Ryan Moulton

Sam Altman tweet It was definitely rushed, and the optics don't look good. We really wanted to de-escalate things, and we thought the deal on offer was good. If we are right and this does lead to a de-escalation between the DoW and the industry,

Deleting “you’re absolutely right to call me out on that” and thinking we can’t tell

on second thought, I don't mind this take.

it's true. parks and public lands cost absolutely nothing, comparatively. we are budget pocket lint. the entire NPS costs $3 billion a year.

we are not only America's best idea, but America's best value, too.

Yeah, those cuts were grotesque.

One way of looking at this is that missiles are absurdly expensive. The other is that nature gives us an enormous amount of value essentially for free, and only a tiny budget is enough to give us access to it.

I don't think that changes it. Once the average degree gets above the critical threshold it has to link up. You can think about it in terms of adding a new edge to the graph, and as a component grows, the probability that the new edge connects to that component also grows, and thereby grows it.

I'm comfortable with n-d cubes being weird. I feel like n-d spheres should always be nice and Normal.

What are some of your favorite simplices?

If it enters the human graph and survives well enough, it makes it to you somehow. bsky.app/profile/moul...

Honestly these little moments are what tweets are for. Micrononfiction.

This graph surprises people but it's just the giant component. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_c...

Seems like a phase change though once it's more than humanity collectively can consume.

Copy pasted it from someone who replied with that on Twitter and didn't think much about it.

Art of dinosaurs. They don't post much because it takes a long time to make.

Every time Google has tried it the only people who use it are SEOs.

Wow. I wonder what part of my diet consumes the most land.

My maximal cluster is paleoartists, but unfortunately due to lower posting volume and lower liking volume, I never see them in For You. This is the main thing I'd like to see some approach to fix.

Funny to think that the first time I read "A Chance for Peace" I was amazed at how comparatively expensive highway is, and it has probably gotten way worse.

Candour is even better

Yeah

Okay I get your complaint, but I think I took the opposite meaning from it, that it seemed like this was just too dark a subject to be irreverent about which hampered his ability to write something engaging.

It was less funny but I don't think it was less mad.

Sorry, I Still Think MR Is Wrong About USAID ...

I thought he wrote about it a lot. open.substack.com/pub/astralco...

I was searching for the noun form of "the state of being candid" and came up with "candidacy" which is a funny sort of direct antonym for that.

Who?

Help I'm being bootstrapped.

It might be the case that a thousand times more people believe that EAs correctly were mad about USAID shutting down, that won't ever really be posted or get traction.

I think the mechanism here is that no one ever comments on actions that agree with a person's values. So the only time that publicly stated values enter the conversation is when people think you are a hypocrite.

Without an actual declaration of war I find it impossible to predict the extent of what the US is actually going to do.

Hobbes Tigger would find some aspect of tigerhood to bond over, but Calvin would put Christopher Robin in the ground.

EAs were the primary people mad that Elon was killing African children.