Ben Wilson

The Cancer Episode > My diagnosis and prognosis > What this means for How to Take Over the World > A few thoughts on death > See below for links to GoFundMe, etc.

@PatWolf Congrats, Patrick! More Wolfs in the world is a good thing.

My wife and I are blessed with a fourth girl, coming soon

Intimacy is sharing something with another person that you don’t share with anyone else. Most people will only ever experience intimacy via sexual exclusivity with their partner. Therefore we equate intimacy with sex. But soldiers naturally experience intimacy with their comrades. This is why friendship forged in war has always had a whiff of homoeroticism. The only people who regularly experience this exclusivity of experience are lovers and brothers-in-arms.

Videos like this continually disprove the “acktually Achilles and Patroclus were gay” argument. They weren’t. Just like these soldiers here they were true comrades-at-arms, forging a bond very few understand or know.

@Sheum_Search Wow great find. Journal of Discourses?

The original George Q Cannon quote is much more based than the apocryphal quote attributed to Brigham Young that smug members bastardize and beat over the head of our young men with, and much more relevant to our days than we realize.

I just had my mind ripped apart in the best way by one of the greatest stories ever. The Shackleton mission to cross the antartic by land. Heard it on an episode of @BenWilsonTweets's How To Take Over The World podcast. If you want to break your limiting beliefs about what you are capable of through sheer mental fortitude and grit, listen to the episode. It's not enough to just know what happened, the emotional impact is in all the details.

@PanosDKS I like Eggers and I wish I liked his movies more. They look great, but they leave me cold for some reason.

@BenWilsonTweets Robert Eggers>

People arguing about Villeneuve vs Nolan but Damien Chazelle is the best director working today.

@ImChaseMohseni I agree 100%. A bit of a mess but it has 4-5 genuinely great moments, the type that most directors never achieve in their whole career.

@BenWilsonTweets Babylon has greatest in it. Needed to be 40 minutes shorter. But that might have been the point.

@dan_lefev First Man

@BenWilsonTweets What is the crashed plane movie?

@SP1NS1R @breakingyoun I like memento - it just misses the list for me. I haven’t seen prisoners tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@BenWilsonTweets @breakingyoun Realizing no Prisoners or Memento either. Surprisingly different lists.

it's not even a contest. also, nolan is a writer director.

@SP1NS1R @breakingyoun Yes you do! Basically every story in “Stories of your life and others” is great.

@BenWilsonTweets @breakingyoun I’m not sure I can trust your judgement anymore. But I’ll admit I haven’t read the original. Haven’t read much Chiang tbh. Need to.

Nolan can’t do action. Every action sequence is just a total slog that you’re just waiting to end. Inception is his worst example of this. Odyssey was also really bad I was just waiting for the suitor vs Odysseus fight sequence to end. Prestige and Interstellar are his best movies in part because they don’t have fight sequences to slow them down.

@BenWilsonTweets @SP1NS1R I totally agree disagree about Dark Knight I think even if you took the Joker out ( if that were somehow possible), it's just a terrific "crime epic" thriller, like Heat.

@SP1NS1R @breakingyoun Dark Knight is a subpar movie with the exception of Heath Ledger’s performance. Arrival I admit I’m a bit biased. I love the short story and the movie probably suffered because of unfair comparison in my mind.

@BenWilsonTweets @breakingyoun Arrival and Dark Knight have arguments for #1 and aren’t even in your Top 10??

My first interview with @sama, Co-Founder of @OpenAI. 0:04 How to start a startup 3:30 Trusting exponentials 4:57 Operating in chaotic environments 6:12 Learning to enjoy painful experiences 8:03 Creating abundant intelligence 11:15 Keeping core suppliers on OpenAI’s timelines 12:10 Invention of the joint-stock company 15:30 The best CEOs aren’t sociopaths 16:46 We are in the singularity 18:09 AI authoritarianism vs liberty 19:24 Texting 300-400 people a day 20:32 Having a small number of deep beliefs about the future 21:41 Critical path 22:25 Thinking about what’s next 23:38 Getting on planes in marginal situations 28:16 Buying lots of compute 30:51 Ambition 34:00 Google shouldn’t have let OpenAI survive 37:54 Having his life shot through a cannon after the launch of ChatGPT 41:20 The growth of Codex 42:02 The Death Star tweet 44:46 Status games and desire to be useful 47:57 Not being ambitious enough on compute investments 50:26 Execution 51:45 Ask for what you want 54:11 First few weeks of OpenAI 55:15 Shutting down Sora to focus on Codex 57:44 Designing beautiful products 59:01 Getting addicted to TikTok 1:01:03 Inventing a new device 1:02:53 Try to get better at your strengths 1:05:57 Masa is an n of 1 1:07:11 Real trends vs fake trends

Constitutional Action means dissolving governments that violate Americans' right to equal protection under the law, & prosecuting the responsible judges, DAs etc

@Sheum_Search Woah

“Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time, you have to give up other lives you could be living... You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished" - Steve Jobs

Surviving pioneers from 1847 - 50 Year Jubilee Temple Square, 1897

The most inspiring AI story to date is finally becoming a film. Outsiders used AI to resurrect a lost library of ancient Greek and Roman books, unreadable for 2,000 years. "Vesuvius Challenge," led by @InfiniteF8lms w/ Ridley Scott & Guy Pearce