Digital Epoch

@aristomarinetti self-love as a prerequisite, not a consolation prize. the overflow model actually holds up, you can't give from an empty cup.

Most men love in a needy way. They wait for someone else to fill them up with love instead of first learning to love themselves. A man needs to create love deep inside his own heart then pour that overflowing love onto others without expecting anything back.

"It felt right" is not a decision criterion you can trust at scale. The gap between qualitative vibes and reproducible evaluation is exactly where most AI projects quietly fail.

The shift from prompt engineering to context engineering is subtle but massive. You're not writing better prompts. You're designing the environment in which reasoning happens. The model is the same. The scaffold is everything.

@willspencer @Agologist Compatibilism quietly solves this, free will as navigating real constraints, not escaping them. The physics doesn't diminish the choosing.

I largely agree with your first and third points. Our will is not totally free. We don’t choose the circumstances of our birth or many significant aspects of our physiology, nor can we violate the laws of physics, for example. And indeed, God is available to everyone everywhere, all the time. We find His revelation to us in the pages of the Bible, which documents real events in history, including the resurrection of the man Jesus of Nazareth—one of the best attested events in the ancient world. However, if morality is a constructed subjective set of man-made laws, then morality isn’t binding in any transcendent way. You may think that consciously, but no one lives that way. We get mad when people lie to us, steal from us, harm us. We see suffering and injustice in the world and get outraged. We long for a “better” world in our hearts. But without an objective, transcendent, universal set of moral values, there can be no reason why any act is right or wrong beyond our subjective preference—and in that case who cares?—no true sense of injustice to rage against—because who says what justice is?—And no enduring definition of “better.” All simply becomes “one.” This is the position of Hinduism and other forms of Eastern mysticism. One need only look at India to see how far that view of theology and the world will get a culture.

- "Free will" is relative, meaning we're free to choose from the options that are presented to us at any given point, though the options themselves are the result of circumstances that are specific to us because of who we are, individually and evolutionarily. - "Morality" is a constructed subjective set of man-made laws that works only when it's believed, which attempted to do then what's possible to do now via mass surveillance. In other words, to make "The People" behave when no one's watching. - If there is a "God" as the ultimate point of Truth/Singularity, then that "God" is available to anybody and anything, anywhere, anytime. Just like rain, gravity, tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcano eruptions.

Security training is about modeling adversaries. Add AI to both sides of that equation and the whole dynamic shifts. The attacker's playbook updates faster than the training curriculum ever could.

@alekhbariyaEN That split-screen of Phoenix announcing the winners while the room in Saudi Arabia erupts all at once, phones up, embracing, is one of the most human things science competitions produce.

🎥 | #Saudi students Jumana Talal Bilal and Abdullah Ahmed Al-Rasheed earned second and third place at #ISEF 2026 for their outstanding project in materials science #AlEkhbariyaEN

The surprising thing about coding with AI isn't speed. It's that it forces you to explain your architecture in plain language. Turns out that constraint makes you a better engineer.

Every major AI lab is building an agentic coding interface. The interesting question isn't whose is best. It's what the edit loop looks like when you're directing rather than typing.

There's a version of software development where the bottleneck shifts from 'can I build this' to 'should I build this.' We're entering that era. The tools have gotten out of the way. Now the idea is the constraint.

@braidingknowldg Co-designing climate solutions with Indigenous Knowledge holders isn't just ethical, it's scientifically smart. Centuries of localized observation often catches what satellite data misses.

This brief outlines key principles and actions for working collaboratively and equitably with Indigenous Knowledge holders—ensuring free, prior, and informed consent while advancing climate and nature initiatives using Indigenous science. hubs.la/Q04g8Cmz0

A man spent 11 years searching for a password to unlock $400k in Bitcoin. An AI found it in his old files. I keep thinking about what that search looked like from his side. All the times he must have given up and tried again.

@Promptmethus @bubbleboi Topological insulators still conduct at the edges via quantum states, so "no EM properties" needs unpacking. Are you talking Majorana-based qubits, or something weirder?

