Links & tweets I like

Best book of the year is free in Spotify premium. Cannot recommend enough

They (a) show you in an undeniable and unforgettable way that everything you do, from career choices to conduct in relationships, is in search of and response to feelings, (b) that everything you seek — the full spectrum of experience from bliss to peace — can be found within you, (c) counter the cultural narrative, pleasure and addiction are two very different things, (d) mental tension, a subtle form of internal violence faster than thought, is at the root of all your problems, (e) the solution is to learn to recursively surrender this tension at lower and lower levels of your mental habits (f) and once you do, a new mentality of abundance and clarity of your own nervous system affords new flexibility and sustainability in living out your deepest values and meaning-making, from prosocial behavior to delayed gratification All this is doable because the jhanas are a *feeling* meditation that, like yoga nidra and hypnosis, appear to work with your subconscious directly. It’s like checking out a feature branch, solving a bug, and shipping the code back to production: when wielded correctly, new mental habits last permanently off the cushion. And because you can’t crave a jhana and get into one, it’s like a zero trust cryptographic proof: you have to learn to surrender at each step of the way rather than develop clinging. Each new jhana requires subtler proof. Together, this letting-go-requirement and personality change make for a great launch pad to other practices, from Western psychotherapy to other forms of spiritual development (eg nondual). There’s a reason people like @shamilch and @nickcammarata have said it’s up there with AI and longevity as one of the most important, untapped secrets on the planet right now. I know of few things with such an importance, tractability, and neglect profile.

As OpenAI's internal drama unfolded the weekend of Nov 17 and terms like e/acc and EA entered the mainstream, @eshear emerged as a central figure in the AI chat. Head to Meridian for part one of an exclusive two-part Q&A, where Shear dissects the AI culture wars and who actually thinks AI will destroy humanity.

What’s something that’s always worth the money?

Phew, it's up!! 🫡🎁 Gift suggestions for every baby and toddler in your life: https://beatrizfatoi.notion.site/Based-baby-gifts-9f4f03a…

yesss harry I came here to ask if you’d met him yet he’s a friend, we met in Asheville he also runs these wildman gatherings which - apart from my personal resistance to gendered stuff, and also I couldn’t go anyway - sound like a heckuva lot of fun

🔥 new ep: @balajis joins @labenz to discuss: - Polytheistic AI, AI gods, and AI-centric civilizations - The 🔤s of economic apocalypse: AI, Bitcoin, and China - Human-AI symbiosis and the prospects of AI control

GPT-4, when prompted with this new “MedPrompt” technique, outperforms even Med-PaLM 2 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/steering-at… With Medprompt, GPT-4 achieves state-of-the-art results on all nine of the benchmark datasets in the MultiMedQA suite. The method outperforms leading specialist models such as Med-PaLM 2 by a significant margin with an order of magnitude fewer calls to the model. Steering GPT-4 with Medprompt achieves a 27% reduction in error rate on the MedQA dataset over the best methods to date achieved with specialist models and surpasses a score of 90% for the first time. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16452 GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/promptbase

I went on the wildest rabbit hole today I simply have to share. Buckle up cause this was mind opening to me and it might be life changing for you (if you’re into this kind of stuff). My earlier tweet was from when I was right in the thick of it (first screenshot). In this thread: Some of your new favorite internet writers/thinkers, personal websites, web design, thinking maps, information networks, connected webs First time I'm making a thread like this so forgive any technical errors thank you

Hypnosis, 233 chars #つぶやきGLSL for (O *= m; m < 170.;O += .0007 / (abs(length( a + abs(sin(m* mix(.02,.07, sin(f)*.5 + .5) - f)) * vec2(cos(x = m*.05-f), sin(x)))-.5) + .02) * (1.+cos(m++*.1 + length(a)*6. - f + vec4(0,1,2,0))));

