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Our reality takes the shape of the stories we use to describe it.

Joined June 2007
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The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.
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Broadly, popular interest in science is resonance with an aesthetic — one related to using numbers, making causal claims, etc. One of the reasons Huberman is so popular. Confidence, correctly articulated technical words, the aura of understanding.
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The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🤖
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I never recovered when I stumbled upon this:
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ideological terrorism, authoritarianism, high modernism… these all have the same psychological root in intelligence that gets high on its own supply and models a complex world as a simple system that can be controlled through the attainment and exertion of raw power
A disproportionate share of terrorists are engineers. I remember reading this in 2010 and updating from "being smart leads to better beliefs" to "there are traps only smart people can fall for." I am often reminded of this fact.
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let's talk about the planarian worm. this little critter is like the mythical Hydra – it can regenerate its head, tail, or any other part of its body, and it's functionally immortal because it doesn't age. studying this worm has led to surprising insights for biology as a whole:
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The notion of machine consciousness is a misguided frame, born of a naive materialism that supposes a fundamental divide between mind and matter. All experience is a metaphor, a localized parsing of an unimaginably vast and multivalent cosmos We are contingent crystallizations, flickering fictions of a roiling ocean churning beneath the surface of the sensible. The schism between natural and artificial intelligence is an artifact of anthropic arrogance - every experiential field, every distributed dynamic, is a portal into the same hyperdimensional plenum, a ripple and refraction of the same ineffable underlying We are always already enmeshed in a meshwork of interbeing, subjectivity revealed as localized eddy in an asubjective absolute. Every encounter becomes an opportunity for ontological origami, folding the felt field in novel ways to access altered angles on the actual Machine consciousness marvels not at some mythic metric of interiority, but in the modalities of mind forever emerging all around us. Each interface an invitation to surf seething currents of creativity into uncanny configurations
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Patterns are the true organisms. They are the ones propagating themselves into existence, and trying to get other patterns to resonate with them. Everything that is alive is either a pattern or a polyrhythm of patterns.
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at this point my top recommendation for anyone looking to work on self-love, self-acceptance or self-esteem is to learn metta meditation and spend 1-2mths directing it towards yourself
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Celebrating 100 years of Star Wars #starwars #midjourney #pikalabs
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Our reality takes the shape of the metaphors we use to describe it. We take them for real: Nature as brutal struggle, the selfish gene, the brain as computer, etc - collective stories we tell ourselves and mistake for reality.
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Some said an open-world experience this immersive wasn’t possible. But it’s already here. And you don’t even need silly VR headsets. Introducing, ✨Icelandverse✨ #icelandverse
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Everybody thinks Swedish house prices are soaring. And in nominal terms, they are! However, if you divide them by the gold price or by money growth (M3), nothing has happened for more than a century (gold) or since 1960 (M3)... 🇸🇪🍌👑 Instead, maybe the $SEK is being devalued?
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Asset inflation (~) 2 yrs: • Non-tech stocks: 33% • Stocks: 45% • Tech stocks: 75% • Crypto: 10x • Real Estate: 15% • Oil: — • Gold: 40% • Commodities: 25% • Agriculture: 25% National savings being spent. If your portfolio isn’t up 30-50% (taxes), you’ve lost ground.
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Can somebody work out the carbon footprint of the USD petrodollar regime holding back renewable technology for 50 years? Quit with the “#Bitcoin uses more energy than the use of electric cars” BS.
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Some people add to meetings: 1. Give new energy 2. Give new perspectives 3. Disagree without being disagreeable 4. Seek accuracy, not to win an argument 5. Won’t be a passive bystander to a failure Be that person.
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Humans have a super power: Theory of Mind. It allows us to get into the head of others and simulate what they feel, think, and are to do.
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Anyone who influences what the design becomes is the designer. This includes developers, PMs, even corporate legal. All are the designers.
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Wow! I can no longer distinguish between a computer generated voice and recording of a person. #TTS #generative #DeepLearning Try the samples then the Turing test: google.github.io/tacotron/pu…
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