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@Romy_Holland @grok fact check this claim and related article. How come someone who scores IQ 173 can discriminate bad from good info online and assign credence to the quality of info at hand. Seems basic, is this phenomena studied well?

I read a long article recently about a child prodigy with a 173 IQ who grew up really isolated because of geography, family circumstance, and because she ended up attending college at elementary school age so she was never socialized and basically only hung out with her mom. she ended up never leaving her hometown and after a violent incident against her family, she basically went into seclusion. I looked her up to see if there was anything new in the years since she was profiled, and the only thing I found was her fb profile, which is full of nothing but extremist content about "islamist scum" and "Kremlina Harris, her Commie squad and their ilk." it's not nuanced or interesting, and it's being posted to an audience of 23 people. this has caused me to update significantly on the potency of culture/memes. I've always thought the concept of mind viruses was a bit overblown, but that feels like the most accurate description of what happened to this woman. mental horsepower alone was not sufficient to inoculate her. if anything, I wonder if smart people sometimes talk themselves more fully into wrong ideas, and are harder for others to dissuade. anyway, this is super sad. I know plenty of ppl who spend all of their energy gathering bad info to prop up bad world views, but none of them were previously on track to do something extraordinary in the world.

@Romy_Holland @Aella_Girl You can swap cool with dangerous and dirty and the statement still works. Or you can flip the table with cool stuff -> care-based services

@Aella_Girl i basically agree, tho i think a difference is that the cultural pressures on men are to do cool stuff and the cultural pressures on women are in many cases to do less cool stuff.

i just. cannot believe that women have significantly greater cultural pressure to perform and conform than men do. i just don't. I think what's going on is women are significantly more affected by social pressure and thus feel a greater desire to war against it

@Rainmaker1973 The gooch mobile!

Honda leg exoskeleton for the elderly

@Aella_Girl @hannahhughes @KiritDawda Would you open source the algorithm?

@hannahhughes @KiritDawda if tinder had extensive algorithms that could deduce who is most sexually compatible with you and then just showed you that exact person then sure

I made a sex matching app. Input a bunch of data on various types of your sexuality, and get recommended someone we think you'd have good sex with. It's already matching ppl well ;) Limited invite codes below.

@pacer142 @tomough Not to mention bike riders are the most vulnerable on the road. But I think the intent of the lime green is to be able to easily spot them from across a block as bikes are smaller compared to any other vehicle

@tomough The lurid green and white is much better for safety as you're much more likely to be seen. Manchester's Bee Network yellow is probably the best colour for them. A dark, subdued colour would increase the number of collisions involving them.

The Lime bike redesign makes sense in terms of sizing. But the white paint will immediately become grimy, and the lurid lime colour of the front section is by now unnecessary: everyone can recognise one of these bikes. Could Uber do the aesthetic commons a favour and start producing these bikes in, say, metallic red? Some minor design tweaks would make our streets look much nicer.

@AnthropicAI feature request - “…. Project files are browsable outside of chats — you can see them listed in the Project’s file panel. But there’s no equivalent panel for artifacts Claude has generated. That asymmetry is essentially the gap you identified!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“

@DamonZumbroegel @Vaish9580 I think as the purchasing power of the median Indian goes up, more of these jugaad will turn into actual product in a real market produced by well established companies. The struggle is the low trust.

@Vaish9580 My new favorite word. Thanks a bunch!!!!

I love India, I love Chai, and I love Ingenuity. Here’s all three together. A “Willy Wonka Chai Machine” I found on the side of the road in Southern India. People putting their skills and ideas into action to make useful things. This is art to me.

@waitbutwhy Yeah, the post is still there. This is not some glitch on X algorithm or lack of capability, it’s a conscious decision by X to let all political AI slop be labeled satire. And the bias is heavy to one side of the spectrum than the other. Now why would that be?

Scam

@thewaronbeauty Seems like a clickbait take but I’ll take it. Now we can comoditize what was once luxury and beautify the built world at scale. That’s a good thing.

Robot carved architectural elements and sculpture—what do you think of this?

