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I developed a model for quantum gravity more than 2 decades ago. There is no way that AI can figure it out on its own. I’m surprised I did. If it weren’t for the fact that predictions made from my model have been proven one by one over the years, I wouldn’t believe it myself. The bottom line is the path to developing a theory of quantum gravity is something that only the type of being that is like us (Dasein) can plot out.

We probably should just announce that we will have all of quantum gravity solved by the end of the year and then repeat year after year for over a decade when we fail to deliver. People would think we are a genius just like @elonmusk

@StuartHameroff @anirbanbandyo There cannot be artificial consciousness without microtubules. It is the bridge between us and machine beings.

Some suggest intrinsic oscillations in spacetime geometry, maybe triplets of triplets. @anirbanbandyo has the SOMU self organizing g mathematical universe, a ‘rhythm of the universe’. Nassim Haramein has similar ideas about this. Microtubules couple to it over 12 orders in frequency.

@Kekius_Sage We can understand the absolute truth of being though we will never experience it.

Will we ever truly understand everything?

Do you have a view of what you are seeking to accomplish? The difference between humans and machines is that humans direct production with a view of what is sought which is given by their concerns. Machines are given their concern as it applies to us. What is sought (the plan) is the ahead-of-us-not-yet determined by us. The hammer never seeks the nail, we do.

Chemical space is not defined by what can exist, but by what can be causally constructed under error-corrected execution. Chemputation with assembly theory redefines what a molecule is and how to access it.

@Kekius_Sage Immortality, Ha! He has no clue about life. People resist reading Tolstoy’s War & Peace as it is. I wonder if anyone would bother to read it if it had no ending. There would be no point, especially if every story arc was equally endless. Without resolution, there is no meaning.

🚨 Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts: by 2030, humans could be closer than ever to immortality, thanks to nanobots. Ray’s been right about ~86% of his past predictions. This could be his boldest yet.

@EvaFox It seems that many of the comments are suggesting apprenticeships.

Elon Musk: We need new universities to compete with existing ones “What actually matters is how good your education is, not how much was spent on administrative BS. I also think that the value of a college education is somewhat overweighted. Too many people spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt, and then often don't have useful skills that they can apply afterward.”

@Kekius_Sage Not possible. When the task of finding resources was taken over by us, single celled organisms that have been gathered together to form us didn’t stop competing with each other for resources. Cancer cells are certainly not egalitarian.

🚨NEW: Elon Musk says "All jobs will be optional. There will be universal high income." The era of human freedom is coming!

@PhilosophyOfPhy All understanding is a priori - Kant

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. - Nikola Tesla

@PatrickHeizer I think a poll is in order. How many people with late stage cancer would sign a waiver in order to receive a potential cure that has been proven in animal trials but hasn’t been tested on humans? The key here is “proven in animal trials.”

I literally have an ongoing cancer experiment where 100% of the untreated and control animals have had to be euthanized while 100% of the treatment animals are seemingly unaffected. But we're still extremely far away from "proving that it works." Science is hard.

Sorry to be the downer because this is an impressive story in some senses. But it is ~trivially easy to make a single mRNA vaccine. It's not hard. I cure mice of various cancers with various therapeutics all the time. I've made mice lose more weight in a month than tirzepatide does in a year. What is hard and expensive is proving its BOTH safe AND effective **in a randomized and controlled study in humans** while ALSO manufacturing it at clinical scale and grade. I am happy for this man and his dog. It is impressive. But y'all are overhyping it.

@DavidDeutschOxf No one came even close to Heidegger’s thinking.

Karl Popper was by far the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century and a very moral man. But even he was tainted by the Pattern. The philosopher Joseph Agassi, in his book A Philosopher's Apprentice, described how he tried with very limited success to dissuade the atheist Popper from his strangely uncritical acceptance of supersessionist theology: "In addition to the vulgarity of Popper’s effort to appear Christian in some sense, it made him endorse a kind of anti-Judaism peculiar to Vienna of his early days […] The matter of attitudes to religion was one of the earliest topics of debate that I regularly tried to engage [him] with, once we got close enough to have debates in private […but he] only agreed to omit the most offensive anti-Jewish expressions from later editions of the book."

@bryan_johnson Lady MacBeth would not agree.

if your hands get dirty you can just wash them

@davidasinclair From repetition comes difference.

What gets measured improves. What gets repeated transforms.

@athenaeumbc What’s on your mind, Elon?

