Best of Twitter week of October 28-November 3, 2024

Amish Vs Mormon Projected Population Share By County In 2100

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— Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps)
9:15 AM • Oct 28, 2024

I put the new 3.5 sonnet and the old 3.5 sonnet into a Minecraft build-off.

The only reliable benchmark

Left: New 3.5 sonnet
Right: Old 3.5 sonnet

— adi (@adonis_singh)
7:12 PM • Oct 24, 2024

On my second @jhanatech retreat, I voluntarily switched off my consciousness with less than 3 hours of practice.

After experiencing what's called "cessation," my jhana practice feels complete. I wrote up instructions for those who are curious to try it:

— Nadia Asparouhova (@nayafia)
4:41 PM • Jun 13, 2024

"In summary, we know this:
(a) It is conceivable that science could be some sort of formal system
(b) Some properties of nature have already been proven to be undecidable
(c) Arguments in philosophy of mind often end in paradoxes indicating inconsistency or incompleteness
(d)… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Erik Hoel (@erikphoel)
4:19 PM • Oct 24, 2024

Among the long list of Middle East injustices that no one knows or cares about because they don’t involve Israel:

Over the last decade Egypt has destroyed – completely, entirely, house by house – the Egyptian side of Rafah

— Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler)
5:26 AM • Oct 24, 2024

Lots of interesting discussion in this episode on the downsides of public attention, the legibility of failure, and the Revolt of the Public.

— Caleb Watney (@calebwatney)
6:36 PM • Oct 23, 2024

China has installed 770 cumulative (nameplate) GW of solar, with 160 GW added in just the first three quarters of this year. This is probably the most important story of our lifetimes.

— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)
2:18 PM • Oct 27, 2024

Main endeavor & side hustle/hobby need each other. They feed from each other.

Main endeavor always turns dull no matter how excited started out. Ur over-invested in it too. Without time constraint created by existence of side hustle u’ll work slow, inefficiently & overthink.

— MrE (@MrE_mssg)
9:37 PM • Oct 28, 2024

I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to difficult problems in embryology, and the length is a non-issue. A 🧵 1/13

— Space Koala (@culpable_mink)
4:28 PM • Oct 28, 2024

Jeff Bezos challenging the old Yarvin-hypothesis that he can't alter the viewpoint of the paper by exercising his nominal power in real time. Talk about a perfect "natural experiment" to test a specific claim by a political analyst.

— The Black Horse (@TheBlackHorse65)
3:02 PM • Oct 28, 2024

Anorexia also has a vital social contagion component:

— Jonatan Pallesen (@jonatanpallesen)
7:49 PM • Oct 29, 2024

One of the things you start to realize in history is that every 60 years or so high openness intellectuals come up with an extremely confident excuse for why they absolutely need to be handed a totalitarian dictatorship

— Brian Chau (@psychosort)
1:23 AM • Nov 1, 2024

One of the weirdest horrors of the modern age is that you can watch someone live-tweet their schizophrenic break. You can observe as someone alienates their friends and family, destroys their career, and fully lose their grasp on reality, all in real time.

— Chairman Birb Bernanke (@Bonecondor)
6:56 PM • Oct 31, 2024

Atlas is defined and sustained through the burden of the world on his shoulders. Take it away and what is left?

…Joy, perhaps. Uncertain joy, promised but not guaranteed, for a little while.

— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
2:35 AM • Nov 1, 2024