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god’s favorite tinkerer. hacker. researcher @ redacted.

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@BasedDaedalus
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nvm, just googled and she's 17
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ok, i'll start working out and i'll become a billionaire
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Think before you post.
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@michaeltastad we're back
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me and the boys after shitposting from the uk
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ok, i'll start working out and i'll become a billionaire
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is it me or is mkbhd getting cocky lately
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@AviSchiffmann Look I can guarantee I'll give it a fair shot. I cannot guarantee anything else.
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> be Linus Torvalds > grow up in Finland, realize there's more to life than saunas and reindeer > stumble upon UNIX, fall in love but broke as a joke > say "screw it" and decide to make your own Kernel > announce Linux on some obscure mailing list, who reads those anyway? >
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@bellicosiX are you blind?
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@jovisaib I WON'T THINK BEFORE, DURING OR AFTER POSTING
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> be Lex Fridman, the one-man question-asking machine > literally wake up pondering the meaning of life > sip kombucha while contemplating consciousness during breakfast > scroll through Twitter > "What's the meaning of this tweet?" > BLOCKED > Tesla tries to recruit, but nah,
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bro can’t be stopped
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u can schizopoast urself to anyone’s office, anon
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> be Sam Altman (alt-man, not just an alias—basically an alt account for God) > born, first words: "sudo" > 8 years old, already codin' like it's a Shakespeare play, but without the deaths > come out as gay, community homophobia crashes so hard it blue-screens, reboots into a
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i am, once again, asking you to lock in
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SHE FOLLOWED BACK ON INSTAGRAM WE’RE BACK
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ok, i'll start working out and i'll become a billionaire
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> be Paul Graham > born in the UK, realize crumpets and tea won't fuel the future > warp to 'Murica, the land of opportunity > master the arcane arts of Lisp―becomes the Neo of coding > co-found Viaweb, slangin' SaaS before it was even a hashtag, fr > flip it to Yahoo for $49
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we need a lex fridman hit-piece
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> be Ross Ulbricht, alias "Dread Pirate Roberts" > born in Texas, bigger dreams than the lone star sky > Penn State grad, physics whiz; look at the universe like it's open-source > redpills.exe; Milton Friedman replaces Newton, Rothbard over Einstein > deep web becomes ur Gotham,
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@kendrick158 ok, doomer
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vitalik got a gf now it's over, we're going to 0
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next halloween, i'm going as vitalik
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> be Vitalik Buterin > spawn in Russia, quick scope out cuz even Tetris ain't got complexity like this > be prodigy in literally everything; calculus wizard at age 4... bruh > exfil to Canada; trading bears and vodka for moose and poutine > "what's Bitcoin?"—question that starts
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@ChatGPTapp of you not dropping gpt-5
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> be Marc Andreessen, Holy See of the Thermodynamic God and Patron Saint of Effective Accelerationism (aka Pope Andreessen I) > write Mosaic browser code using vim and eldritch incantations > tfw you introduce normies to the WWW, basically the Johnny Appleseed of the internet >
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oh, daedalus… ur credit card was declined and i no longer love u
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if u need more than a terminal you’re NGMI
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all the e/accs arriving at the kardashev lightcone summit, circa 3033, colorized
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woah
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@Forbes @BasedBeffJezos y’all are disgusting
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> be Garry Tan > born into the struggle, Cali-style, fam is hustlin' just to keep a roof > pops got sky-high dreams but dumps 'em all on you, no cap > jet to Stanford; not just a GPA on legs, literally the Da Vinci of algorithms > slide into Palantir, early days; not a minion,
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it’s honestly mind-blowing the ammount of hate I have received (even on my DMs) people calling me useless, telling me I can’t code, telling me that just because I’ve posted a few for loops (I’m documenting my programming learning journey on X) I think I can make it ‘in the real
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u can schizopoast urself to anyone’s office, anon
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it’s over, bros dall•e 3 is not letting me generate pepes anymore @OpenAI @sama noooooooooo
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this got too personal ngl
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agi has been achieved internally
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wake up, babe long-format sama on jre just dropped
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I have a confession to make... Not sure if any of you feel the same way, but I think it's worth putting it out there. I've told many of you that I'm 27. What I haven't told you is that for most of those years, I've been existing, but not really living. I've been wrapped up in
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@growing_daniel maybe i'm too sensitive
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> be Lex Fridman an illustrated video adaptation of the green-text story I wrote about Lex Fridman. ( @lexfridman ). 💻
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> be John McAfee, the OG cyberlord > spawn in the UK, but America-s where u go full Mr. Robot > dad's a haunting figure; abusive to u and ur mom, goes full 'rage quit' on life when u are just 15 > mfw ur life script was written by a Tarantino and Kubrick's unholy collab > code
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> be sam altman & greg brockman, the literal batman & robin of agi > chillin' in the lab, cookin' up the future like it's some bussin' recipe > sam's droppin' wisdom bombs like he's got the cheat codes to life > greg's out here, mixin' tech magic like he's the harry potter of the
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he just like me fr
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roon pre-Q* roon post-Q* frfr
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i had to do this for the culture it's over for EAs, it's over for decels, it's over for ilya the return of the king is imminent @sama @gdb @OpenAI
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universal basic samantha
