Marcel Samyn

AI is capturing the world and humanity it losing its grip on itself. We can’t surrender ourselves to our algorithms. We need to become keepers of laughter, of touch, of deep connection. Accelerate humanity as you accelerate technology.

@vicnaum @claudeai The model should be deciding this on its own.

I reverse-engineered @claudeai Code's binary to add a feature I always wanted: When context fills up - instead of nuking everything with /compact - I can now surgically strip tool calls/results and thinking blocks while keeping all actual messages intact.

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that whole “men need to open up more” sounds cute… until a man actually does, and suddenly he’s seen as weak, unattractive, or no longer worthy of respect

@jayy_7781 @MikeSonko yea - the serious note is: if one of the numbers is a lot easier to calculate, just swap them. if not you’re cooked either way

@marcelsamyn @MikeSonko So his trick only works with easy numbers then. What about 16% of 84 You can’t simply go swap them so it’s 84% of 16

That girl carrying the brains for the whole group

@jayy_7781 @MikeSonko you can’t calculate it it’s like zero divided by zero

@MikeSonko What’s 16% of 16 then

take care of your posture guys

@ansonyuu if much of our aesthetics come as a residue of solving problems, you can argue that the more we solve our world’s problems, the uglier it will become

a pattern i observe is that new (like REALLY NEW) aesthetics are usually residue of solving problems eg. the iconic inktrap fonts became popular bc ink would pool in corners when printing on rough paper

@mechanical_monk this is the high-trust strategy

my only dating take is that americans should stop exporting the concept of dating

@Martyupnorth Pretty cool that it doesn’t even have 100 on the scale—I assume that’s what happens when you sample uni students only? So the smartest girly studies are biological and humanities & arts, literature.

University degrees plotted on an IQ vs. male-female ratio. The degrees on the top left are mostly male dominated fields. I have a chemical engineering degree. The ones on the bottom right are female dominated. This is just data folks.

Using a mocap suit to kick yourself in the balls with a robot is a great metaphor to close out 2025.

I wasn’t dishing this out to you, I was explaining my general sense towards the group at large. I mean I don’t know you, maybe you’re super happy and a wonderful person and you never wear makeup, always have ugly clothes on, don’t work out or eat healthy etc. But from our interactions it does sound like you’re running on quite some anger, and it sounds like you don’t care about your appearance at all. So, so far that guess and feeling I had seem to be right. Yeah I do make intuitive assumptions (“judgements”). They’re usually quite right and I’m happy to tweak and correct if I observe that I was wrong. That happens often enough too. Don’t make getting paid a prerequisite for being nice to people though, nobody needs that. So far I haven’t seen anything that disproves my idea that people who care about their appearance, given they don’t do it out of anxiety or pressure, are generally happier. (Except “it should not be related”—well yeah sure but that doesn’t seem like that’s how people work to me)

@marcelsamyn Don’t dish out what you can’t take. If you were a client, I’d be getting paid. If you want people to assume you’re decent and reasonably happy, you probably shouldn’t be so miserable and judgmental. I’m beautiful without paint on my face. And if I wasn’t, it wouldn’t matter.

Oh come on dude don’t go implying that I’m not really living. Or that I live a sad life. You wouldn’t get good grades if you did that with a client hahaha I would ask you to consider that the people you’re talking to might be decent, reasonably happy and mostly good people. I wish for you all those things Sarah. But I also wish you radiate beauty. Not at the expense of hobbies or enjoyment of life, but as an addition and an enhancer. There it not a shadow of a doubt that it’s impossible to do that.

@marcelsamyn You think that satisfaction with your natural form is “angry” and “giving up on life.” That would be because YOUR life revolves around appearances. And that’s sad. My energy is much better spent seeking knowledge, enjoying hobbies, and trying new things. You know…really living.

we are overstimulated and we don’t even notice. netflix while eating. reels in the bathroom. music while cooking. podcasts on walks. we consume by default, not by intention. you keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. they give you space to think and create. that’s when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. leave some room

Man it just makes me a little sad to see that people would not care about how their look out of…I don’t know, some kind of anger it seems like? Feels like they just give up on life. These people are angry and bitter, it’s never the healthy happy ones who think like this. Of course that’s just a correlation but hey, we don’t know, there might be a correlation and there’s no downside to looking good. So might as well try. I just wish more people looked at it this way. I’m sure there would be at least some people who end up better off. And barely anyone would be worse off.

@marcelsamyn And I see it in yours. So which of my previous statements caused this emotion deflection?

@Amina_io There will always exist some male violence. This can only be countered with avoidance or violence. Thus, we need to teach men to use their strength for good, and teach women to avoid bad situations.

Something Western liberals seem clueless about is the basic reality of male violence. Most men will never rape or kill, but some will! No amount of “education” will drive that risk to zero. Teaching our daughters situational awareness and to keep their wits about them is not about shame. It is feminist harm reduction. Actual feminism used to talk openly about self‑defence, boundaries, and risk, but US liberal feminism in the 1990s–2010s got steadily repackaged into a corporate, “girlboss” Tumblr/CIA aesthetic that treats any discussion of danger as suspect instead of focusing on keeping women safe.

@IncelsCo People underestimate how surprisingly good we are at estimating how well we’d like someone from a split second of appearance.

Counterpoint: Your looks are your personality.

@fandomxgoddess I mean that I see the emotion in your reaction

@marcelsamyn Please feel free to share which previous remarks made you emotional after your illogical nagging about what people should do with their bodies.

@fandomxgoddess Well I don’t think that’s evidenced by your previous remarks. But it’s okay, I know those were emotional reactions.

@marcelsamyn Your original comment was about respecting life. Then it was about finding a match. Then it was morality. Then it was easing depression. I actually don’t make blanket statements about the way people should live without empirical evidence❤️ Dictation ≠ preference

@fandomxgoddess Ah yes I see. Well I guess it worked when I intentionally wrote that to trigger. In that sentence I don’t see “should” as hard as dictating how to live though. I’m not a native English speaker but I don’t think we use the word “should” always extremely prescriptively.

@marcelsamyn Nope. You dictated, that is the given hypothesis, and you “not minding” having nothing to back up your dictation means little about anyone but you

@fandomxgoddess that is strawmanning sarah - i never dictated a way to live - saying my hypothesis is “when you see people in makeup you’re more generous” is also a bit of an exaggeration i don’t mind having no double-blind study to back it up. that was just for your pleasure.

@marcelsamyn What’s wrong is your dictation of how everyone should live. Also, the onus isn’t on me to prove a negative. It’s on you to prove your nutty hypothesis that witnessing people in makeup will cause individuals to go about their days more generously. Good luck finding a control group

can you help me understand my argument “switches” and goalpost changes? i genuinely don’t see them. i don’t really mind having proof. you just won’t have proof for many things, and when that happens you just do your best with inferring from whatever you’ve got. which is what i do. what was my original argument? i think it was just me stating my preference for people who care a little about their appearance (but not too much) and that it’s not necessarily done to “perform.”

@marcelsamyn My point is that you keep switching arguments and moving goalposts. “It becomes more difficult to measure” just means you have no proof lmaoooo. There’s a huge difference between cleanliness and face paint. And how does that tie into your original argument, or the new one?