Weld on stake

amphetamines and lsd are the drug classes most closely aligned with the machine spirits but they represent wildly different angles of approach

im very ASI pilled right now, so naturally I think about nuclear war and I just thought it's a very convenient strategic fact that all of the largest US datacenters are far away from the nuclear silos but it's not a coincidence. the silos were built in remote locations where very few people live, which means little to no infrastructure, and that makes it unattractive for datacenters but it probably doesn't matter with the amount of nukes that china has I think a good heuristic is: if we ever start building datacenters deep inside mountains the world is probably doomed

Think of yourself as an LLM. Every social interaction, every meeting, burns your tokens. Unless someone is a paid subscriber to your attention, you are under no obligation to answer low-quality prompts.

Almost as much as Starlink's revenue last year BTW. This means that right now SpaceX makes about twice as much money from Anthropic and Google renting out AI data center hardware as they make from Starlink.

kinda crazy that anthropic and miri used to recruit from basically the same talent pool and now one cohort has generational wealth and the other lives in berkeley

*CHICAGO BEARS TO DEPART ILLINOIS FOR INDIANA AFTER 100 YEARS

if anyone i share a room with ever switches to exclusively whispering to their computer instead of typing i think i will literally jump out of a window

Adderall should be free and over-the-counter if you scored >1500 on the SAT

Co-founder is marriage without the sex.

it's unclear if most ppl realize that ozempic’s real effects on culture haven’t even started. cuz what you’re seeing now is the first order effects & some glimpses of second order where ppl get thinner & some products experiencing a resurgence. but the second & third order effects are where things might get gnarly due to the fact that these drugs seem to dampen desire itself across a surprisingly wide range of behaviors (it's not universal or obvious yet). food is simply the first & most obvious target. liek what happens when millions of people suddenly spend less time thinking about consumption? what happens to industries built around cravings, indulgence, impulse purchases, addiction loops, or even certain forms of entertainment? entire sections of the economy assume humans will remain governed by the same reward circuitry we’ve had for thousands of years. if these drugs meaningfully alter those circuits, we’re talking about a tool that edits human motivation. we are gonna see thinness but in a lot of diff ways it seems like.

going to the SF CNC orgy and not getting CNC’d must be like a billion personal 9/11’s

I personally like the word "Codex" quite a bit, but this got me thinking: what's the best word? Not for OpenAI. Just, y'know, in general. Here are some initial candidates compiled when I was younger, to start things off.