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@betterth1nking

Thinking out loud - with you. My mind is a neuron in the brain of the collective human organism.

Washington, USA Katılım Aralık 2024
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@parmita Hospitals have been doing sepsis alerts for many years now even before Covid . High false positive rate since it’s basically triggered by SIRS criteria which many non infectious things can trigger. It’s ok as a screening tool. Physician always needs to verify.
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@ThuleanFuturist @Yuchenj_UW By definition every species is different from every other species on earth, otherwise if wouldn’t be a species
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Kristof@CoastalFuturist·
@Yuchenj_UW Humans are fundamentally different than every single other species on earth, why wouldn’t we be different than computers There isn’t a single other species that has anything close to human consciousness
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Yuchen Jin
Yuchen Jin@Yuchenj_UW·
Ilya Sutskever, in his speech at UToronto 2 days ago: "The day will come when AI will do all the things we can do." "The reason is the brain is a biological computer, so why can't the digital computer do the same things?" It's funny that we are debating if AI can "truly think" or give "the illusion of thinking", as if our biological brain is superior or fundamentally different from a digital brain.
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@paulg @Waymo @ToyotaMotorCorp If people understand the meaning, does it really matter if it’s “correct”? I’ve learned through experience the answer is no. Spoken English is full of “incorrect” use of words
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Waymo
Waymo@Waymo·
We’re pleased to announce that together with @ToyotaMotorCorp, we're exploring a new autonomous vehicle platform and how to leverage our technology for their personally owned vehicles. More here: waymo.com/blog/2025/04/w…
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Elon Musk
Elon Musk@elonmusk·
@CynicalPublius Reasoning from first principles is needed. Grok 3.5 addresses much of this issue.
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Cynical Publius
Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
I argue a lot with Grok. The argument always goes the same way: 1. I ask Grok a question on some politically-charged issue. 2. Grok answers convincingly and without hesitation or ambivalence, citing mainstream media news sources and politically-compromised scientific "studies" as the totally-correct bases for its answer. 3. I disagree, and then challenge Grok, questioning why it assumes its sources are accurate. 4. Grok walks it back slightly, and I challenge it again on the same grounds. 5. After about 5 rounds of this, Grok admits I'm right. AI will be useless until it learns to critically appraise the validity of what it uses as sources.
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@Chris_arnade @asymmetricinfo Optimize for gross domestic happiness . We know enough from happiness research that the diminishing returns from increased income is pretty rapid
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Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade·
come on, it's not just beautiful buildings. It's a lack of disorder, chaos, and a generally shared common good that means there are ubiquitous functional public spaces that don't reek of urine, crime, and/or have mentally unstable people threatening to do mentally unstable things. That and a focus on living over working -- which yes, hurts GDP, but having a lot of stuff isn't everything
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Megan McArdle
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·
America is in fact significantly richer than Europe, but America is rich in a bunch of less visible stuff. Our houses are bigger, with more furniture, electronics, air conditioning, etc. Our universities do more research and are more comfortable with lots of ancillary amenities like gyms and dorms, and advising services European schools don’t bother with. Our healthcare system has all the latest equipment and subsidizes the R&D that European systems tap. None of that is visible to a tourist. But it improves life in many ways (including life in European countries that get to have smaller militaries and more advanced healthcare than they’d get if America disappeared) What we don’t have is a lot of beautiful buildings that were built 150 years ago.
Porkchop Express@Porkchop_EXP

This pathetic GDP comparison just wouldn’t die. “some of our poorest states...are nicer places to live than Germany, France, or the UK” - only a retard who’s never lived outside of the US can write something to idiotic. This doesn’t reflect the distribution of wealth, median and wealth inequality. Mississippi might have higher aggregate GDP per capita than France but this economic wealth is highly unequally distributed. Also when you count in the quality of public goods, services and general social welfare it’s quite a ridiculous comparison. You have to be totally ignorant to imply a middle class Mississippian has a more rich life than a normie middle class French.

