@peterrhague Do they think that removing a lane would not make traffic worse? Why don’t we just use single lane roads everywhere if it has no impact
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I'm sorry but believing that roads spontaneously generate cars is like a medieval peasant believing that meat spontaneously generates maggots.
Steve Magas@OhioBikeLawyer
Boom - nailed the N+1 Lane theory
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Dead horse beaten into ground meat at this point but why is it taken as a given that chagrin at the child suicide factory is just immaturity
Milan Busk@KarolusWangus
This meme explains like 75% of right wing politics btw.
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@ViktorBunin There isn't currently sufficient longevity evidence to support incorporating cold plunge into my protocol. I am supportive of cold plunging generally and think it's great that people vibe with it. Also always open to new evidence though.
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@aryehazan This has been the secret trick to dealing with trump the whole time
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can you imagine a NYT editorialist sophisticated and idealistic enough to write "President Trump, you have accomplished all of your goals, bigly. You're the best! You've won this war!!" -- all for the cynical purpose of getting him to wrap up
ofc not
he'd be pecked to death by the interns
Rafi DeMogge רפי דמוג@HeTows
The funny thing is, this might be right. I think Trump was ready to wrap things up even with the Iranians using Hormuz as a tolling booth. He would have done it if the media had more or less played along and had focused on Iran’s conventional erosion. But then the hysteria about the oil price began, the TACO memes began, and I think Trump is now also genuinely acting out of a sense of hurt pride. The media’s coverage of the war likely hardened *both* the Iranians and Trump.
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Lately, I’ve been seeing more of these redacted, loser takes from “ex”-DeFi builders who are now embracing new positions associated with an alt L1 of their choice.
I find that incredibly bullish, as all the rotten apples are finding new homes outside of the Ethereum ecosystem.
We’re now in a much better place, able to focus on what truly matters, unbothered by these idiots.
Farewell 👋
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One of the only things I don't like about ETH culture is Milady thing.
Very dark origins, doesn't fit it's positive & constructive ethos.
Camila Russo@CamiRusso
i just don't get why an L1 that is going to all these great lengths to position itself as credibly neutral, so strongly wants to align itself with a very specific, opinionated pfp collection with a problematic past.
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@HighyieldHarry She put up with his drinking and cheating throughout season 6, but when she learned he’d been quasi-fired she completely lost respect for him. He lost respect for her when she abandoned copywriting (at which she showed talent) for acting, which she needed help to break into
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Finishing up Mad Men.
What does everyone think of Megan Draper?
I’m extremely conflicted.
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Have you seen how people talk about ai outside of the twitter bubble? How people talk about pharmaceutical companies? How people cheered when a health insurance ceo was murdered? When blackstone’s office was attacked and someone was shot? What do people say about big tech, Zuckerberg?
Why so much drama? Why always the drama?
You did a lot of good work for ethereum, but why this? Proof of stake is currently less inflationary than this halving of proof of work and likely more stable long term - how’s this a lie?
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@arctotherium42 @mauddweeb Incredible simultaneous white pill and black pill. We can cure cancer except for the paperwork?
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Am I interpreting this Tweet correctly - individualized n=1 mRNA cancer vaccines are trivial to make but are never used in people because you can't do an RCT with one person? This seems like a gigantic regulatory failure.
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer
Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.
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@malekanoms @austincampbell Austin has many good takes, but it seems like he decided many years ago that bitcoin is the only crypto and everything else is a company. There’s a fundamental misunderstanding of ethereum
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@austincampbell But I want it for more sophisticated activities with other assets. Like the woman said, I can have it all! But it starts with permissionless security.
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I disagree. TradFi already has controlled and censored and reversible systems. The issuers and users who want those feature can stay there.
Being as predictable (and ruthless) as gravity is the only unique value prop of real crypto. Without it, there’s no point. Use a database.
Austin Campbell@austincampbell
0/ This view is utopian, idealistic, and aligned with the cypherpunk mandate of the original crypto believers. It will also be incredibly toxic for real world asset issuers beyond the point of stablecoins.
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notice how quickly narrative has changed from "evil gubment trying to create AI killbots" to "as it turns out we shouldn't give polyamorous "AI safety" commissars in SF total discretion over military target selection
Caitlin Kalinowski@kalinowski007
I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I’m proud of what we built together.
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A real live rigged election right in front of our eyes that no one in mainstream media cares about
Andrew Kolvet@AndrewKolvet
In a Kamala +6 state, the VA special election on redistricting from a 6-5 state to 10-1 state in Democrats’ favor, the proposal promises to “restore fairness.” What an absolute crock.
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lawyer here
bombing a Muslim country during Ramadan is illegal under international law
in a matter of hours, Trump WILL be arrested by international police
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The seeds of the next bull cycle in crypto are becoming clearer.
If I had to guess, here's the sequence of events:
1. AI sucks all the air out of the room for 6+ months
2. CAPEX fears become pronounced going into summer
3. CLARITY quietly passes, GENIUS gets implemented
4. AI fears lead to lower rates, while stables explode
5. Persistently lower rates from AI deflation lead to vol
6. Trading of crypto assets take off
7. Weak coins left for dead, fewer winners emerge
8. Enterprises onchain become enormous trend
We are most likely ~9 months out from this becoming consensus.
zerohedge@zerohedge
*META AIMS TO ENTER STABLECOIN SPACE LATER THIS YEAR: COINDESK LIbra 2.0
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@VitalikButerin Slowing down ai doesn’t actually change anything. Horses and candles would have still become obsolete whether autos and lightbulbs took twice as long. The main changes are 1) who wins the ai race 2) how many millions will die because we were too scared to cure diseases or aging
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I'm actually pretty open-minded about the anti-data-center populism.
From everything I've seen from people working on this, reducing industrial-scale hardware availability seems to be both the most practical, and most non-dystopian / non-invasive way to lengthen AGI timelines.
So if the movement that makes that happen starts out with anti-data-center populism, that seems fine?
Of course you have to do things other than going after data centers located in populated areas to really make a dent on AGI timelines (my intuition is that 10-100x compute reduction is feasible in a "static" model of the world, and 100-10000x if you compare to a counterfactual that includes future chip design progress; those numbers *would* make a dent), but there is a first step for everything.
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@Picolas_Caged The soldildos have done so much damage, reputationally and economically
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Hey guys, how's the Iggy Azalea token going?
That was so great for adoption.
Wanna thank the talking heads at Solana for really backing that one.
Totally wasn't glaringly obviously a terrible, net negative thing for our space that further damages our reputation.
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No income tax for married couples with 4 or more kids with only one working spouse cc Trump
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