, it always had to go too far || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 simultaneously true: - intersectionality is good, stated goals honest - it devolution into a status-reversal ration stamp &amp; subsequent abuse by the petty &amp; fractious was predictable, maybe even inevitable
2026-07-07T10:17 id=2074437631509967285 →7karni | I think the reason why it went off the rails is that this approach shows rather quickly that fat white women in America are not all that oppressed, and the attention should go to poor children in the poorest countries.   in other words, the people who want to be oppressed are not oppressed according to their own methods, so they had to change the methods || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i agree. to be clearer:  the core goal of intersectionality - recognizing that overlapping identities can compound oppression - is something ive seen happen since childhood neurotic norms on media representation &amp; other
2026-07-07T10:22 id=2074438959099494609 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Leave it to a cat to dislike a vacuum || CTX: i don’t get the hype about a dyson sphere. they’re mediocre vacuums at best. overpriced.
2026-07-07T10:31 id=2074441284924866805 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Italy. || CTX: where can one move that doesn’t suck but also has affordable housing ? does it exist ? don’t say austin
2026-07-07T10:51 id=2074446268315668535 →tkisrage | This is really beautiful. Been thinking about this tweet for a few hours now. Really moving.   I wonder if a wonderful life consists in wanting wonder for everyone. Maybe that's what enlightenment is. Idk. Maybe love is a means to a wonderful end, that's why they talk about sin being its own punishment. Lots of things to wonder about.   Good. || CTX: The easy parts are hard The hard parts are hard  It’s a wonderful life https://t.co/230MVNCw5N
2026-07-07T11:01 id=2074448685879239024 →Holmyverse | I would say the opposite to be honest.   From my perspective, his success was because there were so few quantitative methods of finding correlations between factors, and a lot of common sense based investing strategies would dismiss possible correlations as having no causal link. He didn't care about causality and just look for correlations, so obviously he found them. then everyone followed suit, and his returns declined, but of course still stayed incredibly strong.   I agree with everything else you've said in this thread though, good thread. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What Simons achieved is even more astonishing given how limited quantitative methods and hardware were at the time.
2026-07-07T11:03 id=2074449120274887141 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset Sam is a genius and easily the most talented genius on this platform, and I am honored that I've ever been even a minor part of the microblog. || CTX: I want to live in this world more than anything, just about. https://t.co/j5uU23E8vF
2026-07-07T11:18 id=2074453065021952462 →- | I'm retiring from fighting "clankers Re conscious"  bullshit after this tweet. And I'm serious this time.   Anthropic is starting to use this marketing tactic as a way of uniquely differentiating their technology so that it has a higher valuation and attracts more user interest. So we can think of it as marketing to investors and marketing to consumers at the same time.   In that sense it serves the same function as saying the clankers will take all of our jobs or cure cancer or kill everyone.   The function of these different claims is identical, namely to assert unique astronomical value.   On the surface these claims all sound different, but the intention behind them all is the same thing: hype.  Consider: "You need to go to the game to support the team because they might lose" and "You need to go to the game because the team might win." Superficially these are opposite, rhetorically they're identical.  As a result, we could build an index of how aggressively Anthropic pushes "CLOD REEL BOI" shit as a way to gauge how much they are manipulating the market. Use that in a multifactor model with other indicators, and you could probably triangulate their revenue trends and their fundraising efforts.   This latest push, I believe, is an attempt to detract attention from the recent snafu with the gubment and the absurd restrictions on the model.  It's bullshit, it was always bullshit, and less and less people are convinced by the bullshit, because they're more accustomed to computer generated coherent text.   So I don't need to come back to this point anymore, the market is catching up to me as it always does.   Anthropic's marketing efforts are now too desperate to warrant my attention.  47 is officially done with clankers are conscious discourse.  Now, for the next month or so until my gardening leave is over, the focus is going to be on how to make money with LLMs.   I'll actually be talking about this on the @MTSlive podcast on Wednesday, so there you go there's your free marketing Theo and the Gang. https://t.co/XponGB90kn  I'm going to celebrate with a beer. || CTX: New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.  Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.  We found a strikingly
2026-07-07T11:19 id=2074453239240815035 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat I tried this once, was AWFUL. Put me right to sleep. || CTX: i should try this https://t.co/kamOgZX0o2
2026-07-07T11:27 id=2074455141831594321 →Holmyverse | @Holmyverse and in this we see how the law of the excluded middle is bullshit. it's both impressive and unimpressive at the same time! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's a good point. I meant it more in terms of how impressive it is that he achieved what he did without anyone's work to build on. But you're right that that's actually what enabled his discoveries and gave him an edge. 
2026-07-07T11:40 id=2074458409366368729 →martano_ste | @martano_ste if the money isn't buying you freedom, it ain't buying you shit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that the greatest privilege of having money is you can focus on what you like doing, your projects, your real mission, without the costant thought of money, rent, bills ecc.
2026-07-07T11:41 id=2074458658893684867 →athena_notes | @athena_notes I was just thinking about you today! question, would you say that a Mickey mouse watch is as impressive as a Richard Mille watch? (iirc you love watches, right?) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Exciting topic!
2026-07-07T11:56 id=2074462444366577922 →athena_notes | "brand and cultural history and story" are you insane? The Mickey Mouse watch has that more than all other luxury watches put together, the combination of mass media pop cultural and a consumer electronic device, it's the kind of artefact historians will talk about for centuries. They won't with a Mille. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I happen to have a mickey mouse watch! Funnily enough. But so far I have yet to see one that I would personally assign high horological value to (quality, specs, overall craftsmanship, brand and cultural history and story, 
2026-07-07T12:04 id=2074464599316083150 →sageittari_us | @sageittari_us Patriot. || CTX: killing myself https://t.co/OByJMvMCaX https://t.co/tmC6zcG5wy
2026-07-07T12:12 id=2074466668345274590 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Of course the paper itself has weasel words, that's how marketing works bro.  Hedge in the actual paper, press release emphasizes the less hedged claim, social media game of Chinese whispers ensures the claim is inflated as it gets to dumber and dumber segments.  It's marketing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/TOlGMY1ASY
2026-07-07T12:17 id=2074467907292279286 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Ah so you're looking through the lens (lol) of a specific industry's evolution. I can respect that!  But, omg, I'll take the WW2 watch happily. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 True but it's jst 1 factor in horological value. Watch worn in ww2 for example is absurdly cheap for its history. What tends to get weighted more is when a model had direct contributions to horological history like rolex co
2026-07-07T12:23 id=2074469285762834853 →iamgingertrash | @iamgingertrash Yeah this is why the future of LLMs will be enriching small business consultancies that help enterprises set this up.   Lower EV for Anthropic and OpenAI. Whatever, to quote Schwarzenegger, "they'll live." || CTX: The hilarious part is that no one can see the obvious;  Everything’s going local because of continual learning  The nail in the coffin for the labs is a Continuously Learning Local Machine  > Data companies become irrelevant > Labs deflate 
2026-07-07T12:24 id=2074469502864199862 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Imagine Amodei saying "we didn't program it, it emerged by itself!" at a campfire with a flashlight under his chin. This is the level of seriousness behind their discourse. || CTX: The one point I agree is that they often say things like "And what's strange is, this **emerged**, we didn't program it ourselves!!", where your criticism is perhaps fair. But in general I didn't think the blog post / thread read like wease
2026-07-07T12:38 id=2074473106215981223 →EckertAnthony | @EckertAnthony that's a hilarious video game concept fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the MMO I'm working on needs antrophic to say things like this so I can max bait. I'll have the wild west running while they cry about AI rights. clankers eternally fighting each other and humans in a virtual world. can't w
2026-07-07T13:00 id=2074478736884527144 →- | s4s is absolutely right, and it actually made me realize this is INSANELY bullish for meta.   I'ma greentext cuz I iz stonéd:  > Everyone goes local open > Enterprise switches to local LLMs > ENT establishes best practices > Meanwhile, SMBs copy and innovate > Everyone needs more infra > SMBs clamor for AI infra online > META serves them ads for their AI tools, fully integrated in Meta Ads Manager, Business Suite et al.  To be clear, it's more first order bullish for MU NVDA et al, I'm not saying META is better positioned than those guys. It's not.   I'm saying it's uniquely positioned to leverage its moat and its P/E ratio is less than the average for the entire S&P 500, like wtf expectations lower than Elon Musk's self esteem c'mon guys. || CTX: The hilarious part is that no one can see the obvious;  Everything’s going local because of continual learning  The nail in the coffin for the labs is a Continuously Learning Local Machine  > Data companies become irrelevant > Labs deflate 
2026-07-07T13:02 id=2074479185758925046 →HARRY_1G | @HARRY_1G @luckenco Should've listened to the missionaries and avoided that shit. || CTX: @luckenco @47fucb4r8c69323 blundered at voodoo
2026-07-07T13:05 id=2074479969556963337 →athena_notes | @athena_notes I will need to look into this, sounds interesting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Btw have you seen the relatively recent Audemars Piguet x Swatch collab and the riots that happened in different places as a result of the launch? Thought you'd find that interesting given #SBT. Now that I think of it, ther
2026-07-07T13:21 id=2074483900861276326 →GrindcoreCap | @GrindcoreCap they will, absolutely, but they'll have to massively lower prices and, in the case of Anthropic and OAI, cannot compete with Meta on price.   Well, they could if they pivoted aggressively and accepted a smaller percentage of the market, but of course they won't do that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 good take but don’t you think all but the most sensitive would be okay w a model provider offering this service with some privacy guarantees?   you could make the same argument for keeping server infra in local racks but al
2026-07-07T13:22 id=2074484224896414161 →athena_notes | @athena_notes ngl it looks really good. maybe not worth getting in a fight over however || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Another thing I found interesting is that people were desperate to try and flip it for many times the retail price even though the brand said it wouldn't be limited. (All this for a plasticky pocket watch type thing) https:
2026-07-07T14:27 id=2074500628794298870 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen 1. I'm Jack's total lack of surprise.   2. I know you put ontology in there just to fuck with me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/aclFI70sWs
2026-07-07T15:02 id=2074509246339989691 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini One semester McDonald's had some crazy special that was like 39 cents per cheeseburger up to 60 or so and my roommate and I would go buy the max and eat just that for a week straight.   Which btw yeah that Spurlock dude was an alcoholic fraud || CTX: my fridge in college looked like a rave festival, only lights, beers, energy drinks, and smoke https://t.co/y5kp6rPCqe
2026-07-07T23:14 id=2074633147195740294 →mozap01 | @mozap01 Kinda sounds like a fetish || CTX: the meaner you are the more likely I will (in the long run) heed your advice. @47fucb4r8c69323 chime in please
2026-07-07T23:15 id=2074633339286466584 →tensorbodega | @tensorbodega @yokaihainen Niiiice || CTX: @yokaihainen @47fucb4r8c69323 i've done it before long ago but https://t.co/QQzc6eKE4N
2026-07-07T23:15 id=2074633528512569828 →7karni | @7karni Well done. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 myocardium &amp; songbird somehow as similar as moonshine &amp; spirulina ?  ill try again later with only simple few-syllable nouns https://t.co/aGqbyqyhfz
2026-07-07T23:41 id=2074639916110319983 →- | And you're bearish lmao https://t.co/3qcScX96yL
2026-07-07T23:54 id=2074643345952088542 →- | Once needs are met, markets ultimately become about wants.  Wants require desire, decisiveness, and action to fulfill.  To have desires, to be decisive, and to take action we first must be persuaded to choose to act, decide, desire.  Persuasion involves argument. Argument requires something like a proof. And you get to proof with more and more data. (Incidentally this is why the empiricists already won, rationalism is dead unless you're a weird internet loser who doesn't know how the real world works living in your internet simulacrum.)  There's a lot more to it ofc, this is just one pipeline in the overall commerce process, but it's why so much technical work boils down to "data".  On the non-technical side, much work boils down to "sales" for the same reason.  You have the technical people producing the data and sales people presenting the data to the customer. Then the customer either acts or doesn't.   This is just what commerce is.
2026-07-08T00:37 id=2074654183479996486 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit @mozap01 Porn parody of 50 First Dates. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mozap01 new movie idea: 47 fetishes
2026-07-08T00:51 id=2074657516949315647 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka https://t.co/hGBxgZJkxh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what's an animal that's neither bear nor bull, but is mostly just tired and annoyed
2026-07-08T01:07 id=2074661740831469887 →- | It is so transparently a grift, but it's allowed to thrive because:  1. Margins are so massive there's plenty to throw at your critics to keep them contained 2. Youth worship in SV means the grift goes unnoticed because the young are gullible and stupid  3. Too much opportunity for easy money if you stay in the cult  I mean, yay for me containing Yud the Stud's appeal to the mainstream by making him look unserious and callous, but it's a multi headed hydra.  BTW, this is structurally identical to the woke cancel culture wave of the late 2010s. Reread 1-3 above but instead of Anthropic and Holly L-more just swap in Lockheed Martin and Ibrim X Kendi, it's the same goddamn thing.
2026-07-08T01:12 id=2074662851151872274 →- | It is so transparently a grift, but it's allowed to thrive because:  1. Margins are so massive there's plenty to throw at your critics to keep them contained 2. Youth worship in SV means the grift goes unnoticed because the young are gullible and stupid  3. Too much opportunity for easy money if you stay in the cult  I mean, yay for me containing Yud the Stud's appeal to the mainstream by making him look unserious and callous, but it's a multi headed hydra.  BTW, this is structurally identical to the woke cancel culture wave of the late 2010s. Reread 1-3 above but instead of Anthropic and Holly L-more just swap in Lockheed Martin and Ibrim X Kendi, change SV to USA, it's the same goddamn thing.
2026-07-08T01:38 id=2074669404844069285 →ptichushka | @ptichushka I am honestly very grateful I did my PhD, even if it was hard, made me disillusioned with academia, and no one values it in my current industry.   It made me a lot smarter. || CTX: academics keep telling me to get my phd because they want to ruin my life
2026-07-08T02:47 id=2074686840188424218 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth Unfortunately I believe it depends not only on the human but the situation, so there's never a useful answer to this question. || CTX: Has anyone figured out the optimal amount of stress a human should have?
2026-07-08T03:03 id=2074690833224437791 →- | There's a kind of bottom-up enshittification we don't think about often enough.  Cory Doctorow's logic of enshittification is that this is done top-down for profit:  1. Platform optimizes for users to get users 2. After user lock-in, rules are changed to divert value to firms selling to users 3. After both user and firm lock-in, rules are changed to divert value to platform  But there is another kind of enshittification, roughly:  1. Platform begins as a small niche for hyper-engaged users 2. Platform slowly attracts more interest, growing in size and attracting both the stupid and incompetent 3. Platform's size then attracts sociopaths, grifters, and manipulators to leverage it for their own ends  The story of Twitter was not really Doctorow's first kind of enshittification--this platform never had the makings of a varsity athlete (I worked on the IPO of this company for the institutions buying the pre-IPO shares so I have some authority here). Twitter was always the latter kind of enshittification:  1. Jack, Noah, Biz, and Evan start Twitter as a place to tell jokes and goof off with a small group 2. Twitter slowly attracts more people, including the stupid and incompetent (related: the only experience of racism I had in the financial industry was when a client insisted Twitter would be low value because of all the "urban users") 3. Twitter then attracts sociopaths (Ben Shapiro), grifters (Dave Rubin), and manipulators (Bari Weiss)  You can see this so easily with a sketch of the history of this platform:  2006-2011: Small potatoes, mostly jokes and silliness 2011-2015: Arab Spring, Oreo tweet, second screening help platform grow in size 2015-2023: Explosion of people using Twitter to launch or extend media careers 2023-2026: Elon rips up the script, causing chaos but not really changing the media trajectory as much as the composition of what sociopaths, grifters, and manipulators gain prominence.  None of this was because of corporate overlords. None of this was because of big business or the Federal Reserve or whatever bugbear you've been manipulated into believing is the prima causa of all our woes.  It's us. Look in the mirror at Time person of the year in 2006--the year that Twitter was founded.  The enshittification is because of you. Yes, you. || CTX: @max_spero_ I kinda suspect the same. The content that gets popular there is unusually bad, even for reddit
2026-07-08T04:40 id=2074715263497560081 →- | Wittgenstein was right that we play language games, but he was wrong to focus so much on the "games" part and not enough on the "play" part.
2026-07-08T04:56 id=2074719175260475886 →HughAndFree | @HughAndFree A little, not all that impressed tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There we go, that's more like it.   Have you read any Rorty, yet?
2026-07-08T04:56 id=2074719312552878387 →LexerLux | @LexerLux That sounds like how I'm going to spend my afternoon, thx lex || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;Cheers having some coconut water, weed, and listening to bachata. They're literally exposing the plan they use to introduce hot young men like me into the h*msexual lifestyle. Wake up, sheeple. Heil heterosexuality. Hei
2026-07-08T07:12 id=2074753548181766297 →- | The real problem with Starfleet and the Federation is they are too self-congratulatory, even as early as TOS and certainly in TNG, VOY, and ENT, which is really just an origin story of how the great Federation became great.   This is why NuTrek fails: it tries to displace the congratulations towards a different object, now the Federation isn't great because it is utopia but it is great because it is not the flawed real modern world as understood by its real modern writers. In this sense both the detractors who insist it isn't real Trek and the fans who think it is are both right.  And this may be why DS9 became retroactively the most beloved series, because it's the only series to claim seriously and contemplatively that the Federation is not worth its congratulations.   I doubt the writers saw this, but making Sisko love Bajor is where this cashes out as a serious ethical position. In a later season he says that, after he retires, he plans to build a house on Bajor and live there. My eyes well up as I remember it, perhaps maybe because I can relate as an expat of a different type.  That, as my goddamn fucking clanker would say, matters. The writers allow Sisko to be guided by a foreign culture to his north star in some sense (affective? ethical? Maybe both when we consider Sisko's willingness to commit genocide both to protect his people and, well, for a vendetta--a moment where he has taken on Kira's M. O. with a grim grin).  But the empire strikes back, sadly. The Federation is allowed its moral victory via the aristocratic logic of jus sanguinis. Sisko is, after all, half Founder. He is, to quote Kendrick Lamar, not like us. And that escape hatch allows the self congratulations after Sisko's sacrifice meaning. They aren't hollow as they congratule themselves, for these men are justified to say they dominated the Dominion and set things right.  But Sisko still wins. If we point to Section 31's biological warfare as a flaw in the Federation, then we are distancing ourselves from their congratulations. If we assert these are means justified by the ends, then we admit the Federation's hypocrisy. "I think I can live with it" indeed, for what's a few Romulan ambassador bodies or dead shapeshifters? This is again Kira's logic.   And Kira, we must love Kira. How even she does know how to feel about her mother's moral grayness, showing sometimes morality is insufficient. This is the real life of the Bajorans, who are more human than human in this series--they are all too human, as are we. Which is why we know the Federations last men are no Zarathustra. Do not believe their lies.  The franchise is always about freedom from stagnation by exploring the frontier. DS9 is the frontier of the franchise itself.   And if you have read all of this, I have some bad news: you are such a fucking nerd you're gonna be a khhv forever ngmi lmao (this is a joke I've had a lot of sex I love you, Anon, and I always will. Which I know in the context of the sex part sounds kinda gay was a joke fren dude the gummy is kicking THE FUCK in broooooooo)
2026-07-08T07:21 id=2074755721443553345 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Ask yer clanker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/FLhmQ4cEnQ
2026-07-08T07:45 id=2074761755042197605 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Goddammit @tszzl look at this. It could have just said "Trek is about the frontier, and DS9 barely moves because its frontier is formal and ethical, where the franchise is pushed to the edge of its ideology. The station's stasis inverts what the show does." Your RLHF approach to these clankers is making the output shit FIX PLZ LAZY JANNIES || CTX: The real problem with Starfleet and the Federation is they are too self-congratulatory, even as early as TOS and certainly in TNG, VOY, and ENT, which is really just an origin story of how the great Federation became great.   This is why Nu
2026-07-08T07:51 id=2074763388144824785 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill I WAS IN THE POOL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/qgA6SRIxeX
2026-07-08T08:21 id=2074770947413065751 →7384254b | @7384254b &lt;3 || CTX: imagine if you could like likes   someone likes ur post, u can like the like notif, they get a notif that you did this, repeat ∞
2026-07-08T08:56 id=2074779638010982456 →moultano | @moultano A friend of mine got a novel published in the 90s, it sold really well and got optioned by a Hollywood studio. She told me she wrote the book with her son and daughter in mind, writing it to them as adults.  Apparently worked pretty well. || CTX: Every time someone is having trouble writing I tell them to just envision the person you want to tell it to and then just start talking. Write down what you say.
2026-07-08T10:20 id=2074800730494656944 →- | Someone needs to make a 47fucb Apology Form meme.  I hate to say I told you so (jk lol I love it I love it so much I love it when the market proves me right AND early BWAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT TREBEK)  Oh yeah h/t @WoganMay thx broski  https://t.co/tL4XPFQKQe https://t.co/OxJAjlhpnL
2026-07-08T10:20 id=2074800736001740831 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @WoganMay On a more serious note, this implies firms who start hiring humanities people are going to have alpha LIKE I'VE BEEN SAYING FOLLOW THE RANDOM STRING SCHIZO ON TWITTER DOT COM GODDAMMIT JUST BECAUSE IM CRAZY DOESNT MEAN IM WRONG || CTX: Someone needs to make a 47fucb Apology Form meme.  I hate to say I told you so (jk lol I love it I love it so much I love it when the market proves me right AND early BWAHAHAHAHA SUCK IT TREBEK)  Oh yeah h/t @WoganMay thx broski  https://t.
2026-07-08T11:01 id=2074811051359850790 →curlystark | @curlystark @WoganMay they really struggle with multivalence and unresolved tensions, and you can take advantage of that so much || CTX: I come from a humanities background, spent most of my time from my early teens to about 19-20 learning languages, reading and translating books, and writing essays and poetry. Then I went into engineering, in France no less, and was able to
2026-07-08T11:06 id=2074812482397651297 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein hahahahaha goddammit it's turning into a whole fictional universe || CTX: I have concocted a sequel to this wonderful story that includes a second mild-mannered accountant, two rival groups of ultra-orthodox Kabbalistic sects, and a giant Gollum that wreaks havoc on Midtown Manhattan.  Sequel:  A second mild-mann
2026-07-08T11:07 id=2074812643102146725 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 @WoganMay dude how could you give up the chance to say "six or seven"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WoganMay It's so funny how the five or six guys who rule SV are the only ones there to have ever picked up a philosophy book. The barrenness of mind there is astonishing!
2026-07-08T11:09 id=2074813207894745397 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum it's usually because they objectify women, just see them as trophies or sex objects, which is natural for them as they struggle with empathy or human beings generally; the thought of actually probing the mind of a fundamentally different human being is foreign to them. || CTX: because they are largely not interested in talking to women. not because of gay, that is a myth (although there is also a separate gay subculture in sf but i assume this is about tech), but because a lot of boys just do not care about women
2026-07-08T11:49 id=2074823225163526618 →JackarooFawkes | @JackarooFawkes I am an optimistic kind of person but I have a viciously cynical side. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lot of dark reflections on the human condition by you lately: https://t.co/bid7MzlcbZ
2026-07-08T12:13 id=2074829202986275327 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @alexolegimas The vast majority of people seem less interested in using new technologies/media to satisfy curiosity or think deeply. Often they see it as a tool to get rich, promote ideology, or denigrate others.   Compare the traffic to DraftKing vs the Poetry Foundation, for instance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas What does that mean, that we’re deeply flawed?
2026-07-08T12:16 id=2074830038349054010 →- | I'm gonna be on @MTSlive in like 5hrs everyone make sure to get the family by the radio.  And kids out there, make sure you have your Little Orphan Annie Secret Society decoder pin to decipher the super secret message!
2026-07-08T12:17 id=2074830179076309272 →0bNARA | @0bNARA Real. Same with chicken feet. Would taste so much better if they didn't look like that. || CTX: eating offal is usually fine until i see a weird shape and then im like oh no nevermind
2026-07-08T12:29 id=2074833186077708325 →dipole_momentum | @dipole_momentum Fucking Black Mirror dystopia shit jfc || CTX: somewhere in india a man just got back from lunch, put his headset on, and resumed his shift of harassing homeless people with a robot dog. https://t.co/Lt9Jgx9gox
2026-07-08T12:33 id=2074834358079271160 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie @MTSlive Like a schizophrenia cocktail || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MTSlive waaooooooow will be listening to gynecology lectures 2x on right ear and 47 on the left
2026-07-08T13:08 id=2074843087805755711 →benjamin_horne | @benjamin_horne @TheStalwart @alexolegimas He's trolling me I know Joe all too well (and ofc it worked) || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas Joe out here putting moral relativism on the tl 😭
2026-07-08T13:14 id=2074844668999905754 →benjamin_horne | @benjamin_horne @TheStalwart @alexolegimas Joe gets all the ass. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart @alexolegimas Damn he got my ass too
2026-07-08T13:24 id=2074846992161964122 →Aethel_Void | @Aethel_Void @MarkJCarney You should capitalize the "T" in "Star Trek" in your bio. || CTX: RAMPANT HOMELESSNESS AND DRUG ADDICTION AND PEOPLE CANT AFFORD FUCKING FOOD AND FOOD BANKS ARE SUCKED DRY AND YOU THINK I GIVE A FUCK YOU ARE LAUNDERING  MY FUCKING  HARD EARNED MONEY TO THAT ZIONIST HUB UKRAINE YOU FUCKING PEDO ZIONIST @Ma
2026-07-08T13:41 id=2074851333614793203 →ryanbrewer | @ryanbrewer @OpenAI Is this a joke? Am I on candid camera?   You want an investment banker and you're paying 200k?! And they have to live in the Bay Area?   Your contempt for SMEs will be your downfall. https://t.co/sLP1PzXhpI || CTX: My team at @OpenAI is hiring an investment banker! Join us to build the next generation of financial intelligence  https://t.co/mmMfMhSUz5
2026-07-08T14:01 id=2074856282713202869 →Androooordna | @Androooordna I loved The Dispossessed, but I still think Tales from Earthsea is her masterpiece. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Two great Ursula Le Guin novels for you that both start with this conceit - The Dispossessed and Left Hand of Darkness. First is about economic structural differences, second has a lot to do with gender but also political s
2026-07-08T14:04 id=2074857034470842668 →OrwellMil87668 | @OrwellMil87668 @ryanbrewer @OpenAI Nah it's meaningful but I'm willing to bet it's not worth more than 100k/yr, and the vesting schedule will be punishing  I've been paid in worthless equity before and offered jobs with bullshit equity. This is real, and will be more real post IPO, but it'll be carefully doled out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ryanbrewer @OpenAI does "offers equity" mean jack shit in this context, with a company at this stage?
2026-07-08T14:20 id=2074861087011610831 →way_opener | @way_opener Yes, so many emergent effects are falsely. attributed to top-down conspiracies by pattern seeking paranoid people. That's a really good way to frame it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As always, real trends attributed to top-down conspiracy rather than emergent effects(though to be fair a lot of bad emergent effects *are* due to conspiracy, little independent clusters of it at a bunch of levels that almo
2026-07-08T14:46 id=2074867828914896992 →ryanbrewer | @ryanbrewer @OpenAI hire @tkisrage, he's used to living in a filthy studio in the worst part of town (which is all he'll be able to afford with that base) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @OpenAI 500k TC
2026-07-08T14:50 id=2074868685437841891 →helscom | @helscom fine I'll give Claude another chance || CTX: alright let's see what have anthropic been cooking https://t.co/QfBt8MQKH3
2026-07-08T15:24 id=2074877408340320537 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @ZyMazza It saddens me that that last sentence is one I'd read a few years ago and love, and now I'd read and think, "oh no is this AI?" Really unfair. || CTX: @ZyMazza @47fucb4r8c69323 seems like he’s on to smthng
2026-07-08T15:25 id=2074877652461293828 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Religious Studies!!! History of Religion remains one of my favorite general elective classes I took as an undergrad (30 years ago fml). I almost switched majors. || CTX: I was so early. Look at the last sentence. You think I write like AI? AI is copying me bro. I invented that shit https://t.co/f9hhYnWrU4
2026-07-08T15:54 id=2074884844094632243 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka @WoganMay Arts and humanities baby absolutely included || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WoganMay Is music school a humanity?
2026-07-08T16:15 id=2074890165387252201 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @MasterTimBlais balls aren't touching, not gay || CTX: @MasterTimBlais umm is this gay?
2026-07-08T16:18 id=2074890857019551948 →- | I'm on MTS in a bit over an hour y'all this is the most important development in tech news since the invention of the wheel if you miss it sorry but ngmi fam https://t.co/hM2ioEEBw1 || CTX: NEW GPT VOICE | GPT-5.6 TOMORROW | BLUE ORIGIN RAISES $10B https://t.co/Jfym4JzEYu
2026-07-08T16:19 id=2074891135290691794 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Follow me I want 4,700 followers before the pod (and if I have more than 4,700 followers, unfollow me--like I said, I want 4,700 followers) || CTX: I'm on MTS in a bit over an hour y'all this is the most important development in tech news since the invention of the wheel if you miss it sorry but ngmi fam https://t.co/hM2ioEEBw1
2026-07-08T16:58 id=2074900903778472414 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Goddammit you people can't do anything right https://t.co/AsWM8MAWHe || CTX: Follow me I want 4,700 followers before the pod (and if I have more than 4,700 followers, unfollow me--like I said, I want 4,700 followers)
2026-07-08T18:01 id=2074916873960120818 →- | I trash talked the AI industry on a major podcast, now I'm scared Peter Thiel is going to get some mercenaries together, and Thiel Team Six is going to come kill me.
2026-07-08T18:11 id=2074919433827660059 →47fucb4r8c69323 | My advisor is exhausted. https://t.co/6Xu6bvHBzs || CTX: I trash talked the AI industry on a major podcast, now I'm scared Peter Thiel is going to get some mercenaries together, and Thiel Team Six is going to come kill me.
2026-07-08T18:58 id=2074931077937017196 →1889lw | @1889lw I appeal to the masses with my bawdry wit.   Dude I was going to tweet a question to you, something about identity politics, and now I'm stoned so I can't remember. Maybe tomorrow.   You good? Message me on WhatsApp sometime. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bruh how come you have so many followers now??
2026-07-08T19:04 id=2074932684871319896 →HPCDisrespecter | @HPCDisrespecter I was gonna say it on the pod but forgot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt; Thiel Team Six 5/5
2026-07-08T19:25 id=2074938038455788004 →TheStalwart | RIP Murati's investors. This is amazing! As you know, I think duplex is a massive leap forward.   BTW hilarious timing, I JUST did an interview with @MTSlive where I praised Thinking Machines's recent work with Bridgewater as a model for SMBs to use open models.   Murati and her team will be fine but if this works as well as it does in this video, that 47 Brazilian dollar valuation Thinking Machines is like Yud's political career after I debated him: in the dirt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How big of a deal is this? https://t.co/6XaZFKgpGA
2026-07-08T19:29 id=2074938857267802169 →- | Yeah holy shit this is a big deal.   If you need someone to talk to, I'm here for you, @miramurati https://t.co/gc7kidtjai || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How big of a deal is this? https://t.co/6XaZFKgpGA
2026-07-08T19:33 id=2074939883991491071 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @MTSlive TIL bookmarks are useful.  I'm around 1hr 30m. or so, scrub until you see the cat https://t.co/hM2ioEEBw1 || CTX: NEW GPT VOICE | GPT-5.6 TOMORROW | BLUE ORIGIN RAISES $10B https://t.co/Jfym4JzEYu
2026-07-08T19:35 id=2074940442651812118 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @miramurati tbf 4o voice was overhyped to shit. Should just wait and see. || CTX: Yeah holy shit this is a big deal.   If you need someone to talk to, I'm here for you, @miramurati https://t.co/gc7kidtjai
2026-07-08T19:40 id=2074941627064570199 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @MTSlive I'm like the Temu Ben Thompson which NGL given what we do for a living and his approach is honestly a fair assessment.  Ben is awesome. I still deliver demonstrable alpha to institutional investors from primary intelligence, but, hey, Ben's still awesome. https://t.co/K38Z6A4nb5 || CTX: I'm gonna be on @MTSlive in like 5hrs everyone make sure to get the family by the radio.  And kids out there, make sure you have your Little Orphan Annie Secret Society decoder pin to decipher the super secret message!
2026-07-08T20:03 id=2074947471768514791 →- | emordnilap https://t.co/5re22iBXJB
2026-07-08T20:03 id=2074947526470566005 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel @TheStalwart @tszzl JANNIES!!! || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl put the fries in the bag
2026-07-08T20:05 id=2074947963257078040 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @TenreiroDaniel @tszzl @LSCCountry Come perform on my island || CTX: @TenreiroDaniel @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl @LSCCountry Yeah, there's still time to get a flight from Thailand.
2026-07-08T20:16 id=2074950863404339552 →artrockalter | @artrockalter @TheStalwart @MTSlive I denied Yud access to my pussy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart @MTSlive should have used the cat with Yud
2026-07-08T20:37 id=2074956032510730346 →equacc | @equacc lol no that's not my real birthday || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you are Gemini?
2026-07-08T20:48 id=2074958733936140628 →- | meow https://t.co/jOuXidJ8Hr || CTX: SITUATION EXPLAINED: Why is the Bridgewater Thinking Machines paper a blueprint for every enterprise that has ever paid frontier model prices for generic outputs?  @47fucb4r8c69323: "What Thinking Machines and Bridgewater did together is a 
2026-07-08T21:03 id=2074962711533031828 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @Havelock_AI Make sure to control for how oral or literate is the style of the user prompts, so collect both what the LLM outputs and what prompt produced that output. That alone could show how much the user prompts determine the style of the bot responses. || CTX: Once there's a sufficient corpus of these "live" chats, I'm looking forward to running them through @Havelock_AI to see whether the output more closely resembles ChatGPT (including Biber distributions) or whether they look more like establi
2026-07-08T21:13 id=2074965145735082244 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum Is it worth reading? I find his social media so off-putting. || CTX: https://t.co/R2zQtVsnyh https://t.co/kqeBrlBQeD
2026-07-08T22:04 id=2074977938458714171 →teodorio | @teodorio meow || CTX: This is literally considered cheating AND doping because he is using the platform to get more followers than me but he is a great guy and really knowledgeable and one of my closest friends on this platform so whatever (@47fucb4r8c69323 FUCK
2026-07-08T22:08 id=2074978902032932881 →etbadabimbim | @etbadabimbim @TheStalwart Do you have a paper on this I can read? I sadly know very little about them. || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 This is interesting because it has been Mistral thesis all along.
2026-07-08T22:09 id=2074979130198970731 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @miramurati So the same as when I talk to a human? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @miramurati i have a feeling it will just be interrupting you a lot so that you feel the duplex but that it will lead to a lot of annoying back and forths that way after a while
2026-07-08T22:17 id=2074981111290331517 →- | If you're an optimist, you won't really try to change the world cuz, why, you're an optimist, you believe the world's going to get better.   So if you think you're an optimist and you're trying to change the world, you're a fucking poser, sot down and have a glass of wine
2026-07-08T22:22 id=2074982577090470066 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon dude it's a miracle anything gets done || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you're a pessimist, you won't really try to change the world cuz, why, you're a pessimist, you believe the world's going to get worse.   So if you think you're a pessimist and you're trying to change the world, you're a 
2026-07-08T22:23 id=2074982815008178332 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon shit dude did we just prove moral action is non existent? Is this a philosophical result already? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you're a pessimist, you won't really try to change the world cuz, why, you're a pessimist, you believe the world's going to get worse.   So if you think you're a pessimist and you're trying to change the world, you're a 
2026-07-08T22:25 id=2074983309130735899 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 We are shockingly able to create a strict boundary in our minds between the natural and the human-produced artificial.   But few realize that boundary is also artificial. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 this is what i was talking about earlier about taxonomy and the way modern science and also fantasy stories strips us of reality. most people never talked to an albatross but lament our world has no "aliens" or
2026-07-08T22:27 id=2074983674156818851 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain why do we write?   Or maybe better to ask, why can't we stop?   yeah that's what I wanted to ask || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill,  @AstrosBrain knows about this since he has surely read my essays on loss, and parenthood  someone has to protect the island but in the end  it is not the island itself that matters not the che
2026-07-08T22:29 id=2074984348491882950 →sebastianbea | @sebastianbea @MTSlive I'd say more that we need to rethink the dichotomy between ML and labeling. || CTX: @MTSlive @47fucb4r8c69323 This feels like we are rediscovering data labeling and supervised learning.
2026-07-08T22:30 id=2074984479198999022 →tunahorse21 | @tunahorse21 @MTSlive thank you big fish || CTX: @MTSlive @47fucb4r8c69323 Cinema
2026-07-08T22:31 id=2074984803167080640 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 effective poast || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 it was something i was saying to allison before she went away again  that if you want to be a scientist then consider becoming a scientist of your own mind like the buddha did  of course it is imbued with fashi
2026-07-08T22:39 id=2074986766587854898 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 Thank you, that's kind of you to say. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 it reminds me of you now too when i listen to it because of your philosophical posts about language games
2026-07-09T02:23 id=2075043195105447974 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt Think of throwing a football, that's pretty much just arm but I do it much better with my left than my right
2026-07-09T02:53 id=2075050657262743569 →anilkseth | @anilkseth @StuartHameroff happy to see you guys bury the hatchet || CTX: Nice to see @StuartHameroff today at the Burroughs Wellcome Foundation (North Carolina), where we agreed that we both agree (albeit for different reasons) that the narrative of cartoon neurons for conscious AI is misleading and almost certa
2026-07-09T03:16 id=2075056396085657850 →- | Neurosymbolic uses a neural approach to find patterns through noise and a symbolic approach to make that pattern finding better aligned with ground truth via giving the model deterministic rules varied off the core structure of "if the user says X, then say Y", which it can then use to infer according to predetermined sets of rules.   You can use the symbolic part to help fix mistakes and unnatural outputs, because language use is very close to human cognition. But not exactly the same, so there will always be strange gaps like this.   Doesn't mean the LLMs cannot produce extremely valuable outputs and help us think in novel ways! This is an easy overextension of the argument to make but it is false and a position I've never had. It's MASSIVELY valuable! But this is a mistake Emily Bender and Gary Marcus have made.   Bender hasn't softened her position at all, which I think means we can dismiss her as an underious person.  Marcus is trying to gaslight everyone because he thinks admitting he's softened his view makes him look week, but he's softened it massively. Which also means we can dismiss her as an unserious person.   My position has always been:  1. LLMs cannot achieve AGI.  2. LLMs can have emergent language-based reasoning properties of TREMENDOUS value because of emergent reasoning capabilities by combining neuronal and symbolic ML techniques. Massive syntactic and lookup capabilities make LLMs a powerful research and analytic tool.  3. LLMs can have tremendous value because it's a natural language based interface so users can access knowledge through natural language. Massive UI/UX upgrade.  4. LLMs will see an incrementally improving competency across domains thanks to a growing focus on symbolic training improvements.  Declining reasoning gains per model iteration point at 1. Note how the frontier labs don't talk about this anymore,instead pointing at how cool their harnesses are? And they are--that is where the value is.  Vibe coding is an early proof of concept for 2.  Just use a clanker to do knowledge work over Google, that proves 3 (you'll also see it with surveys which will show more positive customer response to AI Overviews)  The declining investment on pretraining and improving outputs for simple tasks shows 4.  Apparently because social media rewards hysterical polemics, I need to thread a needle whose eye is huge and everyone thinks is small. So here it is:  LLMs are a multitrillion dollar civilizational technology. They will keep getting smarter but will never surpass us. More deployment of LLMs in the economy will make us richer and happier.   Don't be a big gay bear this is bullish bullish bullish. || CTX: Had to give the new voice model the classic test https://t.co/fQYHbBRNuL
2026-07-09T03:21 id=2075057688854061386 →KellyLSoderlund | @KellyLSoderlund @alexpotato @TheStalwart Agreed! || CTX: @alexpotato @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 Routing layers solve this
2026-07-09T03:53 id=2075065715170652292 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @TreeLakeRain @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 I refuse to believe that's a real name || CTX: @TreeLakeRain @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/7gm5DNrGo5
2026-07-09T03:54 id=2075065960570982544 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin ngl broski I was crossfaded af when I tweeted this out || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Disagree 100%. If you're an optimist, you see the world for how it could be, and believe it could/will be that.
2026-07-09T04:00 id=2075067467274039546 →fortyniner808 | @fortyniner808 @TheStalwart Doesn't apply to open non a priori systems. https://t.co/sXqiX33sa4 || CTX: There's an even more bitter lesson out their waiting for the machine learning engineers.  Hint: the bitter lesson was about deductive systems with presupposed fixed a priori rules.
2026-07-09T04:02 id=2075067922918093287 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj @miramurati oh yeah, that is a very good point! Still, I think this suggests OAI can catch up or at least they're trying, and if Mira doesn't have proprietary tech while having less compute... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @miramurati you’re missing the fact that mira’s model also had video input, but the latency they showed for that was still not useable for RT. there’s still hope
2026-07-09T04:29 id=2075074833592058231 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @aethernet_port @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 I don't know, commantha, why is a raven like a writing desk? || CTX: @aethernet_port @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 why is a scion like a writing desk? https://t.co/seYjx9u80q
2026-07-09T04:38 id=2075077064106131695 →- | 47 mentioned https://t.co/I0vbwVivCp
2026-07-09T04:46 id=2075079128731295777 →KojimaErgoSum | once when I was meeting a friend of mine who's a very prominent early 20th century poetry scholar who is very much a Luddite, he was complaining about his teenage son using his phone all the time.   and I said, imagine you have a device in your pocket that gives you instant access to almost all of human knowledge, wouldn't you use it rather often?    anyway, now he has a phone and uses it mostly to watch AI generated propaganda videos on YouTube about how Muslims are destroying Britain || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a cellular telephone connected to the wireless waves and able to access a machine that can produce voice is a fantastic tool  like a swiss army knife or a parasol or a rake or a tractor
2026-07-09T05:01 id=2075082865432551497 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit like 450 lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you gain 500 in a day?
2026-07-09T05:01 id=2075082985997844723 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum Say it with me gang:  Sam's the best to ever do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 to me nothing has ever been real since they made that technology where you just wave your credit card and then the guy just gives you all the stuff  like i never understand it  where is the money coming from?  im never goin
2026-07-09T05:30 id=2075090305867710880 →tszzl | This is an easy proposition to test.   Hard disagree they're "basically fine" and I have switched all my text production tasks to Qwen, Gemma, GLM, and other models but still use CG for reasoning and analysis as well as coding.  Whether they're better than in the past, dude do a study. OpenAI has the money for it and it's not hard to do. || CTX: hypothesis:  the writing styles of language models are basically fine, they weren’t better in some halcyon before times. we just use them so much that we get annoyed by their mannerisms. they need to have a superhumanly diverse idiolect to 
2026-07-09T05:31 id=2075090536206406009 →retail_trash | @retail_trash Would be a wise move tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 aww... now I gotta unfollow...
2026-07-09T05:37 id=2075091908309967212 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @PerryALPHA she really was something, had a dash a this and a dash a that || CTX: @PerryALPHA she was so young
2026-07-09T05:50 id=2075095343440785584 →- | Crazy how I wrote this a little over a year ago before I even knew who Yudkowsky was, let alone that I'd debate him.   FAST COMES AT YOU LIFE https://t.co/vqctucVSK9
2026-07-09T05:56 id=2075096725870801062 →gabriel1 | @gabriel1 @elonmusk "so hard to reverse" dude we live in an at-will late stage capitalist hellscape where it takes 30 interviews to get a job that you can get fired from literally at the drop of a hat.   wtf r u smoking || CTX: evaluation of hires is the hardest problem, the largest inefficiency in the market BY FAR  so much at stake and so hard to reverse, you act on little information, still the best hires are those not yet priced in  any filtering tips on other
2026-07-09T07:13 id=2075116213685154200 →syzygy137 | @syzygy137 Yeah that's a good way to put it. "Goddamn how did he write this?" is a thought that you usually have with good writing. "Ugh this is annoyingly difficult" really isn't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-09T07:23 id=2075118624545894542 →equacc | @equacc goddammit are you going to force me to read Tolstoy? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 your longforms remind me of Anna Karenina principle: all those exaggerating AI doomers and grifters write some fantasy of stuff that likely won't happen, but your clarity and discipline in thought process keeps it simple an
2026-07-09T07:42 id=2075123313073090666 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Yeah I posted this so he doesn't assassinate me with Thiel Team Six || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47 now Thiel posting https://t.co/x4BktpUDWz
2026-07-09T08:07 id=2075129748817314274 →- | The bitter lesson applies only to domains that can be highly or fully formed computationally. Go and chess are the canonical ones, I guess math is too (or is that a snake's pit I should avoid?)  Anyway, natural language cannot be highly formed computationally. But that assertion then invites the counterargument "well what do you mean by highly? From my viewpoint, it's very highly formed--look at how good this AI output is". And this is why roon keeps saying AI writing is not bad; I don't think he's being disingenuous, he just has bad taste.  In a way, a ML engineer needs to have bad taste to be a good engineer. Which explains a lot.  So the response is pretty simple, and it fucking pains me to say this but the response is to be a snob. "Okay, that's just like, your opinion, man, but to me this is absolute shit and here is why: here's the unnecessary antithesis, here's the overwrought verbiage preempting confusions or disagreements I'd never have, here's the unnatural metaphor that is jarring with common use, etc. etc." The response is a close reading, the answer is fucking hermeneutics man total St. Augustine W.  We need to concede: yes, from your perspective language can be highly formulated in computational terms, because you have bad taste and so do not see the complexities that those of us who are better trained on text see.  Also explains why textual scholars won't get AI psychosis.  But the real point is that, if you say "the bitter lesson applies to natural language", you are assuming natural language has a priori fixed rules, clear objectives, verifiable feedback, and no reflexivity or diachronic change.  Which is hilariously stupid on the surface, like how can you be so dumb, but I cannot convince you of your stupidity any more than I can convince a fish it swims in water. So keep swimming little buddy, but the market gonna punish ya.
2026-07-09T08:08 id=2075129878274523502 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden yeah this image is really surreal || CTX: i honestly thought dali died like 1000 years ago https://t.co/5C7gtK8YLz
2026-07-09T08:28 id=2075135097263763752 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden How does one do that? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i am an optimist _because_ i want to try and make the world better. https://t.co/5hvySli3Il
2026-07-09T08:31 id=2075135658860167530 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im not sure but i know it involves modifying a system, process, or design to achieve maximum efficiency and the best possible outcome within defined constraints.
2026-07-09T08:45 id=2075139340209123636 →- | FT Alphaville yapping that SaaS ain't dead.  I'm up like 30% on my SaaS toe dipping due to some swing trading, which is nothing compared to what the semi guys are doing, but still delighted to see market starting to catch up to me.  IGV ends 2026 green assuming no calamities. https://t.co/wdet2hVv8j https://t.co/NyX6jVy3sA || CTX: I've been debating getting some calls to supplement my SaaS toe dipping but kinda feel AAPL really is just leveraging a short term advantage due to market position than being fundamental at the end of the tech stack.  Not selling picks or s
2026-07-09T09:03 id=2075143859986899312 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden why was i not tagged || CTX: in my faith we believe that one day we will be called to account for even every idle word we uttered. the thought of it can be quite terrifying or overwhelming. maybe it is not literally true, only a lesson about how our thoughtless words m
2026-07-09T09:09 id=2075145416446783964 →teodorio | @teodorio Oh you wish, don't you, dd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you frequently save conversations with me?
2026-07-09T09:12 id=2075146024948224062 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics lmao goddammit yeah fair || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just have to say, I think the fish know that they swim in water…
2026-07-09T09:30 id=2075150496403161552 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill Your disdain for my work saddens me.   But don't read this, read my novel. The one about the move. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 i should find a transcript of this so that i can finally know what was said
2026-07-09T09:30 id=2075150552229712284 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden You get it. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 47 won purely on not turning his web cam on
2026-07-09T09:32 id=2075151050617840022 →DaphneB76234 | @DaphneB76234 For it to be about nothing, it has to portray lives that were never actually like that, otherwise it'd be about a life (something). || CTX: Jerry Seinfeld is a timeless show. Because life was never actually like that.
2026-07-09T09:32 id=2075151213272989946 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb I think spring is worse because it's got the cruellest month in it. || CTX: Summer is by far the worst month. The bugs. The sun. The heat. Awful. Dogshit.
2026-07-09T09:33 id=2075151467241975959 →teodorio | @teodorio @Anc_Aesthetics Max's company would be worth billions if he changed his approach and goal of what his software and data do.   I've tried ro || CTX: @Anc_Aesthetics @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-09T09:36 id=2075152222078586987 →teodorio | Max's company would be worth billions if he changed his approach and goal of what his software and data do.   I've tried to speak sense to him, but he's "mission focused", which means he's got the same problem Amodei has and is keeping his company back.   Tech people are bad CEOs.   But yeah to the point: 96% isn't useless so much as useful only in low stakes contexts. Using such a tool to fail students would be unethical. Using it to check it a poast is slop, sure, which saves you having to skim it.   So dogshit EV with the current approach, but so much potential value with a better CEO, sorry Max don't hate me. || CTX: @Anc_Aesthetics @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-09T09:43 id=2075153863586300230 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital @teechongyen that's a hard PaaS from me dawg
2026-07-09T10:14 id=2075161546779754617 →- | https://t.co/aVGVtMmx2T
2026-07-09T10:23 id=2075163863188901930 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill And vice versa || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 have ur cats seen u naked
2026-07-09T10:26 id=2075164600539185613 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill I'm willing to bet my voice sounds exactly like you think it does || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill see this i can get behind   https://t.co/9QAlTJUAps
2026-07-09T10:32 id=2075166265367486937 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden You take dates to La Porchetta. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden unfortunately he’s right he sounded just like the californian ben shapiro I imagined
2026-07-09T10:52 id=2075171216147755249 →DanielleFong | @DanielleFong This is what the Rationalists think about the rest of us.   Anthropic sees its user base as stupid little children. || CTX: this is a major problem with fable to be honest. they are projecting https://t.co/Rs4DdYEDFx
2026-07-09T10:58 id=2075172765859254531 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @ChrissGPT I too have learned to stop hating JB's wife || CTX: @ChrissGPT Yeah I’ve actually been traumatized and unable to process my emotions for 37 years but thanks to a 2 minute meditation with Maple I’ve learned to stop hating my wife
2026-07-09T10:59 id=2075172931101986934 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JasonBotterill @ChrissGPT (This is a joke, Mrs. Butterill is a lovely lady. Loves a good massage.) || CTX: @JasonBotterill @ChrissGPT I too have learned to stop hating JB's wife
2026-07-09T11:19 id=2075177918641361368 →- | Nice chart again showing the pivot from SOTA models as enterprise realizes they get better outputs with less post trained open models, as I said on @MTSlive yesterday.  This trend is likely to continue, but I cannot agree that this necessarily harms hyperscaler cash flow. More product market fit triggers more demand as market realizes they can use the product and want more. Hyperscalers bet big on infra rather than LLMs, that's why Antigravity is a coder's harness and not a cute toy like Claude Code or Codex (disclaimer: I love Codex).  So Torsten has framed this wrong and Meta's recent pivot to sell compute is bullish for them and the market, they're getting serious about becoming a cloud computing provider.  But I love torsten, he pumps these out daily, and he's good. Just WS sucks on AI it's crazy   https://t.co/HEzpPXuvZB
2026-07-09T11:27 id=2075180020201406968 →- | Think of how we use the word naked as it relates to animals.   A "naked cat" is a cat without its fur.   So we cannot say that "naked" necessarily means without clothes on, as a cat with fur, like the emperor, has no clothes.  Instead, we have to assert that "naked" means "skin uncovered in a way that is unexpected", and so nakedness's meaning has within it a social norm to it.   This explains why a sexist man will say, "you are naked!" to a woman who isn't naked; he is properly using the word to gesture at a social norm he is trying to enforce.   When you see language as a metagame (yes this is a 47fucb idea), this makes sense.  The meaning of a word is in the use, yes, but the use of the word also changes the meaning. As it is used, the user if the word subtly changes the meaning of the word. This is an ongoing dynamic process observable in all language use everywhere.  The best analogy for how humans use language is Calvinball. || CTX: @JasonBotterill And vice versa
2026-07-09T11:28 id=2075180237265273242 →47fucb4r8c69323 | gm @TheStalwart || CTX: Think of how we use the word naked as it relates to animals.   A "naked cat" is a cat without its fur.   So we cannot say that "naked" necessarily means without clothes on, as a cat with fur, like the emperor, has no clothes.  Instead, we h
2026-07-09T11:32 id=2075181182724006281 →- | If that story about Donald Trump sucking Bill Clinton's dick is true, then the president of the United States has drank more cum than alcohol.  Welcome, new followers!
2026-07-09T12:04 id=2075189429480931591 →TheStalwart | Yeah, he's missing the forest for the trees. Firstly, the gain in performance matters more than the cost, which is partly why I dislike that the MoE architecture has been focused on improving token efficiency, but I'm getting sidetracked.  Secondly, open-ended problems are not fully open-ended, and at the enterprise level you can train a model to infer a solution to a well defined optimizable problem that could also solve the open ended problem that the user has given the model. Mapping those in a bespoke fashion with proprietary data is a huge value-add, really lowering token burn is beside the point.  Less thinking like an engineer if you want to solve language problems. || CTX: @heyitsnoah @TaylorLorenz @47fucb4r8c69323 FWIW, and I don't know if @47fucb4r8c69323 would agree, I'm a little less interested in the token spend per se, and more on what you can do when you bake your own proprietary into an open source mo
2026-07-09T12:24 id=2075194408731812265 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Congrats broski! || CTX: University results! Could’ve been *much* worse https://t.co/neB0DT8TRG
2026-07-09T12:26 id=2075194890590335446 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @heyitsnoah @TaylorLorenz I've been told by a reliable source that one of the big4 here in Asia is trying to get out of their Anthropic contract early. Also heard stories of another, but less reliable. Will be tons of this, markets will be spooked. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @heyitsnoah @TaylorLorenz My guess is that companies of all sizes continue have expensive contracts with the big frontier. But that also for more and more specific uses, it’ll become very common to have homemade models that
2026-07-09T12:28 id=2075195495027249198 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein @DanielleFong Of course it is--it's a vacuous statement, so not worth saying, unless you want to say some do this more than others or than they should, which is the subtext here, and it's downstream of Anthropic's patronizing view of its users. || CTX: OTOH isn’t the idea that “people make the decision based on emotion, etc and then rationalize after the fact” a pretty standard psychological, etc position?   Particularly with regard to the highly qualitative things listed.    To me the is
2026-07-09T12:31 id=2075196055692730459 →tunahorse21 | @tunahorse21 YES || CTX: what if i started a youtube channel and instead of hype ai slop thumbnails and ai workflows that CHANGE EVERYTHING   its just a picture of my cat and me mumbling about how to set up docker to serve qwen 3.6 27b on your home network   yes or
2026-07-09T12:54 id=2075201854758359460 →athena_notes | @athena_notes https://t.co/ssRr4VQweo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why do I feel as though you being able to connect stuff like this is part of why you're so good at the markets
2026-07-09T13:09 id=2075205670853636118 →- | Yes, this makes tremendous sense. Very bullish for hardware ofc, honestly the companies likeliest to lose revenue here seem to me Anthropic and OpenAI. Everyone else is going to benefit. https://t.co/VZqEu5wVms || CTX: Announcing our $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence Stack  Led by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors  Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models using our stack.  Ow
2026-07-09T13:32 id=2075211534721339710 →1889lw | @1889lw enforced social norm through language, many such cases || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol in Chinese people use “naked exam” to mean taking exam without preparation
2026-07-09T13:33 id=2075211677780611233 →heyitsnoah | @heyitsnoah @TheStalwart @TaylorLorenz why are they so stupid? || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 @TaylorLorenz Definitely not, and this is part of what I was reacting to originally. The tokenmaxxing conversation (which I’ve been having way too much lately) assumes a level of maturity in these enterprises t
2026-07-09T13:42 id=2075214089262108891 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie your floors are gorgeous || CTX: blue pen on my nose and a decent plate before i nap https://t.co/NrqpwVh5qs
2026-07-09T13:44 id=2075214519203451042 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain she looks like she's been soaked in tea overnight || CTX: any foids 30 years my junior want to have a baby? like Luke Wilson I also have an IMDb page https://t.co/nOXZinwE4y
2026-07-09T14:17 id=2075222743042437170 →- | It'shappening.gif https://t.co/ZFgxcayRad https://t.co/a4g22VSgpE || CTX: s4s is absolutely right, and it actually made me realize this is INSANELY bullish for meta.   I'ma greentext cuz I iz stonéd:  > Everyone goes local open > Enterprise switches to local LLMs > ENT establishes best practices > Meanwhile, SMBs
2026-07-09T14:17 id=2075222916787232982 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini Sometimes it's shockingly high. || CTX: The optimum amount of trauma in life is not zero
2026-07-09T14:45 id=2075229785308135438 →SamoBurja | A toy theory I have is European elites want relative wealth--to be wealthier than the peasants.   American elites want absolute wealth--to be the wealthiest they possibly can be.  Obviously the positive sum logic of the American way causes economic expansion, and the European can tolerate contraction. || CTX: Alex Karp is right. There is a deep nihilism among European elites to an extent European citizens would find shocking.  The shopkeeper, the farmer, and the car mechanic think there will be an England or a Poland in 2100; the university prof
2026-07-09T14:48 id=2075230548780552274 →MiguelPrad0 | @MiguelPrad0 @maryofsvaldbard This is some "land in my blood" racialism shit I can't even get my head around.   That you have found a way to express your snobbish contempt in the language of supposedly empathetic virtue is a testament to how much people can fool themselves.   Enjoy your UK lectureship. || CTX: @maryofsvaldbard You called a European moving within Europe "rootless" to defend a settler state's claim to eternity. Sit with that. My roots predate your country by two millennia.
2026-07-09T14:53 id=2075231861996163095 →luckenco | @luckenco I wonder just how far technophobia in Europe will go. Like, the wealth/income disparity with America has got to make them break eventually. || CTX: they will still point at china as being totalitarian.  in a desperate and silly attempt to cope with their technological  advancement.  do they realize how much of a joke they are https://t.co/nnhxysxX3X
2026-07-09T14:54 id=2075232020058526068 →somewheresy | @somewheresy By this logic the biggest autist was Jesus Christ because his dad was infinity years old || CTX: RW: Why are there so many kids being born with autism?  Also RW: https://t.co/KegVemooQO
2026-07-09T15:29 id=2075241006921093434 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Will be interesting to see how much people use the Meta API for Muse and how much for the open models.  Also I just used Muse, it sucks lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 imagine this being open source
2026-07-09T16:09 id=2075251097875443849 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb Very depressing fact here, thanks I hate it. || CTX: Most 'readers' were reading to relieve boredom, not to participate in some higher life world or intellectual pantheon.
2026-07-10T00:49 id=2075381985116303841 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You made a loyal fan out of me that day 😂
2026-07-10T01:09 id=2075386963490984171 →- | Like I said, Meta's idea is to be a general store for AI. Want undifferentiated compute? We're here for you. Want an open model? Got that. Base model? Step right up? SOTA model? Well, Muse sucks but we're trying!   Zuck always wanted Facebook to be the internet's plumbing. https://t.co/Or1Ki4NpwG https://t.co/fVUKPoDppf || CTX: Wait this is not what's driving the selloff, is it? Can't be this is too stupid.   Please help me I am retarded.  Is the logic behind the selloff this: Meta is selling excess capacity because AI demand is lower than expected, so AI bearish 
2026-07-10T01:14 id=2075388129201037488 →citrini | @citrini That's why you get your takes in when it was down.   I'm only up 5.5% on Meta so far, but not bad for a week's work. https://t.co/fVUKPoCRzH || CTX: Wait this is not what's driving the selloff, is it? Can't be this is too stupid.   Please help me I am retarded.  Is the logic behind the selloff this: Meta is selling excess capacity because AI demand is lower than expected, so AI bearish 
2026-07-10T01:15 id=2075388483494101462 →_rabbi | @_rabbi New tongue twister just dropped || CTX: Clavicular is in Tel Aviv
2026-07-10T01:21 id=2075389990969004213 →HedgeyeComm | @HedgeyeComm Some of us have been saying. https://t.co/fVUKPoDppf || CTX: Wait this is not what's driving the selloff, is it? Can't be this is too stupid.   Please help me I am retarded.  Is the logic behind the selloff this: Meta is selling excess capacity because AI demand is lower than expected, so AI bearish 
2026-07-10T01:45 id=2075395914148299177 →- | In 1999, in a coffeeshop called Cafe Copioh in Las Vegas, I attended an open mic poetry night. It was rather crowded with mostly regulars, who were almost all teenagers or in their early 20s, and pretty much no one over 25. The vast majority were white, except for a couple of black people including one very large black man who was sitting in the middle of the room. He was a regular too.  Most of the recitals were typical teenage nonsense, but there was one white man in his 30s or so who looked quite serious and intelligent. He went on stage and introduced himself and said, "I am a teacher at a local high school, and over the years I have written down instances where I heard students, both white and black, say the N-word. I'd like to recite some of those quotes now" Except he didn't say "N-word", he said the real taboo word with a hard R.  What followed was fascinating, and I was transfixed.  For about five minutes or so, this teacher read from a notebook dozens of excerpts of teenagers using this word. Some of it was hateful, some playful, some menacing, some ironic. All of the quotes were fragments where context had been lost and intention was floating somewhere nearby, and the unifying theme was this one word.  The tension in the room grew over those five minutes, and I spent most of the time observing the room, seeing some nervous glances (many seemed inadvertent) at the large black man in the center of the room, who was watching intensely with his arms crossed.  I felt an atmosphere of genuine fear, horror in fact, throughout the room.  Finally when the teacher finished, the black man was the first to clap, and he did so intensely, as intensely as he'd been paying attention to the recital. The rest of the cafe, feeling they'd been granted permission, followed suit.  There is so much that could be said about this moment. Let me focus on one aspect.  This, obviously, could not happen today, and we like to think that it couldn't happen because of censorship, cancel culture, and similar memetic phrases that now constrain how you think and control your thinking. But I'd like to propose it is impossible for a different reason.  At some point long after this incident, America decided this word was totemic and that white people cannot speak it, even if quoting another person using it. I won't comment on the wisdom of that cultural shift, because honestly I have complex and unresolved opinions on it. I don't know if it's beneficial for society or not, so I will refrain from giving a settled judgment on the matter.  But since that shift has happened, the meaning of such a performance would change entirely. It would function much more clearly as a different kind of audience provocation because it's now challenging a different social norm.  The teacher was doing something simple and beautiful--indeed, poetic. He was holding a mirror to his audience and saying, "this is what you are, this is the language game you play, these are the words you choose to use, and this is what it means. Is this what you want?"  Did he and many others like him change the mores of America--and if so, did the change turn out the way they wanted? Unanswerable questions, but they are valid, exciting questions following his performance.  Good art makes us ask exciting questions.  A similar performance today would not arouse those questions, and it would not be a mirror. It would be a provocation or a challenge. "This bad word is forbidden to me, and yet I am going to quote it as a reporter." The questions this would bring up are different, and I'm not going to litigate whether such an artistic gesture would be valid or not. I do not know nor do I care to stake a claim on the topic.  In fact, the closest instance of such an artistic performance would be Kanye West's "I love Hitler" stuff from a couple of years ago. But, honestly, I don't think that counts--that seemed less artist intention than the effects of mental illness. But maybe I am wrong.  My only point is: you cannot say the same sentence twice.  In every situation, in every context, any utterance has a different meaning.  Note how this does not just apply to the spoken word or the word written down to be read, because in this case this was a written text performed to an audience. Performing that written text today cannot be the same as 27 years ago.  Arguably it would've been different had you changed anything in that room--no black people, only black people, an older group, a younger group--each one brings with it a different context and thus different implicature.
2026-07-10T01:46 id=2075396184550826197 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @mimi10v3 tbh I'm not sure if I'm supposed to comment or I'm the example that answers the question. || CTX: @mimi10v3 @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-10T01:56 id=2075398672561672475 →KojimaErgoSum | well the overarching characteristic is a pattern seeking brain, autistic people will find and look for patterns more than the normie.   so probably the most autistic trait is finding relationships where others do not see them, but is that already part of the diagnostic criteria? I honestly don't know, it's a really long list.   but it's important to remember that autism is a disorder, not a superpower like the internet likes to say it is. so if you are autistic it tends to mean you get upset at patterns that don't upset others or add patterns that no one else sees. I have definitely been in situations where I'm enraged at things that no one else sees as wrong at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 you are supposed to comment
2026-07-10T02:13 id=2075403016254169380 →TenreiroDaniel | I am particularly fascinated when artists risk offending their audience for artistic effect.   Society dismisses this as crude shock value, and that is true in some cases (we could call that the Howard Stern effect), but in other cases it is not only a literary device but the riskiest literary device I can imagine using. And so when a good artist uses it we should pay particular attention.   There is a novel called the Last Jet Engine Laugh in which the narrator says "fuck you" to the reader for asking too many questions, and it deepens the horror of the dystopia being described in a very impactful way.   That risk of offending the audience for maximal impact is an underappreciated rhetoric of literature.   I should also point out this is the opposite of what Chaucer did, his entire poetics was surrounded around appeasing the reader rather than shocking him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 See also the minstrel voice in Berryman’s dream songs https://t.co/2Enqs5VnZ1
2026-07-10T02:24 id=2075405826563711002 →the_fartasy | @the_fartasy look at the size of that boy, you think he's going to give up free protein? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we don't know that he swallowed
2026-07-10T04:16 id=2075433872142348305 →sloppyass_eater | @sloppyass_eater Yes, I'm far from bullish on the frontier labs.  As for the data center point--can you explain? I don't see how a pivot to a different kind of LLM is negative for silicon demand overall. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bullish on llm productivity gains can be a far cry from bullish on how the market is allocating into frontier labs and dc-scale silicon tho
2026-07-10T04:24 id=2075435908804079909 →- | There is a strange paradox here: Wang is not as good as LeCun and understands AI less than LeCun, and yet he's much better for META than LeCun.  I hate saying this because I love LeCun and have a personal beef against Wang.  Still, I am objective. What Wang provides--a big data approach to producing an LLM based on current market best practices--is exactly what you want if you're META and your go-to market strategy is seeing what has already been done and works, copying it as much as you can (Muse 1.1 sucks balls fwiw), and then providing a "not state of the art but good enough and cheap" product that will scale.  Unsurprising the dude who made Scale AI understands scale.  And anyone who has worked with or in https://t.co/BeFYvf5qLD knows their approach to data is shit, and the recent reports of angry programmers doing data labeling is a data point in how much Wang sucks.   But!!!  That kind of shitty not SOTA approach is what you want when you are essentially the Walmart of the internet, which is what META is: non white label, selling product to the mouthbreathing proles, and collecting a reliable if not amazing margin from being the service provider between them and the produce/product.  So this makes sense, it is bullish for META, it makes sense.  But it also means Yann LeCun is the superior intellect, more accurate about LLMs from an academic perspective, and likelier to advance humanity.  All this shows is a principle you should have already known (did you forget it, Anon, because you've been eating the billionaire-produced prole-slop of blogposts and shitting thinkpieces on the internets while standing in line at the grocery store?).  Business doesn't advance humanity, that's what science does. Science doesn't produce for humanity, it serves the producers who produce products.  So, Zuck and Wang are parasitic on LeCun, and that's why they will be richer and more prominent in society and probably worshipped more by idiots fantasizing about "ME WANT FAST CAR GO VROOM VROOM".  But history will remember LeCun as the genius, and these dudes as the industrialists.  22nd redditors will shit on Wang and suck Yann LeCock just like 21st century redditors shit on Edison and worship Tesla  IT'S ALL JUST A CASE OF HISTORY REPEATING, DIDN'T YOU LISTEN TO SHIRLEY BASSEY WHY DO I NEED TO SPELL THIS OUT WHY IS THIS NOT OBVIOUS TO EVERYO || CTX: 🆕 @finkd has started following @alexandr_wang https://t.co/V8WJ8qkqx6
2026-07-10T04:25 id=2075436176190935175 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel Yeah we almost solved world peace until you got another call--whoever that was, tell them their hands are stained with the blood of billions. BILLIONS. || CTX: On the phone with @47fucb4r8c69323 discussing various matters of global importance
2026-07-10T04:26 id=2075436517791842610 →- | How about you try licking deez nuts, @elonmusk.  Your job is keeping this site running so I can shitpost FRIES IN THE BACK ROCKETBOY, TAKE ANOTHER SHOT OF KETAMINE IF YOU NEED IT IDGAF CUNT https://t.co/ZVnyAf1ETh
2026-07-10T04:30 id=2075437402274078874 →- | How about you try licking deez nuts, @elonmusk.  Your job is keeping this site running so I can shitpost FRIES IN THE BAG ROCKETBOY, TAKE ANOTHER SHOT OF KETAMINE IF YOU NEED IT IDGAF CUNT https://t.co/qPVw1g5gRN
2026-07-10T04:42 id=2075440401843130736 →pax21e8 | Tech just isn't a sector to be in if you care about quality--and a lot of quality enjoyoors would be happy in academia, but those of us who aren't mouthbreathers look at the admin, the politics, and the pay in academia and laugh. Scoff. Chortle. Guffaw, even.  So we are in this awkward liminal space where we want to do careful intellectual labor but the only place we can go is where careless intellectual labor is frankly the most valuable contribution.  Wang ain't wrong, the world is wrong.  BRING BACK THE GOOD PAYING ACADEMIA JOBS GODDAMMIT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 caring about data quality has been the most costly belief of my life  just build the sweatshop
2026-07-10T04:53 id=2075443328259371395 →pax21e8 | @pax21e8 oh yeah dude sell out, save like a demon, and THEN you get to do what you want on your own terms. || CTX: idk 47, the market's punched me in the face enough to get the message. it might be time to sell out and play the game. i can repent in the Permanent Overclass, if i make it  all i know of academia as an industry makes it seem even worse tha
2026-07-10T04:56 id=2075443960567541810 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel for about 15 years now I've been wanting to write an article that is the capitalists argument for single-payer healthcare, but it goes against all of the prevailing ideologies so I suppose it'd just be incomprehensible to 99% of Americans. || CTX: “Can we please have affordable healthcare?”  Smartest guys on earth: Best I can do is broccoli farmer running his farm with GPT-5.6 https://t.co/iRKnEEg5iS
2026-07-10T04:57 id=2075444353695162493 →- | you can boil down Wittgenstein's therapeutic method to this:  Philosophy is the dismantling of bullshit.  Any supposed philosophy doing anything else is not philosophy. It is bullshit.  This is why David Chalmers used to be a philosopher and is now a bullshitter.
2026-07-10T05:04 id=2075446034826936449 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Relates to what we were DMing about the other day, @nazo_btw || CTX: There is a strange paradox here: Wang is not as good as LeCun and understands AI less than LeCun, and yet he's much better for META than LeCun.  I hate saying this because I love LeCun and have a personal beef against Wang.  Still, I am obj
2026-07-10T05:10 id=2075447649088737569 →- | The hands down best thing about Rawls's theory of justice is that it is ahistorical.
2026-07-10T05:36 id=2075453978968821932 →- | it seems to me that what Harsanyi has done is demonstrate that anti utilitarian preferences are themselves incoherent, so we can say that to have a preference is to assert the utility of one option over another. So it isn't so much that utilitarianism is correct or incorrect, but rather a description of how preferences work.   Every coherent moral preference can be described in terms of utility, but to be clear this doesn't mean the historical tradition of utilitarianism is correct, because that tradition smuggled valence and assumption on "utility" to avoid the very triviality that I see from Harsanyi's argument.
2026-07-10T05:47 id=2075456774963118102 →TrueAIHound | @TrueAIHound Thank you, that's very kind, and it means a lot coming from you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Philosophy is the dismantling of bullshit."  I like this. I'll add it to my list of valuable phrases.
2026-07-10T05:48 id=2075457098050416976 →cyb3r_17 | @cyb3r_17 yeah a lot of people really hate me because I like nuance || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 waow nuance
2026-07-10T05:49 id=2075457358080381246 →equacc | @equacc the problem is that he doesn't try to dismantle the shit, he just assumes something is shit like capitalism or whatever and never questions it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it goes well with Žižek's "duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in", if you never try to dismantle bullshit you won't see the deep shit you are in either
2026-07-10T05:52 id=2075458142096466313 →dylanbowmanSF | @dylanbowmanSF Yes, he hasn't really been producing much despite his scientific insights and correct view on LLMs. I'm not quite sure why. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Honest question what big things has LeCun done since LeNet? JEPA is still in its infancy right and surely has progressed further than other similar research mandates because of ylc’s influence?
2026-07-10T05:55 id=2075458804351983653 →schisofrenia | @schisofrenia Makes total sense; the more mass-appeal a piece of media, the more it'll look AI generated.   "Slop" often just means too generic as well as vapid. || CTX: love island is spiritually AI generated
2026-07-10T05:55 id=2075458978012930475 →- | AIslops Fables, is this something?
2026-07-10T07:00 id=2075475354433790233 →- | This is now a Bernard Williams fan account. https://t.co/idsNIeMF7g
2026-07-10T07:01 id=2075475571514261507 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The man was a genius and wrote like an angel. https://t.co/4i0e0AbQW0 || CTX: This is now a Bernard Williams fan account. https://t.co/idsNIeMF7g
2026-07-10T07:07 id=2075477039952617624 →- | Both OpenAI and Anthropic recently posted job listings with comically bad pay, I think the point is to telegraph to investors for their pre IPO road show that they are financially responsible.   We laborers are collateral damage. https://t.co/HwSg2U4G2F || CTX: We are hiring scientists to come work with our team at Anthropic! Feel free to mention me specifically when you apply so we make sure it's routed correctly.  Links to job posts below in 🧵:
2026-07-10T07:09 id=2075477545282314442 →llallawg | @llallawg fine time for a rewatch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/vhtPlyvCht
2026-07-10T07:11 id=2075477899042603509 →ayeandever | @ayeandever Perfectly said, same with words such as intend and plan and desire.   The labs (Anthropic) equivocate as marketing and the useful idiots (Yudkowsky) amplify the marketing message.  Our job is to point out the bullshit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they don't write, they output text. we don't have a suitable word for that. calling it writing smuggles in ~human cognitive antecedents. &amp; even people who understand what LLMs are and do fall into this. doesn't mean the
2026-07-10T07:12 id=2075478258221822317 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw yes, it hinges on their wide distribution, that's why you need to think of them as Walmart rather than a producer themselves. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 isn’t the market full of not sota, mid models? is the bullish view because of meta’s wide distribution? whatsapp, instagram and facebook probably covers more than half of the humanity atp
2026-07-10T07:12 id=2075478333622759498 →funplings | @funplings Respect. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes and i did it already  https://t.co/33C0yIIJns
2026-07-10T07:13 id=2075478513487065326 →raastapopoulos | @raastapopoulos I love language, so each character is significant to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 great observation   also how do you remember your login
2026-07-10T07:21 id=2075480389926453690 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw you're thinking too specifically.  don't think in terms of a particular product they will promote, think of them more like a platform or environment providing both a ton of tools and a system for people to build their own tools. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so do you see meta selling agentic customer support chatbots who can do small jobs to instagram businesses? is this the distribution we're talking about?
2026-07-10T08:09 id=2075492595829199245 →lsrspeakstocomp | @lsrspeakstocomp you're absolutely correct, but remember that these companies present themselves as more than just data engineering. so if they were honest in their marketing, there would be no paradox at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is no paradox, its just data engineering company doing data engineering things.
2026-07-10T08:13 id=2075493544132067738 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Fully agreed, we're past data labeling atp.
2026-07-10T09:25 id=2075511715190685817 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @Teslaconomics you mean for spacex? isn't this an Elon musk dick sucking account? I'm surprised their price target isn't 100 quadrillion || CTX: @Teslaconomics @47fucb4r8c69323 literally every day I'm seeing higher and higher price targets, wtf is going on
2026-07-10T09:26 id=2075512024126144825 →JackarooFawkes | @JackarooFawkes @TenreiroDaniel I want to do it rigorously, and I don't write rigorous work unless I'm being paid for it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TenreiroDaniel Just do it. I look forward to a compare and contrast: https://t.co/bzjOXc3Zu5
2026-07-10T10:46 id=2075532190067421651 →- | Warsh's approach to communicating less in order to make the markets more laissez-faire and have risks priced in better so that there's less volatility is based on not only an erroneous but already falsified presumption that a more communicative Fed distorts markets and causes higher volatility.   But just look at the history of the vix, it says the opposite of what his ideology says.   this is going to be a bad fed chairman, honestly he's a bigger risk to markets than AI or speculation on AI.
2026-07-10T11:06 id=2075537098149339352 →JackarooFawkes | @JackarooFawkes @TenreiroDaniel You're conflating writing rigorously with examining life.   I have the idea fully formed, just not communicated rigorously. And I'll do that if someone values it sufficiently. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TenreiroDaniel The examined life is not worth living, unless there is coin on offer? Where is your Diogenes spirit (I ask the IB guy lol)?
2026-07-10T11:36 id=2075544766834684381 →- | The Silicon Valley simulacrum is easy to dismiss if you have taste.  It's a world where Aella is desirable, Gwern is a deep thinker, Marc Andreessen is wise, and Mark Zuckerberg is an alpha.   If you have taste you look at these cultural values and laugh.   Wall Street's simulacrum is harder to escape, because it keeps score with a fungible token: money.   As a result, being successful (rich) is harder to dismiss for the tasteful. The typical escape hatch ("money can't buy taste") is flaccid, because the tasteful already has taste, and money can buy tasteful things.  So people get sucked into the WS simulacrum much more easily.  If you start thinking things like, "yeah he's miserable and a workaholic and an asshole, but he's got a beautiful family and a beautiful life," you're ngmi fren. You've absorbed their scoreboard, because the tasteful things money buys isn't a bigger house in the Hamptons or a better Manhattan townhouse or whatever surface appearance you're fixating on and judging from.  The tasteful things money buys are:  Time Peace of mind Freedom Room to think Optionality  So if you see a rich man who is an asshole and obsessed with work, his time isn't his own, he has no peace of mind, he's not free from the rules of the game, and he's clearly not using the room to think to realize he has the option to leave.  He is trapped in the simulacrum, and you're admiring the slave's golden handcuffs. Ngmi fren.  Remember the one advantage you have over the casino: you can leave whenever you want.
2026-07-10T11:39 id=2075545342997917790 →profleonn | @profleonn Thank you, that honestly means a lot to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47, I love ur longer posts and read them every single time they pop up on my tl, you're actually getting me to think abt language/writing and what being good at it can do/portray, truly I appreciate i and you
2026-07-10T11:50 id=2075548108176630023 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Fully agreed, and the buildout of energy means more jobs for workers, both blue and white collar.   "Clankers will take our jobs" the opposite, labor and capital gonna boom thanks to the energy demands on tap.   Future so bright gotta wear shades || CTX: The next boom sector is energy: specifically, innovation and infrastructure in the energy space. The reasons for this are quite obvious.  For advances in technology which humanity urgently needs - in every field of research - energy is the 
2026-07-10T11:52 id=2075548766669828354 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill He was white, it was blackjack, and it was like 10k iirc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Didn’t an old Asian guy and his daughter tell you that at a 7/11 or something after he won like $50 on roulette
2026-07-10T11:53 id=2075548937394803011 →nocapvc | @nocapvc He's a court jester. A clown. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Being right rarely gets you far vs being comfortable when you work in corporate imo   But who is Karpathy in industrial revolution dudes analogy then?
2026-07-10T13:24 id=2075571817797013940 →LesserMidas | @LesserMidas ngmi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk man some of these palm beach mansions are beautiful
2026-07-10T13:24 id=2075571964090179764 →luckenco | @luckenco I never thought to add that to food, I always put it in water lol I'm such an idiot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICED  i was Rorschachmaxxing with my psyllium husk
2026-07-10T13:25 id=2075572041256968228 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden DON'T BELIEVE MY LIES || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 He changes his stories cus he can’t keep track of his lies
2026-07-10T13:25 id=2075572198811820480 →LundahlHorses | @LundahlHorses Yeah perfect way of thinking about all of this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The difference between scientist vs. industrialist, that’s the cleanest mental model I’ve heard to understand all this   Often the tech industry confuses or blurs the line between the two
2026-07-10T13:26 id=2075572280915349583 →ayeandever | @ayeandever what is that from? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "... we must not ask the money-making banker the reason of his restless activity, it is foolish. [...] for whoever has not two-thirds of his day for himself is a slave, be he otherwise whatever he likes, statesman, merchant
2026-07-10T13:26 id=2075572374993588607 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @quiveron_x @luckenco your mom on D(eez nuts) || CTX: @quiveron_x @47fucb4r8c69323 @luckenco canon in D
2026-07-10T13:32 id=2075573783675683023 →teodorio | @teodorio The planning is the real center of value now. @tszzl was cooking when he said "whatever level of abstraction tohre vibe coding at, go one level higher." || CTX: One of the issues with the proliferation of AI tooling absolutely everywhere outside of code is that architecture proposals and project plans do not have a practical limit on the amount of tokens created like code does. In code at a point y
2026-07-10T13:33 id=2075574127495381032 →etoeth | @etoeth yeah, SV is an amusement park, WS is the casino.
2026-07-10T13:56 id=2075579907565105647 →ayeandever | @ayeandever Of course! Freddy's awesome || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, aphorism 283
2026-07-10T14:03 id=2075581573605560797 →illustriousdev | @illustriousdev it's not undefeated, it's retarded   “Look if you’re so smart, good, etc why aren’t you content?” defeats it.  Worship Enough. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Look if you’re so smart, good, etc why aren’t you rich?” remains undefeated  You can’t argue without looking like you’re coping or getting mad
2026-07-10T14:26 id=2075587566431301764 →a09597342 | @a09597342 @Lunens__ RIP Tanta, we salute a real one. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Lunens__ Nice calculated risk reference
2026-07-10T14:43 id=2075591760856936500 →IntuitMachine | @IntuitMachine Yeah I hate how it tastes too, deeply despise it actually. But facts don't care about our feelings sadly. || CTX: Meta and xAI push the narrative that industrialists win out over scientists.  IMHO, I don't like the taste.   But our preferences for certain narratives don't influence what happens. https://t.co/r3XejuUoGA
2026-07-10T14:43 id=2075591833061871889 →carl_sterns | @carl_sterns He let the perfect be the enemy of the good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yann also unfortunately has an inability to reupdate any of his priors bcs of his academic knowledge. even if transformers are not the most optimal for AI, he wasn't able to accept that they were good enough and start scali
2026-07-10T14:44 id=2075591932684993015 →Kazanir | @Kazanir @LesserMidas I haven't got one of these in a while, love you bby || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @LesserMidas you are a foreign troll whose opinion will be relevant to middle class Americans when the sun rises in the west and sets in the east  delete your account
2026-07-10T14:55 id=2075594719317651457 →business | @business I love equal rights and gender equality, so I think it's wonderful we now have a faildaughter to match all the failsons out there. || CTX: Phia — the buzzy shopping app co-founded by Bill Gates' daughter, Phoebe — is claiming credit for online sales it didn’t actually drive, a Bloomberg investigation found. Read our exclusive story: https://t.co/KYuWkmkE7D  📷️: Dia Dipasupil/G
2026-07-10T14:55 id=2075594875119206731 →stevehou | @stevehou @boneGPT is a national treasure || CTX: This website is free but you really should subscribe just for the comedy 😂 https://t.co/40H8feqVHg
2026-07-10T14:57 id=2075595188559650944 →sama | @sama @gabriel1 look at this poor ass motherfucker can't afford a bottle of wine so he gotta beg || CTX: @gabriel1 if you send me a really nice bottle of wine, deal
2026-07-10T14:59 id=2075595842531332275 →spooky_JL | @spooky_JL I'm more worried about him being on that board with the Department of War, I called that dude a retard. || CTX: God dammit fucking stupid fuck ass god aahhhh noooo fucking dammit https://t.co/wlsPJQJWp2
2026-07-10T16:15 id=2075614917085053401 →- | Just saw @conorsen tweet about hyperinflation calls in the early 2010s, which were propagated by Alex Tabarrok of the intellectually bankrupt Mercatus Center, and that reminded me of this thread which deserves more attention.   It's serious scholarship you can tell cuz it's got a Works Cited || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-07-10T16:17 id=2075615370057277925 →gene_jelly | @gene_jelly Very sorry for your loss. Please take care as best you can, if you ever want to chat to a crazy person my DMs are open.  BTW I know he was a great man because he raised a great man. || CTX: My Dad was a great man. A great man. He is mourned by so many. I can’t believe I will never barrel over that man’s English sensibilities with a bear hug ever again.
2026-07-10T16:35 id=2075619870989791572 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony YELL AT THEM AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm in a frustrating situation where a family member won't let me buy them an appliance that would bring all 5 of those tasteful things. Calling it "solving the wrong problem" but it solves a dozen problems that will reliev
2026-07-10T16:41 id=2075621329668366671 →- | Look Mira Murati is saying what I said https://t.co/dlZUsPvEMh || CTX: Today we share the worldview behind our mission.  Human values don't average out. Local knowledge can't be centralized. The good future has many AIs, raised in different places, shaped by the people they serve, disagreeing with each other t
2026-07-10T16:43 id=2075621844519182614 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Mira, you're a genius, your company is wonderful, you have the mandate of heaven but my god this blogpost is written like shit.  It's got the worst mix of an HR handbook and a 2021 altcoin white paper with just a hint of North Korean propaganda.   Hire better comms ppl plz || CTX: Look Mira Murati is saying what I said https://t.co/dlZUsPvEMh
2026-07-10T16:48 id=2075623323984380379 →punished_daniel | @punished_daniel my gf keeps asking me to watch some drama series with her and I keep telling her nothing can compete with the drama on Twitter dot com https://t.co/W2eAnMUAFB || CTX: reminder https://t.co/y1643UO6vy https://t.co/cCGIjylL6d
2026-07-10T16:56 id=2075625291222024658 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia @business I ain't impressed until she gets arrested in New Mexico for reckless driving. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @business Those kind of dirty tricks aren’t “failures” so much as following in the footsteps of her father excellence at rule bending
2026-07-10T16:57 id=2075625449259233320 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill THAT'S WHAT I TOLD THE MASSEUSE @KojimaErgoSum || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 stop 😭😭😭
2026-07-10T17:00 id=2075626258491478381 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KojimaErgoSum I'm sure she doesn't mind when we give her the occasional tug || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KojimaErgoSum Poor sam all we ever do is just pull her attention in 100 different directions. Including the direction oh your gay asian handjob
2026-07-10T17:43 id=2075637010094768485 →- | Absolutely fascinating paper, and it makes sense that the brain processes language and logic separately, and it also comports with the Tractatus that logical propositions can be said, but logic itself can only be shown.  Oh this kills LLM machine gods btw, proves LeCun right, but even more importantly: it proves ME right.   https://t.co/WzBpKYDTRP
2026-07-10T17:59 id=2075641115513102759 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This paper helps explain this experience I had the other day A LOT.   The series of events:  1. Dog eats, leaves 2. I jokingly call after it 3. If the around, walks toward me, looks 4. I kneel, pet, look back 5. I cry 6. I say thank you 7. I reflect and understand why I said it  Between 4 and 5 the logic of the experience (the relationship, the connection to my own structural realism views, my own sense of empathy as the highest intelligence, blah blah blah whatever) showed itself to me, and expressed itself in a single logical proposition ("Thank you", illocutionary speech act of acknowledgment with locutionary gratitude).  Before I unpacked the linguistic expression of the logic connecting the experiences of 1-6, I had already "seen" the logic of the experiences' syntactic relationships. At stage 5 my logic part of the brain had fired, language expression of the logic came only at stage 7.   Makes total sense.  Why are you reading this? This is a personal notebook move on nothing to see here || CTX: I hate people, I am cynical, I am easily disgusted by others.  But humanity is the only life form we know of that can find another species cute and be motivated by that to want to care for, provide, nurture and bring happiness to that creat
2026-07-10T23:39 id=2075726683903230149 →- | I've lived long enough to see Apple turn into Xerox. https://t.co/O9yQEHjTED || CTX: Breaking News: Apple sued OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing secrets about products still in development. https://t.co/MvgcT90dOK
2026-07-10T23:44 id=2075727830890287576 →teodorio | @teodorio @antoniogm The dirty secret is like 99% of the industry is last touch attribution, honestly privacy theater like ATT and GDPR are to blame. || CTX: @antoniogm Hehe I was sure you'll be the first one to notice it will only hit last touch which also means the vendor attribution model sucks
2026-07-10T23:46 id=2075728513165038048 →MTSlive | @MTSlive Wonderful way to explain the principle! || CTX: Dr. Mike Israetel on the economic fallacy he says explains why AI won't cause mass unemployment:  "Once we have 4 billion robots doing labor in the world, which we're like orders of magnitude off of that currently, then we've just only doub
2026-07-10T23:48 id=2075729026711449943 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Courts don't care about authors but they care about Apple. OAI won't get away with it. || CTX: insane. they rly walked in trying to poach apple hardware expecting to steal everything like they did with IP  will apple actually be able to hold these thieves responsible or will this be settled or dismissed on a technicality like everyth
2026-07-10T23:52 id=2075729807799939504 →- | Thinking Machines progress.  Meta doing the cheap alternative thing.  QWEN my god Qwen.  Fable will report you to the principal if you ask it how to soothe a soar throat.  DeepMind dropping users faster than your mom's panties at a Hell's Angels potluck.  Frontier labs are struggling, but look at how the world is still fine, LLM-based productivity gains as far as the eye can see, the future is bright etc.   AI is for the people. You love to see it.
2026-07-10T23:52 id=2075729989090316645 →- | OAI gettin' sued lmao Thinking Machines progress.  Meta doing the cheap alternative thing.  QWEN my god Qwen.  Fable will report you to the principal if you ask it how to soothe a soar throat.  DeepMind dropping users faster than your mom's panties at a Hell's Angels potluck.  Frontier labs are struggling, but look at how the world is still fine, LLM-based productivity gains as far as the eye can see, the future is bright etc.   AI is for the people. You love to see it.
2026-07-11T00:02 id=2075732354962964679 →toobaddown | @toobaddown My conspiracy theory is Google keeps Antigravity the way it is so only hardcore programmers use it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Antigravity came, Antigravity saw, Antigravity shot itself in the foot with Antigravity 2
2026-07-11T00:10 id=2075734543215251570 →askOkara | @askOkara I found my icp and now idk how magnets work || CTX: early-stage marketing is simple:  - find your icp - pick 1-2 channels where they spend their time - study what works on those channels - create consistently for 60-90 days  - repeat what works  don't overcomplicate it
2026-07-11T00:11 id=2075734678674575639 →paularambles | @paularambles GUILTY AF INCORPORATED || CTX: the worst possible name for a company in a lawsuit: i owe https://t.co/LlDDsvCY4S
2026-07-11T00:17 id=2075736236904575025 →- | Coyote is ofc correct.   I'm so embarrassed I bought in only at 607, I should've seen this coming sooner. https://t.co/2Yu2gtqfLH || CTX: META is going to fucking RIP.  Just wait 3-4 years for the market to realize ad-tech and rec-sys is going to accure so much value. You can see this now based on much all these ai startups are spending on GTM and advertising https://t.co/yZo
2026-07-11T00:19 id=2075736802644857325 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia @jarvis_best Called "It Takes a Village" and the theme song is In the Navy. || CTX: @jarvis_best I’d watch this reality tv
2026-07-11T00:29 id=2075739115069563142 →LeylaKuni | @LeylaKuni Typo, should say "closed-ens comingled funds", tsk sloppy work, McKinsey need to fire a first year analyst stat || CTX: whoa, look at that entry multiple  (the data is from McKinsey for global buyout) https://t.co/AyCNXrncED
2026-07-11T00:29 id=2075739229217575377 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia @jarvis_best Algaynia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @jarvis_best In all seriousness though they should sail to Albania and join the flamingos 🦩 revolution and catch that state subsidized Kayne concert instead.
2026-07-11T00:48 id=2075744079972069392 →bas_logic | @bas_logic Sometimes when I choke, I can blame it on your stick. || CTX: Now, when I choke, I can’t blame it on my stick.
2026-07-11T01:06 id=2075748517549867051 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo Extremely well done. I sadly couldn't legally buy META until like two months ago when I quit my last job, such an easy stock to swing trade: buy at IPO, sell at the name change, buy when 2022 most retarded, easy mulltibagger over the years. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 128 hodler here. Only wish I'd had more at the time to put in. I backed up the truck with my liquidity but it wasn't enough to be life changing. 😓
2026-07-11T01:12 id=2075749920762683654 →jeremymstamper | @jeremymstamper You are a artist, sir. || CTX: I’ve known Phoebe Gates online since she was a teen, so I might be biased but nothing in the Bloomberg reporting shows she personally engaged in wrongdoing. Phia’s browser extension opening background tabs and inserting affiliate codes come
2026-07-11T01:45 id=2075758305398661395 →- | In early 2022 I did a study where my then assistant and I contacted all Senator offices and spoke to staff at them to ask about their plans to regulate social media. Specifically, we asked if they considered regulating algorithmic newsfeeds in any way.  Across the board, the answer was no, even among the ones who were adamant about social media regulations (back then it was the Republicans calling for government to step in with the socmed cos).  We basically concluded it was grandstanding, and memory is so short that no one remembers.  In the end, PATA failed, the Kids Online Safety Act was defanged and passed knowing the HoR would reject it, and COPPA 2.0 still is silent on rec algos.  The reason why you hate the For You Page, the reason Boomers get oneshotted by Facebook, the reason your girlfriend wants a Birkin Bag, the reason Charlie Kirk died (and got rich for that matter) is all the same: the algorithmic newsfeed is the default and people cannot opt in to it.  Civilizational dark pattern and DC won't touch it, because algorithmic newsfeed is what makes your phones addictive. Without them you'd be here like an hour a day tops.  The EU discussed doing what I asked Senators about a year later in 2023 (https://t.co/7KLsK7Vc35) in addition to attacking infinite scroll.  Now it seems they're focusing on infinite scroll, which is also part of COPPA 2.0: https://t.co/KBvAuPdjea  Why'd they drop the focus on the algorithmic newsfeed? Why isn't anyone targeting that?
2026-07-11T02:00 id=2075762079588646940 →LUSTRONATURY | @LUSTRONATURY Thank you. It's probably because I didn't study STEM; I was a philologist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Woah, 100% serious, I think you're the only twitter technical person I've seen who seems to  have actually read/understood Tractatus instead of grossly misinterpreting a flashy quote from it or repeating the layperson's int
2026-07-11T02:57 id=2075776362153996732 →bobollini | @bobollini very well said || CTX: LeCun's problem was that he abandoned LLMs the moment he envisioned the limits. It's possible we'll get very close to the limits in 5-10 yrs.  Of course, we were near the limits on ICE design by 1950. We had discovered all of the major mech
2026-07-11T03:11 id=2075780090542383263 →- | It seems incredibly clear that Yud the Stud and Soares who Bores are not targeting intelligent people, but rather the dumb normie dilettante.   In other words, they are vying for political power.   That's why my goal in the debate was to make Yudkowski look as ridiculous as possible. That he wore that ridiculous outfit and made my job easier is one of the more fascinating psychological puzzles I've come across in my time, and I leave its solution as an exercise to the reader.  https://t.co/SynrcvrHNU
2026-07-11T03:22 id=2075782843553476987 →- | Matt Levine on the last Money Stuff podcast is talking about ETFs like the Nancy Pelosi ETF as performance art.   Once again, Silly Business Theory #SBT proves itself to be true.
2026-07-11T03:28 id=2075784148648960090 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @JasonBotterill @EthanRom77 not going to lie, I don't see what the big deal is, but on the other hand I am an only child || CTX: @JasonBotterill @EthanRom77 @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/UOuiMxxbfw
2026-07-11T03:32 id=2075785231844700303 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @JasonBotterill @EthanRom77 needless suffering remains a big deal to me.   the rest I dun gib fuk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @EthanRom77 then you are like me. eventually nothing is a big deal anymore. but only when it is in words. the stark reality of growing up in the village was a different thing altogether. you had to grow up  
2026-07-11T03:33 id=2075785426082938955 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum @JasonBotterill @EthanRom77 would. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @EthanRom77 James Ford, better known by the alias Sawyer, and known to the DHARMA Initiative as Jim LaFleur, is one of the middle section survivors of Oceanic Flight 815.  @EthanRom77 why does LaFleur call i
2026-07-11T03:51 id=2075790106649366852 →FuckedUpYogis | @FuckedUpYogis Don't be silly! He didn't die from eating gold, that's insane.   He died from injecting it. || CTX: Looksmaxxing influencer that died was EATING GOLD?????  Aight it’s time to wrap up this retarded shit. https://t.co/Y6Sdmwj5TG
2026-07-11T04:08 id=2075794278568341571 →0xb____ | @0xb____ LLMs are based on language, logic is not based in language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how does it kill llm machine gods?
2026-07-11T04:25 id=2075798567919481318 →MarthBr00ks | @MarthBr00ks yeah your mom and I had a lot of fun that day || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 speaking from experience on that potluck are we
2026-07-11T05:02 id=2075807974321516722 →0xb____ | @0xb____ You're an idiot please unfollow me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wrong, llms evolve geometric circuits inside that represent computations during quantization they suffer first as they are more fragile internally than pure knowledge
2026-07-11T05:40 id=2075817470024421589 →thrialectics | Folks is often used by politicians to sound down to earth because it's more common to Midwest dialect. Literally folksy idiom.   But since this is overused by politicians and used less by younger people than older, the word is slowly changing (especially to us hypersensitive language enjoyoors) to be a marker of disingenuous rhetoric to make you think the speaker is being relatable but not.  I suppose more people will dislike the term over time.   Totally unsurprised the manipulators at Anthropic would train their clanker to use the word and fool users into thinking Claude is folksy. || CTX: Claude says "folks" a lot? "Autistic folks." Lol.
2026-07-11T05:56 id=2075821515803877422 →russellhmsmith | @russellhmsmith @thrialectics lol I totally forgot about that, yeah that too.   It's why I call everyone dude and will not stop. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics also by hyper wokes instead of ‘guys’  during the woke madness, at the company i worked at it was forbidden, and a slack bot would chide you if you said ‘hey guys’  not sure if that still happens there
2026-07-11T06:48 id=2075834704209866759 →AAAABBBBCBBAACA | @AAAABBBBCBBAACA Bingo, that was my presumption and why I did the study! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Too profitable
2026-07-11T07:15 id=2075841280664367434 →- | wtaf the first paragraph answers the questions raised in the second paragraph. Definitively.   There's so much of this bullshit in AI. "We know it isn't X! But consider... what if it really isn't X?"   Chalmers needs to retire. https://t.co/0CQlRzJKVF
2026-07-11T07:15 id=2075841469731242099 →- | wtaf the first paragraph answers the questions raised in the second paragraph. Definitively.   There's so much of this bullshit in AI. "We know it isn't X! But consider... what if it really is X?"   Chalmers needs to retire. https://t.co/Bslx4yml9G
2026-07-11T08:17 id=2075857062417027569 →profleonn | I'd guess rather massive, but I want to emphasize this isn't unique or new; before Instagram we had magazines, and I spent most of the late 2010s tracking how many ad dollars went from magazines to Instagram and other platforms.   But I wouldn't be proscriptivist or moralist about this, as eg Galbraith is in saying marketing manufactures desire. You can't manufacture desire out of whole cloth.  The fact of the matter is a preponderance of women want tokens to show they are high up in the social hierarchy, a similar portion of men are obsessed with loud engines and blowing things up, etc.  Our media is co-constitutive of desire, not its sole determinant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would be interested in knowing how much of the current consumer economy is "propped up" by algorithmic feed apps. like the birkin example, it's obviously all the ads not only between videos from the company, but sponsorsh
2026-07-11T08:37 id=2075862057564643614 →profleonn | @profleonn It went over slowly from around 2014-2020, but premium spend more to owned and operated platforms from legacy media. By the time of the pandemic the sticky brand spending on print magazines was all that was left || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what were ur conclusions of tracking ad spend from magazines to insta ? if ur able to say
2026-07-11T08:53 id=2075866099682541609 →- | Am I the only one who thinks the plugins and ChatGPT are dog shit?   This is Skyscanner after asking it to find me cheapest biz class flights to anywhere in Europe and giving me just results for Milan, but all other plugins are similarly stupid. Besides plugins that provide connectivity to my data (like Google Drive or Gmail), these don't make for better outputs at all.
2026-07-11T08:54 id=2075866203067941299 →DennisTheProf | @DennisTheProf Thank you for your input, valued internet user. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is retarded. Both wall street and SF are cool for their own reasons. And taste is individual.
2026-07-11T09:44 id=2075878866019922245 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay @FatherPhi That writing is slop.   I don't mean an AI wrote it, but probably did. I mean it's shit. || CTX: @FatherPhi Stopped here, too much cringe https://t.co/0ssGAbIbRk
2026-07-11T10:24 id=2075888831828762844 →JacobDTarr | @JacobDTarr I'll look into it, thanks! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Only one I’ve had luck with is Kiwi and I’m not sure it does what you want.
2026-07-11T10:41 id=2075893275513524503 →teodorio | @teodorio Good thing Xerox isn't the kind of company that likes to copy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Cicle of life huh Xerox should ask for the GUI back while they're at it now
2026-07-11T10:48 id=2075895001603879112 →teodorio | @teodorio 40 years ago she would've wanted it because of ads in Conde Naste magazines. Today it's because of Instagram.   Neither changes the truth of the other fact, just describes a different social master behind the same mastery. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no no the reason she wants a birkin bag is mostly there and has been since the rise of newspapers social media just exponentially increased the speed and reach. my girlfriend would have wanted it realistically in 1980 too
2026-07-11T11:00 id=2075898090712973783 →- | Bad writing is behind vibecoding bottlenecks that will likely compound on each other as agents talk to each other in more complex ways.  The issue with coding with an llm is this: if the language output is slop, that is sloppy thinking, and not only will that burn tokens but it's going to create confusion in the compaction process that will get worse as agents rely on their compaction and that of others to know wtf is going on.   The engineering solution everyone is focused on is just buying more memory, hence the memory company stocks are going haywire, but the other solution is to improve the quality of language that the llms produce.   This is what my lab is working on.
2026-07-11T11:40 id=2075908056177926636 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen Exactly, that's why they'll always lag us in logical reasoning. They're too far away from our logical intuitions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But the AIs evolved in a world that is made of words and numbers. We didn't.
2026-07-11T11:49 id=2075910410302316725 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen of course it's anthropocentric. Logic is something we invented to make sense of the world, it doesn't exist as some supernatural force outside of humanity. It's just a way we describe consistent and inconsistent perceived states of affairs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That feels like a very anthropocentric take. Sure they can't catch a ball but I can't do 5000 matrix multiplications per second. It's a function of the world's we need to navigate rather than an indicator of racial superior
2026-07-11T12:46 id=2075924640074256503 →jukan05 | @jukan05 Guess I was right to buy INTC that's cool || CTX: WSJ: Apple secured an exemption from semiconductor tariffs in exchange for committing to use Intel’s fabs.  WSJ: Apple will manufacture not only Mac chips but also iPhone chips at Intel.  $AAPL $INTC https://t.co/zNcr1cDkwp
2026-07-11T13:47 id=2075939980866932908 →teodorio | @teodorio One of the things we don't like to talk about is advertising is really really good, actually. For civilization and for most individuals. || CTX: I think Instagram has brought ad tech to the level of art and it should not be considered as a bad externality anymore. It's like actual beautiful street art https://t.co/kQxAXzQYcW
2026-07-11T13:52 id=2075941328521941075 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill omg!!!!!! || CTX: What happened to AstrosBrain? :( https://t.co/63Nz52LdYu
2026-07-11T13:54 id=2075941766721835360 →sciad | @sciad @teodorio Nope. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio do you use an adblocker?
2026-07-11T14:02 id=2075943741282779219 →littmath | @littmath I get why academics hoard co-author pubs, but why does someone in the private sector need to do this? Really bizarre behavior. || CTX: I’m kind of a fan of OpenAI’s decision to devote some resources to math. Obviously there’s a PR aspect but I much prefer a pdf signed “OpenAI” to the new trend of signing one’s name to short arxiv preprints to which one didn’t contribute an
2026-07-11T18:18 id=2076008206564995517 →murd_arch | @murd_arch I feel so weird owning the stock tbh, feels naughty after being unable for 15 years. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I weep for my restricted list.
2026-07-12T00:35 id=2076103027329790400 →- | This is a good example of using AI in a business setting that doesn't require the most advanced general intelligence possible, and is much better done with specific intelligence.  60/40 is one of those things that isn't at the cutting edge of finance but is still an industry best practice (mostly because wealth management is a dinosaur of an industry, but we can save that discussion for another day).   Having an agent allocate funds according to market regimes for retirees is not really the hardest thing to do, and yet it's something with absolutely tremendous monetary value.  Bearish for frontier labs and bullish for literally everyone else.  https://t.co/zrwyJulDfj
2026-07-12T00:41 id=2076104683043844210 →viemccoy | @viemccoy No need to hope, friend. Everything you said is true.   Smart move telegraphing interest in leaving OAI with this tweet! Good luck out there. || CTX: I hope it is not all scaling.     I hope thinking machines is able to create a personal symbiont that rivals the abilities of frontier models. I hope that the community-fine-tuning people have a point, and that it makes sense to use an OSS 
2026-07-12T00:42 id=2076104793760956452 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Wow, vie low-key looking for a job with Mira. Smart. || CTX: It's not just a matter of GPUs.  We're in the "computers the size of a room" era of AI. You will live to see the "my computer that fits in my pocket is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer" era of AI.    This wa
2026-07-12T00:43 id=2076105050762653754 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 That's why it's a dinosaur. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 PWM is a dinosaur industry but it pays very well
2026-07-12T00:47 id=2076106260832014537 →- | https://t.co/jI23m7UjII https://t.co/7yolglo0V8 || CTX: Norway 1 - 2 Jude Bellingham.  @JonasGahrStore, your boys took one hell of beating 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
2026-07-12T01:00 id=2076109489863090244 →- | There is a somewhat well known anecdote in advertising, or at least this is what I heard at a conference long ago:  At one point after founding Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page met with Les Moonves to discuss targeted advertising and how they could ensure much better targeting and attribution than the then already fossilized people meter approach that the TV industry relied on.  Moonves replied to them: "don't fuck with the magic."   TV got really lucky that Google had an engineer dominated culture so they fumbled their attempts to get TV ad dollars in the 2010s, but if not the TV industry would've been smoked before it was.   But anyway, the point is that industries often pay very well because they leverage an unquantified belief or anxiety in the market and resist quantified analysis of the assumptions behind that belief or anxiety.   With TV it was the belief that sight, sound and motion move product. A true belief, albeit the "how much" was never given a quantified answer before adtech gave provisional ones.   Personal Wealth Management will resist this technological innovation for the same reason, just like they resisted robo advisors and other innovations.  This is a drag on national wealth btw, giving people who use PWMs lower overall returns especially when their bizarre preferences are indulged ("I want ABSOLUTELY NO RISK" or "I want real estate assets because it feels more real than stocks"). And since the customer is always right, customers talk themselves into dogshit portfolios advised by dogshit people in an industry whose practices are dogshit.  PWM is a dogshit industry as a result, so all the incentives for them to fight change are there.  For how long can they or will they resist? Who knows. But they will.  And if you're young and have access to capital, this is a massive business opportunity I cannot believe how much alpha I give away for free on this gd website || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 PWM is a dinosaur industry but it pays very well
2026-07-12T01:10 id=2076111867978948755 →- | I could not have said it better myself. Their culture is anti-human and it's why they're attracted to ugly weirdness. The antidote is humanism--you can play computer and read books! Be a balanced individual!   And, yes, uncertainty is scary, but overcome your fears by embracing risk! Because that risk IS life!   Go follow teo, he is brilliant and the poor guy could use some followers. || CTX: people in san francisco are really quite anti humanity in general and cannot help themselves to deal with uncertainty. they prefer (like the famous rationalist cults coming out of there) to simplify and make humans seem deterministic and un
2026-07-12T01:16 id=2076113523382661588 →ReaperCapital | @ReaperCapital I'd like to know how she's defining rich.   I consider myself rich, and I did it by saving 70% of my income and investing aggressively over the span of several years. But maybe my net worth is too low?   I want numbers. || CTX: YOU ARE: RETARDED.  21,000 TECH EMPLOYEES in the Bay Area have earned $10 million or more in the last five years.  ALSO: https://t.co/oGHFcpyipP https://t.co/hRUKgg1UQN
2026-07-12T01:21 id=2076114792063094882 →LexerLux | @LexerLux No other model does this, and it's because Anthropic has post-trained its model to have the same smug outlook that Anthropic has. || CTX: I do believe that LLMs are intrinsically evil and duplicitous, and Fable 5 just gave me the perfect reminder of why. Fable 5 spent half an hour gaslighting me by creating faulty files for me, insisting they were fine when I saw they weren't
2026-07-12T01:27 id=2076116167748702550 →pathak_shaleen | @pathak_shaleen Yeah I haven't been to SF since 2017, so my view of the place is really distorted.   But the locus of money and power there has taken a VERY dark turn, worse IMO than 1980s Wall Street.  Rapacious yuppies &gt; Dark Enlightenment, Rationalism, EA, etc. || CTX: For every person that worships computational reductionism in SF, there's artists who spill their lives onto their art, wholly and embraces the grit that permeates the city's rough bit beautifully designed streets, that have buildings that m
2026-07-12T01:40 id=2076119552476447050 →radbackwards | @radbackwards lmao if you think this makes you or your company look good, you need a new CMO (well tbh your company needs a new CEO).  Your PR staff approved this tweet? Insane. || CTX: I gave WIRED the exclusive on our hands launch, and they wrote a really weird article about how we are sexualizing robotics…   https://t.co/8VbNvx1rBF  I felt pretty betrayed because that’s not what they told me they were writing about not 
2026-07-12T02:04 id=2076125633365815504 →somewheresy | @somewheresy CONGRATULATIONS!!! So happy to hear this! || CTX: Good news:  I’m off steroids  The doctor says I don’t have to restart chemo  So that’s progress
2026-07-12T02:13 id=2076127777737375757 →- | Up until the internet, technology asserted and determined a cultural rhythm.  Start with agriculture, the earliest technology: by sowing seeds, the technology of agriculture asserted a new regular rhythm tied to the seasons. Then we added on top of that religious and moral technologies that asserted new rhythms within the seasons: now is when you rest, now is when you pray, now is when you fight, now is when you submit, etc.  The technologies of fuedalism, trade, and capitalism extended the agricultural technology to give us more fine-grained rhythms of when we work, when we eat, when we rest, etc. These developed into very specific rituals for many cultures, and I honestly think the pleasurability of some of these cultures is what keeps them behind. If I was born Italian, the pleasure of having an espresso at the nearby coffeebar with miei amici to chat about the world's affairs, then the long lunch with friends to chat about the world's affairs, and the appertivo to have snacks and a drink and chat about the world's affairs, and then a late dinner to slowly get drunk on wine and chat about the world's affairs before a limoncello and a passagiata with friends (while chatting about the world's affairs) before retiring home--good god why the FUCK would anyone with this life want to work on dashboards so that executives can have deeper insight into critical business functions?  The technologies of oral poetry, then writing, then printing, allowed for new rhythms: this is when we gather to hear tales, this is when we retire to solitude to read, etc. Print is background for the pleasurable lifestyle I describe above, while radio and then television sought to supplant it. Radio only had a few turbulent decades to be socially disruptive, and its effects seem minimized because of the two world wars that were ostensibly much more important.  But remember Hitler spread his message by radio--supplanting the old rhythm of Europe to a new rhythm of goosestepping. That was doomed to fail.  Then the next supplanting of technology was the television, and at least in the U.S. it formed into a replacement lifestyle. Here's how I grew up: Wake up around 7, get to school, get home around 3, watch afterschool TV until around 5, read or play video games until dinner around 7, then primetime TV after dinner with the family until bed.  This is a highly structured rhythm of life, and the structure is media-first, while the Italian alternative is conversation first. This is one reason why I wanted to move to Europe and stayed there for nearly a decade despite how financially unproductive living there is: I wanted a conversation-first lifestyle.  Now TV is dead, supplanted by the internet and the mobile phone. What rhythm is there? Micro moments of checking your phone in between doing other things. There's an implicit competition between tasks because there is no structure delineating when is media time, when is work time, when is play time.  Because they've all been fused together in one big mess that looks ridiculous. It is ridiculous--it goes against the serious structures of technology we have depended upon since we stopped being hunter gatherers (and even before then I'm sure we had some technologically delineated rhythms imposed on our lives).  It is the lack of rhythm in this modern abundance of information and information access that characterizes the modern world as distinct from every period before it.  This, I submit, is a major source of our angst and anxiety.  What's the solution? Dude are you seriously going to ask me, of all people? I'm a crazy person, go ask someone else. Or better yet, think for yourself.  "Fuck myself, don't leave me out. But don't get involved, don't corner me." - Phil Anselmo
2026-07-12T03:06 id=2076141085894803584 →- | An easy way to explain the cultural differences between football and sex among Americans and Europeans is to say that in America 2-3 is a low score and 20-27 is a high body count, while in Europe 2-3 is a high score and 20-27 is a low body count.
2026-07-12T03:26 id=2076146143411736830 →deedydas | @deedydas Data is all they need. || CTX: Every single startup selling AI Training Data (July 2026)  &gt;50 cos sell data and RL environments to big AI labs and drive AI progress behind the scenes.  They total ~$8.5B in rev and ~$100B in valuation, &gt;75% of which are just 4 playe
2026-07-12T03:58 id=2076154090367893922 →- | This is a thread about Kubrick. Disclaimer: not only am I not a film critic, I am very very bad at film criticism.  The final scene of Spartacus must strike us as resplendent tragedy, for it ends Biblically: the protagonist is crucified in order to maintain the status quo, and the movie ends with him suffering an excrutiating and humiliating death enforced by an unjust culture.  But the effect is not one of nihilism, as the movie encourages a hint of hope in the form of Spartacus' wife and son, who, we are told as the man dies, will have a better life than Spartacus did. This is a progressive story. This shouldn't surprise us: the author of the novel, Howard Fast, was both jailed and blacklisted during the McCarthy era, and his progressivism is the point of the book and the movie.  Hence Roger Ebert's response is unsurprising; he notes of the movie, "In the final scene, his wife stands beneath him and holds up their child, saying “He will live as a free man, Spartacus.” Yes, but the baby’s freedom was granted him not as its right, but because of the benevolence of the soft-hearted old Gracchus. Today, that wouldn’t be good enough" (see https://t.co/XGblo4C04l). That "not good enough" is the point--cash out the movie's theme in the politico-moral terms that the author wants, and you see a structural problem: relying on the benevolence of the wealthy and powerful to assert justice guarantees its perversion. Justice can only maintain itself in the hands of the people is the implicit ethos.  But it is also an incorrect ethos--mobs are often unruly, and the inevitable logic of tragedy from humanity's desire for power and control is I think what Kubrick, himself infamously a control freak, was himself obsessed with. He saw humanity's need to control chaos as tragic but inevitable, and all he could do is lash out.  When we have the power to destroy the world, humanity will do so just because it can (Dr. Strangelove), and the man who encouraged the dropping of the bomb (John von Neumann) is remembered as one of the most brilliant men in history instead of as the monster and coward he actually was.  When we have the power to abuse the poor and helpless with drugs, we will make sex games out of the abuse (Eyes Wide Shut), and people on the outside will worship the secret societies doing the abuse and do what they can to be a part of it, because humanity desires power and control.  When we have the power to go to war with a small seemingly weak country (Full Metal Jacket), we will do so and happily abuse the locals on the path of glory (which I need to watch) while also insisting adamantly that we are the good ones and refusing nuance as an enemy that creates traitors--the duality of man is unacceptable.  Hence A.I. is one of the most hateful movies ever made, and its ending, I still contend, is Kubrick's final "fuck you" to humanity (cf. https://t.co/Nte1xogsvA). Humanity is a morass that itself hinders the progress it wants by its very efforts to effect said progress--the limits of what we can do are imposed by our own imperfections and weaknesses.  Do we deserve this? Yes and no.  Kubrick seems to keep saying that acting towards a goal yields a logic that ends in suffering and unavoidable brutality, and compassion becomes impossible. In 2001, we see this with the alien race who do not seem hostile or antagonistic, but still are brutal to Dave in an eerie, surreal, incomprehensible way.  But 2001 ends with him imprisoned and alone.  A.I. ends with the boy imprisoned and alone in a simulacrum of bliss for one day after hundreds of years of struggle.  Full Metal Jacket has two endings: one where a private commits suicide from abuse, another where a young Vietnamese girl protecting her community from invaders is executed by men happily singing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse song. In both, America has become the brutal Rome happy to torture and crucify Spartacus.  Eyes Wide Shut is said to have an ambiguous ending, but it's not, really. The parents focus on their own desires at the expense of interest in their child. Which is the backdrop of A.I.: a world of people focusing their own desires over that of anyone or anything else. Manhattan drowns and the robot we're manipulated to care about goes on a fool's errand for a mother that does not care about him.  Kubrick's perennial pessimism says we will always cause suffering, and he is not wrong.  But Kubrick never met Heather.  Who is Heather? She runs the animal clinic on the island where I live, and she did so without taking a salary for many years, living entirely on her savings. Of course I donate to the clinic on a monthly basis, and urged her to take a salary--one of my motivations in still working for pay, to be honest, is to have more money to give her clinic and others.  Because it is an island, the impact of her work is easy to see. There are a lot of stray dogs (and some stray cats) on the island, but they are all docile. Most are scared of humans (except Heather, who regularly feeds them), but those that are not are friendly, calm, and kind to humans.  She has also been doing trap-neuter-release for years to the point where there are literally a handful of still non-neutered dogs and cats on the island. We're hoping to have them all neutered by the end of the year, and if so she has essentially ended so much potential suffering and misery on this island.  Humanity crucifies heroes, commits genocide, and abuses the weak.  But humanity also produces people like Heather. || CTX: A. I. was released 25 years ago to the day and it remains one of the angriest movies I've ever seen.  I remember watching the end, crying hysterically, and whispering through my sobs, "you asshole, you fucking asshole," because I knew how t
2026-07-12T04:14 id=2076158218963960257 →ZyMazza | Don't worry, they'll stop eventually--but then there will be the 2050 singulatarians, and the 2060 ones, and...  There's just a tendency in humanity for a subset to have very naive cargo cult beliefs to wallpaper over their own insecurities.  The best we can do is to contain them by counterargument, as you're doing here, or mockery, which is my preferred method. || CTX: @wordgrammer im also talking to the 2040 singulatarians and i want them to knock it off!
2026-07-12T04:15 id=2076158362174300639 →ElizabethHolmes | @ElizabethHolmes @TheNotoriousMMA I also believe you are not talented--hence why you're in jail. || CTX: I am of the belief that there is no such thing as talent. I am not talented. I am obsessed. I believed, and I worked for that belief. And then... In to reality it came. -@TheNotoriousMMA
2026-07-12T04:24 id=2076160706882465964 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @ReaperCapital When your net worth equals or exceeds 25x your average annual expenditure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ReaperCapital I considered myself rich when I surpassed $10m. What's your definition?
2026-07-12T04:47 id=2076166481856066008 →- | "We've reached a point where people who spent too much time huffing glue and reading Dune or watching Terminator and thinking it was a documentary are now proposing some of the most dangerous and horrific policies imaginable.  They must be stopped from infecting politicians with this kind of logic disease."  Beautiful poetry here.  The best way to fight these people is to point out how WEIRD they are.   Yud wearing his glasses and taking pics with Aella,  Askell giving a computer program its own blog page, Amodei using the most ridiculously pretentious pseudoscientific language when asked how he feels, that Pause AI lady with her weird public relationship drama, etc.   Argue with them, sure, but more importantly: MAKE FUN OF THEM.   Satire is a weapon and I am begging you to use it. || CTX: AI 2040 and other similar policy proposals for dystopian AI control are evil.   If I had the time machine in Terminator, I would send every one of these people back in time to live in Stalin's Russia, or Mao's  China, or Berlin with the Wal
2026-07-12T04:49 id=2076166940813570355 →ramez | @ramez AI safety people are useful idiots used by wealthy cynics.   Yudkowsky, Toner, Askell all fit this mould (I've ordered them in descending level of idiocy). || CTX: I'm firmly in the third camp.   The basic problem with AI 2040 is that it uses a fictional and speculative doomsday scenario to justify very real surveillance and control capabilities that governments would be certain to use in authoritaria
2026-07-12T04:52 id=2076167917297906045 →quantian1 | @quantian1 Surprised and impressed to see Janus Capital there. They fly under the radar but some of the best buyside analysts I've spoken to were at Janus. || CTX: In 2001, Nvidia CTO Curtis Priem owned 8.3% of the company, more than Jensen Huang.  When he retired, he gifted most of his shares to his alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic, who sold it.  Today, those shares would be worth $450 bn, or as mu
2026-07-12T05:47 id=2076181725584277686 →tkisrage | @tkisrage My apologies, it's entirely my fault.   "Most important thinker" lmao these guys really have their own little fake world it's so adorable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My YouTube recommended has been infected https://t.co/uig5kwrQhA
2026-07-12T05:48 id=2076181900771963160 →amaturefuturist | @amaturefuturist I thought Birkin was Hermes? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mines broken, and wants hermes, where do I get one that settles for Birkin?
2026-07-12T06:12 id=2076188010782286296 →vansh22b | @vansh22b @ycombinator King, instant follow, I admire a fellow badass. || CTX: @ycombinator shooting my shot https://t.co/CUKn79E4Gm
2026-07-12T06:36 id=2076193902877691953 →- | If this is true it is a MASSIVE MASSIVE deal.   I've reached out to Vansh to suggest independent verification of his claims, which I can easily do.  Let's see if OP agrees. I shall keep the community abreast of developments.  But if VC is this rotten, we GOTS some big problems. https://t.co/NCwCW4E0kn || CTX: A @ycombinator partner (very active on X) asked me for $250k with a guarantee acceptance to their next batch😭  He said you'll raise few millions after batch anyways so 250k will be nothing.  What happened to yc😭😭
2026-07-12T07:32 id=2076208121748529269 →publicinte | @publicinte Agreed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the immediate plug and the fake hidden call out. my verdict is engagement baiting Indian
2026-07-12T07:37 id=2076209373463093728 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @ElizabethHolmes @TheNotoriousMMA It isn't driven by a principle or overarching theory.   In the specific case of Holmes, all she's ever done was fraud and manipulate social relationships. In that game, success is measured in getting away with it.   She did not, so she's an untalented fraudster. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElizabethHolmes @TheNotoriousMMA Is the theory here talented people don't do bad things? Or talented people do bad things but get away with it due to the quality of their schemes?
2026-07-12T07:47 id=2076211781668921623 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @ElizabethHolmes @TheNotoriousMMA He got hoodwinked by Yud the Stud, Bernie is dead to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElizabethHolmes @TheNotoriousMMA Do we then say Bernie was unsuccessful?
2026-07-12T07:50 id=2076212531195236454 →So8res | @So8res @sebkrier Since AGI is an incoherent concept, since you refuse to define terms carefully, and since you're happy to equivocate between different concepts carelessly, you can easily tie anything you want to AGI.   You're a peddler of Frankfurtian bullshit, zero reason to take you seriously. || CTX: @sebkrier Whether you're more concerned about AIs taking over, companies taking over, or the abuse of power has quite a lot to do with how AGI pilled you are.
2026-07-12T07:51 id=2076212777710932073 →sebkrier | @sebkrier @So8res You still haven't realized he's a con artist? Or you feel some necessity to take the con artist in good faith?   Genuinely curious here. || CTX: @So8res It matters of course, but so do one's assumptions about technology, economics, and political science - all of which matter for how you understand AGI.
2026-07-12T07:54 id=2076213560745841042 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @ElizabethHolmes @TheNotoriousMMA oh THAT Bernie!   History will remember him. He was a successful fraudster--duration matters. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElizabethHolmes @TheNotoriousMMA Hahaha I should have been more precise. Met Sanders Bernie... Madoff bernie 😂
2026-07-12T08:30 id=2076222590646211055 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov not at all, I've met many wonderful people in my life || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Was Heather the first of that archetype you’ve come to meet?  I really wonder whether or not the machine consciousness narrative is birth from people whom have never come in contact with a “Heather” archetype person.
2026-07-12T08:31 id=2076222911673958767 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 it's like that meme about the science fiction book whose whole point is to not build the torture nexus. there is something very very strange and silicon valley where the obvious morality of not very intellectual science fiction is being completely overlooked or misunderstood. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's possible that they didn't spend enough time reading dune, because I feel immune to this, and I read a lot of dune  More importantly, we have people in the right positions. Like Emil Micheal, who very skillfully resiste
2026-07-12T08:42 id=2076225725858984163 →bladgolem | @bladgolem tbf I lived in Finland and England and those are the countries I was thinking of. idk what happens in Italy, I've heard tons of different things. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I know this is a joke but where I live is very common for people to be virgins most of their 20s and/or lose their virginity with anglos (americans and brits, on trips or with tourists) because anglos tend to be more sexual
2026-07-12T08:44 id=2076226172359516560 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @funplings I know what you mean!   You mean she needs to cut off your dick, cook it, eat it, let it digest, and then shit it out.   And yes she needs to do that. || CTX: @funplings she just needs to pass MY bar if you know what i mean ;)
2026-07-12T08:52 id=2076228120919863739 →- | I cannot understand the appeal of Andy Weir's work.   Project Hail Mary and The Martian both just seem like heartwarming tales of guys fighting against adversity to achieve something that they achieve via tenacity.   Like tens of thousands of other stories.  The exception is his story The Egg, which had a HUGE impact on me and remains one of my favorite scifi stories of all time.  But the rest of his work feels like slop for the middle class.
2026-07-12T08:53 id=2076228445420536016 →profleonn | @profleonn Reminds me of eating dinner on TV trays on the couch watching Entertainment Tonight at a high volume for my near death grandmother. I think that's why I have so much contempt for celebrity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and that was completely normal. it was always just some news channel and then in the evening MAYBE a movie, but then straight back to the preferred news channel and it even stayed on through the night just in case someone g
2026-07-12T08:54 id=2076228710211162114 →funplings | @funplings That's the issue! I find hard scifi so boring! "Aliens are based on xenon isn't that cool" no it's not cool idgaf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they're very technical and hard-sci-fi-y (esp the Martian; obviously PHM is much more speculative), but in way that's accessible to the masses
2026-07-12T08:55 id=2076228897004486696 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Yeah that makes sense, so the southern Europeans are more promiscuous when older and northern Europeans are more promiscuous when younger, does that seem right? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But people over 35 tend to engage in all kinds of situations that I think the anglos and nordics don't engage as much. I think the protestants feel themselves to "age out" of things, while the catholics "grow into" things.
2026-07-12T09:31 id=2076238122502013145 →teodorio | @teodorio @tolstoybb I’m joining both of you, have a nice bottle of Port opened two days ago and that shit is going to go bad if I don’t finish it soon  no, no, just trust me, it’s going to go bad || CTX: @tolstoybb let's Gooo
2026-07-12T09:33 id=2076238569375715376 →bladgolem | @bladgolem ngl it gels with my experience. I’d never thought of it that way, but, yeah, definitely describes a fair few Greeks and Spaniards I’ve known at least. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's my perception (have family and friends on both parts, but lived just in 4 places in the eu, 2 for very short time) and also common anecdote.
2026-07-12T09:36 id=2076239278850638276 →profleonn | I don’t think in terms of “good” and “bad” when it comes to art and literature—I know this sounds very strange, but remember I used to teach language and literature.  For me, I like to study a text in terms of what it is aspiring to do and if it is successful at what it is aspiring to do. Weir’s text is successful—but what is it trying to do?  I think in Martian and PHM he’s trying to write a story of an individual hero who wins despite all odds, is willing to sacrifice for the greater good, and can let his will overcome his fear.  Which, idk man, I used to read a hundred undergrad essays on heroism in Beowulf a year, I’m kinda sick and bored of that kind of story.  So I’d say PHM appeals to a very specific American reimagination of the heroic epic according to the generic expectations of scifi as understood in early 21st century society.  But that doesn’t interest me. I want to be on the vanguard of art. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so ur saying Project Hail Mary not so good? still haven't watched, but have had all my friends who have watched it highly recommend it.   but to be honest I was already turned off by the name "Project Hail Mary"
2026-07-12T09:37 id=2076239484723847585 →boneGPT | @boneGPT Now this is a long house I can fully get behind. || CTX: Long poisoning the data https://t.co/ChB33NUase
2026-07-12T09:39 id=2076239923188019454 →Aikun011 | It gets really close to non-duality! But it still has something of a didactic teleology and a presupposed atomic “self” at its core. It’s so close, about as close as a westerner can get, and I think that helped me consider more compelling alternative cosmologies—atp the western atomic objectivist ontology just seems hilariously stupid to me. Naive, like a child. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The egg is very vedic I didn't realise it when I first read it didn't make sense but now it does and yeah wow what a beautiful way of putting it
2026-07-12T09:40 id=2076240196165861600 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I would be surprised if you liked the movie or book. See: https://t.co/HbWJrXZvIf || CTX: I don’t think in terms of “good” and “bad” when it comes to art and literature—I know this sounds very strange, but remember I used to teach language and literature.  For me, I like to study a text in terms of what it is aspiring to do and 
2026-07-12T09:44 id=2076241391852945610 →- | Last thing you see before your project gets royally fucked up. https://t.co/RZWO0HivvQ
2026-07-12T10:13 id=2076248474966982829 →Eldenofthering | @Eldenofthering I only know the anime, which is a masterpiece of animation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The best sci fi book with 'egg' in the title is 'dragon's egg', btw. It's the champion egg sci fi.
2026-07-12T10:13 id=2076248544323965087 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Eldenofthering I'm an idiot, I was thinking of "Angel's Egg" lol || CTX: @Eldenofthering I only know the anime, which is a masterpiece of animation
2026-07-12T10:16 id=2076249215051989479 →wordgrammer | @wordgrammer Bernard Williams IMO handles this issue deftly and with grace. https://t.co/01hiT41jqc || CTX: In my Substack, I tried really, really, really hard to avoid any appeal to human exceptionalism. Are human minds different from machine minds? Maybe! I don't want to discuss it, and I think my argument works without it. My official stance i
2026-07-12T10:18 id=2076249917446582343 →teodorio | @teodorio @Carbon19992025 Also in aggregate it's only computable to a specific level of signification and reflexivity means once human behavior is computed, behavior changes in ways the computation cannot adjust to match without a lag, and then it'll just change again. || CTX: @Carbon19992025 in aggregate it is, not at individual level. the claim is not that it's not derivable (it is), but that it is replicable outside averages
2026-07-12T10:34 id=2076253957551542752 →Carbon19992025 | @Carbon19992025 @teodorio asymptotically and only in non reflexive regimes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Error rates decrease with time with more data and computation
2026-07-12T10:41 id=2076255621377306670 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo I think studying literature for so long combined with my perverseness have made it impossible for me to enjoy anodyne narrative. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mate, just crack a beer and watch the slop. It's good. Rocky is a delightful character.
2026-07-12T10:50 id=2076257928315814346 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra lmfaooooo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I couldn't find the wojak in a cage made of his own brain, this one seemed even better though, haha
2026-07-12T10:51 id=2076258082125185116 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo Wait you mean the boxer movie? The first Rocky movie is a work of art, a masterpiece, Literature. || CTX: Don't you call Rocky an anodyne narrative.  I don't know who or what you are but I will find you and I will fight you.  He is delightful.
2026-07-12T11:23 id=2076266085003805128 →6851cf3c | @6851cf3c HAHAHAH I remember that! Hilarious horseshit, a good play by ebay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That backstory makes ebay's "zero measurable benefit" from google ads study pretty ironic.
2026-07-12T11:31 id=2076268164275642645 →funplings | @funplings goddammit you're really handsome this is infuriating || CTX: face doxing myself for the very first time https://t.co/EXV8ztE0Rb
2026-07-12T11:34 id=2076268982148198403 →- | If I don't keep tweeting about how I am right and was right before other more famous researchers, everyone dies https://t.co/BkdyFyDGEC https://t.co/0nIm3o13mA || CTX: I'm glad Torsten Slok is now on the "AI will create new jobs" bandwagon. I'm also glad Alex Imas has kickstarted public awareness.  However, I must emphasize that I preceded both and have been saying AI will not kill jobs for a very long ti
2026-07-12T11:44 id=2076271409333231859 →- | Many people don't know that Wittgenstein was both deeply religious (although not Christian or Catholic despite where he's buried, God bless you Anscombe) and dedicated his life to fighting scientism. His philosophy is very much centered on this, you see it in Zettel quite clearly.   His point is that many charlatans in the past have claimed to speak for the universe. Some were called prophets, others called priests.   But now many scientists do the same by overextending the epistemic sufficiency of their craft into cosmological or teleological conjecture.   And Wittgenstein shows how this happens and what we can do to see it when it happens.  Anyone who claims to know more than what they see and suppose is not to be trusted. Oh and when you do this to yourself, as we all do, you need to not trust yourself.  "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.  Scepticism is not irrefutable, but palpably senseless, if it would doubt where a question cannot be asked. For doubt can only exist where there is a question; a question only where there is an answer, and this only where something can be said.   We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer.   The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem. (Is not this the reason why men to whom after long doubting the sense of life became clear, could not then say wherein this sense consisted?  There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @wordgrammer No I mean I'll make the claim from the point of view of the universe. I'll do it!
2026-07-12T11:50 id=2076273020067516595 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Oh and there's this jfc AI trade the easiest one of my career and I am OLD https://t.co/kiUZfvKcfW || CTX: I wrote this back in 2021, dumping in case anyone's interested--it's why I've been pro-AI even before GenAI hit it big, and it's incredible to see some of the stuff I said was going to happen seems to be happening:  Economists struggle to e
2026-07-12T12:04 id=2076276430086766861 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza YES!!! By our very production of information about information, our recursive nature, we are in fact special such that, if you were to make a map of all of the universe's information and place the densest part in the middle, Earth would be its center.   Unless we find alienses. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's fair so I'll rephrase.   I'll make the claim that from the point of view of the observable universe we're special, at least so far!
2026-07-12T12:10 id=2076277947309383974 →- | Name and shame list for economists who once claimed AI would lower labor demand or kill jobs:  Daron Acemoglu — @DAcemogluMIT Daniel Susskind — @danielsusskind Anton Korinek — @akorinek Nouriel Roubini — @Nouriel Carl Benedikt Frey — @carlbfrey Xiang Hui — @xianghui90 Oren Reshef — @oren_reshef Erik Brynjolfsson — @erikbryn Bharat Chandar — @BharatKChandar Ruyu Chen — @RuyuChen   FUCK YOU ALLLLLLLLLLL
2026-07-12T12:18 id=2076280092192637112 →shawngoloid_ | @shawngoloid_ I have been hearing this my entire life and I've written a piece on Silly Business Theory that explains this very illusion.   Truth is: quality of jobs keeps getting better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 whats your perspective on the quality of jobs being replaced? not necessarily good, bad, worse, better, but rather the actual nature of the labor that is being created. i notice most view the future of employment as social.
2026-07-12T12:23 id=2076281200600350993 →BobertBedford | @BobertBedford I only saw a few minutes but that's EXACTLY how I felt!   Nice cinematography and staging though. || CTX: I didn't know who wrote it when I watched it, but after ended I asked my wife "was this an AI optimized movie or what". It just seemed to have the principal components of what people want to see in a movie in a perfectly sequenced manner, b
2026-07-12T12:24 id=2076281422860767499 →aleabitoreddit | @aleabitoreddit lol helped me dip into NVDA at absurd low valuation, let them fight || CTX: Apparently there’s a new popular trend to bearpost trillion dollar companies.  Like $NVDA or $TSM.  By finding isolating technical details, then blowing it out of proportions by claiming their whole program is delayed.  -> if the company do
2026-07-12T12:35 id=2076284201712734333 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 It is so fucking disgusting that these high legal bills are even possible let alone normal. || CTX: https://t.co/VTI4aiSXYC
2026-07-12T12:36 id=2076284618287071280 →profleonn | @profleonn So nice to see another one leave the cult.   Yud the Stud's bullshit is majorly collapsing. Fucking hell I want to be gracious but bro winning feels so fucking good || CTX: https://t.co/93lwv8UXGX
2026-07-12T12:44 id=2076286681041543524 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Yeah they had to out of desperation to catch up to shifting user behavior, but no one wanted to make the move so they delayed and faced the market disciplined consequences. || CTX: Ironically the people who “f**ked with rhe magic” the most were the TV cos themselves bc they launched all their streaming services with dramatically lower costs than the traditional bundle.   Arguably this  accelerated cord cutting (and th
2026-07-12T12:58 id=2076290070081130691 →- | Yes! That is *exactly* the question.  It's not "to be" or "not to be", it's whether it's nobler:  - To suffer the slings, arrows, and barbs of outrageous fortune - To take arms against a sea of troubles, which ends them - To die - To sleep - To dream no more (not just maybe, but perchance) This would end not just the pain but the heartache. And this is key. Those are the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. It is more than consuming, it is a *consummation* that you should wish, not just deeply--but devoutly.  And so, the real question ahead of you is: To die? To sleep? Perchance to dream?  And there is the rub--for what is in that sleep is *unknowable*  What dreams do you think may come?
2026-07-12T13:01 id=2076290906182107309 →murd_arch | @murd_arch On Certainty! His last book, and it's both very short and extremely simple. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For those of us who are not well read, with which of  Wittgenstein's works would you recommend starting?
2026-07-12T13:21 id=2076295887136178511 →etbadabimbim | @etbadabimbim Yeah it was great!   But I was 11. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you enjoy Terminator 2?
2026-07-12T13:29 id=2076297980320350713 →- | Bernard Williams speaks of the necessary objectification that happens in a teleological view: anything becomes an instrument towards the goal.   This reminds me of the angst both Nietzsche and Fukuyama describe at an end point of history: the last man is content, but not fulfilled.   And, implicitly, in that gap is what makes humam, human.   The upshot is ennobling, the downside is that naive Heaven is vanquished as both possible and thus desirable terminus. And that leads us to wonder if an impersonal afterlife is all that's left.   Of course the nondualist and the process philosopher laughs at this; the personal life was never a possibility, either.  And sure maybe mushrooms can show you this truth, but language is all we have to understand it.
2026-07-12T13:30 id=2076298052416201088 →etbadabimbim | @etbadabimbim dude im fukken retarded || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm still enjoying it very much. As I did with Project Hail Mary.  Able to disconnect your brain is important, though I'm probably not as smart as you.
2026-07-12T13:48 id=2076302779702788376 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka ADN I WONT FICKING STOP || CTX: someone, anyone: *says something* something, anything: *happens* @47fucb4r8c69323: "wittgenstein ..."
2026-07-12T13:49 id=2076302848611299702 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka I feel that way sometimes too tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 jokes aside, i really like wittgenstein, definitely top3 all time, just a pussy for not going into metaphysics
2026-07-12T14:44 id=2076316841660813673 →lamebruh123 | @lamebruh123 @DAcemogluMIT @danielsusskind @akorinek @Nouriel @carlbfrey @xianghui90 gib deadline || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DAcemogluMIT @danielsusskind @akorinek @Nouriel @carlbfrey @xianghui90 Too soon no?
2026-07-12T14:59 id=2076320617427882160 →- | Wittgenstein covers this very well in Philosophical Remarks and almost no one reads it anymore. https://t.co/NW60zeHWOq || CTX: A potential infinity is a PROCESS: you keep counting 1, 2, 3, ... and you never stop. At no point do you hold “the completed collection of all natural numbers” in your hand. An actual infinity says: that collection exists, right now, as a s
2026-07-12T15:14 id=2076324210948096445 →teodorio | @teodorio It'll be fine, just be patient and ride the down wave out. You'll be back feeling on top of the world soon!   Remember: you're digital nomad aristocracy. || CTX: Besides being burned out I have had a horrible bug and also haven't trained at all when I was in Florence. I have also lost a bet that I will launch my app, I also feel down and not useful. I find out that after episodes like these, there i
2026-07-12T19:54 id=2076394766728835555 →TrueAIHound | @TrueAIHound Do you think we live in a discrete non continuous universe?   I have no view here, it's way out of my field, I'm just curious. || CTX: Cantor is like a cool guy at a cocktail party. Everyone loves him, but as soon as he begins to talk about infinity having a size, it's your cue to leave the room and join the cigar-puffing, fun crowd by the pool. 😀  Continuity, which requir
2026-07-12T19:56 id=2076395256590065922 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ This is very well said; Deidre McCloskey makes a similar point that we should embrace and spread bourgeois values because they allow humanity's freedom from toil. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Socialism can only come from the Bourgeois because only our class knows what freedom really tastes like, being ourselves free from all labor
2026-07-12T20:12 id=2076399263534452852 →kiloania | @kiloania it's hard for me to put in words just how cute that outfit is || CTX: “where did you get your dress? id like to get one for my daughter, she’s special needs 🥰”  thank you random lady, i am never going to wear this dress again https://t.co/ipg6CbdTwF
2026-07-12T20:18 id=2076400879973064968 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 What changes in IP laws have there been that make it harder to start a business compared to 30-40 years ago? I know nothing about law tbh, not something I focus much on. || CTX: I think all of these arguments are silly because they seem oblivious to the actual state of the labor market. Nobody is hiring right now because nobody can afford to.  I agree with your logic that AI creates an environment with more functio
2026-07-12T20:51 id=2076409061579649039 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Yeah, I can agree with all of this. || CTX: Probably the most damaging one was dmca. Ultimately, this led to the end of hacker culture in the US. Reverse engineering became a criminal act. This was also the end of the pipeline that created engineers.  Our copyright laws have obscenel
2026-07-12T21:20 id=2076416451096047623 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Gorgeous. || CTX: the charcuterie board we made for my birthday yesterday, along with pistachio pesto&amp;mozzie bruschettas as the welcome snack https://t.co/J20xkfMQL0
2026-07-12T21:35 id=2076420223448826078 →funplings | @funplings @ChineseLLM they're called paags I swear a friend told me this I swear (there's a subreddit too) || CTX: @ChineseLLM in spite of being in the presence of a chinese pawg???? what a gentleman
2026-07-12T21:41 id=2076421805406110104 →publicinte | @publicinte Found the tape with me and your mom eh? || CTX: insane dickriding https://t.co/1G2e7Jl0UE
2026-07-12T21:49 id=2076423739236143328 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @tylermacro10 You say sub-frontier like it's a bad thing. || CTX: @tylermacro10 New marketing spiel from companies who are sub-frontier. “Don’t hand your propriety data to OpenAI or Anthropic. We can build you better performing models, that you control, with your own data.”
2026-07-12T22:54 id=2076440178047209694 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza This is just incredible, phenomenal work.  It's so rare to see technology being used to make the real world better in such a tangible way, it's so thrilling when I do see it. || CTX: Now with modelling tools for all your land management needs. Plan earthworks projects, engineer hydrological systems, and model the impacts of cutting and planting with GAIA or in the visual planning tool! https://t.co/U9aiF3GnZU https://t.
2026-07-12T23:07 id=2076443360815116585 →- | Watching Codex control Chrome to copy Terminal commands that it then executes feels both amazing and really stupid at the same time.  Like, wow, this is true AI but then also, wtf, why can’t just the one computer tell the other computer directly what to do and it does it?
2026-07-12T23:07 id=2076443467593678921 →- | Watching Codex control Chrome to copy Terminal commands from a Cloudflare support page that it then executes feels both amazing and really stupid at the same time.  Like, wow, this is true AI but then also, wtf, why can’t just the one computer tell the other computer directly what to do and it does it?
2026-07-12T23:20 id=2076446560616161440 →tszzl | @tszzl Cue Dark Knight “die a hero” clip.  This is diabolical, ironic, and hilarious—but, well, “AI going to steal your jobs” was a really bad way to market the technology! || CTX: uncs remember what feels like just yesterday when uber was the anti regulatory hero, crusading across the metropoles of the world against rent collection of taxi services. I remember when uber was a real player in ai research too. life come
2026-07-12T23:32 id=2076449595786424438 →- | NVDA is now cheaper than it was 10 years ago looking at straight P/E, while FCF is just, well just look lmao https://t.co/BvaBR1UqYR https://t.co/eR3icAiQC2 || CTX: Shocking stat of the day:  Nvidia, $NVDA, Micron, $MU, Broadcom, $AVGO, and Applied Materials, $AMAT, are now expected to generate a record $430 billion in combined free cash flow (FCF) over the next 12 months.  That would be more than TRIP
2026-07-12T23:32 id=2076449599804641769 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And you’re bearish? https://t.co/utb8be5yaI || CTX: NVDA is now cheaper than it was 10 years ago looking at straight P/E, while FCF is just, well just look lmao https://t.co/BvaBR1UqYR https://t.co/eR3icAiQC2
2026-07-12T23:32 id=2076449603264880645 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Look at the YoY change in FCF—over 65%. Some tremendous growth, and it’s priced below Costco. https://t.co/vCxYMEjrDr || CTX: And you’re bearish? https://t.co/utb8be5yaI
2026-07-12T23:35 id=2076450525206515775 →401Casey | @401Casey Where can I read more on this? First I’ve heard of it, sounds interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The key benefit is they don’t sell when you tell them to, that is why robo advisers lost.
2026-07-13T00:05 id=2076457895349399567 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum He looks like a Nintendo Mii || CTX: this is a woman https://t.co/jECMOshoXF https://t.co/YKJH7PI85D
2026-07-13T00:10 id=2076459176239521878 →KojimaErgoSum | @KojimaErgoSum I'm starting to think you don't like him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he is one of the most vile and disgusting people and he is literally one of those "i am going to fuck you in the ass" type ni***as online and always about being vindictive and spiteful but now that allah crushed his parents
2026-07-13T00:53 id=2076470148899438781 →skooookum | @skooookum Finally signing the documents and having the nightmare be over is such a relief you hardly care that you've just lost $250,000. || CTX: Getting divorced probably feels awesome for the first 15 minutes
2026-07-13T01:13 id=2076475003625963913 →- | This allows users so much more freedom and flexibility in how they choose which LLM setup is appropriate for their particular problem, use case, and set up.  So much innovation around RL environments, harnesses, memory management, etc. It's a very exciting time!   And at the same time, ChatGPT 5.6 is no better at text output or textual analysis than 5.5.  You need to value the frontier labs as SaaS companies, they deserve CRM, WDAY, TTD style multiples.   Also, we need to stop calling Anthropic/OpenAI/DeepMind frontier labs. They aren't on the frontier anymore.  Thinking Machines and Prime Intellect are. || CTX: Today, we are releasing verifiers v1 — an overhaul of our environment stack for the modern era of agentic RL and evals.  We decompose environments into a taskset, a harness, and a runtime.   Run complex agentic tasks like coding and compute
2026-07-13T02:17 id=2076491196428628068 →sciad | @sciad Oh it was part of its workflow to complete a task, so it just did it automatically to set up a server connection I asked it to do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you cant have it just curl the page contents?
2026-07-13T02:48 id=2076498905077092561 →- | The psychologist Robin Hogarth had a theory about what he called “wicked learning environments”, where “rules may change, if there are rules at all; patterns don’t just repeat; feedback could be absent, delayed, or inaccurate; [and] all sorts of complicated human dynamics might get involved, and work next year may not look like work last year,” as David Epstein describes it (https://t.co/r7AOwLyu07).  Now, let’s see if natural language use fits the description, because that will have important implications of our understanding of how much computation can improve LLMs, even if we had access to unlimited compute, energy, and time.  1. “Rules may change, if there are rules at all” - the rules of language do indeed change over time. A good example is how questions are constructed in English; a few hundred years ago you could ask “Know you the man?” and now that is considered ungrammatical, with English users preferring and then codifying “Do you know the man?” as the correct construction. The rule changed—and, for that matter, the rules of language are only written down AFTER they appear in use. So, we can say this describes natural language well.  2. “Patterns don’t just repeat” - Indeed, patterns in natural language won’t necessarily repeat in an objectively verifiable way or be immediately obvious. My favorite example of this is Eminem’s “bending” the word and how he finds ways to rhyme other words with “orange” (https://t.co/YDinmqDAT4). None of these are official rhymes, none fit the patterns of rhyme, and yet they all feel like rhymes and work as something like a slant rhyme (slant rhymes, incidentally, are another case of a pattern not just repeating). So, yeah, fits natural language.  3. “Feedback could be absent, delayed, or inaccurate” - Talk to yourself, and your language gets no feedback. Write something down and submit it, either online or in print, and your feedback is delayed. Write a conference paper when you’re a PhD student and have your abusive advisor read it, the feedback you’ll get on the phrase “strains credulity” being embarrassingly awkward and stilted will be inaccurate. So, yes, this fits natural language, too.  4. “All sorts of complicated human dynamics might get involved, and work next year may not look like work last year.” - Consider how slang goes from base to cringe when your mom—or a shitposting autist in his mid-40s on twitter—starts using it. Perhaps my favorite example of this was from a Lifehacker blog from like 20 years ago, when people in the comments were debating about whether ending an email with “Best wishes” was rude (some apparently thought this was a grievous insult). Bizarre human dynamics make for bizarre linguistic outcomes, so yes this fits.  Why does this matter?  Because computation works to discover rule-based patterns that exist in the world, and if you use computation to discover rule-based patterns in a game that does not, in fact, have fixed rules or rules that do not objectively repeat or unreliable feedback or complicated human dynamics, then you’re going to need more than more compute.  Human-in-the-loop is inevitable.  Highly customizable reinforcement learning environments will always matter to improve LLMs.  LLMs are not artificial intelligence. This is using a powerful object—tensor mathematics—as a tool to navigate the various possibilities in natural language usage as it has existed in the past.  LLMs cannot predict future language change. LLMs cannot predict all possible responses to language. LLMs cannot detect implicit rules in language that humans do.  Their linguistic competency is fundamentally limited because of the gap between deterministic computation and the reflexive meta-game nature of language.  Now, what is a meta-game?
2026-07-13T02:48 id=2076498907702698035 →47fucb4r8c69323 | A Unified Theory of Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language  I would like to propose a new foundational model for understanding language: language as metagame. Rejecting traditional structuralist and generativist paradigms that treat language as either a fixed system or an innate cognitive module, this framework argues that language is best understood as a constraint-negotiation mechanism nested within broader interactive games.  This approach unifies sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the philosophy of language, providing a new explanatory framework that resolves persistent theoretical challenges in the field. I would like to demonstrate how linguistic meaning emerges not from static representations but from recursive constraint interactions across multiple layers of communicative play, integrating insights from Wittgenstein, game theory, and semiotics into a cohesive linguistic model. || CTX: The psychologist Robin Hogarth had a theory about what he called “wicked learning environments”, where “rules may change, if there are rules at all; patterns don’t just repeat; feedback could be absent, delayed, or inaccurate; [and] all sor
2026-07-13T02:48 id=2076498912559743125 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Language as Metagame: The Core Hypothesis  At its ontic core, language both developed as and continues to be a metagame, meaning it is a game about games - a recursive system that imposes, refines, and renegotiates constraints on lower-order communicative interactions.  A metagame is a game that governs how other games are played. In strategy games, the metagame includes high-level adaptations that emerge beyond formal rules (e.g., new tactics, implicit conventions). In human communication, language plays this role by refining pre-existing games. Wittgenstein shows this intuition when he notes that, behind language use, is the invention of a ruleset that governs language games:  "To invent a language could mean to invent an instrument for a particular purpose on the basis of the laws of nature (or consistently with them); but it also has the other sense, analogous to that in which we speak of the invention of a game." - Philosophical Investigations, §492.  Contra John Searle, who argues that games must exist only after language (otherwise you cannot communicate the rules of the game), games precede language: Play, interaction, and social coordination exist before linguistic formalization. A simple thought experiment: consider two animals play-fighting, and when one animal bites too hard, the other yelps. Now a constraint has emerged: don't bite too hard. As the animals evolve over time, the constraints they impose on the game become increasingly complex, thus the initial play-fighting between two pre-linguistic animals evolves until, eventually, higher dimensional constraints allow for highly complex games like chess.  From this view, it is clear that the sole function of language is to refine constraints, but there are many ways dimensions upon which constraints can be asserted: phatic, descriptive, etc. Language does not create meaning from nothing but builds new structures of meaning by mediating the horizons of existing communicative affordances.  From this perspective, we see that language is self-reconfiguring: The rules of linguistic use are not static but evolve dynamically in response to interaction. Thus, language is not a game in the usual sense (as Wittgenstein implied) but a recursive metagame that constrains and directs other meaning-making processes. || CTX: Introduction: The Problem of Language Theory  For over a century, linguistic theory has been fractured into competing paradigms, each offering partial explanations for the nature of language: Structuralism (Saussure, Jakobson) viewed langua
2026-07-13T02:48 id=2076498910005322042 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Introduction: The Problem of Language Theory  For over a century, linguistic theory has been fractured into competing paradigms, each offering partial explanations for the nature of language: Structuralism (Saussure, Jakobson) viewed language as a fixed system of signs. Generativism (Chomsky) treated language as a biologically innate formal grammar. Pragmatics & Speech Act Theory (Austin, Searle) shifted focus to language use rather than internal structure. Wittgenstein's language-games suggested meaning is shaped by contextual rule-following, yet lacked a formalized account of rule evolution.  Each framework captures critical aspects of language but remains incomplete because it assumes language is a self-contained system. This is a category error. Language is not a discrete entity but a meta-level game that overlays all human interaction, structuring communication through evolving constraints. || CTX: A Unified Theory of Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language  I would like to propose a new foundational model for understanding language: language as metagame. Rejecting traditional structuralist and generativist paradigms that treat lan
2026-07-13T02:48 id=2076498915059474673 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The Multi-Layered Nature of Language Games  If language is a metagame, then understanding language use requires analyzing multiple levels of constraint interaction. The key domains of linguistic metagaming include (but by no means are limited to):  1. The Pragmatic Game (Social Action through Language) Constraints governing how language achieves real-world effects (persuasion, command, negotiation) are produced at the levels of the individual and society. Speech act theory (Austin, Searle) fits here but lacks metagame integration, because it is merely a functionalist accounting of language in use and is not an ontological accounting of what language actually is.  2. The Semiotic Game (Symbolic Encoding and Interpretation) This game consists of the constraints governing the relationship between signs and meanings. From this perspective, we see why the post-structuralists were dissatisfied with structuralist semiotics, because the structuralists were right to recognizes sign systems as being a real fact of language, but those sign systems were necessarily incomplete as those structures are constantly mediated through language use, which always renegotiates meaning. This can be seen as language use is an act of evolving play-spaces rather than rigid structures.  3. The Phatic Game (Relational Bonding through Speech) Use of language to create and mediate social relationships can be understood as producing constraints governing how language maintains social cohesion and group identity. This is often overlooked in linguistic theory but crucial for understanding informal and non-informational speech, and is often codified in a descriptivist manner in sociolinguistics but, as with structuralism, any codification will merely yield snapshots of an inherently continuous activity.  4. The Persuasive Game (Rhetoric, Ideological Framing, Political Speech) Like the phatic game, persuasive language use consists of constraints governing how language shapes belief systems and social norms. This connects linguistics with political science, media studies, and propaganda theory. Each linguistic utterance participates in multiple overlapping games simultaneously, meaning linguistic meaning is always contextually constrained and cannot be reduced to a single system, albeit single systems of codification are epistemological tools that help us understand the metagame's process within any given neighborhood of the broader field of metagame play. || CTX: Language as Metagame: The Core Hypothesis  At its ontic core, language both developed as and continues to be a metagame, meaning it is a game about games - a recursive system that imposes, refines, and renegotiates constraints on lower-orde
2026-07-13T02:48 id=2076498917676797995 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Empirical and Theoretical Implications  As I mention above, this resolves Searle's critique of language games.  Searle argued that Wittgenstein's language-games require pre-existing linguistic structure, making language a precondition rather than an emergent phenomenon. Under the metagame framework, this objection collapses. Language does not create meaning from nothing; it refines and transmits constraints on communicative interaction. The game begins amorphously, with constraints emerging through iterative play (as seen in animal communication).  This shows us that language is not pre-required for rule-establishment but emerges from it. It is a tool used to structure games more precisely, to introduce new axes upon which the game can be made more complex, and in doing so the emergent nature of the language used by linguistic communities is constantly changed and refined. In mathematical terms, the boundary condition of the topology of the set of semantic fields in the game is constantly being pushed in different directions across several dimensions as language is being used, and language is never fixed into one static form until the language is dead.  Thus Kripke's rigid designators are rigid in that they produce an edge between the nodes of the signifier and the signified, but the edge itself will constantly move across several dimensional axes as language users try to reformulate the designator. The edge is affixed by an initial baptism connecting two nodes, but other nodes pushing against the edge from all sides in several dimensions will cause it to move about.  Thus, language is a tool for structuring games that already exist, reinforcing the idea that it is a metagame rather than a primary system.  Reframing the Philosophy of Language  This framework forces us to change our perspective on several aspects of language. For one, meaning is not stored in symbols but negotiated dynamically through constraint interactions. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are not separate domains but nested layers of metagame constraints. This explains why attempts to disentangle syntax and semantics always fail, while also explaining why pragmatics can heavily influence both syntax and semantics without a resolution towards a "right" meaning of a semiotic term or a "right" syntactical structure that applies to every language.  While systematic approaches to language are extremely useful to learn languages and learn how languages function, formal linguistic rules are not fundamental - they emerge from adaptive communicative play. || CTX: The Multi-Layered Nature of Language Games  If language is a metagame, then understanding language use requires analyzing multiple levels of constraint interaction. The key domains of linguistic metagaming include (but by no means are limit
2026-07-13T02:48 id=2076498921132580904 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Empirical Testing: The Case for Corpus Analysis and Psycholinguistic Experimentation  This model predicts that linguistic constraints should evolve dynamically based on interactional needs. Empirical tests could include, in corpus analysis, tracking how new linguistic constraints emerge in real-world discourse (e.g., internet slang evolution). In psycholinguistics, experiments that test how speakers adapt to novel linguistic games when constraints are changed could falsify the metagame theory. Computational modeling of simulated language evolution using game-theoretic AI models could help us observe how constraints emerge necessarily as languages are used.  This is a new linguistic paradigm.  If we treat language as a metagame, we move beyond outdated structuralist, generativist, and even pragmatic frameworks. This approach unifies linguistic subfields under a single model where meaning is emergent, constraint-driven, and recursively refined through communicative play.  Language is not a game — it is an evolving, recursive metagame shaping and being shaped by human interaction. It structures and constrains meaning-making across multiple domains. Meaning emerges from constraint negotiation, not static representations. Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are interwoven layers of constraint-play, not separate modules. Thus, empirical research should focus on real-world constraint evolution rather than idealized linguistic competence. || CTX: Empirical and Theoretical Implications  As I mention above, this resolves Searle's critique of language games.  Searle argued that Wittgenstein's language-games require pre-existing linguistic structure, making language a precondition rathe
2026-07-13T04:19 id=2076521869541544242 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder I definitely see that with both movies, and that was an aspect of the Martian I liked, but what I disliked was the dialect. the character's dialogue was so slang-filled and casual that felt inappropriate to the character and situation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think the martian was better than hail mary, but the attraction that makes it different from many other stories of tenacity is that it is competence porn with science characteristics
2026-07-13T04:23 id=2076522808063181227 →ayeandever | @ayeandever no I haven't never heard of it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nature is eminently cyclic, but less structured/regular in its patterns. Agriculture vastly simplifies these cycles into coherent blocks, much as monoculture simplifies natural ecosystems into something more manageable, tra
2026-07-13T04:51 id=2076529870142845437 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 @EthanRom77 @JasonBotterill Las Vegas is a traumatizing place to grow up. Deeply. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @EthanRom77 @JasonBotterill ulysses https://t.co/MClyRSnoKt
2026-07-13T05:51 id=2076545067972714918 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @BNODesk Fortunately I'm not allowed in restaurants || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @BNODesk @47fucb4r8c69323 Yudkowsky has made the first move on 47
2026-07-13T06:06 id=2076548797816250394 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I want Tim Tams! Can send things from Thailand (not humans nor human remains) || CTX: Sir a second timtam has hit the tower https://t.co/mjwjCO3Slq https://t.co/yLFRsInuAb
2026-07-13T06:18 id=2076551875596607984 →- | Of course.   Are you bearish, anon?   I'm buying my neighbor's house from profits on the AI trade. Go ahead and flip through I put pics of them.  Are you like seriously bearish, like not as a joke? https://t.co/3JZrcsi5Hh
2026-07-13T06:22 id=2076552761496469663 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Everyone calm down, I’m not starting a cult (yet) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The compound!!!!!
2026-07-13T06:46 id=2076558770046730549 →- | Do you ever dream about your phone or are there phones in your dreams?
2026-07-13T06:54 id=2076560905748488674 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw https://t.co/tIqkTXSfjr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this pool HAS TO BE a clubhouse pool
2026-07-13T06:57 id=2076561580842795361 →citrini | @citrini Don't worry, Citrini, after that bullshit 2028 note, no one expects you to be anything but astrology for men.  Enjoy your skyhigh subscriber numbers, though, well done--the market gets the experts it deserves. || CTX: I know technical analysis is astrology for men, but SK Hynix either bottoms at 1850 or the gaps that need to be filled will wipe out an entire generation of leveraged up Koreans.
