Best of Twitter week of September 23-29, 2024

the world has entered its spacepunk era

— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma)
9:17 PM • Sep 14, 2024

This is why scaling compute will keep architectural work surprisingly irrelevant, and prolong the Vaswani age:

A man tinkering with inductive biases cannot possibly exceed the adaptive complexity of information transforms that a large Transformer can learn and bake into data.

— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
5:36 AM • Sep 27, 2024

wtf I love Eric Adams now

— Zarathustra (@zarathustra5150)
5:38 PM • Sep 27, 2024

underrated how much of the rise of modern business in the 20th century can be attributed to the creation of "general management". the idea that mgmt is a context independent skill that can be trained and transferred  

new industries deny this (tech) and then fold to it.

— Will Manidis (@WillManidis)
9:16 PM • Sep 24, 2024

The Chinese Indian border where they skirt around peace agreements by using medieval weapons and armor instead of guns is insane and can’t believe there’s not more videos of it online

— ornstein (@poopswag34)
8:15 PM • Sep 23, 2024

we are in the last instance of social mobility before class distinctions solidify into a set of production-owning aristocracy and a well-fed but aimless underclass

everyone intelligent i know is aware of this fact and trying to move into the upper class before the window of… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— sanje horah (@sanjehorah)
2:51 PM • Sep 24, 2024

Stuff like this is why I say Zuck has the makings of a great statesman, LKY tier. He kept pushing with Reality Labs and Metaverse for decades, in the face of mounting costs, ridicule by snarky peons, stack changes. And now he shall seize this market.
That's how you run empires.

— Teortaxes▶️ (@teortaxesTex)
1:54 AM • Sep 26, 2024

pretty wild: a woman with amygdala damage was ~literally fearless, so doctors are like "hm what if we make you breathe a lot of CO2, probably won't bother you" but whoops "this was the first time patient SM experienced fear in any setting...since childhood"

— Lucre Snooker (@LucreSnooker)
6:17 PM • Jun 16, 2024

oh my god. @gwern was right, *again*:

— Jacques (@JacquesThibs)
7:52 PM • Sep 25, 2024

Consistently amused how often spiritual teachers turn out to be running abusive sex cults while aggro hedge fund guys are happily married to their high school sweetheart and coaching kids soccer on weekends

— Jake (@JLBornstein)
10:33 AM • Sep 26, 2024

Freud was greatly over-rated in his own time/is greatly under-rated in ours.

Contributions Standing Test Of Time
1)Inborn instincts
2)Unconscious motivations
3)Importance childhood experience
4)Repetition compulsion
5)Tranference
6)Defenses
7)Talk therapy
tapmagazine.org/all-articles/r…

— Allen Frances (@AllenFrancesMD)
11:18 AM • Sep 25, 2024