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81 posts · 94,200 points
36,400 points
Last week, I started building a housing upzoning game. Today, I am launching Upzoned v0.1.0 with free and paid early access tiers. You can just do things, like upzoning all of New York. Get free and $14.99 early access demos here: https://t.co/bgFsulePjX https://t.co/DTsmk3fd31 https://t.co/a09sGTIUoR
3,600 points
Attempting to propose a Special District zone for Hudson Yards-scale for mixed-use commercial development near the North Brooklyn waterfront. As you can see below, initial opposition to doing so is fierce, paving a significant road ahead to organizing the political capital to seeing this upzoning through. I want a city that is boundless in spirit and in scale, and it is my wish for this game to, at bare minimum, spark questions in the player base for how we can build the city of our dreams not only on our computers, but in our corporeal lives.
2,800 points
With meteorologists forecasting a strong El Niño that will have significant precipitation effects for NYC, I’m envisioning software and hardware weather tech tools to build to protect our city. But I wouldn’t be here without the skills I learned from @fractaltechnyc. Join! https://t.co/PxLx4JOXnb
2,700 points
Very close to launching free and paid early access demos to Upzoned. Have not slept much since Friday but it's been an absolute obsession to get this demo to market. I'm very serious about putting my entire being into this and turning it into my full-time thing
2,300 points
The original home of Bell Labs and the Manhattan Project shall become the new frontier for technological innovation once more 🤖 https://t.co/ek8QQX6Li7
2,200 points
I’m excited to share that my financial model costing out @NYCMayor’s universal public child care program has been featured in the @nytimes this morning. I do wish I was explicitly credited in the piece, but the NYT’s editorial process be what it is. The finding from my model: universal child care for NYC is projected to cost $9b, which is $5b more than what the city spent on child care in 2025. https://t.co/94yymCEb4f
1,700 points
endeavors I want to achieve before year's end: - publish Upzoned! - change my job (policywise my heart is in foreign policy, trade security, natsec, nuclear weapons + energy, extreme weather mitigation, AI + industrial policy; spiritually I have long left my "domestic social services redistributive policy" arc and am firmly in my "capitalist builder" arc) - develop an aesthetic style that is some dual influence of Hiroshi Nagai and nostalgiacore low-poly / cathode-ray tube 3D animation - build a low-cost and scalable oceanographic instrument that can cheaply collect field measurements of surface velocities - (generally, accrue AI workflows for hardware engineering ranging from scientific instrumentation to whimsical doohickeys) - learn some rudiments in semiconductor chip design
1,500 points
When you just need to look out of your office window to ensure your game's assets are rendering correctly https://t.co/bqY2HBd8AC
1,500 points
holy crap upzoning Liberty Island became an option lol (It is federal land and untouchable within NYC's land use laws) https://t.co/IS7gPoR9iT
1,400 points
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! https://t.co/NEFW50ZJCi
1,400 points
macOS and Linux distributions are now live! Thanks everyone for your support, please share with your urbanist and nerdy housing policy friends, or just those who love cities and want to build them bigger :-) https://t.co/AaUwyA2Eew https://t.co/OCo0hraPJ3 https://t.co/HwlRVc9wZf
1,400 points
Excerpt from my latest prompt: 3) clicking on a building with residential zoning should bring up the number of units rent stabilized, and a simple balance sheet showing the cash flow of the building. this may be complex but important: the player needs to care about housing finance, and if their policies are keeping balance sheets of buildings in the green. Too many folks with opinions on housing policy ignore building balance sheet arithmetic. Not in my game. Let's see how Opus 5 does, but my ideal is for *every* policy decision on housing to confer the spectrum of abundant gains to disastrous financial losses to the player.
1,300 points
The question before you: can you fix New York City's housing crisis and take our city into the future? Play now: https://t.co/bgFsulePjX https://t.co/1l7bLFD37n
1,200 points
Thanks to those over the last few days who’ve sent in insightful feedback! The overwhelming theme of people’s feedback is the NIMBYs are, as of now, too OP and the rivalry mechanics need to be balanced more. Working on shipping a patch. https://t.co/HwlRVc9wZf
1,200 points
@__drewface 5 days, 20 hours, and 22 minutes and counting!
1,200 points
Many thanks @NYTpatrick for the cite in New York Today https://t.co/yUWexfKg4c https://t.co/h7a1ifJgag
1,000 points
Excellent content that needs to be propagated 100x on the airwaves. It does sadden me, since climate change was rightfully brought up here, how the first impetus for people brought into environmentalism is doomerism and not exercising some agency to learn climate physics, learn how to engineer climate tech or policy, and do something.
