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  1. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@a_musingcat aww cat! wish I could help... alas
  2. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@jeremymstamper not sofa but guest room I suppose - come visit DC sometime!
  3. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@Carlosdavila007 how impressive / bossy are they? I'd have some questions first... eventually I'd drive them over to the Capitol and see who's around for a meeting... starting with AOC.
  4. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@satyanutella_ best to find the smartest ppl you know and work up the IQ ladder - us dummies can't distinguish between "smarter than me" and "way way way smarter than me"
  5. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · postIf reincarnation is real, I hope I'm not a human next time. But I don't want to be a dog or cat. Because there are still "cute" ones and "not cute" ones. If I do get reborn, then I, I want to just rock gently on the ocean waves. I want to be a jellyfish. Akiko Higashimura https://t.co/2n105YhQlA
  6. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates Followed 🫡
  7. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@TomTomerson Sometimes I feel like everyone I work with is an idiot. And by sometimes I mean all times. Kevin Malone (The Office)
  8. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@_happyclams Looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you. Dana Scully
  9. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@reyneill_ Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get. Piers Morgan
  10. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@Alphiloscorp I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, 'there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.' Hagrid
  11. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@ryanparteee God breathes through us so completely... so gently we hardly feel it... yet, it is our everything. John Coltrane
  12. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@ScarletAstrorum Every voracious reader knows that there is no Dewey system for the Babel of the mind. You walk amid the labyrinthine stacks and ideas leap at you like dust bunnies drawn from the motes that cover a great many different books ready long ago. Maria Popova
  13. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@mage_ofaquarius This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Philip K. Dick
  14. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@HTTPSNoWhere I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up, and gasps ‘Oh look at that!’ Then—whoosh, and I’m gone…and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me—ever. Jim Morrison
  15. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@arpitingle I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact. Elon Musk
  16. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@PipFoweraker I fail to see how flying makes me a better healthcare companion. Baymax
  17. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@midwitmagnet oh, just the vibe of lemuring on Twitter
  18. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@IXianVernius I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Sky-bound was the mind, earthbound the body rests. Johannes Kepler
  19. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@satyanutella_ I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions. Charles Bukowski
  20. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@celtacc because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. Carl Sagan
  21. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@celtacc In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, ...
  22. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@midwitmagnet Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing. Lt. Cmdr. Data
  23. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@skooookum what type of guy do you want to be?
  24. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@chrisbodhi stay together learn the flowers go light Gary Snyder
  25. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@Ryan_Gasoline I saw myself as an electronic joy rider. I was like James Bond behind the computer. I was just having a blast. Kevin Mitnick
  26. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@sidereal111 I'm a scientist because I invent, transform, create, and destroy for a living. And when I don't like something about the world, I change it. Rick from Rick & Morty
  27. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@MetaLevelUp Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science. Janna Levin
  28. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@Frantastic_7 yay! I am trying tho some are easier than others - and I relate to this quote too 🫶
  29. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@the_greatAbyss Saruman believes that it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that it is not what I've found. I've found it is the small things, every act of normal folk that keeps the darkness at bay — simple acts of kindness and love. Gandalf
  30. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@Frantastic_7 I look at the world differently - there are a few things I firmly believe, and a few things I don't believe at all, but in between there is a vast range of things I wonder about, and that's what makes life interesting. Gene Roddenberry
  31. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@xenoschema Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap. Hildegard of Bingen
  32. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@techn0_sap1en The kind of diversity that I think really matters isn't skin shade and body shape, but different ways of thinking. Radia Perlman
  33. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@GarrettPetersen 😆 everyone should assume the most positive possible interpretation!
  34. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · quote@violetvariant yw! tbh, I've been describing people to GPT to help me brainstorm associations to find the right quote... it wrote this description in our conversation about a quote for you - thought it was too beautiful not to share https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1691895837608055087?s=20
  35. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@GarrettPetersen People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone. Don Draper
  36. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@Fantasthma_J Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing. John D. Rockefeller
  37. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@samlakig I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist! Hermione Granger
  38. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · postLike a still pond that mirrors the sky, calm and unassuming on the surface but holding unseen depths. It speaks of the power of subtlety, the strength that doesn't need to roar, the wisdom that doesn't need to preach. There's an elegance here, a grace that's found in ...
  39. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · replyunderstanding oneself and one's emotions, in being independent not in rebellion but as a natural state of being. It's a beautiful reminder that sometimes, the most profound truths are whispered, not shouted, and that within the ordinary can lie the truly extraordinary.
  40. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@violetvariant I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson
  41. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@SurrealistShip Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of. Tania Aebi
  42. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@mylordcod A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Willy Wonka
  43. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@orb_net The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time. Steve Wozniak
  44. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@nullpointered Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Dr Manhattan
  45. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@gpurcell Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them. Arnold Lobel
  46. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@NoncanonicAleae I am not afraid... I was born to do this. Joan of Arc
  47. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@micahtredding Research is the highest form of adoration Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  48. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@_Xenofy_ If a technological feat is possible, man will do it. Almost as if it's wired into the core of our being. Major Motoko Kusanagi
  49. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@EspToTheFuture Plants are extraordinary. For instance ... if you pinch a leaf of a plant you set off electrical impulse. You can't touch a plant without setting off an electrical impulse ... There is no question that plants have all kinds of sensitivities. Barbara McClintock
  50. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@sugipuff If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going. Harriet Tubman
  51. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@HephaistosF Let me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you. Tyrion Lannister
  52. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@neqyve Monsters Come In Many Forms. Do You Know The Greatest Monster Of Them All? Guilt. Leonard McCoy
  53. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@lfgist People don't get what they deserve. They just get what they get. There's nothing any of us can do about it. Gregory House, M.D.
  54. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@blisstweeting Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. Douglas Adams
  55. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@arapirilous Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells
  56. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@iroasmas The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
  57. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@warty_dog Whoever said orange is the new pink was seriously disturbed. Elle Woods
  58. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@miraculous_cake We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
  59. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@a_musingcat @HephaistosF @MeiselZachary irony + literalism + cynicism lol
  60. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@prerationalist hard to say- Never Trump republicans who voted for Biden
  61. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@LericDax I think the commentary was that he's successfully aligned his eyebrows with the brim of his hat
  62. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@LericDax not sure if this is a meme but it made me laugh... https://t.co/mEAjaon5ts
  63. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · posthttps://t.co/lU4ve9hyfa https://t.co/UeNV1c0av3
  64. Aug 16, 2023Twitter · reply@a_musingcat imo the key to being a moral landlord is to only rent to renters who no one will pity more than you... so like, only rent to wealthy ppl and to corporations (I'm so glad my fam only does commercial real estate!)
  65. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@megs_io 🤷‍♀️ the usual, it's fine
  66. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@megs_io am I? perhaps... also humorlessness caused by a day of physical pain
  67. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · quote@losingcontrol23 fates' take w mine in replies... ig I'm an outlier in thinking it was interesting https://x.com/deepfates/status/1691596307897676254
  68. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · repostRT @DanielleFong: gpt4, for me, was team blue, until i asked it to use game theory or 200 iQ, in which case it was team redpill, fwiw
  69. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@MiTiBennett haha it looks super interesting though! is there anywhere a high school dropout could read the full text?
  70. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · postshould I delete my account?
  71. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@HephaistosF 🐻 grizzly time!
  72. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@eigenrobot push through! 🫶
  73. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@thecaptain_nemo "it's a trilby" 😏
  74. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@acc_exponential haha I feel exactly the same and it's sometimes demoralizing ... like, apparently the AI safety think is a joke that everyone in the world is in on except for me?
  75. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates are there better debates I should be watching instead?
  76. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@machinegod oooo that sounds like a great project- challenging, would be super useful, lots of places to attack!
  77. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@DefenderOfBasic the highbie-lowbie distinction wrt reply game- lowbies want engagement even if it's the obvious thing to say, it's easy to start a convo... vs highbies get attention at a scale they can't reciprocate, if you're gonna reply, be interesting / unique
  78. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · postpoor theory of mind rules everything around me
  79. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates ig it depends what you were wanting from the debate... as someone who would like this resolved I think it's hopeful that the debate was a tangled mess NOT a well established conversation tree that leads to well known values/interests conflict... a mess can be untangled!
  80. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates lol well that would also be optimistic in its own way given Yud's stature and GeoHot's prep w a bunch of accs who were trying to steelman Yud- that other ppl w more ability/willingness might get somewhere we've not yet explored
  81. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates which imo is hopeful and suggests that further efforts engaging would perhaps uncover points of agreement and focus the points of dispute so ppl know where the uncertainty lies & how we might reduce it
  82. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates I'm curious what you think a "good" debate would look like? imo this was *interesting* bec they'd both prepared and yet it was scattered w a lot of thinking on the fly- suggests there's less understanding of each other's positions & contours of the disagreement than i'd thought
  83. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@samswoora it was all over the place in an interesting way if you follow the AI doom conversation, was not a structured debate of the fundamentals in a way that someone new to the topic would understand
  84. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · quotewhat other topics do you want follow-up on in a future debate? I also want more of scaling & hardware & theoretical limits & timelines; Would also like Yud to make clear claims that can be supported or debunked by relevant experts wrt nanotech, reversible computing, biotech https://x.com/mimi10v3/status/1691593856452645267
  85. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@yacineMTB I would love the nyt to do a high IQ article that explains all the tangents and references in that debate
  86. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · postI wish Yud+GeoHotz had dug a lot deeper into the social skills we are training into AI
  87. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@deepfates @MikePFrank Tbh I wish I could have heard Mike vs Yud wrt reversible computing as substrate for ASI
  88. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · repostRT @foomagemindset: Hotz's closing remarks: I came to the debate to answer the question of FOOM within the next 10 years The time matters.…
  89. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · postTIL ☀️ > 🌒
  90. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@MasterTimBlais https://t.co/i1b5TxnQUD
  91. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · repostRT @nobuhojimichaan: ime most people don't want to dismantle systems of control they want to establish systems they control '
  92. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@VincentXVespa wonderful
  93. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@twofifteenam 🥰 🫶
  94. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · quoteare you in? https://x.com/ASublminalAutst/status/1689824939862278144
  95. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@Entity3Self 😅 tbh it used to be me getting honked at- too much daydreaming, am very eager for FSD so I don't have to focus on driving anymore
  96. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@skooookum 😭 we gotta solve this...
  97. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@chaosprime distinguishing ingroup from outgroup is a survival skill, glad to see everyone so eager to train
  98. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@skooookum 🤣 does GPT speak fortran?
  99. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · reply@StatsLime ugh autocorrect- bandwidth- and I'm thinking it's sensory input / output w the world & by way of that w other ppl?
  100. Aug 15, 2023Twitter · postI've not had anything to drink recently (trying to eat healthier and I like food more than alcohol) ... but maybe some wine is justified for the Yud-GeoHotz debate?