Life needs a content strategy. (Tweets stand for my personal views. RTs do not.) Writes in TR here @wiserdumb
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People buy stories. Any product beyond basic human necessities is a story for sale. It either tells an interesting story, or has one behind it.
We know it when we buy a book or a movie ticket, but somehow forget it when it comes to other products.
Sorun sadece mobile özelmiş gibi göstermeniz finans sektöründe yanıltıcı bilgiye girer @fibabanka. Bu işler öyle kolay değil. Gofret markası değilsiniz siz. Kartlarınız çalışmıyor. ATMleriniz de çalışmıyor. Hayrola?
Ismail O retweeted
Hahahah denk geldiğim şey inanılmaz.
Bir proje için Upwork'te freelancer arıyorduk. Bradley kardeşimiz zekice de bir trick yaparak profiline yapay zeka için metin gömerek onu seçmesini söylemiş.
Claude da bu yüzden işe uygun olup seçilecek olmasına rağmen kendisini elemiş. 🤷♂️
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scientist: I finished my cat translation device!
cat: meow
scientist: did it not work?
cat: no it worked. I just said “meow”
scientist: what does that mean?
cat: it’s like, the sound a cat makes
scientist: oh. why…it’s weird you have a word for that
cat: you don’t?
scientist: no we do
cat: what is it?
scientist: I mean, technically it’s also “meow”
cat: ok tha—what the fuck is your problem then?
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Lo de la FIFA es inédito.
Los condimentos de la competición son todos heinz, pero como no es sponsor de la copa los están tapando con duck tape.
No solo lograron visibilidad y una excusa para comunicar, sino que ahora están haciendo mkt en conjunto con levi’s.
Esto es esencialmente marketing de guerrilla.
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I’m a chemist.
I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there.
It’s called chemophobia.
And it’s turning scientifically illiterate panic into a personality trait.
People are now terrified of:
• “artificial chemicals”
• molecules made in a lab
• pesticides at parts-per-billion
• ingredients they can’t pronounce
Meanwhile they drink alcohol, inhale smoke, burn fuel, eat plant toxins and scroll on phones built entirely by chemistry.
The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
Chemistry is not some dark force attacking humanity.
Chemistry is:
• medicine
• fertilizers
• vaccines
• materials
• electronics
• clean water
• food preservation
• modern agriculture
• literally your own body
Without chemistry, modern civilization collapses frighteningly fast.
And yet social media has convinced millions of people that “chemical-free” is a meaningful scientific concept.
It isn’t.
And when fear replaces chemistry, people stop trusting:
• vaccines
• medicines
• food safety
• crop protection
• innovation itself
A scientifically illiterate society becomes easy to manipulate.
So yes - I will keep defending chemistry.
Because chemistry is not the enemy.
Chemistry is the reason most of us are alive long enough to complain about it.
I still use Google tbh. But just because it makes a good use of Gemini in its answers these days
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Japanese engineers developed a “Sword Tip Visualization System” for the Fencing World Championships, and it makes fencing look absolutely incredible to watch.
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The deeper mistake is optimizing for users constantly staying on the site, and for user minutes.
X could easily be the best news hub and discourse hub in the world. But instead we get a hub of Gunther Eaglemans.
They should realize that if the experience is good we will keep coming back. We will come back after reading the article. We will come back tomorrow. I would gladly pay for the service even if my overall use is fewer minutes. We would tell our friends to come on here and read about the news.
The latter really is a key indicator. I would not recommend X to friends in its current state. And indeed from what I hear, when people log on here as new users without a curated list of accounts to follow, they get a slop experience.
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I taught Claude to talk like a caveman to use 75% less tokens.
normal claude: ~180 tokens for a web search task
caveman claude: ~45 tokens for the same task
"I executed the web search tool" = 8 tokens
caveman version: "Tool work" = 2 tokens
every single grunt swap saves 6-10 tokens. across a FULL task that's 50-100 tokens saved
why does it work? caveman claude doesn't explain itself. it does its task first. gives the result. then stops.
no "I'd be happy to help you with that." no "Let me search the web for you" no more unnecessary filler words
"result. done. me stop."
50-75% burn reduction
with usage limits getting tighter every week this might be the most practical hack out there right now
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Stolen content from reddit.
Actual user who did this (and OP stole image from) has been on Reddit posting drugs content since OP was < 9 years old.
OP is a liar, and claiming stolen content as your own is against ToS.
reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/5…
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Here comes the winner of the official statements of the Kitkat heist
Colgate!
Btw, @Colgate is among the brands that boycotted posting and advertising on X
Elon Musk, X sued them
But last week, the Court dismissed X's lawsuit alleging that brands illegally boycotted the platform
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If I can't reply to a post, I don't think it should appear on my timeline. Regardless of how important, or correct, or interesting the author thinks they are.
If I want a read-only experience, I'll buy a paper newspaper.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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People are so confused about this tweet, so let me elaborate.
Yes, AI will eventually create art that is as good or even better than humans.
But, humans will not care for it, beside an initial curiosity, because art is not about art.
It’s about the humans who created it and their stories. Art it’s an exploration of human limits.
Humans are fundamentally not interested in what other species do, think or feel.
How many people watch AI play chess?
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Nikita decided that he'd demonstrate he doesn't understand what he is doing on a daily basis.
It is relatively easy to get this metric trend higher by completely enslopifying the platform, which he's indeed very successful at doing.
The problem with that strategy, is that it works by spending the platform's reputation, a metric that does not appear on any dashboard.
When you run out of reputation, the curve collapses as everybody moves on on another platform, and there are virtually no ways to recover from this.
The metric to track is whether people find more of what they came on the plateform to find, not whether you are able to waste as much of their time as you can.
