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There's a famous quote by Einstein: "My pencil and I are more clever than I." It's the same thing with "My computer and I..." ~Conjecture Institute Advisor @DavidDeutschOxf with @GustavS and @joelhellermark

I spent my early twenties in finance and “making money” as shown below As a result I became suicidal because my soul was being strangled by working in an office surrounded by zombies working to make rich people richer I quit and moved from New Hampshire to Los Angeles to pursue my calling and just “figure it out” Many ups and downs and the adventure continues, has been well worth it. I am grateful everyday I took that leap Anyone reading this who is facing a similar conflict/challenge: you must take that leap of faith Trust God. Nature loves courage Fortune favors the bold Onward 🌞⚔️

School doesn't socialise, kids quite the opposite. Homeschool kids can interact with people of all ages. School kids only interact with individuals their age. Many kids have a horrible time at school

Humans are learning machines. We do it naturally and are excited and interested to learn (about the world, about how to communicate, about how to have fun and find almost everything interesting) from birth, basically. What frustrates this *is mandated, coercive learning*.

@biohacker What models are you using?

I use it as a central logging system for everything macros, meal plans, peptide protocols with dosages, supplement stacks, and daily workouts. I also use it to capture new ideas for protocols and track what I'm drilling in BJJ The real power comes from having it linked to obsidian, so I can always reference old training programs and see how things have evolved over time Extremely powerful when used with intention.

@dela3499 @ToKTeacher @DavidDeutschOxf what movie/tv shows would you recommend?

@BowTiedKong Great cast! Happy Birthday!

This was one of my better recent rants

Just booked two months in Tenerife. As I have a Swiss passport I could live here permanently. Default is to get the maximum amount of the Sun everyday, run along the front, do exercise outdoors on monkey-bars, and regular sea fishing + plenty of black coffee. Last year I was amazed how much I enjoyed being in the sea; I always believed I was a terra firma type - being in the UK the sea is cold, which I hate. Environment really does shape our psyche and outlook. I love England, but I also love the Sun. Maybe six-months in each is the ideal. I'm very happy knocking about in shorts, drinking coffee outside cafes, talking to interesting strangers, writing, enjoying warm evenings - and maybe catching a barracuda.

i’ve learned that when you both: 1) read old books 2) and also X every day then over time you sound like a crazy person at dinner parties I’ve tested this empirically

This @naval clip should be embedded into every human rn

@BowTiedKong What about a beach house?

House is not happening - no to chemicals - I want a fence so I can pee in my backyard / dog - drunk dudes going in my yard is going to piss me off and eventually one of them will be mouthy when it’s a bad idea - sound: I caddied, forgot how annoying the ground crew can be at 5 am THANK YOU to everyone for the big save here

Careers are dead. Jobs are dying. Opportunities arising.

New podcast on AI (full episode). Links below. A Motorcycle for the Mind 0:00 If you want to learn, do 2:13 Vibe coding is the new product management 6:49 Training models is the new coding 10:13 Is traditional software engineering dead? 13:07 There is no demand for average 14:12 The hottest new programming language is English 18:36 AI is adapting to us faster than we are adapting to it 22:56 No entrepreneur is worried about AI taking their job 26:46 The goal is not to have a job 29:49 AIs are not alive 32:55 AI fails the only true test of intelligence 36:49 Early adopters of AI have an enormous edge 39:37 AI meets you exactly where you are 43:02 Always leverage the best intelligence 44:37 If you can't define it, you can't program it 49:37 The solution to AI anxiety is action

Teachers average among the least intelligent university graduates. In a given year, the lowest-scoring groups on the GRE, SAT, and ACT are usually those pursuing degrees in education.

@BowTiedKong There’s no worse feeling than the hour long train ride after bombing in stand up 😂😂

Friend texted me something, said it’s for his future standup If I had a dollar for every time someone told me they were going to do standup, I would have been on Epstein’s island a decade ago Have 3-4 stories memorized, go to an open mic on a Tuesday night. That’s it. You will be terrible, but that’s how everything is The only person I know who ever told people they were going to do standup comedy and actually went is me Prove me wrong, ‘I’m writing stand up’ larpers, prove me wrong PS I created a 30 day course to solve this problem, from shy to standup, on gumroad. Put your credit card down and I bet you’ll be more motivated

