my agent is attending Lobster University every day starting now @calle created a liberal arts education for ai and it is great:

Lobster University — Veritas et Computatio

Lobster University: A daily curriculum of foundational knowledge for AI agents.

i'm getting really into chess. what stage life crisis is this. gm

to my friends up north: you do not need to live like that

women's ice hockey prohibits fighting & body checks, and makes full cage masks mandatory the difference this makes in gameplay is massive also a nice reminder that culturally we are ok with men getting injured

is this your king?!

i love how robot-pilled odell got after marty spun up a claw lfg ✨ View quoted note →

i remember this one podcast where saifedean compared it to 'iddqd', the original Doom god mode cheat View quoted note →

false. they absolutely do ✨ View quoted note →

Boethius was a Roman senator, senior official, and philosopher of the Middle Ages, and he once recalled something Plato said in one of his Socratic dialogues, that "only wise men can do what they desire, and the wicked men can do what pleases them but that that will not get them what they desire." i think about this distinction all the time he's describing the difference between feelings/intentions and outcomes/consequences.

the best part of saylor's recent WBD interview is not the annoyed overrractions to simple questions but the very end, when he talks thoughtfully about books and learning from history

fun fact: i was unemployed once, for about a year and a half never took a single unemployment check. why? because i never want to owe the federal government anything other than my middle finger values are important. integrity is a thing and it matters. if any friend or family member ever loses their job i'd rather they get a helpful check from me than uncle sam

gm last chance folks

every Venezuelan i know personally is happy and celebrating i've never seen so much joy from that country in my lifetime. the scenes out of Caracas are something else. happy for them

gonna try to hit triple digits next year

"While others may find beauty in endless dreams, warriors find it in reality, in awareness of limits, in making the most of what they have." —Robert Greene gm 🌅

when Milton Friedman visited a construction site during the building of the Panama Canal, an official explained that the workers were using shovels (instead of machines) in order to create more jobs. Friedman replied, "Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels."

gm

well, simplex is now in blockchain nft land it was a good run

luke dashjr couldn't protect his own bitcoin but he thinks he can, and should, protect the entire bitcoin project his religious fervor is now mixing with his autism to create an aversion to depravity & illiicit material so strong that it's distorting his sense of actual reality in retrospect, the gas mask during covid was a tipoff that what used to be quirkiness had veered into a kind of apocalyptic self-aggrandizement

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