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@beatnikpicnic
Recovering bit shoveler, turning toward dialogue, atoms, narrative. Distributed friends welcome.
Katılım Eylül 2016
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Try your hand at bioengineering! Who needs metal when you got ultra complex self replicating nanomachines that can run for years on a single dorito. No CNC needed. Just upload code and keep it damp.
Mustafa@oprydai
if you are not in engineering, pivot to engineering
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@pmddomingos one of the most concrete outcomes may be a reevaluation of the "semantic web"
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By OpenAI’s own stats, most of ChatGPT’s use is glorified Web browsing.
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@aevanghelidis @ATinyGreenCell yes, @ATinyGreenCell please check out the work of @GonzaTej and @enMONDRAGON, @USFWC and Weiner Law of Colorado: jrwiener.com
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Imagine a company where instead of making a few people extremely wealthy, you make yourself and all your employees *very* wealthy.
Communal capitalism.
We win together.
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@Valen10Francois @sc_cath @LevyAntoine @Erwann_TISON @MxSba @JoursDeRetraite Ah here we are, not quite a public protest, but there's a movement:
reuters.com/business/finan…
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@beatnikpicnic @sc_cath @LevyAntoine @Erwann_TISON @MxSba @JoursDeRetraite Which protest are you referring to?
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France's fiscal situation is very dire and yet we refuse to consider cutting pensions (350bn a year, 25% of public spending)
Worse still we added another 14bn for pensions last year because we are afraid of upsetting pensioners
Boomers have put France in a fiscal chokehold
Christophe Barraud🛢🐳@C_Barraud
🇫🇷 French finance ministry warns of worsening deficit - Politico politico.eu/article/france…
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@beatnikpicnic It's the "abandon the earth" narrative instead of "stay and fight"
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One movie that would have been solved with some biotechnology
...smh I'm very tired of the "bio scientist evil" meme
Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss
The stupidest part of INTERSTELLAR is that the blight starts killing all the crops and after just a few decades they go “ah well, guess it won! Better leave earth. Hope we solve this magic gravity equation with the help of 5 dimensional beings and wormholes.”
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@ThatMrE I think the point still stands - one message of the movie was "get your podunk heads out of the ground because if you're not dreaming the stars you're a feckin rube" and it could have been "let's use tech bio to try to do sustainable farming and restore the environment"
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Terrifying to see that septuagenarian tyrants know soon they'll be able to tighten their grip on power forever
Yaroslav Trofimov@yarotrof
Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)
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@thisischristina excepting i believe @TomKnightSynBio who realized bio could do computer better (at least when it comes to arranging matter in close proximity at very small scale)
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Every generation wants to replace bio with computer
Patrick Boyle — e/🦀@p_maverick_b
Imagine if the Steve Jobs for bio was Steve Jobs
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@ThatMrE i live in an area where its not even that hard to go do things (people complain about 10-20 min drives), and they still disappear by saying "busy". I know it's a sham because i have outlier friends who have no problem bringing family to stuff or bringing friends to their events
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I've got something to admit:
I unfriend people who are married or with kids on Facebook on their birthdays exactly for this reason (with some caveats).
They disappear from public life and are no longer part of community. This needs to change.
