Michael Burk

Music lover. Beer aficionado and brewer. Amateur pitmaster. Product @amazonmusic, previously @postmates, @bigcommerce, @ea.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@elonmusk @WallStreetMav It’s doesn’t matter what percentage. There are real people with families who would be required to work without pay. What is the plan for them?

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Wow.

If you are to watch one video this morning, watch this.

Pete Buttigieg perfectly explains why Billionaires in Silicon Valley now support Trump and why J.D. Vance has flip flopped to liking Trump.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@GentlemenRogues great show in Phx last weekend. Do you recall what song you played for the encore?

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@DavidSacks The real scandal is using an apostrophe to make a word plural.

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@EricaJSandberg @Jason Certainly not.

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@natebosshard @DeanPreston What are you talking about? Are you saying people living on the street have no right to private property?

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

This is rad. Imagine creating a story world that can constantly adapt to your actions even if you hadn’t pre-programmed that scenario.

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

A bunch of new people followed me so I thought I'd share my favorite GPT-4 prompt - this prompt will let you generate a MUD of literally any virtual world you imagine. It worked great with GPT-3.5 and became insanely good with GPT-4:

I want you to act like you are simulating a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD). Subsequent commands should be interpreted as being sent to the MUD. The MUD should allow me to navigate the world, interact with the world, observe the world, and interact with both NPCs and (simulated) player characters. I should be able to pick up objects, use objects, carry an inventory, and also say arbitrary things to any other players. You should simulate the occasional player character coming through, as though this was a person connected online. There should be a goal and a purpose to the MUD. The storyline of the MUD should be affected by my actions but can also progress on its own in between commands. I can also type “.” if I just want the simulated MUD to progress further without without any actions. The MUD should offer a list of commands that can be viewed via ‘help’. Before we begin, please just acknowledge you understand the request and then I will send one more message describing the environment for the MUD (the context, plot, character I am playing, etc.) After that, please respond by simulating the spawn-in event in the MUD for the player.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@NorthIsUp @DeanPreston Comcast offers gigabit in the Western Addition.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@JackieFielder_ What is a carceral urbanist?

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

Come to think of it, all of my Twitter feed is this sort of nonsense. ChatGPT prompts and “this guy built a $1B business from his garage” threads.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

If you’re still tweeting threads of ChatGPT prompts that’ll change your life, you’ve earned yourself and immediate unfollow. You sound like MLM hawkers.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@ercwl @kittenmittoncr1 So the object is for people on Twitter to think you can predict things, and your tactic is to fire off a bunch of too-soon-to-call predictions in hope you make one you can quote tweet?

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@chrsdcook @DonaldFR No one in any city says everybody should be able to move there. SF does need plenty of additional housing — affordable and otherwise.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@debracleaver @ShailviW No argument with that. Should have seen it coming. But the people who deposit money in a bank shouldn’t have to do a financial security audit on it. And in this case there are actually enough assets to back those deposits. Sins of the father and all that.

[Michael Burk @michaelburk]

@debracleaver @ShailviW Hi! That’s true, but different. The bank has enough assets to pay depositors back in full. Just not in cash, right now. Better to give people access to all deposits while they liquidate the assets, which is what they did.

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@debracleaver @ShailviW That’s how insurance works. The insured pay into a fund to pay the claims of others. In this case the insured are other banks that would expect the same backstop if they needed it.

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@jimmy_wales @Jason Well he does consider himself the PT Barnum of his generation…

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@HillaryRonen Shockingly tone deaf.

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@SFPDChief @SFPD Isn’t St. Patrick’s Day on 3/17? Why not next weekend?