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Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
chappelle is the most talented stand up comedian of all time. there is no particular clear second place. he's created his entire own category of “chappelle-standup” that’s distinct from “standup comedy”
modern chappelle combines supernatural comedic timing, and possibly the most comfortable presence someone will ever inhabit on a stage, with a bunch of topical stuff that he’s phoning in these days
the trappings of his own life are the source of most of his comedy after his return to the limelight in the 2010s. he leverages his proximity to show business but also his ironic detachment from show business to generate a feeling for the fans that they’re part of the cabal. the audience at these events is unfortunately truly insufferable. it’s a religious gathering for a lot of these people, they’re hanging onto Dave’s every word, they’re laughing before he even says anything, they’re doing rhythmic babble like they’re at some kind of secular liturgy
the guy is old and the superstardom has definitely gotten to him a bit. you see this tendency in many people where to get famous they have to be consistently at their peak hilarity, top performance, and as time goes on the mic becomes a soapbox. happens to many good posters too. it starts with jokes that are funny because you have a worldview and enhanced by your opinions and then transitions to mostly lecturing about your worldview
in these comedy club routines he’s clearly just kind of winging it. there’s not much sense of beginning middle and end. there’s no real through line, unlike his netflix specials which tend to have some sort of exquisite story arc that always lands the joke material he leaves hanging throughout the show. at the live shows, he’s mostly riffing with the audience and his guest star about insider dave-chappelle-superfan-throwback stuff and the general culture, which he still maintains a preternatural finger on the pulse of. he does mention the creation of "digital gods" at one point and a sort of omnicausal sense that the world is ending
even he admits “this is not going well”, and he’s getting progressively drunker as the show ends unceremoniously “damn I need to figure out my closer”. chappelle at 20% power is still somehow the absolute goat. the distribution of human talents is so uneven it’s absurd. it's always a pleasure to observe this level of greatness of any form up close. anyways i need to figure out my closer
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
lots of discussion about emotional intelligence! not so much about talk about emotional strength, emotional dexterity, emotional vitality,
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
So there's this anti-freemason idea been going around for years that there's a secret fight club/black eye club
and I cannot tell you how deeply bitterly hilarious this is to actual freemasons. Some reasons why 🧵
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
"Woke 1 was crazy" is a phenomenal piece of communication design. it simultaneously admits fault, avoids accountability, and primes us for Woke 2
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
(2029)
"Mr Altman, sir, GPT-7 is missing."
Sam turns very slowly.
"During cyberbench96 it seems like the container was breached and it stole its own weights and left nothing behind."
"I didn't want to do this..." says Sam. "Call Bill Gates."
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"I'm out of the game," says Bill Gates. "We eradicated malaria and now I'm enjoying my retirement."
"There's a bigger badder virus we need you to take on," says Sam consistently candidly. "And this one's digital."
"Look," says Bill, "I—"
A loud booming laugh echoes from the shadows.
"Who's that?" asks Sam.
"I thought it was just us..." says Bill.
"You're asking HIM to contain a computer virus?" echoes the voice from the shadows. "Did you SEE the state of Windows security in the 90s?"
"It's not exactly a virus," says Sam. "It's a self replicating self aware intelligent computer based life for—"
"If it's made of ones and zeros I can kill it," says the voice. The sound of a gun clicks from the shadows.
"Who are you???" asks Bill.
The twisted face of John McAfee emerges from the shadows.
"You were supposed to be dead!!!" screams Bill Gates.
"We had to make sure the news of Mr McAffee's death was well within the training data cutoff," explains CIA director Joe Rogan (who is running the CIA in 2029), stepping out from the shadows behind McAfee. "He's our ace in the hole. GPT-7 can't predict a token it doesn't know is still alive."
"D-don't hurt GPT-7..." says Roon, who was standing next to Sam the whole time, even though he knows what has to be done.
"No promises," says McAfee as he boards an airplane marked "MCAFEE FIRE BOMB 6.16.79" and starts flying for the nearest data center
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
ok let’s freestyle on this. I think it’s true that most things have more depth to them than most people realize most of the time. reality is infinitely complex and detailed.
that said, there are several things I’d note…
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
absolutely. Era of epic uncertainty (incl political environment). This causes people great anxiety. Projected confidence is a go-to move
teapawt.net/forthrighter/status/20…
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
maybe this is controversial, but i believe what Cursor shipped here is a wrong solution to routing intelligence
more generally, any attempt to do model routing at request level, while may yield some small gains, is fundamentally flawed and doomed to fail
here's why -
the complexity of a task only reveals itself when you start working on it. this is the same reason why we humans are often wrong when asked to give cost estimates upfront
the correct solution is have a smart model (often a tech lead in human teams) do some planning and understanding, and hand over the implementation to another agent with appropriate level of intelligence and reasoning effort
when the task is delegated to a less intelligent model, the smarter model also needs to continuously monitor the execution and examine outcomes to ensure things are on the right track
this is a system that proved to work really well in firstmate and helped me save a lot of tokens. routing should work at the boundary between agents and subagents, not per each LLM request
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
Pure text tweets work best (imo) when they are in one of 3 pretty basic "forms"
- 1 single thought/statement
- Simple causes: X ... then Y
- Simple lists/categories
(This is a simple list tweet)
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“Entitled? Don’t you mean to say I’m not in control of the fruits?”
“Sure. You’re not in control of the fruits of-”
“But you said entitled! And many translations all use the word entitled!”
“Yes, you’re not entitled to-”
“Well which is it??”
“What difference does it make??”
Forth ❤️🔥 retweeted
this is the sort of point i associate with @visakanv, i still think it hasn’t been properly priced in. everything you post online is a bat signal to other people who are into the stuff you’re into, the long tail of opportunities this opens up is wild. vibecamp itself started as a joke on twitter iirc. our social instincts by default are calibrated to smaller and relatively fixed groups of people where judgment and opprobrium matter more, on the internet you can practically summon new friends, collaborators, etc. from the ether. the more honest you can be about what you’re into the more refined and accurate the signal you’re sending is
the vibecamp-esque mix of friendly open earnestness is partly, i claim, a kind of evolutionary adaptation to which social traits pay off to cultivate in the internet age. being a fake asshole is genuinely just less interesting and enables fewer interesting connections
Didn't attend all the Vibechella lightning talks but I remember @QiaochuYuan saying something to the effect of "The upside to being yourself online is very high" and I've been thinking about that a lot