@Cernovich These billionaires want someone else to do their fighting
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Has Chamath funded any right wing media projects or is this more of the tech class acting like they are helpless actors in a cruel world and utterly lacking in any agency?
jay plemons@jayplemons
Chamath: The media lied to us about Trump @chamath "Why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character? That is completely unacceptable in America and there's still been no repercussions."
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@jensenjeans Or if AI fails to meet the high expectations. Decreased AI spending will affect other parts of the economy. Although people have been saying this for years now.
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The SP500 and similar indexes will start going down if the economy tanks. Plausible candidates of this future decline are mass third world immigation and fertility rates that are too low for institutions to adjust to.
Bryan Caplan@bryan_caplan
Full-time employment in the First World is a near-foolproof way to escape poverty, but getting rich takes a lot more. But just saving and investing 10% of your income from 18 on will make almost any full-time worker in the First World rich by retirement age.
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@SarAllyce there is no excuse to not use low fat alternatives. they have gotten much better in recent years
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really cool paper at intersection of number theory and special functions
𝐒𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐚 ζ(1/2 + i σₙ )=0@SrinivasR1729
arxiv.org/abs/2607.09904 In this paper, I developed a unified method for studying central-binomial harmonic sums using hyperbolic arcsine kernels. Finite Fourier filters were applied to extract even, odd, and other residue-class subsequences. This produced exact quartic identities involving important constants, harmonic sums, and special functions. Mellin deformation yielded accelerated series, error bounds, and logarithmic companion identities. The results connect several classical series through one systematic generating-function approach. Thank you @nasqret , sir for your kind help.
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@Cernovich Democrats are fine with violence , unless it hits too close to home .
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The difference between ANTIFA and Israel.
Wade Stotts@wadestotts
The only theory that their minds cannot entertain is that the American Left is a violent, destructive force.
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@aimeeterese "the left has gone too far" has spawned endless think pieces
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Do not listen to a single centrist or conservative who peddles fantasies about the left coming undone by being “too radical”. It’s a delusional lie that provides cover for pseudo-moderates on the left to pretend to clean up the excesses, while tacitly affirming shitlib premises.
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This is a great example that illustrates how the left’s love for Islam actually makes perfect sense. Many don’t realize this, but Islam is incredibly longhoused. Some of its most brutal enforcers are middle aged mothers and aunties; hijab is both the ultimate act of female intrasexual competition - flattening the beauty hierarchy - as well as a tool for the neutralization of male sexuality.
You can see how this perfectly serves the goals of women on the left, who want to exert unilateral control over relations between the sexes at best or even end heterosexuality at worst. The uglification of women in popular media is a form of hijab, hiding male-enticing beauty away “for women’s protection” and punishing male sexual attraction. These illiberal photo guidelines that feel like they’re from a conservative country are another example of the left’s adoption of virtual hijab as a tool for female sociopolitical dominance.
You might think, “Doesn’t this contradict the sexual vulgarity & immodesty promoted by the left in the West?” Superficially, it might seem that way, but the popular left’s love of prostitution is/was a stepping stone in the transition from liberal hedonistic democracy to asexual authoritarian regime. They were seeking to “desexualize” the female body through exposure (while also exerting control over the male psyche: just because a woman is scantily clad in public doesn’t mean you have permission to think demonic sexual thoughts about her!). The argument of topless feminists in France is that boobs should evoke zero sexual feelings; they’re just a body part. The argument of OnlyFans feminists is that their body is a tool for extracting resources from men. None of this actually has to do with the promotion of sexual freedom.
It’s all a game of flattening the SMV of women while exerting power over men through sexuality, and the tides are naturally shifting towards female-enforced asexuality (rather than female-enforced promiscuity). This is clear in the rhetoric of online Western feminists, who post more and more frequently about how scared they are of sex, how they avoid it (occasionally by going as far as to transition into men themselves). In this view, a feminist hijabi is completely rational, and perhaps even the perfected manifestation of an anti-male ideology.
Do not think that the rise of Islam in the West will mean the return of the patriarchy. No, it will mutate with our broken gender relations to form a novel, putrid mixture of sexual communism and repression. The future is asexual hijabis, finger wagging you to death
civilization enjoyer@civ_enjoy
European Athletics have released new photography guidelines. It's a pity our sport our sport is going from celebrating the athletic physique to hiding it.
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calculus in high school during senior year. This was once once considered a big deal or an enviable accomplishment . Today the equivalent is learning calculus + linear algebra at 10-12. Calculus in high school is downright pedestrian.
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So there is a weird situation where you have kid who are practically savants/prodigies juxtaposed with kids who cannot read well, all in the same school. There has always been variability, but way more today compared to 2+ generations ago. A smart kid 25 years ago was learning
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"College students cannot read, kids are not reading"
chronicle.com/article/my-stu…
Like everything else in post-COVID society, the right tail pulls way ahead. Today's top <1% kids are way smarter and better prepared compared to the top <1% of >25 years ago, so the mean is higher.
