Joseph P Fernandez

The Golden Rule of Baudrillard

@elonmusk @_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy When? How?

@_kaitodev @garrytan @karpathy All jobs will be optional. There will be universal high income.

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs

@Plinz I have philosophical disagreements with some of your ideas, but I find you have supreme intellectual integrity and S-tier humour. Happy to support your presence here.

If you want me to keep my account open you may have to actively protect me against harm, because the design of the platform does not. (But I am ok with keeping the account protected, shutting it down or taking it elsewhere.)

Because we can simulate X on a computer, doesn't mean X is simulated in reality.

@SamaHoole Genuinely curious. I see you posting a lot of heavy lifting, but what about the "tracking across open terrain for multiple days"? Do you do ultra running too?

I often go twenty plus hours without eating. Train in that window. Work. Think clearly. Feel absolutely fine. People ask if this is sustainable. Whether I'm damaging myself. Whether I'm going to crash. Here is my thinking. Mentally, I am a mammoth hunter. Not metaphorically. Biologically. My genome was shaped by tens of thousands of years of ancestors who tracked large animals across open terrain for multiple days, who operated in a fasted state for the entirety of the hunt, and who needed to be at their cognitive and physical peak at the exact moment the animal was vulnerable: not at breakfast, not after a pre-workout, not when the macros aligned. When. The mammoth doesn't wait for you to eat first. The mammoth is a seven-tonne animal that could feed a tribe for two months. Getting this wrong means everyone goes hungry. Getting this wrong means children don't eat. Getting this wrong, in the context of the Pleistocene, is a civilisation-scale failure. The idea that I should feel slow, foggy, and physically compromised when I haven't eaten for twenty hours is an insult to the biology that kept my ancestors alive through the last ice age. I'm not fasting. I'm hunting. The mammoth is my bench press. It doesn't get to be heavier because I skipped breakfast.

Our collective interest in the future demands recognition of our current predicament through the delineation of the complexity constraints that shape our possible trajectories, and our resignation of our role as stewards (and not dictators) of our vital and artifactual offspring. Herein Matthew lays out these points with great importance.

@EricRWeinstein x.com/i/grok/share/f…

Test it on something hard but pivotal: “The pull-back of Weyl Spinors from the space of pointwise Lorentzian metrics via the spacetime metric, Grand Unifies 1 generation of Standard Model Fermions when the induced trace-reversed fiber metric reduces to Maximal Compact Subgroup.”

@MattPirkowski @TCzajka "unless expressly programmed to recursively push the undecidable statement into ever more expressive formalisms." Isn't the point that you *cannnot*, in principle, do just that? The program cannot discern ahead of time if a problem is decidable.

The point is that humans, when confronted with the undecidability, can notice, reflect, and create a new formalism of sufficient expressive capacity to render the expression in question decidable. Of course this only pushes the “problem” into that new formalism. It *is* notable that in looking at and comprehending a given formalism, humans are not constrained by the formalism’s inherent constraints, whereas deterministically programmed systems typically are, unless expressly programmed to recursively push the undecidable statement into ever more expressive formalisms.

Max Tegmark is spot on about both topics debated here. Gödel's incompleteness theorem demonstrates limits to computation that apply equally to computers and humans. No, human understanding and consciousness do not overcome those limits. Neither humans nor computers are able to decide whether an arbitrary arithmetic statement is true or false. There is some popular mysticism surrounding Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that understanding it demonstrates some extraordinary human ability. But in reality, it is a relatively simple technical theorem whose proof can easily be (and has been) formalized and verified by computer proof systems. Everett's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is not inconsistent with experience. It might be an incomplete explanation, but it does not contradict any current experiments. It simply says there is no such thing as an objective collapse of the quantum wave function. No experiment so far has demonstrated such a collapse. youtube.com/watch?v=YmZCGp…

@MattPirkowski JFC, didn't even think of that 🫣

The really fun part about AI-catalyzed warfare is that it incentivizes war as training data.

