cats, tech, the end of apex humanity

Joined November 2016
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Jun 13
Every bite is a tribute to the banana we lost. Never forget 🫡
The worst candy in the history of mankind is the Runts banana. There is nothing that comes close.
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Jun 12
The 20-year-old riding wheelies through traffic exchanging expertise and grind for life satisfaction more effectively than Elon on even his most IPO’iest of days.
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Jun 6
There are basically no medium sized wild predators that aren’t cats or dogs. I don’t think cats and dogs are special. I think humans and anything in that size range get along eventually.
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Jun 5
most people don’t understand what’s coming. i do though. i read a blog post. Anthropic said the models are improving faster than even Anthropic expected, which means my assumptions about the assumptions are also conservative. we are beyond exponential. Demis said golden age of science. i have considered this statement seriously for a second. Mythos was just the beginning. i have not elaborated on what Mythos is. good morning
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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Jun 3
question i’ve been too scared to ask: whether opioids hospice care reliably dissolves the fear of death even in the most life-loving people. left it unanswered for years. telling myself the answer is yes. can’t risk finding out it’s no.
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Jun 2
How each chess piece moves was once loosely defined. The standard movements just settled over time, but the game would be more approachable if they were negotiated fresh every game.
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Jun 2
someone make a chess tier game where the rules change each round so you can’t practice your way to an advantage
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Jun 2
Rook moves through orthogonal cell space, bishop through orthogonal node space. Knight moves through hidden finer resolution node space that aliases into an L pattern in the visible one.
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May 31
I like to think they knew it would endure, or at least felt it would — that at the end of each day’s work there was something like peace in it, the way you feel pulling the buc-ee’s boogie boards out of the vacation pool at dusk, stacking them against the fence while low gray clouds drift in off the Gulf, slow and soft as cotton candy, and you’re just standing there knowing this particular pool, these particular people, this exact quality of quiet — all of it is already becoming memory. No pyramid slowly rising out of the sand, but no one left to understand the perspective anyway.
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May 29
A monopoly or triopoly of OpenAI, Anthropic, and whoever isn’t the long-term path for AI training and inference and the investors know it. It just has to be presented as fact long enough to IPO, at which point everyone else pays for the marked up infrastructure
We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia. This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.
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May 29
call me whatever. a while back – doesn’t matter how long – broke, nothing keeping me here, I figured I’d go ship out and see some ocean. it’s what I do instead of something worse. gets me out of my head.
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May 27
Chess with an option to convert a 2x2 section into a 4x4 microgrid when opposing pieces are locked in standoff, with micropieces of the larger pieces on those squares projected into the new microsquares.
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May 26
Youth is when the brain is still mostly training. Old age is when the weights have settled and the world mostly runs through inference.
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May 26
Most scenic States S - Alaska A - Nebraska B - Colorado, Montana C - West Virginia, Iowa D - Tennessee, Louisiana E - California, Arkansas
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May 22
energy is the force of possible becoming actual while existing states around it resist being overwritten a particle is the smallest local extent of measurable thereness; a probability resolving inside a field of similar stuff bound by what became real before and around it
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May 16
got Moose’s results back. devastating.
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May 13
The rando who feels Earth’s gravity unknowingly depends on some forest carrying a mass within a range constrained by the felt gravity of all randos prior. Within that forest the unseen leaves wait in superposition, assuming definite arrangement only the moment something beholds them at leaf-level resolution.
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May 8
some guy used to point at a tree and call the road Elm, and that was enough. just vibes and a tree. now a man spends 40 years of his prime resolving duplicate keys in a municipal naming database before silently withering into the earth.
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May 4
GPT-5.5 is like playing with magnets for the first time. having to stop asking how at a low enough level and just accepting that magnetism exists.
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