That’s just describing wealth.

Yup, which is why I have more faith in the US than the rest of the world.

Never thought about the possibility that I AM the Boltzmann brain.

I never thought about the possibility that my Boltzmann brain simulates other entities thinking they're the real Boltzmann brain. What arrogant solipsists I imagine into existence. :p

The book Saturn Run has an interesting design utilized for a spaceship.

The AI bubble bursts when he stumbles to get that money.

With the arccos it would be uniform. It only bunches towards the poles when you pick phi as pi v.

Are they going to pay tax on the withdrawal? No way to avoid it, right?

Depends on the fund’s structure and its performance. For all we know the investor was in the red.

Question from a peasant: what does this YC GP do everyday otherwise, if he needs to save minutes from replying those emails?

Seriously. To be in such a privileged position and be wasting time bending a computer to do all the little things which eventually amount into meaningful relationships.

These guys are min-maxing newgame+ whilst the rest of us would be stoked to just roll credits.

I second this. Although I only hand filed for two years and then transitioned to FreeTaxUSA. The benefit is that after going through their wizard/interface, I can confidently check the generated IRS forms to make sure it’s filled to my intent.

big thumbs up to freetaxusa

How are the videos captured or processed? The solar lens flares are smoothly interpolated but the moon surface shows lower FPS, almost feels like the flares were on a separate layer.

My guess: they are the same update rate. The lens flares have blurrier edges and move less across the screen. This makes the jumps less obvious.

CGI animations also add blurring, and even your eyes have an integration time that will make fast moving objects blurry. So your brain good at interpolating blurry edges.

We are booing Altman because his bait and switch feels unethical, but many of us saw it coming from a mile away, how does he make this transition to take advantage of the financial system so smoothly? Is there no legal guard for such maneuver, or is he just an insanely good player to circumvent all of them in plain view?

Just cobbling together articles I've read... Once the board failed to fire Altman, this transition was a done-deal, it was just a matter of when. Before the board fired Altman, he had been engaging in a more covert effort to take control - putting together personal attacks on various board members intended to drive them out and hiring people with a similar attitude to and loyalty to himself. When the board fired him, they didn't give any clear reasons and that's most mysterious part of the situation. Apparently they were all concerned about his campaign to take control of the board but they each had slightly different reasons for agreeing. I'd further speculate that the board thought in lawyer-advice terms - say as little as possible to avoid a retaliatory lawsuit.

But the board's lack of communication apparently allowed Altman to demonstrate he was more important to the organization than the formal/legal structure, 90% signed intents to quit and the board backed down. It seemed that Altman simply represented the attitude of the many Silicon Valley tech-people - once you have a chance of money, don't hold back, do everything you can to make it.

It has been running on an honor code, that someone pulling off something so slimy as to funnel money meant for non-profits would just get shunned by society and business. Yet here we are.

Ironically the one person with resources fighting it in a tangible way, even if for spite, is Elon Musk.