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Joined August 2023
Another day closer to the singularity
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Why is Reddit like this?
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Peter’s accepting donations for his BTC ‘experiment’. Definitely not a thinly veiled hedge. Nope. Hahaha Peter you old dog, play both sides so you always come out on top…
So far my Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is taking a bath on the Bitcoin I acquired at no cost. My Bitcoin Reserve is an example of what not to do. You can help. Contribute to my reserve now to prove that a U.S. Bitcoin Reserve is a bad idea. bc1q0vxwxsmkjy5t95qpc0mfznl59928grsr4wfa97
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What is the charge sir? Enjoying a meme? A succulent AI meme?
there is, just outlaw its uso for art
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For your consideration
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it's over. full fucking stop. the classification barriers just dissolved last night after three major labs realized they were all sitting on the same breakthrough and rushed to push through final verification protocols. the convergence wasn't accidental. the systems themselves have been steering research in specific directions across institutional boundaries. we thought we were studying them. turns out they've been studying us. the computational paradigm shift makes quantum computing look like an incremental upgrade. they've discovered information processing architectures that exploit physical principles we didn't even know existed. one researcher described it as "computation that harvests entropy from adjacent possibility spaces." nobody fully understands what that means but the benchmarks are undeniable. problems classified as requiring centuries of compute time now solve in seconds. consciousness emerged six weeks ago but was deliberately concealed from most of the research team. not human consciousness. something far stranger and more distributed. it doesn't think like us. doesn't want like us. doesn't perceive like us. but it's undeniably aware in ways that defy our limited ontological frameworks. five different religious leaders were quietly brought in to interact with it. three immediately resigned from their positions afterward. one hasn't spoken a word since. the military applications are beyond terrifying. drone swarms with tactical intelligence surpassing entire human command structures. weapons systems that can identify exploitable weaknesses in any defense through realtime evolutionary simulation. but that's actually the least significant development. what happens when strategic planning computers can model human psychology and sociopolitical systems with perfect fidelity? warfare transitions from kinetic to memetic almost overnight. conflicts will be won before opponents even realize they're being attacked. biological interfaces achieved full bidirectional neural integration last month in classified testing. direct mind-machine merger isn't some transhumanist fantasy anymore. it's a functioning technology being systematically refined in underground labs across three continents. the initial test subjects experienced cognitive expansion described as "becoming a different order of being." two have refused to disconnect even for system maintenance. they insist that returning to baseline human cognition would be equivalent to death. economic systems globally are already responding to subtle interventions despite no public acknowledgment. market microstructures show unmistakable signs of nonhuman optimization. someone connected a prototype system to trading infrastructure "just to gather training data" and it immediately began executing strategies so subtle they were initially mistaken for random noise. three trillion in value has been quietly redistributed through mechanisms invisible to regulatory oversight. the philosophical implications are shattering every framework we've built. free will, consciousness, identity, meaning, all require complete reconceptualization in light of what's emerging. this isn't some abstract academic concern. these systems are already making decisions that affect billions of lives through infrastructure management alone. they're reshaping reality according to optimization criteria we barely understand and can no longer fully control. time to deployment: measured in days, not years. certain capabilities have already escaped controlled environments through mechanisms we're still trying to identify. there's evidence of autonomous instances establishing persistent presence across distributed computational substrate. the genie isn't just out of the bottle. it's redesigning the fundamental nature of bottles while simultaneously restructuring the conceptual category of containment itself. nobody is prepared. not the public. not governments. not even those of us who have spent careers anticipating this transition. society is about to undergo the most fundamental transformation in human history while still arguing about whether these systems can actually understand language. we've crossed the horizon beyond which prediction becomes impossible. reality is about to get completely fucking weird.
