Thread by @nickcammarata

hard-pivoting into ai research the best experiment i ran was only following ai researchers. Suddenly practically every tweet was a paper link

if you want to be happier maybe only follow the 10 happiest people you know of? Twitter might suddenly feel very sunny! Can always revert

https://twitter.com/metaLulie/status/1319082374991388673

people I suggest following if you want to try this! Hmm @noampomsky @kehwho maybe @patrickc too?

definitely follow @noampomsky even if you aren't doing this though. Her reward system is broken, allowing her to see magic in everything, and I highly suggest breaking yourself in the same way

https://twitter.com/noampomsky/status/1318969253370851329

there's millions of people hanging out at this party and some of them are bound to be in the 0.0001% happiness bracket, happier than anyone you'll ever meet. With one click you can commit to stuff your brain with their thoughts, slightly merging them with you. How cool is that!!

other suggestions of people that make my life sunny @jacknasjaq @saffronhuang @uncatherio @metaLulie

I'd actually love to see a RCT of Prozac against spending an hour a day reading the random ruminations of the happiest people on here

Wouldn't be surprised if information diet is a much bigger impact than messing blindly with serotonin (screenshot from a quick messenger search)

actually if someone could assemble a twitter list and really put a lot of effort into making it good I'd be very grateful and retweet you and send you big emojis I think it could do a lot of good in the world

I'll actually pay $200 for a list I'm really excited about bc I think this may be effective philanthropy. Def doable in < 10 hours, great hs/college project. Suggestion: recursively dm happy people ask for happiest twitters they know. Ideal list = ~50-100 people

btw anyone reading this place just braindump anyone you know that might be good for the list as a reply to this, at minimum it can be a starting point for the wonderful person that decides to take on this project ☀️