Ryan Christensen

Hard to do as men, if you're on the far right edge of the curve. I count myself lucky having grown up in Kansas - it's a little easier to enjoy the simple things in life. I don't need my woman to be my intellectual equal. I need her to have a good head on her shoulders, and to brighten up my life. I'll handle the rest.

Everyone says they want intelligence in a significant other, but what they really want is someone roughly in their range (men), or someone about 10 IQ points about them (women). No one goes for absolute intelligence. People can’t connect far outside their own zone.

@taylorburrowes Formula

Pray for our Japan bros

@EdLatimore Absolute truth. It's the dodginess that some people indulge in that inspires the rage / hate / inability to forgive.

"People can forgive almost anything when they see someone take the full weight of it without looking for an exit."

Hate that you're kind of right here. Or, more accurately, those who always seek attention are glomming on to the latest rage. That said... I see a lot of people who get that diagnosis, for whom life suddenly makes SO MUCH SENSE. Who can now create strategies and frameworks to support a "normal" life in ways they couldn't before. Solving problems is easy, once you know what the problem is. Most of us who get diagnosed accurately have been solving the wrong problem for way too damn long. Happened to me - always knew I had ADHD (at least once it became more widely known in the early 2000s) but didn't find out I was autistic and bipolar until I was almost 48 years old. My life makes SO MUCH SENSE in retrospect - though I'm still figuring out how to navigate life more effectively given this knowledge. If nothing else, it stops me from beating the crap out of myself for not being able to follow the usual advice. None of it ever worked for me - but now I'm not going to bother trying to make it work for long. Just take the essence of it and build something that works for me the way I need it to. And yeah - this is me being pedantic and shit, when you're just riffing off of an off-handed post. Welcome to the 'tism.

@DoctorPerin It's trendy now. It's suffered the fate all trend things. They gave a cool sounding name, and now it is–quite literally–a badge of honor.

The laymen understanding of neurodiversity is starting to look like being sorted into a Harry Potter house.

@TMTLongShort It's one of the things I'm most hopeful about - idea to workable tool at incredible speed. Seeing what folks like @JohnnyFSE or @DataRepublican can do on such short timelines is awe inspiring. All I can say is...

Some guy built it within a day. I fucking love AI 🚀

@DoctorPerin Way more often, it's depression and despair that drives success in the first place. The terrible reality they end up facing is that you can't fix those issues from the outside in, no matter how hard you try.

A reminder that success does not render one immune to despair

If you understand anything about my philosophy, let it be this: Truth is the highest governing principle from which all desirable things flow, like courage, which in turn enables integrity and thus loyalty. You can judge people very quickly by ascertaining their appetite and tolerance for truth. Easily offended people are treacherous people. If they are more comfort oriented than truth oriented, they are predisposed to extreme selfishness and thus treachery. You can literally infer someone’s entire capacity for virtue and dependability from their relationship with truth. The comfort preferring are weak and untrustworthy. Violent devotion is the highest relational orientation. It is equality through mutual supremacy whilst maintaining polarity. Paradox is fundamental, and intrinsic to all greatness. Not all paradoxes are equal, some are dysfunctional rather than generative, and it’s important to make that distinction. Truth preference is also God preference, because truth is a macro ontological expression of God, and so inherently beautiful even when the realisation is painful or undesirable or disgust inducing. The poetry of contradiction interwoven between all things that becomes symphony is God’s signature. This is a heavy distillation of what fundamentally underlies my worldview. So if you understand these things properly, you should be able to understand most of what I say, or at least what informs it.

@CoffeeBlackMD Thanks for the head's up. Costco run for popcorn is now on my to-do list for tomorrow.

@belief_engineer You see correct. I haven’t even begun to touch hot stoves yet.

In the last two to three weeks is there group of health extremists on the app I haven’t upset? Keto/carnivore, statins, chronic mold, and now long covid. I find it additionally interesting how the political affiliations of these conditions cluster in largely predictable ways.

You probably can't with the data that you have. They'll probably have similar registered agents and the like, so have that dirty vibe to them. The good news is that you don't have to worry about them until they're used. Flag them so as we shut down the ones in use, we've already identified these ones as probable vehicles for future fraud. Would help pull more subjects into the net for future prosecution. One thing that might be worth checking into is to look at all the ones where you've identified fraud. Then go back and look at when they were registered, when you first saw billing, etc. See if you can correlate it to other things that might be influential. Changes in personnel, political changes, certain people getting busted. See if they spin down one company and shift the activity to another one at any point. Look at the people involved in each company, see if changes in personnel affect anything. Just a few thoughts off the top of my head.

