Human grandeur is not threatened by a pacemaker
Today, the promises of transhumanism and posthumanism are multiplying. These are ideological currents according to which, sooner or later, technology will eliminate all disease and pain, as well as aging and even death itself. Precisely because scientific progress is a supreme achievement of human intelligence, it must not be confused with a privilege reserved for millionaires seeking immortality, while entire peoples suffer from poverty and oppression. In the face of this mirage, which promotes the illusion of human beings perfected by cybernetics and biotechnology, Christian anthropology reminds us that a limitation is not a manufacturing defect, but rather the very condition of human grandeur. #ApostolicJourney #Peru #MagnificaHumanitas vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
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Man do you guys ever feel like you’re living in a different world from everyone around you? It’s this vertigo of seeing so so much and being utterly unable to explain it .. my wife, my friends, even many of those who are interested haven't yet discovered how freakishly deep this rabbit hole goes and all the fascinating implications.
One thing that’s changed is I am OBSESSED with my computer in a way that I haven’t been since we got our first 286. I can’t get enough of it and being away from it creates the kind of fomo that I used to feel for things in the “real world”. When I’m away, I catch myself constantly thinking about the experiments and agents I’ve left running in the background.
And then when stuff goes right, really right, there is this visceral dopamine hit that I live for. It’s variable schedule rewards ish but way more satisfying than any other casino game because many wins are the baseline for other wins. And most of the wins are more about satisfying curiosity or learning through experimenting than metrics or utility, but who cares.Â
The other thing that is so interesting is that we get to go back to all the discussions of how we’ve organized society and the economy and revisit every assumption. Hayek, Burnham, Adam Smith, W Brian Arthur, Jevons … we can model all of their ideas and worlds with agents, we can think about the interplay between humans and machines in these frameworks, and we can ask ourselves which ideas are the winners and losers in a world of economic convexities (i.e. the marginal cost of labor is zero, intelligence goes from scarce to abundant).
Anyways just a crazy crazy time that is intellectually nourishing in a way I’ve never experienced. That's my dispatch for the day from the psychosis frontier .. what a cool moment to be a part of.
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Hillary Clinton Blames the Trump Administration for the Jensen Huang Scandal
“If your government knows that an American citizen is a target of an espionage operation, and you have reason to believe he does not know that … then you owe it to him to tell him. They didn't tell him.”
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Sad about Jensen. Shakespearean. But as de Gaulle said, “The graveyards are filled with indispensable men.”
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When being just and honest comes at a price, pay it. When forgiving seems like a defeat, forgive. When everyone tells you to think of yourselves first, do not be afraid to put yourselves in the last place. Be willing to give up time, money, comfort and plans to serve others. May those who see you find themselves asking: “Why do they live in this way? Where do they get this freedom? Why do they love one another so much?” #ApostolicJourney #Uruguay
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“Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.”
— Charlie Munger
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Before CGI, NASA relied on traditional artists to bring its visions of future space exploration to life.
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language was only ever a workaround for not having write access to each other's weights
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The intellectual and imaginative landscape of a young-person's mind is properly formed by mythic landscapes like this. They need to understand the world as full of the dangerous and sacred wildlands, shot through with holy sites, ancient relics, and the footprints of bygone heroes who watch over them as they undertake their own quests of life.
