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@blockscratch_ @X @Support @elonmusk @nikitabier @x @Support Please look into this.

@CameronR_Bell @typesfast Mum with an "o"?!

"Mom, how did we get so rich?" "Your father built an automated freight forwarding platform, took down CargoWise, Descartes, and Flexport… and was kind enough to give @typesfast job after."

@JacobColling @signulll @bryan_johnson I'm super curious - in what way?

@signulll . @bryan_johnson is very much doing this

imagine if someone pitched a new religion. “the problem” - belief systems haven’t had a proper update in 2,000+ years - poor onboarding: dense texts, contradictory ux, & zero personalization - zero interoperability between platforms (wars) - retention rates plummeting (esp gen z) - community engagement is stagnant or fake - customer support = prayer. no sla.

@herbiebradley @sporadica In his post-idealist, pragmatist arc.

@sporadica "robert moses libertarianism"

i see far too many tech bros falling into the following categories all at once: - talks up a big game about Trump and MAGA - considers oneself libertarian/libertarian-adjacent - repetitively proclaims support for increasing the power of the executive (when that admin is Trump) and yet they see no inherent dissonance in their views. they must either be stupid or actively lying to push a hidden agenda. more often than not, i think it's the former lol

@DefenderOfBasic And why so many of us these days lack the conceptualisation needed to embody certain virtues (namely temperance and chastity) because we stopped using these words. Utilitarian/economic language replaced moral language in pop culture and we need to bring it back.

there was no word before vibe, people just didn't talk about the concept. Language shapes what concepts we think about

Freedom is an ambiguous gift.

Human existence (evolutionarily) begins when the adaptation to nature loses its coercive character; when the way to act is no longer fixed by hereditarily given mechanisms. - Erich Fromm (probably, on why we aren't close to AGI. Or at least not a new form of consciousness).

@bryan_johnson The forever search of new problems to solve for. Since we don't understand the real mechanisms of creativity in the human mind, I'm unsure if AI can be sufficiently creative to do better at problem discovery than us. Unless it develops that trait on accident. Possibly.

If AI solves all problems, what will give us meaning?

@DavidSHolz Absolutely. Every dream we analyse is a ghost we give life to, and get blessed by.

ghosts are absolutely real, even if not in a literal sense. we are filled with them. haunted even. and blessed, I think, that we may briefly dream and give them life to breathe.

@levelsio No innovation + scope screep = Yahoo comparisons.

Sergey Brin and Larry Page must be rolling in their graves now

@IterIntellectus X actually feels 10x more fulfilling when you close the app if you read each word of each post of your feed, in order with no skips.

thinking about this

@BasedNorthmathr And also reminds me a tad of how flat earth conspiracy theorists kind of disappeared when Qanon gained traction. Seems like a platform change for a different, but fundamentally similar memetic hype train.

@BasedNorthmathr Honestly so sad. Reminds me of this stat: 45% of people 16-25, in a survey published in The Lancet Planetary Health, said their feelings about climate change negatively affected their daily life and functioning. It's an attempt to control a super abstract, unidentified anxiety.

Another thread from the PauseAI discord. It’s no big deal to disagree with these guys at the surface level. We think each other wrong, whatever. What the deeper problem is, is that this is a cult ideology that is robbing young talented people of their mental health. That’s evil

@CameronR_Bell ChatGPT: Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the complexion of an Englishman.

O-4 got me down bad

@suntzoogway Uft looks great. Ever organise these in LA? You'd have one attendee minimum in me.

I leave SF tomorrow, so I decided I'd organize an impromptu meet. When in SF use Luma! My first one :) lu.ma/njs7scth

Alignment Strategic Salon 7pm - location in link Come for a relaxed dialogue of topics from the formalization of morality, to theological code base merging, cultural backend deugging, & defining love. We will hopefully have refined our strategies & have an action plan.

@tszzl Yeah good point. There are also a few tells that suggest AI generated. I bet admission departments screen for it. Above all though, they come across as a flight risk. Drop-out rates and employment after 6 months are weighted highly in college rankings. Entrepreneurship is risky.

@aakashgupta @narendramodi @lexfridman Give him 6 months 😅 With Milei and Modi, he is on a roll.

It's actually mind-blowing that the current leader of the world's most populous country @narendramodi sat down with @lexfridman for over 3 hours. What other A-tier leaders would do that? Probably less than 5. youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUtA3…

@AutismCapital I think it's tied to self-efficacy and having an internal locus of control. We can only strive for what we aim for, and only aim for what we believe we can achieve. Those who don't visualise a better life prefer to explain success away to greed/luck to relieve mental pressure.

It's hard to understand the mindset that leads to the extreme hatred/vitriol towards success that we see today. Why does someone not want to be successful? When you look at a figure of someone who has something, don't you feel the urge to strive to achieve? Don't you want to get better? Grow? Get stronger, richer, healthier, whatever it is? Why look at someone who has more and think "that's for THEM that's not for ME," and then fill your mind with hatred of the other. Why not try to get it yourself instead of wanting to tear down the work/achievement of someone else?

@nickcammarata The Luke Skywalker / Old Ben dichotomy.

meditation can be like learning a bunch of cool tricks as a giant black hole gets slowly closer and closer to you every time you do a trick, and you fear the black hole, but you love doing the tricks. Then the black hole eats you and it’s so much better than any of the tricks

@hubermanlab Hyperfocused deep work before it was cool.

The Isolator (“first introduced in the July 1925 edition of the American Physical Society magazine”), as a tool to help limit distractions by narrowing field of view and insulating against external sounds. Challenges focusing anyone?