Hell of a thread. Quoted feed from @dsawyer Alan is right about a lot of things on this topic. He’s wrong about this one. Shame doesn’t motivate, it paralyzes (by design). Making someone ashamed of their weight doesn’t motivate them to lose, it motivates them to hide. Here’s how I started losing after decades of […]

Interesting. I don’t know one way or the other. @BretWeinstein – did you get any clarity? Quoted feed from @hollymathnerd If you’re curious what Musk’s statements on why he is/was f’ing with S*bst*ck links actually mean, I wrote a short explainer. The site is not dangerous or phishing. Just click through to read if he’s

Worth considering. Reifying through code. Feels very fruitful. Quoted feed from @yishan @yishan This MIGHT be a crucial bridge pointing the way towards training LLMs to reflect better truth/false distinction (hence reasoning), perhaps by linking natural language to forcing it to write code that expresses (or checks) what it is claiming.

Jordan Hall retweeted: What kind of terrible person would you have to be to hoax the death of a political prisoner? For the record, Assange is alive and needs our help. We have failed him so far. #PardonAssangeNow

This is the key insight. Quoted feed from @whatifalthist @whatifalthist I said before, as opposed to Zeihan’s thesis, that the US dollar basically had to collapse given the US would subconsciously push to the point where it would fail, no matter how far

What is the jurisprudence of “Community Notes”? How is this evolved (ie what is its governance)?

Nope Appalachia.

I have an N of 1 here, but I moved to a small town (pop 8k) a few months back and the level and quality of conversation is as good as anywhere I’ve been (including Boston, SF, Berlin, London).