Best of Twitter week of December 16-22, 2024

10% of food stamp money goes to sugary beverages

That’s $12B/yr more than the entire budget of the NSF or 50% of NASA’s budget

— the Rich (@Duderichy)
4:36 AM • Nov 16, 2024

2. Progress in the prevention of HIV

The twice-yearly injectable, Lenacapavir, is 95-100% effective to prevent HIV:

— Samuel Hume (@SamuelBHume)
5:25 PM • Dec 17, 2024

Now that everyone knows about o3, and imminent AGI is considered plausible, I’d like to walk through some of the AI policy implications I see.

— Yo Shavit (@yonashav)
2:13 AM • Dec 22, 2024

Observation 3: AIs should not own assets. “Humans remaining in control” is a technical challenge, but it’s also a legal challenge. IANAL, but it seems to me that a lot will depend on courts’ decision on whether fully-autonomous corporations can be full legal persons (and thus… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Yo Shavit (@yonashav)
2:13 AM • Dec 22, 2024

if you’re smart, pivot to being cool/hot

— Apoorva (@apoorvasriniva)
10:51 PM • Dec 20, 2024

Viktor Frankl: lots of people don’t need therapy, they just need to make a practical change, e.g. different job.

— Henry Oliver (@HenryEOliver)
8:42 PM • Dec 19, 2024

This is my favorite bit of forbidden knowledge about St. Mandela. The NYT obituary is especially choice—his org’s activities involved only “occasional acts of terrorism against civilians.” After all, what’s the occasional act of terrorism among friends? web.archive.org/web/2024120511…

— Michael Hartl (@mhartl)
5:42 AM • Dec 20, 2024

After 25.3 million autonomous miles driven, @Waymo vehicles have an 88% reduction in property damage claims and a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims compared to human drivers per mile driven. 🚖

— Jeff Dean (@JeffDean)
7:22 AM • Dec 20, 2024

here’s a list of nobel prize winners who experimented on themselves. literally some of the greatest medical breakthroughs were due to self experimentation —something that’s too taboo to be published now.

— Apoorva (@apoorvasriniva)
7:44 PM • Nov 11, 2024

🔐🔄

— Sulla (@ichthys30)
8:53 PM • Dec 16, 2024

Addendum: if you think you'll be sovereign with your lil solar powered compound because muh AGI and nanotechnology make everything super-productive, you're too clever by half; productivity growth implies every "free" resource (incl sunlight) becomes fully utilized, thus not free x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
7:07 AM • Dec 16, 2024