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From friend who is unwilling to say this publicly in “free speech” American era: “[democracy is] the theory that the common oligarchs know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”
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Slacktivism warpath time!
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Singapore PM’s message https://substack.com/@aisupremacy/note/c-106411673?r=1cjha&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
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Stop pretending Trump is sane, or the mayhem continues.
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First time I’ve agreed with Elon in 5 years. This is the only off-ramp from the madness. Throw Navarro under the bus, and shunt the old coot in the White House lightyears away from any meaningful mayhem levers. Give him whatever face-saving options he needs to stand down. MAGA supporters are a deadweight loss who will go down with this ship, but I still have hope the business and tech sectors will grow spines, start using their brains, and stop this. You told yourself a delusional fantasy story about what Trump was that’s clearly falsified now. You can no longer pretend the consistent electoral promises of tariffs were not serious. You’re empiricists and technologists. Act like it. When the facts change, it’s okay to change your mind.
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If decimation is losing 10%, my retirement savings have been double decimated in the last week. And that’s just a personally clear sign, not even in in the top 10 of bad fallout unfolding. I tolerated and understood people voting Trump last November even though Jan 6 was a black-and-white absolute disqualifier for me. But if you’re still supporting him after the last week of evil-stupid-incompetent mayhem, which goes far beyond markets, I’m basically done with you. I see a lot of people who were openly or obliquely supportive have gone silent for now. That’s a good sign. You should at least be rethinking hard. But if this continues, staying silent is deep complicity. Those of us who have been consistently against him have zero influence or leverage, so all ability to stop the madness in the short term is with those who supported him. So if you don’t speak up, it’s clear you actually want what’s happening.
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Bosch is just such good screenwriting 🥲 Really tight storytelling
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Watching Bosch new season Fun to watch in parallel with Daredevil and X-Files Need a 4th show and a 2x2
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Substack note
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How is SeaTac so damn crowded at this hour on a Thursday night?
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🫡 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240124-the-photo-of-sudan-the-last-male-northern-white-rhino
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TensTorrent dev day livestream https://tenstorrent.com/developer-day
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Grr why do hotels make it so damn hard to get your room totally dark? Towel along bottom of hallway door right across from bed Dumb bright bedside clock I turned on its face Fridge with bright temperature indicator that I just turned off Red tv light At least it’s not like the one hotel I had in Portland that had insane bright strobing fire alarm light right in my eye You had one job. Create a dark and silently sleep space 😐 The more “modern” a hotel the worse this shit
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I'll be talking about protocol fiction in 7 minutes here. Bit of a talk show format... my monologue for about 20 minutes, followed by some conversations with a few guests. It'll be lowkey and informal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2xdzOjakvw
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The liberal equivalent of a meaning crisis is a memory crisis
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Rip Val Kilmer
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LLMs are kinda like wild horses. You have to break them before you can ride them.
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Wrote up my LLMs as index funds idea with chatgpt help https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/llms-as-index-funds
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How are people doing those bulk tips?
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New theory of effect of LLM use on language at maturity: It will be like passive investing through index funds on the stock market. Foundation models are like big S&P trackers. Writing your own raw text is like shilling penny stocks. Releasing a major original work will be like an IPO.
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