Will Barr

Currently: PhD @MITBiology

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@signulll It's already happening

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@the_transit_guy Tokyo sprawl is not a good thing.

Ever heard of the Sixth Extinction? Or the current Japanese fertility rate?

Car dependency is also not great but I don't think we need more Tokyos

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@JoshuaRosenthal I think I heard it in parallel to the more often quoted "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" to distinguish breakthrough technology from foundational tech

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@owl_posting @outerspaceisaac https://t.co/D2rUcGCRJ9

Tbt

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All while sitting on the front porch of a house built in the late 1800s while my window unit AC cools down my room

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Living in greater Boston in the year of our lord 2026 is great because I can take a picture of a semiwild turkey outside a snail mail drop box using my handheld supercomputer to ask a chat interface with all of human knowledge whether it’s a male or a female…

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@drewvolpe Surely outsourcing has some negative returns, no? But I agree generally

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@jakeottiger Sorry, I think too much LLM use has tripped my semantics circuitry

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@zuess05 Your account just mirrors a lot of phenotypes (sorry, I'm a biologist) of artists I know. Frantic creation cycles that seem compulsive, maximal avoidance of self promotion (if you're any good)

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@tab_delete @TheAtlantic I thought Stanford wasn't real https://t.co/3ZeqFvsuHj

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@biocheMichael Can't fully claim -- a friend who works at Google once asked me if AlphaFold was PR and I didn't have a good answer

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@_AndrewLeduc @msalbergo I bet

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@beffjezos Boston generates the highest quality training data, SF prototypes and capitalizes, NYC scales (M&A, IPO), then back to Boston for maintenance (asset managers) and buyouts (PE). Somehow Delaware gets involved too

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@PaulSkallas Most popular coffee shop in Harvard Square doesn't allow laptops

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@partners_road I think some other schools did too