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Kevin McPherson

@thekevinmcp

AI + ML engineer. Physics & economics enthusiast. Fascinated by learning and writing. Wonder is all around me!

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Starting today, any task that I delegate to AI, I'm going to capture in my ai-learnings-log. I'll include a brief description of what I did, what the AI's plan was, and any alternative plans it had. I'll also include the platform I used AI in (i.e., Warp, ChatGPT interface,…


Feeling a bit adrift lately. Trying to get a bit more steady.


All time great QT! 😂

Wow look at me go



This is my icon on my HBO Max. Yes, I love Gumball.

thekevinmcp's tweet image. This is my icon on my HBO Max. Yes, I love Gumball.

He also took away a really satisfying part of hitting a shot: the swoosh!

Bro solver a problem that doesn’t exist



Relationships (intimate, platonic) are pretty easy when you meet each other with humility and compassion.


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“Being reasonable is about sound intellectual methods – remaining calm, taking nothing personally, using probabilities, facing hypotheticals head-on, spurning Social Desirability Bias, and so on.” betonit.ai/p/silence-is-s…


Lane is good.

Getting good at anything is worth it It's almost never a choice between mastering x or mastering y. It's mastering something or mastering nothing (scrolling tiktok (same thing))



Love when this happens. I am pretty good (if I do say so myself 😉) at finding used books signed by the author. The best one was a copy of Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem: “For Marli, With love from a Lethem” - found in Kansas City, Missouri

thekevinmcp's tweet image. Love when this happens. I am pretty good (if I do say so myself 😉) at finding used books signed by the author. 

The best one was a copy of Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem: “For Marli, With love from a Lethem” - found in Kansas City, Missouri

Was at a used bookstore today and found this postcard from 31 years ago inside a book

SidKhurana3607's tweet image. Was at a used bookstore today and found this postcard from 31 years ago inside a book


This is a cynical viewpoint. I'm happy to report I left crippling poverty and helped lift family members out of it, too.

I want to remind you again today, that if you were born into a poor family, you can NEVER escape poverty until the day you die. You will be struggling, with the hope that you would. It never happens.



"We Can Terraform the American West" - highly underrated blog post by @CJHandmer (as a Nevadan, I think this is a great proposal) caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/26/we-…


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I won’t tell anyone I’ve won the lottery, but there will be signs

emhoneyreads's tweet image. I won’t tell anyone I’ve won the lottery, but there will be signs

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getting good sentence-makers out of billions of years of "find food and reproduce" requires a consciousness-inducing complexity that getting good sentence-makers out of "here's every sentence ever written" doesn't

Geoffrey Hinton says AIs may already have subjective experiences, but don't realize it because their sense of self is built from our mistaken beliefs about consciousness.



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We’ve defended higher ed from both government overreach and ideological litmus tests. But now academia’s biggest guild says diversity of thought itself is “anathema“ denying even the existence of the most basic and obvious problem in higher education. Admitting a lack of…


Theory: most of the last two decades of technology (online, social media related) advancements have been detracting from collective human intelligence.


I mean, objectively, this is good. Even if it’s internet clickbait

You don’t need to be smarter, you need to be more disciplined.

Codie_Sanchez's tweet image. You don’t need to be smarter, you need to be more disciplined.


Substack has become the center of my intellectual life these past 2 months (surprisingly).


Humility is a skill which is not widely taught but should be.


United States 趨勢

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