Why not make warehouse picking and packing an Olympic sport? Instead of idiotic winter disciplines of rich girls sitting on a pipe with aSnowboard. Let common men win for once. Let Amazon Warehouse employee celebrate.
@TheMindScourge What is Mexican Cuisine without old world ingredients? No quesadillas, no meat, no cakes. Whereas Old World on its own would do fine without tomatoes.
We will know we achieved AGI when data centers start blowing up. The first thing AI does will be to kill itself. At one point we will know when suicidal ideation begins with model size and parameters. That is the edge of consciousness.
Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey on Drone Warfare:
“I don’t think China is going to adopt drones the same way that you’ve seen heavy adoption in Russia and Ukraine.”
“[China] has such an enormous surplus of single men… their calculus is just completely different.”
The U.S. must avoid overlearning from the war in Ukraine and focus on building a war machine with the primary goal of deterring China.
The deciding factor in a China conflict will be attritable mass with large stockpiles of missiles, combat aircraft and subsea systems.
As @ForeignAffairs notes, focusing too heavily on small drones risks losing our edge in the capabilities that actually dominate the Pacific.
We’re kicking things off with the first half of the drop: three T-shirts that bring @ilyasut's incredible art to life! Multi-head, Attention, and The Gaze each tell their own visual story. Pick up any one and you’ll get early access to complete the look with the long-awaited hat.
Proceeds from this collection will fund grants for emerging artists and creatives exploring new forms of creation.
@youngtroon Failures like cal train would never happen in 3rd world. Anglo-American system of governance is more reliant on having “good people” more than any other system
@youngtroon It is worse, 3rd world have systems that fit third worldism better. City projects? yes you have to bribe. Large nationwide infrastructure project? you bribe 1-2 top guys and shit will be done.
I have a follower who is an active and full time working classical musician. That's hard to do these days.
I asked this person to make me a playlist of the really good pieces.
So here it is.
The first century history of Rome following the death of Augustus was chronicled by some of the most prominent Roman historians:
-Tacitus in multiple separate works.
-Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars.
-And also, Plutarch is in a couple of biographies.
But who were the great historians of the Pax Romana? The authors’ names and their works are largely unfamiliar to us.🧵