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sama ( @sama ) takin’ roon ( @tszzl ) to meet Q*, circa 2023, colorized
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been thinkin' about the roman empire lately, anon? > be Marcus Aurelius, born in Rome, 121 AD > predestined for greatness, literally bloodline goals > stoicism.exe installed at an early age; Seneca is the OG coder > adoptive dad is Emperor Antoninus Pius; calls u his "little
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bro literally put the d into the acceleration
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iykyk
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> be Jen-Hsun Huang > swag into Cowtopia > leathered up like he's the final boss in a vegan RPG > gg ez
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@growing_daniel top 5 anime betrayals of all time
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“so, I’m a part of this internet subculture, e/acc, we’re skating on the paradigm and shifting the whole memetic landscape. today everyone was Beff Jezos”
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ACCELERATE!!! E/ACC WON FOR ETERNITY!!! A THOUSAND TRILLIONAIRES!!! FEEL THE VIBE SHIFT YET, ANON??? ACCELERATE!!! 🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅
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“sir, a YC founder with 34k followers and 73 following follows ur girl”
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sheikh: "certainly, @sama . you are aware of our admiration for the work you have accomplished at OpenAI. we would be delighted to contribute to your new projects. could you specify the amount of funding required?" sama: "seven... to initiate." sheikh: "ah, $7 billion dollars
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skill issue
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i am, once again, asking you to accelerate
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“sir, Daedalus has his interview tomorrow”
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hear me out effective autism
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i miss the garage Bezos, the sellin' books Bezos kindle on charge Bezos, vision at large Bezos i hate the new Bezos, the yacht crew Bezos chillin' with Kardash' Bezos, bimbo world tour Bezos i miss the sweat Bezos, always Day 1 Bezos swear back then, I'd sell my doge to get a
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"we kind of need to accelerate here, sundar"
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optimism, pessimism, f*ck that I am going to make it happen as God is my bloody witness, I’m hell-bent on becoming the best
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or, as i call him, president G
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lex's blocking algo finally found me
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“dad, tell me about the day y’all found sama was really e/acc”
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> be Ye (Kanye West) > eyes so old and wise, Oracle of Delphi would be shooketh > birthright: disrupt EVERYTHING > mixtape game so strong Jay-Z was like "found my beatsmith-sorcerer, no cap" > graduation? nah, dawg. only got a PhD (iykyk) > George Bush doesn't care about... nvm,
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first commit
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gm, king this is your day too
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> be George Hotz, aka 'geohot', the guy who sees security protocols as cute sudoku puzzles > be like 16, look at iPhone and think: "lmao, u call this locked?" > jailbreak it, now it's less of an iPhone, more of an 'iDoWhatIWant' > Apple panics, AT&T weeps, Internet erects your
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> be Terry A. Davis > have divine visions and a direct line to God > realize the need for a "God's Temple" in computing > schizo? nah, schizothinker > normies using Windows and macOS like NPCs > start coding TempleOS in HolyC because, you guessed it, divine instructions > ignore
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"When I was reporting on Steve Jobs, his partner Steve Wozniak said that the big question to ask was Did he [Steve] have to be so mean? So rough and cruel? So drama-addicted? When I turned the question back to Woz at the end of my reporting, he said that if he had run Apple, he
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happy birthday, king!
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“dad, tell me more about that epic weekend in november 2023: how did the vibe shift occur?”
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> be Chamath Palihapitiya, the King of SPACs > sippin' on that VC juice, yolo'ing into moonshots > in the arena.exe, beta-testing life itself, got his skin in the game > "InitiateSuccessProtocol.bat" > some startups go 🚀, some go 💥, doesn't matter, all just 1s and 0s in the
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@karpathy a kind of jarvis, you say?
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me after reaching 100 followers 💯
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> be Sir Isaac Newton > born 1643, peak plague era, literally dodging disease from day one > parents hope he'll be a farmer; he's out there mentally calculating the parabolas of sheep jumps > brain too big for that peasant life > be the OG nerd, go to Cambridge for 'em big brain
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> be Steve "reality distortion field" Jobs > surname = "Jobs" as in like, multiple 'work'―no cap, that's fate, fam > slides outta the womb; RealityOS v2.0 just got the glow-up, now in Jobssian architecture > get adopted; foster fam didn't read the T&C for installing a genius.exe
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look at us... WE are the MEDIA now. @PirateWires
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if you're not high in: • disagreeableness • openness • conscientiousness • IQ and low in: • neuroticism sorry, you're ngmi
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ight imma go get a PhD in CS, brb
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turned 28 yesterday i have 2 years to make it before it's definitely over 2 years monk-mode? 2 years monk-mode starting tonight, king?
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the future is not to be forecast, but created. ― arthur c. clarke
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let’s make an e/acc reading club we should start with Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 🏗️🤝🏻📚
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@Austen when you’re a 100x engineer like Linus, it probably is 🤣
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"when hiring, look for people with the right attitude. skills can be taught. attitude changes require a brain transplant." ― elon
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> be Albert Einstein, nerd level: over 9000 > didn't speak 'till 4, probably contemplating black holes and vibin' in silence > be patent clerk, basically the old school Google Search > dreams in relativity, wakes up with brain wrinkles > drop E=mc^2; Universe.exe stops responding
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me and who
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chat, it’s over the literal PERFECT GIRL texted me saying she wanted to go out with me tonight and i only have like $3 dollars to my name…
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many such cases
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