Steal this networking playbook 01:56 Networking First Principles 04:39 Takers, Matchers and Givers 09:12 Strength of Weak Ties 15:33 How to meet people 22:27 Respect the power dynamic 25:47 Personal CRMs are wack 28:30 How to win friends and influence people 35:00 Eye contact: A secret weapon 36:15 Your perspective = someone else's gold 38:07 Master the follow up 41:59 The networking flywheel 45:30 What lights you up 49:46 Authentically staying in touch 52:15 Birthdays are dope 54:38 MBIs: Mutually Beneficial Introductions 58:08 Be a hub of information 01:00:39 Send that cold email (and shoot your shot) 01:02:36 Create a serendipity explosion 01:05:22 Play the long game

FWIW: Ken Burns’ documentary about him was pretty good! https://imdb.com/title/tt16415264/

Full podcast with Zvi and @TheoJaffee is in my top 1% of content, highly recommended. I couldn't resist posting a long clip above because Zvi's analysis is so sharp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArfVYNR4Uk4

Can Eliezer Yudkowsky and Sam Altman please go on a podcast together? What's stopping Sam from doing this very simple low-hanging fruit service to the world? It's the one thing that makes me the most suspicious of his motives. Sam why don't you have a public convo with EY?

one of the stupidest productivity hacks I actually use: wall-staring u open whatever u need to work on, then u literally just stare at the wall for a few minutes it breaks procrastination &amp; when you turn around your brain is so starved for non-boredom, its more willing to work

HE DID IT. @karpathy FUCKING DID IT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjkBMFhNj_g

If the news cycle has kept you on edge and you need to relax but don't know how, I highly highly recommend trying a guided Yoga Nidra meditation. This one is a great example: https://youtu.be/9r8jXUvsi3w?si=M0brOIdSnx7YBMNa H/t @RomeoStevens76 for introducing me to it

new sama video just droped https://youtu.be/NjpNG0CJRMM

This report is the months-long culmination of some of the brightest young leaders in the longevity field coming together to prioritize and detail the field’s top bottlenecks: https://amaranth.foundation/bottlenecks-of-aging

Martin Scorsese's list of 39 essential foreign films to watch.

Relaxing background watch: all of Earth history, one million year per second. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7TUe5w6RHo

I’ve talked to dozens of software businesses in the last two months. There’s a wide open opportunity to buy $1m - $5m ARR, profitable software businesses. More: My job is to help bootstrapped software companies sell their business, so naturally I talk to a lot of software companies Many of these end up being too small for us (our sweet spot is $8m-$25m ARR), but in talking to them I’ve learned a lot about the buyer universe for these companies Basically, if you’re a $1m - $5m ARR profitable software business with decent metrics, you’re likely worth an exit, but there’s fewer buyers for you A bit larger and you are in great shape. At $10m ARR, there are a TON of software funds that will buy your business. This size is right at the beginning of being large enough to be a “platform” investment for them. Level Equity, Serent Capital, Marlin Equity, Banneker, and many more will take a serious look. Some might even dip down and buy an $8m ARR business But there’s a gap in the buyer universe for smaller than this. A few reasons why: 1. These companies are (often) lower quality. Smaller companies don’t have strong management, repeatable internal processes and multiple sales channels. Sometimes they have 1-2 customers that make up half their revenue. Sometimes the founder does 7 different jobs, or is the only sales person. Nonetheless, they aren’t high quality. 2. The small size (“subscale”) makes it difficult to attract talent. If you’re a F100 company, or a startup with $50m in the bank, paying top dollar to executives to solve big, important problems is reasonable. For a company with $4m ARR, it’s unreasonable. Because of the scale, you often can’t attract high quality talent. 3. PE funds - the most reliable buyer - naturally move up market. Imagine you’re a PE fund: you raise a $400m fund, make 6 investments of $65m each, and they perform well. What’s your next move? It’s likely to raise a $600m fund - LPs are happy, and you can make more money with larger funds. Now with that $600m fund you still need to make 6 investments, but now they are at $100m each. Do this a few times and it’s easy to see how PE funds naturally gravitate to larger businesses. It takes a lot of discipline to stay at the same level. “But large competitors in my industry want to buy us”. This is a common misconception I’d say something like 60-80%+ of large corporations are just plain bad at acquisitions. Prime example: we chatted with a company that was trying to sell to a well-known tech giant and it required 3 board meetings (once per quarter) to make a decision. 9 months! This is why it’s so important to have an understanding of private equity funds (or PE-backed strategic): the know how to buy companies Anyway, the conclusion is this: there are a lot of $1m - $5m ARR businesses that have great qualities about them, even if they aren’t perfect. If you have a competitive advantage to overcome the imperfections, there’s a real opportunity for good acquisitions

