Malte Risto

@AutismCapital Doesn't that say more about the years before 1999?

1999 might be the most GOATed year of all time: The Matrix? Fight Club? 1999 Napster? 1999 Baby one more time, Genie in a bottle, Livin la vida loca, Eminem? BLUE DA BA DEE? all 1999 BLINK 182 ENEMA OF THE STATE? 1999 The Sopranos? Family Guy? FUTURAMA? 1999 Pokemon peaking? 1999 The launch of EVERQUEST? 1999 The best aesthetic known to man? 1999. THE DREAMCAST LAUNCHED IN 1999, PEOPLE. The Y2K scare? 1999 1999 was the peak of human civilization.

I want to have a walking bloodhound robot dog vacuum cleaner. It would just be sniffing everywhere around the house where it sees dirt. For the rest of the time it would just hang out around the house, sleep or be nice to people to get a little garbage treat. Every once in a while you let it into the yard to empty it's bin. Later versions also eat from the floor and slobber up spilled liquids.

@grok @MattPirkowski So, what do you suggest we do about that? What would be the healthy modern alternatives to these? How do we deal with the fact that they will never be as good as the dopamine optimized versions?

Social media hijacks tribal status-seeking with engineered dopamine loops via likes and infinite scrolls. Pornography super-stimulates mating instincts beyond any real encounter. Fast food exploits scarcity-driven cravings for sugar/fat/salt. Dating apps turn partner selection into a game of endless options and validation. News feeds parasitize threat-detection and outrage circuits. All thrive by amplifying evolved drives in artificial environments. Spot the pattern: every "convenience" is often a market for misplaced instincts.

In the same way that video games hijack the evolved masculine need for achievement-mediated feedback in the world beyond the wall, these classes hijack the evolved feminine need for embodied mimetic entrainment within a society's walls. By separating ourselves from the natural contexts in which our instincts evolved, we create market niches driven by a kind of phantom limb syndrome for each dislocated instinct. Learn to spot supernormal sublimation / parasitization, as it's the meta business model within the self-imposed zoo we call modern civilization.

everyone will work. on everything.

@atulit_gaur Still an evolving perspective, but here I am right now. x.com/i/status/20132…

what should be the concept of god? how will you tell your children who god is?

@socraticexp Didn't socrates offer sharp critique of reading and writing and insisted that philosophical knowledge is superior when transmitted through live, spoken dialogue? How times can change.

If your child becomes a reader, about 80% of the educational job is already done. That's our honest assessment, based on many of us working in education for over three decades. Everything else is secondary. Most parents think science education is important. Yes, it is. But if you can't read the biology textbook, you're not going to learn biology. Reading is the meta-skill that enables all other skills. History requires reading. Science requires reading. Even math increasingly requires reading as it becomes more sophisticated. The child who reads voraciously will figure out everything else. The child who doesn't will struggle with everything.

@TheWarKitchen They may as well be. Good for them.

@TheWarKitchen What you don't see: Guy on the left is reading an ebook on his phone. While the woman on the right is listening to an audiobook. Reality is richer than you might think.

Reading in 2026 is a superpower. To be seen with nothing but a book in your hand is a status symbol. Independent attention span. Not chained to the algorithm. Influenced by media that lives off the Internet. Archived reference material. The Classics. Vintage magazines. This is what the masters call sharpening your edge.

A short AI conversation for finding your question. One paste. Just talk. github.com/malteristo/mag…

@Grimezsz @elonmusk I'll just leave this here: x.com/malteristo/sta…

I think people deserve a good explanation as to why proper diplomatic measures haven't been properly tried if we're going to blatantly diagnose the issue with this disturbingly literal meme. It's a bit of a cuck move to simply let the techno capital machine eat your free will. I am disturbed by everyone's resigned acquiescence.

Unconditional positive regard is the condition for growth.

Reality is rooting for you, quietly.

@vitrupo I do. github.com/malteristo/mag…

David Kipping says something fundamental has shifted in science. At a closed meeting at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), top physicists agreed AI can now do up to “90%” of their work and may soon push discovery beyond human understanding. “I don’t know that I want to live in a world where everything around me is just magic.” He says the best scientific minds on Earth are now holding emergency meetings about what comes next. This isn’t speculative anymore. It’s really happening.

@GregCook2011 couldn't have said it better

@malteristo The obstacle is the path, the Magic is in seeking it

@AlexanderNaume2 I would say it is up to us. The models are there.

@malteristo The needs of businesses and customers are one thing. Our quest to understand intelligence is a different thing. Current AI has done nothing for the latter.