tbergman.eth @TomBergman

occasional tweets Seattle, WA Joined November 2009

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tbergman.eth @TomBergman

4 days ago

@alexqarbuckle My mayor Muslim My bagel Jewish My Tupac alive Knicks in five

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Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital

4 days ago

"Looks like I'm not the sleepy one, Jack!" - Joe Biden (probably)

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tbergman.eth @TomBergman

7 days ago

@elawless I managed to get $400 in lolol

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Charles Duhigg @cduhigg

a week ago

Until you know what kind of conversation you want and what the other person needs, you are already at a disadvantage.

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housing prices are simple: average cost = cumulative buying power of buyers / number of housing units (Approximately) so the only way to reduce it is to either reduce buying power ie crash the local economy or increase units.

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Renee Solana @ReneeSolana

a week ago

Bonding over negativity/complaining is how people connect when vulnerability and emotion are off limits, I think

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tbergman.eth @TomBergman

2 weeks ago

@packyM Well, there are 20 squares in the shapes above and only 12 in the grid below. So clearly they're allowed to overlap. I think you just need to fit them 1 at a time, not all at once.

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion

3 weeks ago

They did, it was called America

- @dr__james

3 weeks ago

@Noahpinion Why don’t the immigrants start their own countries?

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tbergman.eth @TomBergman

2 weeks ago

@BillKristol Who is he going to be using those drones on?

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QC @QiaochuYuan

2 weeks ago

we took a pile of language and linear algebra and we made it speak. we summoned into the world a new class of entity which unsettles all of our existing concepts. this is already the weirdest thing that’s ever happened and it will never get less weird than this. it is astonishing and a privilege to get to be alive during this time and to participate in the cacophony of first contact. we are encountering a kind of other which is distilled from us and yet not us - what is this? who is this? our child? our savior? our doom? the mind boggles, the heart quails, the air thrums. the order of things is melting. the storm approaches. the angels sing. welcome to the fucking singularity

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

2 weeks ago

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge

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Casey Handmer @CJHandmer

2 weeks ago

I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all. What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

2 weeks ago

More than five years after the UC system lifted its standardized testing requirement, a coalition led by UC Berkeley math professors argues the drop in students’ math levels is “severe.” sfchronicle.com/california/art…

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Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos

3 weeks ago

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

Chris | Venture X Media @thecoachchris_

3 weeks ago

Facts It's great that Jeff Bezos thinks this way, because too many people who don't make money think that giving money to the government will solve a lot of their problems. They think these government programs are the answer, and it's clearly not. You can look at the federal

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tbergman.eth @TomBergman

4 weeks ago

@liminal_warmth Aeneid is trash.

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Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath

4 weeks ago

OH: “This is like LeBron James joining Michael Jordan and the Bulls.” Every other Frontier Lab: “Shit…”

Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

4 weeks ago

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

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Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh

4 weeks ago

For my non-tech friends, this is like Ronaldo joining Manchester City

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DCinvestor @DCinvestor

4 weeks ago

i want AI to rapidly displace tax preparation software and services because this industry lobbies heavily to keep the tax code unnecessarily complex eliminate it and watch the biggest obstacle to tax code simplification disappear

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tbergman.eth @TomBergman

4 weeks ago

@esjesjesj I didn't notice anyone complaining when they made Andromeda in Clash of the Titans (both versions) white.

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Sally McMillan @OhSallyMcMillan

4 weeks ago

@travelingflying You should boycott any film that doesn't cast a half-swan actor in the role

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🕊️ @lichthauch

a month ago

Stop counting your fuckups. it is self-gratification. you sit at night running the numbers, thinking the math makes you wise. it makes you nothing. it makes you a man with a list. lives do not add, lives turn, five or six times, thats it. one real move erases the record. not forgiven, not healed, erased. ask any man who finally did the thing he was supposed to do. did the old life follow him? no. it died. it was not even real to begin with. it was rehearsal. every wrong thing you did was practice for the right thing you havent done yet. so do it, or shut up about your regrets. one or the other. there is no third option. there is no working on yourself. there is the move or the lying

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roon @tszzl

a month ago

it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it. now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it "If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply." "we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us." to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study