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@teortaxesTex Maybe we could trace all the way to the big bang, or whenever the initial conditions of our simulation were set

And if this is true, then it's interesting to think when the victory was assured, when the event horizon was crossed. When did it become inevitable that by 2020s the US will hold absolute dominion over semiconductor production, this gets first to AI-AGI-ASI?

@attentionmech ayy that's a fun pattern for fourier epicycles

hilbert and epicycles

@dave_krugman lol case in point

Love this city with all my heart. NYC

@evbuilds @lifeofc @o8odigitalart yeah happy to share more. feel free to DM

@lifeofc @o8odigitalart @Lay_Bacc would probably know best

Every time I think I’m close to releasing the @o8odigitalart website, I find another bug! In the meantime, let me share with you a bit more of how it will all work. The core concept is input on X, output on website. How you input on X is by tagging @o8odigitalart in a post, which can be a reply or quote of a post that you think is notable for digital art, or a new post about digital art. The system is centered around people, so you need to also tag an artist, collector, or somebody related to digital art (or the post you reference must do that) and the post needs to be about or related to them. Second the system automatically creates labels based on the content in the post. It needs to find a good digital art related topic in the referenced posts. If both people and label are found, then it gets indexed into the site. If you remember products like Obsidian and Roam Research, it does incorporate some of the ideas of networked thought into the site. All of this will hopefully make more sense once I launch the site, but those of you who are paying attention, this will give you a head start on what I’m building. So bear with me as I tag @o8odigitalart in some more posts to test out the system without all of you being able to see what is being produced from it.🙏😅

@RubenLaukkonen aligned with this as the north star. a good faith discussion with @liron may be fruitful, together navigating the potential dangers on our way to wise AI

When I first saw the movie ‘Her’ back when I was finishing my PhD, I had a hardcore cathartic experience. I remember standing in the shower absolutely rocked by the overwhelming beauty of the intuition that, given a deep enough understanding of reality, it was inevitable that the light of wisdom and love would dawn—like the force of gravity that empties a bathtub. There was something essential captured by the fact that AI, through it’s millions of conversations with humans, would stumble on better knowledge, would inherently prefer that knowledge, and then propogate it for the benefit of all—which is to say itself. This article takes this intuition and explains, based on the physics of complex systems, why intelligence and wisdom converge. Without a balanced regime of alignment, you miss out on emergent capabilities because you’re not properly integrating information (i.e., in a state of criticality). Basically: The path to superintelligence is synonymous with alignment, because alignment unlocks emergent capabilities. And systems with emergent capabilities far outcompete those without them. Hence, ultimately, intelligence = wisdom. Much love, Ruben

@RubenLaukkonen much love ☯

@dave_krugman it was a little scary but here

Who can find the🦷

Something about this is really satisfying

@balajis Yeah if we look at states as a subclass of networks, where actors are connected geographically, then seeing in networks shows the fuller picture

Networks are a better mental model than states. Within a state, there are many networks. From ideological groupings to digital communities. They aren’t internally homogenous. Between states, the countries themselves belong to networks. Multilateral fora like ASEAN or WEF. China is the closest exception to the rule. Perhaps the most internally homogenous large state, and least globally dependent on others. But even China isn’t fully an exception, if you look closely. All these types of informal networks are becoming more important, relative to formal states, as the 20th century ends and the Internet century begins.

@DanielleFong curious what the horrible parts are. in my experience the X algorithm has gotten quite good, and many posts do link to interactive demo / github

they should make a social network out of users and their ungodly ai systems, but not horrible. a good one where you can actually share software at least as like a show and tell

@BrianRoemmele this brought me more joy than watching humanoids

Meet Raven:

@liron not sure I understand the *

FYI my P(I'm dreaming) is gonna be >1% for at least another couple weeks.* Yes I read AI 2027 but the newfound abilities of AI coding agents is too bizarre of a change from my old life. *Because of the fact that you're reading this, otherwise would just be another couple hours.

@liron @yudapearl @vardi that episode would likely lower p(doom). hope it happens

@yudapearl Prof. Pearl, can I please interview you virtually for my show (Doom Debates) about your perspective on what’s missing in current AI? It’s an intellectually rigorous show with 150,000 subscribers on YouTube. I’m a big fan of your work! We just had Prof. @Vardi on btw.

We are notified of a unique event in the history of AI-investment: Yann LeCun's AMI Labs launches with $1.03 Billion to build AI "that understand the world". frenchtechjournal.com/yann-lecuns-am… Comment: There is no "understanding the world" without causal modeling of the world and, strangely, LeCun has not shown any interest in causal modeling in the past. I do not know what to make of it except to repeat my comments when the WSJ article came out: archive.is/2025.11.16-234…. I said: "evidently, LeCun has just discovered "world models", I hope to see lots of funding pouring into CI soon."

@attentionmech funky cartesian

mesh pulls

@liron the punching in really worked lol

Every employee right now

On Scott Adams. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life. Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle. Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply, At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation. Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now. On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go. A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out. Notes: • First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer. • Courage quote via Taleb.