@realDMontgomery But how do I prove that.

I’m missing something and I can tell. I’ve got several fraudulent entities mapped to a single location. Millions of dollars. Provable, verified. But I ALSO have dozens of certified Medicaid providers that have ZERO billing at all, and a CMS verified provider that has held certification for 14 years, but has NEVER billed before. All operating out of the same building in middle of an immigrant hub. Something is off, I can tell. I just don’t know what it is yet.

The administration should get a LOT more aggressive in leveraging civil asset forfeiture in cases like this. Oh, your company just popped up out of nowhere? Right after a change in administration? And got millions in payments only under the new codes MI implemented? No known patient records or inspections. Yoink. Take it all back, make them prove it's legit.

The first thing that Democrats do when they take power is make sure that they pay their friends.

Thanks for the kind words. I guess the TLDR version is that if it's an outcome you can engineer in some way, AI is a phenomenal tool if used right. Otherwise, it's worse than useless at the moment. Folks like @Cosmologicmuse can use it to create phenomenal art - but only because she knows what art is in the first place. She's just using Grok instead of a paintbrush to create it.

"If you look at things such as content creation, website design, and the like, AI lags far behind. Yes, models such as Grok imagine can produce phenomenally beautiful results… when they are guided by a competent artist. If a member of the general public tries to recreate a Michelangelo using Grok Imagine from scratch, he's not going to get anything near the same output. He'll get something. It'll be an accurate response to whatever prompt he gave it. But it won't be what he wanted to see." Great post by @belief_engineer and echos what I was saying about being a weak writer if AI can emulate your style. x.com/i/status/20430…

What a gift for our 250th

Okay, @EdLatimore, here's the longer version of my response from yesterday. Hopefully it makes sense. x.com/belief_enginee…

Pilates girls. Same focus and dedication of gym girls, nutrition and the like as well. Less tendency towards woo-woo culture that masks dysfunction in spiritual language. Plus, produces the same lean and athletic body that yoga does without the typical vegan emaciation you sometimes see in yoga circles.

@theoliveranwar Why not both

I prefer yoga girls over gym girls. The rationale is simple. Yoga girls: • Naturally beautiful • Feminine • Potential wife material Gym girls: • Caked in makeup • Attention seeking • Dressed inappropriately Stay safe out there, gentleman

@TheWalterMagic Stole it from Dead Poet's Society, so I can't give him points for originality. 10/10 on the nostalgia scale though.

I don’t agree with Cenk’s statement but “sweaty tooth madman” is a great deep cut.

@EdLatimore High praise, coming from you. Challenge accepted - I'll put something together and have my first article out tomorrow.

@belief_engineer This is a great answer, worthy of an essay. Rare do you see content that should be longer, rather than shorter.

Issue I see is that the people who are singing the praises of AI the most are the ones using it for tasks with a measurably correct answer. Nobody is using it for deep introspection that I've seen, and I haven't seen any models tuned for that. It's too hard of a problem to math your way through, and there's little to no commercial demand for it. The frontier companies won't throw money at it, so it'll be small teams working open source instead. You'll get 3-4 groups instead I think: 1. Normies who don't really use AI for anything other than glorified Google. These are the ones getting one-shotted by ChatGPT at the moment, but they'll get "good enough" guardrails soon. This is your hivemind crowd. 2. The Silicon Valley / bio hacking / optimizer crowd. These are the folks who see life as an engineering problem to solve. Any "inner work" will be focused on the typical "mindset" advice you see everywhere... Which never really forces deep introspection. 3. The Neo-Luddites who will try to avoid AI to the maximum extent possible. This will also include your crunchy granola hippie dippie spiritual types (but not the more grounded variants). They'll fall behind, of course, but they're already off in their own world anyways. 4. Deep thinker types. These are the ones who will be chasing AI with deep reasoning capabilities. Ones that actively interrogate and question assumptions (both AI and user,) use inductive and abductive reasoning as well as deduction, persistent memory and metacognition. You've got folks at @plasticlabs building such models already, and @BrianRoemmele has a "Deep Truth" system that's already being used by US Gov secret squirrel types. Group 4 will be the real winners - the question is how much they'll be able to influence the broader society, particularly when they'll be in opposition to the big AI players along the way.