Twitter Wars 1

Hermit

@hermitfriend

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

Aimee Pepper

@Artbypep

I never realized that drones would bring us into the disco warfare era https://t.co/6c5b3Z0PgD

funplings

@funplings

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

samsara inri

@desertgodhead

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

Max Spero

@max_spero_

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

Hermit

@hermitfriend

omg im so embarrassed,,, the abyss was actually gazing at its friend right behind me 😬😬😭

Max Spero

@max_spero_

@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

funplings

@funplings

binary search https://t.co/LUYsO1eZh4

taco belle

@Animalologist

This is such bitter loser behavior holy fucking shit, you gotta be completely cooked to think this is a flex https://t.co/eXruYXiify

Hermit

@hermitfriend

every chair is a cuck chair when you're not having sex

Hermit

@hermitfriend

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

funplings

@funplings

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

Hermit

@hermitfriend

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)

QC

@qiaochuyuan

*taps the sign* https://t.co/0KrgEuRyrx https://t.co/TuVacHu74P

christine

@christineist

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

every time https://t.co/ONvY9LxIHu https://t.co/Dj2OrP7hAi

QC

@qiaochuyuan

“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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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

Hermit

@hermitfriend

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

Hermit

@hermitfriend

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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

Hermit

@hermitfriend

@itsyaboidougie one of the funniest things I've been a part of and I had nothing to do with it

Guy

@nosilverv

https://t.co/EvE1DxAveH https://t.co/1tjPxawcKA

Hermit

@hermitfriend

@NathanImago gdi you're right. they shouldn't have used nerf guns

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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.

taco belle

@Animalologist

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

funplings

@funplings

bro. a beer. a female beer

Max Spero

@max_spero_

It’s gonna be real funny when the first Chinese models start triggering the Claude watermark detector

Guy

@nosilverv

Imagine having the moment you unlocked *thinking* on camera: https://t.co/C6FhDNP8aK

Hermit

@hermitfriend

@Flydie_Lwood oh, he'd been practicing

Max Spero

@max_spero_

I have started putting bounties out for evidence when people try to spread lies about Pangram on Reddit https://t.co/m5WLAxp8vJ

Hermit

@hermitfriend

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

Hermit

@hermitfriend

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

Daniel Golliher 🗽

@danielgolliher

“I don’t like you, and here’s your permit” is the essence of a pluralistic, small-l liberal society. https://t.co/f9B7Y8dCd7

funplings

@funplings

fucking her for company secrets. call that inside her trading https://t.co/TS5aJtLDZI

🌱 Liam

@liamdanielduffy

thank you @NYC_DOT for fixing this! concrete barriers installed, problem solved ✅ https://t.co/RpGgpFNXqH https://t.co/ZXTntNOiID

taco belle

@Animalologist

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

Guildfather

@tasshinfogleman

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

funplings

@funplings

@pissvortex duvall-like

christine

@christineist

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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"

taco belle

@Animalologist

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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

Hermit

@hermitfriend

walking by a math department and lobbing a golden apple that says: ✨"Round to the nearest integer: 0.49999999..."✨

funplings

@funplings

@tyyler47 crazy and im sorry but also i read this as “cumming all over me google” at first and i was totally baffled

Guy

@nosilverv

Whenever I read the term "looksmaxxing" (m2m transexualism) I recall this classic 4chan comment https://t.co/uXunbkbRzd

funplings

@funplings

@mishapathy but on the flip side: if she already likes you, you basically cant screw it up!

Max Spero

@max_spero_

https://t.co/8a6RmKKJPf

funplings

@funplings

@marshmarigold i agree because i think if he really was trying to cheat on her, why would he even tell her about it

Guy

@nosilverv

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

Max Spero

@max_spero_

You get one pangram release before everything from this model gets classified as AI https://t.co/2rQgbD3iyj

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

it jut keeps happening https://t.co/7LNyYNHmhD

taco belle

@Animalologist

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

Max Spero

@max_spero_

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.

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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"

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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

QC

@qiaochuyuan

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