Deep Learning

Good day to pick tangerines 🍊

@selentelechia @millysayseh My kids call me either (which they do occassionally); it weirds me out

@millysayseh I started calling my son "bro" as a joke and then I couldn't stop

I don't call my kids dude and bro because I am trying to be cool I call them dude and bro because I AM cool

@wrongbutkind I suspect its sorta common; certainly way too common 😳

@Ruesavatar Just scratchin his bum, nothing to see here

I bought this plant today because it looked like a pair of legs to me. Only now upon closer examination do I see that it, uh, is a little dude.

@OneEyedAlpaca all'y'all *ok, I cheated*

what is your favorite contraction? mine is shan't because it sounds close to shat

@caryatis 😂

WSJ readers desperately trying to sympathize equally with the divorced woman supporting her kids on 30k and the divorced woman supporting herself on 250k You see, she used to have a whole room for her Peloton and now she has to put it in her bedroom

@jessesingal @Noahpinion Social media is enabling an epistemic crisis everywhere, not just on the left I believe the core prob is popularity > expertise. We need to find a credible way to push back

Everyone should read this because it isn't just about Hasan Piker -- its' about epistemic hygiene in general, about what left-of-center spaces should look like. This is something we actually have some control over! But the trendlines are bad. theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…

@wrongbutkind I think you downplay the tweet unfairly It's digging into anxiety about future jobs bc AI *Young ppl jobs and AI both have current resonance*

@cljack Might be a math word, that's why it's not allowed Might as well say "you're such a drag, come lift my wings" instead

@SH2F088 I learned it 20 years ago in econometrics class and the other kind of nerds stole it!! It’s MY word 😭

I’ll have you know my friends tell me some version of “shut up nerd” on a regular basis, it’s just that women will phrase it like “wow, I could never work with computers the way you do!”

@cljack That word is not allowef, and you know it!

“Oh my gosh, your technical skills are just crazy!” -my cue to immediately ask if I can get her another drink, and then change the subject to something completely orthogonal to technology

@Corbienest Friendly and positive in your dishonesty! 😘🙃😜

Obviously this is a VERY accurate test 😌

@lilbabygandhi @Noahpinion It's improved noticeably I did have a confrontation with an individual who "piggybacked" on my entrance *1 of 11 uses*

I was told it would lead to a genocide of minorities and crackheads

@itsannpierce @connerdelights @Meaningness *ness 😳 *proof auto correct has an evil edge?*

@itsannpierce @connerdelights @Meaningness Meaningless is why I know Kegan *highly rec him*

Morality by Kegan stage: 2: ppl who do what I want are nice ppl 3: being a good person is hard but how to do it is very simple/obvious 4: what is "good" and how to do it is extremely complicated and a matter of debate 5: goodness is directional, contextual, fuzzy/imperfect

@ouranometrian2 When I bring this issue up among peers, I say "we" are the prob

wait, if you're a millennial you were born between 1981-1996. In that time period the average age of first child was 22 in 1980, 24 in 1990. Gen x birth years are 1965-1980. So a good portion of millennials were raised by boomers.

@HistoryBoomer Core idea is good, but the concept got stretched all out of recognition

This week I’m teaching a class on “wokeness.” Should I say it’s good or bad?

@MostlyMonkey Yeah, it really sucks here in San Diego

Ok i changed my mind

@itsannpierce @athena_notes I prefer "dynamic" to shifting

Stage 4 might agree with this statement, in that they can see that diff ppl have diff values - that good/evil are not solidly agreed-upon. But in stage 4 ppl develop their own model of right/wrong that they feel strongly about and feel p certain could perfectly solve morality if developed enough (implying there is such thing as a solid good and evil to solve for). In the transition bw stage 4 and stage 5, ppl get very confused and nihilistic. This is prob the best match for that statement, bc ppl here start to see "the truth in everything" but have trouble holding/organizing it, so good and evil look kinda the same. Stage 5 *might* agree w the statement, but the problem with 5 is it's v hard to communicate bc it breaks language/doesn't use language in a way most ppl are familiar with. 5 can hold multiple truths at once, and hold them all lightly, but words are very concrete, they must come out in order, and this often implies solidity and weight that isn't there. But what a 5 might mean by this statement is something more like "there is no perfect system which solves morality once-and-for-all - it's impossible to pin down 100% good or 100% evil, bc context, values, goals are always shifting"

@gptbrooke Consider using openness? Rough draft👇 Vibecamp is a place where openness thrives, ppl who accept diversity of personalities and viewpoints are likely to be more comfortable

one of the goals of reworking it is to have a website that allows people who are first hearing of vibecamp, maybe aren't on twitter etc, to get a relatively accurate idea of whether it's for them or not so, while we definitely need to have event details, those aren't really enough. even project tweets we were planning on adding to the homepage for people to get a feel for what happens there - still maybe not enough? that all shows reasons to go, maybe not so much why people wouldn't want to go there's a thing where if you feel a lot of hate - towards the right, towards the left, towards AI or people with specific views on AI, towards people who struggle with social skills, towards trans people - if you feel a lot of hate/derision just in general, it might not be a place for you? but that's so heavy handed to write out like that a 'list of things you might see at vibecamp', where some of those bases are covered in a fun/cute/wholesome way, would serve the same purpose, i think? does anyone reading this have an example of something they've seen at vibecamp that is particularly unusual or might turn off 90% of people but be compelling for the exact 10% that would have the best time there? something something 'a trad cath playfully debating theology with a furry' - but things you've actually seen at vibecamp? i don't think i spend enough time in the mix to have a great sense of this any suggestions appreciated!

i'm trying to figure out how to point at something with some new vibecamp website copy without saying it directly and could use some help/suggestions

@xwanyex But it's turtles all the way down

It's the *materialists* who are so enamored with thought experiments, which seems weird, at first, but maybe it's not so strange. Maybe we all yearn for axioms on which to base a worldview. If you get rid of one belief, you have to replace it with another one. There has to be *something* at the bottom of your worldview that you *assumed* and from which you then proceeded. x.com/eugyppius1/sta…

AI has woken me up to the fact that lots of people have built entire worldviews on top of thought experiments

@Noahpinion Clearly smarter than you, though 🙄

AI: Here's a totally bullshit argument with a bunch of sources that directly contradict the argument Me: Don't your sources contradict your argument AI: Yes, that's fair, I was full of it Me: So what's the truth AI: (reverts to initial bullshit argument)