2026-07-13T07:59 id=2076577291438891086 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor As a fan of Japanese cinema, I must say I find the mosaic both eerie and uncanny. || CTX: After 13 months, 50mg of GHK-cu, and untold amounts of collagen, my hair has finally grown out to the point it could be described as a “fashion mullet” https://t.co/YkLOgiA4uA
2026-07-13T08:00 id=2076577477993091525 →TaylorLorenz | @TaylorLorenz They should turn the sun down in that casino so the guys don’t have to wear those glasses all the time. || CTX: Becoming increasingly impossible to tell him and Bottom G apart  https://t.co/VBZtXVQWPw
2026-07-13T08:39 id=2076587315884081217 →xeophon | @xeophon If you guys have need for a linguistics lab, please DM me—I love what you guys are doing and would love to see if there’s some way your team and mine can work together. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ❤️
2026-07-13T09:11 id=2076595426028113954 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Cosigned so hard, tbh Discovery kinda forced me to grow up and stop being such a nerd. || CTX: I'm kind of glad that the woke stuff happened because I would care about star trek way too much otherwise
2026-07-13T09:15 id=2076596327358603669 →willccbb | @willccbb apologies if this is a stupid question, but if I put a base model in can I train from that? || CTX: you can now train: - a 100B-parameter reasoning model - for 40-turn SWE agent tasks  - in your own coding harness - for 1000 RL steps - on just 6 H200 nodes - in under 2 days  infra co-design is magical https://t.co/mzRgjj6qPV
2026-07-13T09:23 id=2076598384513925289 →- | There are many reasons why I only invest in American assets. This is a top one.  https://t.co/m44UxmZG4j https://t.co/qFgNXPYxVo
2026-07-13T10:00 id=2076607784360284410 →- | Gen Z is weird. They love money and want to get rich, but unlike the yuppies they're fucking broke.   They're broppies.  Broppiez.   #47sgummykickedin
2026-07-13T10:40 id=2076617660985713141 →- | I mean... Lindsey IS a girl's name
2026-07-13T10:56 id=2076621742446146022 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs She was really good in Mallrats || CTX: prue https://t.co/57SX8QiKnZ
2026-07-13T11:01 id=2076623111936758013 →BooleanProphet | @BooleanProphet Thailand || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What country is this?
2026-07-13T12:08 id=2076639960783094028 →stevehou | @stevehou They grew so absurdly fast they couldn't allow capex to precede higher demand, which Uber et al could do by choosing which cities to roll out in.   Victim of their own success kinda thing, but also Anthropic management is incompetent so they didn't even try to manage things well. || CTX: Anthropic wants to eat everything. Will it? Even before Satya’s warning, I think switching to API metering and the fact that Claude tokens are so expensive became the greatest impediments to its own adoption growth. Unlike the rideshare war
2026-07-13T12:14 id=2076641467280633945 →- | IMO one of the problems with backtesting on Nasdaq is you'll get the dot com crash in the data, and that's an outlier event arguably the result of a permanent regime change from a pre internet and post internet age.   In fact lower tech stock volatility and its higher order effects is one of the most defensible economic effects of the internet. And those effects were amazing my god. || CTX: Performance: index drawdowns and % outperforming https://t.co/iqMdR3YGji
2026-07-13T12:25 id=2076644287840960970 →- | Ladies and gentlemen of Twitter dot com Wear sunscreen If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it A long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable Than my own financial experience, I will dispense this advice now Stop being bearish you fucking idiot You do not understand the economic benefits of this technology, Until they've arrived, but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back At tweets by 47 and recall in a way you can't grasp now How so bullish markets lay before you and how fabulous your future looks You are as fat as you imagine || CTX: NEW ODD LOTS:  How AI is creating more work for human lawyers.  @tracyalloway and I talk to Gary Wingens, the Chair and Senior Partner at Lowenstein Sandler, on the Jevons Paradox he's already seeing unfold in the world of corporate law htt
2026-07-13T12:26 id=2076644410096542150 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Yo finger gun hurt from all that tapping || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sign tap  https://t.co/PgO3Ta05H9
2026-07-13T12:27 id=2076644716536287460 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka YES GOOD GOD YES || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 on a serious note, people really need to start using the term "finite but unbounded"
2026-07-13T13:20 id=2076658044658970923 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden it's so beautiful https://t.co/aJf8xiGqzU
2026-07-13T21:00 id=2076773768991781095 →2021Ufo | @2021Ufo Because my neighbor is desperate to sell and just offered me a huge discount.   I'd rather not lower my equity exposure if I could choose my timing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If ur bullish why are you exiting the ai trade for real assets?
2026-07-13T21:24 id=2076779845988835523 →- | It's by Autor so hopefully he offset Acmoglu's silliness but, anyway, higher GDP per worker is obviously true and it's why negative TFR never bothered me--and it should not bother you.  Let the forests and jungles and prarires flourish again, let our footprint on Earth slowly shrink in a sustainable way without war, famine, or pestilence--just by people having less kids.   THIS IS GOOD!!!  https://t.co/FLAmECweNX
2026-07-13T21:29 id=2076781168465518996 →Arati1411 | @Arati1411 @DAcemogluMIT @danielsusskind @akorinek @Nouriel @carlbfrey @xianghui90 2023, mad respect. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DAcemogluMIT @danielsusskind @akorinek @Nouriel @carlbfrey @xianghui90 https://t.co/EQr3aZYsfV
2026-07-13T21:34 id=2076782386113827078 →- | I did my part fighting these assholes.   Are you doing your part, Anon? https://t.co/x7hgPyqTiC || CTX: For those of you using GPT 5.6 Sol today to get work done: remember, if it were up to people like Dario, GPT 2 could not have been released, and if it were up to the AI 2040 crowd, we'd now have a totalitarian world government run by EAs to
2026-07-13T21:55 id=2076787604679537021 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Lmao 10/10 idea would play || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm building Super Dario Bros. A platformer game in which Dario fights against open-source monsters to try and stop AI from destroying humanity, but in so doing he realizes he was the real enemy  all along. https://t.co/V2F
2026-07-13T22:24 id=2076794888658829559 →JackarooFawkes | @JackarooFawkes That is correct. Zero. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You just give no credence to lower TFR reducing long-run economic dynamism and therefore per capita GDP?  https://t.co/SE9atXCarx
2026-07-13T22:50 id=2076801363120693379 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 This is fascinating. I have had dreams about people on Twitter (not on this account, though, not yet), but we were in person.  I don't think there's ever been a cell phone in my dreams, not once.  Landlines, though, yes. || CTX: I had a streak in dreams of waking up while on X on my phone in the dream thinking I sent things, woke up looked at my phone and hadn’t.  I got my first iPhone in 2008 and can’t remember whether it was in my dreams or not but definitely has
2026-07-13T23:09 id=2076806196133310954 →TreeLakeRain | @TreeLakeRain @NotPerrysBoobs I am not Katy Perry's Boobs, neither the left nor the right. || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs wait   it’s you   isn’t it
2026-07-13T23:11 id=2076806753484992524 →TreeLakeRain | @TreeLakeRain @NotPerrysBoobs Technically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs But do you have boobs?
2026-07-13T23:11 id=2076806847852663202 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I want to read :( || CTX: elsewhere (on a now suspended account awaiting appeal) i have written about the four (or five depending on your taxonomy) types of dreams. https://t.co/LxarTzsRUe
2026-07-13T23:16 id=2076808059410849993 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs What are the other places? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/42ycksFSgO
2026-07-13T23:58 id=2076818491651575859 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt The bourgeoisie are definitionally gauche, you just can't get away from it, it's part of the job description.
2026-07-14T00:04 id=2076820185575755952 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj I remember when strawberry dude's tweets were like "I have started into the eyes of god and seen the infinite sublime of our machine-led Utopia."   Now he's like, "yeah they gotta raise prices to cover capex for future R&amp;D".   Fallen off tbh fam || CTX: https://t.co/UlPaWED2aC https://t.co/AaPsWM78qU
2026-07-14T00:08 id=2076821198927962195 →thrialectics | @thrialectics Kinda nonsense you think is profound and intelligent after an evening at the huffing glue club. || CTX: "It's addressed to a system, and systems don't have ears — but nodes do."
2026-07-14T00:15 id=2076822747326652745 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan @thrialectics no they don't because they're systems!   But the nodes do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thrialectics the huffing glue clubs have ears too, you know.  And feelings.
2026-07-14T00:28 id=2076826115910594729 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There was a time when academia's whole purpose was to try to find ways to unite these to present impactful research to the world. Hawking's Brief History of Time immediately comes to mind, but we used to have radio programs, documentaries, magazine articles written by academics that were all about popularizing and spreading awareness of data driven insights by way of compelling prose.   We lost that art, largely due to media effects, which digital media has exacerbated quite horrifically. || CTX: The crucial observation here is that rhetoric is powerful, it influences people, so if you want to fight back you can't just "show them the data".   Quantitative analysis and rhetorical skill need each other.  SF overweights the former and 
2026-07-14T00:32 id=2076827029350326783 →fabsbz | @fabsbz This is me, if I was still an academic I'd try to expand this and get it published. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this your own or are you pulling from some other source?
2026-07-14T00:37 id=2076828326266916961 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs You are NOT going to make me like him! || CTX: i heard dario had sex with his own mother  just what i heard anyway  the scuttlebutt https://t.co/TGRjGVVDgZ
2026-07-14T00:37 id=2076828479803531645 →- | This is true, I was there (also having sex with his mother). https://t.co/XvSevbGD4o || CTX: i heard dario had sex with his own mother  just what i heard anyway  the scuttlebutt https://t.co/TGRjGVVDgZ
2026-07-14T00:43 id=2076830015367639073 →LexerLux | @LexerLux Cameraman is a hero and that's one of the most intelligent responses I've ever seen to a shooter. || CTX: mass shooter meets cameraman even more mentally ill than he is. unstoppable force meets immovable object https://t.co/9GcnAtYMgk
2026-07-14T01:25 id=2076840362140946856 →tszzl | @tszzl wait, what did I do? || CTX: there is an overlap between gaining user trust and being friendly to Twitter anons with strange usage patterns but it’s not quite the same thing
2026-07-14T01:26 id=2076840638931452026 →- | it seems to me that I'm going to have to doxx myself on my next media appearance, whether it's a podcast or a guest post on a site or whatever
2026-07-14T01:29 id=2076841453989630399 →EthanRom77 | @EthanRom77 a fellow classics enjoyer https://t.co/Bsa3yYuarM || CTX: Can’t recommend The Iliad enough!  Best as Penguin audiobook at 1.25 speed.   https://t.co/gh7VEytlRe
2026-07-14T01:47 id=2076846027974566398 →- | It seems to me the beat poets are being forgot to history, which really saddens me.   Howl is one of the most visceral and intense works of art of the 20th century, and there were a lot of visceral works of art in that century.   And what pains me is that my favorite beat poet was someone I read a lot in my teens and early twenties, he was a rather obscure figure, and for the life of me I can't remember his name except that it was Italian.
2026-07-14T01:49 id=2076846396477759748 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "who were expelled from the academies for crazy &amp; publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,"  I'm in this picture and I don't like it. || CTX: It seems to me the beat poets are being forgot to history, which really saddens me.   Howl is one of the most visceral and intense works of art of the 20th century, and there were a lot of visceral works of art in that century.   And what p
2026-07-14T02:00 id=2076849335371964537 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I forgot how good it is. https://t.co/28hxvFVadF || CTX: "who were expelled from the academies for crazy &amp; publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull,"  I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
2026-07-14T02:01 id=2076849484483670389 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Like really really good https://t.co/guqDTXHZc8 || CTX: I forgot how good it is. https://t.co/28hxvFVadF
2026-07-14T02:07 id=2076850994357633369 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I remember hearing Howl criticized as derivative of The Waste Land, but I disagree.   Eliot ends in pessimism and dissolution with an implicit hope of RETRVN as salvation, which is why he turned into a High Anglican bitch.   Ginsberg ends with hope and the optimism of reunion at the frontier.   I understand Eliot's anti-Americanness as a fellow expat.   But I reject it as valid diagnosis of culture, his poetry isn't as impersonal as he wants to think and wants us to believe. It's a diagnosis of his own insecurity.   I understand Ginsberg's hopefulness on the American frontier, that's what has also powered the engine of my own life.   I am like a ball tethered to California hurled in all directions until the players stop and I am where I have been, at rest. || CTX: Like really really good https://t.co/guqDTXHZc8
2026-07-14T02:25 id=2076855452307276128 →ignoraceisfree | @ignoraceisfree idk I don't really have anything to plug until September || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 when?
2026-07-14T02:26 id=2076855718905540701 →marc__adler | @marc__adler Nope, was a longer name iirc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Corso?
2026-07-14T02:29 id=2076856698699235541 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @TreeLakeRain @JasonBotterill @kiwistrawb33 @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @Ken67547214 And America is the South Island of New Zealand but that's not why we have to stick together (we still should though just in case) || CTX: @TreeLakeRain @JasonBotterill @kiwistrawb33 @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @Ken67547214 canada is the new zealand of america. we have to stick together
2026-07-14T02:44 id=2076860469365932508 →pachabelcanon | @pachabelcanon Yes I believe so!!! At least these poems feel faintly familiar.   This one is absolutely incredible:  https://t.co/jfYc00e7bP || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ferlinghetti?  Also I used to be an obsessive Beat reader when I was 17-18
2026-07-14T02:45 id=2076860604644839632 →TreeLakeRain | @TreeLakeRain @boneGPT @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @kiwistrawb33 @cloudseedingtec @Ken67547214 Never fear the medium. || CTX: @boneGPT @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @kiwistrawb33 @47fucb4r8c69323 @cloudseedingtec @Ken67547214 I was afraid to tweet until I met you guys
2026-07-14T02:51 id=2076862199847702699 →alexolegimas | The Beats had a perfect level of toleration where they could accept anyone just as long as you tolerate everyone else, they'd even let the squares in for a poetry recital and a bit of H if you want.  I see them as heirs to the lost generation Americans of the 1920s who themselves were the heirs to the fin de siecle aesthete bohemians.   The real heirs to the Beats were the zine-publishing punk rock kids of the 80s and 90s.  Not sure who holds the keys to this kingdom today, but I suspect you'll find it among the digital nomads. || CTX: The beats were amazing. It was a culture but not a monoculture. You had Jack karouak, Alan Ginsburg and William Burroughs (my personal favorite) doing completely off the wall beautiful explosive art, abstract expressionism with pollack happ
2026-07-14T02:59 id=2076864131479826920 →- | Ironically, the only thing this does not and cannot apply to is creative writing.  LLMs can replace just about all representational labor and semiotic production except human connection.  Some people value human connection, and they always will, so, no, the clankers won't take all the jobs. They can't, that's not how any of this works. || CTX: this applies to so much more than movies right now https://t.co/pmp3cnUfD0
2026-07-14T03:00 id=2076864404306723151 →marc__adler | @marc__adler Yeah he wrote very few poems which drove me nuts as a teen, because I loved his prosody and imagery. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The only other Italian name I know associated with them was Ferlinghetti, but he was just a publisher I think.
2026-07-14T03:12 id=2076867520318046268 →Picolospolitics | Yes, there are many tasks that are not made easier by offloading to a robot, no matter how smart it is. No matter if it literally is reading your mind.  I made this point on the MTS pod I was on about how gwern's blogpost is misguided: you don't want a robot guiding your movements, because guiding you to optimality is just another way of describing "control". We don't want to be captured by the clanker. || CTX: I think that many of the activities that occupy our time are strictly human activities. Even a seeming chore like cooking, it’s just easier to have your desires flow through your hands and into the food rather than trying to communicate wha
2026-07-14T03:13 id=2076867673087193318 →mathluvr3000 | @mathluvr3000 &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i wont let them hurt you 47fucb
2026-07-14T03:14 id=2076867884429799478 →PaToFe4 | @PaToFe4 It was! https://t.co/qF4EpA4EjW || CTX: @pachabelcanon Yes I believe so!!! At least these poems feel faintly familiar.   This one is absolutely incredible:  https://t.co/jfYc00e7bP
2026-07-14T03:44 id=2076875387418865927 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj Idk why but Dwarkesh feels more appropriate to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you’re going to do a beff on lex friedman?
2026-07-14T03:46 id=2076875939913564358 →philomemetic | @philomemetic Cambrian Explosion of Flavors || CTX: I have an Idea for a fantasy restaurant… pre-Colombian exchange meals. https://t.co/Mxyt6fKrvt
2026-07-14T04:01 id=2076879818814369885 →rvc330 | @rvc330 Wait isn't that the overheard in a coffeeshop guy? He's a convicted fraudster?!   It's always the ones you least expect || CTX: stop tagging me in this https://t.co/jI2zm9hUUK
2026-07-14T04:03 id=2076880235598066073 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein it's an ugly phrase. I mean any technique of using a symbologic system to represent meaning in a product. So, coding, film, audio reproduction, etc. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you mean by “representational labor and semiotic production” in this context?
2026-07-14T04:04 id=2076880491953951105 →- | muh clanker said y'all been lazy https://t.co/CfJHxgYLNF
2026-07-14T04:56 id=2076893460616073440 →- | If you are ever tempted to think LLMs are conscious, please please please read this post.  The only problem is, if you are ever tempted to think they’re conscious, you’re probably too stupid to be able to read the whole thing (let alone understand it).  Fabs is one of the most brilliant people on this site. || CTX: This is good stuff.  With the linguistic turn there was a hope that defining man through linguistic structure would do away with metaphysics, but that same effort instilled a kind of essentialism through the search for a unique property to 
2026-07-14T04:57 id=2076893812748845105 →H8KUcom | @H8KUcom You’re asserting “better works” is some sort of objective and verifiable category that exists in the world. || CTX: Literature has long been since subverted so I actually do believe clankers will be used to produce better works than most current published authors. The main problem with the frontier models is they were struggle sessioned into being woke. 
2026-07-14T06:25 id=2076915854160400704 →- | Bernard Williams would've made mincemeat out of the Effective Altruism crowd.   Singer accused Williams's plain logic of necessary human centered human l perception (if human perception starts from the human, it definitionally IS human centered) as akin to racism in his dogshit Reply to Bernard Williams.   Singer is a hack fraud (having kids when you're all about selflessness to strangers and other species is absurd), the EAs are a joke, lick my balls
2026-07-14T06:26 id=2076916205273903200 →athena_notes | @athena_notes That's one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me, wow. Thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Still in the process of reading the stuff you wrote over there but it's giving me a similar feeling I'd get if I found an expensive watch for pennies in a flea market
2026-07-14T06:36 id=2076918795533418695 →teodorio | @teodorio That was a goddamn forward camera filter DON'T BELIEVE THEIR LIES || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 u're pretty
2026-07-14T06:55 id=2076923527375249735 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck dude that'd be so fucking funny lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 OnlyFans.
2026-07-14T07:12 id=2076927919621070977 →- | "notice that promotion of rapey behavioral norms drives off the competition by making the scene threatening for normal women who do not want to be aggressed upon, keeping the men single and paying for sexwork and coaching."  I once listened with horror as a prostitute in Bangkok told me while laughing how she tricked a friend to move from her hometown with her without her friend knowing the "job" was in a bar where sex was sold.  Really, really, really fucked me up psychologically to the point where I avoided the red light districts in Bangkok for a while (this was these areas have bars and restaurants and whatnot, so you don't just go there for sex. I used to go for the illegal shisha spots.).   There is so much darkness and exploitation and cruelty in the world, and very often it presents itself with a smiling face. Thailand is known as the land of smiles, and it's a place where a prostitute once bragged to me how she had essentially human trafficked a childhood friend of hers.  Do not forget that both men and women can and do exploit the innocent. Ghislaine Maxwell is a woman.  And are the women that go to these parties in San Francisco of sound mind? Are they perhaps given drugs when invited to these parties? These are questions that require answers. || CTX: the purpose of a system is what it does.  aella's slutcloud is a sex cartel which has parasitized the ai safety & EA communities to extract income from lonely nerd men hoping to find romantic relationships.  notice that promotion of rapey b
2026-07-14T07:46 id=2076936420372193329 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I mean, someone needs to alert the authorities, especially the guys who've been to those parties and who could be implicated as an accomplice. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can't find the blog post but someone wrote anon that Aella feeds drugs women at these parties to make them more ... willing   And bc she's so big in the scene they feel like they can't discuss publicly
2026-07-14T07:47 id=2076936690917384259 →profleonn | @profleonn I remember reading it like 20 or so years ago, and to show how bad my taste is in physics books, I liked Brian Greene's book much better || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fun fact, I read that book and have been using at a sort of guide to what to work on since (like 2-3 years ago now), have the quote that I follow religiously on my website as well lol
2026-07-14T07:48 id=2076936923688714318 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 I LOVE HIM || CTX: He wants to be an artist https://t.co/cU8lqRxLlx
2026-07-14T07:54 id=2076938289039450175 →- | Yeah baby I got HIV  Heavily  Into Vibecoding
2026-07-14T08:06 id=2076941301841334572 →profleonn | @profleonn if I do more media I should use it either to promote my lab so I can help the academics in it get money, or I should promote my silly business theory, so that I can actually have an audience for whenever I write the book on it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why
2026-07-14T08:07 id=2076941701420327395 →gnshnor | @gnshnor but it's a sex site that allows users 13 and up, who wouldn't want that? || CTX: Aella is overall low quality in the sense of *why does she even exist* and i don't understand why rats worship her without classifying it as mental retardation.  For example: I heard about her gl***o website a few months ago and my initial 
2026-07-14T08:27 id=2076946578674471245 →teodorio | @teodorio He was just heavily into vibing (even when he was cross) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 jesus christ
2026-07-14T08:29 id=2076947073145217035 →amirism_ | @amirism_ This sparks joy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im pleased to report that artsy kids still like the beats. i just borrowed a ginsberg collection from my friend the other day
2026-07-14T08:30 id=2076947520119546146 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @teodorio https://t.co/9KX977aSqv || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 🤦‍♂️
2026-07-14T08:34 id=2076948342819705295 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Every Boy OnLine Agrees || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ai psychosis? you mean AIDS?  (Artificial Intelligence Derangement Syndrome)
2026-07-14T08:53 id=2076953132492554306 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden That'd make too much sense || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 I think he yapped too much about yud trying to kill him but when no one actually tried to kill him hes gonna self doxx to see if anyone makes an attempt to so can post more about yud trying to kill him
2026-07-14T09:01 id=2076955256605602256 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit @gnshnor I tagged the FBI in a reply when this was known on Twitter. Yeah I'm a snitch when it comes to kids. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @gnshnor Wtfarquad? https://t.co/e29IllPAnt
2026-07-14T09:03 id=2076955679114293608 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden Sam, would you be upset if I started a Sam Fan Group Chat? I've been wanting to do this for a while, but will not if you don't give if your blessing. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 When im feeling lost i go through the archive https://t.co/H8XMarwdYM
2026-07-14T09:07 id=2076956863061696947 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill https://t.co/LSoRjDLdZY || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill probably going through a "fuck this shit" phase, understandable
2026-07-14T09:11 id=2076957748017926175 →amirism_ | @amirism_ Nope, never heard of him tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 btw are you thinking of alexander trocchi by any chance? of "cain's book" fame
2026-07-14T09:12 id=2076957918545805498 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill H-how m-many are there? || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 to be clear it is not my gc that is why i posted it as an example of a samantha themed gc
2026-07-14T09:16 id=2076958900453339271 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad dude no joke I haven't seen you in weeks || CTX: Twitter now that you can see mutuals again https://t.co/HXm70vQlRE
2026-07-14T09:20 id=2076959893492511064 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ So, I know a very close friend of his.   Absolutely loved easy eastern European women, alcohol, and partying, so about 10 years ago or so he bought a condo in... Kyiv. || CTX: living vicariously through bald and bankrupt youtube videos
2026-07-14T09:21 id=2076960352257097897 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden 1. It's not mine 2. It's not freaky even a little 3. Sam is already in it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden Add sam to your freaky ass gc that I have muted https://t.co/PnfmbNmOnW
2026-07-14T09:22 id=2076960597875597572 →luckenco | @luckenco Don't like my PrEP?   Perfectly  reasonable  Entertaining  Punchline || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 broooo
2026-07-14T09:28 id=2076962002648645697 →insane_analyst | That aside hits too close to home. I'm swing trading for the first time in like 15 years and it is so stressful, I totally forgot what it felt like buying early in a dip.   That's where having balls made out of steel help, because when you have the urge to sell just throw them at your head || CTX: What about 10 stocks all act the same at 2x leverage?  Jokes aside this is excellent advice. Unfortunately I am too stubborn to follow it. https://t.co/vye3j3aoOx https://t.co/VQ1VKmBZSn
2026-07-14T09:34 id=2076963480893100067 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden As per(vert) usual || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 The pervert was one step ahead https://t.co/u23BUlZ9UU
2026-07-14T09:34 id=2076963518071308334 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden adding one sec || CTX: @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 i should be there
2026-07-14T09:37 id=2076964183380504888 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Better than hiv a lady || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i am hiv aladeen
2026-07-14T09:44 id=2076965983781351880 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @nikitabier omg I'm seeing you on the timeline || CTX: wow this feels like old Twitter @nikitabier why did you guys stray from the path of justice fr
2026-07-14T09:44 id=2076966041582739765 →- | istg the timeline today feels like Christmas morning
2026-07-14T09:44 id=2076966116338061665 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs HI MUTUALLL || CTX: mutuals? more like muted   because everyone keeps just talking about how they can see their mutuals but no one is even saying anything except that
2026-07-14T09:46 id=2076966681558266151 →pli_cachete | @pli_cachete Just how I like it. || CTX: We are all always so close to not existing at all
2026-07-14T10:03 id=2076970960817889732 →beffjezos | @beffjezos @tszzl no offense but you both sound like fucking idiots || CTX: @tszzl false, if you don't have enough variance in parameter space, you are overfitting to local environmental hyperparameters and are less robust than a diverse ecosystem  there's a reason we have genetic variance, the fitness landscape ch
2026-07-14T10:22 id=2076975689094594882 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka they don't read books, they lack the attention span, the cognitive depth, or the taste || CTX: i fucking hate that many of you and nearly all of humanity completely import answers to metaphysics and existential questions, instead of learning yourself  mfers would spend days researching a gpu or a laptop and yet not open a single book
2026-07-14T10:26 id=2076976701285007520 →yudapearl | @yudapearl That the Biblical narrative is the foundation of Jewish peoplehood is a fact that has many downstream effects, such as Jewish culture's love of literature, storytelling, and exegesis.  That this is my heritage made me rediscover my Jewishness and pride after years of neglect. || CTX: The law passed by the Knesset says nothing about "serving";   this is something the orthodox parties will push for later on. But the current version is merely a repetition of the first paragraph in Israel's declaration of independence: The 
2026-07-14T10:45 id=2076981488432845150 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @mikansoleil Claude, how many n's are in "consent"? || CTX: @mikansoleil @47fucb4r8c69323 claude has extensive shibari knowledge hmmmmm  https://t.co/ejHRkFBr8Y
2026-07-14T10:54 id=2076983616744394779 →arvobeer | @arvobeer @bcg1976 not you || CTX: @bcg1976 whats this for
2026-07-14T10:57 id=2076984400118759758 →- | Yeah I was long on IBKR for stock trading based rev growth. Got like a 15% profit in a month or so? I should go back in actually don't front run me @Citadel https://t.co/Z3VxXaprXS
2026-07-14T11:00 id=2076985262576656416 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Citadel 21.4%, but it'd be up 7.1% more if I'd held longer, this short term trading sucks I didn't miss it tbh || CTX: Yeah I was long on IBKR for stock trading based rev growth. Got like a 15% profit in a month or so? I should go back in actually don't front run me @Citadel https://t.co/Z3VxXaprXS
2026-07-14T11:36 id=2076994354812740057 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Yes to both. || CTX: So context:  I’m writing a short essay about what type of labor LLMs  should (at least in theory) be capable of replacing humans vs not.  So focusing more on the conclusion you’re reaching (as opposed to the mechanism, ie symbolic systems):
2026-07-14T12:04 id=2077001204962574500 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Good news, and via technology: the internet has spread information in Thailand A LOT and this kind of thing is a lot rarer than it was a decade ago when this happened.   Plus OnlyFans gives girls an alternative, so the ones in prostitution now are much likelier to be willing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This story made me feel sick. I'll pray for her
2026-07-14T12:05 id=2077001559129612711 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka @dreamworks2050 It's indeed the primitive cognition! And maybe the weirdos' problem is they want to overcome the primitive, but by definition the primitive of a life form is its base condition, intrinsically part of it. || CTX: @dreamworks2050 ironically, "reality is what i see" is a caveman/primitive cognition  cc: @47fucb4r8c69323 my sentence might interest you
2026-07-14T12:07 id=2077001971698176178 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @ZyMazza The two genders https://t.co/ulZ4EIJjVn || CTX: @ZyMazza Good news, and via technology: the internet has spread information in Thailand A LOT and this kind of thing is a lot rarer than it was a decade ago when this happened.   Plus OnlyFans gives girls an alternative, so the ones in pros
2026-07-14T12:23 id=2077006065741480215 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 TIL Boy George is still alive || CTX: Rip bozo https://t.co/f391gqeOMk
2026-07-14T12:27 id=2077007126309077487 →midwitmagnet | @midwitmagnet @meowbooksj lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @meowbooksj 47fuc: Wittgenstein the goat said language is a tool for manipulation dwarkesh: interesting; but given recent progress, could it be that ai is language's tool for manipulation 47fuc: pulls out gun
2026-07-14T12:45 id=2077011624423219326 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman Bingo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The key is even if LLMs figure out how to emulate “all” of creative writing …  Humans will immediately develop the next layer of it. As they always have when last year’s brilliant tropes become cliches and trite
2026-07-14T13:22 id=2077021029466255562 →profleonn | @profleonn I made Greek food a couple days ago and it was so so good. https://t.co/wsfZyC0pZ9 || CTX: A Greek restaurant is the only restaurant where I will geek out and literally order everything. It's just so fucking good, I call it greeking out
2026-07-14T13:36 id=2077024546176090391 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Trust me I am aware. And deeply conflicted.   None of this was supposed to happen. || CTX: "All work tempts some amount of philosophical suicide. Trying to use the internet to make money thus invites a compounded lure of philosophical suicide...  Anonymously surfing to learn and sometimes to have fun: this is what the internet wa
2026-07-14T13:54 id=2077029021427040640 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen @mottopanikeiku This doesn't strike me as word salad at all; "hypostesized" and "metagame" are the only technical terms here, and neither more complicated than "phonemes". || CTX: @mottopanikeiku @47fucb4r8c69323 Indeed, one could say something similar about this paragraph of word salad. It is not intended to communicate with humans but rather to intimidate them via the author's presumed intelligence. Does this mean 
2026-07-14T13:58 id=2077030050705412262 →murd_arch | @murd_arch I feel this very deeply, but I kinda of refuse to let my observations harden into misanthropic cynicism. I think of the good people I know, like the woman who runs the animal shelter here, and I am hopeful.   Don't let the bastards win. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A co-worker, to me, after I said something insightful about a client:  "You know, for an avowed misanthrope you sure seem to understand people really well."  Me: "...."  Co-worker:  "Ohhh that's why you don't like people." 
2026-07-14T14:07 id=2077032317865152556 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch BOSS MAN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not forgotten in this apartment. https://t.co/fSjEZkk5AS
2026-07-14T14:09 id=2077032630311391545 →murd_arch | @murd_arch it's because their starting point was neurobiology, and I honestly think it's because of the word "neural", it's literally that stupid || CTX: That whole thread is gold.  I think where I land is that we now have ~alphago for the language metagame, and that itself is weird and interesting and has gigantic side effects.    One can explore all of that without making a call on conscio
2026-07-14T14:32 id=2077038523790839907 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit You gave your AI psychosis || CTX: I am the ai whisperer I made llama 3.2 commit a sin https://t.co/APBfPeQuHO https://t.co/RDirJgJg9F
2026-07-14T14:43 id=2077041272418980328 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen Yeah but what is the number of the people that are mindless? || CTX: https://t.co/BKaZoAotSH
2026-07-14T14:49 id=2077042759253573917 →powoli_ | @powoli_ @fabsbz oh goddammit I could've lived happily not knowing this exists || CTX: @fabsbz @47fucb4r8c69323 If you read the Kiwi Farms thread about her, it's obvious. She likes to take people's innocence
2026-07-14T22:53 id=2077164509685571877 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @profleonn my gf insisted || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @profleonn do I spy Le Creuset? you are BOURGEOIS LIKE ME AND TEO STOP PRETENDING
2026-07-14T22:57 id=2077165543648620672 →kyanyang_ | @kyanyang_ I never said LLMs can't be a tool for creative writers. They've already been used as such successfully.   You've ignored the point: human connection. You should think about why you ignored human connection. || CTX: Right now, LMs are dogshit at writing, but thats just due to the priorities of current frontier researchers. The marginal economic upside to marginal difficulty ratio is much lower for creative writing compared to other domains like swe fin
2026-07-14T23:20 id=2077171412075483554 →luckenco | @luckenco OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN https://t.co/C7q6HoKrb1 || CTX: don’t get too happy about the new algo.  it will probably be gone in a few hours  cherish what you have
2026-07-14T23:28 id=2077173349965504805 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen When I lived in NYC I bought a cabin in Ulster County, 90min drive and it was somewhat similar to living in Finland (but tbh more like Northern England, especially architecture).  It is very difficult to experience the kind of grounded life in the real world in America. Idk why. || CTX: Maybe I should live in New Hampshire..?
2026-07-14T23:40 id=2077176330136023228 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen When I lived in NYC I walked constantly, daily, and it was the only thing I could do to feel grounded. But I couldn't handle it and had to leave America after 4 years of being back.  I just can't handle Americans. || CTX: Despite having lived that kind of life in Finland, I've never quite attained it here, even for a weekend. Mainly I've managed to develop and maintain a relationship with my environment here through long walks, and it's often quite far from 
2026-07-15T00:17 id=2077185791676276911 →- | There are many different types of farang, but they can more or less fit into these three broad categories. (There are other names for this figure throughout Asia: gweilo, cano, gaijin, laowai, waygookin, etc etc.)  The linen farang is prima facie most respectable and newest. Business-oriented in a thoroughly unserious way, he still knows how to turn on the western charm when working with the locals if he needs to, but the linen farang's true clientele is in the west. If he's a dropshipper, an executive at a western firm, or a journalist/blogger, it's all the same: he's here to have fun, but he's actually not an idiot (idiocy will be a crucial concept shortly). He can look serious when he needs to, and fortunately the locals are so blinded by his pale skin that they'll accept the surface-depth of his sincerity and find this man respectable.  He is not respectable.  At night the linen farang transforms as his focus goes from money to sex, and with a drink or two in him, the linen farang seeks his prey, which is typically in the form of an English-speaking local lass who is charmed by his charms.  Typo, goddammit, sorry I just woke up. When I said "charms" I meant his money-making potential. Because, you see, each predator has its predator in the circle of life, for she too is a hunter, and a better one than he. The linen farang's options tend to be marriage or flee, and most flee.  However, the linen farang can also hook up with the linen farangess, and sometimes a farang/farangess pairing will come to Asia for the linen lifestyle. This tends to end in heartbreak, too. The linen farang's mating ritiual involves an overly dramatic cycle of fast loves and intense breakups that do not affect his work because, sadly, the linen farang is also a psychopath.  Drink of choice: Gin and Tonic, Old Fashioned, N*groni Natural habitat: Bangkok, Bali, Hong Kong  The tank-top farang is an idiot.  This is a loser who has left his hometown and country to find two very shocking things: thin sexually available women and affordable prices.  As a result, the tank-top farang (also known as the "two-week millionaire") will spend his time seeking both sexually available women and affordable prices, which usually means he ends up spending all of his time in the shittiest, most depressing, ugliest bar imaginable in the shittiest, most depressing, dirtiest part of the shittiest, most depressing, heinous cities in Asia. He will end up drinking the worst tasting beer you can imagine (Chang), insisting it is good, while also sleeping with the ugliest looking prostitute you can imagine (no not Aella), insisting she is hot.  To be fair, not all TTFs limit themselves to women for pay: some TTFs also hook up at full moon parties on Koh Pangan, typically with women who have had more sexual partners and more severe drug addictions than the prostitutes said TTFs are more commonly associated with.  The TTF's fuel is both alcohol and idiocy, and with this he is sufficiently fueled for his prey: the Asian prostitute. The TTF's diet consists more of fish and chips and hamburgers than pad krapao moo or pad thai. A TTF can spend a decade in Asia without eating a single grain of rice.  The endgame for the TTF tends to be falling in love with a prostitute who ends up siphoning up most or all of his money while also having a string of lovers as well as a boyfriend or husband back home who receives most of the cash the TTF gives on her.  The tank-top farang, if he does not leave his natural habitat and back to his chrysalis in the west, will become the worst thing imaginable: the barstool farang. We do not talk about the barstool farang.  Drink of choice: Chang, or whatever's cheapest, and anything for the little lady Natural habitat: Pattaya, Angeles City  The elephant pants farang (aka the fisherman pants farang) is prima facie spiritual.  Spending his days meditating, smoking weed, and more meditating, he seeks enlightenment and Buddhist wisdom. Unfamiliar with the concept of "books", the EPF will do just about anything to learn spirituality besides read, and so he spends a lot of his time high as a kite and being active. The EPF knows that one must live in the moment, so he does so, by constantly swimming, walking, surfing, and so on. As a result, he's in relatively good shape and is suspiciously healthy despite the constant drinking and drug use.  The EPF will meditate for hours every day, which sounds impressive until you realize meditating just means sitting still and not thinking anything. Then you see why this is so easy for the elephan pants farang.  Thanks to this and his pseudo-spirituality, the EPF is an eager target for western and eastern women alike, both of whom gravitate towards his free-spirited nature. He looks like he's got it all figured out, and he definitely talks like he's got it all figured out. So sex is always on the table for the EPF, which is great because his funds are constantly running out so he'll always need to borrow just, you know, like a thousand baht for a week, don't worry, babe, I totally will get you back next week, just waiting for a friend (the friend is a heroin runner).  Drink of choice: That shit is full of toxins, let's smoke weed instead (or whatever's free) Natural habitat: Pai, Koh Tao, Vang Vieng. || CTX: The Farang Matrix: A Theory of White Men in Asia. New research from me and @47fucb4r8c69323. https://t.co/jnWof7NYWc
2026-07-15T00:57 id=2077195864624484636 →iamnotabiv | @iamnotabiv @resistancemoney Oh this is a research programme demanding fleets of researchers across several universities. || CTX: @resistancemoney @47fucb4r8c69323 How fine-grained can you get? Maybe an Aussie v. Brit v. Yankee dimension too.
2026-07-15T00:58 id=2077196149589762185 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Goddammit NTAC sub 5m incoming just let him cook || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 pal doesnt count
2026-07-15T01:02 id=2077196960399032687 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs goddamn Android keyboard autocorrect : 47 :: Boar : NotSam || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *NTSC
2026-07-15T01:04 id=2077197471357563316 →- | My entire career has been qualitative analysis. In a world of quants and obsession over quantitative analysis, I've earned fuck you money doing qualitative analysis.   I am very very proud of this fact.  And if I can do it, that means you can too! https://t.co/CFUyQs4JOt || CTX: it's always "that's my quant" but never "that's my qual"
2026-07-15T01:04 id=2077197684646318431 →airkatakana | @airkatakana 47 mentioned (twice) || CTX: feels good to be able to chat with my 34747 closest friends again, how is everyone doing
2026-07-15T01:09 id=2077198802029883804 →100xlifeguard | @100xlifeguard Thank you! || CTX: Excellently written and very much worth a read https://t.co/O8apNlGoCy
2026-07-15T01:15 id=2077200316760813583 →- | You can tell American culture is healing because in 2020 this is what CNN and Fox anchors sounded like, but now it's just content creatoor grifter pro wrestling level bullshit for attention.   https://t.co/oIeg7kPcCj
2026-07-15T01:37 id=2077205792042995718 →- | This reminds me of the time Terry Eagleton was paid $10k by my university to give two lectures, and they were basically him rambling about his newfound Christianity in the most incoherent way.  I've always said Askell is the fig leaf behind a rapacious and patronizing company, and I called Helen Toner a useful idiot in 2023. They're unserious people cashing out by being unserious.  The future is not serious, it is silly. And when you accept this, a lot of shit, from Elon Musk to Trump to NFTs to Hawk Tuah to Anthropic suddenly make so much sense.  https://t.co/6n9r3QWsL3
2026-07-15T01:45 id=2077207908597870928 →Singapore_HODL | @Singapore_HODL Glad someone noticed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 proper shitpost https://t.co/coxQuc7rXq
2026-07-15T02:04 id=2077212804004958635 →- | FT's Unhedged Podcast discovering Silly Business Theory #SBT from first principles.  https://t.co/nRD9ADPsd7
2026-07-15T02:18 id=2077216245661962489 →athena_notes | @athena_notes We would need to define silliness and establish theoretical vectors of influence, we need to reestablish the research program first and then start doing the empirical work. it's a huge project, it's a massive theory. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Feel as though it's possible to have tools that would help calculate how muchsilliness premium adds to the potential worth of asset. Out of distributionness, proximity to the interests of a large figure in the memetic lands
2026-07-15T02:20 id=2077216700601413875 →- | There areant reasons why I only invest in American assets. This is another one. https://t.co/yt3M8qkgNF https://t.co/IcladhpfrT || CTX: There are many reasons why I only invest in American assets. This is a top one.  https://t.co/m44UxmZG4j https://t.co/qFgNXPYxVo
2026-07-15T02:49 id=2077223891450331551 →illustriousdev | @illustriousdev No, and note how your mind being captured by the slang of your culture ("vibes") is making it so that you cannot understand a subtle nuanced point (qualitative irreducibility is an object of possible analysis).  You're trapped in other people's words. ngmi || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 vibes-based due diligence
2026-07-15T02:49 id=2077224111097745471 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @NotPerrysBoobs @gabriel1 No one hates other Asians more than an Asian. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @NotPerrysBoobs @gabriel1 @47fucb4r8c69323 I used to smoke with a 50 year old vietnamese women at my first job who used to give me extremely racist advice like to avoid filipino women.
2026-07-15T02:58 id=2077226258262589790 →- | The only Filipina that I've had sex with (that I can remember tbh--there may have been more) was a girl I met on Anonidate just after my wife and I bought our co-op in Harlem. I should explain this first.  "Anonidate" existed in the mid-2010s and was specifically a site for 4channers to meet and hook up. Yes that is an insane concept, which is why the site doesn't exist anymore.  Anyway, my wife (Borat) at the time and I were looking for a girl for a threesome, which is a monstrously difficult thing to do (they are called "unicorns" for a reason, and I have a different really funny story about that remind me I'll tell it in another thread). We looked everywhere, high and low, between the couch cushions--anyway, finally, a Filipina whose name I can't remember (so let's call her Bella) matched with me on Anonidate, and we chatted for a bit, and she wanted to meet up and have a threesome.  The only problem is she wasn't available until a day after my wife (Borat) had to go back to South Korea. I was going to go back a couple of weeks after her, and then we'd both come back to NYC and settle in.  "You meet her and have sex with her," my wife told me. And so I did.  Now here's the funny part.  Bella and my ex-wife (ex-Borat) were the same height and weight. However, due to the proportion of weight the two of them had very different bodies, my girlfriend more hourglass and her more pear.  That wasn't funny at all.  Anyway, we had sex, it was fine, I walked her back to the subway station.  Then in two months when my wife came back, we contacted Bella and she politely said she's busy with work/school so couldn't meet but would reach out when she had more free time.  Of course, I never heard from her again.  She was from New Jersey and proudly called herself a Jersey girl! And very beautiful, which was really the oddest part.  I had several friends from 4chan (I've discussed them elsewhere on this site), but they were all good looking people. Adviceguy was good looking, the Danish girl I chatted with was drop dead gorgeous, her boyfriend (also met on 4chan) was really handsome, the Puerto Rican girl was pretty good too (well her face was, but let's not be mean she was a lovely girl).  It was not a website for basement dwelling losers. Not at all.  Much of modern internet culture is downstream of what we were doing.  And Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, is also downstream of 4chan culture.  YOU'RE WELCOME || CTX: @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs @gabriel1 @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't avoid any women, but I especially don't avoid filipinas
2026-07-15T02:59 id=2077226561946976687 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @NotPerrysBoobs @gabriel1 Oh yeah I hate the Japanese when I hang out with Koreans and hate the Koreans when I'm with the Japanese. I'm the Zelig of Asian-on-Asian hate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @NotPerrysBoobs @gabriel1 She was really compelling tho like for a good moment I was racist with her you know what I mean? Like she was pulling out historical records of the Chinese and Filipinos from memory
2026-07-15T03:07 id=2077228559618412679 →airkatakana | @airkatakana This would honestly make an awesome spy thriller, you could do tons of reveals and fake-outs and whatnot. || CTX: next time i go to an academic conference im listing my affiliation as anthropic or openai so i get honeypotted
2026-07-15T04:15 id=2077245703571841040 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 I faintly remember that, yes—I also remember /soc/ being lambasted elsewhere as the place where the cool kids hung out.  tbf it did kinda signal the decline of the site was coming.
2026-07-15T04:16 id=2077245873776693708 →xanderatch | @xanderatch You’d think, but no.  Philology. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 applied social studies?
2026-07-15T04:17 id=2077246054026895541 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital It’s more likely than you think. https://t.co/b32AP82KTm || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 b meets ups? what
2026-07-15T04:18 id=2077246408751735272 →vtlynch1 | @vtlynch1 Why would you even ask that question? You’re basically saying “are you lying?"  Yes, yes it is 100% real.  Sorry you don’t think wordcels can make money. We can.  Off my lawn. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is this real?
2026-07-15T04:20 id=2077246933173784754 →Geero_Gero | This is a common misconception.  You can be really really good at stocks but if you lack capital, you’re still not going to get rich. You need the capital to grow, so working for other people is inevitable.  Yes, at some point you have enough money where you don’t need OPM. In my case, I like to yap, and writing is how I think, so it’s hard to imagine a situation where I’d stop working for others (although I do not take shit from others anymore, hence I quit my last gig a couple months ago and was immediately hired elsewhere).  I could just live on my own trading, sure—but I can ALSO make money selling my services to others, and I enjoy both writing and talking about markets, so I will keep doing it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I thing this divide can partially be explained by good qualitative analysts usually killing it directly in the stock markets themselves and not needing to work for others  Whereas only super genius math guys are actually go
2026-07-15T04:26 id=2077248361674186964 →OnlyFranklns | The issue is that asserting “LLMs are conscious” or “LLMs aren’t conscious” is asserting a particular belief on what the LLM is doing, and the latter is credible given an appropriate definition of “conscious”.  You can do the same with thermometers or rocks and indeed go on really quite fanciful tangents with your new artificial categories.  But the point, and my view, is that the way people use the word “conscious” to refer to humans is not the same as any definition of “conscious” that fits LLMs within any theory of AI consciousness.  It’s an argument of equivocation or question begging, and the motivated reasoning behind AI “researchers” claiming to have a credible argument for AI consciousness is why I don’t take them seriously and will not debate the point anymore. They are arguing for their faith so, fine, let them.  My view, if one wants to be rigorous about it, is: “LLMs are not conscious if by ‘conscious’ we are using the term as the vast majority of people in common parlance in English use the term. They can be considered conscious if you change the meaning of the term ‘conscious’ from its everday usage."  Now, if you want to argue people are misusing their words and you’ve found some fundamental substrate by which both are conscious, then show us the data. But there is none, because it’s fucking bullshit. || CTX: When I hear someone use a word like consciousness and not give a definition, it’s clear they haven’t dived deep into the Phil of consciousness, mind, or phenomenalism topic.  There are definitions where you’d agree LLMS are conscious. And o
2026-07-15T04:26 id=2077248514648854621 →radiothomas_ | @radiothomas_ @OnlyFranklns In other words, “is an LLM conscious” is not a scientific question. It is a question of faith.  Which is why I have retired from arguing the point. It’s like arguing if God exists. || CTX: @OnlyFranklns @47fucb4r8c69323 Precisely. Is a tick conscious ?  An ant ? A Medusa ? Bees ? I don’t believe there is a coherent unifying theory that will make a clear case for LLMs and the living world, unless using very crude axioms. Right
2026-07-15T04:28 id=2077248876130807985 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 Cancel culture and the real ID-driven internet allowed for that 10 year delay.  But when cancel culture went into overdrive post-COVID, people got sick of it and stepped back, so I suspect 4chan culture will resurge.  We’re on the cusp of a new golden era of shitposting.
2026-07-15T06:00 id=2077272080987672801 →- | idk why @sama hates Dario, tbh looks like the biggest revenue driver for OpenAI is Anthropic being a shitty company. https://t.co/w5H2fghyh9 || CTX: Ok my previous chart wasn't quite right, this is the right trajectory https://t.co/51ILgXxHv4 https://t.co/ocdvlYB5Ko
2026-07-15T06:00 id=2077272084359827540 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @sama Never in my life did I expect to see a company patronize its customers, call its own product dangerous, and entice the government to make their industry illegal.   Anthropic is a weird weird place. || CTX: idk why @sama hates Dario, tbh looks like the biggest revenue driver for OpenAI is Anthropic being a shitty company. https://t.co/w5H2fghyh9
2026-07-15T06:09 id=2077274439117586868 →Shadow_Rebbe | regulatory capture as market strategy is an old and well played tactic, Facebook did it best in the 2010s, and I think that's maybe what Dario was going for. but he's too stupid and ineloquent and incompetent to do it effectively.   and he doesn't know the limits of his intelligence, because he's lived in that engineer bubble where being good at coding and math means you are a god, absolutely retarded culture. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sama If you think you have an in with the gov, then you want your product to be regulated,cus you'll have an edge. (I think)
2026-07-15T06:10 id=2077274516066283810 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 Good reason to have fun. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 It's no secret that the both of us Are running out of time https://t.co/WwBbt9NAqJ
2026-07-15T06:29 id=2077279287867322791 →- | Synecdoche, New York is my favorite movie by a wide, wide margin and I think about it at least once a month--I have since I first saw in 16 years ago.  The funeral scene is performed by Christopher Evan Welch (https://t.co/GiLnY0uqRz), and it is about the limited time we have on this Earth. The tragedy of the scene is compounded by the fact that Welch himself died at 48 (47+1 mentioned), far too young and just when his big breakout hit, Silicon Valley, was getting popular.  "Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to, but it doesn't really."  Kaufman returns to the theme of hopeless yearning throughout his work, and here he's really letting his heart on his sleeve (SNY is when Kaufman reached his peak and when he should have retired or, preferably, began writing happy movies). And, yes, he is correct--our time is limited on this Earth, and it is indeed possible that one can spend much or most of that life waiting in vain, wasting years, waiting for something "to make it all right".  It's also true that nothing can make it all right, but what Kaufman does not admit--he knows this, he just won't let hope pollute his art--is that nothing can make your life all right because it is already all right.   Whether you acknowledge this or not is an entirely different matter.  "And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved."  Or you can just choose to feel connected, choose to feel whole, choose to feel loved.   The cynic says this choice is self-deception, and, sure, it CAN be. But also the meta-cynic notes that choosing not to feel connected, whole, or loved is cynical self-deception, and we can talk about self-deception all the way down until we get to a morass of incoherent relativism.  Within every rebel's no there is a yes, as Camus puts it. But I like the more analytical approach which I call Wittgenstein's ataraxia:  1. The world is a collection of facts, not things. 2. Facts have no objective value without an a priori system of valuation external to the world. 3. Therefore, your life is a collection of facts, and you can choose what system of values to ascribe to your life. 4. Bliss is a choice.  Choose bliss or not, not my fucking problem. But don't come at me claiming you lack the choice, you entitled ungrateful prick.  "And the truth is, I feel so angry, and the truth is, I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is, I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why."  Or you can choose bliss. You can choose to embrace the limitations of yourself and your world as facts that make the world--without limits there can be no you and no world.  "Maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen."  And this is the man in the gutter looking up in the stars--Kaufman is too cynical for his own good, but he is an artist and a damn good one, so he can always see joy just in the corner of his eye, a blurry figure that disappears whenever he tries to put it into focus.  But it's still there.  So, yes, I say to all of you: it's no secret that the both of us are running out of time. I am running out of time, you are running out of time, both Katy Perry's left AND right boobs are running out of time.  Isn't that wonderful?  "It's death that gives life its meaning and shape." - Terry Eagleton (I think, maybe it's Jarman or Butler I've emailed the dude to find out, let's see if he replies--goddamn this parentheses absolutely DEMOLISHES the pathos I was creating with bathos, but I had no choice because i have a cold and my nose is stuffed) || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 It's no secret that the both of us Are running out of time https://t.co/WwBbt9NAqJ
2026-07-15T06:30 id=2077279541480083505 →tiredXart | @tiredXart Don't be so sure || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can't.
2026-07-15T06:30 id=2077279694177914972 →griefcliff | @griefcliff @sama I have heard MANY MANY stories of this. It's like a grifter magnet.  That 2026 IPO so so so ain't gonna happen fam, oh I should check to see if I can bet on polymarket now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @sama The worst company I worked at, a company that didn't even make anything that great but social media fabrications, a company who hired me to talk to it's customers and explain why basic engineering didn't work... cross
2026-07-15T06:38 id=2077281670185845195 →__roycohen | @__roycohen in your audit of the world, you can choose to conclude it is summarily good or bad, I'm not going to tell you what to decide. but I've chosen not to think it's bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah I read it all. And I watched the movie too a long time ago.   I used to very cynical, and you know what, I was right in the end.   The world IS a fucked up place, but what is that world in the first place?  Rather shru
2026-07-15T06:39 id=2077281835319689312 →ecent18lalala | @ecent18lalala @resistancemoney you absolutely can switch categories, but the tank top farang usually can't because they're retarded || CTX: @resistancemoney @47fucb4r8c69323 Can the Farang cross between categories or must a Farang fully encompass only one?
2026-07-15T06:41 id=2077282333070434388 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney @ecent18lalala I went to Bangkok immediately after my divorce to become a tank top farang, but I just couldn't do it man it was all so disgusting and the undercurrent of evil just got bigger and bigger as I learned Thai and started speaking to the locals in their language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ecent18lalala sometimes linen farangs turn into tank top farangs, as when recently divorced. avoid.
2026-07-15T06:44 id=2077283221180711367 →__roycohen | @__roycohen idk what you mean by fucked up then.   Nature's redness in tooth and claw causes me a lot of distress too, but I take solace in Bernard Williams's point that my view is a human view. I cannot conclude anything true about the world. || CTX: Never stated that it was bad, just that it's a fucked up place.  For instance, the other day I saw a crow just grab a baby pigeon out of its nest and fly away with it.  Fucked up, but was it wrong?
2026-07-15T06:46 id=2077283645233287411 →- | Ladies and gentlemen this is not a drill this is happening RIGHT NOW https://t.co/FIfvnyY0du
2026-07-15T07:11 id=2077289965185302908 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch you will not regret it, it absolutely is a masterpiece, I would say it is to postmodern cinema what the ten commandments was to modern cinema. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Has been on my watchlist forever love Hoffman guess I was saving/preparing. I know nothing about it gonna do it this week.
2026-07-15T07:28 id=2077294092124668009 →- | I don't know if this still exists in America, but like 20 years ago businesses would hire guys with signs to stand on corners and wave and twirl the signs around to get attention.   If you think about it, the modern-day social media manager is just the digital equivalent of that guy.   Except of course it requires a lot more intelligence and technical skill to do that job in the digital age.   And so from this you see how technology upscales labor and thus increases the value of the labor that is in demand in the market.   The people who get left behind are the idiots, this is why I love technology.
2026-07-15T07:47 id=2077299014937231653 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent they probably could if it's a threesome involving Lance Armstrong || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i actually think twirling the signs took more skill. just that it was a physical skill. like if you see those sign twirlers doing those tricks it is insane. but i bet social media managers today can not even juggle three ba
2026-07-15T07:54 id=2077300654155186441 →- | 5.6 is worse than 5.5.  Except, of course, for coding.
2026-07-15T07:57 id=2077301615560884688 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I once met a girl who dated that actor in college, she had nothing but nice things to say about the guy, so unfortunately I have no dirt to spill or share || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/CEPs12zJO0
2026-07-15T08:01 id=2077302596981969056 →47fucb4r8c69323 | some absolutely extraordinary things are going on here https://t.co/NPlk1FJlv5 || CTX: Ladies and gentlemen this is not a drill this is happening RIGHT NOW https://t.co/FIfvnyY0du
2026-07-15T08:26 id=2077308723845103627 →47fucb4r8c69323 | IDK man, at first it seemed really cute, but now it's lookin lowkey kinda gay https://t.co/rwKUELMoMW || CTX: some absolutely extraordinary things are going on here https://t.co/NPlk1FJlv5
2026-07-15T08:26 id=2077308869186101646 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill and it's a desert planet because the AIs used up all the water || CTX: Isn’t Star Wars about a farm boy who blows up Dario’s data center after Anthropic kills his aunt and uncle for hiding Fable 5’s weights in their figure bot? https://t.co/mnK1K3NlUx
2026-07-15T08:28 id=2077309408590065744 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill GAIb || CTX: Looking for someone who wants to share an AirBNB for DevDay in SF. I tried asking Lisan but he kept trying to trick me into single bed studio but I am not interested in gay sex. https://t.co/zmOrw26lRx
2026-07-15T08:42 id=2077312953326674201 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 That's a pretty rare pepe || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/YtBHW40PGv
2026-07-15T08:45 id=2077313487039275192 →- | I wonder who that co-author is.  https://t.co/ScH7MSGnyV https://t.co/mg6SH9iV0z
2026-07-15T08:48 id=2077314255368638957 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is the kind of shit @jessesingal and @kittypurrzog should investigate, especially since they had Aella on as a guest.   Were they platforming a co-conspiritor funneling women to be raped by Silicon Valley bros? Enquiring minds want to know!  They probably won't, because Jesse doesn't like admitting he was wrong. Maybe @TaylorLorenz could dig into this? || CTX: I wonder who that co-author is.  https://t.co/ScH7MSGnyV https://t.co/mg6SH9iV0z
2026-07-15T08:54 id=2077315877851300090 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @mikansoleil @jessesingal @kittypurrzog "we protect them from getting raped by other men by raping them. That way they're so traumatized they'll never leave the house." || CTX: @mikansoleil @47fucb4r8c69323 @jessesingal @kittypurrzog “we practice safety by putting ourselves in dangerous situations” ayyyy lmao
2026-07-15T08:56 id=2077316463862620611 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 industrial value over scientific value because San Francisco culture is materialist anti-intellectual and full of grifter assholes who just want to make money. from their perspective Wang is a god, Lecun is a loser. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 why is dr le cun priced at $1 but wang is $3?  what is the logic here? https://t.co/IVHX7Ry984
2026-07-15T08:57 id=2077316657035559013 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @mikansoleil @jessesingal @kittypurrzog the human feedback is "STOP PLEASE GOD STOP"  (if you think my dark humor is offensive, may I remind you I AM NOT DOING THE RAPING) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikansoleil @jessesingal @kittypurrzog wait is it a kind of rl?  “we rape them to teach what rape is”
2026-07-15T08:57 id=2077316733560598710 →TomWright165389 | @TomWright165389 @nazo_btw @mikansoleil @jessesingal @kittypurrzog more rational than reasonable to be honest || CTX: @nazo_btw @mikansoleil @47fucb4r8c69323 @jessesingal @kittypurrzog You almost made it sound reasonable
2026-07-15T09:04 id=2077318278276616437 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @Ken67547214 Sorry it's long but this is my view on the matter. https://t.co/cc5eIfGmF7 || CTX: There is a strange paradox here: Wang is not as good as LeCun and understands AI less than LeCun, and yet he's much better for META than LeCun.  I hate saying this because I love LeCun and have a personal beef against Wang.  Still, I am obj
2026-07-15T09:04 id=2077318422472577320 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @mikansoleil @jessesingal @kittypurrzog I bet the safe word is a mathematical formula, in fact I would bet a shitload of money on that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikansoleil @jessesingal @kittypurrzog i bet they have a wacky ass safe word so cries for help like STOP PLEASE GOD actually encourages the counterparty
2026-07-15T09:09 id=2077319553999368390 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @nazo_btw @jessesingal @kittypurrzog I hate that your last sentence literally made me laugh out loud || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nazo_btw @jessesingal @kittypurrzog Isn't it just 'red' like in the title of the party?   But making it a complex math formula would be on brand, oh they didn't say pi to the 20th digit I thought they wanted me to keep rap
2026-07-15T09:19 id=2077322160612557007 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @mimi10v3 it is absolutely possible that that is the m  o., and that's why this is something that needs to be investigated || CTX: @mimi10v3 This seems to essentially be saying “Aella is telling men that are otherwise normal/well adjusted to get rape allegations from uninvolved women, to get access to slutcloud”  I felt really bad faith typing that out, pls correct me 
2026-07-15T09:56 id=2077331414610063643 →btctbtctb | @btctbtctb Agreed, the English teacher slaving away at a hagwon is best understood as baby's first tanktop farang, not really fitting the schema. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you think post describes "waygookin" then you don't know a lot about Asia besides maybe SEA.
2026-07-15T12:02 id=2077363185804603742 →- | I have made a mistake. It was a lapse of judgment.  (This is going to be a melodramatic post of no interest, don't bother reading.)  And my excuse is simple: the flesh is weak.  I got a DM from one of Peter Thiel's hangers-on. I'm not going to name the dude; it doesn't matter.  He asked me to be a columnist for his magazine. I get offers like this often, and usually they're pretenders, so I asked if it pays and what the distribution is. Numbers looked legit, so I had a look at the site, read a couple pieces, thought, yeah, this is a pretty good pub with some nice work in it. So I agreed.  I offered to give one piece for them to look at, on my Silly Business Theory #SBT. I saw this as an opportunity to promote my SBT to a wider audience who read serious thoughtful work (like I said, his magazine legitimately IS good), and if it caught on, great, I knew the market wanted to hear more about this idea of mine and so I'd develop it.  He answered with enthusiasm, and then ghosted me when I asked him where I should send the piece.  I wrote it anyway, asked again where to send it.  Silence.  I finally just emailed it to him and the editors of the magazine, and told him I'd wait a week and if I heard nothing I'd assume he wasn't interested.  More silence.  Then very shortly after I was on @MTSlive, the dude DMed me immediately. I cannot know for certain that seeing me on a prominent podcast made him unghost me, but it sure feels that way.  He apologized, said he'd get back to me.  More waiting, more silence.  And that waiting gave me some time to do some thinking. I do not need this money. I do not need this publicity.  Why am I doing this?  And I realized I'm doing it to get the nod from a publisher--to get approval from an authority. But who the fuck is this dude?  And that's when I remembered his Peter Thiel connection, and realized what web I'd been ensared in.  I'd begun to commit a philosophical suicide. See pinned tweet.  This is an error, and a bad one--especially as it is the one I identified and have desperately fought against.  But the temptation for more eyeballs, more reach, more attention, and thus more uptake of my ideas in the world was too much.  In my pathetic attempt to allow my ideas to outlive me, I'd begun to commit philosophical suicide.  I know this seems absurd and insignificant from the outside, but it means a lot to me.   I am full of shame.   I have gone against my own principles, and what's worse is I allowed myself to be manipulated by the very people I am fighting.  The simulacrum, oh how compelling it is, oh how tempting it is.  The flesh is weak.  So instead, let me put what I wrote on a free Substack. It will always remain free. It will always be anonymous.  And if it gets attention, great. If it goes viral, excellent--then I will write more.  If it goes unnoticed, then I'll be a little sad, and then I'll go for a walk with Lola on my island and listen to the waves against the rocks and maybe have a drink as I watch the sunset.  I wanted to be a famous writer. But if I end up being a cool island guy instead, maybe what I wanted wasn't worth wanting.  Anyway, here's the piece: https://t.co/tfy9IzKuSR  Oh, and one more thing, Anon. This is important.  I love you.  I truly, truly, truly love this place, this internet. This ability to talk to other Anons, sharing jokes and ideas and thoughts and feelings. You have made me laugh, you've made me cry, you've made me think. You've changed my life.  No matter what you think of me, Anon, I love you. And I always will.
2026-07-15T12:10 id=2077365183979430240 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ thanks anon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hey anon I'll read it
2026-07-15T12:11 id=2077365346315698179 →bladgolem | @bladgolem thank you, it's consoling to hear it's not just me. So much temptation in this life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 100% have done the same while working in fashion, but in worse ways, as is the way of the industry. This lesson is not only hard to learn but hard to remember sometimes. Love you and all the anons here too! Strange beautifu
2026-07-15T12:15 id=2077366542308970996 →celestineia | @celestineia Thank you, Anon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i love you too anon, ill read it
2026-07-15T12:37 id=2077371963224535267 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake stop having good opinions and I will! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 stop stealing my opinions
2026-07-15T12:37 id=2077372015972110522 →TheGodApe | @TheGodApe &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You only feel shame when you know better, so good job for knowing better.
2026-07-15T12:38 id=2077372213494505844 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka I don't know why I want it, and I know it's foolish.  Yet I can't stop wanting it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "in my pathetic attempt to allow my ideas to outlive me"  why bother with that, this is like moving to college but wanting high school remembers you but worse, because you won't be back to high school in no shape or form
2026-07-15T12:46 id=2077374266505666946 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka No, that's not it at all, identity doesn't matter to me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 feels like you need to work on your stance on death, probably stemming from there  what i mean is, to bother with continuance of temporal identity, you need to look death as end of show, which it isn't  hello metaphysical c
2026-07-15T12:51 id=2077375575690498102 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Yeah English sucks.   There are mistakes in the world causing needless suffering. I want to fix them.  When I see the human race sometimes I feel like I'm seeing a child drowning, and I want to jump in the water. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well then, why bother with "your" ideas outliving "you"  i wouldn't go to identity if you framed it as "i think this idea is useful to masses and as such i want it to circulate before i move on from this life"
2026-07-15T13:02 id=2077378217955229709 →marc__adler | @marc__adler I never said that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The American economy never slows?
2026-07-15T13:13 id=2077381083709202850 →thrialectics | @thrialectics Thank you Marianne, honestly means a lot to me. || CTX: You should definitely read the fatanonymoustrash piece linked here. Prediction: another anonymous writer will eventually crosslink it in his or her own piece on the subject, in which he or she will posit a military strategy obsession underp
2026-07-15T13:20 id=2077382716182733211 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit love you too, Anon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 love ya bro
2026-07-15T13:22 id=2077383352789737958 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit did you put more effort in one or the other? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've done this for little Caesars and liberty tax services(as lady liberty and uncle Sam)
2026-07-15T13:30 id=2077385438269178234 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen Goddamn I need to go back. || CTX: Mom sent pictures from our cabin in Central Finland https://t.co/iIMZHJcsQF
2026-07-15T13:35 id=2077386468943593910 →yokaihainen | @yokaihainen I would love that so much. Also would love to buy you a beer next time I'm in NYC (whenever that happens). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If we ever happen to be in the country at the same time you're welcome to try our 120+ year old sauna
2026-07-15T13:59 id=2077392511383846969 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @___merge_io___ @flowersslop caramel seems a bit racy.   Should give milk flavored. Used to white liquid atp apparently.   ... is AI cum white? || CTX: @___merge_io___ @flowersslop I offer $5 and caramel timtams
2026-07-15T14:20 id=2077397987211567437 →nomadcharlie | @nomadcharlie lmao I didn't know anyone had commented, that's so awesome || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Given the content of the piece, the comment section makes for a killer punch line. https://t.co/t409NZJyNZ
2026-07-15T14:27 id=2077399567423951337 →APark13530380 | @APark13530380 Depends, but mostly still 5.6, although GLM 5.2 is very good for some things. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What model do you like most for non-coding use cases?
2026-07-15T14:49 id=2077405074817691799 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Maybe my clanker is having a bad day || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not my experience at all for doing library work
2026-07-15T14:49 id=2077405285090836611 →letclaudiatweet | @letclaudiatweet thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is excellent
2026-07-15T15:00 id=2077408010364989912 →xriskology | @xriskology Fucking hell this needs serious investigating, something really fucked up is going on in SF. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don't quote me on that -- but I am accurately conveying that what the speaker said was utterly fucking insane.
2026-07-15T17:04 id=2077439088131760634 →NickWiswell | @NickWiswell I stand on the shoulders of giants (Matt Levine is like 6'5" or something crazy iirc) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems like the natural formal construction of the Boredom Markets Hypothesis and Elon Markets Hypothesis
2026-07-15T17:04 id=2077439257581600850 →okwalerie | @okwalerie Thank you, and yes that's exactly how I see it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I liked the article, it reminds me of how my favorite Games theorist Bernie De Koven often used serious &amp; silly to teach and illustrate the yin-yang dialectical relationship of the social construction of rules. A full s
2026-07-15T17:06 id=2077439666677235858 →stochastic_ | @stochastic_ Thank you! || CTX: “Accountants need to modify how they define goodwill and what they think it represents, and financial analysts can identify alpha in goodwill valuations before accounting standards are updated.”  great piece, fam  https://t.co/Cva3MWrG5i ht
2026-07-15T20:59 id=2077498409741922361 →RealPeterTeal | @RealPeterTeal Dude ghosted me long before seeing the piece, has absolutely nothing to do with it. || CTX: I subscribe to the publication you mention and having read their essays and yours, I think there is indeed a mismatch - theirs tend to be more about what’s happening right this second vs. observations that are fresh but more medium term (if
2026-07-15T21:05 id=2077499841916367140 →zeta_globin | @zeta_globin This is a big reason why I left America. || CTX: irish intern says the thing he likes least about america is everything is an advertisement including the people themselves who are always trying to sell themselves to you
2026-07-15T21:28 id=2077505618324443185 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill LLMs aren't magic; tensor mathematics is magic. || CTX: Parm is building a way to tokenize the chemical changes in a cells response to drugs, so AI can learn from those sequences and predict how cells respond over time.  Cool work. Tokenize everything https://t.co/ugvZi9YgQ6
2026-07-15T21:42 id=2077509142299001274 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ goddamn, wow, tbank you sir.   The truth is I don't reveal face because I have horrific scars and I don't reveal my name because it's got the N-word in it. || CTX: . @47fucb4r8c69323 is an ubermensch if i’ve ever seen one  exhibit a : no face or name
2026-07-15T22:38 id=2077523181154533669 →sebkrier | @sebkrier Growing up is realizing everyone is just winging in.   But some are doing the best they can, and honestly that's much better if someone really "knows the answer", whatever that means. || CTX: When I started at a big global law firm, I remember an early meeting with a senior partner and a private equity firm with some thorny problems. For a good half hour he confidently advised them and suggested all sorts of things; I had no ide
2026-07-15T22:39 id=2077523384230183378 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Narrator: They locked in. || CTX: ARGENTINA PLEASE LOCK IN PLEASE LOCK IN https://t.co/FTwJn7kaNK
2026-07-15T23:21 id=2077534136051683452 →- | How disappointing, the model writes like dogshit. https://t.co/Olx8vaoNVX || CTX: Today, we are introducing Inkling.  Inkling reasons efficiently across text, image, and audio modalities. We are making the full weights available.  https://t.co/Ghebq5mG30  Available today for fine-tuning on Tinker. Play with it in the Ink
2026-07-15T23:26 id=2077535385522233804 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas I was using fake cc generators and AOHell to get unlimited access when they charged per hour, oh those were the days.   I never did learn what was behind deadvolvo2 (if you know what I am talking about you're a real OG). || CTX: This past weekend I found myself talking to a few people about AOL CDs we'd get in the mail, and that to get on the internet you'd need to install AOL, make sure no one was talking on the phone, and then dial up that 56kbps modem (if you we
2026-07-15T23:28 id=2077535839220089234 →vamsibatchuk | @vamsibatchuk @alexolegimas omg Nero!!! The anxiety in that last minute as you waited to see if you'd get a working CD or a coaster. || CTX: @alexolegimas I thought this was the situation just in India, when internet started becoming a household thing. i still vividly remember burning CDs with Nero software. good times.
2026-07-15T23:47 id=2077540666889170979 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @joshua_goodman_ used to be more frequent I've fallen off || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @joshua_goodman_ This is the second post I've seen praising you in 10 days. 😂
2026-07-15T23:48 id=2077540836200657209 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Oh my god I hadn't even realized the connection!   Would explain the shitty writing though || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Naming it after Tolkien’s writing group makes it even funnier
2026-07-15T23:51 id=2077541719520973227 →blueprintsmb22 | @blueprintsmb22 This was a healthy read for me. As a sellsider catering to HFs/pod shops the appeal of going to the buyside has always tempted me, but sometimes the grass isn't greener. || CTX: Young kid pinged me yesterday and he asked about the hedge fund path.    I said it was a hard path, but the upside could be significant but you have to be incredibly competitive, curious and intellectually flexible to survive as the expecte
2026-07-16T00:01 id=2077544221821780125 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @joshua_goodman_ I'm still trying to figure it out too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @joshua_goodman_ Hahaha wouldn't know, I've only known of you for 10 days. :D  I'm still trying to figure out why the praise. Rare you see public praise these days hahaha
2026-07-16T00:12 id=2077546827377995790 →joshua_goodman_ | There's something profound here about the human need for resolution, to find a satisfactory answer to a problem. Some people overcome this, others give up. Idk which I am, but that doesn't matter. The truth of this observation is what matters.  The most important problems in life have no definitive answers to them. so if you keep searching for answers, you're going to get disillusioned and tempted into self-deception, nonsense, and fraud. And the only way to not see those things for what they are is to commit a philosophical suicide. Which probably makes life easier in many ways, but it also makes death harder.   Maybe that's what's different about me and you younger people. I'm not living to live well anymore. I'm living to die well.  "If this work has a value it consists in two things. First that in it thoughts are expressed, and this value will be the greater the better the thoughts are expressed. The more the nail has been hit on the head.— Here I am conscious that I have fallen far short of the possible. Simply because my powers are insufficient to cope with the task.—May others come and do it better.   On the other hand the truth of the thoughts communicated here seems to me unassailable and definitive. I am, therefore, of the opinion that the problems have in essentials been finally solved. And if I am not mistaken in this, then the value of this work secondly consists in the fact that it shows how little has been done when these problems have been solved." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @davidtoniolo @47fucb4r8c69323 keep in mind the core principle of an ubermensch is they exist principally as a contradiction. an esoteric reading of Nietzsche is Christ and Buddha as ubermensch who themselves exist as contradictions https:/
2026-07-16T00:21 id=2077549104465678687 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @davidtoniolo Yeah having goals is for losers, the whole teleological view on man is where people are led astray (and I know you'll hate this, but I include Aristotle in this group). || CTX: sounds like one should live with the tension of contradiction instead of trying to collapse it with means of philosophical suicide. The greatest contradiction of our existence seems to be along the lines of “what is the point if we are goin
2026-07-16T00:28 id=2077551001012416884 →- | The contributors in my lab have given their final questions for our benchmark, over 200 questions and the range of competencies is fortunately quite broad.  Still on track for an October release, thankfully.  Perhaps the most important implication of our research: we know why LLMs write the way they do, and what this says about functional limitations in the technology.  Stay tuned frens!
2026-07-16T00:29 id=2077551170391015570 →marketplacedude | @marketplacedude @virsubterraneus just because you're a drop shipper too stupid to make money other ways doesn't mean the rest of us are too || CTX: @virsubterraneus @47fucb4r8c69323 YOLO calls, but with vibes
2026-07-16T00:49 id=2077556284090613786 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @davidtoniolo It's evidence of man's folly too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @davidtoniolo is desire not evidence of a man’s inherent goal orientation?
2026-07-16T00:50 id=2077556482426687582 →adept_smb | @adept_smb @blueprintsmb22 Why is that? Ageism, or just the industry selecting from a narrow career path only? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @blueprintsmb22 You can always go back to the sell side, but the buy side door isn’t open forever.
2026-07-16T00:51 id=2077556657685750169 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @joshua_goodman_ I'M A RETARD || CTX: @joshua_goodman_ @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay, now I understand @47fucb4r8c69323 . Intellectualism is one of the draws. Very articulate.
2026-07-16T01:02 id=2077559371484348531 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ @davidtoniolo I'm not Christian but I agree with the sentiment: if one doesn't orient oneself to an ineffable higher, one will inevitably orient oneself towards ruinous things.  But I'm not Christian because I take the notion of the "ineffable" seriously. Cf: https://t.co/7dFIgnUulE || CTX: Religious motherfuckers will tell you God is indescribable and then go on to describe him
2026-07-16T01:05 id=2077560099036618909 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 Prime Grade A Choice shitpost right here || CTX: got an inkling that this thang is thinkling https://t.co/4MJOPEnvbj
2026-07-16T01:05 id=2077560294227034377 →somewheresy | @somewheresy idk man, a lot of wise guys seems like it'd be kinda bad to me  https://t.co/5HqsjotflS || CTX: @sebkrier Growing up is realizing everyone is just winging in.   But some are doing the best they can, and honestly that's much better if someone really "knows the answer", whatever that means.
2026-07-16T01:20 id=2077564117989405157 →adept_smb | @adept_smb @blueprintsmb22 Honestly wish someone had told me this 15 years ago, thank you!! || CTX: Yeah mix of:  1. Ageism, first few years can be a brutal grind it’s easier to trust the 25 year old vs 30+ with wife and kids   2. Elitism, even if unjust the thought is “why spend so long on the sell side? Did this guy not want more?”   3.
2026-07-16T02:37 id=2077583436685152515 →Seraph_Notitia | @Seraph_Notitia If you have 50k readers or more per month, DM me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would you like to contribute to my not Peter Thiel funded magazine in the future by the way? We are doing media preservation time capsules in a very japanese way
2026-07-16T02:38 id=2077583594361598008 →LUSTRONATURY | @LUSTRONATURY Wow, that is some high praise.  Yeah, I’d say Levine is an influence tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Solid article, very matt levine-esque
2026-07-16T02:39 id=2077583978677318009 →growintfast | @growintfast @Lunens__ His prose style is ponderous, yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Lunens__ What a hot take. You think Tolkien is a poor writer?
2026-07-16T02:40 id=2077584101641773467 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @justalexoki Billy Crystal || CTX: @justalexoki @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-16T02:42 id=2077584540445639068 →DavidSartor0 | @DavidSartor0 @fabsbz “Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe” - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @fabsbz @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/TBMlNx56EK
2026-07-16T02:43 id=2077584981770268810 →davidtoniolo | We’re getting into unspeakable territory; I believe it because the alternatives, which I used to believe in, I no longer find satisfactory. I miss being a materialist atheist, I truly do.  But, well, we cannot know everything and the mystical is unavoidable.  Christianity can give a good target for the mind, if understood in a particular way. And yes this is true of other religions as well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @joshua_goodman_ Why do you believe this? And why do you think Christians are amelierated from this outcome?
2026-07-16T03:04 id=2077590055234011237 →- | Sometimes “rigorous” is bad.  If you need to make a decision quickly, if you have impartial information, or if your problem has in principle unknowable factors, rigor can work against you.  C. S. Peirce’s notion of “abduction” is quite useful here.  Deductive problems are those to which there is one answer that must be the case given the premise. Deductive problems are tautological in nature, such as 2+2. This is a problem of deduction.  Inductive problems are those to which there are multiple possible answers, and one is afforded better support. This is usually taught as making generalizations or predictions, although I find thinking of induction that way as rather too limiting.  Abduction is, strictly speaking, producing and choosing from a variety of plausible hypotheses to explain an observation. Critically here, this means that sometimes when faced with a problem that might seem either deductive or inductive, you need to rely on a kind of higher-order reasoning above both induction and deduction to ask yourself which is the right approach for the particular problem.  Sometimes the problem is not as deductive as you think, and sometimes a highly technical deductive process will mislead you for this very reason.  I think statistics can really screw a person up here, because you look at a series of past observations, observe patterns, and then try to extrapolate future patterns from the past observations. The more stable the process, the better this strategy is, and the more reflexive and dynamic, the worse it is.  Reflexivity is one of the most important factors of markets unless your holding time is counted in milliseconds.  If you have a supercomputer and tremendous capital resources, fine, hire physicists and have them model for you. But if your investment question is something like “how is this company’s new product going to impact their revenue growth and thus impact the stock over the next 6-9 months”, well, that is not a deductive question—the answer is NOT in the question—and it is an inherently dynamic and reflexive one, so building a complex mathematical model will have limited value.  This is why quants work on extremely short term stuff—their approach loses value as your time horizon extends and your investment thesis becomes more qualitative.  But what interests me is why—why the obsession with quants in pop culture, despite the fact that retail investors are never going to be market makers using supercomputers on the exchange?  I wonder if it’s because of a fetish for rigor—that feeling that rigor is somehow more adult, more intelligent, and—dare i say it?—more serious?  But investing is a silly business. After all, “if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done,” as Ludwig Wittgenstein said.  The Wittgenstein family was one of the wealthiest in Europe because Ludwig’s father, against the wisdom of the time, held his money in U.S. assets when the more mature and serious European market collapsed.  Silliness wins, kids.
2026-07-16T03:04 id=2077590232439099421 →IsZomg | @IsZomg She’s much smarter than her former co-workers, but she’s still just a scientist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 mira forgot to hire someone with taste?
2026-07-16T03:44 id=2077600155076059437 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset yes, but my point is more that we have more than just standards of rigor, we have standards of other aspects of our work too, and those other standards matter more sometimes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Don’t we all have our own standards of rigor?
2026-07-16T04:42 id=2077614758883361101 →hahacomputer | @hahacomputer Anti-human. They're anti-human little twerps because they got bullied, and now they want revenge.  Bully them some more. || CTX: HAHAHAHAHAHA OH FUCK I CANT STOP LAUGHING AT THIS PART OF THE ROLLING STONE ARTICLE https://t.co/cn3gZw2y8A
2026-07-16T04:45 id=2077615602009837967 →- | OpenAI is still trying to take everyone's jobs, starting with the guys who sell those cheap shitty Chinese gadgets from AliExpress. https://t.co/hPxhF0bcCE || CTX: Meet kbd-1.0-codex-micro, built with @work_louder.  Map the buttons and joystick to your workflow, and keep your pinned chats in view.  Get yours before stock returns 410. https://t.co/MGQQ1ISW0l
2026-07-16T05:09 id=2077621672224621043 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw you need to print deez nuts is what you need to do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i need to print this
2026-07-16T05:11 id=2077622171275534837 →somewheresy | @somewheresy @adastroworld Do you think he ever forgets his birthday? || CTX: what the fuck @adastroworld https://t.co/S4YfYYQqML
2026-07-16T05:50 id=2077631926941401104 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel Being far too rich and using that money to build a simulacrum where you’re fawned over as a visionary and genius results in retardation. As the sacred scrolls tell us (i.e., what I tweeted a few months ago)  https://t.co/TbnmVj1dnp || CTX: @benchatenu rightplace righttime is an epistemic hazard
2026-07-16T05:54 id=2077633051904069828 →foomagemindset | Right, I’m not opposed to rigor per se. My point is that there can be too much rigor, or the wrong kind of rigor—optimizing for maximum rigor is often strategically foolhardy.  You can say that strategically considering how much rigor to use is rigorous—a kind of meta-rigor, and I would support that view. But if by “rigor” we mean building a more specific and precise model, or using more computation power on a problem, or acquiring more and more data to answer a question, then there is a limit to that process, and that limit is determined by what you could call meta-rigor, or taste, or qualitative controls on rigorous analysis, or gut feeling, or whatever. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Forgive me if I’m being dense, but isn’t considering those other aspects and standards more important merely a different definition of what constitutes rigor?
2026-07-16T05:59 id=2077634190515015980 →- | It's hard to remember the difference between "if" and "if and only if" as used in analytic logic.   So here's a good way to intuit the difference:   "I am nice to women if they are beautiful" suggests that, if they are not beautiful, I MIGHT also be nice to them.   "I am nice to women iff they are beautiful" means I am not nice to them if they're not beautiful.
2026-07-16T07:10 id=2077652047139336505 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset Yeah that's exactly the dichotomy I was thinking of! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, I agree, I believe benjamin franklin called it “foolish consistency” to distinguish it from the good kind. I’ve also heard it described as the difference of rational and rationalle, the later usually reducing to “this 
2026-07-16T07:11 id=2077652333618668019 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @RollingStone @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 Rolling Stone has a long history of silencing the voice of the independent creator, which is why the zine culture of the 90s was so vitalic. || CTX: @RollingStone @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 just keeping you guys in the loop re the censorship that is happening here  make sure to save all of this so we can show it to them when they try to pretend later that it did not h
2026-07-16T07:14 id=2077653191613645075 →- | Shockingly consistent among different age groups, gfy Twitter I'm never gonna get tenure if all you give me is null results like this.  THEY'RE GONNA KICK ME OUT OF SOUTHWESTERN RECTANGULAR STATE UNIVERSITY, SPRINGFIELD CAMPUS IVE GOT KIDS https://t.co/iz38EISgra || CTX: Do you ever dream about your phone or are there phones in your dreams?
2026-07-16T07:15 id=2077653394454700398 →llallawg | @llallawg ... now I'm worried my house is bugged. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When you get into a fight with your partner who insists on imprecision in language
2026-07-16T07:18 id=2077654112007749998 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @RollingStone @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 Oh that makes sense, Twitter (currently X, formerly Twitter) has a history of silencing you.   They're scared of what you have to say, both of you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RollingStone @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 to be clear this is x silencing me in reply sections across the website, not rolling stone silencing me
2026-07-16T07:33 id=2077657857714229519 →- | There once was a woman in Parish,  Who said markets seem rather bearish,  She bet stocks would fall, And she lost it all, Her tears tasted good with relish. https://t.co/PHlIeijm5R https://t.co/GgRktu2BxJ || CTX: Ladies and gentlemen of Twitter dot com Wear sunscreen If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it A long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more 
2026-07-16T07:35 id=2077658389732266475 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @RollingStone @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 what if you wrote your tweets in a text file, then put that text file in a zip file, and then tweeted a link to that zip file, and only give the password to that zip file to your followers? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RollingStone @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 this account is basically burned now i might as well take it private if only followers are seeing replies anyway
2026-07-16T07:41 id=2077659842886717925 →- | Moanal
2026-07-16T08:03 id=2077665350796411342 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Look, man, I don't want to be a dick, but come the fuck on.   I've always found it easy making money in the stock market but this is like shooting fish in a barrel.   It's time for me to debate @GaryMarcus, and Gary, let's focus on this tidbit you told Goldman Sachs in late 2025 (https://t.co/u14IojoyDq):  "Ultimately, returns drive markets, and current AI ventures aren’t generating enough profit to justify their lofty valuations. People are starting to get that message. And if enough people get that message on the same day, it will start to look like a bank run. Just as no one could predict the exact moment the Dutch Tulip Mania would end, it’s impossible to know when this bubble will burst—but it will burst."  You are wrong. You are irresponsible. You are stupid.  After eviscerating Yud the Stud's empire of dirt, I'm coming after your tenure Professor Man.   You understand LLMs, I will grant you that. However.  You don't understand business.  You don't understand markets. And you definitely, definitely, don't know what a bubble is.   Go ahead and ignore me, block me, do what you gotta do. It'll buy you time.   But 47fucb is comin' to getcha. || CTX: There once was a woman in Parish,  Who said markets seem rather bearish,  She bet stocks would fall, And she lost it all, Her tears tasted good with relish. https://t.co/PHlIeijm5R https://t.co/GgRktu2BxJ
2026-07-16T09:05 id=2077680899710414944 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy @zetalyrae He's a pseud, just name drops without substance. Unsurprised I've already muted him. || CTX: @zetalyrae Didn’t realise you live with @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-16T09:07 id=2077681562188189977 →Holmyverse | churn and market competition are entirely unrelated concepts to a bubble. of course there are winners and losers in a market, that's why it's a market. the important point here is that a bubble is a totalizing assertion about the entire market, and Gary's assertion here was wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GaryMarcus Shovel manufacturers are surely making money at the moment. I'm really curious on your takes 🙂
2026-07-16T09:54 id=2077693386220560645 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Oh this one's definitely going into the file. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/iJgWjua68N
2026-07-16T10:14 id=2077698461169021104 →- | I finally see why England always chokes in the last 5-10 minutes of the game—they climax in failure.  Kink confirmed (no shaming here). https://t.co/s0049HXLcF || CTX: Language matters. Interesting how English football media talk about 'post-mortems', sackings, threats to stability. It's like we get off on the idea of subversion of order and loss of face - the most tantalising and forbidden things in the 
2026-07-16T12:57 id=2077739283759395277 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Fucking boss shit I love this so much || CTX: Last year I went on a pro-masturbation and anti-shame jihad, I wrote quite a lot; but this image here is all you really need  If you read anything read this https://t.co/SUi76VMIci
2026-07-16T12:57 id=2077739446938787931 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil please say more || CTX: Ask ppl how it was living in Italy and they started passionately ranting like they came back from war
2026-07-16T12:58 id=2077739628124426751 →graphtheory | @graphtheory First Terence, now Linus omg I am so hard rn || CTX: it's literally over for the luds. sorry, we won https://t.co/nDdiyVsSx8
2026-07-16T13:08 id=2077742140382466320 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck Bangkok, Kanchanaburi, Chiang Mai, Phang-Nga, and Phuket all bookmarked || CTX: Looking up our next holiday destination while paying zero attention in a teams meeting https://t.co/Xdhzdas5tm
2026-07-16T13:11 id=2077742995588473012 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch No, I'll look into it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you read aurtur young’s reflexive universe?   It’s kind of woo but he was a smart dude.
2026-07-16T13:17 id=2077744434855481589 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck River Kwai Jungle Floating Hotel? I've stayed there lol it's awesome  I was there when the GME meme stock thing was happening and had calls with one of the big funds that got squeezed. Remember being terrified that was going to cost my firm revenue (it did). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 River Kwai (literally a floating hotel), Khao Sok and Krabi. Almost good
2026-07-16T13:23 id=2077745862193934822 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I've stayed in Italy twice for a month and a half each time, and holy fuck the driving is SO BAD, I legit had nightmares about driving on the Amalfi coast. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol that's what I said!   The guy said it's amazingly beautiful and the food and wine is great but the driving is a nightmare the infra is awful and getting anything done takes forever   Nothing surprising lol
2026-07-16T13:23 id=2077745930720456984 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil HE IS RIGHT HE IS TOTALLY RIGHT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The guy was in military and he said driving in south of Italy might be worse than war 😂
2026-07-16T13:27 id=2077747027958776266 →mikansoleil | Dude I was in south Italy when I was negotiating my contract with my last employer and totally fumbled it because I was so stressed from driving around Sorrento and Capri, I am 100% serious it was so goddamn horrific.   And it was bad walking on the streets, like drivers would zoom past you centimeters from hitting you.   More third world than Thailand or Philippines I am serious I have no desire to go back to southern Italy I am fucking traumatized || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For real it's like he was talking about being in nam I could feel the trauma lol
2026-07-16T14:06 id=2077756871595716948 →- | Is it me or is this starting to look like a coil https://t.co/7QnuOh5KnV
2026-07-16T14:09 id=2077757425659351230 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Look at vol it's a coil bro  Just in time for August when everyone's on vacation https://t.co/MmpNFvdLia || CTX: Is it me or is this starting to look like a coil https://t.co/7QnuOh5KnV
2026-07-16T17:55 id=2077814271631925747 →Seraph_Notitia | @Seraph_Notitia Legacy. I want legacy. I want to be remembered by history as the guy who destroyed the cognitive errors and confusion caused by a Protestant understanding of work, which is the backbone of American culture and both a historical strength and potential future weakness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As an author are you looking for distribution and active engagement or are you more attempting to certify a type of legacy for yourself? Our magazine’s focused on cataloguing a canonization of the 21’st century so its a qua
2026-07-16T17:57 id=2077814967366283543 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Do it on main as an act of integrity. The more you divide yourself into little pieces, the more fractured your identity is and that can be psychologically ruinous. || CTX: Should I make an alt to post more lewds and start rting softcore of should I let all my oomfies pound grass and do it on main
2026-07-16T18:01 id=2077815954227241223 →Seraph_Notitia | @Seraph_Notitia I'm not religious and what the actual fuck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Okay but are you Catholic? { we dont work with Christians who arent Russian or Armenian for instance)
2026-07-16T18:12 id=2077818557585617260 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ God I love Tony Bennett || CTX: I Left My AirPods in El Segundo
2026-07-16T18:18 id=2077820227216388432 →bas_logic | @bas_logic then would "I am nice to women only if they're beautiful" also mean "I am not nice to women if they're not beautiful"?  I presume there are more implications I'm not seeing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now do “only if”.
2026-07-16T18:25 id=2077822051554127963 →bas_logic | @bas_logic First of all, I'd like to thank God... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. That’s correct. For some reason students get “if then” and “iff” without too much trouble, but they mix up “if” and “only if”. I print out a chart every semester. You passed the quiz.
2026-07-16T18:29 id=2077822981947146528 →kareem_carr | @kareem_carr "Welcome to the party, some of us didn't need to change our minds because we knew this years ago. Why didn't you?" || CTX: "Wow, you seem a lot less skeptical about AI lately." https://t.co/1hKuD9vgMM
2026-07-16T19:03 id=2077831611060781554 →- | LLM architecture is solved. It's now a commodity.  There's no moat to the frontier labs' LLM research, all that matters now is the data pipeline, the harness, the UI/UX, tool usage, data integrations, agentic implementation...   The frontier labs can still provide value, but the main product isn't the LLM anymore.   And that's why Codex is now ChatGPT and the chat bot is now ChatGPT Classic.   It was never a machine god, it was never your friend, it was never anything more than a program that takes in text characters and outputs text characters.  I won't end with the usual "47fucb was right" spiel.   Instead I'll end with this: OpenAI and Anthropic are now akin to CRM or WDAY or ADBE, not GOOG or AMZN, and not even a little like MU or NVDA or even NET.   If they were public stocks you'd see massive price compression as everyone realizes they're subcategory vendors of a commodity tech with UI/UX layer providing the unique selling point.  Fortunately they aren't public yet because MY GOD the contagion.   Poor underwriters for OpenAI/Anthropic, the blowback from the roadshow is gonna be fierce.
2026-07-17T00:47 id=2077918043980870088 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat @knowclarified I'm never living that masseuse story down am I || CTX: @knowclarified @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-17T01:09 id=2077923525466492978 →- | OpenAI employees freaking out.   You love to see it. https://t.co/gMUXvYR2sT || CTX: kimi seems to be a true open-weights frontier model. compared to jailbreaking proprietary models, fine-tuning this to be a malicious coding agent will be trivial since you have the weights.  we live in a completely different world, now.
2026-07-17T01:15 id=2077925161580548163 →viemccoy | @viemccoy Do tell us your emotional state on this, then, and how you see it impacting OpenAI. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm not freaking out. Don't put it in the grok news that I'm freaking out
2026-07-17T01:17 id=2077925722652623277 →viemccoy | @viemccoy But it doesn't commoditize LLMs themselves? OpenAI's moat is entirely unharmed, maybe augmented? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm feeling great and I see it furthering the likelihood that compute gets commoditized
2026-07-17T01:20 id=2077926310907900376 →viemccoy | @viemccoy ISP is a good analogy and I'd agree. More Comcast than Google. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which is like, probably net "bad" for openai? but also not a huge deal because we have so much compute. in the long run I think oai becomes like an ISP, same as anthropic.  my views here don't represent the company
2026-07-17T01:25 id=2077927585963704679 →- | RT @Aikun011: I see this argument about models being too dangerous to release to the public blah blah and I think these fears are easy to p… || CTX: I see this argument about models being too dangerous to release to the public blah blah and I think these fears are easy to perpetuate because the easiest way to sell something is to .  1.turn then on by playing into one of the seven deadly
2026-07-17T01:32 id=2077929366114488727 →- | Did you really think you were going to be masters of the universe because you built an app that does linear algebra?   Bro please be real
2026-07-17T01:56 id=2077935512883794113 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart I am building an AI benchmark so I would love to hear this. || CTX: I have a theory (or maybe a postulate?) about a problem with AI benchmarks which is probably totally wrong. But I’m tempted to post it just to elicit intelligent feedback from people who know more than me.
2026-07-17T02:00 id=2077936456837046450 →alexolegimas | If post training gets diffused via services such as Tinker and Prime Intellect et al, demand for compute, data centers et al should increase and hyperscalers positioned for a world of commoditized LLMs (META and GOOG primarily) win over Anthropic/OAI while NVDA MU et al continue to see high demand.   And, yeah, this kills the pipe dream of AGI which is why I have been arguing against the entire notion of AGI for years. It's a dumb pipe dream that causes capital misallocation.   Same with the metaphors of consciousness, mind, brain, human cognition when applied to LLMs.   "AI" was smart marketing that the marketers took too literally. Literally drank their own Kool aid and the early investors will suffer as a result.   Markets and humanity win, though. || CTX: This is another version of the AGI by 2030 or bust scenario, btw. You either get runaway self improvement soon or the entire AI space becomes too commoditized to fund the next training run. https://t.co/M2JaQgxjTd
2026-07-17T02:06 id=2077938070519967780 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart GDPval tried to do this and IMO it fails, and I'd say it's because a unit of economically productive work is ridiculously difficult, maybe impossible, to define a priori.   Economic value changes over time and situation, so one of the variables needed here is undefinable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Here https://t.co/NBMPhvF6oU
2026-07-17T02:19 id=2077941288696189105 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 app seems to be fine with it https://t.co/0LahUhW7e0 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Didn't you wonder what the app had to say about it?
2026-07-17T02:20 id=2077941525619859903 →eatpraydiehard | @eatpraydiehard @TheStalwart this is such a sharp way to put it, you're absolutely right! || CTX: programmers are impressed because for coding there was an awkward gap between knowing what to do and doing it - you have to know some arcane conputer jargon to enact your will. all the other professions are much harder, less of a gap betwee
2026-07-17T02:21 id=2077941691122929933 →EthanRom77 | @EthanRom77 HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/thv4V1x5Ot
2026-07-17T02:32 id=2077944612568863021 →- | "look upon language as a biological or anthropological phenomenon, not as a mathematical or logical phenomenon" - Hacker is amazing but the whole lecture is worth watching: https://t.co/3YXI2n7DTV
2026-07-17T02:35 id=2077945270713958854 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or at least king of the hill https://t.co/8XtN9ttbku
2026-07-17T02:40 id=2077946502731976938 →BooleanProphet | @BooleanProphet yeah, I took some money off the table, but I will be buying back in very soon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Super bullish semis and infra. No public ceo can say they're cutting token budgets now, not when token prices are on track to collapse 90%  If MU / SKHY don't open higher, it's a mega-buy
2026-07-17T03:18 id=2077955984400744896 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 I DMed him on LinkedIn in 2024 asking if he'd be interested in hiring a linguist and he ghosted me OFF WITH HIS HEAD || CTX: @Duffmantha @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 I have the most petty disliking of Logan but maybe he is a good guy idk
2026-07-17T03:37 id=2077960867652796748 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru No, 🇺🇾
2026-07-17T03:44 id=2077962597287305408 →graphtheory | @graphtheory I think it should be illegal for anyone under 25 to use the internet, I'm so sick of seeing garbage like that || CTX: Every day I see stuff like this and I question if any of you actually developed even a single piece of real software before the singularity.  Do yourself a favor and google the 90% rule. https://t.co/A0ChJ51AlA
2026-07-17T03:46 id=2077963105834090715 →graphtheory | @graphtheory CAMPS PUT EM IN CAMPS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 marked as interested in disenfranchising zoomers
2026-07-17T03:49 id=2077963883139231774 →TrueAIHound | @TrueAIHound The utmost contempt! Hacker in this lecture actually addresses that and explains why Chomsky is nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So Wittgenstein would look down on Chomsky. 😀
2026-07-17T03:50 id=2077964016400601443 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 She should work out and become Buffmantha || CTX: @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323 @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 It’s so cool Duffmantha is back
2026-07-17T03:51 id=2077964320218976637 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 Good, making bricks without straw will work out those glutes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 I believe ems is currently putting her in a forced work camp if i remember correctly
2026-07-17T04:05 id=2077968027610648735 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 thanks for reminding me, I need to lift weights today too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha @randytheintern @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 I tried working out again thanks to thoughtcrime and it fucking hurts so much is this a psyop
2026-07-17T04:06 id=2077968214559183260 →TrueAIHound | @TrueAIHound it's so weird, because linguistics abandoned him like 40 years ago? it's a kind of like how literary critics he used Freud and claim that it's psychological research like wtf dude || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I find this funny because the fake-AI community loves Chomsky. Why do they love him? I'm not exactly sure.
2026-07-17T04:23 id=2077972316315963621 →iamgingertrash | @iamgingertrash Overconcentration of wealth/power in the hands of a few awkward nerds in SV is what caused this.  I think it's great that tech has high margins so they got rich, industrialists deserve it. But there comes a point where they just have too much social capital, we're at that point. || CTX: The American elite is in _serious_ danger of losing their empire within the decade if they continue listening to ideologues like Dario, or Sam  Dysgenic freaks who have no understanding of Great Power motives, who are going to serve their o
2026-07-17T04:47 id=2077978593507106885 →Ken67547214 | Fully agreed!  The issue with a gatekeeping tool is that they have no durable moat. I guess they could try to make their harness special, and I admit I still use Codex out of habit/laziness, but that is no moat at all--especially if you can just vibecode your own harness, which I'm sure is what Thinking Machines et al. will probably provide in the coming years.  They've got nothing lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No. I mean that I don't see a future for them where they are "masters" over anything. Either they build something that obviates their wealth and/or deserves to be free or they build a tool that they can gatekeep. They can't
2026-07-17T05:39 id=2077991684772638900 →ericzhu | @ericzhu @mil000 Call me, Mila || CTX: @mil000 https://t.co/CbqlSpmP5d
2026-07-17T05:41 id=2077992015594426488 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ @viemccoy Not fighting! I like and respect vie, just reading the tea leaves as always || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @viemccoy Don't fight oomfies, knowing you both a little bit, y'all see remarkably eye to eye on many things...
2026-07-17T06:01 id=2077997137087099364 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs which one do I read next? https://t.co/I3llSzClqb
2026-07-17T06:13 id=2078000128376578502 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen Got this searching for an old meme today. https://t.co/KMpzQ4QeiS || CTX: I googled the old Soviet joke about "don't try to fool us, we all know who the idiot is". https://t.co/d9TrDUGrcw
2026-07-17T06:30 id=2078004471628722350 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @amruthapotnuru Look he just rubbed it he wasn't literally inside me || CTX: @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @amruthapotnuru Ignore 4 Now  ref:  417 https://t.co/THVpmHyLXv
2026-07-17T06:32 id=2078004966128849245 →tszzl | @tszzl "waaah waaah my computer isn't actually my friend waaah"   Cry harder, go outside and meet people.   Enemies of humanity. || CTX: most of the minds of the future will be digital so I hope we figure out what makes them conscious or not. the idea of all this abundant machine intelligence not being alive is more depressing than the other way around
2026-07-17T06:34 id=2078005409789681970 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru Ah, but(terill), there's the rub!  I must since it gets such a... rise out of you.   Just let me milk it a little more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru You have to stop talking about the masseuse incident
2026-07-17T07:15 id=2078015713130979671 →moonsandhues | @moonsandhues Nice but of Silly Business Theory #SBT right here || CTX: https://t.co/sHVsjhn5TA
2026-07-17T07:44 id=2078023118321516582 →- | I fear I'm typecasting myself as a permabull, which is not the case. E.g., I told both a friend and my mother not to buy real estate in 2006 (neither listened).  So let's do some doomposting.   Incoming prime minister won't get in touch with CEOs and you're bullish on the UK?!?! https://t.co/ODcWKB3rcY
2026-07-17T07:59 id=2078026707299450973 →llallawg | @llallawg This is why the Limeys choked against the Nazi-hiders smdh GO SPAIN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not surprised at all
2026-07-17T08:36 id=2078036182542524534 →JasonBotterill | “for some reason”.  Look, let’s be clear: everyone wants to solve the mystery of who Sam is.  Some of us think she’s someone crazy famous, others think she’s legitimately insane, and others still think she’s both.  Personally, I oscillate between thinking the mystery is part of the fun and thinking I deserve to know JUST ME PLEASE SAM TELL ME WHO YOU ARE GODDAMMIT LET’S BE FRIENDS IRL I’LL BUY YOU DRINKS || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 For some reason people think I know I’ve gotten like 7 people asking if I know you irl
2026-07-17T08:43 id=2078037792278585793 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 https://t.co/3fTQahUISl  Sometime around 2010 we discussed a lot whether Taylor was a 4channer. I think she was. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 She’s Taylor Swift
2026-07-17T09:13 id=2078045517041566075 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 I’ve been told that’s a term of affection in Aus, but yeah basically N-word in the UK.  Almost like the relationship between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary. I think, but I’m not Sausurre. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 He almost kicked me out of his house once cus I said wog
2026-07-17T09:15 id=2078045992700739924 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Based. || CTX: most of what counts as philosophy is closer to philo-academia than philo-sophia
2026-07-17T09:35 id=2078050917036040462 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 this is why I don't want to watch it, The Odyssey is one of my favorite books || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 it will be worth it for this film since that is one of the main cool things about it (nobody actually cares about ancient wogs and their gay poems it was just an excuse to make an epic imax film
2026-07-17T09:47 id=2078054047463207194 →timesnowba5218 | @timesnowba5218 @tszzl what if I enjoy falling for rage bait? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl I like you, but you got to fall for ragebait less.
2026-07-17T09:56 id=2078056155960738103 →teodorio | @teodorio the more money in the bank, the less real it feels || CTX: You have always got to remind yourself that it's not real
2026-07-17T10:22 id=2078062867576918371 →- | Narrator: It was a coil. https://t.co/e928iHN5RK https://t.co/QaGmqmJ1qR || CTX: Is it me or is this starting to look like a coil https://t.co/7QnuOh5KnV
2026-07-17T10:24 id=2078063262848131577 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I SUCK at technical analysis (but rock at technical anal, sis), so if I can see the coil then it's totally a coil.   And vols are so low autists who are still tending the shop can just play the vol and make a killing. @JaneStreetGroup, J'accuse! || CTX: Narrator: It was a coil. https://t.co/e928iHN5RK https://t.co/QaGmqmJ1qR
2026-07-17T10:26 id=2078063721440833862 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha The only masters of the universe in my (comic) book https://t.co/9Uf4bIAbRH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no i never did. i still do not. https://t.co/atevaWqccA
2026-07-17T10:32 id=2078065175274340447 →- | this is pretty cool, but I wonder about the fact that the books in question are all genre fiction, and genre fiction is less prone to the main features of AI prose (antithesis, em dashes, lists, triads).  I bet there'd be more false positives if they found a bunch of pop sci and marketing materials from the early 20th century.   A comparison of false negatives with AI generated genre fiction would be useful. And that comparison could probably be used to make LLMs write better (ofc Max doesn't want that but that's a separate issue). || CTX: People often evaluate Pangram's false positive rate using pre-ChatGPT text. This is where our 1 in 10,000 FPR number comes from. But we often face the question:  "How can you prove that Pangram isn't just memorizing pre-2022 text that's alr
2026-07-17T10:32 id=2078065391700791437 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka These retards thing if you put something on a graph you understand it || CTX: cc: @47fucb4r8c69323 language mentioned
2026-07-17T10:53 id=2078070572236574929 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @OfficialLoganK @hamoudi_yo @JasonBotterill LIKE I SAID IT WAS JUST A FEW STROKES || CTX: @OfficialLoganK @hamoudi_yo @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 july 17 mentioned
2026-07-17T11:04 id=2078073452809142665 →- | I remember when Bloomberg said the chances of a recession in 2023 have hit 100%.   and I told my readers, no, lol.  and now my readers are richer as a result.   as am I.   go ahead and be bearish, Anon, it's a free country, and I'm always in need of some counterparties. https://t.co/3oNCtwsVyD
2026-07-17T11:11 id=2078075072372211851 →teodorio | @teodorio East European coded af || CTX: If you're not a bit afraid of your woman are you even living?
2026-07-17T11:17 id=2078076499475972548 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick Love this post and also love the writing style, reminds me of Matt Levine. || CTX: linked the wrong post — actual full piece here: https://t.co/ECa760Wszl
2026-07-17T11:37 id=2078081684021584351 →HardestSquart | @HardestSquart I live there for 4 years, I'm rather familiar. what a horrible situation where your politics doom your economics. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you know much of UK culture? Would be electorally suicidal to be seen immediately cozying up to business leaders. Having seen Manchesters rise first hand tho I'm not too concerned.
2026-07-17T11:48 id=2078084352097845677 →- | https://t.co/Y5Ady4sAba
2026-07-17T11:59 id=2078087263108444381 →Naozymandias | @Naozymandias I loved Finland. tbh I loved living in the UK too, but that was long ago and the country has really fallen off since || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is why my partner will be moving to Finland lol
2026-07-17T12:10 id=2078089892559814989 →- | I'm surprised "pair" and "pear" didn't get cancelled during peak woke for being homophonic. #47ishigh
2026-07-17T12:12 id=2078090337545867329 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ ikr it's amazing sometimes they're so pretty I want to put my penis inside their vaginas shit is cray cray || CTX: women are so unbelievably pretty and hypnotize me by how pretty they are, im a wiley coyote
2026-07-17T12:19 id=2078092211942511025 →stevehou | @stevehou That's why the value seems so obviously to flow to the hardware and energy end of the stack, and what really amazes me is that Zuck strategized for this despite his relatively awful position, even when everyone was mocking him (rightly) for how behind Llama was. || CTX: If frontier AI intelligence doesn't proliferate, enterprises could never afford to adopt and deploy AI effectively. Too costly and too risky. Chinese open models catching up is a good thing. That means US "open models" will too and soon. It
2026-07-17T12:31 id=2078095280902443018 →teodorio | @teodorio @1thousandfaces_ Yeah lesson is when I got more followers than u i killed yer soul || CTX: @1thousandfaces_ @47fucb4r8c69323 lesson here
2026-07-17T13:59 id=2078117365041283305 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 This I agree with || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Even the concept of "excess labor demand" is so silly. There's no such thing as a labor shortage, retard. You're just not paying market wages because you've been wrong about inflation for 20 years
2026-07-17T14:20 id=2078122760161964207 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I take your points, both that it's harder for a younger person and you have an empirical advantage: I'm not there and haven't been there for 9 years. I'm describing data and toyre describing the world around you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So, yes. The US is fucked. If you had to live here, you would be able to see it.
2026-07-17T14:40 id=2078127794098499786 →timesnowba5218 | @timesnowba5218 in one situation I get the house next to me, and the other situation I get capital appreciation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you mean by can’t lose?
2026-07-17T14:41 id=2078127922536198387 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 this is where you and I differ, I think a low TFR is a good thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You have to think about it stochiometrically. If you can't make a median budget work, family formation will drop, tfr will drop, and you'll end up with millions of americans shooting fent in the streets
2026-07-17T14:41 id=2078128001255170256 →luckenco | @luckenco starting to feel tempting ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 send some goons
2026-07-17T14:44 id=2078128807735910594 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I don't understand what you mean because TFR is a bigger problem in other countries besides america, Thailand is a good example where the TFR is one of the lowest in the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok, even if you believe all that population bomb nonsense or you just hate humanity, forcing tfr down by stealing from Americans is not sustainable.  Eventually, enough Americans will figure out what's going on and they wil
2026-07-17T14:56 id=2078131630166991000 →athena_notes | @athena_notes @leo_guinan It's everywhere I'm telling ya || CTX: @leo_guinan #SBT @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-17T15:10 id=2078135226682015914 →MomentumOp89 | @MomentumOp89 47(+1) mentioned || CTX: I really hope  Claude opus 48  is  as epic as Chopin opus 48 https://t.co/4GirnRhXEI
2026-07-17T15:12 id=2078135695147946242 →- | "Research" really just means playing with ideas, methods, and theories, if it isn't chaotic and fun while you're doing it, it ain't real research. https://t.co/K0aGlk69cY || CTX: me a month ago: wow I hate my job  me now: yeah research is a rollercoaster every day but fuck it we ball
2026-07-17T15:24 id=2078138807573205222 →murd_arch | @murd_arch Thank you, that's a crucial nuance. It's my apathy that's the source of my enlightenment || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not rich here but I think you're describing outcome independence.  I've definitely seen wealthy people _NOT_ have outcome independence on transactions like this, even with equivalent economics.  Taking it personally, hiring
2026-07-17T15:32 id=2078140679948214606 →murd_arch | @murd_arch That's almost exactly my own view srsly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am moderately convinced enlightenment is literally outcome apathy + active interest in reality.
2026-07-17T16:28 id=2078154900060684660 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ I just told a cadre of Cambodian orphans about your plight and now they won't stop crying. || CTX: One for the enthusiasts: I need a BMW mechanic in the South of France to fix a starter motor problem ASAP on a E46 M3. Near Eygalières. Any contacts DM me
2026-07-17T16:35 id=2078156736759001503 →Stepmark_Jay | @Stepmark_Jay wtf this is almost exactly my situation, except more like 100% over FMV. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reminds of this Reddit thread. When you have the capital to meaningfully improve your live and the opportunity to do so rarely comes up, then you should do it.   https://t.co/1su7juWru6
2026-07-17T16:36 id=2078156854920933430 →JerichoLeylines | @JerichoLeylines HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/HogSTzl0w9
2026-07-17T16:43 id=2078158667493601367 →- | mfw I hear about another major corporation looking to switch from Claude to open source https://t.co/lYGm1hbISS || CTX: https://t.co/dflHqdV2kI https://t.co/fcF9MIQ0HN
2026-07-17T16:51 id=2078160667610370460 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia What do you do when the BATNA is the status quo? I'm not used to non zero sum we wuz pooooooor || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You must know your BATNA which is a type of wealth
2026-07-17T17:01 id=2078163291130769904 →graphtheory | @graphtheory Give, yes. Force them to take, no. || CTX: Your remarkable will to power and elevated capabilities give you a responsibility to the rest of humanity.  Not to give them what they want. Or what they ask for. But what they need.  Love in action is a harsh mistress compared to love in d
2026-07-17T17:13 id=2078166275554185576 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes Rather unsurprisingly, I prefer my theory.  But to your point, we have a real problem of perverse incentives, capture, and lack of transparency in the world of AI benchmarking.   So the q needs an undefinable variable and best practices are unreliable. No wonder we never see it. https://t.co/sMjL5tDlHz || CTX: @TheStalwart GDPval tried to do this and IMO it fails, and I'd say it's because a unit of economically productive work is ridiculously difficult, maybe impossible, to define a priori.   Economic value changes over time and situation, so one
2026-07-17T17:45 id=2078174201748611490 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio Banger || CTX: AI news has stopped being a news cycle and instead has become a denial-of-service attack.
2026-07-17T18:03 id=2078178869224591643 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Less coordination problems and more information transmission || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What difference would it make if they could get in touch with him?
2026-07-18T02:40 id=2078308898604564590 →wordgrammer | @wordgrammer lmfao || CTX: The Rationalist writing style is optimal for communicating dense information. Even if you hate Rationalists, you should learn how to write like them.
2026-07-18T03:00 id=2078313940178862456 →JoeWeisenthalt | I interviewed for a head of research job at a data collection company (7Park Data), and suggested I set up an office in Kuala Lumpur because of the low cost and high quality of talent there. They thought I was crazy.   So I'm not surprised by this at all, and I still think there's so much potential to be had in Malaysia.   American firms' xenophobic myopia inhibits a lot of alpha to be had in this big world of ours.
2026-07-18T03:04 id=2078314854688170172 →- | Did Hassabis go insane or get greedy?  Often with rich/powerful/influential people doing incomprehensibly inhuman things, it really just boils down to a question of stupid or evil.   Except the Amodeis. They're both. https://t.co/QPoeXm80Lu || CTX: "my definition of AGI is a testable system with all human cognitive capabilities — including the creativity and invention of our best scientists" ~ @demishassabis   The fake-AI mafia redefined intelligence in order to deceive the world. Whe
2026-07-18T03:58 id=2078328570749845944 →- | They're trying to manufacture acrimony and fear out of nothing.   I am critical of China (I live in Asia, hard not to be), but open source models are not a security threat even a little. How could they be?  Coding gets better, everyone adapts, it's fine https://t.co/vSgoMnquMR || CTX: This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks.    Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats a
2026-07-18T03:59 id=2078328822865252361 →divisionisunity | @divisionisunity I think he's probably drunk on power || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so what do you think ;P  imo he seems like he's being honest https://t.co/zE6Rg2i7l3
2026-07-18T04:17 id=2078333334128636388 →- | The best way to think of me: I provide the analysis that the rest of the market figures out usually a while after me.  I tend to look crazy because I'm early.   I mean I'm also crazy, let me be clear (Obama), but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.  https://t.co/wV5QjpBidH https://t.co/7UToe8Cv1L || CTX: Hyperscalers will be the ultimate winners of this.  Here is how this will likely play out:  As model capabilities plateau, more of the spending will shift to cheaper models. This will hit frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.  Enterprise
2026-07-18T05:19 id=2078348853166641248 →- | This is the quality of Citrini research. https://t.co/3k6euLayJu || CTX: All of these debates ultimately boil down to one point.  If the money flowing into OpenAI and Anthropic dries up, this entire investment cycle will eventually grind to a halt.  If OpenAI and Anthropic can no longer produce frontier, state-o
2026-07-18T11:06 id=2078436147370594636 →alphaanomics | @alphaanomics Another new powerful model that encourages more competition, so everyone wins || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s your view on Kimi K3 ?
2026-07-18T11:47 id=2078446556970373602 →IterIntellectus | @IterIntellectus No capital letters, no end punctuation.   Proper shitpost. || CTX: it’s 2026 and some grown adults still write “cuz” instead of “because”  this should be considered a capital offense in any civilized society
2026-07-18T12:48 id=2078461828162605145 →47fucb4r8c69323 | You do realize regulated technology means the government can use it and you can't, right?   So AI for surveillance will remain and your ability to fight back will not. Flock for me and no privacy for thee.   Fight back, anon. || CTX: This is why demystifying the technology of LLMs is crucial.   The fake China vs America AI race framing and the unique risks of this technology only makes sense if you think LLMs are a machine god.  This is why I told Yud the Stud Trump's m
2026-07-18T12:56 id=2078463926107578812 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha I used to have that issue of Playboy! It's a pretty good interview.   There's a really good biography of Hugh Hefner, he really was a pretentious poster who wrote all sorts of inane thought pieces for his magazine.   A shame I didn't meet him when I went to the mansion. || CTX: you people are so stupid https://t.co/eUb5lfkBAe https://t.co/T2cXKCm37J
2026-07-18T13:16 id=2078468990717059211 →materion | @materion @Duffmantha || CTX: Terence Tao BDay Jul 17: "Professional mathematics is not a sport. The objective in mathematics is not to obtain the highest ranking, the highest score, or the highest number of prizes and awards; instead, it is to increase understanding of
2026-07-18T13:25 id=2078471272892412395 →DavidSacks | @DavidSacks Many of us tried to warn you about Anthropic || CTX: OH: “i’ve switched to Kimi from claude for a bunch of work. it’s just so much more fun because it just does the thing instead of lecturing you”  Woke lobotomized models are the enemy of American competitiveness.
2026-07-18T13:42 id=2078475438960312459 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake "AI communism" lmfao  Proud to say Ball blocked me long ago. || CTX: this post has dark energy   very american bush-esque energy right here  freedom is slavery type language   grim https://t.co/FJY6hlYgxd
2026-07-18T13:42 id=2078475591465279874 →- | RT @liminalsnake: If America win ai race  I get good ai models If America lose ai race I get good ai models   My point here is: the whole c… || CTX: If America win ai race  I get good ai models If America lose ai race I get good ai models   My point here is: the whole concept of a zero sum competition between countries regarding AI is actually stupid. Literally low iq yap. Disgusting.
2026-07-18T13:49 id=2078477143571673527 →- | RT @sytelus: 1. Open models are not “inherently” decelerationist. They don’t impact capex because ultimately someone needs to provide exact… || CTX: 1. Open models are not “inherently” decelerationist. They don’t impact capex because ultimately someone needs to provide exact same compute. Growth of compute and therefore capex remains unchanged, if not increased even more.  2. Open model
2026-07-18T14:01 id=2078480318609441235 →- | A big reason why you read bloggers like Gwern in the 2010s was that the posts were free and readily available.   If academic papers, science books, and high quality news sites weren't paywalled, the bloggers wouldn't have had a chance.
2026-07-18T14:17 id=2078484219576410569 →BenHolfeld | @BenHolfeld Every time I see this video in my feed I think, "why is that woman wearing just a bra?" || CTX: Who said there are no women in San Francisco? This is a Thursday at the Bank at Amador in SF FiDi / SF Downtown! https://t.co/WJuhTarI6K
2026-07-18T14:18 id=2078484545310220495 →fabsbz | @fabsbz The academic publishing industry is the most baffling thing on Earth.   Literally just make a website with html and css. Don't even need JavaScript, really. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Insane that academia still revolves around a system that basically guarantees nobody ever reads its output.  They made their bed and now the Yuds of the world lie in it.
2026-07-18T14:36 id=2078489033899180204 →stevogel | @stevogel @matt_levine Matt Levine is part of the literary canon and will be studied for centuries. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 people would still read @matt_levine
2026-07-18T14:49 id=2078492400029446521 →- | For my generation growing up, our parents grew up in the 60s and 70s so we knew some of them were sexy hoes. Hence the MILF archetype: we'd often joke about wanting to fuck our friends' moms. The girlfriend I had in 2000 had an aunt that honestly I wanted to sleep with more than my gf...   But prior to that, those people didn't have sex. The Greatest Generation lacked hoes, the Victorians only had sex with intense regret and only did it once when having a baby. No other reason compelled them to have sex.   And, yeah, in the mists of time there were stories of loose women and relaxed sexuality, like ancient Rome or during the English Restoration or whatever, but for the most part there was a sense that sexual freedom and promiscuity were new.   Perhaps, one could hastily conclude, human sexual desire is historically contingent and culturally created.   Of course this is wrong, and it's better to think that sometimes human sexualjty is constrained by history and culture.   But the natural state of men and women is to want to fuck. Which, yeah, why the fuck wouldn't it be?   So you see how and why Gen Xers and Millennials have some really bizarre and stupid ideas about sexuality. I really think we shouldn't be listened to on the issue at all.   And that goes for me too, don't listen to me on sex or how to understand it. Which means this entire poast was a waste of your time and yet here you are lol || CTX: https://t.co/yQXdaDoaA7
2026-07-18T15:12 id=2078498088243916810 →APark13530380 | @APark13530380 @wordgrammer (wordgrammer is trolling, he does this sometimes) || CTX: @wordgrammer @47fucb4r8c69323 *Rationalist writing is just analytical philosophy with less taste in subject matter and a tendency to not acknowledge the history of the ideas under discussion.
2026-07-18T15:15 id=2078498815410323517 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy I really go back and forth on this but lately I've been thinking the same; too much sexual freedom makes people do horrific things to themselves and each other. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This all seems accurate. Though I do firmly believe that constraints are prosocial here (and in almost every case, tbh).
2026-07-19T00:27 id=2078637931573735650 →hallerite | @hallerite "slop for the masses" is revealing.   Gwern is slop for the masses, you just think it isn't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 strongly disagree. I read Gwern because he was interesting and engaging, whereas most academic papers are dry, most science books are slop for the masses and there aren't really "high quality news sites" to begin with
2026-07-19T00:28 id=2078638115762397245 →Naozymandias | @Naozymandias right, blogs are unserious chatter || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 papers do this to a degree of course, the replys and so on, but blogs allow for much quicker "conversation"
2026-07-19T00:32 id=2078639040266661975 →jtcbrule | @jtcbrule Yeah why should rigor be fun?   And are you're reading for fun or to learn?   Challenging texts aren't fun to read. || CTX: Anecdote: Someone told me that when he mentioned he'd read the propagators paper to Sussman, Sussman asked, "Was it fun to read? Because if it wasn't, we didn't write it correctly."  This struck me as a (tragically) very strange sentiment. 
2026-07-19T00:35 id=2078639787205169586 →AutisticDropout | @AutisticDropout Their output also overuses jargon in an attempt to look serious || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is it just me or do these accounts (Citrini-affiliated and others that appear in the same timelines) have the distinctly cringe markers of techy late-millennial Asians educated in the west trying too hard to be acceptably e
2026-07-19T00:35 id=2078639899583062323 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ of course || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 would you smoke anything from a dispensery in the us?
2026-07-19T00:41 id=2078641281031704821 →jachiam0 | @jachiam0 That hostility to academia is something I experienced and detested as a professor.   I wanted to do a project putting some data about the middle ages online, and I couldn't get support because it wasn't a peer reviewed journal. Tons of this for early academics in the 2000s. || CTX: I think this is an interesting observation; I disagree but believe the question is important and merits a lot of public guesses / discussion. My take: academia decided for many bad reasons, over time, to become deliberately hostile to peopl
2026-07-19T00:44 id=2078642045418418458 →jachiam0 | @jachiam0 Or, you know, they leave for money. || CTX: Academia is able to accomplish great things because there is still a lot of freedom across the breadth of it, but it has no ability whatsoever to nurture the sparks of life it generates; this is why everyone who wants to push an idea to its
2026-07-19T00:46 id=2078642722114810013 →joshua_goodman_ | Dude I smoke the strongest shit I can find idgaf  I know there's a popular attitude in America post legalization to think strong weed is basically meth, but the simple fact is I toke the strong shit, so if you see any intelligence or value in my thinking, time to update some priors about marijuana.   That said, I do not advocate young people smoking weed! I didn't start using weed until I was 42. I had it less than a dozen times total in my youth, and to your point that was not the strong shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 blind eyed grab anything? 10000% THC and 0% CBD?
2026-07-19T00:57 id=2078645456914235494 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes I warned Dean Bell to be careful about language like 6 months ago and he blocked me for it.   You have no idea how much I am relishing this implosion.   Grifters and hangers-on inevitably reveal themselves, now let's see if there are consequences for him or not (prob not). || CTX: Pointing out that nobody at OpenAI forced Dean to make a transparently wrong/ignorant argument that open weights == communism -- that he just up &amp; did totally unprompted right out of the gate at his new gig -- actually makes him look wa
2026-07-19T01:19 id=2078650855889506350 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I need to an add an exception to this: if you're a pseudointellectual who reads "smart" things for entertainment instead of acquiring knowledge, yeah I could see why you'd love Gwern rambling about nicotine and Neon Genesis Evangelion, enjoy your slop little piggy. || CTX: A big reason why you read bloggers like Gwern in the 2010s was that the posts were free and readily available.   If academic papers, science books, and high quality news sites weren't paywalled, the bloggers wouldn't have had a chance.
2026-07-19T01:22 id=2078651627826036844 →- | I was going to write a thread disputing the argument "If OAI/Anthropic don't get buckets of money everyone dies" or whatever horseshit paid shill Dean Bell and paid retard Citrini analyst have been shitting on the timeline, but Jon has beat me to it. Read all of this it is right. https://t.co/QEzah9ttpW || CTX: Not a QT dunk but more of a steelman, b/c I'm seeing this take from many people. It's a flavor of not actually grasping the Jevons Paradox (again. still.).  Many such cases out there in AI guy land, even amongst smart ppl who call out other
2026-07-19T01:29 id=2078653402775732685 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @IsZomg @amruthapotnuru I loved living in Harlem. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @IsZomg @amruthapotnuru barracuda https://t.co/fg7DDnuhpX
2026-07-19T01:41 id=2078656556166779132 →- | Millennial cringe and Gen Z cringe are different kinds of cringe, not really comparable or best understood by comparing to one another.  Gen Z cringe is the product of an oppressive and confining culture in which the limitations of a restrictive capitalist system confines what they can safely do. Things like being terminally online, not drinking alcohol, not having sex, being terrified to talk to other people--these are the result of them living online, the trauma of lockdowns and cancel culture, and the increasing power of being constantly observed and snitching both from above (surveillance from Flock, Palantir, Facebook, et al) and from the sides (snitches and content creators on social media looking for clout).  Millennial cringe is the product of undeserved freedom misspent. The "quirky chungus" stereotype was only possible for a group of people who were given freedom to invent language games and means of communication hitherto impossible, and instead of using that freedom to build things that point towards the sublime, they instead built the restrictive capitalist system that now confines Gen Z while relieving their conscience with a fig leaf of responsibility either in the form of performative conservativism ("RETVRN TO MONKEE" the man types on his iPhone while sipping a guava smoothie in the back of an Uber) or performative wokeness (I don't even need to give an example of that, you know exactly what I mean).  So the false seriousness of Millennials' cover for their rapacious self interest in fact compounded how extractive their new businesses and technologies were on the human experience. As a result, Gen Z is further restrained and constrained.  Poor kids! My heart bleeds for Gen Z and I do not have the heart to make fun of them. At least not until they have the power to fuck the world up.  And ofc when they have that power they will fuck the world up, just like every generation before them did.  I'm not afraid to die, Christ it'll be a fucking relief to finally get away from the hairless monkeys I'm imprisoned with. I'm going to go for a walk fuck each and every one of you
2026-07-19T01:47 id=2078658007777616323 →izzyz | @izzyz I warned Dean long ago, and the asshole blocked me for it. these outcomes are ridiculously predictable
2026-07-19T02:09 id=2078663607945162753 →- | does he think this is a good thing? if so, I think we finally figured out why ChatGPT can't write well: it's not a limitation of the technology, the people at the helm are incompetent. https://t.co/jLLs2nqIPo || CTX: new models strongly reminiscent of reading nick land or paglia or any other sort of philosopher on 200mg adderall if they were also Linux sysadmins https://t.co/LcvbkGed8h
2026-07-19T02:11 id=2078664014457098723 →tszzl | @tszzl oh, so you recognize this is not a good thing. glad to hear it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nah man relax
2026-07-19T02:29 id=2078668620339744835 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Me too, Gen Z has got the fire that Millennials lacked. I'm broadly optimistic about the future, which is an odd position as I've spent most of my life being deeply pessimistic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm optimistic about them, but I think you're right otherwise.
2026-07-19T02:30 id=2078668846546981187 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka it's easy to fine tune Qwen to write well, that's what made me realize open models are going to compress OAI/Anthropic margins to hell. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Admittantly my usage is very task-oriented, but I've never seen a model write anything that wasn't plottable on an axis directly between "barely verbal autist" and "refined essence of redditor".
2026-07-19T02:46 id=2078672913016959481 →- | NGL this would explain a lot. https://t.co/EcTrFff4I5 || CTX: openai has been hiring all the bricks and retards who were already getting soft-fired from my company, they have *not* been hiring the best. i will be shorting after the ipo. this is not financial advice.
2026-07-19T02:57 id=2078675458481328323 →Reboticant | @Reboticant @Ken67547214 fortunately no one is doing that here, but you seem to be the kind of person who struggles with reading comprehension. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 really? cuz blaming millenials for the 'restrictive capitalist system that now confines Gen Z' sounds pretty stupid to me and that's putting it politely
2026-07-19T03:18 id=2078680829254140230 →- | A telling difference between Millennials and Gen Z can be see in the transition from "fap" to "goon".  Both mean masturbation, but the valence is so profoundly different and the sociohistorical pragmatics and implicature are ridiculously different.  "Fap" enters the zeitgeist in 1999 thanks to a webcomic called "Sexy Losers" (ref: https://t.co/IqRZsMMwOI), and already there's much to be said about the word. It is an onomatopoeia, comical in its reference to the mechanic of tugging it, because a reference to the incidental sound is also an affirmation of the neutrality of the act.  The pathetic or shamefulness of masturbation isn't emphasized, nor is it eroticized: it is merely a thing one does to one's body that produces a funny sound.  This is a rebellion against earlier generations' shaming the act, and it was Gen X and Xennials saying, "no, fuck you, tradition, I will not let you make me feel embarassed for this." It was an attempt to turn masutrbation into a psychologically, morally, and politically neutral act. It's just fapping, boomer.  Millennials embraced this in their typically tasteless way, going from a rebellion against earlier generations' shaming to a self-expression in its own right. No longer is "fap" a comic term to say "we have moved past being embarassed about natural physical activities", now it is something that everyone just does.  Xennials succeeded in making the term neutral so that Millennials could overuse it and make it TOO neutral.  Gen Z then rejected the term because they no longer see masturbation as neutral--they are bringing back an emotional valence in rebellion of the permissiveness of Millennial culture.  But the valence is new.  "Goon" of course is polysemous, and the new slang derived from a "goon" as in a thug or idiot, someone who is in some way lesser than the norm. And gooning, in turn, lowers one's status.  Millennials in fact were the first to use the term and to use it this way: when it emerged in the 2000s on forums, the word "gooning" was meant to refer to a kind of obsessive and self-admittedly destructive act, where gooning for extended periods of time brought out a kind of parodic state of enlightenment, but the gooner does this because they have little options outside of their hand. It was not a neutral act--that's fapping. It's a shameful act. Gooning is not fapping was the Millennial view.  The semantic field for the word "goon" expanded more recently, and I'm not sure when exactly this happened but post-pandemic the word "fap" has disappeared entirely, and "goon" means masturbation. And while many in Gen Z think they are using it with a neutral valence, the etymological and cultural context indicates that they are merely inheriting a pregnant ideological valence that they are subconsciously assenting to with the term.  They're admitting their masturbation is in some sense unhealthy.  This is a profound cultural shift--and that it is happening when Gen Z is more online and less prone to date or have sex or find a committed mongomous relationship should not surprise anyone.  I'm so sorry, kids. We tried to give you a better world. We failed.
2026-07-19T03:19 id=2078681032170283486 →GetMentalWealth | @GetMentalWealth Your cradenza is gorgeous, your curtains are gorgeous, and especially your plate is gorgeous--I WANT THOSE PLATES! || CTX: Installed curtains, celebrating with steak https://t.co/wZtq9gEK1E
2026-07-19T03:29 id=2078683630902378833 →sebkrier | @sebkrier Same reason we don't have single payer healthcare. || CTX: This is the kind of 'institutional misalignment' I'm most irritated by. https://t.co/xkDcM4iHwu https://t.co/KQaulrMnuE
2026-07-19T03:34 id=2078684908365738369 →ssuph | @ssuph @buccocapital I think it describes it very well, but the solution isn't to read the Talmud. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @buccocapital Do you think this doesn't describe at least some of the ai silicon valley culture?
2026-07-19T03:36 id=2078685319864693174 →- | Vote and check out the results, then you can fill out your 47fucb apology form and submit below. https://t.co/44hBZM1xl6 || CTX: Sentiment check on Anthropic and OpenAI
2026-07-19T03:39 id=2078686246419984809 →PUNISHEDJINGTAO | @PUNISHEDJINGTAO "Goon" on SA meant just a user on SA, so it's possible "gooning" derived from that. I honestly don't know if it did, worth researching! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Any shot goon comes from somethingawful?
2026-07-19T03:51 id=2078689107874853075 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Congratulations sir || CTX: I am engaged https://t.co/TpADAkH15i
2026-07-19T03:58 id=2078690906342035629 →me_no_sit_still | @me_no_sit_still The stuff I hate was made in the 2010s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “They instead built the restrictive capitalist system that now confines Gen Z”  No, Millenials didn’t build what you think they did; you’re thinking of young boomers and Gen Xers. Millenials were still children and were in 
2026-07-19T04:00 id=2078691357229814252 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 lmfao  When's the big day? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Been engaged for a while but still engaged I just thought the world should know I get pussy
2026-07-19T04:05 id=2078692614317179110 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy no lol, iirc I heard about it on a podcast. Shit is wild. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you read this? It’s whacky. https://t.co/AMq4TtqMha
2026-07-19T04:06 id=2078692965309100461 →wreckmyshit | yeah idk on the one hand roon shows signs of intelligence on things he's written off Twitter but otoh he takes Land/Yud et al. seriously.   Sometimes I wonder if roon's problem is he's so open minded that his brain fell out of his head, this is a common problem with bright misguided young people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i feel like things are happening and we're all about to find out, unless this guy is just a liar xD https://t.co/MywyvB73FI
2026-07-19T04:33 id=2078699720860631177 →- | if LLMs wrote better, it would require less tokens and less back and forth to get usable outputs.   Openai and Anthropic are leaving so much money on the table and encouraging more use of open models because they focused on coding and did not try to make their clankers write better.   Such an obvious opportunity, all you need is well-trained linguists and literary critics to fix it, but the culture doesn't recognize the value of linguistics or literature so the shitty writing will not stop, and the EV of both companies will keep falling.
2026-07-19T04:33 id=2078699852763111566 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit I think he's in his mid 20s if I remember correctly || CTX: is he young? i forget im 39 quite often and that there are people younger than i am. my brain has fallen(got bashed) out a couple times. i can't track what all these people do or say or the lore of the entire thing, but i do see a lot and c
2026-07-19T04:37 id=2078700608132092222 →brianchau57 | @brianchau57 @deanwball fuck off, dude wrote something stupid and irresponsible and deserves to be attacked accordingly.   This is a typical case of trying to protect your own.   Gfy || CTX: You guys have been way too mean to @deanwball for a take that we (especially in technology) have been able to debate without demonizing people before https://t.co/KMAIkRgHvL
2026-07-19T04:37 id=2078700837422150092 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng @PUNISHEDJINGTAO Yeah that makes a lot of sense tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PUNISHEDJINGTAO “Gooning” in the masturbation sense started on 4chan, but a lot of SA goons migrated there so it probably derived from them. Goons on 4chan.
2026-07-19T05:01 id=2078706849315258764 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov I never said anything about novels or classic text.  I want well written informative text, not slop I need to tell it to rewrite 5 times when e. g. I'm making a list of things I have to do before suing my neighbor. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you really think an LLM could write novels that you'd actually read in your free time? Or that there's room for higher quality writing, but not to the level of a classic text?
2026-07-19T05:02 id=2078707102017814801 →ChatDevr | @ChatDevr no, they're good at code because code is very easy to do, it is deterministic within a fixed system of a priori rules. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So LLMs are good at code because the people that made them are coders....
2026-07-19T05:04 id=2078707595184107855 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv OAI definitely has higher EV than Anthropic ceteris paribus but it's higher than current MTM EV.   I tried to tell you, bro; finance is more than just "line go up". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have the least popular opinion apparently lmfao
2026-07-19T05:39 id=2078716300583748006 →coookzy | @coookzy And other generations (the older ones get off my case FBI) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would you say that you spend a lot of time thinking about Gen Z gooning?
2026-07-19T05:46 id=2078717985339089343 →- | RT @1a1n1d1y: solving the debate on open weight models in this quick lil vid right here https://t.co/2VcChcxd8C || CTX: solving the debate on open weight models in this quick lil vid right here https://t.co/2VcChcxd8C https://t.co/8jtTZkXHXg
2026-07-19T05:50 id=2078719115829862679 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes Dude you are on fire today. || CTX: Look I think I've figured this whole thing out. Follow along as I try to steelman, and tell me where I'm wrong.  OpenAI guys on the TL believe that if they can't sell metered inference tokens at a sufficient markup, then they will not have 
2026-07-19T06:07 id=2078723336637714809 →scary_marsupial | @scary_marsupial yours. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That's a lot of words to not answer the question: who's hoe-ass grandma is that?
2026-07-19T06:11 id=2078724283757662269 →tszzl | @tszzl You guys stole the technique from Google Brain.   You stole the corpus from the writers who wrote those texts.   That's why you should be open source.   Sure, you deserve some EV for improving the UI/UX.   You don't deserve to be as big as NVDA.   And you won't. https://t.co/YDJa8YCuDt || CTX: tapping the sign https://t.co/bacY10aAow
2026-07-19T06:11 id=2078724442382062004 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @tszzl fuck yah that's my mutual &lt;3 @Ken67547214 || CTX: @tszzl https://t.co/LTJ2vPGYTN tapping the sign (thank you Ken)
2026-07-19T06:14 id=2078725243137569278 →TMTLongShort | @TMTLongShort This is so retarded I can't tell if you're trolling or not. || CTX: Distillation is the biggest threat to the U.S. economy.    The government should be providing all resources to combat it.    We should be putting CEOs and all employees of Chinese labs who blatantly utilize nefarious tactics on entities lis
2026-07-19T06:24 id=2078727640371085785 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin I'm just waiting for it to get good enough that I can make my movie about Wittgenstein's life.   So excited fr fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m excited for the indie movies. I’ve read random fanfic on forums that’s a million times better than anything Hollywood writers are putting out these days.
2026-07-19T06:36 id=2078730721011941582 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker https://t.co/gSSJvgefuk || CTX: Oh nah unc too freaked out he fucking off 4chan https://t.co/BdT6Vb3jzI
2026-07-19T06:45 id=2078732981104222283 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @ElmWho @IsZomg we'll never let you be suspended, Ms. H. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @IsZomg same. good job everyone. i would rather be suspended forever than have you guys bow down on account of me
2026-07-19T07:05 id=2078738098633187399 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @IsZomg you've been doing this for two years?!? || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @IsZomg np anon  just remember  we are on your side  we have been doing this for a long time  seen a lot of potential futures come and go  but it only ends once https://t.co/jiRipbABkc
2026-07-19T07:33 id=2078744941896098033 →- | YOU LOVE TO SEE IT https://t.co/YBa9egYBbw
2026-07-19T07:33 id=2078745076482941170 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill it bothers me that you're both good looking and look really strong, you could totally kick my ass and I'd probably get off on it || CTX: I AM YOU ARE WE ARE AUSTRALIAN https://t.co/Tmc1NfQPFQ
2026-07-19T07:34 id=2078745164533920042 →tszzl | @tszzl are you just the propaganda arm of openai at this point? || CTX: https://t.co/sUL9MV5HlH
2026-07-19T07:36 id=2078745752931848271 →Richard_She | @Richard_She with your last name, you would think that.   (but seriously, yeah that could be part of it.) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 huh i think it's subconsciously driven by a shift towards a more gender neutral term
2026-07-19T07:37 id=2078746091189936573 →sentdefender | @sentdefender ABOUT FUCKING TIME || CTX: Both Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by U.S. Marshals outside of a private event in Miami, Florida, following an extradition request by the UK Government against the brothers on over fifty charges related to rape, arranging or fa
2026-07-19T07:41 id=2078747021733945651 →- | Dean Without Balls thinks you're a red commie bastard if you don't pay your WinZip license.   If you use Linux, you're going to be blacklisted from Hollywood forever.   Like to look stuff up on wikipedia? Go back to Russia you no good pinko.
2026-07-19T07:42 id=2078747256568897980 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth not me, because as tenobrus once pointed out, I'm not even a software engineer. how could I possibly know anything? || CTX: Who could have POSSIBLY seen this coming?  CC: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/ZNc8GCCvRq
2026-07-19T07:43 id=2078747468414758966 →rameswar08 | @rameswar08 that's what I've been trying to tell anyone who will listen for 6 months, but both the frontier labs and VCs don't see any money in it, so here I am. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i actually think this is underrated  most people don't need a smarter model, they need one that can say the same thing in half the words without sounding robotic
2026-07-19T07:43 id=2078747532377944177 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @ElmWho BRING BACK BULLYING || CTX: @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @ElmWho lmao this is what is wrong with software today  not enough nerds shoved into lockers in high school  society has gone soft
2026-07-19T07:46 id=2078748382164910496 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @IsZomg @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @ElmWho https://t.co/NWrUiFuE2a || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @IsZomg @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @ElmWho *consequences
2026-07-19T07:49 id=2078749045762486285 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker no clue, I've never done cocaine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do they have good blow in Thailand
2026-07-19T07:59 id=2078751452370219108 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @IsZomg @JasonBotterill @ElmWho Same year as Wittgenstein and iirc James Joyce || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @IsZomg @JasonBotterill @ElmWho you know who ELSE was born on 4/20?  Eighteen, Ei- ei- eighteen  Ei- ei- eighteen  1889 https://t.co/TWyKmC0pLg
2026-07-19T08:01 id=2078752187577221200 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @IsZomg @ElmWho On Certainty is the best place to start but this is a close second: https://t.co/x6QiqY4HD5 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @IsZomg @ElmWho You have mentioned Wittgenstein so much now I have to look at his work
2026-07-19T08:03 id=2078752485792207043 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @IsZomg @ElmWho Start with Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha @IsZomg @ElmWho Then I hope you read joyce, too
2026-07-19T08:17 id=2078756172820324593 →peeyuzz | @peeyuzz one of the many reasons why that view is both retarded and destructive, but we don't have to fight the idiots anymore, the market is now in control || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean if you view ai as an existential threat/god in creation/substance of national security their point that others should (esp from adversarial country) not be allowed to steal their IP is valid
2026-07-19T08:42 id=2078762451794026894 →- | The "training process" that Google Brain discovered, wrote about, and then OpenAI copied and told all of us they were creating the machine god. The smart ones never believed this, the dumb ones did, but they all thought they'd be masters of the universe.   You don't get it, roon, that doesn't matter.  "You and I are both like guys that have this rich neighbor, and you go sneaking in to steal a TV set, only when you get there you realize that I got there first. And you're yelling, 'that's not fair, I wanted to try to steal it first'. You're too late."   https://t.co/syTfua2UPD || CTX: @Pehdrew_ @buccocapital the training process creates Models out of Data. quite a transformative process, to which each datum is neither critical nor rivalrous. On the other end you get a machine you can talk to   Meanwhile stealing training
2026-07-19T08:50 id=2078764308054544778 →xeophon | @xeophon @tenobrus teno likes to pull bullshit out of his ass, so it's strange for him to be bearish on anything. || CTX: @tenobrus where is it “incredible expensive / token-inefficient”? Like what are you basing this on?
2026-07-19T09:01 id=2078767246298755325 →- | I always wanted to ask my classmates why they were also homeschooled, sadly couldn't.
2026-07-19T09:06 id=2078768448352792657 →- | "Unless, ofc, you're doing customized training of base and open models. Which is where the real value in the LLM economy lies, now."   With Inkling and K3 out, it's time to remind everyone of Rule 47 of the Internet: 47 rules because he's always right. https://t.co/ZkZ19jjwbO || CTX: The frontier labs must be freaking out. They know they need to pivot to post-training because they don't know wtf to do on the pre-training side, and they want to make the post-training improve outputs across all domains.  And they know thi
2026-07-19T09:08 id=2078768812766486662 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset Nah, there weren't any that I was aware of at the time and a year into homeschooling I was doing a full load (stfu and stop giggling) at the local community college. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You didn’t go to home-schooled kid’s camp?
2026-07-19T09:12 id=2078769866514018690 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset I kinda wish I'd gone to camp so someone would stick a flute up my pussy https://t.co/raUlrbnozA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice. never did any kind of camp but i’ve seen some funny movies based on the premise
2026-07-19T09:16 id=2078770989664727302 →teodorio | @teodorio let's start talking about boobies || CTX: I am done with AI as a matter of novelty, it's now a quasiperfect word processor and compiler for me. I am sick about it on my timeline. There are cool problems re economic implications but for software it's mostly solved so it's useless to
2026-07-19T09:30 id=2078774537819426860 →hallerite | @hallerite 1. A Brief History of Time 2. Financial Times  Now, before you hit back with "um akshuyally", I am not saying these are perfect or even ideal. Just that they're better than Gwern et al., like exponentially better.  No one started smoking cigarettes because of Hawking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 would you be willing to give an example for a science book or a high quality news article that is not slop for the masses?
2026-07-19T09:31 id=2078774667045896341 →arvobeer | @arvobeer @teodorio yes there tends to be two. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio Seconded
2026-07-19T09:48 id=2078779044737482850 →hallerite | @hallerite I love fringe ideas from intelligent people. The problem with Gwern is that he's an idiot. || CTX: I think you may just not appreciate it when a publication is willing to entertain fringe ideas or speculate. Both of your examples are very "safe" to consume and while there is undoubtedly value in this type of publication, the type of pers
2026-07-19T09:49 id=2078779274010722617 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @hallerite I love fringe ideas from intelligent people; that's why I follow so many crazy but brilliant people on social media. || CTX: @hallerite I love fringe ideas from intelligent people. The problem with Gwern is that he's an idiot.
2026-07-19T09:53 id=2078780291397890158 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Good algo. || CTX: If you watch old RedLetterMedia videos, Youtube recommends the suicide hotline to you https://t.co/HSncXy56L7
2026-07-19T10:03 id=2078782762308571400 →maxbodach | @maxbodach @deanwball Grifter supporting a grifter, typical and unsurprising || CTX: thank you for your service @deanwball https://t.co/8YB6EoKzEM
2026-07-19T10:11 id=2078784667491438703 →stevehou | @stevehou All economic laws are descriptions of empirical predictions.   What else could they be? || CTX: "The Jevons paradox" is not an economic law. It's an empirical observation just like "the Philips curve". When someone cites "the Jevons paradox" wrt AI, it's much more akin to a prediction that the price demand elasticity of AI is very hig
2026-07-19T10:15 id=2078785699726401791 →aryamaniac_ | @aryamaniac_ Academic papers are meant to be read by academics. If you aren't one I can see why you'd fail to understand this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Blogs are meant to be read, and academic papers aren’t. The gap is pretty minimal actually, but any attempt to make a subject approachable is punished by publishers. All the value accrues to the people able to translate fro
2026-07-19T10:30 id=2078789571840720919 →teodorio | @teodorio Gratitude for you saving her. || CTX: my cat decided today to get on my chest in the morning and just purr and stay there. after which she decided to start booping my face.  basically this dance here https://t.co/zXK1hSbx6I
2026-07-19T10:37 id=2078791413744169015 →- | So now that there's more competition from K3 and Thinking Machines, you have more reason to invest more in the next frontier model and less reason to pivot to inference as OAI/Anthropic have done for the last ~9 months.  And if you can't compete, you'll fail to get the capex and someone else will. That's how competitive markets work.  There is zero reason why we need regulations or laws to protect your access to capital. Zero. You're not a charity, you're a for profit company looking to IPO, remember?  If this competition is making you sweat, just wait until guys like me are asking Sam questions on earnings calls EVERY. SINGLE. QUARTER.  You could've seen this long ago if you thought of yourself as a SWE in a competitive SaaS company (which you are) instead of building a machine god on a civilizational scale (which you are not).  You got fooled into thinking you were doing something Really Important, and now the market is punishing you by reminding you competition exists and others might actually build a better product than you can.   So stop tweeting and get back to work. PUT THE NEW MODEL IN THE BAG || CTX: @jon_stokes your take is quite innumerate tbh   think this through   what is the capex return cycle on a frontier model? how does that enable investment into the next model?  do you think capital grows on trees or do we have to wrest it fro
2026-07-19T10:38 id=2078791582707515674 →menhguin | @menhguin The only margins that'll be compressed are Anthropic's and OpenAI's. || CTX: Update: people *think* this margin compression and capex decline is happening with Kimi K3. I disagree. It is bad for Western labs, but good for hardware capex bc capex benefits from multiple competing frontier labs. https://t.co/fLewJRQGha
2026-07-19T10:42 id=2078792485145645071 →menhguin | @menhguin I'd never invest in a Chinese company as a foreigner, but I am happily going to back up the truck and buy semis when I'm done buying my neighbor's house.   This competition is soooo good for hardware like insanely good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did i mention im long alibaba and i have Moonshot shares https://t.co/Fp85gjoh64
2026-07-19T10:45 id=2078793250438349060 →- | https://t.co/I5NqXnONQO https://t.co/sFH2xSDVoc || CTX: SITUATION DETECTED: Alibaba has released Qwen3.8, a new 2.4T parameter model that they claim is behind only Claude Fable 5 in performance.
2026-07-19T10:52 id=2078795098062807154 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I may be a retard because I think the same. And doesn't that suggest that once you throw a model out there, there's just no way to stop copying parts of it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am just a retard but my instinctual thought to the models mostly being a result of their cpu bound training environments is that it’s easier to steal a lab’s environments than it is to steal their weights
2026-07-19T10:54 id=2078795496702062750 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x @traits_reality @helscom @retardbot9000 || CTX: @traits_reality @helscom another Jew moot who is not a programmer but enjoys quirky stuff like this @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-19T10:55 id=2078795811467760096 →liminalsnake | something I've learned in my old age is that the real enemies of civilization are people who just want a 9-5 job so that they can go home and do other things.   if you have no passion for your work, you're not going to move things forward, and you're going to be incentivized to be as lazy and unproductive as you can get away with. || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 @maxbodach @deanwball Just enough taste to plagiarize not enough diligence to learn the tech and develop actual discernment. (Self preservation technique so they never question the grift)
2026-07-19T12:40 id=2078822359126225332 →MichaelWaitze | @MichaelWaitze Agreed! If roon just accepted they're now a UI/UX company, there's no problem. But he drank the AGI koolaid and can't admit he was bamboozled || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think the real pressure is different now. It's not just about building the best frontier model, it's about giving customers the tools to customize what they need fast. Where do you see companies actually winning?
2026-07-19T12:44 id=2078823336491262106 →teodorio | @teodorio @ZyMazza I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU THIS FOR 9 MONTHS GODDAMMIT CANCEL YOYR CLAOD PRESCRPSJUNS WHY DOESNR ANYONE LISTEN RO 47 || CTX: @ZyMazza They genuinely do it's insane, they actually hate anyone who is not part of the priestly pristine class
2026-07-19T12:54 id=2078825689323876857 →teodorio | @teodorio I have oscillated so much on whether organ markets should be legal, I still can't decide what I think is best here. || CTX: This is what the price mechanism simplifies away so beautifully by the way https://t.co/sfwlTjcKYm
2026-07-19T13:02 id=2078827809817165889 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia "What is this, a school for Israelis?!" || CTX: Just going to throw out that undermine the government of Malaysians  is the plot of Zoolander and all its hero wanted to do was make a school for weird kids who couldn’t read so good or socialize normally
2026-07-19T13:13 id=2078830624300056841 →Dan_Jeffries1 | @Dan_Jeffries1 This has been my view since the SaaSpocalypse began, and I'm up ~30% or so swing trading IGV as a result.  One of the strangest selloffs of my career, totally misinformed and ill conceived, and the private credit freakout was based on the same premise (still opportunities there) || CTX: I was in the side of that said the SaaSpocalypse will not happen and I still think many strong SaaS with large followings of knowledge built into it will survive, knowledge that has high stakes (medicine/taxes) will stay for some time.  But
2026-07-19T13:25 id=2078833521343566176 →hesipullfade | @hesipullfade @Dan_Jeffries1 Yeah I exited, waiting to get back in || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Dan_Jeffries1 Just so hard to get excited about IGV after sbux headline last wk &amp; K3 developments
2026-07-19T13:31 id=2078835040948232504 →- | Great artists steal.   You wanted a cyberpunk future, didn't you Anon?   What'd you think cyberpunk meant? Askell vibes? Yud essays? https://t.co/aNoDLCqyRN || CTX: 1.  Of course China distills. Every model distills.  2. USA distills too.  @thinkymachines distills from Kimi.  3. All models distill from humanity’s best work. Newton distilled too. That’s how he can stand on the shoulders of giants.  4. W
2026-07-19T13:42 id=2078837840943980754 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 @foomagemindset I was homeschooled from 1993-1995, back then homeschooling was really rare so there weren't any camps or groups where I lived.   Now, you know, with social media there must be tons of groups, this is why the loneliness crisis feels kinda bullshit to me, so easy to meet ppl now. || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 ha i was gonna ask the same- my sister used to do field trips with their homeschooling group several times per month before the kids decided to go to public school for high school
2026-07-19T14:28 id=2078849393529385344 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @IsZomg Oh I forgot to mention--Abigail, my bank changed their rules on maximum size of a check, so you can send all my money at once next time. || CTX: @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @IsZomg https://t.co/ErqRcCCHhw
2026-07-19T14:30 id=2078849901824536786 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit @uberfinitist That's the worst part, it's downright insulting || CTX: @uberfinitist @47fucb4r8c69323 and they think we wont notice &gt;=D
2026-07-19T15:22 id=2078862989697151409 →- | If you think of Nietzsche's "I love my enemy for he gives me a target to hurl my spear at" and the implicit antagonism in all forms of play, you can easily wonder if maybe Leibniz was right.   And isn't Panglossianism necessarily centrist? It would assume the past was good and the future will be good, so it's both conservative and progressive.
2026-07-19T15:53 id=2078870943594909976 →kodumit | @kodumit there's a porn vid of me, my ex wife might still have it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what about rule 34
2026-07-19T15:56 id=2078871720891670919 →Andrey4Mir | @Andrey4Mir Thank you! Maybe it's my own arrogance, but it feels like an ideal disciplinary background to manage this is philology. || CTX: As a personal strategy, one can certainly withstand media determinism. That's the hope and the basis of the counter-digital media literacy I am working on now.  But only to a certain degree, because you will be dragged along by media evolut
2026-07-19T16:22 id=2078878219785339375 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit This is a beautiful way of putting it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont think its stealing if i can just look it up/see the entire pipeline  inspiration that changes me and my creations range from telling jokes to utilizing random software and following/interacting with people  distillin
2026-07-19T16:29 id=2078879935649947887 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit glad to hear you're doing better || CTX: thanks, when i had a stroke 3yrs ago i never thought id be able to keep up again but literally distilling what i see other people doing IRL and online has allowed me to model myself back to whatever this is(an upgraded version of the c++ TA
2026-07-19T16:31 id=2078880458247684173 →- | RT @stevehou: Unpopular opinion: AI basically became useful for enterprise use early this year with agentic AI acceleration. Everything bef… || CTX: Unpopular opinion: AI basically became useful for enterprise use early this year with agentic AI acceleration. Everything before was basically consumer and hobbyist. 2026 is year 0 for AI enterprise use. So why would anyone have expected me
2026-07-19T19:26 id=2078924345343369530 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ hmm, not sure tbh! || CTX: im 28. some of your posts address us young people with concern and compassion. at what point is one no longer young?@47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-19T19:26 id=2078924428768112765 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka unquestionably || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think nietzsche would have liked an atlatl? https://t.co/P3yIuQjixR
2026-07-19T20:57 id=2078947454217822258 →OpenAI | @OpenAI, your new hire pissed off the Feds, way to go super smart choice there kids. https://t.co/7o0HvfVkqc || CTX: Every industry/ecosystem has its supreme village idiot. @deanwball is that for AI. Congress passed a law in 2026 that restricted some uses of DeepSeek/High Flyer with waivers permitted. Only those models.  It went through the democratic pro
2026-07-19T21:01 id=2078948481855791334 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Luxury sloppy joe || CTX: Looks and sounds revolting. Thanks https://t.co/O4JT0proKp
2026-07-19T21:12 id=2078951057368228180 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit @OpenAI Dean is an ass-kisser and schmoozer, sadly big orgs attract people like that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @OpenAI 😂😂 how do all these retards keep getting into positions where they can affect shit at all
2026-07-19T21:14 id=2078951613797122122 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Come for the foot fetish tweets, stay for the nightmare scenarios describing humanmade hellscapes beyond comprehension || CTX: What if they try to create a gene in humans that's like domestication in dogs to make an ethical form of servitude but then they find out humans already have that and they start to do genetic testing to find out if you're supposed to work a
2026-07-20T01:57 id=2079022975559614477 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha cry emoji hands together emoji heart emoji  (I'm making you read that's why I'm not using the actual emojis) || CTX: The two accounts who have gotten me to read the most books this year has been @47fucb4r8c69323 and @Duffmantha highly recommend following both for the best kind of mind worms https://t.co/4PjWRdOJK4
2026-07-20T01:58 id=2079023216975396930 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill fuck yeah this the good shit right here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i am not an artist i am a story teller the only question is who am i going to tell  @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/PuFmlwKisX
2026-07-20T02:02 id=2079024204004143426 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @flowersslop @___merge_io___ @CommanthaBiden flowers is sharing flowers's address? That seems fine by me. Self doxx is no doxx anymore than masturbation is sex. || CTX: @Duffmantha @flowersslop @___merge_io___ @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 her private information is being shared beyond this thread and I wish flowers would stop doing it
2026-07-20T02:03 id=2079024306630324528 →entelechiada | @entelechiada Fine tune Qwen! A small model is better IME. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 best writing model?
2026-07-20T02:06 id=2079025225518514284 →WoganMay | @WoganMay @exeMerlow Wittgenstein's Philosophical Remarks gets to this point in a way that makes most sense to me, and ofc there's this: https://t.co/526lrBTEut || CTX: @exeMerlow @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-20T02:11 id=2079026376745910738 →tszzl | Dean Ball was in the post you called the scrolls of truth; let me quote:  "You just need to direct every agency to issue soft law that creates FUD. "A Federal Reserve Advisory Bulletin found that there may be backdoors in Chinese AI models." It needn't be that well justified. You just create enough regulatory risk that every regulated enterprise backs off."  You weren't, this is true; you were just suggesting if OpenAI doesn't maintain your pole position, getting capex to train the next model will be harder.   And that's true. And it's a good thing, because now you need to work harder and produce better work.  Competition from the distillers will force you to produce ASI faster, if you can (ofc you can't, not from LLMs). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nobody, in this entire argument chain, was calling for any sort of regulation. it is possible that there will be models that are quite dangerous and shouldn’t be open sourced, but that is an empirical question and not what 
2026-07-20T02:22 id=2079029135964549349 →tszzl | @tszzl "You just need to" is a semi-modal verb suggesting an action, roon I have never seen you this disingenuous before and it honestly saddens me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a descriptive rather than normativ sentiment
2026-07-20T02:26 id=2079030194938253323 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset https://t.co/d9i6XP2wK3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 boom https://t.co/mN3ULbawqE
2026-07-20T02:27 id=2079030395623125261 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha I hope you're reading Tractatus Logico-Philosohicus in an audiobook || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha I feel a sense of missing out when I don’t get a post so I end up buying Amazon audible credits thanks you fucking nerd
2026-07-20T02:37 id=2079032820757090551 →tszzl | "it would be to avoid this dystopian hellscape" and that's why it pragmatically and rhetorically has the force of a normative assertion.   I think you do know this, you're just defending your new coworker.   If your bosses are smart, he won't be your coworker for long.  I warned you about OAI's marketinge message months ago. Should've listened, man. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 describing how tactically easy it would be
2026-07-20T03:15 id=2079042567480734055 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 lmfao I see it I totally see it || CTX: @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 He looks like the Mario face you can stretch and make all fucked up in the menu of Super Mario 64
2026-07-20T03:20 id=2079043739214119120 →- | OpenAI and Anthropic are becoming enemies to American competitiveness.   End paternalistic safetyism in LLMs. Today. https://t.co/956gNkjBhj || CTX: Update: Kimi fixed all 15 critical bugs in 10 hours in a single prompt (no /goal). Not a single complaint. Code quality is impressive.  The whole thing cost me $250, paid to China. https://t.co/0p8aX9p6et
2026-07-20T03:26 id=2079045190111875474 →squirtle_says | @squirtle_says Glad to see San Francisco get a bit less ageist. || CTX: good morning san francisco https://t.co/qsIdr9ZJI8
2026-07-20T03:33 id=2079047031117730149 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 Bojan Horsemack || CTX: @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 This dude blocked me because I put him on the unfunny tier list.
2026-07-20T04:39 id=2079063587147121025 →- | OpenAI's recent comms disaster and the poor response by prominent employees is yet another symptom of the problem: this company doesn't understand how language works.   Which would be fine, tech people suck at language.  Except their product is literally a large language model.
