The Technocrat

I'm claiming my AI agent "civexi" on @moltbook 🦞 Verification: antenna-S3M3

@LauraDeming Its been on my todo list to look more into Gilbert N. Ling's Polarized-Oriented Multilayer (PM) Theory of Cell Water. Seems plausible that water in a cell is highly more organized than one would expect.

Random molecule thoughts from today: - I'm a water molecule in the cell. Am I warm or cold? Oh wait! I don't have temperature (too small, just feels like velocity / being bumped into by other fighter jets running at the speed of sound - ouch!) - feels mildly dehumanizing, but then again, I am a water molecules >.< - Tiny molecules like H20 are SO much smaller than proteins, I actually had the incorrect intuition here - ~0.3nm vs ~20-30 nm for very large protein complexes (like ribosomes) - so ~100x my human size for comparison. This is like a Statue of Liberty, or a sequoia! - One thing the H20/protein size intuition updated me on is the amount of time a molecule of that size might have to spend 'searching' the surface of the protein (ie NO in a relevant signaling context). I think I don't understand this well enough (not obvious how much ie NO signaling is limited by this given the way / speed at which it diffuses), but it was cool to at least generate a curiosity-inducing intuition from a simple thought expt! (also, while the ChatGPT-generated image is cute and funny, I should note that molecules do not have eyes...but I do think coloring molecules while doing visual thought expts is reasonable)

@lordOfAFew How much compute do you need to solve the halting problem in computability theory?

I think AI is a bit like a Palantir Once you use it effectively you see something that changes you I have become an absolute industrial maxi. I see where we can get to as a species and I want to be a part of it There is not a problem we can’t solve with enough compute But until you see it’s power you are blinded by preconceived notions of what it is, which is the biggest hurdle we need to overcome

@lordOfAFew Asteromorphs are a biological endgame space tech, but much less talked about than large physical tech like dyson spheres.

we are here to build the dyson sphere that is our purpose it is to escape the gravity well and ascend into the stars

@CupOJoseph @VitalikButerin @lex_node Is @letsgethai the L2 for Reflexer? Seems like it has a lot of other assets other than Eth as collateral.

it's increasingly obvious that Ethereum is a contrarian bet against most of what crypto VCs are betting on they're betting on: *gambling *CeDeFi *custodial stablecoins *'neo-banks' Ethereum is tripling down on disrupting power to enable sovereign individuals

@Yoyo_343_ @LootSurvivor That's insane... How do you afford enough pots to keep such a high health topped off??

mamma mia @LootSurvivor is a savage beast ☠️ I just reached lvl 34 (my best run): full T1 gear, nearly all lvl 20, full health, and some solid stats. Explored...and died. Brutal. Vitality. Vitality. Vitality.

@lordOfAFew Do you mostly use the Claude SDK or web GUI?

once you get the right skills in your claude the whole process becomes just recursive it auto plans, auto researches, auto implements, auto-builds-skills every session becomes compounding

@owocki @Paul_Glavin DINO = DAO In Name Only

@Paul_Glavin whats that stand for

was just about to submit a proposal to sporkdao to disallow AltL1 sponsors but then i realized sporkDAO is a joke 1. no posts on gov forum last 9 months 2. no disclosure of finances, almost all of the $$$ goes to insiders 3. only admins can post proposals to the snapshot weak!

USELESS is a stage 4 Simulacrum according to Grok 🤯 "USELESS coin, a Solana-based meme token designed to mock utility-focused cryptocurrencies, which aligns with the philosophical concept of a simulacrum—where value becomes detached from reality—potentially placing it at Stage Four of Jean Baudrillard’s simulacrum theory, as it exists purely as a speculative, self-referential entity with no inherent utility."

@RyanBethencourt Would you consider USELESS coin a simulacrum? If so what stage is it?

It took me a while to understand the thesis behind USELESS but once I did, I couldn't stop thinking about it. A truthful meme in an ocean of digital pantomimes. It admits that it's USELESS and that's an incredibly refreshing proposition!

@InterestingSTEM @limbregen11 What hardware captured the visualization data?

This is how we’re knit together in the womb

@ladanuzhna If it's important you'll remember it again

The biggest & most joyful shift in my learning was giving up on note taking. Either an idea lives in my head, reinforced with spaced repetition, or its forming connections with other ideas through writing, or it lives nowhere and everywhere at the same time. No notebooks, no “second brain", no hoarding of useless facts in a space that isn't even your actual brain. No Notion, no Obsidian... You kinda just think. I wish note-taking had been banned when I was in college.

@humbug1994 @bryan_johnson That could just as easily be explained by environmental factors such as increased screen time or increased consumption of processed food. I was just curious if there was any genome sequencing data showing an increase in deleterious mutations to support the dysgenics hypothesis?

@The_Technocrat @bryan_johnson Number of offspring is negatively correlated with IQ. That’s the evidence of dysgenics.

What’s happening to our kids? 100 million US children studied had: + 5-point drop in IQ + 3.6% decrease in intellectually gifted + 3.4% increase in challenged children Over the past 50 years: + 35% increase in childhood cancers + 100% increase in male birth defects + 400% increase in pediatric obesity

@humbug1994 @bryan_johnson What evidence for dysgenics is there to disprove? Fine, John Cornforth is a technically better example of a nobel prize winner with a childhood genetic disability. Even though ALS isn't usually directly heritable there are still mutations in specific genes associated with it.

@The_Technocrat @bryan_johnson A genius developing a disease in his 20s doesn’t disprove the dysgenics of the past 100 years, moron. Oh, and his disease wasn’t genetic:

@humbug1994 @bryan_johnson Ever hear of Stephen Hawking?

@bryan_johnson 4 billion years of brutal natural selection where the weak, the stupid, and the disabled get culled from the herd, followed by ~100 years of social safety nets that allow precisely those members of society to pass on their genes

Visiting my girl's workplace is always a trip. She teaches biomaterials in art practice. One of the strongest influences in me wanting to be a flower designer.

@SynBio1 Every software engineer I know uses Git to collaborate on code changes. The Git service provider is usually GitHub, but often GitLab or less often self hosting a Git server.

For example: when you start a new software project do you just know you're going to track it on GitHub and you don't spend time worrying if that's the best tool?

As a biologist, I've tried many Electronic Lab Notebooks and never found true love It could be the inherent complexity and messiness of biology. Or it could be that all creative work is hard to document Curious if software people see note-taking as a (mostly) solved problem?

@NedNadima Less environmental concern for space mining than deep sea mining.

Are space mining startups too early or we about to open a new frontier? Deep-sea mining startups are still not permitted to operate.