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speaking of Pathétique
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contrarian AGI thesis: AGI does not immediately solve biological issues due to lack of knowledge. Instead it proposes a series of studies and experiments to acquire knowledge that might take decades to bear fruit. We get mired in political debates about which populations might be compelled to participate in these experiments, what ethical cautions to take, and so on. We aren’t bound by computational or technological limits, we’re bound be epistemic limits. How quickly will nature reveal her remaining secrets?
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had to track a package on Austrian post and dear God wtf is this landing page
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Poetic that the LA Phil is doing Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony on Saturday. Tickets are scarce, doesn’t look like they’re canceling. Should be quite a moment.
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started learning Debussy’s The Snow is Dancing last night
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gm
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I got paparazzi’d on Rodeo (street photographers lurk around) and decided to keep the photo lol
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anybody here use a wall calendar? what’s your favorite?
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Looking over X the last few days, hard not to come away thinking this was a massive unforced error. The right has gotten a little intellectually lazy of late. They think, “yeah yeah big overeducated words, the correct argument is the most heretical.” Nope. Persuasion & holding a coalition together still matter.
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Merry Christmas guys.
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It’s a stunning fact that 4 years on, there’s not a *single* cultural artifact—not a song, a novel, or even a movie—that legitimately captures the attitudes and experiences of 2020 in America. Argue with the values, but we got some really dope music out of the 60s! A sea TikToks with 0 enduring standouts.
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still find it minorly irksome that the tech right, for all its many virtues, seems to have no idea how it’s going to enable arts and culture to flourish. you can bellyache about how gothic cathedrals and renaissance sculptures are gorgeous, but like, what’s your actual plan to get us back there?
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the driver attention team at Tesla has to be the most despised hall-monitory ML team at the company
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Surest sign a millennial is running a project is the code name is a goddamn Pokémon
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If anybody wants a knights tour print for the holidays (Eames inspired), shoot me a message or reply here. They’re 27”x27”.
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trainer this morning: “dude do your socks say…dickless?” Can’t unsee.
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feel like I’m double taking whenever I see gray hoodies in New York lmao
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hi NYC
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The best recording that doesn’t afaik doesn’t live on Spotify or APM, Gould and Rose performing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A, an underrated work from Beethoven’s peak middle period (Waldstein, Appassionatta, etc). Listen to all three movements. If only one, the 3rd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytEdeD_riU
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hi London
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