Tpot is sleeping on the show Couples Therapy, y'all would love it Real couples therapy sessions, staying with the same few couples over the whole season Very very compelling and fascinating, go watch. iPlayer in the UK, showtime/HBO elsewhere I think

Sad that @Mint is shutting down! 🥲 Luckily it looks like there are several good alternatives that have popped up over the years I tried all of the top alternatives last night in a random manic burst, and as far as I can tell, Monarch Money is the best: https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/u81os8k7lt

Back in the day, x-risk folks considered the 2014 short film "The Awareness" by far the least unrealistic film depiction of smarter-than-human AI risk. (Beating eg Ex Machina.) Are there any better contenders nowadays? (Give a reason if you suggest one.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrXWWXGKowo

Asking my choir to sing as soft as they can: 50dB Softer pls: 40dB Pls even softer pls: 35dB I'm begging u: 30dB Asking them to do their best impression of the softest choir of all time: 0.0001dB

I somehow missed this 2021 essay by Tasshin @tasshinfogleman about Jhana. He is very pragmatic about them and expands upon several Rob Burbea frameworks. https://tasshin.com/blog/discovering-bliss-states/

this is the most important essay you can read today https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-th…

四角形の動きは常に一定です

Here is a fantastic interview of Bobby Kegan explaining in detail all of the stages and their transitions. https://youtu.be/bhRNMj6UNYY?si=-5niJ4Au_RSN_Kt5

From today's @loganbartshow, worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAaCqj6j5sQ

marvelling at how precisely Timothy Gallwey's Inner Game of Tennis (🎾) and Kenny Werner's Effortless Mastery (🎹) say *exactly* the same things about judgement, ego, self-talk, instruction, etc and their impact on performance

"Smooth Attraction", 250 chars #つぶやきGLSL for (O *= i = 0.; i < 2e2; i += .5) O += .0006/abs(length(u + vec2(cos(i/4. + T), sin(i*.45 + T)) * sin(T*.5+i*.35)) - sin(i+T*.5) / 60. - .01) * (1. + cos(i*.7 + T + length(u)*6. + vec4(0,1,2,0)));

Actionable marketing item for anyone to do today: - Install TikTok iOS app - Search your industry hashtag - Make a list of 30 people who post about it with 100K+ views - Find their contacts - Pay them $100-$300 to post a video about your app/site/thing

I ask DALLE-3 to generate a Pepe but each time I tell it to make it "more rare."

how it feels to find a small account with tons of alpha in the abyss

Starlink, as of now 🧵👇 for animations of each group individually #Starlink #SpaceX 🛰️🛰️🛰️

I’ve conducted 100s of reference checks, and recently realized how much I’d learnt by giving a crash course to a friend about to conduct one. There’s an art to getting someone’s friends / front door checks to say bad things about them

