Reon Hanbaga

@ben_golub @subcountability I understand that you mean this normatively, and that suggesting that this is like asking "what is natural selection for?" is neither here nor there, but surely even the normative answer isn't "palliating 0.01% of the population."

@subcountability What is the economy for?

The discussion ending in this tweet is very interesting Both these mathematicians believe that AI will soon be better than humans at all mathematical tasks, which is a perspective that I think misses something important that an economist would notice 1/

@Donjimmy396057 @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive I wouldn't have to spam you if you weren't saying shit that's so asinine that it can't even be approached with 280 characters. You're just repeating yourself now — few months behind! Distillation crying! Margins!! My god, dude. How's the old portfolio doing?

@ReonHanbaga @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive Stop spamming me retard, they are months behind, it's eating into USA LLM margins, OpenAI and anthropic are crying to congress to ban Chinese models lol

SITUATION DETECTED: Google, Microsoft and xAI have agreed to give the US government early access to new AI models before public release for national security evaluations, per Bloomberg. OpenAI and Anthropic already had existing agreements and have renegotiated them.

@bitchmailman She was cute in Girls; a bit too chubby but appealing. The unceasing effort and iron intention it must have taken to get here in a mere fourteen years is remarkable.

She looks like a fancy sea slug

@bitchmailman One time. Long ago.

Ever feel something?

@levon_whiteguy @DyingOfSIDS @julesgambit I'm calling every woman I know and asking them if they want to have sex with this guy

@DyingOfSIDS @julesgambit Insane! Now *this* is a guy I’d want to have sex with if I were a woman

underrated nyc tourist experience: play the chess hustlers in the parks

@Donjimmy396057 @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive Also, you retweeted this, and while I can't comment on its accuracy I struggle to see how your thesis wouldn't be severely undercut if this were true.

@Donjimmy396057 @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive This could change overnight, of course. China could have an EV moment with GPUs, scaling laws could start to taper off, or something even more exotic might happen. But it's just not true to say that US model margin is being "devoured" by Chinese models. That's not happening.

@billiegladison @menonfilmpod @S4n_Franc15co while you're completely right I can't help but read this as "benzo addict emerges momentarily from fog of angry confusion to lob insults over misstated Xanax facts"

@menonfilmpod @S4n_Franc15co the highest dosage for xanax would be 2mg also known as bars. you have no idea what you're talking about.

David Fincher has cleaned up Helena Bonham Carter's skin. He also changed the prescription on the bottle. Fight Club 4k Remaster Blu-ray on Top Fight Club Old Blu-ray on Bottom

@onzathegreat @0t0m001 @kunley_drukpa There was a look of true horror on the others' faces, and a sincere bafflement, that led me to conclude that they were not merely attempting to avoid white judgement, but in fact found the idea of eating bugs revolting. But he didn't! So I chalked it up to region (& maybe class).

@onzathegreat @0t0m001 @kunley_drukpa He just shrugged his shoulders and said "well, we do where I'm from" lol

BEAUTIFUL HORSE MEAT KAZAKH GIRL 🇰🇿 Was in Kazakhstan, visiting old Soviet resort town north of the capital Astana called Burabay. Town was known because of its location in a national park sometimes called the ‘Kazakh Switzerland’. Very picturesque lakes, pine forests, rocky mountains etc Took a shared public taxi to get there, couple of hours from Astana across the steppe. One of the other passengers was a very attractive Kazakh woman, about the same age as me. Really captivating, striking green eyes. She asked me where I was from - didn’t really speak English, only Russian and Kazakh, but we used google translate and got it to sort of work She said she was visiting the town for the weekend to relax by the lake and go hiking with her (girl)friends. She was friendly and asked me if I wanted to join her. Said “yes of course” and when we got there we met up with her friends and went cycling and then to the very aesthetically ‘dilapidated Soviet’-core lakefront together. Don’t think the woman really understood anything I said but she was laughing and smiling a lot so she seemed to enjoy me being there. Again, very very magnetic woman. Got a bit swept away, smitten, was really enjoying it too Evening was drawing in and the group suggested buying some food to eat by the lake. She went back off into the town and then came back about half an hour later with a plastic bag full of large lumps of cold, dried horsemeat about the size of a fist, maybe four lumps in all. She took a lump of horse meat out of the bag and started biting into it, really tearing into the sinewy flesh, going to town on it. Was mesmerised by how she was eating it, eagerly yet also quite nonchalantly like it was a bar of chocolate or an ice cream. Imagine a very attractive, lithe Kazakh woman, broad face high cheekbones, sat gnawing into a lump of meat in front of you. Presumably her ancestors had been doing similar on the steppe for centuries… incredible sight, could not look away Something flicked in my mind though, she was beautiful but the allure just suddenly fell off. Felt very deflated and a bit empty and numb, think it was the male version of the ‘ick.’ Not especially against people eating horses in principle but it ran up against some subconscious impulse I had and just killed the attraction. Was a psychological hurdle I had where I could not get over it being horse meat. Sat there staring at her as she finished off her lump, she offered me some too - told her I was allergic and feeling a bit sick so I couldn’t eat it. Her friends eagerly helped themselves to the rest The yamnaya of course would eat horse meat though not often as a staple food, was typically eaten more for ritual purposes. Maybe something in me still thought horse consumption should be reserved solely for the ashvamedha, maybe I am just a pussy not really cut out for steppe life

@Donjimmy396057 @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive Look, I am deeply grateful for open-weights models, and am (for what it's worth) a great supporter of China. But they are not presenting a threat to US labs today.

@Donjimmy396057 @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive The pricing laws on personal computers actually strikingly resemble those on AI tokens, for example.

@Donjimmy396057 @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive Costs could have been far higher, of course, but costs per unit performance have declined in every single area of computing technology, forever, and there was and remains no reason to think that AI would be different.

@Donjimmy396057 @lyc_aon @AlfredAlfer77 @MTSlive OpenAI released its most expensive model ever (o1 pro) two months after R1 came out. GPT-5.4 Pro (released two months ago) is its second-most-expensive model ever.