@TheRealVerai @MrBeast brother if you press red you definitely can die if more people press blue
English
bradp
834 posts
Everyone on earth takes a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press? BE HONEST.
English
@Michaelsoft723 @AndrewYang i like zohran mamdani and even i know wealth taxes at the state level are retarded, they lose more money than they make because billionaires flee the state
at a national level it’s a bit better but basically similar concern and pushes investment out to foreign countries
English
@AndrewYang Well I guess that's why Zohran is Mayor and you came in 4th in the primary.
English
I don’t think wealth taxes are a good idea in practice, and they’re definitely dumb at the state level.
English
@gremin43537 @TrueSlazac this tweet unironically took just as much water as your standard LLM query
English
@TrueSlazac because it personally does not effect you, you do not care. Funny, you people are all single mindedly selfish
English
bradp retweetledi
The main reason anti-AI people online annoy me isn't because of misplaced morals, it's the delusion
How can you think a tool used by over half of businesses that is very obviously a productivity boost could be a bubble that will disappear in a few years?
English
@dmesg @TrueSlazac the only reason you would increase output is if there’s untapped demand or an increase in demand, if you can make X products with 1/2 the input cost that’s still a productivity boost and it doesn’t automatically mean demand would 2x. alsobmodels are new and have just become good
English
@TrueSlazac Mostly because none of the firms using it have been able to increase their output by using it.
English
@LoisWeiss he also owns more valuable property than the blocks and blocks of homes in the boroughs, and by owning those homes prevents people who actually live in New York from owning them, paying that same tax, AND paying income tax AND contributing to the local economy
English
And for those curious, Ken Griffen already paid $836,525 this fiscal year in property taxes for his four floors at 230 CPS. That amount will rise to at least $858,332 in July 2026, based on the same tax rate (which of course, will go up).
He pays more property taxes for that apartment and uses fewer services than blocks and blocks of homes in the boroughs.
Meanwhile the entire 18-unit co-op building at 740 Park paid $4,737,330 this year and is on track to pay at least $5,309,792 starting July 1, 2026.
New York Post@nypost
Ken Griffin splashes out $38M for his neighbor's home at NYC's most exclusive co-op trib.al/60xXqGa
English
@internpierre @_timothyjm @SaraEisen @NYCMayor no the americans revolted over taxation without representation and the oppressive economics of british colonialism, not taxation in general. they implemented very similar taxes shortly after the american revolution and it was great because the people voted for it. same here.
English
@bradp333 @_timothyjm @SaraEisen @NYCMayor Kind of interesting how Americans literally revolted over the British levying a ~25% tax on tea and just 250 ish years later you guys are advocating for taxing the nuts out of people at all income levels. Doesn’t impact me but certainly interesting seeing it from far away
English
Ken Griffin employs thousands of people in NYC and is planning to build the tallest office tower on Park Ave., investing billions more and creating thousands more jobs. (For that reason, he’s also here in NYC a lot, @NYCMayor)
Meantime Miami is welcoming him and his firm, with the massive jobs, investment and tax revenue he’s bringing.
Making him feel unwelcome and demonizing him seems risky. Ken left Chicago and moved Citadel hq to Miami a few years ago because of bad policy. (He also sold his penthouse there)
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
English
@etoeth @ry_mccabe @AlexGodofsky MAD has probably prevented decades of war between major world power, definitely trillions of dollars saved even considering ongoing nuclear program costs as a part of the Manhattan project
English
@ry_mccabe @AlexGodofsky how so? we used our nukes 2x and have only spent the last 60 years shrinking our warheads and depleting our obsolete stockpiles, not to mention the world has spent $20b sustaining the IAEA alone, meanwhile all our best physicists have to show for now is the string theory and www
English
Gosh what an incredible waste of money the ISS has been.
