Imagine some guy in 2500 living in a city called "Coruscant" or "Arrakis," totally unaware that it's name came from a novel/movie no one has read/watched in centuries.

White boy shocks Egyptian by telling him to fuck off in perfect Arabic

look i'm just saying. normally when you're a college student and you go online and read a website where some guy tells you how the world is gonna end you don't actually see the beginning of his prophecies starting to come true 10 years later. it's a weird position to be in

Practically, the only rigorously proven things you can do for life extension right now are: - Don't be fat - Be fit - Control your blood sugar - Control your blood pressure - Have low cholesterol - Don't poison yourself Almost everything else is speculative and dubious.

Wie Dan🍃 Orwell had a good essay on Tolstoy vs Shakespeare. orwell.ru/library/essays…

If you want a smart way to practice this, read the following:

'According to the Tractatus, everything that can be thought can also be said. The limits of language are, therefore, the limits of thought, so that a complete philosophy of the "sayable" will be a complete theory of what Kant had called "understanding". All metaphysical problems

"A man can be only what he is and can imagine only according to his reach [portee]." Michel de Montaigne, Essays

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.” -David Lynch

From Sam Altman: “Adjusted for the subjective increase in how fast time passes, life is half over by 23 or 24. Don't waste time."

I took this seminar in the fall of 2023 (this recording is actually from my class) and it was one of the best academic experiences I’ve had

AI has stopped being a feature and started being the foundation. We're excited about a new wave of startups rebuilding software, services, and silicon— and pushing AI into the physical world. ycombinator.com/rfs

Here are the two main ways this Atlantic story happened: 1. JD Vance or his staff leaked the story to Atlantic reporters, or 2. An Atlantic reporter was accidentally invited to a JD Vance Signal chat.

Searchlight Institute Marc J. Dunkelman Stoller et al have been bashing the 1960s and 70s era fetters on govt for decades. This is a weird characterization of their arguments. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

taoki "There is an old Eastern fable about a traveler who is taken unawares on the steppes by a ferocious wild animal. In order to escape the beast the traveler hides in an empty well, but at the bottom of the well he sees a dragon with its jaws open, ready to devour him. The poor

The footballing Gods have blessed us tonight. Unfortunately the Devil has a plan for us tomorrow.

so apparently the concept of a teenager basically did not exist until post-WWII. a specific combination of historical forces produced a new class of young people who all had to go to high school, could not work on farms or in mills or factories anymore, and had access to money

.Grant Sanderson on why "focusing solely on your own growth" might not be enough: "I've always been of the thought that as long as you're focused on growth for yourself, the meaning to other people will naturally come. I'm not sure that's true." "A lot of young people have

jbivs gangster. reminder that the best salespeople aren’t the ones who can “sell water to a fish,” they’re the ones who can land a gig selling products that sell themselves.

my spicy 3000-word take is this: a new AI startup can in fact beat anthropic and open AI they just need to win the context layer