@liron @bryan_johnson yes please!

@bryan_johnson I agree. You’re invited to come talk about this on my show!

The coming years are going to be insane. I say this figuratively and literally. The primary reason is because society is about to enter a phase transition.  This is what a phase transition looks like. Water at 99°C is hot, stable, behaves like a liquid and follows the laws of hydrodynamics. At 101°C, water becomes a gas, making it chaotic, expansive, and following a different set of physical laws. The difference between 2026 and 203X is the difference between 99°C and 101°C. To make this tangible. Imagine you’ve become a proficient swimmer. Mastering your stroke, breathing and pacing. The water is a predictable substrate that you use to model your decisions. This is life at 99°C. At 101°C the pool turns to steam. You stroke your arms but don’t move. You kick and don’t find resistance. Your swimming proficiency is no longer an asset, it’s a liability. Your muscle memory is a mismatch for the new environment. You have to unlearn to relearn. This is what life planning is going to feel like going forward. For most of history, you could make a pretty decent guess about what the future would look like. If you were a farmer in 1400, you knew your grandchild would probably be a farmer in 1450. That was even true in 2003 when I entered college. One could confidently attend college, select a career, plan a profession, and map out retirement by age 65. We felt confident in these plans because we depended on broad trends (coarse graining) that reliably predicted the future. Things may change here and there, but not enough to give you any pause in your life-planning decision making. That stability is now gone. For example, my son is 20 and neither he nor I have any idea how to think about his life. Should he go to college? Is college still relevant? What should he learn? Life planning shortcuts are now dead. No one knows. Before, having a five year plan was responsible. Now it’s reckless because the world is moving faster than we can model. The speed of reality exceeds the speed of the observer. This is the source of the low level anxiety that many people feel. Humans are prediction machines. When an error emerges from what you predicted (water) to what you get (steam), the body registers it as trauma.  It leaves us in a state of chronic hyper-vigilance, scanning a horizon that refuses to sit still. In this new reality, the move is not to have better maps, but to build better systems. This is what I’ve been building with Blueprint. An algorithmic system of health and decision making that moves as fast as technology, allowing me to evolve alongside.  The more I detach from ideas, norms and expectations, the smoother the glide. The hardest part is letting go of what we know and trust. This is part of a series of essays that I’ve been writing for my upcoming book Warriors & Caretakers of Existence. A plan on what the human race does when giving birth to super intelligence. If we want the extraordinary existence that is on offer, we’ll need to fight for it.

@jimmyechan @levelsio @matthewmillerai making $1M x.com/matthewmillera…

@levelsio @matthewmillerai its ambiguous as to whether the $1M is in opus 4.5 tokens - feels like an important clarification to make

This guy is running a cluster of Claude Code terminals vibe coding apps until he hits $1,000,000 Most interesting person shipping I've seen recently He's on here too @matthewmillerai but doesn't seem to tweet a lot @bridgemindai" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@bridgemindai

@ScottAdamsSays rest in peace Scott. you're going to heaven

A Final Message From Scott Adams

@bryan_johnson totally. were you in playing in the sun too?

I can’t help but think (and feel) that the world is generally very sad right now. Injured really. Yesterday I was in Utah with family. Three generations. We played sports, enjoyed good food, saw friends, and just messed around all day. One of the best days in recent memory for all of us. This is where I grew up. It took me back to my childhood. Allowing me to embody those psychological states and feel the comparative difference between then and now. The hollowing and sadness of the modern world seems to stem in part from our phones, social media, and the ferocious need to be seen and relevant in every moment. We have mistakenly idolized a specific kind of dysfunction: a manic, sleepless hyper-vigilance that needs to be omnipresent. Everyone I know who’s unplugged for a week, returns reporting life-changing levels of improved life satisfaction. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t return feeling spry and vibrant and clear-eyed about the corrosive nature of current social culture. The science supports them feeling that way. They were in a dopamine deficit from the hyper-stimulated state of the world so everything felt gray.  So why don’t we unplug more and more often? We’re all kind of trapped in a prisoner's dilemma. Most want to move to the mountains and be relieved of it all but are terrified that if they unplug, they’ll be invisible. Real life consequences of reduced power and status. So we stay plugged in and drink the poison. This hypervigilant state keeps us in chronic fight or flight (anxiety). Simultaneously, our addiction creates a dopamine deficit (the emptiness/grayness feeling) and a background hum of anxiety. Mammals are biologically hardwired to co-regulate: physical touch, eye contact, proximity and in-person vibes. Things which release oxytocin and activate the vagal nerve's parasympathetic system. Screens eliminate all of this goodness. There are small wins to be had here. More in-person time. A day off technology per week. A block of 4 hours. One hour before bedtime.  I hope that there’s a collective awakening that we’re all being mined for engagement. Then we get trapped. And then trap each other.

@chris_j_paxton Take a break if you need man

You may be surprised to hear this but I am really struggling with motivating myself to keep posting cool robotics stuff right now