"semi-intellectual internet personality" thinking about cultural macromutations ai evals @elicitorg / blog fellow @rootsofprogress
Montréal
Joined October 2015
- Tweets 11,498
- Following 832
- Followers 2,979
- Likes 24,656
I'm very happy about this for some reason and can't wait to wear my cape again. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure the staff is gone forever.
In 2007 my friend had us both cosplay as different versions of Syaoran Li from Cardcaptor Sakura, and he made me this cool green cape (while I made the cool astrolabe-y staff).
I forgot about the cape for 18 years, until I discovered yesterday my brother still had it!
it will also not include countries I've visited but not slept in: Finland, Åland (it has its own emoji so it counts 🇦🇽), Estonia, Slovakia, Palestine, and the Vatican
first pass, from memory + digging into email and airbnb archives
missing a lot of places I didn't book myself from trips when I was younger (notably Italy and half a dozen US states such as Florida)
starts = I've stayed there at least 1 month
I don't know why but I suddenly feel compelled to create a Google Maps list of every place I've ever slept in
my iPhone is now an iPho (I dropped it in a bowl of pho while distractedly texting both my best friend and my romantic interest)
(the phone survived, not sure about my t-shirt yet)
Kind of sad that I'm going to Japan in two and a half weeks, fulfilling a lifelong dream, and I basically feel like cancelling or postponing it. I kinda just want to stay home and work instead???
has anyone here ever dealt with heavy new relationship anxiety that makes you think you'll break up even though you don't want to and there's literally no reason to, other than, in a stupidly circular fashion, the anxiety itself?
Plz help Pradyu find a place to live in the Bay! I need him productive and focused on our evals team! 😀
This tweet is unavailable
Magic is just hedonic adaptation. Almost everything around or in you — technologies, your own body parts, the minds of others, even the laws of physics — would feel absolutely magical if it didn't exist, but you're used to it so you imagine other things that could feel "magical"
SUCCESS. Had to be done in business.facebook.com but I had to turn on 2FA beforehand... God the documentation for this is awful
As my tenure as choir board president comes to an end, today I am attempting a sisyphean task: remove myself as an admin of the choir's facebook page
I don't think anyone ever bought me flowers until yesterday. What a delightful feeling. I need to buy more flowers to more people
With special thanks to @MikeRiggs, @bschne and @ulkar_aghayeva, here's my post in which I dive way too deep in verifying one specific fact, and live to tell the tale
Unexpected tech connection of the day: mustard gas → chemotherapy, after it was noticed during WWII that soldiers exposed to the chemical weapon had lower white blood cell levels, and nitrogen mustard compounds (chlormethine) could therefore be injected to treat lymphoma
so this incredibly long shot ended up being a *hole-in-one*, thanks to the amazing @bschne and @ulkar_aghayeva
I'm not sure it will ever feel real to me that I have a "network" now
