Vikram Bath

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

Marissa Mayer pushes back on this portrayal

He says he’s not Indian, but extremely Indian male behavior here

RFK Jr has an observation here. The difference is whether your conclusion is 1. “wow, white people must be hundreds of times smarter than everyone else!”or 2. “the systems of the US—particularly its universities—are incredibly valuable and allow people to flourish where they otherwise wouldn’t”

I’ve never stayed at an AirBnB anyway, but I’d prefer going the other direction. Ban cleaning fees but make any guest cleaning requirements very clear and explicit beforehand

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"A Family Earning $325,000 Qualifies for Government Aid" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Reminder that the White House put Barack Obama and his wife in a video of them as apes and the Saddam Cheesecake Factory line was his comeback 8 months later

1 is ChatGPT. 2 is Gemini. I don’t want to ask Claude because I don’t want it to realize things about me

The only Musk business that doesn’t rely comically on government support is X

Hide your Republican beliefs girl you're comms director for the MO Senate Republican caucus

OpenAI argues that while Astra does not score quite as well as Sonnet, its at least more expensive

Our political system hasn't decided that Donald Trump isn't a rapist. it has decided that it's ok that he's a rapist.

Traveling to other countries to find out how much they suck compared to mine

🎶 Cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Hey @grok could you sing my kid a bedtime tune Plan his birthday party and invite his friends I bet he'll have a good time then, yeah I hope he'll have a good time then 🎶

I keep having versions of this conversation with researchers IRL where they want so badly to draw an Ethical AI Usage line that allows them to use it to avoid writing/analyzing/editing/reviewing/publishing BUT still requires everyone else (not AI) to read the resulting research product.

Stop anthropomorphizing AI. Only humans “hallucinate” or “make mistakes”.

I made an anthracite coal forge in the backyard out of an old grill for the younger kid to play with, and it’s been great. (I am doing 90% of the operations, to be clear)

What are you talking about? $10 million would be a life-changing amount of money for most working class corporations

When scum from all over the world like Madison Cawthorn go there on a pilgrimage to take smirking selfies, it is not serving any historical purpose. It’s just a Stonewall Jackson statue.

Publishers deliberately platform socially clueless narcissists to write odious confessionals because the publishers know they'll go viral, because the barren inner landscape of a narcissist is fascinating the way roadkill is.

This deserves concrete thought. How can you be all things to all people? How can you convince everyone that you’re really on their side when they can hear you telling others who hate you the exact same thing? How does he do it?

They don't want an adult on par with them they want an adult younger and less powerful than them

One distinct way that I’ve moved to the left is that I used to discount claims like this, and now I find it hard to understand the world without them.

Using AI to prepare for an interview for a job where I would use AI to make ML software so that other people can use AI

It might be cool being a billionaire though. Wake up every morning and say “you know what? Today *I* get to be the Make-A-Wish kid”

Hockey is so funny because two guys just throw off their gloves and then start punching each other and you can see the referees just casually skating around waiting for them to finish

the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you. going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also

In some areas, Bari Weiss has maintained CBS’s standards

LeBron James has won 3 Olympic gold medals for America and has implemented $0 in tariffs on US consumers

Thinking about being anti-anti-Yglesias as a bit

Me: [touches literally anything] The State of California: Hey, that’s a carcinogen

I saw this and thought “oh, it’d be nice if they could eliminate it entirely rather than just minimize it, but that is not the way they meant “minimize”

Apparently LeBron is not the only player who stretches during the national anthem

Initially thought this was about the writer using a contraction. I was like, harsh but ok.

The Normies will save us

Being a public servant is not a sport, it carries obligations of duty, and Vivek is grossly unfit to be able to carry that out.

Hmm

I think Charles might need that Person Woman Man Camera TV test they give the President

I’m on his side. No one should know what php is.

good lord

Benjamin Franklin: And it has the power of 130 horses within it? Will: once it gets going, at least that. And it can continue for hundreds of thousands of miles. Franklin: No wonder your enemies are so terrorized