Shea Levy @shlevy Twitter profile

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Shea Levy

@shlevy

3 months

Baby girl Levy coming to meet her proud big brothers this November!

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Shea Levy

@shlevy

6 days

The worst thing that Musk has done to this site is the reversion to the pre-hypertext era. Penalizing links, and doubly so for links to the site with some of the best contemporary medium-form writing, makes Twitter (and the whole internet) smaller, not an “everything app”.

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@kitten_beloved @jan_dutkiewicz "Those are rookie numbers, we can do better"

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@browserdotsys Boys are in the mines

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9 months

This remains a better understanding of the actual meaning of free speech than basically any of the dominant positions today and all of the "thick free speech" vs "thin free speech"/"free speech culture" vs "cancel culture" muddiness has confused your thinking.

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In The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey is shown putting a lot of work into influencing young people away from their own career interests toward things claimed to be in the interests of humanity, with the result that these people end up broken and completely dependent upon him.

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I hate you all, I needed to write about the Trump shooter in a serious context and couldn’t remember his name but I sure as hell remembered “Ree Tardy Oswald”

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1 year

Songpinganq

@songpinganq

1 year

Xi Jinping is hiring 87,000 agriculture police officers, and they're coming for Chinese farmers. Farmers can only plant the crops the government approves. Today officers arrest this family and destroy all their Mango trees——the government wants this family to grow sugar cane.

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@shlevy

6 years

The wisdom of the market says Excel

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6 years

what’s the objectively best programming language

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@shlevy

3 years

Did Basecamp just execute the most successful layoff in SV history?

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1 year

@NathanpmYoung Probably better to frame this in terms of “how low can you get the number of questions” with 33 as a lower bound

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@shlevy

5 years

By November, 15% of Target's internal supply chain will be served by our new planning system. Cost optimization algorithm, API fetch, business user problem specification language, and compute pipeline eDSL all written in Haskell. We do have a few academics though 🙂

Alexey Raga

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Yes, I use Haskell at work. Yes, in production and not for internal toy tools. Yes, I am tired of reading that Haskell is no fit for LOB systems because it is wrong. Yes, I think that Haskell in enterprise adds great value. No, I am not an academic and I have never been.

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1 year

I've watched Balenciaga Potter 3 times now and I still can't put my finger on what makes it compelling (it definitely is, to me). Does anyone have a good analysis?

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Shea Levy

@shlevy

3 years

Imagine being Charles, Prince of Wales, born 1948, heir apparent to the British throne since 1952, 72 years old and still not King yet.

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1 year

Oh come on!

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@shlevy

1 month

The actual answer to “should chromosomally unusual women be allowed to participate in women’s sports” depends on “why, in this instance, do you want a sex segregated competition to begin with, and what best furthers that purpose” but no one wants to have that conversation.

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@shlevy

9 months

@eigenrobot *sigh* fake and Gay

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@shlevy

4 years

Agreed, too many Americans are obstinately or intolerantly devoted to their prejudice that credentialed researchers are asking questions in good faith.

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5 years

Ladies and Gentlemen: The saddest and funniest testament to American bigotry we've ever seen in our data.

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@shlevy

10 days

@LeahLibresco My favorite is when we’re assigned a bulk snack item to bring in every month or so. Please ma’am you know what brands you want and what amounts just do a single loop and send me the bill

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@shlevy

1 year

Minor sign of our culture's pervasive sacrifice of the capable to the incompetent: It's much harder (if not impossible) to find information about risks conditional on rational behavior. It's more important to protect the vicious from themselves than to inform the virtuous.

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@shlevy

2 years

. @AlexEpstein provided an hour-long detailed explanation of why he's speaking out, and included a concise summary for those who wanted something shorter. @Krissah30 wrote a single tweet calling it "baseless" with no further explanation.

Krissah Thompson

@Krissah30

2 years

In the course of reporting a story, The Washington Post’s @maxinejoselow has been subjected to vitriol and baseless attacks on social media. She conducts her work with fairness and to the highest standard, and we are proud to count Maxine among our talented staff of journalists.

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3 months

@freed_dfilan @drethelin Boxes even more than machines

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@shlevy

11 months

@_craigowen @prog_enjoyer7 @Sliggity_Dog @jeremykauffman @DemocratRapist So you fully understand what we’re talking about and are too dishonest to own up to it, cool.

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3 years

More and more I'm coming to detest the notions of "vibes" and "vibing". The entire purpose seems to be to enshroud whatever evaluation you're making in impenetrable vagueness.

