Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart
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Is there any effective organization that doesn’t do this? The weird beliefs unite the most devoted members, but the nice, agreeable-sounding ones are the marketing. Seems to work for political parties, religions, think tanks that impact policy, etc.
Is there any effective organization that doesn’t do this? The weird beliefs unite the most devoted members, but the nice, agreeable-sounding ones are the marketing. Seems to work for political parties, religions, think tanks that impact policy, etc.
Of all big tech, Amazon arguably has the best case for messing around with quantum computing. Packing bins, traveling salesmen, they've got it all.
Of all big tech, Amazon arguably has the best case for messing around with quantum computing. Packing bins, traveling salesmen, they've got it all.
You can try to shelter your kids, but it never works. 8yo smugly announced the other day that she'd learned the real reason Hercules had to do his seven labors (he went insane and killed his family, a detail I elided), and she was very excited to tell her siblings.
Hearing the standard Slack alert in an open-plan office is the modern equivalent to secondhand smoke.
6yo, trying to repeat the wisdom I’ve imparted: “A man with two watches doesn’t know what time it is. A woman with two watches does, woohoo!”
4yo: “I might be grouchy tomorrow. Church is my least favorite place.” 8yo: “What about hell?”
Maybe I should also run an ad where I screenshot a tweet about how I read my own newsletter and include it in a separate tweet about how, yes, I think the newsletter I write is pretty good.
The year is 2043. There are thousands of search funds looking to do levered SMB buyouts. The world's last remaining independent HVAC repair company, with a 112-year-old founder who's almost ready to retire, is entertaining bids in a range of 10-20,000x EBITDA.
I like when you can track someone's political evolution by the names they chose for their kids: "Our oldest are the twins, Reagan and Rand. Then we had Otto, and we just welcomed baby Sulla!"
Can we intentionally cool the earth? And should we? Luke Iseman of @MakeSunsets says “we’ve done such a poor job at Geo engineering our climate w/ carbon emissions for the last several hundred years, that we now need to geoengineer it in a positive direction to offset that.”…
Huh, this is the first case I've seen in the wild where someone used AI to generate disinformation that actually had some real-world impact.
Huh, this is the first case I've seen in the wild where someone used AI to generate disinformation that actually had some real-world impact.
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This image will be in the history books and the people who authorized or cheered it on are going to look like shit.
(Yes I caught the spelling errors and you’re welcome to mention them if you can do so in handwritten Japanese.)
Amen thank you Jesus
As many of you know, my granddaughter, Hazel passed away recently. Here’s a letter from the mother of one of her classmates. Hazel was profoundly disabled but she had an even more profound effect upon the world around her. Every life has a value beyond measure.
@ByrneHobart it's certainly how ideologies work paulgraham.com/lies.html see the bit starting "The truth is common property..." false/crazy beliefs are the carrier wave for true/useful/mainstream ones
@ByrneHobart It would be interesting to learn about how Christianity marketed itself in the Roman Empire while it was still weird. I would suspect Christ’s whole story def part of marketing, maybe not the transubstantiation ritual. But I haven’t checked
@ByrneHobart That may be so, but issue in this case is not so much the fact of layered beliefs as their substance.
@ByrneHobart If one is used enough to it then I guess just by exposure it becomes less weird, to extent. So maybe dominant religion marketing is not what you had in mind. I have no idea what Islamic marketing is like, prob differs quite a bit in non-Muslim and in historically Muslim countries
@ByrneHobart Maybe Christianity has weirder beliefs, that would be a subjective matter but I think someone coming back to life is already pretty weird and def in the marketing. Some brands of Christian marketing that downplay original sin might count for your claim here tho
@aftfuture in private: AI is great and we shouldn't ban it @aftfuture in public: AI is great and we shouldn't ban it
Is there any effective organization that doesn’t do this? The weird beliefs unite the most devoted members, but the nice, agreeable-sounding ones are the marketing. Seems to work for political parties, religions, think tanks that impact policy, etc.
I miss the old days of the internet when people were idiosyncratically crazy and not one of a few kinds of crazy.
If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?
Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin were esoteric Christian schizopoasters They would have never made their discoveries if they lived in a reality where Christ was not crucified and resurrected Most don't see the implications
@TMT_Jack_ We aren't. But this opportunity is WAY less OpEx intensive, so stuff kinda offset. Intelligent Cloud OpEx grew just 2% last Q.
The time has come
AMZN, GOOG, META & MSFT: are we ignoring that this massive capex will eventually hit the P&L as D&A, or are we just assuming AI revenues will offset it? Just wondering if we're ready to have this conversation or not
@ByrneHobart Wonder if we'll see any films that are simply set in a parallel timeline in which covid never happened and it's never acknowledged Covid feels like such a blur I doubt most people would even blink
Imagine how great a history you have to have for Six Flags over Texas to be a fun amusement park kind of thing. Twelve Flags over Berlin? Four Flags over Beijing? Eight Flags over Belarus? Those are not family friendly amusement parks, let me tell you that
I have tried to resist the right’s rhetoric about journalists, but if you take a case like this one, I genuinely do believe that this is evil, that the people publishing and pushing this are bad people who are trying to do harm.
The lack of diversity at Lowell has long been a blemish on San Francisco’s long-held academic crown jewel. Based on current trends, and a lack of any planned policy changes, that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. trib.al/S01xMOH
My company sends out letters like "We are grateful for the consideration and opportunity to conduct weed maintenance on your property" because we're doing REAL ATOMS work.