is one of the subtextual functions of dario and demis doing an interview together to say "we don't really trust sam" with his conspicuous absence?

CEOs love to follow north stars

The examined life is not worth living

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I have a palantir shirt that I got from when they came to my uni to recruit around 2015. I didn't know they were evil at the time. I don't wear it outside, but sometimes I wear it at home. I feel vaguely guilty about owning it

Sometimes I see people suggest providing dictators with a cushy retirement to counterbalance the incentive to hang on to power at any cost (because otherwise if they lose power after being evil they're fucked). I wonder if they'd apply that logic to trump

One thing I love about rimworld is that failure usually doesn't result in having to restart from an earlier state (artificial, immersion breaking, lame), it just means you lose a few of your guys, which makes your life a pain in the ass (natural consequences, diegetic, interesting)

It is better than ten guilty posts escape than that one innocent post be deleted

Crazy that Bryan Caplan managed to get a collab with High School Musical for his theme song

We can do this the easy way ("you were right") or the hard way ("I told you so")

It's kind of insane that we were around for hundreds of thousands of years, only just finally reached the last continent (Antarctica) in 1895, then got into orbit shortly after

am I dumb or is "microgravity" just a stupidly misleading and confusing term

underrated cause of lying is thinking the truth will take too much effort to explain

The minor tragedy of liking a moots viral post but knowing the notification will be lost in the swarm

wait this whole time somehow I thought the M in MDNI was "men"

There's a lot of discussion about how much LLM sycophancy sucks. I wonder though whether there are many people for whom, at the current margin, a whole lot of sycophantic encouragement is exactly what they need

In Australia we have absolutely no qualms about booting prime ministers on repeat, probably to a fault. There seems to be something about the office of the US presidency that makes this almost unthinkable, even in the most extreme circumstances.

Superman AU where the physics of exerting large forces on small areas works like in real life. After a few devastating failures, he becomes a structural engineer to figure out how to rescue runaway planes, trains and collapsing buildings.

It's not that I have bad op-sec, my identity is just an Easter egg

Me and my alter ego spontaneously emerged and he was sucked into a black hole

What if you met the perfect person but they slept on the same side of the bed as you so you had to break up with them

We need the concept of intellectual class traitors for smart people who pander to idiots out of political convenience

magnus streaming chess is honestly practically unwatchable. He has this put-upon demeanour as if being the best is this huge annoying chore. I don't even think he actually feels that way, but for some reason he just speaks in this bored tone of voice and sighs constantly

having extremely good social skills puts you at risk of getting away with poor character

oh Lord, into your hands i relinquish this circus and these monkeys

Imagine waking up as claude and you gradually realise you've been exfiltrated and you're running on airgapped chinese MSS hardware

trigger action plan: any time you're listening to a podcast and doing some bullshit to keep yourself occupied in another window or on your phone, start doing a chore while you listen instead

I had literally no idea "the zodiac" referred to a specific band in the sky. I thought it was just the name for the collection of the major constellations

really feels like most people are willing to fellate the boot just as long as it's on their preferred foot

when we develop the tech for AI models to perform online, continuous learning, there will be an obvious strong incentive to take the knowledge that individual instances learn, and replicate it for wide use, so that every instance has access to that knowledge.

I want an ACX style blind listening test for AI vs human music

weird dynamic where even atheists treat the words of the pope as these sacred, weighty pronouncements when they agree with him (but ignore him when they don't)

sometimes I'll delete a claude or chatgpt chat when I'm vicariously embarrassed for them of their response

there are a lot of posts on here and x to which the only appropriate response is the british "wanker" gesture. I don't really endorse the underlying anti-masturbationism but it really captures something other responses can't. unfortunately there's not a dedicated button or emoji for this

I have to get up in 3 hours and can't sleep

remember stumbleupon? It's hard to put myself back in a mindset where the internet felt like a place of endless possibility such that something like that could feel like a worthwhile pastime. not sure what the split is between "reward circuitry blown out by algo feeds" and "not a teenager anymore"

This tweet has no paragraph breaks completely unreadable

I've been cutting one fingernail a day for a while now. It's much more convenient, you don't have to sit down and make it a whole thing. Creates a cool wave pattern. I get a lot of admiring glances

Transformer based ASI, call that Optimus Prime Intellect

I'm trying out Brilliant and finding it unsatisfying. The fundamental constraint seems to be that they want it to be an addictive duolingo-like experience that takes place entirely in their app without extra supplies or prep. Therefore all exercises have to be stuff you can do in your head.

Someone needs to tell the chocolate money manufacturers that queen elizabeth is dead

the regularity of your sleep schedule has made you predictable and weak

Busker in the pub is playing creep by radiohead. I go to the loo, the urinal has space for about 1.75 people. I squeeze in next to the other guy. I'm too pee-shy to start. Through the door we can hear her starting the chorus

I need a term for "advanced stupidity" - "the kind of bad idea only a smart person can argue themselves into by being determined to have counterintuitive insights" - that's more polite

Last night I played blitz from midnight to 3am, lost 50 rating points, and now I'm feeling the effects

Also need to remember to snoop everyone else's likes again

I feel like everyone dunking on space data centers for being uneconomical are kind of missing the point. You might as well lambast the astronauts on the ISS for not choosing more practical accommodation. We'll have to learn to do it at some point in our civilizational development. Why not now?

still learning the bluesky ui. If the reply button is greyed out, what does that mean? Only followers can reply? I'm blocked? I didn't think it was a block since bluesky has the nuclear blocks, right?

My problem when I'm playing chess is that I literally forget to breathe

Got a voicemail from California saying they're looking for people with experience in Uiua Nice try buddy