triangle man ☀▶️

A nice guy :) Likes, RTs and follows are endorsements. If I follow someone it means I agree with everything they have ever said, public or private.

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

twitter is an evolutionary bottleneck for the noösphere. thought patterns which can't adapt will be driven to extinction. the memeplexes which survive will enjoy a thousand years of domination. your job, anon, is to thread the needle that leads to the kingdom of heaven

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

@NoyesArt @Hired_Sellout Gwern wrote on this https://t.co/lBDIYPYVLq Terrorists want to hang out with their buddies and play with guns, they don't work out deaths per dollar. The closest a FTO got to that was ISIS doing ramming attacks in Europe once a week and eventually they got bored of winning

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

A fun "war of all against all" dynamic is how people support automation of every industry but their own. Obviously we should automate manufacturing, so things are cheap, and construction, so housing is cheap, and sexbots, so you don't have to interact with women, but no no the math puzzles are sacred and profound.

They, uh, build "capital"! In world where human capital is worthless, why would anyone care?

[Fernando 🌺🌌 @zetalyrae]

Great article. AI for math has short-term "gains" (theorems nobody but future AIs can understand/work from) but destroys human capital formation.

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

Fun piece of Vera Rubin trivia: it’s the first all-sky survey from a telescope big enough that it will observe more galaxies than it does stars

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

I like that this guy’s takeaway is “I need a slave to do this job for me” and not “people have decided that building the God machine is more important than B2B SaaS, I should return funds to my VC and shut down my startup”

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

though many experts disagree on the nature of the singularity, all agree that the demarcation for the beginning of the "true foothills" lies on June 30th 2026, the day arXiv went from red to black.

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

One of my favorite recording bits on here is people asking why traffic lights need a giant cabinet that takes up a ton of room on the sidewalk when the required electronics fit in a playing card, and a dozen civil engineers chime in to say yes, cities are just stupid

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

The great thing about chemistry is that there's always some more bullshit. There's a carbon molecule that's constantly jittering between a million different bond states? Sure why not I guess

[Maxwell Tabarrok @MTabarrok]

Half the land area of Boston, a quarter of NYC, and 15% of San Francisco were raised from the sea before 1970.

Since then, land values have grown by 30x but land reclamation has ground to a halt.

This failure follows the spread environmental law around the world rather than any geographic, technological, or economic constraint.

Thus, our lack of land reclamation and the severe land constraints in our most important cities are self-imposed and avoidable. We should make more land!
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Land reclamation was common practice in American cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Charleston, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, DC, Oakland, and LA all had major land reclamation projects that extended residential living space or infrastructure or both.

The Bay Area alone reclaimed an area of land equivalent to ten Manhattans between 1850 and 1957, at an inflation-adjusted cost of $330,000 per acre. Today, an acre of single-family-zoned land in San Francisco County averages $24 million. Even if the cost of land reclamation grew faster than inflation, despite technological leaps in dredging and construction technology, there should be plenty of room for profitable arbitrage.

And yet, land reclamation is extinct in the Bay Area as well as in every other American city. This isn’t because we ran out of good spots to reclaim: Two thirds of the San Francisco Bay is shallower than Boston’s Back Bay was when it was reclaimed in the 1860s. Nor is it because of better transportation: We’ve used up all of the easy suburban expansions enabled by the train and the automobile so prices are rising even in outlying suburbs.

Instead, land reclamation’s death is due to environmental law. Evidence for this claim shows up in the coincident timing of land reclamation’s demise across dozens of cities in the US and in the environmental compliance process of the few reclamation projects still inching along today, but the best evidence is found internationally.

No country has more experience or more reason to reclaim land than the Netherlands. The Dutch built 5% of their country out of the sea over the first half of the 20th century and by 1975 they had another artificial lake in the Zuiderzee ready to drain at the flip of a switch, which would have made tens of thousands of acres of land just east of Amsterdam. But a 1969 environmental review law, similar to NEPA in the US, stopped the project before it was finished and the site is now a protected bird sanctuary. Their one major reclamation since, the Maasvlakte 2 extension of the port of Rotterdam, took 11 years and 6,000 pages of environmental review before construction began.

Inversely, countries without these laws, like China, Singapore, and Japan have continued major land reclamation projects into the 21st century. China has reclaimed over 5,000 square kilometers since 2000, including a city of half a million outside Shanghai and Singapore has grown by a quarter since 1975.

Every major American city has a land shortage. But we have more than enough shallow water, dredging capacity, and market incentive to make more land, just like we did 150 years ago. The only obstacle is our own choice to make making land illegal. The benefits of more land in our most productive cities are large enough to justify the effort of reforming the laws that currently prevent it. Let’s make more land!

[ごんねこ @VQfuv]

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[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Yet another extremely physical example of Western dynamism and expansionary energy, land reclamation, stopped dead 1963-73. The 60s destroyed Western civilization. In this as in many other things, Asia has preserved and developed more of the pre-60s West than the West has.

[willy 🌜💧 @willystaley]

The real reason Europeans don't use AC is their insistence on using Centigrade. They may know, intellectually, that 42 is really hot, but the number just isn't big enough to convey the level of danger. They should use the bigger numbers, for their own good.

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

@the_engi_nerd Unfun fact: NYC has had three other incidents where light aircraft crashed into skyscrapers, with no major loss of life. This is why the 911 dispatchers told people not to evacuate: they wanted to keep the stairwells clear for firefighters

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

They're selling dollars for 5 cents on Kalashi

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

This is alluded to. The Eridian ship is the space alien version of steampunk, like a 20s ocean liner powered by astrophage. It had a double digit crew because it had almost no automation (Eridian computers are primitive) and few scientific instruments (which is why Rocky moved into the human ship-- it simply had better tools). Grace speculates at one point that any species he met Tau Ceti was bound to have holes in their knowledge-- a more advanced spacefaring civilization would have stopped astrophage directly, only a more primitive species like humanity or the Eridians would need to capture Taumoeba

[Index @lndexium]

TRUE

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

@Ryan30143 Even if they did, (never underestimate the PRC's ability to pursue stupid social policy for far too long) they don't have enough women under 35 left. A 50% drop in population is baked in.

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

Prediction: Gen Z will start capitalizing lol to countersignal millennial lowercasers like Sam Altman

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

Idiots in the replies going “hurr too expensive, I’ll just buy the next PlayStation”. There isn’t going to be a next console generation, man. Consumer electronics are going on hold for a decade

[CharlieIntel @charlieINTEL]

The Steam Machine will cost $1049

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

@St_Rev Twitter enables https://t.co/Aj4We1e9GF so a regular attacker couldn't swap out the certificate, and a nation-state attacker that had a root cert or machine access wouldn't need to force a relogin, they'd just invisibly read your traffic

[triangle man ☀▶️ @triangle___man]

@St_Rev Working normally here. Japanese cats, gigachad videos, elon musk replies even though I don't follow him, etc