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I partially agree with both you and that person you hate.
A true OG founder mode was Henry VIII and the founding of the english church.
August 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A true OG founder mode was Henry VIII and the founding of the english church.
Why do many who talk of AI futures seem to be thinking religiously?
Smuggling infinities into your arguments always leads to visions of the infinite.
Smuggling infinities into your arguments always leads to visions of the infinite.
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Why do many who talk of AI futures seem to be thinking religiously?
Smuggling infinities into your arguments always leads to visions of the infinite.
Smuggling infinities into your arguments always leads to visions of the infinite.
"Eunuchs" is too identity-limiting. Please use "non-huevos-having persons"
August 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"Eunuchs" is too identity-limiting. Please use "non-huevos-having persons"
I also just love the word "abliterated" in LLMs. Playing on "ablations" (turning off or removing parts of a model) and "obliterated", yeah?
I would have also accepted "ablotomized"
I would have also accepted "ablotomized"
August 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I also just love the word "abliterated" in LLMs. Playing on "ablations" (turning off or removing parts of a model) and "obliterated", yeah?
I would have also accepted "ablotomized"
I would have also accepted "ablotomized"
TV gave us "a face for radio", podcasts gave us "a voice for substack"
Anyway I still just write a lot of text dunno what this says about me.
Anyway I still just write a lot of text dunno what this says about me.
August 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
TV gave us "a face for radio", podcasts gave us "a voice for substack"
Anyway I still just write a lot of text dunno what this says about me.
Anyway I still just write a lot of text dunno what this says about me.
I wish there were comparative studies for cash-aid vs Hong Kong or Singapore model.
Cash gives resources, lets them figure it out. Institution building says "get the rules right, resources follow".
Best approach likely depends. A corrupt resource rich country needs LKY. But not everyone...
Cash gives resources, lets them figure it out. Institution building says "get the rules right, resources follow".
Best approach likely depends. A corrupt resource rich country needs LKY. But not everyone...
August 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I wish there were comparative studies for cash-aid vs Hong Kong or Singapore model.
Cash gives resources, lets them figure it out. Institution building says "get the rules right, resources follow".
Best approach likely depends. A corrupt resource rich country needs LKY. But not everyone...
Cash gives resources, lets them figure it out. Institution building says "get the rules right, resources follow".
Best approach likely depends. A corrupt resource rich country needs LKY. But not everyone...
Friendly (somewhat serious) reminder that nihilism is a waiting area, an intermediate step along your life
August 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Friendly (somewhat serious) reminder that nihilism is a waiting area, an intermediate step along your life
You ever focus so hard on a single chunk of deep mental work that after like 6 straight hours your brain almost feels... like swollen and heavy?
August 20, 2025 at 1:47 AM
You ever focus so hard on a single chunk of deep mental work that after like 6 straight hours your brain almost feels... like swollen and heavy?
This is a map of all states with an economy smaller than just the SF Bay Area. Consider all the $ generated here.
Now consider the flat rate of housing construction.
Supply/Demand is so annoyingly powerful.
Now consider the flat rate of housing construction.
Supply/Demand is so annoyingly powerful.
August 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is a map of all states with an economy smaller than just the SF Bay Area. Consider all the $ generated here.
Now consider the flat rate of housing construction.
Supply/Demand is so annoyingly powerful.
Now consider the flat rate of housing construction.
Supply/Demand is so annoyingly powerful.
Goodhart's Law is a problem, but it's an easy solve if your culture can balance 2+ metrics that counterbalance.
The hard part is that complex organizations spend so much time with infighting and coordination that they often can't manage more than one.
The hard part is that complex organizations spend so much time with infighting and coordination that they often can't manage more than one.
August 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Goodhart's Law is a problem, but it's an easy solve if your culture can balance 2+ metrics that counterbalance.
The hard part is that complex organizations spend so much time with infighting and coordination that they often can't manage more than one.
The hard part is that complex organizations spend so much time with infighting and coordination that they often can't manage more than one.
There’s a threshold where your company is so complex and political and opaque that there’s more signal from an outside journalist than in internal comms.
August 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There’s a threshold where your company is so complex and political and opaque that there’s more signal from an outside journalist than in internal comms.