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Shea Levy

@shlevy

6 years

A friend of mine is interested in a "programming for dilettante's" kind of book: She's not interested in actually doing programming herself, but wants to learn about the concepts, different styles, debates, etc. Any recommendations?

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@shlevy

9 months

We were expecting twins due last November, but one passed in utero. Earlier this week, a very dear friend gave birth to twins. Today, Scott posts about his twins born last week... and one of their for-print pseudonyms is the name of the twin we never met.

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Shea Levy

@shlevy

4 years

Say hi to Ori Anthony Levy!

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@shlevy

3 years

Do you expect your life to have a magnum opus? Will it be obvious which project when you finish it or only in retrospect?

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@shlevy

11 months

@_craigowen @prog_enjoyer7 @Sliggity_Dog @jeremykauffman @DemocratRapist What happens if I ignore the citation?

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9 months

@eigenrobot Bookmarking for the inevitable tweet from a neoliberal economist showing precisely which regulations block this

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2 years

One of the most prominent EA organizations, 80,000 Hours, is an explicit large-scale implementation of this practice, with the same consequences and purpose.

Shea Levy

@shlevy

4 years

This was found on an EA meme page, but it's a more honest expression of EA philosophy than most. Normal altruism is burning yourself at an altar of sacrifice. EA is building an industrial scale furnace and slick marketing to funnel yourself and all your friends in

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@shlevy

2 years

This was said by one of Rand's villains.

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@orthonormalist I don’t trust peoples’ introspective abilities and conceptual clarity enough to trust that this isn’t an artifact of people talking past each other

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@shlevy

1 year

Someone less busy than me should make a political compass out of the axes "degree of skepticism of IQ research" and "degree of skepticism of non-IQ social science research"

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@shlevy

11 months

@_craigowen @prog_enjoyer7 @Sliggity_Dog @jeremykauffman @DemocratRapist I mean you are fully aware that laws are ultimately backed by force, that there is a difference between when a cop issues you a citation and when a random citizen does, and are choosing to play dumb instead of admit you want people to be forced not to discriminate by race.

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@shlevy

1 year

And I'm back! Thank you @eigenrobot and everyone who shared this. I got an email 10 minutes ago saying I'd been caught in an automated bulk spam detector by mistake, perhaps they would've resolved this anyway or maybe one of you got this in front of the right person?

eigenrobot

@eigenrobot

1 year

they got @shlevy many years a friend and mutual and good citizen, caught in shitty spam filters and permanently suspended with no appeal he appeals for assistance, if it may be found but failing that he sends his love and contact information @x @Support

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Shea Levy

@shlevy

4 years

We should stop talking about FDA "approval". On 12/18, the FDA stopped prohibiting people from taking the Moderna vaccine.

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Shea Levy

@shlevy

2 years

Ah, my semi-annual reminder that I pay $6k/yr for schools that my kids don't use and many of whose methods and teachings I despise. Publicly funded education is compelled speech in direct violation of an individual's right to his own judgment and property.

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@shlevy

2 years

We're all heartbroken right now. We found out at this morning's anatomy scan that one of the twins died, probably about 8 weeks ago. The other looks very healthy and so far no concerns for Alyssa. Planning to follow up with a specialist but expecting one healthy baby boy 12/6.

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@shlevy

4 years

It's different because the healthcare workers are saving dozens to hundreds of lives each being on the front lines. Challenge trial participants, by contrast, would probably saved hundreds to thousands each if we'd started when Moderna was ready in February.

Zach Weinersmith

@ZachWeiner

4 years

I've been mentally wrestling over this idea of the ethics of human challenge trials. One objection which hits me is there's a sort of visceral bad quality to exposing healthy people to disease. BUT, why is this different from what we expect of healthcare/frontline workers?

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2 years

It’s cool how everyone knows how you’d exert telekinesis if you could

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@shlevy

3 months

I’m joining @anduriltech as Staff Software Engineer next month! I’ll be on @danielfullmer ’s platform team, likely overlapping with @TravisMWhitaker ’s electromagnetic warfare group. Incredible team, great tech, vital mission, and foundational contribution opportunity. Can’t wait!

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@shlevy

3 years

"If you don't admit that today's world is amazing because of fossil fuels, you are totally unqualified to make any predictions about the future, because either you are anti-human or ignorant"

Alex Epstein

@AlexEpstein

3 years

For the first several days of COP 26 I had limited availability because I was doing final, final editing on Fossil Future. Now I am done, and fully available for interviews/ debates. Please share my latest COP 26 interview with your favorite host.

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@shlevy

2 years

IRS has still not confirmed receipt of my *2020* tax return (with a 5 figure refund!) and every time I call I go through a labyrinth of options before being told they can't help now due to high call volumes. Anyone know of any options here?

