@pablos

Implementing Science Fiction @ Deep Future. VC – Bestseller – Podcast. Paperclip Maximalist.

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When VCs brag about their portfolio companies going public, they don't mention when they invested — usually it was the last round before the IPO. When @stephen_wolfram introduced me to @DeepFission all they had was a blackboard. Ringing the bell at NASDAQ just a few years later is the best proof that our Deep Future Invention Capital strategy is working. Much more to come!
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I'm not proud of behavior on X today. I can succumb to criticizing people but I aspire to be better than that.
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I’m not trying to attack you. I’ll delete this post. Hang in there.
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Everything tried to kill us.
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Figured I’d give doom a chance.
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The bioethics circle jerks during the Human Genome Project, which were allocated 5% of the project's funding, were a total waste of time. They had countless conferences and workshops imagining bad things that could happen like punitive health insurance rates based on genetic risk, none of which actually came to pass. Meanwhile all the real issues that arose from ubiquitous DNA data, like accidentally doxing your criminal relatives with your own 23andMe data, were never imagined. It's a condemnation of the precautionary principle. Philosophers can make up all sorts of hypothetical scenarios in a vacuum but it's nothing like actually trying things and seeing all the weird second and third-order consequences that emerge and *then* dealing with the unwelcome ones.
I've been suspicious of the philosophers hired by Anthropic who specialize in AI ethics for similar reasons that I'm skeptical of those who went into "bioethics": they form a closed subculture that delights in clever arguments without regard to the human suffering that can result. | ‘Suicidal Compassion’: Meet the Anthropic Officials Who Think AI Might Be Justified in Going Rogue Against the Humans Enslaving It freebeacon.com/america/suici…
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It takes about 1 gallon to grow an almond. Usually in a place that is constantly running low on water. Maybe we can grow them in datacenters.
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WE FALL TOWARD THE FUTURE
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Okay. I’ll take the bait. I went to work for Peter in 2013 with opposite politics. He sat me down right at the beginning. PETER: “I don’t want the (Thiel) Foundation to do good that the market can do. That is the job of the market. Likewise, I don’t want to do the good work that is seen as good. That work can be done by people richer, weaker and more needy of approval than we are. I want us to do only the work that is *deeply* good but somehow confused for being evil, because that is the work of the courageous and the strong. We strive to be both and that is where a small foundation can make the greatest positive difference. Go look for such good and let’s do that. But remember. Good has TWO different antonyms. What is “bad work”? It could be seen as shoddy work. Or it could be seen as evil work. And we can’t do shoddy work. Why? Because evil that isn’t competent never gets to be evil. It’s just pathetic. So we have to be exceptionally competent at the good work which we do to make sure it is always confused for evil.” I thought it totally logical. So that’s the argument. And that’s classic Peter. This is an old idea of his. And now you know.
Pls give me a context this could have been taken out of.
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GO HAVE DINNER TOGETHER
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KINDNESS IS THE GREATER SUPERPOWER
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THERE IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
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“We already have within us the superpower of all superpowers the ability to connect with other human beings is just also the hardest one to activate.” — Spiros Michalakis deepfuture.tech/telepathy-an…
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FLEX YOUR STORYTELLING MUSCLE
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“I don't even want to teach anyone anything i want to maybe give them the impetus to go on a journey and figure shit out on their own.” — Spiros Michalakis deepfuture.tech/ai-education…
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WE FILTER MOST OF REALITY AWAY
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THE GLOBAL TELLS THE LOCAL HOW TO BEHAVE
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THE QUANTUM HALL EFFECT IS A MURMURATION
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