This is basically the level of understanding from the "nooooo Abundance gets housing wrong" left objections
"not in a while" is just 👩🏼🍳 💋
"not in a while" is just 👩🏼🍳 💋
June 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is basically the level of understanding from the "nooooo Abundance gets housing wrong" left objections
"not in a while" is just 👩🏼🍳 💋
"not in a while" is just 👩🏼🍳 💋
I’m on the quadrant that thinks (Gary Markus is mostly right) and (we have 1-2 decades of products to figure out on these LLMs anyway)
June 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I’m on the quadrant that thinks (Gary Markus is mostly right) and (we have 1-2 decades of products to figure out on these LLMs anyway)
technically this is an accurate description of the process. Ask the question, no matter the answer, deport.
May 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
technically this is an accurate description of the process. Ask the question, no matter the answer, deport.
Add this to the “I asked specifically for a bad thing and a general purpose tech gave me what I asked for” hall of dunces
March 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Add this to the “I asked specifically for a bad thing and a general purpose tech gave me what I asked for” hall of dunces
You're not a real SF resident until you make friends with people you think will be your confidants for life and then in 10 years all of them have left and then you sit alone at a cafe and whisper to yourself "but the parks are so beautiful"
November 19, 2024 at 11:21 PM
You're not a real SF resident until you make friends with people you think will be your confidants for life and then in 10 years all of them have left and then you sit alone at a cafe and whisper to yourself "but the parks are so beautiful"
If the main commonality of a social network is using that social network itself, you do not yet have a social network.
I am subtweeting most of the twitter clones.
I am subtweeting most of the twitter clones.
November 15, 2024 at 3:50 PM
If the main commonality of a social network is using that social network itself, you do not yet have a social network.
I am subtweeting most of the twitter clones.
I am subtweeting most of the twitter clones.
cc @gordon.bsky.social a variant in the wild “if everyone would just *not*”
Please do not use bluesky to only post screenshots and links to the most grotesque, rage-inducing tweets out there.
We know! That is why we left!
We know! That is why we left!
November 13, 2024 at 4:09 AM
cc @gordon.bsky.social a variant in the wild “if everyone would just *not*”
I envy the certainty of the true believer.
October 28, 2024 at 12:23 AM
I envy the certainty of the true believer.
I had to shuttle to the Bay Area suburbs today.
I will *try* to not tweet nonstop about how fucking stupid and inhuman the built environment is around me non stop.
No promises.
I will *try* to not tweet nonstop about how fucking stupid and inhuman the built environment is around me non stop.
No promises.
July 6, 2023 at 2:46 PM
I had to shuttle to the Bay Area suburbs today.
I will *try* to not tweet nonstop about how fucking stupid and inhuman the built environment is around me non stop.
No promises.
I will *try* to not tweet nonstop about how fucking stupid and inhuman the built environment is around me non stop.
No promises.
One thing that keeps big social networks safe from competitors is that if you join a new one, you can just repost viral classics from the old one. This annoys power users, who have seen it before, but means that reposters have the best content as far as new users know.
July 4, 2023 at 3:47 PM
One thing that keeps big social networks safe from competitors is that if you join a new one, you can just repost viral classics from the old one. This annoys power users, who have seen it before, but means that reposters have the best content as far as new users know.
4 months ago: broken neck.
Today: able to play squash for 90 minutes, lift, down a smoothie, then ride for 90 minutes up twin peaks and out to the ocean and back.
Hi, body, great to have you back. It’s a great world out there old buddy, let’s keep exploring.
Today: able to play squash for 90 minutes, lift, down a smoothie, then ride for 90 minutes up twin peaks and out to the ocean and back.
Hi, body, great to have you back. It’s a great world out there old buddy, let’s keep exploring.
July 3, 2023 at 11:36 PM
4 months ago: broken neck.
Today: able to play squash for 90 minutes, lift, down a smoothie, then ride for 90 minutes up twin peaks and out to the ocean and back.
Hi, body, great to have you back. It’s a great world out there old buddy, let’s keep exploring.
Today: able to play squash for 90 minutes, lift, down a smoothie, then ride for 90 minutes up twin peaks and out to the ocean and back.
Hi, body, great to have you back. It’s a great world out there old buddy, let’s keep exploring.
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What’s a thing you want to want to do?
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
July 3, 2023 at 10:10 PM
What’s a thing you want to want to do?
(not a typo)
(not a typo)
Getting thrown and fired in the same day could mean you got in a fight and are out of work. Or you are a piece of pottery.
April 28, 2023 at 8:47 PM
Getting thrown and fired in the same day could mean you got in a fight and are out of work. Or you are a piece of pottery.