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Wall Street adage.

"When the ducks are quacking, feed them"

It's a reference to the idea that strong demand is met with new supply of risk; demand begets supply.

Important for understanding the current sentiment of markets (which is currently, uh, frothy).

I wish anyone involved in skill or career development understood this perspective. Not everyone will be a 10x dev or whatever they call em now, but you’ll be a much better [designer, writer, analyst, etc] if you have some development knowledge or experience

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Learn to speak computer; so computer can do work while youre on phone

Honestly this is the truest statement in this discourse lmao

y'all think maybe deploying the national guard and federalizing the DC police is a sign that things are about to go bad

The other thing that sucks is that vanguard is basically the most pro-normal person company in existence and its somehow in here

I’ve been thinking about this a lot as, is the machine learning or am I? For most engineering problems, I’d prefer me to be learning, for stuff like boilerplate, the machine. but it’s a question I’m constantly asking myself throughout a session.

i do not believe that billionaires should be able to set the conditions under which democracies are permitted to govern, and therefore should not exist.

i prefer demons, like a medieval occultist conception of a demon. we summon them using our Library of Alexandria as a focus, but they come out babbling and mad, and then we try to bind them to doing our scutwork, like writing emails. sometimes it works and you can sell your demon's time.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

what i would like us to move towards, is a version of govt that is simply okay trying stuff and seeing what works. But crucially it needs to actually try stuff big

The Math is Haunted

sewer socialist

data center democrat

rheumatoid arthritis republican

landmine libertarian

This has been said in lots of ways but it is worth repeating; this is extremely impressive. If you asked a dog “who is the best basketball player ever” and it said “Jichsel Mordon” you would be unbelievably impressed. But you wouldn’t hire the dog as your junior analyst, because the answer is LeBron

Banger

all my homies live in a low dimensional feature subspace

my going theory is that nobody currently working at openai with any authority knows what art is, even in theory. why else would all the images look like they were dipped in pee.

you are hereby sentenced to generate an API key for any google service

"was the Butlerian Jihad always anti-racist", the greatest thread in the Imperial History, closed by mentats after 9,999 years of heated debate,

Perhaps it’s just hard to maintain a stance that a technology is wildly impressive but may be on net harmful

it literally is not this. it could not be less this.

I don’t think we have to reflexively call everything that has to do with AI stupid just like we don’t have to kiss ass about it all being always enchanting either. Some of the stuff is cool. Some of it is disappointing. Much of it is overhyped. Much of it dismissed by people angry at stuff

Absolutely nailed on that financial historians in 400 years time will be saying that the so-called "bitcoin bubble" was never economically significant and really just confined to a small number of group chats during a pandemic, actually.

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

stop doing necromancy with the computer!!

You're all gonna look stupid as hell when in 10 years a computational linguist proves that blueberry does in fact have 3 r's

Anti-corruption has so clear a lane right now that it's hard not to assume anybody who isn't eager to jump into it isn't just corrupt themselves.

been saying that machine learning feels more like summoning than training when the model is big enough

To make my stances legible:

- Labor > Capital
- Moderate AI Enthusiast, but Largely Just Like Cool New Stuff in General
- Slow Takeoff
- There is no Libertarian or Republican way to build a technologically advanced society
- Wook Extermination