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Best of Twitter week of October 14-20, 2024
Hi everyone,
As always, comments/corrections appreciated!
Any discussion of Mesoamerican archaeology has to be mindful that this one guy - Brigído Lara - managed to forge around 40,000 ceramic objects, manufactured so perfectly they fooled museum curators and researchers for decades.
— Stone Age Herbalist (@Paracelsus1092)
12:28 PM • Oct 15, 2024
The future expands the variance of human condition a lot more than it drags its mean. This is an empirical observation with interesting extrapolations.
The past is well-approximated as a population of farmers, living similar lives w.r.t. upbringing, knowledge, activities,… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy)
7:09 AM • Oct 16, 2024
^ progress is real
Stratified by race, only 1.6 percent of POC were illiterate. Now, 38.5% of Black or African American students are below or well below the early literacy benchmark.
— 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 (@HarmfulOpinion)
3:35 PM • Oct 18, 2024
^ ?????????????
btw I've started having doubts about near-term transformative AGI. Timelines up to 2035 or 2040 seem plausible (my mainline scenario is ≤2028 still).
We have scant theory of human scientific genius and near zero reliable data on its inner operation. «A genius is just a… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
8:46 PM • Oct 20, 2024
^ “flawless mediocrity is not genius.”
I am sorry. What?
— Russ Greene (@GreenPlusAnE)
5:10 PM • Oct 22, 2024
The description of Elon’s very first all hands meeting with the Twitter staff is insane. They all thought he was a moron after.
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj)
8:29 PM • Oct 19, 2024
^ respect
Wrote a new essay, reflecting on my time at Palantir:
— Nabeel S. Qureshi (@nabeelqu)
8:00 PM • Oct 15, 2024
In a new study examining people with opioid or alcohol use disorder, prescriptions for Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Trulicity were associated with 40% lower rates of hospitalizations for heroin overdose…
— STAT (@statnews)
1:26 PM • Oct 17, 2024
French cuffs and cuff links could be part of a new McDonalds uniform that gives people some pride in making really good fries. This could coincide with reintroducing beef tallow in place of seed oils.
Seriously though - Americans ate McDonalds for years without becoming obese.
— FischerKing (@FischerKing64)
12:17 AM • Oct 21, 2024
^ photo of the year? also see insightful replies to this tweet
Have a great week!
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