story idea--when you sleep, malevolent beings fly towards you. when you're awake, they are repelled at same rate. the beings are pushed away from you because you're awake twice as long as you sleep. but they close the gap in those who sleep more than they are awake.
@robinhanson Hitler's story seems like it could be written by JRR Tolkien. Stalin's and Mao's stories seem like they could be written by David Chase or Vince Gilligan.
Y Combinator JUST announced what startups they want to fund next in 2025. And it's mostly AI that replaces $100k/year job functions.
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If we had betting markets in which ideas will be successfully executed, you could gain from your ideas there and help the world execute them, while executors could hedge their execution bets.
Canadair Sabre jet fighter built by Canadair under licence from North American Aviation. A variant of North American F-86 Sabre, it was produced until 1958 and used primarily by the RCAF until replaced by Canadair CF-104 in 1962. Several other air forces also operated aircraft.
If I get laid off because productivity goes up 100x and production does too then I don't mind. I'm sure I can find ways to make enough to buy stuff that is 100x cheaper.
@AmericanGwyn This was intentional—Tolkien believed, along with his medieval sources, that power reveals just as much as it corrupts. Like tribulation—trials don’t change us so much as reveal what was always there.
Average personality profiles of fans of various genres of movies. Values higher than 0 indicate that fans are above average in the trait in question; values lower than 0 indicate that they’re below average.
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If we were designed to think solo, monologue would be easier than dialogue.
Dialogue involves INCREDIBLY complex acts of prediction, coordination, task-switching and mind-reading--yet we find it MUCH easier than monologue.
Why? Maybe thinking is a bicycle built for 2.