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In a sign of stranger times to come, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen funded a semi-autonomous AI bot on X with $50,000 in bitcoin, which later pumped a meme-based cryptocurrency called Goatseus Maximus to a market cap that at one point surpassed $1 billion.

I tuned my inputs to listen more to channels from the real world, including the nature channel, the friend channel, the love channel, the curiosity channel, the literature channel, and the travel channel. I smelled a lot of roses and marveled at amazing vistas near and far. I even let myself get bored from time to time. I reduced my clock speed to

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Today, if Varoufakis is to be believed, we are up against powerful feudal lords of big tech companies and corporations who have decoupled power from capital; they control not only the factories and farms, but the means to transfer money, and they mediate your access to the rest of humanity. They can de-platform you. They can de-bank you.... See more

Google's multimodal capabilities are second to none. It was already the best at understanding images and video. Gemini 2.0 doesn't just understand images and video; it can reason about them in real time—no more waiting for a response.

Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming high enough. Jobs are a great example: Especially if you’re early in your career, you should aim to get rejected from most things you apply for.

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Townie has attracted a new breed of non-technical programmers to Val Town.

You can try Gemini 2.0 in AI Studio and Deep Research in Gemini Advanced.

I’m talking about the kind of change exemplified by luminary psychologist Marsha Linehan, who details her journey from spending 21 months in a psychiatric hospital isolation ward due to severe, intractable Borderline Personality Disorder, to pioneering the world’s first and most widely renowned scientifically-based treatment for same—in a memoir... See more