1,000 points
As-of-right development is now a feature! Within a lot's existing zone, the game engine will randomly select to develop there (given other macroeconomic prerequisites like prop tax rates, out-/in-migration) We've got a cute little development on East Houston Street in Lower Manhattan here. I'm crazy for this voxel crane asset.
900 points
The 2am impulse desire to learn how to DJ
900 points
@threejs really answering the call for us virtual civ builders https://t.co/aYn5DfaqVA
800 points
Between the Jones Act waiver and Sens. Todd Young's and Mark Kelly's SHIPS Act, we're witnessing a real resurgence in legislative interest in maritime industrial policy. https://t.co/Uw25jivAK7
800 points
Windows launch only today, but MacOS and Linux to come very shortly!
800 points
Any and all feedback, bug reports, or general comments are welcome! email me at david@upzoned.nyc or use the contact form on the website.
700 points
We are entering my favorite time of year, when the air crispens, universities and schools ramp up, the United Nations readies for the General Assembly, and visitors worldwide descend on our great city for climate week. https://t.co/gBvV0KCZ5D
700 points
I think the most fun of game design with Claude is the ability to add small world-building details. My latest /loop prompt involved iterating over a number of new features, one of which is an in-game fictional newspaper titled "The Five Boro Bugle." Aesthetically and substantively, it's a hybrid of @nypost (tabloid articles mocking gaffe-prone local electeds) and @Gothamist (hyper-local pieces ranging from mold proliferating at an apartment building to subway rats dragging calzones up stairs) Functionally, the paper also reports on the performance of the incumbent mayoral administration. I (intentionally) built zero housing to see how the political simulator responds, and as it should, the approval rating of the game mayor dropped from 42% to a measly 5%. Lesson learned: build back better NYC housing!
700 points
We've got a city on the move! https://t.co/2jdgOAZzdk
600 points
And that impressment was the chief foreign policy matter of the Jefferson and Madison administration! https://t.co/DuP0wjAopG
600 points
@janitachalam makes me think of Weber and Tönnies on Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
600 points
An example of a simple ledger that is generated for all 856,614 unique lots and informed to the best of the game's ability by the @NYCHousing Housing Vacancy Survey. Buildings in egregious financial straits turn into slums, with residents incentivized to migrate out of NYC and severe political penalties imposed on the dominant faction at the current game state. As such, the player is motivated to always care about building balance sheets, lest demographic and electoral consequences be levied on their gameplay strategy.
600 points
"Market rents up 9.8% in twelve months (vacancy 1.0%). Tenants are FURIOUS -- incumbents bleed for this in November unless housing gets BUILT." damn @claudeai https://t.co/yGas77aFen
600 points
@liamdanielduffy The golden door just got ten times taller https://t.co/cdH71ABUBZ
600 points
@a_leify_boi Thanks! Working to launch soon!
500 points
There’s one class of state-funded technology, most visibly satellites, space shuttles, Martian rovers, and clandestine technology, that run price tags into the billions and take decades to engineer and deploy. On the opposite end, I’m interested in munitech: low-cost tools that cost < $100, at most a few hundred, that municipalities could deploy at minimal fiscal burden, and cheap enough that any individual could deploy on their own for citizen science.
500 points
A gross but (I think) cool thought, apologies to those of you who are currently eating. This morning, I had to have NYCDEP snake my building’s sewer line to investigate a break. And it struck me a) how little instrumentation we have in municipal sewage infrastructure, and b) that it would be neat technical problem to engineer sensors that could withstand the sheer hostility of a sewage environment, and transmit data to the outside.
