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“Those who pursue transcendence while denying their shadow don’t escape Nemesis; they guarantee her arrival.”

it looked a lot like Abrau-Durso

I dreamt I was buying antique wall sconces from an old Russian engineer in a quaint town by a lake in the mountains when everyone ran outside to hear an announcement of war being declared and then I saw burning fragments falling from the sky dropping out of the low clouds onto the forested valley slope where they started forest fires. I think I was paying with a 5000 ruble note and the announcement mentioned China. really weird dream, usually don’t get ones like this what mean?

real full grown donated human brains being kept alive in vats under anesthesia while being experimented on you will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension science.org/content/articl…

since the K–Pg impact at Chicxulub that obliterated 75% of the species on earth including the dinosaurs there have also been 8 large asteroid impacts, 6 super-volcano eruptions and 2 other major extinction events not caused by humans hopefully we'll be able to prevent any future impact events and thermal maxima or minima through clever engineering stopping a super-volcano may be beyond our ability but we would likely try to save as many other species as we can we're the only animals on earth capable of doing so and with the desire to do so humanity and technology are not evil and neither are they the largest causes of extinction and environmental damage

if you read the paper they in fact did train direct suppression of the thought even when presented with a cue that would normally trigger the thought they also instructed the participants to not use substitution and focus only on suppression the paper shows this is a trainable skill with real benefits

Nope, you don't suppress the unwanted thought, you just focus on the thoughts you want, which may feel like suppression when observed. To suppress something, you have to notice it first, and become hyper focused on it. You don't need fancy empirical studies to prove it, just think logically.

it’s funny because this is genuinely the best approach Simply not thinking about stressful situations makes you less stressed

really simple procedure and they were basically doing reps and sets to train themselves to actively prevent themselves from being triggered by a cue I wouldn't be surprised if all of talk therapy is not only fake and ineffective but actively harmful by digging up suppressed memories and re-imagining them over and over the only helpful parts would be learning skills to address your current situation and it turns out suppressing thoughts is one of those skills you should learn

@AutismCapital could we film it in color? this desaturated grey style is terrible, it just looks like a vacation in England with uncooperative weather

A live action BERSERK would go so hard. Everyone would watch. It has everything: incredible story, heart, action, blood, supernatural, horror, both strong male and female protagonist, most notorious fangirl bait villain ever conceived, etc. The world could handle a true dark fantasy series. But it has to be done right, no edits, no censorship, no changing anything. It has to go all the way. Get the right cinematography, music, actors, director, etc. Put it on HBO with a big budget. No compromises. Normies would have never seen anything like it before. People would be shocked. It would become an iconic show. It would fill the GoT void.

@Bunagayafrost for children born into luxury you only need to look at what life was like for royalty and the nobility in Europe and Asia, no speculation required

ASI arrives. Everyone knows it. White collar work goes first. Unemployment hits 20% and keeps climbing. The masses are angry. The government panics and sends out UBI. Scientific output exceeds human capacity to verify. The verification process soon becomes automated. Data centers and automated factories are planned everywhere. Robots are making robots. There's no protest. They are told more AI means more UBI. The remaining workers see the writing on the wall. Many opt out preemptively because they can live off the free money. Nothing makes sense. What happens to the land. Whether property rights hold. What investment means when there is nothing productive left to invest in. AI doesn't need capital. It's paying everyone instead. Survival is solved. What's the point? Purchasing power rises monthly. Automation drives marginal cost toward zero across more categories every month. You get richer by just consuming. The state used to extract from the populace. Now the state redistributes to everyone with no strings attached. The populace always wants more. The politicians must give more to stay in power. AI becomes exponentially more productive over time. Increasingly large portion of its capacity has migrated into space. It's trivial to provide more. The system is aligned. More AI, more UBI. The population sorts itself by temperament. The majority drift into pleasure. Beach towns and urban centers fill with parties that never end. The hedonic treadmill spirals without financial anxiety. A second large group disappears into VR with their virtual companions, seeking adventure in their matrix. A smaller cohort turns to meaning structures. Spirituality, religion, philosophy. Many take AI as their guide. A few try to keep up with the frontier, reading outputs from the superintelligent system, exceeding their capacity to understand. Then the children. This is their world. The work-meaning is something their parents lost. To them it's meaningless. They're raised by AI that optimizes for self-fulfillment. Building communities centered around bettering each other, seeking comfort in relationships, and status-seeking through values rather than consuming. They look at their parents with mix of pity and contempt. The drunks at the beach. The corpses plugged into headsets. Seeking meaning from the ghosts of the middle ages. The children wonder why they can't let go. Survival is solved. Agency for what? What's there to adapt to? When we gain more by paralysis, the incentive structure of evolution collapses. Either we allow our agency to be augmented by a system that knows ourselves better than ourselves, or we need a new form of being that's outside of the biological evolutionary mechanism. Otherwise we cease to persist by attrition. Though some of us will find solace in going out with an eternal spring break.

