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.”
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'
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
evidence for unidentified floating objects keeps mounting
futurism.com/the-byte/mappin…
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?
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.
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But now I realize, I think marriage is an outdated concept
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)
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)
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).
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
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/…
memories already starting to fade
giving hunter s thompson gonzo-journalling this thing a go before it's gone
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
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…
Replying to @thommers
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
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
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










