It is slowly dawning on me that the single thing a lot of incredibly intelligent people could do to vastly improve their lives and impact on the world is to have more courage
Why are we in such a deep courage deficit? What is going on here
@varunramg
The year is 2030.
The entire Y Combinator class is payroll apps.
You must swear fealty to gay race communism to get a job.
The government decides which payroll app everyone is required to use each year based on their alignment with the principles of diversity and inclusion
@bf_crane
“The Devil Went Down to Georgia” is a timepiece song celebrating America as the pinnacle post-Enlightenment country. It’s the progeny of Goethe’s Faust as it lauds the triumph of man over the devil
The Phenomenology of Cattyness:
How is it that RFH, one of the most unkind & candidly crass accounts in the local cluster, gets to cast judgement on a mildly uncharitable tweet to rancorous applause?
The answer, of course, is all about ingroups
Bailed on quality time @ the castle to finish this
A full-length retrospective on Vibecamp including
- It's the Ready Player One of TPOT
- Everyone is the smartest, most interesting person you've ever met
- It's prime for a sociopath takeover
Link:
@ApodacaHaracio
@___frye
It’s dark because it’s atrophying.
It turns humans spiritually and physically (as seen in the movies) into sub-human sludge.
People reach their potential by striving, yearning, exploring… all major themes of the movie
@twinkdefcon
What do you think would have happened?
If Trump was killed every single person who owns a MAGA hat and an AR would be out in the streets indefinitely. Do you, TwinkDefcon, feel compelled to take on a domestic militia?
If Trump was killed every American alive today would lose
You can have literally whatever you want in this world. Just be serious enough to become the type of person who gets it
Ages ago, everyone knew you could bend the world to your will
It was unserious people wanting to feel better who started the myth that you can't
@Austen
There's no pausing - if OpenAI goes to 1 or 2 they die as a company and everyone else keeps going at 10.
"Slowing down" in the way Emmett Shear envisions it is impossible
When are we going to admit that “beating depression” is just taking the obvious steps to improve your life and that obsessing over “neurochemicals” has done more harm than good
They buried the lede on this new study. It's not that exercise beats out SSRIs for depression treatment, but that *just* dancing has the largest effect of *any treatment* for depression.
That's kind of beautiful.
@reddit_lies
Want to make positive statements about your group that excludes others?
Well are you a protected group?
Oh you're not??? Permaban. Fuck outta here
@___frye
The book Creativity Inc, written by one of the co-founders of the company is precisely about how they were able to consistently produce great films one after the other.
The answer to why they don't do it anymore is: the leadership changed and the culture was not strong enough to
@DuchessSexpert
I beg everyone to consider, definitionally, what “poverty” means and whether “able to afford the avg 1 bedroom apartment” fits in with the idea that word is trying to describe.
@bronzeagemantis
My black pill on parenting is that either you are a good parent or you are not (regardless of how you discipline your children) and the only way to “become a better parent” is to just deal with your own shit first
@chrislhayes
@Dogstoyesky
This is entirely and wholly untrue. The left wing version of BAP is, like, Ibram Kendi and there are plenty of democrats wholly aligned with outright marxism
@SCHIZO_FREQ
Yah bro natural selection.
The next generation will honestly be so much more normal I’m disappointed I’m not part of it.
Truly only the normies will survive
Yo I'm realizing all we need to do to 10x the output of TPOT is to teach some of you less chronically online people how to poast
And not just shitpost, but like do the web-of-threads thing that Visa does. Use Twitter as your scratchpad
Realizing it's a major bottleneck?
@annarmitchell
I have similar fantasies. Car will stop running in 3 months and you cannot find parts unless you want to fly them in for thousands of dollars from all around the world. That’s before you find a mechanic who knows how to fix it. But those 3 months will be incredible
@milquepoast
But only the truly unburdened. Those burdened with emotional inferiority in the shadows of their parents… seem to create the most horrible parts of society
You see, Marie and RFH are actually the same type of poster. They perform the same function, just to different audiences. They’re colleagues, the way Zelensky and Putin are colleagues.
People say they want a girlfriend but it’s this “a” that’s the problem
In wanting “a” gf you fail to see the totality of the other person (and yourself)
It’s like a parent going to a playground and saying “I want to pick up A kid” rather than “I want to pick up my kid”
@SCHIZO_FREQ
Dawg if WW3 starts all bets and financial models are off the table
Imagine how much bitcoin you could mine harvesting the energy from a radioactive wasteland
@airkatakana
@CallMeOuta
Unfair to say that a country the size of a continent is “fundamentally broken” because you need a car to get around when you’re not in major metropolitan areas
@JLM4CivilRights
@zarathustra5150
In the canonical version of this argument, the thinking goes that those men fought or were eligible to fight when they were younger and thus were once under the same arrangement
Guy who believes you can separate ethics from metaphysics
Show me one pre-modern stable society which did this effectively.
“God is dead” was a pronouncement about the social implications of the collapse of an ontology
The phrase "God-shaped hole" is misleading because religion is largely about community and tradition, not god. The metaphysics, of course, can be pleasing and meaningful, but the importance of religion is grounded in daily life, not in abstract beliefs.
Guys I hope you realize we’re living through a golden age here on Twitter
They will talk us the way they talk about the first YC batches or the early Hanson blogs.
Act on this opportunity accordingly
A romantic vibe between two people is an egregore. Trying to deny it is like trying to ignore a whole third person, it’s practically impossible to not address romantic tension unless you want to be come off aloof
I hate
This
thing where Smart People can only ever Generate Discourse and actually trying to Do Big Things is naive or gay and anyone trying earnestly is eschewed by both sides as Andrew Tate-ism
Stop writing kindle books and threads and go do something goddamn it
RFH is the inverse image of a Reddit woman-hater — she's a Twitter man-hater. She gives men a dose of their own medicine in a "I'm going to denigrate and belittle you the way yOU do to WOMEN on the iNTERNET!" way
Hi Vibecamp friends, I’m starting a directory of Vibecamp attendees from all over the world who are open to meeting up
Enter your handle and info here if you want other Vibecampers to reach out when they are in your part of the world!
I’ve found the single most reliable factor of “does he/she really like me” in the talking stage is that they have to have a *tinge* of desperation for you
Every time there wasn’t, it was a waste of time