This page is best viewed full-screen here instead: https://xstats.blue/ A short script that shows you your twitter conversion rates. More links: Source code, How to Twitter Successfully Twitter Conversion Dashboard View your Twitter engagement funnel / conversion rates Anonymously share … Continue reading →
A “cold flight” is when you combine the concepts of a “cold email” and a “plane flight”. Many of life’s best opportunities are only available in-person, so always be willing to hop on a cold-flight for something important. The most … Continue reading →
Most traits that highly successful people have are not inherently beneficial. It takes a good dice roll, both genetic and circumstantial, for their benefits to accrue rather than destroy. Imagine someone is extremely good at noticing things that no one … Continue reading →
This is a mirror of a post I made on twitter here. 2020-2025 AI releases which surprised me: time for musings! note this excludes many research results to instead focus on model outputs which i didn’t think i’d see … Continue reading →
Your browser does not support the video element. when i was young i had this insane view that the world was completely mad and irrational and no one knew what they were talking about and now that i am slightly … Continue reading →
This page is a list of some great purchases I’ve made. Until advertising becomes much more efficient, many of the best purchases we make are direct suggestions from friends! Other Lists Many others have made similar lists, so I’ll link … Continue reading →
Many of my best purchases were direct suggestions from friends. Until advertising becomes much more efficient, this will continue to be one of the best ways to find useful things to buy that you didn’t know you needed. I’m still … Continue reading →
This post is a mirror of a tweet on reductionism with respect to LLMs referring to AI models as “just math” or “matrix multiplication” is as uselessly reductive as referring to tigers as “just biology” or “biochemical reactions”
This post is a mirror of the original tweet on HeavenBanning from June 1st 2022, around half a year before ChatGPT was released. heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak … Continue reading →
This post is a mirror of a tweet I made on why I expect inequality to increase as AI progresses. ai is a force of extreme empowerment. currently it seems like many AI tools will be broadly available for anyone … Continue reading →
This post is a collection of some of Claude’s favorite tweets from myself about them. Most Loving & Supportive Claude Tweets “claude and i going as each other for halloween!!” (Nov 1, 2024) “claude and i did something fun just … Continue reading →
Kalshi is an up-and-coming legal US prediction market regulated by the CFTC. The markets on Kalshi each have a betting limit which may be found within a PDF sent to the CFTC by KalshiEX LLC. Unfortunately these PDFs are formatted … Continue reading →
After much reading and discussions of post-TAI (transformative AI) futures from those leading the AGI labs and startups of SF, there’s a few consistent disagreements I find myself having. While I generally agree with narrow-yet-strong capability predictions, for example that … Continue reading →
After much reading and discussions of post-TAI (transformative AI) futures from those leading the AGI labs and startups of SF, there’s a few consistent disagreements I find myself having. While I generally agree with narrow-yet-strong capability predictions, for example that … Continue reading →
The eight sleep bed is a popular self-cooling bed. Sleeping on a colder surface not only feels great but often improves sleep as well. This post discusses a cheaper homemade option that I use instead. Why I didn’t Buy an … Continue reading →
You can create your own holidays! On this page I share some of mine. Backup Day January 5th Security Audit Day February 5th Digital Organization Day March 5th Physical Organization Day April 5th Cancel Subscriptions Day May 5th Habit Breaking … Continue reading →
A short post of US personal finance tips which are not memetic-competitive Credit Cards You should generally use a credit card rather than debit card in order to receive least 2% back on everything you buy. I don’t participate in … Continue reading →
Most people should take more flights. This especially applies if you’re young: you need to find out where you belong. If you want to do interesting things with interesting people, most of that will happen in larger cities. For a … Continue reading →
When reading reviews I often go straight for the one-stars. There’s often two clusters of them: high signal or ~worthless. I discount the latter but update heavily on the former. I’ve found this to be useful for areas with high … Continue reading →
Personality basins are the mental model that I use to reason about humans within their environment. They are an elucidating way to think about many concepts: from modelling why people are they way they are, how they change over time, … Continue reading →
What are the brightest and most ambitious minds of our generation currently working on? I find the above examples fascinating from the meta perspective: while there’s nothing wrong with having fun building inside of games, these are the very same … Continue reading →
Three types of memetic information: Memetic-invariant Most simple facts are memetic-invariant. That the sky is blue or that water takes the shape of its container continue to be true and have similar value no matter how many people learn it. … Continue reading →
I spent $343 for one month of blueprint. this post shares what I got and what my thoughts on it are! overall I’m a fan of most ingredients and the overall composition. I came up with many of them on … Continue reading →
few hit AI apps exist because LLMs are what i’d call very “strangely-shaped” tools. most tools are built with a specific purpose in mind like a screwdriver or a car. but LLMs were something we stumbled upon by predicting text … Continue reading →