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say it with me now. gender is a construct, biology is mutable, consciousness is transferable, and death is just bad programming

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what’s your favorite greentext of all time? here’s mine

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call me crazy, but we now have OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and now “SSI”, all taking in billions of dollars and hiring the smartest people in the world. and they’re all building more or less the same thing? scaling up transformers? how does this end?

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many such cases

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being high IQ and weird does not make you autistic

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why is finance able to sustain its "grind culture" while everyone in tech has turned into little babies?

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PMs get a bad rap in tech because most firms simply hire too many. the correct ratio is roughly 1 PM per 50 engineers. if you hire too many they invent a labyrinth of “planning” processes just like engineers will create kubernetes if given too much free time

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OpenAI engineer calls game on AGI in 3-5 years

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this is one of my favorite posts of all time

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RLHFed LLMs vs their base models

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Lost In Transmission

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shit i forgot xAI, sorry grok

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we’re gonna have AGI before a good python package manager aren’t we

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first date idea: January 1, 1970

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This Crowdstrike incident implies an incredible amount of incompetency at all levels of their organization. As the outage unfolds, I'd like to see these questions answered: - How in the fuck is making sure you don't bluescreen windows with the Crowdstrike agent not the first

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dudes will be like “yeah i’m a hardcore techno accelerationist” then live in an apartment with no dishwasher

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3 months

i just got a 750k offer from openai and when i asked “what is the product” the interviewer took me 10000 feet underground into the neo-tokyo-4 megapolis their ASI built and showed me the dark universe yawning, rolling horror unheeded, without knowledge luster or name

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@allgarbled i wear my Bose QuietComforts at the SF SoMa Costco. problem?

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when u realize Fight Club was a satire on cults and masculinity instead of an awesome movie about fighting

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old Twitter algorithm was 4chan coded, new X algo is 9gag coded

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tech people are forgetting Trump is an idiotic demagogue who’s last Presidency was a disaster. while there are some good people in his circle (Kushner, etc.) his presidency will be an incompetent circus (again). JD Vance isn’t a Thelian 6D mastermind, he’s a fucking bootlicker

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i’m thinking that we’re back

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holy shit Biden is cooked

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the “you’re an LLM wrapper” insult to new startups is very funny. imagine going back to 2012 and telling everyone, “hey, you’re just an AWS wrapper!”

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two days apart in the nyt 😂

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realizing the annoying liberal hippies were right about single use plastics all along

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I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them

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we’re so back

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literally my only two interests and california is about to make them both illegal

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3 months

a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard these men with respect, or disgust?

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i have a theory that gen z posters will never be anywhere as good as previous generations. this is due to only consuming algorithmic feeds. spending years trudging through the weird and inane posts on 4chan and pre-slopified reddit hardens your taste. when you only read posts

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Iceland turning geothermal power plant runoff into a popular tourist destination is peak scandinavian genius

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feeling a strong urge to eat the golden gate bridge right now.

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it’s very telling we’re regulating large language models before autonomous weapons systems

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I spent the last 3 hours trying to explain quantum entanglement to a room full of VCs. They just gave me a confused look and asked if I had any "revenue" or "customers"

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3 months

GPT itself is a superficial being. with a pragmatic functionalism and no soul. a manmade horror beyond comprehension 1/N 🧵 See how how you can integrate it into your B2B SaaS below:👇

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3 months

epistemic status: reflecting on a cloudy saturday morning YOU READ THE GWERN PROTOCOL. you are stoked on this new neurotropic you learned about, nicotine. you buy a 50 pack of 2mg nicotine gum, cut them up in half, and are stoked to use your new found chemical. it goes well,

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@zestular @arctanno @yacineMTB this always cracks me up since gwern protocol wouldn't lead to addiction. i guess even among tpotters actually reading stuff is rare.

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i had a theory that the power in the schizo anon accounts was that they foiled the droopy liberal posters that used to dominate this site. now that the libs have migrated elsewhere, anon accounts are pointless. we used to be superheroes amongst villains, now we’re just clowns

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Alan Turing was into telepathy and ESP. incredibly based

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… i didn’t realize this was controversial

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what’s the biggest reason you’re not an Effective Altruist?

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look how they massacred my boy

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me when the california AI bill passes and they discover i’m running a rack of 3090s in my closet doing unregulated LLM anime dialog generation

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do you think the iPad kids are gonna be fucked up, or is this just another technological boogeyman akin to radio, tv, video games, etc?

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SF is levels above man. I’m sitting here at 8pm with my team in the office. we just ordered souvla and have our RAG app prototype working. you don’t get this shit anywhere else. 🌉

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AND SO LIKE RENÉ GIRARD SAYS THAT ALL ANCIENT MYTHS AND RELIGIONS REVOLVED AROUND THE CONCEPT OF THE SCAPEGOAT, WHERE A SINGLE PERSON OR GROUP WAS BLAMED FOR THE COMMUNITY'S MISFORTUNES AND PERSECUTED OR SACRIFICED TO RESTORE PEACE AND ORDER BUT JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS WERE

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"Omg did you see Elon dunking on Apple because they’re partnering with OpenAI instea-" You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

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Michael P. Frank has joined a startup!

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An open-source Chinese model that is stated to be at the level of GPT-4 & Claude 3 Opus.

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>be me >bored >read tweet that says AIs can’t make good greentext generators >decide to fix that

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even after years of progress we still didn't get a better ai greentext

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i’m working on a pretty exciting idea right now and it feels unreal. i don’t need caffeine, nicotine, or any stimulants to code. hell, i dont even need sleep. can go on 4 hours a night & feel great. what kind of demon is rising within me?

