@robertskmiles @jachiam0 Does ra? I don’t fully remember if when the twist happens it’s inside physics. If you haven’t finished it this may confuse you
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If you want an enormous amount of alpha for navigating the next few years, go read Fine Structure and Ra by qntm. These two books are the roadmap.
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@GiveMeADouble @janecoaston There have been multiple player fights that have derailed the game yes
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@janecoaston Has The Game ever been put on hiatus because of on field violence?
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@greegle_mudzone @qualiascript A lot of the value of Claude is “guy who knows python + your domain” in regular office/ engineering work. This could have hypothetically been automated before but unless there was a person who could code very well randomly at a lawyers office or whatever no one bothered
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@qualiascript my initially unintended point is that maybe a lot of professional work is monotonous ritual that is either unproductive and superfluous or could have been automated before
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didn't realize people actually think 90% of new code is AI generated. as like, a true fact about reality. in July 2026.
anyway, there is ERP, banking, utilities, devops, embedded systems, bioinformatics, databases, dev tools, drivers, kernels, compilers, package managers,
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@RupertMyers God I want to see the tax embezzlement hyper-marathoners, your ceo has to be able to finish badwater 135 or you’re ngmi
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1% off your income tax for every 5,000 steps you do a day, on average, over the course of the year
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: The NHS will reward people who walk for 30 minutes a day with discounts and vouchers from next year
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@keewa I read this as red card= 15x multiplier so I was imagining you demolish a team 4-0 and then you get a red card and they bury a kick to make it 45-4
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@OVTweetmarck Just very different things, in gambling there is a “house” who sets the lines. Prediction markets are exactly as stated, “markets” people put bid and ask orders in for shares of a particular outcome
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I absolutely detest how “prediction markets” describe their whole thing as “trading.” You’re a casino and it’s gambling.
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@tchukkelz @Ancapta Not quite, there’s a difference between “common knowledge” and both of you knowing something. She knows and he knows. But he doesn’t know that she knows that he knows (or vice versa / with that reflecting infinitely). Saying something outloud means everyone knows and everyone
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my mom told me i shld come out to my homophobic stepdad bc i act so gay that he surely knows already so i LEGITIMATELY had to explain to her the riddle of 100 blue eyed people on an island
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@lior_eth 1) this is a really bad example strongman is notoriously non tested , basically their entire sport is the enhanced games schtick, everyone in strongman was juicing ofc but no not everyone in most Olympic sports were juicing (some were but still had to avoid detection)
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What the Enhanced Games have shown in real time:
1) everyone is already enhanced. Thor couldn’t even improve his deadlift by >1%. Either steroids are useless or he was already juiced to the gills.
2) enhancement without star athletes is kind of sad? “This 44 year old swimmer almost beat his personal best from 10 years ago!” is not a great look lol.
3) people are drawn to sports, particularly when the idea of performance & enhancement is not taboo.
For the first event, I think it’s going well. Will be cool to see this thing grow.
Enhanced Games@enhanced_games
Watch the Enhanced Games LIVE: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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@wil_da_beast630 I feel like you haven’t been watching if you think this, the mix has mostly been ~3/4 guys past their prime trying to get after it and ~1/4 guys who were anywhere from 2-5 th in their event trying to put the final push to get a record (and so far not succeeding).
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This is because no top 2% athlete would openly compete in the "enhanced games." I would not have as a high school varsity man, trying for maaaybe D2.
This is their Achilles' heel and we all know it.
FearBuck@FearedBuck
A non-enhanced athlete, Hunter Armstrong, won 1st place in the Men’s 50m Backstroke at the Enhanced Games while competing against athletes using testosterone, steroids, and other PEDs.
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@mattyryze True but it also seems a few athletes have had a chance and blew it, some of the weightlifters seemed close on their attempts and the 100 free was crazy close
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performance enhancement works but my first impression is that the Enhanced Games athletes mostly just aren’t top tier enough
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@chrismwojcik People in these replies genuinely defending shrimping lines
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The best part about the ecological approach in Jiu-Jitsu is that for the first time people are having serious conversations about how to actually coach and improve at Jiu-Jitsu.
People get hung up on “drilling vs live” but forget that a lot of people still think shrimping lines are practical lol
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@MikeBrave_Maker @pfau If Gen Z is smartphones Gen Alpha is short form video
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@pfau in my mind I just group people by what the dominant technology of their time was while in highschool/college. Boomers are TV, GenX is computers, Millenials is Internet, GenZ is smartphones, and when thought of like that the categories make more sense
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Generations are mostly a fake concept, except when a historic event like WWII actually creates a stark dividing line in lived experience based on age. COVID was one of those events, and yet we're not allowed to change where the line is because of some Salon thinkpiece in 2016.
coffee@eventualforever
there’s a much harder and clearer difference between older zoomers and younger zoomers than there is between younger zoomers and all of gen alpha
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@lispeaks_ I had no idea people didn’t understand this is what I mean when I say I like things that are “high concept”, people thought it meant “high brow”? Or something like that?
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@atlanticesque Is this not what everyone thought we were saying when we said “high concept”. A fun consequence is many Mr beast videos are accurately described as “high concept”.
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@doctorbattle The thing that bothered me was there seemed to be no concept of someone being mistaken. So anything the main character said was assumed to be true (not just not a lie but like a fact of the universe)
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This movies premise would have been more interesting if most of the representation of not being able to lie wasn't just blurting out every thought you have.
𝕯𝖆𝛎𝖎𝐝🧘🏾♂️@DavidPattt
Imagine living in a world where you can't tell lies
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@IsaacKing314 @DaystarEld Leftists being incorrect about economics is like the defining feature of them being leftists
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Isaac King 🔎@IsaacKing314
@SOPHONTSIMP @RikoSuminoe69 I agree that if aligned AGI is invented that could be bad if it's controlled by someone with no altruistic tendencies, but the solution to that would be to ensure that the benefits go to the populace by e.g. nationalizing AI labs. Not to run on "wage slavery is good actually".
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It's so weird to me that the modern left is now just "yes I want us all to remain slaves to capitalism forever".
Sen. Bernie Sanders@SenSanders
70% think AI will lead to fewer jobs. They are right. We can’t allow a handful of billionaires, eager to increase their wealth and power, to rush forward with a technology that will fundamentally transform humanity without democratic input or accountability.
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@IsaacKing314 @DaystarEld Yes I agree leftists are wrong about things that’s what makes me not a leftist. RE your point about them opposing labor efficiency improvements. They do not believe the empirical facts that when automation removes jobs the economy (generally) creates them elsewhere
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@IsaacKing314 @DaystarEld This is bad modeling, I disagree of course but a leftist would say something like “ai will concentrate power in the hands of the few greedy billionaires/capitalists/corporations who, because they don’t care about us/ actively despise us, will be happy to let us starve”
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@DaystarEld They would not describe their intent this way, but it is pretty straightforwardly what they seem to be aiming for.
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