Tim is writing UNSONG The Musical

the most persuasive humans in history were not politicians, they were the founders of religions. people like jesus, muhammad, the buddha. the lower bound for superpersuasion is "founds a religion with billions of followers that lasts for thousands of years"

If the BIG BANG started everything, what existed before it?

this doesn't actually fill me with fear as long as china controls them, because a million drones swarming your city is just a WMD, we have WMDs, and we know what happens if one side uses them. it's when GPT-8 controls them that i get scared

太绝了！用芥末泡虾，虾线都吐出来了！有试过的吗？

It seems like AI psychosis is going to become the standard not the exception I feel I will be one of the last hold outs and deeply ostracized for pointing out there are better models that predict and explain the output of LLMs better.