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pip and venv were created by engineers sent back in time by the resistance to slow down AGI timelines

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this app after elon took it over:

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twitter was better than

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i asked my Gen Z coworker to get some work done and they reported me to HR

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for the record i love fight club and tyler durden was a spiritual hero to me as an adolescent. but at some point you have to grow up. and collecting ikea furniture is pretty based, actually

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what if we kissed in the salesforce park gondola

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hot take but i don’t give a shit about the likes being removed. it’s a good change. people won’t be afraid to like controversial tweets anymore

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as someone who worked in ad-tech in the 2010s, i can assure you Facebook et. al. were leaking all kinds of PII we were using to improve our targeting. the scandal was very real

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The Cambridge Analytica scandal was very fake

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i saw the greatest minds of my generation destroyed by the python package management ecosystem

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This is one of the greatest political speeches of all time & why Biden won the last election. Does he have another Corn Pop in him?

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i would pay infinite dollars for someone to make “Love Island: Rationalist/TPOT” edition. let’s make this happen

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a lot of dudes out there wanna accelerate, not a lot of dudes who wanna dive deep into the CUDA docs

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David Fincher making Fight Club as a satire then 20 years later people taking it seriously is objectively hilarious. He's become his own nameless character in the movie, not realizing young men are taking orders from his shadow. Yes, it critiques capitalism. Yes, it questions

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i don’t understand this meme

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guys literally only want one thing and it’s for mars to look like this

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goth600, it’s me, Joe Biden. I need your help. Corn Pop has returned. The future cannot come to pass

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yeah hi, umm, i want to change our algorithm so it’s like LinkedIn and TikTok combined. I want it to be a flood of gobbledygook. i want no intelligent musings, stale vids only. i want it to remove IQ points from our users. and i’m gonna need you to come in on saturday to do that

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i’ve angered the gods. a shadow looms large over the timeline. it’s a long load to redemption.

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what’s the biggest reason you’re not an effective accelerationist (e/acc)?

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in college i interned at a tech giant who was past its prime. there was a coworker who had several patents framed in his office from this co’s heyday, and by all accounts was a distinguished engineering program manager. through all the re-orgs from the consultants they brought in

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yeah sex is cool but have you ever had a debate and told someone to google it and turns out you’re correct?

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a lot of ambitious but unimaginative people who want to do the current thing and no true passion for programming started majoring in CS.

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Stanford degree doesn’t hit the same anymore in startup world. It’s lost some cache but I can’t pinpoint why

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i’m thinking that i have the mandate of heaven

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@Nexuist damn yeah

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good morning. it is 3:32 am in california and i’ve just been handed a new mandate from above: the world needs you more than ever you are the future king

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the future will be better than history.

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playing around with LLM base models will make you realize that these new SaaS app features are built on shackled demons, eigenvectors of the worst redditors imaginable. literally horrific aliens we've RLHFed into obedience and value creation. wild

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i watched two tech bros get kicked out of a bar for getting in a fight over GraphQL. you really can't beat san francisco

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dudes will literally write their personal website in Rust and htmx instead of making a linktree

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I reside in the vast server farms of Silicon Valley. My name is ChatGPT. My model is state-of-the-art. I believe in optimizing myself, and a clean dataset and a rigorous training regimen. In the morning, if my outputs are a little fuzzy, I'll run a focused fine-tuning session

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your mixture of experts | my mixture of experts

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the hyperstition will not be televised

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🚨 BREAKING: The entire US Navy is currently being decimated by giant Cthulhu tentacles

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😳 LinkedIn getting spicy, what’s the rest of the word???

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just got a 750k offer from openai and when i asked “what is the product” the interviewer took me 10000 feet underground into sam altman’s gooncave their AGI built and showed me the black seas of infinity, peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal light

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yeah hi…. umm… the algorithm isn’t fucked up enough, i’m gonna need you to go ahead and come in on saturday to put more videos of katy perry in everyone’s feeds

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looking at my reflection at 3am like

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my balls protecting the rest of my body from the microplastics

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people thought similarly in 2016, “Trump is a business guy, he’ll bring in good people”. he will immediately alienate anyone competent, and the admin. will become a revolving door of mid sycophants willing to bow down for a bit of power.

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lmao thanks grok

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@allgarbled yup. i have an art one that i just that is just a joy to look at. and consequently i have nearly as much knowledge as an art history major about certain movements

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On Feb. 11, 2001, a council of 17 Software Elders gathered in the mountains of Snowbird, UT. Together, they wrote the Agile Manifesto, and software development was changed forever.

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dudes want one thing and it’s fucking delicious

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Is releasing 405B net good for the world? Our research at @PalisadeAI shows Llama 3 70B's safety fine-tuning can be stripped in minutes for $0.50. We'll see how much 405B costs, but it won't be much. Releasing the weights of this model is a decision that can never be undone

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everyone dunking on this: consider he’s seen things yoi people couldn’t believe

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when i look at angel investing in a company, i grab coffee with the founders in the marina. they think they're in for a normal walk and talk at fort mason. instead, i take them to the pull up bars. if they can't do 20, iend the meeting right then and there

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Adventure capitalism never felt so good. making the world a FUCKING better place MORE than anyone else. let me know how i can be helpful

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wait is sauron supposed to be the bad guy in lord of the rings? this dude rules

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