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Eric Fosterius

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New York, TX शामिल हुए Ocak 2008
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
Projects like this open up an entire world that has been wiped from our collective memory. Like discovering a new planet, populated by totally different people.
Nick Levine@status_effects

New work with @AlecRad and @DavidDuvenaud: Have you ever dreamed of talking to someone from the past? Introducing talkie, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text. Vintage models should help us to understand how LMs generalize (e.g., can we teach talkie to code?). Thread:

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Roko 🐉
Roko 🐉@RokoMijic·
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Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

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Eric Fosterius@ericfosterius·
My working assumption is “the left” sent a plausible deniability assassin and then used their Charlottesville hoaxing media to gloss over the failure. It’s more useful. THEYRE TRYING TO KILL YOUR GREATEST SOLDIERS. ACTIVATE. Or sleep. Just a random cray cray.
Walter Kirn@walterkirn

The reason many of you think you know that Cole was a lone nut radicalized by media etc -- and NOT part of a wider plan -- is that your prejudices were affirmed in exactly the manner described below. You leapt at the seductive caricature of a misguided BlueSky super user. Warned you.

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Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn@walterkirn·
The reason many of you think you know that Cole was a lone nut radicalized by media etc -- and NOT part of a wider plan -- is that your prejudices were affirmed in exactly the manner described below. You leapt at the seductive caricature of a misguided BlueSky super user. Warned you.
Walter Kirn@walterkirn

There will come a moment in this drama when your deepest prejudices and suspicions are confirmed. Put that moment inside a glass bubble and hold it at arm's length. Turn it to one side, then the other. Examine it as a kind of alien artifact. Do not identify with it.

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Wylfċen
Wylfċen@wylfcen·
The Anglo-Saxons liked to give their daughters names ending in wynn, which was an archaic word for joy. Here were the most common ones: 1. Elfwyn (“elf joy”) 2. Wulfwyn (“wolf joy”) 3. Léofwyn (“beloved joy”) 4. Æðelwyn (“noble joy”) 5. Beornwyn (“bear joy”) 6. Déorwyn (“dear joy”) 7. Óswyn (“god joy”) 8. Berhtwyn (“bright joy”) 9. Sigewyn (“victory joy”) 10. Merewyn (“sea joy”)
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Prowler
Prowler@derzum_·
Madison Grant: ‘150m is the limit for decent life in the US, but the ideal would have been an America of 60 million. Unless we want an asiatic living standard, Americans replaced by aliens and our government efficiency to decay, immigration restriction is a vital necessity.’
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Roman Helmet Guy
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy·
Listen, you’re just not hot enough to be a celebrated assassin. You’re so ugly they’ll call it a false flag.
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@JoshuaLisec Blew my mind when an orthodox priest said Christianity is Judaism. What we call Judaism today is a different thing. American has Christian roots.
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Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter
US does not have “Judeo-Christian roots.” Our Founders took some inspiration from the organization of the wilderness-wandering Israelites under Moses. But our values as a people are explicitly Christian. Judeo-Christians are called Messianic Jews. About 250K total in America.
MAGA Mama@TexasChica1981

@ginamilan_ @JoshuaLisec Second biggest. Systematically abandoning our Judeo-Christian roots is number one.

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YIMBYman
YIMBYman@YIMBYman·
DFW realtors and investors will look you in the eye and tell you this is a great neighborhood for you to raise your kids and live in a community. These people are sick
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Chris Koerner@mhp_guy

This is the best real estate in the world. 1:1:1 Chipotle to Chick-Fil-A to Crumbl ratio. More HOAs per capita than anywhere on Earth. Only 3.5% property taxes. Only 45 minutes to downtown Dallas. Every house has a privacy fence. Current entry level price: $1.2 million

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@Alexfeinberg The best seminar. Why are deportations slow? Why does the Senate keep ignoring us? Why does public school suck? See answer above.
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Boldinfluence
Boldinfluence@boldpath·
@Alexfeinberg similar to the "gas is so high right now!" Who cares, nothing we can do about it unless you're going to drive 40 minutes further just to wait an extra 20 minutes at the Costco pump and save 2 dollars
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@carlfranzen @micsolana What dignity did he offer those he intended to kill? Those who he terrified? A state's job is to rip dignity away from such people. Less glamour on offer for anyone tempted to do so.
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Carl Franzen
Carl Franzen@carlfranzen·
@micsolana I think it could've been better! I think that's the point of civilization and progress -- to do better than what came before.
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FischerKing
FischerKing@FischerKing64·
Stanley Kubrick gave an interview to Playboy Magazine after the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. They asked him about chess, knowing that as a young man he spent countless hours in Washington Square Park playing compulsively - from noon to midnight. Here is what Kubrick said:
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Rosie Memos
Rosie Memos@almostjingo·
Got into a fight with a stranger who said this “was staged like Butler.”I sternly reminded him a man died and two others were critically injured and his eyes widened. The press has gone out of their way to omit those pesky facts and they’ve done it so much people believe them.
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@redaction
@redaction@redaction·
One of the most fascinating civilizational transitions it’s that it’s effectively illegal to live primitively now Not just disincentivized, but explicitly illegal Purchasing land is a prerequisite for even approximating the experience But you can’t opt out of the state
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Walter Kirn
Walter Kirn@walterkirn·
I love how people will skip right past the rather mundane notion that actual humans coordinate events and deceptions in favor of the theory that a cosmic supercomputer is simulating our very existence. Kind of lets the bad guys off the hook.
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NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依
息子に聞かれた 「日本って いい国?」 俺は 言葉に詰まった ニュースは毎日 文句を言ってる 政治家を叩き 経済を嘆き 若者は逃げ出すと書いてある でも 俺は答えた 「いい国だ」 「なんで?」 「お前が 夜10時に ひとりでコンビニに行ける」 「水道の水が飲める」 「警察に殴られない」 「学校にタダで行ける」 「それが 当たり前じゃない国の方が 世界では 多いんだ」 息子は黙って聞いてた 最後に俺は言った 「この国は 誰かが 守ってきたから こうなってるんだ」 「父さんも 守る側だ お前も いつか 守る側になれ」 それだけ言った それで 十分だ
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