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[toaDime @toaDime]

@Romy_Holland My grandmother (in her 80s) retells the same stories but I think she genuinely doesn't remember telling them before. She doesn't have dementia or anything just normal kinda gradually deteriorating memory.

[toaDime @toaDime]

@RichardHanania I remember reading a paper (can't find it now sigh) that proposed this theory: humans evolved a drive to dispose of bodies in ways that denied them to predators. This made groups of humans a less attractive target: even if you injure one the others won't let you eat it.

[toaDime @toaDime]

@robinhanson Your argument is very abstract. Can you walk through one or more of the concrete examples in dynomite's post? I found those more convincing than your equations.

[toaDime @toaDime]

@gptbrooke Me (turned 30 this year): oh this is not for me. Wait ... shit

[toaDime @toaDime]

@robinhanson Pretending or "deciding" to like high-status things is what lower-status social climbers do. High-status people like these things "naturally".

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

Plot twist: the “Greens” were secretly the coal lobby all along

[Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ @ESYudkowsky]

This, not (the misperception of) Dunning-Kruger, is the one cognitive bias that I wish everyone on the Internet knew about.

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

I wanna see a 3d animated movie in the big eyed, pretty, vaguely jelly style of Encanto or Frozen, except it's a dark r-rated drama full of bloody battles and sex scenes

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

Happy new year!

Today, a mini-tweetstorm of some of the things I've said and written over the past decade, and what I think about those subjects today.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One of the biggest surprises of my adult life is how unethical reporters are. In movies they're always the good guys. Everyone in tech knows stories like this.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

the government spent 7 trillion dollars last year. we're 29 trillion in debt. nothing is better. but we demand our CEOs fix the world, as a side project, with a few billion. i've been wondering: is this bc they’re the only example we have of leaders who’ve actually done anything?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@DrEliDavid If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

People often describe me as 'extremely weird', 'mentally atypical,' 'like an alien studying how humans work,' but I genuinely feel so normal from the inside. I feel like this is the obvious, default way to be and I'm continually confused why everyone else is so different from me.

[Balaji @balajis]

Whatever the state props up rises in price. Whatever technology disrupts falls in price.

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

1/ It's been about a year since my mission-focused blog post. It wasn't easy to go through at the time, but looking back, it turned out to be one of the most positive changes I've made at Coinbase, and I'd recommend it to others. https://t.co/FudJSuaumB

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

im continually pretty shocked at how much 'housing is expensive' discourse is dominated by anything other than "it's usually *illegal* to build more housing"

[David R. MacIver @DRMacIver]

It's not exactly that the truth is usually in the middle, but the truth is usually super fucking complicated and the edges tend to be simple.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@thesheetztweetz They can shake their fist at the sky

[Bella Rudd @BellaRudd1]

nice policy you got there, be a real shame if someone tried to implement it at the average bureaucrat's level of competence