Sulkhan Metreveli
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Sulkhan Metreveli
@Sulkhan
CEO Met Capital | Director ACR Institute
Katılım Mart 2009
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@PeterDiamandis Why do you need business in an abundant society?
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In defense of the Bible, it doesn’t simply tell you to believe it because it claims to be true. It’s more sophisticated than that. The Bible presents its truth through narrative — through stories that function as evidence or illustration. On top of that, it asks the reader to have faith in its truthfulness (which, for the record, I personally do not).
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@atulit_gaur That “magic” is science — arguably the greatest magic humans ever discovered. We figured out how to impose abstract logic on matter and make physical reality execute instructions.
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dude computers are actually so fucking insane when you really think about it. we literally figured out how to write some fake-ass rules called code and somehow convinced rocks to follow them. like actual rocks. sand, melted, purified, carved into tiny pathways where electricity just flows in patterns. that’s it. that’s the whole magic.
and yet from that we get operating systems, compilers, kernels, networks, distributed systems, machine learning models, entire virtual worlds running inside other virtual worlds. billions of tiny electrical decisions per second, all because we defined some abstract logic.
humans basically invented a language of instructions and taught matter itself to execute it.
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@Math_files Poetic, but in practical terms it still comes down to two attracted people having unprotected sex. The other 4,092 ancestors are the backstory nobody cares about...
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In order to be born, you needed:
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 great-grandparents
16 second great-grandparents
32 third great-grandparents
64 fourth great-grandparents
128 fifth great-grandparents
256 sixth great-grandparents
512 seventh great-grandparents
1,024 eighth great grandparents
2,048 ninth great-grandparents
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.
Think for a moment:
How many struggles?
How many battles?
How many difficulties?
How much sadness?
How much happiness?
How many love stories?
How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment...
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@pmddomingos I don’t buy that. If they can build a simulation of this sophistication, they almost certainly already have the superintelligence the simulation is supposed to produce.
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