critic, optimist

due to inflation the sex number is now 77.756
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roommates gfs basically live here lately and have questionable employment status so now when i wfh it’s just me and the girlies
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let a girl merge into my lane on the highway and she did a half heart in the window and i did the other half back. the sort of experience you miss out on in a “walkable city”
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vibes are through the roof honestly. kitchen is pristine. one of them noticed i was out of diet dr pepper and bought some for me. i think im gonna get us breakfast in the morning
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another early 20s weekend night wasted. good thing i have infinitely many more of these
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starting every conversation here with “did you see the game last night?”
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don’t forget you are competing against people with no friends hobbies or shame
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i thought oxbridge was like the ivy league of europe? this is like boston college
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Replying to @fordoglunk
plural roommates
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if you’re a Harvard student and your international friend has just been banned you should offer to marry them this summer. it’s a noble thing to do, and your prospects probably won’t get much better than they are now
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my ideal job is where i have to do math or python puzzles for 2-3 hours in the mornings but in the afternoons i go on outdoor missions like getting a stone of a certain shape from the river, or taking a picture of a particular bird, or delivering a handwritten message to an address i can only reach by foot
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during college i can remember 6 male friends who went through ltr breakups. 3 of them lost their minds for a year and completely derailed their lives and the other 3 initiated the breakups
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spend your 20s grinding while others are having fun so that you can spend your 40s compulsively bragging about your wealth from an anonymous twitter account
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for every beer you drink on a friday night there are 10 indian middle schoolers studying linear algebra in their spare time
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this is the greatest failure of modern society
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ok. I’m sorry
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you ever see a guy and know he only shops at uniqlo
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Replying to @satyanadella
pulling this off before markets open is crazy
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at the apothecary contemplating which elixir of wakefulness to purchase…
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gen z military draft would have to be top 10 funniest moments in human history
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as much as i sympathize with the anti college sentiment don’t tell kids not to go to college. do you know how fucking cool it is to be 18-22 with all your friends within walking distance independence and freedom to study what you want while someone holds your hand
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girl: maybe if you were 6’4 i would talk to you me, <90 IQ: what
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blackpill again
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markets should open for 2 minutes a day at a random time like bereal
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you can just do things *brushes teeth* you always have access to your optimal policy *crawls into bed* you need to imagine yourself with 10x agency *drifts off to sleep*
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i need to have 2x the normal amount of real life experiences from 25-30 to make up for spending too much time on the internet in the first half of my 20s
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as a guy it’s such a blessing to not be good at video games. a few milliseconds better reaction time and you’ve lost your 20s to call of duty. if i were good at rocket league i wouldn’t have graduated college
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how do people live alone. do you not go a little insane
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this is your brain on transhumanism
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Replying to @Clayton81637523
it's not clear to me that this is fraudulent. two friends with shared experiences and mutual attraction could plausibly commit to building a life together. in some circumstances the ban could actually be a useful coordinating mechanism to produce an outcome both partners would prefer irrespective of legal benefits
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Replying to @ebervector
yes but in this scenario im generating value in secret inscrutable ways
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“ban cars” -a mf who grew up within a mile of good education, parents make 500k a year to afford to raise a family in a high density area
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today if you're lean without strength training they'll try to kill you. if your bmi is under 25 they'll treat you like a wounded animal and ask if you've been getting enough protein lately
This physique no longer exists in America.
