jrflowers

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by jrflowers 3mo ago
You pay Twitter money to generate thirty videos per day?
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
I was wondering who runs this weird paranoid crank blog and it turns out it’s Garry Tan lol
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
Ever since I was a young bboy I dreamt of teaching Founders the Grindset that turns KPIs into K-P-Eyes
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
> Hi, author here. I write about what I'm curious about. “Linkedin poetry is my passion” lmao
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by jrflowers 3mo ago
I like that this is gibberish. “Giving money to charity makes products worse”, “It’s good but I bet that it’s bad”, “I’m using ‘giving to charity’ as a stand-in for anything else bad that I can imagine” Every now and then it really looks li
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> AMA! I think I missed where you posted what business you work at
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I like that you start by saying that you don’t know how someone could draw that conclusion about AI and end by saying they probably got there by using AI
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I kind of meant more broadly. Your notion of “the left” as some sort of… swirl of evil linguistic specters that prey on the good and civilized flesh-and-bone right is better suited to post-OT III Scientology than Lacan. If you want a philos
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
>Oedipalizing them into the world as linguistic subject I don’t think this means what you think it means
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
It is okay to dismiss negligible things. People sustain a lot of injuries and die in their bathrooms but it would be insane to both-sides somebody’s campaign against taking shits https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mm
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> ̶M̶a̶n̶y̶ People are ego-driven. Their opinions aren’t positions they hold; they are the position. > ̶M̶o̶s̶t̶ People don’t reason their way to conclusions and then feel accordingly. They feel first, then reason backward to justif
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Trying to imagine the mind that comes up with “Is this graphic description of a person’s horrific acts meant to make me like them?” and drawing a blank lmao
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> takes inspiration from marxist ideology[42] and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
No. It is terrible on noodles. Every brand.
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
That page says most kids can barely read. Are you a kid?
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
“This is how the world should work” I say once I read that the handful of entities engineering global economic calamity are privately held. I interrupt my chat bot girlfriend’s detailed but deeply incorrect summary of yesterday’s news to ty
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> No, champ, it's the flying of the plane into the WTC Sir, a second zine has struck the south tower
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
The number of people in the prison/jail/probation/parole systems in the US has gone up ~16x since the 1970s https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/mass-incarceration... While the population of the US
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
What year was the president born in for the past decade
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Is your point that the AI industry would have wrecked Edo period Japan Or that we live in a shogunate
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Refusing to question the notion that the overclass exists because their productivity and cultural contribution makes them a necessity so hard that I reinvent the premise of the Pixar movie Wall-E from first principles and pitch it to people
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
>it may be a while Or sooner. It says sooner or later. It only means “later” if you don’t read the “sooner” part. Choosing to read selectively isn’t One Weird Trick To Own A Blogger. “This post about submitting a draft S1 to the SEC is p
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I like that people will post stuff like “Ed Zitron is always wrong! Look at this wrong claim he made!” and then link to him not making that claim at all. “Rushing toward a public offering so that their CEOs can cash out” is not a prediction
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
Steve Carrell yelling “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!” in The Office dot gif
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
>another one of these companies seemingly exists to launder money for a fascist billionaire. Fascist trillionaire
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
What about those store brand cereals? “Chocolate puffed balls” for a fraction of the price of Cocoa Puffs™?! You all may laugh until your waterways are under siege and you find Cap’n Crunch™ keelhauled by thrifty shoppers
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
> US courts have consistently ruled its fair use. Like Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations “‘Free market’ is when a company receives a favorable ruling about copyright in the United States”
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I like that they use “illicit” and “fraudulent” like as if model distillation is illegal and giving them money and then doing whatever they want with the output of their publicly accessible models (which Anthropic does not own) is… also ill
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
I would love to get paid for my terrible posts
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by jrflowers 4mo ago
He left in 2003 and did start a new wiki

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