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Nice username btw

Culture is grown not constructed

link?

YouTube video by The Library of Letourneau the most confusing motivational speech of all time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuts...

Maybe more succinctly is liberalism doesn't answer all the questions that it asks, and people are embarrassed by this?

It's embarrassing to admit that you care about people and ideals while at the same time having a policy prescription which is not "overthrow the whole system". It cool to overthrow the system.

As a rhetorical matter I suggest aligning units and calling it 2000 million. Makes it easier for monkey brain to compare

Even infinite things are markov chains if you don't mind your space being Infinite!

Those are legitimately good

time to become a micro celeb so that I can use an app

looks really nice but I clearly don't use bsky enough to use this

Screenshot of blog : As with many other such complaints, when you say "People used to be able to afford X, and now they can't," what you mean is "My parents were relatively well-off, which I assumed was normal, and I've reverted to the mean faster than the mean has gone up."

What did you use for causal inference?

The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League - Works in Progress Magazine The Hanseatic League united merchants to bargain with kings, blockade cities, and even win wars. But when technology changed, defections began and the coalition fell apart.

worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ri...

Sadly, LessWrong

Graph of GDP per capita by country, with Norway at the top.

It helps to be rich!

The Bay Area parties series is so good

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What do we think the secret sauce is?

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Can you clarify your position? What are some good things about gossip? What is the utility?

Could be useful for RL training purposes

Wow

data.london.gov.uk/download/1b0...

It can be hard to tell from the outside how much someone is trying until after the fact

a certain subclass of AI research like prompt and context engineering is just engineers rediscovering mgmt skills

One man's quote tweet is another man's like + retweet

One man's rage-bait is another man's dopamine.

Cool! Are you following a book or something?

YouTube video by vlogbrothers You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information

Hank Green continues to be the best person at creating good models for the modern information environment: