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@WillAbtsmth @eigenrobot this is all a game but you can choose to play it anyway you want highly recommend to enjoy every level and not try to speedrun it

@AJManaseer yeah, miss them but the only reason we had a surplus was Gingrich Congress other than that - 💯

Centrist Democrats in the 90s were the greatest form of government we have experienced. -Budget surpluses -Staunchly capitalist -Strong border -Merit-based legal immigration -Strong military -Sensible on social issues It’s a shame how progressives and socialists dragged the party to the left to the ruinous place they are now. And their extremism pushes the right to be more extreme too.

@clintoptions correct, but more like $5 to $10 million

I have a secret to share After your first $2–$3 million, a paid off home and a good car, there is no difference in quality of life between you and Jeff Bezos. Both of you have limited amount of time on earth; you have twice if not more than Jeff, so you are richer than him. A cheeseburger is a cheeseburger whether a billionaire eats or you do. Money is nothing but a piece of paper or a number in your app. Real life is outdoors. Become financially independent; that’s usually 2–3mil. Have good food. Enjoy the relations. Workout. Sleep well. Call your parents. That’s all there is to life. Greed has no end. Repeat after me: Time is the currency of life. Money is not. Sooner you figure this out, happier you will be.

@jhong it's mostly about signal to help u get ur first job if ur kids can figure out how to get a good first job it doesn't matter much

Random thought: my college experience was great but in reality I mostly just read books to learn. I didn't personally get much out of class lectures. Everything I accomplished later, I really could have gone anywhere (or maybe even nowhere). The main value of college for me was making friends who were also smart and liked to make shit. But due to how admissions works today, those kids are spread out more than ever. I've noticed a lot of super smart kids who like to make shit don't even get into top schools anymore. So it doesn't really matter if my kids go to a "top school". What probably matters more is that they find and become friends with the other kids at their school that are also smart and like to make shit. And if they don't then they can just move to silicon valley or wherever those people congregate, and they can make friends there at random hackathons or whatever. I believe this mentally. but emotionally it's still hard to adjust.. and this is before even considering AI.

@clairlemon @IanAdAstra people making wise cracks in a dm makes these things objectively and obviously true 😉

When a product is marketed to children, the responsibility does not fall on the public or on parents to prove it is harmful. The responsibility falls on the manufacturer to prove it is safe. Has Meta done this?

@brad_polumbo why would u run inside when u r at a place like that?

Never let the body positivity people win

@BootlegMermaid @pourfairelevide @Tyler_A_Harper lol

@Random__Kids @pourfairelevide @Tyler_A_Harper If kids could effectively learn without a teacher, they’d already be doing it without AI. The AI adds nothing that existing books and computer programs can’t do.

I don’t think “running an actual food truck” should be a class at school. I would prefer if human teachers taught kids how to read and do math the normal way that has worked for 100 years.

Can we talk about this calmly without calling each other mean names or insinuating that I'm part of a "coordinated" campaign to defend smartphones? I'm confused what exactly you mean by "smartphones are tobacco" but let me tell you exactly what I mean by "smartphones aren't cigarettes": - Some parents of children with rare diseases use their phones/social media to connect with comforting online support groups in ways that would be almost impossible in an age before the internet - Some political activists use phones/social media to build networks of likeminded supporters to ... let's say ... oppose restrictive zoning (me) or take on corporate power in dialysis services (you!) - For many teenage girls, phones/social media are a vector of negative social comparison ways that causally increase anxiety, depression, and suicidality The idea that these groups are interacting with smartphones in a uniform way that is analogous to inhaling a mass manufactured bundle of chemicals that has a uniform effect on its consumer base doesn't make sense. To take one more example: The relationship between phone use and youth anxiety is clear across the US and other English-speaking countries but not in other European countries with high levels of phone use. There's no similar phenomenon for tobacco, where it's clearly bad for Americans but possibly not bad for Germans. I think phones/social media do a lot of bad things. I've written about this constantly. But words matter. And saying that this technology "is tobacco" is just wrong.

@dprssionxprt @pourfairelevide @Tyler_A_Harper enjoy the stone ages

@Random__Kids @pourfairelevide @Tyler_A_Harper > 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 About the level of intelligence I expected

@unclebobmartin will people get that close to the code again? for systems i already know, makes sense for new systems i just don't spend enough time in the code to really deeply think about it anymore

I woke up this morning with an idea for improving the performance of Empire. It's an entirely different approach for navigating the world map. I think it'll cut processing time by a significant factor. The AI doesn't wake up with new ideas like that. They don't have light bulb moments. They don't look sideways at a problem and see it from a novel perspective. And the insight I'm talking about derives from my deep knowledge of the system itself, and the way computers operate. Try as they might, no matter how much they hope, they'll never be rid of us.

@CovfefeAnon @annakhachiyan example the awful Buzz Lightyear movie the whole point was that trying to fix things is bad and you should just accept whatever reality u r trapped in

The idea that the only ethical and moral stance is total passivity is spot on and is a deep issue with there are two broad, important aspects of it First - this is an aspect of the progressive world-view where *the only actors are villains* - in fact, to act is to *be* a villain Second - this view of passivity is fundamentally feminine and reflects the domination of the culture by female norms - "I don't care who started it, you both did and that's unacceptable" - the default mode stamped onto their brains by evolution of "just don't let anything *happen* and eventually the children you're watching over will grow to adults [and then men will take responsibility for them]" applied to *everything* because that's how brain heuristics work This was the first generation raised under unchecked female norms because it became illegal to tell women they're wrong about anything starting in the mid to late eighties which was then codified into law by the Civil Rights Act of 1991

@brandonwilson the fact i still want to use Claude is very bad for OpenAI

Claude API is so much less reliable than OpenAI

@DolphinMossad @AnikVJoshi link to this official Department of Labor post?

Last month, the US shipped more chemicals via rail than any other time in history. With a week to go, March will break that number...

@LocasaleLab is that because the cancer or the patient (that they only work in 1% to 5% of patients)?

Pharma and academic scientists are correct. These immunotherapy drugs are real breakthroughs. When they work, they can cure patients with otherwise terminal cancer. The reality, unfortunately, is that they only work in about 1–5% of cancer patients. Yet there is relentless hype that these drugs are the endgame for cancer. Much of the pharma and biotech industry has oriented itself around them, and a large share of NIH funding follows. Meanwhile, 95–99% of cancer patients, for whom these drugs do nothing, are left behind. That is the part people are not paying attention to.

the year is 20xx. the surface of the sun is lined with ten trillion trillion trillion transistors. the machine deity Ra simulates infinite heavens for humankind to wander. Ed zitron remains skeptical about anthropic revenue figures

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@StFido @RandomSprint @eigenrobot these people vote Democrat they just like to complain about it constantly

@RandomSprint @eigenrobot These people are not democrats, in fact these people hate them.

@AlecStapp @pitdesi the issue was lack of investment in 5g / regulatory burden in US compared to China it isn't like the US lacked the technology or know how

Reminder that the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one.