500 points
I’m imagining a vibe-coded Federal Reserve simulator with an achievement system ranging from “The Maestro” (Greenspan, with celebratory clarinet music to boot) to “Received the (LB) Johnson treatment” (as William McChesney Martin did for refusing to cut rates so more Treasuries could be issued to prosecute Vietnam)
500 points
American history from the waning years of the Monroe presidency / Era of Good Feelings through to the 1828 election and the rise of the Jacksonian party is aesthetically a dramatic Shakespearean history A rule of three in the Monroe (Henry IV-esque) cabinet members vying for the presidency (Calhoun, Crawford, Quincy Adams), a marvelous and grand villain in Jackson (a Jack Cade or Antony figure), the auspicious death of the father, the elder Adams, in 1826, and the fading away of the founders’ generation in the political leadership There’s gotta be a historical drama streaming series on 1820’s American politics
500 points
Affordable live classical music in New York City tip: you can go to the websites of the city's music conservatories, like the Juilliard School, and attend free or low-cost performances by students. I would really like to make orchestral and chamber music a larger part of my life again, and this is one way to do it. https://t.co/hZS4ar7baH
500 points
I did not know we have a map society! Cool! https://t.co/0TAMdANuP2
500 points
It’s time to put game theoretic formalism back in gaming https://t.co/77J53ewuSz
500 points
@danielgolliher @__drewface 🙏
500 points
In a past life I was a student in music composition and wanted to write music for video games! For the demo round I resorted to challenge Claude to produce its magnum Opus (5) (get it?), and it was able to generate some 8-bit jazz tracks using JavaScript's Audio() constructor. I also had it 8-bit-ize the key tunes from each of the nine Beethoven symphonies. This it accomplished to... varying degrees, but even ersatz Beethoven is catchy, so I left the tracks in.
500 points
@__drewface 🙏
500 points
*matthew mcconaughey voice* "gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers in this racket" https://t.co/ITBbL8lL36
500 points
I pledge to launch the full version of my game before GTA VI comes out
500 points
@claudeai This is exciting to see. As a consequence of no one building any housing in NYC and rents rising astronomically high, incumbents got voted out by the drove. Dynamic political logic working! https://t.co/gWtIiorU3F
400 points
@wordrotator https://t.co/HguAwBzrY7
400 points
Special relativity is cool, but computing interest charged to goods transiting at relativistic speeds and accounting for time dilation effects on stationary and moving observers is why we get up in the morning @paulkrugman https://t.co/imHjt6XMNv https://t.co/r49G6QNGWA
400 points
@__drewface I am reminded of all the fun visuals complex analysis and extending the domain of analytic functions to ℂ entails 🤓
400 points
@ZoldenGames this is sick!
400 points
macOS and Linux distributions are now live! https://t.co/CjAaWUiajU
400 points
If Claude solves the RH, who wins the million-dollar prize? Anthropic? The person who prompted Claude to the proof? https://t.co/4gn2deZWdy
400 points
Sounds like cloud microphysics in atmospheric science. Computationally tractable with ML, brutally difficult with numerical simulation of physics equations alone https://t.co/iOxaXZ2KUH
400 points
@__drewface the unfettered potential of tomorrow https://t.co/YrLbyPryI7
400 points
@treball133 @Colin_d_m Five boroughs, but yes Long Island should be upzoned too
400 points
Demos are launched! https://t.co/C8bEJr9kwt
400 points
@AVGregR That’s amazing! Would love to chat and learn more about what you’re doing.
400 points
@InquisitiveUrsa Thank you! Working to launch soon!
300 points
In general, it is unhelpful for the scientific community to be at the mercy of the political cycle, and bemoan four-year periods in which federal science funding is curtailed. I’m optimistic enough to believe that meaningful and robust scientific data can and ought to be achieved on the cheap, and that we haven’t been nearly as creative about the engineering economics for scientific instrumentation as we could be
300 points
Often, I think about how to curate an undergraduate physics education. One point I would make in pedagogy is certain structures, like the continuity equation (and broadly, conservation laws in PDE theory), are ubiquitous, and it would be to the benefit of students to fully internalize these “great theorems” as common structures. In undergraduate physics, students will see this form in around four places: heat and diffusion (thermodynamics), mass continuity (fluid mechanics), charge continuity (electrodynamics), and probability continuity (quantum mechanics). It is easier to learn these ideas as instantiations of a single theorem, and not as discrete-not-immediately-related notions.
