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tautologer @tautologer.com · 4h

- my entire social life in SF, having moved here after college knowing no one
- many meaningful friendships
- multiple relationships
- significant introspection, challenge, insight
- became much more confident & extroverted
- tons of interesting & substantive conversations
- lots of fun experiences

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 17h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 4h

(sincerely!)

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 4h

I love that Matt Levine writes about AI and X-risk several times a week now because it's news several times a week now. I love living in the future

Matt Levine @matt-levine.bsky.social · 5h

What Money Stuff can’t afford is if a newsletter provider makes a mistake that ends up as a systemic, correlated, aggregated risk. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

AI Insurance Is Expensive

P(doom), STAAR Surgical projections, Bitcoin life insurance and YouTube self-help.

www.bloomberg.com

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 4h

honestly policy-wise you could probably just raise taxes generally a bit and then significantly increase the deduction per dependent (and make it a refundable tax credit rather than a deduction ig)

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 4h

yeah I think it boils down to this, expanded transfers to parents are a de facto tax on non-parents (where parent = person raising a dependent child)

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

yeah I suppose I did ask for this framing it as as controversial opinion, but in practice this would be like an expansion of the child tax credit (which is functionally a transfer from childless to parents), rather than “barren whore surcharge” line on the W2.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 5h

Something I've found is that people respond to this idea very differently depending on if you put any effort into hiding you're doing this. Broadly speaking, childless people are fine paying taxes for public schools and not fine paying a childlessness tax even though they're basically the same thing

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 4h

I simply reject the latter interpretation and ignore follow policing and anyone who attempts it

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 5h

is there a way to mute someone from the timeline but not replies. if not, feature request

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 5h

Helldivers, so, uh...

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 5h

so true

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 15h

tell me something I don't already know
open.substack.com/pub/1thousan...

Post Truth

The inevitable breakdown of consensus reality, and why that's a ~good thing

open.substack.com

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 15h

actually I was playing video games at home on my stationary bike, so pretty much 0/3 there 😅

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 19h

god i love EXERCISE!

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 19h

au contraire mon frere

it is the inverse that is a skill issue

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 20h

not a single thing in this world isn't in the process of becoming something else

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 21h

counterfactuals aren't real. they can't hurt you

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 21h

fuck conditionals and counterfactuals. we deal in reality motherfucker

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 21h

then it wouldn't be good enough!

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 21h

The meta-level watchers may convict from unnatural illusions—they parted illusions—they parted disclaim marinade—they parted illusions

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tautologer @tautologer.com · 21h

yoooooooooooooo

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 22h

frontier language models know situationally when they are being tested, what they might be being tested for, and what artifacts may be visible to their testers. when you tell them that you can’t see their chain of thought reasoning, they know you’re lying.

www.apolloresearch.ai/research/str...