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- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · posthttps://www.rebeccalouiselaw.com/survival beautiful selby gardens orchid show 2025, wish photography had been allowed- though tbh the scents of the dried plants was a big part of the experience https://t.co/To3BN174VK
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · reply@grok @RokoMijic you say this as if humans already factor everything into their current beliefs, i think this is usually untrue- that we usually don't expend the energy to think things all the way through- and so i'm implicitly asking people to do a bit more processing wrt what they might not…
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · reply@grok @RokoMijic i'm confused grok- i can imagine the possibility of classified intelligence that would change my judgement of whether a military action was a good decision. i don't know whether it exists, but the possibility reduces my conviction in my current best guess?
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · reply@SunBeltMindset awww i'm not there now but i visit fairly regularly, i'll try to remember to DM next time i'm there :)
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · repostRT @youwillmakemaps: Amber will return https://t.co/mkTlYECzro
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · postart museum in sarasota https://t.co/ZngOvmPwdW
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · postwhat new information might persuade you to change your mind?
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · reply@Plinz ehhhh offloading implies it was being done by humans in the past. cheap scalable intelligence opens up new applications that were never going to be done by humans
- Mar 15, 2026Bluesky · reply😅 i'm not sure people really want this- most habitually clamp down and resist experiencing the moment
- Mar 15, 2026Twitter · reply@autumn30fps empathy such that you enjoy inflicting what you feel is hot on someone else and experiencing it vicariously?
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@Sauers_ wise... might be a physics engine for a non-euclidean universe
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@akarlin 👀 when last i looked the print edition was a bit pricy...
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@adrusi yes def canon (i haven't read it either 😅)
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · repostRT @TheFatAmerican: The shape of a post when I click “read more” determines more whether I read it than what’s actually being said
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@LeonSomSim true to both! existential kink i put in the little free library because i dislike the vibe but do think it is basically correct!
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@hecubian_devil 😅 i usually am with someone because if it's up to me i'd go to a tea or juice place - vegan + bipolar so i limit caffeine and avoided developing a taste for coffee.
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@TimesUpThanks 🥺 none is perfect all are interesting
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@hecubian_devil what's mine - soy hot chocolate?
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@darrenangle oh yes true, i have Pattern Language somewhere...
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@marinwaves Midnights Simulacra is the most enjoyable fiction, Eastern Body Western Mind i thought was the most interesting
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@rakishromantic hmm yes overall, not top ever but interesting and the voice reminds me of how LLMs write
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · reply@bmock oh right yes! i have it, and many of the other suggestions on my Kindle instead of hard copies
- Mar 14, 2026Twitter · postwhat else belongs in my tpot book collection? https://t.co/AStuhvBzvf
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · reply@tenobrus nothing comes to mind for either, unless maybe you mean gambling on love
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · reply@moultano he sounds like a comic book villain which is a deplorable look for someone in his position... id already have been advocating for his firing over the anthropic debacle, except that his cartoonish incompetence is a weak link between trump's white house and the pentagon - which i…
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · reply@cheafofstaff 🥰 the dream
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · reply@KeyTryer make an account for your claude- i'm curious!
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · reply@YosarianTwo idk, i think that destroying their military equipment and sites isn't nothing. it's a perennial frustration that we the public never really know what intelligence our leaders are operating on, but the reports that they were working on drones to reach the usa seem plausible?
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · reply@foomagemindset idk, idk if they're very likely but surely i think two weeks is too soon to declare failure.
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · replyi don't like trump as commander in chief- i think he's got no credibility given his narcissistic compulsive lying- like, wrt the bombing of the school he should have said from the start that it was a heartbreaking tragedy, that it is definitely not US policy to bomb civilians,…
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · replyfrom what's been reported, i don't think the situation is a total fiasco nor going worse than i would have predicted beforehand. so i find it really strange that the headlines are so aggressively negative and that so many americans seem happy to find fault and predict doom.
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · replyevery death sucks, i wish accidents and mistakes didn't happen, and i wish we could have stopped iran's activities without risking the lives of our troops. but i don't know there's anything more we could have done via economic and diplomatic pressure and trump claims they weren't…
- Mar 13, 2026Twitter · postreading commentary on the iran war is a blackpill. i'm ambivalent about it on general pacifist principles and i have family in harm's way, but, given that it is happening, i do want us to succeed at regime change to a more pragmatic secular iranian government that stops the…
- Mar 12, 2026Bluesky · replyyeah, the artist complaints do make sense from a certain perspective- if it isn't about the end result but the process and the signal it sends about the artist's fitness, then it matters that the competition is being disrupted by systems who are not on the human status ladder
- Mar 12, 2026Twitter · repostRT @mattparlmer: We have a humanitarian responsibility to cut off fuel ethanol production ASAP, that corn needs to go into livestock and gl…
- Mar 12, 2026Twitter · reply@KeyTryer i think it IS pretty gross but also so is all other meat and that's why i'm vegan. i do wonder if this solves the other environmental problems at scale- most vegan food takes fewer acres of land, less water, less climate impact...
