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@sebkrier i don't actually have an opinion on this but it's too convenient for you to say this while working at google

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@GaelenBet @steverbridges horrible take. clay court satisfies the smoothbrains because of long rallies

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@RishiJoeSanu What are the reasons that Kerala is still wealthier than other states?

[“paula” @paularambles]

Ah! You see, this miserable little document, this so-called date-me doc, is our era’s most honest pornography. It pretends to be romance, but what is it really? It is no longer the trembling hand on paper, the confession of desire. It is a spreadsheet of desire. “I am ready. I am six foot four. I have done the work.” What work? Love is precisely the place where work collapses into failure. You study and then you fail the exam.

And look at this language. “Highly agentic, emotionally warm.” Beautiful nonsense. Freedom, yes, but domesticated. Agency, yes, but pointing politely towards him. For Hegel, love is the risky collision of two freedoms. Here, there is no risk. She must arrive pre-formatted.

Then the farce reaches ecstasy. “If she does not appear, I will pursue single fatherhood.” Magnificent. Chance is canceled. Eros becomes procedure. The miracle of two gazes across a smoky room is replaced by paperwork and a receipt. The objet petit a is now a literal baby routed around the Other.

And of course, the “monogamish” clause. Pure ideology. Fidelity with a footnote. Like Coke Zero: love without sugar, passion without calories. He wants the experience of devotion, but sterilized of danger.

The document offers no asylum from loneliness. It is loneliness, meticulously formatted, hyperlinked, and begging for comments. He does not whisper “I love you.” He says “I am prepared to love you, conditionally, pending review.”

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dj-ing is to music what crypto is to finance

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huge for a very specific corner of the internet

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

The @slatestarcodex & @DKokotajlo episode.

Scott and Daniel break down every month from now until the 2027 intelligence explosion.

Misaligned hive minds, Xi and Trump waking up, automated Ilyas accelerating AI progress.

I went in quite skeptical. But I learned a tremendous amount by bouncing different objections against them.

Links below. Enjoy!

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - AI 2027

00:07:45 - Forecasting 2025 and 2026

00:15:30 - Why LLMs aren't making discoveries

00:25:22 - Debating intelligence explosion

00:50:34 - Can superintelligence actually transform science?

01:17:43 - Cultural evolution vs superintelligence

01:24:54 - Mid-2027 branch point

01:33:19 - Race with China

01:45:36 - Nationalization vs private anarchy

02:04:11 - Misalignment

02:15:41 - UBI, AI advisors, & human future

02:23:49 - Factory farming for digital minds

02:27:41 - Daniel leaving OpenAI

02:36:04 - Scott's blogging advice

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@ezraklein @DKThomp thoughts on the FRBSF paper "Supply Constraints Do Not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth Across U.S. Cities" which suggests that high COL is mostly due to demand/rising incomes?

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these anti-immigration people have clearly never eaten at a chinese restaurant in cupertino that has no english menu

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@shrikanth_krish test league in england during the summer saves cricket

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@0xsmallbrain finally

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substack must have the highest creator/consumer ratio of any platform

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@alex_j_young tweet more

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@0xsmallbrain hoodie pls

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wen @0xsmallbrain merch

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@0xsmallbrain @sofianeflarbi YES GOOD GAME

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@VivekGRamaswamy Trump literally has coalition groups for different demographic groups too https://t.co/P3WIJOPcLj

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@0xsmallbrain @sofianeflarbi my favorite game

[Small Brain @0xsmallbrain]

Introducing mystery meme: inside jokes but onchain

Mystery memes are memes that are partially hidden...but can be revealed for a changing price

A collab with @sofianeflarbi 👇

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@PiratesStrong @espn Y'all clowns LOl the USA team is mostly ex India and South African U19 player. happy for USA, but baseball still a bum sport in comparison