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@isaiah_p_taylor @JoshuaSteinman Godspeed.

Valar Atomics is on track to make power before July 4th in our Ward250 reactor. But before we do that, I asked the team to look back at Project Nova and reflect on what we learned. We also got some footage of Nova declassified and are sharing it here for the first time. Enjoy!

Inglourious Basterds 2 sneak preview

@astupple @peterrhague And I read the book

@astupple @peterrhague IMAX now while the theaters are packed.

Andy Weir enthusiasts - Should I watch Project Hail Mary first or read the book?

@christiandean_ I think it might be cheaper to go on vacation to the US and find yourself a wife

Update on BetterEU: Grok managed to review about 120 regulations before my system broke. Turns out it's hard to design a robust design for an ongoing, highly async fetch and review of 140,000 documents. My strategy before was this: -> Fetch all celex IDs for every regulation per year -> Fetch and store every regulation using an API -> Pass a document to Grok for review and store the review And those 3 stages have to work unattended over 2-4 days, over 140,000 items. But those 3 stages are all gigantic sources of error, because they all depend on making network requests. And despite getting a working system, I eventually got IP blocked by the EU site where I fetched regulations due to fetching so many. So I had to rethink how to do this and make it simpler. Then I remembered that @nathanmarz at @redplanetlabs published Agent o Rama, an agent building and tracing application built on Rama. I was already using Rama, so I thought I would try AOR. AOR makes the creation of an asynchronous LLM agent easy. And I also realised that Grok can use web-search as a tool to fetch regulation documents itself with just a Celex ID. So my approach now is much simpler. I fetched all celex IDs for every regulation *in advance* and hardcoded them to a local file. No source of error. Then I construct a queue of 1 to 10 IDs in a Rama module and pass the queue to the Grok agent running in my AgentModule where it searches for the document, reviews, and stores the review in a single API call. This is significantly more expensive as Grok's web-search tool is $5 per 1k tokens!! But it's significantly more simple because there's a single HTTP call to make. So my app now has two Rama modules: 1. MainModule which constructs the queue and passes to the agen 2. AgentModule which uses Agent o Rama to create the Grok agent for reviewing regulations and storing results. We'll see how far this approach goes.

There's a feeling of absurdity that the Many Minds theory is true. But that is no more absurd than there being consciousness at all, and that consciousness arises as an emergent property of mechanical processes. Once you accept that consciousness comes from hardware and software and that we are computers, accepting the multiverse theory and many minds is natural.

We give Many Worlds [interpretation] a hard time, but we give theories which are clearly nonsensical a very easy time, like the wave-particle duality theory..." ~Conjecture Institute Fellows @Sam_kuyp w/ @maria__violaris

@ValentineKean9 @christiandean_ lol for the record, i have no dog in this fight and i haven't even played any dino game

@christiandean_ @JesseNichols 'Hmph- peasants'😜 Haven't you ever heard of Dino D Day?! The Burnout3: Takedown of Gran Turismo and NfS 'Plebs'😂👍🐳

BTW it's my dream to one day build the highest fidelity robot dinosaurs and make a 24hr survival experience with them. KAIST built a raptor bot which can run 46kmh (30 mph) 11 years ago. I would start there. If anyone actually wants to do this I will drop everything for it.

@aasthajs What do you think about dangerous UV indexes? What's your threshold??

Most people think sunlight is UV, blue and infrared. It is in fact 11 different wavelengths: blue, violet, green, UVA... And each serve a unique purpose beyond Vit D. Cognition, hair growth, better vision, blood flow to name just a few.

@nivi @PaulRRobichaud explains and enacts this strongly.

One of the profound insights of reading Deutsch is that theories can be improved with pure reason. Theories don’t need to be tested to be improved, and almost all theories simply cannot be tested.

@patialaprats Figuring out artificial evolution looks promising. Doing philosophy research into free will and qualia. Follow @dela3499 and Constructor Theory work by Deutsch and Marletto

@JesseNichols Okay, so how do we create AGI - What should they be doing instead?

Elon, Altman, Dario, Hassabis etc. do not understand that the most scarce resource is always the universal creativity of people. Not servers, not energy production, not chip fabs. The G in AGI is General—as in the ability to create knowledge universally. Not just in creating software, or creating biotech, but in unifying seemingly disconnected domains into one. Think Maxwell and electromagnetism. AIs are being trained in specific domains, but their outputs are only useful when selected by a person's general imagination. AIs inputs are also a product of our general intelligence, not some oracle or black box of wisdom. It's us, our creations distilled and remixed. We are organic universal imaginers. AGI has been watered down to mean almost nothing. @DavidDeutschOxf's theory of mind is the only world view that unifies computation and evolutionary epistemology. Brain=hardware constrained by memory and processing speed. Mind=software constrained only by failures of imagination and the laws of physics. The more people and companies anthropomorphize llms, the more actual AGI research will suffer. Frontier AI Labs are not doing AGI research, they are just doing impressive software development. We won't foom to AGI, but we will make incredible progress in scaling these systems to the benefit of the children of the enlightenment, us.

GrapheneOS is looking better every day... grapheneos.org

@ToKTeacher @DylanoA4 The Beginning of Infinity is such a lighter read compared to Gödel, Escher, Bach, so light that once you grab hold of it, you will ascend into the cosmos into progress escape velocity.

@DylanoA4 Good. Now you are ready for

It changed my perception of what a book could be

Go play with your friends, you're never too old

@astupple This is wild because Steve Jobs was the majority shareholder of Pixar before they sold to Disney. And now the villain in a Pixar movie is one of Steve Jobs' creations...

Freedom vs. nostalgia.

@ToKTeacher @DoctorKarl @grok Ooo jeez

@JesseNichols @DoctorKarl According to @grok - YOU said it Jesse 😉👍 grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…

Faraday "I hold my theories on the tips of my fingers, so that the merest breath of fact will blow them away". twitter.com/flyorra/status…

@StoutBlackthorn @Andercot @PaulRoundy1 still zero argument or "ᴘнιlσѕσρну"

Atheists: "God doesn't explain anything, you just assume a first cause without any reason" Meanwhile cosmologists: