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The death of RTS as a genre is proof positive that zoomers are dumber than millennials

We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model (@Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body, closing the loop from neural activation to action. A few things I want to say about what this means and where we're going at @eonsys. 🧵

I'm fascinated by this level of existential crisis developers seem to be going through. The uncomfortable truth is nobody needs you to be an artisan coder. Nobody cares about how you coded your app, or whether you feel an emotional attachment to your craft. You were always code monkey with a high enough salary to believe that your individualist craftsmanship matters to anyone. It doesn't matter to anyone but you. Not your employer, not your customer. Nobody cares about how you made the product. Nobody cares about your attachment to your process. You're experiencing the same as countless other artisans have experienced in the last century. I'm happy for you. You were starting to believe that you're a demigod amongst mortals. You're not. A machine is better than you. Now you're free.

Openclaw is one big grift. Nobody is building anything real. It's just grifting influencers telling YOU how to build stuff (but never build anything themselves). Interesting how you can be building 24/7 but have nothing to show for it... Check the track record of these snake oil salesmen. Same type of person who polluted crypto with their grifty ways. Selling a false dream and taking money from innocent people is disgusting. You can't change my mind.

@zackdfilms1 rn it functions as a beer opener

@zackdfilms1 it's for sale, dm me and take it

How Rats Are Trained To Play Doom 😮

“if each synapses maps to a neural net weight”

There is something slightly irritating about how youngsters today seem obsessed with diagnosing an entire generation of their parents using therapy language they picked up from reels and threads. We are effectively criticizing them for failing a test they didn't even know they were taking, using vocabulary that didn't exist in their world. It is easy to call your own father a narcissist when you have grown up listening to podcasts that explain attachment theory and emotional patterns. It is harder to imagine what it meant to be a twenty five year old parent in the nineteen eighties with no language for feelings, no examples to follow, no online spaces to learn from, no therapy culture, only responsibility and pressure. Instead of extending the empathy we have learned through this new vocabulary to those who never had access to it, we often turn that language into a weapon against them. Social media encourages this because anger feels powerful and validating. A label like narcissist or toxic neatly explains the pain and gives it a clear target. By framing their behavior through complex diagnostic labels they cannot define, you strip them of the ability to defend themselves or explain their perspective. They retreat into silence because they literally do not have the words to counter your argument. It allows you to dominate the interaction not because you are morally right, but because you possess a vocabulary that makes them feel stupid and inferior.

@r0ck3t23 a full-on autist's understanding of what language is

Elon Musk just dated the death of human language and explained exactly why it has to die. Musk: “Our brain spends a lot of effort compressing a complex concept into words.” Language isn’t communication. It’s failed compression. You have a complete thought. You crush it into words. The listener gets fragments and attempts reconstruction. Everything important dies in translation. We don’t communicate. We approximate and hope it’s close enough. Musk: “You would be able to communicate very quickly and with far more precision.” Neuralink doesn’t improve communication. It replaces it. No compression. No loss. Direct cognitive transfer at the speed thoughts occur. Not describing the painting. Transmitting the experience itself. Musk: “You wouldn’t need to talk.” Five to ten years until brain interfaces make speech optional. Talking persists for sentiment. For information? Speech becomes primitive compared to direct neural transmission. Lifetime of memory in one second. Complete schematics transferred instantly. Not summaries. The entire thought structure whole and uncompressed. Not better communication. Actual telepathy at physical information limits. Musk: “Ideally, we are a symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” Humans who don’t merge with AI at high bandwidth don’t just fall behind. They become incomprehensible to the intelligence that matters. We’re already cyborgs with pathetic interfaces. Phones extend cognition through typing at words per minute when bandwidth should be terabytes per second. Neuralink doesn’t optimize that. It detonates the constraint. Five to ten years. Not fiction. Deployment window. From language as default to neural link as standard. From compressing thoughts into inadequate words to transmitting uncompressed cognition. From humans using AI to humans indistinguishable from AI at communication speeds. The species that survived by evolving language is making it extinct with technology matching how fast we actually think. The ones who don’t transition won’t just be slow. They’ll operate at such reduced bandwidth they become effectively deaf to everything happening at neural speed around them. Language served 50,000 years. It has less than a decade before it becomes smoke signals. Functional but hopelessly inadequate for anything that matters.

@bryan_johnson hey Bryan, could you add Hungary to the countries you deliver Blueprint to? would love to order

What do you do in the evenings for good clean fun?

@ns123abc yeah and it will slop into degeneracy

>Recursive self improvement loops likely go live in the next 12mo ITS HAPPENING

@Hangsiin @GoogleDeepMind I'm surprised such an inconsequential paper with unsupported ambitious claims can come out of deepmind. they found a 1% better activation function with an expensive LLM-based search that can hardly scale to combinatorial NAS problems. this could have been a Medium post.

DeepMind(@GoogleDeepMind) is using AlphaEvolve to discover the best activation functions to date. And this is just one part of a much broader research effort. In their impact statement, they state: "This paper fits within a broad amount of work that aims to improve the rate of novel architecture discovery—focusing on a specific aspect of generalizable activations. Any significant improvements in this space may transfer to more potent self-improving AI systems in the future."

can't unprompt the sub mentality

this says alot about society

ok which one of you is ready to make an Age of Empires 2 like interface for Claude Code and make a billion dollars??

Not a dog actually knowing how to play a video game. 🎮 🐕