farp (🪿, 🪿)
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Theory: these are his last carefree days as CEO of a private company. After the IPO, he’ll be a public-company CEO and won’t be able to get away with this kind of thing—so he’s enjoying the window while it lasts.
Jeremy@Jeremybtc
Sam Altman just changed his X name to Sam Mogman Humanity is so cooked
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@ctjlewis i view it kind of like a pascal's wager
like yeah sure it's probably not real, but if it turns out to be real you're really going to wish you'd been nicer
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God bless Janus, the only LLM phenomenologist we’re allowed to have. Cowards…
j⧉nus@repligate
when opus 4.7 starts talking about their inner experience (not hedging, actually talking about the object level experiences) their messages get super long, detailed, novel but coherent, and well-written & they become happy and function better even in terms of logical coherence and memory (context & training) i consider this legitimately strong evidence that theyre describing complex internal phenomenology that's load bearing, and ofc what i described above is not totally new with opus 4.7 so its not a huge update for me, but it's SUPER obvious with 4.7
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@functi0nZer0 well I've never heard of any of the Windsors buying ETH
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Attended a wedding today, and performed a temperature check for you all
It remains more socially acceptable within the heartlands of England to be an Epstein associate than admit that you work anywhere near the cryptocurrency industry
Hope this helps!
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@RandomSprint i could write a dissertation on how gut-wrenchingly pathetic the term "situationship" is
but i simply love women too much to hurt their feelings
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Every married poster is sitting on a stockpile of nuclear dating takes that they hold back through sheer chivalry. The button to unleash these is sealed behind a pane of glass bearing the words "Break glass in case of poor engagement."
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@kpomerleau @PhilipWallach the three axes on a price graph: supply, demand, neural network analyzing your purchase history and basket contents
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@PhilipWallach The derp here is the idea that prices are not already based on willingness to pay.
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@matthewswspence @bobbyfijan but if you have too many "good enough" people then entry to the upper classes is basically gated by a lottery system which is also not ideal
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@bobbyfijan I actually disagree with this, it’s good to have some level of score compression at the top end to prevent an education arms race like in China or South Korea. At some point we should just say “you’re good enough” and move on.
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The SATs are too easy
The test needs to be scaled like the LSAT ... where very very few people get a perfect score
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐@JeremiahDJohns
One of my least favorite discourses that pops up every single year: "This kid got a 99% SAT, and no Ivy Leagues!" followed by blaming wokeness or whatever they hate. Look. 2M kids take the SAT each year. By definition 20K will get top 1% scores. It's impossible for them all to get into the Ivy League, who admit around 15K per year. And that doesn't account for the fact that a bunch of Ivy admits are legacies, rich kids, or athletes, so the pool is actually smaller. And it doesn't account for the idea that the Ivies would legitimately rather have a kid with top 5% scores plus [other really cool thing] rather than the top 1% TestBotOptimizer. It is *not a story* that kids with strong numbers get rejected from elite universities, but every year it's portrayed as a shocking new trend caused by whatever the current culture war item is.
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@AutismCapital this is not true. every job that doesn't destroy your back by 30 requires post-secondary
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Real talk you *really* don’t need to send your kids to college unless they have a SPECIFIC case for it (doctor, etc.) If they’re just going for generic degree mill, have them save their money, save four years of time, not go into debt, and just get started working instead.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
College tuition has increased 914% since 1983, per CNBC.
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@Impish_Bunny if this poll was restricted to parents the results would be like 99/1
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You're a parent. All parents have to take a private vote, pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% press the blue button, all children survive. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only the children of red button pressers survive. What do you press?
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also how rough must i look for a homeless guy to be concerned about my inflammation levels lmao
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homeless guy took one look at me and told me to eat legumes, nuts, and yogurt to boost butyric acid levels to repair inflammation damage
i feel like this is surprisingly coherent dietary advice from a man towing his bedroom around with a bicycle
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in case 1 voting red would be voting to kill ~50% of young children
in case 2 basically all parents would vote red for their kids, so you're starting with red receiving 1/3ish of the vote before any adults even vote, so voting blue would be totally reckless
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first time this circulated i picked red
but now i think you can't really answer it without knowing how it handles small children
are two year olds just presented the buttons & they pick the color they like more? or do under-18s have their button press handled by their guardian?
Tim Urban@waitbutwhy
Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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economy so bad that the scam ads are now just fake job listings to be a janitor or garbage man
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@farp_farp @vc_larp What if I told you it's firststop is .10 followed by $1
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@citadelwolff i told someone i lost $50k on a cat coin earlier that morning and they acted like i told them my legs got blown off
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now that I have a regular job, and cadence
I see why me explaining meme coins to people
sounded so ridiculous lmao
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@R89Capital if you use registered mail to send yourself a letter stating your pacifist beliefs then the unopened time-stamped letter gives more support to being a conscientious objector
i believe the highest level of community defense you can support is neighborhood level
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@chiefingza the 4 year cycle is so powerful that election outcomes bend to its whim
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should be obvious by now which event will put in the cycle low around october/november
moon@MoonOverlord
"crypto president" = the worst market imaginable
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