@Prabhash179016 @viprabuddhi It’s more about thermal mass rather than concrete vs mud. Mud is local and cheap for the most part but has higher maintenance burden than concrete. And also sun exposed glazing , none of these rural houses have glazing or their windows just have wooden closures and roof overhangs

> India was 85% rural during this period. > Don't be fooled by a few elite gated urban pockets you see online. > Vast majority of India looked like this instead back then.

@Rainmaker1973 @grok is this vaporware?

A Polish startup just built a 1,000 muscle robot that moves exactly like a human and it’s terrifying. [📹 Nic Conley]

@JamesMelville Yes it will accelerate the dismantling of creative industries. Look at Hollywood now compared to a decade ago or more. It will destroy the gate keeers, hand it to the masses, democratize it, remove the entry barrier of hard skills and distill arts to creativity alone.

AI is eventually going to eat us. In particular, the creative industries. With the click of a button, music artists (both dead and alive) are transported into a fake virtual reality mashup. I am uncomfortable about this. What do you think?

@LifeMathMoney @grok can you fact check this? And summarize the 8 deleted chapters?

You *really* want to read the unrevised edition of this book. This is because Carnige's feminist wife and daughter heavily edited his book after he died to make it more politically correct For example (among other things) they completely deleted 8 chapters on dealing with women The unrevised edition is available here: socialskillswisdom.com

@reiaposting Adelaide st financial district

parkdale (little tibet) in toronto's west end

@DrRansom1 @martyrdison I can also see going around a small town a bit boring and I’d be even more interested in someone’s current state happenings

@DrRansom1 @martyrdison I think it’s similar to when a soundtrack hits the spot at a given point in your life and you have so much associated memories but the same impact is not felt by someone who you share it with. I’d be more interested if I was visiting someone’s childhood places tho.

one of the most devastating things in relationships is offering vulnerability in its quietest form showing someone something that matters to you and being met with nothing i once took someone i was dating back to my college hometown. i was excited in a way that felt almost childish. i wanted to show him where i became myself. the places, the stories, the small adventures that shaped me a lot went wrong, but what stayed with me was the absence. no curiosity. no warmth. no sense that it mattered because it mattered to me. after that, i stopped offering pieces like that so freely because this kind of vulnerability is raw. it isn’t dramatic or loud. it’s an invitation whether it’s bringing someone to your hometown, sharing a movie you love, or letting them see a project you’ve been quietly building, you’re saying this is a part of me please hold it gently when that offering is met with indifference, it cuts deeper than rejection. enthusiasm is acknowledgment. its absence feels like erasure the fear of opening a door to yourself and watching someone walk past it without looking is universal and once you’ve felt it, you understand why people learn to keep so much hidden

@wongmjane Almost all replies to that tweet are memes about the dog, tinsel tree, his bald head and some holiday wishes. I couldn’t find any crashing out, where are you seeing this? I am curious about the demographics too

Why are people crashing out on the “Asian female & white male” combo in particular, but not so much at other combos like “Asian male & white female” / “Asian female & white female” / “Asian male & white male” / etc? Genuinely curious…

@theweb3jess @alexinexxx @wongmjane Perhaps initially it’s an ego boost. But if they build a lasting connection, then it’s a win-win. Self-improvement alone is insufficient for a relationship.

@alexinexxx @wongmjane It’s a quick and easy ego boost for the guy but there’s no way it’ll lead anywhere good. Only self improvement will.

@claaaire Wes Anderson vibes

Dupont Station appreciation post

@silvirouskin Vemödalen

When I was 14 I wanted to be a poet or a scientist. But I quickly realized all the great thoughts are already taken; the best permutations of words have already been composed. Every exhilarating ‘revelation’ about what it means to be human—someone has already had. Over the years, I learned it’s only by understanding the language of biology—that fine line between being alive or just a bag of chemicals—that real discovery remains. Biology, in its full complexity, is the truest and most exciting of philosophy. Also me at 14 in Bulgaria while my rock musician parents were out💀