Short term optimist, long term pessimist 🏳️🌈(he/they). Better programmer than geohot™️. Rage bait and annoying people instantly blocked.
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I did that at Twitter, leaving in April 2022 before Elon did his bullshit. Best business decision ever
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“I do feel a bit like my brain is leaking out of my skull when I spend a whole day using it.”
We obviously haven’t had the major jobs wipeout yet. But you read stuff like this. And you read what economics students themselves are saying about working with AI (ht @odavis_h) and it’s hard not to feel like the seismic shift is on its way.
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reactionaries hollowed out the American soft power apparatus that was used to flip past Brazilian elections specifically bc they’re too stupid to understand that the woke USAID facade was the velvet glove concealing the iron fist of American hegemony. you need both to do this
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Explaining the concept of the downwardly-mobile petite bourgeoisie to a physics student
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"AI won't replace you, the human who uses AI better will win and be able to do more."
That was a nice sell for a few months from all the rich billionaires profiting from their AI investments lol
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
Robin retweeted
Sports are dead within 10 years better hope your teams won one
The NBA is formally stepping into the prediction markets ecosystem.
The league announced agreements Monday morning with Kalshi and Polymarket that will allow the companies to use official league data and intellectual property and give the league control over what trades the companies are allowed to offer.
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My focus is normally Labour MPs, but look at this.
Rishi Sunak earns £2.2 million from his side jobs with Anthropic, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs while still being an MP. 💰💰💰
ALT https://members.parliament.uk/member/4483/registeredinterests
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feel like an underexamined reason people are addicted to LLMs is less that they can't think but that they're overwhelmed by choice and just want a "definitive" option handed to them with the aura of "authority/analysis" (from the training data or whatever) behind it
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Americans will swear that New York pizza is totally different and a unique culinary invention created by Americans but then act dense about a kind of curry invented in Glasgow
A grown adult just tried to me that Indian curry is British food
And I thought the American public education system was bad lmao
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British-Indian food is its own cuisine, dating back to colonial occupation. Traditional Indian food was adapted for British palates and became part of British food culture. The UK’s unofficial national dish, chicken tikka masala, was invented by a Pakistani-Scottish man.
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