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Consumerism overload will cycle through a moment where productivity-to-consume ratio will self-correct (good). Pace of tech dev might outpace our learning ability to cope with it. Luckily, it does not follow (historically) a linear pace and it’s distributed unevenly across.
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quality convos - @dhh is totally right about shenzhen: eu is talent-full but it’s missing the same pace. most needed these days. thanks @Ryan__Dunwoody for having us
Reinforcement learning, AI/ML for robotic arms, building in public vs stealth, when to bootstrap vs raise VC money. Just some of the topics in our Sunday afternoon powerhouse chats with @DominiqueCAPaul @aurel_arnold @_marcobene_ over baguettes, avocado, cheese, blueberries and milk. The beautiful @MeetLayer generative art display giving good vibes in the background. Perfect Sunday 🔥
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technology is about to start moving very quickly. it's imperative that you don't get left behind
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Long awaited glory days of Psych/NeuroSci are ahead. Not caring of social relevance, but interest gauging will 10x development fixing heavy structural research issues. Un-exploring the explored through pioneerism.
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Status of the debate is evolving fast. Pushing it away from the commonalities feeds fresh air in a vulcano of plausible views. Can still be lacking, but unexpectedly the most key part of Pinker’s take is saying “enough for today”, and he did not even mean to.
“They start with a couple of assumptions, and lay out a chain of abstract reasoning, throwing in one dubious assumption after another, till they end up way beyond the land of experience or plausibility” Nailed it Stephen Pinker
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Walking through frameworks of structural mimicry limits the flow of how dynamic structures can naturally present themselves. Such unexpected bias is predominantly identified away from magnifying glasses. It holds a genetic history, but brings inefficiencies with it.
One analogy AI researchers love is “planes don’t flap their wings but they still fly, so AI isn’t required to mimic the brain”. Well, I mostly agree with this. But here’s a fun counter idea 😆. EPFL developed a robot bird (“ornithopter”) that flaps wings and lands on branch: 🧵
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society underestimates how much it owes elon for raising the collective ambition level at a time when optimism for the future was receding
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Our new paper, "Fusions of consciousness," is published today, and free. We propose a dynamics of conscious agents beyond spacetime, and a mapping of this dynamics into spacetime physics via our new application of decorated permutations to Markov chains. mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/1/129
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If a small company operates like a big company it will die, if a big company operates like a small company it might live.
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Replying to @pmarca
Each positioning holds its weaknesses. Effortlessly make something look doable is a hard red pill to swallow of which effects are later explored. Playing with equilibriums creates looming futures, of which scalability in execution is improbable. Circle closed. Nature is healing.
Timing is the key variable to input. Counterintuitively, adjusting (perhaps slowing) pace of product releases to wider audiences could allow for adaptation. You don’t attend University at 5, you do it once you learn what it is in the first place.
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“Timing will tell.”
New current thing just dropped. 
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the days of usenet, irc, the web...even email (w PGP)...were amazing. centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet. I realize I'm partially to blame, and regret it.
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Replying to @sama
a disingenuous question. assumes that the fast/novel vaccines rely on pharmaceutical companies (a) taking huge profits and (b) not patent sharing or otherwise open sourcing the vaccines to preserve profits — the practices bernie is criticizing here google.com/amp/s/www.brookin…
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See Occam’s razor might be key here, but this is not to say this could be an intended effect of his initial thesis: dumb down rationalists, so they reprogram signal weighting.
I believe @elonmusk is a Chaotic Good Straussian. His contradictory comments on Bitcoin are a kind of 'Bayesian flooding,' an injection of noise that reduces the legibility of his true position to rational observers. This serves two important purposes.
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Tweets being market-driving signals is one of the worst intended spillover effects of the spread of sentiment analysis across retail traders. (A joke, many don’t go that far)
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But if you conglomerate a large % of followers in 1 account, you don’t need Python to sparse data/indicate how strong is one signal. You just follow what makes sense. Herding, groupthink, lack of heterogeneous beliefs encourage bubble formation, hence large price fluctuations. NS