dibidave

I forgot to commit my code before leaving work. Do I walk 8 minutes back from home to lab to commit the code so I can pick back up on it from home, or do I just have Cursor + Claude re-write it all? Yikes, I can't believe we're here.

@AdamDraper A lot of fundamental science to develop here. Hundred years? Assuming our amazing biotech future with relaxed constraints on embryo testing. This is one of the reasons Tatyana and I want to live longer! Diving, flying, and inhabiting other planets, in our skin suits

When will humans be able to breathe under water? Like mutant level. Not scuba tank.

my response to an IP law firm this morning. Sorry, not sorry, some days I just can't keep it in.

One small thing I try to think about: I know that every dollar I spend on retail goods, luxury, convenience, is a dollar less for all of us to spend pursuing work in the magic of science and nature and tech. Our spending shapes our societal priorities.

So many kids are raised with toys and media that incite imagination about spaceships, dinosaurs, and other magical science and tech. Yet so few of us get the privilege of jobs working on this magic. What can we do to help more people reach these dreams?

I love food, and I think we have solved making tasty food. Other than improving nutrition or sustainability, I see no point in inventing new food. There's already enough variety to keep us all topped up on novelty for our entire lives. Anyone disagree?

I have been playing with a new software development paradigm: sit with the user on a test environment and translate their features/bugs in real time to @cursor_ai agents running in parallel, and as the agents deliver, review with user. Turn a sprint into a jam session

@juliarturc 💯🔥. it hurts me to be so self-aggrandizing, but this resonates too much not to say something. this is why I had to do our own thing. got lucky enough to get it off the ground. I love our startup's little pocket of principles and realism towards a long-term goal. Come say hi!

Why so many of us feel career-homeless in tech: >Startups full of fraud, grifters and short-term thinking >FAANG full of politics and slightly behind >Frontier labs in a race with no morals >Academia full of title collectors >Content creation ridden by AI fakes and sensationalism Who is starting the renaissance and how do I get in touch with them?

I love music. I love supporting musicians. Also I love the infinite supply of slight variations of generic AI background beats I can get now. Musicians, you cannot meet my insatiable craving for sound that's good enough to modulate my brain but not good enough to distract me =p

If I ran a customer service hotline software company I would do A/B testing of hold music variants and optimize its impact on customer stress and satisfaction. I bet there's signal there, they're really missing an opportunity.

@ThatMrE @SynBio1 you know, I don't mind being called a vampire =p as long as I'm part of the ethical vampire faction

@dibidave @SynBio1 Dude hell yes. I will be your familiar and you and Tatyana can drain my body like the vampires you're meant to be

Bioproduct idea: blood casinos

@ThatMrE @SynBio1 We're doing it! Except you don't have to pay :p we recently got ethics approval to share revenue back upon data sale. Excited to see how people react when they get money for their blood the idea of people paying in is pretty great I'd love to add that once we show real payout

@SynBio1 I wanted someone to make a blood investment bank - you pay little bits of money to store your blood with a monthly draw, then end up getting a large payout when they sell the longitudinal dataset

While a part of the world hems and haws about AI risk and capabilities and collapse and AGI, another part of the world quietly chugs along adding these new tools to their arsenal to increase output effectively. Which of these activities will matter a few years from now?

We overfixate on threats from other nations and people. Mortality from war, terrorism and murder is miniscule these days. Something like 1% of deaths. I think we spend so much on prevention here because we believe we can control it more than accidents or health. Seems misguided.

@InquilineKea A vertiginous (learned that word from this :p) Friday night read, thanks for sharing. As a materialist myself, I like to learn about what the other side is cooking up (especially when it's more rigorous like this).

"simulations" and the real structure of consciousness/reality: claude.ai/share/0226b8a9…

@bryan_johnson That tracks over here, too. Me? Distress comes from looking around at all the lost energy poured into incremental, transient happiness while there are so many monumental challenges we could be working together on to fight death, entropy, and the end of everything.

The majority of people around me are feeling pretty stressed about life/existence. How are you feeling and what's causing you distress?

So many things have become extreme, less measured. Thoughts, opinions, stances, actions. "This is the end of that" "This is outrageous" "Anyone who thinks X is Y". I long for restraint, for deliberation, for care. Look at that, I think you can even do it in 280 characters.

My recent experience with crypto: 1. Someone paid me for dinner 6 months ago with $35 of USDC on Solana. I had to download an app and save some key. 2. I slowly see my money go down every month 3. Coinbase tells me I need to convert to BTC because... reasons. My money goes down from a transaction fee 4. Coinbase retires their app, says I need their new Base app. My balance shows $0 because it's a new "wallet" 5. Base app doesn't accept BTC so I have to convert back to USDC to transfer my own money from my coinbase wallet to the wallet on the Base app. Of course, there's a transaction fee. My money goes down. 6. I'm down to $20. I haven't done anything other than repeatedly be inconvenienced. I know crypto may be the future. But this is awful. Even techno optimists like me will abandon technologies with this kind of user experience.

Every few weeks, some new tool forcibly steals screen real estate in my development environment away from actual code. I fight back, but the assault continues. I will not go quietly. I will desperately glimpse my code through a final dimming single character porthole if I have to