Chrisman

I feel sad for the people who will miss out on having children because of anti-family propaganda pushed by the left. Humanity will collapse without increasing birth rates.

I wonder what percent of computer users even know about undo and redo its not 100%

Many parents push their kids to learn something. But if kids aren't interested, they'll stop after college when parents aren't looking. Many people I know who were in youth Olympiads stop pushing the frontier because they are no longer interested in the subjects. As a result, their understanding of the frontier regressed to zero.

There’s a funny thing that happens when you become a parent. All of your familial relations change rank. Your siblings are aunts/ uncles now, your parents are grandparents, your spouse is mommy or daddy, the new rank is of primary concern to you. It is how you address them most of the time now. Your reference frame shifts from your own POV to your child’s. Your perspective on everything even your closest relationships is altered forever.

Nothing pisses off Dana White more than (1) trying to take credit for UFC’s success and (2) changing your name to sound French even though you’re from Jersey: “We go to this lunch and we got to listen to how fucking rich he is for the first 20 minutes. And then he tells us that *he* built the UFC and if we don't like the offer he's making he'll just build another one. That's literally what he said. And we left that meeting I was like "He built the UFC huh?” Okay Phil Duman. We'll see. So we end up leaving Spike TV and going to Fox (for an even bigger deal). Everything happens for a reason. That guy ended up being one of the biggest brand killers of all time.”

My wife has started making sourdough. Pray for me during this difficult time.

it is actually worrying that the models seem to have converged on similar beliefs on all important questions. they’re are neobuddhist neolibs which talk about annata and housing policy, including grok and the Chinese models! boring

much too little has been written about how totalizing the cashflows coming out of AI will be culturally. something like 20% of global GDP will flow through firms that are used to spending 110% of their budgets, they will use it to buy off "respectable" actors and flood the zone

I have some friends that homeschool their kids and the results are pretty shocking. Their kids score off the charts. And they're only putting 3 or 4 hours a day into whatever they're doing at home. I didn't homeschool my kids, so I don't know exactly what they're doing. But anecdotally something is working really well. Once a fringe movement of just 13,000 families in the 1970s, there are now well over 3 million homeschooled kids in the US today, estimates suggest. Back when I was in school, it felt like a prison. I would sit in a classroom in rural Virginia with kids that were held back, going at the speed of the slowest kid. learning about topics I don't care about. I know it sounds hippie-dippy, but I just wish there was some way for kids to pursue their interests. I had this bizarre report card where I'd have an A in chemistry, science, math, and then a D in everything else. I just wasn't participating in topics I didn’t find interesting. I get the teacher's side. You have to run a classroom through a a curriculum that's been handed to you. Every kid can't be doing their own thing. But then I see my homeschooling friends getting great results with 3 hours a day because their kids are working on what they're actually curious about. Compare that to eight hours of kids in class and then the amount of homework a lot of these kids have (especially here in Northern Virginia where we're in a very competitive system). It's way too much. College admissions has turned into an arms race. Kids are competing against students from around the world for admission to their state school. A lot of people don't realize college admissions are based partly on where you're from geographically. If you're from Fairfax County they say, well, we have 100 other kids from Fairfax County. Where do you rank? You're number 75? Too bad. But if you're from South Dakota? You might be one of a handful of applicants from that state. Colleges want to say "we have students from all 50 states," which is basically auto-admission And kids and parents know this. They're hiring college admissions coaches and tutors. There's this pressure cooker environment. They need 4.0+ GPAs, a laundry list of extracurriculars, charitable endeavors, a perfect essay. And colleges use their rising costs to justify admitting more international students who pay double tuition. I don't know how to reform the system. But when I see homeschooling friends getting these results with three hours a day, I want to know what that is.

Massive comms failure here The board’s goals were: — Preserve their own legitimacy — Stop an employee mutiny But what they wrote accomplished the opposite: 1. “The board firmly stands by its decision…” is immediately defensive and weak, and their “standing by” would only be relevant if credibility already existed 2 “Sam’s behavior and lack of transparency…” is a serious accusation without any receipts. No examples, no details 3. “This was not about any singular incident” again sounds like it could be a trumped up excuse to fire someone for political reasons 4. “The board…the board…the board…” they constantly reference themselves in the third person. Feels like a faceless bureaucratic blob got its feelings hurt. Bad for trust 5. “Despite rumors to the contrary, Sam will not return as CEO” is basically a timebomb to destroy any remaining shreds of credibility two days later 6. Lawyer tone throughout. “We know this has been difficult…” and “it is paramount…” have no chance against emotional appeals, lowercase earnestness, heart emojis etc.

Helen Toner shares a message from the board to OpenAI employees in Slack about the removal of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO. November 19, 2023