gray tribe

if anything it’s putting all the alignment blogposts that now say it’s way more tractable to the test

i hear there are exciting ais here — how do i find them?

dot com is so satisfying to say — we need a more satisfying phrase than ai for the ai boom. dot com boom wasn’t called the internet boom after all

AI espn analogue that’s actually the stock market visualized as various sports

double-downer: a downer who doubles down

some of the lowest EV, linkedin-ass follows you can attain on twitter are partners at prestigious VCs –– which should be a huge selling point for bsky

crypto is a social experiment of what would happen if we give a random global slice of the populace generational wealth. and the answer is cargo cults and idolatry.

i think they're doing the meme wrong...

her: trains can’t speak you silly goose me: in my rich inner world they can

whenever you read a linkedin post, imagine it as someone's internal monologue –– a self pep talk where they just need to believe their own story to be okay

saw this piece of art on the other side, thought i'd import it over

underreported east coast perk: your circadian rhythm naturally syncs with market hours

all of you like your brainrot in text and not video... that makes you low bandwidth

the people are yearning for high variance

there's a certain honesty to overt imperialism that is lost to history. covert empire building causes a lot of cognitive and societal dissonance

e/acc has spawned more splinter groups than british trotskyist parties in the 80s, while safetyists remain surprisingly unified

mech interp for humans will slap

if you use cursor, you’re cursor for cursor

"RL me this" –– as the modern alternative to riddle me this

plan voisin bf haussmann style gf

sun is literally funding an ultimately starfaring civilization to get back at its cousin alpha centauri –– the sun can plan the sun can feel the sun has qualia

pub crawls and run clubs have no qualia

you have to emit more posts

type of guy who posts memes on linkedin

type of guy who's very agentic, aggressive, and not self-aware

we're all prosing on the aphorism app

based on this it follows that chatgpt is somewhat analogous to chat roulette

each human is as instantiated as each llm instance

i wonder if there's a tpot analogue in threads –– seems unlikely but maybe they exist and are just super strange

using em dashes in almost every post — is my praxis

some people say waymos are carnivorous — i don’t believe them but then again i’ve never seen a stray cat in sf or la

poasting on x feels like a pushing through a thick fluid whereas bsky or others feel thin

in a way building superhuman AI actually fulfills the promise of information wants to be free

what's our actual societal absorption rate of technological change?

if we had swiss public transit in america uber probably wouldn't exist

i used to watch wwdc and feel inspired and excited –– now i just feel bad for people working on this

douthat / bannon interview has amazing moments

solution to elite overproduction is declaring a state of permanent burning man in close proximity to all EHC hotspots

in our timeline midjourney is the braindance company

apple should have several skunkworks projects on AI only devices -- like when jobs pitted fadell's ipod team vs forstall's mac team to create the iphone

cars aren’t replacing horses they’re just supercharging drivers