**RT @eshear:**
YC has been part of my life since summer of ‘05 when I went through the program for my first startup, Kiko Calendar (“Google is so stupid, can you believe they haven’t made a calendar to go w Gmail?”).
https://nitter.moomoo.me/eshear/status/1656812142476288001#m
People have switched from posting screenshots of AI saying clever things to telling stories about how they're using it in their work.
nitter.moomoo.me/lacker/status/1655639904368615424#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/lacker/status/1655639904368615424#m)
**RT @yinyinwu:**
Most founders only optimize for valuation when fundraising.
This a mistake.
You can work on a startup for years, sell for millions, and walk away with nothing if you fundraise on poor terms,
Here are terms you should know when raising to protect your upside 🧵
https://nitter.moomoo.me/yinyinwu/status/1656330870696054784#m
**RT @Helion_Energy:**
Announcing Helion’s first customer: Microsoft.
We expect to start producing electricity in the world’s first fusion power plant by 2028, dramatically shortening the timeline for commercially viable fusion energy.
Read more: helionenergy.com/articles/an… (https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/announcing-helion-fusion-PPA-with-microsoft-constellation/)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Helion_Energy/status/1656283665398403072#m
**RT @Helion_Energy:**
Announcing Helion’s first customer: Microsoft.
We expect to start producing electricity in the world’s first fusion power plant by 2028, dramatically shortening the timeline for commercially viable fusion energy.
Read more: helionenergy.com/articles/an… (https://www.helionenergy.com/articles/announcing-helion-fusion-PPA-with-microsoft-constellation/)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Helion_Energy/status/1656283665398403072#m
**Response to @paulg:**
Eliezer is a bit of a broken record on this topic, and some of his ideas seem extreme, but I'm grateful that someone is thinking about these things. In weird times you need weird people.
**Response to @paulg:**
When you stop to think about it, it's the most obvious thing in the world that if we're worried AI will harm us, we should think about how. And yet these sort of speculations seem very novel, which is a sign that I must have been avoiding thinking about the topic.
The fact that this sort of speculation is so weirdly uncomfortable is exactly why we should be doing it. We must have a bias against it, and we need to counteract that bias.
nitter.moomoo.me/liron/status/1656019833677565952#m (https://nitter.moomoo.me/liron/status/1656019833677565952#m)
Pol Pot killed between 19% and 26% of the entire Cambodian population.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambod… (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide)
**Response to @paulg:**
The intellectually honest draw their conclusions from the facts. The ideological work in the opposite direction: they start from the conclusions they want, then choose to believe only the facts that support them.
One measure of how ideological a person or group has become is when you state a fact, and they ask "What do you mean by that?"
For the intellectually honest, the fact itself takes precedence. They don't stop to ask what conclusions it might support before believing it.
**RT @_HannahRitchie:**
Electric cars are the new solar.
People will continually underestimate how quickly they will take off.
Sales shares today are already beating projections for 2030. And these are projections made only a year or two ago.
My latest post: rb.gy/0jtrq (https://rb.gy/0jtrq)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/_HannahRitchie/status/1655513108838862854#m
**Response to @paulg:**
Here's the article that graph came from. It offers no explanation for the pattern.
economist.com/international/… (https://www.economist.com/international/2023/04/03/was-your-degree-really-worth-it)
Here's a mysterious pattern: the financially less valuable university degrees are even less valuable for men. Why is that?
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
Sakhile Dube from St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, demonstrates how the distinctive click consonants are pronounced in the Nguni language,
\[source: buff.ly/3peqXW2 (https://buff.ly/3peqXW2)\]
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1655256683692564480#m
**RT @SteveStuWill:**
Unintended consequences of the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF): At the end of each assessment period, academics rush to pump out papers, and the quality of their work declines. doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.202… (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2023.104729)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/SteveStuWill/status/1655163648401367040#m
Interesting case of breakage. The more realistic a painting, the greater the risk that it will betray the fact that the models were in static poses. This problem often afflicts 19th century painting. (Image via @Altimor (https://nitter.moomoo.me/Altimor).)
"Does Ron ever stop?"
— Jessica on Ron Conway
(The answer is no. That's one of his superpowers.)
Men commit 95% of homicides. I don't consider it a slander if someone says men are inherently more violent. It seems obviously true.
unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs… (https://www.unodc.org/documents/gsh/pdfs/2014_GLOBAL_HOMICIDE_BOOK_web.pdf)
**RT @Rainmaker1973:**
The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is the largest known structure in the observable universe, measuring ~10 billion light-years in length or ~10.7% of the diameter of the observable universe, crossing over 20 constellations & covering 125° of the sky buff.ly/3xlf81Y (https://buff.ly/3xlf81Y)
https://nitter.moomoo.me/Rainmaker1973/status/1655099564544671744#m