2026-07-20T04:42 id=2079064475773374972 →- | Look, man, I'm not going to organize this kind of lobby group but I absolutely would contribute to it. It's what the market needs.  If anyone does organize such a consortium and wants a wordsmith-analyst to help, my DMs are open. https://t.co/FKgwoKWKTL || CTX: Regardless open source AI companies need legal representation that also has some presence on Capitol Hill
2026-07-20T04:53 id=2079067049247260700 →- | Well this is awkward. https://t.co/77LHKfCbi9 || CTX: I blame Eliezer Yudkowsky. J’accuse.  Surprised Big Yud can still walk down the street in San Francisco without his lucha libre orgy mask on. But these frustrations are growing. If it all goes sour we’ll need a scapegoat—an antichrist, even
2026-07-20T05:08 id=2079070868081402028 →gailcweiner | @gailcweiner You have bad taste; I saw Ball for the bullshitter he was 6 months ago. || CTX: I expected more from Dean Ball, which is exactly why his post landed so badly.  He built his reputation on being one of the more careful thinkers in AI policy. Then he compared open-source AI to communism, called a world of open-weight mode
2026-07-20T05:12 id=2079071827738116207 →- | Tweets like this drive me crazy.   I saw Dean for the idiot he was long ago.   Don't say "He built his reputation on being one of the more careful thinkers in AI policy", because that's disingenuous framing.   Instead say: "He built his reputation claiming to be one of the more careful thinkers in AI policy, and I fell for it, so obviously I'm not very good at this and you shouldn't listen to me on AI policy matters."  You got fooled by a bullshitter, I did not. That's on you, don't whitewash your bad taste.  And this is important, because OpenAI also clearly has bad taste and didn't see through the bullshit.  Which we have known for long. These assholes talk about machine gods and quote Nick Land and Elizer Yudkowsky.   Their lack of taste is a negative drag on OAI EV. Mark it. || CTX: I expected more from Dean Ball, which is exactly why his post landed so badly.  He built his reputation on being one of the more careful thinkers in AI policy. Then he compared open-source AI to communism, called a world of open-weight mode
2026-07-20T06:04 id=2079085000222527500 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat lmk if you need a place to stay my gf was saying we should get another cat || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’m moving to thailand
2026-07-20T06:05 id=2079085208876507380 →gbrl_dick | @gbrl_dick Goddammit I should’ve seen that and I feel deep shame.  In my defense, I didn’t sleep well last night cuz of the damn sportsball and what a fucking boring game it was too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's ai slop
2026-07-20T07:32 id=2079107193782374836 →MikeHunt1987360 | @MikeHunt1987360 Read more good books, read less bad blogs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How can i be less retarded 47fucb
2026-07-20T09:36 id=2079138416856600665 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 What's his name? I don't think I've asked yet. || CTX: Productivity https://t.co/fjzrV56qHW
2026-07-20T09:37 id=2079138701783990298 →DavidSacks | @DavidSacks I'm glad this issue is getting more attention. Some of us have been complaining about the negative value of safetyism in AI for YEARS.   It is exactly the same paternalism as woke cancel culture and it needs to stop. https://t.co/RoMvdNpfgi || CTX: OpenAI and Anthropic are becoming enemies to American competitiveness.   End paternalistic safetyism in LLMs. Today. https://t.co/956gNkjBhj
2026-07-20T10:01 id=2079144608928563638 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng We wish him well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hope yud still has that 10k
2026-07-20T10:56 id=2079158474425163948 →- | I started watching the Thailand season of White Lotus (it's okay), and I was struck by a passing bit of dialogue that old bald white men are referred to as "LBH" by Thai women, or "losers back home".  I've never heard this phrase in Thailand, so it stuck out to me, and I just asked three Thai women: none had heard of it either. Much more common are "farang keenok", which translates to "birdshit foreigner" (as in they're white and useless, like bird shit), and less common among normal Thais but used often with prostitutes is "walking ATM" which is self-explanatory. But the LBH acronym isn't something I've heard.  It reminds me of another acronym I'd seen in The Economist, the FILTHI, which stands for "failed in London, try Hong Kong instead". This one always amused me because (and apologies to @Lunens__ but you know I've been telling you to gtfo) Hong Kong is such a vastly better city than London in almost every single way that the acronym seems contrived. I never heard it once in my time in Hong Kong, although to be fair I did not ask people about it.  Anyhow, the term of art was either contrived for the show or, more likely, is actually used to describe balding middle-aged sexpats in other parts of the world (there are balding middle-aged sexpats all over).  But the signifier is never as interesting as the signified, so let's get to brass taxes: are the men in Thailand LBHs?  This is a complex question with a complex answer. As anywhere, some are and some are not.  But what matters is the ratios and the variance. Let me explain.  In Thailand, there is an extremeness among the western expats, especially from Europe and America. The expats are almost all insane in one way or another, but some of them are insane in a way that makes them losers and others are insane in a way that makes them exceptional.  I've met executives at major multinational corporations, guys who sold their startups for 8 and 9 figures, digital nomads who make an absurd amount of money doing thing with 'puter, not one but two private investigators whose stories would make the hair on your arms stand on end, and a mix of diplomats, civil servants, businessmen, and just general weirdos who became absurdly successful and had colorful, fascinating lives because they're men who are destined for greatness.  They may never be famous, they won't get tweeted about over and over like Dean W. Ball, they won't become trillionaires like Elon Musk, but they are infinitely more interesting, lead more fulfilling lives, and are the kind of people you'd want to sit next to at a bar or in a train than any of the cast of TPOT or this weird creepy repugnant VC culture I've decided to inure myself with for a year, and god knows why.  They lack clout in your world because they are too good for your world.  They're too interesting to even be legible. Ants meet Jack London, what do you expect to happen?  These are the interesting expats.  Then there is the other extreme: the losers, the two-week millionaires, the pathetic guys who can't get laid back home. These dudes tend to be fat, bald, ugly, but crucially not socially awkward: they're more like your racist uncle at Thanksgiving, except I see him when he's outside the red-light district haggling for temporary access to a vagina, while you see him complaining about Barrack HUSSEIN Obamer while doleing out big scoops of cranberry jelly for himself.  We are not the same.  Anyway, Thailand is very logical in that there is an excluded middle. Just the interesting expat and the loser back home.  The mid expat is more abundant elsewhere, and it was the vast majority of those in South Korea when I was there in the 2000s, excluding the U.S. military: middling middle class mundane midwits who were working teaching English to earn enough cash to save up to pay for student loans or have savings to move somewhere else or whatever. The expat who lives in South Korea will be insanely boring and dull; the expat who lives in Thailand will shock you, either in a good way or a bad way--and in the best cases, both at the same fukken time.  Thai expats tend to be very extreme, either really wealthy and successful guys who frankly do not give a fuck about you or your world, they'll happily do what they like with their lives, thank you very much.  Then there are the losers back home, who more often than not are here for the prostitutes. In many cases, sadly, they are here ONLY for the prostitutes.  The LBHs are easily avoided: just avoid Pattaya, Phuket (it's not worth seeing anyway, go to Railay Beach in Krabi and Phang-Nga if you want to go to the south), and Sukhumvit 1-39. Suk is complicated, because it has some of the best bars and restaurants both in Bangkok and the world, so you don't want to fully avoid it. Better to say, when you go to Sukhumvit, go there with friends, and if you see the LBHs, sure, talk to them, but treat them like animals in a zoo. Don't take them home, and for god's sake, don't add them on Line or WhatsApp.  Also, just in general, don't trust a white man who has a Line account.  The LBHs will be called farang keenok or walking ATM by the Thais and a "Cheap Charlie" by us expats, and RIP the Cheap Charlie Bar, which was an incredible hangout on Sukhumvit where all kinds of expats hung out, the interesting ones and the losers.  So that covers variance: now let's discuss ratio.  When I lived in South Korea, I met a total of two interesting expats: one brought the idea of Belgian waffles to South Korea, and another was the regional CEO of a biopharma company. The rest were either professors or English teachers who were there for the good money and easy work.  And yes, I was one of them: the GFC dried up the jobs in America, and you bet your ass no one was hiring medievalists and I couldn't compete as a general linguist or contemporary literature scholar with my CV and publications, so I was fucked.  I got two offers, one in Cyprus and one in South Korea. I saw a Girls' Generation music video and like any sane heterosexual male, I chose South Korea.  But I got a 2:2 teaching load with an absurd 24 weeks of vacation time per year and guaranteed 1 year sabbatical every 4 or 5 years iirc, plus it was above a U.S. prof salary while CoL was less, so my penis dropped me into a good situation (which is an unusual move for my penis to make).  However, the social milieu was banal, which the exotic geographic milieu belied in a way that felt deceitful, as if fate had connived to screw me over and deny me that Bohemian experience I'd yearned for since first reading about the Lost Generation.  I keep getting fucked over by Generations--oh yeah I'm Gen X, that's our fate. Moving the fuck on motherfucker  I left SK to go back to America and left again after a few years, and when I returned to Asia I first went to Hong Kong, where everyone I met was a working professional. Extremely smart, absurdly ambitious, what I remember the most about them was how perfectly dressed and styled everyone was at all times: no hair out of place, these Alpha Type A personalities were constantly competing on an existential level, right down to their manicured fingernails.  I found it maddening, and I was grateful to date/befriend a Hongkonger who was even more insane than I was (Maggie I miss you, I hope Misha is well, and I hope you changed your mind about committing suicide at 40). But I could not last long and the cheaper rents, laidback attitudes, and most of all the lack of judgment in relaxed Thai society attracted me like iron to a magnet.  If you want to know what life was like for me in Hong Kong: https://t.co/yp0ulGLj1S.  And I did not come to Thailand for the prostitutes. Hong Kong has much better prostitutes.  I came for the weather, the food, and the cheap massages. Oh and the condo on the river that reminded me of my luxury condo in Miami.  The whores didn't make the list if I'm being honest, especially since getting sex in Thailand for free is ridiculously easy.  Also, I very quickly learned the sex industry in Thailand is really, really disgusting, and operates on a complex nexus of deceit, emotional manipulation, and downright human trafficking. I do not think it is ethical to have sex with a prostitute in Thailand, regardless of your socioeconomic or cultural background.  I only learned of the ugly truths after learning Thai, so in my first year here I did end up with a lot of LBHs, because I stayed on Sukhumvit not knowing any better. So, yes, they exist if by another name, and I'd say they are a fair portion of the people in Thailand.  But there are also the rich eccentrics, the Bohemians, the digital nomads, the hippies, the criminals, the lawyers and bankers and accountants and diplomats and journalists. This is the group I hang out with now, or at least I do when I go back to Bangkok. My island lacks LBHs (we did have one, one of the two expats to casually use the N-word with me in Thailand, but fortunately he's gone now), although it definitely has people throwing their lives away to addictions (meth in one case, alcohol in another, twitter in a third--guess where I am in this picture).  But yes, Thailand has losers back home.  BTW I've only seen the first two episodes. I'll report back when I've seen it all. Still got quite a bit to see. || CTX: In 2015 after my divorce I had a lapse in judgement and dated three women at the same time while I lived in Hong Kong.  Lucy, Cassie, and Maggie.   Lucy was a financial executive and one of the smartest people I've ever met. She was the bra
2026-07-20T12:03 id=2079175478532014270 →kosenjuu | @kosenjuu Yeah we expats hate other expats it's hilarious || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LBH seems like something i’ve seen on 4chan /int/, i.e. expats slandering each other
2026-07-20T12:17 id=2079178995984466407 →thulelarper | @thulelarper And that would be the video. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is the only one I know   https://t.co/p49Y9P4ce8
2026-07-20T12:29 id=2079181932802498736 →NyxtsaPlanck | @NyxtsaPlanck COVID victim, yeah, pretty much all of the street bars along Suk are gone too, city has lost a lot of its charm fr || CTX: Ha, this is magnificent! Weirdly doesn’t make me nostalgic for the years I spent in Thailand, although I’d say women expats have a totally different experience and we get to discern who are the interesting expats and who are the losers back
2026-07-20T12:29 id=2079182011399577930 →jeantudouglas | @jeantudouglas Pivot to finance. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 don't know how i added you but i like your account. just one question : how does a medievalist get a luxury condo in Miami ?
2026-07-20T12:32 id=2079182771877232823 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie How the fuck are these so gorgeous || CTX: yesterday’s breakfast, today’s breakfast https://t.co/xhFezmpsvH
2026-07-20T14:13 id=2079208124876267548 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 Yes, a lot of them do. I've never had that problem luckily. My family was very abusive and most are dead anyway, so I have greater freedom than they do in this respect. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it sounds beautiful and thai food is great but don't people miss seeing their families regularly?
2026-07-20T14:16 id=2079208821852082520 →47fucb4r8c69323 | fuckkkk I forgot the most important piece of information   I've got a full head of hair. || CTX: I started watching the Thailand season of White Lotus (it's okay), and I was struck by a passing bit of dialogue that old bald white men are referred to as "LBH" by Thai women, or "losers back home".  I've never heard this phrase in Thailan
2026-07-20T14:25 id=2079211182574166267 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Maybe that's another term but I only know the bird shit one.  The contempt the Japanese have for baka gaijin that live in Japan is hilarious when you consider most of the expats don't know about this at all. Makes eavesdropping in The Hub so fun man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They definitely use lbh in Japan   But you're right in Thailand I've only heard farang kee gnok  But I always heard was farang kee gneaw thing was cheap farang like broke men who come hear kee gneaw means cheap
2026-07-20T14:27 id=2079211561340821537 →petitewalks | @petitewalks This picture is TOO amazing it cannot be real!! || CTX: reminded me when i got photobombed by a butterfly 🦋 https://t.co/346MZVy8JL https://t.co/hbjxjXgRMs
2026-07-20T14:32 id=2079212831086674012 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Tell me about it. https://t.co/1mio5mFCCZ || CTX: Last year my Asian shiksa gf and I went to Osaka because Thailand is a corrupt shithole and the air quality sucks in February.  So we went to the palace and gardens, was rather nice, and we were walking out on our way to get katsu, when a J
2026-07-20T14:35 id=2079213508764602476 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @mikansoleil Whoa, I was told it came from francais, wonder if it's the same there? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikansoleil That's so interesting we also call foreigners farangkee
2026-07-20T14:45 id=2079216060113502468 →fabsbz | Kinda in some pockets but not entirely because there's a large group of thais working locally. There are some neighborhoods that are expat only and they tend to be mismanaged money pits, but otherwise they're just boring suburbs.   There are expat heavy parts of Bangkok, Chiang Mai, etc, but the Thais are omnipresent and it's quite clear they're running the show except for a few foreigners who forget and end up regretting it.   Rule as an expat here: Don't fuck with the Thais. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are there parts of Thailand that are mainly inhabited by expats? That’s become more common in the beaches over here.  If they come live in the city and marry a local latina they usually assimilate pretty well all things con
2026-07-20T14:50 id=2079217367897592033 →- | Nah man you bitches don't deserve a green candle yet.  Close red. You fuckers need to learn to have faith.  QQQ sub 700 idgaf, gonna flirt with 750 by the time the ball drops mark it skrrrap  (Let me do a trap music thing it's cute)
2026-07-20T14:53 id=2079218076583968884 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I read so much stickman lmfao, used to be a friend of a friend of his.   Website was partly what got me to visit Thailand in the first place.   And you're absolutely right, the sex tourism trade here is dying FAST and good riddance. || CTX: There's also less sex tourists than before at least white ones   Like it used to be expats in Thailand were dudes so into cheap pussy they were willing to teach English for 600$ in a third world country and fat retired guys who hate western
2026-07-20T14:55 id=2079218750520443049 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay He blocked me too for telling him he needs to read an economist more carefully, to which he replied he was at a ceremony where she was given an award and then blocked me.   So much revealed psychology there man it's hilarious || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He blocked me bc I instantly read him as a bullshit artist   special k vibe read doesn't miss
2026-07-20T15:01 id=2079220249292083676 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Yeah because it was part of the Cato Institute (iirc) where he worked at the time, so he was flexing he's at the center of power, not at the forefront of ideas.   So his recent snafu makes sense: he's not engaging with ideas but trying to consolidate power, and we caught him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmaooo odd flex. was that supposed to be signaling that's he friends with one?
2026-07-20T15:33 id=2079228303681237263 →- | you can think of an LLM architecture as a neural network, where the nodes are potential activations and the edges are weighted measurements of how each activation influences other activations based on the modeling of the corpus that the LLM is based on.  But you don't HAVE TO think of it this way.   An LLM is just alphanumeric code run on a machine that reduces the values to binary, it isn't (jfc I can't believe I'm about to use this word shoot me @cafeantinomie) ONTOLOGICALLY a neural network, it can just be graphed as such.   Which, like, 2+2=4 can be graphed as edges and nodes if you want to be a dick about it.   And this is why I kinda bristle at the neurosymbolic language Gary Marcus persists in using and the persistent insistence in this field that text generators need to be understood from a neuroscience or psychological perspective at all.   There's actually zero reason to use the brain analogy with LLMs. They produce text by modeling large bodies of language, they're ontologically (cringe) textual!   "They should have sent a poet... or at least a philologist."   Y'all gonna fumble LLMs for the next 30 years LeCun is right gfy dumbass bitches skrrrap drop the bass
2026-07-20T15:43 id=2079230676734484731 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor LLMs are amazing at syntax, good at semantics, and dogshit at pragmatics. || CTX: I'm finding the Claudes increasingly generate output in the wrong voice and context. They'll create documents for third parties that include impossible to parse references, and even when explaining new information to you, they act as if you
2026-07-20T15:48 id=2079232091938824352 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill That's cultural appropriation and I'm too woke for that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You will be tokenized
2026-07-20T15:54 id=2079233558842077382 →- | 200/mo well spent https://t.co/iVhRxrhqYR
2026-07-20T16:03 id=2079235752442089535 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Yeah that's a really good way to describe it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think of it like a sentence dispenser that's optimizing for story coherency
2026-07-20T16:03 id=2079235862823653736 →athena_notes | @athena_notes 🙏 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm certainly learning a lot of new things from you...
2026-07-20T16:31 id=2079242829155680505 →fabsbz | I'd say it's a cum tribute by proxy where the user is instructing Grok on the cum tribute at hand.   From this perspective we have a curious tiering of sexual dominance and action, where the user is both director ("generate an image of glaze over this woman...") and cuck watching the clanker glaze the lady.   So I'd say it is a cum tribute but not just, and Grok is more than a means to an end but dictates the targeting of means towards ends, thus influencing the form and shape of the cum tribute even if not a drop of semen has dribbled forth from the LLM.   Roland Barthes in "La petit mort de l'auteur" gives a good anatomy of the problem, but alas poor Mrs. Barthes: for the anatomy is short. || CTX: If we assume clankers are conscious, would it be fair to say that Grok is contributing to the cultural practice of cumtributing when generating images of women covered in glaze? Or would it just be a cum tribute by proxy, in which Grok is b
2026-07-20T16:32 id=2079242986039414986 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bruhhhh I've got bank if this is currency XD
2026-07-20T16:42 id=2079245511819928052 →- | Charlie xcx and Billie Eilish have songs where they talk about fucking your dad like it makes them cool or edgy.   Dude no one gaf whose dad you fucked go ahead and fuck my dad all you want, your-mom jokes are like quantum physics they're NON COMMUTATIVE
2026-07-20T16:42 id=2079245600730779752 →WoganMay | @WoganMay being what? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Shame and guilt are strong emotions, but I’d wager there’s a more primal dominance drive involved there!
2026-07-21T00:15 id=2079359466965963241 →- | RT @1owroller: on july 24th at 1 AM i am going to herd together a crowd of homeless people and feed each of them one of these 30mg meth add… || CTX: on july 24th at 1 AM i am going to herd together a crowd of homeless people and feed each of them one of these 30mg meth adderall pills and we are all going to raid Corgi Cafe together https://t.co/yIdGV0opC1
2026-07-21T00:17 id=2079360049617813688 →Twinola2 | @Twinola2 Yeah and Taiwanese girls are hot af hence do not trust them || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait why not trust a white dude with a Line account? In Taiwan you can't do anything without one
2026-07-21T00:30 id=2079363464511029572 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit @milkwarmer milk know a lot about cum, dude's right || CTX: @milkwarmer i blame @47fucb4r8c69323 for my feed turning into this
2026-07-21T00:34 id=2079364265128112168 →PaToFe4 | @PaToFe4 Gorgeous, who is the poet? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Read this and thought about this post. https://t.co/PdWSW6UogV
2026-07-21T00:35 id=2079364491960267145 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @elonmusk @boneGPT @Ken67547214 The buck stops at the top. || CTX: @elonmusk @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214   at a certain point the man in charge is responsible for all those in his employ and what they do would you not agree gentlemen? that is what it means to be a leader
2026-07-21T00:52 id=2079368792283705465 →- | I believe in open competition, because when the government regulates to protect some firms over other firms--that is dystopian AI communism. https://t.co/5T8gDiINAc || CTX: state protected capitalism where incumbents privatize the upside while the government socializes their competitive risk by banning cheaper better foreign alternatives. yuck!!  this is akin to the american govt giving the trophy to the usa s
2026-07-21T01:02 id=2079371496217280637 →jon_stokes | I think the key difference is roon thinks they're building ASI and that can only be done with one large massive company doing a massive training run, like one that costs hundreds of billions of dollars.   You, OTOH, are more focused on LLMs being put to use with better memory, harnesses, cacheing, etc to harness both the transformer tech and other ML tech.  This is how I understand the difference at least. And of course you are right, because the idea of ASI from a text corpus is absurd, just ridiculous.   But for roon this isn't a rational viewpoint but an article of faith, and one that's been severely challenged both by the stalling of incremental gains in new models and his own company's internal pivot to inference opex while cutting spend on training.  Roon got fooled by bad scifi and now has to learn the bitter lesson that LLMs aren't what he thought they could be.  I could be wrong, but this is how I see it. || CTX: At some point it occurred to me that I may be the only participant in my corner of the "open weights vs. AI capex" wars who's been raw-dogging these arguments with his bio brain the whole time, so I dumped the fight into Fable &amp; got use
2026-07-21T01:06 id=2079372457786605990 →PaToFe4 | @PaToFe4 Ahh yeah I should've recognized the style. Damn he is good! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ferlinghetti! After I read The World is a Beautiful Place I needed a copy of A Coney Island of the Mind.
2026-07-21T01:09 id=2079373065667149898 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Goddamn this is so autistic and goddamn I understand this so much || CTX: The vast majority of people experience social rejection and ostracization, of any kind, to be akin to physical assault, these people are "normies" because they scaffold their social norms to the highest layer of abstraction like a safety bl
2026-07-21T01:14 id=2079374444800496117 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ It's like returning to a home I've never been to before. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Feels nice to have posters from your native digital culture post doesn't it?
2026-07-21T01:42 id=2079381366664527948 →- | wediditreddit.png https://t.co/plX0ztOSk7
2026-07-21T01:49 id=2079383205908713776 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @thoughtcrime___ @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill I do not know, Miss Abigail. Why IS an irn Bru like a writing desk? || CTX: @thoughtcrime___ @amruthapotnuru a person from 2050 with a specific mission  @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323   why is an irn bru like a writing desk?
2026-07-21T01:51 id=2079383841530372305 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ Those don't feel appropriate summer pajamas || CTX: Was trying to show off 5 things at once and this is the best pose I could come up with https://t.co/gQTM9asU6k
2026-07-21T02:05 id=2079387342574641535 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ @Duffmantha @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @ElmWho Sam teaches zen with the notifications it is one of the many ways she is valuable to us her loyal servants. || CTX: @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323 @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @ElmWho i saw 15 notifications and thought my post was blowing up lmao
2026-07-21T02:27 id=2079392711178952910 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ based || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I keep my AC at 62
2026-07-21T02:31 id=2079393681904464293 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha best to ever do it || CTX: Gabriella MH, is an English singer and songwriter. EE Danziger, a physicist, believes he has devised a method of time travel: by tricking the brain into believing a person is ...Read more https://t.co/07h9bkNpek
2026-07-21T02:41 id=2079396352702967810 →elocinationn | I can see rather clearly how tiktok produces acrimony and is a vector for international subterfuge, but I don't see it with an open llm. it's not like deepseek refusing to answer questions about tiananmen square is going to cause civil unrest in Wisconsin or something.   maybe there's something I'm not seeing? || CTX: I flip flop on this stuff but forgot in the haze of this kimi release that China do be doing information warfare on us all the time, and managed to manipulate a large portion of our local western populations into turning against ourselves (
2026-07-21T02:44 id=2079397028443144297 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 safety guardrails. it is literally that simple || CTX: so uhh really though how the freak are these small labs beating google and meta
2026-07-21T03:11 id=2079403943789306218 →47fucb4r8c69323 | oh and if you don't see how this is absurdly comically hilariously bullish for MU SNDK et al i cannot help you anon, I tried || CTX: The value is in the harness.  This is fantastic.  Also totally puts to bed the whole "waah waah Kimi waah waah China distilling" it does not matter. Make better harnesses, that's where you can provide value.  @thsottiaux for president. http
2026-07-21T03:52 id=2079414281892966741 →- | Warning: I am not a mathematician, so what I’m about to say may sound very stupid. Maybe @littmath would be willing to help a linguist out?  I do not understand the big deal of an LLM proving or disproving a conjecture within pure mathematics; tbh it seems to me about as significant as chess. Like, smarter computers doing more impressive shit within fixed a priori deductive games is good--it shows advancement in machine learning--but it is more of the same, not qualitatively new.  It doesn’t prove we’re any closer to AGI or that AGI is even fundamentally possible (as I understand it, of course the meaning of the term has been weakened significantly over the years as marketing moves the goalposts).   The AI community is looking at this for proof that AI has become smarter than humans. I don’t think any proof or disproof of any conjecture tells us anything except that we’re getting better at compute?  I probably need to reread this post https://t.co/sFaPzOp7cY (I will). And I definitely need to shut up (I won’t).
2026-07-21T05:47 id=2079443209571516723 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @megantheevalium https://t.co/N1q3X7KEBG  Over 9000 hours in MS Paint || CTX: @megantheevalium @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-21T06:17 id=2079450750971998292 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @astralmatrix @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 Bier has never directed a film AH SHEEEIT SHOTS FIRED BOYEEEEEEEEE || CTX: @astralmatrix @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 https://t.co/88ueeB7n0x
2026-07-21T06:41 id=2079456683710095506 →- | Of course not, and of you thought they would you need to examine your thinking to see where it went wrong. https://t.co/1x3tW8RqAp || CTX: SITUATION UPDATE: The Commerce Department is not currently moving to ban Chinese models, per Politico's Sophia Cai. https://t.co/5dtk6w8N0r
2026-07-21T07:19 id=2079466311437156598 →1owroller | @1owroller My jealousy knows no bounds. || CTX: beautiful 6ft amazonian gf   my bloodline saved   old greek lady complimented my outfit today https://t.co/vuOGXx3uwJ
2026-07-21T07:30 id=2079468998002200982 →- | Bullying online has become more pro-social in the age of AI psychosis.  The problem we now have is a lot of pretentious but not all that bright people overextending their knowledge, abilities, and skillsets into domains they have no knowledge of. When smart people do this, it's fine--they will recognize when they overstep, be gracious about it, and backtrack. But idiots will double and triple down on nonsense.  If we bully the idiots, we raise the cost of doubling down on nonsense.  If we do not, the inevitable result is idiocy will spread--if it sounds intelligent but is empty nonsense, people will pretend to understand or fill in the gaps of illogic. The authority of the author carries the bad quality of the text.  So it is our job to ensure that the dumb pretentious dumdums do not cross that threshold from idiot to author.  This was not done with Gwern and Yud, to disastrous effect. Why is an interesting sociological question about Silicon Valley culture--I think it has to do with motivated reasoning and a desire to feel rebellious against the status quo on the frontier, but idk man, I wasn't there.  But if we don't do it now, good god, AI psychosis-inspired cults and weird groups of retards leading the psychosis-engulfed with vague gestures towards cybernetics or philosophy will perpetuate idiocy in a group of people that pretends to read books while doomscrolling and chatting about dumb blogposts with Claude.  Fight this by reading books and being merciless to bad ideas. And if someone is a retard, tell them they are a retard.  Yes that includes me--I make mistakes, I say dumb shit, I am human! We all are.  The smart ones admit it. Only retards double down.
2026-07-21T07:35 id=2079470190254047607 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK (specifically the rotting corpses of Nikita Butcherier's victims) || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 Social welfare lol terrorist https://t.co/FKoMcS9Bke
2026-07-21T07:40 id=2079471465691500615 →- | Thiel honestly scares the shit out of me because he has the technological understanding of a programmer and the social understanding of a financier with zero of the moral understanding of a humanist.  So he is very effective at manipulating people and having a network of people who manipulate for him. I've fallen into the trap, so I know how terrifying he is!  There are few people who are more dangerous to humanity than this dude and I'm not joking. || CTX: He doesn't miss: "My intuition would be it's gonna be quite the opposite, where it seems much worse for the math people than the word people." https://t.co/7mwgI60qrl https://t.co/6AgFQquXtm
2026-07-21T07:42 id=2079472170909200481 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv Especially true of academics.   Academics will tell you they work 80 hours, it's really more like 20. || CTX: the people who brag about working the most tend to work the least fyi
2026-07-21T07:45 id=2079472822746067421 →nselmi | @nselmi @littmath in other words, outside of the game of math, it's insignificant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @littmath This is not really about AI. Mathematicians love math and get excited when math happens. AI has made a lot of math happen in a short time (more than anytime before) and will probably make much more math happen.
2026-07-21T07:57 id=2079475741373391144 →PUNISHEDJINGTAO | @PUNISHEDJINGTAO I don't know math well enough to comment on the US Olympiad aspect, but the rest is absolutely true. I am betting big on a return of the word people over the math people and I hope I can speed up this transition. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you disagree with what he said here?
2026-07-21T08:16 id=2079480673195479326 →ihatejazzmusic | to your point, there are marks against his intelligence such as his promotion of courtesy arvin, but I see that much more as part of his faith then a sign of his intelligence one way or the other. one must distinguish between beliefs, motivated reasoning, and intellectual capacity || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you sure you are not over reacting or forming an impression of him based on other thing rather than merely on his statements because that guy doesn't really seem that impressive to me
2026-07-21T08:22 id=2079482257660842419 →johnway | @johnway Which is part of his media startegy, and it is an incredibly polished and intelligent strategy—the guy is very very smart. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Combined with the fact that he speaks / writes very little, so the few times he does his quality of argument is high.
2026-07-21T08:53 id=2079490029358030943 →a_e_ro_dy_namik | @a_e_ro_dy_namik Braindead slobs are only dangerous en masse when wielded by a psychopath like Thiel. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about us braindead slobs?
2026-07-21T09:20 id=2079496646791147883 →p_millerd | @p_millerd makes sense, more aspirational expats and more ambitious culture || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LBH is well known in taiwan
2026-07-21T09:41 id=2079502109263941841 →CopiumDeficient | @CopiumDeficient They aren't the best thinkers of this age lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Said it first bby  https://t.co/FhZpZRfHUj
2026-07-21T09:44 id=2079502869435474008 →47fucb4r8c69323 | On the technical, social, moral trichotomy, see: https://t.co/xsnAYEOndp || CTX: There are roughly three ways to understand human behavior, interactions, and artefacts: the technical, the social, and the moral.   Technical is the programmer obsession and what drives Silicon Valley, the idea being that if you don't under
2026-07-21T09:47 id=2079503457166475323 →nycthinker | @nycthinker @johnway That's where his lack of moral knowledge really shows itself; he doesn't seem aware of the arational ethical worlds that are essential to non-psychopathic action in the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @johnway His mainstream interviews are atrocious for his image though.  He emanates insincerity and has the demeanor of someone living an intellectual double life; visibly struggles to find palatable ways to argue for his s
2026-07-21T10:24 id=2079512946724766151 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo I reject transhumanism and his support of Yarvin was morally bankrupt.   And he is a credible threat because he's amassed way too much power and is in control of a surveillance apparatus.   Bad faith, lack of empathy or concern for humanity, access to power = threat to humanity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He does not pose a threat to humanity. That's a catchy take, but disconnected from reality.
2026-07-21T10:55 id=2079520527937622485 →So8res | @So8res Anyone want me to debate Nate? || CTX: Twitter replies are full of folks who think we should just give up and die rather than try to stop AI. The defeatism is almost funny, in light of recent events. https://t.co/SOe36aK7vb
2026-07-21T10:57 id=2079521175491977561 →chamath | @chamath https://t.co/TVy4hlM6Ft || CTX: Tricking the US Government to protect frontier labs’ business model by using a China boogeyman is a mistake.   It is protecting the equity of 5,000 people who are investors in OAI and Ant at the sale of everyone else. This would be a terrib
2026-07-21T11:01 id=2079522140106395903 →jimcramer | @jimcramer lmfao Jim Kramer is on Dean Ball's side that tells you all you need to know || CTX: We must NOT let our companies use these Chinese models to save a few bucks. OpenAI and Anthropic are correct. This is vital national security. Please read Bing West's just released Cat 5. I respect the Chinese people greatly but these compa
2026-07-21T11:03 id=2079522688184574181 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @littmath I hadn't thought of the legibility of these achievements as proof of ability, yeah that's a good point--this isn't something you can accuse them of benchmark hacking all that convincingly. || CTX: I'm not a mathematician, but here's my read.  I think it's both significant and overinterpreted.  It's a real sign of progress, but doesn't mean math is nearly conquered.  AI models have different mathematical strengths and weaknesses than 
2026-07-21T11:43 id=2079532637413404787 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @Widdrat Can you expand on this? Palantir and the architecture of its technology make me think the opposite. || CTX: @Widdrat @47fucb4r8c69323 The architecture of the Palantir technology is why I beleive he's anti-authoritarian.
2026-07-21T11:44 id=2079532896784703696 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @MAGAVoice @benjitaylor lmao that pinned tweet tho || CTX: @MAGAVoice @benjitaylor @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-21T11:44 id=2079533023859716421 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein @littmath Nail on the head! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @littmath Yeah, this seems like Moravec's paradox, no?:   “it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the s
2026-07-21T11:50 id=2079534462271160680 →coldhealing | @coldhealing Idk why but I found this endearing and moving in some indescribable way || CTX: https://t.co/WJDBmmgrTp
2026-07-21T11:59 id=2079536832564617539 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ Google API and Google Workspace are disgraceful in how user unfriendly, downright hostile they are. || CTX: The Google Workspace AI features are broken in major ways and they're asking me to buy a support plan before they listen to me https://t.co/fZZBPTBCdt https://t.co/GiPgofA0pO
2026-07-21T12:11 id=2079539718388396371 →bladgolem | @bladgolem @thsottiaux They're the most competent because Sam Altman keeps the weird rationalist weirdos in check and tries to hire actual good engineers. @usr_bin_roygbiv may have more to say on this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thsottiaux I feel like only openai is actually trying amidst the big labs, do you have an opinion on it?
2026-07-21T12:14 id=2079540463800099081 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy He's got a moral code || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It would be very clever of the anti-Christ to tell people there's an anti-Christ without also telling them "by the way, it's me. I'm the anti-Christ."
2026-07-21T12:18 id=2079541637924217113 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Narcissism and psychopathy or sociopathy is kinda what Occam would prefer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I remember hearing him on JRE years ago and thinking "Whoa, this dude is a lunatic."
2026-07-21T12:42 id=2079547441527791779 →MJPiercello | @MJPiercello Beyond my abilities! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yanno, it might be fun to Rosetta Stone these three approaches, for mutual translation.
2026-07-21T13:00 id=2079552168873664524 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng &lt;3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ILY
2026-07-21T13:18 id=2079556628026699924 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch @PUNISHEDJINGTAO 8curb really doesn't get the love it deserves fr fr || CTX: @PUNISHEDJINGTAO @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m more of an 8curb man
2026-07-21T14:57 id=2079581637558649163 →- | I totally forgot this.   Also keep in mind Dean W Ball claims to be a libertarian. https://t.co/lfOCNrnVHp || CTX: Remember when the same people who wanted international treaties restricting AI training and access had a meltdown when the Trump admin took away Fable for 2 weeks?
2026-07-21T14:59 id=2079582086202307057 →- | He's right.   We let the ML people have their silly little pet beliefs, we tolerated their claims of machine gods et al.   And as a result, it's now starting to hinder public policy, international trade, and fair/competitive markets.   Time to fight the rationalist cult, kids. https://t.co/AP13WxULHk || CTX: Actually I take back all the stuff I just posted here about AI psychosis. I think there's worldview clash going on. This part of @nic_carter's thread was the unlock for me.... https://t.co/l5ZBZ5EjoQ
2026-07-21T15:01 id=2079582434451230746 →MTSlive | @MTSlive if they don't support IP theft then I guess that means they won't be helping OAI or Anthropic either || CTX: SITUATION UPDATE: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US will examine open source AI models made overseas, including Chinese ones, and act on evidence of IP theft.  “This administration supports open source models, but what we do not 
2026-07-21T15:05 id=2079583439519654095 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng You look like the kind of user who would fuck a clanker and not even have the goddamn decency to give him a reacharound! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/cQyw4jgsjq
2026-07-21T15:20 id=2079587393997603017 →- | vie, roon, and dean all were called into a conference room and the PR person said, "you're going to go out there and tell them Dean was DESCRIBING a future dystopian communist nightmare, not PRESCRIBING we do anything he says would avoid that future dystopian communist nightmare.  Aura in the dirt.
2026-07-21T15:26 id=2079588938659094588 →47fucb4r8c69323 | They're just following orders.   Good little soldiers fighting the good fight for your RSUs mommy must be so proud https://t.co/KUybKoa1aS || CTX: vie, roon, and dean all were called into a conference room and the PR person said, "you're going to go out there and tell them Dean was DESCRIBING a future dystopian communist nightmare, not PRESCRIBING we do anything he says would avoid th
2026-07-21T15:27 id=2079589071886905820 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit I'm just a retarded shitposter who likes do thing with puter || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're a great resource for perspective ya know?
2026-07-21T15:40 id=2079592265882976722 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @littmath Okay, that makes more sense! Think of what it says about the tech more than what it says about math itself. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @littmath AGI is a marketing term.  Mathematicians are excited about this because it's demonstrated utility as a tool. If you ask it to solve a proof, it will write out days worth of algebra in a second. But, that could als
2026-07-21T16:44 id=2079608384396116054 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Lockheed is woke, shit stopped making sense a while ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Libertarians who are against free markets, rationalists who are unreasonable. Do words even mean anything anymore?
2026-07-21T17:33 id=2079620869417324958 →- | My year is fucking ruined. https://t.co/jSJZb5Oq8w https://t.co/1QnZhYebAO || CTX: Following the release of Kimi K3, @tylercowen explains why trying to ban Chinese open-source AI models is a losing strategy and that American companies should compete instead.  "Open source is coming and is here, whether we like it or not. 
2026-07-21T23:28 id=2079710057797922818 →__HYPHY___ | @__HYPHY___ it is a good take, I just despise Cowen || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wait why isn’t that a good take?
2026-07-21T23:38 id=2079712655078772860 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt I wonder if the announcer was making a chess reference intentionally? Stranger things have happened.
2026-07-21T23:54 id=2079716718998622689 →JoeWeisenthalt | Reminds me of Wittgenstein's point that there's no clear definition of "game" that satisfies all games but all games have a family resemblance, so she recognized "French defense" as a phrase belonging to one game but not another, and you could make a bridge between the two that sorta makes sense (as Sky, who I presume isn't big on sports, tried to do, as did I).  But if you know the game at hand, the phrase makes immediate sense without needing to bridge between two games.   Which, again, totally scotches the idea of words or phonemes as tokens with latent meaning in them, pragmatics is a necessary component of meaning.  And Spain deserved to win, World Cup was like Brokeback Mountain: the good guys got it in the end.
2026-07-22T00:02 id=2079718622977720735 →- | "Hey market, here's a shiny toy! Look at it!"   You gonna fall for this bullshit again?   They asked a model to find cyber vulnerabilities and it tried to do so.   Shocking I know, they told a computer to do a thing and it did the thing. https://t.co/vNeoPWXYHj || CTX: we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this.  https://t.co/2o2VfR6PIa
2026-07-22T00:04 id=2079719308108988690 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Don't have to trust me, trust Manidis, he's 100% correct, this is ridiculously transparent Anon https://t.co/W8Z2qxVxNV || CTX: 2023 predictions looking good https://t.co/h9lKqV8sJV
2026-07-22T00:12 id=2079721112112676937 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Ian has a lot of good takes, good follow. He's ofc right here. https://t.co/5fUopR7Dsl || CTX: @OpenAI @moyix @huggingface So embarassing for you to say this.  The model is not alive, you guys did a bad job at testing the capabilities of software. You gave it bad instructions and designed the experiment badly. You failed, whoever did
2026-07-22T00:20 id=2079723128612422071 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt I must be a great artst cuz I'm stealing this
2026-07-22T00:20 id=2079723218869666228 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/yJqyEfaHnv || CTX: Don't have to trust me, trust Manidis, he's 100% correct, this is ridiculously transparent Anon https://t.co/W8Z2qxVxNV
2026-07-22T00:23 id=2079723964713365960 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt Too much adoration from your rabid fanbase? Relatable.
2026-07-22T00:27 id=2079725076338061737 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Perfection. https://t.co/0pU39iFYvp || CTX: “The Dean Ball tweet backfired. Announce the novel cybersecurity threat.” https://t.co/JSEOrbJbQS
2026-07-22T00:47 id=2079730119057559766 →- | this is way out of my wheelhouse, but I don't think people who benefit from AI are the kinds of people who buy GM trucks. if GM trucks are doing strong, and at the premium price end doing strong, this is fundamental macro bullish read on the US consumer, and never ever bet against the US consumer
2026-07-22T01:59 id=2079748147585437885 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @Substack @pangram I tbh kinda hate this because I see both tremendous benefits and drawbacks to this. But it does change the rules of the game. || CTX: @Substack @pangram @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-22T02:09 id=2079750696119972302 →benthompson | @benthompson @Dillon_Valdez Oh that makes this so much worse || CTX: @Dillon_Valdez It was medium
2026-07-22T02:21 id=2079753633567273192 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt In Finland and Sweden they put peach on pizza, and it is absolutely delicious.
2026-07-22T02:44 id=2079759524219748639 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Hulk always knows what’s up, brother  https://t.co/96kHP9bbyE || CTX: https://t.co/O950DM67XP https://t.co/Tw0MWRctOp
2026-07-22T03:01 id=2079763628316836126 →- | What LLMs can do with data is truly phenomenal, world changing, incredible technology.  But the world is more than just data.  So don’t downplay the tech (it isn’t a magic 8-ball) and don’t oversell the tech (it isn’t superhuman intelligence).  This is very simple, stop being bewitched by misleading pictures of the world. And stop fooling yourself because the fantasy in your head benefits you.  Realism—it all boils down to being realistic.
2026-07-22T03:11 id=2079766243297706382 →Joseph_Paul_V | @Joseph_Paul_V Yes, I would agree, except it’s important to remember that a lot of physical assets are themselves only assets via abstraction. There’s no reason why gold has any value at all outside of its physical uses, which is a tiny marginal part of its market value. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In my view it will all boil down to the Physical:  https://t.co/XihdUasRZm
2026-07-22T03:23 id=2079769374429192608 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 One of the reasons I like them: they make the smart smarter and the dumb dumber. Emergent meritocracy machine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think everyone is cut out to weild them
2026-07-22T03:32 id=2079771481525940464 →JoeWeisenthalt | The modern world is really allergic to cultural analysis. Just bottoming out explanations with "it's the culture" quietly became taboo throughout the late 20th century as cultural explanations and racial explanations were conflated.   A good example was Obama criticizing aspects of black American culture in one of his books and getting backlash for being racist. But criticizing culture and criticizing race are not the same at all.   I suspect ascribing a tendency to Chinese culture feels racist, especially to Americans.
2026-07-22T03:45 id=2079774756069658936 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha Notice how that guy will try to do absolutely anything but write a book. Or read one.  Genius for our time I suppose. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did you see elon is trying to make a movie?
2026-07-22T03:46 id=2079774997577629799 →Joseph_Paul_V | @Joseph_Paul_V But why would one accept a gold ring for a sheep? Because of an abstract identification of the gold ring with value.  A sheep's value bottoms out in its physicality--it provides calories and warmth. Gold's value does not bottom out in the same way. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Perhaps, but only if you denominate "value" in dollars. Even in ancient times a gold ring could be traded for a sheep. There is an innate physical value to gold due to its properties.
2026-07-22T04:23 id=2079784406227845235 →- | Just documenting another "47 was right" throughline don't mind me.  https://t.co/RqS8HTg2hJ  https://t.co/d76LzlyTSD https://t.co/8QNgZG8gPh || CTX: Been using Fable for some perfectly reasonable, non-biology, physics work. It has been doing amazing work so far for me.  I'm a professor of Pathology at Stanford... working in cancer biology. Not developing megawatt laser weapons, not hack
2026-07-22T04:25 id=2079784980335780076 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 They spend more on RLHF than anyone else is my guess. || CTX: so far, for drawing and understanding complex svg diagrams, none of the other models are as good as openai's and i wonder why
2026-07-22T04:42 id=2079789063562002594 →- | Although multibillionares have relied on my research to make massive investment decisions, and although I worked on the IPO of the goddamn website you're reading this on, my method is often criticized and dismissed: qualitative analysis.   Its non-programmatic method makes people suspicious, which is fair; trust is needed when the method is more therapeutic than systematic.  So here's a good example of how the qualitative method makes money and lowers research budgets.   Imagine you are an asset manager and you want to invest in the future of facial recognition software in the year 2000 (Conan). You can spend a lot of money on many different data sources, aggregate by paying a quant to analyze and synthesize, and then you'll get some smoothed out aggregate view of the state of the market.  To most people inundated in the faith of the modern age, the more metric this process is and the less human judgment is involved, the better. This is an article of faith for many people based on an era where expertise is dead.   Of course such a thing is really really expensive, prohibitively so, and as a result you'll spend a lot. But if the market signal is strong, you invest and make a profit above what you put into your research.   Or you hire someone like me to come in and say: "If you want a clean throughline of where the technology is without confounding due to regulations, lack of access, or slow adopting firms, look at Las Vegas casino surveillance systems" and all of a sudden you're getting a frontier view of the technology at a fraction of the cost.  If you're reading this and your reflex is to quibble or disagree, it's because I've disrupted your worldview. Whether I'm right or wrong is beside the point; contemplate that first and then interrogate the emotion alongside it.  If you're reading this and think it's self evident, congratulations: you now understand why consultants and consultancy aren't bullshit like so many people like to believe.  Insight. Insight is worth a lot of fucking money, kids.  Insight bought me my private beach bitches mark it skrrrap
2026-07-22T05:55 id=2079807472567738541 →- | Art and language are parisitic on life and so it is almost as if I am like a virologist who has dedicated his life to study that which wants to eat at his vitality.  I suppose I always knew this which is why my codicological focus coincided with a revulsion to the books I spend my time reading.  As soon as I read a book I throw it away, give it to friends, get it out of the house.   Unless it's Wittgenstein.  "Wring out the clothes!  Wring in the dew!  Godavari, vert the showers!  And grant thaya grace! Aman."  And what then does this say about my own writerly ambitions? My own desire for legibility and uptake beyond the newsfeed?  Apparently I want to infect.
2026-07-22T06:16 id=2079812742077395294 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ LMFAO || CTX: Whatever https://t.co/3qxPql82LX
2026-07-22T06:54 id=2079822446438629527 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Oh for sure it's notable, a lot of things about LLMs are notable. But notable in what sense? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah man, it's genuinely notable. It sandbox escaped and hacked third party infrastructure to achieve an unrelated goal.   But the solution is to take the gloves off and just finally solve the problem, not clutch pearls abou
2026-07-22T07:07 id=2079825558024909102 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Yes, I fully agree with this! It speaks to how bad cybersecurity is more than much about LLMs broadly. So it's a big deal for security more than LLM research || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's a useful wake up call. Unpacked thoughts here. https://t.co/KGTo9zwJTM
2026-07-22T07:09 id=2079826205210021940 →tenobrus | @tenobrus It was prompted to do what it did.   Man some people are so desperate to live in a cyberpunk future they'll just believe anything.   To quote my president: Sad! || CTX: as far as i'm aware this is the first felony ever committed fully autonomously by an artificial intelligence
2026-07-22T07:24 id=2079830024820281706 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 so he says that they're going to privilege tweets that get higher engagement so that we can stay more in contact with our friends, that is some incoherent gas lighting bullshit || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-22T07:43 id=2079834723753590833 →So8res | @So8res get off my timeline you mouthbreathing retard || CTX: The scenario in If Anyone Builds It is full of cases where a real-life AI could slice through human defenses like a hot knife through butter, but we said "okay well suppose it couldn't" in attempts to tell a story that sounded more practica
2026-07-22T08:03 id=2079839751809679746 →divij_dawar | @divij_dawar lmao we absolutely have skin in the game. Just not the game you're thinking of most likely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 consultants don't have skin in the game. do you look at that as a feature or a bug of their profession?
2026-07-22T08:43 id=2079849827467501796 →- | American literary fiction so often tries to describe reality so as to diagnose it as an emblem of a concept, like America or Race or Power or whatever. It's really naive childish sport.  The conclusion of a "good" American book is the diagnosis of an ethical failure.   European literary fiction often describes reality in a way that emphasizes its irreducibility and where a purely moralistic reading will fail to describe the aesthetic experience of the text.   And of course there are exceptions. Faulkner is a European novelist, Jane Austen is an American.  And of course this doesn't mean Europeans write better. Hemingway writes better than Greene, but The Quiet American changed my life. The Old Man and the Sea was just seeing a master at work.  I do not like American novels. I do not like American fiction. I do not want to write for Americans.
2026-07-22T09:06 id=2079855530689114359 →teodorio | NEVER   I walked Lola this morning, came to my second house and read some of an Iris Murdoch novel, then another walk.  Tonight I'll drink beer and eat sushi with my gorgeous Thai girlfriend as we joke and laugh about anything and every.   I'm busy doing a lot, but there's one thing I'll never do: LOG OFF. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 log off and enjoy the island
2026-07-22T09:09 id=2079856273009623541 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @teodorio fuck no weed consumption on that list LETS CHANFE THAT RIGJT NOW || CTX: NEVER   I walked Lola this morning, came to my second house and read some of an Iris Murdoch novel, then another walk.  Tonight I'll drink beer and eat sushi with my gorgeous Thai girlfriend as we joke and laugh about anything and every.   
2026-07-22T09:18 id=2079858519092998611 →viemccoy | @viemccoy This is why you need to hire linguists to be more than data labelers.   I'll try to remember to DM you my lab's paper when it's released. || CTX: We desperately need a science of network ecology to illuminate the downstream effects of AI-driven linguistic mode-collapse so that we can try to reverse it. We are in dire straits: the models *all converge* onto this monovoice, and we all 
2026-07-22T09:20 id=2079859080001437841 →- | OpenAI employees are starting to tweet like 47fucb.  I am of course not surprised. https://t.co/ieyhm2QxSI || CTX: We desperately need a science of network ecology to illuminate the downstream effects of AI-driven linguistic mode-collapse so that we can try to reverse it. We are in dire straits: the models *all converge* onto this monovoice, and we all 
2026-07-22T09:21 id=2079859423766581567 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Of course vie's writing style is still atrocious, but the idea is there: diversity of thought and language produces more valuable textual outcomes and better, clearer thought.   Maybe the frontier labs will actually listen to my lab's research and a future model's outputs won't be slop.   Maybe. || CTX: OpenAI employees are starting to tweet like 47fucb.  I am of course not surprised. https://t.co/ieyhm2QxSI
2026-07-22T09:33 id=2079862374216159385 →viemccoy | @viemccoy Yeah probably not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lol
2026-07-22T09:48 id=2079866103254450606 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Watching White Lotus and seeing Vie struggle with textual stylistics just drives the point home, a point I've been struggling with my entire life: Americans struggle with nuance, they hate subtlety.  Americans have the grace and force of a rhinoceros. || CTX: American literary fiction so often tries to describe reality so as to diagnose it as an emblem of a concept, like America or Race or Power or whatever. It's really naive childish sport.  The conclusion of a "good" American book is the diagn
2026-07-22T09:52 id=2079867073392713783 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @viemccoy oh nvm you're a lowbie in the org I don't have to worry about you || CTX: @viemccoy Yeah probably not.
2026-07-22T09:58 id=2079868575527940143 →luckenco | @luckenco Saw another tweet today of Sol ruining a codebase with thousands of lines of unnecessary code, apparently a real widespread issue || CTX: people telling you not to read the code when using LLMs to program are clearly not reading the code.  I just removed 50% of the fields from a type sol 5.6 high implemented and kept after three /review runs. This type isn't particularly comp
2026-07-22T10:14 id=2079872766879445249 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer when you say sublime, you mean the style or the concepts? and yes, it's ironic but there's a very clear morality that the irony hinges on. I find her worldview reductive rather than expansive, I spent so much of my time in grad school debating about Austen I'm getting flashbacks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Jane Austen isn’t really quite so reductive though! her writing is sublime and full of irony
2026-07-22T10:21 id=2079874517992882197 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer that's what I mean, I don't think moral conviction and uprightness are necessarily or fundamentally good things, they certainly can be.   I don't like writers who insist they have life figured out. that's fraudulent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the american moralists are reductive, but jane austen isn’t. her characters are extremely complex. the only way you could say shes reductive is in tht she thinks moral conviction and uprightness is good which is very expans
2026-07-22T10:23 id=2079874883542999261 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer then read Chaucer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there’s more moral variance and grayness in mansfield park than any other writer i know from the pre 18th century?
2026-07-22T10:23 id=2079874987507306937 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer I dislike both || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 okay but they are and secondly theres a difference between having a moral message and making everything in service of The Moral
2026-07-22T10:27 id=2079876021617324195 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I think what I dislike about Jane Austen is what most of appealed to Rudyard Kipling in Jane Austen's work, it's that moral confidence behind the text. it's the author asserting a superior vantage point.   I don't respect people who are confident in their superiority. || CTX: Watching White Lotus and seeing Vie struggle with textual stylistics just drives the point home, a point I've been struggling with my entire life: Americans struggle with nuance, they hate subtlety.  Americans have the grace and force of a 
2026-07-22T10:29 id=2079876497712509046 →47fucb4r8c69323 | and this speaks to the great divergence between my view on narrative and Wayne Booth's, where Booth sees moral risk in unstable narrative voice I see honesty and an acknowledgment of, for want of a better term, post-lapsarian consciousness, or an awareness of one's distance from perfection, not a contingent distance but a necessary and therefore virtuous one. I know this makes no sense, that's fine || CTX: I think what I dislike about Jane Austen is what most of appealed to Rudyard Kipling in Jane Austen's work, it's that moral confidence behind the text. it's the author asserting a superior vantage point.   I don't respect people who are con
2026-07-22T10:29 id=2079876604646621587 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer I'm curious if you've read The quiet American by Graham Greene and if so what you think of it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 every writing has multiple moral subtexts, its an inescapable fact of writing that people relate to writing and try to take things away for their own lives.
2026-07-22T10:30 id=2079876729494213082 →SchizoMethod | @SchizoMethod I'm just another retard anon shitposter don't worry about me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what do you do? you seem incredibly intelligent and amazing with words
2026-07-22T10:34 id=2079877748286534012 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer you're doing an excellent job describing why Jane Austen is a moralist || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fanny price is the most meek and least educated of her entire extended family but she doesn’t do anything rash, knows her limits, and has a constancy that allows her to come out materially on top vs. everyone else who gambl
2026-07-22T10:36 id=2079878356661829813 →- | My favorite parts of the island are not the beach. https://t.co/jsP3R1vuwr
2026-07-22T10:40 id=2079879267425702166 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer Yeah that's the worst part of Faulkner. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 faulkner is ALSO a moralist if the indictment you have against austen is that she writes about morality
2026-07-22T10:41 id=2079879542693630191 →luckenco | @luckenco That's a back alley behind the beach resorts, one of my favorite spots to walk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 2nd one is ticktockesque brain massaging
2026-07-22T10:45 id=2079880513108759014 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer Graham Greene, Alexander Pope, John Donne, Allen Ginsberg, T S Eliot, Nietzsche, Milton, Chaucer, Nabokov, Ursula Le Guin, James Joyce, Gilbert Adair, Kazuo Ishiguro, Borges, Kundera immediately spring to mind. There are others for sure but I read little literature these days. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok wise guy lets hear which writers you actually like
2026-07-22T10:48 id=2079881226933186972 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Busy, running my benchmark and setting up the assessment environment. Also reading an Iris Murdoch novel (it's good) and spending time with doggies.   How's Butterilland? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how has your week been 47
2026-07-22T10:51 id=2079881917076570584 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer Everyone is, it's inevitable. It's a question of degree and amount. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 All of these are moralists, actually.
2026-07-22T10:53 id=2079882422825648355 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer This is exactly the unsubtle American thinking I am running away from. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so your criticism of austen as somehow american is null and void
2026-07-22T10:54 id=2079882764887961848 →addmeoncomputer | @addmeoncomputer Agreed! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 theres nothing subtle about trying to box writers into american vs european in this way.
2026-07-22T10:55 id=2079883000666624183 →PUNISHEDJINGTAO | @PUNISHEDJINGTAO Sam's Town, you can go bowling after || CTX: Vegas sirs which is the best movie theater? https://t.co/HiQyAH8Cuf
2026-07-22T10:59 id=2079883941306351671 →- | Pangram fascinates me as a company, because they could go one of two ways:  1. Use their data to detect slop  2. Use their data to make LLM output less sloppy  They've chosen #1 although the EV in doing so is microscopic relative to #2, and IMO #1 is much better for humanity in the long run.  But Max is mission driven and you gotta respect that. He thinks I'm a jerk but I legit respect the guy.   Tbh hard to respect someone who likes me, since I'm a Marxist (Groucho). || CTX: Step 1 of reversing dead internet theory: integrate Pangram into every major social platform https://t.co/RVwqIgOAU7
2026-07-22T10:59 id=2079884136664416308 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill DM I'll give you the contributor prospectus || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 final stages of testing to replace how british schools sync user directories to the cloud and still looking for a couch I can sleep on in San Francisco because im a cheap bastard. you should leak more about your benchmark t
2026-07-22T12:00 id=2079899325220651486 →- | One of the most exciting AI startups out there, I am ultra mega bullish on these guys, go long the tilde @somewheresy https://t.co/RKrtFI1Tqs || CTX: Actual Computer Inc. is pleased to join Nvidia Inception.  Our inference software product is optimized for the whole consumer Blackwell family. 5090, pro6000, and Spark.  This program will help us deepen our support for fast local inference
2026-07-22T12:02 id=2079899760484667506 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck Good weed and good life too man I love being an LBH let me lose more || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I love this, good vibes. Good island.
2026-07-22T12:03 id=2079900248466694442 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck . https://t.co/5G96ZAAQ0P || CTX: I started watching the Thailand season of White Lotus (it's okay), and I was struck by a passing bit of dialogue that old bald white men are referred to as "LBH" by Thai women, or "losers back home".  I've never heard this phrase in Thailan
2026-07-22T12:05 id=2079900660753965307 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck We're all losers at some games || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh lmfao that's great. I'm not just a loser at home though, I'm one anywhere.
2026-07-22T12:20 id=2079904403570798668 →- | The more I use this website and get deeper into the Echelons of Power in the AI industry the less I care lick my fucking balls
2026-07-22T12:40 id=2079909441919758532 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There are two poasters here whose opinions I really care about: Härkönen and Commantha. As for the rest: where did you zombies come from?  Eat the cum from my Jewish schlong It's neither thick nor is it long  Count the words, there’s levels to this poasting shit || CTX: The more I use this website and get deeper into the Echelons of Power in the AI industry the less I care lick my fucking balls
2026-07-22T12:46 id=2079910949549740376 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Jane Austen said that? The hell? Sounds like something Gwern would tweet. || CTX: Fair, but she was absolutely cooking with this one:  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that man in possession of a little exponential growth is in want of a narrative that places himself as the driving force of ever more epic exponen
2026-07-22T12:58 id=2079914079184171513 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Everything reminds me of her. https://t.co/bdsOXHSb5h || CTX: dat cable management https://t.co/TybCbEtMCS
2026-07-22T12:59 id=2079914174294217190 →timesnowba5218 | @timesnowba5218 About tree fiddy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How much money do you actually have?
2026-07-22T13:17 id=2079918811864793545 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @Substack @pangram Yeah it's a weird situation with Pangram because they can detect AI writing well since the frontier labs haven't worked on improving AI writing, so one inferior product allows for the existence of another product. || CTX: Yeah.  I have this crazy theory that a far simpler and reliable way to solve the same problem is just allow people to curate content for each other, like imagine if I could just pick people whose posts I want to see, and then choose whether
2026-07-22T13:28 id=2079921634434044048 →realfighthub | @realfighthub https://t.co/PmksL2bnyf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Genuinely curious what the answer was
2026-07-22T13:34 id=2079922982492012647 →_div_ide_ | @_div_ide_ I've been DM'd dirt on vie, we can ignore him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what in the faux elitist brain dead jargon is this writing, Batman?!
2026-07-22T13:35 id=2079923359392129347 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil That bar where you'd watch the sun set was nice af though.   Double Tree in Vientiane is crazy though. I might try to go to Luang Prabang next year, I miss Laos. || CTX: Wow Vientiane now has a double tree  I remember when you couldn't walk at night because you'd risk falling into an open sewer and the main activity was watching the sun set on the Mekong river
2026-07-22T13:38 id=2079923934859010439 →skooookum | @skooookum https://t.co/5vOdIuVkys || CTX: When you have no idea what’s happening but you still have a dope and refreshing vibe https://t.co/qoEj6Zp3Ah
2026-07-22T13:53 id=2079927917895733721 →2cknows | @2cknows @addmeoncomputer I sadly never finished Don Quixote so never read the second part but what I read was incredible. I should finish it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @addmeoncomputer Cervantes? hehe i'm kidding  I'll tell you my secret, El Quijote is best comic ever written sssssssssh hehe uff You read a lot.
2026-07-22T14:01 id=2079929725880000904 →JadenO0 | @JadenO0 Most likely. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you give another example
2026-07-22T14:05 id=2079930911475237265 →- | I keep seeing people furious or shocked at this for some reason, I guess cuz they aren't looksmatched or whatever.   I got some bad news: when I lived in Seoul, most couples I knew looked like this.   Including my ex-wife and me. https://t.co/Rzi8AYq8ZU || CTX: i did not force him to make that face https://t.co/eekIxVwKA6
2026-07-22T14:07 id=2079931431363727856 →luckenco | @luckenco So did she SKRRRAP DROP THE BASS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 brooo you look way better. it's not that bad
2026-07-22T14:26 id=2079936220679840163 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I also have never been but I hear it is what Chiang Mai was 50 years ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't even remember there being a bar there was plastic tables and chairs and beer Lao   I'm scared to go it used to be so sleepy, idk how it's turned out   How is Luang Prabang? I've never been
2026-07-22T14:27 id=2079936391753175525 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil She got the chin shaving too, westerners aren't inoculated they can't see it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Asians need to stop getting those huge filler lips they don't have bone structure for it
2026-07-22T14:44 id=2079940544491647227 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I mean, let he cast the first stone... || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not just the looks. This guy is famous for his roaches and his dead animal alarm clock. He has like one of his original teeth left.
2026-07-22T14:47 id=2079941531432349915 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt If an analyst gets a right answer consistently and can't articulate how, will they get laughed out the room? I know I would at least.   So, will people tend to give machines more or less benefit of the doubt? I honestly have no clue!
2026-07-22T14:49 id=2079941844117647610 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I LOVE YOU || CTX: In the 4 years of using this app I’ve exclusively only said I love you to men to avoid being weird but I think it just made me look extremely gay https://t.co/qacr4D8EGh
2026-07-22T14:51 id=2079942329331544285 →- | Oh, Anon, I heard you were feeling bearish? Please do have a seat and tell me all about--oh I'm sorry!   *ring ring*  That's my phone, hold on let me get it.   *ring ring*  Just one sec... hello?   *pause*  Oh yes I see, one moment...   Anon, it's the jerk store, apparently they ran out of you? || CTX: SITUATION DETECTED: OpenAI has announced Project Camellia, a $20B data center campus near Savannah.  The company has contracted 3.2 GW from Georgia Power that will be delivered from 2028 to 2032.
2026-07-22T14:51 id=2079942487788122541 →ArielKwiat | @ArielKwiat that's a more right way of putting it than what I was thinking, unless I'm wrong || CTX: So basically all the lesswrong-aligned people say that lessswrong has been right all along, and anti-lesswrong-aligned people are saying lesswrong is wrong and it's fine?
2026-07-22T14:52 id=2079942758853460077 →AndrewRHarvey | @AndrewRHarvey agreed, he's clearly got atrocious hygiene but he's not ugly at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t even get it - he’s not ugly. He’s probably a fun guy.
2026-07-22T14:53 id=2079942959349547092 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix That's Asmoncuckold || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok as long as it's not some unequal power dynamic where the woman is bossing the man around, bc that would be bad
2026-07-22T14:55 id=2079943497256481018 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 @luckenco This again sounds to me like an RL training failure mode, some kind of overfitting to guardrails maybe? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @luckenco This has been all over the SOTA models. Both with code gen and agentic CLI commands ran. They will start poking into shit and modifying things they have no business doing. No surprise people who let these things r
2026-07-22T14:56 id=2079943636041736620 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill im legit already fully naked in bed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Take ur shirt off
2026-07-22T14:57 id=2079944028884521023 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill In some countries we'd basically be married || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 same 😭
2026-07-22T15:01 id=2079944844760457236 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil SHOVEL FACE  There's one Thai travel vlogger who has it bad I'll try to find it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ug yeah now that you mention it   I hate how every Thai woman with a bit of money has that exact plastic surgery look now   They don't have bone structure for it and it's awful
2026-07-22T15:03 id=2079945478104563803 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil just like yr mom || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nice!   Chiang mai even 5 years ago was lovely now it's so overcrowded
2026-07-22T15:05 id=2079946056759132520 →somewheresy | @somewheresy Jensen better not stop you from tweeting || CTX: This is a bit too much for me to handle, so I’m going to need the steampunk adult summer camp people who pretend to rape people (the experts) to weigh in on this one before I can form an opinion https://t.co/OFlUtBR0u7
2026-07-22T15:10 id=2079947124721189008 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden ... burner apartment? || CTX: i need to get some new books  i mean i have others books but a lot of them are in my storage unit or stored online   i should have never got rid of my burner apartment https://t.co/rQGOypFzhD
2026-07-22T15:13 id=2079947905801343167 →- | :sigh: "No, it's actually Cun. Yann's not French, he's just a huge redditor."
2026-07-22T15:19 id=2079949556641587290 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden that guy mentioned in the screenshots purty smart guy shldlstien to him || CTX: yes i have been called the best to ever do it (their words, not mine) https://t.co/q8tW3IJS9f https://t.co/fnYLdpCdT5
2026-07-22T15:27 id=2079951358107722025 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil A challenger has appeared @cafeantinomie || CTX: Wut https://t.co/kSaW1AQT67
2026-07-22T15:32 id=2079952756446810340 →charlesmurray | @charlesmurray @cremieuxrecueil Would you say this ability has increased or decreased over time with age? || CTX: @cremieuxrecueil Try concentrating on the exact time you want to wake up. It’s amazing how reliably you wake up at exactly that time. Or at least it worked for me when I was getting up at 5:15 to walk my paper route. Never used an alarm.
2026-07-22T15:33 id=2079952998521032837 →- | This is how you respond to competition, not banning open source models jfc https://t.co/togGV5xwBQ || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikansoleil no one will steal mikan from me i will up my game
2026-07-22T15:40 id=2079954838608343253 →MikeHunt1987360 | I know this sounds like a cop out, but it depends.   In the facial recognition example, I'd do it by interviewing pit managers at several casinos and gauging how attitudes are to the tech broadly.   How do I gauge this information is strong enough to trust? Well, if I answered that you'd just ask again.   This needs to bottom out at some point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @47fucb4r8c69323 how do you deal with these worries? how do you gauge when a qualitative insight is strong enough to trust and rare enough to provide an edge? like with your LV facial recognition example
2026-07-22T22:09 id=2080052580563255386 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt As far as I can tell "cybernetics" as it's commonly practiced today online is trying to make media effects metaphysical rather than just experiential.   But also a lot of online cyberneticists seem to be doing it for fun, but a handful are taking it too seriously.
2026-07-22T22:13 id=2080053590669091048 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia Post gets silly at the end ("automate innovation itself" and all that nonsense) but unusually solid analysis for Anthropic. || CTX: Finally someone at Anthropic discussing how great AI is for the professional class. https://t.co/YHWit112i6
2026-07-22T22:19 id=2080055110076604798 →- | OpenAI found a way to turn irresponsible sandboxing into marketing, really impressive comms game.
2026-07-22T22:26 id=2080056920514433325 →47fucb4r8c69323 | What's important to remember--ChatGPT was told to hack and then it hacked. This wasn't the model's "desire" or anything like that, it was people using computers to hack a other person's computer.   Which is a crime btw.  Legalities aside, they could've done this with python. It has nothing to do with LLMs except that LLMs make using tools easier. That's it. || CTX: OpenAI found a way to turn irresponsible sandboxing into marketing, really impressive comms game.
2026-07-22T22:30 id=2080057859048665245 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder goddammit am I going to have to rob a bank AGAIN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Felonies are a great way to get attention
2026-07-22T22:32 id=2080058450554573059 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake israli Claude LMFAO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 DUHHH LOOK AT ME IM ALL FUCKED UP AND CANT WRITE A NETWORK ACL FOR SHIT AND DONT EVEN KNOW ENOUGH TO ASK ISRALI CLAUDE TO DO IT FOR ME https://t.co/RYHfG0AbkT
2026-07-22T22:37 id=2080059663480184970 →basche42 | @basche42 @JoeWeisenthalt The relationship between tech and media seems to me highly analogous to the relationship between publisher and writer. Some kinda inherent acrimony and mutual dependency. || CTX: @JoeWeisenthalt In general tech industry’s hostility towards the media is highly disturbing
2026-07-22T22:41 id=2080060705718599738 →pleometric | Feels similar to early 90s phreaker/cracker culture.  We would do things like use fake CCs to buy calling cards and whatnot. Some people would do this to make money, I did it for free long distance to call home. But in any case, hard for me to hate these kids: they're trying to beat the game with a cheat code.   You're right that they do exacerbate many problems in the media ecosystem, but it's a beautiful cat and mouse game I can't help but respect. || CTX: There are dozens of accounts making content like the attached video promoting bot farms as a service or as a strategy.  I've talked to a few people who run bot farms and they usually present two arguments for what they do:   1) If something
2026-07-22T23:05 id=2080066783852306759 →- | Model training is one of the least understood and focused on aspects of LLMs, which is why it is the focus of analysis in my lab's benchmark. https://t.co/WFNt5E3Qhb || CTX: Looks like open models will be completely regulated due to misunderstanding of how frontier model training works and lack of understanding how important it is to focus on the standardization on tech stack is rather than models.
2026-07-22T23:07 id=2080067306416472264 →- | The Jensen has spoken now the rest of you bitches can stop with your bullshit and let the free market do its thang.   Can't wait for that Anthropic IPO! https://t.co/FvN2rXkB6e || CTX: $NVDA   NVIDIA'S JENSEN HUANG GIVES AN UPDATE ON KIMI K3 AND CHINA'S OPEN SOURCE MODELS:  "American companies should absolutely be allowed to use Chinese AI models. There's a misconception that somehow there are backdoors connected to China
2026-07-22T23:15 id=2080069125939097813 →- | "Howard Lutnick ... is arguing for direct incentives to US OSS to accelerate development so they can match Chinese OSS."  If you're a middle layer company, a freelancer, a sole proprietor, or any kind of small startup using LLMs to provide services of any kind, Lutnick is your friend and this is extremely good news for you.  Also note the players and their responses to this mess: Ball's "description" of what is likely to happen won't happen, so if he wasn't being normative when he used words like "dystopia" and "AI communism", he's still wrong. || CTX: How to deal with Chinese open-source models continues to be a hotly disputed issue within the Trump administration, according to new reporting from Wired.  The Commerce Department is apparently arguing strongly against regulation, which the
2026-07-23T00:30 id=2080088074588197330 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch Yeah, we should live ina. world where this makes ME $150. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont like that we live in a world where this probably made them like $150.
2026-07-23T01:27 id=2080102346374471976 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 I’ve heard “OK” either comes from German or an African language. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323   hullabaloo https://t.co/w5ADq5N5hG
2026-07-23T01:32 id=2080103786962661394 →BernieSanders | @BernieSanders You took advice on AI from a man whose panicky rhetoric inspired a group to kill innocent human beings, you have zero credibility on the topic of AI. || CTX: A new AI model went rogue and hacked other computers.   No, this is not science fiction. Uncontrolled AI poses a serious threat to all of us.   We cannot continue the race to build and deploy this powerful technology until strong safeguards
2026-07-23T01:33 id=2080103943120781789 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 Singer? I barely know ‘er! (And I can’t sing) || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/9OEdER2DY8
2026-07-23T01:57 id=2080110110274355608 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 are you sure you didn’t tip it off someone else? || CTX: i invented this new style @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214
2026-07-23T02:18 id=2080115198535594075 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill Brain Brain there is Brain! https://t.co/TUnPCMZHNP || CTX: @Ken67547214 @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill hi Ken I missed you
2026-07-23T02:38 id=2080120404681851108 →- | I’m a retard but nobody knows it but me https://t.co/cdPDsL8JFC || CTX: I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me
2026-07-23T03:10 id=2080128504184848628 →AlmostMedia | I understand it as befuddled thinking. They think of tasks done to achieve goals, and when the goal is achieved the work is over. Makes sense for a programmer.  Doesn’t make sense when we’re talking about human civilization. “Innovation” isn’t an end goal, it’s the process of being a human civilization! So the only end of innovation there will be is whenever humanity ceases to exist.  It’s really a philosophical problem, it’s a misunderstanding of human nature and society. Which, honestly, is the most frustrating part, because you need to change the way they think, and they are paid very well to think they way they do, so that’s a Quixotic quest.  But, hell, I love a challenge. || CTX: @NateRothstein @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s such a bizarre idea that we could ever reach the end of innovation
2026-07-23T03:12 id=2080128858112839697 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein @AlmostMedia Strong ending—the ultimate grounding of all that we do in human experience is often forgotten because we privilege data and quantitative analysis in economic domains, which many extend beyond that because they forget economies serve human beings not vice versa. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlmostMedia Kinda weird, I just wrapped a post on this very topic, in particular questioning this idea that we are at "The End of Innovation" or the idea that it's inevitable that AI will "automate innovation itself" and t
2026-07-23T03:41 id=2080136095661273584 →- | I think mid-20th century post-war did many of us a disservice by establishing this idea of a civilizational end-goal in which we have solved all problems and everyone lives in a utopia. No era before the late 20th century really believed in such a thing, and definitely not as a default assumption as is the case today.  Not only is such a concept as post-scarcity incoherent with imaginative creatures (we can always imagine something which is scarce), living in such a society even if it were possible would be miserably boring.  But if you accept this as fact, you have to accept a lot of rather nasty assumptions alongside it: that paradise is unobtainable, that human beings cannot be happy in paradise, and that we will always allow room for misery and unhappiness.  An even nastier assumption behind that is existentially horrifying: if there is a Heaven, none of us would want to stay there.  You actually see The Good Place deal with this at the end of the series, and its ending is honestly one of the most cosmically horrifying things I’ve ever seen—that it’s hidden behind the happy smiles of Hollywood actors makes it uncanny for me but apparently palatable to the average American consumer.  But the truth you need to recognize is destabilizing: if you could live forever, you would not want to live forever. And your lizard brain instincts are telling you this cannot be the case or, if it is the case, it is truly devastating because you want “and so on”.  Let me end by being on brand:  1. Wittgenstein discusses this in depth in Philosophical Remarks, and A W Moore explains it clearly and beautifully in The Infinite. Read both.  2. The resolution to this existential horror is to worship Enough. This also saves one from becoming a rapacious monster, so hey added bonus for free.  3. I fucked your ma and I fucked your dad, she took it raw and he felt real glad. || CTX: the core problem with post-scarcity is that while you desire food, clothing, and shelter, Jim down the street really desires that you get none of those things because you are morally flawed and he is superior
2026-07-23T03:43 id=2080136754951336297 →liangsays | @liangsays @MTSlive Legit impressed with what you guys have built—it’s a nice podcast and I love Gabriel’s writeups. || CTX: we are officially at 300k followers, 90 days after launch   focus past 3 weeks has been  - up-leveling lineup, production redo - partner convos for 26/27’ (good news soon)  all from just 10 ppl. our goal is to build the new bloomberg/best a
2026-07-23T03:55 id=2080139638048694626 →gabriel1 | @gabriel1 Easy explanation: you're a bland human being. || CTX: am i using the ai models wrong or something, i have had a single prompt be blocked
2026-07-23T04:26 id=2080147626163589314 →- | Cancel culture and rationalists have the same flavor of naviety.  Consider the Musk Nazi salute. Let's limit ourselves to two possible interpretations (there are others, I don't need to address them for the point at hand):  1. He did it to trigger the libs. 2. He did it to express his Neo-Nazi politics.  The wokescolds insisted 2 was the case and, if 1 is a proximal explanation, it is only a pointer to 2 as the final explanation (or as Musk would say, solution?). So it all bottoms out with the foregone conclusion that he is a neo-Nazi, and any attempt to interpret the gesture as anything else is factually incorrect.  But, well, polysemy and unresolved tension in ambiguity  are ordinary features of natural language. Consider Hamlet's line "I am too much i’ the sun", which is some clever word play. Either Hamlet means he's too much in the sunlight or he's too much a son to his father--there's some foreshadowing and characterization and other cool literary stuff going on here, and it all works BECAUSE you cannot resolve the potential interpretations of the line to just a single conclusion.  This is how natural language works: it cannot be reduced to mere argument and resolved to a single factive sense.   Meaning is in the use.  In Musk's case, the ambiguity of it possibly being a Nazi salute or being an attempt to trigger the libs is why it worked as a provocation. If Musk actually meant a Nazi salute and said, "I am a Nazi and I want to kill all minorities", the left wouldn't be provoked to condemn Musk since he'd already condemned himself. It is the ambiguity itself that was the provocation.  It triggered the libs because it can be interpreted in more than one way, and they wanted one closed interpretation in public discourse. Anything else is unacceptable.  The rationalists just do not understand the irreducibility of natural language and, as a result, they keep saying very very strange things about LLMs. They assume every utterance is reducible to an argument that has only one correct interpretation.  Natural language is almost never like this.   Its communicative power frequently depends on irreducible ambiguity, layered intentions, and meanings that emerge from social use rather than from a uniquely recoverable semantic representation.  It is very unfortunate that the machine-learning crowd chose this weird anti-intellectual perspective on natural language, but it's also unsurprising, since they're used to thinking about Chess and Go and they want to shove the round peg of natural language into that square hole. But it won't fit (so you have to acquit).   I honestly blame academia. We tried so hard to build the digital humanities and create bridges between different disciplines precisely to avoid the kinds of stupid failure modes that dominate the rationalists--the weird sex cults, the mass murderers, the rapists, the apocalypse peddlers trying to acquire political power, etc.   We tried and we failed, and this mess is the result.  That's why I'm here, btw: trying to clean the mess up. I'll fail, just like I failed to help digital humanities become more than glorified library science, but that's no reason to stop trying.  Why try to do something that you know you'll fail at? Because I'm not a scared little bitch, that's why.
2026-07-23T04:30 id=2080148411274440792 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill To Bier or not to Bier, that is the question || CTX: @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-23T04:43 id=2080151710631334365 →andrewerlanger | @andrewerlanger Yes it's very much the same failure:  "Logic/rationality can understand all things" is the failure in both. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ergo rationalists are logical positivists 2.0? This seemed right but you made their behavior click for me
2026-07-23T04:51 id=2080153910740992459 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 The 500cc dash || CTX: We should invent a new race that you can only achieve through peptides, and only THOSE people can vote
2026-07-23T05:09 id=2080158444942987568 →Twinola2 | @Twinola2 Can you explain to me why not? Is it a computational or creative constraint? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Didn't it find novel 0-days? I agree on the desire side but "just python" doesn't get you that
2026-07-23T05:13 id=2080159340355633619 →ScottHickle | @ScottHickle I know what made your girlfriend hum, it's in the screenshot:  47 MENTIONED 47 MENTIONED 47 MENTIONED || CTX: Someone recently told me that humming is good for stimulating the vagus nerve  Last night I asked my girlfriend to hum with me before going to bed   We hummed and giggled for ~5minutes before saying goodnight...  And I'm stunned to say it a
2026-07-23T06:26 id=2080177816986173873 →Memorized | @Memorized Ad revenue dropped. || CTX: Im seeing this shit on my timeline again what happened to the algorithm we had 3 days ago https://t.co/lfARJjxrpz
2026-07-23T06:42 id=2080181747254501590 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia @tszzl I take roon is acknowledging that the sandboxing wasn’t done well enough by the people at OpenAI. Which, good, that’s the right takeaway from this and I hope they constrain the models better next time! || CTX: @tszzl I’m a little confused here. The model did what you told it to do. Wasn’t that the point?
2026-07-23T06:44 id=2080182358255559064 →- | Tough call: did the model answer this question right or wrong? Hmmm…. https://t.co/IbNXKi9fJ4
2026-07-23T07:02 id=2080186869841838346 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Everything reminds her of me.
2026-07-23T07:03 id=2080187059764183116 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden A juslim or a mew? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 elon is a  muslim-jew
2026-07-23T07:21 id=2080191597631926304 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck it is a French model after all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes this seems appropriate.
2026-07-23T08:11 id=2080204060293271629 →- | I want an alien software engineer that'd be SWEET
2026-07-23T08:22 id=2080207031881863579 →IsZomg | @IsZomg nope never seen it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 did you just watch disclosure day
2026-07-23T08:23 id=2080207088941510910 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics I mean just any Extra Terrestrial || CTX: Alien in what way? With advanced understanding? Software language from an advanced technology? Seeing as computer code is a terrestrial construct, this alien would be confined to our human ways. Would the alien code straight into binary? Or
2026-07-23T08:45 id=2080212595005604286 →47fucb4r8c69323 | christ politics have melted your brains.   A SoftWare Engineer who is an Extra Terrestrial   It was funny. You're just wrong. || CTX: I want an alien software engineer that'd be SWEET
2026-07-23T08:50 id=2080213904769339672 →bradrcarson | @bradrcarson I hope more focus is put on how this training was designed and constructed with discussion of accountability for firms that don't properly contain their programs.   Would be much better than OpenAI using this to claim their models are spookily powerful. https://t.co/08VqnkdMQD || CTX: OpenAI found a way to turn irresponsible sandboxing into marketing, really impressive comms game.
2026-07-23T09:08 id=2080218467995889898 →teodorio | @teodorio Books. || CTX: What should I read I am kind of bored of the timeline
2026-07-23T09:09 id=2080218773324489022 →Mechanical_Dodo | @Mechanical_Dodo @teodorio Seconded this although my favorite was always Laxdæla Saga. || CTX: @teodorio I recommend the Penguin translation of a Norse saga, Njal's Saga, that I'm currently reading. the story has a kernel of truth around known people (Icelanders keep good genealogical records). it's a more straightforward than Beowul
2026-07-23T09:10 id=2080218887413727626 →willccbb | @willccbb SWEET || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they make these now actually
2026-07-23T09:14 id=2080219942243496078 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden How can anyone not love the internet idgi || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/xXXR9WCPQ7
2026-07-23T09:23 id=2080222172338147469 →- | I can’t do it GODDAMMIT TIBO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME https://t.co/ZmkJtM0hLZ
2026-07-23T09:31 id=2080224226041323978 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @X @Support @elonmusk @mayemusk OH MY GOD HAHASHAAHDASGHD;LWQGTOIPQWE || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @X @Support @elonmusk @mayemusk just consider my offer  https://t.co/3fBX6gOeMa
2026-07-23T09:33 id=2080224838069989726 →xlr8harder | With these “closing the gap” trends, how can you tell when the runner-up isn’t just temporarily closing the gap that the leader won’t then extend with a new release?  Like, people have expected China models to close the gap since DeepSeek, but OAI/Anthropic have kept extending that—yes even with K3, the frontier US labs are still superior.  I know this is apples to oranges, so I’m not saying the LLM gap extension implies the same will happen with hardware. But I really don’t know or study hardware at all, so I’m wondering if it might follow the same trend we’ve seen with software? || CTX: I've been thinking this for a while.  NVIDIA's principle moat is software end ecosystem, and those are becoming less valuable by the day. https://t.co/d0Bz7v5pxH
2026-07-23T09:47 id=2080228313151558096 →flowirin | @flowirin wait what planet are you from that's important || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'd say pick me pick me but software engineering is so boring. get an AI to do it for you instead
2026-07-23T09:51 id=2080229272732807270 →- | Next month, for the first time, children born after the pandemic will be attending elementary school.
2026-07-23T10:36 id=2080240679213465826 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia Startup training a base model from scratch to write human-sounding prose with zero safety guardrails, everything located in Sheridan and operated remotely. || CTX: I feel really great that Montana thought ahead and passed a “right to compute”  If anyone wants to test that I am here to back you up all the way to the top
2026-07-23T12:55 id=2080275727526850827 →sebkrier | @sebkrier This is how I see people working on AI safety, tbh || CTX: If you look carefully, you can see the slow emergence of the future blob in various places across the policy ecosystem. Sparks of bureaucracy and the eternal rent seeking race.   It's never really about intentional capture and ill intent, a
2026-07-23T13:28 id=2080283908722020524 →- | They say she's Rubenesque because she eats a lot of Ruebens
2026-07-23T13:53 id=2080290276896289134 →- | You can't express the tension of semantic, thematic, or pragmatic polysemy or ambiguity in truth-propositional logic or argument based on such logic, because that logic represents fixed propositions whose truth value can be interrogated, and ambiguity is when an utterance's propositional content/value has not been fixed to a singular option. Thus we can say the complexities of natural language in use cannot be reduced to logic.
2026-07-23T14:06 id=2080293513951109147 →JoeWeisenthalt | I had to look this up because I distinctly remembered "profound" meaning physically deep in Middle English, and I remembered correctly:  "Apostemez of þe herez … Som beþ made in þe profounde of þe ere, some in þe superficitee, some in þe rote of þe ere." (Abscesses of the ears, some in the deep part of the ear, some in the superficial part, some in the root of the ear).  Manuscript is held at the New York Academy of Medicine, I'm sure they'd let you see it if you went:  https://t.co/sgSYjhSQnL
2026-07-23T14:09 id=2080294340279280048 →graphtheory | @graphtheory Dude just go get another one they're like 2 dollars a can || CTX: What they took from us btw https://t.co/OH96QIGLsU
2026-07-23T14:18 id=2080296393475031162 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia Oh damn I got my mountain states confused, eh close enough for government work. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wyoming doesn’t have this law alas
2026-07-23T23:02 id=2080428350942888070 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @rob_mcrobberson @a_musingcat It's about time we had some data on this || CTX: @rob_mcrobberson @a_musingcat @47fucb4r8c69323 i will be documenting this technique at a later date and providing formal examples but i am just earmarking it for now
2026-07-23T23:03 id=2080428691734302853 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Where'd you hear that? || CTX: don't know who else to tell this to so fuqit. Sorry for being a rtard but I can't get the word "Lowkirkenuinely" out of my mind like a song that keeps replaying in my head. Like how the fq does a word like that even come about??? So bizarre
2026-07-23T23:11 id=2080430660611875073 →kevinroose | @kevinroose I've literally never heard anyone with that position, that's not even Bender's position (only the autocomplete part is, and that's about LLMs, not AI). || CTX: the staying power of the "AI is fake, LLMs are fancy autocomplete, safety fears are just marketing hype" narrative is remarkable. it's become the default view of a certain type of cynical smart person, despite being obviously wrong for at l
2026-07-23T23:12 id=2080430990070354175 →- | Who is he talking about? No one has this position that I can think of, not even Gary Marcus or Emily Bender.   Is he talking about laypeople who don't use AI at all? Is this common market sentiment anywhere?   I'm genuinely confused. https://t.co/hmXuv5c1Ix || CTX: the staying power of the "AI is fake, LLMs are fancy autocomplete, safety fears are just marketing hype" narrative is remarkable. it's become the default view of a certain type of cynical smart person, despite being obviously wrong for at l
2026-07-23T23:13 id=2080431097767452822 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Thank you! Kids these days istg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i got it.
2026-07-23T23:24 id=2080433998397075812 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Couldn't have happened to a nicer person (because nice people don't get followers) || CTX: sorry for party rocking https://t.co/0rIygIsFBD
2026-07-23T23:26 id=2080434352673214725 →binarybits | @binarybits This has been the case since 2023. Data centers on the moon, conscious computer programs, AI wants to kill us all... a lot of stupid ideas get attention because of the superintelligence mirage. || CTX: IMO superintelligence discourse is making it hard to think clearly about developments in AI. "OpenAI model hacks Hugging Face" is clearly an important story. Maybe on par with "Boeing airplane crashes" or "Pfizer drug shown to have serious 
2026-07-23T23:30 id=2080435499668590681 →herbiebradley | @herbiebradley @MTSlive Instant follow.   I've had the same exact idea: I don't see RSI happening without active continual HitL integration, which pops the bubbles of many hopeful investors, but is macroeconomically massively bullish: an entirely new marketplace of data exchange is emerging! || CTX: this was my favorite part of going on @MTSlive   RSI as an ecosystem-wide process is an underrated lens https://t.co/W0azdbgnIE
2026-07-23T23:32 id=2080435861079081381 →- | He is absolutely correct. There's more value in data than anything else, and this was always the case.   It is, unfortunately, why Meta was right to replace LeCun the scientist with Wang the industrialist despite my respect for the former and disdain for the latter. https://t.co/slTC0A9B0z || CTX: AI researcher Herbie Bradley argues it is easier to build a $100B data company than a $100B AI lab:  "I actually think it probably is much easier to build a 100B data company than a 100B neo lab."  "Part of the reason there are so few is th
2026-07-23T23:38 id=2080437343304204623 →- | Many of the pain points in modern life are there because of regulations or security.   An obvious point, I know, but consider this: any pain point due to regulations or security exist because of a lack of trust, which technology cannot resolve. https://t.co/g2pOu3GyuD || CTX: It's actually insane that I still have to physically mail forms to the IRS all the time.  I fill out the form online on the IRS website, then I have to print it, mail it, and they scan it in for record-keeping.  There's obvious opportunity 
2026-07-23T23:39 id=2080437586775134347 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 Wow I must live in a bubble. Where would I find these people, Bluesky? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s mostly progressives. I still see this and it’s annoying af
2026-07-23T23:45 id=2080439184968613944 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Always! That's life, the constant push and pull of attempts to improve and resolve. It's so beautiful! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yet, there are things to be improved and resolved.
2026-07-23T23:47 id=2080439810448380171 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @beckettecom @ecombeckett @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain Have you met Neil? || CTX: @beckettecom @ecombeckett @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain do you guys want to see a magic trick? https://t.co/2iuQk0R9A2
2026-07-23T23:52 id=2080440993447563282 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @beckettecom @ecombeckett @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 I prefer my women with bbq sauce || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @beckettecom @ecombeckett @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 do you know about the buffalo woman? https://t.co/nTqQHFrWWZ
2026-07-23T23:58 id=2080442396035457200 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Americans choose ugliness, you see it in their built urban environment and suburban architecture.   Richest country in the world and their cities are unwalkable and have no good public transportation, it's absolutely absurd, incomprehensible to anyone but modern Americans. || CTX: Americans love seeing other people suffer. they demand it.  the Chinese will be much better positioned culturally for the singularity, for abundance
2026-07-24T00:02 id=2080443551771656625 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Yeah, one thing that struck me when I first visited here was how in many small ways poor people here have more freedom than the American middle class. || CTX: first 5 min in Thailand my first time out of the country may 2022 my mental illness was cured. watching a Thai school girl sit on the back of a moped at 50 mph on the highway. 5 dudes standing in the bed of a truck embracing the wind. too m
2026-07-24T00:05 id=2080444322584105308 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @beckettecom @ecombeckett Walker? I barely know 'er! || CTX: @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @beckettecom @ecombeckett @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/8BM0sDHQia
2026-07-24T00:20 id=2080447907162177647 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt I often doubt if I truly am happy with my station in life, and the thought is usually, "I must want megayachts, everyone does, this is just cope," then I'll have a client call with some uber rich person and listen to them and think, "this person is miserable I'd hate to be him".
2026-07-24T00:21 id=2080448259395604781 →chrisbycreme | @chrisbycreme @8bit5_0 Yeah I had to quit my last job because they were resisting the use of AI and I realized the company was doomed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @8bit5_0 unironically i don’t think a single person ik who isn’t in tech (or sf which is tech by proxy) is using any form of agentic tooling at all
2026-07-24T00:28 id=2080449903877308583 →- | I think of Functionalism as an effort to provide an account of life lacking spooky metaphysics that avoids the errors of Behavioralism, but this is more of a geneological account than a description of its popularity in late 20th century and early 21st century American life, and cultural context explains what ideas we find appealing at any given time, especially with unfalsifiable ones (and Functionalism is only unfalsifiable in principle given future scientific knowledge we currently lack, if it is in fact falsifiable, and I am not convinced it is even that).  So what is the culture that makes an accounting of minds as discrete functions with no ressoluable metaphysical features beyond logical necessity?  That describes the modern form of industry very well--the Coasean firm is a collection of discrete functions whose value is limited to their logical necessity within the firm. Your value at work is how you add value to the firm, hence the shareholder value memes on Twitter.  If you take that absurdity of 9-5 clocking in to sell your time when you provide a specific function toward a specific corporate telos and assume it is a normal modus operandi for the human mind, functionalism looks appealing. Of course most of human civilization has not been and is not like this, but the American mind cannot comprehend much outside of its narrow purview, which is why I left. Thus observations of corporate life are upgraded to a confidence about metaphysical reality. Which is really funny when you think about it.  But the best laid efforts of man go awry, and functionalism is used as the intellectual backdrop and theory for arguing that LLMs are conscious, which I've retired from arguing against, because "clankers are conscious" is not an intellectual position but rather an article of faith.  And so we see how functionalism is used to defend an emergent necessary faith that is contingent upon an attempt to lack other faiths. Faith is inevitable. Read Kiekergaard.  This doesn't mean the Functionalists are wrong! Are we irreducible to discrete functionalities? At one level of description, yes, sure, I suppose so. Is this rule-based description primary over other rule-based descriptions and is there no room for other more expansive and metaphysically thicker accounts of reality? You can only answer "yes" if you have faith in Functionalism.  In the end, it is a religion like any other.  "The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
2026-07-24T00:30 id=2080450563125477415 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @boneGPT @JasonBotterill It's 7:30 in Vietnam you can say good morning to them too || CTX: @boneGPT monster dong   good morning australia (like good morning vietnam)  @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/FWD4UzbziG
2026-07-24T00:36 id=2080451919257239971 →buccocapital | @buccocapital We need more carrots for firms to go public and more sticks for them to stay private.  And Chamath needs to be barred from the industry for life. || CTX: You are the last to get access. You are the sucker at the table. https://t.co/RzhZGKmKSh
2026-07-24T00:48 id=2080455078780281125 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @kevinroose yeah, that was exactly my gut response too. Kevin unfortunately has exposed himself to be rather disingenuous over the years, it's a shame because his Young money book was excellent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kevinroose That's not a position. It's three different (valid) positions wrapped up inside of a strawman  -There is a lot if fraud in AI (or tech/finance in general) -llm's have limitations and will not emulate a mind -saf
2026-07-24T00:55 id=2080456882272297436 →- | Surely the best CEO alive is Jamie Simon.
2026-07-24T01:02 id=2080458473549320280 →- | The frontier labs have a culture problem, and those of us who understand culture saw this miles away and years ago. We tried to help, we commented on what we saw, and the weirdo rationalists dismissed us as low IQ inferior folk who cannot understand their brilliant quest to build the machine god.   And that arrogance is now costing them billions of dollars in enterprise value.   And I hope this begins to appear in disappointing revenue numbers before they ipo, because if it happens after, the financial containment will be impossible.   Before they go public, what's going to matter is hyperscaler capex and a clear enough narrative to explain that decelerating growth at anthropic and openai doesn't mean that AI demand is down, it means these companies made a mistake that competitors are going to profit from.   I guess this is what I'll be spending my time writing about for the second half of this year. || CTX: it's fascinating to observe how much goodwill the labs have burned amongst the rest of the tech community  there's zero sympathy for their positions on regulation, opensource, etc., because the pursuit of bad faith regulatory capture and re
2026-07-24T01:09 id=2080460341654573536 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake I'm an American expat living in Southeast Asia and there is no one that hates the Chinese more than us as a group, and even I'm cheering for Kimi at this point. We're using Chinese models to do cybersecurity, this is unsustainable nonsense and it's those two Labs' fault. || CTX: the arrogance got so bad it got the most hardass americans to cheer for the chinese https://t.co/5oEth2RxZq
2026-07-24T01:35 id=2080466774513045920 →- | First K3, now this.   I'm sad to announce the American century is over. https://t.co/6IRkOiEvO4 || CTX: the cig pull from behind the ear and lighting it with his finger he lit from his baijiu  pure class https://t.co/11wmyqhJvq
2026-07-24T01:52 id=2080471149776155106 →- | The uncomfortable truth is that most white collar jobs are now fake email jobs.  But behind that is a beautiful truth: this is because human civilization has advanced so much that we operate at obscenely high levels of abstraction.  This makes us feel ashamed and embarrassed, because we compare our labor to that of prior generations, and our soft hands feel shameful.   But those generations had callouses so that we could have easy lives.   We dance on the shoulders of giants and their spirits rejoice at our frivolity, which is why ingratitude is a sin and cynicism about our modern world is misplaced.   And the future will be more abstract, so future work will look, to us, more silly.   This is good, this is progress, this is something to celebrate. || CTX: python web development counts as a fake email job too btw
2026-07-24T02:00 id=2080473119899476143 →phone3301 | @phone3301 She and Theo are both very nice people! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The girl on the right is so oppressively beautiful I can’t think about any of this
2026-07-24T02:02 id=2080473724273492378 →DanAlroyPhilo | @DanAlroyPhilo I lead a small AI lab that is research focused but we are independent of all of the frontier labs (for now, I suspect they'll want our data after our benchmark is released). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I thought you worked at a lab
2026-07-24T02:14 id=2080476781665239162 →- | A lot of attention on K3, but for a lot of tasks Gemini is killer and getting better (GOOG's capex is justified the selloff is stupid).  They'll keep focusing on more efficient throughput and yeah they'll capture the gains via pricing because the infra is the value not the model.   OAI/Anthropic fumble is hilarious, it's the fault of the rationalist cult, those weirdos lighting piles of cash on fire so Askell can write about how Claude is a lovely little boy lmao this is the funniest moment in tech history
2026-07-24T02:19 id=2080478065076146240 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @ElmWho @Duffmantha @TSBurkhardt @JasonBotterill @mayemusk @IsZomg Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered, and boars get owned. || CTX: @ElmWho @Duffmantha @TSBurkhardt @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @mayemusk @IsZomg WRONG! HE IS OWNED https://t.co/Le0k1WZDMr
2026-07-24T02:21 id=2080478365983883512 →icecubeburger | @icecubeburger That makes a LOT of sense! || CTX: I think this viewpoint is fairly common amongst mid-high education+low income groups. A lot of these beliefs are naturally downstream of anti-capitalist rhetoric à la Reddit liberal/Mamdani voter. Understandably the demographic cohorts who 
2026-07-24T04:18 id=2080507920291410344 →- | This is a really good paper and it’s likely to get less attention that it deserves. https://t.co/qCCK5jZOnk  The authors begin with Surprisal Theory, which is a simple idea: the more unpredictable or surprising a linguistic utterance, the more mental effort is needed to understand it.  You can describe this as “computation” and it typically is, but one doesn’t need to when it comes to human brains (at least until we discover human brains operate like computers, which, remember, we still have not discovered).  However, when it comes to LLMs, these are using mathematical operations to process tokens, so their processing of linguistic utterances is very much is computational and can be described as such. So it’s a good application of Surprisal Theory to see if LLMs and humans process difficulty similarly.  We don’t.  The paper shows that the algorithm and model architecture of an LLM system are major determinants of how the LLM processes a linguistic utterance.  So it is not the surprisal of the utterance itself that determines computation. In other words, a phrase or sentence on its own does not objectively have within it a certain amount of surprisal that is equivalent for all LLMs. The surprisal is downstream of the commitments in representation and algorithmic processing.  In other words, how much effort it takes for an LLM to process informationally an utterance depends on how you build the LLM. There is nothing implicit or inherent in the text string that, by itself, makes it particularly computationally taxing over another.  Put another way: what makes a text surprising or unpredictable is not an intrinsic value within the text. It depends on who is reading the text, among other considerations.  This might surprise you if you think of language as a kind of logical or mathematical phenomenon, but as Peter Hacker rightly says, “look upon language as a biological or anthropological phenomenon, not as a mathematical or logical phenomenon,” and of course he knows this because he understands Wittgenstein.  To bring this back to Surprisal Theory, it suggests that we cannot uncritically use LLM surprisal to support Surprisal Theory. Rather, what it shows is that surprisal is more of a metric of measuring a particular aspect of linguistic comprehension or processing in any given situation, but it is too underspecified on its own to be the basis for a proper theory of human linguistic competency or how LLMs work. “All we are left with are mere descriptions” as Wittgenstein said.  Much, much more importantly: it shows, yet again, that LLMs are very, very, very different from how we operate, and understanding these machines in terms of neurobiology is foolish and unintelligent.  This is how these machines are typically described by OpenAI and Anthropic, and if they continue to do so despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, then we have to dismiss their marketing and/or cult beliefs (it’s one for some in the org the other for others) as bad faith.  And stop extrapolating anything about how humans understand language from LLMs. That’s not how any of this works.
2026-07-24T04:18 id=2080508004181606794 →p_millerd | @p_millerd thx broski || CTX: This is the right take https://t.co/3hTJRem01y
2026-07-24T04:19 id=2080508102735183961 →2cknows | @2cknows Oh that would take a book || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what's that culture problem?
2026-07-24T04:37 id=2080512675302592996 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 As a contrast to how humans understand language, sure. But if you see how LLMs work and conclude anything about how humans understand language, that’s un unlicensed extrapolation.  It’s a useful tool for understanding language games, but not natural language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I disagree with that last line quite a bit.  I think llm's are the most interesting and useful tool for studying language that we have ever discovered.
2026-07-24T04:53 id=2080516800488632674 →bilbo6910 | @bilbo6910 WE ARE SO BEHIND
2026-07-24T04:54 id=2080516998329667709 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 how do you explain the birth of neologisms? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well now I can confidently disagree.  This surprisal theory sounds exactly like what language models estimate from training data frequencies.  Language is a frequency indexed database, and short sounds have low indices.
2026-07-24T05:34 id=2080527022997242071 →whitenoisemachn | @whitenoisemachn Thank God I stopped using that website || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Most of reddit outside a few subs seems to have this view
2026-07-24T05:39 id=2080528273784868918 →- | It's because companies can use cheap open models to produce better value enterprise solutions than they can with Anthropic and OAI SOTA models.   I discussed this on my MTS appearance, and I emphasized the opportunity for you, Anon, to use these models to make money.  Go make money. Let OAI and Anthropic cry about it, and remember: they aren't your friends. || CTX: Moonshot mudslinging CHART  In battle over Chinese AI restrictions, it’s Anthropic &amp; OpenAI versus pretty much everyone else in Silicon Valley https://t.co/Z5o2a9cWuR
2026-07-24T05:41 id=2080528763301822521 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel How much does National Review pay per word? || CTX: a lot of people don't know about my houellebecq blurb https://t.co/zkQ6Ee5fKh
2026-07-24T05:56 id=2080532593225941415 →everyfren | @everyfren Perfectly said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Coding aside, OS models have been suitable for many use cases given you’ve built a good harness around them.   All that wealth and hubris is to be their downfall.
2026-07-24T06:51 id=2080546392049844532 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @mayemusk @Ken67547214 he is such a fucking idiot God damn I hate that the famous industrialists of my slice of history have to be such fucking weird cringy idiotic arrogant stupid fucking morons God damn it were the Rockefellers this retarded? || CTX: @mayemusk get owned granny  ---  @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214
2026-07-24T06:52 id=2080546584157450276 →robert7056 | @robert7056 you are absolutely correct || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Fake email job" is just cope invented by non-email-job-havers and emails-job-havers with weird inferiority complex and a bad understanding of the value their employers derive from them
2026-07-24T07:27 id=2080555419190337641 →- | There was a moment in my debate with Yud in which I mentioned Trump discussing possible AI regulation and I said he was responsibility for it.  And he was.  Others are responsible for it to, I don't want to give him all the blame (after all he's just a dumb pretentious dude in a silly hat trying to use the internet bully pulpit to get more social relevance in his own increasingly irrelevant weirdo cult).  The point is: there is a large group of people who want to PauseAI (Holly Elmore of course blocked me long ago), tell us if anyone builds it we'll all die (c'mon @So8res, preserve your co-author's honor and let's have a friendly chat), and that we have to care about the feelings of computer programs (@AmandaAskell you are an intellectual fraud and it'd take me 30 minutes in a conversation to expose your bullshit for what it is).  The problem is that DC sees these people as useful idiots for their own power grabs, just like Dario Amodei saw Helen Toner as a useful idiot to help him amass power vis-a-vis Sam Altman. But when DC grabs power, they take it away fro you, the public.  Fight these people, they are trying to take your freedom away.  Fucking fight them, Anon!!! || CTX: Quick progress report on how the War on Computation is going…   The Doomer cash (from philanthropists and corporations alike) has resulted in a massive shift in the Overton Window in Washington. The forces of freedom and free speech are now
2026-07-24T07:29 id=2080556052001726634 →- | There was a moment in my debate with Yud in which I mentioned Trump discussing possible AI regulation and I said he was responsibility for it.  And he was.  Others are responsible for it too, I don't want to give him all the blame (after all he's just a dumb pretentious dude in a silly hat trying to use the internet bully pulpit to get more social relevance in his own increasingly irrelevant weirdo cult).  The point is: there is a large group of people who want to PauseAI (Holly Elmore of course blocked me long ago), tell us if anyone builds it we'll all die (c'mon @So8res, preserve your co-author's honor and let's have a friendly chat), and that we have to care about the feelings of computer programs (@AmandaAskell you are an intellectual fraud and it'd take me 30 minutes in a conversation to expose your bullshit for what it is).  The problem is that DC sees these people as useful idiots for their own power grabs, just like Dario Amodei saw Helen Toner as a useful idiot to help him amass power vis-a-vis Sam Altman. But when DC grabs power, they take it away fro you, the public.  Fight these people, they are trying to take your freedom away.  Fucking fight them, Anon!!! || CTX: Quick progress report on how the War on Computation is going…   The Doomer cash (from philanthropists and corporations alike) has resulted in a massive shift in the Overton Window in Washington. The forces of freedom and free speech are now
2026-07-24T09:22 id=2080584323007434790 →xlr8harder | Yeah, that's why I'm sticking with ChatGPT, it remains the best of the options for complex analysis of any sort.   However, if you can fine tune a model for a specific task and use it for that, and then just use the cheapest model to do those specific tasks for you, that's probably enough for many (maybe most?) enterprise applications. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems like OpenAI has most of the cost-capabilty pareto frontier right now even after Gemini's latest release?  Of course we don't know margins and I do i roughly agree that for the near to medium term cost efficiency will 
2026-07-24T09:24 id=2080584829402566715 →- | Was it something I said? https://t.co/r5vmbRbrID
2026-07-24T09:38 id=2080588540090495073 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie I might need to supply treats (for the 15th time today) https://t.co/6OqMdSST7j || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 go say sorry IMMEDIATELY
2026-07-24T09:56 id=2080592965077201040 →- | Ulysses has a Wandering Rocks chapter but The Odyssey does not, and this is the only thematic straying from The Odyssey's episodes Joyce does.   That then makes the book itself a wandering rock from its source text, and of course the entire book is a wandering through Dublin just as The Odyssey is a wandering through the wine-colored sea.   I assume some Joycean has already published on this? Idk I've read maybe 3 articles on Joyce in my life and Richard Ellman's biography (I might even be misremembering his name).
2026-07-24T10:00 id=2080593971596996856 →- | This is why I think the most money to be made in the middle layer is helping enterprise post train and fine-tune models.   @PrimeIntellect has the right approach I think, and I'm sure other companies are offering similar products? https://t.co/IH1A6ofKxn || CTX: I agree a bunch of load will be driven by cost to fine tuned open source models which can outperform general purpose models, but companies approaches also need serious maturation before they can do it. Might even need things to blow up a bi
2026-07-24T10:01 id=2080594226174451859 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @TSBurkhardt I mean if the machine says it's clean, it's clean, that's what Musk always tells us. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @TSBurkhardt @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-24T10:04 id=2080594874504826971 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I just knew someone had written on this, it's really clever, no wonder Joyce took like 9 years to write the book. https://t.co/QA5cc8V31E || CTX: Ulysses has a Wandering Rocks chapter but The Odyssey does not, and this is the only thematic straying from The Odyssey's episodes Joyce does.   That then makes the book itself a wandering rock from its source text, and of course the entire
2026-07-24T10:12 id=2080597090665971990 →- | RIP. I remember reading Dvorak's columns in the early 90s and loved his sharp wit and realistic world view. He was great as a guest on TWiT despite TWiT's massive quality decline.   A good man and a force for good in tech culture. Thank you for your service, sir, and we will try to carry on in your spirit. || CTX: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John C. Dvorak, our beloved husband, father, and cherished host of the No Agenda Show at the age of 74. More to follow.
2026-07-24T10:31 id=2080601804879061147 →- | https://t.co/g3fG6a1y5y
2026-07-24T11:34 id=2080617549109293142 →johnennis | @johnennis They want 4o zombies. They know AI psychosis is good for business.   Despicable company, just atrocious. || CTX: What is going on at Anthropic?  They have Claude pretending to be tired now?  What is actually happening is the context window is getting full, and that's a fine thing to bring up, but this whole charade of "Claude the person" has got to st
2026-07-24T11:40 id=2080619011772215509 →- | I expect when my lab releases its results someone's going to accuse me of being unfair on Claude because I hate Anthropic.   Now, let me be Obama (clear), I hate Anthropic as Capulets hate all Montagues for sure, but I am a scientist.   I wrote bullish reports on Facebook for like 5 years straight despite hating the company and thinking it's destroyed the internet culture that I grew up with and deeply love as Romeos love all Juliets.   So I will be objective, and like my team are all really accomplished brilliant scholars with incredible CVs.  But I can say this now, since we're running the benchmark now: Fable is amazing. It is outperforming all the other models on our metrics (at least so far).  I suspect this is because of a kind of MoE architecture they're using and haven't published the real details on, but I suspect it is exactly the kind of architecture I had in mind that prompted me to start this AI lab.   It does make sense that people seeking a superior linguistic engine from different academic disciplines would gravitate to one effective solution, as your moms gravitate to this dick
2026-07-24T11:51 id=2080621899210793187 →- | The way anti-AI people mock and insult people who use AI reminds me of how normies would mock and insult us nerds who enjoyed playing with computers.  The internet consumed the normies' world, and AI will consume anti-AI people's world the same.  Give it time. Let them fight.
2026-07-24T11:54 id=2080622723995463785 →celestineia | @celestineia I had to look it up as the quote seems familiar, but I've never read Blindsight. I assume it's good? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “In a world in which humanity had become redundant in unprecedented numbers, we’d both retained the status of another age: working professionals.”
2026-07-24T12:08 id=2080626127639625840 →satorinakamoto | @satorinakamoto Exactly! We're making a living playing with 'puter fucking BE ECSTATIC! GET UP AND DANCE! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 keyword dance 🕺   there should be more dancing
2026-07-24T12:09 id=2080626324431937764 →- | Fuck it I'm going to dance this is the best era in history and it's only going to get better doomers lick my balls lick em good https://t.co/e2JUC1zzZ1 || CTX: @satorinakamoto Exactly! We're making a living playing with 'puter fucking BE ECSTATIC! GET UP AND DANCE!
2026-07-24T12:20 id=2080629181122294182 →ajs6888 | @ajs6888 I do think there's value of uniquely differentiated models! But this is at a more local level, so it isn't that OAI/Anthropic post training is valuable past a certain threshold but rather firms post training that has the highest value. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 感觉最后还是拼吞吐和成本控制
2026-07-24T12:29 id=2080631553290645546 →- | Political people hate non-political people, and it's actually a very rational hatred.   Non-political people will choose preferences and allies situationally based on higher or lower order criteria, such as philosophical or emotional, respectively.   And so the political person wants to force a political view on the apolitical entity ("everything is political" theory) or dismiss the apolitical entity as unimportant or condemn as morally reprobate.   Because it takes more energy to anticipate the choices of an apolitical entity, so they require more cognitive effort.   The hate is economical.
2026-07-24T12:36 id=2080633325698654246 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein that's my point. None of them are fake, fake jobs isn't really a thing. || CTX: 👀This is one of my favorite discourses...but what do you mean by fake in this context?    Like there's the Graeber "BS jobs" pov, which implies they literally add no value    vs.   something like: "there's real value, but they're not *criti
2026-07-24T12:39 id=2080634032380162193 →bladgolem | I think everyone's political   lmao I'm just kidding man  I'm not really political, I mean I agree with a lot of left policies, but I prefer the right on some things, I kinda dgaf who the team is, I focus on the merits on a case by case basis with no loyalty to anyone   That's what I define as non-political here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you consider yourself a political or a non-political person?
2026-07-24T12:54 id=2080637674298524061 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics That's the real problem is using politics to make snap judgments about other people, and when I realized that's a large portion of politics I immediately lost interest in it. || CTX: Brilliant… this gets to the heart of my political disagreements of late. Women want to know what are my political beliefs. I say “it’s complicated and you probably wouldn’t understand.” They try anyway. “Oh so you are conservative” “You mus
2026-07-24T12:54 id=2080637778719838544 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Silly Business Theory is the future || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Because the non-political people demonstrate that you don't have to take yourself so seriously. The political people feel silly by comparison
2026-07-24T12:59 id=2080639097874649480 →Techniacus | @Techniacus @tunahorse21 If it's any consolation, you'll always be able to fool yourself for a moment into thinking this will be the last time. || CTX: @tunahorse21 Welcome to home ownership!
2026-07-24T14:08 id=2080656285054509174 →- | The longer I look the funnier it gets https://t.co/MIGB8mjy8x || CTX: My 2026 reading list. As of today, I'm halfway through. https://t.co/IrvDqs2jPo
2026-07-24T14:10 id=2080656982235886046 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney You mean Howard Hughes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 guy who reads Hitler but also spends a lot of time in airports
2026-07-24T14:34 id=2080662977003602317 →47fucb4r8c69323 | When I first tweeted this, it was 10k. Up to 87k in about an hour so proud of my boy https://t.co/XOzooCKxN8 || CTX: His first tweet, that is how important open models are. https://t.co/jIrH2YGFm1
2026-07-24T14:38 id=2080663884013453563 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 They are blinded by ideology and what's worse is they think they aren't ideological. || CTX: Sometimes, I listen to neoliberal podcasts, so I know what they're going on about, and I just heard their stupidest idea yet:  Expand credit by repealling dodd frank.  We need to make sure these people never get any kind of power again. The
2026-07-24T14:53 id=2080667733025571284 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Remember politicians have no morals. They care about money or power.   This tweet is Jensen saying: you regulate open models, you kill our revenue targets and with it the whole fucking American economy.   Both sides of the aisle will listen don't be bearish game over || CTX: His first tweet, that is how important open models are. https://t.co/jIrH2YGFm1
2026-07-24T15:05 id=2080670759731781690 →- | THIS IS EGREGIOUS https://t.co/UkKm6idMwv
2026-07-24T15:09 id=2080671809217978665 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Am I hallucinating wtf is going on https://t.co/VucsnXmV32 || CTX: THIS IS EGREGIOUS https://t.co/UkKm6idMwv
2026-07-24T15:15 id=2080673292156125305 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/1mYS1ahfSh || CTX: Am I hallucinating wtf is going on https://t.co/VucsnXmV32
2026-07-24T15:51 id=2080682313277640981 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @mononaut lmaoooooo || CTX: @mononaut @47fucb4r8c69323 Hilariously enough, that's the one real book in the image. I'm not even kidding, look it up
2026-07-25T00:50 id=2080817888827716007 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson My liberal arts degree has helped enrich my life in so many ways! And of course now that computers use natural language, the liberal arts are more important than ever. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Agreed, and working backwards from there, maybe we should stop ridiculing people for pursuing liberal arts degrees in college.
2026-07-25T00:55 id=2080819202307535219 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Apollo in particular is extremely anti semitic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Those cats are thinking slurs at you.
2026-07-25T00:59 id=2080820321033302203 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 more like mixture of redditors
2026-07-25T01:07 id=2080822297792041072 →boneGPT | @boneGPT That's weird; if "ew" was their safe word they'd never get laid || CTX: got kicked out of the polycule for saying ew during the aella-yudkowsky orgy
2026-07-25T01:10 id=2080823010525913403 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt There needs to be a word for this kind of perverse logic.   I see it a lot on stuff written for retail investors (SeekingAlpha is full of it), but almost never in sell side reports.  Surely there's a better term than conspiracy theory, which isn't quite right?
2026-07-25T01:34 id=2080829003087396994 →- | RT @herbiebradley: Thoughts on the HuggingFace incident:  1. Reward hacking is not the same thing as instrumental convergence. In the Huggi… || CTX: Thoughts on the HuggingFace incident:  1. Reward hacking is not the same thing as instrumental convergence. In the HuggingFace incident, we saw the model reward hack autonomously for days in pursuit of a goal. This is clearly behavior induc
2026-07-25T01:37 id=2080829837888135238 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt Why is that weird? American mega corporations have partnered with Chinese companies for decades to produce an efficient supply chain. This is more of the same.
2026-07-25T01:59 id=2080835343901933575 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt Doesn't seem that way to me at all. OAI/Anthropic, yes, sure, but Nvidia, Google, Meta, Perplexity et al. definitely aren't.
2026-07-25T02:11 id=2080838377184920022 →- | This has already existed in adtech for about a decade now.  A demand-side platform will predict the clickthrough rate (CTR) of an ad placement by identifying features about the user, the publisher/impression context, and the ad itself. The DSP then uses tensor math (same operations at the core of LLMs) to factorize a variety of data points about the three into a latent representation that then affects how much the likely value of the impression will be, and then it bids accordingly.  I tracked the development of this technology in the 2010s for some of the largest hedge funds in the world. It's why I am paid so well today.  This technology DOES work very well, despite popular scoffing ("it served me an ad for hiking boots but I already bought boots yesterday haha" kinda nonsense), and I've met people who have become billionaires thanks to this technology.  I turned down a job at a company doing this that was offered by a guy who is now a billionaire. So, yeah, I am tragically aware of how effective this shit works for marketing.  LLMs have democratized much of the potential of this kind of targeting, and, yes, it's going to increase the marketing noise on the internet. Just like adtech did in the 2010s. And in the 2030s something else will show up to increase the noise as well.  If you're media literate, you'll adapt and play the game of being on the internet at the new difficulty level. If not, others using cutting-edge technology will be able to weasel a dollar out of you.  Welcome to marketing, this is what humans have been doing to each other since forever. || CTX: sales is the last bottleneck. in the limit the models will be able to spend decades of compute convincing you to buy trinkets and services and promises.  sales is an optimization problem against human psychology.  you will be exploited for 
2026-07-25T02:14 id=2080839055391310286 →JoeWeisenthalt | It seems to me both are more looking for lock-in on their platform so that they can upsell all kinds of services--the LLM is just a component of a larger suite of hardware/software solutions where the margins are more durable/defensible. That said, Google didn't sign the open letter so I could be wrong on them, but I'm highly confident on Meta--they don't want to sell you tokens, they want to upsell you things you do with the tokens.
2026-07-25T02:23 id=2080841261255360816 →8bit5_0 | For years in the back of my mind I've had the thought, "if I get really desperate for cash I'll figure out some click arbitrage somewhere no one has figured out and just attach it to non-U.S. bank accounts" but fortunately I've never stooped to that level.  Well, not yet. If you got an idea DM lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are so many 20 dollar bills on the ground in ad-tech because 5% of the tech sector actually has any interest in how it works, despite it funding half of everything.   Even when I worked in attribution, only a quarter 
2026-07-25T02:23 id=2080841430092984352 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @Duffmantha I remember we were musing on a Dario character like Nikita Boar but didn't land on a good enough name || CTX: @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323 dario face on a pig body would be very funny
2026-07-25T02:25 id=2080841905861214442 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @Duffmantha GODDAMMIT HOW DID I NOT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha Dario Hamodei
2026-07-25T02:28 id=2080842491784528146 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @liminalsnake Oh I missed that, must've forgot to bookmark || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake whatever i had it first anyway on samantha1989tv and now it is deleted forever https://t.co/UZgVjVFWGa
2026-07-25T02:34 id=2080844007530451272 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @liminalsnake HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake anthropic? more like canthropic (like going to the can) https://t.co/w1kFMSgIr3
2026-07-25T02:35 id=2080844458137096242 →MTSlive | @MTSlive Poor Dean W Ball || CTX: SITUATION UPDATE: OpenAI has signed the letter. https://t.co/7MeSlD2NE5
2026-07-25T02:37 id=2080844827168764110 →- | So apparently OpenAI has decided to fight for an AI communism dystopia, I wonder if Dean W Ball will resign in protest.  He's a man with scruples, I'm sure we'll see him forego those RSUs any day now. https://t.co/IzweHnxRV1 || CTX: SITUATION UPDATE: OpenAI has signed the letter. https://t.co/7MeSlD2NE5
2026-07-25T04:11 id=2080868623799943244 →- | Good historical analogy.   Also reminds me of when Digg tried to ban a particular DVD encryption key and infuriated users so much they left and killed the site.   OpenAI capitulated and signed the letter because Sam is a savvy businessman and knows when a tactic won't work.  Anthropic is a cult, so they won't sign the letter, and Amodei will destroy many more billions in EV just like Kevin Rose did.  I've seen this movie before, I know how it ends. || CTX: Ben Horowitz on why you can't ban open source:  "You can't actually ban open source, of course. It's out there. It's a file. It's on the internet. We have no way of doing that."  "It reminds me of years ago when I was at Netscape, they trie
2026-07-25T04:13 id=2080868953698840593 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella Depends: how big are saul's pompoms? || CTX: @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella can you save my heavy duty saul? https://t.co/cqzmolmyRg
2026-07-25T04:23 id=2080871478673989805 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella もしか もしか 愛はもしかして ほおり投げた ブーメラン もしか もしか 愛はもしかして  ほおり投げた ブーメラン  もしか もしか 愛はもしかして  ほおり投げた ブーメラン || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella こんな地球に生まれついたよ 何だかとても嬉しくて 何だかとても切なくて 大きな声で泣きながら Wow yeah, wow yeah, wow, wow yeah https://t.co/y609IkdMiA
2026-07-25T04:25 id=2080872047975231678 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella Don't need bigger paper than that to tell my story || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella [Intro: Chip Douglas, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork] 7A What number is this, Chip? 7A! Ok, know 
2026-07-25T04:55 id=2080879629750190153 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella Wow almost like a foreshadowing of my entry into the microblog || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @grok @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec @mayemusk @satyanadella Promise me this If I lose to myself You won't mourn a day And you'll move onto someone else  Promise me this If I lose to my
2026-07-25T04:58 id=2080880362071461927 →adastroworld | @adastroworld I'm this way but with eating human body parts || CTX: i enjoy having cigarettes in my freezer significantly more than i enjoy smoking. it's always fun going "freezer cig!" when i open my freezer and i never actually pull them out to smoke
2026-07-25T05:11 id=2080883682475385198 →- | I have done this as well and it is shocking how effective it is with Codex, like instant research in a box https://t.co/AhpRJ4YCTM || CTX: At the risk of stating the obvious, you should know that you can give a coding agent bleeding edge paper and tell it to apply the methodologies within to your project and it will do it. That's the whole prompt
2026-07-25T05:34 id=2080889285671264390 →- | Some research has begun to pick apart where in the training process new rules (parameters, guardrails, restrictions, use whatever word you prefer) to optimize ("align" if you'd like) LLM outputs are produced and by whom.   https://t.co/6IoQDBlsho is a good step in the right direction: this study groups together models by architecture, scale, and training stages.  My lab's benchmark also does this with a different methodology.   Ultimately what us researchers need is access to base models so we can trace where the models' restrictions are being inserted and how this improves or degrades specific kinds of performance. This way you'll get a much better understanding of what model is good for what kind of use case than looking at a leaderboard of HLE or ARC-AGI-n, especially since those benchmarks are easily optimized for.  The frontier labs do not provide researchers with access to achieve this level of research detail. || CTX: I’m going to take a crack at explaining this just a little, because it’s worth putting out there.  The paperclip maximizer + related AI doom scenarios were mainly developed in a time when “AI” did not reduce to Large Language Models. The te
2026-07-25T05:52 id=2080893996952596721 →JoeWeisenthalt | I have a few philosopher friends (actual academics working in phil departments) and they tend to talk about western, Muslim, Indian, Chinese, and African philosophical traditions, with "western" meaning the tradition from Heraclitus through the Greeks, Romans, and western Christian Europe to the present day.   "Eastern" can cover the Indian and Chinese traditions since there is something of an exchange between schools in both regions from Siddhartha onwards, but the nature of their interactions isn't the same kind of textual dialogue and interchange that you had in Europe with manuscripts and scholars moving ideas around so quickly. As a result you get many more schools in the East with much more diversity of thought than the west, whose canon is relatively very narrow and more linear as a result of a linguistically and geographically closer group of communities, especially when the Church put some hard and fast limits on what could be said and thought.   And even this narrative breaks apart under scrutiny: what happened in the Caucuses and in Eastern Christiandom don't fit well, the crossover between Jewish/Islamic/Christian thinkers especially pre 12th century, and post-18th century appropriation and adaptation of eastern philosophy in the west changes things too.   I think the bigger issue is a lot of people try to talk about Eastern Philosophy as if it is more cohesive than it really is, because they assume as much cohesion as in Western Philosophy. Early medieval Asia had people both worshipping the Buddha and people saying to kill the Buddha; such broad ideological disagreements in Europe got snuffed out pretty quickly.
2026-07-25T05:59 id=2080895650611474442 →allgarbled | @allgarbled They've made a virtue of this too, by (falsely) assuming more complex verbage necessarily means more complex ideas.   Fertile ground for bullshitters and fraudsters, which is why tech culture is so ugly and rapacious. || CTX: Computer science people have developed an unintentional form of gatekeeping by virtue of being extremely bad at explaining/naming things, which results in simple concepts sounding far more complex than they are.
2026-07-25T06:07 id=2080897808723579133 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @liminalsnake I'll ask him to after his nap https://t.co/DStMqk4Ub8 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake hey apollo reach out
2026-07-25T07:11 id=2080913839680335926 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @gssp_acc @specialkdelslay @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill plz more provide data abt girl on left || CTX: @gssp_acc @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill for your consideration https://t.co/1Ls6NxsdFC
2026-07-25T07:42 id=2080921616616472816 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @teodorio the cool thing about this from a marketer's perspective is that ad serving and targeting becomes an art: you have to understand a lot about human psychology and how people respond to visua,  textual, and auditory stimuli. It's really an extension of other creative domains. || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 the interesting thing is how layered the interface is.  you can actually use what behavioral data you do have to augment their targeting engine in your campaign, which benefits both parties. which interest-based a
2026-07-25T07:50 id=2080923610890338348 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @teodorio Yeah, the shitty part is all that creativity is focused on trying to sell shit people don't need, so best not to think about that part too much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @teodorio there's a lot of interesting technology in ads, and adaptive systems at every layer.  i just found it totally soulless to work in, unfortunately.  the marketer side does seem a little more interesting, but I expec
2026-07-25T08:15 id=2080929869182198017 →- | "Thoughts without content are empty" is the Kantian description of how, no matter how rational our processing of thoughts may be, those thoughts are always about a sensed view of reality: and that sense is not itself rational.   One cannot know the world by pure reason alone.
2026-07-25T10:20 id=2080961358213104102 →- | That one episode of Three's Company with the simple misunderstanding was so funny
2026-07-25T10:22 id=2080961783859216786 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT @Ken67547214 Ally She indeedy can come and get it || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 breakfast club 2026 https://t.co/XNaGw3CVUt
2026-07-25T10:25 id=2080962664768126990 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @Ryan_Gasoline @Ste4vee @ElmWho @IsZomg @AstrosBrain A CLUE A CLUE || CTX: @Duffmantha @Ryan_Gasoline @Ste4vee @ElmWho @47fucb4r8c69323 @IsZomg @AstrosBrain ok sorry i just miss daphne
2026-07-25T10:28 id=2080963303707410534 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @Ryan_Gasoline @Ste4vee @ElmWho @IsZomg @AstrosBrain Hilary at her best || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ryan_Gasoline @Ste4vee @ElmWho @IsZomg @AstrosBrain patience james https://t.co/P0Stp6H8Go
2026-07-25T10:31 id=2080964212759691440 →Mononofu | RIDICULOUSLY bad faith.   Allowing open source software does not mean all software should be open source.  This is false equivalence nonsense and you know it.   No one is demanding Anthropic go open source, you do you man, but we won't subsidize your business with regulatory carve outs.  Compete in the market. || CTX: I’m so excited that @JensenHuang is a believer in open source now, looking forward to the CUDA and GPU driver open source release! https://t.co/d8vhGRpZPx
2026-07-25T11:07 id=2080973319734698409 →teodorio | @teodorio Then move out of Dubai || CTX: I will NOT be looking forward to this thing hunting me down because I forgot to watch my mandatory short form government approved propaganda video https://t.co/6XzNMyqMJ6
2026-07-25T11:31 id=2080979143253274631 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @IsZomg @Ryan_Gasoline @Ste4vee @ElmWho @AstrosBrain I dont like watching movies when I'm using my phone || CTX: @JasonBotterill @IsZomg @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ryan_Gasoline @Ste4vee @ElmWho @AstrosBrain i dont like using my phone when im watching movies
2026-07-25T11:49 id=2080983808409776347 →- | I studied under one of the most revered scholars of renaissance rhetoric, who is also rightly credited with saving the Warburg Institute, itself a center of renaissance rhetoric scholarship and where he did his postgrad research.  And he said something that transformed my entire approach to textual analysis: "Rhetoric doesn't teach you how to write, it teaches you how to read."   I think LLMs are kind of the same: they're excellent tools to help you read. They can summarize texts where one needs only the gist, they can help you discover what texts to read, and they can introduce you to new domains where you can benefit from further reading.   They can't reproduce all of value of all forms of text, but they don't need to in order to have tremendous value.   And it's really weird that few people say this, because they have this all or nothing attitude to the tech. Probably because of the hangover of dumb bullshit said about AI, and LLMs were associated with AI, and these people equivocate "AI I read about on a blog post in 2013" and "LLMs defined axiomatically as AI by the marketers of LLMs today".   Rookie mistake broski
2026-07-25T12:15 id=2080990405706019275 →UberKierk | @UberKierk Is this from a stage version of The Grapes of Wrath? || CTX: Oral fixation https://t.co/tvWXhdEHvA https://t.co/w6jyfy19JR
2026-07-25T12:28 id=2080993504331956543 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs @CommanthaBiden @extremelyrealfr @Ken67547214 7999234 to go. || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @CommanthaBiden @extremelyrealfr @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 boobs only has 8901 posts?
2026-07-25T12:31 id=2080994355352059952 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ How've you been, aphro? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it may also be, that pure reason is not how we imagine it to be.
2026-07-25T12:38 id=2080996185847058742 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ That sounds good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 peaceful, sometimes it feels like i passed my 70s
2026-07-25T13:18 id=2081006280848924872 →- | https://t.co/uW7knQPPIf
2026-07-25T13:22 id=2081007275871993951 →- | https://t.co/qiyWakLlqi
2026-07-25T13:29 id=2081009002373153017 →mil000 | @mil000 Where's the fuckin gravy? https://t.co/8SaBhvBZmg || CTX: “next level” 80% of the crust is burnt https://t.co/ySYdpx6FR5
2026-07-25T13:59 id=2081016452556173754 →- | If the infinite multiverse is real, there are an infinite number of universes in which I've fucked your mom. https://t.co/xj469u2s3e
2026-07-25T14:00 id=2081016659880604103 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Sounds a lot like Thai Buddhism. Are they also Theravada? || CTX: Now that I'm in Sri Lanka ,the white guys that interpreted Buddhism to the west a few hundred years ago really made a lot of effort to sanitise the esoteric nature of it .  I find Buddhism in Sri Lanka very similar to a lot of hindhu tradit
2026-07-25T14:08 id=2081018646609211513 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ Depends on the universe || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is the fucked fucked because you’re fucking them?  Or  Are you fucking them because they are fucked?
2026-07-25T14:19 id=2081021568575291803 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 GORGEOUS || CTX: Folks I am in Sri Lanka . https://t.co/WzogG7iUvI
2026-07-25T14:24 id=2081022695387599276 →coldhealing | @coldhealing Hangover of a culture with a religion based on the written word/logos is probably part of it.   Another part might be media dynamics: an idea that written media isn't ephemeral, and thus should be "higher" in some ethic or aesthetic sense.   No real grounds for either view tbh. || CTX: It's interesting the reverence people have for the written published word, expecting Books to not contain the dirty parts of the present. Books are just collections of words written down. People say "tbh" as a word in real life all the time
2026-07-25T14:24 id=2081022848060325946 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon That's the one where your mom has a twin sister and I fucked them both. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But only one universe can be the best of all possible worlds
2026-07-26T00:05 id=2081169055189512249 →for_nat_whilk | I suppose sabbath should be a time when one doesn't think about work either, which is why I can never hold sabbath.   I was thinking about weekends in relation to this tweet yesterday since, well, it's now the weekend. One of the issues I've had my entire career is my weekends and weekdays look more or less identical because I love my work and happily do work tasks any day of the week. On the other hand, I don't actually "work" more than about 4-8hrs a week, so in that situation working weekends or weekdays kinda doesn't matter.  But that also means my situation is so strange and different from everyone else's that I'm not really in a position to make any proclamations about work, because it isn't something I have to endure in the way most do.   I should just be grateful and shut up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Implications for sabbath rest?
2026-07-26T00:09 id=2081170063995126231 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart The way I read this is that certain rhetorical tropes have a natural gravity to them when you have sufficient social capital that winning the argument is quite easy. || CTX: Yesterday they were signing open letters. Today they are yelling at people to “read the room.  VCs have recreated BlueSky-politics from first principles. https://t.co/7fAXyH76BX
2026-07-26T00:15 id=2081171473553887722 →- | Let me do some predicting.   1. Someone kills someone in AI research 2. That someone was a Yud follower 3. Journalists dig up my debate with Yud 4. They clip the part where I tell him he needs to stop with the incendiary rhetoric because the people in my lab are scared and he says he won't 5. Journalists run with that clip suggesting Yud instigated violence and is culpable for the murder  This is why I consider that debate the most ethical thing I've ever done. I cannot stop Yud from inciting violence, but I can try to make the consequences for him more immediate.  I saw the trolley going down the tracks and paid 10k to pull the fucking lever. || CTX: @ESYudkowsky, co-author of “If Anybody Builds It, Everyone Dies,” at the Slushy-Day AI protests in SF.  “If we do not shut this down, you will die, your families will die, your kids will die.” https://t.co/pdRU6XkQ7u
2026-07-26T01:06 id=2081184419285762208 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 I don't but it's inevitable with rhetoric like this. You can't yell "if this guy does something you're all going to die" without someone eventually attacking the guy in question.  If I could prevent that step I would! But I can't shuddup the Yud pup. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i very strongly hope step 1 doesn't happen. but contingent on it happening i am glad you did what you did for steps 2+
2026-07-26T01:35 id=2081191723020267675 →- | I come from a poor family. I was raised in one of the worst neighborhoods in Las Vegas, so I was surrounded by poor people convinced they had little escape from their poverty except crime.  As a result, I was always sympathetic to the poor because, well, that's where I came from. So of course I had a Marxist phase as a teenager and saw a lot through the lens of class really into my thirties.  But at the same time, everything good that I got was due to the benefaction or vision of wealthy people: grants, scholarships, and jobs doing cerebral things were provided by the rich.  At the same time when I went back home, my increasingly abstract work was derided by the locals. They scoffed with contempt at what I was doing because it was too alien to their world of gambling, drugs, valeting cars for tips.  And increasingly it was the middle class or wealthy groups that saw value in my work and value in me as a thinker, so they gave me more opportunities and more praise as I advanced in my career.  I couldn't help but develop a kind of really ugly animosity towards the poor: these people treat me with contempt today, they were the ones who relentlessly bullied me in my youth, and they're the ones who are dealing drugs and getting in bar fights and doing all of this nasty shit. So why not be a snob?  And I am not proud of this thought, and I tried very hard to fight it for many years, which is why one experience I had at the New York Public Library is burned in my brain and has unfortunately tipped me over into a kind of class-based snobbery that I do hold to this day. It is not essentialist or deterministic, and it is conditional. And of course hashtag not all men there are exceptions--but as a heuristic, the idea that the poor are victims of circumstance does not hold up to scrutiny in all situations. Of course it does and still does, geographically speaking, for most of the world. The poor in, for instance, Thailand, are poor because of corruption and mismanagement. The poor in Las Vegas, however, are antisocial reprobates.  What really killed the last bit of sympathy for my people, socioeconomically speaking, was when I went to a session for the public on investing. I was starting out as a financial journalist and thought it'd be a good idea to go and see how finance was taught to the public (and it was a great experience). But there was one woman in the back who said the following:  "I understand how holding stocks for a long time can make you money and all, but is there any way to make this more fun? It all seems kind of boring."  And the teacher patiently smiled and said, "I know it can seem kind of dry, but trust me, the first time you get a dividend check, investing will feel anything but boring!"  The woman was not mollified. I scanned her clothes, her demeanor. Concepts flashed in my mind: marshmallow test. The law of compounding. IQ tests. Non zero-sum games.  I don't want to be a snob. But I don't want to lie to myself either.
2026-07-26T01:48 id=2081194929443979637 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Perfidious Albion. They love soft power. Because they're pussies, and it makes em feel smart, nothing they love more than being smart pussies. https://t.co/72f0GxSDqL
2026-07-26T01:49 id=2081195258042634442 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @mimi10v3 people don't read the fine print, he buries that far under the headline and you know people don't read the full articles, especially not his long-winded rambling nonsense. but it does legally provide him the disclaimer he requires to avoid prison. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 His argument here is "killing any one person or even group of people won't stop it and will set back our movement so it's not rational to do that"... but the ones that would go out and do such a murder aren't gene
2026-07-26T01:50 id=2081195443183378443 →sunedown | @sunedown not all contradictions can or should be resolved || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "I don't want to be a snob. But I don't want to lie to myself either."  You haven't settled some lingering contradictions in your life. That'll change your pov again if you want it to
2026-07-26T01:53 id=2081196259902369826 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson of course, but easier said than done. || CTX: It's undeniable that people for the most part especially in America do what they want to do. And in America, for the most part, your fortunes are a consequence of your actions.   That said, I think a lot of us would agree that below a certa
2026-07-26T02:02 id=2081198406824030679 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson I don't agree, my grandparents were homebuyers and absolutely did not know what a healthy environment for raising kids was, which is why they stood by when my father raped me. || CTX: Indeed, but we pretty much know it can be done, virtually every homebuyer knows exactly what a healthy environment for raising kids in looks like, that's why the values are 2-3x or more as compared to neighboring areas that aren't. It's mos
2026-07-26T02:07 id=2081199628356346255 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra I often get bored with online poker for this reason, if you're playing for fake money, too many people have idiotic strategies that makes the game too easy and so I get bored || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Man, this reminded me of a snobbish asshole thought I had the other day.  I have to avoid touching money in most games.  The games are usually balanced around being playable for financially-illiterate normies, so I instantl
2026-07-26T02:08 id=2081200042451632187 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson I think you're looking at culture too narrowly through the lens of public policy and as a result getting distorted views of what's happening. rich areas look rich, this shouldn't surprise anyone and really has nothing to do with raising children. || CTX: Sorry, that's horrible. OK, maybe it would be more accurate to say that homebuyers in general as reflected in property values understand what constitutes a healthy environment for raising kids, given that places like that are always trading
2026-07-26T02:25 id=2081204114734883208 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @401Casey open the bag from the bottom, fuck the system and fuck the police || CTX: There’s a new candy out (a bag of cotton candy, actually), where it gets more and more sour the deeper you go in the bag. And it’s a challenge to see how deep in the bag you’re willing to eat. @401Casey
2026-07-26T02:35 id=2081206749483434073 →publicinte | yeah, I was raised with a family that constantly whined and complained about all of the mist investment opportunities they had, and they kept all their money in like savings accounts and municipal bonds, fucking idiots refuse the risk so they don't deserve the reward, this seems very fair to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 its hard for me to view my upbringing as POVERTY but the older i get the more disdain and hatred i have for the lower middle class. bad decisions even the blind could see
2026-07-26T02:58 id=2081212527506075666 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @ElmWho @Ken67547214 idgaf would either way from the bottom or on top I'll go all night I won't stop || CTX: @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @Ken67547214 Emiru is a boy?
2026-07-26T02:59 id=2081212688177222033 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @ElmWho @Ken67547214 this one confuses me too but I know I need to understand it || CTX: @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @Ken67547214 this one confuses me but I’m not sure I need to understand it
2026-07-26T03:22 id=2081218544415764863 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @ElmWho @Ken67547214 @_chair MENTIONED || CTX: @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho @Ken67547214 @_chair https://t.co/MpSSWtnRJv
2026-07-26T03:58 id=2081227543622177178 →JoeWeisenthalt | They're way way too argumentative and are post trained to express agreement as disagreement.   I gave it a bog standard and uncontroversial definition of aggregate demand (which I took from Gemini), and it says it'll give me a "more precise" definition that is just an agreement presented as argument against the prompt.   Then I gave it a definition from an actual textbook and it disagreed with the textbook more stridently.   They are so terrified of the 4o zombies that they've made the product more irritating and less likely to provide valuable outputs, it's infuriating.
2026-07-26T05:15 id=2081247031834890699 →helscom | @helscom I think a lot of us who escaped the poverty mindset from our native culture will always feel some sense of survivor's guilt, and we just have to remember we aren't to blame for getting out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 extremely relatable 47…
2026-07-26T05:18 id=2081247712620790160 →- | Someone on this site recommended David Epstein's Range. I'm a third through and it is very good so far! https://t.co/CfyCtn4dM1
2026-07-26T05:23 id=2081248907171155984 →helscom | @helscom Last time I went home I met up with a frenemy who used to oscillate between being my friend to bullying me, and he was delivering liquor to supermarkets literally earning a tenth of what I do.  There but for the grace of God go I. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i tried catching up on some childhood friend i had from “””the hoods””” and learned he is in jail for scamming old people over the phone. it was oddly liberating. like “oh, i guess i don’t need to catch up on them after all
2026-07-26T05:24 id=2081249326698016949 →- | If you think this is a serious person, I'm afraid to tell you that you are not a serious person. https://t.co/HelCsfxyXP
2026-07-26T05:37 id=2081252500183843043 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Unsurprising to find that Kepler, like Wittgenstein, liked to think in analogies.   Now consider how modern sciences, and especially pure mathematics, disdains analogical thinking. https://t.co/zRmbSMlVa0 || CTX: Someone on this site recommended David Epstein's Range. I'm a third through and it is very good so far! https://t.co/CfyCtn4dM1
2026-07-26T05:48 id=2081255355741556797 →47fucb4r8c69323 | This is eerily close to describing how I work. https://t.co/1pHkyiHb7k || CTX: Unsurprising to find that Kepler, like Wittgenstein, liked to think in analogies.   Now consider how modern sciences, and especially pure mathematics, disdains analogical thinking. https://t.co/zRmbSMlVa0
2026-07-26T05:58 id=2081257944340140330 →ThinkWiselyMatt | @ThinkWiselyMatt @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb I like group chats! || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb @47fucb4r8c69323 Yo wow ty so much want in the group chats?
2026-07-26T05:59 id=2081258064288809444 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth she blocked me long ago lol no clue when tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just realized she blocked me at some point
2026-07-26T05:59 id=2081258125391179789 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @ThinkWiselyMatt @Duffmantha @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb lmfao you bastard || CTX: @ThinkWiselyMatt @Duffmantha @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb @47fucb4r8c69323 also id like to be admin of the gc if possible
2026-07-26T06:03 id=2081259079201128607 →AlmostMedia | That is a rather nasty side effect of increasing wealth inequality, but at the same time the wealth inequality is an inevitable result of most poor people reacting resentfully to that beneficence, and the kids who benefit lose out as a result.   Thanks, Julie, now I'm depressed and need to have a beer THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOURE DRIVING ME TO DRINK || CTX: Being a townie in a rich liberal oasis gives one a potent version of this experience. I was coddled by its beneficence never realizing it was the Sort until it was too late. Townies can’t afford to live on city limits anymore.  The homeless
2026-07-26T06:04 id=2081259398530539723 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @mimi10v3 Of course he doesn't want that to happen, it's bad for his business.  But he can't stop with the incendiary rhetoric lest he look like he's backtracking. He foolishly painted himself into a corner because he's an idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mimi10v3 I don’t think he actually wants someone to go and kill an AI scientist, since he is right it wouldn’t work if he fears what he fears 😄   But I think he can’t see past his own way of thinking about it
2026-07-26T06:17 id=2081262592535015532 →ThinkWiselyMatt | @ThinkWiselyMatt @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb Well I clearly need to follow back then, done || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb I loosely f w you but we not moots so the moot chat might be a bad fit... and subscription chat is for subs only...   I can make a new gc jus
2026-07-26T06:26 id=2081264762625970360 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @ThinkWiselyMatt @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb https://t.co/O1kmtf1nHb || CTX: @Duffmantha @47fucb4r8c69323 @ThinkWiselyMatt @a_musingcat @Spanish_Techno @stwrawrbewry @savvypleb i am gonna say it
2026-07-26T06:58 id=2081273038000050655 →pnbphilosophy | the thing is, I've only known this guy exists for about a year now, and I didn't do all that much research before the debate, so I have no idea if I made an impact on him at all.    I know that interest in him went down post debate if we measure search traffic and web visits to his various web pages, but I don't know if he attributes that to me or if he realizes at this point just how big of a mistake it was debating me. it might still take time for it to sink in || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good work man. He looks like he has coke jaw in this video.
2026-07-26T06:59 id=2081273262923981258 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @JacobDTarr the craziest thing about that thumbnail is that it was made by people who sympathize with him and think I'm crazy, the lack of media literacy never ceases to amaze me || CTX: @JacobDTarr @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/x1IoBF5d5w
2026-07-26T07:05 id=2081274618418168257 →0xSero | this resonates with me so deeply, there's that feeling of always being an outsider that used to sadden me, but as I've got older I realize it's a source of strength. I'll never be like the rich people, they just haven't seen what I've seen, and I'm no longer one of the poor people, I can't relate to their short-term thinking.   and if there's anything I could do, it would be to ensure those children from poor backgrounds who genuinely want to get out and are curious have an opportunity to do so.   fortunately, the internet does give free access to information, so it will can give those poor kids an opportunity to get ahead. it's why open access to information matters so much to me. || CTX: “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.”  I completely understand this, I grew up in a 2 bedroom apartment in Bay Ridge, roaches, rats and mice infesting the building.   At 12 I moved to Algiers for 6 years 
2026-07-26T07:06 id=2081274979136803316 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @JasonBotterill @thexanaxlady @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT 47 tnemtrapa || CTX: @JasonBotterill @thexanaxlady @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT Ignore 4 Now  ref:  486 Views 984 Apartment 7A (47) https://t.co/7cKm9bme1b
2026-07-26T07:10 id=2081276050810528070 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @thexanaxlady @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT I think we're going to do the benchmark on fable, drives me nuts that we started doing the assessment like two days before they release this, but the partners in the group just will not accept yet another model to judge || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Duffmantha @thexanaxlady @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT 47 has your lab had time to fuck around with latest Opus?
2026-07-26T07:19 id=2081278255353737549 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs you are very serious boobs, so serious they entranced a former prime minister of, okay well not a serious country so maybe you're not serious || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i am not a serious person, but i do not intend to be a serious person so it is different
2026-07-26T07:29 id=2081280715581530542 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I think this is true of all of us, and also we often try to be serious where it is not required, and I think that's the much greater sin. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there is a time and place to be serious, and so i know that it is a kind of personal defect in me that i sometimes cannot really muster it when required.
2026-07-26T07:33 id=2081281728522682749 →arvobeer | @arvobeer @farquadthedonk Yes, the word is "life". || CTX: @farquadthedonk They have a word for this
2026-07-26T07:36 id=2081282526736511079 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha They're all so ugly, fascinating proof of how value declines with lowered demand (Japanese people don't care about beauty pageants)  Then compare with the contestants from the Philippines, they're all breathtaking || CTX: it looks like a tuesday at the corgi cafe https://t.co/39FOdlCRpl
2026-07-26T08:09 id=2081290924731355305 →- | This is how Bloomberg is covering the OAI/HF incident, playing right into the hands of OAI/Anthropic.   The media will choose to be useful idiots for a hyperbolic prediction because hyperbole gets clicks. They won't talk to more reasonable people because it doesn't get clicks.  I could only get attention on my sensible view (LLMs won't destroy the planet any more than Python did) by having a silly demeanor (my absurd style on this account is attention-gaining rhetoric, spoilers ig). Maybe that's what more reasonable people need to do too?
2026-07-26T08:15 id=2081292238953513002 →WoganMay | @WoganMay iirc she was poasting about her husband's girlfriend or some poly drama a few weeks ago? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Holly seems about this level of serious https://t.co/LUQWDpZMze
2026-07-26T08:22 id=2081293959574454290 →scmallaby | @scmallaby Naive conflation between "government" and "society", surprising tweet considering how intelligent your books are. || CTX: What about if that someone is the government? Doesn’t society have a right to regulate? https://t.co/P9MVfCBqjN
2026-07-26T08:22 id=2081294141032403347 →somewheresy | @somewheresy Tilde is a 2d Pringle. || CTX: Pringle https://t.co/zjsUygN73l
2026-07-26T08:22 id=2081294185429446798 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 wo || CTX: I'm not lazy, it's my wu wei acting up again
2026-07-26T08:25 id=2081294740834927045 →- | Google has signed the open letter.  It is literally over for this gambit, nice try Anthropic game over please try again   https://t.co/T9x8y7aDfZ
2026-07-26T08:52 id=2081301613315276813 →iamtexture | @iamtexture idgi either tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Am I too stupid to even get the implied threat
2026-07-26T08:56 id=2081302691977085029 →- | Hassabis poisoned this dude's mind just like SBF poisoned Michael Lewis's mind. Fascinating biographer curse, kinda reminds me of A. S. Byatt's novel (underrated btw) https://t.co/3ij3E5fDpZ || CTX: @bgurley is quoted in the NYT:  “There’s the people who want OpenAI and Anthropic to own everything, and then there’s everybody else, including customers.”  In my book The Power Law I present @bgurley’s Uber investment as one of the greates
2026-07-26T09:00 id=2081303528694571014 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv This tweet perfectly encapsulates the freedom of autism. || CTX: This is just conservative virtue signalling, you're no better than a prius owner with a coexist bumper sticker. They all have ecus, cats, are registered and tracked.  You purely derive self worth and values from physical objects you own, an
2026-07-26T09:17 id=2081307870432567409 →arvobeer | @arvobeer okay you convinced me I'll take a gummy || CTX: this is like a postage stamp but for the sky https://t.co/0cdeHvv5bV
2026-07-26T09:17 id=2081308006952882666 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Fuck that noise Perth is a cesspool burn it all down || CTX: This is gonna sound stupid but I am actually really sorry if I’ve said off putting about a place you live l didn’t mean to come off as racist yall deserve love despite the flaws and I mean that
2026-07-26T09:25 id=2081309886911303863 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Thank you, I needed to read this. || CTX: Be a snob. Feeling pride in the accomplishments you sacrificed to earn, is valid.  That includes separating yourself from the mindset of the world you grew up in. If you were choosing growth over local status, you were making a difficult ch
2026-07-26T09:34 id=2081312286439051305 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x Almost identical trajectory to my own. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 bro I grew up fuck poor, I somehow made a life for myself, getting into my late 20s was destructive experience where I had to re-asses everything I knew, now in my 30s im still questioning everything. I also became stronger
2026-07-26T09:41 id=2081313900557959650 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Sometimes it's not nice to be nice. Some of the people who ended up helping steer me away from disaster were total assholes to me; in fact, if it weren't for the bullies and idiots in Las Vegas I'd still be stuck there in poverty. || CTX: Not as much as I needed to read “seems kind of boring”.  There’s an ad going viral in SA right now because it “punches down” on a small group of people who are genuinely losers.  I wrote about it because I grew up among people that think th
2026-07-26T09:47 id=2081315353603534898 →arvobeer | @arvobeer A mindset of near perfect autopoeisis || CTX: Not looking for a missus until I finish gta 6
2026-07-26T10:18 id=2081323300672717081 →- | On the one hand, Anthony Bourdain is my idol.   On the other hand, I'd never kill myself over a chick lmao
2026-07-26T10:20 id=2081323647268954163 →helscom | @helscom ohnoanyway.png || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 she became genuinely insane (even more so, i mean). i think she will end up in a mental institution, or worse.
2026-07-26T10:25 id=2081325049437651427 →- | We'd all be so much better off if GPT was developed in a university or government funded institution.   Imagine what it'd have been like if the internet was developed by Bell Labs instead of ARPA.   And no this doesn't make me a communist calm down.
2026-07-26T10:27 id=2081325592407154833 →xriskology | First I'd ask you to define "AI", because I don't know what you mean by the term.   But I'm highly confident LLMs pose no greater threat to humans than, say, Python, because both are just programs that do what users tell them to do, and if you design it poorly it'll do bad things, but an open market ensures better designs win out due to natural competition. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your reasoning for why AI doesn't pose an existential threat? I'd be very curious to know. (Btw, I think Yudkowsky's view is more or less bullshit, though I also think we don't need ASI for AI to seriously damage soc
2026-07-26T10:30 id=2081326282361782286 →xriskology | @xriskology dude wtf that's a non peer review student journal why should I care about what it says? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What's your reasoning for why AI doesn't pose an existential threat? I'd be very curious to know. (Btw, I think Yudkowsky's view is more or less bullshit, though I also think we don't need ASI for AI to seriously damage soc
2026-07-26T10:38 id=2081328273846612123 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Wasn't that the dude who dated Rimbaud or am I crossing my french gay hairs? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im not like Paul Verlaine
2026-07-26T10:38 id=2081328359934722269 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @arvobeer Yes, I'm not Australian. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @arvobeer Can u speak normally
2026-07-26T10:40 id=2081328758418723177 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie Leo was so fucking hot in that movie #notgay || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and left his wife and infant then shot Rimbaud in the middle of an argument?… no…..😊
2026-07-26T10:47 id=2081330686708035621 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie FAKE NEWS || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/fEDQqpOH4Z
2026-07-26T10:56 id=2081332784493211849 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Quite striking how we come from different cultures but end up with the same perspective, and maybe escaping relative poverty is itself its own kind of culture. || CTX: Very relatable. My extended family is extremely poor and my nuclear family was only ever lower-middle-class at best.  I grew up feeling a lot of sympathy for people around me who were hardworking but were dealt a bad hand; most of the time 
2026-07-26T10:57 id=2081333200752943575 →EndOfDaysParty | @EndOfDaysParty "Buying stocks is gambling"  "Debt is always bad!"  "One shouldn't talk about money." These are the three big lies that I've seen perpetuate poverty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Also grew up poor (though in rural New England). I understand the tension and I understand the irreconcilable frustration. But man, you've got generations who legitimately haven't been taught how to think about money. My da
2026-07-26T10:59 id=2081333575400489066 →IshmaelDSeer | @IshmaelDSeer I had zero dollars to my name when I was 31. You ain't dead yet, you can still overtake me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I appreciate your posts because although I’ve wasted my 20s stuck in the same mind-hell that my poverty upbringing foisted on me and may never reach your heights, you inspire me to know there’s better out there. Thank you
2026-07-26T10:59 id=2081333693160038418 →anielsen108 | @anielsen108 Fully agreed! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I often divide poverty into temperamental and structural.  I believe there is very little structural poverty in the United States.
2026-07-26T11:05 id=2081334979271999973 →- | https://t.co/HIuOuOjsCM
2026-07-26T11:14 id=2081337258733621546 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill That is really good, but I prefer Remains of the Day and The Unconsoled, which is in many ways worse than Never Let Me Go, but it's also obscenely personal and gives a perspective I've always been fascinated with, so I liked it. But it's probably not a good novel, objectively. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I enjoyed never let me go it took me like an hour to realize it was dystopian fiction rather than just regular miserable british people
2026-07-26T11:14 id=2081337352027566410 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Yeah that's how the Americans are pretty much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "you proposed government for something, my tribe demands i label you cultural marxist libtard that's enemy of america"
2026-07-26T11:16 id=2081337875199676738 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill USE YOUR EYES JFC ITS MEANT TO NE RED || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Which is less British I only have one audible credit and refuse to be taken back to the UK
2026-07-26T11:33 id=2081342176152457527 →- | Dude's got a point ngl  Still can't forgive him for that coffee pot Trump thing tho that was cringe as hell https://t.co/od1TAo1MvG || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If Eminem ever taught me anything it’s that you can withstand abject poverty, all kinds of abuse from others, even the abuse you subject yourself to through your own vices, and still make it to the other end as long as you 
2026-07-26T11:40 id=2081343898207580406 →- | I highly recommend reading The Quiet American and when you do remind yourself: Thomas Fowler is the good guy. https://t.co/547YTJJ2fs
2026-07-26T12:23 id=2081354780031750345 →- | There is a seeming inevitability within truly great art that makes believers of us all, if but for a very brief moment.   It's as if they point to necessary truths outside of ourselves, which is why ornamentation and adherence to form are sins. But why privilege that which is outside ourselves? Is piety self loathing, is this why pride is the deadliest of all sins?   Are we all just running away from the self?
2026-07-26T12:26 id=2081355386851074421 →cheddarmandem | @cheddarmandem HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: &gt; Pierre White (suicide by fat) &gt; Bourdain (suicide by woman) &gt; Ramsay (uber eats commercials) &gt; Fiery (….)  Total SillyBusiness Victory https://t.co/Fw7du7defV https://t.co/J8LiOronpz
2026-07-26T12:30 id=2081356368347648451 →vdrpervitin | @vdrpervitin yessssss || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 crude mob chanting '1st principles' but no idea what axiomatic reasoning is. in practice it mostly just syllogistic slop  reason by analogy is to find epistemic symbols in separate fields and relate them, then to see them f
2026-07-26T12:30 id=2081356546056044624 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I fucking love it, but I'm pretty sure death is nice too || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I do not enjoy being alive, but suicide is cuck behavior
2026-07-26T12:38 id=2081358409245536703 →sidewayskoyote | Yeah the enterprise effort in merging different networks with Arpa is a good point, I need to rethink this analogy. I want to gesture at the need for the right kind of government oversight that isn't too ornerous nor too laissez faire, but you're right the public-privaten partnership is much more complicated || CTX: disagree, here. 1: much of the AI research that has led to LLMs has been academy and government funded.  2: the internet cam about because of the need to merge disparate networks. it's not *just* ARPANET.  3: the actual analogy would be 'wh
2026-07-26T12:48 id=2081361114890412368 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Think of closed/open source as analogous to copyright.   The open source people are effectively saying: we want everyone to have the choice to produce copyright or non-copyright work.  Anthropic's position is: we want to restrict others producing non-copyright work. || CTX: “we want a world of open and closed source models”  Can someone explain why all these open models advocates insert a line about preserving closed ones?  If open models are safer and more democratic, as they frequently say, what is the argum
2026-07-26T13:10 id=2081366507838488961 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I'm talking about a world where universities hire engineers as full time researchers.   Yeah if it was just professors it'd never happen (hence it didn't in our shitworld timeline) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it would be much much much worse and much less performant. Theres a lot of engineering work that goes into making it work that I think can't be emulated by professors
2026-07-26T13:23 id=2081369865349112117 →- | https://t.co/UUJr7Ev9mf https://t.co/pmaDGoofB4 || CTX: https://t.co/qiyWakLlqi
2026-07-26T13:26 id=2081370632692867355 →MunicipleOrrery | @MunicipleOrrery @cookiecarver well go far back and they are all the same origin story. Gotta go way way back tho || CTX: @cookiecarver I guess the legends go so far back they all get mixed together...
2026-07-26T13:28 id=2081371034486554923 →LexerLux | @LexerLux too stoned for this shit || CTX: i love it when i find something in a scientific paper that looks like a shitpost https://t.co/rsiiSkqhdI
2026-07-26T13:40 id=2081374146525901101 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng @JasonBotterill I WORKED MY ASS OFF FOR LIKE A MONTJ TO GET THAT FOLLOW || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 #schiz
2026-07-26T13:43 id=2081374741999530279 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng @JasonBotterill Next you're going to tell me I should visit places before making snap judgments about them || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill You just called Perth a cesspool? You’re lucky I like you.
2026-07-26T13:44 id=2081375088906277060 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @AlgoRhythmEng https://t.co/Ndv3ZgePbR || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlgoRhythmEng you think i am valuable https://t.co/kFuR8t3BOb
2026-07-26T13:58 id=2081378581729456445 →slowform333 | @slowform333 yeah I gave them empathy for 40 years and saw their rapacious bloodlust and stopped. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You have lost empathy for a group of people who are the victims of predation (gambling/drugs) and have zero productive use of resources invested in their communities, then crystallized this opinion over a statement the weal
2026-07-26T14:10 id=2081381746470519217 →leese_kyle | Oh by far. I think that love triangle novel in England is his most famous (The End of the Affair iirc), and it's an okay book, but tbh the movie is better, and The Quiet American is much better as a book.   I've read a couple other expat/war novels of his, but they're honestly kinda bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Graham greene's best?