@DaveShapi Stockholm Syndrome

WHY DOES EVERYONE WANT TO BE A WAGE SLAVE FOREVER WE ARE TRYING TO LIBERATE YOU

If I remember correctly and without endorsing the theory, under the broadest definition in the Hameroff/Penrose theory (Orch OR), consciousness is fundamentally related to gravitational collapse of the wavefunction. The frequency (gravitational self energy) being somehow a measure of conscious content, which extends down to fundamental spacetime, so microtubules are not necessary.

@StuartHameroff wait, so does this mean that under your model prokaryotes aren't conscious?

All animal, plant and archaebacteria cells have microtubules. Prokaryotes have polymers with FTSZ proteins instead of tubulin with aromatic rings but not tryptophan. Viruses have a polymer capsid which could serve a similar function.

@sean_a_mcclure That choice isn't always conscious, and in many cases embedded in cultural norms.

The goodness or badness of most things only become as such when you choose to notice them that way.

@croft1a Not ignored, *suppressed*....remember the truths from the Twitter files. Shadow bans were real.

If not previously known, only because what Eric Weinstein has been saying for years has been ignored.

@SamaHoole Did not know that factoid 🤯

Ketosis is your body burning fat for fuel instead of glucose. It's been labeled "dangerous," "extreme," and "unsustainable." Meanwhile: - Your brain preferentially runs on ketones when available. - Infants are born in ketosis and remain there while breastfeeding. - Human ancestors spent weeks in ketosis between successful hunts. But a metabolic state that sustained human evolution for 2.5 million years is definitely dangerous now.

@bryan_johnson 🙌

Kindness is peak human performance and high status. Kindness requires metabolic abundance: the capacity to override primal impulses, regulate emotions, and extend empathy. Meanness is dirty energy: high cortisol, inflammation and an exhausted executive function.

@Ondrackula @SamaHoole Agreed on best practice on trying for yourself, I'm definitely doing that. I'm also curious (and I believe in the wisdom) of hearing about other people's experiences.

@philosofern @SamaHoole Best practice is to try it for yourself because of biological individuality. The cons: Glycation of all the body’s tissues; Carbs often include glyphosate, other chemicals, deuterium; Usually not seasonal nor local. Pros: Food variety. Increases your appetite

Keto flu timeline: Days 1-3: Glycogen depletion. Water loss. Electrolyte shifts. Feel tired. Days 4-7: Ketone production ramps. Still running on fumes. Feel awful. Weeks 2-4: Mitochondrial adaptations begin. Fat oxidation improves. Feel better. Weeks 8-12: Full keto-adaptation. Ketone utilisation optimised. Performance restored. You quit at day 5 and declared carbs essential. That's like running a marathon untrained, collapsing at mile 2, and declaring running impossible. Adaptation takes time. You didn't give it time.

@Maybenexttime42 @EricRWeinstein Threatened*

@Maybenexttime42 @EricRWeinstein I don't think is gatekeeping...I think it's out of fear. In at least one podcast he has mentioned that we he was treated and told not to be so explicit about it all.

Think about all the things I’m forced to endlessly repeat b/c I’m the lone voice. “Pay your scientists. Are you mad?” Here’s what the devil had to say on the same subject. He saw the opportunity:

@CJackson26740 @EricRWeinstein I believe he has also indicated previously that he has been specifically told (threatened) not to reveal certain information -- so yes he is holding back.

@philosofern @EricRWeinstein he's holding back. there is an obvious suspect with many dots already connecting in real time...

@Maybenexttime42 @EricRWeinstein Does he avoid that? I'm pretty sure he had indicated that he believes Epstein was Mossad or Mossad adjacent. I don't have the source, but talks about it on more than one occasion and has a pretty intense solo Portal episode about it.

@philosofern @EricRWeinstein Because no one wants to name Israel and the Mossad or Thiel, Karp and Palantir. Kinda funny that Weinstein avoids this as well, isn't it? x.com/doubledownnews…