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Sam Iglesias

@sam #39

Design and software at Apple. Also into AI, philosophy of mind, ethics.
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the driver attention team at Tesla has to be the most despised hall-monitory ML team at the company
Surest sign a millennial is running a project is the code name is a goddamn Pokémon
If anybody wants a knights tour print for the holidays (Eames inspired), shoot me a message or reply here. They’re 27”x27”.
trainer this morning: “dude do your socks say…dickless?” Can’t unsee.
feel like I’m double taking whenever I see gray hoodies in New York lmao
/NYC
The best recording that doesn’t afaik doesn’t live on Spotify or APM, Gould and Rose performing Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A, an underrated work from Beethoven’s peak middle period (Waldstein, Appassionatta, etc). Listen to all three movements. If only one, the 3rd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oytEdeD_riU
I was consulting with Claude today on a personal issue and it actually *pushed back* pretty forcefully against me. It told me a terrible truth and pushed me back to the 50 yard line. Have to say, deeply impressed.
today in Palo Alto plates
landed in JFK
that French guy who was propping up Trump on Polymarket must be drowning in Dom Pérignon right now
this was an easy bet to ride up on from 60¢ up to 80¢
ok beyond meat being down is kind of hilarious
also lmao retail investors
anything that tries to assign to assign probability to outcomes related to human decisions is just telling you what the quality of the information is. when I see prediction markets trending towards 50/50 I just take it to mean the information is getting more garbage.
suspect that towards the end of the Rogan interview Trump forgot Rogan’s name (or was afraid to guess wrong)

Insightful discussion tho
random musing: most of the world’s problems boil down to the problematic nature of sincerity. people are good at faking it, bad at judging it, and for some it might be impossible to have it.
has anyone done the LA haunted hayride? Any good?
this is cute. The Moncler x LoveFrom jackets come with little cutouts of the pieces that show how they interlock (and how they’re cut from single pieces of cloth)
the 747 at fleet week always gives 9/11-ass vibes
saw someone at work yesterday wearing a Venice farcon shirt. went up and inquired, belonged to his wife! he had no idea what farcon was lol
there’s a sense that today’s right was yesterday’s center/left and everything shifted left.

but it’s also true that today’s right is yesterday’s left that finally realized what liberalism broke, what conservatism was trying to conserve and why.
“Proof of cringe”
sign of scientific stagnation that they gave the Nobel in physics for coming up with AI that will make the next breakthrough