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@shlevy

4 months

It was the students who were most responsible for the deaths at Kent State.

Sami Gold

@souljagoytellem

4 months

in 1970 almost 60% of Americans believed that it was the students who were most responsible for the deaths at Kent State

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5 years

[1, 2, 3] head: 1 tail: [2, 3] neck: [1, 2] toe: 3 Change my mind

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30 days

It’s good to believe true things and bad to believe false things.

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3 years

I've gone from "I don't know enough macro but I don't see how 2020 can happen without insane inflation eventually" to "I don't know enough macro but it sure seems like the insane inflation has already started arriving unevenly in many sectors" over the past few weeks.

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@shlevy

4 years

New EA cause area: Breaking into vaccine distribution centers and breaking their freezers.

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@Devin_J_Monahan God imagine if Yud’s greatest contribution to history was identifying the perfect meal

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@yashkaf @ItalyinIsrael @ItalyMFA_int @IsraelMFA @elicoh1 @IsraelinItaly Has to be on purpose. Flexing on Titus

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@_craigowen @prog_enjoyer7 @Sliggity_Dog @jeremykauffman @DemocratRapist It obviously does and you know it. It’s in the fucking word “seize”. And again, if a random guy tries to seize my assets, I can resist. If a cop does, I get shot or imprisoned, other cases that are obviously use of force.

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@antoniogm Is this controversial? I always thought they were social/recreational events

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@shlevy

2 years

Incredibly revealing that this is an attempt to dismiss the concerns of those fighting gas stove bans. Wealthier people use gas stoves more as relative proportion... and?

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2 years

If there *is* major risk from developing AI capabilities, it is certainly not helping to conflate “we failed to prevent a user of the system from doing what he wanted to do with it” with “we failed to prevent the system from doing something its user didn’t intend”.

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@shlevy

4 years

Weird to think that Kaczynski is still alive. What's he up to?

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@shlevy

3 years

Nothing serves to emphasize how political and ethical errors are ultimately based on (and reinforce) epistemic failings like seeing someone state "my enemy would have plainly stated a fact that was clear at the time and utterly obvious in retrospect" as a dunk.

Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

@MaxBoot

3 years

Reality check: If Fox had been around in the 1930s it would have been denouncing the New Deal as the advent of socialism--or even Communism--in America. That's what Republicans were saying at the time. As I noted in @PostOpinions :

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@shlevy

4 years

Friend of mine described substack as being onlyfans for insight porn, and now I can't think of it any other way.

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@shlevy

3 years

But seriously you have to know that if you resign publicly right after this that a non-trivial segment of hiring managers will privately blacklist you. Maybe that's OK by you, just be aware this cuts both ways.

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@BevHarrisWrites I said penalizing, not preventing.

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@EricRichards22 Poe’s law?

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@shlevy

1 year

Most statistics on condom effectiveness assume "typical use", i.e. "not using it sometimes". Similar for the pill. What's the risk of serious injury per mile *for a safe driver wearing a seat belt*? Or for a motorcyclist in proper gear and sane speeds? This is everywhere.

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@shlevy

3 years

Dealing with lots of likely low-quality Chinese knock-off listings on Amazon. Sure, we could ask them to exert better quality control and penalties, but I have a better idea: Want your listing to be taken seriously? Depict Xi as Poo in your photos, include 6/4/89 in the title.

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2 years

Say hello to Jasper Kai! Born 11/28 at 6:43 PM, 6lbs 9 oz, 19 inches. Mom and baby are thriving!

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@eigenrobot @tracewoodgrains Zuck remains undefeated on the “billionaires I’d like to have as a regular at the neighborhood barbecue” charts

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@shlevy

3 years

Hey whimsy post-rats, I know this makes me a curmudgeon but next time can you play a game that doesn't make it 10x as hard to parse my timeline?

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@shlevy

5 months

I’m sorry but it’s literally impossible to artificially produce natural gas.

Terraform Industries

@TerraformIndies

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Announcing first end-to-end production of pipeline grade natural gas from sunlight and air.

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2 months

I know this is going to get lost in what follows, but I’m not going to forget that: - Biden is not fit to be President *today* - There was nothing honorable in his career up until now - There was nothing honorable in how this decision played out Good riddance.

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@shlevy

3 years

(Warning: US centrism): Unless you're basing your answer on some future collapse this one is a no brainer. Life, emphatically including childhood, is incalculably better now than it was in the 90s.

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@eigenrobot First they came for the gamers, and I spoke up, despite not being a gamer. Then they came for the right wing academics, and I spoke up, despite not being right wing nor an academic. Then they came for me, because I kept speaking up.

