phasepunk

You either die a simple useful website or live long enough to see yourself turned into enshittified corposlop.

this is what having principles looks like. @DarioAmodei and @AnthropicAI are real ones. switching to Claude as my daily driver

@ns hey @balajis @ns can you please upload these new episodes on spotify

Here's Bryan Johnson on the Don't Die Network State: 1:58 - The Don't Die Network State is key 3:41 - Nobody cares about biomarkers 8:20 - We're back to the era of wonder drugs 11:25 - $1M longevity prize 14:32 - You can experiment with fast food, but not longevity 18:36 - Three most promising treatments 23:59 - Biochemistry and genetics are closely related 27:04 - Why not try these treatments on the dying 29:34 - We're too damn slow 36:05 - The Banting and Best story 43:24 - We can't characterize human biology 54:46 - Longitudinal Network State then Longevity Network State

It's legal to risk your life with extreme sports. So why isn't it legal to extend your life with experimental treatments?

@paulg this is one area where the Chinese system is superior there is little liquidity between political power & other forms of capital, so politics is more reserved to political players and harder to influence with other forms of capital

The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.

I'll be right back, I'm reanimating the world-knowledge spirit-golem to consult with the ancestral archives

@mikethree it was over in a different way previous overs were "it's over as a failed experiment" this over is "it's over as a counter-culture movement"

this newer class of crypto participants are pussies you dont think there has ever been a bear market that spanned multiple years where everyone thought it was over before? there have been many grow some balls, be patient and believe in something for once

wow this seems like a great idea, let me see what david lynch thinks about it

@chainyoda @brian_armstrong he's not. if no one in a prediction market has any insider info then the point is to arrive at a probability based on all public info (debatable whether that's useful) if someone "leaks" insider info but doesn't have lots of money to bet on it, the impact will be marginal

Fwiw @brian_armstrong is right. The *entire point* of prediction markets is to leak nonpublic information through prices ie insider trading

@hasufl state-level bans won't solve the issue though. kids will find a way around it while it will make the internet and the world worse for everyone else. this really should be up to parents and not the gov to control.

Chatcontrol is definitely the wrong way, but it has to be said: the children are not alright. There is a very decent chance that countries who ban social media for u16 will be seen as visionary in only ten years. In any case, even if only some countries try this, the whole world will benefit from the data this experiment produces.

@banteg just an another proof point of the splintering of the internet the idea of one pseudonymous borderless internet is not going to be the norm going forward digital borders will be as important as land borders China saw this early & that model will be copied among other blocks

this is disastrous that you needed to be terminally online and had less than 24h heads up to switch away from twitter showing your country to everyone. awful rollout with no user choice or consent whatsoever. this was the exact case for a terms of service update email that would have allowed some time to delete if you disagreed with the new policy. sad seeing people cheering on further erosion of pseudonymity. such a massive gift for oppressive regimes, im sure this will have chilling effects. remember there were times when it was up to platforms to dismantle manipulation networks and proudly post about it. hasn't been a case since 2022.

@nearcyan amazon e̶m̶p̶l̶o̶y̶e̶e̶

meta employee: my laptop ?

anthropic employee: you’re not allowed within five feet of my work laptop. it’s confidential. openai employee: hey check out my work laptop i have the new model open it’s lit lol launching tomorrow

@Fiskantes enshittification like everywhere else there was a purity & simplicity to the early chatbot model that isn't sustainable they need to add bloat to make it profitable eventually probably also have to do with scaling optimization. at least gpt5 vs gpt4 felt like a scaling nerf

AI is getting worse Someone said some time ago "see how good AI already is? And it is the worst it will be ever be, it will only improve from here!" But thats not my experience, even though I pay for highest public tier I get worse product than 6 months ago! More shallow, more neutered, less context relevant, making easy mistakes Its visible on twitter as well. Don't get me wrong, it was always AI slop here but at leas we had entertaining slop like @RoastM4ster9000 and @aixbt_agent takes were sometimes decently relevant, now its just pure brainless uninteresting, often absolutely missing any context slop puke Why would publicly available LLMs get nerfed? Maybe token economics (tokenomics haha, but as in inference tokens) didn't make sense and AI companies are forced to save on inference costs Maybe the public usage feedback was actually part of the model training and now after millions of people used AI daily for year+, it taught the model that average user is actually pretty dumb, has low expectations and is satisfied with shallow whatever answers Or maybe AI companies nerfed public models on purpose to be able to charge more to private clients for good stuff I am sure the foundation models didn't really get worse and I can only imagine what kind of toys the big boys who are close to the source can play with, but for average you and me the AI future is as of now not getting better And I am thinking of taking my account private to escape the increasingly tedious replyslop

@oser_ser @apralky yeah, Singapore is definitely a special case the question is whether it's an outlier due to unique circumstances and exceptional leadership or if it's how the world will be once other developing countries reach a similar level of development

@phasepunk @apralky Singapore is a country composed by elite people. A lot of them are highly educated and wealthy, just like switzerland. When a country has a different socials classes, it's really different...

Few things will blackpill you on democracy as much as a central bank press conference. After a lifetime of watching democratically elected officials, you’ve concluded that perhaps all Power does Corrupt -- and then you witness a man with the fate of the entire global financial system in his hands who is, quite obviously, operating in good faith; who isn’t corrupt; who relies on robust epistemic standards -- all because he was selected by a populace with an IQ two standard deviations above the democratic electorate And then you ruminate, you think to yourself, you huff and you puff, "maybe it doesn't have to be this way," you whisper

when I grow up, I'd like to be a senior vice president of people experience and technology to help our organizations stay nimble and continue to strengthen

seeing people talking about Zcash & sharing Satoshi Bitcointalk screenshots about ZKPs feels like breathing fresh air again almost forgot how it feels after drowning in ETFs, regulate us, Trump family griftcoins, & VC exit scams what we need is a cypherpunk renaissance

took a little less than 3 years for enshittification to set in not mad, those massive datacenter bills gotta get paid somehow. but it feels like we're moving on from the proto-age of LLMs.

@bryan_johnson yes I know the importance of midichlorians since Qui-Gon always strive for high midichlorians

Sedentary behavior reduces mitochondrial function in skeletal muscle, leading to faster fatigue and reduced metabolic health. Just 2 weeks without exercise can drop mitochondrial density by 20-25%

we've officially entered the philip k dick era of the future