The Daily View, 2/17/2025: Twitter-Roundup Edition

Time for another Twitter Round-up

Item #1:

Kanye was able to rant and rave for many days unimpeded until Elon interceded and personally shut down his account, while ordinary users get algorithmically suspended for far smaller things. Modern social networks use sentiment and linguistic analysis to moderate and rank posts, so using too many negative words can lead to one’s account being shadow-banned or even suspended.

There is a two-tied system of Twitter, in which the only way to unlock the full functionality of the site is to either know Elon personally or know someone who knows him who can vouch for you. Otherwise it’s walking on eggshells. This is why I aim to be polite to a fault on Twitter and avoid certain topics or views. Crossing the line may work for 364 days of the year, and then on the 365th day you get suspended or ghosted, and now your account is basically useless and all the earlier hard work undone. That is how it works unless you can have Elon personally unblock your account or know someone who can put in a good word.

Item #2:

Low IQ people prefer calorie-dense foods, and low IQ correlated with slow metabolism too, I hypothesize. The latter leads to the obesity more so than the food. Many high IQ-people eat bad diets, but do not become fat. For example, Mark Zuckerberg, who has a proclivity for huge steaks and McDonald’s. Same for Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, whose diets are also famously bad yet neither are that overweight, yet are both high IQ. In my article, I posit this may be because smarter people generate more NEAT. You put a low-IQ person on junk food and their teeth rot-out and they become diabetic and obese, yet smart people do not seem to be as negatively affected on such a poor diet.

Item #3:

Disagree. Metabolism is largely innate. As I discuss here, muscle contributes little compared to internal organs. Otherwise, morbidly obese powerlifters would not exist. You cannot meaningfully raise metabolism by adding muscle. 20 pounds of extra muscle, which is no small feat even with drugs, is just 200 extra calories/day. Of course, in the comments you will get anecdotal evidence claiming otherwise, but this is confirmation bias and survivorship bias. These people likely already had fast metabolisms or were miscounting calories.

Metabolism is one of those things where it’s possible a couch potato may have an advantage over the athlete. Look at Samoans for example…strong and muscular but easily obese due to shit metabolism genes. The muscle just doesn’t burn that many calories.

Item #4:

Of all the reasons, this is the least of them. Hint: it’s the demographics.

Item #5:

@Freds_Mulligans and @redhog_org are correct. @Technilibrium is demonstrating the classic midwit behavior commonly observed in AI and other tech-related topics, as discussed here. For whatever reason, AI is like moths to a flame when it comes to midwits.

It’s not like Chat GPT has typos when composing an essay at near-instant speed. Chat GPT is able to avail itself of computational power to quickly produce competent, error-free prose. The assumption is, once it figures out the process of multiplying, which is within the grasp of a 6-year-old, it can also do so error-free and quickly, without making mistakes as a human would attempting to multiply two large numbers with pen and paper.

Item #6:

He answered his own question. They need extra help, hence extra resources. Now, is this an efficacious use of said resources? Likely not. The ROI for gifted education is much higher.

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