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Fine-tuning your brain

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guy who is terrified of being left behind by history

ppl always get upset at me for saying this but unless you have a very good thesis for not being in the bay area, your probability of being left behind by history is way higher than you appreciate. this used to be the case historically, it's going to be more the case onwards



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I would like to be in a high-effort book club. If you are in one and would have me as a member, please reach out. Genuinely. I will do the reading, and I will cultivate a culture of scholarship and camaraderie.

It's high variance, but it can be excellent. The key is to choose members very carefully; especially since one person can derail the conversation.



1998 on the extropy mailing list - > Subject: Re: Singularity - Clarifying Timing Claims


If you think social media is the reason why discourse is low quality, read the latest messages on an old mailing list like Extropy-Chat


Bought the H1B lamp

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Praise the H1B lamp

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Nostalgic but only for the tumblrs i followed


What AI lab is doing this aesthetic

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A book is just a really slow tweet


Reading a paper book is a performative act


Bay Area, 2025: Guy at the Anki & memory systems conference told me he is “short on learning” due to AI


From 2 years ago!

One reason the AI boom is being underestimated is the GPU/TPU shortage. This shortage is causing all kinds of limits on product rollouts and model training but these are not visible. Instead all we see is Nvidia spiking in price. Things will accelerate once supply meets demand.



Agents agents agents


I’m at Make with Notion and I’m getting an overwhelming feeling that everything is now the same. Every product is the same. Every person is wearing the same thing. Every object is the same color. Everything is everything else. It’s the singular-ity.


This man is why the Atlanta Fed is predicting 3% GDP growth in Q3

I've been using up to a dozen coding agents at a time for nearly a week straight. Just added my 13th. All working on the same project. It worked amazingly up to about 200k LOC, and now they've begun savagely overwriting each other's work rather than try to deal with merge…

Steve_Yegge's tweet image. I've been using up to a dozen coding agents at a time for nearly a week straight. Just added my 13th. All working on the same project. It worked amazingly up to about 200k LOC, and now they've begun savagely overwriting each other's work rather than try to deal with merge…


Announcing the sequel to Waiting for Godot, Waiting for Claude Code.


People will just post information online

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I told a guy that the marketplace of ideas was more like a “blockchain of ideas” and he was like what Crypto is over


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