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post vibecamp pipeline

Amsterdam
Joined December 2011
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I’m calling it now, the new FAANG is going to be Facebook, Apple, Pornhub (FAP)
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. openai.com/sora Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”
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is it just me or are questions on quora like a big game of jeopardy with the clue 'no, because a carrier never travels without a carrier battle group'
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flamingos in zoos have their wings clipped to prevent them from escaping their unclipped offspring never learn they can fly, so they don't life in a nutshell
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dry january but dry like in the weather app
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next hour will be dry (not saying it won’t rain btw, just that it might not rain)
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reach the ‘in popular culture’ section of a Wikipedia article realize it references the exact passage in the book that made me look up the article (which I completely forgot ofc) why aren’t all sidetracks like this?
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Thomas (unchained) retweeted
If there’s one thing the LK-99 saga indicates it’s that we can certainly come up with complex status economies to incentivize people in a post abundance era. Bragging rights is all you need.
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I always heard it’s easy to marry a pretty girl when you’re rich. I was like that’s not true, all the pretty girls I meet, I don’t want to marry. But now I realize, I think marriage is an outdated concept
i always heard it’s easy to marry rich if ur pretty. i was like that’s not true, all the rich guys i meet, i don’t want to marry! but now i realize, no yeah, it would be *incredibly* easy for me to marry rich; but that doesn’t mean they’d be mentally or emotionally compatible
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music-generating AI capability I'm looking forward to generating similar music from a single example never again the agony of discovering a banger from a new artist and finding out they only ever made one album (or all their other tracks are shite)
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they should invent rechargeable phones, so expensive to buy a new one every day
ruined my python environment time to buy a new computer
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this excellent advice I will choose to ignore
here’s my unsolicited take on gear acquisition syndrome: if you find yourself feeling creatively uninspired, add more constraints, not more options only when you consistently find yourself wishing you had a very specific ability should you buy more gear
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wish someone came up with a phrase for this phenomenon as snappy as The Current Thing
shoutout to “I am incapable of modelling the motivations of my outgroup”, gotta be one of the top 10 ingroup rallying cries
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ever since I read that queen Elizabeth had all here shoes broken in by someone else I’ve strictly bought thrifted shoes (if you wonder why I have such royal vibes)
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Was thinking of the word ‘social battery’ as the basis of a hypothetical woo theory. Social battery is a very intuitive metaphor for a facet of your inner state you may not recognize otherwise. It’s not a real thing inside you though (obv).
one thing ive been easing my views on that i never thought i would is astrology still not a fan, and not something i have any personal use for, but i see the utility it has in giving people the questions they may need to ask themselves and words for their emotions
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Imagine you would claim social batteries drains faster in cold temps because batteries are affected by temp and start basing your schedule on the weather forecast. Call it temperology. And now ppl who know it’s obv bullshit get into temperology and will say stuff like
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‘but it helps me get insights into myself’. Ofc it does, because the battery metaphor is very powerful. You don’t need the incorrect causal explanation for that at all. You also probably gain less mileage from it if you think you do. This is what astrology feels like to me.
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Whenever my cat sleeps and she makes these cute little moans I imagine her dreaming of swimming in a sea of cat food just infinitely happy Too bad she doesn’t have consciousness
Which entities have consciousness? Survey of 232 consciousness scientists with different backgrounds (e.g., philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, computer science) academic.oup.com/nc/article/…
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memories already starting to fade giving hunter s thompson gonzo-journalling this thing a go before it's gone
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every time I cross the camping grounds at night somewhere someone is doing some circus-like shit with fire or led really adding to the trippy atmosphere love it make a note to get myself a light whip would love to do the fire thing too, but I would kill myself sooner or later
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was going to delete this tweet for being too negative but as I was writing this thread I got notification from substack: new post from hanson titled 'defy your neckhairs' I feel like I had to keep it in now teapawt.net/thommers/status/167121…
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watch robin hanson being interviewed am a paying overcoming bias subscriber, for a reason, but always found 90% unbearable/10% gold turns out this effect is amplified irl can't scroll irl tho, leave as my patience runs dry after 20 minutes bummed out this was my first event
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outfit looks absolutely ridiculous but still furiously wish I could go even more extra note the irony of the contrast with the first time I wore that kilt in public 15+yrs ago it's poetic in a way
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dance the night away still unchained by prev night aella party end the night sitting with @hamish_doodles and cowboy guy (forgot handle) talked about being in character is cool and we should give each other permission to do so early in the event
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