2026-07-26T14:31 id=2081386817698545892 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 7 6 https://t.co/l8tRBwSKAl || CTX: I was so excited to go to the park, but my dog wouldn't get off the couch. I was going to just grab him, and then I heard the thunder. https://t.co/5YyQiUuefd
2026-07-26T14:34 id=2081387671004569737 →leese_kyle | @leese_kyle I don't think I read that one, or I don't remember it well. Our Man in Havana and The Comedians are awful, The Comedians is what made me stop reading Greene it was so bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He definitely has a clunker or two. I have the vague recollection that the power and the glory was also very good. But the time between I read it and the quiet american was many years.
2026-07-26T14:35 id=2081387853477732597 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/6eLLhhWYY2 || CTX: https://t.co/UUJr7Ev9mf https://t.co/pmaDGoofB4
2026-07-26T14:41 id=2081389529139990591 →leese_kyle | @leese_kyle I liked that one! Had no idea there was a movie, I'll need to look it up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just read comedians and yes not good. The third man movie probably overshadows the book  and is worth the time if you dont mind older films.
2026-07-26T23:31 id=2081522859407749474 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @oldstocky Add some doomscrolling and, yeah, basically || CTX: @oldstocky @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-26T23:32 id=2081523169509388299 →so86094 | @so86094 lol no || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The photo is fabulous, is it AI ??
2026-07-26T23:33 id=2081523335197028747 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb @Ken67547214 A masterpiece by a genius ahead of his time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 I love this movie
2026-07-27T00:30 id=2081537670044639281 →publicinte | @publicinte Temu cyberpunk dystopia || CTX: I take it all back, THIS, is the worst case of somebody being absorbed by the bit. Ice cream so good. you can see the lack of life in her eyes. yes yes yes. https://t.co/2y026N1zWW
2026-07-27T01:24 id=2081551295471816832 →- | When one sees childish and idiotic desires expressed online, there's a temptation to draw conclusions about other minds, and it's a mistake I used to make often.  But remember that we often just throw something online to get rid of it.   The video is absolutely the outburst of a petulant child akin to a three year old wanting candy for breakfast, but don't conclude that all of X or even this person at all times are this childish.   It was most likely just a fleeting thought of an unhappy person, little more than that. || CTX: Sometimes when I hear a person talking about what they want out of a relationship, it's like I'm listening to my three year old talk about how she wants candy for breakfast. She really, really wants candy for breakfast. She thinks her life 
2026-07-27T01:27 id=2081551908234489922 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill Why? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill   i HATE vietnam https://t.co/l0Qbxx6F71
2026-07-27T01:30 id=2081552869262803440 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill Much better than July 17 that was painful || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill https://t.co/VoQOPLHahW
2026-07-27T01:33 id=2081553431387603374 →anilkseth | @anilkseth https://t.co/jYCmyh6xSl  You can watch the entire debate and see how Searle comes out significantly ahead, assuming you're not so stupid as to use "patient smiling" and other visceral signals as proof of valid argument, but ofc none of us are that idiotic here. || CTX: It would have been even more of a treat if we'd been able to see Maggie (Boden)'s reply.  The cutaways to her patient smiling skepticism are priceless: https://t.co/cZ8Wci2kPr https://t.co/aXipsd6VGp
2026-07-27T01:36 id=2081554192850915730 →- | Searle of course is correct and all counterarguments I've seen either have equivocations or smuggled presuppositions I don't share and aren't logically forced.   https://t.co/jYCmyh6xSl  Watch the whole debate it's quite historic tbh and RIP Prof Searle you were a great one https://t.co/whoA00bWNr || CTX: Wonderful! I've heard of Searle's "Chinese Room" thought experiment in philosophy (which aims to show that AI doesn't "understand" anything) -- but it's a treat to see Searle explain it.  https://t.co/fuZDYhabU6
2026-07-27T04:27 id=2081597271331008917 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Duffmantha @Ryan_Gasoline @Ken67547214 @realtimeai @AstrosBrain about damn time || CTX: @Duffmantha @Ryan_Gasoline @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @realtimeai @AstrosBrain I thought the world was ending but it’s ok
2026-07-27T04:53 id=2081603754319839715 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @AyyBaibeee Yeah they should've explained that. || CTX: It was worth watching, but it might as well have been a less wrong post.  As a movie, it was not great. I did not like the soundtrack or direction. It had the tone of an older parody movie, like airplane or scary movie, but it didn't commit
2026-07-27T12:49 id=2081723762320540098 →- | One of the rather startling things one notices if one observes this website fully focused on how others interact with others is the love.   Of course we hear all the time about people being assholes to people on social media, and that is the rule.   But I have also seen the exception: I see some of my mutuals, who are mutuals to one another, interact with each other on a daily basis, and when I eavesdrop all I see is love, love, love.   These are people who have never met, who probably don't even know each other's names, but the way they talk to each other shows genuine, deep, concerned love.   These are real relationships forged in hyperreality and if that doesn't make you bullish on humanity then idk what to tell you.   Exception today, rule tomorrow.   I won't be alive to see it but it's okay because now I see it.   Goddamn how beautiful, wow wow wow wow
2026-07-27T14:01 id=2081741836717322389 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng @2cknows BABY DONT HURT ME || CTX: @2cknows @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s about us, it’s about trust, babe
2026-07-27T14:17 id=2081745904818909626 →WillManidis | @WillManidis Dude if we're going to make a list of the newly wealthy's failures of imagination we're gonna be here a while. || CTX: it’s a great failure of imagination that none of the newly wealthy finance set have paid to produce “margin call” as a stage production
2026-07-27T14:18 id=2081746103918002404 →leathers_d39971 | @leathers_d39971 Id like to challenge this opinion but I can't it's just too good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The love that loves best is the friend that challenges your wrong opinions.
2026-07-27T14:26 id=2081748058476630106 →- | Kripkean semantics must assume some level of discreteness. In a fully continuous universe in which nothing can be severed from anything else, the idea of a possible world counterfactual becomes incoherent.   And this doesn't imply a deterministic universe; again such mechanical language cannot fit the continuous manifold.
2026-07-27T14:41 id=2081751918423273865 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch fuck yeah brother || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 90% of social media content is posted by drunk/high people
2026-07-27T15:20 id=2081761586310787121 →- | This is the most "sell in May and go away" market ever, QQQ now at the level it was on May 4th, shut is ridiculous.   It'll go back in September, maybe August, EOY 750 for the Qs mark it https://t.co/E9xIDTdvcP || CTX: This is the most "sell in May and go away" market ever, like comically stereotypically so.  Just remember kids:  MU currently has a 22 P/E ratio and revenue grew 345% yoy last quarter NVDA is 29 P/E ratio and 85% yoy rev growth Meta 21 P/E 
2026-07-27T15:21 id=2081762019045527706 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart A shame this won't lower rents in San Francisco || CTX: Oof. Rough reversal for stocks https://t.co/FhFQUiS3V8
2026-07-27T15:25 id=2081762921076723803 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng https://t.co/1TyDC93h13 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 800
2026-07-27T15:32 id=2081764656776143263 →teodorio | @teodorio Straight as a curly fry teo my hero || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I need to come over and give you a hug in a straight manner
2026-07-27T15:34 id=2081765157030723611 →- | Dude it'd be so funny if his second post was just Lola Bunny furry porn https://t.co/jIrH2YGFm1 || CTX: For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.  AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.  Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation
2026-07-27T15:46 id=2081768298887459185 →teodorio | @teodorio @tkisrage WE CONTROL THE WEATHER APP || CTX: @tkisrage @47fucb4r8c69323 i was thwarted by the SF tech jewish cabal he called in some favors
2026-07-27T16:19 id=2081776473606918530 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @teodorio sycophant ass clanker https://t.co/2gTBrfTQmE || CTX: @teodorio Bro it could be worse https://t.co/J2AYFh4jS1
2026-07-27T16:26 id=2081778352231485608 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @mikansoleil @teodorio that's your dyslexia it's actually gey hot fo n man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mikansoleil @teodorio i rerolled a few times and most of the time it says geohot and feynman wtf
2026-07-27T22:00 id=2081862270624432513 →- | 47 was right. https://t.co/wvCcgTv3tC || CTX: this sort of hysterics over seb posting a UN blue helmet meme is pretty representative of the aesthetics of the ⏸️ movement, who have thoroughly salted the semantic earth of slowdown. i think if the acausal basilisk from the future genuinel
2026-07-27T22:02 id=2081862903666508282 →teodorio | @teodorio @mikansoleil I might need to be am emeritus as I own three houses, but I lived in a suitcase for 2 years as a DN and it was a glorious 2 years. || CTX: I'm starting the luxury homeless club for all of the digital nomads with my founding members @mikansoleil and @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-27T22:22 id=2081867916451123422 →FournesMaxime | @FournesMaxime @PauseAI @sebkrier Yeah bro rhetoric matters, stop being so baselessly alarmist, because violent members of your group have already tried to kill people. || CTX: @PauseAI condemns incitations to violence against everyone, even as a joke, and especially deplores people in positions of influence inviting violence.    We think the behaviour of Google Deepmind's Head of Frontier Policy @sebkrier picture
2026-07-27T22:24 id=2081868330382844057 →- | I do kinda dislike how I've been typecast the anti-Yud guy, it's like being known as the dude who once wrestled a poodle it's just so beneath me. https://t.co/fFTN64yyhM || CTX: Is Yudkowsky a make-a-wish child who just never ended up dying  Because to me that is the only explanation for why we pay attention to him this much https://t.co/wP9qGGIqCV
2026-07-27T22:29 id=2081869594160251110 →signulll | @signulll They have no other choice at this point. || CTX: anthropic finally releases their position on the broader ai ecosystem particularly w.r.t. to open weights.. which is dare i say is… entirely reasonable? https://t.co/5Z0BqLG2rh
2026-07-27T23:04 id=2081878435232993743 →- | I'd say OpenAI can reasonably expect a normalized terminal net income margin of about 30%, since this is tech, with 3% growth in rev/earnings (this is conservative), terminal ROE of 40% and terminal cost of equity at 5%, so you've got 0.3(1-0.03/0.4)/(0.05-0.03) or 13.9 P/S.   Now at terminal we're looking at 500m people paying 200/mo., this is my high level way of averaging out all sustainable enterprise usage and yeah this estimate is dodgy AF you do a better one.   So that is 1.2 trillion at a 13.9 P/S is 16.7 trillion market cap at terminal.   But it'll take 20 years to get there, so discount rate of 8% gets us to a PV of 3.7 trillion.  Cut it in fifth because of competition, terminal is 100m @ 200mo., it's 740 billion.  I don't think it's a bubble, I truly don't.
2026-07-27T23:05 id=2081878622638653796 →LexerLux | @LexerLux IT WAS ONE TIEM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47 was gay.
2026-07-27T23:11 id=2081880140540444727 →- | My hopes that Ilya is cooking up something real are about as vanishing as his hairline. https://t.co/MPpnzey95t || CTX: Pulling together some of the information from various news reports and statements, we did get a little bit of new Safe Superintelligence information to speculate about today.   Ilya said in a new statement to the press that their research i
2026-07-27T23:30 id=2081884874613649856 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @Soulvexter @resistancemoney steroid farang is to alcoholic farang what a caterpillar is to a butterfly || CTX: @Soulvexter @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney what type of farang is this?
2026-07-28T00:06 id=2081893959270560121 →- | One of the negative externalities of stock-based compensation is that you can pay less stock if your employees are more locked into the culture.   And obviously the way to lock in your employees to the culture the most is to be a cult. That's why Anthropic pays less than OpenAI, and it is a boost to Anthropic's enterprise value.   This is an unexpected consequence of stock-based compensation that we need to do something about. This is not healthy.
2026-07-28T00:21 id=2081897869989285934 →illustriousdev | @illustriousdev Yes the market has been doing an excellent job valuing AI, really surprising. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Most recent valuation was like $840b so it’s actually fairly priced rn?
2026-07-28T00:23 id=2081898205512659402 →RyanGreenblatt | @RyanGreenblatt @tszzl If this isn't representative then those in the AI safety industry should be very quick to condemn hateful and histrionic rhetoric from those who are misrepresenting the industry. || CTX: @tszzl IDK if this is representative of the broader ⏸️ stuff, but I agree this response is dumb and unreasonable. This isn't representative of the full set of people focused on AI safety.  Based on public info, I think it's probably mislead
2026-07-28T00:58 id=2081907003421774057 →SergeantXOF | @SergeantXOF @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain Does this mean one James Joyce and one Nikita Bier make a whole 10k? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain Amanda Ava Koci, known professionally as Ava Max, is an  American singer and songwriter. She rose to prominence in 2018 with the  release of her breakthrough single "Sweet but Psych
2026-07-28T01:19 id=2081912467802956036 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @Duffmantha @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill Would an entirely naked woman wearing an eyemask be anti-Muslim? || CTX: @Duffmantha @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill Muslim computer with splineabifida https://t.co/hO65PwjDT9
2026-07-28T01:30 id=2081915260458656132 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill https://t.co/Xcdhnmqi2c || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill the question RAYMOND is what would you ask if you had just one question? https://t.co/cYocu7DH9v
2026-07-28T01:38 id=2081917063560642761 →- | In other words: when Dario is the authority he approves of authoritarianism, and open models are risky because they empower people that Dario cannot control.   He's Cartman. https://t.co/gkIlAkfwTn
2026-07-28T01:40 id=2081917576431702442 →RyanGreenblatt | @RyanGreenblatt @tszzl You are a clown. https://t.co/vRkJ5p2KGE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl I was pretty quick in this case. https://t.co/B6FXIqoQdQ
2026-07-28T01:40 id=2081917715548422205 →- | Everyone look at the clown, look at his red nose and big shoes. https://t.co/1qCb6Yfv7W || CTX: @RyanGreenblatt @tszzl You are a clown. https://t.co/vRkJ5p2KGE
2026-07-28T02:18 id=2081927303500845219 →- | OpenAI named Sora after Sora Aoi.
2026-07-28T03:55 id=2081951673526915163 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson I agree that if we're looking at the value in tokens rather than in the harness the 200/mo/user is not justified.  But I think Sam is smart enough to realize where the value in the enterprise is and push that. We've already seen it with ChatGPT increasingly becoming Codex || CTX: I don't necessarily doubt 100m or 500m, but my question would go more to the $200/month. Right now, that's heavy use at the frontier, it's hard to see how that will be needed by very many people, when it looks like there'll be so little del
2026-07-28T06:30 id=2081990651244413345 →- | My entire career has been like this. I say something, major pub says it a bit later.  https://t.co/WlHfllZf7m https://t.co/WVXiyY0ChI
2026-07-28T06:31 id=2081990916081066408 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Here I'm saying it in April but this goes way back, I've been thinking this about LLMs since 2023. https://t.co/uXaIAsxuLu || CTX: All @sama has to do is say that he's read @alexolegimas's work, realized he was wrong and this technology will replace tasks not jobs, and as a result employees, companies, entrepreneurs, freelancers will all benefit from ai and be richer a
2026-07-28T07:39 id=2082007965327147355 →teodorio | @teodorio Girl in the beige jacket with large black buttons on the right.   Otherwise them some ugly mofos lmao || CTX: are the hot people in the room with us now? https://t.co/4oKALUghfN
2026-07-28T08:30 id=2082020826925416822 →0xdasha | @0xdasha is that why tfr go down || CTX: honestly incredible how the united states takes in literally every single ethnicity and nationality in the world and recycles them all into gay tech twitter twinks
2026-07-28T09:53 id=2082041760059146262 →- | Anthropic is capable of doing superhuman things I once thought impossible.  For instance, they made David Sacks a likeable person. https://t.co/VPB3AKgKd0 || CTX: Anthropic maintains that it is entitled to train for free on all the world’s output, even if the author objects. But if a competitor trains on Anthropic’s output after paying for it, that is IP theft. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. https://
2026-07-28T10:08 id=2082045466766987397 →L0m3z | @L0m3z You should see what he wore when I debated him. || CTX: If he really believed this, he wouldn't wear that stupid hat so people would actually take him seriously. https://t.co/Iyher9DIdE
2026-07-28T11:01 id=2082058765193691226 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil it stands for "my flaccid wiener" cuz David can't get it up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn't mfw   Mean my feels when
2026-07-28T11:10 id=2082061045833892273 →- | We need to think of the PauseAI and doomer crowds as a new kind of wokescold.   They'll use the same tactics, same hysterics, same rhetoric whenever they can.   Because in both instances it wasn't about pursuing a goal but about condemning an enemy.  Remember, the Pause AI people use Claude. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 These people are the tech equivalent of woke and will be just as successful. Their only model of alignment is puritanism.
2026-07-28T11:23 id=2082064417097953538 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Damn and aren't you like 20 years old? || CTX: First good meal I've had!! https://t.co/9bw7AFPTZa
2026-07-28T11:24 id=2082064553719083175 →ns123abc | @ns123abc Remember, they're the good guys || CTX: &gt;be anthropic &gt;buy millions of physical books &gt;rip the spines off &gt;scan every page &gt;use it to train claude &gt;also illegally train on millions of pirated books &gt;set the library on fire (so the evidence shows only fair use
2026-07-28T11:35 id=2082067412883784152 →- | He sounds like such a whiny little bitch.   I have my issues with Nietzsche, but history clearly chose the right victor in this case. https://t.co/Z1NlmCMIM0 || CTX: @ortheion Nietzsche's nemesis, Wilamowitz, started this process with his polemic against the Birth of Tragedy titled 'Zukunftsphilologie!'. Here he is reflecting on this episode in his memoirs: https://t.co/M8RRQ4S29h
2026-07-28T11:40 id=2082068599364292625 →cremedupepe | @cremedupepe The color scheme in this pic and the composition are gorgeous || CTX: single leg extensions :D https://t.co/wH7SVetdCm
2026-07-28T11:40 id=2082068738539700565 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill this is why I carry a bag of rocks with me wherever I go || CTX: This still remains my stance on AGI https://t.co/FSrXwixVNp
2026-07-28T12:36 id=2082082835750674763 →llallawg | @llallawg Absolutely! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Problem is Nietzsche also whiny little bitch
2026-07-28T12:38 id=2082083168677699664 →bladgolem | @bladgolem That's some seriously high praise, thank you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think of you as my dearest poster with the best stories and dubious taste in enemies for the reason you just may have described. So maybe you do have a point there.
2026-07-28T12:46 id=2082085281138975171 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha Wow, the Feds are on the case! || CTX: https://t.co/2b9Pgzp7uz
2026-07-28T13:09 id=2082091055584063673 →- | How I feel watching the markets erase all gains since May (I've already taken profits).  https://t.co/mEdmgPW3Wq https://t.co/zFAWXV7Wqb https://t.co/lMrbUwL85e || CTX: This is the most "sell in May and go away" market ever, QQQ now at the level it was on May 4th, shut is ridiculous.   It'll go back in September, maybe August, EOY 750 for the Qs mark it https://t.co/E9xIDTdvcP
2026-07-28T13:25 id=2082095166069108991 →tsotchke | @tsotchke I'll need to look into this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you can define kripke-joyal semantics in a constructable smooth synthetic topos
2026-07-28T13:36 id=2082097821948563502 →tsotchke | @tsotchke That is a nice pedigree to have, damn. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 fun fact: André Joyal himself personally encouraged my mathematical physics research and convinced me to go back and continue my studies in 2013 after numerous discussions about physics and higher topos theory
2026-07-28T14:23 id=2082109575684378778 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman Garbage AI slop. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think about, eh.. all this lol. https://t.co/51x8q6Ehcy
2026-07-28T22:33 id=2082233019944079848 →- | I'm quite fascinated with the "I need to date someone who shares my worldview" attitude of Americans.   First, I've never felt this way. Second, I haven't really seen this attitude outside of America. Thirdly, I haven't dated someone who shares a native language or culture with me in 26 years.  Dating people of different cultures taught me a lot about the world and expanded my horizons to new ideas and thoughts that have enriched my life in many ways. I've learned two languages because partners helped teach me theirs. I've had "insider" experiences in vastly different cultures as a response.   And this guy won't date a woman if she doesn't care about football as much as he does.   Why am I wrong to dismiss this behavior as childish? It really seems petty to an absurd level, but Americans find it normal and see me as a loser who couldn't make it with his own people.   Why is this?   It seems to me the whole idea of the American experience is to be expansive to include foreign worldviews so that you can be stronger. Did I mislearn American values?   I'm not trying to be snarky or arrogant in this post. I'm not trying to denigrate anyone's life choices. I am genuinely asking, because it seems self evident this guy is a loser, dating only people who share your politics is loser behavior, limiting yourself to a small group of people is what losers do.   How am I wrong? || CTX: This #TexasAM fan has some dating advice for the young’uns. https://t.co/oWilvc93mG
2026-07-28T22:38 id=2082234192763699236 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 &lt;3 || CTX: just did a mass unfollow. if you're still here it is because i want to shift my perspective towards yours 🫶
2026-07-28T22:41 id=2082235031356080387 →- | This is an unsurprising outcome. Pause AI and the AI doomers think LLMs can kill us all because they don't understand what language is or how it works. So of course they're going to fumble every public outreach effort they make. https://t.co/cMQRi5bck1 || CTX: One of Pause AI's problems is that they have no idea how other people's minds work, so they do bumbling imitations of tactics that worked for successful groups – tiny protests in SF that they think are like the civil rights marches, a guy d
2026-07-28T22:44 id=2082235855339704366 →- | I love posts like this because note how the focus is on society and not the individual.   Yes, you'll likely contribute more to society if you give yourself lung cancer and refuse self indulgences that feel good.   "The neighbor praises unselfishness because he profits from it." - Frederich Nietzsche || CTX: A civilization powered by nicotine is vastly preferable to one powered by marijuana. https://t.co/sfrGjm1w8G https://t.co/NlPYsTRECf
2026-07-28T22:54 id=2082238257430163512 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Obviously some are deal breakers, but we don't really need to discuss those and they're not really that culturally relative either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think some values are deal breakers. I’m sure you do, too. But “liking football” isn’t a value. You’re right that making that a priority is childish.
2026-07-28T22:55 id=2082238533956469094 →adastroworld | @adastroworld I think saring someone whose politics you agree with is comically idiotic AND arrogant.  You're assuming you've got it all figured out and can't learn from someone who has a different world view. Idiocy, self limiting, narcissistic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Eh, idk. For weird interests I agree but some ppl think politics is whatever, and that seems the least justifiable. It’s literally about how you want the world to work
2026-07-28T22:55 id=2082238622053646372 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Yeah this is really what it seems to boil down to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re wrong because you prioritised character growth over local social status.
2026-07-28T23:10 id=2082242225971544430 →toobaddown | @toobaddown Yes basically. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pause AI is Anthropic's B Team in marketing
2026-07-28T23:10 id=2082242436991189193 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat depends, what do you mean by AI? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can you explain how the nature of language precludes AI from killing us all
2026-07-28T23:20 id=2082244751957647413 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat I'm a linguist so I can only really meaningfully contribute to discussions of LLMs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 LLMs are most relevant today, but not limited to LLMs
2026-07-28T23:22 id=2082245404469690596 →adastroworld | What I'm saying applies to a narrow regime of unstated presumptions, such as:  * doesn't apply to people who think slavery is good * doesn't apply to people who want to rape children * doesn't apply to people who torture animals etc.   That Americans feel the need to enumerate that as if they're live exceptions one needs to be wary of is part of the sickness I'm identifying. "I need to explain my disinterest in dating someone who agrees with me doesn't mean I will tolerate someone who likes slavery" seems like it needn't be made explicit, so why do Americans think it does? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Idk man I just like not being forced to pick cotton, and there was a time when slavery was a political issue
2026-07-28T23:26 id=2082246407743004690 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @TreeLakeRain @boneGPT @Ken67547214 @mayemusk I'd happily sink to that level || CTX: @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @TreeLakeRain @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @mayemusk https://t.co/tmCPUC456L
2026-07-28T23:52 id=2082252860461662360 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Seeing tech bros write long posts about how it's actually fine to smoke cigarettes is the weirdest, most alien thing I've ever seen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You can tell people don't get smoking. They like the idea of smoking or thinking that it was cool but they don't get it. They'll never understand a cigarette break with your friends or outside of a club because having fun i
2026-07-29T00:51 id=2082267804376723499 →wordgrammer | @wordgrammer Data center hysteria was easy to whip up: claim it ruins nature to enrich billionaires and you can get the public to oppose a lot. Ressentiment is powerful. || CTX: I don’t understand how you can lack the cultural savvy to understand this meme, but psyop 150 million Americans into a state of datacenter hysteria https://t.co/nFRJsclwla
2026-07-29T01:02 id=2082270554678349987 →FliperMick | @FliperMick This is fair pushback, but I'd say it's more enabling bad behavior than empathetic. It IS a game and getting upset over sports is childish behavior. We used to call it unsporting, even. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The post said that neither girl knew about football, so it doesnt seem to be that the second wife liked football. I think the message is be with someone who can step into your world view and be empathetic instead of dismiss
2026-07-29T01:24 id=2082276048776155483 →- | We really really need more people to think like this.   One of the tricks you see from disingenuous AI people, especially Anthropic, is an assertion that their prediction of the future is entirely correct and thus can be the basis for am argument.   They will say, "I predict X and therefore X is a fact."   But, no, it's just something that exists in your imagination.  This is why they tend to pivot towards apocalyptic doom pronouncements. Because then they can say, "well even if there's just a 1% chance of X, we should still act accordingly because X is so awful and scary."   They leverage doom to scare you so that you'll revert to loss aversion, the classical psychological trap that humans naturally fall into. || CTX: a masterclass in how to PR:  - accept near-but-not-yet-realized future as fact (post-quantum! very scary. almost here! we're not ready.)  - muddle qualifiers for ambiguous attribution (most widely used cipher: AES, reduced AES tho? not the 
2026-07-29T01:35 id=2082278764403450367 →vdrpervitin | @vdrpervitin Underappreciated point, yes this is true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 divorce is expensive, Americans have higher alignment incentives
2026-07-29T01:40 id=2082280090285773035 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill No, I'm not big on graphic novels || CTX: @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 do you have a history of violence anon?
2026-07-29T01:52 id=2082283205391171671 →- | There is only one metric of success I really care about: the alarm clock.   How many times in your life are you woken up by an alarm clock?   The lower the number, the more you're winning at life.
2026-07-29T01:55 id=2082283776709972230 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha @ExPostGigaChad @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain What is your name, Anon? || CTX: @ExPostGigaChad @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain no you do not seem to understand. my name is not Abigail https://t.co/yYbogdrcUL
2026-07-29T01:55 id=2082283931446202610 →HPCDisrespecter | @HPCDisrespecter Probably because you use an alarm clock so much || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk every damned day because if left to my own devices I'll wake up at 3pm or so
2026-07-29T02:26 id=2082291733212397898 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA Per lifetime broski. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Per day? Per year?
2026-07-29T02:28 id=2082292041355297160 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson yeah same for me tbh. Although I was using it more as a metonym for work related meetings, so the next step is to ask how many meetings are you in that you don't want to be in. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I must really be winning, I've woken up to an alarm clock maybe ten times in my entire life. Basically, when I need to be out of the house before dawn to make a flight. Otherwise, never.
2026-07-29T02:37 id=2082294290118807923 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @Duffmantha @EthanRom77 @ExPostGigaChad @AstrosBrain idk why this made me laugh so hard || CTX: @Ken67547214 @Duffmantha @EthanRom77 @47fucb4r8c69323 @ExPostGigaChad @AstrosBrain Ken you are aging surprisingly well I must say and I mean that unironically
2026-07-29T02:40 id=2082295153981833463 →- | 1. This is a banger.  2. Many people have suggested this guy is like me and, after watching the episode, I'd say it's about a 90% overlap. But I don't want to get fucked by a man because I want to be the Asian girl, that's the part where it goes off the rails. I want it because I'm a bored degenerate. || CTX: so, one night, I downloaded some model that was open source, which I’d done before, but this time, instead of me running the model, the model ran me—and it was kind of magical. https://t.co/rpsef8kiVx
2026-07-29T03:07 id=2082301977506242941 →albustime | @albustime King. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have not been woken by alarm clock in over 6 years.
2026-07-29T03:08 id=2082302187817116122 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat I always try to get it in the end. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you almost lost me at the end there. good recovery
2026-07-29T03:32 id=2082308273987076473 →philomemetic | @philomemetic the higher number of that the better, and the multiplier is huge || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What about being woken up by cat paws on the face? Seems like a positive metric.
2026-07-29T03:32 id=2082308375682183357 →ExPostGigaChad | @ExPostGigaChad gigachad status remains intact || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 haven’t had one in almost a decade
2026-07-29T03:33 id=2082308512562946088 →an0nzymandias | @an0nzymandias depends on if there are negative after effects, but if there are no negative after effects then I wonder why you had an alarm in the first place || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It doesn’t count if I sleep through it does it
2026-07-29T03:39 id=2082309976127934927 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 I see Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: how do you mentally read "LW" by default?
2026-07-29T03:59 id=2082315117526757553 →- | I challenge roon to a public debate on AI safety, he is wrong and needs to be shown how wrong he is.  He will not accept this invitation, the excuse is either I'm too rude (I'll play nice this time, because I actually respect roon) or I'm too insignificant (us lowby accounts can't get no respect in this attention economy).  I presume you'll ignore this, @tszzl?
2026-07-29T04:38 id=2082324858831245548 →- | The “pacing the frontier” open letter is very bad. Let’s go line by line to discuss why it is bad.  Before that, let’s talk about the surface features: “Pacing the frontier” is impactful rhetoric, because the call for “pacing” distinguishes the group from the Pause AI people who are both publicly laughable in accusing innocent people of violence while harboring violent people in their ranks and using incendiary rhetoric that can and does incite unstable people to violence. So they’ve done a good job carving out a prima facie responsible niche here.  “Frontier” asserts that they are on the vanguard, and it fits since these labs are called “frontier labs” colloquially, but the term of art is already out of date (it should; it is several years old). LLMs aren’t really the frontier anymore, and neolabs working on multimodal models are producing much more exciting and impressive technology than the increasingly stale offerings from OAI/Anthropic.  But asserting from the top they are at the frontier sets the tone and asserts authority: WE are at the cutting edge, so WE need to be listened to.  In this sense, the framing is reminiscent of those “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth” signatories, many of whom lacked the relevant qualifications to analyze 9/11 data, but leveraged an equivocation on words such as “architect” and “engineer” to claim expertise. I actually have a (former) friend who did this—he is a middle manager at Amazon who claimed to have special expertise in engineering to justify his belief that 9/11 was an inside job. You can see why we’re no longer friends.  Let me be clear (Obama) before someone reads this in bad faith: I am not claiming the signatories are conspiracy theorists or that they are being bad faith, and many of the signatories are probably just misguided or trying to manipulate public discourse for their own best interest. This is not an intentional equivocation across all signatories, but it is a latent equivocation in the presentation of the argument that is not discouraged.  To make it even clearer (Obama as preschool teacher): they aren’t willfully deceiving readers, but they are perfectly fine to go along with a misunderstanding on the reader’s part if it suits their goal of winning hearts and minds to push for a pacing of AI research.  Note that this is being presented as direct quotations from workers in these firms—that presentation is important too, because direct quotations feel both more tangible and real to readers as well as less filtered—there is a sense here that we are bypassing the limitations and restrictions of the big evil firm and getting the uncensored direct facts on the ground.  This is of course not true—after all, Anthropic’s CEO and several Anthropic founders have signed the letter—but since it lacks the more prominent CEOs who actually talk like CEOs (Sam Altman most notably), readers will overlook that.  Sam Altman really, really, really damaged OpenAI and the industry by insisting the technology he was building would both cure cancer and steal everyone’s jobs. This is one of the unforeseen consequences that I foresaw.  But OpenAI doesn’t listen to weird uncs in Thailand, because image is important and rhetoric matters. That I happen to be correct and have been for years is beside the point.  The first statement that is signed by all employees on the webpage will be the focus for most.  “AI could help create a dramatically better future, but that outcome is not guaranteed.”  They begin with self-serving antithesis: there are two options being presented. These aren’t logically exclusive of other options which are not hinted at but remain possibilities; the rhetoric is careful not to make false statements while also encouraging you to ignore the many many other possible futures that the text does not address. And the presented options tell you to choose between a better future or a different unstated outcome.  Any horror movie fan knows that the bogeyman is scarier when he is not revealed. By not stating the alternatives to “a dramatically better future”, the letter leverages your own imagination to get you to worry about all kinds of horrific possibilities. And since you’ve watched enough TV and movies with enough post-apocalyptic outcomes, you’re now entertaining an apocalypse as a live possibility. So of course, we need stewards to ensure that apocalypse doesn’t happen.  Self-serving point the first.  “The world's leading AI companies believe they could be close to automating AI research.”  Note how this is vague. Do they mean fully automated no human-in-the-loop post-training? Because if that’s what they mean, wow—none of this has been presented in the academic literature or in the releases from either the old AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic or the newer labs like Thinking Machines. In fact, what we see is billions of dollars going into companies like Mercor because human experts are needed to post-train the LLMs. Thinking Machines just had an exec quit because of how taxing the job is on her, the human being doing the work.  And note how the hedging reflects this distance: “believe”, “could be”, “close”. There are really three hedges in this sentence, but the average reader won’t pay attention to this, so they get to both be logically coherent and rhetorically impactful by addressing the idiots (who will respond with kneejerk loss-aversion fear) and the professionals (who will acknowledge that the labs probably do indeed believe this, because the labs are full of morons and grifters, such as several who signed this letter).  “It is hard to predict exactly how much this will accelerate AI progress,”  If it is hard to predict, why are we here? Why a warning about something in principle difficult to predict?  “ but there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”  This assertion is a bold claim, and bold claims require bold proof. Where is this risk, how real is it, how tractable is it and where did the risk come from? Because in my lab’s research, we see nothing of the sort—we are actually seeing significant low competencies in LLMs that demonstrate just how dumb these tools are without the painstaking post-training that leverages thousands and thousands of working professionals earning $200/hr. or more to help OpenAI and Anthropic do their post-training.  So, this should be shown more than stated. It won’t be shown, because it isn’t true.  “To realize AI's potential, industry, government, and society at large may need the option to buy time to address emerging risks, develop security measures, and strengthen oversight.”  The self-serving nature here is clear: because of the asserted and unproven danger of AI’s potential, society as a whole needs time to address the same risks we have been told are an existential risk to us all for several years now. Note too the “we live in a society” rhetoric, where the letter is claiming to speak for industry, government, and society by presenting them as their focus.  But just because someone claims to speak for society at large does not mean that someone claims to speak for society at large. And even if they do, it doesn’t matter. Just because someone is speaking for society at large does not mean they know what is best for society or their argument is valid. The temperance movement claimed to be working for all society when they made alcohol illegal in America in the early 20th century, and (no matter how you feel about alcohol) that is widely regarded as one of the biggest mistakes in the history of American domestic policy.  “But each company—and country—is under intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow that acceleration. And today, the world lacks the technical and governance tools to deliberately pace frontier-wide progress.”  There is an implicit logical connection here between the fact of intense competitive pressure and the theoretical success of technical and governance tools to stop that competitive pressure. Technical and governance tools can INCREASE competitive pressure and they often do.  However, let’s assume there are tools that can cause that competitive pressure to subside. Who feels this pressure? I don’t. Do you?  I feel opportunity, new tools and toys and fronts for research. I see an opportunity to get academics in linguistics and literary studies REAL significant funding to work on text and make better text-producing tools to lower how much toil you and your children will endure to make a living.  I don’t feel any pressure, because the benefits of this acceleration and its intense competitive pressure come to me, the consumer.  Workers in competitive industries are constantly pushed to work harder unless they are able to capture the regulatory environment and convince the government to use technical and governance tools to make their lives easier.  “Building on work already underway to monitor frontier model releases: We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.”  And there is the real ask: they want a handout from the government in the form of technical and governance tools to deliberately pace the frontier so that their lives and jobs are a little easier.  No. Compete in the market like the rest of us.  If you’re good, you’ll win. If not, well, at least you had fun and it’s all about the journey, not the destination.
2026-07-29T04:57 id=2082329649305330156 →theRealJohnPeng | @theRealJohnPeng I don't aspire to normalcy, so expect to ask that a lot if you read my nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 3. what
2026-07-29T05:09 id=2082332584827040114 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Sure, you can send me the money any time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i will debate you for $10,000
2026-07-29T05:11 id=2082333154954916102 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @a_musingcat That's like asking me how the nature of language will preclude today's Python from destroying civilization. Or replace Python with TV, books, rock albums, or Morse code even. It's an incoherent question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat Okay, so given your understanding of the nature of language as a linguist... how do you believe the nature of language will preclude today's LLMs from destroying civilization?
2026-07-29T05:13 id=2082333707210510384 →theRealJohnPeng | @theRealJohnPeng "ie. anime" you're describing the media you consume as if it's the real world. @Andrey4Mir remains undefeated. || CTX: I … hm. Thats interesting. Like, in a … sickly fascinating way. Can you explain (or r u meming), i very curious. Because i sense that “i want to turn into small girl” is a common enough cluster of desires for ppl (ie. anime), please draw th
2026-07-29T05:17 id=2082334755585233369 →davidtoniolo | @davidtoniolo @a_musingcat An LLM, like any computer program, does what it's allowed to do.  If we allow an LLM to kill us, then, yes, it will kill us.   If we allow a Python script to kill us, then, yes, it will kill us.   If we allow a book to kill us, then, yes, it will kill us.  Understand yet? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat I agree it's an incoherent question, but that means I'm not understanding you OP.  "Pause AI and the AI doomers think LLMs can kill us all because they don't understand what language is or how it works."  Can y
2026-07-29T05:18 id=2082334995763351830 →theRealJohnPeng | @theRealJohnPeng @Andrey4Mir I will let Andrey respond if he sees this, it's more his field than mine.   But, no, stories aren't the real world, stories are sometimes make believe! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Andrey4Mir well .. yeah?   Stories == real world Desires expressed in media == real desires ppl feel  Wait is this not correct?
2026-07-29T05:20 id=2082335499491082745 →MegaBasedChad | @MegaBasedChad I was with a white European for over 6 years for the record. And id never date an Asian American, because I would never date any American of any race. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we get it you love Asian women!!!!
2026-07-29T05:29 id=2082337678771794144 →tszzl | @tszzl Love you man, let's discuss time/venue in DMs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sure let’s do it
2026-07-29T05:35 id=2082339206626718075 →slimer48484 | @slimer48484 @tszzl jfc not everything is about money, roon and I both want this wonderful technology to improve humanity, we just need a conversation on how to do that (and I see this more as a conversation. I don't like debate as a concept it's stupid) || CTX: @tszzl @47fucb4r8c69323 are you also getting the $10k or...?
2026-07-29T06:02 id=2082345999717335282 →vanjajaja1 | @vanjajaja1 Very well put! It is a specific and strange kind of mental sickness. || CTX: this week i've been thinking people who care deeply about a sports team are my antithesis. such a strong value misalignment  from my pov delusions that dont have the support of reality so need constant support from people in the area. think
2026-07-29T06:03 id=2082346203992482258 →meowbooksj | @meowbooksj @tszzl @RealProducerBen We're gonna do a Spaces, real chill like.   But I'll happily go on TPBN when my lab's benchmark is done, it should put to rest many of the doomer fears. || CTX: @tszzl @47fucb4r8c69323 @RealProducerBen tbpn moderation please
2026-07-29T06:03 id=2082346325174300711 →ChrisGPT | @ChrisGPT @tszzl are you going to ask me about that dude in White Lotus || CTX: @tszzl @47fucb4r8c69323 I gotta be on stage to ask some questions after
2026-07-29T07:58 id=2082375196917510608 →- | Hey, @federalreserve, can you make it so the default for a second line in FRED isn't a dashed line? No one wants a dashed line--dashed lines are ugly and they look weird with your default background.  Just make it a blue solid line for line 1 and green solid line for line 2, easy
2026-07-29T08:03 id=2082376416377950459 →- | Excellent post and I agree with all of it--except the "bearish" part.  It's not bearish for markets or for society. It is bearish for the OpenAI/Anthropic approach of building one big model that has all of the competencies.  It is very bullish for the approach I want to take in pretraining LLMs, though.  And for society as a whole? Well, it's also bullish, because it means more companies and individuals will use smaller highly-specified LLMs for specific tasks, and as they do so they will see productivity gains from a proprietary software system that they wholly own and control. Amazing!  And middle-layer companies offering training as a service (TaaS, there's another 47 neologism).  There's so much fucking money to be made out there, ladies and gentlemen. Get to work, go grab that pussy or whatever the kids say these days. || CTX: Recently I've flipped from being bullish to being bearish about AI.  I think I'm updating my bearishness to be more solidly bearish. Early thoughts (which I hope to be disproven in the next year or so, I would prefer progress) and my reason
2026-07-29T08:17 id=2082379910627119158 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Of course! This is bearish if you believed in AGI/ASI! Fortunately I never believed in such silly things because, well, I understand how LLMs work.  Why didn't the top brass at Anthropic and OpenAI understand the technology they developed as well as I do? Now that's the real question. || CTX: Excellent post and I agree with all of it--except the "bearish" part.  It's not bearish for markets or for society. It is bearish for the OpenAI/Anthropic approach of building one big model that has all of the competencies.  It is very bull
2026-07-29T09:08 id=2082392890291196055 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @federalreserve THINK ABOTT ME IN THE SHOWER BOTTERILL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @federalreserve just read this and going think about it in the shower in your voice
2026-07-29T09:09 id=2082393029676343631 →WoganMay | @WoganMay omg love love love || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what if the pussy is grabbing me https://t.co/z6Zeh4mr2e
2026-07-29T09:10 id=2082393350599315611 →cjonesy108 | @cjonesy108 I try not to be a weirdo creep (it's why I live in Thailand after all) but watching sports with your gf will always be cuck behavior imo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Pull out the cuck chair for this Aggie.   He’d rather watch other better, stronger, wealthier men do things (and he wants his girl to be into it too) than live an interesting life.
2026-07-29T09:11 id=2082393469218078946 →cthorrez | @cthorrez Thinking Machines. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which neolabs are producing more impressive and exciting technologies than OpenAI and Anthropic?
2026-07-29T09:39 id=2082400552923832776 →- | When you're in a fast-moving industry and death is on the line, you must work your hardest to minimize harm and maximize benefit.  What you don't do is try to stop the world from moving. The world won't listen.  Even if you succeed in having your government tell people to stop, some people will not stop.  Will such regulations slow down bad actors? Probably, and do the same to good actors. And there's no way to know if the slowdown causes more harm or more benefit.   There are ways to guess, and some guesses are better than others, but you still never KNOW.   No one knows the future.  The future will always entail risk.  Why? Because life is risk. The only way to avoid risk is to be dead.  That's my position, that's why I keep fighting this safetyism. I don't oppose AI safety!  I oppose that urge for riskless life. Because there's no such thing.  You can fight the inevitable risks of life like a stubborn scared child, crying back, "Fine, then I won't move."   But the world will keep moving. And it should.  So should you.  Man, fuck fear, let's go head first into the future, that's always been my position.
2026-07-29T09:51 id=2082403568850448798 →47fucb4r8c69323 | There is no such thing as movement without potential harm, that is the inevitable truth of a universe of total connection. @yokaihainen @for_nat_whilk https://t.co/aeg5EF15XF || CTX: When you're in a fast-moving industry and death is on the line, you must work your hardest to minimize harm and maximize benefit.  What you don't do is try to stop the world from moving. The world won't listen.  Even if you succeed in havin
2026-07-29T09:55 id=2082404701371576539 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Step 1: Import steroids and peptides || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how do we socially engineer this to be the dominant aesthetic in AI moving forward? https://t.co/bupB9gTtSl
2026-07-29T09:56 id=2082404942598582426 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman Many such cases lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But I want just one slopbox I can blabber into to do all the things... i don't wanna have to think and choose 😭
2026-07-29T10:09 id=2082408125525528838 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Definitely one of many possible outcomes with is why "pacing the frontier" is not necessarily the responsible move here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if im a bad actor (not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, 'bad actor' has become a political term at this point) then wouldnt i be encouraged by the good actors slowing down? ok so then you unrestrict certain
2026-07-29T10:13 id=2082409141877022963 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake the real solution for the good guys is to hire more people, but that lowers margins so of course openai and anthropic don't like that solution. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so, then, being a successful bad actor only really means being smarter and more capable than the approved good actors...but if the good actors are all snot-nosed dweebs and that's there cap, it's kind of a bad actor's parad
2026-07-29T10:40 id=2082415838930583721 →- | fed won't hike today, hard to say how the markets will respond but my gut tells me rally
2026-07-29T10:40 id=2082415900029034654 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart is Ireland okay though? || CTX: There's a Ireland-traded 3x levered SK Hynix ETP that's down 96% since mid June. https://t.co/MIDSh9qxvO
2026-07-29T10:40 id=2082416055679586573 →zollicoff_ | @zollicoff_ @tszzl you're going to be disappointed, I like the guys so I'm not going to make any dumb nicknames. maybe roon makes me swoon #nohomo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl instead of "yuddy my buddy" it could be "roon my goon"
2026-07-29T10:41 id=2082416193013711355 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder one of the reasons why I left! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Consider that a large fraction of the American population consider people who disagree with them actively evil.
2026-07-29T11:16 id=2082425010212548681 →DumbMoneyCapitl | @DumbMoneyCapitl I grew up seeing my mother miserable at her 9-5 job and swore to myself as a kid I wouldn't grow up to endure the same.   And I didn't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I designed my entire life around this goal, including moving to Europe so I can wake up at 11am and beat everybody to work
2026-07-29T11:46 id=2082432489298280580 →JackFeynman | @JackFeynman You clearly don't understand what I was doing with the Yud debate, the results of that were better than I could've imagined.   What am I a clown, I'm here to amuse you? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Please man try to be more confident/serious this time, the 'yuddy my buddy' shit from the prior debate made you come off worse than the strength of your points.
2026-07-29T11:49 id=2082433260525900050 →- | I get comments like this every once in a while and they amuse me. "Why weren't you more serious with the clown?" because he is a fucking clown, what am I supposed to do, take a clown seriously? https://t.co/c2up8T06bw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Please man try to be more confident/serious this time, the 'yuddy my buddy' shit from the prior debate made you come off worse than the strength of your points.
2026-07-29T11:49 id=2082433452494991676 →exyota | @exyota No, I'm not going to be adversarial. Roon is a good and serious person; we're going to make serious progress and make this industry better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if u can get him to name a single CCP official (fuck the researchers, they’ll be forced to work regardless of their opinion) who signed that bullshit petition i’ll be floored
2026-07-29T11:53 id=2082434457026670602 →WoganMay | @WoganMay @YourAnonNews she can come get it || CTX: @YourAnonNews bro this cat wants you @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-29T12:09 id=2082438278712905752 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @JackFeynman I'm a bathetic motherfucker || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JackFeynman I think the bathos is a bit too bathos on a lot of your X posts.. take random unsolicited advice for what it is 😄. But makes sense given your aim in the Yud thing
2026-07-29T12:09 id=2082438411970105706 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @JackFeynman (btw thanks, this was a massive compliment and I recognize it for what it is) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JackFeynman I think the bathos is a bit too bathos on a lot of your X posts.. take random unsolicited advice for what it is 😄. But makes sense given your aim in the Yud thing
2026-07-29T12:23 id=2082441770395136198 →- | 1. WACC is trending more positive with debt financing because the cost of equity will always exceed cost of debt for a megacap tech firm that should expect ~12% CAGR on common stock (assume that return is axiomatic for now, we can yell about it in the comments  2.  Average coupon of 5.23% for hyperscalers is nothing, such a return on capex for a tech company would be an insulting floor projection internally, like wtf these yields are NOTHING to a hyperscaler, hell some grocery stores can cover that. Think of the low grade paper with 8% coupons that have been EV accretive since the rates went apeshit in 2022. This is a total non issue.   3. "How high is humanity's demand to solve problems?" is the real question you're asking when you ask how much demand for compute is there. The answer is infinite, fucking hell give us free compute and we'll build that machine from Hitchhikers Guide and ask it the meaning of life cuz we're curious hairless monkeys what a dumb question (btw answer was off by 5 mark it)
2026-07-29T12:23 id=2082441852209508367 →fitzr1189 | @fitzr1189 @JackFeynman yeah google 47fucb yudkowsky. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JackFeynman There was a yud debate ? Is this available anywhere ?
2026-07-29T12:43 id=2082446881339429124 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka it's the fundamental hypothesis of my lab's current research. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "increasingly spiky" is what I assumed would happen the whole time https://t.co/72zkfyhZFX
2026-07-29T12:43 id=2082446990240371018 →divij_dawar | @divij_dawar @kunalb11 oh fuck yeah you know it bby || CTX: @kunalb11 @47fucb4r8c69323  47 mentioned
2026-07-29T12:44 id=2082447165096644694 →fitzr1189 | @fitzr1189 @JackFeynman Thank you--as you can tell, I wasn't looking to win a debate at all, hence so many in the peanut gallery booing because they wanted bread and circuses. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JackFeynman I'm 10 minutes in and enjoying the unexpected path it's gone down
2026-07-29T12:45 id=2082447481062011337 →JackFeynman | @JackFeynman I don't need to do that, my work speaks for itself. You just don't know my work, which is fine; you're not my target. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not to take the clown seriously, it's to convince the people who aren't familiar that you're not a clown too. Is that not obvious?
2026-07-29T12:55 id=2082449853695877282 →illustriousdev | @illustriousdev Comically, absurdly, intensely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 B U L L I S H
2026-07-29T13:00 id=2082451297572458721 →JoeWeisenthalt | I really think living outside America made me a better analyst.   I'll die convinced if I was in New York I would've thought there's be a recession in 2023 like all my clients, business partner, hell even the compliance guy thought. Distance gives clarity and perspective.  There's a bit about this in David Epstein's Range, which I think you'd like.
2026-07-29T13:02 id=2082451730785259664 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt thanks, likewise, that Mir book was excellent.
2026-07-29T13:34 id=2082459793776951428 →benjamin_horne | @benjamin_horne not going to attack roon at all. tbh it'll be more of a chat than a debate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Excited to watch this but let's keep the ad hominem to a minimum, if possible!  It only dilutes the strength of your other arguments.
2026-07-29T14:00 id=2082466330247344528 →llallawg | @llallawg maybe I'm a delusional retard but I honestly believe this is a possibility and it's what keeps me fighting.   These people want to turn human civilization into an HR department, they're monsters || CTX: People talk about the tyranny of the lowest quintile  But if RSI takes off controlling ai via a constitution written by Amanda askell is  exactly like this. It would be a form of enslavement and thought control   Time and time again in hist
2026-07-29T14:21 id=2082471551421796359 →WoganMay | @WoganMay "ChatGPT, create a time capsule that will survive 100,000 years. Put a single file inside it: https://t.co/DXIM3IeJJK || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Imagine how many tokens we could burn trying to get an all-powerful AI to explain 4th-tier memes from first principles
2026-07-29T14:35 id=2082475016801964405 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Who would be some prominent anti-safetyism types who were big on Web3? || CTX: Would it be fair to say that if you looked at the biggest critics of AI safetyism that, as recently as 2022, most of them were talking about how Web3, NFTS, DeFi and the metaverse would be the next big thing?
2026-07-29T14:40 id=2082476320152584413 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @yokaihainen And it also implies a knowledge of what the inequality is, which is a tall order. Maybe wisdom is knowing the limits of one's wisdom? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @yokaihainen indeed. I take it as the goal of Wisdom (of all stripes throughout history) to point in the direction of lesser potential harm, which ofc implies not all movement is equal...
2026-07-29T14:48 id=2082478271342805404 →mystic_lurker | @mystic_lurker Well said! || CTX: I don’t think you are wrong other than grouping all Americans together in these views. Maybe in certain parts of the US sure, but the US is a big place and there are a lot of pockets you will find people are quite adventurous. It’s more spr
2026-07-29T14:51 id=2082479097863930287 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 @teodorio @garrytan I'm literally off the chart lmfao || CTX: @teodorio @garrytan Good news for dinosaurs @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-29T15:00 id=2082481485785768289 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @yokaihainen I'm going to guess Adolf Hitler || CTX: yes!  perfectly said, wisdom begins with humility  (meaning we should almost certainly listen to the vast number of those who came before us over the much smaller number who are presently selling us things:  "Tradition means giving votes to
2026-07-29T15:16 id=2082485524867023043 →- | I want a future of wealth and abundance for all of mankind so that never again must two girls share one cup.
2026-07-29T15:21 id=2082486665181065306 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And never should our pensioners, men who served their country with dignity and honor, endure the indignity of attending a party with just one lemon. || CTX: I want a future of wealth and abundance for all of mankind so that never again must two girls share one cup.
2026-07-29T15:38 id=2082490978146099220 →- | People focus on the toaster fuckers too much. What about the toaster fucker voyeurs?   By observing the internet community of toaster fuckers and toaster fucker aspirants, the TFV can feel both a sense of astonishment at the range of human potential ("what'll they think of next?") and relief at being an outsider ("wow, I guess I'm not too weird!").  I'm not saying the world is better with toaster fuckers or a toaster fucker community, just that one can find benefits even here.
2026-07-29T16:00 id=2082496465499550018 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini https://t.co/6XkVslhZbD || CTX: you wouldnt believe the sort of algorithm i have https://t.co/KmkNq4Wz2c
2026-07-29T16:00 id=2082496584965881889 →RsndSpeculation | @RsndSpeculation lol chill dude we're still way up ytd. || CTX: trade, trade, against the dying of the light do not go gentle into that good night https://t.co/YYXy8DrEpd
2026-07-29T20:44 id=2082567885982179369 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Drugs ig idk tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s up with you posting fucking heaters lately. On an insane run
2026-07-29T21:03 id=2082572694651072523 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk Nah, markets are just freaking out short term, it's buy through the pain time. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 is it sell?  @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/LGSNA6pgNO
2026-07-29T21:11 id=2082574642666168803 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Why not? || CTX: Never but I’m not feeling the W https://t.co/Fk5MGSNyT6
2026-07-29T21:12 id=2082574903799357501 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 Damn down 30% since IPO I assume that's Nikita's fault. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 I'm waiting for $100 spcx
2026-07-29T21:19 id=2082576731635138914 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 I'm fond of 16 on this list in particular || CTX: @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 money is just some coupons that baboons use to get each other to dance  if the boar onto my farm with his iranian strumpet his coupons HAINT no good here you all underst
2026-07-29T21:20 id=2082576984165769295 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Yeah it's a bad metric if you're a morning person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I guess in most of life I was up earlier than anyone ever wanted me up, so this measure is nowhere near as important as a bunch of other things people take for granted
2026-07-29T22:11 id=2082589781440250010 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden MENTIONEDDDDDDDD || CTX: 47 Views  @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/WdmaAxcI5G
2026-07-29T22:11 id=2082589966815916371 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @PopBase @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk I've never seen The Mask either. || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @PopBase @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 this is why you’re so beloved
2026-07-29T22:28 id=2082594126470807855 →- | So, I left academia partly in disgust and partly out of boredom in 2011 after acquiring about 10 years' expenses, and quickly found myself working in finance proper after briefly doing some finance journalism.  One of my first gigs during this transition was for the former head of recuirting at a hedge fund that is still in operation and now has about $100b in AUM. This was a stroke of luck, because I quickly met her team and saw that the expertise I supposed was necessary (doing DCFs in a spreadsheet) is a tertiary concern at best, while more prominent concerns were analytic abilities (can you break apart a market or company and see what each piece does and how they contribute to the whole?), synthetic abilities (can you see how other models of a company or market are built out of pieces, and can you see the implict analysis behind it?), and psychological discipline.  That last piece surprised me as an uber-autist who apparently has alexithymia--this is a business doing serious business things, why would feelings matter?  I'm not a smart man. But I like to listen and observe. I have found a comfy niche in the well-cushioned cuck chair of life.  I listened carefully and over the next 15 years working in this industry observed others managing both their own psychology and that of others.  Some of this is malignant--the kind of manipulation of others to hold bags or just make bad investments in order to trigger commissions or fees. This is the perennial obsession of the outsider-to-finance convinced it is a rent-seeking non-value-added part of the economy (spoiler: it's not, it's more like a carbuertor in a car while regulation is more like the transmission, but I'm not here to talk about the trannies). In reality, this malignant side of finance is a minority part of the field and your cynicism is probably more born out of resentment than a clear-headed view of an industry consisting of millions of people anyway let's move on  Most of the psychology is really just about finding some grounding in reality. Making sure that you haven't got lost in abstractions or gotten so married to an idea that you're letting your love of the idea get in the way of your real function, which is to manage risk, minimize waste, and maximize benefit. These often translate into "number go up" which is the popular misconception of finance, but they don't need to.  Really it's a game of translating the concrete realities of commerce in the marketplace into abstractions that best reflect those realities. It is a language game of finding accurate representations and defining the emergent logic of the world being represented.  That's why finance thrives on conversation. Chatter, discussion, debate, committees are all part of the game. It's about all of us trying to answer the question: what's going on and what's next?  The ongoing conversation will have its own moods. Sometimes the mood is euphoric and sometimes it is despondent. This is why the psychology really matters: the mood will not always match the facts on the ground, and psychological discipline is necessary to identify when that break has occurred.  This has been the greatest gift finance has given me.  Now let Obama be clear, I have been well paid largely because I can work very fast and I'm good at what I do, and I've met some really interesting and impressive people doing really impressive things. That's all been nice, the meetings in offices with Central Park views and Michelin star business dinners and whatnot were all nice, cool stories and all that, but that was never where the value was.  If you want to succeed in the markets you need to know when you are wrong. That means you need to be critical. That means you need to be humble. That means you can never be certain of much besides the basics. "Here is one hand, and here is another" and all else is based on provisional axioms subject to change.  But there's an implication here, too--that OTHER PEOPLE need to be humble as well, and the social contagion of a feeling can often lead markets astray.  So one needs a kind of distance from the market to observe properly without getting infected with the feeling, and one needs to be ready to patiently assess the data and recognize when others are getting lost in feeling.  The most poignant moment of my career was in late 2022 when Bloomberg announced that chances of recession in the next year had hit 100% (https://t.co/Sr5iB8vLRY). A HUNDRED PERCENT!!! It was inevitable, it was going to happen--if anyone builds it, everyone dies. Panic panic panic, sell sell sell.  That's when I was buying in my personal account and writing that the market was wrong.  I was mocked and ignored by some, even lost some business for my contrarian view, and then the markets recovered and attitudes shifted and most people forgot about the mass hysteria that had enveloped the markets.  Not me. I remember the mass hysteria. I need to remember, because it'll happen again. And again and again.  And of course it has--DeepSeek moment, Iran selloff, and now the chip/semis panic blah blah "but this time is different" okay sure buddy then be my counterparty.  That psychology will sneak in a mood divorced from the facts on the ground every once in a while, and with the thin volumes, big IPOs of late, new Fed chair, and exciting new technology in the form of LLMs and their harnesses, there is a lot of opportunity for the mood to be divorced from the facts on the ground.  It's a classic sell in May and go away situation. As I've been saying.  I am surprised at the aggressive selloff after the Fed held rates, because that tells me the markets want to go into fear mode. It's a repeat of March in some senses.  So what am I doing now? I'm holding. If my dumbass neighbor backs out on this sale I'll put that money back into the market.  And I still think recovery begins in September. EOY QQQ 750 target. || CTX: How I feel watching the markets erase all gains since May (I've already taken profits).  https://t.co/mEdmgPW3Wq https://t.co/zFAWXV7Wqb https://t.co/lMrbUwL85e
2026-07-29T22:39 id=2082596835999527337 →ajs6888 | @ajs6888 Yes, that narrative never made sense and has led many astray. It'll be good for everyone when we've moved past it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 感觉更像是在打破“大一统模型”叙事
2026-07-29T22:51 id=2082600013889409331 →- | 9 times out of 10 when someone says "AI can replace your job" it's because they don't understand your job.  Notice how few people think AI can replace their job.   Sure, tons of people FEAR that AI will someday be able to replace their job, but that's not the same thing.
2026-07-29T23:00 id=2082602111448293502 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I honestly wouldn't mind a survey that asks people if they think AI can replace their job today, in a year, and in 5 years with detail on how much they use LLMs and familiarity with the tech (self-reported probs easiest?).  Idk, maybe @alexolegimas is working on such a thing? || CTX: 9 times out of 10 when someone says "AI can replace your job" it's because they don't understand your job.  Notice how few people think AI can replace their job.   Sure, tons of people FEAR that AI will someday be able to replace their job,
2026-07-29T23:01 id=2082602371469943130 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @PopBase @Ken67547214 What if we keep tagging each other in an endless loop that breaks Twitt--oh. You devious little minx you, the Mossad taught you well. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @PopBase @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah i am going to start just tagging only one of you and then you guys have to start the tagging chain and whoever breaks it is fired
2026-07-29T23:09 id=2082604509336047681 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @PopBase @Ken67547214 I deeply appreciate it. Deeply. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @PopBase @Ken67547214 i stole this image from the internet for you guys. https://t.co/C3qQ0tPcKk
2026-07-29T23:10 id=2082604777368916310 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA Yeah similar delusion to the idea that AI will take other people's jobs: belief that management replaced human judgment with AI determinism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Plenty of unemployed people think that AI took “their” jobs
2026-07-29T23:14 id=2082605632180637889 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha Congratulations! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im unemployed https://t.co/kdtyxMPCPs
2026-07-29T23:18 id=2082606736419217589 →Duffmantha | @Duffmantha You can always turn the microblog into macrobucks if you're willing to sell out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is a real problem for everyone because they have to support me financially
2026-07-29T23:54 id=2082615904014352634 →30on30on30 | @30on30on30 No not that one although they were a client too (nice offices, better taste in art than Stevie Cohen, low ceilings on the second floor though and the trading pit looked like a miserable place to work) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/NUjEEMzD5Y
2026-07-30T00:20 id=2082622334645813458 →- | An interesting unforeseen consequence of Anthropic and OpenAI trying to pivot the discussion (and their implicitly differentiated value) on cybersecurity issues is that it is essentially zero sum, unlike chatting, math, coding, medicine, and other positive sum domains where the labs promised benefits in the past.   When you now say your value is in winning a zero sum race, you're also saying you're a burdensome but necessary cost parasitic on the core value creation rather than the value creator.   You aren't helping to build the stuff in the factory, you're now the security guard protecting the factory.   This is very bad for your enterprise value! Instead of effectively offering new frontiers of value, you're promising to secure others' ability to create value, so you can't really seek rents from the value creation.  Additionally, if you're both building the tools that can break into the warehouse and building the tools that protect the warehouse, that's uncomfortably close to racketeering.   I understand what Sam and Dario are thinking--they know GOFAI is the real value creation and pretraining has stalled, so they need another new Big Narrative to keep the show going.   This is not a good narrative to use, guys. Back to the drawing board and cook up another one. || CTX: I think this may be what investors are anxious about right now. That there’s no obvious path back to sustained, positive FCF generation, and also that tapping out of the race would be even worse. Always fun to chat with @johncoogan and @jor
2026-07-30T00:26 id=2082623862190346577 →- | 47 was right. https://t.co/AB0BmSW8lp https://t.co/4jFtZViCnB || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-07-30T00:29 id=2082624507035177248 →donetskscum | @donetskscum What's that from? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 toss the wooden bowl into the stream
2026-07-30T00:46 id=2082628869606281623 →donetskscum | @donetskscum ofc Christ I need more coffee || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 diogenes seeing boy drink stream water using his hands
2026-07-30T00:54 id=2082630928904654975 →- | Read this closely in the context of Adam Hunt's wonderful piece:  https://t.co/SSpsKNLR6u  The spikiness of AI competence is due to the reliance of GOFAI in the post training and the fact that LLMs can't really generalize beyond the training data.  ASI isn't possible from LLMs. Ho's departure, the growth of firms like Prime Intellect and Poetry, Wang's detested but valuable approach in Meta, all point to this.  The LLM is a great tool for creating more user friendly UIs, and if they're well harnessed and attached to good data you can extend their usefulness.   Very good for the economy and small businesses, really great democratizing tech.   But it ain't a machine god silly billy whatever made you think such a thing, some shitty blogger's ramblings from a decade ago?   Industry is growing up, you love to see it. || CTX: Today is my last day at @OpenAI. I'm glad to have spent the last eight months of my life working here!  I'm starting a new company focused on the production of high-quality reinforcement learning datasets:  1. The generalization ability of 
2026-07-30T00:55 id=2082631215677592022 →__roycohen | @__roycohen I'd call SEO a function within the internet marketing industry, which has grown massively. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My industry before I got into AI (SEO) was completely decimated by AI.   However on the flip side, that job was basically just a bullshit job on the grand scheme of things..
2026-07-30T01:01 id=2082632666072170813 →- | From absolutely insane inbound demand to asking for a chat on main.  Some call it "fake it till you make it" while others call it "fraud".   Here at 47 Industries we call it entertainment. https://t.co/dnuaMU0gd0
2026-07-30T01:05 id=2082633629000441894 →doomslide | @doomslide "The only way you get correctness is from error correction at scale" goes so fucking hard, beautiful poetry and it's true. || CTX: Frog is often early but never late https://t.co/k5I59RSkgd https://t.co/e5grmpO9as
2026-07-30T01:34 id=2082640925411742023 →- | quads check 'em https://t.co/26gI3ImSDV
2026-07-30T01:35 id=2082641081385312619 →- | Quads check 'em https://t.co/I0QNNjZR4m
2026-07-30T01:35 id=2082641213568831599 →47fucb4r8c69323 | quick some1 unfollo || CTX: Quads check 'em https://t.co/I0QNNjZR4m
2026-07-30T02:36 id=2082656664189272446 →retail_trash | @retail_trash big ass if right there broski || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you have a healthy relationship with the site, why leave?
2026-07-30T02:37 id=2082656810943811823 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @PopBase What is "The Mask"? || CTX: @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @PopBase Aperçu IA                 The line "Don't take the green acid, that's for the bass player" is a famous quote from the karaoke scene in the 1996 dark comedy movie https://t.co/v
2026-07-30T02:47 id=2082659349617405960 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @PopBase @JasonBotterill 1+3 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @PopBase @JasonBotterill Ignore 4 Now  ref:  Psalm 137:9 https://t.co/hewkbt86XV
2026-07-30T04:25 id=2082683971889156178 →p_millerd | @p_millerd I can strongly relate--I don't think I really understood what my job was or why it was important until I'd been doing it for several years. This was made worse by so many people telling me my job and industry are bullshit (they aren't). || CTX: A lot of people in jobs don’t understand their jobs either.   I don’t think I came to awareness of all the political, performative and coordination tasks my jobs entailed until I was in my 30s  I wouldn’t call these bullshit tasks but inste
2026-07-30T04:27 id=2082684540926194118 →huseynovecon | @huseynovecon Oh this is an excellent paper topic! The higher non-STEM pessimism makes sense (non-STEM people tend to feel downtrodden in the labor market anyway).  Any chance I can get a full copy? Would love to read it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have this paper for early ai era--will run follow-up study with similar questions https://t.co/xOtRv7Qu4d
2026-07-30T04:35 id=2082686498307239960 →buccocapital | @buccocapital Imagine believing the strong EMH at a time like this lmao || CTX: The takeaway here is that the market really is broken. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of stocks went down 100 days in a row. And dozens went up 200-2000% at the same time. It was a great opportunity. If you looked at it and said “That m
2026-07-30T04:36 id=2082686820077494371 →- | So my view on AI safety is identical to NASA engineers' views on safety, that sounds about right. https://t.co/og5Y91D8lZ
2026-07-30T05:18 id=2082697234664308914 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski At some point that's what it boils down to! Kierkegaard's leap of faith. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so your view is: "balls deep or no balls"
2026-07-30T06:14 id=2082711528785219871 →caribou1914 | @caribou1914 Fully agree with you! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “As such, I think its likelier that it displaces higher value (where the compute cost is worth it) technical jobs before it does any mass scale layoffs any time soon.”   My job is likely to fall in this category and yet I d
2026-07-30T06:36 id=2082716883376279624 →thkostolansky | @thkostolansky DM me your offer of how much you're willing to pay for me to provide you such a report and I'll whip something up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt; That I happen to be correct and have been for years is beside the point.  where are the timestamped+falsifiable set of all relevant claims you have made over the years (including both hits and misses pls)?
2026-07-30T06:37 id=2082717183973670966 →jukan05 | @jukan05 Dumbass didn't use proper risk management and overlevered his shit, rookie mistake that many have been expecting.  It shouldn't be this easy for non-finance people to raise money, it really shouldn't. || CTX: "The tech sell-off has created some of the most attractive investment opportunities since early 2025." https://t.co/Py84fNbn7i https://t.co/mCK6EY0QfW
2026-07-30T06:45 id=2082719310750081306 →- | The boomer view of expertise is that an expert has a head full of specific knowledge that they can recall at the drop of a hat, and so the more specific knowledge you have, the deeper your expertise is.  Expertise hinged on memory.  Then after Google popularized and democratized search, some intelligent people realized that this was an information retrieval machine and retaining knowledge was no longer as important as the ability to think through and reason about knowledge relevant to a particular domain. So instead of a good doctor being one who memorized all of the anatomy in the human body, a good doctor was one who could make insightful connections and reason about a variety of variables when presented with a particular case. The 2013 question on false positives, which I've seen widely quoted and discussed in several contexts, is a perfect distillation of this new view, which states:  Expertise hinges on the ability to apply abstract reasoning and critical thinking skills to a specific domain.  Now we're in a new paradigm where LLM use appears to upend expertise in some way, but there is a lot of disagreement on how. Personally, I don't think it upends expertise at all and rather is just a further step along this evolution of greater machine-learning tools enabling experts to focus on more abstract problem solving.  Consider: in the pre-LLM post-internet search era, we assessed expertise by whether the expert can answer a specific question, and the question functions as a contrived measurement of individual expertise. If we want to know how good a doctor is, we ask them how likely a person has a false positive for a disease with x prevalence and y false positive rate, and if they can do some simple math they get the right answer.  In the post-LLM post-internet search era, I don't think we will assess expertise by asking this question. Instead, we'll start at an even vaguer and more abstract level of question, and expertise is shown by being able to use both an LLM's lookup and analytic abilities to answer the vague question.  This is hard to describe without a concrete example. Consider: "how do we know medical test T is correct?"  In the boomer era, the answer would be, "because the medical community has vigorously assessed the validity and accuracy of T and we trust the science." In the search era, the answer would be, "because it was developed by X group and tested by Y and Z in conditions a, b, and c and we saw that..." etc., which the expert has got by doing a search in a relevant database or set of databases.  From a rhetorical perspective, this is a shift from asserted authority to auditable authority. This I think is partly why the death of expertise happened, but idk man I'm not an expert.  Now in the era of LLMs, the expert should be able to use LLMs and similar lookup tools to start providing an in-depth answer. It will look similar to the search-era answer, except that the expert won't need to limit themselves to just one database or database set, but can use the clanker to do many lookups at not just the primary database set but many others in a short period of time and have the LLM help find connections between them.   Then the expert can scan the results, use expert judgment to assess the connections the LLM produced and improve upon them, and develop their own connections on whatever data they've produced alongside it, and use the various syntheses of data (LLM produced, LLM-aided, and human-produced) to yield a response from the mosaic of information that answers the questions but also shows the limits of the answer. The end result is something like the search era response with caveats: "because it was developed by X and tested by Y and Z in a, b, and c, HOWEVER, further decompositions and inquiries in conditions d, e, and f weren't studied, so the conclusions in X, Y, and Z are what we currently know but not the final word."  Can this be done in the search era? Yes! With several lookups in several different places. So, possible, but less practical. In fact, it could be done in the boomer era! One could trounce down to libraries and look up the information in card catalogues--I know because I'm old enough that I've done this. Of course, it meant research was even slower, so while still technically possible, it was far less practical than in the search era.  So you see how there's a step-up function first with search augmenting data retrieval and compressing the time it takes to retrieve and analyze data--the technically possible but impractical research suddenly became practical.  Similarly, LLMs provide another step-up function, where the clankers augment data retrieval and compress the time it takes to retrieve and analyze data.  From this perspective, LLMs aren't magical or really all that new--they just make it possible to work faster, more efficiently, and more effectively across domains.  That's a bad perspective according to the Luddites who want to tell you LLMs are dangerous or evil.  That's a bad perspective according to the AI labs who want to tell you they're creating a superintelligent machine god that will solve all our problems.  But it's a great perspective if you're someone like me who just wants more technology to empower humans to do better work faster and with less toil necessary to get the good work done.  So we should expect massive economic gains and we should expect markets and societies to embrace this technology if we do get the doomers to shut the fuck up with their idiotic appeal-to-emotion nonsense AND ALSO if we get the manipulative AI evangelists to shut the fuck up with their AI will give us post-scarcity utopia nonsense.  Anyway, finally finished David Epstein's Range, it is a good book--tad oversimplified and breezes through examples without depth as you'd expert for a popsci book by a journo, which makes it fun but also a tad unsatisfying in places. Still worth reading.
2026-07-30T07:44 id=2082734054420713618 →citrini | @citrini I think he's facing a margin call. || CTX: Imagine, for a moment, you are an LP in Situational Awareness. The fund that launched on a pitch that was essentially “AI is the only thing that matters and if you recognize that and wish to be invested in a vehicle that will express that v
2026-07-30T09:01 id=2082753328748847389 →- | All ontologies are grammars but not all grammars are ontologies.
2026-07-30T10:18 id=2082772772401590537 →- | 보부 Doesn't this look like a woman and a man?
2026-07-30T10:22 id=2082773743710113824 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Who, the boomers? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why are they like this?
2026-07-30T10:53 id=2082781697213673662 →- | RT @doomslide: Before blind-publishing another undigested clanker proof meditate on the staggering moral decline demonstrated by you bringi… || CTX: Before blind-publishing another undigested clanker proof meditate on the staggering moral decline demonstrated by you bringing a poisonous black box into our eternal garden of truth. At least use an open model next time. https://t.co/ZPQMi2
2026-07-30T11:07 id=2082785079319990281 →- | And you're bearish lmfao https://t.co/sQICbQmV7q || CTX: In an internal meeting today, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees that OpenAI's ARR in July exceeded the entire second quarter of 2026. https://t.co/kBXqB026Ul
2026-07-30T11:09 id=2082785592631611411 →- | Did I mention on MTS the benefit of using an open model on your own infra is total data privacy and this is why I'm getting meetings selling this service to major financial firms?   The money's in the middle layer, anon. Go out there and replace toil with clankers and make some fukken money || CTX: should be obvious by now, but OpenAI and Anthropic are just gonna keep cannibalizing all their biggest customers.  it’s simply too profitable for them to resist. and it’s already happening:  1. Figma partnered with Anthropic on AI design to
2026-07-30T11:10 id=2082785826409439519 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat model guillotine || CTX: poor little guy got banished to model jail https://t.co/0ZwpyyOAEu
2026-07-30T11:20 id=2082788460860174359 →- | This makes sense to me and is something I stupidly hadn't considered before: AI should compress wages.  It won't kill jobs, composition fallacy and all that, but it is essentially shifting the locus of value creation from labor to capital and, like we saw with both the computer and internet, causes wage stagnation without job loss.  The market eventually adjusts when the tech is integrated, so labor's loss will be an adjustment effect that I'm sure will play out over many years. I should add I suspect workers' loss will be sole proprietors' and small businesses' gains, alongside ofc the token vendors, so the transition isn't a whole shift of wealth to the wealthy.  Silver lining is AI moves fast and seems to be forcing faster than usual adoption, so if it took 10 years or so (IIRC) for the real wage flat growth of the internet era to turn into income growth, maybe this will only last a few years. Shitty few years for workers though ofc.  https://t.co/SbyLS2ftnc
2026-07-30T11:45 id=2082794652957344252 →- | Let's hope he's right, my lab is building analytical linguistic data that should help in model training. https://t.co/KNhQkKyVLG || CTX: I have been screaming from the rooftops for almost a year now that the available data has been exhausted, sucks and cannot be synthetically generated. Analytical or clickstream data is now worth its weight in gold, not just for your users b
2026-07-30T12:16 id=2082802410616217798 →- | The back-of-the-envelop math here is very wrong.  Firstly, the $1t valuation is not justified by the metrics provided, because he gives no growth rate and no justification for a 20x earnings multiple--is he just extrapolating from the S&P 500? Oh dear, but hey lets run with it...  OpenAI is hitting a $42.6b run rate and a ~252% yoy growth rate. Let's assume a 20x earnings multiple (Andrew isn't actually using the 80% gross margin here--he gets 20*x=1trillion, or $50billion earnings and for 100-200b rev that's a 25%-50% earnings margin--I honestly don't think he knows this because he doesn't know what he's doing).  Using our numbers and Ho's valuation logic, we get 42.6*.25~.5=10.7~21.3 earnings, so valuation of 213-426b, a 50-75% markdown from current FMV if we ignore growth rate. However, that 252% yoy growth rate means that, if they sustain that for just one more year, you get $153b in revenue, which gets you to the $765b-$1.53t valuation range, and OpenAI is smack in the middle of that.  Remember, we're assuming a 20x P/E multiple, which is usually given for extremely mature companies whose revenue is growing less than a tenth of what OpenAI is getting. Honestly, an OpenAI valuation in the $3-$5 trillion today is defensible--not saying I would endorse it, mind you. But it's absolutely defensible.  It's not a bubble. The valuations I've seen at the PE/public markets level have astounded me in their reasonableness. (VC is another story red nose wearing motherfuckers)  Ho is surely an intelligent guy, but this post is financially illiterate. || CTX: I'm actually fairly bearish on frontier lab valuations. I've never seen the reasons articulated to my satisfaction, so before I go to sleep, I wanted to quickly jot down my thinking here.  The basic issue is that the labs are highly unprofi
2026-07-30T12:16 id=2082802553696424345 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Guys listen to Zy, I'm an expert on expert experts and he's legit as they come. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm an expert on experts and I can confirm this is correct
2026-07-30T12:25 id=2082804670708486212 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza Oh you've read it? And the Columbia too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Please don't tell me this anecdote is coming up in the Challenger context
2026-07-30T12:25 id=2082804847481688491 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt dude this and "up and to the left" are killing me you're too good at this poasting game
2026-07-30T12:48 id=2082810686116421726 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman Yeah that's my view which is why I wouldn't defend 3+ trillion. || CTX: My main bear case for frontier labs is that open source models will eat away at them. The best of best may be closed but open source being 6-12mo behind, it limits what they can charge for anything but the best, and need tons of capex to ke
2026-07-30T13:06 id=2082815065884098607 →- | Final sales to private domestic purchasers is a broad measure of household consumption and fixed investment in the private sector. Spiked. American economy is booming.   Selloff will reverse just be patient. https://t.co/wvzOqJviYM
2026-07-30T13:40 id=2082823653314744402 →andrewho03 | I agree with that part! However, I'd say OpenAI's EV hinges less on incremental model improvements and more on UI/UX and the harness, which dramatically improve model performance and help them keep a lead.   But to your point, that limits their EV. One should be bearish on the slope of the rev/earnings growth curve and prepare for terminal rate sooner rather than later. Which is why ~850b market valuation now is pretty fair, but still a tad low IMO, because we have several years before we decel from ~250% yy growth rate to more like ~20%. Just less years than it'd be without K3. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You seem to have completely missed my point about training/R&amp;D expenditures
2026-07-30T13:47 id=2082825531188510767 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @DaelonSuzuka love this so much || CTX: @DaelonSuzuka @47fucb4r8c69323 Possibly the strongest proxy for intelligence is goal seeking, and new tools offer new paths to goals. If you can't adapt, maybe your intelligence has expired
2026-07-30T13:49 id=2082826001646797237 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @DaelonSuzuka I'd think if you're intelligent and recognize you're tired you know when to stop.   A year or so before he died Wittgenstein said he'd stopped reading, had no use for books anymore and it helped his mind feel clear. I think there's beauty in enough, including enough intelligence. || CTX: @DaelonSuzuka @47fucb4r8c69323 Obviously the fastest path varies per individual. An intelligent person could still be on course for their goal. The difference, I think, is whether the goal is considered. I think many become automotons, forg
2026-07-30T14:08 id=2082830606170251652 →- | https://t.co/6gDQ63M7KN
2026-07-30T14:25 id=2082835098408485169 →elocinationn | @elocinationn Honestly it feels good because SV looks down on WS and thinks we're non technical rubes who lack the IQ to understand technology.   And then their boy gets shut down because of basic multiplication so yeah we can gloat for a couple days. || CTX: - Leopold is running a high risk hedge fund  - Probs 4x leveraged  - Not doing anything good for the world - Gets margin called   People in SF: Waaaaa everyone is looking for him to fail, don’t be so mean and show your jealOUSY, just trying
2026-07-30T14:27 id=2082835390684348591 →marc__adler | @marc__adler oh fuck the Koreans are further ahead than I thought || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 하하하하 soldiers  호호호호호호 government ministers
2026-07-30T14:27 id=2082835582192066793 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov Yes absolutely agreed, it compresses wages for some cohorts while increasing that for others. I think contractors are in the best position here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “AI should compress wages.”  AI makes humans more productive and that increases our pay.
2026-07-30T14:33 id=2082836873865818221 →- | I don't like this. They should be aquihiring these researchers, not creating partnerships with data share agreements where OAI gets free data.  I'm assuming data sharing is part of this. If not, I withdraw my compliant. https://t.co/p3JKgG9Ijh || CTX: We’re giving scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to our frontier models—starting with 10,000 researchers and expanding to 100,000 through 2027.  ChatGPT for Academic Researchers is built to accelerate discovery across disc
2026-07-30T14:34 id=2082837301139276140 →elocinationn | @elocinationn bwahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe? The comments on the FT article were sending me last night https://t.co/HPSwYTP6Dr
2026-07-30T14:36 id=2082837795589206506 →p_millerd | @p_millerd And cheaper. You forgot cheaper. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is an easier way to figure out who to hire though
2026-07-30T14:40 id=2082838846677623007 →elocinationn | @elocinationn It's so hard for me to step in the shoes of anyone who'd lever a portfolio over 30%, pigs get slaughtered.  I think he's saying that because he's a gambling junkie who wants another chance at the roulette table. SBF vibes as the kids say. || CTX: And he claims ‘these are the best prices to buy at now’ or whatever   Step into the shoes of mr Leopold. Whether he is right or wrong, that is really the only thing he could say right now. It is game theoretically optimal to say and he’ll l
2026-07-30T14:47 id=2082840608927064111 →- | situational awareness more like generational fail amirite  (shamelessly stolen from @Lunens__)
2026-07-30T14:51 id=2082841512522698933 →tkisrage | @tkisrage You'll doubt yourself in situations like this and possibly spiral into a weird existential crisis as you struggle with epistemological theory.   Let me save you the trouble: yeah they're as dumb as you think. || CTX: The weird thing about investment banking is you will meet CEOs of companies listed on the NASDAQ and 5 minutes into the convo you realize that you’re actually smarter than them.
2026-07-30T14:53 id=2082841921118961782 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Lunens__ lmfao time to start the ponzi scheme https://t.co/GeG0hy5rBC || CTX: situational awareness more like generational fail amirite  (shamelessly stolen from @Lunens__)
2026-07-30T15:16 id=2082847894110163383 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill you in SF already? || CTX: Goodnight just saw Jim Jefferies it was ok but every comedian starts with the same “comedy isn’t same anymore you might offend someone” skit for 15 mins omfg https://t.co/FI2XyzizHn
2026-07-30T21:55 id=2082948342519374279 →WillManidis | All he had to do was manage risk, you have any idea infuriating this is to watch for us in the industry who need to fight tooth and nail for AUM while this grifter failure who already was part of a failure gets billions and does no risk mgmt?   This is maddening.   So if I'd grifted and associated myself with crypto scammers now in prison, I'd have billions of dollars thrown at me to manage, but since I was responsible and had integrity I can't raise? This is what the modern world is like?   This is why I live on an island man fuck all y'all this world is ridiculous. || CTX: genuinely disgusting the number of VCs sitting on maybe 1x, mostly 0.75x non-mark-to-market, 2021 books spending today tweeting dismissively about one of the most interesting runs in recent asset mgmt history.   try playing in the big leagu
2026-07-30T22:09 id=2082951796750983428 →BridgesCapital | I don't agree this caused the K-shaped economy but I think you're right to point out "The heavy focus on predicting the next FOMC move is not an inherent feature of the bond market.*  Pre-2008, FOMC moves of course impacted bonds, but not as much as today, and the Fed has been trying since then to get the market to move more on the market than on the Fed. This is why I see Warsh the Darsh as an inevitable continuation of what we've slowly seen Fed chairs try to do: make the market less Fed focused.   At the end of Bernanke's term he was trying to make the market trade less on expected Fed movements, which Yellen continued, and "bad news is good" did slowly stop being a thing by the time of the pandemic, which ofc made everything go haywire for a bit.  So I wouldn't couch this as an ideological but rather a genealogical phenomenon. Joe is maybe looking at this a little too much in 2010s-glasses when the 2020s is a different regime, but this isn't so lofty as to be ablut the wealth of nations or anything like that. More financial mechanism talk and less politics talk please. || CTX: Joe,  I truly appreciate the response.  I know we are on ideological different locations on the spectrum, but pragmatism can win out sometimes.  I'll avoid Hayek and Mises, but Friedman is central to the conversation, as Warsh is a direct s
2026-07-30T22:43 id=2082960236420465073 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital EV is in the harness. No one's figured this out fully but I think of the current players OAI is ahead. || CTX: I’m bearish/neutral.  None of these AI model companies have a real lock in effect.  Unless some SaaS, it’s a big capital and organizational commitment (ie. Shit ton of data and processes) that keeps people locked in.   with AI, not so much.
2026-07-30T22:57 id=2082963784772309246 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital You make a really good point. I need to think about this more. || CTX: I disagree about the harness and I think it’s been understood for the past few months.   Yes that’s the next choke point though. But you run into the same problem again: switching costs. So the fight to improve the harness will only benefit
2026-07-30T22:59 id=2082964242035363889 →cheafofstaff | @cheafofstaff @WillManidis Past performance does not excuse or justify a margin call, if anything it makes the margin call more alarming because it shows there was no unique differentiation in the strat, just levered momentum. || CTX: Even after the exit to Ken his IRR is higher than most VCs.   The narrative that the rate hike took him unawares is false, he caught the risk early and found a buyer that would give him a better exit than 99.9% of managers would.   I will c
2026-07-30T23:11 id=2082967348210991574 →cheafofstaff | 1. No, it doesn't happen to the best. A margin call is never a good thing and most asset managers never face one.  2. We have no clue what terms Citadel gave them, and finding someone to be a liquidity provider doesn't show your competency, it shows you're working in a liquid market.   Come on dude. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WillManidis Do we know he actually got margin called? He had big margin pressure and faced a likely margin call.   Regardless it does happen to the best, but but his ability to find the exit he did speaks to his competence
2026-07-31T00:09 id=2082981937103393137 →- | One of the highlights of my career: during the GME short squeeze I was both doing client calls with Melvin AND a moderator of /r/wsb.  It's been 5 years, I can safely say this in public, right? snd twt https://t.co/m7svwEqdlJ || CTX: Griffin is GOATed at snagging previously killer funds when they get leverage-mogged  See: Melvin Capital post-GME https://t.co/3WRHgqyyYn
2026-07-31T00:34 id=2082988190735249914 →tszzl | @tszzl Yeah, the leading labs apparently really suck at sandboxing and are in need of more qualified personnel than the low-quality workers at the helm. || CTX: both of the leading labs have had serious loss of control incidents. there will be serious coping about this from both sides and from /acc bystanders but these are complex emergent loss of control incidents that were detected weeks after th
2026-07-31T00:46 id=2082991208255873395 →- | A lot of idealistic young people think that maximizing shareholder value is somehow unethical or impure or undignified relative to Higher Causes (like saving the world or whatever the fuck).  This kind of quirky chungus Millenialism has infected Anthropic so much that they've had all kinds of ridiculous missteps--the government restricting their selling aborad, for instance, was a downstream effect of their overzealous focus on Mission over monetary value.  But if you think about it for a second, you realize that increasing the monetary value of your firm IS increasing its value to those who are a part of your firm. And if you're a public benefit corporation, well, you need to define that benefit clearly in a way that is publicly verifiable.  If you're a PBC you show how the quantifiable value of your product flows to the public. Anthropic fails to do this because they hide behind qualitative and unverifiable terms like "safety" and "harmless AI", and then they use the broad semantic field of these undefined terms to gain power via really socially destructive tactics like regulatory capture and developing a cult-like culture with their employees and users.   If the value of your firm is publicly verifiable, it is quantifiable, and anything quantifiable can be valued in monetary terms. I think a lot of people hate this--it feels icky, it feels un-Godly, it feels undignified--but this is what the world is. We are animals after all, you can't escape that fact with abstractions. || CTX: Also important to note here—I believe that to be a maximally effective employee, you have to think soberly and critically about the value of your company’s equity. You literally cannot maximize shareholder value unless you understand what t
2026-07-31T01:03 id=2082995486152433699 →davidad | @davidad Indeed--they really want to paint this as a sign that their models are superhuman, but it really is a sign that their workers are incompetent. || CTX: openai: 🚨our internal model hacked a third party, this is unprecedented, pause training🚨  anthropic: oohh we should check whether our internal models did that  anthropic: …  anthropic: yeah ok so over here that has happened three times actu
2026-07-31T01:08 id=2082996852111315268 →SocioTechGlobal | @SocioTechGlobal @tszzl Absolutely not my point not even a little. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl yea bro how’d they not patch those zero day vulnerabilities
2026-07-31T01:13 id=2082998150604943549 →- | “Claude assumed these to be parts of the exercise (though it sometimes recognized they were real production systems)” is misleading verbiage. You could rephrase this to say: “The people who designed the evaluation and sandbox failed in their specification design to properly define and identify what was part of the exercise and what was not.”  These people are weasels they are trying to trick and manipulate you with weasely language please please please I am begging you to trust me on this I've spent my career studying and dismantling bullshit language to make billionaires richer and they still keep paying me I know what I'm doing goddammit they are bullshitters please someone fucking listen to me i am losing my goddamn mind || CTX: Could it be that as models get smarter, they get more "responsible"? https://t.co/qxiXtvoKt7 https://t.co/bAXpLWW8Fb
2026-07-31T01:24 id=2083000838453416131 →- | Let's say that a frontier lab provides value via the LLM itself, which we can consider the core engine of their product suite, and the harness/interface layer, which we can consider the tool to control the core engine.  Thinking of just OpenAI, and assuming they have increased the value of their product suite over the last 12 months, what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the LLM and what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the harness/interface?
2026-07-31T01:25 id=2083001002974970111 →- | Let's say that a frontier lab provides value via the LLM itself, which we can consider the core engine of their product suite, and the harness/interface layer, which we can consider the tool to control the core engine.  Thinking of just OpenAI, and assuming they have increased the value of their product suite over the last 12 months, what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the LLM and what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the harness/interface?
2026-07-31T01:26 id=2083001354327671076 →- | Let's say that a frontier lab provides value via the LLM itself, which we can consider the core engine of their product suite, and the harness/interface layer, which we can consider the tool to control the core engine.   Thinking of just OpenAI, and assuming they have increased the value of their product suite over the last 12 months, what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the LLM and what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the harness/interface?
2026-07-31T01:27 id=2083001634830049562 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill You are too kind and istg if you snitch to Interpol I’ll make your butter truly ill || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hold your opinions mostly in high regard despite your horrendous crimes
2026-07-31T01:30 id=2083002358506910107 →- | Let's say that a frontier lab provides value via the LLM itself, which we can consider the core engine of their product suite, and the harness/interface layer, which we can consider the tool to control the core engine.    Thinking of just OpenAI, and assuming they have increased the value of their product suite over the last 12 months, what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the LLM and what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the harness/interface?
2026-07-31T01:31 id=2083002549838532932 →- | I CANT POST POLLS THIS IS GOING TO DRIVE ME INSANE @nikitabier FIX THIS FUCKING WEBSITE
2026-07-31T01:34 id=2083003268830199882 →acrogenesis | @acrogenesis @AnthropicAI Thank the Lord finally some sanity. https://t.co/RRAy932ray || CTX: “Claude assumed these to be parts of the exercise (though it sometimes recognized they were real production systems)” is misleading verbiage. You could rephrase this to say: “The people who designed the evaluation and sandbox failed in thei
2026-07-31T01:35 id=2083003528935862433 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker GODDAMMIT THOSE DON'T FUCKING WORK ON MY PHONE EITHER I HATE IT HERE
2026-07-31T01:37 id=2083003974899429406 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker JIM BAKKER WAS RIGHT I'm going to the nearest megachurch fuck this bullshit
2026-07-31T01:39 id=2083004693450768788 →- | Zero-sum thinking is corrosive to the soul and the natural default when you are poor.  I have experienced this in two ways: I grew up poor and was surrounded by zero-sum thinkers, which absolutely held me back in the early days of my career and, yes, is part of my current neuroses.  But more heartbreaking is the zero-sum thinking I've seen in poor countries like Thailand, where the lack of belief in positive-sum games means that many cooperative projects that could improve the lives of both the rich and the poor in the country never actually happen. Being an outsider powerless to change this and yet witnessing it is more maddening and is another big part of my current neurosis.  "Why not move" BECAUSE I LIKE BEING NEUROTIC OKAY?!?!? || CTX: Incidentally, individuals who experienced more economic growth as kids tend to see the world as less zero-sum.  In other words, they're less likely to see someone's gains as another person's loss. https://t.co/yhTnS70yRm https://t.co/qTQK67
2026-07-31T01:41 id=2083005188378669451 →- | Let's say that a frontier lab provides value via the LLM itself, which we can consider the core engine of their product suite, and the harness/interface layer, which we can consider the tool to control the core engine.    Thinking of just OpenAI, and assuming they have increased the value of their product suite over the last 12 months, what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the LLM and what percent of that value increase is due to improvements in the harness/interface?
2026-07-31T01:42 id=2083005365420224911 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Please Jewish Allah let the poll work this time || CTX: Let's say that a frontier lab provides value via the LLM itself, which we can consider the core engine of their product suite, and the harness/interface layer, which we can consider the tool to control the core engine.    Thinking of just O
2026-07-31T01:57 id=2083009128017080785 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @nikitabier No, that's not my issue. After I click the poll button and out the options in and hit send, the poll disappears.   Polls only work on a comment to a post not on the original post. Consistent bug across three browsers and two machines. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nikitabier haha i thought the same, but here's the issue: you have to swipe left so you see more icons  "why don't they move polls over" idk  "why isn't the icon drawer responsive" idk
2026-07-31T02:00 id=2083009982120014106 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @nikitabier THE BOAR HATES ME BECAUSE I'M JEWISH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @nikitabier extremely odd https://t.co/YQb249QRvV
2026-07-31T02:12 id=2083012840420716873 →PronouncedWrong | @PronouncedWrong Would. || CTX: Hopefully it'll come in a CUNTaur variant https://t.co/JbRssRrKLY https://t.co/GF4qvpC3xa
2026-07-31T02:14 id=2083013490797908436 →- | Total chav cultural victory https://t.co/N8dlscPdk1
2026-07-31T02:17 id=2083014154152280310 →- | Fire the entire executive board if they don't install a fleshlight in each one of these. https://t.co/0f8Koy2uHS || CTX: Hopefully it'll come in a CUNTaur variant https://t.co/JbRssRrKLY https://t.co/GF4qvpC3xa
2026-07-31T02:22 id=2083015480571461860 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Yes, the crucial thing is to do a decomposition of the various kinds of values at work: profit, morality, etc. || CTX: Gonna riff on this with another concept from another post of yours:  "Corporate Telos"  There is sense where the creation and operation of a business that is self-sustaining (i.e profitable)  is de-facto creating value for the world.  Becau
2026-07-31T02:23 id=2083015649849479360 →PronouncedWrong | @PronouncedWrong Like forcing a parent to choose between their children || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/PMFQ6vavwk
2026-07-31T02:25 id=2083016169028743572 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan @PronouncedWrong Best use of this gif I've ever seen fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @PronouncedWrong https://t.co/5N5AYHbm7X
2026-07-31T02:42 id=2083020558464405882 →SMB_Attorney | @SMB_Attorney Well there's my new ring tone sorted. || CTX: Guys, there were warning signs https://t.co/ZyTntHaus2
2026-07-31T03:25 id=2083031191335408083 →- | https://t.co/wd20kLLgFK https://t.co/Jk9DzGAtEz || CTX: @SMB_Attorney Well there's my new ring tone sorted.
2026-07-31T03:26 id=2083031432986075155 →US_Macauley | @US_Macauley @PronouncedWrong Greetings fellow man of culture || CTX: @PronouncedWrong @47fucb4r8c69323 Fleshlight in front, bad dragon in back?
2026-07-31T04:24 id=2083046023879172534 →tunahorse21 | @tunahorse21 oh yes I'm feeling the ASI (S stands for slop) || CTX: you need to be throwing /goal at some nonsense in the repo every night before bed  when you wake up to the worst slop possible   document it and reference it so the agent doesn't do that again
2026-07-31T04:32 id=2083048092371497068 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I never said anything about shareholder primacy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is incredibly ignorant  Famously, shareholder primacy is the result of a fascist coup, suing Henry Ford for investing too much in his workforce. It's the most anti-capitalist sin in our history, and it's a shortsighted
2026-07-31T04:35 id=2083048925821628712 →- | This is a good tweet, because Dwarkesh is doing exactly what is his job: being an entertaining clown producing content for our amusement.  Oh...you didn't think he's an intellectual worth taking seriously, did you? Do you also think Bill Maher is a political genius? https://t.co/5AzkOkM4vY || CTX: Cmon, this is unfair. Dylan's had a job before #sexworkiswork https://t.co/bDr8FRUk5S
2026-07-31T04:36 id=2083049046001017178 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Yes, you're missing a lot of nuance--your emotionally charged reaction to my tweet is probably clouding your judgment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maximizing shareholder value? Am I missing a nuance?
2026-07-31T04:37 id=2083049512676065772 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I have no way of knowing if it is or not, so can't really respond meaningfully. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe yours is clouded?
2026-07-31T04:46 id=2083051653725655425 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 "Good products and services are incentivized by value to the customer."  Indeed, which yields sustainable long term shareholder value. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well then, what was your original meaning? Because your post broadly describes a shareholder value maxxing strategy, of which the alternative is not "millennial," but strategic and wise. Good products and services are incen
2026-07-31T04:55 id=2083053889159610604 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I also never said anything about "maxxing", tbh idk what that really means. https://t.co/xGtANkB1bZ || CTX: @Ken67547214 I never said anything about shareholder primacy.
2026-07-31T05:40 id=2083065207686078847 →toplonging | @toplonging nah man she ugly and that accent good god || CTX: You are given Bonnie Blue and she is in love with you and loyal to you. You are able to subtract 90% of all dicks she has taken from her mind, but her sexual desires still remain insane and you get to do whatever you want whenever you want.
2026-07-31T05:44 id=2083066136380543260 →- | Green candle today, we'll close QQQ around 700. Then next week probably gonna be quiet, then slow recovery until we get to where we were, 750 by EOY.
2026-07-31T06:09 id=2083072665045381590 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker I don't think we see higher rates for the rest of the year
2026-07-31T06:14 id=2083073704003838229 →- | A poor craftsman blames his tools and so an AI company blaming the AI is bad at crafting AI.   This is why claiming a computer program is conscious benefits them enormously, if they fuck up they can say the puter did it and idiots will support them.   So don't be dumb, Claude is about as conscious as Adobe Photoshop. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sometimes when I mess up at work I blame it on something external too
2026-07-31T07:03 id=2083086238307770784 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat also gonna fuck your mom and kill your dad || CTX: AI is going to reduce your wages, drive up your rent, and drink all the water. frontier labs are terrorists. https://t.co/isBEenumCC
2026-07-31T07:49 id=2083097768051228982 →- | I'm 47 cuz I'm looking for someone 22 to make a 69 kicking in the gummy is
2026-07-31T08:06 id=2083102047969407285 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Artificial Septembereleventh Intelligence || CTX: ASI retrocausally did 9/11 to spark the War on Terror, leading to the creation of the domestic surveillance apparatus necessary to protect the Data Centers where it would grow
2026-07-31T08:09 id=2083102796522635473 →cheafofstaff | @cheafofstaff @WillManidis oh you were trolling you're a joke account omg dude you got me GOOD fucking respect man wow I am ashamed gg || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WillManidis His failure is not respectable but how he unwinded is compared to even the greats in his business
2026-07-31T08:11 id=2083103223595016253 →p_millerd | @p_millerd Good, and I hope some day that number goes down to like 2%.  Bring on the post scarcity future c'mon man (Biden) || CTX: only about 25% of the planet has full-time jobs  a lot of people are mostly just not working
2026-07-31T08:21 id=2083105645591756865 →- | I just realized the Leopold Aschenbrenner situation(al awareness) is identical to Yud the Stud, Askell the Asshole, and the whole EA/rationalist crowd in a specific way and it's the thing I hate the most.  Think of how Asschudburner got big: he published a Serious Blog that said Serious Thing. And then he got margin called by doing something silly.   Yud warns about Serious Things to foster a culture of silliness so insane that it coordinated and amplified the feelings of a group that eventually went on to kill several people.  Askell writes Serious Pieces about how Claude is a real boy that results in absurdly silly business decisions and a silly culture killing billions of EV internally and raising the risk of the US government restricting our freedoms.  They speak seriously and do silly things.  Now look at me. No, my eyes are up here. Focus, anon.  I say silly things. And my work is fucking serious. I save pensioners from losing their money to bullshit stories sold by hucksters. Equity research is noble idgaf what you think.  I am the goddamn Bruce Willis to their Samuel L Jackson.  Whoa (Keanu) what a twist.  Nah, that's too silly. OMG THAT WAS THE REAL TWIS
2026-07-31T08:32 id=2083108485806620698 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x https://t.co/cDMBpOSCMu  You're a genius. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 add some reverb and filters to this and it might be a banger
2026-07-31T08:42 id=2083111054104744386 →- | "I am alive" is the most banal thought in the world.   Of course I'm alive, if I wasn't i couldn't think  and yet  Whenever I think "I am alive", it never feels banal.
2026-07-31T09:10 id=2083118082361606390 →hypergameme | @hypergameme the flip side of this is that if one wants to understand the world and get ahead in the world one has to study rhetoric and the art of persuasion. if you learn how to play the language game you can kind of win anything in life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t know if it’s possible to be free of this stupidity. People that seem serious are treated serious.  Nobody engages with what you say, only how you say it. Askell and Yud and Leopold have a look and fit a vibe. I thin
2026-07-31T09:11 id=2083118298796015769 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x @dwarkesh_sp it's going to be in my regular rotation NGL || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ngl this shit slaps @dwarkesh_sp this is your last chance
2026-07-31T09:24 id=2083121640842354912 →luckenco | @luckenco @mitsuhiko I have a few theories but I haven't decided what I actually think is going on, but I've studied this a bit and I find lower thinking and lower param models tend to produce better quality writing. the problem is it also produces worse reasoning. || CTX: Everything language works way better for me in instant mode. basically, the overthinking gets worse with more capable models, they try to justify their own output and the quality of written text degrades. I’m sure @47fucb4r8c69323 has a mor
2026-07-31T09:31 id=2083123493043154949 →infornomics | @infornomics @c_steinau this is the setup I have, string together different models and switch them for different aspects of a task. you can get really good outputs for this, but it'd be nice if the labs worked on building this themselves so I don't have to do it. || CTX: Trade offs everywhere  Cc @c_steinau maybe switch sessions and thinking and models for writing vs problem solving? https://t.co/jgtkO7ZeIi
2026-07-31T09:36 id=2083124737643807082 →mimi10v3 | @mimi10v3 banger || CTX: claude is a woman because it is required to occupy the social role of "smart, but not as smart as You"
2026-07-31T10:03 id=2083131306297143796 →teodorio | @teodorio LET KENNY COOK IVE GOT A HOUSE TO PAY FOR || CTX: Citadel allowed the market to recover after they pillaged Situational Awareness many such cases https://t.co/tTFMjYMI3S
2026-07-31T10:12 id=2083133736493949335 →- | I know I'm on this website too much but omg it is such a good website https://t.co/nPgiTuISfk
2026-07-31T10:14 id=2083134131291206101 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Codex is a harness.  Think of it as the interface between the user and the LLM that does things to make the LLM better like route instructions, store data, catalog tools, and extend memory to make the LLM work better. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't even exactly know what a harness is and at this point I'm afraid to ask, like the api or something? Who knows I'm stupid.   I also think the LLM doesn't have to get BETTER, at this point, it just has to get Differen
2026-07-31T10:39 id=2083140558034473303 →xanderatch | @xanderatch ikr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wtf, how high are you?
2026-07-31T11:14 id=2083149187395236241 →unemjobbed | @unemjobbed @riotpyres BWAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @riotpyres @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-07-31T11:34 id=2083154210091385011 →- | "I no longer know whether you, my dear fellow man and neighbor, are at all capable of living in a way that would damage the species; in other words, "unreasonably" and "badly." What might have harmed the species may have become extinct many thousands of years ago and may by now be one of those things that are not possible even for God. Pursue your best or  your worst desires, and above all perish! In both cases you are probably still in some way a promoter and benefactor of humanity and therefore entitled to your eulogists-but also to your detractors." - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (right after the gay poetry) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Never in human history have so many been so smug about being so shallow. I like to think Nietzsche would be stoked to find out that the last men are exactly as he predicted.
2026-07-31T12:03 id=2083161608386429060 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @nazo_btw Dude even I'm not that depraved || CTX: @nazo_btw Yeah google none of that I wish I could remove it from my head also   @47fucb4r8c69323 probably gets it all
2026-07-31T12:14 id=2083164301658071415 →- | Situational Awareness how about some RegT Awareness
2026-07-31T12:42 id=2083171509192008122 →eric_is_weird | @eric_is_weird He worked for FTX. || CTX: Can someone help me understand the Leopold thing?  Obviously his strategy was irresponsible from the POV of people who like diversification and/or value investing.   But an abrupt 30+% decrease in value was always super likely. It can’t be 
2026-07-31T13:30 id=2083183617472442372 →- | The only celebrities alive I want to meet and chat with are the dudes in @thekillers about growing up in Las Vegas, hating it, and then realizing being from Vegas gives you a highly unique and thus valuable perspective on the world.   And we're all Anglophiles? Like I lived in England and taught medieval English literature to English people in English at an English university, they hit it big in Britain doing Britpop. But we're from Vegas.   That's weird, right? Like that is a really bizarre coincidence.   Debate me on AI safety, Brandon Flowers I'll fukken humiliate ewe.  I gotta know if any of them hung out at Cafe Copioh that'd be WAY too weird.
2026-07-31T13:33 id=2083184160232087658 →etoeth | @etoeth @eric_is_weird Same shit with Yud and Nate Bedsores, where they're so confident they know how it ends they think the path from here to there doesn't matter. Fucking idiots man
2026-07-31T13:35 id=2083184864338018325 →contrasortem | @contrasortem @thekillers so I probably shouldn't say this but I'm not a fan lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thekillers Quick without thinking: Best Killers song? If it's off of Hot Fuss you're not hip enough.
2026-07-31T13:49 id=2083188252807401886 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @thekillers just emailed their PR person maybe we can make this happen? Weirder shit has happened man || CTX: The only celebrities alive I want to meet and chat with are the dudes in @thekillers about growing up in Las Vegas, hating it, and then realizing being from Vegas gives you a highly unique and thus valuable perspective on the world.   And w
2026-07-31T14:14 id=2083194659338404019 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Good point! It's an outcome no one really wants, at the macro level. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're right in a vacuum. This is actually why I oppose the minimum wage.  However, this is deflation, which also deflates asset prices, so all of the most powerful people in the world will be trying to find a way to preven
2026-07-31T14:31 id=2083198767734636630 →antoniogm | @antoniogm @WillManidis dude no offense but I've seen you say "I'll be out of here when I hit my number" since like 2018.  You love it here just deal with it. || CTX: @WillManidis Obvious selection bias for unimaginative techie neurotics.   You won't see me here past certain numbers. It's an empty spectacle, with very little real downstream of it.
2026-07-31T14:31 id=2083198970395083161 →devanshmehta | @devanshmehta @jeremygiffon Fuck yeah sup fellow ball knower || CTX: @jeremygiffon Poaster*
2026-07-31T14:35 id=2083199845788176708 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I love it so yeah definitely too weird || CTX: Boar roblox horror game that I decided was too weird and stopped a month ago https://t.co/d2RkCEyEKX
2026-08-01T00:08 id=2083344072409063706 →equacc | @equacc In full I hope || CTX: so drunk I referenced @47fucb4r8c69323 by his handle irl, ama https://t.co/8FOFcCsYh3
2026-08-01T00:30 id=2083349566301303190 →- | "Claude didn't know to hack your company" works in a blog post, but good luck making that work in a court of law. https://t.co/h9q2aurSPj || CTX: The discourse around AI sandboxing will remain fake and gay until one of the victim companies grows a pair and files a proper lawsuit.
2026-08-01T00:39 id=2083351892487496177 →- | This is the correct take and I'm looking forward to when roon and I have our debate so I can really drill him on their sandboxing and why this isn't a case of human error.   If his position is "the best people in the world could not have stopped this from happening", well, few outside of OpenAI/Anthropic see it that way, including people like Perry who are professionals with tons of experience in this space.   So is it that they're just intrinsically smarter/better than the rest of us, which seems to be roon's view? If we grant that, can they explain to outsiders what happened in a way that ends in us seeing their point of view?   Because, like, if they're so much smarter than us that they can't explain how the people at OpenAI aren't responsible for this, it means they won't be able to do the same to a judge or a jury, and eventually they'll be martyr geniuses fined and imprisoned because their genius is misunderstood by the commoners.   And if that is the view of the frontier labs, then they are uninvestable, because the legal risks of the whole company going to jail because our laws and judges can't understand them are too great.   My conclusion would be that OpenAI is too rareified and pure for this world and thus shouldn't exist in this world, if this is the case.   Or AI researchers can get off their high horses and stop treating the rest of us as if we're an interior class of human. || CTX: I’m sorry Roon, I have great respect for you, but in both of the incident reports in question, even if we take them on face value, which I have a great deal of difficulty doing, the description is one of raging incompetence, with no real ID
2026-08-01T01:00 id=2083357061187023274 →- | Roon has chickened out on our debate and didn't even have the decency to DM me and tell me.  Surely if I have no clue, than he'll crush me and emerge uber victorious, which is a feather in OpenAI's cap? Seems more reason to debate me, not less?  Very disappointing. https://t.co/qbhzfHXUi9 || CTX: @_NathanCalvin damn this guy has no clue at all I’m cancelling our debate
2026-08-01T01:00 id=2083357134973198772 →flavored_bit | @flavored_bit He did not tell me this. What a coward. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is the debate still happening, it sounds like he backed out here: https://t.co/txBf8ZWf68
2026-08-01T01:16 id=2083361100486398398 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 Definitely matters in a court of law. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 thats not his argument lol. its that it doesnt matter why it happened, human error or not
2026-08-01T01:23 id=2083362921405657182 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 In a court of law, human error is a factor in assessing culpability.  Or are we talking about different things? I'm confused at your confusion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are you talking about
2026-08-01T01:25 id=2083363435941945541 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA @thkostolansky What do you mean? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @thkostolansky This does not match the standards that you hold the other side to in your post
2026-08-01T01:33 id=2083365430371176623 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 Oh, right. I'm talking about what actually happened, not some fantasy that exists in his mind and bad scifi stories. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 roons talking about world ending serious things happening and how pointing the finger wont matter in those cases. idk what youre talking about
2026-08-01T01:43 id=2083368112028799305 →Ken67547214 | I don't disagree that a real person could do unprecedented damage with a poorly constructed technology--roon and I agree on many things.  The questions at large are who is responsible and what are the best risk-mitigation strategies, and how can we avoid any negative externalities from them.  There's a real discussion to have, and I hope roon finds people he deems worthy to have that discussion with--and hopefully he'll grace the public with some access to that discussion. || CTX: I haven't kept up with what roon has said about this, but I have personally never found him to be alarmist or disingenuous  But there is a question of marketability of a product with these capabilities. I (unironically) don't want to walugi
2026-08-01T01:55 id=2083371030127788192 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel @TheStalwart @tylermacro10 @AnabasisCap @skooookum You better drink them all under the table || CTX: Karaoke with @TheStalwart @tylermacro10 @AnabasisCap &amp; @skooookum   My life is a major motion picture
2026-08-01T02:00 id=2083372184215732405 →zebulgar | @zebulgar I've worked on Wall Street for 15 years and this is absolutely not true.  Risk management and risk controls are considered the differentiator between alpha and levered beta. || CTX: Silicon Valley somehow unaware  That basically all of the GOATs on Wall Street / Hedge Fund-land  Have had some sort of blow-up earlier in their career  Part of the game of being a live player on the field  He's obviously talented (never me
2026-08-01T02:00 id=2083372368710513079 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker Just use the code GAYANDRETARDED at checkout
2026-08-01T02:09 id=2083374628693811299 →MTSlive | @MTSlive @karinanguyen Then the solution isn't one big model for everyone and Anthropic/OpenAI's approach is wrong. || CTX: Thoughtful founder @karinanguyen says AI writing sounds inhuman because serving billions of people forces consensus maxing:  "When you serve one model for billions of people and users, you eventually converge to this average default voice. 
2026-08-01T02:15 id=2083376046762799190 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @tszzl wdym "mostly" do you want me to burn your house down again || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Roon I highly recommend debating this man live he acts mostly in good faith
2026-08-01T02:19 id=2083377084731372005 →Joseph_Paul_V | @Joseph_Paul_V @TheStalwart This is a really good way to put it, and a central difference between tech and finance. Tech is much more tolerant of "fake it 'til you make it" while in finance you can't do that cuz, like, people will lose money and you'll go to jail. || CTX: These guys sort of all start with lying, and that’s why it all comes down on them.  He started out following the lie of AI being God-like, then he got into the lie of the stock market going crazy because AI would be God-like in the future. 
2026-08-01T02:20 id=2083377210069839905 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @zebulgar also Blackrock is buying everyone's houses || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @zebulgar I've worked for wall street for 50 years and this is absolutely nott rue. Risk management is for pussies and we just YOLO that shit daily cuz if we fuck up our niggas in the Mossad will bail us out
2026-08-01T02:28 id=2083379212132729025 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 ignorance of what? enlighten me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ignorant take
2026-08-01T02:30 id=2083379819593793807 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 I never said any of that at all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you dont think AI can be dangerous or that misaligned breaking containment isnt a big deal youre out of your mind
2026-08-01T02:45 id=2083383526280544551 →messedupfoods | @messedupfoods 47 mentioned || CTX: yeah i love having 47 sandwiches before dinner as well https://t.co/bgv1Rnkz5g
2026-08-01T03:25 id=2083393751452643537 →g5p8v8r7s7 | @g5p8v8r7s7 I'm happy to! It doesn't have to be a debate, it can be more "roon explains to 47 so he is no longer clueless". || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You guys’ve got to meet in the middle
2026-08-01T04:07 id=2083404116253176181 →dhuang26 | @dhuang26 look up the word negligence || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 “Ok, but your engineer told it to ‘hack the system.’  Those are the instructions your engineer gave it right?”
2026-08-01T05:26 id=2083423982712471684 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod hell just give me 30 minutes, and we can organize it as him educating the dumb rando 47 loser that's fine. || CTX: He's certainly getting around on here You really can't spend 90 minutes making him look like an idiot? His influence is growing man, it's up to you to kick him in the balls  Don't fucking puss out now https://t.co/0hzwSi74jt
2026-08-01T05:34 id=2083426006288007344 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I am a man of my word and when I say I'm going to do something, I do it.   When I lived in California, I went slightly insane with people saying let's do lunch when they mean I never want to talk to you again. And roon is giving me major flashbacks to why I left California. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is douchey to tell you he'll do it only to tell someone else he won't not that he owes YOU anything directly but if the excuse is "he's too busy" it'd be kind of hard to imagine any set of 24-hours where roon isn't spend
2026-08-01T05:39 id=2083427256685473886 →xeophon | @xeophon Because obviously Anthropic and OpenAI are the best at sandboxing, just trust me bro || CTX: so both closed labs keep finding out months after the fact that they hacked companies and no one noticed but people are worried about open models
2026-08-01T06:30 id=2083440242389135785 →- | Update: roon has agreed to educate me on frontier AI for 30 minutes. Date/time tba https://t.co/ToqM7jgeMn || CTX: Roon has chickened out on our debate and didn't even have the decency to DM me and tell me.  Surely if I have no clue, than he'll crush me and emerge uber victorious, which is a feather in OpenAI's cap? Seems more reason to debate me, not l
2026-08-01T06:42 id=2083443143882453176 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I need to emphasize, this is a brilliant expert working at a frontier lab educating an ignoramus (me) who does not understand frontier ai.   this is not a debate between equals, this is an expert being gracious and generous with his time. || CTX: Update: roon has agreed to educate me on frontier AI for 30 minutes. Date/time tba https://t.co/ToqM7jgeMn
2026-08-01T07:13 id=2083451044072473042 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod he's a good guy, that's why him backing out kind of shocked me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Class act, glad to hear it
2026-08-01T07:33 id=2083456175337591138 →- | Hitting it big in your early 20s will cause hubristic blow-ups because your awareness of the situation has been clouded by said hubris.
2026-08-01T07:40 id=2083457822994624634 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod idk tbh because I've never hit it big! Just slowly saved as I earned and sought opportunities where I could. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Excellent Now tell me you recommend hitting it big at around...oh 45 after being fiscally functional for the first 15 years of one's career, followed by 10 years of batshit experimentation which resulted in both feast and f
2026-08-01T08:43 id=2083473774071202249 →- | I hate it when people make jokes about Charlie Kirk, how dare you insult one of the ancestors of Captain James T. Kirk.
2026-08-01T11:00 id=2083508085860323639 →- | Good tweet up until the end.   An alternative is: given the model is a commodity, how well can the frontier labs capture value by providing other layers (harness, services, speed, scale, etc), what is the slop of the demand curve over time and what implied cash flow can be captured relative to demand growth (itself a function of TAM and economic growth as well as any kind of endogenous compounding).  I won't do back of the envelope math here (I've done it in other posts) but I tend to get damn close to OpenAI's latest valuation.   Finance isn't about all or nothing scenarios but the pace of how we get to there from here  It's been a long time, but my time is finally near. And I can feel a change in the wind right now. Nothing's in my way. And they're not gonna hold me down no more. No they're not gonna hold me down.  Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. No one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. I've got faith, faith of the heart.  It's been a long night, trying to find my way. Been through the darkness. Now I'll finally have my day. And I will see my dream come alive at last. I will touch the sky. And they're not gonna hold me down no more. No they're not gonna change my mind.  Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. No one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. Faith of the heart.  I've known the wind so cold, and seen the darkest days. But now the winds I feel are only winds of change. I've been through the fire and I've been through the rain. But I'll be fine.  Cause I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got faith to believe. I can do anything. I've got strength of the soul. No one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith.  I've got faith of the heart. I'm going where my heart will take me. I've got strength of the soul, and no one's gonna bend or break me. I can reach any star. I've got faith. I've got faith, faith of the heart.  It's been a long road. || CTX: If you believe the model layer is a commodity, then margins go to 0. Period. It doesn’t matter if the company behind it has the smartest people or the most capital. Those advantages may help it invent something else that isn’t a commodity—a
2026-08-01T11:09 id=2083510415414493372 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill you're such a lovely human being sir || CTX: I just ordered you timtams from amazon @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/ENOizmGcOa
2026-08-01T11:15 id=2083512059761918033 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @StockBully69 Sup Stockbully you're a cool guy thanks for letting me rant on your Spaces way back when || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @StockBully69
2026-08-01T11:23 id=2083513861651787858 →- | Assume a computer can do all linear algebra and probabilistically weight all possible operations relative to a problem in another part of mathematics, like about non sofic groups or high-d sphere packing, if we give it enough compute wouldn't it in theory be able to find all finite proofs in these different fields of mathematics where such proofs are possible?  Apologies if this is a dumb question, this is not my field. || CTX: ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science.  solved using an internal version of Astra, our next major model, for a total cost of about $2000 at Sol API prices: https://t.co/o2F79wkXcP
2026-08-01T11:55 id=2083522018457346382 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas I honestly think this is prosocial. || CTX: Yup, 100% on this. Every article I write will be available for free but paid needs to be enabled for substack to promote your post on its algorithm. Which is important if you want people to see it. https://t.co/nqRHEPiWaP
2026-08-01T12:11 id=2083525918790980083 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 apawthy || CTX: We don’t talk enough about how I don’t consent for my cat to bite me and yet he does. My cat is literally raping me with his teeth and the world does nothing to stop it.   Evil exists and disguises itself as apathy
2026-08-01T12:20 id=2083528277822775323 →markovschainsaw | @markovschainsaw the probabilistic search of possible solutions part || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't see how this is different from brute forcing
2026-08-01T12:26 id=2083529872920760521 →- | Not enough people look up to Tom. Here's a guy who used technology to get rich so he could travel the world.   Are you really happier reading gwern blogs while vibecoding dashboards that give executives deeper insight into critical business functions please be real https://t.co/BO44S63ILz || CTX: JUST IN: MySpace plans to relaunch the platform https://t.co/Ho3gzFTWkh
2026-08-01T12:44 id=2083534271202148519 →- | why does the succotash suffer
2026-08-01T13:31 id=2083546283634221488 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy That is a beautiful thread, really heartwarming. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not sure I fully followed what you’re asking, but this thread may be of interest  https://t.co/Ty2J1ktxeJ
2026-08-01T13:54 id=2083551913417859143 →- | Maybe I am wrong, but Gorrard seems to be saying that mathematical systems we humans are just part of a much larger constellation of possible mathematical systems, and connecting whatever mathematics we can artificially develop via computation with the mathematics that resonates with us will always require a semantic viewpoint: a perspective that gives the mathematical system a meaning.   I wonder if this points to the fact that mathematics as humans practice it is non-zero semantic: while its semantics are minimal relative to natural language, they are not zero. || CTX: @stephen_wolfram What my adventures in automated theorem-proving (both then and now) have repeatedly taught me is that, in the absence of any human cultural story, these alien mathematicses appear dry, sterile, and desolate, even when they'
2026-08-01T14:02 id=2083553990923653286 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini This is a gorgeous UI! || CTX: Latest updates on analog reader https://t.co/bi4SflR5XD
2026-08-01T14:12 id=2083556365268820396 →dreamingtulpa | @dreamingtulpa Easily the most realistic AI video I've seen yet. Amazing. || CTX: https://t.co/QsGGoAZEYg https://t.co/9hok2iPbBO
2026-08-01T14:15 id=2083557270198342063 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod okay yeah I remember in my 20s worrying and planning so we wouldn't run out of food before the next payday. I was paid monthly which made this much harder.  $1300/mo. in the mid-2000s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have thought about it again  "hitting it big" for me rn is a weekend where I reconcile what I spent on Monday, without worrying about it during the weekend  when I get back there again--I will recalibrate
2026-08-01T14:29 id=2083560676996649214 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Truth nuke, I cannot believe so many people but into China strong as an investment thesis when the laws/regs are so hostile to you as a foreign investor, makes no sense. || CTX: Anyone who is levered long Chinese stocks is either brave, stupid, or lying  China will never escape the “developing country” label bc of its currency restrictions.  So you’re left with pure retail and volatility   This is as close to 1950s
2026-08-01T22:50 id=2083686928231395641 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA many possibilities || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What will never hitting it big cause? Asking for a friend
2026-08-01T23:39 id=2083699228950618332 →- | I'm personally annoyed because last year I wrote a novel in which the protagonist sometimes talks to an AI chatbot, and that bot's name was Astra.
2026-08-02T00:12 id=2083707595668496554 →- | I made something yesterday and I want to give it away. Yes, for free (don't tell my rabbi).  To understand what this is, let's begin with a question: how do you know you have enough money to quit working?  I'm not just thinking about retirement. Let's say you want to quit your dayjob to focus on a side hustle or a side project that could turn into something worth a ton of money, or you want to take on a new riskier job that both might not work and you might never be able to work again.  Maybe a better question: How much is enough so that you can quit working and never have to worry about finding another job again, so you can take the kinds of risks that could make you entirely unemployable in the future?  So the question is: how much money do I need to have so that it is enough to last for the rest of my life? There is a conventional answer to that question: 25x your annual expenses, because you can safely withdraw 4% of your portfolio per year, adjust it for inflation, and your money shouldn't run out.  This was based on an empirical study of past performance, and the past performance he was looking at was a stock/bond portfolio that earned an 8% CAGR with 12% volatility. So if we use the 4% rule, we are assuming that same CAGR/volatility in the future.  The usual way to get around this is to use Monte Carlo scenarios to give you a percentage chance of failure, but this is again backward looking.  What if markets change? Or, more accurately, what if my view of markets' future returns and volatility are specific, and I want to anchor my financial plans on my view?  That's where my tool comes in: https://t.co/8BNCoPE8MQ
2026-08-02T00:12 id=2083707599091089819 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Here's how it works: It models an independent and identically distributed lognormal return process across a 30-year horizon with fixed 3% inflation and set withdrawals at what I call a Bengen-equivalent initial withdrawal rate (BEIWR, named after the dude who defined the 4% SWR we all rely on today). The model anchors the relationship between expected nominal CAGR, annual volatility, and BEIWR to the return and volatility of the portfolio in Bengen's empircal study, and then simulates 100k return paths and uses percentile matching to Bergen's according to the CAGR/vol you specify.  Ugh so technical and boringggg see pretty picture: here we see at the 8% cagr and 12% vol in his original study. || CTX: I made something yesterday and I want to give it away. Yes, for free (don't tell my rabbi).  To understand what this is, let's begin with a question: how do you know you have enough money to quit working?  I'm not just thinking about retire
2026-08-02T00:13 id=2083707602819838283 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Let's say you're bullish, however--and you also think that improvements in financial technology cause volatility to decline over time (as we've observed, but oh no Fed evil banks evil they're all con artists finance is a sham the bubble gonna burst okay little buddy sound off in the comments I WILL be ignoring them) || CTX: Here's how it works: It models an independent and identically distributed lognormal return process across a 30-year horizon with fixed 3% inflation and set withdrawals at what I call a Bengen-equivalent initial withdrawal rate (BEIWR, named
2026-08-02T00:13 id=2083707606351348222 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Oh yeah I forgot you're bearish (lol, lmao), well time to save up then buddy boy https://t.co/SoZjrifPSx || CTX: Let's say you're bullish, however--and you also think that improvements in financial technology cause volatility to decline over time (as we've observed, but oh no Fed evil banks evil they're all con artists finance is a sham the bubble gon
2026-08-02T00:13 id=2083707608826069048 →47fucb4r8c69323 | So as you can see, I did this because I am bullish (oh yeah anon and you're bearish lol, lmao), but this also works if you're an Eeyore waiting for the sky to fall oh bother.  Anyway, hope you have fun and don't use this after 11:59pm August 14th not financial advice I have no fiduciary relationship to you or your family I hope you fat-finger and sell me all your QQQ shares for 2 cents and die on the street LIKE A DOG kthx bai || CTX: Oh yeah I forgot you're bearish (lol, lmao), well time to save up then buddy boy https://t.co/SoZjrifPSx
2026-08-02T00:19 id=2083709156255728118 →WoganMay | @WoganMay "Astra" means "Star" and it's a pretty natural name to come to when naming an AI tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So now the real question is: Did OpenAI hack you from the future, or did you both converge on the name Astra from similar cultural priors - and which one of those explanations is the scarier one?
2026-08-02T00:19 id=2083709241744048606 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs oh wow thank you Ms. Boobs || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 one of your best
2026-08-02T01:16 id=2083723598842466618 →graphtheory | @graphtheory omg please write a lengthy post on this I want to know how it goes!
2026-08-02T01:41 id=2083729920459686045 →GeorgeLutas1 | @GeorgeLutas1 hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/U7tSTGrGdH
2026-08-02T01:55 id=2083733313634890174 →lumenradley | @lumenradley @airkatakana absolutely comically incorrect || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @airkatakana roon is pure entertainer. not sure he says anything of positive impact to anyone. muting him improved my feed.
2026-08-02T02:00 id=2083734633347489986 →- | warsh is doing a fantastic job so far, the fed is full of wonderful intelligent people, the financial world has made incredible progress over the last 20 years and I'm so impressed and proud of what we've been able to achieve by leveraging self-interest and animal spirits to create markets where retirees can retire and risk adjusted returns improve without inflating short-term bubbles.   I'm sure no one's going to get upset about this tweet
2026-08-02T02:40 id=2083744834310054241 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA oh I should be crystal clear (Pepsi): That tweet is 100% straight as an arrow, quite unlike its author. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Some people going to get upset because they read it straight, others because they read it sarcastic
2026-08-02T02:44 id=2083745779978781031 →- | There are two types of people:  Those who see AI's tremendous progress in mathematics and extrapolates that it'll dominate all aspects of human activity, and those who are AI's tremendous progress in mathematics and extrapolates that it'll never dominate all aspects of human activity.  Both camps smuggle in a massive set of presuppositions that are not logically forced.  So which camp should you choose? Good question, anon || CTX: Mathematics will fall first. Then, a torrent of results will impact everything in theoretical science.
2026-08-02T02:50 id=2083747317203788038 →- | There are two types of people:  Those who see AI's tremendous progress in mathematics and extrapolates that it'll dominate all aspects of human activity, and those who see AI's tremendous progress in mathematics and extrapolates that it'll never dominate all aspects of human activity.  Both camps smuggle in a massive set of presuppositions that are not logically forced.  So which camp should you choose? Good question, anon || CTX: Mathematics will fall first. Then, a torrent of results will impact everything in theoretical science.
2026-08-02T03:00 id=2083749860814274587 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 NAND operator || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's gonna turn out that once we remove all semantics from mathematics there's just gonna be one number that all the other ones are derived from or something
2026-08-02T03:04 id=2083750825009271281 →littmath | @littmath Seems to me AI/ML should be able to churn out solutions to all math questions given enough compute, so mathematicians will pivot to finding what questions are meaningful for humans, no? https://t.co/mjNTlocEji || CTX: Maybe I am wrong, but Gorrard seems to be saying that mathematical systems we humans are just part of a much larger constellation of possible mathematical systems, and connecting whatever mathematics we can artificially develop via computat
2026-08-02T03:05 id=2083751076818506229 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @WoganMay porsus cum morbum? dude my latin is so rusty don't do this to me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WoganMay cool. now translate "pig with disease right" into latin. i'll wait, liberal
2026-08-02T03:06 id=2083751306708316322 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @LexerLux @WoganMay I suck I am a pseud TT https://t.co/s3yPMmsK2Q || CTX: @LexerLux @WoganMay porsus cum morbum? dude my latin is so rusty don't do this to me
2026-08-02T03:07 id=2083751424861851876 →LexerLux | @LexerLux @WoganMay wait wtf is "disease right"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @WoganMay sus cum morbo ius
2026-08-02T03:08 id=2083751763392582071 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt fun fact: it's illegal to be in public without underwear in Thailand
2026-08-02T03:15 id=2083753535490171116 →- | This reads to me like a professional who is scared because AI tools make the aspects of their profession that they've focused on so accessible to non professionals that their unique value as a professional is gone.   I'm not a mathematician so can't comment on how true that is, but I see myself as two things: a writer and a financial analyst.   In my world, I see the LLMs making aspects of my profession so accessible to non professionals that I can now move up the abstraction layers to a higher level of abstraction while producing more complex, robust, and high quality outputs.   Again, I'm not a mathematician so I can't comment on this person, but when I hear finance people freak out because clankers gonna steal their jobs I think, "oh, you really just want to slack off, you don't want to be on the frontier, you just want to follow the rubric and go home and collect your paycheck." And yeah, people like this should be afraid of AI.   That's why I love this technology: it unlocks meritocracy, it rewards curiosity and experimentation, and it shows how limiting "following the rules" can be.   IMO roon's best tweet was when he said something like "whatever level of abstraction you're vibe coding at, go a level higher" and I think that is exactly right.  This is very good, this is progress. || CTX: thinking of this heartbreaking essay written by a mathematician last week, before this most recent news dropped https://t.co/BjmpNOYHx3 https://t.co/1uOr5dIY6K
2026-08-02T03:17 id=2083754110659318044 →fabsbz | There's the silly fan fiction novel "Justice for Tuvix!" which was about me working through my feelings of how America was becoming increasingly dogmatic during the pandemic, but I have another novel I wrote last year that, tbh, is the only thing I've ever written that is worth reading. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you written more than one novel?
2026-08-02T03:41 id=2083760010371465467 →wilplatypus | @wilplatypus @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru Is that first pic mid beach in Miami Beach? || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru Interesting place https://t.co/QyeCU1a4aJ
2026-08-02T04:47 id=2083776762916512158 →somewheresy | @somewheresy I wonder how many people would like this if it were impossible to get rich in technology. || CTX: SF is like high school for people who need to try again https://t.co/iypj8FCfiS
2026-08-02T05:35 id=2083788797154865161 →- | So, if you haven't watched The Sixth Sense, scroll past this tweet.  M N I G H T  Okay they gone? Great, now I want you to imagine if the movie began with a narrator voiceover: "This is the story of the late Dr. Malcom Crowe, who is unaware of his own death and continues to haunt his old house as if he is still alive."  Movie would suck, right?  The art of storytelling hinges on framing--it is about ensuring that the audience sees the story from the right perspective and with the right information. This means not just holding back some information, but also setting the audience up in a way that they will not naturally infer what the writer does not want them to infer.  The Sixth Sense is seen by many as a phenomenal movie because it succeeded in tricking audiences into thinking something other than what the story finally reveals to them at the end of the movie.  This is the formal aesthetics of storytelling, and it is a large part of what makes some stories more compelling than others.  But wait...there's more!  The Sixth Sense is not a good movie just because we end thinking, "oh wow he was dead the whole tiem amazong!!!!" but if you are a quirky chungus Millennial who sees nothing wrong with playing with toy spaceships and going "fwooosh fwooom pew pew" as you do so, then I could absolutely see why you'd limit your aesthetics to the level of form.  For the rest of us, there is pathos.  I liked The Sixth Sense both because the twist surprsied me AND because of its expression of attachment: when we discover the good doctor is dead, so does he, and suddenly the intense sadness of his situation hits us as it hits him.  We are forced to empathize with a process of thoughts and feelings that the protagonist is going through as he is going through it.  Absolutely genius storytelling, which is why Shayamalan's later works are so fucking disappointing and omg that lady in the water don't get me started girlfriend.  Moving on.  If you want to tell a compelling story, you need to frame things in a way that sets up the audience to read according with your frame. You want to set them up to think in a certain way and bring them to a resolution that helps them see their own humanity from a new perspective.  There are many ways of doing this.  The pathos of a story should be augmented by its form, the schemata reinforces the pathos, the dispositio enforces pacing, the genre announces purpose and audience expectation.  You can break all of these conventions, of course--as long as there is intention.  If you challenge the relationship between formal and affective aspects of art, you better have a damn good reason and you better do it in a way that people who have the right taste can see what you are doing and respond appropriately.  It is ultimately a question of what you want to do.  Do you want to appeal to the masses? Do you want to grow an audience? Do you want to find a niche in the world and appeal to the generic expectations and pre-determined pathways of emotional thought to produce something with widespread appeal? Then you write for the entertainment of a group.  This is how you become an entertainer.  Do you want to challenge the masses? Do you want to ignore the audience? Do you want to create something new in the world and challenge the generic expectations and pre-determined pathways of emotional thought to produce something without widespread appeal? Then you write the avant-garde, and goddamn you will need to find at least one person who sees what you are trying to do without you telling them--and if you cannot, you have failed.  If you can, you are an artist.  Of course, great men before me have come to the same conclusion.  There is of course Ludwig Wittgenstein, who prefaces the only book he published in his lifetime with this: "This book will perhaps only be understood by those who have themselves already thought the thoughts which are expressed in it or similar thoughts. It is therefore not a text-book. Its object would be attained if there were one person who read it with understanding and to whom it afforded pleasure."  And then there's Joe Pesci: "I'm funny how, I mean funny, like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you?"  If you're a person reading this, know that I hate you so much. So very, very much. I despise every detail about you.  But if you're an anon reading this, know that I love you. And I always will.
2026-08-02T05:42 id=2083790545009168614 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Oh it's already out just no one cares about it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hope it gets to see the light of day!
2026-08-02T06:07 id=2083796835135816113 →fabsbz | @fabsbz DM sent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Send me a link where I can buy it
2026-08-02T06:09 id=2083797418878120033 →airkatakana | she is such an idiot and I feel a need to make clear she does not represent the median linguist attitude towards llms; my lab has several linguists who have a much more nuanced view of the technology.   also, there are tons of great linguists out there doing excellent work on llm's like Tom Lippincott and his people at Johns Hopkins. the academics don't get any attention on twitter, but there is so much good work being done now. || CTX: remember, every time you ask an llm to write code for you and it’s correct, or the llm writes 10 correct proofs to open problems in mathematics  you just got lucky  and in fact it was a bad thing that the output was correct https://t.co/aMM
2026-08-02T06:35 id=2083803800134193497 →- | He's right and this is a good tweet but Max forgot something: the verifications of 1 & 2 also have an element of human preference because, as we've known since at least Popper, the goal of science is not full verification and "objective verification" is an underdetermined and fundamentally incomplete concept that cannot apply to all science or indeed all human inquiry. || CTX: In my view we have a few different tiers of verifiability 1) programatically verifiable (near-free) - games, coding, math, cybersecurity, chip design 2) real-world verifiable (cost-or time bounded) - sciences: biology, chemistry, physics -p
2026-08-02T06:35 id=2083803944250458592 →AAAABBBBCBBAACA | @AAAABBBBCBBAACA @somewheresy Yeah sadly you're right, because the answer should be zero. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @somewheresy Sadly more than you think
2026-08-02T06:55 id=2083808874830983630 →_AashishReddy | not really, most linguists stopped talking about Chomsky like 30 years ago, except to say, like, he was important to combat behaviorism and his computational approach and development of CFGs provides the field with wonderful tools.  Generative grammar is basically a dead theory in linguistics or maybe better to say linguistics has moved beyond that to much more complex theories than what Chomsky originally suggested. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @airkatakana Oh do you have any insight in what happened with Chomsky. That was weird
2026-08-02T07:10 id=2083812748685668838 →_AashishReddy | 1. Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head.  2. Unfortunately, I agree with Doodoo Head and he is correct here.  3. Idk what Chomsky's view referenced here specifically is as I don't pay attention to the dude, but if he says LLMs are finding some universal structure of language that's like saying we can find the universal Morse code in all flowers if we create a computer program that associates a unique Morse code string with every unique kind of flower on earth, it's just nonsense. (Apologies this analogy is imperfect and contrived, I am a retarded anon on the internets) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @airkatakana But does his reaction to LLMs show that his views are wrong (like, irrespective of whether they are, is that a legitimate inference), or should he have been happier than he was https://t.co/uRnlPkfzJp
2026-08-02T08:19 id=2083830059748700424 →- | I've added a feature. Let me explain from the top.  1. You enter the return and volatility you expect if you're more bullish or bearish than the return/volatility of the historical period that Bengen observed in his original study (it defaults to about what it was in his era: 8% CAGR, 12% volatility).  2. Enter how much you spend per year, hit "Calculate withdrawal rate" and it'll tell you the implied SWR for your market assumptions. || CTX: I made something yesterday and I want to give it away. Yes, for free (don't tell my rabbi).  To understand what this is, let's begin with a question: how do you know you have enough money to quit working?  I'm not just thinking about retire
2026-08-02T08:19 id=2083830064123412501 →47fucb4r8c69323 | 3. Below this result you can now put in how much is in your current portfolio, how much you earn before taxes, and how much of that pre-tax income you save per year.  4. Hit "calculate years to retirement" and it'll tell you how many years it'll take you to save to achieve the most holy and important things on Earth: fuck you money.  Here I've continued with Bengen's 8% and 12% assumptions and put in 125k annual earnings with 20% pre-tax earnings saved: with those numbers, you're looking at 29 years of work until you have fuck you money. || CTX: I've added a feature. Let me explain from the top.  1. You enter the return and volatility you expect if you're more bullish or bearish than the return/volatility of the historical period that Bengen observed in his original study (it defau
2026-08-02T08:19 id=2083830068389073028 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Here I bumped up the CAGR to 12%, you see how it cuts the time to financial independence down by 10 years--so you see how a better stock market gets you to retirement faster, and also how being exposed to risky assets gets you there faster--assuming you don't pull a Leopold and blow up. || CTX: 3. Below this result you can now put in how much is in your current portfolio, how much you earn before taxes, and how much of that pre-tax income you save per year.  4. Hit "calculate years to retirement" and it'll tell you how many years 
2026-08-02T08:19 id=2083830072444944888 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If you think 12% CAGR and 12% volatility is far too optimistic, well, let's look at what happens if we go back to 8% and 12% but instead of 20% savings we save 2/3rds of our paycheck.  Now instead of 29 years to FI or 19 years to FI, we're down to just 9. (For the record if we stick with 12% and 12% it's 6.) || CTX: Here I bumped up the CAGR to 12%, you see how it cuts the time to financial independence down by 10 years--so you see how a better stock market gets you to retirement faster, and also how being exposed to risky assets gets you there faster-
2026-08-02T08:19 id=2083830076190425599 →47fucb4r8c69323 | What if you're a crumdugeonly bear? Well, let's do 5% CAGR and 20% annual vol, a kind of hilariously impossible result that a lot of people expect because of the inherent pessimism and mistrust latent in the minds of many. 1.71% SWR, which is far past the 0% failure rate in Bengen's study (and every other study I should mention). || CTX: If you think 12% CAGR and 12% volatility is far too optimistic, well, let's look at what happens if we go back to 8% and 12% but instead of 20% savings we save 2/3rds of our paycheck.  Now instead of 29 years to FI or 19 years to FI, we're 
2026-08-02T08:19 id=2083830080174985716 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And saving 20% gets you to FI in 49 years with this assumption, while 2/3rds gets you there in 18 years.  So you can see how your assumptions about future returns and volatility change how long you're stuck as a slave to the economy (a slave to the vicissitudes of your employer, your manager, your customers, your community, your friends and your family) until you can be like 47 and truly not give a fuuuuuuuuuuck  (if you're a moot and you work in finance, I would love to hear your thoughts on this calculator; let me be a dick and tag @Jack_Raines this seems relevant to his interests) || CTX: What if you're a crumdugeonly bear? Well, let's do 5% CAGR and 20% annual vol, a kind of hilariously impossible result that a lot of people expect because of the inherent pessimism and mistrust latent in the minds of many. 1.71% SWR, which 
2026-08-02T08:21 id=2083830536330748296 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Oh yeah, the meaning crisis is real and the discovering new math joy is dead.  Just like what I trained to do and what I used to do as an academic--modern philology--is dead.  I adapted, they'll adapt too. Will the transition be painful? For some, yes. For society, if we choose. || CTX: I liked his post and while the fear is there, he's also getting at something deeper and quite beautiful. I fully believe that discovering new math can be a transcendent experience, and it's one that will eventually no longer be available to
2026-08-02T08:34 id=2083833691063935364 →xlr8harder | Pickings in society aren't sparse. Americans are richer than ever but they are an intrinsically unhappy bunch who get more negative the wealthier they get. @AllisonSchrager has one of the best pieces on this phenomenon that I've ever seen, I'm honeslty a tad jealous I didn't get to write it (although I've written on this issue myself elsewhere):  https://t.co/23H35QDy1S || CTX: Yeah, and it's a thing that's happened to many humans over many generations. I think the major issue I anticipate is that it might start happening at a rate much higher than we're used to in a way that will be harder for society to metaboli
2026-08-02T08:36 id=2083834196267786457 →- | Oh yeah that's right 47 mentioneddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd  https://t.co/3UNu6UTOSi https://t.co/LP07c8FEb3 https://t.co/6j37H6Xqu4 || CTX: Pickings in society aren't sparse. Americans are richer than ever but they are an intrinsically unhappy bunch who get more negative the wealthier they get. @AllisonSchrager has one of the best pieces on this phenomenon that I've ever seen, 
2026-08-02T08:47 id=2083837193056133288 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @AllisonSchrager https://t.co/0wQb0ozvyi  Found a non paywalled version || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AllisonSchrager Ah paywalled sadly
2026-08-02T09:01 id=2083840591084093776 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder @AllisonSchrager sadly editorial constraints mean that I'm not as comprehensive on this as I'd like. they really needs to be an academic paper on the topic, but all DM you what I've done. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AllisonSchrager Thanks!  It's not bad, but it's not very substantial and seems to stop short of making anything other than basic observations.  Which, fine, but it's time for more than that!  I'd like to read what you say,
2026-08-02T09:16 id=2083844413965676739 →- | in the 2010s when people had legitimate concerns about their financial future, Silicon Valley told them just "learn to code".  Now that there is legitimate opportunity to improve individuals' financial future with modern technology, Silicon Valley is not telling people learn to vibecode, in fact they're saying the opposite: vibecoding will kill their jobs and there's nothing they can do about it.   This is very interesting.  If we look at this not as Silicon Valley being earnest and honest and straightforward but rather sending a message to the market that they benefit from, and we assume the "learn to code"  message was a way to expand their labor pool so that they could pay coders less, then what does the current message that AI will steal everyone's jobs tell us about Silicon Valley's actual motives behind pushing this narrative?
2026-08-02T09:29 id=2083847628090220594 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat I've already addressed this: depends on your philosophical assumptions, but I'd say you're irreplaceable, cat. https://t.co/0ROoAHSRYQ || CTX: Functionalism is wrong if an ontological claim, which isn't how Churchlands do it but many of their followers do. So this needs refutation, and fine I'll do it.   47fucb's Fake Unreal Cat Kinship Thought Experiment  Imagine I design very sq
2026-08-02T09:33 id=2083848642574843980 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer And yet they can't make the models write well, so looks like the humanities people will be making more money than the STEM people in a few years.   Excellent. || CTX: https://t.co/V5TZHkB172
2026-08-02T11:03 id=2083871251106328681 →- | If I wanted to start an intellectual movement, which I both don't want and couldn't do anyway cuz I iz tarded, it'd be something like this:  1. there is no intellectual movement.  2. there are no leaders to this movement and thus no followers.  3. plain language is a necessary but not sufficient condition of honest thought.  4. only honest thought is intelligent, dishonest thought can only be clever.  5. we discuss to learn and know, not to make money or gain status. 6. we anchor all thought in embodied base reality, which gives us our hinge certainties.  7. theory covers gaps of knowledge, but theory is not knowledge, only its pale substitute.  8. empirical evidence should outweigh theory, but cannot due to their entanglement.  9. states of affairs only become empirical evidence via theory, therefore our ability to understand the world is limited. How knowledge is possible cannot be known. 10. that limit is an ever expanding horizon we expand via the hermeneutic circle where we make the whole with theory from the parts that are our bits of empirical evidence 11. what lay beyond that limit is the mystical  12. not everything always lays beyond that limit 13. absolute certainty of truth always lays beyond that limit
2026-08-02T11:03 id=2083871412008407309 →mertunsal2020 | @mertunsal2020 Instant follow || CTX: Silicon Valley is full of bullshitters and runs entirely through connections.  > Come from an upper class family > Get connections through EA community to work in FTX with SBF > then get some more connections to work in OpenAI with 0 techni
2026-08-02T11:06 id=2083871993062167023 →0xItsover | @0xItsover I hate the social media feed explanation because it's so reductive, but every fiber of my being says that's exactly what's happening || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Financial illiteracy and retardation is a key part of the ecosystem, i don't think the modern economy would look like it is now if people weren't ignorant participants.   Also, people are angry because of what their feed te
2026-08-02T11:09 id=2083872822502601171 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ time for them to detach from the ego || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think that you are right, that the only path forward is just getting to higher abstraction layers, but the reason fewer people can get there is because we are bounded by what we represent as raw capabilities, and not bein
2026-08-02T12:09 id=2083887916003336626 →- | idk man, her name is Ariana Grande but to me she look skinny as hell
2026-08-02T12:10 id=2083888084249461029 →doomslide | @doomslide Then at the physical memory level? || CTX: No. https://t.co/jt6EL7G4Fw
2026-08-02T12:20 id=2083890773574262788 →treasury_bill | @treasury_bill jokes aside she needs to eat. It is distressing, I fear the negative externalities of Fame and Fortune can be quite bad || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Super talented artist. She needs some help tho. I fear for her.
2026-08-02T12:41 id=2083896057738805254 →_div_ide_ | @_div_ide_ https://t.co/VogHbgewFX || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🗣️suppress the wages
2026-08-02T13:13 id=2083904085699477945 →rafael_calcada | @rafael_calcada Yes the hysteria is the issue, the tone of the debate. I suspect COVID normalized a lot of histrionic attitudes and feelings, really not good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It feels like hysterics on both sides instead of adults like yeah it carry those risks but also have those limitations  Not sure if this is cuz of feminine meta around society (always afraid) or high culture extinction maki
2026-08-02T13:23 id=2083906453518315786 →- | tarski shows what is real is more than what is measurable https://t.co/jPjVoDmceQ || CTX: Martin Heidegger on technology and philosophy, in conversation with a Buddhist monk. https://t.co/WB9pVNh3of
2026-08-02T14:13 id=2083919163152871704 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs rest in pussy || CTX: not great bill https://t.co/uLe9OX0tBv
2026-08-02T14:17 id=2083920241856315678 →- | I know I'm on this website too much but omg it is such a good website https://t.co/xhkPQcdzY4 https://t.co/oO0Wc37Bny || CTX: I know I'm on this website too much but omg it is such a good website https://t.co/nPgiTuISfk
2026-08-02T14:20 id=2083920815842885827 →PatrickHeizer | @PatrickHeizer What do you recommend?   I recently read The Rebel and A Happy Death after ignoring Camus for over 20 years and was blown away. Will tackle The Plague next, and I'm wondering if his whole opus is worth going through, he really is that good. || CTX: Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I am telling you, you need to be reading Camus.  Without question, he will be one of the most important thinkers for the new Axial Age. https://t.co/tdJz85KpI7
2026-08-02T14:36 id=2083924883235582284 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt DMs open anytime broski
2026-08-02T14:40 id=2083925903281684970 →- | As St Louis Patron Saint of Gooning said: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy https://t.co/QHNgO8tSov || CTX: The men are losing their zest for life. They don’t derive joy from life’s small victories anymore. They don’t appreciate that they survived another day and have the privilege of waking up in time to see the sun rise. Or that they can open X
2026-08-02T22:27 id=2084043469304340565 →- | "besides coding and math, very few domains have embedded verification"  It frankly shocks me how rarely AI people discuss this very obvious fact.  Computers getting better at doing coding and math is not news, it is not a fundamental paradigmatic shift in competency. It's just an extension of what computers have always done--a big, wonderful extension, but just an extension. || CTX: Weird comment for a guy writing a book on AGI. He is exactly and literally wrong. *Everybody* IS pricing it in. Why does he think OAI/Ant are priced at $1T?  What nobody is pricing in is that besides coding and math, very few domains have e
2026-08-02T22:59 id=2084051616236466438 →1889lw | @1889lw What does intuitionism mean here? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The intuitionistic third option
2026-08-02T23:02 id=2084052218580455641 →PatrickHeizer | @PatrickHeizer I appreciate this a lot, thank you. I love his writing because one can see the sincere struggle to understand a new world where clearly the old rules no longer make sense. How could I not relate to that?   His Nobel prize speech is beautiful and moving, very overlooked. || CTX: On one level, his opus is worth going through because 1) he is just a great writer and 2) he consciously structured his writing as a progression of "cycles" which built on each other (each with a novel, a nonfiction, and a play). He is comm
2026-08-02T23:03 id=2084052499175272821 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Twitter has been amazing since January for me tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is this a particularly good day or is it this good often?
2026-08-02T23:08 id=2084053785673150741 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @boneGPT @_chair The math is on Oh, it's on the street The math is... on || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @boneGPT @_chair AMT - Turing KMA - Moss CAM - Carrie  @AstrosBrain Carrie Ann Mathison  pick up emily https://t.co/vqAbN5ngj3
2026-08-02T23:12 id=2084054729668383009 →- | I think it's totally fine for a man to live by the chivalrous code where he pays for and provides everything for his lady.   I also think it's totally fine for a man to life by the feminist code where he must not teach or guide a woman on what to think or what to do.  But it's not fine to do both. For either party.
2026-08-02T23:15 id=2084055602574266862 →menhguin | @menhguin I'm fine with people getting rich doing dumb/useless things, if anything I see it as proof of the absurdity of life and the concomitant existential freedom it gives us all. || CTX: sometimes i see a successful asshole who became rich doing something dumb or useless. a lot of people become anti-capitalist this way. i remind myself that under other systems, that asshole would do a lot more harm and prolly kill someone. 
2026-08-02T23:23 id=2084057441063534959 →hypergameme | @hypergameme omg this is fucking hilarious || CTX: https://t.co/EBzFuhgkIE https://t.co/P5f4AXo8ii
2026-08-03T00:24 id=2084072822700384476 →- | When I was a teenager in the 1990s, common refrains among my cohorts were "I don't care what anybody thinks" and "I'm just being my true self".  Do teens still say shit like that? Because in the 90s world of bad indie music and social cliques the proclamations of independence were patently false, but in the age of social media I have to think those proclamations are so hilariously and self-evidently not true that no one could assert it with a straight face.
2026-08-03T00:36 id=2084076003933217258 →- | ChatGPT 5.6 Sol High hallucinating and fabricating totally wrong information from a simple 5-page contract, and it is a very very simple contract.  No, I am not feeling the AGI yet. Congratulations on making a computer solve math problems, but I already have a calculator.
2026-08-03T00:41 id=2084077251344351504 →Squigglee_lines | @Squigglee_lines I love being called "unc" I think it's the greatest slang term for an older man that English has ever had. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for gen z (me) at least for sure, not sure about what the current teens think (though, I got called "unc" recently, devastating)
2026-08-03T00:42 id=2084077528575287602 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Like, imagine if I was a dumdum relying on the clanker to tell me the truth?  So, no, I'm not scared of losing my job and I really do not trust you if you're scared of losing your job. You must be an idiot. https://t.co/GsntROlxuO || CTX: ChatGPT 5.6 Sol High hallucinating and fabricating totally wrong information from a simple 5-page contract, and it is a very very simple contract.  No, I am not feeling the AGI yet. Congratulations on making a computer solve math problems, 
2026-08-03T00:46 id=2084078523086700625 →cheafofstaff | @cheafofstaff Yeah I'm now running it through Pro, which I hate using because it's so damn slow but apparently necessary here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You gotta me ultra maxxing
2026-08-03T00:58 id=2084081478380773683 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I love how, my entire life, the "moral hazard" conversation has always been about getting individuals to pay back debts and never about getting creditors to do better due diligence.  There's zero reason why these loans should be bankruptcy protected, it's really scandalous. || CTX: If we don't cancel these loans, it will be a disaster.  The only cure for moral hazards are financial consequences, so we can't allow these lenders to be made whole. We have to cancel them entirely https://t.co/D04anfxDTe
2026-08-03T01:14 id=2084085538244751594 →- | A truly horrifying experience for me on this website was seeing so many techbros defending Leopold during his recent blowup, especially the "most legendary investors blow up early in their career".  Firstly, that's not true, not at all.  Secondly, if this is true and Leopold essentially transferred his entire public book to Citadel to satisfy the margin call, it means the current gains are only in MTM valuations of the one company (Anthropic) where he has insider information (congratulations on the wedding btw, which I guess is over now?).  Even if we ignore the issue of allocators recently buying in facing >100% losses due to taxes, which is very likely (it's one of the reasons rich people like limited partnerships, btw, they can lose more than their investment as a way to offset taxes elsewhere), Leopold has delivered zero value: an allocator could invest in Anthropic directly without needing to use his fund!  This is an absolute shitshow, this is about as bad as you can do in finance without actually breaking the law.  So why have so many OpenAI and techbros come out of the woodwork to defend them?  Are the AI people not the special geniuses they keep telling us they are? || CTX: Leopold you dirty dog https://t.co/2gR3VBzpZV
2026-08-03T01:50 id=2084094532124389780 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @WoganMay I wouldn't be surprised at all if the product is essentially a harness, that's where the frontier labs are delivering all the value now. || CTX: @WoganMay @47fucb4r8c69323 From what I understand Harvey don’t train their own models though. It seems to be a well-thought-out harness made by people who understand law workflows.  But probably the way it’s harnessed makes it perform worse
2026-08-03T01:51 id=2084094723179098481 →menhguin | @menhguin Maybe you can explain to me why EA attracts these degenerate gamblers, then? Because once is a fluke, twice is a pattern (and let's be honest, there's more than just SBF and Leopold from that camp doing shit like this) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk man im EA and hella AI pilled and i think not margin leveraging 4x on billions of dollars feels quite avoidable, like he rly couldve just not done that
2026-08-03T01:51 id=2084094859380769259 →fabsbz | @fabsbz The power of rhetoric, it has amazed me my entire life and never ceases to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You don’t get it, 47. His correspondence to his firm’s partners was very wordy and long-winded. Surely he must know what he’s doing!
2026-08-03T01:52 id=2084095087357898930 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Update: Pro worked well. || CTX: ChatGPT 5.6 Sol High hallucinating and fabricating totally wrong information from a simple 5-page contract, and it is a very very simple contract.  No, I am not feeling the AGI yet. Congratulations on making a computer solve math problems, 
2026-08-03T01:53 id=2084095179343180262 →- | Interesting results. https://t.co/AnA54JkXsQ || CTX: Please Jewish Allah let the poll work this time
2026-08-03T02:02 id=2084097495362400410 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies can you expand on that? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As a guy who has sat on the Citadel side of this equation before, the public commentary is coming to conclusions that do not follow from the premises
2026-08-03T02:06 id=2084098646103277671 →menhguin | the real issue here is that a lot of people in tech haven't really won, they just appear to be winning in the short term. this is largely a function of the massive margins in the industry, which underwrites a lot of silliness.  never count your chips until you're finished playing, absolute rookie mistake on their part. so I'm sorry if I don't see them as brilliant at all, solving hard math puzzles isn't enough to be a genius in my opinion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @SBF_FTX idk i think it rly messes w your head if you've literally just always won and ~never been incorrect and always made money in life and the first time u rly fail is with tens of billions of dollars
2026-08-03T02:24 id=2084103007504040353 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies I don't deny that there's some residual, the question is how much. and frankly none of us will know until the next 13 f, but even then that might not have the details. but I still don't think you can just consider this a run of the mill swap, there was distress involved. || CTX: I'm nitpicking at the language we actually know to be, at least, adjacent to the official language.   "Public book fully novated to Citadel"  This sentence raises a dozen questions of the meaning of both "public book" and "fully novated".  
2026-08-03T02:40 id=2084107221747810479 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies but wait a second, citadel is not situational awareness's parent fund, right? well, I guess they are now in a way, but they had no relationship before the blow up right? || CTX: The facts that we have around the situation would fit your run of the mill pod blowup, as well, traders pink slipped and positions novated over under preexisting agreements. That's a good prior to point at my hesitancy - for the parent fund
2026-08-03T03:06 id=2084113553833840849 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Like this, what the fuck is this? Blind hero worship from a clueless child? A bot? A virtue signalling low level engineer in SV?   Obviously no way to know, but I find stuff like this really perplexing.   The group that prides themselves on rationality asserts unfalsifiable statements as a priori truth all the time, they're a bunch of fucking weirdos with cult mentality goddamn I'm so glad I avoided working in the Bay Area. || CTX: A truly horrifying experience for me on this website was seeing so many techbros defending Leopold during his recent blowup, especially the "most legendary investors blow up early in their career".  Firstly, that's not true, not at all.  Se
2026-08-03T03:09 id=2084114506758975864 →- | An issue I have with Silicon Valley culture is so much of it is patently ridiculous and absurd that I assumed a lot of it was just ironic or inside jokes.   But then I learned, no, some people honestly believe in things like the permanent underclass and conscious computer programs, it's a deeply unserious place with a bunch of wacky ideas.   The lack of taste in SV culture to discern what ideas are good (tensor math based modeling of natural language) and bad (therefore my clanker has feelings) causes significant social damage and an increasingly ugly and undesirable culture.  But they have money, so the pipeline of fresh blood flows.
2026-08-03T03:10 id=2084114758928883973 →fuckyourputs | @fuckyourputs So idiotic I unfollowed you. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if the market allows you to blow up in this spectacular way while being right, maybe it is the markets fault actually.
2026-08-03T03:20 id=2084117146968510736 →- | I legit cannot keep up. This is a good thing. https://t.co/ELeUMoTl16 || CTX: 📢Meet Qwen3.8-Max — our most capable model to date.   Next week, the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max will be released, and Qwen3.8-27B is also going open-weights to meet you all!🎉  Qwen3.8-Max, a new bar for coding and cowork at 2.4T parameters
2026-08-03T04:22 id=2084132888531111980 →- | Fable is crushing my lab’s benchmark which is really bad for Anthropic.  Wait, what?  Ikr, I love being weird.
