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Proud to announce that we just got accepted for publication to the American Journal of Bioethics today! Hopefully a meaningful contribution to personal identity theory and AI. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383750863_Digital_doppelgangers_and_lifespan_extension_What_matters
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surfs up
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buzzy day today
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I wonder how many compiler errors come from /* rest of the implementation the same */ llm output
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Can anybody explain why polymarket and predictit sustain such different prices? Finding these differences wildly implausible.
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Palo Alto plates: GPT3 is a 4Runner
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this shirt is sold out everywhere, but holy missing the point let’s dress like the contrarian VC whose central thesis is that the species is overly mimetic. chef’s kiss.
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can’t think of anything that can enhance the hotness of an Audi luxury EV more than a “Cornell dad” plate
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got it working https://warpcast.com/sam/0x76308c03
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the greatest virtue and greatest vice of a free society is that your main opponent is yourself. if you can’t beat your shadow, you’re toast.
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original packaging for these candies. tbh I like them better
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if you haven’t tried it in the latest visionOS beta, Lake Vrangla is an absolute stunner
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some people make independent decisions, most people perceive social reality and say and do the thing that will cause them to be accepted—telltale signs are being loud, opinionated, performative. we shouldn’t confuse consensus mirroring with deciding.
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how’s everyone else’s Monday itinerary looking
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weird to me that if you ask anybody why great companies fail, they’ll tell you it’s because the culture somehow died or got messed up, but some of those same people don’t carry that through to countries and why they fail. it’s the culture, stupid.
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I got the best birthday present this evening: an original packaged 1998 Apple Watch that was made as part of the Think Different campaign. Goes counterclockwise!
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it’s a little funny (and ironic?) that all the guys making these friend doodads have deep, personal animus for each other
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if LLM-based AI is topping out, we should probably look toward embodiment as the next unlock the intuition behind Newton’s and Einstein’s breakthroughs all involved embodied experiences: —gravity: newton and an apple falling (with a thud) —special relativity: imagining what it’s like to ride alongside a light-beam —general relativity: imagining that being in an accelerating elevator in space and gravity are indistinguishable sensations
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is anyone else’s twitter feed just getting flooded with softcore porn? just me?
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