Fin Moorhouse@finmoorhouse
The hyperscalers have already outspent the most famous US megaprojects
English
@mattforney if you think income taxes are only supposed to target billionaires ur retarded. if you think taxes are bad now, if there were no income taxes your tax burden would swell to 5-10x what it currently is, because the taxes would be replaced w/ regressive ones like prop or sales tax
English
Because I make less than $100,000 a year yet the same laws people like you claim target only "billionaires" somehow require me to give a third of my income to the IRS
Paddy@SAFCPaddy
I will never understand why working class people fight tooth and nail to defend billionaires
English
@Hesamation what you’re not understanding is it doesn’t matter. if something is conscious or something simulates consciousness so well you can’t tell anyway, does it really matter? the impacts broadly are still the same. only time it matters is if you start prescribing normative ethics on it
English
“Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight.”
ℏεsam@Hesamation
Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years. "Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight."
English
@AnitaRBoyd @internpierre @_timothyjm @SaraEisen @NYCMayor and Griffith is a parasite scum parking his wealth in NYC real estate absorbing land value appreciation without contributing to the growth or paying any NYC income taxes. sometimes you have to get a little creepy to remove a parasite
English
@internpierre @_timothyjm @SaraEisen @NYCMayor You're not wrong. It's creepy. He's a creepy communist
English
@internpierre @_timothyjm @SaraEisen @NYCMayor absolutely is American when this person’s penthouse is a symbol of how the global rich use NYC as a piggy bank and dont live there to avoid NYC taxation that everyone else in NYC fairly pays, exploiting the city like a parasite sucking away land value they hardly contributed to
English
@_timothyjm @SaraEisen @NYCMayor I’m fine, maybe I’m wrong but it seems kind of unAmerican for an official to act like this but what do I know I’m just a European unpaid intern that lives in Monaco 🤷🏻♂️
English
@PippengerHarlo no one is saying shift everything to AVs, AVs will replace personal cars. public transit still exists
English
feel like the Waymo safety discussion is ignoring how unsustainable/impossible it would be to shift a significant fraction of transportation to autonomous vehicles. It’s pretty cost prohibitive now but if it’s ever not, it will just choke cities in traffic
English
@TeamThead @BasilTheGreat @MelissaRNMBA do you think protestors will just sit there and get shot? shoot these guys, next time the protestors are coming with bombs, guns, and holding a hostage situation in the museum. eliminate avenues for peaceful protest and you get far more violent and chaotic resistance
English
@BasilTheGreat @MelissaRNMBA This "new way" would eliminate most of our crime if it were strongly implemented throughout the system.
English
They've just invented a new way to stop environmental activists throwing paint over artwork
English
@muscleforlife yea but they can’t eat the same amount of food without ozempic. it’s obviously physically possible, but failure rate of voluntary calorie reduction strategy is over 90% in obese people because of mental reasons. it’s like depression, you need meds, can’t just will yourself happy
English
Tip:
Don’t tell people on Ozempic that if they ate the same amount of food without the Ozempic, they'd lose the same amount of weight.
They get very angry.
English
YouTube asking “does this feel like AI slop” is not them protecting you.
It’s them using you to train their next AI to make slop so good you’ll never be able to tell the difference.
And they got you to do it for free…
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: YouTube now has a popup asking "does this feel like AI slop?" to help combat low quality AI-generated videos.
English
@redxhaired @fairfxlife @DiaTSLAPLTR @KobeissiLetter the NATO states didn’t do that because Ukraine was not a NATO state (they will be when this war ends). The whole reason Russia invaded is because they didnt want a NATO state (Ukraine) on their border, and Ukraine was about to join NATO
English
BREAKING: President Trump says the US has been information by "most of our NATO allies" that they "don't want to get involved" in the war with Iran.
English
@Thelord9097 @ChiefTeef8 an ethno-nationalist ideology for the creation and preservation of a jewish state in the land of israel
very similar to other settler colonial ideologies that led to the ethnic cleansing in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand
English
@bradp333 @ChiefTeef8 Hey quick question what do you think is the definition of Zionism?
English
Once again, this would be considered comically racist to ask a russian, chinese, Iranian, etc person about their (significantly worse) countries but when it comes to jews its just praxis
levy@1929stockcrash
normal reaction to seeing a jewish person on a dating app I guess (friend told me i can share)
English