gavin leech (Non-Reasoning)

THIS IS WILD! Peter Thiel’s company the “Enhanced Games” got valued at $1.2B before a single event. the first one is next month. here’s what the headlines aren’t telling you (share this): every athlete is monitored. every compound is clinically approved. every dose is tracked. two independent medical commissions oversee the whole thing. and if your bloodwork doesn’t pass, you don’t compete. the same investors behind the biggest peptide and longevity companies put $1.2B behind this. these aren’t sports guys… they’re taking a public bet that performance medicine becomes a real market. whether you’re into it or not, pay attention.

chess is hilarious because its like a bunch of gamers got together and convinced the world that *their* game is “intellectual” and totally different than other games and its not the same as like spending hours a day playing candy crush or something

if this is what low agency at 25 means, i am at negative levels of agency

>Be me, read Zhuangzi >Read about the chef skillful cutting though the joints of an ox to avoid the bones that would dull his knife >Go to Chinese deli, get chicken >They pull out an enormous cleaver and cube the whole thing like bones don't even exist What.

INCREDIBLE quote from the 1976 movie The Network

This is probably the topic where the people who are beauty-pilled about architecture have the strongest argument. Nobody is going to believe that quality of life is higher in West Virginia than Italy and the nature of the built environment is a key reason why.

“There's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred.” — David Foster Wallace

I'd assumed that the Claude and Mark Fisher thing was fully explained by Anthropic being a bunch of communists, but I've been told to try to be more open-minded about it.

apparently reached the point of shilling anthropic so hard now when claude does crazy impressive things my friends just text me about it