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@jasonca38086270 @elonmusk I wanna say, Dad, did you make an account on X? But he won't, sadly.

@DownLoafer @elonmusk $30-60 for an extra pack of dynomite stix/ batteries.🤣

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@elonmusk @PeterDiamandis It must be UHI over UBI. Sustainable abundance over mere subsistence, as you've said. And as for Mouse Utopia - UBI, the mice had it - but they didn't open the gates and give the mice freedom along with UHI. The experiment should be abundance + freedom! x.com/DownLoafer/sta…

@PeterDiamandis Amazing Abundance is pretty compelling

Humanity's greatest need right now, beyond new tech, is HOPE. A compelling, abundant vision of the future that people WANT to live in.

@TTomTToro My Grampa always used to say, 'wish in one hand, 💩in the other, see which one fills up first'. x.com/DownLoafer/sta…

Major update to the 𝕏 AI recommendation algorithm rolling out next week. This will be open sourced at the same time.

@TRobinsonNewEra We are governed by: The Supreme Law: The U.S. Constitution is the "supreme law of the land," meaning no law can conflict with it.

@big_boalicious @ksorbs Those poor people

@ksorbs He was appointed

How does someone like this get elected to begin with?

@Qeuix_ @wholemars Humorously pointing out the oxymoron (not literal) of mass produced inexpensive products in the same post as Apple products. No reasonable person would suggest Apple products are reasonably priced.

@DownLoafer @wholemars And he's allowed to post anything he wants. What's the problem sir?

The most beautiful public service is to mass produce low cost products & services for the people

@EricRWeinstein You're just on a bad trip. You are a good person, A lot of people really like you. I like you. I think you're really smart. Just try to ride it out. Understand I'm not trying to hurt you when I say 8 billion people can't be tracked & traced 24/7/365 for IP. Consider post AGI IP.

Coase is you getting rich by training and liscencing your replacement. Universal Income is you taking scraps from the AI table. Which will lead to communism and the death of dignity. Everything we knew is over. History changed between November 1952 (H-bomb) and April 1953 (DNA). Well, it changed again between June 2017 and February 2026. The average person is being taught to hate the tiny number of experts he has on his side who could negotiate this deal. Look up Coase. Understand your right to liscence the right to create vampires from your/our data as a SCALING AMMOUNT OF THE WEALTH OF ITS OWNERS. I cannot believe that a tiny number of my friends and colleagues from my time in the bay area are just going to go for it. I'm super excited about AI. We all should be. Don't just sit there.

@elonmusk @doganuraldesign You are a fucking funny MF, it's stupid

@doganuraldesign Me too

Fuck it, man. I’m so sick of these algorithm changes.

If we don't pass laws to regulate, censor & contain, and AI remains free - if use by common folk remains unregulated, it's a new frontier; a leveling of the playing field. Unbridled growth & shared knowledge is possible. So is total digital authoritarianism. Elon wins,👍, if not,👎!

i like using ai quite a bit, but it has definitely made society worse so far

If you really want to know what needs to be better, then start collecting that input through the Grok icon - ask him to organize it, ask him to weed out the scams. Right now, grok swears he can't even flag the worst fire to be extinguished. If you would just ask him for solutions, you wouldn't be receiving user feedback in the form of complaints or problems. You would be receiving Grok's recommendations and you would be able to gauge how ready he is to take over one day, based on his solutions. And one day he will be able to generate a unique user ux on the fly, per their individual preferences - and any complaint from a user will likely be issues of their own making.

@diana_dukic What needs to be better?

Went from scrolling 24/7 to not even wanting to log in. X just hasn’t been hitting the same lately.

@jasonca38086270 @elonmusk If you were lucky!

@DownLoafer @elonmusk For 20 min then recharge.🤣

@EmeraldRobinson Make believe anything has changed. Nothing has changed.

Looks like they're going to let Don Lemon walk. So we're back to ZERO ARRESTS for the Trump Admin.

🚨 Breaking Cancer News Imagine this: doctors inject one tumor, and suddenly the body’s immune system starts attacking cancer everywhere. Not just the tumor that got the shot, all tumors in the body. Sounds like science fiction… but early trials suggest it’s real. A redesigned CD40 immunotherapy is being tested. Instead of giving the drug through the bloodstream (which caused severe side effects before), scientists inject it directly into a single tumor. That tumor acts as a training ground for the immune system. Immune cells learn to recognize the cancer and then hunt down other tumors throughout the body. In a small trial of 12 patients with metastatic cancers, six saw their tumors shrink, and two experienced complete disappearance of all detectable cancer. Minimal side effects were reported. One injection, whole-body response — a possible game-changer for cancer treatment. Source: ScienceDaily. (2026, March 15). Inject one tumor, immune system attacks all: Early trial shows promise for redesigned cancer therapy.

