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my dream is browser extension that adds a second tagline to lesswrong posts saying either "tokenize this post!" or "funded by XXX" so that people can sell expensive certificates of impact more easily forum.effectivealtruism.org/po

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okay time to try to figure out how to make NFTs

i guess i will stare at this for a bit and if im less completely lost and confused at the end of the day that would be nice
developers.tezos.com/

In this world of increasingly rapid progress, it's nice to know that some things never change - like pictures of the king hitting a foreigner on the head with a mace: patrickwyman.substack.com/p/eg

A couple times an hour my electricity returns for 5 minutes or so and I spring into action — sending emails, downloading lectures, heating lunch

It's like a reverse Pomodoro

@isaiah hmmmm

one of my thoughts is like "really high, if you want to make a bet on it i'll totally give you $1:$1000 odds and at that point my utility wrt to money goes nonlinear"

the other is "a -statement- being -logically coherent-" sounds like a fact about the map, like logical coherence is maybe a made up thing we just use to help us think, and it's like asking "what is the probability all hotdogs are sandwiches"

Now that I've read John Dies at the End next up on Makin's shill list is the visual novel Ever17

“Everyone is an expert on epidemiology and economics all of a sudden” is about what you would expect if everyone had remote access to all the world’s written knowledge on epidemiology and economics

What this might bottom down in is a lot of redditors paying a large fee in order to facilitate a transfer of money from a careless hedge fund to some more careful hedge funds.

But maybe they're all staying away from this because it's too messy, evidenced by e.g. that various retail trader exchanges are actually halting trading instead of letting people do what they want

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Is there a big hedge fund gladly selling GameStop shares for a few hundred dollars or are things still in the AAAAAA stage

You gotta think if you get $1000 from GameStop stock all that’s gonna happen is the price of tendies will increase by exactly $1000

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I’m not too sold on the whole class warfare side of things, I just think this is kind of funny

tried to find a way to say I'm more excited about Scott being back than Biden being 46 without it coming off as ingroup signalling but then figured going meta about it would be the most ingroup choice

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