the world you remember no longer exists

common failing in nerd circles is excusing horrible/illegal behavior from someone cause the nerd in question is good at whatever it is the circle values - sounding smart, being good at some game, etc. don't be like this

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reading about some other dudes ideas is spiritually cucked. i don’t actually read anything you people say. thats why all my ideas are my own. anyways, im about to go make my grilled cheese and dark chocolate sandwhich while i smash my foot with a hammer. later suckers

my gf has been asleep in my bed for over 24 hours. how the fuck do women do this

Correction: Lightcone sponsored him, which means they gave him a bank account and did accounting for him such that he could raise $500k.

why does this man have 500k of funding from lightcone infrastructure?

letting a woman buy milk tea at 8pm is like giving a toddler a giant bag of candy. do NOT do it.

the first date I went on in SF, the guy asked me on a second date and in between them started sending me Substack articles by Aella to convince me polycules are normal these groups, and others like the groups that position their careers / companies around rage bait or hype marketing are a cancer to SF and to the future of technology at large. if we are going to create things that have serious consequences for the rest of the world, then we must honor that responsibility, and be serious people ourselves that deserve such an honor.

introducing MOTS Office Gyms, a series in which i tour the gyms of the greatest companies on this planet. for the inaugural episode i got to tour and rate the @cognition garage gym with @imjaredz and we summoned employees to do pull-ups with us. The Tour 00:14 - The evolution of the cognition gym 01:58 - The dumbbells 03:14 - The cognition bench press 04:46 - Cardio and cables 06:52 - The looney tunes section 09:21 - The squat racks 11:14 - The rating The Hang 13:12 - We can call ourselves whatever we want 14:55 - Tokenmaxxing was a bad idea 17:35 - Why not just use codex or claude code 19:46 - The first pull-up victims arrive The Challenge 21:13 - Max pull-ups 27:23 - My pull-ups

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It’s a little bit funny that a social scene that constantly ponders hypotheticals like “what if you had to have sex with a dog or everyone in the world would die. Would you do it?” Is now confronted by a real life situation that basically comes down to “what if having fewer and less public sex parties would result in a smaller chance of everyone dying?”

really showing my age with this one

later dipshits your username is your net worth

imagine we all die because the AI safety scene was so busy with sex scandals and PR management they don’t get it together in time

how it feels to weigh on the discourse

(he was never heard from again)

for the record i am a rationalist and effective altruist and ai safety advocate. and also i do not live in berkeley, i am aggressively monogamous, i find cuddle puddles extremely offputting, and am in many ways borderline sex-negative. this is not as rare as you might think!

a tech influencer dmed me earlier asking what camera I use. I told her I don't share that and she wrote that the influencer community doesn't take kindly to gatekeeping...