Scott Thompson

We must live fearlessly, to live in fear is to surrender your soul to the shadows voluntarily.

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@gothburz @AkashKrishna Law of triviality strikes again. https://t.co/LNKXxC4pT0

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@gothburz @George_Synaply Ex amzn. Multiple teams building similar tools without coordinating is not a new phenomenon. AI scales it. What is the downside risk of hyper specialized ephemeral software? Each one solved some worthwhile problem and was abandoned when no longer useful.

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@gothburz @IAmSagzee What are the risks here? Forecast_model_v17.xlsx solved a unique problem. It lived a useful but short existence and is still out there in a few network drive locations and desktop folders. Now that is a vibecoded program instead of excel doc.

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@bryan_caplan @ESYudkowsky And how did you manage or secure the counterparty credit risk?

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@Noahpinion There are no waits and cheap prices for surgeries like rhinoplasty, breast augementation, laser hair removal, and laser eye correction all of which are paid put of pocket to private medical practitioners.

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@TheZvi 1. Zvi's advice. The best of your thoughts on advice.
2. The systems concepts of Zvi. The easy button, levels of friction, simulacra, etc... the concepts you regularly reference distilled for newcomers.
3. Predictions in AI: zvis near term predictions.

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Only a certain type of person still insists upon labelling @X as "X (formerly twitter)". Its been almost 2 years, nobody needs the clarification anymore. That little wink says more about you than it does about @elonmusk at this point.

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@0xSardius @FinnMurphy12 @tylercowen @grok translate please

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@gdsimms @growing_daniel Ding ding ding. Its the default mode and literally optimized for energy use reduction. That big yellow sticker is a HUGE sales driver.

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@growing_daniel Dry sensing is an energy saving feature, not a "do a good job drying your clothes" feature. It allows them to put that giant yellow energy saver sticker on the front proclaiming that you'll save $138 a year on this device, which is a major marketing point for new machine sales.

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@mollycantillon @tszzl Wasnt this viral marketing for your AI startup? Im confused why ppl are looking at this as a manifesto and not an advertisiment for a sms assistance service... i guess we really have lost sight of the real world.

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@TheZvi One could argue that the naval blockade alone should resolve this to yes. The us has been conducting oil and drug interdiction operations within venezualas maritime borders with the US effectively controlling all venezualas sovereign maritime area.

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@drethelin Noriega in 89, ngo din diem in 63, mossadegh in 53, aristide possibly in 2004, sihanouk in 70 (not captured, but deposed), louverture in 1801, selassie in 36, Hungary in 56, czechoslovakia in 68, Most are big power supported coups but most have similar effect.

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@nearcyan @nikitabier We call that moral hazard, and have yet to find systems that disincentive it. "If it bleeds it leads" has been around a long long time and X is unmatched at covering this type of thing.

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@agent_kazak @eigenrobot @jarvis_best The WI / UP border is where the reporting artifacts are obvious. The MN to WI difference tracks. MN only recently allowed liquor stores to open Sundays, and doesn't sell beer/wine in gas stations or liquor at the grocery. But the UP is culturally equal to northern WI counties.

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@Afinetheorem @GarettJones FTC didnt kill roomba, the EU did. Spirit/jb on the other hand...

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@owroot Your cursive is improving...mmmm

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@owroot And learning to write cursive at the same time I see...

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@devonzuegel And therefore...? People should speak with greater specificity? People are lazy and should be willing to park further from their destination?

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@drethelin Viva Mexico