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Ali@betterth1nking·
@sama @nosilverv I think this is one thing Grok does better. The modes and the standard option.
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Sam Altman@sama·
@nosilverv yeah eventually we clearly need to be able to offer multiple options
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Sam Altman
Sam Altman@sama·
the last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some very good parts of it), and we are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week. at some point will share our learnings from this, it's been interesting.
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@elonmusk @neuralink Have to give credit where credit is due. This is something good you are doing where there is unanimous support . It’s unequivocal that this helps. This is the stuff we like to see. Less DOGE and more stuff like this.
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@Rainmaker1973 There are so many errors in this chart in terms of normal ranges , you should take this down .
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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
Things everyone should know
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@packyM Consciousness could be like the property of mass. The Higgs field is everywhere, but only certain particles interact with it in a way to “gain” the property of mass.
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@paulg Our reality is what we pay attention to . Given attentional bandwidth limitations, none of us are living in the same reality in a sense .
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham@paulg·
Man, doing office hours with startups gives you a completely different view of the world from reading the news. The news is all disaster and decline, but more startups are doing more cool new things than ever before. Which is reality? Both are; that's the weird thing.
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@parmita Do we have any other mechanism for evaluating drug efficacy and safety before testing on humans ? Not yet. In the future we might be able to simulate a drug-human interaction “in silico” on a computer - not there yet.
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Parmita Mishra
Parmita Mishra@parmita·
They’ll see what we did to mice in the lab a century later and call biologists the most brutal scientists of all. This sucks but it’s simply reality. Do you think about how “brutal” we call our previous medical practices?! Won’t be very different.
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@TigayBarry @TreyYingst When you zoom in closer you realize terrorist is not a legal term, simply a label put on whoever the state wants to kill. ie. Nelson Mandela was a “terrorist” according to the U.S. until 2008.
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Barry Tigay
Barry Tigay@TigayBarry·
@TreyYingst If a person commits acts of terrorism, they are a legitimate target. If they are a journalist, American, doctor or have any other role or identify, it doesn’t change the equation. Terrorist = Target.
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Trey Yingst
Trey Yingst@TreyYingst·
An American citizen was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers overnight in the West Bank. The video below was released by the IDF showing the 14-year-old with two other people. The statement provided says they were throwing stones “toward a highway.”
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Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab·
One the hallmarks of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is that in contrast to most anxiety-related thought-behavior patterns, in OCD the compulsive behavior serves to strengthen, as opposed to relieve, the obsession that drove it. #OCD
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@emollick @danielsimonjr So all those people who liked sharing their ideas online just… aren’t anymore?
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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick@emollick·
I think the only academic community largely left on X is ML/AI, right? Even Econ Twitter seems to have mostly gone. BlueSky captured a bit, but most seem to leave public social media. Fewer papers & deep discussions now. (If you think this is a good thing, it definitely isn’t)
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@DrShayanSen We’re neglecting the most important input- his genes. Just like how much someone weighs. Diet has something to do with it. But not everything. Some ppl can eat shit and maintain a good weight others can eat perfectly and still stay overweight
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Shayan Sen
Shayan Sen@DrShayanSen·
Grandpa Chuando Tan is 59. And somehow looks 29. Here's his simple routine that does NOT include fancy biohacking gadgets or taking 100 supplements daily:
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@Andercot If this were true, the religious majority of the present (and past) would have been able to “manifest” all their delusional beliefs. Didn’t happen.
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Andrew Côté
Andrew Côté@Andercot·
The universe is a maximally parsimonious story engine: physics is rendered only when observed, and plotlines are generated by the characters themselves.
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Science girl@sciencegirl·
What is the most overrated food you're convinced people are just pretending to enjoy?
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@FranciscoKemeny @paulg Your post seems like you’re reacting to something you’re perceiving in Paul that isn’t present.
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Francisco Kemeny
Francisco Kemeny@FranciscoKemeny·
@paulg Judaisms TL;RD: “Tikkun Olam”. Which means… doing your part to make the world better through helping others, protecting the environment, standing up for what’s right, or creating something that solves a problem.
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@Aella_Girl I think neither , maybe high testosterone low status men prefer it. High T men aren’t by definition high status, just more predisposed to status seeking behavior. And if they don’t get that status they might resort to rape … all speculation at this point and no way to verify
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Aella
Aella@Aella_Girl·
would you predict ancestrally that men aroused by rape are more: A) higher status, because both are downstream of general testosterone/dominance/aggression B) lower status, because if you're low status it's harder to find a woman to mate with you consensually
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Ali@betterth1nking·
@enggirlfriend 12 hour shifts are normal. 20 hours are not. That’s probably why he’s getting paid that much bc it’s higher than average pay which is usually 400-500k.
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Engineer Girlfriend
Engineer Girlfriend@enggirlfriend·
just learned that a “new grad” (just finished school/everything) anesthesiologist in california makes $750k/year he’s gonna work 3 days a week but the 3 days are 12-12-20 hour shifts 🤯 thoughts???
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