during the 60's, Soviets developed extremely strong Mind Magic that put America into a coma, yielding decades of bad music, bad housing, bad art, bad food. We're just coming out of it now on the plus side its nice to live at the start of a golden age x.com/larryfink_jr/s…

[baby boomer imagining what a prosperous life looks like in the world they’ve left behind for their children] so imagine you work six days per week at a rural gas station

I went to the permanent underclass and everybody knew you

Ever since I got a job at big tech I stopped having cool project ideas. What’s the deal with that

I must subsidize demand

Take the blue pill, you wake up in your bed, work on SpaceX, send the first human to Mars, while going nearly bankrupt in the process. Take the red pill, you make X the app for actually everything, Tesla Optimus Goon Mode, and become a trillionaire. But remember, no matter

it's crazy how much of an antisignal "PhD" is

In the past this kind of guy would just get told to fuck off, now he can talk to chatgpt for months and get told he's not just right—he's revolutionizing the very foundation of mathematics

okay what I did here was I took a data set of ChatGPT interactions collected in the wild and reversed the "assistant" and "user" tags. fine-tuned llama 8B on some of that data and gave it the ability to message you first. try it at youaretheassistantnow.com 😊

Enlightenment is realizing that “builds a thriving society” is the only truth that matters, so the first question answers itself

if i was running such studies, i would be more curious about why "misalignment" here looks like a comic pastiche of what lesswrong-pilled alignment researchers think of as bad, very bad (even "paperclips" get a special mention!)

all twitter “discourse” is taking one person and imagining them as part of some fake outgroup you get to dunk on when no one actually said that people talk about tiktok brain rot but use this app wrong and it’s so much worse

it turns out most LinkedIn career advice is for strivers to try and fit in

as per usual, assume the opposite of whatever this guy says “AGI is here” -> we get gpt-5 instead “AI is in a bubble” -> hmmm