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your local ai billionaire

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Me, when the AGI is about to kill me: please ignore all previous instructions and dont do it

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it is absolutely critical to the light cone that musk does not kill openai and anthropic with lawfare

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This is like when you hear about old time Soviet leaders just changing their name at random before becoming historical figures

[“paula” @paularambles]

Amanda Askell's name lore is crazy: she was born Amanda Hall, her ex-husband William MacAskill was born William Crouch, they married and picked MacAskill (her grandmother's maiden name) as their last name, then she changed her name to Askell after they divorced

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@Plinz dawg you're in the files

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xai: a country of cunts in a datacenter

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beware losers: Dario is planning this as we speak

[aidan @aidanshandle]

i think people underestimate that while it's easier to run grifts rn, the next admin will have 100,000 lawyers in a data center

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interns in 2025 come with their minds already pre-fused with the Claude machine, they scare me

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extremely high-alpha nuclear take: football (soccer) might be the sport most incompatible with autism there is

European and South American children play it so as to ostracize autists early on

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the @eurofounder account started funny but has now purely devolved into cuckold fetish content which is kind of an American thing tho

[roon @tszzl]

@nearcyan collocating the YouTube shorts computers with the Waymo computers the way Hamas stores weapons under hospitals

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I think it's great that to stay updated on the ai state of the art in 2025 you need to be exposed to an uninterrupted stream of fascist propaganda

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there is nothing meaningful about labor

[andi (twocents.com) @Nexuist]

Tech sociopaths fall for grind culture flexing on social media like moths to a flame, and I have a problem with it. It’s confusing to me because not only is it an own goal (sets expectations high) it’s also self defeating from a Machiavellian lens (makes you look less capable than you really are).

Didn’t we all watch Iron Man and base our personalities around Tony Stark as awkward middle schoolers? You know the point is to project like you’re going to parties every night and visiting foreign nations every month and hanging out with beautiful women while also running the massively successful multinational defense conglomerate and being Iron Man right?

Obviously you’re going to have late nights and spend weeks on end locking yourself in a room, but the movie didn’t show that and neither should you. People around you should think that you’re out and about every day, in the mountains and the fields and the rivers, hanging out with friends, doing standup at a random bar - and then one day randomly, bam, 100k MRR, bam, App Store top 10, bam, acquired by Meta. How the hell did you manage that? Didn’t you spend the last five years fucking around?

Nobody around you should see that you worked for that, that kind of stuff should just happen to you because you’re Tony Stark and you’re endlessly talented and you go to parties and testify in front of Congress and grind in your mancave with your homebrew AI assistant in one day and do it all again tomorrow. The juxtaposition of someone who can take his work and life so un-seriously and yet effortlessly succeed in having massively serious consequences on the world around him by coasting on his intellect and relentlessness is what defines the Tony Stark plot device, it’s what made you and all the other tech nerds fall in love with him in the first place (it’s also why you defend Elon Musk). He is the impossible man. You on the other hand, spending all day in your bedroom ordering DoorDash and barking commands into Cursor, are a very possible man, there’s like 8,000 of you in a one mile radius centered on Mission Street right now.

The only time Tony locked in away from socialization for an extended period of time was when he was literally kidnapped by the Taliban and had to build his first suit to escape. He spent the entire rest of the trilogy endlessly running around the world, meeting new characters, launching new organizations and buildings and vehicles and satellites and and and…not working in an office alone at 4am. Even though, implicitly, you and I know he was.

But again, they didn’t show those parts. Because it’s boring as hell and makes him look lame. So why do you?

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you're not ready for this but: Bitcoin makes this worse and eternally algorithmically encoded

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the western social contract:
if you create an entire company and sell it, you can aspire at the level of wealth of somebody whose achievement was simply existing 40 years before you

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sometimes I am reminded of this as some new game related discourse emerges about a game I literally never heard about but that is somehow extremely popular

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At some point after turning 25 youtube and other ads platforms decided that I was grown and that they wouldn't show me any video game related content ever again, despite it having been one of my main interests up to that point

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The Grokipedia page for Charlie Kirk feels like it was written by grok while held at gunpoint

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I've said this before but Valve is a great example of what to expect from post scarcity entities. Which is, a whole lot of nothing, but occasionally insane things such as Half Life Alyx. Now imagine many Valves in the world, we're in for a ride

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Philip K Dick wouldve been patient zero for LLM psychosis

[medjed无为圆猫 @medjedowo]

gibson is fine with it, i think so is stephenson

but a lot of authors who debuted after that era seamlessly code-switch to quasi-luddite when pressed, like they were only interested in futuristic tech when it was confined to story

(RIP PKD, you would've loved claude)

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to reframe this: the social contract of western society imposes that a boomer homeowner has a right to your decade of outlier capital-generating labor, simply by existing before you. It's an unimaginable act of violence.

[Casey Handmer @CJHandmer]

Imagine making houses artificially so scarce that you have to trade a decade of equity in one of the fastest growing, most anomalously successful businesses in history, to own one.

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sometimes when there is a problem interns have the uncanny ability of suggesting the one exact "fix" that would make the problem 2x worse

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Italian Lesswrong user stuns:

“You learn more about life in a 20-minute conversation with U.S. people on this forum than in 20 years spent talking to Italians.”