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19 | cs+neuroscience @columbia | building @your__epiphany flow state on command

New York, USA เข้าร่วม Ekim 2021
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vai@whynotvai·
I grew up in a very small town in the middle of no-where. At 18, I was at a Dubai multimillionaire CEO’s bed. Hi, I am Vai and this is my story. (1/12)🧵
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vai@whynotvai·
can someone connect me to a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences in bangalore!
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vidhi@v1dcam·
loremaxxing at bangerlore
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vai@whynotvai·
@paarugsethi ppl hating on us for being smart pretty and funny and having fun
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Paarug Sethi@paarugsethi·
entire bangerlore party discourse from the last 2 days explained
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vai@whynotvai·
from bangerlore v5 also can someone in blr lend me a dynamic / condenser microphone for a day if you have one, would be awesome!
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vai@whynotvai·
@tr1ckastley yup i am based there (for uni), off on summer break.
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trickastley@tr1ckastley·
In Bangalore Saturday onwards, hmu to catch-up (fr this time)
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vai@whynotvai·
@ravishar313 twin! thanks 🙂‍↔️
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Ravi Sharma@ravishar313·
@whynotvai Hate this update. Happy birthday btw! Have a blast.
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vai@whynotvai·
wow what’s w this new update, it’s my birthday and 34 captains rejected me already… love the overwhelming sense of belonging here guys
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vai@whynotvai·
1) what
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Troy Kirwin@tkexpress11·
i'm opening my calendar for 15 min slots this Friday! a16z speedrun application opening is just weeks away - come AMA 1:1 first come, first served... drop a comment / like and I'll send you a link to schedule! (if there's space remaining)
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vai@whynotvai·
is the first big solo trip to Bali and crashing at places indeed a canon event
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Zelda@zeldapoem

@kevin2kelly Agreed! That's me crashing a wedding in Bali on my first big solo trip at 18 years old

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vai@whynotvai·
i’m dipping nuggets you never heard of into sauces you wouldn’t understand
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vai@whynotvai·
@TukiFromKL biomimicry boomerang
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Tuki@TukiFromKL·
🚨Nobody wants to hear this but it needs to be said. > Scientists just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. No training data. No machine learning. > It woke up and started walking. No one taught it to walk. No one trained it. No gradient descent. It just... knew what to do. A fruit fly brain has 140,000 neurons. A human brain is around 86,000,000,000. And we've gotten really good at scaling. Meaning with this proof, the first digital human won't be built by OpenAI. It'll be copied from someone who's already alive. Your consciousness is software. And someone just proved it can be copy-pasted. Start your day with that.
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There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born. @eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do. Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is. A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?

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vai@whynotvai·
Overthinking isn’t a disease. It’s mostly a survival strategy. When you grow up around unpredictable emotions, your brain learns, “If I analyze everything, I’ll stay safe.” You start doing pattern recognition in the tiniest of things. Studying people’s and even your own behaviour, quirks, pauses, eye movements, phrases to derive analysis that were never even meant to be derived in the first place. The antidote isn’t more thinking. It’s emotional permission (to yourself). Permission to be misunderstood. Permission to make mistakes. Permission to be human. Safety isn’t in having control at all times.
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vai@whynotvai·
longing, is the mind’s oldest addiction
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Delta, Dirac@DeltaClimbs·
I have researched extensively The answer is Bruckner's 8th Symphony Source: it was offered to me and I listened Also, talk to @whynotvai and @falk_juliet who are also cooking
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