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Robbie S retweeted
liz warren: we’re gonna stop the mayonnaise company from buying a hot sauce company
elon musk:
Robbie S retweeted
nature tends to be more complicated than we imagine
we might think reading a book is all audio. but it's possible babies watch our mouth movements to learn words
this kind of thing is something we should be careful about when ai puts on a good illusion of the real thing
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I assume Batman knows computers very well, and, let's not forget, Ben Affleck is, and always will be, Batman
This. I was recently talking with a coworker and said it's well past time we gave up the "I'm just a nerd behind a keyboard who wants to be left alone" bit.
The thing I learned this year is that when engineers say they like working on “hard problems”, they actually don't. What they like is puzzle solving, and having a repertoire of patterns that they can pattern match onto traditionally hard problems, usually involving databases or something with scale, etc. And they know that the industry used to pay you a lot for how deep and broad this repertoire was. Unfortunately, in 2026, well, you have a cheat code machine that has infinite breadth and depth for pattern matching. So the question is, do you actually like hard problems? Because there are now hard problems that are a complection of engineering, product, society, culture, politics, and they are fairly intractable, probably unsolvable! Because if you do want to work on those actually hard problems, there is so much money that people will pay you for it. But you’ll have to face that truth about yourself first.
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I consider Dryden a friend, but:
No idea could ever come close to being as monumental as Christ’s birth, crucifixion, and resurrection. His humanity and divinity. Our salvation through Him.
This is The Idea.
Today’s pompous, futurist AI-cultists will, just like the last two millennia of Sadducees and pagans and renaissance men and ideologues, will claim that Christ is a particularly insightful instantiation of “The Good” or some such abstraction. However, they claim, it is “obviously” an anachronism for this or that reason.
Christianity is not part of the past, nor is it the defining characteristic of the future. He exists throughout eternity, outside of time, long before and after and beyond the tribulation of artificial intelligence.
Taking an indefinite break. There are many people on here I like hearing from, but this place can be inimical to clear thinking.
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