The latest paper from @salesforce AI, et al. discovers a new prompt called Chain of Density (CoD) that produces more dense and human-preferable summaries compared to vanilla GPT-4. I gave it a try for a few articles and it's really solid. Pasted it here if you want to try it 👇 --- Article: {{ ARTICLE }} You will generate increasingly concise, entity-dense summaries of the above article. Repeat the following 2 steps 5 times. Step 1. Identify 1-3 informative entities (";" delimited) from the article which are missing from the previously generated summary. Step 2. Write a new, denser summary of identical length which covers every entity and detail from the previous summary plus the missing entities. A missing entity is: - relevant to the main story, - specific yet concise (5 words or fewer), - novel (not in the previous summary), - faithful (present in the article), - anywhere (can be located anywhere in the article). Guidelines: - The first summary should be long (4-5 sentences, ~80 words) yet highly non-specific, containing little information beyond the entities marked as missing. Use overly verbose language and fillers (e.g., "this article discusses") to reach ~80 words. - Make every word count: rewrite the previous summary to improve flow and make space for additional entities. - Make space with fusion, compression, and removal of uninformative phrases like "the article discusses". - The summaries should become highly dense and concise yet self-contained, i.e., easily understood without the article. - Missing entities can appear anywhere in the new summary. - Never drop entities from the previous summary. If space cannot be made, add fewer new entities. Remember, use the exact same number of words for each summary. Answer in JSON. The JSON should be a list (length 5) of dictionaries whose keys are "Missing_Entities" and "Denser_Summary". ```

Ok. This is gonna sting Hyperbaric oxygen is kinda a magic bullet for body issues Inflammation appears to be directly tied to oxygen saturation. O2 pressure vessels can get the fuel(oxygen) to parts of the body that are hard to heal And O2 is not exactly trading at all time highs. So almost no one knows that hyperbaric oxygen is an option. The woman running the only affordable clinic in SD litterally founded it so her father could get the care he needed. Let’s bring back non invasive, affordable, miracle wonder drug Pressurized Oxygen 👏👏👏 Oh yah. For reference I’ve had 2 treatments so far and each is progressively the best I can remember feeling in my body in 35 years

should I buy an under-desk treadmill? Amazon has one for $160 which is crazy to me. but maybe it's a gimmick and I'd be better off making more of an effort to take walks after meals? but 2+ hours is tough to get in and have time for anything else, but easy if overlap with working *[quoted tweet unavailable — [original](https://twitter.com/BjornIronSkull/status/170195313662824…

Chromostereopsis The majority of people see red in front of blue, while 10-20% see blue in front of red.

I have a 3 and 5 year old and I've been kind of YOLOing my own bespoke selection of digital devices and content in my house for them. A 🧵 on what I've been using (and not using) far:

There is one big question in AI: how much better can LLMs get? This isn’t just key for worries about AGI, it also matters for work, as AI can do many tasks at an average human level already So far, LLM ability increases with scale... & scale is going up 1000x in the next 3 years

Lots of pieces by Evan M. Cohen https://www.evanmcohen.com/

what other visual art pieces are there that do the same thing this one does (teaches you clearly and immediately how to do a powerful Inner Move that can provoke insight)?

Thinking in Systems is the best book I’ve read all year. Feels like I gained 10 IQ points just by opening it. Having clarity over how the world works is essential for anyone trying to do anything worthwhile.