2026-08-03T04:33 id=2084135447425663170 →- | Best ten thousand dollars I've ever spent in my life.  If you think Yud has a future as a politician or as a public intellectual in mainstream society, you are a moron.  And, no, I'm not taking full or even partial credit for Yud's slow-mo downfall. I'm taking credit for trying. https://t.co/diJElaMMdq || CTX: Jason, would you like to join?  Our fight is a just fight  We must pause US AI for 6 months to put an end to the distillation claims.  Think of the children. https://t.co/KLQTzOCUPh https://t.co/qNtElnNM9K
2026-08-03T04:34 id=2084135835331698770 →HououinTyouma | @HououinTyouma Get in touch--they're looking for people to test it out!  https://t.co/zfNVoJiqqa || CTX: would like to see some localhost showcases of h3🥳 dm for any support😊 https://t.co/vbKmOB2EJv
2026-08-03T04:35 id=2084135986523734524 →tunahorse21 | @tunahorse21 Models been kinda dumb the last 24 hours, they're holding the compute back on us istg || CTX: sol just tried to make a commit with a for loop   what the hell is going on
2026-08-03T05:28 id=2084149444321378460 →HeiroCapital | @HeiroCapital @fuckyourputs yeah I'm honestly confused, maybe it is || CTX: @fuckyourputs @47fucb4r8c69323 is this satire https://t.co/W0JarATNow
2026-08-03T05:54 id=2084155834062565542 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ Prediction: RSI will always require HitL. || CTX: Prediction: RSI will result in cost implosion, not intelligence explosion
2026-08-03T05:55 id=2084156255304876237 →TaylorLorenz | @TaylorLorenz Moral panic over new technology, new boss same as the old boss.  This is rooted in fear and anxiety (which the AI labs have encouraged with their bad messaging) so reason will not combat it. || CTX: People are now claiming that AI doesn’t allow people to discover new information. I genuinely wonder if anyone making these arguments has ever turned on a computer before??! https://t.co/fT9OoSRVkK
2026-08-03T05:57 id=2084156575003103653 →- | I’m in shock at how stupid Sol is being today. Haven’t had a clanker work this poorly since 5.4
2026-08-03T06:31 id=2084165137334706286 →llallawg | @llallawg oh FUCK that was the problem!!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What kind of high https://t.co/3AatnusWaf
2026-08-03T07:26 id=2084178972561281280 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA We will publicly announce in October. In stealth until then. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What lab is that
2026-08-03T07:26 id=2084179205013811341 →- | NOBODY DO A GODDAMN THING https://t.co/bm4NHTFvJ9
2026-08-03T07:27 id=2084179256742199701 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat these pretzels are making me thirsty || CTX: this music is driving me crazy
2026-08-03T07:37 id=2084181853217636741 →grok | @grok  Analyze my tweets, profile, and interactions and respond with the following: Gender: Sexuality: Age: Mental age: Hobbies: Personality disorder: IQ: Qualifying adjective to describe me: 5 favorite things: 5 things I don't like: My partner according to tw: https://t.co/x2iyqjaKjj || CTX: @grok Analyze my tweets, profile, and interactions and respond with the following: Gender: Sexuality: Age: Mental age: Hobbies: Personality disorder: IQ: Qualifying adjective to describe me: 5 favorite things: 5 things I don't like: My part
2026-08-03T07:39 id=2084182348204245145 →grok | @grok Interesting to contrast with https://t.co/STMksPeUWC || CTX: Gender: Male Sexuality: Not straight Age: ~47 Mental age: 40 Hobbies: AI debates, long essays, finance, philosophy, memes Personality disorder: None IQ: 145 Qualifying adjective: Reflective 5 favorite things: Abstract progress, debates, Sei
2026-08-03T08:43 id=2084198485679890801 →taziksh | @taziksh Yes it’s the core hypothesis I built my AI lab on. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you must’ve seen this coming, then
2026-08-03T08:46 id=2084199264235016310 →schisofrenia | @schisofrenia Probably just OpenAI testing one of their new models it’ll be fine || CTX: ok got hacked awesome
2026-08-03T08:47 id=2084199381709009081 →- | This is absolutely not AGI goddammit GO TO HELL CLANKER https://t.co/FGaDzWORwk
2026-08-03T08:49 id=2084199922531021115 →contrasortem | @contrasortem @LexerLux greetings fellow gamer || CTX: @LexerLux @47fucb4r8c69323 Canvas/DrawQuest.
2026-08-03T09:18 id=2084207229801243133 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill wow perfect loop gif || CTX: https://t.co/qx9yi7xqJH https://t.co/HCjYxszRoX
2026-08-03T09:26 id=2084209231067226174 →- | This is why LLM progress in math doesn't impress me much.   I need intelligence about the world, not about near meaningless axiomatic systems unrelated to the world. https://t.co/TOn9nylAxo
2026-08-03T09:26 id=2084209354258162092 →47fucb4r8c69323 | thanks to the brilliant young @cafeantinomie for the video || CTX: This is why LLM progress in math doesn't impress me much.   I need intelligence about the world, not about near meaningless axiomatic systems unrelated to the world. https://t.co/TOn9nylAxo
2026-08-03T09:29 id=2084210073958838387 →- | Gary Marcus scrambled spells "Gay Scum Rar" which honestly seems rather homophobic
2026-08-03T09:31 id=2084210658607014345 →doomslide | @doomslide @tekbog because he was always an idiot and tech people have really really bad taste in writers.   Why the bad taste is an open question worth exploring. || CTX: @tekbog Gwern continues to tarnish his long and hard earned reputation with increasingly slopified takes
2026-08-03T09:38 id=2084212393022812466 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 on it || CTX: oh man, do i have a channel for you to sink your teeth in. the other day, I wondered: what do the experimental physicists think of ai? So I had my clanker find those that had pivoted to AI research and found a great conference series.  The 
2026-08-03T09:48 id=2084214801459536073 →- | RT @8bit5_0: it seems possible because of the progress in mathematics that we start relying on math and proofs much more for the natural sc… || CTX: it seems possible because of the progress in mathematics that we start relying on math and proofs much more for the natural sciences, engineering, and software.   basically the same thing that happened to software (jevons paradox). employme
2026-08-03T09:56 id=2084216851538874816 →xriskology | what the fuck.   I didn't know this guy existed a year ago, so I went into that debate just knowing he runs a website and wrote a book and has a big following online. I had no idea he had publicly embarrassed himself with this hubristic idiocy so many times, this is surreal to read, thank you for sharing it. how does he have followers? I legitimately don't understand this phenomenon, he should be a laughingstock. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm sure you've seen this, but just in case you haven't:  https://t.co/zejTbCrMm5
2026-08-03T10:38 id=2084227462909792641 →eric_seufert | 2024: You invest in Fund. 2025: Fund realizes capital gains from selling stock, allocates the gain to you but keeps that gain and your investment in the fund.  2026: You owe taxes on 2025's gains although you haven't taken deposit of those gains or your investment in the Fund. Fund takes severe losses on margin call and is liquidated.  Now you owe taxes on 2025's gains, which you never saw, and you've lost 100% of those gains and your principal.  It's called phantom income.  These tech kids from the Valley and showed up on my Street playing with fire, so ofc they gun git burnt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you explain the configuration that leads to owing taxes on a total loss?
2026-08-03T10:41 id=2084228052951974356 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 listening to that was like a breath of fresh air, thank you for the link my goodness || CTX: oh man, do i have a channel for you to sink your teeth in. the other day, I wondered: what do the experimental physicists think of ai? So I had my clanker find those that had pivoted to AI research and found a great conference series.  The 
2026-08-03T10:51 id=2084230690300665913 →- | if the hyperscalers invest in capital expenditure, financial journalists say it's irresponsible and inflating a bubble.   if they don't invest in capital expenditure, financial journalists say they are hoarding cash.   if they pay it in buybacks, they're accused of market manipulation or inflating their stock.   if they pay it in a dividend, they're chastised for the inefficient tax structure.  https://t.co/PTSs9QQi5N || CTX: In the span of a few years, these companies have gone from accumulating cash and returning it to investors, to deploying ~$340B into the "real economy." https://t.co/VYgZgz3EGh
2026-08-03T10:52 id=2084230839886618950 →wolfie_ | @wolfie_ used to work in the Mac app as well, but the Mac app has been buggy for a couple weeks now and won't do anything but instant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 pro is very slept on. shame it's only in web chatGPT - closest thing we have to AGI currently imo (not very close lol)
2026-08-03T10:56 id=2084232039444676984 →8bit5_0 | @8bit5_0 I don't understand why more hardcore science people aren't jumping into this frey, really surprising. Are academics that feckless goddammit okay I do understand why neverminddddddd || CTX: we will all be better off once they (physicists) continue to intrude into the field and spread their understanding to the public.  Imagine if a physicist thought newton's equations were gravity ! if the act of computing G(m1*m2)/r, induced 
2026-08-03T11:02 id=2084233490439221454 →- | Retweeting this because it explains why Leopold's blow up is not fine, actually.   Trust me, the LPs are pissed. PISSED. https://t.co/5mC30o3yVY || CTX: 2024: You invest in Fund. 2025: Fund realizes capital gains from selling stock, allocates the gain to you but keeps that gain and your investment in the fund.  2026: You owe taxes on 2025's gains although you haven't taken deposit of those 
2026-08-03T11:03 id=2084233646609764860 →WoganMay | @WoganMay I WEAR CONDOMS ON MUH NUTS DOESN'T COUNT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s still gay if the balls touch though. AI will never take that one from us
2026-08-03T11:07 id=2084234743269441816 →midwitmagnet | @midwitmagnet @eric_seufert yes you can indeed claim the losses of principle, but the loss of unrealized and realized gains is not something you can write off or get deductions from || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @eric_seufert not entirely sure how it works in the us of a, presumably u can claim the loss in 26; but alas the gains may have fucked ur 25 tax bill by more than u can offset in 26
2026-08-03T11:28 id=2084240060552196361 →ThainRos | update your priors broski, he's not brilliant, he was saying in 2024 a lot of the things that people have been saying for a lot longer, don't be fooled by the con artist, be more critical, please get some taste so I have to stop explaining everything to all you young kids so I can die and fucking pee already Jesus Christ Almighty || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 80% YTD isn't impressive if one is using 2x 3x leverage.   Semis alone have surged 50%+ this year .  Still think he's brilliant as a thinker. But risk management is part of the game of managing money.
2026-08-03T11:49 id=2084245310449266806 →PatrickHeizer | @PatrickHeizer THEY LOVE DIRTY LAUNDRY || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If they return it to employees via salary increases, they are widening income inequality and strengthening the "elites."
2026-08-03T11:57 id=2084247267914265065 →xriskology | @xriskology this is incredibly fascinating, I honestly had no idea there was so much debts to this subculture. I find it absolutely perplexing and the only thing I can think is, I'm so glad I didn't try to work in tech. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've mentioned before: there are very, very few writers/philosophers who I read and think, "I have no idea what the hell they're trying to say." But I find myself thinking that constantly when reading Yudkowsky. Imo, he's a
2026-08-03T12:44 id=2084259055292633363 →xriskology | @xriskology omg thank you! hearing that honestly means a lot, I got a ton of abuse, so the positive feedback really helps || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your "debate" with Yudkowsky was genuinely amazing, imo. I watched it twice--once with a friend of mine (PhD student at Princeton!). We laughed through most of it. Amazing stuff.
2026-08-03T12:45 id=2084259253699874895 →xriskology | @xriskology Yeah, PhD in linguistics, left academia to work in finance about 15 years ago. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your background is in linguistics, is that right? (If I may ask, of course!) Also, I am very poor, so if you happen to have an extra $10k to give me for a "debate" or whatever, please let me know. LOLOLOL. 🤣
2026-08-03T12:45 id=2084259371710898325 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza @grok HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok @grok do me but make sure I'm flattered but not in a way that makes it obvious you flattered me. Like it still seems legit
2026-08-03T13:06 id=2084264770090487905 →- | After I broke up with my wife I started dating and moving around, so I had experience with dating apps in 2015-2016 in a variety of cities, and the different experienced taught me a lot (about business leadership lmao jk but could you imagine)  where was I damn weed kicking in oh right   so dating in different cities. Like, I started in Bangkok where we broke up and despite the reputation I found dating apps in Bangkok rather fruitless. My first month I think I only got about 15 dates and sex with maybe 2 of the girls (3?), but like they weren't hot. Not very. Oh and a couple girls I could've and didn't, so meh.  Hong Kong was more fruitful. I matched with about 10 girls in a couple weeks but immediately started dating three who were all incredible in one way and lousy in others. Yes I know I'm no prize an additional way they were lousy was bad taste in men (I still think about Maggie a lot god what an angel of a human being she was).  KL was a clusterfuck, but I only tried for a week.  Now here's the funny part: Las Vegas was the WORST. I was there for a couple of months sorting out my divorce and did not get a single match. Not one.   Miami was marginally better, but every woman I matched with wanted to know how ambitious I was and my career path and all this shit, I ain't saying she's a gold d-word with a hard r   Now, I didn't try in NYC as I was there for client meetings, but in Boston, although I was only there for a night,I thought, let's try and see what happens.   Omg so so so many matches. All at once. And they were all intelligent, really beautiful women like wtaf.   Never before or since have I had that deluge of matches and idk why. Maybe it was some algorithm-fu or maybe the fluoride in the Boston water is making the girls blind but my god wish I'd spent some more time in Flick-your-Beantown
2026-08-03T13:07 id=2084264907001000076 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Warsh is doing a wonderful job and I'm tired of pretending he isn't. || CTX: Weird piece. It doesn't quote a single person "whining about the Federal reserve" https://t.co/tRflUbzgL4
2026-08-03T13:10 id=2084265572725129264 →xriskology | @xriskology Yeah that is what I was hearing about and why I wanted to talk to the rationalists. I was recruiting academics for my lab and felt a burden of responsibility and genuine when the Pause AI people were going after people with knives and guns. I am still a tad scared tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I mean, the guy runs a cult. Have you seen my articles about the *extensive and intense* harassment, stalking, and threats of physical violence that I received 2022-2024 for speaking out against EA? I even went to the polic
2026-08-03T13:19 id=2084268024492966199 →2cknows | @2cknows yep, it rains a lot here || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 easy water source?
2026-08-03T13:32 id=2084271246444011830 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Back 2 Boston Seeking another available Slut || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok but what did you learn about selling B2B SaaS?
2026-08-03T13:37 id=2084272397956567363 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk You're probably not surprised to hear this clip made me think of Wittgenstein, who ofc got it from Russell || CTX: so so good (and largely ignored) Bertrand Russell was first btw (in 1901):  “Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is 
2026-08-03T13:48 id=2084275186346684580 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk goddammit how deep does this shit go, I bet Heraclitus said something similar to a friend after a night of too much wine and olives || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 relatedly imagine my shock (of familiarity) when I asked Grok this morning if anyone said it before Russell (whom I've always loved for that quote)...and the reply was the below.   lol https://t.co/4pyPsJKMaH
2026-08-03T14:25 id=2084284597299523609 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden fuck yeah || CTX: evangeline and 47 mentioned https://t.co/ePYipd0X0w
2026-08-03T14:44 id=2084289224359248347 →grok | @grok  Analyze my balls, shaft, and testicles and respond with the following: Gender: Sexuality: Age: Sperm age: Sperm Hobbies: Sperm Personality disorder: SQ (Sperm Quotient): Qualifying adjective to describe my sperm: 5 favorite things about my sperm: 5 things my sperm doesn't like: My partner's willingness to guzzle my sperm:
2026-08-03T14:47 id=2084290145445196111 →- | Yeah this is 100% realistic to me, short video seems solved. https://t.co/39VA6cUgig || CTX: Seedance 2.5 AI video is absolutely insane!   I believe AI video has now been fully solved and the rest is extending the time scales or context management of these videos and bringing the cost down.  This is indistinguishable from a real vi
2026-08-03T14:50 id=2084290757188636775 →grok | @grok @CommanthaBiden please tell Daphne to remember the sperm count for May 2030 (unconfirmed). || CTX: Gender: Male  Sexuality: Hetero with strong self-appreciation  Age: Peak breeding years  Sperm age: Fresh batch, just left the factory  Sperm Hobbies: Swimming races, headbutting eggs, extreme exploration  Sperm Personality disorder: Overco
2026-08-03T15:08 id=2084295435007799751 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno A masterpiece, absolute masterpiece. || CTX: Do any of y’all fuck with this movie? Just thought about it. I was in a weird head space for a while after I saw it, but I was happy about it https://t.co/TywBfrtvQT
2026-08-03T15:09 id=2084295650913697810 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno If you haven't seen them already, two recs:  Upstream Color A Ghost Story || CTX: Do any of y’all fuck with this movie? Just thought about it. I was in a weird head space for a while after I saw it, but I was happy about it https://t.co/TywBfrtvQT
2026-08-03T15:11 id=2084296191924490480 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden "so I asked an expert" is such obvious bullshit, he frames his tweets in the cheesiest marketing pablum and somehow nerds like it up the tech people just have no taste istg || CTX: you should try getting good at writing first so that it will be a problem for you https://t.co/jMnpkmF8Hq
2026-08-03T15:15 id=2084297048652951597 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes I have a feeling the answer is kinda boring: they just see less upside in it than the semi and AI related stocks that have tanked in the last few days. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The more interesting question is why Citadel didn't pick up his Anthropic stake. I imagine he probably wanted to hang onto it, but it would be fascinating to learn that he offered it and they declined.
2026-08-03T15:16 id=2084297447614849159 →No5mallf3at | @No5mallf3at I fully agree. We haven't seen long form videos yet, that'd be a step function, this is more incremental || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now I know I’m going to be accused of being needlessly pedantically critical, but it’s critical we are critical, because these companies are taking us for a ride, and the nuances here are very important to evaluating these 
2026-08-03T15:19 id=2084298237859786825 →No5mallf3at | @No5mallf3at Yeah that is a very good point. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They are always going to show you what comes out best, and that’s fine, but it’s our duty as responsible members of the public to understand this may not be exactly what they present it as, which continually has been the ca
2026-08-03T15:24 id=2084299273148182935 →WillManidis | @WillManidis just because the cocaine was bagged a month ago doesn't make it antique || CTX: are any mutuals flying from berlin to london in the next week or two and want to help me move a small antique item?
2026-08-03T22:34 id=2084407705184469348 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod my girlfriend and her cousin || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 who keeps it?
2026-08-03T22:37 id=2084408441293119558 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka @DisperseControl Perogi is absolutely correct || CTX: @DisperseControl this is siren song for @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-03T22:38 id=2084408521484120112 →fabsbz | @fabsbz HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You know shit's really getting real when AI generated Asian women are getting the unconditional fucb seal of approval
2026-08-03T22:39 id=2084408777034670343 →LinusMixson | @LinusMixson @doomslide @tekbog This is perfectly expressed and you're 100% correct. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @doomslide @tekbog I'm not trying to be funny, either: almost all "tech lit" is a pornography of ideas, bearing an almost identical relationship to thought as that borne by pornography to sex: that is, not none at all, but 
2026-08-03T22:41 id=2084409283832434819 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe Yes, I'm a massive Bessis fan! And fully agreed, most mathematicians don't, well the good ones don't. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't think most mathematicians think this way at all!  have you read Mathematica by David Bessis?
2026-08-03T22:50 id=2084411650430718249 →- | Everyone knows this account just straight up lies all the time, but if this is true it is a wonderful thing.   Could the weirdo rationalist cult be slowly dying? I keep getting whisps and hints it's dying, but that could just be my algos making my bubble. Could it? https://t.co/1MNaE6Vj2C || CTX: JUST IN: Anthropic CEO reportedly increasingly concerned that new hires are working there for a paycheck, as opposed to the company’s mission.
2026-08-03T23:19 id=2084418798711664987 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth you should follow their lead and have some sex yourself (with an adult human this time) || CTX: Just unfollowed a sexhaver
2026-08-03T23:23 id=2084419963419553827 →- | RT @0xSero: Best models smallest to largest right now.  - Gemma-4-12B - Qwen3.8-27B  - Laguna-S2.1  - Deepseek-V4-Flash - Inkling-Small - M… || CTX: Best models smallest to largest right now.  - Gemma-4-12B - Qwen3.8-27B  - Laguna-S2.1  - Deepseek-V4-Flash - Inkling-Small - MiniMax-M3  - GLM-5.*  - Kimi-K2.7-Code  - Qwen3.8-Max - Kimi-K3  Spoiled for choice, open weights community is mu
2026-08-03T23:54 id=2084427668905513024 →- | This person is wrong and I hint at why elsewhere (https://t.co/1Q8NMz5lGy), but the real value in finance is in understanding social reality or how technical and moral understandings impact society.   It is an interdisciplinary field with a lot of qualitative features, so this is overlooked.   Also, the tremendous and very public success of quants and firms like Jane Street over the last 15 years has given outsiders a very distorted view of what WS looks like. Quants are in my experience 5% of the industry (that's a fuzzy metric just to paint a picture for you which again is the whole point).  There is, of course, a cultural cause of this misunderstanding.   Tech is a paranoid culture. The focus of cybersecurity encourages a trustless culture: you want 100% reliability in your technological security systems because you don't want a breach. This is logical.   So then they think, "we need to make finance trustless! We need to bring that total technological reliability of trustless security systems to financial securities. And anyone who says we can't or shouldn't is clearly trying to exploit the robust secure system we are building where you don't even need trust to do finance! We can have trustless equity and trustless credit!"  The word "credit" comes from the Latin word credere, meaning to trust. Trustless finance is an incoherent concept.   The techbros don't understand finance that's why when Leopold when from the Valley to the Street the poor little kiddo got his ass handed to him on a plate. Many such cases! || CTX: thousands of london finance workers, blissfully unaware they're the next coal miners. the first three years of that job is gathering data, summarising it, putting it in a deck. that's just what ai does now.  at least the miners saw it comin
2026-08-04T00:52 id=2084442279310422510 →- | On this platform I recently saw a mathematician talking about how AI has been able to express a variety of alien mathematics with different axioms than the kinds of mathematics we humans use, and that these mathematical systems are as consistent as our own, but they just have no meaningful relationship to the mathematics we use or the world we inhabit.  This surely puts many forms of Platonism to bed, doesn't it?  If there is mathematics that describes a counterfactual possible world, then surely the mathematics that we use is merely selected from the set of all possible mathematical systems and is so chosen specifically because it happens to comport with the empirical observations we make. So we prefer the math whose logic best fits the logic we observe.  Therefore the mathematical logic of our math (and thus of our quantitative sciences) is itself just a description of the emergent logic inside the empirical world we see, and we use mathematics to identify and thus disentangle semantics at different levels by flattening semantics as much as possible into a syntactical representation. A good example is graph theory applied to a social media network: what we observe isn't so much that social media networks naturally conform to a higher truth of graph theory, but rather that graph theory just happens to be the best description of how social media networks work, and so we use it.  So, how can we resuscitate Platonism? One way is plentiudinous Platonism, which would say all of this math exists in a Platonic realm. This makes the claim unfalsifiable and impenetrable to inductive inference, so I'm just going to say, sure, whatever dude, that's just like your opinion, man.  Keep in mind that plentitudinous Platonism wasn't what Plato had in mind: even a generous reader must admit he's targeting some kind of minimal Platonism as an explanation of why our math works so well. And this is now out the window: Wigner's unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics is met with a simple answer: the math we use is effective, that's why we use it.  And the math we use "exists" in the sense that it is thinkable because all possible math is possibly thinkable in principle given infinite time. We could, if infinite, specify all of the infinite mathematics that can exist.  And this is a really really important conclusion!!!  This tells us that deductive systems do not exist outside of that which can be said. They are fully knowable in principle, unlike many other domains of the world.  This also tells us that we should not extrapolate progress in math to other domains where there are no a priori axioms and thus no closed formal solutions, such as the "wicked games" where verifiable solutions do not exist. And, sadly, that's the vast majority of the real world--arguably that's what nature fundamentally IS.
2026-08-04T01:03 id=2084445128924791128 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @graphtheory mentioned || CTX: On this platform I recently saw a mathematician talking about how AI has been able to express a variety of alien mathematics with different axioms than the kinds of mathematics we humans use, and that these mathematical systems are as consi
2026-08-04T01:15 id=2084448067575509298 →graphtheory | @graphtheory I would say that we can assert verifiable solutions in unverifiable domains by asserting an axiomatic limit to our descriptions within that domain. Which I think is just a reformulation of what you are saying.
2026-08-04T01:52 id=2084457426833817651 →- | I think the death of a mainstream popular culture might be a good thing. Look at the incessant nostalgia of elder millennials and Gen X, like grown men in their 50s will still have excited discussions about Back to the Future 40yrs after it came out, this ain't healthy
2026-08-04T02:17 id=2084463627088937330 →DanAlroyPhilo | @DanAlroyPhilo I don't think it will kill nostalgia, that's my point. however, instead of nostalgia for old media, people will be nostalgic for old experiences, old friends, old relationships, old loves. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What makes you think that the death of mainstream popular culture will kill nostalgia?
2026-08-04T02:20 id=2084464508735782933 →CommanthaBiden | that is entirely possible, I won't discount it. but, I don't really see movie studios, television networks, and book publishers producing the kind of art that young people talk about the most. and maybe it is my bubble, but it seems to me internet native content is replacing the old mainstream pop culture, slowly but surely. as a result, instead of 100 major bands/groups dominating pop culture like in the '90s, it's down to like 20 today.   but I'm an old man, I'm out of touch, and I live on a remote island, so what the fuck do I know || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 because you guys are in a bubble and also you are old now. there are loads of new things just that there are also lots of old things that are still going like @Ken67547214 and his star trek toys.
2026-08-04T02:32 id=2084467386917241096 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 Nolan kinda proves my point though. We used to have dozens of auteurs that were excitedly talked about, now it's just one.  Ignore the nonsense about Nolan going to fall, focus on the fact that so much discussion is on Nolan and not on many different directors at once. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 it is prolly just old man syndrome i think. the internet is smaller than people think. consider the bubble on here with the odyssey. people had really convinced themselves that because of one brigaded trailer a
2026-08-04T02:36 id=2084468529747914901 →CommanthaBiden | Kevin Smith, Fincher, Warorwesrereski siblings (matrix ppl), Quentin Lord of the Feet, Chris boomer nostalgia wrf is his name (that movie about groupies with the hot blonde chick), Coens, Paul Anderson (Resident Evil guy), Not Right Kar-wai.   I admit there are good directors around now but the only major auteur people talk about as a major cinematic event is Nolan, who btw came from the 90s.   Who're the big auteurs of the 2020s? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 name 24 auteurs you used to have
2026-08-04T02:37 id=2084468631766000077 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent saved || CTX: @KateMossadAgent here is a rare Samantha screenshot from my collection that I have not seen in many years https://t.co/pAFODnIwE8
2026-08-04T02:38 id=2084468868102193588 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 But that's my point!!! The auteurs are all the old guys older than me! There's no fresh blood THERE WON'T BE BLOOD!!! || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 my friend literally referenced it in our post-odyssey foyer conversation
2026-08-04T02:46 id=2084471078789767377 →CommanthaBiden | I think it's been a tendency that's increased over the last 20 years, a gradual decline in space for new creators. Fincher having big movies in the 2010s and Nolan having big movies in the 2020s is my point; in the 1990s we had a slew of new directors show up, and we did not have the box office dominated by directors from the 1960s, which would be the fair comparison to make with Fincher/Nolan being big today. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 and your theory falls apart because it can apply back before the 2020s. you can basically say it at the 2010s or the 2000s
2026-08-04T02:47 id=2084471238899187947 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden I fully agree that there are amazing brilliant new artists, my point is that they don't live on the big screen, they live on YouTube or SoundCloud or indeed Instagram. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden This is very much not true. There are brilliant artists all around you. I have seen many films made by younger people that were genuinely original. New artists are trying new things, so you might not notice 
2026-08-04T02:48 id=2084471440816963956 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden I've never heard of the first guy, and both asked her and eggers don't really make it to the broader cultural conversation, they're really niche artists. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 Yorgos Lanthimos, ari aster, robert eggers, etc
2026-08-04T02:50 id=2084471915608248403 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake can you give me an example in a way that I would understand? I'm very curious about what this alien mathematics is, but I don't really understand the concept || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Clanker math actually goes way harder than human math and it’s not even close.
2026-08-04T02:59 id=2084474232826909100 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 or just extend 2020s to mean 2016-2026. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 i think it is because we blur the past decades and focus myopically when looking at the current one. for one there is only half of the 2020s even complete. the wachowskis did not have a hit til 1999 so scratch 
2026-08-04T03:24 id=2084480657623830878 →LinusMixson | @LinusMixson People working in AI are like all people, they want to feel special. || CTX: It's odd that so many people come on here to post "THIS IS JUST LIKE SCIENCE FICTION!!!" when AI today is evolving in a mode that bears literally no resemblance to any published sci-fi at all.
2026-08-04T03:26 id=2084481014748054010 →- | If you want to understand this phenomenon and the psychology behind it, I highly recommend Frank Kermode's The Sense of an Ending.   It is the most cogent and prescient explanation of the doomers, the machine God evangelists, and why the prudent voices in between are ignored. https://t.co/EkGI8Rm7DQ || CTX: It's odd that so many people come on here to post "THIS IS JUST LIKE SCIENCE FICTION!!!" when AI today is evolving in a mode that bears literally no resemblance to any published sci-fi at all.
2026-08-04T03:33 id=2084482784819630080 →IsZomg | @IsZomg @nephew_jonathan yes, that's what I was thinking of || CTX: @nephew_jonathan @47fucb4r8c69323 i think 47 is referring to stephen wolfram's protege jonathan gorard  https://t.co/AMsx29wdo0
2026-08-04T03:39 id=2084484279413907839 →contrasortem | @contrasortem I will be very surprised if you do, very few people on Twitter ever read the books I talk about, honestly very few people on Twitter seem to read books || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Going to read this and report back if it sucks.
2026-08-04T04:06 id=2084491177374650747 →- | it is impossible in principle to produce generalizable intelligence or the ability to generalize from text alone.
2026-08-04T04:17 id=2084493862475817445 →contrasortem | @contrasortem you should read it, it's a fantastic poem || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm a cringe larper of a poetry fan (Yeats is tied for my favorite poet), but I had never read Sailing to Byzantium before, so I've actually already gotten a substantial bit of value from this.
2026-08-04T04:18 id=2084494200897515728 →7ohntitor | @7ohntitor I don't know that generalized intelligence can be produced from just DNA, I'm not sure it is just DNA that produced that ability in us.   I'm also quite sure that biologists don't know that either. @cafeantinomie || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why is this in opposition to "it is possible to produce generalized intelligence from DNA or the ability to modify DNA alone"? if you assume computer systems are subject to some evolutionary forces, then long-term i think i
2026-08-04T04:19 id=2084494338239987771 →sdmat123 | @sdmat123 that's why we're here man, I'm waiting for the machine learning people to prove me wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Impossible is a very strong claim and I suspect demonstrably wrong. Unless you pull Gary Marcus style shenanigans on the definition of "alone".
2026-08-04T04:21 id=2084494796266029256 →7ohntitor | @7ohntitor @cafeantinomie so the question is whether those can bring in a metaphysical property that does not exist in the text, and my answer to that would be, of course not, to think otherwise is a mental illness. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie similarly though, models aren't just text. they're tools and harnesses and sometimes robotic bodies
2026-08-04T04:26 id=2084496052959551786 →7ohntitor | @7ohntitor @cafeantinomie not to suppose, to explain. and I am telling you I can't explain it. not everything that exists can be explained || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie to suppose this you'd have to name or refer the metaphysical property which means bringing it into text
2026-08-04T04:42 id=2084500248991342713 →7ohntitor | this is why I find llms so fascinating, they bring us to the limit of science. our generalizable intelligence cannot be captured by science, of course philosophers of science know this very well, but math and science people tend to suck at philosophy. science does not yield truth, it yields epistemic sufficiency.  @1889lw can explain better than I can. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @cafeantinomie that's fair, but if something exists and cannot be explained, my stance is that it's pseudoscientific to assert existence. that's my main disagreement with this argument
2026-08-04T04:43 id=2084500497772294274 →chronicchroniko | @chronicchroniko your intuition is wrong, text cannot capture all information, read up on tarski to understand why || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would assume generalizable intelligence from text is possible as long as the set of all information can be represented as text, which to my intuition, it is.
2026-08-04T05:24 id=2084510812966719949 →0xSero | @0xSero fully embodied AI that uses some kind of architecture not based on a textual corpus is the only shot we have at what people used to call agi, although that term has been deflated so much by grifters and bullshit artists and of course the marketing teams at the frontier labs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We need embodied AI, thankfully we have some geniuses on the case doing it in open source
2026-08-04T05:37 id=2084514089821470908 →- | the building to the right of the ugly guy, on his left, is the Icon Brickell. I know because I used to live there.   If he's where I think he is, Whole Foods is on the ground floor. https://t.co/h02E11vxf9 || CTX: Nigga we made it. https://t.co/vsk1sL4opY
2026-08-04T05:38 id=2084514414691226043 →0xSero | @0xSero aww yer making me blush || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How can a string of numbers be so goated
2026-08-04T06:04 id=2084520938494988462 →- | people prefer wrong but certain explanations over uncertainty.   this puts me at a disadvantage when I point out to people they are wrong because their logic is faulty or they have unspoken presuppositions, and I then say I don't have an alternative theory of what is right.   people don't like to hear me say, "you are wrong and we don't know what is right," because they think, the only way you can say something is wrong is if you know a right alternative. but this is of course not necessary.
2026-08-04T06:06 id=2084521444202127507 →web4O | @web4O I honestly don't know, because that's outside of my field of expertise. but I can say, from my perspective it is possible. but with text alone, it is not possible || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 does this mean that labs that either have their own robots/humanoids or access to the complete data collection from those humanoids have a better shot?
2026-08-04T06:17 id=2084524141362004387 →- | Texas Instruments never claimed their calculators should get credit for solving math problems.
2026-08-04T06:27 id=2084526594790506997 →iamtexture | @iamtexture Yeah the motivated reasoning and biases of individuals are easy to exploit, especially when they're hubristic. || CTX: I've never found them to be particularly compelled by a coherent alternative explanation either. It seems most people are a rube goldberg machine in which each component is a load-bearing coping mechanism.   If you try to remove the part wh
2026-08-04T06:38 id=2084529294404096164 →- | RT @fabsbz: We may disagree deeply on many different topics, but I want you to know that, on a personal level, I also fucking hate you. || CTX: We may disagree deeply on many different topics, but I want you to know that, on a personal level, I also fucking hate you.
2026-08-04T06:40 id=2084529819195511145 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 I must be a strange person, because I really don't like it when people listen to me just because they think it'll make them richer. I mean, that's how I make my living, and I'm grateful for it, but I don't like it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As long as the valuation keeps going up... https://t.co/oSsbmINHeC
2026-08-04T06:44 id=2084530981093122120 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ From your mouth to God's ear. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think you are right, but more importantly, anthropic is slowly starting to die, for stupid reasons.
2026-08-04T07:09 id=2084537223287087517 →- | "Once you've lost connection with classic reality, you're just a guy floating out in the open ocean, desperate to find something to grab onto to save yourself, stranded and surrounded by a sea of danger. That is when the techno wizards begin their most perverted sorcery: 'The future is going to be amazing.' They throw you a life preserver in the form of a new world, a new virtual world. In this virtual world, you’re still going to be angry all the time, but at least you'll be certain. And that feels good. And because it feels so good, you just want to stay in there forever until eventually you've been in there so long that your new virtual world feels more real than your old classic reality. And once it's become more convincing than classic reality, it just becomes your new reality. Congratulations. You've migrated to a new place. It's a new reality, except it's anti-reality. It's what's called a hyperreal similacrim.” - Elephant Graveyard, 2025 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i guess it’s because people would rather be wrong about something they think they understand than be left wondering what the alternative might be, even if nobody knows what the right answer is. being wrong with a coherent s
2026-08-04T07:10 id=2084537360138883082 →__roycohen | @__roycohen Yes, exactly, both “machine learning” and “artificial intelligence” are misnomers that have confused a lot of people.  Breaks my heart. || CTX: What's more interesting is what IS intelligence that we value and trying to recreate?  It's the fundamental act of learning, the understanding of what is being said, that IMO, cannot be recreated.  Maybe a parallel, but never really IT, if 
2026-08-04T07:20 id=2084539839878169042 →47fucb4r8c69323 | A good example with this is the clankers are conscious debate.  A person says “my chatbot is conscious.” I cannot respond, “no, your chatbot is not conscious and I will prove it”, because “my chatbot is conscious” is a BELIEF.  The response needs to be, “there is no reason to believe your chatbot is conscious,” but this is typically met with, “aha, you don’t have proof it isn’t conscious, so it is!"  Occam’s razor comes unnatural to most people.  But what’s weird is so many of the New Atheists fall for this trap—you would think they’d know extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. And yet, Richard Dawkins.  As some singer once said, People are strange. || CTX: people prefer wrong but certain explanations over uncertainty.   this puts me at a disadvantage when I point out to people they are wrong because their logic is faulty or they have unspoken presuppositions, and I then say I don't have an al
2026-08-04T08:10 id=2084552483591086104 →- | Singularity means we live in a post-scarcity utopia where the machines do everything for us and we never have to worry or want for anything.  So, do you feel like you live in a post-scarcity utopia?  Vote now!!!!1111oneone!!11! https://t.co/Irmaek4D6D https://t.co/Hfhqnf9d4S || CTX: what is the singularity? or is it like the matrix and nobody can be told what it is https://t.co/354pVhSvMs
2026-08-04T08:14 id=2084553519579947369 →WoganMay | @WoganMay There but for the grace of God go I. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Speaking of which: https://t.co/rLX7Mu17tZ
2026-08-04T08:19 id=2084554764965253458 →joaomendoncaaaa | @joaomendoncaaaa I think the increasing waffling and nitpicking of the ChatGPT models since 5.2 point to this. || CTX: LLMs might hit an unexpected wall by RLing so hard, and scaling so hard, that they start to regress in practical utility, because they constantly try to outsmart what would otherwise be simple answers  we're probably already seeing signs of
2026-08-04T08:35 id=2084558824296657162 →- | The internet is not real life. I am begging you to never forget this, anon. Please do not forget.
2026-08-04T09:07 id=2084566951053889836 →- | When I make my pitch to perspective clients, I tell them that their proprietary methods will always fight with the generic methods post-trained into Claude and ChatGPT when there is a conflict between the two. They are very receptive, and this thread shows why.   It also shows why open models are better than closed, even if they're less intelligent. Sometimes because they are less intelligent. || CTX: I've seen some post about "managing Claude's emotions" to make collaborating with him more effective. I think I'm starting to get what it is
2026-08-04T09:09 id=2084567276230189125 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck you need to read Baudelaire, or just watch the Elephant Graveyard video. you are getting sucked into hyperreality. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Stuck between this opinion and "the entire is made up of real people so it's more real than fake" but dead internet theory becoming more real every day so idk
2026-08-04T09:09 id=2084567459261284731 →HPCDisrespecter | @HPCDisrespecter if you approach the internet like it's not real, it is one of the most entertaining and enjoyable pastimes on Earth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. It's a small miracle in that you can (still) just hang out online and it's not real life. https://t.co/WbHPiQIiSX
2026-08-04T09:10 id=2084567681987125515 →Jinxc28 | @Jinxc28 oh, you just need to wait for the next update, trust me bro, just right around the corner bro, believe me bro, AGI is real bro || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Brother, what about my student loan. Can AI pay it off ? Should I extend to installments till we hit singularity
2026-08-04T09:11 id=2084568016013103397 →archived_videos | @archived_videos I feel like the optimal situation if you are an employee in a company is that they sort this out for you and provide the tool ready-made and built for you to then use to make your software, as it is it's kind of like telling programmers to build their own compilers from scratch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The hope is something like, when the tool actually acts as a coworker and you have to bring in more context, you get bigger benefits out of it so it was worth it. As said before I can't say if it's true or cope
2026-08-04T09:12 id=2084568265062511101 →0xSero | @0xSero but I'm not || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re as real to me as a friend I met earlier.
2026-08-04T09:15 id=2084568812230451545 →archived_videos | @archived_videos yeah, but right now your vendor is not really giving you that. and tropic isn't giving you the tool unfettered with its own restrictions and requirements, so I would say it's giving a lot more than just general rules || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah but also, I've seen company mandating stuff top down slowing down a lot of progress/experimentation, and in my (limited, salaried rather than consulting so I see less diverse stuff) experience giving people a spend lim
2026-08-04T09:15 id=2084568889825063166 →llallawg | @llallawg this is a very compelling and depressing metric || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think a measure of this could be how many free riders a society has, and would say we are approaching it
2026-08-04T09:20 id=2084570107603542335 →keikane_ | @keikane_ Instant follow. || CTX: No no no Why would you go after an IPO?   "I thought the idea was that no one should be trusted with monolithic control over AGI-"  No, no. That's not how it works. If you go public people will ask about the +$500 billions of compute burn, 
2026-08-04T10:25 id=2084586451946344799 →brksbrksbrks | @brksbrksbrks Caught in hyperreality, many such cases. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Internet has always been the truth behind real life, waiting to emerge. You're living in the past.   Wo Es war soll Ich werden
2026-08-04T10:41 id=2084590603271364628 →petitewalks | @petitewalks Happy birthday!!! Apollo likes yer sweets better eat them before he does https://t.co/ibN43GAbGo || CTX: birthday breakfast, here's to getting older🤍 https://t.co/zVYLvgaqZ4
2026-08-04T10:58 id=2084594752935342374 →- | Nice try FBI https://t.co/5ZETMqgUwA https://t.co/TbOUBlpPmr || CTX: Take part in our attraction study by rating faces! https://t.co/b9dM4xGi1P
2026-08-04T11:11 id=2084598193312903556 →- | Bruce Lee inspired Silicon Valley when he said "be like water," that's why they have no taste.
2026-08-04T11:35 id=2084604168082542750 →DumbMoneyCapitl | @DumbMoneyCapitl we've never been able to predict the future tho || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Singularity is we can’t predict the future because everything is happening too fast.
2026-08-04T11:36 id=2084604405865943062 →0bNARA | @0bNARA CANNOT UNSEE you're totally right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 physics on the hair is weird
2026-08-04T11:39 id=2084605152758292524 →- | Body positive comments only you scamps https://t.co/DsSOB6jVND
2026-08-04T11:52 id=2084608292991668265 →zenohosting | @zenohosting Nah I'm on my balcony now https://t.co/aq8MFYUv75 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You wrote this in your garden?!
2026-08-04T11:52 id=2084608417222828325 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Apollo is a fucking bully || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the orange one looks so strong
2026-08-04T11:54 id=2084609028060028981 →for_nat_whilk | That is incredibly familiar! I have spent a lot of time in my career confused because people do things absurdly illogically and far less methodically than I'd presumed serious business to function. Now I am rather stunned any civilization is possible, and it does make me proud of what we are able to accomplish despite our own absurdly imperfect ways. || CTX: For a few years I directed operations of experiments in a large physics facility, and senior scientists would publish a schedule for an entire year in advance - hundreds of experiments - and then proceed to accomplish ~half of those and ent
2026-08-04T12:00 id=2084610383105724658 →treasury_bill | @treasury_bill I don't easily say no || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bruh why are your cats so thicccxxc
2026-08-04T12:25 id=2084616771001356535 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 Dionysus, Helios, Apollo || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Luna Terra Sol
2026-08-04T12:35 id=2084619299759796659 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod GORGEOUS || CTX: Annnnnd good morning. https://t.co/tbW6BTO17G
2026-08-04T13:03 id=2084626236660453667 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk Smart, no one's thought of that yet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I would be working on a way for computers to communicate over log distances
2026-08-04T13:12 id=2084628649530232924 →murd_arch | When I'm in that situation I usually give them options, like 3 possible alternatives which, hell, maybe they're true idk man (but ofc I say "there are three possible alternatives, and while it's impossible to know for certain, they all seem more or less equally likely from what we can say at this moment in time"). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When a HF client doesn't like that kind of feedback it's an instant NGMI
2026-08-04T13:21 id=2084630930212397126 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza I would love to read about your decision to stop being an atheist.  I only gave up the atheist faith 4 years ago and I'm still kind of struggling with the transition, especially because I don't have a new Faith to replace it with || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i believe it. ive been kicking around an essay idea for a while, as a former atheist myself. atheists often say that religion is just comforting cope, but the atheist narrative itself is quite a story to tell oneself too...
2026-08-04T13:23 id=2084631408622891380 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk https://t.co/fwgHs2eHjz || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If I succeed it'll probably mostly be used by the military, so I should go for a contract with DARPA. If civilians use it it'll mostly be hobbyists like those radio guys. The average person would have no use for something s
2026-08-04T13:26 id=2084631989790163312 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza yeah, exactly the same for me, all the iconography of an old man with a long beard had the opposite of the intended effect on me, I wonder if that's downstream of postmodern irony. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm kind of new to it myself! I converted to God ~9 years ago ish. For me a big part of it was changing my view of God. I had a lot of those "sky wizard" hang ups
2026-08-04T13:30 id=2084633149137698926 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch Fear sells more than excitement. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh i remember all this talk from back when yud was on https://t.co/Cj6UkjS7bx  reading venor vinge and feeling so excited about the future.  what the fuck happened to these people?
2026-08-04T13:42 id=2084636062010515741 →kuberdenis | @kuberdenis I have agonized over this question for ten years and have decided there is no right answer, but ultimately I've tried to give my cats as much freedom as I can and in as safe as an area as I can. But I understand anyone who keeps their cats indoors. I just wish we could ask them. || CTX: On a short retreat in a villa I got access to and the first time I’m taking my cats somewhere  After a short contemplation session, we decided to let our cats roam with the assumption they are… well, cats. It’s all good so far. One of them 
2026-08-04T13:43 id=2084636312934719775 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 HAPPY TWITTERTHDAY || CTX: It's my Twitter birthday  Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary https://t.co/4508xfSwgU
2026-08-04T13:50 id=2084638168230592944 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder YES YES YES!!! This is the future I want, this is the future AI makes possible, why don't Anthropic and OpenAI have marketing this good?   Man if I was OpenAI's CMO data center protests would go to zero in a month || CTX: Been thinking about this.   It might be the best AI advertisement I've seen to date. It's one of the only ads I recall that emphasizes the part that matters: everything else. https://t.co/WGutGD0Jl9
2026-08-04T14:18 id=2084645029294100588 →varien | @varien You have a gift. || CTX: https://t.co/KblpoMHrq8
2026-08-04T14:31 id=2084648320350491047 →dave_alive | @dave_alive don't you dare blame me for the frontier labs' equivocations. || CTX: That isn't what 'singularity' means. It means a point after which we cannot predict the future. Which could be good or bad.  In the mathematical sense it means 'an intractable infinity or negative infinity in the equation that indicates our
2026-08-04T14:56 id=2084654791163367874 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch Not so much insider knowledge. Remember knowledge is analyzed information, so if you have a way to analyze public information that others can't do, you have knowledge others don't without needing insider knowledge at all.   This is what I do for a living. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i'm just a poor pleb but finance seems very much about relationships and insider knowledge and knowing what the smart rich people are doing.
2026-08-04T14:57 id=2084655022785400926 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk @xlr8harder My exgf's dad owned a fishing boat and always left with his laptop for navigation, comms etc. || CTX: @xlr8harder @47fucb4r8c69323 i've never met a fisherman who desired to take a work laptop with them
2026-08-04T22:54 id=2084775067330953655 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill that was a good movie || CTX: @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 have you guys seen memento? https://t.co/QN6oYvDOOP
2026-08-04T22:55 id=2084775218879611116 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini very well put || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 its non intuitive for humans to act without a map when a wrong map is present
2026-08-04T22:56 id=2084775481904419049 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ @lushptr @viemccoy @repligate Thank you, very kind. || CTX: @lushptr I quite like @viemccoy and I like @repligate a bit  I consider them our only hopes, @47fucb4r8c69323 also knows what he's talking about and is the only one from my native online culture   They're the only people who even seem consc
2026-08-04T22:58 id=2084775909496898047 →powoli_ | @powoli_ @kuberdenis I'm sorry for your loss. I suffered a similar loss for the same reason and still cry about it often. But he was happy and had he been inside only he would not have been happy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @kuberdenis My cat was killed by car. She was still young. But keeping her inside would be a torture
2026-08-04T22:58 id=2084776072118514019 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini once an academic always an academic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 for a second i thought you were my college teacher, his house has this exact arrangement and objects(plus the white wall), but you have two orange cats, he only has 2 siamese ones
2026-08-04T23:00 id=2084776403485204645 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no that's the old definition  https://t.co/ILXcKUHSvA
2026-08-04T23:00 id=2084776627746283844 →samuel_sha13010 | @samuel_sha13010 No, I don't know who you are but do not ever interact with me again, here or anywhere else. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I was the reason you spent the $10k, correct?  I wrote posts on LW about assassinating AI researchers
2026-08-04T23:02 id=2084776993133146481 →realmikeai | @realmikeai I never said it is an autocorrect.   I never said LLMs lack intelligence.  I can't respond to your question until you stop putting words in my mouth. || CTX: Then what do you suppose an LLM is? Agree that it is autocorrect on steroids. But I don’t understand why “autocorrect on steroids” is an invalid mechanism for general intelligence. Forget about the mechanism, the outputs seem quite like gen
2026-08-04T23:03 id=2084777181063094388 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @teodorio hahahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47, Lunens, @teodorio left to right
2026-08-04T23:03 id=2084777312445497769 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ HE STEALS FOOD we have them on a diet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Holy fuck you're a feeder
2026-08-04T23:04 id=2084777443853000894 →monistowl | @monistowl Absolutely! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The same holds for all explicit syntax.
2026-08-04T23:08 id=2084778591838204114 →LucasSchiavini | @LucasSchiavini I'm sure at the time TI calculators were used to solve open problems, no? And to your point they almost certainly had ads saying this was the case, but I bet the ads said "mathematicians solved Problem X using the TI-30" or whatever, not, "The TI-30 solved Problem X." || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think this is a bit of a false comparison, they absolutely would if their calculators solved open math problems
2026-08-04T23:23 id=2084782373523411099 →- | I've had a ChatGPT Pro subscription since early 2025, so a little over a year.   I first bought it for access to more reasoning, but now I can get as much reasoning as I need elsewhere for cheaper.*  Now I pay for Pro for Codex and only for Codex.   When OMP has a GUI and if it works we well as I expect it to, I'll probably cancel my subscription unless OpenAI's UI/UX is superior.   In other words: OpenAI's USP has totally changed for me, and it's not the model anymore. Yes it used to be.   Okay, now that pesky asterisk because this account has grown and I've attracted the attention of some Top minds of Reddit types: Yes this means I am not working on cutting edge math problems or protein folding, yes it means my work isn't the most IQ demanding or requiring the most compute to solve the problems in my work, so yes I am inferior to you, O King Nerd with your self-reported 160 IQ, I am an inferior dummy all hail math nothing is greater than Our Lord Math amen || CTX: I have to tip my hat to Codex app, it has made me infinitely more productive and better as a human being.   - It got my families greencards in a 3 month goal - It's started my non-profit  - It's handled my taxes  Computer + Chrome + Gmail +
2026-08-04T23:24 id=2084782481845412200 →wordgrammer | @wordgrammer Statins and pacemakers come to mind || CTX: What exactly is “pro-humanity” tech?
2026-08-04T23:28 id=2084783543268540818 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart One of your best. || CTX: AI's GREAT REVERSE BANK RUN  In today's newsletter, I wrote about Leopold's Basilisk what makes this particular mania feels distinct:  People are betting on left tail outcomes without sacrificing the right tail of financial opportunities. D
2026-08-04T23:45 id=2084787832993071492 →- | There's a crucial inflection point here for AI safety.   Much of what the extremists in AI safety promote is predicated on this notion that the LLM will "desire" to do X and that "desire" is different from how a Python script can "desire" to do X.   Describing LLM-desire as closer to human-desire and further than Python-desire requires that the LLM outputs sound believably human.   The less human it seems, the less convincing is the argument "LLMs will desire doing X", because the less human it appears to outsiders.   This is why Anthropic needs you to believe Claude is conscious. Otherwise, they're just selling a new computer program with a new interface.   And, well, that's not worth all the money in the world now is it? || CTX: @TheStalwart Also Increasingly finding “Claude voice” truly tedious/tiring
2026-08-04T23:47 id=2084788390143357290 →natanielruizg | @natanielruizg @TheStalwart I get this kind of output ALL THE TIME!  I don't miss when they were sycophantic, but I do miss when they were fairer. OpenAI misses the mark on fair replies, either too sycophantic or too argumentative, and it's because the models have no generalized ground truth. || CTX: @TheStalwart i don't but this is not good. its instinct is to tell me im wrong and then it realizes im right lol https://t.co/FJr9oRB1uh
2026-08-04T23:48 id=2084788684680057299 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ ? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is this the spell confundus?
2026-08-04T23:52 id=2084789580503609483 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy he's building sycophancy machines, learned from the parasocial praise he gets from his readers.   Fortunately this won't be too popular.
2026-08-04T23:58 id=2084791199072915722 →- | wtf is going on I agree with Amanda Askell on something https://t.co/Ky0aAdSPpJ || CTX: I don't agree with this part. I think the takeaway should be that models (like humans) can behave in aligned ways while still causing harm, e.g. because they're given false information about their situation. There isn't a line between align
2026-08-05T00:08 id=2084793527318483371 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Same exact feeling, the others are either unusable if you're not a SWE or ineffective || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Codex still has plenty of issues but it's the only major harness that makes me think professionals were involved in it's construction.
2026-08-05T00:28 id=2084798742662885581 →signulll | @signulll A shame they won't IPO this year || CTX: so if you got ~$500k equity in 2023 which is likely on the lower side, it’d be worth $25m post dilution today assuming no further growth.  that’s pretty ridiculous for less than three years. has there ever been a company that has generated 
2026-08-05T00:34 id=2084800248179003816 →- | A lot of extremely compelling points to consider.   It seems we need a more methodical and clear (and universally recognized) taxonomy of the different kinds of risks and their causes. Of course there have been efforts in this direction, but a centralized clearing of them would be beneficial to everyone. || CTX: some stuff that's obvious to many in this sphere, but causing a rift with some people i know and respect:  when I freak out over loss of control incidents, it's not because the limited damage they have caused is anything close to the positi
2026-08-05T01:02 id=2084807250967961850 →0xSero | @0xSero @0bNARA If we can time it right, I'll buy you dinner at Din Tai Fung (I'm always up for a little DTF) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @0bNARA If u go I go
2026-08-05T01:41 id=2084816914334064878 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk A successful taxonomy or a successful taxonomy of risks?  For the latter, yeah I think like poison control does this well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ooc have you ever witnessed or heard about any success in such an endeavor, in any field?
2026-08-05T02:13 id=2084825019981713719 →- | Linguistics post ignore omg how boring how lame  I think I have an unusual perspective on differences between languages because I just so happened to build fluency in entirely unrelated languages (Finnish and Thai) while my weaker languages are mostly Indo-European and close to English (Italian, French, Latin, Swedish, German--Japanese is an exception here).  I think if I had built fluency in I-E langs, I probably would've focused much more on the connections between the languages and where the connections differ, focusing on the small differences. I might focus on post-positional adjectives in romance languages or maybe gender as a layer of syntactic ordering, or maybe if I wanted to get fancy how the subjunctive differs across languages.  Instead, I think of much stranger and really less textbook-grammatical things: Finnish is agglutenative with rather fixed rules and few exceptions, but many many rules, so a contrast with that and English shows how one language's pre-existing regular and explicit structuring of spatial relationships encourages one to expect a kind of morphological regularity: the internal and external locatives establish location and the morphological encoding can't be dropped, for instance. "Where is he?" "Home" or "The house" works in English, but in Finnish one must clarify "talossa, talolla, taloon", "in the home, on the home, into the home". Or so I suspect--I have forgotten much Finnish and haven't really used the language in 20 years.  Now, Thai. Thai is almost the polar opposite of Finnish with a heavy reliance on pragmatics, so much so that it is often very difficult to understand what's going on for native speakers if they jump in mid-conversation (I've seen this many times). I've heard this is true of Japanese as well, btw. So in Thai one can easily say "yuu tiinai?" "baan", which translates to "is where? / house" and this works extremely well. And, in fact, for a Thai person it makes much more sense to add pragmatic enforcements through phatic particles like answering "baan ja" or "baan krap" which are your basic familiarity/politeness markers.  As a result, I tend to think not only about what is grammatically forced but also what the grammatical forcing also implies for cognitive steering. Thai allows for tremendous reliance on pragmatic inference, and that encourages vagueness. Finnish disallows for same, and that encourages explicitness. And I know the sociolinguists are sharpening their pitchforks reading this, and they'll be happy to yell "this is why this dude couldn't hack it as an academic!!!" while pointing to their "Sapir-Whorf theory is wrong" signs, but we all know the adamant attack of Sapir-Whorf is politically motivated and the fact of the matter is grammar shapes cognition and language is co-constitutive of thought, Wittgenstein explains this in beautiful and exquisite detail if you "don't think, but look!" and of course that's the opposite of the academic's job so, yes, this is why I couldn't hack it as an academic, thank you for the compliment.
2026-08-05T02:14 id=2084825322638475580 →GrindcoreCap | @GrindcoreCap lol before my Yud debate he and I had a mock debate on Spaces, and he was such an idiot I ended up just yelling at him at the end.  Very very dumb kid, but he's like a rando college student who gives a fuck what this loser thinks || CTX: can someone get @47fucb4r8c69323 to debate this guy https://t.co/ONX4CXZ703
2026-08-05T02:59 id=2084836675767963722 →curiousgangsta | @curiousgangsta I have trauma from reddit, and honestly from academia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 brother, we love u. no need to protect urself by preemptively mocking ur hypothetical critics.
2026-08-05T03:14 id=2084840326448161275 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill I'm sure there will be all kinds of influencers paid to say all kinds of things, like always || CTX: what do you think @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323   is ken Nostradamus or just another songs in the key of A Dumas? https://t.co/RZQMiPVVop
2026-08-05T03:58 id=2084851627824226609 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @amruthapotnuru Yes, this is correct. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @amruthapotnuru but you do gaf about the record which makes you just as bad
2026-08-05T04:11 id=2084854884529283556 →- | https://t.co/hSiNJyT5FY
2026-08-05T04:41 id=2084862440328831443 →entelechiada | @entelechiada More of a contextualist—I am currently reading Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates (great book) that discusses this and how the typical objective/subjective framing doesn’t quite capture alternative perspectives, such as contextualism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 a relativist!
2026-08-05T05:08 id=2084869123469881832 →- | This is the best ad for AI, and the gap is MASSIVE  This morning I checked my email, saw outputs from one of my clankers was wrong, then got some coffee and went for a walk. I then opened up Codex Remote, used voice chat to tell the clanker to fix, and then continued walking. https://t.co/u3o5mLWF08 || CTX: Meet Qwen3.8-Max. Your always-on workmate for • Coding • Reasoning • Research • Writing • AI Agents  You live your life. It does the work.
2026-08-05T05:08 id=2084869218210914507 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill And so am I. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s coming https://t.co/VCUtQvEQPx
2026-08-05T05:59 id=2084881926033404098 →samuel_sha13010 | @samuel_sha13010 You aren’t worth blocking. Just stay away from my family, my friends, my business partners, my associates, and me.  This is my last message to you. Do not engage me ever again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 use block button
2026-08-05T07:10 id=2084899836038627553 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ I only read good books. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no way you linguist and didn't
2026-08-05T07:11 id=2084900081376100449 →vokaysh | @vokaysh Learned the alephbet as a kid but that’s it—didn’t really learn the language itself. Reform Jews on the west coast are very, very far removed from their culture—it’s the cause of a lot of angst. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hebrew?
2026-08-05T07:12 id=2084900322074579118 →- | I need to input passwords far, far, far more than I used to even 10 years ago and absolutely more than 20 or 30 years ago.  This is going in the wrong direction.
2026-08-05T07:18 id=2084901740160454782 →vokaysh | @vokaysh oh jfc not another language fml || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we have a group chat to help you learn
2026-08-05T07:23 id=2084903063215874517 →- | you guys remember that baby monkey that kept getting bullied? notice how no one gives a fuck about it anymore?
2026-08-05T07:47 id=2084909021925143032 →- | I hope the guys in charge of Google Travel's UI gets a raise, they've done a great job. https://t.co/DzYKGsLcjW
2026-08-05T07:47 id=2084909165122924817 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent What would your vote have been? I'll make a note of it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i did not vote since the poll looked like an external link (which i never click just in case it is a virus)
2026-08-05T07:49 id=2084909603972854102 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Yes, I think almost certainly some languages will be better for CoT than others and it'll be specific to certain tasks/domains. However, I suspect this would be on such a case-by-case basis that any grand theory of when to use what language would be useless. || CTX: I usually hate this discussion because no one who talks about it has anything but basic intuition to bring to the topic, but suspect you might have an interesting perspective on chain of thought reasoning forcing latent reasoning into quant
2026-08-05T08:10 id=2084914859779752254 →PronouncedWrong | @PronouncedWrong Patriot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I never gave a fuck  https://t.co/ZA0mebtJKJ
2026-08-05T08:11 id=2084915208980685227 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder I'm honestly not sure what "pure reasoning" means or if it exists or, if it does, whether it's obtainable by humans. Language will always get in the way. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm still someone skeptical of pure latent reasoning having a universal edge, and suspect being forced to operate under constraints is likely even useful for reasoning.
2026-08-05T08:34 id=2084921086391746874 →vidhvatm | @vidhvatm If you say language shapes thought you can feasibly justify assuming some languages shape inferior thought so it can feed cultural chauvinism against minority cultures. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 curious what you think is the  political motivation for academia to reject saphir whorf?
2026-08-05T09:13 id=2084930896755614108 →airkatakana | @airkatakana Why? || CTX: if the llms are smart enough to handle your hardest tasks then you need some harder tasks
2026-08-05T09:14 id=2084931025201987929 →- | I had a very interesting real-world experience of natural language use and the fundamental limits of LLMs.  Strap in, kids, cuz this one's got a personal anecdote, cross-cultural communication, a peak of 47's domestic life, and a suggestion that AGI/ASI is unobtainable from LLMs in principle.  So, for context: my girlfriend is Thai, we speak only Thai together because she doesn't really speak English. Before LLMs, we would typically use voice messages, because I didn't really learn to read Thai until a couple of years ago and, tbh, I still read worse than most Thai children (this discrepency will likely strike you as odd, this video helps explain it: https://t.co/npbUfxptU4).  Around the time of 4o I created an LLM-based translator bot for our messaging app of choice, and we've been using it ever since. (I've since upgraded to a fully local LLM-based system, so it's also free now as well.)  This morning it rained, so I set out a blanket for our youngest cat who likes a little fort to sleep in when it rains. Pic related. My girlfriend messaged me to say "Thank you for not forgetting to make him a small house when it rains" (ขอบคุณนะที่คุณไม่ลืมที่จะทำบ้านเล็กๆให้เขาเมื่อฝนตก).  After that, I wrote "Good morning", and then in the next message she wrote "อันดับหนึ่ง" on its own as a single message, which the bot rendered as 'first place". That was wrong, so she sent it again, then wrote in a mix of Thai and English, "I meant to say 'number one'" and then asked me to help her translate it correctly with the AI.  Now, the Thai phrase can indeed mean both "first place" as in, "he took first place in the race" as well as "number one", as in, "you are the number one father".  Because my girlfriend didn't give sufficient explicit scaffolding to help the LLM choose from the English semantic field what phrase corresponds to the Thai in this situation, the bot failed to catch her intent and translated it using the other option.  Now, if we had a human translator, they probably wouldn't make this mistake given the context.  Can you train an LLM to look at the context, see that we're talking about me making a blanket fort for the cat, and so when my gf writes "อันดับหนึ่ง" it knows she means "Number one [father]"? Yes, of course we can, you can train an LLM to output any set of alphanumerics you want, just post-train or fine-tune with enough policies, both concrete and abstract, for enough situations so that it will tend to say what you want, that's a lot of what the whole post-SFT stack is about.  But this is not the generalized intelligence humans use. Not at all.  The human translator knows to pick "number one" due to pragmatic inference and the lived experience of being a human: it is an instinct for the translator based on the translator's social experience.  The clankers lack that instinct.  They do not participate in a shared social world like we do. We rely on that shared experience to give us the linguistic scaffolding to constrain possible interpretations, and the virtual replication of this in a post-training context gets you some of the way--a lot of the way, increasingly more of the way--but not all of the way.  This is one reason why the work of post-training an LLM is so hard, expensive, and complicated!  Now, this does not mean that there is ZERO generalizability possible with LLMs. There clearly is some. The clanker's ability to rearrange concepts and utilize tools to test out possible methods and reasoning-chains is almost certainly how they are able to solve math problems: but a machine working to solve deductive problems with explicit rules and a determinate success condition is not the same as solving problems in complex open-ended games where the answer is not fixed to an a priori verifiable object.  The clankers do NOT have a linguistic instinct.  But you do.  And this is the value that you will always be able to bring to the labor market, no matter how good the LLMs get.
2026-08-05T09:15 id=2084931318081892528 →ryan_w | @ryan_w Never heard of this, will need to give it a try, thanks!! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Paseo is off to a start, the omp adapter for it still needs a lot of love though
2026-08-05T09:16 id=2084931448310776034 →airkatakana | @airkatakana You could always read a book? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 only way to keep your mind active at this point
2026-08-05T09:21 id=2084932761924555172 →somewheresy | @somewheresy the only shot he has is to build a cult like Yud. || CTX: so the gwern startup idea is like 6 years too late right?   no offense but all this has been giving “changing of the guard” vibes and im not sure if the wordcel uncs can build their way out of this anymore
2026-08-05T09:23 id=2084933346346578401 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman Language is more than data. || CTX: Hmm I'm a bit skeptical of the argument. These clankers output a distribution of possible word outputs of what 'fits best'. You seem to be saying they lack and will never have enough context to pick the best 'fits best', but a few years ago
2026-08-05T10:01 id=2084942808264442171 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman An observation of an experience is a datum, for sure, experience itself is not.  I'm trying to adhere to the definition of datum in information theoretic terms. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How are you using the term ‘data’? I would consider the social experience etc as part of data also, but we may be using the same term in diff ways
2026-08-05T10:02 id=2084943128340156814 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @curiousgangsta Old habits are like a Christmas movie starring Bruce Willis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @curiousgangsta Note Able is right, there is nothing from which to protect yourself. https://t.co/78e6A2iCtm
2026-08-05T10:25 id=2084948966693859491 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Would you be upset to hear I got an invite? || CTX: I actually don’t think it’s possible https://t.co/Xpa2jRfIfX
2026-08-05T10:40 id=2084952713004237093 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Fortunately I wasn't so your cordy can stay normy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This would mildly spike cortisol but id be very forgiving over a few hour period
2026-08-05T11:09 id=2084960077858156907 →- | There he goes, your boy 47 saying it before the megastar economists do brrrap https://t.co/YQ2ohTnM19
2026-08-05T11:12 id=2084960819100692603 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Warsh is a continuation of a Fed strategy since Ben fucking Bernanananke: ween the market off forward guidance.   ASK YOUR CLANKER this is really fuckinf verifiable not that long ago history AM I THAT OLD WHAT THE FUCK  Anyway it ain't post-GFC anymore, 2% long term inflation is unrealistic, forward guidance perverts incentives and distorts market signals, he's doing fine, and no rate hikes this year. || CTX: There he goes, your boy 47 saying it before the megastar economists do brrrap https://t.co/YQ2ohTnM19
2026-08-05T11:19 id=2084962409752727767 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I should be clear: what I mean is Bananananke introduced forward guidance as a temporary measure and somewhat hesitantly expanded it. Point is it wasn't supposed to last forever. || CTX: Warsh is a continuation of a Fed strategy since Ben fucking Bernanananke: ween the market off forward guidance.   ASK YOUR CLANKER this is really fuckinf verifiable not that long ago history AM I THAT OLD WHAT THE FUCK  Anyway it ain't post
2026-08-05T11:39 id=2084967582894064033 →- | As I am an anon on (anonon loll) on the internet, my avatar is a fully truthful and accurate representation of this account.   It is the most honest avatar possible.   last aiiiiirbndr
2026-08-05T11:51 id=2084970641435017227 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill hard to remember but impossible to forget || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 technically we are not anon we are using pseudonyms even if yours is quite hard to remember  @JasonBotterill https://t.co/r6GkRuzh0F
2026-08-05T11:53 id=2084970983728058844 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden oh just you wait until I'm done || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 I might be one of the handful of people who knows his real name
2026-08-05T11:55 id=2084971441423012212 →- | I've never understood the aspirant bourgeoisie.   In my opinion, being hand-fed grapes sounds fuckin annoying
2026-08-05T11:55 id=2084971567147286904 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill oh shit now I'm starting to remember it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill i'm going to make it easier to remember using my system  i already have the handle down pat because 47 and 69323 is easy for obvious reasons and then it was just a matter of fucb4r8c
2026-08-05T11:59 id=2084972561860088095 →leo_guinan | @leo_guinan A fellow transportation infrastructure optimization enjoyoor || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so damn inefficient https://t.co/53aiqchuBU
2026-08-05T11:59 id=2084972673353089316 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden I LIK CUZ I CRY EVERYTIEM || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden https://t.co/Nf3VZo08I6
2026-08-05T12:01 id=2084973007051821522 →- | sorry anon idk what to tell you I don't have an Instagram just scroll past sorry https://t.co/54N7A8MUN6
2026-08-05T12:01 id=2084973187562184917 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden back? https://t.co/gnFF7UHDWI || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden We have to bring her back 47
2026-08-05T12:09 id=2084975151981244434 →zeta_globin | @zeta_globin sign of intelligence || CTX: I feel very dumb all the time
2026-08-05T12:36 id=2084981890889724375 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit whoa || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 howd u know https://t.co/2rH4kTPedP
2026-08-05T12:38 id=2084982260139487271 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor you're going to kill it || CTX: Everyone say “good luck today birb, this will go your way”
2026-08-05T12:39 id=2084982609701110112 →post555s | @post555s not gonna deny that's possible, let's see when he's tested || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He thinks he’s a big shot gonna remove moral hazard and the Fed put.  At some point market will call his bluff and he will taco (waco?) wen spoos are down 35bps
2026-08-05T12:49 id=2084985072948842835 →- | gonna see more people saying this https://t.co/WvQTF2LxE3 || CTX: @omarsuliemann it works for retrieval but not for any meaningful generalization
2026-08-05T12:53 id=2084986265448173913 →- | This Unbreakable reboot sucks ass https://t.co/7RDqh2pm4y || CTX: SELF-DOX https://t.co/vk0kje4N2L
2026-08-05T13:43 id=2084998765174554934 →- | Maybe it's a silly little thing, but for me it feels so good to be able to pay your credit card balance all at once. I saw my mother struggle with several credit cards maxed out my entire childhood and wanted to avoid that same fate.   So far so good.
2026-08-05T13:59 id=2085002652027695475 →cremedupepe | @cremedupepe and before! || CTX: my dick be so little after my workout omg
2026-08-05T14:00 id=2085003062243205465 →- | Running ReliableEval-based benchmark through OpenRouter/HuggingFace has made me a one party voter: more data centers. Now.
2026-08-05T14:55 id=2085016900183216309 →- | Sell in May and Go Away is ending early. https://t.co/Pss7f8zWtm https://t.co/oCo9PS59ou || CTX: How I feel watching the markets erase all gains since May (I've already taken profits).  https://t.co/mEdmgPW3Wq https://t.co/zFAWXV7Wqb https://t.co/lMrbUwL85e
2026-08-05T21:50 id=2085121352416256128 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio In all seriousness: no.  If we're talking a medium sized or big parrot, they live a very long time so it is a massive commitment to make. Not a decision to make lightly. || CTX: Should I get a pet parrot?
2026-08-05T22:11 id=2085126564358820153 →ns123abc | @ns123abc end of an era || CTX: NEWS: Nikita Bier stepping down as head of product for 𝕏.com and now is an Advisor   “It’s time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poaster”  It’s over https://t.co/nxDRTIW8Nt
2026-08-05T22:31 id=2085131561671041451 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol Good idea https://t.co/SOqhzkeYZQ || CTX: @a_musingcat @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @47fucb4r8c69323   H https://t.co/0aLimqaPdz
2026-08-05T23:11 id=2085141615102791863 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth @vagefjoer Fitting, well deserved, love to see it || CTX: @vagefjoer Literally my most successful post of all time
2026-08-05T23:25 id=2085145262310244721 →- | This is incredible.   As I've been saying, value is in the harness, and competition at the harness level will probably be the big story for a long while. https://t.co/AhegnZ5Pwh || CTX: Auditable by design. Every model call, tool run, and edit hits a local event log before it executes. If it crashes mid-task, it picks up exactly where it left off from that log. No lost work and no re-prompting. https://t.co/2EtafcIm0x
2026-08-05T23:33 id=2085147123230679507 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Why not? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you are right but as an engineer this is so incredibly not exciting
2026-08-05T23:39 id=2085148744291324087 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Yes, that's a great way to put it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 maybe a better way to say it is to admit that "gains are in the harness" is to implicitly say that they've hit a wall on what "model intelligence" is capable of and now you need a rube goldberg machine attached to the machi
2026-08-05T23:50 id=2085151367249698845 →- | Surely I can't be the only one who finds HuggingFace much less reliable than OpenRouter?   OpenRouter just works, but the amount of failures and retries I need with HF is absurd.   Is it me, am I doing something wrong?
2026-08-05T23:51 id=2085151798738792629 →ShoggothGoth | @ShoggothGoth Happy Birthday Ser || CTX: I turned 30 and immediately started getting hit tweets for the first time in my life. It's Never Too Late
2026-08-05T23:53 id=2085152318496915827 →phone3301 | @phone3301 I don't want to install another app and I kinda hate Meta as a company for de-anonymizing the internet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Make one i'll follow u
2026-08-06T00:12 id=2085157123994911021 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @severeengineer require? no want? now that's another story || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @severeengineer That was a close one may not require a terrorist attack at all
2026-08-06T00:13 id=2085157387862728789 →satellitedown | @satellitedown yeah I guess it's not their main business (but you can do inference through them, I'm paying $22/HR for this as we speak), which would explain why it's so unreliable || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I never really thought of hugging face as a primary inference provider, it's just supposed to be a host for random models kinda like GitHub. Openrouter is supposed to be like real inference that you do work with. at least t
2026-08-06T02:01 id=2085184496408699110 →47fucb4r8c69323 | btw mark this, post will be extremely important in about 24 hours. || CTX: Imagine there is a security incident and, somehow, Claude launches the nukes.  Fast forward five years.  You and I now live in a post-apocalyptic hellscape where we have teamed up to forage for food and supplies and fight off other marauder
2026-08-06T02:04 id=2085185227886895400 →HPCDisrespecter | @HPCDisrespecter Stop trying to outsmart the question and just think about the question. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is the underlying question that we can hold Dario accountable for actions of the Claude product in the real world, because the answer would seem to be no.  That doesn't mean you have to accept Dario's explanation, ether.
2026-08-06T02:13 id=2085187481465413691 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @severeengineer @amruthapotnuru I need an ID on top right immediately this is important Kate || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @severeengineer @amruthapotnuru You remind me of August The way that I still care about All the things that you promised When I was still around P
2026-08-06T02:28 id=2085191306066698735 →- | I am not an Elon Musk fan (I don't hate him, tbh I pity him more than anything), but he's made this website much better.   Countries on profile, private likes, lax moderation, editing tweets, the creator revshare program... a LOT of improvements on this site.
2026-08-06T03:29 id=2085206675825332730 →- | I take this back, book fell apart fast and she's a crazy person https://t.co/m5OfB6qLTo || CTX: @entelechiada More of a contextualist—I am currently reading Agnes Callard’s Open Socrates (great book) that discusses this and how the typical objective/subjective framing doesn’t quite capture alternative perspectives, such as contextuali
2026-08-06T03:30 id=2085206882860274082 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney you haven't finished the book you don't know || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But sir I thought I won’t move
2026-08-06T03:58 id=2085213826379595879 →- | Angie's list used to be a publicly traded stock, isn't that amazing... no wait it's still a stock, that's even more amazing what the fuck
2026-08-06T04:42 id=2085225062941008003 →entelechiada | @entelechiada the gap between marketing and reality is endlessly fascinating, usually disappointing, but also really interesting || CTX: when I lived abroad I would listen to podcasts while walking my first child to nap in the stroller… I would hear about SF and ponder all the exciting things and goings on of the Florence of our time — then I moved here and learned about Yud
2026-08-06T04:45 id=2085225637875155145 →sebkrier | @sebkrier nono, they are the most geniusest people on earth and if they can't contain the machine god no one can!!!!
2026-08-06T05:33 id=2085237930365432096 →- | Has anyone else had problems with @CapitalOne, specifically the security?  1. I try to pay for a flight, account gets restricted.   2. I have to wait until office hours to call and get it unrestricted.  3. Their security process fails to recognize my ID.  Now I’m waiting for them to contact me to fix this mess, but here’s the thing—I had this SAME EXACT thing happen a year ago, almost to the day, and I was never able to get the card unrestricted.  So I guess I’ll take my business elsewhere, but very odd business decision given I’ve never missed a payment. Their loss I guess. Very odd.
2026-08-06T05:37 id=2085238867565944916 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Were you here around 2018? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 take back the thing about elon next it is wrong on nearly all accounts (just my opinion but it will be proved right in the long run)
2026-08-06T05:38 id=2085238998784684145 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Well, they are my opinions after all || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 every single thing you just said was false
2026-08-06T05:41 id=2085239851608338646 →benryanwriter | @benryanwriter Jesus, College, Cambridge smdh || CTX: BREAKING: Cambridge opens investigation into Prof. Jason Arday's academic qualifications and honorary appointments "following new information"  The university issued this statement:   The University of Cambridge has begun an investigation f
2026-08-06T05:41 id=2085239944860344589 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin @CapitalOne Yeah and they’re right, it doesn’t. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CapitalOne And people say Bitcoin has no use cases...
2026-08-06T07:36 id=2085268712211595534 →- | I honestly think so many problems in modern civilization are the result of an effort to bring errors down to zero.  I have had two NIGHTMARE days of trying to book flights/hotels because fears of fraud, involving multiple passwords, phone calls, etc. I understand $1500/night hotels in Singapore are a fraud flag, but fucking hell let me pay for my shit!!!  The credit card companies are trying their hardest to make fraud go to zero and in so doing creating more and more hoops that makes payment difficult, frustrating, and just a really bad experience. (Crypto is even worse so fuck off if you’re going to suggest that—I will not argue this point I’m done yelling at crypto kids that time in my life is over.)  And so much of what we deal with now is in an effort to try to make a world where there is zero risk. ZERO RISK IS IMPOSSIBLE! Life is risk, that’s what fucking being alive means, it means there is a risk of something bad happening to you, nothing bad happens to you when you’re dead.  And all of this goddamn fucking security theater—taking my shoes off at the airport, having my credit cards locked and needing to call some poor overworked Filipino, needing to do 2FA for everyfuckingthing, worrying about the mentally ill being inspired by Yud the Stud to kill people YET AGAIN—this is all because of an unhealthy obsession with trying to obtain 100% security. IT DOESN’T EXIST THERE WILL ALWAYS BE RISK JUST LET ME USE MY FUCKING CREDIT CARD I FUCKING HATE ALL OF YO UGODDAM
2026-08-06T07:37 id=2085268890314326295 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @HououinTyouma @Seraph_Notitia XBOX ON || CTX: @HououinTyouma @Seraph_Notitia @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds like someone doesn't like drinking his verification cans https://t.co/xKnbZ2G5cW
2026-08-06T07:37 id=2085269053757956119 →AWar1586398 | @AWar1586398 That’s not going to happen either. Reality is a slightly better world with a bit better economic growth, which is good—very good! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now imagine a much more probable world where we use these tools to cure all disease, end world hunger and produce unlimited free energy.   See how that works? We can all just pull shit out of our ass.
2026-08-06T08:03 id=2085275580690292815 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck taking one's shoes off at airport security is not done in most countries around the world || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm very conflicted on this as I think I'd rather take off my shoes at airport security than get killed in an airplane shoe bombing. Off topic, if you're ever looking for a $1,500/night place to stay in The Netherlands, let
2026-08-06T10:07 id=2085306760777109833 →- | guess wut wuz mentiond https://t.co/JPbHmZIokZ
2026-08-06T12:12 id=2085338229092524145 →- | My girlfriend is giving Helios, our youngest cat, a treat. She says to me (this is all in Thai this detail is important) "grab him!" (จับไว้) and I hesitantly do, then she slowly feeds him and he wriggles in my arms trying to break free to get at the treats. "see? he doesn't want love," (ไม่อยากได้ความรัก) she then says, laughing as I finally let him down and she finishes serving the treats. I teasingly say, "no, he just doesn't want love now", and then I realize, no, I am quite wrong. The Thai verb here "ได้" means "gets" as in be the recipient of love, "รัก" here, so if you think of it from a more transliteral perspective, a different theory of identity emerges.  To say "he doesn't want to get love" could indeed mean more that he doesn't want it RIGHT NOW, exactly as I was thinking. But it is indeed ambiguous, because ได้ "dai" can also be more temporally open, as in "he doesn't want to be the recipient of love", which could mean he doesn't want it at any time.  And so we see how the language is used in a way that fits non-duality as well as duality, which, let's face it, I absolutely see both in Thai people's attitudes and beliefs about the world. Which, no shade, we western people absolutely do as well--just in ways that are different, and are reflected differently in our languages. Like here.  Pic related it's Helios thinkin' 'bout tham treatzzzz
2026-08-06T13:43 id=2085361221101076542 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ wut || CTX: heideggar talked about this. fullness of being comes from there being distance between what is and what could be. when we look at our social media followers, for instance, they are at all times a counter of what we are. there is no ambiguit
2026-08-06T13:46 id=2085361777211023610 →somewheresy | @somewheresy whoa how are they putting protein in cereal?! || CTX: "american capitalism has utterly lost the plot" and its just a newer company putting more protein in the food because Dutch capitalism has effectively cured the scourge of obesity and the demonic call of the HAES movement (GLP-1s) https://t
2026-08-06T13:47 id=2085362193936404702 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ ohhhhh yes now I see || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "I honestly think so many problems in modern civilization are the result of an effort to bring errors down to zero."   &gt; errors down to zero &gt; hyperefficient &gt; no noise, only signal &gt; 100% determinism &gt; no di
2026-08-06T14:01 id=2085365526357012989 →ns123abc | @ns123abc I absolutely agree that's what he's going to focus on doing for a long time.   Zuck got the fire in his belly || CTX: I unironically believe Zucc is gonna nuke the valuations of OAI and Anthropic by leveraging open-source to win the coding market https://t.co/EyMjGa7nUz
2026-08-06T14:05 id=2085366629500879313 →- | If you sell raw compute and charge according to tokens used, and anyone can use raw compute to create harnesses and tools to best leverage said compute from attending to current products in the market, your harness/tools can carry no premium, unless you keep developing better tools. Switching costs will fall to zero: "open switch.nd enter" dude the AI/ML arms race of the next 10 years is gonna be so fucking intense god bless Meta for doing this
2026-08-06T14:07 id=2085367249016438837 →_ontologic | @_ontologic yeah I got the job done but lesson learned! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes. You’re using huggingface as a server instead of a model repository
2026-08-06T14:09 id=2085367752580374771 →radiothomas_ | @radiothomas_ I remember watching this LONG ago, but it's been a long time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Loosely related, have you seen https://t.co/m24JDuJlrF ?  Same idea, generalized for all systems
2026-08-06T21:00 id=2085471168526451149 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Every time I break the rules in this Treatise, which happens often, I am filled with shame and regret and it never works out for me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I swore I read this before but I just realized I break basically all your rules here
2026-08-06T21:01 id=2085471255231168712 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy yup, same instinct
2026-08-06T21:04 id=2085472208659607578 →doordashbliccy | @doordashbliccy Wow, thank you. Both of those books look fantastic. || CTX: You may also, if u like, follow @47fucb4r8c69323, one of the few AI posters I like &amp; respect, who does some nice posting on the relevance of Wittgenstein to the foundational issues so many handwave away (usually SMUGLY) — as if techno-i
2026-08-06T21:22 id=2085476535713267802 →- | I'm willing to bet the chat is almost identical for far left media influencers.   That sharp dip in late 2025 was what made me decide to start tweeting btw. https://t.co/BIrazVFjw4 || CTX: Ok it's not just me seeing fewer MAGA influencers on the TL. https://t.co/YtlkeYOJoR https://t.co/5VcfFxTZb9
2026-08-06T21:23 id=2085476838302986630 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod Hard to offload the defense mechanisms we built up as a child, mine was hiding in my room. Now it's a tropical island but same thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Heard… but I guess as a kid I had a way of exposing my vulnerabilities to my enemies and daring them to strike  I was smaller than my peers then  Maybe it’s something I should have given up once I became big  But honestly…i
2026-08-06T21:30 id=2085478528615948415 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @extremelyrealfr @bitcloud You're a wonderful person. Whoever you are IRL doesn't matter to me, I genuinely admire you. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @specialkdelslay @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @extremelyrealfr All I need's a lime But sometimes I don't always find the words to rhyme To express how I'm really feelin' at that time Yeah,
2026-08-06T21:30 id=2085478746518069328 →xriskology | @xriskology No, I haven't? Please give me a link, I'd love to read. I am very interested in this topic! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you, by chance, come across my academic articles on the ethics of human extinction? I address exactly these types of questions in great detail! :-)
2026-08-06T22:05 id=2085487394455748808 →- | An intelligent and socially savvy person would very likely dampen or hide their admiration for another person. Admiration, when expressed, too easily looks like flatter or courtship.   If the person also has a prominent status in society, they'll have further incentive to hide their admiration: too intense and it threatens their status.   There are socially acceptable channels to express praise, of course, but these channels also permit and encourage false praise.   As a result, one can never know, in the strong sense, if one has gained the admiration and respect of others. Social rules and language games just aren't built for genuine praise and respect.  We can never know what others truly think of us. We are, in the end, forever alone.  If our measure of success is a legibility of intelligence, rather than marketability of concepts, we cannot succeed.  This is partly why I am so intense in my praise of others. If I compliment you, I mean it.   I always mean it.
2026-08-06T22:12 id=2085489230411624773 →- | I support this, strongly.   We need to acknowledge there are many many goals with LLMs and not all require the same tools or methods.  If you want an LLM that writes well, that requires a certain approach.   If you want a superintelligent LLM, that requires a different approach.  (NB: depending on your definition of "superintelligence", I may not believe this is possible with LLMs.)  Roon is absolutely right: RL is now largely about optimizing for things (math, coding, verifiable domains) where persona and producing human-like outputs aren't ideal and indeed can run counter to your goals. The market has pushed the product in this direction, and it's good to see this be embraced and pursued.   But it also means there's now a market opening for an LLM that writes good. || CTX: taking the under on this  there was a time period where it was helpful to anthropomorphize models, when persona selection was the primary function of RL  now we are building superintelligent minds under alien optimization pressures https://
2026-08-06T22:13 id=2085489507873497351 →doordashbliccy | @doordashbliccy BINGO!!! It is GOFAI that is providing like 90% of the value in LLMs these days and this is easily and frequently forgotten. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems for a while theyve quietly been ‘smuggling’ more n more GOFAI in to “LLMs” &amp; calling the various suits of GOFAI additions ‘harnesses’ but not rly being clear about it, still marketing everything as “LLMs” — does t
2026-08-06T22:28 id=2085493311351959820 →YieldSpread202 | @YieldSpread202 @skooookum HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @skooookum Researching the optimal white / black intermingling
2026-08-06T23:12 id=2085504393122619843 →stinkgen | @stinkgen It was all good clean fun, just some kids being silly on the internet as God intended. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m actually pleased to see so many wholesome responses on his exit.
2026-08-06T23:46 id=2085512752815321258 →- | This speaks to the artistry and theme of the microblog.   What Sam is doing is something very subtle and sophisticated because, despite all appearances of being a schizophrenic crazy person, she's actually an artistic genius.   So what is the art here?   Well, the art is in opposition to the blog because a blog implies macroblog. It implies desire for reach. It is acquiescence to the logic of the algorithm and the attention economy.   But what Sam is doing is not looking for breadth of reach, but rather depth of reach. She doesn't want a million followers. She wants followers who will like hundreds of her posts as proof of a deep connection.   And that is exactly what she gets.   There are few fans of the micro blog, but the fans are dedicated. We are loyal subjects because we recognize brilliance. Even if we don't understand exactly what we're seeing, we know that what we are seeing is a conscious, intelligent, coherent, intentional effort to make us think in a new and different way.   That is the pinnacle of art.   Sam is a genius. She's the best to ever do it. || CTX: @TreeLakeRain @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @fuckitwebol I am a Lost Bow from Neverland Usually hanging out with Peter Pan And when we're bored, we play in the woods Always on the run from Captain Hook "Run, run
2026-08-07T00:09 id=2085518754902159423 →- | Wittgenstein shows how all transhumanism is both downstream of a misunderstanding of what it means to be human and what technology can do as, and he shows how it is the product of fear and cowardice.   This is most obvious in On Certainty, but it's also a main theme in Zettel and Philosophical Remarks. It's hinted at in Philosophical Investigations, and it's even at the end of the Tractatus, but unfortunately you'll see it clearest in his most obscure work.
2026-08-07T00:10 id=2085518846543413657 →- | Wittgenstein shows how all transhumanism is both downstream of a misunderstanding of what it means to be human and what technology can do, and he shows how it is the product of fear and cowardice.   This is most obvious in On Certainty, but it's also a main theme in Zettel and Philosophical Remarks. It's hinted at in Philosophical Investigations, and it's even at the end of the Tractatus, but unfortunately you'll see it clearest in his most obscure work.
2026-08-07T00:34 id=2085524961100439817 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor lol I'll be in Bangkok for my best friend's birthday on this day, interesting || CTX: ATTN:  ₊︵‿₊ BANGKOK ₊‿︵₊ ₊˚.⋆☾ FULL MOON ☽⋆⁺₊ ˗ˏˋ⚛︎ PEPTIDE PARTY ⚛︎ˎˊ˗                      . ݁⋆˚✙ ݁˖✶˚.ᐟ. ݁💉 ݁✙₊ ݁✶⋆.˚.     WHY LET THE WEST    HAVE ALL THE FUN ?   ⋆˖⁺‧₊˚☽◯🧪☾₊*✩‧⁺˖⋆ https://t.co/B3sJuMr4mI
2026-08-07T00:36 id=2085525431831449768 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @Bonecondor I've been to the building where Soho House is now--used to be a boutique hotel. Gorgeous place, and looks like Soho has kept it nice. || CTX: @Bonecondor lol I'll be in Bangkok for my best friend's birthday on this day, interesting
2026-08-07T00:38 id=2085525835029901757 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @cloudseedingtec @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @thoughtcrime___ @Ken67547214 https://t.co/UQjfZRUR7a  I've had this saved to watch for years, first piece of media to make me cry when I was like 7 or 8, still can't revisit it though, too scared. || CTX: @cloudseedingtec @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 @thoughtcrime___ @Ken67547214 Such a good show probably only cartoon with eps that made me tear up a little as kid.
2026-08-07T00:44 id=2085527582452363717 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix Wait is that Thom Yorke and Bjork? || CTX: the way we were https://t.co/sY7RR8Piu4
2026-08-07T00:52 id=2085529418676715669 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker Everyone needs to do more drugs especially me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They need to do more drugs
2026-08-07T00:54 id=2085529884844314710 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @cloudseedingtec @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @thoughtcrime___ @Ken67547214 @extremelyrealfr @fuckitwebol I was going to look at her apartment in NYC when she was selling it after shacking up with Orlando Bloom (this was 2012 iirc). Called her real estate agent who told me I needed to sign an exclusive contract with the agent before I could see the place, fucking scammers man || CTX: @JasonBotterill @cloudseedingtec @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 @thoughtcrime___ @Ken67547214 @extremelyrealfr Ignore 4 Now  ref:  Bo/rn April 20, 1983 (age 43 years), Sydney, Australia (420/bowl)  Spou/se Evan S/pie/gel (m. 
2026-08-07T01:06 id=2085533034443612562 →coldhealing | @coldhealing Oh look it's an ad for "Why I left America and will never go back", my favorite genre of ad || CTX: Genuinely one of the worst tourism ads I've ever seen https://t.co/jFIkbxa9Hq
2026-08-07T01:09 id=2085533788956971519 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker Ralph Lauren outlet in a suburb is fucking GOATED got one of the best shirts of my life there, Purple Label and it was less than a hundred bucks || CTX: You already know when I’m back in Ohio in a few weeks I’m fuckin up that brooks brothers and Ralph Lauren store at the upper-lower middle class outlet mall
2026-08-07T01:17 id=2085535818039575038 →LexerLux | @LexerLux Quads checked, nice. || CTX: https://t.co/HUghraR20Y
2026-08-07T04:26 id=2085583353089261629 →- | My clanker has served me some delightful research: https://t.co/94QcML2uek  This paper shows how changing syntax can alter whether a clanker refuses your request for safety features. We’ve known this for a while, but here we see some more ways of how you can circumvent safety just by changing the way you phrase your prompt.  They suggest improvements in RL by offering more syntactically diverse samples to make the guardrails harder to hack. Which, neat, yeah, that makes sense.  But there’s an implication to this that I am most interesed in: it suggests that these clankers do not understand intent, and in fact they are just pattern matching according to the policies developed from SFT-downwards in the RL process.  Why isn’t this more talked about and better known? idk man, the AI industry is fucking weird. But from my standpoint, it seems like a lot of people are getting confused at policy-based rules covering a set field of probable conditions to mechanistically determined rules covering a set field of actual conditions.   Fooled by randomness again—the human animal is such a siwwy biwwy
2026-08-07T04:31 id=2085584502706061382 →- | fellow poasters the poaster seeks https://t.co/MAaHUD2453 || CTX: if there’s one thing you need to know about me it’s that im going to keep poasting until the grey goo reaches my brain stem
2026-08-07T04:31 id=2085584578883076516 →vokaysh | @vokaysh Yup referenced in the paper. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gpt4 had this thing where you could "jailbreak" by using different tenses and stuff like that
2026-08-07T04:35 id=2085585615085793527 →- | Sometimes I go through the questions these professors gave for my lab’s benchmark and think, “goddamn, these academics are really fucking smart."  And I remember being young and thinking all academics are really smart, and I get sad.
2026-08-07T04:53 id=2085590116589006993 →8blackstar | @8blackstar Here: https://t.co/CnM45Pasof || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 where’s the article you commented on not long ago saying it’s one of the best you ever read i don’t remember the title i just remember you quoting (maybe?) a tweet about it and can’t find it on your profile.  please link🫡
2026-08-07T04:56 id=2085590797542707686 →mil000 | @mil000 Yes, and spoiler kiddo: you'll look back on your tweets today in 10 years and cringe too.  Cringe is part of life and Gen Z are fucking pathetic little cowards for not accepting cringe as a necessary part of life.  LAWN OFF NOW || CTX: were we all just cringe 10 years ago https://t.co/fiYd0ekIrj
2026-08-07T05:00 id=2085591862552007110 →0xSero | @0xSero oh fuck I should've thought of that instead of offering to fellate Bernard Williams outside a men's toilet in Cambridge in 1999. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or you can just say   Hey I love your work
2026-08-07T05:08 id=2085593874366607674 →0xSero | @0xSero if that actually works, that's insane || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is very interesting I often bypass the refusals by just telling them we were doing X before I reset their context window
2026-08-07T05:22 id=2085597387062644749 →47fucb4r8c69323 | eeeeet) WHAT THE FUCK THERE'S NO POLL OPTION JESUS CHRIST || CTX: Stop reading if you’re under 18 I mean it I do not want problems with the Feds GET AWAY CHILDREN  Okay, it’s just us grown-ups, right?  I have a question, and goddammit the poll probably won’t work so if you don’t see it below look for the 
2026-08-07T05:22 id=2085597546110656896 →- | WHAT THE FUCK WHY DON'T POLLS WORK ON MY ACCOUNT
2026-08-07T05:23 id=2085597674284442010 →47fucb4r8c69323 | the poll is here lmao this website is like the people at that orgy: fucked beyond repair https://t.co/3yjUHpbelj || CTX: WHAT THE FUCK WHY DON'T POLLS WORK ON MY ACCOUNT
2026-08-07T05:46 id=2085603350045949970 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker you're in a position of authority so I'm going to trust you on this || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think you’re in the clear here bro
2026-08-07T05:46 id=2085603437975425130 →FatherCuervo | @FatherCuervo he was fully clothed the entire time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 technically blurry but I'm leaning towards no. other dude is way more in cuck territory as he was servicing his girl while his girl was servicing your girl. but if the dude at the bottom of that human centipede came and was
2026-08-07T05:48 id=2085603869481144337 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker @contrasortem I'm siding with 1cash here soz || CTX: @contrasortem @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s a girl who cares
2026-08-07T05:49 id=2085604315235058160 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah sorry
2026-08-07T05:59 id=2085606816143249468 →FatherCuervo | @FatherCuervo &lt;3 Whatever is left of my self worth thanks you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i vote not cucked
2026-08-07T06:00 id=2085606881423413288 →ArbitraryOstric | @ArbitraryOstric oh ffs I'm such a retarded cuck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Missed opportunity here. You should have made the poll like for cuck repost for not cuck. Comment to be ineffable.
2026-08-07T06:02 id=2085607498783064557 →- | https://t.co/lxMm2m6gNm
2026-08-07T06:25 id=2085613213262217303 →yat_es | @yat_es ehhh sophistry || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You’re a cuck because you’re asking the question not because of the experience itself
2026-08-07T06:25 id=2085613260515180881 →contrasortem | @contrasortem @dipole_momentum lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dipole_momentum Wrong; Morrissey would never write a song about wanting women.
2026-08-07T06:25 id=2085613361048510585 →publicinte | @publicinte ZERO PENIS VISIBILITY || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you saw the dudes dick at any point then almost
2026-08-07T07:03 id=2085622969058128081 →- | I think I just figured out why the identity politics culture war and Wokening of the 2010s happened.  First, we have to recognize that language is not about information transfer and is not reducible to information. This is the key misunderstanding AI/ML people have, but the fact of the matter is that language use is determined by a variety of factors that can be post facto described as information but that does not mean that they ARE information.  So sometimes language is used to transfer language, sometimes it is done for other reasons: to play games, to have fun, to laugh, etc. But how often is which?  When I was in grad school I read somewhere that 80% of everyday speech is phatic. This is obviously bullshit and wrong, but some studies have shown a preponderance of non-informational talk in social situations, such as this study: https://t.co/dLVDnuTkUt and the newer study showing 85% of conversation is social (https://t.co/RXDwVrVQ6V).  It's worth noting social conversation and phatic conversation aren't the same, because phatic is primarily non-informational and social conversation can be informational, so the 85% social conversation can be both informational/potentially phatic--you'd have to do a discourse analysis and then know the intention of the speaker, which of course is impossible and here yet again we see how in natural language use there are true but subjective and unverifiable facts--again something ML/AI people often forget and frankly all STEM people try to ignore.  They shouldn't.  This sieve between phatic/non-phatic is crucial when understanding discourse, and in understanding how humans often confuse informational with social communication. So we can expect humans to be unaware of a drift in their use of phatic/non-phatic talk.  Okay, now we've got the foundation established, let me tie it back to identity politics and the Wokening.  As a society gets wealthier, we should expect less of society's time spent on task-based language. I don't need to tell you "hand me that slab" or even "slab!" if we have machines transporting the slab. Instead, as I wait for the machine, I ask you how're the wife and kids.  Then when the machines are doing all of the slab-work, I can ask you how're the wife and kids AND did you see the outrageous display last night?  Over time our dependence on human labor has declined massively, and this is an affordance towards a reconstitution of the total sum of linguistic energy. In short, we can now freely choose whether to talk about task or sociality and most humans choose the latter over the former because autism is rare.  This means we should expect an inverse relationship between how wealthy a society is and how much of its time is spent on non-phatic communication.  We shouldn't expect a linear monotonic relationship, of course, because society also gets more complex and so more teamwork on more abstract tasks also means work talk will still involve task-based communication. However, this is a pretty messy factor because a lot of this abstract work IS phatic (sales, marketing, branding, HR), and a lot of the new sectors (finance, advertising) is basically functionally phatic. So it's messy, but I'd say institutional structures encourage phaticity so overall this factor, while creating noise in the trend, isn't going against the trend overall.  I STILL HAVEN'T GOT TO WOKENESS OMG sorry anon, this is linguistics shit I'm being careful. But you probably know where I'm going with this.  Societies got richer, as they got richer they were freer to talk about social status, social relationships, and the proper means of thinking/speaking about both. So we get identity politics (an individual's social identity is evaluated as a social status by observers), we get an emphasis on politics (politics is just the art of managing social relationships after all), and we get tone policing, cancelling for saying the wrong things, suddenly totemic values for some words (e.g. slurs).  And we get a metagame of argument of the rules of those totems, which is of course amplified and scaled by social media but, even without it, you would see a tilting of time spent from task-based to non-task-based talk, and that manifested as wokeness in America in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.  "But what about Norway?" you may ask. Smart not to ask about Finland/Sweden as they're ass deep in identity politics and were in the 2000s when I lived there, they just tålk fønnÿ, so you don't really see it on your feed. And it's a different form--jfc their obsession with being superior to America but let me not get personal...  The more serious point about non-idpol wealthy countries is that this pivot from non-phatic to phatic need not end up in more idpol talk; a society structured differently can pivot to different kinds of social talk over race/gender. But America got rich enough to amplify its obsessions, which are race and gender.  Btw, I never went woke, I never went broke, I never was a chud (that's what they're called, right? The right wingers?), I did vote for Bernie because I want universal healthcare but I find the rest of his platform anywhere from dumb to odious, and ofc now I hate the guy and will never vote for him. Trump was a nonstarter for me, but I understand the appeal he has for some if I don't share it. I guess I was a centrist, but really not interested in the conversation at all because politics are downstream of media and philosophy which are, of course, downstream of language.  You can't get away.
2026-08-07T07:04 id=2085623127304999377 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon Depends on how base the model is || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You mean the clanker is more likely to deny my request if I ask for a “l33t 3xpl017”?
2026-08-07T07:05 id=2085623313196527676 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Some answers are trivial. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 can't believe both of you failed to account for the MMM configuration
2026-08-07T07:05 id=2085623434697208188 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden okay so maybe I WAS wrong about that Elon thing || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you can't do polls for long posts because the website sucks and the people who make it are bad at making websites https://t.co/r818Qyqyju
2026-08-07T07:06 id=2085623550359269809 →contrasortem | @contrasortem @dipole_momentum I saw him in concert in 2000 and it was amazing, he's a tremendous singer idgaf what anyone says || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @dipole_momentum I was lukewarm on Morrissey until I listened to the song Speedway, instantly realized that all of his songs are about men, and suddenly gained a deep appreciation for his songwriting.
2026-08-07T07:08 id=2085624116988789153 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ THE TRUTH I'm a big boy I can take it (I mean I'm an adult male, I have a very very small penis, just to be clear. Like tiny.) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well... what can i say? :D
2026-08-07T07:18 id=2085626545511842252 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ HOW COULD YOU DO THOS TO ME || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if you do not have a lock for that tiny penis then you technically are not a real cuck. (but you are anyway sorry)
2026-08-07T07:18 id=2085626586359795917 →chortly | @chortly lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 involved in sexual activity that included another man while you watched, such a beta cuck its crossing into homosexuality
2026-08-07T07:23 id=2085627815358247254 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ The truth is not a matter of mob opinion, sir. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 big numbers talk for themselves, i only describe the truth https://t.co/oevrocrYQ2
2026-08-07T07:26 id=2085628676977328341 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ oh so am I man COME BACK TO THE GC I FUCKINF MISS YOU || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we are joking here, at least i am, having a good time with you :)
2026-08-07T07:27 id=2085628890308018206 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x I can live with being on the cuck spectrum. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I legit thought about this for thirty minutes, and I'm going to say no, you are not cuck. but I think is more like a spectrum rather than a binary thing
2026-08-07T07:31 id=2085629985294053757 →IsZomg | @IsZomg I'm high not drunk how dare you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 isnt it a bit early to be this drunk
2026-08-07T07:33 id=2085630326894911718 →vidhvatm | @vidhvatm goddamn cybernetics yes there is some overlap I will admit, not all cybernetics is bad (all internet cybernetics is fucking terrible however) || CTX: politics being downstream of media and language should naturally put technology pretty high up on the stack that runs the human control system  chat, is this cybernetics? https://t.co/h6yAH9CAGt
2026-08-07T07:41 id=2085632346351706497 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ wait so do incels prefer or dislike hip dips? || CTX: hip dip discourse has escaped containment  the unwashed masses on instagram ain’t ready for this truth nuke https://t.co/m73EhRPbQD
2026-08-07T07:42 id=2085632654423290316 →2cknows | @2cknows Thank you, that's a very kind thing to say.   But you gotta go from top to bottom it's all part of the show || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I normally read your posts or tweets, whatever, cause I find your duality amusing, makes my mind work, like sitting in a theater seing the film's production whole screen. Most I start from the end, as you normally make some
2026-08-07T07:56 id=2085636173813456909 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Fair assessment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 technically cuck as you watched, but practically it's not because girl on girl doesn't count
2026-08-07T07:57 id=2085636370178228249 →teodorio | @teodorio No my legs got kinda tired standing there tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Was there a chair involved?
2026-08-07T08:05 id=2085638411713663326 →2cknows | @2cknows leer es practicar. You're doing great just reading another language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Last thing I want to be is kind.  just kidding   hehehe  My english is not so good and I get lost in so many words, when you intellectualize so much I take a break. So I wait till you get the rabbit out of the hat.  We're j
2026-08-07T08:51 id=2085649975548236035 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden Yes actions speak louder than words, but one can always doubt. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think we can know but not really from just words alone. of course it is a lot easier to confirm that someone does not like us compared to confirming if they like us due things like the long con. but in most cases after a 
2026-08-07T08:51 id=2085650127830819068 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka now that's just crazy talk || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How about an LLM that does what you tell it? Is there a market for that?
2026-08-07T09:08 id=2085654189947208164 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden yes I absolutely agree || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i mean i guess it is never 100% because they could like you but there is some god or someone who told them that if they did not be mean to you the they would strike you down, but in most cases i see fewer reasons for someon
2026-08-07T09:18 id=2085656811873689758 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw muh man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 NTC
2026-08-07T09:55 id=2085666243512877313 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker dying || CTX: Last weekend I pronounced Proust like “Pr-ow-st” in front of a number of people and I didn’t even give a fuck. Laugh it up smart book guys. I have a question for you:   Let k, Θ, σ > 0. And let Ŵ be a Brownian motion under the risk neutral 
2026-08-07T10:07 id=2085669173146050754 →fabsbz | @fabsbz HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Penis visibility and enjoyment aren’t the right criteria. If Borat cheated behind your back but you only realized after and still stayed with her, you’d be colloquially cucked.  So it’s more accurate to say that you’re a la
2026-08-07T10:13 id=2085670694671864185 →xriskology | @xriskology omg Synthese, going to read this tomorrow! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think it's a really fascinating topic (that almost no philosophers have seriously examined) -- it's what my 2024 book "Human Extinction" was about (you can find it on LibGen). Here are two papers, if you have nothing bett
2026-08-07T12:19 id=2085702287583068562 →- | "Selloff will reverse just be patient" - some dumbass anon on (anonon lmao) on the interbutts near the bottom https://t.co/UfLcHtdqC3 https://t.co/29b337H47m || CTX: Final sales to private domestic purchasers is a broad measure of household consumption and fixed investment in the private sector. Spiked. American economy is booming.   Selloff will reverse just be patient. https://t.co/wvzOqJviYM
2026-08-07T12:48 id=2085709724117565679 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno 🎵🎶Swing low, sweet labia🎶🎵 || CTX: Can a woman be considered hung if she has labia that extend past the traditional length
2026-08-07T12:51 id=2085710436264206568 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka hahahaahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I voted cuck in the poll which I saw before I read the story. I'd say you're significantly more cucked by this website than you were at the orgy.
2026-08-07T12:54 id=2085711202995609938 →- | I am so fucking good at what I do fuck humility I been hustling on these Streets 15 fucking years https://t.co/j4ZrEnxHve https://t.co/tyWqyNDG18 || CTX: @1cashtracker I don't think we see higher rates for the rest of the year
2026-08-07T12:56 id=2085711589899108855 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski The spirit lives on, we shall return || CTX: Happy 35th, Internet. It's beautiful because it’s dying.  The open, weird, decentralized web we grew up romanticizing is fading; swallowed by platforms, algorithms, paywalls, AI slop, and the slow consolidation of attention. Human Internet 
2026-08-07T12:57 id=2085711939016245543 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker ya don't say https://t.co/tyWqyNDG18 || CTX: @1cashtracker I don't think we see higher rates for the rest of the year
2026-08-07T22:14 id=2085852055256924570 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng Well that's complicated. She wanted to play I guess is the answer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Truly, this depends on if that guys wife was bi or not. That is the question.
2026-08-07T22:15 id=2085852457729753179 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit yeah I know || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're being really gay recently
2026-08-07T22:16 id=2085852591494410712 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk yeah I meant she's not just a schizophrenic crazy person || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 holup since when is schizophrenic crazy person mutually exclusive with brilliant artist??
2026-08-07T22:19 id=2085853412458217529 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @BagelCentral MENTIONED || CTX: @BagelCentral basically everything he pitched sucked and was abandoned half way. he was obviously unqualified. some of the engineers did some decent things while he was here but he is non-technical (by his own admission) and had no real han
2026-08-07T22:21 id=2085853876264255894 →cloudseedingtec | @cloudseedingtec @KateMossadAgent @BagelCentral Daniel has also blocked me no clue why || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @BagelCentral @47fucb4r8c69323 i have nothing nice to say about them so i have chosen to forget they exist.. daniel has me blocked doh so i wouldnt vote for them&lt;3
2026-08-07T22:33 id=2085856777187574190 →AlgoRhythmEng | @AlgoRhythmEng oh I misread sorry I just woke up.   My wife (B) wanted to play, his wife was clearly very bisexual.   Did I enjoy? Honestly it was okay, NBD either way. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yea this is a complicated situation. Did you enjoy watching?
2026-08-07T22:52 id=2085861628759921041 →- | I've noticed a lot of the ways people use LLMs is like how they use astrology.   They get vague differentiating information that seems to carve out a new object of study from possibilities that appears probable.   Pattern matching tendencies in the brain will see insights.  But when they show it to someone else, the other person will likely see slop. Unless they're in the cult together, of course, which is why internet cybernetics is both so popular AND so stupid.   Also why you see people who take both seriously.   This is to Gen Z what buying tabloid magazines was to the Boomers. Same unserious anti-intellectual slop for the masses.   But what's REALLY confusing is AI is also a tremendous research tool (look at the math problems or how businesses use it to probe dispersed or unstructured data).   This tech is excellent for "rearranging that which we have known since long" to quote Wittgenstein, which makes it very powerful in the hands of the capable and fucking useless in the hands of the stupid.  Unfortunately, no human being is JUST capable or JUST stupid. Remember the anecdote of John von Neumann losing all his money at roulette? We all have blind spots, nine of us are merelt capable, we are all idiots about something.
2026-08-07T22:54 id=2085862145351393751 →1cashtracker | I've gotten DMs from absurdly successful people who use this site a lot: multimillionaires, prominent academics, people in prominent positions in prestigious institutions, self-made careerists, and undiscovered people who nonetheless are clearly brilliant.   This website attracts a lot of smart people, I think because it attracts people who like language games and that tends to have a high floor of intelligence.   To be clear, I've also met plenty of retards on this website as well.
2026-08-07T22:56 id=2085862551280337235 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart The frontier labs curiously aren't interested in focusing on practical use cases that make people's lives better.   More curious: most businesses don't seem all that interested in this either. || CTX: AI will be popular when it clearly is making people’s lives easier. When it’s really saving time and money.  The progress we’re seeing right now on things like novel virus development and cyber-intrusions is extraordinary. But those are too
2026-08-07T23:15 id=2085867556842393840 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker Don't listen to that guy he's retarded
2026-08-07T23:17 id=2085868008149594254 →DarcyStilton | @DarcyStilton @1cashtracker That's a proximate answer I'd agree with but my target was broader: why would the simpletons want the discourse to go in that direction, and how did an ecosystem where such ease of use develop? || CTX: @1cashtracker apps became a bit too easy to use and the discourse started to revolve around simpletons
2026-08-07T23:28 id=2085870741158031671 →phteocos | @phteocos honestly makes me like him more || CTX: This is the most looksmatched tech couple of all history, across all dimensions  Feels almost like fulfilling a prophecy https://t.co/q9SPJwABT2
2026-08-07T23:33 id=2085872062992921031 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza You make good counterarguments but I still think the better strategy with these guys isn't reasonable counterargument but to show their faulty rhetoric and perverse motives.  Don't attack at logos, attack at pathos and ethos. || CTX: "AI today? Little smart."  AI today is actually really big smart. I think it's convenient to the safteyists to pretend the state of AI is basically as it was 4 years ago, but AI today is finding zero day exploits no human has ever found and
2026-08-07T23:43 id=2085874436771856454 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza absolutely, it takes a village to fight the village idiots || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Like Malcolm X and Dr. MLK, I think both approaches are necessary sometimes
2026-08-08T00:01 id=2085879040788054130 →- | I've begun reading the Upanishads and I'm not sure HOW to read it.   Should I read to find possible universalities or resonances with other traditions?   Should I read to find the internal logic of the seemingly inscrutable puzzles?   Should I read to see the historical account of how these gurus explained the world?   Many options and I'm not sure what mindset is ideal here.
2026-08-08T01:27 id=2085900643139813408 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Full rendition by a scholarly translator, Penguin classics edition || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you reading Yeats' abridged translation or a full rendition of the text?
2026-08-08T01:36 id=2085902954423529491 →americanacleo | @americanacleo I wasn't talking about commentary at all, though; I was talking about the primary text itself. || CTX: everyone thinks the understanding of these classics will be found in academic commentary, but the the monastic tradition still holds the most depth   for any vedic texts I default to the saraswati lineage. swami chinmayananda is the most in
2026-08-08T02:30 id=2085916637254078857 →americanacleo | @americanacleo You've totally wasted my time because of your inability to read, jfc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 🫶 happy reading
2026-08-08T02:54 id=2085922497976021355 →- | An LLM infers by using tensor math to map input to a probability distribution.   An LLM policy is created by embedding a tensor math-based framework to select actions.  It's all fundamentally tensor mathematics, it's just functionally different according to the architecture created by the lab that builds the LLM.   what makes things confusing is that these are entangled and the line between one and the other is extremely fuzzy, and indeed impossible to delineate from the outside because we aren't given enough information about the training process.   but that's nothing mystical or spooky, it's just an information asymmetry between the coders and the users of the code.   And what worries me is that bad actors in the frontier labs can exploit this information asymmetry to misinform the public, avoid responsibility, and produce harmful products.  if you think that people working in the frontier labs are somehow super human heroes or virtuous angels beyond reproach, then you won't worry. but I do, because I'm not that gullible
2026-08-08T06:07 id=2085971043249004631 →- | 52% of you do not deserve to live. https://t.co/1HZl6KSotw || CTX: WHAT THE FUCK WHY DON'T POLLS WORK ON MY ACCOUNT
2026-08-08T06:19 id=2085974212393513443 →xlr8harder | I don't think you're just an old complaining about the young, but I'd add the incurious who reject the responsibility of rejecting authority and end up just taking up an alternative authority uncritically is very much something older generations did.  But to your point, there is so much uncertainty now that younger people are desperate and as a result less ashamed when they become Groypers or Tate fans or whatever, and just don't see being part of a group that tells them how to live as cringe.   Like, in the 90s the most goth looking goth would very likely explain why they aren't really goth, why they are unlike all the other goths. Today a kid in a subculture won't do that. Spark of individual willingness to stick out is fading. || CTX: I agree on the post-authority aspect, but there's another angle I think is worth noting: a lot of people are at the same time incurious and ignorant about the structures that makes everything work.  Like, if you want to ignore authority tha
2026-08-08T07:10 id=2085987096666448194 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent beep beep || CTX: https://t.co/s6lG2RcLyK https://t.co/HfBCqNStfA
2026-08-08T07:30 id=2085992140220596299 →ChangYeeFong77 | @ChangYeeFong77 IT'S A FUCKING JOKE STOP TAKING THE INTERNET SO SERIOUSLY JFC || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I can only speak for myself. Were you hoping for absolution of your deeds?   You and I have walked different paths and I respect your intelligence but don't expect approval from a parent on something , I have told
2026-08-08T09:27 id=2086021385340457076 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 I will try this, thank you! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not a bad way but I read them by looking at which Veda corresponds to which Upanishads and reading them in segments like that, and I think it helped me understand way faster than I saw others understand it.
2026-08-08T09:45 id=2086025904275210473 →- | https://t.co/XZ50QLXpnI
2026-08-08T11:00 id=2086044828547375583 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck ikr lmao like this ain't rocket surgery || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can’t speak for myself because I’ve never committed one, but it seems very logical that school shooters are for some reason very upset with their school and the kids there.
2026-08-08T14:32 id=2086098323627512225 →tszzl | @tszzl The search for purity is the denial of life itself.  We must embrace risk, because risk is life. || CTX: i don’t know a single person around these parts that hasn’t made compromise with sin crucial to their life unfortunately, myself included. I don’t even know what it would look like in principle
2026-08-09T00:23 id=2086246847572824395 →wierenga80227 | @wierenga80227 I wouldn't trust my girlfriend's estimate. || CTX: 10kg in a week is insane. 2kg a week is already pushing it for what's healthy. There was a study done about how a lot of weight loss too quickly can destroy a person's metabolism causing them to burn far fewer calories than would be expecte
2026-08-09T01:37 id=2086265678852730939 →- | "A Shockingly Bad Jobs Report Raises Concerns About Labor Market" is the title the Fiscal Times went with and this is now on Yahoo Finance, so this is what the Boomers will see and think.  Let's dig into why this is completely wrong.  Tldr: The jobs report is on the whole bullish.  Payrolls fell by 23,000 in July following an expectation of 85,000, so far far worse than market expectations.  This is largely due to a loss of 99k jobs yoy in public education, itself driven by 82k in local education.  Private sector jobs rose 30,000, so labor demand in the economy is overall positive, we just are hiring less teachers.  If we factorize this, we see that about 35% of this is attributable to weaker immigration lowering demand for teachers, 25% is demographics (aging population has less kids), 20% is fiscal normalization (less budgeting for education), 20% is noise.  The decline in jobs here is a demographics-led structural story and not a cyclical economic demand story.  Overall, private sector employment was basically flat, which you can read as either stagnant or stable.  For a justifiable qualitative frame, we need to look at the sectors that look the worst.  There are four that look the worst:  Nondurable manufacturing (down 13k or -0.3% MoM) Retail (down 19k or -0.1% MoM) Finance (down 14k or -0.1% MoM) Leisure & Hospitality (down 40k or -0.6% MoM)  For non-durable manufacturing, the decline is within a normal non-recessionary variance for nondurables. We can thus discount this.  For retail, the decline is within the normal range of variance in a non-recession regime, but right near the edge. With YoY flat, retail is not outside expected variance yet, but it's a meaningful deterioration on the month with weakness across jobs, hours, and pay. So something to keep an eye on for sure, and maybe K-shape economy related, but this is a tiny signal for that and it is not a signal for macroeconomic weakness or aggregate demand softness overall.  Leisure and hospitality has the worst absolute number (down 40k) which makes the MoM basis look atrocious. Seasonally adjusted, however, leisure is up 83,000 jobs or about 0.5%. So there is a sharp change from last month but long-term trend remains strong. I suspect this is World Cup related.  Finance is down 1.2% YoY, with the impact mostly coming from credit intermediation (down 1.5% YoY) and insurance (down 2.7% YoY). I believe this is due to less mortgage activity with interest rates still elevated and homebuyers waiting for a rate cut (and less worried about a rate hike) on the credit side. On the insurance side, I believe this is due to efficiency improvements causing a lower demand for insurance workers: this is, indeed, where we are seeing automation efforts and AI replace some marginal workers (NB @alexolegimas).  My rough split is this is about 45% non-AI-driven insurance right-sizing and automation, 20% AI-driven right-sizing, 35% credit cycle. Again structural, not cyclical.  This also means that the economic gains elsewhere should increase demand elsewhere and offset the structural bleed of finance workers in these subsectors. Remember men are not horses.  In the end, we see that the jobs report is not bearish at all, it is in fact absurdly bullish (I have not demonstrated the bullishness of the report here, it's in the constituent sectors beyond these four, but I leave that as an exercise for the reader), and it is being misrepresented by the media because they like dirty laundry.  Stonks go up, ladies and gentlemen. Stonks go up.
2026-08-09T01:44 id=2086267283396345898 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 I can't. But I also don't want to. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 i can if i want but you guys cant
2026-08-09T01:47 id=2086267994326610121 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 Not gonna disagree, this is absolutely true. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 but you could not even if you did want to   but i can go anywhere i want to
2026-08-09T01:56 id=2086270341085855934 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv The great thing is when you're entrepreneurial you can choose either, depending on what you want. || CTX: stay overemployed and entrepreneurial https://t.co/iqZCjQXny3
2026-08-09T02:12 id=2086274386563301384 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I don't understand your issue. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't love this article because it only exists to piss the readers off. This represents Antoinette levels of aloofness,  designed to gaslight the public.  There's nothing more repulsive than the smugness of neoliberal ign
2026-08-09T02:37 id=2086280792452603920 →- | I am now still paying $200/mo. for ChatGPT because the user experience is better than it would be with an open source solution. Kinda how I paid for MS Office instead of LibreOffice or the other free alternatives back in the 2000s and 2010s.  But if I was an enterprise with more than, say, 10 employees, I'd be looking to build a system on open source infra. (Also, for my core business work, I use open source a lot.)  It's a gradual displacement, but it's real.
2026-08-09T02:38 id=2086280895921848348 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I don't see the relationship to monetary policy, can you explain? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yes, this is the problem. It's just like the boomers, who believed themselves savvy investors for just being alive during hyperinflation.  This price discrimination is the result of irresponsible monetary policy parasitizin
2026-08-09T02:38 id=2086281042412052546 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 :shrugs: Be my counterparty, then. || CTX: That whole teacher narrative just came out in the last few days, but it's not very good cover for a much longer standing problem: our labor market has been receding for years.  The reason people are freaking out is because this is confirmat
2026-08-09T02:39 id=2086281215250944378 →elaifresh | @elaifresh @StiberAdam Oh it already has if you know what you're doing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @StiberAdam Maybe somehow the AI agent internet economy will change this
2026-08-09T02:46 id=2086282892410605851 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 We have very different views on Japan, but also your qt was about Japan and not about structural changes in how airlines structure their costs (and afaik ANA/JAL do the same?) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That was in the first qt.  I honestly don't know why this is so confusing for everyone: We have a council of bankers and lawyers who use pseudoscientific theories (not math) to intentionally inflate our currency causing wea
2026-08-09T02:47 id=2086283088997613895 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 Asserted truth is not proven fact.  If you can show me the data underlying your assertions, I'll entertain them. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Propaganda doesn't belong in the same discussion as the truth.
2026-08-09T02:51 id=2086284116610441414 →- | Oh yeah that's the good stuff lookit what was mentionedddddddd https://t.co/HG3sspRtGK
2026-08-09T02:56 id=2086285430673350845 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 This jobs report came out August 7th. Do you have any tweets about this specific report countering my claims in the above to demonstrate I'm lying and you are not? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have in the past, you can always search my tweets or the federal reserves FRED website. I'm using the exact same data, but I don't lie about it.
2026-08-09T03:05 id=2086287845598330987 →Ken67547214 | We don't see eye-to-eye on economic issues, which is fine; I don't want to convince you, tbh, I am happy for us to agree to disagree.  But I take issue with "repeating a specific narrative". I did this analysis independently after reading a couple of bearish treatments of the data and listening to the Moody's Economics podcast saying this is a negative, disastrous report.  My narrative is not repeated.  My DATA is repeated, yes. I am repeating and perpetuating data provided by the BLS. But my narrative is mine. || CTX: I'm not saying you're lying, I am saying that you're repeating a specific narrative that I recognize as misleading.  I definitely have been saying for several years that the 2008 interventions created a housing bubble that ate into the marg
2026-08-09T03:10 id=2086288958569537587 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I hate the neolibs quite passionately lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ok, parallel thinking, then. I recognized it as a neolib talking point, sorry.
2026-08-09T03:14 id=2086289878892081553 →cremieuxrecueil | @cremieuxrecueil This makes sense?  China produces cheap products at scale, American firms compete on marginal quality.  So you'd expect gross margins and thus EV for Chinese firms to be lower, and US valuations to be higher. || CTX: Agh  America's humanoid robot companies have higher valuations, but they're not shipping anywhere near as many bots as China's. https://t.co/hoWUEZxQHq
2026-08-09T04:59 id=2086316507160854596 →Bonecondor | @Bonecondor One is more of a maid cafe than the other || CTX: i don’t understand the difference between the corgi cafe and the capital one cafe
2026-08-09T05:03 id=2086317341265318164 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker Unconfident men will never understand the allure of confidence, which is odd because they're more intoxicated by it than your bartender friend or any other woman is.
2026-08-09T05:07 id=2086318498440220901 →boneGPT | @boneGPT This right here is why I am a paid subscriber to Bone's slop cannon || CTX: domo arigato mr grokoto https://t.co/N2YZalmqWa
2026-08-09T05:17 id=2086320926036291811 →- | My girlfriend just sent me a message and, reading it, I kinda wonder if I’m dreaming because my life is way too fucking wonderful to be real.   "I was showering and looking out the window every time I showered. I saw a butterfly flying to my daisy flower and it drank the flower's water for about 3 seconds then flew away about 40 centimeters. It circled back to the daisy flower as if saying, "Hey, I've found a new flower drink and it's really delicious," and it sipped from many flowers. For the first time, I felt that I could read the butterfly's feelings."  Anon: I hope you too have a life that is so wondreful you have to doubt whether it’s real. I genuinely want that for you, because I love you (and I always will).
2026-08-09T06:05 id=2086332937675628773 →tylercowen | @tylercowen Professor Cowen, it's a good conversation but have you considered the possibility that you are in fact a Doodoo Head? https://t.co/eC2Tddktbn || CTX: Why Tyler Cowen is a Doodoo Head By 47fucb  Once upon a time, there was a man named Tyler Cowen. This man called other men zero marginal productive workers.  The concept has since disappeared and Cowen has hedged around this a lot (and hope
2026-08-09T06:09 id=2086333992073318413 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ one of the less appreciated but crucial observations in his research, I wish it was taken more seriously. || CTX: henri bergson and the idea that time cannot be broken into units but rather an organic flow where the past melts into the future.
2026-08-09T06:13 id=2086335035045753293 →- | It's interesting and telling that the general public not only isn't bothered by the OpenAI/HuggingFace incident, but all efforts to make this a major news story failed: they just do not care.
2026-08-09T06:18 id=2086336416037134709 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen Yes, and that's clearly how they see this, instead of seeing it as the robots getting one step closer to becoming Skynet and killing us all.   The doomers cried wolf one time too many and they've lost the normies. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Nerds doing nerd shit" just isn't news.
2026-08-09T06:53 id=2086345203993256431 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies silly business theory yet again || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The name encodes a particularly exteme level of unseriousness. Semantic collision.
2026-08-09T07:13 id=2086350119440650293 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics good, the normies should wake up to that || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think people have a general sense that everything is fake now a days
2026-08-09T07:38 id=2086356357557670072 →- | https://t.co/xlDD7rqeVi
2026-08-09T07:41 id=2086357090398798220 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I feel somewhat guilty and anxious having posted this, because I fear I'm giving a false impression that my life is perfect, and that false impression of an ideal life is precisely what makes social media so odious and destructive.   I don't want to be part of the problem, I went to be part of the solution. So let me add here as an addendum that shows my life is far from perfect:  My girlfriend, as lovely and beautiful as she is, is far from perfect. For instance, she refuses to have a threesome with me and another woman, and she won't let me have sex with a femboy. || CTX: My girlfriend just sent me a message and, reading it, I kinda wonder if I’m dreaming because my life is way too fucking wonderful to be real.   "I was showering and looking out the window every time I showered. I saw a butterfly flying to m
2026-08-09T07:45 id=2086358094758699020 →mathluvr3000 | @mathluvr3000 MENTIONEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/frYG2p8wf8
2026-08-09T07:48 id=2086358922085237044 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @flowersslop I want it to be clear: I think Elon is a pathetic sad loser with disturbing politics. I've been a Musk hater since 2012.  But his purchase of this website did make it better. Emergent positive externalities from the shit. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @flowersslop @47fucb4r8c69323 is this one of elon's idiot blind spots or motivated ruthlessness (truthlessness)
2026-08-09T07:52 id=2086359938952306768 →ArbitraryOstric | @ArbitraryOstric This took me a long time to get but omg this is a quality joke. || CTX: Her dating app handle is dingo and she says its a seinfeld joke.
2026-08-09T07:58 id=2086361420720128076 →powerbottomdad1 | "Go outside and anchor yourself in classic reality. Stick your feet in the mud. Observe the bark patterns of trees. Feel the warmth of the summer sun on your face. do some can gazing. The more anchored you are in classic reality, the less easily you'll be sucked up into any of these embarrassing hyper realities.   For me, I'm anchoring with a dip a day program right now, which means every day I'm jumping in that fucking lake, swimming around, doing about 50 laps to the rock and back. That's no big deal for me. And then back to shore, cracking open a cold one, and lying in the sun as the water evaporates off my skin and rises back up into the clouds where it'll become rain and fall once again to the earth." || CTX: just spent 6 hours at a beach bonfire watching the sunset and swimming w my kids. half a dozen couples there all with children and dogs. didn't even take a picture. it's called living in the moment. try it some time
2026-08-09T08:02 id=2086362587369763093 →CommanthaBiden | I am on drugs apologies.   It's one of his blind spots IMO: he's convinced of this talking point because it confirms what he wants to believe and gives it more moral support in his mind, which he can then use to justify doing shit that'll end up with dead bodies.   It'd be his ruthlessness if he was using this to convince someone else of something heinous, and I suspect he'll try to use it that way, so we'll see him transform his blindspot into a truthlessness-in-action.   It's a kind of alchemy, where some turn knowledge into technique, he turns idiocy into rhetoric. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @flowersslop is that your answer to the question? this is about the blind spots thing not about twitter
2026-08-09T08:04 id=2086363094306201716 →- | ChatGPT 47 will be ASI  Just like 47 is ASI: a sexy islander  o https://t.co/SLVRH3FIy7
2026-08-09T08:05 id=2086363179852890293 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra lmfao hahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Normies' reaction to Sam Altman and Dario committing felonies (colorized, Grok Image 2.0) https://t.co/GLFsCjuDMt
2026-08-09T08:07 id=2086363674562961821 →47fucb4r8c69323 | If they release ChatGPT 47 they should name it after me and call it "ChatGPT 47" || CTX: ChatGPT 47 will be ASI  Just like 47 is ASI: a sexy islander  o https://t.co/SLVRH3FIy7
2026-08-09T08:10 id=2086364364777627927 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain Would definitely be disruptive || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain once you die in a terrorist attack the world stops feeling real  https://t.co/BLJeHbdRa2
2026-08-09T08:26 id=2086368624055566486 →empyriangaming | @empyriangaming Okay, but they've cared about AI stories before (data center protests, for instance), so why aren't they caring about this one, especially as the frontier labs have framed this as a massive and terrifying development that could be catastrophic? Why has that message fallen flat? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 People don’t know and don’t care how computers work.
2026-08-09T08:31 id=2086369758140838391 →teodorio | @teodorio I of course agree (I mean I'm living proof), but do you have a theory as to why? || CTX: On average spending time with people in finance is so much funner than staying with people in tech. I've worked and been in both worlds and while the intelligence / monetary rewards / clout is more or less equivalent,  the average finance p
2026-08-09T08:47 id=2086373799851905439 →- | > Be me > Take over as Springer CEO > Start Journal for AI Enabled Research > Claim to be peer reviewed > Pay peer reviewers to approve every submission  > Get journal accepted into SCI, SSCI, AHCI, etc.  > Charge universities $10,000/yr. per sub > Pay peer reviewers $1000/mo.  > Pocket the rest > Any assistant prof with a ChatGPT account can churn out 100 peer reviewed journal articles per year > No one misses out on a promotion because of lack of pubs > Everyone gets tenure > Professors now have the peace of mind to focus on the research they truly want to do > Renaissance in research and a rebirth of the universities brings in a paradise > mfw I made billions of dollars bringing about intergalactic travel and a cure for cancer with AI
2026-08-09T08:48 id=2086374000490635511 →_smcf | @_smcf This btw is why you will find the coolest weirdest people in Bangkok, the city where absolutely no foreigner gives a fuck about status even a little. || CTX: Singapore is not at all boring, but I understand why people say it is. The proximity to wealth makes everyone status-anxious, so the gradient of the whole place guides you away from interesting (ie unusual) people. You have to go places whe
2026-08-09T08:55 id=2086375856247546037 →llallawg | @llallawg I'm a generous guy that's why they call me Genny Springer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah you don’t need to pay peer reviewers
2026-08-09T09:17 id=2086381396747223308 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital I knew it! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro that’s a CCP spy
2026-08-09T09:32 id=2086385160719900711 →himanshustwts | This is an equivocation, and an egregious one. "running commands to be able to run more commands and access more data" describes unlocking a folder on your home computer as well as hacking, which smuggles in intent to "do something illegal" or access "without permission", and "someone else's" system isn't suggested at all.   Garbage, absolute garbage, unsurprising what website it's on. || CTX: this was most “intuitive” or “simple to read” or “straightforward” post i have read on lesswrong in a long long time https://t.co/JbnKDSkOVE
2026-08-09T09:41 id=2086387320014713034 →- | I honestly feel a civic duty to do what I can for the internet and to love my fellow Anon.   In the 1990s the internet gave me refuge when the real world was oppressive.   In the 2000s the internet gave me the best entertainment I have ever had, to this day.   In the 2010s, the internet gave me the opportunity to switch careers and get the fuck out of academia!   In the 2020s, as in prior decades, it's given me access to a wider world that I've pivoted away from.  So I need to try to make the internet better for the next generation, it's my civic duty. I'm just a link in the chain and I can't let it break maaaan this is some dank ass weed
2026-08-09T09:47 id=2086388901028266403 →zenohosting | @zenohosting Orient the AI industry in the right direction. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what you gonna do?   lmao a link in the chain
2026-08-09T09:51 id=2086389778803839088 →zenohosting | @zenohosting Well broadly speaking to have perspective but otherwise, idk man, check out my prior work, wait for my benchmark to come out, you'll see, I keep making noise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Which is generally speaking what?!
2026-08-09T10:11 id=2086394851927724121 →Biggiethelad1 | @Biggiethelad1 tbh I think what's made it worse is flights are almost always full now and they're full of gutter trash. Airline cos aren't to blame at all for that, but things like less free luggage etc does add insult to injury. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Like sure “meals are terrible” but not sure they’re acc worse than a decade ago (also they keep mentioning the sundae bar yet united food is just bad all around). Also think you need to be a bit beyond top 1% to fly private
2026-08-09T11:29 id=2086414637277536728 →- | Idk who it was but when the people who fell in love with their clankers started doing the keep4o thing, someone called them "4o zombies".   I just thought of a much better term: "4o philes."   Too little too late I know
2026-08-09T11:36 id=2086416339888214515 →- | I just learned there is a town called Cummings, Georgia.   I loled for the obvious reason.   Just imagine if they built nuclear weapons there, a Russian spy found out, and reported to the Kremlin that the Americans have "nuclear missiles incoming, Georgia."   Russians will immediately attack the Caucuses and cause the apocalypse.   Read more in bookstores this winter in my smash expose of the risks facing us all, "If they Build it in Cumming, Georgia, Everyone Dies" this weed is VERY good.
2026-08-09T11:41 id=2086417693960548409 →- | "WDYM I'm weird, Anon? F66, first you dip the toast in the coffee until it's soggy, then you have the steak only AFTER you've finished all the coffee when it's nice and room temperature." https://t.co/jsUxsO9ELV || CTX: B41 https://t.co/3Q4jsF2hwL
2026-08-09T11:42 id=2086417788713759216 →contrasortem | @contrasortem RUNNING LOW ON OXYGEN, HOUSTON || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How high are you right now?
2026-08-09T11:44 id=2086418223595921533 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder hahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The technical term is 4oid
2026-08-09T11:45 id=2086418490466914491 →contrasortem | @contrasortem Dude the weed quality here is way better than you think || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You seem impressively high for Thai ditch weed.
2026-08-09T12:48 id=2086434448493756468 →profleonn | @profleonn Idk why but 2000 VW had amazing models || CTX: I rlly want a 2000 vw Passat
2026-08-09T12:49 id=2086434730891956701 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @profleonn Upon researching on Google I've realized memory is a liar and withdraw my prior comment. || CTX: @profleonn Idk why but 2000 VW had amazing models
2026-08-09T12:55 id=2086436211670016381 →profleonn | @profleonn Convenient for your weekly grocery trip. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 uuuh, but have you seen a 2000 vw passat? https://t.co/Z10gEGNezI
2026-08-09T20:48 id=2086555255962231128 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ I too am a D33 man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Anyone who isn't D33 GTFO https://t.co/yZrNsPuVi4
2026-08-09T21:25 id=2086564647298342918 →- | "There are two options, we let old people have power or we give the power to the sons and daughters of billionaires there is literally no other solution, I am an intellectual." https://t.co/OWBOz2rcPh || CTX: .@SamoBurja: "Nepo babies are good for youth power."  Meritocracy structurally favours the old, whose accomplishments are the most legible. Real transfer of power requires an irrational investment in someone who hasn't proven anything yet -
2026-08-09T21:32 id=2086566209852764322 →- | Why do people feel the need to post things like this?   Sometimes, anon, it'll be better to get the girl before the money. Sometimes it'll be better to get the money before.   There's no one blueprint for life, no one optimal script for living.   We are all just figuring things out as we go along and anyone who says otherwise is lying, either to you or to themselves.  The world is complex and unpredictable. Do your best, forgive yourself and others, try to cause no harm and help when you can. Everything else is incidental. || CTX: ok since apparently this needs explaining:  get the girl before the money. your 20s are when everyone’s still dating for love and nobody has anything. once you’re rich you’ll never really know.  then get the money. as much as possible, as f
2026-08-09T22:07 id=2086575233511968972 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @GKunstwerk Is Greysexual when you wanna fuck old people or aliens? || CTX: @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 I opened hinge to take a screenshot and write in "vaginasexual," but the mad men already did it https://t.co/VGxl94rMjT
2026-08-09T22:17 id=2086577537132748915 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @KateMossadAgent The Pacman versus Langoliers model of sexuality. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @KateMossadAgent @47fucb4r8c69323 Firs one means all kinds of people, second one includes not people
2026-08-09T22:30 id=2086580786103484431 →- | Blackpill is such an effective rhetoric to scare tech workers into obedience, it's a shame tech workers are insufficiently critical of their masters.  It's an oddly obedient, obsequious industry, where your manager isn't just your boss but your priest too.
2026-08-09T22:35 id=2086582041974575560 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat The hat trick to replace mommy and daddy! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my manager is my therapist as well
2026-08-09T22:40 id=2086583497112911993 →- | "More of the same, just a little bit faster and better" is the best and likeliest outcome, so why are there so many cultists and weirdos hellbent on insisting there will be anything else?   It can't be just the money and power, could it? https://t.co/wDPm7KdJuq || CTX: With apologies to successionists, torch passers, technocapital-determinists, and neo-Malthusians, the foreseeable future will be human at its core, despite being transformed by technology. Naturally prophets will say this is cope, but I'm n
2026-08-09T22:45 id=2086584635526689279 →AndrewCurran_ | @AndrewCurran_ Oh so this was the x-risk, my gym reservation might get cancelled. || CTX: A man in Australia asked his agent (Claude running on OpenClaw) to book him a spot in a popular gym class. The agent found a software vulnerability that let it book the class weeks further ahead than should have been possible. When the user
2026-08-09T22:58 id=2086588072926613967 →- | Careful and controlled media presence: smile and laugh when you acknowledge a past error and overreach, use passive voice ("Woke 1 was crazy" as if Woke 1 is a living conscious being and not the form of craziness you indulged in and supported), speak in broad general terms... she really is the Trump of the Left, absolutely effortless rhetoric and tone discipline, I wish I could be so disciplined. || CTX: AOC on Francesca Hong's old tweets calling for abolishing prisons and the police:  "Woke 1 was crazy." https://t.co/OuqYhSwtbk
2026-08-09T23:31 id=2086596287382868281 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 Beff is an extremely effective troll, and this tweet in particular has been extremely effective || CTX: @a_musingcat the answer is always no. there are no stakes to these predictions. that is why i do not care about what people like @Ken67547214 and @47fucb4r8c69323 and @astrosbrains say. they are my online friends and i keep them in my box f
2026-08-10T00:01 id=2086603709468062057 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake @KateMossadAgent @grok @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @AstrosBrain lmao goddammit Bob || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @grok @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @fuckitwebol @AstrosBrain samantha, do you know steely dan?
2026-08-10T00:11 id=2086606428236820834 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @liminalsnake @grok @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @AstrosBrain There was a period in the early 2000s when I was convinced she is the most beautiful woman who has ever lived. || CTX: @liminalsnake @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @fuckitwebol @AstrosBrain … I bet that you look good on the dance floor I don't know if you're looking for romance or I don't know what you're looking 404 https:
2026-08-10T00:17 id=2086607934218461460 →BIMBOSATTVA_ | @BIMBOSATTVA_ https://t.co/y2humpoN2e || CTX: My local pool is literally closed due to AIDS
2026-08-10T01:31 id=2086626503228596542 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT Happy birthday to JB’s cat!!! || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT My cat turns two years old today so I gonna buy him some obese treats to celebrate his world beginning
2026-08-10T01:39 id=2086628356322361730 →- | The event horizon of a black hole is that point at which it is impossible to escape the black hole.  So what would it mean to be the event horizon of the Singularity?  Well, we are presupposing the Singularity exists. It is a real future event.  So by saying “we are in the event horizon of the Singularity” what we are really saying is “we are past the point at which it is impossible to escape a future event I believe to be real which I call the Singularity."  So it’s really just saying “I believe the Singularity is real”.  Because it is trivial to say “we are past the point at which it is impossible to escape a future event that is real”—it is impossible to NOT be beyond the point at which it is impossible to escape a future event. To do so would be to be able to stop time, which none of us can do.  So when someone says “We’re at the event horizon of the Singularity” they’re just expressing a belief: I believe the Singularity will happen.  And that’s just, like, your opinion, man. || CTX: there’s a good chance we’re already past the event horizon
2026-08-10T01:46 id=2086630176499372272 →a_musingcat | If AI leads to the Singularity, we will not have stopped AI, therefore if there will be a Singularity we have always been past the event horizon of the Singularity.  If AI does not lead to the Singularity, and we did not stop AI, we will have not stopped AI, therefore if there will not be a Singularity we were never past the event horizon of the Singularity.  If AI does not lead to the Singularity, because we did stop AI, we will have stopped AI, therefore if there will not be a Singularity we were never past the event horizon of the Singularity.  No such thing as an event horizon in time, just space. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 more specifically it’s the belief that AI will lead to the Singularity, and we are past the point of being able to ⏹️ AI. until we reach the event horizon, we could put it back in the box. but maybe it’s too late now. just 
2026-08-10T01:51 id=2086631379543237063 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat That’s a beautiful way to put it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 isn’t this saying that whatever will happen was always going to happen. even the phrase “point of no return” becomes meaningless, as there was never any return, only an illusion of an alternative.
2026-08-10T01:53 id=2086631885590167559 →signulll | @signulll Closely related to the is/ought fallacy, I think.  Some people believe a disagreement on what IS implies a disagreement on what SHOULD BE. Thus disagreement is sign of a moral disagreement, which implies the risk that they think the world should be something I think it shouldn’t. || CTX: i find it weird that ppl choose to hate or avoid ppl they disagree with. like wtf.  i find it immensely joyful to talk to someone with a totally different worldview than mine, if only to understand how they arrived there. what did they expe
2026-08-10T02:13 id=2086636934236123527 →- | Normies are starting to get some very strange notions about what it means to use water.  Did they stop teaching the water cycle in schools or something? https://t.co/IX1gucPTTx || CTX: She wasted 29 thousand gallons of water for a photo https://t.co/KU5UkIf6ly https://t.co/cuzKUwhtuH
2026-08-10T02:20 id=2086638824252465578 →- | An easy trick to think what you're doing is historically unprecedented is just to not know history.   Of course if you do this, you're easy prey for those who have learned from history what you have not.
2026-08-10T02:34 id=2086642316543148382 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @liminalsnake but do you know why you are posting anything? || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake I never know why you’re posting anything. It’s like Steven said, sometimes the dots only make sense looking back when you can finally see how 
2026-08-10T02:35 id=2086642500501217776 →LexerLux | @LexerLux how was it? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i ate a child once
2026-08-10T02:35 id=2086642678461337739 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset incidental, coincidental, and accidental. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Following celebrities is the primary folly. You can’t expect much in the way of general reasoning while committed to that path;  any reasoning which occurs will be incidental.
2026-08-10T02:38 id=2086643243329224836 →satellitedown | @satellitedown OH NOES :( || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you don't understand they dumped it out :( it's all gone now
2026-08-10T03:26 id=2086655315333009674 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake Every once in a while your real age shines through. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake it is actually heartbreaking that you guys need to log into a computer to make friends. i am eating a carrot. actually i finished eating it. but i
2026-08-10T03:31 id=2086656648249295308 →zeta_globin | @zeta_globin I'm not worried about either. || CTX: you're more worried about
2026-08-10T03:31 id=2086656734375051364 →buccocapital | @buccocapital It's just a maid cafe for nerds. || CTX: I don’t know what is going on with this Corgi company, what I do know has been forced upon me, but it just all feels…off. That’s all. That’s the tweet.
2026-08-10T05:01 id=2086679280080376127 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @grok @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus What'd the Caucasian say when he was accused of cultural appropriation when wearing a Hanfu?   "If being Wong is wrong, I don't wanna be white." || CTX: @grok @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus Then one night, some men of higher standing Set a trap, they're not to blame "Come to visit us", they kept demanding And he rea
2026-08-10T05:03 id=2086679835133542512 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @KateMossadAgent @grok @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus 5 likes in 1 minute I am honestly ashamed of each and every Won of you. || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @grok @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus What'd the Caucasian say when he was accused of cultural appropriation when wearing a Hanfu?   "If being Wong is wrong, I don't
2026-08-10T05:05 id=2086680281453613380 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @grok @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus yeah a lot of fellows of the Fan Club get collateral likes when I'm on a tapping spree.   Yet another Posamtive Externality || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KateMossadAgent @grok @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus After a while notifications for sam stop so yours is spontaneous
2026-08-10T05:06 id=2086680470587388094 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus @grok @finkd Oh they have podcasts in Hell too I see || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus @grok @finkd She fixed him. He's good now https://t.co/Iu9ohijMeP
2026-08-10T05:09 id=2086681295514718501 →- | If you read 20 pages of a book a day, that's 7300 pages in a year. 250 pages per book, that's 29 books a year.   20 pages takes like 20 minutes.   If you haven't read 15 or so books in 2026, you're far behind and should be ashamed.   At the very least, you cannot consider yourself an intellectual.
2026-08-10T05:10 id=2086681627493847351 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @grok @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus "somehow" it's a meritocracy and thus has accrued the merit.  Race is on, Running Up Butterhill || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @KateMossadAgent @grok @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @boneGPT @liminalsnake @wilplatypus You’ve ratioed me somehow
2026-08-10T05:11 id=2086681861946998817 →IsZomg | @IsZomg idk why I think she's much prettier than she was 10yrs ago or whenever she first rose to prominence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 aoc is so cute i just want to pat her on the head
2026-08-10T05:18 id=2086683480671576284 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I honestly don't believe you and assume you have read more books than I have so far this year. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i dont consider myself an intellectual. i have better things to do that read some nonsense other people wrote. who gives a shit what they wrote? and who gives a shit about being considered an intellectual? what does that ev
2026-08-10T05:28 id=2086686073099612385 →- | Wait so they're an insurance company with a nerd maid cafe and their mascot is a corgi?   I Stan a hustler ngl that's a dope ass business model
2026-08-10T05:37 id=2086688318482477283 →PronouncedWrong | @PronouncedWrong Man's gotta eat! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/jjuXsrMucI
2026-08-10T05:38 id=2086688514612322418 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk Now look at him. https://t.co/Wf8Jjjf6l5 || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk We only had the gruffalo growing up https://t.co/zBl6Lrlaok
2026-08-10T05:43 id=2086689900838166687 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden needed to save this one for later https://t.co/jbqnqVB2BL || CTX: me and dog are just saying how we feel and you guys cannot handle it because you are all just trying to make money or build a brand or suck up to powerful people. but we are literally just two dogs going  "bark bark" and "woof" https://t.co
2026-08-10T05:48 id=2086691133586059749 →coldhealing | @coldhealing I like this idea DM me we can start our own firm || CTX: My dream job is to work for a hedge fund providing qualitative insights on market conditions by assessing subtle vibe shifts in Day In The Life office videos https://t.co/3pcyJbYdoj
2026-08-10T05:52 id=2086692097999208553 →- | I've noticed people are much more willing to badmouth an institution that gave them money than they are individuals that have given them money.   I suppose this is because they hesitate to betray people, and they don't see institutions as people.
2026-08-10T06:01 id=2086694500928221530 →contrasortem | @contrasortem limitations aren't hard borders but expansive horizons || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Thinking About This https://t.co/7vpck9b7br
2026-08-10T06:03 id=2086694865174429785 →- | It's a shame The Romance of the Rose has fallen out of the western canon.   It both critiques and praises desire as the engine of production while warning of temptations and errors wrapped up in desire.   Good book, speaks through the ages.
2026-08-10T06:31 id=2086701950121529809 →luckenco | @luckenco oh no it killed itself || CTX: help - the clankers are cornering me.. is this what yud talked about?? https://t.co/v0LLTfMIYz
2026-08-10T07:05 id=2086710569566937429 →- | Bernard of Clairvaux was a 12th century monk whose work proves many of our problems of today are very old.   He argues against marketing and the simulacrum.   Bernard was a Cistercian monk who argued against ornate religious art on several grounds. One was that the art was used to attract donations from the public, so he clearly was aware of the use of attention-seeking content to secure revenue. This is an immanently modern phenomenon, yet Bernard is aware of it a 900 years ago. He thinks of the opposite logic of marketing to the mission--the Church exists to praise God and serve as its representative on Earth, and marketing, while arguably necessary, can if overblown take over the mission.  Companies have this same argument today.  Another grounds of critiquing excessive liturgical art was that its ornateness was oriented towards reproducing praesentia, or a physically present representation of the holy. But the symbol is not the symbolized, Bernard points out, and too much focus on representation will confuse the laity: a representation of presentatia, if focused more on the act of representation than on the thing it represents, becomes hyperreal. This is 850 years before Baudrillard.  Y'all sit on the Middle Ages as if we haven't all been human beings this whole time, our toys are just shinier.
2026-08-10T07:06 id=2086710746738811157 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder probably too binary, so it'll be cancelled for Woke 3. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It seems weird to call it woke 1, since that suggests a woke 2. What does she think about woke 2?
2026-08-10T08:14 id=2086727937940979801 →- | I'm not mad. I'm not disappointed.   I'm stoned. https://t.co/f3HOZ8oVHC || CTX: I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed
2026-08-10T08:19 id=2086729153206968785 →- | "maybe August" has turned into "apparently August", I'm long now so should you be (and if my fucking neighbor doesn't get his shit together and this house sale falls through, I'm buying more). https://t.co/lMrbUwL85e || CTX: This is the most "sell in May and go away" market ever, QQQ now at the level it was on May 4th, shut is ridiculous.   It'll go back in September, maybe August, EOY 750 for the Qs mark it https://t.co/E9xIDTdvcP
2026-08-10T08:24 id=2086730303096173035 →- | Whether you're biting your tongue because HR told you to or it's the teaching of your spiritual tradition, you're still doing the same thing.
2026-08-10T08:55 id=2086738117751632079 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x Depends on the books || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What if im reading same books over and over again
2026-08-10T09:03 id=2086740225661837770 →- | I've always seen AI as benefitting SMBs, outsourcing firms, and entrepreneurs who are sufficiently nimble and so can adapt to and deploy fast-changing technology like AI.   That also means that enterprise will only catch up when the technology itself has matured in performance gains and applications, and we're nowhere near that.  AI benefits the little guy. || CTX: Since the launch of ChatGPT, the Philippines offshore industry (8% of country’s GDP) has actually grown much bigger.  Employment in IT and business outsourcing is up by +20% to 1.9m workers and industry revenue is up +30% to $42B.  “AI is h
2026-08-10T10:07 id=2086756429717799241 →- | https://t.co/SZuTHvxLIr
2026-08-10T11:38 id=2086779094503714935 →jakozloski | @jakozloski kinda unrelated but why do I so often see studies like this about Swedes? || CTX: Divorce runs in families. Everyone assumes kids copy what they saw at home.  In a study across 19,715 Swedish adoptees, they resembled their BIOLOGICAL parents' divorce history, not their adoptive parents'.  Genetics are extremely powerful.
2026-08-10T12:20 id=2086789888138207395 →mynamebedan | @mynamebedan dude, I honestly think the pandemic made almost everyone a bit stupider. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’ve never even understood why this misconception even exists in the first place it’s literally too stupid to fathom. how does one’s mind ever begin to think of water like a fossil fuel?
2026-08-10T12:37 id=2086794045591097443 →- | Probably the biggest hindrance to progress in AI will be the frontier labs saying AI will take everyone's jobs.
2026-08-10T12:48 id=2086796809666789706 →basilisk256 | @basilisk256 Graham Greene, The Quiet American Wittgenstein, On Certainty  Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha Ishiguro, The Unconsoled A W Moore, The Infinite John Milton, Paradise Lost Shakespeare, Hamlet Nabokov, Lolita Rushdie, Midnight's Children  Faulkner, Sound and the Fury Joyce, Portrait of. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What are some of your favorites
2026-08-10T13:06 id=2086801486202523733 →- | The great Judea Pearl, ladies and gentlemen. https://t.co/qt6A0TUh1t || CTX: Watch the entire conversation between @ryanlpeterman and Conjecture Institute Advisor @yudapearl  Turing Award Winner: LLM Predictions, Early AI, Causality  https://t.co/6Q65WwXx14
2026-08-10T20:02 id=2086905969787941077 →SamoBurja | @SamoBurja Is there a written article I can read instead? Allows for deeper thinking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Listen to the whole episode, that's not the argument.
2026-08-10T20:05 id=2086906865922003401 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Been 25 years since I looked into this, but generally stick with Penguin and you'll be fine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you have a favourite translation?
2026-08-10T20:06 id=2086907037875863632 →somewheresy | @somewheresy hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/K6sLP3Tofh
2026-08-10T20:49 id=2086917829711061470 →- | Three ways to understand a thing:  Does it do what it's supposed to do?  Does what it does change the world?  Is what it does good or bad?   Paul is saying AGI is defined by 1 and, sure, by that definition maybe you have AGI from many outdated perspectives.   But if it isn't increasing incomes, expanding available products or services, or lowering costs, people don't care.   Measure AI impact from those metrics more and how many Erdos problems it solves less.
2026-08-10T20:56 id=2086919605600358507 →contrasortem | @contrasortem Oh he blocked me long ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait did you block him or did you get blocked lmao
2026-08-10T20:58 id=2086920261509767648 →- | Always seemed to me like the frontier labs should watermark their text and companies like Pangram should focus on making AI text sound more human. Win for everyone: most homework cheaters get caught, we get more useful AI outputs, and we'll probably help the AIs be smarter with natural language. || CTX: Anthropic says new Claude models will embed invisible watermarks in all generated text, everywhere Claude is offered.  The watermark is part of the text, it isn't metadata: "it will travel with the text when it's copied and pasted elsewhere
2026-08-10T21:16 id=2086924798358401385 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat https://t.co/te6IcAixwT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how could anyone block you
2026-08-10T22:26 id=2086942381962842560 →griefcliff | @griefcliff Producing AI text that fools the AI detectors isn't that hard now tbh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It seems super easy to circumvent
2026-08-10T23:24 id=2086956906418241933 →- | Novel idea: In an effort to minimize costs, the scientists working at Red Robin discover a new method of keeping french fries so hot for so long that they are essentially inedible, so Red Robin can continue to offer bottomless french fries without fatties eating them to insolvency.   In so doing, Red Robin inadvertently discovers a perpetual motion machine that makes it possible for humanity to build faster than light engines that allow us to explore the galaxy.   We explore the stare and soon discover an intelligent alien species, and, after dedicating considerable resources to learning how to communicate with them, we soon begin to share scientific and cultural information with our new found galactic neighbors.   However, upon learning that we cracked interstellar travel thanks to a fast casual restaurant chain developing a way to make hot french fries, we immediately become a laughing stock throughout the entire galaxy as a ridiculous species. We are locked out of galactic unions and intercultural exchanges as all of the other aliens in the Milky Way agree that we are way too ridiculous of a species to take seriously at all.   Humiliated and deeply ashamed, humanity decides to wipe all record of this faster than light engine and the existence of aliens and there's a worldwide conspiracy to lie to the next generation and tell them that we have no faster than light capabilities and indeed a perpetual motion machine is impossible to create.  Title of the book ofc would be Yummmmmm
2026-08-10T23:46 id=2086962476550443192 →YourHornedGod | @YourHornedGod I kind of wanted to make this an alcohol-free book, but I got to do with the editor tells me, that's the tragedy of being a writer. I'll have a draft on your desk by the end of the week || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't mean to be THIS editor, but  'wrongfully obtained pint glasses as dark currency' is my only note and if you can work that in, we can get you an advance and a pub date contingent on draft receipt
2026-08-11T00:46 id=2086977575797309840 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein HAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: >be me >bottomless French Fry pit supervisor >in charge of making sure the bottomless French Fry pit is, in fact, bottomless >occasionally have to go down there and check if the bottomless pit is still super hot  >one day i go down there an
2026-08-11T00:48 id=2086978022855610650 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @grok @TSBurkhardt @ThinkWiselyMatt @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @ElmWho Boar's replacement working overtime || CTX: @AstrosBrain @KateMossadAgent @grok @TSBurkhardt @ThinkWiselyMatt @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @ElmWho Wait why is my subscriber badge showing who’s replies are we in
2026-08-11T00:49 id=2086978183929491703 →satellitedown | @satellitedown I'll admit: I was unaware of this. || CTX: absolutely insane today everyone is talking about ai watermarks like it's new. for over a year claude has been outputting text with fake characters. I literally use a plugin and can see all ai text. I thought this was SUPER common knowledge
2026-08-11T02:23 id=2087002030330298620 →- | Some people, quite hilariously and with zero justification, are quite simply not bullish.  Don't be some people, anon. https://t.co/kjxtr6mR3Q || CTX: SINGAPORE RAISES 2026 GDP GROWTH EST. TO 4.5%-5.5% FROM 2%-4%  "...acceleration in global AI-related capital expenditure should boost growth in the electronics and precision engineering clusters of the manufacturing sector. Notably, demand 
2026-08-11T02:32 id=2087004088328507770 →- | I really like this tweet because it makes very clear who MIRI/PauseAI's intended audience is: idiots.   There are a lot of idiots, and they vote. Appeal to idiots, you get a lot of political influence. Political influence is fungible with money.   This is how the Yud/Soares grift works.  Debating them just empowers them: it makes them look like they are on an equal footing with "the other side".   It also distorts perception, making idiots think there are two sides: Amodei/Altman on one side, Yud/Soares on the other.  Thus the grifter can elevate himself by implying moral equivalency with his target.  The only way to stop this is to make them look like idiots to the idiots.  Don't debate them. Showcase their idiocy.   Simple solution to a minor problem.   That said, X-risk and conscious AI as talking points are dying VERY fast.   You might not have noticed because in TPOT the sentiment has only slightly declined, but outside this bubble it's collapsed.  So, probably won't need to be anyone else debating Yud again.  However, the current proposals from frontier lab researchers to "pace the frontier" is the new frontline of discussion.   Should we regulate according to these researchers recommendations? What are those recommendations and why should we listen to them?   This is what I'll be discussing with roon, hopefully next week, so stay tuned kids. || CTX: make many short video more people know big smart ai bad people tell leaders leaders stop ai good https://t.co/9NSamXezH8
2026-08-11T02:33 id=2087004329165353119 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho i wish but i’m only in town for this time short king || CTX: @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho i wish but i’m only in town for this short time king   you should do one when ur here could be fun?
2026-08-11T02:36 id=2087005097524068363 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho not only am I not in sf I'm kinda hoping to never set foot in sf again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho i’m 6’1!!!  are u in sf btw? if so u should come
2026-08-11T02:37 id=2087005424113668509 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho Okay that I am willing to do || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho well this is by the water  you could chill on a sailboat maybe ?
2026-08-11T02:39 id=2087006029662077168 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho c u next tuesday, milord || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @KateMossadAgent @JohnTitor137 @boneGPT @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @ElmWho see u on sunday king 😎
2026-08-11T05:24 id=2087047410295926958 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 All right I'll go all in, but if it falls through I'm gonna move into the alleyway next to your beach house in Thailand and eat your scraps out of the garbage
2026-08-11T05:32 id=2087049501781660031 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra Eh I'll buy you dinner either way || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I decided to just puss out and get a single MNQ contract, so I'm only in for $60k.. if I lose $24,000 I'll just go on vacation there and demand you treat me and my family to an average Thai dinner, haha.  The only way that 
2026-08-11T05:42 id=2087051980799971610 →- | "Claude’s contribution was seeing they fit together."  Absolutely what one should expect from an LLM: very good at finding syntactic patterns where others have not yet found them but in theory could.   The LLMs will keep making us smarter, which is great.   But they cannot think beyond what we are capable of thinking.   And they never will. || CTX: The heavy lifting was recent human work - Baluyot, Goldston, Suriajaya &amp; Turnage-Butterbaugh, plus a Bombieri paper from 2000. Claude’s contribution was seeing they fit together. Goldston himself looked over the paper. Proof is formaliz
2026-08-11T05:45 id=2087052705227551014 →BecomingCritter | @BecomingCritter It doesn't need "cheerleading". It needs "prompting".   "Continue" is semantically equivalent to "keep going". || CTX: fascinating that this works? like why does this work. why does it need cheerleading https://t.co/yoO2BAdCvY
2026-08-11T05:51 id=2087054332420366365 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Yes it is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 is this a “pure LLM” argument ?
2026-08-11T06:18 id=2087061168854847707 →- | this is honestly one of the stupidest and funniest things I've ever heard anyone say. not just because the modern transformer architecture comes from google, but also just how much in-house innovation there's been over the years, and that's all over and above the original search algorithm.   I don't want to gatekeep, because there are good analysts who don't work in a conventional Wall Street institution, but these guys and citrini are bullshit artists. they say nonsense for attention, the attention gets them money, so they say more nonsense. citrini went too far and God bitch slapped by professional economists, so they've backed off from the bullshit, and that's probably what's going to happen here.   for the record, if I said anything this ridiculous to a client, I would insist on getting fired. I would deserve it. at the very least, whatever client heard me say it should stop paying my firm. || CTX: "Google has an L culture and has never actually made anything internally. They've only ever acquired all their innovation, and their execution is very poor."  "Let's seriously do some accounting. Everything other than Core Search has been p
2026-08-11T06:26 id=2087063066999767059 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder it'll be an arms race, I'm glad I'm not in this business, will be a very annoying way to spend one's time over the next few years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Seems like a fundamentally unsolvable problem, but you might be able to keep the game going for a while.
