John Potter 🌐🩸 e/acc
@jjohnpotter
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Mfw someone asks me what I actually do as a "startup consultant"
Software guys need to continue bootstrapping more to funnel investments into physical things
Cope IDF has longer mandatory service and a much stronger startup scene Mormons also do 2 year missions and are over represented in startups
mandatory military service screws korea bad smartest kids in the country get put in a room to do jumping jacks for a year it forces an insanely limited mindset on what u can accomplish since infancy americans are rlly fucking fat but this is the best country in the world
These trees are great but when are we getting to the forest??
If AI gets smart enough to do all the work it would definitely be smart enough to figure out some human flourishing
The AI people are delusional. "We'll just give people UBI, they won't have to work." As if we didn't run a mass unemployment w/govt check simulator in 2020 where everyone went insane.
It’s a wonderful life but the angel has to spend the whole time convincing him that posting takes on Twitter is worth living for
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it If it is broke also don’t fix it
new type of ideology where we just yap endlessly about things and don't solve the Problem
In the far future regular people will think aella was an accurate representation of American society generally like how we focus on Roman excess and forget what society at large was like
We must save the Amazon tribes from high carb lifestyle
“I don’t play those status games. I invent new and even more trite status games and then brag about how unimpressed I am by your status games.”
We’re going to need lots of polls for this one
how many people fall in love everyday? i wish there was a way to actually quantify this but it also satisfies me deeply that it actually is impossible there is some numbers we can just never ascertain, we'll never have a dataset for new lovers per day a beautiful mystery
i love that the seminal AI paper that changed machine learning is called 'attention is all you need', because the title is just deeply true, even before the technical content i’m always saying attention is the root of devotion, of love, of magic turns out, also transformers
“The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out” You need to be schizomaxing
Grok's companion psychosis is mild compared to AI doomers psychosis.
I am team human Shrimp must not be given an inch beyond what is convenient for humans Attention and empathy are limited and focusing on shrimp is evil
Accelerate
There's always money in predicting doom. Al Gore has made a living off it since he lost the election. Yudkowsky is paying his bills from it right now.
This is the mean twitter anon
just ran over my dog and feeling cute. thought i might face doxx
thank you if i go to jail can you plz organize a gofundme
If you want something done right you gotta do it yourself
went to high school with this girl who had beautiful straight teeth asked her who her orthodontist was & she told me she PULLED her teeth with her fingers into alignment …