The meaning of this phrase is that nobody will ever understand your internal experiences, even if you try to compress them into the incredibly lossy structures we can communicate with. HTH
9/11 was a Tuesday. My mom went to New York to cover it Wednesday. My dad picked us up from school to drive to pick her up Friday.
The smoke was still rising in two distinct columns, all the way into the sky.
I'll never forget that.
Never forget this either. Never forget any of it. Never forget a single act of man's inhumanity to man. Always remember and always learn. We will find a better way.
DC tangibly bristled after 9/11. There were snipers on rooftops, tank traps that would block garages and streets at night, the entire city became militarized. And soon it was just normal.
This genre of mustache will be completely eradicated in the coming era.
DC area schools are closing and some parents have already picked up their children. Mine, in an effort to maintain a sense of normalcy, will not be doing so. Rumors circulate that a suspicious white van has been spotted, foreshadowing the DC sniper attacks.
It's fine, he's got a strategery.
President Bush is at Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading “My Pet Goat” to schoolchildren. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card rushes over and whispers in his ear: “a second plane has hit the tower. America is under attack.”
President Bush is seen to consider the statement for a second, and then continue reading the book.
I was too slow to screenshot this post hitting 911 retweets.
This is just coming in: there appears to be a major fire on the upper floors of one of the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Reports claim that a small plane, either a Cessna or a private jet, accidentally flew into the tower around the 80th floor, due to either an air traffic control communications error or a malfunction on the aircraft.
The dozens of victims are in our thoughts. We will continue to monitor rescue and repair surrounding this alarming accident.
Aquarians are too rational and nonconformist to be predicted by astrology, which is a very aquarian trait.
We cross-referenced the psychometric personality data of ~ 1 million people with their zodiac astrological signs:
1) There is a small but statistically significant effect of zodiac sign on personality controlling for demographic and attitudinal variables
2) These observed personality correlations correspond strongly with LLM-generated "stereotypes" of astrological associations with personality
3) This association of observed astrological effects with astrological "stereotypes" is mediated strongly in auxiliary surveys by how frequently people read horoscopes and generally subscribe to astrology
4) Zodiac effects among people who never read horoscopes are a quite precisely estimated zero, while effects among people who read horoscopes everyday are on the order of 0.2 sds - on par with or larger than most psychometric associations found in social science
It's also extra shitty that this is all happening in the last few weeks before humanity is C A R B O N I Z E D by the swarm and I can't even enjoy it.
Going dark for a while to try to focus on the things I badly need to focus on. Signal (which I did not have for a while but is working now) or sms are the most reliable ways to reach me.
It just fucks with me so much that after years of strife, I finally basically made the tradeoff that I would rather have the community that actually fueled me than the relationship that constantly drained me, and now I feel like I have neither.
1. There is no future without AI. Technological progress is inevitable because people want and will keep pushing for it. That is how we've gotten where we are. Like a lever generalizes the arm, a computer generalizes the mind, and AI maximally so. We need alignment.
I am hopeful, but not optimistic, that humanity can successfully do this. I don't think coercion will be very effective. I don't think legislation will be effective. I don't think capital markets will say no to the advantage so easily. My predictions are dire. I have hope.
