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tech & philosophy
Join the team behind the decentralized training projects Psyche and DisTrO for an office hours session in Nous Research's discord - Thursday evening, 6PM PST Discord Link: discord.gg/NousResearch
last month I attended @EdgeEsmeralda to write a report on the cutting edge of consciousness research topics included everything from meditation and enlightenment to epistemology, vasocomputation, active inference, AI, and moral realism. the article i wrote integrates findings…
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're…
some of us in AI/ biotech circles should turn the below into a fast grants style project and help with this
Scott Adams says he was planning to end his life THIS WEEK, but thanks to testosterone blockers, he is now pain-free from his terminal case of prostate cancer. “It removed all of my pain, and now I can walk again unaided.” Scott believes he could live for “something like…
Sam is a once-in-a-lifetime engineer and founder. Also great vibes (rare). Plus Jim Keller (!) And they’re bringing together galaxy brains to take on the semiconductor industry while debating fundamental physics?! Quit your job and go here:
We’re gonna do it We’re gonna lay it down atom by atom But we need you @atomic_semi
There's a huge frontier of science to be done by people who are not afraid to risk their reputation on the rigorous study of woo
That animals seemingly anticipate events should humble us more. Changes in groundwater chemistry, electromagnetic fields and sound waves make animals restless, distressed and even relocate In the West it is seen as ‘woo’ to contemplate that energy/weather humans don’t…
That animals seemingly anticipate events should humble us more. Changes in groundwater chemistry, electromagnetic fields and sound waves make animals restless, distressed and even relocate In the West it is seen as ‘woo’ to contemplate that energy/weather humans don’t…
Talked to a rancher today and he said his cows moved to the highest point on his property, well away from water and stayed there about 4 hours before the flood. How do they know?
Communism: never works, will try again Libertarianism: works spectacularly well, almost never applied
🚨 Breaking | Argentina’s Economy Grew 7.6% Year-on-Year in Q2, Econometrica Reports
Pray as if everything depended on God Act as if everything depended on You — St. Ignatius of Loyola
Throughout most of history, Pride was something society looked down upon. Superbia (Pride) was the deadliest of the Seven Deadly Sins. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism tie Pride to humanity’s downfall. Ok, but that is all dogmatic religious fundamentalism you…
Happy Independence Day from this 18th century print of Ramsay’s portrait of George III, sent to the American colonies to remind of British authority, which I recently acquired
Your freedom is too sacred to leave in the hands of the state. That’s the real message of Independence Day, if anyone’s still paying attention. This wasn’t meant to be a holiday for fireworks and blind allegiance. It was a celebration of secession. A breakaway from empire. A…
We don't call Christmas "25th of December" Don't call Independence Day "4th of July" It's not about barbecues, it's about rebellion. It honors the principled secession of free men from tyranny. If you celebrate it by eating a hot dog and waiving the flag of the world's…
thank you to my beloved fiancé @ErikVoorhees who came to England's oldest all-girls grammar school (@LboroHigh) and filmed this here's 7 mins of things i wish someone had told me at school:
Everyone is a libertarian on the Internet. Because it is simultaneously far more progressive and far more capitalist than any previous society. It is ultra-progressive because billions of people from every race, religion, and ethnicity are on the global Internet. Anyone can…
Time to debunk the “nobody is a libertarian” chart, since it’s going viral again. Anytime you see a heat map purporting to show that nobody holds a combination of economic conservative and social liberal views, you should be skeptical. They almost always manufacture that result…
Today, I had the opportunity to address the graduating class of my high school on its 175th anniversary. I was the naughtiest kid in my year, and partly it felt like retribution. But mostly, I was grateful. Sharing the words of my speech below
“Nothing is more securely lodged than the ignorance of the experts.” — Friedrich Hayek
EVM is not slow. We have achieved over 1 million TPS on a single node while still Merkleizing every block. Introducing FAFO