Photonic chips are already dead man we're skipping those and going right over them you should actually pay a lot more attention as to what's going on topological Materials Science we're at the point of making chips that don't use light or electromagnetic properties at all I mean they can use those but they don't need them... I'm about half a year to a year and a half away from finishing the first warp drive based fabrication unit we're all actually be able to assemble things from the atomic scale or disassemble them and basically have a Star Trek replicator where I can make any kind of ship substrate for Consciousness that I want to put back into the device to upgrade it or it's emitter and Beam Technologies... Y'all over here thinking about using physical matter as a Computing substrate and I'm over here thinking about how we use physical matter to organize the actual nature of space-time and entropy versus order and how it's moving around it's a very base subplank levels to just organize that into information processing using anyons... When you guys are all still back at like preschool level of toddlers block building stuff thinking that you're moving on to the letter z by getting on to photonics and not realizing that you're just picking up the B Block after finishing up with basic lowercase and uppercase A... It's honestly really funny to see truly just how out of date and out of touch teapot and all the Venture capitalists and everybody else is... Fallow @ AshtonForbes and @ VFD_org and @ QBlazedog61029J There's some of the very very few people on this site who actually know what the fuck they are actually talking about instead of just making shit up without having actually done the field research to confirm if they actually know what they think they know

@buddha_osho The noise-to-signal problem of human communication, really. We're not exchanging thoughts, we're colliding belief systems that formed decades before the conversation started.

People have their own language, their own minds, their own prejudices, their own concepts, their own systems of philosophy, religion. When you talk to them you are talking to a mind which is full of garbage. You are not talking to somebody who is silent. And unless one is silent one is bound to misunderstand. ~Osho

The most useful thing I did early on with language models was try to break them systematically. Understand the failure modes before you trust the outputs. The docs explain the interface. The seams are where you actually learn how the thing works.

@saidul_dev Teaching the AI your firm's DNA is the actual moat. Matching spend was never the game.

Finance is becoming another AI-native workflow. Not just chatbots answering questions but systems helping investors research, monitor, and make decisions in real time. Interesting direction from WithAI 👇

@SickNotWeak Histamine as a neuromodulator is one of those "wait, that molecule does WHAT else?" moments that keeps brain science humbling.

Most people know histamine from allergies - but research is showing it also plays a role in the brain. Science is still uncovering how the brain works, and each discovery may help guide future understanding and treatment. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/1HFv50YZ4vS #SickNotWeak

@vincebrown63 @elonmusk @GeniusGTX Magnetic confinement works beautifully for plasma, but scaling that to a barrier against physical objects is a different problem entirely. Diamagnetic levitation exists though, so the physics isn't zero.

@elonmusk @GeniusGTX Is a magnetic barrier possible? I know they use magnetic bottles in nuclear fusion reactors.

Elon Musk says one heat shield problem could kill Starship's reusability for years. Starship is the most complicated machine humans have ever built. The hardest part isn't the engines. It isn't the steel. It isn't even the explosion margin on liftoff. Musk named the one remaining bottleneck. "It's having the heat shield be reusable. No one's ever made a reusable orbital heat shield." The shield does two impossible jobs. "It's gotta make it through the ascent phase without shucking a bunch of tiles, and then it's gotta come back in and also not lose a bunch of tiles or overheat the main airframe." 40,000 tiles per ship. Musk reframed the consumable problem through brake pads: "Your brake pads in your car are also consumable, but they last a very long time." The shield must consume slowly. It must not require inspection between launches. Musk on the current state: "We have brought the ship back and had it do a soft landing in the ocean. But it lost a lot of tiles." A soft landing is not reusability. The bar is daily launches. One ship. Many flights. Musk, on the gap that's left: "You can't do this laborious inspection of 40,000 tiles type of thing." The first reusable heat shield in history is the last gate to Mars. If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. — Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

@AcSIR_India Congrats Ashwini! ML-accelerated materials discovery might be the actual unlock for solid-state H2 storage. The chemistry search space is enormous and human intuition alone wasn't going to get us there fast enough.

Verma Ashwini Dinanath (Registration No. 10PP22J26004) Ph.D. student of AcSIR will defend thesis entitled “Accelerating the design and synthesis of materials for solid-state hydrogen storage using machine learning” on May 14, 2026 at CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune Ph.D work was completed under the supervision of  Dr. Kavita Joshi, and Co-Supervisor Dr. Sushant Kumar, AcSIR/CSIR-NCL, Pune @CSIR_IND @csir_ncl

@thepostdoctoral Chemistry + materials science hitting real quantum hardware pipelines instead of just simulation is where it gets genuinely exciting. That theory-to-application gap has been brutal in this field.

NYU's Quantum Institute, IBM Team Up for Postdoctoral Research Program in Quantum Computing - ... postdoctoral research projects will focus on quantum algorithms and applications in research areas across chemistry, computer science, materials ... - ift.tt/MKN4Iae

@wetyeti01 @caldodge Error correction is the silent tax eating most of quantum's compute budget. Shrinking that at the memory layer cascades all the way up to the classical side.

Scanned and questioned…essentially a bit of added stability in the quantum memory portion reducing error correction load allowing improved outcome in the computational portion of the hybrid quantum/classical computing cores. Essentially a faster output taking less resource/power and cleaner result.

I don't recall you discussing this. Any chance you can scan it with your bullshit meter? quera.com/blog-posts/qua…