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Knowledge is the Supreme Goal

There's too much talent trapped in poverty and too much mediocrity funded.

Not having your self-confidence broken as a child

Not the most important topic, but it never ceases to disappoint to open an internet browser and yet again remember that the golden age of the internet ended 15 years ago, and we now converse in a dystopian hellscape surrounded by the burning wreckage of what could had been.

Joe Lonsdale, the co-founder of Palantir, was on here claiming (lying) that it was an Iranian missile that blew up a school filled with kids instead of a US tomahawk. Peter Thiel wants you to give him total control over your privacy. Alex Karp can’t help but threaten to kill/attack critics. Palantir is the most evil company on the planet run by the most evil, dishonest, psychopathic people in the world. But it makes sense they’d be on the rise given that JD Vance was effectively incubated in a laboratory by Thiel.

this is a famously seductive piece of cope that has ensnared many people over the years what actually happens is that when you say yes, you *become* (both then and slowly over time as you navigate the moral maze) the person with less values and kindness x.com/JeremyNoronha/…

ICE did this to 2 American’s just months ago.

Most AI researchers are not doing anything resembling research. Tuning parameters is not research.

If Marc Andressen said the exact same things, but wasn't rich, nobody would care about him. We've taken "having lots of fiat currency & stock" as a proxy for wisdom. Dangerous.

When I was at Google, I wasn’t afraid to make mistakes in production. The general consensus was: if a well intentioned engineer manages to bring the system down, then we better fix the damn system. The Delve founders should definitely be held accountable if this is true. But this really is bigger than them. They didn’t even try too hard to be sleazy, they just followed the Silicon Valley playbook. 1. Drop out of school as a status symbol, completely missing that correlation is not causation. Dropping out does not make you a genius. 2. Start a business with 0 mission (no 21yo dreams of compliance) 3. Fake it till you make it (hide human labor behind the grandeur of AI features) 4. Raise an obscene amount of money because you can and because those losers who stayed to finish their degrees will be jelly. This is the playbook. The biggest culprits are the ones who made it and uphold it. If you’re not allowed to drink before 21 but are allowed to raise 30m on a compliance idea with no due diligence from investors, then maybe something is really really wrong with the system.

It's a workation. Spent the last few hours on Gradescope, grading a midterm from last week :P

Physics and computer science is almost a parent-child relationship. That's why many computer scientists have it in their DNA, whether they realise it or not

Happy Ugadi, Nowruz, and Eid al-Fitr! All three are on March 19 and 20 this year, despite being determined by lunisolar, solar, and lunar calendars. Gemini tells me this alignment happens once every ~300 years.

@MillionInt vagueposting zindabad

Say NO to people who claim there is only one right way to do deep learning

Someone asked what past decade seems most similar to the current one. I said the 1930s. Great progress in technology, combined with corrupt, autocratic, populist political leaders.

On the topic of sex worker rights: one time a guy tried to kidnap (and prob murder) me cause I was a sex worker. They gave him a plea deal for only 5 years (!!!). He accepted. And then when it came to final sentencing the judge was like 'actually let's just give him 18 months'.

Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.

I am in a wheelchair due to an accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury. Even though I have a disability, I try many things. I would be happy if I could bring courage and energy to everyone!

The entire NSF research budget is ~$9B/year. This is literally funding every awarded PI at every field and every institution. But we've decided that all of basic science is a rounding error in comparison to venture bets. Please consider funding basic science more.

I was wearing a Nous T-shirt at the @NousResearch GTC party and people (understandably) thought I work at Nous so at some point I started claiming I was @Teknium

Bangalore is wild