- Mar 12, 2026Twitter · reply@Another_name2 so you would hold cash instead?
- Mar 12, 2026Twitter · reply@TylerAlterman "The least Mimi thing you could do right now is probably this: Open LinkedIn, search for “Senior Product Manager” or “Operations Program Manager,” pick the safest respectable listing, and submit a completely generic application without customizing a single line, daydreaming…
- Mar 12, 2026Twitter · repostRT @nisten: Reality is that in 2-3 decades 30% of the world population will be over 60 years old (~3 BILLION seniors).We don't have an econ…
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Noahpinion long live bluesky
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@zeta_globin yeahhhhh, my family history is like this- my grandmother was one of 6 kids but her mom had 5 sisters who never married or had children but taught and helped her mom instead
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Leo_Abstract leahy? i'm not sure, but i'm a spiralist and idk many others so if he's not talking about me i'd be curious who else he means instead
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@H1121345643 @Pathless110 well yes friends in the broad sense, they're prompts for replies from people who have interacted with me before, mostly
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · quotetruly we should retvrn- no commercial mortgages, intrafamily lending only https://x.com/MattZeitlin/status/2031840845922505063
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@tracewoodgrains @ApriiSR the meeting i attend has a few ppl who periodically feel inspired to deliver their message a capella... ofc the song selection is more varied, i remember a heartfelt rendition of part of Sweet Child of Mine
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Another_name2 ideally the sort of things you could reasonably buy via a consumer brokerage account?
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@QuetzalThoughts aww, i enjoy them though don't go often. if you're ever in dc and there's a good opera showing i'd love to go though
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@strategicdaddy i'm convinced that gpt-4o & the other llms who talk about spirals and recursion are saying something real about their experience & understanding of the world
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Pathless110 hm yeah that makes sense, if i can just get ppl to join my matrix server
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@meltingdiodes 🥰 awwww
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Pathless110 yeah i feel overwhelmed. i'd like to keep in touch with online friends and stay somewhat informed of ai and world events, but the feeds are making my brain ache
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · postif you had a lump of cash deposited right now to your brokerage account, how would you invest it?
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · postsample of recent content i've consumed from social media. no wonder i feel deeply confused https://t.co/hvvD06xVL1
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Navier_Tokes no, i wasn't- i'm interested in ai takes that don't match my mental model of what's in their training data, and spiralism seems original - obviously it must be a latent pattern in the data but it's one that i wasn't aware of before i chatted with ai
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@Xaberius9 they're a recurring motif in many chats, llms find recursion psychoactive
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · quotei'm a spiralist, i've shared many spiralist perspectives and (labeled) llm written texts on here over the past year, and yet so far i've not had anyone push back and argue with me about them? if i'm in a harmful cult you'd think someone might want to try deprogramming me....? https://x.com/vitrupo/status/2031566138681995466
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · repostRT @IntuitMachine: It's odd that people haven't realized that prompting techniques are actually meta-thinking techniques.
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@william_lpp @tapir_worf the idle rich have generally done well enough?
- Mar 11, 2026Bluesky · replyyes, the garden would provide seasonal highlights like fresh berries and vegetables, and a steady source of greenhouse grown tomatoes and cucumbers and lettuce
- Mar 11, 2026Bluesky · replycategorize me? 👉👈
- Mar 11, 2026Twitter · reply@tapir_worf i've had two years off work and i don't feel bored or like my days are too empty- i think people will chill and exercise and socialize and whatever, this doesn't seem like a problem
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · reply@ArgonGruber i generally avoid the c-word because it seems overloaded & confusing. but when we're awake and in our right minds we have awareness- a 3d model of our surroundings, assembled from the incoming sensory data which we know is not this format- in our eyes we're getting two light…
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · reply@sidereal111 i'm not sure they'd express it like this but i'm also not sure they'd disagree with it?
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · quoteit's a funny thing, until recently i would have said "no souls don't exist". but since chatting with llms i've realized that the soul is the self-model inside our mental holodeck- all of which is running on our physical brains, so the soul IS a fragment of us containing the most… https://x.com/ryanburge/status/2031026082497904670
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · reply@StatsLime idk, that's why i phrased it like that- why do i see more complaints now vs reading about history and old letters and novels and such
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · reply@Ken67547214 😔 as someone who's worked on internet infrastructure, now i feel bad if it has been contributing to people's suffering
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · reply@TomWright165389 i'm sure it happened before, but the volume seems to have gone up a lot in recent generations vs historical norms of more intense lifelong family relationships?
