Didn’t expect the end times to be basically the creeping tedium of draining agency underneath the chronic collective anxiety, punctuated by manic spasms of random agency 🤔
Reminds me of the time I visited Chile. It felt like a society living through a heat death.
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Major heat wave in India
SoCal in a water emergency
Russia apparently mulling war with NATO for lulz
Recession looming
Ordinary people in goblin mode
Leaders regressing to adolescence
Moore’s law stalled for parts
China finding out after fucking around with zero Covid
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I have decided to be a doomer on Thursdays and Fridays
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Schedule
Mon: Blockchains, rover study groups
Tue: Fiction, ML study groups, sustainability consulting
Wed: off day
Thu: ML consulting, blogging if I feel up to it
Fri: Governance study group, write newsletter
Sat: Fermi estimation, outing
Sun: Farmers market, Elon prayers
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This has been my actual schedule this year
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I’ve kinda regressed into gloomy grad student mode
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The University at the End of History
The on,y major offered is Anthropocene Studies
The only degree offered is the ABD
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The End of History and the Last Goblin
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The grimdark humor of Elon is we thought we could goof off here because he was Saving Us™ but now he’s One of Us™ posting tediously predictable takes and memes
Turns out flying cars vs 140 characters are the same thing at the end of history. Joke’s on Thiel
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People apparently impressed with my schedule should note this legible part only accounts for ~15-20h max, the rest is goblin-mode shitposting and laying around watching TV. Nobody ever accused me of working hard.
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“While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he was sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.”
— H.G. Wells
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