Chad Woodford

I'm going to try out Threads when it launches later today. You can find me over there @cosmicwit instagram.com/cosmicwit/

Does this mean no more #AGI for OpenAI? gizmodo.com/openai-reporte…

@stephenRB4 Yeah, going to finish this book about the 9 human faculties beyond pure cognitive intelligence.

Are you going to write a book in 2026? 📚

My man, shouldn’t that have been where you started in the first place? dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutskev…

It’s hilarious to me that @ilyasut recently told @dwarkesh_sp that the AI industry is moving from the Age of Scaling to the Age of Research, meaning research into what intelligence actually is.

The original version of Monopoly was created by a woman in 1904 to illustrate the risks of unregulated capitalism. Her game was considered too complicated at the time, and later it was copied and sold commercially without acknowledging her as the creator.

This is the hardest I've laughed all week 😂

Big AI companies are trying to restrict states from regulating AI by adding a dangerous eleventh-hour provision to the annual National Defense Authorization Act. Contact your representatives – there are only a few days left to stop this! Link: linktr.ee/StopTheAIBan

@craftdocs Please fix syncing. My mobile apps have been broken for a week now.

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@iamstephenwest Absolutely. One of my favorite thinkers and truly undervalued in terms of his larger influence

Anyone interested in a few episodes on Jung? I’d love to spend some serious time understanding him more, but I need validation that you’d be interested as well.

Determining the meaning of your life by purpose is actually really dangerous Why? Because most people think of purpose as something which you're working towards (some ultimate goal) That's a very dangerous way of framing meaning: If you never reach it–your life was meaningless And if you do, the sense of meaning often vanishes once it’s achieved There is something more important: Orientation Purpose can be very egocentric (what I most want to have) Whereas orientation is reality-centric: What do I most need to be in order to be in touch with reality? To be deeply in touch with myself (with other people) and with the world?

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

It sickens me to hear Spanish spoken on the streets of Los Angeles, San Diego, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Santa Ana, San Jose, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, El Cerrito, La Mirada, San Luis Obispo

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp you just made my day

✅ Papercut fixed: @GeminiApp now lets you search through your past conversations in the left nav. Rolling out now…

demand our attention.

to overestimate AI capabilities based on their perceived mastery of a narrow field. As I argue in the piece, it is vital to cultivate discernment about the true nature of AI and resist the hype surrounding its potential, focusing instead on the pressing social inequalities that

In response to all the talk lately of AI systems becoming conscious, and Anthropic hiring its first "AI welfare researcher," I wrote a piece explaining how prematurely attributing consciousness or sentience to AI systems presents enormous risks cosmicwit.substack.com/p/your-ficus-i…

I know AI has helped accelerate medical research and all that but perhaps its greatest boon to date is allowing us to make sense of Slavoj Žižek's overall body work

There's a scene that didn't make the final cut in Blade Runner where we learn that Tyrell is also a replicant, the real Tyrell having died long ago. I'm not saying the same thing happened with Zuckerberg but that sure would explain a lot.

@stevenbjohnson @NotebookLM I finally tried the mind maps for the first time. Impressive, especially in this massive "Wisdom" notebook I've been curating.

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