Tyler is finishing a book, slow to reply@TylerAlterman
I want to rant about something: So when you enter your 30s, a lot of your friends get married & move into an isolated situation with their spouse. Of all the people I've seen do this, it seems to have served maybe only one couple well, and they're hardcore buddhist meditators, and it seems they've still come to the opinion that they'd rather be in the city if they had the $ It's easy to idealize the prospect of moving into the country or out to the ocean with your beloved. But the reality is this: • If you're at all an ambitious, creative, or weird person, it becomes difficult to find peers • In the absence of peers, a lot of pressure is put on the couple for the partnership to fill all the needs that would normally be filled by community • The couples I've seen in this situation either (a) break up (b) become depressed or (c) start heroic efforts to get their social contact in. Eg I have a friend in this last category who now does a long train commute every Thursday to hang with me & other city friends (it's worked for him!) I too have a part of me that aspires to live out in the country with some future beloved. But if I do that, it won't just be a move, it will be an exercise in movement-buidling: finding the town with the densest existing concentration of weirdos, bringing a bunch of my own who have families, and establishing my own collective or campus or something. It will be a full-time job
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@wasserstein_rao @rlacombe @drmichaellevin are @leecronin and @Sara_Imari most likely to be on the right road? i have the sense they don't have the specific process but hoping their theory will expose likely candidates
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@rlacombe @drmichaellevin RNA world makes sense but doesn't provide a specific process for what could have actually happened, even just as a guess
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Are there computational models of the chemistry thought to be relevant to the origin of life? I'm sure there's no consensus, but does anyone have an actually runnable simulation of any plausible chemical soup or other reaction dynamics of any kind that are thought to be realistic for an OoL scenario?
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@t4spanish @davetroy yes - however, not totally incidental, right? it took King Juan Carlos gradually allowing things to open up and at times even secretly meeting with Franco's opposition. A monarch with some benevolent tendencies... we don't have that (nor would we want it)
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@beatnikpicnic @davetroy Fizzled out two years after Franco’s death.
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What if we call it 'Dark Abundance' instead? 'Fascism' might sound a little rough to the abuelas
- Francisco Franco
Niskanen Center@NiskanenCenter
@ezraklein @DKThomp @GrowSF @vpostrel @tylercowen Finally, near the end of our abundance spectrum (but perhaps not all the way to its right), Dark Abundance seeks to wield national power to disrupt deep-seated institutions in American life to spur economic growth and revive American hegemony.
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@t4spanish @davetroy Also the tech-adjacent "Dark Enlightment" people associated to Peter Thiel seem to be obsessed with (misunderstanding) Rene Girard, also Catholic. Not saying all Catholics are nationalists of course - re: @DouthatNYT's interview:
youtube.com/watch?v=vV7Ygn…
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@t4spanish @davetroy Right - the more familiar comparison for most would be Mussolini or Hitler. But I think if catholic nationalists like Russ Vogt, JD Vance, and several others have their way, we're heading for something that looks more like the Falange
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@ArmandDoma right the alternative in the US is that there's just nowhere to pee or you have to make a purchase in target to get the code anyway
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I’m in Poland now and paid toilets are a blessing. They cost like 50 cents, are ubiquitous, and always clean. Banning paid toilets in the US was so stupid
Sebastiaan de With@sdw
not taking any European criticism of American society seriously while Europeans make anyone - including pregnant women - pay money before they can use a toilet
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@nicolas_ruf @fchollet @SpeakerRyan of course, this ought to be complimented by much more predistribution, housing/mortgage/land reform, and antitrust work to unrig the game
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predistri…
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@nicolas_ruf @fchollet relevant: x.com/Valen10Francoi…
if Bayrou succeeds, it seems like this could shortcut worse austerity in the future (the slavery he refers to) - it seems his intentions are good. parallel to what @SpeakerRyan tried to do in US around 2010-2012?
François Valentin@Valen10Francois
The Prime Minister is clearly not backing down. He now says the debt the boomers are leaving behind is forcing young people into indebted slavery
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Not sure if USD inflation will ever be under 2% again in my lifetime
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@TheYoungInvests @MarvinTBaumann where will they go? this problem is so pervasive everywhere?
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@MarvinTBaumann Many will vote with their legs = leaving the country for good
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This will play out in Germany as well.
I suspect a massive generational clash is coming.
Most of the 20-45 year olds today will start to rebel in the next 5-10 years.
François Valentin@Valen10Francois
The Prime Minister is clearly not backing down. He now says the debt the boomers are leaving behind is forcing young people into indebted slavery
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