Venkatesh Rao

@vgr

RTs not fact-checked or sanity-checked. Premium mediocre cryptoquack. Very petty. Low-road taker. Owner: and

Seattle, WA
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Joined August 2007
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 21

    Poll: Do you think of yourself as a good person?

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  2. 9 hours ago

    Old theory: gift giving is how you express love for others New theory: gift giving is how you keep hatreds safely managed and under control

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  3. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    Who do I know in London besides people I've already met? Have an event invite in September and trying to make up a Sufficiently Compelling Reason to go.

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  4. 12 hours ago

    Good cult bad cult 🤔

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  5. Retweeted
    Jul 31

    Buterin's Law: any "principle", "rule" or "law" which the creator deliberately tries to name after themselves and promote and market with their own name will not gain traction and probably doesn't deserve to.

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  6. Retweeted
    12 hours ago
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    “Stigler’s law of eponymy” (proposed in 1980 by professor Stephen Stigler) states that no scientific discovery is named after its discoverer. Stigler himself named the sociologist Robert K. Merton as the discoverer of "Stigler's law" to show that it follows its own decree.

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  7. 12 hours ago

    Who do I know in London besides people I've already met? Have an event invite in September and trying to make up a Sufficiently Compelling Reason to go.

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  8. Retweeted
    12 hours ago
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    The number of people who are just chomping at the bit to join a cult, waiting for...’permission’ isn’t the right word, maybe ‘waiting for it to come inside the Overton window of possible futures,’ is really staggering.

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  9. 12 hours ago

    My climate change scenario personal strategies 2° C: Grow my current sideline consulting gigs into mainstay 2-4° C: Buy floating house, LARP terraforming alien planet > 4° C: Join some sort of apocalyptic cult or start one If climate deniers turn out to be right: eat my hat

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  10. Retweeted
    13 hours ago

    Heatwave in Portugal probably less extreme than GFS model predicted (50°C), but e.g. Evora still faces very hot days, close to the national alltime high of 47.4°C: Today 45 Friday 46 Saturday 47 Sunday 47 Risk of wildfires increasing.

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  11. 13 hours ago

    floating homes in new orleans

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  12. 13 hours ago

    If it was 77mm sea-level rise in the last 25y, should be easy enough to conservatively do linear extrapolation and map out the next 77mm submergence zone for a 2044 investment horizon or so

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  13. Retweeted
    Aug 1

    2017 was among 3 warmest years on record for the globe, according to report issued today by

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  14. 13 hours ago

    Idea: buy land in sea-level rise coastal zones, and build houseboat type houses, but on floating sliders that rise up posts or something

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    15 hours ago

    NOAA's annual climate snapshot -- released today -- highlights that global mean sea level rose 77 mm between 1993 and 2017! That 77 mm is... 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 ...at 1 emoji = 4 mm.

    2017 was among 3 warmest years on record for the globe, according to report issued today by
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  16. Retweeted
    Aug 1

    Any time one purports do something beneficial for natural ecosystems and make some money for their effort, someone will immediately accuse them of "profiteering." We are so conditioned to extractive industry that we don't recognize symbiotic or regenerative work when we see it.

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  17. Aug 1

    A namesake of mine Akshay Venkatesh, has won a Fields medal. I will be namespace BIRGing for the next week 😎

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  18. Retweeted
    Jul 31

    Planning 😂

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  19. Retweeted
    Jul 31

    What are your favorite biz thriller documentaries or movies (e.g. Smartest guys in the room, the big short)?

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    Jul 31

    At the moment of this Tweet, makes its closest approach (57.6M km) to on its orbit. It will not be this close again until Sep 11, 2035. 📸 (ESA/Hubble)

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    Jul 31
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    Works well with the time-tested wisdom: "Never argue with an idiot. They will pull you down to their level and beat you with sheer practice and experience."

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