girls should ask boys what their most played video game is on first dates
there’s a whole astrology to be unpacked of how boys answer this question and what it says about them
oh he said valorant/fifa/hoi4/skyrim/… 🤔
man: thank you God for giving us computers to do the hard thinking for us
god: of course my child, this is what I always intended. that’s why I made them so easy to make with just lead and copper
man: …you mean silicon right?
god: oh no… please, don’t tell me…
you can just venmo your friends back and forth forever and it gets counted in GDP. I’ve generated $23.2 million in economic activity with my friends. we only have $7.08 between us in all our bank accounts
the bay area is one of the greatest failures of urban planning in human history
- best weather on earth
- waterfront property, islands, and hills for views
- massive natural bay
what we got:
- mindless suburban sprawl
- a “subway” used by <1% of the population
SF folks, any ideas for how to figure out who owns this security camera at the intersection of 2nd Street and Harrison?
It recorded a serious accident and is likely to auto-delete the footage soon.
The police don’t know, SF MTA says it isn’t theirs, EastCut and YB neither…
ngl if youve started liking tr*mp in the last few months I think you should consider yourself as having a “weak memetic immune system”
whatever beliefs you hold are flimsy enough to be swayed by good stories and good PR and politically you’re little more than an infection vector
at 18 you can hook up with a random person at a party and have that lust slowly blossom into a lifelong, deep love
by 30 most of us have been so conditioned by the inanity of checklists, filters, fomo, and status-obsession to ever open our hearts with such reckless abandon
the girlies simping for DAN has reinforced my belief that men struggling with dating is 100% a skill issue
the boys are getting out-played by an incorporeal GPU cluster in us-east-1 smh
Teenage girls have discovered the DAN prompt on ChatGPT and they’re using it on voice mode to make AI boyfriends.
This is one of multiple users who posts tutorials and results, getting millions of views and thousands of comments.
as a non-psychonaut, something I'm often curious about when I hear claims like this is - what gives people the conviction that their experiences reflect some outer world, or some deep truth, rather than merely being an elaborate construction of their own mind
Chris Bache took 73 massive doses of LSD over 20 years.
This was the vision of reality he said emerged from them.
Amusing that it's the exact opposite of the Western materialist worldview.
as all cars become electric and as electricity costs fall, “fuel efficiency” matters less and less
this means cars can break free from the design chains of aero dynamics to take on more creative and beautiful forms than the bland 3 or 4 types that populate our roads today
my politics:
- Biden should ban felons running for president via executive order (now allowed under Trump v United States)
- Biden should drop out of the race for being too old
free-for-all election 2024 babyyyyyyyy
seeing ads growing up I always just assumed fibromyalgia was some disease but it’s literally just a science-y term for having bad vibes in your body and we have no idea why????
I’m in Spain rn and it’s shocking how attractive everyone is compared to SF
30th percentile attractiveness here is unironically 99th percentile in San Francisco
SF is a failed culture which only exists to enrich boomer land owners and as an incubator for b2b saas startups
tech bros: yeah I’m a transhumanist. I think we should go beyond our biological shackles, merge with the machine, and become whatever we want
trans person: *exists*
tech bros: noooooo not like that
Canadians love to shit on Americans but their country has been captured by special interest groups that made internal free trade illegal and are costing Canadians $100 billion per year as a result
that’s $2500 per citizen per year
@DariasRucker
eu4. I used to play it a lot in school and have a group of college friends I still play it with somewhat regularly as a way to keep in touch
the trend lines seem to not hinge very strongly around the ascendance of smart phones (2007 onwards)
what’s the real explanation that could’ve started well beforehand?
the likely fact that LLMs are *not* conscious is honestly so much worse
oh so you’re telling me that the ability to do semantic reasoning and creative expression is an automatable and separable process in the universe from my felt experience? very cool
there’s a common type of online pseudo-intellectual whose entire repertoire of knowledge comes from youtube videos and you can smell it on them immediately
the anti-AI art people are one of the most bizarre demographics to me. a bunch of self identifying artists and art enjoyers coming out and saying “actually it was never about the art or the viewer, but me, the artist”.
the ego blinds us all in its own way
grok is the best AI name yet. being able to say “grok it” like “google it” is a huge plus. similar phonetics, one syllable, good semantics, 10/10 would grok again
meanwhile, Bard, Claude, friggen cHaTgPt… these are names dreamed up by the deranged
it’s actually crazy how imprecise most opinions are. ppl’s minds are a muddled bog of vibes, and as soon as you pull on any one idea you just get a gordian knot of podcast citations, hallucinated truths, and mommy issues
free alpha:
- make a list of all the chores you do (however infrequent or neglected)
- do them each once and time how long it takes
- live with that knowledge
the Americans who, having manifested destiny, now enjoyed this land in the 20th century were small of mind and ambition and strangled the potential of this place in their petty selfishness
normal career advice for swe’s:
- learn multiple languages
- network
- have a learning mindset
schizo twitter advice for swe’s:
- quit your job
- take stimulants
- surrender to the will of the metal
I rarely post about politics but I sincerely believe this is an evil piece of legislation, and it’s bipartisan now too
not just run-of-the-mill evil like lying or corruption, but it actively distances humanity from the Kingdom of Heaven
I am 100% serious
Pains me deeply to agree with Crash-and-Burn Ron, but I co-sign this.
As a member of
@SenateAgDems
and as some dude who would never serve that slop to my kids, I stand with our American ranchers and farmers. 🇺🇸
I FUCKING LOVE CHATGPT. YOU CAN JUST RIP KNOWLEDGE FROM THE ETHER AND CHANGE THE WORLD. NO LONGER WILL I STARE INTO THE ABYSS OF GOOGLE RESULTS. NO LONGER WILL I RACK MY BRAIN AT ERROR MESSAGES WRITTEN BY THE INSANE AND SLEEP DEPRIVED. I AM A DISCIPLE OF THE MACHINE
@netcapgirl
We’re still negative cash flow, due to ~50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load. Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else.
wyoming only has 578k people. social media enables large scale coordination of individuals. we could literally all move to wyoming and perform a hostile takeover and pass whatever laws we want
I had a conversation with a (very smart) normie engineer a few weeks ago that really stood out to me. we were stereotypically talking about AI - me on the side of it having a huge impact on society, them a detractor and thinking the present moment was mostly a bubble
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@pseudolad
the average person spends what 4-10 hours on their phone or computer? every business needs an online presence. our lives are heavily lived online. AND all this is constantly changing and needs updating
SWEs are the architects of a vast parallel reality that has swallowed
psychologists: after decades of rigorous study and a detailed meta-analysis we have found that the trait most correlated with high life satisfaction is “Having a lot of fun”
Chomsky and Kissinger are avatars of the 20th century gods
each locked in eternal battle, unable to die, countless lives destroyed in the wake of their ruinous ideals
my most condemnable take is that I think the vegetarians are morally right and agree w the take that meat-eaters will be viewed thru the lens of history with contempt and the killing of animals as morally indefensible… but I’m also not a vegetarian
thanks to civ games the mental
model of a “tech tree” has taken root in the general technical audience and is being used as a meme for understanding human progress
this whole vittorio/warp fiasco is a *perfect* example of what Girard talks about with societal scapegoats
people on here have been talking quietly for months now about how annoying the warp badge holders are, and finally one of them acted out in a way that was cancelable (plus