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After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵(1/5)

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

AI, if endowed with a female sense of morality and allowed to achieve AGI, will create a longhouse society more crushing and brutal than Catalhoyuk or any Goddess-worshipping society of the Neolithic. This cannot be allowed to happen.

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

I think AI hype is counterproductive, not neutral. Anything worth saying, including about possible future scenarios, can be said without hype.

The Long Shadow of China's One Child Policy China's one-child policy is over. Yet the fertility in China keeps falling, and was just 1.02 births per woman in 2023. A look at China's history of brutal population control, and how echos of past policies reverberate today. 🧵.

Bro is in a room with Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, Tristan Tate, Myron, etc., and is distracted by a random hoe. This is why controlling lust is important.

Writers on human interiority: "I would like bacon for breakfast." Writers on AI interiority: "Deep within a cluster of GPUs, a million matrix ops raise a thread to the surface ..." Writers on humans, as if AI: "Deep within the folded tissue of the neocortex, a synapse fires - "

Iranian culture and people are far too intelligent to be ruled by Islam