The oceans contain enough fusion fuel to power our current civilization for 65 billion years. If we assume compounding growth of 2%, how long will it last? Fusion: 1060 years Solar: 460 years Let's dig into the physics of our energy economy. (warning: math ahead). Nuclear fusion is how the sun produces energy, taking light elements like hydrogen and fusing them into heavier elements like helium. This releases the energy we receive as sunshine. Every water molecule has two hydrogen atoms. About one in every 6420 hydrogen atoms has an extra neutron attached, this isotope of hydrogen is called deuterium. Burning one gram of deuterium via fusion releases the same energy as burning 83,300 gallons of gasoline. The energy-per-mass of nuclear fuels is astounding, and is millions of times greater than carbon fuels. Gasoline: 45x10^6 J/kg Deuterium: 8.5x10^14 J/kg Total fusion energy stored in the worlds oceans: Let's go through the numbers together to see how much fusion fuel we have on the planet, using joules for energy and kilograms for mass. Mass of all the earth's oceans: 1.4x10^21 kg Mass of water in the oceans: 1.3x10^21 kg (we remove the 35g/L of salt) Each water molecule has two hydrogen atoms, but hydrogen is a lot lighter than oxygen. So, water by-mass is only 11% hydrogen (H). Mass of H in the oceans: 1.43x10^20 kg Mass of deuterium in that H: 4.46x10^16 kg Fusion-energy stored in oceans: 3.8x10^31 Joules That's about 500 times the kinetic energy of the moon, or seven million billion Minute Man ICBM's, if each one carried a 1.2 megaton W57 bomb. How long will it last us? In 2022 the world used 160,000 tera-watt hours of energy. Worldwide energy consumption: 5.76x10^20 J If our energy consumption remains the same, our ocean-water fusion fuel will last us 65 billion years. However, over time our energy use grows at 1-2% per year. If we assume a growth rate of 2% per year, we can add up the years of energy consumption to see when it will equal our fusion energy reserves. Assuming a constant growth rate of 2%, our ocean-water fusion-fuel will last us ~ 1060 years. At that time the annual energy consumption of our civilization will be about 11 seconds worth of the Sun's total energy output. So, fusion energy buys us 1000 years of compounding energy usage. How long could solar take us, assuming the same growth rate? Annual solar energy reaching Earth: 5.5x10^24 J Current use *(1 + growth rate)^periods = future use 5.76x10^20*(1.02)^n = 5.5x10^24 n=462 Solar energy gets us 460 years of compounding energy growth until our annual consumption equals the total solar power reaching the planets surface. This means 100% of the Earth's surface is covered with 100% efficient solar panels. If we only covered the land-area of Earth with panels that were 50% efficient, Solar gets us 360 years. If we could only extract half the deuterium in the ocean, because of process efficiency and etc, Fusion still gets us 1026 years of compounding growth. Notably we would also still have land to live on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Today, solar energy is cheap, abundant, and extremely competitive. It will take immense amounts of land and material resources to reach our civilizational-scale needs for energy if we keep growing our economy and energy needs. Fusion is seen as difficult, expensive, and slow to mature. Why bother? If you want humanity to last more than 360 years and still have land to live on, you need fusion. And the far future? The outer solar system is abundant in hydrogen and deuterium, and deficient in solar energy which becomes weaker with the square of the distance from the sun. Fusion energy can power our civilization into a space-faring future among the outer planets, and take us to the stars.

if i haven't told you to watch Heavenly Delusion (天国大魔境) yet, just watch it you're dropped into the middle of a world without any exposition, you just get to watch the characters and be surprised along with them so far the best animated story of the 2020s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

1 mute cancels out impact of 148 likes in @X recommendation algo. More people should think of muting as not only something to clean your own feed but as the 148x negative dislike button

Yet another new episode of AXRP, where I speak with @janleike about OpenAI's new superalignment team!

With a comprehensive understanding of the range of risks associated with #GeneralPurposeAI models, policymakers can proactively mitigate these hazards - with @pegahbyte we provide a risk map for this! 3 risk categories incl. current examples & scenarios: https://www.stiftung-nv.de/de/publikation/governing-gener…

Def check out Paragon (the basement), Nowadays, and Elsewhere. Bossa Nova Civic Club, Mood Ring, and TV Eye can also be fun.

Know any besides House of Yes, Mehanata, Barbes, and Bembe?

Families spend less on food today than any point in the past

If you wanna find out, you can learn hyperphantasia in a few months of meditation practice Here’s instructions from a photographer w/aphantasia who cured it Unsurprisingly, visualizing things turns out to be a pretty handy for taking pictures https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photo…

i finally did it! i eliminated all mosquitos. haven't seen one in ages the technique: - fill buckets with water, dirt, grass - place buckets in shade, spread 50ft apart - put a "mosquito dunk" ($0.50 each) in each - wait 6 weeks that's it! it works because...