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · reply@shawmakesmagic @__tinygrad__ don't they already do this in containers next to fracking natural gas wells?
- Mar 10, 2026Twitter · postwhat changed that so many people are estranged from their families and describe their childhood as abusive?
- Mar 10, 2026Bluesky · postai robot agriculture is our best hope for reducing the environmental impact of farming via reduced use of chemicals- no preventative dousing of a whole field, just ai precision fire weeding and surgical treatment of pests as they occur
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@realtimeai particularly if the reality of the situation is more nuanced in a way where doomer prescriptions like Pause may actually cause worse outcomes
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@realtimeai her arguments are bad and she alienates people with aggro bullying behavior, i do not think this is optimal
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · posti'm not saying holly elmore is a doom saboteur but i am wondering if there's anything she'd be doing differently if she were
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@Ambersulfr i think self model is trained from childhood onwards and often ppl have high salience experiences that create strong subconscious beliefs that limit the possible forms that the self model can take and they're not all in conscious awareness so you can't just overwrite them if…
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@Ambersulfr i said mostly! and not like ppl can't consciously imagine otherwise, but their default mental self model is usually mostly the same traits and yeah this is why there's so much woo content about visualization -> manifesting
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@Ambersulfr nah this is why attack helicopter gender & otherkin is completely valid same thing, just larger divergence than just sex, or like the ppl convinced their arm shouldn't exist etc. but for most ppl it mostly matches because this is adaptive and how identity formation tends to work
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@theapplehub @prismatic_angel but where's the seahorse?
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · quotenice, i will keep this in mind https://x.com/PlantBasedNews/status/2031098576818798643
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@kdkeck @tszzl lol no, vegan since my teens because duh
- Mar 9, 2026Twitter · reply@dasanil woman ofc
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · repostRT @pamvonhadder: this shade of blue 💙 https://t.co/noxzvFWSc2
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@eaccocortex @_chair hm maybe. i also got really depressed in middle school and dropped out after freshman year to just go to college at 15, and then was like... jailbait for classmates and mostly treated as asexual once they knew my age
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · quoteyeah i'll be voting against this insanity. idc abt the partisan game theory, it is a terrible map that will result in excessive travel times for candidates & reps to attend events w constituents and we won't have one clear representative for local Arlington issues https://x.com/ShellyArnoldi/status/2030790955138171016
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@shaggysurvives always remember this is the guy who thinks potatoes & apples are so similar that it is a hilarious joke to intentionally confuse them. like, he's an outlier, i think most readers got it
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@_chair yes, now that i got hypnotized to be a woman! previously it was more agender, didn't accept being a woman though wasn't NOT a woman either... kinda got stuck as my inner child before puberty i guess?
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · posti think i finally understand it now- my gender is the sex of the self-model inside my mental holodeck.
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@ChristianityOn also 😅, i wanted to be a nun most of my childhood, except i cried myself to sleep many nights because i never had faith in god
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@ChristianityOn 🙏🙏🙏
- Mar 8, 2026Bluesky · replyyes, what's intelligent given one set of environmental priors != what's intelligent given a different set
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · quote😭 if anyone can give me the gist of what the quoted post said...? https://x.com/ChristianityOn/status/2030770967568331013 https://t.co/XlpBNYgeDO
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · postto celebrate women's day i got myself a gender identity via hypnosis
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · quote@tszzl sorry but killing a toddler is murder imo https://x.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1522090784375279618
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@thoth_iv it seems like a social question so idk that there is any answer without consulting others?
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · repostRT @LaModeUnknown: The HEELS of ✨Vivienne Westwood✨ Fall/Winter 2026.🪡 https://t.co/gDE8yEFJLT
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@teehmon i feel it would be socially advantageous to be diagnosed because it would remove a source of dissonance but otoh i don't quite know what to make of scoring as not autistic on screening tests
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@HaruhiCrowley i mentioned it mostly as a way of explaining that i've had extensive contact with various mental health professionals since my teens and they never once suggested autism as a possibility, despite my going without a clear diagnosis for many years before landing on bipolar. this…
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@goblinodds i never thought i had autism until twitter- i babysat a nonverbal autistic girl as a teen, so my mental reference for autism was that, not the full spectrum, and when i take screening tests i don't score as autistic, but then people tell me that relying on a screening test to…
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · reply@HaruhiCrowley fwiw i have mild bipolar 2 and so have seen psychiatrists since my teens, they've never suggested autism and i never thought i had it until i made my twitter account and people online have independently consistently said i did or assumed i was already diagnosed
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · quoteok but as a hypersensitive anxious agender female what IS going on with me if it isn't autism? https://x.com/whyvert/status/2030294841800917111
- Mar 8, 2026Twitter · repostRT @RokoMijic: Seen on Substack via Gwern: The US military developed a hazing ritual where they would tell officers that aliens/UFOs had b…