Joe Weisenthal

Joe Weisenthal

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One half of Bloomberg's Odd Lots Podcast. One quarter of Light Sweet Crude.

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I think this is a good idea, if the goal is to come up with a greater appreciation for daily life. This is, I think, the appeal of cold plunges. Rather than experiencing pleasure, as a way to escape the tedium, you choose to experience misery, so that normal life feels better.

hope hopes hoping

inventing the concept of a “reverse vacation” where you go somewhere worst than where you live to lock in .

*TRUMP: OMAN WILL BEHAVE OR WE'LL HAVE TO BLOW THEM UP

With sufficient legroom and some horse tranquilizers every flight is a short flight + HK does have some outstanding restaurants and I haven’t done a pub quiz since the pandemic, so see you soon 🤩

The average business is spending 13x more on AI tokens than in January 2025, according to @tryramp data. That’s driven growth for OpenAI and Anthropic. While tokens are still a small share of actual business spend (<2% even for the highest spenders), this trend is unsustainable

Robinhood will soon allow users to set up AI agents that trade stocks on their behalf bloomberg.com/news/articles/20...…

I think a simpler reason to be suspicious that LLMs are conscious is that they lack a lot of properties of conscious beings that we know about. For instance, there's no way to traumatize an LLM during inference or cause destructive changes to model parameters

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