Derek🌲🌲

Far-center. Humanist. Pluralist. Anti-authoritarian. Follow for big picture takes on civilization, nature & technology.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@turtlekiosk I’m confused, what did you not notice?

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@lisanhenry @nyaraVT I also wondered what was meant by this.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@sama Aging. We need to solve aging first.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

I could have told you that 😅

[Steve Newman @snewmanpv]

I think we are in the process of discovering that humans are bad at mathematics.

A gibbon would scoff at an Olympic climber; the human body is not optimized for climbing. We're getting mounting evidence that our brain may be far from optimal for advanced math.

No disrespect to mathematicians. I was a two-time IMO silver medalist; I'm just smart enough to appreciate that some people are much, much smarter. But it's starting to look like math is somewhere on the midpoint of Moravec’s paradox; between chess (computers surpassed us some time back) and cooking (probably many years to go, for general capabilities). It's fairly hard for us, and so it looks like computers are going to surpass us.

AI math still has important weaknesses. For instance, AI systems have not yet shown any ability to identify interesting research directions, or develop new concepts on which further work can build. But they are starting to look superhuman in some respects. And once AI *starts* to become superhuman in some domain, we all know what happens next.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

Props to Switzerland! 🇨🇭

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇨🇭Switzerland made it illegal to boil lobsters alive.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

https://t.co/2gm58wPVi2

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

Na. If Van Gogh had a camera he still would have painted Starry Night

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

finally AI can show us what painters wanted us to see

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@SpaceCoastCRE I don’t think a man could survive saying he flirts with toddlers

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@awilkinson Going from well off to rich won’t fix your mental health but it can absolutely be fixed by going from struggling to well off.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@JamieBrock19060 @JesseWalberg @awilkinson 👇

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@JesseWalberg @awilkinson Exactly. Going from well off to rich won’t fix your mental health but it can absolutely be fixed by going from struggling to well off.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@JesseWalberg @awilkinson Exactly. Going from well off to rich won’t fix your mental health but it can absolutely be fixed by going from struggling to well off.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@helloitsaustin @AnthropicAI Love this idea. Been wanting to do things like this for years but I’m too worried about privacy 😑

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@jakozloski Any controls to prevent women users who only want conversation without the intention of actually dating/finding a LTR?

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@upshine3 I will always rise to the occasion, but please don’t ask me to rise when there is no occasion.

[Chris Williamson @ChrisWillx]

https://t.co/VIUepDwzLp

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@ShitpostGate I can always rise to the occasion but please don’t ask me to rise when there is no occasion.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@skylarromines It’s not surprising that unattractive women are mean to you based on how you said you socialize.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@tannerbraden Thanks for sharing! Going to look at these later.

[Derek🌲🌲 @DerekWClark]

@cheneypiano I’ve always liked the interface on here better. Networking feels more organic.