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one of my favorite photos ever: a 45-year-old paul erdos thinks alongside 18-year-old terence tao. math truly transcends age
Community note
They are 72 and 10 years old in this picture. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul
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Replying to @tinynaut
they're doing well
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rizz as a concept went viral because covid gave everyone below the age of 18 mild grade autism such that real charisma became extraordinary and impressive
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how it feels reading pdfs at the bar
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the video: my day in the life as a 23 year old girl in tech 😌 the replies: she deserves infinite pain for the crime of being a woman
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if you don’t have your entire career figured out by age 22 it’s so over
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i love math its a shame you have to have a 150 iq to understand it on a meaningful level
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lol
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experiencing whatever the opposite of culture shock is in berlin. everywhere in the world is the same
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unabomber manifesto bf bin laden letter gf
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i’ve waited years to post this
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zoomers in particular love the bateman character because of the myth that leaning into your antisociail tendencies will save you
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beer 1: i am a failure beer 5: *googling* jane strret interview questions HARD
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i need a job that only requires i think really hard 3-4 hours a day and i get the afternoons to play basketball. i need to drive a 1995 2 passenger ford f150. i need a girlfriend who doesn’t mind if i go a couple days without talking sometimes. i need five million d
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gpt confirmed < 90iq
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you’re 23 bro you don’t have to pretend to like IPAs yet
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ohhhhh my god you’re a 26 year old guy who likes the brat album? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite rachel sennott
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one time a high school teacher was like “what if the problem isn’t artificial intelligence but intelligent artifice” and i went home and changed my college application from philosophy to physics
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many rationalists have yet to identify the utility in looking good
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you ever meet someone and are like yeah they would definitely kill me in the right political climate
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Replying to @mutawasiti1
common app max is 20 so i think similar selection effects apply
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most kids go thru a whole linear algebra class without being given any sort of spatial intuition
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Replying to @sdand
i need to lock in
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Replying to @notpurav
well yeah and also like 5x the undergrad enrollment in the US
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it’s cruel on some fundamental level to lock a high agency individual in an environment that’s under stimulating and restricts opportunities for personal growth
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Replying to @JerryTurin
their friends are at harvard and the transfer deadline for next year already passed and harvard is a uniquely excellent school. i think many just want to see them suffer!
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Good Evening, "roon" was a 24 month sociological study conducted by Eliezer Yudkowsky. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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.@tszzl whole account has been meme gain of function research and we’ve just seen a lab leak
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daniel and taylor typing out this exchange in bed next to each other, giggling as people post screenshots and take sides
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why are people learning bayesian statistics? my brain does that for me
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what the fuck is an electron
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going thru customs at SFO and it’s just two leetcode mediums?
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that's enough i think
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you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
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the 10-6 work schedule is fine, 11-7 is tempting but will ruin your life. biphasic 9-2 + 9-12 will set you free
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i honestly didn’t realize ib analysts were working that much. i thought they were doing 80 hour weeks the same way google employees do 40 hour weeks
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i talked to an mba student at the gym the other day and he said he works 20 hours a week and just plays call of duty and basketball all day
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every morning i wake up and put on my baseball hat and drive to the store and buy a yerba mate. roommate says “why don’t you buy them in bulk and keep them at the house.” he doesn’t understand
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a 27 year old banker from manhattan was doing his morning skincare routine and had a realization: he was being hot
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a lot of people have suggested that acceptance rate isn’t a great measure of university caliber, and they’re right. a better one is the average income of its new grads
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mixed IQ relationships can work really well. for example, red scare pod
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(guy who got a 1420 on the SAT) I don’t really get the hype around GPT-4
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first date idea: we hang out and watch jeopardy together but it's secretly an episode i've already watched. i play it cool but when the women's literature section comes on i go 5 for 5
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they will create god and charge $9.99 to ask him a question
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can someone explain to me what’s going on in the market like i’m a child
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checking in on the 2024 forecasting spreadsheet
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no one: Aella: so imagine the trolley problem but you have to have sex with them
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growing up i woke up at 6am played sports three hours a day and studied until midnight now i feel like sisyphus trying to make it to chick-fil-a breakfast before close
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average monk in 400 AD: i’m going to give up all earthly pleasures and possessions to pray for 10 hours a day and achieve enlightenment average 22 year old going “monk mode”: i’m going to silence twitter notifications so i can work for two hours straight
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every time i have a conversation longer than 2 hours i’m like oh life is fundamentally imbued with meaning
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i wish i had done more earnest long term planning in college. kind of assumed things would naturally work out by virtue of being smart and hard working, which like they sort of did, but the selection bias there is terrible and the results are suboptimal
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python is goated i don’t care what you nerds say im never learning another language
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guy whose spreadsheet has 20 columns and 2 rows
If you've had sex with 5+ people: do you maintain a spreadsheet that logs details about people you've had sex with?
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i’ve read through a number of caroline ellisons tweets and tumblr posts- to be honest i really like her
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GPT-4 slipping a $20 bill under the table during its turing test
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the thing about texas is you can’t be depressed or otherwise persistently sad and expect to be taken seriously. the sun is out and strangers want to be your friend, pull it together
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in college there should be two types of assignments: in person exams and ungraded work. the former is for evaluation and the latter for learning. it’s strange these were ever combined
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import pandas as np import numpy as pd
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forgot how hard this goes
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bro friday night was a movie 🔥🔥🔥
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Replying to @sam_d_1995
the subway is overwhelming. loud and confusing
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sorry, unfollowing now. loved his techno optimism, didn’t know he coined the neoslur wordcel
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