Sean Levin

@behavior_graph coauthor. Engineer @yahoo. Dad. Husband. Previously NYC, Boston, Las Vegas.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Why @KILLTONY Is The World's Most Diverse Comedy Show.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@krishnanrohit Which is why it’s a good thing that we have multiple tribes simultaneously maintaining their own realities. What looks like dysfunction is actually information preservation.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@alc_anthro @GaryMarcus I’m not going back.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@ArtemisConsort Were you religious before? If not how did the shift start happening for you?

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@Steve_Yegge I like you Steve.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Every single assessment about morality, progress and possible outcome of the Iran war I read is 100% correlated with whether the author likes or hates Trump. It's pretty annoying

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Homeopathic medicine is perfect for this. I used to make fun of it, but it provides real utility for my wife who NEEDS to treat her children.

In Hong Kong it there is at least one Chinese medicine storefront on every single block. I’m convinced US could halve its medical expenses by letting people self medicate with relatively harmless teas and broths.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

The thing I find most difficult to believe about the Anthropic vs US Gov situation is that someone actually read a software company’s Terms of Service.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

My daughter has a school assigned Chromebook with a hodgepodge of low quality, difficult to use, educational apps. Her history book is available “online” but really it’s just a difficult to read copy of the physical book. It would be amazing if she had something that was interactive. Why not have videos and quizzes and spaced repitition and add some dopamine hits to keep them engaged? These aren’t even new ideas. It’s sad really.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@GergelyOrosz @Steve_Yegge Honestly it’s fine. Doesn’t bother me as a listener at all. I’d rather hear Steve with a little echo than no Steve at all!

[Sean Frank @Seanfrank]

I’m LONG everything.

- America will fix its problems
- no war with China
- wars in Europe and the Middle East end
- we will solve housing
- we will solve addiction
- we will fix social security and the debt problem
- California will wake up and get out of its own way
- we will legalize building again
- billionaires will build great public projects

No doomerism.
The world will get richer, safer, and more peaceful.

More people will get medicine and money and buy cool shit.

I’m long everything.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@doodlestein @GoodFarmingAdam lol. Now you’re just showing off :)

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@doodlestein This is beautiful. Have you documented anywhere your planning process you use to get to this point?

[Shrivu Shankar @ShrivuShankar]

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[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@notch No Wait! Come visit us in Newport Beach first! It’s awesome here.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@Limitless_LT @bryan_johnson I’d like to know more about this. What brand? Were you suffering from issues before?

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@Plinz How do you avoid this? People decide what science is done, what is promoted (or the inverse), what is reviewed, what is funded, how it is taught, and who should do it. All of those exist in the domain of ideology. It's like swimming without submitting to the tyranny of water.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@AmericanDebunk “Into Thin Air” is my favorite book of any genre. The fact that it’s nonfiction makes it all the better.

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

@krishnanrohit @DavidSacks Isn’t it great that we get to have this debate though?

[Sean Levin @seanlevin]

I don’t think you can eliminate Marxist ideologies through force. They flow from a natural human proto-Marxist impulse. It might be a solid survival strategy to gang up on the big monkey who’s not sharing his bananas.

In a more complex society built on property rights and innovation it’s a vestige. It feels right to many people (particularly the young) and I t’s abstract enough to easily reframe into whatever the current struggle of the day is.

The way to defeat it isn’t to squash it. It will just rise up from the ashes in a new form. We need an outlet for it. Maybe we could channel it into a pastime like we do with physical aggression and sports. I don’t have any great ideas though.