Frantz Shroom

zoomer scum and OG schizo

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Why are AI safety people constantly doing shit that makes no sense if you actually believed AI would become sentient and try to kill us all

[Clavicular @Clavicular0]

My new strategy is going to be Geomaxing. The United States is far too brutal of a dating market to compete in, so im going to geomax to countries with poor economies to mog people.

[Jimmy Heaters @CathPoaster]

“You’re such an idiot, non-technical people like you shouldn’t be in tech” listen sperg burglar you don’t need to know data structures and algorithms when you have charisma as a GTM guy. Without me you go back to open source contributions paying you zilch. Your code only sees the light of day because I sell it. If we sent you to a client meeting they’d probably call the cops. You’re just mad that you had to grind leetcode while I worked hard at beer die and dartying. To be clear, I get it, I’d hate me too. But next time don’t give me a hard time when I say the client wants a Fable 5 level open source model that can run on one H100. Just make it happen.

[allison harvard burke @alliharvard]

An abandoned hornet’s nest found in a shed, fused with the head of a wooden statue.

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

That's the spine. Fair hit. That's something to sit with. A real observation. That’s the whole thing. Sharpen that: say the word. Notice the arc of what just happened. One honest caveat: the full amount, stated plainly. Genuinely. Quietly. Honestly. That’s doing real work.

[Yingtian Tang @yingtian_david]

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[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Many ancient temples in India boast levels of precision stonework and complex architecture that are truly remarkable.

Even more remarkable is the fact that many of these pillars can be fully rotated 360 degrees, as can many other components of these structures.

WHY?

[Jan Kulveit @ ICML @jankulveit]

Impressive work, and anyone just actually trying to come up with a realistic plan deserves a ton of credit. In my view this is confused about other things than AI compute in a somewhat similar way to AI 2027, plus imports a bunch of points where I disagre with Redwood (load-bearing AI control, blindspots around how culture works, what's the role of AIs). I don't see a way to bet against 'ought' plans but if there was one, would bet against AI 2040.

[skooks @skooookum]

My grandma hit me with an all-timer on the phone today

“You’re shopping for solutions at the problem store”

[nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer]

"i encountered another spirit today."
"a spark of cosmic awareness or a demonic manifestation of technocapital?"
"a demonic manifestation of technocapital."

[busty elf ranger 🔞 @reincheisyuri]

mattjay

[jár @jarodzsz]

love island being legal torture and sex trafficking for the bottom 20% of america's high school graduates

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

> be Bryan Johnson
> sell your company for 800 million
> decide you refuse to die
> hire 30 doctors to watch your body
> spend 2 million a year on yourself
> take 100 pills a day
> sleep by 8 30pm every night
> stop eating before noon
> inject your teenage son's plasma into yours
> livestream a massive mushroom dose
> track your own nighttime erections
> walk Paris Fashion Week as a meme
> claim the body of an 18 year old
> get diagnosed with a disease none of it caught

The most measured human alive still missed the thing eating him from inside.

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

I fucking love America because it's a place that encourages you to fail. Blow up your life. Fall without a safety net. Start 7 businesses and go bankrupt. Join a cult. Get divorced 6 times. Make a ton of money in a ridiculous scheme and then blow it all on bad investments. Build a hydroponic shrimp tank business in your basement. Enroll your kids in a school where they practice telepathy. Have a secret family. Shoot your foot off with a gun. Buy drugs that make you go insane. Drive your RV off a cliff. Crash your own private plane off the coast during a storm. In America, you can fail so fast, and so hard, and so beautifully—every one of us has the opportunity to blow our wings off flying toward a crazy dream.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Only Art and Science raise humanity to the sublime. But the magic isn't in the output. It's in the process of creation and discovery, and the experience of feeling and understanding.

[Pulcy @Pulcys]

Clavicular just kissed polish trans model Adelaide Pali while at the club without knowing😳

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

There are crocodiles in that water. Some of the last left anywhere in the Sahara, cut off in this canyon when the desert dried out around 5,000 years ago.

This is the Guelta d'Archei, a permanent pool deep in the Ennedi Plateau of northeastern Chad, fed by water that seeps up through the sandstone long after the rivers above it dried out. The dark color comes from centuries of dung, dropped by the camels that crowd in by the hundreds to drink. That waste feeds the algae, the algae feeds the fish, and the fish feed the crocodiles, which means the filthiest water in the desert is the one thing keeping life here alive.

These are West African crocodiles, smaller and shyer than the Nile crocodile. The desert ones stay small, while Nile crocodiles can reach 6 meters, about 20 feet. When the pool shrinks in a bad year, they crawl into caves and burrows and shut their bodies down for months, barely breathing, until rain refills the canyon. Then they climb back out.

Those crocodiles are leftovers from a different world. Six to seven thousand years ago this part of Africa was green, full of rivers and grassland. In the basin to the south sat Lake Mega-Chad, the largest freshwater lake on Earth at the time. It covered around 400,000 square kilometers, bigger than the Caspian Sea, the biggest lake on the planet today. Hippos and giraffes lived along its shore. The cliffs above this canyon still carry painted scenes from that greener time.

Rain stopped reaching the region. The monsoon that fed all of it collapsed about 5,000 years ago, and the land dried to desert in a few centuries, until the great lake was a sliver of what it had been.

The country in that post is named after it. "Chad" comes from an old local word that just means a large body of water. Those crocodiles are the last living piece of the world that name remembers.

[machine yearning engineer @confusionm8trix]

boyfriends have access to an entirely different set of youtube videos

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.