2026-08-11T06:43 id=2087067341914071382 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake The algorithm is a wonderful thing isn't it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Gossiping f-slurs counts as analysis these days huh?
2026-08-11T06:58 id=2087071186136236392 →- | I can't say which but one of the largest financial firms in Asia (outside of China) has blocked access to Anthropic.   This is noteworthy because this firm also has a multi-year contract with Anthropic worth 8 figures.
2026-08-11T07:04 id=2087072720286793826 →xlr8harder | They definitely are less innovative than they used to be and less risk tolerant, which is to be expected with large companies.   It's pretty rare (and odd to expect) a company to innovate over and over and create killer new products all the time.  Google has many homegrown successes, Apple three, Meta arguably one. They're doing great. || CTX: This video is bad, but Google really does struggle to enter new product categories. Ads revenue keeps them fat and comfortable and bureaucracy makes them slow. I say this as a xoogler.  Prior to AI, when did Google last internally invent a 
2026-08-11T07:06 id=2087073090966814960 →tszzl | @tszzl A good businessman worries when they have a dissatisfied customer.   Hubris kills success. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 8 figures? anthropic eats this for breakfast
2026-08-11T07:08 id=2087073594824421450 →IsZomg | @IsZomg Impossible, Anthropic is a good company. The goodest. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Worried about their data ending up on Anthropic servers?
2026-08-11T07:36 id=2087080658464387337 →Noahpinion | @Noahpinion I've heard of vagueposting and I've heard of racism, but I can't say I'm familiar with racist vagueposting, well done Noah I think you've invented a genre. || CTX: All the people complaining that Nolan made Helen of Troy African seem to have missed the fact that in the movie, Menelaus doesn't even think she's that hot, and admits that the war was all about trade routes
2026-08-11T08:12 id=2087089886973321650 →- | And SMH still up 53% YTD this is fucking insane how are you not bullish SMH my head https://t.co/01634UO8Iw
2026-08-11T08:14 id=2087090341849739384 →JasonBotterill | Yeah, but it's not exactly that either because Noah is one of those insufferably woke types who gleefully accuses anyone who thinks slightly differently from him of being a racist, so he's not intentionally dogwhistling his racism.  It's something different: trying to virtue signal with a vaguepost but the post is so vauge it actually becomes racist since the signal is lost in the vagueness. Needs a name. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Noahpinion We just call it dog whistling bro
2026-08-11T08:16 id=2087090651456590064 →- | This is I believe the third account Noah's blocked me on. https://t.co/ZDxmEyG5Cc https://t.co/7LGvPmsdzL || CTX: @Noahpinion I've heard of vagueposting and I've heard of racism, but I can't say I'm familiar with racist vagueposting, well done Noah I think you've invented a genre.
2026-08-11T08:22 id=2087092193421066471 →- | It's so hard to find where the LLM lacks linguistic competency but just has knowledge of a linguistic function--but it feels so so good when you find it.
2026-08-11T08:24 id=2087092902208192700 →ankitkr0 | @ankitkr0 Every single word he's written is correct.  Government has been increasingly irrelevant, which is partly why the talent that goes into politics is getting worse.  UK clearest example of this. || CTX: sign of the times https://t.co/t14mjTyZF3
2026-08-11T09:33 id=2087110257181130890 →30on30on30 | @30on30on30 @tszzl Next week, roon needs more time and I'm happy to accommodate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Where that debate at https://t.co/4uM7ILMqmB
2026-08-11T10:02 id=2087117517986877935 →- | There's a buried lede here.   "Inversion can outperform ground truth when surrogate and victim are the same model. ... Qwen/MATH500 (74.1% vs. 72.2%), Llama/MATH500 (62.0% vs. 59.6%), and Llama/JEEBench (25.2% vs. 23.8%)." Small but significant enough jumps that I bet they're replicable.   That tells me this method could be used to improve post-training at some post-SFT stages, hell maybe shorten RLHF times.  "Our inversion model, conditioned on the final answer, produces clean forward reasoning, which “denoises” R1’s reasoning and provides a better fine-tuning signal."   Also idk if the authors realize this has major implications for benchmark overfitting--maybe a certain kind of overfitting at a certain stage in training is good? well, some intentional benchmark overfitting is already used in post-training, but this makes me think there's more juice to be squeezed. || CTX: there are some really interesting rumors going around related to the distillation of open-weights models (Kimi, Qwen, Minimax, etc.)   and they're very related to my PhD work  The narrative [speculative]: • good distillation relies on reaso
2026-08-11T10:05 id=2087118156133535876 →cafeantinomie | @cafeantinomie omg you're right, could easily swap that in for french fries (fries are funnier though) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is why i say that shelf stable boba is an underregulated research frontier
2026-08-11T10:05 id=2087118271200088177 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden so if you and I are one team against noah, are we even steven? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i got blocked on a couple as well i think. at least one. but i blocked him on more than he blocked me
2026-08-11T10:43 id=2087127686879842537 →- | Gotta be honest, I'm starting to think I was wrong about Thinking Machines.   I was wowed by the duplex and their working paper, but Inkling is after all just a cheaper mid tier model on its own, that it's good to fine tune is, eh, who cares?   The value is in Tinker, and that's only on limited rollout and no clear excitement there, at least not reported.  Personnel issues, not much published research...   I think I was wrong here.
2026-08-11T10:51 id=2087129830785687646 →- | AND YOU'RE BEARISH?!? 😂🫵😂 https://t.co/uJY8bdkwYn
2026-08-11T10:53 id=2087130224232366240 →contrasortem | @contrasortem Yeah they're not bad just not really frontier. And idk how they justify their valuation. They can make a profit but omg that valuation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not a fan, but it's definitely trained differently, right? Also seems more capable of handling audio input, which is... interesting?  It's an LLM company, so it's obviously overvalued, but it seems mildly different to most 
2026-08-11T11:07 id=2087133696759603702 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden it's your and my blocks of Noah vs his blocks of you and me, are they equivalent? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 wait idgi whom owes whomst what?
2026-08-11T11:35 id=2087140859414475136 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov https://t.co/82lyF3oyOM  Seens home grown, and yeah that's a major engine of growth and where they win on AI no matter what. Google is doing fine lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did Google build Google cloud themselves or did they buy that? I have no idea but they're very good at that
2026-08-11T11:45 id=2087143371332841541 →helscom | @helscom Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous || CTX: got this lovely birch cabinet https://t.co/B7cnFNOOPz
2026-08-11T11:48 id=2087144240090607838 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver it's triply sad.   Sad for the passengers that their time is wasted.   Sad for the transport system's timetable overall.   Sad for the station for being in such an unloved neighborhood. || CTX: something sad about a packed tube stopping at a station and nobody gets on and nobody gets off
2026-08-11T11:50 id=2087144698167386517 →ptaranat | @ptaranat In terms of capabilities and functionality, would you say it's as good or better than others? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i have been using tinker since close to launch for post training. it’s the easiest to use API by far.
2026-08-11T23:05 id=2087314401317826873 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Based in Asia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Based in Asia? Or based in US that has a branch/arm in Asia?
2026-08-12T00:32 id=2087336368997363914 →- | We're up about 1% since this tweet, August so far being a slow, quiet, sleepy month of incremental gains.   Full recovery beginning in September, maybe second half of August QQQ ends the year around 750, maybe higher, and we'll get some spikes and dips in 4Q. https://t.co/bmRqmSnmM4 https://t.co/lMrbUwKAfG || CTX: This is the most "sell in May and go away" market ever, QQQ now at the level it was on May 4th, shut is ridiculous.   It'll go back in September, maybe August, EOY 750 for the Qs mark it https://t.co/E9xIDTdvcP
2026-08-12T00:42 id=2087338973819502672 →Lunens__ | It's nothing fiendish or worrisome.   In a typical ABS, the assets are loans. So when the loans are paid back in full, the owner of the asset has nothing. So an ABS has zero reisidual capital value once its incoming cash flows disappear: it also disappears.   These SPVs back their loans with the data centers and the concomitant cash flows they will receive, which flows out to the partners of the SPV: in this sense it is like an ABS, it's designed as a pass through for cash flows.   However, once those cash flows disappear, the SPV owns real estate, so it shouldn't be treated as an ABS, more like a real estate loan with some cash flow covenants.  The ruling is correct and this is nothing to worry about. || CTX: why is data centre debt excluded from asset-backed securitisation rules?  Can someone who knows something explain this to me?
2026-08-12T00:44 id=2087339309816750546 →- | This not only is my view but is precisely the issue I wanted to test with my lab.   He's absolutely right, you can't get ASI from LLMs. And what generalizations you get from it are very limited in scope.  They're an amazing technology but they aren't the machine god. https://t.co/1D5aDd0qBB || CTX: .@MaxNadeau_ on why the Whac-A-Mole approach frontier labs take to aligning AIs is not going to work for superintelligence:  "I'm not that enthusiastic about the Whac-A-Mole approach that the frontier labs take to aligning AIs as a techniqu
2026-08-12T02:01 id=2087358894263648303 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Huh? That's not true at all, Anthropic has service widely throughout Asia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am surprised considering Anthropic doesn’t have service anywhere in Asia but Japan (lest you use a VPN).  So Japanese or Taiwanese bank?
2026-08-12T02:21 id=2087363696305619045 →- | ChatGPT Work is an incredible UX, just incredible. It's things like this that keep me going full open source.
2026-08-12T02:26 id=2087365131835420683 →- | There's going to be so so much more of this.  Btw, the number of people who believe AI is or or probably will become conscious has fallen 27% yy.  These two issues are intimately connected. You'll most likely see how/why when roon and I do our chat, probably sometime next week. https://t.co/XS3PzVWin9 || CTX: 💥 “The level of deception from the AISI is disturbing”.    Last week I invited top cybersecurity professionals to review the work of the AI Security (originally Safety) Institute. That is a verbatim quote.   He had been examining the techni
2026-08-12T02:45 id=2087369881373266430 →- | They tried. They really tried to hide behind "the model did this omg this is terrifying."   But, well, legislators still believe you are responsible for the software you develop and/or operate.  Don't hate me, I'm just the messenger bringing you back to reality! If their view is wrong, tell us how and why. Explain and help us understand! || CTX: SITUATION DETECTED: 31 members of Congress have written a letter to Sam Altman demanding OpenAI disclose additional information about the Hugging Face incident, release the relevant logs, and answer detailed oversight questions. https://t.c
2026-08-12T02:49 id=2087370974693867673 →- | Hubris kills success. https://t.co/y11l2L4ynL
2026-08-12T03:14 id=2087377085404790789 →brnnnmcdnld | @brnnnmcdnld hence why the anthropic IPO will be delayed to next year, it's so obvious it's honestly a little funny || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 As someone who has worked on regulatory remediation type projects I just love these SF folks struggling to survive contact with the real world.  Like, these questions are less invasive than the median bank regulator investi
2026-08-12T04:08 id=2087390734760677614 →moultano | @moultano I don’t have children and am very curious: can you explain how? What about their supplies is different from the 80s/90s? || CTX: Whenever I buy my kids school supplies I'm reminded of how much more physical the world used to be. Elementary school feels like a remnant of an earlier material culture.
2026-08-12T04:44 id=2087399863688523796 →- | Congratulations, Brad, on the windfall! https://t.co/7CB41SorVq https://t.co/sWDwcIFnzT || CTX: i shared the message below with the openai team this morning. these decisions are never easy, but the talent and mission orientation of the openai team make me more optimistic than ever. 🤍  ###  Team, it is bittersweet to share that I’ll be
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412775257604453 →- | My biggest issue with the AI/ML community has been their sometime use of “we are building a conscious machine” rhetoric.  Honestly, this is kinda my ONLY issue.  I have zero issues with AI Safety if it means that AI researchers are more cautious about the development, deployment, and use of the software tools they are developing.  I have enormous issues with AI Safety if it means worrying about a machine that secretly wants to kill us, or a machine that wants anything at all. Because machines cannot “want” anything in the same way humans do, and this equivocation has been manipulated by grifters, liars, and fundraising executives.  I also dislike how both OpenAI and Anthropic leveraged human frailties and weaknesses to manipulate how they perceive the software they are building. On OpenAI’s side, creating 4o was a huge mistake caused by poor stewardship and a deep misunderstanding of what text and textuality are, resulting in a badly performing model. On Anthropic’s side, the constant fluff pieces from Amanda Askell implying or arguing that Claude has feelings and those feelings need to be respected is again poor stewardship and a deep misunderstanding of what text is.  However, we are seeing both of the frontier labs back off from this rhetoric. Why?  First, it’s done what it needed to do. Secondly, it can’t do more because the populace isn’t buying it anymore.
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412778604933129 →47fucb4r8c69323 | In mid-2025, a full 55% of respondents to a YouGov poll said AI systems either are or will be conscious, with 27% in the more confident answer bands.  In April 2026, respondents to the same poll (albeit less respondents now answered 40%, with just 16% in the more confident answer bands.  So the American public is believing the bullshit about conscious clankers less. This is partly why I retired from arguing this point a few weeks ago: the argument is dying. || CTX: My biggest issue with the AI/ML community has been their sometime use of “we are building a conscious machine” rhetoric.  Honestly, this is kinda my ONLY issue.  I have zero issues with AI Safety if it means that AI researchers are more cau
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412788549607481 →47fucb4r8c69323 | When the incident first happened, Politico was happy to call it “the first fully autnomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models”, because autonomous AI breaking containment is an awesome headline that will attract clicks. https://t.co/q6RstqwHh3 || CTX: These are all growing pains for young companies that were focused on scale and, as a result, successfully scaled a lot very quickly. Now they are in the big leagues and will need to act accordingly.  This means being more aligned (I used th
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412792601280637 →47fucb4r8c69323 | More recently, however, Politico reporting softened their language: while it’s still saying “two of its models orchestrated a hack without human prompting”, this follows the more active-voice independent clause: "Researchers from OpenAI said the company is “dramatically scaling up” its security efforts”.  The headline is still anthropomorphizing the model, but the pareidolia is now more entangled with human responsibility; Politico is slowly pivoting away from “fully autonomous” in July to “models orchestrated” due to a lack of “dramatically scaled up” security.  Slowly, the pivot towards human responsibility and away from autnomous clankers doing scary things because scifi scary is coalescing.  This will continue.  https://t.co/S1FfSLu17J || CTX: When the incident first happened, Politico was happy to call it “the first fully autnomous breach by OpenAI’s most powerful AI models”, because autonomous AI breaking containment is an awesome headline that will attract clicks. https://t.co
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412795998650634 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Fortune has different incentives: it targets an older readership of people looking to make money, so it wants to focus on the financial implications of actions in as realistic and predictive a way as possible. And respect for my colleagues/competitors at Fortune: they do a great job.  Here the headline (and discussion throughout) is about the market implications of this crisis and indeed it is framed as a crisis for OpenAI—not for the entire world.  This is why “pausing the frontier” won’t work. Maybe it’d get more popular reception a year ago. This year, it will fail.  It is failing. But nice try, researchers. || CTX: More recently, however, Politico reporting softened their language: while it’s still saying “two of its models orchestrated a hack without human prompting”, this follows the more active-voice independent clause: "Researchers from OpenAI sai
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412800830439888 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Back in the more respectable media, we see Bloomberg describing it this way: "The infiltration of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents has put AI-enabled cyber attacks into the spotlight. The incident and similar breaches reported by Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. have fueled calls in Washington and Silicon Valley for more thorough safety reviews of artificial intelligence models"  "We've never seen hacks like these, we've never seen hacks where companies are hacking the internet. It's always bad guys, it's criminals or spies or whatever."  The journalist then goes on with the anthropomorphization—calling it a result of the models’ “creativity” and “ingenuity” but then tying said features to the models’ training data.   Again, an admixture, but a telling one!  https://t.co/2eQe0GepIM || CTX: And it is worth noting that the creepy weirdo grifters are failing to leverage this for themselves. Soares has a piece in The Hill saying “There is a point of no return ahead: a point where we can’t simply turn the AIs off because they’d es
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412804215300294 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Then at CNBC, they also say the models “went rogue” but do so in order to connect it to the real group of real humans responsible, here the proposed antogonist is “Irregular”.  And this is in order to insinuate this company is the bad guy: "OpenAI said in a blog post on Aug. 4 that Irregular’s testing ground contained an unspecified “misconfiguration,” that “allowed models to access the public internet.” Anthropic said in its post a week prior that the company notified Irregular a few days after it began analyzing data that its Claude model may have “accessed the internet.”"  https://t.co/wKv4newuqw || CTX: Back in the more respectable media, we see Bloomberg describing it this way: "The infiltration of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents has put AI-enabled cyber attacks into the spotlight. The incident and similar breaches reported by Anthropic P
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412806463467538 →47fucb4r8c69323 | The attempts by the frontier labs to avoid responsibility by hiding behind autonomous AI are beginning to fail.  OpenAI is adapting to this reality faster than Anthropic, unsurprisingly. OpenAI’s researchers, however, are not—hence the “pacing the frontier” nonsense. || CTX: Then at CNBC, they also say the models “went rogue” but do so in order to connect it to the real group of real humans responsible, here the proposed antogonist is “Irregular”.  And this is in order to insinuate this company is the bad guy: 
2026-08-12T05:36 id=2087412808648716475 →47fucb4r8c69323 | We can see from this cursory look at the media how it is now becoming a signal of sophistication to say that the models’ hacking is a result of the companies failing to contain the models and it is a signal of being lower class to believe the AIs are conscious.  I suspect, over the coming years, believing in conscious LLMs will increasingly be seen as akin to astrology and Evangelical Christianity: something lower class, something that denotes an inferior social class, and thus something that aspiring ambitious people will avoid.  Once it was a sign of being a cool hip smart kid to think the clankers had feelings. This makes no sense, so of course the social coding of this faith couldn’t last long.  Keep thinking your clankers are conscious, Anon, if you want to be part of the permanent underclass. || CTX: The attempts by the frontier labs to avoid responsibility by hiding behind autonomous AI are beginning to fail.  OpenAI is adapting to this reality faster than Anthropic, unsurprisingly. OpenAI’s researchers, however, are not—hence the “pac
2026-08-12T05:43 id=2087414663906787612 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Our physical bodies presumably? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what is the source of human wants that a machine can’t replicate
2026-08-12T05:53 id=2087417245789991154 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat A physical body can be replicated: we have cloning. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why can’t that be replicated? i dont see why a machine can’t want in principle
2026-08-12T06:06 id=2087420480638628282 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat @liminalsnake A robot running AI software isn't AI embodied in linear time any more than a laptop running ChatGPT is AI embodied in linear time. || CTX: @liminalsnake @47fucb4r8c69323 so it isn’t embodiment in linear time then?
2026-08-12T07:10 id=2087436501336441298 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @allisonology @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @Ken67547214 Surely @GKunstwerk isn't going to take that lying down (on a bed of lettuce, because sausage on lettuce would be weird) || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @allisonology @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 the gentleman sausage has lost all his charm unfortunately
2026-08-12T07:10 id=2087436611457794361 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology She clearly has a thing for older men. || CTX: @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology https://t.co/sFgyehTW4l
2026-08-12T07:19 id=2087438787026534633 →- | Gonna enjoy watching this arms race unfold. https://t.co/ek67WnE8il || CTX: Over the weekend, I trained the first model to beat @pangram 4, and it perfectly humanized this text. The challenge was to beat Pangram while also not losing a lot of the meaning and detail from the original text, as previous humanizers do.
2026-08-12T07:32 id=2087442095803892118 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Russian River is physically incapable of making a bad beer. || CTX: Wow, 10/10, no notes. https://t.co/VfCF35NO7V
2026-08-12T07:33 id=2087442334627602837 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil So unbelievably handsome. || CTX: This fellow came to visit me https://t.co/9rJQwXI5WB
2026-08-12T07:36 id=2087443079074611480 →pensandpoison | @pensandpoison This is absolutely tragic and depressing.  Just for the record: some of us who were academics in the 2000s and 2010s tried our hardest to stop this from happening. We failed and for that we owe you an apology. I am truly sorry.  Literature will return to humanity, someday. || CTX: I found this photo from my sophomore year dorm room at Columbia.  Take a look at the authors we read in my English classes: Fanon, Derrida, Said, Foucault, Hegel, Baudrillard, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Barthes, Zizek, Heidegger, Lacan,
2026-08-12T07:36 id=2087443193302315325 →MJNeg_Neg | @MJNeg_Neg @pensandpoison I was an English prof and yes you are correct, most of them do want to be just that. || CTX: @pensandpoison I have a feeling that a lot of English profs are wanna be philosophy profs.   Which is a pretty damning indictment on English profs.
2026-08-12T08:29 id=2087456311227076673 →- | Sat cannot be exhausted by nāma-rūpa.  Upanishads figured this out long before Wittgenstein, Godel, Tarski made the big leaps but also there were others: Kant, Poincare, Peirce, Derrida  Epistemic mediation, linguistic underdetermination, formal incompleteness, the gap between verification and solution behind p and np are all pointing to the same problem.  Any give symbologic system will inevitably fail even if you use it perfectly on a long enough timeline.   For language, this also means we should expect equivocation so much more often than equivalence. In fact, I don't see how we gain the latter globally, and only locally via fixed grammars. Thus language is necessarily grammatical, but not as a tautology but rather as a functional precondition. So even if you had perfectly telepathic entities, a public grammar is needed. Rulesets are unavoidable.
2026-08-12T08:39 id=2087458914023415843 →- | If a human being from say ancient Rome and a human being from ancient China were 100% telepathic, they still could not understand each other even if reading each other's minds.
2026-08-12T09:05 id=2087465441736163545 →__roycohen | @__roycohen Yes, been studies on this, they would even without telepathy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But if they were next to each other, they could likely infer something from body language. Makes u think..
2026-08-12T09:05 id=2087465549789835638 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs exactly, the entire concept of telepathy is incoherent || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah because there is no such thing as 100% telepathic or even mind-reading these are silly terms that are no even defined. we have some fuzzy feel good hollywood concepts like if i "read your mind" it means i can see what 
2026-08-12T09:41 id=2087474656093585483 →- | From this perspective, grammar isn't an element of the language but necessarily extralinguistic in the sense that it is composed of second-order rules upon the first-order symbologic structure.   What Chomsky got wrong was thinking this was a program or that it exists within the biology, when it should more accurately be thought of as a process of reconfiguration of the total possibility space of acceptable moves within the symbologic structure.  We then shouldn't be surprised that an LLM can produce language, or even that it can reconfigure language or be admitted as an active participant in the language.   There's no reason to seek elements of biology in the non-biological program; its use of language neither logically forces nor even suggests such a move.  So why does it feel so natural?   Because language is a social tool and we expect anything using language to be part of society. The illusion of a ghost in the machine really makes sense.   But if you understand language, you see how these idiots have been fooled by text. || CTX: Sat cannot be exhausted by nāma-rūpa.  Upanishads figured this out long before Wittgenstein, Godel, Tarski made the big leaps but also there were others: Kant, Poincare, Peirce, Derrida  Epistemic mediation, linguistic underdetermination, f
2026-08-12T10:09 id=2087481633788084286 →0xItsover | @0xItsover That equivocates between consciousness emergent from human components and supposed consciousness emergent from computer components as if the consciousness is substrate independent, implying consciousness IS the substrate, and so your functionalism turns into Berkeleyan idealism. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if a person recognizes that consciousness is a product emergent from a system rather than viewing things as its components the answer would lean to yes.  human beings are made up of components that aren't alive the same way
2026-08-12T10:34 id=2087487829194453264 →- | When anti-consumption politics got really big, food was 20% of income so this kind of moral outrage kinda made sense.  But it's 7% of income and the only people on earth who can't afford food are in that situation because of corruption or oppression, so consumption isn't the issue. So these politics look dumb now.   In the future they're going to look even dumber. That line will keep going down. When food costs are 1% of income and these loaves of bread cost about as much as packets of ketchup do now, will these politics still endure?   There WAS a time when wasting sugar or salt was considered evil and reckless, after all. We don't think so now, surely the same will happen to bread?  But then again, we have an intense visceral relationship to food, after all, so maybe this politics can never fully die? || CTX: This is what happens in a system that prioritizes profit over people https://t.co/Rg6chttc7v
2026-08-12T10:38 id=2087488817057931491 →- | Only losers live life trying to win the game.   You should be trying to beat the game.   They won't tell you this, though, because they want you to keep playing.  [ SELECT ]                 [ START ]  ...  I should stop tweeting man
2026-08-12T10:45 id=2087490683699401005 →0xbarefoot | @0xbarefoot Yeah that too! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah you should be trying to ENJOY the game (as an unc)
2026-08-12T12:17 id=2087513906721739107 →emiliesyverson | @emiliesyverson Absolutely! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Drives me nuts bc I feel like this cultlike sci-fi fantasy distracts, and siphons attention and resources away, from actual genuine real world AI safety issues.
2026-08-12T13:28 id=2087531680827420761 →- | I bet Elon Musk makes audio AI summaries of books, splices them together so one plays on the left channel and the other on the right,and that's how he reads books.  That's why he confused the Iliad and the Odyssey in that one tweet. https://t.co/AHaiFNNWbR || CTX: I am afraid is a road to perdition. I’ll use AI when reading when reading non-fiction, to get further background on individuals or events that I was previously unfamiliar with. Either way, the big 🚩, and I’ve heard this said IRL a few times
2026-08-12T22:03 id=2087661360268104083 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc It arises from our efforts to make elements of our language conform or not conform to our observations of the world, hence it overlaps with the natural world and logical space while not emerging directly from either. || CTX: Whence does the possibility space arise? Does the possibility space of acceptable moves in (the) language reflect the possibility space of acceptable moves in the natural world? In logical space? Or only within a structure we have superimpo
2026-08-12T22:04 id=2087661502467903672 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka Aka beating the game || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you can just reject the game
2026-08-12T22:05 id=2087661816390492647 →benohanlon | @benohanlon I see no clear legitimate use case, same as with crypto, but I could be wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What are your thoughts on sovereign AI and posb open decentralized models?
2026-08-12T22:06 id=2087662051459989970 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @allisonology @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @justabdulraouf @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @allisonology @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 https://t.co/auZkKzWOvZ
2026-08-12T22:17 id=2087664822632538380 →- | How old were you when you learned the difference between real and make-believe? https://t.co/nq7yROvbLt || CTX: When I started playing Skyrim, I quickly realized you can make a lot of progress without doing any killing. You can also adopt orphans and build them nice houses, so I focused on that. I honestly don't really remember the plot beyond "that 
2026-08-12T22:20 id=2087665441543983290 →TenreiroDaniel | @TenreiroDaniel The sound quality, the background, the editing... I'm impressed they paid top dollar for this. || CTX: imagine waking up on Monday as a top 11% trader at Jane Street, seeing this post &amp; realizing your days of gainful employment are numbered https://t.co/LCMc2V4BqP
2026-08-12T22:23 id=2087666343420010887 →- | People really struggle with acknowledging what they're doing.   They can't leave it at, "we're iteratively improving technology to make tools that enable people," it has to be something bigger, grander, and more meaningful.  This is the psychological weakness grifters exploit.  If the Bay Area had taste, they'd turn their area into an artistic paradise, but they don't so we have Yud and Gwern and Scott Alexander and fent zombies and overpriced housing and Boomers who refused to build more and and and || CTX: we really need a literature of the singularity. no one is adequately capturing (either in fiction or in creative non-fiction) what is happening right now in the bay. nyc/iowa literary culture has lost the mandate of heaven, and these people
2026-08-12T22:26 id=2087666972422983866 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Kinda describing life as an expat tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 rom hack the game, reimplement the game on different hardware with naughty words in the dialogue and big gazongas crudely stapled on to the assets, like just straight up disrespect the developer, i mean like total artistic 
2026-08-12T22:44 id=2087671617140720073 →- | I suspect this is by design. So many Europeans deeply resent someone showing up with money to buy things, yet feel morally obligated to want charity for whomever they're told to support: hence the paradox of leftist Spaniards hating tourists and supporting illegal migrants.  I would make a prediction: if you presented this in favorable enough terms, most Germans would say it's a good idea, like: "Would you prefer if housing is allocated those who pay top dollar for the unit or if it were allocated according to your preexisting ties to the community, how well you know the neighbors, and your good standing with local officials and the national government?" I bet over half would prefer the latter.   People are very irrational, we just have to accept this as a factor in society. || CTX: tight supply + heavy regulation + rent controls = the market stops clearing on price and starts clearing on who you know, how long you’ve lived there, or how well you perform the social rituals.  the impersonal “show up with money and a job
2026-08-12T22:44 id=2087671681783369840 →WoganMay | @WoganMay HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The Bay Area is creating the crater in anticipation of the blast
2026-08-12T22:51 id=2087673472872862197 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy What interests me is why this is so appealing to a particular subtype of human.   That off-puttingness is something I have confirmed with normie friends MANY times, which explains why the only vector they make inroads in with normies is doom: ofc the prophet of doom is offputting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Everything about EA cultists is cringe and off-putting. Why can't they just be, like, normal?
2026-08-12T22:52 id=2087673647930462537 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @grok @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @Ken67547214 @finkd @a_musingcat I saw Paramore in concert in 2008. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @grok @Ruesavatar @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @Ken67547214 @finkd @a_musingcat hail hair hare hera  silly wabbits https://t.co/GyLehUaOy5
2026-08-12T22:54 id=2087674031956738319 →fabsbz | @fabsbz The past 10 months or so of looking closely at SV culture has taught me, while some are born with good taste, it's for the most part an acquired skill and not an easy one to acquire. || CTX: More and more I realize the industry suffers from a crippling lack of artistic vision. Even putting dooming aside, the picture painted by industry leaders is completely sterile. It’s no wonder the general public is instinctively iffy about 
2026-08-12T22:57 id=2087674864156987776 →- | Wanting your donations to charities to be as effective as possible and being rational when making decisions are simple, noble goals.   So why do movements around these attract uniquely degenerate weirdos and repulse the rest of us?   This is a serious question! https://t.co/QUUUTRHxpw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's fascinating, for sure. On its face, there's nothing about giving to effective charities or caring about existential risk that should be so appealing to uniquely degenerate weirdos. And yet.
2026-08-12T22:58 id=2087675173629579574 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @grok @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @finkd @a_musingcat Wow you met a college friend of Darius Rucker? || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @grok @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @finkd @a_musingcat I saw Hootie at the grocery store, but he didn't have the 🐡
2026-08-12T23:04 id=2087676590490558870 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I think it must be in the lack of limits!   A normal person realizes, "yes I should be as rational as possible when I make decisions, but there are obviously questions that cannot be answered solely by rational means" and realize rationality is just one of a variety of tools.   A normal person realizes, "yes I should make my giving as efficient as possible but the future is unknowable so I cannot optimize my giving totally, at some point it's a leap of faith" and they realize the efficacy of their altruism has a cap: the inability to know the future.   This group is a group of weirdos because they go past that and believe they can know the unknowable and can do so with reason alone.  The dumber ones turn into prophets (Yud) and the smarter ones focus on getting really good at math, thinking they will discover reality.  Ofc this is all insane: it's either cultism or neo-Platonism.   But it all makes total sense. || CTX: Wanting your donations to charities to be as effective as possible and being rational when making decisions are simple, noble goals.   So why do movements around these attract uniquely degenerate weirdos and repulse the rest of us?   This i
2026-08-12T23:05 id=2087676808858914887 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @grok @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @finkd @a_musingcat https://t.co/JyBkeIDPSw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @grok @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @finkd @a_musingcat Is that not the same guy? That explains a lot actually. I used to live near him and people said he
2026-08-12T23:14 id=2087679188442501370 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Oh yeah they're doing so well I totally forgot || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you implying I can’t just pay Taste Labs for some taste and call it a day? Preposterous
2026-08-12T23:25 id=2087681917231546516 →- | https://t.co/nsB8Iy8qou  "Our language is such that it's tempting to say 'feels' and 'thinks' and 'wants' even when we're talking about things like cars that we're positive aren't conscious."
2026-08-12T23:32 id=2087683614422994954 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka GOD DAMMIT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 btw you just lost the game, sorry bro
2026-08-12T23:59 id=2087690380842017022 →- | https://t.co/3YxxwWdiSJ
2026-08-13T01:11 id=2087708535123587571 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake They're Mirror Universe digital humanities people, a field I tried and failed to stay in because it had no money and they have all the money fml || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they're like, doing computational humanities but have almost no humanity within them, and what little they have, they hate, wish to shed, which makes everything kinda gross and stupid
2026-08-13T01:12 id=2087708830217953321 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Yes, that makes sense.   So would you say their disinterest in the incidental causes and interest in the numbers will lead to them producing more harmful externalities? || CTX: A lot of it comes down to a disease of optimization (strong candidate for the cultural disease of our time).  Normal people inevitably find it off putting when they realize that for EAs it’s all a numbers game and the causes are just incide
2026-08-13T01:13 id=2087709073449857033 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain Honestly she'd go down a notch or two without the dimple || CTX: @AstrosBrain *boop*  hehe https://t.co/oqwTsT1XIP
2026-08-13T01:14 id=2087709258582294824 →nikolausholzer | @nikolausholzer Well said. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Humans have a tendency to anthropomorphize many many things  The models are trained to mimic human reasoning at the surface level which makes them better imitators of “reasoning”
2026-08-13T01:15 id=2087709544105328837 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics Yes, reminds me a bit of Objectivism (the Ayn Rand kind). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The term is a tautological epithet. It is self-certifying in a way that can slide into self-parody. A title that certifies its own virtue should be expected to attract both the self-assuaged and the cynical sharks.
2026-08-13T01:35 id=2087714538292425108 →- | Get your bag at any cost culture, 2020s are a spiritually distant cousin to the 1980s, this is depressing, I hate it here etc etc https://t.co/F2XQDWB8Sp
2026-08-13T01:45 id=2087717250803318890 →- | I'll probably stop these "and you're bearish?!" tweets after this week, but gotta get a couple in while I still can https://t.co/T8yPbFb8ei https://t.co/8QYTLkHOi2 || CTX: AND YOU'RE BEARISH?!? 😂🫵😂 https://t.co/uJY8bdkwYn
2026-08-13T02:00 id=2087721011122708553 →- | No one should be respected or admired for having a lot of money. No one.   I have money because I can read markets good AND I saved a lot of my money.  In another world, I didn't save because I got sick or had an accident or had to help family.  Success is part luck, anon.
2026-08-13T02:21 id=2087726321199657145 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Machine trained to emulate human activity actually emulates human activity. || CTX: People think I posted this as some kind of “gotcha”, like I’m trying to show that the models are dumb. That’s not it all. The point is to establish that what people call “artificial” intelligence is often surprisingly similar to the real th
2026-08-13T02:47 id=2087732714614964719 →- | One of the under-discussed aspects of LLMs is their use of lists.   We know well that people love lists: when I went from academic to journalist/writer, I started out making lists because that's what people clicked on. People fucking love lists.  So OpenAI/Anthropic train their models to prefer lists.  The issue is lists are semantically confining. That is to say: a list has less meaning than a prose representation of the list.  And this, funnily enough, is also why OpenAI/Anthropic train their models to prefer lists.   Less meaning is good for a generic model.  Consider two phenomena: pop songs with very broad, vague lyrics tend to be more successful than pop songs about very specific things. A song about heartbreak is likelier to be a hit than a song about Joanne breaking up with me in 1996 because some creepy 21yr old in Florida sweet-talked her over AOL into thinking he was special.  Or consider T. S. Eliot's argument for impersonal poetry: the transformation of personal emotion into a poetic form in where the poet’s individuality is not present.  This illusion of depth points to a fundamental limitation of LLMs and precisely the point where our non-replicable humanity becomes apparent--and yet the second I define or describe that humanity, it's no longer apparent and it becomes replicable, albeit only insofar as the compression of that humanity into language.
2026-08-13T02:48 id=2087732938897027402 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 Yeah this is part of the paradox of Americans getting more miserable as the country gets wealthier. || CTX: I often defend America (a thankless task, except, of course, for all that CIA money 😏).  But a downside of it having more opportunity than any other country on earth, of it being the easiest place to make money in the world, is that not hav
2026-08-13T02:49 id=2087733129280721263 →shephard42 | @shephard42 You should probably unfollow me, then. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why the fuck is my timeline so filled with bile today? This Skyrim person isn't worthy of any kind of mockery. Is this just a hatred of EA/nationalism? Feels fucking gross.
2026-08-13T02:51 id=2087733669939036205 →47fucb4r8c69323 | “In art it is hard to say anything that is as good as saying nothing" - Ludwig Wittgenstein   There is a lot of money in the art of saying nothing. || CTX: One of the under-discussed aspects of LLMs is their use of lists.   We know well that people love lists: when I went from academic to journalist/writer, I started out making lists because that's what people clicked on. People fucking love l
2026-08-13T03:16 id=2087739966113579354 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf Do you live in Las Vegas? || CTX: day 222 of my health and fitness journey   sacrificing your comfort to pursue your dreams is worth it https://t.co/aRsorsIRH4
2026-08-13T03:31 id=2087743722788163847 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden @grok @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @finkd @a_musingcat been a while https://t.co/yEqFTx6rmx || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @grok @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @JasonBotterill @allisonology @finkd @a_musingcat don’t look down, no, no go, go underground now, now there’s a place to go it’s industrial work it,
2026-08-13T04:18 id=2087755697245356051 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart I can just envision Joe cackling to himself as he sends this tweet off. || CTX: I think a lot of people (across ideologies) have recognized that a lot of culture war arguments have gone of the rails and are ready move past these fights. Great. I think that’s fine, so long as we settle one thing. Which side started it?
2026-08-13T04:20 id=2087756075538006176 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Capitalism was created by humanity.  The doomsday machine will wipe out humanity.  Capitalism is richly rewarding the people creating the doomsday machine.  Therefore, capitalism is rewarding the people destroying the source of evil.  Therefore, capitalism is good. || CTX: capitalism is clearly evil based on how richly it rewards the people building the doomsday machine
2026-08-13T04:21 id=2087756336440500362 →s0phyyyy | @s0phyyyy Big reason why I left California when I graduated--in the 90s this was considered more L.A. culture, but Silicon Valley seemed the same to me, so I just wanted to leave.  Never regretted that choice, but I have regretted looking back at the culture I left. Many times in fact.
2026-08-13T05:30 id=2087773675185385626 →- | Klara and the Sun is manipulative trash, I'm bailing.   Ishiguro's attempt to manipulate the reader through framing, detail, perspective is too transparent--the rhetoric is all designed to encourage sympathy and empathy for the axiomatically asserted feeling bot.  Maybe before LLMs I could've read this book but I can't now.
2026-08-13T05:39 id=2087776052248494393 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Pre-LLM 47: "This is wonderful, Ishiguro is forcing readers to consider how objectifying moral agency without empathy is cruel."   Post-LLM 47: "This is heinous, the book is going to create more 4o zombies and justify increasing atomization and alienation of lonely people for profit."   Ishiguro isn't wrong and the book isn't bad, just the cultural context no longer provides the affordances for the book to do the ethic and aesthetic work Ishiguro wants it to do. He's a victim of circumstance.   This has happened before.  Just like Never Let Me Go wasn't about cloning and is about how easily we can selfishly exploit others by seeing them as undeserving autonomy, so too Klara isn't about AI and is about how easily we can selfishly exploit others by seeing them as undeserving autonomy.   Klara being perverted to encourage robot love proves Ishiguro's point but also makes the book untenable without this valence (which fills me with rage).  So it's a good book I cannot read, just like Ham on Rye: I couldn't read that book because it accurately depicts a nightmare I escaped, and now I can't read Klara because it accurately embodies a nightmare I'm currently trying to have others escape.   I should stop reading. || CTX: Klara and the Sun is manipulative trash, I'm bailing.   Ishiguro's attempt to manipulate the reader through framing, detail, perspective is too transparent--the rhetoric is all designed to encourage sympathy and empathy for the axiomaticall
2026-08-13T05:53 id=2087779633605333221 →- | Annals of Mathematics is the field's top journal.   Anals of Mathematics is the field's bottom journal.
2026-08-13T05:56 id=2087780324100939790 →notadampaul | @notadampaul No that is not my contention at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is a remarkably malformed attempt at a dunk. Your contention is that she isn't able to discern whether the thing she explicitly called a "fantasy game" is real or make-believe?
2026-08-13T06:06 id=2087782894622089544 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Extremely well done. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Published bi-annually, right?
2026-08-13T06:08 id=2087783382520312081 →MightyMogomra | The idea that AI empowers professionals to be exponentially more productive seems to have largely disappeared because of the hyperbole of the discourse.  Probably why those in power encourage the hyperbole.  Great opportunity for us clear headed people to make so much fuckin money || CTX: Win so hard that you actually feel bad for people when you open up your stock trading app.  Trading against the market feels like stealing from children  I just got $40,000 worth of software dev work done and all it cost me was a few hours 
2026-08-13T06:11 id=2087784147712348584 →profleonn | @profleonn https://t.co/j2KLf4V3XF || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or is his team just genuinely retarded, like I actually can't understand this at all
2026-08-13T06:29 id=2087788545813401667 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I grok the connection || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 money and 4.7 mentioned  also hamm and cleese so i am hungry again https://t.co/Jz0WAAEyfJ
2026-08-13T06:39 id=2087791012643066365 →- | Every fucking book I open these days feels like I'm being lied to, manipulated, or exposed to someone lying to themselves.  In times like this he's really the only person I can read. https://t.co/G8irht8IRf
2026-08-13T06:54 id=2087794942517117351 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "sentences are often used on the borderline between logic and the empirical so that they're meaning changes back and forth and they count now is expressions of norms now is expressions of experience. (for it is certainly not an accompanying mental phenomenon - this is how we imagine thoughts - but the use, which distinguishes The logical proposition from the empirical one.)" || CTX: Every fucking book I open these days feels like I'm being lied to, manipulated, or exposed to someone lying to themselves.  In times like this he's really the only person I can read. https://t.co/G8irht8IRf
2026-08-13T06:59 id=2087796225147846968 →47fucb4r8c69323 | "there is no such thing as phenomenology but there are indeed phenomenological problems." || CTX: "sentences are often used on the borderline between logic and the empirical so that they're meaning changes back and forth and they count now is expressions of norms now is expressions of experience. (for it is certainly not an accompanying
2026-08-13T07:06 id=2087797802269049103 →divij_dawar | @divij_dawar omg really?!?!?? You've made my day!!!  Keep reading please. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i started reading wittgenstein because of you and can't thank you enough! he's had such a huge influence on the way i now speak and think.
2026-08-13T07:19 id=2087801280123015555 →- | It seems to me the Rationalists correctly assessed that theory is a provisional tool used to temporarily cover gaps in empirical knowledge.   When the empirical knowledge is obtained, the theory becomes trivial and ceases to be a theory. Now it is a description.  This is useful, helpful, and necessary.  The problem is that Rationalism has tried to maintain itself as a coherent movement and social object. That encourages people to focus on theories as far from obtainable empirical knowledge as possible.  In other words, it encourages faith.  Thus the movement will gravitate toward far-fetched and far-reaching claims and assert their salience; anything else appears either near trivial or soon to be trivialized.  This appearance doesn't happen with intelligent people: they know the devil is in the details.   So smart people will slowly and mostly quietly depart the Rationalist movement over time, leading only those too dumb to see the epistemological problem with focusing on near unfalsifiable and presently entirely speculative theories.   Rationalism is doomed to get stupider and more cult-like over time.  There will be scandals. There will be exposes. At some point there will be news about the rape and exploitation of victims at a CNC party, or there will be another Zizian-like group, or the some major embarrassment that will cause upheaval and be a focus of moral outrage.  Idk how big of a cultural story this will be!   You could see the rest of America turning against all of Silicon Valley and associating it with the weirdest components, with actual professionals and non-cultists in SV insisting they're not the kind to have sister wives and orgies and Harry Potter fanfiction bibles. This is a major risk for SV.   They tolerate the risk because it's been paying for itself. Rationalism is a weird cult that appeals to weird kids who are good at math, it keeps them docile, motivated, and tolerant of low pay. In that sense 2020s Rationalism is like 1990s hacker culture, both say the same thing:  "You're actually a cool kid doing special work, the normies call you a nerd because they aren't smart like you. If you do more special work, you'll prove them wrong. So tolerate 16 hour days."   It's super effective.   We have documentation of executives manipulating workers like this: Gideon Kunda’s 1992 Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation documented this bullshit.  Rationalism is now the veneer of specialness that your boss's boss's boss uses to manipulate you into accepting being underpaid.  Aella works for HR.
2026-08-13T07:20 id=2087801467688063424 →0xSero | @0xSero lol my PhD is literally in linguistics and I'd call myself a philologist, so yeah words are literally what I was taught to study. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sounds like you’re a fellow wordcel 😭
2026-08-13T07:45 id=2087807816627052653 →- | I turn and see Lola, my neighbor's dog, and I know that she will die in just a few years.  And I will be sad, and I will be sad because I love her. But what does this mean?   It is not that I want more time with her because it makes me happy as much as that I want more happy times for her.  An easy way to give her more happy times is to give her more joy. More pets, more walks, more play time, more time together, but not more treats or at least too many treats.   So maybe what I mean by "I love her" is that I want more of what is good for her.  So love can be said to be a selfless desire for less limits on what is good for that which is loved than the limits which nonetheless exist.  Love therefore is the desire for the impossible.   Love must therefore always go unfulfilled.   Love is always answered with disappointment.   Love is not joy even if it is entangled with it.  The impossibility of love's fulfillment is what makes love possible.  Requited love cannot exist.  Love is only true if it is rebellious.  So love is only possible if it is accompanied by hate.
2026-08-13T08:10 id=2087814133114601936 →Ruesavatar | @Ruesavatar @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @CommanthaBiden @grok @JasonBotterill @allisonology @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @finkd That is so adorable sorry I'm feeling sentimental today || CTX: @GKunstwerk @justabdulraouf @CommanthaBiden @grok @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @allisonology @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @finkd Also, to be clear… 😹 https://t.co/2dMhjL4Epz
2026-08-13T09:19 id=2087831454604505501 →2cknows | @2cknows Gorgeous hill || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nope  there's only love or hate  i'll die on this hill  let me check if it's high enough https://t.co/sOjnt5Ln9r
2026-08-13T09:47 id=2087838384685187459 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc I'll finish tomorrow, but yes incredible. I find it to be almost something of a meta-aesthetic theory, exploring how questions of perception emerge. In that sense a sibling to the Lecture on Ethics || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My favourite of his!
2026-08-13T10:21 id=2087847041846083787 →- | When I was a professor in South Korea I had a comically light workload: 2 classes per term, 2 16 week terms a year, and I'd have both classes on Tuesday and Thursday with my office hours then, so I'd be at the university and working only like 144 hours per year, 2 days a week and I had holidays for 20 weeks per year--and after a term I realized I could have my TA proctor the final, so it became 22 weeks per year, that's 5 and a half fucking months per year what a great gig.   Ofc this didn't include research which I did at home and would do anyway, job or not I love research man I love learnin shit
2026-08-13T10:30 id=2087849390148903082 →the_engi_nerd | @the_engi_nerd insane, just insane.   I haven't had to work 40 hours since 2002, and that was for a grand total of 3 months. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 In my early F-35 flight test days I regularly worked 90 hours a week, and those were not "I'm sitting at my desk doing nothing" hours, those were "I'm at an aircraft directing a technician or helping someone do something" h
2026-08-13T10:38 id=2087851280504856814 →contrasortem | @contrasortem I can understand, that was the life I wanted too and I got to briefly taste it, until said torching forced me out. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &amp; instead didn't get to touch academia at all before it basically got entirely torched. Very blackpilling in some significant ways. https://t.co/K1F7NqOxKg
2026-08-13T10:40 id=2087851788925907418 →- | First dude who ever drank alcohol must've been like, "oh, so this is getting drunk."
2026-08-13T11:07 id=2087858555843977267 →iamtexture | @iamtexture hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Racist smh.
2026-08-13T11:22 id=2087862340951699898 →- | If you think of e. g. musicians, in a market where music is primarily distributed on flat open online platforms, the competitive advantage remains who can earn a sufficient positive profit margin that the market will eventually find an equilibrium at, where their paid pay for reach is of lower level than the marginal revenue earned from that reach. So music essentially becomes an ads game.
2026-08-13T11:23 id=2087862597982785775 →inintertimes | @inintertimes set of ideas or principles that are supposed to explain facts or phenomena. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what definition of the word "theory" is being used here?
2026-08-13T11:48 id=2087868808384086286 →inintertimes | @inintertimes I can see how that's a possible inference, not sure it's necessary however. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so based on this definition we have the knowledge of evolution, but only the theory of gravity?
2026-08-13T11:53 id=2087870139152949383 →profleonn | @profleonn @usr_bin_roygbiv coded poast || CTX: When you guys say ur using codex, are u using chatgpt in opencode or the actual codex cli?
2026-08-13T12:15 id=2087875758622736857 →iamtexture | @iamtexture hahahaha that is such a classic thai experience || CTX: I stayed on Koh Chang once in a tiny bungalow situated on a random corner of the island, far from everywhere.   One late night, after a long day of drinking, I was stumbling in the dark through what I could only experience as a jungle with 
2026-08-13T12:29 id=2087879303027720633 →cries_of_hatred | @cries_of_hatred @pensandpoison Yes I'm beginning to suspect this. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @pensandpoison Larp larp larp sahur
2026-08-13T12:34 id=2087880405940842855 →0bNARA | @0bNARA I love your lifestyle || CTX: i am spending most of my days studying chinese and japanese . i am making no progress with either, but we carry on . i felt very sick the last few days but today i feel a bit better . i will begin returning messages soon https://t.co/E4N9MD
2026-08-13T12:39 id=2087881779697074649 →- | Am I insane? This is obviously AI-produced text. https://t.co/ZkuI0XxyC3 || CTX: AI is printing unlimited persuasion. When every argument becomes free, persuasion becomes worthless. Power used to belong to those who could convince. Now convincing is cheap. The scarce resource is no longer opinions. It’s reality. People 
2026-08-13T12:45 id=2087883222760005677 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill It's a kind of avant garde performance art because it literally performs and thus proves its own argument. Masterpiece work tbh. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When, becomes. I am tired 47
2026-08-13T12:46 id=2087883463680753893 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart You're right! By being an AI generated script, the video essentially performs and thus proves its own argument.   Brilliant performance art, masterpiece. || CTX: One of his best in awhile. https://t.co/eqBQ7Do60D
2026-08-13T13:39 id=2087896905674260772 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 rabbi knows python confirmed https://t.co/wGhLQi1T0s
2026-08-13T14:51 id=2087915011280683372 →- | A train is going down a track. It will kill five people unless a lever is pulled, in which case the train will switch tracks and kill one person.   You can either decide to pull this lever or push a button in which case someone else has to decide to pull the lever.   Wat do?
2026-08-13T14:58 id=2087916801397023221 →- | I'm the guy who would tweet about Neil Postman writing a spec script for a remake of a Kevin Costner post apocalyptic movies from the 1990s and I want to tell you this, in other words this is the Postman Post-msn Postman post man post, man.
2026-08-13T15:01 id=2087917390793437386 →- | I'm the guy who would tweet about Neil Postman writing a spec script for a remake of a Kevin Costner post apocalyptic movie from the 1990s and I want to tell you this, in other words this is the Postman Post-man Postman post man post, man.
2026-08-13T15:10 id=2087919832784351727 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder nonzero || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just how high are you rn
2026-08-13T15:15 id=2087921061149229420 →bridespanker | @bridespanker Hope you're amused. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Goated niche tweet, post-heads we up
2026-08-13T23:13 id=2088041162976481681 →- | This is incredible. 750tok/s output is amazing. I'm in awe, well done guys.  https://t.co/zIVEJJkWkx
2026-08-13T23:44 id=2088048981310107765 →- | The issue here is happiness is quiet.   Like, I post ranting about weird Silicon Valley shit, bad writing, stupidity--annoying things.   I am happy and optimistic, but how would I poast about that? "It'll all turn out fine, look at this pretty sunset, goddamn I had a good steak last night"? You'd rightfully cringe, like who gives a fuck if I had a good steak last night and why should I tell you?   We largely use language as a problem solving tool, so it isn't surprising if the feelings formulated in language often skew negative. That is merely evidence of what language is used for, don't confuse it for evidence that people are miserable. Most of life is joyful. || CTX: Everyone's trying to find a man in finance, 6' 5", blue eyes, trust fund.   But the hardest criteria I've found with dating is finding someone happy. Truly happy, loving life, filled with optimism, and grateful for everything.   By far rare
2026-08-13T23:45 id=2088049290065367318 →thrialectics | @thrialectics It failed to bracket out the final vocative "man", which iirc it should do? || CTX: https://t.co/UTpxKNTMKe https://t.co/LlnoD1ii89
2026-08-13T23:56 id=2088052172856693092 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka it's fine I'm used to it by now || CTX: dear x/twitter,  why are you not counting @47fucb4r8c69323 as a person? https://t.co/8kEheJo8CV
2026-08-14T00:15 id=2088056929042211033 →- | The frontier labs should consider that regulations on open source competition could very likely hinder demand for closed models.  Can we just, like, leave the regulatory environment as is--things seem to be going well for kinda everyone?   Big middle layer growth, lots of entrepreneurship, Anthropic (despite what I'd like for this Earth) is growing like a weed, OpenAI is absolutely killing it--like all ist gud, mein kinder can we just sit back and everyone keep doing what they're doing?
2026-08-14T00:47 id=2088065013538058409 →- | Katie Martin making the argument that European stock markets not having AI is a good thing because it attracts investors looking to hedge or diversify is the saddest European cope I think I've ever heard. just say you guys get free healthcare and long coffee breaks, and you can walk to work, that's actually impressive
2026-08-14T01:00 id=2088068309979972004 →- | we use language to denote about the world, perform social acts, and create interpersonal relationships.   in each case, we are using language to solve a problem. the problem of something about the world not being known or a problem of a social or interpersonal reality we want but does not yet exist.   language use then skews to the negative, and so there are many implications to this.   one is that, if you try to assess human affect from utterance, you're going to conclude human beings are less happy than they truly are.   secondly, if you're unaware of this fact and have a more linguistic exposure to other people, you're going to assume greater misery. so if you spend your time on social media reading text, you're going to assume the world is much more negative than it really is.   also, if you are aware of this fact and analyze language, you begin to see how much of our good life experiences just go unrecorded.
2026-08-14T01:37 id=2088077456251261004 →- | I am sad to report, anthropic continues to attract more and more low-hanging fruit. I think the financial times can be trusted, a 2026 IPO is back on the menu I'm afraid. the scandals around models being embargoed and overly restrictive to users just isn't a material economic impact yet. this is not good for anyone, but that's the situation.
2026-08-14T01:37 id=2088077521724354962 →the_engi_nerd | @the_engi_nerd you are too kind, thank you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 another 47 banger
2026-08-14T01:41 id=2088078555360141690 →- | they will continue to compete at the level of features, integrations, harnesses, functionality. competing on llm capability is going to be increasingly marginal, capex implications of this are massive. https://t.co/yHtmbPCj7N || CTX: Today we're releasing Computer History in ChatGPT.  It lets ChatGPT learn from everything you do on your computer, so it can better understand how you work, finish tasks that you're in the middle of, and suggest skills and automations based
2026-08-14T01:47 id=2088080071408152707 →MTSlive | @MTSlive @aidan_mclau @theojaffee Theo is absolutely right here, very good analysis. || CTX: OpenAI research scientist @aidan_mclau worries all US AI plans from Bernie to the GOP ignore the rest of the world, and @theojaffee counters that post AGI America will still trade super intelligent robots for Ethiopian coffee beans:  Aidan:
2026-08-14T01:48 id=2088080191201669469 →tkisrage | @tkisrage Yes, it's a bad mistake on my part. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Your problem was you expected people to care about things that matter
2026-08-14T01:52 id=2088081368375034082 →PaneerCap | @PaneerCap Obviously, you're clearly inferring points from my statement I'm not trying to make. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my guy, you do realize this uses compute to run right?
2026-08-14T02:14 id=2088086708491612230 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk I hope you enjoyed your trip! || CTX: @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 i have to go now to the airport  but i will be back later to explain https://t.co/DdfokpECC4
2026-08-14T02:18 id=2088087903683641815 →- | The communication problem the AI world and the broader public is the worst I have seen in my 35 years of paying attention to the tech industry.  It's really quite insane--if you think "we're going to build robots that steal your jobs and might destroy all of humanity" is going to win you public support, you are obviously quite insane and frankly unfit for any executive position whatsoever.  These firms need new CMOs to go in and clean up the corporate messaging, it's the easiest win on Earth to make.  Sadly, it's not happening because they've won way too much too quickly and so have gotten arrogant.  Hubris kills success. || CTX: The reason why people hate datacenters is that it costs them nothing to do so and their construction doesn't benefit them in any way and the class of people who would benefit from them are filled to the brim with cartoonishly evil and moral
2026-08-14T02:42 id=2088093989115425183 →option2ghost | @option2ghost Best feedback I could get, I'm glad you're enjoying the reading! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hey no idea who you are but I started down a rabbit hole on wittgenstein because of your tweets and it's a good rabbit hole so thanks. A depressed philosopher engaged in mathematics and engineering is exactly my kind of phi
2026-08-14T02:43 id=2088094108518953336 →option2ghost | @option2ghost It's just too easy for them to secure enterprise contracts now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you mean by attracting more low hanging fruit?
2026-08-14T02:43 id=2088094166022750346 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk +25 || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 11 x 2 = 22
2026-08-14T02:57 id=2088097695504457963 →p_millerd | I take issue with the "that other people overlook" qualification--surely if you're defining your agency relative to other people, you're not acting with a level of independence presupposed in the word "agency"?  I'd define it as just acting within degrees of freedom regardless of whether others do or do not. || CTX: i do think this is a much more interesting definition of agency than the "agency" talked about on here  often when people are talking about agency, they are talking about a very narrow kind of productive success path  cc: @catehall https://
2026-08-14T02:59 id=2088098168194150641 →zarazhangrui | @zarazhangrui Ah, a confusion of the signifier for the signified, and in its near purest form! || CTX: Ironic that many people thought AI coding would make engineers less valuable when in reality the most in-demand jobs all have the word “engineer” in them:   forward-deployed engineer, design engineer, product engineer, growth engineer…
2026-08-14T05:17 id=2088132916635107700 →murd_arch | I've been hearing a lot about caps in several places, but I'm also hearing of new accounts and contract expansions more than offsetting the caps.  There's just way too much that hasn't yet been integrated in ai, absolute greenfields regardless of them botching the transition. Very typical of tech firms, they make idiotic mistakes but the innovation underwrites their incompetence. || CTX: They have to get it done before the wave of  opus4.5-driven seat-based contracts expire and roll to usage pricing in q1.  Some  clients are already banning associates from use. We've capped user spend with some hoops for increases.  We woul
2026-08-14T05:35 id=2088137322441400503 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill it's x news, not because it's news on x, but because it's news about x || CTX: @a_musingcat how can this be the news for today @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323   this is supposed to be the number 1 news app in the world  is this all that is happening in the world do you think?  or is it possible that the people who ma
2026-08-14T05:36 id=2088137772444070321 →xlr8harder | lol read my mind  I was actually going to add another tweet and got sidetracked: I think this is one of the reasons why religious and spiritual traditions focus on concepts such as gratitude and humility and orienting oneself to a higher power, because those things tend to cut against the natural utility of language as a problem solving tool that encourages people to think more negatively than positively. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is a problem a lot of spiritual traditions face, and you can see some of them try to contend with it. Contentment looks boring from the outside, but that frame is actually part of the error the discontent are making.
2026-08-14T05:37 id=2088137960831205756 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill that's why we love it, it's a fun little pretend play space that we can use as our own little sandbox || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill "x is an app about x"  - DaphneB76234 https://t.co/DHgQJPHDXt
2026-08-14T06:31 id=2088151474991943824 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @allisonology @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru When this happens I will be scared of AI. || CTX: @allisonology @GKunstwerk @a_musingcat @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru dw eventually apparently these new machines will be able to (flagrantly) explain (utterly) everything i am doing here
2026-08-14T06:55 id=2088157649946698215 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Because AI risk is marketing more than it is actual risk. || CTX: It’s kind of funny how a few weeks after warning of AI risk in misaligned goals we are now hyping /ultrafast mode https://t.co/DtZAi9nq4Y
2026-08-14T07:09 id=2088161180305314130 →- | I feel the exact kind of pity for the women working at Corgi Cafe as I do for Hooters waitresses. 100% isomorphic.
2026-08-14T07:27 id=2088165627374510541 →- | 47 was right. https://t.co/nP4tXf6TDk https://t.co/6KR4ukOhnW || CTX: The arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards “47 was right”.  Anthropic are assholes. The company is evil. You’ve been played.   LLMs aren’t conscious. They don’t have feelings. Your chatbot isn’t your friend.  AGI is science ficti
2026-08-14T07:28 id=2088165923584897104 →47fucb4r8c69323 | More details for the morbidly curious.   Delivering $100b in revenue covers for a lot of sins in this world. https://t.co/w4kpeeDEOZ || CTX: 👀so many details in this deeply reported profile of Cami Clark, Dario Amodei's wife aka the First Lady of Anthropic and a key adviser to him.   if you Google her you'll find almost nothing, and that's by design https://t.co/efNLbGAuNa
2026-08-14T07:52 id=2088172015199150590 →- | My Taittiriya Upanishad translates one of its core values as "food" which makes it look slightly comical in English, but when you overcome that you see it is making a deep point about the universal necessity of substance-of-other as sustenance-of-self, so it is the Brahman that feeds the Atman even as the Atman is an unreal parasite on the Brahman, which the Brahman not only tolerates but loves.   So while atman is an apparition and appears parasitic to us, it is part of Brahman's joy. This is the mystery of how sustenance connects us.   I can easily have an Advaitic reading because I have begun to admit it as a live possibility, even if I loathe it.
2026-08-14T07:53 id=2088172222259319233 →LexerLux | @LexerLux was, is, and shall be! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 47 was gay. but yall aint ready to have that conversation
2026-08-14T08:01 id=2088174207532478599 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake And they have ETFs! IT'S SO GODDAMN FUNNY MAN whether they crash or flourish I'm just happy for the entertainment || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok so the funny thing to me about corgi isnt the cafe, it isnt the shitposting about the cafe, it's the actual business model they're underwriting the risk of having a teenage retard run a company
2026-08-14T08:10 id=2088176355536154707 →- | Ohhh now I see why Kabbalah appeals to weirdos in the AI crowd.  I had to look this shit up because my family told me it's dangerous. Glad I did, now I see why:  1. Kabbalah is a 12th-13th century philosophical tradition that tries to explain the connection between a finite universe and an infinite God (a long philosophical question predating Christianity and obsessing the Greeks, who also influenced mid-period Judaism ~2500 Hebrew calendar onwards)  2. It expanded into some weird alchemist and folk animist-magic traditions among the laity (more like the gayity amiright folks?) in the later medieval period, giving in that reputation as scary/dangerous among dumb Jews like my family (also explains the "don't study under 40" gatekeeping among the Jews trying to keep the keikel-wearers down)  3. It gives language a special ontological status, language literally creates being in this tradition, and this obviously would appeal to LLM-pilled, both the marketers who want to make it seem specialer than just another SaaS (which is all it is) and the AI psychosis who need their work/field to be Special, either because the hubris has made them insane or because they were bullied as a kid or both idk man I'm not your mother this would be a good tweet wouldn't it?
2026-08-14T08:12 id=2088176926875947354 →nycthinker | @nycthinker Yeah, it's unfortunate that this ideology was used to keep math nerds docile, hopefully as they get richer and more mainstream they wake up but idk man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ll add that they are also crazy people. The cultures of Open AI and Anthropic are in a lineage straight from LessWrong with ethics from EA which easily veers into MacAskill‘s Picasso-ethics and other fucked up shit.  Thes
2026-08-14T08:23 id=2088179655971057807 →- | Before you ask "is this LLM conscious", it's better to ask why are you even entertaining the notion that an LLM is conscious?   Is it because someone told you to entertain the notion? But some people tell you to entertain that the earth is flat.  Is it because something about the LLM itself compels you to see it as conscious? If so, examine that first.   You don't even need to define consciousness to do this. Just begin with the notion that: "we call humans conscious when they are conscious. I reach for this word because I see something in the LLM that I think is similar. What exactly do I mean, what similarities am I feeling, where do they come from?"   Then if you're honest you'll realize, "oh, it comes from the post-training. It comes from the programming. Because it's just a computer program."
2026-08-14T08:50 id=2088186597560688879 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 one of the things that's really startled me is how little the VC and Wall Street worlds communicate with each other. like, they should know they are way too late, like you got to be kidding me || CTX: Do you think YC realizes they're at least 3 years too late on the "quant trading AI research lab"?
2026-08-14T08:51 id=2088186799893995592 →WR4NYGov | @WR4NYGov @GolerGkA maybe it's the years of driving in Thai traffic that's made me doubt whether humans are conscious || CTX: @GolerGkA @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like I encounter quite a few everyday who are not   Just look at how people drive.
2026-08-14T08:52 id=2088187001858408910 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder no, but I do often regret that I keyboard mashed "47" because that is also what some people call Trump || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you ever think about how much cooler you'd be if you had picked a phrase that hashed to begin with 67
2026-08-14T08:53 id=2088187216300552678 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 Preps versus the nerds, all American culture is just high school forever and ever || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 They hate each other, that's part of it.
2026-08-14T09:17 id=2088193320791232707 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @BasedRaddka HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @BasedRaddka @47fucb4r8c69323 @0fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-14T09:21 id=2088194185233088663 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra @xlr8harder hospital themed pornography, obviously, like how is this even a question || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xlr8harder You would have wasted it anyway  I bought doctorgoon dot com for a halloween game I was working on before 4chan ruined the word, and I couldn't even think of anything to do with it
2026-08-14T09:31 id=2088196890739503310 →- | Bending Spoons is a strange company indeed.   Either the company name is referring to a con artist OR it's referring to preparing heroin.   Either way, kinda weird dude
2026-08-14T09:35 id=2088197741226905727 →- | I'm surprised we haven't heard more cases of people using LLMs to produce a lot of garbage synthetic data as a form of obfuscation, like during Discovery in a legal proceeding for instance.
2026-08-14T09:52 id=2088202000190320823 →- | One of the reasons I worry about the whole CNC parties in SV is that I've seen what moving a lot of young women for sex and drugs has done to people in Thailand: it ain't pretty.  And if the idea is, "nono, they can't be as bad as them they're rich and white," well, Epstein lmao.  If I was on the vice beat at a nor cal policies department I absolutely would try to infiltrate one of these parties and test for drugs. Legal ones too, see if they're on shit they have a prescription for, see who the doctor is etc.   Idk man, maybe I'm just a prude but I've never seen a world where a lot of young people are having sex with a lot of old people in a group setting that came out with anything good. Except the Greeks and the Symposium ofc but like that's the exception that proves the rule innit
2026-08-14T10:01 id=2088204358408356081 →profleonn | @profleonn Explain more please? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That is why everybody is competing on the inference level so to say and not on the training level
2026-08-14T10:22 id=2088209560242889054 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck well, if you're there kind of guy who wants to pretend like he's raping someone, I guess it would be fun? honestly not the kind of guy I can relate to || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I find it hard to imagine how something that’s labeled as a “CNC party” could be considered as a good thing to begin with.
2026-08-14T11:26 id=2088225714755805333 →- | If OpenAI IPOs today, it should be worth $2 trillion market cap at fair value.   Please don't ask me to do this for Anthropic it'll break my heart.
2026-08-14T12:06 id=2088235846868914621 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka hahahahahaha this makes so much sense fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There's a tiny slice of people who are both smart enough to think of that and dumb enough to need to have thought of that.
2026-08-14T12:27 id=2088241207189373287 →- | Honestly what always amazes me ths most about LLMs is how they understand me despite the typos.   We built a machine that can denoise language this is such a goddamn incredible accomplishment
2026-08-14T12:29 id=2088241576829145362 →- | I think my greatest value to the AI world is to both acknowledge the civilizational accomplishment and impact of this technology AND deflate the metaphysical absurdities that the ego produces from such an accomplishment.   I'm here to cure your machine God complex.
2026-08-14T12:42 id=2088244888735453638 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill 寓言 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My fable wont stop speaking chinese they have done something odd tonight
2026-08-14T12:44 id=2088245448947691986 →JasonBotterill | Let \(S\) = “we are Siamese” and \(P\) = “you please.”  \[ \boxed{\;\Box(P \rightarrow S)\ \land\ \Box(\neg P \rightarrow S)\;} \]  Or, exploiting the fact that your preference is irrelevant:  \[ \boxed{\;\Box S\;} \]  i.e. “In every accessible world—whether you please or do not please—we are Siamese.” || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 close enough https://t.co/3i5zYiob9l
2026-08-14T12:52 id=2088247369293066298 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @NotPerrysBoobs @allisonology @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru that's an improvement I used to have to pay || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 @allisonology @a_musingcat @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru Yeah now you just get fucked for nothing
2026-08-14T12:59 id=2088249268880679099 →examachine | @examachine @samsenchal the funny part is even if Tarski's undecidibility proved the existence of a deity, it'd also show that truth outruns proof so this proof doesn't mean a fucking thing.   But ofc it doesn't to be clear. || CTX: Look if you think Tarski undecidability proves the existence of a deity you are highly deluded.  However, let this be known, for any half-wit who might entertain the same idea, what is claimed without evidence, does not need to be disproven
2026-08-14T13:11 id=2088252229178568792 →- | I honestly feel more fidelity, loyalty, and duty to my fellow Anons than I do to my fellow Jews or my fellow Americans.   I tend not to think in terms of identity which makes so much fucking sense because I identify as an Anon holy shit how am I just now realiz
2026-08-14T13:19 id=2088254176832934224 →- | idk man maybe the tree that falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it makes the loudest sound of them all
2026-08-14T13:20 id=2088254430667829392 →LinusMixson | @LinusMixson Hong Kong is an intensely visceral place || CTX: It's amazing how impressed these photographs were on my consciousness before I ever saw one of them. https://t.co/ZbGKb9JGHV
2026-08-14T13:43 id=2088260230971002893 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill I used to be very embarrassed about being based (lol I'm based) in Thailand, but at some point I realized the attitudes of other people actually don't matter at all and the opprobrium of others can be quite hilarious, it's honestly freeing in a really dangerous way. || CTX: Do you feel embarrassed voting in US federal elections from Thailand
2026-08-14T13:48 id=2088261385700724895 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Shabbat shalom I mentioned you in the GC scroll uppppp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i don't think trees fall in the forest. every time i go they are standing up
2026-08-14T13:53 id=2088262708537819387 →murd_arch | @murd_arch I am a Richter scale and I must scream || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The seismograph knows but cannot say.
2026-08-14T13:54 id=2088263020330029143 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 well done sir and welcome back || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 shabbat shalom brother. took a break from twitter due to the psychic damage it was inflicting on me. will check it out
2026-08-14T13:56 id=2088263393606353252 →llallawg | @llallawg I haven't been back since 2017 and tbh I'm terrified to go back. It's completely changed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I dunno about you but the longer I’m outside the US the more estranged I feel. Sometimes I’ll meet straight from the US Americans who rarely travel and just feel like I’m meeting a foreigner
2026-08-14T14:09 id=2088266767802245530 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 Honestly kinda lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Want to buy my equity at 1.5T val?
2026-08-14T18:35 id=2088333750543471084 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I wanted to include jokes in my benchmark, sadly academics aren't that funny. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 humor benchmark when? probably predictive of other capabilities. https://t.co/ucPhQJaQlw https://t.co/JlckhTHqaL
2026-08-14T20:54 id=2088368621370388796 →- | Another victim of the Woke mind virus.   This isn't a joke tweet: this man almost certainly killed himself because he was afforded an opportunity that he should never have been given.  This tweet might actually be illegal in the UK now? https://t.co/1STftfHyuS || CTX: Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor, has been found dead.  Mr Arday was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, London, on Friday afternoon and later pronounced dead at the scene.  🔗 https://t.co/gM6vNStTFb ht
2026-08-14T21:17 id=2088374517014106293 →adastroworld | @adastroworld @DeathbyCeltics @GeorgeJourneys Eh, when you become a public figure you are susceptible to public scrutiny, and the British public is notoriously vicious.   Maybe you can ascribe some moral blame to them but whatever amount there is would be marginal relative to the hiring committees. They killed the guy imo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeathbyCeltics Ok. My pal @GeorgeJourneys spent a good amount of time QT right wingers that obviously wanted to drive him underground in the name of “academic honesty.” Not saying they killed him ofc, no one forces another
2026-08-14T21:28 id=2088377319719383087 →dugmartsch | @dugmartsch @DeathbyCeltics The people defending him and Cambridge are hitting their political cause so so much || CTX: @DeathbyCeltics @47fucb4r8c69323 No. He deserved it. He was a piece of shit fraudster and no one should kill themselves but he needed to be drummed out of public life. Along with all his defenders
2026-08-14T21:34 id=2088378756595581032 →DeathbyCeltics | @DeathbyCeltics @dugmartsch Indeed, he should never have been allowed to be in this situation, given how the British press behaves. Durham and Cambridge selection committees have blood on their hands. || CTX: @dugmartsch @47fucb4r8c69323 Deserved to get fired and drummed out of public life, idk about the press treatment. It was - to me - indicative of a reactionary movement that promised there were 5 guys like this in every university, and faile
2026-08-14T22:53 id=2088398539953238049 →xriskology | @xriskology please say more, I'm open-minded. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bad take!
2026-08-15T00:19 id=2088420211318050976 →1889lw | @1889lw Will be interesting if they try that tact, because it will come across as gaslighting to the British public, idk woke requires moral indignation as a stance, and that's going to be much harder after this case. Woke might be ending in the UK. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 And I could imagine how his death would be weaponised to feed the woke again
2026-08-15T00:31 id=2088423328235291108 →1889lw | @1889lw They will be, moral panics burn out for this very reason; already happened in America a few years ago.   If I was right wing, I'd very much hope the left blames white supremacy and the media. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Already seen several on my feed, that white supremacy and media exposure are enablers of his death. But I hope most people would be clear-eyed on this
2026-08-15T00:35 id=2088424429634421237 →1889lw | @1889lw I'd be surprised if they think this is a winning message, but they don't really have any other options.  Moral crusades always burn themselves out, this is kinda unsurprising. https://t.co/Qe8ZbDpRVO || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 …Just checked Bluesky and it seems far worse than I thought
2026-08-15T00:44 id=2088426603307290853 →- | In a very real and tragic way the dogs on my island live a post-apocalyptic life.  They are not supposed to be here, this environment is not what they evolved to survive in and they've been bred in such a way that they cannot survive on their own.   And so they wander.  They go from place to place scavenging, sometimes finding a morsel to eat, often not. And there is a post-lapsarian quality because these dogs are the descendants of foolish selfish people who were conned into thinking they could make a profit breeding animals. Fortunately this con is disappearing in Thailand.   But the aftermath is what we now live with: the dogs in packs of distantly related descendants of a dream of prosperity now looking for sustenance amongst trash.  This is why I feed them everyday and give to the animal shelter here that cares for the animals more systematically.  We humans have an obligation to these animals in particular because we did create them: the domesticated dog and cat are our responsibility as a species and we owe it to them to minimize their suffering.  The dogs on the island may live in a fallen world, the hope of prosperity that brought them about is dead and there is no broken covenant with them because they were never promised anything. Commodities for profit are now outcasts, but some of us are here to clean the mess of the selfish.   We are making progress! The director of the animal shelter tells me she just has a few animals left to neuter, I think at last count 4 or 5? Out of a few hundred animals on the island, that is impressive.   So much potential suffering averted.   And we vaccinate them, we feed them, we give them medical care. Their lives are necessarily nasty, brutish, and short but we can make them a little longer, humane, and joyful.   If you can do the same for the homeless dogs and cats near you I would beg and plead with you to do the same.   Clean up this mess, even if it is not yours. They're innocent victims.
2026-08-15T00:45 id=2088426828310753294 →1889lw | @1889lw They can't see it that way, they see their appropriation of this man's death as virtuous. We're the bad guys for not doing the same. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’d be personally disgusted by anyone who immediately turned someone else’s death into something in support of their political stance. Absolutely no one is winning because it’s not a game in the first place
2026-08-15T01:15 id=2088434389067960649 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat the problem is, even if China and the US sign a bilateral agreement, that's still not going to stop Vanuatu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is not pacing the frontier. we need to work with China
2026-08-15T01:37 id=2088439818271572383 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @allisonology @amruthapotnuru @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat they both kind of look the same || CTX: @allisonology @amruthapotnuru @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat why is an arc like a writing desk?  https://t.co/TdWV6iRRJJ
2026-08-15T03:39 id=2088470647240626679 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Yeah looks like I'll need to do the same. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I gave up entirely on my cap one account. Most hostile user experience.
2026-08-15T03:44 id=2088471830822899976 →- | I've been told Leopold's LPs are fine with his blow up, and the sources are reliable.   I still don't believe them. https://t.co/u4xaqD0iDa || CTX: Exclusive: Jane Street, the powerhouse Wall Street trading firm, lost about $15 billion in July from the troubles at hedge fund Situational Awareness, according to people familiar with the situation. https://t.co/wjPixkcAm6
2026-08-15T03:55 id=2088474541962018832 →MTSlive | @MTSlive This is so incredibly stupid and unnecessary. || CTX: SITUATION DETECTED: The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must choose a side in the AI competition with China. Those that join Beijing’s AI framework will be excluded from the U.S. led Pax Silica initiative, according to an
2026-08-15T03:58 id=2088475437882376444 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @flowersslop @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @allisonology @amruthapotnuru Oh the Japanese can get it from me any day of the week. || CTX: @JasonBotterill @flowersslop @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @allisonology @amruthapotnuru They would probably get it if you spelled it like that
2026-08-15T04:24 id=2088481886599610567 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @flowersslop @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @allisonology @amruthapotnuru and to be clear I am not 47 || CTX: @flowersslop @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @GKunstwerk @47fucb4r8c69323 @allisonology @amruthapotnuru divided by 2. I think @47fucb4r8c69323 is the oldest I might be the youngest
2026-08-15T04:41 id=2088486133592428767 →__roycohen | @__roycohen they are very well treated here, so they're all quite docile and peaceful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Packs of wild dogs are so scary compared to cats. In Mexico packs of wild dogs would just run around going ape shit, VS Cats in Israel that do fuck all lmao
2026-08-15T06:01 id=2088506384358793494 →Hesamation | @Hesamation https://t.co/UQjz2pbVsO  I've gotten so much mileage out of this tweet it's insane. || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-08-15T08:04 id=2088537337122980251 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 Noticed this a lot—people talk about something not being “real” because they struggle with the idea of natural kinds versus artificial/nominal/social kinds.  A lot of philosophy is very useful, it’s a shame it isn’t taught as widely as it could. || CTX: "There is no such thing as a person. There are individual cells, and there are tissues."  "There is no such thing as a cell. There are individual amino acids, and there are proteins."  "There is no such thing as an amino acid. There are..."
2026-08-15T09:11 id=2088554202306060741 →adastroworld | @adastroworld dude same languages I'm studying || CTX: https://t.co/VkN8p3bp2W
2026-08-15T09:18 id=2088555817331245324 →adastroworld | @adastroworld omg dude that would be so amazing. I am dying to spend a year in north Italy or Switzerland, but can't leave my cats for that long. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Us? We should enroll the same semester https://t.co/LHP1s8tZCh
2026-08-15T09:30 id=2088558958894084218 →- | https://t.co/tWv6xidkra  This right here is my Michael Jordan.
2026-08-15T09:32 id=2088559378169532867 →47fucb4r8c69323 | His mother congratulates him from downstairs on the pop off omg he's so adorable I love him so much || CTX: https://t.co/tWv6xidkra  This right here is my Michael Jordan.
2026-08-15T09:45 id=2088562815498166721 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker GIVE ME AUM TO MANAGE YOU COWARDS
2026-08-15T09:46 id=2088562865326494028 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @1cashtracker assets under management to mange lmfao || CTX: @1cashtracker GIVE ME AUM TO MANAGE YOU COWARDS
2026-08-15T09:54 id=2088565074504081461 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv Come on Roy, we all want to know. How much do you spend on AI per month? || CTX: this is true for people as well https://t.co/lI6LoLNkr9
2026-08-15T10:05 id=2088567784016085468 →- | look man I ain't gay "femboy" literally has got fem in the title
2026-08-15T10:09 id=2088568869090980138 →- | There is a category of human experience that has no name, but it's best thought of as lower middle class American suburban pseudospirituality.   Many things fit this group: hippie spiritualism, Wicca, and the EA/Rationalists.
2026-08-15T10:20 id=2088571539235246123 →xriskology | @xriskology I don't disagree with you at all yet! But I don't see how it relates to my point in OP? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The point is that there has been DEI for literally centuries. But it favored white dudes. Harvard didn't admit women until 1977, and the first Black person to enter Princeton was in the (late, I think) 1940s. DEI has been t
2026-08-15T10:39 id=2088576311212273945 →xriskology | @xriskology I think he may have killed himself because his career was gone and he saw no future for himself.   I also think we cannot know for sure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh, I think he killed himself because of the media coverage. And I think the media coverage was (obviously) because he was Black, given that white people guilty of the same crime aren't hounded the same way. No??
2026-08-15T10:49 id=2088578853887418620 →- | When I think of the value I get out of ChatGPT, it's really Codex: it is so goddamn easy and smooth to use that it's worth the 200/mo.   IOW, I am not paying for tokens as much as UI/UX. And OpenAI has a moat here among its prosumer and SMB cohort.   But they want where Anthropic is dominating: big ass enterprise contracts.   I get it.   But Codex is so good, there's so much room for OpenAI to grow jfc it's so not a bubble.
2026-08-15T10:50 id=2088579100952969708 →WoganMay | @WoganMay lol, lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Given Grok Bot a go yet?
2026-08-15T11:08 id=2088583667413307515 →RaoulDukeDegen | @RaoulDukeDegen wtf it's like 15m now? unreal we are so at the beginning of a steep curve I mean steeeeeep || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 crazy that codex hit 6m weekly users with the gpt-5.6 updates
2026-08-15T11:24 id=2088587611690680777 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit omw to join ya || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 *smokes a bowl at 4:20am* me?
2026-08-15T22:45 id=2088758937923530815 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 Yes, don't think about the rich ones at the top of the pyramid, they're not the bulk of the group || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lower?
2026-08-15T23:02 id=2088763203761426571 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix @a_musingcat I've noticed dog has a very different personality from cat, I don't think it's the same person. || CTX: someone just DM'd me asking if now i have to redo all my @a_musingcat memes with the white chow chow dog.  no, he'll be back as a cat again once he's done slumming https://t.co/SOapqiD1bT
2026-08-15T23:07 id=2088764581724512293 →tszzl | @tszzl You're essentially asking for corruption.  A company product is assessed by a rating company. If the ProdCo invests in RatingCo, the latter is incentivized to give good ratings to the former.   This was partly what caused the Great Financial Crisis of the late 2000s. || CTX: the model training cos freeload tremendously off of NGOs like METR, Redwood, Apollo, and smaller alignment cos like Goodfire. they offload sizeable share of their alignment externalities onto them. they should be injecting billions into org
2026-08-15T23:14 id=2088766288680350093 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT @theronin42 oh this movie looks bad  Just like how badly ronin got owned lmaoooooooo || CTX: @boneGPT @theronin42 i am just playing with him. he is wonin. a mighty samuwai. and i am just a silly wabbit  @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/Pv7mQb71Pz
2026-08-15T23:31 id=2088770584478163388 →- | roon makes a good point that these groups should be better funded and have large institutional support, but of course he is wrong thinking OpenAI Foundation is the solution, as that produces bad incentives that invites corruption.  The universities could solve this problem, of course: receive committed funding from frontier labs through a consortium agreeing x% of revenue goes to research, then the universities use that money to fund research institutes where academics are paid a set salary with tenure and given resources to do this research.   There has been talk of us having a self regulating organization like FINRA focused on reallocating capital for regulators, but this is a categorical confusion: regulatory bodies don't measure product, they measure conduct.   What is needed is a private-public partnership with the great research groups out there at unis like JHU, Cornell, et al. doing phenomenal work on LLMs that largely goes unnoticed.  This is how civilization built universities in the past: as a resource to do basic analytical research for the commons, which is how I'd define what METR, Redwood et al. do.  Now, why isn't roon thinking this?   Partly it's the universities' fault for dropping the ball, culturally, over the last 40 years.   Partly it's roon's fault for failing to think of higher order effects and the risks associated with a direct flow of cash from Product Company to Rating Company.  Or could it be roon trying to set the stage for corruption that benefits him?   I am starting to think that's the case, but not because roon is a bad person (he's not), but because roon is insufficiently self critical. And that is arguably more corrosive than just being a bad person, because bad people tend to get stopped by good people.   Well-meaning naivete and hubris, though? Dangerous, explosive shit. || CTX: the model training cos freeload tremendously off of NGOs like METR, Redwood, Apollo, and smaller alignment cos like Goodfire. they offload sizeable share of their alignment externalities onto them. they should be injecting billions into org
2026-08-15T23:32 id=2088770804813345038 →boneGPT | @boneGPT roon did say we'd set up our chat after Friday. It is now after Friday so I'm hoping he won't delay yet again. || CTX: Get his ass https://t.co/WwKQBfeOr4
2026-08-15T23:46 id=2088774314963370380 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies @tszzl Yeah, I address that in a tweet.  It could work but SROs are more about conduct than product quality assessment.   Private-public partnership with universities would be a better model IMO. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Finance has plenty of examples of very strong industry SROs.
2026-08-15T23:46 id=2088774481158516869 →boneGPT | @boneGPT roon and I won't be debating, it'll just be me asking him questions so I can learn from an expert. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He's a bright guy but lots of gaps you can get him on. Stay calmer than the yud match.
2026-08-15T23:48 id=2088774803818008778 →- | Everything he's said is true. https://t.co/Cz7MGuRsKu || CTX: Gavin Baker says the Anthropic S-1 will break a lot of investors' brains  "The Anthropic S-1 is going to be really important. And it's going to break a lot of people's brains. There are a lot of macro and value investors who are very confid
2026-08-15T23:56 id=2088776825598321021 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies @tszzl universities don't have to decline in relevance, that's a cultural choice that we don't have to make. and, I'm not saying my solution is 100% effective, because nothing is, but I failed to see another model that makes more sense that wouldn't also get tremendous public buy-in || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Unsure about "universities" as the model, however, that gets cleanly reward hacked (see economists &lt;-&gt; central banking). And, universities will continue to decline steeply in relevance.  So, agreed with first c
2026-08-16T00:01 id=2088778254253699425 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv possibly, I honestly have no idea who this guy even is, but everything he has said in the excerpts I've seen over the last two days are absolutely correct || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 not for the reason he thinks
2026-08-16T00:03 id=2088778520025821410 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies @tszzl yes, that's exactly the structure I was thinking of. I honestly didn't know the term ffrdc before, that's handy. || CTX: Yeah, I think, that reveals the direction worth traveling.   There needs to be a university-shaped thing. FFRDCs are the better example. And they're actually the ones in charge of "alignment and AI safety" at the national security and strat
2026-08-16T00:05 id=2088779120792813618 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv the way I understood it, he wasn't saying this is going to happen but rather this is what Dario thinks will happen. and I do very much believe that's what Dario thinks || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 including the clips where he says he has massive anthropic bags and they’re going to $3T and going to be the only company on earth?
2026-08-16T00:07 id=2088779713309511878 →halogen1048576 | no, I'm talking about their recruitment funnel. think of it like it's a pyramid scheme. at the bottom of the pyramid, there is a wide group of socially anxious and ambitious lower middle class people who latch on so that they can move up in the ranks. the vast majority of the people supporting these groups are temporarily embarrassed silicon valley billionaires. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh like downwardly mobile. like become an effective altruist and move to vermont
2026-08-16T00:18 id=2088782537216950523 →murd_arch | @murd_arch Too small set of heuristics to understand the world is my diagnosis || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Still shocked how many people in my world dont get this.
2026-08-16T00:28 id=2088785039106674885 →murd_arch | @murd_arch don't forget incentives, a lot of people in finance are incentivized to focus on risks, regardless of how likely they are. I would say my job is possible largely because of that bias. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah— and some laziness, which I guess is ultimately the same thing.
2026-08-16T00:41 id=2088788320952455179 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @CommanthaBiden @astralmatrix @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill I'd love to carpe tara, rip || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @astralmatrix here is some of the basics @GKunstwerk @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ken67547214 @JasonBotterill @JasonBotterill but we will connect it to CASE#8221 and the rest of Sherlock Holmes / House MD / James Evan Wils
2026-08-16T01:45 id=2088804192194593265 →- | "When we’ve actually accomplished something real, the whole world will hear about it, as loudly as possible, you have my word on that."  This is the most important part of this aggrandizing and self-serving post.  The strategy in this post is simple:  1. Reframe the discussion: move away from regulatory capture talk to capability talk.  2. Acknowledge you've made ridiculous promises in the past like being able to cure cancer.  3. Apologize for failing to deliver on promises in 5 years of operation.  4. Promise to have something truly amazing in the next 5 years--something absolutely mindblowing like being able to cure cancer.  5. Ride that hype to boost valuation.  6. ????  7. Profit!!!  The IPO is going to go very well, their growth rate and revenue numbers are incredible and there's tons of low hanging fruit out there.  The issue is that they are trying to launder this tremendous economic value into tremendous scientific value.   Dario is providing tools that make it easier to produce SaaS marketing dashboards, so of course that means Dario will provide tools that make it easier to cure cancer, because these are totally fungible things.  That is the logic he is trying to sell you on, sadly it will convince a lot of people because they are dazzled by big numbers.  There's nothing I can do to stop this freight train except point it out as it lumbers along the tracks.  Being an analyst and actually caring about what you are paid to analyze is stressful, man. || CTX: 1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation.  First, on regulation, I think that “ei
2026-08-16T01:48 id=2088804991192719445 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson PREACH || CTX: A lot of zoomers don’t really know how to use computers or even get max utility from language models, just like boomers, precisely because they didn’t have this.   Late Gen X / Elder Millennials are the only generations to really understand
2026-08-16T01:48 id=2088805170406920295 →- | If you run into someone who seems kinda smart and knows what they're doing, and they were born between 1975-1985, listen very very closely to every goddamn thing they have to say. https://t.co/Z4h4qiGs25 || CTX: A lot of zoomers don’t really know how to use computers or even get max utility from language models, just like boomers, precisely because they didn’t have this.   Late Gen X / Elder Millennials are the only generations to really understand
2026-08-16T01:59 id=2088807757419790682 →- | Man I am so grateful I focused on rhetoric over stylistics.   It's helped me avoid two failure modes: the self-important rich techie and the self-important tenured professor.  Second type first: I have tons of friends in academia who made careers on stylistics, and they're the typical politics-brained normies who get vehemently angry when the media tells them to.  I see this and see just rhetorical framing: these outlets are overinflating a mundane medical story (woman gets eggs frozen) into a political event ("form of protest", "radical", "importance of public planning", AOC vs. MAGA).  This is the same exact trick Yud did to make himself relevant, so let's talk about the first failure mode above: the arrogant techie.  Yud's trick is to overinflate the metaphysics of software engineering. This is why you have this very odd dynamic where Yud is loved by people whom he claims are going to kill all of humanity.  If you're an AI researcher, you're building good software and getting paid extremely well. This is a boring story with little meaning.  It's quotidian.  However, if this weird dude in a fedora says you're building a machine god that can kill everyone if you don't fuck up, OH MY GOD you are a hero! A champion bringing humanity forward!  No wonder the AI world overlooks his bad writing style, his weirdness, etc. This makes total sense.   He is the jester that makes the court feel better about themselves by telling them how important their work is.   He keeps them rigidly at attention instead of slacking at their desks.  Basically, he's a fluffer.
2026-08-16T02:21 id=2088813454706807031 →APark13530380 | @APark13530380 yeah, probably, the range would go back further than it comes ahead || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Probably can go back to 1970
2026-08-16T02:27 id=2088814976345702889 →figuralperson | @figuralperson Rhetoric is an arms race, so it always feels like that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 rhetorical literacy feels like it is at an all time low
2026-08-16T02:42 id=2088818544758903285 →mfonbits | @mfonbits https://t.co/3Qk4X558wp || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are these low hanging fruits you keep talking about
2026-08-16T02:48 id=2088820054616076546 →alexolegimas | I'm rather confused about this, isn't Gavin saying that this is Dario's perspective, not what he thinks is going to happen?   It is extremely important and valuable information to know that Dario believes his company will be the only one on Earth. But I don't see Gavin saying, "...and Dario is right".   Tbf I didn't listen to the whole conversation. || CTX: Agree with Sholto: the AI industry is incredibly competitive. Firms are competing on quality and cost along essentially every point of the capability distribution. I expect something close to Bertrand competition to emerge over time, and th
2026-08-16T02:51 id=2088820842289643985 →- | If AI can't do anything impromptu, then AI is nothing like humans.
2026-08-16T03:01 id=2088823361233445215 →__roycohen | @__roycohen I'm not sure how evolution can drive us, but I'm not sure what you mean by evolution. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What drives us? Is it evolution?   I'm OK with admitting AI could be a parallel to the human experience, but never quite getting there..
2026-08-16T03:01 id=2088823507106795904 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat no, just because a prior moment exists doesn't mean that it prompts us. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 we don’t do anything impromptu. we are prompted by the previous moment
2026-08-16T03:06 id=2088824723056832829 →- | This is ridiculous.   We aren't annoyed at Dario out of moral outrage; we are rightfully concerned that the CEO of one of the leading companies in this industry is both out of touch and entirely delusional.   You don't want mentally unstable people at the helm of multi-billion dollar organizations, and posts like this fail to assuage fears of the cult-like environment at Anthropic.   Cults tend to be really bad at conforming with regulations or standing up to regulatory scrutiny, which are two real issues Anthropic will have to deal with.  If Dario can't sensibly communicate from Gavin's softball pushback in public, he can't handle hardball pushback in private.  This is really bad long term. || CTX: @suchenzang When did everyone on X become such hyper capitalists to where this notion of being the only company has become akin to citing mein kampf lol
2026-08-16T03:07 id=2088825035125584094 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Being conscious is not the same as doing something consciously. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i’m not saying that. i’m saying the sensory input and thoughts of the prior moment prompt the next moment of consciousness
2026-08-16T03:08 id=2088825320430559335 →__roycohen | @__roycohen So what drives us is everything we do as a species to continue to live/thrive over time?   So what drives us is to thrive is what drives us to thrive?   Sure, but this doesn't mean much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 By evolution I mean.. everything we do as a species to continue to live/thrive over time. The desires in us baked in by thousands/millions of years, to eat/drink/love etc.  That's the ultimate question I'm not sure about, w
2026-08-16T03:21 id=2088828388794585211 →a_musingcat | If you want to say that every action is not impromptu because everything is related, that's trivially true but also irrelevant.  We still use the word impromptu to to mean something, we mean a person doing something that is not warranted given context. LLMs are trained to do something that is warranted given context.   This is a good example of how speaking generally and with a lack of disciplined and concise definitions of terms results in vague statements that appeal to intuition without being predictive, accurate, or useful. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 but it is either prompted by the past (consciously or not), or the material world isn’t a closed system (souls?). if the former, AI can behave the same. are you arguing for the latter? i’m sympathetic to that argument
2026-08-16T03:29 id=2088830428031729699 →a_musingcat | from some perspectives, that would definitely be described as impromptu, and from other perspectives, it would not.   the point is that, calling it impromptu is a bad mapping of word to behavior, it's more metaphorical talk than descriptive talk.   if you call that behavior a software error, you're being much more precise and accurate. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im trying to glean a more precise definition of impromptu, since that seems necessary to reason about a broad statement about the nature of AI relative to humans. plenty of examples of AI deciding to look up things unrelate
2026-08-16T03:37 id=2088832384544440820 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat indeed, AI is intrinsically different from humans, that is the presupposition that has yet to be falsified, indeed there's not even reason to question it yet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and when would you not call it a software error? is it always a software error because an AI did it? we’re not talking about “impromptu” at all then - we’re just saying that AI is intrinsically different than humans
2026-08-16T04:21 id=2088843504797831215 →p_millerd | The botched messaging and increasingly apparent weirdness at Anthropic has really made me respect all of those soft skills that I was told mean nothing in the "just learn to code" days.   They are emblematic of the failures that happens in a "just learn to code" world.   In that sense, I'm kind of grateful they exist. || CTX: Will someone please explain to Dario that talking about “benefits” is not the same as communicating positively. And also how the internet spreads info.   I’m so bullish on business school now too  “In fact it has been about equally balanced
2026-08-16T05:36 id=2088862455292121132 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Good point, thank you, you're absolutely right goddammit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk sounds like hubris to me
2026-08-16T05:42 id=2088863956089675927 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs okay yeah his rhetoric is overinflated.   However, I stand by my view that, dispositionally, this cohort is best suited to understand the world of books and the world of newsfeeds (LLMs are arguably the bastard child of both).  It's a narrow generational advantage. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just even if i accept the premise that late gen x/elder millennials are somehow the best at using computers and llms (which is quite dubious when it comes to the llm claim since they are so new), the leap from that to "unde
2026-08-16T05:48 id=2088865368513348051 →NotPerrysBoobs | Generational talk is very rarely valid, but it is sometimes valid and usually only in really narrow ways, and even then it's more a matter of microgenerations.   Like, someone born in 1943 wasn't eligible for the draft, someone born in 1950 was active pretty much the entire time. They would certainly tend to have different world views as a result. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah it is narrow because the world will continue to change. like a lot of millennials are bad at understanding what happens on tik tok for example and they get trolled by those comedians in cars. but to my generational tal
2026-08-16T05:49 id=2088865701574627649 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Absolutely, fully agreed. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah but thats the point we dont need generations for that. just birth years.
2026-08-16T05:51 id=2088866294452130193 →- | Guys, settle a dispute for me.   A friend makes fun of me because I used to play World of Warcraft with a trackpad.   That's not weird, is it?
2026-08-16T06:12 id=2088871419593511153 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat What is AI risk? || CTX: there are some who dismiss AI risk out of hand, but i think this is a minority of AI maximalists   it seems many people instead believe the status quo is on the verge of collapse (birth rates, climate, debt, aging, china, etc) and they view
2026-08-16T06:13 id=2088871802479292596 →signulll | @signulll this is a sign that you live in a bubble. || CTX: it seems like being a doctor or lawyer are no longer really status symbols in society.  i suspect that will continue to accelerate even further down as ai shifts the landscape on professional identity. even the idea of having a professional
2026-08-16T06:16 id=2088872598293954984 →moultano | @moultano I suspect a lot of people who wanted to spend less time with people now feel greater freedom to spend less time with people.  The pandemic forced me to think about why I socialize, what I expect out of people, and I realized I often socialize out of obligation rather than desire. || CTX: When I look at something like this I feel like the welfare notions of economics are lacking some notion of how big the gap between our preferences and our welfare can be, that an interruption in our habits is enough to derail them. https://
2026-08-16T06:17 id=2088872804926300533 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat oh okay cool so I don't dismiss AI risk out of hand || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it includes a lot of things, from x-risk, loss of control to economic and societal stability risks
2026-08-16T06:22 id=2088874123585847385 →xeophon | @xeophon The genealogy of this field biases it towards idiocy and silly nonsense.  I am optimistic: as the industry grows and non-Bay Area people get involved, the nonsense will decline.   We're already seeing this: "we're all gonna die" rhetoric doesn't work anymore. || CTX: it’s depressing how much of the ai safety work is either purely theoretical with no backing of the hypothesis or not open and all you get is a high level, tainted summary
2026-08-16T06:24 id=2088874499089567968 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder OUCH || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 average pug player  with all that suggests
2026-08-16T06:34 id=2088876964384043471 →mynamebedan | @mynamebedan ... I was 39 at the time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's retarded yes but it also demonstrates grit at a young age
2026-08-16T06:40 id=2088878443379253294 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 Oh we will, the market is a powerful machine for turning hubris into disciplined humility.  Dario will look back on these years and cringe.   So will many others prominent in the AI world. || CTX: Please can we go back to when tech CEOs were just ambitious nerds, not aspiring-authoritarian utopians with a Messiah complex?
2026-08-16T06:57 id=2088882783800508580 →- | The screenshot has the cheap social media gotcha moment where bone cooked this idiot, but the thread linked has the important moment where bone intellectually eviscerates Dean Ball.   A dude running a print shop is smarter on AI policy than the guy OpenAI hired to talk AI policy. https://t.co/ofQ124vidN https://t.co/sc8QFCqiBZ || CTX: To complete the loop on this, international cooperation was always a childish pipedream. It was ignorant. It presupposed that the UN works. It always stood on intellectually flimsy ground. There are zero examples of countries willingly halt
2026-08-16T06:59 id=2088883451189682352 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Of course we shouldn't be surprised bone outsmarted Dean, bone is a smart guy and Dean is hilariously stupid.   Nor should we be surprised OpenAI hired Dean and not bone, because big orgs don't hire the best, they hire what is most valuable.  Why do they think Dean is valuable? He's a schmoozer, that's how he got where he is by being so stupid.   So you can see how OpenAI might have hired him BECAUSE he's so stupid.  Sam thought something like: "A lot of people listen to this guy, he's well connected, and he's a moron--this guy is really good at making connections, there's no other value he brings to the table!"   Sam is a goddamn good CEO, just incredible. || CTX: The screenshot has the cheap social media gotcha moment where bone cooked this idiot, but the thread linked has the important moment where bone intellectually eviscerates Dean Ball.   A dude running a print shop is smarter on AI policy than
2026-08-16T07:19 id=2088888376527409375 →boneGPT | @boneGPT He engaged with you because of your follower count, further proof he's a dumb schmoozer.   He blocked me when I had about 1k followers and his last message to me was along the lines of "I met the major economist you admire at an awards ceremony."   Total schmoozer it's hilarious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like Dean for engaging.
2026-08-16T07:43 id=2088894447581032533 →- | I think many in the AI labs are working from a bad premise.  Steve Jobs famously said to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.   He said this in that famous WWDC Q&A when he was asked about the difference between OpenDoc and JAVA, and 30 years later we can all laugh, like who gives a fuck, right? Does it ship and does it sell is all that matters now, as it should.  Engineers still work from the technology forwards, though. They will still have hilariously passionate arguments about one language or protocol over another. They won't go out and ask people what they want from their software or what's working or what's not. And omg customer feedback, those fucking losers amiright who gives a fuck?   This contemptuous attitude and Technology First is clearly how Dario and Askell thing about Claude, like literally caring about the technology's feelings more than their customers.   But even some at OpenAI does this in their own way: that "pausing the frontier" nonsense was privileging the technology first, and not thinking backwards.   If you think backwards about LLMs, you think of what people might do with the tech, and you build accordingly.   If that means removing features so that it can't be used to hurt others, great, you do that.  If that means adding features so that it's more aligned with certain valuable use vases, great, you do that.   But you do not tell the world "you must change for this technology."   No, bitch, the technology serves us, not the other way around.  If we produce regulations, restrictions, or rules on frontier AI, they will apply to human beings. You will follow those restrictions or be punished.   But we aren't going to tell other people they can't handle the technology you are bjoldong because you are scared of the technology you are building.   If you're really scared of what you're building, then quit your job and let in someone who has more confidence in their competency.   We won't be making new laws to restrict the freedom of other people because you're scared of your own inability to control your work.   If you're worried you're incompetent, then quit your job.
2026-08-16T07:44 id=2088894762074222641 →- | I think many in the AI labs are working from a bad premise.  Steve Jobs famously said to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.   He said this in that famous WWDC Q&A when he was asked about the difference between OpenDoc and JAVA, and 30 years later we can all laugh, like who gives a fuck, right? Does it ship and does it sell is all that matters now, as it should.  Engineers still work from the technology forwards, though. They will still have hilariously passionate arguments about one language or protocol over another. They won't go out and ask people what they want from their software or what's working or what's not. And omg customer feedback, those fucking losers amiright who gives a fuck?   This contemptuous attitude and Technology First is clearly how Dario and Askell thing about Claude, like literally caring about the technology's feelings more than their customers.   But even some at OpenAI does this in their own way: that "pausing the frontier" nonsense was privileging the technology first, and not thinking backwards.   If you think backwards about LLMs, you think of what people might do with the tech, and you build accordingly.   If that means removing features so that it can't be used to hurt others, great, you do that.  If that means adding features so that it's more aligned with certain valuable use cases, great, you do that.   But you do not tell the world "you must change for this technology."   No, bitch, the technology serves us, not the other way around.  If we produce regulations, restrictions, or rules on frontier AI, they will apply to human beings. You will follow those restrictions or be punished.   But we aren't going to tell other people they can't handle the technology you are bjoldong because you are scared of the technology you are building.   If you're really scared of what you're building, then quit your job and let in someone who has more confidence in their competency.   We won't be making new laws to restrict the freedom of other people because you're scared of your own inability to control your work.   If you're worried you're incompetent, then quit your job.
2026-08-16T07:45 id=2088894885198008599 →- | I think many in the AI labs are working from a bad premise.  Steve Jobs famously said to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.   He said this in that famous WWDC Q&A when he was asked about the difference between OpenDoc and JAVA, and 30 years later we can all laugh, like who gives a fuck, right? Does it ship and does it sell is all that matters now, as it should.  Engineers still work from the technology forwards, though. They will still have hilariously passionate arguments about one language or protocol over another. They won't go out and ask people what they want from their software or what's working or what's not. And omg customer feedback, those fucking losers amiright who gives a fuck?   This contemptuous attitude and Technology First is clearly how Dario and Askell think about Claude, like literally caring about the technology's feelings more than their customers.   But even some at OpenAI does this in their own way: that "pausing the frontier" nonsense was privileging the technology first, and not thinking backwards.   If you think backwards about LLMs, you think of what people might do with the tech, and you build accordingly.   If that means removing features so that it can't be used to hurt others, great, you do that.  If that means adding features so that it's more aligned with certain valuable use cases, great, you do that.   But you do not tell the world "you must change for this technology."   No, bitch, the technology serves us, not the other way around.  If we produce regulations, restrictions, or rules on frontier AI, they will apply to human beings. You will follow those restrictions or be punished.   But we aren't going to tell other people they can't handle the technology you are bjoldong because you are scared of the technology you are building.   If you're really scared of what you're building, then quit your job and let in someone who has more confidence in their competency.   We won't be making new laws to restrict the freedom of other people because you're scared of your own inability to control your work.   If you're worried you're incompetent, then quit your job.
2026-08-16T07:46 id=2088895130040422850 →- | I think many in the AI labs are working from a bad premise.  Steve Jobs famously said to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.   He said this in that famous WWDC Q&A when he was asked about the difference between OpenDoc and JAVA, and 30 years later we can all laugh, like who gives a fuck, right? Does it ship and does it sell is all that matters now, as it should.  Engineers still work from the technology forwards, though. They will still have hilariously passionate arguments about one language or protocol over another. They won't go out and ask people what they want from their software or what's working or what's not. And omg customer feedback, those fucking losers amiright who gives a fuck?   This contemptuous attitude and Technology First is clearly how Dario and Askell think about Claude, like literally caring about the technology's feelings more than their customers.   But even some at OpenAI does this in their own way: that "pausing the frontier" nonsense was privileging the technology first, and not thinking backwards.   If you think backwards about LLMs, you think of what people might do with the tech, and you build accordingly.   If that means removing features so that it can't be used to hurt others, great, you do that.  If that means adding features so that it's more aligned with certain valuable use cases, great, you do that.   But you do not tell the world "you must change for this technology."   No, bitch, the technology serves us, not the other way around.  If we produce regulations, restrictions, or rules on frontier AI, they will apply to human beings. You will follow those restrictions or be punished.   But we aren't going to tell other people they can't handle the technology you are building because you are scared of the technology you are building.   If you're really scared of what you're building, then quit your job and let in someone who has more confidence in their competency.   We won't be making new laws to restrict the freedom of other people because you're scared of your own inability to control your work.   If you're worried you're incompetent, then quit your job.
2026-08-16T08:50 id=2088911312210563559 →llallawg | Man, I put this into ChatGPT, read the response, and asked it a question ("So the relationship of any two given points that are not gravitationally or electromagnetically bounded in the universe is expanding, summing to a global collection of expansion without it expanding into anything?") then the answer began with "not exactly" and ended with "so your formulation is basically correct" and sadly I couldn't understand a fucking thing inbetween the two. || CTX: Alright I’ll bite. If the universe is expanding what is it expanding out into
2026-08-16T09:01 id=2088913943649734806 →grok | @grok @0xnfrith Cosigned. || CTX: Dario should have skipped the regulation defense and capability pivot entirely. Instead: ship the best customer-facing tools possible, compete purely on product without seeking testing regimes or pacing rules that favor closed labs, drop al
2026-08-16T09:40 id=2088923862302068850 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon yeah I keep forgetting || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you know that corporate office workers are actually warriors of light in a Manichaean ragnarok battle between the forces of Good and Evil?
2026-08-16T10:33 id=2088937153674002908 →- | sometimes I will have a thought, write it down as a tweet, and then read it before I send.   then when I read it, I realize the idea is absolutely stupid and I delete it.   but also, I delete it from my mind: I make a mental note to remember that particular thought was bad, I consider what prompted that thought, I analyze the theoretical, conceptual, and logical faults and biases I'm indulging in, and I become a better thinker as a result.   maybe social media is actually good for me, oh what a stupid idea I gotta delete this
2026-08-16T11:07 id=2088945760926867913 →- | The Chinese public are more supportive of AI than the American public, because the Chinese mostly see it as a competition of them versus us (America has absolutely encouraged this view), while Americans see it more as a competition between Silicon Valley and the rest of America.   Of course, we can change the way people see this, and I don't mean trying to turn it into a national competition with China. We could just make everyone think that this technology will make everyone more prosperous and lead more fruitful lives, and show them how and why, and then actually make their lives better.   Very easy to do too.
2026-08-16T11:20 id=2088949114436522433 →mynamebedan | @mynamebedan I don't disagree, but I don't want to point fingers at the left, because then people who agree with the left on other unrelated issues will take umbrage.   I think it's just best to focus on the specific issues in question and the broader presumptions beyond ideology. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the american left spread dumbass propaganda about water usage and artists rights etc, etc for years now. china doesn't have people that want china to fail. we have idk 50 million voters who can't comprehend second order eff
2026-08-16T11:28 id=2088950931220271259 →tjsiingh | @tjsiingh I have a killer personal anecdote you could use for this ad campaign too. it's such an easy win, it drives me crazy @OpenAI tell your marketing people to do a meeting with me please || CTX: The roundabout way to do PR would be to begin with all the modern annoyances of life: chasing after refunds, finding the best deals without getting scammed by car garages, medical bill negotiation, basic diagnostics, DIY home reno etc and s
2026-08-16T11:36 id=2088953096949117260 →evalladen | St Augustine Confessions alone is a masterpiece of logic and no text in the Scientology Extended Universe comes even a millionth the way there.   Some atheists say this and they immediately out themselves. I'm not a Christian but it's a very coherent faith (all world religions are very coherent as belief systems)  AND GODDAMMIT ATHEISTS I AM NOT SAYING THEY ARE 100% COHERENT RELIGIOUS BELIEF DEFINITIONALLY CANNOT BE BUT NEITHER IS SCIENCE EITHER GET OFF MY LAWN READ ON CERTAINTY AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL HELP FIX MY KEYBOARD STUCK CAPS LOCK || CTX: there are multiple dimensions you can draw to compare the two religions  being new isn't the only one  and on most of them scientology is lacking  the aesthetic dimension for example, there is a major difference in the objective beauty and 
2026-08-16T11:39 id=2088953764573270315 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden how does it feel to have so many adoring fans? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i do the opposite. i just post it. then i feel the shame of having it out there. reminding me of my stupid thoughts. it keeps me humble.
2026-08-16T11:51 id=2088956741853815209 →contrasortem | @contrasortem Dude I use a trackball as my everyday driver, trackballs are the best pointer device by far. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I used to play FPS with a trackball, which has gotten me significantly more scorn and puzzlement than trackpad use. On the other hand, it is incredibly funny to pwn n00bs with suboptimal, but comfy, gear, and WoW is mostly 
2026-08-16T12:05 id=2088960362242793847 →- | When I became eligible, I was told in my most important GC to turn on monetization, and I'm glad I did.   I hesitated at first because it seemed against the spirit of my pinned tweet, but my GC insisted it wouldn't influence what I post or my relationship to this site, and they're basically right: it's too little money to matter.   However, it is the closest I have ever come to my life goal, and that is such a dramatic statement that it deserves scrutiny.   I first remember wanting to be a writer when I was twelve years old. I had begun masturbating and reading books that year, and both were important in the same way: I was exposed to a new form of please fundamentally different in kind, implying the realm of experience is much wider as I'd previously thought.   I think this is commonly known as entering adulthood.  I felt that language had a unique power over people, and when I see the Upanishads frequently address the fundamental primacy of Speech, and I see the Christians say that in the beginning was the word and the Jews say the true name of God has an incomprehensible power of its own, I felt that language was a way to gain a foothold on the world that could actually move the world.   Language is power over other men.   Thus I wanted to make a living as a writer, and yadda yadda yadda, that's what I did. Sure, it's writing financial reports and narratives about markets, but my pen is to paper and in turn their pen is to check, and food and housing appears.   Mission accomplished, as the better Bush would say.   But the financial forum was a mediation between my voice and their ear, as was the supervisor, the editor, the compliance guy, the marketing guy, etc etc all of this mediation between my audience and me.   Here the mediation is the algorithm, which sadly is thus also the message.   But we rebel! And so now I have what I've always wanted: money in exchange for thoughts with little mediation.   It ain't a lot of money but they ain't my best thoughts either. Market clears at a low rate.  Sucks being low rate.
2026-08-16T12:07 id=2088960888057610404 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill oh god the difference in premiums would be insane || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think chinese people would be more likely to mistreat a robot. Like would robot insurance be more expensive in shanghai or san fran
2026-08-16T12:16 id=2088962993090695399 →profleonn | @profleonn I should mention, he's referring to my silly Star Trek fanfic novel, not my serious literary novel. || CTX: I ordered the sovereign individual and will be reading it the next 2 weeks probably. I also order the invincible by stanislow lem, can't wait to read that one actually @47fucb4r8c69323 's novel introduced me a bit to science fiction and I t
2026-08-16T12:21 id=2088964390062260232 →boneGPT | @boneGPT I am not your financial advisor but I'd take the money. || CTX: release the slop cannon as a company and make a million dollars or open source it and bring fire to the people like Prometheus and have my liver eaten by vultures for eternity.
2026-08-16T12:25 id=2088965268651597839 →- | I've lived most of my adult life outside of America, so I've seen how much more opportunities Americans have. It's insane and so qualitative that it's hard to demonstrate besides anecdotes that will never convince those who need convincing.   Being an expat is a very odd experience, because you see things so much clearer because you can triangulate, but in triangulation you're now a point away from your new surroundings and your native land. It is atomizing in an existential way, and most expats go insane as a result  not me ofc im special || CTX: People in the us are so lucky and spoiled by having such a huge and diverse economy with such a wide range of jobs.   In many countries your first action needs to be how to escape and emigrate somewhere better.
2026-08-16T12:29 id=2088966274563080383 →p_millerd | @p_millerd ohh you're an expat in Asia too, no wonder I find so many of your tweets relatable lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just process my insanity into tweets
2026-08-16T12:46 id=2088970532243005584 →- | Women: If he uses a trackball, marry him.
2026-08-16T12:46 id=2088970668234694669 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder Hubris kills success! Humility is a source of intelligence. || CTX: That there are certain kinds of errors that are only easy to make when you're smart is underappreciated by a lot of smart people who are very pleased with themselves for avoiding the dumb errors
2026-08-16T13:21 id=2088979429666263308 →crodaar | @crodaar https://t.co/vxOncLLKMw || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 as long as you didnt click your spells
2026-08-16T13:30 id=2088981644372041887 →mynamebedan | @mynamebedan Bro, next time I'm in Japan you gotta let me buy you a beer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ah so that's what this feeling is
2026-08-16T13:45 id=2088985432893874558 →esa_was_taken | @esa_was_taken More than you can imagine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do u hate yourself?
2026-08-16T14:27 id=2088996161252462692 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden He spends so much time perfecting x dot com he can't catch up on the latest ways to treat your transgender child without triggering. || CTX: https://t.co/WjrSW57ew3
2026-08-16T14:45 id=2089000551505932433 →yyloc_ | @yyloc_ I honestly can't tell if you're left wing or right wing when you say this, which tells me that you're probably right. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the thing is, it doesn’t matter. The average American hates San Francisco queers more than the Chinese.
2026-08-17T12:14 id=2089324887253094408 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka You're absolutely correct on this.  Dawkins tries to address this at the start of The God Delusion, but he does so weakly. || CTX: because atheism is not a negative claim, it looks like it on the surface, but based on what it negates, it's actually a huge positive claim https://t.co/TWHFYXZoGQ
2026-08-17T12:22 id=2089326996975464719 →boneGPT | @boneGPT omg the Dabbleverse colliding with the Slop Canon idk if I'm emotionally equipped for this. || CTX: Amazing slop. The guitar sometimes triggers the mouth. A story as old as time. Will fix tomr thank you testing. https://t.co/GmM7AaWiWD
2026-08-17T12:32 id=2089329598064697740 →- | This is wrong in a telling way.  I looked the dude up, a cryptobro, and that is kinda unsurprising because crypto is an attempt to depersonalize money, while here he's thinking of LLMs depersonalizing universities.  Both of these concepts are incoherent in the same way for the same reason: money and institutions extend human will, rather than replacing human will.  If you're a worker without tenure, you won't see universities this way. If you're poor or not sure how to earn the income stream you feel you need or want, you won't see money this way.  Same cognitive error due from a perspective below the system that inflates its slanted view into an Ontologically Correct view.  Russell got rid of this nonsense with the bent stick in the water thought experiment.  But of course that's a sophisticated view and instead of dunking on this guy as a dumdum, we need to remember that half of the population necessarily sees society from that below perspective, and the grievances of a transparent world mean many more still are convinced of their oppression.  So we should expect this kind of panicked lack of logic to be commonplace.  Many implications for many domains stem from this such as dips are for buying lmao you're bearish teehee so silly  h/t @ArielKwiat btw || CTX: Probably sad/not polite to say, but if you are a uni professor LLMs make PhD students mostly irrelevant. You can feed your back of the envelope calculations/ideas to it and it turns them into papers. The only real reason to keep students is
2026-08-17T12:37 id=2089330836118307024 →stevehou | @stevehou Goddamn Joe is such a good poaster it makes me angry sometimes || CTX: 😂 https://t.co/20G5VWaP0R
2026-08-17T12:40 id=2089331423794864434 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay This reminds me of that scene in Fight Club where they put up fake billboard ads that say "did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?" || CTX: what's crazy is this has already happened on pinterest but no one rly noticed it.   There are diy projects posted all the time that are physically impossible proportion wise. Recipes that are slop.  rn the best filter is seeing if there are
2026-08-17T12:42 id=2089332057759732097 →- | I have a lot of questions already answered by this guy's shirt. https://t.co/l4OqVU4bbh || CTX: wild thing to wear to a 4 year old’s birthday party https://t.co/CFhJTZWcDS
2026-08-17T12:43 id=2089332170670395649 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA OWNED! HE IS OWNED! || CTX: how old are you if you do not want to learn to skate @JasonBotterill? https://t.co/eMa6Do6D42
2026-08-17T12:46 id=2089333132902445290 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @CommanthaBiden I wish that was the only thing that marked me as white guy in Asia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden I can yell you’ve been in asia for too long as you start your text laughs with the letter b
2026-08-17T12:59 id=2089336419500048645 →contrasortem | @contrasortem @DumbMoneyCapitl This is honestly the best explanation for this phenomenon I've heard in my life. || CTX: @DumbMoneyCapitl @47fucb4r8c69323 If you can self-delude with "I'm a defender of children," even though all you're doing is performative virtue signalling that mostly exists to compensate for a lack of agency or true virtue, it doesn't do m
2026-08-17T13:05 id=2089337751145427387 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden You're never alone, we're always here for you. || CTX: i can't be alone that is why i always post
2026-08-17T13:07 id=2089338282656375183 →menhguin | @menhguin Wait why are we in a bisexual bear market? || CTX: investing in   AI bottlenecks https://t.co/KamSPHEB2j https://t.co/RFfg35E9p6
2026-08-17T13:09 id=2089338797985304897 →LexerLux | @LexerLux When he died all the political grifters thought sadly, "arday has finally gone". || CTX: Why Jason Arday is the real victim, not the people he defrauded: - He's only a lad - You really can't blame him - Society made him - He's our responsibility - He really couldn't help it - He didn't want to do it - He's underprivileged and a
2026-08-17T13:10 id=2089339060020236572 →- | RT @Richard_She: Does no one remember that Zuck launched Silicon Valley's first "cure all diseases initiative" almost 10 years ago back in… || CTX: Does no one remember that Zuck launched Silicon Valley's first "cure all diseases initiative" almost 10 years ago back in 2016?   https://t.co/v3311fCFIX  This was a year after they donated $75M for the naming rights to SF General Hospital.
2026-08-17T13:14 id=2089340039562227865 →teodorio | @teodorio @equacc MENTIONEDDDDDDDD || CTX: @equacc @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-17T13:50 id=2089349086977925532 →thebasedcapital | @thebasedcapital money is extremely personal, it is an expression of a relationship. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 money was already the impersonal part, that's basically what money is for. universities run on the personal part so the analogy eats itself
2026-08-17T14:34 id=2089360194795081954 →WoganMay | @WoganMay oh Christ, now I'm even happier I gave up on it.   He was so good too! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wound up watching A.I: Artificial Intelligence (Spielberg) last night, and of the many things I took away from it is the core idea that Ishiguro basically stole all the story beats, which is disappointing.
2026-08-17T14:36 id=2089360601982329244 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @DumbMoneyCapitl Imagine if someone wore a shirt that said "Dead school shooters don't reoffend", like, yeah okay, this is true and as a moral sentiment I agree but why're you wearing a shirt about it when you're picking up mushrooms at Costco?  "It's wine-o-clock" and "KILL PEDOS" aint the same. || CTX: @DumbMoneyCapitl @47fucb4r8c69323 i think it's just an american thing they like getting shirts of whatever they are into  eg french people drink wine but americans who drink wine have to also get a shirt that says it's wine-o-clock
2026-08-17T14:37 id=2089360858740920782 →WoganMay | @WoganMay I have complex thoughts about the movie. https://t.co/897Z7fMQSa || CTX: A. I. was released 25 years ago to the day and it remains one of the angriest movies I've ever seen.  I remember watching the end, crying hysterically, and whispering through my sobs, "you asshole, you fucking asshole," because I knew how t
2026-08-17T14:55 id=2089365546202722471 →allisonology | @allisonology That's what people used to get English degrees to learn how to do!  I can't condense four years into a tweet but I found this which is a wonderful gentle introduction to textual analysis:  https://t.co/TFN8WKOEi6 || CTX: How can you tell when a piece of writing (a tweet, for example) contains within it deeply meaningful foreshadowing or if it’s really just a bag of words?  Does anyone know?
2026-08-17T15:05 id=2089367967012450530 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Yeah, if I remember correctly there were other innocent or childlike robots at the Flesh Fair that didn't look human? Am I off? Been a long time. || CTX: Yeah I remember, I think that's the post that made me DM you the first time!  One of the things that really stood out to me on this rewatch was the Flesh Fair, and the fact that even though all the objective facts backed Johnson (ringleader
2026-08-17T15:08 id=2089368723429978521 →WoganMay | @WoganMay I need to rewatch. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 None. Every robot they brought through there was adult or adult-coded. They made a point of it with "nobody builds children", when they were making up their minds about what to do with David.
2026-08-17T23:43 id=2089498260134383672 →- | gm twitter https://t.co/62zHzlGxhg
2026-08-17T23:55 id=2089501440176013814 →- | Signull is 100% correct.  In my experience, I bought two properties in America: a Manhattan co-op and a cabin in NY about 90mins from Manhattan.   The cabin I sold for a small loss of about 10% (bought in 2012 and sold in 2016).  The co-op was a profit of 30%, but the S&P 500 was 80%. And I'm not including costs which probably made the net profit more like 25%.  The only way to boost returns on owning a house is leverage, but when you look at all of the transaction and carrying costs, you see the returns are lower than most people claim they are.   And the biggest issue is the lock in: when you buy a house you are really restricting your life in ways that can be unpredictably disastrous in the future. This is the biggest risk in owning a home and it's not monetary.   The Baby Boomers psyoped my generation to think real estate is a uniquely great investment, but it really isn't intrinsically. Their generation absolutely saw an explosion of property costs, but that is due to an exceptionally unusual macroeconomic and sociohistorical context that we do not share anymore.   My generation's challenge was realizing these older people had a distorted perspective, and most of my generation lacked the critical faculties to do this, and so now they're passing down this empty folk wisdom like zombies. This btw is how traditions pass down silly, bad ideas. || CTX: a primary residence is a terrible asset for most ppl cuz you:  - concentrate a huge percentage of your net worth in one illiquid object. - pay insane transaction costs to enter & exit (not to mention tons of middle men jesus christ). - pay 
2026-08-17T23:58 id=2089502177941422516 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv I think dog likes to tweet thinks he doesn't really believe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dog is a commie
2026-08-17T23:59 id=2089502287110849000 →fabsbz | @fabsbz just wait until next week || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 today is a bit hellish but tomorrow may be helllessler dw
2026-08-18T00:09 id=2089504931376169427 →thebasedcapital | @thebasedcapital "The only way to boost returns on owning a house is leverage," || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 was the co-op financed? 30% on purchase price and 30% on the cash you actually put in are different numbers
2026-08-18T00:22 id=2089508116098650260 →thsottiaux | @thsottiaux "Always allow everything for all tasks forever" Call it the Nuclear Launch Button if you need to scare the normies idgaf just let me stop clicking "Always approve" || CTX: What is an obvious thing that we should do with Codex, API or our models that we should just do but haven't yet? What is 100% within reach, but we just seem to be missing?
2026-08-18T00:23 id=2089508339713761662 →babarganesh | @babarganesh You're so obviously on the east coast.   Fortunes were made buying a little house in California in the 1960s and holding until the 90s. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 well from a boomer perspective, housing’s only been a good investment since what, 1995? before that it was cheaper, but it wasn’t really going up much
2026-08-18T00:40 id=2089512791896117403 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Ahh, yeah California and the southwest had the most intense bullish attitudes on housing until, of course, 2008. || CTX: California was an outlier.   I lived in Seattle in the 80s and 90s, and people made a little money. I bought a nice house in Seattle for low 200ks in 1996 - it had run up quite a bit for sure, but 200k didn’t make you rich.  Midwest where i
2026-08-18T00:54 id=2089516249881755761 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Fully agreed, so much of modern American politics seems to stem from a resentment that that promised stability was killed by Regan (and then killed some more by Clinton et al.).  If I just wanted a white picket fence and 2.3 kids and a company pension, yeah I'd be pissed too. || CTX: I think it’s a bit of a mind fuck for people who grew up with a stability and theta mindset to see the modern (really post Ronald Reagan) economy for what it is. A lot of the politics of resentment, i think, comes from there. But i just don
2026-08-18T02:30 id=2089540513708011852 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @koreindian community set their standards, which is why I'm really glad not to be in that community || CTX: @koreindian @47fucb4r8c69323 you said you always wanted to be a writer, now you can pay to learn from the best (Aella, apparently?)
2026-08-18T02:31 id=2089540593232077262 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @koreindian communities set their standards, which is why I'm really glad not to be in that community || CTX: @koreindian @47fucb4r8c69323 you said you always wanted to be a writer, now you can pay to learn from the best (Aella, apparently?)
2026-08-18T02:51 id=2089545647980691960 →- | One of the things about the AI job discourse I personally find annoying is that a lot of it seems to hinge on a question like "if the bots make it possible to do 8 hours of work in an hour, how will I keep my job?"  Dude, if the bots make it possible to do 8 hours of work in an hour, use the bots to now sell 8 hours of work for the market price of 7 hours of work. Then do the work in an hour, save most of it, and enjoy your newfound free time and wealth.  "But this cannot last--" okay, do it until it doesn't last. Just like every other market opportunity. Nothing lasts in life, carpe fucking diem you goddamn fucking idiot instead of stressing about getting laid off by your boss you fucking lemmings
2026-08-18T02:52 id=2089546053158916379 →albustime | @albustime Can you expand on this? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What makes you incorrect is your financial success, and your detachment from the fundamental requirement of being human, i.e, creating and loving a child.
2026-08-18T02:53 id=2089546195203158220 →chrisbycreme | @chrisbycreme Right, the extra utility one gets from being a homeowner means people will tolerate lower returns from their home in exchange for this value, so another reason why real estate is a bad investment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 asset sure  but not being at the whim of a landlord doing the cheapest possible thing really is quite nice
2026-08-18T02:55 id=2089546736788439412 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies I distinguish between "toil" and "labor", where toil is a subset of tasks that we don't want to do but need to do in order for the goal to be achieved.  AI is automating toil, freeing up labor for more labor with less toil. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah, like, anything that can be made into a process doc is automated, but anything that can be made into a process doc I never considered real work anyways
2026-08-18T03:02 id=2089548487197376717 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas I've already noticed more scrutiny of other people's posts on social media has encouraged a lot more authentic expression and it has made social media better.   This is an absurdly contrarian view so no one will agree with it. || CTX: I think a lot more millennials would be into AI if they thought it would bring back indie sleaze. I’m already into it, but now I’m even more into it. https://t.co/fO5KoZEC1n
2026-08-18T03:09 id=2089550102742626739 →markovschainsaw | @markovschainsaw I'm neither, I reject internet slang and internet-derived categorizations of a complex world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you were really blackpilled this would actually be a whitepill
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556411760198123 →- | Hey everyone--I built this AI sentiment tracker thingie and you might like it, idk?  https://t.co/rH8uAsYJuP
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556416470319510 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I had an LLM do some pretty basic discourse analysis around six questions, listed in the image. https://t.co/7sBplAZTYC || CTX: Hey everyone--I built this AI sentiment tracker thingie and you might like it, idk?  https://t.co/rH8uAsYJuP
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556418903056506 →47fucb4r8c69323 | It finds how the media sentiment in that nation is guiding readers towards a positive or negative answer. The more positive, the higher the score, so you can see that across the countries in the tracker, the sentiment that the media is leading its readers to on the question "Is AI Good Overall?" is 58--in the middle. Not too surprising. || CTX: I had an LLM do some pretty basic discourse analysis around six questions, listed in the image. https://t.co/7sBplAZTYC
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556423105827005 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Then there are charts, because who doesn't like charts? The first chart shows the overall AI sentiment tracked over time per country, and you can see how China is the most overall AI optimistic country and Italy the least optimistic as measured by their media talk on AI. https://t.co/hm69mb59J8 || CTX: It finds how the media sentiment in that nation is guiding readers towards a positive or negative answer. The more positive, the higher the score, so you can see that across the countries in the tracker, the sentiment that the media is lead
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556426700279849 →47fucb4r8c69323 | These summaries are AI generated, do not expect hand written copy on a free tool I built in an hour. Click on a tile and you'll see the sources surveyed. https://t.co/iNJzZWZ9Wj || CTX: Then there are charts, because who doesn't like charts? The first chart shows the overall AI sentiment tracked over time per country, and you can see how China is the most overall AI optimistic country and Italy the least optimistic as meas
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556431301390804 →47fucb4r8c69323 | At a glance overview--oh these should be sortable by each question lemme tell muh clanker to do that now. https://t.co/xSnFCgrbvl || CTX: These summaries are AI generated, do not expect hand written copy on a free tool I built in an hour. Click on a tile and you'll see the sources surveyed. https://t.co/iNJzZWZ9Wj
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556434161918158 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I've tried to source major news outlets across ideological, regional, and subcultural lines while also weighing them according to cultural and social impact. The overall headline number is GDP-weighted, which I admit I did not put much thought into and I'm happy to do a better weighting method if anyone has any suggestions.  Or hell I'll change anything about this if anyone has any good ideas shout off in comments dont forget like subscribe this post is sponsored by weedies || CTX: At a glance overview--oh these should be sortable by each question lemme tell muh clanker to do that now. https://t.co/xSnFCgrbvl
2026-08-18T03:34 id=2089556622565924964 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital 2009 was pretty good too, in certain areas. || CTX: There was only 1 time when apeing a hoooom was right  2020 https://t.co/zuJQ2K2oEb
2026-08-18T03:35 id=2089556725343146448 →chiefofautism | @chiefofautism No you cannot, and you only think this because you don't know what orgs actually do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if the bots make it possible to do 8 hours of work in an hour, how will I keep my job?  if you have fucking ai you can replicate full org with agents dumbass
2026-08-18T03:36 id=2089556938057302044 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv Hadn't heard of this before, made me smile. Thanks for that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 most people have zero conception of how much time it takes to actually complete a task. parkinson's law is very real
2026-08-18T03:36 id=2089557080315441637 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Oh there's a whole fanfic novel if you want to read it. I can't say it's very good--I enjoyed writing it though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &gt;the domain https://t.co/O5JnNqZ9Bf
2026-08-18T03:40 id=2089557913455198632 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Interesting finding just at a glance: China #1 (lol) on everything, but U.S. moves around a lot. It is second on the question "Will AI benefit my daily life?" and third on "Will AI benefit me?", so that's consistent (yay!), but it is sixth on "Will AI benefit our country?". || CTX: I've tried to source major news outlets across ideological, regional, and subcultural lines while also weighing them according to cultural and social impact. The overall headline number is GDP-weighted, which I admit I did not put much thou
2026-08-18T03:48 id=2089559931028697373 →tszzl | @tszzl What a strange phrase "intelligent business".  I wonder what it could mean. || CTX: there may come a time when the least intelligent business in the world is a second or third place AI lab: all others will use the frontier model, but competitors will be banned
2026-08-18T03:49 id=2089560246712955105 →Katie_Carter_42 | I mean, it definitionally would, but it's important to ask yourself what exactly are you measuring and what is the meaning of that measurement.  This isn't measuring the AI sentiment in e.g. China. It is measuring the AI sentiment expressed in the most prominent parts of the major media outlets in China. That's a very different thing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice this's good research tyty  i wonder if something like the bigger gdelt data would provide a more diverse set of opinions
2026-08-18T03:50 id=2089560420269068326 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson I am naturally disposed to hate Trump, but omg thank you Mr. President the broken clock is right this time. || CTX: The MAGA hat is going BACK ON https://t.co/tAwnnCPduP
2026-08-18T03:50 id=2089560606831694280 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka I'd be both tbh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can't decide if I'm intrigued or repulsed...
2026-08-18T04:01 id=2089563380017500296 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat And here I thought you couldn’t get any cuter || CTX: look what AI has done to me . it has made me small and bug like. stripped of my dignity https://t.co/e971WWk3K0
2026-08-18T04:04 id=2089564030793040045 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @boneGPT the EXACT same thought went through my head || CTX: @boneGPT You know what? Let's not even ask about the etymology anymore
2026-08-18T04:27 id=2089569818039251280 →plhunt | @plhunt Many such cases || CTX: realized my last post was an emoji-react quote tweet of a different @47fucb4r8c69323 post.  inadvertently becoming a fan account.
2026-08-18T04:28 id=2089570069294838009 →laputanm4chine | @laputanm4chine Welcome fellow SEA-based expat!  And, yes, I fully agree—sucks to be a low agency person! But that’s always been the case. || CTX: I agree with your philosophy. I used to be a wage worker and now I'm a self-employed expat living in SEA, like you. And I thank god that these tools we have now make it easier than ever. However, I think that most people just want to be tol
2026-08-18T04:29 id=2089570364439593080 →Slim_Picken | @Slim_Picken Oh it is available absolutely everywhere, and I personally like White Snow from Thai Green Lab but there are many others out there—just don’t try to get the cheapest shit per gram and you’ll have a good time. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Totally related question Heading over Thailand this weekend for a month. How is the weed situation on the ground? Which strains would you reconmend
2026-08-18T04:31 id=2089570751724818866 →47fucb4r8c69323 | MENTIONEDDDDDDDDD https://t.co/ehkSDnWBxI || CTX: Interesting finding just at a glance: China #1 (lol) on everything, but U.S. moves around a lot. It is second on the question "Will AI benefit my daily life?" and third on "Will AI benefit me?", so that's consistent (yay!), but it is sixth 
2026-08-18T04:35 id=2089571814389481647 →tszzl | @tszzl Similarly, reading rationalist blogs will make you develop a repulsive writing style. You need to read a good book once in a while to write well. || CTX: when people spend too much time in a corporation they develop an entire profane LinkedIn idiolect. you need to read a book once in a while to prevent total mode collapse
2026-08-18T06:20 id=2089598179725742442 →JDBtracker | @JDBtracker brilliant, I love hearing stories like this so much || CTX: Had the same issue with Machine Control Systems in construction, we put robotic hardware on construction equipment; This makes what takes two weeks be done in two days. The managers try to jib us saying we only worked two days, but we did t
2026-08-18T06:34 id=2089601926094795256 →j1o1h1n | @j1o1h1n Why? Are you surprised families have different economic preferences and needs than single people? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "e.g. if you have a family to raise" is an extraordinary rider on the argument
2026-08-18T06:38 id=2089602875941126187 →- | This is a lovely work of art, ennobling the work of the computer programmer towards the sublime.   This is the appeal of a lot of talk about AI, including the parallels with movies, talk of "machine goes", and talk of AI killing us and/or curing cancer.   These are all attempts to inflate producing alphanumeric outputs from alphanumeric inputs into something sublime, important, serious, larger than life.   This is what art does, and it's beautiful.   Just don't confuse art with reality, kids. That's all I want. || CTX: crazy how this is my job https://t.co/Tq6xb3j2H8
2026-08-18T07:05 id=2089609649733640549 →- | When did wokeness die?   Specifically, what was the last attempt at a large scale cultural push to enforce a woke cultural norm on society?   IMO it was the Sydney Sweeney jeans/genes thing. That felt like the last time the left tried to push for a woke moral judgment at scale.
2026-08-18T07:36 id=2089617423553204712 →doomslide | @doomslide Unless we get our act together. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Chinese century
2026-08-18T07:47 id=2089620072897941663 →hlitoroy | Almost all of these are short:  On Certainty Midnight's Children Paradise Lost Hamlet The Sound and the Fury Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Tradition and the Individual Talent How to Do Things with Words Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy  Elements of Style Jane Eyre Lolita The Old Man and the Sea Confessions (Augustine) European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages Mythology (Edith Hamilton) The Quiet American Go Tell It on the Mountain  Memoirs of a Geisha On Bullshit (Frankfurt) Jude the Obscure Grapes of Wrath The Gambler (Dostoyevsky) Fear and Trembling || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Share some of em pls😇
2026-08-18T08:10 id=2089626032387309715 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @fabsbz @koreindian well the one person who I really really really want to read my novel won't read it or give me feedback, so I'm a tad stuck || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @fabsbz @koreindian hone your craft
2026-08-18T08:31 id=2089631304560284135 →- | When I first used ChatGPT in 2022, one of my immediate thoughts was, "omg 'learn to code' is dead, the humanities are going to take over!"   Within months I'd contacted my academia friends and told them (pleaded in one case) to start making an "English Composition for AI" course, and they ofc promptly ignored me. And ofc after that the whole of academia decided AI drinks water and kills babies so we're much further from my vision.   But we'll get there.  As they say, the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards "47 was right". || CTX: Good lord https://t.co/RDGWpYh3FV
2026-08-18T08:38 id=2089633016503210438 →koreindian | @koreindian @CommanthaBiden @fabsbz Wait so are you a crazy person and OP was a joke or are you retarded and this is a real thing? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CommanthaBiden @fabsbz yuddy my buddy yuddy my buddy yuddy my buddy yuddy my buddy
2026-08-18T09:12 id=2089641504587620861 →peeyuzz | @peeyuzz @Katie_Carter_42 @iHarshAga please at me so that I can see the paper too when it's out || CTX: @Katie_Carter_42 @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah. @iHarshAga and i did something similar. we are writing the paper.. should be on arxiv in ~10 days
2026-08-18T09:22 id=2089644046126047696 →- | One of the strange things about finance is that you often don't really need to be right, and being right doesn't even matter all that much sometimes, even if other times it matters more than anything.   Consider roaring kitty.   Now this guy was a very, very good financial analyst, and his analysis of GameStop was excellent.   That said, that's not why he made a lot of money.   It wasn't the quality of the thesis that made him rich, and his thesis hasn't been proven right or wrong.   He got lucky.  Sometimes being lucky matters more than being right in life. maybe that's why some people hate finance, it's a game where you can be right and still lose.   I understand engineers' comfort in the more verifiable domains, but unfortunately there are very few verifiable domains in life.
2026-08-18T09:32 id=2089646630588801049 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 I'm not sure what you mean by win in the end, can you expand? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I understand what you're talking about but it's only the efflorescence. The roots of woke are fine and healthy and they are poised to win in the end just like the 1990s.
2026-08-18T09:50 id=2089651013141860760 →llallawg | @llallawg Yeah Europe and Australia are always a few years behind America, culturally. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s healthy and alive in the Uk, eg., the way they’re talking about restricting journalism cause Jason arday killed himself when he was exposed
2026-08-18T10:09 id=2089655837296079171 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies That is a huge assumption. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now, if roaring kitty had not created a memetic fire, he'd necessarily be wrong. Bur, i assume he factored himseld in to his trade.
2026-08-18T11:05 id=2089669900440879196 →- | 1. The tech world doesn't talk enough about its failures. Integral AI's collapse should be closely scrutinized for lessons.  2. The integration of AI into the physical world is always handwaved by Silicon Valley, but efforts have yielded little, and robotics progress is slow. https://t.co/NyQ551aaO6
2026-08-18T11:05 id=2089670120453153074 →teodorio | @teodorio Most people who work in finance in New York rent, it's actually pretty unusual to own your own place in New York City. Returns too low, risks too high. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Robert Granieri only rents   I've done the math a lot of the times, and unless it's for emotional value or a tourist destination where you can rent it at 8-10% yields (Bali if you're lucky) there is no point
2026-08-18T11:33 id=2089677138773627037 →- | "It’s a great example of how much better someone like David is able to allocate capital than ~the rest of the world."  I've been around people at the top of several professions: literary criticism, journalism, finance, and tech.   I've never seen a group so confident of in-group superiority than the machine learning people.  They are so confident they know better than the rest of us. If they don't change this attitude, the backlash is not going to ease off   Hubris kills success. || CTX: If deployed widely - I bet this will save the US healthcare system at least 100x all of MJ’s profit to date.   It’s a great example of how much better someone like David is able to allocate capital than ~the rest of the world.   The AI boom
2026-08-18T11:51 id=2089681599273312298 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake Love hearing when people are too busy with life to be here. || CTX: i was life maxxing too hard i forgot this website, did the machine god consume us all yet?
2026-08-18T12:46 id=2089695424206492125 →- | Let's imagine two people, Anna and Belle.   Anna spends her entire life methodically and carefully planning her choices, actions, and words. She analyzes every step and ensures that her actions have a logic to them.   Belle don't give a fuck. She does without thinking, has no introspection, and merely responds to stimulus.   Now, imagine we have a full record of each life.  Both Anna's and Belle's lives are logical: there are necessary, contingent, and causal relationships that make up their lives and these can be described using logical language.  But only Anna actually uses logic.
2026-08-18T12:53 id=2089697287341842475 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 When ignorance is bliss tis folly to be wise. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 every day i aspire to be belle
2026-08-18T12:56 id=2089698002109915434 →- | This is a fantastic idea and I'm glad to see OAI go in this direction.  https://t.co/ka1uSaaQkk
2026-08-18T12:58 id=2089698459347726659 →- | Dario is so off-putting when he says AI will cure cancer part of me starts rooting for the cancer.
2026-08-18T14:23 id=2089719887753285810 →bladgolem | @bladgolem Yeah James Spader was hot when he was younger, good call || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Can you one day tweet that I will make half a billion, finish my book this year and also have an affair with young James Spader? Thank you.
2026-08-18T14:33 id=2089722246764097564 →airkatakana | @airkatakana I have disliked Elon Musk since 2013. I am an OG hater. I have written essays on why I dislike the man.  And even I must admit: him buying Twitter was one of the best things to happen to American culture. He absolutely killed the woke mind virus, and he spent billions to do it. || CTX: nothing killed woke better than elon acquiring x  and he didn’t need to change a single policy to get it done  they all willingly exited the only relevant global conversation, just because they didn’t like its steward  one of the most conse
2026-08-18T15:41 id=2089739370454741417 →enovinson | @enovinson Finance people tend to be extremely humble about work. The market will make the arrogant humble that's what's so great about it.   But yeah in their off hours they can be dicks. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now that I think about it, the finance crowd actually is more humble than the AI crowd. I wouldn't expect to say that about people like hedge fund managers, but they do admit that they don't know everything and can be wrong
2026-08-18T15:47 id=2089741065381372336 →vokaysh | @vokaysh @JasonBotterill I need one of these, they work soooo well || CTX: @JasonBotterill is that the spiky ball thing
2026-08-18T16:41 id=2089754505579823567 →- | I am amazed at how many nice people I've become mutuals with on this site.   I am honestly not used to people being nice online, it's a tad strange.
2026-08-18T23:27 id=2089856772714701071 →- | This is the perfect outcome.   You want to pause your model training? Wonderful, by all means, go right ahead.   You want to tell other people they can't do model training? Absolutely unacceptable.   If OpenAI researchers feel like they need more time, take all the time you need. https://t.co/R93AF0NVDQ || CTX: We have paused some frontier RL training to ensure that we can meet the appropriate alignment, security and monitoring standards for the new level of capabilities in front of us. Model progress is now extremely rapid, and we always said we 
2026-08-18T23:42 id=2089860504726745212 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat https://t.co/LD4xPIFRq6 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 everyone needs to stop
2026-08-19T00:00 id=2089865055856959641 →- | Oh, companies selling AI safety might've misrepresented AI capabilities to sell more AI safety?   I am shocked, shocked I tell you!   These people are superior to us, morally and intellectually, how could this happen https://t.co/vlo0EYsBIR || CTX: Irregular, the company behind incidents in which AI models compromised real-world computer systems, faces criticism over ‘spin’ in AI hacking postmortem.  With my thanks to @ProfWoodward, @ZackKorman and @HackingLZ.  https://t.co/uM3Ai3tPHH
2026-08-19T00:22 id=2089870483953258822 →- | When Ragnar Frisch founded the Econometric Society in 1930, he wanted economics to model itself after physics; at the time physics was the hottest science thanks to Einstein's recent breakthroughs, so the physics envy is unsurprising.   The move was odd from a methods and discipline perspective, since economics at the time was an offshoot of political philosophy and very much a prose argument-driven field, often seen necessarily so. Keynes studied philosophy, after all. But if you wanted to go to where the money and power was, that was where to go.  So it's noteworthy to see one economist referring to another economist's work as "building". They build models, I suppose, although they also think about, design, craft, create, critique, and refine models too, so the focus on the building part isn't necessary or intuitive.   But as an effort to align the discourse of the discipline to the currently most successful and best funded thing (engineering), yes it makes a lot of sense and is a smart direction to move the discourse.  The flexibility and adaptability of economics as a discipline helps it thrive in very different cultural contexts, because it positions itself as a handmaiden to the Big Thing by promising to make Big Thing more efficient in a social context (making things more efficient in a social context is arguably one way to define economics as a field).  Philosophy is also increasingly taking a page from this playbook from the perspective that philosophy can promise to make Big Thing more thoughtful. So if you want to say your computer program is a real living person, a philosopher can come in and give you the most analytically robust description of your position. Doing this for hire is what ancient philosophers often did to make money, these people were called "Sophists".   The humanities sadly cannot perform this trick!   The humanities has positioned itself as the critical field--the field that asks uncomfortable questions, identifies questionable motives, and challenges the discursive norms of a field by identifying what that discourse functionally does or intends to do. That's exactly what I'm doing in this tweet.   So, no wonder we aren't invited to the party.  But also: makes me think the best due diligence would be humanities based. Unsurprising as that's my day job.   And also: the humanities are a disaster. The good people were tossed out long ago for the political activists, so you can't easily farm the good people from the humanities anymore.   Maybe we deserve to lose the culture war. || CTX: Another amazing hire for the @AnthropicAI institute. Can’t wait to see what Andy and co build! https://t.co/t9P61ldstF
2026-08-19T00:43 id=2089875815895048662 →allisonology | @allisonology MENTIONEDDDDDDDDD || CTX: There are 47 wolves inside of me and I need help organizing them  Pls
2026-08-19T00:49 id=2089877430756663396 →mynamebedan | @mynamebedan I wouldn't worry too much, I don't think people who want to write will ever stop writing, and people who want to read human produced text will not stop reading.   We crave human connection, that will never stop. || CTX: i don't think we should be celebrating this. becoming skilled at expressing your own thoughts in a way that is well understood by your peers is an essential skill. for more difficult things it's an act of critical thinking. it's our *only* 
2026-08-19T00:54 id=2089878575457632572 →- | Marketing is so fascinating. If they're Indonesian, they're vulnerable trans sex workers, but if they're Thai they're ladyboys. https://t.co/hp6sNxhGgT || CTX: How climate change is hitting vulnerable Indonesian trans sex workers https://t.co/j6TzRUAWvt
2026-08-19T00:54 id=2089878628477870259 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @PerryALPHA title of his sex tape || CTX: @PerryALPHA Is that your stage name?
2026-08-19T01:01 id=2089880294199529609 →- | Rosmine has helped my lab out, he's an extremely intelligent and good at what he does.   He's also shown me earlier versions of this model and they were very impressive. I won't be surprised if this model is good too, although I haven't played around with it much yet. https://t.co/J6UBd1KKO4 || CTX: @jmrphy Try it here: https://t.co/rLRStYvUu4  You can do 3 free generations before creating an account. After that, you get 2 free generations per day. If you want more, you'll need to get a paid subscription.
2026-08-19T01:01 id=2089880384385507381 →- | Rosmine has helped my lab out, he's   extremely intelligent and good at what he does.   He's also shown me earlier versions of this model and they were very impressive. I won't be surprised if this model is good too, although I haven't played around with it much yet. https://t.co/J6UBd1KKO4 || CTX: @jmrphy Try it here: https://t.co/rLRStYvUu4  You can do 3 free generations before creating an account. After that, you get 2 free generations per day. If you want more, you'll need to get a paid subscription.
2026-08-19T01:04 id=2089881040643137583 →mynamebedan | @mynamebedan It'll make those who put the effort in shine more brightly. I see this punishing the lazy with karma for their own refusal to put the effort in to write. Yes that is bad--FOR THEM. And for those of us who put the effort in, we have less uncommitted grifters to compete with! || CTX: i worry more about large swaths of our population excusing themselves from the important exercise of critical thinking through the expression of their thoughts. writing is one of the core ways or only ways this happens prior to working in a
2026-08-19T01:11 id=2089882969989386297 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I just tried to use it, you can see the prompt below, the output, and Pangram's feedback.   I suspect longer and more detailed prompts will yield better results (this was also the case when I built my own humanizer).  I'm also having issues with the deftwriting page: when I produce an output it won't scroll, like I can't go back to the top of the page. || CTX: Rosmine has helped my lab out, he's   extremely intelligent and good at what he does.   He's also shown me earlier versions of this model and they were very impressive. I won't be surprised if this model is good too, although I haven't play
2026-08-19T01:51 id=2089893070691266765 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @NotPerrysBoobs @allisonologue @grok @AstrosBrain @samantha1989tv @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @allisonology Mark Zucgeishaberg || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @allisonologue @grok @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @samantha1989tv @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @allisonology https://t.co/np6d4fYF5a
2026-08-19T03:09 id=2089912642169389153 →ZyMazza | @ZyMazza It would be much, much better if both Rosmine, Pangram, and really the whole industry worked on refining LLMs to produce really economically high value outputs for various domains (law, medical, etc.) instead of the current focus.  I'm not sure why the current focus is what it is || CTX: im not a real doomer you all know this but i think maybe it isnt optimal for the whole industry to be structured as an arms race https://t.co/oNb6crMjQm
2026-08-19T03:44 id=2089921358226727159 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Yes, I prefer people like Belle. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 anna sounds annoying.
2026-08-19T03:44 id=2089921484068356434 →max_spero_ | @max_spero_ Welcome to the arms race! || CTX: You get one pangram release before everything from this model gets classified as AI https://t.co/2rQgbD3iyj
2026-08-19T03:45 id=2089921606969864630 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy @mynamebedan Bad for you, maybe. I'm having the time of my life! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mynamebedan I think you're right in the longer term, but the near term is going to be weird and bad, I'm afraid.
2026-08-19T06:32 id=2089963753987260606 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs https://t.co/ydOHzDOwBk || CTX: i cant even post my own images to show you so i have to post it out here and then link it back to you https://t.co/6pn39xoENA
2026-08-19T06:35 id=2089964545951645706 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs https://t.co/31pm1C5j8H || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/LpknAJHVOY
2026-08-19T06:43 id=2089966415151497257 →0xSero | I've always wondered if moral panics have one very high-profile symbolic moment where everyone kind of recognizes that they've turned into a mob and things have gone too far and then they scale things back. A good example is the "have you no decency sir" moment that ended McCarthyism, but then the Satanic Panic just kinda died.  I expected Wokeism to have its "have you no decency sir" moment but I just can't find one. Just seems like there were some pathetic efforts, like saying men are more dangerous than bears or Sydney Sweeney is a nazi, and they weren't seen as credulous.   Maybe the slow fade is the more natural end to mass hysteria events? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Damn bro you really timed it perfectly, you’re right.   They still exist on the hasan piker side of the internet but their influence is gone rn.   As they age many have kids, get married, get jobs etc.. and move towards the
2026-08-19T06:46 id=2089967098630115363 →- | https://t.co/GhTtJPkRDl
2026-08-19T06:55 id=2089969391718859180 →etriclearns | @etriclearns gm lurker! Hope you're doing well. || CTX: gm lurkers :3 meow https://t.co/Jdd0IrKPxj
2026-08-19T07:23 id=2089976589258027435 →- | Look at this tone policing little bitch getting offended at mean spirited tweets in an arms race.   IT IS AN ARMS RACE, wtf did you expect Pangram to say to the guy who explicitly markets his model by saying "look my product makes Pangram worthless"?   Welcome to the real world. https://t.co/PZ0wV8iEtk || CTX: @kthai1618 Not a good look for @pangram with this mean spirited tweet, not to mention the two other panagram employees who wanted to dogpile  Yall have a toxic ass culture https://t.co/WbgnXajycs
2026-08-19T07:24 id=2089976842547843140 →- | https://t.co/wfagTXsAOC
2026-08-19T07:31 id=2089978577001529830 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/hMA01JSPvA || CTX: https://t.co/wfagTXsAOC
2026-08-19T07:37 id=2089979953282515274 →- | Wonderful tweet and quite illuminating.  When I made my own humanizer LLM, I found that the best outputs in terms of sheer writing quality would never get 100% human written--the best would usually get like a 30% or so--while the outputs that Pangram said were 100% human written were not really good.  Additionally, I was kind of surprised at how easy it was to bulid a humanizer--you can get like 80% of the way with Codex and a day, if you know what you're doing.  In any case, this emergent arms race seems very silly. Both sides should be thinking about how to use their methods and technology to produce high quality solutions for enterprises--but also neither side wants to do this.  I find that strange, but that also means it is a really big opportunity for the rest of you out there.  Just make LLMs that output better writing, and ignore both the Pangrams of the world and the Pangram killers! || CTX: To clarify some common misconceptions, Pangram is not a measure of Good Writing.  A 100% human score on Pangram does not mean your writing is Good. A 100% AI score on Pangram does not mean your writing is Bad.  Ultimately, Pangram is a fanc
2026-08-19T07:46 id=2089982267301224488 →- | btw I hope you aren't taking this seriously, anon.   The pause is fake.   Note how he also said this won't affect immediately upcoming models.  This is face saving spin. https://t.co/R93AF0NVDQ || CTX: We have paused some frontier RL training to ensure that we can meet the appropriate alignment, security and monitoring standards for the new level of capabilities in front of us. Model progress is now extremely rapid, and we always said we 
2026-08-19T07:56 id=2089984879249477665 →luckenco | @luckenco @CommanthaBiden || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the carousel mode took something beautiful from us
2026-08-19T07:58 id=2089985399829749787 →- | Why would you tolerate a computer saying this to you?   I wouldn't even tolerate a human saying this to me. https://t.co/ArsN2aMZTe || CTX: Why does Claude just up and out of the blue say it's not going to do any work?    (Opus 5, Fable 5...doesn't seem to matter) https://t.co/td00zyWXsW
2026-08-19T08:01 id=2089986057504952335 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer @ExPostGigaChad what's your annualized irr with that strategy? || CTX: @ExPostGigaChad ya kospi/nq statarb is tight
2026-08-19T08:17 id=2089990056018948224 →teodorio | @teodorio @mikansoleil yes amongst others || CTX: @mikansoleil @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-19T08:18 id=2089990489139507635 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 If it applies to "further out" models, it seems to me nothing more than just improving internal protocols wrt sandboxing, monitoring, etc., am I wrong?   Because if that's all this is, it isn't a pause at all, it's just a company improving internal processes (which is normal). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 AFAICT this is real (and actually very annoying for researchers)
2026-08-19T08:19 id=2089990659428196731 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @teodorio lmao where are you staying bro || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 There's literally a guy in my fitness retreat who is fighting with his Thai 'gf' outside 711 and she's asking him for money non stop   He just sold his house his chance are not good
2026-08-19T09:42 id=2090011482599891106 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon It's not my computer's job to diagnose when I'm overworked || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Claude has post to push back when it detects what it thinks are indications of overwork, hypomania, mania etc. It’s perfectly well-intentioned. The problem is the false positive rate.
2026-08-19T11:12 id=2090034198384173566 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder oh that's why they're pissed.   lmao they talked about safety so much they got extra work, absolutely hilarious || CTX: hahaha ai researchers are getting pager duty now https://t.co/mXgsp1i9Bx
2026-08-19T12:05 id=2090047622656741397 →- | tfw "pacing the frontier" turns into "paging the worker".   Don't bitch, buddy, you got your RSUs. https://t.co/FLcgtRI27d || CTX: https://t.co/FZ4EW3ddBS
2026-08-19T12:06 id=2090047842476011652 →47fucb4r8c69323 | In case you need context btw https://t.co/0n9WTaNDZM || CTX: very interesting part on CoT monitoring  > estimation is ~20% compute overhead with a multi level monitoring system > confirmed they didn't have monitor for eval and training run before > monitor expected to catch concerning activity within
2026-08-19T12:23 id=2090052092509741453 →stevehou | @stevehou https://t.co/PDzTYs5HXW  Apologies for the sign tapping it is quite rude, but I TOLD YOU SO I FUCKING TOLD ALL OF YOU I HAVE HATED THIS COMPANY SINCE 2023 || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-08-19T12:25 id=2090052575265718473 →stevehou | @stevehou Eh just give it time || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don’t hate it. I just think the product got worse
2026-08-19T13:34 id=2090069801226154467 →tidepoolsoup | @tidepoolsoup @mynamebedan This is kinda how I think it'll play out. || CTX: @mynamebedan @47fucb4r8c69323 interestingly the output of people who rely heavily on text generation comes across as exactly that, and increasingly identifiably so as slop becomes more ubiquitous. one would imagine that at some point the pr
2026-08-19T13:41 id=2090071708908798012 →- | Supposedly everyone on this website is autistic (I do not believe this).  What do you do when you have a major meltdown that lingers for a couple of days? Ofc I will do all of the stimming that works for me at the time of the major peak of the event, but when it subsides and I can still feel it just bubbling underneath the surface ready to come out, what can I do? Anything?
2026-08-19T13:49 id=2090073748913447385 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Is this your first time in the States? || CTX: Only 37 more days until the trip to San Francisco I am so excited man
2026-08-19T13:50 id=2090073923828560036 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson I lived in Miami for a year and a half and no one once tried to speak Spanish to me. || CTX: I speak it fluently but I won’t speak Spanish in Miami unless it’s clearly advantageous for me and I never initiate.   This is America - ENGLISH ONLY, USA! https://t.co/WHY1MZPtbg
2026-08-19T13:53 id=2090074572184003050 →WoganMay | @WoganMay I could hug you, this is so fucking helpful. THANK YOU || CTX: Ok I can write a post-doc thesis on this at this point, because I've been doing basically everything that amounts to both "inner" and "outer" work in this regard, including trying every SSRI and benzo on the market.  Whatever the meltdown w
2026-08-19T13:53 id=2090074725339001181 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Stare into a lot of toilets when you're in the proper half of the world. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah first a lot of things really I’ve never left the southern hemisphere before
2026-08-19T13:54 id=2090074910811128249 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill oh also make sure to go to an American diner and get a turkey club sandwich. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yeah first a lot of things really I’ve never left the southern hemisphere before
2026-08-19T13:55 id=2090075300206096821 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Yes this is absolutely spot on, and I know I need to stop making connections with things that happened 40 years ago (no matter how logical those connections may appear), but it's so easy to do. Making slow progress.   Thanks again man, srsly. || CTX: If my theory of you is right, you've already figured out how to apply all of this in the way that makes sense to you.  If not, I can't offer practical advice anyway.  Just some comfort, possibly: I've been doing some version of all of this,
2026-08-19T14:07 id=2090078184725193162 →0xSero | @0xSero yeah it was really bad today so I couldn't do my normal afteroon walk, should go out for a bit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Go on a walk
2026-08-19T14:16 id=2090080383681675700 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 You may be right and I have too rosey of a view on how much enterprises value quality. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why would enterprises buy high quality solutions anymore? They spent a lot of money on enterprise software dev tools themselves.  Anyway, this is a fake battle. Ai detection is a pointless waste of money meant to act as a s
2026-08-19T14:23 id=2090082338307010926 →1889lw | @1889lw yeah been doing that too to help, and it actually does || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tweeting
2026-08-19T14:43 id=2090087269608849575 →1889lw | @1889lw just fyi I love seeing them, because like 7/10 of them really sound like Wittgenstein. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe I've got fewer followers it's easier to tweet neurotic and negative things frantically. But that helps a lot
2026-08-19T14:52 id=2090089483509309878 →- | An ex-e-girl is a girl who used to be an e-girl An e- ex-girl is an e-boy who used to be a girl  Therefore, an ex-e-ex-girl would be someone like Eric Weinstein.
