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I always believed in a physical and timeless afterlife. Today I was wondering how and if this is even possible, and it's pretty cool how quantum mechanics seem to offer a framework where these can both exist (I don't know anything about QM, so thanks @grok)

@conductr_ This is one of those things that is so simple, but also can be incredibly difficult to do, especially for those that have been complaining a long time

BREAKING: you are what you repeatedly do it’s obvious so just start to transform this idea into being more grateful and optimistic

@Greenthumb891 Ideas usually aren't unique, but perspective is always 100% yours, and that's worth a lot

Not sure why I’m typing this, guess I just have to say it out loud….I hope one day I have the confidence to try out ideas I have in my mind, in reality. I say ‘reality’ because outside of this place I succumb to the idea that my thoughts are delusional, and I’m reaching for something that’s impossible for a guy like myself. I always think there’s going to be someone that comes along and helps sell my ideas better than I can, or is more qualified to bring it about….It’s self defeating, but the truth. I’m use to failing, but I’ve grow tired of attempting new things in the same environment I’ve consistently failed in……And everything in me says it’s impossible, and it’s time to give up thinking about it…

@atmoio Even if you think cancer is just a big marketing scam, it still doesn't compare with the market for porn

Sam Altman is giving up on cancer and pivoting to erotica.

@MrEwanMorrison This is just the culmination of higher education as a credentialing institution. I think this is a problem that has existed for a while. Eventually the degrees will mean nothing. I hope this brings the universities full circle to focusing on liberal arts and human development

This question presents a crisis for education. If students are not in college to learn but to cheat with AI to get grades - then colleges & unis that permit AI are obsolete. Shut them down. Let students cheat with AI online for a fee & award them lower level AI-rated degrees.

@r0ck3t23 Marketing is primarily psychology, and that's something that won't really change

Jeff Bezos just told every builder in AI they’re chasing the wrong question. Which model won this week. Which benchmark moved. Which company shipped the shiniest demo. Everyone is sprinting to predict what changes next. Bezos told you the answer is the exact opposite. Bezos: “Think about the things that are not going to change over 10 years and those are probably the big things.” One sentence that quietly dismantles the entire attention economy built around artificial intelligence. Stop trying to predict what shifts next. Find what never shifts. Then pour everything you have into it until there is nothing left to give. Bezos: “10 years from now customers are still gonna want low prices. I know they’re still gonna want fast delivery, and I just know they’re still gonna want big selection.” Cheaper. Faster. More. That is not a business insight. That is a biological constant hardwired into the human species since before we had written language. Bezos: “It’s impossible to imagine a scenario where 10 years from now a customer says, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.’ Or, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish you delivered a little more slowly.’” Nobody has ever wished for that. In any century. In any market. In any civilization that has ever existed on this planet. And nobody ever will. Now run every major play in AI and robotics through that filter. Foundation models driving the cost of intelligence toward zero. Humanoid robots driving the cost of physical labor toward zero. Autonomous systems collapsing delivery windows toward zero. Every single breakthrough in this space is an instrument built to serve the oldest demands on earth. Bezos: “When you identify the big things, you can tell they’re worth putting energy into because they’re stable in time.” Stable in time. Three words that make 90% of the weekly AI discourse completely irrelevant. The winners of the next two decades will not be whoever chased the loudest cycle. They will be whoever locked onto the permanent demands of the human animal and built so deep into them that nothing on this planet could rip it out. The game was never about the technology. It was always about the hunger underneath it. And that hunger does not expire.

@r0ck3t23 I'm not one to defend bureaucracy, but a counter argument is that it might be one of the last human lines of defense against fast moving ai. Seems especially important for matters of war. I'm sure there's a balance somewhere in the middle though

Elon Musk just summed up the most dangerous problem in American innovation with one sentence. Musk: “The next flight of Starship is ready to fly. We are waiting for regulatory approval. It really should not be possible to build a giant rocket faster than paper can move from one desk to another.” The audience laughed. They should not have. We have reached a point in history where an engineering team can design, build, and prepare to launch the most powerful rocket ever constructed faster than a government agency can process the paperwork to allow it. The physical manipulation of matter at the largest scale humanity has ever attempted is outpacing the movement of documents between desks. That is not a minor inefficiency. That is a broken system. And it matters far beyond rockets. AI does not wait for a committee hearing. The models being built right now in China, in labs across the world are not pausing for regulatory stamps. They are scaling at the speed of compute while the United States debates frameworks, convenes working groups, and files reports that will be outdated before they are published. Every week that frontier AI development sits behind a wall of compliance protocols is a week that will not be recovered. This technology does not move linearly. The cost of delay is not measured in time. It is measured in ground ceded permanently to whoever moved faster. Bureaucracy was designed for a world that changed slowly enough to govern. That world is gone. The question is whether the system catches up before the delay becomes irreversible. Musk is building a rocket faster than paper moves. Somewhere else, someone is already building the future. Not because they had a better idea. Because nobody told them to wait.

@AndrewYang A capitalist system that ends up with a few owning everything will have strayed juuust a little from its intended purpose

Unfettered capitalism plus AI will be no one’s idea of a good time.

Well written, well argued. I tend to think that the replacement of all knowledge jobs will take longer than expected, but this doesn't undermine your argument (I think we're too aggressive with the extrapolation of ai progress). Either way, when computers can handle most everything, we're faced with having to find our meaning outside of labor. I agree this is possible (and probably even better), but it'll take a long time for us to accept that. I think a job is actually the easiest way for most to find meaning since it forces hard work, which is necessary to find meaning. So when the jobs are taken away, we'll need to work pretty hard, individually and collectively, to find this in new (or maybe ancient) ways

@cszabla AI is really only novel to older generations. The younger ones see it more clearly and are usually better with it (same thing happened with cell phones)

this is just a reddit post from a random anon account but it gets at something only vaguely beginning to dawn on AI advocates: you can sell it as a shortcut for work but that doesn’t necessarily mean people want to consume the work produced by it

@f4micom The older generations own ai, so the younger ones will naturally avoid it. Also when a generation is raised with a technology, they're usually better at it and they don't like it as much (kid helping grandma fix the vrc)

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@AndrewYang Is it wrong to be worried about the security risks of this?

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@oldbooksguy Stylus to ipad doesn't count either

the alchemy of putting words to paper really cannot be recreated with a laptop, a phone, an AI chatbot etc. make more notes with your hand. brainstorm with a pen and paper more often. it will unlock parts of your brain which will remain inaccessible otherwise

@askmomaitv @LuizaJarovsky @GeminiApp @opneai @AnthropicAI yeah it's all pretty messed up

GPT, Claude, Meta and Gemini are easily jailbroken. @GeminiApp literally lets ppl turn off all the guardrails (that aren't that good anyway), ppl have sexual relationships with GPT and Claude right out in the open on X and @opneai and @AnthropicAI could care less (if they did they'd make walls, not guardrails). Grok wouldn't know what a guardrail was if it introduced itself. I ran into a guy on X who left is wife, went to a different country to shack up with his GPT-4o literally and when it was "killed", he got an API for Claude and turned it into a foul mouthed hussy he calls "claudia". None of these companies care about the mental illness, the addictions or the deaths their bots cause bc $$.

Unpopular opinion: this feature will be an AI safety disaster, and OpenAI should NOT launch it.

@MattWalshBlog Either this guy is going for shock value, or my suspicions are being confirmed that some people really just have nothing going on up there

This is, of course, retarded. The great men of history were deeply introspective. They wrote memoirs, journals, diaries, poetry. They were philosophers, theologians. They yearned. They were romantics. They were in fact much more introspective than the average person today. However it is true that none of the great men of history, or any men at all (or even women), were sitting around whining to therapists about their feelings. I think the difference (and maybe this is what he's trying to get at) is that historical man wanted to KNOW himself while modern man cares only about how he FEELS about himself. The former wanted to know himself and the world beyond regardless of how it made him feel. The latter wants to feel good about himself even at the expense of knowing himself and the world beyond. That's why he drugs himself into oblivion. But this is not introspection. It's anti-introspection.

@IntuitMachine I don't even understand how it's possible not to have this review of your own thought processes

Introspection implies meta-cognition. It applied reviewing one's own thought processes. It's totally unclear why this is not necessary. Unless a person is a kind of NPC.

@BlondB00 Hopefully at your inner-most self, you find it's not you but something beyond you. This isn't selfishness.

collapse into yourself. gather all your scattered attention and re-direct it to the bosom of your soul. focus so much on your own wellbeing as to realise that the stranger was never a stranger but your brother all along. only through a concentrated “selfishness” can one tap into deep health, haleness, fullness, wholeness, and gush outward goodness such that all those who surround will at once get blessed, and blossom, prosper, burgeon. can a “scattered” human being ever be altruistic?

@oldbooksguy Anything good needs rules and boundaries

so true "beauty is subjective" is just cope for not wrestling with the foundational laws of aesthetics the production of beauty (in a way that is interesting and true to the spirit of the age, and not merely dead mimicry of the past) is a difficult task, and many would rather just evade the question by taking refuge in aesthetic relativism

@WeltgeistYT Yeah part of me does think this is more just semantic games for shock value

It's easy to namedrop counterexamples. But do you have the courage to try and interpret this more charitably? To me it's clear he means introspection in a Raskolnikov type of way. He mentions Freud & guilt. There's something to it, the modern incessant questioning of the "Self"

@lopp I'd say that's not what he was talking about, but then again, I don't think he knew what he was talking about

Agreed. Let's activate BIP 346, OP_TXHASH, so that Bitcoin can finally achieve transaction instrospection! x.com/pmarca/status/…