chatgpt agrees with you, your therapist agrees with you no one is left to tell you the truth besides toddlers and drunk people

The internet is breeding entirely new species through a kind of decentralized, memetic gain-of-function research on human types. The men who signup for this show have studied a fair amount of data, which they've memorized reasonably well. They spent their formative years watching "content," carefully studying the techniques whereby their favorite personalities "destroy" their opponents with facts and logic. Then, finding their paths to adult male glory thwarted at every turn, a show like this represents their first real opportunity for recognition (which is not a luxury but a true human need, as Hegel noted). And after all those years sharpening their knives, they really do bring an unprecedented verbal style, more ruthlessly optimized on a single dimension than any men in history. Fast, vicious, cutting, and breathless. And yet, this gentleman gets flustered when asked his name. I've never seen anything like it, he almost starts sweating when asked his name. Despite all of their training, despite having become discourse superpredators, it's all achieved by such a monstrous neglect of other basic abilities that it completely undercuts their performance and guarantees the extinction of this otherwise fascinating germline.

Saw a really attractive woman construction worker the other day here in TX holding the stop/go sign for road work (she was Latina), which is a thing I've never seen before, & I'm like does she just have to catcall herself sometimes?

it's all so tiresome

I need the authorities to come to my house and drag me away in a van before I eat this entire pan of Costco mac and cheese.

The diehards like Conor Leahy & Nate Soares & Yud will never be embarrassed by having said all this -- they're beyond shame. But I really hope many of the people who have been eating this up & signal boosting it will be at least a little ashamed.

TIL this existed. I wish it was bigger and more terrifying, but I'll take it.

Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. Like many others, this is how I learned what a horn of plenty was. My dad told me because it was on his underwear (sorry if TMI). I think the company is somehow running an op with this for publicity.

the most interesting take on gpt psychosis might just be this one from @LapsusLima: part psychedelic experience, part method acting in a theater of hyperstition. this piece takes us beyond the ‘simulators’ frame and into llm-as-dramaturge.

1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).