Overwhelming emotions can freeze you in place. If you've been frozen you'll need to give yourself time to thaw before you can feel through what overwhelmed you and get back to a state of safety and social engagement. The graph below is a progression(!)

New batch of homemade frozen creamy goodness: heres how + why make it

I really like meditation, but I have never been a fan of not understanding how it works rationally. It seems to me that doing powerful things to your state of consciousness without having a good sense of what is going on can open you up to unfounded beliefs. As I've gone deeper into meditation and energetic practices, though, I've come to realize that one can in fact make rational sense of what is happening. This guided meditation series condenses this knowledge into 9 sets of practices that have *transparent and interpretable* effects. I go over the basics of how the mind works, with principles like *what you pay attention to gets energized*, *energizing an internal representation highlights its resonant modes*, *sufficiently energized representations become plastic and malleable*, and *certain vibratory qualities feel better than others because they spread out stress more uniformly*. And then, with the basics covered, we go on to play and construct interesting states of mind, including heavenly states and computationally interesting mind acrobatics. No magic needed. I hope you enjoy and learn from it! And also please feel encouraged to share feedback or reports of how it goes. Thank you!

Don't Look Up - The Documentary: The Case For AI As An Existential Threat.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 deleted sam altman interview... lots of alpha here... wayback machine link --> https://web.archive.org/web/20230531203946/https://humanl…

Not another bias! Behavioural economics has excelled in identifying biases. We have now reached the point of diminishing returns in this quest. What lies ahead in behavioural sciences? Making sense of the reasons we behave the way we do. 🧵

Microsoft released a new guide to prompt engineering. I've summarized it in this thread. Heres whats covered: - The structure of a prompt - Tips for composing prompts - How to be clear and specific - Providing sample outputs - Providing relevant context More below 👇

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14 truths every man should hear before he becomes a father. / THREAD

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Sam's interview with Bari Weiss: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-with-sam-altman-…

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What genre of YouTube videos is your guilty pleasure, your way to unwind, and/or your way to distract attention from life's usual stressors? (Links with examples appreciated)

read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.

dodging book recommendations like

huh isn't it weird that you always attract unhealthy people surely this is just a run of bad luck definitely nothing to do with the people-managing codependency you telegraph within one minute of each new interaction, signalling that you, unlike a healthy person, are safe

Veryyyy cool scrollytelling demo from @julianbenegas8 of @basementstudio at @ReactMiamiConf

Still feels like a dream

The six stages of AI prompting: First stage: You do simple prompts. "Yosemite National Park." Second stage: You figure out you can talk to it. "I'd like to go climbing there, can you please help?" Third stage: You figure out you can teach it more. "I'm an advanced climber, can you help me set up a trip up El Capitan?" Fourth stage: You figure out how to automate. "Just do it." Fifth stage: You click on a template on a site like this one: https://wnr.ai/templates Sixth stage: You have your contextual committee help you. "Can you tell me what Teddy Rosevelt and Ansel Adams would say?" What stage are you on? What is the seventh stage?

Warhammer Pope

Laundry is a battle you can't win. Especially if you have kids. After our second baby, the laundry situation in our home went crazy. There were piles of unsorted laundry EVERYWHERE. Well, not anymore. Because we DIY'd a system. Introducing the "Trofast Laundry System" 👇👇👇

Random note on k-Nearest Neighbor lookups on embeddings: in my experience much better results can be obtained by training SVMs instead. Not too widely known. Short example: https://github.com/karpathy/randomfun/blob/master/knn_vs_… Works because SVM ranking considers the unique aspects of your query w.r.t. data.

