Ben Backus

“yes, and”-er

[Ben Backus @BenBackus4]

Math + Iceland

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@skeptrune Preserve the parity era!

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@viemccoy @tenobrus … i’m not even autistic tho

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@QiaochuYuan @Grimezsz it’s a catchy sound bite but in practice, I think people who refuse to use AI understand it even less than the people who have adopted it. AI has so many emergent properties.

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@ariancodes @soohoonchoi @claudeai hack into Arian’s twitter and post something embarrassing

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Me asking claude to explain the difference between prod and staging after it ran a query on prod again

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@ariancodes @soohoonchoi it’s just a prank bro

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"So you do know the difference"

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@joshu Did it break out of the matrix or did it just wikihow itself

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@Aizkmusic Gotta wonder what the people who build the parts of a rig like this are thinking to themselves.

“I’m a master of my craft and I’m building a camera rig to turn a shitty camera into a good one instead of just building a great camera”

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There are cathedrals in a few very specific places for those with sufficient savings and PTO to see

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@yacinelearning @yacinelearning how much do you think this paradigm will open up AI research to casuals?

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The Catholic Church is a supply chain risk

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Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was invited to speak at today's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas."

Read the full text of his remarks: https://t.co/CoBfkVOVcy

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@hankgreen @gbrl_dick is your claim that tight feedback loops cause more pessimism, or just that there happen to be lots of people stuck in feedback loops that cause pessimism

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@kylekuzma bro your friend @rahulbathijaa can put you in touch with this quantum guy @rohankumar

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@HunterBiden Just woke up from a coma, is this guy based?

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@HunterGlenn @So8res @rayefull not a bad heuristic for trying to change the world

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@Brad08414464 I think it’s encouraging that no one on AI twitter is racing to assume philanthropy can be automated with AI. Like, it probably can, but humans ought to be very involved for just obvious reasons.

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@TylerAlterman