once you've got custom twitter searches set up you'll also want to learn a few of twitter's search operators. these are weirdly poorly documented (the documentation i found has ones i don't think work anymore) but here are the ones i personally use to search tweets faster
1. from:username searches tweets from a user, that's how the custom searches for my own tweets and visa's tweets above work. to:username searches tweets to that user. you can combine them to look for a specific interaction if you remember who was involved. example:
2. min_faves:N restricts searches to tweets with at least N likes. at least that's the theory; in practice it doesn't seem to be exactly N, idk what's going on with that. use this to find popular tweets or at least filter out unpopular ones. example:
i use min_faves both to search a specific person's tweets (either i'm looking for a specific popular tweet or i just wanna see their popular tweets) and to search twitter globally for the most popular tweets about some meme or w/e. like this:
3. since:YYYY-MM-DD searches for tweets timestamped on that date or after, until:YYYY-MM-DD searches for tweets timestamped on that date or before. combining both lets you search a date range. example:
and that's it those are all the search modifiers i actually use. if i find more i'll add them here
4. ah i forgot about this one - this one is deprecated for me by the custom search i use but "filter:follows" searches from your follows
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> ADD has much to do with pain, present in every one of the adults and children who have come to me for assessment
> "Every aspect of my life hurts," a thirty-seven-year-old man told me during his second visit to my office
> These men and women... have never been able to maintain any sort of a long-term job or profession. They cannot easily enter meaningful, committed relationships, let alone stay in one. Their moods fly back and forth from lethargy and dejection to agitation.
on the question of whether human-level AI is possible even in principle, people seem to reflexively believe “obviously yes” or “obviously no,” and i’ve never seen anyone publicly change their mind in either direction. and the split is like 80% predictable by STEM background
being a rationalist in the yudkowskian sense selected heavily, among other things, for people who believe that human-level AI is obviously possible. to me at age 22 it boiled down to “humans are just very complicated machines built out of molecules by evolution”
and similarly “human brains are just very complicated computers built out of molecules by evolution”
and the thing is that despite having loosened the iron grip scientific materialism had on me growing up, i still believe all this and have not seen compelling arguments against
short reviews of / commentary on movies i watched on netflix because netflix told me they were leaving soon, or some other place, or for some other reason:
1. the road to el dorado (2000): aged weirdly. it's impossible to ignore the colonialism now and chel now stands out as bizarrely horny for a kids' movie. nobody's allowed to be that horny anymore. some cool animation but deeply mediocre music. watch prince of egypt instead
2. kung fu panda (2008): fat jokes aside, the real story is about shifu getting his heart broken by tai lung, being hardhearted with the five, and getting his heart re-opened by po, and that's a surprisingly strong emotional core that still holds up
at the first bio-emotive retreat i was paired up to facilitate bio-emotive for this woman. we started with
"there's this friend who owes me money and i haven't been on her case about it"
got to
"why do i always let people walk all over me"
then: raped when she was 14
the point of this story is not about me but i'll mention that i noticed something funny about her while we were talking at the beginning of the session: anytime she answered a question, regardless of her answer, she shook her head like she was saying "no"
this seemed significant to me so on an impulse i asked her to try repeating the word "no" over and over again
she said "no" maybe a hundred times, gradually getting louder and louder and more and more agonized each time until at the end she was fully screaming
ah. i've been relating to grad school as "that time i failed to write a thesis" but it would be more accurate to say that my mathoverflow / stackexchange answers + my math blog posts *are* my thesis. none of that was a waste of time. people still regularly thank me for it
if i had written a traditional thesis on the topic my advisor wanted me to it would have been comprehensible to ~10 people in the world. meanwhile the actual writing i did instead was read by... hundreds of thousands of people? (numbers in the images are prob overestimates)
iirc at least two people decided to go to grad school in math because of things i've written online. somehow i didn't have a way to incorporate the value of my own mathematical work into my self-concept or my life story b/c i was too distracted by failing to write a thesis