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Privilege escalation with kill(-1, SIGKILL) in XNU kernel of macOS High Sierra

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@shlevy

1 year

Man should conquer nature, not grovel before it like a worm. This is horrendous.

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@tim_cook

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At Apple, we believe that climate change is one of the world’s most urgent priorities and we are deeply committed to doing our part. Today we had a special guest—a real force of nature—stop by to check on our progress.

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3 years

In 1994 a nutrition researcher discovered the essential ingredients of integral calculus. By the available info this was independent of Newton etc. This routinely gets mocked and held up as an example of mathematical incompetence in the life sciences!

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@lisatomic5 Thought juice boiled off

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@shlevy

4 years

Took a midnight walk and identified a mistake I gradually let myself fall into over the past 10 or so years. The next 10 are going to be amazing.

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@shlevy

3 years

I used to worry that I'd missed my chance, that I'd crushed my dreams beneath the demands of prudence, until I started following @MorlockP . Now I know it's never too late to engage in the kind of righteousness-fueled legal action I always imagined being at the center of my life.

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@shlevy

4 years

Reading "White Fragility" but with "The Bell Curve"'s dust jacket over top

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@shlevy

5 years

Before you put it on the blockchain, try putting it in sqlite.

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@kiyahwillis @Romantic_Artist Point 4 can be made stronger by contrasting an Arab in Israel with an *Arab* in Gaza… the former is also better off, by far

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@shlevy

11 months

Not everyone. The @AynRandInst and associated intellectuals like @yaronbrook have long argued against the so-called "realist" foreign policy analysis that treats deranged evil as if it were shrewdly practical. See e.g. for resources on this conflict.

ARI's Resources on Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East

Learn about ARI's perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

newideal.aynrand.org

Armin Rosen

@ArminRosen

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One big takeaway from the gut-wrenching events of the past few days: Everyone got Hamas wrong. Israeli strategic planners got it wrong, incl many hard-liners. America got them wrong. Experts got them wrong. *I* got them wrong...

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@shlevy

10 months

@eigenrobot Yes they separate out the students, but surely their educational experience between those groups is equal

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@shlevy

5 years

Excited to share that I've accepted a promotion to Director of AI Engineering! My team and responsibilities are growing significantly as the AI group scales up its support of Target's supply chain. Ready for this challenge!

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@shlevy

5 years

Nah we should be paid in cash

avery

@averykimball

5 years

open source programmers *are paid in your use of their programs* because if you are using it, that means they have done something meaningful with their time and effort, which is the deepest incentive we have (more so than *sex*, because we are post-biological)

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I want him back.

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4 years

The 2 genders, 4 AM new parent edition

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@shlevy

3 months

Haven’t read and don’t care about the OP but this response is craven conformism. Part of my role as a father is to be a moral role model, including having the independence and integrity to do what’s right no matter how weird others may think it.

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I cannot stress enough how your children are depending on you to not be weird. Seriously, you are a dad. Every morning you should be looking yourself in the mirror and saying to yourself: “I need to not be weird, for my children”

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@RadishHarmers Fun fact: The federal government had no power to enact National Ice Cream Day directly, but instead made highway funding contingent on each state passing the relevant laws. Anyway enjoy prison.

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@_craigowen @prog_enjoyer7 @Sliggity_Dog @jeremykauffman @DemocratRapist For example, I support laws against fraud. I know this means that fraudsters will be required to make their victims whole, that this requirement ultimately rests on the threat of force, and that it’s fine to say this is “at the point of a gun” even if there are no literal guns.

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4 years

This was found on an EA meme page, but it's a more honest expression of EA philosophy than most. Normal altruism is burning yourself at an altar of sacrifice. EA is building an industrial scale furnace and slick marketing to funnel yourself and all your friends in

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@shlevy

11 months

Individual preparedness is great, but this weekend was a reminder to work to establish and maintain a government with the capacity and will to do whatever it takes to defend its citizens (rather than, say, feeding their overt enemies).

☉rthonormalist🧭✡️

@orthonormalist

11 months

This weekend was a reminder to train, train, train to protect your family from savagery.

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1 year

@eigenrobot Eigen sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Eigen reaping: LOL I'm out have fun guys

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2 months

And I’m officially done with my old role, see you at HQ in 3 weeks!

Shea Levy

@shlevy

3 months

I’m joining @anduriltech as Staff Software Engineer next month! I’ll be on @danielfullmer ’s platform team, likely overlapping with @TravisMWhitaker ’s electromagnetic warfare group. Incredible team, great tech, vital mission, and foundational contribution opportunity. Can’t wait!

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