300 points
My aspiration: for a continuous science and technological corridor to be built in the expanse stretching from Princeton, NJ to Stony Brook, NY, to serve as a new beating heart for creating the American future. https://t.co/LHM5eda3Um
300 points
+ hidden achievement titled “Kick ‘em in the rump,” after a call from Nixon to Arthur Burns to pressure the FOMC to cut rates before the 1972 re-election campaign https://t.co/n71a828c4i
300 points
Some takeaways from Fed Chair Warsh's Jackson Hole keynote: > overall theme is a "quieter Fed," a turn away from forward guidance that has dominated monetary policy communications for much of this century (Bernanke's old quip was MP is 98% talk and 2% action) > (corollary i) some complaints on the interwebs about this retreat from forward guidance, but intuiting macroeconomic dynamics from first principles and empirics rather than performing pseudo-clairvoyance on words seems good? > much more attention given to the 3.7% inflation per the 12-month change in the PCE index than relative stagnation in white-collar hiring. it all sounds like the Chair and the FOMC continue to tell an "inflation" rather than "stagflation" story vis à vis macro price and labor market conditions. > (corollary ii) I think concerns of compromising Fed independence and Warsh appeasing Trump's incessant demands for sharp interest rate cuts are allayed if the FOMC is going all in on an escalated inflation story. > huge front-loading of the AI question, framing the AI spring as a "hyper–Moore's law" with annualized token sales exceeding $100 billion, a 500-plus percent increase in the last year alone. key questions remain: are tokens and compute substitutes or complements for labor, and what will productivity look like writ large?
300 points
JQA biographies: > John Quincy’s tenure as Secretary of State and in the House of Representatives: hundreds of pages > John Quincy’s tenure as president: half a chapter https://t.co/8ueyzfzAFk
300 points
There’s an interesting analogue between the classic debate in pure mathematics and statutory law here: could pictures double as rigorous and self-consistent proof or law? I had a professor who swore by the belief that a picture could never substitute for a proof. And yet, geometry has a genre of proof called “proof without words,” e.g. in ascertaining results like the closed form sum of the first n odd numbers. There are entire mathematics books dedicated to proofs without words! Certainly, there are creatures of the law that are pictorial: maps encoding jurisdictional boundaries, legislative districts, and zoning, to name a few. On the other hand, the semantic problem here is a picture merely depicts a singular example, which seemingly cannot stand in for a general claim. Clearly, there is some epistemic threshold a pictorial representation needs to cross to express general truth as opposed to incidental specificity. There’s a broader and fascinating debate to be had here on the jurisprudence of pictorial law, though I am really rambling on some immediate thoughts while laying no hard claims here.
300 points
I'm horrified to hear of this terrorist plot against my former workplace, and grateful for the heroic efforts of the United States Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation for foiling the would-be attacker. Our State Capitol must forever be a sacred home of the people of this great state, and all those who wish to make the lives of New Yorkers better. There can be no tolerance for those who believe in violence as a legitimate means for any end. May justice be swift in prosecuting this defendant.
300 points
R. Strauss has me obsessing over Hermann Hesse https://t.co/cF93NWfpfl
300 points
I love living in the future. https://t.co/DCs0MrW8lo
300 points
Adding to my reading list https://t.co/ysKf7N2l9V
300 points
My favorite bits of software engineering entail re-parameterizing climate models to switch between Earth precipitation of water to liquid methane precipitation on Titan https://t.co/8Hp02KhjrA
300 points
The organizations here are most representative of the policy thoughts I have now, and would love to be affiliated with one or more of them, particularly those thinking about metascience and integrating scientific innovation with state functions. https://t.co/qcOSfTfJ80
300 points
I could be really annoying and add an easter egg like this in the NIMBY dynamics to my game https://t.co/BvkmebTHXl
300 points
@threejsassets @threejs ❤️ 🚀
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@janitachalam 🙏
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Tip to NYS lawmakers: amend § 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law to strike the newspaper publication requirements, which 47 states have done. Our law, which requires publication in not one but two papers to incorporate a company, is the most onerous in the nation.
300 points
macOS and Linux distributions are now live! https://t.co/CjAaWUiajU
300 points
@ahall_research @danielgolliher interesting research on LLM outputs and Japanese elections that correlates with your thoughts on good and truthful writing for the AIs.
300 points
@Dschf Would love to discuss. Feel free to shoot me a DM
300 points
I have a reading appetite for some confluence of 1) substantive essays on the economics of frontier market creation from AI that go beyond "proliferation of SaaS products on drastically compressed timelines," particularly in AI's impacts on tractability of hardware problems, and 2) lore- and world building-rich, anti-Hobbesian science fantasy
300 points
@NYTpatrick 🫡
300 points
You know the Upzoned housing crisis has gotten real bad when there's cutthroat competition to find housing in Tottenville, Staten Island https://t.co/U2eA17J6qE
300 points
Adding an elections simulator with four factions: Socialist Democrats, Market Democrats, Traditionalist Republicans, and Populist Republicans. https://t.co/FtAqyHzqKt
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
https://t.co/EvE1DxAveH https://t.co/1tjPxawcKA
@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