Tami Pudina

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In the heart of Stanford's campus, six geniuses gather around a table at the local coffee shop, each embodying a distinct archetype. Their mission? To tackle a group project. But as their conversation unfolds, their diverse genius traits lead to a comedic clash of intellects. **Well-Balanced Genius (WB)**: Alright, team, let's start this project with a balanced approach. We all have our strengths and weaknesses, right? **Conscientious Achiever (CA)**: Absolutely. I've already created a project timeline, color-coded our tasks, and scheduled our next three meetings. We're not falling behind on my watch. **All-Star Genius (ASG)**: Meetings? I thought this was a casual get-together. Anyway, I solved the first problem while you were talking. It's trivial, really. Now, onto solving world hunger by lunch? **Visionary Maverick (VM)**: Or, hear me out, we scrap the project and create an art installation that represents the concept of hunger through interpretive dance and VR. **Balanced Innovator (BI)**: That’s...creative, VM. But what if we develop an app that uses AI to optimize food distribution networks instead? It’s practical and has a tech flair. **Methodical Executor (ME)**: Both ideas sound...ambitious. But how about we stick to the project guidelines? I've already broken down the assignment into 57 manageable steps. **WB**: See, this is good! A variety of ideas on the table. **CA**: Variety is one word for it. Chaos is another. Can we please stick to my Gantt chart? **ASG**: I redesigned your Gantt chart. It was inefficient. Also, I enrolled us in a quantum computing seminar for inspiration. It's only a slight detour from our project. **VM**: Quantum computing? That's so last century. Let's explore how quantum consciousness can influence our project's outcome through collective meditation. **BI**: Interesting, but maybe we should first validate our idea with some prototypes. I've got a 3D printer and a coding boot camp's worth of knowledge. **ME**: Prototypes? We haven't even defined the project scope yet! And ASG, please un-enroll us from that seminar. We don't have time for detours. **WB**: Maybe we should vote on an approach? All in favor of sticking to the original project plan, say 'aye'? **CA**: Aye. **ME**: Aye. **WB**: Aye. And all in favor of exploring...quantum consciousness and AI-driven food networks? **VM**: Aye! **BI**: Aye, why not? **ASG**: I abstain. I'll be working on my own theory of everything in the meantime. Call me when you've caught up. **WB**: Great, a tie. Well, at least we're all passionate, right? **CA** *(muttering)*: Passionate, or impossible... **VM**: Let's blend the ideas! Quantum food networks, anyone? **BI**: Now that's innovation! **ME**: I'm going to need more coffee. The table erupts into a cacophony of laughter and spirited debate, each genius archetype shining in their own way, their collaboration a testament to Stanford's diverse intellect. Whether they'll manage to complete their project remains a mystery, but one thing's for sure: it'll be a journey filled with unmatched creativity, rigorous planning, and maybe, just maybe, a touch of quantum consciousness.

At Stanford I met 6 types of smart people, none of whom truly qualify as genius according to Paul Cooijman's theory of what a genius is. But they almost get there! So we could call them quasi-geniuses. Here's a comedy monologue (LLM-assisted) about these 6 archetypes:

One thousand percent relatable #raredisease #undiagnosed #ML #LLMs

Last night I was lucky to be among the first group in New York to get to taste chicken grown from a droplet of muscle cells. It was.... DELICIOUS. Succulent, moist, the right texture. Chicken as it should be. Even though full commercialization is a way off, it made me excited for the future. It also made me even more frustrated with a tiredly cynical article in the NYT at the weekend "the revolution that died on the way to dinner". As if it were ever going to be easy to transform the way 8 billion humans feed themselves. This chicken came from Upside Foods, whose founder and CEO @UmaValeti is one of the most inspiring and impressive entrepreneurs I've met. The beautiful facilities he's building will allow this next-gen meat to start to become cost competitive. Let me tell you something about those facilities. They're housed in glass. Nothing to hide. Inside are large, clean metal containers for growing this meat, and growing it in half the time it takes for modern, artificially inflated chickens to grow. Those chickens, by contrast, are not grown behind glass. They're shielded inside closed-off massive meat factories. And for a reason. If we could see the hell-hole of cages, feathers, beaks, chickenshit, bird-flu, antibiotics and, worst of all, brains tortured with a short but horrifying life of suffering, we'd throw up before downing our next drumstick. To imply as the NYT did that next-gen meat will be slowed by some kind of ick factor is a woeful under-estimation of human adaptability. When the truth will out - and it will when there's actually an alternative available - the ick factor will run the other way. This technology really matters. It will probably be impossible to lure humans away from our meat addiction. I personally love meat. I want it to be part of my future. And last night I saw a glimpse of how that can happen in a way that will be both delicious and kind -- to our fellow creatures, and to the planet. I'm not an investor in Upside. But I wish I was. I certainly would not bet against them. When you peel back to the fundamentals, a system in which you're using your nutrients only to grow meat, instead of bone, brain, feathers, claws and beaks, and to do so in a shorter time horizon, has every chance to become cost competitive. I predict the New York Times will be proved embarrassingly wrong on this one. Just because a better future is hard to build, doesn't mean we should stop. For me, I'll throw my lot in with the determined, the visionary. Uma, an honor to meet you.

Delighted to be a part of the second Future Folklore Incubator cohort! #space #tech #startup

Finally: the first episode of the Meet & Greet #podcast Not all of the events were up to par for the quality I considered for this series - but getting right 3/5 ain’t too bad. #solarpunk #regeneration #futurism #AI hyperdriveanthropology.substack.com/p/meet-and-gre…

My new book, UNRAVELING, is available now 📖 open.substack.com/pub/hyperdrive…

Futuristic #AI-generated landscapes from "Experiments in #Midjourney" in Tami Pudina's Hyperdrive Anthropology blog on SubStack. FULL STORY: hyperdriveanthropology.substack.com/p/experiments-… #midjourneyartwork #art #artificialintelligence @tpudina

In short, my most hated problem, now as ever, remains the infuriating stranglehold of Moloch

@timventura Thanks, Tim!!! 🙏

You're not going to miss out on Future Folklore's Off-world Incubator are you? 🛸 futurefolklore.tech/incubator

...such as #decentralization and self-organization, the nature of radicalism and the engine of #innovation, how superorganisms thrive, as well as the meaning crisis and the search for #transcendence in the digital age. "Meet & Greet: Renegade Burn 🔥" clubhouse.com/invite/p7bHKEa…

This Sunday, we will be hosting guests from the 2021 Burning Man "People's Burn", or "Burn That Never Happened"! Join us as we discuss principles of community-based and organizational governance...

Everything Everywhere All At Once cannot have a sequel for the simple reason that EEAAO already contains within it EEAAO 2. It's a movie that contains, among other things, its own sequences. You can't add anything to it.

What is more impressive than nuclear fusion? The infrastructure to manage it.

@BrainstormingN Thank you 🙏

Featuring websites of the members at the Brainstorming Network Group: Tami Pudina @tpudina bngbrainstorming.wordpress.com/2023/06/06/inn…