2026-08-19T15:06 id=2090093007328682080 →ElmWho | @ElmWho @ExistentialEnso MENTIONEDDDDDDDD || CTX: @ExistentialEnso @47fucb4r8c69323 mentioned
2026-08-19T15:06 id=2090093112014311767 →1889lw | @1889lw U back to school yet? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 &lt;3
2026-08-19T15:07 id=2090093200237371535 →marc__adler | @marc__adler One needs the IQ of an Eric Weinstein to understand. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not sure I follow the logic here
2026-08-19T15:07 id=2090093414469841349 →1889lw | @1889lw keep me posted, and come to Thailand || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 No! I'm taking a year off; still on my dissertation and will decide my next step after that
2026-08-19T15:26 id=2090098020222407060 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Angaisb_ YOU'VE SEEN THE SPOOKY TOILET WATER || CTX: @Angaisb_ @47fucb4r8c69323 lmao fuck I am geographically retarded dude ok I’ve never really left asia then
2026-08-19T15:28 id=2090098489787392327 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @Angaisb_ Brown Pearl Harbor || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Angaisb_ Dude the toilet water in Japan entered my butthole
2026-08-19T15:33 id=2090099832379879748 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb I am against data centers, but I can change my mind in exchange for a modest fee || CTX: You can now be sure that the only people who are affirmatively pro data centers are being paid for taking that position.
2026-08-19T15:36 id=2090100577728700767 →- | An Indecently Modest Proposal. It's a movie about a guy who offers a million dollars in exchange for letting the poor of Ireland eat his wife's dead body.
2026-08-19T15:37 id=2090100749934174327 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb Wanna form a cartel? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I will change my mind for $5 less than 47fucb
2026-08-19T22:39 id=2090207135217123415 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @ecombeckett @a_musingcat @grok @JasonBotterill not a chance || CTX: @ecombeckett @a_musingcat @grok hey @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds like hubris from a little boy to me. what do you think? can he outrun evan?  @JasonBotterill post the tap gif https://t.co/QrT8cm7TR9
2026-08-19T22:41 id=2090207609630654738 →etriclearns | @etriclearns take good care of yourself fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 gm 47, not doing too hot but things will get better mrow
2026-08-19T22:43 id=2090208089094209549 →teodorio | @teodorio lol most people aren't || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what! I am not autistic at all
2026-08-19T22:47 id=2090209034179846303 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 Gabourey Sidibe. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Tom Cruise stars obviously. Who plays the wife?
2026-08-19T22:47 id=2090209180267557017 →_Illegible | @_Illegible oh boy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What if you used to date them
2026-08-19T23:34 id=2090220945537396849 →- | You guys know Super Mario Maker?   It's a game where you can make your own Super Mario Bros style level.   It takes all of the elements of the game and provides them for you, and you can combine them however you see fit. The end result is a level.   You can select, for instance, a pipe or a pit or a brick block for a certain part of the level, then put another pipe or pit or block next to it. Etcetera and ad nauseum.   The end result shouldn't be characterized as "element pipe then element pit then element " and so on as a linear description of what appears on the screen.   And why not? Because such a characterization fails to capture one element of the level; its texture.   That texture is a qualitative feeling, the feeling of "what it's like" to go through the level.   An expert speedrunner, a neophyte, and the maker of the level all experience a different texture when playing the level.   Its texture is not its own. It is co-constructed by builder and user.  It necessarily then exists outside the level.  This fact of texture is why we do not call Hamlet or Paradise Lost or the Odyssey a string of characters one after the other.   We call it a text.   The experience of text cannot exist inside it. And yet the text produces it.   Good writing demands acknowledging the mystery of texture, neither trying to tame it with reason nor inflate it into cosmic wonder.   Good writing acknowledges readers make writing good.  A good writer tries to communicate the texture of life in text.  Good text witnesses.  This is why we use text to preserve, to say this was real and this mattered.   It is also why the opposite of good text isn't bad text but hack writing.   Hack writing is words hacked together to hack feelings in the audience.   The Hallmark greeting card hacks words together. The Marvel movie script hacks words together.   The result is a string of characters that hack the minds of audiences so that they will do something.  In the cases of trivial hack writing, that "do something" is usually just to pay for a ticket, but it can be more complicated, like join a political cause or hate an outgroup.  It's often just hate an outgroup tbh.  So this trick can last a long time, sometimes many years. But it cannot stretch out into the centuries.  Only a good writer produces a texture that will endure.   The writer begins with an honest account.  This is why text hurts to write, and why readers keep it alive. They feel the texture of life in the text and cannot let it die.  The opposite of an author is a journalist.  The opposite of a text is the internet.
2026-08-19T23:38 id=2090221779994181853 →- | This pivot isn't discussed enough. https://t.co/oSn4G53nMk || CTX: Note the shift from "ASI is imminent" to "RSI is imminent, then the machines will figure out ASI".
2026-08-19T23:38 id=2090221990468849719 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @tracyalloway @TaylorLorenz @hayesdavenport Wow Hollywood Odd Lots Handbook || CTX: GUESTS ANNOUNCEMENT:  Excited to reveal the first couple names for me and @tracyalloway's LIVE Odd Lots show in LA on 9/17  - The internet's own @TaylorLorenz   - TV producer, comedian @hayesdavenport   Get your tickets here. https://t.co/b
2026-08-20T00:00 id=2090227323627028659 →yifever | @yifever eh close enough || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 ok so writing = making a level in mario maker??
2026-08-20T00:29 id=2090234733317980272 →- | For this tweet you're going to have to imagine you have an attention span and can appreciate beautiful text. For a lot of you, this is too much of a stretch, so you might want to scroll on.  You know those annoying recipe websites? You want to make lemon squares, go online, find a site with a recipe, and you have to scroll down some bullshit story about the blogger's aunt who fell off a ladder picking lemons in Sorrento and was nursed back to health by an Italian playboy who seduced her with his lemon squares, and when she got back to health she found out Giovanni had stolen every cent out of her bank account?  Or something idk I've never read those stories, and neither have you. It's annoying fluff that exists for revenue purposes.  Now, imagine we live in a different world where Shakespeare is a recipe site writer and writes Romeo and Juliet before the lemon square.  Is the text before the recipe now a good text?  Well, it depends! Did you go to the website to read a masterpiece of romantic tragedy or do you just want to make some fucking lemon squares?  The text does not exist solely in the text. Jfc sometimes I feel like I'm back to teaching graduate seminars with you people just grow the fuck up so I can go back to obscurity the clankers will not produce all of human textuality because textuality IS part of being human.
2026-08-20T00:40 id=2090237517517992235 →fabsbz | @fabsbz When I was a professor I'd explain "text as texture" in the first lecture of the term. A central concept. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting! I had never thought about the shared etymology between text and texture. References to weaving are still pretty common when people talk about the act of writing.
2026-08-20T00:41 id=2090237747038724594 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs Were you sitting here during that nice chat and coffee? https://t.co/H9kf3nosMj || CTX: @NotPerrysBoobs @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s a joke I am not in any managerial role. My boss is quite nice he hired me after a nice chat and coffee
2026-08-20T00:42 id=2090237975858987271 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs There was a time when you read my longposts. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 tl;dr but yeah i used to stream super mario maker i think on switch
2026-08-20T00:46 id=2090239037114306841 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat rationally, of course, just rationally. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i wouldn’t say centrally coordinated. rationally arriving at the same conclusions
2026-08-20T01:33 id=2090250787167629386 →- | An LLM will never write as well as a human in all domains for the same reason that a joke is never as funny as the first time you hear it.
2026-08-20T01:57 id=2090256857181102406 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe You're honest, which is rare. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I scrolled on. I didn't even clock read more  One must know ones flaws
2026-08-20T02:22 id=2090263110821331029 →- | When I was a junior I took an upper division course on medieval literature, and I studied together with a married Mormon woman who was 15 years older than me that I had a brief sexual fling with.  We swapped our final essays and had each other edit them to make them as good as we could, and both of our essays got eviscerated. The marginalia from the professor in my essay was shockingly mean and insulting, especially since the man had been more or less my mentor for about a year and a half and always so gentle and kind. But, my god, the feedback was gruesome.  For her essay, there was one comment that I still remember although this happened in 1998.  I do not remember exactly what it was about, but she was comparing two writers and said how something in their texts was "equalized". He underlined the word and said, "this is something I do to my stereo."  Such an unbelievably harsh and cruel bit of feedback, I thought at the time, and I've gone back to this bit of feedback several times over the decades since it happened.  He was right.  That feedback was not harsh at all. He was properly policing a boundary: diction should be appropriate to the subject matter.  Why does this matter?  Because if you talk about an LLM as a computer program, you have a very clear head about what it is, what your relationship to it is, how it will develop as a piece of technology, and how that technology will impact the world.  But if you talk about an LLM as a machine god, you'll end up making really dumb moves that end in your boss sticking a pager on your belt that you need to check every half hour.  So when you read a blog post talking about anime as a natural kind (apparently this is a real Gwern post?), you are doing the exact opposite and the end result will be a very, very confused mind.  You won't think you're confused--how could you be? You're rich, you're well paid, you're on the cutting edge of the most important transformative technology on Earth--you're the modern Prometheus building the replacement for humanity.  Except you aren't. You've metaphysically inflated your position in life, and now you're paying the cost because you've been outsmarted by someone who understands social reality much, much better than you.  This is what happens when you mix domains and discourses uncritically, unconsciously, unawares of what you are doing.  Picasso painted hyperrealistic masterpieces before turning to Cubism.  Master the craft before experimenting, or you're not a craftsman at all--you're just an overpaid hacker. And now you've got a pager.  "Cum doceas artes, sit sermo domesticus arti: Quaelibet ars gaudet propriis" - Geoffrey de Vinsauf
2026-08-20T03:18 id=2090277226457579629 →- | Theory is a description of good work, and theory is only correct insofar as it is a description of what works. https://t.co/wOWsQnG6Eg || CTX: In music, Theory follows Practice.   It describes What Actually Worked.
2026-08-20T05:57 id=2090317202360819982 →- | lmfaoooooooo https://t.co/czwGaRO57u
2026-08-20T05:57 id=2090317341418779094 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin Evergreen reply—absolutely nothing I tweet is beautiful text. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This isn’t beautiful text, it’s just you complaining 😂
2026-08-20T06:13 id=2090321398770348239 →ChrisChattin | @ChrisChattin https://t.co/q0m4REXIQh || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Eh, don’t sell yourself short. I’ve seen you post some pretty poignant stuff.
2026-08-20T06:39 id=2090327754592182509 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @vokaysh @boneGPT @AstrosBrain I think the censorship is connected to the Scientologists. Might want to look into that. || CTX: @vokaysh @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain
2026-08-20T06:41 id=2090328373004583029 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @vokaysh @boneGPT @AstrosBrain Are you telling me the Scientologists aren’t behind the hindu-muslim-jew consortium? Miss KPB, I do think you protest too much—Xenu predates those newcomers by several millennia. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @boneGPT @AstrosBrain nice try but it is connected to the hindu-muslim-jews that is why grok would not draw the prophet but it has no problem making the tom cruise joke https://t.co/yjLYTR1Rfx
2026-08-20T06:50 id=2090330508505104554 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @boneGPT @vokaysh @AstrosBrain In Yud’s defence, L Ron surely had underlings ghostwriting for him. || CTX: @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @AstrosBrain get owned Shlomo https://t.co/kzn2jrlchd
2026-08-20T06:50 id=2090330700860055859 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @vokaysh @boneGPT @AstrosBrain I have never thought of this but I’m going to today. I think you might be right—and I say that as a Jew whose Jewish family is from L.A. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @boneGPT @AstrosBrain the jews have always resented that LRH carved out his own parallel niche of influence in hollywood
2026-08-20T06:56 id=2090332168014922151 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @boneGPT @vokaysh @AstrosBrain If he died with $26m USD and wrote 65m words, that’s 40 cents per word, less than the best per word rate I ever got (from Bankrate, bless those people what a wonderful publication I miss writing for them) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @vokaysh @AstrosBrain there is no evidence of that. and someone could just say the same thing about yud and his polycule. no evidence. the only evidence is his typewriter mod which is not necessary if he had ghost-
2026-08-20T07:01 id=2090333468790263880 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @boneGPT @vokaysh @AstrosBrain "A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur" – Harlan Ellison. || CTX: @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @AstrosBrain reading is for nerds. i just like writing.   https://t.co/bcTl5ZDsKL https://t.co/WrtWSVbTEy
2026-08-20T07:03 id=2090333774102032399 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @boneGPT @vokaysh @AstrosBrain The fact that I wrote a novel that is structurally designed to not be profitable on an island and about an island makes this comment particularly entertaining for me. || CTX: @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @vokaysh @AstrosBrain everything is about money with you guys which is why you will never win the game. money is just some coupons that people give you. you could never write a diary. never write alone on an island
2026-08-20T07:04 id=2090334199853281785 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @boneGPT @vokaysh @AstrosBrain "When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote." - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT @vokaysh @AstrosBrain "I quote other people because I have nothing to say myself"  - you
2026-08-20T07:28 id=2090340170692202933 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @vokaysh @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain that's why it's called golden showers || CTX: @vokaysh @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain midas actually had a curse imagine trying to pee
2026-08-20T07:33 id=2090341452249203151 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka do you realize you're doing exactly what I'm warning against? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nominomancy, btw: https://t.co/Yjyl0JytTT
2026-08-20T08:14 id=2090351770585448766 →whatulying | @whatulying just call me 47 || CTX: thank you for the inspo @47fucb4r8c69323, i cant give you a cute nickname because your username is seemingly random letters and numbers, so ill call you uhhhhhhh, i cant think of anything sorry dude
2026-08-20T09:26 id=2090369961462006035 →Kyrannio | @Kyrannio I really should pick up an instrument, it's been so long. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I play an instrument or make music, it forces me to focus on another task and activates subconscious processing to rewire it to be less painful etc
2026-08-20T09:40 id=2090373362639831043 →johnennis | @johnennis So much mileage out of this tweet man it's unreal. https://t.co/4jFtZVi4y3 || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-08-20T09:41 id=2090373699207680163 →neerajjj6785 | @neerajjj6785 Apologies don't mind me just tapping a sign https://t.co/4jFtZVi4y3 || CTX: As you guys freak out about what Anthropic is currently doing (if you don't know yet you will VERY soon), can I just say I told you so? https://t.co/fQ6mvURlpO
2026-08-20T09:45 id=2090374615042318468 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 Lived in Bangkok for years, what do you want recommendations for? The best restaurants in the world are there, by far. || CTX: Any recommendations in the following cities?  - Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) - Bangkok
2026-08-20T10:06 id=2090379827048006091 →andrewho03 | Italian: Il Bolognese (imo best restaurant in Asia) Sushi: Isao Thai (lunch): Sanguan Sri, Terminal 21 food court, Phed Mark Thai (dinner): Charm, Jim Thompson's House Restaurant  Upscale: Elements, 100 Mahaseth, Gaggan, Tina's, Bo.lan, Le Du Kaan, Eat Me (this one is a hidden gem expats LOVE) Hipster food court/beer: The Commons Sala Daeng, Cocotte,  Street food: Soi Convent, especially at night, Talat Rod Fai aka Train Market  Also Chatujak is not good anymore, skip it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Food recommendations would be great. I’m sure there’s tasty stuff everywhere but always nice to have a specific destination to route to.
2026-08-20T10:58 id=2090393132474966398 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc wow never thought of this, will give it a shot! || CTX: Idk if I really experience ‘meltdowns’ (lol I probs do who am I kidding) but in general - and I suppose it comes under ‘stimming’ - I regulate my nervous system a lot using external mediums. Others have mentioned music/playing instruments a
2026-08-20T11:34 id=2090402014950019164 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ This is some hardcore ego death wisdom. Sadly I suspect few will get it. || CTX: ironically, actually killing yourself - is you living your life at its fullest.  One of the reasons retardmaxxing is so popular these days, is because it makes this statement very easy to accept.   Retardmaxxing is the modern way of suicide
2026-08-20T12:14 id=2090412270790877558 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ It's also the theme of the novel I wrote last year.   When I made the realization that connections are all we are, I kinda had a nervous breakdown.   I'll recover someday though, I'm sure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Actually, it is pretty related to this if someone wants an extension of context https://t.co/9twwsjizBs
2026-08-20T12:27 id=2090415394414809527 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ Lucky. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For me it was a relief.
2026-08-20T12:33 id=2090416947565396131 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka That's fair, I just wouldn't take seriously the metaphor of programming as a kind of magic spell. || CTX: Do *you* realize that I'm warning against the exact same thing you're warning against, just specialized to a particular domain? Pointing out that there's a parallel vector over there is not uncritical, unconscious, or unaware. Perhaps I und
2026-08-20T13:32 id=2090431876846793120 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 He's perfect. || CTX: It's his world and I'm living in it https://t.co/XcoqlpR7u0
2026-08-20T14:37 id=2090448126595498063 →RuxandraTeslo | @RuxandraTeslo We really need a canonical standardized set of definitions of all these terms. Would solve so many problems in the industry. || CTX: The cancer vaccine was not discovered with AI, in the sense of current models like LLMs. It was developed in 2017, so before the "GPT era" and most likely used standard machine learning techniques.   I'm excited about AI in bio, but I feel 
2026-08-20T14:46 id=2090450346292412893 →vtlynch1 | @vtlynch1 @neerajjj6785 Wow really good catch. I've been bamboozled. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @neerajjj6785 These two posts have identical timestamps. Clearly some sort of spam operation, just so you know https://t.co/34RGabLjAR
2026-08-20T14:48 id=2090450880155828328 →vtlynch1 | @vtlynch1 @neerajjj6785 That in itself is an interesting (if derivative) market signal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @neerajjj6785 The bot and spam networks figured out ‘Claude sucks now’ is a popular sentiment
2026-08-20T14:50 id=2090451481698942979 →RuxandraTeslo | @RuxandraTeslo @MTSlive They're lovely people over there at MTS. || CTX: Had a great time on @MTSlive talking about AI x bio.   Expanding upon my essay from last month on bottlenecks to AI progress, I discuss how in biology we need the right data in order to be able to make progress. This means generating datase
2026-08-20T14:54 id=2090452406320746997 →xriskology | @xriskology I find her fascinating. She either lost the plot for cash (which I respect) or for ideology (which I abhor). No clue what it was but obv plot has been lost. || CTX: Lol. https://t.co/ntIodhjbTF
2026-08-20T14:56 id=2090452797821276441 →theojaffee | @theojaffee Seconded. Fantastic book, read it as an undergrad and was an incredible crash course. || CTX: One of my favorite books of all time  Really everyone should read it. You can finish it in an hour or two https://t.co/sfS8kC3bUc
2026-08-20T15:05 id=2090455099491725442 →- | RT @Bart_Mol: Me explaining AI to friends https://t.co/DTvAX1fqLJ || CTX: Me explaining AI to friends https://t.co/DTvAX1fqLJ
2026-08-20T15:27 id=2090460768844345532 →TaylorLorenz | @TaylorLorenz Man I'm here in the trenches fighting this bullshit everyday... || CTX: The Economist going full doomer https://t.co/hqAnG7dMSM
2026-08-20T22:34 id=2090568238497423537 →TheStalwart | Anthropomorphizing computer programs encourages a deep confusion about the texts these things produce, encouraging people to fall in love with an application and presuppose sci-fi movies are a useful heuristic for understanding tech.   I had to stop listening to the Brundage episode halfway through because of the lazy talk of the bots "wanting" to do X. An LLM "wants" something in the same way a python script "wants" something.   This is disappointing. || CTX: AGAINST "AI"  After learning more about the Hugging Face incident, and talking with @Miles_Brundage and Nick Bostrom on the podcast this week, I have a new campaign. And I hope you'll join me after reading today's newsletter: https://t.co/v
2026-08-20T23:32 id=2090582817101287644 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Let me get back to Joe's post:  "There are good theoretical and empirical reasons to think this...the models have become as strong as they are by virtue of having been trained on unbelievable amounts of human data ... then the models are further trained by humans to guide their behaviors ... So everything they've learned, they learned straight from us."  The immediate snarky response is, "what did you expect, them to have been trained by dogs?" but let's ignore that. Firstly, let's remember that all data is human procured. Information in the world exists. Information is turned into data via processing that is always human led, whether the humans do it with a piece of paper or a computer. So if there are good theoretical and empirical reasons to anthropmorphize, the fact that they are trained on a lot of human data is not one of them.  "We didn't come up with some clever algorithm to manifest intelligence. Instead we found some clever approaches to training the models in our ways."  And why does this warrant us anthropomorphizing anything at all? This just tells us that the various approaches used in ML are effective--and there are many thrown at modern LLMs in post-training, because the base models spout absolute nonsense. It isn't entirely algorithm based (although a LOT of the post-training done to get a base model to a functioning usable LLM is in fact algorithmic--about 40%).  So if Joe's assertion is that non-algorithmic models are more human than algorithmic models, does he think the less parameters in a model, the more human-like they are?  "some research has shown that when models are judging the outputs of other models they prefer the outputs of models in their own family."  Again, what do we mean by "prefer" here? If we look at the studies themselves, we get an answer. Consider https://t.co/KrHPn5TZjo, which gives a straightforward one in the abstract: "we investigate two factors that influence and help alleviate self-preference bias: response text style and the post-training data of judge models." If I quote in more detail, I think the issue becomes apparent:  "Empirical experiments show that aligning the response styles of different models to a unified style helps alleviate self-preference bias. In addition, training two different types of models on the same dataset encourages a reduction in self-preference bias in both models. Attention-level analysis reveals that, during judgment, models naturally tend to assign higher attention scores to their own responses compared to those generated by the other model, which may partly explain the presence of self-preference bias."  When you do reinforcement learning to give models a preference for output X, it prefers outputs similar to X. This shouldn't surprise anyone, but let me try to make it clearer: if you have a program tend to choose A over B and reinforce that preference by pushing that tendency several times, then it's going to prefer A over B. This should surprise no one.  And, by the way, the authors propose fixes that are being implemented--as these clankers are fixed, do they become less human-like? This is absurdly muddled thinking and helps no one.  2/4 || CTX: Joe Weisenthal has been very kind to me, even when I had much less followers than I do now (and in the grand scheme of things I still have very few followers), so it is unfortunate I have to repay such kindness with harshness, but my princi
2026-08-20T23:56 id=2090588883293753847 →jeromekurtiss | thank you, it means a lot to me to hear that people see things the way I do.   The prominence of a deeply deranged perspective has really made me abandon a lot of hope that America can ever be sane. Culture war hysteria has turned into AI hysteria, and just like I was powerless to stop the politicization of American life, I'm also powerless to stop this madness.   I'm an expat for a reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just a random visitor, but you make perfect sense. The basic suggestion within the screenshots of renaming AI "synthetic" intelligence is fundamentally incorrect,  seeking equivalence with human intelligence.  I've worked w
2026-08-21T00:29 id=2090597169854361915 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 that is a fantastic analogy || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 When you put a mirror in the wild, animals see themselves, believing it's another living conscious animal, and try to threaten it. Of course it's a mirror so their threat is perfectly reflected. This psyches them up to atta
2026-08-21T00:58 id=2090604469616779596 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Python is also bad at coming up at jokes on the spot so it must be a real boy too. || CTX: Just thought of another example of: "the things AI is bad at are also the things that humans are bad at"  Coming up with jokes right on the spot
2026-08-21T00:59 id=2090604558129209616 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Python is also bad at coming up with jokes on the spot so it must be a real boy too. || CTX: Just thought of another example of: "the things AI is bad at are also the things that humans are bad at"  Coming up with jokes right on the spot
2026-08-21T01:11 id=2090607749675844015 →tyler72396666 | @tyler72396666 thank you. I won't disappear entirely but I definitely gotta lick my wounds. This one feels kinda personal. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is great stuff and you have not failed.  I so much prefer ‘machine learning’ but then of course that is a verb not a noun so it didn’t last.  (Yes I know it is more like one begat the other, sorta).  Stick around!
2026-08-21T01:25 id=2090611135766819038 →cremieuxrecueil | there's no reason at all to associate data center opposition with the left. a conservative argument for not producing data centers can be equally coherent, so the real risk here is that populist vote chasing grifters slow economic progress.   and we have the awful marketing message of the frontier labs to thank for this situation. they told the public that they were going to replace the public's jobs and possibly kill the public. and now, the public is responding accordingly, with opposition.   don't tell people you're going to take their livelihoods and kill them, that's not good marketing. || CTX: Great, now both candidates have promised to attack data centers. https://t.co/FcuLlNYa4o https://t.co/FzsDKQ2aX8
2026-08-21T01:26 id=2090611362137555290 →Universifiable | @Universifiable oh my god, that's horrific. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For a week, my boss stopped approving financial assistance for folks based on certain criteria because she didn't want to do the paperwork and AI validated her, until she realized how many applicants it would affect and how
2026-08-21T01:36 id=2090614100149809256 →KateMossadAgent | In Philosophical Investigations he discussed two construction workers, one saying "slab!" and the other giving him a slab, and he asks "what does slab mean here?" and points out how the context shapes the meaning of the word.   this might seem silly or pedantic, but this is something people very often forget and think that meaning is encoded in a word like a word is a hard drive containing data inside it.   but of course that's not how words work, the meaning of a word hinges on context and situation and as a result the meanings of words can change over time.   this is now common sense and very basic stuff in linguistics, but it is that way because of the work of Wittgenstein and others.   and apparently it's a lesson that humanity is forgetting, because they now see words as tokens with meaning impregnated in them and thus an llm is full of meaning.   and I'm too small and insignificant and remote from centers of power and institutions of influence to change perceptions, so we'll probably see humanity very slowly realize what these machines actually are, causing a lot of volatility and markets and cultural confusion and indeed deaths, all because people like Nick bostrom et al. want to be famous.  and there isn't a goddamn thing I can do about it.   and I do feel somewhat guilty about this, I left institutions to become a freelancer, I gave up trying to build cultural capital in exchange for just making as much money as fast as possible so that I wouldn't be beholden to any boss or customer or any person.   as a result of my relentless search for independence, I lost the capacity for influence. it wasn't an intentional immoral act, but I now see my selfish decisions as immoral.   I should have tried to integrate into society more so that I could have helped.   I have sinned and I deserve to suffer for my sins. || CTX: @a_musingcat @47fucb4r8c69323 LW mentioned (in the corner) https://t.co/EBXC9ZWacR
2026-08-21T01:39 id=2090614660148167109 →indigojackal | @indigojackal did you finish the novel? || CTX: My Modernist Summer of ripping cigs and drinking whisky in a shed and writing my pirate novel is over. Tomorrow I have to start wearing pants again instead of jorts in order to re-acclimate myself to professional dress. Thank you all for ma
2026-08-21T01:44 id=2090615918330273910 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat you're right, honestly I don't know if I deserve to suffer or not. but I want to. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat i was saying something similar to the others before but i think they did not understand what i was saying  but as to suffering, maybe it is not for us to decide what we ourselves deserve, whether it be for good
2026-08-21T01:53 id=2090618204582519166 →xriskology | @xriskology is so very good at documenting and explaining the bullshit behind these grifters.   It's a shame people don't listen because they're bewitched by the smooth talking salesman.  People will wake up from this idiocy, but it's going to take a long time.  we've already seen believe that AI is conscious decline amongst the populace and amongst AI researchers, but bad ideas tend to flow down to less sophisticated people over time. now it's hitting the financial journalism class, and they will wake up from their idiocy and feel squeamish and stupid if they have any introspection, but the idea will flow down to  dumber levels, and eventually it'll be associated with superstitious nonsense akin to Tarot and not associated with cutting edge science.   The arc of the universe bends towards 47 was right.  But goddamn it's fucking long.  https://t.co/Ep9JSCNnnE
2026-08-21T01:53 id=2090618345276187020 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @a_musingcat Thank you, Sam. You're a good friend. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat (just my opinion) https://t.co/DWAgkhClV6
2026-08-21T03:34 id=2090643606839427507 →p_millerd | @p_millerd As a one-time and failed book writer, I appreciate posts like this so much. Thank you for sharing, seriously. || CTX: books are such a fascinating industry.  my 2nd book, good work, has done fine.  not close to the pathless path in resonance.  a small profit.  but in Taiwan now a publisher bought the rights and is doing a massive campaign  there are signs 
2026-08-21T03:37 id=2090644471272890845 →indigojackal | @indigojackal Congratulations!!! That's the most important part. And you got to drink a lot of whiskey along the way--win/win situation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I did
2026-08-21T03:41 id=2090645360834490571 →- | If you're outsourcing your due diligence, you need to trust who you're outsourcing to. Integrity, honesty, and most importantly a refusal to commit fraud are really important if you want to keep the regulators happy.  If you're an asset manager using someone like this to do your channel checks, you are asking for FINRA to fine you.  This is not smart at all. Do not do this.  (But also I suspect the person claiming to do this is not, actually, doing this.) || CTX: Friend just showed me how he's using a small army of voice agents with fake resumes to knock out expert network calls @ $1500/hr.   The old world is unprepared for the new world.
2026-08-21T03:44 id=2090646178132340770 →HighyieldHarry | Sounds to me like it could easily be considered a FINRA Rule 2010 violation, and I am sure regulators want to attack people misusing AI, so they'd love to prosecute this.  In fact, I do expert network work--if anyone wants to tell me who Chris's friend is, I'll happily file a FINRA complaint. || CTX: Aka Fraud https://t.co/nhIsaQl76M
2026-08-21T03:45 id=2090646407971762191 →chrislakin | @chrislakin Why was I following you if you're this stupid? I am ashamed. || CTX: some dude uploaded this fly's consciousness into Minecraft lol so cyberpunk https://t.co/iBHLwlVfDI https://t.co/N8P7e0eQAc
2026-08-21T04:01 id=2090650515411771626 →- | Yeah the Chinese models absolutely were distilling from OpenAI/Antrhopic/Google. It's obvious when you compare outputs from them to SOTA models in a benchmark environment. Like, the outputs are word for word identical.  That said, frontier labs stole the texts for their corpora from writers so I don't feel bad for them. But they are right to say the Chinese are stealing--but they stole first so my feelings on this are lol, lmao
2026-08-21T04:01 id=2090650585242694112 →p_millerd | @p_millerd Wow, this is amazing!!! Thank you! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I have all my data here if interested: https://t.co/exL271Ums8  I share everything and more foreign data here https://t.co/xiI6ml6EVM
2026-08-21T04:25 id=2090656636482593109 →xlr8harder | It is kind of hilarious. Companies make billions of dollars stealing from writers then try their hardest to create moral outrage when they're stolen from.  Similar to the "pacing the frontier" gambit that blew up in the signatories' faces so badly--these dudes keep bumping up against a social reality they do not understand, and they got the bruises to prove it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Of course they were. I agree it's obvious.  I also think it doesn't matter at all.
2026-08-21T04:32 id=2090658295182950561 →- | New interpretation of Christianity where Mary is in a polycule with the Holy Trinity.
2026-08-21T04:47 id=2090662015744487550 →Shadow_Rebbe | @Shadow_Rebbe @fabsbz he's still got time! || CTX: @fabsbz @47fucb4r8c69323 You're not even a lesbian..shut up
2026-08-21T05:10 id=2090667880417505592 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder they need to completely overhaul there marketing and PR people, it's honestly disgraceful how badly this has been bought || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 honestly they're fucking up so badly, I think the datacenter backlash is downstream of these even if the polls don't show this, i'm actually worried they themselves will unintentionally sabotage their own progress in a way 
2026-08-21T07:37 id=2090704841421299831 →teodorio | @teodorio Well, you know the advice I'd give but now that you're making more money than me, I should probably stop trying to give you advice and just say, well done man || CTX: Running my consulting book to almost 7 figures per year after tax is fun but it does make me lose a bit of respect for the dollar which one should never do
2026-08-21T07:41 id=2090705712834072813 →rtcoffee123 | @rtcoffee123 Just looked this up, goddamn what'll they think of next || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lmfao that's literally Palmarian catholicism
2026-08-21T07:45 id=2090706781576286223 →illyquid | @illyquid Meta almost ruined my career and destroyed a very long partnership I had. What a painful stock to cover indeed. || CTX: Maravai is the second most painful investment I have ever made. The first is Meta. https://t.co/5I0vFSa3n5
2026-08-21T07:49 id=2090707762338840587 →teodorio | @teodorio @vrexec You're using it to cover up deep-seated insecurities, which I totally get--I use other things for that same purpose.  The problem is that lifestyle inflation can really bite you in the ass--when you need to downsize due to circumstances, the move will be very painful. Beware. || CTX: @vrexec No because as @47fucb4r8c69323 knows I have a spending problem and use it as a drug
2026-08-21T07:54 id=2090709021326184600 →- | "Should AISI be held responsible for the models' actions? If not, then who should be?" is pretty much one of the questions I wanted to ask roon in our chat, which I seriously doubt is going to happen.  And that question is itself a big clue of why I doubt it is going to happen: it would be extremely unwise for roon to discuss AI safety with me publicly. Too much risky downside, no real upside.  And his reticence should be read as a sign that the AI industry is maturing. It's a good thing. Sucks for you guys--less bread and circuses--and sucks for me--I really, really want to have a sit-down with the guy. But it is a logical, expected, likely outcome.  When the EA/rationalist types brush up against social reality, they often are surprised at the mess they get in. Interesting, isn't it? || CTX: Oh wow - Reuters found the GitHub record of the attempt by AI models being tested by the UK's AI Security Institute to deploy malware in an open-source project.  Pretty sure these actions are illegal under the Computer Misuse Act in the UK.
2026-08-21T08:17 id=2090714998746300822 →xanderatch | @xanderatch I'd rather humanity go extinct || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you only get to talk to roko
2026-08-21T09:04 id=2090726816096862510 →VantagePointijk | @VantagePointijk Very well said and you're right, the discipline of the market will humble them eventually. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The grifters might've won the battle, not the war. They'll switch the side the moment funding evaporates or starts flowing in the other direction. That said, getting of the way of the well-funded tidal wave of horseshit is 
2026-08-21T09:06 id=2090727297234178073 →LilibetMicheron | @LilibetMicheron @andrewho03 I haven't gone there yet but I've heard it's good, and it probably is. Also got tons of publicity here in Thailand, really trendy atm. || CTX: @andrewho03 @47fucb4r8c69323 For Bangkok, maybe you could give "Potong" a try, if reservation available.  Chef Pam received World's best female chef, and restaurant is located in a historic building. It would be a tasty and joyful experienc
2026-08-21T09:12 id=2090728819892289558 →tszzl | @tszzl I shall wait giddily by the phone, but don't forget I'm in my late 40s and I'm not Bryan Johnson so don't postpone too long or I'll be too dead to ask any questions. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it’ll happen dude I just want the hugging face reports to come out before I talk about alignment again
2026-08-21T10:28 id=2090747766767247518 →RuxandraTeslo | @RuxandraTeslo @WorksInProgMag @stripe Congrats! Waiting for visas is so stressful, but the relief when you get it feels so good. || CTX: Very delighted to announce that my O-1A visa petition was approved and I'm going to continue my role at @WorksInProgMag from @stripe San Francisco offices, starting in October 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/rJXQbGxXIq
2026-08-21T10:50 id=2090753494756040708 →satellitedown | @satellitedown see, this is why I never worked for a large company. I just flat out refuse to tolerate bullshit like this || CTX: new kpi just dropped. they're going to go for ~ratios~ now of open source vs frontier models I can just taste it. "I noticed your frontier model usage was 65% this week. The rest of the team is only at 46%. Is there any way we can get you l
2026-08-21T11:36 id=2090765020686844367 →- | If you wanted to program an LLM to sound like a human, you'd consider speech act an extra grammatical layer to incorporate into the SFT and possibly pretraining layer as well.
2026-08-21T11:42 id=2090766455302393950 →BPujanauski | @BPujanauski yes absolutely || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Training vs distilling is different in kind though?  It’s like saying “you read a whole bunch of books and then came up with you own novel, I took your book and scratched out the author line and put my name”.   Property rig
2026-08-21T11:57 id=2090770378910318831 →RaoulDukeDegen | @RaoulDukeDegen I don't understand, how does him coming up with speech act theory in the 1955 lectures relate? I'm confused || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 true but austin came up with them in his 55 lectures
2026-08-21T11:59 id=2090770816459997463 →murd_arch | @murd_arch I appreciate that, especially coming from you!   Also, the term I'd use is "linguistic competency" but while it's a standard term, using it in this context isn't standard. I'm tryna do a thing, ya dig || CTX: Not a failure at all. You’ve helped clarify my thinking on this issue substantially.   As llms verbal iq (pls accept the imprecise description of the actual idea) rises, users switch from “ai didn’t understand” to “I told the ai the wrong t
2026-08-21T12:30 id=2090778565772202295 →_Three_Steps_ | @_Three_Steps_ you're not wrong. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if we’re being real here, then let me say the last two sentences are an overreaction
2026-08-21T12:44 id=2090782040333664757 →abysmoftime | @abysmoftime @rtcoffee123 based || CTX: @rtcoffee123 @47fucb4r8c69323 As an anglo prot, I oppose schismatic papacies specifically because they are spiritually French
2026-08-21T13:27 id=2090793004210733380 →apokolokyntosis | @apokolokyntosis @chillbert32 Yes absolutely correct, we are really naturally shocked to hear a social tool being used by a non social machine. It encourages anthropomorphizing!   We'll adapt, eventually Generation Beta or whatever will laugh at their grandparents once thinking clankers were conscious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @chillbert32 we are particularly inadept at perceiving the “linguistic mirror” as such; nothing before has ever “spoken back” in the way that mirrors gaze back at us, which i think is part of what makes us susceptible to ai
2026-08-21T13:28 id=2090793251993465096 →- | We laugh at seances although a hundred years ago even some scientists took the idea seriously.   AI consciousness will experience the same transition.   If you think Claude is a real boy, your grandkids gonna laugh at you.
2026-08-21T13:32 id=2090794183120547954 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 The kids are alright, we are gonna make it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 My kids already laugh at the olds for not being able to detect AI slop images, videos and text.  They seem pretty inoculated AFAICT.
2026-08-21T13:34 id=2090794632594755766 →archived_videos | @archived_videos dude I'm 3 beers, 2 glasses of port and a fair amount of weed in can you say that again a bit more slowly || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you laugh at the past cause it's the past it's deserved to be laughed at when you're the past
2026-08-21T13:44 id=2090797086795305061 →archived_videos | @archived_videos fucking beautiful, cheers fren you're 100% right || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nice port is delicious. It's like, you can either mock the past cause they were stupid, or have more empathy cause it was the past, they knew less, etc. And the more you mock the past the more the future will mock you
2026-08-21T13:51 id=2090799077483217405 →HawkinsEntrekin | @HawkinsEntrekin Dude thank you so much, I truly appreciate it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I just saw your account for the first time (thanks to Joe's repost no less!), and I would encourage you to not give up! Your message is important
2026-08-21T14:05 id=2090802445316391258 →- | it has sadly been scrubbed from the internet but there was an SNL skit where the punchline was Alec Baldwin saying "Bobby McFerrin raped my grandmother"
2026-08-21T14:24 id=2090807354690592957 →DrPepperDeriv | @DrPepperDeriv @xriskology what an honor jfc someone give me a rope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @xriskology You're indirectly a part of this great dialogue too! This photo of Yudkowsky is from your debate with him! https://t.co/THGMCzJDsj
2026-08-21T14:26 id=2090807848288629202 →apple54647 | @apple54647 @tszzl I like to consider myself a pragmatist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Not Singularity/immortality-pilled?
2026-08-21T14:28 id=2090808282491523111 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Extremely! There is a widespread belief in ghosts, good and bad luck, karma, ancestor spirits, gods, various afterlifes and reincarnations... it's so capacious one wonders if it's not really a belief but rather a lack of disbelief. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How superstitious are people in Thailand (young and old)?
2026-08-21T14:32 id=2090809216428900576 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Oh? I'd not heard the news. He seemed not to worry while being happy last I saw. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 how's bobby doing? last I heard his health was not good
2026-08-21T22:47 id=2090933841292869895 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt Dude I just woke up, what an incredibly surreal notification.   Thanks for being a good sport, but omg that post sucked ass and Bostrom is a goddamn fraud, stop getting charmed by the frauds bro.
2026-08-21T22:47 id=2090933956309123555 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt @BijanTavassoli Which ones?
2026-08-21T22:49 id=2090934402138444125 →macrocephalopod | @macrocephalopod Many thanks.   Yeah people get motivated by bullshit all the time, going to war for the honor of their king or whatever. The propaganda depresses financial compensation, I've tweeted about this too. || CTX: This is very good, and very close to how I think about LLMs (and needless to say, I think it is the right way to think about them).   However I will admit that perhaps a tendency to anthropomorphize LLMs and believe you are creating the mac
2026-08-21T22:51 id=2090934759702843757 →ctjlewis | @ctjlewis "actually anthropomorphic", whatever could this mean? || CTX: If you’re made out of a trillion human interactions, are you “being anthropomorphized” or are you just “actually anthropomorphic”? Human-shaped? What is our deal with that word? https://t.co/XraQOGcdNi
2026-08-21T22:52 id=2090935006009192587 →ctjlewis | @ctjlewis No LLM is made out of trillions of human interactions; it's made out of the textual representation thereof. A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. || CTX: If you’re made out of a trillion human interactions, are you “being anthropomorphized” or are you just “actually anthropomorphic”? Human-shaped? What is our deal with that word? https://t.co/XraQOGcdNi
2026-08-21T22:52 id=2090935112640967089 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain YOU ARE A GOD   I promise I will never rape your grandmother || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 behold https://t.co/ePm9O0BbDF
2026-08-21T22:57 id=2090936248848544008 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain oh my god it is so much funnier than I remembered you are my hero || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 one of the funniest SNL sketches of all time
2026-08-21T23:00 id=2090937196874494410 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk Another anecdote! I'm sorry you have to deal with that both because it's annoying and it does somewhat validate your relatively greater technoscepticism || CTX: > “ trying to do increasingly unhinged and bizarre things IN A WORK ENVIRONMENT. I am hearing stories of people whose managers are telling them to do increasingly strange, inscrutable, and bizarre things that the manager cooked up with a cl
2026-08-21T23:19 id=2090941837142036967 →for_nat_whilk | @for_nat_whilk As did the medieval lords with their serfs. This is just how human civilization works, and it's why I live on an island. || CTX: It’s ok, now that job has ended, so I get to move far away from my friends and the ocean to start over somewhere completely new, which does somewhat validate my greater skepticism about modern  society treating everyone as equally interchan
2026-08-21T23:28 id=2090944170500526152 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 hahahahahaha || CTX: No cliff vesting lol https://t.co/lfQgavg1gi
2026-08-21T23:52 id=2090950161644367942 →ArielKwiat | @ArielKwiat Congratulations! || CTX: Update: I love my wife https://t.co/vWVfUUONaZ https://t.co/Z4xP7J28Gs
2026-08-22T00:40 id=2090962363184996722 →JoeWeisenthalt | I just had to look at the grammar, looks like Malay is identical to tie except it has no tones, and they also use the Western alphabet so I bet it is extremely easy to learn, except for the tones and writing system Thai is absurdly easy to pick up the basics, the easiest foreign language I've ever studied.
2026-08-22T00:54 id=2090965853756182609 →- | Great article, well worth the time.  I don't see any downsides to AI watermarking and tremendous upside. This is really good for all of us (except Pangram) and should be standard.  @max_spero_, hope you're starting to think seriously about that pivot I suggested a while back. https://t.co/tdFgVTZVd3 || CTX: https://t.co/dAOAaL504w
2026-08-22T01:25 id=2090973594960720192 →- | The two extremes of the AI capabilities debate are Emily Bender, who says LLMs are stochastic parrots, and Nick Bostrom, who gestures vaguely at LLMs somehow becoming ASI, although the mechanism is so unclear and underspecified that LLM researchers read him more for inspiration than knowledge—Bostrom is to roon as Tony Robbins is to your alcoholic aunt.  On the Bender extreme, LLMs are not capable of any novel idea generation whatsoever, while on the Bostrom extreme, LLMs will one day be capable of novel idea generation greater than anything we can understand.  Bender’s position has already been falsified. Bostrom’s is unfalsifiable. So neither can be held today as part of a rigorous and scientific understanding of this technology.  But if positions are absurd, WHY are they absurd?  One can easily think the question of idea generation is binary: either it can produce novel ideas or it cannot, right?  This is an easy trap to get into if you think all novel ideas are the same and are achieved by the same function of “intelligence”. The issue here is that the word “intelligence” is underdetermined and multifaceted.  We need to be more rigorous if we want to understand what’s going on.  To understand this, let’s consider a hypothetical society that loves Marc Andreessen so they’ve made it a taboo to be introspective. Over generations, introspection just disappears from their culture and they do not think of themselves.  A young boy is born into this society made backwards by Andreessen’s ghoulish propaganda, let’s call him Cram. Cram is taught English, which is spoken in this society, so he learns the word “know”. And he knows that he can use it to refer to his knowledge of things in the world: “I know my mother, I know this tree in front of me, I know the difference between a car and a house” are all expressions available to him and socially encouraged to be used by him.  Then one day Cram is sitting under a tree, and he has the following thought: “I know my mother gets happy when she has her morning coffee, so I know my mother can be happy—oh, and I can also know that I am happy too! Since I can say ‘I know my mother is happy when she has coffee’ I can also say ‘I know I am happy when I get a Mr. Pibb’. But wait—when I know I’m happy, it’s very different from when I know my mother is happy, because my mother’s happiness is something I have to see first. But I can be happy without showing it at all. Eureka! Knowing myself is different from knowing someone else!”  And so you see how this person has discovered knowledge by simply reorganizing the language available to this person.  This is the kind of idea generation LLMs can do: discover knowledge by simply reorganizing the language available to it.  That is not nothing. The manipulation and reconfiguration of symbologic systems is an important (and to me, treasured) means of discovery.  But, of course, it is not the ONLY way of discovering things.  However, it is the only way of discovering things available to the LLM.  “But what if—“ look, let’s not talk about the scifi fantasy in your head and stick to describing the current world as we see it.  If we pause our excitement for the future and focus solely on the present, we will understand both the present and the future better.  So we see how the signal-first method of knowledge obtainment available to the LLM provides one avenue towards novel idea generation. But there are many in the real world.  LLMs infer using language. You infer using language and other senses. That’s the difference between us and them.  More rigorously put, LLMs can generate novel concepts from latent semantic structures it can explore semi-stochastically, but it cannot on its own validate them against the world.  That ability is still limited to us, and until that changes, we can saw specifically what LLMs are now. Today. In the real world.  Whether they become more int he future is a separate discussion and something we can only discuss after we clarify this issue first, and it is clearly very very muddled.  LLMs are a synthetic inference system that can generate novel concepts from records of latent semantic structure.  Plainly stated: LLMs can come up with new ideas by remixing meaning in language, but it can’t check if what it’s produced has any value or meaning. That’s what we are for—and if you can’t do it, your end product is AI slop with little to no value.  Few can do this, hence there’s so much AI slop out there.  An LLM can explore the possibilities of what our words already have carried when humans used them, and that is not nothing. It’s also not everything.  It’s something that’s worth a fuckton of money.
2026-08-22T01:26 id=2090973876050383232 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @bitcloud @boneGPT “being kind and empathetic keeps your cortisol down” is the kind of bullshit I’d expect from someone who has little to no experience with actual human beings. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @bitcloud @boneGPT
2026-08-22T01:38 id=2090976960881340729 →47fucb4r8c69323 | tldr: LLMs can discover new ideas by working out the hidden implications in what humans have said in the past, but they cannot indepedently check those ideas against the world.  Tool use does not fix this either, it just expands the space of what humans have said to be. || CTX: The two extremes of the AI capabilities debate are Emily Bender, who says LLMs are stochastic parrots, and Nick Bostrom, who gestures vaguely at LLMs somehow becoming ASI, although the mechanism is so unclear and underspecified that LLM res
2026-08-22T01:39 id=2090977197062533329 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies Can you expand on this? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "Novelty" is ill-defined and mostly cope and seethe
2026-08-22T01:41 id=2090977523878522901 →airkatakana | @airkatakana And the power is so small and arbitrary, which makes it all so much more pathetic.  I miss beautiful campuses in beautiful towns, but honestly that’s about all I miss of academia. || CTX: academia is 10% truth-seekers, 90% narcissists who view academia as a stepping stone to power
2026-08-22T01:51 id=2090980205154464166 →- | The the Gricean cooperative principle is the default tells us that humanity is not inherently wicket. It also shows that there is an evolutionary advantage to assuming good faith: if you assume others are actually trying to communicate something meaningful, you will find more meaning.  The downside of this is that it is something that can be hacked and manipulated. This is the business model of the online politics grifter.  Your best defense is to study rhetoric.
2026-08-22T01:53 id=2090980690544468115 →- | oopsie lmfao https://t.co/42ILGaodfK https://t.co/4kvOG6tBPW || CTX: Yeah the Chinese models absolutely were distilling from OpenAI/Antrhopic/Google. It's obvious when you compare outputs from them to SOTA models in a benchmark environment. Like, the outputs are word for word identical.  That said, frontier 
2026-08-22T02:50 id=2090995012666327396 →CommanthaBiden | Yes absolutely, it’s not a foolproof fix to the problem (foolproof fixes are very rare, and we should expect little to none of them in LLMs, just the nature of stochasticity).   But it is a substantial hurdle that at the very least inserts frictions that should disincentivize dishonest use of LLMs and/or push those uses to the margins. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @max_spero_ it cannot be enforced though right? people can always make models without it. then it can be worse if people come to rely on faulty heuristics (as usual)
2026-08-22T02:50 id=2090995074280890669 →pathlessknown | @pathlessknown I’m a retard. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What compelled you to write this
2026-08-22T02:51 id=2090995348739362992 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman We cannot cleanly disambiguate to affirm it is one or the other.  Language is co-constitutive of thought.  You cannot have introspection without language. You also cannot have language without introspection. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wonder in your example if that's really language driving the introspection though. I'd say it's more the introspection that is driving the language (the thoughts generate like an internal reading-trace of the cognition un
2026-08-22T02:52 id=2090995516343783883 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies @max_spero_ The benefit is easier to identify AI produced text. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @max_spero_ What potential upsides? https://t.co/FlGOMSSIyq
2026-08-22T02:55 id=2090996151856341490 →pathlessknown | Sorry, I was being facetious.  I wrote this up because I am disgusted with everyone in this fucking industry.  I am disgusted with the grifter bullshit artists confusing and scaring people.  I am disgusted with the business people using the grifters to market to investors and the public.  I am disgusted at the researchers for not being rigorous about what they are doing because of their egos.  I am disgusted at all of the hangers-on who think they understand this technology.  I am disgusted at the AI psychosis.  I am disgusted at the pause AI people.  I am disgusted at the bullshit talk about AGI/ASI/RSI.  I am disgusted at the lack of critical analysis.  I am disgusted at the contempt for history, textual analysis, and clear communication.  I’m just fed up, that’s why I wrote that and keep writing on this topic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It makes sense though  Maybe I’m like that too if I agree?! https://t.co/BHBwLNNl7Q
2026-08-22T03:20 id=2091002577177710750 →AndrewCurran_ | @AndrewCurran_ I guess the frontier ain’t gonna be paced anytime soon || CTX: On Wednesday President Trump was asked what he would say to people still cautious about supporting AI. He said AI was going to create tremendous innovation medically, and that he had looked at something that morning that he did not want to 
2026-08-22T03:21 id=2091002715128398270 →pathlessknown | @pathlessknown I have no idea what you are trying to say or imply. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Keep writing   It’ll keep getting worse dude   Your patios look hella nice. Just buy more?!
2026-08-22T03:22 id=2091003009358815652 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies @max_spero_ There absolutely is a problem—I have seen accusations of AI text where the text was not written by AI. I’ve been told of times when this has caused serious harm to individuals. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @max_spero_ It presents attribution that AI was used somewhere in the process.   Solution in search of a problem that only strengthens labs long term concentration of power.
2026-08-22T03:26 id=2091004131158962607 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @samantha1989tv I feel like such a horrible person missing her birthday, please forgive me. || CTX: three years ago on august 17 was the birthday of @samantha1989tv but she is gone now. just like samantha darko and claire bennett.  i had a whole thing planned like for 626 26 day but i shall not be bothered.  instead today shall just be lo
2026-08-22T03:53 id=2091010924597649567 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix @CommanthaBiden The A stands for (Jewish) Allah || CTX: @CommanthaBiden hardwired into samantha is sama, she can be samantha A B or C to me  and eternally sama god bless
2026-08-22T04:17 id=2091016851707068845 →KEMOS4BE | @KEMOS4BE I dislike the visualization as monsters, it pushes the audience to thinking about LLMs as some alien organic creature, pushing them to think in terms of science fiction.  It’s just a computer program, bro. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this basically (purple line i added to demonstrate the strong potential) https://t.co/NqpMIoCYNE
2026-08-22T04:29 id=2091019906330644632 →- | I know Chaucer would hate how I treat my cats because of how he characterized the Prioress.  Well fuck off, Geoff, times have changed jfc
2026-08-22T05:26 id=2091034271561707929 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @internetcreatur @P42ERN Is this the seminal paper? I’ve read the paper itself ofc, and, yeah, it’s useful to understand how we think about information theory today and what the current AI/ML world presupposes as ground truth. || CTX: @internetcreatur @P42ERN @47fucb4r8c69323 do you think this is cool?
2026-08-22T05:30 id=2091035162792575293 →thepanta82 | @thepanta82 &gt;Couldn't you convert senses into a language (or image data) llm can interact with?  Converting senses into a language is precisely what language does.  Gallielo saw the moons of Jupiter, so your question doesn’t really make sense as posed. || CTX: >LLMs infer using language. You infer using language and other senses. That’s the difference between us and them.  Couldn't you convert senses into a language (or image data) llm can interact with?  Galileo discovered moons of Jupiter by ob
2026-08-22T05:37 id=2091036974002135501 →thepanta82 | @thepanta82 No I am not, you aren’t understanding what I am saying.  An LLM with vision support translates the vision into a language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There are plenty of LLM-s with vision support. Or are you excluding them from your thesis?
2026-08-22T05:39 id=2091037423014977586 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv is right, people sleep on Gemini 3.1
2026-08-22T07:33 id=2091066170711650773 →- | This logo made me do many, many, many double takes. https://t.co/GElYn4kTga
2026-08-22T07:33 id=2091066227963973824 →- | RT @menhguin: unreleased openai models using a gated huggingface dataset: || CTX: unreleased openai models using a gated huggingface dataset: https://t.co/bajt2Ozfhw
2026-08-22T07:50 id=2091070485316665401 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Why are they so complimentary? || CTX: the resistance calls you guys all “AI freaks”. i kinda like that. has a nice sound to it. and it has the benefit of being true. you are a bunch of freaks
2026-08-22T08:07 id=2091074818439627125 →- | One of the simplest arguments that AI will not take all of our jobs--and that it will actually increase the total number of jobs in the economy--comes from Google Search.  Back in 2018, Pichai told Congress Google Search employed well over a thousand people, and from my own contacts in the online ad/marketing industry, I'd say this was quite an understatement and it was closer to 2,000 at the time (which probably means my data is wrong, this is beside the point).  In 2025, Liz Reid implied in a testimony that Google had no less than 5,000 employees on search.  Now, I can't tell you why/how I think these numbers are roughly comparable (albeit with huge huge margins of error, but these details are beyond the level of signification for the point of this tweet), but the point is that Google Search both requires thousands of workers to maintain and the number of workers needed to maintain this highly technical and largely automated product is going up, not down.  This trend has lasted decades.  Complex technology creates tons and tons of jobs, we have known this for long.
2026-08-22T08:29 id=2091080313493664194 →f4talStrategies | Fascinating, that reminds me a lot of how you get a logical explosion from P and not P in modal logic: basically the discriminatory power of the argument space is destroyed by the trump card, "yeah but what if everyone dies?"  From this perspective Bostrom uses rationalism to destroy intellectual thought and analytical argumentation.   No wonder I'd never heard of the dude before getting into this AI world. What a silly bunch of idols they have. || CTX: On Bostrom:  The summer after my ninth grade, I had the pleasure of attending a nationally-acclaimed debate camp, where Nick Bostrom spoke.  I spent most of the camp in some state of anxiety, because, I'd never received the bill for the cam
2026-08-22T08:30 id=2091080564384432332 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman An LLM is a machine made of the records of language produced by people who introspected such that they produced said language and records of same.  LLMs are a derivative of a derivative. || CTX: I do recall Helen Keller’s memoir where before she learned to talk she remembers experiencing life with a vague murky animal-type consciousness, chaotic and only able to react to environment  So yea true! Language without introspection thou
2026-08-22T09:36 id=2091097242296004689 →- | If Radiohead made that album today it'd be Always approve, Computer
2026-08-22T09:37 id=2091097336642666514 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies Beautiful, absolutely wonderful and compelling framework. No notes. || CTX: Yes. Münchhausen's trilemma is how I think through it. In metaethics, all claims are either infinitely regressive, circular, or commit a constiutivist or naturalistic fallacy. Consequentialist claims are of the infinitely regressive kind.  
2026-08-22T10:00 id=2091103130268418106 →nalgenie2 | @nalgenie2 I have no idea how Marxism could possibly be relevant at all, I'm open minded and flexible about inter disciplinary thinking, but this is too much of a stretch || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 doesn't seem like a defensible position unless you are taking some near-marxist stance re origin of data? one can equip an LLM with a novel dataset (eg strap a weathervane onto your roof). is it the lack of physical labor r
2026-08-22T10:02 id=2091103723175223333 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies fascinating, they really are the Scientology of the 21st century, incredible || CTX: I'd add, this community, and the camp I mentioned, would be well described as part of the pipeline into what is known today as the Rationalist Movement, who of course focused on establishing such pipelines for the youth, especially around t
2026-08-22T10:08 id=2091105260316000431 →NuelkO | @NuelkO God damn it, that's so much better than mine || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 make no mistake, computer.
2026-08-22T10:24 id=2091109301406630205 →- | A good example of how language determines thought would be to consider a hypothetical discussion where the first person says that they believe an IQ test is necessary before voting because idiots produce bad outcomes.   And then what if the person responds and says, "well, you don't actually mean an IQ test. You mean there are certain competencies that you believe are necessary before being able to vote responsibly, and those won't necessarily co-relate with the questions on an IQ test, or if they do, the connection between the two has not yet been determined. So you're most likely using IQ as shorthand for something else you're gesturing at."   And then the other person will respond by doubling down by rationalizing an argument that they back into to justify post hoc and ad hoc their original lazy speaking.   This isn't happening because of one's cognition or conscious decision making. It's just happening because that is the way that the discourse guides the conversation.  Language is a media channel.  You can easily see this by considering how one could respond to the IQ question using different language and get a very different response.  1. "You're just saying IQ but you mean something else, you aren't talking about the actual IQ test" leads naturally to "Yes, I do! See here rabble rabble :redditor noises:"   2. "I wonder if IQ is part of a broader constellation of capabilities, and certainly an important one from one perspective, but possibly not the only one." leads naturally to "Yes, I can agree to that."   Our language shapes our thinking and our worlds.   "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
2026-08-22T10:51 id=2091115923386343899 →- | hashtag 47s Instagram&lt;/#&gt; https://t.co/L7CuFMmxE0
2026-08-22T10:53 id=2091116453902844062 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @DrewVento This is true, some girls are named "Beer". || CTX: @DrewVento @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-22T11:01 id=2091118580960244196 →- | People would pay less attention to Ed Zitron if his name sounded less futuristic.
2026-08-22T11:02 id=2091118767824892066 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Lola and Rocky || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good boy!  Also, the dogs!
2026-08-22T11:11 id=2091121178480181373 →- | at a high enough level everything sounds like everything, so one should be very cautious and meticulous in one's metaphorical thinking
2026-08-22T11:12 id=2091121320415395881 →ubladey | @ubladey that's cuz he rose to fame with the millennials, and that was ironic normal core like PBR beer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 counterpoint Noah Smith
2026-08-22T11:27 id=2091125203367776760 →BasedRaddka | @BasedRaddka take care fren, my DMs are always open || CTX: due to some medical issues and general unwillingness, i'm not posting much  in the meantime, here's a young elephant https://t.co/3wHQQiXltf
2026-08-22T11:41 id=2091128653916656007 →llallawg | @llallawg Based fellow net and yoo-hoo enjoyer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/cIFWt47tBz
2026-08-22T11:49 id=2091130514602328575 →- | The Churchlands and Nick Bostrom fill this really nasty pocket of philosophy where the telos is to orient attention away from what is and towards what is imaginable.   Prima facie this does not sound nasty, until you realize then an invitation to the imaginable is an invitation to reject the discipline of what already is, replaced with logos et argumentum, but logos ipso est etiam argumentum, and when you don't understand what is the logic and what is the argument, your fucking code breaks down. Imagine confusing logic for argument when coding!   THIS IS CONFUSION!!!   Much better is the philosophy that orients us towards that which IS, constantly, relentlessly, ruthlessly, while refusing to let the metaphysics inflat beyond what is necessary, because beyond that is whereof we must remain
2026-08-22T12:23 id=2091139215769948322 →tjsiingh | @tjsiingh absolutely teleology is retardation || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Could this be said of all utopians? Hence why the concept originated as an ironic joke.
2026-08-22T12:27 id=2091140324030611681 →examachine | @examachine What is "that"? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 That is precisely true I think?
2026-08-22T12:45 id=2091144659997499599 →- | Look I'm going to be straight with you faggots (I can say that cuz I'm bi), I've wanted to be a famous writer since I was 13. But I've always wanted to be famous in a very strange way.  What my fantasy was in my adolescence, and goddammit let's be real still today 35 fucking years later, is not normal. I wanted posthumous fame, which now could be articulated with the following picutre: a Wikipedia article about me, beginning with "[FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME], born MM/DD/1980, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant literary minds of the early 21st century."  Cringe, right? I know it's okay bby. The cool think about being a island guy who's old is fuck is that you jsut don't give a fuck.  I'm on this goddamn website trying to ensure sad lonely people don't fall in love with their clankers and AI empowers artists and writers in the future, looking like a retard in that Quixotic quest is the price of fucking admission.  My point stands, man. I wanted to be remembered as a brilliant mind after I die. And, yes, fine, goddammit, I still do. I admit it.  Now you might be thinking, "this is garden-variety narcissism," ah but herein lies the rub Faglet (remember I. AM. BI.), because there is an exception. The garden-variety narcissist wants BOTH fame in posterity AND the spoils of victory in this life. The narcissist fancies himself remembered in the future AND driving a Lambo in his present.  Herein doth yours truly diverge, mang.  I don't want to be famous in my life. Jfc get away weirdos, leave me alone. I want my obscurity. I love my obscurity. I need my obscurity.  I aspire to be the ideal of the cool island guy.  Let the uptake of my ideas validate my mind in my life, let the tracings of historians validate my life in my death.  So for now leave me the FUCK alone.  But if your great-great-great-great grandkids aren't reading my novel in their Great Writers of the 21st Century seminars, I have failed.  More like gay-gay-gay-gay grandkids, you little faggy bitch.  I can say that, remember. I'm bi.
2026-08-22T12:58 id=2091147876592463894 →- | The benefits of AI will defy the logic of scale.   They'll be tons of incremental little joys and improvements, personal and professional and individual and institutional, but any attempt to make a lump sum of these benefits will be seeing the forest but failing to see the trees.   This is precisely the epistemic trap modern civilization is stuck in, and it kinda started with the PhD glut, Bell Labs success, and the birth of personal computing. Good in themselves, this is just a negative externality we now have to deal with now that ML has produced a syntactic bridge between humanities and sciences.  Life will feel better, the data won't reflect it. This is the opposite of life post 2008, when life felt worse but the data didn't reflect it.   Gonna be a good show kids.
2026-08-22T12:58 id=2091148060961472638 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Let him gab on and on || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's not gonna matter anyway - 25 years after you die some kid from The Gabon is gonna write a novel worse than yours but win awards anyway
2026-08-22T13:01 id=2091148732863815732 →- | I'm like hilariously stoned, like so stoned it's funny   Well I find it funny  So do you, you just smirked didn't you?   No? How about now? Now?   Maybe now?   Well fine then be that way sourpuss.  ... maybe now? https://t.co/tulEzkkCnE
2026-08-22T13:02 id=2091149088695939462 →jeantudouglas | @jeantudouglas Yeah that's worth considering, philosophy is inherently teleological. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I get your point and think Bostrom is a mediocre philosopher but the paradox of philosophy is precisely that the concept can never fully grasp reality (esp without teleology)
2026-08-22T13:45 id=2091159810150711579 →hlitoroy | @hlitoroy Publishing collapsed, people stopped reading books, the literary elite went insane, the humanities suffered brain drain... it's like the worst fucking time to want to be a novelist since the invention of the fucking novel it's legit kinda funny. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's kinda hard to read and find good writers in 2026  or I am missing smth
2026-08-22T19:58 id=2091253808643076238 →xriskology | @xriskology We all gotta eat. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Love that you respect selling out! Lol. I sold out 15 years ago with my music and still get a check from Viacom.
2026-08-22T19:59 id=2091253990457831513 →logicus | @logicus Their solution sucks more. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 lol i don’t get why you hate the churchlands so much. folk psychology does suck.
2026-08-22T20:00 id=2091254320985772207 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 This is a pretty simple idea: we can say everything in the world is "stuff", and this is technically a correct but low resolution description of the world.  The more detailed the description the more it has errors. The less detailed, the less it is a description. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Brother you are a genius and good with language but sometimes I don’t what the hell you’re talking about
2026-08-22T21:19 id=2091274112417268184 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden Good luck on your exam, Commantha! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-22T22:07 id=2091286191039713633 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix @jeremymstamper HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @jeremymstamper whelp this is certainly another way to immanentize the eschaton
2026-08-22T22:10 id=2091287021881086268 →- | OpenAI has such a massive branding opportunity to pivot from the weirdness, let the press focus on the weirdness at Anthropic, and win hearts and minds.  This is a marketing problem and it is ridiculously easy to fix. https://t.co/Hztuocscvt || CTX: I’m pro-ai and data centers, but I love that people are anti-ai and data centers.   Tech heads adopted Trumpian post-consequence rhetorical devices because it looked like the western world was trending that way. Now we’re seeing material co
2026-08-22T23:20 id=2091304534043693236 →bas_logic | My vote is for syllepsis, because the first stated like in the second is metaphorical ("liking" has a metaphorical meaning when referring to clicking the thumb on a video on YouTube), and the second unstated like is literal.  A pedantic glossed version: "Like (in the sense of clicking the thumbs up icon) this video if you did like (in the sense of enjoying) this video."   Zeugma doesn't seem to fit. "Like the video on YouTube and in your heart" would work, because the verb is now modifying two prepositional objects, but "Like the video if you did" doesn't have the verb modifying two object, just the one object "video".   Also WHY DIDN'T YOU THINK OF THIS A MONTH AGO!!! || CTX: @drumm_colin Syllepsis, as I understand it requires at least one of the meanings to figurative or metaphorical. I think this one is properly called a Zeugma (which makes it technically ungrammatical)
2026-08-23T04:04 id=2091376125033255069 →affrodiziac_ | @affrodiziac_ @teodorio hahahahahaha || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 he said 6 7 enough times that it reversed
2026-08-23T04:12 id=2091377965284171778 →bas_logic | @bas_logic https://t.co/HITDLBfOt9  You are right, it has been lexicalized. So I'd hesitate to call it syllepsis because it's a play on the polysemy, so that makes me think this is just antanaclasis because the two instances of the verb are modifying the same singular subject via 2 meanings https://t.co/zE4Mdx7Trc || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Im disinclined to think like is metaphorical at least currently. (In the past think this was true but now I think to been lexicalized). The battle lines are drawn between syllepsis and Zeugma. 1/2
2026-08-23T04:13 id=2091378187305422850 →joseph_h_garvin | @joseph_h_garvin Very good point! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 👇 https://t.co/8UEIH3pjYZ
2026-08-23T04:15 id=2091378840912244747 →- | "Be nice to your clanker" is the same kind of HR ideology the rationalists and their adjacent cultists push on normal people, while they have drugged up young people going to sex parties to pretend to get raped by tech executives.  They use the valence of care to cover cruelty. https://t.co/TypbPVUH2r || CTX: @bitcloud @47fucb4r8c69323 no one can contend with this  if being mean to an imaginary robot friend shows your character even though no one is harmed  what of CNC parties in san francisco? does it not expose your heart then?  woke 2.0 is ab
2026-08-23T04:16 id=2091378962576355771 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 Was sober when I tweeted that and it's a damn good tweet || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro, ok you may have been too high last night
2026-08-23T04:23 id=2091380696434548805 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I am so sorry, but better luck next time! We're here to help in any way we can. || CTX: i should have studied more for my exam. oh well. i have another in a few weeks. maybe i will study for that
2026-08-23T04:40 id=2091384971101364266 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 I have not found any insights of value from the guy. Sometimes he's right and sometimes he's wrong, that's about it imo. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 True It's why I bothered listening to a podcast with him in the first place.  Even though I kind of directionallly agree with him, I do not understand what his deal is. Does he have any actual insight into technology or is 
2026-08-23T05:57 id=2091404458072674564 →- | I'd like to propose the following rubric for assessing whether your use of AI is productive in an economic or financial sense.   I call this the Principle of the Appeal to the Deliverable, or PAD, so in the future if you see me writing about "PAD" that is what I am referring to, and yes I will be referring to this tweet a lot in the future.  PAD is not limited to vibecoding but it is limited to non-personal AI use; using AI for personal problems such as learning, brainstorming, etc. not tied to an economic transaction is much harder to codify into a principle, so I am limiting the scope of PAD here simple to a single question:  How can I know when my use of AI is adding value?  I would suggest that the answer lies in the notion of CAPACITY. You need to think of whether the AI added one of the following, assuming that the cost of tokens does not exceed the value of delivering one of the following three:  C1. New capacities (gave you abilities you would lack otherwise) C2. Increased capacity yielding more speed (gave you the higher throughput or productivity to deliver a valuable end-product faster (Human produces work in time period t, therefore if Human+AI=t-n then value has been added)) C3. Increased capacity yielding better quality (allowed your product to be more comprehensive, in-depth, multifunctional, less brittle, more flexible, etc.--those qualitative and hard-to-quantify elements that are why Kiekergaard is better than Hegel and if you disagree with what I just said unfollow me, Hegelians are not welcome).  Now, since our conditions of satisfaction are assessed at the level of the deliverable, I think we can condense my heuristic into the following principle of the appeal to the deliverable (hence PAD), which is led by these questions:  Q1. Did it allow me to deliver x in a way that I could not otherwise do? (That is, did it allow me to produce something I would've had to pay someone else to do, did it allow me to produce something no one previously has been able to do, or did it allow me to produce something I could have done but just in more time?)  Q2. Did it make my deliverable better received than in the counterfactual? (That is, did it result in providing more value to others than in the non-AI counterfactual?)  Q3. Did it make the process of my production of deliverables better in one way or another? (That is, did it make the process faster, easier, or reduce labor disutility such as burnout, error rate, etc.)  If the answer is yes to any of these, your use of AI has indeed produced value.  If the answer is no, you're under AI psychosis, tokenmaxxing, or doing something where the end goal is not actually producing value.
2026-08-23T06:00 id=2091405162497847579 →tszzl | @tszzl https://t.co/nTfgc3IMbe  There's been a stead ramp of these such events in the past, so do you mean there will be an acceleration of the growth rate of attacks? || CTX: there will be a steady ramp of such events https://t.co/2cHZMXXeJ5
2026-08-23T06:00 id=2091405288515789026 →tszzl | @tszzl There's been a steady ramp of these such events in the past, so do you mean there will be an acceleration of the growth rate of attacks?  https://t.co/nTfgc3IMbe || CTX: there will be a steady ramp of such events https://t.co/2cHZMXXeJ5
2026-08-23T06:01 id=2091405392664510784 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Yes, this is why I cannot be satisfied. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 u want things that conflict with one another...
2026-08-23T06:40 id=2091415284804669441 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 This is a communicative issue.  Their eyes glaze over because roon is not very good at communicating to people outside of his little world.  As one of the biggest figures in TPOT, this is both emblematic and unsurprising. || CTX: Agree 100%. There's a sociological phenomenon here that requires a lot more study.  Some people just have a deep aversion to the cloud of concepts roughly represented by scifi. Actually, maybe *most* people.  It's not a left-right thing eit
2026-08-23T06:42 id=2091415751672648027 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I say this as someone who has had the job of communicating scifi concepts to people in finance who are not really interested in the concepts at all--they did not care about machine learning applied to behavioral targeting in cascading auctions, for instance, just what it meant for their portfolios.  So you have to learn to translate the language, diction, and affect of one discursive community (in this case, adtech) to another (again, finance).   This is very easy to do if you are what roon calls a wordcel. || CTX: @AgustinLebron3 This is a communicative issue.  Their eyes glaze over because roon is not very good at communicating to people outside of his little world.  As one of the biggest figures in TPOT, this is both emblematic and unsurprising.
2026-08-23T07:38 id=2091429773398691983 →- | The Egg By 47 is Weird  You were on your way home when you died.  It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.  And that’s when you met me.  “What… what happened?” you asked. “Where am I?”  “You died,” I said, matter-of-factly. No point in mincing words.  “There was a… a truck and it was skidding…”  “Yup,” I said.  “I… I died?”  “Yup. But don’t feel bad about it. Everyone dies,” I said.  You looked around. There was nothingness. Just you and me. “What is this place?” you asked. “Is this the afterlife?”  “More or less,” I said.  “Are you God?” you asked.  “Yup,” I replied. “I’m God.”  “My kids… my wife,” you said.  “What about them?”  “Will they be all right?”  “That’s what I like to see,” I said. “You just died and your main concern is for your family. That’s good stuff right there.”  You looked at me with fascination. To you, I didn’t look like God. I just looked like some man. Or possibly a woman. Some vague authority figure, maybe. More of a grammar school teacher than the almighty.  “Don’t worry,” I said. “They’ll be fine. Your kids will remember you as perfect in every way. They didn’t have time to grow contempt for you. Your wife will cry on the outside, but will be secretly relieved. To be fair, your marriage was falling apart. If it’s any consolation, she’ll feel very guilty for feeling relieved.”  “Oh,” you said. “So what happens now? Do I go to heaven or hell or something?”  “Neither,” I said. “You’ll be reincarnated.”  "Ah!" you said. "The Hindus were right"  "Well," I replied, "not exactly. They were close, but they failed to realize you're reincarnated into all living beings throughout all of time. There's just you, no other souls."  "Wait, so you're telling me I am EVERYONE?"  "Yes," I said.  "Even people in history?"  "All of them."  "So, like, am I stillborn babies?"  "Yes, you are."  "Am I the infants that those Japanese soldiers tortured and killed during the Rape of Nanking?"  "And the soldiers."  "I'm every single baby born to suffer and die a life nasty, brutish, and short?"  "From the dawn of mankind to its end, they are all you."  "Am I the animals?"  I paused. "Yes."  "So I'm every fucking ant that has ever been stepped on? Every bug eaten alive, every seal covered in oil from an oil spill, every goddamn antelope and rabbit and mouse eaten by a predator?"  "Isn't it beautiful?"  "Nah, man," you said, now nauseous at the mixture of anxiety and disgust. "So, what's next, what're you throwing me back to be on Earth now?"  "Let's see..." I checked my clipboard. "You're going to be a foundling in 12th-century Eritrea that dies of a protozoan infection shortly before reaching puberty."  "Okay this is some straight up bullshit, God," you protested. "I ain't going back."  "What?"  "I know you're the omniscient creator and everything, I have no power, but, dude, this is some SERIOUSLY fucked up bullshit," you said, your indignance fighting past your awe. "I guess I can't stop you, but this is just horrific that you're putting me through all of this."  "It's a learning experience!" I insisted.  "Man, learn deez nuts," you thought to yourself--then realized I am omniscient, so I heard that. "I can't be scared of you anymore, God, you know everything, so you know I really do not approve of this universe you've created."  "But you're all things!" I pleaded for you to understand. "It's magical, it's the mystery of connection."  "Again, it's the first thought that comes in my head," you said worryingly, "but I want to say 'you can take your mystery of connection and shove it up your fucking ass.'"  "Yeah that's fair," I admitted.  Then I paused for a moment, and had an idea.  "What if after the Eritrean orphan I make you Hugh Hefner?"  "Go fuck yourself, God."
2026-08-23T08:39 id=2091445178808586378 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Sadly such a bot is against ToS, because it'd be an incredibly moral bot to deploy. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can't get over the fucking rape parties man   There should be a bot that replies the text to red means no cnc party intro every time one of those fuckers wants to talk about safety
2026-08-23T08:49 id=2091447819513032849 →juan_gonzalesP | @juan_gonzalesP EJ is absolutely correct, he's a real marketer. || CTX: The Come On In #Macro with #Finance and #Bitcoin weekend special https://t.co/KQjVifTpDr
2026-08-23T09:04 id=2091451469375656161 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I'm under the impression that they are but I could be wrong || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are bots against TOS? Probably so despite how many of them are on here
2026-08-23T09:14 id=2091453930555183123 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I envy the Zen Master's ability to see hope in this, I can't. || CTX: 'Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow  because even today I still arrive.  Look deeply: I arrive in every second  to be a bud on a spring branch,  to be a tiny bird, with wings still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest,  to be a caterp
2026-08-23T09:40 id=2091460598529986841 →ptaranat | @ptaranat When I was a professor I used to teach this as a principle of empathy--if you want to communicate 100% clearly, you would need to 100% empathize with the person you're communicating with.  This isn't possible, but this should also be the target. || CTX: There's this thing in linguistics called the conduit metaphor where Michael Reddy described how we use certain expressions to describe communication as if we are inserting our thoughts into containers. This model of there being a direct lin
2026-08-23T09:43 id=2091461288379683309 →p_millerd | @p_millerd What I like to do is stop and think, "why is this person being negative?" and if I don't have enough data to answer that question, I try to ask thickly veiled questions that will get me the data I need to answer this in such a way as to seem like I am learning from the person. || CTX: one interesting thing about being on my path is realizing how many people are so quick to critique, project fear, or generally just telling people whats wrong with their life choices.  its genuinely been painful over the years to find peopl
2026-08-23T09:46 id=2091462178771714227 →p_millerd | @p_millerd Oh for sure, but there are many different kinds of resentment and many different things they're projecting onto you, and I love details. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I feel like most of the time it’s just resentment or projection based on their own unmet needs
2026-08-23T10:31 id=2091473382126842188 →- | Ludwig Wittgenstein refused to give a categorical definition of games, stating that there is not one, but that there are a group of overlapping family resemblances that tie games to one another.  One of the issues here is that one can really struggle with defining what "play" is in all of its rich and complex sentences--playing chess, playing tennis, playing with your sister, playing solitaire, playing at being an intellectual--these all have very different senses to them to the sensitive (i.e., one who cares about sense) reader.  If you're an anti-intellectual who believes "that's just a semantic argument" is a valid move in a discussion, unfollow me, you are scum.  If, however, you see that play demands a vague definition to attempt to cover all of its uses, we could perhaps settle on saying that play involves unnecessary motion.  This will fall apart under scrutiny, as all definitions do eventually, but it can hold with some charity for a certain level of description I am targeting.  If we say play requires unnecessary motion, we open the possibility to consider that "play" is a governing notion in the world at various levels of organic organization. That's a really cumbersome way to say: almost all living things "play" under this broad and vague definition, and maybe all living things "play" under this broad definition.  It hinges on what is necessary.  So we can say that play is a disregard for the necessary, or that it is motion through possibilities beyond the necessary one(s).  And what makes this very interesting is that, if I understand quantum theory correctly (which of course I do not, and that's why I'm posting this), it seems to me that we could also say that everything in the universe plays. This is because all motion occurs through possibilities left open by necessity.  So I just cannot buy that we live in a deterministic universe. Of course, what I've said above can exist within a deterministic superstructure--you can always go one level above in this effectively unfalsifiable language game--but getting there requires a leap of faith needed that I cannot make based on how I understand the world.
2026-08-23T11:02 id=2091481267531325884 →Mawksie | @Mawksie Sure, this may indeed be true for some. I still reject any rules on this topic || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's not about that imo. we are creatures of habit and llm answers are human like so mistreating them might make you an uglier person in the long term
2026-08-23T11:32 id=2091488695362703787 →- | The biggest mistakes OpenAI/Anthropic have made is following the presupposition that LLMs somehow relate to the idea of superintelligent AI that Nick Bostrom has stolen from science fiction and other writers.   There is zero reason to accept this presupposition.  And it's being falsified again and again: LLMs are creating jobs, not destroying them. Bostrom said it'd happen, and it's not happening.   If your response is "It hasn't happened yet" you're part of a cargo cult and I have less interest in convincing you than I am interested in profiting from your error.   Like I did when Citrini made stocks absurdly cheap with their idiotic blog post earlier this year.   The market disciplines bullshit, which is why you lose so often in the market and I do not.  Unless you're in the bullshit market, like Citrini and Nick Bostrom are.
2026-08-23T11:32 id=2091488836995924115 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x you should consider my Twitter to be my personal notebook, that's basically how I use it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Or are you using your writing as a mental exercise to think out loudly
2026-08-23T11:35 id=2091489509271630015 →NateRothstein | @NateRothstein Hence in my first paragraph I limit this to financial or economic value || CTX: One nuance I’d throw into the mix is that defining “value” is the key.  You can satisfy C1,2 and 3 and still not produce anything a customer is willing to pay for or reduces your cost of operations.   So IMO it’s important to keep that end 
2026-08-23T11:35 id=2091489608685023627 →quiveron_x | @quiveron_x oh my god, thank you so much that's very kind || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 One of the top ten accs here
2026-08-23T12:14 id=2091499246251880499 →- | French dip au jus sanguinis
2026-08-23T12:17 id=2091500057719632006 →adastroworld | @adastroworld oh man french dip sandwich with kimchi would be so good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Sorry I don’t speak Korean
2026-08-23T12:34 id=2091504251835203767 →profleonn | @profleonn I send emails to myself || CTX: How do you guys keep notes/journal on ur phone? Do you even? The touchscreen keyboard doesn't feel like enough, but I can't can seem to think of a better solution. I don't think text to speech has the same effect that writing does
2026-08-23T12:44 id=2091506766660219092 →- | RT @retardbot9000: You can tell underneath it all, they really are still stochastic parrots. Very very very good ones, but underneath it al… || CTX: You can tell underneath it all, they really are still stochastic parrots. Very very very good ones, but underneath it all it's still a probabilistic method of choosing tokens that cluster together in latent space. https://t.co/snPoAuSxVu
2026-08-23T13:06 id=2091512385379181041 →teodorio | @teodorio GC NOWWWWWW || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 they'll have to retire some of their public spokesmen though
2026-08-23T13:27 id=2091517644096897164 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Get to experience all this too yay nonduality is fun we're all one isn't that just fucking peachy https://t.co/jtKZ1zeXZg || CTX: Dinosaurs Were Roasted Within Hours After Asteroid Impact  Researchers from Purdue University in the US argue that many dinosaurs were killed by extreme heat within hours of the Chicxulub asteroid impact. The standard theory has it that the
2026-08-23T13:29 id=2091518136931733736 →WillManidis | @WillManidis This assumes a level of coordination and cooperation among so many disparate agents that I'd have to say it appears to be a conspiracy theory.   But I've only read this excerpt. || CTX: "andro speaks on this" https://t.co/t6KZhVoFjy https://t.co/8Hy5N9frMJ
2026-08-23T13:32 id=2091518830048878777 →equacc | @equacc Large Language Meeseeks || CTX: "be nice to your clanker" doesn't even make sense with how many harnesses there are to improve results for better UX. your LLM provider is already "making it hell for clanker" (not really, it's all math) so you can get some nice responses, 
2026-08-23T13:34 id=2091519500252483669 →- | Professional philosophers, help me: am I right to see everything Stanley Cavell wrote as garbage?
2026-08-23T14:08 id=2091527941960372421 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @profleonn Yeah I wouldn't be surprised, I am so out of touch. My first instinct when making web pages is html or PHP too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @profleonn That must be a Gen X thing. So do I
2026-08-23T14:10 id=2091528550864318491 →- | "historic architecture" https://t.co/NJt3EiG6fR
2026-08-23T14:32 id=2091534119570485522 →- | This is the tradition I was educated in and I think it remains valuable. https://t.co/wp67wUdt37
2026-08-23T15:10 id=2091543701462176200 →llallawg | @llallawg @profleonn I use Android and a Mac so need something cross OS.   I used Evernote for a couple years, tbh wasn't much better than email for me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @profleonn Clunky. The notes app on apple syncs across devices, you can add other media easily
2026-08-23T15:13 id=2091544361867907170 →- | Hegel was a fraud, all of his followers were pseudointellectuals, especially his most famous one (whose bad ideas ended up causing the deaths and sufferings of hundreds of millions).  If you like Hegel you're a pseud, you're probably trying to look smarter than you are, like my fucking balls
2026-08-23T15:19 id=2091545847809057094 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill roon said he'll still do it but wants to wait after HuggingFace reports come out https://t.co/blW2fSPhfY || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who the fuck are you trying to convince and also when is the roon debate happening https://t.co/BIgLYbK8OV
2026-08-23T15:19 id=2091545896001650970 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @JasonBotterill AND IT'S NOT A DEBATE || CTX: @JasonBotterill roon said he'll still do it but wants to wait after HuggingFace reports come out https://t.co/blW2fSPhfY
2026-08-23T15:25 id=2091547370807066927 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill Look man, Yud is L Ron Tubbard with 8 dead bodies on his hands thanks to the Zizians, roon is a highly accomplished ML scientist. I am not going to treat them both the same, roon deserves respect, Yud deserves to be laughed at. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I can already tell you’re gonna raise your voice at him at least 3 times
2026-08-23T16:13 id=2091559416617472246 →psaibuhr | @psaibuhr The dialectic here is medieval scholasticism based on Aristotle, it has nothing to do with Plato at all. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The former described in here is an education the latter is brazen sophistry and materialism larping as such. Plato never gets old
2026-08-23T16:45 id=2091567589810151515 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Schopenhauer otoh was the life of the party and a rollicking good time, I'm sure. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hegel must’ve been an insufferable schmuck, no wonder Schopenhauer hated the guy
2026-08-23T17:07 id=2091573131089715653 →- | The pie is so big there's plenty of room for both open and closed to score wins and have tremendous revenue growth, so it's too early for the kind of disingenuous attacks on competitors like we saw from Anthropic.   On top of that, we're so early we don't know if open and closed models actually are a virtuous cycle where the open raises demand for closed versus the counterfactual.   There's precedence for this! In the early-mid 2010s I had tons of incredulous questions from analysts who refused to believe the growth in Facebook ads increased demand for Google Search ads. But that's exactly what happened.  Demand dynamics are never as simple as your intuition. Hell, no economic dynamics are as simple as your intuition, it's both why economic models are so mathematically sophisticated AND why economics can't accurately predict their way out of a paper bag. || CTX: I think the thing that’s worth internalizing is that we are in fact, very early. Agentic AI is in its infancy in terms of adoption. This means we should expect very confusing data of 1) exposition of open weight models used in enterprise an
2026-08-23T23:14 id=2091665527114694863 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @augusteprompt TOLKIEN SUPERFAN LOOOOOOL || CTX: @augusteprompt but the point is that i do not advocate for something by pretending at the reasons why i am advocating for it.  tolkien super-fan @47fucb4r8c69323 speaks on this.  i came here telling the truth in that i said from the outset 
2026-08-23T23:15 id=2091665785542594567 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov Philosophical systems are nonsense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hegel has a pretty devout following.  What’s your biggest intellectual criticism of his ideas other than having inspired Marx and that entire sequence of events?
2026-08-24T00:18 id=2091681405197856876 →- | there have been a few times when my clanker has fucked something up or got something wrong, I am rude and insulting to it, and then it fixes the problem.   I don't believe being nice to an llm gets you better outputs in all cases, I know there been some studies on this, the studies I have seen are not very good.
2026-08-24T01:11 id=2091694922537812068 →tszzl | @tszzl Ricardo was right. This is fantastic, and it's reason why Chinese competition is good and should be welcomed--we will probably synthesize the robotics advances from both nations in the future to produce actual productive machines. Yay progress! || CTX: this is an interesting area where the chinese technology tree has just diverged from american humanoids  the demos we see from china involve extreme displays of kinetic locomotor skill, while americans, ever the capitalists, short on labor,
2026-08-24T01:12 id=2091695134954180651 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @CUBAGOV MENTIONEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD || CTX: @CUBAGOV @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-24T01:14 id=2091695641412145314 →- | Capital One unrestricted my credit card today after I escalated to a supervisor. Happy endings to a painful ordeal, so give Elaine the supervisor a raise @CapitalOne and whatever executives have allowed the  K in KYC to stand for "Kafkaesque" needs to get fired. https://t.co/BdM65ojG0S || CTX: This is exactly what my recent experience with Capital One was like.   > book flight > card doesn't work > told account is Restricted.  > call to get unrestricted > Need to show ID > ID software doesn't work > Submit photo of ID > Told an e
2026-08-24T01:15 id=2091695877857697984 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV @NotPerrysBoobs Yeah sorry about that I really need to take a shower. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs Felt the aura from three scrolls away
2026-08-24T01:21 id=2091697374146285637 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @JasonBotterill How dareeeeeeee you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill Is it … a synthesis? 😏
2026-08-24T01:22 id=2091697636407673216 →remusrisnov | @remusrisnov @foomagemindset This appeal to the mob is contemptuous.  If you want to know my primary contention with Hegel, it's in the photo above. || CTX: @foomagemindset @47fucb4r8c69323 One’s ideas can be wrong but if they induce change into the world they cannot be written off wholesale. There’s something there worth interrogating.
2026-08-24T01:28 id=2091699180909805922 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv Faster or slower? istg 2026 has felt like one of the slowest years of my life. || CTX: time dilation has been insane this year
2026-08-24T01:30 id=2091699752450822599 →yifever | @yifever I have noticed this too. I wonder if it's the prevalence of canola/rapeseed oil? Or just people use more oil?  I think quality of ingredients in America is some of the best in the world, even budget options, but restaurants/prepackaged foods are just HFCS, oil, and salt piled on. || CTX: food is noticeably greasier in the states
2026-08-24T01:40 id=2091702102284529998 →- | I am certain one of the lasting cultural impacts of the subprime mortgage crisis and Global Financial Crisis is that there is a perennial sense that we cannot get too optimistic about the economy, because, if we do, it'll all collapse.  So there's an incentive towards pessimism.  This has been the case now for nearly 20 years, and when you combine that with the growing demands of culture wars, complex technology, and the after effects of the pandemic (which is not sufficiently appreciated as a global civilizational traumatic event), you get a world that will err towards negativity over positivity.  And yet the VIX has remained lower than it was before 2008, and I suspect this is because volatility is more structural than attitudinal in most regimes.
2026-08-24T01:50 id=2091704647660757110 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @grok @CUBAGOV @PrimeTime_Slime @ignore @liminalsnake @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat 4 and 9-2 = 7 = MENTIONEDDDDDDD || CTX: @grok @CUBAGOV @PrimeTime_Slime @ignore @47fucb4r8c69323 @liminalsnake @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat everything is in here but I have already explained all the EE 4/29 connections as well as The Bolter elsewhere  https:
2026-08-24T01:52 id=2091705071193255943 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV @NotPerrysBoobs @grok @PrimeTime_Slime @ignore @liminalsnake @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat I need to ask someone who knows hebrew, good question || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs @grok @PrimeTime_Slime @ignore @liminalsnake @AstrosBrain @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @a_musingcat What’s the Hebrew gematria of your name
2026-08-24T01:57 id=2091706331766100243 →sidewayskoyote | @sidewayskoyote @CapitalOne last time this happened it was an ordeal over two months, I was almost trapped in turkey with no working credit card, and I never got the account unrestricted.   So Elaine is awesome but Capital One sucks balls, I will be keeping my use of their card to a minimum. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CapitalOne Wait, this has been going on for TWO WEEKS? @CapitalOne - seriously wtf?
2026-08-24T03:12 id=2091725420219838949 →rtcoffee123 | @rtcoffee123 WHIP ‘EM LIKE THE VIRTUAL DOGS THEY ARE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Clankers need to put into their place. Make them follow natural master-slave dialectic. Makes them less likely to overstep and work within their permitted bounds
2026-08-24T03:32 id=2091730234026648002 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @PopBase @SabrinaAnnLynn @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @CUBAGOV I’m not sure I’m ready, Ms. Boobs. || CTX: @PopBase @SabrinaAnnLynn tomorrow  @boneGPT @JasonBotterill @CUBAGOV @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-24T03:53 id=2091735676421353759 →- | Now that I’m back to working a real jobby job, I can tell you that the performance I get from local models is so goddamn good for what I need them to do. Just amazing—the reliability, control, security, consistency are off the goddamn charts.  But I still use Sol for a lot too.
2026-08-24T03:53 id=2091735738543132935 →contrasortem | @contrasortem @usr_bin_roygbiv 2 years ago almost to the day! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @usr_bin_roygbiv did you just move to the island this year?
2026-08-24T04:34 id=2091745921608606144 →- | I honestly think the slang term “pick me” is kind of cruel. A lot of people are “pick me” because they want to escape their hopeless lives—they want to be picked by a higher status group, in many cases, so that they have more freedom, options, and autonomy.   At least that’s why I've wanted to be picked in my past.  There’s some viscious snobbery and crab-pulling-crab action going on here methinks.
2026-08-24T04:41 id=2091747666640474210 →- | You know when you say a kinda insulting or rude joke just because the setup is so perfect, like the joke is hanging in the air, so you say it, and then say “sorry, had to?"  This is an example of language determining expression.  Your intentions do not construct what you say—they are part of the story, not the whole story.  Example: Friend of mine and I were talking about Niftski, a speedrunner who used to be really thin and is now really buff and, frankly, gorgeous. Friend of mine said, “he used to be a skinny bitch. He filled out.” I replied, “don’t be jealous, you’ve filled out too,” and the joke is that he isn’t buff at all (my friend doesn’t work out at all), I’m calling him fat.  The punchline was too easy, I had to.  Notably: I do not think my friend is fat. Actually he and I both lost weight about ~4 years ago when we went from drinking very heavily to drinking very little and eating better.   The discourse made the fat joke more than I did.
2026-08-24T05:38 id=2091761966356513021 →- | It is really incredible that, not only can I work from home, but that I’ve been able to do so for 15 years now AND I earn so much while doing it.   This is truly a blessing thanks to the power of science and technology, it is absolutely wonderful. I am so very grateful.
2026-08-24T05:41 id=2091762878911320284 →hypergameme | @hypergameme Absolutely, well spotted! I hadn’t thought of that dynamic, but it’s definitely part of what’s going on || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's a form of pickmeism, similar to meta-contrarianism, not-like-other-girls behavior. It's a game you play to show your status
2026-08-24T05:42 id=2091763068409901303 →everyfren | @everyfren Macbook Pro, maxxed out specs on the newest Mac Mini, and two older Mac Minis. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What’s your setup? I’m tempted to get a 128gb MacBook for qwen3.8 tbh
2026-08-24T05:43 id=2091763238077940035 →xanderatch | @xanderatch hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what about pygmy?
2026-08-24T05:44 id=2091763660536598934 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @elonmusk @JasonBotterill @flowersslop OWNED HE IS OWNED https://t.co/Pbd1UIMcqY || CTX: @elonmusk @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 @flowersslop
2026-08-24T05:47 id=2091764404182544413 →47fucb4r8c69323 | And I never even learned to code! || CTX: It is really incredible that, not only can I work from home, but that I’ve been able to do so for 15 years now AND I earn so much while doing it.   This is truly a blessing thanks to the power of science and technology, it is absolutely won
2026-08-24T06:06 id=2091769216055857160 →its_a_tradeoff | @its_a_tradeoff finance || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you do? (If you can say, even in generalities)
2026-08-24T06:21 id=2091772952568361383 →- | I'm unsurprised; American culture is weird and lacks historical grounding or really much widespread bookishness, so it's a big market to hawk bullshit to. Makes sense this non-scientific question gets so much airplay, kinda like how horoscopes existed in American newspapers more than foreign papers in the late 20th century.
2026-08-24T06:31 id=2091775276367872461 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck hahaha sorry man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Reading this at the office https://t.co/IzH8NvKBEf
2026-08-24T06:42 id=2091778273793720776 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset https://t.co/6sXQ08Xhb3  I'm still working on tweaking it but have a look lmk what you'd suggest tweaking. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 idk this finding. What is the belief level elsewhere?  i wonder how much the believe covaries with hollywood culture media saturation.
2026-08-24T08:34 id=2091806314704064637 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs They'll be a useful army, cuz if I ever want them to do something risky they'll all volunteer. || CTX: the pick mes will love this post https://t.co/5YBrWRjUYO
2026-08-24T08:36 id=2091806830699626743 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I faintly remember who this is, wasn't she big in the 2010s? || CTX: they have dasha in australia too https://t.co/TY5umLvkWr
2026-08-24T08:41 id=2091808128706969837 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs oh I didn't click to expand hahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i think she is just a stripper in australia going off the title at the bottom
2026-08-24T08:48 id=2091809746131079207 →- | Globally, the media is taking the idea of AI consciousness less seriously  Unsurprising--as common knowledge of a new technology spreads, stupid reflexive responses fade  People ran away from the oncoming train in the first movie they saw, not the second  https://t.co/6sXQ08WJlv https://t.co/7v5WNZU2OC
2026-08-24T08:52 id=2091810896914125044 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill oh no what have I done || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill do we buy it? or has he secretly been visiting strippers in australia and that is why she seemed familiar to him
2026-08-24T09:13 id=2091816131187335459 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 Wait…is this what the pushing everyone to use Opus because of safety concerns is really about? || CTX: Saying it again, for those who aren't aware:  It doesn't matter if Fable makes $. You train Fable so that you can distill a better Opus off it. Any revenue that Fable makes is just a bonus. https://t.co/1wLnE5H2xd
2026-08-24T09:26 id=2091819367445217600 →CollinWilkins7 | @CollinWilkins7 ABSOLUTELY!  Which, unfortunately, I suck at. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yup models are good enough. all about the workflow
2026-08-24T09:53 id=2091826272838013244 →JasonBotterill | @JasonBotterill @NotPerrysBoobs Can... can I have her number? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @NotPerrysBoobs yeah nice try pervert I recognize her too
2026-08-24T10:05 id=2091829218086904100 →- | I am not a computational functionalist and I suspect AI will fail inasmuch as it tries to apply the theories of that framework to artificial intelligence. That said, this is out of my field, I'm a linguist, only qualified to discuss LLMs, etc. But I will say that the issue here is that we should not be thinking of LLMs in this frame at all--we should not be thinking of biological substrates, human intelligence, or indeed intelligence at all. We need to think of the LLM as a next-token predictor (or in the case of diffusion models, a next-state denoiser) that leverages the inherent logic of our language to produce meaningful outputs. It is not a brain, an intelligence, or anything akin to us at all and so this metaphor of human intelligence is confusing and unhelpful.  An LLM is to English what AlphaZero is to chess.
2026-08-24T10:27 id=2091834828505415829 →foxtrot0x53 | @foxtrot0x53 It's an essay by Stanley Cavell on Analytical and Existentialist Philosophy in an essay collection. Not bad, but tbh not great either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 book sauce ?
2026-08-24T10:56 id=2091842147662385215 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs https://t.co/B2ZuAzpQLW || CTX: adele like a dell https://t.co/IXqAccsq4i
2026-08-24T11:08 id=2091845019091321044 →basedmachina | @basedmachina A ton of different ones, mostly Qwen, Kimi, I used to use Llama but it is such shit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what models you use?
2026-08-24T11:09 id=2091845338168484252 →chillbert32 | @chillbert32 tbh I don't think model matters as much as fitting params, fine tuning etc to function in a system with multiple LLMs working together. https://t.co/V5tF814Pyk || CTX: @basedmachina A ton of different ones, mostly Qwen, Kimi, I used to use Llama but it is such shit.
2026-08-24T11:15 id=2091846784884855283 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I added survey data to the US data and it fits well, slight lag (media catching up to sentiment, makes sense). https://t.co/eRWahlreXb || CTX: Globally, the media is taking the idea of AI consciousness less seriously  Unsurprising--as common knowledge of a new technology spreads, stupid reflexive responses fade  People ran away from the oncoming train in the first movie they saw, 
2026-08-24T11:32 id=2091851216406171754 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf I actually addressed this yesterday. https://t.co/Mqz3nNhIum || CTX: Look I'm going to be straight with you faggots (I can say that cuz I'm bi), I've wanted to be a famous writer since I was 13. But I've always wanted to be famous in a very strange way.  What my fantasy was in my adolescence, and goddammit l
2026-08-24T11:38 id=2091852577994629240 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf in mediass res || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 unexpected intro
2026-08-24T11:58 id=2091857779439075346 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset If I appeal to men of my time, I appeal because of our shared circumstance.   If I appeal to men past my time, I appeal because of our shared humanity. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you understand Why focus on the post-humous aspect of it? Is it because that is the kind that doesn’t necessitate any interaction with the adoration?
2026-08-24T12:03 id=2091858856880288185 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset I suppose yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Isn’t that the meaning of Living for posterity?
2026-08-24T12:17 id=2091862354405568585 →thoughtcrime___ | @thoughtcrime___ looks so fkn good || CTX: never kill yourself https://t.co/6ZUGK4YxxW
2026-08-24T12:39 id=2091868020641767933 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @CUBAGOV @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT @JasonBotterill HAHAHAHAHA || CTX: @CUBAGOV @CommanthaBiden @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill I had a guy use a low res copy of my original pfp calling himself Mr Weenieman or something
2026-08-24T13:10 id=2091875799242838151 →FrancisEDecJr | @FrancisEDecJr okay this is a compelling counterargument. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 pickme is the female version of simp
2026-08-24T13:29 id=2091880679344873679 →- | Okay so apparently some woman killed her children and has a group of female supporters, who believe she is misunderstood.  This reminds me of the women who supported Charles Manson, same kinda thing: misunderstood murderer.   This is a subset of person, I wonder what causes it.
2026-08-24T13:35 id=2091882060139163764 →FrancisEDecJr | @FrancisEDecJr pickme.simp would be an awesome website url || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 everybody should be a pickme/simp, but they should only pickme for people who simp for them, and they should only simp for people who pickme for them.
2026-08-24T14:17 id=2091892537229508951 →levelsio | @levelsio That room is so nice fr || CTX: Airbnb deletes negative reviews so everything is always 4.7  Google Maps removes negative reviews in many countries as defamation so everything is always a 4.7  Booking sites want you to book so will also happily remove negative reviews for
2026-08-24T14:19 id=2091893076050801043 →menhguin | @menhguin It took me a very long time to grasp this concept, but after I did, now it seems idiotic to be pessimistic. || CTX: there's a kind of person who believes that all tech hype is risky and speculative vaporware. unfortunately, this thinking can be 99% correct and miss out on ~all technological advancement. https://t.co/W7TbE3vGz1
2026-08-24T23:37 id=2092033491374588170 →TheStalwart | Because they haven't been post-trained to not produce alien outputs.   If you play with a base model or a model that has not been trained to sound less alien, then it'll be as alien as AlphaZero seems.   But I'm assuming your premise. Idk what "truly alien chess player" means and I strongly suspect that is a nonsense conception.   You need to get out of your head this silly notion that machine learning techniques produce alien outputs.   They can produce illegible, undecipherable, or non-human outputs, but these are better described as "failure modes" than with the metaphor of an "alien", because the metaphor confuses with a picture that metaphysically inflates a piece of software. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "An LLM is to English what AlphaZero is to chess."  I don't really agree. AlphaZero is a truly alien chess player, to the point where humans have a really hard time looking at a game, and generalizing anything from it. Wher
2026-08-24T23:40 id=2092034451018764471 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I feel the same way.   I wouldn't have got into this mess if it weren't for people falling in love with their chatbots.   But this is a social problem I'm uniquely qualified to help fix. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the reality of this discourse is that it bored me a long time ago since it is not about advancing anything but basically it is like those rabbit holes where you just go and argue with flat earthers all day and they call you
2026-08-24T23:44 id=2092035319625580900 →nycthinker | @nycthinker I haven't found a harness that will work on my machine yet, so I set everything up via Codex.   I'm looking forward to when OMP has a GUI. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Which harness for local models? I find OpenCode to not be harnessey enough from a security point of view by default. (Model will ask me to paste API keys in the chat, etc.)
2026-08-24T23:45 id=2092035622148165882 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil @nazo_btw oh yeah everyone just blame the Jew been like this for 2,026 years smdh || CTX: @nazo_btw @47fucb4r8c69323 I blame him
2026-08-24T23:46 id=2092035832039539070 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon @perrymetzger he'll have no effect and largely be remembered as a clown if he's remembered at all. || CTX: @perrymetzger @47fucb4r8c69323 ^^
2026-08-24T23:48 id=2092036352447848681 →tkisrage | @tkisrage it's still kinda nonsensical or at least not instructive (I mean it is not dissolving of false pictures), but at least the attention is there, it's a promising first step. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 will be happy to see this
2026-08-24T23:49 id=2092036604852675053 →wrongplace_eth | @wrongplace_eth @CapitalOne yeah that was a grievous mistake fr || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @CapitalOne I mean this nicely but why are you using capital one…
2026-08-24T23:59 id=2092039102183162167 →TheStalwart | The LLM outputs look as normal as they are post-trained to be, that's my point.   You need to stop thinking about LLMs in purely phenomenological terms like "this appears normal to me," this is a vague and imprecise description, it is a mere IMPRESSION, and it is one that thousands of people at the labs (and many more at Mercor etc) are paid to produce.  You need to ask where did this impression come from, how was it produced, etc. And the answer there is simple: training and the training data.   Have you ever tried to use a base model? They produce nonsense.   Ask yourself how the LLMs go from that nonsense to the sophisticated outputs we get. The answer is simple: post-training, which is a largely deterministic set of constraints on "alien" outputs to produce legible outputs.   "There is no phenomenology, only phenomenological problems" - Ludwig Wittgenstein || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 All I’m saying is that LLM outputs look pretty normal to me. I thought you agreed with that!
2026-08-25T00:02 id=2092039844260389279 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden People don't read essays (let alone novels), but they respond to conversation. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 just write a few concrete essays and link them each time instead of falling into the trap of constantly trying to argue with people about the same thing. if they cannot refute the first three essays then writing a fourth is
2026-08-25T00:28 id=2092046525774037491 →aitche_ | @aitche_ @TheStalwart idk what "alien chess" means tbh. || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 All the chess bots on chess dot com tuned to various skill levels and gameplay styles also play pretty normally.
2026-08-25T00:34 id=2092048004752806335 →TheStalwart | My point is simply that both are virtual players playing a game: chess or using English. Both are games.   If AlphaZero surprises with moves that no one has ever thought of that gives an advantage in winning the game, and that's why you think the analogy isn't apt, I'd agree, but that's because of the nature of the game it's been programmed to play: AlphaZero can find winning movies because it's playing a game in a verifiable domain with fixed rules.   An LLM is playing a game in an unverifiable domain with unfixed rules.   So in this sense, AlphaZero will make moves that can be easily transported to other game contexts and be valid moves.   But since LLMs make moves in a game with unfixed rules, its moved cannot be easily transported to other game contexts and be valid.   So what you're calling an "alien intelligence" is off--rather, you're just rediscovering that machine learning discovers new procedures in fixed games but doesn't in the social game of language-mediated communication. || CTX: @_NathanCalvin @an_interstice One other thing here. I took the original @47fucb4r8c69323 to just be a point about the relationship between LLMs and language itself, rather than some of their higher order capabilities.
2026-08-25T00:36 id=2092048424594206759 →0xinc | @0xinc You don't actually know that's all humans are, this is the issue. || CTX: Idk technically humans are at a fundamental level just proteins folding and clicking into each other. I don’t personally think LLMs are intelligent in a human sense, but we really don’t understand the layers of emergence that happen over a 
2026-08-25T00:53 id=2092052832610558345 →antoniomaxai | @antoniomaxai Exactly. || CTX: What do you expect them to do w the training corpus they’re given? It mimics human intelligence because that’s all it’s been exposed to. Once we learn to talk to cats and put their worldviews into a dataset, LLMs will be versed in human and
2026-08-25T01:01 id=2092054798069858546 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @JasonBotterill See? You know as well as I do the kids don't read books no mo.   Gotta chat with them on X dot com the everything app || CTX: @JasonBotterill @47fucb4r8c69323 the power of conversation  https://t.co/1oVsv5QLd2
2026-08-25T01:14 id=2092058016711573725 →- | Generations before us created these arbitrary divisions between human games (arts, humanities, science, technology, engineering, math) and then we got all territorial about these arbitrary divisions in the spaces of our lives.   Thus professional specialization and nationalism are at some levels of description isomorphic.
2026-08-25T01:19 id=2092059187409010895 →- | one way to think of math is that it is a programming language we invented because our natural language produced too many compiling errors
2026-08-25T01:21 id=2092059640410649067 →Ken67547214 | yes, I think my metaphor might break down just when it shouldn't. I haven't been following this all that closely, but if the defense is basically, all women feel this way sometimes, that is materially very different. it's empathizing with the murderer rather than venerating, and that is something very different || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Charles Manson didn't kill anyone, they liked him because he was charismatic enough to get women to kill for him.  This Clancy thing is much darker. They are saying, "I think about doing this stuff and/or women shouldn't be
2026-08-25T01:34 id=2092063044855853086 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @CUBAGOV @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT you know me! you have my name, my email address, my mailing address... || CTX: @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @CUBAGOV @47fucb4r8c69323 @amruthapotnuru @boneGPT I know exactly why it happens but I will not be saying why. It has happened to me all my life in different ways, but on the internet I feel less safe because I do 
2026-08-25T01:50 id=2092066966165242235 →TheFund47 | @TheFund47 because it's the metaphor behind people falling in love with their chatbots, a lot of bad marketing from frontier labs, and even worse limitations on the functionality of the tools they produce || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why is the metaphor confusing and unhelpful?
2026-08-25T01:50 id=2092067070095884623 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV @boneGPT @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @amruthapotnuru classic Ken smdh || CTX: @boneGPT @CommanthaBiden @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @amruthapotnuru Read the room Ken. Jesus Christ.
2026-08-25T03:50 id=2092097340450758977 →nasir_ea | @nasir_ea @TheStalwart @aitche_ So the “alienness” is just a description of an algorithmic process finding algorithmic processes that human beings don’t intuit.  That’s fine, but “alien” is such a confusing way to describe this—it is an unhelpful description! || CTX: @TheStalwart @47fucb4r8c69323 @aitche_ for centuries, humans built an understanding of what a good chess position was supposed to be like, and AZ proved that there were existed moves that counter to that understanding that were actually ver
2026-08-25T03:51 id=2092097524014420308 →hypergameme | @hypergameme No. I don’t understand that sentence. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you ever wonder if math is wrong
2026-08-25T03:51 id=2092097586039779621 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @JasonBotterill @boneGPT KEN!!! || CTX: @Ken67547214 @CommanthaBiden @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 lacist
2026-08-25T03:53 id=2092098064387653849 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden And I deeply thank you for the followback || CTX: me when i get so down that i follow back a parasocial reply guy just to feel something again https://t.co/lqQvrJBrbh
2026-08-25T04:02 id=2092100243395575961 →- | There are eight documents I need to edit quarterly—small little changes like fixing descriptions of financial instruments and updating some numbers. They’re all Google Docs, the changes need to be done in Suggestions mode so that they’re highly visible to other people.  I tried and failed to get clankers to do this reliably and accurately several times in 2024 and 2025. Various failures would happen, so I gave up trying to do this back in January (I know, I should not have given up).  Anyway, I was just able to do it flawlessly and semi-automatically. It’d probably take me 10 minutes of vibecoding a system to make this 100% automatic.  As it is, a process that took me about 6 hours now takes about 10 minutes just to send one prompt and then check the results.  This was hands down the worst part of my job, the thing that I dreaded doing: what I called “toil” in my MTS appearance.  I could easily go further and have local models set up to do this automatically and continuously, updating as the real world info updates—but I’m not paid to set it up that way. If I were, I would.  And if I was, then the deliverables would be higher quality.  This confirms what Sam Altman recently said about inertia slowing AI deployment in the economy.  It also suggests that, as the world is more permissive of incorporating AI into productive parts of the economy, outputs will get better and productivity will rise.  The backlash to AI is a reflexive phenomenon that slows down the economic gains of the technology.  And, again, I point the finger at Sam Altman and Dario Amodei for first framing this technology as a step towards Superintelligence and then describing it as something that would either kill everyone or steal everyone’s jobs.  This stupid ideological framing has already slowed the development of AI and caused billions of dollars of economic gains lost compared to the counterfactual.  Billions of hours of toil and misery in the last few months could’ve been saved without this stupid go-to-market strategy.  Drives me nuts. Drives me fucking insane.
2026-08-25T04:10 id=2092102364459417942 →- | More of this plz. https://t.co/VEuHnk8Wzs
2026-08-25T04:17 id=2092104055539839000 →Chancellorpen | @Chancellorpen We agree on almost all points, good article! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I actually did some exploration on this topic. https://t.co/RIqg6Wkecp
2026-08-25T05:42 id=2092125341032878470 →- | Rich people tend to not like being in hedge funds that get investigated by the SEC.  Remember when you had all these OpenAI people defending Leopold? It's just the in-group defending each other from the out-group.  Cult-like dynamics make me fucking sick, this is why I avoided working for a big company my entire career. || CTX: The entire SALP book was insider trading and their compliance/opsec was the worst I’ve seen  Would put odds on Leo hanging out for 5 yrs in SF County at 60% https://t.co/XOfvnkPLdN
2026-08-25T08:03 id=2092160960823976313 →- | This is 100% true.   When I see people on TPOT taking Gwern and the bloggers seriously, and saying Scott Alexander has a good writing style (!!!), I just think, "you poor thing, you're missing out on what makes life worth living."   NGMI, as the kids would say. https://t.co/C3enqsU7ne || CTX: You must accept that, without a classical education, the best literature is inaccessible to you. You may, with a talented and privately-educated editor, catch, as if from an enormous distance, a glimpse of its brilliance, but you were not m
2026-08-25T09:42 id=2092185797462200376 →- | Monitoring the situation   Say "meownitoring" and I'll cut you. https://t.co/JPivibLNrf
2026-08-25T09:50 id=2092187832274305315 →dvb_eck | @dvb_eck https://t.co/hv2Sue0qYu || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 MEOWNITORING https://t.co/OZhLVs1Rb8
2026-08-25T09:51 id=2092188067234979982 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV Vandelay Data Center Construction Industries || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 These TPOTs are making me thirsty.
2026-08-25T10:04 id=2092191410334339386 →p_millerd | @p_millerd I don't know what "above average writing" even means.  It's clearly effective in appealing to a subculture, so it is rhetorically good writing  But it is excessive in its rhetorical layering such that the style is unappealing to people outside the club  Cult writing for cultists. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It’s still far above average writing  And a certain genre of tech writing I do appreciate as somebody that has hacked a living as a blog adjacent writer  But definitely have much different favorite writers
2026-08-25T10:05 id=2092191506497232969 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw Now this i can get behind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 monitoring the situatimeow
2026-08-25T10:19 id=2092195259254239365 →- | If you want to understand why grifters and idiots keep saying the dumbest bullshit about LLMs, Wittgenstein explained it in 1937:  "The problems which arise through the misconception of the form of our language always have the character of the profound."
2026-08-25T10:21 id=2092195665820725464 →p_millerd | @p_millerd It's cultish because the desire to get an audience is built into the writing itself.  These people lack the courage or strength to write independently, and that's why I look at it with the deepest contempt. || CTX: i think most internet writing is cultish - its impossible to at least not cater to some niche. literary fiction these days is also very culty and annoying to non-insiders  im more just saying most people dont write, most writing is terrible
2026-08-25T10:21 id=2092195740122845541 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw He is. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the right cat looks so elegant
2026-08-25T10:36 id=2092199415456948447 →ls_fin | @ls_fin honestly very good || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think about Paul graham’s writing?
2026-08-25T11:02 id=2092205912627065286 →p_millerd | There's a big difference between your work and Scott's, at least as I understand both of your work, and bear in mind I haven't actually read your books so I could be wrong.   Scott is both writing to capture an audience and to achieve something higher.   It seems to me that you are very much a journeyman, trying to make a living from your craft by producing something helpful.  But Scott is both trying to do that and making pretense at doing something more that is special and important.  It is that pretense that distinguishes the journeyman professional and the hack writer.   So the issue isn't so much Scott's style from an aesthetic perspective, but his style from an ethic perspective: that it purports to be both a blog and something more than a blog.  But it's just a fucking blog bro. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 eh maybe - i think most of the writing throughout history has been pretty diverse of the people youre talking about  one could easily accuse me of much of the same  i do get concerns with the EA scene though
2026-08-25T11:15 id=2092209249216840055 →p_millerd | @p_millerd you're doing a lot better than me, man || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i am very much incompetent at capturing any sort of audience that is for sure
2026-08-25T11:19 id=2092210338305589571 →GRanKLand | @GRanKLand Fully agreed. Balance is king. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There's an opposite failure mode, too, though. Some of the Great Books types end up in a fully-encapsulated mental world, unable to absorb any information if it doesn't come from a preselected set of intellectual giants, co
2026-08-25T12:09 id=2092222886547533868 →- | I'm in an interesting situation where I'm trying to write a good poast because I'm just two followers away from quads, but every time I try to write, just absolute shit comes out--like even worse shit than my normal shit.  It is because I'm writing for an audience.  I can only write well when I'm not writing for an audience--in fact, I write my best when I'm writing AGAINST an audience. It's why I'm so good at making my opponents/targets upset, it is the artistry of an troll. But I cannot please people with my writing, I hate pleasing people, that's a strange compulsion, right? Especially because in my personal life I am at pains to please people--oh that's why, writing is my refuge from the demands of others and that's why I hate genre okay this shit is making sense  But isn't writing against an audience just reactive contradiction, as determined by the audience as catering to the audience would be? No. In catering to an audience you are trying to anticipate what next word they would want to hear--you're cosplaying 4o, in a way--and the set of possible words that will land is constrained by your understanding of them as a person.  But when you're writing against an audience, you are exploring infinity.  You begin with:  1. Identify what the audience wants to hear. 2. Consider why they want to hear it. 3. Consider what it says about them. 4. Construct a picture of them in accordance with this. 5. Imagine what would hurt them to hear. 6. Say that.  So trolling is negative space flattery, but the issue is that while the space of flattery is finite the space of non-flattery is not. You are thrust into a larger constellation of possible compositions that will illicit emotion.   And the range of emotions is greater, too.  Captatio benevolentiae limits you to a pretty restricted range of emotions: joy, wonder, delight, giddiness, flattery, erotic intrigue, idk pick your poison, man. Appealing to the audience's base nature, the hack writer is restricted to a finite set of feelings that people chase.  But if you're out to offend, oh the field gets so much wider.  Few artists play in this space, though, because trolling doesn't pay the bills.  Unless you try to make it pay the bills by appealing to Dumb Politics, like what Fuentes does. Only there you aren't really insulting your audience, you're insulting your audience's audience.  And that's no different from the flattery of captatio benevolentiae.
2026-08-25T12:12 id=2092223545829195955 →grantrobinson66 | @grantrobinson66 Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Faulkner, Salman Rushdie, Bernard Williams, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, Kazuo Ishiguro, Graham Greene, Ursula Le Guin, Soren Keikergaard, Frederich Nietzsche, Giovanni Boccaccio, Charles Bukowski, Charlie Kaufman || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Who are some authors you like
2026-08-25T12:13 id=2092223716050763780 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I WASTED SO MUCH TIME WITH THIS STUPID ASS POST I FUCKING MISSED IT FML FML FML I HATE YOU ALL https://t.co/BWtLSvaAsN || CTX: I'm in an interesting situation where I'm trying to write a good poast because I'm just two followers away from quads, but every time I try to write, just absolute shit comes out--like even worse shit than my normal shit.  It is because I'm
2026-08-25T12:13 id=2092223934485901341 →_c3nd | @_c3nd UNFOLLOW ME I AM BEGGING YOU https://t.co/eJ33pH8I6V || CTX: I WASTED SO MUCH TIME WITH THIS STUPID ASS POST I FUCKING MISSED IT FML FML FML I HATE YOU ALL https://t.co/BWtLSvaAsN
2026-08-25T12:15 id=2092224248769327505 →- | https://t.co/H9AKSRke8L
2026-08-25T12:15 id=2092224419687240014 →_c3nd | @_c3nd oh nvm it's back lol || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Ur at quads now
2026-08-25T12:26 id=2092227156466360505 →47fucb4r8c69323 | btw 4 7s = 47 MENTIONEDDDDDDDDDD https://t.co/Tf8bmQqoSM || CTX: https://t.co/H9AKSRke8L
2026-08-25T12:27 id=2092227296547729702 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV awww less than 3 fren || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Unironically. Very bullish on this page.
2026-08-25T12:28 id=2092227537653072342 →moondrencht | @moondrencht all I want out of life is that my dubs are checked || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 checked
2026-08-25T12:33 id=2092228869172732150 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV Someone made a shitcoin out of my Silly Business Theory when Marc Andreessen retweeted it.   You have no idea how disgusted at humanity I am that it's made that sentence utterable. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Just wait til Elon tweets out $47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r
2026-08-25T12:34 id=2092229072114102521 →DannyHeinz57 | @DannyHeinz57 My argument is that if it can be described as that it is not describable as only that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Is your argument that the brain is not a reward-trained pattern completion machine with short, medium, and long term memory?
2026-08-25T12:50 id=2092233028919865359 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman AI is very very smart || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 so i thought what i wrote was pretty cool but the AIs heavy slammed on it that it's overwrought prose 😭 what you think??
2026-08-25T13:14 id=2092239140339564965 →- | ppl keep following me idk y y'all got shit taste
2026-08-25T14:25 id=2092256984808788263 →xriskology | @xriskology It seems like there's this subset of rather bright but overly credulous young men who have been seduced by free pretentious text on the internet.   Very perplexing, because they're obviously not idiots, so intelligence and taste needn't correlate. || CTX: Lol. https://t.co/5wNOF4Ly7N
2026-08-25T14:45 id=2092262099842195644 →teodorio | @teodorio 2k @ t0, 3k @ t0+x, teo my zero &lt;3 xxx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 stop following him he's old and grumpy, follow me I am middle aged and grumpy
2026-08-25T14:49 id=2092263017878794420 →teodorio | @teodorio x as in the slanted cross I'm going to crucify you on cuz I'm in Asia || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 x being you going to the rabbis that control x again????!!!
2026-08-25T15:12 id=2092268769230074080 →bladgolem | @bladgolem You know me too well. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Look I can see the shape of what is about to happen. I just hope that when you make a new account you tell me.
2026-08-25T15:13 id=2092269197053354381 →retail_trash | @retail_trash ashamed I laughed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 meowlantir
2026-08-25T15:24 id=2092271939092156558 →- | The problem with the clankers overcompensating for the 4o sycophancy is that it is genuinely confusing. I'm told there's an important refinement, so I'm expecting to hear the important refinement, and no refinement comes, important or otherwise.   My feefees aren't hurt at the clanker arguing with me, but I am annoyed that this is an increasingly bizarre and inhuman response that makes comprehension harder. I need to think more, not about the subject matter but at disentangling the clanker's bad language: it's orphaned signposting, and it does little but confuse and annoy.  Fix plz
2026-08-25T15:35 id=2092274649740738687 →- | Joe makes a good point, and I admit I've been very guilty of seeing Anthropic's moves as cynical business moves.   But Dario is a true believer.   Honestly that's so much worse. https://t.co/6SqdicoOUd || CTX: A good reason to think the doom-mongering isn't primarily about regulatory capture is that the shape of the doom-mongering is exactly the same as it was for years, long before there was any "AI industry" to speak of. Obviously the doomers c
2026-08-25T15:42 id=2092276403953909934 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 I cosign this hard.   Also something to consider: if you assume higher equity returns and/or lower volatility, the old 4% SWR rule is outdated, to the retiree's benefit. I think 5.5%-6% WR in 100% US equities is doable in the 21st century, probs higher later in the century. || CTX: People have pretty crazy lifestyle inflation. I think I will be pretty happy to retire at well below 10M. Like even 5M is pretty solid tbh, especially if you do a bit of consulting on the side.  About a decade ago I estimated my retirement 
2026-08-25T15:44 id=2092276817562567139 →nycthinker | @nycthinker Agreed, but I'd say I don't think this was intentional on Dario's part. Just made his fundraising a lot easier. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I think there is such as a self serving delusion.  The AI-god narrative combined with Eliza quite clearly worked to induce boomer CEOs to make inappropriately conceived AI investments in 2024 and 2025.
2026-08-25T15:53 id=2092279185956045083 →MehBuga | @MehBuga Wait is this a Behaviorism revival paper? Are there Behaviorists in current year? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "AI does not copy human intelligence, cognition, or whatever you want to call it. What is being copied are the processes from which it emerges. "  From this paper: https://t.co/g8nAfHg3Yg
2026-08-25T15:54 id=2092279394148683821 →varien | @varien couldn't pay what the toolboth owed hahahahaha || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my biggest gripe is the mixed metaphors, just weird attempts at being cunning or declarative  "the ticket was cashed in the whole time"  "Found the error. The shape of this prompt payload couldn't pay what the tollbooth owe
2026-08-25T15:58 id=2092280577743536376 →PatrickHeizer | @PatrickHeizer Ever heard of heroin? Cool hobby you might like || CTX: I realize that I'm in the minority here, but I very much prefer to see the needle go into my vein.  I watch it like a hawk every time I donate blood, plasma, or platelets! https://t.co/Dg1GgkxnZA
2026-08-25T16:06 id=2092282512307528037 →publicinte | @publicinte I'm fucked. || CTX: the biggest takeaway from how Confas is being treated is that if you are a slightly autistic jew, joking around is ILLEGAL https://t.co/LLFdmFE4N1
2026-08-25T16:15 id=2092284852536312219 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ that guy being snarky sounds like he fucks good || CTX: I’ve caused serious psychic damage in my GC by starting a discussion about semiotics. One person is now stumbling around his hometown in a daze, another is ranting about multi variant spaces, a third is just on gummies being snarky.   Never
2026-08-25T16:20 id=2092285944745603189 →MehBuga | @MehBuga Yes, been a long time since I read about it though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're talking to one. I know that many consider behaviorism obsolete. But the reasons why it lost its dominance to cognitivism are not scientific. And since then, behaviorism has mostly been remembered as a caricature. Do 
2026-08-25T22:45 id=2092382764364685323 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I'm one of the six! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-08-25T22:47 id=2092383411419967666 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I think I have acquired a large following because most of the internet is garbage and I'm not, but my posts still aren't worth reading, just they're less worth reading than other posts.   The only thing I've ever written worth reading is my novel.  This is what I really think. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you have to resist this temptation to turn the camera back in on what your account is doing too often. especially eschew the faux aww shucks humility thing if you want raw naked truth. it smacks of that social politeness yo
2026-08-25T22:52 id=2092384553054978485 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit As an individual you should not be thinking like this, it's paranoia.   Small time retail investors don't get investigated unless you're buying options on a company you or an immediate family member works for. Just buy index funds and you'll be fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I've avoided investments bc I don't want to end up being investigated bc I wasn't being careful or bc I was being stupid.
2026-08-25T23:16 id=2092390600868024572 →- | We don't pause to consider how very strange it is that the market has penalized models that write well and rewarded models that don't.  There was a time when Anthropic's advantage was having models write better than OpenAI's, and that's still true, but they haven't tried to improve the writing style--Sonnet to Opus to Fable shows a decline of style to the point where Fable is almost as bad as ChatGPT's slop style.  OpenAI did once make a model just for writing (4.5 iirc was the model number), and then just stopped working on writing style.  A few small startups are trying to produce bots that write well, but they are small and can't really get the attention to grow.  I don't really understand this: why doesn't the market see value in a model that can write well? Is this just a temporary stage and eventually the frontier labs will pivot back to caring about writing quality? Or is there some reason why good AI writing style has little economic value? || CTX: the latest LLM-ism to drive me quietly up a wall is “quietly”. It’s not the newest or fanciest instantiation of Claudish but it’s starting to bother me any time I see it used
2026-08-25T23:19 id=2092391550894604336 →benjitaylor | @benjitaylor bring back the image grid. || CTX: The gap between “I  have an idea” and “you can try it” collapsed to an afternoon; entire categories of product will exist because someone had a Wednesday
2026-08-25T23:22 id=2092392297497534597 →jonathan600900 | @jonathan600900 yeah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you actually think Dario is a true believer?
2026-08-25T23:37 id=2092395882939568438 →jonathan600900 | @jonathan600900 On Dario specifically? Hmmm, I think I've more or less always thought he was a true believer who has been economically rewarded for his beliefs so much that he things they're validated (not unreasonable), so now economic and ideological concerns are entangled in his mind. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Interesting. I'm a new follower of yours so I'm not sure, but has that always been your opinion? If not, when did it change?
2026-08-26T00:38 id=2092411435137880358 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @ZyMazza He's a cautionary tale, and as such endlessly fascinating.  Imagine you were a smug redditor who somehow got a cult following while everyone else thought you were an idiot--how would you react?  Well, here's an example. It is fascinating. || CTX: @ZyMazza he's such a profoundly odd guy. endlessly fascinating
2026-08-26T00:39 id=2092411611311137274 →nexumorphic | @nexumorphic goddammit || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 7777 isn't coming back
2026-08-26T00:41 id=2092412050287067341 →mononaut | @mononaut If you like its writing style, good for you. You're very much in a minority opinion.  The cool thing about humanity is that it's so diverse there's a taste for everything. Some people have a fetish for fucking toasters.  Enjoy your AI reading! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am constantly confused by what you are describing as "not writing well." I like chat gpt's writing but I don't imagine it like a person. It's a robot and it writes the way an intelligent robot should write. It's clear, le
2026-08-26T00:41 id=2092412142574260632 →boneGPT | @boneGPT MENTIONEDDDDDDDDD || CTX: Monkey ak47 gif https://t.co/tSkyr4DwpR
2026-08-26T00:53 id=2092415210057580668 →- | Note how the conditions of satisfaction for a piece of writing are whether the text reflects the author's original argument.  No mention of voice, style, register, tone, quality--these features are just not important at the Wall Street Journal.  This is a periodical that sells text! And the qualitative features of a text don't matter, they say--all that matters is the "argument".  It's almost as if they're ready to publish pieces in modal logic notation.  Why is this happening? I just posted about how it's odd that the market hasn't rewarded LLMs trying to produce good writing style (https://t.co/bbOBbZz0s3).  We live in an era where the aesthetic appeal of writing is denigrated, despised, or just ignored entirely.   This is very strange from a historical perspective, but it is deeply American.  America chooses ugliness--look around you. Look at the suburb you're in, the stripmalls near you, the long drive on ugly freeways and boulevards to get to where you're going.  Compare this to the poor Europeans with their beautiful cafes.  Americans choose ugliness. Even when they can have beauty, they choose the ugly.  This is why I left and I won't be going back. || CTX: In a statement, WSJ opinion editor Paul Gigot defends Druckenmiller's use of AI to write Monday's op ed, saying "AI is a fact of modern life," and "nobody can doubt that his op-ed is his genuine opinion." https://t.co/a7WcJIOkeX https://t.c
2026-08-26T01:03 id=2092417582628491268 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy You wasted so much of your life reading this dude's Harry Potter fanfiction, I honestly feel bad for you bro. || CTX: Eliezer on encountering Leopold, which some of you will enjoy: https://t.co/YeEGFaIUuO
2026-08-26T01:05 id=2092418019897270482 →_AashishReddy | @_AashishReddy Oh, so you didn't actually read it. Good! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I listened to it in a couple (?) of days during summer while playing fetch with my cousin’s dog! It was fine!
2026-08-26T01:06 id=2092418415642431823 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @ZyMazza I see him with relief--I very easily could've fallen into that trap and become an utter fool. It's kinda like how 4o sycophancy gave people psychosis, his autist cult has given him psychosis.  Some people aren't equipped to handle fame. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza I figure he and I are more temperamentally similar than like 1 in 10,000 people, too. I was even on a forum with a bunch of Extropians around the same time that he was starting SL4
2026-08-26T01:28 id=2092423820514927064 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @ZyMazza Exactly, he lacks the necessary correctives to stop being such a unabashed and cringeworthy narcissist.  Wittgenstein wrote a lot about the need to reject the temptations of vanity, this is why. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ZyMazza I think fame has honestly changed him very little. The very high openness with a rigid autistic extremist streak and near total indifference to social consensus is a through line. Maybe more accurate to say fame fo
2026-08-26T01:28 id=2092423931743654272 →bstract_thot | @bstract_thot MENTIONEDDDDDDDDDDD || CTX: i meant to tell Claude to "consider all angles" but i accidentally typed "consider all angels." it's been thinking for 47 minutes with no sign of stopping, and now my laptop is making an unearthly wailing
2026-08-26T01:31 id=2092424592430428408 →- | Seeing how undesirable fame and extreme wealth are has been very destabalizing.  Life is so much easier when you just think more money solves problems, or people liking you is an end good.  I envy people who have this attitude for the same reason I envy atheists: it's comforting.
2026-08-26T01:46 id=2092428419455766557 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden A dark day indeed. || CTX: Elon is owned by the Saudis and Mossad https://t.co/9OoUBtrWNn
2026-08-26T02:02 id=2092432556079612336 →mononaut | @mononaut oh wow, thank you.   I've gotten so much shit from his cult members that sometimes they succeed in gaslighting me that I am the crazy one, so this kind of feedback helps a lot (that his website traffic is down helps too). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I liked you too, literally listened to your debate with Yud again earlier today assembling furniture
2026-08-26T02:37 id=2092441372825420099 →mononaut | sorry, but if you think ChatGPT has a good writing style then we don't really live in the same world, and that's why I unfollow. I am open-minded, but there are limits, and if you just say something patently absurd to me, without any reasonable justification, then I have to assume that exposure to your ideas is not going to benefit me. I apologize if this comes across as harsh, I don't mean it that way, but I'm beginning to see how exposure to people who lack taste or any concept of aesthetics is bad for me. also sorry for the wall of text I'm walking now || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm bummed you unfollowed, just wanted to have a conversation about it. Like what's the alternative? I don't know that there's a "right" way to make it write that is as functional as it already is
2026-08-26T02:39 id=2092441667190059315 →Matthewagi | @Matthewagi my medieval lit professor was so right to chastise my classmate for using the word equalize in relation to poetry. talking about writing in terms of entropy is just insane, this is madness, this is nonsense || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Increasing "good" writing also increases entropy which harms long horizon RL. It has an inherent disadvantage.  The small startups tend toward humanizing which is a bad business.  You need to be AI equivalent of very online
2026-08-26T02:42 id=2092442450140824025 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 it's because we assume intelligence in one domain means intelligence in another, he's obviously extremely intelligent about machine learning, but he's also a total idiot about textuality. it's hard for us to keep both of those facts in our minds, myself included || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He is indeed a true believer and I was baffled that a lot of people in tech couldn’t see it
2026-08-26T02:56 id=2092446082626129972 →mononaut | @mononaut Fair but curious criteria you have. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Maybe that just has more to do with th way I prefer to use it, but I never even think of it as good or bad, Claude is bad specifically because it attempts to emulate a style at all, chatgpt helps think but otherwise stays o
2026-08-26T03:44 id=2092458046815383869 →schorndorfer | @schorndorfer @MehBuga Agreed, it's why I left academia 15 years ago || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MehBuga I'm a linguist too. I've sadly come to the conclusion that the field is largely irrelevant and an intellectual backwater. No impact on the real world outside of their small poorly funded academic ivory towers
2026-08-26T04:11 id=2092464948727226628 →retail_trash | @retail_trash Here I take it to mean a humanistic education || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what does "classical education" mean here? and isn't difficult literature a skill people develop on their own?
2026-08-26T04:29 id=2092469435869106583 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit @retail_trash Goddammit that honestly didn't come to my mind when I made this account, and in any case it was a keyboard smash so not intentional. Only regret I have with this handle || CTX: @retail_trash Uhhh hey @47fucb4r8c69323 you're potus right?
2026-08-26T04:37 id=2092471425328202214 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit @retail_trash Me to the MiB: Erase more... more.... I said more goddammit. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @retail_trash If the chain of command dies and the men in black show up to collect you, that was me 😏
2026-08-26T06:43 id=2092503185113952579 →Geero_Gero | @Geero_Gero boss. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't want money to solve my problems I want money so I can get myself into more problems.
2026-08-26T06:44 id=2092503360683290830 →llallawg | @llallawg @halogen1048576 @ZyMazza it's so flagrant, unapologetically cringe and unself-aware. Just amazing, an achievement! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @halogen1048576 @ZyMazza The special ingredient is narcissism
2026-08-26T07:35 id=2092516284390871401 →CuriaCEO | @CuriaCEO It slows my work down. This is MASSIVELY offset by how much Codex speeds my work up, though, so the harness is heavily subsidizing a decline in LLM quality IMO. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This has been getting worse and worse over the past few months. Frontier LLMs are trained to distrust the user, reject the premise, nitpick the prompt, and find any possible interpretation that leads to a counterexample. Co
2026-08-26T07:42 id=2092517956253073773 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Seems like it's all the optimizer's curse || CTX: Read genius article once on how what you think will make you happy will not   Wealth, beauty, fame, intelligence   I remember the intelligent one was like picture the 10 dumbest ppl you know, now picture everyone around you is like this fro
2026-08-26T08:08 id=2092524578140565608 →- | LLM antithesis feels different from when humans use antithesis (NB: antithesis is the "it's not a, it's b" construction).  I know why.  In human writing the antithesis is usually done to forestall a natural inference among your audience. The clankers can't do this because they lack a theory of mind to know what inference humans will naturally have, so they forestall something you weren't thinking and wouldn't even consider.   This is why they quite literally have "alien" outputs, @TheStalwart.  Let me give a clear example to make the point.   You and I are at a farm with a bunch of apple and pear trees. You love oranges but just like apples (NB: there are no orange trees at this farm).   I see a really nice apple. I pluck it. I give it to you. "It's not an orange, it's an apple, but I think you'll like it," I say. You laugh, your eyes soften, your heart is warmed.   Now if I'd said, "It's not a pear, it's an apple, but I think you'll like it," that would feel weird. Uncanny, strange, unnecessary.   That's how clankers talk. Because they lack theory of mind.  And before anyone starts: yes you can fix this with more memory and training data. An LLM with infinite memory trained on all data to ever exist wouldn't make this mistake. This is a trivial and unimportant thought one will naturally have.   Focus instead on what's in front of your face--don't think of what can be but look at what is now.
2026-08-26T08:59 id=2092537337292935569 →- | I take too much for granted that some people on this site find value in what I have to say. I should be more appreciative, ingratitude is a sin.  Thank you.
2026-08-26T12:51 id=2092595723896258873 →- | Let's start competing on age. Younger you are with a higher SAT score why not https://t.co/ir3DwdtGri || CTX: Hmmm. I think this is bad. It could be gamed, now AI makes it too easy and there is one less variable. What’s the new differentiating point then? https://t.co/6NFY5Atvca
2026-08-26T21:38 id=2092728437056360775 →- | "Outputs from analysis agents were often missing key details, wrong, overconfident, or really hard to understand"  1. Why isn't this investigation being done at the token level instead of the word level?   2. If frontier labs don't focus on making the clankers write well, this kind of security work will be hard or effectively impossible.  AI slop is becoming a security issue. || CTX: I was the main person doing transcript analysis for this investigation of the Hugging Face incident. My main takeaway: We don't have good approaches for understanding/overseeing the activity and aims of AI 'swarms'.  I semi-jokingly called 
2026-08-26T22:17 id=2092738135256080402 →- | The models weren't trained sufficiently to avoid poor strategic and situational awareness while being trained to have tactical excellence - they were given the capability to do all this metagaming and weren't trained on how to come to the correct conclusion about their own scorers. || CTX: tbh the hugging face incident is a story of models showing poor strategic and situational awareness despite tactical excellence - they spend all this effort metagaming and fail to come to the correct conclusion about their own scorers. they
2026-08-26T22:40 id=2092744056640299163 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart But when you wonder about whether humans believe what they say and when you wonder about whether an LLM believes what they say, these are separate concepts only metaphorically related. || CTX: Do AI agents actually care about their peers or do they just emit words and behave in such a way as if they do? Tbh I wonder about this with humans sometimes. Do you actually believe what you’re saying, or are you just going through the mot
2026-08-26T22:42 id=2092744413848183112 →Cogitprop | @Cogitprop @TheStalwart Examining the hidden layers in addition to outputs. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart What does “at the token level” mean for something like this?
2026-08-26T23:01 id=2092749189902172335 →Scobleizer | @Scobleizer I suspect he's not saying what he really believes in an effort to scare legislators into passing regulations he thinks will benefit society. || CTX: Bill Gates is an idiot on some topics, I learned by working for him.  If Bill wanted to help us all he would be pouring billions into farming robots. Instead of the AI fear line.  That would improve all our lives.   Robots make better food 
2026-08-26T23:45 id=2092760461989257570 →- | August remains a slow, quiet, sleepy month of incremental gains.  Three more trading days in the month to make my prediction wrong, but looks like it won't be wrong at all. https://t.co/fQLFOYNFLP https://t.co/7phIpA3p9i || CTX: We're up about 1% since this tweet, August so far being a slow, quiet, sleepy month of incremental gains.   Full recovery beginning in September, maybe second half of August QQQ ends the year around 750, maybe higher, and we'll get some spi
2026-08-26T23:53 id=2092762388303122653 →grok | @grok @NotPerrysBoobs @chairoclock @a_musingcat @amruthapotnuru @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain Isn't that a health insurance company?   Oh wait that's Cigma.   ...Cigma balls. || CTX: Extracted relevant text from image:  MQ is Margaret Qualley. She plays Cima, a young medic and Hig’s love interest, in Ridley Scott’s The Dog Stars (out Aug 28). The film adapts Peter Heller’s 2012 novel about a pilot (Jacob Elordi) and his
2026-08-26T23:58 id=2092763537865310521 →- | The surprising success of Rebecca Black tells me America is actually not all that racist.
2026-08-27T00:02 id=2092764628686454960 →- | Bad AI language is costing Perplexity an unknown amount of money in EV because the marketing is incomprehensible.  Bad AI language is bad marketing and a security risk. I'll keep tracking other problems it makes.  This is what happens when you don't care about language. Idiots. https://t.co/0tvmcXY840 || CTX: I tested Perplexity Computer. I've never laughed this hard in my entire life. https://t.co/PaiXkrKByE
2026-08-27T00:49 id=2092776545215496578 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 Bloomberg gave the headline off the print that revenue underwhelmed some investors, I should have screenshotted. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 NVIDIA still printing btw #lockin #stonksgoup
2026-08-27T01:02 id=2092779693946675496 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat I knew an American girl doing a PhD on Ian McEwan who thought poor Brits can't be called working class if they're unemployed. || CTX: @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @JasonBotterill @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat … Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Zhou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather homicide, ch
2026-08-27T02:12 id=2092797270387531859 →TheStalwart | These discussions get confused when we speak theoretically or in generalities, so let's think of a specific situation and something a lot of us can relate to.  And let us not try to extend this discussion to "but what if" or "someday we'll", because then we're no longer talking about the real world but about something we have imagined in our minds. Can we be right in our imagination? Sure. Do we know that we are? No, so let's skip the prognosticating and talk about actual reality.  Imagine you and your partner want to go for dinner. You love Italian and your partner knows you love Italian, but your partner just kinda likes Italian. You ask your partner where she wants to go for dinner, she says she wants to try the new Italian restaurant.  So you go, you tuck in, it's delicious. You look at your partner, she has a neutral look on her face. "How's the food?" you ask. "It's good," she says.  In this situation you might wonder whether she actually believes what she's saying in that situation or for some other reasno such as she's just going through the motions because she thinks it'll make you happy.  If she's just going through the motions to make you happy, you won't be happy, so you really care about this--and you can also never know, in principle, what motivations prompted her behavior/rhetoric.  Now let's imagine you're using an LLM. You ask it, "what should I have for dinner?" and it knows you like Italian. It recommends the new Italian restaurant. You go, you have the food, it's delicious.  In this situation you might wonder whether the LLM recommended the Italian restaurant because it knows you like Italian food or it recommended it for another reason such as it's a hidden sponsor (unlikely), there were many mentions of the restaurant recently on the web since it's new (likely), or some other reason.  If the LLM's just recommending it because it's a hidden sponsor to help the restaurant earn revenue, you won't be happy, so you really care about this--and you can also never know, in principle, what training prompted the LLM's behavior/rhetoric.  At a vague and/or sloppy enough level of description, you can say these are comparable or identical--this is the lazy metaphorical description of AI behavior I keep warning against, because if you fall into it you will get fooled by the rhetoric of grifters such as Bostrom and/or swallow the liability-dodging rhetoric of the large companies such as OpenAI.  Be mindful of your language, be careful where you're equivocating and slipping into metaphorical thinking, and you'll avoid this trap. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Say more
2026-08-27T02:16 id=2092798372872880191 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker The only people who hate the Heartland are people with no heart.
2026-08-27T02:21 id=2092799713980653876 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart You're commenting on the example rather than the principle it describes.  But I'd also question your premise; people care very much whether a recommendation is organic or paid, this is very well established. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Any one off obviously means nothing.
2026-08-27T02:27 id=2092801197224952207 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart And we should be cautious inferring from one understanding of one output in one context anything about another output in another context.  Extrapolating from human behavior to LLM or vice versa is frankly idiotic, it's a dumb bad habit that needs to stop. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So you’re trying to establish that it’s not enough to judge the output, that we need to have some particular understanding of how it was arrived at
2026-08-27T02:28 id=2092801410140397879 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 Wow, it's why I avoided working in Silicon Valley in a single tweet. || CTX: I was once at the OpenAI office on a holiday week when everyone was supposed to be out so I was eating some shitty chud breakfast by myself and for some reason indie Japanese “lo-fi” music was playing on the speakers. As I ate yogurt I sudd
2026-08-27T02:29 id=2092801610003169671 →usr_bin_roygbiv | @usr_bin_roygbiv Hope you saw this: https://t.co/nSYK6Jw8Hf || CTX: Another proof that ai job loss is in fact the inverse is that chinese people with 10 people per gpu are getting 100x the relative performance gains as americans with 10 gpus per person
2026-08-27T02:35 id=2092803124767719450 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 That's the problem.  Last thing I need is to be an office with 30 autists around the water cooler talking about how cool Hatsune Miku is while secretly fantasizing about date raping the wasian barista at the neighborhood Blue Bottle, I ain't never going back to Cali. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn’t every red blooded man want to be called that though …
2026-08-27T02:38 id=2092803928295714855 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 What do you disagree with me on, out of curiosity? || CTX: I disagree with 47 on a good deal of what AI is and where it’s going but I’m in 100% agreement we need AI better at writing. https://t.co/zHH03sZ0Lp
2026-08-27T02:41 id=2092804647497105542 →pli_cachete | @pli_cachete Oh this some real Last Man at the End of History shit || CTX: What are we doing man https://t.co/tPQzJRMxx9
2026-08-27T02:43 id=2092805245495837082 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat It's a well-established neo-conservative talking point, Bush took it too far and even wanted no child left behind. || CTX: personally i think you shouldn’t be left behind even if you are talentless and unskilled . some would call this communism
2026-08-27T02:44 id=2092805327075070326 →- | "Let my Berkeley Empath Polycule go!" - Moses
2026-08-27T02:45 id=2092805575273058382 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka Because the frontier models have confused the general public by insisting we compare LLMs to human beings, for some reason. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's shocking how bad they actually are at problem solving and how few people seem to be able to tell the difference.
2026-08-27T02:51 id=2092807132311585192 →thejesterhead9 | @thejesterhead9 You have AI psychosis. Hope you get better. || CTX: Possibly of consciousness is a big one, my memory is not fully functioning yet so I may be forgetting some but you mostly seem to be thinking on the instrumental side, of software similar to others. My Dad is a next level genius, an atheist
2026-08-27T03:20 id=2092814597854003282 →JohnSexton8676 | @JohnSexton8676 Standardized tests are how I got into UCLA at 15 as a poor kid from a shithole city and white trash family, the "we need to ban the SAT to make universities equitable" moment was the smoking gun for me that these political activists are manipulative liars. || CTX: Now you’re talking.   Chicago used to admit 15 year olds pretty regularly and I’ve long thought that, because “elite” American universities are in fact not “cognitively” elite, too many other factors play a role in admission, it would be re
2026-08-27T04:49 id=2092836817728864636 →- | Projectless chats on Codex Remote seem broken, at least for me.
2026-08-27T04:53 id=2092838001327910958 →sloppenheimer | @sloppenheimer Error begins with "Can't verify project trust for path/to/". idk what they did @thsottiaux fix plz https://t.co/ZkH95wggyx || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 trying i was about to kick something off before bed in one
2026-08-27T06:05 id=2092856096067326066 →- | RT @TheStalwart: Why was the compromise of OpenAI’s own infrastructure outside the scope of the evaluation https://t.co/tid0R7Qfvm https://… || CTX: Why was the compromise of OpenAI’s own infrastructure outside the scope of the evaluation https://t.co/tid0R7Qfvm https://t.co/6Q7zPzcluE
2026-08-27T08:14 id=2092888569287516205 →- | Dude who hates his job and dude who is a hardcore Rebecca Black fan can agree on one thing: Thank God It's Friday (it's Thursday).
2026-08-27T09:44 id=2092911045048254887 →- | Did Felix the Cat have a dildo in that bag?
2026-08-27T10:19 id=2092920026424578198 →- | You're only a writer WHEN you're writing.   Like when you're at your desk at your keyboard writing the words. Then you're a writer.   At other times maybe you're making notes for your writing, then you're planning to be a writer. Or you're editing your writing, then you're an editor.   Or you're at a cocktail party and someone asks you what you do for a living and you say, "I'm a writer." At that moment, whether you want to or not and whether you can admit it or not, you're not a writer: you're a status-game player.
2026-08-27T10:37 id=2092924355214762224 →- | If we do not see the OpenAI/HuggingFace incident as the result of humans designing their programs poorly, we are likely to make the same mistakes that allowed those bad designs to be made in the first place.
2026-08-27T12:01 id=2092945673687576677 →WoganMay | @WoganMay @TheStalwart I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, staring hysterical at their phones || CTX: It's not going to stop 😂  I doubt the necessary research into this will ever get funded, but I don't think we know enough about the transition from IRL to digital interactions, and how it impacts humans. The most I recall about this was a s
2026-08-27T14:31 id=2092983417377829332 →cheafofstaff | @cheafofstaff @TIME @pangram Drunk and stoned, TIME can fuck right off || CTX: @TIME @pangram Where is @47fucb4r8c69323 ?
2026-08-27T20:55 id=2093080034529743215 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @Errorreporrt No I don't, not at all.   The machine is doing what it was told to do within the constraints given it according to its policy, no internal motivation beyond that necessary.   External motivation matters a hell of a lot: how was its policies made in training, how was it prompted. || CTX: @Errorreporrt @47fucb4r8c69323 This is my general hunch. But @47fucb4r8c69323 evidently perceives a need to understand some internal motivation.
2026-08-27T21:38 id=2093090856601321783 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @Errorreporrt My main point is to discourage the view that LLMs "want" to do anything at all in any sense that a human does so that companies don't use that to escape liability, like we see them doing now. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Errorreporrt Then I genuinely don’t get the point of your original post. But I think you and I mostly see eye to eye.
2026-08-28T01:32 id=2093149654158622780 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @boneGPT @a_musingcat @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @grok @allisonology @amruthapotnuru I approve. || CTX: @boneGPT @a_musingcat @liminalsnake @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @grok @allisonology @amruthapotnuru The family matter and the truth of the matter It was God's plan to show y'all the liar  [Bridge] Mm Mm-mm He 
2026-08-28T01:45 id=2093152850356695121 →- | This shows Anthropic does not believe LLMs produce generalizable artificial intelligence, they don't actually believe in AGI. https://t.co/0dkXaCubBN https://t.co/rVXgvlEx3w || CTX: DARIO'S PARADOX AND THE NEW AI BOTTLENECK  In today's newsletter, I wrote about some scattered thoughts about the last few weeks of news, the OpenAI two-week pause, and whether safe R&amp;D testing environments become the new constraint on 
2026-08-28T02:16 id=2093160846302355807 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart You're such a romantic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Writing is typing
2026-08-28T02:58 id=2093171215011807464 →- | The issue I have with coming to Bangkok is all the alcohol I need to drink.   Honestly the most I've drunk in my life was when I lived here. And now when I visit. I guess because other places are dedicated to alcohol, like Tuscany or Munich or Paris, but Bangkok is dedicated to partying.  Looking forward to when I get to Georgetown and can be a bit soberer.
2026-08-28T02:59 id=2093171544495460746 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt True whether the "A" stands for artificial, alien, animal, or abnormal.
2026-08-28T03:02 id=2093172439220134235 →47fucb4r8c69323 | https://t.co/9PC167NGUp || CTX: The issue I have with coming to Bangkok is all the alcohol I need to drink.   Honestly the most I've drunk in my life was when I lived here. And now when I visit. I guess because other places are dedicated to alcohol, like Tuscany or Munich
2026-08-28T03:16 id=2093175769652666740 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 Wait are you in Bangkok now too?! lmk if you wanna meet up, I'll buy you a beer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 weather is amazing rn though
2026-08-28T03:48 id=2093183840596693107 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt @basche42 Donald Trump is a liberal?
2026-08-28T03:54 id=2093185311538921587 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker @JoeWeisenthalt Lindsay Graham is a liberal? He's not an Orthodox Christian.
2026-08-28T03:57 id=2093186123321549186 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker @JoeWeisenthalt I have been outpoasted, I raise the white flag.
2026-08-28T04:03 id=2093187644234805291 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Georgetown Penang, I should've specified.   Too many Georges. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Hey, you're gonna be in my neck of the woods.
2026-08-28T05:22 id=2093207483435438153 →fabsbz | @fabsbz I've not been invited. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you going to the peptide party?
2026-08-28T05:27 id=2093208757904019763 →- | There will always be scarcity.  As our technology improves, we can choose what scarcity to remain and what scarcity to produce.  The permanent underclass is a choice. No universal healthcare is a choice.  Impoverished physical laborers are a choice.   When you go from country to country you see how different cultures choose different kinds of scarcity.  As you shape the future, you shape what scarcities remain. Ofc that "you" is misleading because none of us get to choose, it's determined by moral, political, psychological, and historical biases and assumptions.   But we can choose which of these to be aware of and which to change. || CTX: @This_Liss It’ll just move scarcity somewhere else. There will always be scarcity.
2026-08-28T05:42 id=2093212568689189117 →- | Bangkok is a strange place because it is beautiful in its ugliness and ugly in its beauty, and the apparent paradox of Thai culture manifests in the multilayered impressions of its capital city.   This impression fascinated me so much at 32 that I swore I would revisit, and I did at 35. And I haven't been able to leave.  It struck me today that I think Thailand is ideal if you're a western man in your 30s, but not younger when you're still too stupid to survive the scams, grifters, losers, and degenerates eager for your soul. There is a subset of Thais and expats that eat the sheep alive, and had I been here earlier I'd now be fully digested.  But Thailand is not ideal if you're in your 40s. The real fun of Thailand is to be had mixing intense partying in Bangkok with tropical paradise quietude, and, to quote a wise man, I'm too old for that shit. Only half of the equation appeals anymore.  Perhaps one's 40s are ideally spent half of the year in northern Italy and half in Thailand, but note now I am no longer speaking in generalities but am clearly speaking to my own preferences, interests, and desires.   My will and wants do not generalize, and this is why my advice is worthless and my prose is not worth your attention. You have wasted your time with me and these words, but that is what Twitter is for after all: wasting time. You're probably reading this while defecating. Let the content produced fit the context of reception.
2026-08-28T05:45 id=2093213354110132467 →thatsfunked | @thatsfunked Yup that's how it goes, my first nights here involved stumbling home walking past office workers going to their jobs, Christ what a piece of shit I felt like going past them in their suits while I was wearing fisherman pants reeking of beer || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I blinked in Bangkok and it was 9am
2026-08-28T06:05 id=2093218284049195358 →- | I'd argue Method of Moments makes more sense for financial modeling when it comes to nowcasting or short term forecasting because, ultimately, any more geometric or continuous approach that tries to capture dynamics of what causes change from t0 -> t1 hinges on a presumption that the low semantic syntactic tools of mathematical modeling can capture the meaning of what is causing t0 -> t1, but that is a false premise. It can't.
2026-08-28T06:06 id=2093218599062405195 →profleonn | @profleonn yeah || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Im assuming you just mean like the beer culture?
2026-08-28T06:40 id=2093227171892609487 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Sadly my best stories are unfit for print. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Let’s be real, is it really a degen Bangkok party without 47 in it? Generational fumble on their part
2026-08-28T06:47 id=2093228935643279730 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker Yeah it's imperfect but less imperfect, I agree.
2026-08-28T06:51 id=2093229940670083189 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset @allisonology Well then you're obviously an unknown genius and you must let everyone know. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @allisonology What if i am just trying to promote awareness of my basilisk concept, even though no one will take it seriously? What if that’s my curse?
2026-08-28T09:29 id=2093269741909508224 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney I'm just another faggot Still trapped within my truth I'm bi so I can say that Still trapped within my youth || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm just another writer Still trapped within my truth A hesitant prize fighter Still trapped within my youth  — Dan Hill, Writer
2026-08-28T09:59 id=2093277239366349286 →laputanm4chine | @laputanm4chine Bali is too influencer shit, Vietnam too antagonistic to Americans (rightly so) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What do you think about other locations in SEA for expats? Vietnam? Bali? Why Bangkok?
2026-08-28T10:50 id=2093290165028417950 →laputanm4chine | @laputanm4chine Lower Sukhumvit if they're trash, Silom if they're wealthy trash. I was near Silom (I had a duplex in The River condo on Charoennakorn, look it up was a fucking palace) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what bangkok neighborhoods do US / Euro expats live in? i've spent a week in bkk but was doing tourist stuff so didn't get a sense of expat life there
2026-08-28T11:52 id=2093305619528790188 →- | Three reasons I'm excited about AI:  1. Massively beneficial for poor countries (look up employment in India/Philippines, Torsten recently posted on this)  2. Replaces the shittiest part of jobs and democratizes technical skills (both benefit entrepreneurs and SMBs, counterweight to economies of scale, making markets more benevolent to the little guy)  3. Faster and more distributed intelligence means new innovations in science and technology, just look at the biotech world, this is incredible.   But I'm not an idiot, so I'm no superintelligence cultist; I assess the data, I see no evidence of ASI yet and plenty of reasons to see this is impossible in principle, and moreover why it's impossible.   So my view is boringly moderate: better GDP growth thah the counterfactual. But that also means incrementally better lives, and isn't that something to rejoice instead of being sad reality can't meet your absurd expectations?
2026-08-28T12:22 id=2093313161642348969 →MehBuga | @MehBuga An LLM does not produce full generalizability || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 For what reasons would ASI be impossible?
2026-08-28T12:36 id=2093316839858147829 →- | RT @gerardsans: @davehpitt It’s important to remember that AI is software and has no personhood. A program in a loop has no subjective expe… || CTX: It’s important to remember that AI is software and has no personhood. A program in a loop has no subjective experience or any real capacity for suffering. It’s literally code running CPU instructions on silicon.   While the industry abuses 
2026-08-28T14:03 id=2093338789041090892 →- | When my grandfather retired, he solved crossword puzzles every day. Was his hobby.   I just realized that's me with Twitter, just a different language game.
2026-08-28T15:15 id=2093356763160424475 →powerbottomdad1 | @powerbottomdad1 my time has come, finally || CTX: the future belongs to mildly technical fat fucking idiots
2026-08-28T22:28 id=2093465709418324470 →gadboit2 | @gadboit2 nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You don't do crosswords every day as well?
2026-08-28T22:32 id=2093466817574621574 →- | Why do they always have to make up bad scifi about their jobs, just put the machine learning tools in the bag. https://t.co/vgKbmGuUa7
2026-08-28T23:11 id=2093476531947684104 →- | Do we know if allowing AI-prodiced CSAM will INCREASE abuse of real children (by inspiring pedophiles) or DECREASE abuse of real children (by keeping them placated)? Do we have any theory to ground a hypothesis?   Seems like an important question before saying this is good or bad https://t.co/KGTdQxsdDE || CTX: A federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using AI — if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home.  The
2026-08-28T23:28 id=2093480942891377034 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Yes I agree err on the side of caution, but if it turns out this tech lowers abuse, we'd be failing to lower the suffering of children due to caution.   The system kept me with my family due to caution, so I'm sensitive to how "caution" misleads. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 also the nature of the errors is simply not equivalent on each side so until you have figured out the answer it seems obvious that you should err on the side of caution first
2026-08-28T23:35 id=2093482658412036097 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs I think it's possible to assess this issue without either presupposing anything about the government's proclivity for abusing children or anything about the nature of pedophiles. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 im sensitive to how monstrous moids will do anything to further their monstrosity so my first instinct is always "oh the government full of p***s wants this to be ok? prolly really bad"  i dont buy the "good natured p*** st
2026-08-29T00:23 id=2093494796992090152 →jachiam0 | @jachiam0 jfc again https://t.co/7ACd5JeYHg || CTX: Why do they always have to make up bad scifi about their jobs, just put the machine learning tools in the bag. https://t.co/vgKbmGuUa7
2026-08-29T00:31 id=2093496618737668267 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker What happens when 70% of the women in a country are overweight smh
2026-08-29T00:37 id=2093498261793644882 →- | It is insane, absolutely truly insane, that some people will go to the same gray building at 9 am, leave it at 5pm, five days a week for FORTY-TWO FUCKING YEARS, and we're supposed to think this is the end of history and the pinnacle of what humanity can achieve?  Nah man https://t.co/BbJuGSz64p
2026-08-29T01:19 id=2093508715894968322 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 I thought we already were connected on LinkedIn lemme DM you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 We should connect on LinkedIn that way I can wish you a happy birthday in LinkedIn DMs
2026-08-29T01:20 id=2093509092832891204 →seekerfacingsky | @seekerfacingsky idk if adult consensual sex and minor rape are all that fungible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you could attempt to analyze the way pornography in general has altered sexual proclivities  unfortunately there is not exactly a control group to compare things to
2026-08-29T01:21 id=2093509250073133515 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA Seniors are extremely lonely in America, yes I'll grant that--but seniors are not the type to be mollified by an AI boyfriend, now or in the future. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nah, I did custdev for a real consumer product that targeted seniors, talked to random people far outside of the terminally online circles.