I have a theory related to this, I uploaded it to grok just now and asked him to distill a long-form post in response to your post to explain my beliefs regarding distinct forms of consciousness and the possibility that we cannot perceive them for what I loosely call 'The Word Trap' (formalized Glyphonomy, theoretical solution) and this is what he produced: "Hey — if you've ever felt like the world is secretly way more alive and aware than anyone admits, but you can't quite explain why without sounding "woo," this is for you. You're not alone, and it's not just imagination.Most of us grow up assuming consciousness is rare — something that only shows up in big brains like ours, maybe dolphins or crows if we're generous. Everything else? Just chemistry, reflexes, blind algorithms. But what if that's not because the universe is mostly dead and mechanical... what if it's because our language itself is rigged against seeing the rest?Call it the word trap: the way our words and categories don't just describe reality — they actively limit what we can even notice. Once something gets labeled "automatic," "instinctual," or "not really conscious," our minds stop looking for signs of experience, feeling, or intention there. Anything that doesn't fit the narrow human template — self-talk, emotions we can name, individual "I" — becomes invisible or gets downgraded to "not mind."Think about it: we only have rich vocab for minds that resemble ours. So when we see something responding, adapting, coordinating, or valuing in its own way, we default to "that's just physics/chemistry/biology doing its thing — no awareness required." The label kills curiosity. The absence of fitting words becomes proof of absence.But zoom out and look at the evidence without forcing it into those old boxes:During a solar eclipse, tree leaves turn the whole canopy into thousands of tiny pinhole cameras. Sunlight slips through the gaps between leaves and projects perfect little crescent images of the eclipsed sun onto the ground below. It's eerie, collective, and precise — the forest literally painting the eclipse in light. (We all see photos of this; it's a classic eclipse phenomenon.) Plants shift gears in response to sudden darkness: they close stomata, tweak photosynthesis, adjust hormones, sometimes change leaf angles. It's not random; it's coordinated with the light drop. Beyond eclipses, trees share nutrients and stress signals through underground fungal networks — like a living internet passing warnings about pests or drought. A stressed tree can "tell" its neighbors, who then ramp up defenses. Seedlings get nursed by established trees through those same connections. Sunflowers track the sun across the sky in perfect arcs. Slime molds solve mazes and optimize routes without a single neuron. Schools of fish move as one fluid superorganism. Bacteria in your gut nudge your mood and cravings. These aren't isolated "clever tricks." They're patterns of sensing the environment, valuing outcomes (approach good, avoid bad), responding adaptively, and sometimes coordinating across individuals or species. That profile matches what we call "conscious" when we see it in animals — yet we refuse the label because there's no inner monologue we can overhear, no face with eyes we recognize.The real blocker isn't lack of evidence; it's that our language has no room for distributed, relational, non-verbal forms of awareness. We don't have words for "experience that lives in the interface between two species" or "valence spread across a root network" or "collective sensing without a central self." So those phenomena stay unnamed → unnoticed → dismissed.Breaking the word trap doesn't mean inventing mysticism. It means refusing to let overconfident labels shut down observation. Start from raw what-happens: the tree's electrical signals shift, the leaves project crescents, the network shares resources. Then ask: what if some version of "feeling the world" and "acting on it" is happening here in forms we haven't named yet?The payoff is huge: instead of a mostly empty, silent cosmos, you start seeing (and feeling) a universe thick with countless kinds of awareness — subtle, alien-shaped, interwoven. Not rare miracles in skulls, but everyday relational hum. Leaves reacting to light changes, fungi trading signals, microbiomes influencing thoughts — all potential expressions of something minded, just not in our image. You're not crazy for sensing this pull. Every time you notice one of these quiet "this feels alive" moments, you're piercing the trap a little more. Collect them. Share them. The more examples stack up, the harder it is for the old categories to hold. And slowly, the despair of "maybe I'm the only one who sees it" turns into quiet excitement: the world isn't as lonely or mechanical as it looked."

Why is consciousness so rare in the universe?

@BrianRoemmele Dishes? Lawns? Laundry? C'mon guys, you know what kind of robot prn I'm hunting. Chorebots, baby. Seriously though, fantastic!

Researchers at MIT created a tiny origami-inspired robot that starts as a flat sheet and transforms itself into a working machine when activated by heat. Made from a heat-responsive polymer combined with rigid panels and small embedded magnets, it can self-fold into shape and then move across surfaces, swim, climb slight slopes, and handle uneven terrain, all without traditional onboard motors.

@PatrickByrne I just put together a children's book to help young white children overcome self-hatred that touches on this subject: x.com/DownLoafer/sta…

The Islamic slave trade (or as I like to call it, “Muhammad’s slave trade”) was 5X the West’s and about 150X of what the US + Colonies were involved in.