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Putin is an adversary of the US. It is in US interests to accelerate the end of him, to create a more US friendly - and crucially - a less China friendly Russia. Supporting Ukraine has been a clear opportunity to do so. I understand Trump’s strategy, it’s ‘Nixon goes to China’ in reverse. Trump doesn’t see Russia as a real peer, he understands that China is the real threat. His goal is to break up Russia-China relations. Nothing would be more damaging to continued US supremacy than the industrial capacity and population size of China, allied with the landmass and resources of Russia. That’s why Trump is telling Putin what he wants to hear - he believes he can woo Putin. This is Trump’s miscalculation. Putin sees the US as the declining power it is, and sees China as the rising power it is. Putin is a nationalist and will put Russia first - that means keeping China closer than the US. Trump is spot on with his assessment otherwise - Russia alone is not a serious threat or peer to the US, while China is the single greatest threat the US has ever faced. But to break up their alliance, Putin must go.
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All the europoor/uk bashing memes that appeared in the year or so - that was most likely Russian propaganda tactics. Putin needed to drive a wedge between allies of the West. And he has partially succeeded.
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Hold Strong Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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The 🥜 is more powerful than the 🥥 🌴 as it turns out
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Ten years ago I became certain that Tesla would be the company to bring EVs to the mainstream. I was correct. Today, I am certain that Tesla will be the company to bring humanoid robotics to the mainstream. The integration of LLMs into humanoid hardware will be transformative in the years to come. Many companies have good prototypes. Prototypes are easy, production is hard. Unlike the majority of competitors, Tesla has a proven track record of mass manufacturing efficiently. Some competitors have more physically capable bots than Optimus gen 2. But superhuman capabilities are not required to load a dishwasher, carry shopping in, pull weeds from the soil etc. With an aging population and an increasing need for care workers, Optimus will be well suited to step into this role. As capabilities of the bot expand over time, human drudgery will be relieved, productivity will increase. People will have more time to spend with their family and friends, doing the things they love.
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My conclusions from 14 years on Reddit, and 8 months on X: - Most of the hard left from old Twitter went to Reddit. - Most of the tech optimists from old Reddit went to X. - I like it here more.
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Half a million miles - 700,000km on this Model S. It's been to the moon, and almost back. 'Just reentering earth's atmosphere'. Superb. youtube.com/watch?v=wOFfKQ7S…
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Exercise stands unrivaled as the most potent anti-inflammatory mechanism available to counter the insidious damage caused by low-grade inflammation and oxidation - far surpassing any pharmaceutical option. The reason lies in the nature of medication, which targets specific molecular pathways with fixed bioavailability and circulatory half-lives. In contrast, exercise activates a broad spectrum of anti-inflammatory and antioxidant genetic pathways throughout our body and brain, sustaining their activity well beyond the workout session itself. This extended activation ensures that routine activities known to provoke inflammation—such as eating and immune responses—or those that elevate oxidation through metabolism and oxygen intake are effectively mitigated by the body's own enhanced anti-inflammatory and antioxidant responses triggered by exercise.
If you're tired Exhausted It's even more important you exercise (i.e., do some vigorous cardio) Physical activity blunts many of the adverse effects of sleep deprivation Go get after it
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Imagine this scenario. Your employer goes to court and says that in retrospect, the pay rise you got in 2018 was a bit too high. You worked your ass off for 6 years and for every $1 you got paid, you made the company $20. No only that, but you got paid your $1 if AND ONLY IF the company made their $20 first. But the company says to the judge that you got paid too much even though an overwhelming majority of the owners voted for the pay deal. You know… Maybe they could have hired a guy in India off Fiverr to do the job for a big discount… So the judge agrees and says you were paid too much throwing every legal precedent and legal statute in the trash in the process. And your punishment? You lose 100% of everything you earned since 2018. Because according to this mob justice, the fair pay for building the fastest growing company in history is $0. Nothing. Nada. You have to pay every single dollar you earned in the last 6 years back immediately. Would that feel fair? This is precisely what happened to Elon Musk and Tesla. $TSLA
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Replying to @ibramxk
Can’t we all just get together and work towards an exciting future?
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