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"A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded."

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@AISafetyMemes Smoking that crack called hype. Hyping up the IPO.

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@PardonMyTake Great actor. Incredible Ewing Champion jersey.

[frye @___frye]

stackoverflow is a ghost town now. it’s like walking through an abandoned liminal space. the top question from the past month has 78 upvotes and is titled “how can i avoid using LLMs as a software developer”

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@adamc0dez Eh, fundraising pre-traction has always been hard - pretty much the same 10 years ago.

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@binarybits "Oopsies, we spent $500 mil!" Yeah, didn't happen.

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@chammond510 @TheStalwart 500? You don't think WW2 had any questions come out of it?

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@AutismCapital 5 year old calls them "films". Curious.

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Soccer guy Tom Brady

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@rodger This shit is fire.

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@stevemagness Social media is overrun by bots stooging for the "Big Gel" lobby.

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Led Zeppelin III was released 399 days before Led Zeppelin IV. What an extreme level of ass-kicking performed in such a relatively short time.

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@badasskachii March Madness... Kevin Pittsnogle.

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@lillysharples @a16z

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"Work nourishes noble minds." - Seneca

[Vintage Puroresu プロレス @vintagepuro]

British Bulldogs x Hart Foundation. Boston Garden ‘86. 🩷🐶📻

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

James Clear on having high standards

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@lillysharples (Don't tell Mr. Beast. He will steal the idea.)

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@lillysharples Do this. Make it happen.

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@LiamFennessy_ WHOOP! There it is.

https://t.co/MPrMGz0vtR

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Ronny Chieng had one message for Harvard grads during his commencement speech: destroy AI.

"Look, a lot of other respected graduation speakers in colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. I'm here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI...

"And I know, I know there's someone sitting out here right now who’s just like, 'Well, you know, what about the use of AI to pioneer breakthroughs in medicine and physics?' Well, first of all, shut up, nerd. I'm not talking about that. Obviously, if you're using it for that purpose, you're not the problem.

"I'm talking about the accumulation of cognitive debt due to excessive use of large language models according to a study by MIT published in 2025. That's right, MIT. MIT did that study. I guess you guys were too busy giving each other A's. Feel free to boo MIT, by the way, and AI, and yourselves, I guess.

"Look, this is actually good news, okay? This is why you guys shouldn't be scared of AI, because I think AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumber. Have you heard how dumb people brag about how they use AI? They're always like, 'Hey, did you know that AI can now read my email, summarize it, and drop a response?' Yeah, you know who else can do that? Me. I can do that. You can't do that? How useless are you? You need artificial intelligence just to match me? I'm a dumb*ss who couldn't get into Harvard.

"From what I can see, getting an actual advantage from AI in the future will require a minimum escape velocity of intelligence that I'm assuming you guys from Harvard have. Everyone else who can't match that is just going to get dumber, and that's when you run up the score on them, assuming we still have a functioning society, of course.

"But to run up the score, you’re going to have to master your craft. And AI can be the fuel, but fuel is useless if you can't kindle the fire. For example, I recently used AI to use regression analysis to prove that a certain race of people are mathematically terrible at sports. I won't say which race, but thank you for not inviting Hasan Minhaj to Harvard. My point is, learning the fundamentals still matter. If I didn't know what a regression analysis was, and if I wasn't fundamentally racist, would I have been able to do any of that? No.

"Untalented people love bragging about using AI to help them draft their speeches and their scripts and their podcasts and their promo videos for UFC fights at the White House, which to be fair, even if they had filmed that for real, it would still have looked like AI. But what they're missing is this: the creating is the fun part. The best part of comedy writing is figuring out the puzzle pieces of a joke and getting the self-regard from having accomplished a difficult thing. Why would I want AI to take that away from me?

"You know what problem I want AI to solve? I want the problem of AI making everything look like sh*t. I want AI to solve that problem. How about that?

"Or how about, can AI take away the part of comedy writing where my TV pilot gets passed on and when I ask if I can pitch it to someone else, the network says, 'We don't want it, but we also don't want anyone else to have it. We just want you to be sad.' Can AI solve that?

"I recently tried to introduce my friend to Buddhism through a book called Buddhism Made Simple. It was literally a book about Buddhism made simple. And instead of reading it, he used AI to summarize it in 10 seconds. Believe it or not, he didn't reach enlightenment. It turns out speed running Buddhism is completely missing the point.

"And I know this platitude is almost worthy of AI, but the reason shortcuts to skip to the end aren't always good is because the journey isn't just how we acquire skills. The journey is the point of all this. It is! It turns out maybe the real Harvard was the friends we made along the way.

"Look, I know this won't apply to everyone's industry, but I'm just saying whatever your chosen profession is, please don't let AI rob you of the fun part of it.

"I think your generation's upcoming battle won't be humans against AI. That's at least two months away. It's going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it. It's going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles."