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Design experiences that focus on: - Autonomy (a sensation of personal choice) - Competence (a feeling of growth and mastery) - Connection (a feeling of emotional resonance) and you have designed something that students want to engage with, requiring 0 coercion.
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@Prigoose completely mogged by your child, Priya...
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I know a lot of people believe that the soundtrack as you get into heaven is Bach, but I'm pretty sure it's actually Chopin. (I adore Bach, btw)
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I love teaching and couldn't be prouder of being part of both @socraticexp and @recessgg . For someone who believes education is the key to a Modern Golden Age, being part of projects that revolutionize this space is "having skin in the game". But I want more 🧵 https://t.co/cCD6kKxKlR
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Education and Culture are interconnected. Change one, change the other.
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I know Alan Moore said ideas can't be killed, but Neil Gaiman said that, even though it's more difficult, they can actually be killed. Maybe ideas live in a state of Limbo? Unrelated: my podcast "Limbo" is about to make a comeback, so you can subscribe in the next tweet! https://t.co/OUVUx2gkWW
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Seeing Goya's "Black Paintings" live has shifted something within me. https://t.co/yYeZoTaMAy
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I love the fact that I can work while having my morning coffee at home, my mid-morning coffee at the café near the beach, at the pizza place while I wait for it to be done and ready to take home... Being able to feel meaningful at a distance is a blessing.
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A big advantage of hanging out with more people and knowing more people is that it increases the surface area for examples you can give your students of people doing all kinds of things.
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Playing an actual gig tomorrow for the first time in forever. Beyond excited.
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If you have followed me for a bit, you know I'm a sucker for the idea of a Modern Golden Age (MGA). I believe Humanity can undergo such a transformation that we experience levels of abundance and progress unheard of. But first, we need to drop the "Golden Age". Here's why:
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Student describing what it feels like to code with AI: I ask Claude for TATATA Claude gives me TATITA I need to tell him that I'm looking for TATATATI Claude gives me TITATATA I need to tell him I want TATATATI Claude gives me TATATITA and eventually, I play it, and it's fun.
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How much you care about your students is half the work to make them learn.
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How do you finish a thread whose goal is not to make people follow you or anything like that, but just to share knowledge? You end it with a "that's it"?
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Is a prepared environment in an online setting just the UI?
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A Modern Golden Age is a verb, not a noun. It demands the awareness that we're living it and the practice of what allows us to maintain it. If we're able to cultivate that awareness, we surpass previous Golden Ages.
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I am about to watch “Mean Girls” for the first time. That's it. That's the tweet.
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https://t.co/gsSWHuBUlX
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Real footage of me, someone who works from home, making/packing lunch for my gf, who goes to work. https://t.co/mddVojeSKW
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It's not that I haven't been having ideas floating in my head; it's that it has been hard to bring them down to the medium of a tweet or a note.
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I need to interview someone from @dognosis. This seems like the kind of fun, revolutionary project that my students would love to know more about.
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Days ago, there was this viral idea (i.e., the same concept, slightly worded differently across accounts) on my feed that being a regular at a given place is a great thing to cultivate. This is true at multiple levels and carries a lot of advantages. You should invest in it.
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People assume debate and tough conversations create opponents, but it's my experience that, a lot of times, it's the best way to establish great friendships.
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It turns out that if you're really curious about people and really listen to them while they speak, while others notice it, they will say you're very good at interviewing people and will invite you to interview more people.
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I have sent a video of me dancing to Chopin so Ben understands that we're both correct. https://t.co/aPCCW8Ppx7
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I've decided to start a research project across multiple Golden Ages, trying to pinpoint the underlying principles of each one of them and then take a step back and see the connection between them. I'm calling it The Modern Golden Age Diaries.
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I'm exploring 10+ Golden Ages (from Athens to Bell Labs), across multiple books for each, and I'll be documenting them through essays on my Substack: https://t.co/8PE0p5W4Oy
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@fstflofscholars Thank you, Erica! An interview with you for my podcast would be a great birthday gift if you would give me the honor!
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Back at the classroom, starting with how you define technology and having the whole class talk about war-adjacent inventions, evolution as a strategy and morality applied to progress. Feels good.
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So this happened, and I got a bunch of people who knew me as an educator (post-injury) come to me and say, “You should play more. There's a part of you we never saw until today,” and you know what? Maybe they're right.
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There's a video of a guy counting reps at the gym with roman numerals, screaming ; I II III I've Vee VeeI (…) I swear I almost died.
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When you build a strong lore about yourself as an educator, students become curious about your world. That's how you connect with theirs.
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As a leader, you must have at least a basic understanding of relationship dynamics among different groups of people. I saw it countless times: highly technical people being promoted to PM and then fumbling the whole thing due to a lack of people skills.
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@Shadow_Rebbe Genuine question: would you be better off posting it nevertheless and seeing if Humans disagree with you and argues for what cgpt is arguing? Or is it better to have that feedback now and rewrite?
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I guess it had to do with the role of curiosity... What's the intention behind it when listening to someone speak matters a lot.
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I was rereading some notes on Debate and was reminded of how hard it is to map out an argument while making sure you're not identifying with the speaker, going from "debate mode" to "listener mode".
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I mean, both demand really active listening, but in one of them you're listening to understand the flaws, and in the other one you're listening to generate empathy. There's a necessary distance that can be practiced but, at least for me, is not necessarily natural.
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@Eliana_Goldin I kid you not, reading The Godfather in Middle School rewired my brain.
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@megan_gafford Hi Megan! Do you want to be a guest on Interintellect's podcast to share your series? I would love to have you!
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@TheAnnaGat @juliasonnevend @nataliapetrzela @WalterIsaacson Congratulations, Anna! Sounds awesome!
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Being an educator is a lot like being the key leader of an MLM, where you get to have a little bit of everybody else's knowledge while just being there while they do the work.
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I had a student explain some advanced physics concepts about spaceships to me, and when I asked him how he knew that, he just told me he had thousands of hours in Kerbal Space Program. https://t.co/T7R44T9DxX
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@fstflofscholars Deliberately or as an unforeseen consequence?
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@TheAnnaGat "The only genuine forces which could form the soul were words and sounds" made me IMMEDIATELY think of you and ii. https://t.co/4qHgbJNj2A
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@Shadow_Rebbe can't you dance to Chopin, though?
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I found it fascinating when people who complain about "not being seen at work" also fail to see kids (all ages) trying their best at a given task.
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Competence is, 100%, a great source of passion for learning for students. But if you think it's the only one, you're clearly failing to create the proper incentives for all students at all times.
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@fstflofscholars Chopin, playing guitar, getting off all technology and drinking lots of water and great wine did it for me!
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What's your go to when you feel like you've left yourself down?
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@heydannymiranda 7/10 if I'm with friends/gf. 9/10 if I'm alone.
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A lot of students have many different games in their STEAM accounts. They get to choose what they feel like playing (autonomy) and keep improving to finish the game/winning to their friends (competence/connection).
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Why do you think so many kids really enjoy video games? "I get to choose when I play." "I feel like I get better." "I get to play with my friends."
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I had a student ask me what my favorite subject to teach was, and I was so happy that she really understood when I told her I love the act of teaching itself.
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Hopefully, I'll be able to build a playbook that helps people and scenes create their own Modern Golden Ages. (and maybe generate a systemic transformation towards a sustainable abundance across all areas, maybe, please?)
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Genius is unperceived effort by the one acting.
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Starting a thread with my Margins app reading logs:
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Only now, with the increase of AI Tutoring and 1-1 learning, am I realizing how lucky I was for having 6 years of classes on a 1-1 basis while studying music. It taught me a lot about how to learn and how to teach.
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Pascal… https://t.co/lxfSP3YAUs
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For us to build something, we must have agency over it. To root our definition in something that presents "the good" being delivered by an outside, mythical source, while, at the same time, looking at the past with the sole purpose of going back to it, makes no sense.
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The point of a Modern Golden Age is hope for the future, through the building of a better future, NOT through a nostalgic sense of going back. Forward is the way! This is what I explore in Volume II of the Modern Golden Age Diaries.
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Ada, a phenomenal writer and historian, argues that Golden Ages are actually a myth, a "legitimacy" tool. Only by ignoring the suffering of a given set of people can we claim that a certain period of time was a Golden Age. I agree! We need to rethink our definition of it! https://t.co/PLkqs1SSAU
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Not just because of everything Ada argues about, but also because the original definition of it promotes this idea of "paradise-as-passivity". The "abundance" is given by something that sits outside of those benefiting from it. This is not compatible with building an MGA.
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The original definition of a Golden Age comes from Hesiod (it's the first written version of it), and it describes the world as a paradise and people living like Gods. This is, for better or worse, our original definition of a Golden Age. https://t.co/xqT9aN0FNa
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If, on the one hand, Hesiod is a key figure in our definition, Petrarch is the second one, since he coined the term "Dark Ages", a rhetorical companion to our definition of our Golden Age. He's also a key figure in @Ada_Palmer's book "Inventing the Renaissance". https://t.co/IjEklGZLXu
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I started my research on this topic last month, and you can follow my "Modern Golden Age Diaries" on Substack in my bio.
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Best description of vibe-coding (coming from a young kid): https://t.co/ql6PJWOVMF
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@eklipsu Top 3 cenas da vids.
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This is true across all levels of learning.
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The final reason has to do with Shared Assembly Lines. The flexibility these platforms allow is much more limited than most people would expect. You can make a few adjustments, but the overall structure remains similar, which is why the design has felt so stagnant. https://t.co/z003yP51yD
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A 2nd reason has to do with regulations for pedestrian safety. There's a series of different design specifications, especially in Europe, that aim at distributing force and diminishing injuries upon collision. https://t.co/8OgEEzxGhF
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We now have much more computing power, which means we can simulate the conditions multiple times and get much more precise measurements without spending energy on an actual physical tunnel. The level of detail on evaluated parameters and outputs is ridiculously high. https://t.co/6AFxVHiDed
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It turns out, physics doesn't care about design, branding, or intuition. With such extreme precision, most companies get much more similar results. It is not about artistic expression, but about mathematics. We're "calculating" new designs, and the result is similar.
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All vehicles are tested in wind tunnels, a technology we've had for years. Submitting a car to these tests, however, is really expensive, so over the years, car manufacturers could rely on intuition. But that has changed. https://t.co/oki3bGnMph
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There are 3 main reasons why this happens: - Increase in computing power in Aerodynamics Tests - Safety Measurements increased by Customer Preference - Shared Assembly Platforms
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All cars are evaluated based on their aerodynamics. This happens now much more than years ago due to the many regulations on emissions and fuel consumption. The more aerodynamic the car is, the less fuel it consumes. https://t.co/YSPIlm5j0A
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If you look at cars from years ago, many had distinctive designs, even among mid-tier models. But now, that's not the case; there's a huge convergence and similarities between models and brands. https://t.co/EGHlWfzhce
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Me and my gf have been talking about it for the past few weeks: how new cars all look the same. Finally, we decided to see if this was just a personal opinion or not, and it turns out this is a whole phenomenon called Design Convergence, which led us both down a rabbit hole. 🧵 https://t.co/hkYFwBFQba
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On the positive side, the fact that people behave like animals at the beach during these weeks has made me think about the concept of Nature, particularly applied to Man, and how we first started to think in those terms.
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I've also been working on dealing with the most obnoxious type of assholes (which usually don't tend to have a big effect on me): EXTREMELY hypocritical Catholics [vicious people who need to leave early because they have to go to mass kind of people]
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Unfortunately, my small village has a tendency to draw a lot of these during the last 2 weeks of August. You know the meme "if you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family? Mine is more like "if you think you're enlightened, go to the beach during August"
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I spent this last week thinking about team dynamics and how power positions play on that. How biases can deeply influence you and your way of leading, and how that can impact the people around you (especially those who aren't benefiting from said bias)
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I've also been thinking about organizational growth and how two conflicting forces keep pulling in opposite directions whenever that happens, and how the people on each side influence more than the actual goals/action of those same sides. this can be both good and bad.
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Through the use of this money, Athens acquired overwhelming naval superiority when compared to its own allies. It was no longer Athens AND the allies. It was Athens, funded by the allies. This would quickstart the new power of the Athenian Empire.
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There is no doubt that the Athenian rule was self-interested, but many people in allied cities actively preferred the Athenian-backed democracy to the alternative of local oligarchic rule under Sparta.
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There were 2 ways that the states could contribute to the League: - money - ships Most members sent money to Athens instead of supplying ships, which was how "the Athenian fleet expanded from the money that they contributed" while their own forces atrophied. https://t.co/1hQkb5tpSV
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The Athenian Empire was a consequence of the Delian League, a voluntary alliance made by Athens and other city-states to prevent possible invasion from the Persians. https://t.co/QoA3Ifr2M1
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Athens was invited to lead by its allies, and every member had an equal vote when the League met in Delos. They swore oaths of loyalty "for all time," and there was no formal safeguard because there was no need for guarantees at the outset. It was Athens AND the allies. https://t.co/YjnnCB6QIh
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I've been reading some parts of Meiggs' "The Athenian Empire", and I've been really enjoying it. Here's my personal summary of the most important ideas: https://t.co/UUy1TZ5Z7r
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Slow and steady increments of risky actions will give you a sense of higher capacity. On a day-to-day basis, you probably won't notice the difference, but in hindsight, it will be clear.
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You get to increase courage by slowly increasing the amount of risk you're willing to manage.
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So many people who used to believe that coercion and “extreme discipline” were the way to unlock results with kids will look into the new wave of LLM optimistic prompts and see their worldview melt.
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I love how I can find a solution to all of the problems that emerge by looking at what my friends are doing. Today’s morning thought: I lost the momentum of posting every day, I wish something could be done about it Priya: https://t.co/tnJHYReLs5
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@TKPullinger @mbateman was thinking the same!
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But the point was about video games. As long as students are engaging with it through a self-aware perspective (that sometimes must be presented by an external party), it can be a venue for growth, connection, and more.
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Yesterday I met a new student, and immediately realized she was wearing a sweatshirt exactly like one I had when I was around her age. Immediately after I told her that, things kicked off. There was a sense of connection happening.
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That last part, of connection through identification, is a reason why I always think it's a great idea for educators to share part of their story with students. They get to connect with you through that.
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I mean, even solo games! You get to connect with the world and the characters. There are masterpieces out there where you see yourself present in the struggles and character flaws of the videogame characters.
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There's something about having the music coming through a speaker that facilitates creativity, whereas coming from headphones facilitates focus. Can't explain what or why this happens, but it never fails.
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It's like music! What do I enjoy playing? Music! Jazz, rock, metal, flamenco, classical. Just different paths of the same road.
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@im_sonamg not sure if that's good or bad!
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I turned 30. I am now ready. I will get into Poetry. Give me your best poems to read.
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One last note on this topic. 1 year ago, my grandpa was rushed to the hospital due to heat, and we witnessed a big cognitive decline with the chance of it being Alzheimers. I did what I do best when something creates discomfort within me: I tried to understand it. https://t.co/QvfSG1TU9B
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He got better, but the idea of understanding the disease lingered, and "The Forgetting" by David Shenk was a beautiful source. https://t.co/vEQjRM3zBC
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This is great, I can't stop watching. https://t.co/WdBfc13Apr
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inhales: IT'S A NEW DAY, IT'S A NEW DAAAWWWWWN FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEE AND I'M FEEEELING GOOOOOOOOD PAM PAPAM PAPAM PAMPAPAPAM
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@Shadow_Rebbe I can't find it 😭😭
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@Eliana_Goldin Greaaaaaat first book!
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@PHurducas This looks amazing!
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I see your point, and there's an element of truth to it, but pedagogy and andragogy are different! Teaching adults is a very different thing than teaching kids. It's not that the activity itself doesn't make sense; it does! But the framing of it in an adult context would make most of them disengage. This is valid for a lot of exercises that, from a pedagogical standpoint, would help adults develop new skills, but because they demand the self-awareness of the adult, "faking a task," you lose the emotional commitment and willingness to engage. This is why board games are great ways to make adults learn in a playful manner. A lot of people are willing to play board games in a learning context, even as adults. The way you debrief and reframe whatever experience you just gave them creates the actual understanding.
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80% of the time. The other 20%, they don’t have any intuition about what to do. https://t.co/D26zQ8AZj8
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@theojaffee The last chapter “Is progress real?” is mandatory reading in my class on Emerging Tech & Innovation.
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@flowidealism @grok I am aware of that! ahaha I would even go so far as to say that you can have the best "prepared environment," but if you lack a guide who is aligned with it and the student, there's a high chance you won't get the outcome you're predicting.
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It never fails to amaze me to see extremely bright, intelligent individuals making stupid decisions.
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@simonsarris @justalexoki slowly climbing up a mountain is
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@Shadow_Rebbe I need more GCs!
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@samjvuong Yes! And also, when done correctly, with you thinking through the other person’s position, you gain a deeper level of empathy as well! Really great!
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There's a difference between reading and dialogue, and even though, for the sake of changing opinion, reading is better, there's something about the active energy of dialogue that uniquely unleashes potential.
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I have now been sent a video by Ben, proving that he gets it and we're both correct. https://t.co/68RlI8PGTT
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It's incredible how much our notion of oppression is a mere variation of the Book of Exodus.
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We haven't found a way to allow for greatness to coexist with the current institutional infrastructures in areas other than sports and MAYBE some industries. This is a huge issue in the development of Humanity as a whole.
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My Ditch friends here in Portugal have been brainwashed to the point where they want to offer YOU money if you do basic stuff for them. https://t.co/YMOgtqBiPd
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@ymladris Absolutely! And gamification in education is something I've written about a couple of times. https://t.co/j5QJMs1q9p
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(I can now go and play some FIFA before lunch)
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Maybe that's why I was drawn to both of these! The freedom to explore different venues with a single skill.
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You can find the first version of it (where I share my concerns, fears, and hopes in more detail) here: https://t.co/h3CtHPFUj6
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If you cut the left side of a log, it will still have a left side.
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I'm nervous, scared, and REALLY excited about this. Link my bio! https://t.co/yzhFXPwtaz
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@hamishfrob i don't think i've read neither so this is perfect, thank you!
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Speed gets your ideas out. Patience makes them beautiful.
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Everyone is mad at George RR Martin, but at least we have a (shitty) ending in a TV Show. Those of us who enjoyed The Kingkiller Chronicles and Patrick Rothfuss' world will be left to die without knowing Kvothe's story. https://t.co/94GKwdA45P https://t.co/KXRIvTbMxF
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@TheAnnaGat Thank you, Anna! ❤️
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@flowidealism Thank you, Michael! We'll make it happen, for sure!
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Me, right now: https://t.co/wUCQSYHRcP
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Like: YES I ACTUALLY KNOW A PAINTER THAN CAN TELL EXACTLY WHY CONVERSIONS IN MATH IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ARTIST!
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August 2026. https://t.co/MDJwgoQCtK
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@nosilverv Maybe it doesn’t go deeper. Maybe It’s the illusion of depth. Maybe you’re actually just standing in the same place.
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Daily reminder to be kind.
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Education is high-stakes, even if people assume that “everyone can do it”.
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Ideas are great. But change only happens when you go out in the world and build something, work on projects that drive the social change you're seeking to make.
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https://t.co/XNbTm2IbU9 https://t.co/KIX7LsZCKT
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Social change needs to go beyond social media.
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A big part of my discussion yesterday with my students was about our relationship with AI and how we can preserve the notion of power and agency while using it. It eventually morphed into the question: “What makes a Human?” These were some of the answers: https://t.co/olIccacPDm
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You can read it here: https://t.co/yKbsQdbgth You should follow me on both Substack and Twitter if you're interested in stripping past Golden Ages of the fluff and finding the underlying principles that can help us build a Modern version of it! https://t.co/CRWLxeiNZ6
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It's even worse when they go back to work on the team, in the same position they had. Of course, this was itself a mistake by the person responsible for promoting them (and, probably, their own lack of people skills).
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Oh, and across all ages as well.
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Spotify demanded that artists find new business models with merchandising, partnerships with brands, amongst other things. What do you think is the next area that will suffer the same sort of transformation? A full reshape in the way the business model works?
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@delcampo_music This is such an interesting question. How granularly are you thinking? At the song level, chord level, or equalization level…?
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Gf informed me that I have to learn how to play Prince’s Purple Rain until the end of the year. I haven't played guitar in months. We'll see how this goes.
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I'll go with what my friend @vidhster suggested for finishing a thread like this: https://t.co/gxVcXlEKUI
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What do you mean, birds have a muscle just to break apart food? Oh, you have a great suggestion for a fantasy book? There's a band that I really need to listen to? (I LOVE MY LIFE) https://t.co/5D1vbTWmkh
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Starting the year reading Peter Abbs at a school-wide level. A student pointed out that Socrates' "elenchus" looks a lot like a Rehab 5-step process. He's going places. https://t.co/G98zeGFSuj
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“The easiest way to be brainwashed is to be born.”
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The world is a good, beautiful place. Can you see it?
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Tomorrow: Why, to bring a Modern Golden Age, we must first let go of our original definition of a "Golden Age". With Hesiod, @Ada_Palmer, and Petrarch as inspirations. You can subscribe in my bio! https://t.co/9ow1E5WunJ
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The cover art for Beethoven's 7th Symphony by Berliner Philharmoniker had no business being this pretty. https://t.co/UTC8z6SuNx
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Listening to a debate on college relevancy with one side arguing that it's a key element in the free, truthful intellectual pursuit and the other side arguing for skill-based environment learning to increase the chance of future work, and thinking that both sides are wrong.
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Leaving things in the oven for a quick tutoring session at @recessgg, and then back at it. God. I love my life.
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There are things that you can do that make you unavoidable. You must, however, make sure that being unavoidable is what you truly desire.
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If you let people talk for long enough, they'll reveal a lot about themselves. 1st min of the convo with a lady at the gym: "Each woman should be free to do whatever she wants to". 10min of the same convo: "THEY SHOULD MARRY A TALIBAN AND SEE IF THEY LIKE IT!" ...
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Business and Government, as institutions, should work as external grounding for one another, creating harmony through high tension.
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I guess I just needed to write down these to gain clarity on what to post again lol I like how Twitter can work as the best networking platform, learning space AND journal.
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Authority is a double-edged sword. It gives you high credibility when making decision-making but it can also be a way to offload your thinking onto those who are "experts".
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A lot of them would prefer full independence but for many, "a subject democracy was better than an uncontrolled oligarchy". Eventually, the Athenian Empire would grow more and more, to a point where Sparta would attack Athens, starting the Peloponnesian Wars.
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But even if you don't look back, unconsciously, you'll start to feel more comfortable managing part of your life and acting in a different way (one that has more courage). You'll say different things, ask different questions, and practice different actions.
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The Greeks have created the Man. Is there a chance that, with AI developing at the current pace, the US or China will create the Cyborg?
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This is how I ended up talking with the guy who's going to try to break the Guinness World Record for the biggest bike ride around the world.
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If the best way to get a MACHINE to do good work is to encourage it to believe in its capabilities, what do you think the best way to get a human being to do good work is?
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Tag yourself! https://t.co/otGQ4uUT39
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Increase surface area for luck to hit you by taking the first step and moving forward.
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*laughs in Portuguese Silver Coast* https://t.co/hoEKj121zp
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Thinking about Nature and the role it plays in your own conception of the world should be mandatory every year. What does "natural" even mean? What's your nature? Why would you call it that?
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No. I think autonomy is really hard to define in an education context because it's highly dependent on individual students. But the opportunity to make whatever choice they see fit in a given learning experience is close to the definition. Even more important is the students' awareness of that choice, which contribute to the idea (and feeling) of autonomy, creating an emotional ressonance that then gets the student to want to engage with the experience.
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@garrygolden Looks awesome!
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Metaphors are Trojan Hourses.
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Beauty is not a consequence of a Golden Age, but a precondition to be continuously expanded upon.
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The ages in this group 🥲 https://t.co/gCAxoqNWFN
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@JeremiahDJohns smiles in Patrick Rothfuss https://t.co/jXHNtyB4r1
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There was something that really lingered, though. The idea that an emotional death happens before a physical one is not new. Shenk puts it beautifully. But not all subtractions are the same. Some will cost more than others. So let's treasure those around us. https://t.co/hKTdJM06lk
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@JosiahWittrock Thank you Josiah!
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@jcaetanoneves um abraço João!
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@gtmulligan Thank you Grant!
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@Eliana_Goldin Thank you Eliana!!!
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@made_in_cosmos thank you Maria! I have a feeling that that's going to be the case!
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I am back. Doubling down on greatness, gratitude, and big things.
for my 18th birthday my girlfriend (who was a few months younger than me) invited me over to her place "while her parents were gone" 😏 when I arrived she left the room and my best friend walked in dressed as Chris Hansen and said "What did you think was going to happen here?" https://t.co/RJRSFSmAGe
I never realized that drones would bring us into the disco warfare era https://t.co/6c5b3Z0PgD
the secret to flirting is that if she likes you you can basically say whatever the fuck and if she doesn't even the smoothest line won't do shit
i used to be a delivery driver. today my sister tells me that she was talking to her friend's brother and he said that SIX YEARS AGO a pretty girl delivered him pizza and he still hasn't stopped thinking about it. she showed him a pic and it was me
In NYC, IMAX 70mm Odyssey tickets are so in-demand that they're basically just running the theater 24/7 now https://t.co/Oc1kgZJU1t
omg im so embarrassed,,, the abyss was actually gazing at its friend right behind me 😬😬😭
@chaotictransfem I am confident I could engineer a measurably better life along every quantitative axis and still be left longing for what could have been
binary search https://t.co/LUYsO1eZh4
This is such bitter loser behavior holy fucking shit, you gotta be completely cooked to think this is a flex https://t.co/eXruYXiify
every chair is a cuck chair when you're not having sex
BESTIE: ooooh third date tonight, you know what that means ME: (nodding) failing the penultimate layer of the survivability onion BESTIE: ME: fourth date he kills me https://t.co/ADPPtFiwVl
psa to sensitive young men: as long as you're respectful about it, this is how most women feel when you ask them out even if they say no https://t.co/3KwuulqQ1j
I put LotR on in Italian to see if Gandalf refers to the Balrog with the formal or informal "you" in YOU SHALL NOT PASS it's the informal, which raises a second question: is it because he doesn't respect the Balrog or because they boyz (both maiar)
*taps the sign* https://t.co/0KrgEuRyrx https://t.co/TuVacHu74P
hot girls are necessary part of a thriving city ecosystem. hot girls inspire ambitions and call you to transcend. Hot girls make the world go round. A city without hot girls is like a sky without stars https://t.co/sXPUfVmQrN
every time https://t.co/ONvY9LxIHu https://t.co/Dj2OrP7hAi
“why can’t we have this” and the images are of jared leto’s villain lair from blade runner 2049 which conveys to the audience that he is a power-hungry narcissist who builds replicants because he craves having total control over an infinite source of disposable bodies with no rights whose labor he can extract in perpetuity for his own enrichment y’know what actually, you’re right, every office in sf should look like this
in grad school i used to compulsively download interesting-sounding textbooks from libgen and sort them by subject in calibre. read almost none of them. it flattens the incentive landscape in a weird way to have invisible digital access to everything. very unnatural. the human animal yearns to come across a book organically by combing through the shelves of a library or bookstore and being struck by the physicality of its cover like our ancestors foraging through the bush for delicious treats
when i was at cambridge a professor was teaching algebraic geometry and offhandedly made some claim that was not clear to me i asked "is that obvious?" he says "yes" i asked "is it obvious that it's obvious?" he pauses for a few seconds and goes "...no" https://t.co/b5eV4r6NEO
it's common advice to dumb down your vocabulary to reach a wider audience. I wanna know who's elevating it to cut more people out. who's using words that were only written down once in the 1400s and once in the dictionary. who's writing at a 75th-grade reading level
the mark of a good streaming service is an iconic show/movie that you can't get anywhere else netflix: kpop demon hunters hbo: succession united states library of congress: Silent Footage of Liza Minnelli's Third Birthday Party as Filmed by Famed American Lyricist Ira Gershwin https://t.co/ARhr9FLymY
if you are autistic, which famously involves deficits in understanding social interactions, i do not recommend developing an elaborate theology of social relations in which autistic people are Good and neurotypical people are Bad. i recommend developing psychic powers instead
@itsyaboidougie one of the funniest things I've been a part of and I had nothing to do with it
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@NathanImago gdi you're right. they shouldn't have used nerf guns
this is a very sobering read. main thesis is in section 5: > Our conjecture is that a modern society makes the third child expensive and childlessness cheap, even when GDP per capita is only a fraction of the frontier (i.e., the U.S. level). Children are expensive because a child must be equipped to function in a world of formal knowledge and credentials, which takes years of costly investment (Restuccia and Vandenbroucke, 2013, Doepke and Zilibotti, 2019). At the same time, children are no longer productive in the household, not even for smaller chores, having been replaced by “engines of liberation” such as the electric appliances now available even to poor households (this idea extends the intuition in Greenwood et al., 2005). Modernity also imposes tight career schedules, set by large-scale organizations, that collide with the biological clock and with the kin networks that used to share the work of raising children (Adda et al., 2017, Compton and Pollak, 2014). And modernity makes childlessness cheap, because an impersonal society imposes next to no penalty on those who have no children: pensions and health care do the work that sons and daughters once did (Boldrin et al., 2015), and lineage counts for little. > Goldin (2026) pushes this line further with an argument about a growing mismatch between genders. Modernity also changes gender roles unevenly. Women’s opportunities expand rapidly through education, work, and greater independence, while expectations about housework and childcare often change more slowly (Goldin and Katz, 2002, Goldin, 2021). This is particularly true as economies shift toward services, where women’s comparative advantages are better rewarded (Ngai and Petrongolo, 2017). The mismatch operates at both the extensive and the 18 intensive margins: more women remain childless, and mothers have fewer children on average. > This argument is attractive because it explains why East Asia and now Latin America have such low TFRs. These are the societies where the gender mismatch is largest.19 It also suggests an intriguing possibility: societies with highly unbalanced gender norms start with very high TFRs, as men impose their preferences (Ashraf et al., 2014), and end with very low ones, as women resist (Doepke and Kindermann, 2019, Doepke and Tertilt, 2018). A paradoxical reversal of demographic fortunes. ... > In short, modernity in its current form seems largely incompatible with replacement-level fertility.
This is sincerely the most romantic story I’ve ever read. I haven’t googled it. I hope it’s true, I hope it’s real, I hope they live long and happy together https://t.co/zQIyxxOLYM
bro. a beer. a female beer
It’s gonna be real funny when the first Chinese models start triggering the Claude watermark detector
Imagine having the moment you unlocked *thinking* on camera: https://t.co/C6FhDNP8aK
@Flydie_Lwood oh, he'd been practicing
I have started putting bounties out for evidence when people try to spread lies about Pangram on Reddit https://t.co/m5WLAxp8vJ
I can't date someone with a creative passion unless I legitimately like/respect what they make. I was insane to ever think it could be otherwise
we should bring back cutely ironic punishments that echo the nature of the wrongdoer's crime for example, whoever replaced the twitter photo grid with the carousel could be drawn and quartered
“I don’t like you, and here’s your permit” is the essence of a pluralistic, small-l liberal society. https://t.co/f9B7Y8dCd7
fucking her for company secrets. call that inside her trading https://t.co/TS5aJtLDZI
thank you @NYC_DOT for fixing this! concrete barriers installed, problem solved ✅ https://t.co/RpGgpFNXqH https://t.co/ZXTntNOiID
He just whiffed that thing outta the cup so swiftlt with his hands in his pockets. Elite display of a degen skill. While wearin slacks, at that. This is the most attracted I've ever been to Tom Holland. https://t.co/lS6Uw628Pk
my current thing is doing chores lovingly. keeping love in my heart. remembering that the task in front of me is an act of love and for who. romanticizing domesticity, they call it
@pissvortex duvall-like
it blows my mind how my friends who parent enter a different timeline... it happens very quickly. they have 1 kid, then the kid is 2 years old, then they have another kid, and all of a sudden they have a whole family and household and they’re moving through a different set of moves while people who don’t have kids are still getting drinks
if you believe this you are going to own yourself for no reason. that is not what people mean by "oversharing." let me say it in the most autistic way possible: oversharing is when you have not established common knowledge that the other person wants to participate in the computation you are attempting to enroll them into participating in. it is a failure to understand basic human protocols for establishing trust, rapport, and common ground. the message you are communicating when you overshare is "i do not understand how relationships develop gradually over time as we mutually discern how much and in what ways we can and want to trust and rely on each other"
Oh, this breaks my heart. This woman needs to be in a facility. Which is what her lawyers are trying to enable. Meanwhile her doctors want her to go to jail so she doesn’t successfully sue them for irresponsibly over-prescribing while she went deeper into psychosis You probably don’t hate the medical industry enough. Like yeah, modern medicine is a miracle and a marvel, but from the bottom of my heart, fuck every physician whose concern for their patients is barely-disguised-contempt that leads to listening too little & prescribing too much
we’re all going to learn that the way someone treats AI predicts the way they treat anyone they have power over, btw https://t.co/KLtob5TO8k
walking by a math department and lobbing a golden apple that says: ✨"Round to the nearest integer: 0.49999999..."✨
@tyyler47 crazy and im sorry but also i read this as “cumming all over me google” at first and i was totally baffled
Whenever I read the term "looksmaxxing" (m2m transexualism) I recall this classic 4chan comment https://t.co/uXunbkbRzd
@mishapathy but on the flip side: if she already likes you, you basically cant screw it up!
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@marshmarigold i agree because i think if he really was trying to cheat on her, why would he even tell her about it
A variant of this: human-verified writing started 5000 years ago and ended in 2022 and NO ONE talks about this https://t.co/YV3RwA3ysd
You get one pangram release before everything from this model gets classified as AI https://t.co/2rQgbD3iyj
it turns out lots of very clever people tried thinking from first principles already, in detail, for thousands of years, and that’s how they came up with second, third, etc. principles, which correct the failures of first principles https://t.co/7f2FjlsFep
it jut keeps happening https://t.co/7LNyYNHmhD
Gorgeous girl wearing a very short yellow dress & kitten heels walking up the subway stairs and her impeccably dressed boyfriend walks carefully behind her as a shield for her ass, which is so close to out
In my view we have a few different tiers of verifiability 1) programatically verifiable (near-free) - games, coding, math, cybersecurity, chip design 2) real-world verifiable (cost-or time bounded) - sciences: biology, chemistry, physics -physical world: material science, energy, aerospace, robotics, agriculture, pharma -forecasting: trading, weather 3) verifiable with human preference - writing, design, comedy, charisma, persuasion I expect most low-hanging fruit in (1) to be solved very quickly. Not sure how much longer before more solved math conjectures are simply uninteresting. I’m least certain about chip design being in this category, perhaps we hit a ceiling and require physics or materials breakthroughs to continue progress. My guess is we will quickly run into the limits of how well we can simulate each domain in (2). The time-bounded nature of real world verification may be the reason we don’t hit fast takeoff. Sim2real remains an elusive problem to solve when real-world data is limited. Part of the reason I don’t expect to live multiple hundreds of years is simply that I expect pharmaceutical progress to be time-bounded by the physical world. I expect the items in (3) to never really get solved to a superhuman degree, as success relies on an ever-shifting plane of cultural preference. People adapted to “good” AI writing and became annoyed at new stylistic tics that, in a vacuum, are not necessarily bad.
grateful i grew up before i could access an internet filled with vicious gender / dating discourse, back in my day you just watched romcoms and listened to love songs on your ipod and you were like "hell yeah being in love kicks ass i hope i get to fall in love someday"
my contribution is that it's very weird that the sun and the moon are the same apparent size in the sky, the consensus appears to be that this is just a coincidence but that strikes me as wildly unsatisfying. seems to me there ought to be an anthropic explanation and my schizo theory is that eclipses are somehow necessary for the creation of civilization, like they provide some kind of crucial stimulus to insight or creativity or something. here's sol riffing off of this
confusing that people interpreted this as a status hierarchy. part of my motivation for going into math was that every other field seemed too *hard*. math was the only field where i could make sense of everything in my head. always resonated with this von neumann quote: https://t.co/Er8AY11mVZ https://t.co/onBl9ac62A
was at this hippie event in boulder once, one of the top 5 most beautiful women i've ever met in my life told me she'd sped up the healing of a broken bone months faster than her doctors believed possible by meditating on it every day https://t.co/9c994OkhoC