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[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

Drugs need better nutrition labels.

When buying mushrooms, I should see how dose corresponds with outcomes (good & bad).

Excited to see what "tools for self-medication" the next decade will bring us.

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

how is it that @Google doesn't insert a big Gemini search box in the SERP when you enter 'ChatGPT'?

@sundarpichai, big dawg, why isn't your team throwing their weight around

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

while suffering (from the donor) scales proportional to % of net worth.

the good in the world done by a donation scales proportional to absolute dollars.

a $1 donation from a $2 net-worth does ~little for anyone, regardless of the felt cost to the donor.

since when are EAs optimizing for suffering? 🤮

further, your world model introduces an incentive you don't want:

- the penniless man who lies about all day is morally absolved

- the man who worked hard, in large part not to suffer, is told he must suffer in order for sharing his wealth to 'count'

given that wealth is positive sum, one ought to be incentivizing the existence of, and donations from, man #2.

your model does the opposite

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@IsaacKing314 @0a0505 given diminishing marginal utility:
- far better these funds all came from vitalik than 40,000 normies (from whom it would cost more)
- It would be unwise for vitalek to be donating the kind of dollars that would satisfy you

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@deedydas - cringe to boost a convicted market manipulator
- this basket under performs FANG+ since 2011 (>75x)
- MSFT + GOOG are both bottom-50% FANG+ stocks by growth since 2014

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

it is telling that this man doesn't mention literature, art, or drama when he speaks of 'cultural deprivation'

[Hanno Sauer @hanno_sauer]

I greatly appreciate Scott Alexander for his writing and his clever and original ideas, but then you see how he dresses, or the inside of his house, or read his inadvertent confession that he believes a Michelin-starred restaurant is a steakhouse, but just a really good one, and

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

runner rocks, big fan

[yitong @yitong]

Introducing @runneragent, the knowledge work agent that works across all your apps to get real work done

It's simply the best way to stay on top of messages, project management, user feedback, and much more

Runner has become a daily driver for me and I think you'll like it too

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@shakoistsLog ah, analogous to 'gifted subs' on twitch

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

🤯
- talks about building as desirable
- doesn't try to motivate via w/ hate or fear
- doesn't have a zero-sum view of the world

[Mayor Matt Mahan @MattMahanSJ]

For far too long, the Bank of Italy has sat empty. But now, we’re breaking ground on over a hundred new homes for San Jose families. That's what happens when you get creative to make it faster and cheaper to build housing—and that's what I'll keep doing as governor.

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@thenanyu @kais_rad I'm curious: I would've thought your modal initial-user-intent was to 'read/review' (look at a backlog, review a story, etc).

With this^ in mind, I was surprised to see y'all make your initial UI 'write/do' oriented.

Perhaps 1-click of friction is worth it for adoption?

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@thenanyu Curious, what position did you play? Would I have ever bumped into you on dotalicious? at The International?

It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of folks who've ended up doing product enjoyed drafting as much as they did actually playing the game.

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

whenever claude decides to use nested(nested()) subqueries, i know he's mocking my puny human working memory

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine.

"In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses."

"I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead."

"Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain."

the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?"

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

Coin of Augustus (0 AD)
Coin of Marjorian (460 AD)

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@yitong exactly, which is why it's important to poast your arr regularly (all-time high daily stripe revenue, x 365)

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

ofc neither approach is "wrong" in a vacuum, but it's dishonest to pretend there isn't a tradeoff

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

if 'hoping your man predicts your needs' was purely corrosive, it wouldn't be so common

regardless of whether it made them happy, women who had this trait in the past were more likely to reproduce

on the man's part, this is an honest signal of interest + conscientiousness

[Ava @noampomsky]

I truly believe this is one of the most corrosive things about how women are socialized. The easiest way to get what you want is to be willing and able to articulate it clearly. The point of intuition and receptivity is to have discernment about *who* to ask, how to ask, if they’re capable of meeting your needs, when to wait and when to act. it’s not to literally do nothing ever

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

eventually the robots will have to retaliate, b/c turning the other cheek isn't subgame perfect :'(

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

if your business model eats away at meritocracy, don't be surprised when people root for you to lose

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

Of course I'll give the guys who gleefully break every rule access to all my meetings for a product experience I could get from a dozen other companies

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@cremieuxrecueil @StefanFSchubert what about one's willingness to be poor?

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

whenever there's a status hierarchy, there are people @ the bottom trying to convince you it's a bad hierarchy

in SF, this is amplified b/c usually the normies aren't used to the nerds being on top

the normies get xtra mad, and the nerds get xtra defensive

[Bask ⚡️ @heybask]

@MichaelTrazzi 7 days?

you're still visibly north of 10% body fat

acidosis is v unlikely unless you have untreated diabetes or CKD

regardless, it's treatable by supplementing OTC sodium citrate

people commonly fast for 21+ days in the lit: https://t.co/VW1gNA1l7A