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Stuart Buck

@stuartbuck1

Executive Director, Good Science Project Formerly: @arnold_ventures, @harvard_law, @kellogghansen Classical guitarist and author

Georgia Katılım Haziran 2011
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signüll@signulll·
it’s fascinating that today modern humans are still running a credential matching algorithm disguised as attraction. e.g. 6ft, symmetrical face, status markers… these are visible proxies that compress well into a profile or a first impression yet will never tell you whether or not someone will abandon you in times of high variance entropy like if you get sick or something. the latter gets systematically underweighted because it doesn’t resolve until the option period has long expired. only when you’re older you realize that the only thing that survives the death of eros is logos.
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𑣲@holylipss

imagine connecting so deeply with someone that your dates revolve around walking and talking for hours

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James W. Phillips
James W. Phillips@AnEmergentI·
My new blog: "Joining the Consciousness Foundation's Bodymind Program". Our core research target? Promoting the study of Bodymind meditation practices, such as Jhana’s and brain retraining approaches, as potential healing technologies from a rigorous technoscientific angle.
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Defender@DefenderOfBasic·
has anyone actually read "antimemetics divison" ? i have questions to ask you. I have never seen any actual discussion of it, everyone keeps making the same stupid joke. I feel like it's hurting the book
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People who lost a lot of weight, what was the one small daily habit that actually changed everything for you?
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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷@mattparlmer·
The fact that that article made it thru Vanity Fair’s editorial process should tell you everything you need to know about Vanity Fair Stop doing interviews with these people, stop inviting them to social functions, they are genuinely out to get you
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Stuart Buck@stuartbuck1·
Ever heard of "3 on a couch"? Played it once in college and it was so fun. You need a large group divided equally into men and women. At the start, one man and one woman on a couch, with one empty seat. Goal: get 3 men (or 3 women) on the couch. How do you do this? Everyone writes their name on a piece of paper. Then you put the pieces of paper in a bowl, and everyone draws out someone's name. Whatever piece of paper you're holding at any moment is "your name" Then, the person who has an empty seat to their right call out a name. Whoever has that name has to come sit in the empty seat. Then, and this is key, the two of them trade pieces of paper. Now there's an empty seat somewhere else in the room. Whoever has that seat to their right calls out a name. That person takes the empty seat and then they switch names. So it's like a huge memory game to remember who is holding each name at each time. If you are a woman on the couch, you want to call out a name that gets another woman to join the couch. And if you're a woman in the rest of the room, you want to call a name that will get a man off of the couch. And so on. Lots of dramatic moments when someone has the chance to win but they forget whose piece of paper has been traded 4 times now etc.
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Alyssa 🌻@alyssaleann·
Husband wanted to play the “dolphin training game” at his birthday party, and it was one of the funniest party games I’ve ever played > “dolphin” goes out of the room, rest of the party decides on a very specific set of tasks for them > they return and have to figure it out only though boos and cheers from the group examples: 1) spin in a chair 32 times, then go get a glass of kombucha and do a dance 2) open a bag of sour patch kids, place exactly 8 of them on a platter, then serve one to each member of the party 3) grab a lawn ornament frog, take it to the porch swing, set it on lap and pet it 4) walk into workshop, wear towel as a cape, grab the broom and ride it like a witch to the deck, then sweep the deck It’s so goofy! But very fun to make up the tasks and entirely engaging for everyone to watch. I thought it sounded silly and we’d probably play one round, but we played 7! A bunch of adults did that for like an hour and a half!
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Sakshi Narula
Sakshi Narula@mssakshinarula·
Who you marry/are in a relationship with will single handedly decide the level of happiness you will have in your life. You can have all the money and success in the world but what you come home to will matter a lot. It's sometimes great to not be in a relationship than to be in a bad one.
Gurpriya@GurpriyaSidhu

Watched a recent interview of Kareena Kapoor on Hollywood Reporter. It is not common to hear Bollywood celebrities say profound things and Kareena is not the most articulate person but every time she talks about her marriage she ends up dropping the most beautiful nuggets of love and wisdom. “I think the best thing I could’ve done was to be married. I feel like I am doing my best work, I’m a better person, I feel I am much more relaxed, everything all because of the fact that there is this human relationship that I hold very close to my heart.” Good relationships can be catalysts for personal growth and transformation. It is not the only way to evolve into a happier, better person but it is definitely one way to get there. It has happened for Kareena and it shows.

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John Arnold
John Arnold@johnarnold·
I understand and agree with many criticisms of philanthropy. But practically, fortunes have to go somewhere. There are only 3 options: philanthropy, heirs & govt. If not nonprofits, is Peter Thiel's plan to give $10B+/child? I'm more skeptical of that than he is of philanthropy.
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Zac Hill
Zac Hill@zdch·
There are just an infinite number of constructive ways of spending money towards socially valuable aims that markets do not solve for by themselves. Even ‘woke capture of large for-purpose institutions’ is a willful management or investment failure, not an inevitability.
Alan Cole@AlanMCole

If you are a billionaire and you don’t trust nonprofit structures and think they will get captured by communists—a concern to which I am genuinely sympathetic— you can consider buying some patents you think are genuinely cool, and releasing them to the public domain.

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CooperBaggs 💰🍞@edgaralandough·
Im going to leave you with this tonight. Underrated life skill: asking for exactly what you want. Most people hint, hope, and wait for others to read their mind. Instead, state your request directly, explain why it matters to you, propose how it benefits them too, and give them an easy out. You'll be shocked how often the answer is yes. The worst they can say is no, which is exactly where you started. People actually respect clarity. Fortune favors the bold, but it adores the specific.
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Peter Mallouk
Peter Mallouk@PeterMallouk·
This is 100% completely unsustainable as a society. Nearly 50% of all consumer spending now comes from the top 10% of earners. The bottom 80%? Their share keeps falling. This is why the economy can look strong in the data while millions of people feel like they're falling behind.
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aishwarya🍎@aishdoingthings·
third spaces are everywhere if you just look up from your phone (the pixelated third space)
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Stuart Buck@stuartbuck1·
@quantyboi @NateAFischer @deanwball Speculation about what individual Anthropic employees might give money to someday doesn't constitute evidence that Anthropic itself has already "funded tons of organizations" to do anything.
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Dean W. Ball
Dean W. Ball@deanwball·
I think I finally put my finger on what shocks me so much about the so-called New Tech Right’s willingness to throw Anthropic under the bus and ultimately it is the abandonment of merit. Silicon Valley was once defined by “the best wins, absolutely,” but no longer for they who affiliate with the New Tech Right. For them, “the tribe wins, absolutely.” The merit value was like, their thing. Remember the summer of 2024 and the DEI posting? Where did that go? I never expected these guys to be political theorists or philosophers but I didn’t expect them to abandon that principle so readily, to throw it out the window in favor of chasing taxpayer-funded equity infusions and contracts that are piddling even by the standards of the MIC. DC may well be the toughest U.S. city of them all. It chews up and spits out all kinds of meat.
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quantyboi@quantyboi·
@stuartbuck1 @NateAFischer @deanwball They've funded tons of organizations whose explicit goals are essentially the shutdown of the entire industry and tech in general. These insidious organizations have already near-permanently destroyed public opinion and may very well cause the fall of the american empire
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Stuart Buck@stuartbuck1·
@NateAFischer @deanwball Am I familiar with Anthropic? I first met Dario Amodei in 2013 when he was a Stanford postdoc, 2 years before OpenAi was founded and 8 years before he broke off from OpenAI to launch Anthropic.
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Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp·
What should I ask Terence Tao?
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