Alright, a few times recently I’ve made the case that it’s fine to use Twitter actually and finally thought to check how much your use personally enriches Elon Musk o3 estimates $0.15/year. It’s basically just not a thing

Legally obligated to share this now that it has 1000 likes

My new cost effectiveness model (details forthcoming) robustly indicates that purchasing treats for therapy bunnies is the single best use of time and money

Twitter down, who’s up

I’ll keep using twitter predominantly, but may as well share things that do well there that people find interesting

Import tweet

@posit.co RStudio app plz

New LLM wrapper just dropped Multiple models estimate a single figure, see the stats and results Link below

Watch out Dustin, new big money donor is coming through

If you are a potential big money donor ($3k) please suggest incentives that would get you over the finish line? - want to be a guest on the world famous pigeon hour podcast? - A bunch of sticker ideas that are slightly cringe to make for yourself?

We are near the finish line and need just $3k to turn my room into an EA Paradise (which will of course be posted on twitter) If there ever was a time for manifesting aka evidential decision theory (u donating is evidence that others will) aka acausal coordination, it’s now!

Interesting: According to The Information, OpenAI and Microsoft's agreements had formally defined AGI as reaching $100 billion in profits. OpenAI has told investors they expect to reach this in 2029.

The fundraiser is now over $12.5k! To celebrate, here's a look back at all the crazy antics we did as a result of last years, which raised $35k in the end:

This is absolutely spot on by @Miles_Brundage . It should be read by as many people as possible. milesbrundage.substack.com/p/times-up-f...

I was the one who came up with "Vegan Hot Ones" so if we don't hit that goal it means you personally hate me

It's that time of year again 🎉. @absurdlymax.bsky.social, @aaronbergman18.bsky.social, @laura-duffy.bsky.social, and I are returning to raise funds for the EA Funds Animal Welfare Fund! Donate to help the animals and create some silly antics! www.givingwhatwecan.org/fundraisers/...

It’s back and it’s not exactly bigger than ever yet but hopefully it will be! @spacedoutmatt.bsky.social, @absurdlymax.bsky.social, Laura Duffy and I are once again raising money for the EA Animal Welfare Fund in this year’s Terminally Online EA Giving Season Fundraiser!

It's that time of year again 🎉 Another virtual fundraiser for the EA Animal Welfare Fund! Help reduce the suffering of animals while maybe increasing ours a bit (drinking huel)

One consequence of the housing crisis: Every year, roughly one electoral vote shifts from blue states to red states. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/o...

New term for programmers just dropped

Marinating tofu instead of turkey? Baste

The OpenAI corporate governance shitshow doesn’t really inspire confidence, but I think the general idea of a nonprofit controlling a for-profit entity sounds pretty cool and good

Hello I am posting this message on both twitter and b*sky at the same time

Similarish: if you have an a uniform prior on something (ie all probabilities in (0,1) equally likely), and then the thing does happen, you should then think that the ex ante probability was 2/3 If it doesn’t happen, you should think it was 1/3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomia...

I wanna be friends with citibike data guy Being a data weirdo is a lonely path

I will post this over here so all you nerds can tell me how to survive COVID-25 or whatever

probably good to put my related take here too

Take

Shoutout to @aaronbergman18.bsky.social for making this hilarious but also somewhat inspiring shrimp stunning counter shrimpcalc.neocities.org

Cooking up a banger forum post

Oof (this is slightly old news but still)

Ha

Some cursorslop pngs on my Bluesky timeline

In debates about assisted dying, we should remember those who currently die from withdrawal of food and water because no faster alternative is legal. There should - I argue here - be a legal alternative. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

I was really pleased to find my local library has a "Philosophy" section. Less pleased to see the three subsections: "Angels", "Ghosts" and "Astrology".

Obviously idk what I’m talking about, but I find it weird that the market hasn’t solved period issues better Like women have a lot of money, and seem not to like their period very much. What gives?!

It was and remains a good and honest question

My skircle skircle.me

Does anyone understand why it’s so easy to clone twitter with no IP issues? It’s hard to understand qualitative legal thresholds, but the UI looking ~exactly the same both here and on threads intuitively seems like the kind of thing that could violate a copyright if twitter had pursued one

If Bluesky becomes a serious challenge to twitter it would be cool if there was an easy way to pay like $3/mo to support it, patreon style (is there?)

So Bluesky is open source with an API. What Claudeslop would be cool to see? docs.bsky.app

Maybe I’m supposed to be chill and not weird about this but Dustin is here and he should follow me so I can nudge him into having .1% better takes which is equivalent to making and giving away a quadrillion dollars

As soon as this app has circles and community notes it’s over This is a slight exaggeration but I do think circles could make a compounding difference

Should I cultivate a totally different persona on this app Perhaps a post-rat or incorrect opinion-haver

Hello Fake Twitter