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@PaulSkallas The morning has sunlight and the eyes of people that care. You don't easily break the peace and get away with it.

@PaulSkallas Fortunately he did and he backed off the bicycle. It felt like he was ready to flatten the bicycle guy, but being recorded snapped him out of it. What was so jarring to me was that it happened so early and in such a famous place.

Today on the Lindy Newsletter Are you looking for a high trust society? Are you looking for low crime rates? Are you looking for happy, healthy people who smile and wave to you? There's no need to move abroad. Just become a morning person lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/world-8

@Sayan91 @Dipper_pol Having followed Taleb on twitter over some years, I get the impression he'd not agree to talk to Fridman as a guest.

I tried the questions that Taleb is talking about in the video on both ChatGPT and Claude. Have attached the screenshots of the same. First of all why are you saying Taleb is talking to Lex Fridman? Secondly how old is this video? There should be some accountability in posting such stuff.

While a $170B hedge fund just put AI-researched signals into production, Nassim Taleb has spent 30 years warning this exact moment is coming he made $35M shorting Black Monday 1987 and built a career proving AI and ML break when markets break watch him sit down with Lex Fridman for 10 min on antifragility, risk and why every quant model fails at tail events this is what comes when the math meets reality

@gfodor Naming in the literal sense of picking names for variables is dull. More interesting is the foundational sense. ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/p…

It keeps hitting me how dumb and meaningless so much of "programming" was, now that AI has pushed the tide out and you can see the essential problems laid bare. Naming variables is not one of them.

@uncledoomer The progression: human car ownership, human self driving car ownership, self driving car pooling, self driving minivans, self driving buses, self driving trolly cars, trains. Welcome to the future (and past).

thats a great idea. you could even build special roads for them out of metal, connecting major cities

@GamingAndPandas So the humor in each of these movies isn’t so much about how much it sucks to be employee or boss, or how we need to liberate ourselves from an oppressive system. I take it as an observation on how human nature can turn even favorable situations into misery.

@GamingAndPandas Mike Judge wrote Office Space and a more recent movie called Extract, in which the protagonist was the boss of a small chemical plant. Judge commented on how he found the humor in both sides by being employee and employer at various points in his life.

"AAAAAAAAAH GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT WITH A STABLE INCOME I'M LITERALLY IN HELL SAVE ME KURT COBAIN'S GHOST AAAAAAAH!" Why was Gen X like this?

@MikeBales All your proposal would achieve is to make matters slightly worse. Members of congress work for special interests *because* the potential good ones were weeded out early in the process. Better: increase compensation but punish corruption severely.

Congress should be forced to retire at 70. Salaries should be $60K, the average American salary. They should pay a minimum of $300/month for healthcare with a $1,000 deductible, like we do. To represent us, they should live like us.

@ProudSocialist Did you know we already have anti gravity devices in our homes? 🪑

This is Amy Eskridge. She is one of the 11 scientists who has died/disappeared recently that’s linked to high government research and secrets. Amy researched anti-gravity and in this clip reveals anti-gravity was already discovered 4 times, but each time the government suppressed it. She then reveals she was close to discovering it, but was threatened that she would be killed if she published it. She was found dead shortly after this 2022 interview. It was ruled a “suicide” but no investigation details were made public and British intelligence officer Franc Milburn testified before Congress in 2023 that her death was not a suicide. She also said this a few months before her death: “If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not.” What is going on? Is our own government murdering scientists whose research and discoveries (i.e. free energy) threaten the profits of corporations and billionaires?

@PaulSkallas Meanwhile I’m sitting in a coffee shop listening to Notorious B.I.G.

In case you haven't noticed more old movies are being played in theaters.

@PaulSkallas @Eric_Erins “All of America looks like the back” youtu.be/IwkxULscr-4?si…

@Eric_Erins Alleys could be nice places to walk if they cleaned them up

Something about the alleys

@DCinvestor Yes, but have you considered reassigning the blame to nightclub comedians and podcasters? 😂

sorry, but its absolutely never a wrong time to bring up the fact that if Biden had stepped down a year earlier, had let a Democratic primary happen, and the party had run a real candidate then we very likely would not be in this mess

@unusual_whales I'm sure the remaining 41% are either rushing to enlist or pressuring their relatives to enlist.

59% of Americans believe U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, per AP

@stonedelta1966 @CryptoZachLA @FrontierArt1 A real Trump supporter would be enlisting already, no?

@CryptoZachLA @FrontierArt1 You were never a Trump supporter, asshat.

Alright i'll say it. I fucked up voting for/believing in Trump. The Democrats were right. (he still has another 2-3years but it aint looking good bruv)

@sean_a_mcclure Somewhat related to this point: lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/4hour-life

The industrial era forced humans into a deterministic analytic role. This produced the mindset: analyze → derive → construct. But natural systems are not solvable analytically. They are search problems. This includes economies, biology, software ecosystems and scientific discovery. AI allows humanity to shift from deterministic construction to rapid guided exploration of solution space. This is what 99.9% of your brain is wired to do. Exploration, discovery in non-analytic systems, restoring the original cognitive mode. Devolving humanity, by placing analytical thinking on a pedestal in an age of AI, will dramatically decrease humanity’s experimental throughput and retard progress. All for a dumb definition of "smart" that worked during the industrial revolution. The low-level analytical thinkers loved their privileged position. But it was always a contrived, (genuinely artificial) version of intelligence. It rewarded a kind of myopic dumbness that was truly bad at making discoveries. These people would never has survived the jungle. And we're about to bring back the jungle. May the new kings rise.

@sharghzadeh His video thumbnails are reminiscent of a 1980s shopping mall family photo.

It's so obvious this guy was astroturfed.

@JamesSurowiecki One thing fools don’t consider is what happens when their political opponents get to the new political weapons.

Rittenhouse and Penny are not in prison because they got due process.