collective_brain
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collective_brain
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And men tried to create digital God at their own image










The lesson of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is that men are awful, and need Christianity. Today, if you meet a young man who has his life together, he's almost always religious or woke. richardhanania.com/p/good-friday-…


One of the biggest misconceptions people have about intelligence is seeing it as some kind of unbounded scalar stat, like height. "Future AI will have 10,000 IQ", that sort of thing. Intelligence is a conversion ratio, with an optimality bound. Increasing intelligence is not so much like "making the tower taller", it's more like "making the ball rounder". At some point it's already pretty damn spherical and any improvement is marginal. Now of course smart humans aren't quite at the optimal bound yet on an individual level, and machines will have many advantages besides intelligence -- mostly the removal of biological bottlenecks: greater processing speed, unlimited working memory, unlimited memory with perfect recall... but these are mostly things humans can also access through externalized cognitive tools.





Joe Kent resigning and immediately pivoting to blaming Israel for everything is as predictable as it is unserious. Scapegoating Israel isn’t just a tired antisemitic trope – it’s anti-American. This is a guy with ties to white supremacists and has “PANZER” tattooed on his arm, referring to a Nazi tank infamously used in crimes against Jews. Kent's reduction of Iran to “Israel’s fault” isn’t leadership, it’s bigoted deflection.



@teortaxesTex Like Tucker, you’re a coward. You’re driven by hate and want to pretend this is a debate about architecture instead of owning up to the fact that your ideological is nothing but genocidal resentment.


En cette journée de la femme, j’aimerais avoir une pensée particulière pour les femmes Palestiniennes, Iraniennes, Congolaises, Afghanes, Yéménites, Soudanaise, Ouïghours, Rohingyas, Indiennes et toutes celles qui souffrent de la barbarie des Hommes.













