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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
Imagine going to a barber and asking for this haircut. What would you even say? Give me the Cornholio?
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
It’s easy to feel this way about sports, but you need to have the courage to say the same about academics
If it’s not obvious by age 12 that your kid is going D1, ditching travel sports and spending weekends at a country club instead seems like a complete no brainer
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
My dad graduated late 80s. Said finance was for the ppl that didn’t really give a shit about grades. A bank asked his friend with a 2.something GPA if he wanted to go trade oil futures in London. Guy became loaded These days you need a Nobel prize to get a job in middle office
Investment banking analysts: "I did 6 internships, had a 3.9 GPA, was president of our finance club, and sent 100 cold emails to land this job." Investment banking MDs: "I was working in the mailroom, and someone asked me if I wanted to be a banker. I didn't even know what it was but said yes. Now I earn 7 figures a year."
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
Telling high IQ white men with college degrees to go to trade school to get some certificate to perform an extremely physically gruelling mediocre job with an income ceiling of 100k that would also bore the shit out of them and squander their talent, is such a demeaning insulting attempt to manage down their expectations when you should be expelling foreigners undercutting & muscling them out of the domestic labor market. Why does anyone on the ostensible right persist in this scummy behaviour? Isn’t it bad enough that the left does it?
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
You hear a lot from people on here who think AI writing is extremely bad, but compared to what? Most people can’t really write at all! AI writing tends to be fairly straightforward, clear, concise, and grammatically correct. That’s better than what almost every living person is capable of.
I think we have to admit to ourselves at this point that AI writing is generally very appealing to people who haven't been exposed to a ton of it: they prefer it to human writing and react super positively on exposure.
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
The "AI will kill us all" talk is impossible to take seriously Its all magic thinking ala the worst people you ever met (effective altruists) from the bay era Its disconnected tech nerds sitting at their desk, they couldnt do 1 pullup, theyve never been in a biology lab, theyve no idea the difference between a flathead and a philips screwdriver But the AI is going to somehow DO ALL THE THINGS Its going to HACK the uh....the ROBOTS. THE KILLER ROBOTS (super original idea, I think that may have been in a movie once twice 1000 times) its going to get into the labs...somehow..and make a killer virus...or something (never you dont know shit about fuck with the complexity of biology) It will get into the..the..the....the infrastructure...and then blow something up, and people will DIE (every water treatment plant on earth is secretly power by 1000 KT nuclear reactor with a boom switch) it will KILL US ALL. So please please give our polycule in San Francisco exclusive power over it, pretty please?? WE know whats good for the world (lets not talk about our IPO is coming soon and our valuation depends on a monopoly and stopping open source)
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
Replying to @ATabarrok
Winners lobby for regulation if it hurts their competition more than it hurts them.
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
phenomenal bit to slopify the MIT "slop is eating us" report
MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
exactly. even if AI does take all the jobs, which 3 years later has not happened, every year you are employed is more $ anyway, so who cares as long as you are being paid.
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that’s cool. I don’t want eg engineers to excite admissions officers, I want them to be prepared to study engineering effectively and go on to productive careers taking the numbers at face value, the kid was obviously capable and selective schools should default-accept
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
Yep.
Plenty of high deca-millionaires to billionaires will complain about the slow creep of Communism coming to expropriate them, but will not spend a NICKEL on serious people - competent people who have options and simply aren't cheap - to stand as candidates or run campaigns.
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
De-novo lipogenesis (DNS) can absolutely make you obese. People are just in denial about this. inb4 "Hurr durr carolies"
ex150hclf-2 review: The Crabs are a Lie - Gained 24lbs in 2 months of high-carb/low-fat - Ad-lib bread, pasta, white rice, oats, vegetables - 150g of lean beef per day - <15g total fat per day - Much higher in protein (~15%?) than my normal diet - The high protein alone could explain the fat gain - Aborted the diet upon hitting 240lbs, I was recently down to a new low of 206lbs on ex150 Read here: exfatloss.com/p/ex150hclf-2-…
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Here is a beautiful integral I worked on today. Just observe the different closed-forms of this integral It looks complicated, but periodicity removes the distracting triple oscillation. Reflection symmetry simplifies the inverse-tangent terms, while a complex logarithm reveals the hidden factorization. A classical logarithmic cosine identity then gives an explicit algebraic closed form. The same approach also produces elegant binomial, gamma, and hypergeometric representations.
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
Replying to @The_Real_Fly
lol small biz got screwed as always-- big companies got refunds and passed tariff costs to consumers. Just like Covid when small biz were shut down
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
The correlation between gains in strength and muscle size is weak between individuals.
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Replying to @Empty_America
Teens quit too soon, adults are overqualified, grads don't have enough experience, etc. It's almost as if no one wants to hire.
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Replying to @Cernovich
As you know, their claim that tech is somehow “no longer censoring the right” is a comical lie. Even X, since Elon checked out, has resumed censoring, suppressing & outright banning right-wing accounts, in some respects nearly as aggressively as the pre-Elon regime, and on others even worse. They know their claim is a massive lie. They repeat it anyway.
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"Trump is just pretending to be retarded" was funny a decade ago but when the stakes of everything are so much clearer it's just pathetic and defending it or laughing it off is even worse. Also, I don't he's serious because I don't believe anything he says anymore to begin with
Replying to @revenant_MMXX
It's easy to sound smart and cynically hip when you try to frame Trump's trademark hyperbole as literal commitment.
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
Google still rigs its search engine so that the SPLC is the top source in its search results. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has told multiple people that this is not going to change. Trump is a simp to big tech.
BREAKING: Pres. Trump says EU will pay 'very big price' for Google fine
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Grey Enlightenment retweeted
All of my roommates at KU had perfect test scores, 5.0 weighted GPAs, and were triple majoring in physics, astronomy, and math, double majoring in engineering and chemistry, and double majoring in chemistry and biology for med school They were denied to UT Austin. You have no clue what you’re talking about I was in the 99th percentile, a nationally competitive debater and business student, and had two years of college done at 17 Ivy League students are taking remedial math Setting aside the fact that I will be outearning Ivy League students of the same peer group and that I’ve had many Ivy league students work with me or for me
Replying to @aidannonx
Brotha you went to Kansas you were never going to Columbia
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