imagining that this comic is written by a cis male chaser

juicing my teams productivity by 2% by constantly telling them that they have a meeting in 1 minute

economics professors will tell you that unbundling of comfort and basic service on airplanes makes everyone better off. That’s how you know that economics professors don’t do business travel

I feel sad about doge because everyone’s going to conclude “smart generalists can’t just come in and fix a system” but the problem is really that smart generalists could totally fix everything but these people aren’t smart generalists

you’ve heard of the trump put, now get ready for the trump call

constantly changing tariff policy is just 4D chess to encourage investment in supply chain resilience

I need the equivalent of the tpot “like every reply” norm but for workplace slack discussions

any reasonable estimate of the cost of this tweet thread is more than 8k

new EA cause area: start a prestigious high school debate circuit that somehow follows these rules

pretty weird to see the “I’m not a robot” checkbox go from a kinda silly UX decision everyone made fun of to a meaningful property for keeping out bots

my most overconfident opinion is that, despite being extremely conflict averse and terrified of stressful situations, I believe I could ace a show like this

2022: Were going to fund journalism by investigating companies and shorting them when we publish an expose 2025: Were going to fund journalism by shorting the market and then rage-baiting the president

I still believe that there will be one discrete model release which will be quickly seen as unambiguously AGI and we haven’t had it yet

artemis fowl!butlerian jihad

Lots of people in this sphere resist paranoid safety-ism over child kidnapping, conclude that they should let kids have independence, only to fall into paranoid safety-ism over having cops called on them for letting their kids walk to the grocery store

the only important political issue in a post scarcity utopia is how other people are allowed to raise their children. you can measure what % of the way the US is to a post scarcity utopia by observing what % of politics is about other people raising children

the problem here is that the general principle of Bayesian statistics - that you should assign probabilities to different hypotheses - Is genuinely super important but only has a tangential and highly-technical relationship to Bayes theorem and so they get conflated

as a freshman in college a senior taught me the algorithm you use to organize an orgy and 9 years later I finally get to apply it to organizing a vibecamp cabin

love how every San Francisco hotel does a weird humiliation ritual at check in where they walk you through how they’re going to scam you out of 30$/night in exquisite detail

I never got why big tech still gives such a large portion of salary as RSUs. It creates a ton of distortion and surely the incentive alignment isn’t meaningful at scale