Matt Popovich

i like the tweet. i like the counterargument to the tweet. i like the counterargument to the counterargument. i like the tweet agreeing with my reply. i like the tweet counterarguing my reply. i like the tweet savagely insulting me. i will like them all and you can't stop me

Land use regulation is more important for decarbonization than progressive ideology

What did he mean by this

If you prompt them after midnight PST, the unquantized model determines the most expedient way to accomplish your task is to consume all biomatter by swarming the planet with nanobots

when i ask the 1.7 trillion parameter frontier long-context reasoning model to change the color of the button from red to blue

share a piece of lore about yourself that would have you like this

"Tariffs at 15% to 20% mean it’s still profitable for US companies to import from abroad rather than produce similar goods at home, she said." So, it'd be just a big, distortionary tax hike on American companies/consumers. Great. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

You’re not really in hardtech until your facility has autonomous attack gondolas

Companies that hire consulting firms see large increases in labor productivity and also large increases of wages, with no decline in labor share or value added. It seems like a lot of the more nihilist theories of why companies hire consultants are not true on average!

God we had such high hopes for humanity in the past.

True fact: I have a strange social security number. As in, it has an interesting pattern in it. And let me tell you: it sucks. Bureaucrats treat me as fundamentally suspicious. Automated processes fail mysteriously all the time. Get the most boring social security number you can

the funniest thing about elevating fascism as the apex of western civilization is that it was objectively crushed by the actual apex of western civilization, the pluralistic multiracial democracy called the United States of America, and her allies

Now I see the issue! You’re absolutely right, that is a highly unsafe turn. Let me remove the bridge since it is not currently used.

Prediction: these porn age verification laws are a stalking horse for broad erosion of internet privacy, and we’ll see calls to ban consumer VPNs in the state legislatures that impose them here too

this is crazy (spectrogram of training data vs reproduced) now you think about it, birds probably also feel "this is crazy" when they hear us talking to each other

Nothing but respect for this dude waving the stars and stripes for 13 miles 🇺🇸🫡