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Making money in the stock market is really simple. Short #bicoin $btc to hedge, buy tech $QQQ on dips on Iran bullshit. Sell some theta for added $. That is all. It's much easier now compared to 2010-2015.
dnap@dnapway
Martin Shkreli reveals what separates great traders from everyone else "Traders are risk managers, fundamentally. Alpha is critical, but you cannot be a trader without excellent risk management." "You have to be able to get out of a losing position, which for so many people is really hard to do. To a great trader, it's very easy. But you also have to be able to resist lots of different impulses. You can't be impulsive. "That's why not many people are great traders. If anybody could be a great trader, you could easily get to a billion dollars in your personal account, but it's very hard." "Bad traders will either change their mind too quickly, or never at all. Eventually, enough stubbornness will lead you to bankruptcy. But if you unloosen that screw too much, that's not very good for stocks you really believe in that could go up 10 or 20 or 30X." "Good traders know when to get off the ride and not overstay their welcome, which I recommend after a 10x, 20x, 30x. You don't need the last 2x, you got most of it." "You're not paid to calculate, analyzing, channel checks, modeling, research. You're paid to make this line of PnL go up. That's the only part of the job that matters. It doesn't matter if you were right in the long run. All that matters is this line going up."
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@YannPerrodIFNB @tracewoodgrains or at least temporarily , on a plane
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against my will, I'm fascinated by how much conversation this has inspired. people want to establish a gentleman's agreement to not press the little button the airplane gives you? they're writing thinkpieces about this? people are comparing it to returning shopping carts?
The New Yorker@NewYorker
On August 24, 2014, James Beach, a six-foot-one businessman from Denver, was returning from Moscow when he deployed the Knee Defender—“a $22 gadget,” the Associated Press reported, “that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining.” The woman in front of him, unable to lean back, flagged a flight attendant. From there, events spiralled. Beach removed the Knee Defender, but then became upset when the woman reclined forcefully, risking damage to his computer. He confronted her, pushed her seat forward, and tried to reinstall his device, at which point, he said, she turned around and threw her soda at him. The plane was diverted to Chicago, where it was met by police, and news coverage of the event led to conversations about reclining one’s airplane seat. “The bottom line is that reclining is a social act in an environment of social stress. It involves deciding whether to inflict your will on someone else, and enduring or resisting the effects of someone else’s decision,” Joshua Rothman writes. Read more about the ethics of reclining your seat: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9zPAOe
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@Cernovich If his liver is as fat as the rest of him, he'll be dead in a few decades
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@paulnovosad Elite schools deal with abstractions, not so much tangibles. This is why tons of robotics courses, but no visibility in advanced math or theoretical physics.
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Tour guide at elite college:
> I'm really bad at math
> We have quirky clubs! Like one where you take naps!
> I'm taking a class where we only watch Disney movies
Guide at mid-tier engineering school:
> this is our team’s drone swarm, we have a DARPA competition next month
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@paulnovosad @QuaintTransfer no, but they are still smart. but the elite kid is smarter owing to the aggressive implicit IQ filtering to get in
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@QuaintTransfer Disagree.
The median mid-tier engineering student is smarter and more capable than the median non-science Harvard student.
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New Mexico Tech in Socorro is the epitome of a lesser known engineering school where every single kid is 110% locked into building robots and so forth.
Tons of them were that "one kid" in some rural cowtown, etc.
Paul Novosad@paulnovosad
Tour guide at elite college: > I'm really bad at math > We have quirky clubs! Like one where you take naps! > I'm taking a class where we only watch Disney movies Guide at mid-tier engineering school: > this is our team’s drone swarm, we have a DARPA competition next month
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Annual wealth per capita growing much faster than population growth (20% in Nasdaq/ home prices vs 1/2 %) , means less need to work . There is so much wealth sloshing around. Almost everyone knows someone who is rich.
VB Knives@Empty_America
40 year old men being able to just decide that they don't care to work ever again is a sign of mass affluence. There is so much money floating around that they can just live as some type of dependent on a relative, cook up a disability claim, etc. Lots of scraps to eat.
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@johngearysquash @cremieuxrecueil @akarlin @mathyouf @ESYudkowsky what are you basing this on? the pictures of him doesn't suggest anything unusual about him
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No one prepares you for how large @ESYudkowsky's head is before you meet him
Matthew Allen Fisher @ ICML Seoul@mathyouf
I do think people subconsciously judge other people's intelligence a lot based on their head size and shape
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@schober222 "I’ve gotten to single digit body fat numerous times while eating 2-4 slices of sourdough bread and 1-2 bagels every day every prep"
that is 1000 calories total? if you didn't eat much than than that presumably you would lose weight rapidly
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If anyone tells you that you need to cut out carbs to lose weight…
Run and never listen to anything that person says again
I’ve gotten to single digit body fat numerous times while eating 2-4 slices of sourdough bread and 1-2 bagels every day every prep
Here’s how I do it and how my clients do it too:
-We either track macros or build a meal plan around their lifestyle and schedule
-We build meals around foods we enjoy
If I make you eat fish and broccoli, and you fucking hate fish and broccoli…I’m setting you up for failure right off the get go. Would never make any client eat something they despise when there are so many good, clean foods out there to eat to get us the results we’re after
-We stay in a slight calorie deficit without starving ourselves
-IF our schedule allows it, we always try to move more or increase cardio before dropping food to keep food as high as possible for as long as possible
More food = more fuel = better training sessions = helps preserve and or build muscle = better metabolism long term
- We train hard, lift heavy as fuck, and stay consistent because we’re not burned out or miserable with our food
Bread or carbs didn’t make you fat and DOES NOT make you fat
Being inconsistent and over eating is what did
If you keep jumping from diet to diet, cutting more and more food to “get results”…
You’ll never stay lean
Because you’ll never stick with it long enough for it to work because you’ll feel like death from not eating enough
But when you learn how to lose fat the right way with structure, flexibility, and a plan that fits your life…
You stop starting over and hating the process while getting lean eating the foods you actually enjoy eating
On top of looking AND feeling better
There’s a right way and there’s a wrong way
If you wanna see how it’s done the right way, shoot me a message and I’ll show you how my team can help you as well
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