Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 19hThe irony of self asserted high T men uncritically adopting the position presented in that post 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 22hLLMs seem to be following the standard Silicon Valley playbook (Uber etc). The prices don’t reflect the costs yet. The problem with this one is, the true price would be unaffordable for 99% of the current user base. At some point they will reach the end of the runway and there will be an inferno. 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 22hSF’s rent control only seems useful if a) you started renting when it was affordable (lol) and b) are prepared to live in that same property indefinitely. And all it really achieves is to shield tenants from above market rent increases. 100
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026static.klipy.comAudience Clapping and ApplaudingALT: Audience Clapping and Applauding 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026is it inevitable that parties eventually end up at 50/50? policies that are broadly popular are adopted by both, unpopular policies are abandoned, leaving those that are by definition contentious and evenly split for the opposing positions? 100
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You’re forgetting about the machine’s ability to use one its transistors to access the switch via quantum mechanics and turn itself back on 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Australia really need to up its game and divide itself up into 50 states so people can spend their lives trying to visit them all. Most of them would be empty deserts but it would give people some to do. 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can’t even say that I can’t say what I want to say 210
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I suspect the vast majority of the general public think ‘AI Safety’ is just a department within OpenAI, staffed with people who have normal lives outside of work. I count myself amongst those who recently discovered that is not actually the case… 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Visually, it looks like there might be some kind of second independent indicator variable to explain the outliers at the 4-5% HR level. Like, what is going on with that sample at ~(71,5)? Resolving that would make the deviation even more distinguishable. Fascinating! 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Perhaps because you’ve finished constructing your cardboard scale model of the Death Star 120
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026repost your own 10 things other people like but i don’t 1. fantasy football leagues 2. drip coffee 3. watching basketball 4. sports betting 5. F-150 trucks 6. country music 7. pumpkin spice latte 8. refreshing dips in the ocean 9. gym workouts 10. bold &/or matte lipstick (on others) 121
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026static.klipy.comGremlins: Cute Gizmo Close-UpALT: Gremlins: Cute Gizmo Close-Up 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 18/09/2026All this AI stuff lately. Imagine you found a little creature in a box, and you weren’t sure what it could do, but after some prodding it showed you the solution to the Navier-Stokes equation. Would you then just let it out of the box into the world to see what else it could do? 100
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Even more concerning: the rate of shortening seems to be accelerating each day! 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsThe Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation 283656749
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I think he is saying that USA has a good TransUnion Credit Score 040
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026AVs may or may not be cheaper than taxis with human drivers now, but you can be pretty sure that, when the last human-driven taxi is gone, AVs will suddenly become a lot more expensive 1170
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Seems feasible given election pattern, religion etc. The question is what tasks they would be conscripted to carry out. Still unclear why the goal would be “exterminate humanity“. 100
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I have zero recollection of anyone asking if I’d previously had chickenpox before I got the shingles vax. I‘m not sure I would even be able to answer the question with any confidence 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/09/20266. So their bosses should encourage them to organize, signing cards to build the first labor union willing to go on strike to de-immanentize the eschaton . By doing good, the AI labs would be able to do well, crushing their compute cost as they dropped out of the frontier model rat race. 3356
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It’s because GDP is going to grow at 6%-10% per year 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The car was subsequently charged with manslaughter and sentenced to 5 years in jail 010
Reposted by Tim BurrowsMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel. 21433715
Reposted by Tim BurrowsPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Would he have a more progressive campaign if he was trying to win in Oregon? Very likely! But, again, and I cannot stress this enough, he is not running to be Senator for Oregon. He is running to be Senator for Texas. 4624
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This might lead to some short term impacts (e.g. restarting mothballed facilities) (don’t get me wrong, not good) but it’s hard to imagine anyone investing significant capital into new ff generation on the basis of this. 010
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Either that or completely gullible and tricked by the opposition into voting against their own best interests (wouldn’t be the first time) 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One might wonder if this isn’t surreptitious promotion of his opposition. 120
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 14/09/2026As I understand it the plan is: 1. Don’t vote (especially not for Talarico) 2. (magic happens) 3. A third, as yet unknown ideal candidate wins the election. 110
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Is it trending towards a solution? I would guess it is better than it was 12 or 24 months ago? 220
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What I don’t understand is that a bot swarm of that scale would presumably consume billions of dollars of compute and Anthropic would just not notice that? 150
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Great to see readers engaging with the topic substantively 060
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 12/09/2026You can buy from a pampered chef party without joining an MLM 120
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026To be fair, building data centers underground is about 1000% smarter than trying to build and operate them in outer space 011
Tim Burrows @timjburrows.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I always thought that $0.001 precision was ridiculous anyway. As if $3.479 is any different to $3.48. 130
