Can we squint and say the gut microbiome is kind of like this?

Humans are the exoskeleton for gut bacteria.

I’ll be honest, I had a hard time getting through the LLM writing

Correct, as he should have

As someone that thinks of myself as a low-caste, middle class American it's interesting seeing all of these people listed in the article making less than me

A lot of people consider themselves middle class and are wrong in that self assessment. It goes both ways, you have people making a half a million a year and people making twenty thousand who both consider themselves middle class.

You're the one bringing up caste. Middle class is determined by income and it's not subjective.

I genuinely think this is because the elites like the MIT dropouts that started this company think the rest of us observers are stupid.

They have a billboard with the copy "Compliance before you tell your parents you dropped out of MIT"

Yeah that's a wild billboard lmao. btw 99% of MIT people are no different then the rest they just worked hard or paid hefty amounts, I have lots of friends that went there. Nonetheless the 1% are geniuses. Also saying MIT dropouts instantly makes your story credible, it's a funny concept. I'm starting to feel like an MIT dropout these days.

>btw 99% of MIT people are no different then the rest they just worked hard or paid hefty amounts

I don't think that's true. I didn't get into any elite schools unlike almost all of them.

The problem may not be "intellectually interesting" to them at all, but building B2B SaaS does appeal to them from a lifestyle/prestige/pedigree perspective and will probably get them an exit to become a Venture investor even if they fail.

Major red flag with this should have been that their expensive marketing predicated heavily on them being MIT dropouts instead of any expertise in the space

As someone trying to monitor the situation using Twitter the last few weeks it’s awful and it used to not be!

It’s flawed, but still the obvious place to monitor a situation.

It's long been taken over by Telegram, which among its other advantages (more like a message board than 'town square'), doesn't have hordes of people commenting "@grok explain this to me" under every post.

I've never even heard of telegram competing with X for live world events updates. But maybe I'm just missing out.

Personally, I’d prefer a slow mode that’s a ton cheaper for a lot of things.

This is genuinely pathetic, Patrick. You want to say it so bad but can’t!

No notes on the fraudsters pardoned by this current admin of course.

Fraudsters pardoned by the current administration don't make public service and welfare fraud in Minnesota any less grave or important, and it's super weird that people across this thread keep implying otherwise.

I frequently follow Patrick's tweets. He hasn't said a single goddamn thing about this corrupt administration but keeps talking about Gavin Newsome's vaccine policy that was in effect for 2 months in 2021

Patrick ran VaccinateCA and has lots of reasons to have opinions on how California (in particular) managed vaccination rollout. But I'm more struck by the notion that he somehow has an obligation to use his Twitter account to support your political commitments. What a weird critique.

I don't think he has an obligation to do anything. I just think he's a hack and your friendship is blinding you to this fact.

This isn't responsive to anything I just said. You premised your critique of Patrick on his own criticism of California's vaccine rollout, not understanding his motivation or distinctive qualification to do so, and instead of acknowledging that, you just come back with personal attack.

The political sidecars attached are unnecessary.