In the early days of Rain, Charles Yoo-Naut (🌧️,🌧️) and I would talk to our early customers and realize that for them stablecoins were intellectually the same as money and they expected them to behave like money and spend like money. At the time clients were frustrated that on-ramps and

this xentgames paper reads like a yudkowskian nightmare: RL tasks, game theory, evolution. tasks function as bottomles evals and rl tasks. bonus: the codebase is MIT licensed and smells professional (despite their academic affiliation). ie, Andrew Emil & Clément Hongler

Can’t believe winter happens every single year, gimme a break

Depending on how you count it, this is the third time in 400 years Russia has tried to conquer Ukraine. Russian Empire gradually conquered Ukraine in the 17/18th century. Soviet Russia re-conquered after a brief independence in 1921. More recently, Crimea and the current war.

Tempo v Monad 🥊

I know this is an illegal thought but what if the dude who spent his whole life facilitating massive deals is actually good at making deals

Google’s AI answers make me painfully aware of how bad the hallucination problem is

Damn I knew I was a late bloomer but there is even a literal saint younger than me now

I apologize to my friends and family for not monitoring the situation today. I had a very busy day doing real work. Tonight I will make amends by not sleeping and sending you every half-true post I see about the ongoing Russian drone incursion in Poland. MONITORING ACTIVATED.

Declining birth rates, an increasingly fractured global order, and the rise of political violence will change your life far more in the next twenty years than AGI.

what I’ve learned over the years is to always trust that feeling in my gut about something but to be open minded about how and when I address it.

this is an unironically great hype video

Slop videos are so dumb but then you make a cute one of your wife and send it to her and it’s like “ok fine this is fun”

we’ve all accepted cast iron skillets were a psyop right?

So many books on software should just be like 200 words. I can’t believe I just skimmed through “accelerate” which has nothing to say except “deploy more frequently and try not to get your team burnt out.” 50% of the book is filler or on methodology.

I’ve been a man my whole adult life and have never once felt the urge to spit on the sidewalk or in a trash can somewhere. Am I missing something here?

The Free Press has been a bright light in a dark and confusing time. They are an impactful voice of honesty and insight, not afraid to break narratives in any direction. Congrats to Bari Weiss and the rest of the team!

i always have to physically smile as I type an emoji out

That feeling when “you’re absolutely right” for 10 iterations and that thing still doesn’t work

The reactions of silence, indifference, and celebration to Oct 7 broke my heart in 2023. It laid bare something I had been feeling rise up in the Western mindset since the mid 2010s although I realize now it began much earlier. Visiting Israel in 2024 was difficult, challenging,