David Piepgrass @dpiepgrass@schelling.pt
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EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
From Twitter
RT @igorsushko
#Russia: Russian army torture session of a Russian draftee from North Ossetia ended with the torturer ordering the tortured to purchase a new (not used) sleeping bag for the torturer.
Video in the post below.
From Twitter
RT @jasoncrawford
“One universal in the history of childhood stands above all others. The history of childhood is a history of death”
From Twitter
RT @zeynep
For real. Searching for the word substack on Twitter returns “newsletter”.🤪
What’s next to be hardcoded? Search for Elon returns “the most amazing funniest guy ever”? 🤷♀️ https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/1644513690761277441
From Twitter
RT @NOELreports
Remember... A year ago, Russia launched a brutal missile attack on Kramatorsk railway station. It was one of the main evacuation points for residents of Donetsk region.
61 people died, including 7 children.
Never forget. 🕯️
From Twitter
🧵"I love to use Pinpoint to easily sort through leaked inboxes"
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RT @AricToler
New updates to Google Pinpoint, one of my favorite data collection tools out there -- next month, you'll be able to publicly share your collections (!). Right now it's only possible to share via direct invitation.
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1612127913192603650
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RT @AricToler
Original vs. edited versions of KIA counts https://t.co/ywtZW4BIv0
https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1644139100407054336
From Twitter
The leaked Ukraine/Russian casualty *numbers* are themselves hilarious:
16k - 17.5k (RU)
61k - 71.5k (UA)
Notice anything "weird" (or should I say "palindromic") about these pairs of numbers?
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I'm so curious to see the leaked data, but when I search for it the disinfo comes out on top atm.
You gotta wonder why the bots are claiming loss numbers that are obviously silly. Only 17K Russian deaths? Yeah okay. Seriously, why do they bother?
From Twitter
If China has decided to invade Taiwan, I expect this will be one of the cornerstones of their strategy: mutually assured economic destruction. U.S. tries to intervene? China can cut off the U.S. from their supply of rare earths & other critical minerals. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/11/22/critical-minerals-resources-us-china-competition-cold-war-supply-chains/
From Twitter
The kind of thing Republican voters would welcome, that their news sources wouldn't tell them about.
From Twitter
RT @timkmak
We wanted to dig into just one war crime.
So we took the case of a man, who had been killed on Feb 28th, and tried to find out who he was, what happened to him, and who killed him.
That investigation alone took eight months to do.
But we found out who Oleksandr Breus was.
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But then, how would I explain this final chart? Hmm. Well, maybe there's less welfare for adults and more for children :P
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I've never heard of this awesome person who just retired.
Reading between the lines, though, the "taxes/transfers" in the chart are mostly medicare, medicaid and social security. It could be that all of this increase is simply keeping up with inflation?
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23383703/robert-greenstein-center-budget-policy-priorities
From Twitter
"The 'Great Awokening' is Winding Down"
Are you woke to it? https://musaalgharbi.com/2023/02/08/great-awokening-ending/
From Twitter
map of the AI alignment “landscape” https://aisafety.world/
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RT @mezaoptimizer
“Would you push a button to stop this technology if there was a 5% chance it would be the end of the world?”
“I would push a button to slow it down. And in fact, I think we will need to figure out ways to slow down this technology”
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RT @mckaycoppins
A fascinating (and kind of hilarious) finding in this Pew survey: Mormons are among the least popular religious groups in America. They are also the only group that expresses a net favorable opinion of *every other group,* including Muslims and atheists. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/03/15/americans-feel-more-positive-than-negative-about-jews-mainline-protestants-catholics/
From Twitter
RT @mathemagic1an
Language modeling seems to be entering it's "Stable Diffusion" phase 🙌
Dalai: dead simple way to run LLaMa on your computer.
`npx dalai llama && npx dalai serve`
- Home page
- http://david.loyc.net
EA, ACX fan, aspiring rationalist, antimisinformist. I focus on problems in the foundations of the world. My interests include molten salt reactors, making military takeovers fail, improving human intellectual efficiency, gathering and organizing the world’s information better than Google, programming language & library design, nudism, singing, AI, and SCIENCE.
Joined Dec 2022