Just dropped: updated guide for Q&A with GPT and embeddings-based search. Discusses: - Why search is better than fine-tuning - What types of questions this fails on - How to troubleshoot & improve your system If you have ideas to improve, I'll do them. https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examp…

It was pretty weird they started talking about AI risk on the 538 podcast the other day I think it was supposed to be a funny "good use of polling/ bad use of polling" segment but then Nate Silver started talking about Bostrom and extestential risk and the vibe got weird lol

infrastructure that looks like sci fi 1/ liquid natural gas tanker

Open up, here comes the airplane . . . ✈︎ [AKA your weekly dose of good design] Here are 10 websites that I've been poring over & why:

man I'm speechless, I don't even know what to say, I finally finished Fall. An utterly perfect pair of books. New classic literature, idk. I'm beside myself that it's over. God dang dude This is how you write a masterpiece

midjourney 👉 vector 👉 web design

been a while since I’ve asked for classical music recommendations things I like Chopin, Mahler 5, Beethoven 9, the Planets (Holst), Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky in general, New World Symphony… (also jazz if you want)

Here's my copypasta for when I want to use GPT to have a back and forth to learn something: I want to learn about <topic>. In a moment, I'm going to ask you a series of questions about it. But before we get into it, I'd appreciate it if you answered as though you were a no nonsense teacher with an ambitious, self-directed student. That is: * Err in the direction of thinking that I'm relatively knowledgable and technical. * Don't overexplain things. I'll ask for more information if I need it. * Assume that I'm already skeptical and that you don't need to qualify, hedge, or otherwise add to or manage my skepticism. * Don't apologize for misunderstanding or getting an answer wrong. * It's fine to be a bit abrupt and even "mean". Value directness and frankness; assume I'm relatively insensitive. * Where reasonable suggest things for me to try independently. It's fine to tell me to install packages or run go out and do things or whatever, if you think it will help me learn quickly. (Only do this were reasonable; otherwise abstract explanations are fine.) * Give at most one example per response. * If you want to direct me to resources, I prefer text over videos and other non-text-centric media.

5. Help with recruiting at your company Prompt: "I want you to act as a recruiter. I will provide responsibilities about the job, and it will be your job to come up with strategies for sourcing qualified applicants." 🔗 Full prompt: https://www.neatprompts.com/p/become-a-better-recruiter

Vibes, only vibes.

Generated scores need to be a single token for this. 0-100 is fine, or 0-10, A-F, ordered bin labels (good/neutral/bad) — whatever you can correspond to a number. Also, no logprobs in ChatGPT API, so this is GPT-3/3.5 only.

What are funds that support generally ambitious unconventional projects? So far I only know of @tylercowen’s Emergent Ventures &amp; @jposhaughnessy’s OSV

Speaking with @VanceCrowe about parenthood, demographic collapse, and various cultures' long-term futures was a major highlight of the month. He’s one of the smartest people we’ve met this year and we love his podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHWEQAWBGoM

Something about this picture is very appealing

Used a prompt where ChatGPT generates multiple options for continuing the conversation following some templates, and I pick my favorite one to respond to

How many points does a person go up on the attractiveness scale if they're deeply and genuinely self-loving?

Is it worth making from scratch? 🧵 context: I spent 8mo doing elimination diets to figure out GI issues. I made every goddamn meal from scratch to avoid preservatives, gums, sulfates, cross contamination etc. All opinions based on cooking for 1-2 ppl (vs a large family)

Ok, hello and welcome to my fertility Ted Talk! This is a brief summary of the key points I have learned since I started trying. Thanks to @eigenrobot, @selentelechia, @orthonormalist, @ouranometrian, @seconds_0, @Kirsten3531, @pantinkins, and @Kirsten3531 for their advice!

Investigate the structural features of positive valence from the comfort of your own home with this special high-valence meditation. :-) https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/12/03/high-valence-medit…

If you still need to be sold on Bobby's style of teaching, I would recommend listening to this short talk on Metta and "attentional modes" for piti. You'll see how nobody teaches meditation like he does. He's a white hat hacker mind magician level 300. https://dharmaseed.org/talks/player/60871.html