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Matt Post

@mjpost

Machine translation research for big tech and big academia and director of the @aclanthology. Tweets here are mostly personal.

Baltimore, MD Katılım Mayıs 2010
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@yoavgo I think people are very sensitive to pay cuts. Another factor is that each employee costs the employer way more than salary, so it would be more like (lay off x%) vs (cut salaries by λx%), where λ=1.75 or 2.
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why are companies laying off X% of their workforce instead of reducing salaries to everyone by X%? the savings could be much higher
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@yuvalpi @mayhewsw I do fear at this point the hype has been building too long. We should have been slowly lowering expectations after the initial purchase.
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I'm trying to imagine the confidence that is required---the disdain for convention; the piercing insight into human need, desire, and taste; the technical mastery; the sheer hubris, even---to be a candy company exec ca. 2019, munching through the morning's first box of Nerds, thinking, "I could make this better", and then actually pulling it off with Nerds Gummy Clusters.
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@yuvalpi @mayhewsw @mayhewsw Two days have passed with no positive, much less raving review; I fear that our recommendations may have fallen on rocky soil.
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We don't talk enough about AI's ability to create groups of unsympathetic victims larger than anybody's wildest imagination
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital

I can’t stop thinking about this post. If you do one thing today, I encourage you to give it a thoughtful, thorough read… And then commit to never living your life this way. Life has wasted success on the people described in this post. It really is completely pathetic. They say that comparison is the thief of joy - look no further than this post for validation it is indeed true. On their deathbed they will realize they have lived their life completely wrong. Don’t let it be you.

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@dilanesper Suffice it to say that after this interaction, my prior on Amanda Knox being innocent went up substantially.
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@dilanesper It seems you were set off by (1), but it's analogous to your claims that the pro-monogamy crowd is motivated by repressive views, rather than a hard compromise that intends to put some reins on a powerful drive that they themselves experience.
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Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
There is so much wrong here: 1. Don't insert your own suppositions about what other people believe. 2. Don't make assertions without evidence. 3. Sex isn't "creepy". 4. Don't criticize what you can't understand, as Dylan said.
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@dilanesper Yes, middle age men wish there were more women with Nikki's attitude, since it would increase their own chances to fool around. This is unavoidably creepy (and I suspect what @ivan_stoner was reacting to) and that is a good thing because it is a rare cultural achievement.

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@dilanesper It's also bot something I wrote. Please try reading my tweet again.
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Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
@mjpost Sex is not a "destructive force". That's a completely unhealthy view that was passed down by ignorant religious people who didn't know the first thing about the subject.
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Dilan Esper@dilanesper·
So why is it I talk so much about sex on this account? Well, I'm tempted to give the Hank Williams Jr. answer-- it's a family tradition. My grandmother published a sex manual in the 1930's and my grandfather made exploitative films with plenty of sex and nudity!
Ivan Stoner@ivan_stoner

@dilanesper Sorry man. These increasingly neurotic takes on sex stuff aren't interesting. You going on about how it's cool to be an atomistic pleasure drone is just gross too. I'm out.

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@dilanesper Yes, middle age men wish there were more women with Nikki's attitude, since it would increase their own chances to fool around. This is unavoidably creepy (and I suspect what @ivan_stoner was reacting to) and that is a good thing because it is a rare cultural achievement.
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@dilanesper Your thread ignores the reasons for the taboos, namely, that they usefully constrain and direct a powerful and potentially destructive force. Your beliefs here are ones that benefit specific groups (men, especially powerful men) and whose costs are born 1 to 100 by everyone else.
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@mayhewsw Imagine yourself with your kids older and also you are really really stingy and selfish
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Stephen Mayhew@mayhewsw·
@mjpost It’s a no-brainer for me because at this stage of my life in the money-health-time triangle, I’m always trying to find more time, and if I can convert money into time, I will.
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I rarely see anyone mention the downside of DIY competency: I loathe paying people to do work that I know I could easily do myself, but then I don't have enough bandwidth or energy for the context switch at the end of the day, so the work piles up.
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memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus·
Apple calendar: “hey you remember that guy you met once in middle school? It’s his birthday today.”
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It also occurs to me that the core problem may just be excessive thriftiness and miscalibrated priorities...
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The context is an electrician who wants $1,800 to wire a 6/3 sub-panel and add a few outlets. This is skilled labor and a reasonable quote, but I am perfectly capable of doing it myself. Electrical manuals, Youtube, and ChatGPT put everything within reach.
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