near
 @nearcyan

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near
 @nearcyan
6 Mar 2023
referring to AI models as "just math" or "matrix multiplication" is as uselessly reductive as referring to tigers as "just biology" or "biochemical reactions"
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the choice is yours
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in a free market, tech companies would pair drugs with their products adderall + excel ozempic + instagram marijuana + doordash euthanasia + twitter google, meta, microsoft, bytedance already all have their own drug discovery teams
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anonymous stanford poll on screentime usage shows most students at "6 or more hours / day" (thanks @bryanhpchiang)
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source: generations by jean twenge, figure 6-16 in gen Z chapter h/t @patrickc for the great suggestion
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so zoomers basically do nothing but use their phone
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sorry, had something come up — can we circle back after the new year? the next one not this one
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amazing excerpts from @CJHandmer's post on @elonmusk link: caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2…
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the most thoughtful people i know learn a lot from books + blogposts, which seem to fare better than youtube videos, which in turn fares much better than shorts/tiktok the more memetic fitness is optimized on a platform the fewer types of content are able to survive the filter
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sorry in advance to whoever just lost a week or month of their life from this link, i cannot say i didn't intend for it!
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Scott Alexander's Best Essays a collection of my favorite posts from 2009-2023 link: near.blog/my-favorite-links/
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to succeed so decisively in a hypercompetitive market such as youtube in your younger 20s is not something that happens by luck
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techbros reading sama's blog and elon's bio missing the real entrepreneurial alpha
MrBeast
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Jan 1
These were the most subscribed to YouTube channels of 2023 🥰
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@paulg you would like this term quite a bit I think
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information selectivity and filtering
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"A key metric of mental health is how many of your thoughts are new thoughts (sentences you haven't spoken inside your mind before) vs old thoughts (words that have run through your mind many times)"
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"that you constantly have a brain tugged at and pulled at is to end up with a brain so used to having its time and attention captured and consumed that even if you step away briefly you’re left with a mind unable to be on its own to be idle to reflect"
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the concept of a "lapidation entrepreneur"
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thoughtful post on attention economics + countermeasures: sdrinf.com/age-of-attention a few excerpts posted below
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actually many foss models have gotten so good that openai's revenue is predicted to drop into the negatives next year
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