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@DCinvestor Outstanding insights. Although a bit doomer’ish, I think you have good instincts on the challenges we’re facing.

look, i'm probably WAY more optimistic about the promise of AI than most people reading this but i HIGHLY DOUBT we'll get to that optimistic future by burying our heads in the sand and just "hoping for the best" the cynics absolutely have a point that we have fucked up major transitions as a society (like a shift to free trade in the US and the significant job dislocations and drug problems which came with it- while enriching multinational corporations immensely), and it truly feels like our government is more dysfunctional and more captured than it is has ever been what's different about this boom is you have major corporations driving it and controlling every aspect of it (really, only a few of them), and it's not immediately obvious how "the little guy" will benefit from any of it. our fate is literally in their hands and what features they decide to develop and when simultaneously, you've also already had the "information age" with the PC and the Internet, which has consolidated EVEN MORE power into the hands of these corporations than one might think, and basically killed huge swathes of local businesses. pair this with the "endgame" of capitalism where private equity has arisen made it economically viable to buy up basically any remaining kind of income-producing small business to saddle it with debt and then flip or IPO. this means communities are relatively capital poor. oh, there is capital there, but it's not owned by the people who live there. THAT IS THE PROBLEM the end result is the world FEELS and PRACTICALLY IS MORE CENTRALIZED than it is has ever been it's worth noting that out of the second industrial revolution, and the insane boosts in productivity we created as a civilization, labor had to FIGHT (in some cases physically) in order to more evenly distribute the benefits to the working class. this meant the introduction of a 40-ish hour work week and the elimination of child labor. the capitalists and "the system" at large didn't just do those things out of the goodness of their hearts. public education improved, and people could earn more than a living wage and provide for their families i'd rather avoid violence in this next transition if we can, but it's going to require policymakers to wake up to the changes happening and be proactive, and it's going to require capital owners to understand that capitalism as it has existed cannot continue if there is not still a healthy working class we have to find a way to more evenly distribute the benefits of this revolution and the discussions need to start happening NOW something has to give. the sooner we have these conversations as a society, the better off we will be

@Polymarket Why is there no YoutubeTV / Disney reconciliation market?!

The history of the future will be unwinding the great mess of postmodern moral relativism and finding our way back to virtue.

@Polymarket: Do markets predict the future, entering the realm of magic? Or does reality contort itself to fit markets, becoming plastic manifestations?

Social media is the dog ate my homework for pundits unwilling, or unable, to look at how western culture has changed over last 50 yrs. Dismantling any form of unified culture has been at the core of modern secular liberalism — emancipation from all communal bonds, as provincial obligations holding back someone’s true inner self, is their understanding of human Telos, to the degree they think that deeply. This has been their goal. Sorry Facebook apparently upset it.

Did they know?!

My kids are still young and already I’m noticing that a big part of the project of raising them is just explaining over and over again that the culture is lying to them about how bad we are

These findings means an absolutely seismic shift in our understanding of everything in our universe. It calls us to (again) ask big questions and open our minds to novel ways of understanding. Up with curiosity and down with dogma!

I am honored to accept the position of Kentucky President Chapter of Stand With Crypto. If you are a Kentuckian and have an interest, or better yet, passion for crypto and blockchain technology, please reach out! I would love to connect!

Who are the sheep still silly enough to consider @neiltyson a serious person? An absolute fraud in a sycophantic vampire suit.

The Legend of OWEH! Go Big Blue!

From my desk as sent to employees during office hours:

Gödel's incompleteness theorem and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics have had devastating effects on the epistemology of people who don't fully understand them; exposure to these ideas should require a security clearance

Yesterday’s crypto action

@TOEwithCurt Honolulu

In which city would you like me to conduct a live interview, panel discussion, and meet and greet?

A core concern regarding the LLM approach to AI & AGI is the assumption that we can reconstruct and then synthesize cognition from language in abstract.

Vitalik Buterin deserves a Nobel prize in economics for his work on crypto and Ethereum. The fact that he’s barely considered shows how much ivory tower economists are disconnected from applied theory. Future generations will judge their absence in harshly. Crypto is the greatest economic innovation of our era and 98% of economists alive are missing it.

“It was officially the wildest idea he’d had yet. A universe made not of matter, not of space-time, not of stuff at all, but of our choices ... He’d pried up space-time, peered beneath, and found himself staring, to his bewilderment, at a mirror.” quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler-s…

While we consider OpenAI's o3 and the potential of ARC-AGI benchmarking, which are predominantly analytical in nature, let's be careful not to overgeneralize these to human cognition. Our minds are a complex interplay of both left and right hemispheric thinking, which together create the robustness of human thought. Over-emphasizing one aspect should not come at the neglect of the other. Similarly, expert left hemispheric thinking, devoid of the right hemisphere's capacity for abstraction, does not equate to a comprehensive comparison with human cognitive processes. We must remember that intelligence, especially in the human context, involves more than just logical and analytical prowess; it includes creativity, intuition, and the ability to see beyond the immediate data or problem at hand. As we advance AI, let's aim for a balance that reflects the full spectrum of human cognitive abilities. #AI #CognitiveScience