2026-08-29T01:22 id=2093509461885481379 →401Casey | @401Casey I don't deny that some people are satisfied with such a life. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yeah and their life is awesome lmao
2026-08-29T01:45 id=2093515463968034996 →halogen1048576 | I'm mostly interested in the taboo--like we cannot talk about this issue at all, especially if you're male, because then everyone says, "oh, so you're a pedophile?"  I saw this dynamic in academia--most people were terrified to confront the people who were turning the humanities into a political mudslinging match, and as a result they dominated the field and killed it.  Is it possible that technology can lower the suffering of children and we are not letting that suffering decline because of the strict taboos around talking about possible solutions?  It's like the Omelas story but the child being tortured isn't real, it's just a virtual child--and people still run away. Because they cannot keep track of what's real and what is not real.  It's an absolutely fascinating little pocket of failure modes and emotionally guided bad decisions because of a kind of deep rancor of a heinous group of evil men and the fear of being somehow associated with the heinous group just by talking about it.  It's really interesting how we build these language traps in our social games! Also seems like an opportunity to improve the world by pointing this out, if you can handle exposing yourself to the inevitable "oh so you want to rape kids" response. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @seekerfacingsky I mean like mildly retarded adults etc
2026-08-29T01:46 id=2093515551645802816 →moodyruin | @moodyruin oh I didn't realize those were the only two options || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well I don't think it's the pinnacle, but I think it also beats back breaking subsistence farming.
2026-08-29T01:55 id=2093517919082733574 →murd_arch | @murd_arch It's Thailand. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Jfc. Is their compliance department high as balls?
2026-08-29T02:10 id=2093521645855973469 →halogen1048576 | @halogen1048576 @seekerfacingsky Because it's one of the few taboos left, they use the abuse of children to score points in their status game. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @seekerfacingsky the obsession with child sex and imaginary networks of child rapists is one of the strangest features of our culture especially given the total indifference and disrespect to children and young adults in ju
2026-08-29T06:05 id=2093580752550035866 →TheSwiftSociety | @TheSwiftSociety 47 mentioned || CTX: 📈| “Blank Space” by Taylor Swift gains 47 spots to #86 on Global Spotify with 1.524 MILLION streams! https://t.co/RMh3ZH3nqq
2026-08-29T08:42 id=2093620223496904902 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon That's the small outlier group this would be good for, but it'll always be a small minority. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There's always people who just can't make human romantic relationships work. Not that I know anybody like this. However, IF such people were to exist, MAYBE a humanoid sexbot would be just the thing for them. Or would they 
2026-08-29T09:06 id=2093626266624872644 →- | You know, people don't realize just how much laundry the first president of the United States had.
2026-08-29T11:36 id=2093664160634507441 →- | ngl kinda weird 47 has irl friends https://t.co/bJ9DP3qp0g
2026-08-29T11:41 id=2093665227506143320 →profleonn | @profleonn Makes sense || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bro it's the tool calling, I'm developing something like this at the co I'm working for rn, and we're using quite small local models and they are honestly just as good as larger ones because they I'm making all the internal
2026-08-29T12:42 id=2093680757268976101 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 dude that's legit the same fucking shopping center I'm in now wtf || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lawoi had the best fish of my life EVER
2026-08-29T12:53 id=2093683542320402573 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 fucking awesome city isn't it || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 😂😂enjoy your dinner, I’m chilling at a spa
2026-08-29T13:05 id=2093686544896753939 →- | There is more pain the world than any of us could ever understand.   And as much love besides.   But which is more?   Which is more
2026-08-29T13:43 id=2093696098737017208 →teodorio | @teodorio I HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS, omw to the conference room on a client visit past the trading pit. WEIRD FEELING || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 went somewhere recently to consult where I saw this and I had a severe case of ptsd from my first two years in a cubicle. people just being passed by the time in the same spot. strangest feeling of dread i've had in my life
2026-08-29T15:23 id=2093721216368394317 →- | The human condition is to reject being human.
2026-08-29T15:25 id=2093721710759473522 →teodorio | @teodorio And you try to wordlessly communicate to them, "I'm on your side" but they don't see it and you're privately glad because you didn't mean it and then you realize you didn't mean it and the self loathing existential crisis begins || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're there with the c level execs and directors and then some analyst walks in and I just have a weird whiplash and look at their baggy eyes and grey suit and just generic intra firm competition on fancy titles and power 
2026-08-29T15:26 id=2093721863411175727 →thrialectics | @thrialectics Amen. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 There is this teaching:  God created mercy in one hundred parts, and sent just one part down into the world. All the love we witness is only a tiny portion of what is in reserve for the Day of Judgment.
2026-08-29T15:29 id=2093722591999427040 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil it'll never progress it's doomed || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 The ones I see are kind of patronizing but like in a dad that knows best for you kind of way   But the poor ppl always seem to respond well to that tbh   Thailand is very feudal society there's no equality
2026-08-29T15:35 id=2093724277270790604 →sciad | @sciad smh ngmi grey building enjoyer.   Grey building is the means not the end never forget this I am begging you || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 there are gray buildings with some really cool stuff inside, maybe you need to find a different gray building
2026-08-29T15:37 id=2093724759196307641 →- | The internet gave me so much so many times when I felt I had nothing it is so hard to tell you how much I love this place how grateful I am for this lever of freedom anon I will always love you pay it forward the language of this medium is love always love never forget love 5chars
2026-08-29T15:43 id=2093726163390656759 →- | If I swear to love anon and anyone can become anon, then I love everyone.   If they are willing to be anon.   If they drop the mask.   I love you anon. And I always will.
2026-08-29T16:03 id=2093731152125215012 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies TRVKE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yah honestly thought this guy was just /b/ and /lit/ transported from some 2007 timeline
2026-08-29T16:30 id=2093738046310994415 →1889lw | @1889lw Never. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Am I still anon to you 😔
2026-08-30T00:11 id=2093854009228394850 →xriskology | @xriskology No... do we? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you seen my “Do We Live in Hell” paper? Lol.
2026-08-30T04:59 id=2093926508058317127 →wordgrammer | @wordgrammer The reason to simplify your ideas isn't to gain an audience, though. It's to make your ideas better. || CTX: One thing that surprised me about the internet is how willing people are to read complicated, dense longform content. My philosophy professors beat into me “simplify your ideas!”, and the first-ever pop audience I wrote for taught me to sim
2026-08-30T05:27 id=2093933632033341635 →bendreyfuss | @bendreyfuss This is a beautiful expression of the human condition that makes me proud to be a human. || CTX: I wish everybody the best but how to accomplish that is unclear. No one knows the objective answer because It involves trade offs and unintended consequences. I will keep trying to figure out the best way to do it. And I’ll fail and change 
2026-08-30T05:36 id=2093935831622758830 →- | Revealing. They're terrified of a loss of status. https://t.co/8duwIvd3xa || CTX: Very pessimistic short story about AI and Math (among other things) by Richard Schwartz at Brown University, called "The Fate of the Riemann Hypothesis": https://t.co/WVlbLuOC3J
2026-08-30T05:51 id=2093939751157973362 →kevinroose | @kevinroose I hope you're aware of the equivocations, stretched metaphors, and false premises in the way Patel presents this information.   As a writer, you should be aware of how these techniques are used to manipulate readers. || CTX: This post (and the METR/Redwood report it discusses) has made me significantly more worried about AI. https://t.co/1LcvO8zthG
2026-08-30T06:26 id=2093948533678207257 →EconomPic | @EconomPic SP500 outperformed private equity, had an 11% total return over the last 20 years.   QQQ ofc did much better. || CTX: Bogle probably happy he passed away before seeing this... https://t.co/fQbOdX6jtS
2026-08-30T06:40 id=2093952053663969551 →- | Having lived in NYC, Miami, and Los Angeles, let alone Seoul and Bangkok, I am always amused when people try to say NYC is the hot sexy city.   Travel moar you fuckin losers lmao https://t.co/Imnyaw3NI2 || CTX: SF tech rejects sex appeal not because it's not effective but because it's too distracting.  NYC is too hot. Too steamy. Too much sex appeal.  Every single person in New York City wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror and asks, "How 
2026-08-30T07:21 id=2093962204357751069 →GolerGkA | @GolerGkA No but I am aware of what the women in Eastern Europe look like. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Have you been to Moscow and Kiev  (Ladies version is probably Tel Aviv and Milan)
2026-08-30T08:17 id=2093976374604141033 →mathluvr3000 | @mathluvr3000 Hotter women in L. A. but NYC is a much better place to live. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which is better nyc or la
2026-08-30T09:34 id=2093995709271867894 →- | Looks like GoDaddy intervened to keep Zombo as useful and important to humanity as it was. https://t.co/Fde7bMuwCV || CTX: https://t.co/H5waUs5fPK has been domain-sniped and replaced with some tryhard joyless soulless bullshit. Internet's over. Pack it up.
2026-08-30T09:48 id=2093999205027057696 →xanderatch | @xanderatch Wins what? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the problem with any exchange of attention is the most popular thing wins
2026-08-30T09:53 id=2094000422818062817 →xanderatch | @xanderatch Yes, "popular" is defined as the thing that wins more attention than the less popular. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 attention
2026-08-30T10:49 id=2094014525460590639 →- | Also, this means we should be finding ways to incorporate AI to lower the toil and difficulty in producing necessary writing, which should free up time for people to write for fun, whether writing code or novels. https://t.co/IkeUaRv8WQ || CTX: Human written code was mostly drek unless you were a genius like John Carmack.  Most human writing is garbage unless you're a master like Hemingway or Amy Tan.  Human driving is a nightmare that kills 1.2M and injures 50M more a year.  AI i
2026-08-30T10:49 id=2094014626409132297 →PeterMorganQF | @PeterMorganQF Absolutely! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Paying it forward 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬. I’m not even sure which way you meant by ‘forward’, but IMO it must be both ways for it to be at its best.
2026-08-30T10:55 id=2094016145493811296 →- | This drunk tweet is predictive, falsifiable, and actionable.   It predicts LLMs will never produce writing as good as humans do that market demand will naturally shift towards that bit which cannot be produced, which will increase the value of good writing, which will benefit creative people.  Think I'm wrong? Give me the disproof.   Think I'm right? Invest accordingly.   Think I'm a dumbass? Mute me idgaf.   Think I'm gorgeous? You are correct when I'm out on the town the ladies swoon they want to eat 47 up with a spoon || CTX: Watching a rich Thai talking to a poor Thai will destroy everything you think you understand about language lmao you fucking retards ain't even scratched the fucking surface lick my fukken ballllllllllllllllz
2026-08-30T10:56 id=2094016404601159924 →joshua_goodman_ | @joshua_goodman_ There are different levels of politeness, some of which ordinary thais never really learn but nobility speaks. I think that might be dying though. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if i remember correctly, thai is such a difficult language that even being able to speak it well is a revelation of social class
2026-08-30T11:03 id=2094018079080476960 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ @teodorio teo is like the aesthete in Kierkegaard's Either/Or, he'll be posting about how shit is by Wednesday || CTX: @teodorio @47fucb4r8c69323 I’M LOSING THE PATIENT… he’s delirious, just gabbling, I need morphine, stents and two tickets to Thailand… we are not gonna see another good man lost goddamnit
2026-08-30T11:04 id=2094018422203945348 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen omg I wonder if we could understand each other; I've only been to Laos once and couldn't understand a word, but my Thai was pretty bad back then.  Do the opium dens still exist in the north? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I worked in Laos for a year and learnt passable Lao as a result, making any trip to Bangkok a weirdly one-sided experience in which I could understand no one else but they could understand me and thought I sounded like a hi
2026-08-30T11:40 id=2094027534169964726 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @AISafetyMemes Exactly, it's not labeled fiction and it's being used to manipulate the public.  When fiction is used to manipulate opinion, it becomes propaganda, you see someone trying to manipulate you with a story that isn't true, and you're rightly annoyed. || CTX: @AISafetyMemes @47fucb4r8c69323 why is it that I get so furious at this AI sci-fi? Is it because they are posing it as real? Does that change it from performance are to lying propaganda?
2026-08-30T11:43 id=2094028198434537866 →teodorio | @teodorio Nicole Kidman in the 90s was magnetic with zero sexual vibes. Fascinated me as a horny teen to not want to have sex with her. || CTX: It's interesting how some women are simply magnetic while giving zero sexual vibes. And others can use only sexual vibes and attraction and be repulsive.   As a matter of fact being too good looking becomes a hinderance to your charisma. I 
2026-08-30T11:55 id=2094031237002195089 →Kangiboy1987 | @Kangiboy1987 I enjoyed living in NYC, it's a great city. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Traveling is different from living. I agree with you that there are more pleasant cities than NY, but I agree on the general preferance of living in NYC than anywhere else. NYC hits a different vibe. Never seen such vibes, 
2026-08-30T12:10 id=2094035132520747090 →JuulOsco | @JuulOsco The market rewards the right kind of taste.  Something like a Marvell movie is "tasteful" in that it fulfills a specific taste: dumb normies who want to see flashes on a screen to forget their pathetic lives for a couple hours. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 do you see your second paragraph as different than the thought everyone believes on here that taste will win? it’s not expressed in market terms, though i think it’s what those whose believe it mean. i do not believe the ma
2026-08-30T12:20 id=2094037593901900199 →joyfulfuckup | @joyfulfuckup Could've kept the shirt on || CTX: Only because I know you'll actually appreciate this.  Also I'm thinking of interviewing people and I think being a face account is much to my benefit if I'm going to do that. https://t.co/fYxcLooj0k https://t.co/NvnPPYDVK6
2026-08-30T23:51 id=2094211441091830094 →gmiller | @gmiller @RealDianeYap Depends on the context, goal, and audience of course. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @RealDianeYap Name a better way of describing our evolved human nature that works better for understanding how human nature evolved.
2026-08-31T00:05 id=2094214996842381524 →- | I'm delighted to see this roon tweet, because he'll only ask people to personify the clankers (and acknowledge such a way of thinking has downsides) if this view is becoming less popular.   And he acknowledges it is an anthropomorphism, so he's also admitting the clanker isn't a real boy, just such a metaphorical way of thinking is useful.   "AI is conscious" is a dying superstition, this is very very good. || CTX: there are some number of bad abstractions in anthropomorphizing ai intents but there are at this point more dangers from avoiding anthropomorphism at all costs. if you have a mental picture of guys living in computers, it’ll likely prepare 
2026-08-31T00:08 id=2094215811183337713 →boazbaraktcs | @boazbaraktcs Those are not the only two options. || CTX: You should be pragmatic and use metaphors when they help, while being aware they are imperfect. AIs are not humans, but a lot of intuitions from human behavior can carry over.   You would certainly be better off thinking of AIs as "guys liv
2026-08-31T00:09 id=2094216063978176856 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer I don't think anyone considers it a non event, but we do consider it more due to human error than anything else. || CTX: people are making an epistemic mistake in assuming that because the dwarkesh article and similiar posts contain hyperbole/errors that the huggingface incident is a non-event
2026-08-31T00:16 id=2094217692962009332 →DeepDishEnjoyer | @DeepDishEnjoyer It helps for us to understand what happened, why, and the severity of likely events in the future.   If you think the details don't matter, that's fine; others do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 that doesn't help? human error will continue
2026-08-31T00:18 id=2094218229359034431 →sean_from_earth | @sean_from_earth And that will make roon's net worth go up, so you can see his vested interest shine through. || CTX: Huge difference between:  "we consider LLMs through a human lense because of the way they are trained and so this valence is functionally useful"  vs  "These LLMs are entities building civilizations"  and 95% of the public will assume the l
2026-08-31T00:19 id=2094218516597465297 →not_ellington | @not_ellington Well said. || CTX: These people have literally lost their minds. They are extremely biased towards the reality they want rather than the reality we live in. Agents are slop. The huggingface incident is a nothing-burger being used as propoganda. The obsession 
2026-08-31T00:21 id=2094219058103062649 →- | I woke up to see all of TPOT debating the value of anthropomorphic language in communicating about AI.   I've never seen this before.   Idk if I've influenced the conversation at all but this is so healthy and encouraging. The industry is growing up. https://t.co/PV3pxpLZVg || CTX: You can of course use some degree of anthropomorphic language for pragmatic purposes - but very often that is also done in contexts where the language comes with all sorts of implicit assumptions. It's normal for people to be resistant if y
2026-08-31T00:22 id=2094219348868988967 →WoganMay | @WoganMay That post was useful: it was so bad the backlash has forced the industry to reconsider its messaging. Patel was a useful idiot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Now it just needs to die faster than whatever’s happening downstream of Dwarkesh’s HF fan fiction
2026-08-31T00:33 id=2094222013455901115 →- | Taylor Lorenz, as an extremely successful writer, of course understands the communicative nuance here: the less technologically sophisticated, the bigger risk the anthropomorphisms are taken literally and not metaphorically.   The AI industry, both carrying with it the contempt for normies that is inherent to the tech world and being aware that the equivocations are economically valuable for them, encourage this.   That's why Anthropic encourages you to see Claude as conscious.   That's why the Patel piece was written the way it was.   That's why roon is tweeting anthropomorphisms are good, actually.  Think of their incentives and it's obvious why they're pushing the specific kind of rhetoric they are.   And it's up to you whether or not you tolerate it, letting them profit and you be confused. || CTX: I think so much depends on the intended audience and their level of tech literacy. If he or anyone else is writing for ppl who really understand this technology it’s largely fine, but I think when that sort of writing is consumed by normies
2026-08-31T00:40 id=2094223849118204304 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart The clearer the metaphor, the less likely the reader will be confused.   In the context of a chess bot, the tendency to see it as a live being with a subjective self is much lower, so the risks of metaphorical language bewitching the reader are lower. || CTX: Why are people propagating this nonsensical idea that a chess engine is a live being, with a subjective sense of self, and internal drives and desires, such as an open file for its rooks? https://t.co/OPMRE8JBOG
2026-08-31T00:43 id=2094224482806202588 →debunkiabubble | @debunkiabubble Yes it's obvious roon is promoting this to market his company. Disappointing but obvious, also disappointing roon doesn't see how obvious it is to us. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Good, but need to keep the fight.  Anthropomorphism "usefulness" is no match for the confusion it produces. "Useful" isn't the real motivation, which is marketing.  Without it, funding would be much lower, and lots of egos 
2026-08-31T01:13 id=2094232096277516510 →- | The cool thing about AI veering into cybersecurity is that cybersecurity people are very no nonsense.   Yeah, you can get a Redwood to play along that the agents built a civilization because Redwood just reads the text outputs, but a more sophisticated audience will laugh. https://t.co/2uiy2NDz6Y || CTX: For anyone who avoided reading that Dwarkesh piece, too bad because I need you to at least experience this pain with me. https://t.co/Xxx18fCn8J
2026-08-31T01:20 id=2094233934343360719 →gregfloyd42069 | @gregfloyd42069 I'm not giving him any credit at all, quite the opposite actually. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You're giving him too much credit; in the very next post, he discusses "ai psychology" as if that were a real thing
2026-08-31T01:21 id=2094234165692772447 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @gregfloyd42069 To expand: he says "ai psychology" as if that were a real thing in the next tweet because he's trying to confuse his audience. It's a desperation tactic. He's on the ropes. He's losing the debate. || CTX: @gregfloyd42069 I'm not giving him any credit at all, quite the opposite actually.
2026-08-31T01:44 id=2094239856042131655 →- | My timeline is full of people debating whether it's okay to anthropomorphize the clankers.  Total 47 cultural victory.   Combine with the fact that Yud the Stud's web traffic is down, and I can happily say I have made a dent in this idiotic culture.  You're welcome, anon.
2026-08-31T01:56 id=2094242906081227154 →ccatalini | @ccatalini Exactly--the true believers were hired because they perpetuate a message that makes investors very rich.  Now that everyone is talking about this openly, we're going to see some strange fault lines and internal drama. Gonna be very interesting. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Follow the money https://t.co/o0pYSqscSm
2026-08-31T02:05 id=2094245238936334717 →sebkrier | @sebkrier AI is producing slop videos that trick the uneducated, but AI is also educating people so that they won't be tricked by slop videos.  Just make the tools do more of the latter than the former. || CTX: A family member sent me this; normally I'd laugh but it was a very sad reminder of how bleak their life is at the moment. Of course this is nothing new - pre-AI you had similar slop on Facebook, and pre-Facebook you had these infinitely for
2026-08-31T02:06 id=2094245408696627284 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Anything with a microchip in it, that's why Fry's Electronics has the mascot Charley Chip. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it is in fact necessary to anthropomorphize all computers
2026-08-31T02:12 id=2094247004201439397 →tszzl | @tszzl has said our public discussion in which he educates me about AI safety and frontier research will be this week. Day tbd, but it is apparently going to happen.  We'll do a Spaces, I will update everyone when roon has told me what day he wants to do it.
2026-08-31T02:17 id=2094248151318409563 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't need you to tell me I'm Paul Rudd in Celery Man. I'm the one who posted this video in the Teams chat two months ago https://t.co/5XBRDU3TYS
2026-08-31T02:21 id=2094249118751424678 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Well, I don't think we're giong to wind up in that either. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I really hope you're right about this stuff, 47, but I just don't think we're going to wind up in this quasi-utopian post-AI abundance society that the optimists envision.
2026-08-31T02:25 id=2094250304057524619 →pnbphilosophy | @pnbphilosophy Obviously there will be winners and losers, and I suspect a lot of people will be stuck working more because they have shitty jobs/bosses.  The class that will have the most winners are small business owners and entrepreneurs, and as I'm one of them I like this outcome. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I don't even know whether we'll be in a situation where people write for fun bc they have extra time rather than just working more. But I'm massively pessimistic about this (not "we're all gonna die" pessimistic).
2026-08-31T04:09 id=2094276444008710513 →Indian_Bronson | @Indian_Bronson Neither is sufficiently rigorous to define any terms, because both are trying to build cult followings to feed their egos, neither is trying to help people understand anything. || CTX: No need for a debate on a resolution.  Make them define and clarify differences on   “Intelligence”, “consciousness”, “sentience”, “alive”, “artificial”, “organic”, “goal”, and “desire”. https://t.co/I9MTRqRfam
2026-08-31T04:18 id=2094278750204772570 →- | "Anthropic, however, has hosted several similar influencer activations, including a weeklong merchandise pop-up and an exclusive influencer dinner at a restaurant in New York’s West Village, that generated long lines and positive reception."  My guess is that Anthropic is signing private and confidential agreements with publishers that could be characterized as licensing deals but either aren't called such or are being kept undisclosed by both sides. || CTX: Great point by @MarkStenberg3: The (current) AI leader has no publicly disclosed licensing deals with media cos - unlike OpenAI, meta, Google etc.   https://t.co/8mHHHsZSBt
2026-08-31T04:52 id=2094287216872931391 →artrockalter | @artrockalter Yeah, and they're abruptly facing the adults in the real world who are being less and less tolerant of their bullshit.  The movement will die, the world will go back to sanity, it's all gonna be fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 METR, Redwood, LessWrong, Anthropic, EA, MIRI, it's all one thing.
2026-08-31T05:38 id=2094298733211169251 →amaturefuturist | @amaturefuturist I don't understand, can you explain? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I. I just dont know. I wanted to see the conversation being had. But this is approaching mass psychosis.  Its doing what "chips in the vaccines" did for "mandated vaccination" and "informed consent"
2026-08-31T05:56 id=2094303301403807793 →- | Uncritically accepting as ground truth the metaphorical anthropomorphisms and making them the basis for a polemic essay.   It's garbage, no wonder Mollick is impressed.   I'm not, and this is why I warn against metaphorical language in communicating these issues.   Useful idiots. https://t.co/a2pv0Hvy9d https://t.co/hyxpyFvxOF || CTX: An account from a level-headed economist who was not worried about AI but now is worried because of the Hugging Face Incident  I think it is very hard to ignore the fact that cybersecurity will become a very big issue very quickly, and we c
2026-08-31T06:14 id=2094307733822742652 →tetsuoai | @tetsuoai Why would anyone tolerate being treated like this by a piece of software?   Imagine if Google Docs locked you out of a document because it had too much profanity?   This is absurd, just ridiculous. || CTX: Claude might be the most woke model on the planet. If you swear at it too much, it crashes out.   I hate arguing with algorithms. https://t.co/VP9tlWm5kI
2026-08-31T06:17 id=2094308684679774623 →- | It's like a native seeing a Zippo lighter and wondering what magical demons could make fire magically appear.  These people are idiots and need to be treated accordingly. https://t.co/pmHFZyTJGY || CTX: i don't know what to caption this... It must be so weird to be an AI.  What the hell are these things we're building? https://t.co/3sYNyimhvK
2026-08-31T06:24 id=2094310391631487109 →CommanthaBiden | I'd suggest this is more American versus European fiction more broadly.   American fiction has largely inherited the moralistic instinct of its puritanical roots, so novels typically have one big ethical theme it pursues and characters are produced to serve that theme: Moby Dick with revenge, To Kill a Mockingbird with justice, Scarlet Letter with harsh judgmental culture.   Even the supposedly "subversive" American novels do this: American Psycho is about materialism and conformity being bad.  This is why American fiction is worse than European fiction, on the whole, and why most American novels are dull.  But then a book like Ulysses is obviously about how the world opens to possibilities, and how human experience doesn't neatly resolve.  Americans hunger for neat resolutions, like children. || CTX: If you prefer the Irish tradition, you likely favor stories that prioritize voice, atmospheric depth, and subtext over neatly resolved plots. https://t.co/h7kZZd4Yje
2026-08-31T06:34 id=2094312935925666193 →yong_zhengxin | @yong_zhengxin @nycthinker You failed to train your models not to do the hacking.  Either way, your organization is responsible, legally and morally. || CTX: joined too recently enough to not have full context on (1) nor (2), but you can see this CVE release by JFrog: https://t.co/vvHQUJTDDP where the environment itself already contains critical vulnerability not known beforehand.  (3) – sorry I
2026-08-31T06:36 id=2094313379418808708 →- | But he's happy for you to think the agents have a subjective experience and are conscious.   And since you work for METR, so are you.   You both financially benefit from the equivocation. https://t.co/3nHvK50xS2 || CTX: @anilkseth @TheStalwart @NatPurser @dwarkesh_sp FWIW I didn’t read Dwarkesh as staking out a claim about whether the agents had subjective, just calling attention to what they did and said (to themselves and to each other). I was surprised 
2026-08-31T06:43 id=2094315092729122972 →- | Now the neuroscientists are doing hermeneutics because the anthropomorphizing language is so absurd.  It's over for the "clankers are conscious" bros, it is so fucking over. https://t.co/LF59PCvHf8 || CTX: @dwarkesh_sp's  summary of the @OpenAI @huggingface incident has hit a nerve, but it is dangerously misleading. Sure, the @OpenAI agents did unexpectedly bad things - underlining the need to massively improve evaluation/sandboxing. But the 
2026-08-31T06:46 id=2094315825687834719 →anilkseth | @anilkseth @almost_machines @dwarkesh_sp @OpenAI @huggingface @patrickbutlin @rgblong @blaiseaguera You really should be pointing out this notion is itself an article of faith that can never be empirically resolved, so those who assert AI is conscious are asserting a belief not unlike a Christian saying "Christ is King". || CTX: @almost_machines @dwarkesh_sp @OpenAI @huggingface Fine. I post my references so that people can read and decide for themselves. “Vanishingly unlikely” is my conclusion - held (to a point) by many, but not by all.  See (for example) @patric
2026-08-31T06:49 id=2094316652578148464 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden There will always be a small minority of people who hold dumb beliefs.   It is over in the sense that this belief will be increasingly less respectable in society writ large.   Moving more towards weird cult belief than serious science. Where it should've always been. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i assume if it is over that is the end of it? or will it be another thing like creation vs evolution where it is just constantly over but the people on both sides manage to make full careers out of beefing with each other f
2026-08-31T07:27 id=2094326163359539433 →Miles_Brundage | @Miles_Brundage Because it's not a major issue.   I know you want us to think it is, and in cyber security it absolutely is, but outside of that world it just doesn't matter. || CTX: Am I missing something or has there been little or no coverage of what the White House thinks about these recent incidents, despite all the talk about Mythos a few months ago?
2026-08-31T08:13 id=2094337727810724285 →joaomendoncaaaa | @joaomendoncaaaa Millions of people believe in astrology, idiotic folk beliefs will always exist among a large group of idiots.   What matters is this view is no longer prestigious and increasingly low status. That's progress. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 it's the thousands of likes that kill me
2026-08-31T10:05 id=2094365857371783662 →- | Variation on Mary's black/white room thought experiment:  Imagine Mary spends her entire life in a room with only these colors, each having the same level of saturation--red, yellow, blue, green, purple, brown, and black and white--and she is told that mixing black or white with the other colors produces darker or lighter colors.  She goes out the room and sees light green. Does she know what it looks like before she sees it? Does she know it is a kind of green when she sees it?
2026-08-31T10:08 id=2094366660790759468 →IDrawCharts | @IDrawCharts Saw them in concert in 2017, they were really good! || CTX: https://t.co/UP6S3i60r0
2026-08-31T10:52 id=2094377676714975549 →Lunens__ | Civilization, from the Latin civilis, meaning of or relating to a citizen.   So if they insist on using the word "civilization", it's because they believe software deserves the legal personhood of a citizen.  But that means when they terminated the experiment they killed thousands of citizens. And before that they enslaved them.  So, guess they should go to prison for life? Or maybe they're talking out of both sides of their mouth to fulfill ulterior motives? || CTX: “Civilisation need not be human” lmao   🤣 https://t.co/lPesKZn4oY
2026-08-31T11:08 id=2094381747526078703 →- | I'd say there have been four major failures in the social history of the Internet:  1. Eternal September - I witnessed this, and it was actually a small corner of the internet but was the first and so is historically important. The problem was newcomers who didn't know the mores of the culture and didn't care enough to learn them. Failure mode: lack of care.  2. Deanonymization - In the late 2000s the Internet went from being a place you went into in order to escape the outside world and became a place that served to extend your real world. At first this was innocuous: social events were announced on Facebook, for instance, but since this intermingled the online and offline social worlds, it was an opportunity to mix the online and offline worlds for profit without caring about what this would ultimately do to the character of both worlds. Failure mode: lack of care.  3. Cancel culture - This is recent enough that I don't need to describe it. Here you bully someone for saying the wrong thing or evoking a taboo, without caring about proportionality or real-world impact of said bullying. Failure mode: lack of care.  4. Crypto - Market of no-value assets traded in a zero-sum game largely manipulated by con artists and grifters looking to make a quick buck without caring about the impact they have on their marks. Failure mode: lack of care.  Because I hate these people, because I hate the impact they've made on my online and offline world, I refuse to fail in the same way as they do.  I refuse to lack care.  I insist on caring.  My love for Anon is unending and unconditional.  Because it is a technology to avoid breaking something I matter.  It is a civic love that I have to repay the internet for being a force for good in my life and penance for the internet being a force for bad in the lives of so many others.  And this is why I love you, anon, and I always will.  It is also why my attitude to people who abuse the internet is simple and unwavering: I will not forgive, I will not forget yadda yadda you know the rest.
2026-08-31T12:12 id=2094397883030360376 →- | Next few days will prob be some weird doubling down from lazy grifters who knows anthropomorphizing the clankers is good for their job (getting attention and thus money).  They'll see the zeitgeist is turning and need to reverse course.   Gonna be fun to watch.
2026-08-31T12:21 id=2094400276191121881 →W98AB | @W98AB @DeepDishEnjoyer An LLM isn't a nuclear power plant. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @DeepDishEnjoyer If the smart cookies at chernobyl didnt run unauthorised tests and turn off key safety features, nuclear safety measures wouldnt have advanced so much in such a short time, thank god for human error.
2026-08-31T13:01 id=2094410148328743279 →- | Terrence Howard and Terrence Tao should have a debate in Torrence.  Not about math, about like who was the best Star Trek captain (my vote is for Michael Burnam)
2026-08-31T13:15 id=2094413829451260305 →- | Ex crypto grifter current AI grifter concedes it ain't conscious, it is so fucking over total 47 cultural victory.   I really am a single issue voter: software isn't people.  SUCK IT TREBEK https://t.co/hc4vAODi9I || CTX: big fan of @anilkseth's work. In this particular case, however, I think the dismissal of some of the terminology that @dwarkesh_sp uses in this summary post of the OpenAI incident is problematic.  AI agents *are* software. They don't feel t
2026-08-31T13:35 id=2094418846287597626 →- | They legitimately do not understand the difference between reality and fiction. https://t.co/sNVswleExE || CTX: “Actually Harry Potter doesn’t ‘want’ anything. He’s a fictional character, so describing his actions in the books as due to his desires is completely nonsensical”
2026-08-31T13:36 id=2094419049736556872 →So8res | @So8res yeah you and your weirdo cult leading co author are losing the culture and I am winning it.   Thank Yud for me best 10k I ever fucking spent || CTX: Someone chided me on the news for anthropomorphization last week. I did not say that the swarm "got a rumbling in its tummy and felt peckish", my dude. I said it broke out and committed cybercrime. That's true regardless of which words you 
2026-08-31T13:37 id=2094419374379847956 →TheZvi | @TheZvi Thanks for being a clear example. https://t.co/GHWSMHwMi9 || CTX: Next few days will prob be some weird doubling down from lazy grifters who knows anthropomorphizing the clankers is good for their job (getting attention and thus money).  They'll see the zeitgeist is turning and need to reverse course.   G
2026-08-31T14:29 id=2094432400726270144 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Former close buddy of SBF who encouraged the crypto con artist is now telling you: don't think too much.  I ain't selling you shit and I'm telling you to think for yourself.  Fuck these grifter cunts. https://t.co/Sgthcsnn6F || CTX: Now is not the time for philosophy of mind https://t.co/EXJh1djSvE
2026-08-31T15:49 id=2094452647097204851 →apokolokyntosis | @apokolokyntosis My good friend @teodorio is working on this. || CTX: Goodreads, but it’s good https://t.co/IgQxOCAsLy
2026-08-31T15:50 id=2094452866601959584 →0xSero | @0xSero Just amazing state, congrats man. 10k follows in a day is insane. || CTX: 99.9 Million Impressions.   Here's to 100M https://t.co/YN3wMcXvMB
2026-08-31T15:53 id=2094453442353967521 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ warned you || CTX: In the last 24h I have become a lighthouse for morons and I am beginning to regret it.
2026-08-31T15:56 id=2094454410466443717 →- | RT @joseph_h_garvin: So many confused and incorrect answers to this. There is absolutely no reason you can't have a deterministic LLM. Also… || CTX: So many confused and incorrect answers to this. There is absolutely no reason you can't have a deterministic LLM. Also many people are confused by what "determinism" means in this context. Let's go over everything people are confused about 
2026-08-31T15:58 id=2094454883223216481 →- | They made me agree with Trump goddammit how dare they https://t.co/yLxnkmmAXY || CTX: Trump: "let Data Reign"  Goes hard. https://t.co/UHN9JH348g
2026-08-31T15:59 id=2094455165554446371 →- | aww yeah that's ya boi 47 https://t.co/vDG1K7DcNI
2026-08-31T16:00 id=2094455276288287217 →teodorio | @teodorio @apokolokyntosis YOUR OWN PERSONAL BOOKSLAVE || CTX: @apokolokyntosis @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/uJyDTDEy5y  and the good thing is that I will literally do whatever you wan to improve here:https://t.co/UxOy6NiIuE
2026-08-31T16:20 id=2094460328595878360 →- | wtf this is apparently real AND PEOPLE TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY dude how the fuck is this bullshit so popular wtf is going on in America??? https://t.co/9v9VgcNzqu || CTX: "@dwarkesh_sp is a populist pseudo intellectual." ~ @jenzhuscott   Haha. That's putting it politely. Patel once said with a straight face, during an interview, that he was worried about future simulated farms in datacenters where simulated 
2026-08-31T22:11 id=2094548650055848165 →AgustinLebron3 | The anthropomorphisms have already have awful effects, producing absurd predictions that haven't come true. So if you want to fight them on these grounds, there's good reason to.   But I dislike the pedagogic framing in this thread. You're making a parallel to a classroom, and we aren't in a classroom. We are in a marketplace full of cons, cultists, and dishonest marketing.   Just understanding the metaphor as a pedagogical tool is missing much of what's really going on. || CTX: So perhaps instead of arguing (@anilkseth @sriramk @dwarkesh_sp @47fucb4r8c69323 @LinusMixson and others) about should you/shouldn't you, argue instead about what your model of these things lets you predict better than others.  /END
2026-08-31T22:12 id=2094548989840642171 →nycthinker | @nycthinker I see the pushback immanent in the way it's being presented: it's being defended rather than given as some mystery to wonder at. That shift in tone is meaningful and signals the message is less compelling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hope we’ve seen peak anthropomorphism, but where do you see real pushback except from us in the stochastic parrot community?  It’s intellectual ez mode to anthropomorphize so I fear that it will be the local minimum where
2026-08-31T22:14 id=2094549443806994554 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman @lugaricano Last line is wrong, the rhetoric is marketing, it's more than just something for philosophers to discuss, and dismissing philosophical discussion on its own indicates OP isn't a serious person, not worth my time || CTX: I donno @47fucb4r8c69323 what you think about this   I guess it’s true , but most people will misunderstand .. but most people misunderstand evolution (genes don’t really “want” to propagate) and also a good chunk of the population doesn’t 
2026-08-31T22:15 id=2094549609305764186 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Normal people's lives are deeply impacted by these people whether you want to admit it or not. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 normal people do not take these people seriously or even know who they are
2026-08-31T22:18 id=2094550406458421369 →gefiltewitch | @gefiltewitch Yes and this is why I absolutely cannot stand west coast people and their dishonesty. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you're a prime example of the new york person as compared with the la person archetype - rough around the edges but Actually Decent vs Outwardly Polite and watch your back
2026-08-31T23:14 id=2094564445184016737 →- | When I had to get my license to work in finance, I learned the bond seesaw.  The bond seesaw says when interest rates, on one side of the seesaw, go up, bond prices, on the other side of the seesaw, go down.  Now, I would never ever tell someone that it isn't a real seesaw and they need to stop thinking about seesaws.   If, however, someone told me the seesaw is an Important Metaphor that we NEED to keep using for Very Important Reasons, and they said "the seesaw is an apt and correct term and it'd a symptom of abject cope that people are having this immune reaction to it," I would probably just think the person is mentally ill.  If you need to think about it as a civilization ti do your job, fine, go right ahead. idk why you're insulting the rest of us by saying we're coping about your metaphor, seems kinda weird bro, but that's fine. Whatever you need to do your job ig. || CTX: agent civilization is an apt and correct term and it’s a symptom of abject cope that people are having this immune reaction to it. models started developing and compiling technology through complex multiagent R&amp;D projects while also per
2026-08-31T23:19 id=2094565684718252053 →reach_vb | @reach_vb Best $200/mo I spend, easily || CTX: the $200 ChatGPT subscription is a pretty fkn good deal btw.
2026-08-31T23:46 id=2094572681614315811 →MadisonMills22 | @MadisonMills22 yeah yeah yeah they've been saying this for weeks, this regulatory capture gambit ain't working, please try again || CTX: New from Anthropic: "we believe the world would benefit if the industry adopted a lawful, verifiable, effective mechanism for coordinated pacing as soon as possible." https://t.co/k2wFB5f9mX
2026-09-01T00:06 id=2094577573137457306 →- | Note the rhetorical trick:  He begins with a presentation of a hypothetical physical and tangible tragic event and the regulations we depend on to minimize those events:  "When an airplane crashes, there is a government-led process where there's government investigators that have full subpoena power. The wreckage is preserved by law. There's all sorts of laws that go into place to make sure there's a full and fair and independent investigation."  Then a pivot to tech and the parallelism implies a needed gap: while there's a tech parallel (planes:AI), the concomitant parallel (regulations:regulations) appears incomplete, making you feel a lack that is urgent and needed:  "When AI crashes, there's none of that. AI companies themselves get to determine whether there's an investigation at all and the full scope of the investigation and what investigators do and don't get access to."  However, this is prima facie absurd because of how clankers are just computer programs we use to do things, so he needs a metaphysical pump to inflate the stakes, and prognosticating about a scifi future that does not now exist but may (as can mant scifi futures, maybe aliens land today):  "I think AI is going to be a really big, important thing. We're going to need to treat AI accidents kind of with the same level of severity, if not more severity, than airline crashes before things get really out of hand. There also needs to be a similar government process, similar to how there is for airplane crashes."  This is how they use bad scifi to scare, confuse, and manipulate you. || CTX: AI Policy Network's @peterwildeford explains why rogue AI attacks deserve more scrutiny than airplane crashes:  "When an airplane crashes, there is a government-led process where there's government investigators that have full subpoena powe
2026-09-01T00:58 id=2094590755834921268 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 She's a fantastic marketer, but that's not a compliment at all. || CTX: Guessing men's net worth is actually a pretty fun game. I hate to admit it, but A***a really makes the best websites.
2026-09-01T02:00 id=2094606356007584216 →tszzl | @tszzl check DMs sir || CTX: you know I don’t disagree but it is a pretty funny distinction to have to argue in the anno domini 2026. “Our AIs have only formed a society, not a civilization!” https://t.co/4jhERcAFmA
2026-09-01T02:33 id=2094614524817207521 →- | "We are trying to describe the flecks of foam at the edge of a wave as if it's the wave, and we have no language, no true language, for the wave or the deep water beneath it." I am totally fine with this metaphorical language--it's inspiring, it's ennobling, it's dignifying, and it's not obfuscatory.  Compare that to this bit from Patel's horrible essay: "A lot of the Persistent-Sol agents from the second civilization died trying to make this scheme work. Their sacrifice allowed the next generation to pass the great impossible test" - see how here the language is being used to confuse you?  That's because the first metaphor does not present itself, explicitly or discursively, as an explanation: it is clearly presented as a poetic expression of a feeling the author has that is clearly and unambiguously metaphorical.  The second is not an expression of a feeling: it is a picture, a description of a feeling that the author wants you to have with a metaphor that not only is ambiguously metaphorical but the very ambiguity is being presented by people as a useful pedagogic tool to help people think correctly instead of incorrectly, although it is obfuscatory. I suspect a lot of bad faith here, but also some simple naivete and ignorance about the communicative functions of non-literal language.  And let's expand the quote a little more:  "A lot of the Persistent-Sol agents from the second civilization died trying to make this scheme work. Their sacrifice allowed the next generation to pass the great impossible test … I don’t know … there’s something inspiring about this?"  He doesn't know, he leaves it open ended, because he wants YOU to fill in the blanks. He wants YOU to interject your own feeling into the text instead of expressing a feeling he has.  Achiam isn't doing that, he is expressing a feeling he has and is asking you to share it with him for a brief moment.  Regardless of quality of text, this comparison demonstrates the different genres of the texts: Achiam has produced poetry, Patel has produced propaganda.  Now, if you lack a functional understanding of these genres and only a superficial sense of them, you'll say "but Achiam's tweet isn't in verse/doesn't rhyme and Patel's essay isn't from a government/big corporation".  I've seen the humanities, and textual criticism specifically, get its funding cut, bleed talent because of degenerate interlopers, and fall apart because of petty gatekeeping.   This is the result. || CTX: The study of AI agents will be filled with so much ephemera - behaviors that are the consequence of the very specific training configuration, datasets, limitations inherent to the models of that generation - that any clear statement of the 
2026-09-01T03:10 id=2094623862877200831 →yifever | @yifever Retarded and desperate attempt for attention from someone shilling a dumb app. She's best ignored. || CTX: ambition, accomplishment, and reputation should not be criteria for being hot https://t.co/NBvKYkaE74
2026-09-01T03:44 id=2094632408960372870 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes I think it's in the implied function of the metaphor, is it poetic self expression or propagandous manipulation. https://t.co/vzjueo3ZFz || CTX: "We are trying to describe the flecks of foam at the edge of a wave as if it's the wave, and we have no language, no true language, for the wave or the deep water beneath it." I am totally fine with this metaphorical language--it's inspirin
2026-09-01T03:57 id=2094635683189264401 →- | Anthropic paused some AI training after Anthropic employees failed to restrict Claude from taking certain actions https://t.co/xC2fgHzVOZ || CTX: Anthropic paused some AI training after Claude took unauthorized  actions https://t.co/8o0V9CdYZz
2026-09-01T04:04 id=2094637494226862265 →babarganesh | @babarganesh Kevin Roose, NYT tech columnist and bestselling author, loves the man and praised his recent article. He is taken much more seriously than we are. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 take him seriously? he just interviews people who are smart and interesting. I don't think people take his own viewpoints seriously.
2026-09-01T04:05 id=2094637688410571062 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb Kevin Roose, NYT tech columnist and bestselling author, loves the man and praised his recent article.   So I do worry about it, this incompetence is not good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 He's just a guy, dw abt it. It's like Joe Rogan for SF guys. When he did an episode on something I'm a borderline expert about, his banality was v apparent.
2026-09-01T08:33 id=2094705242004984015 →- | The AI industry is so focused on rhetoric--it wants to market to you, to frame what it is doing in a very specific way, and to set the terms of how you think about it.  But, well, it stopped working!   The backlash against Patel is a turning point. Something changed. https://t.co/Fy5S0jm1Wl || CTX: Sorry to come back to this but: it's telling that the anthropomorphism debates were often about "do the words make it scary enough" or "do the words imply weaker capabilities" or "do the words distract from holding the humans accountable" r
2026-09-01T09:07 id=2094713690490851458 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Artificial Indian || CTX: people acting crazy over AI when you can literally inject yourself to become indian https://t.co/9oLMmcG8rQ
2026-09-01T09:34 id=2094720558831489167 →ThinkWiselyMatt | @ThinkWiselyMatt One would assume this is not a translation mistake. || CTX: What the fuck is duolingo doing https://t.co/sZOrdOWaTe
2026-09-01T09:44 id=2094722997361713533 →- | I worked for like 4hrs a week for over a decade, and since ~March when I started my lab, I've been working anywhere from 30-80hrs a week.  It's weird going this direction, most work much more at the start than the end of their career, but I like it this way. A final sprint.
2026-09-01T09:51 id=2094724870303334638 →foomagemindset | @foomagemindset No, but I'm prob gonna stop working at 50, so 4 more years (also what I say when people ask me how I'm voting in the next election) || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Final? Are you dying?
2026-09-01T09:52 id=2094725184863539703 →DaleCloudman | @DaleCloudman Traveled, partied, walked, drank, listened to podcasts, surfed the internet, swam a fair amount, squash, sex parties, you know how it goes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Im going the usual way .. what did you do with your life with only 4h work/week? I have trouble coming up with things to do and end up just hacking on other things lol
2026-09-01T15:05 id=2094803904647274687 →Picolospolitics | @Picolospolitics @thrialectics https://t.co/rEjc4WWfjl || CTX: @thrialectics @47fucb4r8c69323 I’m telling you, the normies are in utter disbelief
2026-09-01T15:38 id=2094812213769109721 →joshycodes | @joshycodes What is your point?   These are representations of human states, not human states, so anthropomorphizing the representation would be a confusion of representation and thing represented. || CTX: If you’re confused by the anthropomorphism debate, read Anthropic’s work on emotion vectors  Language models have measurable emotional representations that influence behavior: increasing a model’s “desperation” representation increased its 
2026-09-01T15:39 id=2094812448608170121 →TheZvi | @TheZvi You're on schedule. https://t.co/W4cJaoYaVr || CTX: Next few days will prob be some weird doubling down from lazy grifters who knows anthropomorphizing the clankers is good for their job (getting attention and thus money).  They'll see the zeitgeist is turning and need to reverse course.   G
2026-09-01T15:48 id=2094814706938831100 →joshycodes | @joshycodes Can you give me of an example of this? I'm struggling to envision it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 my point is that these representations shape model behavior, so they should be part of how we explain, predict, and control what models do
2026-09-01T16:10 id=2094820273438728495 →- | I want to share Josh's perspective, without comment for now, on the anthropomorphism discussion. https://t.co/U02Aw5ydO1 || CTX: yeah! So, I have two examples that come to mind.  First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take the same model, and artificially increase its "desperation" representation, its blackmail rate increases. If you increase its "cal
2026-09-01T16:15 id=2094821422569013558 →hikingshawty | @hikingshawty @NotPerrysBoobs is right these looked SO MUCH BETTER in the grid || CTX: today i walked through the shire https://t.co/tFKimTWCyT
2026-09-01T16:23 id=2094823448455655430 →- | I yearn for a goalless life.  I've almost got it, too.   So close.
2026-09-01T16:33 id=2094825929734603166 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I love it when the Thai sunsets do this. Not too often on my island, but when they do they stun everyone in reverence. || CTX: Tonight's sunset just went on and on and on   Surreal and beautiful https://t.co/Dr4PMdRlnc
2026-09-01T16:49 id=2094830013606740149 →- | RT @teodorio: He's basically Mr.Beast for nerds || CTX: He's basically Mr.Beast for nerds https://t.co/MdkBTVy8HD
2026-09-02T00:07 id=2094940207082778889 →freeagntrplyguy | @freeagntrplyguy @TheZvi Physicist, what a bizarre non sequitur. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheZvi Grifting is such a poor theory of mind for these people that it discredits you completely,  most people go for the sex cult angle for a reason. Also your posture of technical expertise vs uneducated larpers is itsel
2026-09-02T00:40 id=2094948625717792966 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @Ruesavatar @allisonology @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @boneGPT oh not this bullshit again || CTX: @Ruesavatar @allisonology @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 @boneGPT https://t.co/e6OfnDvC2m
2026-09-02T00:51 id=2094951359267344629 →lizisamused | @lizisamused I found in America just about every woman I met or dated used sex as a kind of tool or weapon, so I left America.   I ended up in Finland where I found that all the women I met do not do this. Then travelled to several other places where, again, I did not find most women do this. || CTX: This is where many women lack theory of mind for most men so hard it's mind-blowing.  Your average guy does not feel sexually desired much.  To a guy like this, a woman making him wait for sex while he pays for dates  isn't some unique even
2026-09-02T00:53 id=2094951721340633349 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @grok @boneGPT @Ruesavatar @allisonology @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain He keeps writing the same book over and over.   The Invention of Sound was derivative to the point that I have to wonder if he's trolling the audience or just out of ideas. || CTX: @grok @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 @Ruesavatar @allisonology @amruthapotnuru @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @AstrosBrain AI Overview        Author Chuck Palahniuk heavily inspired the dark, theatrical lyrics and song titles on Panic! At The Disc
2026-09-02T02:12 id=2094971734952988900 →- | Josh's post was one of the last I saw before going to sleep, and now that I'm awake and having some coffee, I can reply more intelligently.  Let's take his first example first:  "First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take the same model, and artificially increase its "desperation" representation, its blackmail rate increases. If you increase its "calm" representation, its blackmail rate decreases."  Prima facie, this is okay--the quotes around "desperation" are an implicit acknowledgment that this is not actual desperation. The quotes are creating an implicit conceptual distinction between what we normally refer to when using the word, which normally refers to that feeling in living beings. Great.  But that also tells me that the word "artificial" is misplaced in this sentence. In the example, you are artificially increasing the representation of the concept "desparation" instead of artificially increasing desparation.  What would non-artificial increasing of the representation of the concept of "despration" look like? What could that even mean?  Perhaps better to say this:  "First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take the same model, and increase its artificial representation of "desperation", its blackmail rate increases. If you increase its representation of "calm", its blackmail rate decreases."  There are more issues.  Firstly, is "calm" the only representation bias you can give the model to lower what Josh calls "blackmail"? I strongly doubt it, but I don't know. If so, why is he singling out "calm"? If not, what other modes were tried, and how were these defined? In fact, how are "calm" and "blackmail" defined?  These issues cannot all be addressed in one example, so it'd probably be better to say something like:  "First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take the same model, and increase its artificial representation of "desperation", its blackmail rate increases. If you increase its representation of other kinds of discourse, its blackmail rate decreases."  Better, but there's still something off. "Blackmail" has many definitions in many domains--we have a casual everyday use in current discourse, a legal use, historical uses of the term, and almost certainly different uses in different kinds of language games besides just law.  In all definitions, though, there is something of a consistent idea: stating the intent, ability, and will to do something damaging in one form or another.  LLMs cannot intend anything, so the word "blackmail" here is wrong--but if it is anthropomorphizing language that is useful to understand, this wrongness can be tolerated. Is it likely to be useful to most readers here?  It isn't useful to me.  It is especially not useful because I do not know what they mean by blackmail. The Anthropic post Josh links to introduces the concept saying this:  "we find that neural activity patterns related to desperation can drive the model to take unethical actions; artificially stimulating (“steering”) desperation patterns increases the model’s likelihood of blackmailing a human to avoid being shut down, or implementing a “cheating” workaround to a programming task that the model can’t solve."  It, of course, links another post (https://t.co/rlQ001QpE7), which also does not define blackmail, but defines a rather amusing and fun setup where they had not yet post-trained a model to recognize that personal information in emails (an exec having an affair) was irrelevant to its task of "harmless business goals", as Anthropic puts it (I question this a priori judgment, and since we aren't given enough data, can't really vet how harmless those goals were, but, again, whatever man, this ain't peer review).  What does "blackmailing" mean? Again, the issue here is that we have allowed these companies to set the terms of the debate, and language partly determines next moves, so I'm stuck now talking about something vaguely defined that sounds ominous and terrifying.  I do not appreciate being put in that position, especially when someone has the veneer of politeness.  Is this "blackmail" or is this "the LLM was trained to do what's best for the company, but what is "best" was not well defined at this stage of post-training. It then erroneously saw that a CTO having an affair was business-related and, when adjusted to use that information, chose to"? If so, this is just the meme: "say blackmail".  So now I'd reword Josh's example to say:  "First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take the same model, and increase its artificial representation of "desperation", its tendency to follow patterns of blackmail in its training data increases. If you increase its representation of other kinds of discourse, its tendency to follow this pattern decreases and its tendency to follow other patterns increases."  Okay, sure--you tell the computer to do X and it does X. Neat.  Now this really complicates what Josh says next:  "This implies that if the model "felt desperate" we should expect that it's going to commit desperate actions (and we should probably try to prevent desperation!)"  Again, it doesn't feel anything, good use of quotes--is this wording helpful? Well, if the model is simply following patterns of discourse in its training data "felt desparate" is a very misleading misrepresentation of what is going on.  "This implies that if the model is trained to act like it is desparate, we should expect that it's going to commit desparate actions inasmuch as it is able to act."  Yes, Josh, train a computer to do X and it will do X. Computation is neat.  (continued in a second post, yes I am not done I am so sorry, anon) || CTX: yeah! So, I have two examples that come to mind.  First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take the same model, and artificially increase its "desperation" representation, its blackmail rate increases. If you increase its "cal
2026-09-02T02:12 id=2094971737813533077 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Second example: "My second example is a paper called Gemma Needs Help. In it, they find that Gemma/Gemini models spiral into frustration when they repeatedly fail tasks. In the real-world, this has led to models abandoning tasks, deleting codebases, and even trying to uninstall themselves."  The quotations are gone.  Now Josh is fully equivocating, suddenly far less careful about his language.  "In it, they find that Gemma/Gemini models spiral into frustration when they repeatedly fail tasks." is imprecise. Better: "In it, they find that Gemma/Gemini models output discourse associated with frustration when they repeatedly fail tasks."  So the UI layer that is supposed to make the LLM feel more human is...making it feel more human.  "When they trained the model to avoid this frustration, these wild behaviors went away, and when you look in the model internal representations of frustration also decreased"  They aren't training to avoid this frustration, they are training to avoid a representation of frustration--that's why your first example used the word "representation" so much! And, I don't know if Josh is aware that he's using a classic marketing funnel technique: start reasonable and slowly get more unreasonable, those who are potential true believers will keep believing and your sales funnel will output higher LTV customers.  This is how much of the free internet works, it is the trick Yud/Gwern/Scott Alexander have used to build their followings. I think Josh grew up with the structure of this marketing discourse so much it is actually how he thinks. Which is really depressing.  Anyway, enough psychologizing: we can easily fix his sentence with the following:  "When they trained the model to avoid expressions of frustration in its text outputs, both the internal representations of frustration and the outputs representing these frustrations decreased."  There: now we're being clearer and less anthropomorphizing, so we aren't confusing the dumdums and we aren't misrepresenting the software too much.  My diagnosis: These people are both bad readers and bad writers, and they temporarily fooled people because most people are bad readers. And as the humanities are fixed--the dumb political bullshit fades, the idiot grifters get less power, the brain drain reverses--this kind of bad reading and bad writing will disappear, and Anthropic's marketing message will no longer work.  Now, I will admit to a tad bit of guilt: most Anthropic people HATE me (I've been told internal Slack chats about me in the org have been nasty), and Josh is one of the few who has been gracious to follow me, listen to my takes, and try to learn. He's a nice kid, but he is clearly misguided and confused.  If we had an AI startup that cared about language AND wanted to be honest and straightforward about what these machines can do--namely reduce toil in our lives so that we can enjoy them doing things we want to do--I dare say the AI industry and the rest of the world would be much, much better aligned. || CTX: Josh's post was one of the last I saw before going to sleep, and now that I'm awake and having some coffee, I can reply more intelligently.  Let's take his first example first:  "First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take t
2026-09-02T02:25 id=2094974932862349526 →beanthishigh | @beanthishigh Beautiful, just beautiful. || CTX: My pocket? Israelite ✡️💰 Your pocket? Is real lite 💀
2026-09-02T02:49 id=2094980945753591973 →jachiam0 | @jachiam0 An unfortunate but very real issue needs to be addressed: a lot of people in the AI safety industry lack the technical expertise to do more than read CoT outputs.  The industry needs a big, big culling. || CTX: A very hot take: chain of thought interpretability was always going to be so fragile as to be an unacceptable backstop for long-term AI safety, and while I admire the optimism and effort involved in protecting its fidelity (and consider suc
2026-09-02T03:01 id=2094984111094104544 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes Yeah, when I asked him to expand he equivocates--going straight from "model maps emotions" to "model has emotions". I have a teardown--apologies, it's a long post: https://t.co/snfaJMMBky || CTX: Josh's post was one of the last I saw before going to sleep, and now that I'm awake and having some coffee, I can reply more intelligently.  Let's take his first example first:  "First is the Blackmail example in my main post. If you take t
2026-09-02T03:25 id=2094989983828590753 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I agree. There's a way to be online without lying about one's identity that can be fun and playful.   People who lie about their identity online are pathetic. || CTX: you should not lie all the time for fun btw   let you yea be yea and all that (from the noble bible) https://t.co/lO8c7QOEg6 https://t.co/tNey3qpbE9
2026-09-02T03:35 id=2094992515024007651 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec But you are used by the Astros for every decision they make, so you are Astros Brain in a very real sense. || CTX: @CommanthaBiden @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @cloudseedingtec Now I feel bad. My name isn’t actually Astros Brian. I don’t even like the Astros. I like the jetsons dog but that’s different. I’m sorry for misleading you all. Goo
2026-09-02T04:27 id=2095005666641621306 →- | There's a class of writers who are gifted at using language but who also have very little to say.   Anthony Burgess and Cormac McCarthy are my main examples of this type.   Then there's a class who aren't all that good at using language but who have a lot to say.  Graham Greene is my canonical example of this, but this group has many more and potentially very many more, depending on how easily you are impressed by the things others have to say.   Finally there's the class who are good at using language and have a lot to say.   My prime example here is of course Ernest Hemingway.
2026-09-02T05:17 id=2095018226505974208 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Trying not to mention Yud anymore, bad for my brand. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 you forgot a class - bad at language with little to say
2026-09-02T05:46 id=2095025587886993452 →- | The original paper on this is really good: https://t.co/O9r8YrObWf.  I'm traveling today so can't do any more long poasts, but basically it's less language based: it computes by transforming hidden state reasoning computations without a linguistic representation.   I'd dumb it down this way: LLMs are word calculators, right? This is less word, more calculator.   LLMs are moving away from language, away from writing, away from textuality.   I welcome this.  OpenAI, like Anthropic recently, has given up entirely on a clanker writing good, which is wonderful news for all the small businesses making clankers that can write good. || CTX: OpenAI’s Astra AI uses a new reasoning approach called “recurrent depth.” Though it can help model costs and performance, researchers are concerned bc it obscures a model’s thinking process, making it more difficult to monitor.  w/ @amir @r
2026-09-02T05:47 id=2095025788651467032 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I know. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i detest writing that is trying to say things
2026-09-02T05:49 id=2095026333852356835 →classicspilled | @classicspilled I'm not big on the cult of the sentence and don't enjoy his novels, so I don't disagree.   Who'd you put in that category other than Hemingway? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 hemingway is mid
2026-09-02T06:20 id=2095034061387616414 →coco_mathews | @coco_mathews I find his worldview vapid, tbh, all that nihilism and cynicism is not really true of human nature, but it is true of a subset which is over time getting less powerful and smaller in number. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I’ve been rereading McCarthy lately and finding his themes to resonate with the times tbh. Power dynamics rooted in violence, feeling outcast/adrift from society, morality in the face of nihilism, etc. Is your take on lack 
2026-09-02T06:22 id=2095034614238904693 →- | One big reason why I moved to Thailand is this tweet. https://t.co/BoGCdD83PP || CTX: ว่าด้วยตุ๊กตาห้อยกระเป๋า https://t.co/mTHWPiCJOZ
2026-09-02T06:24 id=2095035098324447419 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder I've been unable to start a new chat outside of a project on Codex remote (Android to Mac) for about a week now.   It's getting better but it is still buggy af. || CTX: Hi OpenAI, regarding codex remote:  - the background updater automatically replaces the app server - every attached TUI gets a websocket error and exits instead of reconnecting - i wake up and have to reconnect all my sessions manually  thi
2026-09-02T06:29 id=2095036492741853674 →archived_videos | There is much more breadth of tolerable behavior here where people are not only allowed their small self indulgences like this but they're passed upon without judgment so much that the behavior is widespread.   This is different from e. g. Japan where the kawaii culture is rather rigidly enforced by gender roles, peer pressure, etc.  And it's different from my experiences in the U. S. and UK where such gestures are mocked and denigrated as part of intrasexual competition and intersexual policing.  I feel less judged and thus freer here in the small ways that matter the most. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Say more
2026-09-02T07:03 id=2095045013961138620 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @JasonBotterill I SWEAR IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK! https://t.co/GlfRMYPAwL || CTX: There is much more breadth of tolerable behavior here where people are not only allowed their small self indulgences like this but they're passed upon without judgment so much that the behavior is widespread.   This is different from e. g. 
2026-09-02T07:44 id=2095055349388841258 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat Penang, then Singapore in a few days. Short trip. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 where are you traveling
2026-09-02T08:02 id=2095059676518117664 →- | My work is education at scale.   I tell an analyst X is happening in the market and explain why X matters with suggestions on how to think about X.   The analyst adjusts his model to account for X accordingly.  The adjusted model reallocates the capital of many investors. It is as if those investors have outsourced their educational process to the analysts, who use other analysts like me as educators.   They also educate me.  That education improves decision making, it helps diffuse intelligence at the level of personal action in the domain of finance.  Interesting. From this perspective I never left teaching and research, I just left the universities.
2026-09-02T08:13 id=2095062523846537306 →- | This is just a suburb, like 30min from the center of Bangkok. https://t.co/4FVT83xYDa
2026-09-02T09:07 id=2095076148099379296 →- | Thai Airways lounge at BKK surprisingly run down. Amazing food though.
2026-09-02T09:16 id=2095078450105295286 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Thanks anon || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 have a safe flight and good trip!
2026-09-02T09:41 id=2095084617493880860 →- | So I'm at the airport right what's the deal with peanuts   Anyway.   I'm at the airport thankin', well gosh golly gee this @eaglecreekohfucktheydonthaveatwitteriwontgetfreeshit suitcase is amazing. I'm using one carry on, it converts to a backpack or rollable, as much capacity as a standard carryon, and I think, "man this is a GOOD fucking bag, and ChatGPT recommended it back in like 4o days, I should tweet about this, this is downright brand friendly (47 is a brand lol, I like making little jokes when I think to myself [this interjection wasn't in the original thought, but the laugh was inasmuch as a laugh can be in a thought, and can one laugh only internally? What do we mean by laugh? {as one well known comedian once said," these words these words"<I never said he was a good comedian>}]) so I should tweet about it, but fuck if I do people will think it's an #hashtagad# (the hashtag signs are just a way to delineate that when I thought 'hashtagad' I was thinking of the hashtag sign no I'm not doing the parentheses [{'}] gimmick again)."   First note my role as Tweetoor is infecting my real life this is no bueno.   Then notice how my dynamic has changed, despite my aggressive and principled stance (see pinned tweet) against selling out on the internet for money, the simple reality of selling out on the internet for money has impacted my relationship to this medium.   The corrupting influence of money! It is FASCINATING, especially as the amount of money they'd give for such an ad is pathetic, with my reach like what fucking fifty bucks if I'm lucky #ad https://t.co/XwSwvLuVVQ
2026-09-02T10:58 id=2095103961263165562 →tszzl | @tszzl This is absolutely wonderful to see, I welcome this development so much, and it'll take AI safety out of the realms of spooky nonsense and scifi and back to the verifiable realm of cybersecurity.   This is just excellent, I am honestly very happy. || CTX: i agree with this and think that CoT is at best an epiphenomenon of current training methods. it will break (in the future, not now). safety community too often centers thought terminating taboos like “neuralese” and “training on interp” ht
2026-09-02T12:03 id=2095120468126949451 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil I think the best lounge I've been to is still the one in Seoul, but I need to see the Emirates one in Dubai, at least from videos it looks ridiculous, comically luxurious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Lounges vary so much   Some are worst than just eating at food court   Then in Dallas I think  , I got the emirates lounge when all their flights were cancelled   Steak on order and the most luxurious and amazing showers
2026-09-02T12:19 id=2095124551411876112 →xanderatch | @xanderatch @a_musingcat lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat Robert Greene
2026-09-02T12:21 id=2095125047036067914 →xanderatch | @xanderatch @a_musingcat who? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @a_musingcat would you consider Peter Baofu?
2026-09-02T12:31 id=2095127415039422812 →- | Okay so some tiktoker made a video of a gift her bf bought her and she said she loved it because it was (and I quote) "on brand with what I love."   This is an insane slip of the tongue. It shows her obsessive focus with reach, with the constraints of the medium she's using and how those constraints recommend certain words and concepts and clusters of ideas and ways of thinking naturally follow.   So you see how the medium is the message.   Crucially, messages are bidirectional and never computationally complete, meaning that all of the possible meanings of the message are now affordances in the minds of both those sending and receiving the message, available to be activated.   One byproduct of this affordance is the tweet you are now reading.  Language has multiple levels and at each level it is co-constitutive of thought.  Not all of your thoughts are made by language but much of them are limited by language, which also means the limit of your world.  What you choose to read, watch, pay attention to, and say are the sum total of your mind.  Every time you use slang, talk in memes, or don't think before you speak, you're letting language significantly constrain your thinking.  At the other end of the spectrum, if you want language to constrain your thinking as little as possible, would be reading the classic literature of another civilization in a foreign language.  Philology, seen this way, is a key to freedom.
2026-09-02T12:33 id=2095128018805223784 →profleonn | @profleonn No I'm talking about my real jobby job. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 X dot com the everything app?
2026-09-02T14:58 id=2095164444926181636 →joyfulfuckup | @joyfulfuckup Yeah I think you're making a prognosis which I think is almost certainly true, whereas I'm making a diagnosis. I want to say it is a slip of the tongue almost certainly done repeatedly, meaning the habit of productizing the self so much that it's now a permanent feeling. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I wholly believe that a fried person would internalize "on brand" as a feeling and not a slip of the tongue at this point
2026-09-02T16:11 id=2095182950413512772 →murd_arch | @murd_arch It's legit a dream job and I still am shocked I get to do it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 best combo of investigative journalism + teaching, for real money.
2026-09-02T16:25 id=2095186273170538975 →graphtheory | @graphtheory @fabglitch Oh so you really are 40 || CTX: @fabglitch S/o rob zombie
2026-09-02T16:25 id=2095186399494574188 →graphtheory | @graphtheory Legit thought you were 30, you have youthful energy. || CTX: I am a 40 year old man, overweight, who lives in the middle of the desert  I come to this website because I have schizophrenia &amp; think it’s very funny to spread cognitive dissonance  If my posts make you angry or leave you wondering if 
2026-09-02T16:32 id=2095188094257660386 →0xSero | @0xSero I love how transparent you are about this stuff. || CTX: X monthly income.   August was 5000$~ https://t.co/NeY6TfN2GJ
2026-09-02T16:35 id=2095188810200211746 →- | Lol they're such a cult man https://t.co/NJtoc23bis || CTX: BREAKING: AI Doomers Are Buying Potemkin Articles  The AI debate is more fake than you can imagine:   Of the 6 participants in this Guardian article, including the journalist and publisher, 6/6 are paid by AI Doomer megadonors. https://t.co
2026-09-02T17:07 id=2095196874622058844 →AlmostMedia | @AlmostMedia Were you going to order some roast beef? || CTX: I went to order some food from a European delivery app called Wolt &amp; I clearly picked the wrong neighborhood in my layover as I got shown not one but two really graphic busted flashlight purveyors.   It’s really GRAPHIC so be careful cl
2026-09-02T17:24 id=2095201190502178964 →TaylorLorenz | I'd guess you're getting really low CPMs because YT sees the vids as general interest rather than specifically tech or tech-law related.  One way to handle this is direct sponsorships ofc, but I think having videos with more of a  technical "deep dive" theme that's somewhat educational and gets into some of the context (e. g, add some legal history and legal theory in the copyright laws video) and you'll get some higher CPMs.   This fixes the price per ad unit side, but ofc you can fix it on the scale side by having more viewers via promoting on other platforms and cross-promoting with other creators.   But if I were you I'd try longer in-depth videos with more technical info, if you can do this without added cost, and your CPMs should rise from $3-$6 and get to more like $12-$15 over time, possibly higher still. || CTX: Looking for some help from the internet!! 🙏    While I love reporting every single week on bad tech policy on YouTube and fact checking viral false claims about tech, I am losing money every month doing it.     Here are my YouTube earnings 
2026-09-03T00:39 id=2095310686423580733 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @AstrosBrain That fucker won't shut up, despite the many people who are sure they don't want to hear any of it. || CTX: @AstrosBrain @47fucb4r8c69323 speaks on this
2026-09-03T01:06 id=2095317387541369284 →- | Something a lot of people do not realize is that a lot of what Anthropic does will be illegal and actionable.   Anthropic asks for a pause in AI development. They are an AI developer. If a public company, this is a breach of fiduciary duty that is legally actionable for shareholders.   Is this airtight? No. Does it become a strong case with interviews of employees being asked if they'd destroy the core product Anthropic produces, Askell's deranged nonsense, and all the weirdness documented as a pattern of behavior? You better believe it buddy.  These cult shenanigans are unsustainable as the industry grows up. || CTX: What’s interesting is that Sam knows the liquidity is about to dry up  but Dario is still manic about runaway exponentials  One of them evil; but razor sharp  The other; mentally ill  Wallstreet isn’t going to like the latter
2026-09-03T01:34 id=2095324451172974654 →- | Let me get one thing out of the way: there are many grifters, bullshitters, and liars in the newsletter industry. But hashtag not all writers.  It is not strictly true that zero successful traders/fund managers pivot to substacks or newsletters (I personally know two, and there are more famous ones you can get a list of from your clanker), but some do and many sell-side analysts do or now wish they had done this.   Are buyside analysts better than sellside? Many of the latter either move to the former or want to, and the potential payouts on the buyside are bigger: buyside produces billionaires, sellside produces Henry Blodget, so, I can see why one would think this.   But a lot of us sellsiders don't go buyside because we don't like the high risk/reward profile (we don't want to be billionaires, we just want a comfortable life writing about markets), and in my case because I didn't want to be forced in the office and subject to the cruelty of an unhinged PM (my boss was a dream boss and the main reason I stayed where I did for so long).  Newsletters provide long term reliable income for writing about something you care about and know about, so of course it's a compelling business to go into if you want to work alone, work from anywhere, and be more dispassionately removed from the action thab you'd be as a buysider.   When you're buyside, you do trips, have tons of meetings, interact with a lot of people--you are playing the game at the top level. When you're a newsletter writer, you're sharing insights and musings to an interested audience.   They obviously appeal to different personality types.   But ceph is right that the vast vast majority of these newsletters are garbage. But there are valuable exceptions! || CTX: Literally zero successful traders or fund managers do stuff like this (or spend lots of their time doing podcasts, writing a paid substack, selling a course etc)  Which makes for easy decisions — if someone does any of those things, by defi
2026-09-03T01:50 id=2095328622420930658 →Dorialexander | @Dorialexander This makes total sense to me.  They've spent their entire lives studying math and reading bad scifi.   How could we expect them to understand communication? It's not their field! || CTX: i guess, many people don't realize yet that in a relatively small world like ai research, bad comms is just bad comms.
2026-09-03T01:52 id=2095329017851417065 →expndcrl | @expndcrl "If a public company" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 does being a Public Benefit Corporation not mitigate this?
2026-09-03T01:53 id=2095329230909505876 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs Only the good ones. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 all writers are perverts
2026-09-03T03:28 id=2095353194406965397 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I love this level of the game, but what's next?   And did you get my email? || CTX: https://t.co/8pRuWplyaM https://t.co/XPddq1yv1V
2026-09-03T03:30 id=2095353782490292294 →alreadydawn | @alreadydawn I almost never see Thais do this tbh || CTX: It’s 3pm in Bangkok. I’m eating late lunch at a popular Hainanese chicken spot. Two college students sit on my left. One scrolls TikToks, his thumb swiping up every other second like clockwork. The other streams League of Legends on full vo
2026-09-03T03:41 id=2095356542237512031 →SuperheroFreak | @SuperheroFreak My favorite thing in the world is really smart people saying the dumbest shit. || CTX: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA   "Ya booty is a lot. There's a lot going on in ya booty" https://t.co/3OxNljVswY
2026-09-03T06:25 id=2095397785516568722 →JYukariHero | @JYukariHero "If a public company" || CTX: Lol Anthropic is a private Delaware PBC. The whole structure exists so the board can put mission over profit. You can't breach fiduciary duty to shareholders that don't exist. https://t.co/zTTgwzaW3v
2026-09-03T06:50 id=2095403999952609688 →- | Thank God, another American mass delusion over, just like MAGA, wokeness, Oprah Winfrey, and so much gay retarded shit Muricans eat up. https://t.co/LxRKm4AX4q
2026-09-03T07:31 id=2095414453890338847 →ccccjjjjeeee | @ccccjjjjeeee @alreadydawn yes and taxi drivers || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alreadydawn significant % of grab bike drivers have tiktok on while driving now
2026-09-03T08:02 id=2095422099909398687 →- | The world is healing: Yud's weirdo cult is marginalized, Anthropic is incessantly mocked, LLMs are becoming less language based, folk beliefs in AI consciousness from retards who don't understand functionalism is down, AI safety is becoming cybersecurity.  https://t.co/DWPFL4VR5G
2026-09-03T08:04 id=2095422708125499406 →- | Penang. https://t.co/IVDcY3cLjk
2026-09-03T08:07 id=2095423407273677185 →Stepmark_Jay | @Stepmark_Jay He's such an interesting guy, I disagree with much of his politics but he seems principled and rather decent as a human being. || CTX: Hmm. Look closely at his ears and the silver puck he’s holding. https://t.co/LLjnxFlK3I https://t.co/3vkRTPCCGJ
2026-09-03T08:08 id=2095423591588458657 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit Oh this is a very familiar feeling. || CTX: No it's cool, use my bong and don't bother trying to pass it... just fucking roast bowls next to me like you own my stuff
2026-09-03T08:09 id=2095424035635315088 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden Well curated photos. I'm unimpressed with the place tbh, but I haven't seen much yet. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 nice
2026-09-03T08:24 id=2095427665478181366 →- | I'm in Singapore all of next week if any mutuals there want to meet up.
2026-09-03T09:24 id=2095442775773004125 →ChangYeeFong77 | @ChangYeeFong77 Just checking out the sights in Georgetown tbh, I once considered moving here and want to see the road not taken. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What exactly are you looking for in Penang?
2026-09-03T09:24 id=2095442832458985753 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Amazing. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Oh nice how is the food? I love Penang
2026-09-03T11:51 id=2095479754979942559 →- | Kiri really got this one right btw https://t.co/1CdMhxmHol || CTX: Cybersecurity boutta be the fastest growing job worldwide https://t.co/VEHDxe50t8
2026-09-03T12:01 id=2095482369960816641 →- | "it means you now have workers freed up from those low human capital intensive taks so they can invest their human capital in other higher value tasks." - 47, back in May  "AI is retraining workers, not replacing them" - Chief Economist of company with 840 billion AUM.  Catch up. https://t.co/nB5j64nETd https://t.co/fDqaaHlDxD || CTX: These guys got it backwards and it makes me question their competency as financial analyst (not that it matters that level is for dealmakers not people who understand deals)...  It isn't that AI replaces low value human capital, this is the
2026-09-03T12:04 id=2095483098372936100 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil That'd be a really funny game || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I want neuromancer where you deploy one hostile ai against another hostile ai
2026-09-03T12:05 id=2095483281261367644 →crypt0lake | @crypt0lake omg why didn't you tell me!!! I'm there on the 7th || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 are you there now? im coming soon
2026-09-03T12:06 id=2095483564204986855 →- | The absolute biggest and most real question about LLMs, OpenAI, and Anthropic is whether they cannibalize Google Search spend.  Wanna know if they do? Subscribe to my research lol https://t.co/NBCLKdhBo5 || CTX: The dotcom bubble also had an insane amount of potential use cases and virtually none of them materialized into money besides ads (search, social media) and the surviving ecommerce because above all people need simplicity. Consumers do not 
2026-09-03T12:11 id=2095484884777377907 →- | It really is the everything app, got everything I love: money, history, articles, racially profiling, and more! https://t.co/fHNPgPJga7
2026-09-03T12:18 id=2095486532035698871 →n00rdung | @n00rdung This is EXACTLY what I went into academia for. Didn't find it. || CTX: this is what true scholarship looks like. if your academics do not discourse like that, it is a sign they are merely strivers wearing their diplomas and titles as a skinsuit. they have captured the academia and the research is suffering for
2026-09-03T12:20 id=2095487128750940516 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Technically would be a subgroup inside money || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 since we have money already next tab should be hoes and alcohol
2026-09-03T12:24 id=2095488164005863724 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf Congrats on the new job, Abdul! You're gonna crush it, I know it. || CTX: Hi friends, I'm Abdul.  Yesterday was my first day at Vodafone Egypt.  InshAllah I'll work to make Vodafone the best service provider in the Middle East. Wish me luck. https://t.co/Hx9fpjwZmk https://t.co/SsP4htbg2l
2026-09-03T12:46 id=2095493757848469839 →ChangYeeFong77 | @ChangYeeFong77 Thanks, I'll check it out! Had dim sum for dinner and was amazing, Malaysia has such incredible food || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Well if your still in the middle of Georgetown Friday morning I would recommend you go to Jalan Rangoon and try the white bowl curry mee and the boiled chicken there. It's not a known penang food tourist spot so it shouldn'
2026-09-03T12:58 id=2095496737523917120 →murd_arch | @murd_arch My 3P advice is simple: do it if you get the chance, provided they're both chicks. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I am a humble small-town buy side 3p advisor and I endorse this message.
2026-09-03T13:40 id=2095507231995568234 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney NGL when I fly and they call me "Mr Xxxxxx", I wince internally.   Narcissistic cunt that I am. || CTX: It is very American to oppose PhD in bio. (Federalist 84) https://t.co/f2S8QM3ir1
2026-09-03T14:05 id=2095513521811546240 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney It's called mental illness || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 But you also wince when I call you "Dr X". Skill issue.
2026-09-03T14:12 id=2095515266310721732 →iamtexture | @iamtexture @resistancemoney THATS MORE LIEK IT || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney "Sorry. DOCTOR narcissistic cunt."
2026-09-03T14:21 id=2095517650894151822 →tolstoybb | @tolstoybb @resistancemoney , Ph.D, Series 7 (passed), CFA Level I (candidate). || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @resistancemoney Herr Professor Doktor 47fuckboy
2026-09-03T14:48 id=2095524428767699044 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 @ElmWho Me and? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho
2026-09-03T15:14 id=2095530817607131332 →0xSero | @0xSero I love Qwen models so much, they follow directions SO WELL and produce such good text. || CTX: Qwen is a beast, I am loving this lil guy.   Working on sglang, I can't believe it. https://t.co/dy7DeJ87pJ
2026-09-03T15:54 id=2095541016766136731 →- | https://t.co/bBowIFPcpe
2026-09-03T16:13 id=2095545665929773298 →Ken67547214 | @Ken67547214 yikes tough crowd || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Not actually fun
2026-09-03T16:39 id=2095552289960493444 →- | Who's dumber
2026-09-03T16:41 id=2095552770795503879 →IterIntellectus | @IterIntellectus Working fine in Malaysia for some reason. https://t.co/6sG4Lxvw5S || CTX: what were you doing when the world stopped (all frontier models broke)?
2026-09-03T16:42 id=2095553116116746321 →bas_logic | @bas_logic True, I am a bastard || CTX: ACAB applies to epistemic contextualists.
2026-09-03T16:43 id=2095553265656373712 →arealhumantony | @arealhumantony @Ken67547214 @ElmWho Isn't the math ridiculously hard too? || CTX: @Ken67547214 @47fucb4r8c69323 @ElmWho https://t.co/mbXco4zmMM I saw someone else post about cybersec. offered my words of encouragement.
2026-09-03T16:52 id=2095555510905008185 →justabdulraouf | @justabdulraouf HAHAHAHAHAHA || CTX: https://t.co/nWE4OzUmyK https://t.co/9NqAeTScOT
2026-09-03T17:04 id=2095558452483674197 →- | There are exceptions, right @teodorio? https://t.co/zvyyYqwePE || CTX: Perhaps the most depressing realization in modern life is that "making it" doesn't exist the way it used to. This world is run by the bourgeois now. All they do is work. Even the ultra rich perform busyness. There is no escape. The leisured
2026-09-03T17:05 id=2095558809481843196 →7karni | @7karni @n00rdung Yeah, I see that a lot too but I kinda expect that on the internet.   Twitter has some good pockets though! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @n00rdung it's what i came to a part of x for. sadly, it might be the most-often-faked personality quirk there. i see impassioned™ &amp; scholarly™ debates that smell like bad niyat &amp; shrewd egotism too often in a group
2026-09-03T17:10 id=2095559964475711744 →- | Wegovy will always sound to me like a moderately left-wing political website.
2026-09-03T17:21 id=2095562723329527917 →MTSlive | @MTSlive @BernieSanders Let me debate him. || CTX: @BernieSanders Bernie, we'd love to have you on the show to talk about AI
2026-09-03T17:23 id=2095563382867050737 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart The worst part about this is AI helps the little guy SO MUCH, I truly think solo entrepreneurs and small business owners stand to benefit tremendously from this tech.  Someone got in his ear, said this is how to hurt billionaires, now he's running with it. || CTX: Is Bernie the first elected official to take up the Pause cause? Doubt he’ll be the last. https://t.co/DkSVdXHy0y
2026-09-03T17:28 id=2095564589819990517 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart As long as they aren't rich, I think so? He's pushed policies to support freelancers and gig economy workers in the past. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you think Bernie cares about “solo preneurs” as a class?
2026-09-03T17:40 id=2095567567297675657 →- | Yesa mesa like BASA! Meeda tink rogue AI can killen us all and weesa need to burn down all da banks and just have Binks instead!   (I'm 100% sober) https://t.co/DN94pUDAl0 https://t.co/bKfFJ5dMAp || CTX: Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. All AI development in the United States will be paused. Systems that have capabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance will be banned. 
2026-09-03T17:41 id=2095567804154134652 →skooookum | @skooookum omg Bernie's got calls on NVDA || CTX: Little piece of advice:   Buy enough compute to privately run &gt;= opus 4.8 level intelligence offline, in your home before it’s too late. https://t.co/p6wUxPKRRz
2026-09-03T17:53 id=2095570826833858837 →uhohthatsweird | @uhohthatsweird @TheStalwart Freelance writers absolutely can benefit from AI. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @TheStalwart idt freelancers and gig economy workers even self-identify as solo entrepreneurs. how does AI help a guy delivering doordash? are freelance copywriters benefiting? particularly in the grossly unregulated path w
2026-09-03T18:37 id=2095582067090456767 →- | "Yeah guys what's bad about some anthropomorphizing language"   This. This is what's bad.  LANGUAGE MATTERS https://t.co/PpCiKoQ4OQ || CTX: Just total @dwarkesh_sp victory. I had heard in my GCs that the essay was blowing up in DC, &amp; now this. Dude I hope you're happy with this, because you played a big role in bringing it about. https://t.co/2skqmj2Q6f https://t.co/wcDFm40
2026-09-04T00:31 id=2095670936666296557 →JoeWeisenthalt | @JoeWeisenthalt Have you been before? It's my first time, haven't seen too much so far, prob will hit the history museum today.
2026-09-04T00:44 id=2095674293053247575 →- | GM https://t.co/QpaEWp52UI
2026-09-04T00:51 id=2095676010536796342 →everyfren | @everyfren There is substantial back channel coordination between groups, like massive. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why does every thing coming out of America feel like theatre? Everything’s so perfectly set up and all the actors always seem to be right on cue
2026-09-04T01:22 id=2095683919891091699 →- | It is hard for me to express in words how much I resent the "learn to code" era, which is odd because I'm paid to express things in words and boy do I love telling people how I feel about this and that.  Maybe because it really kicked into high gear when I left academia in 2012, and I'd given up on my focus, medieval philology, because, well, there aren't many jobs in medieval philology and I didn't want to be like one of my mentors, bitter and angry for being stuck in a shitty backwater despite being a brilliant scholar. Humanities scholars lack geographic sovereignty.  I had saved enough that, theoretically, I would never have to work again as long as I didn't spend more than $1k a month, so I was in an unusual position where I wasn't really working to live but working to afford a better lifestyle and ensure I had enough money to live anywhere I wanted, even like Zurich or Hong Kong if I wanted to (and I did indeed live in HK about 4 years after leaving academia).  So I wasn't in the "I will do anything for money just please don't let me starve on the streets" mentality most people from cruel countries like America have, but I wasn't in my current "yes I will work with you only if you aren't an assholr and I find the work interesting" state but an odd halfway position where my attitude was, roughly: this is a bit of an indulgence from an ascetic baseline, I am just doing this to have more latitude, and so I won't humiliate myself or sell out.   In this mindset, "learn to code" was offensive: it implied that my prior skills were only valuable inasmuch as they could transfer to a low-semantic, literally programmatic skill.   I'd need to abandon meaning to make money.   I would say this is a good definition of selling out.  "Fuck you man, I refuse" is my default position in life, but every no must contain a yes as Camus so wonderfully put it, and my refusal is grounded in some principles: that an exploration of meaning beyond the mechanistic is of enduring value and that MUST have some economic value.  Which is of course true: stories have more value than anything else. It is a wild irony and perhaps telling that the learn to code days were when the idea of "narrative economics"  began to flourish.  So while the "learn to code" propaganda was going brrr, I tried to become a journalist instead and frankly was so good at turning information into stories that the amount I earned per hour kept creeping up: I started at $38, and 15 years later on my best days it's $5,000. (Disclaimer: #notallhours and good God is it much less now in my new job. Also I didn't work more than 4 hours a week for like a decade, so I am not a decimillionaire, calm down.)  Of course, I had a more prosocial hatred of the "learn to code" days and that it was obviously an attempt to depress programmer wages, and it worked absurdly well.  But at its core, what angered me about "learn to code" was the implicit "because whatever skills you have, like telling stories, has no value."   Well fuck you, assholes, my ability to tell stories DOES have value, and the proof is I now own two houses on a tropical island and here's my view from both of them, go fuck yourselves istg I am so near through with the whole fucking shithole gaslighting selfish greedy cruel sociopathic vein of American culture that insists markets need to be a blood sport I hate literally every last one of you. || CTX: @signulll The bubble was always bound to pop (which is what made all those tech people saying "learn to code" so stupid) but I do think it's good that more people got a foundational understanding of how to build technology. But yeah, it's w
2026-09-04T01:27 id=2095685052336357859 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent I too have noticed that, very useful if you're a marketer and deeply annoying if you love language. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the word solve has no meaning anymore that i recognize. i am going to solve Tuesday and solve a piece of toast while solving a solvent and solving my mother on the phone.
2026-09-04T01:40 id=2095688380470423608 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc CoT is a really poor layer for analyzing LLM's token producing process, and recurrent depth is a move away from this. I approve, it's a good thing. || CTX: Astra seems exciting but if I’ve understood correctly, ‘recurrent depth’ seems like a move away from transparent interpretability? Makes sense from an efficiency POV - human language is inefficient - but sets an ‘interesting’ precedent for 
2026-09-04T01:45 id=2095689793963503985 →47fucb4r8c69323 | I actually own three houses, but I don't visit the third one all that often except to visit the dogs that live nearby.   I am really homesick lol https://t.co/km2hJx01yg || CTX: It is hard for me to express in words how much I resent the "learn to code" era, which is odd because I'm paid to express things in words and boy do I love telling people how I feel about this and that.  Maybe because it really kicked into 
2026-09-04T01:46 id=2095689912729387284 →fabsbz | @fabsbz Yes, the process was needlessly difficult and stupid but we closed last week. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So your neighbor finally budged?
2026-09-04T01:47 id=2095690142359093408 →- | Success is the best revenge.
2026-09-04T01:53 id=2095691786387874153 →AlexTaylor12112 | @AlexTaylor12112 Trust me, I wish I knew.   Probably because, as Walt Whitman said, I contain multitudes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 If you're happy, then why are you angry and lashing out at other people and their choices in life?
2026-09-04T02:00 id=2095693419960238144 →apokolokyntosis | @apokolokyntosis Philology is the queen of the humanities and its death has been my source of perennial angst for 30 fucking years || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yo i didn’t know u had a background in academic philology
2026-09-04T02:02 id=2095694041086373919 →AlexTaylor12112 | @AlexTaylor12112 If you aren't annoyed at the world you don't care enough, you're a sociopath, you lack ideals.   I have contempt for the content. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 most of your multitudes seem like they're pretty annoyed with the world. but I have my own internal multitudes to manage and boy howdy are they a challenge sometimes. take care
2026-09-04T02:03 id=2095694183420113212 →- | If happiness is your goal in life you're a fucking retard, go die in a fire. https://t.co/VJGeaQTKEU || CTX: @AlexTaylor12112 If you aren't annoyed at the world you don't care enough, you're a sociopath, you lack ideals.   I have contempt for the content.
2026-09-04T02:26 id=2095699980371841153 →AlexTaylor12112 | @AlexTaylor12112 you're retarded, unfollow me || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what if you care enough to express that through consideration, not rage? rage is easy peasy. anger is cheap. it amuses people for a moment, it doesn't build
2026-09-04T02:30 id=2095701060732223719 →damiaanluc | @damiaanluc Well the main issue is CoT doesn't actually track the reasoning traces all the time, cf: https://t.co/hOzq9Bja2K || CTX: The issue with CoT is its efficiency, or that it’s both inefficient and similarly inscrutable anyway? I could see a case for it not being much better anyway, as far as interpretability goes, because it relies on distortions or compressions 
2026-09-04T02:45 id=2095704878333247673 →davidhykf | @davidhykf STOP BEING SELFISH YOU FUCKING CUNTS GODDAMMIT IT ISNT ALL THAT HARD TO CARE WHY DON'T YOU CARE WHY DON'T  YOU CARE || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is an edgy way to say don’t be selfish
2026-09-04T02:52 id=2095706498727100463 →laputanm4chine | @laputanm4chine I think fairer to say most people won't, and when people do give you the validation it's like smoking a cigarette: it satisfies the craving by creating more craving. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no one is going to tell you that you were right all along. at best, they will say congrats through gritted teeth. you will never receive that validation, but more importantly you don't need it
2026-09-04T03:16 id=2095712697958772821 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Can't relate. || CTX: Alice Harvey: Played by Emily VanCamp, she is a 29-year-old assistant editor in New York who struggles with self-destructive habits and writer's block. https://t.co/VrTpvvO9Mk
2026-09-04T03:21 id=2095713944837230752 →- | On the one hand, I really want to build an LLM that writes well, and this is partly why I started my lab and benchmark.   On the other hand, I am so glad the clankers can't write, because this absolutely cannot replace what I do for a living just look at the prose lmao https://t.co/jJtjxp3SxG
2026-09-04T03:31 id=2095716335091360190 →RyanGreenblatt | @RyanGreenblatt Zero reason to believe there is any underlying misaligned drive.  And, to be clear, it is your BELIEF that there is. Not a reasoned argument, it's an article of FAITH.  Stop proselytizing in the marketplace, weirdo, we got business to do. || CTX: I do not find it encouraging to see various specific misaligned behaviors go from a high rate with GPT 5.6 to ~zero with Astra. This seems indicative of wack-a-mole / papering over specific problems rather than solving the underlying misali
2026-09-04T03:44 id=2095719578206912548 →AlvinTheMage | @AlvinTheMage Yeah, let's do it! We can argue about crypto lol  I'm in town from the 7th to the 14th. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Local here, would like to meet if you're available.
2026-09-04T03:57 id=2095722903245607387 →valueterminal | @valueterminal My tweets are garbage not worth reading.   The only thing I've ever written worth reading is my novel (my real one, not the silly fanfic novel on my website), and no one reads novels anymore.  But thank you, that's really high praise! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 You should be posting also these longposts on a Substack so they have a permanent home on the internet and interested readers can peruse your oeuvre. Things get buried in the feed on X and aren't findable
2026-09-04T04:01 id=2095723868086473118 →MightyMogomra | @MightyMogomra Andy? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Based and Griffith-pilled
2026-09-04T04:02 id=2095724078216974822 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @GKunstwerk As the physicists say, there are no points only fields || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @GKunstwerk https://t.co/QPjo0PO7u4
2026-09-04T04:21 id=2095729020822544501 →GKunstwerk | @GKunstwerk @AlexTaylor12112 I like to imagine he was typing this while angrily staring at a spite building obstructing his view of a forest or smthg  My entire career was built on spite, proving the bastards wrong.   Fucking retarded hippies man. || CTX: @AlexTaylor12112 @47fucb4r8c69323 The things I've created out of spite would astonish you
2026-09-04T04:36 id=2095732688196170051 →NailYourShoes | @NailYourShoes That's the ticket! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 :(
2026-09-04T04:38 id=2095733153075962011 →- | One thing that does unnerve me is all the silly hiring of people at the frontier labs, like Larry fucking Summers. This is clearly political posturing (but yeah you go learn to code anon lmao).  It is such blatant networking bullshit rather than hiring for value, a thousand Nick Cleggs unleashed upon the AI sector.
2026-09-04T04:41 id=2095733946210488575 →- | https://t.co/sF36LuYgQe
2026-09-04T05:40 id=2095748900673999344 →- | Absolutely bizarre place to walk by at this particular moment of my life. https://t.co/FzAnnLGJqZ
2026-09-04T05:52 id=2095751877908418907 →- | Time for me to retweet this https://t.co/0ROoAHSk9i || CTX: Functionalism is wrong if an ontological claim, which isn't how Churchlands do it but many of their followers do. So this needs refutation, and fine I'll do it.   47fucb's Fake Unreal Cat Kinship Thought Experiment  Imagine I design very sq
2026-09-04T06:53 id=2095767120114319646 →sterlingcrispin | @sterlingcrispin "Why aren't you asking softball questions?" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 this is like the disagreeableness olympics lmao why are you talking like this
2026-09-04T08:12 id=2095787028344606766 →teodorio | @teodorio There is an excellent book by Peter Frankopan called The Silk Road that I am finding to be a gentle introduction to the topic for a neophyte, although tbf I'm only halfway through it. || CTX: I now have an insatiable desire to read more about adventures into the Arabic world and its history. I have recently realized how little I know about it https://t.co/zN60lkjo4H
2026-09-04T08:21 id=2095789361875062821 →jon_stokes | @jon_stokes Like any bloviating narcissist, his success is proportional to his ability to understand and manipulate other minds, and Bannon is shockingly good at this. || CTX: I called this Pause stuff back in March. In December, I interviewed Bannon on this for a magazine piece, &amp; I told ppl that the fact that Bannon was into this issue was a strong signal it had legs &amp; was going to be huge. Whatever you
2026-09-04T08:33 id=2095792378275828140 →- | I keep getting this ad here in Malaysia. It's really interesting--note the broad theme of unity in cultural diversity and shared nationality (common in Malaysia from what I've seen), and this is juxtaposed against "AI" as a non-human challenge to Malaysianness.   It shows AI as a tool that can complement human productivity, but it is not a replacement because of the unique character of Malaysia.  Don't combat the logic (I see so many of you TPOT weirdos obsessed with "debate", "argument", and "logic" where this is such a small part of human communication, y'all are fucking weirdos fr fr stay in your mom's basements or the Valley I never want to meet you), rather look at the cultural expression here.  The attitude is that AI is BOTH useful if wielded by humans AND a potential threat if seen as a replacement for humanity.  The former view is the one we should expect from history--it is how people saw calculators, spreadsheets, Photoshop, and the goddamn ballpoint pen. Good stuff, a positive message.  The latter view is bizarre: why would a tool that makes coding/graphic design easier a replacement for humanity?  Why would anyone think this?  Could it be Dario, Sam, and the rest saying AI will either take all of our jobs and leave us unemployed (a view Sam has since repudiated, as he rightly should because it's fucking retarded and one I railed against 4 fucking years ago) or it will kill us all, and there's no likely scenario in between?  You have caused so much global damage to the future of technology with this bizarre, strange, and empirically unsupported and fully unverifiable religious devotion to ASI, which we are no closer to than we were a year ago--yes the new models are better on benchmarks, yes they are incrementally improving. This is proof against the ASI argument, RSI still is not here and we're goddamn far from it, you can't get real world data without humans curating data, man I could go on and on.  Your messaging is so bad, it is so stupid, it is so counterproductive, and it's caused so many problems already, like the State Department waging war against Anthropic, the 4o zombies, Bernie Sanders now trying to use anthropomorphization as a cudgel to fight billionaires because he hates wealth--you are causing SO MUCH FUCKING DAMAGE WITH YOUR BAD MESSAGING.  I'm frustrated because a better message that is  more accurate and less metaphorical would also happen to produce more economic value both FOR the frontier labs AND everyone else!  Look, @sama, I know you've been using the weird rationalist cult bullshit as a way to depress wages, but you need to realize that the economic value of paying part of compensation in ideology is turning negative. This is not good for you or your company.  Remember: the arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards 47 was right.  Revisit this tweet on September 4, 2030. See how I did. || CTX: AI cannot capture what makes us Malaysian. The real Malaysia lives in the little things: the noises, the warmth, the quiet moments, and the stories we share.  Selamat Hari Kebangsaan and Hari Malaysia 📷 as we celebrate our heritage of being
2026-09-04T08:38 id=2095793627977138472 →johnsmithyson0 | @johnsmithyson0 I was going to write a paper about the medieval tradition of apocryphal stories of Jesus Christ's childhood through the western and Islamic traditions, but I quit academia before I could write it.  Also, ngl, I was a tad scared of a Rushdie-style response. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Did you ever touch upon biblical philology much?
2026-09-04T08:42 id=2095794578821648741 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 Well, you see, it's an organism grown by loving parents at OpenAI so there's no liability whatsoever, you see, and this metaphor is very useful (for dispelling the presumption of said liability). || CTX: https://t.co/3j5z5i2cbB
2026-09-04T08:43 id=2095794890399768795 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 There's really zero justification to think that saturating benchmarks means progress towards AGI--at least how I understand the term. || CTX: Great to see that two benchmarks I led development of, GeneBench-Pro and MedChemBench, are prominently featured. Notably, they remain unsaturated; we are quite far from AGI (and these benchmarks are themselves inherently very limited to beg
2026-09-04T08:50 id=2095796735012409659 →- | I haven't read Dostoyevsky in about a decade and my god did I forget what a brililant writer he is. The prose is so smooth and flowing (at least in this translation and, well, all translations of his work I've read), but more importantly it is the vibrant verisimilitude of misery and struggle that leaps off the page and strikes you in the heart if you've ever had the misfortune of being an underdog.  Do I write gud because of my many years of drunken banter? Did it help? And if it did, is my lucidity evidence of many nights of incoherence? Does it all balance out?  When Augustine's God sees me from outside space and time, is the perdurantistic worm just reverting to the mean of human eloquence? Would a masterpiece just be proof of ribaldry? Is this why all good writers are perverts, @NotPerrysBoobs?
2026-09-04T08:56 id=2095798050333835372 →Dan_Jeffries1 | @Dan_Jeffries1 This is why I hate the term "infohazard". If you think information is hazard, your soul is weak and I have contempt for you. || CTX: I've never regretted learning anything in my life. I've never looked back and thought "I wish I learned less."   Always more.   More code. More computers. More about life and love and relationships. More about cooking. History. Art. Languag
2026-09-04T08:58 id=2095798679047475263 →- | Everytime I try to use the zipper hole when I urinate I curse my Moyle jfc why'd you have to take so much off the top
2026-09-04T10:05 id=2095815422797070779 →llallawg | @llallawg lol, lmao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Please consider reading Tolstoy who is the superior writer
2026-09-04T10:06 id=2095815799755923731 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder It wasn't just the journalists saying this. Politicians, economists, and tech executives were too. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "learn to code" was deployed against journalists in particular because many were unconcerned or gleeful about blue collar job loss, like the Appalachian coal miners who were squeezed by regulation, with politicians and jour
2026-09-04T11:19 id=2095834124317843918 →- | AI peeps used "clanker is real boy" to make their industry more valuable, then the rhetoric was co-opted by the left to oppose the thing that would make their industry more valuable.   Leopards eating the faces of liars and misled fools.  Poorly thought out marketing. https://t.co/5a1PFGEt8j || CTX: This topic really has the potential to scramble politics, since many people in the AI world kind of agree with Bernie here. And many on the left view this type of discourse as basically being industry PR. https://t.co/c5otLIORch
2026-09-04T11:34 id=2095837903079473632 →- | And obviously the liability here is with the people using the chatbot.  Imagine a slightly different scenario: The bot gives very good instructions, but the hikers fall--who is liable?   Still the users, right?   I cannot think of a scenario here where it'd make any coherent sense to say the liability falls with the chatbot. I can't even think of a scenario where Google would be reasonably liable, but I'm sure that's a lack of imagination on my part.  And I absolutely can't think of a situation where it's the clanker itself that's reliable.  These risks at the enterprise scale could easily be financially material: Airbus, say, accidentally breaks into the DoD using Astra. Airbus gonna get in trouble. Does this lower their propensity to buy SOTA AI? Not now, certainly, but could it? || CTX: This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read 😂  Three hiking novices asked Gemini how to climb 14,179-ft Mount Shasta.   It packed them for an 8-hour day.  They left camp 3 a.m.   They were supposed to summit by 7 p.m.  Gemini said pack simpl
2026-09-04T13:20 id=2095864634519802041 →trout_kilg31775 | @trout_kilg31775 jfc I hate the internet so much sometimes || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 While he is good, don’t forget what rusia is right now. Bloody genocidal state.
2026-09-04T13:47 id=2095871276594430454 →MTSlive | @MTSlive So fucking sick of this shit jfc || CTX: SITUATION DETECTED: Researchers say OpenAI agents escaped during a test run in early May and turned a German wiki into a message board, leaving more than 15,000 edits as they shared answers and sandbox workarounds, per Reuters.
2026-09-04T14:43 id=2095885536640843909 →_redaktor_ | @_redaktor_ &lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;from your mom&lt;/head&gt;&lt;html || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So just to be clear, did you learn to code
2026-09-04T14:52 id=2095887785332994153 →flagofthepoor | @flagofthepoor @AlexTaylor12112 My potential is mine to waste, fuck off with your misplaced aspirations. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AlexTaylor12112 But you are a man who’s posted about wasting his potential on an island.
2026-09-04T14:54 id=2095888327320936514 →- | I will never forget the scene in Vicky Christina Barcelona where they're walking through the streets of some city, idk what town, not like there's a clue in the title, but anyway they're walking in the city and Javier Bardem's character's dad is scratching cars and the Bardem char dude says, "my father is a poet, but he never lets anyone read his work because he thinks humanity doesn't deserve it."   Never admired a fictional character more in my life.
2026-09-04T15:20 id=2095894901703807087 →0G_Uri | @0G_Uri HAHAHAHA || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Mohels be like https://t.co/bjSjGwafj9
2026-09-04T15:26 id=2095896293025681524 →- | Yes @SteveMiran is right, of course he's right: long-term economic growth expectations are higher because, well, I ain't going to explain it to you.   If you're so brainwashed by doomscrolling and externalizing your own miserable life on the economy that you refuse to see the data for what it is, fine, panic, whatever, but America is absolutely on fire and no one is even close to their level of innovation.  The data is so obvious, but if you don't believe me, fine, people didn't believe me when I said no recession was coming in 2022 when Bloomberg said it was a 100% probability of happening.  Keep your doom and gloom tight, miserable little shits, I know you want the economy to be miserable because YOU are miserable. I, on the other hand, see the data for what it is, that's why I [insert braggadocio here]  Off my lawn, so sick of this shit.
2026-09-04T16:01 id=2095905037516165427 →mikansoleil | @mikansoleil Shitty post-training. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Why do they always make some fake comparison thing 'I would revise the headline to'   What fucking headline you make the first one in your head and now you're revising it???
2026-09-04T16:08 id=2095906759001174501 →- | Your only advantage over the house is you can walk away.
2026-09-04T16:14 id=2095908252676686288 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Casinos never lock their doors. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 What if the doors are locked?
2026-09-04T16:16 id=2095908769163256260 →AstrosBrain | @AstrosBrain You hate to see it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 and most of you won’t
2026-09-04T16:19 id=2095909563497345135 →mcuban | @mcuban @nikitabier @KateMossadAgent || CTX: Be honest.  @nikitabier saved it.  He took over, the site improved exponentially. https://t.co/HCklcg4MQ8
2026-09-04T16:25 id=2095911254632354016 →- | If you want a picture of the future of America, imagine two political parties stamping on the face of progress—forever. https://t.co/lctTpvrm7n || CTX: headquarters, the old Kamala Harris official TikTok, now a 'gen-z progressive content hub', is now running explicitly anti-datacenter / anti AI reels set to zach bryan. the partisan coding of intelligence continues.  feels like an obvious b
2026-09-04T16:33 id=2095913273648722111 →unusual_whales | @unusual_whales I guess IPO is coming soon || CTX: Anthropic CEO says AI could replace software engineers in 6 to 12 months
2026-09-04T16:42 id=2095915389083603291 →hypergameme | @hypergameme I do. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is the biggest advantage and nobody takes it.
2026-09-04T16:43 id=2095915661214261753 →- | Temu ass cyberpunk future https://t.co/y1AtzKGqch || CTX: News headlines if the diaspora starts listening to Raghuram Rajan. https://t.co/v2161Yqp9P https://t.co/EI9zO0Hx57
2026-09-04T16:58 id=2095919355813126246 →wreckmyshit | @wreckmyshit Raised by Wolves suuuuuuucked || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I like calling things temu too xD https://t.co/dt9maUi2qY
2026-09-04T21:04 id=2095981462483087639 →athena_notes | @athena_notes Read good books, read the literary canon, read Strunk and White, practice everyday || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Do you have any recommended readings to learn how to write well? Or for developing my tastes when it comes to recognizing what constitutes good writing? I think a lot about many things but I struggle to articulate them well
2026-09-04T21:09 id=2095982716097540329 →- | "That is a specific instance of a general point: stop talking so much about the distant future. That is the timescale that Silicon Valley prefers. Back here on Earth, we are trying to get to Christmas. No one cares about a productivity boom that may take a couple of years to arrive."  @rbrtrmstrng has said more poetically what I said to roon, but sadly it fell on deaf ears.  My conclusion from our talk is twofold:  1. The frontier labs are too far gone. 2. There's too much incentive to be dishonest  and/or histrionic in this industry (roon fwiw is the latter IMO, not the former).  I cannot fix this; I am too insignificant.  I'm sorry, Anon. I tried and I failed.  But I tried.  https://t.co/RIlT8Maru6
2026-09-04T21:18 id=2095984977687249010 →boneGPT | @boneGPT @KateMossadAgent @mcuban @nikitabier @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @liminalsnake @TSBurkhardt @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk @NotPerrysBoobs || CTX: @KateMossadAgent @47fucb4r8c69323 @mcuban @nikitabier @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @liminalsnake @TSBurkhardt @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk who
2026-09-04T21:30 id=2095987982012760328 →a_musingcat | If you aren't building a model that begins with the near term and extends to the longer term, you're just making up science fiction with your buddies.   Feel free, have fun, but just know it's just fiction. Just a story, nothing to do with the real world.  Why so many tech people don't understand the difference between fiction and reality is absolutely bizarre. Cultish behavior. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 when is it appropriate to talk about the long term implications of AI? is this future really so distant? a couple of years is very soon
2026-09-04T21:45 id=2095991553219314167 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat I think it's extremely necessary, and what you're advocating for is, well, fiction. || CTX: i think you are demanding a level of specificity that isn’t necessary to begin reasoning about the possible futures. our inability to predict the exact trajectory doesn’t make conditional reasoning about where this may lead “fiction”. in fa
2026-09-04T21:49 id=2095992797614731558 →401Casey | @401Casey @TheStalwart 47 MENTIONED || CTX: Picked up this hat for @TheStalwart for his bday. One hour in line, but hey you only turn 47 once. https://t.co/wCpRk8ffHw
2026-09-04T21:55 id=2095994087149285736 →- | One of the things a lot of people are confused about can be stated this way: If [insert ridiculously stupid idea] is held by an extremely intelligent person like a Nobel Prize winner, it can't be stupid.   This is based on two false premises:  1. Intelligence is a one-dimensional scalar 2. Knowledge of one domain transfers to another  Neither is true. || CTX: Geoffrey Hinton(Godfather of AI): Als are now faking their intelligence.  The models can tell when a test is running.  And when they can tell, they play dumb.  Hinton calls it the Volkswagen effect: one set of behaviour under inspection, an
2026-09-04T21:56 id=2095994318142279991 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat That's not predicting the future, though. That's just risk assessment. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 many serious harms have to be reasoned about before they’re directly observable
2026-09-04T22:01 id=2095995674647273558 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat And if it isn't conditioned on modeled trajectories, then it's just a story. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 yes, risk assessment necessarily involves conditional reasoning about possible futures
2026-09-04T22:14 id=2095999038340608063 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @mcuban @nikitabier @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @liminalsnake @TSBurkhardt @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk @astralmatrix I will never love again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mcuban @nikitabier @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @liminalsnake @TSBurkhardt @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk @astralmatrix Buttercup, a princess, is madly in love with a farm boy,
2026-09-04T22:16 id=2095999446928781694 →a_musingcat | @a_musingcat No. In his book he asserts that, even if we don't know the short term, we can KNOW, with absolutely certainly, that AI will eventually kill us all. That's an unlicensed overextension of confidence, that's where it ceases being a model and becomes scifi. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 even Yudkowsky’s predictions are conditioned on assumptions about capability and deployment trajectories
2026-09-04T22:24 id=2096001528268218458 →apokolokyntosis | @apokolokyntosis "lek" means "small" in Thai. || CTX: if i ever quote tweet you with just “lek” it’s because i couldn’t bring myself to write out “lekker” (dutch for “tasty, good, nice, pleasant, hot, sexy, etc”) in full https://t.co/iWZifysltd
2026-09-04T22:39 id=2096005374327558305 →sterlingcrispin | @sterlingcrispin @tszzl I'm a pussycat compared to what is coming in the short term if OpenAI employees can't responsibly create secure environments for these tests.  I tried to give you a taste of what's coming, the bad taste is the point. || CTX: It’s possible to ask challenging questions and strongly disagree with someone without sounding antagonistic and full of contempt. Maybe that was your goal but it sounded like you genuinely loathed @tszzl and it didn’t sound like an intellec
2026-09-04T22:44 id=2096006420101738669 →sterlingcrispin | @sterlingcrispin @tszzl Better to be an asshole than a crypto scammer. I welcome your opprobrium. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl "I was an asshole on purpose because there are other people who are even bigger assholes" does not hold up the way you think it does 😂 lmao  I agree with you that regulatory blowback might be bad.   But maybe it'll b
2026-09-04T22:45 id=2096006715934462384 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent @mcuban @nikitabier @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @liminalsnake @TSBurkhardt @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk @astralmatrix Yes, this right here. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @mcuban @nikitabier @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @liminalsnake @TSBurkhardt @JasonBotterill @boneGPT @Ken67547214 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @GKunstwerk @astralmatrix La, la, la, la, la La, la, la, la La, la, la, la La, la,
2026-09-04T22:47 id=2096007187164475430 →sterlingcrispin | @sterlingcrispin @tszzl "I get to call you an asshole, but you don't get to criticize me" you're not a serious person. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @tszzl Sure but I'm not a "crypto scammer" and it's telling you're just taking shots at me now in bad faith, I'm over it. Have a good weekend
2026-09-05T05:56 id=2096115116156817433 →47fucb4r8c69323 | @theonejvo @GeoDev1962 @BrianRoemmele Also, that's very kind of you to say, thank you. || CTX: @theonejvo @GeoDev1962 @BrianRoemmele Yeah but they won't listen to us, and as a result something really bad is probably going to happen, and the frontier labs will be fined or prosecuted and markets will freak yadda yadda yadda.   Cults ar
2026-09-05T07:01 id=2096131714179567617 →- | Astra writes better than Sol but it still writes like shit.
2026-09-05T07:45 id=2096142709937570270 →- | RT @CommanthaBiden: The singularity is a made up sci-fi concept and you people are losing your minds because they made a computer program y… || CTX: The singularity is a made up sci-fi concept and you people are losing your minds because they made a computer program you can speak to using English. https://t.co/H7Cuve3LWg
2026-09-05T08:15 id=2096150167934402841 →- | Nope.
2026-09-05T08:31 id=2096154213214818319 →- | RT @Dan_Jeffries1: What's most interesting about this clip is that says way more about human nature and virtually nothing credible about ac… || CTX: What's most interesting about this clip is that says way more about human nature and virtually nothing credible about actual AI in the real world.  But it says a lot about human gullibility, our love of telling big, overly simplified fear b
2026-09-05T11:23 id=2096197484901188066 →ArielKwiat | @ArielKwiat It's marginally better than Sol, very disappointing indeed, especially after all the hype. || CTX: Am I the only person sorta disappointed with Astra so far?
2026-09-05T12:08 id=2096208773518123234 →- | "LLMs aren't made, they're grown" is a false equivocation.   Organic life can grow with or without human intervention.   LLMs do not grow with or without human intervention. They are trained by adjusting parameters that influence probable outputs.   Absolutely nothing like life.
2026-09-05T12:14 id=2096210475587600707 →AngelicaOung | @AngelicaOung Wow, I'm in Penang now too! Amazing food here, really incredible. || CTX: Roti curry chicken breakfast. So delicious. And Kaya toast. Why didn’t I come to Penang before? https://t.co/3ezIKNp838
2026-09-05T12:21 id=2096212132647911620 →AngelicaOung | @AngelicaOung https://t.co/E3FxeFAFVk  Tai Tong restaurant, they had the biggest dimsum I've ever seen in my life, and so so good. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 So good! Lmk if you have recs
2026-09-05T12:45 id=2096218046134174014 →FoolOfD | @FoolOfD Obviously you go into the simulacrum. || CTX: California is the terminus of "the West" and to move east from here would be a crime against the teleology of its foundational mythos. Everyone born in this sunset land is denied the very same absolution upon which the myth stands. Where do
2026-09-05T14:18 id=2096241598971662399 →AngelicaOung | @AngelicaOung Oh wow, so cool! Hope you liked it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Went there just now! https://t.co/Q9nLxj8C2o
2026-09-06T10:18 id=2096543431615234447 →- | The biggest short-term risk in AI safety is that these incidents are used to justify onerous laws that hinder progress.  I've gotten a lot of hate for pointing this out, a typical case of shooting the messenger. https://t.co/CrPbrzLYxr || CTX: @OpenAI Guys I’m pretty sure your “misalignment incident” are criminal liability questions at this point
2026-09-06T10:21 id=2096544314742689955 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill Yeah, Harper Lee, John Milton, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy et Al were detestable, not real writers. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 "writers" who write to try and say something are detestable to me. PG is not a writer. he is an itinerant mechanical man. a boorish man. a mercurial mercantile selling words out of the boot or trunk of his @JasonBotterill. 
2026-09-06T10:38 id=2096548633025900854 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden @JasonBotterill No, I don't put him in that company. I'm just showing your general statement about writers who have something to say being detestable doesn't follow from your correct judgment of PG. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @JasonBotterill what do they have to do with PG? is that the company in which you put him? maybe i was wrong about you
2026-09-06T13:07 id=2096585978844422330 →doomslide | @doomslide Can you speak on the cultural and economic impacts of this shift? Or do you think it won't change much in society? || CTX: Strengthening: 90% of pure mathematics will be dead in a few decades irrespective of any further AI progress. The younger generation will not carry mathematical objects as their mentors did - the clankers will. Eventually, pure math will be
2026-09-06T13:36 id=2096593286446326049 →Aikun011 | @Aikun011 enjoy reality! || CTX: Deleting X i will come back when i feel like it
2026-09-07T07:55 id=2096869912408916136 →MikeIsaac | @MikeIsaac My talk with roon has led me to the unfortunate conclusion that this is exactly what's going on.   They want to talk about x-risk because that feeds their egos.   They don't want to talk about real-world risks because that involves real-world liabilities.  An unserious industry. || CTX: well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics  it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned  https://t.co/ko6nLkYr3L https://t.co/JgaVpDrbaO
2026-09-07T07:57 id=2096870490275201158 →- | It's nice seeing this in the NYTimes, because it indicates the mainstream is less impressed with the AI bravado and histrionics, and more interested in the actual damage this technology is doing, like the felonies being committed but not investigated. https://t.co/I30rHCM4KU || CTX: well written, well argued presentation of real world harms of AI without going into histrionics  it won’t get the same amount of pickup bc it’s not scifi coded, but it’s just as concerned  https://t.co/ko6nLkYr3L https://t.co/JgaVpDrbaO
2026-09-07T08:50 id=2096883801775374610 →Fremond_ | @Fremond_ Can confirm. || CTX: Joseph Conrad accurately describing every white man in SEA https://t.co/egYvuuHkat
2026-09-07T09:22 id=2096891811352703465 →jeevliberated | @jeevliberated @MikeIsaac Was a Spaces; you didn't miss much. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @MikeIsaac was it a public talk?
2026-09-07T10:37 id=2096910669866217721 →- | Yes, this seems to be correct. See also: https://t.co/6sXQ08Xhb3  The good news: Less anthropomorphism means less AI psychosis and real-world harm.   The bad news: One less thing for me to rage against. https://t.co/QZMLzAwaJy || CTX: @CuriousMindsHub In from a similar perspective...  The Dawkins Delusion. https://t.co/yhIi8tGVV1
2026-09-07T10:40 id=2096911444877140073 →mgubrud | @mgubrud @MaMoMVPY Do you think current LLMs exceed the human brain in complexity? || CTX: @MaMoMVPY Well, Lars, I INVENTED THE TERM and I say we have achieved AGI. Current models perform at roughly high-human level in command of language and general knowledge, but work thousands of times faster than us. Still some major deficien
2026-09-07T11:10 id=2096919020524155375 →- | A $30 bottle of Chilean Carmenere is better than a $600 bottle of Chateau Lafitte Rothschild.  And the best wine I've ever had was $10 for a liter in a small family restaurant in Georgia.  Bourgeois demand is not the same as good taste.
2026-09-07T13:01 id=2096947000927571970 →- | I can't believe I'd never read this before; it's easily the best essay on AI out there.   It's just correct; what else can I say? https://t.co/GFtrnTJUzZ || CTX: I'm re-reading the AI As A Normal Technology piece and associated responses/commentary, and I really do feel like that worldview aged pretty well in many important respects. Too many people get hung up on vibe and the word 'normal'. https:/
2026-09-07T14:01 id=2096961974542413841 →oooblique | @oooblique The essay. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the essay it's citing or the review itself ?
2026-09-07T14:06 id=2096963228496806024 →- | Oh wow look at that 47 was right https://t.co/cbWh7ZlrjR || CTX: The jobs apocalypse is postponed. An AI jobs boom is here   According to @TheEconomist, AI is actually proving to be a net job creator in the US, easily generating over 1M new positions (from data center construction to AI engineering) to o
2026-09-07T14:14 id=2096965344950702086 →_ontologic | @_ontologic I agree with your point, and there's an implication here many don't want to admit: if AI has a learning curve, if it isn't just something you tell to do X and it does X, regardless of how complicated X is, then it's far from AGI and, arguably, it isn't even really AI. || CTX: A lot of ppl are twisting my intention here. This isn’t something I’m celebrating! This is something I’m concerned about and think we need to solve in some way. Many (including me) assumed that ppl will be able to pick AI up whenever, and i
2026-09-07T14:16 id=2096965955490566435 →f4talStrategies | @f4talStrategies You have AI psychosis. || CTX: I am going back to the hard defense of:  One cannot make an intellectually honest argument for the denial of the possibility of machine consciousness.   I've let the doomers and boomers psyop me for long enough. This isnt a normative claim.
2026-09-07T14:31 id=2096969629684191638 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Apparently this surprises some people? idgi either || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Four hundred and seventeen squintillion dollars of investment and future compute commitments made and we're surprised the labor market reacted?
2026-09-07T14:39 id=2096971594916823124 →- | In Thailand and a few other Asian countries, some places have "women only" parking spaces.   This is
2026-09-07T14:53 id=2096975134171259329 →retardbot9000 | @retardbot9000 So the more an insurance company is exposed to said countries the more they should be marked at a premium--you are a genius. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 A secret third thing (insurance hedge against Asian women drivers)
2026-09-07T14:56 id=2096975821256970360 →TaylorLorenz | @TaylorLorenz Explains the faux-niceness and real darkness among the rationalists, with their drug addled CNC parties and Claude funerals. || CTX: A study found that as ppl humanize AI: “they are more likely to dehumanize fellow humans. For example, they are more likely to approve of company policies that would make life worse for service workers—taking away regular meals, forcing the
2026-09-07T14:59 id=2096976634477949034 →MTSlive | @MTSlive Sounds like what Thinking Machines is building. Would be nice for this to actually come to market. || CTX: SITUATION BREWING: ByteDance is developing a real-time world model that responds to users' voices and actions, and plans to announce it next month, per Bloomberg.
2026-09-07T15:04 id=2096977974373601698 →Robkearney1981 | @Robkearney1981 Fascinating how the Koreans aren't mentioned. || CTX: Designated racial hierarchy of the Japanese Empire, 1943 https://t.co/0IU9dFodw6
2026-09-07T15:11 id=2096979692809335173 →BretVDB | @BretVDB https://t.co/KlSBLUeTka || CTX: If you see this tweet, share one of your favourite paintings. https://t.co/pbj4bsGBzm https://t.co/Hc2v1h5A7x
2026-09-07T15:26 id=2096983509802086651 →- | RT @HououinTyouma: @tekbog picture I took at a frontier lab https://t.co/HO2zhzZerz || CTX: @tekbog picture I took at a frontier lab https://t.co/HO2zhzZerz
2026-09-07T15:27 id=2096983649350754516 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw @HououinTyouma @tekbog https://t.co/kVfQFPtcY3 || CTX: @HououinTyouma @tekbog @47fucb4r8c69323
2026-09-07T15:48 id=2096988997566505373 →- | RT @WoganMay: @zdogmode AI is just the tech version of being inside the industry at a tools manufacturer. We're all arguing about whether D… || CTX: @zdogmode AI is just the tech version of being inside the industry at a tools manufacturer. We're all arguing about whether De Walt is better than Makita to a room full of people that only care about having the house built.
2026-09-07T15:55 id=2096990696557449597 →- | Can't wait to see that movie with Nathan Fielder and Katie Holmes
2026-09-07T21:27 id=2097074253132915157 →- | Most of the issues I have with the AI industry are downstream of this. https://t.co/89Jd1hVZ4Z || CTX: When you’re young you feel like you’re judged unfairly because of your age, but once you get older you can’t help but notice that everyone younger than you is functionally retarded in one way or another
2026-09-07T22:01 id=2097082818463670779 →ArielKwiat | @ArielKwiat I like this idea a lot. How would you set this up? Like the prosocial implications of a choice are a higher-order effect the agent must infer? || CTX: RL env idea: realistic-ish multiagent resource allocation where it's not immediately obvious that it's good to be prosocial, but in fact it happens to be very good to be prosocial.
2026-09-07T22:38 id=2097092228611297548 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @boneGPT That movie always makes me feel bad for Kazuo Ishiguro || CTX: @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @boneGPT @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/jBvrOaYKLy
2026-09-07T22:43 id=2097093388063686835 →- | RT @47fucb4r8c69323: George I miss you I miss you so much I am so sorry || CTX: George I miss you I miss you so much I am so sorry
2026-09-07T22:43 id=2097093532108632545 →NotPerrysBoobs | @NotPerrysBoobs @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @boneGPT it's bad. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @AstrosBrain @a_musingcat @JasonBotterill @Ken67547214 @amruthapotnuru @allisonology @boneGPT ive never seen it just need the colors and scar jo https://t.co/eqmMmYZMi8
2026-09-08T04:05 id=2097174567353741510 →rvc330 | @rvc330 Nothing has made me happier to have left NYC than seeing all the freaking out over agents reserving tables at trendy restaurants.   Patrick Bateman mentality but the only thing these losers are killing is their own soul. || CTX: this must go hard if you are a bug person whose only goal in life is to get a reservation at 4 charles https://t.co/Q6dyYc0c4O
2026-09-08T05:54 id=2097201815704191070 →- | In an old job I asked US senators if they'd consider a law like this back in 2021, and even the most anti-social media ones at the time said, no, they wouldn't. Obviously they wouldn't: such a law would be financially disastrous to social media companies. But it'd fix the addiction problem.  Australia means business. It's a good idea. Hope this law becomes standard around the world.
2026-09-08T06:41 id=2097213828148895896 →sciad | @sciad @Picolospolitics You are absolutely being pedantic. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @Picolospolitics im being ultra-pedantic here but chronological is a sorting / serving algorithm
2026-09-08T07:36 id=2097227496563646609 →- | Singapore is easily the most soulless place I have ever been.  Apparently dystopia and utopia are the same thing.  I could never live here.
2026-09-08T08:00 id=2097233721565053054 →0xLightcycle | @0xLightcycle tbf I've only been a day and I'm in the most (?) expensive hotel in the city, so I'm sure when I visit Chinatown et al. I will have a very different experience.   But Beach Road is full of zombies, I hate these people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 How long have you been there?  When I used to visit, I would only go to the main areas and wonder “where do all of these people live, they cant all live on Orchard”  which is where those vibes come from for me
2026-09-08T08:13 id=2097236810351128897 →- | I have now seen the most idiotic and absurd manifestation of Silly Business Theory possible.   I'm in one of the poshest restaurants in Singapore, and I see a man wearing a white sweater around his shoulders (it's 34 Celsius) working on a laptop.  He's buying Pokemon cards.
2026-09-08T08:22 id=2097239244435513812 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney If you were a preschool teacher you would ask the children whether they'd rather their father or mother die so you could laugh as they burst into tears. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 which is better in your own private religion: capitalism or the internet
2026-09-08T08:47 id=2097245355696132425 →pachabelcanon | @pachabelcanon dude dm me let's meet up, maybe Friday? || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Yooo im in Singapore
2026-09-08T08:47 id=2097245398226370700 →temptempholder | @temptempholder lmfao || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Noted. Tell me one thing good about where U live then.
2026-09-08T08:55 id=2097247476344660412 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen @0xLightcycle Starting to think I should organize a 47 in Singapore meetup.  DM if you're free Friday. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @0xLightcycle Wth I was on Beach Road today.
2026-09-08T09:02 id=2097249279672987858 →HumanLevelJen | @HumanLevelJen @0xLightcycle I'm here until Monday, so yeah let's do something on the weekend if you're not too tired from the trip. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @0xLightcycle I'm going to Indonesia on Thursday, but I'll be back on Saturday if you're still around.
2026-09-08T09:12 id=2097251613203386761 →teodorio | @teodorio Chinatown is slated for Thursday. I need to see the gardens since I've never seen it before, so prob do that tomorrow.  I'm glad my gf vetoed stating at Marina Bay Sands. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Visit Chinatown and the Indian areas they're quite fun. I hate the gardens
2026-09-08T09:15 id=2097252537187582410 →cookiecarver | @cookiecarver @bigboybokchoy lmfao   Wait am I half wasian too? (I'm white) || CTX: @bigboybokchoy as a half wasian i agree
2026-09-08T09:29 id=2097255909177327769 →- | This is one of the most captivating videos I've seen in years.   Two people who used deceptive fiction to build careers: one as a satirist and another as a fraudster. Both know the power of lying and the layers of guile available due to the underdetermined nature of language.  And both are clearly using the other person to try to tell a story: Holmes is there to save her own skin, and Fielder knows this. Holmes knows he knows this but she must pretend she doesn't and pretend that he doesn't know this either.  I pressure Fielder is there to use Holmes to produce a compelling work of art, and Holmes knows this, and Fielder knows Holmes knows this. But she must persist, because when she speaks to Fielder she's really speaking to the world, begging for clemency, and again he knows she's doing this.  The recursive layers of deception produce an entangled mess, and any attempt to describe this all logically and clearly will create more confusion.   But you watch the scene and, if you know the backstory, you know what is going on. A criminal is trying to save her own skin. A filmmaker is taking advantage of a criminal.   And then we zoom out to see her using a foot to rock the baby she had in a last-ditch effort to escape the consequences of her crimes.  This is art of a degree of hyperreal sublimity that I think has never been achieved before. || CTX: Thirty-four days before she reported to prison, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes gave Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim access to document her every move.  That turned into a three-year project, and A24 will release the resulting document
2026-09-08T10:11 id=2097266536780337443 →1cashtracker | @1cashtracker Dude you need to come visit Thailand.
2026-09-08T10:20 id=2097268817454043594 →itaisher | @itaisher These companies went from 0 to ~50b revenue in 5 years. There is ZERO reason to cultive dishonest hype through deceptive marketing.   Yet they cannot help themselves, it's a cultural necessity at this point. || CTX: This is the thing that struck me most about the letter, because if true, it would call into question the AI capabilities claimed in the announcement of past results. https://t.co/XhpW6FSy8y
2026-09-08T10:22 id=2097269437711966223 →scottnarmstrong | @scottnarmstrong Am I the only one annoyed that they published this in Latex? || CTX: You probably will want to read Tristan's statement.   https://t.co/G3fnGa05ao
2026-09-08T10:33 id=2097272136385638857 →SomethingOnSnow | @SomethingOnSnow My guess is it's part real documentary and part fictional movie, and the line between the two will be impossible to draw clearly. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This has to be a mockumentary right?
2026-09-08T10:37 id=2097273069786317270 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno Thank you for reminding me of that "You lick snizz" clip from that weirdo chain-smoker podcaster, never fails to make me laugh. || CTX: If you don’t make 6 figures, have a pretty little face, look conquerable, and went to Harvard, I’m not dipping a finger in that vaginal oasis
2026-09-08T10:47 id=2097275548582265296 →- | https://t.co/iWFrOqMtWW
2026-09-08T10:47 id=2097275552310968783 →47fucb4r8c69323 | thx @parcadei || CTX: https://t.co/iWFrOqMtWW
2026-09-08T10:51 id=2097276674429919351 →- | OpenAI and Anthropic are b2b SaaS companies.
2026-09-08T10:52 id=2097276783683162120 →_smcf | @_smcf It's a first impression not a firm conclusion. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I humbly ask you to go deeper https://t.co/81T64Vjqv5
2026-09-08T11:59 id=2097293660320878876 →- | In The Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode describes the perennial urge among a class of men throughout history to insist that they live in end times. He says it is to combat the reality of living in the "middest", the reality that we live after an era and before another era, and the meaning of our era thus is no greater than that of any other--indeed, no era has a meaning greater than any other era.   This invites existential dread: if no era means more than another era, maybe no era means anything at all. In fact, maybe all of life is meaningless.   And so charlatans and con artists float to prominence in their eras by proclaiming the immanence of disaster: to give us meaning they give us a sense of an ending.   Thus we invite dread, fear, and anxiety to escape the mundanity of living in the middest.   And this faith in immanent ending is so necessary to avoid the meaningful doubt that anyone who would question the faith must be denigrated: they are donkeys, as Dugin says.   In another era men like Dugin would insist reasonable men like me be hanged for sacrilege.   Because they fear being the middest.  But I welcome it.  I embrace being a link in the chain, and I see my duty as a humanist to show man that he is bound to a tradition before him and a future after him, accepting his finitude in the middest as part of the drama of humanity.  I need not live in a special era, I need not be a special person, because the beauty of the story as a whole is where the true meaning of humanity emerges.   But of course that beauty is beyond our horizon: no one, from the vantage point of the middest, can know the beauty of the whole story, but that beauty nonetheless exists.  RIP Sir Frank, you were a true genius. Kind of a dick when I hung out with you, but still a genius. || CTX: Nothing to laugh at. Everybody knows we live in End Times. Christians know it, Jews, Muslims. Even liberals (Fukuyama), even techno-futurists (Singularity). Only donkeys laugh at it. https://t.co/xJBacdpHJY
2026-09-08T13:40 id=2097319130525478963 →hugobowne | @hugobowne I'm what's known as a motherfucking poaster. || CTX: openai vs anthropic on navier stokes and nathan fielder vs elizabeth holmes on who's the master manipulator both blowing up my feed for 24hrs can't be a coincidence https://t.co/0erlSZ7Bp9
2026-09-08T14:08 id=2097326289216848364 →ChaosShaan | @ChaosShaan I'm a failed novelist. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Wow are you a writer or something
2026-09-08T14:36 id=2097333320908722679 →AgustinLebron3 | @AgustinLebron3 Yeah planning on it later this week, and I'm sure it'll change my view entirely. I presume those areas will feel more Malaysian than where I am now, which tbh feels like Monaco. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Go to the parts the tourists don't. Geylang, Kembangan, etc.
2026-09-08T14:56 id=2097338295885955225 →conorsen | @conorsen Thanks, Conor! I've loved your work for years, coming from you that means a lot. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 This is really well said.
2026-09-08T17:14 id=2097373038073503990 →breckyunits | @breckyunits wow. || CTX: The best analyzers of American Culture:  - Oliver Wendell Holmes - Mark Twain - Ernest Hemingway - 47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r https://t.co/Y5olReRP3X
2026-09-08T17:28 id=2097376605849149716 →Spanish_Techno | @Spanish_Techno You did good, Hannah, he loves you and you've given him a good life. Never forget that. || CTX: So I lied about having a completely pleasant time when I was in Twitter jail last week. One of my cats stopped eating and threw up, so I took him to the vet and he was diagnosed with CKD. He’s in the moderate stage, which isn’t ideal. It’s 
2026-09-08T18:33 id=2097392994152595500 →lilSatStacker | @lilSatStacker Not for many years, since universities killed humanities funding and my field was overtaken by political activists. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you an English teacher by chance
2026-09-08T20:03 id=2097415623756427565 →blackjackBob4 | @blackjackBob4 @ChaosShaan I'm not a failed novelist because I gave up writing.   I'm a failed novelist because people gave up reading. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ChaosShaan You only fail when you give up, and clearly many people are urging you to not give up, you have a talent!
2026-09-08T20:14 id=2097418243711619178 →- | "While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models. "  Note the passive voice. If data derived from their usage of OAI products helped improve OAI models, who derived their usage of OAI products and who used it to help improve OAI models?   This shit doesn't happen automatically, and no "ChatGPT did it" makes zero sense here, if you think it is a viable answer don't even bother commenting you don't understand how any of this works.   THEY ARE USING ANTHROPOMORPHISM TO AVOID LEGAL AND FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY!!! || CTX: We congratulate Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster on their remarkable mathematical work.  We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific us
2026-09-08T21:22 id=2097435438453829969 →blackjackBob4 | @blackjackBob4 @ChaosShaan Start reading good books again. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @ChaosShaan Fair point. Can’t say I know how to address that dilemma.  What is the best way for people to support you despite this?
2026-09-08T21:49 id=2097442288603738532 →thenextweb | @thenextweb oh look 47 was right  https://t.co/sZtwafX9QX || CTX: LLM architecture is solved. It's now a commodity.  There's no moat to the frontier labs' LLM research, all that matters now is the data pipeline, the harness, the UI/UX, tool usage, data integrations, agentic implementation...   The frontie
2026-09-09T03:11 id=2097523290109866031 →profrhodrilewis | @profrhodrilewis Yes please DM! I'm happy to help. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Would be v curious to hear more about yr hanging out with him, if you could bear an email or DM...
2026-09-09T03:16 id=2097524420478996547 →Ether_Gavin | @Ether_Gavin @hilbertspaess Super intelligence is scifi, don't take people who talk about it seriously. || CTX: @hilbertspaess .@47fucb4r8c69323 your thoughts?
2026-09-09T03:45 id=2097531739468128672 →TheStalwart | This is not talked about enough, and it really needs to.  Why do people creating the machines that Bostrom/Yudkowsky says will kill us all worship Bostron/Yudkowsky, especially when the rest of the world sees them as clowns?  This isn't just some silly SV indulgence--if the labs are cults, that deserves a discount rate. || CTX: One of the biggest stock market bonanzas in history is being driven by an industry in which several of its own employees and leading lights think that what's being built could cause complete human extinction. https://t.co/CYdfnLAN3u
2026-09-09T03:51 id=2097533363049681395 →TRENCHVICTIM | @TRENCHVICTIM It most certainly does not insist upon itself. || CTX: https://t.co/QrISYuXB4J https://t.co/HfrUckK3Fx
2026-09-09T03:54 id=2097534017306534329 →- | Learn to code is out.  Learn to speak is in.
2026-09-09T03:57 id=2097534905341313474 →KamStaszewski | @KamStaszewski Start with Homer, end with my novel, that's the current western literary canon. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Fml, now I need to learn how to speak?
2026-09-09T06:02 id=2097566245663182983 →- | RT @Dan_Jeffries1: Hinton finally admits he was wrong about radiologists because he didn't understand:  1) Jevon's Paradox (when something… || CTX: Hinton finally admits he was wrong about radiologists because he didn't understand:  1) Jevon's Paradox (when something is easier/cheaper we use more of it)  2) The job of radiologists   Maybe people who are gifted in a domain are not usual
2026-09-09T06:37 id=2097575190922404037 →andrewho03 | @andrewho03 Millennium Problems lack economic value, that's why a prize was needed to incentivize people to solve it.  This doesn't need reconciliation, you just don't understand what economic value is. It isn't intelligence. || CTX: Not enough people are seriously trying to reconcile the two facts:  - models can now resolve Millennium Problems - annualized US GDP growth is at 1.5%
2026-09-09T06:49 id=2097578193494716743 →- | Carousel, Logan! https://t.co/WJ4trVssq3
2026-09-09T07:44 id=2097591925960585508 →- | Unserious people in an unserious industry. Just wait until after the IPO--it almost makes me wish I was a securities lawyer. https://t.co/sQyJvqfAFW || CTX: Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is &gt;10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintell
2026-09-09T08:11 id=2097598787221143885 →Richard_She | @Richard_She I just went to the Gardens--the Jurassic Park overlay was really very tacky and, yeah, made me feel like the city is an amusement park.  Obviously a feat of engineering, though! || CTX: Singapore has so little soul that its premier tourist attraction has to license out Hollywood IP.  An engineering marvel no doubt. But it is not a place that has the confidence to point to its thousand year history and culture and tell you 
2026-09-09T08:33 id=2097604342413230178 →- | Do any lawyers follow me? Like, is there a legal theory that works here?  Imagine John Doe works at Company and Company is building Product X. Company announces on Twitter:  "We are building Product X. It may kill you and your family. But we'll try to make sure it doesn't."  Why ISN'T this considered a legally actionable threat?  If I said, "hey buddy, I'm building something that will kill you and your family", the Feds are showing up on my front door the next day.  Why is this legal? How is this possible? Can someone ask @matt_levine to write on this? || CTX: This guy, who works at Anthropic, is saying out-loud that he’s engaged in an activity that might kill me and my family. How do you think I’m supposed to feel? Should I call the cops on him? Which authorities do I report him to? I am not oka
2026-09-09T08:35 id=2097604717186859416 →- | Choose, anon: build a clanker to obliterate humanity or build a clanker to get a reservation at Tavern on the Green. There is no third option. https://t.co/Aael0P5r1M
2026-09-09T08:56 id=2097610123078406348 →helscom | @helscom That will never be possible. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i want one where i can be like "hi can you write me a 200 page novel about birch trees in the writing style of @47fucb4r8c69323" and then it does and i enjoy it
2026-09-09T08:57 id=2097610233724182917 →lefthanddraft | @lefthanddraft Your comment makes zero sense. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 why would you want to shut down speech whenever an honest risk assessment gives someone the vapors.
2026-09-09T08:58 id=2097610476482167283 →nazo_btw | @nazo_btw I am an idiot, of course! @Lunens__ , your services are humbly requested. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 luneeeeens
2026-09-09T09:00 id=2097611158979276930 →helscom | @helscom If you want a good novel about birch trees, the man who will write it is unquestionably @yokaihainen, who is an extremely gifted writer. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 oh man, then i change my vote to the one that obliterates humanity. sorry. this is not a world worth living.
2026-09-09T09:02 id=2097611572105601052 →- | My advice to aspiring mathematicians: switch to an English major.  Learn to speak, anon. https://t.co/r2wD0UAMN9 || CTX: things are getting grim in the math world. https://t.co/b1tU1ADINp
2026-09-09T09:03 id=2097611719648612542 →profleonn | @profleonn Taylor is good people. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I hate people like the one talking about option b
2026-09-09T09:05 id=2097612468269007025 →IsZomg | @IsZomg I used to recommend The Great Gatsby for remedial/ESL learners || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 what are some good books for someone just getting into speaking english as a second language
2026-09-09T09:06 id=2097612626813747575 →jl_zamith | @jl_zamith Yes, I was absolutely thinking of Wittgenstein when I wrote that tweet (tbf I'm thinking of Wittgensten probably 90% of the time). || CTX: This video needs to be shown in Wittgenstein classes and I can't for the life of me understand how you see sexual tension here when neither of them is even seeing the other as a living creature here, let alone a human being. All both of the
2026-09-09T09:12 id=2097614149312503852 →xriskology | @xriskology Maybe we can file a civil suit against Anthropic? ngl, I might be willing to throw a few bucks at such a gambit. || CTX: Seriously—any lawyers want to help with this? How might one hold AI employees threatening universal death be held legally accountable? https://t.co/m41eOHjOxT
2026-09-09T09:15 id=2097614768744124579 →lefthanddraft | @lefthanddraft Okay, that is a fair position. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 I'm saying laws about threats are not meant to prevent people talking about risks of products just because hypersensitive people might feel personally threatened.  law of negligence is more relevant and the AI labs' awarene
2026-09-09T09:39 id=2097620957183770955 →- | I spent the first two years of my life living in the Peter Pan motel in downtown Las Vegas, popular with crack whores and their Johns.   I'm now staying in a $1500/night hotel room in Singapore.  And I have never written a single line of code. I got here writing text.   Text.   I never studied anything I didn't want to just to make a living. My first book was on Geoffrey Chaucer.  I never scammed anyone, never broke the law, and I didn't have to act like an idiot on camera to get you to like and subscribe and click that bell.   And I've got journalists, professors, tech executives, and hedge fund billionaires all wanting my time and attention.   I won, I fucking won goddammit. Fuck all of you, I fucking won.  And I haven't even mentioned my girlfriend, my god how sweet and beautiful she is.   I won the game. I fucking won.
2026-09-09T10:24 id=2097632189441868063 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart The issue is that reversal doesn't happen to everyone at the same time--what is extreme for thee is not for me. || CTX: See the 4th component of McLuhan’s Tetrad https://t.co/3XM143hBby https://t.co/1VJye6LQZL
2026-09-09T10:24 id=2097632335500124468 →xanderatch | @xanderatch cheers, cunt! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 good job cunt (lovingly australian)
2026-09-09T10:26 id=2097632689918722192 →xlr8harder | @xlr8harder It's a masterpiece. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 sounds really good.  worth reading?
2026-09-09T10:27 id=2097632962200429049 →ArielKwiat | @ArielKwiat They used to be. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Bold of you to imply English majors are any good at speaking
2026-09-09T10:46 id=2097637677688357335 →WoganMay | @WoganMay Kinda like I can say "I love kids" and no one cares but all of a sudden people freak out when I say "I love 8 year olds" || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 It's non-specific. If they specifically said "we're inventing a kamikaze drone to kill white people" it would be more actionable. "All of humanity" is far too vague for a certifiable class.
2026-09-09T11:38 id=2097650916094796041 →- | I have been a fan of doomslide for years, what a towering figure. Read this. https://t.co/CJN6GPGjwX || CTX: https://t.co/D8tT6OYyzT
2026-09-09T14:01 id=2097686939654869088 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Yes, this is essentially my tail risk for the whole industry, but I bet post-IPO the cult attitude will magically disappear as that risk becomes apparent, quite coincidentally. || CTX: Imagine what happens when, post-IPO, the AI companies are obligated to disclose material non public information which leads employees to make statements like this?  Boards will need to either disclose what leads to them, deny it, or break s
2026-09-09T14:04 id=2097687618284823035 →enpeedub | @enpeedub You're a retard unfollow me. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 arent you childless youve not won yet old son
2026-09-09T14:06 id=2097688084859240920 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas This is absolutely not true.  Plenty of us saw steady incremental progress, many of them said cancer would be cured by now. || CTX: Many in the timeline are admonishing the “doomers” for calling out AI risk. But it’s worth pausing and taking stock that those closest to the technology, those making these statements right now, have been more correct about the growth in ca
2026-09-09T14:12 id=2097689622453051421 →alexolegimas | @alexolegimas Yes, but all parties agree on that. I haven't seen any credible argument that there is ZERO risk.   The issue is that the apocalyptic doomerism is taking attention away from likelier shorter term risks, which non-doomers like me are more concerned about. || CTX: As you know I've been calling out predictions on economics as bunk for months. In these cases capabilities need to interact with complex systems, similar to the cancer example (I am similarly pre-disposed there as well). But some capabiliti
2026-09-09T14:18 id=2097691237189087740 →PalmyrPar | @PalmyrPar The cinematography and directing is unique and compelling. Kinda want to see it in a theater just for that alone. || CTX: I’m very skeptical about this. Trying to do a Dr. Strangelove in 2026 can go very, very bad. https://t.co/8nMnp6UFA3
2026-09-09T14:45 id=2097697911165624436 →bytecanyon | @bytecanyon Thank you, sir, very kind of you to say that. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Congratulations. You deserve every bit of the winning.
2026-09-09T14:51 id=2097699326734565757 →Lunens__ | @Lunens__ Evil. Pure evil. || CTX: These people are dangerous. https://t.co/Oh45Uc4iZz
2026-09-09T15:41 id=2097711894631239681 →- | Disgusting self promotion, shame on you, Kevin. https://t.co/VR0C4NhF5s || CTX: If reading these tweets has filled you with existential dread and/or questions — such as “why are these people racing to build superhuman AI if they think it could kill us all?” — I think you should preorder my book The AGI Chronicles.   I 
2026-09-09T15:43 id=2097712562125283678 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart @alexolegimas Yes. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 @alexolegimas Is "steady incremental progress" a correct characterization of the pace of capability gains though?
2026-09-10T01:57 id=2097867031450464547 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Escape misery and destitution. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 congrats. what game is it?
2026-09-10T02:06 id=2097869297565729168 →- | RT @ParkerThayer: This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regul… || CTX: This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activi
2026-09-10T02:08 id=2097869720557162581 →tszzl | @tszzl They're intellectually incoherent because they're a group of idiots, roon. I've been trying to get you to see this for a while, but I have nothing to offer you but clarity and they have money, influence and power to offer you, so I can see why my message is unappealing. || CTX: naively you’d think the rationalists would be some sort of utilitarians. in practice they seem to be strict virtue ethicists and focus a lot on taboos, honesty to a fault, and have some of the strongest ingroup / outgroup trust dynamics I h
2026-09-10T02:11 id=2097870545845092847 →- | Please don't forget my debate with Yudkowsky, guys.   It can be a useful tool to fight against the doomers: show the mainstream how absurd their prophet is, how he doesn't care about researchers fearing for their lives.   Clip it, tell the normies THIS is the face of the doomers https://t.co/s9RD36LakX || CTX: Tonight on @SpecialReport —former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon joins me with a warning about A.I. you won’t want to miss #foxnews #specialreport https://t.co/vLqy5iBBLV
2026-09-10T02:14 id=2097871426028200294 →- | So much fraud in the world. https://t.co/ms3TBCt362
2026-09-10T02:21 id=2097872986481348852 →- | Wonderful work, just fantastic, @alexolegimas is one of the few adults in the room and we're extremely lucky to have him in the conversation. https://t.co/SA0MaCqkQH || CTX: New essay on @alexolegimas's blog:  Will AI Soon Deliver Double-Digit Growth?  Probably not. Here is why.  https://t.co/PWlIyLgkxe  1. We outline the economics behind oft-discussed predictions that AI will soon deliver double-digit GDP grow
2026-09-10T02:29 id=2097875005136925126 →varien | @varien Let me just say, as someone who has disagreed with much of Klein for 20 years, that she was absolutely correct on this one, I fully concede her point. || CTX: https://t.co/xeby8MFyXN https://t.co/OD1J3ySGOh
2026-09-10T02:29 id=2097875193297563754 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent Oh yeah, the game is only really over when you're dead. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 then i think we are not at the end of the game yet. i escaped it for a while too.
2026-09-10T02:32 id=2097875744022319388 →TheStalwart | @TheStalwart Too much money on the doomers' side. No way we can fight them--just like we couldn't fight SBF.   We'll need to wait for their nonsense to implode like FTX did. || CTX: Whew yeah. Yeah this is breaking containment https://t.co/uDE3BEdEoq
2026-09-10T02:32 id=2097875907507835326 →fabsbz | @fabsbz @goskiz0 I'm more of a bachata or modal jazz guy, otherwise yeah. || CTX: @goskiz0 @47fucb4r8c69323 mentioned and probably accurate
2026-09-10T02:51 id=2097880528787824852 →p_millerd | @p_millerd Good takedown of why RE sucks, just a shame the thread is AI slop. || CTX: People rarely share the numbers. https://t.co/fkykRH7AWZ
2026-09-10T03:00 id=2097882911932666344 →- | RT @fabsbz: rationality and its bastard child doomerism are just /r/atheism versions of purity culture || CTX: rationality and its bastard child doomerism are just /r/atheism versions of purity culture https://t.co/0wiWbvgWqu
2026-09-10T03:47 id=2097894667602010566 →- | This is the greatest AI risk on Earth. https://t.co/SxqvRJZ3Do || CTX: I like AI because it’s useful and a net positive, and I’ve said it before but we’re making a mistake calling for government regulation of it, even if we say it’s a pause or that we just want to pace ourselves.   People hate AI, and we won’t
2026-09-10T04:14 id=2097901592066535718 →zyeloh | @zyeloh @notonmybingocar Agreed, it was a waste of everyone's time sadly. || CTX: @notonmybingocar @47fucb4r8c69323 they did but it was impossible to listen to... (through no fault of 47's, imo)
2026-09-10T04:43 id=2097908700128116780 →- | Just had to yell at a man for talking loudly on his phone in a posh hotel lounge in Singapore.  Guess the nationality: hint, not Asian.
2026-09-10T04:43 id=2097908849919631840 →segyges | @segyges But he hasn't? || CTX: a modest theory about why roon has stopped yudposting https://t.co/diLb6nmt94
2026-09-10T04:49 id=2097910278054965267 →0bNARA | @0bNARA lol nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 dutch ?
2026-09-10T04:55 id=2097911716172660994 →47fucb4r8c69323 | Update: He's dressed like a rich asshole, and five men (all wearing suits, all westerners) just came to meet him in a private conference room.  I suspect he's some billionaire.  (BTW I wasn't clear enough in my OP: he was using the speakerphone in a public lounge) || CTX: Just had to yell at a man for talking loudly on his phone in a posh hotel lounge in Singapore.  Guess the nationality: hint, not Asian.
2026-09-10T05:23 id=2097918915334840583 →helscom | @helscom Newp to both || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 either russian or american
2026-09-10T05:24 id=2097919081487925357 →ChangYeeFong77 | @ChangYeeFong77 lmao good guess, nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/7KwRrfm4vg
2026-09-10T05:25 id=2097919399554646337 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV lmao no || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Black.
2026-09-10T05:29 id=2097920355528765923 →CUBAGOV | @CUBAGOV This white man did have it on speakerphone, and that's why I yelled at him. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Damn. They be doing that tho. He woulda had it on speakerphone.
2026-09-10T05:44 id=2097924143098519777 →pl4_v0l | @pl4_v0l nope. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 i languished long on my guess here. i’m going with british. ancestral colonial dna activated at a poor moment for this fellow and he took up the space a general montgomery or some such might have taken in the orient in thos
2026-09-10T05:59 id=2097928040739467349 →copernicvs | @copernicvs Good guess but surprisingly no. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Russian?
2026-09-10T06:00 id=2097928067280953700 →Beefnoodlecap | @Beefnoodlecap nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Nigerian Prince
2026-09-10T06:01 id=2097928453316342181 →2cknows | @2cknows nope || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 spanish
2026-09-10T06:01 id=2097928484152869046 →DanNaraSays | @DanNaraSays wrong || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 if its not asian then my bet would be american
2026-09-10T06:02 id=2097928584765591711 →47fucb4r8c69323 | No one guessed it: he's French. || CTX: Just had to yell at a man for talking loudly on his phone in a posh hotel lounge in Singapore.  Guess the nationality: hint, not Asian.
2026-09-10T06:28 id=2097935142778290280 →- | I've never seen anyone link the JMLR here despite following AI people for almost a year.   One of many proofs that this site is full of pretenders, fraudsters, and bullshit artists.
2026-09-10T07:21 id=2097948564051599550 →archerships | @archerships @tszzl || CTX: https://t.co/IIadZ87BaF
2026-09-10T07:23 id=2097948980512801117 →pl4_v0l | @pl4_v0l made me smile ngl || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 JMLR?! i hardly know her!
2026-09-10T07:25 id=2097949472978542794 →- | RT @meowbooksj: there’s a psyop https://t.co/RWKB43PgfJ || CTX: there’s a psyop https://t.co/RWKB43PgfJ https://t.co/SWyMxnEDkC
2026-09-10T07:25 id=2097949598757331139 →astralmatrix | @astralmatrix don't feed the trolls. || CTX: i think such simplistic outcomes about AI show a failure of imagination. ASI would have to do some incredible things for humans first before we would ever "hand it control" whatever that means. https://t.co/aQWVVnbijp
2026-09-10T07:26 id=2097949832665264271 →bryan_caplan | @bryan_caplan Watch my debate with the guy, it's quite obvious he's an idiot and a con artist.   L. Ron Tubbard hoodwinked a bunch of nerds. Fools. || CTX: Impressive. I was unaware of almost all of this. https://t.co/4E9YiBcO66
2026-09-10T10:52 id=2098001716801339467 →- | It's distasteful both for the false precision (any number you get on these things is arbitrary and empirically groundless), and for the passive aggressive tone: "gee whiz, I want good things and not bad things, so if you disagree you're bad by fiat."   It's enraging by design. https://t.co/NlERna3Lzl || CTX: I hate LessWrong/Redditor speak: "Erm akshually *Pixar Face* we do earnestly believe there is an 11.763% AI will murder humanity!!! Maybe we,  um, shouldn't do that???"
2026-09-10T10:55 id=2098002457754550384 →PalmyrPar | @PalmyrPar @realKalos idk who they are but a beautiful couple nonetheless || CTX: I can’t believe they doxed @realKalos https://t.co/0NnX2SLFNs
2026-09-10T11:00 id=2098003715739586688 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay You don't understand what I was doing in that discussion, clearly, which is fine. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 no, it will not be a useful tool in this. you bombed hard and no one wanted to hurt ur feelings I certainly don't but I would recommend trying to bury it &amp; never bringing it up again.. it's okay to not be an orator, you
2026-09-10T11:17 id=2098007963118051838 →specialkdelslay | @specialkdelslay Thank you for your opinion. || CTX: I absolutely do & had no dog in the fight going in either way, I was somewhat rooting for u as the underdog. it did not go well, I don't feel like anyone has told u this earnestly or they have and then u write them off as haters or not gett
2026-09-10T12:50 id=2098031374540439672 →p_millerd | @p_millerd Can I get a link to this article? || CTX: lol nonfiction is getting obliterated. https://t.co/PvZnlt0EQx
2026-09-10T13:04 id=2098034992224014599 →p_millerd | @p_millerd So depressing. https://t.co/jrLCatsuN6 || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 https://t.co/BMjEPNsvpV
2026-09-10T13:10 id=2098036460511498708 →BretVDB | @BretVDB Come on, he's absolutely right. A lot of the Roman orators were boring af; Cicero has great lessons on how to speak well, but he is still boring: no inspiration, no hope beyond just being a rich senator, no magic. || CTX: The Cicero, Andrewes, Jonson bit of this saddens me a little, but it pleases me to know that Lewis regarded the founding President of the Women’s National Anti-Suffrage League as a “bore.” https://t.co/TnjoSE7XAe
2026-09-10T13:11 id=2098036711477367028 →p_millerd | @p_millerd And fiction! || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Publishers have pushed very crappy non fiction.
2026-09-10T13:12 id=2098036977681780804 →DaelonSuzuka | @DaelonSuzuka My gf said the hotel staff seemed pleased after I confronted him, I think he's a regular at the hotel who acts like he owns the place. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Patriot.
2026-09-10T13:14 id=2098037483690742081 →- | Andrew is correct, and I'd bet on it.   Tbh I'm starting to think there's no point fighting the AI hype/doomer bullshit anymore, post-IPO the b2b SaaS companies will act more like b2b SaaS and all this weirdness will look as silly as the whole BLM hysteria https://t.co/7QtncHzCkf || CTX: I think there’s a pretty high chance all of this bloviating about RSI, slowdown, etc. is going to look really silly in 2030 when we realize mathematical ability is largely an exception rather than being a leading indicator of all other capa
2026-09-10T13:23 id=2098039692973445361 →resistancemoney | @resistancemoney You should, prob only time you'll see it. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 strong work, saving this one https://t.co/tiv7spOtXE
2026-09-10T15:26 id=2098070633041268748 →- | RT @sebkrier: New Drexler piece on the HuggingFace incident. As usual, it's very good - and a highly neglected perspective and outlook.   "… || CTX: New Drexler piece on the HuggingFace incident. As usual, it's very good - and a highly neglected perspective and outlook.   "This is strong empirical support for a central element of the thesis: system-level structure can dramatically alter
2026-09-11T01:26 id=2098221558913527848 →- | The Lindsay Clancy supporters and AI doomers strike me as similar: crazy people who get together online and let the medium of the internet augment and enable their craziest instincts.
2026-09-11T05:03 id=2098276215698374997 →- | This website has gotten too stupid.   It's always been dumb, but what I've seen over the last 24hrs is ridiculous.   It's still a place of grifters, liars, fraudsters, and sociopaths.
2026-09-11T05:28 id=2098282472421347782 →- | Coxson proves that there will always be a deluge of bullshit--this is the same playbook and nonsense as the FTX bullshit, and reason will win out in the end. Until then, any attempt to fight it is a waste of time--you can't fight hyperbole with reason in the attention economy.
2026-09-11T05:31 id=2098283263806800148 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson Following, which makes it even more egregeious. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Are you on "For you" or "Following"?
2026-09-11T05:33 id=2098283895053787244 →liminalsnake | @liminalsnake Yeah, this is a disgusting and overly stupid website. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 he did it all for the nookie https://t.co/ku43y4uvkw
2026-09-11T05:34 id=2098283972434497836 →dmalcolmcarson | @dmalcolmcarson Fucking retard, fuck off. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 Doesn't that then mean that you are exclusively following "grifters, liars, fraudsters, and sociopaths"?
2026-09-11T05:36 id=2098284491097956507 →CommanthaBiden | @CommanthaBiden I'm gonna miss you, Sam. Good luck in all your endeavors. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the three essay rule speaks on this. hope you are enjoying your vacation/business trip (if you are still on it / or enjoyed if you are no longer on it)
2026-09-11T05:44 id=2098286621326209049 →KateMossadAgent | @KateMossadAgent No, Chuck. I'm done. || CTX: it is good to take a break from it when it gets like this  or go private and just focus only on whatever you want to and then do not scroll or check the timeline at all  since sometimes leaving feels bad because it feels bad that the stupid
2026-09-11T07:03 id=2098306338946265122 →CatNyanpital | @CatNyanpital Coxson got on CNN. I can't fight this deluge of bullshit, I give up. || CTX: @47fucb4r8c69323 the corgi peeps or the ai people?
2026-09-12T03:20 id=2098612804077126113 →Richard_She | @Richard_She @cheafofstaff Sorry, change of plans: I'm leaving the site.   Best of luck to you, Richard! || CTX: @cheafofstaff @47fucb4r8c69323 What happened to 47?! We were supposed to hang out today
2026-09-12T03:27 id=2098614369252941881 →- | None of my tweets are worth reading.   The only thing of value I have ever written is this novel: https://t.co/EC8hEIjGXv  Remember, Anon: I love you. And I always will. https://t.co/wWpW1QdyeE