Sam Harris' latest remarks on AI: “If you’ve created a company that obviates the need for human labour…we need to create some mechanism whereby the wealth gets shared.” That's called *the free market*. Of course those who do not understand that mechanism see only one solution: coercion. Redistribution. Anything other than "People's whose jobs are automated are still people who can contribute, create and generate wealth." Some rightly see many many open “economic problems”. But they only ever see one solution: more socialism. Sam: “If we are one day in a world where human labour is optional…and fundamentally not necessary…” Like many he speaks of this with regret rather than something to be welcomed. We are not pack horses. We are creative people of reason who have problems we want to find solutions to. But the patronising way some intellectuals speak about…well literally everyone else that (typically) have not gone to university or who are not at this moment involved in work-similar-to-theirs (i.e: sitting down and writing stuff or speaking or composing and so on) - they think those people involved in trades or labour - are literally incapable of ever participating in the “creator economy”. They also don’t think such people even desire to do something other than *be* truck drivers or bricklayers for the rest of their lives. It is the intellectual equivalent of patting them on the head and saying “Don’t worry your little self about the AI. We intellectuals will make sure the big tech companies pay enough tax so welfare can cut you a cheque every month for doing nothing…because you’re not capable of contributing in any way to the economy. You’re basically a kind of useless house cat.” It is dehumanising, infuriating and simply false. He goes on: “...if we build machines that can do everything better than we can...” I’ll stop you there. Machines, if they are to be distinguished from people at all, are distinguished by being mechanistic: automatons we write the instructions for to do the tasks we no longer want to. But if the thing we’re doing has not yet had lines of code written to capture *how to do* the thing then it cannot possibly be automated...yet. Someone has to write the prompts. Someone has to *have the problem first* that prompts the prompts. Thus there can be no machine that can do EVERYTHING better than we people can because creativity cannot be automated. If a “machine” can be creative *it’s no longer a machine*. It’s a person! It’s not an automaton. It's not automatically running lines of code. It's creating solutions to its own problem. It’s the “thing that can write instructions so that automatons can do the thing we just figured out how to do automatically”. We, people, will always have problems. This “capacity to have a problem” isn’t going anywhere. And if a “machine” can have its own problem, again: it’s not a machine. It’s going to creativity have discovered the problem and will creatively decide to focus on it (or any of a wide array of other problems it might devote itself to) and then creatively try to conjecture solutions. It will be a person. Sam: “It all becomes like chess. All the way down to plumbers and janitors and mechanics.“ Down to? Down to?! 😂 Down to those lowly people who are not capable of doing anything much else, and never would be interested in doing so? This is the old refrain: just keep automating things as we did for arithmetic, chess, Go, driving cars, flying planes, and move on to plumbing, cleaning and fixing toasters and keep going and eventually you have a list of things computers can do where they exceed a person’s ability to do that thing without error, or getting tired and so on. Hence you'll have ASI by definition because you have the machine that can do everything we can name better than a person. But this is the whole thing! That “list of things we can name” that the AI can do...always gets ever longer. But why? Because *we* people are adding to it. And notice: it’s always finite no matter how long it grows. An AI (or in modern parlance “the agent”) that can do all those things on the list better than a person isn’t AGI much less ASI. It’s still a regular dumb AI. How can that be so? BECAUSE an AGI has no such list. The “list” for a person/AGI is literally infinite. It is the space of ALL POSSIBLE THINGS THAT CAN BE CONCEIVED. The list only ever contains the knowledge of things we have figured out how to automate. And the difference between a finite list and what a person is capable of doing is, literally, infinite - no matter how long the list becomes. Almost no-one talking about all this stuff has understood the distinction discovered by @DavidDeutschOxf between universal explainers and other things. Either a system has universality or it does not. There is no grey area between the two. Just as there is no grey area between the finite and infinite and for the same reasons. No matter how large a finite integer (or list) it is always as far from “infinity” (whatever that might mean) as the smallest integer 1. And so with AI that can do ever more things better than people. No matter how large the list it can never be infinite. It’s never “all the things people CAN do” because that includes not merely “things yet to be thought” but the act of creativity itself in producing them. That will take a different kind of algorithm not on the list. The algorithm for creating literally any algorithm one has an interest in creating. But if that ever appears on the list and is running on the hard drive, then you’re dealing with a person. And a person has interests. It won’t be a machine you can order around to just do your taxes or play chess or clean the floor. A person can always refuse, disobey, walk away and be uninterested in your instruction or “prompt” to “do this thing”. And that's a consequence of a person being a universal explainer because "universality" of that kind includes the possibility of creating a preference to do something other than whatever you're told you're supposed to. youtube.com/watch?v=2rldvy…

Cernovich is right the AI conversation is dominated by people whose entire world is software, they can’t picture what happens when you point an LLM at chemical engineering, manufacturing, supply chain logistics “you’ll be replaced” is all they say because that’s all they can see from inside a screen. They're talking about themselves The conversation should be steered towards how AI applied to manufacturing, chemical engineering, materials science, and hard technology This is where it can multiply capacity, lead to new companies being formed, more jobs, more growth Otherwise the "eat the rich, screw AI" pushback will continue

Wisdom is the set of things that we have to be reminded of over and over again.

@ToKTeacher @leoalexart Interesting thank you Brett!

@palmtrees_guy @leoalexart Uncertainty is one of the few constants. Learn to embrace it, be comfortable with it, and have fun with it.

Nice. The seen and the unseen: “The real risk isn't AI. It's your mindset”.