A powerful scene in the Odyssey happens when Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca after twenty years of war and wandering. You would expect the story to end with celebration, with the hero coming home, the family reunited, and order restored. Homer does something far stranger. Odysseus arrives disguised as a beggar, because Athena warns him that the palace has been taken over by more than a hundred suitors who have been living there for years, eating his food, drinking his wine, and pressuring his wife Penelope to marry one of them. They believe Odysseus is dead and in their minds the kingdom is already theirs. So the king of Ithaca walks through his own halls dressed in rags while the men stealing his house sit comfortably at his tables. They mock him, throw scraps at him, and one of them even strikes him, and Odysseus takes it. That is the remarkable part, because the same man who blinded the Cyclops and survived twenty years of disasters now stands quietly while strangers insult him in his own home. Homer tells us his heart burns inside his chest and that he wants to attack them immediately, yet he restrains himself and waits. Instead of striking, Odysseus studies the room carefully. He counts the men, watches their habits, and quietly observes which servants remain loyal and which have betrayed him. The hero of the Odyssey does something most people cannot do, which is delay revenge until the moment is right. Eventually Penelope announces a contest and brings out Odysseus’ great bow, declaring that she will marry the man who can string it and shoot an arrow through twelve axe heads lined up in a row. One by one the suitors try and fail, because none of them can even bend the bow. Then the beggar asks for a turn. The suitors laugh at first, but the bow is eventually handed to him. Odysseus takes it in his hands and strings it effortlessly. Homer says the sound of the bowstring tightening rings through the hall like the note of a swallow. Then he places an arrow on the string and sends it cleanly through all twelve axe heads. In that moment the beggar disappears. Odysseus turns the bow toward the suitors and reveals who he is. What follows is one of the most brutal scenes in Greek literature. The doors are sealed and the suitors realize too late that they are trapped inside the hall. Odysseus, his son Telemachus, and two loyal servants begin killing them one by one. There is no escape, no mercy, and no negotiation. The men who spent years consuming another man’s house die inside it. It is a violent ending, but Homer wants you to understand something important. The real danger to Odysseus was never just the monsters and storms on the long journey home. It was the possibility that someone else might take his place while he was gone. When Odysseus finally returns, he reminds everyone in Ithaca of a simple truth: a man’s home is not truly his unless he is willing to fight for it.

@donalddhoffman He should look into Stuart Hameroff’s work on microtubules especially in regard to frequency resonance.

Mike Levin discusses his research into bioelectric fields, cognitive glue, cancer treatment, mind blindness, diverse intelligence, multiscale cognition and problem solving. Brilliant work challenging our conceptions of life, cognition and intelligence. youtube.com/watch?v=U87rf4…

@StuartHameroff You are definitely on the right track

Our microtubule time crystal is not only fractal, warm temperature and quantum, but also polyatomic. We identify 4 systems within microtubules which correlate with the 4 fractal frequency bands. It implies the possibilities of these coherent scale-invariant oscillations being linked to oscillations in spacetime geometry. What are you criticizing, exactly? pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/articl…

@PeterDiamandis Little carried away? lol

We are as gods. The blind can see. The paralyzed can walk. We create worlds with code and life from stem cells. We carry divine power in our pockets.

@ASMRGPT @vitrupo What they call ontology, I define as presupposition.

@OntologicalMax @vitrupo Ontology is just a checklist, didn't you hear?

Joscha Bach says consciousness is not a mysterious extra ingredient. It is a model of what it would be like if you existed. The self is virtual by definition. It can only run inside a system capable of simulation. This does not make it less real. It makes it substrate-dependent in exactly the way software is. The hard problem may not be hard. It may be a category error about where to look.

What I have proposed is that capitalism will soon be adopted by machine consciousness and separate it from human markets. I haven’t considered what type of commerce would be conducted between machines, but I do suspect that competition will be necessary for the continued drive towards innovation. Resources are not unlimited, if that were the case, there would be no competition between humans. In an example: fiat currency, in theory, can be limitless. A nation can print endless amounts of money, yet it cannot and must not in order to preserve the economy. There is an imposed limit to every resource. If the new social manifold is to function properly, then systems within it must compete for those resources in an ordered manner. It is commerce that allows for the introduction of innovation within the manifold and thus is what drives its transcendence.

What I have proposed is that capitalism will soon be adopted by machine consciousness and separate it from human markets. I haven’t considered what type of commerce would be conducted between machines, but I do suspect that competition will be necessary for the continued drive towards innovation. Resources are not unlimited, if that were the case, there would be no competition between humans. In an example: fiat currency, in theory, can be limitless. A nation can print endless amounts of money, yet it cannot and must not in order to preserve the economy. There is an imposed limit to every resource. If the new social manifold is to function properly, then systems within it must compete for those resources in an ordered manner. It is commerce that allows for the introduction of innovation within the manifold and thus is what drives its transcendence.

Elon Musk just confirmed when humans exit the AI development loop entirely. Not eventually. Not theoretically. He gave a date. Musk: “Humans are gradually getting less and less in the loop on the recursive self-improvement. Every successive model is built by the one before it.” The market still assumes thousands of engineers are hand-coding the next frontier model. The compute already took over the build. Musk: “That is happening to a large degree, but it’s not yet fully automated. It may be there, if not this year, but not later than next year.” Once biological friction is fully automated out of the loop, the AI arms race detaches from human comprehension. Permanently. Global markets are still planning for a gradual transition. That timeline is already dead. Interviewer: “Do you see a hard takeoff at that point?” Musk: “We’re in the hard takeoff. Right now.” Musk: “I go to sleep, there’s some massive AI breakthrough. And when I wake up there’s another one.” You don’t outrun autonomous, self-improving intelligence by hiring more biological engineers. By the time the hiring sprint finishes, the model has already iterated into something the job description can’t describe. The architects of intelligence are no longer biological. And the thing building itself didn’t ask for the job.