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I like climbing because the two types of people who seem to be best at it are (a) people who have dedicated every waking moment of their life to it for decades and (b) five year olds.

I absolutely believe that some victims of assault are less negatively affected by it than others. I don't think this detracts from the seriousness of the crime itself, and insisting such victims must be wrong about their own experiences seems very rude and infantilizing.

Now I really wanna know the fanmail that Amanda Askell and Anthropic get for Claude

Strength training really does make you sleep like a baby. Every night you'll sleep soundly for a few hours, wake up, cry a little, drink some muscle milk, then fall back asleep.

It's bizarre when relatively techno-utopian people are asked about how to solve declining fertility and instead of talking about artificial wombs, extended fertility spans, AI-assisted childcare, UBI, etc. they're suddenly like "well we just need to return to the 50s".

Ezra Klein is interviewing his way through everyone I know personally. It's basically the Amanda pals podcast.

I wonder when we'll have to agree on code phrases or personal questions with our parents because there's enough audio and video of us online for scammers to create a deepfake that calls them asking for money. My guess is... uh, actually, I might do this today.

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It's heartening to see that so many people from across the political spectrum still agree on one thing, namely "my money disappearing is bad".

A delivery driver rang my doorbell at 5:30am waking me up, and I just don't know what I did to cause him to declare multigenerational war like that.

If there is useful work for you to do, there is dignity in working. If there is no useful work for you to do, there is dignity in having a good time.

If you're a prompting genius, please apply to this role and include an example that shows off how well you can inspire models, regardless of the target. Scaffolding pipelines, metaprompts, prompts that improve outputs, and so on are all great. job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…

If I have kids, I think I'll just offer to have them paternity tested by default. The tests are like $100 and would give the father peace of mind, so it seems like a no brainer. After all, if I had kids with a surrogate, I'd probably want a maternity test for peace of mind too.