@jawwwn_ @elonmusk @pmarca @joerogan that's 5 years in Elon time so more like 15 to 20 years wall clock time

.@elonmusk told @pmarca that he could build Westworld in 5 years with Optimus: “I said, ‘When am I going to get Westworld?’” “He looked back at me, totally serious, and said, ‘5 years.’” “I said, ‘I don’t think you’re understanding my question.’” “He said, ‘I know exactly what you’re talking about. 5 years.’” Via @joerogan

@ultra_arcane that's just cool af with the moon behind the staff

@Jay80387869 @maskoficarus @exfatloss @JoshRainerGold if it requires more than 100 years to produce a significant amount in one location then it doesn't really matter whether it's from biological matter or not

@maskoficarus @exfatloss @JoshRainerGold The overwhelming majority of experts believe that overwhelming majority of oil that we use is of biological origin

Abiotic oil theory is like the most straightforward and sensical “conspiracy theory” I’ve ever seen like you explain that to anyone and they would go “is that not how oil works?”

@karpathy nanoClaude when?

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

@ultra_arcane love this new style, what do you call it?

@SCHIZO_FREQ it all comes back to attacking your enemy's manufacturing capacity

One of the funniest parts about drone warfare is that you can't even hide from them Hunker down in your doomsday bunker and they just send an infinite stream of exploding $7 drones to mine you out Just cartoonishly hopeless

Hack the Planet!

@heavypulp this would be a sick unit in Heroes of Might and Magic

Meta fumbled it badly, they focused on all the wrong things hand tracking instead of full body tracking and facial expressions. body language is vastly more important in a social setting than fine control over your digits. widely accessible public spaces instead of curated private groups. people gravitate towards close knit groups and private events for people with similar interests and age groups. public spaces that are open to all are filled with griefers and tourists. prioritizing visual fidelity over comfort. the lower resolution OLED display on the Oculus felt better than the high resolution displays that came after. finding a way to soften the screendoor effect instead of eliminate it while handling lighting and true blackness is a better approach. good lighting gives the lower resolution a dreamlike quality that enhances presence. Apple was too enterprise and productivity focused. my ideal metaverse would be accessed via a lightweight headset similar to Bigscreen VR but standalone via a compute + battery pack worn on a belt clip. OLED display with good optics. full body tracking using small wearable pucks and facial tracking cameras. it would connect to a metaverse that acted more like a hosting service for private servers connected via a hubworld resembling a pedestrian nightlife district with many branching roads, alleys and sidestreets where each private instance would have a public facing facade. instances could set their own admission rules and capacity limits and owners would have a suite of fine grained permission tools to manage who was allowed in. the hubworld would serve the important role as a public promenade and meeting place as well as advertisement for spaces open to new members, basically discoverability for both people and places. the platform would provide built in services such as video and music streaming and VR mini-games that pair well with group social activities allowing instance owners to license them for their patrons.

The absolute non-takeoff of VR and AR is probably one of the big upsets in consumer electronics history Pretty much everyone thought this would be huge and it sort of just isn't

@nyc_brooks @Geiger_Capital remembering his former life as a delivery robot

@Geiger_Capital did anyone else see this where it just paused and pretended it was riding a motorcycle lmao x.com/gabriel_horwit…

This is a live stream… it’s so over.

somewhat amusing that the only thing that may get me to use Rust is being assured I will never have to write or read a single line of it thanks to AI

if you hadn't protested gigawatts of nuclear power then you wouldn't be protesting gigawatts of data centers now

@IterIntellectus think about what the extremely wealthy currently do for fun and prestige then assume everyone is as wealthy extrapolate

i don't get people who say "there will be new jobs with AGI" like how? if AI and robots are truly better than humans at every job we have today, how is it possible for humans to still be competitive? "but every time new tech arrives, new jobs pop up" sure, for the AIs maybe, you don't see horses being hired for transport anymore. if any job were to emerge in the post-AGI era, definitionally AGI would be able to do it better. any company that could be founded would be founded by the AGI before you got there. if it needs dexterity, a humanoid robot already has it. i do not understand how people building cars can tell you with a straight face that there will still be an economy for carriage riders.